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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1890)
f "TV JL 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. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11), 161)0. 82.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. IV. NO. 23. RESS JLjJtljJD)jfil J THE PACIFIC COAS )1 Steamship Runs Into an Iceberg in Glacier Bay, Alaska. An Effoit Being Made in the State Oregon to Secure a Repeal of the Usury Laws. of The Masonic Grand Longe of Idaho lf in session at Boise City. An approximation of the population of Helena, Mont., under the recount makes it about 15,00. The cra'.er of Mount Baker is reported bv the ranchers of Baker river as spew ing out volumes of smoke and fine lava at intervals this summer. The assessment rolls of Spokane Falls show the valuation of her citv property to be tl8.7Wl.0lX). This is an increase of 110,000,00.) over last year. A mort trace was recorded in Seattle, on Saturday that calls for ?0,009,0 X) to extend the Northern Pacific from Assin- aboine, Mont., to Puget sound. An effort is being made in Oregon to secure the repeal of its usury and mort gage tax laws. It is claimed they have stunted the State and driven capital into .Washington. Bv an explosion of giant powder at the Vlnin onicksilver mine mar Colusa. Cal., Alex Davis was fatally injured, and others were badly bruised. The report was distinctly heard at a distance of lour miles. Copper from the mines in the south part of Josephine county. Or., has begun to arrive bv the wagon-load, says the Grant's Pass Courier. This will be shipped to San Francisco for a practical mill test. Bradstreet'a Mercantile Agency reports twenty-three failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with eleven for the previous week and nine for the corresinding week of 1889. Large strings of carp are taken from King's river by fishermen. The fish bite easiiv, and are from one to fourteen inches Ion. Thev are from the stock put in several years ago by the Fish Commissioners. James II. Barry, publisher of the Pan Francisco Weekly Star, who some time ago was arrested and found guilty of con tempt in cntieistng judge 5awyer oi me tuoenor court, nas Deen aeniea a writ of habeas corpus. The Trustees of the Lick estate have accented HaDPersbereer's desiirns for bronze statuarv provided for in the will. and contracts will be let immediately. The statuarv will be placed in the City hall at San i rancisco, and will cost ?l ou,- 000. The sailors at Nanaimo and IVparture Bav met and passed resolutions of sym pathy and support of the Wellington coal mine strikers. The sailors will en deavor to prevent any of their class shipping on any vessel that is intended to earry coal mined by scab labor. A special from Helena, Mont., says that the killing of Hugh Boyle by Chey ennes, following the discharge of Fergu son's murderers, has so incensed the set- " .-.i tiers that they declare they will send i "" their women and children to Miles City : . -and start on a war of extermination . against the Cheyennes. W. B. Taylor, tried and convicted in I he United States District Court at San Francisco for cruelty to seamen, was sen tenced by Judge Hoffman to one year's . imprisonment in the Alameda county . jail and to pay a fine of 100. The com- plainant was Captain Alanson Ford of the American ship St. PauU Delegates to the California World's Fair Convention assembled at Metropol itan hall, San Francisco, and effected an organization. Every portion of the State was represented, and the delegates were enthusiastic in the preliminary work of placing California in a condition to be fully represented at the World's Fair. The steamship George W. EHer while E seeing through Glacier bay, Alaska, at alf speed ran into an iceberg, which drove a hole three feet square into the vessel. She had to be beached and the break temporarily repaired so as to allow her to continue her voyage to Vic toria. The vessel will go to San Fran cisco and be docked. The schooner Citv of San Diego has just arrived at San Francisco from the North. The captain re porta his catch as two seals and one otter. The catch for - the Beason is Baid to have been only four teen otters and twenty seals. The schooner brought back three men out of a crew of hfteen, the others having de serted in Alaska. The captain said that dnrinir the entire season he was able to lower his boats only twice. The California Athletic Club at San Francisco gave its usual monthly exhibi tion the other evening, MUnev Hunting ton and Charley Rochette, local light weights, being matched to a finish for a small purse. The contest was very tame, but after Huntington had drawn blood from Rochette's nose in the sixteenth, nineteenth and twentieth rounds the po lice entered the ring and ordered the fight stopped. The bovs started to fight " the twentv-first round, and were, to gether with their principals, promptly placed unaer arrest. The Board of Equalization of Lake county made a reduction of $41,848.18 from its Assessor's returns, and added $3,109, leaving the total taxable property of Lake county for 1890, as equalized by the Board. 1 .395,988.21. This amount will stand as it is unless the County Court should conclude te make some changes. The total taxable property for 1889 was $1,678,356.81, considerable more than this year, which is accounted for by the great loss of stock last winter. ! The rate of taxation is the same as last j year-rrf 1.7S per iuu A new town has been laid out sixteen miles above Mehama, where the Oregon I acme crosses me iuriu ui urc om tiam. The townsite embraces fifteen acres, and is on the land of Clarence Brown. It is now the eastern terminus of the Oregon Pacific, and contains a saw mill and about fifteen houses, among them a schoolhonse in course of con struction. A postoffiee will at. once be petitioned for. The new town is in Ma riqn county, and Niagara is the name chosen for It. Flemming J. Pratt has been acquitted of the charge of murdering Charles A. Dobson at Seattle last June after a trial lasting nearly three days. The testi mony was to the effect that Pratt and Dobson became engaged in a quarrel for a key of a new house, which Dobson was building for Pratt. The evidence showed that Dobson first made the assault on Pratt. Pratt dodged Dobson 's blow, and the latter fell to the ground among the stumps. Pratt hit him two or three blows with his fist. Dobson was found 2 to be dead frombeminLi"-cf the brain. POINTS ON HOUSE CLtANINO. Timely SuRK.tlon. Regarding Renova tion and Spring Cleaning;. A dear old housekeeper confided to ms tome tricks to which she had resorted with good effect in the renovation of her domicile during her forty years experi ence in town, and country at the head of a household of large number. Thia vet eran in her vocation never covers the en tire surface of her bedroom floors, by which plan she can have the corners kept scrupulously free from dust, and she ays one can make the margin look well and last a long time by first cleaning it nicely and then putting on a heavy coat of linseed oil, which she follows, after the oil has thoroughly dried with two coats of brown shellac varnish. Reno vating the bedsteads bureaus and chairs, my authority insists, is one of the acces sories of cleaning house, and a great ad vantage to all housewives who desire to combine economy and perfection. All my hardwood furniture, pur sued the old lady, "I thoroughly wash free of all dust, grease and finger marks with, soap and water, and dry as thor oughly with clean cloths. Then, as 1 wish to keep the appearance the same as when it was new, I pour soma linseed oil into a dish and, dipping a bit of flan nel into it, rub it over every bit of tht wood, which was originally finidhed in oil, nsing a good deal of energy and con tinuing the rubbing until I can pass my hand over the entire surface without soil ing it. If there are any portions that were varnished, I buy a pint or so of or dinary furniture varnish and spread it en generously with a small varnish brush. - "Picture frames usually need a little renovating now and again, and such aa I have of black walnut or other hard wood I generally rub over with the flannel rag and linseed oil. Sometimes they can be made to look better than new by nsing shellac varnish on them, which doe not dry so glossy as furniture varnish. For a brush I prefer a flat paint brush, such as is called 'chiseled' that is, ground off on each side to form a thin edge and after it haa been used in shellac varnish a painter told me to wash it in strong al cohol, and never in turpentine or soap and water. If a person desires to touch tip a pianoforte, they can procure from the manufacturers some varnish which is known as 'piano polishing for the case, and piano flowing, which ia another preparation, for the legs. "In apartments where it is practicable I always like to lay a matting for the summer months; it looks so clean, cool and comfortable during the hot weather. But it often surprises me that so many people follow the custom of tacking each breadth to the floor with either the sin gle or the double pointed tacks that have recently been devised to lessen the num ber to be driven. Tacking down each breadth in this manner is not only de structive to the matting, but it spoil the floor as well. Every tack put In or with drawn breaks at least one of the straws. I have found it a far better plan to sew the breadths together and then tack it to the floor in the same manner one would treat a carpet. Previous to laying the mat ting, however, I always sew the two laid pieces where they are joined, across and across, which keeps the joints from open ing. I think housekeepers to whom economy is an object will find that mat ting made and laid as I suggest will last fully twice as long as when it is tacked down breadth by breadth. "When there is a marble washstand, bureau top, mantel or buffet that needs especial cleaning, some washing soda, crushed fine and mixed with pulverized quicklime, worked into a paste with some water, should be laid on and left to dry, after which it may be scraped off and washed clean with soap and water. "The oilcloth m my kitchen haa been down for years. I never allow soap, or only the least bit, to be used on it, as it removes the coloring, but 1 always keep some varnish on hand to have it treated with occasionally." Grace Conroy in New York Star. . The Prince of 'Wale' Daughters. The two princesses, Victoria and Maud of Wales, are pretty and bright young women. Seeing the good time that their older sister (the duchess of Fixe) has had since her marriage they are pining for husbands, and they make no bones of Baying that they are weary of the re straint in which they are kept. The Prince of Wales has insisted that his daughters should be reared in the strict est simplicity, and the plainness of their attire has occasioned general remark. These girls seem to have inherited much of that strength of character for which their grandmother is noted. Maud is particularly pretty. Cor. Chicago News. The Secret of Married Life. Here is a bit or advice from a woman who isn't one of the Mona Caird dissent ers, though the wedding ring on her wrinkled hand has lost its brightness: "Preserve the courtesy of the beginning of married life if you wish to keep its joy to the end, and, remember this: It isn't safe to be too intimate with your husband. Have your own thoughts and let him have his, and never let him think he has found out quite all of your per sonality, characteristics and ideas that are interesting. And if vou want to cor rect his faults try praising his virtues. Praise of this kind may fail, out criti cism is almost sure to. A Spring Wedding. The announcement that "Jack" Blood- good, Jr., and Mrs. Clara Stephens Have- meyer are soon to be married has created quite a flutter of excitement in New York. Mrs. Havemeyer la a beautiful blonde, 22 years of age. She has blue eyes and an abundance of silky brown b air. She is spoken of as one of the pret tiest women m New York. Young Blood- good is about 23 years old and handsome. and is worth nearly $1,000,000, which he Inherited from his grandfather, William ! rttinw. He is also one of the Four Hundred. -Boston Record. Oriental Matting. . The variety offered in the newly im ported mattings is endless. Notably among mattings ire the Japanese impor tations, which exceed in variety of de sign and happy combination of color any hitherto manufactured. There are five grades, "fancy jointless," -"best joint- less," "medium jointless," "best jointed, "medium jointed." Ail these are one yard wide. The "fancy jointless" shows some unique designs, and may readily be used as a substitute for carpets, as their rich patterns and colorings make them charming for floor coverings. Among examples may be cited those which have a ground of solid dark colors, such aa navy blue, old red, maroon and green. with an all over geometrical design -of octagon shaped medallions, each four being joined together by a gm<or m '&tHion. iloaixaal Eta. EASTERN ITEMS. Plan for Kidnaping Children Dis covered in Kansas City. The United States Takes Hold of the Census Cases, and Will Investigate the Crookedness, Madam Bavatsky York Sun for lible. has sued the New John K. Foster of Indiana has been otlered the Spanish Ministry. Mexico has decided to reduce her army and change her system of recruit ing. " - A strong movement to defeat Powderly for General Master of the Knights of I.abor at the coming election is being made. The eash receipts of the Mexican Treasury the past year were $37,000,00,1, a sum never before equaled in Mexican history. The population of the State of Ver mont, as announced bv the Census Bureau, is 332.350. a decrease in ten years of thirty-one. Efforts are being made by citizens of Galena. 111., to secure the removal of General Grant's remains to that place, his lionie m early life. The Postal Telegraph Company of New Jersey, which is to open an office shortly in Grange, ia going to mount its messengers on safety bicycles. New York has suffered this year con siderable from the drought. All the streams in the northern part ol the State are so low aa to affect the canals. AH thddesigns submitted in the com petition for New York's monument to General Grant are drawn on the suppo sition that the work is to cost toOJ.OOO. Presumablv owing to some religious isasrreement six Icelandic students. ho have been studvina in innepee. have gone to IMkota to hmsh their stud ies. The Cincinnati Board of Public Im prove-nents has adopted a resolution providing for competitive bidding for the purpose of introducing natural or luei gas- A company has been organized at Des Moines, la., to establish a colony at the Mnnth litn Edward Hellauiv's nlan of a Socialistic government can be prac tically tested. New York's mounted park policemen have appeared in anouthtof tight riding breeches and top boots, w hitman sad dles and Prussian army bits for the horses' bridles. Clara Belle McDonald, well-known on the Pacific Coast on account of her mat rimonial troubles, has arrived in New York with her child, where she pro poses to study law. A boycott is being established by At lantic steamers against cowboys who are returning after taking over consign ments ot cattle, l he actions ol the men are declared to be outrageous. Philadelphia iron manufacturers and dealers have subscribed $10,000 for the entertainment of the members of the British iron and Steel Institute, who are to visit the united Mates next month. Reardinsr the Chicago dispatch stat ing that J. F. Goodard would succeed Kichard Gray as trame manager ot tne Southern Pacific, l'resident Crocker stated that Gray would remain with the company. Uncle Ben Baker, Assistant Secretary of the Actors' Fund, and one of the most widel v known and popular members of the profession, was found dead at his , i ii. resiuenee in ew i or. u - enty-two years old. The State School Commissioner and Attorney General were in consultation at Atlanta, Ga., in regard to securing for purposes of negro education in that State a sum of money that has lain in the Bank of England" for many years. The total gross exchanges for last week, as shown by the dispatches from the leading houses in the United States and Canada, is $1,094,720,790, an in crease of twenty-one per cent, as com pared with the corresponding week last year. The Boston express Saturday evening struck a surburban train on the iwn- burv and Norwalk branch of the llousa- tonfc road in Boston and badlv dam aged it, besides shaking up and painfully mmnne thirty or more passengers, none of them dangerously. The United States Grand Jury has taken hold of the census cases, and will investigate the alleged crookedness in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Subptenas are out lor almost-all the enumerators in both cities, and also for a number of Bohemians and Swedes whose names' are said to be duplicated. Among the passengers on the Teutonic. which has arrived at New York, was Sir treorge Baden Powell, a member of Par liament. It is not unlikely that his visit will have something to do m the way of settling the fisheries questions now in dis pute between this country and Great Britain. : He is bound for British Co lumbia. The Brooklyn Board of Education has ordered that the law against minors smoking shall be read in the public schools once a month. The street arabs have already arranged a plan to defeat the operations ot the statute, it pro hibits smoking tobacco and especially cigarettes. Hereafter they are all af flicted with catarrh and smoke cubebs. An audacious plan for attempting to kidnap children has been revealed at Kansas City. The plan was to kidnap children ot wealthy parents, conduct them to some secret place in some dis tant State and keep them there until their ransoms should be paid. The Grand Jury found a true bill for the of fense against Henry C. Wilson, the owner of a livery stable. W. F. Murdock, the young man - who claimed to have discovered the-- rail across the track of the Boston and Maine railway, near Lynn, and warned an approaching train of the danger, has been arrested, and confessed that he had himself placed the obstruction on the track, though he disclaimed any in tention of wrecking the train. He said the act was done in the hope of being rewarded. The annual election of the Northern Pacific Company will be held on October 16 at New ork. It will be one of the quietest on record, no contest is antici pated, and, as one of the officials put it, " We expect every thing to pass off as smooth as a silk ribbon." Not even a committee of proxies has been appoifctid, but there will be proxies enough present to transact all the necessary business. The fact that no committee has been ap pointed to solicit proxies arises from the fact that the company has no important change from the present situation to suggest. Baltimore' Prettiest Belle. The most talked of beauty in the Mon umental City ia Mia Adelo Horwltx. Bhe haa a reputation as assured aa that f Marion Langdon or Sallie Hargous in New York, and she has won her laurels as the Baltimore beauty par excellence in Philadelphia, Narragansett Pier and Bar Harbor. She is the only daughter of B. F. Horwltx, a prominent business man of Baltimore, and through her mother, who was the daughter of the worlj known physician. Dr. Orosa, she ia con nected with the best Philadelphia and Kentucky families. She is tall, fairly slender, and royally carries a head of marvelous beauty on her white shoulders. The coloring of that head is equal to its grace, for it ia produced by the palest rose of the cheeks and the golden brown of the hair. Her color la never high, but always of that pale tint seen In the hedge rose. Eyea blue and well opened, brows arched, nose fine and small, and a riante mouth make nr the other attributes of the beautiful Miss Horwits. She haa the well groomed look of a high bred English girl, but dresses in the quite fetching fashion of a French maiden. Two years ago, when ahe made her debut, even Baltimore, the city of beantlea, was taken by storm. Cor. Kansas Ctt? Globe. To Drive Oat File. t haven't a mosquito bar nor a screen door about my house, and yet there are seldom any flies and never any moequi- toes about it. 1 learned the secret of successful warfare against these pesta when living In the swamps of Louisiana, where, sunnuer and winter, mosquitoes swarm. For some years life was unen durable, aud no meal could be eaten in peace. But all at once there was a change for the better. Bars and screens were often out of place, but there was almost an inimnnity from insects. 1 was batching at the time and bad just changed my colored boy. J. he new comer explained to me how he kept the "critters" away. He burnt small pieces of gum camphor on the cook stove and used a secret preparation he called "snde- killo." . When 1 got married and came to Missouri I Imparted the secret to my wife, and as there is no patent on it that I know of, I would advise all fellow suf ferers to go and do likewise. The gum camphor alone ia ample for the purpose. and need only be used two or three times a day. Herbert A. Finley in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sleeves of the Put Simple as the present fashions are. they have not yet reached the limit of simplicity. For next winter the skirts of gowns will be entirely plain from the waist to the hem, which may be finished with a handsome border of embroidery or applique, itie bodice win also be plainer than at present, with the excep tion of tiie vest trimming and the sleeves. The ornamentation of the sleeve will be the distinctive feature of gowns for a year to come. Where the rest of the gown will be simplicity itself, the sleeve will be of a different stuff from the rest of the costume as rich a stuff as possi ble made full aa now; thickly embroid ered or braided, or decorated la some way from wrist to shoulder. What the sleeve was to the costume in the time of Queen Elizabeth it is to be to the dress of the woman of today. Let the fashionable woman look well to her sleeve. Inter view in New York Evening Sun. A New Order In Kew Terk. An Intense young woman, a member of the Art Students league of New York, has founded a new order called the Order of the Zinnia, named for that prim and unyielding flower which is be lieved to be the emblem of perpetual maidenhood, and the students who wear the zinnia have declared themselves wedded to their art Each member takes an oath never to marry, but to pledge herself to her work. But, as usual with the irrevocable, there Is a post- cript. When she has taken the oath she adds the following sentence: "But if 1 ever do marry I promise to give a dinner to the Zinnias, which shall not cost lesa than $100, as a penalty for having broken my vow to my art and to my order." Cor. Hartford Courant Mlafeloa Kindergartens. Under the auspices of the Mission Kin dergarten organization, of which Mr. Richard Watson Gilder is president, and Mrs. Grover Cleveland vice president, its first free mission kindergarten lias just been opened on the corner of First ave nue and Fifty-third street, a squalid quarter of the city. It is the object of the organization to establish these asy lums in poor neighborhoods, where the children from 8 to 7 years of age have hitherto been turned into that high school of vice the public street The teacher of the First avenue school is Miss White, who has had a long experience in kinder garten work at Cape Colony, Africa, and who haa high hopes of her present classes. New York World. Manufacturer of Soprano. Sopranos, and first rate ones, are being manufactured In such quantities as to be now a drug in the musical market Mine. Marches! is one of the most suc cessful manufacturers. Then there are the classes of Mesdames Marie Sass and Lagrange, of Ernest de Munck, and now Mile. Paule Oaynard, musical precep tress to the daughters of the Prince of Wales. America is rich In light so pranos and Sweden in others who have the charm of strangeness. But the first rate contralto is the rara avis, and is worth her weight in gold. And who ever knew a singer of this kind who was not powerfully built and apt to run into a Rubens like sort of flesh? Mme. Sanz perseveres in living in re tirement Mile. Richard haa become the wife of a man who made millions in a big grocery. She refuses to sing at the opera except on her own conditions, which the managers think exorbitant They offered her a third more than what they usually gave her to appear in "As- camo as La Scozzone, but Bhe required twice as much. That part was written by Saint-Saens for a contralto. Hence the hunt for one over Europe. Chicago, where there is a Mrs. Wymans, was not thought of. A wonderful contralto was discovered at Dresden, but she German ices French in speaking and sings it in a way that would force the most long suf fering of French audiences to hiss her off the stage. The next best is a Senorita Domenech. She is, however, inexperi enced in the art of the scena, Paris Cor. London Truth. An Appropriate Costume. Elderly and Dignified Personage What kind of a dress should a super annuated minister assume? Clerk Might I suggest retirinj robes 1 Chicago Times. FOREIGN NEWS. Emiieror William Will an Kditor. Become The Guatemalan Government Decides to Exile Barrundla's Daughter for Shooting at Mizner. The floods In Central Europe are sub siding. Francis Robert St. Clair Erskine, toiirth r.nrl ol Rosslyn, is dead. It is estimated that the locses bv Hood in Central Europe will reach ,2J,- 000,000. Advice from Spain say that the Em press of Austria intends to visit Havana and will travel incognita. The maneuvers of the German navv. according to exierts, show the condi tion of the fleet to lie excellent. The province of Ferrea. in Italy, is teing devastated by rats, and has already IxH-n damaged to the amount of 800,- ooot. The mock war going on before Hali fax is much enjoyed by the people. The whole flevt will take part in " the siege of Halifax." The long-talked-of scheme of render ing the Seine navigable aa far aa Paris for sea-going vessels Is at last likely to lie carried out. EmtK-ror illiatn has expressed In a speech at Berlin great pride in the working of the fleet as displayed at the recent naval maneuvers. vi imam o linen advises the insn easaiits under the present' condition of the potato crop to iav no rents until their families provided for. The latest reiorts from Tonquin an pounce the arrival there ol a portame. cathedral. It was imiKirted from the town of Kesub, and is of iron. Owing to the damage to the leet crop bv the recent floods in Central Europe, it i likely the Austrian sugar exports will be 00 per cent, under the average. A bell, cad recently for the Kharkow Cathedral, contains 8 per cent, of pure silver. It weighs 4i English pounds, and its vibrations laid several minutes. As soon as the telephone lx-tween I-ondon and Paris is completed arrange ments will be niade to extend the system to Brussels, Bordeaux and Mar seilles. Lniruerre. a well-known supporter of I?oulanger, is preparing a speech in which he will renounce fealty to the Bou- lanirvr partv and assume the position of revisionist. The cholera is tweimrine for the fall business in varioua European Capitals But, leing better umlershxHl, it is no longer regnrded as the dreadful disease it used to be. The Anglo-French agreement with reference to the parceling out of African territory seems to give mutual satis faction. Each country thinks it has the better of the other. The Guatemalan government has de cided to exile the daughter of Barrundia, who at tern uted to sill Minister Mizner. It is said all of Bamindia's relatives will be ordered from the country. The Berlin Kreus Zeitung alleges that Etnin Pasha has not received the arrears of salary due hun by the l-.gypnan gov ernment. Germany pavs him 15,000 a year, the salary of a Major-General. On and after October 1. the Emperor of Germanv will imblish a newsrtauer to ie inspired directly ty nimseii, and to le theothcial exponent ol his views on all subjects military, civil ami political A committee has been formed in Ger many for the purpose ot purchasing Moltkes birthplace, the object being to present it to the nation on the occasion ofttie great warriors ninetieth birth dav. One of the wedding presents to Stan- lev was a eold geographical watch . from a firm of watchmakers, the first of the kind ever manufactured. It tells the time in almost every important citv in the world. "A cablegram from Berne says the ad vanced Liberals are taking a leading part in the opposition to the Conservative government. The government became unpopular, owing to the Treasurer's re cent embezzlement. The recent mutiny in the First Bat talion of the British West India Regi ment at Jamaica, by which Sergeant White lost his life, was a deplorable ex hibitionof want of discipline and de moralization in the regiment. The English journals berate Lord inrkville for his action in respect to the Strafforvl-on-A von monument, lhe Alan chesfer Guardian savs it amply proves how unfit he was for the position of En voy or Minister to anywhere. A passenger elevator to the summit of Mount Blanc is proposed by an Ameri can mining engineer. The shaft ia to be of eight compartments, each six feet square, intended to carry a triple decked elevator for twenty-six passen gers. The Indian government publishes a return showing that in the years 1887. 1888 and 1889, 372 males and 132 females were tortured bv dacoits in the central division of Upjer Burmah. One hun dred and eighteen cases resulted in death. Dr. Henry Muirhead, the late Presi dent of the Glnpgow Philosophical So- cietv. has bequeathed the sum of $125 000 for the erection and endowment of a college which will be devoted entirely to the instruction of women in the theory and practice of medicine. The large sums of money that the irovernnient of India devotes annually as rewards for the destruction of snakes has brought about an unexpected result The snakes are being bred and reared by the natives for the purpose of obtain ing the usual head money otlered. An important feature of the cavalry maneuvers at London was the attempt of twenty officers of the Guards to swim cavalrv horses across the Thames. Dash ing into the river amid great excitement, several succeeded in reaching the oppo site bank in safety, while three riders fell off and had to be rescued by boats. It is held that the trial proved the futil ity of attempting to swim cavalry horses across a stream in a uouy. The ravages of phylloxera are causing consternation in the Champagne dis trict of France. Extensive preparations have been made to give the ground a thorough drenching with a solution of carbonate, of sulphur, and the covern ment will render assistance in the work. O .ving to the apprehensions of the wine farmers, the market has been alt ec tea, and the price of hne grades of cbar pagne may probably be advanced. I A COLLEGE MAN'S STRANGE CAREER. Tlelssltndes la to Ufa nf a Man TFhi Was Cremated In Missouri. John R. Duflln, who died at the Plus hospital, and whose body was cremated at the Missouri Crematory, was well known at BelleTille, and seems from his own statements while there to have had a very eventful lifo. Duflln, wbos real name was Hamlet Shakespeare Felton, was released from the penitentiary at Chester, Ilia., Feb. 23, 1890, uiwn a pardon f.nsued by Governor Fifer, having been sept?nced to that In stitution by the circuit court of St Clair county, April 6, 1883, for twelve years for forgery. Duflln made hta appearance at Summerfield, a little town in the northeastern part of St, Clair county, in the fall of 1S79, and secured work aa a farm laliorer. Ilia Intelligence and gentlemanly bear ing soon gained him many friends In that locality, and it was not long till he began transacting legal business, mating loans, e'x, for a number of the wealthy and prominent farmers at Lebanon town- .1 t a Ft a a .-r,st a . snip. ja April i, isf-w, ne secured a blank note at the First National bank of Belleville, with whose officers he bad be come acquainted through acting as agent for the buinuierheld farmers, and on April 12, 1890, he returned the note. igned by Mr. Jacob Schmitt aa principal and Messrs. William R. Pad field and Julius Winkler as securities, and eot $4,000 on the note, which was drawn for $4,108.70, payable in four months. The bank officials did not suspect any thing wrong in the matter until two weeks had passed, and then, upon com municating with the parties whose names were on the note, they learned that the signatures were forgeries. In the meantime Duflln had fled, and. though a large reward was offered for his capture, he was not apprehended till June, 1882, when he was accidentally met with in Decatur, Ills., by Mr. E. A. Winkler, of Summerfield, Ilia., a son of Julius Winkler, oneof the sureties on the note. He was at once arrested and brought to Belleville, where he was tried April 8, 1883, and sentenced, as stated, to twelve years in the penitentiary at Chester, Ilia. D'lflin made a pathetic address to the jury that convicted him, in which he said he waa an orphan and was born un der the English flag in Spanish waters. and had been adopted by one Randolph Duffin, who had him baptized into the Catholic Church as John Randolph Duf fin, although his real name, he claims, was Hamlet Shakespeare Felton. He com pleted his collegiate education at Eton college, England, studied law at Har vard university, and completed his la studies at Mary's Inn, Oxford, England. He also claimed to have visited South America, China and other foreign lands. and to have been a member of Walter's filibustering expedition to Nicaragua. In la in jail at Belle vole, and also while In the ienitentiary, he wrote many poetio effusions to friends here and for the press. That he waa talented there was no doubt among those who came in contact with him, and be protected against bis conviction for forgery and claimed that lie obtained the signatures of the parties to the note bv fraud. Gov ernor r ifer granted him pardon after he had spent nearly seven years of his twelve year term, when it became evi dent that consumption, with which dis ease he had been suffering for some months, would soon end his days. St Louis Globe-Democrat A Dangerous "Fountlne;.1 Hie more prominent citizens of a small western town had come together one evening for the purpose of getting the sentiment of the community regarding tlte purchase of a fountain for the park in the center of the village. Several men had expressed themselves as heartily in favor of the measure, when a penurious elderly resident, famous for always opposing' the majority, rose and said in bis squeaking, irritable voice: "Well, gentlemen, I ain't in favor of this founting business; no, sir, I ain't You ve went and got a park laid out that the town didn't need, and now you want to spend more money on a useless old founting. Well, now, e'poeing you gil your founting, and some day when there's a big crowd around looking at that founting it blows up and kills four or five people, and they come on the town for damidges, then where will you be with your founting? Then you'll wish you'd never had any founting!" Youth's Companion. The Kind of Butter That Is Wanted. If vou study the market and learn what kind of butter is wanted now, you will find there has been a change. There is not much demand for butter that will keep, but for butter that is high flavored and also milk flavored a butter that has no taste of buttermilk. They demand a butter that has very nearly the same taste as cream. The whole tendency is toward getting butter more nearly like cream, getting butter that is very nearly the same as fresh cream. We have al most reached the point where public taste demands butter made from sweet cream. Professor Cooke before Ver mont Dairymen's Association. St. Cuthbert, th Woman 'Rater. St Cuthbert would have no female creature about hia place at Landisfarne, not suffering even a cow, saying: " vv here there is a cow there must be a woman, and where there is a woman there must be mischief." In the cathe dral at Durham, dedicated to him, black cross in the pavement marked the spot beyond which no woman was al lowed to pass. In 1333 Edward III and Ills queen went to the priory at Durham and lodged together. In the middle of the night a monk broke into their room and rudely awak ened the royal pair, saying to the queen that St Cuthbert loved not the sex and that she must up" and go. The queen tumbled out of bed and spent the rest of the night in the church, praying for par don to the patron saint, whom she had offended. In 1417 two servant girls dressed themselves as men and "impi ously approached the saint's shrine," only to be severely handled by the au thorities. St Louis Republic Was Cleopatra White? Dr. Rudolf Virchow examined all the the royal mummies to which he had ac cess during his stay in Egypt, and took innumerable and minute measurements of their skulls and bodies. From his re searches, he reached the opinion that there was no negro blood in their veins, and that they were distinguishable from Europeans only with difficulty. Ideas in regard to Cleopatra's looks should there fore be revised, Exchange. CONCERNING HOS9IE3. Oood Basalts from tbs Oscar Wild Furor, and Evea from th Dad. The natural tendency to run after fads is a constant source of ridicule, and if it were not for the constant in fluence of such ridicule society would be kept in a state of absurd extremes by the freaks of fashion. Aa it ia, these fada often subserve useful ends and on the whole do good. They ac centuate ideas, and by their very exag geration are educational in effecL A few years ago Oscar Wilde came among us with his Little Lord Faunt- leroy hair and knee breeches. His dress was grotesque, his manner open to criticism in many ways, and intellectually he waa little better than pretender. The furor over him was one of the most absurd fads that ever swept the public from moorings of common sense. But even tliatfad had its US'. The fellow provided himself ith a small quantity of Buskin's ideas of art, more especially in their application to household adornmenL A great many people with more money than culture listened to his sugges tions, or, more likely still, received them through what might be called atmospheric pressure. The result was wholesome. Some American crudities were eliminated. A little more atten tion is now paid to harmony in color and the other rudimentary principles of decorative art This country is no doubt better for that visitation, even though it did serve to expose our peo ple to ridicule. There u no end of fun made of the dude. He is a preposterous specimen of humanity, but he is less harmful than the old fashioned prodigal son. Better that his father's surplus money should be squandered on clothes than on whisky, and the general influence is far less harmful. The average young American is not in much danger of being too genteeL On the contrary, he can stand a good deal more of it and still not have his manliness im paired. iue dude is not only an improve ment on the prodigal son, but from him goes out a general influence that makes for refinement of manners. He is an exaggeration, and when toned down' to reason is a gentleman. The influence that goes out from dissipa tion in high life is altogether bad and pernicious. In the constant shifting of the sands of fashion the greganousness of hu man nature seeks for itself new chan nels from time to time, and it is no lit tle comfort to know that the foibles of fashion have their bright aide, their redeeming qualities. Much as could be said with fairness against the foil v of fads, they are not without their defensible qualities. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Bird Caught ? Harvey Cook, of Saratoga Lake, tells the following story: "I have lived on these waters, so to speak, for fifty-four years, but I never before saw anything like what I saw a few days ago. I was moving along the shore of the lake when I saw sand snipe, or 'tip up. as the boys call them, standing at the waters edge, and struggling as if its feet were in a trap. "Soon the bird arose a little way in the air and Sew as far as the road. where it fell and fluttered as though calling on me, as on an old friend, for help. "When I reached the spot I saw that one of the bird's feet was clasped by a large fresh water clam, but before I could render aid the bird again with a great effort arose into the air and made few wild circles, unfortunately over the lake, but the clam held on, and in & minute more both were in the water. "After ft brief, fluttering resistance the poor sand snipe succumbed to the weight of the clinging clam and was drowned. Harrisburg Telegraph. Reform la Men Press, Too. Even men wear too many clothes. with an awful waste of material that does not embellish or add to comfort Some day the "biled shirt," with its starched front, will disappear. It can not go too soon. v by should a man wear a stiff board under his waist coat! It may be useful and orna mental for evening wear, when it cer tainly looks clean. But with the won derful development in the manufac ture of materials, why should soft white silk not take its placet Or, in deed, why should all colors be left to the female sex I Between the gaudy and the tasteful there is a great differ ence. Oscar Wilde only carried hia ideas a little too far. He had sense at the bottom of them. We will come to it by and by. San Francisco Chroni cle. A Cat with Sli Legs. T. Kenney, of Hamlin, N. Y., ia the owner of a most extraordinary cat In addition to the four feet usually al lowed to cats thia feline glories in two more. Branching outward from each front leg is a smaller leg, terminating in a perfectly formed foot As she walk toward one with those four feet breast she creates a curious impres sion. Her surplus feet are evidently of ne inconvenience, as she is an un usually good mouse r. She is very do mestic in her habits and will grab for ft ball or string as quickly as her more common sisters. Rochester Post-Ex - oress. rfnagea 07 tits ciotne. An engraving by T. Landseer of Sir Edwin Landseer's "Monarch of the Glen was sold at a recent sale in London for $550 to a fellow who looked like a coun tryman, but who bid experienced collec tors out of the field. Nobody found out who he was, and it was concluded that he was simply some rural man with a little money in his pocket, who had taken a fancy to the picture and bought it to humor a whim. San Francisco Argo naut " Th "Ad" Explained, Former "Pal" What do you mean by that advertisement in the paper reading, "Big opening for right party with small capital. Fortune In a year! All Round Advertiser I mean that there'll be a fortune for me in a year if enough fools put their money into the hia opening. Chicago Times. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. -The CotigrerationallHts added 4",1 missionaries to their forces at home anJ broad last year. It you don't want to get your fingers burned, never shake bands with tit deviL Ram's Horn. - There are In France about thirty thousand elementary schools where teachers, having passed an examination, train boys in gardening. -The issues of Bibles by the Ameri can Bible Society during seventy-tfcre years amount to 52,738,0"5 copies. And yet the larger part of the world la still "heathen." The best worker to send abroad are those who are most effective at home. He who takes no interest in the religi ous advancement of his neighbors will not accomplish much in the foreiga field Presbyterian Observer. Brain culture, like physical culture, is governed by regular laws, and it ia only by complying with these law that the result can be obtained. Plenty of good food for nutrition, and vigorous exercise to strengthen and discipline natural power, are the two fundamental aws in both forms of culture. N. Y. Independent The University ef Moscow recently celebrated its one hundred and thirty fifth anniversary. Its teaching force consists of 88 regular professors and 55 private Instructors; the number of stu dents is 8,805. The Minister of Instruc tion baa, in recent years, made several efforts to lessen the attendance at th is and other Russian universities. In Russia, as well as In Germany, the pro fessions are overcrowded. Rev. Dr. Wm- Taylor, of the Broad way Tabernacle, recently said: "v hen three or four gentlemen a month call upon me for aid for colleges, I feet there are too many of them; but when I reflect upon the greatness of that Western co on try and on the rapidity with which it Is filling op, and on the neetssaity that the social foundations be well laid, I do not think so, but rejoice that there are those willing to nnderttke such work. The moral character of Jesus is har monious in all its parts. It ia a miracle et celestial beauty, blending the inno cence of the lamb with the dignity of (od, sweet in its benevolence, and In tense and strong in Its aversion to sin, and without a blemish or a fault It has in all ages commanded the universal tribute of human thought. The most arrogant infidelity forgets its sneer ia the presence of this character. N. Y. Independent Man, as a mere animal, is the infe rior of many earthly creatures la strength, agility, beanty and warlike equipment When we regard hita ; mere brute, though we place him in the front rank -of such creatures, we can not but feel a contempt for him. It ia only when he is viewed as a moral being, en dowed with features of soul that ally him to God and ennoble him above the animals, that he commands oar venera tion and love. The more perfect this moral excellence becomes, the higher the man stands ia the estimation of those who are themselves worthy. Christian Instructor. WIT AND WISDOM. "Oh, you 'Y-e-e-s dress darling old papa!" or bonnet?" Ashland Prea Truth is as impossible to be soiled by an outward touch as the sunbeam. Denver Road. You have not fulfilled every doty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant Charles Buxton. A Long Branch belle has a girdle made of silver dollars, and it locks like a waist of money. Yonkers Statesman. -The woman who is least popular with men in general is most apt to make one-faan happy in particular. Atchison Globe. He (despairingly) "1 wish I could find something to take up my mind.' She (softly) "Try blotting paper." Boston Post This is the time of the year that a good deal of comfort could be found in the possession of a cool million. Terre Haute Express. A writer says: "There are some things a woman doesn't know." There may be, but no man can tell her what they are. N. Y. Ledger. It takes a man with keen eyesight and a brain of . much scope to see and grasp the golden opportunity before it turns the corner. Ram's Horn. Whoever will reverence the glimpses of his better mind shall find them mnU tiplied, and even while they pass, they may be rich in revelations. Martineau. A broken heart is a sad, sad thing, A brokss head Is worse. But a broken pocket-book, my friend, .Is mankind's greatest esrse. Kearney Enterprise. After you have weighed your neigh bor in the balance, drop a nickle of fair ness in the slot of self-examination and ascertain your own moral avoirdupois. Dover (DeL) Sentinel.. - Teacher (to class) In this stanza what Is meant by the line, "The shades of night were falling fast?" Bright scholar The people were pulling down the blinds. Lynn Press. An admirer said: "Of all that is given him, woman is man's sweetest -present. There are certain surfeited boors to affirm that she is also sweetest absent Philadelphia Press. "What is the difference between ice and water?" "Ice is frozen water, that is all." "There is a greater difference than that" "What is it? "Water al ways finds its level, but Ice ia constantly going op." Boston Courier. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the inde jendence of solitude. Emerson. : They had been discussing the sub ject of intelligence in the lower animals the other evening over in Coffee's gro cery store, when a large farmer from Bethel Township stated as a fact that he had a dog at home that did all bis churning. "That's nothin, remarked a wag who haa recently come into pos session of a brindle cow; "I've got a calf that does all my milkin'." Harper's Baiar. A sparrow at Colestown, Pa., built & nest in the running gear of a farmer's wagon, and makes a trip to market very week. A Scotch writer says that he has sprinkled wasps and bees with rose-colored powder and has found that theft handicapped they could with ease keep up with the fastest trains. They were cot carried along by the rush of air caused by the train, but would enter and leave the cars by the windows, soro times disappearing for a minute or W sad then returning. . ..y ' J