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.r t . f Kl till DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. XII. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1878.- NO. 34 v THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOB THE Farmer, Ilu.lue. Mau and Family Circle ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. PHOFBIETOIt AND fCBUSHEK. Official Paper for Clackamas County. Ollice : In .Enterprise Builtllusr, One door South of Masonic Building, Main Street. Terms of Ainberl2tiom : SinRle Copy, one year, in advance $2 50 Single Copy, six months, in advance 1 50 Terms or Ad vertiwinsr : Transient advertisements, including ail legal notices, per square of twelve lines, one week $ 2 60 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 One Column, one year 120 00 Half Column, one year to 00 Quarter Column, one year 40 00 Business Card, one square, one year 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON tOllGE, No. 3, I. O. O. F aieeia every rnursday livening, ity-v . 1 o'clock, in Odd i ellows' Hall, fC'tnSf Main Street. Members of the Order VTSlirt By order of N. G. Members of the Degree are Invited to ' FALLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4. vr. u. t., metis at uud iellows' Hall on the First and Thiid Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs in good standing are invited to I ICUU. MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1, n.. ji . a. m... noius its regular communi cations on the First and Ti.ir.l sUf,,r.i.- in each month, at 1 o'clock from iii. n,,.xJ' of September to the 2uth of March - and 1 H o'clock from the 20th of March to th 2utu of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to attend. By order of w. M. BUSINESS CARDS WARREN N. DAVIS, fVI. D., I'lij siciasi and Surgeon,. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Office at Cliff Hoi be. CHARLES KNIGHT, CAN BY, OREGON, IMiyKiciuii and Druggist. "Prescriptions carefully filled at short notice. ja7-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, DENTIST..ffl OFFICE IN OREGOXCITY OREGON. Highest cash price paid for County Orders. E. L. EASTHAM, ATTOItXEY-AT-LA W , OREGON CITY, OREGON. Special attention given to business in the U. S. Land Office. Ollice in Mver's Brick. JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Special attention given to cases in the United States Land Office at Oregon City. 6apr'72-tf BLANKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR Sale at tuisoihce. Justices pf the Peeace can et anytuing in their line. 1. P. VfABD, GEORGE A. HABDIKG. WARD & HARDING, ists KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A GENERAL assortment of Drugs uul Chemicals, Prrfmiirrr, Soai, Comb and Urnthri. T"'. Mupporli, ataonldrr Brare, fanvy and Toilet Article., ALSO WtMii Oil. Lamp ll jnneT.. arm. heat and NiuiTi.. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. PATENT MEDICINES, ETC, ETC fci. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully com- pounded, and all orders correctly answered. SV Open at all hours of the night. l& All accounts must be paid monthly. uovl,ls75tf WARD & HARDING. W. H. HICHFIELD, Estubllsliea si 11 00 -I t , One door North of Pope's Hall, yiAIM KT OKECiOX CITV, OKEOOX. Aa assortment of Watches, Jewelry, and f"SL Seth Thomas' Weieht Clurfea ll nr tcii.-h ?v are warranted to be as represented. trut cinug uaue ob snort notice; and thui ui lor past pairouage. Cali 1'aiil lor t'ouiily Order. JOHN M. BACON, DEALEB Kf fR BOOKS, STATIONERY, PICTVRE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AND MISCEL LANEOUS GOODS. I'KAJIIS M tl)E TO OKDEK. Oregon Crrr, Oeeqos. yAt the Post Office, Main Street, west side. novl, "75-tf A. G. WALLING'S IMoiieer ISoolc Bindery Plttock's Building, cor. of Stark and Front Stg., rUItTLiXD, OKEGOX. "13 lank books ecxed and bound to any A3 desired pattern. Music Bocks, Magazines, Aowspapers, etc., bound iu every variety of 6tyl known to the trade. Orders from the country promptly attended to. novl, '73-tf OREGON CITY BREWERY HUMBEL, fc MADDER. Hvln8 purchased the above Brewery, 3E??l .uiuim iuo puDiic mat mey are - --- -- ,,J xuauuiaciure a iso. i quality OF L AOT.'R HTTP V??.d 'mC? obtU"l anywhere in the State REBECCA DEGREE LODGE, No. 2, I." ' PF" ,lieets on the Second and fTT 1 ourth Tuesday Evenings of each month, h3J at lit o clock, in th 0.1,1 i,.,.. ui. mftlm , S MX Due Aiticaries .. au promptly mled. Love Unsung. Guide on, sweet purling stream, And minglo with the sea; Adown each glon thy wa:er3 gleam. In merry dance and free. Sing on, sweet bird; the blue expanse Of heaven's vault is thine; 0 lap thy soul into a trance; Pour forth thy song divine; But I must not give forth my strain; I love a maid, but lore in rain. The blithesome bird that haunts the rale Yfill bear but half her grief; She floats her sorrow on the gale. And gives her soul relief; The meanest floweret on the field Easks in the noon-day sun; And every oreature hath a rest, When daily toll is done; 1 to myself make bootless moan, And bear my burden all alono. A grief that links two hearts in bliss, Is but a bidden treasure; What's but a thorn when singly borne, When shared becomes a pleasure; The finer feelings of the soul Are known by mutual union; Each spirit hath its counterpart, Tfith whom to hold communion; But she is gone, and lea res with me -The rest of the unsleeping sea. The "Skeleton iu Armor." The "Skeleton in Armor," unearthed at iau luver some lorty-nve years or more ajjo, continues to be a topic of speculation and discussion amoDg anti quaries, among those especially who have desired to persuade themselves that it was not the skeleton of a Norseman. Many of the present generation, probably, have never seen a description of it. It was found in the year 1833, or earlier, by men who were digging down a hill and making excavations. Iu 1837 it was described in a paper published in the American Magazine, Boston. The displacement of a large mass of earth brought to view the top of a human skull which proved to have be longed to a body that was buried there in a sitting posture. The following de scription of it is taken from the American Magazine : " The surrounding earth was carefully removed, and the body found to be en veloped in a covering of coarse bark of a dark color. Within this envelope were found the remains of another of coarse cloth, made of tine bark, and about the texture of a Manilla coifee-bag. On the breast was a plate of brass, thirteen nches long, six broad at the upper end, and live at the lower. Ibis plafe appears to have been cast, and is from one-eighth to three thirty-seconds of an inch in thickness. It is so much corroded that whether or not anything was engraved upon it has not yet been ascertained. It i3 oval in form, the edges being irregular, apparently made so by corrosion. Below the breastplate, and entirely encircling the body, was a belt composed of brass tubes, each four and a half inches in lecgth, and three-sixteenths of on inch in diameter, arranged longitudinally and close together, the length of a tube being the width of the belt. Ihe tubes are 01 thin brass cast upon hollow reeds, and were fastened together by pieees of inew. Near the right knee was a quiver of arrows. The arrows are 01 brass, thin, flat, aud triangular in shape, with a round hole cut through near the base. The shaft was fastened to the head by insert- inr the latter in an opening at the end of the wood, and then tying with sinew through the round hole a mode of constructing the weapon never practiced by the Indians, not even with their ar rows of thin shell. Parts of the shaft still remain on some of them. When first discovered the arrows were in a sort of quiver of bark, which fell to pieces when exposed to the air." The attempts to explain this " skeleton . IT il in armor are numerous. v anoua theo ries have been devised. The writer in the American Magazine suggested several explanations, but inclined most strongly to the belier tnat tne siceieton was tDat or a Phoenician from some 1'hcenician vessel which had been driven to this coast by stress of weather, whichnot beiDg very reasonable, has not tound favor. It ap- 1 J I 1 . I T 1 pears to ue irue mat. me iasques were accustomed to visit the North American fishinjr-'rrounds loner before the time of Columbus, and that they had communi cation with the Indians along the coast ; but they were fishermen, and not war- riors ; ana nooouy uas veniureu 10 sug gest that one of the old Basques was buried at i all Kiver. Longfellow's ballad on the skeleton makes it say: "1 was a Viking old," and gives an imaginative history of this old Viking. Many others believe that the man buried in armor at Fall River was a Norseman, and that the burial took place at soma time after the year 1,000, A. D., during the period ot the JNorse trading and lumbering settlements in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which existed more than three hundred years, beginning early in the "eleventh century and ending near the middle of the four teenth. This theory has more supporters than any other, and it is not improbable. Danish antiquaries think the unearthed skeleton was that cf Thorwald Erikson, the only great Norse chief known to have been buried in Vinland. lie was killed there by Indians, in the year 1,003. There are some who try to believe that the Fall River skeleton was nothing more than the skeleton of a regular New Eng land Indian. They seek to explain the armor and arrows by quoting certain wonderful stories of Breretou, who wrote an account of Gosuold's voyage to New Eugland in 1G02. He wrote in the inter est of a company that desired to secure emigrants for settlement here. Of course ne tola big stories. One ot them was that the Indians iu the neighborhood of Buzzard's Bay had " great store of cop per, flax and other rich commodities ;' also "flax-fields and copper mines.' There were "none of them," Le said, who did not wear " bandoliers of copper, and other copper ornaments 10 great abun dance. The Pilgrims who arrived ia New England a few years later neither found nor heard of anything to confirm or ex cuse Brereton's big emigration stories. He had tried to imitate Munchausen ; that was all. Those who recall what the New England Indians were in the colony times will find it impossible to assume, or even imagine, that these savages were capable of working metals and flax, and producing a "great store of rich, com modities." But "great store of copper," if it had existed, could do nothing to ex plain the Fall River skeleton ; for the armor and arrows tound with it were made of brass, not copper, and of brass that " appears to have been cast." The fct that the armor unearthed at Fall River was made of brass has been settled beyond the reach of doubt. A portion of the breastplate was analyzed by the emi nent Swedish chemist, Berzelius, with the following result: 70 parts of it were cop per, 28 parts zinc, and two parts tin, lead and iron, the quantity of iron being very small. At the same time he analyzed a Danish brass article of the tenth century, and found the composition almost precise ly the same. For the rest, the breastplate and other brass articles, were like those used by the Norsemen in the tenth and eleventh centuries. There are full narratives of the earlier Norse voyages to Vinland. These nar ratives give accurate descriptions of the American coast from the Straits of Belle Isle to Narragansett Bay. There are also records showing that communication be tween Iceland, Greenland and Vinland was continued from about 1,000, A. D., to 1,347, A. D. ; and also, that the first Norse discovery of Vinland was made in the year 980, A. D., very soon after the beginning of the first settlement in Greenland. A record copied at the Vati can states that Pope Paschal II., in the year 1,112, made Erik Upsi " Bishop of Iceland, Greenland and Vinland ;" an other record mentions that this Bishop Erik went personally to Vinland, in 1,121 ; an?, finally, Adam of Bremen appeuded to one of his books, published in 1,073, a geographical treatise " On the Position of Denmark and Other Regions Beyond Denmark," in which, after describing Iceland and Greenland, he says : " Bo sides these there is still another region which has been visited by many, lying in that ocean (the Atlantic) which is called Vinland." Adam, of Bremen, described Vinland, and closed the description thus: "This we know, not by fabulous conjecture, but from positive statements of the Danes." Danes with whom he conversed had visited Vinland. The last voyage to Vinland, mentioned in the Norse records, took place in 1347, the year in which the memorable "Black PUgue," or "Black Death," began its terrible ravages iu Europe. This awful pestilence raged about four vears, extended to all the na tions of Europe, and swept away more than half the people of the Scandinavian countries. Prof. Anderson, a Scandina vian, says: "The ' Black Plague' reduced the population of Norway alone from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000." He adds that it reached Iceland, Greenland and Vinland, and cut off communication between these countries." The Greenland settlements were nearly depopulated. Vinland was abandoned ; and, a few years later, the Greenland settlements disappeared. Worcester Spy. Costly Correspondence. The jury in the case of Edgerly against Smith returned a verdict for the plaintiff yesterday for $3,000 damages. The cause of action was an alleged libelous state ment contained in letters written by Mrs. Smith concerning the plaintiff, who is a resident of Boston. It would be well for letter writers to understand that when they write injurious words about others they are liable to be sued for damages. It is not necessary that a libelous letter should be read by more than one person; the injury is the same m theeyeof the law, as if it was published in the columns of newspaper having a circulation of a million copies. The trouble in this case had its origin in a little family quarrel. Sally Edgerly, daughter of the plaintiff, is a cousin of Mr. Joseph E. Smith, the defendant, and lived in his family for ten years. She left quite suddenly and got married, leaving behind a trunk con taining a new sacque, to which article of dress she was dovotedly attached. There was some delay in forwarding the trunk to her new house in Jerseyville, and Mrs. Smith claimed the sacque because she had purchased the material of which it was made. The loss of her favorite sacque made Sally very angry, and she wrote a spiteful letter to Mrs. Smith, and told a Mrs. Mitchell something that was not complimentary to Mrs. S. Thereupon Mrs. Smith became indignant, and wrote some letters derogatory to the character of Sally's mother, the plaintiff herein. This and other letters fell into the hands of Mrs. Edgerly, living near Bunker Hill Monument, and she vowed vengeance upon the whole Smith family. She se lected Mr.Wm. F. Smith, attorney, as her counsel, and he instituted four libel suits against the Smiths, based on the letters. The third of these suits was tried yester day, with the result above named. Col. Slayback defended the Smiths with his usual vim, but his opponent was afoeman worthy of hia steel, and the case for the plaintiff was so clearly and forcibly pre sented that tne jury gave a veraict lor a pretty round sum, although a much larger . j rrt - account was ciaimeu. me instructions of the Judge were satisfactory to both sides, and the jury was possessed of more than average intelligence. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. At our late Exhibition the admission was fifty cents, and they were particular how the fifty cents should be paid. Two quarters, five dimes, or ten nickels would not satisfy the man at the turnstile he must have a fifty cent piece or nothing At the French Exhibition the admission is twenty cents, but the gate-keeper is not allowed to take twenty cents ; he de mands a ticket. The tickets are sold almost everywhere in Paris, and so it don't trouble the Parisians half so much to get the ticket as it does to get the twenty cents. Detroit Free Prctt. An Aztec Prince's Wedding". I must pass over a long period in the life of Master M. with the mere remark that he graduated in both his military and religious classes with the highest honors, and acquitted himself to the most perfect satisfaction of both the al falquis, or priests, and the teachcauhs, which is nearly the same aa our word teachers. Master M. had, for a long time, cher ished a hope that some day he might press the. throne as king of Mexico. So, like the Yorkshire lad who begged salt of a stranger eating eggs near him, so as to have the salt ready in case any one should ask him to accept an egg, he pre pared himself fully for the possible emergency, and became not only a mili tary general, but a leading alfalqui. And then he married. I have not room to give you a detailed description of the whole- ceremony, its crowds, and fuss, and grandeur, but here is a glimpse of the way it was done. A lady whose position in society re quired her to negotiate the match, hav ing previously made all the necessary ar rangements, one evening, hoisted tlje happy damsel on her back, and accom panied by four young women, each in ap propriate costume, bearing a torch, head ed the joyous procession and marched to the house of Master M., where she dropped her cargo of precious humanity. Then the alfalqui asked them if they were mutually agreed on matrimony, and, of course, they said "yes," when he pro ceeded to tie their clothes together. Then two old patriarchs and two good old grand mothers stepped forward in a very sol emn manner, and delivered little sermons suited to the occasion. The new couple walked Beven times round a blazing fire, partook of a feast with their friends, heard a final sort of a "ninety-ninthly and to conclude" parting word from the f ur old people, and then, just as all married people do, went to housekeeping, and having their own way as much as possi ble. One thing they could not do. There was no law of divorce to appeal to then; death was the only judge who could en tertain the question of separation. Master M. will now disappear, to re appear as the Emperor. In the year "ten rabbits," or A. D. 1502, the former mon arch died, and the electors selected Mas ter M. to supply his place. In the house hold of each monarch there was an elec toral boaid of four nobles, whose duty it was, on the death of the ruler, to elect his successor from among the sous and I nephews of the crown. Having done this, and so notified the successor, they selected fouf nobles to fill their own places, and vacated their electoral chairs. , Master M., when waited upon to bo no tified ot his election to fill his uncle's place, was very busy sweeping down the stairs in the great temple dedicated to the god of war. St. Nicholas. The "Graphic" on Gardening. This is the way the Graphic gives its readers some "seasonable suggestions:" Sow shirt buttons early in the morn ing. Sow bird seed this month. The birds will come up in June. Cats do best in the night, in a very light soil, well dug and raked. Sardine cans, broken bottles, old shoes, and tinware should be set out in the back yard. Prima donnas are lovely flowers, but very difficult to raise. A gentleman en deavored to raise the Rose last month, but tailed entirely. It you are a landlord and in any doubt as to what product to raise raise the rent. If you are not a landlord, try and raise the wind. Oysters should be set out with a top dressing of bread crumbs and plenti fully watered. The oyster withers if not watered, although its fragrance is in creased. Olive branches should be set out around the breakfast table. They need great care and attention, however, to keep them from running into the butter and mo lasses. Wash them well once a day with soap and water. Photographing a Heart Beat. One of the most remarkable applications of photography is that by which it is now made to register, and in the most accu rate manner, the mechanical motion of the heart. The device by which this re sult is attained is indeed a triumph of in vented skill. It consists ot a thin India rubber bag, to which a short glass tube is attached; sufficient mercury is poured into the apparatus to fill the bag and a portion ot the tube, and the instrument is then placed over the heart of the per son to be examined. Arranged in this manner, every pulsation of the heart is indicated by a corresponding movement of the mercury of 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 the pulsation is obtained. The inter esting fact is made known by this process that the fall of the pulse sometimes takes place in successive horizontal lines, the column reascending two or three times before tailing altogether. A paper in Syracuse, N. Y., wants people to send in postal card petitions to Congress m favor of postal savings banks The cards are to have on them the sen tence: "We, citizens, ask Congress to legalize postal savings banks." The sender also signs his name, and gets as many of his neighbors as he can to sign it until the card is full, and then off goes the card to the unfortunate member of Con gress that may be selected as a victim. The petition is always ready to drop into the postoffice the moment the last signa ture is inscribed. This kind of petition is what in slang phraseology might be termed a "little one for a cent." Detroit Free Press. . John Anderson, colored, has been" ar rested in Springfield, Mass.. on a charge of shooting his wife's sister. The ball struck on one of the steel springs of the woman's corset, and, glancing off, did no harm. But for the corset the wound would have been mortal. Anderson claims that the shooting was accidental. Bookless Homes. A dreary place is a bookless house, my young friends; see that in founding a home for yourselves you do not neglect the household library. We rejoice in pretty furniture and artistic pictures; but we want to see a new book sandwiched between every two purchases, and news papers and magazines drifting around so thickly that the very order of the sitting room is imperilled. We never knew any thing worse than intelligent sons and daughters to grow out of such untidiness. To go to housekeeping without a family Bible and unabridged Dictionary ought to be elected a criminal offense. Here lies the beginning of wisdom. Then we should add modern history to ancient, poetry to science, Scott, Thackeray, Dick ens, Hawthorne and Holmes to theology. We should know the opinions of the best minds of to-day, upon all questions of social lite, of philosophy, of agriculture. We have known famous business men, keen financiers, to grow out of bookless homes, but never "the great-hearted and tender-souled. Si. parents, remembering this, glance over your libraries to see if there be not some vacancy to nil up with a volume which will add to the cheer of the windy winter nights. Get for the boy a book of history or travels; for the girl a copy of Tennyson, or Longfellow, or Browning some sweet poet who sings along the quiet vales of life in notes w? all can understand! Win them to read aloud around the evening lamp, and most unconsciously their young souls will be drawn out to follow after those who call to follow, and eing, and be glad for great is the power of influence. Correcting Children in Anger. There is another common error, which may need to be noticed that of correct ing a child hastily and harshly, and then, feeling that injustice has been done, to compensate him by some soothing sugar plum or honied apology. It is not easy to conceive of anything more likely to degrade the parent in the eyes of his off spring than such inconsiderate lolly: nothing more sure to destroy his influence over the mind, to harden the young heart in rebellion, and make it grow bold in sin. In proportion as the parent 6inks in his esteem, self-conceit grows up in the mind of the undutiful child. Young people as well as old pay great respect to consistency, and, on the contrary, de spise those whose conduct is marked with caprice. The sacred relation of parent is no protection against this contempt. Those, therefore, who would preserve their influence over tkeir children, who would keep hold of the reins that they may guide them in periods of danger, and save them from probable ruin, must take care not to exhibit themselves as governed by passion or whim, rather than rixed principles of justice and duty. Ccre for Sore Mouth. Steep raisin stems in water and rinse the mouth with that several times during the day. It is almost a sure cure. Cure for Hoarseness. The iuice and pulp of" lemons, 6tirred thick with white sugar, will relieve Hoarseness besides being an agreeable remedy. For Croup. A piece of lard as large as a butternut, rubbed up with sugar, and divided into three equal parts and given at intervals of twenty minutes, will often work well. For Bronchitis. A residence in a sugar-house from the first of August until January, has been known to give relief. To Remove Iron Rust. Wet the cloth with a piece of lemon, lay in the sua till dry, then wash in nice clean suds. For Chilblains. Soak the feet a short time in potato water as hot as can be borne, tor two or three nights after ward, repeat when necesFary. An im provement may be expecttd at once. To Core Corns. Take the skin of a boiled potato and bind it on the corn, putting the inside ot the skin next to the corn. It is a gooa plan to lay on two or three thicknesses to keep it moist. I have never known it to lail. For Cold Feet. Soak the feet in hot water as hot as can be borne, until thor oughly warmed, then turn a little cold water over them and rub dry. Always put not only the stockings, but the boots on, before ntepping upon the floor, or even the carpet. Simple remedies are sometimes the very best; try the above. Steamed Beef. For a family of six or seven persons take four pounds of beef, cross-rib is best; get a piece of suet the size of your hand, cut in small pieces and try out the fat; you must have a large flat-bottomed iron pot; after the suet i3 brown, take out the scraps and put in the meat and two onious cut up; when the meat has become a dark brown on one side turn it over on the other and "let that get the same; when onions and meat are thoroughly brown, pour in a pint of boiling water; whenever, the meat gets dry add more water, but it must al ways be boiling hot; throw in a handful of salt, three bay-leaves, and half dozen each of whole allspice and whole pepper; cover with a close-htting cover and let it cook for three hours; when almost done thin a tablespoonful of flour with half a cupful of water; stir this in the gravy. taking care not to have any lumps in it. when you wish to serve it, strain the gravy tnrougu a sieve ana pour a lew spoonfuls over the meat. Cooking Turnips. Peel them, chop fine in a chop ninsr-bowl, nut thfm in n A CJ - 7 f - kettle with water enough to cover, cook until render, mey should be nearly dry when done; then season as vou would rh. bage, and I think you will pronounce i i a:j IUCU1 opieuuiu. Fancy Pocjtd Cake. One cup sugar one of butter, four fuls of milk, one and one-half cups flour, 1 L.IC . , . . ' uuc nun uue-uau leaspooniuia oaaing powder. Macaroons. On nd nno.nnflrfpr v . VUS pounds powdered sugar, one pound sweet aiinuuus Dieacnea ana pounded to paste, whites of six eercr. orated Deel of two melons. Benedetti, the Sword Swallower. A servant brings a table on the stage, and upon it places a box containing the various swords to be swallowed. He then retires and brings from behind the scenes a musket. Upon its summit is placed a formidable looking bayonet. All being ready Mr. Benedetti appears with a very bright sword in his hand. Arriving at the front of the stage, he drives the point of the sword into the floor, and the force of the impaction of the sword into the wood causes it to sway backward and forward. Mr. Benedetti then goes to his box and produces a sword made of a nn lustrous metal. Holding it in the air, between his two hands, he opens his mouth and simply thrusts it down his throat ia the same manner as a cavalry soldier would replace his sword in the sheath. This is feat No. 1. Mr. Benedetti next takes up six or eight of these swords, and having put them one behind the other, he opens his mouth again, and, presto 1 down goes the lot into what is called by children the "red lane." These swords being well down into his throat, he then plucks them out one by one and throws them on to the stage, where they fall with a clash that indicates to the commonest observer that they really are metal. This done, he rests a minute, and then comes the musket and bayonet. He lifts up the musket and holds it with bayonet down ward above his head, and then slightly steadying the weapon, he allows the bayonet to gently glide down his throat. Just at the moment when it seems doubt ful whether he is not going to swallow musket and all, it suddenly stops, and then the bayonet is hidden all but the part near where it joins on to the musket itself. But this is not enough ; he leans forward, and holding the bayonet hori zontally between his teeth, turns round and round, swinging the musket. He concludes the performance by .a very marvellous feat. He goes directly to the sword that is still vibrating in the boards of the stage and pulls it out with a jerk. One cannot imagine what he is going to do with it, as it appears to the eye that the sword, from hilt to point, is larger than the man's body. He then proceeds to the mifldle of the stage ; back goes his I head, and down his throat goes the 6word. Several eminent medical men, among j whom is Mr. Frank Buckland, vouch to the fact that the sword measures thirty inches in length and one and a half across. Mr. Benedetti has been swallow ing swords for fourteen years ; the stom ach is consequently accustomed to their reception. He is a singularly prepossess ing man, and his mnnners are polished. Demolition of Old Loudon Churches. Four more London churches are to be torn down. Last year witnessed the de struction of the fine church of St. Mi chael's, and of All Hallows, which bore upon its walls the inscription stating that Milton had been baptized there. St. Dion's Backchurch, a remarkable build- ng by Wren, is now in course of destruc tion. Those for the removal of which a commission has now been issued are as follows : St. Margaret Pattons, Rood Lane ; St. George, Botolph Lane ; St. Matthew, Friday street, and St. Mildred, Bread street, all works of Wren, and two of them possessing spires of singularly original aud beautiful design. The Secre tary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings argues that it is a mistake to suppose that by preserving St. Paul's Cathedral, that architect's great masterpiece, enough will be left to illus trate his views upon ecclesiastical archi tecture. For, grand as St. Paul's un doubtedly is, it is only one of a class of buildings common enough on the Conti nent imitations of St. Peter's, Rome. 1 n fact, St. Paul's can scarcely be looked upon as an English design, but rather as : an English rendering of the great Italian ' original, whereas the city churches are I examples of pure English renaissance architecture as applied to ecclesiastical purposes, and illustrate a style peculiar to London, and when they are destroyed the phase of architecture which they ex hibit will have ceased to exist, and nothing will be left to iecord it. Thhi Foolish Calf. A calf, with the thoughtlessness of vealy youth, could not abstain from insulting an honest hard working ox that was toiling at the plow. "Oxcuse m3," said the calf; "what a fool you are to wear that heavy yoke np on your neck, and go all day long draw ing a plow at your heels to turn up the ground for your master. Why don't you exchange your yoke for a paper collar and have some style about you ? See what a jolly time I have of it ; nothing to do but enjoy life. Knock off work. old fellow, and let's have some fun." But the ox kept right along about his busi ness, saying to himself, "When .that young chap gets as furrow 'long in life as I have he will know more and won't talk calf as much as he does now." That evening, while the ox, whose day's work was over, was at nia repast, he saw a butcher s cart driving bv containing the insolent calf, who was destined to be re duced to cutlets, calves-head jelly and material lor sewed boots before morning An, my nne leliow," said the ox, " you won't have an opportunity to insult hon est labor for one while, yoke can bet your lite." Moral Never despise an ox because he wears a heavy yoke. Cincinnati Saturday Night. Etpehteshb ia a stern teacher. The nnthnritipa at thf Paris Exhibition do not offer a prize for poetry this time. They Uia in 100 1 . 1 Ucy wauieu a tauwui uu hvmn tr Peace. Both came to hand. The unfortunate judges listened to 222 . . ti t fantatao and after tnrowiBcr awav o poems for not complying with the con ditions,there were left 630 hymns to read. Th miaernhi inacescriea "ireace. peace. but there was no peace," although there hnndrpda of hvmns to it. The French believe they have had enough of peace poems to last them a century; but if any one nas some verses w opnng u w tn hp honed these few lines will not deter the poet from forwarding them at once to Jr am. jjeiron free srress. Horse Distemper, or Epizootic. I read a statementin the Chronicle of Dec. 24th, taken from the Chico Record, that Mr. Cone of Tehama county had lost $10,000 worth of mules and horses from glanders, which I am quite positive is a mistake. There never has been one hun dred cases of glanders in California. Glanders is a disease that has two origins I The first is, a horse may have farcy and sores break out on the legs, generally one at a time. The horse bites the sore, gets the matter into his nostrils, snuffs it into the glands and inoculates the disease into the head and glands. Local treatment being impossible, the disease goes on for months, and maybe for years, before he dies from it, and the only way that other horses can take it from him is from get ting the matter off the stalls or fence or from smelling the diseased horse, thus becoming inoculated. Distemper or epi zootic has two forms: One form only af fects the head and glands, is very con tagious, and often fatal. The other at tacks the whole system, is not so conta gious nor so fatal, and seldom produces death until the limbs become swollen and break out with sores, and has much the same appearance as glanders. This is the disease Mr. Cone's animals have, and it is raging to some extent all through the Sacramento Valley. The Tide Land and Reclamation Company at Union Island have had the disease among their horses, and many veterinaries and horse men pronounce it glanders. They had lost many, and several have been killed to stop the disease from spreading. The President, General Thomas H. Williams, called on a horseman of practical experi ence, who at once pronounced it distem per, whereupon the General commenced treating the disease for distemper, and out of several hundred horses that have had it he has lost only a few, and the balance have got well. This is conclu sive proof that the disease is not glanders, as that disease is incurable, and no horse ha3 ever been cured that had it. All horsemen agree that it cannot be cured. I hope vou will lav this much-needed information before the public and obUge all owners of horses. Horse Owner, tn S. F. Chronicle. What Poultry Pay the Best. We have kept fowls of almost all the different breeds, though we honestly con fess we never exhibited any except on one occasion in the selling class. Our object has been to try which are the most profitable. Many friends of our acquaint ance say the non-sitters are the best pay ing breeds, while others quite as Btoutly maintain that the sitters are the best. We first kept Black Spanish; our experience of these is soon told: Early-hatched birds commence laying early, and often keep up during the winter, if not too se vere; the cause of this is probably that they are full feathered, but after their first laying is over they often turn out badly. Then we tried the Yellow Cochin. So far as egg-production is concerned and we must confess this is, after all, the main thing they are equal to the Span ish, but they are wretched table fowls. As a pure breed, if we were compelled to keep any, we should unanimously give the preference to the Dorking; but, after years of testing, we have fouud a mixed breed of Spanish and Dorking the best for all practical purposes; they are hardy, at least sufficiently so for our farnvyards they will realize high prices in the. mar ket, and best of all, they are pplendid layers in this respect they excel all birds of which we have had any experi ence. We advise all lovers of farm or barn-door poultry never to keep the un gainly B.rahmas, which are now coming into fashion ; they are costly things. Let your selection be either Spanish or Dor king, and by all means a judicious cross will pay better than any other birds, for the eggs are fine, always salable at high rates, whilst the plump, well-fed pullets are favorites everywhere for table use. 12., in London Agricultural Gazette. Sand for Bedding.-A correspondent of the New England Farmer advocates the use of dry -sand for bedding horses and cattle. He thinks that it is the cleanest substance which can be used, and it is of great mechanical advantage in dividing the manure. Horses and cat tle tramp upon it and in that way cause it to cut up the manure. Spread, under hen roosts it acts to keep the floor clean, and makes the manure easy to handle. Then manure mixed with sand can be kept in boxes and barrels without giving off any unpleasant odors. It is an excel lent compound to use for manuring in the hill, aud is the very best -substance to put in flower-pots or in beds where hardy plants are grown. A mixture of sand and muck is greatly superior to muck alone for bedding purposes, as the sand will divide the muck and thorough ly mix in with the manure. Any manure in which sand is mixed is easy to handle, and may be spread with uniformity. Soil for Roses. Good loam, such as farmers prize for wheat growing, is suit able for most kinds of roses, excepting, perhaps, some of the more delicate of the tea-scented kinds, which do better in lighter soil. When preparing the ground lor the reception of the roses a coating of thoroughly rotten dung should be placed over the surface and trenched in two spades deep, and the manure is placed at the bottom after the soil has been turned over roughly. It acts as drainage, and the roots of the plants will be sure to fiud their way down to it. If the posi tion is a wet and cold one drainage is in dispensable where successful rose grow ing is to be expected. In the process of trenching, the ground should be well broken with the spade and a level sur face left ready for the plants. When planted in very rich soil, toma toes often produce much wood and little fruit. The best crop of tomatoes I ever saw was furnished by main stems as free from side growth as a walking-stick. All growths except the leaves and flowers at tached to the principal stem had been pinched off as they appeared.-TA Garden. a I t ii 1 i . 1 "( i : i ; f U;i(' r fi r hi