U. I. 1MPICI. faMlsher. LEBANON..... ...OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Electrie Power on the Northern Pacific. CHINESE GIRLS FOR SALE. Johnson, Who Wis Injured at Lake Labish, Wins His Suit for Damage Incurred Boston capitalist are after the Tem- escal ua mines. The trial of the Davis Till cose at Butte, Mont., baa bees fixed for April 38. 1S92. The Alliance and Industrial organisa tions o( Los Angeles are to lorm a Peo pie'a parly. Two men are in jail at Red Bluff, charged with rubbing the Redding and Ailuraa stage. The capital stock of the Riverside Basking Company baa been increased to (l.tM'.nuo. Riverside thinks its orange srop this MFMartn wilt till V Vll Mm TK (mi, ia uatataally fine. - ,-v,v ...,., A San Francisco company is contem plating the erection of an eleetrie-nght-ing plant in Santa Barbara, - The Anaconda (Mont.) nines and amelter after being shot down for seven months have resumed operations. The objections of the savings banks at Los Angeles to the tax assessments have Been overruled by Judge Wade. At Victoria, B. C, it has been found that there are nine girls in Chinatown waiting to be sold. One girl was sold lam week tor The reported brash with the Blood In dians just across the Canadian border was exagwrated. One Indian was killed and one policeman wounded. A portion of the walls of the new City Hail at Port Townaend fell in during a severe storm and crashed s neighboring houee, seriously injuring two people. Colonel William Hyde, for a quarter of a eentnrv editor of the St. Louis he pun'ir, has been engaged as editor of the bait Lane Herald, a Democratic organ. The Salton Lake is rapidly disappear ing. One month more according to par ties who have returned from there and no sign of the so-called desert lake will he wen. The Pacific Athletic Club of San Fran cisco has telegraphed Jim Coroett, ask ing him if he would meet JoeCboyneki, who has returned from Australia, for a parse of S,0U8. - - , . , -i Thousands of bushels of peaches and apples are being fed to the bogs along tiie snake-river frnit beit in Oregon, and an because the fruit raisers are not pre pared to tax care of the crop as it comes on. . A Han J ewe jory in the suit of little howard Pomerov against H. H. War-l-urwin of Santa Clara to recover 25,000 for malpractice in treating a broken leg in eurxi s manner that gangrene set in, jicwitatu.r amputation, rendered a verdict lor iai.UW) lor plaintiff. rraas society at Los Angeles is much wen-ised orer the elopement of Mrs. Jennie Ilalmer with Oscar Overweh. Mrs. lialmer shone as an amateur theat rical star, being the soubrette of the dra matic section of Turn Verein. Overweh leave a wile and two young children. - At San Diego incandescent electric jiEiits are iowered'into the water at is iiit, and a large net is placed below u.em. The sh are attracted bv the cure, and are plainly viable. When su S.c.pntly full the nets are hauled up, and the catches are said to he enormous. The prwne of Captain Wood and his confound in toe Yoeemite the past five mourns hue clearly demonstrated that tne 'If vaauniing fires in the moon tains uerelolore nave been caused by careless or reckless sheepherders. The fires this tear l.aie not been productive of injury. The nnmlier of Chinamen and amount of (mmsa smuggled through the Kound and i-e woods in Northern Washington rriot be considerable. A few weeks ago .' Celestials arrived in Victoria from ('ua.. and later they all disappeared, liie mijtixwition is that fteybsve been f:,; id no tills country. A rrno i rancisco company baa prtr vfiasMl s plaster of Paris mine nearKin eon. which it is working with a force of !' ' r sM-n. The deposit is said to be the !wih?i m thetate.and tise company pro lyl to fuilv develop it. The hanta Ana wi.i be bridged at ooi-e and a track laid .from tm nnue to the Hanta Fe. '1 net have on exhibition at Victoria a teredo about ten or twelve inches long in a giisM jar fullof alcohol. It maraud "Tne woiuge of Puget Sound." As tbert are aiwit four quarts of alcohol to , one ipmio, it is a little doubtful, says . tv..,,;,,,.. r-.i. - ... .... D.v..i, it if the noonol or the teredo that is re ierred to.- - ' . j i i f ne jinrts of the Colorado Desert water i.ii op from springs, which are sarromiiied by circular hillocks of car- t:natfc oi June from four to eight inches v is Wir!t, the material of which has wa u i'r,:nd ham the flowing fluid, -3ns latter le to highly charged with gas ,,'t n is diiiicuit to keep corks in bottles --101 it. -1 EDUCATIONAL. ' Twenty-Five Thousand Children With out School Room in the City of New York. Savannah has a oolored college. Harvard has 425 academic freshmen this year and Vale but SA. The University of Michigan is encour aging women professors and lecturers. It is an interesting (art that of the 305 colleges in the United States 204 are co educational. Cornell also has this year the largest freshman class in her history, it num bers more than WO. Twenty-five thousand child ran without school room. And we think ours a civ ilised city rA'rv Fort H'orld. Sixty-three students are now said to be working their way through Yale Col lege and paying all their expenses. Four hundred young ladies were un able to gain admission to Vassar College this year, the institution being filled to its utmost capacity. Out of a population of 250,000,000 in India lees than 11,000.000 can read and write. The total number of scholars of all sorts is hut IS per sent, of all the innaoiianta. A. A. Parker of Fitiwilliam. N. H. claims to be the oldest living college graduate in America. He graduated own toe University of ermont in ISIS. and is 100 years old. The statistics of university attendance in Germany show a gradual decrease. During the recent summer term the to tal was 28,826, while last winter it waa 28,711, and one year ago it waa 26.31'. Miss Cora McDonald occupies the 1 -J l : .i . . cum im nreuirr in we n yoming Biste Cniversitv, havins been elected to that place by the Regents of the universitr at a salary oi i,owu, equal to that re- . r . . . . , . ... - owveo oy men tor 8110100: a mce. The Trustees of the New Hamnahire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts have accepted plans furnished by Dow 4 Randlett for the erection of the main building at Durham. The edifice will be in Romanesque style, with tower ana ctocc. Charles J. Capen. now master of tin Boston Latin School and for fortv years a teacher there, eavs tliat in the davs when Phillips Brooks and Edward Ev erett Hale were pupils there the boys uaa 10 commit 10 memory tne entire ureex ana Latin grammars. The number of American students In Berlin this summer is unnsnallv great. At the university alone the snmher is 208 out of a total of i.547. Then there are many more than this attending pri vate clinics, studying Koch's methods, acquiring the Genmtn language or pur suing studies in art and music The London School Board has taken a step in advance of the educational see tem in this oountry. It has decided to establish in three convenient diatricta clsasee of special instruction for the mentally dull and vbvsicallv weak on a system similar to that of Dr. Kiemm in Prussia. The London School Board during the last year have erected five permanent schools, ten have been enlarged and twelve temporary schools were opened, giving places for 12,166 children : but. as two temporary schools with places for o.'irn cuuaren were closed, tne net addi tion is more than 9,000 places to meet uie growing wants oi london. Of the 196 students who were grad uated from the four colleges in Maine this year only one has chosen farming for an occupation about the usual pro portion in such esses while thirty-three are to take up teaching. Other occupa tions find an order of preference between these two five choosing journalism, seven commercial pursuits, twelve engi neering, thirteen the ministry, eighteen medicine and nineteen the law, while the remainder are undecided. Philadelphia is perplexed with a cu rious problem with reference to accom modations for her public-school children. Borne school rooms are creatlv over crowded, several thousand children are obliged to be satisfied with half time, and thousands more are on the streets for lack of any accommodations at all, yet the Superintendent of Schools re ports that liS school rooms are empty. The difficulty is due in part to the shift ing of population common in anv large city, but it is aggravated by the absurd insistence upon ward lines as the limita tions of attendance, which say bar a child out from a school even if he lives across the street from if and the schools in bis own ward are crowded to over flowing. MISCELLANEOUS. The Chicago Newspapers Cry for Re trenchment in Expenditures of the Fair Directors. The United States now drinks more beer than Germany. Society women are sctine- as wine agent m rniiaoeipiiia. The negroes of the United States have 234,000,000 in property. The water supply and drainage ques tions are just now agitating the Chicago muiu- Tbe gambling houses in the Citv of Mexico have decided to close, fiusineaa is bad. Granulated sugar is (looted at the low est price ( wholesale) ever known in the vaae in tins country. East-bound freight from Chicago con tinues to show a large decrease when compared with last year. Chicngo newspapers are now crying for retrenchment in the expenditure of the World's Fair Directors. An underground lake has been discov ered three miles from Genesee, Is. it was louna by a weu digger. EASTERN ITEMS. Chinese Are Coming in From Mexico. A MULATTO TURNING PINK. New York's Chief Justin Deoides That Buying of Poker Chips is a Legal Transaction. Chicago proposes a floating hotel. A Baltimote mulatto is turning pink. France will buy (40,000,000 worth of oor wheat, New York Socialists have nominated an Alderman. Minnesota's new law provides for pri vate executions at night. Detroit conductors are attempting to enioros a no-enioxirtg oraer. There is less railroad building than at any tormer period lor many years. Four dramatic eompenies in New York are composed 01 ta Dor-union talent. The oonstitntion of the United States hat been published in Hebrew for New loners. Compulsory life insurance is the order oi a Kew York beating company to its employee. Timothy Hopkins' coonsel says there is no thought of compromias la the seeriea win case. Many Chinese are reported crossing from Mexico into the United States near Brownsville, Tex. The Transmisausippi Congress at Omaha has adjourned, and will meet in ew Orleans in 1 ebruary. The United States trend iurv at Sioux Falls has found eighteen indictments against the Louisiana Lottery Company. The defaulting ex-paying teller Garcia of the Louisiana National Bank at New Orleans baa been released on bonds of as,ooo. Total export! of breadstuff's in Septem ber aggregated in value S1 ,402,021, sgainst $7,109,348 in them same month last year. The Southern Pacific train robbers were run down in Texas end captured all but one, who killed himself after be ing wounded. Forest fires in Oklahoma have com pletely wiped outCimarronCitv. a smsll town, the residents escaping by jumping raw ujb nvnr. The siew bounty and the necessarv regulations to enforce the law have caused a deadlock at jiew Oi leans in the shipment of sugar. Of the 44,500 seal skins caneht in the Behnng Sea this season 24,0u0 were taken by sixteen Nova Scotia schooners nauing ui uiat water. Chancellor Snow of the Kansas Uni versity proposes to kill the chinch bug with a deadly parasite. Experiments nave bees very soccessiul. Census returns show that Montana has one honor saloon to every sixty inhabi tants. Kanaae one 'o everv H13 nonoia- tton, Iowa one to 403 and Maine one to 701. Camden's undertakers have combined against those who refuse or neglect to pay funeral expenses, and a bUwk list is being prepared for their future guid ance. A gun is beim constructed at the Beth lehem 'Pa) works for the United States ship Destroyer, which will send 400 pounds oi nitro-Klvcerine 1.000 feet tin der water. Eugene E. Garcia, the navini teller of the Louisiana National Bank at New Or leans, has been declared a defaulter in the sum of 1180,000. The bank's capital juw ueen unimpaireo. The Boston Business Men's Executive Association will request the Legislature to prevent uie issuing 01 passes to legis lators, executive onicers ara the mdi ciary of Massachusetts. The owners of one of the finest busi ees corners in Chicago have decided to erect a 11,000,000 sixteen-story building, to be called " The Columbus in honor of America s discoverer. The Presbyterian Synod at Watertown S. Y.. adopted a resolution nrcins Con gress not to lend 15,000,000 for World's Hair purposes, tuilees it was airreed that tne lair tie closed Hunoaye, The Blood Indians and the Canadian police have had a hglrt near the bound ary. The Bloods stole the horses of the police, and the eonaict wis occasioned 111 bum pursuit 01 we. uiievee. igbt thousand acres of pine land in nawver countv. tt is., were recentlv sold to the Mississippi Kiver Logging Com pany for tiiOO.OUO. The 8,(KH) acres will cot 100,000,000 feet of timber. Chief Justice Ehrlich of the New York City Court has decided that the buving of chips at a same of poker is a Wal transaction, and that a person buying tne same coma not avoid payment on the ground that i was a gambling debt. Rev. G. P. Reilly of Marion, Ind.. is a member of the G. A. R. and aim of the National Conference of the Weslevan Methodist Convention at Grand Rapids. The conference opposes secret orders, and he will have to quit it or the Grand Army. A convict in the Ohio senitentiarv is the latest long sleeper. He has been sleeping steadily for a month, and can only be aroused to take food by the ap- leet. The doctors say be ill sleep hiui-1 mif-nr.ifm m luuirnfw it T.njt m mm self to'death. Bob Owens' ball was the property e a rail load pnaidMit, says tha St. Louu Gleea-Oem-crat, and eocupiea a eonnnirntHii place railroad &itory, Marlon Hbrtrfan Cnowies, of the Savannah, Florida Bill Waatara road, enjoyed a personal aoquaiotanos with the leading ctuu-aciers in UiUbitof railroad tu lory, and aaya "he knew tit bull by nght" Ba deacribea toe auiinal at a magniflce&t apacinien of tin Durham breed, with a Jovian crat, an era of fire and bright tear toe ana trik He waa a bull with a fairly good opia te of atone!', and he didst oars much wba knew it Bob Omu, praaident of tbs Nor (ld and Wentftrn rnad, running between Bristol, In Want Virginia, and Norfolk. Va, bought bim in England and hwtailad him as aianter of the terd 00 a very una farm which be owned directly on the line of the road. One of toe characters on tha Nurfolk and Western was an engineer by the name of Aif Vnaieu, aa excellent man in bis business, and with s national reoutatkn for asm and eoobwas. One bright day, when WhaJen was running a freight tram dowa ttoe aide of tbs mountain at the bass of which la situated Owens' stock farm, ba was a trifle discon certed to see in the center of the track, di rertT ahfmd of him. the fenioui Durham bull, with bis tail standing straight up, bead erect, and pawing the ground savagely. The tram was running at an unusually rapid rats, but Wbalea pulled the throttle open, and the engine bounded ahaad for all there was in bar. The bull was bit fairly and lilt ed over tbs mountain side la a twinkling. The station agent at tbs farm, when Wba lea told him what had happened, telegraphed President Owens tbs facta W'usl pulled into tbs depot at Norfolk two hours later and was met by Owma Old Bob waa wild wits rage. He spoke with dllnculty. -Well," said he, "yoe played r MHow how what do you maanf asked poor Whalen. -Killed my bull, did you, ehr -Well, now, an here, Nr. Owens, If you wanted that bull to run on this road yoe should have put him on the schedule. You set, ba was running oa my time. Tbs track and right at way belonged to ma, and 1 just took it." t : Be Waa Csed te Bueh Things. "My poor fellow, yon an pretty badly used up," said a man to a victim of s railroad ac cldent, whose arms and legs were broken, and whose skull bad suffered a fracture "Oh," said Uie braised and battered indi vidual, ehea-rully, "1 dont mind a little thing like that; 1 belong to the Howl oollrge football team " llraaei ataRaxinc MeiasBersjMskk r w 1 11 ,sv -I- -2- -Honioriti'he Blaetter. IVaetleal Ueasaastratiwa, I will elose my lecture, ladies and gentle soon, by giving you some idea of the strength at ice of different thicknesses. Would yoa for a moment euppuee that los two inches thick would support a man" Envious Plumber (in bark part of room, aloud) Our iceman supported bis entire fam ily on ice an incb and a half thick, and did tt comfortably, too. Life. Etewfag fa. Tailor lraUnigoodoctirl-HorsUt'.ilsbll) of six dollars that 1 bare called oa yoa half a doseo tunas about, and this amy last visit, strl Doctor That's right, sir. I charge a dol lar a visit and we'll now sail it square. utouiiftr ana r ammoer. Lew Water. Water fa the Snake rirer baa been so low this season that settlers have bitterly eonv plained of tbs dust raised by tbs salmon go ing np stream. Tbey threaten to ask far an appropriation to sprinkle the river next yaai K the nuisance is repealed. Alts California, Akng tba sands the wild winds acrseea, Witb asrue and fleotlish glee; There are no crsiilvs on the bosca, Jlv spoouiug by lbs sea. We bear the ln :llug ss gull soreaav And Sjeruelr beat Uie sorar Where lately, dreaming love's yoang cim. n.cie ueeu mi eMwr. The kids are gone wbo used to sport Beside the snow white tem; la short, the beach, ass resort, ' . Just now ain't word) a oent -btatoe Ooarler. Aa Appropriat Kaaaa. Jones Say, Browne, why do von call voor eldest boy Telepuouef BrowDebacatiss be never works, Epoch Troa Uruerusltg. Greene What do yoa do when yoa get stuck on a eouuterfeit billl White Give It to my wile. Hanv sey's Weekly, -h i it Ml In AT BEST. PoorglrB IW4 bar hands, sfeaa has fast, iaare awr to bar slumber sweaw She hath earned it walk Xvary day for many years Cause bad sue fw Wttsr tsars, . and that dally feu. Bee the hollows ta tier onset. - ' Marks of woa she could not spaaln Sea aeraonkenvra Worn and wasted Is hsr frame, . None too snnu her si amber oamsi Touch bar tenderly. Rare aa Iran waa her fatal . Life for Her was desolate, full of yearnlnffs vala, 1 nrmpathr and Inrtof ears - A ,.v fell ael to poor Mmrj't share, - , Wake bar not again. All aba trusted faithless proved, Bvsrr ersaturs that aba loved Shortlr ebanged, or died, fen) rt a for her to rest, -Seldom, aura, was homaa preset Mora atvsreiy triad. . . Often hsa she slept before, : Praantlng woe was beta aa saora, . Life and sorrow past; But from snob delusive elaes Crer more ebe wrike te weep peace Is bars at last. ' Poor girl! True sod lender hearted one Bard It waa that death aloue Ootnforl bad for bar. Fold aer haods, oroee her feet, bsjr her, robed all while and sweet, la the sepulchre, Augusta Moors la Now York Mall and Cipran. Taaaght 8a Kaew Kveffg Owe. Tom Fletcher had the good fortune to be born in County Kildare, Ireland, and to emigrate to New York at tea yean of age. At twenty-five he had attained a six foot physique, a big black beard and a clerkship in uptown postofBc sta tion O Looking through the little brass bars of the general delivery one day he saw spproar.hing Mr. Barney McGuffla, h fine old Oirish gentleman be bad known in boyhood. The old msa was nn cbanged, but the boy had outgrows Mr. MoGuffln'i remembrance. "ldunno, is it too late for f stamer th' dayr said the old man as he poked a letter through the bars for "The Widow O'Brien, Curragh of Kildare, Kildare county, IreUnd. "An' is tsj to de Widde O'Brien that lives on d' Ballywtnk road?" said Tom in his best brogue. "An' bow the divil did yon know she hvedond'&allywinkroad?" "Phat would Oi be doiu' In de post orfus af Oi didn't know the Widd O'Bnea lived on d' Bally-wink road? Git away from d" winddy now: you're had y'r toime." And the old man was frequently seen to stop oa the sidewalk and gate with aws and wonder at the man "what too wed Iverybody ia Oireland." Dry Goods Chronicle. a The ret Ulej east XOs. Wllee. "Can you recall more than a single in stance of a man of letters marrying a literary wifaT asked a Chicago writer the other day. "Browning? .Yea, X know another instance which comes pretty near it I do not think the fact is generally known, but James Whit comb Riley, in the earlier days of bis literary career, waa a most ardent ad mirer of Ella Wheeler, the poetess of passion, and a favored suitor for her band. "Both the young people were poor, however, and ueither had attained a na tional reputation at that time, although both had written some very charming specimens of verse, I do not know whether Ella ever intended to marry the young Hoosier poet or not, but i do know that young Riley was nearly heartbroken, when their cordial relations were sun dered. "-Chicago MaiL High Sheriff Renjuwia UlsrmeU, An Irish antiquarian has discovered that the "Benjamin D israeli, Esq.," who was high sheriff of the county of Carlosr in 1810 was an uncle of Lord Beacons field. Be is buried in St, Peter's church, Dublin, having died in 1014, aged forty eight. This Benjamin, of whom none of the writers on Lord BeaconsSeld ap pears to have known anything whatever, left a large fortune, and bis will, which is preserved in tin Dublin record office, is signed "Benjamin D'lsraelL" Lord. Beacon afield once wrote asking for a copy of his ancle's will, bat neither his name oor his father's appears ia the document Benjamin D'laraelitheelder was only tbs half brother of the author of the 'Curiosities of Literature."- " Eatrasaa Old Aga. "How Is your father coining oor eked Col Percy Verger of a darkey b used to own before tbs war. "He am dead." "Dead, is bet He must have reached an advanced age." "He did dat for a fact. He was Ubin' up to de bery day of his defl." Texas Sittings. A physician hsa succeeded In grafting tbs akin of a frog to that of a tortoise, and the skin of a tortoise to that of a frolr. and also in aeenrin? thm st-owth nt j a frog's skin upon the skin of a man 64 yeara oiu. cone grarung is not so rar advanced, but has met with the same success as skin grafting. Have lots of fun, burgh all yoa can and keep the sunshine in your heart if you want to be well, young and popular, The world hates a woman with a griev anas. It pays to be honestly happy. j There is absolutely no profit in being I blue and yery little sympathy attendV liugit -