GRASS ON A HOG. -J ARi.Y .fruit and vegetable! PH'c with "your pit. A Muasum Man's Bahama Gulling the Public. Ih Psrkar Coatorud tats Sort at , T Perambulating Latni-Brltat area flladaa Wbara flrltuaa Uagkt to lira. IvtaM Tatar Osasa nai aarf wiuu Ida ra Mini nt - The question In often asked, when do th early spring fruit and vegeta bles come from? Ordinarily the only satisfaction obtained In answer laa gwcral statement whloh confirms DreTioiM Innmui'nn .!.. 11 - - r - w ti'j wine from aomewhere In the math. Grad ually aa the aeaaon sdvanoes this unde fined locality approaches us until The Cot" a New Wrlakto A Doctor. In Hnslnrt. The "food euro," is a eompnratlTOlv ' A Clubbing Offer. ' ' '""" A ffreHt many nf mir readers T, Inn iinjnty like to tultc Hit' wtltly Mn'gim- imii. tte HHVe tumle Hrriiiim'tkinhrit new ldea,lntrluced Into EUndbir, '"!', ,, T ""'"'''"' nuTcrni uiiyshimna at advanced Ideas I v "B l,ll,ln uniarruuut- who boldly advanced the nroiiosition ,"" fl'"'" 'rt'Bi'lm' irlwti UiiisimvIiu that they imii euro ordinary human Ills wM bmh Hi.' iJxi'liran For the insltmificfinf ai,m n - - the nuriously inclined might have had Sn locaUty approaches us until the prWloRe of seeing recently In a nfl.y th a 01 our own latitude li mile museum way down in the French rlalu p he luscious appe quarto no lees a curio than a nor "J . ", . ' sportinjf a complete and bona fldo crop 1hw1b nd moat of the veffeta of grass all over his body "In de place IT n their moTement north from whar de ha'r ought to grow." the territory borderinjr the Gulf of Mox- This sounds liko the most preposter-' t00 8Tsthe Chicago Journal. Itisfrom ous tmnjj on record, writes a corre- "u'"" ""ssissippi that they are sponaent or the Philadelphia Times, and so your correspondent conceived It lu ....411 1.. . .. . . . j uuiiu uk wuv 10 me pointox sacri ficing- dime on the altar of his In comiuir now. Struwhnrrim Ida were in the markot at the end of rourury, eiigntiy delayed on account hoto weainer there. From O - ... "'Wl IM UH IU . , . ,. . ... K4UU oredulitv.anri IwhnUwitk i.:- iiouuuana thevare ahinnarl In .wan he wonder. The animal appeared to : f0 Pint 0a3e. which are disposed of bo a well-grown nine or ten-months' ' by emission merchants here am 50 shoot of the Essex breed, with the i to 8,T8 P81- ca"e: from Mississippi in usual broad back, chubby neck and! wenly-"' quart oases, which are sell eiiort legs, but from the tip of his nose '"Jf uow at ti so to Pr ease, equal to o ine ena ot nis tail he was bristling , " BO"M quart- ihe demand " r.n as perfect Ireshgreon grass as the , . "r u and the , Liuost lawn mixture is warranted to Prieeu considerably In excess of last produce. J. This advance la aaid to be due The exhibitor from time to time ' w. quality of the fruit, clipped a stray bit of grass from the ' " unusually fine and firm, with 1 i w (fiooairuui tne , , . u. IKU hog's abundant crop and passed It . Plettam flavor. South Water around for inspection. I am willing to receiving two carloads or U-stifv on oath thnt n more a day. Soon the berrim roill h. gin to come In larger quantities, as the crop in Tennessee ripens. Not until testify on oath that it. wa tl.o i,,s.. inicle and no mistake, and the more 1 .ted the more the wonder grew that me short hog should wear so strange a ue, till finally my curiosity got the .better of my purse strings and I flipped in with some other fellows and got the man to let us on to the fake. "Easy enough explained.," said the ex .hibitor, as he bemn tosnmv t.h anitn.t. ed grass plot with a small rubber bulb wnicn "Just the 10th or Wth of May will strawber ries with an Illinois label he obtaina ble. Cabbages, cucumbers, head lettuce, radishes and most other vegetables are shipped north from the neighborhood of New Orleans. Cucumbers of a very fine quality, however, have W mm. i he held constantly in his hand, i !n? 411 wintr from Boston, where there step behind here and take a close ' !r "rame nowiouse gardening, and .tthehntr. IMInd lira k.-ji. i ! New England shinmant .(in iuu m uie nog. mma now vnn hanrfu ' "uguuiu snipments still him, though, or you may break him all i m up 0Ter haU ' the upply on the up. Seems to be a pretty good thick-'. J6- Hundreds of barrels of head ness of earth twixt him and the grass, """"" "oeived dally from uoniinerey xes. Well, that's just it I V Urass grows ludirt and nowhere else, I r8far,n8 eomes fro" nearer home. r.o all you've got to do is to tretenomrh ' Tlie largest part of the local surmlv now of it to stick to a hog and he'll make you 1 5?,, Tom Illinoi. especially from boom as good a lawn as yon'd find any-1 . I"UB' "oaen, Anna and Moken where almost. . on the line of the Illinois Central "That's straight so fares it goes, but, ' n1. tmm Alto- Asparagus begins or course, mere Is a good deal more to W,UK Mississippi along in March, it before you can work np such an ar- . Pnsh northward to its extreme Ucle as this here. In the first place .Swine, which it reaches early ... h.ro , .1 ... , . , . niJune. euv w K uv nUC ngiu, Hmii ox a , ' iog. I generally use a Berkshire or an . onions come from Illinois and ijaex, because they are good and broad : Mlchgn- Bermuda onions are shipped i:d you can feed 'em up to be pretty m Now Yoric--y. This is necessary, of course, as a ' trado in a11 the" Products of the islcy hog is not liable to hold mud or T"a brisk and V'Km from 80 to iitcreitnerforalongtime. The next I v-1? nner tnn hut year, -uup ia k. get. me ngnt Kind of soil. ueuw me standard on "Now, I always use dirt collected I HJ60?"'0' the nni,0I,Inly poor quality from ant hills, but this is an old dodc ' , , yeart yieli nd vege- oorrowed from the East Indian W-1 . lnls Tear 8re arriving in very glers, who can make a mango apron. g . order snd offer mt promise of ana grow six or seven feet in as man" minutes. Scientists say that ft is tlii formic acid in earth which causes soei! to burst and the germ to develop wlici placed therein, and this acid is freely generated oy uie suit. Ponr a cupful of hot water over a handful of the insects and it will become as sour as vinegar. "Of eourse it is easy enough to get a layer of soil about an inch thick caked up on a hog, and a little training will teach him to keep it there all right. I put a ring in this fellow's nose and tie him up short so that he can't skirmish around, and that's about all. I plant ray seed, which sprout and come up in about a week's time, for I haven't quite ,jui.u up to uie jugglers' minute per t jfSnancQs yet. So there's your hog as us me ana as green as grass. , --v. M.Mtt promise ox an abundance of the spring delicacies later on. For the peach crop of the uu, iu tact, ior loose of all tree fruits, which have been invariably -t.t,nU.luK uuvuig uie past lew years. - ,v.j iMuuiuiuiKuuuooK is reported. DEMOCRATIC WASHINGTON. n of Stimnst Matklos BlM mh UBICISL Democracy, says Julian Ralph in narper'a, is more . evident at the seat oi our government than mm where else in America. Washington is a great reveller. Had the capital been - -r .n.i,o mrK, or any great com mercial or manilflUttlirlnrr .1 - I . IU6 IO- ,!.. MIMln mn..l , , ... - "uuiu jmve oecn very-dif-! ferent. The people or the officials ..t . - - u.awu a line netwrnm ., .naveverai hogs which I use at two classes. But as it is Washington Li different times, na it. ,i ..m nL... '""-"uigion is , ... ,'. w .nuiun cue una omctai, and the mm knn nnfi with hin nn. ., i . ... ' l l , , , . " iJ,e uen vuu uom piaee become ordinary by keep one with hio pores stopped up too long. Sometimes, too, I vary the mo notony by planting small, low-growing flowers Instead of grass, and once I rigged up a vagary with a Bprig of smi iax for the .tail, little eulcns plants talking the stars and stripes on either side, and a razor-back of pansiesninnimr between. But that did not go very well! The fake was too obvious, and I lost trade by it. Since then I haveconlineil myself almost entirely to grass, whLJi w p(u ouuwuuw, pernapa owing mere force of numbers. Heart pang's new congressmen, who find themselves counting for no more than ordinary citizens outside of their coun cil chamber. Indeed, only the members of the upper house have been able, by reason of their fewness and long tenure of office, to create an artificial dignity for themselves wholly within one wing of the canltnl. Tn th i,.i i..i,,.i , 4 . -- ...,vv. tuuuiCB uuu the streets no one poiu ts out a sena- , .enator, tnougn especial gifUs -""1 p-...pn umug yui w b wnuior, 'UlOUgh OSIX-ckl fift. to the general greenness of the public." , snd strong pcrsonalitv JZT h Knowledge of the interesting fact ' erowds. that within the current year the queen i And how can thU helnbutbi. expects to have the number of her case where even the nreswi"r,t great-a-randchilrtn.n inTO,.i i... ....... .i.n... . Prelt"!nt walks lgreat-ffrandchilrlnn inmn i... 4 suggests that at the rapid rate at which uey ore uiureasing nor majesty may -fwiuwi. VTU about the streetji nn fi,. a4 . met in the shops, goes on foot to and Mioiuig ana witnout the uso of medi cines, says the Now York Mall and Ex press. Thoy elalra that cortuln foods contain all the olomonts neccs'sary to oiTect cures; that thoy have made np a list which embraces tonics, febrifuges, diuretics, and, in fact, every medicinal agent that Is defined In the pharmaco peoiu. Those foods are of the simplest character, but the English doctors do not disclose them, except to their pa tients. They say that in the course of ton years there will not be one-third the medicine used .that Is used to-day, and thev nolnt nnt thn fnnt. .i,n sale nf nmninp nn.) nil o.. , Muwpji-Qbiua uas ..w. in um ave years to a re markable detrrnn. "There Is a good deal of common sense in the idea," said a physician who had rani 01 uie new neparture, "and It may take if doctors generally will go .., , i iCT,r nn ion w win not. """ you mignt convince a man mat 110 was getting sufficient iron for his system when ho was eat ing beef, or that If he needed starch he Could ETet it from hnvil lne.n-,1 - m - - .... .U!WW4 l U1L1 pdls, but you conldnt do that with a .vuuiuoi. j. noy qo not reason that way: 1 Am HnMlrinrpu Mnaint,M .... .. , r ui paiients slightly hypochondriacal when I say ..lay numu reject such treatment im- mediatelv: hut. lift a rmnnml eV.;n . win raw w au womankind, "Advice an tn athiwIu . au j ernllv lout. Th , " nuiuuu wauut w uii3 mwucine, ana a it is Tory disa frreeublo she imiurinAu u. ia " w sutjl VUlVf cious. She gradually gets a mania for pills and potions, and takes delight in uuomg evuryoooy wno wiU submit xlOW, It ' a tloetsn nan U.J11.. helo her enndltlrm ij. . j e--.us ucr bread pills with a hypnotic sug- koviuu, x ininic it is his duty to do BO. and enllM hi, fea it i-i.. uciu(;ii. as well whistle down the north wind as ui mane a woman believe that oxerciso and diet am bAt.tA fi,an mnji.i... . .w nuvu.uillo, 11 he is overly conscientious and abandons ease anotner fellow comes along and gets it, so the natural temptation vor ki a patient s whims." LONG AND CLOSE RACE. Twa Isiuag Vm-U Var; Baraty Any la Thalr Hp.rraai Haas Knag. For two salllncr vhaaaIh tn inn . m.: r. . .u .u. , c m neseporton the sumo day, on almost the Same hour nnrl itfa.n..i siderably more than half way round the world, to reach Now York no farther apart than when tl,A.r D.n, 1 .j hki vku irum ilong Kong, is an event which, while mu unpreceucntea, comes not far from beinr mirarMilroie Tk.T.-.iui . . , , niuu ouanier and the Wandering Jew, both of them .uuciiuui buijui, uuih ana owned In the State of Mnine. linn loot .,. . , .... . ,', . J """upuaueu ..iu. nuinnutoie ieat. The Tam n' Whanter is of 1,53a tons burden, halls iroin roriiana. ant has lv.ni. ... . service to her credit. The Wandering -" - vuujucu vessel iys tons neavier than her rival, anil Imo nnt .1 about the seas so long by two years. During the long journey of ninety-eight davs there seemoH inh., .. ..w u av.aiifu VUU spiracy on the part of winds and waves uu citron u 10 Keep the two ships in company. Even whnn nnc nt r.n : - -"w mmwi tt carried away some of her sails, the other was unable to take advantage of ' the accident and haul nh,,i .... squall that did the damage was fol lowed by a calm. Before the breeze came atrain new ntninna v.nj 1 spread by the temporarily disabled ves- bv. uu uie uuiueai. 01 speed was re- auouu on equal terms. an Hinl Uu- Origonlnii. Tlif ii-miliir piice of Hit Orcgiiulun Is i)M mr year, 11111I uf the Ext'KUSH CI .S11 when In advance. We will furnish both C r &! mtr vmir in advance u saving online dollar to tin. sulwu Ipcr. The Oiogonluu glvts nil ih gtMivrul iii-wsiif thv couniry oiuse a ween, ami me :xi'Kiiss gives nil the local itfcws oiuie a week, whloh will uuikt a most exwllent iwui aurvln. for the moderate sum nf 2. per year. Those ho are at iirewnt subsorluen il tlie .X1'IIE6B must niiv III all arri-sr. Kn and one .year in advance to olnuln this siwclul price. . - ..ii-ay a .i-w. p'.-i. -si Notioe of lSxeoutrix. Notice Is hereby glvon to all whom It may concern, that, hv an nninr- nf , County Oourt for l.lun County, 8lsto of ure(-on, me uiuhvaigiied has been duly S poimpd und is now tlie ilulv oualilied ami acting Executrix of the last will and testament of EiiKone H. tMm,. deceased All nsrties imlebtwl to said ei,n urn r uiesteil to make liiiiiieiliuin me uimersiKireil. and a nan in Imvlnu claims agoinst the eitiito are herehv n. quired to present the ame properly veri- nmi, uiiiiiii six nioiitim trom the Otb day of April iSOo, the Ural niiiilimilnii nf !, notice, to the uiulersignoil at the offlce of Bani'l M. flurliinil, Lelnnon, Ore. I,. J. i;t. Ex. of the liht will ami tfHi,,,MM. ni Eugene H. Ulm, deceased. Sah'i. M. (Iamlano, Ally, for Executrix. AtlmlnlMU'alor'a Notion, Notice is herebv aiven that tlia inl,.r. I signed has been duly ap)oliited by the i.uuiuy 1 01m ot 1.11111 niniiilv. Iln,mi ih. administrator of the estate nf A V Uaroutu), rieceawd ; and has duly qualified as such adiiiiiiijimior. All persons hav ing claims aiiaiiist tlie estate am l.nrohv required to iitMcnt them, with proper voucners. w t nn six month. fr,,, .1,. date hereof, to tlie umleraiirnnl t 11. loftieoof W. M, Brown, in U'liamm. I.hni county, Oreiiou. - Dated this 22ml. dnv of January, lHVj. Will Ulnar W. M. Brown, Adminlsliator. Attorney lor Adnliiiiniralnr. , ' PAN8Y. MAYER & KIMBROUGH Have juutreceivedt.hr finest line of CItCKEllY and GLASS WARE ever brought to Lebanon, whiuh they - in vite you to call and inspect. Their price are as low, if not lower thun atiywhoVo else in the valley. Highest Prices Paid for Country x Produce. CO ft) 52. w a (D rX CO 5 OP . a c" 3 (6 er a. 6 n- H 3" CD r cr fa 3 o m X ' D 3 0 g v. : 0 fp 2 rt- -1 " v co CO I sai CO CD -00 tm unenterprising f m DUMiiKs man , , , -2. ,, Uies a Bmall amount of Print ed Btationery und other Ad vertieiiiB mattur, and ui a connequenoo his buninesn died away and, he is then like the man whose picture njijieaie above. East and South LIYERINE exoeet to Z 7h "Tvry ,r 1 '"na r"lcs Ute coun- a. j ---. m uei uireut ry tubus in a carriaifo not different descendant, exceed one hundred. Her from those of his genteel nc oors? children were ten in number. The President Arthur's fine L". grandchUdren up to date are thirty- common feature of mtdw lif. u uve. The latter are now (frowlnffup Washington. M ta aud marrymff off, end their offspring Gen. Garheld had been Imw .onstnutinir the fourth generation, by sight, to all gtiWoT.' dl'-ShOWagre8tIyaj!:clor- r8" prMi,lent- Neither ". .-, ,m motlKr- Jmseu. and if PresidcntClovclanddoes -.taut thmyear are the duchess of so tt is because he is a poor MtatriaT ork, the empress of Eussia, and the snd an ill-advised workTaUendhT . daughters of ihe duke of Edin- sven the routine . dSJrt icS othe? muw "own princess of Eoumani. presidente have shouldered upon suit' ud the duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt. dinates. The custom of tri-.Sly re- . ccptions to the DUblic. wh(,.l, 11, r'i,.. owu ib rraaea. , I land mad . ,..' .. , , ,,"""' j- " " m "ranee "" nis nrst term, which Ben- .Oll01(Wofheii..whlch,at.nrEge iui Uarrison kept up and which price of a francs SO centimes per head, my presidents have observed had represent a value of 113,000,000 and 6,000 (Treat leveling effect The member francs. One-fllth of the stock is an- from Podunk could not g ve WmsVlf nually consumed as food, and is sold i his humblest con1tltuc"ntTad or about IWW francs. Two mil- "akcn hands with the execute that .lion of cocks, worth 8,000,000 of francs, ! meant to do so again day after are sold as food The number of lay- to-morrow. The custom musT have ing hens is put down at 85,000,000, and many a foreigner marvel It wa. wZZEL1: '1.theiIc i 183.- "1'ra-AmcricaD-the best Uiing f or tht 000,600 francs. A million franca twmala People, and th i .... "u. , tm,m. '-chiefsCrVantofo;7pi;t'- t Sh. Saw the l.i, w.ta,i. ' UW 01Jce i,oi,jCT the There has just died In WhitectancI a wW 0"1""1. The man Ilrs. Todd, who was present Tithe" T-Ti7 himSecm 1'atlleof Waterloo. "hfwTt len onh 1 oth, Z ic.yrarsold.but vividly remembered1 III, , nUt- "7 Ban I- h.-r dying day many of j rJ? hai i.nd W rnotinr wa , 1?'" ta the Aisettoo Library m riar naad. Tha nAimal. nniAf,, ll.n...,i...M , A. - .UJ KUBuuuu" in ot. i'etftrahnrir in nn nl.l . . .. a ... ,..u pc.MH.ut woman with a wonderful memory. Her name is Irina Androjowua Fedosova; she is seventy years of age, can neither read nor write, but knows by heort over nineteen thousand legends, folksongs and Doemsl When ah . . - e,,u. UUU11V recital the aeann is a u.Hn.i . little bent figure appears, hobbles on to the ulatfnrm..nttA ilt..n n . . ... L, i ---;-:'"""" uunir, Willi hands folded, and withered face quite iUuiei. Amm a hush of expec tation She hl'Crlna tn nani.. . , . . . . , okvi, uinll Her face brightens, her eyes open widely anrl na-1,lA ...U11- ..... .....v, uur voice grows clear and nenatrailnir si,. 1..1.. . ... . e- .'.' twu wu vears vonntw In hM. ..n...: she half speaks, half sings the legends of her youth, tales of great wars, old fairy tales, long-lost tragedies or tender love stories, while the audience, carried way by her strange magnetism, listens spellbound, laughs and weeps at her will. 8he Is the "rage" in the Russian capital, snd we hear that two eminent . j u.M.cr.iii,iuaownanum-1 - MiiTiSrraraBARBER SHOP form, when it should prove a rich find THE GREAT LIVER, KIDNEY AND CONSTIPATIOH CURE, Pleasant to take by old or .young. No griping. The root of the Liverine plant is extetiBively used in Norway for the cure of Piles. Sold by all first class drug gists. Wholesale Manufactures Anchoh S Chemical Co Lebanon, Oregon THE SHASTA ROUTE or r.'ii: Southern Pacific Co. " tral" have fnftlniitliliiilv. 0:20 p. . l.v...AIIiy., Xr i tit, u lo.-io a. h. Ar.sai, i,v,u,-i. ' ,:. J:S " IjVj - ! .... a ;W r, H P.ir ii.,7.7. . j l . .. "lutioiis I'rniii 8i,e,i,i,HN;vi;;,s;- 'j- .-..o ... ..IIIUiiu .m.-iiimve. , - Jioscbiirg mall ilnllyi ,SiSfc"T',v,"i'Or: YiM f. M. l,v,..,ll,v Ar- Iljll'1'l'h"'IS I.V :.. i2:S0 p. . 7:(W. a, ' Slmiluy 8:20. m. ' Lv...AlK5VrX; The siaaihter of Blaphaais, In Berlin a number of African travel r, colonial politicians and scientific men have formed a "committee for the purpose of taming and preserving the African elenhant." If. it .7 . . cording to statistical data of the ex- os-o. .ivory, mat no fewer than from liftv to aiatv thmiunil Hl , . im. T. f,.rr ""puanis -in Wiiihai aun all ikii tfVHwir narm mi. . I nnttee say, that being so, the time is u 7 a,JO lM '""t elephant S..,Af?, 1'"' '" London 1 J "i nave Qisappeared. With IUCh J"?.Pt ta Tlew' committee have deehlerl , n..t. .. . ' .1.1. . " mmv una mis chievous slaughter, By taming and j maintaining the last representatives of a fsst-dying-out animal world the com i mlttee hope to preserve unimpaired the , saormous power the elephant is known -to possess, to that hemay bs of stm -.v. uwiu mmm..:ybt German Wlonial company have already devoted large aura af money to. this purpose, fortiffn oflloc have augmeaud-tiils stun Best Shaven, Hair Cut or Shampoo at B. F. KIRK, Shaving Parlor, NEXT DOOR TO ST. CHARLES HOTEL, Elegant' Baths. Children Kindly Treated. The Enterprising Business Man . , 0:111. u 4:0 u. 6:20 p. h. .insssiiKvr : tmiiis daily (uxiept nr,..i,(h.,i,v, 9,ft I.V...AI hany Ar. (I;i... ArJflwiiiiii ...l.v. I o:fl0 p. Dining Cars on 0gtl.cn buir. --ANU- Socond-ClusB Blep;,i r tuched to !)'', Thrnugh Trains. .. - VeatHliKiDlvlBlnn. IlKTOKKKpmTI,.,sAS(,u)VALiij man irniiH-uaii,, ,,,.. ..,,.,,. !S6i77.: 7Sil 12:15 r. m.' i.v.j.ri.riirtuii ;; ! Ar...'..rvulliM. .hi. 1:001'. Useii a great amount of Ad'or- using matter ot all ki(e C'onseouent'v his Hn: i ' .... . . VHn ... 111. creases anu he becomes as trsino T l,' .!.., . ,!rvl l.is """ with " nabnv as th in.i;.,u....i .v-tt. "x1 mmm. w represented by the ji'ctuie just above. ''"faWeeia 8mlsy)i 7:86 r.-M. Ar.JlcMii,i,uu i. I 'I'Aaill noiiiu in ihk oilasttTfjiliirSii-Ai :;..,..' r".'1 'n- rarB'frbnf TSft ,.,t, nsent, L" 'MV', ob Printing if Ail lands If done at thii OlEee in a Workmanlike Manner, and at Prices to Compare with the iiroAa. VrtH b. ...M. , Increased by having Your Jul, 4 t'liMuv unne at tins Ollioe. , AlMffy'steain Laundry RICHARDS 4 PHILLIPS, Proprs, A.lbany, OroBon .. All Orders. Receive Prompt Attention. Special Rates for Family Washings. Satisfaction Ouiii'imtncd or-Moi,ev : ..x'r:. R.:l'an,,..(l. , .).-. J. F. HVDE. Agent,