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x : J r fe22Sv.-; O o o . Q O DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AMD THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. is w J; S J I 'i vi i' ,5 . P. o 1 ) VOL. 11. THE ENTERPRISE.j A LOCAL NEWSPAPER 1 FOR T H K Firmer, Business Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FTIANK S. DEAIElSrr, TE0PEIE10R AND PUBLISHES. OFFICIAL PAPER TOR CLACKAMAS CO. urn-icTV In Enterprise F.ulldlng, one .2"outhof Masonic P.ulluing. Main St. Term of Subscription t miuCa Copy One Year, In Advance $2.50 Six Months " Term of Advertising! Transient advertisements. Including sll legal notices, V square of twelve t ; n inn urpolr ...... . 1.50 2.50 Far each subsequent insertion On Column, one year er:: .v tmlness Card. 1 square, one year.. 1.IM) 120.(10 tio.00 40.00 1-2.00 SOCIETY NOTICES. oiYf.gon lopge no. a, 1. 1. o. v.. Meets evcrv Thursday -ag., ve n i n t? at 7 o VI o-k , i n it h e -' OJd Fellows' Hall, Mam '-HSs,'-stroet. Members of the Or der are invited to attend. My order 2 . ( . kkiskcca ir.c:iu:i: u)i)t;: no. 1 I. O. O. I, Meets on the jtfsrvfrt Second and Fourth rues- f lJ!g& dav eveninirs each month 23Ly t 7 H o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall. Meinbersof the Degree r invited to attend. iITNOMAII LOI)(;K NO. I, A. I''. A A. M., Holds its regular coin- A munications on the First and vr Third Saturdays in each month, t 7 o'clock from the 2tth of Sep. m tmlK-r to the "JHli of March; and 4 e'rlock from the Lftth of March to the 20th of September. Brethren in good standing aro invited to attend. Hv order of . M. FALLS KSCAMHMEXT NO. 1,1. O. t). V.. Meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tues- o.w.li m.vKth Patriarchs U.l v 1 v .v i. ........... V a il 1 in 'good standing are invited to attenu. Ji US I XJiSS CARDS. J. W. NORTHS, PHYSICIAN AXD SURGEON, "Ofiico and TVsilence pn -1th Street, it foot of Cliff Stairway. tf TDR. JOHN WELCH' DENTIST, offick in oil OREGON CITY, OREGON. Highcut ( ah Price Paid for Comity Order. JOHNSON & McCOVVN ITTORNEYS AND C01NSEL0RS AT-L.WV. Oregon City, Oregon. "Will practice in all the Court of the litate. Special attention given to cases in the U. S. Land Ortlce at. Oregon City. 5airlS7-tf. Tj. T. 13 A HI 1ST ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, OREGOX CITV, OREGON. Will practice In all the Courts of the late. Nov. 1. 1R75. tf W. 11. HKillFIELl). Established sinco '49. One door north or Pope'n Hall. Main Street, Orf?on Tity, nregon. t. of SVntches. Jewel- f- or.,i th Thnmas' Weiffht Clocks 1 3ftall of whiclx are warranted to be as ' ...... tn.l wH'jlM W III' il. eViort notice, and thankful for past patronage . Caili paid for Comity Order. JOHN M.hAC0N, Dkalf.r is r5SL TtOOKS, STATION RY, tW I lMinr. Frames, M ou'.d-"' ng and Miscellaneous Goods. FRA?v1ES MADE TO G3DE.1. Orrin City, Oregon. M tho Post Offlee, Main street, east novl,75:t'. CIIAS. "ivXIO-IIT, CANI1Y, OIIECJON, "B YSKl.VN !y I n It I'G (1N T nwcripUo1" carof"y filled at shor BftU?w- . Ja7.-tf. LaRocqiip, Savior & Co. Orocjon City. MWdinn,'",t,y,in ,,and fralo Flour. urrhiSS?;Vra'? an'1 rhi'" Feed. Parties urchaMng rvei mst ftlrnisn thn Bank J- H. SHEPARD," Hoot and Shoe Store, One door north of Ackerman Pros. lSji,'tK cSheIpesURde repa,rert RS Njv. 1, l.?T5.-tf MILUECHURCH &C0., PwhRt ,VT nIlKST rnTPE FOR "fcAT, at all tunes, at the Oregon City Mills, And have on hand hFEED aiul FLOUR r,mut,nfrrktwrat''s- Tarties desiring ".must furnish sacks. novia.f rr JO FRUITGROWERS. or pU"S?H MARKET PRICE r.Tho, JrEARs a"1 APPI.KS. for the Co'nTany.RUth0rized t0 pur L. D. C'LATOUnErrTK, 'H03. (.'IRr iv c . President. ftroa fM.' t "ii-Secretary. oaJity Juy28, l75 tf LITTLE BROOK. Sunny lawn and prassr meadow Fairy lakelet glistening bright' Murmuring brook and slopes in meadow Steal upon the charmed sight. Tlero the ripening clusters gather There the russet apples fall ' Bright parterres of geld and scarlet Autumn sunlight over all I Ah, how rich in peace and beauty Thou sweet home of genius rare! Fame and faith and love and duty Find a resting ever here. God be in thee, lovely homestead! God be with ye. gentle friends! In a home still brighter, sweeter May we meet when this iife ends! Old Tales Iietold. Frankenstein, or the Monster Man. Robert Walton, sailing from Arch angel, on an Arctic voyage, found his ship surrounded bv vast fields of ice. On a J !ilj day be and his crew were amazed to see a being which had the shape of a man, but appar ently of gigantic stature, drive rap idly past in a sledge drawn by dogs, aud tin.dly disappear in the distance. The next morning they rescued from a floating fragment of ice a nearly frozen, dreadfully emaciated man who had ventured thns far in pursuit of the wild figure seen the day be fore, for which he spent hours on deck watching in vain, llis gentle nature and frequent gloom aroused the sympathies of Captain Walton, whose kindness led the stranger at last to a recitalof his misfortunes. 3Jy birth a Gevenese of distin guished family, Victor Frankenstein was brought up, by the tenderest parents, with a beautiful little Italian cousin, Elizabeth Lavenza, who was gay and playful as a summer insect. Henry Clerval. a boy of singular tal ent and fancy, was another intimate associate of his sports and studies. At thirteen, Victor Lad become a reader of Albert us Magnus and Par acelsus, and sought to raise ghosts and devils. Four years later his mother died, joining his hand and Elizabeth's on her death bed. Victor soon after departed for the University of Ingolstedt, where he made remarkable progress in the study of chemistry and occult sci ence At last, animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, ho snont among corpses davs and nights of incieuioie labor and fatigue, and fin ally actually discovered the cause of generation atd life, nay, more, he became capable of bestowing anima tion Upon lifeless matter! Dizzy with delight, he resolved to make a being of gigantic size, fully eight feet high, for which he collect ed hopes from the charnal houses, and disturbed with profane fingers the tremendous secrets of the human frame. Winter, spring and summer passed, till on a dreary night in No vember, he infused the spark of be ing into the lifeless tiling. The dull, yellow eyes of the crea ture opened, it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the muscles and arteries. His hair, black and flowing, and his teeth of pearly white, only formed u horrid contrast with his watery eyes, shriveled complexion, and straight! black lips. Breathless with terror, Victor rushed away, and soon slept from sheer fatigue. In dreams he held the corpse of his mother in his arms, and saw the grave-worms crawl ing on the shroud. Starting from sleep, he beheld by his bed the wretch ho had erpatMil hia at-aa fl-..i ' , V V .I 11 Al I I and his jaws opeu, while a hideous grin wrinKiea ins cheeks. Victor escaped from the house and dared not return, though drenched by the rain. With the morning came his friend Clerval, wJiom he hailed with delight. The monster, happily, had disappeared, but the strain of fatigue and terror had brought on a nervous fever, through which bis friend nursed him faithfully. Though chemistry had become abhorrent to Frankenstein, he remained at the University after his recovery, and in time regaiued his usutl cheerfulness. Then came a letter from his father, with horrible tidings of the murder of his little brother William, who was found stretched on the grass, livid and motionless, the print of the murderer's fingers on his neck. Has tening home he visited the scene of the crime during a terrible thunder storm by night. A figure stole from behind a clump of trees; a flash of lightning illuminated th gig-antic ami hideous form to which Victor had given life. Could this be (Frank enstein shuddered) the murderer of the child. Its mere presence was irresistible proof; but, before he could pursue, the fiend had escaped. Meantime, Justine Moritz, a de voted adherent of the IVaukenstein family, hail been accused ; a miniature stolen from the dead child was found in her possession; she was tried, con demned, slain! Sleep fled from Vic tor's eyes; he wandered like an evil spirit, for he had committed deeds of mischief beyond description hor rible, and more, much more, he per suaded himself, remained behind. After two months of wretchedness, all the Frankensfeins mado an excur sion to the valley of the Chamonni, and. , upon the glacier, Victor en countered his evil offspring, whose countenance lespoke bitter anguish combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness, render ed it almost too horrible for human eyes. "'Devil!" cried Victor, "do yon dare approach me? Begone, vile in sect, or, rather, stay, that I may trample you to dnstf The tortures of hell are too mild a venture for your crimes." "Be calm," said the demon; "re member that I am thy creature. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend; make me happy and I shall again be virtuous." "Begone!" repeated Victor. "How can I move thee?" cried the OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DEO. 8, 1870. fiend. "Believ me. Franl-Ancr my soul glowed with love and hu manity; but am I not alone, misera bly alone? Listen to my tale, and then, if you can, destroy the work of your hands." At last Victor consented, followed his odious companion to a wretched hut, and listened to his story. Brought into existence by the dis astrous arts of Frankenstein, this strange creature had wandered aim lessly abroad, living upon berries and fruits, and slowly acquiring a knowledge of the common phenom ena of nature and life. Venturing into a village he was attacked, griev ously bruised with stones, and driven to take refuge in a hovel, from which he could observe the occupants of a neighboring cottage. These were Felix and Agatha Delacey and their blind father, and their mutual affec tion and evident sorrows touched the poor wanderer's heart, though it was long before he comprehended their story. Gradually he learned to'un derstand their speech, and found that they had all been exiled penni less from Fiance, for aiding the es cape from prison of a Turkish mer chant unjustly condemned to death. This Turk had pledged the hand of his daughter, Saphie, to Felix, but had basely broken his promise. She. however, refused to follow her father and suddenly appeared at the cottage to the joy of all the inmates and their unknown watcher, who by diligent attention learned finally to speak and even to read their language. With the increase of knowledge he longed for companionship, and at last re vealed himself to the happy family, only to be met with the terror of Agatha and Saphie, and the furious blows of Felix. Rage and revenge then took possession of him, and lie burned to the ground the cottage which the terrified inmates had hast ily abandoned. Resuming his wan derings, he rescued a young girl from drowning, but a rustic tore her from his arms and wounded him with a gun. Inllamed by this cruelty, he vowed "eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind." Determining to seek his creator and demand justice from him, he journeyed to Geneva, and in the invirons of the city he met a beautiful boy, who screamed, called him an ogre, and threatened him with the vengeance of his papa, the syndic, M. Frankenstein. "Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy; you shall be my first victim." The fiend grasped the child's throat and it lay dead in a moment, while the miniature from its bosom he hid unobserved in the dress of a young woman passing near. Finishing his story, the mouater demanded of Frank enstein that he should create for him a companion, a female of the s.iui'? species anil with the same defects. Refusing at first, Vic tor at last consented upon a solemn oath from the fiend to quit Europe forever. With Clerval, Frankenstein visited Scotland, aud on one of the remotest Orkney's began his inexpressibly repugnant task. The demon appear ed one night at the casement, with a ghastly grin upon his lips. Seized with madness, Victor tore to pieces the thing on which he was engaged, and with a howl of devilish dispare and revenge, the wretch withdrew. Soon he returned, and after bitter reproaches, vanished again, exelaim ing "I go, but remember, I shall le icith you on -ifonr -ic aiding night.'" Upon reaching the mainland ; the unhappy Frankenstein was arrested on a charge of murdering a young man found dead with the black marks of fingers on his throat. Be ing led to the coffin, he saw stretched before him the lifeless body of Hen ry Clerval! For two months the heart-broken Victor lay in jail, rav ing with fever. Upon proof that he was on the Orkneys when the corpse was found, he was finally released, and returned to Geneva and Eliza beth. Married, after some delay, to this beautiful and affectionate cousin, the wedding day passed serene aud almost happy; but, as night appear ed, a thousand fears arose. Grasping with his right hand a pistol conceal ed in his bosom, he waited for the fiend. Suddenly he heard a shrill and dreadful eream from Eliza beth's room. He rushed in. Great God. Why did he not then expire? L.ifirless across the bed, her pale, distorted face half covered by her hair, lay the monster's latest victim, the mark of the fatal fingers on her! At the window the fiend himself jeered at the husband's agony. Victot fired, but the demon escap ed with the swiftness of lightning. Under these accumulated horrors Frankenstein's father sunk ai d lit!.l. His miserable son, after months of madness passed in a solitary sell, re gained his reason, and, over the graves of the dead, swore revenpe upon the cursed and hellish monster of his own creation. Then, as he kuelt, a fiendish laugh rang in his ears, and abhorred voice whispered, "Miserable wretch!" and the broad moon arose and shone upon a dis torted and flying form. Victor pursued down the Rhone across the Mediterranean through the Black Sea amid the wilds of Tartary and Russia; but still the scoffing devil eluded him. Stealing a sledge and dogs, the hunted fiend set out upon the frozen sea, and still Victor followed, . buoyed up by the hope of vengeance. At last he beheld the monster in the dis tance before him his heart bound ed with a terrible joy when sudden ly a tumultuous sea, with the shock of an earthquake, cracked the ice, rolled between him and his enemy, and left the baffled pursuer drifting on the shattered fragment from which Captain Walton saved him. Frankenstein's terrific story cardled I the blood of ; his rescuer with hor ror, while the apparition he had him self seen convinced the captain of its truth. Nothing was left undone that could soothe his unhappy guest, but all in vain. Danger from the mountains of surrounding ice now began to threaten ihem all. The el oquence of Frankenstein checked the sailors discontent for a time, but at least Walton yiejded to their fears, and set sail for England, his plants of discovery blasted by the cowardice of his followers. Frankenstein, ex hausted by his labors and sufferings, vainly resolved to renew the pursuit, and, reluctantly abandoned his last hope for vengeance, and resigned himself to death, and passed away with a gentle smile upon his lips. At miduight the startled captain found, hanging over the coffin, an uncouth and gigantic form, with a face of appalling hideousness - dis torted by uncontrollable passion. "Oh Frankenstein!" the monster cried; "generous and self-devoted being! Alas! he is cold; he may not answer me." "Your repentance is now superflu ous," interposed the agitated cap tain. "And did you dream," cried the stricken fiend, "that I was dead to remorse? He suffered not the ten thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine. I have murdered the helpless; I have strangled the inno cent; I have devoted my creator to misery. There he lies white and cold, in death! You hate me, but your abhorrenco cannot equal that with which I regard myself. Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mishief. Soon I shall die; 1 shall ascend my funeral pile; my ashes will be wept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace; or, if it thinks, it will surely not think thus. Farewell!" He sprang from the cabin window, as he said this, upon the ice-cn.fi' which lay close to the vessel, and was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. Fair Hair and lllue Eyes in Ger many. For a long time the idea of a Ger man, more particularly of a German lady, was that he or she had blue eyes aud fair hair. The Germans themselves have frequently protested against this sweeping assertion, and the careful examination of a German regiment or of a German school would have sufficed to show the strong admixture of black hair and brown eyes. But anthropologists went on assertiug their own views, formed on what they called tht-irown long experience, till at last the pub lic insisted on having the matter set tled by a regular census. Govern ment assented, and on a certain day every school in l'russia had to make a return of the black and blue aud brown color of the children's eyes. Many of the pupils came home on that day, telling their parents, with a mysterious air, that their eyes and hair and skin had been examined at school. Some of the parents thought it an limine interference with their rights, but the thing wadone, and angry protests against what the Gov ernment commands or allows to be done are of little avail in Germany. After a short time, the results of this anthropological commission have been published, and they are, at all events, curious, though, perhaps, not of much scientific value. The number of persons examined in Prus sia amounted to 4.127.75G. Out of that number 4,070,923 were under fourteen years of age. With regard to the color of their eyes, 42. 1)7 per cent, had blue, 24.31 per cent, brown eyes. With regard to the color of the hair. 72 per cent, had blonde, 2G per cent, brown, and 1.21 per ce-it. black hair. With regard to the color or the skin. Prussia has only 0.53 per cent, of brunette complexion. In Bavaria the brunette complexion claims 15 per cent., the black hair 5 per cent., the brown hair 41 per cent, and the fair hair 54 per cent.; and it is argued from this that the darker complexion in Germany came from the south rather a bold generaliza tion, if one considers the mixture of tribes in Germany, even at so late a time as the invasion of the Barbarians info the Roman Empire. The report contains a number of curious obser vations; for instance, that nearly one third of the Jewish school children are fair, which would certainly not b1 the impression left upon a casual spectator by the ordinary run of the Jewish population. Young women seem to do pretty well in business in Chicago. A real estate agency was recently establish ed there by one who cleared 8500 the first month. On the same street is the Ciiicago office of a large real es tate dealer who lives in Baltimore, the business of which is all transact ed by a woman, who has mauaged it for a number of years, and that very successfully. As argument in favor of women engaging in public life or business for a successive number of years, and yet preserving all the in nate and outward delicacy of trno womanhood, both the above are strong ones, especially in the case of the last mentioned lady, who is said to be gentle and womanly almost to afanlt. Information is wanted of the whereabouts of Amos Blakeslee. In 1870 he lived half a mile from the Chehalis river, and about 80 miles from Gray's Harbor. Address An son W. Heeley, Winsted, Connecti cut, or James Woodruff. Waitsburg, w. t. "No girl gets along well without a mother," says a moral exchange. This may bo true; but hereaboufs girls work harder to get mothers-in-law than they do to get mothers. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, Lotc of Learning1. . One great defect in systems of school education is the lack of proper stimulus to the pupil. Abundant inducements are held out. The child daily hears of the value of education; is told how men get rich and happy by it, and how they are degraded and worthless without it. Ambition is appealed to, and vanity is culti vated by rewards, prizes and school honors, and sharp words and sting ing lashes are added, to push the unwilling laggards forward up the hill of science. Considerable knowl edge is imparted undor this treat ment. Pupils progress with perhaps a fair understanding of the branches necessary for the ordinary transac tions of life; but how many leave school with a love for learning, a thirst to know more, a determination to go on improving? On the con trary, is it not to the average boy like closing a prison door behiud hind him and emerging into liberty when he leaves the school-room, and enters the office or the counting house? In after years he may lament wasted opportunities, and as he dis covers the commercial value of edu cation, he may regret not having re mained longer a pupil, that he may be better fitted for his work, but he has no real love for books, eo aspi ration for higher culture for its own sake. This need not be. A child is nat urally eager to learn. His ten thou sand questions are the torment of an unappreciative and unskilful parent. If from the first he was taught how to find answers to his questions from observation and from books, and as his curiosity was kept amused and properly directed, instead of being persistently snubbed down, he would need no promise of "good marks" or medals or prizes to make him stu dious. At school he is set to tasks in which he can have little interest. What does he care whether the equator runs north and south or east aud west; or what are the boundaries of Kamschatka; or who was third king of the Eg3'ptians? Let him begin work at a point whero hi3 interest is awakened, then lead him" by short steps to enlarge his field ofinquiry, and his faculties will be sharpened. The actual sum of knowledge gain ed at school is nothing compared with the value of learning implanted anl a proper guidance given to the sources where information may be gained. Under such treatment it will soon matter little whether he remains in the school-room or not. The springs have been set in motion which will not let him rest; a healthy appetite sharpened, which he will seek to gratify, and for which there are abundant supplies. Not the mere successful winner of prizes, who has ambitiously led his class, but the lover of learning becomes the leader of thought. Sleep and Dreaming. Do we sleep without dreaming? The question has been discussed both by ancients and moderns. Hippocrates, Plato, Liebnitz, Des lartes., Cabanis and other eminent physicians and philosophers take the affirmative. They hold, substantial ly, that it is the body which leejs, the soul that dreams; that the tor mer needs rest and the latter does no:; that, while physically fettered, the soul's natural expression is in dream. The soul being immortal, incapable, independent of stay or stop, must necessarily and perpetu ally dream. Because 'wo do not re member our dreams is no proof that we do not have them. Persons on waking will feel confident that they have not dreamed, and yet during the day some outwnrd happening or passing though will by force of as sociation recall the dreams they had entirely forgotten. It is even ques tionable if dreams ever go entirely out of memory. They may not be recollected for a week, a month or a year, but they are some time though in so vague and shadowy a manner as to lose their identity. Montreal Gazette. The effects of tobacco smoking, as described by the Scientific American, are discoloring of the teeth by car bon, excitementof the salivary glands by the ammonia, headache and lassi tude from the carbonic acid, disease of the heart from the carbonic oxide, nausea from the bitter extract, and a tainting of the breath by the volatile empyreumatic substance. The sys tem may become used to these things, yet it is made lilable to consumption, nervous exhaustion, paralysis, and other ailments. To sum up the evils, "Effects of individuals likewise affect communities, these in turn influence the nation. No person that smokes can be in perfect health, and an im perfect organism cannot reproduce a perfect one. Therefore it is logical to conclude that, were smoking the practice of every individual of a na tion, then that people would degen erate into a physically inferior race." Poltoamy. Whether, considering their natural jealousy, which is pro verbial, the Mexican women could bo subjugated to polygamy may well be doubted, but certain it is that the men will make the effort if ever the doctrines of Brigham Young take a strong foothold in this republic. The Mexican women are greatly in excess of the men; so much so that the dis proportion is immense. Leading Mexican minds are now seriously pondering over this problem, for so nneqnal a division of the sexes pro duces startling social results. With in the near future, Mexico will be a polygamic empire if not frustrated by the United States. . . m i Bessie Turner is now a waiter in a New York restaurant. r All Sorts. Friday is an unlucky day for fish es. " Information. Are grass widows liable to take the hay fver. . When a man looks moody is it a sign that he favors a revival?" All men are not homeless, but some men are homo less than others. The society of a dumb man is a great boon just now. He can't talk politics, anyhow. To get up a handkerchief flirta tion: Rule first,' get two handker chiefs and two fools. One of tire reasons that a side-saddle resembles a four. quart jug is be cause it holds a gallon. "Mary, my love, this apple clump ling is not half done," Wife: "Well then finish it, my dear." Placards on the Boston street-cars declare that "This car can't wait for ladies to kiss good-bye." AnIrish lover remarks that it is'a great comfort to be alone, "especi ally if yer sweat heart is wid ye." The newsboy got pretty near the level fact: " 'Ere's yer extra. Full account of the defeat uv Peter Coop er!" There is a man in Colorado who signs himself "T. Pot." It is said that the least thing makes him boil over. "Red as a Rose is She," applies now-a-days, to every woman on the street that is, every woman who goes in for dress. A Chicago belle who wore No. 8 gaiters was converted by Teading the tract entitled. Hj"IIow beautiful are the feet of the righteous." Miss Alcott calls the Transcen dentalists inspired lunatics. She ought to know, for her father was the biggest frog in that pond. The habit of wearing a mass of false hair is gradually passing away, the little that is worn is so arranged as to give the impression of a natural growth only. When vou find a man whose voice is clear and whose eyes are wide open you may know that he was in jail and couldn't shout over the elec tion returns. Young ladies should not be deceiv ed bv this moderated weather into leaving off their belt buckles. There is a dampness in the air which should be guarded against." Information wanted as the where abouts of any article which did not receive the highest award at the Cen tennial. Needn't be particular abont inclosing stamp. Observe a young father trying to appease a bawling baby, and you will witness ingenuity enough ic'ten minutes to make you think that man ought to be an inventor. "Do try and talk a little common sense!" exclaimed a sarcastic young lady to a visitor. "Oh!, "was the re ply; "but wouldn't that be taking an unfair advantage of you?" A Connecticut school marm, who was recently kissed in the dark by mistake, explained her omission to use any light for nearly two weeks on the ground of hard limes. In Half Moon Bay, California, there is a Spanish lady, Eusebia by name, who is 110 years of age. When in San Francisco the other day she was accompanied by her little son, aged eighty'. The Waterbury . American has come to the conclusion that "woman is man's superior in courage and dar ing." The editor is a very honest man. He was married a little over a month ago. When they take the next census in Arkansas they will miss Peter Dayton. The old man found a pack age and threw it into the stove to see whether it was powder or not. It wasn't sand.' "If you can't keep awake," said a parson to one of his hearers, "when vou are drowsy, whv don't you take a pinch of snuff?" "-"I think," was the reply, "the suuff should be put into the sermon. "Men, "said Adam Smith, "aro natu rally unsentimental. A man will scoop the bottom out of an egg with out thinking that the mother of that egg is perhaps a hundred miles away, in the rain." The first time Jerrold saw a cele brated song writer, the latter said to him: "Youngster, have you suf ficient confidence in me to lend me a guinea?" "Oh, yes," "I've all the confidence but I haevn't the guinea." Mrs. Mary Mathews, of San Fran cisco, who has consented to accept .$75,000 for herself and S10.000 for each of her five children from the Singer estate, is in the East. Mary shows her good sense. Forward and loquacious youth, "By Jove, you know .upon my word, if I were to see a ghost, you know, I would be a chattering idiot for the rest of my life." , Ingenuous Mai den: "Haven't you seen a ghost?" When yon see a young man and woman leaning over a garden gate in the twilight and hear a sound like the "squash" of a potato bug 'neath the farmer's heel, you instinctively feel that there has been a climax of two souls. "Susan," said a girl looking out of the upper story of a grocery store, addressing another girl who was try ing to enter at the front door, "we have all been to prayer meeting and been converted; so when you want lager on Sunday yon . will have to come in at the back door." NO. 7. A Practical Temperance Lec- ture. A Cincinnati man of good position, and exellent business abilities, a few years ago fell into dessolnte habit. and spent most of his time lounging around bar-rooms while his family snffered for the necessaries oolite. His wife at last driven to despera tion, resolved to make another at tempt to pave him, and so one ctay not long ago he was startled by her entrance into a saloon where ho sat playing cards with a party of boon companions; The woman took rrr notice of heT husband, but boldly walked up to to the couutet5 and called for a glas3 of beer. Turning to the crowd she said: 'Come gen tlemen, and have a drink with meb If beer is good for men, it certainly ought to be for women,' and thougii the crowd was a little startled, as representative bummers, none of them except the husband, were un prepared to accept the invitation. The drink was disposed of, when the lady ordered a second for the crowd, but made a very wry face as she struggled to get through' with it. Setting he half-emptied glass on the counter, she said, 'I don't like beer; what else have you got?' The wom an who officiated r.t the bar enume rated the varieties. 'I believe I'll trv Tom and Jerry was the answer, ami the crowd willingly helped her to dis pose of a round of that also, her hnsband, meanwhile smiling des perately a sickly smile, with an effort to show that he thought the afiair a good joke. Taking a seat then at one of the dirty tables, she sat down and said, "Gentlemen I've got some money here that I have no other use for, let's play a game of seven-tip, at two dollars a game?" And somebody played with her and at the sanio time instructed her in the game, aiiTl she lost of course, but 'manfully' paid every time, and as often treat ed the crowd as she lost. Finally as her utterance became thick and her head rolled to either side, and her conversation grew maudlin, her hus band was able to stand it no longer. He rose from his seat and induced her to accompany him home, nc.il arm in arm they started. Whatever of good the lesson may continue to work, it has certainly effected fon;t thing toward his reclamation, for l.a has not been seen in a bar-room since. The Flow of Speech. Though we all employ speech, pny? the Popular Sciet-ce 2Jjn'lt.h! . yet e0 differ in ease and agreeablei:ess of utterance. The voice is weak or c powerful, as determined by the mje of action of the respiratory organs. The timbre is shary, harsh, sweet or harminious; this is determined by the conformation of the resonant cav ities. Whatever quality of voice we happen to have naturally, is to be preserved, though it may be improv ed by constant attention to the ear, by steady observation, finally by training. Speech does not flow from its source with the same ease in all classes; hero' the mind'is master, and mental qualities differ from one ai other to a far greater extent than physical aptitudes. Some persons express themselves without difficnlty or hesitation their thinking faculty acts as a continuous force; cthcis seem to grasp a word or. a-phrase here and there their thinking fac ulty is fluctuating, confuse-tl, unde cided. A certain feeling of constraint produces stuttering, stammering. It used to be supposed that stuttering is the result of grave defects of the o vocal organs", but such is not the case at all; this infirmity Lias its sett G in the miud, and it may be cured or mitigated by systematic effort. It is shown by statistics that Provence, Laugnedoc, aud Gniene contain ' a greater portion of stammerers in their population than any other portions of France. This statement, when first I saw it. was a surprise to me; it h::s always been thought that no one could possibly falter in his speech who was born near the Garonne . Hospitality rx Texas. In eo city in the , United States, says the Sau Antonio Herald, is the travel-stained, weary traveler taken as good care of as he is in a San Antonio hotel. The manners and customs of the guests are carefully studied. A young man from the frontier, stopping at one of our hotels, told the clerk the other evening that ho was going to be out late. "Just wait a minute," replied the accomodating clerk, and he rush ed off, but soon reappeared with a large envelope, which he placed in the guest's breast pocket, with the remark: "That is a bond for your appearance before the Recorder, properly signed. As soon as yon are arrested for being drunk find disor derly, jnst give the bond to the po liceman, mention my name to him, and he will bring you home in a hack. Good-night! God bless yon!" A Little Delay Onlt. Last Sundav evening, says a French pop per, a "man considerably more than half drunk presented himself at the police station. Official "Well, what do yon want?" , . Inebriate "I "want to be locked up." 0. -"Why?" - 1. "O. I get drunk every Sunday am "locked up at night, but to-night I couldn't find any officer to take me up, so I thought I wonld come my self." v The sergeant reflects a moment, then replies sententionsly: "If you are able to. find tbe rnrd to the police station by yoursco", you are not drunk enough to V locked up. Come back in anhov--or so." The Ol.vmpia Standard hr.s enter -on its XVII volume, and it. lias om best wishes for future prospeiity.' o O o o o o o 0 o c O 0 O 0 o G C O o o o o r v