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iver Glacier. VOL. 4. HOOD KIVKU, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21), 1892. NO. 22. The Hooc 3food Iftver Slacisr The Glacier Publishing Company. ( ( uiftion mit, ti M n i.nniri. lilt., inonlln.. ,,, , MMl.cf.; Cm THE GLACIER -Burbof-Shop Grant Evans, Propr. oond HI., nMr Oak. . . Hood Rlrir. Or liming and lUIr ciittliif iMtty don. HatUfaction Uuirutwd, OCCIDENTAL MEUNGE Merchant Certificates of Kntry II L'injr Sold to Chinese. A TRUCK FARMER IS HELD UP. Mni'd fur Lvadlng Customs Officers Poisonous Weed Causes Death Among Utah Sheep. Dryenfurth's ngents are in New Mox it") endeavoring to produce ruin. The llritish C )tiuul)ia sealing duet lias brought down only 1,171 skins. Sacramento is to spend f 100,000 in en larging and strengthening her levee ny tem. The nwneri of the llalcvon have been lined $800 nt Victoria, 1'. C., for evading the customs olhcers. HiiiiH Nelson and Jnan Alvnrex have been captured at Phtenix, A. T., while passing counterfeit money. The Ne Perce reservation in Idaho, a very rich land section, will be open for settlement, in a lew months. The cattlemen in Southern New Mex ic are moving off the ranges, the drought having made them barren. Silver salmon are now verv plentiful at Yitquins Hay, and are helm? caught with trolling linen in great numbers. The vintage is fully on in Napa Valley. The wine-grape crop is two-thirds short, and many largo wineries are not crush ing. There are thirtv-Heven pupils in at tendance at the Oregon Deaf Mute SuJhmiI this year, the highest number ever present. The High Courtof California Foresters concluded iti work at ltukerstleld the other day. Monterey was selected as the next annual meeting place. Another murder is reported by "Kid," the Apnche, in the Swisshelm Mount ains. A woodchopper was (shot and bin bead beaten ol! with stones. The opal fields on the Snake river near Caldwell, ah ut thirty miles from P.oiHe, Idaho, are the cause of considerable ex citement among mining men. By a ruling from Washington the Nogales (A. T.) custom authorities are authorized to permit the free entry into the United States of calves that were born to cattle that had strayed into Mex ican soil. The contract for a new county j lil has been let at Han Diego by the "Solid Three" of th- live Supervisors who re fiiHed to submit the proposition to a vote of the people, on the ground that they did not know what was good for them. The British Pacific Construction Com pany, with a capital of $5,000,000, has been incorporated at Victoria, B. C. for the purpose of laying out, building and equipping tiie Canada Western rail way from Victoria to Yellowbead Pass. Matt llindenter, who owns over $30, 000 worth of real estate in Lot Angeles, has been detected stealing w alnuts on the Briswalter place. His coat and trousers had their pockets extended for the work, lie pleaded guilty, and was lined $20. Evans and Sontag when last beard from were in Squaw Valley, and were Been the day after the alleged interview with them which was printed in a Kan Francisco sensational newspaper. The distance between the place where seen and where the "interviewer" talked with them would require four days' travel to overcome. There is a company with headquarters in Portland, Or., winch lurniHhes China man with merchant certilicates f entry into the United S ates, properly Bigned and sealed, bearing a photograph of the partv desiring to enter at a cost of W) a head. These certificates are ner.it from Portland to agents at Vancouver, B. O., who have no dilHculty in disponing; of them at the price stated. The San Francisco lumbermen inter ested in controlling the cargo output of the Pacilic Coast have prepared a sched ule of the amount of lumber each mill may cut under the pool arrangements. The schedule is bused upon the output of 181)1, and is unsatisfactory to most of ihe small mill owners on Puget Sound, who may be subsidized, although it is siiia it is not the plan now to subsidize mills. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Swrdcn the first Country in Wh! Were l:M;ibl:slied Cooking and Housekeeping Siliools. Every Northern Stale west of the A leghiiriies has a State university. Sweden bus 2,1)00 school gardens. How many are there in the linked States? Ihreo thousand students, it is eti mated, will attend Harvard College thi your. Of the piiblli'-rchnol teachers in the United States more than (ft jier cent, are women, Edinburgh University is one of th cniei medical centers In the world, was founded in I5H2. IM. f I. I . . i uu irrnoiiicn classes oi Harvard am 1 ale both show noticeable increase, ale leads with over M)d. The oldest living teacher is Miss Clara lilting of Tiew 1 one. She served con liuiioUNly fifty-seven years. TI I . .. .. iiiu cieiiH-iiuiry-scnooi statistics o Hungary are thus reported: In 1 2.015,(112 children attended Bchool. while in moil omy 10. There will be no color line at the Unl versilyof Chicago. Ojiite a number of colored M'rsons of both sexes have an (nidi tor uiairii'iiiaiion. 1 he oldest and larifejt medical school in America is that of the University o Pennsylvania. It was founded in 17ii' and bus graduated 10.4M men. Wonderful progress has been made in this country of late vears in teaching me tiumn w speak. List year articula lion was taught to 4.235 nutiils. Twentv-llve graduates arid former hIii- ilents of John Hopkins Univermtv ol Baltimore, Md., have accepted positions on the stall ol the new University of Chicago. In 1870 the Iindon School Board be gan its work with not a single school under its control. In 1st) I it possessed 410 reboots, affording accommodations lor i.',i,iiu children. I he University of Berlin, w ith its 0,000 students and scores of famous pro lessors, has a capital of about $750,000. Its largest endowment, that of the I ountesn Bose, is only $tr(),000. Never llieiess tt Is the seat ol the highest tier man learning, and chums to have the ablest corps of instructors of all the world s schools. Yale College entered upon its one bun Ired and ninety-third year September 25). Over $1,000,000 have lnen expended on new windings and other innrove merits during the past year, and the total menilHTslnp will exceed 2,000. During me year l ale has leen the recipient o more than $2,000,000, and its President says $1,(00 00.) more has been pledged. rew lor city shows a mood record in the matter ol suspensions in the public schools. Last vear there were but thirtv five of these 250 schools that experienced uch an extreme measure of discipline. The number suspended was only ti ft y- one in an attendance ol nearly 200,000; Sweden was the first country in which cooking and housekeeping schools were established, snd here these schools show great variety. One of its cookinur schools supports a restaurant of about 100 persons. In Belgium hygiene and the theory of household processes form a part of the course of study in element ary schools. PURELY PERSONAL. he Queen's His'oriographer for Scotland Dies Grand Duke Nicholas' . Wife Born a Serf. Sir Julian Paunceforte is an accom plished musician, and can play anything irom an J,rara harp to an end man s banjo. Mine. Bourinine, whom the Grand Duke Nicholas married at Toula, was born a serf, it is stated, as was her first husband. Charles Astiton. a London Daliceman. has received a prize for $25 ) for an un published bibliography of Welsh litera ture Irom 1801 to 1800. Louis Kossuth has lluisbed his mem oirs, iho manuscript of the closing hapters of the fourth and last volume is with the printer at Pesth. Miss Ada A. Brewster, the California artist, belongs to ttie line of Brewsters who proudly claim kinship with Elder Brewster of Mayflower fame. Lord Tennyson handed a check for $1,000 to Sister Emma Durham, who urseu him through a recent illness, and he has presented the gift to the na tional pension lund for nurses. Henry B. Cleavos, the new Governor of Maine, came out of the war a Lieu tenant, and at once secured work as an ordinary hand in a sash factory, but after a iwo years inai oi ine jod he thought it wasn't a promising one: so he struck out in other lines. The eminent Von Pettenkoffer of Mu nich distinctly disputes Koch's proposi tion that the coma bacillus is the cause of Asiatic cholera. He thinks it is only manifestation of the disease. This should put a period to the coma bacillus' ascendancy for the present. Rey. II. R. llaweis has been per suaded to undertake the preparation of Sir Moreil McKenzie's biography. He invites contributions of letters and anec dotes that will assist in his work. General Booth has 380 men, mostly broken-down drunkards at one time, working on his farm, a few miles out of London, and they are described as a de cent, industrious, useful and enthusiastic lot of people now. Prof. Huxley and Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge are among the prominent Eug liahmen who attended the recent Glouces ter musical festival. The latter gentle man is said to be exceedingly apprecia tive of such performances. i BEYOND THE ROCKIES. Marriages Hut ween Chinese and Europeans in New York. OMAHA TO HAVE ANOTHER BRIDGE, The Ualtlraore and Ohio Railroad WII Control the Ohio and Missis slppl Koad lite. The orange crop of I,eon county. Fla.. is larger than lor many years past. foledo lias a boodle scandal. Its A I dermen have been accepting brills. Owing to the scarcity of hay. Kansas tanners are harvesting their corn fodder. A Chicago man has sued bis doctor for $20,000 for breaking the drum of his ear. Now that the cholera scare is over, the streets of New Y'ork are resuming their lirty state. The Canadian government is to follow our example in making postal card o various sizes. Negroes are turning bandits in Missis sippi. Several murders and one double lynching have occurred. At New York mitrriages between Chin ese laliorers and Europeans of the poorer classes are increasingly irequent. The Baltimore and Ohio party seem to have carried their point, and will gain control ol the Ohio an i Mississippi road Spurious silver dollars are plentiful in some of the Eastern States. They are said to be clever imitations, but light of weight. 1 he net gold fund in the Treas irv is still growing. I wo months ago it amounted to $110,000,000, and now it is $121,010,000. Pittsburg thinks of damming Indian creex lony-mree miles awav to vet a supply of water, if needed, of 150,000,000 gallons a day. While driving a well at Linwood. Mich., "a vein ol soItc;al. two feet thick. and one of bard coal, six and one-half feet thick, were struck." The contractor for the construction of the Canadian Soo canal binds himself to have the canal completed by the open ing of navigation in 1804. I'lie story that the grasshoppers are eating up the early wheat in Kansas has been traced to the State Central Com mittee of the People's party An Omaha sport in red clothes is walking from Omaha to Chicago and re turn, begging his food, and to do it in thirty-seven days for $4,000. It is estimated that the voting lists of Boston will contain at least 80,000 names. n lt-83 the nnin ber ol registered votes at the national election was 72,115. The Daltons were second cousins to the James boys and distantly related to the i oungers, who are now in the Minnesota penitentiary for theNorthfield bank rob bery. Mr. Whitney. President of the West End road of Boston, and a syndicate of apiiaiiats are reported to nave pur- based all the open coal muies of Jiova Scotia. The County Commissioners of Carbon county, Pa., week before last sold 10,000 acres ol unredeemed mountain land. Some of it was sold for less than 3 cents an acre. A Canadian officials lias gone to Hud son's Bay to investigate the truth of the reports that American whalers are smug gling large quantities of goods into that district. The street railway conductors of Cin cinnati who used the old punched tick ets over and over azain and cheated the company out of $100,000 or thereabouts are out of a job. Three big law firms in New York are having a vast amount of real estate busi ness, and are inserting a clause of their mortgages now requiring all luture pay ments to be made in gold. It has been estimated by financiers of experience that not less than $;i00.000,- 000 of American securities held in Europe have been unloaded in this coun try within the last two years. The Interstato Bridge and Street Rail way Company, having a capital of $7.- 500,00, has given out the contracts for a new bridge over the Missouri to connect Omaha, Neb., with Council Bluffs, la. It is stated that the remains of Christo pher Columbus have been offered to the United States as security for a $100,000 loan at 0 per cent, interest. The offer was made by President llenreaux oi San Domingo. The Dubuque (la.) water company wants the city to buy the plant at $355.- 000, alleged price offered by outside cap italists, ine city holds an option to buy it at its appraised value, which will not exceed $200,000. The Indians at Pine Ridtre Asencv are sullen, and communication between the various tribes of a secret and apparently important nature is said to have taken place during the Bummer. They expect the Messiah in 1893. M. J. O'Brien, formerly one of the most prominent citizens of Chattanooga, who is under indictment for the embez zlement of $76,000 from the order of Catholic Knights of America eighteen months ago. has been arrested in Phila delphia. The annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperaae Union will be held at Denver. Col., from Oc tober 28 to November 2 inclnsi-ve. The National Convention consists of 640 dele gates, and usually attracts 0,000 visitors nr;ii! m T . . -. ,i wuuam i. csteau, late ot tjie rail Man Gazelle, and his wife also will come to America to attend the convention. THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Pacific County, Wash., Will Have a l ine Olsplay at thi Approach ing World's Fair. It is ascertained that Germany will be represented by not lens than 280 wine growers at the Clrcago Exposition. Mrs. Dora Wheeler Smith is doing dec orative work on the ceiling and freize of the woman's building at the Chicago World's Fair without charge, which would havecost $11,000 if done by anyone else. A number of the old pioneers of Ben ton county, Or., propose to go to the World's Fair next year overland in prairie schooners with ox teams in the style in which they traveled to the West in theearly days. While there they will lodge in their schooners. Pacific county, Wash., will have a fine display at Chicago, mounted by Profes sor Hudson, including sea lions, seal, sturgeon, salmon, elk, a group of deer, bear and sea birds of all kinds. In the department of natural history Washing ton will te represented with nearly everything fr m a humming bird to the skeleton of a whale. Photographs will show the salmon industry from driving a trap stake to canning the salmon. The ten logs donated by the Puget hound loggers to the Washington World fair Uommission are lair earn pies of the immense logs cut in that State. The logs are 121 feet long and 41 inches squared. One of the logs before being squared was 125 feet lone, and con tained 12,27ft feet. They are the largest logs ever shipped out of the State by rail road. Four Hat cars were required for one log. The end cars are built up so that the middle cars can swing free while rounding curves. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. General Miles Submits His Annual Re port on the Department of the Mississippi. The State Department announces that Secretary of State toster instructed Minister Scrones by cable the 12th in stant that, if the new government of enezuela was fully established in pos session of the power of the nation and accepted by the people, be should make formal recognition of it. Acting Secretary Chandler of the In terior Department has approved the c r cular issued by the acting Commissioner oi the general land omce in accordance with the act of August 4. 1892, authoriz ing the entry of lands, chieiiy valuable lor building stone, under the placer mm ing laws. The feature of this act is that it does not prohibit the entry of stone lands under the settlement laws. Mr. Hunsacker of the Carnagie Steel Company had a conference with Secre tary Tracy the other day relative to the slow delivery ol steel lor the construe tion and armor of war vessels. After the conference Secretary Tracy said that it had resulted satisfactorily to himself. According to the statements made to him the Carnegie Company is in a better condition than he thought. He received the assurance that work would be pushed, and that hereafter all contract requirements would be met. Secretary Tracy has decided to recom mend to Congress an appropriation for an immense government dry dock at San F'rancisco. This important work will cost about $ 10,000. The chief of the bureau of yards and docks has made strong representations to Secretary Tracv of the necessity for a mvprnmsnl dry dock at San Francisco in response to a vigorous appeal from Mare Island offi cials, lbe proposed structure would be of timber and stone and of a size suffi cient to accommodate the largest war ship. General Miles has submitted his an nual report on the department of the Mississippi. He says the inspection re ports show that the troops are in a good state of discipline and efficiency. Gen eral Miles says regarding the dissatisfac tion among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians on account of the deduction of $07,500 for so-called attorneys' fees from money due to Indians in payment for reservations opened to se tlement that he directed an investigation to be made by Captain Lee. Captain Lee in his re port said that the payment of money was tainted with misrepresentation, fraud and deceit, and was an outrage upon the Indians. General Miles earn estly renews the recommendation made in his last annual report of $850,000 for the mobilization of 10,000 regulars and K),000 State troops at the World's Fair. He further urges an appropriation of $1,- 6J0,0U0 for transportation, camp ex penses, equipments and other expenses connected with the proposed encamp ment. The monthly statement of exports of farm products show there was a decided tailing on during September and during the first quarter of the present fiscal year, compared with the same periods of last year. The decrease in exports ex ceeds $14,000,000 for September and $2,- f)00,OOO for the quarter ending Septem ber 31, but by reason of the large exports made last winter and spring the total for breadstuff's last nine months was more than $38,000,000 in excess of the first nine months of 1801. The exports of wheat flour increased during September $7,207,823, against $5,871,808 in 1891. and during the first quarter of the fiscal year $19,154,436 against $14,449,202 in 1891. The exports of corn show a falling off for September of $1,000,079, against $1,846,676 in 1891. The rye exports for the month were only $110,377 in value, whereas a year ago they were $2,9b8,539. The value of the exportB of cattle and hogs from the United States during Sep tember were $2,491,081, and for the first quarter of the present fiscal year $8,532,- 212, an increase lor the month over 1891 of $141,689, and for the quarter, $41,500. The exports of dairy products for Sep tember were sya.zei, a decrease, com pared with the same month of 1891, of $147,380. ' FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS Statistics of Emigration From the Port of Glasgow. COTTON LOOMS IN GHENT STOPPED. The Large Amount of English Capital Invested In the Railways of the Argentine Republic. The barley crop of France is 20,000,0C0 bushels less than last year. The French Free Masons have resolved to take a more energetic part in politics. New docks for the trAnnntln will be shortly started at Stettin, Ger many. The London Police return nhnar a great increase during the last two years in the number of drunken women. It is estimated that $40,000,000 gold of British capital has been invested in the railways of the Argentine Republic. The cross on the top of the Pantheon in Paris, which has been so great an eyesore to the Radicals of that city, is to comedown. A leading Japanese newspaper com plains that the pood manners of the Japanese women have been ruined by the importation of Western civilization. A company with 100,000,000 francs capital is trying to get a license for a gambling establishment at Mondorf, sit uated in the Grand Duchy of Luxem bourg. In Kin-Kiang, China, there is a man who has taken a vow to watch three years by his mother's grave, during which period he will be cared for by neighbors. Considerable interest has been awak ened among the literary circles of Berlin by the sale of an edition de luxe of the complete works of Frederick the Great for 2,000 marks. A remarkable shower of volcano ashes recently occurred in several parts of Fin land. The ground in some places is stated to have been covered to the depth of nearly an inch. A Glasgow paper publishes the statis t csof emigration from that port for 189.', and these show that forty-three started for Australia, 1 ,056 for Canada and 20,637 for the United States. A corner on vaccine was brought about recently in Moscow, and in view of a threatened epidemic of small-pox the price of the viruB was increased some thousand per cent. It is stated that Dr. Pellegrini will suc ceed Senor Plaza as Argentina Repre sentative in London, and will be charged to propose terms for a final arrangement in regard to the debt. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce an nounces that a reduction of seamen's, wages is probable, 10 per cent reduction having been decided upon at Hull. A great deal of trouble is feared. The cigars made in Fance last year realized a total of about $10,480,000. Cigarettes made in France were sold to a total of about $4,029,000, while tobacco for smoking in pipes fetched $34,430,000. An English company is being formed for the acclimatization of elephants in South America. The Valley of the Amazon and its tributaries are thoueht to be very suitable for elephant farming. A statistician of the German govern ment a short time ago investigated the records of the Department of Com pulsory Insurance and according to his investi gation the most unfortunate day is not r riaay, out Monday. The Shanghai correspondent of the London Times cables that Enelish mis sionaries have been mobbed by natives in Kieng Yong. The house of Mr. Phil lips, head of the mission, was destroyed, and he and his wife fled for their lives. The Emperor and E in press of Russia are soon to pay another visit to their in valid son, Prince George, at his moun tain retreat, Abbas-Tuman in the Cau casus. The Prince will continue the heroic treatment for his lungs another year. The British Adm'raltv. wishins to make the display of British warships at Hampton Roads next spring as imposing as possible, has invited Admiral Hos- kins at the conclusion of his furlough to select the vessels which will be available for the occasion. Experiments with different kinds of lights for libraries show that 550 hours of an electric light of 144-candle power produced no yellowing eriect upon the leaves of books, while 240 hours of a fifty-candle gas light produced a notice able change of tone. The new army bill to be submitted to the German Reichstag at its coming ses sion will call tor an outlay of $10,000,000 and a permanent addition to the budget of $29,000,000 a vear. the eovernment contending that the increased military establishment will be absolutely neces sary to make sure of the retention of Alsace and Lorraine. In the recent competition of horses at Rouen, France, for the world's champ ionship leaping sweepstakes an English horse, Las Mania, cleared the bar at a height of seventy-four inches. The highest leap of a French horse. New Moon, was seventy-two inches. One hundred and twenty thousand copies of Zola's "Debacle," have been sold in less than three months. He has received $60,000 for the publication in feuilletons of nineteen volumes, and by their publication in book form he has made about $160,000 more. In twenty years altogether he has made about $260,000. THE HUMORIST IN HULlTICS. A rrofennlonal funny Man I'or a a Candidate for Coroner. The funny man of the Aurora (Ills.) Blade Is a candidate for coroner. And why notr i he author of "Peck's Bad Boy" struck high er and g'M-n into history a Gover nor George W. Peck, of Wiscon sin. John Ross Browne began as shorthand re porter and very serious writer, be came a California humorist by acci dent, aa It were, and was finally appointed ndnia- tertoChina. Emil C- w. PUTNAM. Deitsch, the genial novelist of Chicago, be came famous as a coroner, and Bill Xye vainly endeavors to conceal the fact that he was once a justice of the peace. So there is cause for high hopes of Mr. C. W. Putnam, of the Aurora Blade. He is a Chicago boy and began life as a practical printer, went to Aurora, obtained control of The Blade and soon made it a success and a power. As a solicitor for advertisements and job work he has few equals, but he has the Irregularities of genius. Subscribers never know when The Weekly Blade is to be out, and the printers never know when they are to get the copy. But it is good when they get it. In bis an nouncement of his candidacy Mr. Putnam says: "The report has gone out that we are of a facetious vein, and that we would not sit on a dead body without cracking a joke. This is a malicious story got up by the op posing candidate. It is only upon putting forth the greatest effort that we ate com ical. Melancholy runs in the family and we groan in our sleep. "We merely asked to be elevated to the office on account of our signal fitness for the position. We were on the grand jury last spring, and all were surprised at the evidences we displayed of possessing a judi cial brain. Indeed, we did not before im agine that we had such daisy ideas on the question of justice. . "We also proved to be a regular Hanchett in cross questioning guilty ones, and we exhibited startling detective qualities of the Hawkshaw order. We could stick a pin clear up to the head in the slightest suspicious circumstance." As the county is strongly Republican and he is the regular nominee, Mr. Putnam is sure of election. He has already had some experience as an impromptu speaker and some reputation as an amateur actor, having played Marks, the lawyer, in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The correspondents assure us that he does not look a bit like the typ ical funny writer, but as no one ever saw any one who did, he is not singular in that. The caricatures, especially the pictures of John Phcenix, Artenius Ward and their kind, have given many people an idea that a humorist is to be known at sight. Well, fMr. Putnam is a plain everyday gentle man, and will no doubt make a good cor oner. A Fortune in a Guitar. Violins made at Cremona by the father of the art have been sold in recent years for enormous prices, and a great many which are not genuine have been palmed off on unsuspecting enthusiasts, but it rarely occurs that au old guitar made by nobody knows whom becomes as valuable as a genuine Stradivarius, and yet there is such a case on record. M. Uhlmann, a native of Luxembourg domiciled in Paris, inherited from a deceased uncle a rather dilapidated guitar which has proved to him the source of a small fortune. The uncle was an itinerant singer, and M. Uhl mann, wishing no doubt to keep up the family connection with the fine arts, was in the habit of going around wineshops with his inherited instrument, with which he accompanied himself as he intoned pop ular ditties. One evening a semi-inebriated person, who abhorred music f every kind, snatched the old guitar ot t of its owner's hands and cracked it, on his (the artist's) cranium. M. Uhlmann was assisted by the police in the unequal encounter and the drunkard was carried off to the station house. So, too, was the broken guitar, as a piece de conviction against the unmusical aggressor. A police official, while examining the dam aged instrument, noticed that in its inte rior was a roll of papers. These, being pulled out, were discovered to be stock certificates worth nearly $2,500. The scrip was handed over to M. Uhlmann, as it had belonged to his uncle. The wandering minstrel from Luxembourg was so over joyed at his good fortune that he withdrew the charge of assault against his aggressor, following up his act of magnanimity by inviting the latter to sip refreshments with him at the nearest tavern. A Balloon in a Jail. . In the center of that remarkable county jail in Pittsburg is a dome 111 feet from the floor and inaccessible except by balloon or scaffold. The barred windows around it are now black with accumulated soot and dust and the warden wants one of the prisoners to go up in a balloon and clean them. He figures that a canvas bag ten feet high and about five feet wide would support a man in perfect safety if filled with hot air, and he proposes to keep up the supply of air by building a big fire on the flagstone pavement under the dome. The man will be attached to the balloon seated on a chair and provided with a mop or whitewash brush, as the work to be done may require. The balloon can't get away, and a rope will connect it to the floor so that it can be pulled down at will. It is only, fair to add that the jailer has called for a volunteer, but the prisoners do not appear enthusiastic on the subject. Hears in Maine. Manley Hardy, of Brewer, is at pres ent receiving about twenty-live bear skins a week, which is a good number for this time of the year. He says that with the skins come reports of great havoc being made among the sheep by bruin, but that the bears confine them selves principally to the eastern district, and are scarce and difficult to find in the north and western parts of the state. 5- VanSLr ;''' lii-