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THE OREGON SCOUT JONES , CHANCEY, - Publishers UNION OREGON. NEW YORK TYPES. Dbierratloim Mrulo tf nn KnclUlunnn the American MotropnlU. ta Tho pcoplo who, in Now York.Brook- iyn and Jorsoy City, corrcspoud to tho lower middle class in Ivondon nro tho inmo curious compounds in each of tho ihroo cities. They nro a kind of com posite of Irish and German, and Ital ian, and Pole, and Frenchmen, with a rertaln dolicacy of foaturo and litho- acss 01 limb, ana, it must bo added, a, iwnggor of manner, which may bo ro garded as tho American addition to tho mixture Thoy have nn accent peculiarly their own, as tho London cockneys havo tho Irs. It is not at all liko tho Yankee twang of tho Now England States, nor has it any of tho Western "burr." Tho shlbboioth of tho metropolitan cocknoy of tho Amer ican world is his enunciation of tho letter "t" at tho beginning of a word. Noto u hundred smart mechanics, smnll shopmon, employes on railways and tramways and in restaurants and on tho numerous ferries, which are such important features of lifo la tho groat conter, and you will obsorvo that thoy all onunciato tho "t" with tho snmo curious hcsltanco a quaint lingering upon tho lottor giving to tho English word of which it is a compo nent a kind of foreign air. Add to this a trilling thickness of pronunciation, which is universal in this class, and you havo two of thoir principal dis tinguishing linguistic marks. "Twen ty" is novor plain "twenty;" it is 'twunty," or "twonty," and said ilowly, as if tho word camo hard. In a grado a littlo lower down, whero ed ucation has had but smnll chanco, thoro is another peculiarity, which has no oxlstonco in Now England, and is but raroly obsorvablo In tho West, that is, tho substitution of "d" for "t." Does it coma from contact with tho Gorman In theso groat, sprawling conglomerations of population? I know not; but certain it is that tho German immigrant, who fnn cios with that robust con fidence in himself peculiar to his raco that ho speaks English with astounding lluoncy and correctness, never gota rid of tho "d," and goos on laying "doy" and "dom" for "thoy" md "thorn" to tho end of his lifo. Ro member that thoso remarks rofor to tho lower middle class and not to tho highly-cultlvatod and Intellectual classes. Cultivated Germans got rid of tho "d." Uut thoy novor can speak English so but that tho moment they open their mouths it is oasy to discern that thoy aro forotgnors. To roturn to tho lowor strata of tho Teutonic stock, tho Gorman of direct importation and tho Gorman born in America all koop their national "d" wonderfully woll. Hut that scarcoly sooms a good reason why an Irlsh-Ainorlcan boy, an Italian American boy, a Pollsh-Amorlcan boy, and an American-A moriean boy if you will ovorlook tho oxprosslon of a certain class should Bay "dor" for "tho," "doy" for "thoy," and "dom" for "them." Yot it i tho fact that ho floes spoalc in this Manner. All tho Year Hound. v , Sowing and Starving. So far as many of tho seamstresses of New York aro concornod, theso two terras aro synonymous. Wo talk of women getting a living by tho needle; tho truth is thoy got thoir death by it. Tho rovolallons on tho subject mado from time to time aro enough to make a good man blush for tho species to which ho bolougs. In Now York a Christian city It would sooin that hundreds of employers aro engaged In a conspiracy to starve thousands of women down to tho lowest point of atrophy consistent with tho uso of their lingers, and to koop them In that condition till thoy dio. Tho sowing machine, ticking all day long and far into tho night, is tho death-watch that heralds their doom, and the merciless taskmasters for whom they toll aro, to all Intents and purposes, their o.xecu tlonoors. Thirty cents por day! that, wo aro Informed, is about the average compensation of tho sowing girls in this rich and prosperous city. Thfrty cents is given to a seamstress for four toon hours' work! ami atthosnmotlmo tho dealers realize from llfty to one hundred and llfty per cent, on tho manufactured garments; but tho poor slave of the noodlo gets scarcoly enough to pay for shelter without warmth, and bread without moat or buttor, N. Y. Lodger. A Monster Shark. Ed Roberts ami J. Dutra, two fisher men, caught a basking shark Sunday night. Thoy woro about four or ilvo mllos from tho shore and had -00 feet of not out. The shark ran into tho not and got tangled. Fighting furious ly to got free, tho fish only wrapped himself tighter in tho folds of tho not. Tho fishermen let him alono until ho hud drowned himself, and thou, with tho assistance of seven boats, pulled him Into tho bay, whoro ho now llos, near tho wharf. Tho not was dam aged to the extent of twenty dollars, hut tho mou Bold tho shark to I'eroz Drothoru, so they lost nothing by iU Tho basking sharks aro not man-caters und aro not diingorous. Tho ono captu'rod Is botwoon thirty and thirty, five, foot long and weighs about two tons. Aa tho liver of tho spoclos is about ono-thlrd of tho wholo fish, tho amount of oil that can bo tried out of the liver will bo botwoon 100 and 150 gallons. Santa Cruz Surf. EASTERN ITEMS. ! A WOMAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING FOUR TIMES. Roasted Alive The Treasury Robbed The International CongreaB Tho War Against the Jute Trust A Dividend Declared Diphtheria is l'enu. prevalent nt Gallitzin Eight thousand cigarmakera are locked out at Key West, There were 104 deaths in Boston in tho week ending October 12th. Tho State forces have been withdrawn from tho work at Johnstown. A giraffe was born at tho Cincinnati Zoological Gardens on the 20th. Subscriptions to a monument to Cap tain Eads have begun in bt. .Louis. There is an epidemic of typhoid fever at Grandin, Jl. 1)., and great alarm is lolt There is no longer any reasonable doubt that this is to bo a cheap food year A company haB leen formed to build a collln lnctory in Bt. Louis to ngnt tno trust. An attempt was mado to wreeka Kock Island train, near McParland, Kan., on the litth. Tho Pullman Palace Car Company lias declared its usual quarterly $2 per Bharo dividond. An experiment of using steel tics is now being mado by tho Chicago & Wes tern Indiana. West Vinnnians want ono ol tno now cruiserB named tho Wheoling, after the city of that name. Anthony Hamilton, tho colored jooky, rides for AumiBt Belmont noxt season at a salary of of $10,000. Eiuht citizen of Now York havo been killed by badly insulated electric wireB within eighteen months. A syndicate is examining tho cable railway avstcm at Kansas City, with a view to purchasing the same. B. T. Babbitt, tho famous Boap manu facturor, died in Now York on tho 20th. Ho was lined an oven 80 years. Tho delegates to the International Con gress aro to 1)0 given a possum barbecue when thoy visit JNashvilio, Aenn. A legal Haw has Peon discovered in nearly all tho mortgages held by loan companies on Kansas homesteads Bradstreot's weekly trado circvlar Btates that tho prices in California winca aro strengthening ou tno snort crop Joreniiah Ahem of California, a clerk in tho Geologic Survey at $1200 per year, lias been promoted to tno $14UU class. The It. B. Stone Lumber Company of Chicaco lias mado an assignment. The assets aro $30,000 ; liabilities, $40,000. Tho death of ex-Governor Hartranft necessitates tho appointment of a now member of tho Cherokee Commission. A tost will shortly bo mado at Chatta nooga, lonn i.. of tho newly patented pro king steel direct from coko cess lor making Maggio Mitchell, it iB said, hns mar ried Charles Abliott, tho leading man of tho company in which the actress is a star. A Pennsylvania woman who has been struck by lightning four times has sus tained no injury beyond losing conscious ness. Tho Boston Chamber of Commorco projtoses to build a iiuu,uuu uuiiding. Sito, corner of India street and Central wharf. Rev. Dr. A. Judson Barrett of tho Lako-avonuo Baptist Church at Roehea- ter, N. Y., dropicd deatron tho street on tho 20th. The Texas Pacific round-house at Long low, Texas, with sovon now engines, as been destroyed bv lire. Tho loss is 155,000. Bill Maton. thu oldest moonshiner in Southwestern Texas, has been captured. Officers luivo been hunting him for twenty-llvo years. II. D. Brooge of Topeka, Kansas, has just been declared to have forfeited $8000 iccauso no loaned mat sum at interest above tho legal rate. Govornor Moletto of Dakota hoa for warded tno Loiisuiuuons oi rtorui aim South Dakota and tho olllcial election returns to tho President. Rev. John McDowell Leavitt of Now York.td tho Protestant Episcopal Church, has withdrawn to liecomo a Reformed Episcopal Church minister. The Ordnnuco Department ol tho United States Army Ib looking into tho subject of smokeless owdor, and tests aro to bo made at iui early day. Gcoriro Hazloton, formerly Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, has boon appointed Attorney for tho District of Columbia, to succeed Mr. Riddle. At Greenville, Ala., a negro iourod gasoline over a white man and a brother negro touched tho fluid witli a flame. Tho whiteman was literally roasted alive. The Treasury at tho City of Mexico has boon robbed ot negotiable interior debt IwihIb to tho amount of $2l500100o Sev eral arrests have followed and more aro expected. Tho sheriff nt IXmvor wns charged with favoring a defendant In obeying a vonire, and at the request of the State's Attornoy tho selection of jurymen waa placed in other IuuhIb. Tho Rowan county, Ky fued ia be- liovod to have ended by tho marriage of Frank Tolllver and gnico Martin, brother and sister of tho leaders of tho oppoBiug bloody factions. David P. Winnc, inanufaeturiug agent for twines and cordago In Now York, has assigned. His liabilities aro $32,000. Ho formerly Inula largo trado and branch at San Francisco. Montgomery, Ala., will havo next year what la intended to be uio boat exposi tion over held in that State. It is to bo distinctly a Southern exposition, display ing tho products, manufactures and re sources of Southland. FOKKlUK KJiAMIIKH. Revolt In Crete Will not Make War Upon Germany Killed by a Jagusr On a Strike. The Shah has returned to Teheran. The dock laborers at Hamburg are on a uiriKe. Italy has ordered 50,000,000 Binokeless cartridges. Tho Czar left Dantzic for St. Peters burg on the 17th. Boulanger is writing a book on Euro- lejwi military science. The Princess of Montenegro has given oirtn to ner tenth child. Four pcrsonB were roasted at a fire in Mens, Belgium, on the 10th. Tho MarquiB of Lorne has written a biography of Lord Palmerston. A Hungarian crisis is imminent and Von Tisza's Ministry may resign. Berlin and Paris streets are cleaned free. The dirt is used aB fertilizer. Tho death of Lady Holland, it is said, closes tho very last salon in Imdon. All tho new table china in London is fluted with very extravagant decorations. Von Moitko approves tho proposed canai between iJerhn and the Baltic Sea Twelve thousand miners aro on a strike at Lens, France. Tho trouble is spread ing. Nearly $2,000,000 wortli of liamonds was taken from the Kimberlv mines in August. Wilkio CollinB left no unfinished novels except one, which ho considered unim portant. Gladstone will address a public meet ing at Manchester on tho ovening of De cember 3. Right Honorablo John David Fitzger ald, Lord of Appeals in Ordinary, in Ire land, is dead. In Paris tho remains from dissecting rooms are now sent to tho crematory at Pero la Chase. A clergyman in Wales has assaulted several of liis flock with a club for non payment of tithes. Tho Chineeo Government is negotiat ing for a loan of $8,000,000 for tho con struction of railways. A. largo quantity of ivory from tho Up per Congo is now being received by every stoamerfrom Banana. A woman has leen found murdered after the stylo of "Jack tho Ripper" at Flensburg, in Sclileswig. Bismarck says tho Czar assured him ho was a man of peace and would not make war upon Germany. Franco promses to doublo her forces on the Gorman frontier, also her railway facilities in that direction. Tho Russian men-of-war Naviedin and Shah havo foundered near Batoum. All on bard aro retwrted lost. Mr. Gladstono still plies his axo at Ha- wa. don, and while felling a tree a few dayB ago, caught a severe cold. Tho King of Portugal was announced to bo worse on tho 17th. Gangreeno has set ia and tho patient iB dolirious. Semeant Nogues of Hie French Armv lias been transorted for lifo for oflbring to boII tho secret of the Lebol cartridges. It is stated that Emperor William, at tho invitation of tho Czar, has agreed to attend tho Russian Army maneuvers in 1800. A woman, while cleaning tho cages of tho wiul beasts at tho Hamburg Zioologi cal uardon, on the lHth, was killed by a jaguar. Emperor Francis Joseph has agreed to tho olhcial designations, "imperial Aus trian Army" ami "Royal Hungarian Army." Four battalions of infantry in Crete havo revolted. Ohakir Pasha, tho Gov ernor, ib concentrating troops to suppress tho revolt. Owing to drought and fainino in tho Transvaal, at Johannesburg, tho great mining camp, tho price of food has risen 00 per cent. Tho Gorman anarchists Kompf of Wur- toiuburg . Schmid of Baden and Puesehel of Hamburg, have been expelled from Switzerland. Some electric railways will bo laid ilong tho rivers ot Northern Russia. where tho extreme cold endures during a great part of tho year. It is estimated that the English cotton ornor which has ir.st ended involved a loss of half time to tho ojwratives in 2000 mills for a mouth. Tho latest Parisian novelty in gloves has a small purse inserted in tho palm, wherein women can curry thoir railway tickets and small coins. Tho Irish Parliamentary party held a meeting at the Mansion House in Dublin on tho 25th. Tho object is to lay down a programme for hoiuo-rulo welfare. Walter Scott was tho peculiar obiect of tho late Wilkio Collins' worship, and ho probably nover passed a day without hiking up one of tho Wavorloy novels. Tho English iKistotlleo had 325thiovini lettor-carriors convicted last year of steal ing letters, and, on an average, three postal otllcers aro caught stealing ever y week. The earl of Meath does a great deal for tho poor. He buvs tenements near tho poor sections and tears thrin down to build public parka which contain gym nastic machines. It is statod at Berlin that should tho report of the election of Mutaafa as King of Samoa bo continued, Germany will protest, with tho firm conviction that England will back her protest. It la officially announced that tho mar riage of Prineo HaUfoldt and Clara Hunt ington, tho daughter of O. P. Hunting ton, will take placo at Brampton. Those present will bo tho nearest friends of both parties. Tho fact that German and Austrian bankers havo loaned money to Bulgaria ia presumed to bo tho result of thu inter view with tho Ozar and Bismarck, they ovidontly agreeing to insuro tho per mancy of Ferdinaud'B rule. Sir CharleB Tupjwr la reported by cable as being in Spain arranging for a com mercial treaty Iwtwoon Canada and that country, including tho Spanish West In dies, Canada oxjocta to reap groat ben efit aa a result of this treaty. THE PACIFIC COAST. SACRAMENTO'S PACIFIC COAST EX POSITION IN 1892. Another Stage Robbery Three Smug glers Capturod Horso ThteveB Captured Tha Boys and airs' Aid Society. Seattle ia laying codar block pavements. me hanta Jiarbara mustard crop is short. Sonoma county hops this reason. raised G830 bales of A $250,000 paper mill is being built at Eugene City, Or. Watsonville, Cal., Chinese have formed a lire department. Loa Angeles now has twenty-seven miles of cablo roads m operation. John W. Mclcher, of San Joso, Cal.! has started a pottery near Seattle, Wash! Clay Taylor, the Santa Clara burglar, has been sentenced to prison for ten years J. R. Jones was horsewhipped by two girls at rorterville, lularo county, re cently. The Treasurer of the Arizona Prison Commission is missing with some of tho funds. The customs officers at Port Townsend captured three men with Binuggled opium, recently. Tho Ellensburg, Or., and Northwestern Railroad will havo cars running in De cember. Tho streets given to the Northern Pa cific Terminal Company at Portland, will bo reopened. Tho Baker City, Or., stage was robbed of the registered mail on tho 18th, near Union Creek. A burning partition fell on Frank Lass- ley at Portland on tho 18th, burning him so ho may die. The Elder reached Victoria from Alas ka on tho 20th with 500 passengers and 28,000 cases of salmon. Tho City of Pueblo hns made tho run from San Francisco to Victoria, B. C, in fifty hours, beating tho record. Three of a bold gang of horso-thioves havo been captured on the Mckenzie river and takon to Pendleton, Or. Tho five prisoners who escaped from tho Lowiston jail a few days Ago, have boon captured anil aro now in jail. Enuincer David Purdun was lost from tho steamer State of Washington, on the 20th, between Tacoma and Seattle. Fresno, Cal.. will vote in November on tho issuance of $100,000 to bo used in grading roads and building bridges. Tho Hollister canal and ditch will be completed bv tho middle of November and 10,000 acres can then be irrigated. Lack of funds has caused the discharge of many hands in the construction de partment of tho Maro Island Navy Yard. Portland, Or., Firo Commissioners havo decided to build a llroboat costing $50,000, and put in two new ongine com panies. James Jones had his leg amputated at the Seattle Hospital on the 23d, caused by dry gangroen. It is doubtful if ho can recover. A cow derailed a passenger train of tho Northern Pacific, near Milton, Or., ou tho 10th. Tho engineer and fireman were seriously injured. Jamop W. Lawrence, a drunken team ster, fell under tho wheels of his own wagon at Portland, on the 20th, and was crushed to death. Tho Oregon Railway & Navigation Company will soon begin tho construc tion of a fino propollor steamer to run on the Sound, to cost $250,000. Tho employes of tho Ix)s Angeles it Pacific Railroad aro expected to go on a strike because thoy havo not been paid thoir salaries for six months. Tho anthracite found on Queon Char lotte Island is retried to bo tho best on the coast. A seam thirty feet in width is said to havo lieon discovered. Mrs. Brewster lias given $20,000 worth of proporty in Paradise Vniloy. San Diego county, to start a sanitarium for worthy poor. Tho treatment is to bo free. Tho Butte, Mont., Board of Trade has asked tho Secretary of tho Interior to suspend tho granting of patents to cer tain lands claimed by tho Northern Pacific. Tho citizens of Sacramento havo origi nated a project for a Pacific Coast Expo sition in 1802, to bo held in their city. A committeo has been apjxnnted to agitato on the subject. Tho bark Coloma sailed on tho 10th from Puget Sound for Hongkong with a cargo ol Bpara and lumber aim -'uu Chineso passengers botwoon decks. Secretary Windom declines to chango tho practico which has prevailed in tho Treasury department concerning tho as sessment ot duties on lead und other ores imported from Moxtco. Leo Ho, tho Chinoso actor who com mitted grand larceny in Portland and was escaping to Vancouver, was arrested in Port Townsend and will bo returned to Portland for trial. Contractors aro beginning tho woik of oxtonding tho Oregon Pacific from Al bany, Or., to tho summit of tho Cascado Mountains, and expect to complete tho work this winter. A party of armed men has left Glasgow, Mont., for tho Canadian side in search of Oharllo Moore, a young boy of that town, who ia Bupposed to have been kidnapped by some Creo Indians. Tho Boys and Girls' Aid Society at Portland, Or., will eroato an ondowment fund of tho $40,000 bequeathed by Misa Smith. It expects gilt of land upon which it will build a homo. PORTLAND MARKET.!' THE LOCAL MERCHANDISE MARKET CONTINUES GOOD, And the General Feeling of Business Men go to Show that There Will bo an Early Change In all Branches of Trade. The local merchandise market con tinue to represent an active trade move ment. The volume of business, al though very well maintained, is begin ning to Blacken as compared witli tho activity witnessed last month, but tho current demand for all descriptions oi merchandise is largo and indicates that consumption iB considerably in excess of that last year. Coffees remain firm and stationery. Sugars are firm at last quo tations. Chickens are plentiful but tho demand continues good. The fruit and vegetable market continues good at quo tations. There is no material change in wheat. Wool is very dull. GROCERIES. Sugars, Golden O Otc. extra O 0c. dry granulated 7J-8'c, cube, crushed and powdered 8Vfc. Coffee: Guatamala 20 22K, Java 3032c, Costa Rica 21 22)c, Mocha 37K. Rio 2223e. roasted Java 3032c, Arbuokle's roasted 25c. PKOVIBIONB. Oregon ham 1313c, breakfast bacon 1213o, sides 910c, Eastern ham 12Vg 14c, breakfast bacon 12c, sidea OcJX, shoulders S)c. Lard oe. rauiTs. Apples $1, lemons $8, Sicily $7.50, pearB $11.25. nniEn FRUITS. Apples 45c, evaporated 0(ijcBliced 6c, pears 8c, peaches 810c, Oregon plums 34, petiU) prunes 50c, German 50c, prunes, Italian 7c, silver 6J(a!7c, California figs 7c, Smyrna figs 1415c, ap.icota 1314c, raisins $1.75r2.25 per box. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, new, 90o$l, awocta l?c per tt, onions 85c. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter, Oregon lanoy 30c, dairy Sw27J?c, common 10i2Jc. Eastern 25c, California 27c EOQS. Oregon eggs 35 ; Eastern 27K- POOLTKV. Chickens $33.50, old hens $4.50 ducks $8.50 geese $10, turkeys 14c per lb WOOL. Valley 1719c, Umpquo 1920c, East ern Oregon 1014e. HOPS, Hops 08c for Oregon, 00c for Washington. GRALN. Vheat, $1.22 and $1.15 are the max mum bids lor Valley and Jiaattaru Ore gon. Oats 40c for choice. FLO UK. Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75 3.90. FRESH MEATS. Beef, cows. c, beef light, 20, beef, prime, Jc, hogs live, oc, mutton, live, :(m; deer, 2(S3. FKUD. Hay$17.5018 per ton, bran $14.50, chop, $1820, Bhorta $10.50, barley $21 Home of the Earthquake. Aitnougn earthquakes aro common in Japan they aro soldom violont. As many as cighty-soven vibrations havo boon noted in a single day. A month seldom passes without shocks in somo part of tho country, but thoy attract littlo attention. Ihoro are. howover, nutnentic reeoras ol sovcral sovoro and dostructivo carthouakos. In G79 A. D. tho island of Kiu-Siu was visited by a heavy shock, which ront tho earth in fissures, ono of which is said to havo been four miles long and twenty feot wide. Kiu-Siu was tho scene of tho recent calamity, anil it is noticeablo that the same phenomenon of tho open ing of tho earth occurred in this in stance. Kiu-Siu is far loss subject to frequent shocks than tho main island of Niphon, but thoy seem to mnko up for thoir infrequonoy by their severi ty. In 1702 tho walls of tho Castlo of Yedo woro thrown down and a groat tidal wave accompaniod tho convulsion nf tho oarth. In 1854 tho towns of Shlmoda and Osaka woro destroyed, and in tho following year ovor 14,000 dwollings and 1,600 storehouses woro prostrated in Yedo. '" Aftor tho fifth or sixth year on tho average, raspberry plantations aro liablo to deteriorate, tho fruit becom ing small and scanty; and as it takes a year or two for now plants to got into tho host bearing condition now plant ings ovory third year havo been ad vised by somo horticulturists. In this way ono plat is just coming into fino bearing as tho other goes out. Biggs "Did you notico, Driggs, what tho Howler said ot mylast speech?" Driggs "No, what was it?" "Why, that in it 1 showed myself a Sampson of dobato." "IlMii-in, I soo. Sampson was tho follow who slow his enemies with tho jaw-6ouo of an ass." Juno. Irrigation . .'Orioucted on a largo scale in Japan, and dates from long before tho Christian era. Tho irriga tion works are masslvoaud costly, and from a distance look liko double-track railways. Thoso aro tho largo rosor volrs and main ditches, besides which mountain Htroauis nro utilized in tho usual manner. Tho trial of Father McFadden and others for participation in tho murder of Polico Inspector Martin at Gweedoro has bogun at Murylorough, Ireland. There camo near lieing a riot, owing to tho Crown Attorney's determination to have none but Protestants on tho jury. Whllo returning from an excursion tho Sultan of Morocco had to cross a swollen river to reach Fez. Tho Sultan crossed safely, but twenty of his body-guard who undortook to swim tho river on horses wero swept down tho stream and drowned. 1 LEO THE THIRTEENTH. Dallr Routine of Life ot the Henil of th ltninan Catliolic unurcu. Every morning beforo addressing himself to the direction of tho affairs of this planot, ho offers tho sacrifice of tho mass, and then forgratlorum actio attends a second mass, at which hia chaplain is tho colourant. With a mind thus attuned to divino things, tho Pope thou begins his working-day. A single glass of coffee, toa or milk suffices to break his fast After going through his papers ho begins to re colvo about nine. From that hour until ono in tho afternoon tho throng of visitors nover slackons. Secreta ries, ambassadors, cardinals from tho congregation, distinguished stran gers, bishops from afar, havo audienco in turn. Thoro aro 1,203 bishops in the Catholic church, and with all ol them tho Pope is in more or loss con stant personal relation. Nothing can bo more gracious, moo animated or moro sympathetic the n tho manner of tho Pope. His oyo, which, whon fixed In thought, Is deep and piercing, beams with kindliness, and tho sovoroly rigid lines of his into'leetual features relax with tho ploiHanteiit of smiles as- ho talks, using, as thn casomay bo, either French, Latin (whch ho spoaks ith great purity mn facility) or his own musical native tongue. Aftor four or llvo hours sno'-.t in this way ho rf turns to his papers" and his books unti1. throe, when ho dines. His meal is frugal; a littlo soup, two courses of meat with vegetables and dessert of fruit, with one glass of strong wine, sulllco for his wants. After dinner he goes out for a drive or a walk in tho garden of tho Vatican. In tho ovoning ho resumes his papers, and at night, botwoon nino and ten, all tho members of tho papal household assemble for tho rosary, after which they rotire to rest. But long after that hour the Cardinal Stato Secretary, Rampolla. or tho Under Stato Secretary, Moconni, is often sum moned to tho papal apartments, where, by tho light of tho midnight lamp. Loo watches and thinks, and prays for the wolfaro of tho church. Contemporary Hovlow. JUSTICE HOLT'S CHARM. KeiiiliilHCoiii'PH of a Olnbrntcil ldiclUli .Itirlxt or tho I.itst Century. A singular story is told of Chlof Justico Holt, a celebrated English jurist of tho last century. When a lad ho was wild and fond of ad venture, and on ono occasion ho found himself with out money at a country inn. While in doubt how to pay his bill, ho noticed a child lying sick in tho room. Learn ing that it had tho ague, and that tho doctors could not euro it, ho wrote some words at random on a piece of parchment, and told tho mother to tio it round tho child's wrist, and thus euro tho ague. Tho woman obeyed, and tho dolighted parents asked Holt to accept his board in payment for his medical sorvicift;. Years aftor,- when Holt had becomo Lord Chiof-Justice, a woman was tried bofore him for witchcraft. Part of tho evidence against her was tho posses sion of tho very amulet which tho judge many years previously had him self prepared as a joce.- Tho woman turned out to bo Holt's hostess, and tho judge told her from tho bench how she had been deceived. For years she had used tho charm with immenso success. Paracelsus had a ring which ho called elect rum and with which ho professed to cure any kind of pain. It was only necessary to wear it. and ovon epilepsy would vanish. Lameness is cured in somo parts of England by sleeping on stones in tli open air. Sciatica, or boneshave, as it is also called, is cured by tho sufforer lying on his back by tho sido of a brook and invoking aid in a four lino verso. During tho London plague amulets of arsenic woro hung over the heart and an immense quantity of arsenio was used for tho purpose Quills of quicksilver woro worn on tho neck for tho same purpose. Popo Adrian and Queon Elizabeth both woro toad amulets. Theso woro propared by mixing dried toad with arsonlc, tormontil, pearl, coral, hya cinth, omerald and tragacauth. St. Louis Globo-Democrat. Wellington's Courtesy. Tho Duko detested bolnir helned: not from Ingratitude, but from two distinct feelings one that ho did not liko to bo thought what ho certainly was not decroplt; tho other that ho know very well that tho majority of persons who holped him simply did so in order to bo able to say that thoy had done so. This was to him revolt ing. Standing opposite to Apslov Houso in Piccadilly in tho evening, whon tho street was oven more croud. ed than It is now. tho Duko was hesi tating on tho curbstone. A rrontln. man nearly as old as himself mado somo demonstration of assisting him to cross tho road, endeavor ing to check tho tldo of cabs and othor vohlclos that was sotting strongly. When tho Duko reached tho gate of Apsloy Houso ho touohod his hat and said: "I thank vou. air." Tho elderly strnngor Immediately un covered, iioiuing his hat ou his knoe. he addressed tho Duko as follows: 'My Lord, I havo passed a lone ami not unovontful lifo, hut novor did I hopo to roach tho dav whon I mlflitl,. of tho slightest assistance to tho great est man that ovor lived." Tho Duko looked at him calmly, and In a voIp. not in tho least choked by emotion, ro- pucu: "tion t bo a fool!" and walked Into Apsley Houso." Worda on Wellington, by Sir William Frosor