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M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, JANUARY
sparrow. "May he not, but try me.”
st» i okk — George Kinsley, of Chicago,
w ho arrived in this city yesterday, w*sto-rtnv
Will laughed with an air of embar arrested
for embezzlement as he was about
iho wild young kitten aroused the cat,
rassment.
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to board the steamship Servla. His books
^s bozinir at ease in the path she sat.
show
a
deficit
of S9.U00, taken, as is credibly
"It
seems
a
foolish
thing
to
worry
so
inotherl” he cried. "I have Just now
KVEKY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Oh. seen
to gratify his wife’s extravagant
about,” apologetically. "Well, as you asserted,
demands. He managed to avoid susn cion
—IN—
A flower that suggested an Orient queen I
must know, here's the case in a nut up to the day of leaving. He swallowed
yonder by the nasturtium-vine
shell. Dora wants diamond ear-rings, strychnine and died within the hour.
Garrison s Building. McMinnville. Oregon, ‘ Jis
Barbaric and tropic and leon.ne—
With a very white face Dora laid
,1 am not quite clear what these terms may and I could quite as easily purchase
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mean.
J
down the e paper. Will took her in his
’vo something to do with the flower for her the World’s Fair with the Great'
Tallinn;*“
Turner, But I they
_ ” he said, quietly.
ve seen!)
Eastern thrown in. Now jou know.” arms. ‘ "Darling.
And the aim in life of a high sou led vat
Publishers and Proprietors.
“that was the only other course left
Andrews rubbed hischiu and nodded. open
18 to gaze forever on flowers like that!”
to me.”
“Yes, I know,“ dryly. “I know
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
“O, Will!”
To the wild young kitten replied the cat,
women,
at
least
I
know
one
woman,
v®s ’ll Gie sun she sat:
“You forgive me now. dear?”
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hope I had known how sunflowers and I guess they are all pretty much
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She was shaking from hand to feet.
grow,
alike. I’m engaged.”
Tbree months
She began to cry softlv.
I—couldn't—count— bow— many years ago!
“Ho!” cried Will.
they never caused in my well poised
Entered in the Postofllce at McMinnville, Or., But mind
"Not that. Will. You forgive me.
“Fact. Got to get rich first. Do I didn
as second-class matter.
’t know—I didn’t think----- ”
s
a dubious, dangerous kind !
mestic
happiness
indefinitely
post-
And your time hencetorth—it’s jour Mas
He kissed her tenderly.
poned. , Just bought the ring,” futnb-
advice—
“Of course not, sweetheart. But we
be spent in maturing your views on ling in his vest pocket “You may
H. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. Wil) Mice!
”
look at it and get an idea for your can do without diamonds better than
Northwest corner of Second and B streets,
without honor or each other, can’t
wife's solitaire’s.”
The wild young puppy disturbed the pug.
”
"Don’t joke, Dan. I’m a little sore we?
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OREGON. As slie drowsed in peace on the Persian rug.
"Yes, yes!” she cried, and clung to
uh, luolherl" he cried, "I liuve just now on the subject of my poverty.”
seen,
’m. But the tears had washed awaj
May be found at his office when not absent on pro A plume that suggested a rambow's sheen!
“1 am not joking,” replied Dan. h
fessional business.
‘
the old seltishness and en.y, and with
» ilh a gorgeous eye ot a dve divine—
snapping
a
spring
with
his
finger;
Blue green. Iiidescent and berylline—
(I am not quite clear whut these terms may “what do you think of that?” And he
mean,
LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH,
handed him a little blue velvet case.
But tliey'xe something to do with the thing Will’s eyes widened.
I vo seen!)
“Phew! hoy did you manage that on
the 'mly joy to a cultured pug
Physicians • and Surgeons, And
Is to gaz< ou such in a graceful jugl”
A STATELY CEREMONY.
seventy-five a month? It’s a beauty.”
m < minnville and lafayette . or .
Andrews chuckled.
To the wild young puppy replied the pug,
•i >w the Doors of the Famous London
J F. Galbreath, M. D.. oifloo over Yamhill County Composing herself on the Persian rug:
“You like it?”
•‘Tower" Are Locked.
Bank McMinnville. Oregon.-
“1 would blush with shame through my dusky
“I should say so. How would stones
jj R. Littlefield, M. D., oiHce on Main Htre^t,
Excess of ceremony was the old ex-
Lafayette, Oregon.
| like that do for ear-rings?”
If I raved at a piece of a peacock fan!
Twould never have ra'sed in my sober mind
“Oh. let up, Dan. Where’s the use pedient for making power venerable.
Ideas of a doubtful, delirious kind!
In these more practical days it oftener
I will see that henceforth your atlent'on 'roes . of talking about it? That’s a carat,
S. A. YOUNG-, M. D.
makes power ridiculous. A good deal
To perfecting the snub of your small black isn't it?”
nose!"
“R^ght you are. But you can get the of form and etiquette, however, are
—
Helen
(.ray
Cone,
In
St.
Nicholas.
Physician and Surgeon,
same if you wish.”
doubtless necessary in official pin es;
“O, some installment scheme, I sup at all events there is likely to be a good
M c M innville
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cregon .
pose.
”
A USEFUL LESSON.
Office and residence on D street. All calls promptly
Andrews restored the riug to its case ileal, espec’ally under Imperial govern
MMwered day or uight.
ments—and the poor fellows wi.o hold
and the case to his pocket.
Honor and Love More Valuable
“Not exactly.”
the places, and whose duties are chiefly
DR. G-. F. TUCKER,
And he forthwith proceeded to ex traditional, must do something to earn
Than Diamonds.
plain.
their salary. It is no very great affair
DENTIST,
That night Mayrell said to his wife: for a smart man or boy to lock the
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“I’ll try and manage it, Dot.”
There they were, to be sure! spark
doors of a building, hut the Government
“What? Not the ear-rimrs?”
Offioe-Two doors east of Bingham's furniture ling like twin stars, as enveloped In seal
of England makes a very solemn and
“
Yes.”
■tore.
she tripped down the steps an 1 turned
Laughing gas administered for painless extraction.
deliberate job of it Large bodies move
“O, you darling!"
her head a moment in passing by. Mrs.
And the very next day be brought slowly.
Few persons are aware of the strict
Mayrell dropped the Holland window them up.
ST. CHARLES HOTEL
Didn t they sparkle on their bed of ness with which the Tower of London is
shade from behind which she had been
from foes without and from
reconuoitering, and turned away with uowy velvet, though? And weren’t guarded
<hey beauties? Actually larger than treachery within. The ceremony of
a groan. To live in the basement Mrs. Kinslev’s, too.
shutting it lip every night continues to
*1 and $2 House. Single meals 25 cents.
"flat” was tail enough. To have tape
be as solemn and as rigidly precaution
“I’m glad you like them. Dora.”
ary as if the French invasion were ac
“L’ke them!”
Fine Sample Booms for Commercial Men stry Brussels carpets when Mrs. Kins
And her eyes were brighter than the tually afoot. Immediately alter "tat
ley had moquet was worse; but to have
F.MULTNER, Prop.
too” all strangers are expelled, and the
only coral ear-rings now when th? ten gems.
gates once closed, nothing short of
And
for
one
whole
month
home
was
ant of the floor above displayed dia a paradise of serenity for Will Mayrell. such imperative necessity as tire or sud
PRICE,
monds was the latest and most cruel But one day, going out in a hurry, Dora den illness can procure their being re
blow of fate.
hastily put in her earrings. She could opened till the appointed hour the next
A latch-key turned in the street-door. not have fastened them securely, for oil morning. The ceremony of locking up
There was a step in the passage with her return she found berself minus one. is very ancient, curious and stately. A
out Will's cheery voice tang out,
Of her grief, distraction, who could fow minutes before the clock strikes the
UpStairs in Adams’ Building,
"Dora, dear!”
write? Straightway down-town went hour of eleven—on Tuesdays and Fri
And then in a minute—“Why, what’s she and advert sed in all the dailies. days twelve—the head warden (yeoman
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up? Are you ill?”
But she did not give her real name and oï ter), clothed I in a long red cloak,
For his wife of a year lifted her head address. She must not let Will know earing
_ in his hand a huge bunch of
from the sofa-cushion and turned to 111 it had been recovered. He would keys, and attended by a brother warden
a gigantic lantern, appears in
CUSTER> POST BAND, wards him a pair of suspiciously red feel so badly about it. No, no, she carrying
eyes.
would conceal the fact of her loss from front of the main guard-house and calls
Tha Best in the State.
"No-o!” gulping down the sob that him till she could tell him of her repos out, in a loud voice:
“Escort keys!"
would rise; “but—b-ut she's got session in the same breath. She of
Ii prepared to fuiniah music for all occasions at reason
able rates. Address
At these words the Sergeant of the
hem!"
fered fifteen dollars reward, and came
Guard,
with five or six men, turns out,
Poor, big, good-natured, myst’fied. home fagged and heartsick. But day
N. JT. ROWLAND, Will
and follows him to the “Spur,” an outer
just
stood
and
stared.
by
day
passed
and
never
a
word
came
Business Manager, McMinuville.
"I saw them!”
there of the missing jewel. She sta’d at gate, each sentry challenging, as they
“You did, eh?"
the house altogether now. She had no pass the post:
“Who goes there?"
“Ye-ves!”
heart for shopping or calls.
“Keys.”
“An<l now,” deliberately, “will you
M'MINNVILLE
Her hope of ever recovering her
The gates being carefully locked and
be good enough to tell me who is precious ear-ring grew fainter daily.
‘she,’ and what lias she ‘got’?”
She could not bear to look at the poor barred—the warden wearing hb solemn
an a-pect and making as much noise as
Dora swallowed another invisible lonely one laid so carefully away.
pill as she rose.
Going out to the theater with Will uossiblo — the procession returns, the
Corner Third and D streets, McMinnville
sentries exacting the same explanation
"I mean Mrs. Kinsley. She has got one evening he said suddenly.
and receiving the same answer as be
diamond earrings.”
“Why, Dora, , #
you
_ _______
haven’t _ got
__ your
LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON. Will burst into a boyish laugh; then, ear-rings in. / Are you tired of them al- fore.
Arrived once more in front of the
seeing that it was a very serious mat ready?”
ain guard-house, uhe sentry there gives
Proprietors.
ter with his wife, sympathetically
“O, no!” she exclaimed, with a fev main
L_ stamp with his foot, and the fol-
sobered up.
erish laugh, "blit I can't wait for them. a loud
lowing conversation takes place be
“Come, now, Dora. Be sensible, Come, I do hate to be late.”
The Best Rigs in the City. Orders
like a good little girl. You don’t mean
And Will, having read the oft-re tween him and the approaching party:
Promptly Attended to Day or Night,
"Who goes there?”
to sav you’d cry for a pair of ear peated advertisements and noticing the
“Keys.
rings?”'
unadorned pink ears, hail come to his
“Whose keys?”
Mrs. Mayrell’s pretty olive face own conclusion. But he only smiled
•‘Queen Victoria’s keys.”
brightened not at ai ill at the pleasant and was silent—except for this one ref
“Advance. Queen Victoria’s keys,
raillery.
erence to divert suspicion—like the and
all’s well.”
“Much good it will do me!” she de wise fellow he was. And when two
BILLIARD HALL.
The yeoman porter then exclaims:
clared, sullenly, and intently regardful weeks had passed and doubt had began
“God bless Queen Victoria!”
of the toe of her slipper. Will edged to settle into despair little Mrs. Mav-
A Strictly ¡Temperance Resort.
The main guard devoutly respond:
over to the sofa, sat down beside her. rell began to wonder if she could by
•Amen”
any economical strain replace the lost
Some good(?) (Jhur«h members to the contrary not stole an arm around her.
The officer on duty gives the word:
withstanding.
“Dora!”
trinket unknown to Will. She might
“Present arms!”
•Well?”
have managed it if they had not been
“You don't look half so pretty when such very brilliant stones, and so large, , The firelocks rattle; the otueer kisses
of his sword: the escort fall in
you’re cross.”
too. They must be worth an enormous the hilt their
“Orphans’ Home
companions, and the yeo
sum! How Will had managed to got among
Silence.
Will began to ask himself if he hadn’t them in the first place rather puzzled man porter marches majestically across
alone, to deposit the keys in
TONSORIAL PARLORS,
made a tremendous mistake about and frightened her when she let herself the parade
Lieutenant's lodgiugs. The cere
twelve months ago. Then he ban think of it, but then Will always did the
mony over, not only is all egress and
Vhe only first clam, and the only parlor llke ahop in the
shed the thought as disloyal. She things on a grand scale when he made ingress
totally precluded, but even
city. None but
was a little selfish, perhaps vain, at gifts at all.
within the walls uo one can stir without
times
discontented,
but
he
loved
her
They
must
be
worth
three
hundred
furnished with the countersign;
Flr«t - elatiis W orkmen Kmployed.
verv dearly, ami no other girl woulo at least. Several had valued them at ' being
and any one who, unhappily forgetful,
have
suited
him
half
so
well.
that
—
none
less.
She
would
take
the
IXnt door south of Yamhill County Bank Building.
from his quarters unprovided
"Dora, pet," he said gravely, “you’d one in her dressing-case down to ventures
w ith his talisman, is sure to be mad I
McMINNVH .LB, OREGON.
have diamonds if 1 could give them to Mackin, the chief jeweler, tell h m of the prey of the first sentinel w hose post
H. H. WELCH.
you, indeed von would, dear
But her loss^ and learn from him the lowest he crosses. All of wb'ch is pleasantly
you know I’ve got to figure pretty sum at which it could be replaced.
absurd, and reminds us of the stately
to make ends meet now that
And this the very next day she did.
manner in which the crown was car
—There was a surprised Italian in closely
Mr. Mackin examined the ear-ring as-' ried about when the White Tower was
Baltimore recently when he stopped bard times are upon us. You know
■ lie falteringly inquired what one ex- on tire.— Youth's Companion.
’ith his monkey and organ in front of that?”
ictly like it would be worth. “Two
She nodded.
» saloon where a cat was sunning itself
But when half a hour later he went tiftv. madam.”
»nd began to churn out “II Trovatore.” back
to the office, he left behind 'm a
Ah. even more than she thought!
A Pernicious Practice.
hs the monkey went after the pennies
"Two hundred and fifty! That is a
very dejected little lady.
there was a.brief conversation between still
lie was not quite so gay as usual great deal!” she murmured.
The common practice of leaving a
it and the cat and then the latter went that
afternoon. He d:dn t joke so
He looked at her blanklv. “Two broad row of weeds along the fence* ol
teeth amt claws for the former’s tail, am'aciouslv
w th the boys, nor break dollars and fifty cents, madatn. We the meadow is not to be recommended
hanging on while the Italian pulled the now and then
into a 1 fting whistle. don’t keep
such stones, but we
nioukey to the top of the organ by the The
man who had the desk next his can have your m’ssing ear-ring re- I on the contrary, it is to be most strong
Oil- It took him about three minutes
ly reprobated as being wasteful, unsight
placed for that sum.
the change.
to dislodge the cat and get over his observed
ly and disgraceful. A clean meadow i-
•
What
’
s
tlie
racket,
Mayrell?
’
And
then,
observing
her
pallor
and
surprise. As he went up the street
d vining the truth, he kindly and po- ; a pleas’ng sight to see, and one that
Will started.
nursing his poor pet. he kept saying:
"O. nothing!” and he laughed and litelv turned h's back on her.
makes a farm attractive. A neat farmer
"Dat catta licka da monk; licka da
Over the scene wh'ch followed at j has his fields bordered by a broad band
shrugged his shoulders.
Baltimore Sun.
‘•That's » lie,” returned Andrews, home turn low the lights, ring down , of grass, upon wlrch the bams turn
—Mrs. Mary U..:.is ni.ali. of LnLiV* It L
curtain.
when plowing, and which is mown for
’•"! , claims to lie the oldest hutna. be with calm directness, and the fam Par the ******
I
hay, and regularly dressed with manure
ing n the la id. According to her ac- ity born of long friendship. “Out with
But ra'se it again for a moment!
when the other part of the field is. Thi
'ount and that of her relatives, she wa« t!”
It is two necks s'nee Mr«. Will is turning land to good use that would
Will turned on him.
born at Lewiston. De)., on the 14th of
"You've helped me out of a good Mai rell met her husband with a fncp otherwise b> wasted, and is a most con
March, 1778. In l“01 she and her first
busband. .William Colter, mused to manv *ight places I, admit, but you which told him bi* scheme bail found venient practice. It gives a passage for
the horses an t reaper and keeps th
h’m out.
Circleville, O..'mak ng the journey in a can't do it this time.”
Andrew s, a sandy-haired »nd chubby-
farm free from weeds, besides afford inj-
He comes in now and hands
wagon. Her youngest son resid's al
two or three cuttings of bay every yea-
Rensalaer. in Jasper County, Ind , and faced little Scotchman, cocked his paper, po nt;ng out a paragraph
—»V. Y. Time».
head on one side like an inquisit ve
is eighty-one years of are.
THE
/ESTHETES.
The Leading Hotel of McMinnville.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
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Livery, Feed and Sale Stables,
“ORPHANS’ HOME”
STRAW
AS
CANNES.
FODDER.
Couipositioii of ’«irioUM Straws aiUI
Other Food SubMtHiicet*.
The feeding value of any substance
depends upon its digestibility and
wholesomeness. Any innoxious vege
table matter may contain nutriment.
Even corn cobs and wood fiber contain
nutritious matter. The Laplanders and
Finns mix birch sawdust and bark
powder with their oat ami barley meal,
and the fermentation and baking de
velop a considerable quantity of food
substance in these .seemingly useless
coarse matters. Beavers get exceed
ingly fat upon birch, maple and other
young wood, while rabbits, sheep and
even cows at times subsjst comfortably
upon the twigs and small branches of
trees. Some animals, too, are capable
of digesting foods which would be en
tirely useless or injurious to others, so
that when the value of any substance
used for feeding animals is considered
several points are to be taken into con
sideration.
Tlie chemical composition of any
kind of fodder, is, to a large extent, a
guide to the feeding value of it; for, if
it does not contain any element related
to those of the animai system, the sub
stance has clearly no value as food;
and if it does contain these element*
then the measure of value is clearly
equal to the quantity of these element*
and their digestibility. The table ot
analysi* then 1« a valuable guide for
the firmer to study, and after this has
been considered, the digestibility, and
also the means of increasing this prop
erty are to be taken into account. Tlie
following table gives the composition
of various straws and that of some other
substances given for the purpose of
comparison:
Per Ct. of
>
o'
ß
3
S’
o
a
?
Sood hay....
Corn meal....
Oat straw....
Peaatraw. ..
Benn straw...
Wheat straw.
Barley straw,
Rye straw ....
Co -nstalks...
9.7|-
10.0 I
4.0 1
»
?
?
O'
Q*
3
2
1.0
4 «
0.«
This table needs no comment fur
ther than to call careful attention to it
and urge a thorough study of the fig
ures, not only for themselves but ou
account of the following considera
tions: A comparison of the two sets
of columns will show that there is a
very large loss of the most valuable
portions of the straws because of the
imligestibility of these elementary sub
stances in the albuminoids and the fat,
while more than half of the albumin
oids of hay, and more than three-
fourths of those of cornmeal are di
gested; only one-fourth of the former
and but little more of the latter in
wheat and rye straw are digested; thus
practically all the nitrogen contained
tn these straws is unavailable, and is
lost when they are fed alone. There is
also a surprising loss of the fatty mat
ter in the whole list, excepting in corn
meal, and the samé exception holds
good in regard to other concentrated
food». The same, we venture, to sug
gest, will also apply to the use of
straws as regards their albuminoid
matter, which seems to escape without
digestion, and thus lose a large portion
of their value. How can this loss be
averted? This is a serious problem at
this time, when every possible economy
is necessary in the conduct of the farm
work. Straw is a valuable fodder if it
can be made more digestible. It is
well known by students of animal
physiology that the mixture of concen
trated food with coarser subtances
greatly assists the digestion of the lat
ter. This fact is applied to the aliment
of persons who use butter with bread
and meat with potatoes and coarse
vegetables, and explains the reason
why when potatoes and bread are the
sole food of poor persons, a much
larger total quantity is consumed than
when these are mixed with the more
nutritious aliment. The r< zon is that
a large! quantity of the coarse food is
digested when it is mixed with that
which is more concentrated and more
highly nutritious. To make- straw
more available as food, then, it should
be mixe I with corn-meal or the oil
meals, and a* thorough mastication
and salivation are greatly helpful of
digestion the straw should be cut as
finelv as possible and mixed with the
meáis and a portion of salt to make it
•till more palatable and excite a more
copious flow of the salivary fluid.«-AT.
F. Times.
—Wtjbing woolen’-. To wash woolen
good’ so (lint they will not shrink, put
three of our pails of cold. 8 >ft * ater in
the washtiib; then take two tablespo-m-
fuls of borax ami on ■ half pint of so t
soap, dissolve in about one quart of hot
water: when thoroughly dissolved stir
into the tub of water.
Put in goods
and let stand tin hour before washing.
L nee in cold rnin-waler. Bright col
or should stand but a short time. — Bos
ton Bullet"’.
—For external scalds and burns th. re
is nothing so cooling and curative n:
an ointment of oxide
of zinc, but
as every one does not have this
in the house
it is
as
well
to plunge the injuie I part -n cold wa'er
as to do anything else, whenever the
plunge is practicable, an when it is
not, to keep the clot hs upon it wrung
out of iee water. '1 h s excludes the
air at any rate, and allays the pai-,
allowing the strength to rally, while it
is within the reach of every bo ly.-A’z-
change.
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Nice's
Powerful Rival in the Favor
Winter Tourist*.
of
Cannes, a favorite resort of the En
glish, is au hour's ride from Nice to the
westward. It lies on a beautiful bay,
like those which are so numerous along
this portion of the coast of the Medit-
terranean. with a charming prospect ta
seaward, pine-covered slopes pressing
up close behind it. and the loveliest of
climates.
Where fall’ not hall, nor rain, nor any anow,
Nor ever w nd blows loudly.
The villas of English winter residents
are conspicuous along the hillside, ap
pearing more tasteful and imposing
than those of Nice as oue is whirled
along past them on the railroad that
skirts the shore just below. There are
handsome hotels and drives along the
seashore, whence the Isle of Sainte
Marguerite is distinctly visible across
one side of Jhe peaceful bav. It was in
the prison on this island that tlie Man
with the Iron Mask was confined, and
here are still detained some Algerians
connected with the more recent re
bellions in Algeria.
It was Lord
Brougham who made Cannes famous.
He was on his way to Italy when
slopped 1>> the quarantine at tho bor
der, which was then but a few miles
beyond, and during his enforced stay
be dis ov. red the virtue* of its climate
and made diem known to his country
men. lie built a villa, which is still
shown to the curious, and after having
lived here tranquilly for many years he
finally d < d here ai an exceedingly ripe
old age. In recognition of his tiuancial
value to the place, and also, I have no
doubt, ou‘ of situ ere gratitude and re
spect for h s memory, the Cannese,
aided by 1 tiglish residents, have lately
erected a handsome statue in his honor,
which has artistic merit and is a shin
ing ornament of the public place where
it stands. The Cannese have not yet
iiad time to become sophisticated in the
Niçois manner, and. therefore, their
ways are less sordid and repellent,
though tieir time may come. The
town has Is Roman and mediæval ' n-
tiquities, its streets are suific ently nar
row an 1 crooked to please the antiqiia-
r an. wli'lc its peasantry are so simple
and umiiteri sting that they could n«t
lail to please the artist or the amateur
ailm 1er of the picturesque. Tlie re
maining rivals of Nice on the west are
Hyervs an I Grasse, while to the east
ward lie .Mentone, San Remo and
Monte Carlo, the last, on account of thu
proximity of the Alps, having really
the most c.'intertable and salubrious
climate of all the town* along I bo
Fieueh l itoral or the Italian Riviera —
Cor. Ban Francisco Chronicle.
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new
Zealand Eruption.
In connection with the volcanic
eruptions in New Zealand, a correspon
dent of a London newspaper, writing
from Tauranga, says: "I have made
a careful estimate of the stuff’ ejected
during the eruption. It amounts in
round niiniliers to .'*,000,000,000 cubio
yawls, Weighing 6,000,000,000 tons.
which is, after all, not unite one cubic
mile. It seems a small cavity, but it
would take more than the amount of
tlie national debl of England to exca
vate it. It would take one good work
man 1,000,000 years to shovel the stuff
from the ground into carts; yet all was
■ lone in four hours. The stuff, when
washed, showed glittering particles of
mica and little piecis of transparent
white crystal. Sanguine people im-
igim: tlu-y have found gold and dia
monds. and are anxiously awaiting an
alysis.” -V. Y. Post.
Statistic» of Blindnes».
The worltiy blind are computed to
'lumber about 1.000,000, or about one
sightless person to every 1.400 inbab-
■ tanls. In Austria, one person in
■very 1.7H.5 is blind; in Sweden, one In
■very 1.118; in France, one in every
1,101; in Frussin, one in every 1,111;
ii
England, ■ one in every 1,037.
I'lie pro; ortion i is greatest in Egypt,
vhcre, in Cairo, there is one blind
teixin Io every
r twenty
r inhabitants;
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bile in New Zcnlnnd it falls to one In
very ' >0 inhabitants. Germany has
ie greu st number of instil minus for
ii - blind,
thirty-live: England has
ixlern : France, thirteen; Austria-
lungary. ten; Italy, nine; IL Igium,
ix: An Iralia, two, while America,
\«ia and Africa together are said to
"issi'ss only six. .4
Traveler.
—Two ladies calle*' it the office of a
dil wan • c newspap* r the oilier morn-
ng and i <ked for the proprietor. Both
ippeared greatly gr aved and iixlig-
lant. One was in tears. “iVliat is
he Iron de?’’ inqui."d the business
nanager. “Why, 1 told your reporter
vc’terda; that I iiad lost my dear little
ipnniel, Gyp,” mi’wi-reil the tearful
■me, “!i k I lie put the item in this
norning under the h ad of ‘Matters of
Minor In • orliince in and About Town.'
I want ti «'••n mr nniier, if you please."
— Uocil Housekeeping gives this rule
for making coffee: “Have coffee finely
ground, but grind on y the quantity
you wish to use; one part Mocha to
ure
Add,
two of Java is a good mil
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for each cup of coffee one tablespoon
of coffee and one cup of colil water;
Stir well together, place upon the tire
and let coffee come to a boil, then till
up with boiling water, p* ur out a cup
of coffee, then pour bacK into the coffee
poL Serve with good cream and sugar.
This coffee will be clear, fragrant and
enjoyable. The u-e of oolil water in
making coffee is not fully understood,
but its superiority will be at onoe no*
knowledged."
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