'The Oregon Scout!..
!ONE8 &. Chancey Publishers.
UNION, OREGON.
INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS.
Effect Produced !.) KartlHiunkM
i:.-ir(Iirjunlc
Upon tlio Lamer AnlriiitU. . capital.
In the last Issuo of the "Transactions It was a terribly melting clay in the
of tho Seismologiral Society of Japan," scorching month of June, when, with a
Professor Milne, tlio well known student cool array of immaculate linen and sug
if volcnnlc phenomena, discusses tho cf 1 gestively airy, snow white duck, ho en
foots of earthquakes on animals. Tim t,.re( tj,e fitate librarv, where the ever
records of most great earthquakes refer , fnjthful custodian of the precious vol
to tlio consternation of dogs horses, I f , , , pouring over his
rattle and other domestic animals, ris h , , , , ., b , . 1 .
nlso are frequently affected. In tho Lou- desk busily engaged in answering a mass
don earthquake of 1711). roach and other 1 of correspondence ever accumulating,
lish in a canal showed evident signs of tho burden of hts daily life of routine,
confusion and fright; and sometimes "Why don't you buy a fountain jcn?"
after an earthquake fish riso to tho sur ho asked, in an enthusiastic tone, as ho
faco dead and dying. pulled one of these little instruments out
iinriiiff mo iokio eartiiqi.aKo oi .low.
io iokio eannq mivo joov,
.srrsestfcHLTdc '
oardi confining them to their'
capo, foxes
jthivti thn linnr-d prinfinirtrr
stables. Tlmm run. therefore, bo no
kmbt that animnls know something un
usual and terrifying is taking place.
More Interesting than theso aro tho ob
servations showing that animals are agi
1atcd just beforo an earthquake Ponies
have been known to pranco about their
stalls, pheasants to scream, and frogs to
-case croaking suddenly a littlo time bo
fore a shock, as if awaro of its coming.
Tlio Japanese say that moles show their
agitation by burrowing. Geese, pigs and
dogs appear more sensitive in this respect
than other animals -After tho great
Calabrlan earthquake-It is said that tho
noighlngof a horse, tho braylngof an ass,
or tho cackle of a gooso was sufficient to
cause tho inhabitants to ily from their
houses in expectation of a shock.
Many birds aro said to show their un
easiness before an carthquuke by hiding
their heads under their wings and bchav I
iuginan unusual manner At the time
of tho Calabrlan shock, little fish llkosand
cols (eirricclll), which nro usually buried
in tho sand, catno to tho top and were
iught in multitudes. In South Amer
ica certain quadrupeds, such as dogs, !
cats and jerboas, aro believed by tho peo
plo to glvo wayiing of coming danger by
their rcstlessSf-ss; sometimes immense
Hocks of sea birds ily inland beforo an,
earthquake as if alarmed by tho com
mencement of somo sub-oceanic disturb
nnce. Before the shock of lbS." in Chili,
nil tho dogs aro said to have escaped from
thn city of Talcahuaun, I
Tho explanation offered by Professor ,
Miluoof this apparent prescionco is that
homo aulmais aro sensitive to tho small
tremors which precede nearly all earth
quakes. Ilo has himself felt them some
seconds beforo tho actual earthquake
catno. Tho alarm of intelligent animals
would then bo tho result of their own
experience, which has taught them that
small tremors aro premonitory of move
meats nioro alarming. Signs of alarm
days beforo an earthquake aro probably
accidental; but sometimes in volcanic
districts gases have emanated from tho
ground prior to earthquakes and havo
poisoned nnlmal. In one caso largo milli
bars of fish were killed in this way in tho
Tiber, and nt Folloutca on tho morning of
April fl. 187-1. "the streets and roads were
covered with dead rats and mice. In fact,
it scorned as if it had rained rats. The
only explanation of tho phenomena was
that theso anluuds.had been destroyed by
emanations of carbon dioxide." Scientific
American.
Tlio Citlminmii'it Iove. of Home.
Tlio ties of locality aro very strong
among the Chinese, and hence now fami
Ilia, as thoy are formed, settle down l:i
life in tho immediate vicinity of that from
which they sprung. Thus one commonly
sees groups, or nests, of families gathered
about tho parent stock. Wholo villages
may bo found composed almost exclusively
of persons of tho same name, and contain
ing four and oven 11 vo generations of one
family.
"ihiilthvlllo," "Jonesvlllo," or, to trans
late more exactly, "Tho village of tho
Cluing family," "tlio town of tho Wang
family," "Tho I.I Family Crossroads"
those and similar names of hamlets, vil
Jagos and cities nro so frequent through
out China that they give a largo fraction
of all tho names to places in tho umpire.
Tlio class of "globo trotters," as thev
aro called persons of wealth who travel
around tho globo sight seeing form a
never solved puzzle to the mind of tho
Chinese. A Chinaman never leaves his
ho:no except from necessity. While ab
sent, whether in forolgn lands or in some
other part of his own country, ho alway..
looks upon himself as an exile, Is always
mere or less homesick, and, no mutter
liow dirtv and squulid his native village
wuy be, no looks forward to his return to
tho wretched place as tho chief joy of his
life,
Tho Chinaman Is not, and, without an
entire change of ids nature, cannot, bo
coruo a colonist. He is an acute and care
ful merchant, a patient, faithful and dili
gent laborer, but, nbovo everything else,
Ida homo ties are strong. While ho wan
ders all over the earth and submits to all
borts of privations, abuses and hardships,
lie Is only a wunderer whoso deepest do
hire is for home, a unlet old ago with his
family, and, above everything else, burial
in tho toinbs o his futhors.-Chostor W-
llolcombo in outh's Companion. i
pauloii
Andrew l-'in' Now Came.
It Is "my own invention;" nlono I did it,
and can recommond it as more than com
iuou, tedious and destructive of the hup
pluess of nations. By this gatno alone a
company may bo driven to bed an hour
earlier than usual, and tho comfort of the
families may lo wrecked at tho lowest
possible figure. Directions for playlngtho
new iutclioctual game of poets and paint
em: Kaeh person being provided with a
hhoet of paper mid huc11, which the
owner will never see ugalu, tho dealer
makes a noiuonno rhyme. An example Is
hero given for tho Instruction of country
gentlemen, Example;
There was nil old man of Toronto,
And people cried. "Whero lion ho gono tor
Hero' W tablo and chair,
Hut v hero I Jin, where,
TtiU luvUlbUt inuu of Toronto 1"
When tho donlor has cvimposid a gem of
this kind ho does not show It, but illus
trates It by n drawing. This ho circulates
among tho company, and each of them has
to make a noiibonno verso on tho Incident
illustrated b.v tho sketch. The worse you
draw tho bet er. Tho dealer thou rebuts
tho true original rhyme, and tho others
we read ulou 1 by tho person in tho con
pny least t tilled In deciphering hand
writing. A I ox containing tho game and
rule for ploying it, with pencils ot
crayons (h-uu pencils '.'s., colored Cs.), may
bo obtained ut the otllco of tho society fo'i
propagating intellectual
man's Maguz ue.
gonies. Long '
IT WAS A FOUNTAIN PF.N.
Tried t Explain Ilmr It Worked,
but railed liioiiiliiloiiiily.
Ho was n prominent lawyer of Topeka.
Briefs with him were ns thick us the
sunflowers that fringe the low Iwttoms
1 of tlio 6ilent Kaw in August,
i Always dressed in the most spotless of
fashionably cut garments, ho was the
j envy of struggling barristers and the
J cynosure of the ladies who promenaded
-"
0f his vest pocket. "You can't imagine
0f his vest pocket. "You can't imagine
-hat a vast amount of time oue can save
I purchased one this morning, and if I
could not procure another I would not
take $1,000 for it,
"Why, don't you know that a man's
nnn travels, in dipping his pen in the ink
nlono, more than half a dozen miles in
an ordinary day of hard writing? Just
think what a waste of muscular energy!
Lot mo show you how easily tho thing
works."
As ho spoko he attempted to unscrew
tho littlo cap. ujKjn which a jet of the
deceitful fluid, as lino as the spray from
a lady's rubber bulbed perfume bottle,
spurted out and struck him fairly be
tween tho eyes and slowly trickled down
his faco.
"1 guess that 1 havo unscrewed the
wrong end. Wait until I try tho other."
Then, without replacing the cap ho had
withdrawn, he slowly took off tho other.
which, ierniitting more air in, out the
treacherous ink Hew in a stream its thick
as a lead pencil, completely covering his
face, vest and permeating his hair, fall
ing down on his trousers, until his whole
suit resembled the map of a swamp.
With evident disgust depicted on every
lineament, lie slowly ejaculated: "Per
haps if I had been educated in a poly
technic school 1 would understand the
mechanism of tlio darned thing better.
Havo you a hivntory here that I may try
and repair damages?" Whereupon ho
went nut. a discomfited muni Kansas
City Star.
Kxpomiro of Oiio'h WenkncKHeq.
A special weakness of a man is ex
posed by his indiscriminately accusing
others of tho same defect. When a per
son, in criticising tlio character or dis
position of others, applies with a certain
blind persistency one or two common
faults to them all. now perchance hitting
tho mark and now flying far wide of it.
wo may bo sure that theso very faults
aro possessed by the critic in a marked
degree, though they nro often in a meas
nro concealed by tho complications of
his own character.
They seom to stand beforo his mind's
eyo as glasses of various colors, giving
corresponding hues to whatever is
viewed through them, as ho who looks
at tho sky through u colored window
will 6eo it red. yellow, green or other
wise as the i aso may bo. One who do
sires to rid himself of faults will do well
to scrutinize himself in this respect, and
if ho finds a tendency to harp on somo
particular weakness of human naturo ho
may feel assured that there ho can apply
tho pruning knife. Now York Ledger.
Itnmlmy OyHterx.
Tho very newest thing about town is
tho "Bombay oyster."
Tho "Bombay oyster" isn't an oyster
at all, of course, but this is tho name
that has been bestowed on it.
It is a composition sufficiently simple
and common to please tho loan and lard
ed purse alike. It is nothing more than
an egg dropped unbroken into a tumbler,
and deluged with viuegar. and sprinkled
with pepper and salt.
It is consumed always beforo break
fast, and by a great many sporting men
in the city.
Ono of its effects Is to counteract the
ovil tendencies of qvor eating. Some
stout men liko a "Bombay oyster" in
tho morning, and eat nothing again until
noon. For a bilious btomnch it is the
fluest kind of a remedy. Boston Globo.
Protector
An electrical
;:iliit Moot Inn.
engineer of Carphin
Springs claims tho invention of a month
piece for pipes that will prevent any
connection of the nicotine deposited in
smoking with the tongue. Ho makes "a
hollow ball, with it short tubular or
slotted stem attached to it, which is in
serted into the usual orifice in tho mouth
,... ... ,,.
,u1 or 11
"olllor iso
io pit?, or cigar or cigarette
that the smoke shall iwiss out
through tho tube or slotted stem and
upper slotted part of the ball, and tho
tongue shall rub against tho ball in tho
mouth of tho oriiiee, and thus avoid or
provent tho saliva of the mouth from go
iug or working buck in tho mouthpiece."
Now York Telegram.
Tlio llelyht r Our Ancestor.
Although it is needless to tell readers
that all speculations upon tins matter
aro without foundation, it is curious to
.find in u work published in 1718 by a
"member of the French Academy of Sci
encoa the following Mateinento. Ac
j cording to this author, Adam was Vl'A
feet 0 Inches in height, whllo Evo's stilt
' nro is assorted to have been 1 IB foot 0
; inches and 0 lines. Noah, wo aro told,
attained u height of only 27 foot; Abra
ham was barely 'JO feet in Mature, while
Moses is alleged to have measured only
13 feet in height.-J. N. HallocU in
Christian ut Work.
Wo Witt Innocent,
"I missed bovoral oT my chickens last
night, Undo Jasper. Ooyou kuowuny
thing about thumr"
"Cuimel, I indiovo do law do not re
quire cullud geiiniHin to answer quoa
Uona which mout discriminate them
fcelvea." Puak.
IF 'WE KNEW?
vonld ttlxs letter It we knevf
If we could lift tlio veil w hich lddw
The lauvr ohrlno where mhj! abides
Would life wMi nobler, or inbre trim?
If vre could trace each circle round,
And Btfs as angels see, and know
As bo from whom life's eurrentH flo,
Would lieatta bo happier for truth foundf
Should we find more to love, or less
Within tho mirrored sotil of each
Could we discern the utmost reach
Of Bjilrit'a dwjx-st consciousness?
Eva Gorton Taylor In Chicago Herald.
THREE SORTS OF WOMEN
To bo Soon Almost Any Day on the 5Inlr.
Street of tlio metropolis.
There are thrco dWt'nct sorts of womor.
to be seen on Broadway, which divides
Itself into three distinct streams of females,
streams which How within definite litnitj
and rarely encroach on each other's terri
tory. Women begin to ho seen In lum
bers on Broadway at about Forty-fifth
street. These women are New Yorkers
pur et simple. On them are to be seen
what are distinctly New York styles. This
hi the ground thut fashion writers haunt
for hints as to the styles of the coining
season. They aro slim, clean limbed, with
hair ns smooth as satin and cut in littlo
pointed bangs that' are never curled and
never have a hair out of place. They wear
very rich and very simple clothes, with n
fit and a finish thatspctks of Paris, Ion
don and the very best dressmakers and
tailors of this city. They never admit any
eccentricities of dress, and nre so severely
costumed that they considerably resemble
each other and would scarcely be called
bcauMful so much ns chic. This stream
Hows down to Sixteenth street and there
it stops, absolutely and nt once, undone
never sees a single woman of it below that
part of town.
At Fourteenth begins a crowd of stran
gers. All along that thoroughfare tho
strangers are mostly from the small towns
about Now York, and provincialism hns
marked them for its own. Their clothes
aro echoes ot past fashions, their bangs
aro flamboyant, they carry littlo hand
sachcls and cluster about tho shop win
dows. At homo against their own bark
ground they aro very attractive looking,
but against tlie radiant freshness and lino
grooming of tho New York girl they look
not quito well kept.
After turning the Fourteenth street
corjier ono begins to see the western and
southern girls, who wear expensive mate
rials that are well made but lack in style.
This autumn ono recognizes these women
by tho heliotrope gowns thnt New York
abnudoncd( lust spring. They are, ns a
rule, extremely pretty in n picturesque,
individual fashion. Particularly is this
true of, the middle aged women, who re
tain tho beauty of their figures wonder
fully, nnd who have, many of them, big.
soft dark eyes and thick gray curls iirouui.
their brows. They are neither so fair noi
so rosy as New York women.
Below Eighth street the crowd changes
for a third time and are native New
Yorkers again. These tiro the women
who work for their living, and may be j
seen in groups of two and three going
homo any whero between 4 and 7 o'clock.
These women have a good looking sprink-1
ling of elderly, meager females In dingy
black, with anxious faces and little black
bags in which they carry their lunch to
tho olliees whero they work. Many of
them ure pretty and many young. Their
clothes are evidently selected with an eye
to wear, the purchases evidently being
nail in mum whether the material would
show spots and dust and whether it was ,
the same on both sides, so that it would
"turn." Their general appearance shows '
that they have been hard at work all day
and have had meager toilet appliances to
repair damages before coming out on the
street. Many of them walk arm in arm, I
witli a little independent half masculine
nir that they have insensibly picked up
from their employers, and jostle through
tho hurrying thrones of men without no-'
ticing them. They aro pretty and lady
like, as a rule. New Yorl: World.
Answered 111 I'tirpose.
Ono of our attorneys tells a story of a
money lender he once knew living in Den
mark. Being npproached on a certain oc
casion formoucy ho told tho borrower to
step into his room and ho would get it out
of his safe and let him have tho sum
wanted. As the borrower went in nnd
took a sent ho saw no safe there, but tho
money lender went to an old Biblo and
after turning over the leaves awhile, ho
found the amount needed.
"What, sir! do you call that a safe?'
asked tho borrower.
"Wall, it ain't exactly safo again fire,
but it's safe again the family," said tho
money lender. Lowistou Journal.
.Sample of l'alo Kconoiny.
It is false economy to do part of to-morrow's
work today; living cheaply so that
you can dress well; going to law about
anything you can compromise; to employ
a botch because ho doesn't charge much;
sitting in the tv. light doing nothing in
order to save oil; buying things you don't
want because they are cheap; marrying
your daughter to nn adventurer so as to
have her oil' your hands; to take your
money out of tho bunk and invest it in a
wildcat scheme; taking your boy from
school and allowing him to grow up in
ignorance for the sake of tho a week he
can earn. Philadelphia Call.
A T'jeutre Without I'ootllglit.
Brussels is to have a theatro without
footlights, in accordance with tho plans of
M. Bees, the designer of tho now Flemish
theatro there, lie believes that the thick
stratum of heated air through which the
voices of the actors have to pass to reach
the audience obstructs nnd deadens tho
sound. For tlio footlights ho has substi
tuted a triple nrago of gas lights behluc.
tho orchestra. Tho new system was test
ed, mid pronounced ti decided improve-'
ment on that now in use. New York
Sun. j
How l"liii rimwm Aro Grown. j
All tho line flowers seen at exhibitions
nro obtained by the plnnts being "dl.
budded," us the method is technically
known. The expert florists instruct ama
teurs who select special kinds from tho '
cut flower tables that they must not bu
disappointed at finding thorn half the size
when they flower, unless they pinch oir nil
tho buds but one on each shoot just as
soon as the buds can be been. Now York
Mull and K.vuvts. I
Kurtfiqunkn Proof Hullitlnc. '
The government of Jnimu has invited
eovcrtil scientific liodles to appoint a joint
committee to examine and report upon
tho typo of buildings best calculated to rv
slst shocks of earthquake. This is in
view of tho fact thut whereas Jupnucto
houses were formerly constructed otwood,
masonry is now coinlug largely into use, 1
rspcclully in the construction of pubLc'
bulldlugtf. Chicago Times,
( VALUE OF MESMERISM.
THE THEREPEUSIS OF HYPNOTISM
AS A MEDICAL STUDY.
An Anirstlirtlc ns Perfect an IUher.
Story ,if (ho Seven Headed Cow rtc
belllous Reponftlres Cnn Crime. Ilo
Committed by tlio A hi of McMncrUin?
It Is conceivable that mesmerism might
injuro an invalid If ho huvo heart dis
ease, for instance, an exciting or violent
episode, a rupturo of joy or a convulsion
Of great grief or fear, it might provo inju
riousoreven fatal, just as it might in Lis
normal condition.
This possibility Is nbundantly ofTset by
tho valuo of mesmerism as a therapeutic
agent. Tho responsive can bo tnado so
intoxicated on water, which ho has been
told is whisky, us to exhibit all symptoms
of cxtremo inebriety; ?an bo mailo dis
gustingly sea sick by being told that ho
is nt sea in a storm, and can bo at onco
physically affected by an Imaginary mcdl
clno. Ills temperature can bo changed,
his eyo dilated and ins pulse quickened.
Mesmerism is as perfect au anicstlietic as
ether, and as harmless as water. Any
mesmerized person can at onco. by a
slnglo stroke of tho hand, bo rendered to
tally insensiblo to pain, and can havo a
tooth drawn,, a cataract removed, a can
cer cut out, or an arm cut off without
feeling tho slightest pain. This has been
bo often demonstrated that amputations
frequently tako place under its influence
in tho I'uris hospitals, and it is success
fully employed in obstetrics. Though
only a fraction of patients will bo found
eligible ns candidates for this annihilator
of pain, its utility is so obvious it cannot
bo long beforo medical societies will tako
up tho therepeusls of mesmerism as a
serious study, and nrmy surgeons will
bo required to havo as practical a knowl
edge of It ns of any part of tho pharma-
It is quito erroneous to supposo that
tho conduct of tho resposivo is directed
in detail by tho operator. Ilo only sug
gests the general lino of thought, and
each responsive pursues it according to
his own knowledge, experience or oreiu
dices. 1 say to my responsives, for 'in
stance, that 1 have a wonderful educated
cow with soven heads. They all want
to sco it. I call their attention to the
imaginary stable door near by; they look
toward it, and when I snap my lingers
they all seo a seven bended cow enter.
Now, by questioning them it becomes
obvious that they all seo a different cow.
Unless I havo designated her color ono
sees a white cow, another a red cow, und
so on.
Then I tell them that she can dance,
can waltz and keep time with music. I
hand ono a cane, telling him it is a lluto,
and that ho is tin eminent performer, nnd
ho goes through tho motions of playing
to tlio dancing cow. They all hear differ
ent tunes, but tho exhibition is satisfac
tory. 1 now ndd that tho cow can sing
can sing a different part with each mouth
can sing seven ballads at onco. At this
point there is somo incredulity expressed,
flioy seo the cow stand up on her hind
legs nnd hear tho seven ballads and this,
I may as well add, is tho narrative of an
actual experiment.
Fivo of tho six mesmerized persons be
lieved that she sang. "Sho is singing
'Tit Willow,"' said ono. "And 'A War
rior Bold,' " said another.
"I hear singing." said tho incredulous
ono, turning to mo. " 'Annie Laurio,' isn't
it? How do you work her tho machinery.
I "iiicauV"
Tho others laughed at him. "Why,
tho cow sings," said a young lady. "Can't
you hear her sing? Can't you seo her
sing?"
"Sho looks as if sho sang," conceded
Incredulous. "I seo her mouths raovo all
around. She sounds as if sho sang; but
sho doesn't sing Cows don't sing."
"Very well, what is It, then?" asked
ono of tho others.
"A tube und a holo in tho floor," said
Incredulous, "or perhaps ventriloquism."
"Awl" exclaimed tlio first, derisively,
"ventriloquism does not work liko that.
I'vo niado a study of ventriloquism."
"Well. I've mado a study of cowl" per
sisted the scolTer obstinately.
Sometimes I turn the responsives into
children, and have them play school with
Infinite fun, sometimes transport tlieiu
over ocean to Africa or Japan on tho en
chanted carpet, whero for a brief space
they enjoy all the delights of travel;
sometimes wo participate in battles, in
political campaigns, in exciting tirade,
and sometimes Socrates, Moses or Con
fucius is introduced and interviewed, tho
intelligent responsive furnishing both
questions and answers in a curious dual
action of tho mind that is highly cuter
tabling. Not only tho reason sometimes rebels ns
above, but tho conscience also. As a rule
responsives can bo completely dominated
and maae o do anything of" which they
aro physically capable. They could gen
erallv bo induced to tako poison, or jump
off tlio house, or throw themselves under
a locomotive, or attack ono another with
deadly weapons. Uut thero aro somo ex
ceptions. I was unable to overcome tho
fear of ono of uiv responsives. whom I
sent to assault an Imaginary Indian in tho
park. Ho refused to go, and said it was
"diillcult to kill an Indian."
A young lady, ono of tho brightest sen
sitives I havo ever seen, steadfastly re
fuses to play cards. I tell her sho is
Bullalo Hill, and easily induco her to as
sume his character, but wheu cards aro
suggested, "No. I never play cards. It
is wrong!" sho says, ami 1 cannot moro
her. I could make her jump out through
tho window or nut her hands in tho tiro,
but play eards slio will uot. I was puz
rled by it till, inquiring, I ascertained
that her religious parents hud brought
her up very strictly and taught her it was
"wicked to play cards."
And this brings us to tho question much
mooted of late, whether crime can bo com
mitted .by the aid of mesmerism. If so,
it is brought luto relation, uot only with
medicine, but with jurisprudence; uot
only with tho pharmacopoeia, but tho pen
itentiary. It is obvious that If cases of
this kiud occur tho one to whom punish
ment must bo dealt out is tho mesmerist.
I could probably Induco any ono of my
responsives to take his life lu my pres
ence or to assault anybody within reach,
but tho mind wanders curiously in this
btruugo condition, cud generally takes
llttlu cognizance of surrounding objects,
I havo used tho word "probably" In this
senteuco because the conduct of mc3
morized ticrsous cannot be positively pro-
dieted. Tho mental impression may uot
in a given caso be sutQciently vivid and
dominating to Induco action, or the in
tention may be counteracted by the
trained moral sunsa asserting Itself and
overbalancing the confused hypnotic ten
dency. W. A. CroSut in North American
Ik view.
The Prince of Wales continues to gala
In flesh, much to his chigrln.
WIIITKLEY'S PLACE.
J A VISIT TO THE "UNIVERSAL PRO
VIDER" OF LONDON.
Ono of the Wonders of tho World of
Trade The Pnniou Hon Jlnrclio of
Tarls Outdone A Wliolo Congeries of
Store.
Whiteley's establishment is ono of tho
wonders of the v.oridof trade Compara
tively few Amenc-a:.-. vL-it it. as it is far
awu fintii ivlki ..,m..i us tlio Amcri
can I--. i e. t:nii tho Langham
hotel to tho Motropole. Compared
to tho trade kingdom over which
u biuglo proprietor, William Whlteley,
rules, such meio overgrown dry goods
stores ns tho Louvre and tho Bon Mnrehe
in Paris uro but simple aflairs. White
ley's is not a store, but a wholo cougeries
of stores, each as accesstblo to but as dis
tinct from tho other as tho dining room is
from tho parlor on a floor with folding
doors. What in tho usual run of dry
goods stores occupies a counter or at
most but a room such ns tho silk depart
ment, tho linen department, tho costumo
department, etc. has at Whiteley's u
largo and imposing storo to itself. Tho
jewelry store is u superb establishment,
tho furniture house is magnificent; china,
glass, ironmongery, dressmaking, sewing
machines, coiitures, toys, Japaucso nnd
Indian curios, each and all havo stores
devoted exclusively to themselves, largo
openings giving communication through
tho entire series of establishments.
ADDITIONAL IZSTAIILISIIMKXTS.
This would bo wonderful enough, but
thero aro surprises at Whiteley's; a pro
vision storo of extensive dimensions ad
joins an excellent restaurant, tho restau
rant leads into tho aviary, conservatory
and live stock establishments. Thero 13
a well supplied wood and coal office. Pi
anos uro upstairs in a storo of their own;
near them is a largo hall, decorated with
flags, statuary, tables and chairs iu pro
fusion. Hero a dinner of several hundred
covers may bo given, or ordered for any
place, town or country, with overy acces
sory, from tho banquet itself to tho
waiter who serves It; all provided by
Whiteley. 1 had nearly forgotten to name
a charming picturo gallery, whero many
original works of great beauty aro dis
played, and where orders aro taken for
copies of any masterpiece on tho walls of
any of tho great galleries of Europe.
Whiteley is nlso a banker. You may buy
or sell money on Ids premises. You may
tako your passage by any steamer for any
port. Von may hire a servant; bury a de
ceased friend; put your belongings "up at
auction; purchase, sell, build or take down
a house. In short, there is not a single
transaction in lifo relating to trado which
Whiteley is not willing to mako for you.
No wonder ho calls himself "tho univer
sal provider." Such a business us White
ley's must speedily mako a man a bank
rupt or a millionaire; und as disaster lias
not overtaken him, it is presumed that
Whiteley has u good account at Ids own
and other banks. His establishment has
suffered frequently from lires, whoso
strnngely persistent recurrence irresist
ibly suggests incendiarism.
In tho matter of cheapness I find very
littlo differenco between Whiteley's anil
other establishments which aro not es
pecially devoted to wealthy customers, as
aro Gillow's in tho furniture line, and
Lewis & Allenby in tho dry goods. An
honest price prevails, and if an American
visitor sees anything ho or sho lilies at
Whiteley's, I would adviso him or her to
purchase it without further ado, as it
would bo a waste of time to ruu all over
London to try to find tho same article at
a lower prico.
AT THE WW MARCHE.
For ono American who has heard of
Whiteley's in Loudon, ninety and nino
havo heard of tho Bon Marcho in Paris.
Persons who know no other singlo word
in French aro awaro thut bon marcho
means "cheap." This famous storo is in
deed a marvelous place. Outsido of a
few littlo kuickknacks known as articles
do Paris, tho vast establishment is en
tirely devoted to tho sale of dry goods.
No wonder tho American woman, with her
national love for shopping, rovels in
hours spent in flitting from ono counter
to anotlier. Gloves aro to tho right of
her. flowers to tho left of her. silks aro in
front of her, lace is beyond. Aro theso
beautiful things really, or only in ap
pearance, cheap? Why. tho truth is they
are sold at tiio market price. Examine
well anything that is offered below tlio
current rates, and yon will discover n
reason.
I will call tho attention of American
, ladies to a custom which prevails at tho
I larger shops in Paris, by which our conn
trywomon nro misled, though no deceit A
willfully put upon them; it nrises.simply
from a difference of custom between tho
French and American merchant. When a
prico is seen upon a remnant iu America,
tho purchaser knows that tho marked
figure Is the price of tho wholo remnant,
whilo In Franco tho marked figure means
per yard or rather meter, according to tlio
French measurement. Thus, if an Ameri
can lady sees somo attractive pieces of
lace or silk, marked variously from 2 to
$10, and decides to tako somo or many of
theso remnaiAs, it comes, as a very "dis-
agreeable surprise, to find out that tho
articles were nt so much per yard, nnd
that tlio shopkeeper will now measure tlio
yards. Often tho prico is but a fow sous
reduction per yard on tho original figuro
asked, and the purchaser finds herself
with awkward lengths of goods sho was
tempted to buy only hi tho Mrs. Toodles
spirit. To bo sure, at tho Bon Marcho
tho privilege is given of exchanging
articles which a purchaser may bo dis
satisfied with If uo harm has" eomo to
them. Eveu money Is, under certain cir
cumstances, returned. London Cor. Bos
ton Transcript.
A rrfrallJnc.aiatcuHao Tad.
A prevailing masruliao -craze" is for
each man of :a.Mo to wear a distinct! vo
flower. This is, r. notion from "across
seas." Tlio Etapi.-ar Frederick wore con
tinuclly. In his bv.ttoukole. a modest
cluster of violas, just as his father was
always decorated with the corn flower.
A well known society man of today is
never seen without a slnglo Ivy leaf on
tho lapel of his coat, tad another wears,
invariably, u whitu rose. S3 small n to
, barely uotlceable. By tell it is propho
I sled that military fnahlons for men will
bo the race, Tisni is also a "fad" bor
rowed from our foreign cousins, who aro
sporting esti-ikivJy wJut they term "La
Itevonche" t;ylM. The carnation, tho em
blem of "glory." gUwa in triumph on tho
I breast of every patriotic Frenchman.
Tame TaiK.
At tho club.
"Jack's just finished a letter to his
fiancee."
"Yes, and It was so soft you could hear
It swish around In tho c3ve!c-Do.,--ToTi
Topics.
".ej-end or tho ripentono Quarry,
biood red stono has a peculiar slg.
a-Jenuce. and Is an object of veneratlrn
to tho Indian Since tnught by "Maul
tou" (tho Great Spirit) warlike tribes havts
gathered here in peace, to worship, dig
tho stono and smoke tlio calumet ltelicj
of camps may bo traced in great numbers,
by tho stones placed In circles, now nearly
buried from sight, except when prairie
fires sweep over them legends say that
a remnant of red men were driven from a
deluge to the top of this rocky crest,
whero an eagle had built her nest, and
that the rising waters swallowed all 4ut
ono maiden, who clung to tho eagle lor
safety. When the waters receded, tho
Great Spirit found a cliff of rocky warriors
turned into sinning juspcrl lu solemn
wrath he vowed that henceforth tho tribe.
should meet hero only In peace, that uo
war whoop should bo heard, no bow and
arrow or tomahawk should bo seen at thi
rendezvous, but hereafter tho tribes
should assemblo hero eacli year to wasu
off their war paint iu tho lake, bury the
hatchet and smoke tho peaco pipe, iu
token of which tlio maiden nnd war euglo
should sacrifice a milk whito bison a t-aro
and sacred beast, and ah object of cere
monious and mysterious sacrifice.
It was laid on the altar of jasper, when
lol the flames of heaven descended, as
lightning, connecting tno stem oi .Mam
tou's pipe with tho altar, from whence
rose bweet Incense, the blood of tho sacrt
fico staining tho crag a crimson staiu
Tho eagle also joined in the compact by
leaving fivo eggs, which turned into huge
bowlders of stone, watched over by two
female genii, who remained in tlio grot
toes between those eggs, nnd alternately
sleep and watch tho sacred quarry. Then
Manitou broke open tlio quarry for his,
children, and tuught them how' to carve
tho calumet and smoke it as a pledge,
after which ho left his own impress on a
commanding pinnacle of rock in tho form
of a human faco and then vanished from
their sight. Helen Strong Thompson in
American Magazine.
Does Moro Injury Tlmn Ileneflt.
Wo aro partly bamboozled by tradition.
From our youth up wo aro deafened on ull
sides bv ndvico to "read and improvo our
minds '' Tho inference is that tho mind
Is improved by reading. But that infer
unco is open to tho most serious question
For my part, I should be willing to hazard
tho statement tiiat twice as many minds
havo been, injured than havo been bene
fited by it', and not a small proportion of
tho former havo been made entirely
worthless by tho practice, it is just like
dram drinking it is intellectual dram
drinking, and "intellectual" is scarcely
tho word to uso in that connection.
One reason is, no doubt, that tho dram"
in question uro, for the most part, of very
Inferior Muff. But even if it were of the
best btuff imaginable, tho detrimental el
feet would remain. Tlio finest Madeira,
if swallowed in sufficiently copious doses,
will produco delirium tremens; and the
most unexceptional books, if thoy are
also too numerous, will bring on mental
dyspepsia. Tho mind becomes a mere
sack to hold other people's ideas, instead
of a nmi'liine to generate ideas of its own
And tho ideas thus acquired aro of no uso
to it. Tlio mind has lost tho power to
work them into tho flesh and blood of
wisdom. They remain a heterogeneous
and incongruous muss. Foreign material..
whether physical or intellectual, shoulljr
bo taken in with discrimination nnd mod
eration, nnd thoroughly assimilated
Unless you need and liko it, you cannot
mako it yours; whether you swallow it or
not, it really stays outsido of you.
Julian Hawthorne in America.
The Mew of London.
A peculiar feature of Loudon, to begH
with, are the so called uiew-j. Tho ntme
mews originally applied to tho royal
stables, though whether on account" id
tho characteristic melody of the cats that
congregate around such establishments,
or for some more classical cause, has never
been explained. It gradually eamo to bo
adopted for tho alleys in tlio rear of fasii
ionable mansions on which tho stable.-,
open, and, in fact, for any street o.'
stables. Tho mews of Ixiiido'n uro streets
sui generis Thoy cut in half tho block
on which swell residences make a pompous
frontage, and their aspect is as much more
picturesque and homelike, as it is less im
posing than thnt of the grimly grauti
palaccb of which they aro adjuncts jl
In tho quarters "of London in whim
aristocracy still lingers, tlio mews stiii
preserve much of their old character, nnd
aro the abiding places of stable helpers ami
genteel poverty In the deteriorated part
of the town they nro squalid and reeking
uests of misery "and want, where human
beings harbor like rats' and probably of tei
do not seo the light of day for years. I
can imagine nothing more" horrible under
tho sun than tho Whitcchapcl mews, uu
less it bo the dreadful inner courts and
no thoroughfares which still further com
plicate tlio ramifications of theso mazes of
misfortune and vice. Alfred Trumblo iu
Pittsburg Bulletin.
Can-ins a Itestunmnt steak.
Two young gentlemen a Hub tho worse
for wear dropped in ono Saturday evening
at a certain Chirk streot restaurant, nnd..
after consulting the bill of faro rather
hesitatingly, each ordered a sirloin steak.
In duo eourso of time tlio steaks were de
livered to tho consignees, and thoy pro
ceeded to earvo them. Ono of tho j'onng
men angered tlio waiter', after repeated
onslaughts on his steak, by calling for an
ax. Tho other young man was calm and
unmoved. After vainly endeavoring tov
cut his steak whllo ina sitting postuw'
ho arose, poised his knife nnd fork am',
addresssed Ids friend as follows: "You
just keep our oyo on mo now. Years ago
I used to dissect remains over In a houico
pathic medical college on tho West bide,
and I'll 'do' this steak if it kills mo. I
am tlio great prodlssceter. Watch mo
ami wait for tho big show!" aud tho
young physician eloverly separated tho
component parts of both steaks in a mas
terly niaui'er, although it was plain to bo
seen that Ids Incidental remarks had ex
ercised a rather depressing effect ujioa
tho appetite of his young friend. Chicago
Ilerald.
Why She Took I-eison.
Julius Kichberg. thowoll known Boston
musician, tells this story of an early ox
perlenco: One day a lady somewhat
advanced in years camo to mako arrange
ments for taking prlvato lessons iu bluff
ing At tlio end of tho second lesson tho
teacher felt constrained to tell her that
her ear was not true. Sho received tho
remark very coolly, and at thoist losson
sang as badly as before. "I am afraid. "
said Mr. Kichberg, "that you can never
learn to sing lu tune." "Oh. it doesn't
matter," was tho surprising answer
"Doesn't matter!" said tho astonished
teacher. "No." said tho puplL "Idou t
care any thing about music, but my docttri
said that singing would bo tho best thin t 7
for my dyspopiia. aud so I decided to toko
lessons. "Now York Sun.
1