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s6i f)fY Hood River 6 lacier, I lib VOL. 1. II(M)I) RIVKIt, OREGON, SATURDAY. DKOKMHER 10, 1812. NO. 28. 1 3fcod Iiver Slacier. ri'llllNIIKIl RV ril Y STI1IWAT MOHNIXfl ST The Glacier Publishing Company. m iim lili'Tlov I'll it: k. Orm vr.r ....t? OA l Mouth I W lti(n lii'intlil fc Mnulv niiy I Cut THE GLACIER Barber Shop Grant Evans, Propr. Srcuml St., niiir Oil It. lloml ItiviT, Or Nlmvliij; ninl lliiir cutting unit ly iluiin. .Sltinf.litillll (olttlUlltued. OCCIDENTAL MELANGE An lixidk'iit Article of Tukuvo Raised in Oregon. NEGROES EMIGRATING TO IDAHO. ritllmln.tiy Surveys fur Storage Reser voirs anil Irilu.illni; Canals on Indian Creek, Idaho. United States troop have been unt lo the Navajo reservation to arrest HlaeK Morse. Tin fourth bin I K raft lif left 1'ort Itrnii.' for Sun Francisco. It contains l.oO.i.iNr") feet of lumber. The Gowrnor of Arizona bus offered n reward of $0,000 for tho death of Kid, the notorious Apiche, ami $:l'JO for each of hit) i'ommnioiiH. A li r- at Flagstaff, A. T., consumed all tin- building i" the Central block and lUilroad avenue except nix, which were brick and withstood tho ll.unes. The lire originated in Knight' fuloon. The court-martial of CapUvin Lambton uml MaH'Coiiiinnuder Bowden of II. M. S. Warspite, jitHt closed at Victoria, It. 0., resulted in tliir being reprimanded for not paying sufficient iittwnlioii to of ficial notes on navigation. The Pacini! Cable lUilwar Company of San Francisco not a verdict Ht Untie, Mont., in the United Kutoa Circuit Court, against the Hutto City Cable C itnpaiiy for infringement of a patent ci'ole-ear brake owned by the plaintiff. The preliminiiry surveys firr the large aloragc reservoirs and irrigation canals to bn constructed on Indian creek, about twenty miles from Koine, are now being made. The three reservoirs to be built will cover 1 ,-00 acres of land each, and about lorty miles of canal will bi) dug. Tlio P.itaha Farmer states that the opal onyx mines near that citv have liecn opened lor a quarter of a mile, and evoral slabs valued at $500 each have been taken out. As soon as a drcesing null is erected the stone will undoubted ly como into general use in fiuo build ings. A man about 40 years of aire com mined suicide at 1is Angeles, lie was v. ell dressed and bin face was pitted with smallpox. He tried to ttffaee all t ruces that could lead to his identity and left a statement of a sensational nature, the truth of which is generally discredited. Colonel A. H. Isham of Sitka, aid on Governor Knapp's stair, who assisted Ivan Petrol! to takethecenBUB of Alaika, believes that Petrol! la thoroughly hon est, b it that subordinate otlieera per mitted the errors through carelessness, lie believes that Petroll'H min i is un balanced. William Smith on a farm noar Mish awaka, Or., baa produced an excellent article of tobacco the leaveH and flavor, when properly cured, being in every way equal t that grown in the Southern Stales. He supplies the home market in the Nehalem Valley, both for chewing and smoking, at a reasonable cost, and says that the soil of Nehalem hsts all the plenum' s necessary for tuo production of the plant. The-Shoshono Falls of the Snake river of Idaho, which have a body of water (K)0 feet wide with a fall of 210 feet, are to be used for deve'oping electric power for irrigating purposes. A large number of water wheels will be put in, and pumping stations operated by electric motor of large capacity will be estab lished at suitable points. By this means the water will be elevated to canals, through which it will bo distributed to lands in the adjacent valleys. An old trapper, who resides in the Blue Mountains and knows every foot of the coun ry between the Union Pacific railroad and Snake river, tells the Milton Ettqle that there is a desperate band of lior'sethieves, robbers and murderers making their rendezvous between the banks of the Umatilla and Walla Walla rivers. There are secluded mountain retreats in that section, where Btock can be successfully hidden until all search on tlie part oi the owners is over. Then the stock is run off and sold. Men who have mysteriously disappeared are be lieved to have discovered the seirets of this outlaw band, and their bones now lie moldering in some isolated canyon. INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES. Women Simessful In thr I'r.tl list.i'e Itiisinrss Hatlirlii Plose utrj ill Indianapolis. Krupp'a Khhch works employ 17,000 people. Two New York female doctors make $100 a year, WaNhington ( I). 0. ) unions kick against prison latar. There are twenty-seven American mer chants in China. (treat Britain and Ireland have about 20,000 miles of railways. Waupun Wis.) convicts make IU0.000 worth of shocH annually. I'.rotherhood of Carpenters' dues amount to f I ,(XH) a year. The mileage of the United States amounts to 171,000 miles. l!rtiHclH kid-glove makers have called an international convention, Palermo, Sicily, has adopted the eight hour day on government work. Ilarbura who work on Sunday are be ing proKccuted by Indianapolis unions. rhiladelphluns are looking to Central America for their future mahogany sup ply. New York city produces 700,0(H),(XX) worth of manufactured articles per an num. New York has several women who are nuking success in the real-extate buai IleHH. Ualncqville, Fla., boast of a fully de veloped ear of corn which contains 7H0 grain". Canada sent 107,00.) head of cattle to flreat lirita n last year, valued at 000,000. The output of the cigar factories at Reading, I'a , so far this year has been over 100,000,000. The seal catch fell off. The seawn of shows a decreane over the previous year of 10,000 ckins. In (Jerinany last year 110 per cent, of the strikes wero successful and 40 per cent, partly successful. Schuyler county, N. Y., will market 100,000 barrels of apples, which will iir.tke the farmers richer by lti),(M'K). KiiHsia is stated to make the best isin glass. It is obtained from the giant stur geon w hich inhabits the Caspian Sea. Cabbage is a scarce and high-priced article in Chicago this season; scarcer and higher in price than for twenty-five years. A mystic band of (ierman Commu nists, who hold all property in common, thrive on 7,000 acres of land they own at oar, . In iHHOw e produced tk),000 tons of pa per; in 1K0 i, l,'JlK),(HiOtons,or ir,l,0tH) tons more than tlie total product of European paper mills. Houghton countv, Mich., contains 3(1, 000 inhabitants. More than two-thirds of the male portion thereof are engaged in copper-mining. The union bakers of Manchester work fifty hours a week, while the unorgan ised tnemU'rs nf the craft of London work eighty hour.-). A colored woman, Mrs. Oeorglana Whetsel of St. John, N. B., controls the ice trade of that city, employing fifty or sixty men and ten horsed. The cultivation of the pineapple in the Bahamas is a very profitable undertak ing. At twopence each an acre of pine apples returns $200 to f-'25. One hundred and nine thousand loco motives are at present running on the earth. Europe has 03,000, America 40, 000, Asia 3,300, Australia 2,000 and Africa 700. It is said that the most precious col lection of (ierman wines in the world is that stored in the cellars of the Grand Duke of Luxemburg. Some of the vint ages date back to 17U1. PURELY PERSONAL. Both the Democratic and the Republicau Candidates for Attorney-General of Montana Beaten. Lord Coleridge has declined an Earl dom, which would remove him from the bench. Mrs. Morton contradicts the rumor that the Vice- 'resident's Washington residence is on the market. "Old Tete" Turney, who has been elected Governor of Tennessee, stands 0 feet 4 inches in his stockings. Thomas A. Edison, who sleeps but few houre himself, says that the man of the future may do without sleep entirely. Rev. Walter S. Rudolph, pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Denver, lias severed his church relations because lie cannot consistently preach the doctrine of endless punishment. Solicitor Hepburn of the Treasury De partment has returned from Iowa He will retain his pesent place until March 4, when he will step into Congress, hav ing in the recent election been chosen a Representative from the Eighth Iowa District. There is scarcely another woman in America who has been so long before the public and who is so little known as Mrs. Lucy Stone, the champion of equality for women. She is now 80 years of age, and is younger in appearance than many women of (5 ). Knutfl Nelson, the Governor-elect of Minnesota, was born in Norway, and was 6 years old when he came to this coun try. But he is a thorough American in his ideas. Mr. NelBon made seventy speeches in his own State during the re cent campaign. James Stephens, f ie former Fenian head-center, is at present living with his wife in a cottage at a seaside resort near Dublin, which, with a small in come, was presented to him about a year ago by his friends and admirers. He is now 08 years of age. )1 i An Investigation of the Machinery of the Miantonomah. AGGREGATE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. All the Cotton Manufacturers of Rhode Island Riisethe Wages of Mill Hands Etc The new government of Kansas may make war on freight rates. In Kansas they art using the empty jails for the storing of surplus wheat. Whittling contests have been inaugu rated at church festivals in Sedalia, bio. On March 4, 18t3, twenty-five seats in the United States Senate become vacant. The Democrats will have a majority of ninety in the next 11 juseof Representa tives. Tammany is already making prepara tions to attend Cleveland's inauguration in large numbers. The strike at Homestead, Penn., has b-en duclured off by the leaders of the Amalgamated Association. Several Pennsylvania manufacturing eitahliHhmeuts have closed down on ac count of the scarcity of water. The men who are taken back at the Carnegie works are confronted with a heavy reduction in their wages. The division of Kansas into two States is oeing agitated with more or less ve hemence by the newspapers of that State. Judge King at San Antonio, Texas, has decided the Aranias Pass road must pay its debts, and the receivers were dis charged. The City Council of Columbia, Mo., has granted a twenty-year electric light and water works franchise to a St. Louis company. The first estimate of the amount lost by Chicago through the irregularities in the water office is $!00,000 for the year 1SII2 alone. Secretary Foster of the Treasury does not think that a new issue of bonds to meet the financial complications will be authorized. The aggregate of the public debt of the United Statt s, including certificates ami Treasury notes, was, f 1,604,337 ,010 on October 31. An appeal for aid has been issued by the United Hebrew Charities. The sum of tsi,000 is needed for the year ending with next October. During the ten months ended with Oc tober the gross earnings of 120 railroads in the Unites States were 422,812,810, an increase of 23,822,415. In 18DJ the production of wool in the United States amounted to 205,000,000 pounds, and the imports of wool for the eame year reached 105,431,281 pounds. An investigation of the Miantonoinah's machinery develops the fact that much faulty material is in the heavier parts and a collapse may occur at any time. Lieutenant Peary has obtained three years' leave of absence, and will attempt a journey to Greenland and over the frozen Polar Sea with but one compan ion. A conspiracy to cheat the city of Phila delphia by the use of bogus coke checks at the Ninth Ward gas works has been unearthed and six people are under ar rest. All the cotton manufacturers in Rhode Island are increasing the wages of the mill hands. Tne latest is the Manville Company of Providence, which employs 1,500 hands. President Harrison does not propose to go into retirement, but he will, bo long as his present vigorous health con tinues, labor in his beloved profession of the law. Concrete as a substitute for piling in foundations has proved disastrous in New Orleans, La. The new St. Paul's Church, on which it was tried, is sink ing and is being torn down. Plans of construction of New York city 'b proposed fOD.OOO.OOO four track underground electric railway have been adopted. The route is to be fifteen miles long. Fare is to be 5 cents for each passenger. The tunnel at Niagara Falls is finished, and the falls are to be harnessed by nexc March. Forty-five thousand horse power of electric current will be trans mitted from there to Buffalo and 30,0. 0 to other points. A gas well near Montpelier, Ind., which for some time past has been sup plying that community, suddenly began blowing oil, which percolated through the pipes and made its appearance in the houses of patrons. The Illinois Steel Company's immense plant at South Chicago, employing 5,000 bauds, is expected to shut down on December 15 for two or three months. Uncertainty as to the possible changes in the tariff' is said to be the primary cause. Owing to the almost total failure of the crop West, cabbage is higher and scarcer in Chicago than it has been for twenty-five years. Dealers predict that there will be a rise of 500 per cent, in the price of the vegetable. Joseph L. Montieu, coin clerk in the United States Sub-Treasury at New Or leans, has been arrested, having been discovered in petty pecula tions. lie was in the habit of taking $1 from each $1,000 package of silver tied up by him. Sinclair, cashier of the Armour Pact: ing Company at New York, has been missing since last week. It is estimated that the company's losses will be not less than $50,000, while some believe the amount will run up to $80,000 or $85,000. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Philadelphia Chinese Propose to Defeat the Geary Law by Means of Fictitious Photographs. Senator Dolph has filed with the War Department a letter in relation to the appointment of a board to examine ami report a site for a gun factory on the Pa ciflc Coast. He requests that care be taken in the selection of the officers, that they may not be prejudiced in favor of one sight as againut another. This precation, he says, is particularly neces sary, because some olllcers have privately expressed their belief that i'eniciais the proper location. More than usual interest attaches to the forthcoming annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions, The Pta'e rnent has been made that the amount reunired for pensions the next fiscal year will nearly reach the enormous cum of $200,000,000. The work of compiling figures is, however, sufficiently aivanced to show this estimate is in excess of the actual requ'rements. It is now thought Congress will be asked to make an ap propriation of about $180,000,000 for the wining flccal year, about $H,000,000 of which is in anticipation of an increase of that amount over the actual expendi tures of last year. It is the judgment of General Kaum that, while this amount is likely to be increased the next year or two, yet he feels confident the maximum limit has already been reached. President Harrison in bis message, to Congress will not turn his back upon the present Republican tariff law. On the contrary, he will give it an earnest indorsement. The President said he did not blame the McKinley tariff law for the recent defeat at the polls, and after having given it his indorsement prior to a test of Republican principles at the polls he was not inclined to repudiate it In the hour of adversity. The President believes that the Republican principles of protection will live longer and stand the various tests of time with better suc cess than will the present Democratic supremacy. There Las been consider able curiosity expressed in certain quarters as to what the President would say in his message to Congress, which he is now completing, in reference to the tariff law. as many Republicans are in clined to hold it almost whollv responsi ble for the recent defeat. There need he no doubt in that direction. President Harrison believes in protection of the character now afforded by the Repub lican party. Word has reached Washington from Philadelphia that the Chinese in that city propose to try to defeat the Geary law by means of fictitious photographs, the same as at Baltimore. It is believed in Philadelphia and Baltimore that a scheme is now on foot among the Chi nese all over the country to defeat the purposes of the Chinese exclusion act. The promoter of it is the Hip Sin Tong, a powerful fraternal society, which has six branches Junk, Lee, Chang, Shu, Young and Mock embracingevery State in the Union. The Hip Sin Tong is hav ing photographs turned out by the thou sands to Bupply any Chinaman who may need one. The colony in Washington has been notified that a batch of pict ures would be sent to them in a few days, from which they can select as many as they wish and return the balance. Pho tographs are being sentall overthecoun try, and in a few weeks each colony will have enough on tan to meet any demand that might be made upon them. It is reported that the Chinese are trying to secure the services of Robert G. Inger soll and General B. F. Butler to teat the constitutionality of the Geary law. THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Mayor Washburne Taking Active Steps for the Opening of tlie World's Fair on Sunday. For the Idaho World's Fair building in a block of stone 10x6 feet will be carved the coat of arms of the State ot Idaho and in other blocks the name of the State. Vermont will send to the World's Fair an odd exhibit in the shape of the skel eton of an enormous whale, which was found several vears ago near Lake Cham plain, ninety feet above the sea level. The first exhibit at the World's Fair grounds is an immense redwood tree, which was cut by the Tingo River Lum ber Company near San Gabriel, Fresno county, Cal. The sections are being placed in order in the government build ing. A conference of the newspaper pub lishers of Chicago and the Hon. J. W. Robinson, Chief of the machinery de partment of the World's Fair, was held at the Herald building the other day, with James W. Scott presiding. The object was to consider plans for the pub lication of a morning and afternoon paper in the machinery hall during the world's Fair, in order to afford the gen eral public an opportunity of observing tne many processes incident to tne pro duction of a daily paper. The meeting, which was of a harmonious character, had reference to the particular presses that should be used and their location. Mayor Washburne of Chicago is tak ing active steps for the opening of the World's F"air on Sunday. The Mayor sent a message to the Council declaring the people to be most benefited by the fair are those who are unable to enjoy the luxury of travel and those who lit erally earn their bread by the sweat of their brow?. Sunday closing would de prive these people of their chief oppor tunity to see the fair. Furthermore, Chicago must next year extend hospi tality to thousands of foreigners, and on this account alone it would be admissible to open the fair Sundays. The Mayor stated that the great majority of the peo ple are in f wor of an open Sunday, and asked the Council to prepare an official address to Congress on the subject. The suggestion was heartily indorsed, and the committee appointed. FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS Urge Ijegacy for the Benefit of British Workingmen. GERMAN KAISER MAKES A PRESENT. The Centrists Will Probably Defeat the New German Army Bill The Poet Laureateshlp. China will have no vessel in the grer.t naval review next spring. Tennyson makes the list of burials in Westminster Abbey 1,173. The Theosophical Society is to send propagandists all over the world. The Egyptian is taxed 59 cents on the palm tree that grows in his garden. Lord Rosebery's reported engagement to the Prince of Wales' daughter is de nied. Edwin Arnold appears at present to be the most likely candidate for the laure- Bteahip. Glasgow is alxnit to try tlie experiment of working as well as owning its tram way lines. The pilgrimages to Rome on the oc casion of Pope's Jubilee will begin at the end of January. The report that the situation in Samoa is unsatisfactory to the German Foreign Office is confirmed. The government of Austria has re solved to take control of the telephone lines in the kingdom. The London Financial Xeut says that $i5J,000,000 will be left in America as the harvest of the fair. Du ring the oming vear France will spend $1,900,000 for arms and ammuni tion lor ine cavairy aione. The Xuureau Temp, the leading news paper of St. Petersburg, will probably establish a Paris edition. A freight car thirty-sir feet long has been built of steel in Manchester for the Mexican Railway Company, About 250,000 Jews have left Russia within the past two years, and are pro hibited from returning there. The Turkish government has issed an edict prohibiting army officers below the rank of Major from having more than one wife. It is stated that Sir William Harcourt has promised to favorably coneider the proposed coinage of silver try the colony of Victoria. Emperor William and the King of Saxony, it is said, have quarreled be cause the former insisted upon prosecut ing Bismarck. Sir Charles Tupper's negotiations in Paris for the conclusion of a commercial treaty between France and Canada are making favorable progress. An elaborate plot to start a revolution in Chili has been nnearthed at Valpa raiso. It originated, it is stated, with sympathizers with Balmaceda. During the month of October the out put of the ship yards on the Clyde was fourteen steamers, aggregating 12,804 toiiB and two sailing vessels, 2,330 tons. Austria's new rifle fires 120 rounds a minute, and is sighted at 2,700 yards. Though it pours ou' a hailstorm of bul leti, it does not become too hot to handle. Switzerland has 101 telephone ex changes, 12,595 stations, 3,225 miles of lines, and limits each subscriber to 800 conversations in the couree of the year. Prince Bismarck has suddenly changed from a pessimist to an optimist. He ex presses a belief that war cannot possibly break out for the next two or three years. The Centrists of Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemburg are almost unanimous against the new German army hill. This is believed to partend the defeat of the measure. - The Postmaster-General of Norway has ordered that January 1, 1893, the bicycle shall be need by all country postmen for the delivery of mails where the roads will permit. Dr. Hansen, the Norwegian explorer, will start for the North Pole next June, going by way of Nova Zembla. He will try to find the Arctic current, and may be gone five years. The German Kaiser has presented 50,000 marks to the Society for the Pro motion of Aerial Navigation for the con struction of a colossal balloon, which will ba fifty-six feet in diameter and be tall as a four-storu I house. The late Thomaselson, the publisher of Edinburgh, lef 3 0,000 in legacies for the erection ano quippment of five workingmen's cluba ftd reading-rooms, which will be erec '.i gradually, and will be bo fitted np as to attract working men. The money voted by the British naval defense act is exhausted. The new regime favor the building of ships of a lesser tonnage than heretofore, and pro pose that the tonnage of the future war ship shall be reduced from 14,000 to 10, 000 tons. . Some French capitalists are engaged in an attempt to form a new company, with a capital of $36,000,000, to take the assets of the old Panama Company and continue the work. The English Registrar in Bankruptcy is now inquiring how it is possible that Mrs. Parnell could have disposed of 10.),000 received under the will of her late aunt only a year ago. The Keicht Anzkaer of Berlin pub lishes a Ministerial circular prohibiting the circulation in Germany for two years of the Autonomie, a German Anarchist paper published in London. JOY FOR BALD HEADS. An Invention That I'rmnUr. to Maka Ufa Worth Living lor Many, The wind has long been temjred to the shorn lamb, but tho baldhead him had to take the blasts as they carae. No ' hpecial dispeiwations in the matter of . weather have been made on his account. He ban had to look out for himself, and the fact that he survives so iinrnerously is perhaps tatter evidence of his hustling ability than of his innate goodness. Why, no one appears able to tell, but certain it w that from time immemorial there has been none to do the balrthead everence. It will be remembered that when the original baldhead was making his way toward Bethel the children by the way side requested him to "go up." This expression has no place in modern slang, but compliance with the order doubtless involved a journey to sections not down on our list of desirable habitations. Be that as it may, the fact remains that the caput destitue of hairy adornment has all along been the butt for universal ridicule. But it is a long lane which has no turning, and the baldhead's turn has come at last. Some enterprising philan thropist has invented a polish for the hairless crown which is warranted to turn it into a thing of beauty and joy forever. This blessing comes in the shape of polish, which is easily ap plied by a barber and imparts to the al ready shining cjown a shine so brilliant that it dazzles the eyes and so smooth that upon it no fly can gain a foothold. Those who have never experienced the joys and sorrows of baldness may not be able to appreciate the value of this discovery. The value is there just the same. With a little care the polish can be made windtight and mosquito proof, and the baklheaded man will no longer fall an easy prey to the influenza laden lireezes. while he can lie down to dreams unbroken by the assaults of winged tiling-. Surely the baldhead millennium is at hand. The direct moral ! '.- " .': ;uef this dis covery cannot be. overrated.. With his' sparsely thatched crown protected from the attacks Of envious Cascas the bald head will recover from his tendency to ward the use of unauthorized expletives, and he may even rise to the point of taking a front seat in the sanctuary in fly time. Relieved of the necessity for turning his skull into a block upon which to butcher the musca doinestica, etc., he will be able to turn his" whole thought to the sermon, thus setting a worthy example to the congregation , while absorbing truths of which he has long stood in need. If there , is justice , in all things, the : man who makes two blades of grass grow where one has grown before will have to take a back seat when the in ventor of the polish for baldheads comes in for his reward. Verily, these be glorious times, and the baldhead is one of the chief partici pators in them. Troy Times. Who Will Bo the Next. Pope? . It is stated that the French and Span ish cardinals are concerting for the nom ination of Cardinal Ziliara as tha suc cessor to L'.-o XIII. The general feeling is that at the next conclave the election of a fot ivipi pope is impracticable, the only available non-Italian members of the Sacred College being the Swiss Car dinal Mermillod, and the American Car dinal Gibbons. It is not likely, how ever, that either of these will emerge as the successor of Leo XIII. The nomination of Cardinal Zigliara, who is a Dominican monk, is not alto gether unlikely. He is a native of Cor sica, bur, strange to say, he took out let ters of naturalization as a subject of the ex-Pontifical states. He is a man of great learning and quite outside all po litical questions. I have reason to be lieve that if the pope died to-morrow Cardinal Zigliara would be sure of near ly forty votes. His only opponents would be the Jesuits, whose nominee is Cardi nal Monaco la Valetta. Paris Cor. Lou don Chronicle. Boston Wants to Come Nearer. It is gratifying to observe that the business men of Boston are disposed to make an active effort to s?cure quicker time by rail between this city and New York. The members of tlie Executive Business association have discussed the question, and have come to the very sen sible conclusion that the public interests of the city demand a better service, and that such a service can be secured "without prejudice to the interests of the railroads connecting the two cities." No one who has studied the conditions involved, and who knows of how much the modem railway is capable, will doubt this. A new line would probably not be a profitable enterprise, but it is within the power of the existing lines to reduce tho time of the jotirney by express trains from six hours to five, and there is no sufficient reason for delaying to do so; Boston Post .; ::" Infection Started "by Birds. . rots from Brazil to dispose-of in Fa-risi'vAn'' epidemic broke out among (lie birds, from 7 : - f ' :- ifc. which all but two died. The contagion .-r ; ! - ,;;" then spread to the persons 'who kept them, 'i and several have succumbed to the infec- ' ' I tious pneumonia. Foolish Extravagance. Mr. De Style My dear, I have en gaged a box at the opera to-night. Mrs, De Style The idea! You know Fm so hoarse that I can't speak above a whisper. New York Weekly. Jl CD :. ... r- Ik . J at