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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1886)
M’M INN VILLE J • WEST SIDE 'TELEPHONE, OREGON NEWS ITEMS. John Bills has been pardon •<( 1-y Gov Mooly, -----1 «sued----- There is a fomn’n «Irmnmor doing south- EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY rm Oregon, —IN - Al Centerville DOO ftnrVe nf whont rtro Garrison s Building. McMinnville. Oregon, bcinjT Fof’pivpfl doily, — BY — Thft t»ld stage harrt nn Gr^”o Creek. tM burned rerentlv. 'liihnutre & fublishers and Proprietors. KU m Ring of Cottage Grove, Lane Co., been sent tn the insane asylum. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: II m pickers are in dem iml in Polk One year........................... $2 00 anj Lane counties at goo«l wages. Six months ...................................................... I 25 The Simpson B isk , will erect a new Three months................................................... 75 saw mill at North Bon«l, Coos county, Entered in the Poatoftlee at McMinnville, Or., Wheat in Yamhill has turned out much um Hecon<l-cluH8 matter. better than was expeetc«!. The wagon bridge across Rogue river, H. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. m Grant’s Pass, has been completed. Penton county is out of debt and has Northwest corner of Second und B streets, $1 '.770.9'1 cash «>n hand. OREGON M c M innville John Westley, of Marion county, hail May l»o found at his office when not absent on pro- hi- forearm broken by the kick ot a horse fea iional business. Second National Bank has been started at The Dalles, with Gov. Moody as presi dent LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, Warehousemen are paving 60 and 61 per bushel for whoat at McMinn Physicians and Surgeons, cents ville. M c M innville and lafayette . or The Southern Oregon Pioneers will | J. F. Galbreath, M. D.. office over Yamhill County meet at Jacksonvile about the 14th of | Bank. McMinnville, Oiegon. I H R Littlefield, M. D., office on Main »tfeet, September. I Lafayette, Oregon. Frank Goodman, of Lane County, has ha«l his left arm broken by being thrown from a cart. S. A. YOUNG, M. D. Mattie Allison has been taken to Sal em an«l placed in charge of the sheriff of Physician and Surgeon, Marion county. I M c M innville - - oregon . W. B. Mitchell, formerly of Chicago, 1 Otfict- and residence n D street. All call«* promptly will take charge < t the art department of answered day or iiiglit. the Albany college. La Grande proposes to erect several brick buildings and a good brickmnker is DR. G. F. TUCKER, wanted at that place. DEATIST, N. II. Lone employed on tho piledriver M c M innville - - - oregon . at Albany, met with a severe accident, which may prove fatal. I Office—Two doors east of Bingham’s furniture The exhibits at the State Fair this vear ¡■tore. I Laughing gas administered for painless extraction. promise to bo much better than they nave been for some years past. CHAS. W. TALMAGE, Willie, son of Judge O. S. Savage, of The Dalles, who died recently, was for merly a student of the State University. Chas. King and a 18 year old son, of | Conveyaucing and Abstracts a Specialty. Washington county, got lost last week in C ollecting attended to promptly ; the m iiintaifis and did not get back into settlement for three days. Office- Manning Building, Third street. Andy Whitely, «1. Owens, Elden My ers ami Willie Myers have been arrested at Malheur Agency charge«! with steal ST. CHARLES HOTEL ing cattle. The work of laying ties on the Oregon Pacific between Albany and Corvallis has already commenced. The grading is and $2 House. Single meals 25 cents. about finished. ino Sample Booms for Commercial Men Surveyors are pushing forward on the line toward Boise City, and a force of 300 F. MULTNER, Prop. graders are at work on the line of the O. P. at Malheur pass. W. V. PRICE, A Chinaman in the employ of Mr. J. Eldridge, near Gervais, w:'- thrown from a wagon last week ami killed by a kick from one of the horses. J. Frank Delaney is under $250 bonds UpStairs in Adams’ Building, an a charge of arson. He is accused of setting tire to his blacksmith shop a few MINNVILLE - - - OREGON weeks ago at Monmouth. Buena Vista hop men have refused 30 M'MINNVILLE BATHS! cents per pound for the present crop. iving bought out A O. Windham, I art! prepared to They find some dificnlty in getting pick <lo all work in first class style. ers at 43 cents per box. dies’ and Childrens’ Worn a Specialty! The Jtemixer, published at Dallas, Polk Hot and Cold Baths always ready for 25 cents. county, says the farmer.-, along the Nar V K K Y M A N AV A RTIST. row Gauge fiml Portland their best wheat market, and will strive to ship this way. C. H. Fleming, Thir«l stn-et, near < McMinnville, Oregon. The people of the Cascaile Locks and also at Newport, celebrated on the receipt l . af the news that the river and harbor bill had been signed by the President. —DEALER IM— Some boys found a box of ox shoes in the bottom of Clayton creek, near Ash roceries, Provisions. land, last week. Jt is supposed that they hail been put there at least thirty years Crockery and Glassware. ago. ‘All goods delivered in the city. The shooting of Hank Vaughan by Folwell at. Centreville, is said to be a cowardly attempt at assassination, as Vaughan was unarmed and had never STER POST BAND, seen his assailant before. The Best in the State. While a family, supposed to be from Salem, were on the way to Nestucca, the »aretl to furnish music for all occasions at reason mother and child were thrown from the able rates. Address wagon, tho child l«'ing so badly injured -I. ROWLAND, that it died in a short time. Business Manager. McMinnville. No trace ot the whereabouts of Willis Skiff, of Union, has yet been obtained. It is generally supposed that ho left the country, as hs was heavily in debt. He M'MINNVILLE had several trust funds in his possession at the time of his disappearance. Leonanl Woolen, while at work on the farm of Mr. Hartman, on the Abigil, Marion county, had his left arm so ba«ily Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville lacerated by lieing caught in a threshing machine last Saturday, that it had to be near the shoulder joint. GAN BROS. & HENDERSON, amputated The Corvallis Gazette says: We are re Proprietors. liably informe«l that the O. P. road will not cease construction work, when Alba is reached, as many supposed. The he Best Rigs in the City. Orders ny company will push as far across the Wil mptly Attended to Day or Night, lamette valley as possible this season. Tlie Tillamook Packing Co. are build ing a salmon cannery on the Nehalem river, and will have it in operation about the close of the month, miming in con nection with the cannery at Tillamook. Capt. Hiram Brown and 0. Leinenweber BILLIARD HALL. compose ths Tillamook Packing Cf>. Mr. A. A. McCully, of Salem, while on Strictly Temperance Reaort, a visit to his farm in Yatnhill county, last week, was kicked bv a horse on the good I?) Church members t> the contrary not. head, from the effect’ of which he died withstanding. last Thursday evening. Mr. McCully was prescient of the P. T. Co. for many years, an enterprising and highly esteem- e«i citizen, and a pioneer of the State. He was 68 years of age and leaves a wife anil four children. TONSORIAL PARLORS, Dalles Timet-Mountaineer: The harvest is much better than expected. From ily Aral clam, and the only pari«»r like »hop in the persons who have threshed their grait city. None hut wo learn the yield has been about two thirds per acre in comparison with last ■t-elaaa WorkMcn (employed. year. As there has been a much largei acreage in Wasco county sown to grain * it door south of Yamhill County Bank Buildin«. this year than any former one, it is fail M c M innville , oregon to expect that this section will export ai H. H. WEIAJH. I much wheat as last season. Real Estate and Insurance Agent, ’lie Leading Hotel of McMinnville, HOTOGRAPHER it o o rr, ery, Feed and Sale Stables, ORPHANS’ HOME” ALONG THE COAST. Thg California orange crop promises to be as large as that oi last year. A rich petroleum well has been discov ered in the vicinity of Livermore, Cal. An artesian well flowing 20,000 gallons an hour has just been struck in Fresno county. < •ver $1,000,000 has been spent in new buildings in San Diego, Cal., during the past year. Five barges )oa«led with wheat are stranded on a bar in the San Joaquin riv er about a mile above Grayson. The Los Angeles Council has appro priated $15,00 towards a fine iron bridge across the river at Buena Vista street. Upward of fifty buildings, including several business blocks, are at present under construction in San Bernardino. There are more school children in San Jacinto than in any other town in San Dingo county outside the city of San Dingo. A contract has been awarded, bv Colu sa county for the building of an iron ami steel bridge across the Sacremento river at Butte City. Gen. Miles thinks that peace with the Indians will never be assured until all of those on the San Carlos Reservation are removed.• The new townvof Kings City, the pres ent terminus of the Southern Pacific in Monterey county, is having a boom, an«i buildings of all kinds are being rapidly constructed. A wedding ha«l beer arranged to take place at Chico, Cal • f «-•€»*. ¿A t the last Ele ment the prospective bride sent word she thought it was too warm to get married, and so the affair was indefinitely post poned. County offices in Idaho are very lucra tive affairs. During the year ending June 30th the Sheriff of Alturas county, in that Territory, was allowed $15,376 20 in addition to $1803 commission on li censes. The District Attorney for the same time was allowed $3570. The Yreka Union says: C. W. Lusk, who shot an Indian near Sisson's on Wednesday of last week and came to Yreka anil gave himself into the custody of the Sheriff, had a short (examination Saturday, only one witness being called, and was discharged. The Indian will re cover. TERRITORIAL NEWS. Wheat is 41 cents at Pullman, W. T., sacked. Clara Brown is the name of a new steamer just launched at Tacoma. Travel to the Cceur’ d’Alene mines is increasing. The amount of taxable pr, perty in Nez Perce county is $2,210,240. Large numbers of horses on the Sno homish are suifering with a mild form of epizootic. The democrats of Lincoln county, W. T., have nominated Mrs.,F. M. Gray for school superintendent. Contracts for hops are now lieing made in Washington Territory at 30 and 31 cents a pound. Taylor Tilley, a gambler of Murray, Idaho, was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff. King county, W. T., now allows a boun ty for each cougar or panther killed, of $5; for each bear, $4; and for each wild cat, $2. Gov. Squire has appointed Capt. P. B. Johnson, of the Union, on the peniten tiary commission, vice Gen. Bane, re signed. Alexander Shearer superintendent of midges and buildings for the Northern Pacific was drowned in snake river at Ainsworth. It has been found necessary in the pro gress of work for the Cascade division of the Northern Pacific Kailroad to change the channel of Green river. Yakima county is said to have better crops this Beason than for many years. The hop crop alone will bring nearly $100,000 into thisTounty. John E. Hayes, of Butte, M. T., drop ped a revolver from his pocket the other day. One of the charges exploded and John was buried two days later. The Tacoma Mill company, Carbon Hill Coal company, Tacoma Light and Water company and the national banks of Tacoma, pay taxes on over $1,500,000. At Tunnel City recently a man who had been arrested for grossly insulting a lady made a break for liberty and was shot by Sheriff Packwood. The “ wound is a fatal one. Articles of incorporation have been filed to construct, maintain and ____ operate r____ a railroad from Walla Walla south to Ainsworth, and a branch through Eureka Flat. Capital stock $200,000. Mr. John A. Post, postmaster at Boise for the past twelve years, and Past Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity of Ida ho, shot himself through the heart last Sunday, causing instant death. David M. Reese, a well known rancher living about four miles east of Anaconda, I. T., was found «lead in his cabin, having committed suicide by hanging. He ha«l evidently been hanging several days, as when found decomposition was far ad vanced. A snort time since an accident oe- cure<l in a tunnel under construction near Michell’s, on the Montana Central railroad, by which three men lost their lives. A blast ha«i been fired and seven men started to work at the drills. With out warning a block of stone about six feet thick, evidently loosened by the blast came crashing through the timbered roof, instantly killing John Hayes, Wm. M. Bush and Samuel Tillery. John Powers was severely injured but will re cover. \UGUST WAIFS OF THE WORLD. An oleomargarine march has been re cently composed. Pennsylvania mills prodnee 80,000 bar rels of oil a «lay. There are, it is said. 50,000 Mormon children in Utah. There are one thousand Chinese wm men in San Francisco. The wealthiest church in Boston pays its organist $350 per year. The room in which Grant died remains untouched in every detail. Ballinger, Tex., is but a month old, yet it has a population of 2,000. > It took 87,500 leaves of gold to giM Connecticut’s capitol dome. It costs Jav Gould $210 a day to keep his yacht Atlanta in good order. 2JA drought is doing bad work in the Assintboine country in Minnesota. The cost of picking the southern cotton crop by ban«! is $40.003,000 a year. The farming out jf paupers will be ille gal in Connecticut after Jan. 1, 1887. American clocks fitted with oriental faces are found through all Asia Minor. In Ohio a Blaine and Logan club has chuigedits name to the “Blaine and ---- club.” The 23th of October is now chosen as the «lav for the unveiting of the Barthol di statute. A street railway is being laid in Hali fax, N. S. It will be completed by th, 1st of October. One of the lea line Salvationists at Tor onto was once a wealthy wine merchant at Oxford, England. Two policemen were recently dis- chargeil in Cincinnati because they could neither read nor write. * All Asia has only abont as many rail roads as Illinois, an«l seven-eighths of these are in British India. The organ-grinders of New York are prohibited from playing between the hours of 9 p. M. and 9 A. m . Canada charges 40 cents for every bushel of peaches that enters that coun try from the United States. The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette on Thursday celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its establishment. A tunnel 2,300 feet in length is being cut through the hill at Bridgeport, Conn., for the new water works system. The grand jury which adjourned at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the last day of July found 250 indictments, mostly en land cases. A young woman at Altoona, Pa., was -robbed ................................. of her head of long .... and ‘ ’ luxuriant ' t hair while asleep in her chamber a few Bights ago. The Curtis house, age«l 250 years, was torn down recently at West Roxbury, Mass., to make room for modern im provements. A Hartford, Conn., man circumvents the gas company by storing bis meter in a safe-deposit vault when he goes off for the summer. The Canadian government has pur chased the steam yacht Yosemite from a New York firm of vessel brokers. The yacht will be used as a cruiser. The New York Graphic says the Il’orZd ami the Star are doubtless truth ful papers, and asks, if that is the case, Why are not their editors in the jieniten- tiary 1 Letters maileil in hotel envelopes are sent to tho dead-letter office, notwith standing the ten days’ return notice on the corner, when they fail to reach the person addressed. A now industry has sprung np in Maine. It is the snipping of fir boughs for pillows. Thus far 7)4 tons have been sent from Rebec alone to parties in Boston. The quality of tho boughs is the very finest. MINING NEWS. Jacltonville Timet: Prof. J. E. Clay- ton, of Multnomah county, has lieen ex amining mining properties in Josephine county for Portland capitalists....... A eonsiilerahle force is at work cleaning out the ditch, repairing flumes and getting ready for next season’s run at the Sterling Co.’s mines....... There is quite a quartz excitement in Ashland prei-inct, nearly everybody there having one or more specimens in their jsitwession....... Considerable work is being done in the quartz mines on Wagner creek. Two mills are crushing ore at a lively rate, with good prospects....... More solid work in the quartz mines is now being done than at anv other time during the biB- torv of Jacitson county ; an«i not without good results, either.......Work continues stea«lily on Baumle, Klippel A Co.’s quartz mill, which will lie In running or der before many months. The machin ery for it will soon arrive. It will be a first-class one.......The quartz mill which has been crushing ore from the Swinden ledge in Rock Point precinctis lying idle. It now seems doubtful whether L. D. Brown will put np the new mill talked alxait sometime since. lied rock Democrat: We are reliably in formed that there has been some three or four cn«b sales made of mines in the Sev en Devil’s district lately, to parties from Butte City, Mont. This is no humbug the sales were actually made, an«i the cash paid for them. They are preparing to get their machinery in there to work. A road is to l>e built soon, which will cost about $«'**10. Tho amounts paid for some of tho mines are: $12,000 for one, $3000 for another, an«l fine bonded for $25,000. News comes from Idaho City that new and rich placer diggings have lieen dis covered in Long valley. .The accounts of their richness are almost fabulous, and they are said to be equal to anything ev* er «liscovered in the famous Ikiise basin. As a result, a general stampe«le f»>m ths basin is made to Long valley. For years mining has been going on in a small way on the tributaries of the Payette and south fork of Salmon river, fn that vicin ity, but the returns have not been very large. Tlie new diggings are said to lie Absolute destitution is said to prevail in ten counties of Texas on account ot the drought. The commissioners ol Shackleford county are employing farm ers on the public roads, and a fund ot I $5t*N is being raise«! to lend without in tn Spring creek, a tributary of Payette. terest for Uie purchase of seed. NO. 23 LUNG AGO Churrh-iaoing: in Maggachusetts Early Days of the 1’resent Century. A correspondent who lived in Ma.sa- chusetts in his boyhood, writes of go i ing to church in the old days. “The country church was a square building, with no porch or steeple, opening di rectly from the space on which it fronted. It was unadorned without anil unpainted within, except the pul pit and the front of the gallery seen from below. The pulpit itself was a box-like inclosure, in which the minis ter shut himself, after climbing eight or ten steps. The pulpit seat was a plank bench along the wall, long enough to seat three persons. Suspend ed over the pulpit was a huge dome like structure, called the sounding- board. This was often the subject of my Sunday meditation: How could the minister get out if this shouhl fall and prison him in his pulpit? There was no porch nor any protection at the doors, ♦ eso opening directly from the open air on the aisles. The house was divided into square pews, with scats on their four sides, except the space taken up by the doors; so that some of the hearers sat with their faces, some with their sides and some with their backs to the speaker. At that time, to a certain extent, church and State were united. Every taxpayer was obliged to pay a yearly tax for the support of the gospel. This tax was assessed the same way and col lected by the same officer as any other town tax—as school or highway. This money, if thus collected, if no objcc. tion was made by tho taxpayers, was for the benefit of the first chapel estab lished in the town, whatever its denom ination. As most of the first churches were Congregationalist, that denomina tion was practically the State church. If there was any other church in the town, the taxpayer could designate, in prescribed legal way, that he desired his tax to go to the benefit of that church, whatever denomination, and to that church his payment went. But he must pay the tax for the support of the Gospel, whether he was Jew or in fidel, Chinese or saloon-keeper. All this was abolished in 1833 by the Massachusetts Legislature. There was only one church in our town, and conse quently all the tax went to that church. All the business now given to the trus tees of our churches was done in town meeting. The town was the trustee. It voted ami paid the minister's salary. Our minister had fonr hundred dollars a year and some perquisites among them thirty cords of wood. He usually pickl'd out the richest girl in town and married her, and had the homeitead, and when his father-in-law died he usually left him a cider-mill and a dis tillery. With the church the town settled and dismissed the miui..ter's salary.”— N. H'. Christian Adcotale. HENRY M* STANLEY. A Graphic Description of the Famous Explorer of the Dark Continent« It is impossible to gaze upon the bronzed features of Mr. Henry M. Stanley without a vivid rocollyction of the famous picture of his first meeting with Livingstone in the depths of the Dark Continent. “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” was the historic phrase in which the socon«! greatest of African explorers greeted the greatest. One of tho peculiarities of photography is that it adds stature; ami I had pictured the founder of the Free Stato of the Congo as a tall, thin, wiry man, grizzled with bar«! work—with, in short., all the out ward attributes of an old campaigner. But when there presently joined mo in the cosy drawing-room in New Bond street, a gentleman som what below the average height, with a thick-set frame indicative of great powers of en durance, the well-known short mus tache, ami a face deeply browned by tropical suns as they shono upon forests an«l plains where no other white man has ever set foot, there was no need for introduction. Mr. Stanley greeted mo cordially, and settled himself down in an arm chair as though, instead of having upon his shoulders tho care of a Stat«' covering a million and a half square miles, ho had nothing to «Io but to be interviewed. Upon the table lay a Belgian map of the Congo, showing tho results of tho explorations which hav«' b im made since Mr. Stanley’s de parture for Europe, and the new vol ume of tho Almanach do Gotha, in which the Congo is for tho first time included among sovereign States. Tho world needs not to be tol«l that Mr. Stanley is enthusiastic in his view of the rich capabilities ami the splendid future of the Congo. But ho has not the manner of an enthusiast. His speech is calm, thoughtful, bastsl upon facts and figures. When he wishes to enforce a point, or to clinch an ar gument, he leans forward in his chnir amt speaks with tho iqibdiied earnest ness ami the quiet energy of convic tion. One of the most salient impres sions the interview left upon mo was that of a man possessing a boundless store of reserved force; capable of tak ing great decisions in a moment of sn- preinecrisis; a man of boundless energy, with whom danger and difficulty have been constantly present, and in whom natural coolness and fertility of re source have been developed into an in stinct.— CaiteWt Family Magazine. —A poet reccnll *Tn Floridia writes: “I watch the waves and only ask that I may in their sunshine bask, to sit and dream my life away on Pensacola'«- peaceful bay.” The idea of basking in the sunshine of waves is novel ami good, but the ambition is that of ar« alligator.— N. O. Picayune. HORRIFIED DUDES. Publicity the Penalty for Tardy Settlement of Tailor»* HilU. The announcement that a number of merchant tailors of this city had re solved to procure legal aid to obtain judgments against delinquent custom ers and then advertise these judgments for sale in the newspapers upset the equanimity of hundreds of well-dressed men about town recently. The very idea that a tailor should be so bold and desperate as to even threaten such a course was as preposterous 'to their minds as unpaid bills were familiar to the tradesman. It. caused such an unusual amount of thinking on the part of some of the elegantly attired youths of the metropolis that they were home at an early hour of the evening with nervous headaches and without enough vitality left to puff a cigarette. To be publicly advertised by Smith. Jones and Robinson as parties un worthy of trust! Dreadful thought! Could audacity reach any further height ? What was tho tailor for if not to furnish them with clothes of the latest styles and to be satisfied not with base lucre, but with the consoling thought that they wore his goods so be comingly? Many a fastidiously dressed man as he strolled along Broadway or Fifth ave nue during the day felt'for tho first time in his lifo uneasy at the gaze in the multitude. What he would gladly have taken for admiration was now em bittered by tho horrible suspicion that the beholders were asking thomselves: “Has he paid for that suit or is he on the tailors’ black list?” Tailors’ black list! Had it then come to this? Had he been getting goods all these years which never, so far as he could remember, or at all events so far as ho .could help, had been offset by any cash consideration, and was he now in his position of un limited assurance to be thus threatened with law and with publicity? Lawsuits ho could stand; had stood. There was more than one trick he had learned to hoodwink judge and jury and discomfit the tailor. But to have one’s name paraded in the papers! This was a now and a bitter experience. There were several tailors Saturday who were startled by the appearance of many old customers with checks and bills in hand to pay oft’ almost forgot ten if not forgiven scores. There was more than one unhappy child of wealth who, with long face and faltering tongue, revealed to the “old man” that his allowance had gone for this and that and tho other thing, but not one cent of it to the tailor, and now the bill of months’ or even years’ stand ing had to be settled or disgrace ensue. Faultlessly gotten np young men met in groups here and there up town and down town throughout tho day to dis cuss the situation and plan some escape from the dilemma, for while it is all very well to tell Joe, Jack and George that the tailor is “hung up” and will remain so until he financially strangles, it is quite a different thing to have tho pleasant fact tho talk of the club, soci ety and the town. Up to a late date the terrified debt ors bad not hit upon any feasible scheme. Their camp was demoralized by the variety of opinions and coun sels that' prevailed within it. Some were for complete and unconditional surrender; others for comp-romis», and others again for resistance to tho bitter end.— Y. Herald. “Doctor,” said a man to Abernethy, “my «laughter had a fit and continue«! half an hour without sense or knowl- elgr.” “Oh,” replied the doctor, "never mini! that; many people con tinue so all their lives. ”—7«>Zc<!o made. Barber (to regular customer) Como in, Mr. Schmit;»you vas next. Mr Smith Next? Six ahead of me only. Barber (in a whisper)—Dose shentle- nuins vas all strangers. Ve shave stran gers in «three minutes. Ven you s t «¡own your turn comes pooty quYick al- retty.— N. Y. Time». — Lady I am so glad to make yottr personal acquaintance! I have often rem! your name. Poet (flatten'd All!) Do you know mv lyrical poems or my novels? Lady — Neither. Pct— My tragedies? Lady No; but you hap pened to live in the same house as a fr end of mine and whenever I visit her I sec your name on the doorplate.— Exchange. Gray Am! you cla m that Black is a total abstainer. Green —Certainly he is. Gray Come, now, doesn't he keep a drop in the house on the sly? Green — No, s r. not a drop. He couldn't do it w thout my knowledge. Gray —Why not? (>re« n—Because my hire«! man is court'ng his hired girl, an«l neither of our families can keep the smallest secret from the other.— Hoeton Courier. —Benny's mother has a fine voice. One day, while she was singing, after watening her for awhile, he said: “Mamma, I wish I had such a nice noi e in n>y front.”' This same little lx»v was hungry one day, so his mother gave him a piece of bread and butter. It wasn't large ' enough to suit him ati«i he (aid: ••I'm hungrier than that, mamma: Im hungrier than two piece s.”- I’rrt's Sun. —A young scot was preparing him self the other day for some athletic contests. After using the dumb-bells he took ♦«» the bars set up in h«s garden, and swung himself about here ami there. A passer-by mh I, after looking a* the athlete's practices for a time. “Poor sowl; he's in tits.” A laddie next him, also an interested witness, com mented with tremendous disdain, “Get oof man. that’s gymnastics.” “Av. it's that, is it? And hoo long has he had 'em that way?"— Chicago Journal. r