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SEMI-WKEKLY TELEPHONE OREGON, SEPTEMBER 7, 1886 WEST SIDE 'TELEPHONE. f Pure. A uarvel of iloro economical ttg I mj sold In couiM w test, short wafi Sold only li> ». Valk street, N. t GIW. W THAT Vice I’reBident, Cashier. IANK. POET Business; allow* i follows: »4 per cent t 5 per ceut. ’ 6 per ceut. #. W. Hcott, rl W. Moiuute*, >r W H Sayi^f 3r. b. J. Barber,' . F. Powers. ■rich D r . ww, Old and f. If not at r bottle, 6 for , P.O. box tress, prepaid. Juiex, Pa Manhood, lk^- !as, Weakness. K« imputable proof» aled, free ALO. N. Y. good. Use KgiHtH. IRED! ever /a»/* to (he uses Insure*«» ill other* tall. 1 ’rioe 50 eta. Ill tuple ER EE to t. F iam L Mbs uT or Regenerate essly for The cinti nts of the genera* Se continuoussna RICH Y penata e parts must resa K-althy action. I nd this with Ekai tised to cure till <>toe Itisi« a ic purpose. iter giving Ml address Cb« It Co., lot WaW Chit-Ago, in i» ar ide it tiid March. • 256 pagtJ N,withovri rations-I re Gallery, ‘hale Priwij goods foi t ils howt» t of every- wear, or rALUABU ju gleaned I vorld. Wt •• any at- . to dr in.) hear frtial D & CO. JNFAILIM IHFALUfli ITHIX. IrpticFu St. Fü« £ati»J, »EASES. erary Men- whose*“’ tost ratio», , I* W* j ra »ven merit« ty the b«t ••It work« twill run he u tert’», <t.runt»* nd I leers-, the cor* , axlap«* a-andeil* K >»** I STS. »RD. nd. Or. CE ES. eal Estate and Insurance Agent, Leading Hotel of McMinnville. HOTOGRAPHER ISTER POST BAND, fery, Feed and Sale Stables, RPHANS’ HOME” Ad e»t IL* t t* WAIFS OF THE WORLD. A pocket sew ing machine is the Intel The Baker county jail has fourtee* novelty. | I prisoners. EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY r Libraries are a feature of the jails i Lane County Fair begins on the 22d of Yucatan, —IX- Mexico. Septemper. A New York professor tatoos three Garnsoi’s Building. McMinnville, Oregon, Eugene City is to have a three-story thousand perscus every year. — BY - brick hotel. is trying a noiseless pavement Coburg on the narrow gauge is soon to of Boston ralniiiife & Turner, granite blocks set on concrete. have a round house. Publishers and Proprietors. twenty-five thousand bathers Henry Bristow, of Pleasant Hill, cut use Nearly Brooklyn’s free baths each week. two of his toes off last week. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: There are said to be eight hundred lie year,.................................................................................... ¡¡9 La Grande is to have sevoral brick opium smokers in the city of Boston. ix months......................................................................... 1 » buildings erected this summer. 'hree months.................................................................. 7o An Irish setter at Moncton, Canada, is A man named Wilson is under arrest said to have tra 'eled forty miles in three ntered in the Postotflce at McMinnville, Or., at Lakeview for horse stealing. hours. as second-class matter. There are over 300,000 head of Bheep Thirty-flour million pounds of tobacco in Lake, Crobk and Grant counties. have been sold at Lyuchburg, Va., this Frank Andersson was drowned in the Beason. . V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. Snake river near Weiser City, last week. Tombstone, Arizona, merchants refuse Northwest corner of Second and B streets, The Wasco County Fair will begin to accept Mexican money in payment for OREGON. Tuesday, October 6th and end Friday the their goods. cMINNVlLLE 8th. Frozen beef carcasses are now being May be found at his office when not absent on pro- Hancock A Newell, of Hillsboro, will shipped from Texas to Loudon and other donal business. rebuild their mill recently destroyed by Euro|>ean points. fire. A Virginia City, Nev., man, offers to LITTLEFIELD & CALBHEATH, About 6500 sacks of wheat were raised plant the American flag on the north pole in eighteen months. Prospect farm, Umatilla county, this hysicians and Surgeons, on year. _ Mrs. Nellie O’Connor, of Louisville, The cost of building a railroad from Ky., is but 30 years old, yet she has led M c M innville AND LAFAYETTE. OR. Jacksonville to Medford is estimated at six men to tho altar. D.. . office over Yamhill County J. F. Galbreath, M. _ »21,000. nk McMinnville, Oiegon. A bov 8 years old fell from the top to H. R. Littlefield, M. D., office on Main street, John Putman, of Amity, has been ad the liottoin of the cliff at Quebec, 100 ayette, Oregon. judged insane and is baing cared for by feet, but escaped unhurt. relatives. There are more republican members of S. A. YOUNG, M. D. The Silverton band secured the con the pres-nt Alabama legislature than of tract for furnishing music for the state any ’lnilar body since 1874. fair at $165. Physician and Surgeon, One plank of the democratic state con- The citizens of Drain are agitating the ventiu» -f Texas condemns “the pooling MINNVILLE - • OREGQN. subject of a railroad from that place to of para»:» lines of railroad.” ce and residence on D street. All calix promptly Scotsburg or Gardiner. A N w York youth, aged 18 years, wered day or uitfbt. Robt. Miller, of Scott valley, Douglas drank eleven glasses of whisky and then county, had his right arm severely injur dropped dsad one day last week. DR. G-. F. TUCKER, ed by being caught in a threshing ma i“Chestnuts” are now called “Haw chine. ” in Boston, a graceful allusion to DILATIST, Henry Wade of Gardiner, Douglas thorne the title of that author’s short stories. county, who shot himself some time ago, ■MINNVILLK - OREGON The united ages of a family of ten per is recovering as rapidly as circumstances sons at Kingston, N. Y., is seven hun I Ace—Two doors east of Bingham’s furniture will allow. .aughing gas administered for painless extraction. Mrs. A. P. Anthony, of Senton, Lane dred years. The youngest is 52 years old. Probably the most valuable race horae county, has two chickens that are a curi osity. One of them has two heads and on the American turf is Miss Woodford. CHAS. W. TALMAGE, She has won during the past five years the other three. nearly $108,000. The Willamette Valley 4 Pacific Coast A New York paper declares that the railroad have received from the E;ist Conveyancing and Abstracts a Specialty. forty-fonr new box cars for use on tho country must be more prosperous this year than it was last year, because more »ELECTING ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY! Yaquina bay road. people are getting married. The remains of Walter Kirk, of Hep Office—Manning Building, Third street. Gladstone will, it is believed, make the ner, were found last week in the Blue mountains, together with iii* bible, gun opening speech in the commons in sup port of Parnell’s motion that the govern and hunting knife. ment stop evictions in Ireland in certain ST. CHARLES HOTEL Henry Johns, Nelson, Dillev and Geo. cases.* Simmons have been arrested on a charge Asbury Park, N. J., papers complain of being the parties who robbed the Chi ie that after dark the beach is monofiolized namen near Champoeg. 11 and $2 Hou e. Single meals 25 cents, by the colored people to the exclusion of Between ten and fifteen tons of twine the whites, and they want the clouds to ie Sample Booms for Commercial Men. have been used in the grain fields of roll by. Washington county by the self-bihders F. MULTNER. Prop. A Hartford baby that died the other during the present harvest. day weighed less than three pounds, but Follwell, the man who shot Hank its little body was placed in a burial cas Vaughn at Centerville, has been admit ket and carried to the grave in a little W. V. PllfCE, ted to bail in the sum of $500, which he white liearse. has not yet been able to obtain. An inspection of the five hundred Reuben and Harrison Wright hnve m i.l-bags that were sunk in the Oregon each a ten acre hop field on the Molalla. and have since been recovered shows Clackamas county, on which they expect that la lies smuggle a gieat many French UpStairs in Adams’ Building, to pick 2000 to 2500 pounds to the acre. gloves, with laces, ribbons, etc., in news IINNVILLB - - - OREOOtr The rortiand A Willamette Valley R. papers sent by mail. R. is to be extended to the summit, con Favorable reports are being received necting with the O. P. and making the from toe experimental tobacco crops in M’MINNVILLE BATHS! route from Portland to the Bay thirty South Carolina. Tobacco of good quality ring bought out A 0. Windham, I am prepared to do all work in flrat-class style. miles shorter than at present. is being produced in some parts of the its' and Childrens’ Work a Specialty! Gov. Moody has issued the following stale, and the opinion is entertained that i Hot and Cold Raths always ready for 25 cents. commissions: Chas- F. Beebe, captain; it will pay handsomely. I R Y MAM AM AllTlST. E. K. Adams, first lieutenant; and W. The Acacia club, Buffalo, N. Y., is the M. Ladd, second lieutenant, of company largest social organization formed through C. H. Fleming, I__ Third street, near O, McMinjiville, Oregon. K, O. 8. M., Portland, Oregon. the avenue of Masonry in the world. Its Astoria has 523 tax-payers who pay an members must be M. M.’s in good stand average of $20.70. Property is valued at ing, and even with this qualification the I a. It < > <> r, »1,443,105. Capt. Geo. Flavel is the ballot-box is the ultimate test. —DEALER IN— heaviest tax-payer, »932.93 personally, Out of 100 heroines of elopements, es- besides other taxes as partner. cap vies, and more serious offenses, a ■oceries, Provisions. st.i atical authority says that seventy- The machinery of the Clackamas pa nine are described as young and beauti per mill is soon to be removed to La Crockery and Glassware. Camas- The citizens of Oregon City ful, thirteen ns beautiful, and eight as Ml goods delivered in the city. have taken steps toward erecting a paper occupying high social stations. mill of their own at the latter place. Pr inibition in Vermont exists in name Albany Herald: While Col. Hogg and only, the consumption of liquor, accord party were at the summit of the Cascade ing to all accounts, being about as large mountains, and but a few miles from the as ever. Prohibition on the statute snow line on Mt. Washington they had books and prohibition on the liquor The Best in the State. the opportunity of eating strawberries, traffic are two entirely different things. ■pared to furnish music for all occasions at reason salmon berries, yew berries, thimble ber The office of the secretary of the navy able rates. Address ries, haw berries, chittum bsrries, black Las recently been decerated with a beau berries, raspberries and four different tiful model of the Japanese twin-screw . .T. ROWLAND, varieties of the blue and red huckleber Naniwa-Kan, which is to be duplicated Business Manager, McMinnville. ries. for the American navy. It is in perfect Hon. T. McF. Patton, of 8alem, is the working order, and everything about it recipient of a handsome jewel, from the is according to scale. It is a perfect ship United Grand Lodge of England. Past in miniature. M’MINNVILLE Grand Master Patton has had the honor The following explanation of the origin for many years of representing the grand of the word "neighbor” by the Louis lodge of England in the grand lodge of ville Courier-Journal will be approved by Oregon, and this jewel has been sent many persons who have passed their him as a distinctive badge of the honor lives in a city: ‘‘Boor,” from the Anglo- Comer Third and D streets, McMinnville conferred, to be worn on all Masonic oc Saxon, is a rustic or countryman, and casions. near is nigh. Neighbor is nigh-boor, the GAN BROS. & HENDERSON, A couple of white men went to a camp boor who dwells near. of a gang of Chinamen, working for Geo. A sick children’s mission is doing good B. Miller, about 12 miles below 8alem. Proprietors. and robbed them of »17.60, when one ol work in New York city this year. A Chinamen went for a hatchet, and corps of physicians visit little sick ones 'he Best Rig* in the City. Orders the was shot, but not dangerously. Th* in all parts of the city, and mothers re robbers then made their escape. It u ceive at the central office such articles as imptly Attended to Day or Night. supposed the men are the same who rob condensed milk, farina, barley, and other bed this gang near Gervais about foot nourishing food which the poor families could not afford to buy themselves. months ago. A new and plausible explanation of The government inspectors have bus - pended —inded Capt. Debney Jtebney of ot the tne Califomi* cantoroi* the destructive fires occurring in pine ' for ten days. Tney hold Capt Debney forests is offered. The pine resin exud BILLIARD HALL. i blamable, for the reason that he neglect- ing from the trees is often of lens shape, *ed to change the course of the steamer and before it thoroughly hardens fre tn his command when he saw the barken- quently of crystalline clearness. Tt is Rtrletly Temperance Resort. tine Portland a short distance off star surmised that while in that condition a board, and again at the time he saw the resin lens may focus the sun's rays upon foodt?) Church members to the contrary not red light of the barkentine, while there some light twig or resinous point' and so withstanding. was still ample time in which to have start a blase that quickly eats up a forest. put the steamer’s helm to starboard, and A San Francisco dispatch of the 23d thereby possibly avoided the oollision. 1 says: The Chicago A Northwestern rail road, it is stated, has resolved on the Grant's Pare is onlv two years old, bnt irphnnw’ Home” nevertheless has 60 business houses, 140 construction of a through line to the Pa residences, a railroad depot, machine cific coast. The line has already reached TONSORIAL PARLORS, shops and round house, a saw-mill and the town of Douglass, situate 1 about, sev sash and door factory, three society en miles from Fort Fetterman, on the lodge-rooms, a M. E. church, court-bouse banks of the North Platte river, in Wv- and Jail, a skating-rink and public hall, I oming territory, 700 miles west of the two livery stables, an unfinished brew Missouri river. In two years, it is said, ery, sa academy, two bakeries, tws the line will be completed to extend from laundries, a wheelwright's shop and a New York city oa the Atlantic ocean to door south of Yamhill County Bank Building. large number at barns and small bouse* Yaquina bay on the Pacific ocean, and M c M innville , O regon —nearly MQ buddings in alL This to I will connect with the Donahoe line to I tomplete the gystesa to San Francisco. H. H. WELCH. sortsin(y • iJood showing. ------ Issued------ 1ER ORECON NEWS ITEMS. NO. 25, NEGLECT TERITORIAl NEWS. Pullman on the 0. R. A N. R. R. is to have a depot. Whitman county paid $18,000 for squir rel scalps for nine months. John Martie tt, of Uniontown, I. T., had one of his legs broken last week. The residence of Jos. Hall, near Col fax. was destroyed by fire last week. The saloon men at Dayton, W. T. have taken steps to test the legality of the lo cal option law. Horace B. Morris, chopper in a camp on Lake Washington, was killed the oth er day by a falling tree. In a street row at Dayton, W. T., last Sunday, Jack Holliday had his ear torn or bitten off by N. Gibson. .The safe of Ed. Williams of Walla Walla was robbed last week of $500 in money and his wife’s watch and dia monds. The N. P. R. R. Oo., have awarded the contracts for building a round house, machine shops, store houses and tanks at Ellensburg. A gentleman at Farmington shot a Chinamen while he was engaged in chas ing Mrs. Trinier and daughter with a butcher-knife. The house of D. M. Koontz, at Satah, W. T., was entirely destroyed by fire last week. One of the children was burned. Loss about $2,500. Miss Lillie Pitt, an Indian girl, gradu ate from the Forest Grove Indian train ing school who resides at Warm Springs, has been chosen as a teacher in the In dian school at Fort Simcoe. Col. F. J. Parker, of Walla Walla, has been appointed by Gov, Squires the com missioner to represent Washington terri tory next year at the American exhibi tion at London, of which ex-Minister Washburn is president. The fire at Raymo, on the Walla Wal la, twelve miles below town, was the burning of a stable shed and 80 to 100 tons of nay, belonging to Oliver Allard. Two mares were burned to death, and some harness and other articles in the stable were consumed. MINING NEWS. , Of last vear’s products the mines al>out Telluride, Cal., yielded between $600,- 000 and $700,000. The Douglas Island mine, Alaska, has been sending down from $75,000 to $95,- 000 a month in gold. About 200 prospectors are seeking for gold in the gulches leading into the John Day. In some cases paying deposits have been found. Van B. DeLashmutt has received some fine specimens of ore from the Neveda ledge, in the Cœur d’Alene district, which he ami other Portland capitalists bonded a few weeks ago. One specimen of gelena and silver assavs $200 in silver and 70 per cent, lead, and there are some fine specimens of native silver. The Wallowa Chieftain says: Mr. Hunter, of Ixjstine, informs us that J. H. Wilson of that place has discovered a very rich ledge in silver and gold, not far from Lostine, and that two capitalists have proposed to put up a mill on the grounds for working the ore for one-half interest in the mine. The proposition has not yet been accepted. Ashland Tidings: The building on Jackson creek for the new quartz mill bought by Henry Klippel is about com pleted, and the machinery will be set up in a short time....... The Green Bro.’s quartz ledge at Galice creek was sold re cently at a good price for cash to a com pany of capitalists of Portland. The new owners propose building a road to the mines to cost about $4000, and will push everything in like proportion....... There has been quite a rush for mining claims on the west fork of Cottonwood creek near Henley, Cal., where good prospects were recently discovered. About all the land along the creek is now taken up. Among the Ashland people who are in terested are Messrs. Blount A Olsen, who are already making preparations to put in a hydraulic. Jacksonville Times: Placer miners in Josephine county have finished for this season....... The Griffin ledge in Slate creek precinct, Josephine conuty, is pros pecting well....... Quartz is now being taken out of the New Eldorado mine, owned bv McKenzie, Chale A Co. . . Ray A O’Donnell are still taking quartz out of their mine on Gold Hill, which pays well.... Wimer A Sons of Waldo have finished cleaning up and shipped a large quantity of gold-dust....... W ork is progressing day and night at the Hope ledge on Wagner creek, where the Med ford mill is being operated......... J. E. Harvev informs us that Frank Mee and Thus. Carr have struck good prospects in their quartz mine on Foots creek....... The Eastlick Brothers cleaned up 1,531’4 □unces of dust from their mine at Oro Fino, Sfskiyou county, Cal., a few days ago, or about $25,000....... Martin Laist and Cris. Kretzer picked up a nice nug get of gold and silver, with which was mixed some quartz, a few days ago. It waB worth $100....... Baumle, Klippel A Co.’s engine and other machinery for their quartz mill on Shively gulch arrived from Portland this week and will soon h« in operation....... Wm. Naucke, Beach A Platter, N. DeLamatter and other mer chant of Josephine county have each shipped a considerable amount of gold- lust this season..... Some very rich quartz lias been struck in the Green Bros.’ ledge on Galice creek by the par tie* who have bonded their mine, and who are running tunnels to test it thor oughly....... It is said that the thirty tons of quartz from B. B. Knott’s ledge in Blackwell district, recently crashed by L. D. Brown’s mill, returned $18 to the ton, though this report is not confirmed. However, enough 18 known to ewtaSlinh the fact that it ia A well-defined mine and can be made to pay handsomely. OF SPEECH. The Various Causes Aimirned for Stammer ing in Young: and Old. Every parent whose child exhibits a tendency to stammer in speech should realize how great a misfortune and de fect is impending over the child if the tendency grows into a habit, and should use all possible endeavor to avert or to subdue it. For not only does the stammerer suffer annoyance, nervous irritation, shame and innu merable inconveniences, but every one who endeavors to converse with him endures the same nervo’-s irritation, and an embarrassment besides which causes a desire not to encounter him in the future, fortunate if not feeling the most singular temptation to go through the same grimaces and pro duce the same sounds, which if held in check by politeness or kindness is often held so by an effort, dangerous in the same direction as yielding might prove to the tempted, sometimes pro ducing an incurable stammer of its own. There are various causes assigned for stammering, none of which operate in all cases. In some children it is produced by organic trouble, malfor mation of the tongue or of the throat or palate, swollen tonsils, a lengthened uvula or inflammation of the glands. Early attention must be given to thik, the uvula clipped, the tonsilB reduced, ulcers cauterized, as the particular case requires. Quite as often, how ever, tlie trouble is not organic, but functional, and arises from debility, paralysis, tetanic spasms, neuralgia, chorea and other nervous disturbances. This form isalmostalwayscurable, with pains and time and patience—patience, after all, being the great panacea Oc casionally this sort of stammering has birth in a chance imitation or mockery of another stammerer, sometimes from a confusion of the mind that hinders control of the organs of speech, or a weakness of the will in relation to them; ag»in from some unhappy ex citement, pleasurable excitement sel dom retarding the speech. And the act of stammering once accidentally committed, the nervous consciousness of it renders it almost impossible to regain a normal use of the vocal or pins. That no stammering, however is entirely and altogether nervous is shown by the fact that the worst stam merer can sing without, showing it, and with thorough articulation, and by the further fact that women, who are notoriously moro nervous than men, form but a tenth part of all the stammer ers in the world. The trouble with stammerers usually evinces itself in words which begin with consonants, those especially which require a pressure of the tongue upon the roof of the mouth, and when the trouble is not organic, this can almost always be corrected by calling upon the intelligence, and by slow practice, and we repeat, by patience. No sign of vexation or fault-finding should ever be allowed to confuse the child's men tal processes while under discipline for the trouble, and if quite young, he may thus be coaxed out of it almost without knowing it. The child should be taught by touch, by example, by plates, if suf ficiently old or bright for them, the use and management of the throat, the vo cal chords, the tongue and teeth and lips, in speaking, and he should be snown how to speak from the throat and not from the mouth, to speak slowly, and made to think before speaking. If not old enough for in struction of the more advanced sort, then he should be expected to re peat slowly after a kind and gentle voice sentences where the obnoxious sounds slip in unobserved. The best course always is to resort to an expe rienced teacher, in whose methods knowledge is equalled only by pa tience. If a child's eyes are crossed, recourse is hail to an oculist; if there is trouble of the ears, to an aurist; if his lip is cleft, if his limbs are twisted, if his back is deformed, to a surgeon. Yet but few things with which he can be afflicted will give much more vexation, annoyance, teasing tremor and mortifi cation than the habit of stammering, if it grows up with him and gets pos session of him till be feels it. like one of the evil spirits in those possessed of devils, and the parent wno fails to mount to the occasion, and thinks it no matter now, that it is rather pretty and amusing in a child, who delays about taking advice, can not afford a teacher in such a trifle, can not go where teachers arc, or for any other reason whatever neglects to attend to the business before the child is ten year, old, and to follow it up with the patience of Mother Nature herself for every day of two year*, deserves all the reproach with which, in yeara to come, the child will load him in his in-art if not in his stammering speech. Whatever position the child may grow to till, there he will need hia speech; without it the orator will be ruined, the lawyer can not plead, the exhorter can not preach, the teacher can not in struct. the auctioneer ha* no vocation, the actor can not plav. the master can not give his orders, the man himself is handicapped at the very outset of life, and in nine cases out of ten he will know that his parents might have hindered it.— Harper's Pazar. —The town of Northfield, Minn., is named after two of the oldest settlers, Mr. North and Mr. Field. The Younger brothers, who committed the daring bank robbery in that plaee in 1876, are Crops are generally good in the vicin' .erving their life sentences in the State Prison at Stillwater. Sentimental itv of Damascus, Washington county. John Campbell is under arrest at Jack women (till continue to send them fruiL sonville for stealing monev, watches, eta Hower* and delicacies. — SI. Paul Globe. I He ia in jail in default of bail. WHEN INDIANS LAUGH. A Custom That Is Strictly Observed Among the Kedskino of the West. Some Ind an school-boys found the'.i teacher had a very great aversion to frogs. To them it was a continsal source of amu-ement to see her run away from them. One day a l>oy caught one, mid shut it up in the table drawer. The teacher entered the room. All were in order; butwhen she opened the drawer the frog, glad to ga n its liberty, leaped out upon the table, and the teacher made a great ado. One of the boy*, in a gentlemanly way, took up the frog, carried it to the door and threw it out- No sign of enjoyment could be discerned in their faces. They remained through school hours retaining their solemn dig nity. Afterward, as they told it, they laughed until the tears came, laughed over and over again as they remem bered the dismay of the teacher. Why did they not laugh at first? They had not yet come into the ways of white men enough to realize that we would exeu-e rudeness in our pupils, even un der these circumstances, and they con sider it rude to laugh aloud, or to laugh at the expense of another in the other’s presence. An old woman who owned a poor old pony which was almost dead from starva tion and hard work, had brought the pony in and tied him to the fence. He was literally “skin and bones.” While I was in tile house I hoard the woman mak ng a great outcry, and 1 ran to the door just in t me to see an immense flock of crows fly away. I said: “What is the matter?” She replied that the crows had come to pick her poor old pony’s bones wh le ho still lived. She saw the funny side of it as well as I, ami laughed very heartily. When one of the young lady missionaries asked an Indian woman for her “Wakan sica tanka,” instead of her “Waksica tanka,” no one laughed till the teacher was gone. When I inquired why the dish pan was not given, the reply was she did not ask for the dish-pan, she naked for “the great evil Bpirit” (the devil), and I assure you no Indian woman hears thnt story'without laughing heart ily. Another teacher meaning to ask for a tub asked for a young man, and, though to her face they did not laugh, 1 have seen a whole sewing school con vulsed with laughter over the mis take several times since. When one of the ministers from the east attending one of our meet ings went up to a group of Indians who could not speak or understand a word of English and tried to enter into con versation of course thero was no re sponse. He said to me as I came up: “Why do they look so solemn?” I simply interpreted what he said to the Indians, and all laughed and said: “We did not know what he said; why should we laugh?” It does not seem to occur to those asking the question why thev do not laugh that they have biit little to laugh at in the presence of white men. They can not understand us or our ways. Indian children are in the house quiet and orderly; they sit and listen to hpar older people talk, and if anything is sa>d that is very amus:n<r. so much so that thev feel that they can not control themselves, they put their hands on their mouths and run outside to laugh. Men will laugh gently and quietly, and now and then you may hear an old woman laugh long and loud; if so, some relative will say aside: “Hear how she laughs, like a white man; she is unwomanly.” They are very social people, and around the camp-fire one may hear many legends and fables, hear many old war songs and nur*. ry rhymes.— American Missionary. ■a s ------------ RIPENING BANANAS. How the Imported Hard and Green Fruit Is Ripened and Whitened. “Banana bakeries are played out here,” said a fruit-dealer of Fulloa Market, when shown by a reporter a description of a banana bakery in Mich igan. “They were abandoned by the New Yorkers twenty or twenty-five years ago. The Michiganders are be hind the age. Ripening bananas by artificial heat did well enough liefore better appliaces were found out We have to import the bananas green, or they would all be rotten before they reach here. Dry heat, such as would be produced in an oven, rots the stalk which supplies the fruit with life while ripening. There is heat enough in the banana itself to cause it to ripen. Put a lot of green bananas in a barrel and close it up tight: then start the barrel on a voyage to this port from anv of the banana-growing countries, and when the barrel s opened here the fruit will be found all burned up. Banana, ripened in an oven must be sold and eaten at once, or they will soon rot ami become a total loss. The pro cess now adopted in this city is to hang the bananas with n an a r-tight cloaei or room with tight windows. Nor a breath of air ia allowed to get at them while r pening. The natural heat of the plant will, as soon, as the door ia closed, ra ae the temperature to as high as eighty five degrees, no mutter what it may be outside. With this tent attire the fruit will ripen and be ready for sale. —The growth of trade with Mexico is ihown by the demand for steno grapher* who underatend Spanish. A number of girl* in New York possess ing these qualification* are getting good salaries. Merchants dictate let ters to them and they transcribe into Spanish, and also translate into En glish the replies.— if. T. Mat'