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* SCIO. OREGON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1890. VOL. 2 FHE PACIFIC COAST. L. H. MONTANYE, A ttorney EASTERN ITEMS. FOREIGN NEWS. The Cruiser Charleston Ordered The Little Missouri Range Swept Lord Sackville Vents His Spleen in a Pusillanimous Manner. by a Prairie Fire. to Honolulu. Office in Strahan building. J. K. WEATHERFORD, L aw , at Albany, Oregon. Office in Finn block, over First National bank. ' • --•>i-. , j»- H.~~^7 ~^7 D. R. N. BLACKBURN. PORTLAND MARKET. L aw , at Albany, Oregon. A ttorney NO. 16 ^7 ' An American Captain Tells of the Horrible The President Extends the Time for the The President of Colombia Speaks Well Atrocities Committed IJpon the Cattle Kings to Remove Their of Present Effects of "the Pan- Russian Exiles. Stock from the Territory. American Conference. -. GEO. W. WRIGHT. The trades of Eureka, Humboldt coun ty, Cal., are now working on the nine- A ttorneys at L aw ,. hour a day schedule. There has been Will practice in all the courts of the State. no reduction in wages. ' Prompt at'ention given to all business intrusted The sale of the Silver Bell mines to an to our care. English syndicate has been consummat Office, Odd Fellows’ Temple, Albany, Or. ed by the payment of $100,000. The mines are located thirty miles west of Tucson.. DR. E. 0. HYDE, The Penitentiary Commissioners of Washington have decided to order a’ ph plant for making jute bags in ac Physician and Surgeon, loem cordance with an action of the last Leg islature. Scio, O regon . The right of way for the Union Pacific between Lake City and Tacoma has been nearly all secured. C. A. E. Naubert is securing the right of way on this portion of the line. The road will enter on the tide flats near the reservation'school. A lbany , O regon . The steamer Mabel struck a large snag in the Snohomish river the other night, and sank where the water reaches her EARL RACE, Proprietor. smokestack at high tide. The disaster was entirely due to the carelessness of loggers, who a few dâys ago cut off a : u sawyer ’’Jsnag a few inches below the Water without either hanging a buoy’or informing the boats. "Several late arrivals of vessels from Alaska bring recent intelligence from Chignik bay. ■ Four canneries, managed by different companies, effected a com bination and worked in common. Fish were so plentiful that hundreds of thou sands were thrown away on account of a scarcity of packing materials. The total pack at Chignik bay was 43,582. Board From $1 to $2 Per Day. The Trustees of the Seatie, Lake Shore and Eastern railway met at Seattle last Headquarters for Commercial Men. week. A. Ss “Dunham, the Managing Trustee, stated that the sole object of the meeting was to ratify »some right-of- way agreements on the new extension. It is understood, however, that the meet ing had relation to the placing of bonds to the amount of about $1,000,000 in New York, the proceeds to be used in paying for new construction. The United States cruiser" Charleston has sailed for the Hawaiian islands in obedience to telegraphic orders received by Rear-Admiral Brown from Secretary of the Navy Tracy, ordering the vessel to proceed immediately to Honolulu. The occasion of the return of the Charles ton to Hawaii creates anticipation qf an other revolution in the islands’ king Corner of Oak and Main Streets, dom. The Charleston has a large stock of fuel and provisions for a one-year Scio, O regon . cruise. The case of the Southern Pacific Com pany against the Recorder of Fresno BILYEU BROS., Proprietors. county, Cal., has been decided in favor of the company. The case at issue was First class turnouts. Horses boarded by the the definition of “course” in collecting day or week at reasonable prices. We run dal y fees on recorded papers. The Recorder hacks to connect with airtrains on the Oregon has usually construed the word- to mean Pacific and Oregonian railroads. the shortest unbroken line between two points; that a course begins and ends with the streets and alleys of a block. The Court decides a “ çourse ” to be a straight line between two points, Whether broken or not. The steamship Australia arrived at San Francisco from Honolulu last week, bringing advices to August 29. Since SCIO, OREGON, the last advices the Legislature has been principally occupied with the considera tion of the Oahii railway bill. The House passed an amendment giving the company a subsidy of $700 per mile. King Kalakaua visited the leper settle ment August 27, and addressed the peo ple. Orders have been issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs honorably disbanding the First Battalion of Ha waiian volunteers, known as the Hono Dye Stuffs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, lulu Rifles. , It is stated at San Francisco that there Toilet Articles, Perfumery, is a probability that the brewers’ trust will come to grief. Deposits were paid Sponges and All Varieties of Drug by the syndicate on all concerns pur chased, but in most cases the remainder gists’ Sundries. of the contract has not been fulfilled. This is particularly the case in regard to Philadelphia brewery. A deposit of Wali "Paper in All the Latest Styles. the $150,(100 was paid to it to bind the con tract. Then $500,000 was to have been SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY. paid on the 1st of July last, $530,000 on the 1st of August and the balance on the 1st instant. These payments have not been made, and the whole contract is Pictures Framed to Order. about to be declared off. The syndicate, however, has been given until the 15th Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. instant in which to pay the whole of the purchase money. Should it fail, the property will revert to Mrs. Wieland, and the $150,000 deposit will be forfeited. The barkentine Catherine Liedden has arrived at Port Townsend from Siberia. Her commander, Captain John Thomas, gives a description of the Russian exile system as witnessed by him. He de scribes a, brutal scene, which he wit nessed on Saghalien island, the famous Russian exile prison. A large partv of exiles of all ages, heavily manacled, were heing taken to the island. A few old me®, whose strength gave but, fell from exhaustion. A brutal driver, act ing under orders from his superior, shot the unfortunate men, and removed their chains. No mercy or discrimination was I ED GOINS, Proprietor. shown. Wives saw husbands killed be fore their eyes ; mothers saw their daugh ters outraged and insulted. The exiles were driven like cattle, a heavy whip heing used to urge them on. The prison cèlls were filthy and the treatment bay bar ou S'. A new bridge has just been completed across the main Umpqua river at Ump ferry. The driving of'the last spike THE BEST BRANDS qua was the means of gréât rejoicing by the people in that neighborhood, and the exercises were witnessed by 530 people. —OF— Miss Maud Sham brook drove the last spike. Speeches.were made by several prominent men of Douglas county, and at night a dance was given by the young people. The structure is a combination Pratt trust, and is 613 feet in total length CONSTANTLY ON HAND with one span of 300 feet, probably the longest span in the State at present ; an other span of forty-two feet and the rest in approaches. The height above low to the floor is fifty-one feet, and Highest Market Price Paid for Grain. water the piers are forty feet in lèngth. The bridge is seven feet above high water, and the total height from low water to the top of the truss work is 105 feet. The Farmers will find it to their interest to call cost was $23,000. •and see us. BLACKBURN & WRIGHT, ST. CHARLES HOT Eb, <<1 LIVERY,!» Feed and Sale STABLE, J. S. MORRIS, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Vanishes, SCIO Capacity, 75 Rappels Pep Day. FLOUR AND FEED W heat —Foreign advices are of-quiet markets, without any improvements in the demand for cargoes. Spot quotations at Liverpool are rather better, and the option market closed higher throughout. The feeling, in local circles shows little change, but trading is more active. Open quotations Continue: $1.27J£ for Valley and $1.20@1.22% for Walla Walla. F lour —Quote: Standard,$3.90;Walla Walla, $3.60@3.80 per barrel. O ats —Quote: 48c per bushel. M illstuffs —The mark-A is steady. Quote: Bran, $17@19; Snorts, $23@25; Ground Barley^ $32.50; Chop Feed, $25; Middlings, $25 per ton. II ay —The market is steady. Quote: $16@17 per ton. , V egetables —The market is steady. Quote: Cabbage, $1.75@2 per cental; Cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; Peas, 3c per pound; Onions and Lettuce, 15c per dozen bunches ; String Beans, 3c per pound; California Onions, 2J^@21^c; Oregon, 2V¿cper pound; Corn, 8@10c per dozen; Cucumbers, 10c per dozen; Carrots, 10@ 15c per bunch; Beets, $1.50 per sack; Turnips,. $1.25 per sack; California To matoes, 65c; Oregon, 50c per box; Pota toes, 75@85c per cental; Sweet Potatoes, 3@%c per pound. F ruits —Quote: Tahiti Oranges, $4.25 per box; Sicily, $9@10 per case; Egg and Columbia Plums,Tt^c per pound ; Bradshaw Prunes, 2e per pound; Italian Prunes, lj¿c per pound; Seckel Pears, 2c per pound; Bartlett Pears, lj-^c per pound; Grapes, $1.25@1.50 per” box; Pineapples, $3.50.@4 per dozen; Bananas, $3.75 per bunch; double, $6; Oregon Gravenstein Apples, 65@75c per box; Crawford Peaches, 90c@$1.25; Other va rieties, $1.15@1.25 per box ; Oregon, 90c @$1.25 per box," $1 per basket ; Nectar ines, $1@1.25 per box: Oregon Water melons, $2 per dozen; Cantaloupes, $1.50 @2 per dozen; Crabapples, 50c per box. • C heese —Quote: Oregon, ll@12^c; California, 9j^@10c; Young America, 14 @15c per pound. B utter —The market is firm. Quote : Oregon fancy dairy, 30c; fancy creamery, 32^e; good to fair, 25@27J¿c; common, 20@22^c; choice California, 27@28c per pound. E ggs —Quote: 30c per dozen for Ore gon. P oultry —The market is firm. Quote: Old Chickens, $4.50@4;75; young, $2.50 @4; old Ducks, $4.50@5; young, $5@6 per dozen; Turkeys, 15c per pound. N uts —Quote: Walnuts, 13c; Peanuts, green. 12c: Alnionds, 17c; Filberts, 14 @15c; Brazils, 13@14c per pound; Cocoa- nuts, $1 per dozen. H oney —Fancy White, 1-pound car toons, 18c. N ails —Base quotations: Iron, $3.20; Steel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg. THE EMPEROR NERO. One of the Most Brutal Fellows That Ever • Ruled a Great Country« . Britanniqus, his brother by adoption, a hoy of fourteen, is in .the way; he is poisoned, thanks to Locusta’s art, at a dinner given by Nero. Suetonius re cords the popular belief that the motive to the crime was no less a professional jealousy of his voice than a politic fear of his ambition. The first dose only made the hoy very sick, whereupon Nerd sent for Locusta and chastised her with his own hand. She excused herself; a stronger dose would have been a quicker method certainly, but a more public. “As if,” replied Nero, “the Julian iaw had terrors for me,” and compeled her, there and then, to concoct the strongest and most effectual mixture she knew. This was offered to a goat; the goat lived five hours, to their «great disap pointment. But whqn a draught was produced by their joint efforts, which proved the instant destruction of a pig, then an invitation was sent to Britan- nfcus. He fell dead at- the first mouth ful. “That epilepsy has carried him off at last,” said Nero, and no one contra dicted him. These were strange doings for a model young Emperor, but of course Seneca, the Stoic, knew of them; there was no cause for alarm. His young pupil does not poison only; he dances, he sings (and that execrably,) he produces elab orate euphuistic verse, he drives chari ots. Strange and new as it was, what did it matter to the populace? No more than the murders of Agrippina and Oc tavia, mother and half-sister, since they coincided with schemes for remit ting the public taxes. There is no sud den frenzy to account for the growth of crime within Nero; all is orderly, pro gressive, a conscious rake’s progress, from the good young Emperor to the crowned« victor of Olympia among his claqueurs. It may seem strangely per verse tljat Nero should have been loved, lamented, adored. He killed his mother, he killed men by companies; he even, writes Juvenal, composed an epic poem—yet he was not loathed nor an object of repulsion. Great criminals are mainly admired as great, aspiring, possessed. Nero, who has none of these, was not .admired, but loved. “Even now,’’ says Dion Chrysos tom, writing in the time of Trajan, “even now the people long for him to be alive,” And women, who could not have given themselves up to the vulgar brutalities of Tiberius, clung with real love to Nero. Popprna, whom Josephus calls^a devotee, a refined nature, with a delicate inclination toward Jewish piety; Acte,owhom some have thought a Christian, Nero’s first love, and lov ing him past death; the two nurses who prepared his body for burial; the un known hands that for years threw flowers on his tomb—all these loved him with varying but with evident love- Macmillian’s Magazine. • Ex-Senator T, C. Platt of New York- Russia is increasing her garrisons in has declined the proffered Spanish Mis Poland. • sion. . Osman Digma has arrived at Tokar The population of Rhode Island is with 3,000 followers. given’as 345,343. In 1880 the population The Prince of Wales is leading an in was 276,531. nocent and enjoyable existence at Ham A syndicate of American capital-“ burg. ists is to spend $10,000,000 in railway The grain trade between Suakim and building in Jamacia. One of the largest worsted mills in the interior has been stopped to prevent Providence has ’ been recapitalized in the spread of cholera. England and the stock sold. Non-union men are being put to work A vast syndicate of physicians and on the docks at Melbourne, and the ship others have a project of establishing a ping trade has slightly improved. health resort and sanitarium in Florida. Despite Catholic clerical condemnation It is believed at Washington that Be the system of boycott is still employed nicia, Cal., will be selected; by the gov largely as a political weapon in Ireland. ernment at which' to establish an ord It is reported that armed Armenians nance foundry. have crossed the frontier from Persia to Mayor Frank P. Schiff bauer of Kan assist their persecuted brethren in Tur sas City, Kan., has been arrested and charged with embezzling about $10,000 key. of tlpe city funds. A private bill has been introduced into Official dispatches from Honolulu do the Argentine Congress to authorize the not show anything calculated to cause leasing of 250,000,003 acres of the na alarm. T'm report that revolution is tional lands. rife is discredited. It is stated that there are 4,000 cases Quests at St. Louis hotels help' them of smallpox in the Province of Pernam selves since the waiters’ strike, and’ the buco, Brazil, and an average of twenty best of it is they are not so long about deaths daily. it and they have no waiters to tip. . ■The British naval maneuvers just con- Statistics show that the cotton crop eluded.have cost about £230,000, and the this year is the greatest ever produced, taxpayers are complaining that the show and that the growers are less in debt was very dear at the pijice. than at any time for twenty-five years. The saloonkeepers .of* St. Petersburg The Grant Memorial Association has been warned not to sell liquor to already raised $15.0,000, and needs to have operatives on credit or. entice raise $350,000 more in order to erect the factory proposed monument in honor of General them to drink in any other way. Grant. Advices from Lamus state that the A suggestion for a second Boston me German agitator, Toppen, has been con morial to John Boyle O’Reilly calls for a verted to Mohammedanism and is about charity farm of 100 acres near Boston starting on a pilgrimage to Mecca. for that city’s homeless Roman Catholic The largest sailing vessel afloat has children. just been launched at Glasgow. She is It is reported in Boston that à note of a five-masted ship of 3,650 tons burden, the Worcester Steel Works has been.pro- and is intended for the nitrate tradd. tested. The capital of the company is Armouts and Montenegrins continue $500,000, but thé Commercial Agency their sanguinary warfare on the Turco- gives it no rating. Montenegro frontier, the Turkish Com The committee having in charge the missioner being unable to preserve order. The Merchandise Market. adjustment of the Virginia debt an S ugars —The market is firm. Quote: Alexandre Chatrian, the well-known nounces that it has on deposit a large Golden.C. 4%c; extra C, 5^c; dry granu majority of all classes of the securities French novelist, who wrote in collabora lated, 6)£c; cube crushed and powdered, tion with Emile Erckmann over the nom under the agreement. 6%c per pound. The freight brakemen on the Pittsburg, de plum of Erckmann’Chatrian, is dead. B eans —-The market is firm. Quote: Shenandoah and Lake Erie railroad at Signor Dorsina, member of the Italian Small Whites, $3.25; Pink, $8.75;, Bayos, Mercer, Pa., have gone on a strike for an Chamber of Deputies, has secured a con $4.50; Butter, $3.50; Limas, $5.50 per advance in wages, and all freight traffic I cession from his government for the es cental. is-suspended in consequence. tablishment of a steamship line between D ried F ruits —The market is film. Quote: Raisins, .12.75 per box; Plum It is understood in Wall street at New Italy and Mexico. THE TEXAN COWBOY. York that Norvin Green is about to re Liverpool seamen and firemen have mer-dried Pears, 10@llc ; sun-dried and sign as President of the Western decided to combat the organized ship factory Plums, 8@10e; evaporated Union Telegraph Company, He is to’ owners’ federation, and a trial of strength Peaches, 24c; Smyrna Figs, 14@ 16c; Cal He Is Bold, Fearless and Generous, with Figs, 9c. per pound. Nothing Small About Him. be succeeded bj* George Gould. with the gigantic union of capitalists ifornia C anned Goons—Market is firm. Quote: Cowboy life has in the last few years Mr. Morrow is not a candidate for the may soon be looked for. Table fruits, $2.25, 2J4s; Peaches, $2.50; vacancy occasioned by. the resignation A dispatch from San Salvador says Bartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums, $1J55; lost much of its roughness. The cattle of First Assistant. Postmaster-General General Ezeta is engaged in fijtming a Strawberries, $2.50 ; Cherries, $2 ; Black barons have, discharged most of the men Clarkson. Mr. Morrow says he will! legal government for the Salvador Re berries, $2; Raspberries, $2.55. Pie fruit: who drank, and have frowned so per start for home as soon’ as Congress ad public, preparatory to demanding recog Assorted, $3.75 per dozen; Peaches, sistently upon gambling that little of it journs. " $ 1.40; Plums, $1.25; Blackberries, $1.65; is done. Cards and whisky being put nition from foreign powers. Tomatoes, $l."20@3.50; Sugar Peas, $1.40 away, there is small temptation to dis The first week’s engagement of Miss The Empress Frederick’s chronicle of orderly conduct; so it is only when they String Beans, $1. Emma Juch proved the jnoat successful the ninety-nine days’ reign of her hus- @1.60. H ides —The market is weak. Quota reach some large city, and are not on ever known in the u.„x„ history of i a Denver. band will be a most curious Jiook. It is. The gross receipts, which far exceeded 1 said that’it will explain many circum tions : Dry Hides, selected prime, 8@ duty, that they indulge in a genuine 9c, %c less for culls; green, selected, spree. On the ranches kept under fence that of the Patti company, amounted! stances hitherto thought obscure. over 55 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c; they have little to do when not on the to nearly $30,000. A Berlin dispatch states that Emperor Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30@50c; me drive or in brand! ng-time, the cattle John J. Knox, ex-United States Con William is annoyed by the non-arrival dium, 60@80c; long, 90c@$1.25; shear troller, who arrived in New York from of the phonograph promised by Mr. Ed- lings, 10@20c; Tallow, good to choice, 3 being all safely inclosed, But they France, said that the American silver, ison, and has been trying to purchase @3}^c. Receipts the past week were must take their turns at line riding, which means a close in- legislation, which has caused an advance machines elsewhere, but without suc- 9,286 pounds. in the price of silver, Was looked upon 1 cess. W ool —The market is dull. Quota spection of the fences, and the tions: Eastern Oregon, 10@16c; Valley, repair of all breaks and damages. with favor in Europe. I r- The prospects of the Panama canal are 16@18c per pound. Receipts the past Where night overtakes them, there •The President has agreed, upon the definitely brightening, and in the best week were 11,672 pounds. they sleep, staking their horses, and receipt of a written guarantee that half informed circles at Panama the matter H ops —Quote: 25@30c per pound. rolling themselves in their blankets. of the cattle of .Indian Territory will be , is ■ regarded ’ ’ as practically concluded. > — The P ickles —Quote: 85c 3s; 90c 5s. These rides of inspection take days to removed by November 1, that he will draft of- a bill is being "prepared at Bo S alt —Quote: Liverpool, $17, $18, $19; accomplish, for there are ranches in extend the time for the removal of the gota to authorize the President of Co stock, $ll@12 per ton in carload lots. Texas which extend in a straight line remainder to December 1. lombia to secure terms with M. Wyse. C oal O il —Quote: $2.20 per case. over seventy-five miles. Those ranches R ice —Quote: 6J£c per pound. A New York evening paper says a pe No French fleet will be present at which are not kept under fence neces tition is being circulated among the Spezzia at the launching of the new sitates more work. The hoys must stockholders Of the Illinois Central, urg Italian war ship at that port. The order The Meat Market. then keep their cattle in sight, and ing them to rise in rebellion against the j for sending a" squadron to Spezzia to do The meat market is firm. Quote: while allowing them to graze in every present management ^e petition says coun- * Beef—Live; 3@3J^c; dressed, 6@7c. direction, must see that none in the the company is practically on the verge termanded ^consequence of a dispute Mutton—Live, 3@3>£e; dressed, 7c. many thousands stray beyond the limits ot ruin. regarding formalities to be observed on Hogs—Live, 5@5J^c; dressed, 7c. of their own particular pastures. They Veal—6@8c per pound. Two St. Louis physicians have filed the occasion. go then in parties, scattering over Spring Lambs—$2 each. complaints in the Probate Court for in- Sackville; as Lord of the Manor, Lord Sackville, the territory, for they must cover hun SMOKED MEATS AND LARD. quiry as to the sanity of Mrs. Wood- has through his agent made a claim upon dreds of thousands of acres in a day. worth, the evangelist and leader of the the Stratford-on-Avon Town Council for The market is firm. Quotations: East Oakland (Cal.) has /«.n doom-sealers, who h oa I encroachment of rent in respect to the ern Hams, 13@14c; Breakfast Ba It is not a life of hardship, and pays has been holding meeting at St. Louis American fountain and clock tower which con, ll@14c; Sides, 9@10c; Lard, 8%(g well enough. Every thing is furnished for several months. was presented to the town by George W. 11c per pound. to them free and of the very best, and they are paid besides thirty dollars per About a dozen scientists, archaeologists, Childs three , years ago. and which was month. Each party stays out from two botanists and zoologists are about to ex publicly opened by Henry Irving. ’ A Peculiarity of Celluloid. plore Arizona and New Mexico to exam to three weeks at a time; but they take The exhibition of prison labor in St. ine the remains of ancient civilization, Petersburg Insurance men. say that when they are with them the finest of camp wagons, on the occasion of the Inter antedating, it is said, that of the Aztecs national Prison Conference, which, was called upon to adjust a loss caused by with beds and bedding, cooking uten and existing principally in the Gila val recently held there, was so successful the burning of celluloid they are abso sils, the best of groceries of all kinds, ley, in the northwest part of Arizona. measures are being taken now to lutely compelled to take the books of and as excelent a cook as money can The peculiar habits ot the Zuni and that establish a permanent “Museum of the owners unless they have evidence employ. The prairies are full of game, Navajo Indians will also he investigated. Prison Work. ” Greece, the Republic of to show that the books have been made and their rifles are ever handy. The A prairie fire ravaged thousands of; the Archipelago, France and Italy have up fraudulently. When a piece of cellu life is free, fascinating, and peculiarly acres along the Little Missouri river ten ! already declared their willingness to loid burns up every thing that is in it healthy. - days ago, and ’ the great cattle range was contribute to that enterprise. passes away into the air and disappears. These men are exceedingly chivalrous swept clear. The fire was put out by The rioting at Valparaiso, Ghili, dur- The substance is made under patents, to all’ women; this seems to be’a trait means of horses, which were killed and j ing the late strike was of a very serious owned by an American company, and it born in them, as muoh a part of their used as drags, to extinguish the flames. • nature. There was considerable pillage, is composed principally of camphor. A moral nature as it is of their physical The horses were split up the back and I and the police charged the .crowd with gentleman connected with the company tohave small feet, for it is seldom that a their carcasses dragged over the country | sabers in hand. Some twenty persons which manufactures all the celluloid by long ropes. Twelve hundred head of were killed. At one time the crowd was articles sold in this market and furnishes genuine Texas cow-boy can be found who has not the distinguishing mark of horses were used. fully 10,000 strong. The arrival of the the hulk of all that are sold the world a handsome “foot, and his boots are to cavalry and artillery quieted the tumult, The South Park Commissioners have pillaging outside of guarded points over says that the produit of the com him all tha t -the sombrero is to a Mex decided not to tender the Washington but was carried on ancL-many outrages were pany’s factory last year wa“val aed at ican. He will deny himself many parkas a site for the World’s. Fair as reported. $1,500,000. “Sup-pose now,” said the pleasures, he will go without a coat, requested by the Exposition Directors. person makinp-this statement,—“that and he.seen ______ _ ___ attire, in _____ most , dilapidated A new “ cure ” has been invented in our factory should burjfcer that thejiore but hisTTioots must be of the best and They add that they have already made a tender of the unimproved portion of Germany, which may be adopted as a in which we keep much of our finished-"most beautiful make that the country Jackson park and will now add thereto greater novelty than the mind cure or product should burn, there would nôï~ can afford; high in heel and curved of the improved area of that park, making the faith cure. Its basis is the harden be in either case any means by which instep, a fine upper and thin sole, fitting a total acreage so tendered of 670 acres. ing of the human organism, which has A mile and a half of the frontage on the been disastrously enfeebled by civiliza the insurance company cotfid determine, like a glove, and. showing the handsome tion. The patients imitate the noble independently of us, whether we had foot to ^perfection. lake shore is included in the tender. the gypsy, and the system sustained a loss of a hundred dollars'on Take the cowboys as a class, they are The Senate Committee on Private Land savage,and included going'barefoot as one part of celluloid or a hundred thousand dol-. bold, fearless and generous, a warm Claims through Mr. Colquitt has made the One German parish contains lars.”—N. Y. Times. hearted and manly set, with nothing an elaborate, report on the bill’ to reim 1,400 cure. patients. burse the grantees, their legal represent —The world is safe for another year. small, vioious nor mean about them, The President "of Colombia in his The sweet girl graduates have settled and Texas need not be ashamed of the atives and the assigns of the Punta de Laguna Mexican land grant in California message to Congress says.: “The results every thing in their essays. — Boston braVe and skillful riders who traverse for lands of which they were deprived of this historical conference (the Pan-1 Courier. ___ ___________ the length and brqadthof her expansive by an erroneous survey made by the of American) are already being felt, and in I —Alice (agea nvej—"Are you very prairies.—Lee <1 Harby, in Harpar’a ficers of the United States. The com ho distant epoch we shall see our Amer- I tired, Mamma?” Mamma—“Yes, I Magazine. vll £1 V 111 to vw the Lllv world YVVIIVI dlt an * .example vACvlll Ulv vl of I i • L*ll 1 « mittee recommended that they be al 1 ica.giving of international war pn+nAHT wn’t climb hilis on a hot summer day lowed to select lands in the State of Cal the i suppression » x . • ■» i faolTnrr 4-mnd «n T T without feeling tired, as I could when I —“No,” said the comedian, “it isn’t ifornia, iw|. mineral and not reserved, in and of the development of commerce the foundations of confidence, of ''fas ake y°u- ” Lulu (aged as easy as it looks. I find my task a quantities equal to the amount of which upon ____ i____ i __________ ___ j ____ _ _n K nai respect and on 1. harmony of f all . inruol three) —‘ “ ‘MiiTnmo Mamma, who used, to take us very hard one. It struck me as no they were deprived by the erroneous mutual 1*. • i • , i • • * I nnr wallnntv urnnn unn «mci « 144.4.1»» out walking when you was a little girl laughing matter when I saw you at the survey. egitimate interests.” like Alice.—Demorest’s Monthly. the ate? last night”—Washington Post a ut a MEERSCHAUM IN CHUNKS. It Comes from Turkev svnd Is Principally Used for Pipes. The meerschaum conies from Turkey In boxes. A box holds about fifty pounds, and; is Worth from $20 to $300, according to the size and quality of the pieces. It look-s like plaster of paris smoothed off and rounded. The amber looks like beeswax or large pieces of rosin. It comes in pieces, and is worth from $2 to $50 a pound. Meerschaum to make a $5 pipe costs about $2.50. Tha amber tips,-raw, cost about one-quarter or one-half, as much. When an order comes for a pipe the proprietor goes through the stock of meerschaum to get a piece out of which the pipe can be cut with as little loss as possible. Four-fifths of the meer schaum is wasted, though the chips are often saved and made into imitation meerschaum, pipes. The meerschaum is first cut on a cir cular saw into a piece a little larger than the pipe. If the cutting shows holes or cracks the piece is ca'st aside. Then it is soaked in water for .fifteen minutes and cut the rough shape-with a knife. Then a hole is drilled through It and it is turned with a halfunotion. After the turning the . stem is inserted. It is smoothed off when dry, boiled in wax and polished; then it is ready to be sold. The amber is worked with a chisel and turning wheel. The chisel is sharp and razor-like. A clumsy operator would cut his fingers off with it. An old operator takes the piece of amber in. his hand and rounds it with the chisel, the forefinger of the left hand serving as a guide for the chisel to play. When it is rounded it is held against the face of a roughened wheel until it is turned to approximately the required size. Then it is put in the same turning wheeband a hole is bored through it. This is for the more common and cheaper amber stems, the kind that are put in brierwood pipes, which sell for 50 and 75 cents. It does not take more than a quarter or half hour to finish one of these stems. A stem for a more costly pipe will take a day. The short est time in which a good meerschauth pipe can he made is three days. That is for a plain pipe. If the pipe is to be carved that time has to be added. Workmen have spent months on carv ing one pipe. The dust and chips from the amber and meerschaum are saved. The amber dust is melted and made into amberine. The meerschaum dust is chopped up and worked into a paste, from which imita tion meerschaum pipes are made. It is *. common idea that real meerschaum can be told from imitation meerschaum - by the fact that real meerschaum floats on water, hut imitation meerschaum floats also. Imitation meerschaum can be made which will color better than real meerschaum does, though it does ' not last so long and the color is likely to come in streaks. It is hard for a manwvho is not in the business to tell a real from an imitation meerschaum. The best quality of meerschaum fre quently has air-holes and cracks in it. — A Case of — The worsTcase of “ice fever” that has been experienced to date appears to be that of a Pemaquid (Me.) citizen. He had a big load of eighteen cakes, and got about half way down to the wharf, when his cart tongue came out. Not nqticing anything wrong he kept on driving his oxen, and just before he reached the wharf met a team in rather a bad place. He told the driver of the team that he didn’t know as he could get by him with his big load, but on being told that he would have no trouble naturally looked back at his load to see what the fellow meant. His surprise can be imagined. —Chicago Herald. An Every Day Game. “Say, there is a feller playing a game on Woodward avenue this afternoon,” he said through the telephone, after call ing up police headquarters.«- “What sort of a game?” “The sweat box.” “Where?” •“On car No. 240.” “What sort of a looking man is he?” “He’s the conductor, and has just gone up with seventy, passengers on a car made to carry thirty!”—Detroit Free Press. Requirements of tlie Russian Language. A gentleman who recently traveled on the continent said he was at dinner one day in Paris, and while telling a story was attacked with a sudden and contin ued fit of sneezing. When he ceased a Russian gentleman at another table- named Plitcheeke turned about and complimented him on his excellent and correct pronunciation of the Russian lan guage.—London Tit-Bits. Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonog raphy, is a hoary haired man with "a scholarly stoop, and still presides over the Phonetic institute, Bath, England. He is rising 78, yet he supervises a cor respondence of, 30,000 letters a year, be sides editing The Phonetic Journal - and compiling the numerous books which he annually publishes. —“I have here,” said the peddler, “a patent window-shade, which;---- ” “No ase,” interrupted the house-maid from Boston; “we have no patent windows here,” and she slammed the door.” “Higher education of women is reducing this country to bankruptcy,” sighed the peddler, as he went slowly down the »tops.—‘Harper’s Baz.ar. ‘jLurn Aoout. Smiley—I’m going to be married to the beautiful Miss Sharpe. Congratu late me, old .hoy, and come and drink her health. Slimley—Yes, you’re right to toast her now—she’ll toast you when you’re married.—West Shore.______ ______, In view of measures 'before the United States Congress imposing duties on French goods the press of Paris has sounded an alarm. They assert that it would prove advantageous for France to rescind- the law prohibiting the importa tion of American pork. The wine-grpw- ers fear the loss of their valuable port trade.
