The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, July 29, 1893, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMl A. m iver Glacier. me vol. HOOD RI VISR, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1893. NO. 9. Hood Sfccd liver Slacicr. IM'III.UllKli KVKIIT HATt'llllAT MORNING RT Tlio Glacier Publishing Company. fcl lls( Itll'TION I'HK'K. Onn vrnr , , J 00 hi nioiillxi , 1 W 1 llli'li MlUllttll frl) 'l'.r . ...I C.nU THE GLACIER Jar ) Grant Evans, Propr. Si-coinl St., innr Oak. Hood Kirnr, Or. Moving nil. I llaii cutting neatly iliino, Siilihfai'tioii (iiiuiuntved. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Tin- Nevada State Hoard of Pardons has nfii-rd to giant liny of tho many applications in -i iilcc to it. . 'I'l ft tll'ClMtlld 111 I CS of 1.1 IK 1 llUVI I H -11 1 1 1 1 ) .1 -1 ' 1 lll'Ollt tl'll lllill'M Cllst of lilV" clide, ( ill., which Will In' 1 1 1 1 1 llllilcr wait r mid sold or settlement. There In good money ill tubai't o-gloW - in;,: iii W ii-liini.Moii according to T. I". I'it! I f Mi Millm. Mr. 1'u Hon Iiiih tin t i1 iii-tcM of tobacco (his yi-iir, ID, INK) plants to tin' acre. A woo'li ii ware manufacturing com pany of M ii Iiimm is guaranteed t,(u' Imui'Is iii J . 1 1 i anil iiioiiry if it will -ii rt u mauuf.ictoi v in Wliutroiii, Wall., itml employ 100 men. Tin- owners of tin' Fast Wellington (II. C.) collieries have telegraphed tlicir unwillingness to agree to terms with tlii'ir employes oh tin' compromise offer ed 1 1 v tin- latter ; so tlie mines lmvi' shut low II. The capture of a Woman named Mr I '.iggi'tt nt Uoiiner's Ferry, Idaho, who 1 1 - 1 1 u' i ' c 1 1 1 ill smuggling oi ii in from 1'iiiti-h Columbia, in reported. It was fouii'l in In r liritli, ami mnounti'il in all to m I y i aiiu. Schult:, tin' s lf-colife-scd shooter of George A In aiiasin, a wayside saloon keeper in iir Morkton, was confronted liv Iii- lull' t iniiloyrr, l. W, McCurty, w lio ii"-t rilu'il him as being mi easy liar who likes to pose as a lifro. A ili'rk liaml on the Australian (trainer Wanimoo at Vancouver, I!. C, was I i t by a tarantiilii on the breast. Tin ioiMinoiis insert lroiel from a hale of bananas into hiH open shirt bosom. A surgeon eut the llesh out all around the hile. Mariano irarnian, alias liartolo Gar cia, w as arrested at Tuseon, A. T., mill chained with the inuriler of l'eilro Lopez in Ties Pinos, San Itenito roiinty, t'ul., on September "0,18711. For over twelve years (iearinan lias liveil in 'I'umoii and vieinity, working in thu mines ainl freighting. He has lieen know n as Bartola (iareiii, mul bore the reputation of a peaeeahle ami indus trioiisinmi ami eared well for his w ife ami little daughter. Judge Bellinger in the Tinted States District Court at Portland refuses, to issue writs of luiheivs corpus in Chinese eases until the customs officers have deeided on their righto to enter the country, lie added: "The govern ineiit lias appointed (imililied officers to take rare ol Chinamen, and it is not presumed the courts aro to take the matter out of their hands. Chinamen are not imprisoned in the usual sense of the word. Thev voluntarily plueed themselves in this position mid knew perfectly well they would ho subject to examination on reaching United States ports." Those who tiro skeptical ns to the worth of Oregon's exhibit at the World's Fair w ill lind in the following clippings abundant evidence that her high uit and line woods, aro attracting no small amount of favorable comment: Chicago Evening Journal: "A ropre Hentative collection of fruits from the growers, of Oregon in arranged on the east nidi! of t lio north hall in a glittering array of glass, jura. Oregon prides herself on her prunes. Her soil produces, with utmost iin Ixpartialiiy Italian, (iennan, French, Hungarian and her own '(silver pruned.' When it comes, to a matter of nie the State is also well to the fore. There is a petir in her exhibit which ineasuivH 1) inches and weighs pounds; a 'Gloria Mundi' apple weighing 2 pounds, a cherry H'.i inches in diameter, and pearlies " 1 7 .j inches in circumference." Chicago Tribune: "In the horticul tural building, Oregon, w hich was the first State in complete readiness and w hich opened May 1, makes an exhibit which should be seen hy all. It. is a wonderful story of the resources of that Stale.- Its plan of display is remark ably artistic, and shows its many varie ties of fruits in jar and on plate to great advantage, in all there aro 400 plates of apples that make the mouth water and 10 immense jars of fruit in solu tion. There are monster pears, ouinces, plums, peaches, apricots, cherries and grapes, any one ot which, except the two latter, would do for dessert for a niediuin-sized family. There aro )( cases of prunes, sun-dried apples, pears, plums, pi nches and other fruits. Chi cago 1 nter-Ocean : Sections of horti cultural hall contain fruits and vines, or more properly speaking, tho displays of the bureau "of viticulture anil po mology. Of. tho latter Oregon, Cali forniai Utah and Nova Scotia have ex ceedingly flue exhibits ready for inspection. bcr bhoi IIUSINKSS HRKVlilUN. Florida's orange crop--ft,()00,(Xi0 boxen. Hpunisli laborers average 10 cents u day. Itat-catching Is a paying lmdoii occu pation. Scotland iihi'h American spinning wheels. The principal food export of Sweden Is butter. World's minimi collee coiiHtimpl ion (150,1X10 tons. Over 2, (MM) printers are employed hy one concern in Paris. Illack tea and green tea are the prod uct of the same plant. There are nearly 1,700,000 seamen em ployed on the higli si'HH. Hartford (Conn.) electric linemen use bicycles on their rounds. Mini v large bells are now being made of steel instead of hell metal. Paper-making ruuks lifth among the industries of the United Slates. Russia has the greatest iimoimt of live stock of any country in Furope. The aluminium buggy, pneumatic tired, is the latest record breaker. Some rich men sleep well on silver plated bedsteads costing 4500 each. One-fourth of the world's silver is sup plied by the mines of this country. It is said that I'.T.O'MI working women in New York support their liii.baiids. (ileal P.ritain has but one medical journal, w bile this country has over 200. Over 10, (KM person -i are emploved hv Ihe telephone companies of Ihi- country. There are nearly (100 laundries in Phil adelphia, 1157 being operated by ( 'hinese. Canes, particularly of ihe higher class. are chiefly made in the Fast lind, In don. Thu value of farming lan U in this country is said to he greatest in New Jersey. Two-thirds of the gold now in use in the world was discovered during tin; last fifty veins. 1TRKI.Y PERSONAL. William Ueharity, Mavor of F.lwood, I m 1 . , is only 22 years old and probably the youngest Mayor in the country. The wife of Parke Godwin of New York, w ho died recently, was the eldest daughter of the poet, William Cullen Hryant. She leaves four children two sous, Harold and i'ryaut, and two daughters. James Pavn, the I'.nglish novelist, writes: " W hich of all the heroines of fiction, if oii had your choice, would you iirefer to take to dinner'."' For him self he thinks that IVcky Sharp would be his choice. Thurlow Weed's granddaughter, Miss Catherine Weed liurns, the best-known woman amateur photographer in this country, w ill wed Harry Snowden Ward, editor of the Ixmdon Practical Photog rapher, and live in that city. No woman (cars a mouse more than Iinl Roberts, whom Oucen Victoria re cently decorated, dislikes a cat. His J nervous sensibilities are such that he can detect a cat's presence when unable to see it, and he is ill at ease until the animal is removed. Mrs. Lewis Rico of Frederick, Md., has collected enough money to place a more imposing monument upon the grave of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Simngled llanner," than the Hat marble stub w hich now marks it in Mount Olivet cemetery, Georgetown. Mjss Mary Mann Page Newton, daugh ter of Rev. Ir. John R. New ton of Rich mond, Va.,is being much complimented for a paper upon "Colonial Virginia and Its Part in Molding American Civiliza tion," w hich by request she prepared to read before tlie Historical Congress of tho World's Fair. A Spanish Jenkins declares that the Queen Regent of Spain is so fast a swim mer that she often distances the rowboat which accompanies her when she goes into the surf at San Sebastian. If this is true, her Majesty is certainlv a re markable swimmer, or perhaps the men in the boat are excessively bad oarsmen. Attorney-General Olney, who was at first supposed to be frozen up in a crust of Massachusetts dignity six inches thick, turns out to be a very genial gen tleman. He attends all the baseball games in Washington, and whoops and yells for the home team as vigorously as "the humblest'occupant of tho " bleach ers." When President Dwight of Yale eon ducts services in the college chapel he usually prefaces his prayer by saying: " Let us unite in prayer." At the close of the last term, however, he rose in his dignified manner and observed. " Gen tlemen, this is tne last time wo shall meet for devotional exercises. Let us therefore unite in prayer and thanksgiv ing." Tho Yale men are wondering if he really meant it. A successor to Father Dam ion has arisen in tho person of Pere Sauton, a Renedictino monk, w ho has been com missioned by tho French government to study up as to leprosy. Ho will visit leprous districts in .Norway, Lapland, Finland, Turkey, Greece and Egypt, aft erward returning to Franco to report the results of his investigations to M. Pas teur. Subsequently he is to set out for Molokai in tho Sandwich Islands, where lie will remain for a time. The originator of tho Concord grape is still living in Concord, Mass. Ho is Fphraim W. Bull, now 87 years old and one of tho prominent men of the his toric town. He was a friend of F'merson and Aleott, and has been greatly hon ored by distinguished visitors to Concord and by horticulturists at homo and abroad. In his garden in Concord he still shows tho old mother vine of the Concord grape, which he developed from the seeds of a native wild grape planted just fifty years ago. EASTERN MELANGE. Kissiii"; Debarred in the I'ltrks of Baltimore, Md. SOITH CAROLINA liONDS SOLI). The Assessed Valuation of Property In New York City Mr. Rod ney Ahead of Time. The big Catholic Congress will as semble at Chicago September 4. There are 7.K 1 7, -l.'il.O'.i in the Penn sylvania State Treasury. Five women were qualified as notaries public iii Philadelphia last week. New York city has spent $12,000 in entertaining the Infanta Fuhilia. The Treasury Ocpartuient has decided that tlx; tomato is a vegetable and not a fruit. Kentucky fanners are talking alsmt feeding wheat to lion's because of the low price. The assesed valuation of property in New York city is approaching the $2,000, 000,000 mark. Oklahoma has quarantined agaitist Texas cattle, owing to Texas fever among t he herds. Many Fastern towns are now making use of the electric cars for keeping the streets sprinkled. The (i rand Armv people of St. Louis propose to raise a fund for a monument to Oeneral Sherman. The silver bought by the government under the Sherman law is worth 55,- 000,000 less than was paid for it. Hinckley, the crop expert of the St. Paul road, says the spring wheat crop will be the poorest in twelve years. It is said that neither Cleveland nor Hill will take any especial interest in the campaign in New York this year. The now vacant position of Chaplain of the House is going a-ls-gging, hut one candidate having appeared so far. A decision of a P.altiinore Judge that "no kissing" he allowed in the parks of that city has been sustained by a higher court. The syndicate which bought South Carolina's Isuuls has completed the !li,2.ro,000 payment, and the State feels richer. The ravages of the chinch bug in Kan sas this year have aroused the fanners to a more general trial of the infection remedy. The Mexico Land and Improvement Company of Kansas City will experi ment with coll'ee-raising on a large scale in Mexico. Mrs. Rodney, who is walking from Galveston to Chicago on a $2,0lR) wager, is ahead of time. She sells her photo graphs en route. A physician in Brewsters, N. Y., has invented an electric disinfectant that promises to be of great importance in killing disease germs. Jerry Simpson denies that a deal has been made by which he is to run for Governor of Kansas and Governor Lewelling is to become Senator. Of tho thirty-four counties of South Carolina only seven have complied with the regulations of the new liquor law of the State, w hich went into effect July 1. Successful experiments have been made in several States in stimulating the growth of such plants as wheat, corn and tobacco by means of electric currents. Panama has had a water famine. The aguadores, or water carriers, were compelled to pay about 20 cents each to have their pi poles, or barrels, washed and disinfected. It is estimated that there are 60,000 men idle in Pittsburg and its immediate vicinity, awaiting agreements as to a new scale of wages for the coming year in tho iron mills. The New York Central will furnish transportation and sleeping-car privi leges to all its employes who wish to visit the fair. Fach employe can take one member of his family. A Harvard law student, who acted as his own attorney in the case against him, was sentenced to five days in the Boston House of Correction for causing a disturbance in a horse car. In New York the Health Board has appointed what is designated a "sum mer corps of physicians," lifty in num ber, whose duty it is to visit tenement houses during July and August and give medical attention to sick children and poor people who are unable to pay for it. A significant feature of tho Treasury statement is not a cent of the receipts for last June were paid in gold certifi cates, and the May statement was little better in this respect. In June of 1892 8 per cent of tho receipts were paid in gold certificates and 2 per cent in gold coin. At a recent auction sale of the per sonal property of the late Governor Samuel W. I ale, of New Hampshire shares of mining, electric and other stocks having a par value of $2,700,000 and promissory notes of a face value of 57,000 were sold to the highest bidder for less than $7. With a view to encourage immigration into tho Canadian Northwest from the Western States tho Canadian govern ment has decided to abolish the customs regulations which now provide that in coming settlers must own their stock and certain other effects one year before leaving the United States. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. The appraisement of lots and parcels of land in the townsite of Port Angeles, Wash., by tins commission appointed by Secretary Noble lias been approved by the Interior Hepartinent. 'J ho commis sion of the general land office is now preparing instructions to tin; proper Reg ister ami Receiver for the sale of said lots and parcels of land. The settlers under the law are entitled to purchase at the appraised value the town lot on which they live and any other on which they may have made valuable improve ments. 'J'he remaining lands are to be sold to the highest bidder alove the ap praised value. The whole townsite ag gregates about .'i,000 acres. The pension bureau has notified a great many pensioners throughout the entire country, who are drawing pen sions under the ad of June 27, 1800, known as the independent pensions act, that payment of their pensions will be suspended for sixty days, during which time they arts required to show cause why they should continue to draw pen sions, this action is pursuant to the re cent ruling of Secretary Smith that a pensioner under the art of June 27, 1HIH), drawing a pension for total disability, must be shown to bo physically incapa ble of manual labor. It is estimated at the pension ollice, although the work ha-i recently begun, that something over 1,000 suspensions have already been made. Fn listed men in the navy will now have the privilege of purchasing their discharge. Secretary llcrliert has issued an order establishing rules and regula tions for tin purchase of discharges au thorized by tlie last naval appropriation bill. No man is to be allowed to pur chase his discharge while in debt to the government, nor until he has served three months. The price of discharge during the fourth month of enlistment wiil lie 25 per cent of the yearly pay of the applicant; during the 'fifth" month lio per cent, and so on, increasing 5 per rent per month until the fourteenth month, when the maximum price is reached. I Miring the fifteenth month the price will be 05 per cent of the max imum price; in the sixteenth month !J percent, and so on, decreasing 5 per cent per month until the thirty-fourth month, w hen the applicant may apply for his discharge without payment. No man is allow ed to purenasc his discharge a sec ond time, and those procuring discharges hv purchase lorteit all benefits due to continuous service or honorable dis charge. A discharge by purchase is not an inherent right, but a privilege which may be granted by the Navy Department. The atmosphere alxnit the weather bureau has cleared otF very perceptibly since the recent investigation, and affairs are running along very smoothly, with very little probability of any further changes being made in the near future in the bureau. Secretary Morton said that he wished to make it popular; in short, he will insist upon a useful fore casting, so the farmer, miner, shipper and commercial man can derive from it the greatest possible good. In addition to cutting off a number of what he calls "useless scientists" Secretary Morton proposes to save money in the matter of telegraph tolls. He also decided to dis continue the river and Hood-room work and at an early date place the river fore cast in charge of observers located on the principal rivers. As a result Carl Barns, F. II. Bigelow and Thomas E. Russell, professors of meteorology, will be tlropped from the rolls this month along with a number of clerks and other employes. In his forthcoming report Secretary Morton will make two impor tant recommendations. One relates to the indiscriminate distribution of garden seed, and the other to the duplication of experiments by stations, now being done by the department. CHICAGO EXPOSITION. September 30 lias been decided upon as Ireland's day. The feature of the Literary Congress was a paper by Charles Dudley Warner on the tunction ot literary criticism in the United States. I It has been decided by the council of I administration to maintain the depart ment of promotion and publicity until . the close of the fair, with Major Moses i'. Jianuy as eniei. Chief Allison of the manufactures building of the World's F'air expelled R. II. Ingersoll & Bro., a New York novelty firm, for persistently violating the rules against selling goods. Auditor Ackerman of the AVorld's Fair has presented the financial state ment of the exposition to the directors covering the period up to June 30. A note accompanying the statement says the receipts since July 1 were over $1,000,000, and a large " reduction was made in the floating debt , since that date. According to the statement the total gate receipts were !f2,12l,3(!0, and the total expenditures ff20,U10,lt0. The operating expenses for May were $60!), 883, and the receipts $719,402. During June the estimated receipts were $1,600, 820, and tho expenses $642,921, leaving a balance for the two months of $1,127, 417. Oregon is one of the States that will receive daily shipments of ripe fruit and fresh vegetables in season to renew her exhibits fit the World's Fair. She is now receiving cherries and strawberries, and the shipments have all come through in line condition, establishing the truth of the statement that Oregon fruits are good shippers. In that State's exhibit in the fisheries building one of the most attractive displays of the whole fair has been lioldin; the crowds about the Ore gon booth during the past few days. This consisted of fresh royal chinook salmon from the Columbia" river. The largest fish weighed eighty-two pounds, and was tho largest salmon ever caught in the West. These fish were frozen in side of solid cakes of ice before they left the Coast, and they came through nicely in that shape. They looked oeauties through the crystal ice. FOREIGN FLASHES. The I'liysical Exercise Craze in St. Petersburg. GEUMAX ARMY RILL WILL PASS. Bullets of Garnet Encased in Load Fired at British Troops by Rebellious Hunzas. Italy is adopting co-operative farming. The unvaccinated cannot vote in Nor way. The Salvation Army has invaded thirty-five countries. The Pope is to Ix-atify Columbus, and America will then have its patron taint. A 25 per cent cut in wages is an nounced for 400,000 coal miners in Eng land. The Sultan of Morocco has been suc cessful in his expedition to suppress re bellious tribes. Senator Santa Maria has been ap pointed Minister of Justice of Italy to succeed Signor Jionacci. The Russian government has issued orders that smoking compartments for ladies be provided on ail trains. Seven hundred live larks constituted the queer present lately sent by the King of Italy V) the German Emperor. All the members of the Italian Cham licrs implicated in the bank scandals at Rome are to be proceeded against. There is threatened dissolution of the French Cabinet, owing to differences re garding the treatment of the French ri oters. A type of firearm has been invented in England by which compressed gas is utilized instead of powder as a propell ing force. A meteorological station has been es tablished at Siberia, Palestine, a nlace 582 feet below the level of the Mediter ranean Sea. Madame de Valsavre, a foreign cham pion of woman's rights, has started a crusade for the admission of feminine writers to the I rench Academy. The marriage of Prince George and the Princess May is the fifteenth mar riage of a direct descendant of Queen Victoria which has occurred during her reign. During excavation in the river Dee at Carrog, Llangollen, the remains were discovered of an ancient church de stroyed by floods in the sixteenth century. John Geddes of New South Wales, Australians negotiating with the Ger man army authorities for the use on trial of frozen beef and mutton from Australia. During the recent fighting on the Kashmir frontier, when the British troops defeated tho rebellious Hunzas, the natives used bullets of garnets en- eased in lead. Despite the rumor that the late ,' Squire Abingdon" (George Abingdon Baird) has squandered all his fortune, his English executors say his estate is worth nearly $5,000,000. French women have evinced a new desire to be strong as well as beautiful and handsomely dressed, and have taken up the pursuit of outdoor exercise of the most exacting character. Reports come from Santos, Brazil, that the yellow fever is decimating the town. The death rate averaged 310 a day, and hundreds of corpses were atloat in the water at all stages of decay. The German army bill will be passed by a large majority". Herr von Kosciel ski and Dr. von Jaadzewski, leaders of the Poles, have pledged to the govern ment the solid vote of their party. Impartial writers say that the gold contained in the medals, vessels, chains and other objects preserved in the Vati can would make more gold coin than the whole of the present European cir culation. It is reported that the Ghezirah Palace, situated on the banks of the Nile, is to be converted into a hotel ; that a line of steam ferries is to nlv across from Cairo, and that the Nile is to tie tunneled. Paris has a unique exhibition only less attractive than the two salons themselves. This is a collection of portraits and statuettes of the great French writers and journalists of the last 100 years. In Zanzibar, owing to the abolition of slavery, there is great difficulty in obtaining laborers. This, it is feared, will be felt very much within the next few weeks, when the gathering of the clove crop commences. The Malta correspondent of the Lon don Graphic reports that the Captains of several of the vessels which took part in the maneuvers off Tripoli will be court-martialed for not having obeyed Admiral Tryon's fatal signal. It is said that the largest rough dia mond ever found in Africa has just ar rived in London. It is a bluish-white stone, weighs 170 carats, and was found in the Jagersfontain mine. The Kohi noor weighs only 102,Hj carats. The physical exercise craze has reached St. Petersburg, where the ladies are be coming ardent athletes and expert bicycle riders. One of their fads is to carry Louis XIV canes, some six or seven feet long and stout in proportion. An interesting piece of information brought out during the Brussels Con ference is the fact, that there are at present no less than $100,000,000 of counterfeit silver money in circulation in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. EVERY SATURDAY IN SUMMER. How tli Metropolitan Urchin lima bull In Central I'ark. It Ih nald a really bad play h nn amuHlnd s h really Kood one. T lie unrno U true of baseball, for a league contest doesn't begin to s an funny an the wmw In Central park on a Saturday afternoon In summer. A map and Kuido aren't necessary to the eerie of these contests. You no as far as the dairy, and from that on you are jrulded by the noise. Presently one cornea to a "common" on which are innumerable nmall boys, all vio lently nayiiiK, "A a nhl" They lire playing baseball, and a boy tan't play baseball without laying, "A -a hi" "Ah a-ohl Dat'soutl" "Ah a a hi "faint neederl" "Ah a Hht Yer crazy. "I'U too. Didn't I ketftb bini out (is' denf" "A-a-ht Wutsa matter witch yerf Yer did not." "A a ht Yer lief "A n hi 'Fyouhaydat agio I'll gmnnh yer. See?" And so on. No white rubber plates are allowed In the park for the batter to tap, and there are no bags at the different lumen. The bases are marked off with coats There isn't any greater racket when one of these make be lieve bags is stolen than when Homebody tries to bat out of his turn. The reason of this is tbat every last drop of breath and every rat; of indignation is exetiiled on the fellow who has wrongfully picked up the willow There is nothing left for the thief. The spectators obligingly mark out tlie foul lines. "Nig" pitches a hot ball ami "Popeye" Adams, w ho is at bat, smashes it right on the corner of its jaw. The ball screams and starts fur Iis Island City, but it is foul ball and so comes up ngaiDst the bead of one of thi bystanders, ft makes a noisa like a plank falling off a wagon. The fel low looks a little siliy and begins rubbing his face, which begins to swell visibly. He doesn't say anything. This Is supposing be Is a "grown up." ff he be a hmall boy he wrinkles up bis face, draws in bis breath about a minute and a half and lets go of a yell that would be deafening any place else, but is simply unnoticed here, for the pitcher and the catcher re standing very cUjo together and giving each other -:u a looks as rival cats do. They are snarling "A-a-h!" at each other and promibingto give the other a poke in the eye. You might go all over the green and never see any dispute with the umpire, whom they call "de umpie," the letter "r" in New York dialect having a tendency to melt away. The umpire is not to be treated with dis respect, because empires don't grow ou every bush. lie has to be coaxed. "Ifey, mistey, woncba empie faw us?" "Wut's it woyth?" The mercenary umpire wants pay for crying out, "Oong bawl" or "slrike!" The uniforms, if indeed it be allowable to call duds uniforms no two suits of which are alike, are canton flannel cape and shirts, when they are anything. While most of the boys in the park are on pleasure bent a few turn an honest penny by traffic. Some sell weak lemonade and others peddle what they call "lossen gers." New York World. Eccentric Diners In Paris Restaurants. The Paris restaurants have a wealth of stories about eccentric diners. Prince Soltykoff, according to the gossips, was accustomed to consult the menus at two of the most celebrated houses, choosing that which had his favorite dishes. After dining well he used to give the waiter in structions to wake him in a couple of hours, whereupon he would drop into a sound sleep, and hardly move until his time was up The Duke of Brunswick was a frequent customer at the house which often secured the prince's patronage. On one occasion, it is said, a Russian committed suicide at a table near where he was dining. The nobleman consequently sent for the pro prietor and bitterly upbraided him for allowing bis digestion to be upset by so tragic a scene! It was in the same restaurant that a number of gentlemen dined daily for forty five years a record which beats that of the Grand hotel, of Indianapolis, the pro prietor of which says that he had a boarder who regularly paid his monthly bill for sixteen years. London Tit-Bits. Woodpecker versus Sparrows. The English sparrow has a mortal enemy tn the common red headed woodpecker, who, though no giant among birds, is as big as half a dozen English sparrows, and not afraid of half a hundred. The wood pecker's beak is so hard, and his head and neck are so powerful that in a single peck he can kill a sparrow, ami the English birds have become aware of his powers and are very much afraid of him. The appear ance of a red headed woodpecker will set a whole lot of sparrows to flight, and the only time t hey will face him fs when he makes an onset on their nests. The eggs of the sparrows are not larger than peas, and their young about the size of a grubworui, and a uestful of young sparrows is a dainty picnic for a wood pecker, which he is careful not to overlook. The sparrows will fight, but they cannot drive him away. Drake's Magazine An Old Style Sailboat. Captain Collins, who is familiar with all the builds of foreign fishing boats, tells about the Newfoundland pinkie boat, some few of which are still found off the New England coast. For size and build, the piukie is a clever boat, with her strong sternpost and sharp bow. ft is highly probably that the pinkie is a survival of the oldest form of Norse boat brought to England a thousand years ago, and as for that, the lines of the dory came over to New England with the pinkie from the mother country. New York Times. At Old Point Comfort. Reuben Verde Great Scottl What's that big noise? Regular Guest That? It's only the gun that always goes off at sunset. R. V. (decidedly) I'm going straight home, whar the sun kin set easy without making such a racket. Pittsburg Bulletin.