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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1887)
“You seemed so anxious last night An Eli«<unt Gronp of Oriental ItuUilIncs In to come that 1 hoped you would thor oughly enjoy yourself.” a Florida Town. “1 anxious to come? Have you lost There came to St. Augustine, Fla., a few years ago, after years spent in for- i your senses? What on earth could eigi countries, a slender, mild-man I bring a sane man on such an excursion nered, gray-haired man, whose talent [ as this, except a desire to please his found there the material and propel I wife! Don’t make deliberate misstate surroundings for its exercise. From ments, Mrs. Bowser!” We finally found a shady [dace and sketches of the most elaborate details of the Alhambra and other Moorish sat down to luncheon. I lnul scarcely palaces in Spain, Tangier» and Algiers, arranged the provisions when Mr. he erected a residence that is emphat Bowser glanced over them and ex ically a work of refined Oriental art. claimed: “Boiled eggs and cold corned beef! The material used is a beautiful con crete, of a light gray color, durable as Is that some of your work?” “Why, you had them on your list.” granite, made from beach sand and “Never! 1 haven’t eaten of either small shells and cement. These in gredients were mixed with water in a in a whole year, and you know it! mass, carried in hods and poured into You deliberately planned to disgust the matrix of the raising walls. Above me!” “Here is the list, Mr. Bowser, and the entrance is the Arabic inscription: “Wa la ghalib il-Allah”—“There is no you can see for yourself!” “Il’m! They are down there, but conqueror but God.” Villa Zorayda is the name of this unique creation, and you know I dashed it off in a hurry, so graceful, airy and elegant is it that Such a dinner to bring on an excur U has been called the most beautiful sion!” residence in America. Other buildings He ate heartily, however, and was in the same style are in progress; greatly enjoying his cigar when a mos but they do not seem like innovations, quito stung him on the back of the so well do they harmonize with the neck, and as he scraumbled up he got mellow tone of that stylo of Spanish some ashes in his eyes. buildings, its narrow streets and its “I knew it—knew just how this in generally quaint appearance. Most fernal thing would terminate!” he notable of these new creations is a ver howled, as he danced around. itable Spanish palace, which its owner “Can’t I help you?” designs for a hotel. The work is “Help Halifax! You saw that mos nearing completion. It is to be in quito and never said a word!” three parts, one the Ponce de Leon, “Mr. Bowser, I----- .” separated from the Alcazar and the Casa “Don't Mr. Bowser me! I believe Monica by the elegant promenade you also threw pepper in my eyes! You Alameda. The Ponce de Leon is the were determined from the very outset ■Slain building, measuring 3G0 by 460 to spoil this day for me! We’ll go feet, with sleeping accommodations fpr aboard the boat!” 600 guests and a spacious dining-hVd We went down and sat for two hours that will accommodate 700. The archi and a half in the heat, Mr. Bowser tecture is purely Moorish from the tail blowing me up regular every ten min towers and over-hanging tile roof to utes, and the boat finally started for the court and arcades. The interior is home. Some of the machinery broke rich with terra-cota ornaments, niches, down after awhile, detaining us for an figures, shields, caps and balustrades, hour, and Mr. Bowser laid it to me. while in the center a 150 feet square is We came very nanr having a collision, completely enclosed by an arcade of and he ¡mt it on my shoulders. We ornate-columned arches stretching from didn't get home until an hour after wing to wing.. The facade of the midnight, and he made me walk thir Alcazar directly opposite will bo repro teen blocks as a reward. When we duced from the Alcazar of Seville and finally entered our door Mr. Bowser will be occupied chiefly with bazaars, gave the lunch basket a terrible kick, restaurants,reading and billiard rooms, filing his hatacross the room and turned etc., with sleeping apartments above on me with: for use in case of an overflow from the “Mrs. Bowser, don't neverdare make Ponce de Leon, next door; on the :i fool of me again!” Alameda will be the Casa Monica—the “But who first proposed going?” house-mother of the St. Augustine, also “Who did? Will you stand there and elegant in its Moorish design. This ask me such a question as that?” entire group of buildings will be un “If you hadn’t read the notice 1 equaled in any country as a successful shouldn't have known any thing about imitation of a foreign architectural it, and if you hadn’t urged me to go I style.— Cor. Boston Transcript. should certainly have remained at home. I warned you at the start that we should be disgusted with the trip.” UGLY MR. BOWSER. He regarded me for a moment with III h Patient Wife Kelnteft How He Abused looks of pity and contempt' and then re Her at a Basket Picnic. marked: “We’ll go!” suddenly exclaimed Mr. “1 was warned before our marriage Bowser one evening last summer as he that insanity ran in your family, and I sat reading his paper. have no one to blame but myself. Poor “Go where?” vife poor Mrs. Bowser!”— Detroit free “On this basket picnic to an island Press. up the river.” “But we went on one last summer THE LONGEST TUNNEL. and you vowed never t6 be caught on I Completion of an Engineering Work That such a ti Ip again.” Was Begun in I7S2. “I did, eh?” An engineering work that has taken “Don't you remember that you called all the people hogs, scolded about the •ver a century to construct can hardly beat and got mad at me because I got a fail to offer some ¡mints of interest in its history, anti illustrate the march of fly in my eye?” "Nothingof the sort, Mrs. Bowser. ■vents during the years of its progress, I came homo greatly refreshed, and tn instance of this kind is to be found why we didn’t go again is a puzzler to n a tunnel not long since completed, me. I want you to lie ready to start at mt which was commenced over 100 rears ago. This tunnel, or adit, as it nine o’clock in the morning.” “I'm afraid you won’t enjoy your diould be more strictly termed, is at Selicmnitz, in Hungary. Its eonstruc- self.” Oh! you arc! Thank you, Mrs. Bow- ion was agreed upon in 1782, the scr, but if I don't it won't be your ibject being to carry off the water fault. I'll make out a list, of the eat from the Selicmnitz mines to the lowest ables to be taken along, and they’d >art of the Gran Valley. The work is now complete, and it better be put up to-night.” I was really delighted to go, and forms the longest tunnel in the world, while Mr. Bowser smoked his cigar and being 10.27 miles long, or about one rested his feet on the back of a chair. uile longer than St. Gothard, and two Cook and I hustled around and got the ind one-half miles longer than Mont lunch ready. We were up betimes in I'enis. The heighth is 9 feet 10 inches the morning, but although we reached mil the breadth 5 feet 3 inches. This the boat half an hour ahead of her time unnel, which has taken so long in we found a great crowd on board. We miking, has cost nearly a million stcr- pushed and pulled and squeezed our ing, but tin* money appears to have selves along until we finally found a «ecu well spent; at least the present couple of camp stools which were suf feneration has no reason to grumble, fering with spinal complaint and .or the saving for being able todo nwav threatening to give out at any moment. with water-raising appliances amounts “Didn’t 1 tell you how it would be?” o £15,000 a year. There is one further point, however, growled Bowser, as we got sandwiched in at last and felt the temperature go worth notice, for if we have the advan- age of our great-grandfathers in the np to one hundred. “Yes, I expected there'll be a crowd.” natter of mechanical appliances, they ••Of course you did, and yet you in ■ertainly were better off in the price of sisted on dragging me along? Mrs. * . abor. The original contract for the unnel. made in 1782, was that it should Bowser, this is simply abominable!” We hail it a little better after every >e completed in thirty years and should body got settled and the boat started, cost £7 pei*ynrd run. For eleven years bnt it wasn't half an hour before Mr. 'he work was done at this price, but Bowser mortally offended a fat woman lie Flench revolution enhanced the who shut off his view; called a church •ost of laborand materialsto such an ex* deacon a liar for saying that it was a 'ent that for thirty years little progress pleasant day; put his foot iifto some- | | was made. For ten years following body's lunch basket, and looked so much progress was made, and then the fierce at a year old baby that its mother work dropped for twenty years mon*, until the water threatened to drown the thought it was a ease of sunstroke. Finally the “I wish we hadn t have come,” I mines out altogether. tunnel was completed in 1878, thy re finally ventured to abserve. “Yes, I suppose so! You probably maining part costing £22 a yard, or begrudge me the little comfort I'm more than three times as much as the taking. That's the way with some original contract rate.— Engineering. women!” “But you are not taking a bit of —The Vera Cruz railway, says the comfort.” Mexican financier. began using steel “Ain’t I! Mrs. Bowser, if you will ties in 1881, and now has some 20,000 pay more attention to keeping your No. in use. Forty thousand have been 8 feet out of sight and less to watching ordered from England, where the} me. you'll get along a great deal bet cost fl.25 in gobi each, anti chartering ter!” its own vessels the Vera Cruz Com Wc didn't s|s*ak again nntil we got pany can lay them down at a cost not off at the island. Then Mr. Bowser to exceed *2. Mexican silver. The looked around at the scenery, turned wooden ties, displaced,.cost from nine up his nose, and observed: ty cents to fl.62 in silver. The life of “Nice place this is for a pic-nic! 1 the steel tie it is lielieved wilt be from cat, smell chills and fever in the air, thirty to fifty years. In ’r.dia steel i, and here's a thundering big mosquito being used in place of teak, one of tin best woods. oq my hand!” MOORISH PALACES. « SCALLOP FISHING. How One of tlie Bare Delicacies of the Eastern Market« 1« Obtained. Though it had long previusly been enjoyed by the shore towns in New England, the introduction of the scal lop as an edible into the New York markets is as recent as 1858 or '59. Now the annual product of the fishery, which is restricted in area and subject to much variation, amounts to some thing like 75,000 gallons in all, worth from twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars at first cost; and New York re ceives ami dispenses about three- fourths. The species of scallop in question is Pecten lrradians, whieli is common in suitable places all along our coast. Besides this there are half-a-dozen other varieties, living at more or less depths in the Western Atlantic, one of which, the great Pecten tenuicostatus of the coast of Maine and the Bay of Fundy, was formerly highly valued by the people of that region, but now is too scarce to appear on the tables of even "the rich” except at rare inter vals. Scallops are caught by hand-dredg ing from small sail boats. The dredges are about thir.y inches ¡n width, have a scraper blast * upon the bottom, and in favorable Weather several may be thrown over from each boat. In shoal water an iron-framed dip net is some times used on calm days. It is pretty hard work, and entails exposure to very severe weather. • The only edible part of the scallop is the squarish mass of muscle (the adductor) which holds the shells together, and this part is skillfully cut out by “openers,” who have their houses at. the landing places where the dredgers take their cargoes to be sold. It is the buyer, not the dredger, who “opens” or “cuts out” the meat and prepares it fpr market. In some places men alone are employed in this work, at others women and girls for the most part, and they will earn from eighty cents to $1.25 a day. The work is per- formed with great dexterity, The motions of an expert opener are but three after the scallop is in hand, Tile bivalve is taken in the left hand, palm up, with the hinges of the scallop towards the opener's body. The knife —a simple piece of steel ground sharp, and with one end stuck in a wooden handle—is inserted in the opeping of the shell furthest from the breast. The upper -‘eye” is severed through by this movement. A flirt at the same moment throws off the upper shell. The second motion cuts the lower fastenings of the eye to the upper shell and takes the soft and useless rim ofl'. The last motion pitches the shell into one barrel and the soft and slimy rim into another, while the eye is thrown into a basin of yellow stoneware holding a gallon. They are then poured from the basin into a large colander, thoroughly washed, placed in clean boxes and shipped to New York and Brooklyn. As little fresh water or ictf is placed in contact with the “meats” as possible, as it is thought detrimental to their firmness and flavor. As this is altogether a winter operation, the belli of iee in transportation is not usually needed. There is. or ought to be, no waste in the scallop fishery. On Long Island the refuse is taker by the farmers as manure. • The sea-faring agriculturists have always been accustomed to re plenish their half-exhausted lands with the scrapings of the beach, and with the mpnhaden and other seine-fish which could be caught plentifully enough for the purpose in the oiling—much to the disgust of every stranger who found himself to leeward of their fields. This demand failing, there is always salefot the refuse to the regular fertilizer-fac tories scattered along the shore. The shells are preferred above all others by the oyster-planters as “stools” or “ellltch” to spread upon their deep-water planting-beds as ob jects upon which the oyster-spawn may “set” and grow. This wise preference is due to the fragility of the scallop- shell. permitting it to break into pieces under the strain of a growing cluster of oysters, each one of which will be benefited by the separation, which frees it from the crowding of its fellow s and gives it room to expand by itself into comely and valuable rotun dity, instead of remaining a strap- shapeil distorted member of a coales-* cent group. All their shells, therefore, can easily be sold by the openers to the oystermen at from three to five cents a bushel.— Ernest Ingersoll, in American Naturalist. Excavations in Rome. The Roman arehivologist. Prof. Ru dolfo. has had for the past sixteen years the absolute control of Roman excavations. Speaking of his work in eon versal ion, fie said: "The excava tions in Rome are now being conducted by the national government, the muni cipal government and private citizens. Hundreds of statues and busts wo have found, some of marble, others of costly bronze, many in perfect preservation. The Government has s|x*nt within the hist twelve years not far from *1,000,- 000. bnt it has been a remarkable busi ness investment, for the value of our finds is placed at *4,000,000. So rap idly is the work going on that we are almost unable to store properly from day to dav the results of excavation.” A. 1. Post. — George Pancake, of Anoka. Minn., with hi- dog and gun, started to walk to a lundM-r vamp, lie met two men. and leaned on his gun as he talked to them. His dog jumped upon h'ni, hit the hammer of the gun with his paw. the gnu was discharged. and George w as shot deml.—*V. Sun. THE HOHENZOLLERNS. THE SMOKING HABIT. rreroxHtives and Traditional Polley of the Kullm; Family ot Germany. A Brief Hut Exhaustive Argument Against the Ise of Tobacco. The royal house of Hohenzollern are descended from Count Thassilo, of Zollern, one of the Generals of Cliarle- migne. His successor, Count Fried rich I., built the family castle of Hohen zollern, near the Danube, in the year 980. In 1415, the head of the family obtained possession of the province of Brandenburg, and two years later was recognized as an Elector of the Em pire. A century later, the province of Prussia came into the possession of the family, through the election of Al brecht, a younger son, to the post of Grand Master of the province. This, together with the additions to the family possessions made by Friedrich Wilhelm in the seventeenth century, encouraged tho son of the “Great Elector” to crown himself King at Königsberg. January 18, 1701. under the title of Friedrich I. From this time forward the dominions of the King of Prussia steadily increased, until, after the war of 1866, the kingdom covered 137,066 square miles, with a population of nearly 23,000,000. With this growth in power came the natural rivalry wi‘h Austria. As far back as 1833 Prussia had formed the Zollverein, or customs union, of the German powers, exclud ing Austria. This was small loss financially . to the great empire of Austria-Hungary, but it constituted a tie between Prussia and the German States, and threatened Austria’s posi tion as head of the German Confedera tion. This led to numberless jealousies and bickerings, until finally, in 1866. Prussia determined to exclude Austria from the Confederation. The victory at Sadowa, July3, settled this question, ini'. Prussian influence became supreme in Germany; so that during the Franco- Prussian war of 1870. King Wilhelm became Emperor Wilhelm I. of a newly organized German Empire. The Hohenzollerns have always been despotic rulers. The kingdom had no definite constitution until 1849. Before that the Kings had “entrusted” to a convocation of the provincial assem blies the right to be called upon to assist in raising money, by borrowing or by new taxes, but this practically amounted to little, as the King controlled the main sources of revenue, the crown lauds and the custom duties. A Prussian diet was established in 1847, and the deputies assembled with great hopes of obtaining a share in the Government. Disappointed in this hope, the tone of the liberal members became disloyal to the King's prerogatives. Some of tb.em compared the situation with that of the English after the revolution of 1688. In answer to this, Captain (now Prince) von Bismarck, who sat as alternate for the representative of the Knight’s estate of Jerichow, rose and replied that “the English people were then in a different position from that of the Prussian peo ple now. A century of revolution and civil war had invested it with the right to dispose of the crown and bind it up with conditions accepted by William of Orange. The Prussian sovereigns were in possession of a crown, not by grace of the people, but by grace of God; an actually unconditional crown, some of the rights of which they voluntarily conceded to the people—-an example rare in history.” This was the position taken by the crown and its supporters. Compare it with the pretension of James I. of England, that the rights of Parlia ment were derived from the tolerance of the throne. But popular sentiment was strongly in favor of liberal government, and riots occurred in Berlin, xvhieh the King tried vainly to subdue by concessions, first of a new ministry, and second of increased powers to the Diet. The final crushing >f this insurrection led to a conserva tive reaction, and the constitution of 1849 confirmed many of the disputed powers of royalty. Bismarck was looked upon as a rising man at this time, and the King soon recognized his merit by imploring him as his representative in the German Diet at Frankfurt. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. died in 1861, tnd was succeeded by his brother, the present sovereign. This confirmed Bis marck's power, and when in 1862 the Diet refused the appropriations neces sary to carry out the Government policy the Ministry resigned, and the King sent for Bismarck, who was in Paris, uni made him Chancellor. The policy >f Bismarck has always been that of des potic.rule, and the Emperor, though in no sense a tyrant, is so completely un der the sway of the traditional policy of the Prussian Kings that he can not un derstand how a government can be sta ble without a strong element of despot ism.— Chicago Inter Ocean. An English journal recently offered a prize for the best argument against smoking. Following is the article for which the prize was awarded' It is unphysiologlcal because no ani mal in a state of nature uses it, and the first time a man smokes lm is usually violently upset by it. When a person eats a new kind of fruit for the first time he may not like it, but it does not make him ill, as such fruit is a food. But tobacco, being a poison, nearly always causes an upset to the system, it is only by continued use that man can use it without being made imme diately ill; lie is made ultimately dis eased by its use. It is expensive because there is no need for it; it is not even a luxury that helps us to spend our superfluous cash harmlessly, because it causes more loss and injury than it does good. In England we spend at least £12,000,000 a year on tobacco alone; what with pipes, matches, cigar-holders, cigaret- tubes, cigaret-maehines, etc., we do not spend short of £20,000,000. It is a dirty habit. What smells worse than the breath of a smoker, than his tobacco-soaked clothes, and his rank pipe? Then the ashes from pipes, cigars and cigarets fall on clothes, carpets, table-cloths, etc., and dirty or disfigure them. Smoking blackens the teeth, and if a pipe is smoked the teeth that hold it are worn away, and so we spoil a natural adorn ment—the teeth. It is selfish, in that the person only who uses it gets pleasure from it, and that often at the expense of others. Smokers poison the air common to all by the fumes they emit. The selfish ness of the smoker causes fam ily quarrels and disputes, the man preferring his pipe to his wife or sweetheart. It is disease-pro ducing. It stops growth, and causes ill-developed persons if used be fore growth has stopped. In adults it first blunts the sense of taste, smell and sight, and, indirectly, the hearing and touch. It always produces more or less sore throat, and often, in conse- lyienee, the worst kind of deafness— viz.: throat deafness. When absorbed into the system it causes palpitation and irregular action of the heart, and has a depressing influence on it. It de lays digestion, causes nervousness, trembling of hands, indecision, loss of energy and of will-power, with lowness of spirits. It deadens thought, and makes a man dull and listless instead of being intelligent -and active. It causes loss of appetite, helps on cancer of the stomach and is the active cause of most cases of cancer seen in the lower lip, which is rarely seen except among smokers. It also lessens the vitality, and wounds heal less rapidly amongst smokers than amongst non- smokers. It wastes time and energy. It wastes energy as it depresses the- vital powers and uses up itself life and power that shoulil I e used for helping oti mankind. It leads to drinking. Smoking always causes a dryness of the throat, and the saliva ejected is fluid lost to the system; to relieve both these conditions fluids are taken. As tobacco is a nervine depressent alco hol is often used to get rid of this de pressed feeling. Statistics of temper ance friendly societies show that smok ers break away from their pledge iu greater numbers than non-smokers do. It leads to loss of property, goods and lives, by the fires which originate by lighted ashes from pipes, by lighted cigar ends, or matches used by smok ers. The loss in this country by fire traceable to smoking is very large.— Chicago Tribune. Justice in Ceylon. To judge by one or two instances cited by a Colomlm correspondent, the quality of m *cy has been a good deal strained jn Ceylon lately. In one case in influential native, “who set upon an unsuspecting Cingalese and trampled him to death," was rewarded—one can lninlly say punished—by six months’ hard labor. Scarcely less extraordi nary is another ease in which a mur derer. whose death sentence had been commuted to penal servitude, had es caped from jail, and. being caught asleep in a hut. had stabbed and killed the policeman who attempted to arrest him. For the second murder thia man was sentenced to two years' imprison ment—whether to be served concur rently w ith or after his unexpired term is not state«!. The judge who perpe trated this singular practical joke is said to have justified himself on the ground that a policeman had no right to arrest a man when he was nsleep. So that in Ceylon it is not murder to kill a policeman who exceeds his duty. —iondon Truth. PERSIAN SHERBET. The Various Dainty Substances lse«l In Its Preparations careless doctors '" Wli»t a Druggist H». to take» Made |,y |.h, J Ab»«t n “I have beaten the r^pi bright young man in one of th' ’'“l dispensaries of pure (1 eI*W vines in Chicago. “One^^ alone in the store I put up tifiv ' scriptions. Now, twenty nn/Z“!1' a day is considered an avera»’?! work for a clerk in a drug stnT not the actual mechanical Uu“ volved in compoundin'- th.. / 11 but the close concentration J?,11 tlon, the accurate measurement/, observance of apparently unimraL details, and the care neU^ that the doctor has made no hl„ ? I know there is a popular behe, t doctors are infallible, but if v(111 “ look over our prescription file,“'" would speedily change your mind that point. ur* While he was speaking two Prcsp • tions came in, one of which »¡J called *-r”Listenne,"anew*ndZ paratively unknown medicine with a word of direction as to its use-.” even the oft-repeated formula- "p1” as directed.” The other simply » — [and this came from one of them* prominent physicians of Cliieiw,, whl" fee for consultation is fifty d(l|iarsi "Tr. aconite. One every two hour/’ Onewluit? One dose? One teasp.,, ful? Now aconite is a d'.J poison, and one teaspoonful w.,uu speedily put the taker beyond huZ aid. Fortunately the keen-eyed druJ gist detected the omission, and sun] plied the hiatus with the missing J “drop,” thereby probably savin” a [3 and cheating the coroner out of» “There is another thing," said tJ druggist “There are two solutions,,f| morphia—one prepared according J the United States l’liannacopod" „[ 1870, and known as the U. S. P. fornill.i la; the other known ns Magendi’s soln- tion. The first contains one grain n( morphia to the ounce and a t”as|iooii. ful dose of it can lie taken with safety I bv almost any patient. Magendi'sso. lution contains sixteen grains to ths ounce, and a teaspoonful would knock John L. Sullivan out on the first round. | You would scarcely believe it, but not I one doctor out of five ever specifies the particular solution desired, simply writing ‘morphia;’ and leaving it entire-1 ly within the discretion of the druggist whether to give the patient one grain or sixteen grains of the deadly drug. “I might give you instance after”in stance of a similar character, bnt these will suflice to show you that not all the mistakes which are made in the coinpo- sition and administration of medicine« can be laid.at the doors of the drug gist.”— Chicago Tribune. CANINE INTELLIGENCE. A Connecticut Doi; Noted for HI. Sat city, CarefulneBS and Wiadoin. I A dog owned by Colonel Newton, ol , Cromwell, goes twice a day to the rail-1 road station for the morning and even ing papers. He goes of his own accord, is always on time, and waits about where the baggage ear is to stop, in the morning at one place and in the after noon at another. “There he waits un til the bundle is thrown off and opened by the station-master, when he takes his p:y>er in his mouth and immediate ly starts for home. If the weather is rainy, he lias a piece of oil-skin which is kept in a place where he can get it himself, and of his own accord he carries this with him, and the station master wraps it around the paper be fore giving it to him, in order that it may not get wet. On his return home pe puts the oil-skin away in its place, against the next rainy day.” He knows the papers and insists on getting the right one. 001X1 he was fooled. “In opening the bundle the station-master slipped one that was two days old out of his pocket and handed t to the slog. Demo took it in his mouth and started for home. Arriv ing there he took it to bis master, and was rewarsled by a pat sin the head and a kind word. Colonel Newton ad justed his spectacles ami began to read. Of course he at once discovered the trick, although he thought at the tune it was only an error. Calling Demo to him he told him to take the paperback, ansi reprimanded him for making the mistake. I don’t know what it was he said to him, hut the slog seemed to understand it. for he hung his head ami really looked ashamed. In a short time he was at the station with the old paper in his mouth, ansi going to the agent hi* laid the paper at his feet, and. looking in his face gave a short and very decided bark, as much as to My. “Givi* me the right paper, and do it now.” He was offered one that was a day sdd, but after sniffing at it for a moment refused to take it, ansi not un til he was given a paper of the right date would he have any thing to do with it. Since then, although an at tempt has been made several times to fool him again in the same way, he can not be deceived, and so, as I said be fore, it seems as though the dog nin*t lie able to read.”— Middlesex Couslj {Conn ) Record. The beverage in Persia is sherbet, which is plentifully supplied, and of which there are many varieties—from the bowl of water with a squeeze of lemon to the clear concentrated juice of any sort of fruit to which water is added to dilute it. Preparing sherbet, which is done with the greatest care, is a very important point in so thirsty a country as Persia, and one dpon which much time is devoted. It may be either expressed from the juice of fruit freshly gathered or from the preserved extract of pomegranates, cherries or lemons, mixed with sugar, and submitted to a certain degree of heat to preserve it for winter consumption. Another sherbet is much drank, weich I must not omit to mention, called guzangebden, made from the honey of the tamarisk tree. This honey is not the work of the bee, but the produce of a small insect or worm living in vast numbers under the leaves of the shrub. During the months of August and September the insect is collected and the honey pre served. When used for sherbet it is mixed with vinegar, and although not so delicious as that m ule from fruit, it makes an excellent temperance bever age. Only among the rich and fashion able are glasses used; in all other classes sherbet is served in china bowls, and —A Chinese gentleman, hearing the drank from deep wooden spoons carved simple name of Azurizawa Ky.x‘1» in pearwood.— Belgravia. Nichome Sanjukanboz Kiobash-Ku. h*5 discovered the secret of photographin? —Three tramps broke into a resi in natural colors. It is hoped he w dence near Blairtown, O„ during the not, in imitation of Daguerre, christen absence of the family, one morning re the new process with his own name cently. and pillaged it, wrapping a lot Think of going to a photographer »nd of silverware and other valuables in a telling him you want half a d*uen blanket. As they were leaving the Azurizawaryoehinichomesan jukanbo*" room the lious«*-dog, a large Newfound kiobashkuotypes taken ! — N.irnstoir* land, rushed in, and seizing one of Herald. them by the throat, held him to the floor until, a few moments later, the — Dog fashions have changed in master arrived and secured him bv ty land, and the fox terriel has suppl***” ing his wrists. The other two escaped ed the pug. And yet the fox terrier iJ i“-*-'-- their “-1- booty on the floor.-’- no match for the pug in plain, un*d**" leaving Cleveland Leader. terated ugliness.