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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1891)
ii A 8ECOND THOUGHT. It to ho long »Ince thou watt l>*t to view, Through the dim «hud«»» vrhey ic<»ue be fora,__ That with grief'* rungs there throng once more. The dread that m / u»ne heart, ow ever true— At> years on»«- a il—may loae thy 4lteuesa, too— The uiigruveu image II can *tiL adore. Valn dread*, for calm ing tim e w II but restore Those visioned love-llmned nueam nts anew ,— As in a lake the mirror*« *on may show lucouataut. dimmed by every blurring breeze. But pure an«I rounded when the ripple« cease.-* In my soul's sleep shall thy reflection grow From wavering glim pses perfect bv degree , ▲s sorrow '» surge «upsides to wavaka> immu a —“ F. V." in New Orlcuus Tin «*» btm ocr A. T r y in g t o R e fort i th e W orld . Mrs. Elizabeth Cady btanton recently U Id a s to ry a ls ju t the way in which she beg. a her work of reform « g the world. Whwi she was a girl of 10 or 12, she used to see hei father, Judge Cady, adiniuisteriug law front the bench. She noticed that tl * judge, in laying down the law or givmg h «decision, al ways referred to his la v t»ooks for guidance. She set to work in his library reading these books, and as she thought he could 0« t say anything but w hat he found there, sht care fully tore out and burned those pages th it contained principles of decisions ot which > • disapproved. How could he, while on toe bench dun u g a trial, make application of anything not to he seen in the lxx»ks by which he was guided/ She discovered a great deal th a t was offensive in every law book th at she inspected in his library Out came the pagee, which she cast int > the Are until the book suited her, and she lelt sure th a t her father would l»e compelk J to confine himself to such law as she left. She kept on a t this work for a long while, until she wa caught a t it, but by th at tiin« a great p art ff Judge Cady's law library h« 1 been sjxiilt 1 in her efforts to reform tne w orld—New York Suu. “ I n t e r n a tio n a l I d e n tity C a rd s.“ The police authorities of Vienna for some tim e past have, ou application, issued so called "international identity cards,” con sisting of a photograph, ou which a brief personal description of he owner is written in three language!- i( erman, Frenc i aud English!, and to which an official certificate and seal is attached iu » ueb a w ay as to pre vent the possibility of the exchange o ’ the carte de visits ph« tograph. The card is kept iu a smaP leather over, can therefore easily be carried, and foi purposes of identifict tion is fully as useful a id even more eouve l ’eut to travelers than a passport. This same idea was used in issuing pre « tickets to our Ceu- tenuitd Exhibiti >n in 1876 Each press tick?« bore the p jotograpb of the editor or reporter who presented it. and this precau tion prevented “ passes” from being iranr- ferred. — Home Journal. A R u ssian M e rc h a n t*« S l«n . MEN W H BUY GREEN GOODS. A g r ic u lt u r a A m e r ic a In t h e -M etropolis. B lo w in g O u t t h e O as. Of the thousands of countrym en who come to New York to buy “ green goods,” it is thought a very large percentage perish by blow .ng out the gas in tle ir rooms a t the hotels. B./ne of them , h o w * r , are known to survive the gas ordeal aiiu r» r the instruc tion of these a few of the BoUery inns, much frequented by this class of ustom, display the most unique and absur«l signs. One of the m<>st common mistakes ma«le by the granger giving himself a l»ath is to forget to turn off the water wheu the tub is full. A g«xxl many floods, disastrous to the property and tem per of the host have resulted from tins omission, and to pr «vent it a sign ia placed in the bathroom rw ling: “ Please tu rn the water off when the ti b is full, or the l>ath will run over.” In spite f this trib u te to the intelligence of agricultural America, printed as it often is in six line pica type, there are a good m any bathrooms devastated every year by overflows. Another common blunder is itself due to *i sign reading: “ L<x*k your do« r on retir ing.” The antidote to this is another sign to the effect: “ B u td o not hide the key.” Coun trym en do not understand the a r t of locking their room doors, but in a city hotel they are so afraid of thieves th a t they always attem pt to do it. Bometimee they are too successful. A fter locking themselves in tney conceal the key so th at it cannot possibly be found by the burglars outside. N ext m orning the granger cannot find it himself, and he is caught in his own trap. Reports have been made of forgotten grangers thus imprisoned rem aining in their rooms for days, afraid to move t-ecause they thought they were in a bunco house and in danger of their lives if they - m reamed. The sign, “ The porters will handle guests’ baggag«1,” is to quiet the fears of the country man. . .8 soon as he has registered the polite be 1 boy «eizes his gripsack to convey it to his room. The wary guest thinks he is in the clutches of a highwayman, and sometime« the liell boy does not secure the baggage until he has had a desjierate struggle for it. The sign, “ No extra charge for the elevator,” is to prevent the guests front walking up stairs. A sim ilarity of names makes the fam er confuse the elevator with the elevated railw ay, on which he knows a fare of five cents is exacted. A few people think th a t the elevator is unsafe anyw ay, and conse quently, when heavenward bound, they use the staircase, though they have confidence enoiigh in the “ lift” to come down in it. A well known sign is this: “Guests can w ith safety leave th eir baggage in the rooms, provided they lock the doors.” This has a good effect. It is designed to prevent folks from dragging their trunks aud portman teaus down stairs, and piling the articles around them each time they go to take a meal. The indivisibility of a green country man and his valise is proverbial. It is often a nuisance to the bon ¡face. Borne guests of this stripe insist oil lieiiig present when their rooms are being arranged and their beds made, to prevent the cham berm aid from eking and stealing from their effet s.— ew York Press. I passed th ro u g h one of th e principal th o ro u g h fares of St. P e tersb u rg , and ob served th a t th e upi»er fro n ts of m any of the business houses w ere covered w ith cof fee sacks, in q u iry revealed th e fact th a t beneath those sacks w ere b e a u tifu l signs, and th e covering w as to p rotect th em from T h * B a r d e n o f A n c e s try . th e d u st in su m m er tim e. I induced a m erch an t to show m e one of these signs— 1 Sometimes I think it would have been be - six by eighteen f et, p a rtia lly mosaic, a te r for all hands if we had never had any ai portion p ain tin g . H e w as a chem ist, and costors nor any precedents prior to the ysai th ere were p ictu res of b o ttles of ointm ent 1789. Of w hat consequence were the old and perfum ery; sick people an u a doctor Dutch an ceetors of New York compared O to repre* n t m edicine; p ain t brushes and D eW itt Clinton, who laid out the E rie canal sam ples of th e p ain t; insects on a lim als, and pressed its execution upon a com para to repo sen t flea an«i like powders, and tively poor commonwealth? Of what conse picture^ of fancy articles. The jfg n would quence were the so called Pilgrim F athers of be a valuable acq u isitio n to the Corcoran New Y ork compared to the men who started a r t gallery a t W ash in g to n , ai d m u st have the Croton aqueduct, without which this cost seve'ul h u n d red ro u b l-* even to th e island could never have grown to the popular cheap hai is of a R ussian a r tis t.—Moscow tion it has! How much more we owe to the Cor. Cleveland le a d e r . first founders of our g reat public cemeteries than to the founders of the little churcl ards P u b lic T o w e ls . which would otherwise have l»een, as •' Lon T he public tow el is a lto never safe to don, over]«eked a t the present di with superabundant dead? Sometimes 11 ,nk we use, th u t is, th e tow el ti it the public wipes on. I t n o t only rem oves th e m oist will owe quite as much to th at gen- ition or u re th a t is its purpose to do, b u t it rubs leader who will wipe the cemeteri« •» out, and oil scales, pieces of dead skin, lym ph from turn their monuments and heat. st< «lies into c u ts and abrasions, p erspiration from the 1 some useful architecture for the iiv lg. To pores, m ucus from the nostrils, pus from put the old mold of a discharged man under sores and ulcers and any liquid th a t is a $50,900 monument is as near idolatry as excreted from the su rface of th e body. the Greeks and Romans ever got, and I have T hese im p u rities and disease germ s are never heard of but two cases where a use! ll retain ed in th e me«-lies of th e tow el and man slipped into a rich m an’s tom b by way are ready to attach them selves upon sub of charity, the first being in the case of J o seq u en t u sers of the towel. A h u n d red or seph of A rim atbca, and the next th a t of m ore persons use one of the tow els in a R obert Fulton, who was glided into the L iv day, and those who are am o n g th e last, I ingston tomb, but he was a connection of especially, ru n u n p leasan t chances of ’ th a t em igrant family. catch in g som e ill or o th er.—Good House- | Jf you notice our youngest American keeping. states, they get along m id smooth«* th an | our oldest states. Be«- how Kansas is grow W orking th e Chopper. ‘•W hat’s troublin’ yer, Jakey ?” inquired the ing, without any for«>fatli< rs, and see how proprietor of a Thirteenth av enue restaurant, South Carolina is groaning under its old as he notice«I his head waiter hanging around planter oligarchy? Bee how readily Minne sota reaches out her an ten ni a t«» the Bault St. the cash desk. “ De c<x»k wants to know w ottle we do wid Marie, to Duluth, to Mam to la, to Dakota and to everywhere, having, it is said, five yestiddy’s pieces.” railroads to Chicago, whereas the building “ Much?” of the Boston and A11 »any railroad and the “ Quite some.” consolidating of the Penney, vania and New “ W ot are they?” “ D eres half a ham, five cold veal cutlets, Y ork Central lines were done as if nothing some liver, nineteen chicken wings and twelve of th a t kind had ever beei done before or . could be done again. Why i it th at Boston pieces of m utton.” and New Y ork are connec >d by a single “ You tell de c<x>k, Jakey, to p ut ’em in and | I corporation, when Buffalo m d New Y ork work de chopper, and den put on the black are connected by half a dozen corpora board: tions? Precedents sit upon the head of “ ‘Special Today, the living age. The gravestone is not put Excelsior Croquettes, two fer ten.” * upon the dead only, but upon t h i living.— —New Y ork Tribune. George Alfred Townsend in Boston Glob*. S The Young H o u s e k e e p e r '* M a th e m a tic s . Young Housekeeper (to butcher)—W hat ia the price of m utton! Butcher —Fourteen cent«, mum. Young Housekeeper—Aud lambf Butcher—Eighteen cents, mum. Young Housekeeper (svrprised)—Is it possi ble! Why, a lam b isn't more than half the size of a—«r—m utton 1—H arparti Bazar. T h e W a y t o E n jo y L ife . “ Never seek for am usem ent,” says Ruskin, “ but be always ready to be am u sx t The least thing has play in it, the slightest word wi> when your hands are busy aud your heart is free. But, if you make the aim of your life am usem ent, the «lay wi ! come when all the agonies o f a (wuitomine ▼ ill not bring you au honest laugh.'* M a tc h b o y s on th e St airw ays . Matchlx»ys a t the foot of the down town Elevated stairw ays secure «nistoiners by pre senting gentlemen carrying half smoked fire- lees cigars with a lights«' m atch which the wind cannot extinguish The smoker is ac commodated a t an opportune tim e, and the match vender usual) v makes a sale.—New York Tribune. “ T ip p in g “ E v il In L o n d o n . In apito of all th a t haa been «aid about the “ tipping” evil in London, 1 m aintain th a t it ia not half the erourge in England th a t it ia on the continent of Europe, and th a t i t ia rapidly becoming on the continent of Am er ica. W aiter» a t Engliah hotel tables do not have it in tbeir power to give patrons of the house bad food, because they are n ot well tipped. When a charge for attendance is made in the bill a t hot-la or in restaurants, one is quite w ithin on-*, right to go aw ay from the place w ithout tipping any servant whatsoever. London cabmen never expect, and as far aa I know, never get, any tips. Ask a cabm an what his fare is, if you do not ! know yourself, and he will probably not ex aggerate his fare beyond a paltry sixpence, and more probably still, he will tall you the exact truth. “ Cabbage” it dear when you indulge in a lot of it, of courte; still, there are the omnibuses of London, the finest of any metropolis, where the fare is one penny. So you can take your choice between penny an d shilling modes of conveyance.—Olive Logan in Kansas C ity Jo u rn a l re N o r th D a k o ta * * E <lU or-Sene . THAT ALTERED THE CASE. N o one w ho knew H a n s o ro u g ’f w hen T h e ExreedhMS l>iffere»*ce B et . 1st T w e e - he w as in Bun F ra n cisco tw e)/b y ja rs end T».ee«lle<iee. ag o ev er d ream ed he w ould ft x:h u p in ’ “ S a ), d«« v« 11 se - tb it git I?” “ Vk’hv, ve»: »He's a b e au tj, too.” th e U n ite d S ta te s seuate. H ¿¿brough tilled th e te le g ra p h e d ito r’s 'U^k on Til© 1 “ A‘. ell, y.,u c an ju s t bet flie is. T wa» en C h ro n icle for m an y m o n th s, » j,’ Me w as ' gage« I to lie/ <»i»« a.*' a r a ttlin g good e d ito r of uew . besides I Then there « a» ilence f«»r the space of tw . n iin u t o , a s t e t n c men <ii*ew near and ¡»as» I b ein g a n e x p e rt on head w r ing. At I the pretty • au*g woman Then the young th a t tim e th e n ew sp ap ers h e r g o t only 1 nni.i in tin «x>x emit remarked: a lig h t te le g ra p h ic service, b e fta a e th e I “ Y * >u «ii'M*’*• s jx a k to each oth er. H o w i* o v erlau d w ire s w ere in pool co n d itio n th a t 1 ' Well, vou see,’ explsine I the gentlem an a n d th e r a te s e x tre m e ly h e a y . P ro b a blue!; n m ustache ami gray hair, “ it’s bly 5.000 w o rd s a n ig h t w as n average 1 Witti re p o rt. U n d e r these c o n d 'i ins i t w as 1 H V« ry p<*«‘ul»ar» n*ry. Bounds like a romance, necessary to a d d a n y d escr itive m a tte r • b> t it ’s true. «•% ei v word of it. 1 met her I two years ag»> down at Long Branch. She th a t w o u ld su p p le m e n t a »«.m atch, an 1 of an old Russian count, , W.l- the daught* also to m a k e an a ttr a c tiv e J IXl. H ans- wlm was r«*put< i to t»e worth at least half a b ro u g h w as a n a r tis t in ^ lb « kind of m illion. I fell d -id in love with her, and she work. se«*me<l to he ' rv much una< heil to me. O nce, w h en Alexand« i II m ad e a W ell, you know Thompsoi ? I invited him w holesale sw eep of a lo; of n ihilists, dow n to sta y wi i me for a week or two. He sh o o tin g se v era l a u d ex ilin ' th e Remain cam e, of co «rs* Never knew Thompson to d e r to S ib e ria , H ansbrough headed th e refuse an invi itiou. He met the count’s r a th e r lu rid re p o rt of Russian im perial» daughter. The\ fell in love with neh other a t first sight. He proposed after he’d knowu c ru e lty as “ C zar-K aparilli!” W ork a t a her three «lays, ami she accepted him. desk, h o w ev er, proved too m onotonous “Well, it made me mad. I knew the fel fo r H a n sb ro u g h , an d A nally. in 1879, he low only wante«l the girl’s money, so I put up conceived t h e id e a of ta k in g a n « lu c a te d n job oil him. I told him th at the count had C hinese to th e eas. on a hx-ti re trip . failed, and th at lie wasn’t worth a copper. H a n s b ro u g h h ired H ull, t h e m e accom A> I expected, th«* blackguard w »nt back to plished n e w sp ap er “ fa k ir” on tne coast, Sew York tliat night, aud next «lay he wr«»te who wade Denis Kearney fiw o w l.y t'-e g , r l a le .t e r s a y ia g that he bad been m ix- writing hig .and lot speech ■«, «a prepare “** ' ““kwl to rele**d rhe «"'* tlie le c tu re , an d it w as a vei y ei tertain - ing one. The east didn’t bite i s Hal sbr nigh ex pected, and the lecture out it went to pieces so m e w h ere b etw ee .« ¿a-ag o an d N ew Y ork. T h en H an sb co.; i w en t to Iow a au d s ta rte d a p a n e - .- W -n th e D ak o ta be ini s ta rte d hi i a v hi, oppor tu n ity , a m . now he is reap ag the f ru its o f it. H " m ay n o t k now i ,tn u c h ab o u t law o r p a rlia m e n ta ry ,n ced u re as m an y o th e r se n ato rs, b u t th -re a re few in t h a t liody w ho hav ■ m ow g en eral in fo rm a tio n th a n B a n sl ro u g h .—St. L ouis «Jlobe-D em ocrat. P i .-c a u tio n A g a in s t i'lio tl« . wax d indignant and sent Inin flying, und th«** ! ****nt to work »n«l prnj»<*'*d myself. BI ac<• jited me. Well, all went on smoothly lor w -ek, when”----- “ WI .t happened then / Did you m arry the girl.” isked the lx»x coated gentleman. “ N< -o. You see a t th-« end of the week the I old co nt died, and wheu his accounts were i l«»ok««l up it wa*- «1 iscover<*<I th at instead of * havibt a half million to his credit he was in | <lebt U the tune of $200,000. Of course, you see, aft r th at I couldn’t m arry the girl very well, y. u know. M uchas 1 can do to support n y.se f ’—New York Suu. T -lfttol on M<*<II«' h 1 S c ie n c e . Tolst i does not believe in science, and be th in is . in p a rtic u la r, th a t medical sc io n « is p ro g ressin g in an en tirely w rong d ire c th i. “ Met ca science.” ho says, “ is en tirely arrang« i r th e w ealthy classes aud it has ado, ted for its ta sk th e healing of th e petq j who can o b tain e v e ry th in g for th e m se h s. and it a tte m p ts to heal th o se who pos! ss n«» su p erflu ity by th e sam e m eans. Hie physician has stu d ie d w ith eelebritie- in tlie cap itals, who only retain p a tie n ts ho can be cured in th e h o s pital, an« who, in th e course of th e ir cure, can p rcliase th e appliances req u isite for healing md even go a t once from th e n o rth to th so u tli t > som e b a th s o r other. Science is f such a n a tu re th a t every ru ral physic m lam en ts because th e re are no n.cans of n i’ing w orkingm en, because he is so poor tl it lie lias not th e m eans to place th e sick man in th e proper hygienic conditions; an«! at th e sam e tim e th is p h y sician coir plai a th a t th e re are no hos p ita ls ami that h e cannot g e t th ro u g h w ith his work h a t he needs a s sista n ts, I m ore doctor^ o.’id p ractitio n ers. ”— New ! York Medicai Record. B A N .t R O B B B R 8 Haw Tbey ABROA V e n t T la ro n a h m i K lu s n t a n « J. (h a It O h io . K in sm a n , a sm a ll t< vn fifte e n in; •» n o r th o f \ oungst-ivvn. <>hi«>. " «s a- ite d by b a n k r«»bber a w e e k a g o S u- dav 'l’h** lo»'il b a n k w a s e n te r e d , ¡ir vault»* op«*ne«l a n d a b o u t # i0 .0 ( 0 i s ilv e r a n d v a lu a b le s ta k e n . I’he ro b b e rs etfe c «*d a n e n tr a n c e y p ry in g o p en a w in d o w a m i no- n g «»ff th e o u te r d o o r of th e va It. b u t fa ile d to o p e n t h e in sid e I o r In th e «»ut-dd«- v a u lt w e re s ix ty p riv a te <’ ;»os:t b<.\. a n d a t r u n k tilled w itli faini y s ive l»elo n g iu g to < ol. \e o in a n s , v tin e at S».iM>0, w h i h th e 1 ui la is c: rrie off w itli .3,000 p e n n ie s a m -several h u id r e d d o lla r s o f th e b a n k ' « u r re n e v 4 he ro b b e rs w e re f ir in tl e .eu d f s h e riff w h e n t.ie r o b e iy * «a co v ered . A M ad D o g 's U ok. A t St. M ary s, O hio, th e oth« d a ; a sm a ll d o g bei >ng n g to M M . «»le bi h is lit t le s-y ear-o d d a u g h t in i tin g e o f th e r ig h t h a n d , m a k in g a s e r i t c l n e a r th e n a il th a t w a s sc a rc e ly n«»t « e- a b le . N o th in g w as th« u g h of it, by th e p a r e n ts u n til th e cl d co ip la in c d of fe e lin g u n w e ll, a n d it w as ught it h a d ie v tr . T h e l i t t le s u ffe re r ¡ay n sp a sm s a ll n ig h t a n d ra v e d u n til i t w a n e c e s s a ry to tie i t in bed. I t s n a r ls , s n a p s a n d ju m p s a t tho** a r o u n d it. a n ti a tta c k e d a n e ig h b o i lad y wh«5 c a lle d a t th e hou.a* WI n n o 4 in | sp a sm s t h e c h ild se e m s to h • in f e a r t h a t so m e b o d y w ill atta«*k it, a m t p ite o u sly l»egs its m o th e r to p. >tect it. T h e do«‘toil* a g r e e i t h a t i t w is ’ I««* m o st p itifu l case th e y h a v e e n c o i itei T h e y co u ld I»«* o f n o a s s is ta n c e a n d e v ic tim d ied in te r r i b l e a g o n y . H a tf P ic k e r » o l P u rl« . T h e u ses m a d e of t h e r e fu s e of P a ris s tr e e ts a r e n u m e ro u s. L ittle w isp s «»t w o m en s h a ir a r e a r f u lly unravel« «L an«l d o d u ty fo r fa lse h a ir b y a m i ' • M en’s h a ir coll*« te«l o u ts id e th e b a r- 1 her»' s e rv e s fo r tille rs t h r o u g h whi« s ir u p s a r e s tr a in e d : b its o f sp o n g e ; e c u t u p a n d used f o r s p ir it lam p s: bit-, o f b re a d if d ir ty , an* to a s te d an«i g r a te d a n d so ld to t h e re sta u ra n t® t" ! sp re m lin g o n h a m s o r c u tle ts ; s« nie- tim e s th e y a r e c a rb o n iz e d an d m ad e ! in to to o th p o w d er. S a rd in e lio x es a r e ! ' c u t u p in to tin soi«lie s o r in to s o c k e ts ' fo r c a n d le s tic k s . A silk b a t h a s a I w h o le c h a p te r of a«i e n tu r e s in s to r e I fo r it. A ll th is w o rk e m p lo y s a r e g i - I m« n t o f r a g p ic k e r s , n u m b e r in g clo s , on to .;0.<KM>. a n d e a c h e a r n in g fro m 20 j p en ce to h a lf c ro w n a d ay . Flood.*- m ay be successfully opposed or escaped R a ilw a y s a n d wigon ro ad s m ay an d m u st be laid on riv e r flood p lain s, b u t th e em b au k r lauti nn d tre s tle s an d b rid g e s shoui 1 be raised not only abi ve th e la te s t fr slu t m ark , b u t i w ell a b o t e th e g r e a t mi i n t flood m ark i found iu th e plain itself an^ th e recip- , rot-al effects of e m b a n ltm - o an d o th e r ’ s tr u c tu r e s on f u tu re fre u e t^ sh o u ld lie c a u tio u sly reckoned 1 uri • m a y an d I o tu h t to be located on fet.-i e bo tto m lands e n ric h e d by an n u a l -r decen n ial Vllle. P ierced * » ' T r a g i c I I c h I I i . overflow ; b u t th e fa rm e r, sh o u ld d ig T h e n e w s co m es fio m F ra n c e o f t h e deep for h is fo u n d a tio n s ard b u ild his su ic id e th e r e o f M ile. M ere *des, f o r su p e rs tru c tu re s stro n g an d kigli. year.-» th e m o st v e n tu re s o m e bare-ba<*k On e v e ry flood p lain of ea » r n A m er 8 < irt r id e r in th e C ircu s R enze. B erlin . ica lie sh o u ld p rovide fo r th elo ss of crop I t is th e e n d o f a life f r a u g h t with« a d v e n tu r e a n ro m a n * e . T he r in g and fences once in th re e , o r^ iv e , o r ten n e v e r sa w a w o m a n m o re b e a u tif u l. 5 ears: an d b o th com m on li i-ia n ity an d She c h a rm e d m en o f h g h r a n k . K in g s e< inom ic policy u rg e t h a t / , tn b b easts a id P rin c e s w o rsh ip e d a t h e r s h r u e, should be p a s tu re d anil fe, on th e u p lands, so t h a t th e fe rtile "n ?r b o tto m s m ay be devoted to th e ir I k ,' use—nam e- ly, the production of plai t «rops. i C ities an d to w n s o u g h t n t to be b u ilt c t a t i s t l * F o n o e r n in g T o b a cco . i on th e floou rid d en an d taiasm atic low- , it is not wi bout reason th at it has bee n lands; y e t th ey have been in tlie past a n d w ill he in th e f u fu n . so th e to w n s Raid th at you ■ an prov. anything by statis tics. Under Louis X V I, for instance, the m an , like th e fa rm e r, sh e ll I build high tobacco tax only t reduced fit* francs, be a u d stro n g an d hold h im self ready to re cause the < onsui ption was -mall. At that m ove h is d e a r one9 an d < irry his goods tim e the u era duration of ife was twenty- to u p p e r stories. A nd th flood sw ept seven yeat*. Vow the tobat » tax produces bo tto m la n d s of th e A n s ric a n riv ers 30u.000,(X)', ai i the average duration of life afford a business (■¡•port ui ity, cu rio u sly 1 is forty-t re* years. RedRkins, who suffer neg lected in th e p ast, th< ngh d estin ed neither fr >m labetes nor from pituite, have to be su ccessfu lly grasp»-1 i t no d is ta n t alw ays tl j ca. urn?t between their lips. The Persians the ype of C iu ^ sia n purity , say d a y —n a m e ly , in su ra n c e a jv 'n s t floods. th a t “ al joy cor.io t<> th heart through to- T h e g r e a t d e s id e ra tu m i g e n e ra l re- I bacco.** Wliered«»y« u ind suck hand-»me co g n itio n o f th e fa c ts—v Ii h a re d em ol«l pat' ai\ hs as Dinorig the Turk«» Y «tin o n stra te d by tlie observ it ons of th o u th eir < untry th pipe is kept alight «s re sa n d s an d g ain said b; re n e , th o u g h ligious i as Veste s tire in am ent Rome In ignored by m u ltitu d e s t h e riv e rs be ir those lines the trongest mark of emotion th e ir ow n flood m a rk s in th e allu v ial th at r a can giv« is to take ae’» pipe out iff one’s louih. —New Y»rk Commercial A J v«r p lains by w h ic h they a re , d r ie d , a id ______________ _ tisei a n d sh e w a s fin a lly c o m p e lle d to le a v e tlia t m en o ccupy these plai s a t th ir B erlin , w h e n sh e earn«* to A m erica so m * P h te n t * hik I I'aten« L a w y er* . p eril.— W . J . M cG ee in F o rn ix y e irs ag o . S h e e a u g h t a N ew > o r < T c years ago the -e were on the yearly A S n a k e S to ry fro m I -Ila . Aver ge son e 20,000 patents applied for. m illio n a ire in h e r n e t. He d isc o v e re d T h e re is u belief c u r re n t itl all p a r t of Two-third» were usually granted, and the h e r g a m e a n d w as a b o u t to ea st h e r a d i i f t w h e n s h e sh o t hi m s e v e r . I tim e s. In d ia th a t a c e rta in varie f of s m k e o th e 't either refused or abandoned Then She to o k a C u n a r d e r f o r P a r is w h e r e called S h tsh N ag, w hen it a tta in s th e the atent lawyer was only just becoming es sh e « o n tin n e d t h e d iss o u t e life w h ic h ag e of 1,000 years, has a p r cious jew el tab! shed as a practitioner in the distinct e n a e d b y su icid e. fiel of | tents. Now there are about 35,000 form ed in its head. T h e jew el, it is j apfl'cati »ns each year About 9B.00C affirm ed, possesses th e i.uali'; of su c k in g are ;ran <‘d. Many of the device» for which H «*artM T h a t N e v e r « r o w W e a r y , n p th e p o i s i n o f th e <’ -ad snake if let ers are issued are triv ial or chim erical or T w e n ty y* a r s a g o a m a r rie d c o u p le applied to tn e w ounded par . S tra n g e ly » useless th at nothing ever comes of them. in P i t t s b u r g h a d a q tta r re l a n d se p a- enough a P aris gentlem n i i r e p i ted to I itents are issued uow on each of several i ra te d , th e h u s b a n d g o in g W est. T h e possess th is in v a lu a b le t e a 1 acco rd in g j .»arts of one machine, w hite form erly one w ife an<l c h ild re n to o k u p a hom e in to a v o rresp im d tn t of a ■ Jn j ,ti w eekly, general paten' covens! t le whole thing. I O hio w ith h e r p a r e n ts . T h e c o u p le published a t W ad liw an , i G u ja ra ti. This i« is part attrib u ted U the influence of d i l i f t a f t e r w a r d c o m m u n ic a te w ith o n e lawyers. Many of the letter^ now given are T h e co rre sp o n d en t says tl w hen th e f >r improvement» instead of original de m o th e r : in fa c t, n e i t h e r k n e w w h e re he o t h e r w as. A few' d a y s a g o her p resent o w n e r—w ho, by t'l» vay, is now ices. -N ew York Bun. b u s b a m l v isite d P i t t s b u r g on b u sin e ss, six ty -th re e — w as tw e n ty -tu r e y ears old am i. h e a r in g t h a t h is w ife w a s liv in g o f Ho«t<»n <I#n m on. he lig h te d upon a snake ci th e above in O h io he v isite d h er. T h ey m a d e up, As is well known t o Bost » tians through m en tio n ed v a rie ty w h ich b e 'id le d . T hen w e re m a r rie d a g a in a n d a r e now o n a he fo u n d th e jew el in bi tiu d . I t ha- the medium of New York papers, the w e d d in g tr ip . dwellers in this city are mo» r id ly sensitive a lre a d y saved several livt s When Mr, Vidal, the ( al b or of th district, was there it w a i o vn to hit too. The jewel is said t- (in sin a thin, crescent like fiber whit I n icearingly > oecilliates in the * an ter. ” h* gaikwar of Baroda, the mahar.i ;ah of Colhi iur, and several of her native pr.nett are said , to have * ffered several hum r»*d thousand rupees f«T this unique jewe . T w* name of the owner is Mr. F r w ji Uidabbai Govekar, Tarspur, Bomb i t pi eei lency A P l a t in u m 8 i • It has been noticed t i t platinum, when placed in an electri« U current, is heated to a dull redness This fact is the basis of the invention o an electri cal saw which will cut euiokly and neatly the hardest wood The device is made of stet wire, upon which is deposited metalli« platinum. By connecting this modi tie* wire with tlie terminals of four Bunem batte.'es the platinum is heated to a bright reu ness, and the saw is ready foi husineea. to any disparaging reflections on the size or beauty o f the common. \s this sensi tiveness is shared by old an* young, the ! feelings of a young lady who took her Rttle country cousin, age« I six. to see the : common must have been b irt by the ! calmly critical way in which he looked it , over. “ T h is is B oston common, W illie," she said; “ w h at do you th in k >f it?” “ I t ’s a ¡re try y ard !” -esponded th e y o u th fu l vi ite r “ A b i| y ard but, It a in ’t as big a o u r fro n t y ar 1 d< w n hom e.' —Boston T ra. script A C om « «.»nlekly Dl»po»e<l Of. Bt. Peter (t< apj licant)—You say <»u w in an editorial a ter on a New Y ork ne« -pai»crf A pplicant- Yes, sir. Bt. Peter.—Step into the elevator, pi tse. Applicant (stepping into the eleva >r>— How soon does it go up ' Bt. Peter— It doesn’t g up, it p < >es doW 1 1. — The Epoch. There is more genius in apjlication •. anything els* Shocked a C o n n e c tic u t M an. A t R o c k y H ill, C o n n ., th e o t h e r d a y , lig h tn in g sh o o k h a n d s w ith F a r m e r W. 11. S te v e n s iu th e ra o a t c o r d ia l m a n n e r. He w a s in th e sh e d a t S. F. W r ig h t's h o u se, a n d h a d a p ieee «»f a s c y th e in his h a n d s . T h e t h u n d e r b o l t to o k t.ie iron o u t of h is h a n d s , th r e w it n to o n e c o r n e r of t h e sh e d , a n d ju m p e d S te v e n s in to a n o p p o site c o r n e r Mr. S te v e n s sa y s th a t w h e n tlie l i g h t n i n g to o k h o ld o f h im he fe lt as i* a f o u n ta in h a d I b u r s t in sid e h im a n d s p o u te d p in s a n d n e e d le s int«» e v e ry p a r t of h is b o d y . C o n tra c t M a r r ia g e n t F re s n o . A c o n t r a c t m a r ria g e to o k p la c e a t F re s n o , ( a l.. r e c e n tly , th e b rid e b e in g u n d e r ag e an«l u n a b le to o b ta in t h e c o n s e n t o f h e r p a r e n ts . J o h n H u ffm a n , th e m an . is tw e n ty - s ix y e a r s o f a g e ,a n d F lo re n c e Rice, th e g irl,’fifte e n a n d o n « h a lf y e a rs. T h e y a g re e d to ta k e eac.i o th e r as m an a n d w ife, e n t e r i n g u p o i t h a t r e la tio n a t once. If s h e so d e s ire s , th e w o m a n 's c o n t r a c t m a y be voided when she nt t a i n s m a jo r ity .