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VOL. IV.
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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
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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.