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- f Glacier. The Hooc Kiver .. " v " ' It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 6. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 14, 1894. NO. 7. 1 ..... . . : 2Xeed: Iiver (5 lacier. PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING BT The Glacier Publishing Company. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK. On. year 2 00 Six months ., 1 Of Three months , , 60 8ni;le copy i Cent THE GLACIER Grant Evans, Propr. Second St., near Oak. Hood River, Or. Shaving and Hair-cutting neatly done. Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE MONGOLIANS. Enforcement of Deportation . to be Resisted. SALMON OF THE COLUMBIA. Cannerymen Well Satisfied With the Present Prospect Fishermen Want ; . the Whisky Soows Removed. Astoria, Oh. Cannerymen are pretty well satisfied with the way salmon have been coming in daring the past few days, and nearly all are confident that the pack will not be much more than 60,000 cases below last year's figures. The traps have been securing large quantities , of blueba'cks and steelheads in spite of the fact that the water is still muddy. Usually the gill netB alone ate successful until the iresnet season has passed, ana for this reason it is believed these varie ties of fish are running in a manner which is phenomenal. Few, if any, of the fishermen use nets with meshes sur ficiently small to capture a fish weighing Barber Shop to be expected that the seines and wheels will make large hauls from this time on. ' An agitation is on foot among the fisher , men here, having for its object the re moval of all the whisky scows from the river. The reason for this lies in the fact that many of the fatalities that have occurred on the river for years past have been the result of drunkenness. The ' scow owners in carrying on their busi : . ness- anchor their floating saloons near .. the most popular fishing grounds, and ., reap a rich harvest by exchanging cheap -whisky for salmon. In this way the - lishermen who are addicted to drinking .'. are frequently without means at the dose of the season, if in the meantime " they are fortunate enough to escape . drowning while intoxicated. PARKE LACY COMPANY. V It Brings Suit in California to Recover ,'. ' Insurance Money. " ; San Francisco, Cal. The Parke & Lacy Machinery Company of Portland, . Or., has commenced a number of suits j in theSuperior Court of this city and county against the following insurance companies: National Fire Insurance Company of Hartiord, Hamburg-Bremen , Fire Insurance Company of Hamburg, the Imperial Insurance Company of London, the Palatine Insurance Oom pany (limited) of Manchester, the Ph nix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., tlie Niagara Insurance Company of : Philadelphia, the Transatlantic tire In surance Company of Hamburg, Western .Assurance Company of Toronto, Scottish Union and National Insurance Company of .Edinburgh and the Insurance Com pany of North America. Suits are brought against each individual company tfor amounts aggregating $42,5u0. It ap pears that the Parke & Lacy Machinery "Company's lumber mill at Snoqualmie, Wash., which was insured in the various oompanies, was burned down December 27, 1893. Proofs of loss were made Jan mary 4, 1894, and appraisers were set to work, one for the plaintiff and the other for the defendant companies. As the two appraisers failed to agree, a third one was appointed, and the three found that the sum of $34,115 was justly due the owners of the Snoqualmie mill. , For some unaccountable reason no payment of loss has ever been made, and so suit lias now been entered. i ' Pardoned by Pennoyer. Salem, Or. Governor Pennoyer has pardoned from the penitentiary the fol lowing prisoners : S. F. Murphy, sen tenced from Baker county February last to one year for embezzlement as City Treasurer of the sum of $4,119 ; James Hards, sentenced from Jackson county May, 1893, to a term of fifteen years for manslaughter: George Newbill, from Yamhill county March last to one vear . for grand larceny; Ed F.Lewis, from , uau uuuuij ',"" , for forgery; Georgia White and Jennie ' , ; Morgan, from Portland February last to - two years for larceny from the person of An Alleged Gold Discovery.. , Ban Diego, Cal. There is excitement ; at Campo over the discovery of quartz and plaoer mines on the edge of the des- -ert, sixty miles east of Campo, on the ... Picecho trail. ;,. NORTHWEST BREVITIES. Washington. The telephone has reached Monte Cristo. - . , ' The Everett paper mill has been rein corporated at $560,000. .. , , Burglars and thieves, says the Seattle Telegraph, are tearing the town to pieces. The First Congregational Church of Tacoma has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Ellensburg city bonds, $33,000 sold in Spokane, brought par less 5 per cent commission to the broker. The impoverished condition of Che halis countv finances prevents the teachers from holding their annual in stitute, and it has been indefinitely postponed A long line of prairie schooner passed through Spokane recently, containing a Nebraska .colony bound, fr somewhere on tne sound. The curfew ordinance is to be enforced in Walla Walla, and hereafter when the fire bell rings at 8 o'clock all bovs under 10 must be off the street. The outcome of- the Roy Hurlburt Mary Busby seduction case at Colfax was that the young man goes to the pen itentiary for a year and the girl to the Cnenaiis reform school. Adams county will- produce an enor mous wheat crop this year. The rains made their appearance at the proper time, and tne outlook is tne most en cou raging one for many years. School Clerk W. C. Clark of Garfield. Whitman county, has completed the cen sus of the school children within that district, and has found a total of 227. This is twenty-five short of what it was last season for some reason. Samuel Crump, proprietor of the SpO' kane soap works, has made a close studv of vegetable oils, and is now experiment . ... . . - ing with sunflowers, peanuts and castor beans at tne ranch ot s. (Jonway at Ken newick. , Mr. Crump thinks that raising sunflowers can be made a profitable in dustry in the btate, and an immense market can be obtained for the oil from the seeds, which can be largely used in the manufacture of soap. . Captain Symons, United States engin eers. nas received orders to maxe a sur vev and estimate for a fresh water har bor, of the greatest practicable depth at .Everett. Tins is a joo mat would cost a verv large amount if it were ever carried out. Seattle also wants a fresh water harbor, to cost $2,000,000 or $3,000,000. The advantages of a fresh water harbor where the teredo will not destroy all the wharves every two or three years are understood by sound people, and are appreciated by ship owners. ... " Oregon. About 200,000 dozen of eggs are shipped from Albany each year. , -' Yamhill county's Sheriff will turn over to his successor $7,189. Some $20, 000 taxes are yet unpaid. ; , There is talk of forming a company and starting a pulp mill on the upper Necannicum. There is plenty of suitahie timber and an abundance of water. There are 367 persons in the peniten tiary now, 130 being employed in the stove foundry. There is only one wom an, Emma Rice from Multnomah county. The reform school agitation is still a live topic in the Salem papers. Some members of the grand jury are out in severe criticisms, to which Superintend ent Hendricks replies with some spirit. The whistling ibuoy off the Coos Bay bar is water-logged, having been run into by some vessel. The Manzanita exam ined the buoy, and will bring appliances from Portland to raise it and make the necessary repairs. Some unknown individual has been circulating counterfeit five-dollar pieces throughout Southern Oregon during the past few weeks. They are very pour im itations, being much lighter in weight, and would deceive no person should their attention be drawn to the matter. The date on them is 1881. A contract hfis been made for 6,000 tons of the Yaquina stone to be used in another San Francisco building. The steam schooner Scotia is at Yaquina after a load of stone, and will be kept busy in this trade the greater part of the summer. A steam derrick is to be erected at Yaquina to expedite the transfer of the stone from the cars to the vessel. The new channel machine for use at the quarry and the first to be used in the State has arrived and is now in operation, and will vastly increase , the rapidity with which stone can be turned out. One of the contracts for supplying a San Francisco firm calls for 63,000 cu bic feet of the stone. Reports from the hop yards in Oregon indicate bright prospects of a large yield. Lice are appearing in few yards, and are not so numerous in those as to cause ap prehension for the safety of the crop. But another formidable and unexpected pest has begun operations, the tent cat erpillar, which has been so numerous and destructive in the orchards. In some parts these have attacked the hop yards, making rapid havoc among the plants. Owners of yards are making every effort to exterminate the pests by making a good strong spray solution. . Only a few small yards have as yet been attacked, and if successfully resisted in those, the Oregon output will not be materially af fected. Major Post, United States engineers, is preparing to have a complete survey of the mouth of the Columbia and its channel made as soon as practicable, to ascertain what effect has been produced b the flood He has aiready had the jettv examined, and finds that it has sustained no damage except tne loss o; one pil,( carried away by the drift. It It ia expected that the channel will be widened and deepened by the vast volume of water passing out of the river. The dikes put in by the Port of Portland Commission have had a chance to exert their utmost influence, and probably the current has made various changes in the channel, but on the whole the navigation of the river is likely to be uch improved. RANT OF A BRUTE Most Gloats Over the Death o ,v the French President. REMARKS ABOUT THE CZAR, The Dead President is Referred o as a Hog by the Leader of Communistic . Anarchy in the Metropolis. New York. Herr Most, the leader of communistic anarchy in Park Row, waB located the other day-in a saloon, where he was eating his lunch. " What do I think of Carnot's death? Well, I think the hog should have been stuck long ago, You don't see any mourning band around my hat, do you? Well, neither would you tee any if the whole brood of autocratic hogs were butchered, all in a heap. They ought to be given their quietus in droves of forty or fifty. Not that Carnot was any particularly luminous mark to aim at. He was not exactly what one would call a despot, but the big, overgrown pig scrawled ms name to every document that steeped honest folks deeper and deeper into slavery. ,It was right; it was just; it was glorious to extinguish such a life. The Czar," he added, ''well. his time will come, too. It costs about $4,000,000 a year to hedge that hog's life around with safeguards, out with all pre' cautions he finds every day some such pleasant souvenir as a death's-head painted on his bed curtain or a dagger stuck under his bed. tie's tne hog with the biggest grunt, and some day he'll have to go like vour Carnots and your other beasts. Herr Dowe's bullet-proof coat-of-mau will not avail him. He'll be reached, though he sit intrenched within a tower of steel a thousand feet thick. And as for your brood of conspir ators 1 want to say," continued Herr Most in a crescendo voice as he rose from the table, having finished his meal, " vou are not vour own masters I know. You are slaves of bier combines that send you hither and thither to do this and that. Jo-day you are sent to interview an anarchist, the next day a hog of a so called statesman, and the third day you report the execution ot some other mur derer; but mar); you, though you are slaves, I give you warning that if vou do not treat us with greater fairness than you nave been doing, slave or no slave, you will gome day come in contact with the knife's edge and in a way that will not please you.' ' BJJSUIT OV IHK ASSASSIN ATOX. Bill Introduced In the House by Stone to Punish Anarchists. . Washington, D. C.-Wm. A. Stone, a member of the Judiciary Committee, has presented the following bill in the House, which was referred to the Judi ciary Committee : " That any person or persons who shall belong to or who shall be appointed or designated by any soci ety or organization existing in this coun try or in any foreign country, wnicn pro vides in writing or verbal agreement, understanding or countenance, for the taking of human life unlawfully, or for tfie unlawful destruction ot buildings or other property where the loss of human. life is the probable result of sucn de struction of property, shall be deemed an anarchist. . Any person or persons being anarchists, as defined by the first section of this act, who shall attempt the lie of any person holding office, elective or appointive, under tne constitution and laws of the United States, or who shall attempt the destruction of build- ngs or properties where the loss of life of any such official would be the prob able result of such destruction of build ings or property, shall upon trial and conviction of such offense in any Circuit or District Court of the district where such offense was attempted be sentenced to death by hanging, which sentence shall be executed by the Marshal of the district in accordance with the sentence of the Judge before whom the case was tried." , ,. . Precautions to Protect Cleveland. Washington, D. C. Extra precau tions have been taken to guard the Pres ident from dangerous or troublesome visitors. ' The guards around the execu tive mansion were doubled during the Coxey excitement, but recently there was a relaxation and tne policemen wno were regularly detailed for duty in and about the White House were sent away on special service. There was a confer ence the other day between uoionei vv 11- son, Commissioner of ruonc fundings and Grounds, and Private Secretary Thurber, and after discussing the assas sination of President Carnot it was de cided that it would be prudent to take steps to protect the President from a poesible invasion of cranks or sensation alists. It is said the President is not alarmed or seriously disturbed by the fate of the late President of the French Republic, yet his friends and advisers feel justified in throwing around him greater safeguards than have existed heretofore. ;. A Large, Fat Fee. Lincoln, Neb. The Supreme Court has handed down an opinion in the cel ebrated case of the Fitzgerald fe Mallory Construction Company against the Mis souri facihc railroad, it nas been in the courts for almost six years, and the judgment, $764,942, with interest at 7 per cent from December 16, 891, is a good advance on what Judge Tibbetts found due, $720,573. John Fitzgerald is the man who has been pushing the case, and he will receive about $200,00(f out of the verdict, NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS. A large number of petitions for open ing lands of national parks of California for the accommodation of sheepherders have been received at the Interior De partment. In the discussion the other day by the House Committee on the Pacific railroad funding bill it was practically decided to abandon the feature of the plan proposed by Attorney-General Olney, that permit ted a reorganization of the company, in case it was not satisfied to continue on the basis of the plan adopted; . The' Attorney-General has sent to the Senate through the Secretary of the Treasury a request for a deficiency ap propriation of $125,000 in lieu of $50,000 asked for some time ago. This amount will be used to meet the expenses in curred by the United States Marshals in the arrest and punishment of Coxeyites : .- AT TTT j. f A in me west, ior stealing trains. Senator Sherman has introduced resolution in the Senate, which went over under the rules, instructing the Committee on Interstate Commerce to inquire into the expediency of regulat ing by law the employment and use of sleeping and parlor cars now owned by railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce, the cost of operating them, the charges made for their use and what ought to be reasonable charges for the seats, berths and sections in euch cars. A request for troops subiect to call has been forwarded by Secretary Smith to the Secretary of War on the ground that parties are preparing to overrun the Blackfoot Indian reservation in Mon tana. The communication incloses a re port of Indian Commissioner Browning, stating that the Indian police force will be unable to keep these parties from the reservation, and recommends that two troops 6f cavalry be furnished on the the call of Agent Coe. The department has decided to allow no prospecting on the reservation. Kyle of Mississippi is evidently not accustomed to hearing discussions in volving the expenditure of vast sums of money. In the Mississippi Legislature the appropriation of $50,000 would be called reckless extravagance. Conse quently he has been greatly astonished at the manner in which the Representa' tives talk about this government indors ing Huntington's railroad bonds for $134,000,000, $70,000,000 for the Nicara gua canal, millions for rivers and har bors and hundreds of thousands for pub lie buildings. The other day, when the House was considering an appropriation bill carrying a big sum of money for sub sidy to a Southern railroad for carrying the mail on a fast train, he turned to one of his colleagues and drawled out in his dry way " Golly, these fellers - talk about dollars just as we do about goober nuts down in our country." In coast and geodetic survey circles on both coasts there are much interest and feeling with, regard to"the war which is being waged on Superintendent Menden hall bv various persons. Carlisle would like to have Mendenhall's plaoe in order a - ' li A v : ... . j tt i vu give li iu uiie ui uih ineiiua. o lias been unable to do this, and has been an noying him in various ways. Carlisle appointed so many men over the Super intendent's head that Mendenhall, who found these appointments incompetent. finally sent in his resignation to the President in order that either he might terminate his connection with the sur veyor have it settled that he should have some jurisdiction over his subordinates in determining their fitness for office. Cleveland has been friendly to Menden hall, and has several times said he did not intend to have him disturbed. It is thought that the President will decide the matter in favor of Mendenhall. The amended sugar schedule, which will .probably be offered when the tariff L!I1 ' i.l ! il CI a I. 1 Din is laseu up in we senate, nas Deen Eut in shape by Jones, it was accepted y all to whom it was shown except Blanchard. The amendment as prepared changes the date when the sugar sched ule shall go into effect from the 1st of January to the time of the passage of the hill, and Drovides for a continuation of a part of the bounty for the present year, giving nine-tenths of a cent bounty per pound on sugar testing above 90 de grees by the polariscope and eight-tenths on sugar testing below 90 degrees and above 80 degrees. The Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to refrain from, imposing the additional duty of one-tenth of a cent on sugar imported from countries paying an export bounty where it was demonstrated to his satis faction the producer has not received the bounty.. Senator White expects to call up after the passage of the tariff bill his measure providing for the payment of the civil war claims of California, Oregon and Nevada. By the terms of the bill Cali fornia will receive nearly $4,000,000, Or egon nearly $350,000 and Nevada over $400,000. These States are the only ones having legitimate claims against the government on this basis whose claims have not been satisfactorily settled and the amounts paid in full.' John Mullan has done considerable work in pushing this claim,, which he has undertaken, among several others of a similar nature on behalf of different Pacific Coast States. This work has been done under contract, and in the case of the civil war claims it is held that his contract no longer holds good. Mullan claims, how ever, that he is entitled to a certain per centage of the amounts paid to Califor nia. Acting in response to the agitation of this question in California, it has been sought to have a clause inserted in th bill providing that none of the sums shall be paid to Mullan. This was ef fected at the last Congress, and as a re sult the bill failed of passage, presuma bly because Mullan was able to prevent it. White says tne matter ot determin ing the percentage, if any is to be paid to Mullan. is one that the State Courts and Legislatures are fully competent to handle, and that it is to oe noped that it will be left to them and the prospects of the bill no longer endangered. If the bill goes through the House this session, there would be a good chance of securing the money in the early part of the next session. M. CASIMIR-PERIER Has Been Elected President o: the French Republic. CHOSEN ON THE FIRST BALLOT The President of the Senate Delivers an Eloquent Oration In Officially Notify lug Him of His Election. Vebsailles. The National Congresi to elect a President of the French Re' public for the full term of seven years met at the palace. M. Challemel Lacour announced the death of Carnot, and de clared the Congress open. M. Michelin (Socialist) at once sprang to his feet and shouted: "I demand the suppression of the Presidency of the Republic!" A tumultuous scene ensued, the uproar being so great that the President could not make himself heard. Socialist cries of " Vive la revolution I" could be heard all over the hall. Order was finally re stored, and the balloting . began amid considerable discussion between the Sen ators and Deputies. No speeches were made. The members of the National Assembly deposited their ballots in the urn, and the tellers took the urn to the committee room, after which the tellers reported the result of the vote to the President of the Assembly, whereupon Challemel Lacour said : " M. Casimir- Perier having obtained an absolute ma jority, I proclaim him President of the French Republic." The following is the complete result oi the poll : . '"asimir-Perler ...451 Brisson jgj uupuy , oa Ueneral Fevrier . fti Arago 87 Scattering 32 Total ........863 In officially notifying Casimir-Perier ot nis election .Lacour delivered an elo quent oration, and in reply Casimir Perier said; "I can scarcely restrain the emotion, I now feel. The National Assembly bestows upon me the greatest honor a citizen can ever receive bv im posing upon me the heaviest moral re sponsibilities a man can bear. I shall give my country all that is in me of en ergy and patriotism. I shall give the Republic all the warmth of my convic tions, which have never varied. I shall give the democracy all my devotion, all my heart, as did he whose loss we now deplore. Finally I shall endeavor to do all my duty." The new President re ceived the congratulations of Premier Dupuy, the Cabinet Ministers and a large number of Senators and Deputies in the room set apart for the use of the Cabinet. Afterward he received the congratulations of the correspondents of the various newspapers present at Ver sailles upon this occasion. Replying to the newspaper men, Casimir-Perier said : " I have only one word to sav. You may discuss me. I belong to vou :but never forget France and the Republic." CANADIAN POLITICS. The Result of the General Elections for the Ontario Legislature. Toronto. The general elections for the Ontario Legislature took place one day last week throughout Ontario. The elections were the most exciting ever held in the Province, but dispatches received from all points say that every thing passed off quietly. " The Liberal government with Sir Oliver Mowat as Premier has been sustained. At the close of the polls the vote stood as fol lows: Fifty Liberals elected, 26 Con servatives, 13 Patrons of Husbandry, 1 Independent and 1 member of the Prot estant Protective Association. Sir Oliver Mowat's majority over the Conservatives is thus 24 and over the Conservatives, Patrons, Independents and combines 8. There are 98 members in the House, and up to the present time aa have been re turned. Four places are yet to hear from, but they will not materially change the result. Judge Ballantine, ex-Speaker, has been defeated. W. Harty, Minister of Public Works, who was running for Kingston, has also been defeated. Sir Oliver himself was re-elected for South Oxford by over 500 majority. A. S. Hardy, Commissioner of Crown Lands, was re-elected by 100 majority. The other Cabinet Ministers received large majorities. The city of Toronto returned four straight Conservatives. The cities of Hamilton and Ottawa returned two Liberals. The leader of the opposition. W. R. Meredith, was re-elected for Lon don by a comparatively small majority. The Patrons, most of whom are Liberals and are in tune with the policy of Sir Oliver's government, will vote with it on all leading and important questions. Samuel White of Windsor, who four years ago was elected as an avowed an nexationist, was defeated. Judge Bal lantine, ex-Speaker, was defeated by McNeal (Liberal; of Industry. Anticipates No Trouble. . ( New York. Henry W. Cannon of the Chase National Bank was asked if in his opinion there were any grounds for an ticipating trouble. He said : "I see no reason why we should have any trouble. On the contrary, I feel confident that within thirty days a gradual improve ment in business will set in. The pas sage of the tariff bill will have a ten dency to encourage trade throughout the country. I have no doubt that after the passage of this bill the Secretary of the TvAsisnrv w 1 nnt nut. mntW KO nnn . 000 loan and thus provide the nece'ssar lunds tor tne use 01 tne government for the next six months, until the effects of the improved condition will be reflected in the condition of the treasury," A CHLOROFORM EXPERIMENT. ' Why the Result Was Decidedly Out of Proportion to the Dose. "Your notice of the discovery of chloroform in 1847 recalls a curiou9 experience in my Cambridge under graduate life. One evening in Jan- uary, 1851, I went-into a chemist's thop and ordered some photographic chemicals to be sent to my rooms hard by. I was lodging on the Pa rade. Seeing an ounce bottle of ) chloroform on the counter I bought it out of curiosity and took it away, with ine, leaving the chemicals to follow. In my own rooms, seated in an armchair, I put four drops on my handkerchief, and carefully placing the bottle on the table some distance from me I snilf ed the hand-, kerchief. ' ' . ' " "A pleasant sensation and a sing ing in my ears was the only result. So, shortly afterward, I counted out eight drops and acted as before. The next thing I remember is find ing myself on the floor on my back. my dress undone, my face, etc., dripping with cold water And hear ing a voice. 'He's coming to, I do believe.' Yes, it was so. I came to, after . having been unconscious v24 hours. Next day my doctor, when out with the foxhounds, was greeted with: 'Hello, doctorl So you raised a man trom the dead last niarht?' . ' 'You may well say that,' was the re ply, 'for I had given up all hopes.' "L was very puzzled to account for the effect of my carefully measured dose. All I could gather from the servant was that she brought me up a parcel from the chemist, and seeing me asleep tried to wake me ; then,' finding I was dead, ran down into the shop calling out, 'Mr. M. is dead. Two Trinity men were in the shop. One went on to the 6 v. m. chaoel. telling every one of my sudden death. The other, after a glance at me, kindly called in Dr. . Some time afterward the mystery' was cleared up. ' . - The 'slavey' gave warning, and the day 6he left she made the f ollow ing confession : s 'You remember that night you was, nearly dead, sir? Well, - you know, sir, I thought you. had faint- ed, and I see the bottle on the table and thought it was salts, so I took out the 6topper and held it to your , nose, but as it didn't do no good I poured a. lot of , it out into my. hand " and rubbed it all over your nose and " mouth. " i ' "I told my doctor the story. He replied, 'Well, my dear fellow, all I can say is this, if you ever have to undergo an operation, tell your fam- ly doctor that you can take chloro form.' Thank God, that necessity has never arisen. "London News. ' Leap Year Privileges. Why is it that ladies are permitted to propose in leap year? Here is the answer: i ' It appears that in the year 1288 a statute was published by the Scotcbj parliament ordaining that during the reign of "Her Maist Blessit Mejestie Margaret" every maiden and lady of high and low estate should have lib erty to speak to the man she liked. he refused to take her to be his wife, she should have the privilege of fining him 100 or less, according to his estate, unless he could make it appear that he was betrothed to an other woman, in which case he would be free to refuse: After the death of Margaret the women of Scotland be came clamorous for their privileges, and to appease them another act of parliament allowing them to propose every fourth year was passed. Pall Mall Gazette. ' , ' A Comfort to Each Other. A delicious story of "damnable it eration" comes by way of the English parish curate, a route which good stories often take. He was visiting a poor old couple who were sitting to gether over the fire.' The old man was very grumbling and discontent ed. The curate said that "he ought to be more grateful to God for having preserved them through such a length of years to be a comfort to each oth er.". "Now, look here, mister," blurt ed out the old man, "she sits 'ere and sits theere from morning till night. all the blessed daylong, till I'ates the very sight of her." New York Times. , ' ' The Mississippi. Generally speaking, the slope of rivers flowing into the Mississippi from the east is, on the average, about three inches per mile. Those entering it from the west have an av erage descent of about six inches per mile. The average descent per mile of the Missouri afjter it leaves the oun tains is reckoned about afoot; the Des Momes, from its source to its Poniunotion with the MissiRfiiTmi Conjunction W11Q TUB JMlSSlSSippi, about 7 S inches. . The entire length 01 vjiuo snows a laii oi even nve inches. The Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf, has a all about 2i inches.- "T