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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1889)
"SLATE HEAD-STONES. Tiy Arp Superior to th Granite and ftaml-HMpe Artlrlo. Whoever visits Tho ccmolories of the land and there aro tow of us who aro not brought thithor from timo to time ' upon tho saddest of errands can not bul lc struck by tho unfortunate re- . stls which have attended tho efforts of Sorrowing friends to do honor to tho dead. Most cemeteries aro to the eye mere collections of unhappy specimens (iy tho stone-cutter's art, or rather of his want of art. Thoy aro uncouth where thoy should bo graceful, op presfvo whoro they should be sooth ing, aggressive and conspicuous where they should bo simple and inconspicu ous; thoy in one way or anothor vio late all tho principles of symmetry and of artistic propriety, and only too often tflcv are vulgar monstrosities of stone, which serve to advertise the stone-cutter and to disfigure the graves of tho dead. Indeed, it has como to tho place khcro it is far more appropriate to !penk of tho cometory as the monument-maker's advertisement than in the old sweet and homely phrase as -(Sod's acre." When one considers thnt all theso tonot aro put hero to mark an affec tion which death could not conquor; that. Ihey stand-for, so much lovo and sorrow, it makes, tho heart ache to feel tho. incongruity botweou the hard, tftilgtit- monuments and the thing thoy fcre meant to signify. Thoro was novor a stone which could bo more fitly spoken of as unsympathetic than tho mnrble which has served as tho com mon material for grave tablets. It Is cold in color and in texture; it is quick ly discolored, so that it is unsightly and offensive to tho eyo, tho cltcct of imo being loss pleasing than in the aso of almost any other stone that could bo choson. Granite is course and of uuploasatit texture if unpol ished, while tho high looking-glass surface that results from polishing it is tho most vulgar in effect that the ingenuity of tho stone cutter has thus far been ablo to compass. Bronzo is very expensive, and it doesi not well stand tho climate, while it offers to the thiof a temptation which there are too many instances of his having yielded U. Sandstone is pleasant to tho eye, bnt it so quickly loses the words which Jtffeotr.m has committed to its keeping that it is hardly to be counted among the materials available for this pur pose. In view of those facts thoro seems nothing better to do than to return to tho custom of our fathers, and go buck to the use of slate. There is nothing Uvhich more satisfactorily stands our climate, both in respect to durability and to npiearance. To tho eyo the soft, low tone of tho stone is always pleasant, and tho material Is one which has tho grout, merit of not scorning to lend itself readidly to thoso ornate and abtrusive structures, of which tho State of Maine produces some beautiful examples, tine and vel vety in texture, are capable of receiv ing carving- of delicacy and intricacy, l and of preserving them through the 7 trying weather of our destructive win ters. On the whole, there is no other stone so satisfactory lor this use, and it Is a pity that, it should not be more generally adopted. There, is at some cemeteries, of which w think Mount Auburn is one. a foolish regulation for bidding the erection of slate tablets, but the rule i.- fortunately not a general one, mid so thoriuighl vis the public tired of the use of marble and granite that there is every ron-oii to believe that it will noon return to the old custom of the early days of Now I'.uglaiid, when necessity and common sense combined to hold people to a fa-hion which was the bent that ban ever obtained in the matter of gravestones in this country. Boston ( 'otirier. NEW ENGLAND ENGLISH. Omit of V.tmUeo .Sim'Ii, CoMim'I ml liy , Ito-tou l'nmr. Your challenge reminds nie of a re mark overheard by a visitor at a farm house at early dawn on a summer morning: "Ye ain't got a whetstone you hain't a-goiu's to use to-day. be ye?" If this did not give the li-'iirer an ap- petite for breakfast ho must have been: beyond the reach of tonics. Two or three packages inclosing! grammatical gems have also reached me from down East. One brings the tiomewhat familiar phrase: "He done splendid," in Ibis case said to have Inien spoken by a woman of "some wealth and more protoiision," with re gard to her son's proficiency at school. The other specimen is thus presented by my correspondent: A woman called upon a friend who was recovering Ironi a long illness and tho following convocation ensued: "Well, 'Gusta, how be you to-day?" Hotter." He? ;iad you is." Other goms must stand over," as editors say. until a more convenient season, bul 1 shall find room for the' following-also in tho form of a dia logue: I Scene, a farin-hoiiso by the roadside, : 1) - -, calling to Captain H , who: is driving past: "Captain B , stop! I wanted tor have eon if I could hnvo got your horse to have went to Fltohburg to morrow:" Boston Post. At the house of a family in Will Inmsport. Pa., a largo extension table, which had repeutodly baflled tho at trfmpis of several men to get It through i door in an adjoining room, was found, nfuir the lato Hood had subsid ed, to be all safe In tha other room. .;iud how ll got through that. ioor U a mywir-ry. KILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. htn oftUn WU Sajrlacaot thf I.ruentd Tho way to git onny thing Iz to ackt jjust az tho yu did'nt karo whothor yu got it or not. It iznz dlffikult to deflno a sickness az it Iz to nckount for tho mcazlos. It is dredful cozy for a. man to dis pize ritches who haz got about two hundred and 50 thousand dollars well invested. If fortune haz enny favorites, it iz not tho indifiront, but it iz thozo whom we hav to pay to git rid ov their teazing. Luv iz llko tho monzles; if wo hav really got them, thoy aro sure to sho. Whon a man iz puffod up with a harmless kind ov prido that don't do any hurt. It Iz a krowol pieco of bizz ness to take tho konsait out ov him; it iz az krewel az to pull the fouthors out ov a pekok's talo. Every ono who trados with tho devil expokts to git tho best ov him, but I novor hav seeu it did yoL Ono reason why adviso costs so little iz bckauso every ono haz sum of it to spare. Wo are so avarishus that oven v. hen wo trado with oursolfs wo go for git ting tho best end ov tho burgain. My philosophical kroed iz "Giv a bear the wholo of tho road if ho will tako it" (The harto iz a mlstorioiis thing; wo knn almost all ways find out what iz in a man's hed, but the things that sloop in tho heart are often unknown even to the possessor. My sentimental kreod iz "Straw berries and kream if thoy aro handy; if not, kream anyhow." Itmny bo difllkult to decide which men porsew tho most eagerly, interest or fame. Yu kan find men who will sumtimos repent ov a sin, but seldum ov a blun dor. Thoro iz nothing so natral az to lio. and thon dodge behind lL Mankind kan be divided into two heaps, and not wrong them mutch a heap ov geese und a heap ov gan ders. I obsorvo more phools among tho old men than i do among tho old v hu man. I think I nm honest whon i say thare iz no man who luvs to bo praised more than i do, or who hates to be llattored worse. I would rather watch two ruskals than one phool ToknoioKto talk iz a grate art. but to kno vihrn iz a grater. The only suro way to keep a skoret iz to forget It. N. Y. Weekly. JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE. Tlie rli'Htunt Disposition of the Mlkutlo's Oltlivtt son mill llrlr. Compared to his imperial father, oven at the prosont d y, 1'rinco Ham is much more emancipated, and none of the old traditions seem to have any weight in regulating his conduct. There was no precedent to follow in tho education of a Japanese Prince in tho modern way, and Prince Itnru has made many laws for himsolf. Ho is a wonderfully bright and precocious little fellow, and his small, twinkling black eyes are full of mischief and see every thing. He is hardly tailor than an American boy of six years of r.ge, but ho has at times the dignity, the pride of birth, and consciousness of station and powor, of a man of sixty. His eyes are not slanting, nor indeed does one often see in u Japanese faco tho wonderfully oblique eyes beloved (If the caricaturists. The peculiarity in the expression of their eyes is given by the eyelids lieing fastened in oithor corner, as if a few stitches had boon taken there. This makes it impossi ble for them to lift tho eyelids as high as we do, and gives tho narrower slits, through which thoy gaze, tho peculiar Oriental look. One often soos Japanese with as round, wide-open eyes as those of our race, and it givos an especial beauty to their counte nances. Prince Haru has the exquisitely smooth, fine yellow skin that Is ono of the points of grontest beauty in Japa nese children, and a brighteolor some times shows in the pale-yellow of his little cheeks. He has the rank of a Colonel in . the Japanese army, and wears his military uniform and his cap with the gold star all the time, his clothes being dark-blue cloth in winter and white duck in hummer. He Is fond of riding, and. when mounted, tho miniature Colonel trot.s along at a tine gait, giving and returning the military salute as lie pns-cs an officer or a sen try, like a young mnrtiuet. Eliza Kuhumah Scidmoto, in St. Nicholas. - The Cases Different. "Mr. .Skinuphlint." exclaimed the driver of that gentleman's delivery wagon, as he rushed into the store ex citedly, "my wagon was run into by a heavy-loaded truck a little while ago at a strewt crossing, and" "If my property has been injured in consequence of your carelessness, Jnuios," said Air. Skiiinplilliit, sternly, "I shall, of course, expect you to make the loss good." "Injured," replied the driver, "my wagon wasn't hurt a hit. Tho truck just grazed iL Hut the follow that was drlvln' it turned so short that a box of fancy candies tumble off his load into my wagon and 1 didn't find it out till ho got out of my slghL I don't know who ho was, and the box ain't marked. In u case like this I siippo-o there would In no hiirin If I kept -" Jhiimis." unid Mr. Sklnnphlint,',you may give mu that box of onudlo." Chicago Trlbnnu. MRS. DRUMMUP'S LIST. It CoTerrl roiullnbl Oronnd, Hat Ont of llrr Victim Didn't Know It. It seems thnt the business of collect ing subscriptions is no exception to tho rule that there aro tricks in every trade. A man or woman with a gift, for tho business may collect of the same ratn at least twice as much as another would. A little incident will illustrate. They wore getting .in a subscription aUttle while ago for the tlome for De cayed Applo Women. There Is no more deserving institution, as every body knows, than tho Homo for Decayed Applo Women; and moreover, nn in fluential coterie of Hack Hay women, headed by Mrs. Charity Drummup, had becomo interested in the home, and were pushing tho subscription. When Mrs. Charity Drummup sails into a counting-room with a subscrip tion paper in her hnnd. the hankers and men of business know jierfectly well that It is of no jwsslble avail for them to turn her a cold shoulder, un less they aro anxious to lose caste or custom among the wealthy circle which revolves around her Down town there ore two solid men, in business, one as a retailer in a largo way. ami the other as a financier, who are very good friends. Tho financier is mercurial, excitable, and passes for a free-handed, generous sort of per son, The merchant is phlegmatic and slow, and has the reputation of being very shrewd and close in money mat ters. Well, when Mrs. Charity Drummup came down in behalf of tho Home for Decayed Apple Women, she made one of her calls upon the financier and promptly showed him a paper, already signed by at least a dozen banker-, merchants and other wealthy men; and tiiKin this paper there was not a single sul-criptiou for a le.-s amount than $50. "You see what they're all doing." said Mrs Charity Drummup, with an engaging smile. The financier gave a low whistle. "Nothing but fifty dollar subscrip tions, eh?" he said. ' "Well. I'm afraid this is a little too steep for me. You are quite right, Mrs. Drummup. in as suming that 1 should not care to lead the break-off into smaller figures: but, see here, is this the only paper you have got. Mrs. Drummup?" The only one." said tho lady, with ii little confusion. "Why, this is the subscription paper, sir." "Hut is it the only one you have got?" Pres-od for an answer, Mrs. Drumm up produced from her reticule a pa per, upon which there were several r25, $10 and even $5 subscriptions. "Ah! this looks more like it," snid the financier. "You may put mo down there, if you please, for $25." And ho went down there, high up on the list. That night the. financier and tho mer chant mot at the club. "Well." said the merchant, "did you have a call from Mrs. Drummup to-day?" "Yes." "Stuck you for $50, I suppose?" "Oh, no: I only gave $''5." "What? Why, thoro wasn't n single subscription on hor list for le-s than 50!" "Not on the list sho showed you. my friend; but you should have called for her other paper." Ho explained the scheme to tho close-fisted merchant, who became fairly black in the face with chagrin. He felt that he had been overreached; and the financier, who seemed to have come in for a share of his wrath, is of the opinion that ho did not sleep that night, and that it was, indeed, several days before h regained his usual calm. - Boston Transcript. THE RATTLESNAKE'S BITE. No "Miro t'nir Tor to Vpiioiii Kiiotnt In tlm .MedlcH1 t'ruturillt.v. Speaking of poop'o bltton by rattle snake. Mr. .1. H. Ivstill, of the Savan nah News, says: "Out of a thousand peoplo bitten by rattlesnakes I do not think a do.on recover. There is no known euro, in spite .'if the fact that many people hnvo said that thoy were cured by whisky. You may depend on It when a man says ho was cured of a rattlesnake bite, though ntsiessarily not a liar, he is at least, laboring under I misapprehension of tho'acts. There is a small snake similar to a rattle snake in appearance. who.o poison is not so venomous, and negroes bitten by it place line upon tho spot or less drink enough whisky to coun teract the poison. Whisky if taken In u large quantity, goes directly Into the blood and counteracts tho poison of the snake. Hut the regular Georgia rat tler, from five to seven feet in length, Is a deadly customer to meet. It does not give any warning bul strikes the moment it Is disturbed, and It can strike an object as far distant as it Is long. A triond of mine was rilling along in the saddle one day and a big rattler lying in the road leaped at him us he passed. It closed to his boot leg, driving one of its frangs clear through the thick leather of his boot and throiieh his trousers, just escaping tho tlesh. It required considerable kicking to shake that snniic off, and when lie was finally got rid of he started in pursuit. My friend (need bullets in tho army with nonchalance, but his hair stood on end when he saw that snake coming, and ho Jammed -pur- to his nag ami didn't stop until lie had gone a quarter slroteh. .My plantation Is full of nttloMinkn. mid iiuly hint week my bunds killed twenty ii.x ill a field of Iwontv aero" A COURAGEOUS WOMAN. How Sh Got th llMt of Vltllan Wit Wan lirnt on Roliberx. One day recently, in tho rotunda of tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, a number of moil were discussing the question of pluck and bravery frequently exhibit ed by persons advanced in years. Gen eral Dan Mucaulcy, now a resident of this city, but formerly of Indiana, re lated the most remarkable instance, as follows: 'Dr. Walker, about sixty years of age, and his wife, a few years younger, togothor with two grown sons, resided in Indianapolis after the war. Ono night Mrs. Walker retired late, but not to sleep, for she expected her hus band to como in from tho next room every moment. A light was burning, nnd lying on "tier bed she could sot) tho tloor nt certain angles. Instead of her husband coining in sho saw a villainous-looking man. with a bowio-knlfo between his teoth, crawling through the door on his all fours. In a second ho disappeared under tho bed. Her husbnnd then came in, blew out tho light and got into bed. "Mrs. Walker said nothing for a fow minutes, for she was thinking of a scheme to capture the robber and savo herself and husband from bolngniur dored. Finnllys he said aloud to hor husband: '1 am thirsty; I'll go and get a drink of water.1 Sho got out of bed and went to tho room whore her two sons wore sleeping. Putting hor hands over the mouth of ono sho whispered in his oar that a man wna under hor bed and that she wanted his pistol. The son told her that ho gavo her tho pistol a few days ago. because sho objected to having ono around loaded. Then she remembered that she had hid it in the basement-room, on top of a shelf. 'Wait, boys. I'll got it,' sho said. Going down stairs she passed another robber, the pal of tho ono under her bed, though sho was un aware of it at that time. "After stumbling around in tho dark sho managed to find tho pistol and hastily rushed up stairs withk iL In the meautimo hor husband suspected that something was tho matter, be cause sho had consumed too much time in getting a drink of water. Tho robber became suspicious also and was pulling himsolf from undor the bed, and had almost assumed a sitting posi tion, his face toward tho bed and tho knife still clutchod botwoon his teeth, whon the old doctor was in tho act of springing to tho door. Without a mo ment's hesitation tho doctor tumblod right on tho robber and at the same time dealt him a powerful blow in tho fnce. They both fell on the tloor, tho doctor on top und gamely punching him at ovory opportunity. It was a short and desperate struggle. Tho robber attempted to cut tho doctor, but tho latter knocked the knife out of his hand. In tumbling around tho robber got out his pistol and pulled tho trig ger, but the old doctor seized his wrist in time and the ball struck tho colling. With a strong effort the robber extri cated himself from tho doctor and ran tor tho door. "Tho son, who had the pistol his mother brought him, thought that his father was dead and rosolvod to kill the murderer at all hazards. Ho mot tho robber faco to face in the door and tired point blank at his breast. In stead of falling the robber rushed ouL Tho doctor, hearing the report of his son's pistol thought tho robbor had shot his wife in going out In a few seconds tho brave old couple worosafo in each other's arms, and tho next morning the body of the notorious robbor and desperado, 'Hoosier' BUI Kodifcr, was found in the back yard with a bullet through his breast. Now. gontlemon, don't you think that old woman had pluck in a wonderful de gree, and that hor husband was worthy in every way to be hor mate?" N. Y. Mall and Kxprcss, PUNISHING A THIEF. Ilotr llr IVito ('uniit'lii In Ittiturii mi I'lnlirrllH to 114 OfTiifr. "I saw an attempt to steal an um brella, that amused mo tho other day." wild a gentleman last evening. "I was coming home on Die train and got Into conveinatian with a friend in a seat op posite mo. To make It more pleasant ho crossed the aisle and sat with mo, leaving his umbrella, a very beautiful ono, standing in the sent ho vacated. At the first station a man came In nud, though there were other vacant scats, seated himself lu the one whore the umbrella was standing. My friend quietly nudged mo and wo kept on talk ing. Pretty soon that umbrollu lost Its upright position in tho coruur and leaned affectionately against tho well, dressed stranger, who felt the texture of its silk and the carving of tho handle with evident relish. Another station was reached and the stranger rose to leave the train. Under his arm tho umbrella found a resting place, and as ho walked down tho aisle my friend followed close at his heels. Ho hud reached the depot platform when the owner of the umbrollu tupped him quietly on the shoulder nud said: "Please netum my umbrella to tho seat you took It from " "One gjanco at the HK'uker'H oyos convinced the would-be-thief that he meant what ho was saying, and ho mounted the couch steps and walked to the sent and sot the umbrella in tho corner without a word. Thoso in tho car had by this time becomo aware of the mi tu re of the difficulty, and, as tho follow turned shauic-facedly to leave, ho was aided on his nay by lively hand clapping and roars of laughter. 1 think it will bo aovural days at least before ho makes u similar ultteniut Utlea (W. Y.) Obdjrfer. UNCERTAINTY OF WEALTH. In Wall Strrt a Man Mar l'B met To-lf and Poor To.Morrow. Istltnatos of wealth based o.i manner of living and habits of jKsrsonal expen diture aro by tho way, uncertain. Some men spend ovory dollar thoy make as fast as thoy make it. and never have a dollar laid by. To info there fore, thabeeauso they live nt the rate of say $20,000 a year they are worth an nmount, which at 5 per cent, would yield an incomo ot $20,000 would evi dently lie fallacious. On tho other hand, many thrifty and successful monoy getters, from their thrift, spend no more on themselves and families after thoy have accumulated millions than when they had next to nothing. They have become fixed in the habits they acquired in their leas pro-ierous days, nud can not got out of tboni. Every year some man of this kind dies, nnd astonishes his iwst Intimate friends by the iinmonso estato he leaves behind him. This Is especially the casn with old men, who in their later years re tiro from society, and are, as It were, forgotten. Whilo thoy aro vogotatlng in obscurity their t.noy is rolling over and ovor like a snow ball. In creasing In geometrical ratio. On this point Mueller's weekly advorttsomenW of executors' sales of stocks ami bonds and real estate aro most suggostlvo reading. Tho qunntity of stuff that Is poured out upon purchasers from this sourco is something wondorful. Tho executors of tho Into Joshua Jonos, for example, who was not supposed to bo immonsly rich, havo just distributed among his legatees, as tho proceeds ol a series of such sales, nearly $8,000, 000. and thoso of tho lato Samuol Wll lets, who lived in a modest way, sold through tho samo auctioneers about thrco years ago $5,000,000 worth of tho best kind of scourltlos. For another reason, too, men of groat fortunos, who do not ostentatious ly display them, aro much bettor pro tected ngainst public knowledge of tholr affairs than those who have small onos. A man ot modorato means hiu often nood to ask for credit, especially If he Is carrying on an active buslnoss. and, thorefore, must make statements of hla financial condition. Those statomonts aro presorvod and rowomborod, nnd thus, in his particular circle, the amount of his fortuno Is tolorably woH known. But a lnrgo capitalist, or oven a small one, out of buslnoss, lends monoy and does not borrow it, or, if ho borrows IL borrows upon collaterals, which obviates tho necessity of further Inquiry, and thus leads to no estimate of his condition. I do not seo how the fortuno of a man llko Jupiter Morgan, for instance, cau be appraised. Ho lias certainly novor told its amount to me, nor to any ono that I know. I doubt much whothor he knows it himself within several millions. When ho comos to die, to bo sure, his oxecutors will find out, but that ovont, let us hope, Is yet far off. Mr. Jay Gould a fow years ngo did, indeed, make what ho declared was a full and frank ex hibition ot his stock investments, and it was cortitlod to by men of unim peachable integrity, but, unfortunately, from tho fact that it was made so frankly, nobody accepted tho statement as strictly correct. Mr. Kussoll Sago is reputed to Ve woalthy, and probably is so, but whether ho has one, live, ten or twenty millions I would not dare to affirm. Besides, many groat fortunes, ospoclally thoso which aro nourished conspicuously before tho eyes of tho public in well-trumpeted stock opera tions, aro as unsubstantial and evan escent as soap bubbles. Ten years ago Mr. Cyrus Field was reputed to bo worth tlvo millions of dollars. Ho got to speculating in .Manhattan Filovntod nnd wont on nntil in a single day he was reduced to comparative poverty. Mr. Jay Gould, even, hits repeatedly in the course of his life been brought to tho verge of financial ruin. Tho oxpe rlenco of Jas. H. Kovno is still fresh lu tho recollection of most frequenters of Wall street. I know that ho once ex hibited to his lawyer a Now Year's statement showing a balance lu his fa vor or $Ui.OOO,000. Tho next New Year's tho $15,000,000 hod all been lost nud more, too. Kvcu the lato Governor E. D. Morgan, who every body said was worth $20,000,000. actually left at his death only about $a.(XK),000. and it ho had lived few years longer ho would probably not hnvo loft that. Hundreds of such illustrations will occur to every one who has been lu financial circles hero for nny lenctli of time. If a mon ument were set up in Trinity church yard to every man who has made and lost a fortune in Wall street, since 18(50, the gravestones there would W mighty crowded. - N. Y. Sun. The First Chinese Railway. The fiiMt railway in China was con structed by the shrewd and progressive Prince I, In Ming Cliiiau as a nilnhiluro affair, carrying lb" peoplo on a circle of two or lliren mlhM for a small utim In order to fiiinlliarlze them with the snorting monster. Thin being accom plished, a road is now laid of about seventy-live inllci-, on which the Vice roy makes fours without exciting tho prejudices of the natives, "'l.'lio rail way Is coming," is the proihcy of a high official at Podu. It Is the only way to mcot the pressuro of outside nations. But what is most Interesting is tho roiult In tho way of unifying tho dialects spoken lu Chins. Tliuro lire now not less than three hundred dln locts, and thoy differ as much as French from German. There are also five dlf foront weights, or scales of weights, mid In Pckln alone, while no standard of lltnu whatever exists, foreign clocks aro sometimes found. Thu first slop la to facilitate Intercourse, In order to unify tho vubl ueoplo. Gbibo-Dowo-craL FOREIGN GOSSIP. Tho highest peak In New Guinea is to bo natnod nfter William E. Glad stone. Undor tho laws of China tho adull who loses his temper in a discussion, is sent to jail for fivo days to cool off. Tho Husslan military authorities state that thoy can in twenty-lour hours put 180.000 soldlors in tho Hold prepared for war. Tho Princo of Wales, desplto bis rank nnd Income, doesn't disdain to turn an honest penny by breeding short-horned cattle, which uro sold at private sale- Hussla hns fixed doctors' charges. Pliyslclans making $150 per yoar will get forty-flvo cents por visit; others twenty-flvo cents. In country towns, ten cents Is tho usual charge. Taking all London's food to gether tho fish, tho mcaL tho poultry, tho vegetables, tho fruit, tho grocerios. and tho bread thoro Is an annual consumption of olose on a million antl a half tons a yoar. At tho top of tho Kiffol tower, for a fee, specially prepared note papor. dated from tho Hiimmltof tho towor, ia provided, and tho wrltor can havo tho letter posted on tho soL Presldont Cnrnot of France Is strongly in favor of capital punish ment. Ho is a greater bollevor In it than was M. Grovy, and tho gulllotlno is much more nctlvo In Paris than it was some years ago. ' In Grooco it Is not yot recognized that womon havo tho privilege ot working. An enormous petition baa been uddressod to tho llouso nskinp; for socoudry education for women nnd. for tho foundation of lyceums for girlH. From a report of tho Belgian Con-3ul-Genoral in tho Congo State, it ap-, pears that tho efforts mado to intro duce European vogotablos nud frulla in that district havo been awarded with great succoss. Thoro Is a woman in a Wost-ot-England town who initkos a good liv ing by killing cats. She advertises that if people who aro about to go away for tho summer will send thoir cats to hor sho will kill them with, chloroform. "Hesldontiul chambers" for ladiort havo been built in Ixindon, consisting of two, three or four rooms, which rent from ten shillings to twonty-fivo shillings, unfurnished. Only thoso womon who earn thoir own livelihood aro permit ted to becomo occupants. The City of Berlin Is far ahead oC London In lelophonie progress, thoro being 10,000 subscribers. The entiro net of wires in tho Gorman capital luvt reached a length of 17,801 kilomutors. and the average tiumbor ot calls amount to I'JtJ.C'Jl dally. - That swallows are disappearing from Franco is shown by u report laid bofore tho Zoological Society, whioli. also reveals tho cause of this decrease, and indicates tho remedy. Tho authors of tho death of millions of thoso pret ty birds nro tho ladles, who wear tho feathers, wings and even the bodies ot swallows in thuir bats and bonnets. Tho number ol building societies in England and Wales is, according tc a recent report, abmit'.lll, having n membership of over !120,000 and c share capital of $H.1J.(R)0. Tho re ceipts for one year wore ovor $80, 000,000, and tho societies held securi ties valued at $150,000,000. In Scot land tho societies are reported to ham a membership of over 11,000, with share list valued nt ovor $1,015,000, while thoy hold securities to tho valuo of $(!,,'" 1, 105. In Ireland such socie ties hnvo made loss progress, nnd n. innmlxirshlp of only (i,5M Is reported.- PERFUMES OF FLOWERS. How to ruxluro unci Klorn Hwcut Oiturif lor I'nrlors unci Itcnulnlr. Boxes of heliotrope, mignonette ami pansies, placed in windows, wilL sweeten tlioalrof all dwellings. Tho seamstress and all of the labor ing classes should havo Kwcol-scentcd. plants blooming lu their windows to keep tho atmosphere fresh and pure, and net us a disinfectant. Wo can also use the petals of roses, violets, pinks, tuberoses, etc, to produce a sweet per fume for tho pnrlor or boudoir; nnd b.y the uld of modern science it can be. very easily done. Fill u small, wido-inouthed jar witii ether, and use a gln.ts stopper, dipped in glycerine, to thoroughly oxcludo the n'lr. Fill this jar with the fresh polnle of any fragrant phiul, cut after tho dew Is dry; nnd only tho petals should bo used; but. clusters of helio trope can bo cut off close to ilio stem. Hther possesses tho proporty of taking up the fragrant particles from thu Mowers, nud every dny the old' petalK must bo taken out and now ones added. Quantities of (lowers nro required, but when the other is nlL evaporated it will leave an osseu'flal oil of the flower, and three or four drops or it, udded to deodorized alcohol, will givo a delicious extract All delicious odors can be imprisoned in deodorized nb-'ohol, which Is nindo by filtering pure sptrlls through nnl niul charcoal or bouo-black In powder. It can be used over ninny times, nnd a. thick lliiiinel bag, with a wire run around the top, will iiiuko a good filter. Fill It with hono-black nnd pour lutlnr ulcohol, hanging tho hag over a bowl, so that the liquid will drop Into iL Take jars us described iibovo and &l half roll with alcohol, and then fill up with peach leaves, lemon pool, sllcea nf jiluoupplo, nispborrloH, cherries, f,ru wherries - Indeed, any thing from . "Mch you may desire to extract ca k ice, nud you will hnvo uh duo tin ua oi'tmeut of essences as tho maim acturcr om furnish you. Household.
