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oo o ,' . .. , :- , ) X I i o o DEVOTED TO MEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. o VOL. 10 OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1870. NO. 38. u m m m i 1 i c TERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER von the Farmer, Business Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FKID.YY. FRANK S. DEMENT, PROPSIETOS AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL P4PE2 FOSjClACKAMAS CO. OFFICR Tn F.vtfrpiusk r.niHInsr, one uo,r south of Masonie l'.uiluing. Main St. XeriiH of Subscriptions clni; Copy One Year, In Advance ?2.50 t Sivtonths " " 1.50 t Terms of A1 vertitiiiijr Transient advert isemcnts. including nil e'al notice, s-iuar.: of twelve linos week 7-;'' .. c.il.s rniPtit. insertion I-"1' -.,, i Wumn. 0110 year 120.00 ; Half ' . H'l.ftO i 11 suless Ca rl . 1 so 11 are.on e year 1 2.0ft SOCIETY XO TICES. OiJIKiOX LOPfil? NO. 3, I. I. O. I'., Meets everv Thursday (vfiii:r:;U7,; .'.'clock, in the O.l.l Fellows' Hall, Main --5 street. Members of the Or der are invited to attend. l'y ordor n. f . iTi;i!i:cc.v DixnuiFi i.oih;i: no. 2. I. O. O. Meets mi the -i-i f Sec nd ami Fourth Tin s- lJ(Jjf dav evenings each month, Tyv;yuVy at o'clock, ill the Odd .',;i!i.vs' Hall. Membersoithe Degree are invited to attend. JH'I.TN!)!! All liODC l NO. I, A.!'. ,t A. M., Holds its regular com- a implications on the First and ..v; Third Saturdays in eacli month, ut 7 o'clock from the -Jt)th of Sep. tfinU'r to the :Jth of March ; and 7?i .Ybsrk from the iS.Hli of March to the UOtli of September. I'.rethren in good standing are invited to attend. lv order of W. M. 1 - a i . ! 1: n ( ' a 1 i . n : n t x o. i , i . o. O. F.. MecN at Odd l'rllows j rv Hall on Mi" Firt and ThirdTuos- VT d a v of eac'i n: Fat riarclis in o..d stan liiur are invited to attend. is LSI .v V ,s- .v -1 11 1 s. .T. V. NOlMilS, CP.'I VSiCI x a:vi snsfiicox, t;y"t airs in Fharman's r.riek, Main Strict. tf d c: ei'i H'K IN' ..St 1 . (;!Mn. eirv, iti:r;ov. X'. rai.l f.i- fount y !-!U2L?u EASTHAM, ATTORNEY 3-A T-L A W o ri)il'51 XI liz. Opitz's new brick, "0 First si r.'. t. OTlEiJD.V CITY Charm an '3 brick, up stairs. s-'i't-Mtf J O M W S 0 13 a r.lcCO IV w ATTOHSEYS AX!) COIW-SLflrtS A T-L AW. Oroorj City, Oregon. K7"NVill practice in nil the Courtof the fcitat. Special attention eiven tr cases in the U. S. Iand Ollic-- at )rcxjn City. ia:rlST2-tf. L. T. 15 A KIN AT70n?Y-AT-LAVy, ORECIOX CITY, : : OREGOX. Will practice in all tb Courts of the Strife. Xov. 1. 1S75, tf JOHN 31. I5AC0N, IMrTlTEU AN'O DF.AT.F.H fllZfA In Books, Stationery, lVrfuai- -.jpr-ij cry, etc., etc. ' - Oregon City, Oregon, K.t the Tost Office, Main street, east M-. AY. II. HHJHFIEII). Establishetl since '49. On" il.mr nortli of Iojos Hail. X.iiu Str?ct, Orrsou City, Orrjon. j"? An assort nmnt of Wot chos, Jwr-l- wS ry.an.t s -tti Tbonins' Weisrtit Ckx-ks .6 allot which arc warrant e.l to b. !ls - " r -present".!. '"li'-e iiriiiir ilono n short notice and t'l ink:"al for past pat runaire. fasti J li I f c C.mu'y ()f,l?r J. 3. S HSPARD, 17oot and Shoo Stove, One door north of Ackerman F.ros. r.oots and shoes mad 9 anil repaired as t !i':i p n s t li eh eap'-st. Nov. 1, ls75:tf CI IAS. 1CNTO IIT, CAXIIV, OI5F.COX. I'M Ysin.v x a x i it v a c; ist Prescriptions carefully filled at sho r notice. ja7.;f. STGCKf'OLDErJS' MEETING. "NT OTIC K IS MKHKBV;iVK TH T .th stoekliild''rs of the Orejron Citv Manufacturing Company -will hold their Annual Met in ir for t lie eJc.'f ion of Direc tors nt tte-ir otlte.. in Oriron Citv on Satur d.iv Ju!y Sih ISTO. K. J.veon, Frst. June 7th, wt m. A. Stuatton, See. MILLED MARSHALL & CO., PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR U UK T, :it all times, at the Oregon City FS-lills, And have on hand KKKH and FLOFR o sMl, nt mark' t rates. Parties desiring I e i, i 'Hist furnish sacks. uovltf " r Spaniels. "A woman, a dor, and a vaInut trf. The more you beafem.th - better tliey b'.' From th; London Queen. Onr -women are in clanger of bo coming tyrants rather thau slaves, anj the demands made by the weaker are growing al:xtost as excessive a3 have been in foretime the require ments enforced by the stronger. lint with all this the nature which sotie call womanly and others spaniel-like still exists among us, Heaven be praised! and we have yet left to us a fey low-voiced, pentle, tender hearted women who lind their high est joy in self-suppression and affec tion, in giving up their own desires for the good of others, and devoting themselves to the service of those they love. Neither rancor nor revenge enters into the soul of her whom her derid ers call a spaniel, her admirers wo manly, lilveii where she has been ill-treated she can forgive; and the divine precept of seventy times seven seems to her a law of loveliness by which greater things are to be attain ed than the childish pleasure of man ifesting "a high spirit" and a deter mination "not to be put upon." Sho asks for nothing be3ond the leave to love, the privilege to bless; and the' who are most sorrowful are they who lie nearest to her heart, and for whom her soul goes out with tenderest yearning. To her the joy of life is found rather in loving and worship ing than in being loved and worship ed; and, were she able to choose, she would prefer to lie in the shadow of her husband's greatness rather than that he should be overshadowed by her own. What gifts and graces be long to her she uses as ihnvers in the chaplet with which she crowns her beloved; and. for his sake rather than her own rejoices in her beauty, her wit, her acquirements, her intellect, as making his life the richer because hers is the lovelier. If trouble come upon them, she is brave that he may not be saddened; if trouble comes between them, she bears her share in silence; and oven when ill-usage rouses her to dignity, self-protection and defense, it never rouses her to resentment or retaliation. To the offer of repentance she answers back with forgiveness; and only repeated failures can convince her that her trust ha- been misplaced, that her tenderness is misunderstood, and that if she would be true to her self and her ideal, she must abandon all hope of influencing to better tilings that terrible failure the real. And this is the hardest lesson which life can set a woman cf this kind to learn; the bitterest chapter of that whole tear-stained book of experience in which we all have to read our daily service of sorrow and disappoint ment. nt it is learnt after a time even by the "spaniel;" and when re pentance has become a mockery, her forgiveness refuses to be its sport. It is the old story of the pitcher and the well over again. After repeated jonrneyiugs the day of final destruc tion conies; aud the poor fool who trusted to the indestructibility even of Christian forbearance, womanly allowance, gets for his reward a handful of clav fragments instead of the pure water from which ho thought to drink his fill when and however he desired. People make grand mistakes about the morale of the spaniel woman. They do not see her motives, and they therefore project an impossible and non-existing indivi luality from the false base-lines which they have imagined as the plan on which she is built. Take a woman of natural affec tionateness and of unselfishness ac quired by principle a woman who desires to be just in her judgments, not warped by the purely personal effects of actions, and wishful to see things as they are in themselves, not only as they touch her well, such a woman almost certainly appears as a spaniel to those who know her merely superficially, who do not give her credit for principles, and who see onlv the broad facts of temperament. Unselfishness, acquired at cost and practiced with daily striving, is read off as servility a quality which no one need give himself the trouble to "manage" a quality which is the camel whose patient strength no last straw can break. Decause she accepts patiently she is handled roughly, and then there is blank amazement and outcry when she shows herself capa ble of being hurt, when she refuses to allow herself to bo pained simply for another's pleasure, not for his good, nor yet by misadventure. Winle she could sav to herself. "He did not mean it," she looked up to her master with patient, loving eyes, and bore the pain that had been in ilieted wit!, out oven a whine of re monstrance. When that pleasant fancy is no longer possible, and she knows herself to be the mere victim of his caprice, the sport of his cruel ty, the subject of a worse torture than bodily vivisection, then she ta,ces iier stand and keeps it; and the person most amazed at the repudia tion is the or.e who has caused it. -lien l.e finds that the caresses once so powerful., f.dl dead; that the sweet words, on -o n ,.ompellirT charm, are like dry husks rattling futile v in the air; that flatteries and fondnesses, the food of love in the days gone by ,,ai inev are snares for the fond, lovino- -mere heart. iiucs uv AY UK' 11 It is expected that s!jr shall become once to the conqueror; and then the pr spaniel woman, too often br'd, more a prey oor neaneu, lases refn-e in the barren peace of self-re-peot. and breaks for ever the spell which had Bolouboth bound and blinded her. But with this lovinpr. selr-rcpress-ivo and tender-hearted woman the woman whose nature is afiectionato and whose unselfishness is a matter of principle there is also the true spaniel; the woman who has abso- lutely no self-respect .anywhere, but who "lets herself go" as the very sport aud creature of stronger man, without the power to repress, on the one hand, or assert on the other, and whose want of womanly dignity is her shame and not her glory. Pass ive, unresisting, she seems almost to offer herself as the slave whom the overseer may lash at his pleasure, sure of no complaiut to bo made to men or angels. As a woman of the lower class, she is half-killed by her brutal husband, whom, however, she shields from the observation of in trusive justiceand swears he is a good husband to her, barring tho drink. As "the drink" is his normal condition, it is rather puzzling to know what time is left for him to bo the good husband of her legend; but that this is her pleasure to believe is manifest from her life, dive her the power of escape, and sho refuses it, preferring her brntal master, even with the chance of being kicked to death, some dark night, when tho drink is more potent than usual, aud there is no one by to save her, rather than leave him for security of life and its attendant loueliness apart from him. Even her children do not rouse Miis kind of spaniel woman to active measures against her mas ter; and the story of GrisehU is re peated, to this day, in man' a court and alley, where the happiuess and well-being of the family are sacrificed that a masterful brute may have his fling, and not be let or hindered in his course. Women of this kind have been known to follow their husbands and lovers to Austrailia, in the days when transportation drafted olf our homo villainy and made a clean sweep of felons. Hearing always the marks of former ill-usage, a ltd knowing, if their dense wits could know anything, that the future would repeat tho past, instead of thanking ITeaveu for their deliverance, and accepting it as the turning point for better tilings of their lives, they hugged their chains only the more closely, and gave up everything that life held dear and precious for them here at home, to follow their proprietor to exile. A Jeaii-Ycar Anecdote. Tho story of the marriage of Lam artine, the great French poet and statesman, is one of romantic inter terest. The lady was of an English family named Birch, and very wealthy. She first fell in love with the poet from reading his "Medita tions Poetiques." She was slightly past the bloom of youth but still young and fair. She read and re read the "Meditations," and nursed the tender sentiment in secret. At length she saw Liarnartine in Genoa, and her love became a part of her very life. Xot long after this she was made acquainted with the fact that the poet was suffering, even to unhappiness, from the embarrassed state of iiis pecuniary affairs Miss Birch was not long in deciding up on her course. She would not allow the happiness of a lifetime to slip from her if sho could prevent it. Sho wrote to the poet a frank and womanly letter, acknowledging her deep interest and profound respect, and offering him the bulk of her fortune, if he were willing to accept it. Of course, Lamartine could not but suspect tho truth. Deeply touched by her generosity, he call ed upon her, and found her to be not only fair to look upon, but a woman of a brilliant lit erary and artistic education. Ho made an offer of his hand and heart, and was promptly and gladly accept ed, and in after years Alfonso l)e Lamartine owed not more to his wife's wealth than to her sustaining love and inspiring enthusiasm. How we Show our Ixdepkndexc e. It is beginning to be noticed that in this Centennial year we are the victims of a mania for imitating the English in everything that will bear imitation. Thus we take English names for our hotels, our yachts, our horses, and everything t hat re quires a name. English fashions in men's clothing have long been a na tional nuisance. It has even deeend ed toshamc of our own honest Amer ican goods. Ask a tailor for Ameri can cassimere aud he will shrug his shoulders and decry the quality. Let him have his own way and he will show you American goods and tell you they are English and ail right. Take tho coaching business, and it is "aw, aw, me! and demme! or inv bid or miladi" to a degree pos itively sickening. The lady passen gers on tho Pel ham coach must wear English-made costumes and ape En glish styles. The men must tip a fee to driver aud guard though the first is a wealthy man and the. latter well pa:'d for his horn-blowing with the same grace that he would fee a boot-black in tho Langham in Lon don. This is an extraordinary way of celebrating American deliverance from British tyranny. The American vandal has gone to the Centennial with his family. The Ledger has seen him and his tribe in the art galleries, and says they "seem to think it necessary to feel the tine pieces of sculpture with their hands, to tap the statuary and bronzes with the ferrule- of their parasols and sticks in order to make suro of the materials they are made of. and to poke their umbrellas at the paintings to giva emphasis to the points of the observations they make." His teeth began to chatter over tho ice-cream. He buttoned up his jacket and swallowed another mouthful, that settled it. He jumped up from the table and started to where the sun could shine on him, exclaiming, "Whoopee! Plenty cold glub! No cookee miff! Fleeze belly all same like ice wagon. Ilov- tho Indies Fish. There's generally about six of them in the bunch (says an exchange), with light dresses on, and they have j three poles with as many hooks and j lines among them. ' As soon as they get to the river they look for a good place to get down on the rafts and the most vcti turesome one sticks her boot heels in the bank and makes two careful step-downs; then sho suddenly finds herself at tho bo torn with both hands in the water v.d a feeling that everybody in this wida world is looking at her, and sho never tells anybody how she got there. The other girls, profiting by her example, turn around and go down the bank j on their hands and toes, backwards. Then they scamper over the rafts until they lind a sh allow price whero thev can see the n-h, and shout: "Oh! I see one." "Where?" "There." "Oh! inv, so he is." "Let's catch him.'" "Who's got them baits?" "Y u lazy thing, you'ro sitting -on my pole." "Show mo the wretch that stole my worm." All these exclamations are gotten off in a tone that awakens cv&ry echo within a mile round, and sends every fish within o acres square into gal loping hysterics. Then tho girls by snpei human exertions manage to get a worm on the hook, and "throw in" with n splash like the launching of a wash-tub, and await the result. When a silver-fin comes along and nibbles the bait they pull up with a jerk, that, had an unfortunate fish weighing less than fifteen pounds bsen on the hook, would have land ed it in the neighborhood of o or -i miles in the country. After a while a feeble-minded snnfitm contrives to get faster ed on the hook of a tim id woman, and she gives vent to her tongue: "Oh! something's got mv hook!" "Pull up, yon little idiot!" shout five excited voices as pole;; ;i ml hooks are dropped and tliey rush to the rescue. The p.ii-1 with the bite gives a spasmodic jerk, which semis the un fortunate sunny into the air tho full length of 40 leet of line, and he comes down on the nearest curly head with a damp flop, that sets the girl to clawing as though there were bumblebees in herhair. "Oeh! murder.' take it away. Ogh ! the nasty tiling!" Then tliey hold up their skirts and gather about that fish as it skips over tho logs, onnali the time holding the line in both hands, with her foot on the pole as though she had an evil disposed goat at the other end. They talk over it. "How ever will he get off ?" "Ain't it prettvV" "Wonder if it ain't drvV" "Poor little thing; 'let's put it back." "How will we get the hook from it?" "Pick it up," says a girl who backs rapidly out of the circle. ""Good gracious, I'm afraid of it. There, its opening its month at me." Just then the sunny wiggles off the hook and disappears between two logs into the water, and the girls try for another bite. But the sun comes down and fries the backs of their necks, and they get their headaches in the party and they all get cross and scold at the fish like so many magpies. If any unwary chub dares show himself in the water they poke at him with poles, much to his disgust. Finally they get mad all over and throw their poles away, hunt up the lunch basket climb up into tho woods, where they sit around on the grass and caterpillars, and eat enough dri ed beef and rusk and hard-boiled eggs to give a wood-horse the night mare; of which they compare notes about their beaux until sundown, when they go homo and plant envy in the hearts of all their muslin de laine friends by telling what "just a splendid time" they had. EoiiUbiTY of Hats. I myself have eaten rats (says an English clergy man) . aud found them good eating. I was on board ship at the time, and it was found necessary to smoke the hold out to get rid of tho rats that infested the ship. Three hundred and ninety rats were found suffo cated round the ilres. A French third mate, who was on board, pro posed to cook, and actually did cook, some of the finest of them. These I tasted, and indeed ato of them. Chiefly the hind legs were eaten. They were exceedingly white delicate and tender, and, as far as I remember, put me in mind of chicken, with a slight flavor of game about it. I would not object to eat them per fectly prepared, and should regard such food as n great boon after sr.lt juuk and pickled pork of six years' storing. Speaking of this'to a coun try friend of ours a lady sho in formed me that her husband once had a pie mado of rats. They were caught in a barn where the wheat was just threshed, so that they were very nice and tender from their feed ing. A wealthy, untitled Englishman is a suitor for the hand of the Marquis of Lome's sister, and he attended the ball given to the Prince of Wales by the British Minister in Madrid. The Prince does not ap prove tho matrimonial choice of his brother-in-law's sister, aud expressed his dissatisfaction at seein" the young man at the ball. Tho Minis ter ascertained that the objectionable guest had not been formally invited, and ordered him to leave. Seven members of tho Boston bar have been convicted of crimes within a vear. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TTMnrcDQ TTY m? r.tT.TFfYRrlTA. A Patriotic Jury. Mr. Charles M. Lee was a well known criminal lawyer of Rochester, New York he summed up a case with a superfluity of gesture and an afflu ence of perspiration that wonld have astonished oven John Graham in his vehement and melting moods. Lee was defending an old Revolu tionary soldier for passing a forged promissory note for some thirty dollars. There was hardly the faintest doubt of his guilt, but Lee contriv ed to get before, the jury the fact that the accused when a dare-devil of nineteen was c::o of the storm ing party that followed Mad Anthony Wayne in his desperate assault ; on Stony Point, and helped to carry the wounded general into the. fori during that terrible light. In summing up, Lee, after getting over the ugly points of tho evidence as best he could, undertook to carry the jury by escalade, on tho ground of the prisoner's Revolutionary ser vices. He described in graphic language the bloody attack on Stony Point, tho impetuous valor of Wayne, the daring exploit of client, and wound up with this stunning interrogatory: "Gentlemen of the jury, will yon send to the State Prison, for passing a contemptible thirty-dollar forged note, an old hero of three score and ten, who, in his yoith cheered the heart of his country, in tho darkest hours of the Revolution, by storm ing Stony Point?" This was a poser. The chins of some of the jury quivered, but the foreman, a bluff farmer, put on an air which seemed to say, that storming Point was a good thing enough in its line, but what had that to do with passing this forged note? After boing out a couple of hours, the jury returned to the court ro mi, v.-hen the clerk went through the usual formula: "(Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" ' Wo have." "Do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty, or not guilty?" "Xot guilty, because he stormed Stony Point!" thundered the stal wart foreman, who, it was afterwards learned, v.i.s the last to come to an agreement. Tho audience applauded, the crier rapped to order, the district attor ney objected to the recording of the verdict ami tho jndgo scut tho jury on again, telling the foreman, in a rather sharp tone, that they must find an unconditional verdict of guilty or not guilty. After an absence of a few minutes, I hey returned, when tho foreman rend en d a simple verdict of not guilty, adding, however, as he drop ped into his seat: "It was a good thing though, judge, for the old Revolutionary cuss that he stormed Stony Point!" -. o Chances of J.ifc. From some elaborate tables drawn up by Dr. Parr, it wonld seem, as far as can he made out. there arc certain very critical periods in our carter. A baby, for instance, has a very small chance for growing up. But, on the other hand, the period be tween the tenth and fif'eoth years inclusively i ; that in which the death average is the smallest. At about thirty-five we must begin to take care of ourselves. At this period constitutional changes set in; our hair and teeth begin to fail us; our digestion is no longer what it used to be; we lose the vigor of youth and neglect out-door exercise; above all, the cares of life begin to make them selves perceptibly felt. It is this time that deaths from suicide take a marked place in the returns of mor tality, and there is also considerable reason to believe that habits of in temperance are apt to suddenly de velop themselves. The picture, how ever, has its sunshiny side. It wonld take, of course, a professed actuary to deduce from Dr. Farr's tables their exact result. It appears, however, that if a man tides over his fiftieth year he may make tolerably certain of living to seventy; while, if he roaches his seventy-fifth year, there is a very strong presumption that he will either turn his ninetieth birth day or very near it. A still more interesting question is opened by the series cf tables which show the aver age mortality in different professions and pursuits. Gamekeepers are, for obvious reasons, the healthiest class of our whole population; clergymen and agricultural laborers come next, and aro followed by barristers; solic itors ami business men are less fortu nate, while at the extreme end of the scale come unhealthy pursuits, such as printing and file grinding. -o. The Last of Two Culprits. Jim Kavanagh, formerly member of Con gress from Montana, was telling the other day that on one occasion there were seven standing on empty boxes, and with ropes round their necks, under the limbs of a tree, just ready to bo hanged. Ono of them, a Ger man, began to cry bitterly' as he thought that he was about to die. Tho man next to him was an Irish man, who was much bothered by the German's weeping, fio hitching his foot to ono side, ho gave the Ger man's box a push, leaving him swing ing in the air, and said: "Stop, you big sucker, won't you?" But the sarno act toppled over his own box; he could not regain his footing, and, with a laugh at. the trick he was play ing on the German, he, too, swung into eternity. . A Passaic father wants to know "what will keep a respectable but poor young man from hanging round the front of the house?" ' Tell him the girl is sitting on the back fence. Detertinp: a Murderer I)y 3Iean of Bloodhounds. The London papers publish the details of a remarkable murder, the perpetrator of which has been de tected in a most singular manner. The victim was a little girl aged only seven years and the s;ispected mur derer was a barber named Fish. The trunk of the body of the victim was found in an open field, and the dis covery of the skull was made in a most extraordinary manner. The oilicers secured the services of the owner of two bloodhounds and set out with the dogs and their owner to the place where tho trunk of the body was found, to see if any seen! of the remaining portion of the body could be found. The dogs did not appear to scent anything. They were taken to where 'the legs of the child were found, but without any result. They returned and it was then decided to have the dogs taken to Fish's shop and the shop of a bar ber named Whitehead, who also had been suspected. The detectives en tered the premises of the two barbers simultaneously, and one of them re mained at Fish's shop while the other establishment was examined. From the movements of the dog the poli?e had no reason to suppose that anything was concealed there, and the dogs proceeded to Pish's prem ises, in which there are two rooms below and two above. The blood hounds immediately on entering the house began to sniff all round, and evidently scented something. Then the officers and dogs went up stairs, and the bloodhounds at once scented up the chimney of the front room, and the owner of the dog put his iiand up the chimney and palled down from the recess of the draught hole the skull and some other por tions of a child wrapped in a paper covered with blood. From a medi cal examination it was evident that the head had recently been burned, and but two teeth were remaining in the lower jaw. The prisoner was fairly overwhelmed and confessed that he committed the murder and, without being aided by any one, mutilated the body and dispersed tho remains. A ;ood. Time 1o Improve or Uuy Sheep. Sheep are now cheaper than at any previous time in the history cf the State. Large numbers have changed hands at one dollar a head, and still they are offered for sale. Establish ments are being constructed for kill ing sheep merely for tho pelts and tallow. The causes of this depres sion in tho price of sheep are the low prices of wool and the scarcity of range fr large Hooks. The former cause will undoubtedly pass away as a change in the manufactur ing interests of tho country improve and wool regains its former price. But tho latter cause the scarcity of range for large flocks will continue and grow more each year as agricul ture and cultivation take possession of tho now unfilled and vacant lauds. The present circumstances are most favorable to tho improvement of our Hocks Let our sheep owners, while reducing the number, improve the quality of their sheep, and they will in the end b the gainers by the operation. Now is a good time also for farmers generally to invest in a few sheep to bo kept on their farms after the manner of the Eastern farmers. Every farm should have a few sheep on it to supply the family and tho workmen with fresh meat, and to act as weed killers on the fields and summer fallows. Every farm of one hundred and sixty acres can, if well managed, keep in good condition fifty head of sheep upon what is ordinarily wasted, or on what ordinarily requires a good portion of tne time and labor of one man to keep in subjection, namely, the weeds. The meat and wool of these sheep and their increase can be made at net profits. Fifty sheep can now be bought for fifty dollars less than the average meat bill of the medium farmers of the State. The increase from fifty ewes will furnish the fresh meat in the future aud save this fifty dollars, and the wool will sell for enough to buy the farmer two or three suits of clothes each year, while the sheep will save the wages of ono man on the farm by consum ing the weeds. Sacramento liccord Unlon. Playing for JIcav3 Stakes. Washington gossip says that the biggest game of cards ever played in this country took place recently in that city. Two politicians of nation al reputation, a member of a great banking house in London, and John Chamberlain, the well known turf man, sat down to a quiet seance at 'draw,' in one of our leading hotels. The play grew heavy as time passed, and tho interest became so intense that the sitting lasted thirty-six hours, at the close of which Cham berlain was w inner to the amount of 8110,000. He celebrated his victory by a grand dinner a few nights after ward. Precautions were taken to keep the affair secret, but it leaked out notwithstanding. Many years ago gamblers say that a game involving nearly a3 large an amount of money was played in this city. The game was "Boston," and tho contestants were Ben "Wood and John Morrissev. vr. Y. Star. There is never a raider who does not intend to make a handsome ex penditure some day; death comes, and tho intention is carried out by his heirs. This is the history of more than one king of my acquain tance. Yoltalre. Mexico offers f.0.000 to any one who will establish a woollen factory there with a capital of $100,000. AH Sorts. The widow's might: Her tongue.. "Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. The cats, of the Isle of Man aro without tails. A truism: An expensive wife makes a pensive husband. The favorite flower for weddiug bonnets Marry-gold. Next to a diary the most difficult thing to keep is a lead pencil. A clear conscience is the best law and tempsrcaice ths best xhysic. o Many adorn tho tombs of thoso whom, living, they persecuted with envy. Advice ro fishmongers in warm weather "Deal gently with the her ring." A printer invariably gets out of sorts when he reaches, the bottom of his case. Marriage is described by a French cynic as a tiresome book with a very fine preface. A friend that "sticketh closer than a brother" during warm weather your flannel shirt. Why is "naming the day" for tho wedding like a naval battle? Because it's a marry-tiine engagement. "Your qvumd m friend,"" was the way a young lady of Chicago signed a letter to a former schoolmate. Ho who leaves but one cat to grow where two cats grew before is a public benefactor, and deserves the blessings of the community.. Young men, as a general thing,, don't like a set-back in life; but a "pull-back' in life makes all the dif ference iu the world.. A woman in Macon, Ala., had twins twice, and then triplets; and after the last lot her husband ran away, and has not returned. Dupes, indeed, are many; but of all dupes there are none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped. Electricity has replaced gas in lighting a railroad depot in Paris, and the experiment is satisfactory as to practicability and cheapness. How to raise cats: First catch your cats; then put them into a barrel, and explode a can ot nitro-glyeerine un der them. It never fails to raise them. And now comes a Boston woman who, to out-do her fashionable sisters with their twenty-button gloves, has invented and wears forty-button stockings In a French translation of Shake speare, tho passage, "Frailty, thy name is woman," is- translated, "Mademoiselle Frail tv is the name of the lady." A philosopher asserts that the rea son why ladies' teeth decay sooner than gentlemen's is because of tho friction of the tongue and the sweet ness of the lips. Montreal burglars have added chemistry to their curriculum. They apply a test to silverware, and leave plated articles with a note to "Shiey thes yere at catts." When Fuchs received the news that he would not bo hung he buried his face in his hands, burst into tears, and murmured, "Veil, dot's good. I guess ve haf some bier." A wag, in "what ho knows about farming," gives a very good plan to remove widows' weeds. He says a good-looking man has only to say "Wilt thou?" and they wilt. At a recent address to female can didates for confirmation the vicar of Kensington.England , requested them to so arrange their hair that the bish op might really lay his hands on their heads. "I could kill you for two cents!" shouted an enraged man to an offend ing neighbor. It was an ugly threat, but it sounded good. It shows that we are getting clown to ante-bellum prices. Blonde hair is growing less popu- lav every year. It seems that a bru nette always has the advantage of being able to button her shoes with a hair-jun and put it back into herhair without wiping it. To destroy potato bugs mix ono gallon of prussic acid with three ounces of rendrock, stir well and administer a tablespoonful every hour and a half until the bug shows signs of weakening. Then stamp on him. An enterprising firm of photo graphers advertise a new series of photographs in miniature. This ought to take. Most of us have friends of whom it may be said that the less we see of them the better wo like them. It is asserted by an eminent En glish physician that by the timely administration of the hypophosite of lime or soda, consumption can bo stamped out as thoroughly as small pox by vaccination. Smith and Brown, running opposite ways around a corner, struck each other. Oh, dear! how you made my head ring," said Smith. "That's a sign it's hollow," said Brown. "But didn't yours ring?" "No." "That's a sign it's cracked," said his friend. An impecunious but ingenious tramp has left the colored population of Georgetown, Texas, poor in pocket and soro in body by initiating them, at two dollars and'a half a head, into "a lodge of Free Masons." The prin cipal part of the ceremony, next to pavin"- the fee, consisted in tying the , candidate on a tame, iace uownwara, j and branding him with a hot poker. o o o O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o