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iver Glacier. VOL. r. HOOD IUVHR, OK KG ON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1893. NO. 19. The Hooc 3food Iiver (Slacier. rUlil.ltiun ITIIIT IATUBDAT MORRinfl II V' Tbo Glacier Publish Compioy. ru air nuN rnivs. Oin rr mimlhl Tin. iiintiOii wiijr ,.m - i - THE GLACIER IS; Grant Evans, Propr, JUuuml Hi., iiMr Oak. Hood Ulr, Or flliavlng and Hair cutting bmII don. Natiifaction Outwitted. OCCIDKXTAL NKWS. bcr Shop in n( tin- Supreme Court .fudges in N a. In ix ill, iiinl tlit oilier two are in it ii -in Mi h k over It illi'Hl inli ih tu tt Imlli II mil.' fur fJ.tMHi hIihuIiI liHik fur payment. Tin' recently f muggled Chinese ruff t 'in .1 in ur !yniiiii paid f.HO apiece In In' K.id lv huiili'il in this count ry. Tim M-! -i N engaged in the trallic.arc known, ti In I ill lie Meied. In ih Kvans has made a for ii i ul rt'ijitt'Ht of tin' Iiictrict Attorney mid ShcnU' of I ti-nn to In- allownl to itiieild the thea ter m lien tlic piny o( " KviuiN iiii'l Nm " arrives in Fresno. Uoik mi the San Iiicgo a n t l'liu nix t'iii'1 Ihih been iliHi'ontiniii'il, owing to I In- want of tin' iii'ct'MHitry funds to curry lion, bu nt capitalists have not taken the inli'H-'t expected and promised. The people nf Fresno are demanding Ihut t nil 1 1 1 m he put to work. The jail iim hold mure t li mi UK) of them, ll in eii proposed to iut them in a chain nui i' j i ii. f iiiuke them hreak rock formac adauniug muiIh. The grand jury at Suit Lake has re t'nni il mi iiiilu lriient for inuriler in the lir-i degree against Hurry I IuiiiiiioikI, ii t 12 W'lirx, ainl (ieorge (iuylor, aged I I. On June L'l iluniinonl killed Clyde Kohi rl-on, aged 7 yearn. Judge llauley at Carson, Nev., cut down tin- verdict ohtaincd by Mrs. II. W. .lohiiNon against tin' Southerti I'ucitii' fur tin' driiih of her huNhuiid from f:!5, ooo in l.r),()tHi. The plaintill' accepted tin- nit, hut the road will ajiieal. Thomas liohiuson, writer in the cont-ti ui-tioti and rcjoiir department at Mare 1-huiil, Iiiim heeu removed by order of Si'cretary Herbert, and William A. Henry of the I'nitod States marinccorps lia heeu upiointed to till the filucc. There iH a tramp in Woodland, Cal., who Iiiim an original inelliod of securing food. When fiMid ix refused him he I'peiin a tin Ihix, and throws a snake into tlie li.iii.-e. The housew ife iH ill wa VM nl m I to k'ive him food if he will catch the snake. A. .1. IhiHH, the ex-K)liceman who en deavored to palm oil' a widow on tin1 en tali' of Joseph McKinney, a wealthy negro farmer at Stockton, Iiuh heen son teiieed to live years in the State prison. Pending an appeal, he linn been released on ijil.lXH) bonds. City Marshal Blankcnship at I'lio'iiix, A. T., confessed to receiving money anil not making proper returns of it. Ho added that liipior made him do the wrong, and that he had taken an oath never to touch it again. The court dis missed the charges. Judge llawley in tho United StateH Circuit Com t at Curson, Nev., decided the case of Hook A Blowey against the Justice Mining Company in favor of the defendants, sustaining everv point claimed hy tho defendants. The case involved a great many important qucs tiotis of mining law. Much excitement has boon created at Silver City, Nev., over the finding in an ahaudoiicil shaft of the skeletons of a woman and a horse, tho boncH of tho (o'vncr being underneath. They have , f'ii there, it. iH thought, for twenty-live r ars, hut no one recollects anything re rding a missing woman at that time. After tho Oregon State Fair is over the cream of the fruit and vegetable and grain exhibits w ill be sent to tho World's hair, where they will be exhibited in the Oregon departments to which they prop erly belong. The State Agricultural College bus donated its inagnilicent ex hibit of potatoes, graiiiH, grasses and vegetables, and tho State Hoard will send its special exhibits of graHHoa, grains, fruits and vegetables. Those will go far toward attracting yet greater notice to Oregon. At tho World's Fair the Committee on Nomenclature alter Homo of tho names of Oregon fruits shipped for exhibition, but they unanimously agreo that tho color, Ihivor, texture and general excel lence of the fruit tiro remarkable and unsurpassed. Tho fruits have all boon labeled with tho names of tho growers who produced them, and they derive all the benefit arising from the publicity given. The managers of the Oregon ex hibits re using their very best endeav ors to place exhibits in such a position as to catch tho eyes of tho capitalists and those who are seeking homes. It is surprising to note the great number of people w ho are so much interested, and who want all the literature they can pro cure on tho subject. The exhibits will lie the means of inducing many of the best class of homeseekers to locate in Oregon during the next five years, and will bring unlimited capital. liUKINKHM KKKV1TIKH. In 1 'in Mutiny all tbe field work is done by women. , Ah a rule Kiiropcau railroads have no grime crossings. Kigjit thousand lunik still do business in this country. Americans Miuoke more than 2, 000,01)0, Odd clgiuH annually. Over 2.IMN) carH are used on the street railroads of New York, Nearly 1,H00 men are employed by the New York custom-hotinc. FuneralH in the United Slates cost Uk wurd of Lr,(M),(HK) a year. Sheep ami deer will be raised on u l.iMHi-acre farm at llulifax, Vt. One hundred thousand seals represent the ciilch for the season of lHICI. About f.'irill,(KHt,(XM) of American capi tal f i in Ih employment in Mexico, The est imated cotton crop for IK',1,'1 is 0,717,1 1- balcH, the sniallestHince 1KH0-7. Silver agitation in the I'nited Stales has not allected the Mexican silver mar ket. Land is tilled with the same kind of it plow in Kgypt that was used 5,000 years ago. It tllkcH fi.OOOof the kind of chickens that are raised in Kansas to make a car load. The properly valuation of New York city has increased f.rsK),(K)0,(HX) in twelve years. Over K0,0OO,(HI0 eggs are estimated to be used every year by wine clarillers in Franco. Figuring corn ut 10 cents a bushel, the American crop uh worth in f'ioii,- (MUM MM), The w ine crop of thin countrv. it iH en- tiiiiuted, will exceed 1M,(Kh),(KW gallons this vear. The world's supply of diamonds is twenty times greater than it was thirty years ago. I.lovd's reports l.OOM vessels lost in lstrj, of which 21!) were Hritish and lL'O American. The Merrimac river is said to propel more machinery than any other Ameri can stream. An Fnglishimm has patented a sub marine gas stove for beating the water in bath tuliH. Over 1;10,(MK) motherlesH chickens are lailv turned out bv incubators in the New F.nghiud States. The inventor of the ruhlier tip for lend pencils is saiit to have realized f IM),(X) lor this appurentlv trilling device. The latest labor-saving machine cleans fish. Now, if there were only one to atch one, the angler's outfit would in truth U complete. Averaging the whole country, there are in round figures live cowh per sipiare mile; in ew I'.ngiiitnl there are twelve cows per square mile. 1'FKKLY WCHSOXAL, (ieorgia Cay van lias a fad for collecting fancy pins; she has some that were made in the time of IJiieon Hess. A bauble which hangs in Miss Helen (iotild's drawing-room is a Japanese crystal, which cost somewhere in the tieighlmrhooil ot !f,000. Senator Allen of Nebraska is (i feet I! inches in height and of robust frame. A hair has been specially constructed for his accommodation in the Senate. Ijord Id'ieestor lias had two wives, and bin eighteenth child was Isjrn a few days ago. His eldest chi'd, Lady l'owerscourt, is 50 years old. Nevertheless licestor voted against home rule. Ir. William Klliott of New Haven, Ivy., is !MI years old, but on the occasion of a dance at his house a few evenings ago he took up his violin and played the music lor tho lirst quadrille. One-fourth of the Hoard of Trustees of tho I'ottbodv Educational lioard (six teen meinliers) has died this vear Sen ator (iihson, Iouisiium; ex-l'resident Hayes, A. J. lrexel and Hamilton Fish. Kev. Henry Vrooman, who assumed barge of a 'Sweden borgian Church in Haltimore, is one of five brothers, all of whom are clergymen. Three of them are Congregatioiialists and the other a Haptist. Captain Marshall Russell, one of the oldest pioneers of the Pacific Coast, who rossed the plains with one of tho first exploring expeditions and was a Medi an war veteran, died at me nay View Hotel in Cold Heach. Sir Arthur Sullivan during his summer residence at Weybridge has progressed so satisfactorily with the new comic op era, which he iB composing for the Savoy, that D'Oyly Carte has already put the work into choral rehearsal. Dr. Ella Z. Chandler of St. Paul was unanimously elected a member of the Minnesota State Dental Association at its late meeting in that city. She is the first ladv member of the association and t he first woman practitioner in the State. Chief Justices Love of Delaware ex presses the opinion that it was on the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula that tho Garden of Fdon was located, and that it was with a peach that Eve tempt ed Adam. The crop with which the growers tempted the country this season will actually exceed o,uuu,uw baskets. Dr. Henry C. Reno has just died at Spokane. He was a native of St. Louis and 54 years old. He served during the war as an army Hiirgoon, receiving wounds which seriously disabled him all the rest of his life. He was a member of tho Grand Armv as well as the Ma sonic fraternity, lie had lived iu Spo- kano county several years. Dr. J. Irving Manatt, who was elected rofessor of Greek literature at Brown University last year, returns this autumn from his four years' residence in Athens to begin his duties. Recent magazine articles of his have attracted consider-1 able attention. His advent at Brown is expected to give a notable stimulus to lassical study at that institution. KASTKKN MELANGE. Work on Hit! (ircat llriilffc at N(!v Orleans, La. THE MKIiON CROP OK (iEOROIA Huge Cucumber-Female Anarchist In LI m bo -So ii tli Carolina's New Liitior Law. Cow cholera is raging near Corunnu, Mich. Kansas' corn crop this year will In; i:!0,00(l,0ii0 bushels. New York iH now sending out more foreigners than she receives. A wholesale removal of pension agents is expected in thi! near future. The bees around Wuterford, Mich., are dying of an unknown disease. Texas rcMrts that the pecan crop this season will be the finest in many years. The German Catholic Central Society of North America is in session at St. Ixuiis. Governor Waite will call an extra ses sion of the legislature of Colorado in a short time. Attorney-General Gluey has decided that bicycles are entitled to free entry as personal ell'ects. French Canadians are returning to Camilla in large uuiuImts from the New England States. The World's Fair has nearly paid olf its lloatmg iletit and largely reduced its other liabilities. The New York Central is going to withdraw the " exfKjsition tlier " at the close of the fair. AcucumlsT weighing fifty-two fxiundH, raised by a Houston -county farmer, has liceli sent to St. Ixmis. Treasurer Barrett Scott, who stole l(t,()o0 from Holt county, Va., has Is-en arrested at Juarez, Mexico. Wisconsin's World's Fair Commission ers have sent JHO.UKI, and the people are asking, " Where is it at?" Saloonkeepers are not allowed to do business in the Cherokee Strip until they have formally taken out licenses. It is estimated that the (ieorgia melon crop this year amounts to fioO.OtH). Alsuit S,000 carloads have been shipped. It is proposed to have a national dedi cation of the Chickumauga and Chatta nooga National Park October 17 and 18, IK! 14. ReportH of murders in tho new Chero kee Strip are frequent. The causes are attendant on the linul settlement of claims to laud. Boston has issued $1,000,(XX) percent Isinds for improvement purjwscs. She tluds a ready market at par and in some caseH a premium. There has been a remarkable revival id interest in tho "abandoned farms" of New England since so many mills closed their doora. The financial situation at Vicksburg, Miss., has so improved that tho banks have ceased to issue certified checks to be used as currency. Congress will possibly ask Secretary Gresham for the corresjiondonce with the Chinese government on the extradi tion and registration laws. The Columbian souvenir coins, which it was anticipated would be hoarded by people of a patriotic turn, are rapidly drifting back to the Treasury. Emma Goldman, the anarchist in jail in New York city for inciting riot, is pro pared to plead her own case. She says he needs no help from anybody. South Carolina's liquor law seems to be financially a failure. Instead of turn ing $500,000 into tho State Treasury it is not iikely to yield more than $25,000. Work on tho great bridge over the Mis sissippi river at New Orleans will com mence at. an early day, the engineers having finally decided on the exact loca tion for it. The city of St. Louis has sent a repre sentative to Europe to float $1,250,000 of her municipal bonds. She did a similar thing in 1800, and got out with 4 per cent interest. Cornelius Ryan of Waltham, Mass., found in a railroad station four years ago a wallet, which he returned to tlie owner, whoso name and address were among tho papers it contained, and recently found himself named for $2,000 in the man's will. The World's Fair directors met in spe cial session at Chicago recently, and voted down a motion to lower the en trance fee for children, and tabled by a heavy majority a proposition to let peo ple in on Sunday at half rate. The mat ter of extending the fair until January went over. Edmund S. Ilincks, the late clerk of the Whatcom Board of County Commis sioners, has started from F'airhaven for Mashonaland, Africa. He will take in tho World's Fair on route, and does not expect to reach Cape Town, South Africa, before January 1, 1804. Charles T. O'Ferrall. whom the Demo crats have nominated for Governor of Virginia, is a native of Frederick county, and is 52 years of age. He enlisted be fore he was 21 in the Confederate cav alry, and at the surrender of General Lee was in command of his cavalry de tachments, being at that time a Colonel. Tho House Committee on Territories has considered the bill providing for the admission of Utah as a State, and it will be reported to the House in the near fu ture with the recommendation that it pass. A provision was inserted in the bill requiring that the constitution adopted by the State prohibit polygamy. KliOM WASHINGTON CITY. In order to more elj'ectually break up the smuggling of opium and Celestials into the L'nited Stall's in the vicinity of I'uget Sound Secretary Carlisle will issue uu order directing Captain Tosier of the revenue cutter Orant and Captain l en. gar of the revenue cutter I'crrv to pro. eecd to the vicinity referred to and lend their efforts to the work of eradicating smuggling. 'Senutor Dolph lias introduced a bill to extend the time for purchasers of land within the limits of tlie forfeited North ern Pacific land grants until January 1. 1807, and a bill to authorize tho State of Oregon to imort machinery for a jute mill free of duty. The time having iM-en once extended (or the payment of lands ami such exemptions from duty leing unusual, the chances (or either bill are xxir. A very prominent Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee says that the new tarilt bill will be completed within a month. If Congress is still in sessipn, it will lc immediately presented. The Democrats on the committee feel in view of the unrest among business men on account of the projosed revision tlie new schedules should le made known as soon as fssible, so that business can sooner adjust itself to the new condi tions. The bill introduced in the House by Representative Everett of Massachusetts to give the Chinese a year from the pres ent time to register is undoubtedly to be the administration measure. Senator Dolph says that, if the Chinese govern ment would ask for an extension of time for Chinese lalxtrers to register and give some assurance that if an opportunity were given tney would register, Congress might take such a request in considerii- tion. Hut, as no such request has been made or assurance given by China on tielialt ol the Chinese, the proiKjsition to give further time is merely a back down by the government in accordance witti tlie views and desires of the admin istration. In the Senate Souire of Washington submitted ' amendment in the nature of a substitute for the repeal bill. It provided that silver bullion may be de posited at any mint, to be formed into standard dollars of the present weight anil fineness, to le legal tender, for the bene tit of the owner, but there shall enly be paid to the person so demisitini? it such a number of standard silver dollars as shall tonal the commercial value of the silver bullion deposited. The differ ence, if any. between the coin value and the commercial value shall be retained by the government as seignorace. The coinage shall not exceed $4,000,000 per month, and when the gross amount reaches $200,000,000 it is to cease. The dollars thus coined are to Is? legal tender. In the Senate Stewart of Nevada in troduced an amendment to the repeal bill authorizing the President to invite the governments of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti and San Domingo to join the United States in a conference in Washington four months after the passage of the act, to secure the adop tion of a common silver dollar of not less than 350. 01 grains nor more than ;$s;j.l3 grains pure silver, to be issued by each government, to be a legal tender for all commercial transactions between all citizens of all the American States ; that the lindings of the delegates shall he binding on the governments which send them, and on an agreement being reached tlie government represented shall open mints to the unlimited coin age of silver for the benefit of depositors. Many bills have been introduced in Congress to increase the punishment for embezzlement by directors, officers or agents of national banks. Representa tive itrvan lias added one more, it pro vides that every president, director, cashier, teller, clerk or agent of any as sociation who embezzles, abstracts or willfully misappropriates any money, funds or credits of the association shali be guilty of a misdemeanor and be impris oned for not less than five years nor more than ten years; it the amount embezzled is less than $10,000, not less than ten vears; if the amount embezzled is $10.- 000 or more and less than $25,000, not less thantwentv-uve years, and not more than forty years if the amount embez zled is more than $25,000. It also pro vides that persons arrested under the act shall be tried as common criminals. Caldwell has introduced a bill in the House regarding the wrecking of trains. It provides that a person who displaces or removes a railway switch, places a tie across the rails, injures a railroad track or bridge, or does or causes to be done any act whereby the locomotive of a train of cars is stopped, obstructed or injured, w ith intent to rob or injure the person or property passing over any rail road of interstate commerce, and wherein in consequence of such acts any person is killed, will be guilty of murder. If the attempt does not result in murder, the guilty person, if convicted, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for from ten to twenty years. The same penalty is to be imposed upon each conviction of the charge of throwing anything against a train or causing anything to fall upon it with intent to rob or injure any person or property of such train. The United States Senate has been threatened with destruction by bomb throwers. This at any rate is one of the sensational rumors afloat in Washington. It is asserted that several silver Senators have received threatening letters, stat ing that, if thev did not soon permit a vote on unconditional repeal, a bomb would be dropped from the gallery into the midst of the silver leaders. Stewart. Jones, Teller, Wolcott and other well- known silver Senators have received these letters. Stewart is disposed to dis miss the matter without consideration, but Teller and some of the others are frightened. The situation has been laid before Sergeant-at-arms Bright and thirty special detectives sent to the Sen ate chamber, and every person not known is subiected to a rigid scrutiny. No one is permitted to enter conveying a valise or package of any kind. All these dwtuctivtra are in citizens' clothes. FOREIGN FLASHES. House of Lords Denounced hj Walter Owen Church. NERVOUS DISEASES IN FRANCE. Photographing- tbe Depth of the Sea 1m Accomplished Old Manu scripts Discovered. The new German taxes are to net $24, 000,000. The bastinado is no longer a legal pun ishment in Egypt. A weekly paper for tbe blind is pub lished in England. France proposes to have a grand inter national exposition in 1!KX). Of 11,000 pilgrims who went V) Mecca in May over half died from cholera. Fgvpt's cotton crop this year will be 50,000,000 pounds larger than in 1802. Japan has fourteen railways nroiected. and will build them as rapidly as possi ble. Zola's latest ambition is to become a member of the French Chamber of Dep uties. An electric light has just been put up in a flour mill close to the Damascus gate at Jerusalem. The white muscat raisin is in great de mand in Switzerland and Austria for the making of vermouth. Two new fl,000-ton steamers will be built by the North German Lloyds Com pany for the American service. The distress in the mining districts in England is great and increasing. In Derbyshire 50,000 men are idle. A fad for making collections of kisses of celebrated men is rapidly becoming popular among ttie ladies ot Uermany. The German Emperor has stringently forbidden the officers of his army to have one eye, as denoted by wearing one eye glass. The Czar has ordered a vacht of 4,000 tons, with engines of 800-horse power. It is expected to eclipse evervthine of the kind yet built. The Queen of Denmark is stone deaf. a throat malady being responsible for the affliction. The Princess of Wales inher its the same trouble. Hamburg has had a complete recovery from the cholera visitation of a year ago, and the city is in a more prosperous state than ever before. Japan has more miles of railway in proportion to its territory than any other country in Asia. Fourteen new lines are now being constructed. Since the beginning of the century France has fallen from the second to the fourth place in point of population among European countries. Aluminium plates are used in Ger many to engrave and etch upon, and it is spoken of as a probable substitute for nine and lithographic stones. Two postage stamps of Mauritius of 1847, of which only fourteen specimens are known to exist, have just been pur chased by dealers in London for 680. The floods in Northern China have laid waste the country for thirty-five miles. Crops were destroyed and homes swept away. The section is thickly pop ulated. Peace prevails in Nicaragua. General Santos Selaya has been formally elected President of the Republic and General Anastairo Ortiz Vice-President. All po litical prisoners have been released. Dr. Charles Fere, a well-known au thority on nervous and mental diseases, says that these disorders are increasing at a terrible rate in France, and attrib utes the fact to the increase of beer drinking, absinthe-drinking and bars. Breech-loading rifles were invented in 1811, but did not come into general use for many years, it is estimated that over 12,000,000 are now in actual service in the European armies, while 3,000,000 are reserved in the arsenals for emergencies. The British Medical Association has at last admitted women as members. The principle was approved last year, and this year at its sixty-first annual con gress, held at Newcastle, the by-law ex cluding women was formally expunged. The famous Greek brigand Manronis. who has just given himself up to the au thorities at Athens, had for thirteen years been almost supreme in the dis trict around Parnassus. He was a farmer and owner of houses as well as a robber. A locomotive is being constructed in England to run 100 miles an hour. It is 2,000-horse power, the driving wheels 12 feet in diameter. The three cylinders are 40, 28 and 18 inches in diameter with a 30-inch stroke. The boiler pressure is 200 pounds. An interesting find is a library of 500 volumes, including seventy manuscrirjts of the tenth and eleventh, and some with wonderful miniatures of the four teenth centuries, which were recently discovered in a Franciscan cloister near Rieti, Italy. A gold medal of the value of 1.000 Italian lire is ofTered by the Royal Acad emy of Science of the Institute of Bo logna to the author of the best memoir describing a new and efficacious system, or a new apparatus, for preventing or extinguishing fires. Photographing the depth of the sea has been accomplished by a French sci entist, M. Bouton. Being a practical diver, M. Bouton managed to take pho tographs of his surroundings when stand ing on the very bed of the Mediterranean at Banyuls-sur-Mer near the Spanish border. SUNDAY MORNING OCCUPATION. What Homo .lrl Do to Wlilln Away th Time on tho Krventh Itajr. What do Kirlrt do Sunday morn ings? IIowdotheyHpond their time In church? Ye, they go to church if they havo nice gowns and are feel ing in tho wood or if they are nat urally good. But I went around th other Sunday morning to nee somo of my girl friendH, and I had my eyes fjiened to a thing or two. The first jilaoo I HtoTrrx'd was Madge's board ing house. She is tho head stenogra pher for Drown jonos & Co., you know, and when I reached the inner vestibule I heard her call: "Lsthat you, Mag? I thought I recognized your voice. Come right up, dear. I'm busy." So up I went to her lit tlo 4 by C room, with its folding bed, Japanese ncreen and other conceal ing, folding and adjustable articles common only to a boarding house hall bedroom. A strong odor of gaso line and Madge in a faded Mother Hubbard wrapper greeted me. Tlie room was so full of fumes that I gasjied. "I'm cleaning my gloves," ex plained Margaret, and her appear ance showed it. Her brown curls were all on edgj "tousled" would be the right word. White gloves, tan gloves, gray gloves, mauve gloves, all were spread out on the chairs and bureau in various stages of wet and dry cleaning. A pair of white gloves, full length mousquetaires, covered her hands and plump arms, and 6he wa3 manipulating a tin basin of gas oline, several rags and a nailbrush to clean them. Her roommate, Grace, was perched on a stool sewing but tons on her shoes and interspersing that occupation with 6tirring and boating a jar of cold cream which had been brought up from the kitch en a few moments efore. Grace said pathetically, "I; timply will not get white, no matter how hard I stir it. I must have got too much sperm aceti in it. "Grace thinks it's going to cure her freckles," sniffed Madge scorn fully, and she opened the window a little wider, observing that I was al most overcome by gasoline fumes. "Young ladies," said I sternly, "this is a wicked way to spend the Sabbath." "Well," responded Madge, "Sun day is the only day I have to repair my wardrobe. 1 can't afford the time any week daj. I have to work then, and if 1 stay home in the even ing I'm too tired to clean and mend and sew. When I've been at work all day, I don't feel like coming home and going to work again after dinner, so I must fix my clothes Sun days." When I left, Madge had finished the gloves and had dumped the en tire contents of her top bureau drawer out on the floor preparatory to a good "straightening up." I know what that means, so I fled. Chicago News-Record. The Growth of the Canning Industry. Less than 50 years ago a man in Pennsylvania began putting up toma toes in cans at 50 cents a can. In 1SS7 the total output reached 72,000, 000 cans, and today it is 82,803,000 cans, of which considerably over half are put up in the south, Maryland be ing the largest producer. The pro duction of canned com has reached 84,000,000 cans, but in this branch the south is not so large a producer as it should be. New York ranking first in production and Maine second. Tomatoes and com lead, but nearly everything else eatable, is canned, and not only is the home demand of the United States supplied, but we exported in 1892 over $17,000,000 of canned goods. New Orleans Times Democrat. Counting Gold Coin. The counting of the money in the vaults of the treasury at Washington is not so troublesome or tedious a task as might be imagined. In counting f 20 gold pieces experience has shown them to be so uniform that only one pile is counted, and the rest of the money is stacked and measured by this pile until the last pile is reached, when that also is counted. In this way the counting proceeds rapidly. Gold in smaller denominations is al ways counted or weighed. Silver is much more troublesome to count than gold. New York Tribune. Taking the Circus Seriously. If the circus is to be taken serious ly, what an era of dullness will fol low. In a certain southern state a bill has been introduced into the leg islature by the provisions of which circus companies are to be forbidden in that state to exhibit pictures of feats which they do not perform. New York Ledger. The rain is playing its soft, pleas ant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast flying clouds passes with delicate change across my book. N. P. Willis. v