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Late News.
A Marshfield (Or.) man is hiiine an
order for 200 flagpoles for the Midwinter
J) air. - . - "
. Sacramento is looking around lor a
new city hall. The present accommoda
tions are insufficient. .,..'
A court decision relieves Colorado of
all the liability for the issue of $400,000
in bonds by ban Diego.
Twenty or thirty miles below Eddy,
N. M., prospectors have come across
some tine Aztec ruins, and excavations
are to be made at once.
The shingle manufacturers of the Pa
cific Northwest are perfecting an organ
ization. Signatures of 75 per cent of the
manulactureis ot western Washington
have already been secured..
i It is stated at San Diego that Mayor
Carlson has obtained in the City of
. Mexico a concession and large bonus for
bunding a railroad across Lower Califor
. nia from San Diego to Yuma. -
All the wav east from Goler, the new
gold district in Kern county, Cal., to the
south end ot Death valley tne country
is being prospected. Hundreds of men
are scattered all over the region.
President Lillis of the Pacific Coast
Association of Fire Chiefs has issued a
call for the second annual meeting at San
Francisco February 6 to 9. Ex-Chief
Kellogg of Seattle is listed to read a
paper. , -
The City Council and Trades' Council
, at Tacoma ridicule the proposition of the
Chamber of Commerce to reduce munic
ipal salaries 50 per cent. The city's
funds will run out on March 1 under the
present rate of expenses, and additional
funds will not be available till July.
At San Jose, Cal., there has been filed
in the Superior Court a petition by
County Treasurer Joseph A. Lotz, ask-
ing that the trustees of the Leland Stan
ford (Jr.) University, Mrs. Jane L. Stan
ford, individually and as executrix of
Leland Stanford's will and other legacies
under said will, be cited to appear and
show cause why the tax on the amounts
of the collateral devises and bequests
provided for in the will have not been
paid. This is the first case brought un
der the State inheritance tax law passed
last March. "
Arthur Dudley Vinton, attorney for
the Prescott and Arizona Central, rail
road, has filed a petition for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad. The petition is very
voluminous, and consists mostly of a
recital of the numerous suits which he
has instituted against the Atlantic and
Pacific Company on behalf of the road
he represents, which quit business three
months ago. The petitioner incorporated
his disapproval of the appointment of
Reinhart and McCook as receivers ot the
Atchison Company. Beyond the filing
no action was taken on the petition.-
The n-1 earnings of the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation according to the re
ports of the Union Pacific have for sev
eral vears shown a deficiency after pay
ing the 6 per cent stipulated in the leaseJ
on the uregon jtiauway anu jaavigauuu
stock, and it is not thought the deficiency
can be overcome by the receivers of the
Union Pacific. The bondholders want
their interest, as is evidenced by the pe
tition of the Farmers' Loan and Trust
Company, the holder of a mortgage on
all tne property securing the bonds.
The question seems susceptible of three
resolutions, either the stockholders will
have to wait for their returns or the
court will have to order the deficiency
made up out of the other funds of the
Union Pacific or else set aside the lease.
Should the lease be set aside, it is said
' the Oregon - Railway and Navigation
would go into the hands of a receiver.
Railroad men say this would result in a
revision of rates. ......
The San Francisco Bridge Company
has made an assignment for the benefit
of creditors. The failure was precipi
tated by the loss of the big raft of piers
which the company tried to bring down,
from Coos Bay. It broke up off the
coast of Humboldt county, and became a
total loss. It is believed, however, that
the company has assets sufficient to
satisfy all creditors and resume business,
and that the assignment is really to gain
time. The assignment was made to
Sheriff McDade under the new law. He
has placed a keeper in charge of the
company's office. He has nothing to do,
however, but safely keep the property
until an assignee can be elected by the
creditors. An election must take place
within ten days, by which time the com
pany expects to see its way clear to re
sume business. The schedule of liabili
ties filed in the records office allows that
the company owes $172,822.28, nearly all
ef which it due to local banks and busi
est! koUSM." ' ' ." . I
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THE . MIDWINTER EXPOSITION
Weekly Circular Letter No. T.)
The work of preparation for the Ex
position has now reached a point where
the aesthetic ideas of the management
are beginning to hear fruit. All the
main buildings are .practically finished,
so far as the details of construction are
concerned, and now comes the matter
of decoration. Charles Graham, the
well-known artist better known, per
haps, in the East than in California on
account of his extensive experience with
the Harpers, and more recently with
the Columbian Exposition has been ap-
pointed as director of color for the Mid
winter Exposition, and to him falls the
duty or superintending the decoration
of the Exposition buildings. There has
been made no effort in this connection
to pattern after the Columbian Exposi
tion. . The term "White City" will
never be appropriately applied to this
Exposition. Mr. Graham's idea has
been to let delicate tints predominate,
and to so distribute and arrange these
that the peculiar atmospheric effects of
the California climate shall be utilized
to enhance their harmony and increase
their beauty. Warm tones are not par
ticularly necessary in the decoration of
any group of buildings in this glorious
clim.ite of California, and the darkness
of background afforded by the alm'ost
black foliage is a magnificent setting
for the delicate tints which are to pre
vail. ,
Some excellent effects have already
been partially produced on the main
buildings, although none of them are
yet to be seen in the fullness of perfec
tion. There will be a great deal of gold
in the scheme of color, although not
enough of it to give the architectural
group the name of the " Golden City,
The domes of the Administration build
ing will be heavily gilded, and the west
era sun, striking full upon them, will
undoubtedly play a very important part
in the picturesqueness of the pano
rama. Mr. Graham says that several
of the buildings of this Exposition sur
pass in perfection of detail and architec
tural development the buildings of the
Columbian Exposition, and that m the
line of opportunity offered for pictur
esque and landscape effects, the like has
never been seen in any exposition.
The ornamentation of' the grand
central court is also receiving a great
deal of attention just now. The elec
trical fountain is being installed in one
end, the basiu for the allegorical fount
ain is in place at the other, and the
sculpture will soon be ready to be put
in position. The electric tower has
reached a third of its height, and two
more weeks will see it completed.
Eight or ten inches of rich loam has
been spread over the entire surface of
the grand plaza, and on it will be sown
the seed of the flowers and foliage
which are to make this the mcit beau
tiful, spot in all the beautiful Golden
Gate Park. There, has already been
transplanted to this grand parallelo
gram a large number of bamboo plants
and date palms that have been artisti
cally distributed, and have made a
favorable impression on the public,
which warrants the assertion that the
picture to be presented within the lines
of the court, around which the main
buildings are situated, will be one of
surpassing loveliness. The Venetian
masts, several hundred in number,
which are to stand like a line of sol
diery around this court, are already in
position. These are to bear the nags of
all nations by day, and electric arc lights
at night; and between them the sun will
shine upon long lines of parti-oolored,
streamers, while the darkness of each
succeeding night will berelievedby
long lines of incandescent lights and
fancy lanterns in the development of
the carnival effects which have been
contemplated in this connection.
The work on the concessional build
ings is proceeding satisfactorily. The
exposition will be nearer ready on open
ing day than has been the case of any
large exposition in the history of the
world. The management of the Expo
sition are to te particularly congratu
lated on the fact that in the erection of
the 70 odd structures within the Expo
sition grounds, on which there has been
an aggregate expenditure of nearly
$1,000,000, there has, thus far, occurred
no labor trouble, no accidents, and not
even an alarm of fire.
The programme, for opening day has
not yet been completed, but the cere
monies will be of a character to war
rant the unbottling of all the enthusi
asm which San Francisco and the ad-
pining cities and towns have been get-
ing up for this occasion. It took the
business men of San Francisco a long
while to wake up to the importance of
this Exposition, but there is no longer
any room for criticism on this score,
and it is safe to say that when opening
day shall arrive the city will be more
gaily decorated and its inhabitants, will
turn out more universally than on any
other occasion that has marked the his
tory of California.
A feature of the Exposition which has
now been fully developed is that which
is to include the display of citrus fruit
from different parts of the state. There
are in the state two citrus fair associa
tions that of Southern California and
that of. the Northern, citrus counties.
Both these fairs will be held this year
in connection with the Midwinter Ex
position, ajjd it will be interesting
Eastern people to know that these grand
displays of oranges and lemons are
made in the months of January and
February. The management ' of the
state citrus fair northern . district has
just announced its dates rto be from Jan,
15 to Feb. 15, and that of Southern
California will be on at the same time.
In addition to these citrus displays
Fresno county has completed arrange
ments to orect a, model of . her court
house to be constructed , of -oranges and
raisins, so that Eastern, visitors will see
more wonderful displays of the golden
fruit than has ever been made else-
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Information has reached the Treasury
Department from the Appraiser of Mer
chandise at the port of Chicago that the
transportation companies have failed to
take away rapidly the portion of mer
chandise at the World's Fair intended
for exportation ; consequently there are
now at least 20,000 packages lying in the
buildings, which cannot be removed by
December 31. The Collector has accord
ingly asked that the time be extended
for holding the buildings as a construct
ive bonded warehouse, and the exposi
tion omeials have agreed to provide suit
able police supervision for the customs
interests during the period over which
the customs control shall be maintained,
In consideration of these facts the Treas
ury Department has instructed the Col
lector to continue in control of the goods
referred to until further instructions are
given him. It is said this condition is
the result of bad faith on the part of the
railroad companies, who promised to re
turn the goods to the seaboard free if the
railroad charges were paid one way. Now
that the fair is over they are indifferent
to the matter, and are using their own
convenience . and giving other freight
preference. t
A subiect which will receive some con-
sideration at the hands of the Committee
on Appropriations of the House at this
session of Congress is embodied in a bill
introduced by Ssayres, its Chairman, en
titled " a bill to repeal certain laws re
lating to permanent and indefinite appro
priations." .Bins having this object in
view have appeared perennially during
tne past ten years, out tor various rea-
sons have failed of enactment. The ob
ject of recalling these permanent appro
priations and having Congress pass upon
matters covered oy them each year is
that it will conduce to a more thorough
and careful examination of the items of
appropriation than are obtainable under
the present system bv which accounts
are audited and passed upon by account
ing officers, and where no opportunity is
leit lor scrutiny Dy the congressional
committee. At the same time objection
is made against the changes proposed bv
the bill because of the injustice that
would result to claimants entitled to the
amounts paid them under 'the present
system without recourse to specific Con
gressional legislation. The bill now be
fore the committee excludes from its
provisions the various laws therein spec-
ned, including the sinking lund and
other appropriations under which
amounts to many million dollars, rough
ly estimated at aDout one-third of the
total permanent appropriations. The
total annual permanent appropriations
tor the nscal year 1894 were $113,444 680,
and it is estimated for 1895 at $101,074,-
680. The committee has referred the
bill to Secretary Carlisle for, his views on
the changes proposed, and accounting
olhcers of the department will be asked
to suDmit their opinions belore any rec
ommendation is made in the matter by
the Secretary.
Ihe air of mystery assumed bv the
senate committee on f oreign Keiations
in its Hawaiian investigation gives the
impression that Morgan's resolution.
under which the inquiry is held, is
merely a cloak for a much more impor
tant inquiry than any as to the alleged
irregularity ot our diplomatic relations
with those islands. There is reason for
believing that while presumably the
present quest is lor information bearing
upon the conduct of Stevens and Blount
there will.be an effort at the same time
to obtain any information which will in
the first place prove the capability of the
islands for self-government, and in the
second the desirability or otherwise of
annexing these islands at some time in
the future. It is understood perfectly
by members of the committee who might
have these in view that there is no hone
of annexing the islands under the pres
ent administration, but those who favor
this disposition of the little kingdom do
not intend to be swerved from their pur
pose bv the fact that one administration
s opposed to this course. Senator Mor
gan, Chairman of the committee, has
been scrupulously careful about express
ing opinions upon the Hawaiian ques
tion, or mam testing a disposition to do
or say anything which would appear
extra-judicial, but he is known to be a
tirm Deiiever in the wisdom of attaching
the islands to this country as a part of
it, just as Alaska is at present attached,
and the fact that he has very recently
introduced a bill in the Senate "providing
a form of government for any acquired
territory lends plausibility to the sup
position that he is looking forward to
possibilities far beyond anything in
cluded in the resolution under which' the
committee is authorized to conduct the
present hearing. As a plausible ex
planation of the origin of the bill, and
without some end like the acquisition of
Hawaii, it is difficult to find anv reason
for its existence. Those who know" Mor
gan best say he is not the man to attempt
to secure legislation that would fit a tup
position. It would appear that when
the committee reports it will,, so far as
Morgan can. direct the character of the
report, smooth over the events witi.'
which they are concerned. Meantitne
Minister Thurston, now in Hawaii, will
have been heard from as to the capacitv
of the present government for tempor
arily managing the affairs of the islands,
and the information, with the corrobor
ating testimony which the committee
will be able to get together in the mean
time, may have an important bearing
upon the future of the committee's in
vestigations.
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Carbonate camp of the Leadville
district is producing $10,500 worth of
gold a day.
. There is in. preparation ft history of
the World's Fair which will retail at $1,-
000 per copy.; ,
; Four Duval (Tex.) train robbers have
been sentenced to thirty-five years ; in
the penitentiary. ;
It is reported that John D. Rockefeller
has made another gift of $1,000,000 to
the Chicago University. .
It is believed the severance of the Gulf
system from the Union Pacific was a
mistake in the latter road.' ' i
Edward S. Stokes has been appointed
receiver of the Hoffman House and
other property belonging to his estate,
The creditors of the Kentucky Malt
ing Company will get za cents on the
dollar. Liabilities, $500,000 ; assets,
$180,000. - v , : ,5
The Denver jury in the case of John
Shevnon against the estate of hi? daugh
ter, tne late countess casseii, returned
a verdict for $28,000. : '
It is asserted at the Treasury Depart
ment that, there will be an immediate
and general shake-up of the officials of
the JNew York custom-house. . , ;
The Boston Municipal League, a non
partisan and non-sectarian body, which
will oppose bad nominations for munici
pal offices, has been organized. t
Superintendent Andrews of the insane
asylum at Buffalo has declared Edward
M. Field, son of the late Cyrus W. Field,
sane, and he will be taken back to New
York to stand trial. 1
Commissioner Thomas J. Dowling :of
New York bureau of labor statistics has
sent out 10,000 circulars to manufactur
ers with the intention of discovering the
cause of hard times. 2 , ; - '
Dr. F. A. Cook of Brooklyn, the eth
nologist who accompanied. Lieutenant
feary to lireenland in 1891-2, is prepar-,
ing to explore the Antarctic continent or
archipelago next fall. ;
General Solicitor Thurston of the Union
Pacific says there s no truth in the re
port that the Union Pacific intends Jto
take steps to bring the Gulf road back
into the overland system.
Congressman Hilbo'rn has introduced
bill to pension Mrs. Edward Junger-
man of San Francisco, who, when 10
years of age, acted as nurse in General
Hooker's army at Gettysburg. j
The Bourbon distillers' of Kentucky
believe tne liquor tax win De increased.
and are prepariag to take advantage of
it. It will advance the price by 10 cents
a gallon ot the entire stock on hand. :
The Canadian Pacific will not agree
restore transcontinental rates unless a!
lowed a differential. The other lines
will not agree to this, and the nrosoect
ot war Is growing stronger every day,
xne annual report oi the Lake Khore
and Michigan Southern tor the year end
ing ue ember 31, 1893, shows net earn
ings of 16,624,769, a decrease of 15.231
The surplus is $286,779, a decrease of
$15,232.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the University of Chicago it was de
cided to locate the Yorkes Observatory
at Lake Geneva, Wis., and the construc
tion will commence as soon as the
weather permits. (
It has been decided that bond invest
ment companies can no longer do busi
ness legally in Texas, and State officials
have taken steps to prevent the transac
tion of business of such a character
within the State.
The grand jury at Dubuque, la., has
returned twentv-eight indictments
against Van Leuven for pension frauds,
and other indictments were returned
against Drs. Pegg and Kissel, members
ot the examining board.
An importing house at New York will
place California wines on the market
and sell them on their merits. Hereto
fore it has not been an easv thing to pur
chase , California clarets under their
proper names of vintages in that market.
Secretary Herbert has restored Com
modore Stanton to dutv. and assigns him
to the command of the North Atlantic
squadron. The Secretary says the de
partment never thought the Commodore
did an intentional wrong when he saluted
the flag of the insurgent De Mello at Rio
de Janeiro. His offense was an error of
udgnient.
The reception to ex-President Harri
son at the Union League Club, Philadel
phia, was a success in every way. Rep
resentatives of everv class and both par
ties attended, and Cnited States Sena
tors andRepresentatives, the Governor
and his executive staff and members of
the Legislature were among the 1,500
who paid their respects to the ex-Presi
dent.
The Business Men's Convention at
Denver adopted a resolution that Colo
rado had almost entirely recovered from
the ettect of the panic, and while the
State had been grievously wounded bv
the demonetization of silver, her other
resources, such as gold, coal and agri
culture, were developing wonderfully,
and the calling together of the Legisla
ture now would do more harm than good.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracv says
that in two years from now France and
Russia, will have fifty modern battle
ships of 440,000 tons displacement
against thirty-one of 314,000 tons dis
placement for England. Gladstone in
Parliament spoke elurringly of Tracy's
opinion, but Tracy reiterates it and says
he believes the French battle ships su
perior to the English both in guns and
armor. .
A dinner was given to Robert Bonner
at New York, which furnished an oppor
nitv for the presentation to Mr. Bonner
of a beautiful statuette of his mare Su-
ol, which was bought with subscrip
tions of a large number of representa
tive breeders of trotting horses for pre
sentation to Mr. Bonner in token of
their appreciation of his active efforts in
encouragement of breeding the highest
forms of trotting stock.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Fish are disappearing from the British
coast.
Russia has no foreign insurance com
panies.
The Behring Sea arbitration tribunal
cost France $9,000.
Six anarchists have been expelled
trom uuenos Ayres.
The Socialist associations of Sicily
count 300,000 members. -
The London Times says England must
rule the seas or cease to exist.
Hundreds of poor are threatened with
starvation at irzeroum, Armenia.
Liverpool is disturbed over the pros
pects of sharp rivalry by Manchester.
Captain O'Shea, the former husband
of Mrs. Parnell, is in financial straits
Germany and France are steadily stif
fening and expanding their protectional
poncy.
Forty thousand francs have been sub
scribed for the Gounod memorial fund
in Paris. V
Liverpool will reduce dock rates to
meet the competition of the Manchester
ship canal.
France is disturbed by heavy importa
tions oi American corn, and will legis
late against it.
The Hungarian Prime Minister has
succeeded in re-establishing a loyal court
in juua-x'esui.
Mrs. Parnell is busily engaged in writ
ing tne lite ot Charles Stewart Darnell.
her deceased husband. , :
Esther Palliser,' a young American
cantatrice, will shortly start on. a concert
tour through uermany.
Captain Longbridge of Birmingham.
.caiKiauu, ns uesigueu a uecK Keei as
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substitute for the center-board. 1 .
During the last twentv-five vears the
Berlin Asylum for the Destitute has
taken care of 2,464,560 persons. -
A scheme has been prepared for the
electric railway between Milah, Constan
tino and Uued-Atmema, Algeria. ;
Permission has been granted for the
establishment of a telephone system be
tween frontier towns of France and Ger
many. vaniant, who. dropped the bomb in
the French Chamber of Deputies, says
it ne is acquitted he will " begin again
within ten days." . - - .
The London Westminster Gazette esti
mates the recent loss of the Bank of En
gland at not over 150,000. The Daily
JNews places it at not over 300,000.
The Presbyterian Church in Paris has
emerged victorious from a protracted le
gal conflict with the city authorities over
the question of a government grant.
Of 200 veteran soldiers poisoned by
eating putrid meat recently at an annual
banquet at St. Petersburg 160 are still in
a serious condition, and thirty-six have
died.
There are now fifty-five towns and
cities in England which destroy their
garbage and solid refuse by burning, and
ovo furnaces are employed for this pur
pose. About 40,000 tramps, it is estimated.
are traveling over Germany all the year
round. This army consists mostly of
mechanics, temporarily . unemployed,
who are looking for work.
Millions of trees have been felled to
the ground in' Scotland by the recent
great storm which swept over the United
Kingdom. The Duke of Sutherland lost
about 500,000 trees of various kinds.
ine .Burgomaster of .Brussels has or
dered the formation of a cyclist corps in
connection with the local fire brigade for
the purpose oi carrying the first aid to
the persons in danger through an out
break. . ( .:. ' , . ,
rrobably the longest liquidation in
history is thatof Overend, Gurney &
Co. of Iondon, who failed May 10, 1866,
and which was only settled at the com
mencement of this month. The concern
owed $55,000,000.
The Prussian Minister of the Interior,
Count zu Eulenburg, has sent a secret
circular to the Presidents of districts,
warning them of the spread of Social
ism and asking them to take all possible
means to check it. . . ,
Venice, where oysters were years ago
cheap and plentiful, has been compelled
to oner a reward for the conviction of
persons found dredging out of season.
The oyster merchant of Venice has al
most disappeared. ,
The best report of the Pope's health
says that he has aged considerably and
trembles ; but there is no more cause for
alarm than when bis physicians declared
nve or six years ago that the end might
come suddenly at any moment.
It is stated that Prince Bismarck has
sold his memoirs to a South German
publisher for . $120,000. The work will
probably appear shortly after the Prince's
death, and will be published outside the
fatherland. .': ...... ,. . ,
A woman's journal is now published
in Alexandria, Egypt, with articles in it
written exclusively by women. It is
called El Fatat ("the young woman"),
and is edited by a Syrian lady, Miss
Hind Noufal.
Experiments just made at Munich
have demonstrated the fact that bullets
discharged from a rifle in the usual way
can be rendered vehicles of infection,
carrying microbes and infecting what
ever they strike. " ' . '- ' V . '1
The opening of the Manchester (En
gland) ship canal marks the completion
of one of the greatest of engineering en
terprises. A city fifty miles inland is
thereby made a seaport with a harbor of
114 acres and 5, miles of quay.
Arrangements are being made bv the
British war office in connection with the
colonial office for a military expedition,
to be formed at Sierra Leone, to proceed
against the stronghold of the Sofas, who
have lately given some trouble to West
African traders.
THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER.
Tang Tn Is a Peroon of Considerable Im
- portance at Home and Abroad.
A very influential personage in the Flow
ery Kingdom is Mr. Yang Yu, the new
Chinese minister plenipotentiary and envoy
extraordinary to the United States, Spain'
and Peru. Besides belonging to a family
of distinction, he has great wealth in city
real estate, mining property and rice plan
tations and is altogether a man whom the
authorities of his native land delight to
honor. As minister to three countries he
possesses great power, appointing all his
official subordinates, subject to the confir
mation of the emperor. ,
' MINISTER YANG TV.
Minister Yu is of distinguished appear
ance and bearing, comporting himself with
the easy air of a man born to authority. He
is 53 years of age, rather above the medium
height, stoutly built and weighs about 190
pounds. He knows no language but Chi
nese, but that fact is not expected to inter
fere with his diplomatic usefulness, as he
has hod much experience in statecraft and
will be assisted by very able interpreters
Chinese graduates of our own best univer
sities, one of them, Mun Yew Chung, hav
ing been cockswain of the Yale boat crew.
The minister brought with him the most
numerous and most gorgeously attired suit
that ever attended a foreign functionary in
this country. Besides his v.-1 To and three
children, it consisted of 4U officials of va
rious grades, several of them also accom
panied by their wives, and 86 servants. The
diplomats are assigned by the minister to
posts in the various countries under his
iurisdiction. They come from all parts of
China and are all of influential families
and well educated. , None of them knew in
advance to what post he was to be sent.
Mr. Yu is credited with entertaining a
Very friendly feeling for the United States
and is said to be anxious to maintain cor
dial relations between our Kovernment and
his own.'. He possesses the complete con
fidence of the Chinese court, and having
had-eharge of some vt the-most important-
customs districts in the empire bos been .
brought more or less in contact with con
suls and other government officials from all
parts of the world. i
Ho Wanted to Be Sure.
"I went down to Indiana not long
ago," said a Michigan Central engineer
"to the reporter, "to see my folks, who
bve in a small town on a branch road
that is about the worst I ever saw. At
a way station a Hoosier came aboard,
and' a few minutes after he had curled
up in the corner of a seat the conductor
came along. '"-: ' -
" 'I say, conductor,' he inquired, is
this train running now?
" 'Of course it is, said the conductor,
taking his ticket.
"Then he relapsed again, and in about
fifteen minutes he beckoned to the con
ductor. " 'Is this train running now? he asked
as before. " '
"'Course it is. What's the matter
with you? said the conductor angrily.
" 'Don t git mad about it, urged the
passenger mildly. 'I don't . mean no in
sult. This yer train runs so slow that I
can't tell when it's goin and when it
ain't, and I've got to git off at the next
station er the weddin that's set fer 0
o'clock won't take place, that's all. 1
ham t nothin ag in you ner the road, but
I'm jist a leetle mite anxious about
landin in time fer the occasion, you un
derstand.' "The conductor apologized and the pas
senger was duly deposited at the ap
pointed place." Detroit Free Press.
Bought Old Pipe.
A valuable pipe that belonged to the
late Lawrence Barrett had carved on its
bowl an ideal head of Ophelia. The
collecting of pipes was one of Barrett's
hobbies, and he was often seen in some
of the New York establishments looking
up what he could nnd in the way of odd
pipes. The pipes he usually - bought .
were old ones that had been colored by
other people. Collector. " 1
Therapeutlo Electricity.
The ordinary electric bath is one of -
the best means of stimulating and re
freshing a patient in a debilitated state
of health. One singular result is the re
moval of metallic poisons from the body. -This
is effected by electrolysis. The me-
tallic poison will be found in the water
after thirty minutes' sitting. New York .
Telegram. '
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Diet of the Guachos Indians.
The Guachos of the Argentine Repub ¬
lic live entirely on roast beef and salt, ;-
icarcely ever tasting farinaceous or
other vegetable food, and their sole
beverage is mate or Paraeuay tea taken
without sugar. Gentleman's Magazine.
Angel Cake ' .
Chop up green apples, raisins, bananas
in quantities to suit; stick them in dough.
Feed to the children and the angel part
will materialize. American Grocer.
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