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VOL. G.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2G, 1872.
NO, 13.
S!)c iUjciiln idJutevpvisc.
.4 DEMOCRATIC J'APER,
KOR THE
Du3jn333 frlan, tho Farmer
JJ 4c f-I.U-!' CIRCLE.
14iVlV EVEItY KUIDAY RY
A- fJOLTHSH,
EDI TO!! AN D lMUil.ISlI VAX.
OFFICII V. Dr. Th.'-s iki k Building
TERMS of .SL'IiSCRIFTIOX:
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vv;i v of .1 1 ve r rrsi.xa
"Tnnsient ,il vcrti.M-nit.MiT-, including all
legil iii.ti.-es, j. of 12 l.ne.-, I w . S 2 50
r. r e.i -h sn!)cii i -iit i nsei tn n 1 ;
One OuIiiMiii, one year $120(:0
Miif " '' ;o
Q ixrter " " 40
U'lsiness Card, I sij itirc one year 12
fctf" Ri' nit.t tnr ( be nw.tle ett I'm risk o
Sii'MCriber, and at the erpenm of Agents.
JSOOff A.XD JOB I'lifXTEXG.
I'.er The Ent'rprie "Hi c is supplied with
b"i ri tifni . fipnr vt-d r-tyh-s of type, and mod
ern M VCill.Vt-; I'll .-"SSI-"--, whi-ii will enable
t'je Proprietor t d .1 b lVmting nt all times
Xat, Q tick a,nl Vh ap .'
tnr Work -solicited.
A 'I !l tin'i.i tr t ;i-i u lions upon a Specie basis.
B U SIX ESS OA RD S.
CUAi. E WAulthV. F. A. FOiUlKS.
war n em & Foness
OFKICK Cfl.UUl AN'S UUICK, MAIN" STUEU.T,
oiif.:;ox err v, oiiegox.
"Yov. in, 17 1 :tf
J. M. THOMPSON", ( V. FITCH.
th jmson a fstch,
Atfosriatty sat L'l,
AND
Rea! Estate Agents,
E"JQJ C S T Y, O S? E G O K ,
OFFICE TWO HOU'lS NORTH OF THK I'OSTOFFICK.
ItlCAL ESTATE BOITCIIT AXD SOLD.
LOAN'S X!:(;oiIATED, AMI A H
S fit ACT OF TITLES FL'ILXLSIIED.
TE 51 AVE A CO.MI'LETE A1LSTM ACT
V of Title o! all propertv in Eugene
City, and peidVot plats of t'ie same, prejiaiud
vyitli Hi-ant c-irp. 'e will practice in t'ie.
rti:r rent Courts of the Stat -. Special at
tention given to the e ill. ction ;f all claims
that may be placed in cur hands. Lciral
Tenders bought utiil s dd. .sei.su
TOIIN y. BACOX,
Importer and Dealer in -:J-'i'f
STATIOXEIIY, DEUFUM EE.Y, &c, &c,
Orfgnn City, Oregon.
At Ch'tntt'ft JJ '-'..' old sf.tinl, lakly or
copied by Ack r)nint M.t'ui sz'vtt.
lu tf
JOHN FLEMING,
Lil-t DEA LEI! IN
BQ0:3 A!!D STATIOHEBY,
JX ,M VEILS' FIIiE-I'IlOOF DUICK,
M v i v stukkt, o;t::(;oN" citv, cin'cnv.
. J. WELCH,
DENTIST.
JO.
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OFFICE -In Odd fVlirw' Ten pie, cor
of First and ALUt Streets, J'uitlai d.
T'ie putrona-re of those desiring sup-rior
operatm s is in special request. Xitronsox
i d to'- the painless extraction of teeth.
"Ai tt'ieial t.-ctii '-bet', r than the best,'
and tt t hdl , tlx t.i i'Jit: )et.
Will bt? i:i Oregon City on Saturdays.
Nov. 3:tf
Dr. J, H. HATCH,
DENTIST.
The patronage of tnose desiring first Class
ip i-iitlini, is respectfully solicited.
Satisfaction in all eases guaranteed.
X. C. Y',v,. I administered for the
I'am'.ess Extraction of Teeth.
Of kick In Weigant's now bidding, west
ide o( First street, l.eiween Alder and Mor
ison streets, Portland, Oregon.
"Y II. W ATKINS, M. D.,
SUiKlEDX. r,):vri.Axr, Okkcc n.
OFFIt E Odd Fellows' Temple, corner
y-'irst and M der -tieets Uesidence corner of
ii iiy atd Seventh streets.
W. F. I1XGHFIELD,
fsta'blislid since !S4?.nt the old stand,
.Yfiirt Strerf, Oregon- Vitij, Ort jon.
tAn A.s.)rtinent of Watches, Jew
elry, and S. th Thomas' weight
Clock, ali of which are warranted
Co be a represented.
Repairing done on short notice,
md thankful for past favors.
CLARK GREENHAK,
ity Drayman,
Oil EG OX CITY.
AD orders for the delivery of merchan
dise or packages and freisrht of whatever des
criition. to any pirt of the city, will beese
u f e 1 promptly and with care.
I." r VAUT.' TIATrT
(Dcntfehes Gafthans,)
No. 17 Front Street, oppos:te the Mail steam
ship landing, poi ttad. Oregon.
H. ROTHFOS, J. J. WILKENS,
P R O P RIETORS.
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Board per Week ft" 00
" with LodgYv.'z. 6 oo
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The Great Game.
prom Ponietov's Democrat.
Have the people eyes and yet
cannot see? Have they ears ami
cannot hear? Have they tongues
ami cannot speak ? Let theni fix
then-eyes upon the Senate Chamber
at Washington, ami give their
ears to what is g.)su; on in that
assemblage of the misrepresenta
tives of sovereign States; and
when they see all, and hear all, let
their tongues give utterance to
their indignation. Some few days
before the holidays, Air. Senator
Trumbull o lie red his now famous
resolution to investigate into the
manner in which the all'iirs of
Government have been and are
conducted. This proposition em
braces the entire operation of the
Federal system of office, appoint
ment" to ofiice, merit of officials,
manner of discharge of duties,
amount of salary, mode of obtain
ing oilice, Ac. As a sequence to
this widely extended range of en
quiry, the character of Air. Grant's
administration is involved.
No one will deny for a moment
the right and duty of 3lr. Trum
bull to bring forward his proposed
examination into these all-important
subjects. Every Congress that
has held its sessions, since the ad
vent of the Republican party in
to power, has spent a great portion
of its tittle in the creation of com
missions to examine into matters
appertaining to public a Hairs ; but
as a general rule they were created
to go .South and concoct excuses
for military usurpations and inter
ference in the hapless States "lately
in revolt."
The JJutlers and the Einghams,
and all of that pernicious crew,
have been indulged with commis
sions, and out of them naught has
accrued to the general welfare;
but, on the contrary, a system of
imposture has been substituted for
wise legislation ; and as is well
known, the despotism of the bay
onet has supplanted the benign in
lluence of ttie civil law. In fact,
the Republicans have had their
own way in all things, and such
was their idea of prerogative and
justice, that they had reached the
conclusion that nothing could pos
sibly be wrong except in the South
ern States.
The resolution of Mr. Trumbull,
a Republican, seems to have broken
in upon this state of one-sided in
quisition, and his proposal to look
into the ways and doings of the
Republicans has created a terrible
commotion among the Senatorial
vassals of the President. 3Iorun,
the unscrupulous advocate of every
measure leading to a despotic form
of government, and the defender
of every outrage upon public right
and liberty, will not hear of such
a thing as Mr. Trumbull proposes.
Mr. Nye, the infamously cor
rupt misrepresentative of his dis
tant Stale, rises in fury and re
sists the attempt to probe the well
understood crimes of the Grant ad
ministration. Conkling, of this
State, ever ready to prevent the
truth ami cover up the tracks of
political and official robbers and
corruptionists, stands boldly in the
breach which divides his party
from the vision of the people and
the unnumbered crimes of his
friends. Grant must not be ex
posed and his re-election inter
fered with. The plunderers, from
President down to tide-waiter,
must be left untouched of justice.
Eu,t those whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad, and
these bold, bad men have overshot
the mark and are in that category.
This is not a nation of fools, and
even Republican papers, such as
the Ec niitj Post, of this city, the
Euli'alo Coimutreia!, the Eoston
Transcript, the Eoston Advertiser,
the Worcester Gazette, the Provi
dence Press, the Chicago Tribune t
the Springfield JipttMtutn. the
Cincinnati Comercial, the Roch
ester Democrat, the Cincinnati
Gazette, the Cleveland Ihrald,
the Xe-w Haven Pdl odium, the
Eccn'ooj Wisconsin, are all hiohlv
excited and alarmed at the at
tempt on the part of their party
Senators, to oppose the investiga
tion of Mr. Trumbull. However
much they may dread the result of
such a search, they are more
alarmed at the course of their par
ty leaders in opposino- it.
iil in. sun snmes on a
summer day, the time is approach
ing when Mr. Grant and hismvr
mulons will be powerless before the
grand rage of the people. The
mere tact d any opposition to an
investigation by the people's rep
resentatives into the condition of
the people's government, has ab
ready aroused the fears of the
leaders of the Republicans outside
.i1 i i - . ,
ui v.ungres, ami in tnat propor
tion will the long-cowed down
masses pluck up courage. Great
events are dimly prefigured by all
these signs, and a great nation
will be righted in the end,
IIovv to prevent your wife from
scolding vou Don't get married.
Our Rich Men.
LABORIOUS HABITS OF THE XKW
YORK MILHOXAIRES.
The New York correspondent of
the Troy Times says :
Having referred to industry as
the chief necessity to sweeten ex
istence, let me add something upon
the laborious habits of our leading
business men. Many young men
look forward to the time when they
shall be released from labor, aud
they have a notion that the rich
men of this city lead what is called
an "easy life," This idea is very
erroneous. Our successful men not
only have been but continue to be
hard workers, It is true there are
persons who have inherited wealth,
ami therefore yield themselves to
indolence and dissipation, but their
experiences quickly prove the truth
of the old saying, that the fool and
his money are soon parted. Our
rich business men work because
habit has become second nature,
and they would bo miserable if
they were idle. V e have no rich
drones, for a drone would never
become rich. Let us look at the
industry of a few of our self-made
men. Here is
MOSES TAYLOR,
who is about three score and ten,
and is estimated at five millions.
Surely such a man, one might say,
ought to rest. So far from this,
however, he is almost as busy as
ever, lie was noted as an active
dealer and far-sighted merchant,
and since he retired from trade he
has enough to do in the vast field
of finance. Mr. Taylor is Presi
dent of the City Bank, which is
one or the heaviest of our all
street institutions. He would be
extremely miserable if he did not
visit that bank every day, and
spend an hour in overlooking its
operations in a manner which some
men would call laborious. After
this is done one may meet in the
Wall street crowd that form, little
and erect, and that penetrating
countenance, which seems as much
-on the alert as when he was a poor
cieric. 1' our o clock finds him at
his home, with a racked brain and
weary body, but a fine dinner re
stores his tone, and after an hour
of social small talk and a drive to
the Park, he retires to his private
office and enters into a deep and
vexatious calculation which con
tinues until bed time. Do you in
quire what can it be which thus
drives a rich man so intensely ? 1
reply, he has a large number of va
cant lots, which should be covered
with houses, and the architect's
plans and the builder's contracts
are to be examined, lie has shares
in banks, in gas companies, and in
other stocks, all of which must be
looked after. And if he does not
finish his work as rapidly as each
day brings it before liim, it would
soon accumulate in a very burden
some maimer. Such, then, is the
life of a five million man.
Til E COMMODORE.
He has worked hard more than
sixty years. Of late he has abated
the intensity of his application, but
still labors from five to six hours a
day in a very close manner. He
has just completed the greatest
railway depot for travelers in this
city, and this is a mate to the great
freight depot in St. John's Park.
The Commodore must work to
save himself from sheer misery.
Idleness would be to him the great'
est of misfortunes, He is also de
termined that his children shall be
working men. The largest part of
his property will come into their
hands, and he knows that it is only
industrious habits that can keep
them in possession. To such a man
as the Commodore the idea of re
tirement is repulsive. Activity is
his life, and business is an elysiijni.
Each day brings its excitements,
either of Iqss or of gain, and at its
close he feels the pleasure resulting
from exercise of the faculties both
of body and mind.
STEWART.
It is well known that this man
is a marvel of industry. Like Van
derbilt, he is about seventy-five,
but ho looks much younger than
the former. Vanderbilt may have
felt the impelling consciousness of
a family to sharpen his application,
but Stewart lias "neither chick nor
child." He works in simple obe
dience to his nature, which de
mands it. Stewart and Vanderbilt
are the great exponents of two de
partments of business, tlje one be
ing a merchant prince and the othr
era railroad king. I do not know
that they have ever met, and the
greatness of this city is shown by
containing two such men without
collision of interests. It is the
oninion of crood judges of charac-
I ter, that if Stewart had been bred
to military life he would have been
I the greatest general of the age.
j What would liot have been accom-
plished by such method and such
i industry? Having reached old
j age, and with a property estimated
I at from thirty to forty millions, he
j must still do his day's work.
The Nathan House-
New York Cor. of the Troy Times.
The Xathan House in New York,
has afforded a frequent theme for
paragraphs, and many interesting
stories concerning it have been put
into circulation. It has been said
the the house was sold at a reduc
ed price because of the horror con
nected with the tragedy which oc
curred within its walls. Another
statement informs the public that
it has been rented by a noted rame
ster for a faro bank, while it. is said
on the other hand that such is the
taint connected with that no ten
ant will take it at any price. The
stories are -all equally false. The
facts are these. The family aban
doned the house immediately after
the dreadful affair which has given
them such painful publicity. They
did not, however, remove the fur
niture, which still remains in its
former condition, and a trusty
servant with his family has charge
of the establishment. The house
has never been in market, either
for purchase or tenant, and will
not in all probability be offered
very soon. The family has hired
a very stylish mansion ii: Fith av
enue, for which they pay about
610,000 per annum, this rent in
eluding that of furniture. The
Nathan mansion has been correct
ly described as being of elegant
finish, and was built under the in
spection of its late owner. He
took great delight in this mansion;
and, having made his property by
assiduous attention to business, he
he was the better prepared to en
joy it. lie frequently mentioned
to an acquaintance of mine that he
could get $225,000 for the proper
ty. This price is now out of the
question, but it would readily
bring 8175,000. Mr X'athan's es
tate has been rated from 500,000
to $1,000,000, but its precise
amount is only known to the little
circle of heirs. The mystery of
the murder remains as impenetra
ble as ever ; but I have been told
by a person, who lives near by,
that many if not most of the neigh
bors, discard the sneak thief theury.
A Good one on Governor
Seward. Hon. James Brooks, in
his latest China letter, says:
They tell a good story in Pekin
of Governor Seward when here
doubtless a 1h, but too good a sto
ry to be lost for all that. The ex
pectations of the ex Governor
were doubtless great when he en
tered thv great Capital of this Em
pire; with which he had made a
great treaty, and he therefore in
dulged in these great expectations
of a great welcome. As he euteiv
ed the gates of Pekin, a great fun
eral procession was going out with
music, catafalque, etc., all as impos
ing as a grand procession of some
great dead man could well be made.
The Governor was entering with
the marine band of the Colorado,
mounted on donkies, as this grand
j procession was going out. 1 ne
great living and the great dead
thus met. The Governor natural
ly enough, concluded this was in
honor of his grand entree, and he
rose, and rose, in his open sedan
chair, and bowed and bowed, and
then ordered a hall, and got out
and bowed, and bowed, and bow
ed again to the catafalque and the
dead. The Chinese think all for
eigners are rather mad, and hence
did not marvel over it as much as
they might ; but when Goveror
Seward found out what he had
done, the story is that he was more
mad than pleased.
The Origin of Spiritualism.
A Vermont exchange says that
among the latest to throw away
Christianity and embrace Spirit
ualism, was Elder , wllQ lives
not a thousand miles from water
ford, in that State. The elder had
a daughter who struggled hard
agaist the influence, but finally
gave up, and became a writng me
dium. One day, while wrestling
hard with the spirit, she prayed
that if Spiritualism was God's
work it might be manifested ; if
not, that the name of the author
might be given. Imagine her sur
prise on recovering from her trance,
to find written out in brief, "The
Devil."
A j'oiing Englishman of twenty
two, son of a general in the Brit
ish army, has come before the
Court of Bankruptcy with a list of
debts amounting to a total of 24,
000. One of the creditors presents
a bill of 353 for cut flowers sup
plied in the course of six months,
and among the items in the bill
such entries are to be found as
"early lilies of the valley, 10 10s;"
"a moss rose, 10s 6d."
In order that the daughters of
British Post masters may be made
thoroughly conversant with the
use of telegraphic instruments,
apartments have been fitted up in
the general telegraph office, Lon
don, where they will be instructed.
The Stolen Pas.
An editor in Hanisburg lost his
pass on the railroad, and requested
the officers of the road to secure
the arrest of any man who should
present it. The next day lie found
the pass in the pocket of his Sun
day trowsers, ami proceeded to
take a trip upon it. As soon as
he offered it to the conductor, that
faithful officer knocked him on the
head with his lantern, called in
three bra Icemen and the baggage
master; dragged him, despite his
desperate struggles, along the
floor into the baggage car, where
a brakeman sat on him while the
conductor battered him up a lot
to keep him quiet; and then they
searched him to ascertain what
other thefts he had been perpe
trating. With the exception of a
ticket to the circus, that man had
upon his person absolutely nothing
but railroad passes ! He had
passes over all the main roads and
branch lines and feeders and
sidings in the State of Pennsyl
vania, IJc had free tickets over
all the railroads in the Eastern,
Southern, Middle and Western
States. He had a pass over a
railroad from Yeddo to Yokohama
and another from Calcutta to Ben
gal. He had a letter promising
him one on the new road which is
proposed in Terre Del Fuego, and
a manuscript puff' which he had
written for a man who had as
sured him he should have a pass
over the road, which the man said
he was about to run under the
Mediterranean from Africa to
Italy, as soon as it was built. The
conductor concluded that he had
caught the greatest pass klepto
maniac that the world ever saw.
But when he got back to Harris
burg the affair was explained. And
now, if there is any one editor in
the State wdio is completely' sick of
"gentlemanly conductors," that
editor resides in the State capital.
Secretary Boutwell, in the
coolest, calmest, most deliberate
way, assures us that while its bur
then has not been light exactly,
yet "our system of taxation has
not been oppressive to individuals,
nor has it in any sensible degree
embarrassed the business of the
country !" And this is said in the
very lace of the fact that while
two-thirds of the foreign commerce
of the country was carried iti
American bottoms in 1801, our
own ships now carry less than one
third : that the grass is growing in
the shipyards from Maine to Tex
as ; that the once prosperous copper-smelting
works of our seaboard
are idle and closed up ; that the
great machine works in iron of the
country, once so prosperous and
important, now employ less than
one-fifth their former force, and
that only upon inferior work ; that
much of the shoe trade of Massa
chusetts is flitting to Canada, and
the book business of Xcw York
being absorbed by London ; that
there is not a man, woman, and
child in the country hut is 4 'op
pressed" by the burthens which
have been imposed upon the neces
saries and comforts of life, and
that these burthens have not been
laid on so much as to create reve
nue for the Government as to pro
tect monopolies and enrich indi
viduals at the expense of the com
mon country, while at the same
time the wages of operatives have
not increased.
James Gordon Bennett. We
understand that old Mr. Bennett,
the founder of the Herald, has
so greatly failed in health and
strength that he now takes almost
no interest in anything, and is glid
ing into helplessness and second
childhood. For months past we
have noticed an unusual reticence
concerning him by the press at
large, lie has ceased to be sneer
ed lit and abused. His name still
stands at the head of the great
newspaper which he called into
life and power, but his cotempora
ries, who for so many years gave
him a daily blow, now refrain from
kicking the sick lion. Old age
and weakness thus come not unat
tended with compensation after
all Golden Aye.
At a social party, where humor
ous definitions was one of the
games of the evening, the ques
tion was put, "What is religion ?"
"Religion,", replied one of the
party, more famous as a man of
business than of wit, "is an insur
ance against fire in the next world,
for which honesty is the best pol-
1C' "
A five-year-old city boy told his
mother how to make butter : "You
just take a long stick, with a cross
at the end of it ; then you get a
big tub ; and then you borrow a
cow.
" The "strongest propensity in a
woman's nature," savs a careful
I student of the sex, " is to want to
j know what is going on, ancl the
j next is to boss the job."
Roujh on Een Butler.
Brooklyn Eale, Dec. 11. J
A Xew York paper declares that
Gen. Butler was never considered
a jackass or an idiot. XTo, he was
never so considered. What Butler
considers himself cau be gathered
from his satisfaction at not " being
called a d n fool ; no matter if
they do call me a d n scoundrel."
It ought to be added, that Butler
never considered it important as
to wdiose initials were on spoons,
and such. Apropos to this geni:d
confiscator of the contents of dis
loyal sideboards, the following
story will be found both new and
true : While Ben. bossed Xew
Orleans, he informed a waggish,
but very ill Confederate officer,
then sick at his home in the city,
that he must take the oath, or clear
out. This order was peremptory,
The Confederate demurred as much
as possible, alleging that he was
used up, anyhow ; that he didn't
believe in the old Government, and
that the odds were that he would
soon die, and secede permanently.
It was no use, so he got Ben. to
administer the dose to him himself.
Ben. complied, holding the book
behind the back of his neck, so as
to bring it within range of his ser
viceable orb. The officer swallow
ed the oath, with severe and sug
gestive grimace. At its close he
seemed rejuvenated, and he asked
Butler, " Ain't I as good a Union
man as you, now General ? " " Yes,
if you live up to your oath," re
plied Ben. " And I can abuse the
South as loud as the worst of you,
can I," inquired the officer. "To
your heart's content," replied the
Beauty. " Well, then. General,"
added the sick man, rising in bed,
and " fixing " Butler's one eye with
his two, " if you and I had that
d d old rebel, Lee, in our hands,
wouldn't we steal his watch?"
The oath-laker got four days in the
guard-house, but he said he was
satisfied with the price he paid for
the punishment.
How to Acquire a Goon Mem
ory. We read too much and
think about what we read too lit
tie ; the consequence is that most
of the people we meet know some
thing, in a superficial way, about
almost everything. Xot a tenth
part of what is read is remember
ed for a month after the book or
newspaper is la-id aside. Daniel
Webster, who had a rich store of
information on almost every sub
ject of general interest, said that it
had been his habit for years to re
flect for a short time on whatever
he read, and so fix the thought and
ideas worth remembering in his
mind. Any one who does this will
be surprised to find how retentive
his memory will become, or how
long after reading an interesting
article the best portions of it will
remain with him.
The Houston county (Minnesota)
Democrat confirms the statement
that a man at Spring Grove, in that
county, is turning into stone. His
name is Harmon Silverson. lie is
completely petrified in all his limbs
and bouv tne only exception oo
" . i i i .i
mg a portion aoout tne mourn,
throat and C3res. He has a good
appetite, eats, and prays day and
night for the Lord to deliver him
from liis terrible affliction. He is
perfectly helpless. The process of
petrifaction commenced sometime
last spring in his feet and knees,
since which time it has gradually
increased.
The anecdote often told by Dr.
Chapman, in regard to himself,
when called to visit a little boy
who had swallowed a silver twenty
five cent piece, is not bad. "Mad
am," said thcrenouned joker, in all
solemnity, "was the piece good ?"
"Indeed it was, sir," replied the
surprised but excited lady ; "I got
it from the mint." "Then, my
dear madam," he replied, "if the
money was good give yourself no
further- uneasiness, for it will cer
tainly pass."
"How is your wife to-day?"
said a friend to a French gentle
man. " Oh, moche de sem," said
he ; " she is no better, and I 'fraid
ver little wass. If slip is gon to
die, I vish she vould do it soon. I
feel so unhappy my mind is so
moche unsettled. When she die, I
shall not be so moche dissatified."
It is common to speak of those
whom a flirt has jilted as her vic
tims. I his is a grave error, ller
real victim is the man whom she
accepts. A happy simile runs thus:
A coquette is a rose from whom
every lover plucks a leaf the
thorns remaining for her future
husband.
A barber of a statistical turn of
mind asserts that there are 300 dif
ferent hair dyes in circulation.
Duluth is two years old, and is
building its ninth church and is
not over pious, either.
Fact and Fancy.
New York proposes lady ushers
at weddings.
The choir at an Iowa church
wedding sang "Ham Fat.'
A man in Cincinnati is organiz
ing a brass band of twenty women,
"Hope I don't intrude" ancl
"Hell up a limb" are northwestern
siloons. o
The Czar of Russia ljjscr-mitn
ted the Sisters of Mercy to practice
medicine. o
There are no chimney sweeps to
be found in Paris siupe thp clays of
the Commune.
Of the ten thousand English
miners, one in every thirty is killed
by accident yearly. O
A candy cannon, weiging two
hundred pounds, was presented to
Krupp on his birthday.
A lighthouse, costing 5,0Q0, is
to be erected at the entrance to
the harbor of Cleveland, Ohio.
Xext to busy bees, bootduiacks
furnish the brightest example of
improving the " shining hour."
The latest magazine venture in
London is the I'ro and Con, pub
lished monthly by Mr. IJardwieke. .
Those who could not get admisr
sion to the Russian Duke's ball
are indignant in Czarcastic lan
guage. When Horace Greely is asked,
what kind of music he prfers, ho
answers "the song of the harvest,
three beats to the measure."
Mr.IIadden, a Xew York inebrb
ate, thought he would stop a run
away horse by tripping him up,"
and now wishes that he hadn't.
If any one speak ill of thee, con-.
sider whether he hath truth on his
side ; and if so, reform thyself
that his censures may not affect
thee.
A helping word to one in troub
le is often like a watch on a raib
road track but one inch between
wreck and a smooth rolling pros-:
perity.
As I approve of a youth that
has something of the old man in
him, so I am no less pleased with
an old man that has something of
the youth,
William Warren, the comedian,
of Boston, lost a house in the Chit
eago fire. "My House is gone,"
he said, "and I am now bewailing
my unhappj'" lot"
A little four year old boy being
asked by his mother if he would
not like to have wings and be an
angel, replied, "Xo, ma, I'd rather
be a hawk and live on chicken."
Emerson says, "life is hardly re
spectable if it has no generous
task, no duties or affections that
constitute a necessity of existing?
Every man's task is his life pre?
server."
"My dear" said an anxious mat
ron to her daughter, 'it is wrong
for young people to be throwing
kisses at one another." "Wrhy so,
mamma ? I am sure they dont
hurt, even it they Int.
A resolution of expulsion didn't
work well in the case of a Good
Templar who went into an Oswego,
js. 1., lodge with a bottle of wins?
ky. He picked up a chair and ex?
pelled the whole meeting.
A man who lately shot and killed
a boy in his melon patch, when call
ed to account for the deed, said he
did it in memory to the boy, who,
otherwise might have died a pain
ful death from cholera morbus.
A minister in Indiana became
mixed up in land speculations, and
announced to his congregation
that his text would be found in
"St. Paul's Epistle to the Coring
thians, section four, range three
west !"
He that gives good advice,
builds with one hand ; he that
gives good counsel and example,
builds with both ; but he that
gives good admonition and bad ex?
ample, buids with -one hand and
pulls down with the other.
George Fracis Train, as everyt
body knows, was born with a loose.?
ness in his head ; but we w'ere not
prepared for the information given
us by the correspondent of an Al
bany paper that he is an obapodri
da of sesquipedalian verbage.
Twenty years ago Leland Stan?
ford arrived in California with
"only one shirt to his back. Since
then, by managing always to re
tain a situation, and close attenr
tion to business, he has contrived .
to accumulate a trifle of $10,000,:
000.
Tarr, who died at Meadysville,
Pa., last week, was one of the oil
princes. He was offered 2,000,000
for his farm, but refused it. The
yield in four years was C46,00Q
barrels. Mr. Tarr tarred his pock?
ets and an immense fortune stuck
in them