The Oregon Scout
Jones & Chanoey Publishers
UNION, OREGON,
Ilpit I)lre for I.nry Men.
Heart discaso Is the best hold of lazy
men -an ally and friend of long stand
ing and constant service. It enables him
to play his little confidence gamo on his
friends of dilating for hours upon his
feelings and sufferings, while his family
hustles around for the food that ho ought
to provido both for himself and them.
There nro genulno diseases of the heart,
of course, but every littlo twinge, jerk or
sensation in tho heart docs not indicato
that there is an organic disturbance any
more than n headacho indicates discaso
of tho brain. Tho heart Is affected liko
every other organ of the human body,
and resents any violation of the laws of
nature in eating or drinking or other ex
cess. Whatever thecauso may be, when
it is removed tho heart shakes itself out
and goes on about its proper business aa
if nothing had happened. Tho propor
tion of persons who have heart discaso in
tho heart to thoso who have it in tho
mind is about 0110 to 100. This accounts
for Uio astonishing fact that so many
people who aro supposed to have heart
diseaso livo so long that they leconio a
burden upon their friends from old ago.
New York Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Wiiys of Hook Iliiyer.
"Do many persons buy books with tho
jnirposo of putting them in libraries after
they aro read?" was asked of ono of our
largest book dealers. "Yes, wo sell
many library books, but tho number of
these sold is extremely small as compared
with tho number sold to humor tho
reader's passing fancy. Tho vast major
ity of readers buy a twenty or twenty
(ivo cent book, glance through its pages
nnd toss it away, whilo never a thought
of its preservation enters their minds.
I think 1 would bo justified in saying
that tho tendency of tho present is not by
far 60 strongly toward the formation of
libraries as it has been in tho past, nor is
tho habit of reading now in voguo among
us calculated to produce as grout a desiro
for intellectual matter as wouid be most
lxmcficial to the readers who havo
adopted it." Nashvillo American.
Vs. .
Tim Sun In ClvlUzntlnn.
Futuro oges may seo tho seat of em
pire transferred to regions of the earth
now barren and desolated under intense
eolar heat countries which, for that very
cause, will not Improbably uecoino tho
teat of mechanical and thence of political
jWcr. Whoever finds tho way to mako
industrially useful tho vast sun power
now Avasted on tho deserts of north
-Africa or shores of the Red sea will elTect
a greater change in men's affairs than
nny conqueror in history has done; for
lie will onco more pcoplo thoso wasto
places with tho life that awarmed there
in tho best days of Carthago and of old
Egypt, but under another civilization,
where man no longer shall worship tho
tain as a god, but shall havo learned to
jt'nkoit hwficrvnnt. Professor Lanloy'e
Tbo New Astronomy."
' I'resldent McCosli'n Mctlindli'iil Llfo.
President McCosh is exceedingly regu
lar and methodical in his alfairs, espe
cially in thoso which jertain to his lit
erary nnd scholastic life. "I always
work ten hours a day," said ho ton
friend, "and that is tho work of an
nvorago man. In vacation I am nover
wholly idle, but generally do from two
to five hours of solid work in writing or
thinking. When engaged in writing a
hook I walk flvo miles each day, think
ing much, of course, whilo walking.
"When I was n student tho famous Dr.
jChahners, of Scotland, delivered a ect
"tiro to us 011 'Systematized Work, Host
nd Exercko.' 1 never forgot his ad
vice, and credit much of my success to
following his sound maxims." The
vencrablo philosopher is at present deeply
interested in building n cozy littlo cottngo
on tho top of Princeton hill, which will
bo Uio homo of himself and his wifo
when ho has laid aside the active de
mands of tho Princeton presidency.
New York Tribuno.
A Protest Agitlust I'tic.
A pet is one thing, but a et which is
In your arms nil the lime, which abso
lutely controls your attention, which you
thrust before tho eyes and under tho noso
of every acquaintance, not only, but of
jvery passer, which accompanies you to
your bedroom and sits with you at tablo,
and is your boon companion morning,
noon and night, becomes in tho eye of
uvery man who thinks something mora
than a just. It becomes identified with
your personality, and that settles you, bo
cause you cannot oxjwct your pets to bo
everybody's pets, and it is hard enough
for men and women of tho world to on
dure what thoy have to, without volun
tarily assuming your likings and your
disliking. Joo Howard in lkwton Globe.
a rutin'tio iiu'idtMit.
Ono of tho luithetic things about tho
.last tlayu of Emperor William was his
wparation from the alHieted crown
prince. His physician went into his
room at 4 o'clock in the morning and
found thu monarch bitting up in lied and
crying liko a child. llo exclaimed:
'Doctor, 1 cannot sleep for thinking of
FrHz. For Heaven's sake, hurry and
-mako preparations to let mo go to San
llcmoto bo with him." Now Orleans
Times-Democrat.
HcienllKts 1., franco are studying a dog
which was struck by lightning and con
iddered dead and afterward partly recov
cred. It continues deaf and blind, and
has to deM'iul on its smell for rccognl
lion of pursuits and things.
Tho Do Soto house at Port' Chester, N.
Y., where Lafayette stopped when on
Us way to Doston, und where his name
is cut on n puno of glass, was sold re
cently to Mrs, Adelaide Goodwin for $24,
000. In a fipeoch in tho Now South Wales
Chamber tho Premier declared tho pres
ent strike in Australia hud been almost
hs disastrous to thu country us it bom
Iwrdinent would be.
WOMAN'S WOULD.!
SOCIAL CLUB OF THE FASHION
WOMEN OF NEW YORK.
Work of Two Toung Women Whom
Should Newspaper Women Marry? That
IloyU Stockings Stylish Spring IJonneU.
Getting Iteady for Summer.
It will bo interesting news to most wo
men that there is right in the heart of the
city a completely equipped woman's club
house that provides for tho gentler sex
the accommodations, comforts and social
amusements as gratifying to their tastes
as the attractions that their husbands and
brothers enjoy at their various social club
houses. This particular woman s organi-
ration is the Ladies' Now York club,
which has been thriving prosperously for
tho last six months under the guidance
of an enterprising woman president, with
the aid of a man to look after the money
matters when need be in tho capacity of
club treasurer.
The club headquarters is the neat Eng
lish basement brown stone front dwelling
at 134 Lexington avenue, almost opposite
tho home of tho late President Arthur.
It is a four story house, entirely unpre
tentious externally, but it is safo to sav
that there is not in tho whole, town an
other club house that is moro cozy and
homelike, and its members claim that it
is far ahead in this respect to tho Alex
andria, tho woman's club of London.
which suggested its establishment, and
tho facilities of which its oilicers have
improved upon. These officers are: Mrs.
Henry Wright Shelton, president; Mrs.
W. W. Shipman, recording secretary, and
Mr. F. Q. Brown, treasurer. Tho latter
is a broker on tho Cotton exchange.
I ho club was started early last Novem
ber, nnd at tho outset had a membership
of about twenty-five. President Shelton
said that tho idea of the club at that time
was to afford to women of moderate
means, who were living in tho suburbs
or out of town altogether, a resort that
would duplicato thocomfortand privacy
of their own homes, whero thev could
stay for a day or two whilo on a visit to
tho city without escort. It was to be
practically a hotel, but freed of the inci
dental discomforts that mako a public
house distasteful to a woman.
By 0110 of those whimsical freaks of
popular fancy that isthoprivilogo of the
gentler sex women of wealth took a sud
den liking to tho notion of a woman's
club of this uprt, and in a month's time
over a hundred of them had joined the
club and had mado it fashionable. To
day the club has a membership of about
850, and members nro being added at the
rato of from threo to five daily. Of this
number 200 are New York women, and,
what is more, the majority of the 200
aro married. They go to tho club often
in tho afternoons while their husbands
are down town.
Tho club quarters aro divided into a
restaurant, parlors and reading rooms
and lecture rooms and dormitories. The
restaurant is on tho ground floor, the
parlors and lecture rooms on the second
lloor, and tho dormitories occupy the rest
of tho building. It costs $20 a year in
dues to belong to tho club, and for the
money a member can secure many privi
leges. There is an English cook attached
to tho club, and he will furnish meals at
any time at restaurant prices to women
who intend to go out to a matinee, and
who do not like to eat at a restaurant
Theatre luncheon parties of this sort are,
indeed, one of tho popular features of the
club. Any member who wants to go out
shopping can get a special maid at the
club to accompany her. Out of town
members wlio aro visiting tho metropolis
alono can secure cab service and other
accommodations without tho annoyance
and bother of hunting thorn up for them
selves. Tho president of tho club resides in
tho club house, ami keeps it open both
in tho daytime and at night up to a rea
sonable hour for tho use of members.
For members living out of town rooms
aro provided at a cost of $1 per day.
Application lias to be made for them n
day ahead. It is a custom for members
to frequently bring their own maids with
them, nnd meals to order are provided
for thoso staying there. Non-members,
when accompanied by a member, can
obtain luncheon at restaurant prices.
Any member who may desire to enter
tain her friends at a luncheon party can
havo a private room for this purpose.
Children of members may bo left at the
club house in care of nurses or guardians
whenever members want to go visiting.
Messenger service is provided; telegrams
and letters, if addressed to any member
of tho club, are received and cared for,
as well as parcels. New York Sun.
Whom Should Newspaper Women Slurry?
"Should Newspaper Women Marry,
and if so. Should Thoy Marry Nowspa
per Men?" was tho weighty problem for
discussion which occupied tho time of
tho Women's Press club at thoir fort
nightly meeting, held at No. 24 Union
square. About fifty women were on
hand to express opinions on tho matter.
Mrs. E. Mitchell Tyng presided and in
troduced the speakers of tho evening.
Tour special guests of tho club were
presont. They were Miss Elizabeth His
land, Mrs. Sara Lomoyne Cowell, Mrs.
Mary Gale Humphreys and Mm. Merrill
(JeanKincaid), of The Boston Globe.
Mrs. Tyng read tho opening paper,
which was strongly in favor of nftlrmn
tlvo answers to both queries. Grace
prconwood voiced similar opinions, hut
Mra. Mary E. Bryan, who followed.
Jthought that murriago uurrowed the
apheroof the newspaper woman's work,
and that if she was going to do her dut
to her profession she would better re
main single, Mrs. Eliza Putnam Hoaton
'and Mrs. Townsend Percy also thought
that newspaper men mado congenial life
mates for nowstiaper women. Now
rVork Tribune.
Work of Two Woman.
Miss Jane Potter, daughter of Bishop
Potter, is a young lady of quiet taste, re
lined beauty and charming manners
Much of her leisure Is devoted to the in
tiergsU of tho workiug girls. With Mix
.ision
.vark,
pis as
talks
on ptacucai cooking, iiuusewonr, d ress-
maklng, millinery and the purchase of
flannels, shoes, bonnets, dress goods, fur
niture and tho wisdom of economy, neat
ness, temperance and system.
Miss Potter can talk delightfully about
the amenities and those sweet, simple,
womanly ways that aro better than
beauty to a girl. She tells "her girls," as
she calls them, tho kind of books to read,
the kind of associates to mako, tho kind
of words to speak when foremen are abu
sive, comrades aro unkind, employers aro
unjust and friends are false. Sho tells
them how to stand, how to walk and
how to breathe correctly; tells them how
to keep their hands from getting rough
and how to caro for their hair, sight,
clothes, shoes, health and morals.
Miss Islin is a pretty, graceful girl,
with brown hair and eyes, a sweet voice
and a captivating little lisp in her speech.
A littlo more interest of this sort from
tho refined young women of New York
would bo tho salvation of our shop girls.
New York World.
Getting Ready for Summer.
Remember that theso aro tho days
when tho early hot Iron, tho insect pow
der nnd tho napthalino cube and other
discouragers catcli tho early grub or
moth fly. Napthalino is a pretty white
substance, one of tho latter day rivals to
camphor for making woolens and furs
secure. An ounco of prevention for the
next week, by scouring out all closets
and thoroughly beating tho woolen
clothes that must still hang there, until
May is established in warmth, will be
worth pounds of camphor and fretting
by and by. Use a stiff wing instead of
a stick for scraping in any cracks there
may be. Some of the chicken or pigeon
wings that, dyed in masquerade colors,
havo done duty in hats, could bo nut to
no better use than in theso researches
into insect life.
Also, do a great deal of brushing about
this timo upon tho clothes you wear.
From tho street ono brings in on the
clothes quantities of germinating dust,
and a thorough shaking and beating out
01 11 wiiiuuw 01 an arucies or 1110 uav s 1
wear should take place night or morn
ing, whichever is most convenient.
Clothes not only look better and wear
better for this process, but it removes
considerable actively mischievous dust
from tlio house itself. Philadelphia Led-
ger.
Tho Hoys' Stockings.
Down on their knees, unmindful ofthe
dirt, Tom, Joe and all tho rest aro happv
playing marbles. This is fun for the
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uu8, uui 1110 siooiiinga an out ar tne
knees which greet the mother bring to
her thoughts of mending nnd patching
which but few enjoy. A writer in Go
dey's tells how theso unsightly patches
and darns may bo avoided by knitting
now knees into tho stockings. Unravel
top and bottom of tho rent until you
havo on each end a clear line of stitches,
take up on a knitting needle the upper
line; then pull tight tho jagged edges on
either side of tho hole, and with a wors
ted needle and wool just sew them over
very lightly and neatly. This done, you
havo a space to fill up, and you proceed
to knit tlio row you havo ready on your
knitting needle until you havo a flap of
knitting done tho exact size of tho hole.
Then take up on another needle tho low
er row of stitches, and knit it together
with the upper row, on tho insido of the
stocking, just as if you were fastening
off tho too of a stocking. Onco more
thread your worsted needlo and sow tho
sides of the flap, on tho insido, to tho
sewn over jagged sides of tho rent, and,
instead of an ugly darn, you havo an al
most imperceptible repair.
Threo Stylish Spring llomiets.
Palo blue and black is tho favorite
combination in hats and bonnets of the
latest importation. Hero nro three of
them:
A wide brimmed hat of shirred lace,
turned up ut tho back with an exquisite
bow of pale blue gros grain ribbon, hi
tho center of which is a tiny bow of
black velvet ribbon; drooping from this
all over tho crown, aro bunches of pale
blue sweet peas, with black velvet bow
on tho brim in front.
A Marie Stuart capote is of black braid,
with lino wreath of palo forget-me-nots
under tho edge all around; a pert look
ing bow, of palo li.uo gros grain ribbon,
stands on one side of tho pointed front:
there is a smaller Iow or knot of ribbon
at tho buck, from which depend the long
ties of blue ribbon.
A hat with projecting brim, narrow ai
tho back, is of black open work braid:
tho brim is faced with shirred palo blue
crepo; tho crown is of black point d'es
prit over a puff of palo blue; at the back
is artistically arranged a bunch of lieau
tiful, nodding, pale bluo tips, from which
depends a scarf, of tho point d'esprit, a
yard and a half long, to bo wound about
tho neck and fastened on tho left shoul
dor. Ladies' Homo Journal.
Mr, l'atillsnn Is a Hunter.
Threo miles from Jacksonville, Flu.,
on a high bluff overlooking the St.
John's river, and near enough to inhale
tho salt air from tho Atlantic, stands!
ancient historical house built by
Marquis de Talleyrand and onco od
pled by the family of the famous Frei
man. The pretty villa is nestled am
magnolia and live oak trees, with a fit
drapery of mass clinging to their n!
slve branches, while orange groves
plno forests are a part of tlio possess!)
Tho traditional dwelling is now
wlutcr home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Paulisou. Mrs, Paulison, who has mi
friends in the Garden City, will be
meinberednsMrs. Annabel Wells Ligg
0110 of tho most beautiful and nuci
plished women uf Detroit, and daugl
of tho Hon, Alfred llussoll, of that c
Mr. Paulison is the sou of tho late Ju
Paulison, of Now Jersey. Mrs. Paullso
called the beat lady shot in the south, a
liko her predecessor, the Marchioi
wean n iiuiumg costume on ineno e.;
ditions. In tho winter of 18S8, whill
Banford.tho lady cut off a coot's head
with a rifle at 200 yards, killed an eagle
on tho wing, and bagged thirty birds
with her shotgui. While on her wed
ding journey up in the Canadian forests,
where it was her fancy to spend the
honeymoon, she hunted side by side with
Indians, who acknowledged her superior
skill; so sho was a marvel as well as a
rival hunter to the red men. It was an
original wedding journey, and her life
spent up in the wigwams of Canada was
delightful. Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Noble Charity.
The organizations for aiding the sick,
needy and helpless in this city are nu
merous and generally deserving of confi
dence and support. Auiong them is one
which is not a3 well known to the public
aa it deserves to bo in view of the good
work it is doing. It i3 the New York
Infant asylum at Tenth avenue and Sixty
firststreet. Other cities havo foundling
asylums which care for abandoned babies,
but this asylum alms to savo tho babies
and their mothers as well. Needy wo
men of previous cood character, from
this city and county, are received for
caro. They receivo tho most skillful
medical attendance, and aro treated with
a kindness and Christian charity which
frequently savo them from desperacinn
and abandoned lives.
This asylum is a homo, not a prison.
Its inmates aro treated not only as hu
man beings, but as sisters not as crimi
nals. New York Press.
Where to Hldo Your Money.
Women havo always had curious ideas
about where to keep money when travel
ing. I know one who traveled from New
York to Florida with $2,000 between the
solo of her foot and her stocking, and she
slept with her stockings on. Another
ono always pinned her money just inside
her corsets, until she was told that if she
fainted anywhere tho lust thing a good
Samaritan would do would bo to unloosen
her bodice and stays, and then some wick
ed Pharisee would discover tho ducats
and grab them. Sincesho has heard this
she has taken to pinning tho fortune to
tho back of her corsets, claiming that,
oven if she was taken ill, as she would be
laid flat on her back, insensible or not,
Bho would bo suro of her treasure. Ex
change. A H:ipitl Telegrapher.
Miss Kittie B. Stephenson, who won
tho first prize of S50 for the ladies' class
i in tho telegraphic contest in New York,
I is said to bo a hustler with a telegraphic
key. Sho is only 18 years old, but the
experience sho has picked up during the
last three years that she lias been an
operator lias given her an unconscious
confidence that is refreshing to behold.
j Sho has alwavs been told that she was '
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a very fast sender, but sho didn't be ovo
it. She entered the tournament to nloase
her friends. She works in the city line
department, and her fame as a sender
extends to all branch offices in tho citv.
New York Herald.
Women nt the Cupltol.
You meet numerous women with
claims in the Capitol corridors, and there
aro a couple of old ladies who have been
hero for a generation awaiting the settle
ment of a cotton claim. Tlio claim is
probably a just one, but congress does
not get at it, and they will be in their
graves before it is settled. Their faces
were fresh when they camo here. They
aro wrinkled now, nnd there are crows'
l feet at their eyes. They bring their knit
ting with them, and sit together in the
! galleries waiting and watching, and
watching and waiting, session in and
Bession out. Cor. Now York Star.
Sho Was Sninrt.
A rich St. Louis widow who was en
Raged to a wealthy attorney lecently
tried a peculiar scheme with success.
She sent for her betrothed and asked
him to sign an ante-nuptial contract al
lowing her to keep control of all her
property. Ho refused point blank, and
sho declared tho wedding off, accusing
him of mercenary motives. She had seen
somebody she liked better than the law
yer nnd wished to withdraw in such a
way that he would not be likely to bring
action for bre.ich of promise. Now York
Telegram.
"Sunt" 1 1 ill r Itrought Out.
Pontifical iolet is to bo worn still. It
is uncommonly becoming to some wo
men, and they will, therefore, be sure to
cultivate the color with assiduity. It
also shows off the fashionable "sunset
hair" to great perfection. There is to be
a revival of magenta, too, so tho tide
seems setting toward the resurrection of
bright tints. With a littlo toning down,
magenta can ! made rather nice, a sort
of "ashes of roses shade." Now York
Journal.
ITldMit nt Mount Ilolyoke.
Tlio interes.ing announcement is made
that tho vacant presidency of Mount
Holyoke college. South Hadloy, Mass..
has been offered to Mrs. Lizzio Mead,
widow of Professor Hiram Mead, of
Oberlin, und recently an instructress a:
tho Abbott Female seminary, Andover,
Her late husband went to his chair at
Oberlin from the pastorate of tho church
in South Had ley. Sho is at present in
Germany. Hartford Courant,
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LIFE FROM DEATH.
Benefactions from the Dead as Illmtrt4
by the Egyptians.
A package of peas was once found in
a fold of tho wrappings of an Egyp
tian mummy, where it had Iain unuis
turbed 3,000 years. The peas were at
onco soaked 111 tepid water and after
wards planted. They soon germinated,
errew linelv, and produced a good
crop. It will bo remembered that at
various times kernels of wheat have
been found in liiu w rapping cloths of
mummies, which, on being planted,
have grown and flourished finely.
Tho above facts teach us a very in
tersting lesson regarding the Egyp
tians of tho years far, far back ; it is
this: Their religion taught them to
nrovido for tho continuairce of tho
fruits of the earth in remote times,
bo that tho blessings of God might
bo made manifest to man as well
through the bounties of nature as in
tho growth of tho spirit. And thus
they mado use of death for the trans
mission of the germs of hfo to ages 111
tho incalculable future, for thoy know
that tho reposo of tho dead was sacred
among tho people of tho passing gen
erations, and that only chance and
natural changes and causes would re
veal their good works reproducing
for others, perhups at a timo when the
need would be greatest, those life giv
ing plants whose benefits they had
enjoyed.
If tho Egyptians honored tho dead
with costly burials, they took caro
that life should have tho benefit of
I death in something more durable than
j monumental stone and the fulsome
i ness of eulogy. How muoh nobler,
j how much higher, the economic moral-
ity of this than tlio later custom of
I placing marble memorials over or bo
' side the dead, and inscribing upon
them, not always the true character of
tho occupant of the tomb, but u sup
posititious ono which wealth could
purchase perhaps a lie to the genera
tion then passing onward, and only a
description of that which should come
after.
The Egyptian priests tried their
dead, in solemn court and and with an
imposing ceremonial, and they gave
honorable burial only to those who
had been honorable in thoir lives.
Why may wo not believe that thoso
dead in whoso custody were left seeds
for the reproduction of fruit in after
ages were persons of peculiar sanctity
of lives or distinguished by tho noblest
virtues? Wo may venturo to suppose
that these things were confided to their
ghostly keeping so that tho blessings
of the inheritance might bo magnified
to us.
The world is every day learning by
sharply presented contrasts to respect
more and more highly tho wisdom and
religion of those mighty men of Egypt
whoso histories thoy have so carefully
handed down to us. Their monoliths
and tablets, thus inscribed, now thou
sands of years old, if left where they
belong, under the burning heaven of
tho east, and enveloped by a pure,
clear atmosphere, will bo fresh, com
paratively, as though newly hown
when our shafts and memories shall
havo crumbled into dust, our books
become mildewed and worm eaten
and the memories of our honorable
dead shall be perpetuated only in other
and perhaps inaccurate histories.
James M. Stewart in Washington
Post.
A FUh That Hullds a Nest.
A Chinese (ish constructs a nest, not
of grass or seaweed, but of frothy se
cretions. The malo prepares bubbles
in the air by sucking them in and
strengthening theni with mucous mat
ter from his mouth. Then ho brings
them into the water, and expels them
to construct 11 nest. Tho female enters
this cavity, and lays her eggs there.
Tho eggs sink to the bottom of tho
water, und the malo is theu obliged to
raiso them into tho nest. Ho appears
to bo unable to carry them in his
mouth, so ho swallows a largo supply
of air, descends beneath tlio eggs, and
violently expels theniraccumniulated.
Tins air, finely divided by the fringes
of tho gills, escapes in tho form of two
jets of gaseous pa v4er, which envelop
tho eggs and raise them to the surface.
Youth's Companion.
Chickens Tor Japan.
New England enjoys an export trado
with Japan in cocks and hens. I learn
that a Boston fancier, noted for tho
excellence of his Hamburgs, has sent
several consignments of them to this
far away land, tho birds making tho
journey by way of California, and
costing the Japs about $10 apiece.
Their beauty, it sft;ms, is the quality
which appeals tho Oriental imagina
tion, Poatou Post.
Cotly Navul Warfare.
The figures given for tho cost of us
ing tho gi-citt orduauco led t3 a calcu
lation that the Betibow, which carries
two 110 ton guns and other smaller
arms, would 111 two ordinary engage
menta use up guns and ammunition
to tho value of $1550,000. A modern
naval ougageinoiit 011 tho scalo which
more than one nation is ready to en
gage in would cost niatiy millions,
Now York Telegram.
An official stenographer of the Ger
man imperial parliament has calcu
lated the exact rapidity of speech of
some of tho most celebrated German
statesmen. Rickert, a leader of the
free trade independents, he says, talks
in a minute 153 words; Count Herbert
Bismarck, 145; Singer, tho Socialist,
131 j Bamberger, tho best known bi
metallist mnong tho independents,
tfflt.Bjurani. tho wal barpn,
DAINTr LITTLE MAIDEN.
Dnlnty little mnidrn,
TrlppluR forth ench day,
Bearing weighty volumes C
On your lcarnel way;
Tills 1 from the one that passes
Going to ht dally classes
He that looks with longing cyo, ,-
As you lightly pass him by.
Dnlnty littlo maiden, ,
With the nut brown curls 43
Would that I professor wcro 'k
In your school of girls; t.
rassion plants I'd botanize;
Lecture on the heart, with sighs;
Or, just lu a olass of two,
Love's sweet nrt I'd teach to you.
H. A. Haync in New Orleans Picayune.
Traits or tho J'lucho Ulrd.
The phcebo bird with its cheery pee
weo is already heard in the rural dis
tricts. In folklore the arrival of this
early bird of passage is an omen that hard
frosts are over, and that the farmer may
proceed with confidence to his planting, x
Now it is known that they sail north otl
a March breeze, enduio ico making
weather and have no more relation to
farming than a pewter half dollar has to
trade. As nest builders they exhibit
taste in variation of the style of their
nests nnd the furnishing materials. The
liber of bark answers for some of them
to line their nests with, others use moss,
hair or wool, and one is recorded to have
built ti nest entirely of corn silk. Theso
birds have greatly improved their nests
within the memory of man, which sug
gests that they arc guided by reason in
stead of the stupid instinct which is so
often attributed to them. Norwich
(Conn.) Bulletin.
A Well Merited ltt-hultr.
First Actress The impudence of theso
men is simply insulting. What doj you
suppose that front row baldhead sent mo
this morning?
Second Actress Oh, what was it? Do
tell me, quick.
"A gua1; big floral heart with a lovo
letter in the top and a diamond pin in the 4
center." J
"How rich he must bel What did
you do?"
"I summoned a messenger boy in
stantly, and. alter tearing the letter into
bits, I scattered the pieces over tho flow
ers and sent it back, to the fellow. I
didn't want to quite break his heart,
though, so I retained the pin." Omaha
World.
Throo Cla-si'-. of AmrrlriiiiH.
''In vour travels throiitrli tho conn.
try,'' says an Englishman, in speaking of
the United States, "volt are constantlv
running across two classes of people, the
Jiitaliitm boasters wiio tiuiiK Uioy can
whin all creation, and tlienoisli imit.nfni-x.
1 1
of European ways, who spend their time
in apologizing for their country. But it
is only fair to say that tho vast majority
of the people belong to neither of tlieso
classes. Uhfoitiinatelv, however, a vis
iting Englishman is much more likely to
meet the two classes snoken. of than tho
larger class of. self respecting Americans
who really represent tho genius of the
country. And so he goes home with IJi
false impression of the people." New
York Tribune.
Tho Sniiplj-of Oulnlnc.
It is a' curious fact that while the-
annual supply of quinine for tho whole
world is about t!, 000,000 ounces, the con
sumption of this drug in the United
States is more than ;(, 100, 000 ounces, or
nearly one-half the entire product. The
price of quinine has been so low for the
last three or four years that largo planta
tions of the cinchona tree have been up
rooted in Ceylon, and tho tea plant is
substituted. Ceylon produces a very
large share of all the bark that is mar
keted, and the exports from that island
declined more than one-third between
1885 and 1887. American Agriculturist.
Why Ho Win l.oinomheri-d.
Remembrance is not always compli
mentary. A man who was sadly given
to borrowing died verv suddenly. Dint
ing the funeral services, a comrade took
occasion to say: "There is nothing lost of
this man but a lump of mortal clay."
lho astonishment of tho people was.
intense when an old man grumbled out
nudiblv:
"Is too! I lend him moro as dreo hun
dred t tollah, und don'd ket pack von.
cendtl" Youth's Companion.
When MUlnt Ueggetl for Bread
Jean Francois Millet, tho greatest of
all modern artists, lived a life of pov
erty. A sad 6tory of tho lack of appre
ciation of that which is truly great wa
told to tho lecturer by Mr. Quincy Shaw,
of Boston. That gentleman possesses
about thirty of Millet's finest works, and
among them a. little picture of a peasant,
girl, with a head that might bo a Leo
nardo. Thi3 picture Millet had taken to
every picturo shop in Paris to sell for
20 francs only 0 to buy food for his.
starving family, and now tlio picturo
would fetch $15,000. This was ono rea
son why tho lecturer advised any ono of
his hearers who wished to paint to paint
for lovo of art. San Francisco Alta.
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