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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1891)
r f - r j. EXPRE 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. VOTi. V. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAltCH 27. 1891. NO. a BANON 1 J J- W. B. DONAGA, DKALEIt IN Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, burnishing Goods, Etc., Etc. First-Class Goods at; Reasonable Prices. GIVE ME A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED. Countrv Produce Taken in ISxoUnngo lor Goods. KEEP OX HAND Shingles, Posts, Boards and Pickets. W. C. Peterson, Notary Public. PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Estate Brokers HAVE ON HAND CHOICE ibajrg-dsts In Large and Small Farms. Best Fruit Land In Valley. Finest Oraln Ranches In the World. Improved ami Unimproved Lnnd, from f per Aero ami up. Sstisfaetien Guaranteed. Have on hand some CHOICE CITY niOFERTY, IlesUlnee and Business. Bargains in all Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. ijsrsxj3Risrcji ACESTS FOR .. London &. Liverpool Globe Insurance Co. Guardian Assurance Co., ot London. Oakland Home Insurance Co., of Oakland, Cal. State Insurant Co.. of Salem, Oregon. Farmers' and Merchants' Ins. Co., of Salem. Collections Receive Prompt Attention. Notary HiislnenB Spe-lalty. We take pleasure in giving? our patrons all information dwired in our line of lusin. J. Druggist DEALER IN Pure Drugs and Medicines, Taints, Oil, Glass, STATIONERY, FINE PERFUMERY, BRUSHES AND COMBS CIGARS AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. MAIN ST., PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, D E NTI ST LEBANON, OREtiON. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. ALBANY, - ... - OREGON. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. AtBANtOREanS. - G. T. COTTON, lealer in Groceries and Prom. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, QueeDsware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon R. L. McCLURE 8acceiiaor C. H. Bmrmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampooing- in the latest and best style. Spec ial attention paid to dressing Ladies hair. Your patronage respectfully so ld ted. A STOCK OF Sam'l M. Garland, Attorney-at-Law. A. BEARD, and Apothecary. LEBANON, OR. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTOV Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT CHECK. TO Exchange sold on New ork, San i sr.citc o.Portland and Albany, Org Collections made on favorable terms I. R. 1W1WM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Uut, Cleaned or Dressed. Hot and Cold Baths ai all Hours. Children Kindly treated. Calland see me. LEBANON .V 'JvW;f i i Hi (II 3 il t-. n. a Meat Market ED. KELLtSBERGER, Prop. Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. BAC03 AXD LAUD ALWAYS OX HAND Main Street, Lebanon, Org. EAST AXD SOUTH Southern Pacific Route. TI1K MOUNT SHASTA 1(1)1 TK. KXHlKW TtUtNS UUYK lHtl.:tl daily: T WO V. M. IO::l IV M. 10:14 A.M. I.v IHii-tlaiiil Ar:SA. 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At AlbAny and OorvallUi conm-ct vlth trnliiR On-pvii l a. lUc ttallniad. (Esprem Train Itally Erepl Snntlay.) t P. M l.v Ar Irtlnid McMlnnvllle Ar TiV a. ! I :5 A. T :'J9 P. M. Lv iT-ThrtiRliU'kntiitoftll pnlnta Kaatand South, lor tukrtK and tull luroniialion rtnudlnc mr, mn nr., call un Vo ir"Ut alltwnon. Matxttcnr. Awt u. I . P. Aft Current News. The Chilean Rebnllton. A letter from Huntiago, Cliilo, of IVb. 11, givoa tlv ftvllowinj? regarding the olvil war: A bloody battle has been fought at risapfua. The reikis wre defeated, having fortj" killed and thirty-four wouudetl. The oity was bombarded hy the Esmeralda antl Blanco and 2W0 er son were killed and two-thlnla of the oitv was laid lu ruins. Onlv half an hour's notioe was given r the bom bardment anil many women and chil dren perished while trying to escape to places of safety. The Austrian consul at Valparaiso has been expelled from the country for expressing In a private conversa tion an opinion unfavorable to Balma- cetla, and several German ami English merchants have boon ordered to leave the country forever. At Port Coronel the Esmeralda ap peared in the harbor and demanded the surrender of the town. This was refused. Then a perfect shower of grape ami oannister was followed by solid shot. The people fled to the heights for safety, while some took refuge in the railroad station. The bombardment continued amid the screaming of women and children and imprecations of men, when suddenly a snot struck the railroad station. This was followed by several others, and before anybody could escape the roof and the next wall fell in, burying over 200 men, women and children in he ruins. Sixty-seven were killed and over 100 injured. The firing continued and, added to the cries of the dying, caused the commandant to surrender to the cruiser. Colonel Anuibal Navnujo, who was taken prisoner by the revolutionists at the battlo of Ovalle, was shot by them. The government forces there upon marshaled out fifty revolution ary prisoners and put them to death The government of Bolivia and the representatives of foreign powers are protesting against compulsory ser vice in tho army. Foreigners have either one of two alternatives to en list under the government banner or leave the country inside of thirty-six hours. About fifty Roman Catholic priests have been arrested at Valparaiso. They are accused of abetting the revolution.. They were brutally treated by the police. All the property of the following families has been confis cated: Borgont, Toros, Quadros, Daunlos, Delano, Riquehue, Velasco, Steban, Rivas, Seal to, Latomayor, Valdeviez, Varella, Valldoer and Bar ros Arano. The Roman Catholics are up in arms at the imprisonment of Bishop Fonte villa. He is held on board the Blanco Enaclada as a prisoner, and should Salmada, the revolutionary chief, be shot he will meet with the same fate. The revolutionists have notified the government that they will follow out the proverb of " an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." If any of the relel chiefs are shot all the prisoners of any prominence in the hands of the rebels will at once be executed. A dispatch from Santiago says that the rebels, 2500 strong, were attacked by General Robles, commander of the a. a - i government troops, jiarcn 6, near Santiago, and defeated the attacking army, killing Robles and all who fell into their hands. At the request of the rebels France has prevented the sailing of two new war ships ordered by the Chilean gov. ernment. Fertinent Paragraphs. According to the Chronicle's figures, which are presumably correct, a ton of poor beets will yield $14 worth of sugar before the bounty of 2 cents a pound comes in force, sugar being worth 6 cents a pound, and $18 75 a pound with the bounty. Of this $14 the farmer now gets $4. How much of the $18 75 will he get? Woman's World. Current Comment. Mrs, Frank Iesl4e has announced her determination to make a will by which she will bequeath some f 000,000 for the establishment of a women's Institute, where women of artistic and literary proclivities may cultivate their tastes and have a complete theater for the exercise of them, fi-he says she has not yet decided exactly what form the Institute will take, bu tho general Idea will bo that of n women's club, where artistic women can prosecute their studies and liter ary women have the very lxst of in struction and companionship. A woman can lw a queen and she will bo lMwed down to by those who in a republic would not allow her the privilege of going to the polls once a year and dropping a ballot In tho box. To vote would, according to these people, seriously Interfere with her household ami motherly duties. Wives and mothers do the greater part of the church work of the world and they may le lawyers doctors, nurses, washerwomen anything but voters. Competition In Haaw-keeplBff. The keeping of our houses usually devolves upon one meinlxr of the family, says Mrs. Lincoln In Good Housekeeping, anil it is safe to say that no problem, among the many that are now being considered by thoughtful women, U so difficult of solution as that of how to make the burden of housekeeping lighter; and this article Is written In the hoe that some suggestions therein contained may help in its solution by some over worked housekeeper. Doubtless the burden of housekcejv Ing Is henvler than It need 1m for many women, because, from their mistaken conception of the real pur pose of housekeeping, they rigidly adhere to certain customs and notions and set up a false standard of ex cellence. But what, then, shall we take as our standard of good house keeping? Not something w hich filters the ambition to have as large. and well-furnished a house as Mrs. A , and keep as man)' servants as Mrs. B ; or the desire to outshlna Mrs. C in the brilliancy of her silver, the polish on her linen and the lustre of her cook-stove ; or the attempt to excel Mrs. D lu the texture of her bread, the variety of her cakes and the clearness of her jellies; or the strife as to who shall have her wash ing on the line at the earliest hour, and her carpets up, cleansed and down again by the first of April ; or the set purpose to do just as much in a given time and in the same way as our mothers did ; or to give elaborate entertainments and to do as much church and charitable and eociety work as others do. No; however laudable this ambition or emulation may be, we as housekeepers should not cherish it as of first Importance. No matter how unequal our houses may be in exterior appearance or in terior arrangement, let every house keeer strive to forget difference In social position and style of furnish ings, aud remember that as house keejHTs, in one respect we are all equal. For there is one house en trusted to our keeping, which, in the sight of its builder and owner. Is of more beauty and value than any made of wood and stone, and this is the house where our real lives are lived. Women Voting. "Coming events cast their shadows before." Ho says the old adage; yet it is not always a darkness but oft a brightness that thus precedes coming events. Women are being gradually recognized as factors in the world In peneral as well as In families. Even the political world is by degrees open ing to her. In many places in this aud other lauds, tho privilege or rather tho right has been accorded to her of voting on school matters. Some places have gone much runner than tins, ine Massachusetts senate has lately adopted the order giving women the l ight to vote on all matters of liquor legislation submitted to the eople. And why should they not have the right? Who has given to us men, the so-called lords of creation, the right to prevent the ladies of creation from exercising what is their right naturally as much as it is our? It is pleasant to find tho legisla tures, and some of the lords of crea tion, rightly appreciating and acting on this important question. God speed to tho women's help in our great conflict for the uplifting of humanity. California Voice. A Model llnaband. The prize of $100 offered by t lie New York World for the best description of a model husband has been awarded to a Brooklyn woman, who wrote the following letter: "Free from all manly (?) vices; perfectly clean and orderly ; into our utmost privacy he brings the tender courtesies of a gen tleman. Our home-making is delight ful partnership, one supplementing the other with every assistance ; he is always considerate of a woman's re sponsibilities, but leaving at his office the annoyances of a business man. In sickness or health there is always a responsive throb of a single Interest. Perfect love casteth out fear ; and our freedom of speech and action leaves no occasion for any petty trick of de ception, alas, so common. Above this la his high ideal of woman that helps me produce something better than before recognized in myself. Recep tive to my aspiration, no new thought of culture is attempted but meets his approval and encouragement, while a noble, spiritual atmosphere lifts my daily life from a common routine into a loving pleasure. Taking my face lO his hands, he has lovingly said: "Would Ihad wealth that I could place you a queen among women.' With such a king for a husband, am I not walking in a queen's garden? " General News. The Rothschilds have acquired the oil fields of Baku, Russia, and have formed a combination with the Stan dard Oil company to control the petro leum of the world. Lord Salisbury declines to submit to arbitration any question in the Bchrlng Bea controversy which can Iw construed as admitting the possi bility that the United States has rights over senls in open water growing out of the fact that they were bred on islands belonging to this country. UNITED STATES. The iniiHT-liiill combine has ordered a shut-down to raise prices. A dancing party near Catlettsburg, Ky., March 11, was so lively that six men were shot dead lie fore the cm! of it. The Australian ballot has b- n re jected by Maine. The farmers' organization men In tho Illinois legislature joined with the Democrat and elected John M. Palmer senator. I The striking New York 'cloakmnkers have committed a long list of outrages on the non-union employes and some of them are under arrest for assaults with vitriol. Mrs. John Dunn of Corpus Chrlstl, Tex., followed a burglar, who had rob tied her house, three miles. He turned upon her with an ax, when she shot him dead. An organization named lite " Nntur alized Sons of America" is being built up In the northern Mlssixsiitpi basin with the object of establishing 1 a branch wherever there Is a camp of the ' Patriotic Order of the Hons of America." Ijouis Ijemay was stricken dumb while calling curses on the Catholic church, tho Pope and all ehnreh work at New Haven March 11. A tornado destroyed houses, barns and trees nnd killed a woman and a boy near Newjiort, Miss., March H. The clothing manufacturers of Rochester, N. ., have inaugurated a lockout affecting 20,000 people, all on account of objectionable union rules. There is considerably lews corn and wheat on hand In the United States than last year. The plan to enlist 20iO Indians nt Pine Ridge was a failure. The red skins refused to go away from the vicinity of their tribe. The proposition to resubmit the constitutional prohibition clause failed In the South Dakota legislature by one vote. The Minnesota senate has passed a resolution against the. apjearance of actresses in tights. The cotton crop will lie 5no,nou bales short. Minnesota has been paying $3 apiece for wolf scalps and the legislature has just discovered that In the northern part of the state there are large farms devoted to breeding wolves for their scalps. A mob came near lynehing the Wig ginton family,, conqiosed of John ,Wigginton and his four sons, for the poisoning of William Ferguson and il. C. Watts, his soa-in-law, both of whom died, and Miss Boyd, a pratid dauKhter of Eerfrtison, who Is mill in a critieal xndition, at Mount Wter ling, Ky., March 11. The Wiggintons were susjected, and after arrest the youngest, who is only 10 years old, confessed. The Bohn sash aud door factory at Omaha, worth $200,000, stayed out of the trust and was burned March 12. Connecticut has a mica boom along the Housatonic. Aid is being sent to starving settlers in the arid regions of South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska. Several attempts have been made of late to wreck trains on the iNew lork and New Haven railroad, but they have been failures. Eight hundred weavers employed at tho Atlantic Mills at Providence, R. I.. have struck on account of alleged ex cessive fines. By order of General manager Clarke of the Union Pacific, all telegraph operators on that line in Colorado nave lieen notmeti to sever meireon nection with the order of Railway Telegraphers or leave the service of the company. It seems likely that the seal fishery question will be arbitrated. The Tennessee insane asylum was burned March 13 and six patients were burned to death. FOREIGN. Tho Chinese government ended the old year with tho decapitation of 3oo pirates. Half tho potato crop of Ireland is rotten and distress is on the Increase,, A Berious drouth Is shortening the prospective sugar crop. Emzland and France will submit the Newfoundland question to arbit ration. It is not safe for anti-Parnellites to walk abroad in Ireland. . '. , The Koch cure Is in disrepute in Paris and Madrid. Snain sends C330 more soldiers to Cuba to keep tho peace and watch an nexationists. The storm which passed down the Pacific coast the latter part of Febru ary passed eastward through Arizona and New Mezico, causing floods t hero and all through tho southern states. It crossed the Atlantic and reached. England March 10, doing great dam ago to telegraph lines, steamers, etc. All travel was suspended in London and on the 10th trains were stalled in several feet of snow all over England and Scotland. Lives were lost in a number of Instances. The English liberals are studying how to take Charles Dilke back into. their councils and insist on the oust ing of Parnell by the Irish party, the charges and evidence against both men being on a par. Yellow fever is increasing in Brazil, Parnell continues his active cam nntrrn and monev is being freely sub- scribed. He has sent a delegation to the United States. The McCarthy faction has started the National Press in Dublin in opposition to United Ireland. Incendiaries at Llstowel, Ont., dis abled the water works and fire alarm and then bound and gagged the night watchman in Hess Brothers' furniture factory and burned it. Balfour's relief works in Ireland employ 7397 people and the payment amounts to 3uuu a wees, nu uvriKo of $2 02 a week lor railroad woi Kers Nearly 100 shipwrecked, sailors lost their lives along the English coast during the blizzard. The Argentine republic has sucl ceeded in raising avnew loan, whion improves the financial suuauon mere Too Old For Her Tears. weaning a loie oi tviii . Kiiilin; M a quo- tnlion from ouu of his Hindu authori ties to the effect that the happy man li lie who "sees m hi own house little children crowned with dust, leap ing and falling and crying." This is undoubtedly the. uonnal stale of child hood dirty, bumping, mid nofay, aud it is a question if Home of our overtrained, precocious, liu-tlu-slecle youngsters ore much improved by be ing denied this natural process. Said a matron recently! "I culled the oth er evening upon some newcomers in our community. My husband knew the man lu town, and as they were neighbors we paid them a visit of wel come. Mr. Blank was not nt home, aud Mrs. Blank was btiny (or a few moments with her baby, so the elder daughter, a child of 11, was sent down, no doubt proudly, to play the hostess. Mios Nor had a keen, pale (ace and a wonderfully fluent tongue. She ex plained and apologized (or her coming, and then set to work to entertain us wording to her light. She produced a photograph album aud showed us. with running comments, the family pictures. At a photograph of a very ugly man, she said: 'I suppose Mr. looks ery homely to'jou. but in un m a says no face is homely that belongs to a good heart, and Mr. Is a very good man. lie lent papa $100 (or us to move with pnpa is paying it back every month. We can't hare auy parlor curtain till that is paid up.' Alarmed. I hurriedly turned the pare and said at random: 'What a pretty woman.' 'Yes,' said the little girl, that is a school friend of mam ma's. She often visits us. Mamma is very fond of her. only she thinks she conies almost too ofleu. Company al ways makes a difference, you know, antl we have to have a dessert every day when Mrs. So-and-So Is here.' I shut the bonk, fairly terrified, but for ten minutes more we were tortured recipients of similar confidences. Then Mrs. Blank appeared. -You haven't found my little Nora a poor substitute, I'm sure, she said complacently. 'She is quite a little woman, and the valued coufidaute of her papa and me. You have no idea how much we rely on her Itidgment- Poor, deluded woman! I onged to tell her bow little she realis ed what the judgment and discretion of an 11 -year-old girl were." And this is about the usual result where the forcing; process of children is prac ticed. ho does not prefer the "dusty, leaping, crying"' ones to such uufor tuuate little prigs. A. 1". JYme. Chrysanthemums in Japan. Of nil the blooming plants that adorn Japanese gardens, the chrysanthemum is the one most carefully" cultivated. Its blossoms are regarded as symbols of longevity, and the ninth month, ac cording to "the old lunary calendar, was called "the month of chrysan themums," and special festivals "were kept for the purpose of seeing the beautiful national flower. In fact the Japanese imperial . coat of arms is nothiug else than a chrysanthemum of sixteen petals. The rich employ special gardeners to cultivate the plants in their parks, and the poor delight themselves by purchasing some in pots for a few cents. In "the month of chrysanthe mums' there is not a bouse in the whole empire where the dwellers do not have some species of this flower. But the Tokio populace have peculiar tastes. They resort to a street called Dangozaka. where it has become a custom from ancient days to have the chrysanthemum flowers arranged in shapes of human beings and of the lower animals. The street is situate on the slope of a hill. As you ap proach it flags and banners of various colors beckon you to come, and as you enter the street the show-keepers in vite you to see their skill. You pay the admission fee of a few cents, and are led by a man who explains to yon the scenes exhibited, which represeut some acts of a drama. The costumes of the personages are made of chrysan themums, aiid their faces are carved in wood and plastered, represent the faces of the most celebrated actors of the time. The illustrations represent the street scenes, tho sign-boards of the shows being made of flowers; the first scene of the play of the forty seven roni'iis Ogiyn-Kumnqa'je, which is exhibited on a revolving stage that is to say. the stage rests on a pivot, and is turned by men uuder the floor to change the scenes; Miyamoto Musnshi killing a devil with his sword; and Kikujido, the nymph of chrysan themums. Theso figures are first made of bam boo frames, and then the chrysanthe mums in .pots, are fastened to the frames in such a manner that the stems and pots cannot be seen by the visitor. I ho flowers forming the figures there fore, having roots, last about a month, borne snowmen went so far last year as to introduce phonographic repro ductious of the voices of the actors whom the figures represent. On clear days the street is crowded by old and young, who regard the shows as one oi tue.important events or the jear. jtVia?t'K)Mior, xn Jiarpcr i n tcK-iu. Overcome by the Honor. .An amusing story is told of Arch uuVsiugeue or Austria, while on a vlsrt'yecently toasmall hamlet in Hun gary. reeling l lie necessity lor a slinfp, as ordinary mortals at times are AtjDtft1 to do, the prince had the man 4o the little hotel at which he was staying send for the best barber in the toivrw Overjoyed at the privilege of ..stmiung a member of the imperial f&nitiv. the knight of the strop arrayed -hiufaielf in all his Sunday finery nnd went to the hotel. Although some what timid, he succeeded in placing ins imperial highness in the chair and covering his face an inch deep with lather. But at this point his Dalgettv spirit forsook him, and, razor in hand, he began to tremble as tho traditional aspeu leaf. "Your imperial highness. lie mustered courage to say. "the honor of shaving you has so excited me that I am uuable to proceed with niv work." Ashamed of his failure, the poor fellow rushed from the room, lhe arch duke laughed heartily, but was ob liged to remain in his uncomfortable position until a more courageous col league arrived to complete the un finished shave. Filzsimmons, the Australian bruiser. is going to be a play-actor, and now ne8 comes across the water that Charles Milcheli, the pugilist, has 'signed a contract to make his debut mHQ the English stage in a drama to htf Constructed for him bv William L Yardley. He will begin at once to slildy the dramatic art under a tutor aud also to take singing lessons. There are over 100 miles of street kjfcved'with wood in London. WIT AND 1IUM01L Whether a man falls into debt or in love, the effect is about the same. At chison (Jlubt. Cbarity la obliged to begin at home when bo one will start it abroad. New VrUans Picayune. "Monev talks." it Is said But about holiday time it goes without saying. iowctr$ maiesman. Water is the emblem of truth, but the soap men always use it in making lye. mngitamion ljtmier. Two of the hardest thlatrs to keep in this life are a new diary and a sharp lead-pencih Arorrtsott Herald. There will be both a Ketcham and Cheatham In the next Coneress, iust as there are in this one Iioton JlerakL The average wife hates to ask her uslmnd for money, and in most cases he hates to have her. 8-tnervUte Jour- naL - - It Is not wise to say everything yon know, but how can some people help it If they say anything at all? Bumer- ville Journal. Tlie man who insists that doctor bills are robbery might modify his language nd refer to them as pillage. H'cua- ngtcn I'oL You never quite comprehend bow mean other people are until you begin to compare them with yourself. Alil wnukee dentine!. Get acquainted gradually; if you ex- jiect to borrow $1 from a new acquaint- nce tomorrow, ask him for $ z to-day. Milwaukee Senltnel. Bismarck says: "War is neverca used by newspaper articles." Bismarck is vtdently not familiar with xexas jour nalism. A'vrristown Herald. Least said soonest mended" is prob ably the reason why it takes the sew ing society forever to darn a pair of stockings. Elmira (Jazelte. When a woman loves a man she can't see why every other woman does'nt love him just as much and generally he can't, either. tiomerville Journal. Misfortune has' to spit on Its hands, throw off its coat, and bump itself to catch up with the man who has mind ed bis own business ail his nie. Atchison Viol. Lime or mud Is an objectionable rem edy, of course, but something might be done with I'arnell s eves to enable him to see himself as others see him. I'hilwlelphia Times. Trembling Youth "Madam, I love you to distraction; will you be my wife?" Girl of the Future "you may leave your references and call again! A'ew York Herald. Col. Cutcheon "Didu't vour wife ask you to purchase a load of wood this morning?" Maj. Smiles "Yes. but I compromised on a stack of chips." St. ItMul Olobe. You can always distinguish vour friends from vour enemies by observ ing that the former agree with you when vou sav harsh things about your self. Milwaukee Sentinel. He "How did you enjoy the acting at the matinee?" She tit was some thing atrocious! The color of the lead ing laelv's gown didn't match the rib bons on her pug dog's neck!" A'ew York Herald. Minnie "And w-hat broke your en gagement, dear?" Mamie "Why, I said that after we were married I in tended to write my name with a hy phen and he said 1 sliouldn t- inatan- apolis Juurnal. A household journal says: The tooth some mince pie has quite a pedigree." W e knew there was something in it mighty hard to digest, but never once suspected it was a pedigree, Norri- town Jieruut. Slippers will be much used this win ter, ior grown-up persons the slip pers will be according to the latest fall fashions on icy pavements. ior naughtv children the slippers will be felt. Toledo Made. The question discussed in St- Louis the other day was, "Our lawmakers; how can we reach them most affective ly T Belter catch them at the tavern bar after the Legislature adjourns. New Orleans Picayune. The promptness with which those three Chicago bank raiders were cap tured emphasizes the difference in ef ficacy between prayer and profanity as aids in opening a financial institution. Indianapotis Journal. Scene. Newport "How well pre served fjord Bawnbawst is -is he not a great swell?" "O. yes! (with a burst of confidence.) Do'you know when he arrived he was obliged to pay duty on himself as a work of art?" Brooklyn Life. Mr. Wilgus "So yon decline to con tribute anything? Remember, brother Gotrox, there are no pockets in shrouds." Old Grotox "Of course there are not.' A man's shroud is fur nished by his heirs." Indianapolis Journal. "Gracious!" said paterfamilias, as the bills for the Christmas presents purchased by his wife and daughters came in, "unless 1 can pawn some oi the gifts they have received we 11 have to live on salt pork for a month!" Jftoslon Times. 'Well, here is a photograph of the lady whom I have described to yon." "But, my dear sir, according to this picture the lady is much older than you fave me any reason to believe.' "u. assure you that this is a very old photograph." r itegenae isiattcr. Butcher, who has been rejoiced by the birth of a son, is informed that the ebild weighs nearly eight pounds. He takes him in his arms to feel his weight and calls out astonished: "By Jove, so he does!" then after a moment's pause adds "but with the bones, mind you. Fliegende Blatter. Sitting Bull's langnage was a con glomeration of pare Sioux, impure En glish, and decayed French. When he swore he used all three languages so fluently that the recording angel with bis stenographer and typewriter could not take down and charge up all bis oaths. Grand B'tjpids Herald. She "I understand there is a tailor in London who just looks at you hard for a few moments, and when your clothes come home they fit you perfect ly." He "That is somewhat different from my tailor. He looks at me hard for a few moments, but fails to send the clotthes." Clothier and Furnisher. Custom House Officer "This is oueer. I find among your effects a barrel of chestnuts. We shall have to seize these." Traveler "O. that's all right. , They came under the exemp tions as tools of trade.' Custom House Officer "How's that?" Travel er "I am a newspaper paragraph er." -America, professor, that physiology was the sci ence that treats of the functions of the body?" Professor "Yes, sir," Y.N. "Then under the bead of what clog would a study of the mind come?" P. "I am afraid. Noodle, thst in your case it would come under the bead of myth ology." Boston Courier. Chief Clerk (aside) "His royal nibs ain't himself to-day. Kind l silent and sad. Wonder what's up?" Ucre generate Office Boy (sotto voce) Guess my little plan worked. Know'd it would when I fastened the type writer's yaller hair on hit overcoat last night An' I'll do it every time be calls me chump. " Pittsburg Bulletin. A 10-year-old colored girl in a South ern town is sild to be "possessed of some mysterious force which seems to follow ber and move or smash articles in her vicinity." The force may be "mysterious," but plenty of servant girls in this part of the country seem to be afflicted the same way. The higher priced the tableware the more the mysterious force appears to follow them. Norristown Herald. ' Some Texas Indiana. The Alabama Indians came from east of the Mississippi river over 100 years ago. They have been gradually reduced in number to about 220. of whom about sixty are warriors. The name of the chief is John Scott, and there are four leading, or. rather, sub ordinate chiefs, viz.: Billy Ponchy. Washington Silestine, Charley Thomp son and Joshua Poncho. They have acquired but little of the habits, cus toms, etc. of civilization, clinging with tenacity to the savage customs of their race. Some few do not use whisky. They are generally honest, truthful and industrious; they are peaceful and very grave in demeanor, yet at the same time very susceptible to mirth when they percieve things ludicrous. A portiou wear the same clothing as their white neighbors; others, the gsrb of their forefathers. They are fond of ornaments, preparing themselves beau tiful work in beads and colors. The men wear long Kiack hair, and where they have not adopted the dress of the whites wear bright-colored shirts and buckskin leggings. The squaws dress in bright-colored calico, with a profu sion of bead, tin and silver ornaments. The Alabama Indians take care of the old and helpless among them. They live in a village on Big Sandy creek on a tract of 1.280 acres of land given them by the state of Texas. They have fields and raise com. cot ton, sweet potatoes, sugar cane and peas, and have horses, cattle, bogs and poultry. They raise sufficient grain for bread, and pick cotton ana do other work for the farmers. They are also successful hunters. Their houses are built of logs and slate, and, accus tomed to the open air as the inmates are, they are sufficiently comfortable. As might be expected, the Indians are superstitious aod believe in witchcraft. f hey are governed by their own tribal laws, which are" in some in stances very strict: they slay the mur derer, etc For Indians, they are a handsome and intelligent tribe; their law prohibiting marrying with the whites or colored race is strict They are expert ball players and have the following dances: The green corn, bear, horse, frog, deer. bird, chicken, scalp and war dances, and mimic the different animals and birds in their dances. The Alabama Indians have been for some time instructed by the Rev. Mr. Curry aud bis wife. " Mr. Curry is now dead, and Mrs. Curry is still teaching them, and deserves great credit for the care and attention she has given them. Qalveslon News. Glass Made By Llgbtnlng. "Did yon ever see the diameter of a lightning flash measured?" asked a geologist. " ell. here is the cm which once enclosed a flash- of light-' nin-f, fitting it exactly, so that yon ean see just how big it was. This is called a fulgurite or -lightning hole, and the material it is made of is glass. I will tell yon how it was manufactured, though it took only a fraction of a second to turn it out. "When a bolt of lightning strikes a bed of sand it plunges downward into the sand for a distance less or greater, transforming simultaneously into glass the silica in the material through which it passes. Thus, by its great heat, it forms at once a glass tube of precisely its own size. Now and then such a tube, known as a "fulgurite,' is found and dug up. Fulgurites have been fol lowed into the sand by excavation for nearly thirty feet; they vary in interior diameter from the size of a quill to three inches or more, according to the bore of the Hash. "But fulgurites are not alone pro duced in sand; they are found also in solid rock, though very naturally of slight depth and frequently existing merely as a thin glassy coating on the surface. Such fulgurites occur in aston ishing abundance on the summit of Little Ararat in Armenia. The rock is soft and so porous that blocks a foot long can be obtained, perforated in all directions by little tubes tilled with bottle-green glass formed from the fused rock. There is a small specimen in the National Museum which has the appearance of having been bored by the teredo, the holes made by the worm subsequently hi led with glass. "Some wonderful fulgurites were found by Humboldt on the high Nevada de Tcluca in Mexico. Masses of the rock were covered with a thin layer of green glass. Its peculiar shimmer in the snn led Humboldt to ascend the precipitous peak at the risk of his life." Tbe Life For a Singer. "What is the best food for a singer? is a question very often asked of me, and of all professional singers, writes lime. Albani-Gye, in Thi Ladies" Horn Journal. I reply: "The plainest food is by far the. best-" Good, plain, bnt nonrishing food; for that is the best for health, and to be well in health is to be well in voice, and good health is absolutely necessary for good singing. Some few things should be entirely avoided, such as nuts, for instance, which affect the throat as well as tbe digestion. To lead a regular life is also absolutely essential, and young and. indeed, all artistes, if they wish to excel, must live for their art alone, and must give up a great many "pleas ures"; but if this, as it should do, en ables tbe artiste to become great, then thev will have their reward for all sacrifices. To be artistes, they should live as artistes go, whenever possible, to hear and to see -fine singing and fine acting; endeavor to see tine pictures, fine statues; read clever books and the biographies of great men and great historical characters; to live, in fact, in an atmosphere of art and of intellect, which will help them far more than at first they may be disposed to think in their qwb artistic career. w ' -