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y mi. iver Glacier. It's a Cold Day When Wc Get Left. vol. HOOD UIVKU, ORKUON, SATURDAY. DECEMJ3EU Tu 181)3. NO. .".0. Hooc 3food liver (Slacier. ri'lll.l.lUK tVIHT ATUWAT MOHNINU IT ) Tho Glacier Publishing Company. Ml'MNC HII'TION I'HICK. ftii. r fl on "U iniiiitha , 0" 1 ttlro htullllll il) linl.i'u7 1 (. THE GLACIER Grant Evans, Propr, Urn "nil SI., nrur Oult. 1 1 nod I(.lor, Or Mi.vlnn n, Hair cutting orally dou. .kiti.fa( lion (iuklftiil.td. occidkntaij m:vs. There in only one woman ninotiK llit .'MI roiivirlN ill tin' OiiU'ili penitentiary. Min mum M.'iit from Morrow county for cilllinn 11 hitriicM li pieces. At Poriltello, Idaho, nil flirt Iiiih 'olic (mi id that henceforth no married uoiintii or 1 1 ii n i it r i i mini shall be employed in tlic I'lililii' miIiooIm h m h teacher. A iiiiiii iiuiihJ A r i 1 1 r I 1 1 1 m ra 1 1 I y threw lilii.iiiK kerosene on liin w ilt! hi l.'n Aii'i'lcH, Sim wiih frightfully burned, mid in not expected to live. A test Im to In- made of tin legality of SiiiTiiinriilo'N new charter. It im bc lieed ii decision run Ih secured from tln Niprcine Court liy tin first of the year. The pari y in search of Mr. Winston, M III! IM llioll'lit to III' lout ill till' Ml'l lll .M.idii', Iiu.h ivltirucd lo Pasadena. A heart Ii of Ilic Arroyo Scco Canyon is 1 1 i v o be iiiudc. Ilu Hliitiiuint of tin' Southern Pa cific mil road freight ollire hhow that lue lutal fruit hiiipliiclitH lo the Last from Sun .Iom lor tlie mciisoii up to liei't'inU'r 2 v. an tio.-lTJ.VOO pounds. An active voli'iino on Hie American utile ol tho NtruitH hum one of the scenes wilni'HM'il by the juiJ-Hi'liKtiH on the steamer Maud, which relurned from Al "i.ld'ini to V it toriii, II. ('., recently. ".."Vcuk in the main water jiie in a Htreet III Tombstone, A. 'I'., last Week wa lound lo have heen caused by tlie rootxol a tree, which had grown liroilliil the i J t- and iii.-ln'd it mo that it burnt. It im iiiideintiMdl the government in tends lo return another indictment con taining more Hpecillc cluirgi'M ai.'iiiit the defendant in the opium wixuru chmcm ul ul Portland, and uImo thai several other persons will Imi included. The Canadian Pacific railroad will take the btiHiiicHH of the Canadian Navi Katiou Company tho lirnt of the year, and will place a new nide-w heeler with speed of eighteen kuotM an hour on the route between Victoria ami Vancouver. A woman at Spokane, Wash., wan lined I'M a few days ago for pncticul joking. She pcrjicUatcd the exceed ingly hiiinoroiiM, though not exactly lie w", joke of mixing the wiigur and cult on the table of a public uining-room. 'Hie court called it disorderly conduct. President lw ight llrainan of the San J'iego l.aud ami Town Company Iuih annoiiiici'il that the company Iiiim de cidi'd to extend the National City ami Otay railroad from La Prcsa into the I'pper Sweetwater through the .lamacha coiintrv into the eastern end of Cajon Valley! Since the waters of the Coipiille have receded it in learned that the damage to the Coos Hay and KoHelmrg railroad id found to have been ovcreHtimatcd, bat iih it wiiH nearly all backwater with no current, the receding IIooiIm leave the track only clightly damaged. There was a heavy wanh at Cedar l'oint, which twisted and shifted two Miuall spun lii idgen, which were only temporary structures. No railH or tics were diun nged, and there was not a particle of damage to any of tho bridges built on piling. The greatest damage wan done to the balliiHting, w hich had just been coin pleted before tho rainy season opened. Tho total damage will not ex ceed 1(5,000. Samuel 1. Morse, formerly a wealthy 'merchant of Omaha, eanio to Ban Fran ' i-iHi'O hiHt September with high indorse nieiitH. While at tho Palace ho pre sented several checks to dillerent people lor various sums of money, tho cheeks being drawn on Omaha banks. These cheeks were sent back for collection, and have been returned as worthless, w ith the additional information that the signatures to them aro forgeries. The Keeley Company denies that Morse holds any stock in that corporation, and the Omaha banks state that tho S. 1'. Morse Company hna been out of exist ence for two years. Meanwhile Morse lias left tho Talaco Hotel. Parties who have lost by him are of tho opinion that lie is mentally unbalanced. Prof. Wickson of tho California State University recently niado an examina tion of reclaimed tulo lands near the mouth of the San Joaquin river, with tho view of selecting a site for the sugar culture experiment station. This was in accordance with an appropriation made by tho last Congress. The pro fessor does not feel at liberty to make public his selection. Ho lias reported to the proper officials at Washington. f tho selection be approved by the Washington authorities, the experi mental culture of sugar cane under government direction will probably begin in California during tho coming Benson. It is probable that tho station will be established on one of the islands at the head of Suisun Bay. Barber Shop ' III SINKSS ItliKMTIKS. An KngliHh syndicate bus punliiiHed IllMl acres of mining lauds in South I 'a kota for riOI),lllil). The I'liited Slates Iiiih OKU vessels en gaged exclusively in foreign trade, Ureal Ibitaiu bus r,,!MiM. New Zi'ii I n in ii ' i h biiiisl of an orange orchard one acre of w hich yielded 1 ,000 wort h of oranges. 't he Walt hum u uti h-making establish ment employs I ,WHI women among its 1 1, 1 100 Will k people, A single sponge has been found on the coast of I' loi ida w it h a cin iiiiiferciiee of live feet si inches. line hundred years ago lb" 1'nitiil States imports aggregated I'M ,1100,001) ; to-day, ilHiMl,.'!!',!,!:'!. The bituminous or sofl-roal output in the I 'niled Slati M now aggregates 100, 000,000 Ions annually. Completion of the Ti huanlepec rail road will open Mexico's richest (ollee rteelioli to the I'liited States. Seven hundred and twenty tuns of cardboard are said to be utilized every M ar in the use of postal cards. More roses are grown in thr pretty New .IciM'V village of Madison than any W beie else ill the I'liited Stales. I'liring Ihe last lii-cal year the I'liited States smoked up :i,OO0,liiill,li00 cigarettes mid borrowed iilsiut half of them. I'ntil I H.V.I no pig iron was manufact ured in I'lttshuig. In l.s'.C' a total of l,77.r,'J"7 grors tuns were produced. The total currency of the 1'niled States is about SK,so,ooo,ooo. of 1 1, im amount iilsnit $;!',M),00(),l 0 I is in silver dollars. Il is estimated that more than 41,2 H), (KKI.OOO woith of railroad properly in thiM country is in the hands of receivers. Aluminium is beginning to be utilised fur rooting, in heels like tin, the cost of it for that purpose being alsiul the sane' as copper. The assets of the life-insurance com panies of Ihe foiled StaleH aggregate j.sriO, (HI 1,000, while the gross income is f 'JIM, 000,000. Something over 7,000 tons of silver were purchased under the act ol 1SII.I by the general government at acoM of alxiut jl.'Ml.OOO.OOO. Thirteen years ago t he A rgenl ine Ke plllilie inis'led Ii, 000, (Ml bu-heis of wheat. This year It has 10,000,000 bush els fur expoi I. 'I he gold production of the I'liited Stales for lS'.CI Will be over i';."i,o()o.0oo- an increase ol 000,000 as compared w ilh the previous year. The lumber export of the I'nited Slates in IS'.rJ amounted to itL'S.OOO.OO.I. At the present rale ul' use our supply will be exhausted in 100 years. The carrying capacity of the cables be tween Australia and I'.uiopo is from 71!,- 000 to 100,000 words a day. The actual trallie is aUiut r,0(Xl words a day. Kxcluding about iiL',000 small crafts, the commerce of the world it carried on by 45,000 vessels of L0,.r00,000 registered tons, w ith a carrying capacity of IS, 000,- 000. The American Casualty Insurance Company has ot rid of $1,700,000 in its (our years existence, the company s losses being mainly ascribed to its rail road business. Upon a recent purchase of 10,000 tons of raw sugar, not more than two weeks' supply, the American Sugar Itelining Company will net, it in estimated, a prolit of'ifLMil.OOO. Mr. Preston, the Director of the Mint, is iiioted as saying that the world's pro duction of gold this year will Ik fullv tl'lii.000.000, to which South Africa wiil contribute about sfl'l, 000,000. A statistician tinds that the average value of a mule i . -7 more than that of a horse. In Texas the mice of a mule is about tw ice thai of a horse, and iuother Southern Slates it takes a longer purse to buy the long-eared quadruped. PUKKLY PKRSONAli. Queen Victoria has presented to the Pitcairn Islanders a tine lilebo.it, which will be taken to them from Ksiiu inault , 1!. C, by the Pacilic Hag ship koyal Ar thur. Chief Engineer A. II. Able, U. S. N who has recently completed his sea duty on tho cruiser Newark, will be Chief En gineer at the League Island navy yard, I'hiladf Iphia. William l. Smith, who for many years has been the Superintendent of the I?o tiinieal Hardens in Washington, has, it is said, personally directed tho planting of more than 0,000,000 trees in dillerent parts of tho United States. General Jose M. Hernandez, who has resided recently in New York, but who is a revolutionist, a patriot and a candi date for tho Presidency of Venezuela, has been prominent in half a dozen rev olutions. Ho has seen tho inside of more prisons than any other distinguished man in South America. So fat is liobenguhi, tho Matabele monarch, whose lands England has suc cessfully coveted, that, although ho is nearly kix feet tall, ho seems lo bo much shorter. When in full dress ho wears a bioad-brimiued lelt hat, with a bunch of monkey tkins around his waist. "Toby, M. P.," who is the caricaturist of the Imperial Parliament with the pen for Ijondon Punch, as much as is Harry Furness with tho pencil, is famous for his. diminutive physical proportions. On the street or in the lobby of the House of Commons he seems merely a walking tall hat with a thin little pair of legs. General 0. 0. Howard, commander of tho Eastern Division of tho United States army, is a frequent attendant at tho Young Men's Christian Association meetings in New York. On a recent Sunday he delivered an address on the subject, " Ixjving Kindness Between Fa ther and Son." He is one of the most noted Christian workers in the United States army. EASTERN MELANGE. Allium I Report of the, Comp troller of 1 Iks Currency. DKSTIIUTK MICIIHtAN MINERS. The (iniMH KeceiplH of the World' Fair Poistnlllei'-T'lie Virginia Mull lb-posits. Mcl'herson will lead the fight in the Senate for the Wilson bill. A Chicago company has cornered In diana's output of block coal. Iowa lines are to make an effort to have local freight rates raised. South Carolina has netted in four months I !IH. 10 on her liquor. Chiefs of Police of many big cities are in league to stamp out anarchy. It cont Philadelphia $.'S.0:i!i.ii to bring the Ii belly bell home from Chicago. The cable-car managers are giving se rious attention to life-having devices. A new gold Held, twenty miles square, has been discovered near Hurt .el, Col. Pii hard Manslield declares that then are M.iHH) starving actors in this country. A Southern newspaper says that nearly every house in Honolulu has a telephone. Oranges from the Salt liiver Valley, A. T., are now arriving in Eastern cities. The jail at Concord, Mich., has been utilized for a hotel by u lack of prison ers. Attorncy-t ieneral Little is after the Kansas lottery companies with a sharp stick. The destitute condition of the people on the South Carolina islands demands relief. A Cincinnati man has Ik'cii fined $50 and costs for abusing another man over the telephone. A syndicate of American capitalists is said lo be organizing to control Nlv Scotia lime kilns. Four hundred coal miiierg at Ishpem ing, Mich., have struck against receiving their pay in store orders. Gross receipts of the World's Fair H-totlice amounted to )jt 1, IMS, and the expenditures were $2'.i,(il4. Cincinnati capitalists will invest 000.000 in mining the marl deposits along the coast of Virginia. New York's World's Fair building, which cost !Hf0,OO0, was bought by a wrecking company for $1,200. Hills providing for investigation of election methods in several Counties of New York are in course of preparation. Representative Loud believes that the prune industry of his district will be ru ined if the Wilson lurid' bill becomes law. Cashier Ixmis A. Milliard, who embez zled $15,000 from the Chicago Tribune Company, will wear stripes for four years. A company has been organized in the new Territory of Oklahoma to put a flouring mill in every county in Okla homa. The free list will be enlarged by Rep resentative Wilson's bill, should it l' eome a law, by the addition of some 450 articles. It is not any longer " swell " to wear a big chrysanthemum in the New Yorker's but Ion-hole, because it is regarded as a " Western fad." This year surpasses any one in history for railroad accidents. From November, 1K02, to November, 1803, 2,318 were killed on the railroads. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette says Honolulu has a charming climate, but its pest is the mosquito, with no frost to cut short its career. All Chinese laborers in the United States must register before a Collector of Internal Revenue before May 3 next, or else be subject to deportation. The total American supply of oranges this year is expected to be 7,000.000 Uixes, and the greatest previous vield, that of 181)2, was only 5,450,000 boxes. The National League for the Protec tion of American Institutions at New York has issued an address to the public in defense of the American free common school system. A doctor of Alleghany, Pa., kept a prematurely-born infant, which the mot her thought dead, in an incubator four months, and surprised tho mother by re storing it to her. A bill prohibiting prize-fighting in South Carolina has passed the General Assembly. The penalty is three years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine for princi pals and seconds. It is stated at Chicago that Wells, Fargo & Co. for a cash bonus of $1,70.1, 000 and 40 per cent of the gross receipts had secured a new contract with the Southern Pacific Company. Maurice Bletz, a vote repeater, has been sentenced in the Federal Court at Kansas City to two years in the peniten tiary for fraudulent voting at the general election held November 8, 1892. The Erie road has cut the provisions rate from Chicago to Boston from 30 m cents to 24lij cents, and to New York and Philadelphia in proportion. The other lines will make the same rates. Nearly 500 groggeries in Chicago have been forced out of business since No vember 1 on account of the dull times, and it. is probable that from 500 to 1,000 others will fail to renew their licenses. The Iowa Tontine Investment Com pany at Des Moines has failed. Presi dent Stone is missing, and so are the funds. Among the victims at Des Moines are the President of one bank and two or three cashiers of others. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Hermann has introduced a bill lo jay the Vaalem band of Tillaui'sik Indians $10,500 and interest since 1851. Delegate Rawlins of L'tah has intro duced a bill lo extend the time for mak ing proof on desert lands to five years. The siilM'omiuittee of the House Rank ing and Currency Committee has agreed lo report favorably the bill to issue cir culating notes to the full amount of the bonds deposited to secure circulation. In the. Senate Mr. Mitchell of Oregon introduced a bill providing for the ap propriation of $15,000 for a lighthouse at Cape Arago, Or,, and . 0,000 for range lights at the mouth of the Willamette river. Bland has introduced a new free-coinage bill, repelling that iortion of the bill of O lober, H7Ii, preventing the coinage of silver dollars and re-enacting the coinage ad of 1 HII7. I'.land expects the Commi"ee on Coinage will report an absolut fiee silver bill to the Ilou-e. 'Ihe pension bureau ollicials believe another nest of pension frauds has been di-covcred in New Orleans Thecliarac ter of I he opeiat ions an; believed lo lie identical with the Irauds in Norfolk, Va., and the newly-discovered cases at Buf falo. A special examiner is nowatwoik investigating. Captain Edmund Zalinski, the noted inventor of the iiuctimatic dynamite gun, is to be placed on the retired list of the arm v. The repoit of the Isiard of in my ollicers that, examined Captain Za linski at Governor's Island, New York Harbor, was received at the War Depart ment recently. In it the board recom mends that the Captain be retired on accoitiil of physical disability. The Ilou-e Committee on Indian Af fairs has a iium er of bills liefore it, and the intention of Chairman Holman is to commence active work as soon as jkjs Hible. Probably the most important measure is a bill introduced by Delegate Rawlins of Utah for the relinquishment of a portion of the Uintah and Uncom pahgre reservations in Utah. It is claimed that asphalt deposits, which are very valuable, are found on lands pro posed to be ceded. There will be great opposition in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to the resolution of Hittof Illinois on the ground that it would not be right, in view of a further promised communica tion from the Executive on the subject, for the House to give expression to the sentiments contained in the Ilitt resolu tion. Ilittwill make every elfort to se cure a favorable resirt from the com mittee of bis resolution; but, as it will take at least three Democratic votes to bring utMiut such a result, it is doubtful if he will be successful. A decision upon the alien contract law was rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Brewer. In the United States Court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania John S. and Jo seph Lees were fined $1,000 for violation of the law, and appealed, attacking the constitutionality of the act and the ju risdiction of the court. Justice Brewer announced that the Supreme Court found the law to be constitutional and the District Court had jurisdiction. But the proceeding against Lees being crim inal in its nature, the court below erred in compelling the defendants to give tes timony in favor of the government. This error w as sufficient to warrant a reversal of the judgment and to remand the case to a new trial. Since the resignation of J. J. Van Alen from the position of Ambassador to It aly, w hich took etlect November 25, the date of his second letter to the President on the subject, Mr. Cleveland has had little opportunity to consider the ap pointment of his successor. It is said, however, that he has thought the matter over and will not long delay sending the nomination of a new Ambassador to the Senate. The presence in Washington last week of Oscar Straus of New York has been coupled with the resignation of Mr. Van Alen, and some astute New York politicians give credence to the story that Mr. Straus may be selected. It is also stated that the name of Judge Lambert Tree of Illinois, ex-Minister to Belgium, will be presented to the Presi dent by Hon. Don M. Dickinson, if he has not already taken action. The contracts for three new gunboats have been awarded to the Newport News Company, ihe Board of Naval Ollicers having finished its considera tion of the plans. The Union Iron Works through its representatives made a strong effort to obtain a contract for one of the lioats. They offered to build the two larger vessels for $202,000 each, and made a similar reduction from their hid on the third vessel. The ships will be built by Huntington's Company for S2S0, 000 each. They are known as Nos. 7, 8 and S). As finally settled upon by the department No. 7 will be 220 feet long by 30 feet beam, of 1,201 tons dis placement and 14 knots speed; Nos. 8 and 0 will be 2 0 feet long by . 50 feet beam, of 1,313 tons displacement and and thirteen knots speed. All three will be twin-screw vessels with triple expansion engines, and will carry arma ment of six-pounders and under. It is not known definitely what the House Committee on Banking and Cur rency will do upon the bill to repeal the 10 per cent tax on State banks. A bill will be reported ns soon as a vote in the com mittee is reached. Of the seventeen members of the committee the six Re publicans, Springer of Illinois and Sperry of Connecticut will vote against report ing the bill. Johnson of Ohio, who was supposed to be doubtful, says he is against the bill, but will repoit it favor ably Irom the committee to get it before the' House. He thinks with a matter of this importance, in which so many mem bers are interested, the question should he brought before the House for consid eration, but will reserve the right to vote against the bill on the floor of the House. Several members who were for repeal before the-message have expressed them selves since as indifferent or believing it would not be wise to pass the measure now. FOREIGN FLASHES. Kx-King Milan I'reparinj? to Overthrow II is Son. THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY. The Amount of I'roporfy in London Insured in Fire Insurance Coiiipatiien Etc. Swiss Anarchist" are to be expelled. Russia may build a railroad to the Arctic Ocean. One-seventh of the land owners in Great Britain ate women. Jondoti Anarchists claim to have allie in the army, navy and police. Fifteen Anarchists will be tried at Bar celona for the fiendish Isjmb outrage. The influenza is epidemic in He"se, Get many, 10,0 0 cases being reported. Of this year's Russian conscription of 25.', 51)2 men only one-fourth can read or write. President Carnot is charged with not wanting a new Ministry created for awhile. Th" betrothal of the Czarow itz of Rus sia to Princess Ilelene of Orleans is im minent. The niece of John Morley has been converted to Catholicism, and will enter a convent. Influenza is stated to be raging terribly in Birmingham, and smallpox is also prevalent. The delimitation of the frontier of Ecuador and Peru will be submitted to arbitration. Friendly negotiations between Hon duras and Nicaragua have been tempora rily disturbed. There are indications that the phys ical force party in Ireland intend resum ing operations. Emperor WilKam is said to be negoti ating for the purchase of tlie American shxjp yacht Vigilant. The w ar office of England has directed all Sergeant instructors of volunteers to attend foot-ball matches. In some parts of Fngland barbed-wire fences are still classed as a nuisance, and their use is forbidden by law. The new French Ministry had a bare majority of thirty-one in the first en gagement with its opponents. A certain Peruvian heiress pafd Worth $24,000 for a gown trimmed with lace. Of this sum $23,000 was for the lace. Great swarms of locusts are devastat ing the country around Bloom fontein, the capital of the Orange Free State. Instead of using hair cloth an enter prising Parisian dressmaker has stiffened the skirt of a ball gown with aluminium. In spite of the notoriously bad condi tion of the Ita'ian finances the civil list of the country is the largest in Europe. Jerusalem has been modernized by a railroad, and now a concession to estab lish a water works is being demanded. The Hungarian vintage of the present year has turned out the worst since the appearance of the phylloxera and pero nospora. It is rumored in London that the de ficiencies in the Bank of England are about to be brought to the notice of Par liament. Last year according to the statistics recently compiled 24.000 men and 18,000 women left Japan to find homes for themselves abroad. All citizens of Ecuador now in Peru have been placed under German protec tection, owing to the departure of the Ecuadorian Minister. Iron visiting cards are among the lat est novelties in Germany. Forty placed one on the other are said to be only one tenth of an inch in thickness. A Marseilles (France) cable from a large importer of Russian wheat said: " Wheat very depre-sed because of large stocks and likely to continue so." During the last year the property in London insured by fire insurance com panies and the underwriters at Llovds amounted to more than $400,000,000." It is reported that Milan, ex-King of Servia, is preparing a coup to overthrow his eon, King Alexander, again ascend the throne and fill his own exhausted purse. Sir Thomas Esmond, M. P., is conduct ing a crusade against the English lan guage in County Cork, Ireland. The effort is to make the English language unpopuiar. The banking house of Du Fresne, one of the oldest established banks in Flor ence, Italy, has snpended payment. Era etaz, the manager of the bank, commit ted suicide. The Lord Mayor of London is manag ing a subscription for the benefit of the sufferers from the dynamite explosion at Santander, Spain. Lord Eosebery sent a check for $125. Lord Charles Beresford's proposal that within the next four years England shall expend 18,000,000 upon the navy has been received with friendly criticism by the Liberal press. The United Press correspondent in Paris has been authorized to contradict flatly and finally the report that the di vorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon is about to marry again. The following Italian Ministry has been formed : Zanardelli, Premier and Minister of the Interior; Baratiori, For eign Affairs; Fortis, Public Works; San Marzano, War; Kacchia, Marine; Coce ortu, Husbandry; Riseis, Posts and Tel egraphs; Vacchelli, Treasury; Gallo, Education; Eoselli, Finance. SELLING A SECONDHAND STOVE. Fiperlcnr nf Man Who Docldnd to Give Up III Flat. "Did you ever try to noil your heating; ntove when you gave up your fiat to send your diishuh out into tho country?" pathetically in quired a married man. "Well, if you're any way proud or fltuck up, it will bo good for you. You go to tho Btovo dealer to whom you paid $5 for 20 cents' worth of Russia iron pipo and half an hour'H work. You lay you guess you'll move into a ream heated flat in tho fall, and you don't caro about storing tho stove. lie knows it's a good stove, because ho told you so when he and you got tho landlord to put a jack on the chimney. " 'Oh, I never buy a secondhand stove,' ho says. You try other deal ers. They want to know where you got tho stove and look at you as if they thought you stole it. It's been a lesson to me. I'll never steal a stove, hot or cold, no matter how hard up I fjet. Too hard to get .rid of it. "So I went to a secondhand store. Dusty old place. Things in it nobudy would ever buy. Old man in there varnishing up a child's high chair. Told him I wanted to sell a heating stove. lie never 6aid a word for five minutes. I went on and described tho stove so that a total stranger would recognizo it if he met it on Droadway. Old man said nothing. I waited. Finally he looked up and asked : 'Well, what it is? What you ask for that stove?' I told him I didn't know exactly. I'd 6ell it cheap. "Old man said nothing. I gave him my address. I waited. " 'Well,' said the old man, 'some day I got nothings else to do I go me on that place. I got me no time to tell other peoples their business.' That's all he said to me. I can't be gin to tell you how insulting his manner was. The more I thought about it the madder I got. Half an hour later I went back and said to him in as bitterly sweet tones as I could get up: 'Although we may be unable to strike a bargain, I want to thank you for your gentlemanly treatment. I should like to meet you socially.' "Did it freeze him!" "Course not. 'Oh, that's all right,' he said and nodded his head patron izingly and went on varnishing the baby's high chair." New York World. Retutcltatlng the Apparently Drowned. A new method, the general princi ple of which is indicated by its name, "the traction of the tongue," has been introduced by Professor J. V. Laborde to revive those who have been rescued from a watery grave. It is exceedingly simple and has been attended with striking results. In a person who has been long immersed in water or otherwise asphyxiated it suffices to 6eize the tip of the tongue and pull upon the tongue rhythmically so as to cause rhyth mical traction in imitation of the respiratory rhythm. The process should be kept up for a long time. If it is successful, the person gives a deep sigh, and sometimes vomiting occurs, and after that, if the trac tion be continued, respiration is usu ally speedily restored. Professor Laborde has had occa sion to employ the process, and with almost invariable success, in cases of apparent death from drowning, and Dr. Billot has obtained excellent re sults in testing its efficacy in cases of 6ewer gas poisoning. The process has been used by Professor Laborde for some time in cases of apparent death under the action of chloro form in tho case of animab operated on in the laboratory. New York Telegram. The Poet and the Fishmonger. - I was in Grimsby not long ago, and went into one of the few fishmongers' shops in that capital of fishmongers en gros. The worthy shopkeeper was in a talkative mood, and among other things told me that he was under orders to send a small hamper of fish daily to Lord Tennyson. In support of this statement he produced a letter from the poet lau reate's residence, and in handing it to me he said: "It's not from the lord 'im self. It's from his son, Master 'Allani. 'Im wot's doing the poetry now. And," he added confidentially, "they do say as 'ow it isn't a patch on the old man's." 1 thought the worthy fishmonger's idea that as a matter of course Lord Tenny son's son, on his father's accession to other duties, would take over the poetry business, just as in due time his own son would succeed him in the fishmon gering line, sufficiently amusing to be chronicled. Cor. Pall Mall Gazette Five Living Grandfathers. 9 A little Caribou girl a short time ago had five grandfathers living on her father's side of the family. Maine can furnuh some good illustrations of re markable families. Bangor Commercial