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TWELFTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGOn71Ay7aUGUST 37, 7mT UjgjT
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Advertising Rates Made Known on
Application.
IS PAPKK in kept tin hie at E. C. Dakft's
i AdvortiBinK Agency, nf and on Merchants
Kxchanxo, Kan Franii.cn, ('nlifomia, where cou
ructn for advertibintf can be matte for it.
!w Pacfig Railway-Local card.
o, i'), tnij.ml loaves Heppner 9:45 p. m. daily
ezuiipt Sunday
to. ar. at Willows Jo. p.m.
It, " loavns u a. in,
n, ' ar. at Heppner 5:00 a. m, daily
dii t Monday.
Kuht hound, niaiu line ar. at Arlington 1 :2tt a. m.
Wftt ' "leaves " l:t. m.
Weft bound local freight leaves Arlington 8:85
u. tu., arrives at The Dalles 1:15 p. m. Local
punbentfi-r leaves The Dalles at 2:00 p. in. arrives
Ht Portland at 7HXJp m.
Vuiml States Officials.
G rover Cleveland
iif.--i(if tit
V ii'.rioHldeiit
ffc 'Hfai'i of Slate
t-Mi-iHfiu'y nl Trontmry.
Ntriniitry of interim'.
iNivrninry of War
Ad.ai Htevenson
....Walter Q. Glrenhara
John ii. Carlisle
.... Hoke Smith
Daniel H. Laniont
herniary or wavy.
Hilary A. Herbert
rurtiinuHLei-Ueueral Wilson a. Bissell
AhuniHV-denpinil Itichiird H. Olnev
tWioiaiy of Aurmultuw J. (Sterling Morton
State of Oregon.
fti.vmiur
HflcrHary of State
Ti'riMU'or
tfupi. Public InHtruction
BuniUorB
fl. l'ennoyer
ti. W. Mclinde
Jrhii. Slutsfiluiu
K. H. McElroy
( J. H. MitnhHl
' t J. N, Doloh
j Kincer Hermann
1 "-p-'""" ( W. tt.
. Ellis
Printer
d ipreme Judgoa.,
Frank (. Raker
( JJ. A. Moore
. W. ljord
( K. ti. Bean
Seventh Judicial District.
Circait, Judge W. L. Bradshaw
ivosicutin? Attorney A. A. Jayne
Morrow County Officials.
mint Senator A, W. Gowan
Keprosonfative J. B. Boothby
itmity Judge Julius Keithly
' Com misBi oners J.U.Howard
J. M. Baiter.
" Clerk J. W. Morrow
" Bheriff G. W. Harnrifrton
" Treasurer Frank Gilliam
Assessor J. Willis
' rinrveyor Geo. Lord
School bup't Anna llalsiger
' Coroner T. W. Ayers, Jr
BEPrNEU TOWN OFFICEBS.
Mayor P. O. Borg
Cfmnculmeu O. K. Farnsworth, 51j
Liuhtenthal, Otis Patterson, Julius Keithly,
W. A. Johnston, J. L. Yetmer.
Itecorder F. J. Hallook
L'reiteurer A. M. Gunn
iVlarahal
Precinct Offloerp.
Justine of the Peaee E. L. Freeland
Constable N. B. Whetstone
Puitid States Land Officers.
THE DAI.LKS, OB.
J. F, Moore Kogister
A.. Biggs lieceivor
LA GBANDE, OR.
ti. F, Wilson Register
J.H. Rob bins Receiver
sx:C&:x societies.
-stv Doric Lodge No. 20 K. of P. meeto ev-
ritV ery i-newtiay evening at 7.30 o clock in
i -zj i .- . .
-TV.l their I Jiflt a Hn NHtuinal Knnlr hn ilrf.
in. Hojodrnma brotherB curdiallv in
vited to attend. A. W. Pattekhon, C. C.
iA' W. V. Cbawpobd, K. of It. & 8. tt
KAWLINS POST, NO. 81.
8. A. B.
'ieets at Lexington, Or., the last Saturday of
M(rh month. All veterans are invited to join.
'.'0. Boon, Geo. W. Smith.
Adjutant, tf Commander.
LUMBER!
YS7E HAVE FOR BALE ALL KINDS OP UN
VV dressed Lumber, 10 miles of Heppner, at
wntu in kuowu as toe
8COTT SAWMIUIj
PKK 1,000 FKKT. KOUU11, - - - $10 00
CLEAR, - - 17 60
fF DELIVERED IN HEPPNER, WILL ADD
L lo.uu per 1,1X10 teet, additional.
L. HAMILTON, Prop.
I. A. Hamilton, Man'gf
ionai Ban. of
r.
WM. PENLAND, El). R. BISHOP.
President. Cashier.
TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BCSINESS
COLLECTIONS
Made on Favorable Terms.
EXCHANGE BOUGHT & SOLD
HEPPNER.
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OREGON
Caveats, Trade-marks, Design Patents, Copyrights,
And all Patent buslneH conducted for
MODERATE FEES.
Information and adrlce Riven to Inventors wltHoof
cbarge. Addresi
PRESS CLAIMS CO.,
JOHN WEDOERBURN,
Managing Attorney,
O. Box 463. Washington. D.U
ThU Company It managed by a combination of
tt,'.- larr'tt and n;ot Influential newipanen tn tno
I nucil St if, for thi- fiprvM parpoae of protet
tng llilr aabMrlbt?r atrainst n!iscra)alouf
t:.i iai-otiifK-teut Pa.i-at Agenu, and earh ppe
r rlrticz tiiU a lverti-meat Toncbe for the retponiU
Hit 7 Uil nig& r.aadlug of ti prew C!auna Comoaof.
"As olil aa
th" lulls" and
never excell
ed. " Tried
and proven "
is the verdict
o f million-:.
Simmon s
Liver rii'irn-
lator is tliti
ff0 W o n 1 v Liwi
and Kidnev
medicine to
which you
can pin your
r t faith for a
l77 euro. A
J. MUrl mild laxa
tive, an d
purely veg
etable, act
ttv 7 7 ing directly
A-' C on the Liver
A ft ana Kid
neys. Try it.
Sold by all
Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder
to be taken dry or made into a tea.
The King of Liver MeoMcineR.
" 1 have uaed your.Slminnns I.iver Rern
lutor iitul cuu eoiiMciunciously my tt Is the
kint,' oi'iill liver medicines. I consider it. a
medicine ehest. in itself. jKo, W. JACK
SON, Taeolua, WasliingLon.
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Hag the Z Stamp in red on wrapper.
The comparative value of these twoeirda
Is known to most persons.
They Illustrate that greater quantity la
Not always most to be desired.
These cards express the beneficial qual
ity of
Ripans Tabules
As compared with any previously known
DYSPEPSIA CURB
Ripans Tabules : Price, 50 cents a boar,
Of druggists, or by mail.
RIPANS CHEMICAL CO., 10 Sprues St., N.Y.
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ART AND ARTISTS,
Giotto'8 greatest advance in paint
ing was the rejection of the greenish
black color the Hyzantine painters em
ployed for the human figure, anil sub
stituting the color of nature for the
faces anil hands.
Tin: museum of antiquities at Dres
den has come into possession of an in
tervsting marble relief from Rome,
which represents an ancient butcher
shop, of olilimg shape, and divided by
a pillar into two equal parts.
A portrait, which is supposed to be
of Robert Auchmuty, one of George
1 1 1, 's judges, in Hoston, is still hang
ing in the supreme courtroom in that
city. The picture is the work of John
Singleton Copley and bears the date of
1"(!7.
Mr. Huhnk-.Tonks, the English artist,
is engaged upon the interesting task
of painting a portrait of Mr. Glad
stone's youngest granddaughter, Doro
thy Drew. This little blue-eyed
maiden of three years is said to re
semble the grandfather startlingly.
A Guhek peasant living on the island
of yligina recently discovered a mag
nificent statue buried in the ground,
upon which had been a small planta
tion, and which he had cleared. The
statue was sold to a bric-a-brac dealer,
who sent it to London, where it has
just been bought by the British gov
ernment for the sum of sixty-five hun
dred pounds.
BOOK LITTER.
' The sultan is establishing a public
library in Constantinople. All the li
braries of the mosques are to be trans
ferred to it.
The old Indiana homestead of the
family of Mr. James Whitcomb Riley
nas oeen purchased by the poet as a
permanent residence.
The largest library in the world is
the Hibliotheque Nationale, Paris,
founded by Louis XIV. It contains 1,
400,000 volumes, S00.000 pamphlets,
175 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and
charts and 150,000 coins and medals.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes cele
brated his eighty-fourth birthday re
cently. He is working on an auto
biography. Few men have in their
time tasted more of the love of their
fellow men than the cheery Autocrat.
Ax interesting find is a library of 500
volumes, including seventy manu
scripts of the tenth and eleventh, and
some with wonderful miniatures of the
the fourteenth centuries, which were
recently discovered in a Franciscan
cloister near Rieti, Italy.
COMMON NAMES.
Hurst meant wood, hence residents
in or near a wood bore the names of
Hurseley, Hawkhurst, Ashurst. Elm-
hurst and the like.
Cop meant any prominence of land.
and hence came the Cops, Copes, Cop
leys, Copelands, Copps, Cophams, Cop
wills, Cobdens and Cobleys.
Starch and stark were synonymous.
which accounts for the abundance of
the Starks, formerly manufacturers of
or dealers in this article.
Heifer herds were yeat herds, hence
the Yeamans and Yeaters. Cowherds,
CoherdB and Cowarts were the men
who tended the herds of cows.
Swain was formerly a man who keDt
hogs, and his descendants are the
Swaines, Swaynes, and perhaps also
Swaims, Swinnerts and Hoggarts.
Hill comes from an old English verb
moaning to cover, or put a roof on;
hence the Hills, Hillyers, Helliers,
Heelers, and even Helman and Heel
man. PAINTINGS AND PAINTERS.
The English artist Watts has given
his painting "Love and Life" to the
American people.
Rosa Romikuk says, in defense of
man attire, that she would have missed
all chances of success had she had to
bear the weight of the skirts in fashion
thirty-six years ago.
Prince Ei'oene of Sweden has tamed
his royal blood to patient study of
.painting, and will send a picture to
the next salon. He is said to have pro
nounced talent and to iave worked
ard under able instructors of Paris.
Palettes of famous painters form
an interesting collection in the pos
session of M. Reuginet, of Paris. His
collection numbers over a hundred
specimens, chief among which are the
palettes used by Corot, Troyon, Dela
croix. Henjamin Constans, llonnat,
Rosa Bonheur, Detaille, Puvis de Cha
vannes and other artists of celebrity.
THE WESTERN PEDAGOGUE.
We are in reoeipt of the May number
of our state school paper. It exceed
any of the former numb-rs it value.
The paper this month cnnlxiLs many
new and valuable features. The illus
tratei series on the schools of tbe state
is introduced by a paper on the Friends
Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon
Ihese papers cannot fail lo be of treat
value both to the schools an I to the
pilhoO.
There are also several Hue articles
by onr best writers i nd the depHrttmuits
"Current Eveuts,""8HtiirdHy Thoughts, "
"Educational News" "The Oracle
Answers, Correspondents," etc , eaoh
oontain much valuable reading for
teachers or parents. The magazine
has about 50 pages of matter, well
printed and arranged. We pronounce
tbe Western pedagogue tbe best educa
tional monthly on tbe ooast.
Everyone of onr readers should have
the paper if tbey are at all interested
in education. No teaoher school direc
tor or student can get along well with
out it. We will receive subsoript.ons
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When desired we will send the Western
Pedagogue and Oazette one year to one
address for 83.00. Call and examine
ample oopiee. Teaohers, direotora mid
parents, now ii tbe time tn subscribe, tf
ATE ITS OWN TAIL.
The Absurd Trick of One of the Central
Ainencun Chameleon.
A traveler from Central America
recently told rather an amusing story.
Down in my country," he said, "iuiu
of the first things you get acquaint.-
with is a small, bright green lizarii
1 ney are quite tame, Harmless anil
very lively. When caught by the ta
they have a peculiar fashion of slip
ping away, leaving that appendage
behind them.
"One afternoon I was sitting on my
doorstep watching one of these littl
creatures darting about for Hies.
became quite bold, and in one of its
quick movements jumped on ray foot
I made a sudden grab anil caught it 1
the tail. ith a wriggle it was off.
leaving that portion of its body still in
my hand.
"As I had no particular use for it,
threw it on the ground. In a fewmin
uU?s I noticed that a lot of ants had
discovered the piece of tail, and were
dragging it off as fast as they could to
their hole close by. When thev had
arrived almost to their destination
noticed the lizard, a few inches away
intently watching the ants and his
missing property.
"Just as the ants were making
final pull to their nest the lizard dart
ed out among them, and, seizing his
bit of a tail, swallowed it with evident
relish."
A Strange Sight.
One of the most amusing spectacles
oi the colnmoian exposition was seen
in front of the California building on
tne day oi the state celebration.
free distribution of fruit had been
widely advertised, aDd carloads of
fruit had been sent great luscious
peaches, plums, pears, nectarines and
half-yard bunches of white Muscat
grapes and flaming Tokays. Great
booths were erected outside the build
ing, and a dozen fine young California
men, her best products, handed out
fruit to a vociferous, struggling, eager
crowd for seven long hours. It was a
sight to be remembered. Sometimes
the air was full of the larger fruits
which were tossed out among the
crowd and promptly caught, but the
bunches of grapes had to be treated
more tenderly. Hats, hands and bas-
iters reacnea out lor the generous
bunches, and hundreds came away
bearing their well-fought-for burden
to share with friends. On this occasion
many had come from distant parts of
tne grounds.
A (Jueor Legal Document.
rina .t... i. , ...
wunu imme now lr. tne national mu
seum of Pans labeled "Sentence on a
hog, executed by justice, in the codv
hold of Clarmont-Avin, and strangled
upon a gibbet at that place." it is
sealed with red wax, kept under i
glass case, bears date June 14, 1401
and reads as follows: " We
the jury, in detestation and horror o
this crime, and in order to make an ex
ample and so satisfy justice, have de
clared, judged, sentenced, pronounced
anil appointed that the said hog, now
detained m the abbey as a nrisoner.
shall by the executioner be hung and
strangled on a gibbet, near the gallows
wnicii stands within the jurisdiction
of the monks whose names are hereto
appended, being near the copyhold of
Avin. in witness of which we have
sealed this present with our seals.
Following the above are the signatures
ol the jurors and the prefect of the de
partment de l'Ainse.
The Man aim Ills Htoiiiiu-h.
me cnarming wile or a congress
man, noted for his energetic labor in
behaJi-of his constituents and his gen
eral efficiency and unfailing good-nature,
is quite a noted cook. When sin
is to entertain at dinner, she is fond of
surprising her guests with a daintv
dish of her own preparing. "1 believe
she said, when someone complimented
her on her accomplishments, "that we
grow like what we eat. My husband
has a sensitive digestion, and bad cook
ing came near making a fiend of him
and a maniac of me. I set mvself to
correct this, and I Hatter myself that
I have succeeded. Improperly pre
pared food depresses one, and will
transform my husband into a cynical
pessimist in less than an hour. 1 really
consider that his popularity in his dis
trict and his return to congress depend
upon the food I give him anil the man
ner in which it is prepared."
ENGLISHMEN OF NOTE.
The income of the duke of West
minster is twelve and one-half cents
per second.
Mr. Gladstone's name occupies
twenty-two pages on the catalogue of
the liritish museum; Tennyson's fifty
seven. The bishop of Liverpool is one of the
most stalwart members of the Epis
copal bench. He stands over six feet
high and is, or was, a model of a uni
versity athlete.
Duke Chari.es Theodore, of Bavaria,
not only has learned but steadily prac
tices the art of healing, and recently
performed his two thousandth opera
tion for cataract.
York and l.anrMster Koses.
Those familiar with Shakespeare re
member that the two antagonistic
houses of York anil Lancaster had
their followers distinguished by one
hide carrying white niM-saiul the other
red roses. There is in cultivation a
rose called the York and Lancaster on
account of striped white and red lines
pervading the petals these colors, of
course, represent the two houses
united. Just what particular sneeiea
of roses were chosen has alwnv haH
an interest for the critical student. A tic "r al'"ost everything, even for
recent notice in the Quarterly Review 1 KeU'"f out of temper in public, an of
deeides that the white rose of York I f,-nse. f"r which the penalty is fivedays
was the English white rose, Rosa
arvensis, and warmly contends that it
was a double variety of this species;
but if that rose at all, it was most like
ly Ut be a pure wild form, for it would
be almost impossible to get double
Bowers for the thousands of men who or bair out. These have been bis cbarg
engaged in those broils. j ee for months. LWt forget him, .
SEATS AT THE TABLE.
Row a Guest Kveneil l p Things with III.
Landlord.
A short time ago, between Zanesville
and Columbus, the train stopped at a
small village.
On the guard crying out. "Fifteen
minutes for dinner," the passengers, of
wjiom there happened to be a large
number, rushed into the dining apart
ment and took their seats at the table,
one of thein depositing his carpet bag
on the chair next to him.
At the usual time the landlord, pass
ing around to make his collection,
called upon the aforesaid passenger for
his payment for dinner.
"How much?" asked the prssenger.
"Eighty cents," replied the landlord.
"Eighty cents for a dinner? Why,
that is extortionate."
"No, sir, it is not extortionate. Ain't
that your carpet bag?"
"Yes. sir, that is my carpet bag."
"Well, that ca rpet bag occupies a seat
and of course 1 must charge for it."
"Oh, is that the case? Well, here is
your eighty cents."
Turning to the carpet bag, the pas
senger remarked:
"Well, Mr. Carpet Hag, as you have
not had much to eat, suppose we take
something," at the same time opening
its mouth and turning therein half
a ham, a roast chicken, a plate of bis
cuits and sundry other articles, amid
tne roar of laughter of the other pas
sengers. The prevailing opinion among the
passengers was that the carpet bag
uuu gameu a glorious victory.
CHANCE OF MARRIAGE.
Ten Thousand Women Have Lost It, Says
Walter Uesant,
"Therefore 10,000 women have now
lost their chance of marriage." Thosi
fateful words, it is almost unnecessary
to say, are from the pen of Walter
Uesant,
He is commenting upon the fact that
the Rank of England has decided to
appoint women as clerks, that various
merchants' offices are doing the same
thing, and that in certain branches of
the civil service women are being em
ployed. It all means, he argues, that
10,000 men will be unemployed, will
seek fresh fields and pastures new,
leaving 10,000 women in their places
and 10,000 other women husba.ulless!
He finds no ray of light in the gloomy
prospect. He admits that the country
will save about 500,000 a vear bv the
change. "Rut," he goes on, "10,000
possible families are not called into
existence. Now 10,000 families may
average 40,000 children. The country,
tnereiore, loses the work, brains, pro-
Putting the productive power of one
person at 100, we have a loss in the
next generation of 4,000,000 a year.
Which is better to save 500,000 a year,
or to secure the services and strength
of 40,000 English men and women,
reckoned at 4,000,000 a year?"
SO DREADFULLY CANDID.
Won of the Writer or Artist Who Haa a
Plain-Spoken Prlena.
Do you write? Oh, how yourcandid
friend shakes his head over your last
novel or play, or whatever it is, says
All The Year Round. You are not
doing nearly such good work as you
did two years ago, and he mutters
about decaying powers and writing
yourself out, till, like Henry II., you
groan: "Who will rid me of this man?"
Perhaps you fancy you can paint, in
which'case hanging eommlttees.buyers,
critics and dealers are not the most
savage lions in your path if you happen
to be blessed with a candid friend.
The worst of it is, the man is a friend
and will do you a good turn if he can
of course without much trouble to him
self, also to a certain extent he knows
what he is talking about, so that you
are bound to have some resnect for his
opinion. He begins by gently prancing
around your work rather in the man
ner of the commencement of a Sioux
war dance.
You grow anxious, and losinir vour
hi ad, in a moment of temporary aber
ration you ask his opinion. Whoop!
rou've got it. Your shadows are
opaque and your lights pasty, your
drawing is weak and your technique
bad; your color is crude and the whole
thing out of tone, and at the end the
sum and substance of it all is that if
he the candid friend nn.inti.,1 um
adly as you do, he would never touch
brush again as long as he lived.
'Hope I haven't hurt you, old fellow.
but you would ask my candid ouiniim.
so I was bound to 'give it to you," he
saya.
He ftuintd the llu.lne.s.
American temperance agitators would
not enjoy themselves in Austria. A
native of a small village, after a long
cataleptic trance, a year ago, declared
that he had been to Heaven and had
been commissioned by the Almighty
to return and teach the peasants the
wickedness of drinking spirits. Soon
the entire village took an oath of total
abstinence. The district governor com
mitted the man to the madhouse, where
the doctors kept him for six mouths
and then declared him sane. He re
sumed his agitation and in a short
ime seven villages had taken vows of
abstinence. The result was that a num
ber of liquor dealers to whom the gov
ernment had granted licenses refused
to keep their contracts. The district
udge gave orders that the dangerous
agitater be arrested if caught preach
ng abstinence.
The 1-enal lode of China.
Taking the word In its li teral wnu
the most civilized country In the world
is China, and it is here that we find the
most severe penal code. It is most
Minutely divided, and there are nrml.
imprisonment. I he punishments of
the Chinese code are as numerous and
varied as they are barbarous.
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HYENAS OF THE DANUBE.
Plundering the Many Dead llmllcta That
Float Down the Klver.
A painful sensation has been created
here, says a Vienna correspondent of
the London Telegraph, by an article in
one of the V leuna daily papers, entitled
"The Hyenas of the Danube," in which
a greivMimely realistic description is
given of the annual appearance of hun
dreds of corpses floating down the river
between Vienna and Hungary, which
are regularly plundered by the people
on the banks, and then cynically
thrown back into the swift current of
the stream, never to be heard of again.
The writer considers this horrible
state of things maiuly in a judicial
light, and complains of the serious
losses thus intlicted upon the living in
consequence of the absence of all clew
to the fate of their unfortunate rela
tives. "Year after year," he affirms,
"hundreds of lifeless bodies the mor
tal remains of suicides, victims of
crime and victimsof accidents rise to
the surface of the Danube, are swent
along with the current, and washed
up on the luud ou one bank or the oth
er. Here they are discovered by the
'hyenas,' who ritle the corpses, and
then, as a rule, kick them back on the
waves, after which no human being
worries about them more. Thousands
of people vauish from the scene in this
manner, no one ever learning what
fate befell them. Hlooil-curilling
crimes remain undiscovered, and the
uncertainty whether a man is dead or
will return again to his family and
friends is often fraught with heavy
losses to the latter. No mound marks
the spot where these unfortunate peo
ple rest; they are struck out of the
roll-call of humanity; no trace reveals
the course of their last long journey;
they have simply vanished from the
world like the lost wanderer of the
desert who is buried beneath enormous
sand waves, or like the furnished trav
eler in the wilderness whose body be
comes the food of birds of prey. And
yet we are living in Europe!"
WHITE HORSES AND LUCK.
Mauy Tersnns Think It firings III Fortune
tn Klile Ilehlnd Such Animals.
"The car behind me will carry three
or four more passengers than I will,"
said a Fourth avenue street car driver
to a New York Herald man the other
day, as I stood on the front platform
on a down-town trip. We had just
passed two young women who were
standing on a corner and were evi
dently waiting for a car.
"They'll take the next car," the
driver continued, "arid between here
and the city hall I'll pass one or two
more who won't get on this car."
"What's the matter?" 1 asked. "Do
they know the conductor and do not
like to ride on his car, or what is it?"
"Why, it's the horses," was the an
swer. "Don't you see these nags are
white? There are lots and lots of peo
ple in this town who wouldn't be hired
to ride behind a white horse. They
think it's bad luck, and no mutter how
big a hurry they are in they'll always
wail for a car that isn't drawn bv
white horses."
I said something about "supersti
tion" and the foolishness of persons
who stopped to think about the color
of a car horso when the driver inter
rupted me.
"I'm not so sure about that," he ex
claimed. "I've been running a ear
more than ten years and never had
many accidents, but whatever bad
luck I have had has been when I was
driving white horses. 1 know a dozen
drivers who don't like to get behind
such a team as this, and every one of
them has good reason fur it, too.
There's lots of gamblers and men who
bet on horse races who are like those
two women you couldn't make them
ride behind white horses when they
are going to the races."
ON THE SIDE OF SCIENCE.
Fourteen minor planets were discov
ered during April, bringing the total
number of small planets known to 375.
Prof. Doi.iikak says a powerful
search light eon Id project a beam to
Mars in four minutes which could be
seen and responded to if they have the
apparatus we have.
Sin John Heusciiki, says thut if a
solid cylinder of lee, 45 miles in dia
meter und soo.OOu miles long, were
plunged end first into the sun, it would
melt in a second of time.
Scientists have succeeded in meas
uring thu thickness of soapy water in
a bubble. When showing the shade of
violet, it was one-fourth the thh-k
of a violet wave of light, that is, about
i-.-u,uu ol an inch.
Tun position of the lamprey els has
been reviewed by Prof. Ilwus, who
thinks that instead of being primitive
forms, they are aberrant fish-like
forms, which have lost their lower jaw,
their sucking mouth having been sec
ondarily acquired.
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lions of Dollars.
The savings banks of Russia hav
only 50 cents to the inhabitant on de
posit, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Denmark has the greatest amount tc
the inhabitant iu the savings banks
lining about $50 to each.
In ISOJ there were in this country 1,05
banks that received savings deposits
the depositors numbered 4,781,605, anc
thu deposits aggregated the enormoui
sum of l,712,7tt,0aa.
France comes next after the Unitec
States in the number of depositors ir
the savings banks, having 4,150,000, anc
having on deposit the sum of 8559,
000,000.
Germany has the greatest number o)
depositors in the savings banks, ovei
5,000,000, but the aggregate of their de
posits is not given in the government
report.
In Switzerland 300 inhabitants in th
1,000 have money on deposit in savingi
banks; in Germany, ISO; in France
170, in Great Uritain, 135; in the United
States, 67.
The Austrian savings banks are pat
ronized by 1,850.000 depositors, whe
have on deposit $013,000,000.
Of all the states New York has th
greatest number of savings bank de
positors, 1,510,380, and also the great
est amount of deposits, 5SS,4'!5,421
Massachusetts conies next with 1,131,
'203 depositors, having on deposit $369,
5'26,3S6. AN EMPEROR AT THE PLOW.
Curious Kites Ferformed by the Kuler of
China at Certain Intervals.
In order to emphasize the importance
of the cultivation of the soil and to
encourage his subjects to follow agri
cultural pursuits, the emperor of China
sometimes performs certain rites at
the "emperor's field," and goes through
the form of plowing and other work of
the husbandman. One day recently,
says the N. A. U. Cable, the emperor
set out at daybreak from his palace,
with a nunerous and magnificent train
of courtiers and others. Hefore break
fast the etnperor arrived at the shrines
of the deity presiding over agriculture,
and his majesty stopped to offer up his
thanksgiving and sacrifices. After
changing his dress the morning repast
was served, at the end of which the
emperor proceeded to the field, at the
four corners of which were erected
four pavilions where the seeds of
wheat and other cereals were placed.
In the center were numbers of mag
nificently attired courtiers, each hold
ing aloft a many-colored Hag, while on
the side of the passage were scores
of aged and white-haired farmers,
each having in Ins hand some agri
cultural implement. Placing his left
hand ou the plow and holding the
whip in his right hand, the emperor
begun the ceremony of the occasion.
Ily pi-eiirningemeiit the otlicers did
their allotted share, some wielding the
agricultural Implements, while others
scattered seeds out of the baskets as if
sowing, while the emperor was busied
with thu plow which was hitched to a
richly caparisoned bullock, draped in
yellow and led by two of the emperor's
bodyguards, On the emperor finishing
his round at the plow the three princes
were ordered to go through the per
formance, ami after them nine high
courtiers hail their turn, after which
the performance closed. Having re
ceived the greeting of his officers the
emperor returned to his palace.
LANGUAGEOF-STONES.
March claims the bloodstone, which
means courage.
August claims the moonstone, which
is said to bring conjugal fidelity.
June claims for her children the
pearl, the meauing of which is purity.
To those born in December tlie tur
quoise is said to bring a prosperous
life.
To those who are born in September
the sapphire brings success and pre
vents evil.
Fehuuahv claims the purple ame
thyst, which is said to bring the virtue
of contentment.
The stone associated with the first
month of the year is the garnet, which
means constancy.
Those who were born in July must
wear a ruby, which brings to its chil
dren nobility of mind.
Those who ure born in April must
wear a changeable duzzling diamond,
the meaning of which is iunoceuce.
Mav is represented by the emerald,
whieh is supposed to bring success in
love to those who wear it by right of
their birth month.
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