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Office in Entkrhri.se Rooms.
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lrgon City.
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nt the old stand.
Main Strrct, Oregon City, Oregon.
jjfloo An assortment of Wat lies,. Tewel
V?7 ry.nnd S-th Thoinas' Weight Clocks
tf-' .'E all of wbieh are warranted to be ns
represented.
VKpairinir doiin nn short notice, and
thankful for past patronage.
JOHN M. 1JAC0X,
IMPORTER AND HEALER, jxi
in Rooks, Stationery, IVrfum- fc.-"jp"y
cry, oc., etc. vv-iar
Orsjoii City, Oregon.
tthe ro.r OtTlee, Main stgeet, east
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TO FRLUT-GilOWERS.
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1 Company of Oregon City will 1 ay the
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Gi.T PU'JIS. ,rEUS mi APPLES.
Mr. Thos. Charman is authoriz?d to pur
chasi for the Company.
U D. C. LATOURETTE,
r President.
THOS. CHARM X. Secretary.
Oreg.ii City, Julv 25, 1ST5 :tf
MILLER, MARSHALL &C0.,
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1 nuif-t fumfeh s:icks. novjjtf
JMI.MK I.I MILITAIIUSS.
The Joyous dance is ended,
And lovely ladies stray,
I?v cavaliers attended.
To where the fountains play.
With Cupid's pitts o'erlatU-n
Is every warrior -there ;
The thoitrht of every mnlden
Is, "J'aime tiriHttrire."
It is the old, old story
He whisfer'd with a kiss.
And dazzid with war's glory
A maid as fair as this.
If is plrndinjr eyes are tender,
lie seeks with earnest cure
The ynunj heart's frank surrender
Ah, "J'aime lex militai rex."
And should he chance to win it
Ah, Mtor child, count the cost;
For rapture of n minute.
A heart that's whoily lost
He'll ride 11 way unheeding
To oth'-r faces f:ir,
And stniijrhtway love lies bleeding
Yet "J'aime le titilitairm."
Summary of the Halicock Trial.
St. lions, Feb. 23. Tbe burden
of District Attorney Dyer's closing
argument was that the counsel for
defence tried to bring General
Grunt to the front in order to screen
liabcock.
judge dillon's chalce.
St. Louis, Feb. 21. The court
was not opened to day until 11
o'clock, the Judges being engaged
in finishing the charge to the jury.
As soon as the roll of jurors was called
Judge Dillon read the instructions,
which were very long, including in
various groups the telegrams intro
duced in the evidence. Many of the
letters wera introduced, and copious
extracts from the President's deposi
tion. At the outset Judge Dillon
said that in all the propositions he
had to make, he had the c.)ueuri-erjce
of his associate on the bench, Judge
Treat, lie explained to the jury the
importance of the case and reason
which had male it necessary to kee:
them isolated. A high compliment
was paid to counsel and management
of the cases on both sides. Approach
ing the issues, Judge Dillon kiid
to?huin questions aresi one, as to
the existence of a conspiracy, and
second, as to the connection of thf
defendant with it. T..o Jirst .no-t-iou
required little attention, as the
argument of counsel on both sides
seemed to accept the existence of
conspiracy as proven. The second
.question the connection of the de
fendant with the conspiracy was
tiken up. The jury were cautioned
at some length to be on their guard
against the iuilnence af popular
clamor. They were also reminded
that the government owed a duty to
its citizens, as well as to its revenue,
and it lay in the province of the jury
to acquit as well us to convict. Ihe
prosecution had presented no evi
dence to show the defendant had
ever declared his connection with
conspiracy, or had written a direct
admission of this connection. The
law. however, did not require this.
It was a case of circumstantial evi
dence. It was right for them to
consider the motives of the defen
dant. The government alleged as
the only motive that of pecuniary
gun. The evidence of Everest, who
mailed the letter in w hich he thought
Joyce put a ."') ) bill, and the evi
dence of McGill, who testified to
t -.king from the letter box a siaiilar
letter and returning it to Joyce, was
considered, and the question of
credibility left to the jury. The
telegrams, letters and portions of
the President's do;. option bearing
on the death of Collector Ford and
i the appointment of his suecer.sor,
were read. Ihe two questions the
court considered arose on the suc
cessorship of Ford. First, whether
the defendant sought to inlluenee
the President on the suceessorship;
and second, w hether he did this in
the interest of the conspiracy, having
knowledge of that conspiracy. Judge
Dillon then read all the dispatches
of the spring of 1S7-L to Joyce's visit
to San Francisco, and Commissioner
Douglass' appointment of other rev
enue agents to go out of their dis
tricts: also numerous letters from
Joyce, Uabcock, Hogue and Urooks,
and lengthy extracts from the Presi
dent's deposition, arranged in chron
ological order and interspersed with
comments on them. Most of tiie
dispatches relating to the transfer
of supervisors and the revocation of
the order to transfer them were also
given a notice. Passing to general
views of the cause and the evidence,
he spoke as follows: Various classes
of dispatches have been laid before
you, some to defendant and some
from him, some, between confessed
conspirators, not referring to defend
ant, and unaccompanied by proof,
that h knew of them and other dis
patches between revenue oilicers anu
agents of the government. Dis
patches between other persons than
the defendant are no evidence to show
his connection with conspiracy,
unless brought home to him." They
were admitted to show the nature
and purpose of the plan, and opera
tions of the conspiracy. Guilt
cannot be lixed upon any person bv
the declarations or statements, oral
or written, of others. Guilt must
certainly 01 innate within a man's
own breastand it must be eslablished
by his own acts, conduct or admis
sions. Hence in determining the
question of defendant's guilt, so far
as it is sought to be shown by -the
dispatches to and from defendant
and especially such dispatches as
he is shown to have answered and
acted upon. If the dispatches to
and from defendant in connection
wfth other facts and circumstances
in tho case show that he knew of the
alleged conspiracy, and that he was
a guilty participant therein, tho dis
patches of his fellow conspirators
among themselves, or to others, sent
for the purpose of promoting the
conspiracy became evidence against
the defendant but not oterwise.
What weight is to be given to dis
patches uo shown to have been act
ed oubv the defendant, must depend,
among other cousideratian, on wheth
er an answer was called for, or not
and upon Lis associations with the
persons sending the same, -what they
impart on their, face and whether
he knew that the senders were en
gaged in the conspiracy alleged in
the indictment. For 'it must be
understood that, under well estab
lished rules of law, the various acts
and declarations of persons,' other
than the defendant, are not evidence
to show that lie was one of the con
spirators, for no man's connection
with a conspiracy can be legally
established by what others did in his
absence and without his knowledge
and concurrence. j
You will also remember, gentle
men of the jury, that the , confessed
conspirators in St. Louis testified
that they were frequently warned of
proposed visits of the agents of the
revenue to investigate the frauds in
this district. Hence one of the es
sential inquiries in this case as to
the sources of information thus
given, the telegraphic dispatches to
and from Avery, who was during
part of the time chief clerk in Ihe
treasury department and part of the
time chief clerk of internal revenue
bureau of Washington, are also be
fore you, and also the frequent visits
of McDonald and Joyce to that city
at times when the arrivals tit St.
Louis by revenue agents was appre
hended. This significant fact is for
yon to weigh in order to determine
whence the needed warnings to the
conspir.dors came. The prosecution
contends that the defendant gave
from Washington the iufor.nation
needed by the conspirators and aided
in preventing the visit which the
conspirators were anxious to avoid.
Some of ihe witnesses on the part of
the gov(-r;;;.i'.i.f , on material audi dis
puted points, are confessed members
of the conspiracy, and under indict
ment; therefore, such - connection
with the oense mak; s them accomplice.-,
and it thus breomcs neees
s..ry th..t the court should state to
th-. jury i ho law touching the testi
mony of sue!; witnesses. The rule cf
law is t!n:t accomplices are compe
tent witness; that menus that par
ties have the right to havu them 1
sv.r:i. It also implies that, when
sworn, you shall consider their testi
mony. Thoy are competent wit
nesses, and urder the legislation of
Congress may bo compelled to testify.
Tne testimony of conspirators is al
ways to be received with caution,
and weighed and scrutinized with j
great care by t'ne jury, who should
not rely upon it unsupported, unless
it produces in their mind the fullest
and tin; most positive conviction of
its truth. To the jury exclusively
belongs the duly of weighing the
evidence and determining the credi
bility of the witnesses. With that
the court has absolutely nothing to
do. The defendant has produced an
impressive array of witnesses of the
character to testify to the character
of the defendant. This is a fact to
be weighed and considered by the
jury, and in tho light of which they
should view all the evidence and de
terr;ine the question of his inno
cence or guilt of t he crime charged
against him in the indictment. If
the evidence can be reconciled either
with the theory of innocence or
guilt, the lav.- lequircs the jury to
give to the accused the benefit of the
doubt and adopt tho former. It is
not suflicient in a criminal case to
justify a verdict of guilty; that there
may be strong suspicions, or even a
strong probability of guilt, or, as in
soiiu ca.-es, a preponderar ce of evi
dence in favor of the truth of the
charge against the defendant. But
what the law requires is proof by
legal and credible evidence of
such a nature that when it is all con
sidered by the jury, giving to it its
natural effect, they feel, when they
have weighed and considered it all,
a clear, undo ibting and entirely
satisfactory conviction of tho de
fendant's guilt. This, and this only,
is required. If thus proved, the
jury should convict; but if not, they
should acquit. We trust, gentle
men, it is unnecessary to remind you
that neither partisan feelings, nor
outside views should have the slight
est influence upon your minds as
jurors. Thus we commit this case
with all its issues to your decision,
and may tho good Father of ns all
give you the light to see and tho
grace to discharge your duty.
EAJICOCK NOT UUILTV.
At 23 minutes past 3 the jury sent
word they had found a verdict, and
were immediately ushered into the
court. On taking their seats the
foreman handed the verdict to the
clerk, who read it as follows; "We,
the jury, find the defendant not
guilty." Some demonstration in
favor of the defendant was made,
but it was quickly stopped. There
was a general handshaking, however,
and General JJabcock crossed over
to the jury and most heartily and
feelingly "shook the hands of each
juryman, and thanked them kindly
for the verdict.
Tho General and his friends left
the court for their hotel. On reach
ing the street the party was heartily
cheered by the great crowd congre
gated in front of the custom house,
and almost everybody seemed well
pleased with the result.
Darwin says the male grasshoppers
use their hind legs to fiddle on the
edge of their wings, and that the
best tiddler always wins the affec
tions of the female first. The edi
tors of the Norristown Herald aver
that they have frequently noticed
this, but didn't think it worth while
; saying anything about it.
j Father, it tells hero of illuminated
! maun scripts; what were they lighted
with?' "With tho light of other
I days, my son,"auswerd the father.
Albanv Las a skating rink.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington. Feb. 23. Logan pre
sented a jetition of disabled soldiers
asking that provisions of the act of
June 18, lS74,bo extended to include
all who lost an arm below the elbow
or a leg below the knee, and that
they be allowed a pension of 24 dol
lars a, mouth ; referred.
Morton presented a petition signed
by over 15,000 . women -of Indiana,
and nearly li,0GOYotcrof that State
on tho subject of temperance, asking
Congress to appoint a commission to
investigate and to report as to the
effect of all alcoholic liquor trade.
Secondly, to prohibit the importation
of alcoholic liquors from foreign
countries. Thirdly, to 2rohibit the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic
liquors in the District of Columbia
and Territories of the United States;
and, fourthly, to require total absti
nence from alcoholic liquor of all
civil, military, and naval officials of
the United States.
Morton also 2resented a petition
of 2.000 citizens of Indiana and Ken
tucky, in favor of aid to the Texas
Pacihe railroad; referred to the com
mittee on railroads.
The House bill to reorganize the
judiciary of the United States was
read by title, and referred to the
committee on judiciary.
Hamilton, of Texas, introduced a
bill to grant certain rights to the
Central Texas and Fd Paso llailroad
Company, and to provide for a con
tinuous through line of railroad be
tween the cities of the Lower Missis
sippi river and the Gulf of Mexico
and the Pavitic ocean; referred to
committee on railroads. The bill pro
vides that whenever Moses Taylor,
Wm. Fj. Dodge, J. J. Cisco, Samuel
Sloan, John Barnes, D. A. McWil
liams, J. P. Lloyd, and Henry G.
Marquaml, of New York; Thos. Allen
and S. II. Lallin, of Misiouri, and
W. J. llutchius, A. Groesback, J. D.
Giddings, and others, of Texas, or
their successors, shall be created a
body politic under the style of the
Central Texas and Li Paso llailroad
Gompauy, or become owners of an
existing charter, they shall be auth
oiized to build and maintain a rail
road from the western terminus of
any railroad now completed in Texas
at San Antonio, Austin or Waco to
El Paso, and bridge the Itio Grande
at any point within 2o miles of that
place. The bill also provides that
if. by that time 110 California com
pany has built a road to a point with
in 10 miles of the llio Grande, the
above named patties be cmpo .v oi d
to build west ward t meet the t Cali
fornia road, and enjoy the Texas
Pacific company's land grant for that
portion of the line; but if the Cali
fornia company reaches the It o
Grande before these parties have
constructed their road to a point
let) in i Its east of that river, the Cali
fornia company is to cross and build
eastward on the Texas and Paeiiio
land grant to a junction.
A message was received from the
House of llepresentatives announc
ing the action of that body in respect
to the memory of tho late 11. II
Starkweather.
English submitted a resolution that
the business of tho Senate bo sus
pended in order that the friends of
the deceased might pay lilting trib
ute to his public and private virtues;
agreed to.
Appropriate remarks on the life
and character of the deceased were
made by English, Dawes, Sargent
and Eaton, and as further respect to
his memory, the Senate adjourned.
iiorss.
Speaker Kerr was in the chair to
day, apparently much improved in
health, and warmly welcomed by
members and officers of the House.
Banning introduced a bill to pro
mote the efficiency of the army; to
provide for a gradual reduction and
the consolidation of certain of its
staff departments; referred. It re
duces the number of cavalry regi
ments to eight, and of infantry regi
ments to twenty-three, and provides
that there shall not be any new en
listments until tho number of enlist
ed men shall be reduced to 20.000;
that regimental organizations of ar
tillery shall be abolished, and that
the artillery shall be hereafter known
as the corps of artillery, and shall
consist of rive batteries of light artil
lery and sixty batteries of heavy ar
tillery. The officers of artillery shall
consist of one chief of artillery with
the rank of brigadier general, four
colonels, six lieutenant colonels,
twelve majors, sixty captains, 123
first lieutenants and sixty-five second
lieutenants. It provides for an of
ficers' school for cavalry and infant
ry, and provides for aides do camp
for general officers as follows; The
general, three; lieutenant generals,
two; major generals, two each, and
brigadier generals, one each. There
are to be no new appointments and
110 promotions in the bureau of mili
tary justice or among the J-udge Ad
vocates. It merges the quartermas
ter's and subsistence departments in
to one organization, to be known as
the Department of Supplies, which
is to consist of one chief with the
rank of brigadier general, six colon
els, ten lient. colonels. tventy-four
majors and forty-two captains.
The Speaker then proceeded, as
the business of the morning hour, to
call upon the committees for reports.
Turney, frorii the committee on
mines and mining, reported a bill to
exclude Missouri from the provisions
of the act to promote the mining re
sources of the United States; passed.
Vance, from tha committee on pat
ents, reported back adversejy the
bill limiting the duration of patents;
laid on the table. Also a bill to pro
tect the revenues of the patent office.
It provides thut any officer who shall
receive any money, other than his j
saiarv, for acv work done, shall be i
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
punishable by fine and imprison
ment; passed.
The recent death of Starkweather
was announced by his colleague,
Phelps, and speeches were made in
eulogy of the deceased by Phelps,
Hale and Garfield, after which reso
lutions of condolence and respect
were adopted, when the House ad
journed. Napoleon IV.
A special correspondent of the
Figaro, who lately made a visit to
Chiselhurst, gives the following
details concerning the Prince Impe
rial: The Prince is of average height
and well looking: his teeth are ex
tremely line, and his mouth like
that of the Empress, while the re
mainder of his face resembles his
father's. On tho upper lip a small
brown moustache is beginning to
make its appearance. His voice is
full, sonorous, and well fitted to
command. To sum up. the Prince
has all the grace of his age; he is
gay, imaginative, and French. Show
ing me a small piece of furniture in
which all his school exercises were
placed, he said: "I preserve and
regard them with pleasure; do you
know why? Because I am enchanted
at not having to do them again."
His daily labor is something extra
ordinary for one of his age. llising
at daybreak, he .sets apart all the
morning for study. His professors
are English, residing in London.
He is now of age to be admitted to
Oxford, but it was preferred that he
should study at Chiselhurst the
higher branches of education. After
lunch the prince rides out; he has
three saddle horses, and among them
Heros, the well known sorrel of the
Emperor. Sometimes, in fine weath
er, he walks out with the Empress.
Two or three limes a week lie goes
to Lond.011 to take lessons in fencing,
which is his greatest amusement; he
also practices nt home with Count
Bassano. Without being attached
to the British army he occasionally
takes part in the drill of a battery of
artillery to which some of hi.3 "Wool
wich comrades belong; it is a fete
for them w hen he goes to Aldershot.
If I stated that the Prince said noth
ing about France no one would be
lieve me. But as ni3' instructions
are not to occupy my self with poli
tics, I am restrained from giving an
account of our conversation, which
lasted nearly thirty-iive minutes; I
can only say that when I left the
Prince I was absolutely charmed.
ers-iti ja
il V!:t it JDi'pentls.
The fact of .a man being a go.xl
talker presupposes a good audience,
and u goo.l audience is becoming
daily more difficult to obtain. The
reason may easily be understood by
tho reader of Boswell. Johnson, we
may fairly assume, was the best of
English talkers on record. Now
Johnson, vas surrounded by a little
court of familiar friends, each of
whom .sustained a well-understood
character. A party consisting of
Johnson, Burke, Itevnolds, Gold
smith, Garrick and so on, was like a
company of actors, each of whom
understands the powers of all his
colleagues, and is able to co-operate
towards the general effect. They
could understand each other; the
humorist was in no danger of being
taken to speak seriously; the man of
special information would not have
his pet subject snatched out of his
mouth; the tender points of the ir
ritable man were thoroughly uadc-r-stood,
and his friends could avoid
giving him unnecessary offense. On
the other hau l, there was a sufficient
amount of variety to save the mem
bers of the little'ciicle from boring
each other too much. Some new
comer was always turning up who
could introduce new topics from the
world of art, or politics, or litera
ture, or travel. And it is on the for
tunate balance between these two
elements that tho power of produc
ing good conv ersation " depends.
There should be a nucleus of suffi
ciently intimate friends who should
form, "so to speak, an organic body,
instead cf a mere collection of inco
herent atoms, and yet the circula
tion of its constituent parts should
be rapid enough to preserve a cer
tain freshness of interest. Now, the
difference between the society of to
day and the society of a century ago
is precisely that all these little eddies
have been swept into the main
stream. The rush cf the torrent is
too furious to allow of the formatiou
of those pleasant little coteries in
which alone good conversation can
be originally fostered. There have
been great talkers since the days of
Johnson; but men like Mackintosh
and Macaulay sacui to have been rath
er lecturers than conversers, because
they could not come into the same
close personal relation with crowds
who were for a time fellow-occupants
of the same room; and others, who
have had some talent of the Theo
dore Hook kind, were rather actors
in a private, theatre, than, in any
proper sense of the word, talkers.
"Children," said a country minis
ter, addressing a Sunday school.
"Why are we like llovvers? What
have we that llovvers have?" And a
small boy in the infant class, w hose
breath smelled of vermifuge, rose up
and made reply, "Worms," and the
minister crept under the pulpit chair
to hide his emotion.
A scientific paper rays: "Keep
your mirrors away from the sun."
"And from' the daughters also, if
you can," adds a family paper.
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If you call the Michigan people
"Miehigandors," isn't an Illinois man
an "Ulinoyster?"
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Polk and Marion counties are con
nected by a wire ferry at Buttevillp.
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A Leap Year Episode.
"'Sanlt an' battery, eh? Not
much, Jidge!"
"You plead not guilty, then?"
"Course I do."
It was clearly proved, however,
that William T. Bilge had knocked
down Mrs. Annie Letialone, a widow
not only once, but several times.
There were no witnesses for the de
fense, and things looked blue for
William. Then he was sworn in bis
own behalf.' Mr. Bilge, as he stood
up before Judge Cox, could not be
called beautiful. His face was
wrinkled and dirty; one eye was
missing; a piece of his nose was
gone bitten off in the goo.l
days when Virginia wasn't the
old
law
abiding citizen she Las since grown
to be. William's clothes were rag
god and greasy. What little hair he
had left hung about his coat collar,
and his toes toes that had toddled
over rough ways for fiftv years and
more peeped out from" the broken
boots to view the wintry aspect of
things.
"1 was sittin' on a rock down in
Six Mile Canyon yesterday," began
Mr. Bilge, struggling with his emo
tion, "thinkin' what I'd better do to
Dick Myers for hustlin' me out of
his saloon, when along comes this
here'washerwoman. (It was in evi
dence that Mrs. Lcflaiono toiled at
the tub professionally when Chinese
laundries 'would engage ber.) Sez
she, "How are 3011?' 'How's; your
self ?' sez I, fur never seeiu' the lady
before, I was bound to be piitc".
'Got any grub in your seams?' sez
she. 'Hey?' sez I, clutching the re
sults of my morin's divin' round the
saloons. 'Shake out yer fodder,' sez
she, droppin' down on another rock
an' wipiu' her mouth with the tail
of her dress, hungry like. I was al
ways a favorite with the ladies,"
proceeded Mr. Bilge, with a slight
cough, "and of course I couldn't re
fuse snch pressin' attention. I gev
her a cracker an' a hunk o' cheese
that IM nabbed at Barney the
Bruiser's, an' damme, yer Honor.
I'd have let her walk into the cold
chop in 1113 vest pocket if she'd only
behaved herself. Jidge, what d'ye
think that woman did afore she' et
up half I'd give her?"
"I don't know, I'm sure," said his
Honor with a yawn, "but I wish
you'd hurry through with jour
story."
"Ail riirht, sir, yours truly, Wil
liam T. Bilge, Esq uire, at vour ser
vice.
I
was eatin slow to make
things last, when suddenly this fe
male gits hold on my hand, and sez
she,
Air vou married? 'Hey? sez
'Air vou married ?' sez she. 'Not
wunst,' sez I. 'Glory, sez she; 'it's
leap year, so have me.' That's all,
yer Honor. As a gen'leman I don't
want to go inter disgnstin' pertick
lers about evil attempts, etsettcrv,
but"
''Did yon strike her, Bilge?" in
quired his Honor.
"Did I strike her!" cried the old
bummer, lifting his hands in amaze
ment. "Course I did. I'd punch
the head of any woman what'll ask
mo to marry her if she if she in
sists on it, yon know."
The prisoner was discharged.
Virginia City Chronicle.
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One May day, between ninety and
one hundred years ago, John, tenth
Earl of Westmoreland, while dining
with Mr. Child, the banker, said:
"Give ma .your opinion in this case.
Suppose 30U were in love with a
girl, and no hope of getting her
father's consent to your marrying
her, what would you do ?" To which
the unsuspecting banker replied,
"Do! V. I13, run away with her, to be
sure." A night or two afterward
Lord Westmoreland eloped with
Miss Sarah Anne Child in a post
chaise and four. The post-chaise
took Miss Sarah Ann on board some
where near Berkeley Square House.
An alarm was given by the watch
man, who found the hall door open.
?Jr. Child at once posted in pursuit,
on the North ltoad, and managed to
gain on the runaways. It was riot,
however, until Northumberland was
reached and entered that the second
post-chaise came within sight of the
first, and then Lord Westmoreland,
standing up in his carriage, shot one
of the leading horses of Mr. Child's
vehicle, which was capsized in con
sequence. This bold proceeding
gave the lovers time to cross the
border and get married by the
Gretna Green blacksmith. During
the short interval bet.vecn this
match and thedeath of Bobert Child,
lie never forgave Lord and Lady
Westmoreland.
What is the Sun? Professor
Rudolph, in a lenghty paper on the
sun, sa3"s: A molten or white hot
mass, 830,000 miles in diameter,
equalling in bulk 1,200,000 worlds
like our own, having a surrounding
ocean of gas on fire, 50,000 miles
deep, tongues of flame darting up
ward more than 50,000 miles.volcanic
forces that hurl into the solar at
mosphere luminous matter to the
height of 100,000 miles; drawing to
itself all the worlds belonging to onr
family of planets, and holding them
all in their proper place; attracting
w ith such superior force the millions
of solid and stray masses that a,re
wandering in the fathomless abyss
that they rush helplessly toward
him, and fall into his fiery embrace.
And thus he continues his sublime
and restless march through his
mighty orbit, -having a period of
more than 18,000,000 of years.
"When I arrived in California,
twenty years ago," said a capitalist
whose fame for geuerosit3r . was not
spread to any considerable extent,
"I used to put every dollar I made
in an , old sock." "Yes,? put in a
bystander, "and yon have been an
old soek-collar-ger ever since."
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Stolen Fruit.
Woman proposes and man gits up
and gits, this year,
"Satisfaction at law" means giving
a lawyer 300 to collect fifteen cents
worth of justice for 3-ou. -
Don't marry till you can support 'a
husband. That's the .d vice the Barn-1
stable PatrUA gives thCJapegrlsi",'
'Don't lei's have an woiffs aioout.
if r s thr&irh aid e'a-TicaSgfe
the dictionary Lis1 wife threw at'hirrf
It is a thin excuse for a v oungladV
to lie abed until nine o'clock in the
morning oecause tnis is sleep year.
0
King William savs he lids no ob
jection to a newspaper which has no
objection to him. Nothing could bo
fairer than that. 0
The man who wanted to see how a
Union Pacific snow-plow worketfhas
not been found yet. They are wait-
ing lor the snow to melt.
P.
"When I have work to do,' said
an oiu toper, l alwavs set auoirj
doing it." He has bec-uQ"settiftr
about" in a bar-roorafor years. 0
Olive Logan, r.cconHng to an ex
change, has half an acre of chin.'
That's nothhig, however, as long.as-
sjo has the
with.
jaw necessary to work it
Anna Dickenson's new book is said
to bo a thoughtful treatise 01 chil
dren. We'd like to know where Anna
gets all her points on these motherly
topics.
When a man earning a salary of
fifteen dollars per week can dress his
wife as well as a man earning $10,001
per year, what's the use of earning
10,000 per year ?
A breed of dogs without tails has5
been discovered in Africa, and how
the mischievous bo-s there utilize
old tin kettles and fruit cans, we
cannot pretend to say.
A New Yo' k temperance lecturer
sav s one of the chief causes of the
present financial depression is alco
holic indulgence. Does he mean to
sav that money is "tight"?
Brooklyn is a curious place. "When
Mr. Johnson was found on the walk,
with a bullet-hole in his head, tho
doctors began stomach-pumping Lira
out to see if he hadn't taken poison.
It must make some men mad as
bhizos to read of five, ten and twenty
million dollar steals in Washington,
and to realize that thej' were putting
in time at 2 per day when it hap
pened. "Yon ain't afraid to die?" said tae
clergyman tenderly. "No," replied
the sufferer, "I'm only afraid if I do
the old woman will go snooting;
among my private papers the first
thing."
A gentleman rode up to & public
house in the country and asked:
"Who is the master of this house?"
"I am, sir," replied the landlord;
"my wife has been dead about three
weeks. ,
It's a curious incident of matri
mony, says the Cincinnati Times,
that if you tell v our wife to get up
and build the fire, she exhibits her
dutiful obedience by forthwith pro
ceeding to lira up.
"Exploring waist places," said
John Henry, ns he put his arm
around the pretty chamber-maid.
"Navigation of the 'air," said Mrs.
Henry, overhearing him, and sailing
into his raven curls.
A Sunday sermon in a Japanese
church never lasts over twenty-tro
minutes. It hardly pays to scrub a
boy up to send him to church, but
such short sermons leave the men
plenty of time to go fishing.
When a man detects a missing but
ton after getting on a clean shirt, no
one in the house is aware of the fact.
He takes off the shirt and puts on
another, quiet' smiling all the while.
He never, never speaks of it to a
soul. (?) .
"What do you mean, you little
rascal?" exclaimed an individual to
an impudent youth who had Seized,
him ly the nose on the street. "Oh,
nothing ony I'm going out to seek
my fortune, and U13- father told me
to seize hold of the first thing that
'turned up.' " ;
When a boy has been off all day,
contrary to the expressedwish of his
mother, and on approaching theold
homestead at night, with au anSbua
and cautious tread, finds compaiiy at
tea, the expression of confidence and
rectitude which suddenly lights up
his face cannot bo reproduced oa
canvass.
"Say, Top," said John Henry's
hopeful, the other day, "wasn't it
the prince of whales that swallowed
Jonah?" And John patted his head
aud gave him a nickle, and told him.
ho might some day be an alderman ;
and then as he put on his slippers,
and found a small chestnut-bur in
each toe, ho took that boy over hia
knee and wrestled with him.
"Young ladies have tha privilege
of sa3'ing anything they please dur
ing leap year," she said, eyeing hihi
out of the corner of her eye with a
sweet look. His heart gave a great
bound, and, while ho wondered if
she was goiug to ask the question
which he had so long desired and
feared to do, he answered, "Yes."
"And the young men must not re
fuse," sard she. "No, no! Jflow
could they?" sighed he., "Well,
then," said she, "will yon He
fell on his knees and said; -'Anything
you ask, darling." "Wait till I get
through. Will ycju take a walk,
find not hang around our house SO
m aeh
?" And he walked
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