T EBANON J 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. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL, 25, 1890. 82.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANC EXPRESS Tr , . . : COLD NUCGETS. History of th Most Important Fonnd In California. The first nugget of any great Import ance, and which played a prominent part in the early history of California, was found by a young soldier of Steven son's regiment, ia the Mokelutune River. while drinking from that stream. He hastened to San Francisco and placed his prize in the hands of Col. Mason for safety, after which it found its way to New York, where It fanned the smouldering flame and caused the nations to realize the importance of California. This nugget weighed be tween twenty and tweuty-tive pounds. In November, 1854, a mass of gold was found at Carson Hill, Calaveras County, which weighed 195 pounds troy. This is the largest piece of gold ever found in the State. Several other nuggets, weighing from six to seven pounds, were found in the same locali ty. On the 18th of August, 1860, a large piece of gold was taken from the Monumental Quartz Mine.Sierra Coun ty, which weighed 1,596 ounces trov. The nugget was purchased of the owner by R. B. Woodward, of San Francisco, and exhibited at Woodward's Gardens. Mr. Woodward paid $21,636.52 for it, and afterwards melted the nuo-o-et, realiziug $ 17.654.94 from it. e A Mr7 Strain found a large slab shaped gold quartz nugget near Knapp ranch, half a mile east of Columbia, Tuolumne County, which weighed fiftr pounds avoirdupois. After crushing aud melting, the gold was valued at $3,500. In 1849 a nugget was found at Sul livan's Creek, Tuolumne County, that w eighed twenty-eight pounds avoirdu pois. ! In 1856, at French Ravine, Sierra J vuuuy, a uns" was iouna which contained considerable quartz, but yielded $10,000. while another was fouud at an earlier date in 1851. the gold from which was valued at $8,000. In the year 1867. at Pilot Hill, El Dorado County, a boulder of gold quartz was found, w hich yielded in uld $8,000. ' Several other boulders of smaller size were found in the same claim. The boulders were found in what ia known as the Boulder Gravel Claim, immedi ately west of the Pilot Hill Post-Oflice, . A Mr. Virgin and others found a nugget on Gold HilL Tuolumne Countv. which weighed 380 ounces, and wis valued at about t6.50O. In 1854 a mass of rold wein-hino- so ounces and valued at $6,625 was found at Columbus, luolurane County. It has been reported that a nuet weighing 266 ounces and valued at$5, 000 was found at Minnesota, Sierra County. In 1850 a piece of gold quartz was found in French ravine. Sierra County, which contained 263 ouuces of gold worth $4,893. It has been reported that a French man found a nugget of grold in Sorina- uuivu, vuiuuiuia, luoiumne vountv. wnicn was nearly pure gold, bei no worth more than $5,000. The tinder became insane the next day and was sent to Stockton. The French Consul recovered the nugget, realized its value, and 6ent the money to the finder's family in France. " On "the 4th day of A',ist, 1858, Ira A. Willard found on fcoe west branch of Feather River a nugget weighing fifty-four pounds avoirdupois beforehand forty-nine and a half pounds after melt ing. -A gold nngget was f jund. date not jrTven, near Kelsev. El Dorado County, which sold for $4,700. In 1876 J. D. Colgrove, of Dutch Flat, Placer County, found a white quartz boulder in the Polar Star hy draulic mine which contained $5,760 worth of gold. It has been reported that a nnirset of pure gold was found in the middle fork of the American River, two niiies from Michigan Bluff, in the rear 1864. which weighed 226 ounce-, and was sold for $4,204. Another account of this nug get slates that the weight was 17 ounces. Virginia (Aey.) Vtirutiice. A Story "About Bismarck.. An advance copy of the third volume of H. V. Sybel's "History of the Ger man Empire," has been received. Pro bably the most interesting chapters refer to the relations between Prince Bismarck and Count Reehberg. the Prussian and Austrian Ambassadors respectively at the German (Frankfort) Diet. PrI.ice Bismarck (then Herr von Bismarck Schonhausen) soon found out that Count Reehberg was hot-tempered and passionate, but in the main honor able and good-natured. Count Rech Wrg. on his side, cordially disliked Prussia and its astute representative, but did his best all the same to keep on amicable terms with his colleagues. Both officially and socially there "was, however, plenty of friction between the two. On one occasion things came to such a pitch that Count Reehberg, entirely losing his self-control, passion ately exclaimed: 'One of my friends shall wait on yoa in the mornina-.n Why all this unnecessary delay?" Herr Ton Bismarck coolly replied. "In all probability you have a pair of pistols handy. Let us settle the matter immediately. While you get the things ready, I shall write a report about the whole transaction, which, in case I am killed, I request you to forward to Berlin." Both set about their work. When Bismarck had finished, he hand ed the sheet to Count Reehberg. re questing him to examine the same. Kech berg's passion had in the mean time given way to sober reflection. After having perused the report he ' said: "What you say here is quite cor rect; but is it "really worth while to - tight a duel for such a reason?" That is exactly my opinion." was Bismarck's answer, and the matter ended. tall Mull Gazelle. A New York society lady is said to .have attended a dance there recently, left the next morning to attend two balls on successive evenings in Boston, and would leave immediately to attend a ball in Philadelphia the next night. Four balls in three cities in the course of four day 8 would seem to be the height of fashionable follv. The Russian Winter Palace. The huge Winter palace at St. Petersburg is, with the exception of the Vatican and Versailles, the largest palace in the world intended for a resi dence, and though tasteless and rococo has a certain grandeur from its immen sity. Like all the Russian palaces, the Winter palace is a mixture of 'splendor and shabbiness, luxury and discom fort. In going over it visitors see everything gorgeously adapted for statu ceremonials, but wonder how and wliere the imperial family can live. The k hole of the splendid interior was lonsumed by fire in 1837, ) ut speedily r sttrd. It is said that not less than 1 5,000 persons have fre- - fnently had a abitauon ia too Wintr Uaa. 1- EASTERN" NEWS. Ohio and Mississippi Floods will Cause Immisratioa lo the Northwest. CONSOLIDATION OF WHITE LEAD HUMS. Omaha Coachman Commits Suicide. li la rose and Starch Trust. The lower Mississippi is the highest ever known. The Red River against revision. Presbytery otes It i stated that the German reichstag will open n Slay . A German Evangelical in Chicago with a row. church opens Duluth riparian case are decided hy tne stale supreme court. Striking plumbers in Chicago talk of starting co-operative aho(s. Arkansas City, Ark., has 8,000 ople nomeiesa from the floods. Cnla ia excited over prospective nexation to the United States. The admission of Idaho ia decided on by the Republican of the house. up- The Steele court martial results in a Sentence of reprimand and confinement. The lease of th Wisconsin Centra) by the Northern Pacific is formally an nounced. The Chicago lioard of trade is power less thus far in preventing quotations from leaking out. Assistant Post master General Clark son admits the complete tailure of pro hibition in Iowa. Senator Cnllom introduces a make thintis more unpleasant Mormons than ever. bill to for the Two thousand five hundred Utah Mor mons are to migrate to the Canadian Northw 'St this spring. Horaiv Smilrr, a New Ytrk piinter, shot and killed his wife because she re fused to live with him. A Chicago paper makes very If rave I charges against the citv authorities in I wnection with gambling A syatein of messenger pigeon stations- is hemg established throughout Canada to assist in detecting poacher. The Brazilian bishops will shortly is sue a pastoral refusing to consent to the separation of cl.urch and state. As the result of a dispute in a restau rant at iVhrecziii. Hungary, forty chal lenges to duels have been issued. A bouse committee will visit Southern states and investigate charge of corrupt practices made against federal officials. The two steamboat companies operat ing between St. Paul and St. Louis make an agreement touching the season's bus iness. The Massachusetts hoiie has adopted without division a bill making nine hours a legal day's work in state and municipal employment. Nine hours without a reduction in wages has heen granted the 2,200 work men employed in twelve of the marble factories in Boston. It is predicted that the Ohio anil Lower Mississippi river floods will cause a large immigration from the inundates! districts to the Northwest. Sixteen person are poisoned in Ar kansas hy eating wild turkey that had eaten bait impregnated with strychnine. Twelve will jrobably die. Owing to the prevalence of smallpox at I'invns the American squadron of ev olution will not go to Athens. The I -qaadron remains at Corfu. ' homestead of ! Chappanaqua, j The htiue on the old Hora-e tJreeiv near N. ., and otvtipied by his daughter, has heen destroyed hy fire. The trust ie-ently founded for the pur jiose of controlling" glucose and starch lias purchased the extensive works of the Voorhees March company in 1 'anvil le. 111. The crusaders excitement at Farming ton, Mo., is still at fever heat. The two wrecked saloons will nt Ih reopened. The women destroyed fifty-five barrels and eleven cases of leer. Six of the leading concerns " manufac turing white lead in New Yoik have con solidated under the name of the National Lead Company of New York. The com bined capital is $l,000,0tM. Dudley Farlin, president of the Lima (Ohio) Oil company, is authority for the statement that the property and fran chises of that company have been sold to the Standard Oil company. A coachman named (lot lei b Benson blew out his brains in the parlor of Millionaire J N. H. Patrock at Omaha in the presence of the seivant girl, who had refused his offer of marriage. Edward Sylvester, Charlev McCran and Harry Williams, three of the most expert counterfeiters in the United States, were arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., while at work turning out counterfeit coin. The Portuguese government has in vited one firm in America and several firms in other countries to make tenders for the constru-tion of four new cruisers. No tenders from English firms are in vited. A new manage' of the Savoy hotel in London offended the clief, who immedi ately struck, followed by sixty cooks. Then the waiters, maids ami porters struck, and the hotel is practically closed. Some one of a pnrtv of men in the woods at dimming" Hill, Russell Mills, Mass.. dropped a lighted cigar, setting the underbrush on fire. Before it was stopped over a mile of territory was bnrnd. Fntx Zmnanon of New York killed a Hudson river pilot, William Abernethy, with a How which broke his skull. The murder is believed to have been incited by a steamboat engineer, who hated the dead man. The Pacific Mail company's steamer China arrived at Hong Kong' March 31. Her time from San Francisco was twen ty days, including a stop off Yokohama. This reduces the time two days, being ho faaUat trip record. MYSTERY PLAY AT NICE. Carlo, gpoctael Which Mlnglo Th otofr with th Antic of a Clown. John Swlnton, is an interesting let ter to the N. Y. Sun describes the so called "Mystery Play" witnessed by him at the city of Nice: The play was performed in a weather beaten tab ernacle known as the Theatre Rlsso, located in a part of the city with which fashionale visitors are not apt to be familiar. It is approached through a narrow old courtyard, near which are scores of thesa very narrow streets lined with strong and high stone houses that were built ages and ages ago, and that are likely to stand for ages yet to come unless" their demoli tion is brought about in the interest of sanitary science. It is entered through a curious opening at one end. where a burly and large-mouthed individual (who afterward turned out to be ohe of the actors) announces that admis sion is free to all. an announcement which is qualified, however, by the fact that the desirable seats must ! paid for. and also by the -passing of the hat" at the end of each act of the play. The title of the mystery was "The Manger of Bethlehem." It represent ed the incidents of the advent of Christ, as recorded in the gosels, from the annunciation to the birth in the manger. The chief figures on the stage were Joseph ami Mary, the Angel Gabriel and Satar; but there were also other characters not to le found in the scriptural narrative, in cluding a clown and his partners, who introduced comic features that were greatly enjoyed by the spectators. In truth, one of the most singular thin"? about the play was the mixture of fan tastic elements with the oolemn mys teries of the advent. The house was frequently rent with laughter just after or just before the highest religious sentiment had been evoked. The characters of Joseph and Marv, as they appeared on the stage, were dignified and natural, and their dis course and intercourse was in every way becoming. The Angel Gabriel was represented by a stalwart and beautiful youug woman clad in white, and she wielded her sword with suc cess against Satan, who appeared with me trauiuonat norns ana irarh. and sprang around with agility in his vain ruorxs to ao oatue against the advent. The stage was well set and the ocenery was plain bnt appropriate. At the end of the performance the infant was seen in his cradle beside Joseph and Mary, under the guardianship of GabrieL v After having been notified at the door that admission was free, we paid for our seats, but this was not the last of the demands upon our purse. At the end of each act performers left the tage, took a plate, and went from seat to seat through the house solicit ing gifts of money, and securing a good many copper coins. It looked queer to see the Angel Gabriel in flow ing robes of white, with others among i e actors, in us engaged; and it was pieasing to see tbat neither a . Joseph J nor aiary naa been chosen to part of this work. no any Didn't Have to Sins- 'Excus me." he . said after having followed a young man into an office on Congress street west, "but isn't vour name Blankf" "Yes, sir." "I thought no. You are a singer.are you notr' "I am. One of the best in Detroit r' 'Undoubtedly, sir." "Well, mj errand may seem strange to you. I hare an uncle at my bouse an old, old man. who is dving bv inches. He has the idea that lie can't die until he hears some one sing a fav orite sweet. sad song of his. If I should want you to come and sing it would you do so for money?' "Certainly." "Very we'll. I will take ydur tele phone number and let you know this evening." And when evening came the singer was called up to hear the message: oaj . ne uieu aooui an nour ago. so fou ol1'1 have to sino hilu to death?"' tr"t ' Private Gorman' Plan. We hand in our company a T'ry conceited young man named Gorman, says a writer in the X. Y. San. and from the day he shouldered a musket i he was anxious to invent a plan to save the country. He had some where read that a private soldier gave Napo leon the plan of a successful campaign and was rewarded by leing made a general, and his whole time was taken up in inventing plans, all of which were knocked in the head by our cap tain. One failure after another had no dampening effect on Private Gor man, however. The more he was sup pressed the harder he thought, and his time finally came. When Burnside moved up to attack at Fredericksburg Gorman wrote him a letter, saying that he had a plan by which Lee's whole army could be driven into Rich mond in terror or captured without bloodshed. The letter was put in such strong language that the general de cided to investigate, aud Private Gor man was sent for to explain his plan. He came back to us a prisoner, and was kept in the guard-house all that winter, and it was three months be fore we got a chance lo find out what had happened at headquarters. He explained that he was ushered into the presence of Gen. Burnside with ceremony, identified myself as the writer of the fetter, and the general wheeled on him with: "Well, how would yon scatter Lee's army?" "Easiest thingin the world, general," was the un bashed reply. "Wait, for a dark night; then let 10,000 soldiers dress up as spooks, put on false faces, and cross over the river. Each one is to step softly, groan every few seconds, and if accosted he is to answer that he is the ghost of a soldier slain at Bull Run. The sight of these spooks, will strike terror to every rebel's heart, and he will either fly or surrender. If this don't work I " But be got no further. He said that the general booted him out of the tent It was a sudden and radical cure, and he spent no more time planning great cam paigns. Odd Furniture. The latest odd thing ill furniture is a net upholstered with palm-leaf fans. A single fan forms tne seat and another fan the back of a chair. The frame work is of gilded bent wood. Two fans make a cute substitute for the cushioned bottom of a tete-a-tete, and ven the table-top is of fan. The debt of Canada at the beginning of the prMut t ear was $24,6lB,a41. SPORTING NOTES. California Represented by Three Com binations In the East. JACK DKMI'SEY IN PORTLAND, 0KEG0N. All-around Sporting Notes. Baseball Sea son Opening. Jack Davis will come about two weeks. to the coast in Peter Jackson will among his Cali fornia friends in a very short time. The Alameda Olympic Club will its monthly party on the ISth Inst. give Twenty-five Olympic alhl-tes are training on the new grounds of the club. Hugh W. Collender. the veteran bil Hard player, died in New Yoik on April I SI. Jim Fell is still on the ('omtx-k, looking for buttle with a local heavy weight. William K. Oakdale. I.. 1. 40,1,000. Vamlerbi't's stables at are completed. Cost The inemliers of the Acme Club are contemplating a cross-country run in the i near future. Ihe Oakland and tlivtri miv in Mi-tit-inL il.lw f. ... .... j . - - r"" ' "o j me win ing contests At the recent Ixmisville, Kr., disaster. Chas. E. Davies aud Peter Jackson had a narrow escape. "Senator" Morgan's bicycle team has disbanded, several of the members re tiiing to private liie. 1'resident Hammond of the Olympic Club tips off Jim Coi belt as a sure win ner of a tour-round go with Sullivan. Jack IVnipsev in jn Portland and mill watcit for the outcome of th "Marine" Young Mit-.hell battle with an anxious eye. Tom White of Chicago, and Billy Brennan have signed arti. U-s to fight in May in Chicago, at 12H pounds, for $300 a side. Joe Choynski is taking a rest prior to ' starting in for his training to meet Jack Davis at tlie Occidental Club month. next The Dayton, Ohio, Athletic ( luh have f arranged a glove fight between Jack Bo- i Ian of Cincinnati, and Billy Corcoran of tuisMirg. A ls-kburn's aaedliay horse Jer.iee won the Nottingham Spring Handicap of 500 sovereigns, at Nottingham. KngUml, on April 1. W. Hal pin of the New Jemev Athletic Club, who has a record of 23 'feet for a running broad juii.p, leaves for Km one i in a fhort One. Richmond, Va., sports are in hinh giee, now tnat a hill lias heen passed to allow glove contests. litgilisto is boom ing and no mistake. The directors of the Olvmnic Clnh will hold a meeting on next Mondav evening, i and on May 5th the club will see its ' thirtieth anniversary. It seems now to be a sure thintr that Corlett will meet Sullivan inside the next two weeks. In the meantime Jim will have a go at Domini, k McCaffery. The National Athletic Club, a piomi nent amateur organization of Brooklyn, N. Y.. at a recent tneetinc unanimously elected Richard member. K. Fox an honorary i The great chess player. Max Judd, is expected to arrive in St. Louis about April 11, when the minor details of his match with Showalter for a $V;0 stake j will be arranged. ; , , , . 11,9 PaJ receives a daily raliou of .jaudaur savs he will 1 moat happy J three-quarters of a pound of meat and JLIT. ,i x"' httU1P,.on f h!oue pound of white bread. Durinu- TX i' i"r-,mte "" l,,"e b',re i Iacreverything else he required , m i&L S TOUMr- i b tvneronPThaSe K i r, , pa,.. y nen on aclive service he is well Mike Lucie has been granted six i Hf.? h aUKfharee- , . , , weeks leave of absence bv the Golden I ere has been a great deal of non Gate flub, in order to allow him to ae- "f nste and written of late about company "The Marine" on his Eastern j J"? insuflJeiellcy ol the soldier's food, sparring' tour. They give their first ex- , be fact he gets plenty to eat. but be hibition at lead ille, CoJ. j has to PV for much of it out of his own ; pocket- Examine anv corps on parade. The Imseball season will be an inter- j f.nd the P,umP. ruddy appearance of esling one, and I he struggle between the I :ue m?.n.wlU P1"06 how well he is fed. plavers of the Brotherhood and the Na- j -,tn to the daily rations, which tional league will create no little inter- 1 have ,1'eu described, every com est. Which of the two rival organ iza-1 PaDV mes8 purchases tea, sugar, milk, tions will make or break themselves vegetables, etc., at a daily cost of Novemlier next will decide. ! about 3 l-2iL to each man. Most men also buy in their canteens beer, hot Th young lalies of the class of of t sausages, butter, jam, and other luxu the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brook-j ries. In his recreatiou-room the lyn, N. Y.. have formed an athletic club, j soldier can be served at all hours with They exercise regularly in the gym nasi- good tea, coffee, bread and butter, etc um aim engage in iour waiss or u icycie rides on Saturdays. They have decided to give athletic g'.tmes. not yet , ! i The great English Collie do. Christo- i pher, according to an English sporting 1 sheet, which was first in the recent Lon- j don Collie dog show, has it is state. I, j neen soui to nir. aitctiael Harrison ol the Chestnut Hill Kennels, Philadelphia for $1,000, the hitthest price ever paid for a collie. California is now represented by three sparrii g combines in the East. Pig and little McAuliffe, under the management of Billy Madden, Murphy and Gibbons under the management of "Parson" Ab rahams, and George Ia Blanche and Mike Lucie who are being piloted by Phil Sesstinger. There was a spirited cocking main be tween Stoneham and Wakefield birds on the morning of March 27, near Wake field ; the Stoneham birds winning by the close wore of 10 to 0. .Three birds were killed in the pit and five died out side. The main was for $.V) a buttle and 200 on the odd battle. Schaefer and Moulds punched a game of 14-inch balk line billiards at Chicago on March 24, the Wizzard winning by a score of 400 to 93. Schaefer's best run was 129, and his average 53s'. Mould's best run was 2tt, and his average 8 5-11. Ives defeated Spink in a 300 to 150 Kame, the Californian securing 103 but tons. Ives' average was 20. Several of Harvard old athletes are in active training for the indoor cham pionships. Among them are F. B. Luna, '88, a 10t second man for a hun dred yards; G. S. Mandell, '9, pole vaulter, good for JO ft., also a fair sprin ter; G. P. Cogswell, a great half-mi er, ran that distance at Harvard in 1 min. 59 4-5 sees, in the spring of and H. H. Bennis, the well-known walker, and iaUreaUeglate aa-aaile oa amnion in '87. , - : THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. Carious Calculations Concerning This Enormous ton at Muncj. F. II. Swords, a banker of London, sat In the Continental corridor recent ly reading a newspaper. Suddenly he pointed to a paragraph In the latter and aid: "Listen to this statement: The Van derbilt estate is now calculated to be worth at least $300,000,000."' Mr. Swords folded his paper, aud. leariW back in the chair, continued: "Ofcour t I do not know whether that statement is true; but I saw it published in the Standard several weeks ago. "The Slim seemed an oimi-mmia i I spent quite a while in calculating thr physical proportions of that number ol silver dollars. Here is a little slip iu my wallet here that may give you some luea. it Ailain, when he first looked around in the Garden of Eden, say 6.000 years ago, had been met b Satan and had been emploved by him at a regular salary of $50,000 per annum aud his board and clothes; and if Adam had carefully laid his silver dollars away in barrels each year, ami had lived to the present time. would now have $300,000,000. Again. If a man born in the Christian era, 1890 years ago. had lived and leen steadily employed at a salary of $14,000 tier mouth. $443 a day. aud bis living ex penses besides, aud had saved every dollar of it. he would not to-day have three hundred millions. "If it were necessarr in imnaivin ,i .... m ; uuiuoer or Sliver dollars it would i require 536 freight cars, each of a ca Alameda tennis- pacitv of tweuir tons. If tl laa u: i . .. . : T were put into one train it would be more than four miles long. If it were possihle for 300.000.000 silver dollars to oe laid on the ground in a straight line, with edges touching each other me wnoiettistaure, the hue would reach farther than from London across the Atlantic Ocean aud over the North American Continent to San Francisco. A sidewalk of three hundred million silver dollars could be laid six feet wide aud more than fifteen miles long. If three hundred million dollars were laid one on top of the other they would make a column 473 miles high. If taken down and arranged in the form of a cube each side of the latter would be thirty-five feet long and wide, and it would weigh more than 10,000 tons. If such a weight were dropped from the roof of the new city hall the concussion would be great enough to destroy that part of the city." titUadeli Kia frtss. Noticed By the Supreme Court. Attorney General Clapn of Minnesota considers that he was most highly honored while attending the United States Supreme Court in Washington recently. So he intimated at the Capitol recently. A particular mark of distinction I -was paid roe by a high dignitary," said ! he. with the utmost satisfaction". "How was it? What happened Tell us." chorused a coterie of colleagues. "Well, it was this way," said the At torney General, com'placentlv. "I was sitting in the Supreme Court, an Interested listener to a case that was lieing argued by several of the most brilliant ami rhetorical lawyers of the country. Presently a page touched me on the shoulder. "WelL sonnv, what do you want?' I asked. Please, sir. He replied, are you the Attorney Gen eral of Minnesota-" I told him I was. t and he informed me that the Marshal of the court desired to speak to me. This pleased me immeasurably. I went over lo the Marshal, ami he rijndly pointed to an unlighted cigar that 1 Lad in my mouth and said it was against the precedent and dignity of the court to hold a cigar in one's mouth in the presence of the Justices of the court. You will please remove that cigar. he added in acrid tones. I was so astonished that the cigar actually fell from mv teeth to the cariH-t." ioneer Prtss, What The British Soldier Kata. The pay of a private soldier of a line infantry reeimeut--whic.li U the, tm.n. est man's rate of pay in the armv is one shilling per diem. In addition to ine question lor the government to consider is how much of the soldier's daily food is to be paid for by the slate. harper's Almjazine. 1 Making Pearls to Order. Whether the pearl has gone out of fashiou because of the facility with which artificial ones have been made is a matter that may be accepted as in a great measure true, for the earl is one of the most beautiful of gums. In addition to the efforts, successful, too. towards making artificial pearls, efforts have also been made from time to time to force the oyster itself to produce the pearls by introducing foreign sub stances within the shells, which have not been altogether successful. In the South Kensington Museum in London the writer has seen several evidences of these attempts, as well as shells which came from China containing small images of Buddha. It is said that these were originally moulded in tin foil aud then placed between the shell and the mantle of the oyster. The shells were then returned to iheir natu ral beds, and after a time a layer of mother-of-pearl coated these 'figures and attached them to the shell. In some iustances they are cut out and sold, and it it said the Chinese priest claimed them to be evidences of their miracle-working powers. Denver New. Turning Taverns Into School-Houses. The scheme of the Hungarian gov ernment, already in operation, for buy ing up taverns throughout the country and turning them into school-houses will be watched with interest in all countries. Of course it comprehends certain paternal measures which could be practiced only in monarchical coun tries, but it is a bold aud interesting experiment in social science, none the less. The government evidently buys up me piaces ior a valuation Jxed bv com mission and then supprosifos theoa. COAST NEWS. Frank Harper, the San Jose Bus at Liberty. Fire- BKKLETON FIRE. NKIIALEM COlNTRT. TravH Between Marion and Polk Counties on the Increase. Heavy rain fulls in the Northwest. This season's Ion cut is the ever kuoati in the Northwest. largest Argument of counsel was co nmenced at San Kram iM o in the Bli the rase. Cheney oil'ii uls have leeii busv lately in arresting and chasing tramps' out of the town. , William Bonnie, tne opium smuggler, did not appear for trial in San Francisco, and foifeited ti'tOO lail. The contractors of Montesano are taxed to the utmost to meet demands in the cont-truction of many new buildings. Richard V. Dev. of San Francisco, privute secretary to John W. Mackay, was seriously attacked by heart disease recently. H. M. h. Warspite, a turret ship, is on her way to British Columbia. She will tie the largest man-of-war ever in the Pacific ocean. Frank Harper, the notorious San Jose, Cal., firebug, has ' been released from jail, having served a ten years' term, de ducting exemptions. The Wallowa Chieftain has finallv j summed up stock losses, in that county; as follows: tattle, 10 percent.; sheep, t H per cent; and horses, ier cent. j Tt . M I i ' i ne -enaieni river country has a trreat future before, it. The river is long and free from obstructions, and traverses a fine elt of heavy timber throughout its course. Uoliert Bradv. and a resident 6f the city of San Diego lor twenty years, died from the effects f.f an overdose of morphine taken to pro- duve sleep The Seattle Journal sars that of the relief fund remains unexpended, and suggests that the balance be devoted to assisting in the establishment of a home for frienoless boyu and girls. Jarvis Kmigb's store at Rickleton was burned shortly after midnight April Hi" building and contents were a tnri iok. iss, sSKJf; insurance. The fire is thought to have teen cendiary origin. '-0O. of in- Princess Martha F.sgalit. helT, who toes aiiout denying that luenan prison and that the hells are uncomfortable. czar is a monster, is deeply offended be cause people think her a paid Russian agent. She is now in San Francisco. The San Francisco Examiner's special advertising train has tieen started on its travels, going first to San Jose. The ex ((edition will cost $32,000 and will visit and write up all points in the state that can lie reached by standard gauge track. The new steel cruiser, the Monterey, will be launched about October 15, at San Francisco. Work will be delayed somewhat by important changes in the iiaiis ot me vessel, instead of teen-inch gun, two twelve-inch be used. one six guns will Tillamook is lieginning to receive due rw-ognition at the hands of congress and he government authorities. The estab lishment of a life-saving station at that place will Is? of great benefit and will give mariners more confidence iu enter ing the port. There was brought into Redding, Cal., the other day a uuifget of gold mixed a ith quartz, valued at $5( 0. The loca tion of the find i kept secret pending projer location of the claim. More gold is supiajsed to 1 hidden where this lump was discovered The travel across the Willamette river letween Marion and Polk counties is growing. An average of from seventv dve to toil teams cross dailv. On Satur day Inst up toti o'clock lL-0 teams had crossed. The new steam ferry ai.l fill a much needed want. The work of clearing the timUr ..fTrrf the hill just south of Fairhaven is lieinu t 111 N 1 1 11 ! Mi.rl r m 1 tutv,.... ; .. K..;.... j .-ii mum. me ourmiig limner shows to good advantage, many trees being 100 ieei in iieixiii, ana are a mass from the tsittom to tiie top. of flame) j Colonel an Cleve. of Scio. states that ! the men who are opening coal mine j near that place have struck a vein rrf I coal ten feet thick at the end of a thirty- toot tunnel. Thev propose to develop he mine thoroughly and expect to prove that they have a valuable coal deoosit. 1 Will D. Jenkins has dividml kriiw ! county, outside of Seattle into seventeen ! list nets, and Seattle into fourteen lis- i tricts, for the purpose of facilitating the j habit of work is formed it will be trans takiug of the census. He estimates the i figured into the love of work; and at population of Seattle at 41,500, and of I last you will not only abhor idleness, the county out of Seattle at 23,500. To- ! but you will have no happiness out of tal, ho.OOO. . work which then von are constrained During the past three weeks a move. ment has been iroina on lookimr to th organization of a Chehalis street railway company. It is understood that no money bonus will be asked, but a liberal otter to land for the company's ush at the beginning and terminal (mint of the road, will be expected. A Garfield citizen, according to the Enterprise, has discovered that the squirrels that are shot and left on the ground ure devoured by their fellows, and he has turned the knowledge to ac count. When he kills a squirrel he cuts a hole in it and pnta in strychnine, and in this way has killed a large mini tier of the pests. A gent Moorehouse. of Pendleton, has received the plans and specifications oi the new buildings for the Indian train ing school, to be erected in the reserva tion. One of the structures will be of brick, and the other of wood, with foun dations of native rock. It is expected that the buildings will cost in the neigh borhood of $45,000. The county commissioners of Yakima have been petitioned to form an irriga tion district lncludiug 75,000 acres, ihe cost of putting water on the land is esti mated at 4 tier acre, and the cost ol clearing land of sage brush $2 per acre, A trreat deal ol government lana wur, takon THE BOY. R Is Being- Crawdad Aim out Entirely Oal of Employment. What is to become of the boy if the present tendency to crowd him out of employment goes on? asks the N. Y. Tribune. Messengers with beards seem to be growing more numerous all the time, and the elevator boy has been largely replaced by the elevator man. Cash boys, once common in the citv, have given way to cash girls to a great extent. The uniformed, brass-buttoned call-boys at the hotels are little more than a memory, and in their places are men. It is true there are still news boys about the entrance to the bridge, and other places where there are gen erally crowds of people, but news women aud newsmen are competing with them in ever-increasing numbers. Uptown the newsdealer has virtually driren the boys out of the business. With bootblacks the story is the same. A few of them still pursue theirealling. but grown Italians have seized hold of the best corners, and with their big armchairs easily take away the busi ness of their youthful rivals, whose cus tomers have to balance themselves "on one leg against a sharp corner of the building. There are a few hoy ped dlers of shoestrings aud handkerchiefs. but this occupation is far more' appro- I prune to t nose wno nave arrived at years when an amble is the natural gait. Oil trains there are still many lads who go about distributing illus trated papers, light novels and candv, and then eo about again collecting them, incidentally selling a few of the articles, but even" here the men are e-et- ting ahead of them. Y'es. what shall be come ol the boy is a serious question. If the present movement toward his displacement continues the only thing left for him to do will be to grow up and become a man, bnt unfortunately this takes time. Ar. I". Tribune. Dispositions on Tap. It would be an enormous advantage : to numauiiT we could buy or hire dispositions. Millionaires would keep a stock of all kinds and ban? thens in a wardrobe as they do clothes. When you wanted go to a wedding, for in stance, you would go and put the ap propriate disposition on withyourdress suit. You would have a disoositinn ' tor t.ind of occasions. nd you cirenm- couiu aojusi yourseu to anr stances, jocose or sad- But you would have to be carefuL For instance, if you put on your wedding disposition to go to a funeral there might be trouble; it would not be so bad if you put on your funeral disposition to'go to a wed ding. People would think yoa were sad about the girl getting married, as a result of your own experience, if you were married; because she was not marrying you. if you were not. It would uut do to go to a high tea with your prize-fighting disposition, either; and it would wreuch your hi-rh tea dis position to go to go a prize-fight with it- A great many men would not go home and change their disposition after business any more than thev change their clothes. - . . " "There. Man." a felloW would say to his wife when they were settled at the opera. "1 quite'forgot to change my disposition, and I have mv lawsuit one on. 1 might as well go home." "What are you home so early for. John?" the anxious wife would remark when her husbaud came home early in the afternoon. Got some fellows from Chicago to entertain. Where did vou hau; nv jovial jag the last time I came home" "I hung it out to air. You'll find it In the back yanl still a little moist- San ! 'rattcisco L'hrunicU. Success In Work. Sir Andrew Clark, one of the most successful and distinguished of Eng lish physicians, has recently had a por trait of himself presented by the staff of the London Hospital. In his speech replying to the presentation address Sir Andrew gave some account of his life and of the causes of his professional success. Hia story deserves perusal. Sir Andrew was born in Scotland, and went to London thirty-six years ago, a young man in delicate "health, and without a sinsrle friend or influential connection. He had, however, a small patrimony, and was enabled to pursue the study of pathology, and to keep himself quite free from any intrigues or quarrels. He devoted 'himself to work, and before many years, despite ill health and opposition, he was made physician to London HospitaL His subsequent success was slow but con- tinnous, and was achieved without anv j definite expectation at first that it ' would eventually be so brilliant. Sir j Andrew gave the following as some of j the conditions necessary for success in 1 medicine: Firstly." he said. "I believe that every man's success is within himself, and must come out of himself. Jio true, abiding, and just success can oeconuiy. a man must oe seriously in earnest. He mnst act with sinrAn.a i, .. of heart and purpose; he must do with all hia micrht .nH with oil Hi tration of 'thought the one thinr t th one time which he is called upon to do. And if some of my young friends should .1 J J; .Sv. t not love work.' then I answer that there is a certain remedy, and it is work. Work in spite of yourself, and make the habit of work, and when the from love to do. The man must be charitable, not censorius self-effacing, not self-seeking; and he must try at once to think and to do the best for his rivals and aut agonists that can be done. The man must believe that labor is life, that successful labor is life and gladness, and that successful labor, with high aims and just objects, will bring to him the fullest, truest, and happiest life that can be lived upon the earth." Medical Record. The Plate Flher-I-Lw. "Among the Piutes," says the Vir gina City (Nev.) Enterprise, "it is always the father-in-law that makes the trouble. Every married Piute is always glad of a visit from his mother-in-law. He welcomes her with his broadest grin. The arrival of the mother-in-law gives him a double team where before he had only one animal. He hails her appearance with delight, and piling a jackass-load of wood upon her willing old back sends her into town with bis wife (similarly) packed to peddle out the fuel and bi ing back to him a supply of money for his favor ite game of poker. The Piute faiher-in-law is of no use as a wood-p.-ieker, nor will he gather $r -- , n A BL00D-SUCK1NG PLAK Th Strsnee Teetabi Growth F CeDtnl Amcrleu swamp. Leror Dunstan, the well-l . -naturalist of this city, says a Ne . leans letter in the Philadelphia i ; who has recently returned from tral America, where he has spent ly two years in the study of the and fauna of the country, relates finding of a singular growth in on ; - -the swamps which surround the g lake of .Nicaragua. He was enga, . ia hunting for botanical and entotuo -gical specimens in this swamp, wbf is known as San Sebastian's, whea'," beard his dog cry out as if in ag, " from a distance. Running to thes . from which the animal's cries eat Mr. Dunstan found bim enveloped u perfet network of what seemed to bt tine, rope-like tissue of roots or fibrt' the nature of which was unknown him. - . -c " The plant or vine seemed cotnp. -entirely of bare, interlacing stems- ; sembling more than anything else? branches of the weeping willow de " -' ed of all foliage, but of a dark, n r black hue and covered with at- -viscid gum that exuded from the f ' . -Drawing his knife Mr. Dnnstai deavored to cut the animal free'- was only with the greatest dif ' that he succeeded in severing the1 muscular fibre. To bis horr ,v amazement the naturalist th ' -that the dog's body was cover;' - i : blood, while his hairless skia r r-- " - -to have been actnauJs:e x ered in spots, and the aoioai ; gered as if from weakness and es tion. ' . , t. In cutting the vine the twigs t -like living, sinuous fingers abou " Dunstan's hand, and it require slight force to free the member fr " clinging clasp, which left the fies and blistered. The gum exoding the vine was of a grayish-dark remarkably adhesive and of a disi able animal odor, every powerft . - 7 nauseating to inhale. The native servant who accomp " Mr. Dnnstan manifested the gr horror of the vine, which thev e ' sagedas de diable, the devil's seer " snare, and were full of stories o 11 death-dealing powers. One of stories was of an Englishman resi " in Managua, who. while hunting the swamp a few years before, down beneath a tree where a large . -powerful specimen of this singw plant was ETowinff. and. inadvertent' failing asleep, awoke to find himse enveloped in its web, and. in spite . every effort raade fbmjcate bim, pe; ' ished in its deadly em brace? s. Another story was of an escaped con- viet who had hi'dden in the swamp and whose bones had been found in the folds of the sagenas only a short time before Sir. Dunstan's visit. These stories, remarkable as they may seem, are fairly believed in by the people, but the only three specimens which Mr. Dunstan was able to find were all small ones, though the meshes of the largest would probably., if extended jn a straight line, measure nearly if notf'' quite 100 feet- He was able to discover very little about the nature of the plant, owing to the difficulty of hand ling it. for its grasp can only be torn away with the loss of skin and even of flesh, but, as near as Mr. Dunstan could ascertain, its power of suction is contained in a number of infinitesi mal mouths or little suckers, which, ordinarily closed, open for the recep tion of food. The gum exuded seems to serve the two-fold purpose of increasing its tea- acity and of overcoming a vietim by its sickening odor. The plant is found only in low. wet places, and usually beneath a large tree, and while dor mant seems only a network of drv dead viues covering the black earth for several feet, but coming .into eorita lL.ct-4 in fa with anythiog will instantly beain to twist and twine upward in a horrible, life-like manner, breaking out with the gum-like substance spoken of before, aud enwrap the object with a eeleritj that is almost incredible. If the substance is animal the blood is drawn off and the carcass or refuse then dropped. A lump of raw meat being thrown it in the short time of five minutes the blood will be thor oughly drunk off and the mass thrown aside. Its voracity ia almost beyond belief, it devouring at one time over ten pounds ef meat, though it may be deprived or aJ food for weeks wit horn any apparent loss f vitality, ilr. Iua stan attempted to bring away a root of the sagenas, but it died during his return voyage, growing so fonl with a sirong ooor or real animal corruption that he was obliged to get rid of it. How Edison Made m Ban;. Ls-aT I wonder, asks a St. Louis Republic writer,- how many of oar readers ever "J beard the wonderful story of how Edi- T son made a bug? It hapneaed away back in 1880 or 1881. berore the elec- I, trician had become a count and known in the most remote cornersaf tt , world. There had beeaf wv l!r three persons killed by the electric wires, and people were seriously contemplat ing some plan to get them out of the ; way and still keep the new wonderful wnue iignu Edison proposed that the wiren be put in the gas-pipes; but bow on earth was the pipes to be "threaded" with the electric wires? . After studying the matter one night " ' Edison said to fellow leetrician: t -"Why, see here. Johnson. I'll make a bug that will drag a wire through f : every foot of pipe in New l'ork city, if Im it becomes necessary." " j "Make a bug!" exclaimed his com panion, thinking the inventor had lost his mind. "What in the world do you mean?" - Well, ril make a bug," said the in ventor, confidently, that will go where I send him, and drag a wire, tOO." ' A few days afterward he laidacn- -riously constructed thing on the table in the office before time to go to work: - ' it was his gas-gipe bug. It was c- " Structed thus: A minute electro net. carrying behind it a forts insnfaTSfl wire-pawL Now. observe everv tim f' the circuit was closed through the mag- XZ net the armature was attracted, the pawl clutching the sides of a piece of gas-pipe provided for the occasion, and the magnet behind was drawn toward ji'i the armature about the sixteenth of an inch. When the circuit was opened " the armature reached forward ready to :: take a second stet. - Thn at. everv - J f closinr df the circuit, the little bug a-' . ' " vanced one step, dragging the wire I . v hind. Jfo doubt this description w. -be hard for non-exprrts to uuderstan v - but as verrjtil knows somethin arKu-eiectr9w., -.-aaaya a olerab? - " 'hen"; --" .-"bo.'' " -" "" ' 1 f-- Bitmtttn. Jquh mil 'a 'A