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THE OBEGON SCOUT CHANCEY, - Publishers UNION OREGON. HowTlicy Arc Ohtnhieel by tlnliful l'roi prctlvn llrliteRrnoiiiH. Tho winter holldny season la when thoro is tho greatest rush. Tho days ot tho week havo their spoclal profor onco among most people, yet somo young men novor stop to think about lho day of tho wcok or tho month, ns lo whothor it bo consldored lucky or unlucky. Somo prefer nn odd number In tho date of tho month, for odd num bers aro considered raoro lucky than tho oven. Many will not tako out a Itconso on tho thirteenth day of tho month. They aro prejudiced against lho number, notwithstanding tho fact thoro aro "thlrteon" clubs who at their banquets defy all suporstltion. Fri day is always a light day in taking out marriago licenses. It may only just happon that way, but tho hotter rea son would seem to bo that thero is a general projudico against Friday as an unlucky day. Tho liconso is usually token out tho day beforo tho wedding. yei somo wait till tho last day. Whon evor you soo a young follow with a kind of bashful look walking up to tho county clerk's desk lalo in tho afternoon and just before tho closing hour, with hesitation in his manner, tho clorks in tho ollleocnn usually surmiso his mission. A man with a deed to fllo or who wishes to cxnmlno an abstract, will walk in a hurried and busincss-liko way. But -not so tho avorago prospective bride groom. Ho will often, after having obtained tho license, ask tho clerk to have it kept out of tho papers. Tho request is complied with by tho clerk writing across tho namos of tho couplo in tho marrlago-liconso book "don't publish." This book 1b dally exam inod by members of tho pross, and the request is usually complied with, for -nino times out of ton a liconso marked "don't publish" aro namos not gener ally known. Ono day a reporter was at tho desk when a young laboring man mado tho request not to havo tho liconso pub lished. . "Why do you not want tho liconso published?" askod tho roportor, wish ing to learn tho reason why somo pco plo aro so anxious to havo their mar rlago licenses kopt socrot- In roply "ho said: "1 am a poor man and can't afford to havo it published. Tho boys will all soo it in tho paper and It -would cost mo ton dollars to sot -up tho drinks. That is tho reason -why I don't want It published." Agpod, squaro.honost reason, wasn't .UP "Woll. how many marrlago licenses to-dayP" asked a Donvor gentloman of a roportor ono day, glancing over his flhouldor whllo copying tho namos of proBpoctlvo bridegrooms and brides. "Did you tako out a liconso?" was tho query answor of tho roportor. "No, sir." "What is tho intorost you tako, then, in thoso thlngsP" asked the ro portor. "I am," ho ropllod, "an insurnnoo agent. Young mon, whon about to (jot married, aro good subjects for llfo lnsuranco agents. By kooplng a list of tho marrlago Uconsos wo know tho names of mon who aro qulto llkoly to tako out llfo insurance." Evory man understands his own po cullar business, doesn't ho? Thpro is another intorosting foaturo to this question. Sometimes a pretty and fair maidou comos in and asks in .n quiet way If Charley, Harry, Goorgo, or whatovor tho namo may bo, has taken out a license. Young ladies aro cuto, und when thoy think thoro may bo a rival Jn tho Hold, thoy aro on tho look-out, and so, young man, If you aro playing a doublo game, bowaro. Donvor Republican. UNKNOWN HEROES. tUoblo Men Whom AnU Do Not Ooino to the I.lKlit of I'ublla Approval. Tho world Is full of horo worship, and many aro tho fortunate ones wo honor and rovoro. Somo won by knightly deeds on battle-field, somo by splendid prowess In saving life periled by 11 ro or Hood by every form of daring bravery or noblo offort tho list is swelled. And a quick and gen erous appreciation is awarded all such deeds of exceptional heroism. All heroic acts, however, do not coino to tho light of public approval. Thoro aro unknown and unnoticed heroos and heroines in private llfo whoso numos aro not destined to bo "sung in numbers;" whoso quiot lives How on in uneventful stillness. Hut tho young man who voluntarily resigns tho ambitious plans of youth, -with all their vaguely splendid possl bullion, to care fur his aged parents, which is an obligation, perhaps, dis tasteful to htm, seeing his more fortu nate brothers and comrades winning fortuuo and renown that might bo his, is u horo of no humble typo. Tho girl who, putting asldo hor own happy dreams of tho future, dedtcatus he. llfo to the euro of an invalid mother or crippled sister, making thslr lives bright with tho light sho denies her own, Is a horolno, though not always recognized as such. In many an obsuuro homo tho frail mother is tho heroic spirit, who moots tho blows of adversity with tho shield of cheerful industry, llrnvo und netor dospalrlng. thankful and hope ful to others, sho might havo poems written of her horoUm if hor station bad been higher in tho eyes of tho ...world Toxaa Sifting THE PACIFIC COAST. The Southern Belle group of mines, nbout thirtv miles from Tucson, has been Fold to an English syndicate for $500,000. Orovillo has won tho fight fot the Cit rus Fair in January. Marysville made a gallant struggle. Charles Scott shot and killed a fellow workman known ns Simon, on a ranch near llocklin yesterday. Aruument in tho Montana election con- apt will begin to-day, the point Wing tho elleged disqualification of the judge. Over two hundred and fifty varieties of the crysanlhemum are on exehibition nt tho "Cryeanthcmuni Fair" at Los An geles. Mat Lewis, of the steamer Elder testi fied at Portland that tho employes of tho vessel carried whisky, which was sold to passengers. Peter Verdicr. n storekeeper twenty- five miles from Prescott. A. T., lias been murderded by a mau who afterward robbed tho safe. Many newspapers in Northern Califor nia nrotniso to publish a "dead-beat" list of their subscribers from and after No vember 1 . Tho land between Ellensburu'h. Wash.. and the recently discovered hemitite iron mines, has advanced 50 to 1W) per cent, in valuo lately. filinrlnn T'errv. nn insane nerson. tried to carry off Miss Knox, a teacher at Salem. Perry followed Miss Knox from Minnesota. T1im Ytln!,. mnntiiTnr fnr W H Afc- Knight & Co., nt Sacramento, has been arrested for having female deerskins in 1i!b possession. Tnmna TI Poiillrnor rfnffiP1 flu Ht'ht weight wrestling championship in a match at Tacoma last week with Charles F. Eyton, of Australia. A vnnnii mnn mimed Knulish lint been swindling Portland merchants. Ho lias been giving them drafts on a San Fran cisco house that has been dissolved. Tim Klnlo tlnnril nf A irri P11 It II re linfl HUH- !., n.l 4l iiiMininttnunt nt nirr-rtnr Ullll- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 . tuu 1 " ' - cock to look after tho Los Angeles Fnir. Southern California wahled a nerson from its section of tho State. 'Plm alnrv tlmt AlrH. VnrrV llllB 1)0011 . 1 1 V k IV! I..I..W - J . - w-- robbed of a largo sum of money nt Port land is discredited, owing to tho fact that tho huly has not mado tho robbery pub lic. Tlm Run Dinim rrrnnil ilirv finVB that t . . -. . r, r- - . - i..nr,i tiwm tinanoorif the cnuntv funds IIIUIU I J I ( a riuuu - havo boon illogally spent, and recom- cemls tho removal oi ino county sujiur visors. lVV.J V. ! " I -- ' - of the San Francisco Copper Company at Campo Sece, who waB drowned on tho 10th inst., in ono of tho mine shafts, has been recovered. n.olta llrml wlifi r-liiimn in lmvn 1)0011 a member at ono timo of tho California legislature, has served ins lour years in iii rtnxrmi tuiiitrnl!nrv nn a conviction for forgery, nnd was released Monday. no & Viuth riiilrnml. 1 iiu jwu " r frnm Knntii Monica to Los Angeles, has stopped running trains. The track has been badly washed iy tno rain, aim mo road is making no effort to repair it. T.uli.n T? V. Minn ii tlm nnwlv nnnoint- ed justico of Arizona, assumed his duties yesterday at Tucson, appointed Brewster Cameron clerk of court and set tho trial of tho Wham robbers lor JNovemuer llth. A wrestling match has been arranged between W. II. Quinn of Victoria and J. 'i ivnnonii nf A ii ul ml I ii. The match is i lUIIUIIHI VI. ....... collar and elbow, best three in five, for f 300, and is to take place hi aeauio wiwi in twolvo days. ir n itrutiiTor tho iiiiraer on tho Bteaiiier' Cyclone, has boon arrestod at Portland lor norlurv. It is charged that ho teetilled falsely during a recent oxnin- ination into a collision between tno steam ers Alarm and Cyclone. XT. nmial-v nf tll IVIH1H of PIlL'illPOrS surveying tho Ivoundary lino of tho stato oi California, has just returned to Sacra mento from tho final survoy, and ho states that California gains 4,17d feet in wulth, or nearly uiree-qunners oi a muu. . n nr : : .. Tho govornor 01 couora. iuu.m, in sists upon proof that tko three men ar rested on his territory, charged with tho murder of Harney niarun, ins who aim three olnlren, aro Anii'rican citizeiiB be fore ho will return uiem 10 uiu iiniuri- an authorities. 1 Uorlmrt ltnlfo nnd W. A. Hill, tho three young villians who ( is- . i ti t . .. it..,.:!.. ilaced a swucn on mo couuiern i m-im Itailroad near Albany, Or., in July.caus .... .1... .limit, nf Iviiniiii'iir .Iitok Mlllnr ami Fireman Guthrie, have been indicted for niunler in tno seconti uegree. Tl..v onu nf Mll lTll!tll StlllPH llL'illSt the Willamette Valley and Cascade Wa gon Bond and Tho Dalles Military Knad ?.. ,.!iu fnr fnrfnHllrit (if 1)111(1 LTDIltH lUIIII'lllllVD J .w...i-.- -J- came up in tho United States circuit court at l'oriianu ihbi, wvok, ur mw ment as to the sulllcieney of tho pi as interiosed y tho ilofendants. Patsy (.Irlflin, "Happy Jack" unrring ton nnd Oharli'B Beed, who wero arrest ed Sunilav at Seattle lor BWinuiing Elinor w u ii, M.i. 11 nut nf tl KCK1 111 a half- n, i'i iiwni-it v... " i - -- Interest game, wero given a preliminary exaiuimuion, aim neiu 10 nuoncr mw u tho grand jury. Thoro is considerable feeling against tho men. Thero is a project on foot to plant tho side of the public roads In Washington i ..I.... I,., .m.1.1 rnimlv fill . with Ivl" IIOIIIJ'I 4HI.... w j - nut-beaiing, declduouB and ornamental trees. If carried into eiieci n. wui re pilre nearly t.0,000 trees and it Is claimed by ItB proinoiers u win onnauto mo vmuu ot the towiisiup wuniii a iu jiwo j tOOO.OOO. Tliu QiReu ol Bouinanla, so widely known for her miBceUuneous writings, liaa bocomo a muriyr 10 nervous ueunu A titnnltmv nf (lolt'L'lVt loilH of till) - - - f-.-- Clan-na-Oael, frlendlv to Dr. Cronln.wiia . . . . . ' i ii...n.. .1 II.! held at the unum l aciue uoiei, uiucuku, yesterday, at which thero was a promise given to raise money 10 am uiu pruoui-u tion ol tho murderers. Near Hampton, tho county seat of Chickasaw county. Iowa, laat Saturday, a l!0-year-oll feud broke out between tho Doudand McKenna ftinillles, in which 'riiniiu.a ikiiul nnd Peter McKeuua wero killed und Beveral wouuded. FOItKlliX KI.AHIIK. The estate of Wilkie Collins is valued at 150,000. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, recently won $40,000 on a horse race. Tho mackerel fishing on the coast of Ireland 5b improving steadily. Franco is arming. Sho does not like tho German garrisons along the Bhine. Ninety-nine royal personaires will at tend the coming royal wedding in Ath ens. Heavy rainfall and cold weather all over Austria and Hungary have quenched the last hopes of a good vintage. Tho Bread Trust in London is mado up of companies now earning 1U per cent, and which expect under the trust to earn 20. At tho Mayoralty of Berthecourt, France, babies are now Baptized in the name of the Republic, and so duly regis tered. Miss Braddon, whose "Lady Audley's Secret " came out early in the Ws, has issued another novel, her fifty-first, in London. Vice Admiral Bnrtsch has written an article, advocating a ship canal to Berlin. It is stated Count Von Moltko npproves tho project. Germany propoeeB to rigorously en force tho legislation against Socialism, and will increase tho inquisitional pow ers of the police. Tho rainfall has destroyed the cotton crops in the Yang-Tse-Kiang valloy, China, and a famine is imminent. The price of rice lias trebled. Chinese imperial officials, headed by Li Hung Chang, the viceroy, are making tho best efforts" for a ratification of the Cheefoo Telegraph Convention. Mr. Goodman, of England, on a bet, smoked eighty-six cigars to an inch in length in twelve hours. Ho ate a chop and took brandy during tho ordeal. African diamonds have become too nu merous for tho European market, and tho largest trado is now done with Japan, whose people are growing rich. Several thousand Jews, who have been expelled, from Russia and have taken temporary refugo in England, intend to go out aB colonists to tho Argentine Re public. Three ladies ran for election to the Frouch Chamber of Deputies Madame Potonio, Madamo Saint Helairr and Madame Astie de Valseyre. They wore all beaten. The steamer Vulcan, connected with finntnin Wissinan's expedition, has been ' , 1 .1... I . nAiaf n.wl WrCCKCll Oil UIU JIIUU uiuun v-unoi, ...n. several of the crow wero slain by ne groes Tlin nnvniont. nf the debts of the late King of Havana win not no coiupicieu until lilOo. Thev are now being paid off out of the Bavaria civil list at the rate of 65,000 pounds a year. ThninaB Monahan. an Irish million nirn. who lived in Melbourne for half a contury, died recently. Ho was one of tno IfoU poor insu iiiuuiniiua uiu muiuu for Australia in lH.iu. Tim Kiffil rntfluro ifl tho latest social n,wmMii)Ut in T.rttwlnn If in tlin rnviviil of the Bix-story hair dressing of tho rjlllllieei'lll ucniury, unit timi.i;o mum. J! f!..i.t women iodk. hku inuio. Txird Brassev is deeply interested in tlm (liiostion of assisted iuiiuration, and is ono of a number of caiiitalists who have purchased a nugo iraci oi num in Canada on which to settle a colony of British laborers. Tim i.it.v nf l.ivnrno. Italv. is at nroB- ent excited ovor the d'sappearanco of tho Duchess d'Aurel, a member of one of tho mnol nriutniTlltil- lint.HPH ill tllO k ill LTllOIll . who has left debts to the amount of $200,- 000 behind nor. ftivitur in tlin ureat success of tho exhi bition, the FarisiaiiB aro suggesting that it should bo kept open beyond the origi nal limit October 31 at least for an ad ditional fortnight. Foreign exhibitors, however, do not lavor tno idea. Tlmm in n nhien in the Paris Kxlii hi- tion plan marked Panama, and in the grounds a little building bearing that ii.iiiui Imt tlinrn iri no nlini and no ex hibit. Just as the Exhibition opened the Panama Company went into the Hands ot tno liquidators. Tlin ir:i(T..l tnwnr ennui Idyll, hilt tho stockholders aro glad they have it, as it has paid its cost, about $1,000,000, and handsome dividenl, beside. As it will bo permanent it in likely to prove a very handsome investment for thoso who bucked tho aspiring architect. Tlin Prini'il nf Willi's' clliof foot 11111 II. H flunkev, who enjoys the titleof "sergeant footnuui," has just been fined by a Lon don police iiiumMritte for keeping a foot man on hiH own account without paying the usual license required by British law . . i i. .1 , lor ttlO privilege Ol Having miu uumetmu BervantB. Tim drt Mimill-lmre ritles for the Ger man army wero issued two weeks ago to a single battalion of gu-uda, and tho re sult of their being practically tested was regarded as satisfactory. ItiBsaid that Germany has already pulllciont smoke loss jKjwder in stock to lust for the first few niontns ot a genoral war. All tlm iintivi-H nf Konoi'iil. Annum nnd Now Caledonia at tho Paris Exhibition havo been provided with frame houses on the oxhloition grounds, and an abun dant supply of warm pirments and bed clothing has been distributed among them. Thoy were uei;iniiing 10 conipiain bitterly of tho cold, and wiBhed to be Bent home." Count Herbert Bismarck, during his supposed sojourn in England, secretly went, it is stated, to Pievo dl Cadoro, Italy, where ho had an intorview with SIgnor Crisnl. Count Herbert remained thoro a week in strict privacy. Ho had three meetings with tho Italian Prime Minister, who whb also very private iu his movements. Tho strike of tho Scottish schoolboys, wh'ch began in Hawick, haa Bpread to Glasgow, Govan, Greenock, Port Glas gow and oilier places in mo wesi oi ccoc land, and uUo into Ayrshire and alwut Aberdeen. Tho boya liavo formed regu lar lnlior-llko tunnies, with banuera and criea for "shorter hours." The strike haa also spread into England. The other day 100 nialcontenta paraded tho streets of Burnet, demanding "ubolition of the cano, leas hours in school, less parsing aud no home leeaoua." EASTERN ITEMS. The lands pclerted in Mexico for colo nization by the negroes are the most un healthy in the Republic. There is a bitter crossing flirht between tho Dnluth, Crookston & Northern and the Manitoba roads. The whole business inrtion of Find- ley's Lake, Pa., was destroyed by tire hunuay. The baby giraffe lKrn in the Cincin nati Zoological gardens is dead. Its mother refused to nourish it. The latest advices from Blount county, Ala., state that the outlaw, Rube Bur rows, and his partners are still at large. It is confidently asserted that the res ervations of the Kiowns, Sacs and Kick anoois will be open to settlera by next March There is no compromise possible be tween the Baseball league and Brother hood. If tho association remains neu tral it will not bo molested. William Henderson, an old and well known theatrical manager, died laRt week at Stockbridge, MasB., from pneu monia. Ho was 00 years of age. The notes of the great lumber firm of W'ainwjight & Bryant, of Philadelphia, have gone to protest. Judgments have been entered aggregating $250,000. The report that E. J. Baldwin has pur chaied a half interest in the Richmond hotel at Chicago is discredited at Chica go by those immediately interested. A fire nt Selma, Alabama, Sunday, de stroyed Liepold Bros, dry goods Btore, Gill's hotel and several business houses. The lo38 is over $200,000. Thomas Duane, who is supposed to be the driver oi the hack that carried Dr. Cronin to l.is death, has been arrested at St. Joseph, Mich. Sixteen men wero required to carry the body of Annie Price, the Irish giant ess, Barnum's fat woman, who died last week, to tho hearso. It is reported that John Jacob Astor is engaged to be married to Mrs. Bowler, of Cincinnati, widow of a nephew of George 11. Pendleton. Stonelioro, a mining villago of 1,200 in habitants, near Sharon, Pa., was almost literally swept out of existence by lire baturday. Loss, $150,000. Knmiinl W ATlllnr pnaliior nf tlin Vmnr ican bank at Findla'y, Ohio, was prob ably fatally stabbed Sundav night by F. it. giunuo ilia juuiut 'lu'iuil The roads competing with the Union Pacific and Northwestern will form nn alliance and inaugurate a bitter fight ni;ainst the Vanderbilt Union Pacific deal. Father Matthew has come to America to raise funds for the completion of the church begun fifty years ago by the orig inal Father Matthew, of temperance lame. Tho Mexican government professes to bo seriously oflended at tho tone of the speech of Mr. Mizner, when presonted to the Costa Rican governor as minister of the United States. Albert Parsons, the 10-vear-old son of t'0 executed anarchist, Parsons, myster iotislv disappeared from his homo o Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, and has not since been seen. A movement has been begun at Colum bus, Ohio, by tho labor organizations, to pledge every candidate tor the btato Lex lslaturo to support the eight-hour and weekly-payment bill. Democratic heelers at Baltimore are making confessions of their sins for the berefit of their former political oppo nents. Tho elections tako place Tues day, the 25th ol JNovemuer. Millionaire W. W. Astor, late minister to Italy, has written a novel entitled "Sporzii," basfd on the Milanese song which ho hns translated. Tho novel is a semi-hiatorical Italian romance. Somo siirpriso was caused Sunday evening in Trinity Episcopal church, tho most laslnonuDle nt iNewurk, :n. J., by tho announcement that Rector J. baun der8 Reed would resign atul go to a San irancisco chinch. Two negroes engaged in a fight at Mom- dins w'th cotton hooka. ihey had quarreled over tho prior right to unload at tho railroad station. Both received wounds that will probably cause their death- Vii'n nf tlin Ttarniirilu mnnnnllinnrfl who killed Henry Sutton hvt January in Hancock county, Tenn., will be hanged on tho 23d of November., the supremo .il. il. I.....1. f l... couri manning uiu ticuui seiuciicu u. uiu court below. Ainnnithe nronosed ''reform" mens ures to bo introduced in the French Chambers, is one restricting the liberty of the press nnd ettablishing a kind of censorial eoniinisBlon instead of jurors to . i. i . i i iry ouenuers oi mo law. Beforo leaving Cniaha each of the All America party was presented with, as a Kiuvonir, a steer's horn brightly ikjI Ished, decorated with ribbons, and filled with fancy little sackBCOiitainiugsamples of isobruBka grams. Tho prospects of Johnstown, Pa.,b'ing again under water aro good. Rain has been falling almost continually for the past thirty-six hours. A great many of tho streets aro already almost impassable to pedestrians. Postmaster General Wannmaker iu his forthcoming annual report, will recom mend that postotlices bo established on tho principal steamers plying between the ports of tho United States and Eii- rope, similar to tho postal service on runway trains. Thomas SUoa, of Boston, started out to kin John h, bullivan Saturday, and found him iu a barber shop with Tiiomaa J. Kolley. a prizo lighter. Shea com menced tho quarrel, and Kelley, seeing SVa move to tako n pistol, took a razor from a barber'a hand and cut Shea's throat. Shea car not live. It la iHjllovfd that Charles W. Hatch who was accused of murdering his uncle near Burlington, Col., last spring, and w hosu arrest created quite a sensation at tho time, ia not guilty of tho crimo, hut that neighbors murdered old man Urgch aud tried to shift the blamo on the young man, who had been visiting his "uncle. The charge, after an examination last w eek, was dismissed. HEN-PECKING. flow n .Meek lVninnn Mnnncoi tO IIT Ilrr Own Why. "If thero is a man in tho world that excites my sympathy Itisnhon-pecked husband." said Colonel jumpio. "Somo timo ago my friend Amolton invited mo to go homo with mm. i promised, providing ho would wait until I transacted a certain pieco of business. He agreed reluctantly, say ing that ho promised his wife that ho would bo homo at n oortaln hour. fter I finished my business I accom panied him. As wo proceeded ho ro- marked: "'Rimple. I am the worst hen- pecke'd man in town. That's why 1 nm in such a hurry.' I was very much disappointed when wo reached tho house. I expected to seo a masculiiic-looklng woman, with a savago face and a harsh voice, but I was introduced to a little, meok-look-ing woman, with a delicate faco nnd plaintive tone of voice. After supper, when Amelton and I wero sitting in tho library smoking. I romarked: " Say, didn't you mislead mo about that henpecked business? I tlon t know that I ever saw a gentler woman than your wife.' No. sir; I havo not misled you. Gentleness is her strongest hold. It is her gentleness that knocks mo. Don't think that tho scold is tho worst typo of hen-pecking women, for sho isn't. Why. sir. if mv wifo wera a scold I would got mad and leave the house, but ns it is I am disarmed. When I leave home my wifo always in sists unon mv appointing tho exact timo when I will return. If I am Into, no matter what business has de tained me, she cries and takes on, and declares that I don't love her. hen I vow by all things sacred that I do love her, and that 1 was detained by business that could not bo postponed, sho wrings her hands and weeps so violently that I am sometimes afraid people think I am abusing her. She has a wny of sighing and turning over in bed with a kind of do spairing llounce, and instead of asking mo. ns is her custom, if I have locked tho doors, she slides out of bed with a suppressed "Uh. mo! and goes on a tour of inspection. Every timo she quiets down I try to convince her that sho is wrong and that I do love her, but just as soon as I say a word sho breaks out afresh and turns over with another despairin'r flounce. Next morning she gets up before I awake, When I get up I find hor at tho break' fast table with swollen oyes and an ex pression of such unutterable sadness that I feel liko kicking myself. This is what I call the worst kind of hen pecking, aud don't misunderstand mo when I say a man doesn't want more than two such sieges a month.'" Arkansaw Traveler. ORIGIN OF IDAHO. How ii Poetic Nainn Cumn to lln Applied to it I'roa.'tiroui Territory. From timo to timo something ap noars in tho public prints connecting the name of Joaquin Miller with the orlcrin of tho word "Idaho" in which it is always claimed that tho word in nuestion resulted from an intorview which Millor had with Colonel Craig whllo both woro traveling through tho Nez Perce country in tho sunimor of 1861. Miller is said to give Colonel Craisr crudit for composing tho word from elements found in the Nez Perco language and which Craig is said to have first pronounced Ldaho, applying tho word to the appearance of a noiffh boriii!r mountain, upon whoso summit something was seen to gliston liko a diamond or gem. This was no doubt tho origin of tho Miller-Craig gem of tho mountains, but not of the genuine article nor tho word "Idaho." In tho spring of I860, sovernl months beforo tho discovory of gold had at tracted the "poet of the Sierras" into the Nez Perco country, a steamboat was built at tho uppor cascades on tho Columbia rivor under the auspices of the Orogcui Steam Navigation Com pany; and when tho steamer was launched tho word Idaho appeared In its appropriate place as tho namo of tho vessel. Tho definition of tho word then given to tho world was "gem of tho mountains," and tho word was then said to havo been taken from tho language of one of tho Indian tribos inhabiting that portion of tho Colum bia rivor valloy. Somo efforts havo been mn 'o to find out who it was that first suggested that name for the steam er, but thus far without success. Tho steamer Idaho plied upon tho waters of tho Columbia during tho spring, summer and autumn of 1800, and its namo was quite familiar to all who traveled through tho country that year. When it became necessav to ilnd a namo for tho new Terifiory, which was organized in March, 186U, somebody, probably .Salucius Garfield, suggested tho namo of tho old btoam boat that had been long since used up and relegated to tho "bono yard." Idaho Statesman. Iu Dublin, a small town in I. aureus County, Ga., thoro lives a blue man. Ho is a Caucasian, but instead of be ing white, is a greenish blue, and is known as "Blue Billy." His whole Bklu is blue, his tongue aud tho roof of his mouth aro blue, nnd where his oyes should bo white is seen tho sainu ghastly greonlsh-bluo color An immense glass bubble or globo which has been oxhlbltod at tho Paris exposition Is over live feet in diameter, with a capacity of 1,950 Imporlal quarts, and weighs forty-eight nnd a half pounds. It Is as pure as crystal, and without a blemish, and is a work of tho French glass-blowers said to have never been equaled. THE WORST PORTLAND MARKET. THE LOPAL MERCHANDISE MARKET jf CONTINUES GOOD, And the General Feeling of Business Men go to tihow that There Will be an Early Change In all Branches of Trade. In the local merchandise markets the volume of general trado continues large even for this season of tho year, and tho evidences of growing of commercial and industrial prosperity are abundant as well as encouraging. The distributing move ment of merchandise and the shipments of produce are crowding the principal lines of transportation with traffic; in dustrial enterprise is actively 4 employed supplying the legitimate requirements of consumption, notably the iron aud steel trades, which continue to snow substan tial improvement; the export movement of produce is of satisfactory proportions, with the most active season ior shipment yet to come, qhocehiks. Sugars, Golden 0 Oja'c, extra C 6c, drv granulated 7Jgc, cube, crushed and powdered 8kc. Coffee: Guatamala 20 22M, Java 3032c, Costa Rica 21 22c, Mocha 370, Rio 2223c. roasted Java aoac, ArbucKie'B roaaieu 2c. PK0VI8I0N8. Orenon haml313c, breakfast bacon 126J3:, BidestKSlOc, Eastern ham 12! 14c, breaklast bacon lc, sides tc?4, shoulders 9c. Lard 8?c. Knurrs. Apples $1, lemons $8, Sicily $7.50, pears 11.25. J)R1KD FRU1TB. AppleB 45c, evaporated 00)c sliced 6c, pears 8c, peaches 810c, Oregon plums 34, petite jirunet o(C0c, German 5Jijt)C, pmnes, Italian iu, silver 0)(a7c, California figs 7c, Smyrna figs 1415c, ap.icots 18(Sl4c, raisiDB $1.75r$2.25 per box. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, new, 90e$l, sweets lc. per tt, onions 86c. DAIKY rilODOCE. Butter, Oregon lancy 30c. dairy 2o(rf27jC, common 10J2Kc Eastern 25c, California 27)0". BOOB. Oregon eggs 35 ; Eastern 27K- I'OL'LTKY. Chickens $33.50. old hens $4.50 ducks $8.50 geese $10, turkeys 14c per lb. WOOL. Valloy 1719c, Umpque 1020c, East ern Oregon 10(.14c. nops. Hops ti8o for Oregon, 69c for Washington. anAi.N. Vheat, $1.22 und $1.15 are the max iniiin bids for Valley and Eastern Ure gon. Oata 40c for choice. FLOUK. Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75 03.90. KIIESH MEATB. Beef, cows. 2)c, leof light, 2c. beef, prime, 3c, hogs live, 6c, mutton, live, 2?4 3c; deer, 2?43:. FEED. Hay$17.5018 per ton, bran $14.50, chop, $1620, Bhorta $16.50, barley $21. BERLIN'S CITY SHELTER. Unique CiTiiill'i Clmrlty Willed MlKllt Wll lln Instituted litre. Ono of tho most notoworthy institu tions of Berlin is that known as tho "City Shelter," tho liko of which is to bo found in no othor capital In tho g world. It stands just outsido Berlin, J was oponed in October, 1887, and is intended for tho accommodation not only of homeless individuals, but of homoless families as woll. It consists of ono largo three-story building, and, in tho roar, twenty one-story barracks, each of which is capablo of accom modating from sixty to eighty per sons. Tho main building is intended 1 chielly for poor familios. Routs are excessively high in Berlin, nnd it y often happens that an artisan or a la- f boror gots into arroars with his pay ments, and finds himself ojected with his family into tho street, having no money in his pocket with which to hlro fresh rooms. His rosourco on such nn occasion is tho "City Shelter," whither ho goes with his wifo und childron and whatever household ef fects he shall possess. On their arrival tho clothing they ' wear and tho furniture thoy havo brought with them tiro thoroughly dis infected, and tho members of tho fami ly are sent to dilToront parts of the establishment, nccording to sex or ago. Tho husband is located In tho mon's department; tho wifo, tho oldest daughters and tho smallest childron aro sent to that for women, while tho boys ovor six years of ago aro cared for in rooms specially sot apart for them. Tho ontlro family are allowed to romaiii in tho shelter for eight days, and aro not only lodged, but aro providod also with good wholosomo food by tho city, not a penny being asked for from thorn in return. The women, however, tiro expected to as sist in tho laundry and iu keoplng tho establishment scrupulously clean; tho 1 mon aro allowed certain hours of ab- 4 sonco, during which thoy may go in search of work should they bo out of employment, whllo tho boys got regu lar instruction in tho school-rooms. Should it bo found that tho husband or father has honestly striven to obtain work during tho eight days, but hns failed, tho family is allowed to remain for still another such porlod. Even thou, if ho should havo obtained nn n gagomont which is not aulllciently ' re munerative to onablo him to sot up n fresh homo at onco, tho wifo nnd chil dron may remain still longor in tho ilioltor, and ho may go thoro nnd sloop at uighL Evon with all this tho kind- ness of tho city doos not end. for whon nt Inst tho family leavo thoy may bo ' presented with from fifteen to twenty Bhllllngs toward their preliminary household expenses. N. Y. Post. y j
