He Who thinks to please the world is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half la yet behind.
VOL. IV.
NO. II.
LKH ANON. OREGON, FRIDAY, ) UNE, 13, 1890.
82.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
liEXKUAL XKS
Thomas
the Kkt'lrie
(iKoKfcK HUMIS TRAIN IN HOSTON
Faster it brcgan Sheep raisrrs
Their Flecks.
Land boomers in Oregon are oauea
"raxoopers."
Statistics show that Ohio has 31,600
more boys than girls.
Wolves anl other kinds of game are
plenty in northwestern Florida.
A Mexican giant 7 feet 6 inches In
height is emploj ed as a special, ouieer
at Scrantou. Pal -
The baby kin? of Spain is the thir
teenth of liis njme, which fact makes
his mother feel nen ous about hint.
John W, Dwight of Pennsylvania
owns in North Dakota a farm nearly as
largo as the state of Rhode Islami. j
James Whiteomb Riley, the bachelor!
poet, 5a in receipt constantly of letters
from women w ho want to marry him. .
Secretary Hn.sk and Representative
Reed are great friends. '1 hey are
called "Tom and J err'" in Washing
ton. Jobn Horn, of Orviile, Ohio, is six
feet four inches high, weighs 3.15
po , mid is twenty-two J ears of
ag?.
A West Virginian has been arrested
for personating his deceased twin
brother and drawing the. pension of
the latter.
A proud mother in Merced. Cal.,
ow ns a four - mouths-old baby that
weighs tweiuy-six pounds and has cut
four teeth.
An exchange chronicles the fact that
Mrs. Sophia- Bennington, of Xeni-.t, O..
agid forty, has given birth to her
twenty-fifth child.
The pope has expressed to the cardi
nals at the Vatican his desire for burial
under the Church of St. John Lateran,
in the part restored by himself.
The lances reintroduced lately into
the.F"eneh cavalry are considerable
' shorter and lighter" than those used iu
this branch of the service under IS" a
po'.eoa L.
It is reported that the sheep raisers
of eastern Oregon are selling off their
t'.ocks as fast a they can. Alumt one
hundred thonsaud have already been
disposed of.
A colored woman w ho said her aire
was one hundred and one years was
arrested and put in the Birmingham.
Ala., lockup the other day. She had
We a quarreling.
There is a Mission grapevine at Car
penteria, Cal., which has a girth of six
feet at the base, branches out in every
direction for a hundred feet, and this
year produced four tons of fruit.
la London they are utilizing elec
tricity in a novel w ay. During heavy
fogs horses carry an electric light on
their heads which can be illuminated
as occasion requires, the storage bat
tery being la the wagon. ,
If you would gaze on an example of j
superb disgust, rind the Maine hunter
vh thought he tired at the shining!
ori s of a ferocious wildcat at ,d after-j
WRi"d discovered that he had tilled a to- j
mato can with shot -holes. j
Eight cotton factories, sixteen bank's j
and various other .enterprises have!
let-n started in Sooth Carolina withiu a i
Near. Corporations chartered between j
October, -1S8S. aud PS!'. nu sober eighty- '
two, w ith an aggregate Capital of over j
$41,U(XM)iXV " j
A wnteh for blind people has been
invented in Switzerland.. In the mid-
die of every figure is a small peg, j
which drops wheu the hour hand
reaches the figure
Tl ,.er feels
that the og is down uml couuts back
lo twelve to determine the hour.
When lbim Pedro, of Brazil, lay sick
unto d 'ath in llaly. not very long ago,
he tohl his nurse one morning thai he
h id bail a dream. "An old man came
to me." said Dous IVdro, "ami in a
moit earnest way informed me that 1
s; ion Id lose mv crow n before Host mv
life."
A queer circumstance has just been
brought to light in the Mart mviile,
Ohio, iKstofiice. A large rat wa3 dis
covert 1 Toy the postmaster which was
in tho habit of making one meal a day
out of postal cards. After Indng de
prived of this diet the animal soon
died.
Unequivocal contradiction - is given
by Colonel George W. Williams, the
negro orator and historian, to the re- t
ceotly current tales of his engagement i
and marriage to a young English lady j
whom he met on board ship while go- ;
ing to Europe last month. "The ro- j
mantic rumor," he says, "is without
foundation. "
Citizen George Francis Train when ;
in Boston recently was surrounded by i
a crowd in a hotel corridor, when he
offered to bet that he was the biggest
fool in America. Nobody accepted the
wager at lirst, bnt finally a man came
forward and said: "I'll take your bet,
stranger, provided yon are not George
Erifncis Train."
A well-known London journalist, a
man of culture and ambition, is having
bis eldest son educated to be a cook.
The boy has heen trained by a famous
chef at Brussels. He afterwards studied
'finder the chef of the Grand Hotel,
Paris, and has iust been apprenticed
for three years to M. Charpenuer, chef j
oi the Savoy Hotel, Loudon. j
A large tract of swamp land on the j
line of the Jacksonville Southeastern j
Railroad, near Manito, III., has been
recently drained. The result of the til- :
ing has been peculiar. In some places
the roadbed of the Southeastern snnk
four feet, a4 the road was compelled
to spend a large amount of money in
making the necessary repairs.
John B. Alien, the Senator-elect
from the Stste of Washington, is the
Tonngest-locking man in the upper
iouse' ofc Congress. He has blonde
hair and c.ieeks and the extremely
a-oiitliful; lpea.ance that accompanies
com, exion into middle life. He
--t as' ,-otiiiir as be looks, but the
doeynot give him any uneasiness.
-. Dvifft-Ebing. an eminent profes
" ;n tic; University of Vienua, says
0 pr cent of all cases of insanity
. . ft. a predisposition from their
. "Vis- In 20 per cent of all cases
- - 'wranceig found to be the sole
' ' ' i cause, and in SO per cent more
- the causes of mental disease.
. " ies legal measures to combat
",, At of intemperance, or the for-
of societies to counteract it.
her dav at Jackson, Mich., a
ed a mouse, aud the frightened
j little animal run tip a telegraph polo
j aud then started out on a wire for the
, next pole, ISO feet distant. The wire
j swung gayly In the breere, but the
trembling'traveler hungon and reached
the next station In about an hour. He
descended the pole, and when he
reached the base he was so tired that
he allowed himself to bo picked up by
a spectator,
A good story is told of Alphonso
... j Karr. A youthful man of letters ar
Sellutg rjve4 at, r.uvtat- with a letter of iutro
j duction to Alphonse Karr. He had
I been pariieularlv told of Karr' 3 pjissiou-
ato love of the sea; and, iindiug the
author of "Genevieve seated on the
leach. mending a net, ho immediately
began an enthusiastic, outburst of com
monplaces about the grandeur of the
ocean. "Monsieur,'' interrupted Karr.
"1 love the sea; we have lived together
a long time. Hut if yon have come alt
the way from Paris to disgust mo with
it, I can only say it is a w icked thing
to do."
Thomas A. Edison's latest achieve
ment is the invention of a light by
which pictures may bo seen at night
with all the advantages of daylight.
Electric lights have heretofore thrown
either loo brilliant or too yellow a light.
Edison secures a perfect light for pie
lures by placing at the back of the
bulbs in his system of lighting a lead
piece covering half the bulb and fitting
it closely. Inside of the bulb is a coat
ing of silver. The natural yellow of
the light and the stiver reflection com
bine to make a light that brings out all
the colors in a picture harmoniously.
It was lirst used in the Hiuiniualtuu of
the "Angelus" in New York.
A NATURAL IRON-CLAD.
We had proceeded perhaps a quarter
of a mile without incident, w hen, on
entering a little oasis of grass among
the sand hillock. Hans stopped short,
thiuking he heard a slight noise near at
hand. Wheu it was jepealed an in
stant later, he stepped softly toward
the. spot from which it seemed to come,
and saw a dark object, about as large
as a woodehuek ami almost as flat as
its own shadow, shnilling from one tuft
of grass to another, stopping but a mo
ment to snitf about the roots of each,
and then trotting away to the next.
Reasoning as I had dotie the previous
niirht. he leveled his gun and pulled
the trigger just as the jieludo emerged!
from the shadow into the nm light ot
the moon. Hushing forward through
the smoke to pick tip the game he was
amazed to see the petudo scudding
awar unhurt, as f i-t as its short leu
would earrv iu He
gave chase at once
and soon overtook it. but it dodged
suddenly and made oil in another di
rection, "while he ran some distance
past. Recovering himself, he dashed
after it again and bringing his foot
down fairly on its back succeeded only
in upsetting himself without Moppin
the armadillo. Again ami again he
overtook and stooped to grasp it, but
each time irot onlv a handful of sand
and glass. Ho was rapidly being A ptohibition advocate named O-diorno
winded, while jeindo stiii seemed per- Congelton, was eat uHn, badly lienten,
fectly fresh, and in all probability we f hoi and thrown into the bay ut Ouk
Khouid have lost our game after all. had 1 land, Cal., the evening of May .10, by uu
not Miguel At this juncture brought his i known pitic. He bad ls-en .warned to
club down on the animal's head, ajt- talking against the use of ardent
parently killing it outright. U was i l"r"s.
only shamming, however, and by dig
ging its long Ciaws into the ground was
itblo for several minutes to defy
Miguel's knife. But eventually a itai
sjot was found, and as soon as it was
dead we began to examine it curiously.
Including the tail, it was not far from
two feet in length, and weighed per-1
haps seven or eight pounds. It was
little onder that Hans's shot had no)
ctlect. for the rounded back waseovercd
completely with a csl of mail formed;
of cross rows or bauds of thick, bonv
plates, so hard and smotttli that nine!
times out of ten they would have turned j
otT a ride-bullet. The seams or lines j
of skin between the bands were almost
hidden bv the o eiiappiugof the plate-s.
and were thinly sprinkled with coarse
hair. This Iweame more abundant on
the bellv and legs. The teeth, which
U'vew only on the sides of the jaws.
were of small size, bnt the feet were
armed with large claws, those, on the
fore feet were especially long and;
strong. Altogether, it was rather a
repulsive-looking beast, and it was hard I
to credit these'rtions of Miguel and i
the tloctor ih the ttcdi resembled in 1
flavor that of young roat pig. and was I
j even more delicious. This sptH-ies, thei
I hairy armadillo of the pampas, has no ,
power to roil itself up in a ball which j
i many of its relatives js-ess. but il j
i attacked often escapes its enemies by j
Battening itself e'.oe against thei
j ground and feigning death. During j
j hot weather it seldom ventures abroad i
i bv day. but searches at night for it? 1
j food of roots and insects. In winter,
j however, or in dull, dark weather, il
) sometimes roams about by day, taking j
I refuge, in case of necessity, iu any j
burrow at hand, or, if surprised where !
the soil is moderately so!t. it can bur
row out of sight and out of danger in
a few seconds. UWfVr IS. Juirrnws,
.St. Sicholax.
Miss AV a a maker's Millions.
Who can compute Miss Minnie Wan
amaker's fortune? "Two million dol-
lars." one
says. "Double that." says
another. "A full $C,000,000 bv tho
time she will inherit it," says a third.
There are four children iu the Wan
amaker's family, two sons and two
daughters, and they can swim in mon
ey in any direction, says a Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Pits. Miss Wanamaker is so pretty
that she would be a 'catch' if she hadn't
a cent, hut the possession of so much
gold makes Jier the most interesting
girt of the season, for she is newer than
Miss loiter and almost as lovely.
She knows a thing or two about
money, and is sincere enough to recog
nize sincerity iu others. The fortune
hunter who follows her will be unwise.
For over a year she has beeu learning
how to take care of money. Her fa
ther gives her an allowance, and she
buys all that she wears.
No one questions Miss Wanamaker
about her spendings, and even if she
overdraws considerably on her bank
account it only brings a laughing criti
cism from her father. But what girl
does not overdraw?
Thev tell me that manv of them get
an allowance of from 3,000 to 10,000
per year, and the only girl in Washing
ton "who has not overdrawn hers is
"Miss Florence Windom. Of course she
docs not get that much, as the secre
tary of the treasury is not a very
wealthy man, but whatever Miss Flor
ence gels she came home after a shop
ping Four in New York a short time
ago with 23 cents in her purse.
fern.Jieals In Kussia.
; There are 686 periodical publications
I in Russia. , Seventy-eight of them are
political and news . dailies, 109 are
j scientific, 86 religious, 15 artistic, S3
I agricultural, 82 statistical and biograph
I rest laLjceiJaueoui.
ical, la pedagogic, ia tor children, ana
COAST NEWS.
Linn t'oiinly, Near 'Albany, lo llavei
a litM'imm Colony, i
THK FATK UK A ritumUlTIOXIST. !
- . j
Ktiglislt Hup uoalers litij ittg and Sliiijiiitg j
Direct t Kurhuitl.
California is tmw tmpplvinix the I'oit-j
land markets with bcei. '
Crop prospects in Walla YVulla valley I
are said to be better than ever tVtore.
five memWrs of a family in. Canada I
have died from eating w ild parsnip roots. '
About 1'resno. 'ai , a small lnn-tle bus
appealed in the vineyards, HceeswtalittK '
the bug picking proeess.
The six-vear-obl son of IJ. A. I i.-lt it- '
wi, was throve n Imni a horse and killed
near Salem,
Citizens of Lew is county ar' petition-1
ing the county court to build a biide
across the Cow lits; river at Toledo.
Anew warehouse will be erected at;
Wheatland, to cost fSiMSt, rephn-ing the
one earned away I y the tloo.1 last spting.
The Httmliotdt river and its tribntaties ;
are said to le almost jjorued with the
carcasses of stock which perished last!
winter.
Eutilitdi bop-dealers are now uii a vis- :
iting torn- of all the coat bop-lields, ar
ranging when I bey can to tdupthe etnu
ing piuthlet direct to I'.tilihb maikets.
It is claimed that in Saeiamento val-j
ley, whe'o urcbanls and meadow lands '
have been submerged, tlt-h have devoured
not only the grass but many of the young :
trees.
Mvrtle iViint is steering for a lnxnn.
J Alioiit two huudretl itcivs are lieiitg -;
i olatted as additions to the town, and ev-:
j erylly is coulldent ot a big
t the place.
boom for.
j Over 100 bead of animals have Is-en :
) killed iroin W. S, Lada'sherd ot Jerseys,
j owing to the development of disease!
anions tliens, mtixxniceii ttiruut) cos
liroufcbt jtiim t'alii'oriii.i. Manv others
I are in quarantine,
i '.
- During the imntb of May over K0O ;
f hovin have lieen sbipeil to Tueotna, from :
.btl't-rent points in the Willamette valley
; ami i-outlirrii Oregon, by a f-alem firm -1
which wili isoon Ifgin Mipplying mutton ;
: sheep lo that jmrtion of Washington.
t .'treat excitement prevails in
MIC
1 1 u ur d Aietie munng district over a re
! cent gold discovoiv. A tramp walked
' into the gulch, made the thscoveiy and
i Nld out on the following Friday for
i f'0,( O.i. humpies of ore s-ay -".",' Ot to
! the ton.
s Genesee eitisteiis ate circulating e
tit ion lor the calling of a fqs'eial election
for the put Kse of voting to bond the1
town lor flO.tsO, said amount to ls used
tor the airse of dicing one or niore
j ditesi.tu welis to ol.lam water for lire
t protection and tor other public improve-
! tllelits. '
l tie tsiiicr and plant lr the new saw-:
mill at fvm'nuw , on the Nehalcui, has,
lieen pun based and w ill lie taken to 'I'd- !
amiH'k by the steamer Iaxus (linen on i
her next trip. The mill-ite has leen se- j
lected and ibe woik will commence on
the erection " a stone budding and hotel
iinmcdialetv .
j tieneral liidweil, of Cbico. Cal., has!
! uncle a sale of the entite season's cmp ol "'
i It nit trout bis Kan. he Cbuto orchards of i
I I,1I,"0 acies, and vineyard of 'Hi acres,:
j which will amount to alsuit tS.000,000 ,
i cun l4 greater i"rt;tn, and the what re
poll I!1
Marvsviiic and Yuna Citv will
mams will iiediied at Cbico.
Rev. John Hogan, a German preacher,
lias been traveling lor some time ovei
ditl'eteiit portions ol the Pacific coast, st?
lH.ting a location lor a colony of tier
mans, who will arrive at v astle Ganlen,
N-' i aUj,,t.tlH irs, ' 'l0 onth, has
picked out a largo tract of land iu I. inn
county, near Albany, for bis colony.
Robeit Kbman, late assistant door
keeper of the state boost" of representa
tives, has been conH'lled to band in bis
resignation to the tseattle authorities s
city detective for complicity in aiding ttie
gamblers of that city to evade the !
Isce. l.lmian is the man that assaulted
Representative Brown, of Sjsjkane conn
ty, in the closing days oi the session.
The sand along the banks of the ma
jesuc Columbia river is an obstacle to
railway traliio, almost as ditiicult to ovt r
j come as the snow blockades durii.g the
winter. Mearly eveiy train is delayed
; on account ol ttie ever-shifting sand bills
i covering the track.
j James M. Coon died at his residence,
i between Hied and Peoria, May 30, at the
age oi neaily NO years. Mr. Coon was
j one of ihe earliest settlers in Linn coun-
j ty, having come there in 140. . He has
Iwn mi invalid with ibeumatism for
some tune ami bis death was looked for.
Edward Sal bach, a well known farmer
living near Stockton, Cal., waa fatally
injured lecently, by an inlmiated bull.
The people of Port Angeles subscribed
$1500 for a "write up" of one page in
the New Yoik Sun. The article lias ap
pearcd in cold typo, and the suhscriheis
are dissatisfied with it. The Times of
that city says the article fails to speak
definitely of the coal mines near there,
throws doubt over the local railroad pro
ject, "and wanders astray into eivety
rield and nook of the new state of Wash
ington without expressing any decided
confidence in the city of Port Angeles."
Ir. A.S. Haley, while on his return
from Waterville lo Lake Cbeian, lost bis
way near the breaks .of the Columbia,
ami in the darkness bis horse stumbled
throw ing him to the ground, the horse
falling upon and bruising him badly.
He managed to woi k bis way dow n to
the ferry and was taken home by bis
friends. He is slow ly recovering.
j James Ronudtrce, the Snohomish
blacksmith, w ho disappeared quite mys
j teriously a lew days ago, has not yet
! turned up, and it is thought that in a
: state of intoxication the old man lias
I fallen into the Pillchuck or committed
suicide, as he was very despondent, hav
ing tried many times to quit the use of
intoxicating liquors without success
The work on the new wing at the in- j
sane asylum is about completed. It can-
i not be occupied at once as it baa not yet j
j been furnished. The asylum now fur-'
j nisbes treatment for &J0 patient, which j
I is the largest number ever confined !
i there. The wards are now all crowded :
1 and the immediate furnishing of the new i
wing is a necessity that will no doubt be j
met by ttie board ot asylum commission
ers at an early day.
BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE-
it i tm
trt tin Hern, and
than Mnnnter
Arlunlljr lCxUtetl.
3n a bright morning In May, 1897,
I left Anglers for Nantes, the met run-j
oils of Hrlttanv. writes Louis Frechette
In the Anna. As 1 was about to take
the train, a friend, a lio had come to
see me olf, said with a parting hand-
-Bv-thediv, before von get to 1
Ancenis there Is a station called Chani-
toee, js ttie cars pun up toon, io tne
right and you w ill see the ruins of an
old chateau. Take litem iu well they
are the remains of Jitucheurd'a castle. '
llluebeard'a castle? What Blue
beard do yon meanP''
'Surelv there is only one Perro
aults Bluebeard, Ollenbaeli'a Blue
bearil." "Did he ever live?"'
'tJerlalnlv, In th-sh ami bone, as you
and 1. with this tlilletenee that he
wiis a hard case to begin with, and a
marshal of France into I he bargain."
'Really what was his name?"
tlilles do He!, n descendant of
of the oldest families iu Europe.
one
His
career was most extraordinary.
The name w hs not unknown to inc.
t had read of it in the chronicles in
which is handed down to us the marvel
Olts Rtory of the maid of Orleans. But
what could lie th connection between
It and the blomlthtrsiy hero ot l'er-
reault's celebrated tale?
Ihlsquestum suggested itself to mr
mind as the train bore me at full speed
over the waving hills that border the
Loire, ami from one thought to an
other 1 found myself unconsciously re
hearsing the different scenes, phases
and catastrophe of the chihlisli Oram
which grandmother take snclt delight
in presenting to their little gaping aud
shuddering audiences.
1 could see the youthful bride, led on
by curiosity, creep tremblingly, clutch
ing the little gold key, to "the fatal
door, open it noiselessly, utter a crv of
horror, and drop fainting at the sight
of the ldies hung iu a row.
Then the sudden return of the angry
husband to his castle, his turv on see-
ng the little gold key soiled with blood.
his brandishing ot the deadly sword,
w ith the infuriated cries of '-Prepare to
die, madam!''
1 could hear the pitiful tones of the
poor victim, during the short respite
granted her, as she called to her sister
perched up on the tower: "Ann, sister
Ann. seest thou u one come? And !
the lamentable replv; '-No, I see
nothing but the shining sun
dusty road!'
on the !
And at last came the sigh of relief of
yore, as I fancied I could hear from
afar olf the sounding approach, of the
- galloping rescuers.
'I I,., . h ilinln.t rn till u-n p..l,,l
p 4 x x i itti;o aut(x. s a i mi vx nv u t
- Chammptoce, where, sure enough. 1
saw on the right, as my friend directed,
about a quarter of a mile otf, tho jag-
ged fitrm of a lofty mediieval lower
j which rose alsmt a heap of rums ami a
,' clump of stunted oaks, casting against
the heavens its vast and somlar outline.
: This was (lilies de Retx's castle. Blue
; Beartl's home. Or rather it w-a one of
his castles, for he had ninnv, the whole
surrounding country which Iwar his
name (.Pays tie lieta) having once beeu
his.
A BOY MILLIONAIRE.
llttta Marshall Rnharta. to - Ot.f , lit
l'nl.,ir or n Fnrl mo f S.OiHt.OOO.
Little Marshall Rolrts. son of the
late Marshall O. Rolwrts. is I In young
est millionaire in New York City.
TluM-e are hundreds of children in Mew 1
York who will p.obablv some dav in- j
herit one or more millions, but little
Marshall Rola-rts already inherits his ;
vast fortune, aud in eleven jears it will
Ih entirely in his control.
His father w a one of the great mer
chants of his day. and wheu he died
some four year ago he left an estate
valued at JlO.OOO.'nOO. The Utile boy
did not have this entire fortune be
queathed him. because there were other
claimants xvilh equal rights to it.
When Mr. Roberts died he wa an old
man. His widow, one of the lieantifnl
y'ouug society women of our metrop
olis, and the mother of little Marshall,
was his second wife. His first wife was
thirty years her senior, ami had a
daughter who is now Mrs. Ames Van
Wart. Mrs. Van Wart has a daughter.
Miss Evelyn Van Wart, w ho is 20 years
j ol(, Thu lnake, young Mrs. Roberts,
who is now but 30. stepmother to a
lady of 40, and stepgrandniother to a
yoiing lady of 20. and the little million
aire of 10 uncle to a maiden twice his
age.
When Mr. Roberts died he left a will
dividing his money between his wife,
his grauddaughter ami his little sotv
The son has half of the fortune for
his own use, but until he comes of age
his mother is to have tho income from
the $5,000,000.
Little Marshall Rolwrls will some
day be one of the greatest catches iu
the matrimonial market, and he bids
fair to be a handsome and clever young
man. He is a nice.hcalihv-lookiug lad,
tall for his age, well formed, and with a
round face full of intelligence. He has
great.soft. brown eyes like his mother's,
ami a dimple iu a rather decided-look-'
ing chin.
lie has been across the ocean almost
every year of his life, has lived for
months in London and Paris, speaks
German and Freuch as w ell a English,
and is being educated for a man of the
world.
His greatest ambition at present is
to be an athlete. He has a bicvele on
which he rides up ami down Fifth
avenue; he plays tenuis, bowls ami
rides. Two horses are at his command,
and almost every tine morning he may
bo seen mounted on one of them, and
attended by his own special groom, "a
young Irishman who once rode in a cir
cus," as the young millionaire is fond
of explaining to his friends.
He has a tutor who lives in the house
and looks after his mental traiuing.
j He is being educated after the English
i fashion and learns his Latin and Greek
i with his English primer.
Sirs. Roberts is proud of her bright,
i handsome boy.aud takes every pains to
make him a healthy, educated gentle
man. He eats plain food, sleeps on a
hard mattress, is taught to know the
value of money anil iu every way is
trained with the same rigor as a royal
prince.
His fortune is, most of it, invested in
real estate aud Government bonds, and
four or five well-known men are his
guardians. His income, when he comes
into his fortune.will be f'JOO.OOO a year.
which is almost $550 a day, or $22
for
i every hour he lives.
A Small Deer.
A remarkable little animal has been
added to the London zoo. It is a deer,
though in size but a trifle larger than
a full-grown cat. The cloven hoofs
proclaim its position in the mammalian
world beyond doubt, but it hits no
horns, iu the male two long canine
teeth project from the upper lip. aud
these uurhaua serve iu their stead. .
KAiSTKKN NEWS.
iHfim Villain's IlllPSllWIllM ill ilil-
!
waiikfp. ,
lt ISPEltH HIS TWO MTTI.K CIUUHIKN.
KitRti - li Sj inlirab'S Hit) ittg
tip Our flour-
ln Mills.
Sisty-eitfld .election ufllcers have lsen
ilidicteit fur ion-iHHi at Jersey City.
Henry Vl'lurd buys the. Milwaukee
(reel rut lines mid lei 1 1 ic light pliint.
The Nottli Dakota Democratic state
convention will held at tirand Forks
July lo.
The I'Mcific Mail
the Sreat .Northern
: t:ilic,
Imikes a deal w itb
and Canadian Pa-
Over TO I 'cut of the cilinenn nf t'bl-
iugo are Kneicn tKit n or of fieluu pnreu-
ttiye.
Senor Hilva I'oito, an Afile.tn explorer !
of futv years' ex eriein e, bits committed
suicide.
tjitelss-'s premier
says a royal com
scandals aiint bit.
! inissioe sliall silt the
I ifovermeiit.
A lire at Chris Mueller's saw mill at
Davenport, Iowa, destroyed fTtUMll
wotth of lumber ; insured.
An 1 'ttgliuli syndicate oltVrw to buv the
twenty-one flouring noils controlled by
the Noith Dakota Milling association.
The Punk of Midd'
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. ..,, b i tiiHii-m. i.iMiiini lew, f.!l t.
eut
: O Ml
assets U taeen fiitM 01 and 70,0 K
The timber laborers on the Liverpool j
do ks hat e struck for an advance oil
r day hi their wages. Ihe slrikt
spread.
may
Richard Croker, the ex leader of Tam
many Hall, has started from Germany
for New Yoik to f,,- be senate com
mittee. At the f.otn'uc Pointe. Quo , inquest
the nuns produced a lint nf tifty-sis in
maica who js ri-lied in the in-aue asy
lum tire.
The Vatican has in.tm -ted the Catho
bishops uf (.'anada to endeavor to h-s-
li.
fi, n ",M autagtnnsm betai:eu the English i
: an-f tivncb. j
Tl ie celeHralti Hillings murler east
was ui coed in the !h suiteiiHt court.
It is not rxpt-cted that a dccicioii w ill be
rendered this leim.
Miners In the Cluion ami K. vnoldt
( Pa.) district bate decided lo stride for
i the Columbus scale of li-'i cents. . lony!
stlllulw is exHH ted.
Abram Pofsaiihi", iiM-rinteieb'rd of
i mails til Rochester, N Y., has leen sen
; tence l to three years in the s-riitentiary
' for embe.r-ltng letteis.
A bill es-t.-ib1ishing
Indian school in
y iinieMola, Aiicbitfan.
W 1-COtlMlI. ."south
Dakota an I .Montana will be ri pnted fa
voiaidy to the bon-e.
i Schedules of b a-ijumeiit of Sistan
,t Sons, of York show liabilities of
II ,t;::i,7;U ; iiomina! Mssets, (1 ,7lwi,n 0 ;
i actual anets, lO.t'.'t.
t 1 be rvpoits from Nan Antonio of a rev
! obttioiiary itnivviiM-nt in Coahuila, Mex.,
. "1 J ., , i ,'1 K '." H,,",H,
1 'h'"1 ""founded.
The National Aix'iation of Chri-tian
.-a-iciitUt. ha bemin its annual conven
tion in New Yoi k Over I,2o0 delegates
truni all parts of the country are present.
The jndire iu the MarionVouiit v (Kbj.)
election fraud ca-es bus terierved a d-
isioii until lVeeniber. This is regarded
as a practical victory for the defendants.
The president semis a message to con
kdess submitting b.r consideration the
recommendation of the Pun-A met h an
conference-of an inter-national American
bank
The wife of the rdiah of Persia, who
has been under medical treatment at Vi
enna loi some lime, has bad her mulil
'-to
tuny rt.-iiifd, and lias one back
home.
lo her
The American Medical association at
Nashville. Tenn., elected Dr. W. T.
Brings of that city president, ami se
let led Wa-liington as the next place of
meeting.
A limited passenger Irain on Ihe Al
ton was inn into bv a freight near Kan
sas City. Mrs. Mary Morris, of Mil
waukee was one ol "the three jiersolis
painfully injured.
The KmihkoIh n.itier-' .v,n,u Km
utiauimoiisl v adopted a resolution in fa-
vor of a working day of eight hours, in
cluding time occupied in ascending and
descending the pits.
In the investigation of the Jessup trag
edy at Savannah, Ga., the coroner's juiy
declared the kiding of Mrs. Littlcfield to
be murder, and the killing of alt-Call
justifiable homicide.
At Huge::, Westphalia, a widower
named Scbultz deliberately drowned his
two lutle children in the river Volme
and committed suicide by jumping into i
the stieain when they had disappeared.
Bv a lnrkv discovery at th"
OKio
state prison ihe escape of live desperate
eo.iviets from that institution was pre
vented jird as it was about to lie acenm
("lisbed. "Thev bad dug a tunnel under
i be walls.
Chicago police are on the bunt again
for ".I. B. Simonds,' the man who
bought the furniture for the Carlson cot
tage, which Dr. Cronin wua murdered in.
"Sinionds" has la-eu seen on the street
tw ice latclv.
It is stated that Chancellor Von Capri
vi intends to submit a measure to the
reichstng imposing a tax upon all Ger
mans who are ineligible for service in
the army and upon all German citizens
who are abroad. -
The expedition of the cutter McLane
np the Suawanee river, in search of the
missing Mayor Cottiell of Cedar Keys,
Flu., has been abandoned. The ac
counts of the affairs at Cedar Keys were
ot exaggerated.
At Povlestown, Pa., J. Monroe Sellen
berger, the lawyer whose forgeries and
other criminal escapades recently caused
such widespread sensation, has been
sentenced to twenty-two years imprison
ment at hard labor.
Jobn P. Kunse, who was tried with
Coughlin, Burke, O'Sullivan and Begga
for alleged complicity in the Cronin mur
der, was married in Chicago to Miss Ju
lia Gbover, the young lady who visited
him so often during his imprisonment
and cheered him during the trial.
JACK AND BILL CATCH IT.
hf Try la II ran li Hp a Circa aa4
cm ma Wlaar and Ilattar Mas.
Lafayette H a straggling little town
of about 2100 iuhabitauls. situated
twenty miles from the nearest railroad.
It Is important to the country arouu,
because a circus stops here every year.
These circuses are uot of the Barn um
kind, but small affairs, travelling
through the back districts ott wagons,
and keeping away from the railroads.
Nevertheless the arrival of one of them
is a great event at Lafayette, aud
several thousand people always collect
to see the sights, some of them walking
thirty miles.
liifl and Jack Johnson hare long
been the terrors of this region. Every
backwoods district in the Southwest
has ita bully, aud the Johnson bovs for
years possessed that Undisputed dis
tinction within a region embraced by a
radius of ten mi'es. Bill, the elder of
the brothers, was tall aud heavy. Jack
was small ami light, but fully as
dangerous as his brother. Neither had
ever killed a man, but they had wound
ed innumerable persons, and aver
aged four or five tights apiece each
week. They frequently stampeded the
small towns, riding through the streets
at full speed, tiring right and left.
A fjw weeks ago a circus tempted by
the warm weather, came up from the
South, aud made a trip through the
southern part of this blf.te, ami Ln
fut cite was one of the towns visited,
liie novelty of a circus la wiuter was
all the more acceptable to the people,
sud the crowd in attendance at the per
formance was unusually large.
During the afternoon the show was
Iu full blast, wheu Bill aud Jack John
son arrived. They galloped into town,
and there was a scattering of women
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au'i cniiuivii. biiu ui meu, iuu. iium
were well loaded with whisky, and
after rubbing their pistols across the
noses of half a doseu men they went to
the circus. After looking at the ani
mals and the gymnastic performances
they wandered into the side show. Pot
a while they contented themselves
w ith gazing at the Circassian girl, the
fat woman, the sword swallower, and
the armless man who fired a repeat. ng
j ritle with his toes, but they soon grew
j tired of such tame sHrt. Bill and Jack
wanted a light. None of the spectators
j would tight them. An idea then oc
curred to Jack. They would clean out
i the sitle show.
! "Let's break up the darned thine,"
he said to Bill, 'and have some fun.
You take the fellow who swallows
tIB knife, aud Pit salt into the one who
shoots the gun with his toes.'
Bill at once agreed to the proposition.
i sud leaping over the ropes which
j separated the spectator from the jer-
formeis. they i ushed upon their victims.
The crowd raised the cry of fight and
; made for the door, but the circus per-
formets were perfectly composed. The
j sword swallower tos-Ted his sword to
) one side, picked up one of the heavy
pins lo which the tent ropes are
; fastened, and saluted Bill with a blow
j which nearly broke his skull. The man
! with the repeating ride, who was sup-;-
posed to have no limbs but the lower
I ones, pulled two arms from beneath
: his vest, reversed his gun and clubbed
i Jack over the head,
j Then the side show people sailed In.
) The fat woman kicked Bill in the side,
i w Idle the sword swallower pummelled
j him about the head. The Circassian
girl tore out w h6le handfuls of Jack's
j Lair, w Idle the armless man rapidly I
I beat his countenance out ot shape. In
I live minutes all was quiet iu th tent.
The people timidly ventured back. The
circus ei -formers were smoothing meir
disordered attire. Bill and Jack were
lying senseless on the ground. They
were takeu out, aud it was found thai
Bill's leg was broken. So was hi
nose. Both eye were closed, and m
head aud liody were covered with
gashes. Jack bail both anus broken,
and his bruises were uot less numerous
ttian Bill's.
That night the attendance at botb
circucs w us Ihe largest ever known.
The applause was tremendous. Nc
attempt w as made to arrest anybody
j Recently Jack,
whose broken arms
I nenled rapid!)-. Joined the Baptist
Church. Ulli will do likewise a soon
as his fractured leg is mended
Both
are scarred for life and announce their
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"J"' iinuaiiwii iu A3 viii''vua
; and Christians. LafaytUe Ky. letter.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech.
It has sometimes Iteen said that
ft he Gettysburg speech was not
i
. j
ln,9J
preciated at the time of its delivery: w
i therefore add the testimony of another
i high authority to that of Emerson.. On
the day after" the dedication Edward
j Everett w rote to the President: Per
I mit me . . . to express my great
i admiration of the thoughts expressed by
i you with such eloquent simplicity and
t appropriateness at the consecration of
thecemeterv. I should be glad if I could
flatter myself that I came as nearto the
central idea of the occas on. in two
hours, as you did in two minutes." Mr.
Lincoln "replied; "Your kind note
of to-day is received. In our re
Stective parts yesterday, you could
not have been excused to make a
short address, nor I a long one. I am
pleased to know that In your judgment
the little I did say was not entirely a
failure. Of course I knew that Ir.
Everett would not fail; and yet while
the whole discourse was eminently sat
isfactory, and will be of great value,
there were passages in it which trans-
' eeuded my expectations. The point
made against the tueory ot tneueuerai
Government being only an agency,
whose principals are the States, was
new to me, and. as I think, is one of
the lcst arguments for the national
supremacy. The tribute to onr noble
women for their angel ministering to
tho suffering soldiers surpasses in its
way, as do the subjects of it, whatever
has gone before." Century.
Bernhardt a Clairvoyant.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is a firm be
liever in the supernatural. She has
related that when at New York, on her
first American trip, she woke up one
night after a terrible dream, in which
she had seeu her son Maurice bitten by
two mad dogs. The vision made such
an impression on her mind that early
next morning she telegraphed to
Maurice., ami received the reply that
he had lieeu bitten by two dogs, that
the wounds iu his arm were not serious.
Moreover, the dogs were not rabid, bnt
had liecu immediately killed. Mme.
Bernhardt could, she 'affirms, mention
numerous other circumstances in her
life which it would be impossible to
put dowu lo mere chance or coinci
dence. A Modern King Lear.
An old man named Daniel Murray
has been committed to the almshouse of
Northampton couuty, Pennsylvania, at
his own request, because he can not get
the use of t, 000, his own personal prop
irty, w hich he assigned to his relating.
SPOUTING NOTES.
Itiiey, I lie Winner of the Kenfuckjr
Derby.
UOCA C. ROSS VS. FOOTPADS.
The Sulfa
A hb sal Pigeon
Northwest.
Sbout sf tlis
The Avomlale
Nashville.
stable won :t,(7 at
Terra Cot I a, (he
broken down.
great race horse, is
M. M. Morse has lieen elected secre
tary of the National .T rotting Association.
Ten-mile trotting raeen
distance running races on
are like long
tbe turf s-l-
iium occurrence.
The Montana Circuit entries are aixty
at Anaconda, sixty-four at Deer lodgn
and sixty-six at Butt.
The New York Jockey Club ojsmed
their spring meeting May SO, on tin? fin
est race course in America.
.The Emperor of Norfolk will never run
again. When I e did iqiort the silk he
was a sprinter and no mistake.
There are eighteen entries for the
three-vear-old stake race, of the Oregon
State Pair.
A consignment of 100 Shetland pontes i
arrived in New Y ork recently. One was
3I inches high and weighed ISO junds.
The bill to legalise betting on New Jer
sey race tracks was just what was w anted
to settle many arguments ami discus
sion. Blue Belle, the American trotter, won
the Grand Prize of 6.0 i0 florins at Vi
enna, on May 10. Blue Bdle trotted the
mile in 2:2t.
Captain Brewer, the champion trap
shot of the woild is in Han Francisco,
He will probably sltoot several matches
in that city.
The Portland. Me., Yacht Club lias
indorsed the bill now Itefore Congress
"to provide arms and equipments for a
naval militia."
Jobn Teeiner, who at one time held
the "Police tJacetie" champion chal
lenge row in eup, baa oismed a liot-l at
Mt-Keesport, Pa.
Jack Pempsey is living at Portland,
Oregon. He will remain in that city un
til the La Blanche and Mitt bell match is
decided on June 17.
The Chicago stable of racers a on the
money of the Nashville spring meeting.
The horses that ran under their colors
cooiHi in fl.-toO.
1
The Selby Live Bird championship
medal waa won in Oakland, Cal,, May
17, by C. B. Smith,- who succeeded in
killing 37 birds out of a jossible 40.
Black Knight, by Hindoo Brooklet,
recently ran 5 furlong in a trial at Nash
ville in an even minute. Black Knight
is owned by McUuigan, and is a sprinter.
The IftO-yaM foot-rar-e for 500, be
tween Harry Camptell, of PitUton, Pa.,
and George Siekler, of Towanda, was
run at WilkesbaTe, Pa , on Mav lo.
Campbell won easily in 104' neconds.
Secretary King, of the Charter Oak
Paik, Hartford, Conn., notifies Fox's
Weekly that 'here are 111 entries for the
110,03 colt race for foals of Dow, to be
trotted for at Hartford, Conn., in m.
Advices from Shiner state that Dun
es
nc Kosa, the champion athlete, waa
lacked by footoada or bushmen. in
attacked ny lootnadu or bushmen. in
Australia. They knocked him .town,
tint be got up and whipped ail three,
knocking one of the biishmen's eye out
with a horn-handled stick.
The great pigeon shooting natch le-j
tmeen George C Beck, of Indianapolis, j
who holds the national championship, !
ami Fred Erh, of Lafayette, Ind., the ex-1
champion, was decided at Indianapolis
! Ind., on Mav 12. Beck won. killing
44
out ot 6' Krb no,''',d down 43.
It
mi tiuw niiavr lor me nanipion.
Hnith Leonard defeated Peter Schu
macher, of San Francisco in a wrestling
match for a puree of 500, at Buff alo.
N. Y.,on May 12- The conditions were
Gnooo-Roman, best two in three falla.
Iiponard won the first fall in 20 minutes
P j 9 seconda ; Schumacher took the second
in W minutes 13 seconds. Leonard won
the third fall ami the match in :tO min
utes 20 seconds.
Prof. Geo. Whistler, the champion
trick swimmer of Australia, came near
losing his life at the Golden Gate, San i
Krancisco. He was giving an exhihi-
tion in bis Boynton suit, and while
jumping from a steamboat into the wa
ter tore a bole in bis suit, and in spite of
bia efforts he waa carried out to sea.
Several steamers passed him, bnt not
withstanding his signals of distress, paid
no attention to him. Just about the
time he supposed be was going to fur
nish a meal for the sharks a coaster dis
covered him, bove to and rescued biru.
At Philadelphia, recently, the Milk
Dealers' Protective Association held a
series of races on the Driving Park. One
of the interestingifeaturea. wathe two
races by milk dealers in milk wagons.
One of them, especially, caused unusual
excitement owingto an accident. The
race was won bv Nellie, a mare owned
by Samuel Middleman. After winning
she ran plump against the fence, npaet
the milk cans and fell, injuring herself.
The distance was one mile, and, consid
ering the fact that each of the milkmen
bad to place in bis wagon three large
cans filled with water, and that the
wagons were large and the harness
heavy, the time, 4 :30, waa not bad. j
The first of the great turf events of
18!l, the Kentucky Derby, waa inn at j
Louisville, Ky., on May 14. About
12,0(10 spectators were present to witness j
the rat. Robespierre, who waa the fa- j
vorite just before ihe race, had his jockey i
changed. Francis being substituted for
Kiley. The little jockey was unable to
control his horse, and it was a fight
throughout, in which Robespierre would
be sawed down and held back for a few
leaps, only to take the bit and run to the
front at a pace that was killing to him.
Riley won it because be waa a long way
the best horse started. None of the
other five could touch him on that mud
dy track, and it is doubtful if Bill
Letcher, who alone proved to tie in the
same class, could have pushed the great
eon of Longfellow even over a dry track.
All talk of Riley being out of condition
was nonsense. He was never more fit.
Clean of limb, sound and atromr. there
was no sign of cough or other indispoei- j
tion. His eye was clear and bright and)
he looked the w inner. Then there was
Isaac Murphy's riding. The occasion
required a jockey who could keep hia
boree in hand. Murphy did this admir
ably. Tim of rata, 2 ; distance, mile
aiia kali.
Wbar'a My Mggert
la the month of January, In
going down the big river "from Vicks
barg to New Orleans. J hapjxmed to
strike a boat on w hich were half a
dozen professional gamblers. There
were a large number of other passen
gers, and a game was going oa in the
cabin nfght and day. I hapjwned to
fall in with two young men at the start,
and incidentally learned that they had
been off on a speculation which turned
out disastrously and were returning
home close to dead broke that they
could only raise $20 betwewu them.
On the second night one of them cam
into the game with this money, and in
the course of an hour won f-SOU. Then
luck shifted and he was eieaned ouf.
As his last dollar went the banker iu
quifwli "Hare you anything to raise a stake
on."
"Yes. W bar's my nigger?" was the
replv. .
. "Vere, Mars John! answered a role,
and a "young and likely, " as it usd to
be termed, negro I toy about ?0 years
old entered the cabin and bowed very
humbly.
Thar's a nigger who Is worth f 1.
600 in gold," said the young man.
"How much will you put op agaiuat
him?"
"TwelTe hundred.
Doner
In just forty minutes the last dollar
was gone, luck and trickery being too
many for the young fellow, ami as he
rose up the "banker" culled ont;
"Luck seems to bate some folks.
Whir l my nigger?
No one could auswer, bnt a search
for him was at once instituted. Three
or four men looked high aud low, but
be could not be found, aud it was
finally concluded that he had gone
overboard. There was a great deal of
"cussing around," but it didn't help
matters any, and all finally turued in
for the night. When I weut to niy
stateroom I found the washbowl full of
black water, and a strange coat and
hat on the floor. I was wondering over
these things when otie of the young
men came in the one who bad. not
played.
"I came to remove these thing," he
explained. "I got into your room by
mistake, you see."
But what does it mean?
"It means that I am the 'nigger" who
was put up against twelve hundred
dollars anil lost."
"What an ideaf
"Yes, we ought to hare made a thou
sand dollars apiece, but it was no go.
Hope you'll excuse my intrusion and
keep mum."
And all the rest of the way to New
Orleans the passengers mourned the ,
death of that "likely nigger" and won
dered whether be went Iright down or
died by inches. A'. J", San.
Krlcaoij Patriotism.
Though be waa a citizen of the world,
and a naturalized American, his inter
est in his native land never reaped; in
deed his affection for it increased as he m
CSS oa I U jvai a x w X 1
ited Sweden after his departure from
home in 1826. says Heribner'a JJaymine-.
He did propose in the latter part
of ttu life to return thither, and de
clared that he would rather lie under
a mound of gravel in Sweden when he
was dead than beneath the tallest mon
ument that could be erected on Ameri
can soiL He became in terested. how
ever, in his study of solar heat and the
development of bis sun motor, and was
not willing to transfer himself to a
region so little adapted to such studies
as the high latitudes of Sweden. He
l'anwu1 in faun rtt Ka Vxxawjas " '
needed, ns be explained, to be near the
! vertical ravs of the sun. - "New York
; York is certainly not vertical under
' h tnn. bnt ravs in midsummer in
cline only seventeeu degrees, and pro
duce a beat scarcely two degree lea
than in the tropics, thus sufficient for
mr purpose. . . .
" hen Ericsson obtained a position
securing to him an income much in ex
cess of his modest needs, which was
not until after he had reached bis
sixtieth year, ho was constantly rn.it-
j ing gifts to Sweden aud to Swedes.
These appear to have attracted little
or no attention in this country, but
they have added a feeling of affection
to the pride with which his country
men remember him. An ancient miner
sent word, through one of Ericsson's
correspondents, that he had known
John in bis youth; immediately a draft
was sent to purchase a handsome
watch for the old gossip, and as one of
his neighbors, "the man with the
leathern apron, was subsequently
found to bare some vague reeoiiec-ilou
in the same line, he received 150
crowns to "buy him a coat,"
When famine pinched the Norrland-
j era in 1S67. and collectections for their
relief were taken np in various coun
tries, the total contributions from the
United States amounted to 20.3 1 6
Swedish crowns. Of this sum Ericsson
gave 20,216 crowns, and a suliscription
of 100 crowns from the Swedish minis
ter completed the total.
Tho Jews Still Waader.
It Is remarkable that Emin Pasha
shonld be a Jew by birth, and one of
bis rescuers Vita Hansen a Jew by
profession. But the presence of these
Jews in Equatorial Africa does not
stand alone. From the time of Abra
ham downward the migratory instinct
has been dominant in the race. Me
sopotamia, Canaan, Egypt. Canaan
once more, Assyria. Babylonia. Persia.
Canaan a third time, and then the
world at large such are the successive
stages of Israel's national migrations.
The Jews, indeed, have ever been the
"tribe of the wandering foot." In an
age when movement from one country
to another was a rare and hazardous
proceeding in the twelfth centnry,
to wit Benjamin of Tudela and Pe
tachia of Hatisbon traveled through a
great part of Europe. Asia and Africa,
and were thereby able to make con
siderable additions to the world's
knowledge. The second Benjamin and
Haleyy, who explored the Felashas,
may also be mentioned. The existence
of Jews in out-of-the-way corners of
the globe, the Felashas and Beni-Israel
and the Cochin Jews, has only been
made possible by the migratory ten
dency of the race. The four young
men who kept last Yora Kippor" in so
queer, yet touching, a fashion in the
-wilds of Sooth Africa, are among the
latest illustrations of the tendency. No
doubt the wandering instinct has been
strengthened by persecutions, bat now
that peace and quietness are his ia
greater measure, the Jew still retains
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his predilection for traveL JcwiA
ere are only nve workmgmea
justices of the peace in Great Britain.
Three of them are in England and two
in Scotland.
Charles V. Piper, of Seattle, baa
oovered a new ar-ecies of pine.
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