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VOL. 10.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1875.
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BJ-ViH pnv-tieo-tn all the Courts of the
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l tie U. S.jMnJC (MHc- nt llrnimn f'lfv.
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AT'JOIEV-AT-LAW,
Oli&JOX CITY, : : OREGON.
Vrli rrafUcin-nHThe Courts of the
State.
Nov. 1. 1875, tf
H. E. CHAMBERLAIN,
.VTTOHNKY-AT-LAW
s ORECOX CITY.
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omce in Knteiumiisf. Uooms. '
1. UPTON,
At tonioy-;tt-Lruv,
Nov. 5, 1-Caf
AY. II. HUiHFIELl).
KstalHl-4lel uliiro t), at the oldgtaiu".
31ain Street, Oregon City, Oregon.
An assortment of Wat hes. Jewel
ry.and SethTliomas' Weight Clicks
all of which arc warranted to be as
1 represented.
C?"Itepairin3T done on short notice, and
thankful ior past puinnmsr.
JOHN 31. 1JAC0N,
nrrouTER and dealer SSJ
n lVxks, Stationery, lVrfum- :g;-cV
1
cry, etc., etc
Oregon City, Oregon.
BvAtthoTost Offlce, Main stgect, oast
side.
TO FRUIT-GROWERS.
riMIK ATA1EN FRUIT PRESERVING
X Company of Oregon City will pay the
0 HIGHEST MARKET P3ICE
for PLUJIS. PKAHS nn d APPLES.
Mr. Thos. Charman is authorized to pur
chase lor tho C'onipanv.
Ii. I. C LATOURETTE,
President,
nios. CHARMAN. Secretary.
Oro-on City, July -j 175 ;tf
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News Column.
Mrs. Emraa C. Moulton has ilecicl
ed to call an ex-parte council in her
case unless the church -will consent
to a mutual council. "
The Yale University Boat Club
has challenged the Harvard Club for
a four mile race.
Tho bank of Brandy wine, Penn.,
has made an assignment for the ben
efit of its creditors.
On the 20th ult. Brig.-Gen. Morgan,
Major 4th artilery, U. S. A., died of I
apoplexy at Alcatraz Island. He had j
been suffering for several days pre- j
vions. Gen. Morgan was a sou of j
Judge Morgan, of New York. He
graduated at the U.S. Military Acad
emy at West Point, July 1st, 1S37,
and entered the army as Brevet 2d
Lieut, of artillery. He served with
distinction during the war of the
rebellion in the army of the Potomac.
The funeral took place from Alcatraz
Island.
John S. Hoffman, Conrad Hoff
man and Wm. Bowers, comprising
the firm of Iloflinan & Co., distillers '
f T..11 T 1 1 . 1 I
w jjuner, x enii., nave ueen arrested
and taken to Pittsburg, charged with
illicit distilling.
A terrible explosion occurred in
South Boston on the 22d inst. Sev
eral persons were killed and a large
number more or less injured.
Wm. A- Bombey, secretary of the
New York liectifying Co., is up for
whisky frauds.
Advices from Shanghai, of'the 21st
ult., say that Cheng Long Pin and
Yuug Hong have been appointed
ministers to the United States.
Mount Vesuvius is getting ready
for a Centennial display of fireworks.
The Cron'istn, a Spanish paper, an
nounces that the government has de
cided to send important reinforce
ments to Cuba.
Captain General Yalmaseda lias
refused the request of a number of
the highest military officials in Cuba
to sign an order allowing them to
return with him to Spain.
The synodical convention of the
Church of England met at Victoria
on the lSth, tho lord bishop of Co
lumbia presiding. The delegates
present numbered 21. After an ad
dress from the lord bishop, Mr. Hol
brook, delegate from New Westmin
ster, seconded by Dean Gilson,
moved that convention do now de
clare itself a synod ami proceed to
form a constitution, and adopt by
laws, canons, etc., subject to the
concurrent consent of the bishop.
Wm. Mortimer, the alleged robber
of the auditor's office ut Toledo,
has been handed over to the officers
of Ohio.
Earthquakes have been shaking
the Virginians about llichmond.
Secretary Bristow has decided that
wool on the backs of sheep is not
liable to duties, but if severed it
will bo.
V Paris dispatch says that Princo
Pierre Bonaparte has issued an ad
dress as candidate for the Chamber of
Deputies from Corsica.
A San Francisco dispatch of the
22 inst. says John M. Keen an, accus
ed of attempting to. outrage a ehi'd
six years old, was held to answer be
fore the grand jury, in the police
court, to-day. Bail, S20,)00. Kee-
uan was mate on the steamer Conti
nental, lie took the child on board
the steamer to accomplish his pur-
ose.
Henry Stiles, the first w hite person
born at Cincinnati, has just' died.
John Bragger k Son, of Boston,
navo iaueu. ljiaoiiiiies .iwu.uuu,
assets $30,000.
The Ilingliam Manufacturing Co.,
organized at Boston six months ago,
has gone into bankruptcy with .lol,-
000 liabilities, and no assets.
Speaker Kerr spends the Christmas
lolidays in Philadelphia.
Spain proposes, immediately, to
suppress the Carlist insurrection,
subdue the Cubans, and enter into a
treaty of commerce with the United
States. So says the .toca.
The Khedive is trying to sell ont
Egypt's share in the Suez "Canal.
Probably France or England will be
the purchaser.
In a late revolt in Turkestan, 300
insurgents were killed.
The Chisum ranch in New Mexico
has been sold by a St. Louis capital
ist for S219.000.
The oldest Indian on tin's coast
died at Cowlitz Prairie week before
last, aged 114 years.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson's health
is such that she has been compelled
to quit lecturing.
Pere Hyacinthe and family are
coming to the United States in the
spring.
Virginia Lee, who is to read the
Declaration of Independence at tho
opening of the Centennial, is tho
grandson of Richard Henry Lee, of
revolutionary fame. '
. It is said that the Bovton lifrt.c
ing suits are so dear that any one
can save at least twenty per cent, by
being drowned. Thcv nro cd;
taie.
The Princo of Wales landed at
Calcutta on the 23d, and had a mag
nificent reception. 0
It is reported that Wm. M. Tweed
is in Havana.
Fifteen hundred of the unemploy
ed mcu of Montreal have been fur
nished with work about the city at
seven cents an hour.
An Idaho grand jury has found an
indictment against J. C. Geer for
alleged embezzlement of $21,000 be
longing to the Government, when he
was U. S. revenue, collector for the
district of Idaho, four or five years
ago.
The new office of the Nevada and
Northern division of the Atlantic
and Pacific ielegraph line, in Port
land, is being fitted np in first class
6tyle. All the instruments are the
latest and -most improved, and will
soon be in working order.
A Virginia City, Nev., dispatch of
the 23d says: The rival factions of
Hop Wo and Sam Sing had a terrific
skirmish here to-day. Two weeks
ago each imported fighters from Cal
ifornia. They were both in build
ings near by and fought with guns.
The police" and citizens interposed
and stopped the fight. Two were
killed and several wounded. The
citizens threaten to hang some of the
leaders. Another fight is expected
to-morrow.
Speaker M. C. Kerr is said to be
a "Tilden man."
Henri. Houssaye has married a rich
California girl.
The finances of Tennessee are in a
very bad way.
The total bonded indebtedness
the District of Columbia amounts to
$21,340,019.
Texans will vote iu February
whether or not to have a new State
Constitution.
The Egyptian debt is 3:30,000,000.
Asiatic cholera prevails in India.
The Khedive of Egj-pt lias abso
lutely abolished the use of the Koran
in the Administration.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, the
diamond thief, has been exiled to
the Caucasus.
Offenbach will charge 00,000 for
his conceits at the Centenjnial.
The subject of the "competition
poem" this year at Cambridge is the
"Centenary of American Indepen
dence." The total receipts of internal reve
nue from New England for the last
fiscal year were 3,207,015.
The net profits of the Western
Union Telegraph Company for the
last six months have been 1,752,781.
W. B. Astor left 10,000 to the
American Bible Society.
The Khedive of Egypt was educat
ed in Paris.
It cost Brazil $20,000 for a French
doctor when an heir to its throne
was born the other da3'.
Boucicault says Oakey Hall would
make a good aetor. It is said that a
daughter' of tho ex-Mayor is study
ing for the stage.
A company to insure against bur
glaries has been formed in New
York.
Sankey's voice is getteng husky.
The Granger cases, involving the
rights of States to regulate the freight
charges of railroads, will be argued
before tho Supreme Court on the
11th of January.
Bich strikes are reported in the
Emma mine, in Utah.
Tho inhabitants of La Grande put
"in their leisure time listening to the
passing telegraph dispatches, thus
obviating tho necessity of taking the
local paper. Wo suggest to the Seu
(iiial man that he have the wire run
under ground.
Tho Legislature of California has
enacted a law which allows everv
citizen who will plant trees and
maintain them for three years, a de
duction from his taxes of 1 for each
tree so planted.
The National Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, loaned last year '21,800
to subordinate granges throughout
the South and West, to aid them in
recovering from local pests. A total
paying membership of 702,203 is re
ported. Benton county assessment roll
foots up 2,000,000, and the tax levy
is fifteen mills.
Commissioner Dufnr lias sent 2,000
pounds of Oregon botanical sjieci
mens to the Centennial.
The Salem Mills pay 90 cents per
bushel for wheat.
S. A. Johns of Pendleton has a Sir
Henry colt, 2 years old, 10 hands
high, and of 1200 pounds weight..
A yield of 1200 pounds of hops to
the acre is tho way they do it up in
Umatilla county, and the crop was
all sold to local brewers for 1G4'
cents per pound 204 per acre.
Pretty good pay.
The Grangers of Albany have a
Union Store with a 20,000 stock of
goods.
The price of wheat is falliug in
foreign markets.
The hav crop of New Hampshire
is estimated at 10,000,000; the corn
crop, 2,000,000 bit.; oats, l.uOO.OOO;
garden crops, 1,000,000; butter, r -rnn
nnn inbk- milk soM.o.UUU,UtU
gallons. Totatoes are so abundant
that they sell for forty cents a bushel,
Jo ,mf nrcr one-third Of
1 1 1 1 L AO liJV v . w
a fruit crop. An unusually small
amount of cheese has been mauuiao
tnrn.l Wnnl Una .lAfVf:lSeil and the
value of live stock increased. Wheat
was nearly a failure and tobacco un
usually good.
teli of tho 24th
says the Grand Trunk railway depot
lni1jliTnp nf "TiKTo TiiiwiTi.-oi mil"!
j the Exchaftgc hotel adjoining, burn-
, eu mis morning, ljoss, liJ.uuo,
! partly insured.
T COURTESY OF
The National Grancre is consider
ing the question of a special marriage
service for members of the order.
Patrick Kanen of Cleveland, who
was convicted of manslaughter for
starving his idiot' son to death, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years.
The width of the Mississippi river
at its deboucJittre from Lake Itaska is
just 23 feet and 4 inches wide.
Two thousand oystermen, working
1,000 vessels of various kinds, are
harvesting the crop near New York
City. They estimate the crop at
2,000,000, which will return a profit
of 000,000 or 700,000.
Since the year 18GG the national
debt has been reduced GGd,028,GG7,
an average of 77,000,000 a year.
The debt is now only 2,118,397,212.
The Supremo Court of Iowa has
attracted much attention by its de
cision that when a loser in a game of
billiards pays for the same, ho is
guilty of gambling and liable to in
dictment. Kansas figures up an increase of
several thousand in population this
year.
Tweed's escape beyond jurisdiction
is expected to secure a compromise
favora lie to him, and allow him to
return liome at an early day.
Parties in the Puyallnp Valley, W.
T., have shipped to San Francisco
208 bales of hops and 200 bales are
yet to go.
The parties who lately shipped
fresh, beef to Europe, as an experi
ment, have heard that it reached
Liverpool in good condition.
A fire at Bed Oak. Iowa, on the
23d destroyed G5,000 worth of prop
erly.
The jury in the Bowen libel suit
found a verdict for plaintiff, and
fixed the damages at SI, 000.
Short-Lived jlonr.rehs.
If the English suppose that long
evity inheres in the decendants of
Geo. III., says the Watchman and
Reporter, they are not. so well ac
quainted with tho history of their
rulers as they might be. That mon
arch was the father of fifteen chil
dren of whom Princo Alfred died
in his second year, and Prince Oc
tavius in his fifth year, The Prin
cess Amelia died just after she had
completed her twenty-seventh year,
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, an,
father of Queen Victoria, died at tho
opening of his fifty-third year.
Princo Frederick, Duke of York,
lied in Ins sixty-fourth vear, and
George IV., the oldest'son ami suc
cessor of George III., died some
weeks before the completion of his
sixty-eighth year. Prince Augustus
Frederick, Duke of Sussex, died just
after the completion of his seven
tieth year, and Prince Adolphus
Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, in
his seventy-seventh vear. The long
est-lived of all George III.'s sons
was, we think, Prince Ernest Augus
tus, Duke of Currberland and King
of Hanover, who died in 1S51 in li is
eighty-first year. Three of George
111. s claldreu died young, and only
three or four reached to old age.
In England no man is held to be
old who has not completed his seven
tieth year. The celebrated Princess
Charlotte, oldest grandchild of
George III., died at the close of her
twentv-second year. At one time it
seemed as if the lino of George. III.
were about to become extinct, so few
of his sous and daughters had chil
dren.
We should think tho Prince of
Wales' lifo would bo considered a
bad one to place in a lease, for it is
a remarkable fact that only four of
the English Princes of Wales ever
reached to the age of sixty years.
Two of these exceptions were tho
Princes who afterwards becarno Ed
ward III. and George IV., neither
of whom lived to be sixty-eight, Ed
ward III. dying at his sixty-fifth
year, lue others wero tieorgo xi.
and George III. Of almost a score
of Princes of Wales, who had lived
at various periods of the last six cen
turies, a dozen or so wero the most
unfortunate of mortals, some of them
being murdered, either before they
could reign or after having ascended
tho throne. Others died young, of
natural deaths. Yet others died at
middle life, without having reigned,
though the title is borne only by
heirsapparent. Take it altogether, it
is tho most unlucky title that bo
longs to history.
George III. lived to be an old
man. dying in his eighth y-second
vear. whence the belief that his de-
scendants must ue loug-nveu. wne
of the shortest lived of kings has had
some very aged descendants. Louis
XIII. of France, died in his forty
second year, yet of his descendants
were Louis XIV., who died at seventy-seven;
Louis XVIII., who died
at sixty -nine; Charles X., who died
in his eightieth year; Charles III.,
of the Spaius, who died at seventy
three; I., of the two Sicilies, who
died at seventy-four; and Louis
Philippe, King of the French,
who died at seventy-seven. All
or these wero reigning monarchs,
and two of them bad about tho
longest reigns known to history,
namely, Louis XIV. aud Ferdinand
I.; and ho had other descendants
.. i'ii-i liVn.l tn trreat ages. It is im
possible to infer anything from the
a"-es of parents. George III., for
example, who lived till his eighty
second year was well advanced, was
the son of Frederick, Princo of
Wales who died at forty-four; and
his mother died in her sixty-third
vear.
--
Near Albany last week, a China
mn was knocked down and robbed
I of 14 thief escaped.
BANCkorr 'iaXHtiAiii,
House Committees.
The committees in the House are
as follows:
Ways and Means Morev.S.Wood.
Hancock, Thos.. Hill, Chaoin, Tuck
er, Blaine, Kelly, Garfield and Bur-
charu.
Appropriations Randall, Holman,
Wells of Mississippi, Atkins, Hamil
ton of ISew Jersey, Blount, Single
ton, Wheeler, Hale, Foster and Wal
dron. Elections Harris of Virginia,
Thompson, Blackburn, Beebe, House,
DeBolt, Popjneton, lloar, Wells of
Mississippi, Baker of Indiana, and
Brown of Kansas.
Banking and Currency Cox,
Payne, Goode, Gibson, Haymond,
Burchard. Wike, Townsend of Penn
sylvania, Kasson, Eauies and Hub
bell. Pacific Railroads Lamar, Atkins,
Luttrell, Walker of Virginia, Linde,
Throckmorton, Thomas of Missouri,
Phillips of Missouri, Garfield, Kas
son, Platte, O'Neill and Blair.
Judiciary Knott. Huutoon, Ashe,
Linde, Lord, Hurd, Canfield, Mc
Crary, Lawrence, Frye and Stark
weather. Public Lands Sayler, Goodwin,
Fuller, McFarland, Walling, Gause,
Lane, Hathorne, McDill, Morey and
Crounse.
Foreign Affairs Swann, Faulkner,
Banks, Barnuui, Ely, Hamilton of
Indiana, Springer, Forney, Monroe,
Williams of Wisconsin, and Packer.
Military Affairs Banning, Glover,
Williams, Cook, Reilly, McDougall,
Thornburg, Hurlbut and Strait.
Commerce Hereford, Ward, Du
rand, Reagan, Piper, Kehr, Pierce,
Felton, Hunter, Ross and Duunell.
Postollices and Post Roads
Clark of Missouri, Maddell, Luttrell,
Ainsworth of Iowa, Walker of New
Jersey, McMahon. Slemons, Cannon,
Miller, Stowcll, and Wallace of
South Carolina,
Claims Bright, Ncal, Brown of
Kentucky, Robbms of North Caro
lina, Tarbox, Cochrane, Phillips of
Missuri, Pratt, Bass, Bradley and
Cason .
War Claims Eden, Milliken, War
ren, Cabell, Ellfs. New, Caldwell,
Conger, Smith of Penusj lvania, Wil
son of Iowa, and Haskins.
Naval Affairs Whitthornc, Lewis,
Mills, J". Jones, X. II. Willis, Wil
liams of Delaware, Bobbins of Pa.,
Burleigh, Harris of Mass., Hayes
and Dauford.
Revision of Laws Durham,
Southard, Bell, Metcalf of Tenn.,
Douglass, Sparks, Crape, Denison,
Oliver and Robinson.
Public Buildings and Grounds
Holman, Harrison. Hewitt of New
York, Kimball of Washington, Miller,
Wood worth, Wells of Missouri,
Cook, Boung, Williams, Plaisted.
Education and Labor Walker of
Virginia, Faulkner, Stengei Spring
er, Magoou of Wisconsin, Nast, La
mar, Cutter, Clark of Missouri, Hoar,
White.
District of Columbia Buckler,
Phelps, Neal, Cate, Hartrango, Ste
venson, Willard, Phillips of Kansas,
liinklc, Mirray, llendie.
Patents Vance, Bagley, Jr., of
New York, Douglas, Danders, Heart
sell, ('lark of New York, Smith of
Georgia, Conger, Dobbins, Sampson,
Hoge.
Invalid Pensions Jenks, Bagley,
of Illinois,, Wilson of West Virginia,
W. Bliss, Howett of Alabama, Rice,
Yeates, Rush, Sinuickson, Thurman
and R litiey.
Revolutionary Pensions--Hunter,
Bland of Missouri, Phelps, Clarke of
Kentucky, Hunt, Davis, Sehumaker,
Townsend of New York, Dobbin,
Henderson, aud Williams of New
York.
Indian Affairs Scales, Wilshire,
Boone, Sparks, Hooker, Morgan,
Lane, Seelve, Pago, Van Vorks and
Tuft.
Weights and Measures Stephens
of Georgia, O'Brien, Potter, Sayler,
Parsons of New York, Maist of AVis
consin, Chitteden and Seelye.
Territories Southard , Caldwell,
Mutchler, Franklin, Mead, Culber
son, Wigginton, Fort, Mackey, Free
man, Bay lay of New York, and Pat
terson. Agriculture Caldwell, Harris of
Louisiana, Marsh, Davis, Ilea, An
derson, Smith, Goodiu of Peun.,
Rusk, Van Vorks and Small.
Mines and Mining Bland.Turney,
Durham, Potter, Odell, Gibson,
Cafupbell, Evaus, Woodburn, Cas
well and Lynch.
Private Laud Claims Gunter,
Buckucr, Parsons, Powell, Candler,
Levy, Ainsworth, Ketchum, Joyce,
Cannon and Lapham.
Public Expenditures Milliken,
Hatcher, Perry, Cowan, Debbrill,
James, Reilly, Campbell of Illinois,
Whitney, Norton, Wood of Penn.,
and Patterson.
Railways and Canals Jones of
Kentucky, Stone, Savage, Meade,
Schlceher, Mackey of Penn., Lan
ders, Davy, Henderson, Frost and
Hoge.
Mississippi Levees Allis,IIatcher,
Walshire, Morey, Roberts, Young,
Sheakley, Darrell, Whiting and
Wallace.
Reforms in tho Civil Service
Whitehouse, Brown of Kentucky,
Throckmorton, Payne, Collins, Cut
ter, Hurlbut, Harris of Mass., Foster
and Leavenworth.
Manufactures Stone, Debbrill,
Ross of New Jersey, Williams of
Alabama, Hopkins, Money, Bur
chard, Farwell, Bolton of Rhode
Island, Williams of New York, and
Ilvmau.
"Militia Cowan, Hereford, Bell,
Scales, Candler, Walch, Tarbox,
Ross of Penn., Darrell, Crouso and
King.
Expenditures on Public Buildings
Metcalf, Wilson of West Virginia,
Bagley, Pratt, aud Townsend of New
York.
Expenditures on Navy Department,
r
Beebe, Mills, Sheakley, Burleigh and
Baker of New York.
Expenditures in State Department
Springer, Thompson, Caldwell,
Wallace and Leavenworth.
Expenditures in the Treasury De
partment Ely, Bright, Hartsell,
Williams of Mich., and Plaisted.
Expenditures in War Department
Clyme'r, Bobbins of North Caro
lina, Blackburn, Bass and Danforth.
Expenditures in Postoffic Depart
mentStone, Reagan, Walker of
New7 York, Stowcll and Adams.
Expenditures in the Interior De
partment Mutchler, Boon, Ander
son, Wood worth and Tufts.
Expenditures in the Department
of Justice Caullield, Candler, Hous9
and Starkweather.
Select" Committee on the Centen
nial Celebration. Hopkins, Han
cock, Barnum, Banks, Harrison,
O'Brien, Williams of North Carolina,
llardenburgh, Kelley, Blaine, Law
rence, JJalier of JSew lork, and
Rainev.
The Animal Dinner of the New
England Society.
At the seventieth annual dinner of
the New England Society, .which
met in New York city on Dec. 22 J,
President Bailey presideu. At his
right, President Grant; on the left,
Gen. Sherman. Many distinguished
persons were present and responded
to tho toasts. President Grant did
not speak; but Gen. Sherman in re
ply to the "Army and Navy" said:
Upon the civilization of New En
gland is based that of North America.
The black man is as freo as I am.
The Japanese are free to come here;
so are the Chinese, but the civiliza
tion of New England will remain and
will govern this continent. The
New England man, go where he will,
carries ?i center, which enlarging will
affect everything it comes in contact
with. Ho is the embodiment of the
English speaking people, who be
lieve in honesty, truth and patriotism.
Referring to tho result of the Avar,
he declared there never was such an
example of conquerors giving the
conquered tho same rights as they
themselves possessed. From the
moment the vanquished laid down
their arms, we said to them, "Go
home, go to work for the flag which
is to be the common banner of our
homes." I say to all Southern men
who will go with us heart and hand
to help build up this land, they are
welcome just as if born on the very
surface of Plymouth Rock; but if
they cherish any hopes for the old
conflict, the storm will arise over
their heads, ten times as heavy as
the last one. I speak for the army
and navy the men of bone, of
muscle, the brain and sinew of the
aggregate American. He referred to
the hard limes, and said the trouble
is that the people flock too much to
cities. I ask them to come West.
Laughter. J There is no trouble in
St. Louis plenty there to eat and
drink. We will give you a hearty
welcome and God speed to the best
land west of us. If the people of
New York will learn a lesson of the
Pilgrim fathers, and go back to some
what of their economy, tho national
debt will be paid iu five years and
specie payment would como natural
ly. Let us bo back to times before
the war, and, if necessary, I myself
will give example of earning mv own
living; but in doing so let us keep J
the art of war before lis, aud we will
not have the mortification of sending
to Germany for soldiers to drill our
soldiers in the next war. Great
cheering.
.
The Tisce Gentleman. Show us
the young, man who can quit the
society of tho young and take pleas
ure in listening to tho kindly voice
of tho old; show us a man who is
always ready to pity and help the
deformed; show us a man that covers
the faults of others with a mantle
of charity; show us a man that bows
as politely and gives the street as
freely to the poor sewing girl as to
tho millionaire; show us the man
who abhors tho ridiculer of his
mother's sex and the exposure of
womanly reputation; show us. the
man who never forgets for an instant
the delicacy ane respect, due a wo
man, iu any condition or class and
you show us a' true gentleman.
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TunBiUTisiiN.YVY. A recent squib
of Punch represents Admiral Nelson
as descending from his monument
one morning and stepping into the
admiralty office, expressing a desire
to see a model ship of-modern build.
The obliging clerk hands him a list
from which to choose. He selects
ore ship which had uufortunately
been run ashore. He selects another
whose boiler had burst, lie finally
settles down on the Vanguard, which
the chagrined official tells him is
sunk in the channel. "By God,"
roars the Admiral, turning on his
heel, "England has got a navy where
she never had one before, and that is
at the bottom of the sea!"
"Now," said the Professor, as he
grew animated in the discussion,
" all matter constantly changes. I
have changed since taking my seat
here. Every singlo moment in in"
body are tens of thousands of blood
corpuscles smashed to pieces and
forever destroyed." Senior on the
back scat (in a voice expressive of
deep wonder) "Gosh!"
Mr. Seth Burch, of Cow creek,
Douglas county, the other Iay had one
of his hands badly mangled by tho
accidental discharge of a gun, which
he was holding by the muzzle.
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UT 1: ICI.n nn.trir coiil il W 1S"
, consin farmer as he waited for las
j mail, "but there's nothing like eorn
' beef to touch the exact snot."
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History of the Totato.
It seems to bo generally believed
that the expedition sent by Sir Walter
Raleigh to explore America in 1584
first brought the potato now so com
mon as an article of food all over "
the world, to Britain; but then it
would appear that it had been intro
duced into the south of Europe
before this period. In the "Chronicle
of Peter Cieca," printed in 1553, it is
stated that the inhabitants of Quito
cultivated a tuberous root called
pajxis, which they used as food, and
that root was then cultivated in Italy,
where, in common with the trnffle,
it was, called tratouffli. Gerard, an
English botanist, mentions in his
" Herbal," which w as publisned in
1597, that he cultivated in his garden
the potato, of which ho gives a draw
ing, and calls it tho Virginia potato,
to distinguish it from the potato, or
batata, which was common to Europe.
Another curious circumstance in tho
history of this root is, that for over
a century after its introduction into
Britain, it was little known, and less
prized. For some time it was con
fined to the gardens of botanists and
the curious, and when used at all as
food, only at the tables of the rich,
as a rare vegetable rather than a
standing dish. The potatoes furnish
ed to the table of the queen of James
I. bore the high price of twoshillincs
per pound. Afterwards, thongh
patronized by the Royal Society,
and recommended by some of the
leading men of the day, the culture
of the. potato was long of being gen
erally adopted. In i;87 Woolridge
thus writii of the tubers: I do not
hear that it has been essayed whether
they may not be propagated in great
quantities for tho use of swine and
other cattle." Iif Mortimer's "Gar
dener's Calendar for 1708," the po
tato is directed to be planted in Feb
ruary; and it is added, "the root is
very near the nature of the Jerusalem
artichoke, although not so good and
wholesome, but it may prove good. 1
for swine." Several reasons besides
mere prejudice may be given for this
neglect. Cultivation had not vet
perhaps improved the wild stock to
its present perfection; the proper
mode of cooking, though simple
enough had not perhaps yet been hit
upon; and vegetable food of any
kind, except bread, was less sought
after, or rather less within the reach
of the mass of the people than now.
In time, ho'wever, the grand discovery
began to be made, that this escnlent
was 2ireeminently the poor man's
food and comfort.
Nursing1.
There is so much generalizing
about nursing, at the same time a
lack of detail in discussing the sub
ject, that it might be well to suggest
a few facts, beginning with the morn
ing. As soon as 'the patient wakes, -open
the blinds enough to brighten
the room, unless in diseases where
the eyes are specially sensitive:
bring a bowl of tepid water, soan.
towel and tooth-brush, without being
asked for each article; throw some
thing light over the shoulders, and.
unless the ijatienr. is fidgety, stav
and hand the different articles, re-
oving them as soon as nsed:
straighten tho bedclothes and pil
lows, and then let the patient rest a
few minutes before eating. Put a
clean napkin on a small waiter, with
nice w hite crockery no chipped or
mended table ware the food freshly
cooked, hot and well-flavored. Oat
meal gruel or mutton broth may be
palatable if rightly prepared. Let
the patient have a towel, wet at one
coi ner, to wipe .off the fingers, as the
smell of food, particularly toast or
mutton broth, is very offensive. Re
move the waiter out of the room im
mediately, letting the patient rest
awhile before combing the hair. No
woman invalid should be allowed to
comb her hair in bed, raising the
arms being very injurious. Talk
but little and avoid squeaky shoes.
Be careful and speak on cheerful sub
jects. Do not sit on the bed or jar
it. During" tho da3' a sick person
should bo left quiet, but never en
tirely alone. There shonld bo no
singing, whistling or noisy walking
through tho halls. After the last
meal there should be .no disturbing
influences; all preparations for re
tiring should be made before nine, at
the latest, then perfect quiet. Avoid
all rattling of furnituro or fires.
Great caro should be taken to keep
the air in a room fresh. Tho outer
air cannot hurt a patient if well
covered with blankets, and a screen
interposed if necessary. Much of
the sleeplessness and restlessness of
the sick is caused by the lack of vi
tality in tho air, particularly in
fevers. Something to cat in the
middle of the night will induce sleep
frequently. Huaekeeper. ,
A drag driven by an elegantly at
tired lady, and with a trim and neatly
dressed colored boy perched on the
footman's seat behind, was passing
through tho streets, when it was
espieif by an old negro woman.
"Bress de Lord!" she exclaimed,
raising her hands as she spoke
"Bress de Lord, I nebber 'spected
to see dat. Wonder what dat young
euilud gemmen pays dat young white
'oman fur drivin dat kirridge? I
kno'd it'd come, but nebber 'spected
to lib to soo it. Dis nigga's ready
to go 'way now."
Si:ocsncM Aktem. The early bird
catches the worm. Struggling young
physician (who after listening with
rapt attention to tho symptoms of
his first patient, strikes a hand-bell
and summons his faithful attendant)
"O-er Roberts I" Roberts "Yes,
sir. rhysician "When Mr. Glad
stone comes take him into the break
fast room and ask him to be so kind
as to v;ait a little while. (To patient)
Now, madam." Punch.
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