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OREGON CITY, OREGON, Tllti -DAY, JANUARY 25, 1877.
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOB CLACKAMAS COUMTY.
OFFICE Tn ExTKiirmsE I.uild'.ng. one
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ing. at clock, m the Odd til-- s&- -FX
lows' Hall, Main street. M em hers K"s
of the Older arc invited to attend.
fiv order of N. G.
jii:m:ccA ii:;iji:i: ioici-,
..-, J. u. u. meets on me 7ir-
evening of each month, at '
kj A'IIU I I , 1 & Will III . . V . J t
o'clock, in the Odd Fellow s' Hall.
Members of the Degree are invited lo attend
JlUlTNOMAII LODUM. No. 1,
A. r.iVA. M., lioius us regular coin
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IIIUIIIl illll'lin Ull 111'; 11171. tlllll 1 till 11 y"
-Sit mill v. in caeli month, at 7 o'clock
from the 20th of SeptemWer to the
20 tli of March; and o clock from
the 20tli of March to the 2oili of September
Brethren in good standing are invited to at
tend. l'.v order of AV. M.
FALLS JNX'AM13IINT, 'o. 4,
I. O. O. F., meets at Odd Fellows' Hall q C
on the First and Third Tuesday of Sff
each month. Patriarchs in good stand-&itf
ing are invited attend.
j. W. NORRIS,
1 li K i v i a n a n 1 S u roon.
OFFICE AND ItESIbEXCE :
Oa Fourth Street, at foot of C I i IF Stairway
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CHAS. KNIGHT,
( tjiiiy, - - oki:jo,
Physician and Druggist.
-"Prescript ions carefully tilled at short
noiiee. ja7-tf
PAUL BOYCE, M. D.,
I li y h i v i a i l S u r jj e o n ,
Oukoov Cur, OK-nox.
Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women
and Children a specially.
lUllro hours day un .1 night; always ready
Svhen duty calls. Aug. 25, '70-tf
DR. JOHN WELCH,
id :e nsr t i s t .
OFFICE IN
it it; on city, oitr.;o.
II ii;liestcash price paid for County orders.
J0HNS0N & McGOWN,
'Atlomcys ani ConnsBlors at Law.
OICF.40N CITY, OltKtJOV
Will practice in all the Courts of the State.
Special attention given to cases in the U. S
Land Otlice at Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tf
L. T. BARIN,
.AUORNEY AT LAW,
O CITY
"Will practice iu all
State.
, on I".; on.
the Courts of the
Nov. 1, lS75-tf
VY. H. HIGHFIELD,
Z3ta."blisliod. slzs.ee 'S,
One door North of Pope's Hall,
-MAIN NT., OltK.UON, CITY Oltl.iON
(iL An assortment of watchec. Jewelry,
fUlvV and Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks, all
t;.V5of which are warranted to be as repre
seiiieO. JjfKe pairing done on short notice;
and thankful for past patronage.
Ciih paid Tor (un nlr Orilfrn.
JOHN M. BACON,
DEAL Ell IX
Books, Stationery, SraSir
PICTURE FRAMES, MOULDINGS
AND MISCELLANEOUS GOODS.
Oueoon Cirr, Okego.v.
. t7 At the Post Oiliee, Main Street, east
side. novl-'75-tf
IMPERIAL MILLS.
LaUo (liio, S.ivier & Co.,
OREGON CITV.
Keep constantly on hand for 8ale Flour,
Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Tarties
purchasing feed must furnish the sack.
J. H. SHEPARD,
Boot and Shoe Store,
One door nortli of Ackerman Bros.
I-?Boots and Shoes made and repaired ns
cheap as the rlieapest.
Nov. 1, ISV-Vtf
MILLER, CHURCH & CO.
-p.Y THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR
WHVT,
At all times, at the
oki:;ox citv ii.in.
And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to
sell, at m irket rates
must furnish sacks.
Parties desiring Feed
novl'-tf
TO FRUIT-GROWERS.
rpiIF. ALDEN FRUIT PRESERVING
JL Company 1 Oregon City will pay the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
For PLUMS, PEARS and APPLES.
Mr. Thos. Charman is authorized to pur
chase for the Com pan v.
L. D C. LATOUKETTE, Pres't
TH0S. CHARM AN. S-e'v.
Oien City. Julv 2S, tS75-tf
OREGON CITY BREWERY.
HENRY TTTTATTJVT.
I IAWMi purchased the above fA;fd'
I 1 ll,-. , r l-T-STr'
-.-irnnril, . 1MICS III 1 1 1 J 1 1 in II1C
puuiie that he is now prepared to maiiufae
iuic u .o i (ju.ilily or
X. . g- ; s s s : sa ,
A good 8 can e ol tinned anvwhere in the
-oiaie. wruers solicited and promptly filled
A Great Book.
I know a splendid book to which
All books are nothing found,
Whose like hath written never pen
In all the earthly round.
Its letters beautiful and clear,
Engravings choice and line,
"With new edition every year,
A gem iu every line.
'Tis teeming with exhaustless lore
Unfolding in each page
Gathered from every tea and shore,
From every clime and age.
In grandest themes it is most grand,
And grand in trifles, too,
Each star, and flower, and sky, and land,
Delineating true.
To me its pages every hour
So fresh, delightful, true,
Have given a cheering strength and power
Through all, to bear and do.
This book is bound in blue and gold;
Its leaves are gold-edged, too;
The book is Nature fair, behold!
Its cover, lleaveu's own blue.
Lyiha Millard.
Leaving- the Old Home.
I saw the gray-haired deacon go
From his home, to return no more;
I wondered if that oak could grow
Torn from its roots, and planted o'er
Far from the spot where fifty years
Had bhed their kindly smiles and tears.
I fancied him as once he etood
Upon these hills a pioneer,
And broke the silence of the woods
With ringing stroke and halloo clear;
Then fast his little home grew there,
And found a tenant young and fair.
And children came that home to bless;
Green graves are on the hillside set
His children's birth and burial place
How can that father's heart forget.
.ud she who all his toils did share,
The fair young wife is sleeping there.
For fifty years! For fiftj- years!
Ah, He who made the human heart,
Knows all the mingled hopes and fears
That clustered round, and made a part
Of that old home; no other spot
Can be his 7iome, now that is not,
Geo. Wohster.
The Hell at St. John's.
In a huge ami smoky foundry close by
the wharves iu the town of li , ;i gang
of workmen were getting reaily to cast
the largest bell T t:ie St. John's Cathe
dral chime. Only an hour more, m.d
they would let the glariiM', Imbliliiu
metal ilo.v l"rm the huge fji ua. o into the
mold which wi'i buried decnia the. black
eaitli cio-e by.
It was just at evening, nml in the gath
ering twilight the lurid blue flames that
burst from the top of the tall chimney
Hashed unearthly gleams upon the neigh
boring windows and house-tops.
The scene within the louudry was
weird and almost awful. Th swarthy
forms of the workmen, partly lighted by
the yellow glare, moved about like Tar
tarian shitd'js, and the sooty beams and
ponderous chains crossing half black,
lialf golden, under the globing roof, re
called the engines of the Cyclops under
Mt. .Etna.
The town clock struck six. It was
time for supper. All the men threw
down their tool, and ran and put on
their outer clothing.
'He back in half an hour sharp'.'" cried
the foremaster. "We thall make the
cast at a quarter to seven."
"All right, sir '." cried the men in re
sponse. "I hear some of the town folks are com
ing down to see the work," said one.
"Yes," said another, "and it'll be
something to open their eyes. There was
never such a bell cast in the whole state
as this one will be."
Iu a moment more only one workman
and the master were left in the foundry.
The former was to stay and watc h the
"blast." He had brought a d -utile al
lowance of dinner, and he would make a
supper on w hat remained.
"Perhaps we can get the 'Inventor' to
stay with you, George," said the master,
laughingly, as he prepared to go.
"Yes, w here is he V returned the man
iu the same jesting tone.
"He's been round the works long
enough to know when anything goes
wrong. Hollo ! Hollo ! I say ! "Where's
the Inventor? Come here. Ah, there he
is!" And in silent answer to the sum
mons, a sin ck-haired fellow, with large
gray eyes, and a pa!c, vacant face, ap
pealed I"r. m behind a pile of castings.
He had on his back a gray shirt, much
soiled with dust, and he wore a pair of
huge pantaloons, held up by a single sus
pender. "Well, Mopu?" quoth the man George,
slapi)in: him rather roujrhlv on the
shoulder; "suppose you've got wit enough
to help yell it anything s the matter!
I he young ieliow looked stupidly
iiround and nodded his head.
"Then sit here and look at that furnace,
and don't take your eyes If."
1 lie poor lad smiled, and meekly did
ts he was ordered just as an obedient
log would have 1 dd down U watch his
owner s c-at.
A queer fellow was this "Modus:"' stu
ciinugii iu ordinary things to need a
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world ot watching, but withal wonder
iuiiy ht to watch a turn ace. lie knew all
the working of a foundry, by what seemed
a sort ot brute instinct, though really his
s. range sagacity in this was a remnant of
a once bright mind.
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hi j iinu nappenm, or went in an
unusual way, he would always notice it.
aim -ay w hat ought to Ikj done, thou
he could not tel', perhaps, why it ought
u ic uoiie.
Two years before he had been an in
temgent, piomising lad. He was the son
of a designer connected with the foundry
company, and had always been allows
free access to the shos,nnd to minn-:e with
the men aim at -n iiu ir w ork. Hat one
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nay yiiiii nai .g caani on Ke With its
load.ar.datiiron trugment struck him on the
head, iutlicting a serious inj.iry. From
thii he partially recovered, and only par
tially, for his reason was impaired. But
his natural love for machinery and me
chanical experiments remained, and as he
regained his bodily strength, he spent
most of his time making small wheels
and shafts, and putting together odd con
trivances, which lie would exhibit with j
immense 2ride and satisfaction.
This peculiar 'trait in the young fel
low g lined for him the humorous title of
the "Inventor." All the men felt a great
kindness for him, even though their man
ner toward hint was occasionally harsh
and impatient.
Such was the person left to help watch
the great blast for the casting of the king
hell of the chime of St. John's. Fiith
i'ullyhe kept his place bi fore the furnace,
vhile the man Gourde satiUwj -.t a little
distance and began to eat his supper.
Doubtless the latter intended to keep a
general oversight, but he certainly made
the inventor's eyes do most of the
looking. Whether he felt a kind of reck
less trust in the instinct of his half-witted
companion, or indolently concluded
that nothing wrong could happen, he w as
sadly to blame for charging himself so
little with the important duty before him.
Not a word was said by either watcher,
and only the deep roar of the furnace w as
heard through the vast foundry.
George liaished his supper and saun
tered out into one of the too shops to find
his pipe. "Invent ir" sat alone before
the great blast. The one rational faculty
of his feeble mind enabled him to com
prehend wlu:t it nvjant, and even some
thing of the magnitude of the eute prise
that was ripening inside those burning
walls. He knew that the furnace was full
of valuable metal, and that close beside
him, buried out of sight iu the deep sand,
was the image mold so soon to be tilled
with the precious casrt. He knew and
could see that all the channels for the
flow of the liery liqijjd was ready, and
that near the mouth of the furnace stood
the long iron rod that was to be used
when the m imeut came to let on the
molten stream.
All this his limited thoughts took in
by habit. Dimly conscious that some
thing great was soon to be d ine, he sat
with his eyes on the furnace absorbed
and intent.
Suddenly some tiling startled him.
There was a slight noise and a burning
crack appeared ucar the top of tlx; fur
nace. Tiica another ct ack, and a scorch
ing brick fell out and rolled to the
ground at his feet.
The lad opened his mouth to shriek,
hut so terrified Was lie that the sounds
.--tuck in his throat, as if he ha 1 been iu
a tit of liiht-mare.
A thin red stream followed the fal let!
brick, and trickled down the furnace
side like running laa. Tiien came
another alarming noise, and a thin gap
halfway down the masonry let out more
of the hissing metal.
Where was George? Was the unfaith
ful fellow still hunting for his pipes Tne
furnace was bursting, with only a poor,
half idiot lad to guard it I
What could he do? He did, perhaps,
hat a lad in his right mind would not
ive dared to do. It ashing to the mouth
of the furnace, he seized the long iron
od that stood near, and tapped the vent.
One desperate thrust with a sharp point
up the terrible funnel a few quick, pry
ing strokes I btaud back, now. I lie
coufiuing clay fell away, and the yellow
white Hood spurted out with resistless
force. It leaped into the clay-Iiued
troughs and hissed its flaming way down
to the mouth of the bell mold.
The "fool" had done a deed worthy of
a geneial on afield of battle.
V as it too late f i-very moment new
Kssures opened in the doomed furnace.
Some of the upper stones toppled over.
Still the metal poured out into the mould.
Bat the waste was great trom these gap
ing flaw's. The pressure was relieved by
the open vent, but the leaks multiplied
continually. It was art running a race
with i urn.
For "Mopus" stood powerless before
the coming catastrophe. His knees
knocked together and his head swam. A
great heap of red hot bricks at d rubbi.i
tell at his feet, lie had barely thought
to get out ot the way and save bis life.
He heard a wild shout ot human voice
in the distance, then an awful roar behind
him, and he saw and felt himself pursued
by surges ot seething lire. Sharp, bh;
lering jiains pierced his ikish at u hundred
points. I lie rest was all a horrible tiuin-
telligib'e dream. It was as if he had sud
denly sink into the earth and had been
swillowed up forever.
By seven clock comparative quiet was
reigning again on inj scene ot tne disa
ter. It. uns lav everywhere. 1 he engines
had quenched the 11 lines that ha 1 caught
the building, and the men, blackened
with smoke, stood in silentgroupsaround
the remains of the luruace. It had lalien
to pieces and nothing was left but heaps
of steaming rubbish
Poor "Inveutor," who had been found
with the tapping-rod iu his hands, lying
n his face in the sand, lrighttully
burned, had been carried to Ins home.
Little was said, but t lie lew words
spoken uttered with no mild emphasis
the natural wrath ot the master and hands
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a-'ainst tne man cjreorge, wnose excuses
for himself only exaggerated his offence
'See what he s doue, said they, a lew-
days later, as they stood in the half burned
foundry, "rive thousand dollars gone to
waste in a minute! The bet job in
twenty years spoiled. The rascal to go
hunting lor his pipe and leave that stut
terinr idiot to watch! Is that all he can
say for himself? Out with such careless
ness! Why, the boy didn't even know
enouoli to bawl out when he must have
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seen the furnace tumbling to pieces
The master, who had more at slake than
ttiH mi-n. of course felt the loss more
-ft-nlu than tliPff. He almost wept with
mill"- led riefaud ratre. Suddenly some
thiny oeculiar caught his eye among the
debris, and he ciied in a startled voice:
"II..I!..! Wlnt's this? What's this?"
Tr,. .,-, ...!.. ,,l mi si frarrment of one of
k p.,,rii- vi hi, h had lei from the foun
.i?.. nud.l There were traces of
hi'uii7( still ruiininir m -t
tuc putaui VI n
Then the pos-ible meaning of the iron
found in the injured boy's hand flashed
upon him.
"Bring me a shovel, qu lie thoy ted.
A spade was put into nds, aa-' he
begau nervously to hea- ' ay the hot
mass that lay pile 1 ov t bell moid.
It was a herculean ta?k ;- .t he worked
like a giant, and three qNi-'ar of his men
took hold and hc-In
1 helped L..'.'t
Brickbats, ore,
slag ashes flew in 1
every direction. PiescH the master's
spa le penetrated the s:j. 1 d he touched
something hard. IIV j oied do.vH.
Then he leaped up like
half frantic.
and plying his spade v.Vd redoubled eti
ergy, tore away the re;. a;J ng SiU,d, disc-losing
what looked 1 "e a yrcl metallic
ring. - ' .
"3Ien," he cried of lU- 'rr his flashed
face, "ihe bell is c i . '
Wi.o did thi-r vy ,-x.-Hr-.
voice, as sor.n as the cheering c. .ed away.
"dune with me, two or three of you!"
cried the master. "I think I know who
did it. It's a miracle!"'
They hurried away to the home of the
half-witted boy. The attendant met them
with her finger on her lips.
"The poor boy is iu brain fever," she
said.
"Does he say anythinginhis delirium?"
whispered the master.
"Oil, yes, he raves all the time about
the big bell mold. I hopj it will All I
hope it will All," he says.
The meu exchanged glances. It was
indeed true. Tne idiot had cast the gu ar
bell of St. John's. Just then the physi
cian came out. "Perhaps he may r cover
his re ison by this shock and sickness,"
he said. "S ich .things have happened."
"Do you think so? Pray he iven he
may: solemnly ej tculated the lna-ter
and his men:
deeply moved.
and they turned away
Tw o months 'ater the great bell hung
from a huge derrick in the lathe room ot
the factory, and beneath it stood a heavy
truck upon which it was a'out to be low
ered. A silence fell upon the gro ip of
workmen as. the pale f ice and feeble
10:11101 "inveutor - appeared, norue in a
mall reclining chair. He had recovered
his reason, and w as fa-t getting back his
tretigth. His large gray eves i.istantlv
fastened themsnlves on the bell, that ex
cellent master- it-ce, whose makingmeant
so much to lain, llicvhad told hi in the
whole story of tlie casting, and the dis
aster in the foundry. !ut n a!l sounded
like a wild romance t him.
I remember nothing that h ip icnel,"
aid he, shaking his head w ith a smile.
"Ii's all new to me, all new aud strange
so strange !"
"Vcs," said the m ister, devoutly. "It
w'iss U d hand.
Every eye turned ' up m the inva'i 1.
me of the men felt almost afiid l, it
was so much like a resurrection t have
him there am mg them, th boy they had
known so hmg umu-r. ltte I, now a young'
man, keen and intuiiigeut, as if changed
into another b- ing.
I should liktj to strike the bell once:"
two men lifted him up and placed a small
lamnier in his hand.
lie struck one gentle blow. A deep.
sweet, mournful tone, solemn as the sound
of distant waterfalls, rolled from ihe
great bell and echoed through the great
foundry. lears filled the eyes of the
rough men as they heard it.
Ah," said the master, here's a halle
luiah iu that, aud it may well begin here.
L -ng may this bell praise God! He saved
it in the rums ot the luruace by one wise
thought in the ruins of a human brain.
Our furnace is rebuilt, and behold, this
dear boy lias his leisor. again! Tne bell
aud the boy shall glorify God together."
"Amen! ' murmured the listeners.
Then the great bell was lowered, and
as the truck was rolled away with its
melodious burden, the boy was lifted aud
carried after it, and both went out into
the sunny day tegether. the rough men
standing iu the doorways waving their
hands.
"Little Invent. r" afterward well proved
his claim to the title so lightly given him
in l.is uiif ntunate boyhood. His name
is now read oifm iny a bill, who?e match
less richness ot tone hi-i genius and skill
in metals alone created. Rufm Sargent.
The Proposed Conversion of the Sa
hara Desert Into a Sea.
The proposed piercing of the Ithmus
of Suez, and the scheme of reconverting
the Sahara into a sea, has induced Dr.
Rcclani, the well known advocate of cre
mation, to write a warning arti -le in his
periodical, called CriS'indheil ('ilea tli. )
lie i nuts to a remarkable change in the
clima'e of the lories S:nits, between
iistaii and New Guinea, which, in
18(J(J. were only beset by twenty ix coral
is.ai.ds now acguinentcd to one hundred
ami sixty. Tin; gr.id nil deviation of a
warm c.irrent of sea water, vving to this
successive stopping up ot the 1 ures pas
sage, has already wrought a great altera
li n of the dim ite iu those quarters.
Dr. Keclam apprehends a similar d in
ger for ihe European, ami specially the
German, climate fr m the deviation of the
Gulf Stream after the piercing ot the
Isthmus of Suez. He says Europe owes
its moderate climate partly to th-j warm
w ater heiting by the Gulf Stn am, partly
to the hot air heating by the wind from
the African Desert. 1 h it hot wind.know n
iu Switzerland as the F -hn, is a snow
devourer aud glacier-de-troyer. Willi ut
it the sun and the summer would not
suffice to stop the progress of glacier
formation.
The ice-period of Europe explains it
self by assuming that tne Sahara was
then covered with sea-watcr. 1 hat lce-
peViod would return if the Desert were j
reconveitcd into a lake. Dr. Recl.am,
who is a friend of tire, has decidedly an
objectioa to the extension of the domain
of water.
Old and New Style. Wh it a poetic
al way the ancients had of putting things!
We read in their pages that "Lycurgus,
King of the E 1 ones iu Thrace, refused to
worship Bacchus, in consequence of
which the god visited him with madness."
Now, in our day, the jilTiir would read,
"Lycnrgus, King, etc., refused to drink
any m re whisky, and, in consequence,
had the delirium tremens. '
Be more prompt to go to a friend in
adversity than iu prosperity.
I- a Taint JIulc a Horse?
Nothing is more remirkable than the
facility with which thf colored popula
tion become acquainted with the forms
of law, and the practical management of
a case in court. There was a striking il-
lustration of this fact iu the Recorder's
Court the other morning.
Tiie pri-oner was accused of riding
across one of the bridges at a gait faster
than a walk, and the proof was that he
galloped a paint mule over Houston
street bridge. He managed his own case.
His honor sai l : "I think I'll have to
line you, Johnsifcg."
"May I ax a few questions?"
"You may."
"T-n't tleir k si-.i rv-r lt bridcf-,
people' how i.v.y in c-'lo V
"Th'.-i e is, and that m ikei you all the
m re guilty."
It does, does it? Now, Mr. R eorder,
is dat sign what I has to go by? Is dat
de law?"
"It is."
"Well, den, dat sign reads, 'Walk
your lor.-e or 3011 will he lined. Uou t
it dou t it, boss?"
"It does, Johnsing."
"Well, de proof is, I was gallopiu' a
paint mule, wasn't it, boss?"
"Yes, I believe so," replied his Honor,
beginning to smell a rat.
"Now, if your Honoris wiltin' to admit
dat a paint mule ain't n hoss, I'll rest tie
case, b( c mse you see de law is I shall
walk my boss, and as it was a p unt mule,
dat is fatal in de indictment. You is a
lawyer, and you ought to know de points
1110-t as well as myself."
It;Corder "Ahem! for the purpose of
tins suit I II regard that paint mule as a
hoie."
Prisoner ''Your Honor will please note
my 'ceptiou. I jess wants to make one
in. ire p. iut. Aliowin', fr de sake of
argument, dat a paint mule is a boss, de
sign reads: 'Walk your boss.' Now, I
has de witnesses here iu court to prove
dat paint mule boss was not my hoss at
all. De. law say walk your hoss."
11 icorder-'Tll flid you $10, Jo!in,ing."
And as Johnsing was conducted to the
lockup he expressed great sympathy for
the taxpayer-, as he intended to biing a
suit for $100,000 damages for false ini-
pi lsonmeiit.
lie is now, however, at work on the
street. 6'uvi Antonio Tcxus) Herald.
The Capital of Chili.
The fabled city in the heatt of Africa,
wh'se silver roofs and palm-borJeie 1
t-u races Dr. Mayo set gravely before u
thirty years ng in his famous romance
Kuloolah, is hardly more attractive to the
imagination than is the Veritable, actu d
capital of C'.ii.i, ninety miles inlw.d,
bu.lt upon a vast plain, under the lower
ing and invinciole shelter of the snow
capped Andes, wiiose Cordilleras, licii
with the treasures which Humb-ddt cata
logued, rise in grand gradations from the
plateau, aud help the sun to make for
Santiago, with the assistance of the dis
tant ocean, a climate as perfect as any iu
the world. Siuliago is an expensive
place aud luxurious, the desire of the
Chilian heart is towards her, and she is
the tic. iglit of his eyes, wish her broad
thoroughfares, her stately dwellings, her
grand promeuades. Ea-c aud exclusive
ness are her characteria: ics ; the old
Spanish orthodoxy dwells there, also
elegance and sprihtlitiCis purely French.
Sautiago is as well beloved, as caiefally
tended, as trimly dressed, as Paris itself;
aud the beautiful Chilian ladies tread its
pavements in the latest Parisian attire,
or drive through its broad streets, by
lines of Parisian-seeming hotels, aud
convents with white gleaming walls, in
carriages w hich might do for the muster
i i the Bois. And they c iu look up at
the Andes, and in the sultry non day
quiet the great birds may go sai irig by
ou their way to the S mth Pacific. A
splendid, ambitious city, with a memory
of a horrible disaster hanging about it;
with a Maelstrom-iike tendency to attract
and engulf fortunes and lives; with con
trasts of wealth and poverty as dreadful
as those we can see any day in London;
a city which is a triumph n i a snare, a
gr at monument to the "irabaj y cor
dura," or work and shrewd sense, w hich
have made Ciiili what that praiseworthy
Republic is; but a city which would do
well to consider its extravagant ways,
and I e wise, after the example of Val-
pa;ano. I lie sea-board city is growing
steadily in prosperity, fivm thrift as well
as toil. The Sptcttivr.
Thk New Old Ikonsides The frig
ate CoiiHtitutioH, belter known as the
"O d Irons d s,'" which is now being re-
b li t at the bi;yard of Messrs. Wood,
Di .logne & C ., at Kiigiin'a Point, is to
be filtc d up a school ship fr nav d ap
prentices. Commander Henry A. A lams,
now of the receiving-ship Pulumac, will
be in command, and L e iteiiant Com
mander Neilds w ill be executive officer
A full compliment of men are now beirg
shipped lor a term ot one year, tor tin
purpose of manning the ve-s 1 ad put
ting her iu order for sea. Il.retoiore
bovs who were shipped at tins port as
naval apprentice's were sent to the Min
nesota at New York, but hereafter they
will go ab iard the Contlitution, where
they will be tau ght se ml a i?hip a id taken
on short cruises to prepare them for duty
as seamen. Philadelphia Ledger.
"Assault wiui intent to kiss is an
offence under the laws of Pennsylvania
An aged house-owner who was mover
by the prayers and tears of a tenant's
wife for delay ii respect to rent to pa'
ting her on the shoulder and kissing her,
has been arrested for the olfeuce named
and held to bail. A. suit lot; damages 13
also to be commenced, the judgment to
offset the lent. Tncre are a great many
tenants this cold weather who could be
induced to liquidate their rent account
in a similar way if their landlords were
very old and unmistakably gr.audfathcrly
rw 1 . T - a
I uet nave introduced a new sport in
iNew lirunswicK. i trained moose is
trotting there in public with great sue
cess. A few days ago he ma lea half
mile in 1:10, and he is matched to make
his miia in 2:20.
Amorican
Officers in
Annv.
the Egyptian
LTnder Jiohaiiimed AH and Ibrahim,
the Egyptian army attained a compara
tively high dcgiec of elliciency, as is
proved by the campaigns of the Morea
and Syria. Tne Khedive has do ie much
toward increasing this elliciency and has
cal'ed into his sen ice several American
ollicers :u place of the Europeans for
merly -n -ployed. This was, no doubt,
mainly be. aiise of the improbability of
our coiidtry ever takingpirt in European
general wars, so that he c oild count upon
Americans t mding by biin iu any c m
p.ic lion; w hile European officers might
at any m niieut be ordered away by their
governments iu thecve-t of war, and at
the fume tiuio car"" ' . ';!-
edge valuable to his en:mi.'' Hit -se i:e
cers are employed chiefly as topographi
cal engineers ou surveys and explorations,
being seldom on duty with troops. They
have beeu engagi d in extensive explora
tions, having military, scientific, aud com
mercial purposes i a view. Most of ihem
have clone t neir work well, and the Khe
dive told me that he was much pleased
with them, aud ih siiel more in his ser
vice. Bui I wouM by no means advise
any one doing well at home to accept a
c mmission iu the Egyptian service. Two
large parties under American oili:-e; S are
uw exploring D d lour, a tedious and
d ihcult task. Toeic we.e others in the
Sou Ian, with the English General G irdon,
an offieer of whom all spoke in the hill
est terms as a man of great ability, ener
gy, courage, and honesty. Whether the
ad vant iges resulting from tht conquest
of Darfour and the Soudan will be com
mensurate with the cost rem lins to be
seen.
In the recent Abyssinian .campaign,
most of the American officers were with
the active army, and there is goo i reason
to believe fiat, had the Egyptian com
mander, Hitch Pasha, fdlowed their
counsels, his miserable tia.-co would have
been converted hit a brilliant success.
Tney did their duty g tll iutiy and loyal
ly, aud deserved a better comm. mder.
As an instance of w hat has been done,
and the Iv'iedi ve'd manner of doing it, I
will repeat a statement made to me by the
olli coticerne 1.
When this otlieer had been some months
in Eg.pt, the Khedive sent for h;m one
day, and asked what was the worst thing
he had observed in regd'd to the army.
He replied tint it was ih t the regiments
w ere conimaude 1 by civilians. Tue Khe
dive said :
"No, there is a colonel for every regi
imnt." "Yes," sal 1 the American, "but each
colonel, chief of battalion, andca tiiu,
has a civilian clerk, who contro's every
thing relating to the pay, rations, and
clothing of tli- men, aud whoever does
that leady commands."
"You are right,1' said the Khedive;
"but how wouldtyou c nreet this?"
"By requiring that the colonels should
have sergeants as their clerks; the chiefs
of battalions, corporals; the c iptaius,
private; soldiers; and also requiring that
the ollicers should supervise, and do much
of the real work themselves."
"Tnat me ins that the at my should learn
reading, writing, aud aiithmeticP
"Tnat is exactly what I was coming at,
Your Highness."
The Khedive reflected for a moment.
mil then at once wro'e an order to the
Minister i f War, requiring that, from
that moment, uopers n in th-; army (eith
er officer or sold er, should be promoted
until he was master 1 leading, wining,
and arithmetic. The consequence was,
that the whole army immediately became
1 school. Besides the regimental sell ols,
there have been established a military
school for the education of officers, and
pecial schools for non-commissioned offi
cers of all arms, for the staff corps, for the
engineers and artillery, and for the caval
ry and infantry. General McClellan, in
Scribner.
Composing and Dictating".
It is reported that G. P. R. Jame, a
voluminous novelist quite popular twenty-live
years ago, used to compose two
novels at the same time. His habit was
to dictate while walking up and d wn a
long room, at each end of w hich sat an
amanueusis. Alex iihier 1) Unas would
cairy on several works of fiction, but then
he O dv outlined the blot and scenes, and
left the "stuffing" to be tilled in by liter
ary liucks, wlO'.n he employed n.s journey -
men. li.-v. i. starr iing, an eloquent
clergyman ot i st -n and San I ra; Cisco
was in the habit of die t ding his sermons
Sometimes, when in tiie in od of compo-
ltion he would dictate scrm n after st r-
m u for several days in suco-cj-si-'ii. Too
snpply would allow him to attend to other
matters, until live last one was preached,
when he would resume his dictation.
Mr. Canning, an English pi im, -minis
icr, couio not near to dictate, because no
one could wntj as fat as he composed.
Me was himself a very rapid w liter, but
his mind wo dd c mipo-e with precision
much more rapiiLy than he could commit
his ideas to paper. On one occasion.
however, when he had the g- ut in his
hand and c uild not write, he t od by the
hre. and d.ctated at the same time a di
patch on Greek a (fairs to one clerk, and
one on South American politics to another.
Each clerk wrote as fast as he could,
w hile Mr. Canning turned" from one to the
other without hesitation.
It is quite common, in these days, for
bankers and merchants having a large
correspondence requiring their personal
atteution, to employ a phouographer, who
takes down their words, or rather diiec
tions, and from these writes out replie ,
which the employer corrects or approves.
"From the time the first log was cut
for the first house," says the Black Hills
Pioneer, "the growth of Dead wood has
been almost marvelous. Only five months
ago the t wn site was a perfect wilderness
of pine tres?. To-day our city contains
over 3,000 people, stretching along Dead
wood and "White wood for more than a
mile. We have nearly two hundred busi
ness houses, a municipal government, a
mayor, board of aldeimen, police and all
other officers necessary for the adminis
tration of justice."
The Aquarium Whale.
The expected whale has arrived at the
Aquarium on Thirty-fifth street, after a
week's journey from the St. Lawrence to
Q le'oec by sehoouer, and thence to this
city by rail. He is white, fiisky and
weighs 1,500 pounds. And his capture
was in this wise: Early in June, Mr.
Coup and his party went to St. Paul's
bay and drove down piles on the shore
so as to make a large enclosure, with a
narrow eutrauce, iu the region where the
whales come up to calve. The tide there
is sixty feet, and at high water the terns
of piles are out of sight thiity feet below
hi surface of the sea. It was two
in mills, however, before a whale ac
cepted the iuvitation extended to bis
it-; t .i-.-dt-nfMod his fool'h C'-i-seinin
;.c captivity prcpHivlVb ,liis t-. A''
soon as his "blowing"' revealed his pres
ence where he was wanted, two small
boats hurried to tlr; entrance of the en
closure, aud stared there until the tide
receded and left the captuied animal
hopeless on his belly in eighteen inches
of water. He was trapped at last, but
too chagrined, probably, to give expres
sion to his em itions as he felt the rope
ladied around his tail to keep him from
"flopping," ami found himself rolled over
and over into the" D ix which his enemies
had floated int t ie encl sure from their
schooner. Wnen the water begin to rise
again the scho mer itself was brought in,
and, by the help of a derrick, the box
and ils contents were hoisted successfully
ou board. There t ie animal lay packed
carefully in seaweed, the r of of the box
I cing i e moved in order to secure for him
plenty of air. Tuere he stayed, with a
mau constantly by his side to keep his
"blow-h le" wet, els? he could have re
venged himself by diug; and when the
ve.-sid. reached Quebec the express Com
pany and the r.iilioids took charge of
him a faithful attendant still remaining
to dampen assiduously the all-important
"blow hide." Ou arriving in this city
the derrick again was called into requisi
tion; the heavy box was transferred to a
dray, and. thence to the largecentr.il tank
of the Aq-lali am.
No sooner did the coverless box sink
to the bottom of the tank than the wh de,
again in his native element, t-tretched
himself and swam out ami up to the sur
face. It was his first Mvim in seven
days. And all that time he h id fasteJ,
also. He is sti.l too excited to eat any
thing, his nourishment beirg derived
from the blubber. But when his feel
ings cod down a little he will doubtless
consume the bushel aud a half of live
little eels which his keeper will daily
offer him. Every day, too, four large
hogshe ids of sea water, each containing
six huu lr-d gallons, will be brought to
his tnhk f "in the E ist river. His per
son tl habits and r quirem nits are such
as to render expedient a change of water
every twenty-four hours; but it would
not do to Jet all the water out at a time;
lie would fl .under violently and hurt
him-elf, so only one-half of the content-.
of ids tank gets changed daily. He took
to the water quite naturally again, swim
ming all the time never still an instant.
I'he school-children s geographies some
times represent him with Ins hea I ten
feet out of water, and "spouting" pro
fusely; but he never reaches up so high,
and he never really spouts. Iu the ocean
In; c nnes j ist up to the surface every feiv
minutes iu order to breathe; but as he
sometimes unintentionally does not get
high enough, but strikes the top of a sei,
he is forced to "blow" the air from his
lungs through the water, which gives
li i in the appearance of "spouting." In
the Aquarium tank, however, he never
presents the phenomenon of spouting; ho
comes to the suiface every little while,
exhales, inhales, and then goes down.
About two inches below the upper end of
his blow-hole there is a clapper like a
p im p-valve "The nicest little thing you
ever saw,"" says Professor Butler; when
he comes up to exhale, he opens it; as
soon as he has inhaled lie shuts it, and
the blow-hole is water-tight. Beneath
the valve are two opening", one leading
to the right lung aud the other to the
left lung; hence, when he blows under
water be blows two streams.
Whether this lively white whale will,
live long er not is somewhat doubtful.
His perils are five in number. In the
first ph.c, he is liable to injure himself
against the columns in the tides of the
tank. These columns, however, are
lined with sponges, aud the rest of the
side s consists of pi ite glass ai.d Portlai d
cement, which makts .tsuifiee as smooth
as a marble tablet. Next, any impurity
of the wafer will speedily t-how its ef
fects. Thirdlj, too tniicli warmth of
water will injure the aniti"'- li:a
are found only in c del regions. The
temperature must b; kept at least umier
f.uiy degrees. Then, too, as his lungs
are like th i-e of a land animal, the at
mosphere of the Aq iariuiii must be at
tended to. Professor B itler has aire id
captured two w hales w hic.h died of p il
moiiaiy c insJiiipiioii. Tnerefore, venti
lation must i.ot be neglected. A: d
finally, as the animal is too epicurean in
his taste t like dead fish, each particu
lar eel in his diurnal buhel and a half
must be alive aud squirming. 2f. Y.
Eceninfj Pu&t.
A max wa sawing wool yesterday
afternoon in a back yard. He severed
two sticks as thick as your wrist, and
then went into ti e house. "Mai y," said
he to his wife, "my country needs me;
there's no use talking, we just go to
slaughter all these Injuns; no true pa
triot cm be expected to hang around a
woodpile these days."
"John," said his wife, "if you fight In
juns as well as you saw wood aud sup
port your family, it would take one hun
dred and eighteen like you to capture
one squaw, and you'd have to catch her
when the had the ague and throw pepper
in her eyes."
John went back to the woodpile, won
dering who told his wife all about him.
Is the next Presidential campaign the
politicians will be cartful who they put
on as Presidential, electors. Several are
now repotted disqualified to holding of
fice under government. Ex.
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