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