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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1888)
,«s COMMISSION. « ting incident 1N ^¡ rioan s boyhood . A WINTER SANITARIUM. ALL ABOUT .MUSTARD. GEN. wbii. down in Virginia, the tin» wbon Hheridan ‘ * bi , fiunou» his famous raid through that Ttriend of mine gave me tbo follow .inTstwU“1 ut __ th« tbe 6®'.*'*®*'* trHiipral’s bov- boy- ¿ITU** ¿erwy’» «mineut jurist, iPwkrr lived l‘> Mumerset, O., and . wsition on the bench, «nd was .mort influential men in that part •¿His residence was loeated on a t the bottom of that hili lived Mrs. in humble circumstances, as may j from too f*d thafc ,he u,ok in the U m Fhrker family; but, although in position, she was highly respected, £ friendliest, terms with her more gUfhlXF* •TWO MISCHIXF MAURA •dee had a son James, and Mrs. Sheri- a son Phil, a»»«1 two ,ived ■ of closest intimacy, and while they .pride, they were likewise the teiTor village, for two more mischievous nookeys never existed, Phil par ex- for there was no deviltry concocted illare for which he was not given the The boys both attended the village until reaching the uge of 10 or 12 rhen James was ¡lacked ogf to board- ,01 and Phil was apprenticed to the rekeeper. years rolled by, when on one morn- being at home on a vacation, the oived an ominous looking envelope , war department at VVash i ngton. Of ,11 the family u«ienibled at the break- e were anxious to know its contents, being opened it was found to be a ionin the army of the United States tea Parker, Jr. All the family were ack and delighted save Jim, who 51y and absolutely declined it, for the "that he always wanted to go in the id wouldn’t be a soldier anyhow.” on was of no avail, so at last the jd in desperation: “It will never do n this to the department and decline what shall be done with it?” Howthtlwdl* Made I b Furnish Oil and Flour—The Different Varieties. “Where does mustard oome fromN replied a wholesale spice dealer to a reporter’s in quiry. “Most everywhere. It is of two va rieties» One is white and the other is black* The first is called English, and the other masquerades under a score of other titles. The English is full of flour, lacks pungency and is seldom used alone. The other kind contains a large amount of oil, said to aver age 26 to 30 per cent. The beet variety comes from Italy and is known as Toieste. There are many varieties of this kind grown in California, of every shade of quality: also in other states. That known as Ken tucky is very pungent” “Do farmers generally raise it!" “If they don’t it is their own fault They can. It requires little or no cultivation, but most of it is not worth handling.” “How is it prepared f’ “Usually by compressing the seed to ex tract the oil, tiecause the seed is much mors easily worked when the oil is out, and be cause there is now a ready market for the oil as salad oil, it being in many respects equal to the best olive oil. To extract the oil requires very powerful hydraulic pressure, and a suitable press would cost from 41,500 to $2,000. Large dealers in the principal Cities operate in the seed or crude stock and press it and supply the trade with what is known as mustard cake, formed by the pro cess of extracting the oil, and which contains everything except the oil—the same precisely as linseed cake. After this ths pressed seed is separated from the bran to extract the flour. j*ure mustard cannot be ground in mills and unless it is very much adulterated it cannot be ground at all, on account of the oil retained in the cake. The usual process, therefore, is to take say 100 pounds and put a quantity of the broken cake in a pot or mor tar and pound and sift it so as to extract about 50 per cent. The machinery used for pounding the mustard is a simple contriv ance, called sometimes a stamp mill, being a battery of pounders ranging in number from two up to sixteen. The process is slow, but very simple. After passing through the pounders the mustard cake—now reduced to the consistency qf soft middlings, is trans ferred to a series of sieves, the fine falling into a receptacle below. This bplted flour of mustard is strictly pure, and is as pure as it is possible to make it from the stock you have used, whether it is good or bad.”—New York Mail and Express. * Why Actors Hate Matinees. °I hate matinees,” said an actress to me at the close of a. performance, as she walked it to Phil,” said Jim, and this propo net with great applause and was into the lobby. “And why particularly!” iusly carried; so, after* breakfast, the “I hate them for a lot of reasons. You’d d Jim started down the hill to the find it very hard to put your hand on the More, and just as they were enter man or woman in the profession today who door they saw PhiL disappearing i cellar steps with a molasses jug in doesn’ hate matinees. Everybody hates them, I and a half eaten apple in the other. and I’m ashamed to say if it wasn’t for a Jim, but hffdidn’t see the judge; the pack of wpmen we shouldn’t have to give iity was. notto be lost, so be let drive matinees at all.” “But why do you hate matinees!” core just in time to send the judge's “Firstly, because I regard one perform it flying out of the door into the road. Now judges, aud especially ance a good day’s work, and as much as any judges, thirty years ago, were in- conscientious actor ought to do. “Secondly, because the daylight straggles witli a certain amount of dignity in i of the ordinary .rustic,that Pfajl's into the theater and gets up a fight with the lance naturally did not meet witfi the gab almost every time—and I’d like to see approval of the shopkeeper or of his the woman who looks well under daylight »rs, aud Master Phil, after having and gaslight mixed. “Thirdly and chiefly, I hate matinees be '»tredand cuffed, was brought into ?s presence to apologize, previous to cause at them the audience is almost always a cold, chilly thing, chary of its applause r be supposed, this was not being in- and scattered all over the house like a flock tuunv’s-benefactor under the most of dumb geese. The reason for the meager * auspices, but us no one could resist ness of applause "alwaps to be noted at mat nical repentance, he was forgiven, inees is that the audience is usually nine- subject of the “commission” was tenth^ women. Nature has built women for , and Phil’s delight was even more extravagant manifestations of delight in tea-bis^repciiLiUice, for it was all • America; and the makers of gowns and ap 1 Jim could do to restrain him from plied machinery in ^iress, have decided that ;on his head, which was his usual what little disposition the American woman ! manifesting pleasure. He, how- has for applauding shall be thwarted by in alm«! down sufficiently to make numerable aud complicated devices. You acknowledgments and to assure tj>e can’t expect a woman to crack her gloves or bat if the government approved be bring about an attack of heart disease tp try to do him and I)iniseit credit. It gratify an actress, can you? That’s what icemry to state that Phil has kept his she’d-do at the very least, the average tailor made woman, if she clapped her hands and b , or to go further into his career; » now public property; but while cried ‘bravo’ simultaneously.”—Pittsburg • Phil is lieutenant general of the Dispatch. of the United States, “Jim” is an ex- When Emerson's Library Burned. ader of the United States navy, and Those who are fortunate enough to have fought through the war and then re- the entree to Theodore Parker’s famous re b now a prominent admiralty lawyer ceptions in Boston, where congregated a gal York.—Cor. New York Post. axy of brilliant men and women, such as Emerson, Sumner, Phillips, Garrison, Mrs. >y” Avoided Literary Suicide.^ Howe, may remember the tall, vigorous girl, icdote may illustrate one cause of with a mass of dark soft hair, framing a as a money maker. -Col. Forney, strong, resolute, frank, earnest .face, with r of The Philadelphia Press, had bright, eager gray blue eyes and firm, tender i an offer of $5,000 a year, while he lips, sitting quietly in some corner listening poor and unknown, to go to Phila- with animation and. interest. Her would the ind write for him. He went to look host invariably seek out, and, with a hearty grpund. He found ip the office of hand shake and kindly smile, would ask, r a literary gentleman of fine ac- “Well, how goes it, my child! Keep your >ts and a marked ability, whose' heart up, Louisa;” and the Concord dreamer, >»as, in a faint and lusterless way, Emerson, would eventually find himself to most people of culture throughout drifting into the retired corner for a little intry. But to the great public the Chat with this shy girl, for the friendship be- io “wrote up” the paper was Cfil. ' tween them was beautiful and touching. He . Forney. Mr. Locke spent the even- it was who helped her find Goethe, her life i the writing editor,whose reputation long admired author. “When Emerson’s re been about the kind enjoyed by library was burning in Concord,” relates tachauan Read. This writer read to Miss Alcott, “I went to him as he stood ¡th great pride and enthusiasm, a with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, article which was to appear in The and endeavored to express my sympathy for e next morning. Nearly prepared tc the loss of his most valued possessions, but Kr. Forney’s offer. Locke returned he answered cheerilX ‘Never mind, Louisa; <eL Coming down to breakfast tht see what a beautiful blaze they make! We wiling, a guest at the table handed will enjoy that now.’ The lesson was never b Press, remarking and pointing tc forgotten, and in the varied losses that have ‘le he had heard read the evening be- come to me I have learned to look for some A truly magnificent article by John thing beautiful and bright”—New York Sun. wy. What a wonderful writer that tu judge ’ s high hat . i said Locke, in telling the story, Strawberry Short Cake. it for me. Literary suicide was not res after.”—Frank Leslie’«. Nice strawberry short cake is made with •our milk, as follows: To two teacupfuls of •our milk add a teaspoonful of soda; then three-fourths of a teacupful of butter or lard, partly melted, and enough flour to mak» a •oft dough. Roll it into thin cakes, large enough to All the pan in which they are baked. When they are baked split them and butter them while hot. Lay half of the cake on a plate, ipiead with strawberries and Sprinkle with sugar; then put on the other half; then mere sugar, and so on. A Mew Kind or Dog. •brat »1 big as a rat, with no hair I skin and eyes as blue as sapphires •* itself on Fifth avenue the other Was in charK® of R nurse maid ®all boy with more buttons on his »an hairs on his head, and if it had oung prince they could not have ex- re solicitude about it The small *d me that this prize animal came olulu, or somewhere« out there,” that he was “one of them kind of >ple eats.” Whether it is to deck ng hoard on the avenue and Intro- 7to a new delicacy he did not ex- ™ Trumble in New York News. Cypbert H. Gillette, of Keokuk, la., is a veteran of the late war who is now totally ||ind. For fifteen years he has been unsuc cessfully applying for a pension. His claim hiw just allowed, and be will receive about $16,000 in arrears. < »- w* THE CHARMS OF THE ING THE INCLEMENT SEA DUR MONTHS. PRODUCT OF THE POPPY. Nearly <500,000 Spent Yearly for •plea In Now York. It was for the purpose of giving an ac curate and interesting account of how 9,000 Chinamen spend $468,849.75 annu A Place for Health, Kost *Bad Recrea ally just for the pleasure of “bitting the tion— Aw EndloM, Everehangin* Pan pipe,” that the Chinese reporter made a thorough canvas* of the various haunts of orama of Humaa Life—Droll Looking Chinatown. Basaare—The Baa's Fascinations. There are at present about twenty-five Chinese firms that deal in refined opium, A midwinter respite of a few weeks from both wholesale and retail There are the distractions of social life, or the cares of eleven private Chinese joints, where business, has come to be, in this eager, push opium is sold at $2.25 per ounce. These ing, restless existence of modern times, al joints do not now admit white smokers, most a necessity. If we will not, or cannot, on account of the frequent raids made “take it easy” on the way, we mast halt and upon them by the police, but the stores make a special business of resting—a method sell to both Chinese and whites, although more in accordance with the American tem- the latter must be well known smokers* ]»erament. And so Lent, which ought to bfe,* Otherwise he has to suffer for the want of if it isn’t, quiet and dull in the city, to the opium—which, according to all accounts, season of well earned rest for the fashiona is even worse than to see “snakes.” Great ble world. tears would gush out of his eyes, big The far away, sunny south, where toe fbsea drops of prespiration constantly moisten never fade and the alligator’s song is heard his brow, while his nostrils would act as ill the land, to a favorite retreat for many; if he owned a small sized fountain some- yet within a few hours’ ride of New York' where in his head. . But the worst of all there to a charming city by the sea where the ailments is an excruciating pain all •very winter there is a gathering of fashion, over his backbone, as it he had been just wealth and beauty, representing the well run through a fine clothes wringer.^ Under known leaders of the best society in New such circumstances die would ^lmoet be York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore sad willing to give half of his entire kingdom* Washington. They come for health, rest, to be able to “hit the pipe.” recreation, or on pleasure bent; for, Lent Six pills ’ ^er «•r». pi^s, pigps about the else of a _________________ though it may be, one is not supposed to en green pea, -Would' rebi »tore him to his naural tirely forswear all amusement Surely not. condition of life, which would last him A hop every week, parties, even an occasional for al>out as many hours. A regular german, receptions, teas, etc., with a dis “fiend” will consume about an ounce per creet, distinctly unimpeachable game of day, which is $2.25. The sensation while smoking is indeed cards for the more staid patrons. soothing. No matter how fatigued or op CONVXNIXliCg AND COMFORT. The hotels are numerous and thoroughly pressed in mind, a few whiffs of the pipe well equipped with every modern convenience would put a man in the best of social spirits. It has strange medicinal proper and comfort.. One of the most attractive ties, and is said to cure all kinds of fevers features about the place is the “board walk,” aqd ague, consumption and palpitation of which exteuds along the water’s ed e for the heart. Most Chinamen are driven to three miles and a half. This ocean boulevard it through business reverses and other fairly divides honors with the magnificent troubles, while not a few contracted the beach, which has become famous as one of habit through sociability, just as an the finest on the Atlantic coast. On the American would do on their “take a smooth, shining sands, mado flq$$ and hard drink* with a friend. by the pressure of the waves, whether walk It takes just about the same length of ing, riding, driving or sitting still, one sees time to get the opium habit as to get the an endless, everchanging panorama of human drinking habit, The W latter destroys ‘ O the lifp. Up and down, laughing, talking, merry mind, and. makes a man irresponsible for dr sad, age and youth, weakness and strength, bis actions, while the former destroys the on they go, like the ebb and flow’ of the tide body but makes a keen thinker of the at their feet. What a study 1 Here a group victim. It to estimated that there are of invalids, tempted out of doors by the clear, something over 1,000 Americans in the sapphire sky, which sees its own rare beauty city of New York who are now using reflected in the glittering blue depths below; opkiip in the same manner and form as the bright warmth of golden sunshine, the the Chinese Most of these are said to pure, fresh, bracing breeze that seems to l>e well known and fashionable people, as bring vigor and hope on its fragrant breath. indeed no other but people of means and New life seems to creep into theirveins, a of leisure could ever be able to cojitractT faint color comes to the fair cheeks as they such a habit stroll along and listen to the chant of tlje The opium dealing firms sell ’from two waves. to five cans per day, each can weighing There, a couple in whom health, strength ibout four ounces. Most of the wholesale and happiness seem personified, they, too, aro ! orders come from towns and cities in and watebiug the bright, sun kissed waters; but around New York state, and only now and ifjp|rexi>ression of his face means aught the then the native American customers from c^lor’on her cheek is not wholly due to the up town come in to buy their supply. Say crisp breeze that is ruffling the dainty tresses bey only sell an average of three cabs per of her dark hair, and the “wild waves” are day. At wholesale rates, which is $8.85 telling a very sweet story—“a story new as per can for China imported goods, but laughter; old as tears.” A little further on »vhen retailed out by the fifty cents’ worth comes a party of laughing, happy children. it a time it would bring it up to about For them there to no “eternal note of sad ,U0 to $11 per can. At $10, which is the ness” in the song of the sea. They shout lowest possible price per can, sixty-six with glee at the merry, mad frolics of the ?aus amount to $660 per day, or $240,900 huge, foam crested waves. They run and t>er year. There are eleven joints. The majority jump and play with hearts as light as the spray that caresses their bright, innocent of these import their own opium, said to faces, and know naught of the care and be direct from China, but the greater part sorrow which have left their mark on many af which comes from Victoria, B. C. One of these places, which is the best Chinese of the moving, changeful throng. joint iu town, sells at retail on Sundays DROLL LOOKING BOOTHS. alone from Cen to twelve cans, while the Along the board walk are pavilions, or sun second best place sells from eight to ten parlors, where one may enjoy the warmth cans on Sundays. On an average theee and brightness without being actually ex joints dispose of five cans a day. These posed to the outside air, and from whose I places calculate to make from $2 to $8 on sheltering windows the magnificent and fas each can of Chinese imported opium, but cinating spectacle of a storm may be safely they are able to make more when they and comfortably witnessed. There are droll mix the Victoria in with the pure. Thus looking booths or bazaars, at which every it can easily be seen how nearly $1,000,000 thing that dwells in earth, air or sky may be changes hands for opium each year. procured* Things, eatable, drinkable, wear According to Chinese Sari Francisco able, ’ portable—all that it has entered into papers they paid over $800,000 for custom the mind of man to conceiqe and invont—are house duties for the Chinese year just here in startling array. One can have eigh ended on opium alone.—Wong Chiu Foo teen tintypes, three shaves and a dinner for in New York World. fifteen cents. Atlantic City believes in the adjuration The Decline of the bailor. which bids us “be all things to all men.” Rather severe criticism» on our navy There is variety enough in the life here to suit each" and all. For the votaries of fashion are appearing In the English journals, and pleasure there is gayety of all sorts. For rhe critic»' admit we have a* good naval the thoughtful student, or the seeker after ifficers as any, bnt say that what ships rest and quiet, surely there cannot be a more we have are manned by Englishmen, congenial spot than this, where one is face to Irishmen, Germans, Scandinavians and. face with the grandest mightiest of nature’s el negroes. This is true in time of peace; ements. And health has already established for first rate American Bailor men can beyond dispute her claim to having set the seal make more than $21.50 a month ashore. of her own regeneration upon the city by the But once the signal of war comes, and the sea. Thus, well or ill, meiTy or sad, grave promise of prize money and adventure, or gay, young or old, this favored spot hath ind there would be little room for much of the poor material now manning the charms for all. And what is the secret of the mysterious, yards. The great fleet that Farragut led powerful fascination of the sea! One thinks past the Mississippi forts was manned of the lines written about the woman whose with Gloucester fishermen—men who, un fame for beauty and witching charms has like the average blue jacket, combine a come down through centuries, and will ring keen intelligence with strength and dar- on through ages yet to come—“age cannot ng- The day of the “square rigger" Is gone wither, nor custom stale her infinite variety.’ The last ten words seem to strike the key by, for the modern war ship has no sails, md a quick hand At the gun sight and note, for surely to nothing else on this fair earth can they be more appropriately ap dock, tackle and gearing is more in de mand than one that can hand, reef, and plied. Like a willful woman, the sea has its iteer. Indeed, it is a curious study to moods, changing and fitful as the wind that watch how, in the war ship of today, the ruffles its calm, blue depths.—Atlantic City tailor Is declining and the engineer and nachlnlst advancing. Perhaps in the Cor. New York Star. uture the crew of a war ship will bo com- poeed of three classes only—scientists, en gineers and coal heavers or oil feeders.— CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE. Scientific American. A Nashville carpenter arose in his sleep The five Methodist Churches givln? the md went into his shop and began filing • uw. The noise woke him up, and he was highest contribution to the “million for mis- • ‘ one ” fund last year are: St Luke’s, New aightily puzzled to find himself engaged at uch work at 2 o’clock in the morning in a birk, *25.24; Spring Garden Street, Phil» delphia/ *17.9«; St. Paul’s, New York, lark shop. *14.77; Madison Avenue, New York, *13.91, Over four months ago a mass of molten and Washington Square, New York, *10.81. iron.was forced by an explosion into the This represents the average per member for mouth and throat of Jacob Halemberger, of each of the seven collections during the Reading, Pa. The result was that the pas rear. The entire amount raised was over sage to the stomach was completely closed, 41,900,000.____________________ and the man died of starvation. The mayor of Hannibal, Mo., whipped out Hot Milk. his red bandana the other day and gave a People who can not drink cold milk often nasal blast, whereupon an unhitched horse, And it palactble and beneficial when taken as terrified at the great noise, dashed down the hot ns possible. Upon some tired and over street, ran against an electric light tower IOC worked peivons it has an exhilarating effect feet high, toppling it to the ground, and then almost equal to * glass of . win*. The milk into a coal wagon, from which it was res dioulil bi fl esb aad Mated as be* as possible cued unharmed. without bo bug. RAINBOW FOLK LORE, ANTIQUE FANCY FREQUENTLY AL LUDED TO IN THE CLASSICS. The Rainbow Drinks from Ponds and Rivera—Ite Greet Power for Good of Evil— Healing Potency—A Strang« B«J lief— Hindoo Law. As a survival of the wrpent myth, we find almost universally a belief that the rain bow drinks the water from ponds aud rivers. This idea is found in antiquity, allusion to it being frequently made by classical authors. Slovaks say of one who drinks much, that he “drinks like a rainbow.” Many European peoples think the rainbow drinks up the water. Throughout Russia it to generally believed to feed the clouds with the water thus drawn. In Little Russia it to called Veeelka, and to to be a maiden, who, with her bucket, lpiws water from the riv ers and waters the earth with it Esthonians say it has a bull’s head, which it thrusts into the water when it would drink. In Flnto- terre it is said to drink up fish, frogs, etc., from the shallow pon,ds. In Cornwall it to said to be the devil drinking up the water <£ the ponds and streams. In the Tyrol it to called the “drinking bow;” in Votiak the “drinker of water.” Children are assured in the French department of Cotes du Nord that the bow drinks in the river or Yn the pond. In many places theTainbow is said to be a great pump or tube, drawing water by me chanical means. So in parts of Russia it to called tho “bent tube,” and in Hungary “the pump,” while in Slavonian dialect it is the “siphon.” In one part of France it is said to come from the sea and to pump up the water in the streams. In the Charkov province of Russia the bow to likened to a tube, with one end in the iky and the other in the wells, while iu the Saratov government it is said to be controlled by three angels, one of whom pumps the water, the second feeds the clouds» and the third sends the rain. In Lettouia, showers of fish, frags, etc., are believed to come from the rainbow, which has sucked them up from ponds and rivers. Similar be liefs exist among the Wends. In many parts pf Russia it is compared to a water carrier, dipping its buckets into the ponds and sti-eams. In the Charente department of France they saw the bow fishes in the streams, and prognostications are drawn from the selection it makes. Malay Nias say it to the net of Nadaoja fishing in the streams. The rainbow is frequently credited with great power for good or evil. It js a wide spread belief that it hides great riches, or brings fortune or good luck with it. la Swabia, it is said to rest on bowls of gold; in Hungary, that cups of silver will be found where it touches the earth or Water, and the finder will divine the future. It to quite likely that a shoe cast over it will fall on the other side filled with gold, as it is believed in Berne and among Swabian peasants. The difficulty is to get it over. In Carinthia it to a hat. Czech tradition says that if iron or other base metal be cast into the rainbow it will turn to gold, and similar things are recorded of it in the Tyrol. ’ In many parts of Germany a golden key, or a treasure, to said to be found where the bow touches the earth; in Portugal, a silver hen, and in mod ern Greece, a curious Byzantine coin, called a Constantine coin. Any one finding this will be endowed with marvelous power. In Norway, it is said that a cup and spoon, with a kind of gruel, wiH be found where the bow rests. It is also believed to bestow health. Among the Letts, if you can reach the bow and touch it you will have the heal ing power. The water found immediately beneath the arch will, it to believed, cure those afflicted with demoniacy. Old women keep this water in trepches dug in the ground or in a hollow, tree, but not in the house, where ‘ft will lose its force' or bring some disaster on the hpuseho)' It to also said that flocks should not be pastured where the bow rests, or they will fall sick. German peas ants say they touch of the bow will render plants odorant. On the other hand, in some departments of France the rainbow is said to injure plants on which it rests, to dry up vines and to ruin the harvest. In Bohemia also it withers up the herbage, say the peas ants. In the Ukraine, you must not put out your tongue at the rainbow, or it will dry it up. In Hungary there to a Vila or fairy sitting on the water where the rainbow touches it, and whomsoever she sees first will die. Esthonians say the bow is but the scythe used by the thunder to chase wicked souls. In Austro-Hungary the sick arq.Hqt allowed to lie stretched at full length when — the first bow of spring appears, for it to thought they would die if permitted to do so. Many ordinary tasks must not then be performed for fear of evil consequences. Another strange belief has existed, that the rainbow has power to change the sex. This obtains in districts widely separated; A story from the Nago tribe in Africa relates the ad ventures of a young man so trans formed. Slavonian peasants have a similar aotioh, and it is a general belief in modern Greece among the common j)eoiflb“ that any one jumping over the rainbow will have their sex changed. Among the Albanians, Ser vians, and in Upper Loitre, France, it to by passing under the rainbow that the sex to changed. The notion that the luminous bow possesses 40 great power for good or evil has probably led to another curious belief, that harm will come to any one pointing at it. The ancient Hindoo laws of Manou forbade this, and it to said in the Hartz mountains that God will puuish any one who points at the rainbow. In modern Greece and in Amiens you will low a finger, and in Bohemia the same disas ter will occur unless it immediately thun ders. The Chinese say your hand will be at tacked with ulcers, and German peasants tell you that you dig out the angel’s eyes when you point at the rainbow. Ancient Peru vians said that the mouth must be kept shut when a rainbow was insight or the teeth would be spoiled. Familiar with the Snbjeet. Magistrate (to witness)—Do you know ths nature of an oath, Uncle Rastus? Uncle Rastua—I reckon I does, yo* honah. Ise owned a balky mute for foahteen ya’.— New York Sun. -