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The Hood River 6 lacier VOL. i. HOOD KIVBU, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 27, 1802. NO. 13. 3food Iftver Gilacier. roLinn iriir satcsbit noafir w The Glacier Pablhblc Compmj. m irrioN raivi Tr 0 M ' Ikimlht ,,, I ft ihi. uuthUi. . siiis nyr s " " THE GLACIER Barber Shop Grant Evans, Propr, nd 81,, near Oak. . flood Elrer, Or Shaving and Hair cutting tattly doM. riUsfacUoa UuruWL OCCIDENTAL MANGE (n Rains in Arizona Improvi the Stock Industry. GRSS ITRES CAUSE MUCH LOSS liillt.ir Vi-dK t:;i: Tp of Mount Shasta K.-Milt of Ant: Debris Coiiven tin at Sacramento. Tim nliM-lr c tramway power-house hi Victoria, B. C, was burned. liOss, $200, OHO. Tin Bo-don will join the Charleston nt S.i.ita Cruz., ami will alU'i ward sail (or II ;lwllllll. Tin' lni vines in a twenty-acre trarl wr Svrameuto were laid Hat by a he ivy itoiuh wind. Cluv -li!H (Jii'w, of Fort Orf rd, killed a Him cici otter last week, lie was uttered an 1 r reived $ltk) lor the Hkin. (i i nt rains in Maricopa county, A. T., have improved tin) Htock indiiMtry. A Min (aiuniH han Imh'H threatened. Ti.e l'Mgres!, the llrstof the Atlantic an 1 Pacific Steamship Company's line from New York, lias arrived at Uedondo, Cal. Tim Hi unlaw Kailroal Company sent out engineer last week t enns-section ami H-t gride Makes on the llrot fifteen i : : i : ol the survey. Too s-al hunters killed in the neigh lhirhood of 200 Hculiont) at Blanco reel during tin season, and made a very good season's work of it. Th lemains of a man, about fifty ye .is old, were found laiteen Old Hau-(ctht-i and Limn t'oint. The largo toe on ti)' right loot had been cut oil". A considerable ciuantity of Salmon M'""'ain qiintU wa nhippcd by the lant steamer to H in Francisco for ansiy. An extensive ledge has been discovered. 0 oimiderable alarm exists at San Dioio over the smallpox caaes at Ohula VisU, in proper measured to prevent the aprciid of the disoaie have not been taken. Benton comity (Or.) householders and others ire in despair over the growth and rapl I spread of the thistle. lis purple Dlocsmia are to be seen every where. Extensive grass fires near Fresno have caused much loss to hay, grass, fencing an t exposed lioues. The fire will make ieed scarce in that immediate section. The bainty upon coyole and equirrol scalps in lnk county, Or., expired Sat urday. During the term of its validity, front February 1, tliure was paid out in scrip up jii the county the sum of $1, 778.h5. A dog owned by W. II. Ilaight, near Traver, Cal., was bitten by a raitlennake and the wound was bullied with coal oil, Mr. ltaignt not having any known remedy on hand. In about two hours the dog was out of danger. Recently a Victoria sloop landed a doe.en Chinese near I'oint Wilson, Wash., and li ist iy sailed away. The customs ollicers raptured four of the Chinese in the woods near Port Townsend and are on the trail of the others. Tue farmers of Crook county, Or., are fast getting in their hay harvest, and all report a wood yield. Jlayon the wild meadows is not as tall as usual, but it is much thicker on the itr und. which more than makes up for its lack of height. Game is eoen quite plentifully, accord ing to reports, up Aslnand creek canyon. Two cinnamon bears came close to the camp the other day while only the ladies and children were there, and a pant her was seen at a distance by some of the campers. The Sisson Macol editor has been at the top of Mount Shasta lately. He says the uovernment monument is out of plumb, leaning to the southeast on an angle of 80 degrees. The force of the severe winter storms is probably the cause of its goiting out of perpendicular line. Joe Wright, aged fifteen years, while smoking some bees out of a tree in order to get the honey, on the Llagas, eighteen miles from San Jose, Cal., accidentally set the brush on fire and was so badly burned in his efforts to extinguish the flames that he will probably not recover. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Japan lias Now ;i School System Some what Similar to Our Own The l.arj;cst Dormitory. Oxford University has 2,210 student. Fifty-four women graduated from Van Bur this year. Hopkins University has A $10.000 ther mometer. Kentucky has a colored State Teachers' Association, Dancing is taught in some of tho pul li; schools in Scotland. The oldest Kui:!idi public school Is Winchester, founded in V.iHl. Two hundred am! four of the ."!iiT col leges in the United States ate coeduca tional. Cornell University will oir.-r a course in Russian language and literature next school year. During the past year there were grad inted Irom the medical colleges of the United Mates about 5,000 young doctor a. Itethany College, l.indsb irg, Kan., is snid to be the only Swedish college in America having as its l'resident a man born and educated in the United Ntat-s and having all his degrees from institu tions in this country. A phllologii-t says : It is called "com mencement'' not Untune the graduate then U-gius to lenrn his first real knowl edge of life, lint bemuse in the old days the graduating exercises were held at the tiegimiing of the college year. In the old country tho school children are early given lessons in economy, fenny savings banks are connected with the public schools of ltelgiiim, and J 70, 000 of the (100,000 primary pupils have deposited over 60tf0 .0 francs, (ireat Hntain has also established the penny banks. Japan has now a school sv stern some what similar to our own. Controlled by local authorities are more than I'M, Oik) schools, of which L'd.DOO are elementary. The teachers nitmU-r nearly 72,000, and the scholars 8,410,000, or nearly half tho total iMipiilalion of school age. The total annual expense of the system is altout 17,000,000. The immense fond in ixisscsHton of the State of Texas for educational purposes is mostly loaned to counties, which Ufe tho money for public works. The State Comptroller has invested over $;!,000,000 of the permanent school funds in the 111111114 of the various counties, and as vet no default in the payment of interest has been made. Cornell University has 1,!I8(I,112 in productive lun ls, $1,171,024 invested in buildings, 1,5 'H students and 123 in structors, or an instructor to every twelve students. T hih funded capital is as little as a first-class university can lie run on in these days, and while Cornell receives $0i,0(K) from tuition fee this meets only between a third and a half of its expenditure. PURELY PERSONAL Prince Bismarck SaiJ to Be Partly of Slav Origin Charles Sumner's Aristocratic Tastes. Justice Lamar's long locks are whiten ing. Francis I'arknian, the historian, has been partially blind for several years. Four living ex-Governors of Massa hu setts were Ixirn in 1818 Boutwell, Claf lin, Hice and Butler. Alexander Russell Webb, United States Consul at Manila, Philippine Islands, is reported to have become a convert to Isiam. Moses S. Beach, the former owner of the Sun, who died at l'eekskill recently, was one of the earliest advocates of the Brooklyn bridge. Samuel Sloane, the millionaire rail road l'resident, has a dislike for type writers, human and mechanical, and writes all his letters in autograph. Mrs. Humphrey Ward is a wonderful linguist; she is versed in French, Ger man, Spanish and Italian literature, to say nothing of Latin, Greek and He brew. Rudyard Kipling has told the truth alio tit Montreal, as he did about New York, and the swell clubs of that city have also ostracized him. He doesn't seem to care much about it, however. T. S. Southard, now in his 85th year, is the olilest shipbuilder in Maine. He lives in Richmond, and has built over 100 vessels. His name is a familiar one in shipping circles all over the world. One of the seven or eiuht Americans who have been elected to the new British Parliament is F. A. Channing, a sou of Kev. W. 11. Uhanning and a nephew of the famous Unitarian preacher, William Ellery Channing. " Nicknamed " Congressmen are by no means nonentities, as used to be thought. Remembering "Ran" Tucker and "Sun set" Cox, however, we must expect more than we've had yet irom "lorn" Watson ot Georgia. The Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey each possess a mat worked with pearls and diamonds, valued at over 2, 000,000. Prayer mats of such a value should give a powerful flavor to religious petitions in which humility is the lead ing feature. At the recent wedding in Dublin of the Viceroy's daughter the Viceroy him self looked quite bride-like in his attire. Ho wore the diamond star and collar of St. Patrick, and the multitudinous white satin ribbons attached to it suggested wedding favors to the unknowing. Frau Theresa Vogl, once one of the great dramatic sopranos of Germany, wife ot the distinguished tenor, llein rich Vogl, will retire in October from active work at the Munich royal opera, where both she and her husband have been the leading singers for the last twenty-six years. BEYOND THE ROCKIES St. I)iiis Orders Her Chinamen to be Photographed. A CRUSADE AGAINST LYNCHERS. Connecticut Excels All Other States In the the Number of Patents The Tms Cotton Crop. A rsilroad rate war is threatened at the West and South. Ksnsas' wheat crop this year is esti mated at Hi),0o0,)00 bushels. "Snapper" Garrison, the noted jockey, is seriously ill at Ijn Branch. The threatened strikeof the Union Pa cific telegraphers has been averted. Chancellor Allen of Tennessee decides that dealing in futures is gambling. In Chicago the price of lieer and pure watfr are now very nearly the same. Trego county, Kan., paid $1'J0 for3,- 800 pairs of rabbit ears the other day. Hie liounty paid by Minnesota last vear for woif sculps amounted to $5-- 000. The State tax of the estate of John Jacob Astor will amount to about 2j0, 010. The Texas rains have Insured the cot ton crop of the southwestern part of the Stale. The Boston newsboys will not be al lowed to sell paperd on street cars in future. Jay Gould says he will never go cruis ng aain. and offers his yacht Atlanta for sale. Boston's death rate is very high; al most two hundred children died week before last. The Nashville American has begun a crusade against lynching and lynchers in lenneesue. Archlit-hop Ireland says that the rumors that he is to be made a Cardinal are without foundation. Both parties appear to be satisfied over the reapportionment of Michigan by the called U'islature. Connecticut last year took out more patents according to population than any other State in the Union. The discrimination in Canadian tolls in favor of Montreal ha3 been removed by the Dominion government. There are 70.) babies at a New York baby show. This is an infant industry which has not entirely died out. There have been heavy rains in Penn sylvania and the fear of water famine no longer hangs over Philadelphia. The St. Louis Superintendent of Po lice has ordered that each of that citv's 1,000 Chinamen mii3t be photographed. Three voung Frenchmen are soliciting funds in New York in behalf of a Social istic colony to lie founded in Paraguay. Over 1 i.OOO bills wero introduced in Congress during the recent session, less than bOO of which reached the Presi ident. Germany in the last twelve months contributed 13 ',622 to the population of the United States; Russia and Poland 117.419. The Tennessee farmers are excited over the negro exodus to Oklahoma, and in some counties they fear that they will not have help enough to harvest their crops. The murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Borden at Fall River, Mass., has not been dis covered. The suspicion which rests upon the daughter has not received any confirmatory proofs. All the members of the Town Board of West Superior, Wis., have been ar rested on an embezzlement charge. The people want to know what has be come of the money paid in the way of taxes. One hundred and thirty-four trains passed through the Union depot at Kansas City Sunday en route to the con clave of the Knights Templar at Denver. It is estimated that 40,000 people were on the trains. ' Frederick Kayser, a miser of Dayton, Ohio, who was worth $500,000, but drove a garbage wagon, hanged himself a few days au'o because his daughter re proached him for his way of life. The steamships City of New York and City of Paris will have to be officered by American citizens when they are documented as American vessels. This ruling has been made at Washington. A riot between negroes and Italians at Orange, N. J., resulted in the Btabbing of one man and the serious wounding of twenty others from clubs and stones. About six hundred persons were in the riot. The total immigration to the United States in the year ended June 30, 1892, amounted to 619,320 souls. This large foreign influx has been twice exceeded. In 1881 the number of immigrants was 6U9,4:U and in 1882 the figure rose to 788,992. A man was recently struck by light ning at Johnstown, Pa., who recovered consciousness in about an hour to find the sight of one eye gone, his hair and mustache badly burned and a mark ex tending down the side of the body as far as the knee. All the mines under the control of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Com pany on the Gogebic range, save the Ashland mine, closed down Saturday night and some 2,000 men are thrown out of employment. Tho shut-down ia caused by the Homestead strike. THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Quite a Number of l'orei;;n Yachts Likely to Be in Chicago at the Time of the World's Pair. The Board of Tradt of Dubuque, la., has appointed a committee to prepare an exh bit for that city to be sent to the World's Fair. The architects of tho world are to be invited to a congress at Chicago during the World's Fair to discuss architect ural subjects and the interests of the profession. Canada will erect a World's Fair build ing at Chicago 100 feet long by 44 feet wide, with a ten-foot veranda surround ing it on all sides. Plans have been sab milted for approval. The World's Fair Commission of the State of New York has applied to the expoHition through the department of transportation for 1 250 rqnare feet of space for the exhibition of a great relief map of the canal system of that State. The largest American flag ever msde will flout from the top of a very lofty "liberty pole" in front of the adminis tration building at the World's Fair. Upon request the State of Washington will furnish the big flagstaff, as well as two or three others of the largest that are required by the exposition. Michigan is one of the most enthusi astic of the States in the preparation of the World's Fair exhibit. The State's appropriation is $100,000, but it is au thoritatively announced that the total sum contributed toward making an ex hibit by the State, counties, cities and private individuals will reach fully $500,- The World's Fair Commission of New South Wales has decided to send to Chi cago for exhibition in the horticultural department of the exposition the follow ing typical representatives of Australian vegetation and flora: Tree ferns, stag horn ferns, bird's-nest ferns, todea ferns, inacrozamias of two distinct kinds, gi gantic lilies and grass trees. The flora of Montana will be shown at the World's Fair by a collection as com plete as it is possible to make it. The State has about 1,( 0) different varieties of wild flowers, and of these 800 have alrpady been collected. Tho exhibit will include also a display of grasses and for nge plants. Many ol the States are pre paring similar exhibits of their flora. Quite a numlier of foreign yachts are likelv to lie in Chicago at the time of the World's Fair. Robert S. McCor mick, representative of the exposition in Kngland, makes announcement to that effect. All depends on how favor ablo are the facilities for getting through the Canadian canals and for eafe anchor age in Chicago, At his request full par ticulars on these points will be furnished. Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Wise, lady mana gers for Virginia, together with their auxiliary board, have undertaken to raise $16,000 for the Virginia building at the World's Fair, which is to be a full-sized reproduction of Washington's home at Mount Vernon. To raise the money the women of Virginia are selling certificates of membership in the Mount Vernon Association at $1 each. They are also asking the County and City Su pervisors, Councils, etc., for levies of 1 cent per capita, and are giving enter tainments of various kinds. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. The Crop Returns to the Department of Agriculture Show Improvement in the Condition of Corn. Acting Treasurer Whelpley has issued a check for $1,040,000 in favor of the owners of the Mission-street property, San Francisco, recently selected as a site for a postollice. The President has selected the follow ing delegates to the International Mon etary Conference : Senators Allison of Iowa, and Jones of Nevada; Represent ative McCreary of Kentucky ; General Francis A Walker of Massachusetts, and Henry W. Cannon of New York. The crop returns to the Department of Agriculture show an improvement in the condition of corn, raising the monthly average from 81.2 m July to 82.5 in August. In only four years since the initiation of crop reports has there been a lower August condition. The following averages of the principal States are given : New York, 90 ; Ten nessee, 92; Iowa, 79; Pennsylvania, 86; Ohio, 81; Missouri, 83; Virginia, 90; Indiana, 84; Kansas, 81; Georgia, 96; Illinois, 73; Nebraska, 80; Texas, 94. Most correspondents indicate a tendency to further improvement. Returns re lating to spring wheat show a lower average, declining during the month from a general average of 90.9 to 87.3. In the mountain States the condition is generally high. In Washington a de cline is reported from 90 to 78, and in Oregon from 91 to 76. Diplomatic circles are considerably ag itated over the announcement that Min ister Tsui, Chinese representative to this country, is about to be recalled, owing to the Chinese Emperor's displeasure at the prominence which the Minister took in the negotiation by which Count Mit kiewicz and other shady speculators pro posed to establish an international bank' in China, which would absorb all the railroads, telegraph lines, etc., of the Orient. The proposed recall of the Min ister comes so soon after China's rejec tion of ex-Senator Blair as United States Minister to that country that the two even's are being linked together. Min ister Tsui was mainly instrumental in having Blair rejected, and as a result the friends of the ex-Senator have for some time been longing to retaliate by having the Minister recalled. State de partment officials have shared this feel ing to a considerable extent, and as a result Mr. Tsui has had a hard diplo matic lot since he had Blair deposed. FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS Three Gendarmes Presented With Souvenirs by Bismarck. CHOLERA BACILLI EXPERIMENTS. Very Conflicting Reports Concerning the Revolution In Venezuela A Report Denied. The French forces have began hostili ties against the Dahomeyans. The Swis Guards, a part of the Pope's household, are to be dispensed with. Mount yKfna is showing a renewal of activity. The streams of lava are in creasing. Emperor William's Meteor won the first prize in the Southampton Yacht club races. The troops of the Sultan of Morocco have been repulsed by the insurgents before Tangier. The reception of Sir Charles Dilke in Parliament by his old friends was ex ceedingly cordial. United States Minister Patrick Eagan has announced to the Foreign Office at Valparaiso that he Intends to leave Chili by the end of the present month. Rudolph Jaeger, the defaulting cash ier of the banking house of Rothschild at Frankfort, Germany, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for embez zlement. Prince Bismarck has presented silver souvenirs to the three Bavarian gen darmes who were stationed as sentinels before his residence during his stay in Kissengen. It is reported in Belgrade that a con spiracy has been discovered against the Prince of Montenegro, who is very un popular, and that several of the plotters have fled the country. The Prefect of the Propaganda at Rome urges the Catholic Bishops of the United States to pay important atten tion to the parochial school question at the coming synod. Sir William Henry Houldworth, Hon. Sir Charles William Freemantle and Bertram Cullie have been nominated as British delegates to the International Monetary Conference. Thousands of London's idlers assem bled the other day in the Lea-bridge road and proceeded to remove the alleged obstructions erected by the London Wa ter Works Company, and did other dam age. Oh the arrival of the train from Flor ence at Foligno, Italy, Sunday, the Bisnop oi ongno was lound lying dead in one of the carriages with several wounds in his head. The police have arrested the suspected murder. Mrs. Rylands, widow of the Manches ter (England) millionaire cotton manu facturer, is the purchaser of theAlthorpe library, parted with by Earl Spencer, and intends that Manchester shall be the future home of the literary treasure. An immense crowd welcomed Bis marck at Berlin on his return home. The evidences of official resentment since his speech at Jena were visible on his route home. Some of the railway sta tions were practically closed against him. A serious revolutionary conspiracy has been discovered in Bolivia. A large number of prominent men, including many members of Congress, it is re ported have been sent beyond the fron tier and martial law has been pro claimed throughout the Republic A dispatch dated the 5th states that it is current news at Caracas and generally believed that General Crespo, the revo lutionist, is dead, and that General Men doza is pursuing his forces in the inte rior. Another dispatch of the same date says Crespo has captured Caracas by as sault and is now in possession. Prof. Brieger of Berlin, one of Prof. Koch's co-operators, and bis assistant, Dr. Wasserman, have been makinz ex tremely interesting experiments with the cholera bacilli. They will continue until the absolute truth of the theory upon which the work is established. At Trebizond in Asia Minor 1,000 per sons, who were in quarantine on account of cholera, attempted to escape from the pen in which they were confined. The Turkish troops were ordered out, and in endeavoring to force the prisoners back fired into the crowd, killing eight and wounding thirty-four. Th Ponn's dflRirn t.i mnVo pn Ameri can Cardinal at the next cons'story has I t A. AJ 1 J oeen lrusiraieu oy ine divergence ot views of Archbishops Corrigan and Ire land. The Pope has therefore resolved to appoint the Very Rev. Charles John Vaughan, Bishop of Westminster to the cardinalate at the earliest opportunity. Sir Charles Evan Smith denies the re cent sensational reports issued by a news company in regard to the encounter be tween himself and the Sultan of Morocco. He says the farewell of the Sultan was of the moBt cordial description, and that the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Morocco have not been broken. Moorish troops made another attack in the direction of the rebellious tribes, ascending the hills and setting fire to a number of villages. The inhabitants fled. A portion of the troops have made an attack upon the rebellious Angheras, and two divisions proceeded to support the Sultan's forces. One hundred Moor ish soldiers were either killed or badly wounded in a subsequent engagement. The Angherites suffered but few casualties. ELF SONU. I !wtxt th toe of tbn hlnjg Mot I tinkle the (lew hell bright-,. I chuck the chin ot thedlmpleoroM Till the laut;h in the ntarn' Uli light Die glowworm's lump I hllelo tl damp, 1 b-al the wild ore's utiiig; i pinch the f J till hi legs ore Scramp, And clip the tm-tl's wing. O ho' O hey My prank I play With never a note of warning;. set a mare for the moonhmm fall All wrought of p!dr wd twine; I tangle the naughty children's hair In a snarl of rare design. flit through the nouxe without any not There's never an elf so sly; t break the toy of bad little boys And the croM little girls who cry. 0 hey1 O ho' 1 work them woe. Till crows the cock In the morning. -Samuel Mluturn Pwl in St. Nlcbotaa. Took Him for Tree. Not very long ago the keeper of tlx wild cattle at Chillingharn escaped beina injured by them in a way which showl how much may be accomplished by presence of mind. They were being fed.) and he in some way had got between 1 them and the hills, when, something having alarmed them, they made one of the mad rushes in which, like High- land cattle, they often indulge. He gave himself up for lost, as he was in the open ground where the two contingents had to njeet as they came flying round the paddock. Partly because he was a Scots man, and resolved to die with "his face to the foe," but still more because he knew flight to be certain death, he folded his arms, drew himself up to his full height, and stood perfectly motionles. He says himself that he expected to bd killed, but the cattle, perhaps mistaking him in the dusk for a tree stump or a gate post to which his gaunt figura bears no slight resemblance swerved as they approached and scampered past without touching him. Montreal Star. ' No Error. j Young Mr. nale is one of the peopldj who think it must be tlK- f..:,vi thing in the world to write a UhA, or at least a poem. "You have your desk, your paper and pens," said he, hopefully, in discussmg the subject of literature with a more ex perienced friend, "and there you are!" "Yes," said the friend, dryly, "but you've omitted one implement of the trade which ought to be in the hands of beginners an eraser, to rub out what they have written. Now take this peti tion you have just drawn up for the 'Widows' Mite Society.' Look over- the paper with me. You haven't explained your object with clearness, and you've repeated the word 'charity' nine times in thirteen lines." For a moment the ambitious young man looked disturbed; then suddenly his composure returned. , "Oh, well," said he, "I don't consider that repetition a mistake. You can't hav too much charity 1" Youth's Companion. Penmanship at the Vatican. Autotype machines have just been served out for the first time to some of the copying clerks at the Vatican, but they are only to be used for the roughest kind of proof work which ha3 to be done in a hurry. The pope dislikes the Inno vation, for he is anxious and rightly so not to break up the admirable school of penmanship which flourishes at the Vatican. There is no such writing in the world as that which is seen on the documents sent out by the Curia. All the copying clerks of the first rank are priests and monks, and many of tliem real artists in caligraphy. They are al lowed to exercise their fancy in the trac ing of illuminated capitals and ornament al rubrics or margins, but there must not be a single erasure on a page which has to be issued in the pope's name A misplaced comma causes a whole page to be rewritten. Letter to Glasgow Herald. Proving Their Sanity. According to a somewhat dubious tra dition, the Greek dramatist, Sophocles, at the age of 90, was accused of imbe cility by his son Jophon. He rebutted the calumny by reciting before his judges, the Phratores, the magnificent passage in his tragedy of CEdioua Colo neus, which describes the arrival of CEdipus in the sacred forest of Colonna. Having thus vindicated his genius, he retired amid applause. In the Seven teenth century, says Lelanne, the Abbe Cot in, having sold his property in return for a life annuity, was denounced by his relatives as out of his mind. In self de fense the abbe invited the commission ers de lunatico inquirendo to come and hear him preach. They went, they lis tened, and decided in his favor. All the Year Round. A New Barometer. It is nothing more or less than the fig ve of a general made of ginger bread which Clavette buys every year at tho Place du Trone. When ho gets home he hangs his purchase on a nail. You know the effect of the atmosphere on ginger bread? The slightest moisture renders it soft; in dry weather, on the contrary, it grows hard and tough. Every morning , on going out Clavette asks his servant: "What does the general say?" The man forthwith applies his thumb to tho figure and replies: "The general feels flabby about the chest; you'd better take your umbrella." On tho other hand, when the symp- . toms are "hard and unyielding," our worthy colleague sallies forth in his new kat Almanach de 1' Atelier,