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VALLEY RECORD. VALLEY RECORD 188UED EVERY THURSDAY. K. J. KA1HRR W. A. JACOBA JACOBS A KAISER. Publithen and Proprietor!. VALLET RECORD. Published at Ashland, in the flourishing Rogue River Valley. The leading town of Southern Oregon, population 1,800, junc i tion of O. & C. and S. P. R. R. I Leading industries—fruit raising, mining, manufacturing, stock- j raising and farming. e St" BSC KI TION HATES. O»e I» ........... •* * Mi tnoaths ....... 1 » Three n> <uths . .............................. f* Tirnu madvunce. VOL. I ASHLAND, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1888. PIONEER HOTEL A. C. CALÜABLL. <Mk »reel. Between Maia sud rtprtee, MECHANICAL AND OPERATIVE DENTIST. OBE OX. ASHI AND, Ashlaaa, Oregon. Mra. W. f. OBER. Proprtetrees. Baar4 aw A l«4«lwg. «limite Méate. Ste Nitrous Oxide Gas administered fur the painless ex ire -tion of to- th. Office over the bank. B* per «seek Single Bxte. tfc. . B. DePKATT. First < L um »ccommodxii iru» afforded th - public. Central House E. K BRIQTHMAN, Prop. OREGON. Renovated throughout and newly fur nished. pA goo 1 sample room for commer cial trarelers ha» been fitted up in connection with the hotel. GRAVES A SONNICHSON, BOOT & SHOE MAKERS, A'l * -rk guaranteed, and money re funded If work doesn’t suit. R-pairing neatly done. LEATHU MAMUFACTORY. They nave on hsnd a stock of better calf skin, grain calf skin, kip, dmgola and buck-skin han ever imported to Ashland, which they offer for sale to the trade of Southern Oreg >u at reasonable figures. ill«hest marset price paid for hides and pelts, S top on Main Street, opposite plus. ASHLAND, OREGON. I H. •- EVANS, House, Sign and Car- Glasin;, Calciming, Paper Hanging, Etc. S hop .—la rear of Wilson’s Fumi- lare store m Maia street. C. A. NUTLET, Produce & Commission I Merchant, Mala Mtrret. AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. ARCHITECT All Work Guaranteed. Ashland, Or. All kinds of fruit bought and »old on conili is tinsi. AND Stair building a specialty. All work gusranteed to be first-class and of latest design. HOSLEY & PELTON, Prop's HARNESS AND SADDLE Who anale and retail dealer In Aahland and Linkville. BEEF. PORK and MUTTON Cured Meat* constantly on hand. Al) work ordered will be made to rire ENTIRE SATISFACTION. Repairing neatly and Pass-book accounts pay and at low rate». promptly done, able monthly. ASHLAND New Butcher Shop. The underHighed opened to-day a new butcher shop iu In HMin. A liberal share of the pat ronage of tie people of Ashland and ficinity re-p otfully solicited. FEED AND LIVERY STABLE. GEORGE STEPHENSON, Having purchased the old »table on Main street near the bridge, and a*sum d the management of the same I am pre pared to offer the public better accommo- d itions than ever befor i afforded in Southern Oregon In the livery business. Ca's Horses Boarded and Fed LINKS. TMB Mount Shasta Route! Caiireroia Kxpr*M Train» Kan Maliy let**«« WILL BUY AID SELL HORSES. Market for Ee.l Oak. Funeral Director A profitable market has been found for the poor, despised American red oak, that has been considered of no value at all. Amen can dealers are buying up all they can get hold of and shipping it to Liverpool. There the lumber is manufactured Into fancy fur niture and shipped back to New York, where it is sold to wealthy people as the real Eng lish oak, and a; pretty stiff price», too.—Chi cago Herald. She Though« So Too. West Hide lMvinlse Between ARRIVE The preservation of forests from the depre dations of insects and aphides is largely de pendent upon the spiders that inhabit them, more effective work of this kind being per formed by them than by the insect-eating birds. Examinations of the viscera of the spiders kept lr. captivity show them to be vo racious destroyers of these creaturera, and as they prefer dark spots in the forests, which are the places most infested by vermin, the results of their labor are very beneficial.— Globe Democrat. W*t«r Proof Book Bindings. PÖLLMAM BUFFET SLEEPERS. Portland /iOam I Corvallis 1 :2' p ta Crrvalds 1:30 pm I Portland fl: 15 pm At Alhany and Corv.llis connect with trains of Oregon Pa ifle. The Germans have invented horseahoes for bad roods. This is how they do it The blacksmith, when finishing a horse’s shoe, punches a hole in tbe two end» When the shoe is cold be taps in a screw thread and screws into tbe shoe, when on the horse’s foot, a sharp pointed stud of an tach in length. With shoes thus fitted the horse travels se curely over the worst possible roaita When tbe horse comes to the stable the groom un screws the pointed stud and screws in a but ton, so that no damage can hap|>en to the horse, and the screw holes are prevented from filling.—Home Journal. A composition has been produced which may prove valuable to book binders, having for its purpose the rendering water proof ef leather, cloth, neper, etc. It is a mixture o'f water, silicate of soda, resin, alum, potash, fish glue, sulphate of zinc and sulphate of copper in various proportion» The applies tion is said to render the material impervious to the influen-.-e of oil or water, and, if a variety of ingredient» increase practical utility, should be very valuable.—Chicago Timed ARRIVE Mail Trala. Maud Granger is going to England. 8q is Tony Pastor Mrs Boucicault has sailed. Sc have Lewrence Barrett and Mia Millward. Harah Bernhardt, says a Ptris correspond ant. when entertaining gueets at her table, wte on a regular throne with a canopy over bead _____ At raaatmable rates. Portlaud -IDO p m ' A«hl»nd 8:Wam Ashland IHXl a ni SanFranc’co7:UH m SauFraucisci<l::*)p m Ashland f.10 p m Ashland 1:40 p tn Portland l<:4O»m Portland and Corvallis. A Chinese almanac, nearly 8.000 years old has been discovered, its discovery com« mo late, however. Co supply circus clowu with rrreh jokes for this reason.-MinnreoU Harald. N*w and handsome turnouts, reliable and safe buggy teams, a«u good «addl - horses always to be had at these stables. Portland and San Fra c sco The O Jt C R R. Ferry make» con nee- t'on with all the regular trains on the East Side Div. from toot of F street. Too Lota. Preservation of Forests. Proprietor. All Orders Promptly Filled. I have mule arr*ngem»nts with one party to debts' m«all the beef and tnuc too tor the next tw live mouth*, f >r which 1 pay cash oa delivery, sod se'l for cash. DAVID PAYNE. Ashland, Juat 96. 18«. Alberto- Do you love me. darlingl Claribel—Have I not had all the chain raken from the room except tlusi— Detroit Free Press Horaoalioee fur Bad Roads. Oa Main street, under the McCall Hall, first door north of Masonic building. I propose t> supply tbe public with the best of fresh BEEF. PORK OR MUTTON Countryman ito dentisti—The tooth next ta bat "un aches too, doc. Dentist- Yss. it aches in sympathy. Countryman— Yank it out. duro seek sym oattiy — New York Suu. Ineentrovertlble Evidence. MANUFACTURER, LKAVK flow Pet Dogs Wear Harness when Ont lor a Walk—A Pretty Indoor Coston» Which Represents in Its Cnt »nd Gar niture New Styles. A Well Deserved Fate. II. JUDGE, LKAVK AND DRESS SUITS FOR MEN. BUILDER, SHORT ORDER. Open ever;' day except Sunday. Next door to Poetoffice. Southern Pacific BUSINESS SUITS, FROCK COAT SUITS General shop work done In OYSTER A ICB CREAM PARLOR Terms Cash. STRAY Lowest RatesI Choice Confectionery kept constantly on hand. Also • Ashland Market When from the vaulted wonder of the sky The curtain of the light is drawn aside. And I tiebold the stars in all their wide SignUlcance and glorious mystery. Assured that those more distant orbs are suns Round which innumerable world« revolve,— Hr faith grows strong, my day born doubts die- solve. And death, that dread annulment which life shuns, Or fain would shun, becomes to life the way, The thoroughfare to greater worlds on high. The bnilre from star to star. Seek how we u Ay, There to no other road aero«« the sky; And. looking up, I bear star voices say: “You ojuld not reach us if you did not die." —Henry Abbey in American Magazine. Office and wareroom at railroad cross ing, Helman Street. ASHLAND OREGON —Never be discouraged"because good things go on slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. Do not be in g Bxproaa Train. hurry, but be diligent Enter into the ABBITI LKAVK Porti »nd IJOpml M Min ..»ill. 8: 0pm sublime view of it God can afford to McMiunviUe5:4-»am | PorUan i 8:u0 a m wait; why can not we. since we have For informaiion reg rding rates, map-, h.m to fail back upon? Let patience ate atinlv to company'» azen'. have her perfect work, and bring forth IL KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS. her celestial fruits.— Q. Macdonald. Maeurer A»at G F A Pase AgL He—Do you know, Miss Mabel, I have dis covered why my brain is so actirel She— No, Mr. Minus wit. what is your theory I Hr —It is because I so often start a train oi thought. She—Ah, yes! The “Limited."— Tid-Bita. The World's Way. My friend, don’t forget this—if you He down, the wcrld will go out of its way to drive O' -er you ; but if you stand up and look severe, it will give you half the road at least —Uncle Ezek. i V/11AT SHALL WE WEAK? The cut here given illustrates an indoor costume that represents in its fashion and its •irniture, leading styles. Tbe skirt of this this costume is of heavy brown cashmere, Aehlaad. Oracea. braided with tbe same color anti trimmed with a flounce thirteen inches deep, laid in i Circuit Man Before King t’mbandinl. Will practice in all Courts o' the State. It is not often that circus “artistes” find box oleate. Othje adjoining Well'» |Fargo & Co.'» their way into the realms of a Routh African Express Office. chief; but when they do it would seem that their reception is likely to be very enthusias J. T. BOWIIITt H. tic, A “strong man" from a Cape Town cir cus, recently journeyed to the far off regions ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT of Ama Hwaziiand, and there gave a display LAW. of his skill and power before Chief Umban- dini at his “great place." 8o pleased was Aehlaad. Oregon. Umbancini at the performance that he forth with dictated a testimonial gratia Here it Wil'practice in all Courts of the State. is: “Ws gladly certify that you have per formed at our Royal Kraal, Swaziland, on Col lectio ns promptly made. rings, poles, chairs and sticks; that you have also played with an iron tree, and also car J. C. PLUMERTH, ried a large cannon on your back, and fired it off your bock in our presence. We were CONTRACTOR ANO BUILDER, i astonished and gratified at the wonderful acts that you and your little son performed. We ASHLAND, OREGON. do not believe that you will ever die. Given at our Royal Kraal this 9th day of Decem ber, 1887. Umbandini (his + mark), King I will give estimates to erect all k’nds of buildings In and out of the city, fur- of Swaziland.’’—BL James’ Gazette. u'nhiug laoor, mater.al, plans and »pec 18- A Gypsy Band from Russia. cxtlons, upon reasonable terms. All work guaranteed. One result of Lord Randolph’s visit to Rus- Resideou on Spring street. sia, may be the advent in this country of the famous gypsy band which is known by tbe A. L. WILLET, name ol its leader and conductor, N.kolai Shishkin. This Bohemian liand has long leer OAHPKNTKR, BUILDER AND AR one of tie chief murieal sensations of the St. Petersburg season, and Lord Randolph bad CHITECT, several chances of hearing it play during his visit. He first heard it at the Fi inch ambas Is now prepared to give estimates to com sador’s ball, and was so struck by tbe unique character of both performers and music that plete all kinds of buildings, and to fur his curiosity was aroused. He sought and nish all labor, material, plans, sp-c- gained an introduction to Nikolai Shishkin iflcatlons and details for the himself, and took subsequently tbe greatest front drajiery arrangement, .a same, upon reasonable Interest in him and his band. The most curi breadth of material one yard and a quarter terms and short notice. ous feature of this gypsy band is tbe presence wide and one yard five inches long is pleated in it of a number of female gyp«ies, some of u to the band at the upper edge ano caught -p whom are typical beauties. The more hand on the left side. The back breadth, whlfh is Residence. West Ashland Hillside. some of these musical gypsy damsels mala t w . yards ten inches wide and one yard six Post-office box 113. inches long, is pleated into the band, the ma excellent marriages.—London Figaro. terial being arranged in a large box pleat in the middle and in smaller flat ones at the Rushing Through College. But we cannot afford to imitate England sides and then caught in the middle. Waistcoat pieces complete the fronts of the In the matter of education. We have no leinre class. Everybody works. And boys bodice, which is further ornamented with ru»u through school and the higher schools— revers two and three-quarter inches long which we, by courtesy, call colleges—to Large flat bronze buttons are also used in the MANUFACTURER AND plunge into Invoice books, to make briefs of ornamentation of the bodice. (See cut) Suel titles, to gulp down as much law aa they can braided ornamentations a» here described WOOD WORKER before beginning tbe practice of what they may easily be made by our readers, or braided i will learn by their experience and that ot sets may be purchased for the purpose. their clients’. As to the law—which ought Shop on Pint Avenue near Main Street to Harness for Dogs. be a learned profession—a long and sound The dog has come to be an important fea preparation in the classics is almost a neces sity. Few young lawyers and few young ture in the world of fashion, and what he doctors lave the time for it But for tbe shall wear and how to make it is therefore a Will make estimate-« and bid, on all aspirants for succeta in the various forms of question of more or less interest. The pet Bui'dings, public or prirate, and furnl-ih business one or two modern languages are do^s owned by ladies and sent out daily to all material, plans and specifications for absolutely necessary.— New York Freeman’s walk are commonly led by a leather or chain leader attached to the collar. Journal. the conatru tlon of the name. Sash, Dx»ra and Mouldings on hand and for sale at ATTORNEY The beat Eiling House iu town. ASHLAND, FAITH’S VISTA. HARNESS OF LEATHER WORK FOR DOG» The harness hero illustrated is not only in tended for ornament, but also to prevent the collar from pressing into the neck of the dog vhen a leader is attached to it The latter, in the arrangement shown, is put through <• ring let in the middle of the belly band of the harness. The harness from which the illus tration is taken consiste of four straps, each three-quarters of an inch wide and long enough to reach around the body of the am mal. Sometime» light colored leather is used, sometimes dark. Occasionally strips of red cloth, somewhat wider and pinked out at the edge, are stitched on under the leather. The stripe are joined and ornamented with gilt, silver or nickel beaded nails. These harnesses can be purchased ready made, though many ladies prefer having them made to order. BITS. J F Irwta. of Oswego, N. Y., paid |10,00t flora Bible One of the business colleges in Cleveland has a department of phrenology There are law» against using profane tan I itiage by telephone in all states except Con uecticut A barber at Suez. Ari., while shaving a man wee seised with an attack of homicidal mania and cut his customer's throat from ear to ear At Denison, Tax., a belated passenger emptied his revolver at the train that bad not waited for him, and was promptly taker in band by the police There is said to be only one survivor o! s once powerful Indian tribe in California When be dies tbe language spoken by tte tribe will become extinct. Honesty is sometimes rewarded. A Nev Orleans tad found a valuable sacbel, and upon taking it to the owner, who had adver used the loss, was made happy with a bran< new fllOU bill. Professional burglars are going tbe round' of the country towns just now It is then usual summer begira, and the guardians oi the peace should be on tbe watch forsueb oil welcome visitor» tree than one-half of tbe senator» now ii office were born in tbe states whiSh they rep resenL Americans seldom emigrate outoi tbe country, but they do a great deal of emi grating about in their own land. The managers of a western raifroad which is experimenting with natural gas belies* that it may yet provejjqt only tbecheapo! of fuel far the locomotive, bat excellent tt* heating as well as lighting tbe cara American authors are more read th»*» tbe English in Japan. Last year 85,000 English and 119,000 American books were imported ■nto that country, so that the old question ' vVbo reads an American book!” waa talrh answered. The Zileern Kruis, the first Dutch man o war to enter the Golden Gate in fifteen vrar is lying off San Francisco. She is a trainu «hip en her way to Japan, China and tl Dutch colonic» in Lidia, where she »nil mat a prolonged stay. Miss Eliza Bliss, of Reboboth, Conn., suf. died a tramp with a meaL While she wa irepartag tbe food tbe tramp sang “Nearet My God, to Thee," and at the same tim< tole tbe lady’s pocketbook and |K15 frou >er bureau drawer. Tbe new Inman steamship, tbe City at Ne» Y<k, is warranted ....................... ..... by her guilders to be ukinkabl lie. That is, ooe condition laid down .n the - contract cor by the company waa that she «banld lie unsinkable, although si is of iron ina has a capacity of 10,500 tona A New England man has beaten tbe green ,i»ds sawdust men at their own game. He ;<4 one of their circulars, and in reply asked /<*- a sample of their good» They sent him i genuine 81 bill, and the gentleman of tfew England stopped tbe correspondence then md there. As a wedding party was driving through Lie streets of a Pennsylvania town oa tbeii way to tbe church at which the ceremony was to be performed, the carriages drove over a little girl, killing her immediately Tbe arrest of tbe party prevented tbe mar riage, and it has been postponed. The smallest circular saw in practical use i« a tiny disc about the size of a British shil I mg, which is employed for cutting tbe slit« ■a gold pens. Tbbae saws are about as thick as ordinary paper, and revolve some foui thousand times per minute. The high veloe wy keeps them rigid, eotwithrtswilng tbe iiinnees. Ixmdon bankers have for a long time beei. »eking to obtain an additional fifteen min ales of grace to get their checks through thi -leering house after the close of business each lay. The clearing bouse has finally con ceded five minutes, and it is said that tbe bankers welcome even this as an almost in estimable boon. Near North Adams, Mass., two girls of b and 10 went out after M-y flowers and lost ibeir way in the woods Some time aftei -lurk they stumbled upon a farm bouse and asked shelter, but were rei used, so they were forced to remain all night in the woods, and were found by the Beanebtag party at morn mg half dead from cold, fright and exhaus tion. A Montana newspaper says that the days of staging in the bills are rapidy departing Steam is fast taking the place of horse and mule power, and Pullman coaches are crowd mg out tbe swayback stages of old. Th» loted Northwestern Transportation com ■any has begun to dispose of its plant, anu « preparing to hunt for business on the rap idly receding frontier. The five stones erected to mark “Maeon and Dixon's line'’ between Maryland and Pennsylvania have just had their annual visitation by commissioners, who report one tn good conditiou, ooe lost, one broken, one iislodged by mining operations, and tbe fifth, which bears on one side the arms of Pennsyl vania, on the other those of Lord Baltimore, tiadly damaged by vandal relic hunters A cobra bite has been cured. Dr. Richards, as reported by Tbe India Daily News, handling a cobra with tbe intention of ex cracting some poisou, when be was bitten on tbe finger. He immediately cut it open to the bone above the wound, and applied per manganate of potash, put on a ligature and burried off for advice. Another doctor opened the wound and cauterized it with nitric acid, and Dr. Richards has recovered. NO. H AT A TEA AUCTION. HGW THE EXPERTS VALUE THE STiQCK BEFORE IT IS SOLD. Scer.e in a Salesroom—A Visit from Pro fessional Tea Tasters—A Preliminary Test—The Aroma—Getting the Flavor. Quiet Purchasers. A dozen or a score of tea importers may be represented in the stock of tea which a firm of auctioneers offer for sale on a given day. Two hundred or more different grades of tea may lie tn the consignment. I A sample chest, half cheat, or package of each grade is sent to the auction room for inspection and sampling by prospective pur chaser». These are ranged in tiers about the auction room so that their distinctive names and marks may be seen. All these marks, and a queer lot of hieroglyphics they are, are reproduced in the catalogue, always large leaved, and with plenty of room for notes alongside the description of each lot of a particular grade of tea The lots vary from a single package or half chest up to perhaps a hundred packages of the fragrant Oriental leaves. The small lots are usually particularly choice brands of tea, the large ones the cheaper and “standard" grades. The distinctive marks on these chests aside from the Chinese figures are either figures or letters, sometimes standing alone, but oftener inclosed in a circle, a square, a triangle, an ellipse, or some other geometrical figure, and occasionally accompanied by an anchor or some similar figure that is a symbol of no oa« knows what exactly. Once in their places in the auction room, the sample chests are made ready for customers who wish to try the teas. And here is where tea auction sales differ from other auction voles. A pur chaser may try before he buys, To enable him to try, big holes, an inch aad a half or so in diameter, are cut through the chest and its wicker cover, so that the tee can easily be reached. The sample packages thus pre pared, everytblnf is ready for the sale. pRorrenioitAi. tba tasters . For two days before the sale young men with the big quarto catalogues and accom panied by a boy with small tin boxes visit the auction rooms and take samples for test ing. These young men are usually profes sional tea tasters, and to the casual visitor to an auction room their methods are peculiar, to say the least A wisp of the split bamboo, such as the network of matting that covers the packages is made of, is the sampler’s weapon for attack on the tea chests about him. His catalogue is held in his left hand. With the right he thrusts his wisp of bamboo, doubled so as to make a sort of hoe, into the round hole in the tea chest, and from the -.-hest hauls a handful of the tea on to the dialogue pages. Tbe eye serves to tell him if the tea has been colored or bleached. That point settled, the necessary note is made in his catalogue. Then comes the preliminary test. The tea is dumped from the sampler’s catalogue into his hand. Then, with the band partially closed, the «ampler blew« vigorously into the mass of leaves, and at once applies the leaves to his nose. Thus he gets a fair idea of the aroma. As ho has no further use for that particular sample, he throws it into a trough which stands at tbe foot of tbe rows of chests, and which is put there for tbe express purpose of holding these discarded samples and the particles that do hot fall on the catalogue pages when the wisp of bamboo pulls the sample from the chest. And so the sampler goes the round of the long row of tea chests, eyeing and smelling, >ud once in a great while tasting a bit of tbe tea, and alwayLtbrowiug away two or three pounds during the course of his afternoon in spection. AU the observations of this expert as to color, «roma, and quality are noted in his catalogue. Some samples are quickly dis posed of, and the sampler marks in his cata logue the value of the particular brand of tea he has inspected. But there are some brands, usually of the finer grades, that puzzle him. He is in doubt as to the actual value of the leaves he has looked at and smelled of a half dozen times perhaps. So he instructs a youth who accompanies him to “take a sample.” This youngster, using the same means as his com panion has before him, hauls a liberal v-mple from the che>*t into a tin box, which is duly marked and lr?«led with the same hieroglyphic» that are in scribed on the chest and in tbe catalogue. A dozen samples may be taken in this way for tbe expert’s use outside of the auction room. These collected, his work among the sample chests is ended. THE YOUNG SC1LAC1Í AM) PROGRESS. PEOPLE. A Yeuthful Mind Which Delved Natural Philosophy. late A young scholar, taking bis first lessons In DRturai philosophy, bad the existence of ainmalculsB, the minute creatures, too small to be seen with tbe naked eye, which are to be found in liquids, explained to him. After the lesson be was asked to tell what -"I—-L calae were. “They are animate that you cant see,” be said. “Well, that may do for an answer," said the teacher “Now, will you give me an ez ample of animaiculsr “The hippopotamus, the gorilla, the whale”---- “Stop I What makes yon think those ani mats are animalculsr “ ’Cause 1 never saw one of ’emP—Youth’» Companion. THE WONDERFUL MAXIM GUN—AN INTERESTING MAMMAL. Professor Mayer Illustrates in a Pleasing Manner With an Arrangement of Floating Magnetic Needles the Mutual Repulsion of Similar Bodie«. Professor A. M Ms yer has devised tn ar rangement of floating magnetic needles -vliich beautifully demonstrates the mutual repul sion of similarly magnetized bodies A num ber of strongly magnetised carpet needles are in erted in small corks, as shown in the pros pective view of tb-j picture here reproduced. A Ready Answer. Flaxie is a bright eyed little girl tn Lr Droit park, and she has the bad habit ol nicking her thumb. Tbe other morning bei mother was combing her hair and Flaxie, ar usual, had her thumb in her mouth. “Flaxie. Flaxie," reproved her mother ‘don’t do that VThat would you do if that thumb should come offl” “Suck tb'otber am, manwr»," replied th. incorrigible, coolly, and paralysed her mother.—Washington Uritia. GOHA RATEK’8 FLOATING NXKDLXB. When floating, explains The Scientiflo Popular Opinion. American, there needles arrange tlienweivee A preacher began his address to a Sunday in symmetrical groups, tbe form of t he groups school thus- “Now. children, 1 am going.to ranging with the number of needle» One pole of a bar magnet held over tbe take a text out of the Bible I always find when I preach that the text is the best part center of a vessel containing the floating of my sermon. Isn’t that so. my dear chil nee.i tot will disperse tbe needlee, while the drenf" And all the children shouted; “Yea. other pole will draw them together. sir; that’s sol” And those enjoyed the joke An Ansesthetie Bullet. most who had beard the preacher oftenesk— Religious Herald. An anaesthetic bullet has been invented by a German chemist which, it is claimed, will, if brought into general use. greatly diminish He Knew. “Mammal* said tbe sweet smalTboy before the horrors of war. Tbe bullet is of a brittle admiring friends, “1 knew as soon as 1 came substance, breaking directly when it comes in contact with tbe object at which it is aimed. in there was folks visitin’ here.” “Did you, darlingl” said the fond mother, It contains a powerful »tUBsihetic, producing trying to wilt him with her eye; “how did instantaneously complete insensibility, last ing for twelve hours, which, except that the you know!” “Ob, you had your company voice on."— action of the heart contiuuee, is not to be dis tinguished from death. A battle field where Detroit Free Press these bullets are used will in a short time be apjarentiy covered with dead Indies, but in The Weary Hour» of «lekneea. reality merely with tbe prostrate forms of Young Victor, who had been for three soldiers reduced for the time being to a state weeks lying ill with pneumonia, asked out of unconsciousness. While in this condition day to see his overcoat it was brought out they may, the German chemist point, out, he with no little wonderment by his mother. packed in ambulance wagous and carried off “ Hang it on the foot of the bed, won't you. as prisoners. mamma f" he asked. The Maxim Gun. “Yes, my boy. if you wish it; but why do you want to have it out here!" The new and really wonderful weapon “Just to look at it, mamma. It's beer christened Maxim gun weighs over sixty-flve such a long time since P ts seen IL"—Boston pounds, is mounted on a light tripod, which Transcript can be lowered, raised, moved literally with one hand as easily as a garden hues, and which iiours out automatically 600 shots a mir.ute. There is no crank to turn; there is no ’.abor of feeding. One man simply seta tbe bullets going, ami then directs it at will; aking a whole regiment front if he likes, or keeping the fire within a range of five feet or five inches. The lauis of it all is the utiliza tion of tbe recoil force to fire the next shoL Longest Tunnel in the World. A Nest Bi* nt Evasion. Not a bad example of an ambiguous answer is reported to the Listener by a northern tour ist, as coming from the pilot of a steamboat on the Georgia coast Tbe tourist, who is a Yankee and was a Union soldier, was en gaged in an easy conversation with the pilot ie a rneisnt ef the latter’s relaxation, aed the pilot told him certain wpr reminiscences of an interesting character, without, bow. ever, directly intimating that be had any personal part in them. So the Yankee asked, point blank; “Which side were you on during tbe warP The pilot gave him a glance which seemed tossy, “You are too inquisitive,”and then answered: “I was on tbe other side." Then be changed the subject of conversa tion. The northern visitor is still specula* tag as to which tbe “other side” was, the other side from tbe questioner’s, the other side from the sioe Georgia waa on. the other side of tbe ocean or the other side of th. Canadian border. — Boston TranscripL Getting GETTING THE FULL FLAVOR. Accompanied by the boy and his small tin boxes, the expert leaves the auction room and goes to his office to finish bis valuation of tbe samples his boy carries. Seated at a round table, which turns on its standard at the slightest touch, hefinirnes his work with a speed which is little less than mar velous. A dozen French china cup« and a samovar, or urn, of Lot water help him to do this. Leaves from the sample tin boxes Wasn’t Csed to It. are put in the china cups and treated to a A traveler was eating supper in the stuffy bath of tbe boiling water from the urn in saloon of a Chesapeake bay steamboat, and the center of the table. There is a prelimi when he had finished the meal, the waiter nary sniff at tbe aroma arising from each brought a finger bowl, with that extra touch particular cup, and then a taste—just a sip— of colored politeness which preceded the ex to get tbe flavor fully. This test settles the pected fee. The guest moistened his fingers valuation of the tea in a moment, and the ex and lipa from the bowl, and then a look cf pert marks in his catalogue what be deems sui prise overspread his face. “What is the samples thus treated to be worth. No thatr he asked. “Water, sah." “It’s kero me ever disputes that valuation, for the tea sene.” “Water, sah.” “I tell you it’s kero taster is in his line an uutocrat, a despot sene,” said tbe guest angrily, as the fumes of whose decision no one dares question. The coal oil arose from his mustache and fingers. catalogue now marked is seut to tbe buyer “What do you take me fori Do you think of the house the expert represents, and with my mustache is a lamp wlckl Maybe you the latter there remains only the purely think 1 want to be a torch light procession^ CREATION'S LOWER ORDERS. mechanical work of attending the sale and “SahF “Take this stuff away, I tell you,” The pride of Kingman county, Kan., is a buying, if he can, at or below the figures thundered the oil covered tourist. The ter fixed by the expert at the maximum value of rified waiter obeyed, and a moment later re null that weighs 4,250 pounds. appeared with another bowl, said trem An alligator nest, found tn Rice creek. I the teas. The auction sale itself is very like any blingly: “I reckon you was right, sah. I Fla., contained forty-three young saurian» other trade sale. A hundred men sit about Jone gave you the bowl what the lamps drip According to the naturalists wasps remem tbe auction room in front of tbe glib tongued in, sah.”—The Argonaut. tier tbe locality of their nests just ninety-six crier. Catalogue and pencil in hand, the noura. crowd of buyers are a very quiet party, and There are 40,000 reptiles kept tn one room let the auctioneer make all the noise. A in the Smithsonian institution at Washing pencil or catalogue raised in the air for an ton. It is needless to add. they are kept in instant goes for a bid. Sometimes a nod of dcoboL the head suffices to settle the ownership of a A great snowy pelican, that had somehow consignment of tea. It is very rarely that a got woefully astray, was shot tbe other day word is spoken, except when the starting bid tear Albany, Ga. The hunter says that “at is made. Wht., other spoken bids follow they Hrst be took it for a calf." are usually made by some out of town buyer. A man in Detroit was saved from a hor The auctioneer knows everybody in the nble death by tbe courage of two pet cats, room except these same out of town mer which claored him awake barely in time to chants, who are looking for bargains. So he quietly tells his clerks th» name of the pur- escape from a burning building. .'liaser, and a stranger visiting tlie sale is left i mystery most of the time, not only as to vho tbe buyer is, but also as to which one of Indian« ss Military Instructor«. Net Beady for It. .be men in that very quiet but very business In department orders Gen. Nelson A. I In a lecture recently delivered in London like crowd made tbe bid. Five thousand or lilee describes the results of the raidiug , it was stated that type writing was part of packages of tea may be disposed of in mneuvers practiced by bis troops In the regular courst in some American public m hour or an hour and a half, au>l then the \rizona and New Mexico dnring th. 1 spools. Not yeti Many boysand girls have crowd of buyers melt away just as quickly ion ths of September, October and No learned jtut enough shorthand in tbe even ember. Under the system which bo I ing schools to spell “knife" and “light” with as it bad assembled itself for the sale.—New ¿ork Times. ntrodneed a mounted party was sent out. . three letters when using long hand, but in .nd after a prescribed time force» wen troducing tbe type writer to rum their Betrayed by a Scar. ¡»patched in pursuit, while other troops chirography is one of tbe “improvement«" Jake Kinney, of San Francisco, was in hit rom garrisons ahead had been notified to • yet to come. The type writer is undoubt time tbe finest short card player alive, and Lie in wait along the generally indicated edly of very great assistance to some busi when he sat down in a poker game be simply route in order to capture the raiders. This ness men, but a «rise teacher would no more turued into wood. His face bad no more ex plan brought into play the highest quali give it to a pupil witti an unformed hand pression in it than a brick, and, although be ties of practical soldiership both among writing than a seamstress would give a sew- would bet bis last dollar od ten high in just pursuers and pursued, while the competi : tag machine to a child who could not stitch the same sing song voice that be would on tive character of the exercise gave it the I well. Those who are at once habituated to four ace», it was very bard to catch him interest of an athletic contest. Exact j laziness never become taborioua—Boston bluffing. Finally be got into an argument rules were prescribed as to what should Transcript. __________________ with a Loe Angeles man, and the other fellow constitute capture, and judges accom cut him in the cheek with a knife. When the panied all the parties. Four Hoar« a Wook. wound healed it left a scar under his eye Gen. Miles finds, in reviewing the suc Four hours a week devoted to any study about the size of a dime, and that scar be cessive operations, in which a fresh party I by any young man will make him a thorough came a bulletin board for Jake’s heart It was sent out whenever a capture was scholar in his specialty long before he is old. effected, that they will be of “incalculable Real study for four hours a week will have was naturally white, but when be go* the advantage in the future.’’ The raiding tbe most astonishing result» In five yean least bit worked up, although he wouldn’t parties sought, as hostile Indians would the student will have learned so much that show it otherwise, it would turn pinker and do, to mislead pursuers, while these latter I be will be inclined, in hi» astonishment at pinker, and finally bright red. Old gamblers exerted themselves by every device to cap himself, to think he kuowsall there is to be used to say that they knew just what shade it ture the supposed hostile». The result known; iu ten years be will know what h< took for a bobtailed flush, and 7dst bow near was to make the troops familiar with a Joes not know of what 1» yet to be learned saimon oolored for four king» Of coarse large section of country and to acquire | in fifteen years he will be at the front amon; that was laying it on thick, but tiers is no quseiinn hot that tbe scar broke him up as a skill in trailing. Gen. Miles desires hie i chore who know all that ta known.—8*. Loui •ard player and drove bin out o< tbe tad- forces to fully learn the art of war as | Republican. wa B b > York tab practiced by tbs Indians.—Waahingtoo It is claimed that the longest completed tunnel in the world is at Schemuitz in Hun gary. It is 10.27 miles in length, with a cross seation of 0 feet 10 inches by 5 feet : 3 inches and is used for drainage purpose» The new Croton aqueduct tynnel now m coures of ex cavation near this city will be much tbe long- est tunnel in the world. - i| ............................................. much larger than thatprthe Schen nel, being about 16 feet in diamitep. Twenty- two miles have already been excavated. A Remarkable Mammal. The accompanying cut represents the top of the skull of the remarkable mammal, Trity - lodon, described by Henry F. Osborn, of Princeton, in Qcience. It is re duced to two-thirds natural size, the genus being much larger thru any other hitherto known from the Mesozoic iieriod. In •he interval be tween the parietals and frontal« (1 and SKULL OF A REMARK- 1 2) is seen the pari ABLE MAMMAL. etal foramen (3), which has exactly the name position and rela tions as in the lizard genus Sphenodon. From the large size of the fiarietal foramen in Tritylodon, which greatly exceeds that of any of the recent lizards in actual diameter, and compares with that of the labyrintboionta and saurians. Professor Osborn infers that the primitive mammalia, of this family at least, had a pineal eye of some functional size and value. Tbe facte here recorded are consid ered of remarkuble interest to scientists, add ing, as they do, to tbe rapidly accumulating evidence for the reptilian ancestry of .the mammals. Why Colors Cannot be Photographed. He—1 see that old Mr Beutly was burled yesterday. Wife ishocked)— Why, is old Mr. Bendy dead! He (who has just been “«at upon”!—Th, paper doesn't say whether he is dead or not. amply that he was buried yesterday — Life Died I d Harnere. Photography has never reproduced natural colors. Scientists explain this fact by tbe statement that color has no objettive exis tence. It is simply the brain’s interpretation of tbe rapidity with which tbe waves of a ray of light beat against the retina. Beata more rapid produce the senration of the mind known as violet; beats leu rapid, that, known as red. Violet and red are nothing but vibra tions of the ether until they reach the optio nerve and communicate to that the vibrations which the brain translates. To photograph color is therefore as impossible as to photo graph sound. ■■ First New Yorker— What I Starved to death! I thought there was plenty of work now for alL Second New Yorker—He was not out at I work. He had a regular occupation. Disappearance of an Island. “My stars! Wliat atT According to the official news «per of the “Collecting subscriptions for monuments and other patriotic object»"—Omaha World Farve island«, tbe rock island >f Muuken, south of Bumbo, has sunk out of sight In a word, one of the most striking objects in the A House of Straw. Farve group, which has been sailed past and A house constructed entirely of materials I admired by thousands of people and played manufactured of straw is one of the promised an important part in geogra.ihiciil literature, novelties to be exhibited at the forthcoming baa disappeared. It once stood seventy feet American exhibition in London. Said bouse, above the level of the sea, but the rock which, according to Iron, is being made in gradually crumbled away so tiiat the tide Pennsylvania, is to represent an American I washed over its surface. Tie shallow water» villa two and a half stories high, and cover around the island formed dangerous currents, ing a space of fertv-two feet by fifty feet with eddies, or maelstroms, which were much dreaded bv mariners. Spiders Attracted by Electric Light. A Washington correspondent commenta on a species of spider that bas appeared since the introduction of electric lights. It plys it« c-aft day and night. Everywhere it« web« are «een imparting a dingy, dirty appearance to the architectural ornamentation outside and ceilings inside buildings that are ilia wln.l*. 1 !*v Good Excuse. “Jones used to be one of the quietest men ;>ing,” said Smith the other day. “mild and toffensive, but now I bear that bo is con itantly in hot water with his neighbors.” “Well, you know," said Brown, “Jones bought a dog a short time ago."—Boston Courier. She Missed All That. Eve was sjiareil one affliction that casta a gloom over the lives of many of her daugh ters. Adam never bored her with stories of the jolly times be used to have when be was a boy.—Boston Courier. A Good Subject. Young Mr Fresh «complacently!—Did you see that little article in but Sunday’s paper about me. Miss Balinel Miss Baline—Why. no. Mr Fresh; what was it, a humorous article»—Tbe Epoch. An Cndomesticated Tongue In Boston. First Bostonian—Do you speak any foreig. bmguagel Second Bostonian—Yee ; nna Fin* Bostonian- What is itf Second Bostomaa-English.—Tid Blta The Gould«* Social Taste». The Goulds themselves are people of the east possible social pretentiousness No loubt Mr Jay Gould’s business affaire ren ter social secret! vences a policy with him, but ne. at any rate, was never a man to hunger for notoriety tn a fashionable sense He is a victim to his nerves, too, and people who nave been close in their intimacy with him tell me that he feels his unpopularity keenly and this, no doubt, adds to bis desire for re liretnent His children are chips of the old block. The sons have the tastes and char ai'teristics of the father in a marked degree The business of money getting is their great est pleasure. The daughter repeats, I am as cured by friends of the family, the amiable and admirable traits of the mother Al though they live tn abundant luxury, tbe Goulds make very little «bow stout it His ■team yacht and conservatory are Jay Gould's sole extravagances. He buy« pictures which he does not look at and books waicb be does not read, as part of the paraphernalia of a rich man's bouse Business is business with him. first, last and every time, and his two sons have already shown the bent of their tastes in the same direction. — Alfred Trum ble in New York Me we A "Philadelphia draramer astonished the people of Omaha the other day by wearing a live chameleon as a watch charm The curl oas little lizard was attached to a chain by a thin band of gold wound about Its neck, and Mstlsd in the creases of tbs druaimer’s waistcoat with every Indication of oooteab
