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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1887)
SEMI-WEEKLY WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, JANUARY 28, 188Î WEST side telephone . foreign gossip . Plate9 °f metal in the backs ,, 9 are a new London notion. EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY • “Z^iere is a plot afoot to crush poker in Europe. The Sf. James' Gazette and also certain officials are encouraging it. —Out of 700,000,000 passen ger ;ers on British ' ' ** railways “ ’ last * yes ' •»J '.00 C2, were 1'alniaRe &• Turner, killed; in addition ¿57 em] ___ loyes, ______ tres- Publishers «nd Proprietors. passers, or suicides were kiileii. British Guianea is making large SUBSCRIPTION RATE8: shipments of gold to England, and the One year-...........................................................................»? «? prospects are that the shipments will Six months ................................................................... * " in value the great exports of Three months.................................................................. 75 rival sugar, molasses and rum. Entered in the Postofflce at McMinnville, Or., , —Two years ago Baroness Alquier as second -class matter. left $1,200,000 to the City of Paris for an asylum to be named after her. The H. V. V. JOHNSON, M, D. municipality has now purchased a park of 275 acres and will erect the asylum Northwest corner of Second and B streets, therein. —Herr William Herz, the famous M c M innville - - - oregon . Berlin manufacturer of ladies’ cloaks, May be found at his offioe when not absent on pro recently celebrated the completion of fee donai business. the 100,000th cloak of this season's make with a grand banquet to all his LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, employes. ’ —A most astonishing phenomenon of Physicians and Surgeons, the Japanese earthquake was the split ting of the Paupundayang mountain. M c M innville AND LAFAYETTE. OR In a flash of time it was split into seven D.. office over Yamhill County parts. J F. Calbreath, M. _ Where the lone mountain had Bank McMinnville, Oiegon. H R. Littlefield, M. D., D office on Main street, stood, loomed up seven peaks, each Lafayette, Oregon._______ some seven thousand feet high. —The discovery of a new variety of coffee-plant in West Africa is reported. S. A. YOUNG, M. D. Tlie berry greatly resembles that of Arabia in appearance anil flavor, but Physician and Surgeon, grows on a rapidly-developing and very M c M innville - - - cregon . productive tree nearly seven feet high instead of on a shrub. Office and residence on D street. All calls promptly answered day or night. —An experiment was recently made of a female omnibus conductor on the new line between Piccadilly Circus and DR. G. F. TUCKER, King’s Cross. She only lasted a day. Most probably she met with an offer of DENTIST, marriage and closed her connection M c M innville - - - O regon . with one e bus to get another as legiti- j Court Journal. Office—Two doors east of Bingham's furniture mate.— ■London ^Laughing gas administered for painless extraction. —A strange effect of light transmitted through a solution of sulphate of quin ine upon the blossoming of plants has been made known bv Sachs. From a ST. CHARLES HOTEL series of experiments he lias shown that plants germinated and grown under the influence of such light, while thriv ing otherwise, develop only small, im |l and 12 House. Single meals 25 cents. perfect, and speedily perishable flowers. Tine Sample Booms for Commercial Men. Light transmitted in a similar way through pure water impaired in no way F. MULTNER, Prop. the blossoming powers. —Fred Archer is still talked about kehoe , While at Newmarket the other day the Prince of Wales made a pilgrimage to his grave, where he sent for Archer’s sister anil baby daughter and sympa thized with them. Patriotic indigna UpStairs in Adams' Building, tion has been expressed because French papers have said that English ladies M c M innville - O regon loved Archer for his fine eyes as well as for his riding. A proposition to perpetuate his memory by founding a and reception room for stable CUSTER POST BAND, reading men and boys at Newmarket is meeting with much favor. The Best in the State. —In the vault of tlieCapucine Church Ii prepared to furnish music for all occasions at reason able rates. Address at Vienna, where the Austrian sover eigns have found their tombs, is a N. J. ROWLAND, splendid and enormous sari iphagus Business Manager, McMinnville. raised by Joseph II. over the remains of his mother. Maria Theresa, and at its foot a plain iron box, in which are M’MINNVILLE the bones of Joseph himself, with the inscription, often repeated by him in life: “I have got so far that I love nothing on earth except my mother I and the State.” Near bv is the tomb Comer Third and D streets, McMinnville of tlie unfertiyiate Maximilian of Mexico, by the side of which the Em OGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, peror often spends an hour in medita tion and prayer. ---- Issued----- S JER Pure. ct >ro e^onotnleeitd 8 In »niM tent, shorts«^ Iola aniv fa J Ml W Gllfili, aud March, UT 31» hea, with over ■t rations - « ure Gallery, •lesale Price, 11 goods for Tells how to >«t of every sk, wear, o? ’VALUABLE lion gleaned world. We I to any ad« ts. to defray is heal from RD&CO. Chicago, LIL The Leading Hotel of McMinnville. w. v. PHOTOGRAPHER Instituts nd Skill- ns. CIALTY.- ,es. Many idonee, U Jome and a for our ill partie- UY MlOU do, N.Y. jery, Feed and Sale Stables, MliUtel s. house- neralif. the NV ure-slt," nirpo«. 11 thou uli«r to oiiBanäi dSuir- erieoci ind Proprietors. —One of the finest qualities is that The Best Rigs in the City. Orders nice sense of delicacy which renders il romptly Attended to Day or Night, impossible lor one to be an intruder ot bore. —A harsh voice, a coarse laugh trifles like these have suddenly spoiled many a favorable first impression. The cultivation of the heart must be real, BILLIARD HALL. not feigned.— N. Y. Post. —As they who for every slight in A Strictly Temperance Resort. firmity take physic to repair their “ goodl!) Church members to the contrary not health do rather impair it, so do they withstanding. who for every trifle are ready to vindi cate their character do rather weaken it — Baptist Weekly. —What he bought.— ‘Orphans' Home” ition ‘ORPHANS’ HOME” rot allSB ir. It toni« noth' 11« ot buck, tysnd cserip- witlw rrin >O. larr ms«. eroi- trret. A country merchant bouvht H EE: What did he purchase. If you please? TONSORIAL PARLORS, IE only first class, and the only parlor-like shop in the city. None but EB LS. 'tret-class IC Um door south of Ysmhlll County Bank Bulldins. Workmen Employed. M c M innville , O regon . H. H. WELCH. 1 w •i I I ■ I » I I —The Fourth Presbyterian Church, York, has had but seven pastors • one hundred years. —Seven female ministers were mem- of the general convention of the Iniversalist Church in Brooklyn re- ently. —Evangelist Moody says that church ,l1’' are an abomination. He would Mher worship in a barn than a church ®>lt by such methods. i — Many kindergarten teachers agree the ^rst choice among colors of all Rjldren under seven years of age is r„ow- This admits of few exceptions. FA- F. Sun. Lr"'1”1 Catherine L. Wolfe’s latest F" to the Protestant Episcopal Church HffJ.OOO for the erection of a clergy- fo’e on the ground of the General Ideological Seminary in New York. I ~~The Boston Young Men's Christian l*ociation has over seven hundred pong men enrolled in its eighteen f*Wng educational classes. Few col- * have a larger number of students pt Jaatkat. * That's easy. He bought a cheese.— San Francisco Alta. —“John,” said an anxious wife, "they tell me you are running your business into the ground. How is it?” "Maria. I am.” "John, do you think it pays?” "No, Maria, the igbtning- rod business isn’t what it used to be.”— lid-Bits. —Fond Mother (to bachelor uncle)— Why. John, don’t let the baby play with that gold toothpick. He'll swallow it. Bachelor Uncle—Oh, that won't do any harm) I have a string t ed to it, so 1 can t lose iL— Life. — A lady having spoken sharply to Dr. Parry, apologized by saying: "It is the privilege of women to talk non sense.'' “No, madam, it is not their privilege, but their infirmity. Ducks would walk if they could, but nature suffers them only to waddle.”— N. Y. Hera’d. —" What is the matter with Susie Wales?” asked Mrs. Snaggs of her hus band. “ She is suffering from ophthal mia. I believe,” replied Mr. Snaggs. ••There. I thought James was wrong. He said she had something the matter with her eyes.” —7M Bits. —Here is a list of books to take to the mountains or sea-side." remarked Mr Snooper, looking up from his paper, ••and they have actually omitted the most important of them all." “What book have they omitted ? asked Mrs. Snooper. “ The pocket-book. — Pitts burgh Telegraph. BUSINESS THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. SUCCESS. It Depend, to Great Extent on tlie Ju- lUcloua <7.e ot Printer’. Ink. There is no subject of so great im portance that suggests so little to the ordinary mind as the subject of adver tising, and yet in the advertisements which are read every day and every week there is a potent force which con trols the daily, weekly and annual purchases of the consumers. It is a power which is not freely acknowledged a power which is pot generally recog nized, and yet it is vastly important in shaping the commercial transactions oi the country. It is recognized by all classes as a regular and legitimate man ner of introducing wares to tlie great public. It is honorable and available, and goes direct to the intelligent buyers. Mereliants who have any reputation at stake, or who intend to continue busi ness, make a strong effort always to have their goods fully caual to the advertisement, and people have come to place more dependence in the ads, and are not now, as formerly, on con tinual watch raten and ward to prevent pi___ swin dles. Many leading = houses have placards posted in the salesrooms, call ing attention to the fact that goods are sold “as advertised,” which is a quasi acknowledgment that customers are sometimes gulled, and that every thing is not “as advertised.” If this were not true, there would be no use for the placards. Times are changing, prices are more evenly regulated, and the credit system is dying out, all of which denotes improvement in the trade. We take it for granted that all business men of experience will admit the value of a judicious use of printers’ ink. One of the strongest arguments in its favor is found in the fact that among our ex tensive advertisers there are almost no failures in business. In mercantile pursuits, as in war, the boldest and most aggressive become heroes. An aggressive policy is not necessary a reckless policy, because tlie former may pursue conservative and legitimate means without in the least jeopardizing capital or reputation. A business house which pursues reputable methods in advertising can never lie accused of reckless expenditure. To properly direct the advertising depart ment of an extensive business requires the most competent business ability. It requires discretion and good, sound judgment to insure th« greatest degree of success. If, however, the article advertised possesses real merit, it only requires to be persistently kept before the public to insure success. We have in mind a poor mechanic who many years ago workd at a bench re- pairing harness, and under his notice that the tug buckles in use were a continual source of trouble, causing a frequent demand for repairs, and during his leisure hours he perfected a model of an improved buckle in two parts. A few of them were manufactured, but as usual with most patents, nobody believed in them but the inventor. As a last expedient a friend was induced to spend a thou sand dollars in advertising, for a half interest in the invention, and the result which followed was a handsome in come, which placed both of them among the wealthy and independent capitalists of our progressive country. Innumerable instances of the same kind could be cited. Printers’ ink is mighty, it is potent, and our successful mer chants are those who have used it free ly. Of course, there are many excep tions, but all large advertisers attribute their success to a liberal investment in printers’ ink. Take any two houses with which you are acquainted, one that advertises extensively and one which does not and watch the trade of tlie two houses for a day, or a week, or a month, and note the difference, Tlie study will be of interest to you as af fording a lesson in business enterprise of the kind that wins success in the lot tery of life. The two firms may be equally matched in capital, and one may sell as cheap as the other, but peo ple watch the papers now-a-days when they contemplate making purchases, and somehow they have come to regard the firms which do not advertise as old- fogyish in their methods, and too far behind the times to be desirable places to buy goods.— Chicago Shoe and Leath er Review. —There is no real merit simply in sitting in a rocking chair and reading the Bible. Some people do nothing with their religion except billiously to enjoy their misery with it — Christian Union. —"How do you do?” That's English «nd American. “ ‘ " How do you carry ’s French. yourself?” That's French, “How do vou stand?” That's Italian, "How do you find yourself?” That's German. "How do vou fare?” That's Dutch. "How can you?” That's Swedish. ••How do you perspire?” That's Egyp tian. "How is your stomach? Have you eaten your rice?” That's Chinese. “How do vou have yourself?” That’s Polish. "How do you live on?” That's Russian. "May thy shadow sever be less?” That's Persian—and all mean the same thing. — Chicago Living Church. —The ailanthus i- a quick-growing, shade-producing and insect-defying tree that,has —. found „ great favor in New Y or*'. all these qualities making it desirable for street planting. The fact that the caterpillars would not touch it was an important consideration when it be came popular, for the city had s plague of caterpillars. The tree, espe cially when flowering, exhales a disa- .-ree’able odor, the female tree a worse ■ me than the male, and to some sys * tem its effect is positively deleterious It is said to have sad no «mall share in •antingex-Presid'-nt Arthur's sickne«« i —A sausage factory at Hudson, N. Y., cuts up fifteen hundred pounds of meat every hour. —Nearly tifteen million pounds of fruit have been exported by the grow ers in Vaca valley, California, this sea son. —Inventors would do well to make note of the fact that a machine is greatly needed that will cut up corn as it is found on the hill.— Troy T ines. —American plow-makers will watch with interest the endeavor to introduco American plows into Mexico. Three hundred were recently introduced. —The Rochester Tumbler Company, of Pennsylvania, offers four thousand dollars in prizes to its employes for the best work during the coming year. —A corporation has b 'on formed at Azusa, Los Angeles County, Cal., which proposes to expend #ll)J,OOJ in piping the water for irrigation, which has heretof ¡re been wastefullv con ducted through open ditches. —The output of a Swiss watchmaker is forty watches a year, of a United States mechanic one hundred and fifty, and the American earns in his skilled line of labor three times as much as his Swiss competitor. —A new process of nuking steel pipe has been introduced into Ger many. As soon as the steel is cast into the round mold a core is thrust into the steel, so that a tuba is form id between it and the walls of the mold. —The fannors of South Carolina have concluded that they can no longer raise rice with profit. It is very dif ficult to obtain reliable labor for the rice hel ls. During the last few years several other cereals have come into use in the place of rice, and the de mand for it has decreased. — Chicago limes. —Masons and plasterers would do well to make note of a hint thrown out by an English architect, who says that the additii n of saccharine matter in creases the strength of mortar, making common 1 'inn, w th sugar added, as strong as Portland cement. Water to which sugar has been added, dissolves fourteen and a half times more lime than does water without sugar. — Chi cago Tribune. —The average annual wages of em ployes of rolling mills in Dauphin County—says the Harrisburg (Pa.) I’a- tr'ot— are #479 and those of employes of Bessemer steel works #172: while tIje employes of printing and book pub lishing houses average #487 per annum, and those of daily and weekly news papers in Dauphin County average #4,3 per annum. —At the mechanical exhibition at the Palais de lTndustrie in Paris, there is exhibited a machine for registering votes, which will, it is said, be shortly installed in the Senate and the Cham ber of Deputies. Its object is to obvi ate mistakes, the loss of time »nd the necessity of the members leaving their desks to record their votes. The ma chine, which is the invention of M. Debaveux, is worked by electricity, and the vote of a full house, it is said, may be made known by this means in less than five minutes. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —The difference between a porous plaster and a lottery ticket is that the plaster draws something— N. K Mail. —Four hundred and eighty thousand cans of fruit were put up by one factory at Batavia. N. Y., this season. —A Chicago girl has eloped with a street car conductor. He was accus tomed to taking the fare.— Philadelphia North American. —Powder magazines do not differ materially from other magazines in some respects. Both, for instance, are liable to go up. —A woman always tells a secret to some one because she is afraid she might die and then there would be no one left to keep it.— Merchanl Traee'er. — If people who mean to begin to read should read all the advice to read ers about reading they wouldn’t have time tirea l any thing else.— Somerville Journal. —She—“I don't see why women should not make as good swimmers as men.” Ho—“Yes — but you see a swimmer has to keep hia mouth shut.” —Life. —Dr. Lyman Bo icher once replied to an inquiry of Dr. Hawes: "How are you getting on?” ' “First rate! first rate! first rate! ever since I stopped trying to run thia world. —It is stated that electricity will put a piano out of tune. What is more badly needed is so nettling a little more powerful than electricity—something that will put certain pianos out of the house next door.— Norristown Herald. — Restaurant Matron —“1 want you girls to fix tip a little extra and look as prettv as you can.” Waiter Giris—“Is the butter bad again?” Restaurant Matron—"No; tho meat’s tough.”— N. Y. Sun — Mrs. Society— "Now, dearie, be a good little girl, and go to bed goon. Alainma must hurry off now.” Little Dot—"WIi T-'s oo goln’, mammt?” Mrs. S.—"I'm going to a party, pot.” Little Dot (gizingat the decolletta cos tume)—" Is oo goln’ to dress ooself when oo gets there?”— Ornaia World. —"Yes,” said Mr. Hendricks to the minister. "I am pro id of tliat dog. Why, he knows the different days of the week.” Just then the dog began to run to a g in which stood in the cor ner, then back to his master, and wag lus tail. "H « made a mistake th s time, pa,” and Bobby: "ba thinks it'« Knndav " — Haruer's Umar. NO. 66 SHREWD BUFFALOES. n Ins ance of Mathematical Calculation on . he Fart ot These Animals. The tame buffaloes of India arc sa d to possess an unus ¡ally intell gent na lure, notwithstanding their rough ex terior. An English traveler, who has made the passage up the Brahma- pootra. relates an instance of mathe matical calculation on the part of these nimals such as must have been amus ing to witness, as it is entertaining to ead. "Once,” he sav«. "while our partv were awaiting the arrival of a stenmor •otnintr down the river, wanting some- iii ng wherewith to occupy our minds. '■ b'i'anio interested in watching the havior of a herd of buffaloes Lelong- ng to a neighboring village. We re marked that cacti morning, about six ■ ’clock, tlie whole herd swam across tlie ver from the opposito side, the bull ■o isiderably in advance leading tlie vay, followed by the matrons w.th their alves by their sides. "Entering the water about half a mile .other up on the opposite bank, tho -trong current washe I them down to tlie llage whoro they w shed to land. This as as judicious a calculat on of dis- ance and power of the current as could have been ma le by tlie mo-t able mathe matician. The river at this point was fully half a half mile broad, but a< there was better feeding-ground on tho other b nk, the an'mals preferred tlie swim. \fh-r they had reached the bank safely Imre was a halt for a few m nutes to rest and recover breath. "It was a pleasing sight to wntcli the natural anxiety of each matron for her young one towards the end of tlie sw'm, when they were beginning to tire; the repeated turn of tlie head to see how the youngster was getting on, and the satis action when at length, wearied witli tiie long journey, the little one rusted i's head upon its mother for support Couth's Companion. —A San Francisco dentist, who ?' arges the highest rates, bases the greater pari of his b Ils on the soo'h n_ nature of his conversation, wlrch qui ts the nerves an I lessens I he pa n of the iiperat on«. Th « is work ng jawag-i ns' l»w w th good effect.— Fra c e ad. —The College of the Propaganda, at Rome, announces that up to November 1, 188.5, in the Vicarate of Cochin China, 9 missionaries, 7 native priests, 60 cate chists, 270 members of religious orders, and 24,000 Christians were massacred, 200 parishes, 17 orphan asylums, and 10 convents were destroyed, and 235 churches were burned. W Hie Gordon, a twelve year oil Loy of Winn pjg, Manitoba, was acre t eil on a charge of ste il ng hens, ¡.nd after two days' impri onment was tried ae ¡11 tied. lie felt the disgrace of the iinprisonin-nt keenly, and when th • buys made f-un of him decided to k II 11 inself. He did not like to die alone, but after vainly trying to induce a Cum an on to ta j * poison with him, swal lowed a large de.se of strychnine and lied. —Bays the New Orleans Picayune: "A man who throws a banana skin on the sidewalk should be made to cat it.” We agree unhesitatingly to the above, notwithstanding we are left somewhat in doubt whetner our .Southern con temporary means the skin or the side walk. ~ Perhaps it would be well to make the offender eat both.— Boston Post. —A recent advertisement contains tlie following: “If the gentleman who keeps the shoe store with the red head will return the umbrellaof ayounglady with whalebone ribs and an iron, handle to a slate-roofed grocer's shop he will hear of something to his advantage as the same ts the gift of a deceased mother now no more with the name engraved on it.” —A Brooklyn lady at Greenwood Lake put her baby on a bed to sleep, and, fearing that it might roll off, placed an open trunk half full of cloth ing by the bedside that the child might fall into it if it full from tlie bed. The child did fall from the bed, and did fall into the trunk, but when the mother found it it was dead. It had tangled its head in clothing and smothered? —A citizen of Portland, who bad lived there forty years, and has kept statistics, as far a.« practicable, of the mortality of Oregon, has come to the conclusion that the average longevity is greater than that of anv State in the Union. He ascrilws the fact to the climate and simplicity in the mode of living. During the year ending last June nine Oregonians died, aged one hundred. —There was a break in an electric light wire in a St. Paul hotel the other day. and Superintendent Brockway, in >rder to expedite matters, went witli his workmen to repair it. "You must lie careful,” said a looker-on, “or we’ll have a Coroner's inquest right here." Brockway smiled, seized the dead end of one wire witli one hand and the laniD wire with his nippers, and fell dead. The full force of the current, which he supposed had not been turned on, had passed through his body. —James Lyon, of Elmira, N. Y., de sired a photograph of his fine St. Ber nard dog. When the dog saw the camera pointed at him be suspected tliat something was wrong, and tallied •ut of the door. He was coaxed back ■ n<l posed again. Again he took .darni, anil, the door being ■hilt, jumped out of a window, fell on an awning, broke through, fell on two young men. smash, d a hat flat and ter ribly scared a small colored bootblack. I he dog weighs one hundred and &fty pounds. OF GENERAL-INTEREST. —A dog belonging to a Cincinnati shoe dealer chews tobacco, using up about a quarter of a ten-cent plug ev ery day.— Cincinnati 'limes. —A New York paper gravely de clares that “it is now the aim and am bition of the girl of the period to make herself as conspicuous as possible." - A Philadelphia “doctor” is doing a lively business among the colored people of that city by selling a liquid for the hair that takes the curl and the kink out. —A Boston man has written an elab orate article to prove that before the close of the next century all of North America, including the British posses sions, Mexico and Central America will belong to the United States. — The spectacle of a little man un der a hat too big for him is only lu dicrous, but the sight of a young coun try like Canada laboring under a debt of nearly #300,000.000 is too serious to be amusing. — Toronto Truth. —The semi-centennial of Queen Vic toria’s accession to the throne will oc cur June 20, 1887, and it is understood to be the Queen's pleasure that the event shall be celebrated bv a general jubilee throughout her dominions. —An alleged doctor in Georgia, to relieve the earache, inserted a uunch of cotton saturated with hot glue in a young man's ear. The glue got cold, anil it became necessary to call in a real physician to extract the cotton. —Nova Scotia has a known coni area of nearly seven hundred square miles, or nearly twice the urea of the Penn sylvania anthracite fields, and some of the Nova Scotia fields have a greater thickness of workable coal than prob able exists any where else in the world. —The Supreme Court of Massachu setts has decided that the word "guest” as defined by tlie public statutes under the license law, is limited to persons who resort to an inn for food and lodg ing, and clearly excludes thoso who resort there for the purpose of procur ing and drinking intoxicating liquor. —The doctors have found that bicycle riding and tennis playing, when carried to excess, produce peculiar muscular diseases. It is to be hoped their dis coveries will not tend to lessen the popularity of these sports. There is no kind of athletic exercise which is not injurious when indulged in immoder ately. Breathingcan be carried to any unhealthy extreme.— Chicago Current. —Bread is a luxury among the peas antry in parts of Southern Austria, Italy and in Rouinania. In a village not far from Vienna the staple food of tlie people is sterz, a kind of porridge made of ground beech nuts. A por ridge made of boiled maize, called po lenta, forms the chief article of food in Northern Italy. The same thing, some what differently prepared, under the name of mamaliga, is the common arti cle of food in Koumania. —The Shut-in Society is the title of a new organization in New York for the mutual benefit of the suffering. It al ready numbers fifteen hundred mem bers. To be “abut in” from the outer world by suffering is the only condition of membership. It is not a charitable organization in the ordinary sense, but aims at the inter-communion and friendship of invalids who become known to eacli other by letter. Con certs of prayer in which invalids pray for each others’ consolation and faith are a feature of it. It publishes month ly the Open Window. —Miss Anna Ripley, of Buxton, Me., has, unaided, secured the necessary papers and a pension for George W. Edgcrly, an olil broken down soldier of her town. While engaged in this work she took the affidavit of every man in his company, from Maine to California, every physician who had treated him, and personally supplied his wants as long as she was nblo rather than allow him to go to the poor farm. When the pension was granted, and seventy dollars was one thousand I allowed as arrearage. She asked and received no compensation for her efforts. - Boston Journal. —in tne nrst generation a man reck ons only two ancestors, his father and mother. In the second generation the two are changed into four, since he had two grandfathers and two grand mothers. Each of these four had two parent«, and thus in the third genera tion there are found to be eight ances tors, that is, eight great grand parent«. In the fourth generation the number of ancestors is sixteen, in the fifth thirty- two, in the sixth sixty-four, in the sev enth one hundred and twenty-eight, in the tenth one thousand and twenty- four, in the twentieth, one million, for ty-eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-six, in the thirtieth one billion, seventy-three million, seven hundred and forty-one thousand, eight hundred •nd thirty-four. This may prove that all the world's akin- —The water-boy who goes through the passenger trains in Connecticut, with his pail of water and tray of *um- blers, offering freo drinks tf. ail the passengers, is a survival of the war period. During the rebellion thou sands of sick and wounded soldiers Kassed through the State on their way ome to be nursed, and many of them, their canteens being empty, longed in vain for a draught of cool water. The late John F. Trumbull, of Stonington, who was in the Legislature at the time, having ridden on a train in which were home-retnrning soldiers, and no ticing their distress on account of their inability to get water, at once pushed s law through the Legislature provid ing that all railroads in the State must carry water-boys on their passenger train«. The statute still remains in force. Hartford Courant.