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ALONG THE COAST. Items of General Interest Gleaned From the Thriving Paelfln States. Railroad Extension. Considerate excitement prevails from Lakeview, Lake county, Oregon, all long the line to Reno. Kev.,. owing to the recent authenticated report of the extension of the Nevada & California railroad from Amedu, Cal., north. The news of the purchase of over 8,000 tons of steel rails in New York by the own ers of this road was sent out last week, and the material will be shipped im mediately to Amedu, preparatory to beginning of extension work in the spring. This is a nanow-guage road now terminating at Amedu,. and it is concluded that the next terminus will be, Villi Loans, 65 miles north, and nearly crossing over the great Mada line plains. It will place Lakeview within 105 miles of railroad transpor tation, and will make a considerable difference in stock shipping, freighting and passenger travel. The object of the proposed extension is to head off the Southern Pacific Company, which is now extending its line from Upton through the great McCloud timber belt to Fall River. Speedy Mall Carriers. Ail records of ice travel on the Yu kon have been broken by the recent feat of the mounted police of the Northwest ten i tor y- in bringing a big shipment of mail from Dawson to Skagway in nine days and 10 hoars. The mail left Dawson on the morning of January 15 and was in Skagway before noon on January 31. The record was made by the Canadian officials, it is said, to show that they could greatly reduce the time being made by the United States mail contractors. Bli Sale of Wheat. With the sale of about 500,000 bush els of wheat on a basis of 60 oents for No. 1 olub, net, to the farmers, the wheat market has taken on a quieter tone at Pendleton, Or., and no sales are being recorded. The distribntion of 1250,000 of ready money in this com munity has given considerable impetus. to retail business, which had become somewhat stagnant fiom the failure of the producers to realize either on wheat or wool. Schooner Sander Libeled. The schooner Fred E. Sander, at the Tacoma mill loading lumber for Vallejo Junotion, has been libeled by James Gillespie, formerly a cook on her, for $318. The suit was brought while the ship was on the lower Sound. The case will be heard in Seattle. Sinoe Guming to Tacoma the oaptain and all ot the crew who were in her before, with the exception of a Mexican, who speaks no English, have left her. Farming; Operations Resumed. Farming operations are in active progress in the country south and west of Colfax, Wash., and last week hun dreds of acres were plowed for spring seeding. Farmers in the Alkali flat country are seeding, and many are well along with sowing their spring gram Squirrels are out by hundreds, the country bears the marks of spring, the hills are becoming green, and farmers are busy with their spring work. A Girl Attacked. On Sunday, an unknown man at tacked the 14-year-olddaughter of O. I. Morris, of Turner, Or., while she was in a stubble field, rounding up cows. The man jumped from behind a clump of brush, threw the girl on the ground, took off one of her shoes' and ordered her to skip. Mr. Morris heard the screams of Iris daughter, and ran to her rescue, but the assailant wr.i nowhere to be found. No Bids Received. The steamship City of Columbia was put up for sale at San Francisco at the upset price of $32,000. There was no purchaser. The polioe department will now indorse the petition of the seamen of the Columbia that the vessel be put up for as much as she will bring. The sailors of the vessel are really in a very bad shape. Most of them have not a cent, and have not possessed a dollar in weeks. - Overhauling a Nail Plant. The report published in the Port Townsend Leader a few days ago to the effect that the nail woiks plant was being wrecked for the purpose of shipping the machinery elsewhere, was a mistake. It originated from the fact that several workmen were busily en gaged in overhauling the machinery When the plant will resume work has not been definitely settled. , Income From Clams. According to the Astorian, C. N, Carnahan, as a result of a personal in vestigation of the subject, finds that the estimate of value of the clam prod uot of Clatsop county contained in Fish Commissioner MoUuire's report is wrong. Mr. McGuire puts the an nual value of Clatsop county clams at $900. Mr. Carnahan states that it is very olose to $10,000. Box Pirates at Ban Francisco. John Hallin and Arthur Daught have been arrested at San Francisco on a charge of stealing copper and brass from the Mare island navy-yard. They were formerly wreckers, but of late have been veritable bay pirates, using a whaleboat and a skiff to commit their depredations. General Land Office Reversed. In the case of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company against James B, Gaines, involving lands in the Walla Walla land district. Washington, the secretary has reversed the decision of the general land office, whioh held for cancellation the selection of the rail road company and allowed the applica- tion of Gaines to make homestead en try of the disputed tract. The com pany's right was prior and indiiputa ble. and Gaines has been notified to transfer his claim to othei lands. Llea Lands Approved. Notice of the approval by the gen eral land office of lieu lands list No. 63, embracing 17,177.7? acres of swamp and overflowed lands in the Lakeview district, incurring to and selected by the state under an act of congress, ap- iroved March 2, 1860, has been received at the executive office ot Oregon. The governor has asked for the immediate issuance of a patent. Mrs. Victorian Blancbard, 66 years old, of Holyoke, Mass., is the youngest living daughter of a tevolutionary so flier. New Kailroad in China A. W. Bash, who was formerly col lector of customs on Puget sound, was the original promoter in China, of what ves promise of being a very important enterprise. The moving spirit now be- ind the scheme is Stewart M. Biico. The matter includes valuable conces sions for the Amprioan-Chiim Develop ment Company in the name of the China Kailroad Company. The sur vey of the road is already in progress. The office of the new company is ut Ta coma. New Portlaiid-Soutut Line. W. H. Llewellyn and George Tiffany two New York capitalists are at San Francisco. They are said to have come est on an important railroad deal. They have in view the building of a railroad from Portland to Tacoma and Seattle, a distance of 140 miles. Honda have already been placed in New York to raise the necessary money for the construction of this road. It is oom mon gossip that Llewellyn and Tiffany are agents for the Vanderbilts. Cutting the Time. The time between Chicago and' Omaha has been reduced to 12 houis on the Chicago & Northwestern rial- way. This is part of the overland imited, whioh is to reduce the time between Chicago and Portland to three ays. The fastest time previously made between Chicago and Omaha on the Chicago & Northwestern was 13 hours and 25 minutes. A Curious Accident. A curious accident occurred in an Albina, Or., home recently by which a little girl was dangerously wounded by revolver. The mother found the re volver whioh she imagined was un loaded. For some reason or other she placed it in an old slipper. The little girl oame in and gave this a kick caus ing the discharge of the revolver. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Seattle Markets. Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds. Potatoes, $1520. Beets, per sack, 75c. Turnips, per sack, 50 75c. Carrots, per sack, 45 60c. Parsnips, per sack, $1. Cauliflower, 5090o per doz. Celery, 3540o. . Cabbage, native and California $1.25 per 100 pounds. Apples, 85 50c per box. Pears, 60c $ 1.50 per box. Prunes, 50c per box. Butter Creamery, 26o per pound; iairy and ranch, 17 20c per pound. Eggs, 30c. Cheese Native, 1212Mc. Poultry Old hens, 14c per pound; spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c. Fresh meats Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 8c; cows, prime, 7c; mutton, 8c; pork, 8)o; veal, 08o. Wheat Feed wheat. $23. Oats Choice, per ton, $25. Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.00 11; choice Eastern Washington tim othy, $15. Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $2526; whole, $22. Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50; straights, $3.25; California brrnds, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.50; graham, per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour, $3.76; rye flour, $4.60. Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. Feed Chopped feed, $20 32 per ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 68c; Valley, 60c; Bluestem, 61o per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham, $2.66; superfine, $2.15 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 4142c; choice gray, B94c per busnel. Barley Feed barley, $2223; brew ing, $23.50 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00 per ton. . . Hay Timothy, $9 10; clover. $7 8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, t055c seconds, 4650o; dairy, 404So store, 2580o. Cheese Oregon full cream, 12o Young America, 15o; new cheese, 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.604 per dozen; hens, $4.005.00; springs, $1.253; geese, $6.007.00 for old $4.50 6 for young; ducks, $5.00 5.60 per dozen; turkeys, live, 16 16c per pound. Potatoes 80 90c per sack; sweets 2c per pound. Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c per sack; garlic, 7o por pound; cab bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; caul flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery 7075c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c pe box; peas, 83)c per pound. Onions Oregon, 76c$l per sack. Hops 1518o; 1897 crop, 46o. Wool Valley, 1012o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair, 20c per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton. 7c; spring lambs, Tc per lb. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.26; light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed, 5.005.60 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 8.60$3.75; cows, $2. 60 8. 00; dressed beef, 66c per pound. Veal Large, 61'7c; small, 7 8c er pound. Ban Francisco Market. Wool Spring Nevada," 10 12c per pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val ley, 1517c; Northern, 9llc. Millstuffs Middlings, $2123.00; bran, $18.00 19.00 per ton. Onions Silverskin,6090cper sack. Butter Fancy creamery, 28c; do seconds, 23 24c; fancy dairy, 22c; do seconds, 17 19c per pound. Eggs Store, 22 24c; fancy ranch, 22 25o. Hops 1898 crop, 1317o Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $3 2.50; Mexican limes, B6.50; Cali fornia lemons, $2.00. 800; do choice, $3. 50 4. 60; per box. Hay-Wheat, $14 17; wheat an! oat, $15316; oat. $1416; best bar ley, $13 14; alfalfa. $1214 per ton; straw, 60 75c per bale. Potatoes Early Rose, $1.10 1.15; Oregon Burkanks. 75ctl.15; liver Embanks, 75o$l; Salinas Burbanks, $1 1.10 per sack. Tropical fruits Bananas, $1.21 S.60 per bunch; pineapples, $2.60 4.60; Persian, dates, 66e per pound. THE YRIBUTE DAY OF LIBERTY AND ENLIGHTENMENT. I WIDOW DARBY'S 2 t VALENTINE. iH E widow Darby, I -fnir. nliimn nnil look- ine fur vouncer than her 45 years, had rid- den into town with kt Jared Kent, because J her horse had lamed Shimself that morning, land Jared "happened be going in," and had asked the widow ride with him. Jared was what some the people of the neighborhood called a "regular born old bach." He had flouted and scorned womanhind most of the fifty years of his life, and had openly set forth his conviction that men were "better off without 'em than with 'em," particularly when it come to "marrying of 'em." He had held to this conviction so long and had proclaimed it so boldly and so con stantly that all of the match-makers in the rural neighborhood in which he lived had given him up a hopeless case beyond the pale of their schemes for making a benedict of him. Jared was not, like most avowed women haters, a crabbed, cross-grained, sneering- ly cynical man, which made his celibacy all the more unpardonable in the eyes of the match-makers. "He'd make a real good husband if he'd try, they said. "Then he has the nicest farm in the neighborhood, with one of the best houses on if and money out at in terest, although he's not a bit mean and stingy. He'll do his full share always for a neighbor in distress. .It isn't because he's too stingy to support her that Jared doesn't get him a wife." It was a clear, crisp morning in Febru ary when Jared rode to the village with the widow Darby seated beside him in his neat little cutter. The sleighing was fine and the air keen and exhilarating, It gave the widow's plump cheeks a beauti ful crimson glow and made her black eyes sparkle. She was in high spirits and her laugh rang out frequently as merry and rippling as the laugh of a child. But then the widow Darby was prover bially cheery. She had suffered keenly the loss of her husband and both of her children, but time had softened her grief, and she was too wise to spend her life in gloom and grief over the kiss of those who were beyond all care and sorrow. She had a comfortable little home and a few acres of land adjoining Jared Kent's. She had known Jared all of her life, but not once bad she thought of him as a possible successor to Joel Darby. "Jared will never marry any one," she bad said. "He isn't of a marrying dispo sition. Some men are that way. It's all they lack to make 'cm what God intended they should be. My husband and I used to talk Jared over a good deal, and we did our full share to get him settled for life with a good wife. We used to invite lots of nice girls, young and elderly both, to our house and then have Jared come over to tea and to play croquet with him. He'd be nice and pleasant and all that, but he never came any ways near fulling into any of the traps we set for him. We thought once that he did take a kind of a shine to a nice sweet, real good looking girl of about 30 named Janet Deane from over Shelby way, who was visiting us. She'd of made him an awful good wife, and I sung her praises all the time, but nothing came of it." "It's an elegant morning, isn't it?" said Jared, as he and the widow flew along over the hills and through long lanes in which the snow was drifted almost to the top rails of the fences. "Oh, it's lovely 1" replied the widow. "1 like snow." "So do I. You got much to do in town?" "No; I'll be through with all of my er rands in an hour. I can let something go If you don t want to stay in town that long." "Oh, that'll be none too long for me. Where shall I meet you?" "I'll be at Smith & Hanscom's dry good store, any time you say." "We'll call it 11 o'clock, then." It was three minutes after 11 when Jared drove up to the appointed place of meeting. The widow had stepped into the sleigh and he was tucking the robes in around her when she said: "There, Jared, I'm just like other worn en; I've forgotten something." "What is itr "I forgot to go around to the postofuce. I know that there's nothing there for me, because one of the Stone boys brought my mail out last night, and there's no mail trains in until noon; but poor old Jane Carr came over Just before I left and wanted me to be sure and see if there was a letter for her. Her daughter is very sick out West, and she hasn't had a letter for s week, and she's half wild. I couldn't bear to tell ber I'd forgotten to go to the office." "I'll drive 'round that way," said Jared "It won't be three blocks out of the wsy.' Two or three boys stood idling in front of the postofflce end Jared said to one of them be chanced to know: . "Say, Jimmic, run into the office and see If there's any letter for Mrs. Jane Carr, You needn't ask for me, for I've been around snd got my mail." "You might look in box 184." said Mrs. Darby. "Mebbe there's a drop letter for sae." The boy came out s moment later with a very large square white envelope in one hind snd a small blue envelope in the other. He grinned he handed them to Mrs. Dsrby. She glanced at the bine en velope and said joyfully: "O here's a letter for Jane, and it's from ber daughter, I know by the postmark, How glad Jane will be! And here well, I declarer' the bora Into merrr laugh as eke mm vrrx to x mem to x y of looked at the big white, embossed envel ope. The boy had told the truth when he had gone back to his comrades and said with a titter: "She's got a valentine!" "Who in the land ever sent me that thing?" said Mrs. Darby, holding the en velope out at arm's length. "I didn't even know it was Valentine's day. If it isn't the greatest Idea that I should get a, val entine!" "I don't know why you shouldn't," said Jared. "Oh, because I but I guess some child sent it." "Maybe not." "No one else could have had so little gumption!" Baid the widow with another laugh. "Maybe there's one of these comic valentines inside of it some ridiculous thing about a widow likely." "Why don't you open it and see?" "I will." She burst into another laugh as she drew forth a dainty creation of lace paper, tinsel and bright colored embossed pic tures. "How perfectly ridiculous!" she said. "The idea of any one being ninny enough to send an old woman like me a thing like that!" "You're not an old woman." "I'm forty-five!" "Well, I'm older than that, and I don't call myself an old man. Many a woman around here would be glad to get a val entine like that if the sender really meant it." "Yes, and if you were the sender." "I'm not vain enough to think that and not foolish enough to Bay it if I did think it." "No, I don't think that you arc, Jared. But I wonder who could hae sent me this. The writing on the envelope is evi- AT JANS CAItR S OATE. dently disguised, and O here is something-inside! Let's see what it says. " 'O wilt thou be my valentine Forever and forever aye. And wilt tbou take this heart of mine, And give me thine to-day?' " There was another verse, but before she had read it, the widow Darby cried out: Jared Kent, that s your hundwritiug and you need not try to deny it!" "I'm not trying to deny it. lou II tind my name signed in full to the next verse on the other page." This was the next verse: "If 'yes' my nnswpr Is to be. My heart with Joy will fill, If 'no,' I yet shall be your friend And I shull love you still." They had reached the outskirts of the town now. Jared brought the horse to a standstill and said: "Is It yes or no, Lucy?" She looked at him with shining eyes and laughing face for a moment. Then she laid one of her mitteued hands on the sleeve ot the great fur coat be wore and said: "I think it Is yes, Jared." He turned bis horse's head toward the town. "Where are you going?" she asked. "Back to the minister's. It's Valentino's day, you know, and if you are to be my valentine, I want you to-day." An hour later they stopped at Jane Cnrr's gate. She came skurrying out for her letter with her apron over her head. "I brought you a letter, Jane, and 1 got a valentine," said Lucy, holding up the big white envelope. "I got one also," said Jsred, as he put VjDVC i&fyf$ Marfan ptK$u tteWii to )jl)ttll)01,VC.C(Je tT; 0ev Avctoj w) rje Vtcitl oft an arm around his wife and kissed her. Detroit Free Press. WANTED HIS HALF OF THE BERTH A Good Story Geo. M. Pullman Loved to Tell of Lincoln. There was one Btory of his career that the late George M. Pullman of sleeping ear fame used to tell with manifest de light. It was as follows: "One night going out of Chicago, a long, lean, ugly man, with a wart on his cheek, came into the depot. He paid George M. Pullman 50 cents, and a half berth was assigned him. Then he took off his coat and vest and hung them up, and they fit ted the peg about as well as they fitted him. Then he kicked off his boots, which were of surprising length, turned into the berth, and, having an easy conscience, was sleeping like a healthy baby before the car left the depot. Along came an other passenger and paid his 50 cents. In two minutes he was back at George Pull man. "There's a man in that berth of mine," said he, hotly, "and he's about ten feet high. How am 1 going to sleep there, I'd like to know? Go and look at him." In went Pullman mnd, too. The tall, lank man's knees were under his chin, his arms were stretched across the bed and his feet were stored comfortably for him. Pullman shook him until he awoke, and then told him if he wanted the whole berth he would have to pay $1. "My dear Bir," said the tall man, "a contract is a contract. I have paid you 50 cents for half this berth, and as you see, I'm occupying it. There's the other hnlf," pointing to a Btrip about six inches wide. "Sell that and don't disturb me again." And, so saying, the man with a wart on his face went to sleep again. He was Abraham Lincoln. , James l'arton's Prediction. In 1802, James Porton, the celebrated biographical writer, made the following prediction in regard to Abraham Lincoln: History will say of Mr. Lincoln that no man of a more genial temperament, a more kindly nature, .ever tenunted the White House; that he gave all his time, his thoughts, his energies, to the dis charge of duties of unprecedented magni tude and urgency; that, huting no man, he steadfastly endeavored to win the con fidence and love of ull the loyal and pat riotic, and that, in spite of four chequered years of such responsibility uud anxiety as has seldom fallen to the lot of man, he bore away from the Cupitol the sunny temper and blithe frankness of his boy hood, returning to mingle with bis old neighbors as one with them in heart and is manner, in retirement as in power a happy specimen of the men whom Liberty and Democracy train in the log cabin end by the rudest hearth to guide the counsels of the Republic ami influence the destinies of the people. Lincoln When a liny. An exhibition of Lincoln's practical hu manity occurred while a boy. One even Ing, while returning from a "raising" with a number of companions, he discovered a straying horse, with snddle and bridle upon him. The horse was recognized as belonging to a well-known drunkard, and it was suspected that the owner was not far off. The fellow was found in a per fectly helpless condition upon the cold ground. Lincoln's companions Intended to leave him to bis fate, but young Lin coin would not hear of it. At his demand, the miserable man was lifted to his shou! ders, and he actually carried him eighty rods to the nenrest house. He then sent word to bis father that he would uot be back that night. He nursed the man un til morning, and believed that he bad sav ed his life. The Ship of State. Gen. John A. Logan relnted the follow ing: "On the morning of President Lin coln's arrival In Washington I called upon hiin at Willard's Hotel, in company . with Mr. Lovejoy of Illinois. We both urged on the new President the necessity of a firm, vigorons policy. He listened to the end and then , said very seriously, but cheerfully, 'As the country has placed me at the helm of the ship I II try to steer her through.' " Stable life, ZepWiYusli Tb cet rmWe. weave , ,rAAV)ft vt clrt cT. earls, oyN etjes IiKe Thine "T our Vli$Sot stflfc "McW lovers w- LAW AS INTERPRETED. Notice of an Incident causing death, given to an insurance company twenty ulue days after knowledge of the facta was obtained. Is held, in Foster, vs. Fi delity and C. Company (Wis.), 40 L. K. A. 833, to be too late to be "immediate" within the meaning of the policy. The right of a servant to rely on the promise of his master to repair defects In the place where the labor is to be per formed Is held, In Illinois Steel Com pany vs. Mann (111.), 40 L. It. A. 781, to exist for so long only as Is reasonably necessary to make the repairs, and af ter that period the servant is held to have waived the defects and to have assumed the additional risk. With this case is nn extensive note on the rights of a servant continuing work on the faith of the master's promise to re move a specific cause of danger. Notice to nn employer that one who Is employed to manage a brake con trolling the passenger cage connected with a mine has become Incompetent is held, In Walkowski vs. Penokee & G. Consolidated Mines (Mich.), 41 L. It. A. 83, not to be Implied from the fact that the engineer thought he ran the cage too fast, If there was nothing to show that the Information has reached the employer. With this case Is a remark ably elaborate note on the subject of knowledge as an element of an employ er's liability to an Injured servant Publication of a delinquent tax list In the English language, but In a news paper which Is otherwise printed in the German language, is held not to be suf ficient in state, Goebiil vs. Chamber lain (Wis.), 40 L. R. A. 843, when the statute provides In general terms for publication in a newspaper printed in the county, as the English language Is the language of the country to be used In all official proceedings, in the ab sence of statute authority to the con trary. The drainage of seepage or surplus water from irrigated lands into a canal from which water Is supplied for do mestic purposes as well as for Irriga tion, Is held, in North Point Consolidat ed Irrigation Company vs. Utah and Salt Lake Canal Company (Utah), 40 It. A. 851, to be wrongful, when the drainage renders the waters unfit eith er for domestic or for Irrigation pur poses, and to constitute a nuisance, al though a prescriptive right to , do so might be acquired by twenty years' un interrupted use. The purser of a steamer who lives on It Is held, In Jones vs. Skinner (Md.), 40 L. It. A. 752, to be unable to acquire by such residence the right to vote In a district at which the steamer ties up at her home port, where he had for merly acquired a residence In another part of the city. Substantially the same rule Is enforced In Howard vs. Skinner (Md.), 40 L. It. A. 753, In the case of a clerk who slept In a room on the boat, and who had no other room or place to live, and who was unmar ried. STRANGE, BUT TRUE. Pretty Women Feldom Make Hand some Pictures. "It Is a curious fact," said an experi enced New Orleans photographer'that It lsu't the handsomest women who mako the handsomest pictures. I'll venture the assertion that nine-tenths of the women who are noted for their beauty are poor subjects for the cum era, and It is undeniable that the more striking and attractive photos are those of people who seem plain aud luslgniil cant lu life. "Why Is it? Well, a beauty nearly always owes her charm to something beyond reach of the lens to her com plexlon, her hair or the vivacity of her expression. Very few such women have regular features, and when they are reproduced lu plain black and white they are at a great disadvantage. Their photographs ore generally unsat isfactory aud are really not correct like nesses. On the other hand, a woman who Is regnrded as homely may have singularly perfect lines, but attracts no attention through lack of animation or color. I'll cite you a queer Instance. "A dozen or so years ago Maude Bransconibe was the most popular model In the United States for photo graphic 'art studios.' Her bust pose was as a nun, and her pictured face was striklugly beautiful. Thousands upon thousands of people have raved over ber loveliness, but the real Miss Branscoinbc, whom I had the pleasure of knowing, was a demure, pale little woman who would never In the world attract the slightest attention In a crowd. Without a doubt she was pass ed unnoticed by many a person who treasured her portrait as a marvel." New Orleans Times-Democrat. Property of the City. Bicycles ploy an Important part In business as well as lu social life. The distribution of bicycles to the employe of German towns Increases from day to day. In the cities of Hanover aud Ludvlgshafen.and In some towns of loss Importance, machines have been distributed to the municipal employes In order to facilitate their work. The municipal council of Cologne 1ms Just decided that bicycles shull bo reckoned In with the communal budget aud placed at the disposal of the following city employes: Tax collectors, police men, foresters, commissaries of police, sergeants do vllle, watchman, men of the health department and In the de partments of water, gas and electrical supply controllers, and all clerks In the employ of the city, J he machines re mulu the property of the city. They are simply loaned to the employes, Forty marks a year are allowed to th borrowers for each machine, to keep it In order. It Is expressly forbidden to use the bicycles except In the perform ance of the city's service. When a girl writes her name "Mayuie" or "Mai," she puts a label upon herself that contains tho wor Cheup. She may be sensible In some respects, but no one seeing the label will believe It. The "Mai's" and "Mayme's" are not good daughters, and they will not make good wives, They are silly, Irresponsible, and ro mantic. Show us a girl who changes her name from Mary to Mai, and w can read her palm like a fortune teller, It Is all right for parents to Co m pur prima doiinus with their daughters, to the prima donna's discredit, but Is It right for them to expect their friends tc have the same opinion? 1 She Had Corrected Hie Pronunciation and He Took Revenge. He was one of the people who rather pride themselves on being oblivious to the finest distinctions of language. He had once lived In the Kocky Mountains for a short time, and the border novel had gotten into his system. She, on the other hand, was alertly punctilious and sometimes overbearing In her superior knowledge. "The ruin of Spain," he remarked casually, "has been that word 'man anner.' " "You mustn't say 'mannnner,' " she observed, gently. "It should bo pro nounced 'manyana.' " "Oh, should It?" And there was a world of sarcasm In his tone. "It ain't spelt that way." That makes no difference. It Is pro nounced as I tell you." lie changed the conversation. "Politics has been right exciting this year," he observed. "I see you prefer the singular verb, notwithstanding the fact that the form of the noun is plural." "Do I?" "Certainly. You say 'politics has.' " "Oh, yes. I just came from a small town In Mississippi. They have only one kind there." I take a great Interest In political celebrities. I once had the pleasure of shaking hands with Mr. Mark Ilanua." "Mark Hanna?" "Certainly." "Oh, yes," he proceeded, with an un- forgetful glitter in his eye. "You mean Mark Hanyer. I chanced to come across him once. He was eating banan- er. And, by the way, would you mind sitting down at the planyer and playing something in your own exquisite man- er?" "What shall I play?" she gasped. "Oh, well, let it be something patriot ic. Let it be 'The Star-Spangled Ban yer.' " And then he settled back In his chair and looked' Inanely happy. Washing ton Star. RECENT POPULAR WONDERS. Inventions of Pclence Which Are Ex citing Much Attention. Science Is acquiring a new dignity every day. A Bhort time ago Menelek, negus of Abyssinia, was addressed through a phonograph by Queen Vic toria, and the delight of the fighting monarch Is said to have fixed no bounds. Then, for the first time, it ap pears, he recognized -t he worth of the venerable lady who rules the world round acres of Great Britain. From time Immemorial men have been keenly Interested in one another. It is a very human sentiment. We study Intently the souvenirs of historical men and women, seeking to know better what manner of beings they were. The rude sketches of the Tharaohs, busts of Caesar and Tonipey and Cicero, tapestries of the days of ancient France, drawings of Shakspeare and Napoleon and Washington they all In terest us to-day less deeply than they Interested their contemporaries. In a like manner, although on the ground of affection, we get and keep the photographs of friends. It is all the undying sympathy ot curiosity that man shows toward his fellow-beings. Now comes science to increase our concern. It preserves the voices of tho rulers and leaders of men, offering to many throughout the world new in spiration and unspeakable plensure; and now, latest of all, It offers the al most living pictures of the great. No doubt, following the route of the pho nograph, the blograph will grow luto common use for It Is not every sover eign who will satisfy the blogruphlst. So, by-and-by, in a deciule.or two, we sliill sit down In our darkened front room and see how our friend in Aus tralia ate his brenkfast some months before, and how our dear rich uncle off In California planted the orange groves and gold mines that may some day de scend to us. We have machines that can take a picture of our skeleton, that can regis ter our speech and our song, and that " can represent every movement made In the greeting of an auld acquaint ance. Maybe the time will come when we shall have our thoughts lifted while we wait and presented to us on a sult ably decoorated engraving. Tho won ders of the world are no longer nine. Boston Journal. Belling Papers on the ItooC Not all the enterprising newsboys ar In the United States. The small street merchants of Paris, when forbidden to enter the cars and omnibuses, got over a serious difficulty lu reul Yankee fashion. It was eaRy enough, of course, to sell papers through the windows to people seated In the vehicles; but how was It possible to reach would-be customers perched on tho Impetiules, the seats provided on the roof? A youth prompt ly solved the problem. He procured a stick seven or eight feet long, with wire clamps fastened to the sides. Papers were put la tlu clamps. Ou the top of the stick them was a small cup with a bole in the bot tom. The hole was a very Important pari of the apparatus, for it reached nil the way down; aud through It came the copper coins of one or two sous, accord ing to the price of the paper, which the patron selected when the boy held up the stick. Youth's Companion. Out of III Line. "Do you know," cautiously Inquired a young man who was making his tlrsl trip on an ocean steamer, appronehlng a group of passengers on the deck, "whether there's a doctor on board?" "Yes," replied a fun-loving passenger. "That Is one, standing over there neat the rail." The young man hastened over to th grave, elderly personage who had been pointed out to him. "Beg pardon," he said, hurriedly, "but you're a doctor, ain't you?" "Yes," replied the other, with a slight smile, "doctor of laws." "Well, Dr. Uvlaws," rejoined tin young man, "I wish you would con m down to the cabin with me. My wife U awfully sick to ber stummlck." Philosophy. "Anyhow," said Perry Patettlc ta himself, as he curled up In the hay, "1 kin sleep long as I please 'thout belli' afraid of mlssln' my breakfast, 'causa they alu't no breakfast fer me to uiLss." Cincinnati Enquirer. SQUELCHED THE WOMAN.