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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1888)
JOB PRI (ISatJED 1TIRY KrDA.T.) BANOiSJ KlRKi'ATRICK & BUGI-EK .... Publisher Krary dsasrlptaasi ? JcS Priitiif Does ci Slur. I.v TKRMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. On. Yer ....S3 00 Six Months 124 Ikrw Mouth , 65 i raraula in kdnuice.) TERMS OF ADVERTISING. (LEQAL.) Legal Blanks Business Cards. "V" Letter Heavda, Bill Head Circular. Foatara, Et- On square, first Insertion ....,.....,......$3 00 Kaoa 4JLi-.nal waertioa. ,, IN f LOCAL. 1 VOL. II. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 0, 1888. IkmI Hotlc-a, per lina 15 celita NO. 4. K.uiar aavarusenieots lasertea upon mwraj terms. Cite fg Immm &tytt&. THE SOCIETY NOTICES. LSBAKOJT LODGE, NO. 44. A. P. ft A. M : Mea at Uifir new ball in Maitonto Block, on Saturday .reuiuc on or baton ta. 1 uli moon. j WAsaoN. w. u. UBAITOX LODGE, NO. 47, t. O. O. F.: MooU 8at- uruy reutDf of aoh a Odd Frllnw'a Hall. Main UM; tlsittoc arathrau eonUallj Invited to tuud. J. J. UaAKLlOU, If. U. HOXOR LorXJB HO. S3. A. O. XT. W . Lebaoon. Oregn: M cots itvorj ftrnt and thtrd Thursday ersn tnaa la th month. V. H. ROSCOK. M. W. DR. A. H. PETERSON, SURGICAL DENTIST, Filling and Extracting Teeth Specialty. . LEBANON. OEEOON. Office in W, C. Peterson's jewelry store. WA11 work warranted. Charges rannabl e C. H. HARMON, BARBER & HAIRDRESSER, LEBANON, OREGON. Skarlnf, Hair Cuttfixt and Snampoolnf tn th latest and BUST STYLES, afar Fatronag raspeetfaUjr solicited. Gt. Charles Hotel, LEBANON, Oregon. B. W. Oornar Mate and Sherman Streets, twa Blocks Eaatot & it. Depot, H. E. PARRISH, Proprietor. Tables Supplied with the Best the Market A nor as. ft am pis Booms and tha Best Accommodations for Commercial men. -GENERAL STAGE OFFICE.- I. F. CONN, Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Plana aaa Speelfieatlana Famished aa Hhert Xetiee. ILL USDS OF CABPENTE2 WOSI ME And Satisfaction Guaranteed. jarPRICES VERY REASONABLE." Albany Mi liefcameat. Or. C.T.COTTON, DKALEK IK Groceries and Provisions. TOBACCO & CICARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY, taeestaware aa daeaware, I .a asp, aad La sap Fixtures. Slain St.. Lebanea. Otf. Eleat Market JsTJIIl. at KGLLESBERttER, Praprletera. Fresh and Salted Beef and Pork, MUTTON, PORK, SAUSAGE, BOLOGNA and HAM Bacon anl Lard always en Hani. Main Street, Lebanon, Or. I CtWAX. J. M. RLSTC K, J. W. CtSICK. BANK OF LEBANON Lebanon, Oregon, Transacts a General Banking Business. Aocoon1 Kept Subject to Check. EXCHANGE SOLD ON Usw Tori. San Praucisco, PortlaM am Alliany, Orepi. Collections Made on Favor f able Terms. A Russian law forbids the use o! exvl imation points ia newspaper ar ticles in that eounlrv. There are 900 beet sugar factories in Europe. France manufactures 600, 000 tons of sugar, and Germany 1,024,- 000 tons. An Athens (Ga.) paper mill is re ported to have turned out a sheet of manila paper six miles in length and five feet wide, without a break. In Germany very nearly twelve pounds of sugar are now made from 100 pounds of beets, tbe cost of the production being only two cents per pound. Thk pig iron product of the United States in 1887 was 6,417,148 tous, much the largest on record. The next largest production was in 1SS6, when 5,683.329 gross tons were turned out. The introduction of natural gas at Pittsburg has displaced the use of 4,500,000 tons of coal a year. One- half of the SO.OOO houses in Pittsburg use the natural gs for fuel and light. ISbab the town of Soleure, Switzer land, a bird's nest was recently found which was constructed entirely of the imperfect watch springs thrown out from the workshops. It has been de posited in the local museum. The largest cotton mill in.the world is said to be located at Krauholm, in Russia. The establishment coutains 340,000 spindles and 2,200 looms, dis poses of a force cf 6,300 horse-power, and gives employment to 7,000 hands. A hale child one year old, tn weighing only one pound, is on.exhi- bition in Minnesota. The midget weighed eix ounces at birth. Its bed is a doll's cradle, which rest upon a stand at the side of the mother's bed. The child is hearty, lively, intelligent and playful. For the twelve months ending De cember 21, 1887, the total number of immigrants arrived in the Uuited States was 509,281, as compared with 386,631 persons arrived during the preceding twelve months. Of the above number 125,742 were from Great Britain and Ireland and 85,926 from Germany. Repbkskntative Hermann has re signed from service on the House Committee on Manufactures, in con sequence of an understanding with Buchanan of Sew Jersey, who had re signed his place on th Committee on Indian Depredation Claims. Hermann was assigned to service on Indian depredation claims. The statistical returns at the Agri cultural Department for March show the cera crop to be the smallest since 1884, estimated at 508,000,000 bushels, a decrease of about 100,000,000 from last year. The indicated stock of wheat in the hands of farmers is 1 32, 000,000 bushels, as against 122,000,000 bushel j at the same time one year ago. A new British industry is the prep aration of basic slag for agricultural manure. The material is pulverized by machinery to such an extent that the finished product will puss through a sieve of ten thousand holes to the square inch. The fertilizing proper ties of this slag are due to the large proportion of iron and phosphoric acid which it contains. The House Committee on Pensions estimate that the payment of $8 per month to survivors of Indian ware, from 1832 to 1842, and their widows, will amount to $600,000. T'.ere were 63,963 men engaged in the Florida, Blaekhawk, Cherokee and Creek wars, of whom 47,520 were volunteers, 1.116 regulars, and 3,000 sailors. Eight dollars will be paid to all who served twenty days. The tower which is being erected by the Russians bn the highest point of the Mount of Olives is already sev eral stories high, but one more is to be added. The object is to make it bo high that both the Mediterranean and Dead Seas may be seen from the top A number of bells will be placed in the tower. In digging the foundation seven Christian graves were found, together with an inscription in Gretk, in which the word "Stephanus" could yet be deciphered. A New York, man has invented a device to save horses in case of fire. It can be worked either by electricity or hand. At a certain temperature a bell will ring, and the moment the bell shall ring the doors will fly open the horses will be unhitched and two small streams of water will strike each horse in the face. To escape the wa ter the horses will back out of the stalls, and once out of them they will have an opportunity of seeing a way of escape through the doors. I he use of Slang. Clergyman Nothing better illus trates the degeneracy of the ago thac tbe extent to which slang is now used. , ! should remark. "People who claim refinement in terlard their sentences with slang words." "You bet." Even the ladies can not talk with out slinging in a lot of sewer language. "Yes, they get there just as well as the men. "It makes me tired to think of it." "Here too." Lincoln Journal. OREGON NEWS. Everything - of General Interest in a Condensed Form. Tramps in Roseburg aro put to work grading streets. Milton is already arranging for a Fourtn of July celebration. The O. R. fc N. Co's taxes in Union county amounted to $7,654.68. In Douglas county. Volney Oden killed a large eagle measuring seven feet from tip to tip. The census taken by the city au thoritiea shows Midford to contain over 1,000 inhabitants. Crump, convicted at Heppncr of manslaughter, was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5,000. Patents have been grmted to Pat rick F. McUee, Oreiron City, e ir heater, Frank J. Crout h, Eugene City, appa ratus for heating cars. A man named Sawyer drodped dead on the Sandy road about a mile and a half from East Portland. The cause of death was heart disease. Wm. E. Pinkstan ws found dead in his room in a hotel in East Portland. The jury returned a verdict of death front an overdose of morphine, acci dentally taken. The State Board of Immigration has is.-ued a public appeal for aubscrip tions to aiu in advertising the resources of Oregon. They desire to expend $2,500 monthly fr that purpose. The Stockmen's Association of Lone Creek, Grant county, elected the fol lowing officers: 8. Reynolds, presi dent; Ed. C. Allen, vict-'presiuent ; J. W. Keeney secretary ; U. 3. L. Smith. treat u re r. James Bran ley, convicted of urine the town of Lexington, was sentenced to nve years' imtnsjument. James Cannon's case was postponed. He was indicted for complicity in the burning of Lexington. All the registers and receivers of the various land offices in Oregon have sent a petition to the Secretary of the Interior, requesting him to urge Con gress to make an ample appropriation for survey of public lands in Oregon. George Barker, a Portland painter. lost all the fingers of one hand by the explosion of a fulminating cap. Not knowing the dangerous nature of the explosive he began to pick at it with a pocket knife, with the above result. Nat. McEwin met with a fearful death near Fossil. He was leading a fractious horse bv a rone attached to his wrist, when the animal became frightened and ran away, dragging McEwm until be was fatally injured. Congress has appropriated $5,000 with which to replace tbe cable be tween Astoria and Fort Canby. For a time it was thought the old cable eoulJ be raised and repaired, but this was found to be lui practicable, as in places the cable was found to be cov ered with sand to a depth of ten feet or more. ArticUs of Incorporation of the Northwest Industrial Association have been filed in the (ffice of the count clerk of Multnomah county. The association has a capital stock of $100,- 000, and its object is to purchase land and erect buildings in Portland in which to hold fairs for tbe display o! mechanical, agricultural, mineral and other products of the State. The little 6-year-old daughter of Geo. Will, a farmer living near Au rora, was fatally burned. Accotn panied by neighboring children, thc- little girl went out in the field where the farm hands were burning tip old rubbish, such as dry grass, etc. Her drees caught fire, and before proper assistance could be given her, s le wjk burued so badly that she died the fol lowing morning. Fire broke out in the upper story of the Eureka hotel at Perrydale, Polk county, and soon enveloped the entire building. The names spread to other buildings, and notwithstanding the great exertions of the citizens and many people from the surrounding country who had been attracted by the fire, the hotel, furniture store, machine shop and grocery store near by burned to the ground. Wiih great difficulty the remainder of the town was saved. The lepers confined at the poor farm near Portland, some ten r twelve, frequently leave the farm in a body, vieit Jrortland and demand money of their countrymen. They are nat modest in their demands generall) asking for $200 or $300. This is usu ally paid, but the last time the Chinese merchants refused the demand and tbe Chief of Police herded the lepen in tbe ss house and induced tbem to return to the poor f irm by promising to send thm a supply of food and luxuries. Fire broke out in the Stanley chair factory at balem, and in a few mo ments the entire structure was in dimes. Considerable difficulty was experienced by the fire department in securing water. The factory wa burned tntirely to the ground, except the engine and dry rooms, which were of brick, and the roof of which only was destroyed. The establishment and machinery were the property of the Stanley chair factory and were valued at about $15,000. There was no in Mirance upon them. Messrs. Mount & McMillan, lessees, had been operat ing the factory but a short time, and they lose several thousand dollars worth of stock, upon which there ic insurance of $1,500. This was the only factory of any importance in Salem, and about twenty-four hands- men and wamen are thrown out of employment. It is stated the ownei will make an offer to Mount & Mc Millan to turn ov. r :he propeity saved if they will rebuild the establishment. Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation n t chains, but chain mail stiength ard defense though something also of an incumbrance. Th power and glory of all creatures, and all consist in their obedience, not in their freedom. The sun has no liberty a dead leaf has 'much. The dust of which you are formed has no liberty Its liberty will come with its corrup tion. MvMkin. m To suffer through those we lore is ten times worse than to suffer our selves. SomtrviU J?umaL DOWN IN ARKANSAW. A fart or th Country Vf h.r. th. Natl Trotee 1 h.ins.lT.a AffaJnst 8trangra. James Land ng. if some change o! the Mississippi has not carried thi place away, is on the Arkansas shore three or four hours' run above Mem phis. 1 started back into the countrj one summer day to soe an old triena living about five miles from the Land ing. The merchant at the river bank loaned me a mulo, strapped on an ole potato sack for a saddle, and the start was made in good shape. There isn't the least necessity tor any othnr sl-angei to go over that road. In order to save all trouble it may be stated that that strip of Arkansas is composed oi swamps, ague, mosquitoes, rattlesnakes watermelons and crows. It was in tha dryeat season of the year and the peo ple were praying for rain, and yet that mule couldn't be got otf a walk on ac oouut of the mud. Twice he got stuck faftt on the very crest of what tlipy call lulls, ami na man t tear bimaell loose until the crows settled so thickly around n that terror came to inspire him. Half the dis'ance had been accom plished when a log cabin was discov ered to the right of the road and sev eral rods off. I wai terribly thirsty and reined toward the bouse, but had not yet covered half the distance when a pa k of dogs broke loooe from some where and came around the corner of the hut. There were dog of all shades and breeds and colors, except poodles and pug,. I had time to notice a bioo.l-boiin I as high a a yearling calf, and a bull-do built something Tike a cider barrel, when the mule made a break over a field of sickly corn and into the timber. Before he was across the field three or four of the dogs had bittvn him on the legs and the bloo I hound had jumped clear over him a he made a grab at me. Right nnder the low branches of a great old tree ru-died the mule, and it wat either to be swept off or to climb off. I seized a br.tnch and let him pvsj from under roe, and next moment was looking town upon sevn ye'ping, bowling, lisappo nt h! curs. Thev seemed to feel something like a man does when tbe sub-otTiee clones the circuit on him as he is blowing up thj grocer for not i.-nverinj tnosa goods, in about hre minutes a woman in a poke bonnet and arrymj a snot-gun on ber shoulder rai across the field, an 1 aa she came near enough to make out the object in t'.'.Q tree she halted and exclaimed: "Shoo! but I thought it was acxin"' "Sorry to disappoint you. ma'am. Pie se ca!l off your doss. What fur?" "So I can come down. "I shan't do nothiu' of the kind? You s new to thess parts, and you don't com d wn till I call Jim. "Vhre is he?" "At the saw-unll, over on the branch." "Well, please hurry an. Tm terri bly thirsty, and these iu.s juitoei are enough to drive one crazy. , "es. I reckon; Lull oeret- koowwl an honest man to take to a tree f The log, will sea that tou don't come dowa afore i bring Jim! It was just an hour and a half before ilie return. -d with ber old ma-i, and he was carrying a club in his hand, l.'ur- n this interval the air around me iru iterallr alive with ni iuitOis. I killed em by" the thouaud. but where one aid down h:s life for his country three ,i t- th bona and n-.snAl til hr.tr f it.The dog remained on guanC iud bvvay of keeping up my spirits he blood-hound tried his jumping powers. 1 was iweive leet up. tie could lumii eleven ieei ana six incnes. le tried it.,over and over again, hut thin was tha best he could do. The 'ull dog ha i aome thoujht of gnawing he tree down, but gave up the idea if ter working fifteen minutes. The ithers sat and glared at me and a.. 1 m ma'Keu their enp anu tasiea quail in toast. When Jim and his wife were tlone to the tree t hey h alte I and she said : "I harshim, up f nar . "Now. Bets, describe him. for I'm too nirhsighted to gotbis pints. How's is ha rr ... short." v y i; "Is he sailer complected" -uv--"No." J,. "Fat or lean?" , i "Kind o' between." Chaw plug or fine cut? "Can't sav." "Skeeters takin to him?" "Right smart. -And he was ridia' Davis old mule. di?" "Ho was." "Stranger, who be you. whar you oin" an' who do vou know in these ure parts?" asked Jim, aa he came a ittle closer. I made him a stump-speech two min ites long, and he turned to his wif :nd said: "Well. Bets ha talks spjarV' 'But he may be lying," she pro test d. "Yes. that's so. Reckon I'd better Cfo'n git the Kurnel." "Look here, but I want to get down! ' shouted. "If these mosquitoes don't at me up in another half hour I shall :ertainly die of thirst. What's the matter with you, any way? Do you take me for a" wild animal?11 "Stranger, there's bin carryings on in this huddle of late. I've lost a hog; 'oe Smith has lost a mule; Pete Col lins' wife has run away; the old man A'illiams took a drink of buttermilk and fell dead, and Bets has bin dream in' f snaix andslch. Don't blame me fur wantin' to know who's who. Have you ;ot ary gun? "No." "Ary knife?" "No." Wall, I think we'll take the chance We'll stand on that knoll and call ofl the dogs, and you kin come down and jo ver way. Beta will keep the gun kinder pinted your way, but it won't ;o off unless you stop too long." ' They retreated to the spot designated ind 1 droppud down. The bull-dog nade a jump, but the woman rolled lira over with a kick, and as I reached -he highway and waved the pair a faro--veil she cried out: "Mebbe we was too skeary, stranger. ut these is awful t mcs for lone wiru uin. M. Quad, in Detroit Free Pro. The fact that fifteen to twenty-five Ueamers a month are now arriving at he mouth of the C ngo illustrates the growth of commerce in that region uncs Stanley showed the importance f the great river. O.ie ocean steamer as already ascended the river to Boma, fifty miles from the sea, and he bost channels are boing marked by iuoys, so that deep-draught vessels nay safely navigate the lower river. Oil tie hotels for the entertainment of xavelers hare-bjen b Jilt at Banana ud Boina. BENNIE ANi NANNIE. Th First ftlppl. oai th. Smooth Barfao of Ttt.lr loans; lr. "Ben Harker, I don't care, you're ust as mean as you can Iks." "O. now. Nan, you're Joking.' i "No. I ain't, no such thing!" "Yes, you ara." "I aw't.' And If vou think vou can lead me around bv the nose, vou'ra very much mfotakeri." "Pshaw, Nan, what have I " " don't play second fiddle to no one. Mr. Ben Harker!" "O. you don't?" "No, I don't, and TH let you know it! you think I care any thing for you) Pooh!" "Of course you do." "Humph! over my left shoulder!" "O. come. Nan, you know you think fin sweet as sorghum." "aov, you think that's imartf" "Well, isn't it?" ."I'd ask If I was you? You think you're dreadful sharp anyhow." "U. or course I do." Better look out or you might fall down aud cut yourself sm arty!" "O. say; let s kiss and make up." "Yes I think I tee myself! Go and kls your dear. $weH. beau-fee-At. lovely, VI nv Jackson if you want to kiss any hotly." ' O-o-o. so It's Viny that's put your nose out of joint." "Jf noe out of joint! As If cared he wrappings of my finger for Vine Jackson or oi either. Ben Harker! You're no more to me, I can assure you, tban the dirt under my feet!" Ala t hey?" No. you're not! Thousht you could twit tn around vourl'ttle finwr as you do her, eh?" "Now. Nan. you know that I no more eare lor Vine than nothing, and " "Aw, no of course not; tagging at her heel all the time like you was her verv shadow itself!" "Why, Nan. I ' "You are, too! you are. you are. you are! J ve been watching vou!" . I thought you didn't care." "Care? care? Pooh! it's nothing to ma Be her shadow if you're a mind to!" "Well, what you kicking up such a row for. then? Come, Nan, you know I love you like all fury." "1 es you dor' "I do. too." v "In a horn." "No, sir. honest Injun!" Well, what you tag Vine so for. then?" r "O. just for for for greens." "You're dead in lova with her." With Yin. 1 O. your granny's nightcap! Yob must think I'm bad off for something to love." "Well, you shan't come to see vie ev'ry S-inday night and shine up to me ackson all the rest of the week. Jfnuirh!" All' right,' Nan; now we're made up. hey?" "I I 1 guess so what you do- K7' "Folks kUa when they make up. I guess. I s p se that s the reason you got up this fuss." 'O-o-o you mem thina! Tee. hee. Lee!" Zena Dane in Tid-Bits. The Bell of Justice. Here is a beautiful story which may or may not be true, but ought to be true, if only for the Ies,on it conveys. In Atri. one of the old cities of Italy, which you will not find on modern maps so the story goes the King caused a bell to be hung in a tower in one of the public squares and called it the "Bell of Justice," and commanded that any one who had been wronged should ring the bell, and so call the magistrate of the city and ask and re ceive justice. When, in course of time. the lower end of the bell rope rotted away, a wild vine was tied to it to engthen it; and. one day. an old and starving horse, that had been aban doned by its owner and turned out to die. wandered into the tower, and in trying to eat tha vine, rang the belL And the magistrate of the city, coming to see who had rung 'the bell, found this old and starving horse. And he caused the owner of the horse, in whoe service he had toiled and been worn out, to be summoned before him, and decreed that as this poor horse had rung the Bell of Justice he should have justice, and that during the remainder of the horse's life his owner should provide for him proper food aud drink nd stable. Golden Days. Swedish Family Names. Although there are many Swedes in this country but few Americans under stand the old system of naming still used in Sweden. I often hear people ak how it is that the names of so many Swedes end in "son." My moth er's name was Eric Johnson and I was named Eric. In Sweden my name was Eric Ericson. When I came to this country I did as all Swedes do when they emigrate took my father's name. This system of naming was never in vogue among the Normans or Saxons and every person who is named Nelson or Johnson or Thompson or any other son may be sure that he is a descend ant of the old Scandinavian freebooters. Kansas Cili Times. A Chicago dealer in furnishing goods for men recetitly reclved as a sample a made-up four-in-hand scarf of rattlesnake skin. The tip rattlo the button was set in the scarf as a pin. and the general effect was remarka ble. Tho skin glistened, the colors changing with every movement. This affair was sent from Texas by a man who wants to supply the market with rattlesnake scarfs and thinks the sup ply of Texas rattlesnakes is large enough to warrant the undertaking. That the lack of will power is the sause of dire misfortunes in some men is evident by the story of a resident of Louisville, who after losing his last dol lar in a bucket shop, wrote a piteous letter to the proprietor begging him to refund twenty dollars, and promising if the money was received to leave the town and engage in honest labor. The money was sent, and the next day the man s body was found in the river. Me had lost the sum in another bucket ihop, aud. driven to desperation, had taken his life. Chicago Times. ... QUEER BIOGRAPHIES. rn Kraals of P.rasltUag Kara. Caaaraasr ta Writ. Mis Un History. It Is well known that the Senators nd Congressmen write' their own biog unities that appear in the Congres sional directory. This fact makes them til the more interesting. The states men are allowed in a general way to say what they plnaso, but there are plenty of instances where the compiler l tbe directory has to do some pretty borough pruning in tbe way of quan ity, p.nd correction in the way of the grammar and orthography. One Arkansas Congressman wrote an answer to the usual request that would have filled a dozen pages of the direc tory. He gave the full history of his n and his wife's families, the char acteristics of his children, the names of the husbands and wives and children of those married, and introduced sev eral illustrated sketches ia bear and bee and-coon hunting. He Introduced a poem on spring written by his second eldest son.'garethe names of two young fellows, rivals for the hand of one of his daughters named "Pink." and de scribed the distress he was suffering over the question of which she would chooso. The compiler cut the 'biog raphy" down to eighty lines. Another member from Georgia de scribed among other things aa inflic tion be had endured in the form of a skin disease, and named the patent medicine manufacture! in his State by which he was en red. and advised all his prospective brother Congressmen to use the same medicine if they" be came Mmilarly affected. This advertisement was eat oat, of course, a performance that cut the Congressman off from a handsome sum. probably, . which be wonld have received from the enterprising firm of manufacturers of the "blood purifier." A Kentucky Congressman once in his biography described a stock farm owned by him, named the horses, gave their pedigree, records and prices. Another Kentockian mentioned, raong other events of his eventful life, the number of fights he had been in, and gave descriptions of two in each of which he had killed a man, and gave the names of the men he had slaughtered. One Ohio man gave the nnraber of sheep he owned, the fluctuations in the prices of wool ia an elaborate table and introduced a strong protest agaiut the reduction of the duty on wooL al) of which was sacrificed. A Congressman ffoin Iowa sent in his biography in verse, and very bad verse, too. Another front the same State stated that lis was liviiio; separate from hi ife. but in a detailed statement laid all the blame upon ber and appealed to bis brother Congre.S:nen to overlook tbe matter, and to the Speaker not to allow himself to bo influenced by it I assigning him to committees You can make a pretty fair estimate of the men in Congrrss by their biogra phies, and it is aa interesting thiug to look them over. Cincinnati Uaxe'.te. Lady (to find mamma) "O, the little boy will improve as he grows lder." Fond Mamma "His papa gets out of patience with him! He in tends to educate him. as he will be good for nothing else." Judge. The Red river fmse over at AVin- ulpeg this year earlier than at any time within seventeen years. TARTAR BOYCOTTERS. Bow Moaaollaa Laborers ta tKo Crlsasa Drivo Oat O.ram.0 farmers, I should not for a moment imagine that the Crim Tartars have learned much of the Irish agrarian science of boycotting through the channels of the Russian press as the Russian vernacu lar is only very imperfectly understood among them. let tbey have devel oped during recent years a system of boycotting the German proprietors in the Crimea, which appears to have been highly successful. The lands formerly apportioned by the crown to thirty thousand Tartars in the Crimean peninsula have through the nomadic habits and ignorance of these people been gradually and easily acquired by the princely and other large proprietors for what may, in these instances be very appropriately termed old songs. These lands have been subleased, in most cases to the ubiquitous and enter prising Germans. All these estates are worked by Tartar labor, and so long as the proprietor was there or a descendant of one of the old Tartar chieftain families things went smooth ly. A German agriculturist with capi tal a few years ago discovered in these broad tracts and cheap bargains a promising field for enterprise, with the prospect never absent from the Russo- German's visions 4 gradually ousting and supplanting the native. This how ever, required time, but the German reckoned on the long-suffering patience of the industrious, sober, ignorant and stolid-looking Mongolian laborer. The result has proved the German proprie tor to have been a long way out of bis sanguine reckoning. n many rases he acquired estates covering areas of from fifty thousand to two hundred thousand acres, but the entry of the German into possession of his estates was the signal for a rapid migration of every Tartar laoorcr and herdsman. The Tartar proprietors who were his neighbors refused the services of theii horses oxen tnd camels at any price, no matter how tempting. The store keepers in the neighboring towns and fairs would not supply the German's wants. This Tartar boycotting has now succeeded in driving the greater number of the German proprietors to abandon their estates and holdings at ruinous losses. The Governor of the district has now submitted a project to the imperial Government for the re purchase of these lands and their di vision among the Tartars. It is further proposed that in addition to these crown grants of small holdings to some twenty-five thousand Tartars the Gov ernment shall in all necessitous cases supply each Tartar family with a few necessary agricultural implements and a yoke of oxen. There is little doubt that this project will not be accepted by the Government. London Daily THE LTMEKIIN CLU3. Brother Gardner's Conservative Kalo7 aa a Deceased llrotner. As soon as Elder Toots bad eeased tn Tng to cough up the vest-buckle he wallowed in West Virginia the year the war broke out, and Whalebone Hon ker and Pickles Smith bad settled on the date of the discovery of America as 1721, the windows were put down and Brother Gardner said: "Death has once more Invaded our ranks. I yosterdty received a letter containing de informashun dat Krokus Desplaines an honory member living atGriflln. Ga.. had expired from airth away. Has any m-sinber any thin to offer?" Jud e Cadaver offered a resolution of sympathy for the bereaved widow and fatherless children Syntax Johnson moved that Paradise Hall be draped in mourning for the spare of sixty days. The Rev. Penstock moved that what was the Limekiln Club's loss was the deceased brother's eternal gain. Buckingham Jones suggested that the club contribute the sum of $5,000 towards a monument with aa angel perched on top. "Gem'len." said the President as he waved them down. "I knew Krokus welL In fack. he am de only man who eber stole my dog. Ho has eaten at my house, an I has slept ia his 'an' looken breakfast in de nighest second class hotel. We shall adopt a xkednle about as follows: 'Wa am grieved dat Krokus has passed away, but would he have amounted to shucks had he libed? "He was kind to de poor, but be stole rhickuns from de rich. "He was honest an' upright, but he neber had a chance to trade hoeses or beat a street kyar company. He had many virtues but dev war offset by many vices. While he would have established an orfan asylum if he had de money to do it. he invariably tried to pay his dues wid trade dollars or counterfeit halves. "While we hope he am better off, we shata't be ober-anxious to inquar fur him when we reach de nex' world. "Gem'len. Krokus Desplaines was an aiverage man. He libed in de aiver ge war, mix! a' de good an de bad till you couldn't alius tell wheder to find him leanin ober de front gait nrhia' on de grass behin de ba'n. He had his good an his bad streaks, an we shan't praise de fust an con ceal de las. If he am better off we am glad vf it. If he has gone to any wuss kentry dn dis it am our solomn dooty to feel as sorry as we know how. Any resolushuns menshnin' his wife an ehillen am so much talk frown away, fur be was too lazy to support a wife an' consekentlr nebber got roar'd. We will hang a cheap piece o' crape on de doah an forgive him de six shillin' dues he owed de club." Detroit Tree Pre. - NOT A BIT AFRAID. The Aarentarons aad Alnaoat aVarvalear Daring at Use U.atl.r Sea. , TTboever knows any thing, knows tha' it is aa insult to the courage and gooo sense of womankind in general to in-si-tuato in poor jokes that they are al. mortally afraid of harmless mice and peaceful cows. Many women wil march right np to the most ferociou row as fearlessly and as grandly as a warrior marches into battle, aad. like the warrior, she combines discretion with her courage, and knowa when to advance-or retreat. I saw such s woman the other day. Three er four female friends were with her. A cow croased their path and the friends began to shriek. "Bah!" cried the brave woman, who's afraid of an old bossy oow? I'm not one bit afraid." Then she marohed up to "eld bossy," who was peacefully chewia her cud w" -h half-closed eyes. Go 'way," said fearless female firmly; "go right away from here." "Bossy" didn't move an inch, "Go ,maj, I tell you; go right off from nnder that tree!" The cow had nothing ta say to this, nor did she "go way." Then a num ber three fool was stamped firmly on the ground, a six-by-seven handker chief was fluttered in the animal's fa;e, and the woman Said: 'Ynn crrtino now? (Vr wv v & 9 "j - go right straight off! Hurry off. you hor rid thing! I'm not one bit afraid. Go!" . "O. you'll be kitted! Come away. Run' shrieked the four fern ties their heads appearing in a row at the top of a high board fence behind which the rest of them were concealed. Poou. i'ac aof afra'.d!" retorted the one or vaunting spirit. 'Tm look ing the animal right in the eye shoo! shoo! Go off! you hear me! golong' you're not a nice bossy to act sol Put out!" Then she opened her parasol and poked it back and forth. "Now. go." she said, "or Til TU kil yon. indeed 1 will? She picked up a stone and threw it with terrific force, and one of the bonuetted heads behind the fence, and also behind the fearless woman, went down whilj a feminine voice shrieked out: O-o-o-o-ht I'm killed! I'm killed! my eye's put out! O-h!" Then the cow walked lazily away, and the five woman soon after disap peared, one of them with her left eye dona up in a handkerchief. Tid-BiU. m m A lady in San Franc'sco had three canaries so tame that tbev flew about the house at will. One sickened and died suddenly. The dead body wis taken from the cage and laid on a ta- b e. and the other two new to it and examined it carefully. Then they went back to their cages and for over thirty days neither of them uttered a note. After that period of mourning was over they piped np and sang as of old. H. i. tun. An exchange has an article headed "How to Make a Japanese Fan." One good way would be to dress- a Japa nese in a lufialo robe, put a mustard- plaster on his scalp, and then stand him over the register. SomtrviUe Journal. - t Rub the tea kettle with kerosene and ooltsh with a dry flannel clotlw SEALS AND SEALSKINS. Where tbe Host TalaaMe Fa - Bearing . Suedee Are Foand. While a great many people are inter ested in sealskins most ot them have a rather vague idea as to the animal,' -' iroin wnicn iney are sirippeo. i every spring, when it is announced I that the Juan Maven hunters haiaW brought 20,000. 30.000. 50,000 or 60,0v0 t to Dundee, or that those who rendez- , vous at St. John's or Harbor Grace have landed 200,000 or more, the prirta which especially concern themselves i with ladies dress are filled ' - with jubilation over the ap- proaching cheapness of tha fur to pos- ? ess which seems to constitute the acme of female ambition. In reality these captures off Newfoundland or in the ; Arctic sea have no effect whatever tm the fur market. They are "hair""', seals, of no value except for their hides out of which leather is made, or for their blabber. No fnr seals in the j sealskin-jacket sense of the term, are ' found in the North ' At- ? , lantie. They are almost entirely con- J fined to the North and South Pacific From the South Shetland and the Georgian Islands the sea's once so abundant, have almost vanished; and nor Marion Isle, the Elephant Isle and Amsieraam. nor even me xnsiam aa i Cunha yield any thing like the n timber they once did. The early adventurers -J who first fell among the "Rookeries' ia these localities seem to have had sueh a glorious time that their less for tunate successors can not help envying them, even at the distance of a centu.-y, thongh sealskins were not so valuable in those far-away days. In 1800. when the fur-seal business was at it height at the Georgian Islands 112.000 seals were taken, of which 57.003 were se cured by a single ship. Between the years 1820 and 1821 over 800,000 seals were taken at the South Shetland Islands alone, thongh. in addition to tbe number of old ones killed for their fur. not fewer than one hundred thousand newly born yonng died in consequence of the de- - struction of their mothers. So indis criminate wa the slaughter that when ever a iual reacha.l tha IwMfh nn mat- ter what age, it was immediately lnKlt "1 h m MraH a! el,,. .iit.l. r-e f t J was soon apparent. In 182 the enor mous herds in the South Shetland had been exterminated, and in 1830 sealing in the South Sea was pronounced a los ing business the old resorts of the an imals having been abandoned oe ' "cleared out, ' so that hunters had ta go lonner aneui or oe content win pronts mncn smaller or mnen more precarious At this day far seals of u.uerent species are picaeu up axi .1 -tr . - - i i t. through the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions as well as along the - f coast of Japan and Siberia, as far a t Kamschatka, the Ktririries and Behr- ing Strait, From California, north ward three species are found. A V; few are seen on the shores of Call-" I'-, fornia. Oregon and Washington Terrt J , tory. and the Indians of Vancouver I ' v land and British Columbia find a mod- ? erate profit in those which they kilL ILH, is. nowever, no hqui me jrrjoiio i , ox - Seal Islands off the shores- of Alaska, ' are reached tb--the fur seal attains its maximum. These islets are leased by - the United States Government to a commercial company, who are bound by their contract, made ia pursuance of an act of Congress not to kill more than 75, 000 a year on St. Paul's Island, or more than 25.000 on St. George's Is land, thongh the Secretary of the - J Treasury has power to alter the rati for each island if he pleases or t extend the period for killing them front aw June to the 15th of Augnsr. and then after an interval during Septem ber and October. The killing of fa- male seals and seals less than one year old and. arc or, g other regulations te - the same effect, the use of firearms oi other means tending to drive the seals away from the islands are expressly forbidden. No dogs are permitted on the islands and no vessels other than those employed by the company are permitted to touch there or land any persona or merchandise, except in case of shipwreck or vessels in "distress The method of capture is to drive the seals into heads or "pods -where hcy are leisurely disoatched bv t&e blew- of a club on the head. London Stand ard- POISON ON THE WALL The Danger Larking In Carol aoalj-3tado Greea Wall-Paner. "Do you mean to say that von ued that paper on yonr bed-room walls?" "Yes, doctor." "Well. I can hardly pity you. A" man ought to know enough not to use such a cheap grade of green paper, es pecially on the walls of his sleeping rooms." "My wife bought it," explained the man. "Well," returned the doctor. "Lpn will know better next time. It is ex4f treroely fortunate that none of your family died of the poison." ' "This man. remarked the doctor, who is a well known analytical chem ist of upper Broadway, to a reporter, when the customer had left his labor atory, "brought some cheap, green wall paper to me for analysis. It had made himself and his family ilL I found that the carpet of the room waa permeated 'with the dnst of arsenite of copper. There was one-quarter of one per cent, of this poison in the piece of carpet I examined. The air must have been full of this dust, which is so fine aa to be almost invisible. It is a won der that no one in the house died from the effects of this poison. All rrMi, n,n-r i. nrtC: Whiarkmm,.9 ""- r I - I "No, but there Is hardly a variety of wall paper, whatever iu color may be, that does not contain arsenite of cop per, which is poisonous. But when wall paper is skillfully made there is no danger of poison. It is only those 1 kinds that are so carelessly prepared i that a dust which is composed princi- J pally of this poison falls of. fills the air and the carpet, to be inhaled by those i who live in the room. It ia not aloaa the low-priced paper, which ia danger- -s ous; often the most costly kind have -' this fault- Very few cases, however, are reported, and the danger is not so . widespread as some persons may in- . agine." N. T. Mail and Esfr. 'r S x -