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The Oregon Bagiater.
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“Ths crowd es«ni«) dfspossd to interfere,
bat the big men wltn bushy beard drew two
pistol», end celled out: ‘Stand book, every­
body I’ and with tho death dealing wiwp. >m
bo dhvered the party who had narrated the
ooean experience. The latter pleaded for
% saaroy, end eventually the big man with tl>e
baeky beard said: ‘I will «pare your life only
an one condition.'
“ ‘Nome it I’ gasped the frightened man.
“ ‘That you will ooafeae to this crowd that
no such thing u you have related ever oo-
gsurred, end that you hare «imply been tell
Ing a whopping lie, thinking that these peo­
ple would believe you.*
t'As qulok si s flash tho man admitted that
ho had eimply been romancing. Ho was tor-
but not until after be had treated the
"—Detroit Tribune.
A IHnriroii) Hulijret.
Edltor-tp-Chl«f (to »uborrtluat«)—A» Joba
L to about to die, you may write a »oatblng
article, reviewlug bl» life anil congratulating
th» oountry on bla ezpected deuiine.
Subordínete—The morning dlapatohee an-
aounce .hat Hulilvan’» ohancee tor recovery
hi-e excellent.
Editor-lu Chlet—In that oese yon may
write an editorial euggeeting that Kilrain
may yet meet hi» match.—Omaha World.
PACIFIC COAST HEWS.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Typhoid malaria is prevffient at Rip­
aria, and several have died of it.’’
A party of fifteen emigrants have
arrived at Vancouver from Kansas.
Blackfrusts base nipped things on
the Columbia river near Vancouver.
The Elleqsbvrg foundry will be
reaily for business before the first of
January.
Capitalists are negotiating for the
purchase of the Bay Horse mine at
Huntington.
In the way of firewood Walla Walla
is getting into a clofle corner, there be-
ing but little in the yards.
Mr. A. Chambers «nd others of Lyn­
den are agitating a creamery and
cheese factory at thst plaoe.-------------
Frank Ledman, of Vancouver, who
bad an accident policy, had his arm
put out by tbe kick of a horse.
Wm. Hamilton^«« Hamilton’s is
land, one of the oldest settlers at the
Cascades, died Monday evening!
Ellensburg is looking for a capital­
ist who will build it a first-class hotel
for a reasonable consideration.
The Milton Eagle says a hog weigh­
ing 541 pounds was brought to that
place and sold lately.
The laving of tbe pipes and mains
Baker City for the water works
were to commence in a day or so.
The Rosie Olsen brought 1,200 cases
salmon to Astoria from Tillamook
and had her smokestack knocked over­
board.
John Stanton, of Kamela, Uma­
tilla county, was crazed with grief be­
cause he learned the death of a sister
in Canada.
Masons and carpenters, at Ellens­
burg are busy early and late, and pleas­
ant weather makes it possible to keep
on building.
A petition is be circulated and num­
erously signed asking tot the appoint­
ment of J. D. Laman as postmaster at
Walla Walla.
Shoo Fly and Andy Lee, two full
grown Chinamen, both born in Walla
Walla, voted at the last election. Each
voted a mixed ticket.
Orley. Hull, of Walla Walla, has a
pullet hatched last March thst is now
raising its second brood of chickens.
That beats any fish story of late.
th snag-boat Skagit is at work in
ths river above Lynden taking out
snags, which will make the Nooksack
navigable Io the crossing.
The sailor who smashed a $125 plate
glass window at C. H. Cooper’s store,
Astoria, is in jail with his hand badly
ent and no money to pay for the win­
dow.
The St. Elmo hotel has j opened
across the British boundary, near
Blaine, and a barroom is a feature that
astonishes the temperance people of
Blaine.
Lane county’s hop crop for 1888 is
estimated at about 5,000 bales. The
entire yield of the State is estimated
at between 12,000 and 20,000 bales.
Mrs. Frances Hodgen Burnett ex­
pects to spend the winter at Washing­
ton.
Charles A. Dana of the New York
Sun sailed for Europe on the steam-
ship La Normandie.
Over 14,000,000 bar been put into
building improvements at Denver,
Col., during the past year.
New York will have to struggle
along with only 399 real society folks
this season. Ward McAllister is going
to pass the winter in California.
Edgar Nicholson was riding a scrub
race near Dayton when a rein broke
and liis horse pulled around and threw
him and left him with a brokeu leg.
Thomas Doolr.of Wenatchee, when
driving to Ellensburg and coming
down a hill, was thrown in front of the
wheels. One of them passed over
him, breaking tbe bone of his hip. ■
The Baker City Democrat urges cit-
iftns there to purchase the grounds
for the Bakar County Agricultural
society as a joint stock company and
put it under capably management.
There will be a grand wolf hunt
Saturday three miles south of Salem,
near McKinney's. The parties choose
*
sides. The one that gets the scalp
gets a reward of $10 and a delioious
or Two Evils.
* Dealer—I any, Jake, it’s beginning to rain supper at the others expense.
and there goes old Noverpay across the street
Mr. Cornwall's company make no
with the now bat he got here last Week. Take
him ant an umbrella or he’ll have it ruined secret of their intentions to build the
Bellingham Bay & British Columbia
before be get« home
Cltok—Why, air, toe’ll keep the umbrella
road to their Nooksack coal mines in
Dealer—No matter—hurry up—rd rather the early spring. They are ballasting
lone the umbrella than trust him tor another the railroad with ashes as far as com­
bat.—Detroit Free Preet.
pleted.
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Aa As la Ueu W a His Drivsr.
“Why did you bit Eats Durum on the
baud wjth an axl" asked Justice Ford of
Bridget Maguire, of SM Madison street, in the
Eton Market police court, this morning.
“Yer honor, there was nothin’ heavier
heady," was the reuidid reply.
The Maguire wee held for examination.—
New York Evening World.
The $15 per bushel wheat swindlers
have made their appearance in Linn
county to Collect payment on notes
held by them. They hold notes to the
amount of $3,000 in Linn county.
Some of the parties-intend to contest
the case.
William Perry Bruce, one of the
pioneers of Walla Walla county, died
at Waitsburg on Saturday last, aged
63 years. Mr. Bruce crossed the plains
in 1854, locating in the Willamette
Village DanttoS—Well, I reckon the cheap valley.
In the spring of 1861 he
set way that I know of is to ooms and steal bought «claim where Waitsburg now
n^epplss when my bulldog’s around.-Ka- stands, and has lived there continu­
ously since,
y
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One Way.
Hoy-Say, mister, tether wants to know
whatbthe cheapest way of gettin' teeth In
The fanners of Baker county should
prepare themselves to supply the
creamery witli their surplus cream,
thus reaping a good reward for their
pains and enhancing the value of their
cows. The Democrat says that cews
that are now selling for $15 will be
worth $35 as soon as the creamery
gets in running order.
A workingwoman’s society in De­
troit, formed ten yean ago to takecaie
of girls unemployed and get them
dedicated a fine building' for its pur­
poses.
Colored women in New York city
have organized “the women’s charity
and industrial club” for the help oi
their Bisters, and have leased a foui-
story house as a “home for friendless
colored girls.”
—
A prisou official thinks it would be
a great scheme to tattoo convicts.
His idea is for each penal institution
to adopt a different mark or mono­
gram, and then the problem of identi­
fying convicts will be solved.
King George of Greece has formally
notified Prime Minister Tricoupis of
the betrothal of Princess Alexandra
to Grand Duke Paul of Russia. A Te
Deum was sung in the royal chapel in
honor of the event.
Mme. lima de Murska, the once
favorite Hungarian songstress, sailed
for Europe this week. She is said to
be dying and in straitened circum­
stances, and her musical friends made
up a purse to enable her to reach her
home.]
Princeton college catalogue, just is­
sued, shows that there are in the un­
dergraduate aoademic department 463
students, in the Bcbool of science Hl,
post-graduates 90. Altogether there
is a total of 667 students, as against
611 last year.
A clergyman in Newark, N. J.,
whose wife complained that'the mem­
bers of the congregation were very
distant toward her, took occasion to
remark from the pulpit a few Bundays
ago that his wife would like to be in­
troduced to several women of the
congre¿ation.
Over $100,000 has already been
spent in the New Cumberland oil
field in West Virginia, and the re­
ports are so encouraging that the ex­
citement among the producers is at a
fever heat. The leases have all been
taken up and territory cannot be had
at a big premium.
By means of recent improvements
made in the manufacture of rifles, as
many as one hundred and twenty can
now be rolled in an hour by one ma­
chine. They are straightened cold
and bored with corresponding speed,
and even the rifling is done automati­
cally, so that one man tending six ma­
chines can tttnr out sixty or seventy
barrels per day. With the old rifling
machine twenty barrels were about the
limit of a day’s work.
Recently a gentleman who was
traveling in Switzerland found a verit­
able curiosity in a museum in the lit­
tle town of Soleure. It was a bird’s
nest made of imperfect watch springs
which had been thrown out of the lit­
tle yatcli factories which abound, in
that district. Some bird considered
them excellent material of which to
construct her nest, and with infinite
care worked them together into as per­
fect a structure of the kind as one
could desire to see.
According to 0. Koechlin’s paper in
the Mulhouse Industrial Society’s
Bulletin on the resistance-opposed to
bleaching operations by dressing, the
latter only dissolves in lyes which con­
tain at least 15 grm., but betters up to
25 grm. soda lye to 1 lit. water. As
regards H. Koechlin’s new bleaching
method he said that with sulphuric
acid the best white was obtained, par­
ticularly if | to 1 grm. acid per 1 lit.
water were used at 80 deg. 0.; and
that sulphuric acid, contrary to the
accepted theory, removes lime better
from tissues than hydrochloric acid
does.
Albert Royal and brother, both of
Orlando, Fla., went on the Wekiva
River, below Clay springs, the other
day on ft deer and bear hunt. They
arrived ijt their camping place before
sundown and concluded to take a
short hunt before dark. They had
not gone far before they came across a
bear sign which they followed up, soon
soming in sight of one of unusual
size, which they succeeded in bring­
ing down the first shot. One remain­
ing to pare for the dead bear, the
other kept on and soon found an-r
other, which he also killed, the whole'
time occupied not exceeding thirty
minutes. The first bear weighed four
hundred pounds and the other two
hundred and fifty pounds.
Concerning the wheat market the
Albany Democrat says: The first of
the season Corvallis was in the lead in
the wheat market, but Albany soon
oaught up. Then Salem was far be­
hind. TheO. P. boats started, and
now that city leads us one cent, which
we cannot understand, as oonsidar-
able of the wheat comet thia way.
Wheat ia 7S oenla a buahal at Albany
and one cent more at Salem.
Inthawastl
r firm sue.
la borrowing MO,««« tom wask.-PhU
ta» I will always baa
l «totora«
agbicultqkal .
The cotton plant has been proposed
as a substitute for jute.
Over one million bushels of pota­
toes were imported last year into this
country.
The vine growers of the Argentine
Republic hav^' engaged in the produc­
tion oi raisins.
Crops in Guatemala have been cut
short by a Bevere drought.
In many
departments of 4 Salvador all crops
have been lust for want of rain. In
Nicaragua also a fanrinejs threatened
on account of drought,
rin
-t v.
Wolves are doing great damage in
Northern Montana by destroying
stock. In Ohoteau Couuty Charles
Adams was compelled to fly from the
beasts the other night, when they de­
stroyed eighty of his thorough-bred
bucks. Ono hundred and fifty sheep
were killed in one flock, and also
thirty colts belonging to another
The wolves also attack
ranchman,
travelers.
If cows are fed a liberal ration of
palatable, nutritious ground feed night
and mordlng they require no driving.
No dog or boy is. necessary to chase
ths fields over to persuade them, but
about milkinjEtime they are ready to
walk from pasture to barn quietly,
and the pails will he fuller as there
The annual value of the dairy pro­ has been no excitement. Keep cows
qtNet and they give better returns,
duct of the State of Illinois equals the
value at thegold production of the pays in part for grain fed.
United States. Who says the cow is
not the best friend of the farmer!
WiU it pay to cut rough forage for
A Michigan man says that his atockT To cut it involves the utilize-
Manchester strawberry (pistillate var­ lion of parte which the animal would
iety) were so much influenced in form otherwise reject, but when cut*1nli ba
by the Sharpless growing near that he swallowed without hesitation, and
nourish the animal just as muoh as
sold them for Sharpless.
_r
any part of the forage. It.has been
There are many instances where found that to cut evergreen sugar corn
thirty-five bushels of grain might just makes a gaiu of 10 per cent, in feed­
as well Be grown on one acre as ing value, but to cut the ordinary dried
twenty, if the right variety had been coin-stalk adds 30 to 40 per cent. The
standard of value is the result in
sown.
It is reported that the round-headed butter.
apple-borer has been successfully ex­
cluded “from trees by placing fiesh
manure around the base of the trees
and in contact with’ it.
The cost of a colt at three years old
is said by a correspondent of Rural
New Yorker, who has computed it, to
be $84. He also states -that such colts
should sell for $150.
Toads are the policemen of the
garden. They speedily transport -in­
sect depredators to a place where the/
will do no more harm. And this in­
terior jail is quite capacipus.
Mr. Havmeyer, of New Jersey, has
twenty-four silos of 2,000 tons capac­
ity. He recently opened one that was
filled seven years ago and found its
contents in excellent condition.
The introduction of labor-saving
machinery has disarranged the old
methods of farming, and. in nothing
more than in the changes it has necee-
itated in the employment ..of—hired
help,- —--------
Mrs. W. M. Dills, of Springfield,
Mo., haB charge of a stack farm and
is said to be the best judge of horse­
flesh in that vicinity.
She comes
naturally by her knowledge, as she is.
a Kentucky woman.
It is just a cenjury since the first
fuchsia was introduced in Europe.
Since that time travelers in the moun­
tains of tropical America have brought
back specimens. Now there are fifty
distinct species known.
As the grass disappears let the
change from green to dry food be as
gradual as possible,, in order to pre­
vent the cow from falling off in milk.
To do this begin the use of hay and
other dry food now, so as to supply
the deficiency of the pasture.
Good, clean seed wheat of a variety
well adapted to the soil, should be se­
lected for seeding. There should be
no delay now in having the wheat in,
as the better the growth the less lia­
bility of the young plants being thrown
out by tl;e frost next spring.
Guide boards have- been growing
numerous in the country towns of
New England for a few years past. In
some sections of Massachusetts at
every coiner are set solid granite posts
ten feet high, to which are bolted iron
sign boards with raised letters.
Preserving eggs for winter use is not
difficult, but care is required. Eggs
from hens not in company with males
will keep thre^times as long as those
containing lire germs of chicks. Keep
the eggs on racks in a cool place, and
turn them half otfer twice a week.
Oil is cheaper than machinery, so
use it freely on all the working parts
of the mowers and reapers. Lumber
is also cheaper, and when not in use
every piece should be carefully
housed, as well as all the tool« used
about the farm. Tools, carts and ma
chives rust out m«ch fastfii than they
will wear out.
In the dairy contest at the Minne­
sota State Fair, a few days ago, a
Helstein-Friesian cow took the first
prize and ano ner took the second.
The butter test is reported to have
been the severest known to science.
These two Holstein-Frietian cowsWere
just off from grass, arid had received
no grain or other special preparation.
Damp floors cause cold, due to
evaporation. The feet of animals are
injured, and disease of the limbs oc­
curs when they are compelled to
stand or sleep on damp locations.
The bed of the animal is very import­
ant. It is economical to use clean,
dry material daily, and not delay
changing the bedding until the whale
is saturatedwith urine.
If the ground is damp a one-horse
plow should be run through the epaces
between the strawberry rows in order
to allow the surplus water to flow off
in wister. Strawberries are partial to
somewhat damp locations, but in the
winter and early spring, when heavy
rains cause the water to stand on the
plante, it is injurious. The frost will
also heave up the plants if the ground
is too wot.
The sweet and sour apple question
is sure to b? discussed at thia season.
A recent writer remarks that sweet
apples are generally considered muoh
more valuable for feeding lhau sour,
but there is less difference than many
If well ripened, even sour
mtaiu a good deal -of sweet,
to the taste overcome by a
sMffht disproportion of acid. Those
who have fed sour ripe apples find
them nearly or quite as nutritive as
sweet ones. They should not, how­
ever, bo given to bon* which are fed
corn in the ear, aa
make the
Economy with the corn crop means
that the fodder should be stored under
cover and not left standing in the
fields, as is often practiced. Good fod
der is valuable and highly relished by
all classes'of stock, but it can be in­
jured by exposure as easily as hay.
No matter how much care is taken
the shocks will plow over in win ter, by
which means a large share of fodder
is ruined by being on the ground. If
cattle are turned in on it they will
trample a portion also. The barn ¡ b
the proper place for it.
Portland Market Report.
WHEAT— Valiev, Il 40®$l 42|
Walla Walla, fl 32® 1 35. .
‘ BARLEY— Whole, $0 85(81 00,
grofiuif, per tou, *20 00®21 5Q.
OATS—MiUing, 32@34c.;
®30c.
feed, 28
HAY—Baled, |10®|13.
SEED— Blue Grass, 12® 15c.; Tim
othy, 7®8c.; Red Clover, ll®12je.
FLOUR— Patent Roller,
Country Braud, $4 50.
15 00;
EGGS—Per dos, 30c.
BUTTER—Fancy roll, per pound,
25c.; pickled,
22}®25c.; inferior
grade, 2O®22|3.
CllEESE-Eastcrn, ®13jcu Ore­
gon, 13@14c.; California, 14c.
VEGETABLES— Beets, pur sock,
$1 00; cabbage, per lb., lc.; carrots,
per sk., $ 75; lettuce, per doz. 10c.;
onions, $ 85; potatoes, per 100 lbs.,
40c.; radishes, per dos., 15®20c.;
rhubarb, per lb., 6c.
HONEY—In comb, per lb., 18c.;
strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8 jo. I
POULTRY — Chickens, per dos.,
$3\00@4 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00®
6 00; geese, $6 00®7 00; turkeys,
per lb., 12|c.
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PROVISIONS—Oregon hams, 12fc
per lb.; Eastern, 15@16c.; Eastern
breakfast bacon, 12c. per lb.; Oregon
lO^llcr; Eastern lard, 10011 jc. per
lb.; Oregon, 10c.
GREEN FRUITS— Apples, $ 60
@ 75c.: Sicily lemons, $6 00@6 $0
California, $6 00® 6 50: Naval oranges
$6 00; Riverside, $5 00; Mediterra­
nean, $4 25. , •
DRIED FRUITS—Sun dried ap­
ples, 4c. per lb.; machine dried« 10®
11c, pitless plums, 7cj;
Italian
prunes, 10012c.; peaches, 10|@llc. ;
raisins, $2 40® 2 50.
HIDES—Dry beef hides, 12® 13c.;
culls, 6@7c.;kipand calf, 10®I2c. ;
Considerable of success on the part Murrain, 10 012o.; tallow, 4®4Ae.
WOOL—Valley^15® 18c.: -Eastern
of farmers depends upon keeping a
close eye to the market. The first of Oregon. 19® 15c.
any new crop will almost always com­
LUMBER—Rough, per M, $10 00;
pand a high price, and soon after, edged, per M, $12 00; T. and Ch
when .there is a rush for the market, sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor­
prices rapidly decline. Unless oner ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per
can be among the first it is better to M,$l-8 00; No.2rustic,perM,$18 00;
hold until the prices have passed the clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear P. 4
last stage and come back to a more S, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per
normal condition. It is the forcing M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M,
of the market that brings low prices, |22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50;
and for that reason a close watch stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12
should be kept of the repttteai supply inches wjde, extra, $1 00; lengths 40
and demand.
to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60,
As the cold increases with approach extra, $4 00; 1] lath, per M, $2 25;
1| lath, per M, $2 qO.
to winter, farmers should bear in mind
COFFEE—Quote ^Salvador, 17c,
that an increased amount of food or
material is required to maintain bodily Oostirfttca, 18@20c.; Rio, 18@20c.;
heat; and if animals are only able to Java, 27|c.; Arbuckle’s’s roasted,22c.
MEAT,—Beef, wholesale, 2j@3c.;
procure maintenance rations, the in­
creased heat required to maintain a dressed, 6c.; sheop, 3c; dressed, 6c.;
normal heat of the body must be gen­ hogs, dressed, bj@7c.; veal, 5®7c.
erated from a consumption of ele
BEANR^-Quote small whites,$4 50;
menta of heat that have been accumu­
pinks, $3 ; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50;
lated in the shape of, fat and tissue. Limas, $4 50 per cental.
How much better to furnish the re­
quired heat by means of protection
PICKLES—Kegs quoted steady at
from the cold by a shelter thatthe.eby $1 35.
t
saves any waste of accumulated fat
SALT
—
Liverpool grades of fine
which may be continually held against
quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tbe three
severe emergencies.
sizes; stock salt,$10.
SUGAR—Prices for barrels; Golden
The mending of the fences and re­
pairing of the ditches and drains are C,6^c.; extra C, Ofc.; dry granulated
7jc.; crushed, fine crushed, cube and
usually laid aside, along with cutting ftowdered, 7fc.; extra C, 6fc.; halves
the supply of wood, for winter employ­ and boxes, |c. higher.
ment ; but though this has been the
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custom in the past, yet It is doubtful
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i • -'£
if such work can be economically done
On publlo occasion» th» governor» of tta
in winter. Digging post-holes when British provtneas in Australia all appear in
the ground is frozen, and hauling military uniform. YaSno one of them ia a
wood over rough roads,or being caught professional loldier.
Mra Le Boron, of Leavenworth, fell dead
with a load in a snow storm, are more
laborious than doing the work in the m »he was making a pie, and at tbe same
time a clock which had been out of time for
fall, when the materials for building live yean deliberately »truok 12.
can be more easily procured and the
A New York glui dropped deed two hour»
work one in a shorter time. All the after having become engaged to bo married.
outdoor work should be done before It is supposed her death was caused by an at­
•he winter comes on. The winter will tack of heart disease brought on by joy.
give ample employment with inside
A citizen of Marietta, T a put some chest­
work. Manure making aud stock nuts on the roof to dry, and ths rats gnawed
feeding are jobs for winter, and much holee through ths roof te get the ohestnuts,
of the grain dan be thrashed and and when it rained the water oome through
cleaned later on. If any of the work those boles with a rush
An old observer tells that one’» eyebrow«
to be done is to be postponed let it be
are On infallible guide to hl» age. No matter
such as can be done under shelter.
how young looking tta person may be, if bla
lack a gloss end do not 11s flat and
All land intended for spring seed­ eyebrow»
smooth, It to no longer a young men
ing should be plowed in the fall, not
A woman in Americus, Ga., fell asleep
only for the purpose of avoiding the during a recent Sunday night service and
hurry of work in the spring but also didn’t waks up until after everybody had
gone boms and tta door wm locked. She re­
to assist in getting the land in better mained imprisoned three day» before she wm
condition. There is no surer remedy discovered and reeoued.
for destroying cutworms in the soil
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_____ armies ths Gorman
Among
tie Continental
than fall plowing, which opens the ¡ soldier»
tav<
,
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-- — longest legs,.Judging by
o/jr the
vaxs)
of step. It to eighty oentimetera
The
«oil to frost, thereby net only destroy- length
1“—‘-
■■
—
ing the worms and other insects but •top of the Frenoh, Austrian, Belgian, Swim,
also assisting to pulverize the soil by and Swedish to seventy-live oentlmetero, and
the Russian aeventy-ono centimeter«
alternate freezing and thawing, the °t
Thirty centimeters make a fool
expansion and contraction causing all ^Thers to
porpoise that
th| has ym 1 b
Tnere is an old porpohe
lump« and clods to fall to pieces. the
harbor of 8t Augustine, FIs., years
Where the soil is well drained no J««». The
T*>e porpoise
porpoise 1«
1» particularly
particularly tame
tame and
and
plowing will be necessary in the spring, frolicsome. He to called Old Ghoul, and to
if the ground be well brokefi late in known by baring
having one flu gone. Ho
He often
oft««
the fall. If the outside work can be play» around tbe flshermon’» boat» and his
presence always augurs a
« good catch.
catah.
done before winter the spring will presenoe
Workmen to
tn a gravel bed on tbe Western
open with the heaviest portion of the
rsoently cam. upon
Tklabama reou
work done, leaving only such as can­ railway of -Alabama
skeleton of what they think was an In­
not be done at any other season ex­ the
dian princes« On it waa found a diver cor-
cept in spring.
Mis. Barnett-« Bright Boy.
Some one recently asked Mrs. Burnett’s
son Vivian, the original of “Little Lord
Fauntleroy, ’’ what was meant by “so­
ciety.” "Society,” said Vivian, "why
it’s a thing where there’s lota of people,
who ail oome to your house, and they
come up to your mamma, who to in the
drawing room looking very beautiful, in
• lovely dims, and they shake hands with
ber and «ay, ’Why, how do you dot’ and
then they gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble,
gabble, and then they oome up again to
tout mamma and any. *Oh, I’m so sorry,
but I must go now, goo.1 bv,’ and then
they go aw«y. and that’s all.”—Boston
Hearld.
eagle and rattlesnake
A Forty-Five
to th.
On U>. W1Id Pyalris.
Q"et’
brac,leU. » necklace made of
diver bucklee, tied together with dlk rib­
bon, and a peculiar knife with a saber blade
Medlmval superstition. linger to Austria
the burgomaster of Zurakt, in Galicia, has
not instituted a prosecution before the crim­
inal oourt of Solotwina against a man named
Jean Kowaleeink for having .“by his — M-
cious sorceries and incantations caused a hall-
Jfo™2&Sd,V“U,e th°
Zuraki 00
.
F.
ot Curtb, Fla, received
a lot of toilet soap for bb barber «hop. Ini
placing the cake« on the shelf he noticed that
•oe of them waa muoh heavier than well coo
duc'“* soap generally to Cutting it open
X.
d°U-’
vintage o.
l8~ p® intend» to deal with that firm alto
A curious and fatal accident taonmwl »
tad ¿ritvrf,i“il‘*t. Thirty «triSZTZhich
“darnvod from Algeria were being pbced
Pari*- ’hlen’ ‘«"J are tote
h‘b“*1 '» the Jardin d’Acclimatation
id£L’foi
**«
OI tourists
faab on of loavin®
«rt-^tte
terete b the
dibtogui^
Zwto
Ttabutto» Ungftolowto
pigs’teeth »ore.
Red Tap in Russia
How easy It Is In Russia- to get a
high official's signature to any sort of»
document may be Illustrated by an nn-
ecdote that I have every reason to be­
lieve is abMflutely true, j A ‘‘stola-
nachalnik,” or head of a bureau, in the
provincial administration of Tobolsk,
while boasting one day about his power
to shape afld direct governmental
action, made a wager With another
chinovnik that he could get the wov-
ernor of the provlnoe—the late Gov­
ernor Lissogorski—to sign a manuscript
copy of the Lord’s Prayer. He wrote
the prayer out in the form of an official
document on A sheet Of stamped paper,
numbered it, Attached the proper seal
to it, and handed it to the Governor
with a pile of other papers which re-
luired signature. He won his wager.
The Goiremor duly signed the Lord s
Prayer, and it was probably as harmless
in official document as ever came out
of his office.— Oeorg» Kennan, ••
Century. x_________
—A curious experiment consists Ite-
taking a water fl. sk or other wide­
mouthed bottle and placing a small
cork in the neck while holding it in a ,
horizontal position. It will seem an
easy matter to blow the cork into the
bottle, but upon trial it will be found
almost impossible todo so. The harder
one blows «be more forcibly is the cork
ejected out of the bottle. The expl»
Nation is that the bottle is already full
of air, so that no more can be blown
into it; and the only effect produced
by bowing ia to compress the •**'
already ■ aride.
I
“* r
On a beautiful September morning I
waa cantering along on my pony,
J
ing a mountain divide, drinking in th,
fruah air, admiring the anow-capJ
mountains, the lofty pine«, thewaterimf
the ereek alive with trout, and fapiB
tho distance, the head-watero of th,
Missouri winding their serpentine w&»
through the valley. Ori^every side tta
beauty of the scene was augumented by
herds of deer and antelope, which dob
ted the land in the distance, but ths
stillneea was suddenly broken by ths .
shrill ecream of an eagle. High up In
the heavens I saw him prepare to de.
scend, and down, down he came, with
the Hwiftnens of a shooting star, until
he had nearly reached the earth,’when
he spread' his powerful pinions and
eased himself down’until he had nearly
reached terra flrma, when, with a eud-
den swoop, he lighted upon a great
prairie rattler, akdut five feet long, and
a battle commenced such as 1 had never
before witnessed. I rode’’slowly up to
the combatants, as near as I could with-
oub- disturbing them, and eagorly
watched the progress of the fight The
bird was one of the largest bald eagles,
and the snake waa a monster of its
kind, being three Inches in diameter.
The eagle, with its crest thrown buck'
ran up to tho snake and gave It a blow
oyer the htiad with its wings that com­
pletely stunned it, just as it was In the
act of striking at him with all its force.
Quick as thought the eaglethen caught
it in its talons, soured about ten feet in
the air, gave it a furious shaking, and
let it fall to the earth, where it lay
colled in a warlike attitude, rattling
and hissing in great w|mth. Tho eagle
made la second attack in the same man­
ner as before, but the snalfe watched its
chance this time, ancf'Wheh t!ic eagle
was close enough thrust its head be­
tween his head and wing, and, with «
desperate effort, wound Itself around
the eaglo’s body, and It looked for a
moment aa though the powerful bird
must die. But, with a violent flap of
his wings, he broke the deadly .embrace,
caught the snake, gave it a number of
Jerksr*and threw it down again. The
blood was oozing from several placos in
the rattler’s body,’ $hfoh soemed to
make the eagle mol-e orxeitod than
ever.
j)
The antagonists,Xow remained some
feet apart, and deemed to be resting,
while the rattler kept up a deep buz-*
zing, perhaps to intimldifte the bird..
The eagle next tried another plan,
wheeling around his enemy in a clri^e;
but the serpent was acquainted with
this dodge, and kept full lti his face.
Thus foilod, the eagle began- to whip
the rattler with the tips of hbuwlngj,
his head well thrown back, but the
snake dodged the blows. The eagle
then made a feint, jumped to ono side
and struck it a fearful ^low, caught it
by the middle and shook it until the
make was about to entwine itself around
his body, when he again threw It to the
ground. Both showed signs of great
fatigue, but neither seomed Inclined to
give way. The eagle ran around and
around his victim, in every conceivable
wag. but so far the snake managed to
hold him off, until he threw back his
head and made a desperate drive. The
snake struck with aU its foroe as the
-agle came in contact with its jioad,
and. while trying to coll around his
body, was caught and carried up into
he air, -where it was almost jerked in
twain, and when it reached the ground
-tgain ite entrails were hanging out, and
It writhed and twisted in great pain. "
The proud bird stood looking on with
>he victorious air of a pugilist who has
won a-world renowned battle, his head
eroct and his wings resting on the
ground. For the first time he’cast his
large eyes upon me, showing neither ,
surprise nor anger at my presonoe; he-
seemed to understand that I would not.
molest him, for he turned to the snake
and gave it another good shaking to.
make sure of its death. 1 was temptodj
to take him home as a trophy of the
battle, but his unshaken confidence in
me unnerved my arm. * When the agon­
ies of death were over and his enemy
had ceased writhing he stretched his
wings, seized his prey where the skin
was not broken, and with a steady- flight
bore It to a mountain crag, the highest
one in the neighboring mountain. As
he slowly winged his way the huge ser­
pent eould be seen hanging from his
powerful claws. The fight lasted three-
quarters of an hour, and had the eagle
been less careful of hie eyes and head
he could have torn the snake to atoms
in a moment; but he seemed to. realize
the danger of the poisonous nature of
the snake, and gained his victory by
the exercise of his strategic instinct—
American Field.
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