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Main Street.
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II. V. KOSS, M. n. WAKKF.N N. DAVIS, M. D.
KOSS .Sc DAVIS,
PHYSICIANS A N 1 S V It i; O S
Oregon City, - - Oregon.
cyofHe. at the City Dispensary, corner
of Mainland Fourth sts.
Dr. Davis is a graduate oT the 1 niversity
of Pennsylvania, and has lately arrived
from the F.ast.
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Oregon City, Oregon.
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In Books, stationery. Perfum
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Oregon City, Oregon.
trAt the Post Office, Main stgect, east
aide.
0 W II. 1I1GHFIEL1).
Established since '49.
Onr tloor north of Pope's Hall.
Main Street, Orc?on City, Oregon.
An assort tnent of Watches. Jewel.
ry.and Set h Thomas' Weight Clocks
. all ot wntcn are warranted to be as
i representee!.
"Repairing done on short notice, and
thankful for past, patronage.
Cah paid for County Order.
feSILLER, MARSHALL &C0.,
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A WHEAT, at all times, at the
Oregon City Mills,
And have on hand
FEED and FLOTJIT
to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring
Feed, must furnish sacks. novlLtf
CHAS. KNIGHT,
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Black Eyes.
BY ALFRED TENXTSOS.
There are three things that fill my
heart with sighs
And steep my soul in laughter (when
I view
Fair maiden forms moving like melo
dies) ,
Dimples, rosa lips and. eyes of any
hue.
There are three things beneath the
blessed skies
For which I live, black eyes and
brown and blue :
I hold them all most dear.but oh, black
eyes I
T live and die. and onlv die for von.
Of iate such eyes looked, out at me
while I mused
At sunset, underneath a shadowy
plain,
In old liavona nigh the southern sea
From a half-opened looked out at me.
I saw no more, only those eyes con
tused
And dazzled to the heart with glorious
pain.
Alexander T. Stewart.
Some
Personal Recollections
Conlidential Clerk.
by a
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
says: The daily papers all through
the week have given more or less
space to the leading known events in
the late Mr. Stewart's life, covering
that ground very fulljr; but, as one
of the tittllelinsprcsent editorial force
was for nearly three vears in A. 1
Stewart & Co.'s counting room, and
during that time had daily specific
duties which necessitated personal
interviews with Mr. Stewart," his
recollections may add something
fresh.
Of all that has been written of this
gentleman in times past, the closest
interest has been taken. His great
wealth, its steady accumulation from
an original investment of 2,000, his
sole capital, and the example he has
afforded of America's opportunity for
the industrious aud prudent, gave
almost a tinge of romance to his pos
session and induced a searching cu
riosity in regard to the methods of
his success.
Mr. Stewart was about five feet six
inches in height, weighing probably
about 140 pounds. He was of light
complexion, wearing a full beard,
always clipped close, the upper lip
shaven. His hair was always kept
rather short, and ran a little thin,
particularly back from the forehead
His hair and beard had a sandy tinge
His eyes were a crayish blue. Anger
was only visible in them, seldom if
ever in his manner. When provoked,
his eyes, which were medium sized
and with large pupils, would snap to
a purple tinge, a most peculiar color,
and in coming back to their origiual
fihade would for at least three min
utes be a deep, clear blue.
His office was on the second floor
of the wholesale department, and was
the centre of three compartments on
the Chambers street side divided off
from the lace-goods department by
glass partitions eight feet high. Mr.
Stewart used an oak library table,
4x0, about eighteen inches of the
end of which was kept clear; the
remainder was a succession of piles
of papers, some of which had not
probably been disturbed for years,
but about which, and just where any
special one at any moment was, he
positively knew.
He was a very methodical man.
His hours for certain duties were
regular until the active progress on
his Hempstead Plains (Long Island)
town and railway, Fourth avenue
hotel, Saratoga hotel and other in
numerable attending projects began
to demand greater watchfulness, and
then those having the care of the
details of these matters were obliged
to snatch a moment which inight be
termed leisure any time between 9
a. m. and G p. m. It was Mr. Stew
art's custom to be at the retail de
partmentTenth street and Broadway,
every morning by ten. Here he
would meet his partner, Mr. William
Libby, who probably had by that
time been through that vast estab
lishment, and after a brief discussion
of matters of special moment, likely
to be under a roof with 2,o00 em
ployes, and throe or live millions of
property, Mr. Libby would take the
stage for tho wholesale store, two
miles further down Broadway. Then
Mr. Stewart would go over the store
and where tho sales of a department
one day had been light he would
have thrown upon the counter the
whole stock, ascertain its cost, reduce
its selling price if found too high,
and then "if the sales were below their
proper or usual average he would
make speedy and strict inquiry into
the cause. If poor salesmen were
the fault, off went their heads; if bad
selections from the stock of the
wholesale, then woe to the head of
those wholesale and those retail de
partments, if his own or his partner's
attention had not previously been
called to the unmarketable character
of the goods.
It is from such cases as these that
so much unkind gossip in regard to
Mr. Stewart has resulted. Men los
ing situations which they were striv
ing honestly to fill and men repri
manded for mistakes they knew
nothing of have told their grievances
to everv willing an.i n, c ,w.;o
like the
. "O HUH OIWIJWO.
boy's snowball, had grown
at each turn
Men entrusted with responsibilities
and paid well for their talents have,
censure being their just desert.turned
it upon some luckless fellow. These
are the misfortunes of life, and are
alike characteristic of school-room,
shop, store, office, army and church.
A manufacturer who has a hundred
men employed is rarely without some
vexation of this sort. But a man
with nearly ten thousand men upon
his pay roll, and scattered in nearlv
every quarter of the globe, with per
haps $500,000,000 involved in his
daily transactions, has not the time
to follow every injustice. Others
must be trusted to carrv out derail
That Mr. Stewart was cognizant of
such evils among Lis people is a fact,
and his secret charity was often mov
ed. There are men in the custom
nouses, postohices, railway compan
ies, and in other mercantile houses,
who owe their positions to the quiet
influence of Mr. Stewart. M;c;nrr
their. faces about his stores' hn hat
caused strict inquiry to be made for
the cause of their absence, and. while
not ui&po&eu io irritate a really valu
able man by overriding his follv and
decisions, he has given his nersonal
attention to the cause of the wronged
one and secured him a better situa
tion elsewhere.
Mr. Stewart nsnallv snent two
hours at the retail department, com
ing uown in ins carriage to the
wholesale department between 12 and
Upon his entering the store he
nearly always went directly to the
head book-keeper, looked over his
balances and gathered results of the
previous day's work. Thence he
went to Mr. Libby, and after half an
hour's discussion over the striking
items in the morning's mail, the price
and prospect of gold and exchange,
markets abroad and buyers' reports,
retired up-stairs to his private office.
Here he begau to plan and push his
many outside enterprises, mingling
with this work some of the more reg
ular affairs of the firm in decisions
upon style of goods to be made, of
special purchases to be confirmed,etc.
Only two men ever presumed to
enter Mr. Stewart's inner office un
announced. They were Judge Hilton,
his warm personal friend and legal
adviser, and Mr. Libby, his partner.
Men for whoso services the house
paid $20,000 a year, men high iu
mercantile, social and political cir
cles, messengers dispatched and re
turned with important and much
needed facts, all equally awaited Mr.
Stewart's uod of recognition through
the glass door or the approach of the
lad in attendance bearing Mr. Stew
art's welcome.
Politeness -was a marked feature of
his manner. Ho had a pleasant
'"thank you for the poorest porter
who did his ssrvice, and always a
civil speech, even under the most
exasperating circumstances. His ex
pression of disapprobation was "tut,
tut," and in response to any story or
report which ho did not credit he
quietly remarked, "stuff." Profanity
and drunkenness were his abomina
tion. He was an Episcopalian in his re
ligious tendencies, and, although not
a vigorous church member, had great
respect for the opinions of others
The jv.irpose of his partner to educate
two of his sons for tho ministry was
a matter of no little pride with Mr
Stewart, and after thev returned from
their studies in Germany aud were
settled in Princeton College he was
always pleased to hear of their pro
ficiencv and progress.
IIewas a stickler for correct Eng
lish. Himself a college graduate,
and for a while a school-teacher in
Xew York, his method of correcting
a sentence iu a letter was by the
closest adherence to old-fashioned
trramatical methods, no dictated all
the retail advertising, which on Sun
days, in most cases, occupied a col
umn in each of tho papers. Ihis
was a regular bnndav alternoon s
employment, and. reviewing through
his mind the attraction of the several
departments, he would frequently
close out a whole line at the whole
sale, send it to the retail and there
open it at a price which barely cov
ered the cost of the goods. He be
lieved in advertising, and for hi
retail business used too Xew York
local papers to what might have been
styled an extravagant degree.
In writing, ho used a large gold
pen, long nibbed and rather flexible,
sat well back from his table, with his
left leg thrown over his right. His
hand was rather scrawly, and to one
unaccustomed to his penmanship,
very difficult to read. He wrote very
little an occasional letter to the
heads of his houses abroad, a short
note to some of the Senators or Cab
iuet officers respecting the possible
effect of some contemplated financial
measures, or a few lines to his wife
preparing her for somo visitor he
should bring homo in tho evening,
or of an unusual detention from
home. The extended ramification of
his business, the many well educated
and shrewd men at home and abroad
in tho employment of the house, and
his own keen foresight, kept him
well advised of the condition of affairs
all over the world and his advice was
constantly sought by the foremost
men of the nation. The desire of
President (irant to make Mr. Stew
art his Secretary of thf Treasury
gave him a new ambition. He ar
ranged to relinquish all interest,
direct or remote, in the busines of
the firm, aud would have turned that
vast income into charitable purposes.
In November, 1873, when gold went
down to 10G 1-8, he made every
preparation for a declaration of specie
payments. Ah inventory of the cost
of his merchandise was made, and,
with this showing a shrinkage of
about $2,000,000 on the hard-pan
basis, he entertained Gen. Grant one
afternoon pleading for the issue of a
proclamation. With the failure of
this scheme he seemed to lose all
interest in national legislation.
His investments at Long Island, at
Saratoga, and in mill property were
made chiefly to find profitable uses
for his surplus funds. The death of
Architect Kellnm robbed the Hemp
stead Plains and railway property of
much of its interest in him, but the
Saratoga project was pushed vigor
ously along because it paid a good
dividend from, the outset.
The plans and specifications for all
his buildings he went over with the
nicest care, and made it an invariable
rule to reduce every agreement to
plain, undeniable written statements.
When building the present wholesale
store a flaw in an ordinary drawn
contract was taken advantage of by
COURTESY OF
one of the parties employed, entail
ing a loss of about $20,000 upon Mr.
Stewart. From that day he is re
ported to havo vowed "by tho lor'
Harry," his only peculiar and occa
sional phrase, "I will make all my
contracts indisputably plain."
m- S
"Daymon and Pathos.'
Yesterday morning two liard-up
looking fellows, one about fifty years
old and the otuer twenty years
younger, entered a bakery ou Mich
igan avenue and called for a lunch.
One was provided, and when they
had eaten a square meal the old man
said to the baker:
"I'll stop in and pay you when we
come back."
"I guess not I guess you'll pay
me now!" replied the baker.
They hadn't any cash, and they
hadn't any snare clothes. The bak
er fished up a club from behind the
counter and vowed that he would
have money or revenge.
It s a similar case to that of Day
mon and Pathos," explained the old
man. "My friend here shall go after
cash to settle this claim and if he
does not return by noon you can take
;venge on me.
"I don't care for Daymon, nor
Pathos, nor any other man, I
want cash!" shouted the baker.
"Daymon" will bring the cash by
noon, or I'm your meat," softly an
swered tho vagrant.
"Daymon,, went out after cash,
and "Pathos" sat down aud spit
tobacco juice all over the lloor. The
baker ordered him to quit.
"Didn't 3'ou ever read tho beauti
ful story of Daymon and Pathos?"
asked tho aged bilker. "Don't you
remember that Pathos sat down and
chawed tobacco while Damon was
absent?"
An hour slipped away aud the old
chap fell asleep and lurched off his
chair, almost upsetting tho stove
The baker rushed at him, but "Path
os held up his hands and protested
"Don't you remember that Pathos
fell asleep while waiting for Day
moil's return. I don't know as he
fell off his chair, but that wasn't a
progressive age."
Noon found him still there, with
no word from "Daymon." The old
man was firm in his belief that his
friend would return, and reaching
upon a shelf behind him ho took
down a custard pie and calmly began
eating into it. he enraged baker
grasped mm by the throat, and in
the tussels which followed "Pathos"
came up to the mark so lively that
toe oaker s Jieels swent through a
show-case, and then the old man slid
out doors, and when tho baker yell
ed for the police the vagrant explain-
td to the crowd:
"Didn't Pathos have what ho want
ed to eat while waiting for Davmon's
return? Can I play the part of Pathos
on an empty stomach.-'
Yoiins Itlen.
.Uelore you start irom none pin
this bit of earnest, well-meant inten
tion of truthful suggestion in your
hat: lhe market for loafers is always
glutted. The greater the loafer the
less tho reward. Any boy who w ish
es to, can become a gentleman. And
there are a few things a gentleman
never does. He will not make a habit
of telling profane or vulgar stories
He will always be tidy in his dress
He will be as careful not to offend
persons as to keep his face clean. He
will never be loud-mouthed or over
bearing to his inferiors. This trait
of character always marks the snob
and disagreeable egotist. He will
never lilt his voice in a small room
when talking to men as though he
were in a field driving oxen. He
will never speak so as to wound or
pain the heart of the person who is
under him. He will never boast that
lie is better than his companions, and
thus incur the disgust of men of
sense. He will never boast his su
perior lamily connections, or give
those he is with to understand that
lie is of more consequence than they
He will never pry into the private
affairs of any other person, nor med
dle with the affairs another person
should attend to. He will be above
the petty suspicions born of igno
ranee and proof of bad breeding
He will never try to bully and beat
his way, nor assume a superiority
that is entirely lost the moment it is
boasted of. He i3 never obsequeous
or sycophantic, but prompt, polite,
discreet and courteous to all with
whom he comes in contact. He will
never quarrel with a servant or use
profane language to an inferior. The
gentleman always has friends, even
under adverse circumstances, be
cause ho deserved them. The success
of the true gentlemen is always last
i n g. Vomer o y '.s- Democrat.
A Womax-Editor on Handkek
chief Fliktixg.TIic Ladies' Bureau,
of Marshalltown, la., says: The Os
kaloosa Herald takes a text from the
flirting cambrics of some of the Coa
City belles. We have a few idiotic
girls hero in our towa who have
been guilty for somo time of street
flirtations with Chicago drummers
and other strangers. And tho girls
are committing these improprieties
in the face of repeated warnings by
their friends. As mon cher ami al
ways tells the whole transaction in
the different hotels and on trains.
Marshalltown is scandalized as wel
as the ladies. At the risk of being
considered "uncharitable" we wil
published the names of every youn
lady that commits these unpardon
able breaches of demeanor. Talking
from mothers and friends seem to do
no good. We w ill try a new plan
with these erirls belonging to our
most respectable families.
Dandies and nanny-gcat3 never
i - t 1 1 , . 1 1 r i
ial
to priae inemseives upon men
kids
BANCROFT LTRRARY.
CENTENNIAL.
Philadelphia., May 10. 10 A. M.
Tho morning was very rainy, with
a prospect of a steady rain all day ;but
me indications are now that e th
clouds will break, the rain cease
and tho original programme of open
ing ceremonies be carried out. The
city is crowded with visitors, tho
trains last evening and this morning
laving come from all directions with
crowds of passensrers from abroad.
The streets are all ablaze with flags,
and, notwithstanding the rain, pa
triotic decorations are numerous. A
fine Exposition opening is tho only
topic of conversation. Since early
in the morning, throngs of people,
on foot, in street cars, carriages.
wagons and steam cars havo been
pouring toward the Centennial
grounds in anticipation of the open
ing of the gates. This morning early
a military parade, comprising por
tions of the first division, took place,
passing through the principal streets
of the city.
10:10 A. M. The sky has cleared,
and the weather is beautifully sunny,
but not too warm. The grounds are
in very good condition, in spite of
tho hard rains. lhe gates were
opened at a little after 8 o'clock, and
crowds have been pouring in ever
since. It is estimated that 50,000
people are now on the grounds, and
still there 13 aconstant rush of people
through the gales. The favorable
change in the weather will permit
the original programme to be carried
out and a spacious platform has been
erected at the buildings; seats aro
arranged on the platform for the
officials and other ixivited guests.
At the right of the center are aeats
for tho President of the United
States and members of tho Cabinet,
and further to the right, seats for the
United States Senators, members of
the House of Kepresentatives,
Governors of the various States with
their stall's, State officers, the Su
premo Court and Legislature of
Pennsylvania and representatives of
tho Armv, Iavy, tho Smithsonian
Institute, U. S. Judges, officers of
the executive bureaus, members of
tho Woman's Centennial Commis
sion.
On the left of the center aro seats
for the U. S. Supreme Court, and
further to the left, seats for mem
bers of the Diplomatic Corps and
members of the Centennial Commis
sion, Board of Finance, the Woman's
Executive Committee, loreign Com
missiohers, the Mavor, Council aud
other officers of Philadelphia, the
mavoru of other cities, State Centen
niul Boards, Board of Award, judges
of yacht and ritle clubs, an.l along
the front of the platform aro seats
for members of the press.
The orchestra of one hundred and
fiftv pieces and a chorus of ono
thousand voices under the direction
of Theodore Thomas and Dudley
Buck, are stationed directly in front
of tho platform.
11:30 A. M. At 11 o'clock the
President's party, accompanied by
the officials previously designated,
proceeded to the platform, the Presi
dent Laving been escorted to the
grounds by Gov. Hartranft, with a
divioiou of military.
The platform at once crowded, and
the sarrouudiug space and all avail
able points of elevation in the neigh
borhood were already occupied by
the crowds of visitors. The orches
tra, while the seats aro being secur
ed, played National airs, and after
the parly on the platform had arrang
ed themselves, the orchestra played
Wagner's Centennial March, which
was received with applause.
After tho opening prayer by Bishop
Simpson, of the M. E. Church and
the singing of Whittier.s Centennial
hymn, the presentation of the build
ings took place by the board of finance,
with appropriate speeches and cere
monials, turning over the buildings
to the commission. Next followed
the singing of Sydney Lanier's can
tata by the full chorus, accompanied
by the orchestra. The applause of
the vast crowd was enthusiastic, and
portions of the music was encored,
especially the basso solo, sung by
Mr. Whitney, of Boston. The pre
sentation of the exhibition to the
President of the United States byT
President Hawley, of theU. S. com
mission, now followed, Hawley mak
ing an elaborate and heartily-applauded
speech. When President
Grant rose to respond, he was greet
ed with enthusiastic and long-cotinu-ed
applause, followed by three
cheers. So great was the confusion
in the crowd, however, and so low
the tone of voice in which the speech
was read, that the people a few yards
away could not hear what was uttered.
The close of the President's brief
address was" followed by raising the
flag on the main building, the signal
that the exhibition was open. Salutes
were fired, bells commenced ringing,
the chorus began to sing the "Hal
lelujah Chorus," chimes commenced
to ring various airs, and the Presi
dent and invited guests, amid cries
from the crowd, began the procession
through the main building and hall.
At the conclusion Bishop Simpson
Mayor Whittier's hymn was sung
with grand effect.
Hymn.
BY JOHN GREENI.EAF WHITTIEB.
Our Father's Ood, from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to day, united, lre
And loval to our land and Theo
To tharik Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here, where, of old, by Thy design,
1Ti fathers speak that word of Thine,
Whose echo is the glad retrain
Of rended bolt and falling chain,
To grace our festal time, from all
The zones of earth our guests we call.
Thee with us while the New World greets
The Old World thronging all its streets
Cnveiling atl the triumphs won
By Ai t or Toil beneat h the Sun ;
And unto common good ordain
This rivalship of Hand and Drain
Thou, who hast here in concord furled
The war flames of a gathered world,
Beneath our Western skies fulfill
r
The Orient's mission of good will.
And freighted with love's golden fleece,
Send back the Anronauts of peace!
For Art and Labor met in truce,
For Reautr made the bride of use.
We thank Thee while, withal, we crave
The austere virtues strontr to save
The honor proof to place or gold
lhe rnauhood never bought nor sola:
And, cast in some diviner mould,
iA'i me new cyeie sname me oiu.
At 12 o'clock at a motion from
Gen. Hawley the American Hag was
spread from the main building, and
the Halleluiah Chorus was rendered
with orchestra and organ accompani
ment, a salute of 100 guns was fired
from George's Hill, together with
the ringing of chimes from different
parts of tho ground. During the
pertormances of the chorus, the for
eign commissioners passed from the
piatiorm into the main bmldiner and
took their places upon the central
aisle, before their respective depart
ments, alter which the procession,
headed by the President, passed
through the main exhibition building
to Machinery Hall, where the Presi
dent, assisted by Dom Pedro, at 1:22
P. M , put in motion the great en
gines, thus starling all tho machinery
in that vast building. This closed
the formal ceremonies of to-day. Tho
military are now marching through
the grounds, and all buildings are
open.
10 P. M- It is officially estimated
that one hundred and ten thousand
people have entered the Centennial
grounds to-day. Dispatches from
various places throughout the coun
try show that the day was observed
as a Centennial holiday. Philadelphia
was grandly illuminated to-night.
Great crowds of people rendered the
streets nearly impassable. President
Grant was serenaded to-night, but
no speeches were made.
May 11. The attendance at the
exhibition to-day is estimated at from
25,000 to 30,000 up to one o'clock.
Many distinguished guests who were
at the opening yesterday, are visiting
the exhibition to-day. Several for
eign minsters, including those of
England and Chili, are now on the
grounds, and there are many mem
bers of Congress, army and navy
officers, and nearly all tho State gov
ernors and dignitaries, who attended
yesterday. The weather is delightful.
The Wealth of Ih aziL
All intelligent travelers who have
visited Brazil speak in the most
glowing terms of the country. Prof.
Agassiz regarded it as the most pro
ductive aud interesting country on
the globe, and the one in which it is
the easiest to obtain a liveli hood.
Some who have sailed up the Amazon
declare that a vessel can be leaded
with Brazil nuts at an expense of on
ly a few cents per bushel. These
constitute a valuable article of com
merce, while the oil extracted from
them is very desirable. All the trop
ical fruits are produced in Brazil al
most without cultivation. The soil
in many parts of the country will
produce twenty successive crops of
cotton, tobacco, or suggar cane,
without the application of manure.
No country in tho world apjiroaches
the land of Dom Pedro in the varie
ty of its forest productions. Prof.
Agassiz states that he saw 117 diff
erent kinds of valuable woods that
were cut from a piece of land not
half a mile square. They represent
ed almost every variety of color, and
many of them were capable of re
ceiving a high polish. One tree
furnishes wax that is used for can
dies; another a pith that is used for
food; and still another juice which
is used in the place of intoxi
cating liquor. There is a single
variety of palm from which the na
tives obtain food, drink, clothing,
bedding, cordage, fishing-tackle,
medicine, and the material they
manufacture into dwellings, weap
ons, harpoons and musical instru
ments. Doubtless tho day is not
distant when the valuable woods of
Brazil will be used for varioas use
ful and ornamental purposes. Brazil
is not only "a wooden country," but
a country that produces the most
beautiful woods in the world.
PovurxG Tea. There is more to
be learned about pouring out hot tea
and coffee than most ladies ire willing
to believe. If those decoctions are
made at the table, which is by far
the best way, the3- require experience,
judgment and exactness; if they are
brought on tho table ready made, it
still requires judgment so to appor
tion them that they shall prove suffi
cient in quantity for the family party,
and that the elder members shall
have the stronger cups. Often per
sons pour out tea who, not being
aware that the first cup is the weak
est, and that tho tea grows stronger
as you proceed, bestow the poorest
cup upon the greatest stranger, and
give the strongest to a very young
member of the family who would
havo been better without any.'Where
several cups of equal strengtli are
wanted you should pour a little into
each, and then go back, inverting the
order as you fill them, so the strength
will be apportioned properly. This
is so well understood in England
that an experienced pourer of tea
waits till all the cups of the company
are returned to her before she fills
any a second time, that all may share
alike.
The trousseau of Miss Yznega del
Valle, who is to marry the Viscount
Mandeville, son of the Duke of Man
chester, will co3t $73,000. She is
said to be one of the most beautiful
women in America. The wedding
will take place in May at Trinity
Chape, and will be celebrated by
Bishop Potter and the Bev. Morgan
Dix. The Duke of Manchester and
family will cross the ocean to witness
the ceremony.
O, make Thou us, through centuries long,
In peace secure, in Justice strong!
Around our gift of freedom draw
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in-miig iu St. Petci's.uu.'fc,.
In the first place, says a St. Feteis
'mrg correspondent of the San Fran-
ciseo Chronicle, picture to yourself,
t roi".ioS which Ave mere- single'
seats like stools without backs or"
arms although often necessary it is
next to impossible for two persons to"
seat themselves therein, so sniall arV
they, and two strangers thus seated
can always be recognized by eaoli
having both arms clasped around tho
other, there being nothing else td
hold to. The driver has a similar
seat a little higher and in front. Scf
seated your driver starts. He is none'
of your lazy fellows, and he has'"
learned that St. Petersburg 1 is ' a
city of magnificent distances; and'
his horse starts, and keeps on a goo
run, and could you but hold on to
the drojky with your feet as tightly
as vou hold, to vour companion with
o
your arms," yon would feel tolerably
secure of keeping your seat. If you
are driving ou the Nievsky Prospeet
it is crowded with vehicles, tho;
greatest unmber of them drojkies.alT
running as fast as your own. Now
you put out your hand to turn away
a running horse's head within twtf
feet of your own face, and directly'
your other shoulder wipes the foam
from the month of "another passing
horse, and this is done so often that
your outside garments soon look like
a w ilder landscape. For observations
you have iio time, your whole attend
tion being occupied in wondering at
the skill wit'i which imminent colS
lrsions oie dodged, and when at
last you become used to it you think?
it the finest driving you ever enjoy
ed. Not only the driving, but the
driver's dress and horse's gear are"
peculiar. Fastened to the shafts of
all vehicles drawn by a single horsa
is a hoop bent from one shaft to the
other and rising to the height of three
or four feet above the horse's neck J
The check-rein is fastened to the
top of this hoop larger and heavier,
often three inches thick, and five
inches wide, and painted in bright
colors, as a wreath cf roses on 'd
ground of grass green . Iu all teams
where three or more horses are used
they are all harnesed abreast. The1
private teams are of extreme
elegance. While in France there i3'
a majority of white horses, in St?
Petersburg the greater number cf.
fine horses are black. The private
carriages are beautiful and in the
finest taste. There is usually a dainty"
relief of guilt or silver on the carri
age and harness, while the rains cor
respond with the lining of the car
riage in color, and a jaunty tassel
hangs fiom thethroatlacth. So rapid
is the motion, and so light and airy
the tread of these horses, they seem
to fly as much as to touch the earth.
The drojky drivers are in uniform,
wearing a blue double breasted wad
ded gown which reaches to the
feet; under this a sheepskin skirt
and on the head a h:rt-shaped cover
ing with broad-spreading crown, but
nearly as low as a cap.
About a Woman's foot.
The foot is the base, the support
of the body, " and it should neither
be too small to support it firmly,' nor,
for beauty's sake, seem to be so. ' I
a woman were to weigh 200 pounds
at forty, her foot would not be ap
preciably longer than it was when
she weighed only some hundred or
so at fourteen. The most beautiful
foot known is that of the Venus da
Medici, and that is neither remark
ably short or remarkably narrow.
Most women would look upon it as
rather large. Indeed tho ' Venus
could not wear "ones," nor indeed;
although she is rather a small wo
man, "twos." But so much the bet
ter for her. As to her foot, it is a
thing to be looked at daily with de
light and admiration. A perfectly
beautiful woman's foot should be in
length a little less than one-seventh
of her height. It should" be arched
on the top so that the line is that of
one-half of Cupid's bow, and under
neath so that if it is wet and set upon
the floor it will leave in the middle
only a slender watermark. It should
be broadest across the ball, and the
rosy toes, of which the second should
be the longest, should set flat upon'
the ground at every step. The heel;
which should also be rosy, should
also descend almost in a straight line
from behind the ankle, and should
be delicately ronuded. It should be
as white as ivory, and marked upon
the soft and cushion-like instep with
faint indications of blue veins...
remarkable that there seems to be a
very fascinating idea connected with
a woman's foot, and particularly
with its length, for to "know the.
tho length of a woman's foot", has
long been, according to an old adage r
to enjoy tho highest degTee' of her
favor. - " '
"Dom," the title adopted by the
Emperor of Brazil, is thus explained
by the Examiner. "It is tho Por
tuguese equivalent of the Spanish
"Don," a title of honor, the right to ;
which is considered as an especial
privilege which no one can assume t
without the consent of the sovereign'.
It is derived from the Latin - word
dominiis, signifying lord or master;
but like many other hororary titular .
dignities, it has been so appropriated,
in latter daj-s that its original signi
ficance seems no longer to jiertain to :
it. . .. ' -
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A very daring Kentucky girl lately ..
rode her horse close up to the edge
of a yawning chasm, and proudly
defied any gctleman of the party to
follow her example! Not- soul'
stirred except one youth; who back- i
ed his horse in tho same .position,
and standing on his head in the sad-
die, dared her to do the same. ; She
concluded not to.
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