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DEVOTED TO SMEWS, LITERATURE, AN 3 THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
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Meets everv Thursday .Wjjfe,.
evening at 7'4 nVloek, in the
old Fellows' J lull. Main 5
street. Mi'inhersof the Or
der are iuyited to attend. Py order
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d:iv evening caeh month, ?J"&il.sf
at 7 o'el'iek, in t!ie Odd
Fellows' ll.ill. Mem'oersof the Decree
are invited to attend.
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Tiliid S Uiiidavs in each month,
Atl o'-lek from t health of Sep.
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O.K., Meet-! at Old Fellows' q r
Hall ont'i" First and Third Tiies
dav of e i -.'i month. Patriarchs v
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)i'o!i City, )i'tiron.
Social att -ntion ivn t loaning Money.
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AT71)SXEY.4 ANDcfJll'XSELORS AT-L.1W.
Oregon City, Oregon. 0
P"Vill practice in all the Courts of the
Mate. Special attention given to cases in
tre IT. S. Land Utile at, Oregon city.
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X,. T. BARIN
ATTOF2?JEY-AT-LAW,
OiWiOX CITY, : : OREGON.
Will practice in all the Courts of the
State. Nov. 1, 1S75, tf
H. E. CHAMBERLAIN,
AT TO KNKY-AT-LAW
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oKi:t;ox city.
OiUeo In Kstkkprise Rooms,
"JAMES 15. ITlTOiSr,
At t oi'jioy-itt-Liaw,
Oregon City,
Nov. ", :tf
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Kstl)llsliel since llt e olil stand.
)lain Strict, flr??o City, Oregon.
vooo Vn assortment of Wathes, .Tewel-
VoS rv and Sth Thomas' Weigiit Clocks
all of which are warranted to be as
S&2fcS represented.
n-Repairins done on short notice, and
thankful for past patronage.
TollX!. I5AC0N,
IMPOUTFU AND IEAT.ER JJju&
In UooksVst.ationery, Perium- fSyty
ery, ete., etc. "
q O Ore jroti Ctly, Oregon.
'"'VAt th Post Office, Main stgeot, east
sid-.
TO FRlIjt-GROVERS.
rpiIF. A?.1)V.X FRUIT PRESERVING
1 Company of Oregon City will pay the
MI3HEST MARKET PRICE
or PJ.l'Ms. IK Alts and APPLRS.
Mr. Tlios. Charman is authorized to pur
chas- lor the Comnanv.
It. I. C LATOITRETTE,
.... , President.
I !Ms. CHARM AN. Secretary,
1 Vity, July 1S75 itf
News Column.
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Women vote in Chili.
Seattle lias a broom factory.
Money is plentiful in San Fran
cisco. Snow shoes are in use at Idaho
City.
The epizootic has reached Hills
boro. They Lave $91 in the Forest
Grove treasury.
Egyptian contributions to the
Centennial have arrived in New York.
Queen Victoria will visit the Con
tinent in the spring.
"Wade'snew opera house in San
Francisco is completed.
A 1,500,000 dollar earthquake has
visited Valparaiso.
S. J. Kirkwood is the nominee of
the Iowa Republicans for Senator.
No convict went from Washington
county to the penitentiary in 1875.
More crooked whisky was seized
on the 12th inst., at Chicago. 0
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They intend having a grand -4th of
July celebration at Seattle.
The1 scow schoonor Shoo Fly is a
total wreck on Whidby Island.
Temple & Workman's bank failed
in "Los Angeles on the 11th inst.
William Bagbv lias, been "appoint
ed Agent at the Siletz Indian Agency.
oS cents a day is the average salary
of workmen in Switzerland and Italy.
Joseph Loeder has brought suit
against Henry Ward Beecher for ma
licious prosecution.
The Democrats have nominated
Paul Ma icy for Governor of Xew
Hampshire.
At San Francisco they are inquir
ing into the condition of steamships
on the coast.
An immense land swindle is said
to have been unearthed last week in
California.
It cost the United states $10,000
for the surveying of 000,000 acres in
Utah.
It has taken Raker's four mule
teams a month to get from Kelton to
Boise City.
Charles IIopk:ns has been appoint
ed U. SMarshal for Washington
Territory.
Three men living on the Sandy
have been arrested for attempting to
burn a school house.
Portland Chief of Police Lappeus
is confined to the housewith rheu
matic gout.
La Page has bpen sentenced to
death at Concord for the murder of
Jose Longmnid.
At a fire in Mobile on the 15th
inst., $100,000 worth of property was
destroyed.
Sioux Indians have been lifting
scalps from Otoe Indians, around
Blooniington, Kansas.
The Democratic Grangers favor
Justice Davis, of the Supreme Court,
for the Presidency.
The Marquis of Ripon, a recent
convert to Catholicism, has presented
the Pope with $50,000.
They had :J7 earthquake shocks in
12 hours at Lima, on the 4th of De
cember. A coffer dam has been placed under
the stern of the steamer Ajax, at
Portland.
A prisoner confined at Eugene for
larceny hanged himself with his scarf
last week.
Senator Jones left last week for
Washington. Senator Sharon still
lingers in San Francisco.
The wreck of the bark Windward
was sold at auction for $2,500 near
Seattle last week.
On Thursday an $850,000 fire help
ed to melt the ice uronnd Jersey
City.
Col. Williams, one of the founders
of the Virginia City Enterprise, com
mitted suicide last week, at Pioche,
Nevada.
Tlie militia has been called out in
Louisiana to assist the courts in exe
cuting the laws against the so-called
regulators.
St. Louis Iras tendered its Mer
chant's Exchange Hall for the hold
ing of the Democratic and Republi
can national conventions.
It is rumored that Pennsylvania's
delegation to the Republican national
convention will support Conkling,
of Aew York, for the Presidency.
It is rumored that the ship Harvest
Green was run down in the British
Channel by the steamer Adriatic, and
the crew of thirty persons lost.
The next Union Republican Na
tional Convention for candidate for
President and Vice P esident, will
be held in Cincinnati on the 4th of
June.
The treasurer of the Washington
opera troupe was arrested at Salem
for trying to leave the city without
sottling with the much-imposed-upon
printer.
Secretary Bristow's estimate of
the expenses of the Government for
tbe fiscal yeai ending June 30, 1877
amount to $314,612,698. The esti
mates for the year ending in 1876
were $310,030,769, making an in
crease of $4,581,838. The appropria
tions for the year ending with 1876
were $293,106,177, making the ex
cess of present estimates over appro
priations for the preceding year, $21,-416,430,
"Plain English."
Editor Exterpkise: We hear so
much complaint of late of hard
times, of scarcity of funds, that we
would think that penury ,yea, starva
tion, are close at hand. Go to any
railroad station and you can see men
standing around with their hands in
their pockets, crying "hard times
and nothing to do." Every little
village saloon has its regular visi
tors and professional loafers, that
stand around with cigars in their
mouths, wishing for something to
turn up. "If some one would just
strike a gold mine, or get up some
paying institution, we could have
jolly old times, like in early days."
But alas! how things have changed;
all through the country you find
men that only work enough to get
their clothing, and "bum their
grub." They are emphatically la
dies' men (?) ; they dance so nicely,
and spend their money (?) so freely.
Gliding gently down the stream of
life, they fritter away the bloom of
youth, the siiring time, the sowing
season, in frivolity. Having noth
ing to do, they go to the dram-shop,
the ball room and card table, thus
dwarfing their powers, mental and
moral. Along the shore of time you
can see beautiful wrecks stianded,
young men becoming moral wrecks,
blasting hope and carrying to the
grave a life that might have been
a blessing to themselves, an honor
to their 2arents and highly bene
ficial to society.
Young men, awake! arouse to un
ceasing, untiring action! None need
be idle with the world for an arena
of action. Oregon, our grand old
State, with its forest trees of huge
dimensions stretching interminably
away, its manufacturing facilities,
its mines exhaustless and of ''untold
value, its productive valleys 6 and
grazing lands, yea, its ten thousand
other rich, rare and useful things,
should ever be a cynosure around
which all of our hopes should clus
ter. No one need be idle in Oregon,
and if good wages be any induce
ment to honest toil, there should be
no drones; any able bodied man can
earn from one dollar to two dollars
and fifty cents a day. There is work
for all and ten thousand more. Why
sit still and spend your time so un
proritably? Begin to survey the
grounds, examine yourselves, meas
ure your abilities, and bring all your
latent energies into exercise em
ploy your time and save your money.
I once read of a grasshopper that
went to an ant one bleak wintry
morning begging for something to
eat. The ant wished to know what
he had been doing during the sum
mer. "Singing," replied the grass
hopper. Tlie answer of the ant was,
"As you have sung all summer, why
dance all winter." So the young
men who fail to provide for old age,
the winter of life when they seek as
sistance from 'those who, like the
ant, have prepared for it, denounce
them as cold hearted and unchari
table. Every young man should be
stimulated to develop himself to the
fullest extent, and not complain of
what he has got, nor sigh for things
nngetable. Yet have a noble ambi
tion in your soul to do and dare all
that is right, and foar to do nothing
but wrong, and "hard times and
scarcity of funds" will soon disap
pear. "Mrsn asi) Milk."
Beaver Creek, Jan. 0th, 1870,
We dig this little gem out of the
Gazette of Steuben ville, Ohio:
"A strong magnet on the hearth
stone will attraot your boys from the
beer saloons. If the magnet thereat
is strong enough to draw your boys
from the home fireside, yon should
make yours the stronger. Make your
hearth of loadstone."
To which we add: As kittens seek
the sunny places in the room when
they wish to rest, so do boys and
men seek and find places where there
is an effort made to entertain them.
Many a mother is so intent on mak
ing flannel night oaps for heathen
orphans that she has no time to grow
into the life and love of her children
or to make the Home Corner pleas
ant to them. So, too, does many and
many, and many a wife, soon as she
is married, forget the little attentiors
that won her husband, and devote
her energies to pleasing men who
never take an interest in the wife of
another man when they are made
happy at home. The hearth-stona
loses its magnetism, and the open
doors of the saloon where men do
for money what women should do
for love reveal places that promise
to be mellow and agreeable, and soon
a boy or a man is lost.
The Chicago Jiiter-0"ean makes
the very sensible suggestion that the
customs regulations be changed so
that a record of sailors' names may
be kept ashore. All that these regu
lations require is that vessel captains
when clearing leave a statement of
the number of men on board, and in
case of a disaster at sea, with the loss
of life, thonsands of friends and rela
tives of sailors are anxious to know
if they are among the lost, without
the means of ascertaining. When a
vessel goes down and the crew are
referred to as "names unknown,"
there should be some way of telling
quickly .who were on board.
Our people need not fear a war
with Mexico. The totabforce of the
Mexican army and the militia of the
several States combined does not ex
ceed 70,000 meq,
Nonsense.
"Benjamin l" shouted Mrs.Toodles
to her husband who was rgoing out
of the gate, "bring me up five cents'
worth of snuff when you come."
"Snuff? Mrs. Toodles, snuff?" he
ejaculated, as he paused with his
hand on the latch; "no, no, Mrs.
Toodles, the times are too hard to
admit of such extravagance; you
must tickle your nose with a straw
when you want to sneeze."
Pete " What do tranahant ad
mean?" Jim "Aha, Pete, you're
green, you is. Transhant is one of
dem kind of ads,' when u. feller
comes in in a big hurry and say:
'Here, just put this in for about two
weeks, and'den send me de william.'
When dey carries him de william,
he tells dem he's busted, an' dey got
to wait see ?"
Our devil saj-s: If a drop of water
taken from the ocean wouldn't be
missed, ho would like to know where
all the Oregon mist comes from.
Pious old party "Now, Mrs. S.,
I've one important question to ask.
Does not Satan ofttimes tell you that
yon are not a Christian ?" Mrs.
S. "Yes 'ee do so." P. O. P.
"And what say von to him on these
occasions?" Mrs. S. "Well, I say,
whether I be or no, it can't possibly
be none of 'is business."
An Eastern youngster, while warm
ing his hands over the kitchen fire,
was remonstrated with by his father,
who paid: "Go 'way from the stove,
the weather is not cold." The little
fellow, looking" up demurely at his
stern. parent, replied: "I ain't heat
ing die weather; I am warming my
hands."
"Cussed, if the darned thing ain't
a-going!" was the surprised remark
of a sight-seeing Granger from
Maine, who caressed the teeth of a
circnl ar saw at the North End plan
ing mill, at Boston; and now should
you propound to him that first prob
lem for young arithmeticians, "How
many fingers have you on jour right
hand?" he would bite that lonely
thumb, and sadly reply, "Nary,
stranger!"
Why, pull-backs are just the thing
for skating. If tlie wearer should
perchance skate into a hole, she'd be
pulled back, of course.
"How long have you been in Eng
land ?"' was the question pot by a
young Englishman to a young Amer
ican at a public dinner in London
recently. "About two weeks," was
the reply. "Really." was tho rejoin
der of the young John Bull, "and I
notice you talk our language as well
as wo do!" "Yes," was the reply of
Brother Jonathan; "I have not been
here quite long enough to forget how
to speak it."
A Montreal paper says that they
did have three or four days of sum
mer there a few months ago, but the
women used them all up drying
clothes.
When a three-dollar mnskrat muff
will make a Leavenworth woman
happy for six months, it seems too
bad for a man to lie under the fence
all night, and pay a fine of $5 next
morning.
Bayard Taylor says Mark Twain's
wit is only skin-deep. Mark says
that Taylor's goes to the bone and
never comes out.
It is said to have been a character
istic of the late Mr. Astor's mode of
doing business, that' he never incur
red a risk. Young men will do well
to follow his example and mark the
paragraph with an Astor-risk.
A railroad brakeman, in Texas,
found a wallet containing 82,000, and
restored it to the owner. Within
forty minutes after that, the brake
man fell off the cars and was killed.
The moral is plain enough.
The grateful citizens of Green Bay,
Michigan, have presented Mr. Jack
son, of that place, with a silver-headed
cane for having refrained from
kicking his wife out of bed during a
married life of seven years. As no
body has presented Mrs. Jackson
with a silver-headed soap-stick, it is
presumed that the fatal facility with
which she handles her heels has
caused Jaekson to bite the floor more
than once within the time named.
Young man, if you should s"ee
your girl gazing intently at your
feet, don't shift them about uneasily,
or draw them up and sit upon them,
under the impression that she is
overwhelmed by their immense size.
She is merely -taking their measure
mentally for a pair of slippers, on
the toes of which sho intends to work
a blue dog with a green tail and
scarlet ears.
This is the kind of weather that
makes the dashing young man wish
that instead of sending a dollar and
a half for that massive diamond pin
last summer, he had judiciously in
vested in a pair of winter drawers.
No man ever got married without
somebody calling him a fool. Rich
mond Enquirer. Yes; and in nine
cases out of ten it is his wife who
does it.
Bugglns thinks that dynamite is a
contraction for die any minute.
A writer in the Cleveland Stwho
Yoice lias an article headed "How
Shall We Rise?" Pid he ever try
sitting down on a can of nitro'-glvcer-ine
?
Guizot was once interrupted in a
speech he was making from the trib
une in the French Assembly. "Who
are you ?" he demanded. "I am Gra
nier de Cassagnao," was the reply.
! "Oh, then, it's of no consequence,
; rejoiaed Guizot, with a dry, sarcas
I tic smile. The interrupter was the
I father of the notorious diielist.
Fish may be divided into two clases
codfish and fresh fish. The pro
priety of dividing them into two
classes will be at once apparent when
we reflect that they are usually found
in schools.
The mackerel is not exactly a cod
fish; but he comes so much nearer
being a codfish than a fresh fish that
he is for the present classed with the
former.
Fish exist in sizes to suit the pur
chaser, from minnows to whales
which are not fish, strictly speaking.
Neither is the alligator a fish; but if
we attempt to tell what are not fish,
this article will extend its intended
limits.
The herring is not absolutely a fish ;
he is a suggestion of departed fish.
But the strongest suggestions of de
parted fish are smelt. The herring
sustains the same relation to the fin
ny tribe as tho Egyptian mummy to
the humanv.race.
Fish are caught by measure and
sold by weight that is, they are
caught by the gill and sold by the
pound. But they are sometimes
caught by weight wait till you get
a bite.
-, Cententment is the chief requisite
to the successful fishermau.
Surveyors are apt to be good fish
ermen, because their lines and angles
are apt so be all right.
The mermaid and fishuoman may
also be mentioned in this connection.
The former is a good illustration of
what is meant by the ideal, and the
latter as fitly represents tlie real.
Many land animals are produced
in the sea. Thus we have tho dog
fish, the catfish, sea-lions and sea
horses, but no sea-mules. None of
the above have hind legs, and anjT
manner of mule without hind legs
would be a conspicuous failure.
It may not be out of place to men-c
tion Jonah in this connection. He
was not a fish, but was once included
among tho inhabitants of the deep.
There has been considerable dispute
as to tho name of the fish that swal
lowed the gentleman above mention
ed, some persons arguing that the
throat of a whale is not large enough
to swallow a man. This objection
seems to be inconsequential. Jonah
might have been made in a smaller
mould than other men. Moreover,
it is certain that he was cast over bo
fore being swallowed cast over the
rail of the vessel.
There has been much speculation,
also, as to the cause of Jonah'? ex
pulsion from the whale's interior;
but the theory most generally accept
ed is that he soured on the whale's
stomach.
He was very fortunate in reaching
land, since lie had no pilot. If he
had taken a pilot with him into the
stomach of the whale, he would
doubtless have selected Pauncheous
Pilate as the proper man.
Jonah was tlie first man who retir
ed from tho Department of tlie Inte
rior, and Delano was the last one.
Rut we digress. Let us turn to
our fish.
Tne codfish is the great source of
all salt. In this respect, Lot's wife
is nowhere; however, it would be
well to "remember Lot's wife."
The saline qualities ofcthe codfish
permeate and percolate the vasty
deep and make the ocean as salt as
himself. Weighed in his own scales,
he is found wanting wanting con
siderable freshening. He is quite
social, his principal recreation being
balls fish balls.
The codfish was worshipped0 by
the Greeks; but he is only half as
well treated by the inhabitants of
Cape Cod, he is simply shipped,
llenc-e tho difference between the
Greeks and the inhabitants of Cape
Cod.
Small fish are usually harmless;
but parents can not be too careful
about permitting their children to
play where large fish abound, since
it is an established fact that the big
fish frequently eat up the little ones.
The jelly fish is, perhaps, the best
understood of all the finny tribe; be
cause, being translucent, it is easy
to see through him.
The greatest number of fish are
eaten on Friday, and the next great
est number on Saturday--because
those that are left over are warmed
up for Satnrdaj-'s breakfast.
Argumentative persons are fond of
stating that it is grammatical to say
that the five loaves and three fishes
were ate, because five and three are
always eight. They should be treat
ed with silent contempt.
Fish are provided with air-bladders
so that they can rise from the depths
of the sea by simply filling these blad-.
ders with air.
If any one is disposed to ask where
they get the air for this inflation, let
him understand in advance that this
article is' not intended for the solu
tion of petty conundrums. There
are many interesting rumors about
fish which might be mentioned, but
the foregoing facts may be considered
as of-fish-al.
"Are you a Christian?" asked Mrs.
Van Cot at a Boston revival meeting
of a newspaper man who had taken a
front' seat that he might better re
port the proceedings. "I guess not,"
said he, "I'm'a reporter." She pass
ed on to a more hopeful case.
The most puzzling thing about an
editorial shears is the antipathy usu
ally existing between that useful ar
ticle and the italics found at the bot
tom of a paragraph.
"A show-oaso containing fancy cards,
etc., "specimens of the work done
inside," stands in front of a Trenton,
N. J., printing house, and a placard
is attached to the same, which reads
in large letters, "Hands off." A few
nights since some witty newsboy
gave quite a new import to the card
by making it read "Hands off on a
drunk!"
'Conic I5ov:
There is a wonderful difference
as a motive pjwer between the com
mand "Go Boys," and the appeal
"Come Boy?." The one as naturally
incites to resistance as the other does
to imitation. The leader of a forlorn
hope would have few followers, who
should himself lag behind, no matter
how violently he might vociferate
"Go Boys." He might gesticulate
wildly, and brandish his sword val
iantly, but if he himself did not "go."
i they would be sure to stay likewise.
Jiut if without a single flourish, nd
with dauntless spirit, he first threw
himself into the breach, they would
emulate his zeal and courage, and he
would scarcly need to bid them
"come." This is human nature.
And it is as operative in things spir
tual as in things secular. The Chris
tian who expatiates eloquently on the
importance of prayer, but "himself
neglects to besiege the Throne of
Grace, will hardly iueite his chil
dren or dependents to "wrestle with
God" in fervent supplication. The
parent or teacher who urges temper
ance or godliness in some particular
form, but is himself addicted to in
temperance or ungodliness in some
other kind, will find the command
"Go boys," far less effective than
his own example of right doing and
thinking coupled with a hearty, sym
pathetic, though unspoken "Come
boys."
The London Times, recently, in an
obituary notice of the late Dean
Hook, relates an incident oF that
eminent preacher and writer, which
pleasently illustrates the power that
resides in the simple appeal "Come."
It seems that quite late in life, the
Dean, with a view to aid tho wide
and general movement for the moral
improvement of the masses, Iwime
a teetotaler. He used to tell the
story of his change in this direction,
in the following pleasant way; "I
had in my parish at Leeds a man
who earned eighteen shillings a week ;
out of this he used to give seven
shillings to his wife, and spend the
rest in drink; but for all that he was
a good sort of a man; I went to him
and said 'Now suppose you abstain
altogether for six months. ' 'Well if
I do, will you, sir?' was the reply.
'Yes,' I said, I will.' 'What,' said
he, 'from beer, from spirits, and from
wine?' ,Yes.' ' And how shall I
know if you keep your promise!'
'Why, you ask my "Missis" and I'll
ask yours.' It was agreed between
us for six months at first, and after
wards we renewed the promise. He
never resumed the bad habit that he
had left off, and is now a prosperous
and happy man of bnsiness at St.
Petersburg, and I am Dean of Chi
chester." Items IVor-th Iteiuemberlug.
Benzine and common clay will clean
marble. 0
If you buy carpets for durability,
choose small figures.
Naturalists says that a single swal
low will devour six thousand flies in
one day.
Butter will remove tar spots. Soap
and water will afterwards take out
the grease stain.
To. remove paint splashed upon
window panes, use hot solution of
soda and n soft flannel.
Kerosene and powdered lime, whit
ing, or wood ashes, will Boour tins
with least trouble.
Immersing a growing plant in wat
er of 120 degrees will clean it of lice
and other Insects, and not hurt the
plant
To clean a browned porcelain ket
lle, boil peeled potatoes in it. The
porcelain will be rendered nearly as
white as when new.
A strongsolution of carbolic acid
and water, poured into holes will
kill all the ants it touches, ahd the
survivors immediately take them
selves off.
An inkstand was turned over upon
a white tablecloth; a servant threw
over it a mixture of salt and pepper
plentifully, and all traces of it dis
appeared. Save the soot that falls from the
chimneys when the latter are cleaned.
Twelve quarts of soot to a hogshead
of water makes good liquid manure
to be applied toothe roots of plants.
To take mildew from linen, mix
soft soap with starch powdered, half
the quantity of salt, aud a piece of
lemon, and lay it on both sides with
a paint brush ; let it be in the open
air on glass is preferable--till the
stain is removed,
An excellent, well recommended
pickle for curing hams is. made of
one and one-half pounds of salt, one
half pound of sugar, one-half ounce
of saltpeter, and one-half ounce of
potash. Boil all together till the
dirt from the sugar has risen to the
tor and is skimmed. Pour it over
the meat and leave the latter in tho
solution four or five weeks.
Tn.vr Coileoe op Mrsic. Mis
givings are expressed in New York
as to that elaborately betrumpeted
scheme far a college of music in Cen
tral park. It is said that Mr. Wood,
the aged millionaire, is so sick of the
comments and criticisms on his no
tion, and the publicity it has given
him, that he is half-minded not to
do anything about it. Dr, Elmer,
who is credited with suggesting to
the old gentleman this particular
channel for benevolence and renown,
ought to bestir himself and get a
deed of gift forthwith, for they say
that Wood, though childish, has
many heirs, and the usual lawyers,
feast may be anticipated over his
money if he should leave it to his
executors toacarry out his purposes.
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A young lady at a piano, desiring
to favorably impress a young man,
should not place her lamp so it will
throw her profile on the wall,
How to Save Your Eves.
When will those working by lamp
light have the sense to understand
tho use of shades to protect the eyes? 2
We see persons sitting holding their
sewing or other work before and near
to a lamp, while the light is blazing
full intu their eves, it is plain that
j the object that they work upon can
not he seen with so great distinctness
while tho field of their retina is al
ready occupied by a blaze. But they
work on for hours, and though the
next morning their visual organs
tell of the abuse by redness and in
ifanihiaJuy.it ih? workers ftve torL VIull
to learn cthe lesson of experience
offered them. Circular paper shades
i can be obtained for a few cents, and
those not only protect the eyes from
the excess of light, but serve as a
reflector behind the blaze, increasing
the illumination one-half. Beside
tlie above-mentioned evil, there is
that of tlie varying quantity of
light thrown into the eye by itsleing
suddenly and alternately directed
toward the blae or obliquely away
from it, by which the pupil has not
time to adapt itself to the increase
of glare; whereas, with the shade,
the illumination would beQiuiform.
The number of persons in the com
munity having spots light or dark,
in their fiield of vision, arising from
injury to the retina by the ill usages
vj are mentioning, is greater than
is commonly imagined. It mustbo
borne in mind that these spots are i)
serious step toward amaurosis and
j gntta serena, si.eh as plunged in dark
ness tne :atter vears of the irreat
ton, and many others more eminent
for their talents than their caution.
The Ut'.)d ami Uvil of Novel
Iteadiii"-.
The ideal world into which we go
for relief from our daily drudgery
may rellect liglit upon ordinary
i 's in i : i :i v it- : i 1 1 imiii i ;li iim"
region of periodical lotus eating.
Some people might think that their
sympathy for Oliver Twist excused
them from caring about any flesh
audrblood sufferer. Others might be
enabled to see more vividly sorrows
which they had 2ireviously passed
over because embodied in common
place outsides. It is impossible to 3
lay down any precise rules upon
such questions; everybody has to
learn for himself what is the disci
pline -which best suits his own case;
and the wisest general maxims are
of very little service. Yet, without
referring to individual cases, there
are some marks sufficiently char-x
acteristic of the school which fosters
the morbid tendency. Art which is
too much divorced from reference
to the actual world shows, its sickli
ness by unmistakable symptoms. It
suffers from the blight of sentimental- 0
ism or sensationalism. When peo- o
pie begin to pet and cocker their fine
feelings, and to take delight in weep0
ing for the sake oi weeping, we may
be pretty sure that they are losing a,
proper bold upon a world cin which
there is always sufficient cause for
melancholy without creating artifv
cial misery i When they delight ra
descriptions of the horrible or the
nauseous, it is plain enough that
such dram-drinking implies a de-i
praved appetite, or, in other words, 0
a hardening of the natural emotions.
Whet, such tendences are strongly
marked, as is generally theose with
decliniug schools? we cannot doubt
that the pleasure is of an enervatteg;
tendency.
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Mystery of the Dynamite Plot,
The mystery which has from the
first surrounded the explosion of
dynamite on the quay at Bremen,
grows denser with every new dis
patch concerning it.
The confession of the suioide
Thompson has not been borne 0x1
by the facts yet discovered. A care--ful
search of the cargo of the ship
Salier has resulted in the discovery
that there are no oases of dynamite
on board that vessel, as Thompson,
asserted that there were. Stranger
still, investigation utterly fails to.
confirm his assertion that improper
insurance had been effected upon a
part of the cargo of the Moselle, and,
hence the motive which hesaid ac
tuated him in seeking to destroy the
steamship appears never to have ex
isted at all. There .is every reason
to sup2ose, therefore, that the con
fession, so far at least as its details
are concerned, was simply the rav
ings of an insane man, o
Yet the fact that the dynamite was
on the quay ready for shipment re
mains, and there can be no "doubt
that Thompson meant to destroy the
Mosel, although there seems to have
been no motive whatever for the
crime other than that which a dis
eased imagination was capablePof
furnishing. The wLole story is a.
puzzle which it is to be hoped that
tiie authorities in Bremen will spare
no pains to solve.
Ox the Sai Sea-Waves. She was
young, she was fair (says the Boston
Gluhe),and there was indescribable
grace and poetry iri her posture as
she leaned against the starboard T&i
of the Portland steamboat, and gaz
ed, with ajipalling look, into the
depths of a sad sea-wave that foamed,
and surged about us, Tears were in
her eyes of azure blue, and, as if
seeking- to repress tho sad feelings
that prompted them, against her
trembling lips she pressed a mou
choir of delicate texture. A sympa-
thetic youth who had noticed the
loneliness of her situation, approach-
ed her, with hat uplifted, and said;
"A thousand pardons, Miss.are you
ill?" He will undoubtedly remem-
ber tho glance she bestowed upon
him as she turned and exclaimed;
"You don't suppose I've been doing
this chucking-np for fun, do you?"
Pennsylvania's debt is $13,766,564,
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