The Oregon Scout
Jones & Chanoey ... Publishers.
UNION, OREGON.
FOR THOSE WHO GRIEVE.
IVhat la Good ami Wlmt U Had Form In
Mourning Contuinr.
Thoro Is no moro glaring violation of
pood tastes In dross posslblo than an
elaborate or much-trlnimcd mourning
gown. It stamps its woaror at onco as
certainly Ignorant, very possibly vul
var. Tho stylo follows closoly tbo
qulotost shapes of tho day. Thus for
tho stroot a long-walstod bodice, very
possibly soamloss with tho fullnoss
plainly gathorod in front instead of bo
ing conflnod with ribbon or buckol, and
a skirt with undrapod back and having
tho front oithor straight also or with
long (Jrook apron, slightly caught up
on tho left side. Such a skirt may bo
bordered, if wished, with a doop crapo
band.
At any fashionablo milliner's will bo
found a varloty of mourning hats and
bonnots, and tho straining aftor oflcct
in thorn quito as marked as in gayor
plumage. This does not apply, of
course to tho first bonnot worn by tho
widow, which carries tho vail. This
-all, tho doctors say, is a most un
wholosomo pioco of drapory, and ns
nurodly it is woarisomo becauso so
heavy. Its longth in fashionablo clr
clos is carefully graduated nccording to
whothor it is worn by a widow or a
mother who has lost a child. Tho
tendency at prosont is to substituto
nun's vailing for crapo as its matorial,
and for summer, certainly, tho
chango Is comrnondablo. A bonnot that
is to bo vailed must havo a low, flat
crown, and in splto of tho fact that
n few blaok-hoadod pins and a fold hero
and thoro are all that is necessary, tho
arrangoniont of a vail to form a becom
ing back-ground fpr tho faco is a good
doal of an art and ono to which is givon
moro and more attention, only tho host
milliners in good establishments boing
nllowod to touch tho drapory. Strings
for tho mournlmr bonnot, if of crapo,
nro sllk-llnod. Sometimes broad rib
bons are usod and somotlmos narrow
bridles.
Mourning for young girls should bo
of tho slmplost always and not too
hoavy. It injures tho health and spir
its, and no ono has a right to kcop thorn
nndor a cloud. For toddling childron
mourning-dross is nothing short of
heathenish.
Tho mourning glovos aro undrossod
kids, but thoso soldom woar well, and
drossod kids aro frequently substituted.
A handkorchiof with a simple black
monogram is hotter than tho bordo'rod
variotlos, whllo as for tho woman who
Bonds blaok-bordored papor and onvol
opos through tho mall, sho ought to bo
Htoppod by an Injunction. To woar
black corsots and lingorlo is ovorstop
plng tho mark altogether, and suggosts
a luxury of grief that is as far removed
from genuino ailllotlon as posslblo. Ono
is not called on to bollovo in hoart
broalc whon a woman llnds hor tearful
oyos rollovod if thoy rost on mourning
draporlos in hor boudoir. It losson's
ono's rospoot for a woman if sho llnds
black shoots contributing to hor poaco
of mind. Chicago Times.
j DEALS IN IDEAS.
Odd HuHlilPii by Which n Now Yorker
Milken flood Living.
Thoro is, in an olllco building up
town in Now York, a gentleman with a
norono and humorous cast of faco, an
oruot flguro and a stnllo that is as much
idontliled with his countonanco as aro
Ills drooping glasses and oluslvo blondo
mustaoho. Ills namo Is James Good
win, and ho Is a creator of Ideas. Ilo
Bolls tho Ideas in tho rough, makos a
capital living, and works on contontod
ly without a traco of yearning for fanio,
yet tho famo many oarleaturlsts and
nrtlsts In Now York belongs by right to
Jilm. Artists and nowspapor Illustrators
uro almost ontlroly dostltuto of humor,
taken all In ull, although thoro aro ono
or two exceptions. Tho majority of thorn
havo tho ability to draw olovory, bin
tho Inventive and humorous faeultlos
nro not included in their mental and
urtlstlo make-up. These men Mr.Good
win suppllos with Ideas. Ills sketches
nro made roughly on paper and for
warded to dliroront artists regularly
ovory .day. Tills week no loss than
nlno pictures In tho current lssuos of
tho cotnlo pilpers wero inspired by the
creator of ideas, although thoy aro all
Blgned by the names of prominent
caricaturists In very largo, black and
prominent letters. Mv. Goodwill de
clares, by tho way, that tho artists lack
assurance moru than ability, and that
if thoy only knew tho trick thoy could
creato an idea as oaslly as ho does It
for them. Hut thoy do not soom able
to llnd tho Goodwin soerot. N. Y, Let
ter. Tim Onlil In a ltl Dollar.
Director Leach, of the mint, thus
writes to tho Philadelphia North Amer
ican: "The amount of puro silver in
tho standard sllvor dollar has not been
changed since wo first begun coining.
The quantity of puro gold to tho dollar,
ns Jlxed by tho nut of 17M, was m.75
grains, the ratio in colniigo being 15 tol.
Jly the act of Juno U8, 181U, tho puro
gold was reduced from 1M.75 to 2:1. 'JO
grains to tho dollar, tho ratio between
gold and sllvor in oalnngo boing 1 to
10,00'J. lly tli act of January 18, 18H7,
the flu one is of tho gold coins was In
creased about three-fourths of ono thou
sandth by changing from standard of
.SlHCiW to .000, which Increased tho puro
gold In a dollar from StUBO to S3.S3
grains, at which It has romalnod up to
tho prosont tlmo. Tho ratio botween
the two metals in coinage was fixed by
this act at 1 to 16.08S, at which it still
roinulns."
Tho iuoronso noted In loprosy In tho
West Indies is attributed to tho foot
that lepers uro permitted to walk about
-without restraint, to beg, and to mix
irith healthy pooplo. In tho four years
following 1878 twenty-two deaths from
loprosy wero rogUtorad thoro, whllo
thirty-four deaths occurred In tho threo
loara precodiug 1BSS.
MORE KICKS.
Specimens IHnntratlni; "Tlie Arizona Kick
er '" Vigorous Poller.
Wo extract tho following from tho last
issue of Tho Arizona Kicker:
"Otm PoucV. Heretofore, as our readers
know, The Kicker has almost entirely ab
stained from publicly criticising tho evHs
v tilth nil know to exist under our noses. Wo
havo l)econi8 tired nnd disgusted with our
selves for this lack of spunk, nnd next week
wo shall open a red hot campaign on
"Tho mayor,
''Tho common council,
"Tbo flro department,
"All secret societies,
"Tho saloons,
"Tho gambling dens,
"And onvarlcms other organizations and
institutions rocking with corruption.
"It will bon spicy Issue. It will mako
moro than a ton of human hair stand on end.
It will mako n thousand hearts thump liko
pile drivers. Chicanery, deceit, hypocrisy,
theft, robbery, arson nnd murder will bo
properly tagged off und tho tags pinned to
tho right coat tails.
"Order your extra copies ntnn early date.
Advertisers should send In their copy by
Saturday. Don't neglect this golden oppor
tunity. Another may nover como."
"Stopped His Papeiu Old Stevo Bridge
man, who bus several times been alluded to
in theso columns ns tho meanest whito man
in Arizona, has stopjod his paper becauso wo
did not havo n column editorial on tho Fourth
of July. Ho says wo nro no patriot, and that
a man who enn't whoop 'or up for Independ
ence Day Is a cussed rebel.
"Wo havo scratched his namo ofT tho list,
and if ho doesn't quit lying nbout us wo'll
scratch his carcass olf tho faco of the earth.
"As to tho Fourth of July, wo wero lorn
on that day. As to patriotism, wo'vo got
moro in our heels than old Stove could hold
in Ills whole body. The man who intimates
that wo don't tuko our hat oil every tlmo wo
hear tho caino of Oeorgo Wnshhigton is a
liar and a horso thief. Our editorial on tho
Fourth was a solid chunk of patriotism
weighing twonty-flvo pounds, but was
crowded out to mnUo room for advertise
ments. Wo know our gait and wo think wo
know tho great need of most of our towns
people As to old Stovo Brldgciuan, wo aro
exacting two or thrco of his six or seven
wives to drop in on us any day and furnish
us sonio ixiwerful good reading matter.
Don'tHi uneasy, Stephen wo'll gut to you
in a fowduys."
"Waunino. Wo nro no fighter. Wo havo
neither tho sand nor tho musclo to mako one.
We always knuckle unless there's n chanco
to run. We admit to a dozen lickings in the
last three months, and in every caso wo wero
the only ono who suirered.
"However, wo want to warn tho coyoto
who plastered our olllco door with mud tho
other night that tho worm will turn. Wo
nro tho worm. When wo turn ho had better
look out. Wo can bo kicked, cuffed, iu
sultcd and abused up to n certain limit. How
far off the limit is wo don't know, but when
wo reach it wo shall bo a bad, bud man to
fool with." Dotroit Free Press.
How to Write. Dialect Story.
Tuko ft number of sheets of now white papor
and write ii story on them. Any story willdo.
Got your double bnrruled shotgun nnd load
it with lino bird shot.
Pin your story up against tho sido of a barn,
stand oft nbout twenty foot, aim carofully
nnd let both barrels drlvo.
If you find thut thoro havon't been suf
ficient vowels knocked out','rcpoat tho opor-'
ntlon. Judge.
llobson's Choice.
"What? Lenvo theso cool breezes for a
ununcr in Caunda!"
"Woll, my husband Is thero and"
"Goodness! Tho idea of Ills going tliero!"
"Woll, ho preferred Canada to Sitig Sing."
-Life,
Ono Moro llsiiiioliitnu)iit.
Einployor William, you havo now worked
for nw threo years.
"Yes, sir."
"And I havo always found you Industrious,
painstaking nnd honest."
"1 have tried to bo, sir."
"Now, I desire to bhow that I appreciate
your fidelity."
"Thank you, sir."
"For tho noxt two months you will work
en tho books until 11 o'clock every night, I
do not fear to leave you in the olllco nloue at
ull. I have a great deal of confidence in
you." Lincoln Journal.
A Dudo'n .JoUc.
Fwoddio's wnrdrobo suffered severely in
tho tiro at tho Southern hotel. His friend
Cholly, meeting him on tho street, observed:
"Good gwaelous, Fweddlo! Wlmtevah havo
you done with youah good clothes) You
look like a twanqi."
"Deoh loy, my clothes nro 'soaked.'"
"Deah mot Didn't know you were in such
strnlghts, my boy. What did you get ou
thorn r
"Watahl Ha-hal" Chicago Tribune,
Why Ho Didn't Want IU
"Darringer, have you a half dollar that
you don't want!"
"Why, certainly. Hero it Is."
Tho next day:
"Say, Darriuger, that half dollar you gave
mo was a counterfeit."
"Yes, Uroinley, You asked mo if I had n
half dollar tliat I didn't want," Life,
A Sugueitlou.
A Now York physician says that moro rod
dcu deaths take place on the fourth floor of
buildings in that city in one year than in all
other parts of the houseacoinhined. In view
of this alarming fact, architects should mako
It n olnt to omit tho fourtli floor when de
signing n six or eight story bulldlug. Nor
rintown Herald.
An Uiurcrtary Iiuult.
Tramp Madam, will you glvo me soruo
tblng to euW
Mudam I klu glvo you an old vest If you
want it.
Tramp Madam, do you toko mo for a
Yorkvillo goat f Tim
3& 1
HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES.
Decorating a homo that Is nover Ir
radiated with hearty goodnaturo is liko
frescoing a cellar walL
An effectual romcdy for slimy and
greasy drain pipes Is copperas dissolved
and loft to work gradually through tho
pipo.
A simple means of changing tho air
of a sick-room is to open a window at
tho top and opening tho door, movo it
back and forward rapldly.soas to insuro
a current of fresh ntr from tho window.
Corn Oysters. Tako ono pint of
grated corn, two boaton eggs, and as
much corn starch as will adhere to
gether. Shapo into corks and fry to a
light brown in got lard. Wheat flour
will do Instead of corn starch for bind
ing tho past. Banner and Herald.
Corn Plo. This is made with grated
corn, with or without oggs, as preferred.
Without tho oggs less cream is used.
Uuttor, sugar, salt and poppor aro
added, and tho corn Is allowed to como
to a boil beforo boing pourod into the
crust. This is also very nlco as a sldo
dish. Housoho d.
Turnovers. Frlod. Ono quart of
pastry flour, ono toaspoonful of soda, two
teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar; wot
with sweet milk, salt and roll out tho
dough tho slzo of a saucer; put in for in
side applo or minco, fold over, press tho
edgos togothor. Fry in fat to a light
brown. Boston Globo.
A Breakfast Uolish. Toast slices of
stalo ryo or brown bread. Uuttor well,
and pour over them hot milk which has
boon seasonod with salt, ppppor and
butter, and thickened slightly with
flour. Tho addition of a fow spoonfuls
of grated chooso makes this a nlco sup
por or lunch dish. Poultry Monthly.
TomatoSoup. Ono quart of pared and
sliced or canned tomatoes.no quart of
wator, boil for forty minutes; add ono
half cupful of graham or whito flour,
mixed to a cream with cold wator, a
tablospoonful of sugar, salt and popper
to tasto; add ono and one-half cupfuls of
milk, bring to a boll, and it is ready to
sorvo. Housokoopor.
Simplo Curo for Catarrh. To an
ounco of glycerine add fifteen or twenty
drops of carbolic acid, and thoroughly
apply with a small spongo, known as tho
oar spongo. Tho stlmulat ng and anti
eoptio proportios of tho carbolic acid,
comblnod with tho soothing qualities of
tho glycorlno, produco tho most happy
resul ts. This remedy affords almost Im
mediate reliot to an ordinary cold.
Iiousohold.
Corn Starch Cake. Ono-half cupbut
tor, ono-half cup swoot milk, ono-half
cup corn starch, ono and ono-half cup
flour, ono cup sugar, ono-half toaspoon
ful soda, ono toaspoonful cream tartar,
ono toaspoonful salt Last, add tho
wliitos of threo eggs, boaton stiff. Flavor
with vanilla. Bako in shoot. Iolng for
samo Tako enough pulvorlzod sugar to
mako tho desired amountand flavor with
vanilla. Add a llttlo cold wator to
moiston tho sugar, thon add a ploco of
molted chocolato slzo of a walnut.
Spread on tho cako with a broad bladod
knife. lioston Globo.
NEXT YEAR'S FASHIONS.
Largo l'lnlrtft to Ilo Miipcrnmlml lly Checks
of lllmlnutlvn Size.
Whllo tho hot weather is still on us
thoso whoso businoss it is to foresoo and
in a cortain Bonso to load public tasto,
tho manufacturers and tho deslgnors,
havo already mado tholr preparations
for tho summor season of 1801. It is
still too oarly to predict what will bo
actually worn noxt summor and it is
much oaslor to namo tho stylos and
fabrics which aro moro or loss cortain to
find littlo If any favor.
Flowor dos'gns in jacquard stylos
havo no friends. Fino, soft, ono-color
goods in India cachomlro finish nnd ono
color, stripod, vigogno goods havo all
tho chances of boing extonslvoly worn
noxtyoar. Shaded stripes will light for
a placo and a good place, too, and
ombro stylos will bo mot with In all va
riotlos, on( Indian cachomlro grounds,
on vigogno and on soft cheviot Broad
shaded stripes in all posslblo combina
tions in simple nnd comblnod, straight
nnd crosswise and zigzag stylos will bo
soon.
Changoant stylos havo many ndmlrors
who foroseo their adoption. Thoso
styles may do very woll on silk and
hiilf-sllk goods, but tho reproduction of
tho samo on woolen goods Is besot with
bo many technical dlllloultfus that tholr
comnierelal buccims on wool Is out of
tho quostlon unt.l some niothod of over
coming theso ditUcultles has boon
found.
Shndod stylos havo success assured.
Somo of tho latest samples show
Bhndod dots and bomb designs bo
twoon flno stripes; shaded stripes
nltornato with ono color and shaded
poa designs in stripo. A lot of
vory flno stripes or hair linos cotubino
into a largo stripo which Is bordorod im
both sldos with lino-shaded cubo do
Blgns, tho combination boing vory of-
footlvo.
Largo plaids havo mot with scanty
favor rlils Bummor, although thoy had
boon brought out in nlco color combina
tions. This will prevent tholr boing
enmplod extensively for noxt year. On
tho other hand, small squaros, In sub
dued quadrangles, which uro cut by
linos that form lnrgor squares, may find
deserved recognition. English stylos
of worstods In gray or mado In small
squares, occasionally rondorod moro of
feotlvo by means of small silk knots,
will also bo worn.
Cheap bolges (vlgouroux) will bo
tnuoh worn with shaded Btrlpos in
knottod or in oval designs and othor
similar dotnehod styles.
In Imitation of tho blaok ground mus
lin prints which wore fnTorltes last
Bummer In colored tlowor designs, sim
ilar stylos havo been introduced on
oachomlro. lilnck Indian caohomires
nro seen with small embroidered flowers
in colors, with guidon yellow wheat ear
designs, in green loaf and wood em
broidered designs. Very light votlo
tissuos nro being prepared showing largo
Bquaros formed by knotted stripes.
All tho styles mentioned havo good
ohnnco for next summer. It scorns as
iurod that soft fabrics and shaded styles
will havo u irood run-
ABOUT SHAKING HANDS.
The Latest Evolution of a Very Ancient
C'u.tom.
Wo aro more givon to shaking hands
than other nations. Where tho French-
r, 1 .1 klM.nlf
in o u ui VI i: i ill a ii wuuiu uuuiUUb muiau
with a comprehensive bow that Includes
a whole company of people In ono court-
- t' iii tit
uuud owt;uo, luu iiiiinuiijuu, u3yvv.i.jf i
If ho is country bred, will patlontly and
porsovoringly shako hands with ovory
ono prosont Perhaps it is owing to a
fooling that an unnecessary uso of tho
practlco is provincial that we may traco
a vlsiblo decline in it atthoprescntday.
Hut it is difllcult to say to what causo
is attributable tho prosont extraordinary
form which it takes among cortain poo
plo whon thoy do practice it a form
which is especially prevalent among
thoso pooplo whoso ambition it is to bo
known as "smart" Whon two members
of this class, or of tho far moro numer
ous class that imitatos thorn, meot each
other, thoy go through a ceremony
which certainly boars a faint resom
blanco to that of shaking hands, but is
in all real essontials absolutely dlffor
ont Tho lady lifts her elbow as high
as a tight sleeve will permit her, and
danglos a littlo band boforo hor face,
carofully keeping tho wrist as stiff and
high as possible whilo sho allows tho
flngors to droop down. Tho man con
trives to lift his olbow a llttlo higher,
and, by a dexterous turn of tho wrist, I
toucheB hor flncors that Is alL Tho !
reason assigned for this is curious.
It is said that ladles who aro bidden
to court, and whoso privilego it is to ox
chango greetings with royal personages
find it difllcult to comblno a courtesy
with a shako of a gracious hand with
out raising tholr own hands to tho lovol
of tholr faces. Honco tholr too frequent
communications with illustrious poo
plo havo corrupted thoir good
manners; thoy acquire a habit
and aro so forgetful as to introduce it
IntoUhoir ordinary lifo nnd tholr rola-
tions with moro ordinary people. Hut
thoy forgot tho courtesy, whilo thoy for-
got to romombor to lower thoir hands.
Another roason that has been suggested
for this greeting, as it is practiced by
tho host socioty, is that thoy havo bor
rowed It from tho coachman. With his
roins in ono hand and his whip in tho
other, tho only approach to a salutation
that a coachman can mako is by a sharp,
upward movement of tho elbow and
whip hand. Indeed, this explanation is
vory plausible, for there is a kind of
natural affinity between tho mannors of
tho stnblo and thoso of tho vory smart
people.
How ancient a custom Is tho shaking
of hands no ono can say. Tho giving
and clasping of right hands had its
origin most probably in a wish to show
that tho right hand was unarmed, and
that no dangor need bo approhondod
from its ownor. Thoro is evidonco to
show that tho clasping of hands was an
ancient Hindoo usuago In logal trans
actions, as it was also among the
Romans in such matters as a marriago
contract As a modo of salutation It
cortalnly oxisted among tho latter; for
wo havo Horace's description of a bore:
Arrcptnriuo munu, "Quid ugls, dulelssluio
re ruin?"
Tho modorn idea of tho scionco of
politonoss is a scionco that will save
tlmo. No ono would wish to bring back
tho statoly oboisancos. tho swooping
courtesies, and tho hollow compliments
of last coniury. .But at loast they wero
a protty comedy whllo thoy lasted,
whoroas' this last fashion of hand-sha -ing
is a grotosquo farco. London Spec
tator. TORPEDO-SHOOTING.
A Dangorou CnUlng I'umuecl I(y Men in
the Oil Country.
Not every day doos ono meot with a
man who has boon blown sovonty-flvo
feot through tho air and lived to toll of
it but such a man is John McCloary,
who Lvos in a comfortable homo In
Groonpolnt with his wlfo and two chil
dron and drives a custom houso truck
down town for a living. Ho was at
lnch noar by whon ono of tho steam
heating oxplosions at tho corner of
liroadway and Fulton stroot took place.
Tho atmosphoro was conduc.vo to ox
ploslvo story tolling, and McCloary told
of his oxporionco to an Interested group
and produced a number of nowspaper
clippings to vorify tho extraordinary oc
curronco. Ono of thorn was from tho
Eldred (Pa.) Eaglo, and it callod Mc
Cloary tho hero of tho nltro-glycorino
oxplosion at Haymakor, Pa., in 18S0,
and said that every stitch of clothos
had been stripped from his body during
his flight of sovonty-flvo foot through
tho air.
McCloary explained that ho was what
Is known as a torpedo shooter. In de
scribing his sensations ho said: "When
1 tho oxplosion took placo I was probably
! twenty foot from tho stuff. I saw a
blinding flash as If tho world had sud
1 donly taken lire. I know that I mado
, an attompt to run from tho dorrick. I
folt that I had maybo but a minuto to
livo, and I romombor resolving to op-,
cupy that minuto In running. All
onco it sooined to mo as though .in tho
mgli
attompt I had takon a fearful loap and
that 1 was going down down ns ono in
n droam. 1 knew intuitively that tho
explosion had takon placo, but I had
not hoard tho roport, strango to say.
Every thing looked bluo, and I began
to wonder If tho explosion had killed
mo and If I was doad. I calculated how
many others, wero dond. I could hear
tholr widows crying, nnd I rltnossed
tholr funerals, I supposo It took mo
ton soconds to bo thrown to whoro I was
found, but It soomod to bo ton yoars,
and I had tlmo to think of a thousand
different things.
"Finally 1 lost consciousness, and
that was whon I struck tho ground, 1
suppose. 1 was badly broken up, and
finally gavo up 'shooting' wolls for good
nnd camo to Now York. No, now that
I reallzo tho groat mk, tho hazard
ous life, tho almost dally danger of
death, 1 would not go back to it again
for n farm." N. Y. Times.
llusy Passenger (ocean greyhound)
"Sign this paper, ploaso; qulok, for
wo aro noarlng tho dook." Passlvo Pas
Bongor "What is it?" "It's a tosti
monlal to tho captain." "What for?"
"For tho brave, oonsldorato nnd intolli
gent care with which ho stopped up tho
loaka ovory tlmo wo collided with ico
borgs, nnd Bhlps and rocks and things."
I N. Y. Wooltly.
OF THE FOREST.
Some Interesting Polnm About the Enof
inou Tree of California.
Thoro
aro ton groups of bequoia gi-
gantca in tho Sierra Nevada mountains,
and tho descrintlons of most of them aro
nnA tVin flnQfrtnt.inns
w. . r. ..,,. n
found In tho writings ot iuuir,
and Clarenco King. Beginning as ino
nn,th thnsn rrniina are named as loiiows.
- i , p livnr-
Tno uaiaveras grove. m --
as grove, tno auoiuhuiu
Merced grove, tho Mariposa grove, tho
Fresno grovo, tho Dinky grove, tho
King's Itlver grovo, tho Now Kings
River grove, and tho largo Kaweah
grovo. Tho lattor consists of a number
ol small sequoia forests extending over
a bolt of country flvo miles wide and
fifty miles long. It is in this region
that tho Kawoah colony of solists havo
secured most of tho timbor lands and
aro now building largo mills. It Is not
probable that In ten years any of theso
ton forosts groups will remain oxcopt
tho Calaveras groves, and perhaps ono
or two other small groups, now used as
summer resorts, unless immediately
steps aro taken to prevent tho further
filings of timber claims. Tho records at
tho land-ollico show that in tho past
twonty months 121,080 acres of heavily
timbered land havo boon bought Irotu
tho Government much of it obtained by
a systomat o evasion of tho laws. Much
of this land has boon taken upalong tho
wostorn slopo of tho Sierra Nevada, and
includes most of tho Sequoia gigantea
districts. Tho Calaveras grovo covers
fifty acres and contains ninoty-threo
largo trees. Ono trco in 1854 was
str.pped of its bark to n height of
thirty feet by a man who thought ho
could mako a fortune exhibiting it Tho
speculation fortunatoly failed, or tho
grove would havo been ruined by simi
lar enterprises. This tree is estimated
to contain 537,000 feot of markotablo
lumber, and stands 325 feot in height
girthing eighty-four feot without tho
j bark. A fallen tree was about 400 feot
, in height and tbo circumforonco of tho
i trunk near tho baso is 110 feet Tho
South grovo contains 3S0 sequoias of
good slzo somo vory largo. One of tho
! largest of tho standing trees in theso
Calaveras groves is tho Grizzly Giant
thirty-throe feot in dlamotor near tho
ground. Thoro is a treo in tho Kawoah
region that is thirty-six feot in diame
ter, and thoro may bo ovon larger ones.
.Tho giant sequoia yields seeds in
Bitch abundanco (Mr. IJradloy counting
824 seeds in a small cone), and tho
vitality of frosh seed is so uniform that
millions of trees could bo grown and
planted on tho mountain slopes of Cali
fornia. In tho Sacramento, San Joaquin,
Sonora, Santa Clara and other largo
valloys tho treo thrives without espe
cial caro. In most plncos it has grown
fastor than tho somporvirons. If tho
Stato wero to undertake to reforest the
wasto lands tho giant sequoia would
offer ono of tho best troes for that pur
pose. Tho roason why it now grows
only in such isolated and small groups,
instead of in oxtonsivo forosts. is bo-
J causo its small light seeds can not easi
ly root themsolves on tho dry, loat
1 covered soil of tho region. Tho climate
has changed; tho treo is slowly disap
pearing. San Francisco Examlnor.
A FABLE DISPELLED.
Elephantine Memory of Faces Is In No Sense
Itmnrk:ttiln.
There is anothor fable of our early
chi dhood which a cortain young man 1b
ablo to dlspol with absoluto authority,
having mado a long and careful series
of observations. This is a fablo about
elophants and thoir wonderful power of
romomboring faces and avenging in
juries. Tho young man, who, ovon as a
youngster, was of a reflective and ox-
J porlraontal cast of mind, bogan bis ox-
porlments at a vory tondor ago by dls
respectfully twisting the noso of ono of
tho olophants in Central park. Not tho
wholo of this proboscis, you know, the
youth was too small for an army con
tract of that kind, but just tho oxtromo
tip of tho trunk, as it was hold out to
him in friendly salutation.
Tho big mass of moat roared and quiv
ered with pain. It was evident that
wringing tho ond of an olophant's pro
boscis was liko wringing tho noso of a
man. Hero was a now sensation both
for tho boy and tho elephant, and ono
that tho former proposed to follow up
as long as tho lattor was not at liberty
to romonstrato. Tho noxt day ho tried
it again. Now horo was a chanco for
tho olophant's memory to stop in and
protect him from a ropotition of yester
day's Indignittos. Hut it didn't Just
ns beforo, tho- trusting animal put out
his proboscis in greoting, and just
as boforo tho bad boy gavo It
a twist that brought tears to
tho oyos of tho enormous croaturo
why not "olophant tears" as woll
ns crocodile's? and mndo him howl
with pain. Day aftor day this young
ster would go up to tho park and prose
cuto his researches in tho psycho. ogy of
tho olophant's mind and ovory day tho
kindly croaturo assisted in his studies
Jb.v Riving him his trunk to experiment
on-
Onco during tho. month It happened
that tho olophant did break his cage and
getaway. Tho inquiring youth stood
noar. Now, ho was sure that tho olo
phant had begun to romombor and that
his own littlo spooial judgment day had
coma But tho olophant rushed past as
if thero woro no such things in all tho
world as inquisitive small boys. And
thon for tho first timo tho boy began to
doubt tho eternal romombranco of an
olophant Hut still ho was not wholly
Batlstled. It might bo that thoro was
somo mental peculiarity of this part cu
lar olophant tho youth reasoned, nnd so
from tlmo to tlmo ho wont on twisting
elephants' trunks whonovor ho got a
ohnnco.
And as ho has traveled much during
theso years that ho has boon gottlng
older, ho has probably had moro chances
and twisted moro olophants' trunks,
both in Europo nnd America, than any
other living boing. Moreover, ho has
aot his friends to oxponmontlng upon
elephants, whonovor it was possible,
and ot no faot in lifo is ho moro corta n
than that tho beautiful story of tho olo
phant's lasting memory is a clear and
unmitigated myth. N. Y. Evening Sun.
Chineso pboasants woro introduced
, into tho woods of Oregon only eight
years ago, and thero aro now said to b
oarly a million of thorn thore.
GIANTS
THE THIRD NAPOLEON. .
rfknt Duke Hrneat or Raie-Cohurp; Sr"
of Illin In III Meniolm.
Tho Duko of Saxc-Coburg-Goth a
Queen Victoria's brother-in-law, saw tho
Emperor Napoleon III. closoly. His
Highness was again in Paris and at tho
opora on tho night of tho Orslnl attompt
Ho wont thero alono Instead of in tho
company of thoir Majesties, and that
probably saved his life. Ho stood await
ing thorn in tho vestibule, whon arst
explosion was heard, and then, an in
stant after, a second. "I was still stand
ing thoro," ho says in tho volume of his
memoirs just published, "potriflcd with
horror, when tho Emperor and Empress
rushed in. Thoy seemed about to falL
Tho Empress seized me, as it wero, mo
chanlcally by tho nrm and said protty
calmly. 'Sauvczmoll' Tho Emperor
was liko ono stunned; ho staggered and
I thought ho was wounded. Ills hat
was a littlo knocked in and torn on ono
sldo by a bullet." And this was only
tho second explosion, for thoro was still
to bo a third. In this caso tho bomb
must havo boon thrown straight at tho
door of tho hall, for fragments of tho
shell and bullets smashed tho windows
nnd rebounded from tho colling. "I
dragged tho Empress, whom I had on
my arm, away with mo, and recollect
having knocked down somo person who
blocked tho way, as I was endeavoring
to reach tho stair-case leading to tho
box. Tho Emperor appeared at a loss to
know in what direction to turn. Then
he followed us up tho stairs, and at last
wo all reached tho box."
As soon as they had composed thom
solves tho terrified pair stepped to tho
front of tho box, but thoy mot with no
reception. Not a hand stirred, not a
sound was raised. "Tho Emperor said
to mo in Gorman: 'Thoro you seo tho
Parisians thoy aro never treated harsh
ly enough.' " Presontly the marshals
and tho membors of tho Imperial family
came into tho box. Marshal Canrobort
wept liko a child, and whon tho Princess
Mathildo arrived thoro was a scene of
passionate excitement, for sho had lost
all self control. "Quito lato in tho
ovonlng Prince Napoleon also put in an
appearance. Whon ho approached tholr
Majesties tho Empress turned hor back
upon him, whilo the Emperor said to
him coldly, beforo tho Princo had timo
to mako any fino phrases: 'C'estbienl
c'ost bion!' " Tho Duko was to seo this
much tried ruler and man onco more,
and this timo in his greatest trial of all.
It was at Sedan. A messongor brought
tho King of Prussia tho famous letter of
surrender from Napoleon III. "Listen,"
said tho King to thoso who stood about
him, and ho rend tho letter aloud. Then,
sitting upon a plow, ho wroto his an
swer on tho back of his aid do camp.
Tho samo day tho Duko mot tho Em
poror driving from Donchery, and bow
ed to him from his horso. "Ho waved
his hand in a frlondly way, but did not
speak a word. For tho last timo in
this lifo I saw his sad and overshadowed
features." Tho Duko necessarily passes J
most of his timo on what his illustrious I
countryman, Auerbach, calls ttio
Hoights. Ho rarely descends to tho
plains. Wo hear littlo of pooples, but
vory much of thoso who govern them.
Even his brothor's great achievement,
tho exhibition of 1851, was, in tho
Duko's eyes, "pro-ominently aristo
cratic" Somo of us havo thought that
it was not without popular foatures, but
lot that pass. "Tho nobility undertook
tho representation of England in a man
nor such as it has novor dono again on
any other occasion. On tho opening
day nearly 4,000 stato equipagos appear
ed, and the royal party drovo up almost
daily in full splendor to visit thooxhibi
tion." x Tho Duko's history, however,
must bo taken from tho Duko's own
point of view, and in that it is not alto
gether without consolation for thoso
who liko to preserve thoir faith in popu
lar destinies. Democracies can not pos-,
slbly mako greater mistakes than havo!
been mado for them by thoso who oblig
ingly undortako to roliovo thorn of all
troublo in tho management of thoir own'
affairs. London News.
A I'aljiablo Evidence.
A Spauish astronomer bus ascertained that
there aro rain and snow on tho moon tho
i samo as on tho earth. Time dark spot over
tho left eur of tho man in tho moon, then,
must bo uu umbrella. Burlington Freo
Press.
Her Choice.
A Miss Leg, of Montana, has just married
a man named Hand. Sbo thought sho would
rather bo a right Hand than a left Log.
New York Tribuue.
Mutual Recognition.
Smith Why, excuse mo, sir, but that is
tho umbrella I lest.
Brown Excuso mo. This is tho umbrella
I found. Detroit Freo Press.
Chicago's Ucgrct.
Chicago has reason to regret that tho world
la so small. Carter Harrison is moro than
balf way nrouiul it already. Chicago News.
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