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About Washington County hatchet. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1895-1896 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1896)
WASHINGTON COUNTV oided to organize teams at once to take part in the tournament to be held in Pendleton. The Seattle capitalists who are put USEFUL IN F O R M A TIO N C O N C E R N ting in chlorination works on the ING AG R IC U LTU R E . Upper Cle-Eluui are moving in their machinery. The Washington academy at Colville, F a r m e r s M u st M e e t C o m p e t it io n III t h e bas just closed its second term The W o r l d ’ s M a r k e t s —N e w O u lo ii C u lt u r e people are much gratified at the success — F e e d i n g 1‘ o t a t o e s to D a i r y S t o c k — of this school FIELD. FARM. GARDEN ""ijtRESTING n e w s n o t e s f r o m r JJ t ^ B v AR IO U S PLAC ES, he ioaul t tht.J * >*d of N o rth w e s t M ore F u r u U t ie a Thau M v e lo p iu e u t H om e (te u e r a l In te r - a iu l I’ r o g r e » « in HATCHET. P O R TL A N D M AR K E TS. Dealers in early vegetables and fruits reported a good shipping trade the past week, and other produce mar kets enjoyed a satisfactory city busi ness. Reoeipts cf fruit and green pro duce were light. The egg market is fluctuating, with the average price a trifle higher than reported last week. In poultry and dairy produoe quotations were mautaiued. N o changes are re ported in groceries. um «■»Ulti t M is c e lla n e o u s N o t e s . Columbia oounty commissioners have ordered 1,000 ounoes of strychnine for Farmers begin to realize that they r hss a school district named distribution to the farmers for poison must meet the new order of things. W h e a t M a rk e t. lg Seven.” ing squirrels, There is practically no local wheat We have the markets of the world and landou broom-handle factory in i The general opnion in Eastern Wash must meet the competition, or produce market. Keoeipts are small, offerings 1 up again. i« ington is that the recent cold Bnap did what South Amerioa, Australia and light and no trading reported. D ull j h ii of Grant county are taking no damage other than slightly injuring India cannot produce fur the European ness may be expected for the rest of the p to the hills. fruit trees that were far advanoed. -Th,| markets. They raise wheat cheaper season. There is very little wheat in Colonel L. 8. Hewlett, commissioner than we can, and they raise scrub the country, and what changes hands tilla reservation farmer w ill I tflT ck of arid lands, has gone to Washing stuck cheaper than wo can; but in the from now on w ill make but little stir 0 acres in grain this year. entljl ton, D. C., where he w ill endeavor to better grades of improved stock and in the market. Prices are quoted as gles were caught in a trap set seoure the passage of a bill granting the Walla W alla, 50 to 60c; re< dairying North America stands next to follows: tea near Grant’ s Pass last er i Valley, 62 to 63o per bushel. government arid lands outright to the the Euopean countries. a state. Our exports are now well established F r o ilu c e M a r k e t. public schools in Albany for he b There w ill apparently be almost as for high grade beef, mutton, pork, F lo ck —Portland. Salem, Cascadiaano had an average attendance of great a rush to the Nez Perce reserva horses and dairy products, and we have d« Dayton, are quoted at 43.15 per barrel; Ian enrollment of 003. mn tion this spring as there was last fall. a great and growing home trade in our Golddrop, $2.95; Snowflake, 63.20: Ben Many w ill return to their claims, and infoJ own oities. A ll our markets are much »hole cost of assessing Washing- ton county, 43.15: graham, $2.90; super aient § Bity for the year 1895, mclud- others w ill go in the hope of finding more exacting than in former days, and fine, $2.25. II homes or work. we must produce superior quality or O ats —Good white are quoted weak, ai Ici and office work, was only c; milling, 28(930c; gray, 22<923i: In Whitman county during the be oontent to take scrub prices. The markets demand greater quantity and | Rolled oats are quoted as follows : Bags ‘side I ishebmen predict there w ill be no mouth of February there were 14 judg better quality of the high grade, early $4.26(96.25; barrels, $4.60(97.00; cases, Waiter in the Columbia this year, ments granted, 26 foreclosure actions $3.76. maturity sort, from good grade cows brought; nine marriage licenses issued H ay — Timothy, $9.00 per ton; cheat, >e Cjd anticipate a poor tishing season in and pure bred sires, but where can we $9.00; clover, $0(3 7; oat, $6(96.50; wheal, six returns, two divorces granted, 28 _____ moe. get the high grade cows? N ow we $6.60*6.50. births and five deaths returned. B rown-ville is one of the few towns B a k l k y —Feed barley, $14 OJ per to n ; David Chambers died at his home on marketed most of them when we quit the skate where no oity tax is paid, breeding; and as to bulls, there are but brewing, nominal. tat oit> has decided electrio lights are Chambers prairie, near Olympia of few breeders, and the Western breeders MiLLsrurrs — Bran. $13.00; shorts, heart complications. He was promi 111 t absolutely necessary just yet. $14; middlings, *18iu20.00; rye, 86(9 t 7i are taking all the bulls at better prices of nently associated with the early history per cental. b. There > s said to be a good prospect I of Washington. Since 1848 he had re than our farmers think they can pay; B ottkh —Fancy creamery is quoted at imer Aslori.< for the location of the rail- sided on his farm east of Olympia, but as there is no way to breed good 55c; lancy dairy, 45c; lair to good, vineiS* depot at ¡Smith’ s point, in case ue- where he amassed a considerable for beef animals other than to use good, 36c; common, 17>*c per roll. pure bred sires the sooner we get them, len, titaions tor the Scow bay site fail. P otato as— Mew Gregon, 25ia30c pei tune fattening stock. sack; sneets, common, 3 14c ; Merced. Expert Cation, who was appointed the quicker we can get into market. oa The ni ill company’s boom at Pitts- 39- per pound. irg, in Columbia county, was broken to examine the city official's books of U nion » —Oregon, OJ(a90c per Back. N ew O nion C ultu re. 1 bi.r a h t M 't , and between 160,000 and W alla Walla, has submitted his report P oultry —L inckeus, Pens, $3.50 pel The new culture consists simply in u to 10,000 feet of logs went down the to the city. The report is from June dozen; mixed. $2.50(93.00 per dozen, sowing the seed in greenhouse, hotbeds 1, 1886, and shows a total deficit of ver. ducks, $3(94 50; geese, $6.00; turkeys, or elsewhere and then transplanting to live, 8(39c per pouud; dressed lie . A petition was circulated and signed #3,471, divided between the oity treas urer and two ex-marshals. The short the open ground, as cabbage or other E oos—Oregon, 12)$c per dozen. i St. Helens last week and forwarded CliKKSK—Oregon mil cream, 11 (9 16)$( age«, so the report says occurred plants. By selecting the right varie i Senator Mo Pride to be presented to ttet ‘ .agrees asking for an appropriation ; *hru"K h hegUgence on the part of the ties, thero is claimed for this method a per pound; hah cream, 9 )*c; skim, 4(9 larger yield of better quality and w i th 5c; Young America, lOtgllc. l,a" * t h e improvement of Scappoose bay. « “ r clerk' who collected the delin- T r o p ic a l F r u it — California lemons, less labor than by any other method. r 1 quent taxes for the marshal. hi or; $3.00(93.50; choice. $2.50(93.00; Sicily, orni oul I A man in Brownsville is putting out Thousands of acres have been planted There are Beverai varieties of foreign $6.60; bananas, $1.75(92.50 pet bunch; >r tl ,000 fru fr it trees, tne majority of which to grain in Garfield county the past origin that take w ell to this method of (Jail lorn la navels, $2.60(93.00 per box; Almost seventy varieties two weeks, and many farmers are w ell oulture, but the Spanish K ing or Prize pineapples. $4(95.00 per dozen. sod i ■Mnes. prui he if fru fruì it are represented, and being nigh through their early seeding, says Taker is by far the best and most at- O regon Y kuktablks —Cabbage, FLc i _____ b otti in i good soil w ill doubtless grow the East Washingtonian. The ground trativec of any of the varieties we have p e rlb ; gailic, new, 7(®8c per pound; artichokes, 7uc per dozen; sprouts. 5c tested. This variety resembles the 3 be An excellent orchard. is said to be in excellent condition, per pound; cauliflower, $2.75 per crate, 'KDii Thai Exploring Syndicate of Mines and on the pasture lands the grass has large Bermudas. The seed may be sown from the m id 90c s $l per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 40c t0‘!jud M ining in the United States, the been coming on rapidly. The recent dle of February to the middle of per dozen. °* 'reach syndicate that has been buying indications are that this is to be a pro F r r s h F r u it — Pears. Winter Nellis, March, and the transplanting done $1.50 per box; cranberries, $9 per 1 ’*• pineif; in Eastern Oregon, made the ductive year, and that the state of when the soil w ill permit. The plants barrel: fancy apples, $1(91.76; common, Washington w ill make such a record 1 “ W payment on a placer claim in the are taken up by loosening the soil un 50(975c per box. " Jurat r iver district, a short distance in growth and prosperity as w ill bless Dili Eh F r u it s — Apples, evaporated, 26, rom fpe town of Bridgeport. her people with abundance and plenty. der them first with a trowel or stick. By trimming off parts of the tops and bleached, 4(34) * c ; sun-dried, 3)fc(a4c; ck y The loggers of Chehalis county have pears, sun aud evaporated. 5(96c plums, ■ M ia l hundred cranberry plants Se' roots we are enabled to set plants more e ftcently been received by persons organized a temporary Loggers Pro rapidly and better. Do not trim pitless, 3(g4c; prunes, 3(96 per pound. The mv' A committee W ool — Valiev. 10c, per pound; East- the Nebalem beach. W ild cran- tective Association. severely, but with a bunch of plants in .-pnr^l _____ have grown there for many was appointed to confer w ith the m ill- one hand and with a single stroke of | ern Oregon, 0(98)$c. Hors — Choice, Oregon 4<3tic per roars and there is no doubt that, with men of the harbor and, if possible, the knife we take off just enough of the pound; medium, neglected. propel cultivation, an immense orop of agree w ith them in the selection of a i top so that the plant w ill stand erect N u t s — Almonds, soft shell, 9(911c man who would be acceptable to m ill- when set, and at another stroke enough h e tame variety can be raised. per pound; paper shell, 10(912)* c ; new men and loggers alike for appointment crop California walnuts, soft shell, e a- J. H. Houston has been buying furs as government sealer of logs, the inten sprangly roots are taken off so that we l l ( 9 l 2>gc; standard walnuts, 12(913c; maiAt Klamath Falls for the past three tion being to entirely do away with can do much better work. To set the Italian chesnuts, 12)* (314c; pecans, 'Cte: months and is now ready to make one private scaling of logs, all concerned to plants a round stick about an inch in 13(316c; Brazils, 12)* (9 13c; filberts, erenOf the finest shipments that has ever accept as final the figures of the sealer diamuter, sharpened to a point, ans 14(9 16c 1 peanuts, raw, fancy, 6(37c; wers the purpose very well. W ith this roasted, 10c; hickory nuts, 8(310c; co- itofi been made from Klamath. His lot of who may be so agreed upon. make two or three strokes to caoh plant. coanuts, 90c per dozen. st i furs consists of martin, mink, wildcat, Id a h o . First, a straight hole, into which the P r o v is io n s — Eastern hams, medium, t skunk and badger, and the whole w ill A restoration and increase in pension plant is placed and held with the left 11) * (912c per pouud; hams, picnic, psisbring him in a neat little sum. 7)*c; breakfast bacon 10)* @ 10) 40; hand. A second time the dibble is in has been granted George F. Lyons, of 1*“ The Ashland woolen m ills are ship- serted, about an inch from the plant, abort clear sides, 8)*@ 9c; dry Balt Lewiston, Nez Perce county. o p: ping blankets to San Francisco as fast BideB, 7)* @ 8c; dried beef hams, 12 The postoffice at Ley burn, Shoshone pointed toward the plant at an angle, @13c; lard, compound, in tins, 7)4 ; or as they can be turned out. A n order and tnen pushed toward the plant, thus lard, pure, in tins, 9)*@10c; pigs’ feet, county, has been discontinued, and its qurfor 1,000 pairs of vicuna blankets for compacting the soil about the roots; 80s, $3.60; pigs’ feet, 40s, $3.25; kits, a big San Francisco firm is now well m ail hereafter must be sent to Fraser. tben another light stroke to fill up the $1.26. Oregon smoked hams, 10?4C per In Fremont and Bingham counties stri'Stlong. A portion of the goods has been hole. When properly set, plants can pound; pickled bams, 8)$c; bounces tie i delivered, and they are so satisfactory recently a rabbit drive was had and not be pulled out by the tops. A im to bams, 7)$c; bacon, 10)$c; dry salt sides, e 1 that the firm desires to increase the nearly 1,200 rabbits were killed in one set the plants when the soil is moist. 6%c;lard, 5-pound pans, 7)8c ; 10s, 7 )*c ; ne I order to 3,000 pairs at the same prioe. day. By this new method of cultivating, 60s, 7)$c; tierces, 7c. Country meat* A patent has been granted to James 50t|i The taxroll of Lane county for 1896 Bays an Eeastern paper, is avoided the sell at prices according to grade. Hinas.—Dry hides, butcher, sound, 'F hasPbeen turned over to the siit-riff. B. Perkins, asignor of one-half to P. most tedious part of the cultivation, per pound, l l @ 12c; dry kip and calf It shows the following: State, uounry Flannery, of Lewiston, Idaho, on an that of the first two weedings, and most skin, 10@ llc; culls, 3c less; salted, 60 chool tax, 1108,381.28; poll tax, animal trap of the cultivating is done with the lbs and over, 5c; 50 to 60 lbs, 4@4)$c; It is said on good authority that the ^ P l ; Lebanon poll tax, $148; lab * wheel hoe. Aim to cultivate w ith thiB 40 and 60, 4c; kip and veal skins, oity tax, ♦969.98; Halsey city woolen m ills of Desert, Utah, are soon every week or ten days. One thorough 10 to 30 lbs, 4c; calfskin, sound, 3 (143.63; Sodaville city tax, $98.73; to be moved to Urchard, about thirty weeding by hand ought to suffice. One to 10 lbs, 6c; green, unsalted, lc oity tax, $39.21; Bpeoial school miles from Boise. of the best tools for this work is an old less; culls, l-2c less ; sheepskins, shear- | In the Star mail service operating 20 (930c; 8,386.16; total, $122,120.98. table knife. What hoeing is necessary ^ u m ° S > c ' X pe | from Blackfoot to Challis, Bryan post- hool tax, Albany's share w ill after this is usually done with a nar- offioe has been ordered to be supplied row-bladed hoe. Merchandise Market. without any change in the distanoe of i East Uregonian is informed that S a l m o n —Columbia, river No. 1. tails, F e e d i n g P o t a t o e s . the route. Bryan is between the I $1.25(91.60; No. 2. tabs, $2.25(92.50: buyi-l for the abattoir at Linnton Blackfoot and Aroo. The order be One of our experiment stations says fancy, Mo. 1, fiats, $1.75(91.86: Alaska, come into Eastern Oregon next came operative March 2. that for dairy stock it is doubtful, ! No. 1, tails, $1.20(91.30; No. 2, tails, $1.90 for the purpose of purchasing a Harry B. Hall, ex-treasurer of Sho when foods are as cheap as they are at j (92.26. i number of horses to be shipped to B e a n s —Small white, No. 1, 2'$c per ftton, to be killed for canning. The shone oounty, has been sentenced to one present, whether it would pay to feed 10 . kr made this statement to tne East year in the penitentiary for embezzling very large quantities of potatoes, be pound; butter, 3c; bayou, l)$ c ; Lima, 4c. Ionian's informant, saying he had county funds. H all was treasurer of cause a dairy ration necessarily re C ord ag e — Manilla rope, D^-inch, ii liv e orders to proceed at onoe and the oounty and cashier of a bank which quires more protein than a fattening quoted at H'.e, and Sisal, 6)$c per pound. mence finding suitable horses at a failed, and in which Van B. DeLash- ration. B ags — Calcutta, 4>$c. Potatoes cannot be fed to yonng ani S ug ar —Golden C, 6c; extra C, 5,'gc; i cheap enough to justify purchas- mutt, of Portland, was one of the prin cipal owners. County funds were in mals as safely as to more mature ones. dry granulated, 5)4c; cube crushed and ¡them. the bank. A ll except $1,500 was re I f fed too large quantities they have a - powdered, 6)*c per pound; ‘* c per pound he searching parties that went out covered by the oounty. H all was tried tendency to prematurely fatten the ani- ] discount on all grades lor prompt cash; earch for D. J. Woodward, the for embezzlement for failing to pro mal and build np a lighter frame work, half barrels, hie more than barrels; king toll-gate keeper, have re duce that sum. W ith more matnre animals, when the maple sugar, 16(916c P*« pound. , - j - , , , C Co n rv K ic — C o s ta K Rica, ira . 'rZ U tiZ A h .e c; : Rio, 20 led, and are of the opinion that rank—Costa 22(923)$ fattening period is largely a period of j M ontana. (3 22c ; Salvador, 21 (9 22c; Mocha, odward has perished in the snows the addition of fat to the body, the po Several rich copper veins have been 291331c; I ’adang Java, 30c; Palemhang | the Blue mountains, Toe Elgin tatoes can then be fed to advantage Java, 26(328c; i.ahat Java, 23id25c; Ar- ching party found a pair of snow discovered east of Dillon, Mont. and more economically. In the feed buckle's .Vlokaska and Lion. $21.80 pet The annual report of the Boston & but whether they belonged to ing of large quantities of potatoes, no 100-pound case; Columbia, $21.30 pet alward is not known, though all Montana Mining Company for 1895 more should be fed than the animals 100-pound case. «cation s pointed that way. L ittle shows that this concern is in a most Rica— Island, $4.50(36 per sack; .la- can comfortably dispose of in one duy. |bt now remains that the missing prosperous condition. In one of the digestion trials, when ten pin. *4.00(91.50. has perished. Woodward was a C oal — Steady ; domestic, $6.00(97.60 The smelting concerns of Colorado pounds of potatoes per day were offered, per ton; for-ign, $8.60(911.00. |on in good standing and the order find it necessary to draw on the lead the pig refused about half of them; j institute farther search. mines from Montana and British Co when only nine ponnds were offered | • M ea t M a rk et. thrifty dairyman, near Ashland, lombia for the m ajority of this class of there were none left over. R ollin g the ! Baar—Gross, top steers, $3.25; cows, I figured up what he has realized on I ore and there are a number of ship- potatoes in the grain was found to be *2.26(d2.60; dressed beef, 4@5)*c per alf-blood Jersey and Durham cow ments reported eaoh week, another way of encouraging a large pound. kh e last nine years. He finds that j The hills around the Rabbit district amount to be eaten. It is impossible M u t t o n —Gross, best sheep, wethers, Ini the butter and cream and the j ;ire fa ll of prospectors and a number to state at the present time, the actual *2.75; ewes, $1.50(92.25; dressed mut |e of ten calves she has raised the ,,f very good discoveries have already money value of potatoes in the produc ton, 4'*c per pound. ount foots up $995, or an average been made. The snow is fast disap tion of pork and beet. When fed in V bal —< Iross, small, 6 («6 c; large, 3 Dver $ 110 per year. This is the se pearing. Several new copper dis proper combinations potatoes w ill, @4c per pound. H ogs — G ross, choice, heavy, $3.25-9 ll cash return easily traced, and does coveries have been made during the withont doubt, yield a larger return I include any allowance for the skim past few weeks in the Nez Perce can than their present market price, of 3.50; light and feeders, $2.60(92 75; dressed, 3 > o 4r per pound. Ik that during that length of time yon. which give good indications for about ten cents per bushel. I fattened a good many hogs. The | proving valuable. SAN FRA N C ISC O M AR K E TS n is now 12 years old and apparently A syndicate from Butte has taken np ■valuable as ever as a money-maker. ] 200,900 miners inches of water from Yonng animals should be watched F l o u r — Net cash prices: Family ex the Madison river three miles east of and attended to with as much care as tras, $1.00(94.10 per barrel; tmkers’ ex Wafthlngton. Red Bluff which they propose to utilize any crop on the farm receives, but not tras. $3.80(93.90; superfine. $2.85(a3 10. I ar le t —Feed, fair to guou, 70c: (Recent rains have so swollen the in generating electric power for vsri- always are. It is claimed by writers in the East ch ¡ice, 72‘ve; brewing. 85c. Ikim a river that fording at any point I ons uses in the different cities of Mon V hbat —Shipping, Mo. 1, *1.12)$: tana, and especially Batte. The pa- that it costs one cent to produce an egg. ¡difficult. 1 pers have all been filed with the proper On the farm in the West, a writer rli.>ice, $1 13j 4 ; milling. $l.?2‘* « i 1 27',. '« 1- —Milling, 75(9«Or: surprise, ■Work has been commenced on a anthority and it is said that fnlly says, it is not believed that it oost. | ,#>. Iui(.r fM(l< 771,<3* 0 : ^¿,| M fcthodist church building at Chinook, $25.000 w ill be expended this summer more than half as mach, which would j hi: ice, 7 0 * 7 5c; poor to fair, 6 0 * kcitic oounty. ' in building dams and other necessary afford a profit at the lowest market ¡ 66c gray. 75*82)$c. fThe firemen of W alla W alla have de- improvements. figures. H ops —(¿notable at 3@5c per pound. lu a tr ie « O regon . H o w O n e W o m a n F a ile d In R o m « to Do a * th e R o m a n « Do. T h a t T h in * . A a N ot A la a y . W h a t Th ay S e e m K v ld e n o o R I n T h l . C ase. "W hen in Rome, do as tbo Romans do, ” says the old distich, but in these days of nuiverstil travel it is somewhat necessary to know beforehand the man ners and customs of the native inhabit ants of the countries that are visited. “ I have euteu with chopsticks with a mandarin's w ife and daughter in China aud sat cross legged with the Persian ladies in Teheran and smoked nar- g iles ,"s a id uu American woman who was nothing i f not cosmopolitan, “ but 1 never failed to adapt myself success fully to the customs of the country un til I reached Jamaica, in the West In dies. I Imd letters to one of the mag nates There, aud upon delivering them I received a prompt invitation to break fast aud to spend the day. The hour was not mentioned, but us the people were French I supposed of course it was 12 o’clock, a la fourchette, at which time I presented myself, only to find that I had been expected at 8. However, my eutertuiners were most hospitable, and their usual frugal luncheon of cake, wine and fruit was evidently supple mented by more substantial viands for my benefit. A fter luncheon I wus asked if I would like to take a nap. As I bad just urrived I ussured my hosts that I never slept in the daytime and proceed ed to make myself as agreeable as possi ble. My entertainers endeavored to be heerfnl, but there was something in the atmosphere that made me aware that I had committed a solecism, and tli::t I bad guessed rightly was very ap parent in the relieved looks of the fam ily when I said that I thought I did feel tired and would bo glad to repose m y self a little. I was immediately con ducted to an apartment which had e v i dently been arranged with the expecta tion that I would go regularly to bed, aud wishing mo a good rest the lady aud gentleman of the house left me for the whole afternoon. “ About 5 one of the daughters came to fetch me in a fresh toilet, looking very uico and making mo feel very tumbled and untidy in consequence. So after I had been shown the gardens, which were really lovely, I began to make mes adienx. ‘ But you must stop to dinner, ’ they urged; ‘ we quite expect ed yen.’ But I thought they had had euo: li of me aud persisted in my refus al. i (liyugbt they parted from me rath er s. :tiy, aud in driving over the long avettuo which led np to the house I met a number of smartly dressed people, who, I afterward learned, had been in vited especially to meet me. So I miss ed it all around and gave no end of tronble uud offense, all because I did not jnst know Jamaica habits. ” — New York Tribune. The aeason of weddings taxes the in genuity no less than the purses of fash ionable devotees. The deceptions to which many of the so called upper crust resort to discharge social obligations are almost incredible to old fogies not iu the swim. It has long been the accepted custom of brides who receive many du plicate presents to exchange the same at tho stores where they were purchased. When the articles have not been marked or defaced in any manner merchants, as a rule, are very w illing to make satis factory exchanges. A volume might be written on the revelations that this custom has often brought about. It bas been the unguessed cause of more than one social sensation. Less than a year ago a fashionable bride of Gotham received a gorgeously showy gift iu repousse silver from an old school g irl friend, daughter of a multimillion aire. The present was displayed in a beautiful box bearing the stamp of a famous house, and attracted unusual at tention from the guests. Several months after the wedding the bride, in an un lucky moment, took this apparently gorgeous gift, together with others, to exchange for articles for which she bad more immediate need. When the selections she made were delivered at her residence she was sur prised to find the repousse silver. A note from the firm stated that the silver had not been purchased at their store. It was plated goods. They added, how ever, that they had detected the trade mark of a firm iu the Bowery. I f mad am desired, they would furnish the ad dress. A visit to the Bowery jeweler confirmed this assertion, and the indig nant bride bided Per time. Iu a short time the giver of the spurious silver wus wedded. The most striking g ift she received wus a fam iliar box, in which reposed the unlucky piece of reponssa silver. It bore no name; it was not ex hibited. N o comment was ever made by either party. To all outward appear ance the social intimacy is unruffled.— N ew York Herald. THE CODE OF HONOR. D u e lin g as I t W a s In F ra n c e In th e T im e o f R ic h e lie u . The passion for dueling, which had cost France, it was said, between 7,000 and 8,000 lives during the 20 years of Henry I V ’s reign, was at its height when his son came to tho throne. The council of Trent in 1545 had solemnly condemned the praotice of single com bat, impartially including principals, seconds and spectators in its penalty of excommunication. In 1602 an edict of Henry pronounced the "damnable cus tom of dnoliug introduced by the cor ruption of the century” to be the cause of so many piteous accidents, to the ex treme regret and displeasure of the king and to the irreparable damage of the state, "th a t we should count ourselves unworthy to hold the scepter i f we de layed to repress the enormity of this crime. ” A whole series of edicts followed to the same effect, but it was easier to make edicts than to enforce them. Deg radation, imprisonment, confiscation of property, loss of c iv il rights and death were the penalties attached to the in fringement of the laws against dueling, and still the practice prevailed. In 1626 Richelieu published a milder form of prohibition. The first offense was no longer capital, a third only of the o f fender’s property was to be confiscated, and the judges were permitted to recog nize extenuating circumstances. A few months later the Comte de Bonteville thought fit to test the minis ter's patience in this direction. The Place Royale bad long been a favorite dueling ground, and De Bonteville traveled from Brussels to fight his twen ty-second dnel here, in the heart of Paris, in deliberate defiance of the king's anthority. The result was not encourag ing. Montmorency thongh he was, the count went with his second to the scaf fold, and the marked decrease from that time in the number of duels may be at tributed either to the moderation used in framing the law or to the inexorable resolution with which it was enforced. — Macmillan's Magazine. T h e S a lt . In th e O cean. LESS TRUTHFUL. T h is I s a M a n ’s A s s e r tio n I n R e g a r d W o m e n C o m p a r e d W it h M en . to A man who bas made a study of women and their ways remarked tho other day that women are, as a set, less frank aud truthful than men. Whatever truth there is iu this assertion we may be sure it is at least not innate, bnt dno to the difference in the requirements of the two sexes aud the consequent d if ference in their education. Men are tanght to reveal trne natures from the cradle to the grave. Men are tanght that, being lininan, they are subject to vurions passions and liable to fa ll into error which it is not necessary for them to conceal, for i f they deviate from the straight aud narrow path the world w ill qnickly forget aud forgive. Women, on the contrary, are tanght that if they are not inwardly stutues of decorum, they mnst make it appear that they are, for the world ia merci less to one of their sex who by word or deed hints that the smallest tottering on her pedestal, Dot to mention even a momentary descent from it, is possible. In short, women are required to con ceal their real human selves from a ll beholders as absolutely as they conceal their lower limbs in the conventional draperies of fem ininity,while men areas free to reveal their real selves to the world as to clothe themselves In th* nether garments of their sex. Bnt con cealment or lack of frankness is by no means nn truthfulness. — Philadelphia Press. T h e F r o ; — A N a tu ra l H is to ry . Born of a stone, he lives under a stone and w ill dig in it his grave. I visit him frequently, aud, whenever I lift the stone, I fear to find him and fear that he may not be there. He i* thero. Hidden in that dry refuge, clean, narrow, quite his own, be fills it, swol len like a miser's parse. I f tbe rain niukes him come ont, he comes toward me. A few heavy jump«, and he stops on his thighs and looks at me with his reddened eyes. Though the nnjnst world treats him as a leper, 1 do not fear to sit by him and to place near his face my tinman face. Then I w ill overcome a remnant at disgust and caress yon with my band, fro g! One swallows in life things that make one’s heart sicker. Still, yesterday, I lacked tact. “ My poor friend,” I said,“ I do not wish to grieve yon, but how ngly yon are I” He opened his month, pnerile and toothless, and replied, with a slight English accent: “ And yon?” — Paris Echo. One of Her M^JeMty's Collie«. Among the colored collies the queen’s favorite is Darnley II. In color he ia black and sable, relieved by the snowi est of collars and raffs, white legs and white tip to brnsh. He was presented to her majesty by the Rev. Hans H am il ton. Darnley I I is quite of the latter day stamp and type of collie— a nice long head with semierect ears— and one of the smartest of his breed at Windsor. Whenever the queen comes to the ken nels, Darnley is asked for and brought ont to show himself, and, good dog, he at once "g rin s ” with delight and w e l come.— Westminster Gazette. The salts of the sea have fed, through out all time, countless living things which have thronged its water and whose remains now form the rocks of continents or lie spread in beds of unknown thickness over 66,000,000 square miles of the 143,000,000 square miles of the ocean’s floor. They have lent the substance to bnild the fringing reefs of the land and all the coral is lands of the sea, and there are at pres ent, on the basis of an average salinity of 3 5* per cent in the 290,700,000 cubic miles of water which make np the oceans, 90,000,000,000,000,000 tons, Cruel Torture«. | or 10,173,000 cubic miles, of salt. This i is sufficient to cover the areas of all the In ancient times prisoners were sub ! lands of the earth with a uniform layer jected to the most cruel tortures and • of salt to a depth of 1,000 feet.— Popu terrible forms of death. The monnmenta lar Science Monthly. and records of NVImehadnezzar tell w ith great unction how many thousands of llo « t o n ’ 4 W o r s h ip o f t h * Ik-an. his enemies lie beheaded, impaled and I f baked beans were sold at $1 a plate, flayed alive. terrapin wouldn't be in it, pate de foia Two Pair, of E re . gras would be given the go by and ca viare would be turned from with loath He (delighted w ith a new play)— ing. Thero is no frnit that can compare Isn’t it grand? with the seductive bean, aud Boston's She (looking at the heroine's dress)— glory w ill abide no other treatment than Perfectly lovely I It must have been 'raking.— Boston Transcript. made by Worth.— Spare Moments. 1