A The Oregon Scout JONE8 & CHANCE.Y. Publishers. UNION, OREGON. rincii In (Icriiiuny. A curious system of lines obtains in Germany. Peoplo arc fined for every curious littlo alleged offense. An es tlmablo lady (very near and dear to mo) went out for a walk in the old part of Hanover. Wandering about in tho quaint, narrow streets sho lost her -way, and, being unable to speak Ger man or to find a cab, she meanderod wildly hither and thither until at last eho found herself in a remote suburb quito in tho country. Seeking to make a short cut back to tho city sho start ed across an open Held, but was speed ily overhauled by a nativo who implied by Ills tones and gestures that sho was committing a gravo offense. To make a long and harrowing story short, this csthnablo lady was ultimate ly compelled to pay a flno of three marks for trespassing (most innocently) upon tho privato property of a subtir bar farmer. If it wero not, however, -for tho severity of tho trespass law larms, orchards and meadows would "bo ruthlessly overrun, for fences aro what tho book sellers would call "ex cessively rare." IJoys aro fined for playing games In tho streets; to throw a snow "ball at any person or any thing costs thrco marks. Whistling upon tho streets is a finablo offense ; so is drop ping nutshells or fruit peelings upon tho pavement. If your neighbor keeps poultry and tho cackling disturbs you 11 complaint to tho polico results in tho Immediato abatement of tho nuisance. "When tho young womnn of tho family practices upon tho piano tho windows of tho room must bo closed in order that tho neighborhood shall not bo pes tered. Having hiid threo boys at school in Germany not only am I pretty well in formed as to tho number of finablo of fenses, but I havo a pretty positive theory as to how the German empire Is enabled to boar tho cost of so large n standing army. Tho regular flno is threo marks; for this sum tho average American boy can commit any ono of thoso characteristic actions or carchvo ncss's which in his nativo land aro con sidered the natural prerogatives of maseulino youth. When ono says that Germany is tho cheapest plaeo in tho world in which to edueato a boy either lio does not tako tho American boys into consideration or ho does not in clude the Inevitable lines hi his esti mate. Eugeno Field in Chicago News. I.I Co 011 tho Hull. Conductor of a Dining Car Yes, 1 get pretty tired of this sort of life. Tho worst part about it is tho uncertainty. "When I say good-by to my wife and babies I never know when I shall meet them again. I don't mean what you think I mean death by accident. railroad man soon gets over that. Il has to, Tho constant fear of that sort of tiling would mako a man crazy. What I refer to is this: I loft Cedar ltapids ono morning. I expectod to bo in Chicago by 2:30 p. m. An accident to a freight train up tho road caused us a delay of several hours. Now, I get a telegram telling mo to drop this din ing ear at a certain point, and to go back with it on tho noxt train. That sort of thing is liable to happen on overy run I mako for a week, mid I may not see my family for that tlTuo or longer. A railroad man nover knows what orders ho is going to got. I havo got home, that is to tho station whore my homo Is, often, and just as I was starting to my houso I havo received orders to tako somobody elso's run, and had to do it boforo I had timo to go seo my family. Wo may not havo as hard a timo of It as some, but don't you'got it Into your head that wo sleep on beds of roses and never havo anything to worry us. Chicago Tribune Soldero iim DetcoUru Agencies. Itobort P. Smith, turnkoy of tho Ul ster county, N. Y., Jail, flnda that spi ders aro usoful In ascertaining whether Erlsoners havo been tampering with on window bars or not. It Is not easy to discover tho cut of a lino saw in an Iron bar, especially when such cut has Loon carofully closed with blackened broad. Even running a kuifo blade along tho bar does not always disclose it. Spiders weave their webs ovor these windows, running their threads from bar to bar. A prisoner cannot work on a bar without breaking down tho webs. "When tho olllcor sees the web has not boon displaced ho considers It good proof that the window bars havo not been sawod. If tho web has been brushed away ho makes a caroful ex amination. Philadelphia ledger. A Lriioii In Kroiioniy. Clothing Dealer Moln front, vy you nod buy your olodhigsofT mo? Dudlsh Youth I always havo my costumes made to ordor, sir, "You go mlt uno vaslilonablo tailor, eli? Don't you know, moln front, dat your employor, Sir. Greatpurso, and suany other rich merchants, and bank ers, and brokors alvays buy dero clod lugs ready mado, oh?" "Yes, 1'vo hoard bo. What of It?" "Dot Is how doy got ricli." New York Weekly. Of tho twenty-threu presidents wo havo had, Jofforson, Madison, Jac.ks.on and Lincoln aro tho only ones whoso names btand for btato capitals, and Montgomery lfl tho only other historic f American w remembered. AMID SEAS OF ICE. SCENES AMONG THE GLACIERS OF THE UPPER ENGADINE. Climbing Snow Clnil Alpine Heights Dnsl Aviilniiclie Portimtlori of n Glacier A Moraine How "fJlurlcr Corn" Is formed. "Glacier Table" Moulin. As far ns my vision extended thoro was nothing in sight but ico and snow, mid tho snow was exceedingly white, I assure you. Tho driven snow you havo In towns and plains Is a decided brown compared with tlio dazzling snow wo saw up tlicro at tho tops of Swiss mountains. Forovor and forever this virgin gown lies on all tho peaks, ns It nlso covers tho lower val leys in whiter. It has tho soft look of a dove's breast, It rests on rocks a thing of beauty, and often it is very dangerous. It falls in soft, pure flakes, clings to all tho projections, covers rocks witli charm ing traceries, and spreads itself Ilko a sheet of whito satin over tho upper vales. Hut tho touch of a passing eagle's wing, tho light weight of a chamois, or tho careful step of uu expert climber will do tach it from its crest and send it down. Then it goes sliding, rumbling along, breaking and reforming as it fulls, over increasing In volume and velocity, and, pursuing Its way, becomes a devastating, j terrible avalanche that bends and breaks trees, gathers up earth and stones, and rolls into the Ktigudino witli un awful sound, spreading destruction and dismay In its path, lliey call tneso sort of tilings staublawincn, or dust avalanches, becauso they consist at tho start of cold, dry, powdery snow only, and they aro often fur more powerful than a raging hurrl cano. lint tho avalanches usually seen lying in high Alpino valleys, covered with dust, earth and stones and great trunks of trees, aro known as gruudlawiuen or compact avalanches. It was a grand bight on which wo gazed. Glaciers filled ovory valley and ravino, mid tho ico stood up in tall ramparts wherover tho spaco was too narrow to hold Its rigid wavos. Glacier ico is snow that has for a considerable time been sub jected to enormous pressure. If you squcozo a snowball in your hand until it is very hard it becomes icy. So in tho Alps, the continual tall of snow Is tho prossuro and tho sun's heat tho warmth which producos those seas of ico that uro called glaciers. Thoro aro over COO of thorn in Switzerland, and some aro coeval with tho glacial period of this continent, whilo others aro now in process of forma tion. Winter Is their seuson of rest, but witli tho spring they resume their onward motion, duo to the combined action of heat and gravitation. For in spito of their uppureut immobility all Alpine glaeiors do move constantly, although with diiTorcnt degrees of spoed, and, hko liquid streams, thoy curry with them debris of all sorts, but principally tho stones that full on their surface from tho mountains' sides. The glacier starting in its purity from some white unsullied peak, loses boforo many years its spotless character. Tho wintry frosts gathering into iron bonds tho streams that trickle down tho inotin tain sides expand thu water in freezing und shatter rocks with a forco that tho most solid cliffs cannot possibly roslst. Thus broken fragments drop oh to tho onco unspotted bosom of tho ico sea and swell its burden with advancing years. Tho debris thus brought down form what uro called moraines. Each glacier has a moraine on either side of it; its end is a terminal moraine, und when two glaciers unite their lateral moraines join and form a medial iiioruluo. One of tho largest medial moraines hereabout 1 saw us wo camo down from this excursion. It is in tho center of tho Morterutseh Glacier and Is about fifty feet or more broad and per haps twenty feet high in its center. Wo wero struck by tho infinite whito ucss of ovorything, and 1 have sinco learned that it is owing to tho presence of glacier corn. There is on glacier clad mountains a neve, or finely crystallized snow, which is never fully melted, and this is tho prossuro that forms tho glacier ico. Now, glacier ico is (pilto different to that which results from freezing water, and Is found to consist of crystals varying in size from that of a hen s egg to a pin's head; these particles aro known as granules or glacier corn, and In minute holes ulr is imprisoned. Where tho air bubbles are ubsont thu glacier has a blue ish tint, and is no longer that pure white which puzzles so many persons. With tho oldest guldo carefully leading tho way wo walked over tho Ico sea of Diu volezza. Before wo hud gone far on its lovol surface I saw bowlders supported at somo iicigiit on ico pedestals ana 1 stopped to examine thorn. "Glacier tables," said tho guide at tlio tail end of our proces sion, but his remark conveyed no useful Information. 1 soon saw that thoy re sulted from tho presence of u block of stone. It had fallen on tho sea, and had, so to speak, piotoeted the Ice directly bo ut'uth It from tho heat of tho sun. In consequence, whilo tho glacier all round has been dissolving ami sinking, tho Ico under the.so bowlders has hut Blightly melted, anil gradually u pillow is foruilug under each rock. "Hut tlio bowlder is not balanced evenly on tho top," observed tho Hoston lady. It was explained to iter that becauso tlio sun Is able to reach thoso Ico pedestals more freely on the south side than on l ho north the thing naturally inclines toward the south. As wo walked along wo noticed a lino of sand covered mounds about four or live feet high and culminat ing in a sharp rldgo. Wo Hcruped oil a littlo of tho band and earth uiul found that u mound wus composed of ico which looked quite black when it was uncovered. Thu reason for the existence, of these couos was obvious. Tho Ico protected by the sand had remained uuineited, und tho wind hud thinned thu drifted heap Into a pointed shape. Suddenly wo heard a cracking hound which wus accompanied by a nolso like that of 11 distant explosion, and thu guide said this announced tlio formation of another crevasse. Presently tho bound of fulling water, which grow louder uud louder us wo approached, was heard, and soon wo reached a point where a stream dropped down a shaft In the ico and wus lost to sight. Tho guido culled this deep hole a iiioulln, and ho gently re marked that u false step In Its direction would tako a follow "own beyond ull human aid. Agassi 'and Tyuuull both tried to ascertain tho thickness of glaciers bv taking boundlnes down these moullus. The former found 110 bottom tit BOO feet1' 011 ono sou and ou another ho estimated the thickness at 1,000 feci. Cor. Now York Time. t Deviation In Artillery Tiring. When the grout gun which has thrown ball oloveu miles happens to be aimed aoith. a lateral deviation of 200 feet must bo takou into account for tho difference-iu rotating bpotnl between tho spot where It U fired uud thu spot where the mistdlo will trlko. Nw Yor'.i Sua. ODDS AND ENDS. Tlicro aro 30,000 mayors in Prance, Two thousand two hundred trains leave London ordinarily every twenty four hours. The llrst locomotives to be used In Palestine arc of American manufacture. Silk imitation furs arc pronounced a perfect succoss by prominent clonk and dry goods housed. Twice within tho year lias Jay Gould refused o servo on a jury, and each time has been fined 8100. A census enumerator discovered a family of ten children in San Francisco who wero all elubfootod. A Georgia farmer has bought only fifty-five cents' worth of meat during twenty-five yours of housekeeping. Novelist llowells was able to set typo with some facility when only 7 years old. lio was brought up in a printing house. A gentleman offers u lady his loft arm, and always walks on her right sido; it is not necessary for him to change around every timo tlicro is a turn in tho street. A great number of lingo privato ho tels aro now in process of construction in California, and especially in San Francisco, A new stenographic machine in uso by the Italian parliament is capable of recording 250 words a minute, and can bo readily manipulated by a blind per son. Tho Rev. Shuttlewortli, vicar of the church at Egloslmyle, Cornwall, has married Miss Cudnioro, a well known actress 011 the London stage, herself tho daughter of a Cornish clergyman. Tho Fisko position Under is about ready for tho experimental tests at Fort Hamilton. A complete metallic cir cuit was found to bo a necessity in making the electrical connection. Some of tlio swagger men who aro on the alort for tho very latest wrinkles in men's furnishings are now having their flno silk underwear woven or mado to order. Tho Potsdam Sporting club has just coino in from its annual squirrel hunt. Ono member of tho club killed 755 squirrels, another killed 005, and tho total number of the slain was -1,500. Evaporation is a wonderful power in drawing tlio water from the sea. 12 very year a layer of the entire sea fourteen feet thick is taken up into tlio clouds. These cool days aro the harbingers of cooler nights, and anon the silken pa jama will commence its period of se questration, the night robo being onco moro assumed. Tailing Only "Cat Nap." Bouoieault was so anxious to get as much out of life as possiblothnt during tho last four or fivo years of his career ho denied himself proper sleep, going to bed at 2 and rising at C. Tho time passed in slumber ho considered wast ed. More rest thnn this ho did not seem to require. The other day I read of a man in London who never sleeps, as we under stand tho word. IIo is tho janitor of a largo building to which peoplo resort at all hours of the twenty-four. TWs Cerberus volunteered for a double sal ary to do tho watching day and night, and so he does, sitting in a chair and opening a gate every timo the bell rings. There in nover a longer interval than fifteen minutes, and yet ho con trives to snatch suflleient sleep to servo him. His health is good and his hup piness apparently complete. Ho looks upon himself as fortunate in having this exacting place, which most other peoplo would not accept at any price. The amount of sleep is to a consid erable degree a matter of toinperainont. Napoleon, according to tho life of Jo sephino recently published, was a pro digious sleeper, taking nine hours when he could get it. His active brain re quired this amount of rest. On tho other hand Hmile Littre, the author of tho dictionary, needed only four hours. IIo wont to bed 11 1 1 a. 111. and got up at 8. All tho rest of tho time, except a fow minutes at his meals, ho spent at his desk. IIo lived to bo S5 and en Joyed perfect health. Baltimore News. A (11Iiii)ki of Hut I'ppur Inland. The work of bridging tho deep chasm between Washington Heights and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth streot station of tho elevated railroad goes forward rapidly. Tho face of tho earth west and south of tho now ball grounds looks ius if an oarthquako had visited the vicinity or somo gigantio subterra nean explosion had hurled rocks and trees In tho air and left thorn piled in picturesque heaps against tho hillside. Ono of tho most striking viows to be hud anywhere on tho island is to bo seen from the edge of the blull just oast of Ono Hundred and Fifty-uuh street and St, Nicholas avenuo after night fall. Par down In tho valley below tho lights of numberless passing craft aro to be soon reflected from the waters of tlio Harlem, whilo tho nolso of scores of trains on tho Now York Central speeding along tho farther bank of the river, their hundreds of lights flashing back and forth and tho bolls ringing on tho night air and mingling witli tho cries of tho guards ut tho elevated sta Uon nearer tho bluff, comblno to form a spectacle that causes tho observer to Involuntarily wonder what would Mine. Juinel, Aaron Burr, Alexander Ham ilton or any of tho other residents of tho Heights a century ago think could they stand ou tho hill for 11 vo minute and seo it nil. Now York Tribune TI1E ARID LAND AREA. RECLAIMING WASTZ REGIONS BY MEANS OF ir.P.IGATION. Agricultural l-'imls of Colorado Which 3lay IIo Mado Immensely Productive. Atzec Canalt n d Irrigation Ditches. Tlio Uu 1 11 Ilelt I'nrniprH' Testimony. Mr. T. C. Henry, formerly of Kansas, and now ono of tho most prominent men In Colorado, who has been instrumental In building sovoral largo canals iu tie. state, in discussing this question, says "Of tho 40.000 sqtiaro miles of tho terri tory in this state east of tho foothills less than il,000 sqtiaro miles aro actually and systematically formed. It is my deliber ate conviction that wero all tho water of all tho streams covering theso plains ab solutely preserved for domestic and Irri gating purposes and applied with tho skill and ccotiomy displayed oven in India or Egypt, wo could Irrigate and make fruitful every aero of this immense, urea an area capable of supporting au agri cultural population, urban and rural, of 3,000,000 people, and yet it would bo less than ono-hulf as densely populated as Belgium or the agricultural sections of Franco. "Tlio area east of tho mountains is practically all agricultural land, and If peopled as densely as is Belgium, would contain a population of moro than 8,000, 000 of peoplo. Or if provided with water for irrigation, skillfully applied, each forty acres would support a family of livo per sons, aggregating a population of more than 3.000,000, not including tho directly dependent urban population. Ou tho same basis, tho great San Luis valley would sustain a population of 1,000,000; tho San Juan country in tho southwest nearly 1.000,000; tho Gunnison and the Lower Grande, 750,000, and tho White, tho Yampali and tlio almost unknown North west, 1.000,000 more. Boforo tho closo of another century thero will havo been elaborated a systom of agriculture sur passing that wonderful civilization which Moorish power plained in tlio irrigated valleys of Spain ten centuries ago, main taining tho millions then populating our grand commonwealth Thero tiro not loss than o0, 000,000 acres of agricultural lands in this state which only need tho applica tion of irrigation to bo mado as valuablo uud productive. any already cultivated." Carrv the.so samo predictions into west ern Nebraska and Kunsus, into Wvoniiug and Now Mexico, Idaho, Utah und throughout tho west, by utilizing tho wasto waters saved in reservoirs, and tho future greatness of the west is almost in conceivable. These things aro possiblo. Tlio ruins of tho Aztecs and Pueblo In dians, and groat nations that aro only known In tho dim past by tho desolation of mighty cities, tell us how densely pop ulated wero vast regions in tho west in an almost unknown antiquity. With theso ruins aro old canals and Irrigation ditches, and in somo of them thero is said to havo been used a kind of cement that is now a lost art. Theso ruins uro found iu arid sections whero it would havo been impossiblo for a great population und cities to havo thrived without vust irri gation bcliemes. Theso great nations havo been swept away. HowY io ouo knows, but from tho dim borderland of that almost hidden antiquity tlicro eomo up facts that when first considered seem almost like a dream. But it is history. uud let history repeat itself. Tho public domain will noon bo a thing of the past, and tlio present must look to tlio future, and if this great water question is grasped by our statesmen us it should be, it will lay tho foundation for still now nud mighty common wealths. is tho rain belt, gradually moving west ward? This is a much disputed question. Irrigating ditches mako moro surfaco wuter, und henco thero is more evapora tion. That proposition canuot bo denied, although it must bo admitted that tho rain does not always fall 111 tho samo lo cality whero tho water was taken up by evaporation. It is also claimed by somo that treo planting does not materially in crease tho rainfall. In tho.lantiarv numberof Science, Ilenrv Garnott savs: "Over 100,000 square miles of almost, treeless prairio in Northern Missouri, southern Minnesota and parts of Illinois and Indiana have been reforested since their settlement, uud furnish an ex ample of reforesting uncquulcd elsewhere upon tho face of tho globo, and yet tho rainfall has not increased. On tlio other hand, thero havo been moro acres of land denuded of forest in tho United States within a century than anywhere else In tho world, yet tlicro is no evidenco of a diminished 'rainfall." Professor Sargent, of Harvard collego. says: "Tho removal of a forest from any region will 1101, diminish tho amount of rain fulling upon it; nor can the Increase of forest in a slightly wooded or treeless country Increaso its rainfall. Tho gradual drylng'upof countrios onco fertllo, within tho history of tho human race, but now barren anil almost uninhabitable, must bo traced to gradual geological changes, of courso entirely beyond tho reach of human control, und not to the mero de struction of tho forest." But tlicro uro ublo men who havo thor oughly studied the question und whostato thut tho rain belt is surely coming west ward: Among tho number aro Professors Wilber, Angbey, Snow, and ex-Governor Furnuss, of No'braska and Kansas. Tho observations taken at Fort Leavenworth during a period of thirty-eight years uro said to indicate an annual increaso in tho rainfall of 5.21 inches; thirty years at Fort Hiley, twenty-four ut tho Stato Agricultural college", aud soventeen years at tho State university, Lawreuco, Kan., aro said to givo figures showing an in creaso in tho rainfall of 3.05 uud 3.00 Inches per unnnin. Tho data Is very valuable, and seems almost Indisputable. But there is still a stronger authority, tho farmers themselves. hi Western Kunsus and Nebraska und Eastern Col orado, farmers uro now raising crops on whut wus formerly known as tho Great American Desert. Thoy claim tliat thero is a grout future for that section, and thoy rulso crops without irrigation, do pending solely on the rainfall. And so whilo boiuo scientists aro doubting tho statement that tho rain belt is coming west, furmers aro ruUlng crop3. If, iu that section, they can ralso tho cereals without Irrlgatlou, so much tho better, but thero uro many millions of acres of laud that cau never bo made productive without Irrigation, and let us havo reser voirs aud great winds, and from what are now arid regions lu tho west now empires aro iwssibilitles. Will C. Ferril hi Kansas City Journal. The Cuiiko of It. First CltUeu Your wifo seems to havo ajred greatly of lato. What is tho matter? Second Citizen Sho got that way wait ing for change iu ono of our big trimming stores. Pittsburg Builotlu. PROFESSIONAL BOUNCERS. They Injected Two Loafer from n Tlic.itrf Without Creatlnpr u Pnulc. "There camo near being a riot at the theatre to-night," said a gentleman dropping into tho Chicago club the other evening. "A man was annoying i peoplo seated near him, and they put ! liim out The house was crowded, and i tho row camo near creating a panic. ! Women screamed, men jumped hi and 1 tho play was temporarily stopped." ! "It's a wonth. t:i 10 v.iwi't a panic," replied an old ti :i first nighter who was present. "Notliingis more danger ous than any sort of commotion in a , theatre. But I suppose this row was I all caused by reason of tho freshness of ' tlio men who went to eject the dis ! turber. There's a right way and a 1 wrong way to do such things. The I audience needn't have been alarmed tit 1 all If it had been properly done. Do I you remember Billy Eminett?" ! "No. who was ho?" I "Billy? Oh, ho was tho manager tit I ono timo of the old Academy and at j another of tho Olympic theatre. He's ! dead now, poor fellow! Well, Billy I would have had the disturbing party 1 out of that theatre without any trouble I whatever. In fact, ho'd have made it rather a diversion for tho audience. "You seo Billy had a great reverence for women. Ho never would let n lady stand in his house. If ho couldn't givo her a seat ho wouldn't sell her a ticket. He wouldn't tolerate a tough or a masher. If one ever mado the ' slightost play in Billy's houso out he went. No I tidy could bo insulted or oven coarsely treated whero ho was. "But to come to tho question of putting a man out. I remember onco at tho Olympic a gentleman came out to the boxollico window and complain ed to tho tre:tsur?r that thero wero two men seated behind him and his wifo who persisted in chewing tobacco and expectorating under the scat, much to tho damage of tho lady's dress. 'I have asked them to stop,' tho gentle man continued, 'but they refuso to do bO.' " 'What's fjmt?' said Billy, who was in tho ofllee. 'Well, they will stop, sir, you can depend on that. They can't stay in my theatre at all. Not a min ute. Just wait a second.' "Billy rushed into tho house, located tho two loafers and eamo back to tho door, where ho summoned his two 'bouncers.' Ono of 'em, I remember, was a muscular fellow named Thurs ton. IIo was tin ex-pri.o fighter and a corker. The other was an nil round athlete. He put them on to tho two men and gave them their cue. "A fow moments later tho curtain fell on an act, and Billy, urbano and debonair, appeared in front of it. "'Ladies and gentlemen,' ho said, 'I regret to inform you that there aro two loafers sitting right over there who havo annoyed tho lady in front of them by expectorating tobacco upon her dress. Now they aro going to leave tho house. Thoy havo declined to go, and aro going to bo put out. Keep your seats, please, and don't bo excited.' "As Billy finished Thurston and his assistant, walked down tho aisle, step pod into the row behind the two toughs, leaned over and told them to leavo the theatre. Both the loafers wero big, husky brutes and they refused. " 'We'll go if ycr can put us out,' fhey said, and clutched tho arms of their chairs. That was enough. Thurs ton and tho other fellow just stooped over, reached under tho chairs, gave ono mighty hoavo and up camo the whole aggregation toughs, chairs and all tho screws pulled right loose from tho wood. They carried tho whole lot up tho aisle, tho toughs struggling in vain, out tho door and shot tho two men, chairs and all, into tho center ot Clark street with tho force of a cata pult. Everybody applauded and laughed and tho show went on. "That showed Billy Emmott's tact. If ho had not explained to tho audience thero would havo been danger of a freo fight, a panio or what not. Peoplo al ways interfere in a row they don't under stand and a crowded theatro where there aro women is a mighty dangerous pluco to have one." Chicago Mail. Several Private Secretaries. Tho privato secretaries of Secretaries Blaine, Proctor and Noblo aro merely clerks, and do not have tho swing that somo of the others have. Louis A. Dent, who attends to tho correspond ence of Secretary Blaine, is a young man, a son of tho lato Gen. Josiali Dent, of this city. For many years Mr. Bliiino had a privato secretary who was ono In fact. This was Mr. Thomas H. Sherman, who was tho right hand of Mr. Bhdno for many years. Ho Is now consul general to Liverpool, having been appointed to that oflieo by President Harrison. Chatter. I.urk In Orchitis. Tho chance of finding a bit of su pcrbum in a bundle of tho ordinary kind lends peculiar excitement to a salo of these plants. Such luck first occurred to Mr. Hath In Stovons' auc tion rooms. IIo paid half a crown for a very weakly fragment, brought it round, flowered it and received a prize for good gardening hi the shapo of 72, cheerfully paid by Sir Trovor Lawrence for a plant unique at that timo. Long man's Magazine. A Cultlvuteil Kur. Littlo Girl (during a thunder storm) Mamma, do thoy havo music in heavon? "Yes, my dear." Littlo Ghl Well, I guess Wagnor must bo leading tho orchestra. Now York Weekly. CHINA'S GREAT WALL, A. Missionary Describes tho StructuroTh.it AViih Hullt 1,000 Years Ago. Tho Rev. William P. Spraguo, of Knlgan, North China, writes as follows to Tho Missionary Herald : If any ono doubts tho cxistenco of China's great wall let him come with mo to Kalgan and see for himself tho Identical wall built by tho first Emperor Chin, in 2i0 B. C. Take a steamer across tho Pacific . Tientsin, then a native boat up tho Pol IIo river threo days, then pack saddle or nitilo litter live days more, through mountains and plains to Kalgan. Be fore you roach the city you sco a dark lino along tho hill tops just beyond the town, and by tho time you enter our compound you sco tho wall stretching away over the mountains as far tts tln cyo can reach, both east and west, with towers on all tho prominent elevation. As we pay it a visit for closor inspec tion you find it a windrow or ridge of reddish brown porphyry rock broken, not cut, into irregular blocks. These aro so well fitted to each other that tho outer surfaco is tolerably smooth and has somewhat the appearance of crazy patchwork. It is about 10 feet broad at tho b.-e and 15 feet high, the sides sloping to a sharp ridge, like a stoop houso roof. You may follow this wall eastward to the sea and westward to tho Kanuli, tho northwestern province, and so do ing you will havo traversed tho entire northern frontier of China, 1,500 milis. Though you find several hundred miles of adobe sun dried mud wall, yet otln-r hundredsof miles aro of good brick and higher than at Kalgan. By the tiiun you havo traced its length you will b' willing to concede not only that China has a groat wall, but also that the ruler who could conquer so vast a country, drive out tho invading Tartars and build a fortillcation 1,500 miles Ions' to keep them out was worthy to be called tho first emperor and to give his name (China) to tho country. If any one laughs at the folly of spending so much labor on such a un less defense let him remember that it was a defense only against horseback riders, armed with nothing but bows and arrows. A few guards on the watch towers could, with their signal fires on the mountain tops, easily rou-e tho villagers far and near to tho defen.-e of their homes. And this well accom plished its purposo for over a thousand years, when tlio great Ghonghis Khan, with his bravo Mongol followers, broke his way through. This section of tho great wall be comes for half a mile the city wall of Kalgan. A beautiful temple is built on this wall to eclebrato Ghenghis Khan's victorious passage. This two thousand year old wall is littlo known to the world at large, be causo thero is .-mother wall much ofton er visited and described by visitors from the western world. It is near Peking, and a far moro imposing struct ure. This is only an inner arm of tho great wj:'1, but 500 miles long and not so old by 700 years. It is built of cut granite and good brick, and is .'10 feet wide at its base, 25 foot wide at tho top and .'10 foot high. It is a lino sight as it winds over tho highest moun tain tops. How KothschUd Clot Klch. The late Baron Charles Rothschild was ono day asked by a friend whom ho had taken with him on 'change at his request to toll him tho secret of getting rich by specluations on tho bourse, as tho samo peoplo always did business with each other, and it was. therefore natural to suppose that U10 profits and losses would bo equalized in tho long run. "Just count tho number of gentle men who aro now making tho biggest noise," said tho baron. "Thero aro fourteen of them." "Very good; wo will comoand count them again in a fortnight." They did so, and this timo thero were only eleven. "You see," said Rothschild, "tho threo that aro missing havo been swal lowed up by tho rest." "Then how must you go about it if you want to speculate successfully f" Inquired tho inexperienced stranger. "As when you aro taking a Russian vapor bath quick in and quick out again Sehorer's Fniuilienblatk A Diamond Shortcake. A wealthy jeweler of this city, whilo dining iu a restaurant, emphasized a remark by striking tlio table with his fists. A valuablo diamond ho wore on his linger disappeared with tho blow, and though tho place was carofully searched tho stono could not bo found. Soon after tho hunt had been aban doned a customer named Spencer was served with a piece of strawberry short cake, and as ho passed his knifo through it it struck something hard. With a jocular remark to tho waiter In attendance tho obstruction was re moved, and proved to bo tho lost dia mond. It was returned to tho owner. Providenco Journal. After tho Shower. "Why aro theso thunder 6tonns Hko tho letter S?" asked Bessio of her brother. "I seo no resemblanco unless it bo that thoy mnko our milk sour," replied Jack, who had "heard it before." American Grocer. A writer in an English magazine gives tho particulars of forty-two royal marriages, and shows that in each and overy caso policy and not lovo brought about tho match. No princo or prin cess has any right to fall inJovo. They havo enough good things without it. I