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TT' O-O -r ll: EBANON 11 A JLvb He Who thinks to please the world is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. VOL. IV. NO. 18. LEBANON, OREGON, Fill DAY. JULY, 11. 1890. 82.00 PER YEAH IN ADVANCE. Reneral Grant's Horsemanship. "Speaking of General Grant's fins horsemanship." said General N. P. Banks a few evenings ago, "reminds me of an incident that occurred soon after the battle of Port Hudson, in which he gave me the race of my life. General Grant paid the army under my command a visit at the period men tioned and was asked to review it. lie brought with him no horses, and I loaned him for the occasion the mag nificent bay parade horse which the patriotic citizens of Massachusetts pre sented to me when I went to the front in 1SC2. All of my old soldiers will re member that bay horse. I rode on the review a thoroughbred black mare, and I was in a constant state of anxiety lest she would run away with me when wanned up. Well, the troops were drawn up in a line and we rode down the front lines at a slow pace, but when we reached the rear lines Grant would put the bay at his utmost speed, and as he was nearly thoroughbred, he could run. Grant sat on the bay as if he was part of him. but the difficulty I found myself in was not to keep up at the regular distance, but to prevent my animal from distancing the General and running off with me. Grant rode like a demon and I after him until the review was finished, the troops in the meantime watching the scene with interest mingled with astonishment. For some days afterward the troops were heard discussing the event, and, as far as I can learn, never settled the question as to whether it was a horse race or a military review." "While on the subject of horses," continued the General, "the two ani mals that I took with me into the field at the outbreak of the Civil War sur vived all the campaigns in which I was engaged. When I returned to civH pursuits I took my horses back to Massachusetts with me and kept the faithful animals until they died. The bay horse which I have mentioned I rarely used except on parade or in an emergency. He was too valua ble to risk his life on the field of battle. I usually rode another bay in battle, a big, powerful and zealous ani mal. He was wounded on several oc casions, but none of his wounds seemed to be serious enough to incapacitate him from active service. I rode him at the battle of Cedar Mountain. A". 1". Tribune. The Sleepy Senate of Brazil. The Senate of the United State presents a remarkable contrast with that of Brazil," said aa attache of a Sooth American Legation to a Wash ington' Past reporter as he eyed criti cally the various senators from the gal lery" yesterday." T have heard a great man- remarks bordering on reflection about the sleepy' proceedings of the Senate, but to have that adjective ap plied appropriately and literally it should be transferred to the Brazilian Senate. The cause of this fact is one which has been instrumental in bring ing about the revolution. In Brazil Senators hold office for life, and take a so-called active part in the legislation of the country so long as they ean be carried to the Senate chamber and sit up. A view of the Brazilian Senate re minds one of a hospital for the infirm and aged, with here and there a man of some bodily vigor thrown in. As a rule at least a" third of the Senators are so eld that they fall asleep after sitting in the Senate "Chamber for half an hour, and even on imitortant occasiohs of debates it is impossible to keep them awake long enough to hear the argu ments of the younger men, they never attempting anvthing like an address themselves. 1 remember on one oc casion counting thirteen of these aged legislators sitting in their chairs asleep while one of the ablest debaters was addressing the both'. Toothless, eyes bleared, and the picture of corpses many of them, they make a woful group. There are, of course, younger and abler men in the body who do the real work of enacting legislation. 'One of the pointson which the people of Brazil lay stress is that some , ', , j . i oe a.iopiea Dy j antral trie lnte r- , competitive system which live men will con ests of the country, ami a term of office of four or six vears will not allow the present condition of affairs there to be j World's Fair Commissioners have se continiied. Oae of the first things I j lected the following Vice-Presidents: anticipate hearing of the reorganization ! Thomas M.Waller of Connecticut, -1. of the Brazilian sroveruuient is a change ! 11. de Young of California, 1). B. Penn to correct this evil." ! How to See the Wind. Take a polished metal surface of two feet or more, with straight edge; a large handsaw will answer the pur pose. Take a windy day for the ex perimenti whether hot or cold, clear or cloudy; only let it not be in murky, rainy weather. Hold j'our metallic surface at right angles to the direction of the wind i. e., if the wind is north hold your surface east and west, but instead of holding it vertical incline it about 42 degrees to the horizon, so that the wind, striking, glances and flows over the edge, as the water flows over a dam. Now sight carefully along the edge some minutes at a sharply defined object, and you will see the wind pour ing over the edge in graceful curves. Make your observations carefully and you will hardly ever fail in the experi ment; the results are even better if the sun is obscured. Si. Louis Eepub & How the Great Lakes Were Named. The name of the gTcat lakes of America are generally of Indian origin. The early discoverers of Ontario called it "St. Louis," and afterward the early French called it "Lake Front enac" after the governor. The En glish, when they first claimed dominion, called it "Katarakni, or Ontario"; Mitchell called it 'Catarakui," and Pownall the same, but the name "Ontario" was the one always used. Huron was named from the Indian tribe on its shores when first discovered. From Homans, 1706, and De JTsle. 1729, it received the alias of "Mich igan"; Hennepin, 1698, and Coxe, 1721, called it "Huron, or Kargnondi"; Washington's journal. 1700, calls it "Quatohi, or Huron." Lake Michigan, persistently'called at first "Illinois," was-called "Michigan" first by Sener in 1844, since which time it has been generally known by that name. Cham plain, the first topographer of Lake Superior, called it "Grand lac" The wonderful Jesuit map called it "Tracy or Superior." Coxe and Sener called it by an alias after the Sioux or, as they were then called, the Kadous siaus on its shores. Lake Erie received its name from the Eries on its banks and uniformly retained its name. The Eries were knoi n as the Cat nation; therefore some early writers call it "Felis" and vj)u Chat." Sener called it "Cadara- "" "" Washington's journal, Mitchell, ' ''ownall called it "Okswego." St. EASTERN NEWS. Starvatfon the Result of Strikes in New York. THE Sl'ITESS OF THE NEW ITU 1SER I'lULAliELl'HiA. Prohibition in Northern Dakota laiion of the Initt'il Slates 64.500,000. I'ojiu- Five hundred metal cornice makers of Chicago are on a strike. A portion of the Creek Indian reserva tion lying to the South will piobably le added to the Yellowstone Park. Three American coins, a dollar, half dollar and a dime of ITS;!, so!. 1 at auction in New York last week for f 1 ,850. Thousands of men, women and 'chil dren are claimed to, lie starving m New York citv, as a result of the strikes in that city. Paymaster Duran, of the Mexican Cen tral Railway, is in jail in the city of Mex ico, charged with leing $li),00J short in his accounts. The entire business portion of Cerril los, N. M., fifty miles north of Albu querque, has been destroyed by tire, l-oss about (100,000. The Rocky Mountain carnival began j at Ogdi-n, July 1st. The town was crowded and the procession and exer-' cises were a decided success. Minneajolis seems to be the only city satisfied with the census returns. St Paul's investigation locates as many as twenty residents on a vacant lot. j A passenger train on the Wabash was wrecked near Silver Citv, Iowa. Sev eral persons were injured, nut only two atalty the engineer and fireman. During the past week 144 eases of cholera and thirty-six deaths were re ported at Gandia. Medical authorities believe the disease will not be spread further. Jack Wortman, a noted desierado con fined in jail at Beatrice, Neb., for horse stealing, killed the jailer, George Max field, and esTied. He will lie lynched if caught. A conflict between striking gas work-' era and the po'ice of Leeds, Kngland, took place July 1st. A large number oi people on both sides were nnrt, some of them seriously. An Knglish syndicate has secured the eontrol of the Sackett & Iawton lime mvseums at Omaha, St. Joseph, Mo., and Lincoln, Neb. Sackett Sc I .aw ton retain one-fifth interest. A Chinese scout, sent out from a camp near the boundary of I-ower California, has been captured. AIout fifty China men are waiting for an opportunity to come into the United States. Sir John Thompson, Canadian minis ter of justice, has gone to England to dis cuss reciprocity with the United States in wrecking and coasting, copyright, fish ing and Behringsea matters. Rain-in-the-Face, a noted Sioux chief, ranking next to Sitting Bull, made prom inent through the Custer massacre, in Montana, was fatally slabbed by a jeal ous and handsome squaw, June L'Oth. The Right Rev. Monsignor McManis, member of the Papal household and Vicar-General of this diocese, one of the oldest and ltest known Catholic prelates in this country, died at Geneva, N. Y. Superintendent of tlte Census Porter, of Washington says that from present in dications tlie returns of the enumerators will show a total (Herniation of the Cni'ed States of 4 ,500 ,000, against 51,15o,783 in SsO. A mad horse, seized with hydropho bia, succeeded in biting and feariuliv las- cerating the shoulder of a woman, almost (earing a man to peices, and killing a eow ion ,,e was Bhot Kentucky re i centlv. . of Louisiana, G. V. Allen of .New York inti A. ti. Andiews of.Aoith Carolina. The, pat-t week hundreds throughout the East have fallen victims to the swel tering heat. Many factories have been closed, Chicago's street-car hordes fell dead in the street. The temperature in the middle Mississippi Valley is unpre cedented tor J one. The strike on the Illinois Central Rail road has beenjsettled. 'lhe men go back to work on compromise. They with draw the demand for the dismissal of Division Suiierinteiident Russell and tht company takes from him the power to tureor discharge men. Mr. Samson and Isaac Heidensheimer, two leading and wealthy Hebrew citi zens of Galveston, Tex., were arrested, charged with having burned the Texas Standard Oil Company's mill last April. Samson was president and the largest stockholder in the company. The new cruiser Philadelphia is now reported the fastest ship of her class afloat. She exceeds her contract require ments. Her average speed will be some j thing over twenty knots an hour. The premium to the contractors for excess in speed w ill amount to about $3G0,iH)0. ! The notorious outlaw, Captain Lewis i R. Redmond, paidoued from prison by President Cleveland, who was the terroi of Blue Mountain region of South Caro lina, stabbed to death James Smith, a wealthy lumberman, at Walhalla, S. C, while drunk. The last victim .made the twelfth man be has murdered. He is now in jail. At midnight, June 30th, the prohibi tion law went into effect in Northern Dakota, consequently every saloon in the many towns closed their doors. The first-class saloons claim that they will defy the law, and deal out wtiat is termed original packages liquors w rap ped in parcel. The custom of treating i your neighlsjr at the bar will be clone j away with. ! Miss Brackett, the writer and teacher, ' lias had a right-hund side-saddle made, and rides on either side of her horse in differently. She was moved to this by the conviction that constant riding on the left side was injurious to both rider and horse. The three daughters of the frincess of Wales and other ladies of England have adopted Miss Bracket t's innovation. The Empress Frederick, accompanied by her two daughters, Princesses Vic toria and Margaret, arrived at Windsor Castle June 2Hth, preceding the approach of the Emperor. The Queen received the Empress with marked honors and embraced her with unusual affection. WHEN DOCTORS DISACREE. Ths DlfllcaltlM a Man Has In Following MUcrtlancioas Advice. On going Into a drug store, or look ing through the advertising columns of a newspaper, one wonders why anj body, except out of pure willfulness, should ever die, writes M. J. Savage in the Boston Olobe. But when, on the other hand one notices the different things that are regarded as fatal by the doctors, he begins to wonder that any body should be so illogical as to con tinue to live. For example, a the winter ap proaches, a man begins to consider the practical problem of underllannel. But if he lays to heart the different varieties of medical advice tie will find himself iu the condition of the celebrated long eared animal between the two bundles of hay. He may not starve, but he will be in serious danger of freezing. I have been looking up the matter. Germany has a famoi.s professor of flannel. Dr. Jaeger tells all the world that it must dress in wool, the pure, natural, nncolored article. It is good for sheep, and since the traditional view is that the human race is only a flock of sheep to be. shepherded and fleeced, why the logic is plain. But a famous Boston doctor tells us, on equal authority, that cotton is "tha only wear," 1 do not recall his rea son. Perhaps it is part of a universal system of vegetarianism. " On the other hand. Dr. Felix Oswald, of Kew York, loudly proclaims that the only thing that ought to touch the outside of a civilized being is linen. Meantime what is a distracted man to do as the cold weather comes onP Prof. Blot used to say that the best cup of coffee was the one that contained a mixture of the largest number of kinds. How would it do to get up a composite suit of underclothing and get the bene fit of all the different varieties? But tjiis is only an illustration of a larger problem. I am not yet aged, but within my memory nearly" all kinds of food have iu turn been declared dangerous, if not fatal. The same Is true of all the drinks. Fleeing from the threatening qualities of Cochitttate, I am confronted with the magnified forms of death that lurks in the in sidious bottle of Apollinaris. And then I am startled by au array of statistics prepared by au English medical com mission, wherein it is conclusively shown that all water is dangerous. At any rate, these figures are said to prove that, iu the. tables of longevity. the "total abstinence" man stands j lowest. It begins to -look as if there was "a I good deal of human nature" in doc- j tors. As a man reads the Bible, and sees all tests that make for his opinions j and treats the rest as "figurative so j may it not be with others besides the- ologians? There is such a seductive i tendency in men to make their foot- j rule the measure of the uui verse. It seems to me' just possible that there is a grain of truth in the old proverb: "What is one man's meat is another man's poison." Those who. logically, ought to die, as a matter of fact keep right on living, and those who ought to live do die. Perhaps a j little individuality should come m Here, as in some other things. If a man has i not sense enough to find out what i kiud of food and drink and clothing ! agrees with him, and to govern him- 6elf accordingly.theu perhaps it is just j as well for the world for hiiu not to ! stay here. Iet him go on, and save the fool-killer trouble. But if he has any sense, then experience w ill become ! Ins teacher. Hie ouly "sate person in tin u-iil'lil w I lit rtn.. ti-lit, lfi'tiii his own personal lesson as to how lo I .;,- Child Marriages In Morocco. I i of In all warm climates the period nubertv for both sexes arrives earlier j than it does in the chillv latitudes cf the North, and. therefore, the marriajre able epoch is correspondingly advanced. But unfortunately it is mure than cor respondingly advanced, for a system of child marriages has prevailed dur ing many generations, by means of which infantine brides and bride grooms (but esecially brides) aro simply bought and sold to suit the con venience or the interest of the parents, says the London Graphic. Much at tention has been lately directed to this subject in India, and it is to be hoped that the native mind will srraduallv be come aware of the cruelties which" are perpetrated under this system of forced j and unnatural unions, une is some what surprised to find that these pre mature marriages also prevail among the Jews of Morocco, for they certain ly seem contrary to the spirit, if not the letter, of the law of Moses. As is well j known, the Jews, despite the oppre- ( sion and contempt w .tb which they j ira tro.it.id h lh frtltnwers of I lio Priw ! phet, are very umerous in the Empire I last Sunday, the areonaut came near los of Morocco, particularlv iu the cities, ln life, the paraschute failing to fill where thev carry on all" the mercantile l"lf rb'. wlule descending until within and monetary transactions, act as ia. ; "ne hundred feet of tha ground. terpreters and perform the functions i of servants, porters and scavengers. The Life of a Shooting Star. A small bodj perhaps as large as a paving-stone or larger more often, perhaps, not as large as a marble is moving around the sun. Just as a mighty planet revolves iu an ellipse, so this small object will move round and round in au ellipse, with the sun in the focus. There are at the present moment inconceivable myriads of such meteors moving in this manner. They are too small, and too di-tant for our telescopes, and we can never see them except under extraordinary circum stances. At the time we see the me teor it is usually moving with enor mous velocity, so that it often traverses a distance of more than twenty miles in a second of time. Such a velocity is almost impossible near the earth's sur face, the resistance of the air would prevent it. Aloft in the emptiness of space there is no air to resist the me teor. It may have been moving round and round the sun for thousands, per haps for millions, of years without let or hinderance; but the supreme mo ment arrives, and the meteor perishes in a streak of splendor. In the course of its wanderings the body comes near the earth, and within a few hundred miles of the surface, of course, begins to encounter the surface of the atmos phere with which the earth is inclosed. To a body moving with the appalling velocity of a meteor a plunge into the atmosphere is usually fatal. Even though the upper layers of the air are excessively attenuated, yet they sud denly check the velocity, almost as a ritte bullet would be checked when fired into water. As the meteor rushes through the atmosphere the friction of the air warms its surface. Gradually it becomes red hot, then white hot, and is finally driven off into vajior with a brilliant light, while we on the earth, 100 or 2U0 miles below, exclaim: "Oh, look, there is a shooting star!" SPORTING NOTES. Death of Superintendent J. IX Brandt in San Francisco. i UMATILLA INDIA' S R JAP1V.W A 1!0I - TIFl L HARVEST. Another Trial for "Sandy" Olds Indian depredation Claims Kail ro.nl liuildinr. Portland has succeeded in getting a re count of its census. A Catholic hospital and cathedral are soon to be built in Tacoma. Spokane Falls' new exposition build ing w ill have rMO.O )) square feet of floor ing. Eureka, Cal., is making a strong move ment for building a railroad line to Red Bluff. ' The town sit of Thompson Falls, Mont., has !een taken up as a minintr claim. Baker City. Or., raised subsidy of 25,0:)O for the lev railroad. in one dav a Sumpter 'al- Tbe Idaho State Company started a line of daily stages between Union and Cornucopia, July 1st. Gallagher, the murderer of I,ewis Mar, at Skamania, Wash,, will !e exe cuted at Vancouver, July Hth. At a depth of 112 feet a stratum of bituminous coal was struck in boring an artesian well at Pullman, Wash. William Cameron, Superintendent of the Mechanic's Fair at Portland last year, died after a short illness Juneitith. A Portland syndicate lias obtained control of the water works system of Cneney, Wash, in consideration! 10,000. .!. 15. Brandt, Superintendent of the Southern Pacific lines in O:cgon, died sud leiily of heart disease in San Fran cisco, June iJStli. There is a race between the Northern Pa -.'i fie and the Hunt System in constt fic tion of their roads between Centralia, Wash., jnd Gray's Harbor, on the coast. Fhe Supreme Court has again come to the rescue of ''Sandy" lids, and be will have a new trial. The murderer's bnlv hoje is that the next verdict ill not l in the first degree. Boise City, Idaho, had on exhibition recently, a gold brick weighing 1,000 j ounces, valued at 14,0 sn4 a product of' seventeen d.ty's run of the Washington mine, near Idaho City. t Well informed cattle men estimate that there will not lie more than 1,500 ; bead of beef cattle for sale in' Crook j County this fall. There are usually more j than twice that number. A StirVeV Will lx Tn:ldl til naiwrt-iin the amount of iower to U obtained from the Cmatslla river near Pendleton. If enough can lie had the street-cars of that town willlie run bv electricity. I. O. Mills, of San Francisco, has had a magnificent twelve story structure designed for Montgomery "Street. Its site will lie on the ground occupied hv Piatt's Hall, opiwsit- the Rtiss House. " Henry 11. Wheeler, of Crook Countv. ! Or., bus put in a claim against the GoV- THi'"?"1 thro"n'' Senator Mit.-l.ell, f for io,.xo, me valuation oi stage-horses t .i i , , , . i iosi iiirougri me depredations ot Indians Two of the three robliers who stopped the stage near Calistoga Springs, Cal., Iasl week, have lieen captured. On tbem was found the watches and most of the monev stolen. They confessed their guilt. Changes now being made in Astoria's city assessment roll will make the net amount of proertv to lie assessed, a gregate alionl t4,OOO,0dd. This w ill nec essitate only a 5-mill tax. List year it was S. J. Richardson and his son, of Eugene City, Or., were out bunting one day last week, when the gun in the hands of the father was discharged, the charge of shot entering the young man's arms and legs. ! He will recover, George Gibson and Charles Whitsot were fishing on the Ieschutes recently, says the Oclioeo Review, anil made the biggest catch of any one so far heard from. They caught 1.50J trout in two and a half days' fishing. While making the paraschute jump iroin me naitoon ascension at fori land j vt . ii. I3U8II oi Montana, recently a i pointed Receiver of the Land Office at i Oh mpia, has declined to accept the po jsition. He is sheriff of Chehalis County, 11' IT Tl 1 v ,r nniiniiru licit? lit? IS, HS lie finds the latter ollice more lucrative. At rrineville Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hayes' little lioy, aged about 4 years, met with a serious accident by falling from a buggy. The little fellow struck on his head, giving him a fearful shock, from which it is feared he will not re cover. W. F. Seribner, of Denver, is in Baker City, on his second visit to purchase heavy draught mares and also, would like to ship east 000 steers from the range of Baker county. Mr. Scribnei, was here alsint. one year ago, savs the Baker City Democrat, with" a shipment of Clydesdales and disposed of them. At Pendleton, recently, a hon-e's throat was cut in a singular manner. A roH! shute had lieen made in which to capture the animal, and the horse ran into the rope at full speed, catching its neck on the oh-truction. Its windpie was severed, and in a few mi mites the Indian who owned it was minus a good caynse. That the time made in a running de ends upon how the race is run, and is not a safe criterion to follow, has several times recently lieen made apparent. Civil Service ran six furlongs in 1.10l2, and yet. when he met Teuny he was eas ily defeated in l.lS1, and the track was about as fast one day as the other. On the first occasion Civil Service went at a rapid but steady clip throughout, with nothing at his head to fight him to a fin ish. When ne was pitted against Tenny the object of his jockey and of that of Geraldine was to get so far in front of the dreaded "crack" at the start that he would not be able to utilize his great burst of speed until too late. Accord ingly the two went out helter-pelter, and ran their heads off in the first five fur longs, leaving the redoubtable Tenny to catch them tired in the last furlong. Mistaken in Grammar. Faults are pardonable fn conversa tions which are not pardonable in written compositions. But we must lie careful not to take too much leeway in this regard and not to make mistakes in grammar or pronunciation. Some people are guilty of grammatical Lltiuders through "sheer carelessness. Thus a lady of my acquaintance, says 1 writer in the Ladies'1 Home Journal, w ho understands trigonometry and can translate Virgil, often says to me, "you was," and yet she knows" perfectly well that this is an Inexcusable mistake. Other people who ought to know better say "he don't-' for "he doesn't," "I don't know as I do," instead of "I don't know that I do." "Ain't" and "taint" are not often used now by educated people unless in a jesting wav. It is au unwise thing, however, to be careless or inaccurate in one's pro nunciations or use of language, since tricks of speech are easily caught, and very hard to get rid of. Thus, when one is talking to servants, or other un educated people, one is often tempted to adopt their phraseology, in order to be readily understood by "them, but it is lietter to withstand the temptation, even if one should be obliged in conse quence to take more trouble to express one's meaning clearly. What shall be said of the woman who says: "1 done it?" She has certainly placed herself between the hrns of a dilemma. Her hearers will infer, either that her early education was neglected, or that she associated w ith uneducated jeople during her cliild hood. And yet this is a grammatical fault, which seems hard to get rid of. Persons who never say "I seen it," or "he has went." or "them things," will occasionally betray themselves by let ting slip the fatal ""I done it." It is quite as incorrect to use "he" nd "I" for "him" and "me," or vice versa, as it is to say "I done it." ami yet the first-named class of faults that of using the wrong pronouns is some times committed by educated jieople. Indeed. 1 have heard the phrase, "It is me," justified on the ground that it was a literal translation of the Frencn e' ttmoi. But our English grammar does not, like its French namesake, justify the employment of certain pro nuncial forms merely for the value of euphony. "He is older thau I" may not sound so well as "he is older than me," yet the former is the correct form. It is a common mistake to say: "Between vou and I," and vet a mo ment's reflection should convince any j one who has ever studied grammar j that he should say "between vou audi me," " ! How He Raved His $!).000. Father Malone had just put the fin-J Ishing touches to one of his excellent sermons yesterday when his bouse-! keejter announced th. a couple of in- j ilividnals were awaiting in the adjoin- j ing room to have the nuptial knot tied, j The task is always a pleasing one to ; his reverence. So runuing a brush a few times through iis hair ami assum- 3 ing bis most pleasant smile he pro- j ceeded to perform the ceremony. On j reaching the waiting room, however, ! there was a surprise in store for him. j There sat John C. McGraw and his j good wife Sophie no one else. We come to be married," quoth ! John. "Married, yon say! Why, you must be crazy, John McGraw. This is uot j a matter to joke aljouU" "Joke, jour riverence? I ain't no : funny man. and you ought to know it by this time. We want to be married, and no mistake about it." "Then where is the lady?" "Lady! There she is," pointing to his wife. Bv this time Father Malone had con cluded beyond all doubt he ha'J a couple of lunatics on his hands, and just as he was about to dispatch-a mes senger for a policeman McGraw ex plained. "Father, perhaps you didn't hear about it, but Sophie has being going back on me an' all I could say to her, she must have a divorce. Well, yer honor, she got it, bad luck to her, and it cost like the excuse oie, father but it made me hot. especially con siderin'' that the court gave her I9.W0 alimony nine t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d dollars! fat her. "think of that. Why, it would ruin nie twice over. So I says to Sophie, sez I, "Cau't this little matter lie arranged; you an' I, Sophie dear, have livt'd together for twelve years and surely yer not goin' to desert me now?' With that she burst into tears, and so we agreed to get married ng 'in. It isu't the ffU.000 I care about, father, but it nearly broke my heart to think 1 would have to live without her." And here McGraw sobbed softly and continued to sob while the priest ex amined the marriage license, which was in due form. Nothing further re mained but to unite the divorced couple. By becoming a partv to the arrangement the lady relcaseif her 9, 000 claims on her husband's estate, and John was proportionately happj. The parlies were married in St. Louis some twelve years age, when Mrs. Mc Graw was a blushing girl of 17. She obtained her divorce a few davs ago in district court ou the ground of her husband's extreme cruelty. Denver A College Cry lor the Uirl. Now Wcllesley College is going to have a college cry. The girls are a good deal worked up over the matter, and no end of proposals aro made that is, of course, proposals for a col lege cheer. There is a strong senti ment among the students against ap pearing to follow the example of the masculine colleges iu this serious mat ter of choosing a cheer. In the start the girls have made a distinction by deciding to term tlwdr college cry a yell" instead of a "cheer." In a call for propositions recently made in the college monthly magazine it is speci fied that the yell must be "a wild, lyrical cry, strong but essentially fem inine." A prize is offered for some thing entirely satisfactory. A few years ago Smith College be came much exercised on the same sub ject, and the student periodicals of Yale, Harvard, and Priucetou under took to help tho girls out with sugges tions. The suggestion which met with most favor iu tlie masculine college was this: "Hooray I Hooray! S m i t h! Smith! Just too lovely for anything! O. how nicel" But it did not meet with the approval of the Smith College girls, aud was not adopted. N. Y. Hun. ' Stand Hi in on His Head. In France if a patient who is under the influence of chloroform shows any signs of heart fniluro he is held head downward till he is restored. It is said that this method never fails, and many operating tables in France are now so constructed that the lower end can be elevated at a moment's notice. COAST JNWS. Firenzi Lowers the Mile and a Half Record. SENATOR HEARST WILL RETIRE FROM THE Tl'RF. Another Colored Champion- Base ball ia Jatan Portland's Fall Meeting. California is sure to be the great racing enter of the continent. The rabbit-drives of Southern Califor nia have almost exterminated the "bun nies." The great Nutwood stallion Dawn was ld last week in lVtaluma, Cal., for I5,- McAulifie Ixtndon, to champion. has It-gun his training in meet Slavin, the Knglish Charley Smith, the 110-pound cham pion of England, has issued a challenge to Cal McCaithy. The string of trotters and pacers, be longing to I'.udd Doble, left Fresno, Cal., where they have l-een wintering, for the East. Yank Adams, the well known finger billiardist, is now on a tour of the I nited States giving exhibitions of bis skill. The Stockton Baseball team, with all its property, its franchise and rights in the California league, has le-n sold to San Jose. The Dwyer Brothers apoear to be holding their horses in reserve. Thev have done very little racing so far this season. Sainfoin, w inner of the rich Derby, and who had had previous!- been sold for neariy 40,kKI, cost only : guineas as a yearling. The eight-oared shell race between the taie ami Harvard crews, June 271 h, won by Yale. This is Yale's fifth eessive victory. was sue- O fary, the champion pedestrian, covered the distance of fifteen miles re cently, in two hours and fortv-six min utes, at lort Worth. . California has been determined the (est w iutering climate for bosses, and it is probable that another winter will ! brims a great portion of Eastern fivers to this coast " ,t An athletic club is now being formed; at Honolulu. It is the intention of the j management to obtain nomv of the best ; American pugilistic talent to take part in ' the monthly exhibitions. T It is reported that Senator Hearst, bt- : ing dissatisfied w ith the continued poor i ln k attending his horses in the races, j has decide I to sell at auction his entire: stables and retire from tlie turf. ! Nearly all the bookmakers who are ; doing business; in New York lost heavilr j on the Suburban. The majoritv were certain Tenny would win and laid 2 to 1 i against Salvator, and weie hit hard. Ja.-' Tiempsey and his combination of t pugilisis oiiened the tiohten liat rlnhi of Salt I-ake C ity on the 20th inst. The" duo rooms are situated in building for merly used as a liouse of worship bv the Mormons. At the rooms of the Pelican Club, Lon don, June 27th, America's colored lian tam George Hixon, taxed Nunc Wallace of r:rmingham, bolder of the English championship, for a purse of $2,500. Eighteen rounds were fought, the Eng lishman being completely used up. I'rince Charlie's, tthe sire of Salvator,) l-erforniances in England are known to nearly all the followers of the turf. How he leat Cremorne anil Queen's Messen ger for the Two Thousand Guineas in 172, was unplaced for the Oerbv but got second to Wenlock for the St. Leger are old stories. O'Connor, the oarsman, who was beaten by Stansbury at Sydney, N. S. V., has protested against "the pavment of the stakes to the- latter. O'Connor claims the race on the ground that Stansbury took his water a quarter of a mile from the start and that a foul en sued. The uniDiresleny that there was a foul. The report of the Supervisor of the census of San Francisco puts the popula ion down at oOO.OOi). He estimates the number of Chinese at over 24,000, an in crease of 2,000 over 1880 and says that during the winter months over 10,000 celestials will be added to the estimated population. East Portland, Or., has a set of van dals who have poisoned a number of milch cows owned by parties who have been fui nisbing milk to neighbors. It is mispicioned that the outrages are com mitted by certain milk-dealers, whose lists of customers have been shortened by the owners of these cows. Tiie Puritan Athletic Club of Long Is land City offer a 20,00i) purse for a con test between Jackson and Sullivan, and as Jackson has announced that he will not meet Sullivan outside of California for fear of not receiving fair play, the club offers an additioned deposit of 7.fi00tliat he will not be interferred with in any way during the tight. Base ball has been introduced in Ja ptn and is I tecum in i a popular out-door sport. The Japs fail to "catch on" read ily. In a game recently played between a Japanese club and a team of American clerks considerable amusement was af ordtd by a Yankee running out of line and being chased some distance into a rice field by the entire Japanese nine until caught and put out. Charley Mitchell, with the exception of Jem Mace, is the cleverest pugilist who ever placed himself in a prize ring. He is a hard hitter, as was demonstrated when he knocked John L. Sullivan down in a glove contest at Madison Square (ianlen, New York. Mitchell also proved that he was a first-class pu gilist w hen be fought John L. Sullivan in France, for $5,1X10, and succeeded in making the battle a draw. Again California horses give the dust to Eastern Cracks. Juoe 26th Haggin's mare rirenr.i knocked a second oil the .ne i tin i , mile and a half record for the Coney Is- '..i I t I 1 V, 1 1 7 f . IVUkl , x. v iva cheer went up as 2 :33 told the story of another smashed record. In 1888 "she made the record 2 :34, which has stood until her last race. The same day Sen ator Stanford's famous colt Racine, won the first race of a mile at Washington Park, Chicago, in 1 :41, and the opinion of witnesses was that had be been given his head he would have lowered the record of Maori, 1:39 4-5. GENERAL" NWS Ages Attained by the Different Animals. RUSSIA'S EFFORTS TO CHECK IXCREAS IXtt IMMIGRATION. The First Balloon Aseensioa Victoria's Opiam Fartories Railroad Tieg of Clay. A bear rarely exceeds twenty years. Petroleum has been discovered in Queensland. Cuvier considers it probable that whales sometimes live 1,000 years. A squirrel here lives seven or eight years; rabbits seven years. Elephants have been known to live to the age of four hundred years. Camels sometimes live to the age of one hundred; stags are long lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of one hundred and seven. A dog lives twenty years; a wolf twenty; a fox fourteen to sixteen years. A swan has attained the age of two hundred years; pelicans are long lived. Pigs haTe been known to live to the age of thirty years; the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has been known to lire to the age of sixty-two, but averages from twenty to thirty. Insects, as a general rule, are short lived, though there are a great many exceptions to the rule. Sir Walter Scott's dairy of the later years of his life is soon to be printed by an Edinburg publisher. A Wheeling inventor is at work upon a watch which is expected to run a month without winding. The largest ourang-outang yet shot in Borneo stood 4 feet and 10 inches high. The average is about 4 feet 6 inches. The Russian minister of the interior Is preparing a scheme to check the in creasing immigration into Russia, es pecially of Germans. George Angustus Sala, it is announc ed, has retired from journalism with a view to entering Parliament. It would be quite appropriate to have the famil iar G. A. S. there. Coningsby Disraeli, nephew and heir of Lord Beaconstield, shares his quar ters at Oxford with a member of Glad stone's family, who is his most intimate friend and chuni Ilenrv Smith, an eccentric individual who diet! at Kansas Citv. left directions that-Bift fCHeral shonkl not cost morel than $80. and that iiis-Jsy consumed bv slakinjr lime. should be i His wishes were eomplied with. " When the visiting Amesbnry military company marched to the Biddeford, Me., depot the other day, an old lady leaned out of a window in the 'Blarney Block' and called out. Good-by, boys. Good bless yon all, and don't come back again till you free Ireland." One of tlie most interesting features of modern Greek life is the fact that the inhabitants are above reeeivins &ratuIt,es- Indeed, there is no - word in the Romaic language which is the synonym for the English "tip," the Jtrencn "pourboir," the Gerni&n trinkgeld," and the Turkish '-backsheesh." William Allingham, the Irish poet, who died recently, was a friend of Carlyle, but the o'ld fellow used to sit on him heavilv from time to time, and once he did it in this wise: 'Allingham,.; ye're no a bad fellow, but I'd just have ve to know that a man can never get in a word of sense for your everlasting jabbering." The Prince of Wales is noted for the enormous quantity of luggage which he causes to be sent with him on his jour neys. He takes whole boxes of hats and huge trunks of dress suits, morn ing coats, and other charges. He makes a point when visiting anywhere of not being seen twice in the same coat, and the variety of his garments is as astonishing as the tailor's bill for them must be long. Prince Bismarck is constantly im proving his estates and adding to the income which he receives from them. His distilleries at Varzin, the dairies in Schoenhausen, and the paper and street pavement factories make him already one of the greatest tradesmen in the Empire and show his industrial and business talents. He has recently ad ded to this list a large brickyard, which he has built in the forests of Louenberg. Mr. Oscar Dickson, the Gothenburg merchant, already famous as a gener ous patron of Arctie exploration, offers to defrav the expenses of a new expedi tion to the North Pole if Dr. Frithjof Nansen. who commanded the recent Greenland expedition, will accept the leadership. Dr. Nansen is willing to take command of a polar expedition, but as he is an officer of the Norwegian Government he desires that Norway shall defray the expenses. There are thirteen opium refining i factories at present in operation in j Victoria, B. C. The quantity of crude j opium imported last year would pro- j duce 50.000 pounds of the refined arti- tide. Five thousand pounds, says a j Canadian customs officer, would sup- j . ii, , . , ply all demands for home consump- tion, and the remainder would have to be disposed of in the United States, into which one country -of course it comes without going through the cus tom house. Few good wives, savs the N, Y. Sun, will object to their husbands Coins: to I the Andnbon Clnb of Detroit. ho- I ever smokes in that club must bring his own cigar to the house, and who ever wants a drink there must have brought it along with him a dreadful condition that has not yet been known in the club. The aim of the club is to i provide rooms for reading and card j playing, but no playing for money is j jiermitteo, and at lO o clock every night the club-rooms are closed. A Baltimore instice, before whom a policeman was brought on the charge nf nrofane swearinsr on the public street, dismissed the case, as the officer had said onlv "damn." The justice , - i . i u w.a f t exit Aiueu tuai tuo iuco u. in.,, F ? .-,-,,. fKun word was not more sismincant than the word "durn." Damn as defined by Webster and Worcester and the en cyclopedia, when used by itself, is not profane language. If, he said, the prisoner had used it in connection with the name of God, then I should have found him guilty and punished him se verely. Adam P. Hopkins, of West Bridge water. Pa., baa filed a caveat upon an "improvement" in the form of poi and railroad ties made of burnt fire clay. The jiosts will lie burnt very hard and will have the railing secured by means of nails driven into holes made in the posts when soft, at an angle that will bring the heads together and hold the railing firmly in place. Holes through the ties npoa either side of the rail will admit bolts, the upper ends of which will have washers and nuts bearing upon the rail and holding it firmly in position. " The first aerial voyagers were a sheep, a cock and a duck, which were placed in an osier basket attached to a balloon that ascended on the 19th of September, 1783, at Versailles. France, the king and royal family "assisting" at the speetaeler The ascension was made at the instance of a commission appointed by the Academy of Science, aud the balloon was const rneted under the supervision of Stephen MontgolSer, to whom, with his brother. Joseph, the inxea'Jntt of the balloon is c'.ue. .. Tlie sheep and duck and cock readied the ground again in safe. v. The first air. vot'age made by any finman wa3'utso" made in this year, 1783. King Humliert, of Italy, although only 45, is already quite" gray. The fact worries his beantiful Queen, and she recently gave him a box of the fa mous French hair-coloring: material and anxiously awaited the effect?, of in application. " But she was disappoint ed. Instead of a more youthful look ing King she found her" favorite lap dog dyed an ngly green the following morning. When she asked for an ex planation King Humbert said that he preferred to trv the medicine firt upon her dog. "To-morrow," he ad ded, -your Brazilian parrot wilr hive its turn." But from that hour tlie hair dye disappeared and the locks of King Humbert remain unchanged. A Lawyer's Wise Rose. - A Napa connty man arrived in towa not long ago and went to a hotel, the name of which shall be nndivulged. In the evening he handed the clerk a $50 bill for safekeeping, saying: 'Tm go ing out to have a look at the elephant to-night, and don't want to carry much monev around with me." There hap pened' to be only that one clerk in the office as he took the bill, put it in an envelope and apparently stuck it in the safe. "Two days later the visitor saunter ed into the hotel office looking rather sheepish and dejeeted. Waiting until he saw the clerk alone he sided np and said: I will trouble too for that $50. please, "What $50 r asked the official cool ly. "The guest resai-freracident of his handing over tne money for safa keeping, but in suite of his insistence the clerk denied ail knowledge of tns matter. Whereupon the man of Napa Connty consulted a lawyer. '"Procure another fifty-dollar" bill. said the lawyer, 'take friend ith yon. and go to the elerk again. Say you find yon were mistaken" and that yoa-diseovered the bill in your pocket. Ask hittVi3 your friend's presence ii he will keep it ravthe safe nntif-toU Iiei ifc. Then come""baet-te-icefor instruc tions. "The visitor did as he was bid and returned to his legal adviser the next day. 'Now.go back to the hotel a'one, and when you find your clerk disen gaged ask him for your money. "This the visitor did, and the money was forthcoming. "Now, said the man of law, when the client applied for further orders, take the friend who was a witness to your handing over the second $50-bilI, go with him to the clerk and. ask for your bank note again. : "The rnse was entirely successful. The clerk, finding that his" victim had a witness to the transfer of his monev ana mat a denial would be stepped behind the desk, dusr the- original foO-bill from hi3 pocket, thrust it into a envelope stepped to the safe and, pretending to take it out, handed back his booty." San Francisco bulle tin. A SOURCE OF WONDER. , How m Jtfirspftper Correspondent Astoar ishei m Company of Cossacks. A newspaper correspondent. David Ker, traveling in central Asia, came one evening upon a Cossack camp. Fires were blazing, and round them were stretched the men. resting after a hard dav's march. The traveJ.er-h'a been Ion? on the road, and with his white Russian forage cap and travel stained clothing looked so much like the Cossacks themselves that he en tered the camp quite unnoticed. Then he sat down on a stone and took out a colored map of the country, knowing well that the strange sight wonld bring the men about him immediately. "So it proved. I suddenly became aware of a gaunt, sallow, gray-mns-tached visage so criss-crossed with saber scars as to look like a railway map peering over my shoulder. Then another and another came edging in, till I was completely surrounded by wild figures and gritii faces. '"What's that picture, fatheriL, We can't quite make it out.' '"It's not a picture at all. brothers it's a plan that shows me the very way by which you have come here from holy Russia and all the places you have passed through. "Then, seeming not to notice the looks of nnbelief and tho meaning grins with which my hearers received what they considered to be a most out rageous lie, I went on: : " , v. uric, .ii l i ' 1 1 v f n p;sscn j t- - d then - h(J TTn f-.nnnK..n. . t ward to Orsk, where you crossed the frontier and turned to" the southeast. "So we did, comrades!' shouted halfc a dozen voices at once. -He speaks the truth so we did.' '"Then you passed Fort Kara Butak, crossed the Kara Konm desert, and halted here and here and here,' nam ing and describing the various posts. "The Cossacks listened open-mouth ed to the familiar names, and tne ex- j cited clamor was followed by a silence of utter amazement. Then one said: "Father, can you show us the very place where we are now?"' "To be sure I can, my lad. See, that black spot is the village vonderj there's the river twisting ac,wiiSIiug; and here is yonr camp.' 'There was another pause of blank oewuaerment, anu men tne scarrea i- veteran with the gray mustache asked in awe-stricken whisper: "But, father, tell me, for the love of heaven, if we've marched a thousand miles since leaving holy Russia, how can it all go into a little scrap of paper? no birger than an Easter cake?'" Brazil. Brazil is so rast and yet so poorl equipped a country that in remote se tions the people, it is said, do not v know of Doui Pedro's deposition.-. tha establishment of the repul " '-"I - ' -i f ' 'a