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Newspaper Page Text. . " c- wltrilrtllrf rd DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. VOL. 111. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1877. NO. 2. - o r THE ENTERPHISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR T H K I'ariuer, Uu.iuru Man an. I family Circle ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY, PROt'EIKTOR AND PUBLISHKK. OiEulal Paper for Clackamas County. Office: lu Kuteririe Iliiliain-, door Soutli of Jtlasontc Building, Main Street. Trriu of .Subscription biugie copy, one year, in advance $ 50 Single Copy, nix monthB, in advance ! 1 go IVrua of AlvrrtUiii: Transient advertisements, including all legal notices, per square of twelve lines, out week $ 2 50 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 One Column, one year 120 00 Half Column, one year . 60 00 q Viuarter Column, one year 40 00 Business Card, one square, one year l'i 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON LODGE, No. 3, Meet every Thursday Evening, at fc 7 K o'clock, in Odd Fellows' Hall. jTx Main Street. Members of the OrderiJNf kra invited to attend. By ordwr of X. O. REBECCA DEGREE LODGE, No. 2 I. O. O. F., meets on the Second and "ST' Fourth Tuesday Evenings of each month f i V I at ".it o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall.' J I V9 Members of the Degree are invited t-i'1 attend. FALLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4, i. j. j. r ., meei at oaa Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs iu good standing are invited to auena. MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1, A. F. Jt A. M.. holds its regular oomuiuni- o cations on the First and Third Saturdays j In each month, at 7 o'clock from the 20th"iv' M of September to the 20th of March and V( 7 o'clock from the 20th of March to the V SOth of September. Brethren in good staudin are Invited to attend. By order of W. 31. BUSINESS CARDS. WARREN N. DAVIS, M. D., Physician am! Surgeon, oraJuateof the t'ni versity of Pennsylvania. OrricE at Cliff Horse. CHARLES KNIGHT, CAN BY, OI1EOOX, Ih sioian aiil l)vugglii. sVPrea.-rlptions carefully filled at short notice J7-tf PAUL BOYCE, TI.dT, K'liyMieiaii am! Surgoia. Oheoon Crrv, Okkuos. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Woiutn sad Ctulflren a specialty. n?5f,,HUrB Jy ami "'tflit: always ready when amy calls. aun5, '76-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, DKX T I S T . OFFICE IN OREGON CITY OREGON'. Hlghebt cih price paid for County Orders. JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW OREGON CITY, OREGON. Jill practice in all the Courts of the Stato. si..- 1 V'9nUou Blven to rases iu the I'nited iitUn,l Office at Oregon City. Japr'7J-tf L. T. BARIN, ATTOUXKY AT J. AW, OREGON CITY. OREGON. W HI practice In all the Courts of the State, novl. '75-tf W. H. HIGHFIELD, ktnblls'hetl slnee -H. One door North of Pope's Hall, ST., OUKOoji CITY, OKEUOV. 8e7h Trtmfn,f. of Jewelry, andf"? ar.wLf," ?Vligbt Clock9- n of which fejV tr-I to,b8 represented. 'K8ar on 8iiort uoticei aud tbauktui 'w'il or Coutity Orden. JOHNlvT BACON, DV.1LKR j y BOOKS, STATIOMRY.iP PIOTTRE FRAMES, M01XDING3 AND MISCEL LANEOUS GOODS. 'HAyii:. .i a ii: to oaitr.i:. Oeeoon Citt. Oregon. V-At the Post Office. Main Street, wt side. . . novl, '75-tf J. R. GOLDSMITH, Collector and Solicitor. PORTLAND. OREGON;. CC7Iie8t of referencea given. di-i;25-'77 HARDWARE, IRON AND STEEL, Hubs, Spokes, Sliniv, OAIC, ASH AND HICKORY PLANK. XOKTlini l" .V THO.MI'KOX, mar31,'76-tf rortUnd, Orcg.m. J. H. SHEPARD. BOOT AX SHOESTOliK, One door North of Ackerman Bros. aBoots and Shoes made and repaired as cheap aa the cheapest. novl, 76-tf MILLER, CHURCH & CO. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR WHEAT At all times, at the OREGON CITY MILLS, And have on hand FEED and FLOCK to sell, at markfct rates. Parties desiring Feed must furnish aacka. novl-' tf A. C. WALLING'S IMoiieer ISooIc Biiulerv rlttock'g Building, cor. of Stark and Front Sts., O I'ORTLA0, UREUOX. BLANK BOOKS BCXED AND BOOT TO ANT desired pattern. GMusic Bocs, Magazines, i lPPrs. etc.. bound In very variety of style u to thatrade. Orders from the country. Pmptly atteivJed to. . novl, 75-tf O- OREGON CITY BREWERY. wuui iPrchlu,d the above Brewery TU'orm the Public that thev areCS Spared to manufact. a Xo. 1 : aow O ilty ooda?fTnvLAGER BEER. aTwT? . 0Dtind anywhere In the State. WU1 ni promptly filled.' i. o. o. r. MOTJIEItVS HEART. A little dreaming, such as mothers know; A little lingering over dainty things; A happy heart, wherein hope all aglow Stirs like a bird at dawn that wakes aud kings And that is all. A little clasping to her yearning breast ; A little niusing over future years ; ' A heart that prays, Dear Lord, thou kno west best, But spare my flower life's bitterest rain of tears " And that is all. A little spirit speeding through the night; A little home grown lonely, dark and chill ; A sad heart, groping blindly for the light ; A little snow-clad grave beneath the hill And that Is all. A little gathering of life's broken thread; A little patience keeping back the tears': A heart that sings, ' Thy darling is not diad, (iod keeps her safe through His eternal years " And that is all. DOT BAI1V OFF MIXE. Miue cracious ! mine cracious ! shnst look hero und see A Deutscher so habuy as habby can pe, Der peobles all dink dat no brains I haf got, Vas grazy mit tinking, or someding like dot Id vasn't pecause I trinks lager und vine. Id vas all on aggount oil" dot baby off mine. Dot schmall leedle vellow I dells you vas queer Not mooch pigger roundt as a goot glass of beer! Mit a bare footed bed, und nose but a schpeck, A moitt dot goes most to der pack off his neck, 1'nd his leedle pink toes mit der rest all combine To git'e sooch a charm to dot baby off mine. I dells you dot baby vas von off der DOys, I'ud beats leedle Yowcob for making a noise; He shust has pecun to shpeak goot English, too. Says mamma," und "bapa," und somedimes "ah Zoo !" You dou'd find a baby den dimes oud off nine Dot vos quite so schmart as dot baby off mine. He grawls der vloor ofer. und drows dings abondt, I nd puts efryding he can find in his mout; He durables der shtairs down, und falls from his chair, Vnd gifes mine Katrina von derrible schare; Mine hair shtands like squills on a mat borcubine Yen I dinks of dose branks off dot baby off mine. ' Dere vas someding, you pet, I don't Hies pooty veil; To hear in tier night dimes dot young Deutscher yell, I'nd dravel der pedroom midout many clothes Yhile der chills down der sphine of mine pack quickiy goes ; Dose leedle shimnasdic drioks vasn't so fine. Dot I cuts oop at nighdt mit dot baby off mine. Veil, dese leedle schafers vas goin' to pe men, Und all off dese droubles vill peen of or den Dey vill vear a vhite shirt vront inshted off' a bib, I'nd vouldn't got tucked oop at nighdt in deir crib Veil ! veil ! ven I'm feeble und in life's decline. May mine oldt age be cheered py dot baby off mine. Detroit fret Press, A MISCHIEVOUS CARPET-BAG. "When Natlian Bossy, a round-bellied bachelor of 4S, entered the cars which were destined to the town of Yuzar, and placed his well-stulTed carpet-bag at his feet, and began reading the latest news with a contented sjirit, he little thought what a day of adventure was before him. The train started, and the jolting mo tion prevented him from reading easily. So ho put by his spectacles and newspa per, philosophically he 2rided himself on his philosophy; had been jilted seven times and was still fat and indulged in a short flight of imagination, as he con templated his carpet-bag, which con tained to many useful things in a small corapasn. The bag was new and hand some. It was made of rich carpeting, and had a dark-blue ground on either side, with large crimson flowers at each corner, and a large white rose in each canter. "Great invention," reflected Bossy. "Jllu?n in parro. And I think this is as lovely a parro as ever was made. How much better than a trunk, which entails expense, requiring others to carry it, and loses time. It is much better than a valise, which always re mains of the same bulk. And how easy to be carried! Ah! how many poor fel lows have traveled far with such an ar ticle, carrying their all therein! Could carpet-bags speak, what tales of misery and mystery they would bo able to dis close! What tales of miscreant traitors and treasonable documents they could relate! "What singular medleys are contained in them, yet all compacted in a symmetrical bulk! Man is like a well filled carpet bag. So is the world. So is the solar system." Having arrived at this complimentary conclusion regarding his carpet-sack. Bossy yawned and felt satisiied, and soon arrived at a city where some of the passengers were to change cars, and there was to be a stop of fifteen minutes. Feeling hungry, he rose to go out and get a luncheon. "You are sure," said Bossy to the conductor, "that this car is going to Ynzar? shall not have to change cars ?' "It is going to Yuzar, if wo don't break down, blow up, or run off the track," said the urbane conductor. So thus assured, Bossy let the pet carpet-bag remain, and went forth and lunched, while the two trains were be ing got ready. "All aboard for Yuzar!" "All aboard for LoddyT Pussengeas scrambled in for their several seats, and Bossy hastened in also, not able to distinguish one car from another, save by the presence of the carpet-bag, which, from its peculiar marks, lie considered a sure guide. "Here it i3." muttered he, lifting it up. "I am in the right car, sure enough. But somebody has taken the impertinent liberty to remove it. My seat was on the left side before, and there I left it. Now I find my bag on the right, which is the side I don't like." Mr. Bossy was quite set about some things, and suspicious cf tricks upon travelers, and very tenacious of his rights. The handling of his carpet-bag he did not at all relish, lie twitched about in his new seat uneasily, and cast indignant glances at a lady and gentle man on the opposite seat, which he con sidered his by right of previous occu pation; and, at last, as the train moved rapidly away, hearing the supposed in truders langhing with each other, he imagined them to be laughing at his discomfiture, and he determined to re taliate. "Who has been moving my carpet bag?" he suddenly exclaimed, in a loud and angry voice, and rising from his seat with a red face. Xobodr answered, but everybody looked toward the angry man who had thus invoked their attention. "I sar who has been moving my car pet-bag ?'4repeated he, defiantly return ing the general stare, and then fixing a piercing glance upon the suspected coupie upon tne left. "It is there at your feet," said some body, thinking the man might bo some what intoxicated. "I know it," replied Bossy. "But somebody has been moving it. When I got out of the cars, to get a lunch, to refresh myself for a continuation of this journey, I left my bag on the opposite siue, ana 11 1 am not greatly mistaken, 1 ien 11 mere!" lie added emphatically, and pointing with a frown to the oppo site seat, now occupied. "And I must say that I consider the moving of my bag, without leave, and the occupying 01 my seat, a nigh-handed liberty, which I feel disinclined to put up with." "I believe you intend your remarks for me, sir," now said the gentleman in the opposite seat, mortified that he and his lady should be thus rudely brought to unfavorable notice. "I assure you that I have not touched your carpet-bag. It was not here when we entered this seat, and neither were you.". "Let me tell you, sir," insisted Bossy, "that I know you are in my seat, now, because just before you, a little to the right, is a puddle, which I noticed be fore, where some disagreeable hog had been spitting tobacco-juice. I " "Oh, sit down, blower!" here inter rupted a gruff passenger. "We're tired of hearing your voice. You have got a seat and that's enough. Sit down." "Not till I get ready," returned Bossy, who was amply endowed with pugnaci ty, when ho thought his rights inter fered with. "This is not my seat." "Get out of it, then. What business have you to be in it?" said another rest ive traveler. "He wants to make himself conspicu ous," said another. "Says people are hogs who chew to bacco," murmured several individuals with quids in their mouths. Tut him out." "I want my seat." "Do you own this car?" "How many seats have you paid for?" " Wants a seat and won't sit down!" Finding that ho had made himself un popular, Nathan Bossy concluded not to push the question of his rights any furthur, but sat down, wrathfullv. re marking that "There's no telling with what class of people one travels nowadays. The papers are full of accounts of well-dressed thieves and ingenious tricks upon travelers. I am determined to keep mr eye peeled. I suppose I ought to con sider myself lucky that my carpet-bag was not rifled or stolen, instead of be ing simply removed. Oh, dear!" And with a yawn of exhaustion, and placing one foot upon his bag byway of precaution, ne spread himself over his seat and fell asleep. His slumber wa3 finally disturbed by the arrival of the cars at their jlace of destination. Bossy woke up, and, look ing out of the window, found himself at the town of Loddy, to his great surprise. "Bless me!" cried he, calling the con ductor. "Is this Loddy? You told me that this car was going to Yuzar." "Never told yon any such thing," de nied the conductor, much irritated at the charge of blundering. " You did, sir," insisted Bossy, hold ing up his carpet-bag by way of evi dence. " This is my carpet-bag, I hope." "I'm sure I don't know. I suppose it's yours, if you paid for it." " I left this carpet-bag in this car, at the time I got out to get a lunch, when thero was a change of cars. I asked you if the car was going to Yuzar, and you said it was, if wo didn't meet with any accident. So I left my bag, lunched , and returned, and here 1 find myself at Loddy, owing to your carelessness. This is too bad too bad ! ,: " It was your own mistake," replied the conductor. . " You must have taken your bag out with you and when you returned got into the wrong train. If people will get tight when they travel, they must expect to meet with serious inconveniences." "Tight, sir? I never was tight in my life, sir! " " He is tight now," here exclaimed a passenger.quite a crowd standing around to witness the new fuss. " He hts been tight all the day, and made a row about his cussed old blue bag because he thought somebody had moved it." ' Thought so ? I knew so !" retorted the positive Bossy. " I hope I know my own bag. Look at it. It is peculiarly marked. Not another bag like that in the world! I know my bag, and I know, just as well, where I left it. Bags don't have legs ! They don't move them selves !" "I'll just trouble you for that bag, now," here exclaimed a stranger, makiDg his way, with a confident smile, through the crowd. " Who are you?" inquired Bossy. " My name is Robert Archer, and that is my carpet-bag," declared the claim ant. "Hand it over." ' I rather guess not," replied Bossy, resolutely grasping the article. "It ap pears to me that there is a concerted de sign to rob me and impose upon me. But I am no fool, gentlemen; and you'll find I'm neither drunk nor afraid !" You're a sharper, I guess," cried the conductor, regarding him with a suspi cious eye, " and not afraid to do any thing." "Give me that bag!" fiercely demand ed Archer. "I left that bag in the seat you have been occupying, but thought I wouldn't disturb you, after you had once got into the seat particularly as you attracted so much unpleasant at tention. But the bag is mine. I sus pected you for a sharper at the time, and my opinion is that you thought the owner forgot his tag, because he had left awhile, or had taken the wrong train. It is my property." Bossy now grew furious. "You lie," said he, "and that's plain talk. To prove my ownership, let me have the pleasure to inform you that I have got the key. And there it is," he added, exultantly, holding it up to gen eral view, and then proceeding to open the bag. He applied the key, but, to his confusion, now found that it did not fit! Here was a quandary. "I must have left the right key at home," said he, "or else somebody has been meddling with the lock. But I can name every article there is in it." "You can't gammon us," hero said the bystanders. "Give the man his carpet-bag, and DacK out; that a safest way for you." "I've got the real key," said Archer. "Let him name the articles in it, if he can. I'll open it, and prove that he speaks falsely." But Bossy obstinately refused. "A pretty how-d'ye-do this is!" ex claimed he, "if a man is obliged to tell every inquisitive stranger what he car ries in his carpet-bag. My baggage is my own, and nobody shall pry into it. Let me see the man who will attempt it." And, grasping the handles with a vice like grip, he confronted Archer, who was a slighter man; and he was now about making his way off through the curious and suspicious throng. The confidence of Bossy and the hesi tation of Archer now created a division of opinion among the spectators; some thinking one was the owner, some the other, and some that both were sharp ers, seeking possession of stray prop erty, which they knew had lost its right ful owner. "They ought to be arrested, in mv judgment," suggested a severe-looking oia man, who had been much annoyed by the troubles of Bossy. A policeman wa3 summoned to hear the story, and he, imagining that ho re cognized them as rogues whom he had seen before, took the responsibility of arresting them on suspicion, in accord ance with the advice of the crowd Bossy firmly resisting the appeal of Archer to let him open the bag and prove it to De his own. "No use. I know it's mine." said Bossy, "and will not submit to any more indignities." They were consequently conveyed straightway to court, and complaints were made out and preferred against them separately. Bossy wa3 charged with stealing the carpet-bag from one Robert Archer or some person or persons unknown: and , Archer was relied on to be the chief witness against him. I Archer, equally suspected, was ac cused of stealing the carpet-bag from one Nathan Bossy or some person or per sons unKnown ; lor, though the bag had not been actually found in his posses sion, he acknowledged having left it in the car, and was supposed to have at tempted to secrete it from tho truo own er, wherever he might have gone ; and Bossy was to be the chief witness against him. The unlucky Bossy was tried first, and Robert Archer was called to tho stand. " I can easilv prove to your Honor." said Archer, " that the carpet-baer is mine, by giving you an enumeration of the principal articles contained in it, tho which I challenge the prisoner or any one else to do. And, besides, I have the keys that fit it. " Stole it !" exclaimed Bossy. "Silence, sir!" commanded tho Judge. "One pair of red flannel drawers, threo shirts with my name on them, one wide-awake hat, one bottle of Schiedam Schnapps, two pairs of thin socks, six numbers of the Literary Journal, Bhav ing apparatus and tooth-brush, a pocket Bible, one volume of Dumas' latest nov els, three figs of tobacco, two short pipes, a large plum cake baked for me by my aunt Jerushy, a pound of old cheese, a tooth -pick and a t weczer. I believe that's about all." "Very well, sir," said tho court, "you may stand down." After further evidence, the Judge re served his decision, as he wished to get at the other side of the story, upon which ha considered the evidence of Bossy might throw some useful explanatory light, which might prevent him from doing any injustice. And now Robert Archer's turn came, and Nathan Bossy was summoned to give his evidence. So confident felt he that he put a humorous light upon the mat ter, despite his grievances, and advanced to the attack with a smile. " I cannot say, as this audacious per son has pretended, that I have any plum cake, made by an Aunt Jerushy, in my carpet-bag; though I wish there was, and should have no objection to a pound of old cheese to go with it ; though I have moral antipathies to Schiedam and Du mas' novels. But when the court comes to take the key, which the fellow doubt less stole from me while I was in the car, and opens the hag, it will find there the following articles, which I little thought, when I packed them, would ever be ex posed to the vulgar gaze of the world : Two complete suits of female under clothes, which I intend to carry to a lady relative of mine in Yuzar ; one bottle of hair-dye, one rolling-pin, one flute, one volume of ' Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' four ounces of Epsom salts, one pair of brown breeches, one corn-popper and one pair of winter boots. As the court has already heard something of the inconveniences to which I have been subjected whether by accident or design I know not I feel sure of its sympathies, and will say no more, except that I now invoke the open ing of the bag, that I may thus confound all accusations against me, and prove the prisoner an impostor." "Let the test be applied," said the Judge. "Prisoner, produce the key." Archer delivered the key. An officer unlocked the bag, and its incongruous contents were emptied out. The proofs were convincing. The bag belonged to Archer, for there were all the articles he had specified. Archer was overjoyed Bossy was bewildered. The court orders that Robert Archer ba discharged." Archer proceeded to repack his carpet bag, when a sudden thought struck him. and he was permitted to inform the court that he now remembered tkat the shop man, of whom he had nought the carpet bag, remarked upon its peculiai figures. and said that he had had and sold but one other like it, made from a corres ponding strip of carpeting. "I bear no hard feelings against Mr. Bossy," said he, "and think it very likely that he does own tho duplicate of my bag that he has lost it and has been honestly mistaken." This disclosure put a new face upon this mysterious matter. Bossy now felt convineed that, after all, he had got into the wrong car, deluded by the counter part of his own carpet-bag, which was now doubtless at Yuzar, awaiting a claim ant. Tho court, being advised of this, al lowed him to send a messenger in quest of the mischievous bag, and in due time it was obtained and brought, opened, and found to verify what Bossy had stated as to its contents. Bossy, also, was now released, and the court congratulated him upon having so fully cleared his character. But this gave little satisfaction to the aggravated man. He packed up and hastily left, and, repairing to the nearest trunk-maker's, at once purchased a valise, into which he transferred his goods, and had his name marked in fall upon both ends. This done, he made a present of the mischievous carpet-bag to the shopman, and with a curse upon that and all oth ers, repaired to the depot and took the train for Yuzar, having lost all confi dence in carpet-bags. A Terrible Death. Glade Springs, in this county, was on Monday thronged from all parts of the surrounding country to witness the bal loon ascension. According to announce ment, the travelling show of Prof. Hoff man made its appearance and prepared for exhibition. Their largo iron furnace was put to work, and the balloon hoist ed over it by means of two poles on either side, forty feet high. The bal loon was inflated by means of wood and kerosene oil, with a small qnanity of gasoline added. When it was filled as usual, Mr. Hainur, the reronaut, wa3 informed, but he said, "I want more gas this time." Two pints more of oil were put in, and, when exhausted, the damp er of the furnace was shut down. Then he jumped into his position, and like an arrow the great air-ship shot upward, carrying its human freight dangling at its end. It had ascended some 3U0 feet, and while the actor was performing on a horizontal bar, hanging by his feet with his head down, waving a handker chief to the nervous audience below, tho patched and dilapidated canvas split from bottom to top with a report that was heard miles away. No sooner had the gas escaped than the balloon collap sed and came shooting down as swiftly as it had darted up. The seronaut saw his situation, and quick as lightning turned himself up and regained his hand hold, and commenced a manoeuvre to dodge a telegraph wire and post toward which he was falling. This he succeeded in doing, striking the ground with terri ble force, which bounced him up, to be caught and pressed down by the balloon. All of this was the work of a moment. The crowd was literally paralyzed, wo men sickening and fainting, and men unable, in their horror, to move. The companions of tho unfortunate man stood riveted to the ground, and not un til some citizens undertook to move the canvas did they stir. The man was found to be alive and conscious, but dreadfully bruised and mangled. Ho was through it all calm and cool, and described his feelings as, descending, he saw and felt death staring him in the face. He was taken to the hotel, where both Mr. and Mrs. Thonqson did all in their power to relievo his sufferings. With all the aid nothing could be ac complished, and at 11:30 o'clock p. m. he paid the penalty of death for his reck lessness. His name is Frank Hainur, from Warren, Ohio. Abingdon (Va.) Standard. Scalping. During the American war Captain Gregg and a brother officer, re turning from hunting, wero fired upon by an ambush of Indians. Both fell, and tho Indians coming up, struck them on the forehead with the tomahawk, and scalped them. Captain Gregg, in de scribing the operation, said he felt as if moultenleal wero poured on his head; yet he had the hardihood to lie still, sup pressing his breath, to make them sup pose he was dead. When they had left him, ho felt as if something cooling were applied to his burning head; this was caused by the coolness of the tongue of his dog, which was licking it. The dog after fawming upon him left him, and disappeared in the woods. Captain Gregg, in attempting to rise, found he was wounded in the back by a musket shot, and severely bruised on the head by the stroke of the tomahawk, which would have killed him had not its force been broken by hia hat. He crawled to his brother officer, who lay dead near him, and opening his waistcoat , laid his throbbing head upon his warm bosom, for the sticks and stones among which he lay were torture to him. Here he expected death would put an end to his sufferings. In the meantime the dog hastened home to the captain's friends, and by his manner showed that some accident had befallen his master. They followed the dog, who guided them to the scene described, where they arrived just in time to save the life of Captain Gregc, who, under the care of a skillful sur geon, ultimately recovered. Raising Geese. When a farmer has a tract of low, marshy land near his house, where there is a running stream of water he may raise geese profitably by con fining them to this tract during the day in Summer, and yarding them at night. When allowed to run on good grass land their manure is so strong that it kills the grass where dropped, and for this reason many farmers have given up rais ing them. But they are very profitable, as they are subject to no disease, always salable (dressed) at a fair price, and their feathers will pay the expense of keeping them. With an extensive mar shy range more money can bo made by raising gees than on any kind of do mestic poultry. Freaks of tho Elements. A man who saw the partial destruc tion of the Omaha bridge by a cyclone describes it as a dense black cloud com ing down stream, carrying forward a water column standing on the river with its head in the clouds. In front the air was filled with hail, streams of fire ran along the iron bars and columns of the bridge; but the moment the whirling-water column struck it the whole was lit up by a blinding electric glare, the bridge vanished, shot up to a great height above the piers, and then dashed with inconceivable velocity back into the river. Large stones were torn out of the rip-rapping, and shot up perpendicularly sixty feet to the top of the railroad grade. The descrip tion is regarded by many as fanciful; but Prof. Tice, of St Louis, says it is not, and adds: " I was. charged with laboring under an illusion when, in tho summer 1853, I asserted that the steeple of the Baptist Church first shot into the clouds. Not until the architect declar ed that it must have been so, and could not have been otherwise, was the cor rectness of my statement admitted. The architect's opinion was based upon the fact that the steeple when it was con structed, was let down by braces twelve feet long, into the tower, and this brac ed frame was pulled up and out with out disturbing a stone in the tower. The large stone cross in the Calvary Cemetry, weighing several tons, that went down in the North St. Louis tor nado last year, went up first, for there was the upright iron dowell that had been in the socket of the shaft. Houses always go down when caught in the vortex of a tornado but those caught in tho center invariable first go up. When, in the East St. Louis tornado, the cloud snatched up a locomotive, carried it over a pond, and dropped it down, right side up, the wise by tradition pooh poohed at the assertion that it was car ried, and declared that it was blown in to the pond, notwithstanding not a trace of such action could be seen in the smooth and level sand over which it must have rolled if such had been the fact. How did it happen, then, that the tiny electric cloud that was arrest ed over Langley pond, South Carolina, on the 12th of August, 1874, formed a waterspout, which lasted for about ten mihutes, in which time it lifted to the clouds over 214,000 tons of water, and the cloud immensely enlarged and dis tended, walked off with it without spill ing a drop?" 2few York Sun. A Coat Lined with Money. A war correspondent writes: " Comedy goes side by side with tragedy here as every where", and even at a time like this men can laugh. A Jew who has come down from Eski-Saghra is in a condition of much perplexity about the means to bo adopted for the recovery of a stolen coat. Anticipating evil times in Eski-Saghra, tho Jew had sown up his money in the lining of his heaviest fur overcoat, and with this held himself ready to leave town at any moment. Somehow when tho dreaded time arrived he missed the coat, and had to come down here with out it. Walking about the .streets of Adrianople he descried this very coat upon the shoulders of a big Circassian, with whom he entered into humble par ley for its recovery, professing to have taken a great fancy for it, and offering a most un-Jew-like price for it. While he pretended to examine and admire the fur, ho ascertained that his money re mained undisturbed. Tho Circassian declined to sell, and the Jew then put in a claim as owner of the coat, and succeeded in bringing the Circassian before the Governor of the town. The Governor declined to consider the Jew's claim proved, and that hapless Hebrew is now loiiowing tho Circassian HKe .a second shadow, beseeching him with perpetual iteration to strike a bargain. It rests on Rochefoucauld' authority that a man can always enjoy the mis fortunes of his friends, and the friends of this especial Hebrew seem to find some consolation for their own sorrows in watching and laughing at tho count less ruses and manoeuvers with which Jewish ingenuity inspires the hunter of the coat. That Poor, Pale-Faced Boy. The other day a poor, pale-faced boy of twelve summers or so visited several streets in the northern part of the city with a hand-cart full of bmall musk melons, the largest being hardly larger than a sickly baby's head. Leaving his hand-cart at the curbstone, he would take a melon in his hand, and knock at the door, and say to the lady: "Please, ma'am, I'm a poor boy trying to get money to buy school books; and won't you buy this melon to help me?" Very few refuse to purchase, and the' boy may have sold a whole wagon load for all that any one of the purchasers knew to the contrary. In every place where ho sold a melon he shortly returned, and holding out a lead nickle on his palm he planitively observed : " If you please, ma'am, that was a bad nickle you gave me, and will you please give me another in place of it?" Naturally enough each one complied, and in most cases the boy was allowed to retain the bad coin as well. In this way his mel ons netted him ten cents apiece, and he introduced one of the sharpest little tricks of the day. Detroit Free Press. A Carmi (111.) man dug his own grave beside his first wife, lay down in it and shot himself through the head. Still the work was incomplete. He lay there in the silent night with the throbbing stars and cold white moon looking down upon his cold white face, and none to cover him with gravel, none to lay turf above his head. It is touching to think how eagerly and gladly the grave would have been filled had his second wife been there to do it. A thick-headed squire being worst ed by Sidney Smith is an argnmnit, took his revenge by exclaiming: "If I had a son, who was an idiot I would make him a parson.'' ' Very likely," replied Sidney, "but I see your father was of a differ en t opin ion . " Lost Time. Let any young man pass all tho even ing in vacant idleness, or in reading some silly tale, and compare the state of his mind, when he goes to sleep or gets up the next morning, with his stata some other day, when ho has spent some hours in going through the proofs, by facts and reasoning, of the great doctrines of natural science, learning truths wholly new to him, satisfying himself, by careful examination, of the grounds on which the known truths rest, so as to be not only acquainted with the doctrines themselves, but be able to show why he believes them and to prove to others that they are true; ha will find as great a difference as can ex ist in the same being the difference be tween looking back upon time nnprofit ably wasted and time spent in self -improvement; he will feel himself, in one case, listless and dissatisfied, and in the other, comfortable and happy; in the . one case, if he did not appear to himself humble, at least will not have earned any claim to his own respect; in the other case, he will enjoy a proud con sciousness of having, by his own exer tions, and therefore a more exalted op inion. Iord Brougham. Art of Talking. The i:ntn who is continually talking seldom says any thing of importance; more than half the time he talks because he likes the sound of his own voice, and his remarks aro superficial and valueless. The reserved man, on the contrary, finds it difficult to give utterance to his thoughts which move forward to tho portals of his mouth in such crowds that they in fact, block it up. When ever you meet with a man of this kind give him time, and do not mistake his tardiness for ignorance or imbecility of mind. In nine eases out of ten he has lived in solitude, and because he has not been habituated to conversation, his tongue grows so rusty that when he does venture into society, no one will wait till he is drawn out, and therefore his reserve continues to increase. Do not contemptuously turn your back up on him, but listen, and he will, in all likelihood, repay your .civility with in terest. The man who 'talks but little generally has something to say when he does speak; his ideas have been polish ed by tho observation of years, and siuk forcibly into the minds of his hearers. Photographing the Hkabt-Beat. One of the most remarkable applications of photography is that by which it is now . made to register, and in the most ao- curate manner, the mechanical motion of the heart. The device by which the result is obtained is, indeed, a triumph of inventive skill. It consists of a thin india-rubber bag, to which a short glass tube is attached, sufficient mercury ja poured into the apparatus to fill the bag" and a portion of the tube, and the in strument is then placed over the heart of the person to be examined. Arrang ed in this manner, every pulsation of the heart by a corresponding movement of tho mercury in the tube, and by suit able photographic apparatus, provided with a moving sensitive slip of paper, a perfect registration of the extent and rate of pulsation is obtained. The in teresting fact is made known by this process, that the fall of the pulse some times takes place in successful horizon tal lines, and sometimes in ascendant lines, the column reascending two or threo times before falling together. To Break off Bad Habits. Under stand the reasons and all the reasons, why the habit is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid the places, the persons, and the thoughts that ieaa to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge in the thoughts that lead away from temp tation. Keep busy; Idleness is the strength of bad habits. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice, thrice a thousand times. That only shows how much need thero is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolu tions, just think the matter over and en deavor to understand how it is you fail ed, so that you may be on your guard against a recurrence of the same circum stances. Do not think it an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is a folly to except to break off a bad habit in a day which has been gathering for long years. Curkent Fashions in jEWEiBY.--Sil-ver jewelrjt has been and continues quite the rage in England, and the ear rings made in this metal are certainly more artistic than their golden brethren, which seldom include the delightfully graceful and becoming "tassel" ear rings, of which there aro so many var- workmanship of silver, the more becom ing are the ornaments. Very pretty designs are daisies looped together by the stalks, a necklet of looped silver daisies to match, with pendant of one l.i r ge marguerite ; or silver fuchsia bells, v. .tn necklet of fuchsia leaves, and pen dant of two or three blossoms. Filigree j welry in gold and silver, is becoming .'uihionable again; but, though inexpen sive, it so easily gets broken or discol ored that it can scarcely be considered good value. Mormonism Reversed. Mr. Labou chere tells us that Brigham Young's death was being discussed at a Loudon dinner party, when a young lady start ed the rather bold contention that the principles of Mormonism should for the future be reserved. "Times," she said, "are so bad, and fashions so ex pensive, that it is absard for one man to have four or five wives; whereas, if one woman had four or five husbands, see how much cheaper it would be for each husband, and" the point which seemed most to commend itself to her "how much better wives could dress." But what is to become of the ladies without husbands? "The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year." diwlt. I 1 r .'mtdtcv r,T? R&Kr.T?0r?T LIBRARY.