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"I lacier. ( VOL. 4. JIOOI) RIVKIt, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1802. NO. 21. The Hooc River G jfood Iivcr Slacier. ruui, lull til BVRKT iATUMUT MORNINU T The Glacier Publishing Company. rum HiiM iox vhh k tin or ,,,,, 1 80 Nn monthi ,,,, Of 111 i imiiitlii Ian i kit vui , t t.nW THE GLACIER Barber Shop Grant Evans, Propr, ' K.ooii1 Ht., nrar Oak. Hood Hirer, Or Shaving and llnlr cutting natly dona. Satisfaction (iiifttaiito.il. OCCIDENTAL MELANGE The Maho MoniMiis Regain the Rights f Citic-nship. EXCESSIVE DROUTH IN NEW MEXICO. Iht W'aU-y to he l'lid Into livciy Ilus' ness It'.tick ami Kold'T-n: d It )be City, M .R The Chinese in Idaho propose to defy tlit Six U iiiipaiilia an. I, will register. OvirSj.'HHI ton of sugar becta have Wen h irvehte I Ht Chico so liir this sea son. Work ha Wcn commenced upon a now foundry budding and u power house fur Stanford University. Much fullering in the southeastern portion of New Mexico is leporlod, caused hy the excessive drouth. Ile.ivy swells have wished away the a'lin of the wrecked Wet more, ami the vitrei ii iw looks from Marshtleld an if the had hroken in two. The Hit Ih n Biv Company linn closed out im Mure at Yale, B. 0., tim trade having (li'crrtuM'il t Much ai t xtent that the stoie is no longer nee-saury. Applicants for electric power fran chise at Kan Jose have bei'n refuted, owing to the objection of the applicants to put their wires under (ground. The o'd adobe at S tntii Barbara, in which General Fremont had hit head quarters in the early days w hen he had lilt ciiuip there, was burned the other morning. William Simmons, who lives ten mi'es from Salem, Or., has grown three acres of cranberries this year. They are choice, and are said to lie fully eqiiiil to the Cape Cod variety. Spokane Indians have held a meeting near Spokane. They are willing to go on the Cteiir d'Aleue lands, but want money to spend for themselves. There are about one hundred of them, home less and landless vagabonds, but they believe the government will give them alt they ask. Some brute in human form has been shooting valuab e stock on Willow creek, Crook county, Or. A few weeks ago Joe llinkle found a fine Hereford bull, which had cost him $;!50, dead in his pasture, with a rifle bullet in his head, and a few days ago Terry Head discovered a thor oughbred Shorthorn belonging to his herd that had been Bhot ami will prob ably die. Colonel L. W. Burr told the Kern County Echo while discussing 1 tie scale parasite that there was a time last year when the parasites were not noticeable, but with the return of spring they came out in largely increased numbers and beiian their work of destroying the Bcale. Colonel Burr's theory is that they are hidden away, possibly in the earth near ttie tree, and that they will be on deck again nest spring. Daniel II. Ward, who shot and killed John Loonev last Julyin Gilliam county. Or., has been acquitted. After being out two hours the jury returned a ver dict of "not guilty." The jury really nirreed upon this verdict five minutes after retiring ti tho jury room, but defined it better form to deliberate an hour or two before rederinii the verdict It was proven at the trial that Ward acted in self deiense. Frank Leach, a young tailor who mis appropriated a suit of clothes at Weston, completed his sentence in tho county jail at rendieton recently, ne wa searched on leaving, when it was discov ered, alrnoBt by chance, that he had taken the maiii'pring from his watch and lelt it with the prisoners, to be used as a saw. Thev were compelled to dis gorge, and Leach was rearrested and will stay in jail titty days longer. Prof. Edward 8. llolden has sent an open address to the San Jose Chamber of Commerce in answer to the action of that body in passing a resolution con demnatory of the Profe-por's a iministra tion of the Lick Ob-etvatory. He says t he Chamber should have consulted per ilous familiar with the situat on of affairs at the observatory and not nave reneu bo much on newspaper reports before charging him with mismanagement. He desires, he says, a full investigation by g,ny competent persons. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. I ttirr.i ii of N.iv.il Intrlligeine I'rrp.iring a HioU Viilu.ihle to the Merchant M.iilne ;niJ Navies. The President hat recognized Horace (i. Plntt at Vice-Consul of Kussia at Han Francisco. The President has appointed Atiibroie II, Hill of Krlcondido, Cal., Special ageiit to iiiiike allo'ineiits of lands in severalty to the Indians un ler the act of February, 1KH7. Two ships, for which proposals were isHiind by the Navy Department last week, will contain a new feature in mod ern naval construction. Kach vessel will contain three smoke funnels KM) feet high, or higher by thirty or forty feet thiin any smokestack i on naval or merchant ships, with tho exception of iho inert h int steamer Scot. These plucks, it is thought, will d) away with forced ilra't. Thes'cretary of'tho interior hat re ceived a letter from Agent lieir ", of L'nion agency, in Indian territor la live to the condition of ull'airs i , e Choctaw nation, which indicates that there it likely to lie bloodshed there tin iest prompt action is taken to provi le C nited Slates troops in siillich'nt force to suppress any not that may arise. Secretary Noble hai asked the secretary of war to immed ately send a sullicieiit force to preserve the peace. Chow Tel and Nip Lung, two Chinese merchant from Chicago, are in Wash ington City. Their imstion relates to the resistance of the Chinese registra tion law. They have had an interview with Ho, Secretary of their legation, and one of them said that he told them that the law was no g od and the Chinese government would sustain them in r sii-t ng it. They will consult with Chi nene there and in lCateru cities with the view of an organized resistance of the law. Tho bureau of naval intelligence has It'cn some months preparing a book s ion to ho insued to the service, which will he invaluah'e both to the merchant marine and navies of the world. The book will stute in detail the location of the coaling stations of the different governments, shipyards, repair stations, docks, coal capacity of stations, the quality of coal and other matters relating to the coal snpp'.y (if vessels Ixiund on loin; voyages. The hook will show conclusively in ibis renp'ct that t lie United Mates Is far worn oir than any other country pre tendingto lie a naval power, posessing as it does, only three coaling stations, v.. : in Honolulu, Lapaz, Mexico, and Samoa. Great Britain has important stations in all her p ia-o-hioiih in many places where oal c.in lie lauded from hnifiand lor the use of her vessels of war as well as her merchant marine. All are strongly for titied and garrisoned. The liook will further show that shou'd the United Stales go to war there would practically In no foreign ports outside ol her three tations, all of which are on the Pacific ocean, where she could hope to get coal. THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Proposed Building for a Collective Ex hibit by Merchant Tailors at the World's Fair lite. The international chess tournament to be held at Chicago in connection with the World 'b Fair will distribute 7,00J in priz's. Seat for 125,0i)0 people are to be pro vided in the great manufactures build ing at the World's Fair for the dedica tion exercises on Oc'ober 21. Tho British building at the World's Fair will have among its decorations tligs bearing the arms of the principal cities of the United Kingdom. A cheese mold seven feet high has been shipped to Pert h, Ontario, for Prof. Uobinson of the Canadian Dairy Com mies on. It will lie used in making a mounter cheese for the World's Fair. Tho main railway station within the World's Fair grounds, where all excur sion trains will discharge their passen gers, will lie a handsome fctruc'ure, cost ing j22',(HK), ami will accommodate 25, (kll) pen-on s at one time. President Blalock expects that the Washington World's Fair building will be ready for the Washington exhioit by January 1, 1SH. The mineral collection, consisting of about forty tons, ia being packed by Superintendent Plunder of the mineral department. He considers the collection worth $8,000 or fil.000. The proposed building for a collective exhibit by merchant tailors at the World's Fair will probably be near the fisheries building. As planned, it will be fifty-five feet square, with a portico extending to the lagoon. The tailors of Chicago have raised $10,000, and $15,000 is expected from members of the trade outside. Persons in Bombay, India, are per suaded that there will be considerable profit in making a varied display at the World's air. Ihey propose to send over twelve elephants, so that visitors can take rules " in howdah with ma hout;" to give exhibitions of suttee, cremation, jugglery, nantch, wrestling, etc., and to sell tea at 10 cents a cup. They expect to sell 1,000,000 cup?. At a recent meeting of the San Fran 6 Sco World's Fair Commiss:oners Chas. G. Yale was aptiointed editor-in-chief of a souvenir book of San Francisco at a salary not to exceed $75 a month ; he will slso edit a prospectus ot the work 1. J. Ellis was appointed superintend' ent. of the topographical map at a salary of $75 a month. The salary of Secretary Uobinson was fixed at $30 a month. ' Lucius L. Solomons was appointed to act with the Ways and Means Commit tee in soliciting a subscription of $25,000 from the Board of Supervisors and the B lard of hducation. Mr. Solomons was appointed to a vacancy on the board paused by the resignation of Mrs. W. II. Kodda. Number of Business Failures in the Unite 1 Stites. THE AUER INCANDESCENT LIGHT CO. An Attempt Ik-lng Made to Keorganlz1; the Iron Hall Order Tt 1-phone Glilj In Uniform. "Polled water" is the popular New York drink. The cholera scare is abating, is the re port from every quarter. Philadelphia gets a premium on a 3 per cent loan of tl,iXX),0u0. Boston it to have a statue of John B yle O'Reilly in Copley Square. The estate of the late George William Curtis amounts to about 170,000. The admirers of Whittier contemplate the erection of a statue in Central Park. Hartford Medical Association has just elebrated its one hundredth anniver a y. MiHtiaoppi engineers recommend only one year's work under existing appropri ations. Kx-Private lams of Homestead court- martial lame is now a clerk in a ruts burg store. Oil lias lan-n struck near Parkersburg, Ind., at the depth of 100 feet, while dril ling for water. An epidemic of diphtheria has broken out among the Indians at the Wind River Agency. The net cash balance in the Treasury is nearly $31,0 Xl.OOOor $5,0JO,(XX greater than New York. Philadelphia capitalists are going to onstruct an underground-trolly street car system in isosion. A jury in New York admitted a man who spat tobaco j lice on a $0,000 picture in the Metropolian Mmeum of Art. K"V. Thomas Dixon of New York in his Sunday sermon declared the lottery a small evil compared with horse racing. Reports from the Southern States are that the cotton crop is from 15 to 25 per cent short and from one to two weeks late. Howard Gnuld has ten elected direc tor of the G ild ami Stock Telegraph Company iu place of his father, Jay Gould. The lotus distance telephone from Chi cago to Boston is nearly completed. South Bend, Ind., has already talked to Boston. President Young of the National Base hall Leauue says either salaries must be reduced or profession j1 baseball must go to the wall. Harmony reigns over the disturbed water corporations of Denver, Col., and Omaha, Neb., and the $20,000,000 law suit ie settled. Valuable discoveries of onvx have been made at Bridgewater, Rockingham county, Va. It is abundant and of a superior quality. It rained peas at Baltimore the other day. It is believed that they were scooped up by the wind from truck farms in an adjoining county. The Kiowas and Comanches are ready to take lands in severalty. This will re sult in the opening of more than 2,0, .0, 000 acreB to settlement. Walter Sloan of Burlington, N. J., who was supposed to have been lost in the Johnstown flood, has just turned up at Mount Holly to receive his share of a legacy left him by his aunt. In the twenty-eight years that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has had existence Chief Arthur states it has disbursed over $3,00;,000 to the wid ows and families of deceaBed engineers. At Puebla, Mexico, an undertaker billed tho town with huge posterB. say inn he would reduce his funeral charges if the cholera became epidemic tnetj This incited a scare and he was arrested. At Clarksburg. Miss., the negroes were reported to be in insurrection, and had sworn to kill the whites. A sheriff s posse found that two negroes had been killed and several wounded when they reached the scene. The theft of $440,000 from the Auer In candescent Light Company by Tyndale Palmer, a former newspaper man, in which he was joined by a hotel-keeper named Freitas of Rio Janeiro, has been brought to light at Philadelphia. Palmer sold the patent rights in Brazil ior $510,- 000 and reported the sale at $80,000. The chief astronomical event of Octo ber will be the eclipse of the sun, which will take plate on the 20th, and be visi ble throughout the greater part of North America. All the United States may see it, except the western part of Oregon and California. As it will only be a par tial eclipse, the Western Coast will not be jealous of the Eastern Slope. The Chicago Telephone Company at Chicago is going to issue an order that all the girls in the operating department must wear black uni orms, to give the room an artistic appearance. Two hun dred and fifty girls in the central office have donned the uniform, and, as the idea meets with success, a general order affecting all offices will soon be issued. BradUreel'i says: During the past nine months the business failures in the United States South Dakota excluded, owing to the State law practically pro hibiting the collection of, statistical in formation which have been strictly mercantile or industrial in character, not omitting those of banking institu tions, but eliminating care ully those of all other descriptions, have aggregated 7,378. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Education of Russian Children Entering Class at Union College Largest in Its History. Old gold is to lie the color of the Uni versity of Chicago. The enrollment of girl students in the Harvard Annex this year is over ,'J'MJ. There is one woman in the entering clsss of forty-six at the Massachusetts Agricultural College this year. Yale College for the first time in its history will throw open its post-graduate course to women in the coming term. The entering c'a-.s at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., is the largest in the history of that institution since the war. Baltimore, Md., hat 1,30 teachers. 5(),(XK) pupils, and the schools cost $1, OOO.COO a year. The population is about 500,000. Mrs. Maria R. Towne, win died re cently at Manchester-by the-Sea, Mass., left $175,000 to the University of Penn sylvania. Prof. Harold M. Fowler of the vener able Phillips Exeter Acndemy has ac cepted the chair of Greek in the Univer sity of Texas. " Flower Sunday " is one of the an nual observances at Welleslev College. It was instituted by the founder of the college, and forms a delightful opening to the college. Tufts College has begun its career as a coeducational institution. Women have at last been admitted on an equal footing with men not only in the collt gi of let:ers, but also in the divinity school. Vassar College had the largest fresh man clas in her history on the opening day, September 23, the whole number of students being aliout 500. It is hoped that the hall will be ready for use in No vein lie r. Trie education of Russian children is conducted in four languages the native, German, English and French and they grow up masters of these languages. The Czar himself speaks English re markably well. Among the women students at Iowa State University is Julia Stark Evans of Hampton, Ia. Mrs. Evans is the wife of an active lawyer and the mother of five children. She is a shining example of the modern precept, "It is never too late to begin." Now that the manual training idea is fairly on its feet, a champion is wanted for that of school gardens in America. Europe is far ahead of the United States in this matter. Sweden leads the world, having 2,000 gardens, one for nearly every recently built rural school house. Three of the professors of Bowdoin College gave much time the past sum mer to visiting and examining the lab oratories of other colleges, with the view of perfecting their plans for the interior arrangement of the new scientific build ing to be erected as a memorial of Mrs. Mary F. S. Searles. The architect pro poses, if possible, to lay the foundation this autumn. The age at which pupils are allowed to enter and to continue in the public schools differs greatly. Of the forty- nine States and Territories six admit them at 4 years of age, nineteen at 5, twenty at 0, three at 7 and one at 8, The States admitting them at 4 are Maine, Connecticut, Florida and Montana. The schools of Alabama and North and South Dakota do not receive them till they are 7, and those of Texas exclude them till they are 8. PURELY PERSONAL Vice-President Morton Said to be a Prac tical and Common-Sense Farmer The Duke of Norfolk. V ice-President Morton is said to be a practical and common-sense farmer, who goes into the business in a large way in order to make money out of it rather than to drop it into it. In China a wife is never spoken of by her husband in a plain and straightfor ward way. Such playful terms as " my thorn in the ribs " and " my dull com panion " are more usual. The Duke of Norfolk, Premier of Great Britain, is about to make another pil grimage to Lourdes in the hope of miti gating the condition of his son and heir, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, who is blind, deaf and dumb. George William Curtis suffered great ly from stage fright on the occasion of bis hrst lecture, and began by saying " Ladies and gentlemen, the pitomlesa bott," with a solemnity which was changed to confusion when he perceived his error. Ot course, he had meant to make an allusion to the bottomless pit. Mrs. Mary Green, aged 84 years, of Scar bo ro, Me., has during the past six months " spun thirty-two skeins of yarn, knitted five pairs of stockings, picked three bushels of blueberries and tended large flocks of chickens and ducks, be sides doing much general housework Dr. Susan Jane way Coltman of Ger mantown, Pa., owns a unique collection of cats, which she values at $o,000 There are twenty-two of her pets, and among them are included Skye, Zanzi bar and leather-tailed lurkieh cats, tail less Manx pussies, white Maltese, yellow Persian and English tiger cats. M. Thibaut, the French actor, who died in Paris recently, was born in Nantes May 7, 1837. He was the son of a merchant, and went to Paris at the age of 40. He made his debut at the Moli ere. He was subsequently at the Mont martre and other theaterB. and later an peared in London and Brussels. Finally he was engaged by Offenbach at the Boufles-Parisiens and Renaissance. He it was who originated the catch phrase "C'esl immense!" which was a "go' from the start and for a long time pop- alar. FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS EmixL'ror William Appoints a Jew on His Own Staff. SHAH ADVISED PRINCE OF WALES, Emperor Francis Joseph Says the Conduct of An'l Semltlc Members Can not be Tolerated. Tl lie olive crop of Spain is a failure this year, uni me vintage is iq a promising tion. cond Anti-Semitic disturbances are in pro gress on the Island of Marmora. The municipal elections of Berlin have resulted in complete triumph of the So cial Democrats. On Bali, an Island in the Indian Archi pelago, east of Java, the burninir of wid ows still goes on. A new triple alliance of France. Rus sia and Turkey is said to be greatly fav ored by the Pope. The Czar has excused all his French cooks and scullions from becoming na turaliied Russians. Several great drapery firms in London are totter. ng under the severe general ousiness depression in Great Britain. The announcement is made of the death of Hugo Franz Braehelle, the Aus trian statistician, in his fifty-ninth year. More than $10,000 his been subscribed for the memorial of Adam Smith, to be set up in his native town of Kirkcaldy. Bremen pluck has made the Weser river navigable by big sttamships from Bremerhaven, at a cost of 30,000,000 marks. Thn Rfttvflf.'nn Armv nnto Kr.nnaf Viaa been replaced in England by a broad brimmed straw hat. trimmed with stalks of corn. The recent addi ion to the family of Kaiser Wilhelm is said to be the first daughter born to a King of Prussia for eighty-four years. Emperor Alexander has freed the Kal mucks of Astrakhan from serfdom. These roving peopls are Buddhists, and they number loo.ooo souls. One hundred and fifty persons have been arrested at Palermo. Sicily, and its environs, suspected of being members of a band to waylay travelers. Recent French statistics show that there is a continued decrease in the num ber of marriages and births in that coun try in proportion to population. The news from Rome that Jean d' Arc's canonization is on the eve of comple tion nas revived more than ever the pop ular cult of that national heroine. firtpial hmmtrata if Unitnn ViaTta i.n I ,1 iixl a oinfn.n Ana, 1 1 ,,,AHn m An fnuicu a Titiui J WDI bug LIIVCI II U1CU V and compelled recognition of their right o Cotton varn is imnorteil into China in immense quantities from Bombay, and it : J u : : mi 1 j. is smu luad varu-euiuuiug will BOOU ue- 1 t 1 . ? 3 .... , veioo into a verv larire industry in , . - . o j vuoujjunii The London Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Children states in its annual report that 8,324 cases have been investigated, involving many instances oi diabolical cruelty. Princess Marie Bilesco. a vounz lady of about twenty-four years of age, has lusc accomplished the remarkable teat of swimming across the Hellespont, from the European to the Asiatic shore. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has ordered 5,i 00 mora trees to be planted around the statue ot her favorite poet, Heine, that is shortly to be erected in the grounds ol her palace at Corfu. An old woman named Fort has just been murdered near Bordeaux by a peasant who thought she bad cast an evil eye upon him. She had long had the local reputation of being a witch. A society has been organized in Enir land to buy land, build cottages and set necessitous epileptics at work in market gardening, carpentering, shoemaking, tailoring and other indoor occupations Russia has concluded a treaty with China, according to which she will es tablish Consulates in Central China Manchuria and Mongolia for the purpose ot opening markets for Kussian manu factures. Wallis Brooke, a writer in the London Times, is of the opinion "we shall soon see milk imported from Australia in frozen blocks and retailed in London streets It can bi done as easily as importing butter and apples." The annual report of the London Po lice Department says that "there were something over two thousand burgling and house breaking cases there last year, and the average amount secured by the burglar was less than $o." It is said that when the Shah of Persia visited England some years ago he was entertained at Stafford House, the town residence of the Duke of Sutherland So impressed was the Oriental visitor with the magnificence of his host's sur roundings that he afterward privately advised the Prince of Wales to have the Duke quietly etrangled and confiscate his estates. D. C. Tyrlander, a Finlander, who was in Finland at the time Mrs. Aino Sainio poisoned her husband, says that the fnehtful sentence passed upon the woman is merely a matter of form and tradition, and that she will not be be headed, but imprisoned for life. He as serts that no crime has been punished by execution In If inland Bince that coun try separated trora Sweden in 1808. "HELEN'S BABIES." Enfi.no Field lliw Thr of 'Em Story ol f lailing Kieuntlnii. Mr. Eugnn yield, the author of ths "Sharp and FT.U" column of Tho Chirago Doily Nown, has three boys who, if they do pretty nearly at they please and do It In a highly original manni-r, ore only chip of thn old block. One day In mid-wititer, when Chicago's far famed lake breeze Lad driven the thermometrical mercury down Into th bulb and wax Hitting on ft to keep it down, the three Field boys did not come home at the usual hour for returning from school. Dinner was held off for them until almost 8 o'clock, and then, as the rent of the family tat at the tahlo, one of the boys came softly In, wearing on hi face and all over his man tier tho most positive evidence that he bod been up to mischief. "Where are your brothersr asked the father. "They're down stairs," said Plnney, "bringing up the fish.'' "What flshT "The fish we caught." "Where have you been fishlngf "Down to the lake. You see, It was this way, papa. e was awful cold and we saw smoke coming up from the lake and we went down there to get warm." They had seen the steam rising .Vom the water and had gone out about a mile over the ice to "get warm." Presently, when it was thought Pinney had satisfactorily explained their absence from home and established peace, the other two boys, Mel v in and Eugene, Jr., came in look ing as blue as whetstones and as stiff as fro zen mackerel Mel v in held in bis band about two yards of tow string, the end of which was tied around the body of a solitary smoked herring. "See," and Pinney, lifting tbe Hah from the floor, where Melvin was dragging it in a thame faced manner "See, papa, we thought we'd like to bring something nice for your supper, so we caught this Ash; and it's all for vou. papa." afcbingtoa Post DukoU's Fertility. Two western men happened to meet one day, and from stories which they expected people to believe, about the number of bush els of wheat and corn which their land pro duced to the acre, they gradually passed to some which they doubtless expected their hearers to receive with a grain of allowance. "I tell you what!" r.i 1 the man from Dakota, "a Norwegian woman went out raking and binding one summer, and dropped half a dozen darning needles. And what do you think f The next year there was a large crop of knitting needles come up all over that part of the Held!" 'Oh, I can believe that," said the man from Washington territory, "but it is noth ing to the richness of tbe laud out In our country. Why, a year ago last summer German woman dropped some darning nee dles iu a field out there, and last summer the field was growing thick with a crop of guess what." "Give it up." "Nice hand knit woolen stockings, al ready to put on." Youth's Companion. , A Deferred Rebuke. A prominent leader of fashion in London (the wife of a duke well known In sporting circles), having occasion to return an article she bad bought at a large drapery establish ment, was asked by the polite and mellifluous "floor walker:" "Which of our gentlemen had tbe honor of serving your grace?" Tbe lady looked at him with a mischievout twinkle iu her eyes, and indicating a certain assistant, replied diffidently aud modestly: "Well, sir, I am not quite sure, but 1 rather think it was that nobleman with th bald head." Sau Fraucisco Examiner. Encouraging Convalescence. Young Mr. Shandygaff (handing his card to flunky at the door) May I ahsk how Ml. Earl Marquand de Wylls Wylls is this mwn iug? Flunky (importantly) Yes, sir. Young Mr. Wylls Wylls' condition his slightly bet ter. The tone hof 'is system 'as himproved, ban' we hall think, sir, that 'e bis progressin' bloomiukly. 'E 'as recovered strength benough, sir, to light hay cigarette, ban' seemed to relish hay couple o' snipes 'eads for the fust time iu hay week, sir. Harper's Bazar. The Reason Why. It was recently announced that a man had read a patent medicine almanac without fancying that he was afflicted with all tbe diseases described therein. It was regarded as a very remarkable case until it was learned that the almanac contained an article entitled "The Disease of Wealth." The man didn't have that disease, but be was willing to go somewhere aud catch it. New York Ledger. Good Idea. Youth Can you give me anything to do, sir? Merchant What is your line! Y. Clerk, sir. M. Clerk! Why, clerks are a drug In the labor market just now. Y. They are! Well, if that's the case I had better look for a job as a drug clerk. Boston Courier. The Nation's Great Men. "Pa, where was Captain Anson born?" "I don't know, I'm sure." "Where was John L. Sullivan born?" "I don't know that, either." "Pa, I wish you would buy me a history of the United States." Chicago Herald. Left AIL Black So Brown is dead? WTiite Yes, he has gone. B. How much did he leave? W. Everything. Didn't take a cent with hiin. Boston Courier. Almost any acid, poured upon chalk or marble, liberates the carbonic acid. Its grasp of the lime is feeble and easily over come. When we dissolve and mix a com mon soda powder the tartaric acid turns thi weaker carbonic acid out of doors. In 1775 George Washington sought to have set apart and reserved to the publio forever a square mile of land in the Ka nawha valley, in the center of which was a burning gas spring that he regarded as one of the greatest of our national wonders, 4. ;i