FIDDLE. As I before the tlmlwr of my elbows got o And"hn2,m0re "mber ,ik anJeal,0r Vet I cau plonk ami plunk and pllnk, And tune tier up and play. x And jest lean back and laugli and wink At every rainy day. Mr PwhennaSLmid,,"U,-tUne8 1 P T1'e eorilaroL0" ' flJdlin, ,Uat the folks caU "The Old Kat Oal," and "Ryestraw and "My Sailor's On the Sea," 1 btbe oowtllUoDs that 1 saw when thecVico is left to me. And so 1 plunk and plonk and pllnk. And rosum im mv iu- Aiul play the tunes that make you think The devil's in your toe. . indurin'lovo! U'US a my Ueart 8 ...v k.nHitj uli i r-v hit niwiit in tn ...i. jTotnhcr niicru. over bridt-o nn.i d,.,!i.i hhiuu iifi uirnar. She's n wooin'. cooin' piKeon, siurin' "Lovo Me" every note! And so I pat her neck, and pllnk Herstritis with loviu' bauds, An' llst'nln' clost. t sometimes think She khid o' understands. -James Wliitoomb Ulley, FOlLKlT" The scene of our storv is in Russia "Holy Russia," as the Russians call it. In the land of the czar the police officials are allowed considerable latitude. They take conious advnnt:iL'i nf tlw.ii. n,t,,..ni.. . - . " . to mane it unpleasant for their persoinl , nnnmlna Tl. 1 . ' ! enemies, t lie man or woman n mi Inst. whom the police have a spite is not safe in person or property. The usual mode of conciliating those in authority is to in vite them to take snuff out of a snultbo.v, the contents of which are gold rubles. To avoid trouble with the police a man in Russia must be reckless with his rubles. Police Commissioner Suboir was very, very obliging in some respects. He was iv hopeless victim of the snutr habit when the snnlT box had a gold lining. He was up to snufT in several senses of the word. To use an American expression, Suboir was an investigating committee of one, that had to be continually lubricated. He had, however, one other weakness. Ho was very much given to paying his ad dresses to the fair sex. He was not pretty to look at. He was a short, fat, bald headed man. Scientists say that in a thousan.l years wo will all bo bald. SuboiT had merely anticipated the scien tists by a thousand years. Ho was bald already, although ii? was unmarried. No body could accuse him of failing to re move the hairs out of the comb. His blood might curdle in his veins, but his hair never stood on end with terror. As an additional attraction his com plexion was very much the color of an Italian sunset, or a circus poster. His mouth was the shape of a semi-circular gash, and looked as if it might be partial to pie. His ears were largo and generous, and gave him tho appearance, at a distance, of being provided with wings. His face betrayed about as much intellectuality as an Irish potato. It was only when he leered that it seemed to have any expression at all in it. One would have supposed that such a caricature of a man would have conllned his attentions to females who were, com paratively speaking, as devoid of personal i attractiveness as himself, such, for in- stance, as those who wero adorned with a I hump and ono eye. That, however, was : not tho modest sort of man that SuboiT ' was. He forced his attentions on the ' loveliest in tho land. If they opposed his 1 wishes he promptly trumped up a con- I spiracy against the government and sent them, or their relatives, to Siberia. If a j handsome woman desired to have any of her relatives sent to Siberia all that sho had to do was to refuse to admire SuboiT. SuboiT was in Warsaw investigating a conspiracy. A number of prominent Poles were arrested nnd sent to Siberia, ami SuboiT was hunting for more conspir ators. He was kept pretty busy, but he would have paid much more attention to his official duties if it had not been for tho beautiful eyes of the wife of a certain Col. Sabinsky. Mrs. Sabinsky was indeed a beautiful woman. She was tall, well formed, with wonderful black eyes and a wealth of hair to match. Her features wero as faultless as thoso of a Grecian statue. Police Commissioner SuboiT had seen her at a ball, and immediately fell vio lently in lovo with her, as far ns tho term was applicable to such a creature as him self. He paid every possible attention, bat tho handsome Polo ignored him com pletely. When ho endeavored to becont, more familiar she said something to u. group of ladies that caused them to ssi'Js audibly. She was evidently making 'u. of him. He felt pretty sure that sho said something about his personal appearance, and that was a subject on which he was very sensitive. Ho rushed out of the ballroom foaming with rage. The more ho brooded over tho affair tho worse ho felt about it. Ho determined to bo revenged. He would llnd means to tamo the prido of tho haughty beauty. Next day Col. babiusky was arrested for conspiring against the csar. This meant that, perhaps without even tho formality of a trial, ho would be transported to Siberia. Col. Sablnsky's wife was at first very much alarmed for the safety of her hus band. She felt pretty sure that her un willingness to smile on SuboiT was tho real causo of her husband's arrest. Sho vorv smart woman as sljjrp as a steel trat). She said to herself 'As Mr. Suboff has begun to play tricks o- mo, 1 11 sco if I can't play tricks on him. I I fcti if I can't beat him at his own game." Sho managed to have a note conveyed to her imprisoned husband, telling him to keep up his courage, as she vrould llnd means to procure his liberation. In the meantime Suboff remained in his office awaiting the result of his first move tocompcl Mrs. Sabinsky to come to terras Ho did not have long to wait, for on the day following the arrest of her husband Mrs Sabinsky called at the office of the She'ndmltted into the room. It was nuito large, with a closet. In tho niiddhi o the Urn was a large tab c, on w eh were writing mnteriuU and oil e la K,iliir was ill. Ho received ... .,(,,, ..'Hi her with a hUleom. gnu " "7 .,!. mid her uvea iuuwoiv m - jwieiinu erejw "wZ l the caiue of your grief, beau . ., K (eollS lllii) ' nn vnu nHlu InlHimiUl IS III P"""1 '" ii u u vary frw" "" '''"ITS. ti uuihr u"m not that I hnre nnr doubts nbont your husband's guilt, but ns a matter of ac commodation to you. I ant very busy now, but please call to-niorrow afternoon at II o'clock, nml I'll see what can be done.' The grimaces and k crs with which these worn were ULTotupanied left no doubt in the mind of his visitor as to his real in tention;., but she managed to conceal her disgust and promised to call at the ap pointed hour. As for Snbotr, ho was in nn eotatie frame of mind. The manifest absurdity of a man with his cast of coun tenance creating a favorable liupressiou on anybody, excepting perhaps himself, never occurred to him. An hour before the, appointed time Suboir was arranging his toilet before the glass. He festooned his dome of thought with a wisp of about eleven lonesome hairs that still lingered around the base of his bald head. To himself he appeared to be excruciating lovely. A carriage; stopped before the door. He pranced to the window and gazed out, looking, as Mrs. Sabinsky afterward told a friend, for all the world like an immense turkey gob bler. He opened the door and gallantly kissed her diminutive hand. "We are quite alone." he said. "Suppose somebody were to come? My reputation would bo ruined!" exclaimed the fair visitor. "There is not the slightest danger; and if there was hero is a closet in which you could hide." "Why, that closet is not big enough. How could I get in there with my dress?" "It is much larger than you suppose. I am quite large, and it can accommodate me." "I don't belleTe it," replied the visitor j incredulously. ! To relieve her fears SuboiT went into , .., i i ,.. -"-k i'." ii. tiw mv uwi. Tllp lll'Vt milllllMlt. till' llnnr WHS tlllsllPfl tO l'he next moment the door was pushed to and locked from the outside. SuboiT was very much crowded in that closet, almost as much, perhaps, as if ho lived in a Harlem Hat. Heithouchthis vis itor was playing a practical joke on him and that he would bo released in a few I minutes, but this delusion was dispelled I by a linn female voice whispering through I the keyhole: "Don't you try to get out, you old scoundrel, or I'll stab you to tho heart." There was something in the tone of tho voice that convinced him tho speaker meant business. Col. Sabinsky's wife tripped to the table, nnd on one of the olllcial blanks, already signed by the wretched SuboiT, sho wrote: "Release immediately Col. Sabinsky." SuboiT heard a silvery voice say: "Farewell, my dear Suboir, but don't excite yourself. If anybody calls remem ber that you are not in. You have cheek enough to carry you through anything ex cept this door. Please shut this door after you. Ta ta." When SuboiT realized tho peril of his situation he made frantic efforts to burst open the .ioor, but it resisted all his ef forts, although ho sworo llko a man who was trying to write with a stylographie pen. He made almost as much noiso as i a woman's rights convention and with I just about the same result. Ho was geu- orally very successful in attracting atteu i tion, but on this occasion ho failed igno I niiniously. He was ulmost speechless when ho was released, and ho had fallen I off like a ton of coal on tho scales of a dealer. j Ho got out, hut tho story also got out, ! and he was the subject of inextinguishable I ridicule wherever ho went. Hours before I Suboll' got out of that closet Col. Sabin i sky and his wifo crossed the frontier. I They reached Paris in safety, and there It was that tho latter told the story to the writer, who was a member of tho German legation. Translated from tho German by Alex. M. Sweet for Tho New York Mercury. Ills Sensti of tlio UliUruloiiH. The other afternoon, as wo wero rolling out Woodward avenue, a swell young fellow entered tho car and recognized a fellow swell, when tho following conver sation ensued: "Aw, there, Chawley, mo boy." "Aw, there, Fwedlc, old chappie." "Wery slipewy, Chawley." "Indeed, Fwcdie, that wemlnds mo of w'at happened w'ilo I was waiting for the caw ah." "W't was it, Chawley?" "W'y, ono of thoso fellahs of the ah of the of the ah twadeclawses, you know ah, was carwying a basket of ah ah hen's fwruit, you know ah, w'en ho began to look at me, the benstly fellah, instead of where ho was walking, and ho slipped up all, and dwopped his basket of ah ah lien's fwruit, and sat wight down In it ah, and it bo gwati fled my sense of tho wridlculous that I actually smiled, Kwedle, actually smiled ah." Detroit Free Press. Illhtiiricill Sunn felloes. W. P. Dennett, for many years superin tendent of the teams and stages of "Wells, Fargo & Co,, has just sent east from Vir ginia City, Nov., tho Norwegian snow ! shoes with which for twenty years ho has 1 traversed the Sierras. They aro of white ash and ten feet long. In 1BU7 lio carried the company's express packages across tho mountains and was fifty-two hours in a snowstorm. When he got back the Widow Hryant now Mrs. John W. Mackay told him that in twenty years hi snowshoes would bo bought as relics. She was right. Onco the shoes ran away with Mr. Dennett, and ho went down the Kingsbury grado into Lake valley, a dis tance of over two miles, in four minutes. New York Sun. Dunceroii-ly TtiixiRlit fill. Chicago is f"" of dangerously thought ful and Mature children. "Mamma ' .aid ono of them a 5-ycnr-old the other day, "ain't there any other senses 'cept seeing, hearing, feeling, tast ing and smelling?" "No, my child," answered tho mother; "it is usually considered that thoso Ave are enough." "Well," said tho little one, with nn nir of deep conviction, "I s'pose talking would Imj railed a senso if there wasn't so much uonsenst about it." Chicago Tri bune. rincr Irntl A comparison of the lengthr of tho first nnd third fingers has een m&uy years in progress. Ancient Greek urt seems to have found the greater beauty in n longer forefinger, hut in the Apollo Dulvldere there U no appreciable difference in tho i i. t,u twn f!orrilla. orntiL' 1" L .',,'.. , have a longer third the two. uornuai, , iwiii, - - Augur, while among Kuropwuw and AiMriraiw the hmr rtimor U tometimea ' tiw Hr.t, fcrttli th thml, and wme- ti.il jn.iuuir of irnuul lullgtll. Ar , - -r -- - - krniwiw Truvrler. Amluiulx Willing An ,tr. RUa HH, h hUUUUiiaH, M toll U4 If ihre U nw Hwrrtntf- In lwl )r than itMwr ir, uud than wo thull luuw WW in aa -Al'auy JuuruaL AGRICULTURAL. Fall Pruning- Will Save Much Labor. HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. Producti von ess and Value of an Or chard Depend on Pruning While Young. It will save much labor if the effect of full pruning is thoroughly understood. Wherever a dormant limit la rut oil", tho bud just below the cut will next seasnn push with greater vigor .uul become the main shoot if the highest left on the tree. The more vigorously a young tree is p uned in fall or winter the stronger growth of wooil it ill make next year, ami the concent rut ion of sap in a few lnr'e shoots will prevent fruiting. The only pruning that can promote fruitful nes's is that done while the tree is in leaf, and this result is effected by cheeking the vinorof its growth. It is a good plan to use the suninier ir.ade nuuiure as a top dressing for the poor places in wheat fields. A very little fertilizer goes a grout away in such eases. In our experience, when the ground i drv, little damage is done to wheat by driving over it with loaded manure wag ons having bro;)d tires thnt do not cut in deeply. U oniv ordinary wheels are used, defer drawing until the surface i frozen so it will he ir a load, or wait still later and draw on the snow with a si !. In this ease some nnrks should bo put up beforehand to show where the ma nure had better bo ipread. It is not often that n careful fanner will nllow sows to breed so as to drop their pigi late in the fall. It costs more to winter suei pigs than they are worth, us it is almost impossible, however well fed and housed, to keep them from be in" stunted. Rut the pigs need not be whollv lost. Probably tho liest use of them 'is to fatten rapidly and sell for roasters about holiday time. Roast pig is better liked bv many than roast tur kev, and if it were offered generally in fall and earlv winter, it is probably the best use to which piga dropped at Una untimely season can !e put. The future shape, productiveness and value of an orchard depend mainly on the wav it is pruned whilo young. It requires 1'iiowledge of tho habit of growth of different varieties to know how to prune them to advantage. A lit tle pruning while the tree is small pets it to growing in the right shape, and avoids the need of sawing oil" large limbs later, which can never be done without inflict ing wounds likely to destroy the vitality of the tree. It is in pruning, more oven than in anything else, thnt a little done at the right time saves the necessity for doing much more afterwards. A 'though hops can bo grown from seed, this is not the usual way of propagating them. Tho best time to plant hops is in the spring, as early ns tlio ground can be worked. The lows aro made altout eight feet apart and the sets planted in these at about the same distance. Each set has two eyes, is plan tod nbout nn inch deep and pressed firmly down. The first year a hill of corn may bo planted each way between the hops, but the second year the entire ground is to be kept well cultivated. Where the hop Iono has not made its appearance the crop !h generally a very protitable one. Many fanners who have practiced the plan .Jconiiiiend cutting corn fodder and piling it in small cocks to cure. In it largo stack the heating of so much wet material would certainly provo injurious, but in 8innll-8ued cocks' tho fermentation is just enough to furnish heat to dry them out. It also softens the stalks, which aro eaten with less waste than those set up in stacks and dried by ex posure to the nir. Rain does not pene trate these cocks to anv great extent. Farmers have often noted that tho dam pened stalks kept in mows, even when slightly moldy, were eaten cleaner than those thoroughly dried. The United States Consul at Mann heim. Germany, reports that German chemists have learned how to make but ter from tho oil of the cocoanut. One factory already produces (iOO.OOO pounds daily, which is sold at 15 cents per pound. Tho nuts aro procured from Africa, South America nnd other trop ical countries. Cocoanut butter contains 70 per cent, of fat, nnd of the remainder one-third is composed of the albumen, which give it a greater nutritive value than cow butter possesses. Tho now butter is used largely in hospitals, and is finding its way on account of its cheap ness t) the tables of the poor, especially asasubstituteforoleomargitrine.towhic.n it is certainly superior ns usually mado. Hoots of all kinds aro better kept in nits than in cellars, where they aro ox posed to currents of air. Homo earth should lte mixed with them to till up tho spaces, and tlius prevent tno evaporation that uaually makes them dry and taste loss before upnng. Beets and potatoes are more easily injured by freezing than other roots and require a double or triple covering to exclude cold, turnips, rota bagns, carrots and parsnips will a'l Iwai a temperature nearly or ninto down w the freezing point, provided they are in contact with tho soil. Purnins with a slight covering of tho part of the roots ultove tho surfaco may bo left in the ground until spring without injury, and even with benefit. The freezing makes them better flavored than they will be it dug in the fall. M-verai trials in recent years have shown thnt th" nine leaves or needles, hh they are called from our common 'due forests are valuable, or can le made so, w a fertilizer for itotato-! on H'indv toil. If the prejudice against sawdust from resinous wood in general can w removed and vegetable matters gathered and applied to the soil with lex regard to its origin ami more for its effects, it Is quite likely that many Iiirmi-rs would lii.d in the line JonwtH and groves a viil iiuWm udditlon to their ncant supply of Imldliig "ml at tho fume time iiintiuli the much niltti vegetable inulter. .One until raked up liu p - leave Kith wlmi Uim vvgtitMhlo muiutr I hem w n n Ur tliuHi mid imIkimI ilit iim" with lime mid Ut it Im In a pile u few weUs uud li i ii.J it fur ixdaU04 hIUi uuod r . .Its, MISCELLANEOUS. Tin Mine ltl.ro vrrrtl In tho MoiiutnltK rur lint Spring, Ark. The great Hennepin canal in Illinois has been begun. The Railway Commission of Florida lias been alolished. Indiana's nntnrnl-gfts supplv is believed to be inexhaustible. Nntive Alaskans Imvo decreased 5,000 in ten years. Drink. Philadelphia's Chinatown is to have nn employment bureau. The World's Fair prizes for horses will be rt'.'.OOO and for cattle 50,000. The rush of grain shippers threatens to blockado all tho roads in Kansas. The telephone companies in Philadel phia have put their wires underground. The Hownrd Athenieuni, the oldest theater in Boston, is to bo demolished. Baltimore is to have a tin-plate manu factory inoperution within three months. Uss than half the children in Mis souri of school age attend Sunday-school. An English syndicate has an option on the threslting-inachine interests of this country. An effort is being made to introduce the mango, a delicious ICast Indian fruit, into Georgia. Uncle Sam is nbout to iseuo the most beautiful bill ever printed tho new sil ver certificate. The log cabin which was the Ixiyhood home of Lincoln is to lie exhibited at the World's Fair. Tho cotton crop of tho United State this year is 8,052,507 bales, or l.IWO.OJO more" than last year. It is announced thnt a general election will shortly take place in Canada, prob ably in December or .lantmry. The discovery of a tin mine in the mountains near Hot Springs, Ark., is re ported by Memphis capitalists. The Consul-Generalship of Corea at New York and the Consulship at Phila delphia have Iteoii discontinued. George W. Trehorn, Mayor of Broken Bow, Neb., has disappeared, leaving creditors to whom he owed !fl!0,(K 0. Thebig2ti-ineh lens, which Alvin Clark has made for the United States naval observatory, is about ready to be placed in position. National President Polk of the Fann ers' Alliance savs the talk of his having been challenged to fight a duel in North Carolina is a pure invention. Georgia's new county railroad tux law has been sustained by the Supreme Court. This will add $51X1.000 a year to the burdens of the railroads of that State. The memory of Wendell Phillips is lo be honored in Boston by the erection ol a public hall bearing his name. Mrs. Phillips has always objected to tho build ing of a statue to his honor. The negro cotton pickers throughout the cotton belt have organized and fixed the price of work at $1 per 100 pounds nnd board. This organization is brought nbout by the Colored Alliance. A contagious skin disease has inndoits nppearance at Norristown, Pn. It is an itch, and generally begins on the soft part of the hand,' between the fingers and altout the wrists and elbows. The exports of silver for the first seven months of the year were if 11, :!.'!:!, li-Ul, iK'ninst imports of !f8.:i)S,:i77. showing that production of the white inetnl still outruns the enforced demand growing out of silver legislation. Muvor Grant of New York bus de clared in favor of Sunday liquor-Belling at certain hours of tho day. His plea is that clubs and hotels sell on Sunday, and therefore all liquor haunts should have the same privilege. Assistant Secretary Spaulding informs tho Nognlcs (A.T.) Collector that, the practice of persons crossing to tho Mexi can side and purchasing clothing, which is carried back into the United Sta'et without payment of duty, is smuggling. A company has been organized nt Do val's Bluff', Ark., with a capital of if 100, 000, for dredging the Upper White river, which, it is claimed, can he made navi gable as far as Yellville, on tho Missouri line, thus adding nearly 100 milcH to navigation in Arkansas. Tho White river empties into the Mississippi below Mem phis. SPORTING NOTES. Hiinnl Will Trot on Itotli thn Iti-culnllon anil K ll'-" li ni'il Track. The Occidental Atnletic Club of San Francisco has matched Billy Mnhnn ol that city and Billy Matter of Australia, light weights, to light at 1118 pounds for a purse of $1,000 October 21. In the bicycle race" at Hampden park, Springfield," Mass,, Zimmerman of the New York Athletic Club was tho star performer, winning tho mile ordinary, liiilf-'iiilo ordinary, quarter-mile Safety and half-mile Safety handicaps. His time in the latter race was 1 :0(! 4 5, beat ing the world's record of 1 :07?,j. At tho tournament of the Southern California Lawn Tennis Association at Los Angeles Tncndore Coulter beat U, Caustou in the all comers' singles, win. nitig the championship of the Ktuth. This is the first time in Southern Cali fornia that an American has won, the Knghsh residents having heretofore been the strongest players. It is asserted in sporting circles at New York that G. 15. Smith, better known as " Pittsburg Phil," whose colt King Cud. inns won the Sapphire stakes at Kheeps head Bay, is from $76,000 to $100,000 richer than ho was tho tiny before the race. He got all tho way from IJ0 to 8 for 1 for bis money at New York a id in the Southern pool rooms. From the following letter, which Hob ert Bonner received from Senutor Stan ford, it will be seen that Suuol is to trot on Itotli the regulation and kite-shaped tracks: "Kunol has apparently entirely recovered, and for altout ten day she has shown no symptoms of laiuenc-H. We shall soon give her good work. Her general condition seems to bo very gd indeed, nnd if nothing happens, weeh;ill lte prepared to give her n trial in His courfuof two or three weeks, if every thing in favorable to tho full exhibition of her jtowers, I have no doubt thut the will lower her record several seconds. Friiin what I have seen of her this sea son 2;0d docs not seem to ho Iteyoud her poHvrs. Before she wont lame she trot' iel quarters In 2Si' fecoiidw, the hud itluhth In I II,. Hinf nciiiiind very oolii forluhht while doing It. Wo shall in lier on the Stockton kltoliped trm k snd kIvm Iter tint) or muru trials, if every HiliiKgoe. muII, on mii ordinary iHm1 Our Latest and Greatest Premium Offer I THE MAMMOTH CYCLOPMA. Bfc, -FT H Ms tsl Wm IM'l 1 1 lllTOHV, Thi Mimmotk Cmor Jtnu ettnltlm comrUtt tn t Ktitlienilv hlttr of Hi ireal AmrrltMi 01 til Wr rri fulf IUnirtM llh tiummut Anre-toif of th lUbttllaDt ft com p Mo T tmtrfti ft m Hi dlicorrr; by (Vlumbui ta thf rrfut Unn" eftpliL' derlrilon ef ftmout bttllff tml hnpnttanl ettnt lit Iht Malory of all ntllODl, ehl0Dol0(ll Uitotj.ek- ,flc ItltMlIt It'll V, TMa trttt work rcntttni th Utm rf til ll.t rtiltni f Hi Cult I Hutu, front Vhlntin t Harrlaon. tilt rlmli n.i otWr llluatrttloni, tlis !. nJ p.ttuntt r Nniotcitii lton rt. Shftkni'tarr, Hyron, WlllUm I'rnii. Itfii.Uinlii Frmiilhi, Unity ('ly, Itanlfl Wblrr, ftn.1 In mon atfttffttntii, niitl.or, I'ovli, (cnrri.lt, Cliff jnitu, ttO-i tlnnii to tlx rctent tUy Aflltlcri.Tt'ltl.. YnliitM Mnlit.nl nful tiiKtitlnt 10 I'Mtnif r, irf tiiiiit f AtM rrot( gaita ami frncta, rrrllllira, farm liiipifiitfnta t lltfMocl. rUliiR Incliivllnt th tltattnuit of dif.f tf ihuiitnia animal , poultry httplnc ami how ut.1 iKvtMfni n I 1'ioflUbl btt kfiliif,.Wlry fatmlnt:, tie. Tho Irfttinritt pf tli anliJriMl If conipltio onj eihouallvo. inJ Tf ndfia the work of gt fat practical um to fatiutra aiiJitockniiu, MOltTlrri.Tl'ltr.. Ittrtln 1$ lrn tho moil titoful hint lofcitrraffii)l kliil nf iriftftblta nl fruit, ta rtlbttti front the exrrrtrnco of tho rue I tuecttaful l.oitlculturlttt. AIK'III I i:' rntl'. PiUQiin.1rUinrri.ouifi,reiUcta, tarsia tint other ontbullJluit, wliti TtlutMo tutilono to IllOOOtlltOUdlllft It- I'UtU. IIOlTHi:HOI,l. Till work fonttlna trlrl nnd trtM roclrtt f.-r aloioit otrry ImtRlntblodlili for lrrakfatt( dlnurr nl trt. tKI Jfratltnfnt nlono bftiitt worth moio than nlno ttntha of the took tmcki aaU , tlnwil InnunifruM lilntt, IirlpatiKl tut ffitlotH tolioinrkffprrti dilni tul tu(goatlont for rutklnc nifttiT btaullful thliiRt tvt tho ajorntntiit of homo. In riffJIo work, ombrol lerr, ota. t Mntion tlorloulture, totllng how to b auicoaral nttli nil tho rtrlout 1tnta i tollol lilnta. trllllnf how to prrtTTo tnl ttaullfy Hi couiptosloii, btuilt, tftth, ttlr, tlo-i tto M-.I-ICAI,. Iiny dolltri In 1otort' bUla will b nrM utinutlly toevrrv (oaonor of thli book thtout.1i tht vtlutbl lnfurnittlon tiertlu coiitthitJ, It toll bow to euro, br almpt yf I rtltkblohftin romMlta, trtlltbt In ? ry bouiehol.1. trery tllarti tn l ttlmrnl Ihtllacurablr, thlt tltittrtrutnt fur m Inn a rompiclo mrllctl book, tho taluo of which lu tuj boo. cto liarily b com putt J In dollar auJ rrnti. INVENTION AMI IMHCOVKUV. IltmarkaMr tular fttltiR itrafrtpiloitt of crtat Invention, Inrludlnf Rttaru KiiKlno, thoTolMiajli, tho I'rlatlnc 1'roit, tho Kttof .o I.Uht, thoStnlng Mtohlno, lh Ttkphouo, (ho Typ Wllttr, lb Typ Hotllni Mtchlno, th Cotton Oln, etc, TIIK U'O II !.! WONIIKHN, nrtphlo .Ififtlrtloni, ttauttfllr llluatratr l, of th Tollowttono Park, Yoatmlto Vatlty, Klaiarft Tallt, tho At pa, 1'arla, Voinvlui. Vonlet, Vienna, the t'anoni of Colorado, llammolh Car, Natural UrUft, Walklm OlfO, th U'hll Uountalu, tto , tlo. TUAVr.I.. Pftortpttoni, proruitly lUuitratf 1, of th I Iff, tutuuert, ouiloma, icullar fornii, tllr auJ oerruioul of th From tlKiabocn brief attmmary of llaconlcnta aornn Idea ofwhat a remarkably IntcTMtlnir. InatrucllTe and falttablowork th Mammoth t'Yri.or.niA l may ba isaln-il. yet but a fractional part of Urn triple trcatcil la thlai:ri'atworkhavotnHMiiiamd. 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Tim twm vii volutin!) oontuiu tho following worltl-f.iuiou- workn, each one of which ia pub lished cmnpleie, unchanged, and abwAultly unabrtdjtul : DAVID COPPERFIELD, MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, NICHOLA8 NICKELBY, DOMBEY AND SON, BLEAK HOUSE, LITTLE DORRIT, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, PICKWICK PAPER8, Tho iilxivo aro without cpiontIon the mont latuoua novola that woro over written, rora. Uiiarleriif a century tliey havo boon eeleliratod In oyery nook and corner of the rivilleed world. Yet thoro nro IIkiiihuikU ol hoinca in Atnorica not yot Huppllod with a net of Diokoua, thoiiHiial hih oont of tho lnKikn prevontitig ttoople in moderate clroumataiicoii trom enjoy nit thin luxury. Hut now, owing to flio uao of modern improved printing, foldliiK and atitchluir machinery, tho extremely loir price of white paper, and tho great competition lu tlio book trade, wo aro enabled to offer to our nuUcribeni and readow a set of Dickena works al a. price which all can afford to pay. 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II will inuke no dllferen'e, lot ii will be uxlendeil one year from ilste of explrfttUu, We will ttlao xlve a net of I)UkeHS, r.N aU)ve, free nml i-i.tpald, U) any one aenUliiK us club of two yenrly auUcrlbtkM, auwinpanled Willi j,ini in raah, Aildreaa THE OREGON SCOUT, Union, Or. IN FOUR VOLUMES. A Great and Wonderful Work, COXTll.lWO 2,176 Pages ISO 620 Bcantiful Illnstrations ! Tint MigvoTH Ctnor.nDU hu bti potv llhJ ttr mft wants of th niaBei for utilrrrol omrnilliini of knowlnl, rrkCtlU unrful, "Clrntiflc ami nf rl. Tho wnt k is pub lulled civurlrt In lour Urn anil lianiliom vulumf . romrtl'lnc a total ol J,I7 PMH, ami In rroluwly I !mtraii'iliitlirailiautlliilntraT Iiikh. TIiou"m,I ofilollara lint" t'n tpndJ to makp till tho lno-l cnmplrtr, Taluabl anil uvpful work for tliniaa Tfr publll)eJ. It la a work for f tf rjhoilr man, nonmn anil alilM, In "trry occiirllon or walk In hfo. Th aut tanrcaml practical utility or tnnty orJIntry Toliimr aw comrrlnrtl In th four, anil an rpltB l llio work nllli knowlPiluo of iry klml. flllnl la It with iilul hint ami hflpful anKCrntloii, that wo fully IiIIt that In aiary liom to nhlcli It hall flml Ita way It will aoon como lo borf Knlrl a north l!wlnhllii lol.l. For want of -acwcan only briefly aummar It a finall portion of thocuDlentaor I tils I rtat nork, a' follow Chlnta, Jrn'i, lh fnftt of I a 1 1 a , Africa. Uli,aMar, ralfitln. ltUnt, licrnfo, llutmah, Ihft Htnjwleh lifead, Hrvl. KttTrarli, Tirury, Cftihintr ml TunU, lh Araas, Turki, llllctn,,Hulh xmrrlftni, Amerlto toilltai, VCTP llana. Mlantcif. Ab? Militant, Norwta-laoa, flpanlarita. Bla. Italian., Orrtkt, Iluaalaaa, Vltxilana, ifahane, rtialus Hoil.ma, Aualiallaiia, lluljailana, lelllaia, tio , tie. MANIirAOTItllE!!. In Ihlnttal woii It alto dtattlkt ana IliuairaitJ Iha aria anj r"""" of Mlnllnc, ataitair,laca IwaMnJItn. ooo.l tnlaln(, lllholtaihy.rlioloitapbT.eallo rrlnlllK, rl" rnatlnf, ateh makliic. paptr maklaf, tha manufaclutt of allk, Iron, alttl. latt, china, prrfumtl;, ooap, Ittthtr, alarch, wall paptr. turptntlnt, poatal earJa, pla llamrt, tnttleptt, ptna, ptnetlt. nttJkt, an.l many otatr ihlnit, all of rilh -III tit fauna ptculltrl; lottriiUof to 4 iDiirueiltt, l Oltf.HJN IMtOlU'CTN. tnltrttllo, Jt'trlrllont, lllao. IraltJ, of Hit oulturo auJ prtparatlon for malktl of tta,t(Tr cliooolalt, cotton, flai, htinp, tufar, lit. nittmt,t. clttrr. fln,tr. cinnamon, tlltplct, ptpptr, coooaoutt, pliioappltt, ban n, piuntt, ilaltt, lalilui, it: ollrta, InJIa-rubbtr, jolla ptrcha, coik, camphor, caitor oil, laploca, tic, tie. NATl'HAI. 1I1RTOHV. Inttrtalb, an.l Inalrnellta ilraerlpllona, aecompaultj br lllualratlont, of nurutrout bttala, blrJt, dihta aul Intftta, wtlbniuOQ eulloua lulf ualloti rtfari In, Ititlr lift auJ litbltt. IiAW. Tin kliuMorH CfClfrM It tla a compltlt law book, Itlllna tiny man how ht may b hit own lawjtr.aoa eonlalnlnii full ami conolio tiplanallout of tbo itntral Iowa an.Kbt lawaof Iho atrtralBtftlta upon all nialltra which ar tubjtctto llllallon, wliu uunitrout formt of Irg al Joouiutntt. .MINIMI. I'taorlrllona an.l llluilrallona or Hie rnlnloc of lolJ. allicr, dUmoDjt, ooal, tall, eopptr, laJ, iluo, tlu and qulckallrtr. WOMIKItN OP Tlin 8KA. Ittrtln art itccilbt.t an! llluitratt'l Iht many womlrrruland btaullfnl tlilnca foun fttlfaa bollon flhooetan.lho planlt, nowtit, tlitllt, Habit, tto., llko alio rtail dlilm, eon) nihln,, tie., tie, MTATIHTIOAIt ANI MlNtinM.ANr.orn. nertla It , If tn a tail amount of uttful anj Inltrtatln Informallon, coiuoof -vhtrb Itlbo population of Aratrlcan cltltt, arra ant noruMloncf tliocontlntiitt, of llitfllalti an,l Ttrrlloiltt, aa iffho Ttlnilpalcountlltt cf Iht wttlJ, ltn,th of tho principal llirlWldoulle, ol for alklt Jtara, rrcthltntlal attllillea, arc . StlO Jtpth of ttal, laktl inl octant, btlhl of mountains, looonv lloncf anlraalt an.l ftlodly of bojltl, htldit of ratau mtntt, toKOC. anO ttiuelurti, illtunctt from Waahlniton, alt fromNcw Y rll.tolruporlant polnla,chronololclhlitoryofdla etvcrr anC progrttt, (topular aobrhiutlt of Amrrlean BUUt elllca.cte., eommon (rammatleal orrort, rultt for tptlllnc, pro nunciation nnO uat of capllala, Wall Strati phraati, eonxntrea of (ho troth), curlout facta la natural Malory, lonitrlly at unlroali, orUlaof Ibt iiamnof futti, and of couiilrlrt,of iroak woikl, popular fabltt, ranilllar quolatlont, of f'ltlut and 4 plantl, djlni wolda of ramoua ptrtont, fate of tht ApoatNa, atatlitlctoflbt ilobt, Itallnf tortinmiula of tlit oilj, tt, tio. 4 In Twelvt Large Volumes, Which wo Offor with rt Year's SubscriptloR. to this Faper for n Trifle More than Our Regular Subscription Price. Wishing to liirKiily incroiino thn eiroilliillon of this pnier iliuliiK the nuxt Hix montliH, wo Imvo inmlo urruiirnii'iitH with n Now Yorlt pnlillMhiiiK Iiuubo whuieliv wn mo rnnlilotl to offer iih u iirciiiiiini to nnr BllbuciilifiH n H'l f '" Work of Cliiulon I)lrk fii. in 'l'rlvn l,iil LCc unit Ilunilaninta Viiliiiura, with n yoRr'x Hiilmeriplinii to llila pupor, iurutrillii inoto than our n-Kiilitr ul Bcrlptlon price. Our n-Ht offer InHiiliHcrilicrs celliiMea any ever ln relol'oie tniiile. Churlen DIclit'iiM wuh the u'lenteHt noveliMt who evur lived. No author liufurti or hiiivo It Im time linn von the fuiuo thut hi) uchioved, mill his works are ewm itiore popilhir to-ilny tliun tlurini IiIb hli.tltne. Tlioy nlmtuiil in wit. humor, piitlnm, iniiHterly ilehneutioii of ulmruoter, viviil ikscriiilioiiH ot plitct-H ami incidental. thrillliiL! nntftikillfitlly wroiiKlit iiIoIh, Kaolt limik Ih iiitt'tiBely intcri'MtiiiK. No IiomoHliotthl bo without h net of tlune great nnd ruiuutk ablo wtirko. Not to Imvo rem! tlioui ia to bo far bohltul tho ago in which we live. Tim not of DlckctiH' woiku which wo offor an av BARNABY RUDCE ANO CHRISTMAS 8TORIE8, OLIVER TWIST AND GREAT EXPEC TATIONS, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER A TALE OF TWO CITIES. HARD TIMES AND THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.