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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1890)
' . ', k. . c; LEBANO v - , He Who thinks to please the world Is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. VOL. IV. NO. (I. LEIUNON, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL, 18, 1800. S2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. I I ' N PRESS J THE CITY OF CEMS. How th Trntxirwi of Ceylon ar TC- earthrtt knit Find Their Way to London. Ratnapura, the Slly of gems, is the center of a district twenty or thirty mites square, in almost all of which a stratum of gravel six feet to twenty feet under the suvf ace exists. Through out this area pern pita are to lie seen near the Tillages, some lieing worked now, ethers being abandoned. The natives work there in companies of six or eight, and pay a rupee per man per month for the privilege of working a certain allotment, where they begin by marking off a square of 'about ten feet. After removing about three feet of soil the sounding rod. a piece of iron about half an inch in diameter and six feet long. U used to sound for the gravel. If successful the digging is legun in earnest till about four feet deep. On the second day gravel is taken out by baskets and handed from one man to'auother till all within the square is excavated. Should the min ers find the soil fairly firm at the bot tom of the pit they tunnel all around for about two feet, drawing out the gravel and sending it up also to be heaped with the rest, which usually completes the work of the second day, a watchman remains near it all night. On the third day it is all washed in a wicker basket by a circular jerk ing motion, which throws out all the surplus light stone and rubbish, till a good quantity of heavy gravel is left in the bottom, which is carefully ex amined. There is hardly a basketful that does not contain some gems of in ferior value, which are usually sold by the pound for about nine rupees. : Should no valuable stones be found another pit is sunk, and so on until' one or two or perhaps three really j vajf.mble jrems are unearthed, when the work is - stopped and the whole ! fc ' j ., prize. If these are worth say a few thous and rupees, they are kept secret aud only shown to one or two men of mon ey, "who make the owners an advance and look after the custody of the prec ious stones. Then they gamble and drink for some time till another ad vance becomes necessary, and so on until half the value is obtained. Then the party, with the mortgagee, pro- eeeds toColumbo, or Italutara, where S rich Moorish traders are summoned to purchase, and the gems soon find their way to London. The general public know nothing about these transactions, and valuable gems are never heard of in Ceylon, and scarcely see the light of day till they reach Bond street. 'the natives have a great fear of ex posing their finds till they are sold.and they have most extraordinary sii)er-f-titious ideas about showing them. This system has been in vogue for centuries past. It is only occasionally one hears of any native having enter prise enough to" dig a few feet below the first gravel to see if. by sounding, a second bed of gravel is within reach, for they fear ihe expense of bailing out water, which increases as the greater deuth is attained. attnongn me secona gravel is well known to be much richer , lllaa the far?t- Prehistoric Skeletons. .. ..... . -,, , . 1 pretty little village of Auvernier , i the lake of Neufehatel. and not , The lies on far from the town of the same name; '- and here it was that some workmen re cently discovered tombs of the ancient lake dwellers. The dead were neither thrown into the lake nor burned, but were buried, something in the fashion ! of other people, on dry land and in tombs close to their lake villages. This tomb at Auvernier was found about six feet underground, in a hard gravel and cly of the lake shore. It was built of" heavy slabs f granite set on T and covered with slabs of the -ame character. 'There was no stone in the bottom of the vault simply eravel. The tomb was nearlv six feet j deep, a little over three and a half feet wide, and only five feet three inches in j lentrth. There were twenty skeletons i in u anu now 30 uiau "' ' have been buried in so small a place is a mystery. The shortness of the tomb must have made it necessary, unless the people were dwarfs, to double tha bodies together, or else stand them on 1 their feet. One of the slabs composing .; this old tomb was of Mont Blanc trranite, and although a foot thick, fell to pieces on being uncovered There was also an entrance to this sepulchre, built of rock slabs similar to the tomb itself. The relics found with these bodies consist of necklace of boars' tusks, beads of bears' and wolves' teeth, a celt or hatchet of serpentine, and two or three bronze rings, pins, and beads. This was probably the burial-place of one of the first families of the lake dwellers, for certainly not every one could bring great granite slabs from far-off Mout Blanc to build a tomb with, The antiquarians place the building of this dead-house at the close 01 tne stone : age. when bronze was just beginning ! to be known as an article of luxury, j Recently still other tombs of the lake dwellers have been discovered at Mon- j trenx and elsewhere, but,aside from the j methods of burial, they throw no new j light on the life and times of their oo I cunants. The only safe conclusion to I arrive at is that nearly the whole of Switzerland, for centuries and centuries, and at a time of which history takes no account, was settled by a numerous, t .4 ..... '. . -. . . 1 T 1 1 ! . 11 . 1 nniila IIIUULI IUII, 11111 pill m jiii.iu who for their own protection adopted the practice of building their homes in w aters of the lakes, x 1113 son 01 "lire lasted almost to the time of Julius Csesar.when it was gradually given up, the people of the Alps changing their abodes from the water to the dry land on the advance of civilization. From "Tfie Lake Dwellers,'" by S. H. M. By era, in Harper's Magazine. Anticlimax. I walked a cltr street, end suddenly I saw a tiny lad. The w inter wind Howled fitfully, and all tlie air above Tne clear-outoutline of the buildinjralall Keemf-d full of knives that cut against the face: - , An awful nigl:t among tlie unhoused poor! .Tne boy was tattered; both his hands were X thrust " , , -or show of warmth wlthtn his pocket-holes, " " Irfre pockets had not been for many a day. ine troiiser-ter was long enough to hide Vise naked flesh, but one, in mockery world too short, tho' be was monstrous " small, .pf t bare and red his knee a cruel thinirl " riKn swelled my selfish beart with tenderness And pity for Die waif: to think of one rk rounir, soseeminjr helpless, homeless too, Brea-iinif the niirht, ashiver with thecoldl T i-ruaninir a little, soon I passed him by, 1 My flnifprs re. chinur for a silver coin j o niaiie mm nacpier, 11 oniv iot A n hour, when I marvelled as I beard Jlis mouth was puckered up in cheery wise, A nd iu the very teeth of fortune's frown lie whistled loud a scrap of some jray tunel . nd I must know that all my ready tears (11 on a mood more merry than mine own. ' Kicbiird E. Burton, in Harper's Mairuzine. There has "been an 'ws.' ' T1 ' Cf Z cides i a extraordinary the German ath twenty- SPOUTING -NOTES.- Winnings of Runners and Trotters for the Past Year. DOMINIC K MCCAFFREY TO Tl UN ACTOR. Base Hall News. Pugilistic Items of Interest. Noted and August Belm-nt has a crack two-year-old for the Futurity stakes. Alcryon heads the list of winning trot ters with (21,503 to his credit. Sunol. record 2 :10 1-2, UoIh'iI Bonner's purchase, will go F'.at in Charles Mar vin's string. Charles A. Uarriman will start on his 3,000-mile walk to San FnTiicisco and re turn on April 10. It is announced that Washington w ill succeed Providence in the Atlantic Base ball Association. The ten big winning runners of 1889 earned 1392,238, against 71,20 for the ten leading trotters. The manager of the New Yoik Flay er's I.eniine Club, is Clarence 1.. F'arring ton, of Holyoke, Mass. John Morrill, the well known baceliall C layer, will manage an indeendent aseball team at Boston , Mass. The Yale University ami Atlanta, of New York, eight-oared crews, will prob ably measure strokes this year. Entries to the Detroit Mechanics' and ! irers 10,0W stake for 2 :24 Manufacturers class horses will close on April 15 The prosperous Pwver Bros. have won of which in fourteen yean $l,24',0i. j amount they won lo8,71" last season. Mr. P. I. Withers has engaged as jockey J. Heagan, formerly known asj. Caldwell, the adopted son of Starter Caldwell. ft. Fan!, Minn., is spending 23,OOD on a club house for tlieir trotting track and 20,0vX) in purses are to l hung up in Jutv. The constables at Byfield, Mass., stopied a cocking main between Boston and llavei hill game fowls on March 10, and arrested twenty sports, . Secretary Brunnell,of the Players' j Baseball league, has made an appeal to ' the New York State Intercollegiate Asso- j f elation for recognition and games. f The Philadelphia Park Commissioners j j have granted the Vesper Boat Club per-1 ! mission to hold its annual regatta on the j j lower Schuylkill course on June 27. i ! Dominick McCaffrey, the well-known , ! pugilist, will turn actor, av.d he is to! ! join a comedy company. McCaffry will 1 study elocution and he" may make a hit. It is said that more Australian horses will shortly visit l-.ngland to compete in k;.. -..-..-I- i,!..k ii,, n. Victoria IVrbv winner, dreadnought, bv Chester Trafalgar. The Workingmen's Club, of Fhiladel- phia, billiard team has come off f J , h tonrn.ment mt ended, (leeate1 Uiejr or,wnents-the snccess- having optwnents the Kox- j borough team by 324 points. Billy Jordan, the master of ceremonies ! of the'Ca'if wnia Athletic Club, is still as popular in San F'rancisco as I e was ten years ago The California Club direc- ! tors believe Jordan to be a bustler. ! George. Mulholland, the welter-weight ! pugilist, who fought many important battles on the Pacific Slope during the past two years, has been sent to jail for five montliB for vagrancy in 'Frico. On March 21 the Riverside Gun Club held its monthly live bird shoot at Red Bank, N J . 1- red Beals and L. B. Camp- tiell each won events, and C. Ackerman divided first and Beals and A. money in the third event. ct k,.,;a n, M.,l, i Anson's Chicago team did up Byrne's Brooklyn Bridegrooms by a score of 6 to 1. Inks and Coughlin, both of the Chi cago club, were the pitchers. None of u - iirooklvn Ditchers stiape for wort Ike Weir, the Belfast Snider, held a ' boxing show at Springfield, Mass., on March la. Ihe feature of the affair was a glove contest between Ike Weir and Bob Green, which pleased the large crowd. Weir was followed from the Polo Rink by a tremefidous.crowd. At the annual meeting of the stock- j holders of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, 1 held recently, Messrs. Philip J. Dwer, 1 1 John McCartv. James Shevhn. M. F. Dwyer, Richard Hyde, L. C. Bchman, ! John Delmar, A. C. Washington and W. j L. Scott were elected directors for the current year. Wm. O'Connor arrived at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, on Feb. 15, and was given a great reception. At the request of King Kalakaua he gave a rowing ex hibition, which so pleased the people that the American champion was pre sented with a purse of $-i00. He is in the best of health. At Philadelphia, on March 20, the j oult, End Wheelmen tug-of-war team, i consisting of AV. Dickson (anchor), R. i McCurdv, S. Young and O. McUurdv, beat the Century team by 14 inches at the entertainment given by the Century Wheelmen. There was also some good boxing and w restling. L. Gibson and W. Harrison, of the 8,xrtsman's Gun Club, shot a match on March 21, at Keystone targets against William Morris Pack and W. W. Abbott, of the North End Club, on the grounds ; of the former, at Fernwood, Pa. The match was at oO singles and 2o pairs. Gibson and Harrison won by a score of 155 to 1411. Theodore Winters, rvf Sacramento. Cal., lout recently the yearling colt, by Joe Hooker, dam Marian, dam of hm peror of Norfolk, Duchess of Norfo'k, the Czar, i:i Rio Key, etc. He was the first foal Marian had produced by any sire but Norfolk, and the colt, although by Joe Hooker was a very fine one and of great promise. The celebrated Australian race horse Chicago has arrived in England. He made the voyage nicely, is in good health and will be taken to the stable of Mr. Saville. Chicago is the best racer Aus tralia has sent to England. He is a brown horse, standing lo.l hands, all bone and muscle. He was foaled in 1883. In 18K8 he won the Bourke handi cap at Melbourne, beating thirteen, seven furlongs, in 1 :29. Last year he won the Elsternw ich handicap, a mile and three-sixteenths, winning in a. can ter. He won the Caul field cup, one mile and a half, with 102 pounds, in 2:38!, beating nineteen. He was unplaced in the Melbourne cup, with 107 pounds to Menf -' lib poaads. t BAD DREAMS DRIVEN AWAY. The Remedy U Simple-t'roee Tour I. eg , doing to lied. "What with mosquitos and bad dreams,' I get no peace of nights," sighed the heavy-eyed, dyspeptic-looking clubman to a group of congenial spirits, as they tarried over a mid night repast a few evenings ago. "It doesn't make a particle of di tie re nee what I have tossed off before seeking my cowcli, whether It be deviled crab or buttered toast, whisky cocktail or Schuylkill bacteria, a night of unrest is sure to follow. My eyes no sooner close than a horde of tiresome spirits begin to dance through my brain, the old-time villain still pursues me, and everybody I ever knew, together with myriads that I never want to know, be gin to chatter a foolish jargon that has uo cessation till the morning breaks and the rising bell rings. I'd give a mint of money to the doctor who would give me the prescription for a night of solid dreamless slumber." "Why don't you try Mother Mahila bel's soothing syrup?" suggested a sympathetic friend. Or a dose of arsenic?" murmured a facetious oue. "Cross yourself thrice !efore retiring, turn yourself about ou your left heel in front of the mirror seven times and step into bed backward," came from a man who never sat thirteen at a table nor looked at the moon over his right shoulder, "and I'll warrant you'll never see a sight nor hear a sound the live long night." "If you reeliue on your back or your stomach of course you will see all the terrors of the inferno." vouchsafed a young medical student? "Lie ou your side, with your head upon a low, hard pillow, and you will sleep dreamlessly till doomsday or breakfast lime.' x Here was a nine pause, irroaen only by a sigh from the man of dreams, lie evideutty had no faith in any of these specifies. But another voice now spoke up: "Old man, be so good as to try my method, and I promise you'll never want to try another. No quackery or mummery about it. no potion or lotion either; uo explanation, for that matter, yet it's a sure cure every time. 1 used to be fearfully harrassed with visions. My nights were made hideous, but there came a sudden change. I awoke one morning siiprvmelv happy in the viiviiz; II tr .ll.tlr - 1 ,11 lllf, .iiiiu fill o j 1 had slept for eight hours in perfect j peace ami forgeifuluess. w ith not a j dream nor a nightmare to mar my .delight. I wondered what Wats the cause and at length discovered that I hail been sleeping cross legged. I tried it again the next night, and again and again, and will you believe it, ray friend, from that day to this, save once only, I have never had anything worse : than Uay dreams. Ihe reason is that 1 never close mv eyes without previously adjusting my legs at right angles, aud keeping them (Kiised in this tailor fash ion the night through. One night, however, I was so tired that I forgot the usual arrangement. The horrible creatures that jeopled my mind-that night will live with me to my dyiug dav." The dream-bound banqueter looked incredulously, and heaved another sigh. He asked a question or two as to the angle of the leg crossing aud its tendency to lumbago, ami then re lapsed into silence. Yesterday, however, he met his friend aud "advisor on Chestnut street and greeted him uproariously. "Not a dream nor a vision." he cried; "not a sprite nor a gnome, not a friend nor a foe, but a night of ierfect sweet ob- livion. I tied my legs in a double bow knot and every blasted dream took flight- Now, tell me how to banish mosquitoes, too. and. bv George, the world is yours." Philadelphia Record. Ants la Hotel Dtnlng-ltoora. 'See that?'' asked Palace hotel, holding with black insects. a waiter in the up a dish tilled "Caviar?" inquired a San Francisco ! Examiner reporter to whom the ques tion was addressed. ! Xo; ants," was the sententious re ply. "This is my harvest since noon. Every other gentleman in this dining room has collected as many more. The house is literally overrun with them, and has been for three years to my certain knowledge. "Trying to evict these little crawlers has cost the Sharon estato $10,000, and it will cost many a thousand more be fore any effect will be made on these intruders. They creep in everywhere and there is no way invented to keep them out. I don't think we can get rid of them without moving the hotel. They are in lots of houses and nothing has "been found that will feazo them. They are worse than flics, because poi son "doesn't have any effect ou them, jlihV they are worse than cockroaches, because they are smaller. "Do you see those gentlemen across the room? They appear to lie brush ing crumbs off the table, but they an't; it's ants. Every gentleman here has a small covered dish like the one I just showed vou, which he just fits into his left hand. All the spare time he has is occupied in collecting ants. Unless a gentleman turns in his quota at night he gets a black mark, because it shows that he has been lazy, and if he keeps it up he is discharged for neglect of duty. That is one of the things that makes the work so hard for us gentlemen in the dining-room. Excuse me," and with a gentle sweep of the hand he brushed a score of ants into his little box. which he deftly closed in time to prevent the original occupants from creeping out. Putting It to the Test. Faith in the friendship of others is a very good thing to have, but it is not always strengthened by the unexpected guise that friendship occasionally as sumes. A young versifier, upon sub mitting one of his productions to his older and less dreamy room-male, was asked, the verses having been read with great care: "Did you write this stuff?" "Yes." "Where will you send it?" "To Mr. Blank. He's the editor of the W Daily Journal. I send it to him because he is an old friend of mv father's." "All right. I'm glad you're going to send it to Blank. Perhaps, for your father's sake, he will decline to print it." Harper's Magazine. Quill Toothpicks. Quill toothpicks come from France. The largest factory in the world is near Paris, where there is an annual pro duct of 20,000,000 quills. The factory was started to make quill pens, but when these went out of general use it was converted into a toothpick mill. A sheet of cork one pound in weight 1 v5il support the body of a man in water. coast mws. ' t - ---- - Snow Still -Nine. Feet Deep in Tilla mook County. rOM'MKIA ClUNTY TAX ROLL 121,000. HpiitM or the McMinaville roxtofRif. Tlie Mining Situation. Santa Itopa lias three liveries. daily mail de- The l-'erndale creamery Is turning out 010 pounds of butter a diiy. A piece of granite weighing over SrXXl pounds is set over the iloorway of the new SHkane National Bank building. An unknown Spaniard, Wlieved to be! insane, maU three attempts at stiiciile at Los Gatos, but was battled and locked up. Pendleton has to pay for an injury re cently occasioned by a break in a side walk, and the defect is still unrepaired. Two ti niter claim prosjwtors resjrt that snow is eight or nine feet deep ou the summit of the mountains in Tilla mook county. The Canadian Pacific will run excur sions from California this summer. The first one of teachers will leave San F'ran cisco May 211. The gross receipts of the McMinuvillei postotlice show an increase of over 50 I per cent, for the last vear. This is an j indication of substantial growth. j 1 lie entue threshing outfit anil ware house of leoke Bros., near I lenleyville, Cal., was burned recently, ixmn 500); insuiance, t2"!Hi. Origin unknown. The Uot-klin, Cal., quarrvmen's strike is still on. An effort is teing made to i hire non-union men in San Francisco, j but in that event the stone-cutters a ill; strike. The United States commissioners of j public biiildiiikrs in San F"rancis-o have j advertised for the sale of a site f ir the j post-office. Bids will tie oKned April ' 22, im. Antonio Manrico, a wealthy aas killed at Santa Monica. Cal . bv a i train striking linn on a body was carried several on the cow catcher. Cioaolllg. hundred His rards The mouth of the I'mjxpia is dammed up by a flood. F'ive schooners are lockt-d up in anil will be compelled to remain there until the river cuts a chan- nel through the bar, j The schooner J'annonia, l!H tons, which left San F'raneisw for the l"innjna i river, wos obliged to return on ai-count i of the loss of her main galf, which oc j curred off Point lleves. A company has leen formed to con struct a canal from the ea-t side of the Straits of Juan de Kuca across the San de Fuca eninsida to a shorter connec tion w ith the Skagit river. The w ill of the late Colonel J. Mervrn ! luuamie, prewmem 01 me fan rrancisco. x ioriuern laciuc v oaf I ran roan, was ; t t 1 : . . 1 . 1 ... , lomierlv admitted to probate in Marin county, Cal. No itmtest of the will was filed. The tax roll for 1S811 for Columbia county amounts to over $21, 000, and out 01 the sum Sheriff eeker has collected over 1,0 H, which leaves a small de linquent list considering the scarcity of ' money. J Martin Olsen. owner of the liest bv-1 j draulic mines on Salmon river, Siskivou J j county, Cal., was riding on horseback: i over a trail to Sawyer's bar to bis mines, j when his horse fell, killing Olsen and the horse. j A chicken with two bodies, four legs! and but one head was hatched on J. 11 l. .......I. ...:i..r f.i to. the other day. and was alive at last iituiK:, a 1 nil, , vriKUfc iiinirn Hunt j.iisitt-B- accounts. Is there anything that Stan islaus county cannot produce? The Union Insurance Company, of San Francisco, has brought suit against the Pennsylvania Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, to recover $1000 insur ance on proierty of the Commercial Mill Company, at Seattle, Wash., which was burned J line 6, lSi). Captain R. R. Thompson, formerly of Portland, proprietor of the Artesian Water Works, is dissatisfied with rates fixed by the trustees of Alameda and re fuses to allow any more service pipes to be connected with his mains. This is creating much feeling. The murder of Frederick son and wife, near Bay Center, Wash., is one of the most atrocious that has hap)eried on the coast for some time. F'or the safety of the community it is hoped that the perietrators of this brutal deed will be punished to the full extent of the law. At the meeting of the . freight com mittee of the Transcontinental Associa tion in San Francisco it was decided that all points 011 the Missouri river, as well as Galveston and Houston, Tex., shall hereafter be termed river points. The committee then adjourned sine die. Some time ago two men, 'who had been lost in the Coast range mountains, were rescued from starvation by Siletz Indians. One of them, Willie Forehand, aged 24 years, worn out by the fearful struggle he had undergone, died recently, lie expressed much gratitude for tlie kind treatment of the Indians and the agency otlicials. The suit of Captain Jerome Cox, ut San FVaneisco, ' against Attorney 1. M. Del in as, to recover $33,000, the value of certain claims against a judgment Cox recovered in his suit against Charles Mc Laughlin, resulted in the jury awarding Cox $22,8t2. Delmas purchased the claims in the last named suit, and Cox claimed it was on his advice and for hie benefit that the purchase was made. The Orting Oracle gives the people of that place some stirring advice : "This thing of allowing advantages to pass every day without a nod, or a bow, a turn or a move of the hand, is becoming extremely disgusting, and its hurtful ef fects are seen ou every hand. This is the day for men of action and men of thought. Think, move, work! Think wisely, move quickly, work vigorously !' It is reported that the Columbia has raised but very little yet and is evidently holding back for the big flood that is be ing predicted by the old settlers and the government signal service officer at Port land. Immense quantities of snow are reported on the mountains in the region of the headwaters cf both the Columbia and the Snake rivers, and, there being as yet no warm weather to take the snow off the foothills and thus give the tributaries of the Lower Columbia a chance to run off before the main flood comes, the prospects for a "16 high water appear to be very probable, and the man who has a river bottom ranch will be wise if he prepares for the inevitable and has a place o"fle to when the mighty Columbia shtli take posttasien of his laaas. TARANTULA AGAINST CENTIPEDE. onto Interesting Hetties Between Ten omous and Feroolous Creatures. One afternoon last week there w as an interested crowd of amusement seekers in and in front of the large side windows of Knox & Van Haren's drug tore. Several days before two centi pedes, one large and the other small, were brought into the store, and also a tarantula. They were left In sep arate receptacles, and all alive. On this particular afternoon it was determined to see how the animals would act when placed together. A layer of sand, about an inch thick, was spread over the bottom of a glass "i .. . . .! i I Ills innicsty with the horns took no ! part iu the trouble which disturbed the i other two. He seemed to be acting! simply as the referee of the light. The 1 two centiiH'des crawled over him and ! rolled over him. but hardly awakened' nis sieepy nature. ! Not so the others. They circled two ' or three times around the globe and J finally came in each other's way. Kach j desired to crawl over the other and the j battle began. It was short but it was I exciting. No two pugilists ever went after each other with more vim or t;iore apparent determination to do each oth er harm than did these two centipedes. j Their catlike claws were repeatedly imbedded in each other's bodies, but the smaller one could not stand the i strain, and when they came together I for the third time, about two minutes j after they were first put in.they clinched and wound about each other, keeping their claws going Jn scissor fashion upon each others bodies until tha smaller cenlipedo dropped out dead. The body was taken out of the globe, and soon after the tarantula was dropped in. The centipede bad not had time to recover any strength after bis battle with his fellow, and his sting had lost its death-dealing quali ties, so that this battle was also short. The two animals closed only twice when the forceps of the tarantula crushed through the head of the larger centipede, and he died quickly. One of the company w ho had watched the two battles, impressed with the way the centqede fought in the first battle, ventured the assertion that the ceutipede was the better fighter. He ,, ' knew w here one could be obtained aud Mesican.ii . ... i :. . -, i . ...,. ! pel i ton de nearly four and a half inches aiv .ua i vs. nsevrwAiJW ( L t I J i ong. Jt was immediately lroppeit in to the globe, and the tight, which was then begun, lasted for fully three- quarters of an hour, and was exceed- iug savage while it lasted. The taran- I tula did most of the fighting, but after j the first attack invariably got the worst ! of the round. The tarantula fights with a pair of ! piucers, which are thrust out jut be- j tow or from the lower part of the hal. i lbese are very hard, and strong enough to leave marks upon a lend pencil. The rent a ficrhls with tin doll n linn 1 , ... ,.,.... .i.iK .. - .... 1 : i rows along the side of the bod?. ln fighting the tarantula spreads himself i ...Ti n, i r, ,i. ; mauner of a crawfish iTiitil he"can get no I further, springs upon the encmy.turust intr out the I'l ry I ucers and grasping what ever portiou of the body of the enemy comes within reach. In the battle in the globe the two came together for a doiten or more j rounds, breaking away and returning ! to Ahe opposite side ot the globe at the close of each. Finally the two came j together and the centicde seemed to . get the hold he had been looking for, '. nd the tarantulas body was quickly wrapiH'd up in the fold of the armed bodv of bis opponent. Meanwhile the hundred claws of the centipede were working rapidly aud wilh such effect that the life of the tarauttila was soon over. The victorious centipede did not come out unscathed, as the forceps 01 tne tarantula nan pierccu 111s mniy j in five places, from which the black i life lltiid was running. He survived . .... .... i . ,. i 1 !? 1 "V .V'" the battle only a few hours. ian Diego Union. AVanamaker's Story. Postmaster-General Wanamnker told his Bible class a very pretty and pa thetic little anecdote at Bethany Sun day school. "A young and neatly dressed little woman." he said, "came to my office in Washington and said that her hus band had been drinking to excess, and had left home forever. She told a very creditable story, and wound up by ask ing me if I wouldn't give her a 'place.' I asked bcr if she loved her husband, and she said 'yes,' with a sob, big tears lieginning to steal down her cheeks. She said she had but one child, a little girl, whom she fairly worshipped. "Her story touched me deeply, and I asked her If she wouldn't like to have her husband back again. Oh! yes, she replied, 'but he would never come buck.' She didn't know where he was. I promised to do what I could for her, and she went away. "1 made it a point to find the hus band. When this was done, and we stood face to face, I asked him if he didn't want to go back to his home, to stop drinking aud become a man again. He answered, with sobs, that his wife would never forgive him, and there wits no use to try. "Do you love your wife?'" said I. "Yes, sir, I do,' he said, 'but I have acted so badly that I cannot go home, because I know my wife loves me no moro,' "She does, my friend,' 1 assured him. T have seen your wife, and she would be overjoyed to have you come back. You have trudged through many weary hours of sorrow, and have brought it all upon yourself.' I told him to go to his wife and be happy again, lo make a long story short he did go back, and now two hearts that were once shatter ed and sad beat again as one." Phila delphia Inquirer. ' Where Good Cigars Are Smoked. "The best cigars," said an Olive street dealer to a St. Louis Republic man, "are not smoked in New York. That's a popular error." "In Chicago?" "Bah nothing's too cheap for Chi cago." "St. Louis?" "No. This city smokes only a fair grade. San Francisco consumes the very finest imported cigars. The cream from Cuban: product goes there. If a man would step up to your stand in San Francisco and ask for a couple of nice cigars and you would offer him two for a quarter he would feel insulted. A 15-cent cigar is a low-priced cigar, and 20 and 2a cent weeds are the stand ards. Why, sir, I know of one little retail shop in San Francisco that sent in an order to Cuba for 10,000 cigars, three for X. I don t have a call lo .tnree-lor-a-doliar grade once in two 'years. "They run things on a ISroad gauge on the Pacific slope, I can tell you, Philadelphia smokes stocjes," FARMER LANG'S HUSKINC-BEE. the Girls In Seymonr and Derby Keck Have Been Well Kissed. All j Eugene Lang, who lives In Derby j Neck, is a prosperous farmer whose corn-fields hare been usually productive i this year, savs the Ansofiia (Conn.) correspondent of the N. Y. . When he viewed the overburdened shocks of corn a few days ago and thought what ft tough job it" would be to husk and store the ears he felt depressed. He spoke of It to his wife aud Mrs. Lang's quick wit came to the rescue. "Let's give a huskin'-tee." she suggested, and the husband at once fell in with the iiurit. iiuiioiin wr u reui out iu nil r . l t - . . l . 1 1 u4 !' iu t-t uivui mill iiici cntiasicij general response. When the night came the barn floor had been thoroughly swept, clean straw had been laid down in a circle big enough to accomodate fifty persons silling iiirk-ianMon, and in the cen ter were several shocks of corn. The ; barn was lighted with many lanterns, back of which had been nailed to the osts bright new sheets of tin. Tha rows of stalls In which Mr. Lang kept his cows snd horses faced toward the ! roorii and the meek-eyed tattle stuck their noes over the mangers and chewed their cuds contemplatively. At 8 o'clock the company were seated around the cornstalks, anil Mr. Lang,' mounting a box, laid down one single rule. The first red found by a young man entitled him to kiss all "the pretty girls. The second red gave the privi liege of kissing only a certain number, and the third a less nnmber, and so on. The same rule applied to the girls if they cared to indulge. Then the huskin began. Jt was half and hour before the first red came to view, and it was a Seymour youth who got it. The first intimation that any of the company had that a red ear had been found w as a sudden sweep of the arms around the girl next to him and a re sounding smack full on the lips. Then he held up the ear and collected the forfeits. That is he tried to, but there was more solid work for him in the next half hour than he had ever done in a day before, and there was no corn husked'in that time either. The girls screamed an giggled, then ran, with the lucky Seymour youth, after them. It was such fun that even the cows laughed. When the second ear was found the scene was repeated. The fourth and fifth and sixth came, and then the girls gave up and submitted with better grace. After the corn was husked the floor space was cleared again of everything, and the fiddler tuned up her strings i and began to grind out "Money Musk with strength of feeling that set every ; foot in the room to keeping time. It ! was the jolliest, happiest, heartiest : dance that Derby ever saw. During j an interval supper was announced, ana i the baked leans, boiled ham. cold roast ! turkey and chicken, the cake, and the f 1 n tww-1 i rn t tniilfA hin all wactio.1 ilnwn """"I'"7' .-" ' with sweet cider, filled the measure to the giiests happiness f 1' profitable party for Mr. Lang. Ho got Ins corn husked, his ?uP.IM'r cost l,!m but 1,,t,e- but above all he is to-dav the most popular farmer in ! this part of New Haven county. Secret of Gordon's Power. What was the secret of his wonderful power. Much of it lay in his fearless ness, much in his swiftness of thought and action, and much in what the Yan kee would call his capability in all things, small as well as great. He could ride, shoot and tinker and ' conduct campaigns and negotiate trea ties, all with unhesitating self-reliance. As a matter of course such a man takes command. Gordon never lacked opportunities to show these qualities. When steaming quietly up the Nile a monkey with which he was playing fell overboard. In a twinkling Gordon was in the water after him, writes Colonel II. G. Prout in Scribner't. By good luck the crocodiles got neither Gov ernor General nor monkey. When a nagger was being hauled up the rapids some way south of Lado the cable got away from the men on the bank and the vessel was swept on the rocks. No one would volunteer to go out and pick up the cable, and Gordon lumped into a skiff and went alone, f o bo sure, the skiff upset and the Governor General sat some hours drip ping on a rock, but his men had a les son. On another occasion the garrison of one of the stations was thrown into much anxiety by seeing Gordon alone, rowing across the river to tho east bank, which in that region was occu pied by intensely hostile negroes. He landed, made his boat fast and tried by a display of beads and wire to in duce the savages to come and talk with him. They simply sat on the 'hillside and scowled. Finally Gordon shot a hippo potamus and paddled back, leaving the beads on the shore and a fine feast of hippopotamus meat in the rushes. Another man would have been killed. I was amused to see on the table at Khartoum handsome spoons and forks with his crest half effaced by rough scratches. I could fancy Gordon, vexed by some unusual flntnmery, seizing a rat-tail file and proceeding to put out of his sight one more vanity. It was not that he was not proud of his family. On the contrary, ne could pay a man no greater compliment than to say: "You are like a Gordon;" but all the marks and signs of rank sometimes became intolerable to him. The Home of a Gypsy Prince. A modest brick house standing a lit tle way back from the street, in a suburb of the city of Dayton, Ohio, is the property and part of the year the home of a gypsy of wide repute, the heir apparent to a throne in Little Egypt; and here, and hereabout, is the rendezvous of a numerous band or tribe. This settlement is widely known as the home of some of the richest and most influential families of gypsydom, among them the Stanleys, of whom the present head. Levi, is called the king, This Levi Stanley is a short, heavy-set man of something over 70 years. He is still strong, and active, with a ruddy cheek and bright eye. Much of his time is passed with the traveling par ties, while his oldest son, Levi, Jr., a stalwart, handsome man of 60, as sumes much of the active direction of affairs, looking after property, etc Lying scattered about to the north of Dayton are many fine farms owned by them. At the present most of the farms are in the bands of tenants, for however near the gypsy may be to the primeval man he has not yet developed a strong liking for the labor of tho primeval occupation, A pure white English sparrow dwells with a colony of browns in Hartford Conn. . SOMETHING ABOUT CHEESE. Conclusions That Were Reached at a cent Impressive Testing-Match. One of the gustatory surprises which awaits the daring epicure is Limburger cheese, say s the New York Herald. Kot the rank, ill-smelling imported eheese known by that name, but a very fine quality, which the writer discovered is made in the northern part of this state and also in Ohio. At a recent cheese-tasting this cheese was served and compared with a num ber of other fancy cheeses. It was pronounced decidedly excellent. This decision is surprising, from the fact that two of the party were well-known German gastronomers. They found it difficult to believe that our American cheese-makers were so far advanced as to hm able to make a better and more palatable Limburger than the imported article. Another discovery was made. This was that beer was the only bever age to drink with Limburger. This decision was rendered after sampling the cheese with Rhine wine, claret, and champagne. One of the strange cheeses introduced was called fromage Raffine. It bails from Canada, and the sooner it re crosses the border the better. It would make the loudest aromatic cheese on earth green with envy. Oh, what a compound! One of the gentlemen who was present said to the waiter: "I or goodness sake, take it away and give the Limburger a chance. " After several experiments the com mittee decided that either Rhine wine. Moselle, or on a pinch Burgundy might be drunk with Swiss cheese. The general impression is that beer is the proper drink with this cheese. Another discovery made was that champagne tasted most appropriate with Roquefort and Camembert cheeses. A so-called American Camembert cheese was tried, but it was simply a cream cheese made in the shape of the genuine article. We have not as yet made a Camembert cheese, although Americans succeed in imitating nearly all the other imported cheeses. The genuine Camembert was voted the prince of cheeses. It resembled liquid velvet, it was so soft. This par ticular cheese came from Normandy, where the Camembert is made in all its unsurpassed excellence. The method of manufacture is a sim ple process, provided the milk used is rich and contains a large proportion of caseine, otherwise the cheese will be hard and tasteless. After the testing of the cows milk it is warmed in a water bath until it Maiihpa ehnnt. QC1 HflemM Vo li ra nKaif the rennet is then added and gently but inorouguiy mueu wiiu oiiik. n is al lowed to stand nearly an hour until tha curd is qnite soft and smooth, then it is transferred to the molds. The prepa ration of the curd is a matter of the ut most importance. When the curd is sufficiently dry tha molds are placed in a draimug-room. Air is admitted through numerous small windows, which are opened or closed from time to time, according to the direction of the wind or the change 01 temperature, in winter this room is heated to the proper temperature. When the cheeses are dry enough they are removed to the ripening-room, or cave, where they receive still greater attention. The fermentation, which perfects the cheese, must progress regularly to insure success. The cheese expert of the party in formed us that the delicious Roquefort cheese was made of sheeps' milk. The average diner believed it was made of goats' milk. The green, fungoid growth in Roque fort, and for that matter in Gorgonzola, is formed by first mixing flour and vinegar together and allowing it to be come moldy, then adding a sprinkling of the mold to the curd. , He Cut It Down. A telegraph editor's story: One night one of our force was sick and we had to supply his place with a sub from the city editor's force. He was also a sub in that department. He had come in "to learn to be a journalist," A 1.600-word special was coming in and it was turned over to him to edit. The night editor was passing in and out and was watching the matter pretty closely, because the counting-room had sent up word that an extra page of "ads" would be sent in, and the city editor bad sent word that he had a "general alarm," "two shooting scraps." "a suicide." and "an -elopement," The night editor asked the sub what he had in hand. The sub told him. "How many words?" asked the night editor. "Fifteen hundred." "Cut her down to 600." About two hours later a man from the proof-room came in and told the night editor that the article which he held in bis hand ended somewhat abruptly and that it had a dash marked at the bottom indicating that it was finished. The night editor looked at the proof and took it to the sub, who looked at it and explained innocently that he had followed instructions. And so he had. He had counted 600 words from the beginning and thrown the remainder of the special in the waste-basket. Chicago Tribune. , Getting Acquainted. "This." said the man who was travel ing on the cars, as he opened his value and took out a bottle, "is a mixture called Dr. Jenkinson's Indispensable. I never travel without it. It ia the best and most agreeable tonic now on the market, by all odds." T am not so sure about that," re plied the man who was occupying the seat with him. "I have here" and he opened his own valise and took out a bottle "a tonic called Di. Ry hold's Extract, which I have used for several years and consider the very best pre paration ever made. No man onght ever to" I have no doubt it is a fair good medicine in its way," broke in the other, "but if you had ever tasted Dr. Jeukinson's Indispensable you would throw that stuff of yours away." "I know all about Dr. Jenkinson's nostrum, sir. 1 know exactly what it's made of." "You do, hey?" "Yes, sir, and I know Dr. Rybold's Extract is made from precisely the same formula, only from pure mate rials instead of the vile and adulterat ed ingredients old Jenkinson uses." "It's made from the same formula, iait?" "Exactly the same." "You lying old ignoramus, how do you know what its made of?" "How do I know, you insulting old scoundrel? Tm Dr.Rybold, sir!" "I am glad I have found you you infernal villain. I am Dr. out. EASTERN NEWS. Powder Works at Baj Center, Ne York, Blown Up. RIOT AT STOOP'S FERRY ESDS FATALLY Clfariig Hstse Eirbaigr. DcaUk f 11 ld LseBotiT Eagiaeer. Stanley has left Cairo for Brussels. Rich coal discoveries have been made in Qoeretaro, Mexico. r Germany has accepted England's invi tation to tiie international fishery con ference. .... George Francis Train'telegraphs from Nagasaki, Japan, that he will reach Brindisi, Italy, May v. :-i"TV ' Winslow Jndson. president of the St. Joseph, St. Louis A. Santa Fe railroad, died at St. Louis of paresis. - Senator and Mrs. Dolph were among the guests at the elaborate Eaiter break fast given by Secretary and lira. Noble. The steamer City of Paris was found not to be as badly damaged as at first supposed, and left Queenstown lor Liver Pool. The powder works at Bay JCbeater, N. Y., blew op. Two men were killed, and great damage was done to houses in the vicinity. At St. Thomas, Quebec, ths merdsrer Morin, who was convicted of killing his Eartner, Roy, has been sentencedto be anged May 16. J. S. Morgan! London Drexel, Morgan 4 Co., who by leaping from a carriage, pected to live. manager of was injured is not ex- W. D. Prentice, at one time a noted desperado, was shot and killed on a ranch near Virginia, Nev., by Joba Tay lor, ow ner of the place. Tlie United States grand jury has in dicted P. J. Ciaaseen, of the Sixth Na tional Bank of New York, for embesale ment. The trial will occur May 7. A verdict for 1,013,400 francs damages and tlie costs of the action bas been re turned in the suit of Gibbs A Sons against the Societe des Metaax of Paris. Clearing houses exchanges In tha United States and Canada were 983, 982,155, decrease 12.2 per cent, as Cora pared with the corresponding week last year. Frank McMahon, a locomotj-fi re man, was run over and killed at Mat an, - titan. He leaves a young- wile at Ter race, Utah. He had been married oniy two months. A raft containing twenty negroes who were trying to keep from the flood, cap siied in the mouth of the Rogue river, Mississippi. Only thirteen reached the shore alive. Arrests of students continue to be made daily in the university towns o Russia. The students are s.JjB'ftiiill determined to bring their agitation to a successful U rminus. The record of the court-martial of Lieutenant Steele has been received by Gen. Schofield and referred to Acting Judge-Advocate General Lieber for ex amination and report. A riot occurred at Stoop's Ferry, near Pittsburg, between Italian laborers and the keepers of two boarding houses. Michael Bell bas died of his injuries and Antonio Kef so cannot live. King Menelek, of Abyssinia, author izes Italy to represent him at tho Brus sels anti-slavery congress, affirming the intention of Ethiopia to co-operate with other nations in suppression of the slave trade. - - The Russian government bas prohib ited the circulation in Rnsaia of Hat ton's coming novel entitled "By Order of the Czar," because it deais with recent events in connection with nihilism and Semitism. The Dortmudt (Germany) strikers made an attack with stones upon a num ber of workmen leaving the Rbeinelbe pit. The disorder was suppressed by gendarmes and many of the strikers were arrested. A large yacht was sighted beading for Toronto, Ojunder full sail, April 4L Later she capmi and all the crew werr lost. The name Idler wasr"paSfiXed on the stern, bnt none of the Toronto yacht men knew her. MeviTJe II. Pickthall, who mysterious ly disappeared about the time Burchell and bis party arrived in Canada, and who was supposed to be in some way connected with Burchall, bas arrived at Woodstock, Ont. The Iowa senate has passed a honse joint resolution asking congress to pass laws for the protection of miners in tlie territories ; also asking that the present bill for refunding the Union Pacific in debtedness be not passed. . Three negroes at Iron dale, Alabama, were caught stealing railroad iron, and in resisting arrest were shot dead by Deputy Sheriff Fortenberry. City Mar shal Endland was shot by ote of tho ne groes and will probably die. Bonlanger, LaisBant, Deroulede, La guerre, Rochefort and thirty-one other members of the Boulangist committee held a conference at Jersey April 4, Up on the conclusion the committee gave a grand breakfast to Brulanger. Wm. Galloway, who ran the first loco motive on the Baltimore & Ohio road. s dead, in Baltimore. He retired ia l r and was probably th ; oldest locomotive engineer in the world. At the time of hia death he was 87 years Id. It is reported that the French govern ment has ordered a census of the Ger mans residing in the suburbs of Paris. It is understood the step ia taken so that German residents with means of sub sistence may be sent to Germany. , The supplementary election inr Bhode 1 Island was under the old voting systeT -not under the new ballot law. Ih L enacted last week making the new ballot aw apply to suplementary elections eached the secretary of state too late. Three of the largest marble manufac turers of Boston have notified employes that on June 1 they will pay ten hours' wages for nine hours labor. The mar ble cutters believe the demands for tho nine-hour day will be generally granted I without recourse to a strike. A big landslide on thesA-Iiore road, east of Saint Johnsviile, New York wrecked a freight train, and the ei . -j neeisfireman and two other train ". -