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SCIO. OREGON, NOVEMBER 29, 1890.
VOL. 2.
L. H. MONTANYE,
A ttorney
at
L aw ,
THE PACIFIC COAST.
EASTERN ITEMS.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Albany, Oregon.
A Conglomeration of Occidental Monument to be Erected in Memory Emperor William Bent on Railway
Office in Strahan building.
Happenings.
of Jefferson Davis.
Reform.
J. K. WEATHERFORD,
A ttorney
at
L aw ,
An Effort Being Made to Suppress the The Speakership of the Next House of The Statute Providing for the Admission of
Albany, Oregon.
Alaska Liquor Traffic—Seamen
Representatives Said to be Between
Office in Finn block, over First National bank.
Out of Employment.
Crisp, Mills and Springer.
DR. E. 0, HYDE,
- of Women to Medical Degrees at
:
Oxford Carried.
About Long Distance Telegraphy.
“I have read those stories about the
marvelous feat of an operator sitting in
his office in Vancouver, B. C., and send­
ing a message clear through on a straight
line to New South Wales, but there is
not a word of truth in it. It has never
been done and never will be with our
present system of telegraphing.”
The speaker was Chief Operator Will­
iam Lloyd, of the main office of the
Western Union in this city. Mr. Lloyd
went on to explain why a message could
not be sent such a long distance on a
continuous line.
"Land telegraphing and sea telegraph­
ing are totally different,” said Mr. Lloyd,
"and that is where the hitch comes in.
If I want to send a message to Bombay,
for instance, it first goes to New York,
then to Torbay, Newfoundland. It is
taken down there and is.sent by another
system to Queenstown, Ireland. It is re­
ceived there, not by sound, but by reflec­
tion. The operator sits in a dark room
and the spark from the wire is shown in
a looking glass. This is reflected on the
wall, and is read in that way, From this
point it goes to London by the ordinary
method. From there it is sent to the
African cable line leading across the
Channel, down the Mediterranean and
the Red sea to .the Indian ocean, there it
takes to Bombay. Probably fifteen oper­
ators handle the message before It
reaches its destination, and to say that a
message can be sent through without a
stop is nonsense. The work is done very
quickly, though, and a message to Cal­
cutta or Bombay would go through in
two hours, perhaps three, according to
the way the wires are working. They
have been sent in less time. ”—Chicago
Mail.
NO. 27.
“NERVOUS"
MODERN
CIVILIZATION.
The Subject as Viewed by a Writer in
Far Gathay—No Rest.
It is a very significant aspect of mod­
ern civilization which is expressed in the
word “nervous. ” Its original meaning
is ‘‘possessing nerve; sinewy, strong,
vigorous. ” One of its derivative mean­
ings, and the ©ne which we by far most
frequently meet, is “having the nerves
weak or diseased; subject to, or suffer­
ing from undue excitement of the nerves;
easily excited; weakly.” The varied
and complex phraseology by . which the
peculiar phases of nervous diseases are
expressed has become by this time fa­
miliar in our eáfs as household words.
There is no doubt that civilization, as
exhibited in its modern form, tends to
undue nervous excitement, and that ner­
vous diseases are relatively more common
than they were a century ago. But
what we have now to say does not con­
cern those who are specially subject to
nervous diseases, but to the general mass
of Occidentals, who, while not in any
specific condition of ill health, are yet
continually reminded, in a great variety
of ways, that their nervous systems are
a most conspicuous part of their.«organ-
ization. We allude, in short, to people
who aré nervous, and we understand
this term to include all our readers, and,
in general, all the people who live in the
lands from which we have come. To
the Anglo-Saxon race at least it seems a
matter of course that those who live in
an age of steam and of electricity must
necessarily be in a different condition as
to their nerves from those who lived in
the old, slow days of sailing packets and
of mail coaches.
Ours is an age of extreme activity. It
is an age of rush. There is no leisure,
•o much as to eat, and the nerves are
kept in a state of constant tension, with
results which áre sufficiently well known.
Business inen in our time have an eager,
restless air—-at least thoso who do their
business in occidental lands—as if they
were in momentary expectation of a
telegram—as they often are—the con­
tents of which may affect their destiny
in some fateful way. We betray this
unconscious state of mind in a multitude
of acts. We cannot sit still, but we
must fidget. We finger our pencils
white we are talking, as if we ought, at
this particular instant, to be rapidly in­
diting something ere it be forever too
late. We rub our bands together, as if
preparing for some serious task which is
about to absorb all our energies. Wé
twirl our thumbs, we turn our heads
with the swift motion of the wild ani­
mal which seems to fear that something
dangerous may have been left unseen.
We have a sense that there is something
which we ought to be doing now, and
into which we shall proceed at once to
plunge as soon as we shall have dis­
patched six other affairs of even more
pressing importance.
The effect of overworking our nerves
shows itself, not mainly in such affec­
tions as “fiddler’scramp,” “telegrapher’s
cramp/’ “writer’s cramp,” and the like,
but in a general tension. We do not
sleep as we once did, either as regards
length of time or soundness of rest. We
are awakened by slight causes, and often
by those which are exasperatingly triv­
ial, such as the twitter of a bird in a
tree, a chance ray of light straggling
into our darkened rooms, the motion of
a shutter in the breeze, the sound of a
voice, and, when sleep is once inter­
rupted, it is banished. We have taken
out daily life to rest with us, and the re­
sult is that we have no real rest. In an
age when it has become a kind of apho­
rism that a bank never succeeds until it
has a president win takes it to bed with
him, it is easy to understand that, while
the shareholders reap the advantage, it
is bad for the president.—North China
News.
The wool crop of New Mexico this
Foreigners have bought sixty of the s
Salvador and Guatemala have signed
season is 15,000,000 pounds.
3,600 breweries in the United States.
the treaty of peace.
Physician and Surgeon, Arizona has 701 miles of irrigatifig Kansas is receiving quite a large in­ A persecution of Roman Catholics is
canals that furnish water to 300,000 crease in population from Kentucky.
said to be going on in Russia.
acres.
Soio, O regon .
Senator Quay will resign from the Na­
Hereafter buildings in London must
A company of Iowa capitalists intend tional Committee and answer his ac­ ■ not exceed a height of ninety feet.
to start a barrel factory at Salt Lake City cusers.
The statement that wholesale arrests
that will turn out 500 a day.
Boston is to have an institute where ! had taken place of Russian Socialists is
1
Andrew Marro and Jules Rodgers have consumptive patients can be cured by officially denied.
been placed under lock and key at Port­ Dr. Koch’s treatment.
Glasgow has the biggest savings bank
A lbany , O regon .
land for securing money on forged checks.
It is said that the Russian mission va­ ■ in Scotland, with four and a half milj-
It is reported that the Denver and Rio cated by Charles Emory Smith is to be * ions of deposits.
Grande is making arrangements to ex­ offered to Major McKinley.
EARL RACE, Proprietor.
The Bank of Dulabury, Russia, has
tend its New Mexico division to Albu­ There is a report that the Louisiana , been
robbed of money and valuables to
querque during the coming season.
Lottery Company is about to wind up i the amount of 130,009 rubles.
Governor Pennoyer has reappointed its affairs and retire from business.
The Lord Provost of Edinburgh gets
Dr. W. T. Williamson, formerly of Wes­
monument to Jefferson Davis is to an honorarium of £5JO, and it is pro-
ton, as first assistant physician at the be A erected
Pensacola by the Ladies’ posed to increase the amount.
Insane Asylum at Salem for the term of Confederate at
Monument Association.
four years.
The Roumanian government is allot­
Governor Steele of Oklahoma has ve­ ting a vast quantity of State lands in
Bradstreet’s mercantile agency reports toed
the bill locating the capital at free farms to peasant families.
failures in Pacific Coast States
George W. Morrow, Proprietor. fourteen
and Territories for the past week, as Kingfisher. This leaves it at Guthrie.
The concentration of Russian troops
compared with fourteen for thé previous
The western part of Kansas is suffer­ on the Armenian frontier is causing
First-class accommodations. Tables supplisti week and five for the corresponding ing greatly for want of rain, and the new much uneasiness at Erzeroum.
How Amputation Is Performed.
with he best the market affords*
*
week of 1889.
Alliarce Legislature will not-meet until
The layman is often surprised to note
During October twenty-three vessels
January.
The new electric motor line between
were launched from Scotch ship-building how slight are the external manifesta­
Tacoma and Steilacoom is b ing built
Minnie Palmer says she left her hus­ yards, representing 27,686 tons.
Board From $1 to $2 Per Day.
tions of serious diseases which sometimes
very rapidly, and it will be in running band because he attacked her with a
call for radical surgical treatment. Dr.
The
papers
of
Buda-Pesth
are
asking
order soon after the new year opens. carving k nife and cut her slightly in sev­ aid for Kossuth, who has lost his entire Warren brought in before the medical
Headquarters for Commercial Men. This work appears to have had a very eral places.
class at the Massachusetts general hos­
fortune in railway Speculations.
beneficial effect on the Asylum city.
pital not long ago an old man upon whose
Chicago is becoming Uneasy over the
The
Russian
Minister
of
Finance
is
Wellington Stewart, who was sen­ story that five of her largest packing­ now in Paris arranging to float a new right hand there appeared to be a small
sore spot, not at all malignant or painful
tenced to fourteen years in the peniten­ house firms will remove their plants to loan for Russia with the Rothchilds.
tiary for a criminal assault on young Hammond, Ind.
in its appearance; It was situated di­
girls in San Diego, has been released on
The question of establishing in Turkey rectly upon the back of the hand, and
Robert
Ray
Hamilton
’
s
will
gives
his
his own recognizance. The Supreme
narrow-gauge railroads is receiving the seemed to be no more than a trifling
daughter, Beatrice Ray, an an­ attention
Court had granted a new trial in the adopted
of the Turkish government.
local sore that could be easily healecj.
nuity
of
$1,200.
The
will
does
not
men
­
case.
tion Eva Hamilton’s name.
A fire? which has defied all efforts to The patient was a man of more that 86
SCIO, OREGON,
A valuable vein of iron ore is reported
it, has broken out in the coal years. Dr. Warren explained that the
It is reported that Secretary Windom extinguish
to have been found about fifteen miles recommends
workings
at
Breux, Northern Bohemia. trouble was of a cancerous nature; that
his forthcoming report
it had manifested itself in no other part
southwest of Tacoma, near the mouth of the funding of in the
indebtedness
A plot to steal the British army exam­ of the body, and that amputation seemed
the Nesqually river. In sinking a well of the government bonded
at 2% per cent.
ination papers before the time for the to be the only safe • course to resort to.
a few days ago a rancher struck a vein of
has been discovered The He 'accordingly proposed to take off the
black-iron sand twenty-eight feet in
An iron steamship was launched at examination
depth.
Baltimore last week, which it is claimed Secretary of War has offered a reward. hand just above , the wrist before the
Emperor William is now bent on rail­ malignant' disease had a chance to
An Eastern company, with a large is fire-proof and unsinkable and will
make a speed of thirty-five miles an way reform. He wants to introduce the spread.
amount of capital, is negotiating for the hour.
zone tariff throughout Germany, as the
The usual application of rubber band­
purchase of the military road lands now
Dye Stuffs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, belonging
system has been so successful in Hun­ age and tight rubber cord above the
to the Oregon and California
A new and novel trust has just been gary.
point of amputation was made, and the
Land Company and lying along the line consummated by the Standard Oil Com­
of the road east of Eugene City, Or,, and pany. which includes all the bulk oil­ The agitation continues in favor of a surgeon made rapid work of the case. A
Toilet Articles, Perfumery,
settlers will be brought from the East.
carrying craft' plying between Philadel­ two-year term of service in the German single sweep of the knife just over.the
army despite the dismissal of its most wrist severed the skin and a little deeper.
Sponges and All Varieties of Drug­
The cases ag linst the Chinese at San phia and Europe.
prominent advocate. General Verdy du The tissues were then dissected upward
Rafael, Cal., for catching small fish with
A. Cheyenne special to the Denver Vernois.
gists’ Sundries.
for nearly an inch toward the elbow to
bag nets have been postponed until next News says: The commandant of Fort
March, owing to the exhaustion of the Russell lias received orders to have seven
The London correspondent of the Free­ the point where the bone was to be cut
in obtaining a jury. The defend­ companies of infantry ready to move at man’s Journal declares that Parnell has in order to make a flap. The flesh was
Wall Paper in All the Latest Styles, venire
ants are conducting an enormous shrimp­ a moment’s notice.
not the clighte-t intention of resigning quickly cut to the bones, and a few
fishing business at Point San Pedro in
either
leadership of his party or .his strokes of the saw severed them. The
The Methodist Missionary Conference duties the
wound was antiseptically treated and
SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY. Marin county, and should the case be
in
Parliament.
sewed up, and in ten or fifteen minutes
decided against them it will throw about has adopted a resolution calling on the
The statute providing for the admis­ from the time he was brought in the old
300 Chinese out of employment at ' that church to give the committee $250,000 as
the least sum with which it can meet the sion of women to the medical degrees man was picked up by a strong attend­
Pictures Framed to Order.
place.
demands of the year 1891.
came before the congregation at* Oxford ant and carried back to his cot in the
other day, when it was carried by surgical ward.—New York Sun.
At Tacoma the jury in the case of
A new method of storing grain is be­ the
young Karasek for the murder of the lad ing introduced. Steel tanks are filled the narrow majority of one.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
Moore returned a verdict of not guilty with grain, and by a suction pump the
Bismarck’s Magnificent Physique.
Cremation is more extensively prac­
after deliberating thirty minutes. The air is partly exhausted and a quantity of ticed in Italy than in any other ebunti'y.
The
appearance of Bismarck, who is
boy stood cross-examination by the at­ carbonic acid gas admitted.
The first crematory was estab'ished in not only a famous man, a prince, and a
torney for the State of over an hour and
in 1876, and there are now fifty in general, but who is chancellor of the em­
The guarantee fund of 400,000 francs Milan
a half without flinching or shaking his
operation in Ital ian territory.
pire as well, makes the populace gasp.
honest, straightforward story in any required to secure the right and author­
Reports from Vienna state that Dr. I venture to assert that nowhere in the
way. The verdict wa^_greete<l with ap­ ity, to excavate and explore the ruins of
Delphi has bfeen secured by the Archaeo­ Ceesar de Pape, the founder of Socialism world can a man of 73 years be found
plause.
logical Institute of America.
in Belgium, is dying with consumption who compares with this magnificent
The contract for the construction of a
at Cannes, his health having been broken looking leader. The perfect command
coast-line battle ship entered into be­ JayYJooke’ii estate has. beerr'settTed- down un3er~lus’ardubtfsJabors.
that he exercises over himself in addition
tween the government and the Union satisfactorily to his creditors, who have
I
10-pHHiBg-the nosesand patting the backs
There is a rumor that it is in contenP" of the nations^wa-J^WP last winter
Iron Works of San Francisco has been held on to their securities since his fail­
Tlie Drying of Mosses.
ure, in 1873 for $11,000,000, and its final plation to make the Governorship of Si­
I
I signed by the company and forwarded to dividend was declared last week.
erra Leone, like that of Malta and Gi­ when the Iron Chancellor reducecHtiS- —-JThe power of the mosses to endure re­
Washington. Work on the war ship
weight thirty-five pounds ,by a course of
will be commenced within a few months.
Thirty-four cotton-manufacturing cor­ braltar, a military post in the future on training that would have staggered a peated "desiccation has recently been ex-
perimentanytPeSt^^S^ihlod^who
Two large cylinders of the Monterey’s porations at Fall River, Mass., with a account of the growing importance of collegian.
engine have been completed, and the capital of $18,958,000, during the past the place as a coaling station.
obtained the interesting result thatTSkrrry-
"The full significance of this feat,” of these plants cannot only resist months
Monterey will be ready for her trial trip year have paid to stockholders $1,387,-
ED GOINS, Proprietor.
According to the London correspond­ one of the prince’s physicians said to me of dryness without any harm, but also
within a few months.
770, or an average of about 7 per cent.
ent of the Freeman’s Journal, a not too the other day, “will not strike you till that they do not perish even under the
Charles H. Easton, for five years past
In the United States District Court nt a trusted employe of the wealthy tobacco friendly authority, the Irish light-rail­ you call all the conditions into view. It strongest desiccatioh carried on in a drier
San Francisco Charles F. Ammerman, house of John H. T. Mayo. New York, is ways scheme will give work to a large shows after all that three score years and with the aid of sulphuric acid. Plants
arrested some weeks ago for opening a a fugitive from justice. He has left vic­ number of laborers in excess of those ten is by no means a goal to be dreaded. of Barbula muralis, which were exposed
letter addressed to a party in that city tims inNew Yorkto whom he owed $40,- resident in the districts to be traversed. A man’s age is what he makes it, accord­ for eighteen’ months in the drier, after a
ing to Prince Bismarck. Still when a
while acting as'a box clerk in the post- 000.
The decisions of the'Russian Tariff man is in his 73d year it looks like fool­ few wettings resumed growth in all their
office, pleaded guilty to the second count
parts. Other species of barbula behaved
Committee
have
so
increased
the
re
­
President Baker of the Chicago Board strictions on commerce as to threaten to hardiness to suddenly reverse all old and similarly.
of the indictment, which charged with
of
Trade
and
a
member
of
the
Local
methodical
habits,
take
ice
cold
baths
at
the delivery of a letter. Judge
THE BEST BRANDS delaying
isolate the Russian trade from the rest
A curious experiment was performed
Hoffman sentenced the prisoner to pay a Board of Directors of the World’s Fair of the world. Even farming machinery daybreak, have cold' meat and cold tea with Grimmia pulvinata, in which a
says
he
believes
the
National
Commis-
1
fine of $500 and serve one year’s impris­
for breakfast, let wines and beer drop
—OF—
sion has hindered rather than helped the is subject to a high tariff.
onment in the Alameda county jail.
out of existence, and do an amount of stock which had been cultivated for some
work.
It is officially announced that arrange­ violent exercise that would wear out -a time in a moist atmosphere under a bell
glass was suddenly'exposed to a warm
C. B. Grant, Secretary of Seattle Lodge
for continuing the business of the 30-year-old laborer. ” j
The contest for the Speakership of the ments
and perfectly dry-current of air. It be­
No. 4, I. O. 0. F., is reported to have
Barings
is concluded. A limited com­
The hard physical work which the came
next
House
will
be
between
Crisp,
Mills
:
so dry in a short time that it could
fled the town, taking funds of the lodge
pany has been formed, with a subscribed chancellor has passed through
_
in
order
and
Springer.
Crisp
will
represent
the
with him and leaving his wife behind in
capital exceeding ,£1,000,000. Thomas to get his weight down lias left him a be pulverized. Then it lay in a drier for
Southeastern
section,
Mills
the
South-
destitute circumstances. He was form­
ninety-five weeks. But the quickening
Baring, M. P., becomes chairman of the
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
erly in the real-estate business, and was west and Springer, the Northern Central company, and devotes the whole of his picture of erect and sturdy manhood. moisture was still competent to awaken
group
of
States.
He
gives
the
lie
even
to
the
most
com
­
for a time Deputy City Clerk. He was
fortune to the firm’s credit.
to renewed life. The most rapid dry­
plimentary of his portraits. All his life it
dissolute' in habits, and left the town
The Secretary of State has been in­
ing which could be performed in the
he
has
been
an
athlete,
and
now
he
reaps
once before under similar circumstances. formed that Moussa Bey, whose reported
The Italian government s digging for
laboratory could not destroy the plant.
Officers of the lodge say they do not outrages on American missionaries in treasure
1
in the citadel of Ancona. An the reward.—Blakely Hall’s Berlin Let­ It even showed greater power of resist­
Highest Market Price Paid for Grain. know
ter.
the amount of money taken by Turkey are a matter of note, has at ex-employe
i
of the Pontifical government
ance than would correspond with its real
Grant.
length been summarily banished to the has
1
stated that in 1860 during the siege
necessities, for so speedy and complete
“Beating** the Machine.
interior of Arabia.
< General Lamoriciere buried the treasure
The schemes whereby the knowing a’drying out as was effected in the ex­
<
of
his
army,
consisting
of
ten
barrels
of
In
view
of
the
fact
that
the
liquor
periments never counts in nature.—Popu­
. Farmers will find it to their interest to call
Referring to a statement in the New gold
j
coin, in the citadel before he sur­ ones nowadays beat the "drop-a-niekel" lar Science Monthly.
traffic is assuming gigantic proporti' ns
and see us.
j
machine are so numerous that the busi­
the place to Cialdini.
in Alaska. Captain Knowles, President York Herald that, there would be a de- rendered
ness is threatened with ruin. The man­
and manager of the Pacific Steam Whal­ ficiency at the end of the current fiscal
Letters 4.000 Years Old.
A functionary in the Russian army, ner in which the weighing machine is
ing Company, has issued peremptory in­ year of $31,000,000, Secretary- Windom
said
there
will
certainly
be
a
surplus
;
i
who has come into considerable promi­ swindled is thus told by one who has
A remarkable discovery has been made
structions to all the company’s Captains
not to c ill at Honolulu. Once leave port but, of course, he cannot say how much, i nence lately, is a Jew named Baronok, tried it on: "Just place the sole of your in Egypt of tablets or letters, which com­
whose duty it is to spv upon corrupt of­ boot against the edge of the upper plat­ pose a literary correspondence of 3,500
whalers are to proceed direct on the
The Fewfoundlanders are much excited ficers and ferret out their stealings. He form, push hard and sudden and then to 4,i000 years ago, carried on between
Capital Stock
$20,COD whaling cruise, and are to stop at no
point where a stock of liquor could he over the damage suit of James Baird, is known as a very intelligent, honorable jump quickly on the platform; that big Egyptians and . Asiatics. The tablets
laid in. The steam whaling company whose lobster factory on St. George’s and impartial iffan. Lately he convicted hand of fate will tell you your weight now -in Vienna represent letters and
OFFICERS.
ha= always been opposed to the liquor bay was seized by a British naval officer General Tomanowsky, a favorite of the just as surely and correctly as if you had dispatches sent to Egypt by the gov­
President......... ........................................ J. H. M o BB ■
for an infringement of French rights. Czar.
acted ‘straight’ on the machine and paid ernors and kings of Palestine, Syria,
Vice-President .................................J eff M yibs tr flic, and the management is deter­
Cashier............. ............................................. O... S. M ay mined to do everything in its power to So far the rulings are against the New­
Three survivors of the Serpent have your lonely nickel. Some fellows have Babylonia and other countries of West­
foundlander, and the people threaten to arrived at Plymouth, England. Burton, been dropping lead slugs, just the weight ern Asia. The find is remarkable every
stop it.
Directors.
place Lord Salisbury on record against one of the men, said he believed the sea of a nickel, into the slit; so, from all ap­ way, and opens the people of that age to
J. 8. M orris .
E. G oins .
J ohn G ainis .
Several
hundred
sailors
who
have
been
H. B ryant .
p . O. S mith .
himself.
quenched the vessel’s fires, as volumes pearances, I think the day of the ‘drop- us with (freshness and familiarity. It is
serving lately in the Arctic whaling fleet
dust and ashes were thrown up, cov­ a-niekel’ schemes is in the past. ’’—Chi­ clear .that the literary spirit is very
’ are now out of employment at San Fran­ Professor Henry W. Elliott, special of
Does a sreneral banking and exchange busi- cisco, and find it extremely difficult to agent of the Treasury Department to ering the crew. The officers of her Maj­ cago Tribune.
ancient, .and Professor Sayce surmises
n -as. Sight drafts issued on Albany, Portland
esty’s ship Tyne are convinced, however,
,we shall yet find libraries of clay books.
get good berths. The United States visit and report upon the condition of from statements made by the men dur­
and San Francisco •
Bismarck's
Famous
Sentence.
One town .in Judah was called “Book
naval rendezvous of that city has re­ the seals there, has returned to Wash­ ing the voyage and from the mutilated
ceived a large number of applicants to ington. He confirms the statements condition of a number of corpses that! It is proposed to use the famous sen­ Town,” or “(Library Town.” The mo­
tence of Prince Bismarck, "We Germans mentum of this discovery will be marked.
enlist from this class of men since the heretofore made by other parties, aiid
fear God, but nothing else, ” as the na­ Rich men should hesitate no longer to
whalers began to return to port a month says that not more than 20,000 animals the Serpent’s boilers burst.
tional German motto. A number of stu­ aid in unearthing the vast treasures of
ago. Although they are skillful seamen, were captured during the past season.
Frank
P.
Slavin
announces
that
W.
A..
Scio, O regon .
the recruiting officer was ob'iged to re­ He believes they are on the verge of ex­ Brady of New York has offered him $500' dents have been hunting for the origin the Orient.—Globe-Democrat.
ject almost all of the applicants on se­ termination.
per week to act in “After Dark” at of that expression ever since, to prove
count of the men not coming up to ttle
The suit at Chicago of Mary M. Ryan American theaters, opening in New that there is nothing new under the sun.
Hiring Wedding Outfits.
FRED 0. HYDE, Prop.,
physical standard prescribed by the against the Inter-Ocean promises to be York at the Fourteenth-street theater.. One finds it in Racine’s "Athalie,” as the I Among the oddest developments of
Navy
Department.
In
many
cases
the
sensational.
The
paper
is
charged
with
Brady also offers to get Slavin backing: saying of the high priest. Joash, and an­
(Successor to Richardson & Bit eu.)
York’s haberdashery is that shop
applicants, although young men for the characterizing her as a blackmailer and from $1,000 to $25,000 to fight Sullivan. other has discovered a passage almost New
most part, seemed debilitated. The na­ adventuress and stating that she pur­ Slavin wishes to say in reply that he will I. identical in Carlyle’s eloquent description where underlinen may be hired for trous­
seaux purposes, and where the finest of
Choice Beef, Mutton and Po^k can always be val surgeon on duty at the rendezvous sued with the relentlessness of a tiger not accept the terms offered. He would:
| of Abbot Samson (“Past and Present,’’
found on the block.
gives as a reason for this the meager ra­ some of the wealthiest and most promi­ require $1,000 per week, with substantial^ book II, chapter 17). These scholars garments may be had for the honeymoon
tions of the men. during the whaling nent of Chicago’s citizens, bleeding them guarantee. So far as Sullivan is con- would destroy all the patriotism in Ger- only, if the intending wearer will lay
season. Owing to the rigid physical ex­ of large sums of money. Oyer sixty wit­ cerned, Slavin says he can get the fig- 3 ynany if they had their way.—-Chicago down cold cash sufficient to buy out­
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MEAT MARKET,
Haunts of the White Goats.
White goats have been known to hunt­
ers ever since l^wis and Clarke crossed
the continent, but they have always
ranked as the very rarest and most diffi­
cult to get of all American game. This
reputation they owe to the nature of their
haunts, rather than to their own wariness,
for they have been so little disturbed that
they are less shy than either deer or
sheep. They are found here and there
on the highest, most inaccessible moun­
tain’ peaks down even to Arizona and
New Mexico; but being fitted for cold
climates, they are extremely scarce every­
where south of Montana and northern
Idaho, and the great majority even of
the most experienced huntershave hardly
so much as heard of their existence. In
Washington territory, northern Idaho
and northwestern Montana they are not
uncommon, and are plentiful in parts of
the mountain ranges of British America
and Alaska. Their preference for the
highest peaks is due mainly to their dis­
like of warmth, and in the north—even
south of the Canadian line—they are
found much lower down the mountains
than is the case farther south.
They are very conspicuous animals,
with their snow white coats and polished
black horns, buttheir pursuit necessitates
so much toil and hardship that not one in
ten pf the professional hunters has ever
killed one; and I know of but one or two
eastern sportsmen who can boast a goat’s
head as a trophy But this will soon
cease to be the case, for the Canadian
Pacific railway has opened the haunts of
where the goats are most plentiful, and
any moderately adventurous and hardy
rifleman can be sure of getting one by
taking a little, time, and that, too,
whether he is a skilled hunter or not,
since at present the game is not difficult
to approach. The white goat will be
common long after the elk has vanished,
and it has already outlasted the buffalo.
—Theodore Roosevelt in The Century.
A Beetle in Harness.
Not long since many newspaper para­
graphs were current about a pretty beetle
which the southern ladies were in the
habit of wearing on the corsage, where
it crawled at will, held by a tiny gold
chain. This beetle, is the maqueche. It
is perfectly inoffensive, has no odor and
does not deface or stain the most delicate
fiber. The adjusting of. the golden har­
ness is a nice operation, the metal being
soldered onit. The harness consists of
a girdle about the insect’s waist— between
the thorax and the abdomen—to which
above and below is joined a slender band
passing over the posterior portion of the
body, longitudinally, while a small chain
is attached to this harness by a little
staple, which chain terminates in a hook
or pin to fasten in the bodice.
By many Mexicans the insect is re­
garded as an amulet or mascot, and is
usually highly prized by foreigners When
obtainable. Parties who have owned in-;
sects of this kind have often attempted to
maintain them on sugar and water, but
the beetles always perished in a short
time. But if fed on decayed wood, which
is their natural food, they may be kept
alive and thriving for more than a year. :
The wing covers or shell of the beetle
is exceedingly hard. Its color is a light
chocolate shade, and when full grown it
is about an inch and a half long. It has
been stated that this beetle can cut
through soft metal, and this fact is one
of the most interesting about it. When
placed in a glass jar covered by a thin
pewter lid it has been known after a few
hours of chipping and cutting to make a
hole sufficiently large to allow it to pass
through. Specimens of this insect and
the cut metal were shown at a recent
meeting of the Microscopical society.—
New York Evening Sun.
Indians and Spanish Friars
The aborigines never showed any zeal­
ous faith in Christianity. Unlike the
negroes in the southern states, they took
no delight in singing hymns amongthem-
selves; unlike the Polynesian Christians,
,£hey never went out to con vert the neigh-
hnrinyhen. When they. escaped
from the missions/as~rilgY_££eciuently did,
they always left their new refcriog
them. In the course of three-quarters of
a century thousands of such fugitives fled
to the San Joaquin and Sacramento val­
leys, and to the Sierra Nevada, and
mingled with the wild tribes, without
leaving the least trace there of permanent
Christian influence.
The friars did not teach the abori­
gines to be great mechanics. Among its
Spanish settlers, the territory did not
possess one blacksmith, carpenter, wheel­
wright, shipwright, or turner competent
to take a respectable position among his
fellow craftsmen at the time in London,
Paris or New York. No good plow,
good wagon, good boat or good rifle was
ever made in a mission workshop. The
Indians did not have an opportunity to
learn thoroughly any mechanical trade,
or any of the finer branches of -horti­
culture. There was no skillful nursery
man among them.—John S. Hittel in
Overland Monthly,
Where Eels Are Caught.
Very early in the spring men go out
with spears in the swampy meadows that
border the little creeks and tread about
with bare feet until they come upon a
place where thè mud is soft. In such a
spot there is likely to be a spring of fresh
water, and the spears thrust down through
the ooze bring up at every stroke between
their prongs writhing eels. It is nothing
unusual to get three or four bucketfuls
out of one hole. Most of the eels mar­
keted, however—and vast quantities of
them are brought here—are taken by the
familiar process known as . “bobbing. ”
In other] words, they are fished for at
night with bunches of worms done up in
loops at the end of a string. Many are
caught in traps known as “eel pots,”
from which the poor victim is unable to
make his escape, having once strayed in
after the food set as a bait. Eel skins
are worth $3 a hundred for flails. They
are [also used as bluefish bait, and by
rheumatic patients to tie around the limb
affected.—Boston Cor. New Orleans Pica­
yune.
How to Drill Glass.
In drilling glass, stick a piece of stiff
clay or putty on’the part where you wish
to make the hole. Make a hole in the
putty the size you want the hole, reach­
ing to the glass, of course. Into this
hole pour1 a little molten lead, when, un­
less it is very thick glass, the piece will
immediately drop out,—Tradesman.