The Oregon Scout
JONEB &, ClIANGEY
Publishers
UNION, ORFGON.
"HEALTHJ LOVEJ WORKI"
Wens ever each cauiitffi triplet tornf
Jtosy and sweet and rU1 an tlio morn;
TJovcr a hearthstone tar nml wldo
Co happy as whcreXheso thrco ablda.
If the angels senfhut ono to nin,
Which would Icihooso of tlio lovelyt&root
O.-of the trio, Love-Is Ijcst;
Ixrve immortal, in loveliest.
Jim. George W. Swlftto Woman.
TliiUroiuU of Indian Territory.
There trro 20,000 'Clwrokccs, 5,000
7hoctaws, 5,000 Chickasnws, and from
2,000 to S.'OOO Sotninolcadn tlio territory.
The Crooks number 8,000to 10,000 bouIs,
tout it is thought about 'half of theso are
negroes. Owing to projudiconmong tho
Cherokees and Choctaws there aro fewer
wegrocs in thoso nations. tTJie, territory
liaa more railroads than nny who have
not studied tho subject would believe.
Tho Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo route
-runs a Jino from Arkansas City to
Chdnesvillo straight through the middle
of the territory. Tho Missouri, Kansas
nd Texas, part of Gould's Missouri Pa
cific line, ruiiB through tho northeast cor
nier, tlirough tho Cherokee, Creek, Choc
taw, and part of the Chickasaw nations.
Thcro is a fifty milo bit of road from
Fort Smith, Ark., to Moskogec, in tho
Oeek nation, entirely traversing tho
Cherokee country. Tho Atlantic and
Pacific road has got tho right of way,
and has -made its survey straight across
tlio territory. A branch of tho Rock
Xsland system crosses the territory, and
a branch of tho Southern Kaunas route
runs across tho northeast corner. Diag
onally ucross tho state is projected tho
-Dcnnison and Wachita Valley road, part
of tho 'Frisco system. Now York Sun.
Tlio IIlHtory of Ono.
"Fivo or six years ago that woman
-was n great !ello,"Baid my neighbor, as
- -tho door closed on tho shocking example
-of resurfacing.
"Sho camo hero for tho first timo tho
anorning after tho great ball. Sho
looked tired, and I didn't wonder. My
lirother, who was out late tho night bo
faro, told mu that ho heard n gentleman
call her by name as ho handed Iter into a
carringo after a littlo'suppcr at tho close
r an evening at tho theatre. It was
.midnight and sho was just going homo
to dress for tho ball. You can guess tho
fiacohho was keeping. Sho IxMightnoth
in.; but a little violet Kwdcr to whiten
tho great dark circles under her eyes.
Next eciison sho was n regular customer
for roso leaf wafers of ono kind and nn
thcr to rub a little bloom on her cheeks.
After that it was paint, and now look at
Jicr. Sometimes her faco breaks out in
Matches and sho has terrible work to
cure them." Eliza Putnam Ileaton.
llulncil by tlio Si unit Hat.
Every old East Indian ollicer knows
-that when a musk rat runs over tho bot
'tlca in your cellar you might us well
-throw tho contents away. They will
Iiavo tho smell nnd tho tnstoof tho musk,
nd nothing that you can do will euro it.
1 know it is n story that you won't bo
Jiovo, because you haven't seen it your
clr, but you can cork ti bottlo of ale,
ay, as securely as you like, seal it nnd
3ut it away, and if tho rats get iv chanco
to play about it you will find it wholly
tindriukablo. I don't know how tho
racll gets into tho liquor, but there it is.
J Jiavo seen bottles washed and scrubbed
nd rubbed with sand, then opened and
jifjfound to bo ruined. There is no animal
that tho old bchool Indian will kill with
ucli a thorough consciousness of doing a
4;ood work us tho rat. Chicago Newa.
Military Ilulloons In Use.
Tlio actual practice of military bal
looning is now being carried on by
Italian forces in tho Soudan to n consid
erable extent, and this question of ob
taining tho gas for tho balloons has
caused not u little trouble. Tho hydro
5rch required has been manufactured at
Naples and taken to tho beat of war in
.steel tubes, each of which is about fi C-8
inches in diameter by -1 foot 7 1-i) inches
long, tho walls being nkmt C 5-8 inches
thick. Tlio hydrogen is produced by ac
tion on iron turnings with dilute sulphu
xio acid, and is pumped into theso tubes
nt u pressure of 1,010 jwunds per square
iuch. Forty of tlio tubes aro needed in
inflating u hinglo balloon. Now Orleans
I'icayunu.
Itoek Crystal Wutrli)'.
A new and peculiar class of timepieces
.'lias lately U'cu brought out which ilhu
iratcs tho hteady progress that is being
inndo in tho arts of skill and precision.
This is u watch of ordinary bize, of which
tho cuso and plates aro mado of Brazilian
-lbbIo or rock crystal, thus tendering
tho watch transparent, und oxiKwing to
jilain view tho wheels and nil other parts
of tho interior mechanism. Scieutillo
-American.
Kngluiiil' Diiiucstlti riorvlrr.
About a hoventh IS. 7 per cent. of
tlio working population of England is
engaged In domestic bcrvico. In Amer
ica only 0 jht cent, of tho satno jwpula
tion earn their living in this way. At
least ten families tuo eoiuH'ling for ono
domestic in tho United States whoro only
four uro bidding against each other in
Xugloud. Onco u Week.
Willow uml Ouk.
Tho vdllow which Iwntls to tho temixst
return twapes lxtter than tho oak which
icaists it; and so in grout calamities it
oinetiuies hapMiiH that light and frivo
lous t-pirits recover their elasticity and
-t)rconco of mind boouer than thoso of u
.loftier character. Sir Walter Scott,
A DUtliiguUlii'il lVi-ioungo.
Census Tnkor Your uuino, please.
John Smith."
Any middle nnnio?"
"No; isn't the nnnio I havo enough
ilo dlstlntruish me I" Yanlcco Blade.
President Harrison Iuih proiuibod tho
Tlibor Committee that when Coiiltimh
wdjoiirned ho would give coiibidorutiuii f
to tlio I'lglil-liour law ami would IiihIhI
aiK)ii ItH rlrlut enforcement In govern
audit building,
lrfnh I'oeU.
The long training of tho porjplo In
verse composing and verse recit'ing pre
disposes them to the composition of po
etry of some degree of excellence. Irish
men and Irishwomen as a rule havo a
knack at writing if they rend vo any edu
cation at all, and arc riMv.ral journalists
and writers at an early ngo. The last re
markable poet of tbc.Jie kind known in
Ireland was OaroJin, the blind bard of
tho last century, -whoso jwrtrait and
some of whoso versos, translated and in
the original, wero published by James
Hardiman. He was as jwripatetic as
Homer is said to have been, blind also,
and certainly a fine if not a great poet.
Though tho race is not extinct, little ex
cept tho most ordinary verse is published
in Irish today, the audience being too
email to tempt tho most ardent patriot.
With all its inherited shortcomings, and
with the evils that befell it owing to cir
cumstances, the poetic guild of ancient
Ireland did the world a great scrvico in
keeping from destruction historical and
national data lost from other parts of
Europe. It also added not a little to the
world's stock of tragic, of noble and of
comic fiction. Charles do Kay in Cent
ury. The Country I'apr ' the City.
It would do tho hearts of country edi
tors good to ride up town on the elevated
cars in the afternoon of Friday and Sat
urday on any week in the year. On these
two days a great many business men give
only a hasty glance at the evening papers
and then immediately draw from a pocket ,,,m nnu shot past the bicycle at an cle
ft rnnv of n. miner that is in 'marked con-1 nation of some fivo feet from the ground.
trast to tho city paper, so far as typo and
genoral appearance goes. The type is in
variably larger and the displays of ad
vertisements nnd headings to news arti
cles commonly coarser. Tho ink is not
alwnys spread evenly over tho page.
Nevertheless, tho business man opens the
paper to the page devoted to villago news
nnd reads every lino there. After that
ho not infrequently reads the villago ad-
vertisements nnd cives a brief look at the
editorials. The city man used to live in
the village where that paper was printed,
nnd ho recognizes tho numcs of people
thero as old acquaintances, and common
ly old friends. Tho villago paper comes
like a letter from homo to tho city man
who was onco a villager. Now York
Sun.
A New Lighthouse,
The new lighthouse at Host holm is tho
most powerful in the world. The beam is
of 2,000,000 candlo power und shows
clearly at Olokhus, a distance of thirty
llvo miles. It is produced by aro lamps,
fed by Do Moriten's dynamos, driven by
Rteam engines. To prevent tho extinc
tion of tho light through an accident to
tho machinery tho latter is duplicated,
ono set coming into play should the other
fail. Tho light is further supplemented
1 in thick weather by two powerful Rirens,
or fog trumpets, working with compress
ed air. Tlio fascination which n power
ful light exercises on wild birds is curi
ously illustrated by this lighthouse. It is
eaid that basketfulsof dead snipes, larks,
starlings and so forth aro picked up in
tho mornings outsido tho tower. They
kill themselves in clashing against the
windows of tho lantern. Montreal Star
Writing on Cast Iron.
Mr. John Farrar, foreman of tho Q.
W. & F. Smith Iron Company, of Bos
ton, has threo small cast iron plates, ono
of which is 3J by (i inches, on which is
cut in sunken letters etched tho Lord's
prayer in bold handwriting, and tho
other two, each 5 by 0 inches, contain
ing outlino drawings, ono with threo
sketches a pig in an inclosure, swnns
on water, and a deer, with pyramids in
tho distnnce, nnd the other plate con
tained an outline drawing of a horse.
Referring to theso plates, Mr. Farrar
said: "What you seo on them is done
with n common steel pen on a piece of
thin paper. Tho paper, when prepared,
is pinned into n Hand mold, iron is poured
into tho mold and tho writing is trans
ferred to tho casting." Boston Herald.
Sim Fnrtiit Tuo Noon,
Paris officers, going to seize tho goods
of a woman against whom a judgment
had been obtained, found her lying ap
parently dead and prepared for burial in
her rooms. They were about to retire
when ono of them could not resist tho
temptation to pinch the plump arm of
tho woman. The supposed corpse
promptly sat upon tho bier nnd gavotho
impertinent ollicer a regular dressing
down before sho remembered that she
was dead to hor creditors, if not to tho
world. Tho oxecution was innilo at
oncu mini tho goods sold. Now York
Sun.
An (MIutr Sen V.
"They cut their food with their dag
gers, and they eat with pitchforks!"
cried the horrified Japanese who first
kuw Europeans eating in such n barbaric
nnd revolting manner with tho knife and
fork,
Light fingered, deft and imitative as
tho Japanese and Chinese are, it takes
them as long to learn tho proper and
graceful uso of the knife and fork as it
requires for us to master tho evolutions
and etiquette of tho chopsticks. Eliza
Scldmoro in St. Nicholas.
Uo for Cunt Oil' (lurinrvt.
Who could dream of boiling tip sol
diers' cast olf trousers? Yet this is what
Is done with tho discarded leg coverings
of tho English soldiers, and what do you
guess to ho tho uso of tho condiment
when ho cooked? Tho pulp .thus pro
duced is used to Btull balls. Tho trou
sers aro chopped fine, loiled, treated
with 6omo chemical substance, and then
cast in molds of different sizes for uso in
tho dltloreut flvea and racquet courts.
Chatter.
Th AVrlght or tlio llralu,
It is curious to observe that tho aver
age weight of tho brain coverings and
fluids is highest in tho insane, while the
weight of tlio bruin is lower. Washing
ton Star.
Only 13 per cent, of tho imputation of
Russia can read and write. Tho number
of primary nuhools is 88,000 for tho popu
lation of 100,000,000.
INSPIRATION.
lie was peasant tolling 'mid thofeheaves
From dew to dew among the war.lng groin
What time he went afield In w.y morn,
The stars shone above the mooning mlsto;
And when at eve he reached ills cottage door.
Ho heard the plovers calllng-to the night.
One day, while 'neath Ills measured rhythmic
stroke
Fell swath on awath of precious golden grain.
She came across the fields a vision rare
The princess, good and pure and beautiful.
Who, smiling on him as she passed him by,
Knew not that she had filled his heart with love
And soul with music Vet from that day forth
Ills fellow workers heard his sweet sad songs,
And wondered at their comrade as ho fang.
Soon far beyond the humble rustic town
Ills master music touched the hearts of men.
Until the world had claimed htm as her own,
And wreathed him poet with the laurel crown.
Ono day he found his wondering steps astray
Where he had seen the vision of his soul
"If she," he thought, "had been a peasant
maid.
And I a prince had seen her toiling there.
How happy now would be these weary days!"
At this he threw himself upon the sheaves
Until the length 'nlng shadows eastward thrown
Had blended with tho gently deep'mng gloom
Until across the misty starlit meads
He beard the plovers calling to the night.
Sanborn Oovo Tenney in Harper's.
A Doc That rr.
This recalls the story of the grey
hound, whoso master was an expert bi
cyclist, and was accustomed to rundown
bill, with his legs tucked up on the ma
chine. The greyhound, a speedy and
highly intelligent creature, always seem
ed to take extreme pleasure in this feat,
and one day, to his master's astonish
ment, suddenly drew all his legs under
, Threo times onlv in the course of a long
descent, he just touched the ground with
his left hind foot, and met his master at
tho foot of tho hill with frisks and
bounds, having traveled nearly three
hundred yards in tho air. It is a curious
fact, but tho chronicle asserts that, on
tho death of this dog, elementary wings
I wcro ,ouna on ,l,s "ouiucr blaues, wiiicli
Becma t0 indicate that ho had a natural
predilection for flying. London Times.
Itnprnvpil Sounding Machine.
Tho old method of "heaving the lead"
was a cumbrous nnd often unreliablo
process, which occupied a considerable
time, nnd could only be performed when
tho vessel was brought to or going at a
very moderate speed. With Sir William
Thomson's improved sounding machine
the depth can bo accurately found with
little trouble and without altering the
speed of tho vessel. A lino of soundings
can be taken with great ease and tho
ship's place bo made known by compari
son with tho chart long before sho comes
near to nny dangerous position. For
steamships going at a great speed, and
especially when Hearing land, the uso of
this machine is absolutely indispensable.
Now York Commercial Advertiser.
A Mun with Iron Nerve.
An exceedingly cheeky thief made his
appearance in Boston ono day recently.
Ho was dressed in overalls. Ho went
into the olllco of a lifo insurnnco com
pany and, while whistling one of tho
latest tunes, began to unscrew from tho
wall of a toilet room on the fourth floor
a mirror valued at about $20. Fully
twenty occupants of tho building saw
tho man nt work, and everybody thought
ho had been hired either to repair the
glass or clean it. They did not suspect
anything was wrong until after ho left.
Then it was learned ho was a thief. Ho
walked down the four flights of stairs
nnd left by means of tho front door.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"KetchoU" Up with Thrm,
Ignatius Donnelly sometimes tells this
anecdote from tho platform; An old 1
farmer in tho south was taking his first
trip on a railway train. Tho equipment
was poor and tho road was rough nnd in
bad conditioafBo that the train mado poor
time. Suddenly tho engine whistled.
"What'8 tho matter?" asked tho farmer,
anxiously. "Oh," said a fellow pas
senger, "thero aro 6omo cows on tho
track and they nro whistling to scare
them ofl." Tho train ran along slowly a
few miles farther, when tho whistle
sounded ngain. Tho farmer suddenly
started and then exclaimed: "Mowed if
wo haven't ketched up with them cows
ngain."
llnrlty of the (.'orinoi nut.
It seems rather strange that, while
skins and eggs of the great auk aro so
highly valued, the public rarely hear of
Pallas' cormorant, tho extinction of
which in the North Pacific corresponds to
that of the great auk in the North Atlan
tic. Only four specimens of Pallas' cor
morant aro known to exist in museums;
no one possesses its eggs; and no bones 1
were found or preserved until Mr. Leon
hard Stejneger, of the Smithsonian insti
tution, was so fortunate somo years ago
as to rescue a few of them. Yet this bir
was tho largest and handsomest of its
tribe. New York Ledger.
A fiutty Hum.
Tho costliest horso barn in tho world
belongs to 1). E. Crouso nnd is located
at Syracuse, N. Y. It has now cost tho
owner, a millionaire horseman, some
thing like 700,000. Incidental expenses
will make tho stable cost little short of u
round million, St. Ixmis Republic,
llotolir.
"Yes," Baid the learned youth, "1
reached forward and struck him n blow
on the optic, und a minute later his alter
ego was in mourning."
"His what?" inquired tho fond parent.
"His alter ego his other eye, you
know." Boston Transcript,
A French company is pushing a schoine
for piercing tho Fauoilles by a tunnel,
which would shorten tho distance U
tween Paris and Geneva by bix hours.
Tho Swiss government is against it be
cause lxth outlets of tho tunnel would
bo iu French territory.
Tho population of Iceland diminished
2,400 between 18S5 and 13SS, being nt
the close of tho latter your 09,224. The
decline is duo to emigration to America.
Tho native fishermen complain that
their business is boing ruined by tho Eng
lish foiling steamers.
Th tore., suit l KniUnd. j 'A GREAT LEATHER COLLECTION.
An experience recently told me of uu , , Number of gpeeimen.
visit to the London Lyceum theatre a mod 0eneri,i interest. i
twelvemonth since verifies tho state- A mQgt inU3re8tlng collection, consist
ent as to the positive rule of some of the , of Qver m varieiieB 0f hides, skins
English playhouses not to admit ladiesor (and leaUier8 each from a different spe-'
gentlemen to the stalls unless they are m cieg of flshi flegh or fowif hag been put
evening dress. The American had bad a T,,jh!tinn wt,h:n the bitr show win-
busy day of it, and found that it was too
late to put himself into his dress suit, as
was his custom when going to the thea
Heart." At the box office he tendered
his money for a couple of stalls. The ofli-
cial looked the applicant over for a mo-
ment, apparently arrived at the conclu-
sion ho was a gentleman and forthwith
asked if he would not accept a box a
much preferable and
morn ciwinim
Iliuru expeUBIVO
situation for his lady and himself,
"I make this suggestion," continued
tho courteous and diplomatic represen
tative, "because should you appear in
the stalls not in full dress you would at
tract an embarrassing amount of notice
as the only persons that had been pro
vented, for some cause or other, from
observing tho usual formality. I feel
sure that under tho circumstances you
will find this box more agreeable."
"Neat way of putting it, wasn't it?"
said tho narrator chipperly, "nnd so En
gush, you know!" Clothier and
nisher.
Fur
A Curious I'ulplU
A curious colonial relio known as the
"open nnd Rhut pulpit," lias been sold at
Danielsonville, Conn. It had been in tho
Read family for 100 years, and was the
! property of Rev. Amos Read, tho first
Baptist minister in the state. Mr. Read
had to travel great distances in order to
"spread the gospel," and had his pulpit
made to take with him. It opens and
6huts with hinges like a chest whoso lid
is very much lartrer than the box nart.
When the nulnit is shut uti it is seem-
ingly a fair sized box; opened, the solid
lid stands straight before the preacher,
a pulpit standard, on which tho minister
lays his Bible and hymn book, nnd bo
hind which he discourses, standing on
the other part of the box. Rev. Amos
Read, when ho set forth to preach in
I distant parts, just strapped up his pulpit,
, balanced it on his horse's back and trot
ted forth, carrying church as well as
gospel with him. Philadelphia Ledger.
Traveling a Morinrn 1'iiuloii.
Now tho gadfly which pursued poor Io
seems to havo stung us all, and we flit
about the globo restlessly, till it has
nearly come to pass that everybody who
has a house has let it to somebody else,
and the last place to expect to find a
man is nt home. A general game of
puss-in-tho-corner amuses tho best society
of Europe and America all the summer
and 'much of tho winter. Tho humblest
village school child expects two or threo
annual excursions; every servant and
shop hand stipulates for holidays long
enough to pay distant visits; in short,
our lives are becoming much like thoso
of festive gnats at play of a warm even
ing. Sometimes wo pauso to suck a
! flower or to bito somebody, but wo soon
j return to tho perpetual locomotion which
seems to possess unfailing charm. Fran-
ces Power Cobbe in Forum.
A Hog That Likes (ins.
At tho Dog's Grotto, ono of tho curi
osities maintained near Rojo, Italy, thero
is u cave, tho lower part of which is
said to bo filled with deadly gas, so that
while a man can walk about unharmed
a dog breathing tho lower air is asphyx
iated. To provo it they havo a dog called
Columba that is taken into tho cave
' whenever a visitor appears
and that,
after a short time, seems overcome by
tho alleged gas and has to bo carried out
and resuscitated in tho fresh air. Tho
dog is so well trained that whenever she
sees a stranger approaching she gets up
and trots oil to tho cavo to get her as
phyxiation. This happens many times a
day, but the dog seems none tho worse
for it. Now York Sun.
A Sgiiclnus Dog.
A correspondent tells a curious story
of animal sagacity. Ho onco knew a
dog who used to run on tho legs of one
side a sort of ono sided shambler. Tho
animal would start in tho usual way,
and when he had acquired a sufficient
momentum tuck up tho legs of ono side
and, leaning over toward tho other side,
ecamper nlong on two legs until tired.
Ho would then ncquire fresh impetus,
nnd give tho other legu a turn at this ex
hilarating exercise. Tho correspondent
writes from Cyprus, not Crete. London
Field.
A Viillil KxouKe,
Lady Reformer Why don't you con
gressmen pass a law prohibiting the
smoking of cigarettes?
Congressman Wo huvo no reason for
doing 6o.
Lady Reformer No reason? Why, ci
garetto smoko injures tho brain.
Congressman Possibly it does, ma
dam; but people who havo brains don't
i smoko cigarettes. Chatter.
A floating Church.
Tho Rev. Robert J. Walker, of the
Church of Our Saviour, anchored in the
East river at the foot of Pik street, is
eoinethlng of a wng. Ho says that his
church is "high" or "low" according to
tho tide. As his members nro all sailors,
ho may bo said to bo dependent upon the
floating iKipulation. Now York Com
mercial Advertiser,
Not Afrulil of Microhm.
Dr. George Duttan, a Boston physician,
at a meeting of tho American Health bo
cioty, of which ho is prosident, mndu
this challenge: "Lot my medical friends
bring mo half a pint of all kinds of la
cilli and I will oat thorn, provided that it
I am not sick tho next day tho microl
theorists will forover thereafter hold
their peace."
Tho total population of Greenland at
Uie end of 18S8 was 10,291. Thero had
been 102 deaths during tho previous '
year, of which thirty-ono had been by i
drowning from tho nativo canooa anil ,
ten uv other accidents.
tm oni rr i., .i:... ., . . mu renee raws unu uiicuhik uw,
urZidit of a large sum oi money. - flnd me Mmo
" Y , vf , It was got together Ov the proprietors - . - d wenther und der
forraanco of nenry Irving in -The Dead . tnr m.nnnriMin and 5 a!! 1, .mK.,
dows of a rjnjon 6quaro jewelry shop. I
The collection is a unique one, and it is
i :n...i i unt,..u ViiFiinn
it is 001itiuually referred to every day.
From the eicpimnt to the molo all the
mala aro represented whose skins are
1 o tanning. Among others, ono
, ' ,i, nr ,ha MA Mna
w" -5, , "Tr .
i 1fl,n- nt tYin can linn nllllTJltor.
1 chameleon, lizard, eel, turkey, crow,
ic.v v.. 0 ,
hawk, codfish, cassowary, porcupine,
Persian goat, wild boar, dog, seal, calf
sea wolf, elk, Tampico goat, kangaroo,
African antelope, porpoise, Rocky moun
tain sheep, Rocky mountain antelope,
chamois, boa constrictor, shark, walrus,
lamb, armadillo, elephant, cat, crocodile,
garfish, pig boar, St. Bernard dog, West
India pelican, wild swan, woodchuck,
rabbit, monkey, sheep, Australian wolf,
raccoon. blacK bear, buiialo, camei, ta-
Ti.adi.m wild trout, docfish. Euronean
! sturgeon, wildcat, opossum, badger, pan-
t.hor Qlflinlf wi ll tlirU-ov wi ll flunk. Wild
goose, chicken, eagle, horse, East India
goat, luwack, ant eater, Russian dog,
agouti, squirrel, guinea pig, prairw dog,
wolf, fawn, black monkey, peccary, red
monkey, nylghau, waterbok, gray gnu,
hartebeest, lion, koodo, caribou, alliga-
tor, mole, zebra, tapir and of the Aineri -
, can elk
j Somo of the separate pieces of tho
. leather aro of great size. Ono is that of
' a boa constrictor, which when nlivo
! must have measured over twenty feet in
I length.
There is also the skin of n big
alligator, tanned whole. It is
! t'10 introduction of alligator lea
owing to i
leather into
trade that these animals are now fast be
coming extinct. One of tho rarest of all
the specimens is a piece of genuine
mammoth skin, with some of tho hair
still on it, which was cut from the dead
body of ono of these great extinct ani
mals, which had melted out from be
neath tho primeval ico of Siberia. New
York Evening Sun.
An Aburovintetl Sign.
George Bowles took advantage of a
beautiful day to indulge in a drive with
his wife. On one of tho principal streets
they passed a grocer's wagon on tho side
of which was painted in bold capitals
this queer inscription:
: idoorkpo :
Of course Bowles' curiosity was at onco
aroused and he drove up alongside of tho
wagon. When tho grocer came out of a
neighboring house with his empty bas
ket Georgo asked him what the sign
meant. In a manner which seemed to
express contempt of his inquirer for his
ignorance he replied: "Those
letters
mean that my stqre is located just one
door east of the postollice." Then Bowles
looked at the inscription and wondered
why ho had not solved the riddle before.
Chicago Herald,
Deer Come to Town to Live.
L. L. Goilney informs us that the town
of Downieville is at present inhabited by
quite a number of deer that were cap
tured during a storm. They walk around
town aHd are as tame as cattle, some of
them going up to children on the streets
to eat food and delicacies given them,
One band of fourteen wero found near
tho banksof the river, above town. They
were all bunched in the snow and left
over night. The next day thoso who
found them picked out what they wanted
and took them to town, where, in a few
days, they became perfectly tame. Somo
are kept tied in stables, and somo wander
nround town at will, returning to the
barn when they havo had their exercise.
Tho town dogs do not disturb them when
out. Nevada City Herald.
Unsold Ijuul iu the United State.
The United States government has
been tho largest owner of arable laud
on the earth; tho total area of tho
"public domain," sold nnd unsold,
amounts to l,811),072,.r)S7 acres, and con
stitutes 73 per cent, of tho total area of
tho United States, including Alaska.
About 700,000,000 acres of land have
been sold and donated; about 1,150,000,
000 acres remain unsold. As tho area of
Alaska is 800,530,000 acres, tho area un
sold exclusive of that territory is about
780,000,000 acres. Current Literature.
Ar th GUI to llliumt?
The young woman who is forover com
plaining, however, that some man "keeps
staring at her" iu public places ought to
remember that if she had not looked at
him sho would not havo known ho was
"staring." It takes two to make a stare
annoying.
It would bo well to supplement the old
ndago to "Never look a gift horso in tho
mouth" with "Never look a strnngo man
in tho eyes." Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Coot fif l'aiut fur Anii'ilran Women,
A Gorman statistician, who has ne..
curate data concerning
tho uso of cos
civilized world.
luetics throughout the
estimates that tho money which Amer
ican women pay for cosmetics would pav
for tho painting of 37,000 houses nt an
expense of $75 per house. Berlin Courier.
Onrln Aro Hi tler Than CaU.
Tho barn owl, whon tho has young,
brings to her nest a mouse about overv
twelvo minutes, and, as she is actively
employed IkjIIi at evening and at dawn,
nnd as male and female hunt, forty unco
a day is the lowest computation wo can
make. Macmillnn's.
IIrU Llura for an Innocent Man.
In China tho man who lives nearest
"l0 600,10 urdor is accused of the
criruoi nn,i j,t. nmst ,,rovo jlja jnnocenco
or stand tho punishment. Consequently,
11 1,8 is Innocent ho ruttlus round pretty
Jvely t0 Jiwovor tho criminal. Chicago
iiut.
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Some General Observation.
If I vhas to live my life oafer again I ox
pect I do no petter ash peforo. Nopody
knows how to live until he vhas about ready
to die.
In trying to get something for nothing in
dis world we cheerfully buy $3 worth of
cigars fer der man who gifs us a teccket to a
fifty cent show.
I doan' see some loafers nround midout I
wonder dot nature vhas so foolish. Sho could
shust ash well haf used oop dot material to
vhas eati-
peoples und
I XT wlirt nliMH
uu- ... niar ut naviHm
Vhen I like to pound on my drum I forget
dot 1 haf some neighbors who may like to
ihleep. Vhen I like to shlecp myself my
neighbor should be put in shall if ho playe on
. der piano.
We like a man who snpeakg der truth by
.... . i . i, '
. cniisr go soon asn ne lens usboiiio-
tbi pleasant we vhas mad at him.
I rnen i near a boy whistle I foel safe. I
know dot so long as ho whistles he doan' pub
up some shop to shteal my apples or carry off
my front gate.
If you take a man's bad luck und'traco' it
back you vhill discover dot he vhas to blame
i ten times vhero somepody else vhas once, und
yet ho remembers oirly dot once.
! We doan know some men until doy vhas
gone to der bad. Den it vhas we hear ofery-
pody say how shmart und talented dey vhas
all der timo.
i Sometimes it seems to me dot der world
vhas too wicked to stand much longer, and
"OH v una uu.u luuca, ujji .fcuu
man. I take somo nver meuicine, unu lot
, uml all men vhas aU right.
, j baf soen a funeral procession a mile long,
un(i two weeks later I haf askod who vhas
buried dot day, und nopody could remember,
Vhen a man gets through mit dor world der
1 world vhas through mit h!m.-Carl Dunder
in Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Parshley (as the boat pitches a trifle)
How delightful this little swell is, Mr.
Parshleyl
Young Brockelsby (complacently) I al
ways try to bo eutcrtaining, Mrs. Parshley.
J 111! CO
Rnnk nml Money Marriage.
It is becoming more and moro hard
for Faubourg St. Gormain mothers to
And rich husbands for their daughters.
As thoro is no court hero, tho connec
tion which marriage with ono of thoso
young ladies might open to a nouvel en
richi would bo of small value. Sho could
not endow hor husband with a title, and
hor pretensions to bo bottor than his
family would bo unondurablo. As her
forefathers and foromothors all married
for monoy, sho has not tho recotnmonda-
I tion of beauty. Tho sons of noble fami-
I lios, as such, aro not nearly so much
' prized as they used to bo by tho mag
nates of tho French Jowry. Still, thoy
can pick up in all directions tho daugh
ters of men who havo mado monoy in
business. For instance, a match is con
templated botweon tho hoiross of a
manufacturer of corsots and a descend
ant of Marshal do Grouchy, who was a
man of anciont family. Hor fathor is
glad to buy a title for hor, and sho is de
lightod at tho prospoct of hearing a
siyllsh maitro d'hotol announco that
"Madame la Marquiso ost sorvio." A
Belgian Princo of non-royal house was
ablo somo eight or nino years ago to got
hold of 400,000 by going to Hymon's
altar with tho daughtor of a man who
roso from boing a stroot-swoopor to hav
ing a contract for swooping tho streets
I of Paris. But his sistors, who wero pon
iniloss, had to marry poor widowers.
London Truth.
Names for Triplets.
This is the latest credited to W. S. Gil
bert. A friend was bewailing in his com
pany that his wife had just presented him
with triplets, all girls. "What am I to-
do with them?" asked tho poor man. "I
don't' even know what to name them."
"Oh," said Mr. Gilbert, "call tho first
Kato, tho second Duplicate, and tho third
Triplicate." Tho Argonaut.
A Mu-tscuso's Observation.
I A masseuse who has practicod her
profession largely anion" families of
wealth makes the statement, that in many
years sho has administered massage to
i only ono woman whoso ribs had not been
; displaced by corset wearing. Now York
woriu.
Wasto silk has been shown to bo tho
most effective nonconductivo covering for
Bteam pipes. Tho prico is high, but tho
demand is very great.
Bouquet throwing has been abolished
in tho London theatres.
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