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iJOB PRINTING. v,.,.y limn avrav itu..l EBANON rBB H. Y. KIKKPATHU'K . . IHibllsher Kfarf 4corliaiuti taf - TKUMH Of SUttHCKlPl'IoK. On Y- . . . t. M 'Htha , , t ...... li Mvutha ( -!I1 m a.lvanoa.1 Jot Printing Ccse n K:ti:.9. St 00 . 1 TKttMS ur AUVKHTI81NU. (I.RUAI.I On mtuar, Si lwawtti.it , . tt 90 Kaclt felvU lUal iiuxfiUou. ........... . W (MHM. Wo) N t.. p-rltn. IS stint, K-.nlar mOoiti.-wiii-nla lita-rtil uptm ll'wtml tarna. Legal Blanks, Buatneaa Cards, 11 U Let tar Heads, Bill Haads, Circulars!, Postara, 9ut$ Xxawaea ta f4 atjrta ul at iewtat Brtuf pa-tcsa. A NOVEL RAILWAY?" VOL. II. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1888. NO. 10. V j) r BOCIKTY NOTICES. LEBANON Loral K. NO. , A M t : Mrftt at thftlr war liatt In MMtl eiwca, cm Sattmlaj av.iiUij, u ur botura tb. lull miW) J WASHON, W. M. tEBmN i.oiHSR. no, r. i o o r.: mu nt. lint .jr vtcnini if aa h . at SMil sVI.. a Halt, Man atrevl; iliiuni ktathiim cmillailj Ii1iih1 w attend. J. J. J HAKl.ruK, H O. - HON H LotXlR NO. Ss, A O V. W, I.ahanwt tw m: Mu trj Aral ami atstril Thuiwlw m Ino ta tha (moult. I'.IUiUlXiS M.. A. R. CYRUS & CO., Real Estate, Insurance & Loan Agent. eneral Celleetlow aw Notary rvblle Haalneaa lrniptlv Attended ta. C. H. HARMON, BARBER & HAIRDRESSER, LKBANON. ORKdOSf. Btaatln., Hair Cutting, an.l Shampooing la tha laMat and BEST STYLES. Patron rrapntfully uliciu4- St. Charles Hotel, LEBANON, Oregon. N. W. Corn Main and Sherman Simla, tw MoaA t of R R. IS-poC H. E. PARRISH, Proprietor. Tables Supplied with the Best ths Market Affords. Sa) Roocna ami tha Brat CutBHaercimi ) AoccnmMfttltfM ft -GENERAL STAGE OFFICE. - I. F. CONN, Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Plaaa aad Biaeelfleatlaae l'inillkti a Hkai t Satire. ILL USDS OF CiSPESTER WORI COSE And Satisfaction Guaranteed. A4-PR1CES VERY REASONABLE. Alaaay al laanaia. Or. G.T.COTTON, DEALER IK Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CIGARS. SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY l(ietawr aad UlMswarr. Lamp aad lamp FUtareav Mala Lcbaata. Orfti. Meat Market ,- -. ' BVIIL, Sl KELLEXBERGER. Proprietara. Tresh and Salted Beef and Pork, MUTTON, PORK, SAUSACE, BOLOCNA and HAM. Bacoi ni tiii always on Haul Main Street, Lebanon, Or. BLACKSMITHS, Lebanon, Oregon. Horse Shoeing and Gen eral Repairing, Ail Work Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction AT , Trices to Suit the C Tim MOT BBS There were lynched in the United States during the year 1887 ho fewer than 123 persona. Sir Morei.l Mackknzik examined ho throat of ihe Crown Prince with tn electric lamp. The lamp is ap pended at the end of what looks like a long, slender pen-holder, ri.d the pro- ortiouately tmall buttery which sup plies the electricity ia worn about the xamining surgeon's neck. A small trout with to heads Las flh I een discovered rtccntly In the Hatchery at Iona, Mich. The head tre perfectly formed and the bodies unite at the back fin. The little fel low ia described as looking like an an imated boot jack, and as lively a wrig gler as any fish in the pond. On a recent very cold day a ciliten of Chaplin, Mae.., went fox-hunting. At the edge of a wood he put out hi hound, which soon dixapiteHtrd from view and hearing. The hunter waited three weary hours, and then went to his wagon, where he found the intelli gent dog snug and warm under the blankets. Yf.ixow or orange stain for wood is one of the mtt rought for in orna mental or cabinet work. A beautiful result is reached by digesting 2.1 ounce ol uneiy powdered tnrmono tor several days in 1T.5 ounces of 80 per cent, alcohol, and then straining through a cloth. The solution is ap plied to the articles to be stained. The apparent paradox that the most transparent water is at the same time perfectly opaque from a certaiu point of view is shown by a si.nple cx rxrimenL Tartly fill a glass goblet with cler water, and hold it a little above the level of the eye and distant oot or more. No object can be seen when helJ juH over the surface of the water, but the wa'er surface appears like a burnished mirror. A series of experiments lately made I y a French metallurgist are suid to have proved tht steel loses weight by rust twice as rapidly as cast iron when exposed to moist air. Acidulated water was found fo di solve catt iron much more rapidly than BtetL From thi it would seem that steel bridges are le?s affected by the acids contained in the smoke of the locomotives than are iron ones. Instruction in the use of tools is . . . i i : 1 1 . i. aoout to d luiruuuieu iu ait ii primary schools of France. It ha i al ready been introduced in many, and hits been ucccsfefully tried at such -choola in ManchcBUr, in England. It is found that the me of tools furnishes an agreeable relaxation. The appren-iice-hip schools, which are the next niglur grade, are taking the place of the uld apprenticeship system in Ger many, Sierland nd France. Cotton, according to a scientific; authority, is t.ot a fiber, but a plant hair. It holds to be spun into a j thread .becatii-e of peculiar twists in each hair shown under the micro scope, especially in polarlied liht. Linen thread may be spun, because the fibers have certain roughnesses on their surfaces which enable them to cling together. Hence it is impossi ble to ma'-e as fine linen as cotton cloth, tut it is much stronger. The first train to cross the Arctic Circle p-.ssed the line on the Lulea Railway recently. Thii most north erly railroad in the world runs up from the Swedish rort of Lulea, at the Head of the Gulf of Bothnia, into Swedish Lapland, within four miles of the Gcllivara Mountains, famous foi their yield of iron ore. The works were begun twenty-seven years ago, ind then were given up until quite lately. Berlin, it seems, has gradually be come the head-quarters of the carved wood industry, supplanting Switier land. Six hundred artists in wood- carvmsr, tne same numoar oi turn ers, and 700 carpent rs are engaged in 4 . . manufacturing such articles aa cigar ase8, newspaper and picture frame, napkin rings, etc. The value of the tnnual expoit of these articles is given as 5,000,000 marks, and this is exclu sive of the cotly Carved wood furni ture, the manufacture and export oi which are assuming large proportions. As Hardy Delonq and hia son Reuben, who live on Black Lake, abont eight miles from Ogdeni-burg, X. Y., were driving along the highway they saw a large bald eagle sitting en the fence. The bird was covered with mad and too weak to get away from them. He was soon captured and put in their buggy. In the field near by bey found another bald cgle lyinp 'ead. The scratched and torn con ditin of both buds showed that tbeie hud been a life and death . tiuggle be tween them. The plan for signaling accurate tim from eeaeoasts w.-ts first adopted by Gro-U Britain about thirty years aro. That country has now on its coasts fourteen time-balls and five other tune-signals, and its colonies and dependencies have twenty-six time-balls; Germany hna seven time- ralU; France, two time-balls and two other li;tie signals; Bweded and Norway-. Austria-Hunff:iT- nlland and Belgium, and the Units I States, hare fire-' time-balls each; i Denmark has two; Sain and Puitujal, one each; JUlr. none. Boston RnSct . TELEGRAPHIC. Id Epilftoe of the Principal Eveaii Attracting T bl e lateral No Th supreme court of Illinois ha funned the decision of the lowei court in the county ' boodler" case, and defendants will have to serve theli Urin of sentence. U. 8. Mershl Franks has been al lowed f 1,301 97, for expenses incurred in blinking Ueusou, of survey fame, from Dunmaik. Ewing Waiterson, son ef Henry WalU-ritoti, editor t the Louisville Courier Joumnl, has teeii arrested on a charge eif aaaatilt with intent to kill Mrs. Irene Uukel. - Officer Mai tin Nolan was shot in several place and fatally wounded a bile trying to arre two mvmbers ot the noUrius Mollie Nalt gang ol house br -ak era in Chicago. A freight car loadenl with powder while standing in the yrda at Mont gomery, Ala , exploded from some un known caue, destroying several carr near it, and killing K jbert Givan, s colored man. Amos 11. Tyler, of Utth N. Y., i aalesman, shot anvt fattlly wounde Dr. V. F. Gilroy, a demist. Tyle went to Gilmy'e hou,. and non tin lattei's appearance begart shiM'ing a him. Three balls entered Gilroy body. The remains of Gen. Martin Beem if Chicago, will be interred at Alton III. The death of Gen. Beem by sui cide, at 8tanton, Nebraska, was a mos unexpected blow to his friends am relatives, to whom the deed was inex plicahle. Win. Spurgeon, who has been rr siding at Hpringtield, Mo., sometim under the name of Hamuel Whittle) was arr strd for the emln'tilement o over f IfaJ.OOO while in the employ of private banking firm ef Btltimore a confidential clerk. A gang of men were working in sewer trench al Yonkera, N. Y.f whicl is sixteen feet deep, when the water pie burs', cau-iug the sides of th ditch to cave in, and quickly fill in ehe trench with earth and water. Hi: of the lahortr, are known to bav been buiietf alive The boiler at the sash and blin factory of J. Hdges, al Manchestei X. 1!., exploded. Wm. Tyler am llarv.y Emeiy were killtd, and Ei iinet-r Thoiuiwon was f. tally iujured A piece of the boiler struck the hou of Mrs. James Mahoney, 500 feet dis tant, and fatally injtmsd tint lady. A vacant frame tuil ling on Foui teenth street, in Chicago, colltpset while a number of a.-hool Kills wei' therein romping. Liliian Collins, 1 years old, was buried iu the ruins an had to be chopp d out ol tha wreck She was horribly crushed. Theolhei had A narrow e-cape. A eyclone s ruck the village of I calonica, III., wre-cking wvt ral houa- and iunumerablo ouibuiMings. Un woman and tlir.e vhiUlren were ir j.uevl, lu. not fa tally, by flying tin. er. The storm came all the way from Freeport, accomptnving Ih evening train prt of the distance and camtins havoc i lonir the route. Fin; wa seen on tho tarin t.f Widow Fnx-xe. near Arlington, Neb. A pos of ciiixena went out, and were horri tiol at finding the chaired lemains ol seven human IxKlie, only il-ntifieel by their stature as follows : Old lady Freexe, Fred. Gratelus -hen, his win and three children, and Fred's brothei L uis. scailert-d in ditl'erenl p iria ol the bam, among the hurst s and cows Emma Althouie, a young woman I Attica, X. Y., who has be-cn subject to trancts of long duration lor son e time, awoke, af -or a sleep of thirty- t'lrvedtys. -When tola il lit-r prt tracted swep slie evince J much sui- prise. During her s'ep her gri d father, residing i i Kentucky, ttid Wnen Emma awoke, she informed tin family physician of the fact, but si e could not tell how she cunio to km w it. A number f explosion, of natura' ca occurred almost simultaneously in Buffalo, X. Y , caused by over pre sure, and created widespread exoi't ment, besides dextroyiiiK iSt. Paul's Cathedral, the pride and glory of tl city. An explosion occurred in the furnace in the basement, blowing eut windows and doors. Flames at on e broke out, and in half an hour the tenor of the beautilul church was ruins. The climax in the case of the Wil- limantic SivuiKS li.siuuie in Connect lout, whs reached in the arrtst of Cashier Royee, on twenty-five counts which indicate that Kovce a pecul ions nave been more rxd and ex tended than at first expected. The indictments allege misuse of deposit i and the making of false entries for a large numlier of notes and bills re ceivable which were never sent for col-1 let tion. He is als charged with ap propii ding ab.tut 35,000 at different time.. O.ie of the largest, if not the largest. pensions on record has leen granted to C. B. Gillett, of Whatcheer, Iowt. the amount being $12,013. Gillett re . . i 1-. ? . . ct-ivrd a sunatroKe wnue in tne army. was treated at the hospital for disease if the eyes, and finally discharged from service on account of this disa bility. In 1872 he applied for a pen sion, but bi claim was rejected in 1878 on the ground that his blindness s uld not be directly traced to sun stroke while in the service. A few ye.ira since his relatives and attorney had the case reeqiended, ar.d the ret uh is an allowance f orr f 12.000 on tin rirst payment, and 172 a month dur ing the remainder of hi life. The rem iua ui a woman wen found in the brush in Sweitzer can yon, -almut three milea eaH of San Diego, Cal.. by Mr. Grubnow, a dairy man. The remains had been shock ingly mutilated by coyotes. In a satchel near by were several letters, one addressed to Miss Annie Cunning hum, care of Samuel John Erwin, Fresno, California , postmarked Ireland. A photograph of a woman about 45 years of age waa also found, believed to be that of deceased. An empty box of Bough on K .ts was found near the " and one theory is that being aa! j ' ain employment, Bhe beer- ; od walloped the PRACTICAL TRAININO. I Iaaorallaa la achnol-Taehla( Now Ualna Triad la N.w York. A novel system of manual training. the adoption ot which earnest men have agitated for sovoral years, and which Is expected to revolutionize Dublio school education, went Into operation on an experimental scale In several city schools recently. lite new system must not be con founded with that of industrial work, which Is also being agitated. In the ower grades it consists of a few simple helps to the children, caus ing thom to use their hands and eyns n the ordinary studios hitherto taught. In the study of geography, for In stance, they will be supplied with flour and water and taught to mike chains of mountains In paste, with rivers of real water between them. In niltli- n-'tlo and geometry the Innovations joiislst of t'.ie use of eiay in forming curves and triangles, ami actual blocks of wood to prove their gooinut- lesl theorems. The toys will not he made carpen ters or plumlMTS or Inm-worker, nor the gii ls taught the complete art of Iresamttktng or cooking, but tool- hops and cooking-rooms will be pro vided and much r .luahle Instruction $tven in the theory of those arts. I he use of the knifn, grindstone and lack plane wilt he taught to the boys in he lowest grade during two hours of n:uii week, and the older pupils w ill in time lie Initiated Into the mysteries of the snw. the vice, th hammer am) mils and the plane. The principles of lovetailing and making joints w ill Im (xplaiiied by special teachers, and in the highest grades finished boxes will be constructed propriy sand-pnpered and polished. Two hours per week are set apart for instruction to the girls In sewing and hemming, measuring, cutting pi r. patterns and fitting. Two hours weekly re allotted to the theory of cooking. esetial attention lielng given to in struction in the who osomeness and d- free of nutrition in the various article if ftHxl, the csre and nse of tin. Iron tnd copper utn isil. the precautions netcnary to prevent verdigris the orint'lplt'S of economy in purchasing food, the means of deiermininsr the whoh'Homciieas or iiiiwlinleaonteness and the nrmes of the various kinds t poultry and the joints of meat. Ample provision has Wen msde for the uei'csanry supplies of mtterial. Knelt cooVinir tttoiu will have a range tnd set of utensils coating and f3o0 will be appropriated for putting up and a-ipplying rat h woikshop w Ith tools. Calico iind muslin, srlssors, needles. patterns, etc. will lie supplied on iejuiition to the teachers in the dress making classes. sl)ur object," said Trlnclpal O'Noil. "is not so much to create new studies as to infuse new interest in the teach ing of the old studies. Manual train ing is to education what the telephone and tetegraph hare been in the ordin ary business of life. "By building ranges of mountains on maps, making geometrically shaped model in clay and giving practical il lustrations of the use of the needle and the plane we shall be able to give the pupils more usefu knowledge in one hour than was possible in two hours under the old system, " Y. T. Evtring World. SLAVES IN TURKEY. fkat Thajr An SVorta aad Bow Thay Ar. Traatad bjr Thatr Owaara. According to Mr. Cox. "there Is scarcely a family in Turkey, which has the means, that docs not possess a number of women and girl slaves. black and white. The blaek are from Central Africa and Nubia; the white are Circassians sold by their parents." The prico of 'the female slaves varies with their pretensions to good looks, the comely ones being to some extent educated and taught to sing, dance and make themselves agreeable. We learn that a "girl under 10 will bring $100, a maiden between 12 and 16, if she be attractive and can play upon the zither, from $3,600 to $5,000. Ii the young woman be a blonde, with black eyes and otherwise of rare beau ty, she may bring from $4,000 to $6, 000. An amateur will pay double that for a choice specimen, well educated in French and other graoes." But Mr. Cox adds that "this tariff by no means applies to the slaves from Africa, the depots tor whom are In Scutari and in the villages on the Bos porus. Tho black male slave will bring $90, the black maiden $75. and a eunuch perhaps $400." We aro as sured by tho author that "the slave has not a hard lot. Tho child of tho slave has a part of the inheritance of the father. More than half the marriages in Turkey are with slaves." Each so-c.-illcd wife of the Sultan, for instance, :s a slave, his rank being too exalted to permit of his entering into any mar riage proper. "The fact is," thus Mr. Cor. sums up his observations on the subject, "s!avcry in Turkey is but a name. The slaves have nothing to complaioof. The white slaves rush to shivery as an alternative to some thing else and worse; only the black slavos who are brought from Africa have (in the course of transit) undergone the horrors of the traditional slave trade. Ouce received, however, the house slave, though perhaps looked down upon as one of under condition, is nevertheless, from infancy to old age. treated as one of the family. After a female slave has worked faithfully for i while, say seven years, she is nearly dways freed by the mistress or master if the household." -V. T. Sun. An eighty-ton fiat car, the longest ever constructed iu this country, is building at the Lehigh Valley at Pack erton. Pa., for the purpose of hauling a piece of machinery from New York to Bethlehem, Pa. It will be three times as long as the ordinary flat car. H. F, Snedigar, of Iroquois, D. T.t has a prairie yacht in which be skims over the country. It consists simply of an ordinary road wagon to which sails reattached, and there is a steering ap paratus in front, from IroqnoU ' He recently traveled Huron, a distance ot J;" hour and half, SUGAR. II I Mail by Mliln Krtra"t ot till km with Any Ordinary Sirup, Among the curious invent Ions fm which a patont has bnon irrn ti I I one to Joslah Dally, of Madison. Ind . by wulch any body who likns m;ipl sugar and maple sirup limy ' renddt supply himself at a small cos. If the patentee's statement is correct, ii is im longer necessary to go t1iruuh t'.ie to Hons and exhausting labor, of trei tapping and sirup-boll ing in order to obtain maple augar. If It should W found that the patent proeesi will also eoiivert Into maple sirup a solution of tha newly-discovered ehnmlent stveni known ns "saoehailno, Mhlih Is stild to be three hundred times sweet r than cane sugar, or the more recant artificial stiznr f Die Fischer and Taf.-U than the very aiiio of transf rmallon will hav i Iwoit reached, and the Interposition eif Con gress will be necessary to save Urn genuine maple sugar industry from goIn! lo destruction. Too patent maple sugar Is made by simply mixing an extract of hickory with an t.r.llnnr, sirup, such as cane sugar sirup or aorghum. Tho pnlentoe saysi T he exiraetls U be obtained In any cm,'- i venient manner, such as making a de cnctlon of the hickory bark or wool, or percolating liquid thrmi rli tlm same, or drawing off the sap fro-u tho tree. Tho bark or wood of the hickorv tree may bo ground to facilitate th i x'i action of I s principle, and I lie x ri ot may be mada more or ) strong by Increasing or diminishing the nuaii tlty of bark or w.hI, r by boiling the extract f r longer i shorter time. It pr1 piling sirups I ordinarily add abmt three tabl spoon fuls of the decoction to a eitllon of h -ated or boiling eirti K O' eotir-o the stronger the extract Ihu lcs die quantity required for fl a r tiring a given amount of sirup. Tho sirup may be manufactured from any kinl of sat- eh rine matter or mixture f sac charine matters, or the sirups ordi n.trily found in Ihe market may b used. The effect of the extract or dc e ctioii la to give, to the sirup the flavor ot the maple, producing a -irup which can not be distinguished fitim genuine maple sirup. It Is evi dent that the flavored sirup nitv b -boiled down and a sugar reso ubling mapld suar in tVM may l ' d need. " Hck nt ft i American. LEGAL RUFFIANISM. WliT LtwTrri Shsalit. Ha Cuiirll tat Trat Wltaaaaaa DwraaKjr. A lawyer who is proficient in ihe art of badgering a witness seldom lack client. He is considerwl niart;" and if, by dint of insolent and - exas m rating cros-qties'loniiig. hi can goad a man into such a sta'e of evi e ment that he contradicts himself, nnd in Voluntarily com mils porj try, lie f at is It oked upon a a "great legal ti'liii.it.li I leettainti nil i ItuM.,! an abusitecouns..! is coufroated. WMl ,,f ' court, bv an enraged lines, and r .- j i ! :.i..:i!, ... i... ...... I Ive to be readily forgo to i. Not long ago a sonvwhat tint otitis mem ber of tliii. bar In a S nit hern city was Iremendo.tsly jtounded hv a witness In a divorci cuso, nga!usi nln m. Ill summing up for tin? lefene, he bad Insinuated nearly all thcniine enumerated In the dcealogu'. - Tint libeled ciiix'n, who was a per on of Irreproachable charac:ei-. met the i ro- fessioual trad OCT at th'j courl-'iom door after the conclusion of the day's i roccteling and lhrahed h m nilhoiii stint or pllr. Tho 11 tgdlaut was ar rested a d held to bail for tha nstaittf, and will doubtless be punished by Ii . or Iniplsonmont, or both; but lm wn content, he Said, to endure any p-nal-ly the law might Inflict for the cujoy mont of so prime a luxnrr.' We ht.ve never been ivblo (o sen why a lawyer should bo permitted to ad dress a respectable n cmb r of society Iti the witness box. or to refer to him after he has left it. In terms as oj probrious ns if he were a b irglar or a pit k; ocket. It i. or should Ik', i!k bullions of a court to pro! let fr mi in sult perso is who aro summoned b -fore it often to their own great incon venience to f irtlmr tho en ?s of justice; and if such protect iou is no; extended. WD hold it to bs littoral right of the oulragtl parties to chaat'it at the first convenient op portunity the inaligiiers and sla uler- cis. L,ei me privileges oi tno I'g.ii profession be respected; but why should men who play the ruffian at (ho bar be exempted from the puni-h- n.ent wliieh we all delight to so t i i fl cted upon ruffl tulsm ill tho sire "if s. r. uajr. For Medicinal Purposes. A fanner living out on the Gratiot road bought a gallon of whisky as ho was trading the other d:y, nnd while he was absent from his wagon sunn one substituted a jug filled with water. B.iek he came next day, wa.ko.l into the grocery with the j.ig, nnd setting it down with a bang he exclaimed: ' Hero's that w hisky ami it's fr m as s lid as a rotfcf ' N. r Try it an I sec!' Tho groceryman look a s ick and jabbed away until ratisfi al th it such was the case and then said: "Well, It's queer, and I'll make it all right That must have c me from the barrel that lsell for mudicinal pur pose .Detroit Free Frcss. Mrs. Bridget Eagan. ot Konaour, X. C is 105 years old, and she says it makes her mad to have young folks of 80 or 90 years to come round and tusk il she ia "foeliag poorly." Man wants but little here helow.and it is to be regret' ed that tho same can not be said of woman. Mrs. Partington, who is a gseat suf fcrer from toothache, declares that .e almost wishes she had been born with out any teeth. Harper's Batar. . Only 3.000,000 women In this coun try have to work for money, and all the rest of the women get their money for nothing. What in the world are they kicking for? T, Commercial-Advertiser. ..- The eolleeiion of the National Museum is tc. be enriched with the heid of a veritable sea serpent The repW.l was capture in the Gulf of Mexu , but on account. "f its immense sue o- u PATENT MACLE Man in miu-air. Prof. Prnrtor 1111. . Kllcht ta M' Pawl bl. rur tha Naiaaa ramlt. I believe that athletes such as those who first obtained mastery over the problem of the bicycle could very soon li nni to float, to ascend, to descend, to ride upward, to soar, and so forth. In a way w hich would very decisively Indicate the possibility of a much fuller mastery over the problem of flight later on. Experiments which have been al ready made prove decisively that a man's weight can be supported by planes or sails of very moderate ex tent not ni licit greater proportionally to his body than an eagle's wings if only there is either rapid motion of ad vance or a strong current of air against their slightly slanted surface. But these experiments have Hot yet been so carried on aa to show fully what can be done when practice In the art of balancing in tho air and in making the adjust ments necessary for changing the direction of flight has been sufii dently extended. Yet Mr. Charles Spencer, a teacher of gymnastics in England, was able, after obtaining no greater velocity than would be given by rllnnin ava a tmM int.UrHS to sustain flight by the supporting action ot wicker wings for a distance of 120 feet Besnier, Indeed, toward the close of .tho last century, devised a method of supporting the body by pinions, which enabled him, after a sharp run, to fly across a river of considerable width. It Is' certain that very little is to be gained from the attempts which have been made to direct balloons. The velocity which can be given to a bal loon in still air is very snialL Avery moderate breexe would carry a balloon one way despite all the mechanical at tempts to direct it In another, let the balloon be shaped as It may. More over, all such attempts are dangerous, for the wind has a great hold on the necessarily large surface of a balloon, and going against the wind would sub ject the balloon to destructive Influ ences. Whenever man attacks the problem of flight, seeking real -advantage from its mastery, he will aim at much more than such mere floating power as the balloon gives at more even than the rapid .floating motion, with power of guidance, which may bo obtained by the experiments suggested shove. There must also be a newer of energetic propulsion while still In. the sir. This might be obtained by suita ble adjustments of Icjrers to be worked by a man in actual flight But while I believe flight to tie possible for man in this w-ny. I considor the only kind of flight which is likely to be really use ful to men to be that of flying machines propelled, balanced and directed by some one or other of the natural forces man has brought under his control. That man w-ho has learned to traverse the land more swiftly by mechanical means than its most actual denizens. h1 to make the w ide seas his highways br 'm.Iar devices, should bo unable to travel in the air. which by natural selection alone has become the home ot creatures, descended from reptilian forms, is to me unthinkable. ItUhard A. Proctor, in Philadelphia Fret. China's Army and Navy. At the close ot the late war between tho French and the Chinese (the so- called biaek flags in Tonquin) a paper I"' ioo Choo, in China proper, said they must change their military sys tem. For several thousand years they had been applying themselves to the arts of peace and to philosophical studies, neglecting the art ot war. That is why the English. French and other Powers could attack China and despoil her unpunished. In continued contact with Christian nations, the heathen Chinee mut turn another leaf and preparo to beat off any further en croachments. Carrying out that pro gramme, the Chineso Government en gaged Major Pauli, a Germin officer, who for some time past has been active in reforming the military system of the Celestial Empire. The harbors are be ing surmounted with forts and gener- j ally put in a state of defense. The Ma jor has founded at Tientsin a military school consisting of a preparatory and a general military department and a high academy of war. The graduates of the latter are appointed teachers in tho lower grades. With a greater num ber of w ell-trained officers the Chinese army and navy will, no doubt, be bet ter able in future to meet European at tacks Chicago AVm?. Truth the Great Requisite. The dismissal of a reporter from the staff of the Evening Sun for reporting an interview which never took place is just what would have occurred in any respectable newspaper office. It is impossible for a city editor to be personally aware of the truth of all the matter written by his staff. He depends upon the reporters, and his confidence is seldom misplaced. When it is, retribution always follows. It is not a light task to collect all tho news of a large city every day and present it in a readable shape to the' public The fact that so few errors occur be speaks the efficiency and reliability of reporters. A great many people think it smart to speak of "those horrid. lying reporters." This is a malicious libcL Reporters are, as a class, men of education, experience and veracity. Four-fifths of the reading matter of every issue of a paper is the work of reporters, and the few errors that ap pear are usually the result of circum stances that the reporters can not con trol. The first requirement of every reputable newspaper is truth. Phila delphia Aorth American. -""Come right out and say what you mean, Mr. Crimsonbeak," said tho boarding-house mistress; "I dislike to have any. one 'make any bones of any thing at my table," "U s quite impos sible," replied theyonng man, glancing nt the fowl ju.t brought in. "to make bones of something that is bones al ready." Tonl-ert Statesman, "Papa, what is a confidence manf" Inquired a bright but somewhat In quisitive youth of the author of his be ing, "Confidence men, my son, are generally bank presidents who have all the confidence In the world in their 1 cashiers until they abscond with the 1 funds of the- nd then bey are ' ' "Miv.a of '" " " PAINTING ON GLASS. IVurli. of Art I lamil br Artlit of Mi. Fiotrt.aiitli C.n-Hi-y. The early windows w ere marked hi simplicity In design and br.llia'tcy of color. Ii tho thr tee nth eonlury an Improvenieiit in design took pine-;, fits nrcVt c apparently supplying lln 11 -in- s. if w e may j idge fro ii "l lie woikt of Wilms de lloueeort, who has let) rnitu ig his dravlugs scores of siudiet of llgures, draper! ,-s and proportion." In thoe days there was less subdivi sion i f th.t nr. a than is the case now, ami so "the glass-painter often ein braced in his work the whole nrt of his pr -ftjssloii. from the first prepara tion of the glass o the painting of the finished wi tdow; at in th cms t of the Alsailan vgla pal iter, J tat d i Kirk Ii I in, who ex -cut ! great works In S rasburg C tlie ilral, (about A. D. 131) ) whern he is describwl as V.ireator faHor vltrorunt, glass-pa er. P.ctor." Iu E:iglan I mm It destruction of works of arts and if records took placa. O casionnl'y, however. ih-y wrj i it fenloiisly preserved, a, for Ins ance. the records' of N -wst a 1 Abbey, "which lay for centuries uuns4vetd in the brass ball of its loe'er.i, now s andlng in the choir of 8 mi th well Minster.' M Nil of the glass was f r eign, es, e. g., tin win lows f r Ri vaulx Abb". which wore sent from Franco in 11 it la 1.1)3 t cum upon the name of an Ki-rl'sh glasi painter, which 1 preserve I In t'lo his tory of Eeeter Cathedral, where for 140 foot of painted glass, nnd other such work, -Walter the G'asier' w is paid various sum. A few year i after "Waller of Eve'er," the na ne of It latrl of York is i-riserve l. aa bar tug been paitl in 1M at the ra'e of twtdve pence pr .foot fir hi paints I glass. He painted I ha gteal west window of Turk Ca thedral. Another nariio occurs in the records of Ktder Cathelral that of R .Ist-rt Lyen. (A. 1J. 1331 ) Men of bis craft wer held in nigh estimation in I iruur time. b;lnx ro ll, vod from hn pools un ler the E np for C nstantin. Theol-ssin aril Valenlinian; anl at Vonieethi mas'- er gl mh rs of Murnno were honorel by high social iriviligos. admitting thorn lo Intermarriage with the Vjnt lian nobility, and It the raik of nolili .-, w ith their titles inserib altn their libro dC oro." 1 lie destruction of painted g'ass was 1 1 nocon'iry grea er than in Italy, where thisb anrh of art was little appreciattML Iudc-el. with walls adorned with mosaic and freicoes. there is more need of pnra sunlight than variously-colored light shining through srlas windows. There was a school of at-liu Fioroncr, at the. convent outside tlit Porta a llnti. wb-re monks established themselves in 134:1. and where, o itil ihe sigt In 129. wheu it was entirolr ruinetl. ibey employed them -e ves ii the pnic ice of varioi a nr s, and pre-eminently in glass painting. "lueir prior pre pared wiih his own bandi tho ultra marine for Pietro Pcrugino for tho fre-coes which he painted on the wai'S of the convent; and for Michel Angel", upon his undertaking the fresc tes on Ihe vaulting ol the bistirse U iaptl In the Vatican." B fore the end of the f iiirteen h century this art had a tainef to eminence in nor. her a and C ntral Italy, but it rarely penetrated tho south. Instances are given of glass painters of S'ena aid Pisa, among whom two, "about the ye tr 1400. tilled wi.h tlioir painted g ass the arcade on tlx. two sides of ehe Campo San'o, for the pi-oerva'Ion of the frescoes tln-ro from tho action of a brcex-s B. da Scarnaria and Lunardo. lie e eta. a F.oroiitine." Edinburgh Rude Anchors of Fishermen. At most of tho fi-hin ' villazos of Cane Br ton. ihe traveler will l: re- min led of the lime when iro i was a so tiewhat rarer commodity than it no iv is. bv s.-eintr a peculiar kind ol nnobor. known us a "killick." A "killick" is a curved cross madt of two sharpened pieces of wood; into this cross are fitted four or eijrht stro ig. flexible saplings, which, b-tweo i them. inclosed a long and heavy stone; above the stone the saplings nr bent Uigellier and firmly lashe.L The whole makes a very serviceable anc.ior in a'l but rockv bottom. Then tnero is what is called a du'ehman." which ni ty bo d -scribed as half a "killick." having only two flukes. Itigenl- us and economical as these devices arc. ihey recall the stone age, and are, p s- sib'y. an inheritance from the aborig inal Iiidian. The name of lulth m an" speaks for a different origin, but the implement certainly has aviry primitire appearance. American Mag. ati.te. A 'solitary fjmalo vi..nre hl dwelt for twe ity-flve vears vi the Blotseborn. in the upper Va'ai. Swit zerland, a d escape I co lutlcss at- teni ts at captura. R cntly, during sev.-re weather, a p isoned left be low the c'.iff proved a snccessfal Lait, and the bird was found d-al. Th body was stnffj.t and placed in iho museum at Lausanne. It measured across the ' wings 83 inches. It is possible that one or two solitary specimens still remain, but it is rpi e certain there is no nest, a id the spee'es is believed to have di apeareJ from Swi6s ten-itory. There is In England a soe-l ty con di c ed by ladies for the promoting of loag service miio g servants. V.tln aM ; pr'x 'S are give a. The Imcrieon Analyst warns the pubiic against the use oi the ordinary toilet soaps aad towel, found at hotels. It says some soaps are made of the cheapest and nastiest materials, very often rank and disgusting but for the odor with which they are disgeised. Some of them, it says, act as an irritant upon the skin, and their application upon the delicate cuticles of babies and young children sometimes results in painful eruptions and running sores. it ears that the towels used at hotels . . , . . - ware not entirely ireeu iro:n -7- ge'rius byjjuwrihg fftnan'1 advises- arters who tn-". . -Ma t i-mia Travallas Twaatr Ml la. Hoar Ove aleajio-Kaill Track. ' I enjoyed this afternoon the privilege . of a trial trip over a single-rail rail way. The line, which is ten mile ia length, runs from Listowel toBallyb'un- . nluu in the County of Kerry. It baa been constructed on what is called the " Lartigue single-rail system. The im pression which the railway gives to a spectator is that It Is a very substantial wire fence. It is abont three feet six inches in height, the top rail, which bears all the weight of the train being about two inches wide. Springing downwards from this on each side are two iron supports, forming, as It were, a capital letter A. or rather an in verted letter V. These are fastened lo Iron sleepers at a distance from aeh other of about twenty inches, the sleep ers themselves extending about tea Inches on either side, and being so formed thai when the road is firm they become so embedded in the ground that no other sleepers are required- In other parts, where the permanent way is loss solid, wooden sleepers six feel wide have been laid. Into which the iron sleepers are fastened with bolts. A guiding rail passes along each side of the trestles at a uniform distance of about two feet These side-rails bear no weight, but are merely extend ed to balance the rolling stock, which it will be perceived is of a very novel and very peculiar construction. A spectator looking at tha engines, the " lenders, the carriages, the wagons nd the trucks, is struck by the fact that no wheels are visible, and it is only upon a, close Inspection of what may lie called the center of the engines, carriages, etc, that wheels can be seen at alL Tba secret is this: The wheel on which, as already indicated, the en tire weight of the engine or carriages hang are in the center, and practically divide the carriage or engine into halves. These wheels are necessarily placed well up in the center of ihe car riage. Although the single rail upon which they run is about six inches above the level of permanent way, the floor of the carriages proper is only sis or eight inches above the ground. Per haps the best Idea of the way the car riages are attached by the top rails will lie conveyed by saying that the two sides of the carriages rest on it, or. rather, oo the framework above the center wheels hang over on each side, like the panniers of a saddle on a donkey. The side rails serve as guid ing rails, their other practical purpose being to balance the carriaye on the' center rails. The center wheels are tweuty-two inches in diameter and three inches in breadth, with a deep flange at each side, and are placed in the usual vertical position, whereas the w heels are placed in horizontally, so that when in motion their friction is lateral. The carriage is in reality borne upon the single lop raiL All the rails, trestles, etc. are of steel, and as they form substantially the permanent way it is estimated that the expense of main tenance and renewal will be very much below that of ordinary railways. Lon don Telegraph. THE FRENCH ACADEMY. II ltory aad Fmrpnmm of tttm WorttTa Stoat! aKaplaaa.n L tmrmry Bowny. The French Academy is a society t club made np of forty of the iwrit gifted as well as famous of the literary men of France. It had its origin in literary coterie which held meetings io Paris during the time of Louis XIV, and it was Cardinal Richelieu thai gave it its unity and purpose. His object was to have a fixed standard 9! grammar and rhetoric given to tut language, believing that this.-would tend to the unification and peace oi France. The duties which the great Cardinal -imposed upon the members ol the Academy were to purify and fix the national tongue, to throw light upon its obscurities, to maintain its character and principles; and at their private meetings to k-eep this objeert in view. Their discussions were to tnrn on grammar, rhetoric and ioetry; theit critical observations on tho beauties and defects of classical French authors, in order to prepare editions of their works and to compose a new dictionary of the French language." The Academy at present preserves little of its origi nal character of a mere coterie 0 grammarians, and as for the !.- tionary, it is, after all these years. n. yet completed. The original Academy ' was swept away in 193. In 1803 Napoleon partially restored it. but not under its original name, which, how ever, was revived with the restoration of the Bourbons. This association meets at the Palace Mazarin. Paris. -Its chief officer is its secretary, who has a life tenure of his position. He receives a salary of 12.000 francs, the society being allowed, by the Govern ment 85.000 francs a year for the pay ment of its officers and the care of its library. 'The Academy is always to consist of forty members, all vacancies being filled by the votes of those already composing the body. To be long to it is regarded as a high honor, the members being spoken of as "tha forty im mortals. v Ambitions authors. therefore, employ much social diplo macy to secure the favor of members, and no doubt the choice of new ' academicians is often made on the basis of personal admiration or com munity of sentiment, rather than of pure .merit. But for all this, no other mode of selection could protlably be devised that would enable the body to sustain, decade after decade, the same -character, purpose and standards. Chicago Inter Ocean. " Daniel. Once More. Teacher (at the Mission Sunday-school) "Yes children. Daniel was east into a dea of lions, but not one of them dared touch him. How strange " Pupil (scorn fully) "Aw, dat'a nuthiu. I seen a duck do that act in der cirkis las rear." 7V- Kits. in order to secure a case against a dentist who was using contraband matches, the detective of at French match company went t 'offender and had a tooth t?Ti- ,'a.kiiiir , t flilt A eltTM.1". - ; - . - -