THE OREGON SCOUT.
A CHANCEY,
Publishers
UNION, OREGON.
CAVALRY RIDING DRILL.
An Ex-Trooper TolU How Haw KrcrnttS
Are Put Through Their I'lirrK.
Tho first riding lesson usually takes
-place in tho "riding-school," whore, as
-the floor ia covered with "tnn," tho
recruits who cotnu off will full softly.
Tho military authorities don't want
thoir recruits laid up in hospitals. Tho
-lesson consists of leading tho horse
-around tho riding-school; so that tho
axiom of learning to croop hofore walk
log is slightly modified here, for the
recruit loams to walk his horso boforo
riding- him. Whon ho has led his
horse uround for awhile, tho horse's
bead is brought in from the boards
(L c, tho walls of the school), and tho
recruit is taught to "stand at caso"
and to step from sido to sldo of his
horse's fore feet in measured puces.
Then comes tho "mount;" and usually
tho uufortunato recruit has no sooner
got up on 0110 sldo than ho rolls over
n tho other, owing to tho vagurles of
his horse, who knows that he has a
recruit in hand, and takes advantage
fit. Presently tho order is given to
"march," and away file tho horses
around the school wails, many of
tho pupils thinking horseflesh is
rcry porvorao in rubbing its sldo
against tho school wall with a recruit's
leg for a buffer. Tho day when I got
my first riding lesson many of us
itartod off by pulling on our horses'
months, and got (to quoto our rough
rider) "all over tho shop liko a pack of
Bhoep." After a fovv turns round
during which tho "rough" taught us
tho aids to horsemanship In tho pre
liminary stages of tho "walk" wo
learned that wo woro not to "pull our
korsos' heads off," but to handle tho
Tolas gently by feeling them with our
wrists and not with our wholo arms.
All wo hnd to do (wo woro told) was
lo sit thoro and koop our bodies up
right with our chests forward, by hol
lowing tho back and drawing in our
stomachs, as well as to koop our
"chins oil our slocks" and our heads
up. Wo began to sco that learning to
rido was no trilling job. Whon It camo
lo fixing our logs, getting thorn well
kaclc, raising our toes and sinking our
hoels, wo got moro to do than we ovor
bargained for. Your toucher Is a hard
tan to ploaso; and I'm suro thut by
thoor practlco rocrults at Canterbury
buvo got all their stomachs pressing
p against tho diaphragms. Other
wise how do thoy mustor such small
waists and such plgoon-llko choslsP
riib fact is that lungs, heart,
livor, stomach and sploon are all
packed logothor chestwards, liko a tin
of Australian mutton. Whother uaturo
ever intondod such a cramming is a
question that tho military authorities
don't study. Make your nion as wooden
w possible novor mind nature, is
inotr uioium; aim coruuniy moy aro
-listonod to. After wo had done a llttlo
walking around tho riding school wo
Koi tnoro ooniidonco; and thought, no
ioubt, that wo should liko a bit of a
trot," just to see what that was liko
Whon It did como to trotting many of
ub fell off, or nearly foil off, and wont
hobbling around tho school to quote
our rough riding again "like a lot of
tufloa dolls riding yor horses from
nose to croup. " Aim certainly many
of us woro moro often on our horsos
withers and haunchos than on tho
enter of tholr backs, and wo had our
arms moro often round tholr nooks than
holding our reins. Tho "rough" called
us to a unit, anu ovon hero wo woro
mt fault. Soino of us pulled too
much, or wo pullod too llttlo, or wo
-pulled awry, with tho result that our
-fcorsos were "all ovor tho shop."
At last wo had stopped, our frlond tho
"rough" again lot us know a bit of his
slud about our first appearance as
--avalrymon. Ho never saw snob a
feloomlng' lot of asses in all his born
days; my old mother could ride better
than you," oto. Ho had probably told
the sumo yarn to generations of re
cruits; but really wo believed that we
woro a sot of out-and-out dulTors.
After a few months' riding drill tho
cavalryman loarns to rido his horse at
-idl paces; and when he can take htm
through tho turns, circles and wind
ings of the inuuago drill, and knows
Tmw to use his "arms" mounted, ho la
fit to call himself a real cavalry-man,
-and Is ready to go on and fight hla
country's wars when lie gels the
chance. If tho reador wants to learn
mora of cavalry equitation, he had
K)tUir join. A few months drill will
teach him all ho will euro to learn.
London St, James' Gazotte.
Tho American's Tips.
' Tho tips glvon by Americans in
England aro almost always too larfru,
and by this thoy add to their expenses
ia a manner which greatly astonishes
English pcoplo, who regard all tips as
an oxuetion. not to bo lultatod lit a
wplrit of liborallty, but to be reduced
to a minimum in a spirit of economy.
An American always likes to seem to
"be richer than ho Is. An Englishman
does not care a button what tho porter
thinks of him, and gives tho man
what ho thinks such a man ought to
expect, and no moro. In tho same
-way Americans ulwnys incroaso their
expense by traveling first-olass, on a
sort of noblosbO'Obligo principle, a
habit which causes Infinite amusement
among tho moro economical English,
aud gives point to tho old jolco that no
ttuo travols first-class oxcopt fools and
Americans.
EASTERN ITEMS.
A BIO REAL E8TATE SWINDLE IN
8T. PAUL.
Geronimo Will Not be Bent Back to
Arizona Will Test tho Meat In
spection Law Local Option
Cigarette Smoking.
New York wholesale grocers have a
trust.
Indianapolis men will test tho Meat
Inspection law.
Yale defeated Harvard in the college
regatta on the 28th.
i , , i
a iauor lyceum ior women naa ueen or
ganized in St. Paul.
Denver's Fourth of July celebration ex
tended over three days.
Missouri lias set apart $2000 for wolf
scalps for 1889 and 18'JO.
Some Chicago cable cars make from
10)4 to 14 miles an hour.
Tho Hudson Bay Company report
shows a net profit of 08,000.
Philadelphia will presently have two
new cold-storage warehouses.
Tho electric cars continue to scare
horses in Boston and vicinity.
Fourth of July was turned over to tho
small boy in all towns and cities.
Two acres of land at Stockbridge,
Mass., have been sold for $ 10,000.
Mrs. M. L. Evans has been appointed
postmistress at Lako Viow, Oregon.
A Chicago enthusiast talks of erecting
a tower in that city 2000 feet in height.
Grano-growing promises to bo a profit
able business in some parts of Florida.
The Standard Oil Conman v has imr-
chased the great Derrick well at Oil City.
Tho Pittsburg policemen have sent
their old uniforms to tho Johnstown
police.
S. C. Morgan, cashier of tho bank of
Sidney, Neb., committed suicide on the
28th iust.
Alnmt ono-half tho adult males at tho
Boulo agency have signed tho proposed
treaty.
Crop reports from abroad aro worse
than last mouth in the Atlantic SUitcB
and Europe.
Richard Brocchk, who challenged Vil-
lard to a duel, has been sent to the in
sane asylum.
Colonel A. M. Saxton, a St. Joseph
banker, aud a prominent Missourian,
died on tho 27th.
According to the new city directory,
Chicago has a imputation of over nino
hundred thousand.
A Cincinnati iurv acnuitted a saloon
keeper who sold on Sunday "just to give
tho spies a lesson."
Erie Canal is reducing rates on grain
from Buffalo to New York to compete
with tho Lehigh Valley road.
Indiana's Supremo Court has docided
Unit shaving on Sunday is not a neces
sity. Abraham nover shaved.
Tho Knights and tho Farmers' Alliance
of Alabama will work: together in tho
next election for the legislature.
Tho lxcol Option bill in Michigan has
become a law. Hub means prohibition
in halt tho counties of tho State.
Tho flguresof justcomplotod directories
make tho iopulatlon of St. Paul and Min
ncuols closo on to half a million.
A now Connecticut law prohibits cigar
otto smoking by minors under 10 and the
sale of tobucco in any form to Biich per
sons. The Standard Oil Company aro prepar
ing to buld an 8-inch oil-pie line from
Cygnet, Ohio, to Detroit, lor handling
fuel oil.
A New York estimate is that 40,000
tourists moro than tho number who go
-!,! A !.!..
every summer win cross to r-urupo hub
season.
John P. Hudson of Smyrna, Del., a
leading peach-grower, places this sea
son's yield of tho Peninsula at 1,000,000
baskets.
It Ib denied in Washington that any
such projwsition as that of sending Goro
nimo liuck to Arizona has ever been con
templated. Michigan has passed a law by which
one-fifth of tho voters in any county may
demand and Bocuro a vote ou a local
option law for that county.
Kuoxvillo has already raised $2000 of
a fund to erect a monument to tho mem
ory of John Sovier. It is projwsed to
erect a $20,000 monument.
Tho Chicago Tribuno is receiving and
forwarding to tho proper authorities con
tributions for tho relief of the starving
coal minors of Northern Illinois.
The short's of the Chesapeake Bay aro
still strown with timber and wreckage
carried into it by the great floods on the
Susquehanna and us tributaries.
Georgo W. McCann, a brothor of Com-
Hiodoro McCann, killed himself at Meri
dian, Miss., by cutting his throat. Pov
city and drinking was tho lauso.
The British steamer Haytlan, supposed
to have been in collision with the steam
er Victoria, oil" Nantucket, is at Quaran
tine Station, below Now Orleans.
A. S. Dunbar, living near McDonald,
Peun., has a niaro thirty-ono years old
with a colt four weeks old. Tho niaro is
gray-headed and as sound as over.
The fight between John L. Sullivan
and Jake Kilrain, on the 8th, for $10,000
a side and tho championship of the world,
London rmo lting uiues to govern, was
wan by the former In soventy-llvo rounds.
Tho local physicians of Joluiptown. af
ter carefully going over tho returns of tho
people rescued from the Hood, still place
the estimated loss of life at 10,003.
Judge Bradloy of tho Suproino Court of
tho District of Columbia, has decided
that there is no cruelty in docking a
horse' tail. Thlsis iniiKirtunt, if true.
Tho Chicago will booh cross tho At
lantic to loin tho European Squadron.
and it is said she will convey tho remains
of Inventor Ericsson to tho shores cf his
native luml.
FOKKKJX KI.AMIIKM.
Labor Organizations Dp in a Ballon
Tho Fast steamship Line Beg
gary as a Profession Notes.
Bishop Lambrecht of Ghent is dead.
Wilkio Collins has had a stroke of par
alyses.
Copious rainfall in Culm has rejoiced
tho planters.
Labor organizations are making rapid
progress all over ucrmany.
Russia contemplates a new loan for
strategic railways and forts.
Fears in Russia of bad crops liavc been
dissipated by favorable weather.
Queen Christcna went up in an army
balloon 1000 leet at Madrid, last week.
The railroad to bo built from Joppa to
Jerusalem will have American coaches.
Herr Haseuclover, formerly a leading
socialist member ot thoreichstag, is dead.
Tho three missing steamers belonging
to the Wissmann expedition have arrived
at Zanzibar.
Garter won tho Midland Breeders'
stake at Fair Oaks, Birmingham, En
gland, on tho 3d.
The Shall was recoived by Queen Vic
toria at tho state entrance at Windsor
castle, on the 3d.
It is predicted that tho number of
Americans visiting Paris this summer
will exceed 100.000.
There aro eight ladies of title in En
gland who earn on the business of dress
and mantle-making.
Paris has no flies. The Parisians say
that it is on account ol the thorough
cleanliness of the city.
The American team did the best shoot
ing at tho 200, COO and 000-yards shoot
ing at London on the 2d.
Sir Lcpcl Griflin proposes to colonize
Cashmere with 3,000,000 Englishmen aa
a bulwark to tho Indian Empire.
Tho Russian army is to be equipped
with new rifles of small caliber. The
weapons will bo manufactured in France.
Tho British bark Ecuado, Captain
Hughes, Irom JJuenos Avres, April 2.M,
for Barbadoes, lias been lost with all her
crew.
Tho French Chamber of Deputies has
voted tho Urgency Panama Canal Relief
bill, and later passed it by a vote of 3S8
to 58.
A London paper says 500 Cornwall
families are reported to be wearing crape
for relatives lost in tho Conemaugh
Valloy.
Tho now Duchess of Portland ranks
eighteen in tho list of peeresses, and the
American Duchess of Marlboro takes pre
codence.
Last year tho number of visuors to
Shakespear's birthplace was 10,800,
Americans constituting one-fourth of the
number.
Tho National Amalgamated Sailors and
riromen's Union ot ureat IJntain aud
Ireland is now reported to havo 40,000
members.
A subscription bar is soon to be opened
at Berlin, where for $160, paid in ad
vance, a man can drink all he chooses as
olten as ho chooses.
Porto Perraio, Naixjleon's laiulin;
Clace at tho Island of Elba, is now used
y the lleet of steamships which bring
iron oro to American.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexander
Dagmar of Wales, oldest daughter of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, has been
betrothed to Earl rife.
Russia has readopted the law which
forbids heirs to tho throne contracting
marriage with persons not memberc, of
tho orthordox Greek Church.
London is so crowded with Americans
that those who have not engaged their
rooms in hotels beforehand stand chance
of having to sleep in Trafalgar Square.
Tho Gossips of Europe tell great yarns
about tho Shah of Persia's grandeur. It
is said that tho prescious stones im
bedded in his throne aro worth $30,000,'
000.
Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian patriot,
complains that his incarceration at Cey
lon is killing Hint. Tho climate is too
damp and ho is tortured with rheuma
tism.
M. Meyer, a Paris financier, has been
Bontoneed to imprisonment for ono year
and to pay a lino of 5000 francs for being
connected with the Society Mobiliere
frauds.
M. Eiffel, whoso name has beon ex
alted by his great tower, is 57 years old.
Ills real name is said to bo Bonickhau-
sen, and his reasons ior changing it are
unknown.
Tho watchmakrrsof Prescott, England.
who have long been famous, finding that
their trado is declining, havo decided to
build a factory and work on tho Ameri
can plan.
The height of snobbishness is reached
at English bazars, where monoy is taken
as the price ot an introduction to this
aud that beauty or titled lady presiding
over tables.
Beggary lias boon reduced to an art as
well as a prolcssiou in Koine,
cent case before tho ixaico an
In a re-
old man
admitted that no had as many as fifty lies
in daily use.
An American has set up a school in
Paris and advertises that he "will teach
any Frenchman to Bpeak tho only sensi
ble language in tho world in six weeks at
a cost of only $2o."
Tho largo steam hammers in use in
England and on tho Continent for mak
ing tho forcings required far artillery and
machinery aro to Im quite generally ro
pluccd by hydraulic presses.
Tho ship railway, which is to trans
part loaded vessels across tho Isthmus
of Chignccto, N. B., is progressing
rapidly. Seven hundred men and 200
hcoca iwo at work upon it.
Governor Hill of New York, is said to
luiv" signed his nuiuo to some bills
pasocd by the legislative assembly and
then erased his signature with acidfl.
Vulgarly shaking, ho soured on them.
Tho new treaty between Japan and
Mexico mis not Invn ratified. Tho treaty
between tho United Suites and Japan,
which was sL'iuvl February 20th. will eo
Unto force Fobruury 11, 18P0.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE
BOY CONVICT DIES IN THE
OREGON PENITENTIARY.
Calfornla Fruit Shipment-Klllod by
tho Cars A Olrl in Male Costume
First Regiment Encamp
ment "Black Bart."
Salt Lake City lias a building boom.
San Leandro is now lighted with gas.
Tacoma is to have a Produce Exchange.
St. Helena is putting down stone side
walks. Los Gatos lias repealed its firecracker
ordinance.
The upper San Joaquin river is almost
too low for navigation.
A. French, a wealthy land owner at
San Diego, has become insane.
"Black Bart," the famous California
stage robber, is said to be in China.
Hon. M. C. George delivered the
Fourth of July oration at Albany, Or.
Los Angeles has twenty-one school
houses, but they are all overcrowded.
About three hundred bales of wool were
sold at Cloverdale on the 28th at 22 cents.
The total value of tho assessment on
San Joaquin county property is 30,-
087,000.
The lionev cron of
Southern Califor-one-seventh
of an
nia will be less tliaa
average.
Ex-Judge James W. Bicknell of San
Mateo has just died near Modesto, aged
70 years.
Tho Parsonage Extension Society of
the Pacific Conference met in Santa Rosa
on the 28th.
1 ?. tCt K
and bit off the e
Peter Barger killed his late mistress,
ar ot his rival, at iaco-
ma, iasi weeK.
ma,
United States Marshal Hayes of Los
ngeles, has Iwen arrested for overdriv
ing a Fresno team.
Napa is pleased with having secured
tho First Regiment encampment. It
will last eight days.
San Francisco, it is understood, is soon
to be the terminus of the Atchison, To-
peka k Santa l'e road.
Thc'first car for the East from General
Bidwoll's Ranch Chico, was loaded with
Bartlett pears and plums.
The Sonoma County Agricultural Park
Association will not hold a fair in con
nection with tho fall races.
A movement is on foot at Fresno, Cal..
to get the Board of Trade of that city to
establish a freo labor agency.
William Dolan, serving a life sentence
in the San Quentin prison for murder,
made his escape on the 3d inst.
Tho Yamhill Gountv Herald says a
floating island 300 yards in diameter lias
been found in Honey Lake, Lliho.
David Connoll, of Rockferd, W. T., was
struck in the throat by a rocket on the
night of the 4th. He cannot live.
One man a dav is now tho killing rec
ord of tho Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company when passing Pendledon, Or.
The whereabouts of C. A. Roberts of
Huron, Fresno county, is sought for by
his wife. He left Huron about a month
"go.
George Brown, a brakeman, caught his
foot in a railroad frog at Carson, last
week, and was run over and fatally in
jured.
Helena, M. T., capitalists, disgusted
at the water supply, have formed a now
water company and extensive works will
be erected.
Almost tho entire business portion of
Ellensburg, W. T., was destroyed by tiro
on the 4th. Tho loss wilt not fail short
of $1,000,000.
Sarah" Hallett, formerly of Oakland.
killed herself with poison at Tucson on
27th, and Charles Kenyon Bitot himself
at St. Helena.
A non-partisan convention has put a
strong ticket in tho field i to bo voted for
in tho choice of officers for tho new
county of Orange.
Stockton's proi)osal to secure the spri ns
race meetings under tho State Agricultu
ral Society, has aroused Sacramento to
increasing the premium lists.
Tho prizo of $300 offered by Claus
Spreckles to farmers producing tho larg
est jwr cent of sagar per aero of Bugar
beets, has been awarded to J. B. Hudson.
Georgo N. Miller, an electric belt doc
tor, well known all over tho Pacific Coast,
was arrested at I'ort lownsend on tho
3d, charged with embezzlement at Mer
ced. Cal.
Tho tri ll of Calvin T. Lewis, tho gam
bler who shot and killed John Harring
ton, near tho Baldwin Hotel, San Fran
cisco, ended on tho 3d, tho jury returning
a vardict of not guilty.
Charles E. Mervillo, a brakeman on
tho Columbia it Puget Sound railroad,
was run over by a car at Kent, W. T.,
horribly crushing both legs, from which
ho died on tho 4th inst.
Charles Schmidt was crushed to death
at Seattle oil the 27th by tho falling walls
of building left standing in tho recent
fire. John Brewster was seriously iu-
jured at the samo time.
John McAllister, tho 10-vcar old crimi
nal, who poisoned his father at Wood
villo, Jackson county, Or., nlxnit ouo
year ago, has just died in tno Oregon
penitentiary irom consumption.
Nancy Howard, tho girl who recently
worked at Leech's saw-mill in Yuba
county, in tho garb of a mail, says she is
tho sister of of tho wife of Forepaugh, tho
cirens man, and he ill-treated her.
No less than 300 fishermen lost their
lives on tho coasts of England and Wales
last year. Tho fisherman is bo heavilv
clad that, once overboard, there is small
hoivo for him. lio usually sinks like a
stone.
A vacht has recently been launched on
tho Thames by electrical appliances,
which enabled all tho supiurta to lie re
moved ou tho pressing of a button, and
tho vessel glided into tho water without
tho slightest hitch.
The remains of J. C. Flood, tho San
Francisco millionaire, who died in Ger
many sovoral moths ago, has arrived in
Now York. Tho remains will lw interred
ill Calvary semutery, San Fraucisco. t
JIO.MK A.VI FAItJI.
The Wild Horse-Fruit Stnnos-Dlsln-fectans
Log Clod-Crusher Salt
as a Check for Chinch Bugs.
Evcrytldng is useful to a good house
keeper. Oil of wintergreen mixed with an equal
quantity of olive oil is recommended as a
rheumatic pain-killer.
A cook of some note says that if peach
es are peeled aud put into cold water for
lialf an hour they will retain their color.
The wild horse, it ia said, is not ex
clusively of Asiatic origin, but lias ox
isted in America as far back as the ter
tiary age.
Cold boiled turnips make a nice gar
nish for roast beef or lamb. Cut them
into thin slices, and brown in butter,
pouring hot gravy over them. Place
them on the platter around tho meat.
A hot salad, which is a well known
Pennsylvania dish, is made by slicing
green tomatoes and small onions, and a
few potatoes and frying them together;
salt them well and send them to the
table smoking.
Instead of "sticking peas" in the usual
manner, tho American Agriculturist sug
gests setting stakes about a rod apart and
stretching wires between them, the first
one foot from the ground and the others
eight inches apart.
After each rain the ground should be
cultivated lightly in order to prevent
evaporation of moisture Tho loose dirt
serves as a covering and shields the earth
from tho direct effect of drying winds
and heat of the sun.
Clovo Cake : One cup of dark sugar,
two-thirds of a cup of butter, one-half
cup of sweet cream, two cups of flour, ono
cup of raisins, two eggs, ono tablespoon
ful of cloves, one-half tablesjxjonful of
nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder.
Ono ol the best dismfctants to use
about the oultry house is a half pint of
crude carbolic acid, two and a half gallons
of water and one and a half pounds of
copperas dissolved and mixed thoroughly
and apply the same as a whitewash into
ever' crack and corner.
beans, jnias and potatoes very early. It
the frost kills some of them the loss will
besmall, and if thoy escape you will havo
a change, ot rations a month earlier than
people who neglesct the garden till all
the farm crops are in.
Fruit stains may bo removed from
linen by rubbing the spot on each side
with soap, then laying on a mixture of
starch in cold water, very tnick ; rub it
well in and expose the linen to the sun
and air till the stain comes out. If not
removed in three days renew the process
Hardy shrubs and flowers should bo
selected with tho view of having a sup
ply ol Uowers Irom spring until fall, as
some flowers bloom early and others late,
selections of varieties best suited to the
soil and for each month will assist in or
namenting the yard until frost appears
In a majority of cases it rarely pays to
attempt to cure a hen that has fallen into
the habit of eating eggs and for tho rea
son that sho is almost certain to learn
others tho samo trick often almost before
you aro aware of it, the be6t plan is to
kill as soon as the trick is discovered. It
hardly pays to run the risk.
A Roly Poly : Beat together two cup
fuls of sugar, ouo cuptul of butter, one
egg, two cupfuls of cream, half a glass of
wine, three cupluls of Hour, a heaping
teasiKJonful of baking owder, half a
pound of seeded raisins. Pour into a
pudding bag and boil for three hours
When dono serve hot with a cream sauce,
The statement that the dropping of one
lion per year are worth 50 cents is gom
its annual round. Wo havo kept about
iuu liens on that average but tine them
credited with only $5 on our Ixiok for
manure, or 5 cents each. Ten cents is
the very highest that we would be will
ing to allow for the annual manure crop
from each hen.
An effective table scarf is made of
scrim. An eight inch border of old gold
satin serge, on which has been worked
in arrasene embroiderv a spray of eglan
tine, applied at oither end by means of
fancy stitches in Bilk, corresionding to
the tones in the embroidery. A heni
Btitched border edges the entire scarf,
and tho edges aro fringed with silk in all
the colors of tho embroidery and old gold.
Ingenious ladies aro using summer
jackets of light cloth for house wear. The
jackets are without lining, and aro ex
ceptionally pretty, useful and becoming.
Draped vests of crajM) do chine or surah
may bo added, and a fancy revers anil
cutis, according to Uio taste. A very
wide, strong belt should bo set inside tho
jacket, ami so arranged as to fit the figure
quito closely outside of the garment.
Hot Lobster : Pull about threo pounds
of Wiled lobster to pieces with two silver
forks, make a sauce of mustard, vinegar,
tomato catsup and plenty of caynne pep
per and salt. Put tho lobster, tho sauco
and half a pound of good fresh butter into
a chafing dish, cover tho dish tightly and
when the lobster begins to cook open
and Btir with either a silver or a wooden
siKwri. Cook about twenty minutes in
all, and alxiut two minutes before blow
ing out the lights open for a minute and
throw in a glass of good sherry, stirring
quickly and covering again at once.
Salt as a Check to the Chinch Bug;
Professor Forbes, the Illinois State En
tomologist, is credited with having said :
"I havo no personal experience with tho
uso of salt as a check upon chinch hug
increase, but from what I know of the
habits of that insect and tho eltcct of
other fertilizers, I should not exject any
important advantage, except in soil where
salt will specially stimulate tho growth
of the grain. Somo exieritiient8 with
salt, niado within my knowledge by in
telligent farmers of Southern Ilhnoise,
were without noticeabld effect.
A Log Clod-Crusher: A log, preforably
of oak or other compact, hard wood,
eight feet long and from eight to ten in
Inches in diameter, is prepared by re
moving tho bark, and tapering slightly
toward tho ends. About ono loot from
tho end a notch is cut deep enouch tn
admit a chain which is Becurelv wrapped
around tho log. The douhlo-tre jH ,,.
tached to this chain alxmt three feet from
ono end of tho log and five feet from tho
other. Tho log is thus drawn diagonally.
If tho weight of tho log is not sufliciont
an additional ono can bo laid in front of
it, resting on tho chain, which is made a
little longer for this purjKiao.
PORTLAND MARKET.
SPECULATING ON THE COMING
PRICE OF WHEAT.
Apples, Flums and Peaches Provision
aro Steady No Change in Dried
Fruits Chickens in Good
Dem nd Wheat Dull.
The Fourth of July has come and gone,
after having ns usual caused a day's more
or less cessation of business, to the great
benefit to all. In many portions of the
inland empire a good harvest is assured,,
thanks to the late sufficient rainfall, but
in some sections it arrived too lato to do
any good. The merchants aro now busily
engaged in speculating on tho likely
price of wheat, and tho chances seem to
be that they and the farmers will have
no reason to complain, for tho cereal
yield of the Northwest will be enormous,
and the price about average. No cliange
in sugars, and coffee is unsettled. Pro
visions remain about steauy. ruiw
and vegetables aro cheaper all round and
aro quite plentiful. No change in dried
fruits Chickens in good demand. The
wheat market is as dull as ever.
GKOCK1UES.
Sugars. Golden C 7?aC. extra C 7tc,
dry granulated 9&c, cube, crushed and
powdered l)c. jouee: Java 0(5-c,
Mocha 28fa3ic, Costa Rica 21Jt'22,,-.c,
Rio21tg22e, Arbuckle's roasted 24Hc.
1'KOVISIONS.
Oregon ham 1313c, breakfast ba
con 13c. sides 10c, Eastern bacon 13
13c. breakfast bacon IStglSc, sides
1010c, shoulders Jo. Lard Uo 10s.
FllUlTH.
Apricots $1.25, peaches $1.251.50,
lemons $4.50. cherries 00c, blackberries
10c. Riversides $4.50, Sicily $7.508.
VEQETAI1LES.
Potatoes 4000o, bew $11.10, onions
$1, tomatoes $1.50 per lox.
DAIHV l'UODUUK.
Butter. Oregon fancy 2oc, medium 15(3
17c, common, 1012'c. Eastern 22c,
California 1820c.
KCJ08.
Eggs 2022c.
coinray.
Chickens $54.50, broilers $2.503,
old $5.50G, ducks $57, geese $7($8,
turkeys 15c per lb.
WOOL.
Valley 1820c, Eastern Oregon 1013c
HOI'S.
Hops 1015c.
QHAIN.
Wheat, Vallev $1.151.17K, Eastern
Oregon $1.051.07. Oats3d30c.
K1.0UK.
Standard $4, other brands $3.75.
KEEP.
Hay $1314 per ton, bran $13.5014,
chop $1820, shorts $1415, barley $20
(322.
FItESH MEATS.
Beef, live. 3c, dressed, GGJc; mutton,
live, 34c, dressed 0)c; Iambs $2.50
each ; hogs live 6c, dressed, 77c ; veal
G8c.
PRIED FKUIT8.
Apples 45c, evaporated 06W sliced
Go, pears 8c, jHaches 812c, Oregon
plums 3, petite prunes 5tic, German
G0c, Italian 0c, silver 7c, California
tigs , Smyrna lSwloc, apricots 13
14c, raisins $1.25(2.25 per box.
8ecretnry Endicott has a fondness for ye!
low gloves.
Robert Louis Stevenson was oaid 8.000 foe
his last novel.
Southern members of congress wear bootH.
northern members, shoes.
Governor Jerry Rusk, of Wisconsin, stand)
bIx feet threo in his stockings.
Prince Bismnrek is now known as tho Word
McAllister of European society.
Senator Ingalls alwavs has a red kerchief
peeping out of his breast pocket
President IT ydo, of Bowdoin colleco. snonda
much of his time at tennis, and is an oxnert
player.
Secretary Whitnov is considered to h bv
long odds tho best dressed man at present ia
public life.
Bronson Howard recently mode tho witty
remark that ho would rather bo playwright
than bo president.
Until a fow years ago Kai6er William ex
changed photographs with every pretty wo
man wnoso acquaintance ho made.
Gen. Von Moltko savs that Gen. Coulnncw
"knows something." From such aroticont
old ixjssimist as Vou Moltke this is high
praiso.
The lato Chief Justice Waite was 73 when
ho died. Justice Bradloy is 75: Matthows.
04; Harlan. 55; Blatchford, C3: Gray. CO:
Field, W; jailer, 73. and Lamar, 03.
King Humbert, of Italy, hns grown very
gray of late. He is only 44, but ho looks very
much older. Humbert is not a bandsomo
man, nor does he look highly intellectual
Senator Stanford still affects tho low cut
vest of old tunes. His wealth does not show
In his clothes, though tho stuff is tho best of
black broadcloth and his shirt is of linen from
Ireland.
M. Goblet, the new French minister of
foreign affairs, has a very hot temner. Ev
ery ono has hoard of a tempest in a teapot, hub
an outbreak of passion hi u Goblet Is soine-
tlmig new.
Pope Leo has ordered that the walls around
tho Vatican jwdaco ho heightened. High
buildings have boon eroded in tho neighbor
hood which overlook tho garden inhich tho
iwiks takes his daily walk.
Stenographer D. F. Murphy has been th
rejiorter of tho United Htatcs Fenato for
nearly forty years. Ho hus reiwrted Clay.
elxter and Cass, and later Sumn,r. K.,w.
ftnl and other famous men.
Austen Chamberlain, eldnst Knn nf TMivh
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, is to enter parlia
ment, Hotiasbeeiifctuiryingin Berlin, and
It is kald that Prinou lhsmarck took a great
muejr u mm anu irequeutiy entertained him
at dinner.
Ono of the best of the new inventions
is a horseshoe without nails. It is made
to fit on tho edges of Uio hoof, as you
wauld fit tho cover over the rim of a tea
cup. It can bo put on or taken off by
any ono of ordiuury intelligence in ono
or two minutes. By its uso all danger of
I'")? aIhorBOIIbJr. Peking or Hounding
the foot with nails is averted. As about
five horses in a hundred aro lamed or
ISSmo LTtST ,,riv,"of nl at
least 10 ncr cent aro ruined by cureless
shoeing by incon,Ftent iron no" ndors
who stylo themselU ho hZ" t2
invention, asido from heapeninJ t o
Process, will add to tho vaRf Z
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