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17 "V " JLJ 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. 20. LEBANON, OREGON, Till DAY, JULY, 2f, 18M). S2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. EBANO.N MESS THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST. Oa of tha Enr-PrMMt Tormutt ofFuh lonabl LIT. A ma!d used to be considered a luxury. Now she Is the torment ot tha fashionable woman's life. If she is English her manners are very good for a while she does her duty and is well behaved. But six months in this en lightened country and her quiet man ners become insolent; she can't dress you without referring to the Duchesses and Countesses upon whom she has waited before; she scorns your table and reads your letters, and knows exactly how much money you have in Your pocket-book. II you should od- t ct to any of her weaknesses and sura- ,300 up courage enougn to fliscnarre .-S5att had belter-have her trunks examined before she leaves, and you will be wise if yon tell your husband all about her, for the chances are that, pretending to know something about vou. she will attempt a little scheme ot blackmail immediately after she has left. If she is French -she stays nt long enough to get acquainted "with Ameri can habits, and then she leaves you in a hurry either to marry the cook and open a small restaurant, or to go into the hairdressing business. The Irish or Scotch maids are usually honest, usually impertinent, usually know little, but are as faithful as dogs, so that because of their virtues j-ou for give them the rest. There are women in New York who do not dare to dis charge maids who live in deadly ter ror of what they are going to do next; who have been "foolish enough to let them tind out something, it may be a little something, that they do not want either mother or husband to know and so the maid levies tribute, gets frocks that have only been worn once, ' has her wages paid to her in advance, and is worse than any skeleton at a feast, because she Is with you nearly all the time. Not long ago" at a smart luncheon served by a gorgeous butler and three foot-men, a woman said: "O, dear, I think I shall go crazy If they put it in a paragraph about me." ; The reference was made to a personal paper. The hostess looked silence at her guest, and after the servants had left the room said: "My dear, why in the world did you say that before the servants? You evidently do not know the fcogiish one. aiy butler is pertect ly eapable ot writing you a letter de manding a certain sum of money or threatening just such a paragraph as you dread. The English servant has no more idea of honor than a cannibal, and not as much, for a cannibal eats you out and out. and does not make life horrible by spinningout the agony." When it whs thought what an easy life a good maid has it seems strange that more women, by learning to be systematic, do not apply for such po sitions. She is seldom asked to eat with the rest of the household; she has much time to go out. aud her work is always easily done and not dirty. A good" maid is far beyond rubies when it comes to a question of value to her mistress, and rather than stand all day long behind a counter, get small wages and poor food to eat, and no time to call my own except when I was so liffi-A-'aii 1.1 aitfifr Ani.t 1- T study the art of dressing peopl, saving them steps, of doing their hair, of keep ing their wardrobes in order in short, of being a perfect treasure of a maid, and a perfect treasure of a maid can get ftK) a month, a pleasant room, a great deal of time to herself, and a number of presents. The perfect maid, like the perfect woman, is hard to tiud. V. 1'. Sun. The African Palm Oil Industry. An interesting report comes from the Governor of the Gold Coast on the palm oil industry of the West Coast of Africa. In cultivating the palm, ripe nuts are scattered over ground well raked, and are then .covered lightly with earth. The planting takes place in the rainy season. When the young hoots have grown about a foot they re carefully removed in the evening, and transplanted at least fifteen feet apart. The tree grows luxuriantly, and bears most abundantly at a height of from 10 feet to 12 feet in damp, semi-marshy soil. The supply of nuts tit for use is biennial, and the most abundant supply of commercial oil is obtained from nuts gathered during the rainv season. The bunches of nuts are cut down and placed in a heap in the air, where they remain for a week or ten days, The joints of the nuts are ' thus weakened by decomposition, and they can be detached by simply beat t ing them against any substance. W hen the nuts are collected, those with a hard,nnyielding pulp are placed ! ln hole about four feet deep, which is lined with plantain leaves, and they are covered over with these leaves, and with palm leaves and earth. They are allowed to remain for periods varying between three weeks and three months, UDtil a certain decomposition has taken place, bo that when removed the pulp is soft, and appears as if it had been boiled. The nuts are now put in a trough made by digging a hole in the ground and paving it with rough stones. Here they are pounded with wooden pestles nntil the pulp is quite removed from the surface of the hard nut. The whole is then removed from the trough, put in a heap, and the stones taken out, leaving the oily fibrous pulp, which is put into a pot with a small Quantity of water under a good fire, and well stirred until the oil besins to melt out. The pulp is then put into a rough net -opened at both ends, to which are attached two nr thrnA short sticks, bv turning which in opposite directions the oil is squeezed out. The longer the nuts are under ground the thicker the oil and the worse the quality. This alone accounts for the different qualities of oil exported from different places along the eoast. Other methods are employed to pro duce the oil for home consumption; but that here described is the mode usual in the production of the palm oil of commerce. A.tw tSuudin. Don't Pull Out Superfluous Hair. Young Padelford of Philadelphia, who was at .Newport last summer, has met with a curious and perhaps fatal experience. Some time ago he dis covered a small tuft of hair growing on bis neck which seemed to have no relatiou with the hair of his bead. Last week a barber whom be patron ized sue treated that he should take the tuft of hair out by the roots, and Padel ford told him to go ahead. The bar ber performed the operation, and Padelford is said to be lying now at the point of death from an attack of blood poisoning which the operation has in duced. Ar. Y. World. " German chemists have discovered in the coco a nut a fatty substitute for but ter, and it is being produced in large quantities at Mannheim. One factory turns out 6, W0 pounds per day, worth 16 cents per pound. EASTERN NEWS" The Result of Women's Wisconsin. Voling in OVF.R 20,000 PKUS0XS THROWN OF WORK IN XF.W YORK. 01T Flight Hours a Hay's Werk The Lottery Bill Passes Ihe House Alaska Southern liouuilnrv Line. lVreupine, the aiostle of the new In dian Christ, him heen ejected from the Crow reservation. The Louisiana Lottery bill passed the House over the Governor's veto by a vote of tiM avca to 31 noes. Edward M. lHiyle, charged with bigamy and under arrest at New'arg, N. Y., will be brought to Portland soon by IVtective Hay. It is now asserted on good authority that Mrs. Frank Italic and the Marquis de Lenvitle are really to be marrie I and that a special license has been taken out. An exemption steamer with 250 pass engers ou l)oard was struck by a cyclone the 12th on Lake Pepin, ft inn., and capsized, only twenty persons being saved. General Clinton B. Fiak, who ran for President on the Prohibition ticket, died in New Yoik the tuh inst, in bis sixty second year. He was buried at Cold water, Mich. Near Gainesville, Florida, on the lHth of the month, a sail boat, with thirteen people, capsized on the lake. Three were drow ned, the others leing saved by clinging to the boat. Cs L. I- Gage, a young man connected with the stove tirm of Gage A llorton, has disappeared with 10,000 which he collected for his mother. Gambling is said to le the cause of his downfall. A cyclone struck the northern side of St. Paul the 13lh destroying a great deal of property and killing about forty people; thence it swept to the east leav ing death and desolation in its track. General John C. Fremont, "The Pathfinder," so well known in Oregon history, died in New York City, the afternoon of the 13th, after a brief ill ness. The General 'a age was T7 years and t months to a day at the time of his death. The (Georgia Melon Exchange, which was formed by the leading growers with a view to regulating the output and making the sales direct to retailers, has gone under. President Forrester says that the enemies of the movement suc ceeded in killing it by falsely represent ing it as a trust. Lucinda Jackson, a beautiful girl of 19, and daughter of wealthy parents, committed suicide recently in a curious manner. The young woman procured a box of matches and taking them to her room she ate the poisonous ends and died in great agony, despite thecllbrts of physicians to revive her. The Clothing Manufacturers' Associa tion of New York has given notice to its one thousand cutters that they will be locked out Saturday. The manufac turers stale that this step is taken in re taliation for the boycott placed on one of their number, Alfred Benjamin & Co. Over 20,000 persons will he thrown out of work. The Committee on I.alor at Washing ton has reHrted favorably a bill consti tuting eight hours a day's work for all laborers employed by the tiovernment. The committee states that the question of shortening the hours of labor is being considered the world over, and in the main workmen have succeeded in having the hours reduced. It is reported that a constable's posse near Hazard, Perry Comity Ky., in search of Buck and Zach Frigate, des peradoes, ha I a conflict in the mountains with the gang of outlaws. Two consta nts were kilied and two wounded. Buck Frijrate was captured. It is feared that an attempt will be made to rescue him, in which case there w ill be further blood shed. The Edmonton (Northwest Territory) Bulletin states that a report was re ceived at Fort Chippewayan recently from the North that l.'nited States sur veyors had established the 14tst meri dian, which forms the boundary be tween Canada and Alaska, twenty-eight miles further east than it was generally supposed to te. tins will transfer a long stretch ot the gold bearing district of the Yukon to the United States, and will also place the Hudson Bay company post of Kampart House cutsideof British territory. Willie Mavle, a fifteen-year-old bov of Upper Sandusky, went to Columbus, Ohio, to spend the ronrth, and was j stopping with his uncle, Charles Snyder, j when he had a luss witn a neighbor ing boy, who called him a name, where upon Ma; le threw a stone at the boy, which missed turn ana nit nis smter, a little girl, but did not hurt her seriously. Some one told Mayle the police were go ing to arrest him as he nearly killed the gill, aud he ran into the house, got his uncle s revolver, placed it to his head and blew out his brains. A St.-Vaul dispatch savs : It has been, practically determined to hold the next session of the National Educational As sociation at Saratoga, N. ., Suerin tendent McElroy of Oregon extended an invitation to the National Association to hold the roeetingof 18u4 at Poitland,Or., Superintendent Gaultof Tacoma heartily co-operating in this move to hold at Portland, which nas been received with favor by thousands of the teachers and delegates so recently assembled in St. Paul, and the effort will probably be successful. The magnificent display of crayon and pencil work from the Port land schools on exhibition here during the convention attracted great attention. Judge Kavanangh of the Polk County District court has rendered a decision that an alien can acquire by inheritance no right or interest to real estate in Iow a. On the lOlh dav of Septemler, 18Si). Bernard Callan, a resident and citizen of Iowa, died in Polk County, leaving a small amount of personal property and several parcels of of lea! estate. He left no widow or children surviving him, but several remote heirs in the State of Massachusetts and several others who are citizens and residents ot tireat Britain. Claims were filed against the estate, to the allowance of w hich the foreign heirs objected. The claimants contended that the foreign heirs had no standing in court, tor the reason that they are aliens and their objections should not be heard.- Ihe Court coin cided in this view. The law passed by the Twenty-second General Assembly provides that non resident aliens are prohibited from acquiring title to or taking or holding any lands or real es tate in this State by descent, devise, purchase or otherwise. In a Dilemma. A woman who was riding down-town on a Third avenue train recently, says theN. Y. Sun, became involved in an interesting dilemma, which afforded amusement to all those passengers w ho became aware of it. lie was seated directly behind the last cross seat in the car. In front of him was a young woman who was devoting her time to watching the windows ou the opposite side of the street as the traiu sped along. She was young and pretty; without ber knowledge a few tresses of her blonde hair had escaped from under her bonnet, and had fallen over the shoulder of the man behind her, and had in some unexplained manner become fastened around one of the buttons ot his coat. lie made one or two delicate attempts to remove the wanderings tresses, but was so timid that he only entangled them the more. He sat there with a frightened but meek expression upon his face, no j daring to move. A climax was put to i his predicament by the young woman's ansiug. or rattier auempiiuj; tu uo bo, at Fourteenth street. She had only got half way out of her f.it when she Felt a violent tug at her hair. She re sumed her seat and turned around in dignantly to learn the true situation. In a moment her complexion rivaled that of the unfortunate young man, and her attempts to release herself convulsed the witnesses with laughter, ller fingers trembled, and after fum bling away until the guard had closed the gate in vain attempts to release herself she gave one violent yank at the two tresses, breakiug them off and leaving the ends still eutwined around the miserable button. Although the man saw them aud was painfull- con scious of their presence he did no't dare remove them uutil the young woman had left the car at the next station. For the rest of the way to the city hall -he kept his head buried in his uews per. Only a Little Newsboy. Ten o'clock in the building of the big city paHr. The electric lights are burning aud the whirl of presses and click of types make a busy scene. Ed itors, reporters, proof-readers are busy preparing the day's doings for the morrow. The door of the chiefs office la pnshed carefully open and a blue eyed, flaxen-curled maiden of six sum mers and as many w inters enters. No body knows how she got there. No body saw her climb the stairs or walk through the hall. She is ragged, dirty and has been erring. "Is you the etlitor man?" "Yes, little one; w hat can I do for you?" Rube is dead, an' I thought maybe you'd like to tell altout it. "Who is Rube?'' "Why, didn't vou ever hear of Rube?" "You see, there are are so many people that I can't know them all." The big, bearded man was actually ashamed of his ignorance. "But Rube wasn't people he was my brother. lie sold papers an' blacked boots and all that, lie wasn't very rich an' ma said the city man would bury him but he w as good to me," "Did you sell pajiers. too?" "No. I stayed home; but Rube brought me candy dogs an candy roosters, and licked bad bovs that made me cry. An' if you tell folks how good he was, maybe they'd think better of him "What do you want me to say, little one? ' "Why, that he was 12 years old, an was helpin mother an' oh, I don't know but 'member he was always good ter me." Before the little mourner left the of fice she was the recipient of a handful of coins donated by "the boys" of the office and the big editor ordered the janitor to accompany her home. Thus it w as that "the readers of the great paper were mildly astonished to read on the morning's local page: Died Yesterday, Rube, the news boy, aged 12 years, lie was the sup port of his widowed mother and loved his little sister better than his life al most, lie was buried in the potter's field last night. Detroit Free Press. How to Sharpen a Pencil. "It really makes me tired to see the average man sharpen a pencil," said an old new-spaer man in a stationary store to a ashington Star reporter. "He will cut his fingers, cover them with dirt and blackeu them with lead dust, and still will not sharpen the pencil. "There is but one way to sharpen a lead pencil and that is to grasp it firm ly with the point from and not toward yon. Take your kuife in the other hand and whittle'away as though vou had lots of pencils to waste. By following these directions and turning the pencil over you will soon have it neatly and regularly sharened, and your lingers will be unsoiled and you will not need any court plaster to put on the wounds because you cannot cut your lingers when whittling from them. "This method is the best, whether the knife is dull or sharp. If the pen cil is a soft one there is no sense in sharpening the lead. Simply cut away the wood, and in writing turn tne pencil over, thus writing witn tne sides of the lead. Another disgusting and senseless habit is in placing the pencil in the mouth when writing, tins is a reiio of the days when pencils were as hard as flint and before the manufacturers were able to produce the smooth, soft pencils that are used to-day. The con tinual dampening of the lead will harden even a good graphite pencil and make it hard and gritty. It is simply a habit, any way, and most habits are bad ones." Mr. Grady's Boyhood. When we returned to Athens from Washington in 1860 was the first time I remember to have known Henry Grady. I remember the first time I ever saw him. The boys in Athens were in the habit of going in swimming at Trail Creek, which runs into the Oconee River at the lower bridge at Athens. As I approached the wash hole I heard different loys calling out: "Look here, Henry Grady;" "Watch this, Henry Grady," and so on. and I was at once impressed with the idea: That must be a fellow of some im portance, as they are all trying to gain his approval ana commendation. I re raember his beautiful form and face aa he swam in the water that afternoon. He was always a leader in everything he went into. In every kind of game, football, shinny, baseball, which was just coming into vogue, he was at the head. At one time 1 remember him as captain of a military company of little fellows armed with broomstricks, tin horns or some other weapons. Augusta Oa.) Chronicle SPORTING NOTES. Most " - America Leads the World in Sporting Matters. SCOTUNU S L0NU DISTANCE l.rWr'K IN THE EAST. lien I h of a Noted Pugilist Salvator's Walkover A Novel Vehicle fur Riding ia a Flume. Geraldine is now form. running in her old Steeplechases are to le Ihe feature of Brighton Beach race meetings. The report that August Belmont is going to retire from the turf is premature. Oregon game law, protecting grouse, phesants ami quail, expired the loth. Senator Heurst will soon win a race! with Anaconda, that is, if work is any i criterion. j Jockey Abbas, while riding a race at Washington Paik, July 8th, was thrown 1 and killed. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, has won the championship trap shooting trophy of Missouri. Peter Jackson has gained considerably in weight since his arrival from Aus tralia, and is now a giant. John II. Clark defeated James Breri nan, the light-weight champion of Oregon, recently, at lenver, Col. William Young proosea to bring to America the famous Clyde Association Football Team, champions of England. Another shattered turf idol like Tenny, the Suburban favorite, was Surefoot, the hottest English iVrhy favorite on recoid. Matsada Sorackichi, the Jap, w n the wrestling match with tjuinn at Seat tle last week. At Denver, Col., recently, .Mike C. Connely, the Ithaca Giant, "knocked out Mike Burke, of St. Ixmis, in one round. The battle lasted 1 minute 30 seconds. In rifle shooting, the turf Os.th in racing and tiotting), in pedestrianism, the amateur branch and in pugilism ami yachting America is ahead of the woild Dixon, the colored bantam, who re cently defeated Wallace in Ixindon, re fuses to fight Cal McCarthy and will soon return to his home in the Eat. Salvator had a walkover at Monmouth Tark for the Monmouth Cop. Tennv and others were entered against him", but their owners thought it nsless to run the race. A checker tournament for $200 in prizes was held at Von Min.len A Hesse's, 24 A venue A, corner 2d street, New York City, on June 30, Jnlv 1 , 3, , 9 and 11. John L. Sonles, of Susttension Bridge, N. Y., has issued a challenge to James Finney, the champion swimmer of Eng land, to swim through the Whirlpool ' rapiils for 1,IKX) a siile. S Jimmy Carroll is preiwred to match an unknown to fight anv middle weight in the world, barring Jack Denisey. for a suitable purse and not less than l,i i a side. Tenny, as a three-year-old, in !! ran 18 races, won 10, finished second four times, third twice, and ran unplaced twice. He won $3s,380. Salvator ran 8 races in 1889, won 7 and finished third once. He won 71,380. The defeat " of Oarsman O'Connor in Australia ends all proeiiects of the championship of the world being hrough' back to America, whence it departed when William Beach defeated Edward Hanlan on Man h 24, IH84. Pony Moore has always been dis- tinquished for two decades for feasting Americans on their arrival in Knglan He never spares expense, time or travel in order to make bis guests welcome, and they receive the liest the Moore House, winch is now a' famous "Ameri can hostelry" in London, can afford. j Kussell Pace, catcher and center fielder of the Santa Rosa Baseball Club j has received an oiler from the manage. of the Port Townsend Baseball Club to play ball for that Club. He 'may ac cept. This will lie the second ' man taken from the Santa Bona Club by Port Townsend. A prize-fight took place at Buffalo, N. Y., the night of July 8th, lietween Ike Weir, the "Spider," and James Con nors, instructor of the Buffalo Athletic Club. The men fought with skin gloves. The versatile "Spider" simply played with the professor of pugilism, and in the third round " sent him to grass" for the last time, winning the match and monev. Paddy Puffy, the world's 14'VtMiund fistic champion, died at his home in Boston the 10th. He had been suffering for years past from a complication of lung and heart troubles, and was given up as incurable six months ago. Since lhifl'y defeated Tom Meadows in San Francisco on March 2ft. 18H0, he has lieen failing, and many attribute his death to the hard blows "he received over the heart in that battle. The thirteenth annual sale of the Elmendorf yearlings took place July 9th in the paddock of the Monmouth Park race track. The Elmendorf farm headed the list of winning sires for five consecutive years, and was first last year, tirenzi, Salvator and Seuorita were bted at this farm. The highest pi iced animal was a full brother to Firenzi. He brought 4,2"0 and was secured by W. L. Scott. Thirty-two head realized fcl',025, an average of $909 54. fieorge Roberts, of Alpine County, has invented a novel vehicle for riding in a flume. He calls it a "go devil," prob ably because it goes like its mamesake. The vehicle is three feet long, the shape of a " V " flume, and has closed ends; two wheels on the bottom and an iron brake with hooks over each side of the flume and works with the foot. It has a seat and runs at the rate of forty-live miles an hour in a dry flume and "tiftv- five when a head of water is turned in, and by means of the brake can be stopped in going three box lengths. The weight is only about fourteen pounds. Peter Cannon, the famous Scotch long distance runner, has arrived in this . i- , i country anu issueu a cnaiienge to run any man in America from one to ten miles for 50 to $1,030. Cannon has located at JS'atick, Mass. Professional runners of sterling merit, at one, two and three to ten miles, arej scarce in this country, and it is doubtful if the S-otch runner will get a race unless for gate money. No one is known outside T1 . T A. , 1 .. ... . l- . - . auijiiiij' iJviaucj inoir ciiuilu LU gi ve lilts Scotch runner a race, and if the latter came over here expecting to find plenty of foemen worthy of his steel, he reck oned without his host. YOUTH UNDER THE AX. Rmai-kabl Narva Kihlhltod It th Young-act Tletlm of tha Guillotine. V That man has recently witnessed a . rare and Infrequent sight." said a well i known tnan-about-town to a New York 1 JotintoX reporter on Broadway, poiut- ' tng to a foreign-looking man "who was i gu'ng Into the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ihe reporter approached tne gentle man, who gave his name as George llerbillon. a well known Parisian jour nalist. He left Paris about ten days ago. "Yes; I have witnessed a strange slght,aud one I don't care about seeing again," he said, with a tlrong foreign accent. He then related the incident. He had seen the guillotining, about two weeks ago, at Paris, of the youngest person who had fallen a victim to the grim ax in Paris since the Freuch Rev olution. It was a boy of 18 who had suffered the awful punishment. His name was Georges Henri Kans. He had murder ed his sweetheart in May la-t. At the trial for this crime it was shown that young, beardless Kaps.at the age of 14. had assassinated an old man in a dark side street. When arrested tor this last murder, boy though he was, he threatened his guards with death. "I have seen many persons die," said M. llerbillon. 'l wan in the com uiuue in 71 and at the executions after It, but I never saw anytl ing so ditrea ing as the end of this young murderer. fie was only a noy m sun ior a mother's caressing," went ou M. ller billon, "but he dispiaved tne most re markable uerve during the trial aud greeted the verdict of death with a smile." When the officials came in to the prison to aunounce that his hour had come he showed no fear, though till that moment he had expected a commutation of seutence. He dresset! himself with out assist ance. When a priest approached he motioned him to leave with a wave of his little hands. Afterward he gayly skipped to his place in the sad procession for the guillotiue. When he arrived at the "Place of the Ax" be glauced curiously at the few ectator. Catching sight of the dead wagon that waa soon to carry away his lifeless bodv he smiled visibly, Slaudiug beneath the glittering knife, the priest extended the crucifix to the boy's lips, but he turned aside his head. The victim's manner was M naive that a movement of pity made a mur mur In the little tbroug aa the execu tioners forced him back and laid his neck in the fatal groove. "As he lay for a second ljefore the blade droped." said 'Mr. lierbillou, "1 caught a lingering smile upon his lips. Then I turned away." he said, "and ihe sound of the falling kuile was heard. The bov died more like my idea of a Christian martyr thau any oue I ever saw die." Hairpin and All. Such a thing as wearing different sorts ot bangs on various occasions is common euough among girls, your correspondent is led to believe, savs the Albany Argu. And this reminds him of a lady he knows who affects a great deal of the lack of sentiment and ex cessively common-sense ways character istic of the Boston girl. One evening not long ago a young man wnoro sne i cordially disliked had been making her a visit, gushing over, as usual, with idiotic compliments. At last, with an air and accent designed to be quite irre sistible and heart crushing, he said: My dear Miss P., your hair is so beautiful. Should I le venturing too gross a liberty if I begged you to give me one little lock of it?" "Not. at all, Mr. K." replied the lady in a matter-of-faci tone, "you are quite welcome.' And with that she deliberately de tached a small curl from above her pink little ear, on the left side, and gravely presented It, hairpin ard all, to the important dude. Of cou.-se he took it. He could not perceive that there was anything else for him to do. Do the Dying Buffer Pain? The rule ts that unconscionness, not pain, attends the final act. A natural death is not more painful than birth. Painlessly we come; whence we know not. Painlessly we tro; where' we know not. Nature kindly provides an i Ksthetic for the laxly when the spirit 1 leaves it. Previous to that moment, aud In preparation for it, respiration becomes feeble, generally slow and short, often accompanied by long in spirations, and short, sudden expira tions, so that the blood is steadily less and less oxygenated. At the same time the heart acts with corresponding de bility. producing a slow.feeble.and often irregular pulse. As this process goes on the blood is not only driven to the head in diminished force and in less quantity, but what flows there is load ed with carlmnic acid gas, a powerful ana'sthetic, the same as derived from charcoal. Subjected to the influence of this gas the nerve centers lose con sciousness and sensibility, apparent sleep creeps over the system; then comes stupor and then the end. St. Louu Republic How Congresman Martin Uuys Ct gara. Congressman William Martin of Texas, who was the inuoceut butt of a great deal of fun and practical joking at the last Congress, is perhaps the heaviest smoker in the official life of the capital. He has been described and illustrated extensively, but all the pen and pencil pictures of him lack one all important feature, the never failiug ci gar. The fraarant weed is his Treat com fort and cousolatiou, to which he re sorts almost constantly in his waking hours. He is not particular as to brand, quality, style, or price. There is a cigar stand in the corridor of the House which he patronizes unremit tingly. When he steps up to the counter he says to the clerk, briefly. Cigars." If the clerk lays down on the case a handful Major Martin counts them, lights one, nuts the oth ers in his vest pocket, aud asks, "How much?" The amount is stated aud paid. If only one cigar is laid on the case he takes it just the same and says likewise, simply, "How much?" The clerks, as may be expected, keep him well supplied. Philadelphia Inquirer. A Tall Throne. The King of Italy has sent to King i Menelik a carved wooden lliroue of : twenty-four feet high. i . I J A Japanese man-of-war, recently launched at Yokosuka, made nineteen knots per hour ou the trial trip. COAST NEWS. Oreswi l'rj;pil World's to Prepare for Its J-air Exhibit: ( tlNTHAl T LBT To FILL WITH LAKE WITH EARTH. Indian ltd in Inearl lied Burglary al Seattle Mnnmiieu an KaruifU A Murderer la Be Hanged. Tacoma bus t;,(H 0 children of school age. Eugene, Or , has an arc-light system in operation. MeMinville, Or., is to have an electric motor line. The Uallutin County (.Mont.) Farmer's Allium e is coiisiile tng the establish ment of co-operative store. A jea'ous Italian chewed bis wife's eai oTatSin Jose, Cid , recently. He was arrested for mayhem. The w beat crop, w hich exceeds exiec tatiou in the San Joaquin, ia very disaie loiiiting tip the Sacramento. I.. W. Smith of Kulteii Creek, Jose phine County, Or., picked up a nugget weighing f2 20 one day recently. Ashland, Or., has the heaviest crop of black lerries ever raised there. The hushes are almost bidden by the fruit. Chitumen at Butte, Mont., who will not pay their poll taxes are fined $5 and comielle I to work out their fines. President Adams of the Union Pacific Bail way has oidered the immediate com pletion of the Port Townsend Southern Itailroad to Olympia. ( Charles II. Bawdiu, convicted of the murder of Lily M. Price at Eureka, Cal., ha leen sentenced to lie hanged Sep temlier 5th. Bo'iert Farrau had a fight over they chased at Fourth, and were each. and James Patterson a greased pi which Stockton, Cal., the ai rested and fined S A Chinaman who rented 2n0 acres near Florence, jm Angeles, has planted it to 1 it a toes, and savs he will clear f 10,Utm from the crop. , A quantity of apples re-eiitly shipped from San Francisco last week w'ere found to I infested with codlin moth and scale. Apples and tsixes were burned. The Ijjb Angeles Horticultural Socielv asks the .u-r visum for .authority to -eieaud destroy all scale-Infested ft tilt found at fruit stands. The Colton (Cal.) News has leen shown fifty species of marble from the quarry taelve mi!es from Victor, no two of which were exattly the same Tor. A passenger train struc' a wagon load of picnii-ers at a crossing just out of San Francisco, July loth, killing three women ami two children, hesidea seri ously injuring several others. A hi.rglary was committed in Seattle, July Ktih, at the Seagiave Hotel early this morning. Between fTUO and in cash and jewelry were secured bv the burglars. .1. J. Cairns of Tulare. Cal.. raises 17.H1 acres of wheat. It took him six months to plant it. He has 125 men harvesting now, and will get alsjtit 2."i,- m bushel. A fine lot of oyer shells were taken i out of Ihe Itocky- Fork coal mines in j Montana a few days ago that look as I natural as though just taken out of the! is-ean. i Major Hard does not extiect the pro- . . . . : I ; . . i . . Iin-t-n imuiarj aroi on nie Mexican : Isjrder and along the southern coast to ; keep t binese and smuggled goisls out i liefore next w inter. Mark I,. Mcl Knalil. Comniissioner-at-! la'ge to the World's Fair, urges the! ChimiU-r of Commerce to act immedi- j ately and decisively on the airangement I for ( Iregon's exhi hit . f Y oiir trams entered a store at tVn- tralia i ii mm. nit- uiuer iay,anii naruel twelve hlankets in the presence of the ash . i... ... t t clerks. Ihe hlankets and one of the thieves were recovered. The snow is still reported quite deep in plai-es on the divide between Fort Klamath ami the headwaters of Bogue Kiver. From White Horse no to the summit there is snow in sight every whete. The Colusa (Cal.; Herald pronounces the levies in front of that city unsafe, though they stood through last winter's floods, and calls iifon the peopie to put them in ship shae at once. Henry ile Wolf tendered five copper cents for bis fare on the Old Tacoma street-ear line and they were refused and be was ejected from the car. He has! now sued the company for $2,0M i damages. j The other day, in Polk County, John; Kohl. ins killed a big wildcat tiiat was trying to kill his pigs, and Henry Mc Carter, Jim and (ieorge Magers captured seven cayotes that were making their home m a hollow lir log. James Baum, a farmer living near Petalunia, Cal., baa a mare that recently gave birth to twin colts. They are both til lies, were Isirn an hour apart and are now 12 days old. Both are perfectly formed and healthy. The contract made by the Bowers Pledger l ompauv of Tacoma to fill Couch Lake with KO0.0K) cubic yards of earth has leen approved by the directors of the Northern Pacific Terminal Com pany, ami Bindon W. Bates, manager of the dredging company, left for San Francisco on his way Fast July 0th to purchase machimry for a large dredger to te hunt nere ior this )oh. i Parties who attempted to quarter aj large liand of sheep on the Fort KUis I I) .1... I i. .T1 I.. Kl.,nl .. n .. - . I HE . I . Iiiiv", ..lu.liniin, BIQ Haiti IU have lost aliout 400 head of their flock in one night from the eating of saltpeter, which had lieen sown over the ground bv persons who felt agrieved at having (he reservation made a sheep pasture. The Winters cannery building, fitted up, but never used as a cannery, was burned on Tuesday of last week, pre sumably by tramps who had been ar rested for sleeping in it. i It was oiure Theo Winters' stable. Norfolk was stabled in it and Mollie McCarthy was foaled in it. The Astoria 'olumbian says: While digging for relics in the old Chinook burying ground at New Astoria recently J. M. Long and a companion unearthed one of the old Harrison " Log Cabin" medals. The lettering stands out very clearly and the outlines of the cabin are quite plain, though the medal is some what corroded. The date, 1840, ia all there. It is supposed that some tricky trailer brought a lot of these cheap medals out to the coast and exchanged them at a high valuation for furs. The diggers also found a pair of silver and a pair of copper bracelets. GENERAL.-. NEWS The Trilled Slates Guarantee Com jiany of New York. the possible removal he ei rope s 1'rowxeb heahs. The Largest Piere et (ield Ever Taken Krm Ihe Earth The English thaanel Tunnel. Du C!.:iil!u. it is said, is thinking ot writing a biography of Custaru Adolphu4. A new member of the Japanese Par liament is Kumas. who has been a student at Michigan University. Lady Pauncefote is noted at Wash ington as a peletr'ati. She often walks from house to house in making calls. k A good many options on phosphate lands in southern Florida have been surrendered because the phosphates didn't materialize. Brigandage Is now dead in Greece, or will be when the last of the notorious Lynsros family, who is now in prison, has been executed. The late E. L. Blanchard possessed a curious relic of Charles I. a Bible, with that King's autograph and some interesting inscriptions. Josiah Sherman has given a six-acre site, valued at 16.000. for the hospital by which Atlanta will honor the mem ory of Henry W. Grady. When Mrs. Alice Good, of Covert. Mich., wants a game dinner she shoul ders ber gun and goes into the woods, returning shortly with a mess of squir rels. She is a good shot. The Lancet says that the human liody can be embalmed so as to insure identification three thousand years after death. That may be so, but who is to do the identification? The project of tunneling the English Channel is still cherished by a com pany of British capitalists, who have expended 100.000 on exeriniental works which are not yet completed. Only a few years ago Sioux Falls was content with an occasional "sinr- in skule" during the winter months. To-dsT Siour Falls i a. citv. and i m- I ins to have a eonvervatory of music" f What are supposed to be the first i-..V.. i! Sn ihm Pon.,u.ii- .,Mtin. f.,,,1 f - i . - t ti.;i-.ii..i.;. ..i .rt..,i. I " ri- , . r I eorgc on, ..M.i.nn ui urace j Darling, aud ouly surviving member ; of the family, is living at North Sun- i derland. Lngland. He is over 0 years j of ajre. A public subscription has late- ly been made for him. A ladv at Titmville. Fla.. has a nov elty in the way of rves. One of ber many varieties bears a bud which i green when it blossoms. In the bud it is so nearly the color of the foliage as to lie bard to distingush. Congressman Joe Wheeler weighs j nuiety-hve pounds, w hile Congressman j Barnes carries the palm for adipose i tissue by tipping the beam at 400 ! pound, and savs he wouldn't take $1.- 1 0U0 for a siujile pound of fleli. i The following epitaph is over the j grave of Meridelh. formerly organist of St. Mary's College, Oxford, En gland: Here tie one b'own out of breath, W bo lived a merry life and died a Merideth. Mr. G. W. Child keeps in his pri vate office in the Ledger Building in Philadelphia a chest full of nice tea cups, and it is Mr. Chi Ids' delight to present one of these teacups to each distinguished visitor who calls upon him. P. D. Annour, George AL Pullman, and Calvin S. Brice are among the in corporators of the United States Guarantee company of New Yprk, the object of which is to guarantee the fidelity of persons in places of trust, private and public Pombolano is the name of a plant found in Mexico, the root of which is said to contain a substance analogous to but more powerful thau quinine iu its autiperiodic action. It lias been found to cure fevers that had rebellious intermitent resisted the action of quinine. Judge Thomas T. Bon Id in of Char lotte Co.. Va., owns the plantation ou which his father and great-grandfather re nunwi. auu wuitii n '" . . a i t ' . , family 146 years, and although w 77 years of age he sleeps in the same room he was born iu and upon the same bedstead he was born on. There has been placed in the Man- Chester, Mass. Public Library a copy of the Bible published in 1099. It is the gift of Miss Ella Lee. daughter of the late Charles Lee. to the Manchester Historical Society. This rare and valuable publication is known as the Bishop's Bible, and was first printed in 1568. Susan B. Anthony. Clara Barton, and other more or less prominent wo- men have organized the Lucy Webb Hayes Temple Association. Their aim is to erect in Washington a monument to the late Mr. Hayes. Iliey want i 5.000 charter members at $5 a member. Several hundred members have already ( been obtained. Robert Niven, a London barrister, says: "It would not surprise me if before I die there is not a crowned head in Europe. Ideas are in the air and events move rapidly. Two years ago the theory of imperial federation was not regarded as practicable: now it is recognized as within the sphere of practical party politics. This is a great gain." Lord Chancellor Halsbury of En gland is fond of mechanics, and at his country place, near Stan more, he has a small workshop on the grounds, where every day he takes a turn at his lathe, in which art he is quite an adept He live . flat, red buildin?. p overgrown - ''J unpretentious in general appearance. He loves greatly to play the villager, and his habits are of the simplest kind. Th Immoderate consumption of ava" in the Sandwich Islands causes a peculiar affection of the skin char acterized by redness and infiltration in the epidermis. The drinkers of the beverage are usually emaciated, and the surface of the body is covered with scales, which become detached, leav ing small ulcers. The lesions are not permanent, but gradually disappear when the habit is abandoned. Among the natives tha ara formerly enjoyed considerable reputation as a remedy for leprosy. The largest piece ot gold ever taken from the earth was discovered May 10, 1872, at Hill End. New south Wales, on the claim of Beyer & Hultman. It was an irregular-shaped slab four feet nine inches in length and three feet three inches In width, with an average thickness of about three Inches. It weighed something over 600 pound, and, although not virgin pure, assayed 1148,000. The most remarkable part of the story is that the men who found it did not have money enough to pay their board bills the week before. The height of an olive tree Is usually twenty feet, but it is sometimes as high as fifty feet, and it reaches an almost fabulous age. One lately destroyed at Beaulieu had a recorded age of five centuries, and it was thirty-six feet in circumference. The olive tree is ex ceedingly prolific under cultivation; the fruit yields about 70 per cent of its weight (exclusive of kernel) in oil. Italy is said to produce 83.000,0(X) and France 7,000,000 gallons of oil annual ly. The tree does not vegetate readily beyond 2.000 feet altitude, or 45 de gr jss of latitude. The altitude of the Stevens mine oa Mount McCIellan (Cal.) is 2.500 feet. At the depth of from sixty to 200 feet crevice matter, consisting of silica, calcite and ore. together with the sur rounding wall rock, is a solid, frozen mass. AfcClellan is one of highest eastern spurs of the snowy range. It has the form of a horseshoe, with a bold escarpment of feldsparie rock nearly two thousand feet high, which in some places is nearly perpendicular. In descending into the mine nothing unusual occurs until a depth of eighty or ninety feet is reached, when tha frozen territory begins and continues . . .. I 1 j t . r-r- . wr u ri iwu uuuurru itu x Here a rt no indications of a thaw summer or winter. What Tickled a Hoosler. One day I was riding along a high way in Indiana when I came upon a pile of bedding and articles of crockery and hardware in front of a farm house, and seated on the horse block was a corpulent old man with a very red face. Naturally enough I asked him what nad happened, and he went off into laughter which lasted a full minute before he could reply. "Them duds belong to Ben and Mary." "But who are Ben and Mary?'1 Ben's my mv ha! ha! na! Tve laffed till I'm almost dead. Ben's my son. aud Mary is his ha! ba! ha! son, wife. "But who tumbled those things ont .,,.. "Idid." "And where are Ben and Maryr ..Ot - . - I 1 1 - I 1 t the woods. Stranger, excuse me. Jut T'l li In 1 rT if thpr was ft mrnuin the house, its too durnea tunny ior mnvthing ha! ha! bar And he yelled and whooped until he haTe lcen heard half a mile, Whea he sobered up a little I asked: ..Is tht.re a ;oke in thj9 so mew here u tneref Whoop! I should say- there was! Go into the house and rou'iriind the woman nigh dead with lafting." "Well, what is itr "Yon see, Ben got married about three months ago. Purty good boy. but inclined to be tricky. He married a purty fair gal, but she's dreffuily am bitious. They cum home to live; and about a month ago wanted me 'n the old woman to deed over the farm to them and be taken keer of the rest of our lives. We didn't like the idea, but they hnng to it, and so last week I made out a deed and handed it over. It wasn't a deed describin' this farm, bnt some other farm, though it all looked reg'lar nuff." You doubted their faith, ehr "I kinder did. and so ha! ha! ha! Say, stranger, don't think hard of me. bnt I've got to laff or bust. Just tickles me way back to my shoulder blades!" He went off into another fit, and when he got his breath again he con tinued: "This mornin was the sixth day since they got the deed, ' As soon as breakfast was over Ben said they'd concluded to get along without our valued company, and suggested that as it was nine miles to the poorhouse we make an early start. He intended to turn as smack out doors without a dollar, but he got left. . I told him he'd better look into the deed a bit. and he went to town and diskivered the trick j T had nlared. - You orter seen them i two when'they come back! Why, why And he laughed again nntil I had to pat him on the back to prevent a catas trophe. Thev were the humblest, down- ' wwtdnat ncod.nnost. irnn.tn.n mw. p, ,on erer ot eyea ovC Ben got a 1 , of tere,. and a hoss pistil and eHtoT the wood3. ,nd Mary tied a wet , towel aronnd her head and tooted it fur j her father's house. I've brought out j their duds and piled 'em up here, and i if they don't send fur 'era before noon i they kin go to the dogs." ! "WelL they deserve it." ! "Yes, they do, but it was a narrer escape fur me. If that deed had been j an right me'n the old woman would be paupers to-day. Bnt it wasn't all i right, and and- i And I had driven at least half a mile j before I lost the sounds cf his laughter. j V. I". Sun. A Hand Expedition. . The Lewiston Journal says a Maine tf,ntiil)A Imd a. hard t iwrinn tp t h A 1 other day. He went out after a gang of poachers, and was not only cor dially received by them but was in vited to reco?s.pany them on a hunting expedition. The reason for so much cordiality was not apparent nntil the officer found that his late companions hatl managed to leave him alone on aa uninhabited island, where they kept him for two days and nights. Dreibund. " The term "dreibund" is appearing ia the German cable news, and. as it ia somewhat strange to American ears, it may be well to explain that it means an understanding or a compact, a alli ance, among three persons, or states, or governments. The dreibund" ia the present instance is the alliance be tween the three sovereigns of Germany., Austria, and Italy. A Little Watch. A Florentine friar exhibited at the Paris exposition a watch only a quarter of an inch in diameter. Besides the two regular hands it has a third- which marks the seconds, and a microscopic dial which indicates the days, weeks, months, and years. It al.-o contains an alarm, and ou its front lid or cover aa ingeniously cut figure of St. Francis.