He who thinks to please the World is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind.
VOL V.
LEBANON, OREGON, FItlDAT, JUNE 20. .. 1891..
NO. 10.
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Woman's World.
Current Comment.
Miss Phoebe Gouzins has protested
against the payment of the bill of
Rand, McNally & Co. for printing the
minutes of the board of lady managers
of the world's fair. She says she sup
plied the printers with a correct
manuscript report at a time when her
status as secretary was undisputed,
and that since she was deposed the
copy was garbled and mutilated so
that what has been printed is not a
correct report. The treasury depart
ment will investigate before paying
the bill Miss Gouzins is a womon of
pluck and perserverance, and those
who are trying to drive her out of the
board have a very large contract on
hand.
The Colorado Conference of the
Methodist church decided to admit
women as lay delegates to the con
vention. . "
The Kitchen R autre.
The management of the kitchen
range is one of the housewife's ac
complishments. The first necessity
is cleanliness. A range clogged with
ashes will never bake satisfactorily,
neither can a clear, bright fire be kept
up in it. The grates must be clear
of cinders and ashes, and the fuel
must be put in with some regard for
uniformity. Do not pile the coal or
wood ail in one end, but place it
evenly, so as to distribute the fire over
the grate.
Open the dampers until the fire is
well under way. No time is gained
by trying to save a fire at the outset.
Let it come up briskly, and as soon as
it is clear and bright close the dampers
and take care of it.
In baking cake, the proper tomper
ture will brown the cake as soon as it
has risen. The top should be even in
color, and will not crack if the oven
is right. If the oven is too hot the
cake will bake too rapidly at the
edges, ond as it must rise somewhere
will burst tn the middle, and some
times pour over the already baked
edges.
Bread should never bake too rapidly
at first. Too much heat prevents
rising, and the bread will be soggy
even though it is well done.
Great care must be taken that
neither bread nor cake is dropped or
jarred, as this is almost certain to
cause a heavy streak through the loaf.
To tell if the cake is done thrust a
clean broom straw into the middle.
If it comes out dry and clean the cake
is done. It is, however, best to leave
it for a moment to become thoroughly
done. Nothing is more unwholesome
than half-baked cake.
Many cooks test cake by wetting
the finger and tapping the bottom of
the pan. If the metal hisses the cake
or bread is supposed to be done.
Some cooks take bread or cake from
the pan at once ; others leave it for a
moment to steam, when it will come
out more easily. It may be covered
with a cloth and left to cool. If cake
is to be frosted it is well to have the
frosting done at once.
The most manageable frosting is
made by breaking the whites of two
eggs in a dish with a cup of powdered
'or confectioner's sugar. Beat the
sugar and eggs together, and add
sugar as long as it will be taken up by
the egg. Put it upon the cake at
once. This is the easiest and simplest
way of making frosting, and one that
the inexperienced will do well to
adopt. New York Ledger.
California Women and the World" Fair.
Mesdames P. P. Rue, J. R. Deane,
Theresa Fair and Fmna Waite, com
posing the California committee of the
board of lady managers of the world's
fair, are determined to attract the in
terest of Caliornia women in the
exposition.
A letter has been received from the
lady managers at Chicago, directing
the committee to prepare at once for
work. The letter states that every
manufactured article exhibited at the
fair from this state will be labeled so
as to show how much of the manufac
ture was done by women and how
much by men.
For the exposition of those arts in
which female skill and patience are
shown a sub-committee of wealthy
ladies will be formed. They will be
asked to furnish money to be used in
rewarding women who may submit
exhibits. Mrs. Stanford, for one, has
signified her intention of contributing
several thousand dollars. To the
Women's Exchange will be given
supervisory authority to employ
women workers at regular wages to
manufacture various articles. Women
skilled in making delicate point-lace
handkerchief or beautiful embroid
eries or odd and beautiful effects with
needle and thread will thus be enabled
to earn wages and honor at the same
time.
The intention is to purchase all this
work outright from the makers. At
tne conclusion 01 tne lair tne laaies
propose to reclaim these exhibits and
hold a grand fete and fair in San Fran
cisco, where the exhibits will be sold
to the highest bidders and the pro
ceeds given to local charitable in
stitutions. T he com mittce will can vass the
entire state to secure specimens of
female skilled labor. sculptures,
naintincrs and writincrs will be sub
jects. Thosee.uterprisingwomen who
run farms and orchards and placer
mines and vineyards will be called
upon to contribute to California's
womanhood as outlined in the Colum
bian Exposition.
Scolloped Potatoes. One quart
potatoes par-boiled and sliced. Add
one pint milk and put in a dish in
layers with butter, salt and pepper.
Bake three-quarters of an hour in hot
oven.
The French expedition to Matonga
under Cram pel has been roasted and
eaten by natives.
Farm Notes.
Pertinent Paragraph.-
Last week's directions for poisoning
grasshoppers were published none too
soon. The pests are destroyingevery
thing before them in parts of Calaveras
county. Feed them well on bran and
arsenic.
Dr. Behr, entomologist of the
academy of sciences, declaies that
there are none of the ordinary insect
pests on trees or plants in the neigh
borhood of Paso Robles, and that this
is because a variety of titmouse which
is numerous there preys upon the eggs
of insects. The propagation of these
little birds all over the coast is recom
mended. '
Farm or City?
If the boy leaves the farm and gets
a job in the city, in the first place he
finds that his food Is greatly changed,
and wo all know that food lies very
near the heart of the average boy. j
Instead of fresh vegetables, meat, I
eggs, poultry, milk and butter, which
he had seen all his life heaped on the I
table In abundance, he learns the
merits and demerits of common board
ing house fare.
He is called to his work by a whistle
or bell. He has no interest in his
work except to get the pay which just
keeps him alive and elothes him in
decent shape. He is under the eye of
a boss most of the time. After a while
he can wear store clothes and carry a
cane as the city boarder whom he
envied on the farm did, but he is not
on terms of equality with his employer,
and would not think of speaking to '
his pretty daughters. He is simply a
maehine capable of doing so much
work at such an outlay of money.
After a while he has no more thought j
of his work than the street car horse j
that goes on such a track so many '
times ia a day. He loses interest in
the affairs of the world, unless it is the
last prize fight or base ball game. If
he marries he and his wife live up two
flights or three in some dark house,
where the only view is brick walls and
the air seems close and stifling. After
a few years he dies, and the people in
the flat below merely know that some
one has been buried out of the house
and that there is a flat to let on the
floor above. His wife must take
cheaper quarters where she can sup
port herself with her needle. This is
such a life as the average wage earners
of the city usually live.
What did the boy gain by leaving
the farm? He left behind his ruddy
health. Had he stayed on the tarm
he could have been a man, not a
machine. With more freedom from
bosses and overseers as well as the
noise, the diet, the hurry and worry
that belongs to city life, he could save
more money and still live in better
shape and have more pleasures. Al
most any young man can buy a farm
and pay for it as real estate is now.
How many city mechanics and sales
men ever expect to become worth
enough to set up a shop or store for
themselves by their earnings? And
while the country man is at work for
others, he is considered the equal of
the man he works for if he is an honest
and upright man. Clarence N. Snow
in New England Farmer.
Farm Fallacies.
That a woman is well dressed who
wears a dead bird for an ornament.
That a boy on a farm should be ex
pected to do the work of two men
while the father goes to the club to
diseu-s the question "How to keep
boys on the farm."
That it is good to use the check rein,
when the horse naturally carries his
head more gracefully and works to
greater advantage without it, to say
nothing of the many diseases which
its use may aggravate.
That we can have happy homes
when every nerve is strained, every
thought given to money making, with
out living at the same time for a
higher purpose.
ThHt blinJers on horses, passed
down to us as alleged ornaments, are
anything but torture and a cauee or
many acci-h-uts
That close, stuffy, unventilated
rooms are anyhealthier in winter than
in warm weather.
That good health does not require a
cheerful disposition and an abundance
of fresh air and daily exercise.
That a little more common sense in
every day life would do away with
many false notions.
Fear Trees Without Barb.
In Mr. William Campbell's orchard
there is one row of trees loaded down
with young pears, but all the other
trees are barren of fruit. Mr. Camp
bell and other growers who have wit
nessed the sight attribute it to the
fact that something like a year ago
cows broke into his orchard and, at
tracted by the tempting appearance
of the trees, ate the bark off one entire
row before being driven out. The
bark was completely stripped all the
way around off the entire trunk of
each tree. They are loaded with pears,
and it is thought that destroying
the bark caused the sap and
strength of the tree to go into the
fruit. To further this theory there is
another tree in a different part of the
orchard from which the cows ate off
all the bark all the way around on one
of the limbs, and this branch is also
covered with pears, while the other
limbs on the" same tree are perfectly
barren. The entire orchard is subject
to the same conditions of heat and
exposure. The general pear crop is a
failure, and in a number of orchards
the amount of fruit will not Justify
the gathering. .Florida Times- u nion.
It is by far more economical to buy
or grow food rich in phosphates,
ammonia and nitrates and feed it to
the stock and then save and spread
the manure than it is to buy mineral
and commercial special fertilizers for
the soil. Thus you get a double profit.
Coast News.
CALIFORNIA.
Southern California will ship 18,000
carloads of potatoes east this year.
The grand division, Sons of Temper
ance, has been incorporated by John
McKee, Thomas Walker, W. F. Mason,
L. B. Hartt, J. O. Avery, Wr. B. Curtis
and William B. Wadman.
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union asks for a new liquor license
ordinance that shall contain a number
of new provisions, among which are
that applicants for licenses shall get a
majority of householders within a
specified district; that licenses shall
not be given to grocers ; that no back
rooms shall be maintained, and that
no saloon shall be kept on a block
facing a schoolhouse.
William Snyder's store at Niles was
robbed June 9.
George Davis fell from a train on
the Oakland mole June 13 and broke
his neck.
John West was cut in two and
killed instantly by a circular saw in a ;
planing mill at West Berkeley June 12. i
Mrs. Mary Glancy of San Leandro !
was thrown from a butrcrv the other !
day and fatally injured.
AMADOR COB NT Y.
Joseph Bowden shot George War
ren fatally in a quarrel following a
raid on a cherrv orchard at Sutter
Creek June 9.
Levi Goes, livincr near the Newton
copper mine, killed himself because
his family shut off his whisky.
FRESNO COUNTY,
Charles Hogan aad John Barker
have closed out the business they
were conducting in Fresno and gone
to huntiner covotes with rifles for the
$5 bounty on scalps. In less than a
montn tney got eignty-seven scalps.
William Douglas stole $208 from
P. C. Goiden's pocket at Fowler, two I
pairs of shoes from F. S. Bagley at
Malatra and several dollars in Fresno !
and was arrested at the latter place, ;
an in one uay, j une iu.
A bov drooped a lighted eitrarette
and burned 240 acres of barley and a
bun k House lor J onn Owen on Uig Dry
creek.
Reuben Goins accused Mrs. Yince
Gage of stealing his chickens at
Fresno and Mr. Gage put a bullet
in Goins' neck and one in his hip.
Gage went to jail. Goins, who was
not severely injured, swore to kUl
him when he comes out.
Referring to the new county gov
ernment act, which raised the pay of
copyists in Fresno county from
cents a folio to 8 cents, State Senator
Goucher said: 'Set me down as
favoring 7 cents." The Madera Mer
cury said, in e ffeet, that Goucher
could afford to favor 7 cents, as he
didn't have to pay it, and Goucher
met E. E. Vincent, owner of the paper,
and knocked him down and kicked
him.
The West Side Irrigation district
will issue $2,000,000 bonds to take
water across the valley from the
Sierra Nevada mountains".
KERN COUNTY. '
The other day Walter Garwood, son
of a citizen of Delano, let a shotgun
Tall and the charge went through his
left arm, just below the shoulder, cut
ting away the flesh and splintering
the bone.
LASSEN COUNTY.
Work has been begun on the arti
ficial outlet to Eagle lake which is to
irrigate 28,000 acres in Honey lake
valley.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
Oil is being pumped at Los Angeles.
C. B. Ladd, a Lancaster lawyer who
ought.to know better, failing to col
lect $2 went to his debtor's room and
carried away a satchel. He is now
serving twenty-five days in jail for
his enterprise.
Train loads of potatoes are going
east daily.
The dead body of a stranger was
found by the roadside in East Los
Angeles June 11. In a note-book in
his pocket was the name "D. W.
Lower, Wabash, Ind.," and no other
clew. Tne grass and weeds Had been
pulled up for several feet around the
body, as if the man had died in con
vulsions. Newhall sends out 900 barrels of oil
daily and four new wells are being
bored.
ORANOE COUNTY.
A postoffice has been established at
Laguna Beach.
PLACES COUNTY.
E. Mason was killed by a chunk of
nent which fell on him from the
r uf of a tunnel in the Mayflower
mine at Forest Hill.
SAN BENTTO COUNTY.
Thomas Gray has been convicted of
stealing a horse from A. M. Hardin,
near Hollister, while employed by
Hardin. He was sent up for five
years.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.
The Temescal mines are making
regular shipments of tin.
The proposition to bond for $350,000
for a courthouse and jail failed to get
the necessary t wo-third b majority of
the votes.
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY.
The institution which has been
doing business on Market street under
the names of " Dime Savings bank,"
"State Savings bank," etc., has col
lapsed. BAN JOAQUIN COUNTY.
. L. A. Eaton, municipal clerk of
Stockton, took morphine pills by mis
take for quinine and came very near
dying.
While a cylinder was being raised
in the Farmers Union mill at Stock
ton. June 10 the tackle broke audit
fell. In dodging from under it J. C.
McKenzie fell against a sharp stake
which punctured his windpipe. t His
wound is not necessarily fatal.
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY.
Charles Eee's head was blown off at
Truman Andrews' ranch, six miles
west of San Luis, June 9. The An
drews brothers say that Lee, who was
a boy from San Francisco, met them
with a rifle when they came home
from work and after emptying it at
them seized a shotgun and pursued
them but stumbled and fell, discharg
ing the gun as he fell and blowing his
own head off.
.- SAN MATEO COUNTY.
A franchise has been crranted for an
electric railroad from Redwood City
to San Francisco through Baden. The
fare is to be 20 cents and cars are to
be running within three years and to
run every naif-hour.
Miss Lizzie Kreisswas killed by the
occidental discharge of a gun with
wiiieh she and others were playing at
San Gregorio June 14.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY.
The union printers have left the
office of the San Jose Better Times
( weekly ) because stereotype plate
matter is used on it,
SACRAMENTO COUNTY.
John Enos Silva Perry shot Mamie
Frates at Sacramento June 8, fatally,
because she would not marry him,
and then killed himself.
The boiler of an engine used In
pumping water tor irrigation on A.
Menke's ranch, near Perkins, ex
ploded June 10 with terrible force. A
piece of it cut off a tree a foot, thronch
as smoothly as a saw would have cut
it. The men were returning from
dinner and were just late enough to
escape destruction.
Mrs. Victoria Wolcott of Oakland
went to Gold Run June 9 to order off
some men who were working a mine
which she claimed. She says George
Betten and George Mullon seized her
and dragged her half a mile to the
rauroaa track, wuere they left her
insensible, and when she ankeri thr
district attorney for a warrant he told
ner sne could not get justice. -
SHASTA COUNTY.
Several cloudbursts in the moun-!
tains west and north of Redding June
11 destroyed the roads, washed out;
onages, wrecked mimna arastras. ;
etc. Houses situated near the water- j
ways were demolished. j
Jacob S. Black was killed hv fell
ing tree at Round mountain June 3.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.
Homer Scott, the little son of a i
citizen of Lomo Prieta, while playing
on the edge of a mill pond on June 7. ;
fell in and was drowned.
Burglars drilled a hole in Npthprnn
& Williams safe at East Santa Cruz
but were aDnarentlv scared awav
before they tried to blow it open.
Jesus Gonzales attempted tn shoot
Gusman Iiarois on account of a woman
at Santa Cruz June 8 and Iiarois
knocked the pistol aside with one
hand while he drew his own and shot
Gonzales through the heart with the
other.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Robert Jones of Downieville was
drowned in the river a few days ago.
SISKIYOU COUNTY.
Fort Jones will have a $12,000 flour
mill.
TEHAMA COUNTY.
The safe in L. H. D. Lange's saloon
at Red Bluff was attacked bv burerlars
June 11, but they awoke Lange, who
siepi overneao, ana ne scared tuem
off with a shotgun.
Red Bluffers are petitioning for dis
in corporation .
Grasshoppers are troublesome.
TULARE COUNTY.
Hanford has a free reading-room.
YOLO COUNTY.
Charles Croco was drowned while
swimming in the canal at Woodland.
YUBA COUNTY.
Ella Davis took a fatal dose of mor-
Ehine at Wheatland June 10 because
er stepfather objected to her keeping
such company as she chose. She ac
cused the stepfather, Bill Beal, of
causing her downfall and he was
tarred and feathered June 12.
PACIFIC COAST.
ALASKA.
Edwin T. Hatch, the new collector
of customs for Alaska, proposes to stop
the sale of liquor, wnich was very
general under his predecessor.
The sealing schooner Maybell has
been wrecked on the Yukutat coast.
ARIZONA.
Henry Miller, who has robbed sev
eral stages in California and was con
victed of robbing the mail between
Florence and Casa Grande, was on
his way to San Quentln prison, to
which a federal court had sentenced
him, when Deputy Marshal Paul and
a guard who had him in charge fell
asleep while waiting for the train at
Casa Grande. Miller robbed the
sleeping guard of his watch and
money, went to a blacksmith shop
and cut the shackles from his legs
and escaped. He was recaptured the
next day.
Kurpen Zollicker, a discharged
Southern Pacific section boss, has
been arrested for trying to wreck a
train at sentinel.
It is not necessary to go on the rail
road or into a mine to meet with an
accident. Charles Crandall got on a
cnair to open a transom at .rnoemx
and fell and broke his neck.
The Santa Cruz Water Storage com
pany is about to build a dam at Yerba
Buena, near Tucson, the length of
which will be 162a feet and its height
sixty feet. The dam will catch the
water from 1000 acres and will hold
10,000,000,000 gallons of water. It is
estimated that there will be sufficient
water to irrigate 300,000 acres.
Dan Shankland, who . killed Dr.
Willis at Tombstone, has on his second
trial been convicted of manslaughter.
Geronimo, one of the escaped
Apache murderers, has been killed in
a fight with men who pursued him
and two companions to recover stolen
horses. .
NEVADA.
At Bridgeport Poker Tom, an
Indian, won $200 from Ah Tai, a
Chinese. Tai afterward killed Tom,
cut him up and salted the body, and
it is believed cooked part of him and
fed him to some Indians whom he
invited to a feast. When the Indians
learned this they took Tai, cut off first
one arm, then the other, then his legs,
and finally cut him to pieces and
scattered him among the sagebrush.
Mrs. Marv Booth shot and killed
Samuel Both, a bachelor, at Canyon
ville, June 10, in a quarrel about fire
wood. The murdered man was 75
years old and was shot through a
door which he had closed as he saw
tne woman coming with the gun.
D. McGinnis, a stranger, shot him
self in the head with suicidal intent at
oalem l une 10, but may recover.
Portland Is to have a $100,000 dis
tillery. Samuel Keegan of Yakima the other
aay was tnrown in iront oi a mowing
machine and gashed so terribly by the
machine that ne died shortly after.
Every man who voted at the last
Portland election was photographed
with a snap-shot camera, used for the
detection of repeaters.
George Caldwell was crushed to
death while rolling logs at a saw mill
five miles from Hilgard June 9.
General News.
The seal question is definitely
settled for the year. The British par
liament has prohibited the taking of
seals in Behring sea by British vessels
and the United States cruisers are
ordered to see that none are taken
except 7600, to which the North Amer
ican Commercial company is limited.
These are permitted to be taken by
natives who live by sealing and would
otherwise starve.
While the Sea Waif, from San Fran
cisco, was saving wreckage from the
Uiaited States war ships Trenton and
Vandalia, which were sunk at Apia,
an attempt was made, presumably by
parties to whom she liad refused to
sell wreckage, to sink her. Holes
were bored in her bottom, but they
were discovered in time and by hard
work she was saved.
Referring to the boundary dispute
between Great Britain and Venezuela
Blaine said to Dr. Pulido, the Ven
ezuelan commissioner, that " the
future greatness and undisturbed
autonomy of the western hemisphere
demanded that the mouth of a great
American river like the Orinoco should
not be controlled by a foreign mari
time and commercial rowr HIta :
Great Britain."
UNITED STATES.
William H. Forest, bookkeeper in !
the office of the New York Church-!
man. has been raisin cr the weeklv !
check for the amount of the pay roll !
hji cikuiwu mumuB sua nas ciearea
from $10,000 to $30,000. He is in jail.
The prosecution of the Pacific For- I
trait company, formerly the Herting j
j: ui li mil company oi can Jtrrancisco,
for swindling its customers in New!
York is being pushed with vigor. .
The Farmers' Alliance in Kansas is i
hiring lawyers to fight the forclosure i
of f arm mortgages. i
Illinois has passed a ballot reform !
act. -
Illinois has passed a law that no !
child under 13 shall work for wages I
unless an aged or infirm relative is
dependent on it for support, and then
not until the board of education has i
certified that it has attended school
eight weeks within the current year.
Bernard Glandis and a man named
McCrystal have been convicted of
offering a bribe to one of the jurors
who tried the Mafia members for the
murder of Hennessy in New Orleans.
Evan E. Shelby, accused of murder,
was taken from jail at Wickliffe, Ky.,
and lynched June 8.
The indictments against Gibson,
secretary of the whisky trust, for
hiring George Dewar to blow up the
Shufeidt distillery at Chicago before
it was gobbled by the trust, have been
quashed on the ground of want of
jurisdiction in the federal courts
and he will be prosecuted in the state
courts.
By a collision between two freight
trains on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, between Savannah
and Frink, Kas., three men were
burned to a crisp and six others in
jured. Mrs. Martha Wayland, aged 80, was
killed and eaten by hogs at McComb,
111., June 9.
Having sold theChicago stockvards
to an English syndicate for $25,000,000,
the Armour-Morris-Swift combination
will build new packing-houses at Tol
leston, Ind., so the Englishmen will
not make much out of their buy.
The Wisconsin Farmers' Alliance
declares for woman suffrage.
Floods on Red river, in Texas, have
caused the loss of half a dozen lives
and much property. At Warren's and
SiviFs bends, twenty miles northwest
of Gainesville, 10,000 acres of corn,
cotton and other crops were destroyed.
Rev. Sam Small has withdrawn from
tbe Methodist church under fire.
The treasury department has de
cided that queen bees may be im
ported free of duty. ,
At Greeley, Col., June 12, while
Brakeman John Dillon was attempt
ing to get a tramp from a freight
train, the tramp shot and killed Dil
lon, then jumped from the train and
started across the fields, pursued by
Brakeman Mattling, who finally
killed him.
Three white men who were peddling
whisky to white men in the Sac and
Fox Indian agency have been killed.
Women raided a drugstore at Men
do ta, Mo., where their sons had been
supplied with liquor, and spilled all
the intoxicants they found June 13.
Sixty-nine St. Louis grocers have
been indicted by a federal grand jury
for selling oleomargarine that was
not properly stamped.
FOREIGN.
Sir William Gordon Gumming was
accused of cheating while gambling
with the prince of Wales and a party
of men and women. He sued those
making the charge for slander and
lost the case. The game was played
with apparatus which the prince car
ries about with him. The day after
the trial Cumming married Miss
Florence Garner, a wealthy New York
girl.
The prince of Wales was hissed and
hooted: at by well-dressed crowds at
the Ascot races after the baccarat
trial. The landlord of the Albert hotel
at Nottingham has been fined $50 and
his license has been revoked for per
mitting baccarat to be played on the
premises and five persons who played
the game were fined $5 each.
Terrible storms have been experi
enced in Gaiicia. Fifty lives were
lost.
Pluero-pneumonia is prevalent
among cattle in York, England, and
200 animals affected with the disease
have been killed.
Switzerland has granted amnesty to
all who participated in the Ticino
rebellion.
Baptist and Methodist conferences
have memorialized the prince of Wales
asking mm to quit gambling.
Barillas has several editors working
on the streets for having criticized, his
government oi u-uatemaia.
England and Portugal have reached
an amicable understanding.
The Australian colonies have joined
tne postal union.
Four soldiers were knocked down
oy ltgntning and two oi tnem were
killed while they with others were
being reviewed by Emperor Wiiliam
at xempienon j une .
A pair of Bohemian twin sisters are
joined together at the hips but are
each complete in all the organs. They
are years oia.
The czar rejected the proposals of
x ranee ior an alliance ana wnen in
vited to visit Paris he replied bv ask
ing if the nihilist organization which
killed He live rsk off had been extir
pated.
THE CASPIAN SEA.
Remarkable Changes In Level,
Why ThF Have Occurred.
Th Caspian sea lies eighty-fire
feet below the level of the Black sea.
and is tbe Greatest body of water in
the world lying below the sea level,
says Qoldtkwaite'n Geographical Maga
zine. It is remarkable not only for
this fact, bat for the changes that have
occurred in its level. About the first
century of our era there is no doubt
that tbe level of the sea stood eightv
five feet above its present horizon, aod
of course, spread over a vastly more
extensive area than at present. Tbe
Russian Geographical society has
printed a treatise, written by N. M.
Phitipof, of these remarkable changes
of level. Since tbe early part of tbe
Christian era a general and gradual
decline of the level of the sea has
taken place. -
In the eighteenth century, however,
there appear to have been a few
periods when the level rose. From
the beginning of the present century
there bas been a fall, but since 1865.
judging from recent observations, the
level bas been higher. Lieut. Sokolof,
a naval officer, while working in the
Caspian region from 1643 to 1848. col
lected mocd information. m Me found
that in tbe present century the level
had steadily fallen, just as ia tbe last
century it has risen, caasing great ap
prehension among the inhabitants of
an inundation and giving rise to the
belief in periodical variations every
thirteen years.
Lercb, while in Bakn, in 1734 and
1747, found submerged boil dings which
bad stood on dry land thirty years be
fore, and he mentions a saying of the
Persians that tbe sea rose and fell
alternately every thirty years. Mr.
Philipof has made a specfal stndy of
the whole question. Inquiring into
tbe causes of these changes of level.
ne nnas a variety oi innneoees at
work, such as wind driving the water
towards certain coasts, temperature of
tbe air causing m summer evapora
tion and consequent fall in level, and
in winter cold producing a rise in
level. Rivers, rain and earthquakes
are also among the active agencies,
caasing fluctuations from month to
month and from day to day.
Barnam'g Early Traits.
In arithmetic and every form of cal
culation he was particularly apt, and
one or nis earnest recollections, and
one which he always mentioned with
much pleasure, was' that in his 10th
year he was called oat of bed by his
teacher, who had wagered with an ac
quaintance that in less than live min
utes be (the boy) coo Id calculate the
number of feet in a given load of wood.
After obtaining the dimensions, hall
asleep as be was, PbJneas, much to the
delight of his teacher and the discom
fiture, of his doubting acquaintance, cor
rectly figured oat the result in less
than two minutes.
Nor was this knowledge of figures
the only marked trait' which was early
developed by the boy. He was also at
a remarkably early age fully aware of
the value of money. He never was '
known to squander or foolishly spend a
penny. When he was 6 years old he
had saved coppers enough to exchange
for a silver dollar. This he "turned"
as rapidly as he could with safety, and
by peddling home-made molassef
candy, gingerbread, and at times a
species of liquor made by himself and
called cherry ram, he hd accumulated
when he was not quite 12 years of age
a sum sufficient to buy and pay for a
sheep and calf. Indeed, to use an ex
pression subsequently employed by
him when relating these early experi
ences, be was rapidly becoming a
small Croesus, when his father very
kindly gave him permission to bay his
own clothing with hrs own money. OI
course this permission materially re
duced bis little store. N. Y. Tinies.
A Drummer as a Collector.
The typical commercial traveler is a
man of resources and nerve. Some
times he possesses what is called .
"gal).n As a rale be is equal to any
occasion. This was shown a few days
ago in Waeo, Tex. A firm at that
place had failed, owing a New Orleans
house a large sum. A traveling mau
was sent to get a settlement. At the
end of a week be bad succeeded ia
getting $1,750, bat a much larger sum.
remained unpaid. Despairing of col
lecting any more he determined on a
new plan bf campaign. Posting him
self on tbe principal street he waited
for his debtor, and when he appeared
the drummer drew a cowhide and gave
him a good thrashing. Then he
walked to the telegraph office and
wired to his house: 1 'Collected $1,750
and cow hided Solomons for balance."
No doubt the cowhiding gave him
great satisfaction, but the house could
not deposit it ia bauk.
Overcrowding of Professions.
France is suffering almost as mnch
as Germany from the overcrowding
of the learned professions. Fifteen
thousand schoolmistresses. 7.000 pri
mary schoolmasters . and 500 high
school instructors are looking in vain
for employment. There are 27,000
French physicians; that is about 6.000
or 7,000 more than there are ia Ger
many, with her 10.000.000 more inhab
itants. Paris has 800 apothecaries.
Two thousand lawyers in Paris, who
have passed all preliminary exam
inations for a full practice, can not
make livings in their professions.
Civil and mining engineers are so
numerous that hundreds of them are
seeking eagerly petty positions in
mines and factories.
Brie-a-Brac
"The people who buy bric-a-brac n
says a dealer, and constantly ask for
new designs have very little idea of the
trouble of producing them. The china
factories have been at work so long
that every conceivable design for the
vase, cup, jar or other china article
has been employed over and over
again scores of times, and the best a
designer can do is to select something
which has probably not been used ia
the last few years and adapt it to suil
his employe i-3- The whole animal
kingdom has been ransacked to fur
nish shapes for bric-a-brac and the
whole vegetable kingdom to furnish
material for its decoration. In the
last twenty years vases have been
made in the shape of elephants, cam
els, hippopotami, rhinoceroses, lions
and other land animals; of whales and
every other kind of fish, to say noth
ing of the more familiar forms of do
mestic animals and well-known birds.
When the available list became ex
hausted recourse was had to the imag
ination, and no nightmare ever con
ceived monsters of a form so frightful
as some of the shapes em ployed for
chiua goods. N. Y. 2Yt6une.