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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1887)
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. ’ DELICATE SURGERY. ,uce«..rul Removal ot a Portion of » Hos pital Patient'. Backbone. —It cost $300,000 to harvest the im mense cranberry crop around Cape Cod One of the rarest and most dangerous (Massachusetts) this season. operations in surgery has been per —The culture of tobacco in Germany formed at the Cincinnati hospital. It is progressing, 1,983,597 acres having consisted in removing about three been planted this spring. I —It is estimated that 300,000 head of inches of the backbone and exposing mutton sheep have been driven from the spinal cord. The patient was a Oregon this year to Wyoming and Ne young colored man about twenty-one braska to be fattened for the spring years of age. When first admitted to the hospital he was suffering from dis market. —The census of the Island of Cuba ease which had broken out over the shows “1,200 sugar plantations, 5,000 head, neck and back in the form of large abscesses, the chief one of which tobacco plantations, 160 coffee planta tions, 25 cocoa plantations, 5,000 graz was about the middle of the back, and ing farms, 20,600 small farms, 90,000 had eaten away the backbone to a con siderable extent. The poor fellow could warehouses, factories, etc.” —Persons who are undertaking to not lie in a recumbent posture nor on raise carp in artificial ponds must be his side, in consequence of the extreme careful to keep other kinds of fish as pain attending such a position, and was well as aquatic animals and turtles out compelled to lie all the while on his of them. During the past summer the. face. Slowly he had lost the power of young carp in many places have been motion and ef sensation in his legs, so destroyed by the above-named crea that he was completely paralyzed from the body down. It was decided that tures.— Detroit Tribune. —Prof. Roberts, speaking of the great his only chance of life lay in of efficiency of moderan labor-saving im an operation for the removal as a part of the backbone, so plements and machines, says: “The boy of to-day, with his sulky-plow and to stop the process of decay. Ho was then turned on his face, and the plucky self-binder, can rob the soil of more surgeon made an incision right down on plant food in a year than his grand the spine. A large quantity of pus was father could in all his lifetime, though his muscular grandfather might have revealed, ami the cavity was sponged carried off with ease two such boys, out carefully in order to see just where one under each arm.”— Chicago Times. the knife was going. In this region —The Territory of Alberta, in the whore one slip of the knife or one false Canadian northwest, contains, it is com move would have been fatal to the pa puted, 76,325 cattle, 10,025 horses and tient, the surgeon with a chisel and 21,300 sheep. Thus, at $10 per head, hammer went down on the bone until $3,053,000 is invested in cattle, $601,500 he cut out all that which was in any way in horses at $60 per head, and $85,200 affected, never touching the spinal cord. in sheep at $1 per head. This is a very There lay the white shining cord at the good beginning, considering it is only bottom of the wound in all its pristine three or four years since the first at beauty, and not a scratch marred its tempt was made to establish ranches in surface. The operator smiled with complaisance when he saw how nicely tlie territory. —According to the crop report issued he had accomplished his purpose. He by the Department of Agriculture at had removed the cause of the suppura Washington, the largest yield per acre tion, hence the abscess would disappear. of buckwheat during the past season He had also removed the cause of the was in the New England States, where paralysis, and felt assured power would as much as twenty bushels per acre was now return to the paralysed legs: obtained. Maine and Vermont each and, more than all, he knew time produce as much as all the rest of the would accomplish the filling up of the New England States together. New place where the bone hail formerly York and Pennsylvania grow two-thirds been. The patient recovered from the of the product of the United States. ether and was placed in bed on his face. The entire crop for the country is 11,- In three days motion returned to the 000,000 bushels, and the average yield legs, and he was able to move his feet the first time in nearly a year. About per acre is thirteen bushels. —An idea of the extent of the milling the same time sensation began to return business at Minneapolia, Minn., can ho in the limbs. In about three weeks he got from the following extract, taken could bear some weight on his legs, from the Northwestern Miller, of No and at the same time he assumed the vember 3: “The Hour output touched position on his breast and knees which high figures last week, being the largest he has kept ever since. He at length for any single week of the year—157,270 became strong enough to stand, with barrels, averaging 26,211 barrels daily, assistance, and take a step or two. He against 90,500 barrels for the preceding is now able to wa'k and sit down in a week, and 161,650 barrels for the cor chair with comfort. Of course his back responding time in 1885. The Baine isyetwe-k, and probably never will number of mills (nineteen) arc in oper regain its former power, but he will bo ation this week, and the product prom a useful man. The wound has gradually ises to reach as high a point as last closed up, leaving only a slight scar, week. The daily output is fully 26,000 and causes him little or no pain. His barrels. Another 1,500 barrels will be appetite has returned, and he eats as much as a laboring man.— N. IV. Chris added to the active list next week.” tian Advocate. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —Lieutenant Henn caekleates to bring the Galatea back next year and enter for all the races.— Lowell Courier. —“The scold waves are vory trying,” said a man to his wife this morning when she raided him for not building the fire.— Washington Critic. —A happy thought is one that has escaped from a melancholy man and is certain that it will not be obliged to go back.— Picayune. —A man had much rather lie finod fifty dollars for fast driving than be told that his horse couldn't trot fast enough to break the statute.— Burdette. —Daughter— “Mamma, I'm crazy about this palmistry!” Mother—“Tin pa mystery I'm crazy about is where your father spends his evenings.”— Chicago Journal. —“You can always tell a man who has once been a clerk in a hotel," says an exchange. Our experience has al ways been that you can’t tell him much. He thinks he knows it all. —Somerville Journal. —“Say, mister, don’t you want a boy?” “Are you out of work?” “Yes." “What did you do during t he summer?" “1 stuck flies onto fly-paper in drug gists' winders, but fly-time's over now.” —Philadelphia Call. —“They eat horses in Franco," ob- served .loggins; isn’t it horrible?” ••I think you ought to be the last to say •o," rejoined Snooper. "How is that?" “You have been known to consume a great many •ponies’ yourself. — lid-Bits. —A lady correspondent, who assumes to know how boys ought to be trained, writes as follows: “(>, mothers, hunt out the soft, tender, genial side of your boy’s nature." Mot hers often do —with a shoe.— Chicago Mail. —The new teacher at Bitter Crook, r. smart young fellow from Boston, who thought he knew all creation, was downed at the first spelling school in his new district on the first word. Old ’Squire Pollock gave out “pussley” and the new teacher spelled it “purslane." "Set down," said tho 'squire, aud how everybody did yell.— Burdette. —Country Unde—“Next summer, Fannie, you must come out and spend a month with us on the farm, and see ns every morning go out into the field with our hoes on our shoulders.” Fan nie—"Humph, that’s the last place in the world I’d think of wearing my hose."— Teros Siftings. —Catharine Owen has published a book called "Ten Dollars Enough. H She may think so now. but by the time she gets all the jet trimming and stuff for the overskirt she will find that about ten dollars more is necessary, not in cluding the dressmaker's bill. Ten dollars is enough for the material, but the trimming and making cost like sixty.— Norristown Herald. INTERESTING FIGURES. An In»tructive Dlacour*« on the Measure ment of Fresh Eggs in yuantitles. How few people realize how many spawn of fish a million is. We are ac customed to read of this or that hatch ery turning out so many millions of whitefish, shad, salmon or speckled trout, as the case may be, with but little thought of how many a true million actually is. In conversa tion with an acquaintance some days ago. while speaking of the number oi million of spawn we had laid down in the Caledonia hatchery, I was asked how many bushels of spawn I supposed we had, and if I knew how many spawn it took to make a bushel. I replied that I had never thought of the mattei in that light, but as it would be quite interesting to know I would ascertain. Accordingly I have had a few estimates made with some of the dffierent varie ties of spawn we have at the hatchery. We began with the salmon trout, the spawn of which were obtained frum Lake Huron. I mention this fact as the size of the spawn obtained from the fish caught in the different lakes differ slightly; as, for instance, those taken from the Lake Ontario salmon trout are a trifle smaller than the Lake Hu ron trout eggs. We counted a quart, exact measure, and found they would run 6,000 to the quart, and, taking this as a basis, there would be 192,000 to the bushel, which would make just 5 5-24 bushels of spawn to the million. The young fry when hatched out would require 200 twelve gallon cans to move them, supposing that 5,000 were placed in a can, which is about all that can be transported any distance safely in a can of that size. Brook or speckled trout, the spawn of which are consider ably smaller, are found to measure 11,- 700 to the quart, or 374,400 spawn to the bushel, or 2 157-134 bushels to the million. When hatched it required 167 cans of the above named capacity to transport them, figuring at 6,000 to the can. Whitefish eggs I have esti mated at 34,400 to the quart, and at this rate there would be 1,100,800 in a bush el. Shad eggs are about the same size as the whitefish, and I should esti mate them at about the same. As 10,- 000 young fry of either the whitefish or shad is about all that can be safely transported in a twelve or thirteen gal lon can, it would require 110 cans to carry 1,000,000 of either of these kinds. Seth Green, in American Angler. THE DEAR GIRLS. Two of Them Go Out Shopping and Patron ize a Fashionable Restaurant. Time—1 o'clock p. m. Place—Fashionable Res taurant. Brown Tailor-Made Girl. Dramatis Persona?—-; Gray Tailor-Made Girl. • I Patient Waiter. with a meat order. Not with potatoes alone. Gray—O, is that so? Then I don’t % care for potatoes. Brown—Nor I, either. I do love the bread here. Gray (resuming the study of the card)—O, bother! let's take some con somme. Brown—All right. Gray—But we don’t want chocolate with soup. Brown—O, no. Gray—Well, we won’t take chocolate then, but we cau have some ice cream afterward if we want it. Brown—Very well. Gray (to Patient Waiter)—Bring two consommes. [Three-quarters of an hour later.] Brown (finishing the li^t morsel of bread and a long story at the same moment)—and from that day to this I have never even bowed to her. Gray—You did perfectly right. She was horridly rude—in her own house, too. Patient Waiter (approaching for the tenth time)—Do you wish any thing more ? Brown (looking at her friend)—I really don’t care for any thing more— the soup is so hearty. Gray—Nor I, either. Besides we must hurry. [Patient Waiter vanishes and returns with the check, which he directly fays midway between the two.] Gray (buttoning her glove)—This is mine, Kate. Brown—O, no, indeed, Nell. You must let me pay. Gray—Not at all. You came out to •hop with me. Brown—O, you forget I have several errands of my own. Gray—O, I really insist. [Finishes her glove and draws check over. It is forty cents, and she lays a half-dollar on the tray.] Are you sure you didn’t want any thing more? Brown—O, no, indeed. I havo eaten all I possibly could. [Patient Waiter returns with two nickels and retires to a convenient dis tance.] Gray (pocketing the nickels)—Do you know, I think it’s sort of fast for girls alone to fee waiters. Brown—So do I. I rarely do. Gray—Well, let us make haste, We really have no time to lose. Then the dear girls trot off to Cash’s and Gray pays sixteen dollars the yard for trimming to renovate the old dress. —Philip H. Welch, in Puck. THE CANINE FAMILY. AFew Reliable Statements Concerning Tel- low and Other Sorts of Dogg. So much has been said about dogs [The young women being advantage ously seated, extra wraps and bun . since they were first introduced to the dles disposed of. Patient Waiter fills i general public that it may seem rather their glasses and lays menu-card be- late in the day to resurrect the subject, but the canine kingdom iB fruitful of for them. Neither glances at it.] Brown Tailor-Made Girl—I declare, legends. Dogs, I think, have a prophetic spirit. I didn’t know I was so tired. Gray Tailor-Made Girl—Nor I. It’s i Thus, I was reading the other day that “if a dog howls at night, a stranger so horrible to match goods. MASCULINE BEAUTY. Brown—Dreadful. I’d rather buy will come next day.” The Man Who P orch for Admiration De- That same night my howled in its material for three new dresses tliini dared to He a Desperate Boor. peculiar baritone voice, and kept on renovate one old one. Somebody has found out that win Gray—So should I. I’m in such a howling so long that I thought an army someness is impossible in a man pos sessed of physical beauty. He may be quandary about that silk at Cash’s. Did of strangers would probably arrive. When day broke I went out and found a handsome fellow, perhaps a beauty, it seem to you to match at all? the dog lying in the front yard with a [Patient Waiter goes off to seat a and yet that fine and suitable charm hole chopped through its neck. The which attaches itself to female loveli new-comer. A man.] Brown—Why, I thought it was quite stranger had arrived on schedule time, ness can never be his. The more beauty and he brought an axe with him, and of manliness, of character, and brains the nearest of any we had seen yet. the dog has howled no more to an Gray — Did you, really? I am in carries a heavy weight in its power of personal attraction. Such as it is, it such a dilemma about it, and I must send nounce the coming of visitors. The most common brand of canines captivates women a hundred times it down to Whalebone to-day or she is the yellow dog, which flourishes in quicker than the acknowledged hand will disappoint me. Brown—Yes, the wretch! How all parts of the country. The yellow some man, who, after all, Is a rara avis. Take, for instance, the collection of quickly she takes advantage of a little dogs grow as large as the black ones sometimes, and they very frequently men at Harvard recently as representa delay in that way! go into the tinware business. Gray — Yes, indeed. She kept me tives of moral and physical culture, I saw one go through town the other how many handsome mon were in the waiting three weeks last winter for a crowd? Handsome, that is according pink tulle because I was one day late day with several samples attached to to Apollo Belvidero and the Nicholas in sending word whether I wanted a it, but as it seemed to be in a hurry I didn’t stopped to ask for catalogues Smith standard. To those who loved pointed or square bodice. [Patient Waiter, having taken man’s and price lists. them they were doubtless angels of The yellow dog has an unhappy fac light; to their valets, not heroes cer order to the kitchen, returns.] Brown—Well, I suppose we must ulty of tangling itself up with the limbs tainly; the critical and impartial observer, the personification of brains have some luncheon. [Pulls menu of men when they are in a hurry. Only and strong mentality. Probably among card toward her.] What do you want, the other day I was running to catch a train when a blonde dog stepped be them were many vain brothers, self Nell? tween my legs, and I turned the side Gray — O, I don't know. What are conceited brothers, though these weak walk upside down for the length of a nesses could not be based on personal you going to have? Brown—I don’t know. I am not block with my head. appearance, but rather on who they The most disagreeable of animals is were and what they had done with the very hungry. the bull dog. He wears a head that looks Gray — Nor I. I breakfasted late, talent confined to them. The man of regular features and commanding pres and don’t feel as if I could eat a thing. to the casual observer like a heating Brown (pushing the card across the stove, and the mouth which is attached ence, the polished poet and scholar, the wiry bundle of nervous thought, were table)— Do pick out something, Nell. to it is generally large enough to use as a coal bin. all there, hut where was the pure, phy I can’t. Nothing is more discouraging than Gray—Well, I can't either. I never sical beauty, that type lauded by the Greeks, because coexistent with intellect do know what to take. [Patient waiter to meet one of these pets in an alley and the highest culture. It was no more retires and serves man’s order. Then he where there are no trees to climb or barrels to crawl in. I have known there than in any average theater audi returns.] Gray (still studying card)—Do you men of a naturally cheerful and happy ence. Happily for the world at large disposition to become downhearted and there are few men beauties. Life would like oysters? depressed under such circumstances. Brown — Not much; I get tired of be detestable if lovely woman was not I had a hand-to-hand conflict with a alone on her pedestal. It is melancholy them. Gray—Well, I don't know but I do, bull dog in this way myself, and I to acknowledge it, but the man who poses for admiration on the ground of too. At any rate, we won’t take nn know whereof I speak. I called this looks is a desperate boor.— Boston Her oyster stew, for they only serve crack dog all the pct names I could think of, ers with that, and the bread here is just from "Baby” to “Mollie Darling,” but ald. it evidently was not mashed on sugar- lovely. Disadvantage of Fat. Brown—Isn't it. I can make a lunch coated confectionery, so to speak, and It is generally supposed that fat peo off their bread and butter. [Patient when I Anally emerged from the alley I ple have much more blood than others. waiter shifts from the left to the right had to wrap myself up in my umbrella to keep the chill east wind from creat On the contrary, they have less vital leg] energy than the thqi, not possessing Gray—How would a chicken croquet ing too much of a draught through my system.— P. H. Mason, m St. Louis sufficient blood to bring every organ up go? to its full working power, and the fat Brown (not s osure whether it’s Dutch Whip. - ■< • hindering what blood there is from treat or not) O, don’t let’s take cro —One day recently a lady in South flowing freely enough to the organ quets. We’ll be sure to have them to Portland, in need of a Chinese sen-ant, especially at the moment of action re night at the Millers’. asked her laundryman to send her one quiring it Besides all this, the fat ob Gray—That's so. O, dear, what do I whom he could recommend. Next day structs the play of the lungs, so that want? I believe I'll take some eream- a Chinaman came and presented the sufficient air can not be inhaled to hashed potatoes and two cups of choco following note of introduction: “Mrs. purify the blood; the natural and neces late. Lady—Friend She: You when at there sary combustion is thus so interfered Gray—Yes, that will do nicely. (To told me want to boy cooking. I had with that the functions of the body are patient waiter1) Bring us two cream- have a boy is good man and honest hinder«. It follows that too much hashed potatoes and two cups of choco man he neat and clean and doing exertion should always be guarded late. nicely that this one best one never you against in the people of large and fatty Patient Waiter—Yes, madam; and have before like he does. I wish could development, ami too much should bread ? take him to stay with you and Leong never be expected of them.— Harper's Gray—Of course, bread. Git recommend to him coma to *he.”— Barar. Patieut M aiter—Bread is oulv served Portland Oregonian. foreign gossip . —The French Government cost* 463,- 000 francs, or about $90,000, an hour. _ A London lady died recently, leav ing £10,000 to the Dogs’ Home at Bat tersea. —Bismarck smokes in his pipe the fact that Germany has 1,500,000 more people now than in 1880. —The Chinese have a custom of wear ing two watches, because if “one makee sick and die, other live.” —Heinrich Heine’s brother, Baron Gustave Heine, just dead at Vienna, left a fortune of many million florins to his four children. —Eleanor of Castile, the wifi of Charles III. of France, planted, during her coronation year, an orange-tree in the Versailles garden. It is still flourish ing and bears fruit. —The Emperor of Austria is now named as a victim to over-use of to bacco. He has been ordered to let cigars alone, instead of smoking twenty a day, as hitherto he has done. —The most successful music-hall ditty in London of recent years, which gave the composer a reputation and profit while its long course of popular ity endured, had the thrilling refrain: “Ducky darling, ducky darling, 1 love you.” —A Krupp cannon weighing one hundred and twenty-one tons was em barked a few days ago at Antwerp for Spezzia. It is the largest cannon that has ever been made, either at Essen or any where else. Extensive orders have lately been executed in Krupp’s works for the Italian Government. —Senor Don Jose Manuel Balcemeda, the new President of Chili, was born in 1840, and belongs to one of the highest and best families of the republic. He has been for fifteen years a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and enjoys a high reputation as an orator and de bater. —The authorities of Munich have opened to the public at fifty cents per head the four grand palaces left by King Ludwig. Already a sum equal to $100,000 has been secured, and it is be lieved that by treating the palaces as museums enough money will be ob tained in time to liquidate his late Majesty’s debts. —It is reported that at Dresden the experiment has been tried of placing a nickel lightning rod on a building. The advantages claimed for this metal are that, being non-corrodible, it will last longer than iron, and will also keep brittle at the points, which latter is very essential to the efficiency of rods as conductors of electricity. —The late Prince Alexander of Ly- nar, prominently connected for many years with the diplomatic service of Prussia, was married to an American, Miss Mary Parsons, of Elmerhurst, O., who survives him. Their eldest son, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest George, aged eleven years, succeeds to the title and becomes head of the family. REVOLUTIONARY RELICS. A Powder-Horn and an Old Tea-Pot That Served General Putnam. A relic of old Worcestershire ware— a blue and pearl-white teapot that has survived the accidents and incidents of more than two centuries and has figured in many historical episodes—■ has lately been rescued from the ob scurity of one of those sunken cup boards so common in New England houses built a hundred years ago or more. The old teapot is now in the possession of Dr. Francis Gerry Fair- field. of No. 27 Stuyvesant street, hav ing descended to that gentleman from his great-great-grandfather, who par ticipated in the war of 1756, commonly styled the war of Queen Anne. The original owner of the relic was Samuel Ellithorpe, who settled as a young man on the southern limit of the grant to Sir William Brattle, after whom Brattleborough, Vt., is named. The teapot is the last survival of the table-set given to Mrs. Ellithorpe, whose maiden name was Marsh, on the celebration of the nuptials of the ad venturous young squire, whose deed from Brattle is still in existance, and comprised the larger part of the flour ishing town of Stafford, Conn. The ancient residence of the first Squire Ellithorpe occupied the summit of what i» believed to be the highest elevation of the Connecticut. It was a low, large, rambling one-story building, in the style of Elizabeth, and was built about the year 1680. Here the first squire lived and died; but his second successor in 1764 erected a new structure of more imposing height on a sheltered shelf of the hill, some five or six furlongs east, and opened a sort of inn for the accom modation of travelers—a procedure very popular in those times. This rep resentative of the race, which is now extinct so far as legitimate issue is con cerned, married Miss Amy Johnson, daughter of one of the most celebrated Indian fighters of his day, Moses John son, whose exploits are still preserved in local tradition. This third Squire Ellithorpe, who rejoiced in the Scriptural appellation of Samuel, was a young and ambitious man when the war of the Revolution commenced and the musket shot that signaled the birth of a great nation was tired at Lexington one raw April morning. No sooner had tidings of the scrimmage journeyed into Con necticut that Israel Putnam dropped his plow-handle and his spring's work and set out to join the patriot forces. On the way he stopped for the night at Samuel Ellithorpe's inn in Stafford, and it was this same old blue-and-white tea-pot that served out the beverage on that mo mentous occasion. With him went Samuel Ellithorpe, leaving the care of things to his young wife, Amy; also his 1 brother-in-law, Captain^ burn, who married Honor Er ? one of the courtliest darae9 ot gland society in those days, among the famous hundred Con • men who responded to Putnam’T^'’1 tion to follow him to the field of Hill, and though in the thickest UUi’ melee, and within a few feet of Joseph Warren when he fell was injured. And this may furnish the pre way of digression, to the desert another and more remarkable the siege of Boston. This consist.k ancient powder-horn, still preset the family with religious zeal whose creamy yellow surface S ' Ellithorpe has left an accurate »nd' ful sketch of the position of ton’s forces in October, 1775 before the British evacuated The horn is one of the lari seen, being not less than a f' half long with the graceful 8pir»| ature nnd taper that belonged to pendages of our native cattle. Th occupied by the sketch of the i positions of the two armies cot , nearly half a square foot and sketch itself is very full an(i M The batteries and earth-works of Continentals are outlined withex« ing distinctness; the barn-like and comfortable barracks are delineated" the background, while the front bri- with menacing artillery. softened and obscured byOctoberh In the harbor lie tnen-of-war of th pattern, with tier upon tier of peeping from open portholes. RUI|( its method is, the sketch isacorrect1 spirited one, undone of no small 1 torical value. The horn beam legend: ‘•Samuel Ellithorpe His Honx and is dated October, 1775. It will added to the collection of the Athe um, Hartford, on the demise of present holder. The old teapot whence Putnam t his tea on his way to Bunker Hill is last survivor of its set. Its attested tiquity is nearly two hundred and I years, and, though slightly damaged, has been pronounced by ceramic e perts a most beautiful specimen of i kind. The graceful, old-fashioned mai of-war shape, with the projecting led« that maintains the cover in place; tl lucidity, delicacy and beauty of tki blue, and the pale, pearly translucena CNN VI LI of the white rank the piece as a relic a no ordinary attraction. The design is that of a shepherd seated under a rej gnarled old trunk, fondling a wouiidtJ lamb. Blue lambs, blue shepherds jm trees of that cerulean tint are not rea common, to be sure, in real life; but ¡J ceramics they seem tq answer very well and somehow the sense of propriety« not thereby outraged. This historic« relic, as a companion piece to the othJ will also probably find its way ultiniit«] ly into the Athemeum collection, whidi is peculiarly well stocked with antiqw] ties. The original sign of the inn ken by General l’utnam, with the famed General Wolfe firing a pistol in til foreground, figures among the relics ■ the revolution. The portrait is rail . J but spirited. It is appropriate, then] fore, that the teapot whence Putnai was served on his way to Bunker Hl should join its fellow-relics of the oil lection.— N. Y. Times. HOI ETE] WICKED BATOUM. I ta Position, Population anil the CharwS Utica of Its People. In an article upon the town and poi of Batoum. the Moscow Gazette stall that its abolition as a free port by tl Czar a few months ngo created a gra sensation. The growth of Batotu since it was declared a free port in 181 has been immense. Nearly all tl Turkish inhabitants migrated toW izond in 1878, leaving behind only small population of 3,000 souls, wbt has since increased to 10,000. 1> Greek element preponderates, thosj there are also a large number I Armenians. The Russians are a ver small minority. Batoum, from being purely Asiatic town, has now berol quasi-European. The central meetiq place for transacting business is a ca facing the sea. The conversation th« is limited to Turkish affairs; Turkb coffee is the only beverage, and no« ing is smoked but Turkish tobacd Gambling goes on in the open and tables for playing games of M ard extend along the foot-path III lielieved that, despite all difficulty the future of Batoum is assured, as M by the superiority of its harbor x*J its geographical position. It is the M port of the Black sea; it has adeptH water close to the shore of from M 50 fathoms; and its area would a«R modate fifteen war vessels, wMj counting a vast number of merely men. Batoum, further, formstheR let to a railroad 800 versts in 1*W connecting two seas, and tran>p*™1 goods not only from Baku and Tijl but from transcaspian territory*, Krasnovodsk-Merv line will suppol with considerable quantities of wR and silk for transportation, njq wheat is already carried thitheriibj quantities, along with naphth* "R Baku. There is a question of J strueting a canal from the latterwR It is regarded as probable that R whole trade of the decaying to«H Poti will pass over to BatoWA will also offer advantages to when its marshes have been dr»i**Tl Boston Post. I —A hackman at Westfield, when returning from the tra'n* time, forgot the passenger in*^ carriage, drove to his beardiofr? hitched his horses and went 1# w ner.— Boston Journal. GAN BR F » Best Ki iptly Attei RPIL BILL Strictly 1 Church wi rpha tonsori first class, and city. 1 twioutb of Ya McMINN! WIT ANI Pjmpathy is lone in troubli roped whero li (Aside from t |>o hunt a go Rd anybody P to you as y< food people Rets, jeers a: F only make f prominent- J Capital Crim 1* ¡J criminal t< •it the bcautt; Ï? youth, with o !*“*! the maid ml* ® hmifred I ■“** tor a capita Qh>” said Pat P~wan to th, pnor.” ..if,, I ."Plied Bridgi PPethim?" ■ E1!* wan av th [''’‘on girl (t< f you liki P James? Une F’«y much. 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