SCIO. OREGON, OCTOBER 4, 1890
VOL. 2.
NO. 19
■
L. H. MONTANYE,
A ttorney at L aw ,
THE PACIFIC COAST.
EASTERN ITEMS.
FOREIGN NEWS
Albany, Oregon.
An Opal Mine Discovered on a House Committee Favors Selling The Sultan of Sokoto Sends Queen
Office in Strahan building.
Farm Near Pullman.
Mormon Church Property.
Victoria a Lion.
J. K. WEATHERFORD,
A ttorney at L aw ,
Albany, Oregon.
Office in Finn blóck, over First National bank.
D. R. N. BLACKBURN.
A Colony of Forty Wealthy Nationalists Minister Mizner’s Conduct in the Barrundia Experiments Being Made in the English
Channel with a View of Buliding
Affair Upheld by the State
Formed in San Bernardino
County, Cal.
GEO. W. WRIGHT.
Department.
a Bridge Across It.
PORTLAND MARKET
W heat —Foreign advices are not of an
encouraging character, and there is little
or no demand for cargoes. The Liver­
pool market for both spot and futures is
again quoted lower. Locally the situa­
tion presents the same features that
have characterized it for some time past.
Shippers still give $1 25 for Valley and
$l.J7>^@1.20 for Walla Walla as their
quotations.
F lour —Quote: Standard, $3.90@4.00;
Walla Walla, $3.60@3.80 per barrel.
O ats —Quote: 44@47c per bushel.
M illstuffs — Quote: Bran, $19@20;
Shorts, $26@27.50; Ground Barley,
$32.50; Chop Feed, $25 per ton.
H ay —Quote: $16@17 per ton.
V egetables — The market is firm.
Quote: Cabbage, $1.75@2 per cental;
Cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; Onions,
2,t4c per pound; Corn, 8@10c per dozen;
Cucumbers, 10c per doze’n; Carrots,
$1 per sack; Beets, $1.50 per sack;
Turnips, $1.25 per sack; Tomatoes, 50c
per box; Potatoes, 80c@$ l per cental;
Sweet Potatoes, 2J^c per pound. ■
F kuit —Quote: Tahiti Oranges, $4.25
per box; Sicily Lemons, $9@10 per
case; Italian Prunes, l^c per pound;
Pears, l)4c per poun$; apples, 60@85c
per box; Grapes, 75c@$l per box; Pine­
apples, $3.50@4.00 per dozen; Bananas,
$4 per bunch; double, $6; Peacnes, 90c@
$1.25 per box; Watermeldns, $2@2.50
per dozen ; Cantaloupes, $1.50@2 per
dozen; California Quinces, $1; Oregon,
$1.50 per box.
C ranberries : Quote: $3.85 per box
C heese —Quote: Oregon, ll@12J£c;
California, 9j^@10c; Young America, 14
@15c per pound.
B utter —The market is firm. Quote :
Oregon fancy creamery, 35c; fancy dairy,
32^c; good to fair, 27J^@30c; common,
22J^@25c; choice California, 28@30c per
pound.
E ggs —Quote: 30c per dozen for Ore­
gon.
P oultry —Quote: Old Chickens, $5;
young, g 3 4 . old Ducks,<6@6.50; large
young, $7@7.50; Geese, $9 per dozen;
Turkeys, lt@15c per pound.-
IN uts —-Quote: Walnuts, 13c; Peanuts,
green, 12c; Almonds, 17c; Filberts, 14
@15c; Brazils, 13@14c per pound; Cocoa-
nuts, $1 per dozen.
H oney —Fancy White, 1-pound can
toons, 18c.
N ails —Base quotations: Iron, $3.20;
Steel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg.
Detroit is building a boulevard.
The Anti-Slavery Conference has
The World’s Fair tower is to be 1,500 opened at Paris.
feet.
Genoa is preparing for a Columbus
Fall River’s new City Hall will prob­ anniversary m 1892.
ably cost $300,000.
The Porte has authorized the founding
Total cash in the United States Treas­ of a Russian school in Constantinople.
ury is $ «94,55f,461.07.
Ve-nois has positively decid' d to re­
The wheat acreage in Kansas this fall sign as Prussian M nister of War.
- Parnell’s health will not permit him
wi!l be about 2,000,000 acres.
The late census shows ‘Boston to be to make a personal visit to this country.
entitled to 113 more saloons.
Typhoid, in an epidemic form, has
out at several points along the
There are are thirty-nine theosophical broken
coast of Normandy.
societies in the United States.
On the Riviera this season' the heat
Brooklyn druggists in meeting con- has
been greater than at any time for
demned the adulteration of drugs.
the past twenty years.
Maine speculators are offering $5 a
A commercial' panic prevails in Lis­
barrel for winter apples on the trees.
bon, where the leading banks are trem­
Englishmen are planning to open up bling. A crisis is imminent.
I, 000,000 acres of land in We t Virginia.
A stenograpic instrument in use by
a
Farmers are at the head of the Guber­ the Italian Parliament is capable of re­
natorial tickets of both parties in In­ cording 250 words per minute.
diana.
The natives of Vitu, Africa, have mas-
The Prohibition candidate for Gov­ acred a German merchant namted Ruen-
ernor of Pennsylvania has withdrawn zel and seven German, employes.
from the contest.
Portugal has ordered the suppression
A remarkably rich gold mine is re­ of all cablegrams referring to political
ported to have been discovered near disorders in the country.
Rapid City, S. D.
McMillan, the Colonial Treasurer,
The death roll of the Grand Army of has withdrawn his resignation at the-
the Republic last year was 5,476 out of a request of the Governor' of New South
Wales.
membership of 464,652.
Newfoundland fishermen are again
Physicians have condemned the water
in East Lake, from which Bridgeton, N. complaining of'the French, who, it is
claimed, are carrying things with a
J. , gets its water supply.
Board From $1 to $2 Per Day.
The gross taxable property in Wa’lowa
high hand.
'
, :
It is estimated that fully 4,000 Penn­
county, Oregon, is $1,3:4,526; indebted­
The
actress
Marie
Hock,
who
made
are inrthe employ of the
Headquarters for Commercial Men. ness $452,751; exemptions, $137,700, sylvanians
her debut in New York, is dead at Ber­
leaving net taxable property amounting United States Government.
lin. Her death is due to a mistake in a
The Merchandise Market.
to $724,175. The county is m a prosper­
Over fifty thousand American tourists
ous condition, and with an abundant are said to have arrived home from prescription.
S ugars —Quote: Golden C, 5c; exrra
harvest has good prospects for the future. Europe since the 1st of August.
Mr. Gladstone says he is ¡confident 0, 5^c; dry granulated, 6%c; cube
that England will refuse to renew her crushed and powdered, 7c per pound.
The steamer Rio de Janeiro has sailed
The postoffice force at New Orleans costly support of the Turkish system
B eans —The market is firm. Quote:
from San Francisco for China and Japan, has been reduced on account of the de­ of government.
Small Whites, $3.25; Pink, $3.75; Bayos,
carrying back forty Chinese, who arrived crease in mails, owing to the anti-lottery
It is claimed that the reason the Ger­ $4.50; Butter, $3.50; Limas, $5.50 per
on her a week ago, and who were unable law.
man authorities in Africa countenance cental.
to land on writs of habeas corpus. Four
D ried F ruits —The market is firm.
The bill appropriating $100,000 to sur­ the traffic in slaves is to attract wealthy
other Chinese, who were intercepted on
Quote: Raisins, $2.75 per .box; Plum­
the Mexican border in Arizona recently vey Alaska has been favorably reported Arabs to the German coast line.
mer-dried Pears, 10@llc; sun-dried and
while endeavoring to enter the United by the Hoase Committee on Foreign Af­
The recent duels in France have factory Plums, 8@10c: evaporated
States, were also returned on the same fairs.
brought out an appeal from Julbs Simon, Peaches, 24c; Smyrna Figs, 14@16c; Cal­
steamer.
Secretary Windom accounts for the who calls upon his countrymen to ifornia Figs, 9c per pound.
C anned G oods —Market is firm. Quote:
A Truckee genius has invented a di­ stringent money* market on the ground abandon the absurd custom' of-dueling.
Table fruits, $2.25, 2J^s; Peaches, $2.50;
vining rod which he claims will determine of the rise in the value of our principal
Corner of Oak and Main Streets,
Michael
Davitt
’
s
new
paper
will
make
the locality of gold or silver, and the crops.
some startling disclosures and be sensa­ Bartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums, $1.65;
firm of A. V. Chillis & Co. of Truckee
New York City is kicking against the tional. The origin of the dynamite plots Strawberries, $2.50; Cherries, $2; Black­
has shipped one of the instruments, to -Federal census because it will reduce its will be given and conspirators Shown up. berries, $2; Raspberries, $2.55. Pie fruit:
Scio, O regon .
Assorted, $3.75 per dozen; Peaches,
which the manufactures has given the representation in Congress and in the
The wire to be used for the telephone $1.40; Plums, $1.25; Blackberries, $1.65;
name of “ King Splomon’s magnet,” to State Legislature.
between Paris and London is made of Tomatoes, $1.20@3.50 ; Sugar Peas, $1.40
Anderson, Tex., in the registered; mail,
BILYEU BROS., Proprietors.
and while the mail clerks were at break­ The Canadian Government, it is bronze. Enthusiasts believe that all the @1.60; String Beans, $1.
understood, will shortly abolish the ex- telegraphic communication will be Super­ _ H ides —The market is weak. Quota­
fast it exploded.
port duty on Canadian logs shipped to seded.
tions : Dry Hides, selected prime, 8@
First-class turnouts. Horses boarded by the
An
opal
mine
has
been
discovered
on
day or week at reasonable prices. We run daily
the United States.
9c, Xc less for culls ; green, selected,
hacks to connect with all trains on the Oregon the farm of William Leasure, five miles
The Brazilian Episcopacy has pub­ over 55 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c;
Pacific and Oregonian railroads.
A number of Jews recently arrived lished an energetic protest against the
from Pullman, on Missouri Flat, and
Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30@50c; me­
200 mining claims have been staked out. from Russia are negotiating for 700 measures which the Republicah Govern­ dium, 60@80c; long, 90c@$1.25; shear­
The opals are found twenty-six feet be­ acres of land near Centre Grove, N. J., ment proposes to aim at the* Catholic lings, 10@20c; Tallow, good to choice, 3
Church.
low the surface of the ground in rock on which to start a colony.
@3J£c. Receipt^ the past week were
and gravel, and were first discovered
The Southern Illinois Immigration and
The German wine-growers ask Chan­ 32,615 pounds.
while digging a well. As Leasure has Improvement Association has decided cellor von Caprivi to use diplomatic
W ool —The market is dull. Quota­
made final proof on the farm, it is not ■to spend $700 in advertising the advan­ m ans to prevent the exporting trade tions : Eastern Oregon, 10@16c; Valley,
thought that the locators can hold claims tages of Egypt. They want a boom.
with America from being injured by 16@18c per pound. Receipts the past
on his land.
week were 5' 1,500 pounds.
Late heavy rains have caused over the McKinley bili.
SCIO, OREGON,
H ops —Quote: 37^@40c per pound.
Napa, Cal., is rudely disturbed by $100,000 loss by the damage to crops
John Morley has visited Dublin to
P ickles —Quote: $1.15c 3s; $1.25 5s.
by the news that the order of the Royal along the Genesee river and its trib­ make a personal survey of the agricul­
S alt —Quote: Liverpool, $17, $18, $19;
Argosy, a popular endowment insurance utaries in .Western New York State.
tural situation, and to confer “with Mes­ stock, $ll@12 per ton in carload lots.
lodge, will dissolve. The membership,
srs.
Dillon
and
O
’
Brien
prior
to
their
de
­
The United States Treasury, as the
C oal O il —Quote: $2.20 per case.
in that city is 400, many of whom are
parture for America.
R ice —Quote: 5%c per pound.
poor people who have mortgaged -■ their result of the measures adoptea by Mr.
Windom,
has
been
paying
out
$2,000,000
The Comte de Paris is advising his
homes to raise the money wherewith to
per
day
since
the
middle
of
August.
.
The Meat Market.
friends to waste no time in recrimination,
pay.gssessments in this and similar or­
but to affirm clearly their faith iff monar-
ders. ' There is a possibility that invest­
The meat market is firm. Quote:
A
large
emigration
of
negroes
from
chial principles and unite for a continu­
ors will get 75 cents on every dollar that
Beef—Livu, 3(®3J^c; dressed, 6c.
Mississippi to Oklahoma is anticipated. ance of the struggle in Fiance.
Bye Stuffs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, they paid in.
Mutton—Live, 3@vLicj dressed, 6c.
Agents sent, by them to “spy out the
Hogs—Live, 5@5}^c; dressed, 7c.
The stream of lava flowing down the
The First National bank of Snohomish land” have returned with a favorably
Veal—6@8c per pound.
southeastern
side
of
Vesuvius
advances
has
been
victimized
by
a
smooth
forger,
Toilet Articles, Perfumery,
Spring Lambs—$2 each.
who succeeded in obtaining $45 on a
Boucicault’s estate will he contested slowly and majestically, and is said to
SMOKED MEATS AND LARD.
be
a
beautiful
spectacle
from
the
observ
­
check
drawn
on
the
order
of
G.
E.
Mil
­
for
hy
both
his
widows,
Agnes
Robert
­
Sponges and All Varieties of Drug­
ler & Co., bankers of Seattle. There was son and Louise Thorndvke. The old atory at Pompeii.
The market is firm. Quotations: East­
gists’ Sundries.
little excuse for the Snohomish bank to scandal is likely to be dished up again.
Arrangements are being made for ern Hams, 13@14c; Breakfast Ba­
have been swindl d, as the officers must The American Forestry Congress, at sending out to Australia from London, con, ll@14c; Sides, 9@10c; Lard, 8%@
have known that the firm of G. E. Mil­
recent meeting in Qubec, adopted toward the end of November, a protected 11c per pound.
ler & Co. was no longer in existence as its
resolutions
reepmmending the sending party, principally of single girls, under
a firm, it having been superseded by the of young men
to Europe to study for­ the care of the Church Emigration So­
King County Bank.
ciety’s matron.
estry.
ABOUT BIRDS’ NESTS.
SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
President
Woodruff
of
the
Mormon
■ Experiments are being conducted ‘in ▲ Generally Accepted Theory Corrected
•Friends
of
the
late
General
Fremont
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Church denies the statement made in in New York are manifesting consider- the English channel near Folkestone
by a Noted Naturalist.
the report of the Utah Commission that ab’e interest in the condition of Mrs. with a view to the construction of a
Pictures Framed to Order.
plural marriages have been solemnized „Fremont, and doing so in a substantial bridge across the channel. A good foun­ Ths Talker does not think that all the
things which the lower order of an­
during the past year in Utah, and adds ' manner.
dation is being sought. The bottom is imals
does oan be explained by what is
that there has been nothing in the teach­
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
found to’beVery hard.
The subscriptions tq the fund for the
generally called their “instinct.” Con­
ings of himself or his associates the: past
A. D. Bryce Dpuglass, managing di­ sequently, he is in full sympathy with
year that can be construed to inculcate erection of a monument to the memory
or encourage polygamy. He publicly of the late Henry W. Grady at Atlanta, rector of the Naval Construction Com­ the following, by A. R. Wallace: “It is
advises his following to abstain fronfany Ga., are being rapidly collected. About pany «f.'Barrow-in-Furness, has sailed said that birds do not learn to make
for America, where he will select a site their nests, as man does to build, for all
marriage forbidden by the laws ofithe $20,000 were subscribed.
land.
It is reported in Washington that on which to establish extensive ship birds will make exactly the same nest
as the rest of their species, even if they
The new United States cruiser San General Russel A. Alger wishes to pur­ yards.
The Sultan of Sokoto, who rules over have never seen one, and it is instinct
Francisco, which made a record of 18£719 chase a newspaper in' New York City
knots in her official trial trip in Sánta and to put ex-Assistant Postmaster Gen­ 12,000,000 people in West Africa, has alone that can enable them to do this.
presented his fellow sovereign, Queen No doubt this would be instinct if it
Barbara channel a few weeks ago,? left eral Clarkson £t the head of it.
Victoria, with a magnificent lion. The were true, and I simply ask for proof of
the Union Iron Works and was towed to
By
a
vote
of
5
ts
4
$he
House
Com
­
I
Mstre Island navy yeard, where she will mittee on Judiciary has ordered a fav­ animal has arrived in Liverpool, and the fact. This point, although so im­
be formally turned over to the govern­ orable report on the Senate bill provid­ will probably be taken care, of at the portant to the question at issue, is al­
ment. /The cruiser has been thoroughly ing for the disposition of the personal “Zoo."
ways assumed without proof, and even
cleaned,find painted since her trial run, property of the Church of Latter Day
The dredging of the bar at the mouth against proof, for what facts there are
and it is ^understood that the work of Saints in Utah. „
of the Mersey, -that has proven so seri­ are opposed to it. Birds brought up
placing hhr armament aboard and other­
wise fitting her for sea will be com­ Canadian estimates are to the effect ous an impediment to navigation, and from the egg in cashes do not make the
ED GOINS, Proprietor.
menced at once.
that the McKinley bill will reduce whereon more than one of the great characteristic nest of their species, even
exports to the United States transatlantic liners have received serious though the proper materials are sup­
The Postoffice Department has let the Canadian
plied them, and often make no nest at
by at least $10,000,000. It will shut out injury, has commenced.
contract for the steamboat semi-monthly Canadian
all. but rudely heap together a quan­
barley and enlarge the mar­
mail service between Port Townsend, ket for California
There is great rejoicing among the tity of materials; and the experiment
barley.
Wash., and Sitka, Alaska, and the fol­
revolutionists in Ticini, Switzerland,
never been fairly tried of turning
lowing intermediate points: Loring,
Mizner’s conduct in the Barrundia af­ over the report of the Federal Council has
Fort Wrangel, Douglas, Juneau and Kil- fair is upheld by the State Department, to the National Assemb'y, which says out a pair of birds, so brought up, in an
lismoo, Alaska. The distance between but the conduct of Captain Pitt, the the revolution was not made by the ca­ inclosure covered with netting and
the extreme points is 1,050 miles, and Department says, demands investiga­ naille, but by responsible, rich and intel­ watching the result of their untaught
the months of November, Decem­ tion. The argument is used that the ligent citizens, who risked their lives attempts at nest-making. With regard
THE BEST BRANDS during
ber, January and February it is not to Captain either should not have accepted and fortunes. This is taken as a national to the song of birds, however, which is
exceed ten days for the trip each way, Barrundia as a passenger, or, having sanction of the revolution.
thought to be equally instinctive, the
—OF—
nine days each way to be allowed during accepted him with a knowledge of his
experiment has 'been tried, and it is
The postal savings hanks in Japan, fpund that young birds never have the
the rest of the year.
legal statua, he should not have car­
which for several years received but little song peculiar to their species if they
The British ship Gretna sailed from ried him within the territorial limits of attention
from the people, have become
London for San Francisco 202 days ago. Guatemala.
success. They were established have not heard it, whereas, they acquire
Nothing was heard of her during that
There is hardly a doubt but that the a in great
1875, but at end of the year had only very easily the song of almost any other
time, and forty day? ago she was given provision relating to the fortification of $15,320
on deposit. In 1882, however, it bird with which they are associated.”
up for lost, and 95 per cent, was offered sXveet wines for domestic use will be re­ amounted
—Christian at Work.
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
and refused for reinsurance. The other tained in the tariff bill, though it seems $20, 50,000. to $1,058,000, and in 1889 to
evening the Gretna arrived at her desti­ likely that California will have to sac­
Theory and Practice*
nation. The captain reports encounter­ rifice that part of it relating to the for­
A London dispatch says the McAuliffe-
Mrs. Spriggins—Where’s your daugh­
ing heavy seas in the South Atlantic. tification of sweet wines for foreign Slavin fight will come off at the Or- ter, Mrs. Wiggins?
ship waB thrown on her beam ends exportation, thereby imposing a duty mende Club as arranged, and for the
Highest Market Price Paid for Grain. The
Mrs. Wiggins—She’s gone to cooking­
and much damaged. She was blown so on. fortified wines' which have been same stakes, but it will be for fifteen
far out of her course that the captain shipped abroad and imported into this rounds instead of thirty, and the gloves school. And that reminds me, I must
decided to finish the voyage by way of country again, heavier than the present brought from America will be made two go into the kitohen and get supper, for
she’ll be as hungry as a bear when she
Farmers will find It to their Interest to call the Cape of Good Hope and the Pacific internal revenue tax of 66 cents per gal- ounces heavier, to comply with thé law.
gets home.—N. Y. Weekly. _
ocean.
Ion.
and see us.
The date is not yet fixed-
’ The George W. Elder is to be repaired
and put on the line between Portland
A ttorneys at L aw , and San Francisco as a freight boat.
Will practice In all the courts of the State.
A colony of Nationalists, with forty
.Prompt attention given to ¿11 business intrusted members, has been formed at Highlands,
to our care.
J
. . ■■■
San Bernardino county, Cal. Their in­
Office, Odd Fellows’ Temple, Albany, Or.
dividual bank accounts are worth $200,-
000.
Another Pete Olsen has been arrested
DR. E. 0. HYDE,
at Stockton, Cal. It is not believed that
he answers fully the description of the
murderer of Mrs. Lyons in Napa a few
Physician and Surgeon, years
(ago.
’’
The
Bradstreet
Mercantile
Agency
re­
Soto, O regon .
ports fifteen failures in Pacific Coast
States and Territories for last week, as
against nine for the previous week and
five for the corresponding week of 1889.
The Riverside Press says: It is ru-,
mored that “ Lucky ” Balwin is talking
A lbany , O regon .
of building a big hotel at Bear Valley.
If he should, the narrow-gauge road will
haVe to be built to insure the success of
EARL RACE, Proprietor.
the hotel project.
The State Viticultural Commission re­
ports the vintage of California at 12,-
0.10 000 ga’lons, or 4,000,000 gallons less
than last year .which was about 16,000,000.
The falling off is Owing to the great
amount of grape drying in progress.
The first train of Washington hops has
George W. Morrow, Proprietor. just left Puyallup for Baltimore, to be
shipped thence to London. The train
consists of twenty-five cars, and carries
First-class accommodations. Tables supplied about 180 tons of hops. At an average
with be best the market affords.
of 20 cents a pound the train is worth
about $72,000.
BLACKBURN & WRIGHT,
ST. CHARLES HOTEL,
«4LIVERY>
Feed and Sale
STABLE,
J. S. MORRIS,
Drugs, Medicines,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Capaeity, 75 Barrels Per Day.
FLOUR AND FEED
COURTESIES TO TRAVELERS.
Kxp.rl.nc«. of Three Ladle. While “Do*
Ing:“ the Tour of Europe.
. , SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
—Medical men are insisting on the
A party of three ladies recently travel­ necessity of better ventilation in
ing abroad met with the kindest cour* churches.
tesy from all, even from the proverbially
—The Baptists of the “regular order”
icicle-like Englishman. In the lake in the United States have passed the
country, Oxford professors jumped out three million point.
of the wagonette, and, picking big
—It is reported that the Scandina­
bouquets of English cowslips and prim* vians in Utah are deserting the Mormon
roses, gave the youngest member of the hierarchy in great numbers.
party a delightful lesson in botany; in
—The total number of communicants
Rydal, the home of Wordsworth was in the Presbyterian church is 856,841, a
made doubly interesting by the conver­ net gain during the past year of 108,102.
sation of a Welsh clergyman on top of
—A Protestant Episcopal Church, cost-
the coach, who jumped down as they
passed Grasmere churchyard, where the ing $400,000, is to be built at Philadel­
poet lies buried, and, not finding the phia as a memorial of the late George
sexton with the key of the gate, dar­ W. South.
—At a special meeting of the over­
ingly jumped the low churchyard fence
and helped his companion over that she seers of Harvard College recently, the
might have time to pick a yellow prim­ report refusing admission of women to
rose from the poet’s grave before the the Divinity School was adopted.
—The income of the University of
coach started: In Rouen an old French
lady alighted.from the “bus” and walked Oxford for the present year is about
half a mile out of her way to show the £66,200. During the last year the uni­
American girl the way to the beautiful versity has increased its capital by
Gothic cathedral of St Maclou. In nearly £18,000.
—Princeton College is offered $10,000
Paris a most obliging young English­
man, whom she took at first for a for the purpose of providing regular
Frenchman, stopped an immense wag­ Bible study for students; $10,000 for
onette with much trouble, and, seeing scholarships, and $100,000 for a new
she was timid, escorted her aoross the dormitory.
crowded boulevard des Itallens to the
—The Christians of Great Britain gave
door of the Hotel Splendide, making his altogether to foreign missions last year
conveyance wait En route to Florence, $6,672,455. Over one-third of the amount
a handsome young-Venetian conductor, came from the Established church.
seeing she was traveling alone by night . —Hon. Thomas’.Beaver is giving the
reserved the whole of an eight-seat Methodists of Lewisburg, Pa., a $125,000
coupe for her without being requested, church in memory of his^father, who
and, most, wondrous of all, refused all was ordained by the apostolic Bishop
mention of a fee.
Asbury.
At Verona, the home of Romeo, a
—Vassar College celebrated its quar­
French gentleman, hurrying to catch ter-centennial anniversary recently.
his train, stopped to interpret her ques­ Benson J. Lossing was the historian,
tions to the ticket seller and inform and George William Curtis the orator.
her about the custom-house inspection, The graduating class numbered forty- •
which is one of the most disagreeable Six.
things ladies traveling atone have to
—The annual meeting of the Congre­
encounter. Bowling along the shores of gational School and Publication Sooiety
Lago Maggiore, an obliging French con­ was held in Boston recently. The report
ductor on the roof of the diligence stated that 531 new Sunday-schools were
stopped the whole big coach-load, while organized during the year. The re­
the American girl hunted through the ceipts for the year were larger by $9,000
corridors of an immense hotel for an than in the preceding year.
American “sandveech.”
—Rev. O. E. Cobb has discovered yel­
Perhaps the funniest bit of genuine
low
and time-worn documents written
kindness was performed. by a little
Bolognese conductor, black-eyed, with by John Nitchie, a member of the bar
something of the figure of a Bologna in New York, who died fifty years ago
sausage. The express train had been and whose portrait hangs in the man­
rushing through tunnels all day; anxious agers’ rooms at the Bible House, which
to miss nothing, the girl had her head disclose the interesting fact that as far
out of the window, until finally, over- baek as January, 1818, a Chinaman by
. come by fatigue, she fell aleep with her the name of John Lowe Ah Cooke was
head resting on the open window. A admitted to membership and communion
in the “Old South Reformed Dutch
rapid stop in the immense station sud­ Church
in Garden street.”
denly woke her. Looking at her watch,
—The number of suicides by pupils of
she saw it must be lunch time. She
started out into the station toward the German gymnasia, especially in Berlin,
buffet; the conductor followed her, wild­ on account of a failure to pass the ex­
ly gesticulating and talking in shrill aminations for an advanced class, has
Italian. She offered her ticket; he shook increased to such an alarming extent
his head, getting more excited. He tried that the Prussian Cultus Minister, V.
French; no use; still he followed her. Gossler, has addressed a public letter to
What could it be? The little man teachers and parents on this subject.
grew crimson with excitement and she He urges them to a better education,
more puzzled than ever. Finally a bril­ morally and physically, of the pupils,
liant thought struck him; he put his and to a greater regard for the in­
hand in his pocket and pulled out—not dividual weaknesses and character of
a plum, but a big pocket-mirror and held the different pupils. He appeals to both
it before her face. It told the story! home and school to work together for
The whole of one side of her face was as
black as the ace of spades! The kindness this end.
of the little Italian, by which he almost
LANCASHIRE LASSES.
lost his dinner, had saved her a mortify­
ing debut at the dinner table before her They Are the Strongest Female Workers
fellow-travelers.
in All Europe.
All these little acts of kindness, given
The Lancashire women, at least, are
simply without any arriere pensee, for
the traveler was neither very young nor the rosiest, strongest set of women
goodlooking'. show that ladies can travel imaginable—that is, on Sundays and
in Europe safely and comfortably, and holidays, when repeated washings and
that the country where chivalry orig­ scrubbings have removed several lay­
inated has still enough of it left-to
smooth the path for womankind if she ers of coal-dust; and it is notorious,
is, like Mrs. Gummidge, a “tone, lorn locally, that at a pinch most of them
creatur.” The memory of the numerous are equal in physicial power to their
kindnesses shown to the party of three masculine colleagues. At home they are
ladies by perfect strangers, whom they inferior to any class of Women, working
never expect to meet again in this or otherwise. Being engaged in the
world, forms one of the pleasantest j>pen air all day, they 'can naturally
pictures that hangs on the wall of mem- ' b-rn in the evenings with more than
ory of that European trip, whose every
day, even without a man, was a constant ordinary zest to household duties.
In a word, they are thoroughly do­
pleasure.—Epoch.
mesticated. Lastly—and this, after all,
SEARCHING FOR PEARLS.
is the great point—their demeanor and
How Illinois Stream. Are Dragged for general conduct are absolutely unim­
Gems of Great Price.
peachable.
As to the working dress of the pit
Some time during the first part of last
June a small boy who had been paddling women, that is certainly peculiar, looked
in the Pecatonica river, near Darling­ at fsom a conventional standpoint
ton, Lafayette County, Southern Wis­
Up to areW’-years ago they were at­
consin, brought to the surface what ap­ tired like men "Trp>.to the waist, with
peared to he a common fresh water buckled clogs on their feet. Above the
clam, like those which abound along the knees came the end of a peculiarly-fash­
shores of the 'Upper Mississippi and ioned tunic, a composite sort nfT*^ar.
and other streams throughout the North­ meat—half jacket, half dress, with some
west. Upon prying the shell open the sacking material tied round the waist
lad found stroking to the inner surface as an apron.
a large pear-shaped substance, which on
A limp bonnet, tied under the chin,
being detached was found to be of a or a sort of turban, so arranged as just
lustrous hue when exposed to the-light, to show the neatly-plaited hair and the
and was white in color, with a Smooth, bright ear-rings, completed the costume,
polished surface. It was at once shown and very odd it looked, especially at a
to a jeweler, who pronounced it a pearl distance, which in this case did not lend
of the purest quality and purchased the enchantment to the view.
gem, paying for it the sum of $100. The
Now, out of deference to the feelings
jeweler, to make surethat he was cor­ of certain peculiarly sensitive people,
rect in his judgment, took the specimen the tunic is worn a little longer, so as
to Chicago, where it was carefully ex­ nearly to hide the masculine garment,
amined by an expert, whose decision the head-dress is a little neater, and, in
corresponded with his own regarding addition, a short jacket is worn.
the nature of the gem, and who fixed a
The dress is certainly not picturesque,
price upon it double that which was but as a means to an end, as allowing
paid by the Monroe jeweler.
the utmost freedom of motion and ob­
The news of the find spread through­ viating acoidents, it is beyond all praise.
out that section and a few curious ones
the women themselves
began an immediate search for shells, in are Nevertheless,
conscious of its incongruity, and
both the Pectatonioa and Plum rivers,
and were rewarded by unearthing large take the earliest opportunity of chang­
numbers' of them, many of which, on be­ ing it for ordinary female attire as soon
ing opened, were found to contain pearls as they get home from work.
of various sizes, from a quarter of a
It has happened before now that while
carat to three carats in weight. By this proceeding to or from work they have,
time the excitement became intense, some of them, been made the subject of
and scores of people, old and young, in­
cluding both sexes, laid aside their attack*by somebody with an undue pro­
legitimate avocations and flocked to the portion of tongue to brain, but—this
above-mentioned streams and eagerly may be said with safety—never more
began the search for shells, using ail than once by the same individual.
sorts of utensils for the purpose, the
In addition to possessing a highly-
rake being the most favored.
vigorous vocabulary they are so hard­
The streams being shallow their beds ened with exposure to the weather and
were easilv explored, and hundreds of
baskets and bags of the shells were developed by the nature of their work
raked ont and taken to the homes of the that they can give a good account of
finders, where they were carefully themselves, even though a fight should
opened. Many of them contained the ensue, and the opponent may have rea­
coveted gems; some being of greater and son to admit, with benefiting humility,
some of less value.
the wisdom of Providence in endowing
The most successful hunters were the women generally with the will and
Swedes and Scandinavians, who knew keeping from them the power.—Cas­
just where to took for the shells. Exor­
bitant prices were demanded for the sell’s Saturday Journal.
gems by most hunters and as a result
hundreds of them are still in the hands
-—“You think you know yourself, my
of the finders, who refuse to part With boy, but you don’t.” “O, yes, I do. I
them for any thing like their real value. know all the best people around here.”
—Galena (111.) Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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