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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1887)
(TSflCKO XVKUT rirAT I J. H. SUNS t CO. Publisher TERMS OF SUUSORlPriOS. On Tror t Month : lnre otoliths...-'.. I Payable m atlvauoe.) .s 09 . 1 " TERMS OF ADVERTISING. (LSOAL.) On liquate, first Insertion . .93 00 jLAtiit atuu. tonal laeeruon.. a wj t local! Ixx-M Notices, ixr tine t5 cnU K.niiar a.tvertwemnt iarta upon lihersl term. SOCIETY NOTICES. LKBAUITS I.ortOK. NO. 44. A. T. A. M : M-! .1 th.tr nw bail, in Wa-scvmo ttlcck. on Satiudaj evening, en or Maore tne full moon. J WASSOJf. W. M. LtB AVOS LODGE, XO. 47, t O. O. P.: Meet Fat- nnUr Tnini of :h wfc at Oflil Fellow's Hull. Mam atrevl; riailing brethren uU.i'y fzmtcd lo HOXOtt LOPO.K SO. S. A o. IT. W . Lebanon. oreton; Meu ever, flint ajul tr.mt Tburnoay evn- ing. la th montn. . u. ttosvo.. ai. . J. S. COURTNEY, M. D., PHYSICIAN AlMD SURGEON, LEBAJSOH ORKGOS. 13"0ffio in Ir. Powell JSMMence. F. M. MILLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW Notary Public and General Insurance Agt. LEBASOS. OREGON. Collections and other bastnest jproruptlr attended to. Office on Mam atreeA. DR. A. H. PETERSON, SURGICAL DENTIST, Filling and Extracting Teeth a Specialty. LEBANON, OREGON. Offloe in resilience, on Mala street, next door north ef C. K. Montague s new rest deuce. A'l work warranted. Onarses reasonable. C. H. HARMON, BARBER & HAIRDRESSER, LEBANON, OREGON. Shaving;, Hair Cutting.- and Saampooinf la tha latest and . BEST STYLES. 3T Patronage respectfully solicited. St. Charles Hotel, LEBANON, Oregon. K. W. Corner Main and Sherman Streets, two Blocks Hast of R R. Depot. J. NIXON, - Proprietor. Tables Supplied with the Best th Market Affords. ample' Rooms the Feet Accommodations Commercial men. lor -GENERAL STAGE OFFICE. G. T. COTTON, DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CIGARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY, Qaeevisware and Glasswares lama) and Lamp Fixtures. Haia St lbanfa, Oregon. JLEBANOTV Heat Market BCHL sfc KELLESBEBGER, Proprietor. Fresh and Salted Beef and Pork, MUTTON, . v PORK, 8AU3ACE, BOLOCNA and HAM Bacon ana Lara always on Hand, Main Street, Lebanon, Or. . I CtWlN, J. M. PALfcTON, J. W. CTJ.8ICK, BANK OF LEBANON Lebanon, Oregon. Transacts a General Banking Business. JLceoon's Kept Subject to Check. EXCHANGE SOLD ON Tori, San Francisco, Pcrtlani an! Aloany, Oreson. Cc' lections r.Tade on Favor- Terms. r n t if "FT VOL. I. w. smith:, Lebanon, Oregon -DEALER Si BfBSliTilWG,lFDlPlllS,&C. .MANUFACTURER OF. Tin, Copper, Sheet-Iron Ware, EVrK SPOUT, lilto. All kinds, of Repairing' Alo keep Tlie WOVEN m . C2 O .Manufacturer AND DEALER IN Coffins, Caskets, Trimmings and Burying Robes. - ALSO DOORS, WINDOW BLINDS, HANGING NAILS. ETC., Main Street, Lebanon, Oregon. m. A. r.HLLER, DEALER Drugs, Medicines, Paints. Oils and Glass. ALSO A Complete Stock -AND LADIES' TOILET ARTICLES. Prescriptions a Specialty. Next Door to W. B. Donaca, Lebanon, Oregon. MITCHELL & LEWIS CO., Limited. Factory: Raelne. Wis. MANUFACTURERS OF THE MITCHELL FARM I I fx-. ... t v 1i - -SS" A"--iifcjr- it-a THE MITCHELL WAGON. Log-, Header and Trucks ; Dump, Hand and Road Carts : Open and Top Busrelea, Phaetons, Carriages, Blackboards, and HARNESS. General Agents for Canton Clipper Plows. Harrows. Cultivators. Read Scrapers, Gale Chilled Plows, Ideal Feed Mills and Wind Mills, Knowl toa Hay Rakes, Horse Powers, Wojd Saws. Feed Cutters, etc. Wo carry the largest and best assorted stock of Vehicles oo the Northwest Coast. All our work is built especially for this trade and fully warranted. Bend for new l!s87 catalogue. Mitchell & Lewis Co., Limited, 188, 190, 192 and 194 Front Street, Portland, Oregon. Oar goods are sold by F. II. ROSCOE & CO., Hardware Dealers, Lebanon, Or. G. E. EAEDT, ; Watchmaker . .DEALER VS. Watcncs. Clocis, Jewelry, Silyer ..4GEST o o o o a Qdck-TrdnvlVaTCHES Repairing a Specialty. Saii3 Ob'-; 5 erratory ml V 5 1 o o o o o o o fjinu.il Ddw .Haaway saeau laf-y ALSO AO L F. & H. A. Singer Sewing IN Done at Short Notice. in stock "WHtOS TV of Furniture, - IX of Stationery, H ranch : Portia ad. r AND SPRING WAGONS. and ."-Jeweler. Plate! Ware and Optical Goofls. FOR af?V"SXS"W-ttaf o o o o o o o All Work Guaranteed COtftiland (6hUV Tlrui5p 7T - S- -stBMaaiowi . a i Sold nr atBMaatowna ' o o o o o o o AwiMft. ' - - - . rU Warraa. 1 BYT FOa TBS. Machines & Macnine Supplies. r. cnr.GOlT. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER "PENNY GAFFS." A Cheap and Harralosa Amusement Kind of Fat and Lean Women and "Freaks of . Nature," am Seen In London ftc thins; About the, ltUka or the) Knslness. inaoni une hatunlay nijht I was i strolling aimlfssly alonjr ono of the principal nmikct thoroughfares in the neighborhood of Iloxton, when my at tention was drawn to a crowd of jn-ople outside a shop, the window of which, instead of boing lillod, ns usual, with gootls suited to the requirements of the locality, was occupied by a large ean ras, painted all over in glaring colors with marvelous figures of performing dogs, fat women, skeletons, giants, red Indians and a number of mid-looking animals, to classify which under their correct genus would have puzzled the most eminent living naturalist. In front of the shop a piano-organ, evi dently ordered to stop there for the oc casion, poured forth such cheering lavs as Wait till the Clouds Roll By" "Jeanie," and "Mother, I've Come tlomc to Die," varied by a lively jig or breakdown, which was the signal for a numlwrof children in the roadway to perform singulargv mnnstic feats, which passed muster for dancing. A fat man with a red face and a very hoarse voice stood guard at the entrance to the shop the inside of which was concealed from the eager gaze of those without by a dirty curtain of green baize stretched across the doorway and en deavored to induce the crowd to pay their pennies and "walk in." Ilis har angue, frequently repented, was some thing like this: -Just a-goin to begin. Signor Barberino'a great tratelingshow admission one penny w here can be seen the wonderful fat woman of Call fornia, and that hextrahoi-dinary freak o nature, the armless child, which can write with its feet, and never knows th loss of its harms, 'cos it never had none, and also 'cos nater jss pcrw ided it with legs w hat does twice as well. Now, then, there stand aside, and let the lady pass.'") (This to a group of mall boys who had got as near to the doorway as possible,) Thank you marm. Just a-goin to begin, as ex hibited before all the crowned 'eads of Europe anl all the ryal family, and specially engaged to appear at the Hmperial theater of Peking, in Cliiney. No dogs admitted, sip; and children must be paid for. Signor Barberiuo's," etc. The impression left on most of the crowd seemed to bo that if they missed that show, it would be a matter of re gret to them for the rest of their nat ural life, for they pressed eagerly for ward and paid their pennies. In almut seven minutes the shop was crammed with a miscellaneous crowd of neif. women with some of their purchases for the Sunday dinner bulging out of baskets too small to contain them and "oys and girls of that intermediate age be; ween childhood and vouth; little children in the charge of bigger chil dren; and one or two of a better class of young men, who seemed to have dropped in merely for the fun of the thing. I entered with a number of others, jd obtained 'a place as near as I could t. another hanging of green, baize at the further end of the shop, forlim ajnmd that behind this must be con cealed some of the wonders so graphic- all? painted on the canvas outside. The place having become full, the green baize was drawn aside, and aronngman with a very East-end look handed put a short, fat, uglr, greasy-looking woman of about four feet in height, but weigh ing, I should think, about eighteen stone. She was dressed in a showy. tawdrv material, covered with elabo rate trimmings equally tawdry, and seemed pleased with the amount of at tention she received. hen the fcast end A'ounz man had finished a minute account of her height, weight, age, measurements, etc,, members of the crowd were requested to "shake 'ands with the fit lady; and an intimation was given that should any of the audi' once, in the performance of this act of friendly greeting, pass any coin of the realm from their own into the lady s palm, why well, the fat lady would aot be offended. This part of the ceremony having been got through, displaying on the part of the crowd an eager desire to get near enoiTgh to have the honor of touching tie lady's hand, she was handed back again behind the baize screen; and another woman, tlie an tipodes of the first one, made her ap- nearance. She was about live feet eight inches in height, dressed in dirtv white muslin, covered all c vcr with pale blue and . piuk bows. The East-end young man stated she was only four stone in weight, and gave various other particulars, which were all received by the audience with rapt attention,' The sight of this hide ous snoeimen of humanity was too much for me, and I elbowed my way to the door, thus missing the remain ing attractions of the bIiow, including the "hextrahordinary freak o' nature the armless child." whom, however, I was destined to see at a future date. The following Monday afternoon I was passing on business through the same thoroughfare, when I .observed the red-faced man with tho hoarse voice standing, or rather lounging, out t'de the entrance to the show. Having a quarter of an hour to spare, and feel ing interested in the extraordinary be ings I had seen on the previous Satur day, I accosted him, and asked him if he would come and have something to warm him at a neighboring public- house: intimatinsr. as an excuse for my speaking to him, that I had been in his 6how on the Saturday. No apologies seemed necessary, and I pro ceeded to question him as to the work ing, prospects, etc., of his show. . 'Where do we git the living curiosi ties from? Well lots o' places; gin erally the least likely uns. Sometimes a poor family has some sort o' deformed child born, and they gits to hear as W. in a show like ours (he straightened himself up), "they gits taken good care on, and. 'aa a chance making something besides what Ma2 we pays cm. i hey conies and ofT-rs us the curiosity; and if we thinks it'll take, why, we gives 'era a sum down, and so much a week as long ns they're with us; and precious glad they are of it, they are. You see, it's friendly nil round: it pays us; it pajs the poor peo ple; it pleases the cytiosity; and it amuses the public. If we didn't take 'em into our show, they'd very likely git sent to the workus. or kicked a!oiit and ill-treated, 'cos they wouldn't be able. to earn their own living. But when they're with us, their people gita klna o proud 01 'em, and will come and 'ang arounS the show, and seem glad if they can git any one to listen to em when they savs the v re related to the curiosities inside. There's always plenty of offers a-coming to us. Some times we buya a performing animal off some circus people when he's old and not good enough for them, but q.ite smart enough for us. Sometimes we gits 'm young, and trains 'em our selves. Sometimps But there it won't do to tell you hevery thing, or you'll be writing to the newspapers or something o that kind." This dark allusion to something mysterious heightened my curiosity, and I endeavored to draw him out fur ther, but with no success; and he pres ently went on again as follows: Payr les, of course it pays, else we sJiouhlu t keep on the same lav. There ain't much to be done anv- wheres in the daytime, and none at all just here; but of a-night, we can fill the show as many times as we like; and although it's only a penny, when there's sixty or seventy people go in every quarter of an hour, you see it mounts up. Lots on em goes in three or four times. they gits so interested. After one show's over and a fresh batch ready. some of those who went in first '11 come back and pay agin, p'r'aps bringing a mend, who was awaiting to hear what the fust one said about it; and then they goes in again, 'cos they can't remem ber how much the fat lady weighs; or else they gits to feel a sort o' pride that theyve bin to our show mure times than any o' their mates. Lor bless you. sir, I b'lieve some on "em feels sorry they wasn't bora a curiosity themselves! it's, its alwavs best to git in what s called a low neighborhood, though why :t should be called low, I dun no. Poor people's pennies are as good as any one else's, as fur as I can make out; and if any o tho young fellers ever gits !- streperus or a-teasmgof the curiosities. we've only got to speak a bit sharp to m; and they're as quiet as a murderer after he's been and got anged." Tlie reader w'll observe that his sim iles were loth forcible and original. Yes. about a week is the time for stiyingin one place sometimes a fort night, and we have run as long as three weeks when we've had some fust-class curiosities. But we alius seems to le moving. and never gits settled. Of course, if one of. our best attractions dies, as they often does if the weather's bad, we have to shut up for a time. cos it gits noised about that there ain't half so much to be seen as is announced. There never is, you say? Well, and wot if there ain't? Are re any worse than anv one else, I should like to know? Is the man what adver tises medicine toenre every thinga-tell-ing the truth any more than us? Is the man what waters his milk, and takes his daw it's pure, any better? No; but just 'cos it's us, and our show ain't quite all what it says on the canvas, we gits called rogues and swindlers. I saw it was time to replenish the empty tumbler; but. in spite of it. could get very little more out of the hoarse-voiced man. I had evidently touched his dignity, so, wishing him "crowded houses" wherever he went. left him to his reflections on the in equalities of social adventures g erallv. Since then I have been to scores of penny gaffs." as they are called in ths neighborhoods which are favored with their visits, and have seen natural do formities ("freaks of nature," the can vas generally has it), wild animal (generally poor beasts which want a lo of goading before their hot blood' can be got up sufficiently to make them look fierce), fat women and skeletons. stronsr men and dwarfs, jugglers and acrobats, performing -dogs, snake- charmers, and latterly, thought-read ers;" the last-mentioned having all been pupils of the leading thought- readers of the day, and paid a fabuloii; sum for their initiation into the many mysteries of the art. Sometimes tl tricks done are really clever; sometime? as transparent as crystal; often, by tl aid of an accomplice, who, despite hi endeavors to appear to be one of "the crowd, can- generally be picked out I the discerning, because -lie invariahl overdoes his part; and sometimes the are not tricks at nil, but miserable at tempts, which deceive nobody. But the people who go to seo them are satisfied. and that is every thing. X hey can give a penny where they could not afloru sixpence; and, if the entertainment is not intellectual, it is certainly not very harmful, the only real objectionable feature being the exhibition of natural, or, more correctly speaking, unnatural human deformities. Cltambers' Jour nal. A Congressman's Faithfulness. As John Quincy Adams, then a rep resentative in Congress, was crossing the hall of tho House of Representatives on tho afternoon of Monday, May 18, 1810, one of his feet caught in tie straw matting on the floor, and caused him to fall with such violence as to dis locate his right shoulder. After being conveyed to his residence, however, the shoulder was restored to its socket, and, regardless of what most men would consider a very sufficient reason for remaining at home, this faithful representative, with his bandaged shoulder and disabled right arm, was again at his post in the House of Rep resentatives at the usual hour of meet ing the next day. Ben. Ferlcy Poore, in Boston Budget. o m "Have- you ever sat upon an in quest?" asked the coroner of a cowboy. "Betcher life I hey, stranger," was the ready answer. "And what kind of a verdict did you bring in.r "A charge of murder against the doctor." X. Y. litrali. - ' "DTDi 16, 1887. THE LATEST IN CANES. A Brooklyn Dealer's Chat About ths Woods Now la Use. The very latest thing in canes is the hazel stick," said a Fulton street shopkeeper. "It resembles aminature tree, is big at the end and has a large body. .Here is one. You see that the wood is finely gTained and that the bark is genuine. These sticks cost seventy-five cents and o-ie dollar, and are much affected by impecunious: young men who ape the New York dudes. Canes are cut in the rough and brought to the city in carload In some mountainous districts many of the inhabitants do nothing else but cut nd ship cane wood. In one factory n Xew lork over ten thousand canes are turned out daily. They are hewed and turned wholly by machinery. Expert cane-makers earn b'g wages." What arts the principal woods now n use? . "Florida oak, Eiglish hazjL dog wood; thorn, boxwood, apple, mulber ry, dianond willow, orange, yacca. red gum. cedar, chestnut, hickory, pear, lignumvitas and bog oak. The last named wood comes from Ireland and make a most handsome stick. The natives-are quite clfvcr at carving. They ornament the canes with sham rocks, harps and thistles, while on some castles in which the Blarney Stone Is said to be locked np are carved" Here Is a perfect, bog oak. I on can see mat wniie ine carving is ough it is well executed. The fine lines show the best. The work is all loo by hand, and to carve a stick is well as this mr.jt be the work if many days. " Bog oak is found ! n the bo's of IralanL The older h? wood the better stick it make3. I shouldn't woud?r but th it the wood of which thi-s stick is m ule has liin in the water for a hundred years. No. gold- headed canes are riow rot considered fash'onal i They are a!T;ctel bv 11 I'll;- men. Silver-beaded canes will be worn as 1 ng as the dude continues ro exist. I heard ths o:her dav that a fashion abbs young m in. a resident'of Biviklynwas poi-oned by sucking a cane I ho li -ad of when contained iras. bnt probably this was 'a libelous lie," said the maa of canes without blushing Continuing, tlie reporter's informant sicl: ' Ebony and roswool are the stock s'icks. Hie are appreciated heeauss of iheir s r-Migih. and 8 irelr what can n ore liandsomi than a highlv-po'- s'led -brtv stick w'th a en'.d head? "5 lrer-'.oppod caies sell as hij;h as ten lo'lar, b it many of thoe sold by inscrupit'ons dealers contain less than tro dollars worth of srlver. Thesame i a;:d is often practiced in gold-heade I cane. w.nchs-H lrora twenty dollars ip- lh biu kihorn stick has had i's lay and is now but littl used. The eano is pcrhap'ta re popular in Amer ica than England. In the latter conn- ry it is considered A weakne-ss for a nun to c-irnr a cane and they are not iff cted by the nobility. Light eanes are pri -rr!e m summer, in um- t'lvlla heads many n- veities are shown. The natural wood handle is best, I thiuk. for daily wear, but many prefer frold and silver bandies. Yes. there is a profit in this Lusiress. but not so big a one as manv reoi.te imagine, saul hs cane dan iu conclusion. Brook'yn Eigle, THE KAISER'S ESCAPES. Remtn'sreores of Two Attacks oo the' Life of tho 6rrmsa Esisemr. I had myself been in Berlin when both attacks were made upon the lifjof the Emperor whvn Ibx-ole shot at him from the crowd, anil Nobling from a windo . overl ok ing the celebrated B're-t, Later den Linden. A curious Utile incide it occurred upon the latter occasion. As the Emperor was going to his af ernoon drive in tho Thier carten, he asked an attendant stand ing in the hall of the palace why such an unusual and gayly-dressed crowd "hroug'.d the streets. "Th?y go tosee the Shah of Persia, your Majesty," was the answer. Ah, then I also must put on gala attire," the E nperor r:m irked, smil ing, and forlhw th took fro'n a table his Prussian helmet, replacing with its steel plating the military cloth cap" which he had b f.-re placed on his bead. When a few hours later he was brought bark to the palace wounded and bleeding, the helmit was dontod i.i several p' aces wh;re t!ie mixed shot used by N ;b!ing had struck a ruiust th j metal. II ul tha un resisting cloth been there instead. who can te'l how different the ending of '-h'j tragedy might have bee:i? Two or three days after the attempt, el assassination, tho old monarch a-ked to see the clothes he. had worn on that fatal day. Linking at the mil itary cap: riddled with shot, and the dents iti the eaglc-eappcd helme he turned to tuosij standing by his bed side, and with tears in his eyes, said. pointing to tho marks of the bullets: 1 hank God it was not one of my own B.-rltu men who d;d thai!" Black wood' a Mijntiw. Buffalo" s malt business is enormous. The annual product of the malt manu facturers there is 7,000,000 bnshels- an amount exceeding by nearly 2,000,- 000 bushels tho combined product of any other two American cities. In answering to the question: "Why does churning make butter?" the Scien tific American savs: Agitating the milk causes the rupture of tho coating of tho butter globules contained in the milk, and thoir fatty contents then col lect together. Tho fanners of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana are preparing to build cotton, cotton-seed oil and flour mills at different centers in those States. This will enable them to get local mar kets and fair prices for these products. Tho farmers will own the mills in com mon. fhler-Ocean. Johnny hafl been to the house of a neighbor to play with the children. "Well, Johnny," said his mother, on hi a return, 'did you enjoy yourself?" "Oh, yes, ma; and they are going to have Irish stew for dinner!" "Haven't I told you times out of number that you must never repeat what you have heard at people's houses?" "But, ma, I didn't j hear any . thing about the .stew; I siiielled it with my nose." ST. T. Ledger. 17' C C: NO. 28. CHEAP CRAYON ATISTS. flow. Portrait. Are Da. had Off ua ths Methods Adopted to Make Mno-y. 'What becomes of the many artist! who fail, eh?" repeated a rising youno artist to the query of a reporter. "Well, many of them hang on and do hack work all their lives. They dengen erate i.ito the cheap crayon artist, and many often clear a3 much as fifty dol lars a week. But the gennina art in stinct is dead and can never be revived by any process known to science. Do they make go.jd crayon portraits? Yes. some of their portraits are cxcelenf, bu.t there is no characteristic art nothing 'above mediocre mechanical excelence. New York has an army of pastel and crayon artists. The artist on the daily paper who can sketch and originate positions has far more talent and art instinct than the mosj success ful crayon-portrait maker. But the most successful artist fakir if I may be allowed such a term is he who does life-size portraits from photo graphs by means of solar printing. The solar printing enlarges the photo graph, and . the mechanical artist dashes off the crayon, th is saving him the labor of drawing the features. It is a qnck meih xL and enables the busy artist to do more work. Many photographers hare their pictures made iife-size by crayon artists for f8 apiece. I suppose, though, that the photographer gets more than $8 from his customers. Some cf these artists do a large amount of w-ork, f.d do it more rapidly than the scenic arti: I draped into the studio of a Success ful cravon artist not long ago and tuna him rushing ou portraits at a great rate. He said he was in a big hurry t do several portraits and asked me to help mm. 1 told htm I did not do that kind of work. "Ob, I don't want yon to do the face, just jab in a lo: of clouds in the background, old boy, to give mi a starter. I went to work anl jabbc.i' in clouds while my friend was miking a lace on another canvas, lis is a su perior crayon artist and receives the magnificent sum of $25 for each por trait. By hiring men to do back grounds and all but the faees he turns them out by wholesale. I know a Ger man crayon artist who does a wonder fully clever portrait, lifa size, for $ la. ILi doesn't use the solar printing plan. Of coursa thens are som j artists o i the Bjwery who turn out life-size bust por traits at ?1 and $3; but these are bad. even from a eravtfn artist s point f view. The best artists rarely go under $15. unless thev are doing work whulcsale for photographers. The Art League frequently graduates first- class crayon artists by simply letting them know that they have no art in stinct above the mecbanicaL This in formation saves the student rears of nselcss study. The crayon artist d serves credit f-r his true mechanical raethols, and his cheap prices do not interfere with other artists who are not mechanical. Solar printing " ha brought life-size crayon and pastel por traits within the pnrview of very UmUel purses." .37. T Mid anl Ex press. FLORAL TRIBUTES. Garlands for enteral Grant's TomH Poor- Ins; In from Hans- Sonreeo. Seeing so many beautiful flowers heaped upm the tomb of General Grant -which Lvisited the other day ray eiiriosity was excit-d by the question Where do they ail come from? and do they 8;Tve no other purpose than to deck the grea soldier's resting-place until they die? A f w davs later, in conversation with Colonel F! Grant, I learned the sources of the garlands. and also that their nsefuln outlives their beauty. He s ud: "On ro every week my moth?r takes out a large de sign made of cut flowers. These re main there until she orders, the guard to remove them and replace them with the fresh ones sh may send. So that all the time her selection of flowers is there." The other flowers are from friends. then?' "Some are, bnt the majority are from straig rs. I can say that, daily. wiihQut an exception, fljral remem brances ara recived from all parts ol the United S.ates. We order them placed in ths vault, where they remain until failed and wither d. Who generally sends th?m?" Well, they come iu'all ways; from Grand Army pos!s, clubs, s jcieties. sehool and mission children Then trivate people, both of this and other cities, send beautiful rem .'mbraaces in floral work. "They never go to waste. Solicit.- 'ions arriva in number daily Irorn P'opleol all classes and stations in life, begging for sorai memento from Genoral Grant's tomb. They ask nothing, if it be no more than a withered leave or bid. Th3 guards sre continually promising . the faded flowers to visitors, always providing Mrs. Grant gives permission or has not promised them elsewhere." x2f. 11 Cor. VUilo'lclphu rres3. 'And how do you like my play?' "Sph?udid! So original, you know. "Yes? I fear you wish to flatter me.'" "Not a bit of it. The characters are quite unlike any thing one sees in real life, you know. Boalon IransertpL "Do yon think," she' asked. dreamily, as he sat beside her at the circus, "that this is the same eiepnani j I saw when I was a child?'' "No,'" he said with scornful candor; "you know elephants only live to be two hun dred years old." It won't be this year. Boston Post. ' The little folks have a wonderful "gift of expression, even if their vocabu lary -is somewhat limited. Little "Richy," an uptown toddler, wasn't feeling very well, and his mother solic itously inquired what was the matter. "I feel as if some of nie was dead," was the expressive reply. Hartford Post. Countryman (in dime museum) " vt hat s j our specialty, inenuf Freak 'Tm the man who can pass a door with the legend 'paint on it without daubing it with the index fingortoseeif it'sdrv." Countryman 'Gosh! How much d'ye git a week?" Freak "Thousand dollars, same's all th V' y- r. Sun. . Jiia' Fli.ti.J i 4 a. . t Legal Blanks, . Boatness CrC Letter Heads, ; El 11 Easd. . Circulars, " ' Posters, ZxsesUd la food tj! aoi at koast Urir prism. a.M.u.,u. , ., , j REWARD OF INDUSTRY. A etlvlty and ffard Work K.wntlai to Reftl tireatnen and Surer. . While industry. is not itself genius. those who have genius always employ industry. In fact, it is the distinguish ing trait of men f genius; Napoleon, all admit, possessed remarkable genius, " but no one exceeded bim in activity and industry. - Balzac is another cx- ample; he wrote ra all 2C9 different works, and all of his manuscripts some had been evinced great care; written ten times. It is remarkable what stress the great writers lay on industry. A young man asked Anthony Trollope how to become a successful writer, and received this reply: When you srt down to write, put a piece of shoe maker's wax in your chair." And on his own writings Trollope spent a cer tain amount of time each day, -no matter whether sick or well. His aim was to write forty pages of 250 words each every week. Charles Dickens also believed in in dustry as the main thing. He would take down names that struck him. and also peculiar conversation be beard while traveling. All this demanded work; in fact, his recreations were spent in work of this kind, seeing things and writing them down. Martin Luther was one of the most incnstnous men the world ever saw: he published during his life-time 750 volumes; he translated the Bible into German, itself the work of a life-time. Eliha Bnrritt was a blacksmith, and yet learned eighteen ancient and mod ern languages as well as several dia lects. George Eliot was a wonderful ex ample of untiring work- It is said she read one thousand books in preparing to write "Daniel Deronda." The amount of preparation for Eomola" was equally immense. Gladstone is a wonderful statesman and a wonderful man. One of his rec reations is to translate English into Latin or Greek into English. He takes long walks, thinking nothing of fifteen or twenty miles, and to cut down a stout oak tree before breakfast is an especial pleasure. . - Bismarck is another hard-workieg statesman. He rises early, and is sole to tire out clerks and correspondents with writing. -I he discussion of the treaty of peace with the French occu pied three hours, and then it was seen that Thiers was completely exhausted. While he rested and slept for two hours. Bismarck went on writing his dis patches and letters, and on the awak- ing of Thiers, resumed his argument, apparently strong and hearty. Longfellow made one of his transla tions during the few minutes he was obliged to wait each morning for his coffee. Elihn Burritt became a learned man by having a book before him as he blew the bellows in a blacksmith shop. Treasure Trore. LONDON'S ROTTEN ROW. One of tho Most FsihicnMe Thoronrlt- fares of the Eadisli Metropolis. Hyde Park, with the adjoining Ker-, mgton Gardens, is a very l&rz . closure wnn (invw, grassT l.iw.is a'- . .... line trees, ami wrth apretiv rk-f r rcsr .ung through it. Near- Alrrie Park Corner, where we enter, aresowe mag nificent residences, among which is Apsley House, belonging to the Duke f Wellinrrton. One of the roads in Hyde Park is called Eotton Row, and is devoted entirely to horseback riding. There is nothing decayed about this "" Row, and it is said that the place used to be called Bouie dit Boi, the Rond of the" King, and it has gradually beeg 1 corrupted into Rotton Row. ' Anere are many proper names wn;cn the English people pronounce very 7 differently from the way in which thev are spelled: St John, for in- stance, is pronounced birje-t.nms Beauehamp is Beecham; and when they wish to mention the name Ch.l- mondeley, they say Chumley, while Sevenoaks has become Snooks. From twelve to two o'clock we m-.v see Rotton Row iled with lady and gentlemen riders, trotting or pi.ic;- ing np and down. But the finest s" jI.t of Hyde Park begins after five o'ci.M 'r i .1 fliit-i iMnrri- mica i rr , 1 e . n ; the nobility and -gentry fll the lir- drive on the senthside ote p" v. There is no place in the woriu oerj we can see so many fine horses and arriages, so much fashion, so much wealth, and so much aristocracy, in a ompara lively small space as Hyd Park, between five and seven o'clock !n the afternoon, during what ia called -, the "London season." Trak B- i Sioc&lon, in St. 2,'ieJio'as. - " " Fracture of Hotel 'Dishes. ' Hotel managers here say th it t 3 fracture of dthas th na, plas a i earthenware is a more ser ous item t f expense than asy outsider wouh ose. Although t!i- y m i- ? for their own prot ct.oii.-:, broken " d shes to the s-?rvmT; -they are plainly careiess, the rnle d" not relieve ti;e noteis irom ser.ous ., every year. iae gre-ueAt aioaT. - breakage is m nan i ng aa-i wav , d-.shes may not be actually rokeu i;rst, bnt they are const ht!y in, and cracked, and, af U-r ihit, soon g iiece.r Large houses. l.e tho k J Avenue and Windsor Hote'. 'n York, sustain a loss of fu'.iy -1 . , annually in th s way", imlepon h :u what the servants pay for. i;n.i say that it -.would le fifty p?r . greater except lor theysienijor , mprsx'd on the dome-t"es- w, ? made by it less he dh'js. Ar-y holder can judge, from tl"1 de-'t-of dishes iu lik own kitchen. : . ' : mast be in a great hotel, A". O j . : , Democrat. , - Cocoanuts and retries put Cocoanut-rai.-dng is a grow try In Southern HoiiT-v I a and cocoanuts pay yeiy we'l thousand pineapples caa be ? is said, to an arra, and ' amount of space . w. 11 s cocoannt trees. The la very li Ule e ul t "; v a 1 1 on. r. hear at from nine to twe ago and proluc-i ivom hundred and fifty 're " -They bring about fives.-? T . Uio grower. Many g;i 1 . planted within a f e v y Jersey gentleman L j.s X f. Siar. . - - ' ' T r ' 1 ' , I