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IE TELEPHONE. THE TELEPHONE. DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED ERY FRIDAY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: or North of cor er Third and E Sts , M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. (IN ADVANCE.) 8a r........ mihs months WOMAN AND HOME. $2 00 1 uo 50 VOL. II MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, MARCH 23, 1888 % with a love as inexhaustible and inextinguish able as that which our dog gives to us? The child especially finds in the faithful creature ILD WITHOUT PET ANIMALS IS much of its own impulsive and ardent life; the delight in little things, the ready curiosity, A SOLITARY BEING. tho ceaseless activity, the quick changes of occupation, the unabated interest in existence. kf Toilet Soap—Something More Than Kittens, again, seem sent to give to a child usekeeping — A Farmer’s Mistake— just what the dog leaves out; the more re fined ways, the soft playfulness, tho gentle lldren’s Friendships—What City Phy- domesticity, the willingness to be tended and ians Tell The Chicago Daily News. ¡jetted. Kittens about the house supply the smaller punctuation in the book of life; their ie effects of anger upon the human milk little frisks and leaps and pats are tho com again be likened to the effect of a mas and semicolons and dashes, while the big terstorm upon the dairy. Both are in dog puts in the colons and periods. ..................................................... _J [ electrical storms, only human passioir Animals, again, give to us, even by what in it a more refined evil than mere acid. | they receive and evoke from us, the habit of ■nore violent and crazy the anger the I care and tenderness. Those petted dogs we Ber the danger. As ono may become ac- I see carried in the arms of young girls in ■nod to largo and repeated doses of fashionable equipages are rarely a substitute Bi, so, no doubt, an infant may (other for the natural object of such emotion, they ■»stances favoring) become somewhat are rather a preparation or intermediate pos fed against the pernicious effects of milk session that precedes it; something that is J is subject to more or less frequent more than a doll and less than a human child. pas of passion, but if the child does escape Mr. Carnegie tells us that he saw at a large pe an<l dangerous physical illness, it will New York stable a card nailed up giving for Uy. in the transforming of milk to flesh, the coachman the address of the proper phy he a most undesirable inheritance of sician to be called upon if the favorite dog K?ter. A general irritability, bad tem- should be ill. He also tells us of a young fthe result of trials poorly stood up to lady who, having to go on a journey, had to Bally—may keep the babe in constant leave her favorite collie to some one’s special fat. and no one knows what ails the buby, attention, and Mr. Carnegie suggested that iso cross. as he had given her the dog, it might be per f hat lias been said of anger may be said fectly safe to leave her with him, “or rather |ie other unhappy emotions, impressing with Jack and the horse.” With a grave Biild after their kind, not always percept- shake of the head, she answered, “I have but none the less surely. On the con- thought) of that; but it won’t do; he requires y, states of love, joy, peace, etc., act as a woman’s care.” Here the woman and the »powerful tonics, and physiological action favorite met on equal terms; neither could Boil under their stimulus in perfection. do without the other. The care given by the ■ the secretions are, as it were, happy; young girl was simply the anticipated ten Btion and assimilation take place in the derness of a mother tor a child. her harmoniously and unconsciously, and The self control that must be learned in jpilk becomes perfect in its properties, the dealing with animals is in itself an education. I literally drawing in health, happiness One of the child’s first lessons in governing ■eace.”—Dr. T. P. Mills. its impulses is when it finds that the kitten PLEA FOR THE BOTTLE. cannot be caught by running and shouting, B needs no argument to show that infante but by quiet and measured approaches. The I probability derive a large amount of control of animals, from the lamb to the jive exhilaration from the act associated lion, is not a matter of force, but of gentle Inursing, and the inference is plain that ness and a steady eye. Impulses that seem ■»privation may entail considerable dis- the very strongest in animals, as the disposi ■tage. It has always seemed to me tion of dogs to chase cats or bite, can be bet I to thus early cut off the pleasures of ter overcome by accustoming them very early I ^ho bottle and its appurtenances, to the sight and touch of the weaker crea lover, can be kept clean, but not without tures than by any blows. All this is a lesson ■nployment of a good deal more time«Jt>4 to the child, and it unconsciously learns the ■han is usually bestowed ui>on it. The application to itself. In days when oxen te and nipple should bo afforded a brush were employed largely on our farms it used ■own. Were I, in order to be explicit, to be a common thing at a “oattle show” to ■ vo directions for cleaning a nursing see some sunburnt farmer’s boy drive in a fe, I should say whsh both bottle and yoke of half grown steers, and win the ad |e well separately in plain water. Then miration of all the men by the gentle skill ■them, both for five minutes in a 2 per with which be handled them. Oil a farm | solution of borax in water, scrub them near my summer home there is a flue bull, [with the aid of the brush, borax water which is better controlled and led by a boy of leap. Tho nipple should be turned in 13 than by anybody else. Their surely is, as put and scrubbed. Rinse them all well Heino says, an occult sympathy between fal times in plain water. Hang the children and animals, as between two races is and nipple separately in a dry place not sundered very long ago.—T. W. Higgin son in Harper's Bazar. ■needed. ■other point of importance often over- id is tho necessity of givfbg to infants Use of Toilet Soap. ■onally some water to drink. During The opinion that of such a necessary article lot weather, when evaporation from tho os soap for the toilet one can’t use too much, |go?s oil so fast, nothing will satisfy tho is an opinion which late researches in science Bids of tbo body, oven of an infant, so disprove. The attraction of the alkali in it its a drink of good, plain, pure water.”— for the oil of tho skin as well as for its un Bobert Tilley. clean accumulations, constitutes its cleansing DANGERS THAT BESET. property. Out of the 7,000,000 pores through ■der tho enervating influence of great which nearly two pounds of poisonous ox ■tendencies toward death, dormant be- halation daily pass from the adult, coiuo ■jecomo potent. Tho weak link in the enough materials in a short time to produce | is brekon. W hatover tho predisposition fatal and filthy diseases. An eminent physi leas? may havo been, the depression of cian has declared that “if the skin be moder i<is tho exciting factor becomes tho ‘last ately active, three or four days suffice to her that break’s tho camel’s back.’ The form a layer which may be compared to u *r tho animal tho greater are the dangers thin coating of varnish or sizing.” As this »set early life, because the period of accumulation increases and decomposition ■ssness is prolonged in tho ratio of special follows it is not necessary to describe tho re ■fence. Parental intelligence does not sult. What agency but soap can remove it? ■pace with racial tendencies, however; Many good authorities declare that water ■t enough when wo find that: alone is sufficient, except at rare intervals. Hnfants are fed upon starchy food before There are oil glands as well as excretory ■olivary glands are developed, and at- ducts, and for no idlo purpose has nature pro ■l are made to raise babies upon beer, duced these tiny human oil wells. Inunction, Kriddlo cakes, potatoes, skim milk, sour or the external use of oil, has a recognized l^or even if the milk be good it is often place among the prescriptions of some famous ■ from unclean bottles. modern physicians, who in this way soek to ■Tho two extremes of wealth and poverty restore that necessary property of which tho ■ neglect of offspring. In the one caso body has been deprived by the excessive use less nurses are iutrustod with tho infant, of soap or bv disease. They claim that it hi tho other neglect is unavoidable. enables the patient to resist cold, that its |Zymotic diseasos leave as sequoias scrof- nutritive qualities convey heat to those or | or some other depressed condition that gans which require it, that it gives a sense of ■eeds the push of exhaustion, however exhilarating freshness, and that it is not only bed, grave ward. soothing in cases of nervous depression, Brents should know that milk is the only but it is capable of strengthening weak lungs. •r food for young children, and that For this purpose almond oil, cocoanut, olive te animal aud vegetable diet is hurtful oil or vaseline are daily applied by the aid of nr season and especially so in hot weather, vigorous rubbing. To all such treatment and it medicines and foods—especially sootli- in most cases where inunction is not required, Irups, that always contain op um—help tho daily application of soaps is injurious. ■tie ones out of the world."—Dr. 8. V. “What uncleanly habits!" some one ex fcger. claims. Not so. Plenty of -soft water, a coarse wash rag, hand friction and a Turkish FEEDING INFANTS. i tho food over so wholesome in quality towel, with soap applied at rare intervals, list be perfectly clean. Probably as and the skin should retain the delicate smooth (babies die from good milk and food ness of an infant Those milk baths indulged nas soured and become tainted by ex in by the ancient Roman emperors and em ite os dio from want of tho right food. presses owed their emollient properties to 7 a physician will refuse to allow an the oil contained in the milk. Every old 1 woman to wean her baby; what mat- nurse knows, too, that weakly children orc lough ho knows her milk is not the best sometimes injured by too frequent ablutions. be child, but at least it is clean and is Dry rubbing is often the safest opiate for a nervous little one, answering many of the hinted when it reaches the stomach. Boil a teaspoonful of powdered barley in purposes of soap. An eminent pbysicifln and scientist lately I or a pint and a half of water, with a ¡salt, until barley is cooked. Leavo it told me that ho seldom used soap in his daily bath. “It makes the skin dry, hard and L well covered; when settled skim all irities from the top carefully and strain; harsh, and renders me much more liable to with an equal quantity of boiled milk if take cold through any changes of the [is 6 months old, or only one-half milk if weather,” said he. “At the same time, no ban 6 months. Older babies more milk. rule can be given for the soap. Some per | bottle and mouthpiece in bow] of water sons secrete oil much more readily than knot in use. When baby is costive use others, and to such soap is more of a neces ■al instead of barley. Infants of 6 sity," and he spoke much upon the desirabil lbs may havo beef tea or soup once a ity of using a pure soap or none at all. —Hes Babies of 10 or 12 months may have ter M. Poole in Good Housekeeping. [of broad and piece of rare beef to suck.’ be above qre substantially the directions Something More Than a Ilonaekeeper. Ceding infanta presented by Dr. Jacobi A wife and mother needs to be more than a be Public Health association of New good housekeeper; »he must be iu ail things t, and t ieso rules have since by experi- the mistress of ths howe. the companion of oeen found correct and proper to follow, her husband and children. Now, what kind r child may need other food if it does not of a companion to anybody is a woman who b; go and ask your doctor what to give is all wrapped up in her houseworki Tbo tore it fails sick.”—Dr. Ferdinand Hen- children ask her questions about something that has taken place, probably in her own THE CLOTHING. vicinity, that any one would be supposed to I my experience -the first wrong thing I know, and are sent to the father for informa t is the clothing of the child. Until a tion. They very soon come to the conclusion is well past the critical period of teeth- that mother isn’t snppooed to know anything hnnel should always l>e worn over the outside of housekeeping, and do not trouble Is, and merino stocking* should be kept her by many questions. The father comes be year around, summer and winter. homo with a glowing account of an event I or silk next the akin prevents sudden that is taking place in which be is very much I of perspiration, and mothers should interested, and is all enthusiasm over it. He ml-er always one truth: The freer the want« somebody to talk to about it, but be (ration the greater the danger of even a has learned long ago that his wife bus no in I chilling of the surface. The babies terest in any W»oig outside of her housekeep whom the sweat just rolls off are ing, and 1 on learns to find bis entertain fs the ones more liable to the dreaded ment olsewBire. »er complaint”—Dr. Kate L. Graves. Visitors come to the house, very often women who are familiar with all the paving Children and Pet Animals. events, and she wonder why her husband and Shild brought up without the knowledge children are so much brighter end Interesting t animal.» is a solitary being, no matter with company than when ah»ne. These rrv be brothers and sisters, while a child women very often are not what she would has animals to tend 1« never quite alone. call model boaeewivea, yet their families are, | is of itself a liberal education, with ite as a genera! thing, more contented with their •pie of fidelity, unwearied activity, cheei homes than all her housekeeping ability can rnipatby, and love stranger than death, ever make here People who have known love that is triumphant over shame and ber for a long time, remembering bow enter ignominy and «n-influences that so taining »lie was a* a girl, wonder w by It is she wear out human love or make it change is so much different They ask her -■> sing or IIu w many of us bold to our f neruls play, but »be excuse« berseif with, - I Uaveti't played for years, I hare had so muck to-do I really haven’t had time to practice.” This Li too bad for a woman who actually squanders time in unnecessary work, to admit not hav ing time to practice an accomplishment that would be a delight to her family and friends. Then, women, don’t get completely envel oped in yoar housework. Reiuember, you owe more to your family and friends than merely a clean house. Find out what is go ing oil about you outside of your own neigh borhood. Take an interest in whatever in terests your families. It may be only a baseball game or a yacht rai*e that both father and little ones are enthusiastic over. Then learn all you can about it; find out the names of the rival clubs or yachts and take a lively part in the family conversation. To do this will require but a few minutes each day, and you will be well repaid by having a pleasant, enjoyable home, a home that hus band and children will prize far above a “spick and span” one.—Boston Budget. A Farmer’s Mistake. I know a well to do farmer, having eight children, who, as soon as they are old enough to supportJhemselves, leave tlieir home. Of the five boys, not one remains on the farm. They have gone to clerkship and other posi tions, in preference to staying on the much despised farm. A glance in the home may account somewhat fur this. There never has been any effort to make it attractive for the children. The parents’ aim has been to work *nd save, with scarcely a thought that tlieir .diildren had any other needs than food and clothing. They are active, bright minded boys and girls. It is no wonder that the dull ness and monotony become unendurable. This farmer does not hesitate to sp^d money in farm improvements, in fine stock, or ineanything that will advance his financial interest; but any outlay for the children’s pleasure is regarded as unnecessary and ex travagant. Children cannot feel that sense of proprie torship in the farm and its profits that is a stiniuli^it to the heads of the household, and something is needed to take its place. Some personal property, even if a chicken or a pig, is a strong incentive. Children are sportive by nature—all young animals are—and some diversion is essential for leisure hours; other wise tlieir minds will wander off and dwell on the attractions supposed to pertain to village aud city life. If children love music and an organ or piano cannot be afforded, let them havo smaller and less expensive instruments. Many an hour might be spent in the happiest way by a boy in his efforts to perform on the violin or accordion, that would otherwise pass’ discontentedly or iu hurtful compan ionship. A lew dollars each year invested in reading natter will not only supply pleasant employ ment for leisure hours, but the means of mental improvement as well. There are so many excellent entertaining publications for the young, and at such low prices, that no family in which there are children should be without one or more.—American Agricul turist. Children’s Friendships. Children are apt to seek the society of other children at about the sixth year of their ages. This shouid lie a watchful period for the }>arents, as friendships contracted at this time have a very decided influence on the mind, morals and manners of their child. Nearly every child is influenced for good or evil through early associations. If allowed to be constantly with the nurse, their lan guage and manners will, in nearly eveny case, be identical with those of the nurse. A mother should spend the greater portion of every day in the society of her children. If to rid herself of their noise sh© permits them to seek companions outside, she has no one to blame but herself if their manners and morals are corrupted. All children require compan ionship of those of their own age, but it is very essential that the parents should choose these companions. Children can be readily taught to be neat and tidy in their habits by example prin cipally, for they imitate closely the actions of their elders. A closet or other convenient place should bo given thorn exclusively for their toys, provided there is no playroom; then let it be understood that when play is ended all toys are to be returned to their proper place. If this rule is disregarded, the withdrawal of a favorite toy for a time, as punishment, usually ba« the desired effect of causing them to be more careful in the future. This device may have to be resorted to more than once, but it usually is success ful in the end.—Mrs. Ellis L. Mu in ma in Good Housekeeping. Sweetmeats and Pastry. It was recreation hour at both the Poly technic and Central grammar school. Streams of boys emerged from both institutions and at once made for a neighboring bakery. There they gorged themselves with sweet meats and pastry of every description. AVizen faced little chaps of 12 and 14 tackle pies nearly as large os their heads, while their older classmates gave attention to the festive cranberry tart, the latter being com posed of heavily sweetened cranberries and partly done dough. Occasionally one of the more adventurous boys sneaked out of the bakery and in some secluded spot lighted a cigarette, which he smokad till the 12:30 bell called him back to school. Pastry, insufficiently cooked, and cigarettes make a poor combination. Fond mothers wonder why their boys have no appetite for dinner at night and vainly try to guess the reason. Did they provide their sons in the morning with an amply stocked lunch box containing delicacies which would charm tho palate of the urchin, they would find that the latter would have better appetites for the evening meal. Instead, however, many boys are given sa much money each morning to psy their expenses for the day. This includes the price of luncheon and car fare. Business men sometimes become dyspeptics by eating toe fast, but it is unfortunate that youths and young men just leaving school should ruin their digestions before entering com mercial life.—Brooklyn Eagle. Objection!« to the Corset. It is rather funny that there are no women in this world so healthy as the English women, and no women who lace so much. The French women and the American have naturally broader hips and smaller waist«, so that much lacing is not required for them to gain the fashionable figure. But the English woman, with her narrow hips and broad shoulders, needs to make her waist «mailer to achieve that which she desires, and yet where are there worn» n who bring into the world a finer set of men than tta English women? I think that is one of the very an swers to the oby<nion* to the corset. The finest specimen«, physically, of Englishmen are not what a clever girl called “tailor made,” but tn coin an ex|»rewion. “mother made."— “Bab" in New York Btar. IN THE FLY GALLERY. HOW A SPECTACULAR PLAY LOOKS FROM THE SKY. Music and Applause Heard from Afar. Men Who Roll the Curtain —A Fantas- tic Group -Smoke from the Red Lights of Hailes. “Follow me and you'll get there; but Til tell you at the beginning, that you’re going into a strange region.” This was the remark of Frank Spangler, head “flyman,” as he opeued tho rear door of the Grand Opera stage and began to climb the narrow stairs leading to the “fly gallery,” which is lo cated so far above every other visible ¡»art of the theatre that few jjeople know that such a place exists. It was a curious looking place. A long narrow sl^lf extending along on the right sido of the stage, and as one looked down through the confusion of ropes, borders and flies at the crowd of half costumed actors hurrying here and there and everywhere held nd the scenes, it is really a new phase of the theatre and for tho first night it is really preferable to a scat in the orchestra. Running through the center of the gallery is the “tie rail,” to which is fastened anal- most innumerable number of ro|»es run up through the rigging lofts and attached to tke various parts of the scenery that is to be raised and lowered during the play. A sailor ought to feel very much at home in the fly gallery, for the work and the way it is done is very much like handling a ship’s sails. MUSIC FROM AFAR. A dozen men are strung up along by the side of the railing looking down at the prepar ations that are boing made oil the stage lor the first act. The orchestra strikes up the overture, but it has such a strango, subdued sound, that one can hardly imagine that it is the same music that he has heard in the audi torium. Finally the stage is all ready, the first warning whistle comes up through tho pipe, the two curtain men spring to their places by the large windlass on which the curtain rope is coiled, tlie bell strikes, and they begin liauling and tunning and hauling as if their lives depended on the rapidity of their movements. “It’s a mighty nice thing,” said one of the curtain men to the reporter, “to sit out there and watch that curtain roll up and so gracefully, but if they knew that this was what did it” (wiping a flood of per spiration from his face) “I don’t believe they would enjoy it quite so much.” • The curtain is up. The heated breath from tho audience, the odor of perfumes, the i>iell of cosmetics and stage paint, and all the scents of the place rise at once into the space above tho stage and at first it is almost stifling to the person who is accustomed to breathing the air of the intermediate re- gions. “All hands ready!” is th© command of “Captain” Brown, and a dozen bare armed men spring to tho ropes ready to raise or lower such parts of tho scenery as the first act requires. “Arch sky up!” he shouts (tho audience below do not hear it, of course) and at different pointe along tho rail the ropes are seized and hauled in, hand over hand, until the “sky” is raised out of sight, and then the ropo is hitched over the rail pin and the men drop back on the rail to wait the next change. A BREATTTING SPELL. At last comes a breathing spell for the men in the flies. The four acrobats are going through their performance on the front part of the stage, while tho fairy queen and the devil, with their followers, are waiting be hind the scenes for their next appearance in the lower regions. Looking down at them from the flyman’s perch they are indeed a fantastic group. The chief of the Spanish cavaliers lies stretched out on his back bal ancing the Queen's pasteboard throne on his feet. One of the devil’s horns had just got misplaced and the fairy queen bolds tho mammoth sandwich, which she is eating, be tween her teeth, while she reaches up on tip toe and adjusts his majesty’s demoniacal head gear in just as^freo a manner as if she were tho devil’s servant instead of tho great queen of the fairies. Two whistles through the pipe, another quick pull at tho ropes and the stage below is instantly transformed into tho regions of darkness. The spectators in the auditorium <ee the horrible picture of hades on the stage, but tho poor fellows in the fly gallery get the full force of it. The thick smoko from the red lights rolls up through the scenery until the men at the ropes are almost suffocated by the poisonous fumes, and are sometimes forced to spell one another by going below for fresh air. The whole dramatic world is under the eye of the flym&n. He ought to be a good critic, for at all events he has an opportunity of see ing all sides of an actor and all phases of the atrical life.—Buffalo News. The Metal ef the Future. “Twenty-five cents a pound for aluminum” -noans an economic revolution. Its applica tions we do not as yet fully know, but it is joufldently predicted to be the metal of most »Tactical application in the future. Its «trength surpasses iron and steel, while it is llmost uncorrodable. Gases, acids and water Jo not tarnish it, while heat does not change its color. It is the best known conductor of □eat, also of electricity. It is very ductile ind easily worked, while it is lighter than .oinoof our harder woods. A leading scien- ;ist sums up our knowledge of it as “the lightest, easiest worked, strongest, mosc dura ble and generally most valuable of all metals; ind the man who invents a methods of mak ing it cheaply will revolutionize industry.” Only one year ago Henry Cary Baird pub lished a book on aluminum, telling every thing known on the subject. The price at that time was projected to be $7 a pound, by i new process of reduction; but the promise of that process was never realized. Practi- sally the metal has so far rested at alxnit SI a troy ounce, or S12 a pound. If the Costner method prove a success, it become« as cheap i metal as it is widely applicable to mechan ical and domestic uses. It takes but a twelve month to make our knowledge of such mat ters antiquated.—Globe-Democrat. Training the Children of Criminals. In a letter on the employment of criminal children, published a few years ago, from the pen of Mr. Isaac Ashe, president of the i Central Criminal asylum of Dnndriim, Dub lin, he expresses that if the child of the clever forger ta taught draughtsmanship the hereditary.proclivity to a criminal use of an instinctive faculty, so called, is dire<*tcd into an analogous yet healthy channel, with the hopeful remit« of cur. ng a tendency for crime and of making a skillful artisan. If the children of generations of pickpocket* be taught to use ttair criminally deft Angers and delicate touch in some handicraft requir ing a speHal capacity of Anger, su<*h as Keep *H epi-aratas for draining lamp, watchmaking, the healthy function is found on an oil tray, and never iw rag«, lirusbee, for a nervous proclivity and a muwuiar ap arteora, or any of th, articiee for any other titude which would otherwise fairly work jiirpoee than trimming lamp«. itself out. in the criminal arts to which its very existence forms an almost irresistible Never scrub oilcloth with a brush, but temptation. But to attempt to abrogate ut after being «wept it may be cleaned by wash terly or eradicate a criminal tendency with ing with a soft flannel cloth and lake warm out such utilization of it in a healthy direo- water or cold lea K..,, 4- - • POTTER PALMER’S OLD An NO. 48 PROMISE. Old Granger Brings the Chicago Hotel Man a Queer Old Note. An old man with a fringe of white beard all around his face, a big bald spot on the top of his head, and a heavy oaken stick in his hand, walked into the Palmer house early one morning, eyed the handsome clerks suspiciously for a few moments and then blurted out: “Say, young man, is this Potter Palm er’s tavern*” Being assured that it was he put his oak stick upon the office counter in a familiar way, and continued: “I want to see Mr. Palmer.” He was told that Mr. Palmer had not yet reached the house, this intelligence causing the old man to wonder that a landlord with such a splendid hotel should want any pther house to live in. For half an hour he i>atiently awaited the arrival of the land lord, but, after fidgeting about in his choir for awhile, again broke out with: “Say, young man, mobbe you can attend to the little business for Mr. Palmer. I’ve got a note of his’n I want him to pay, an’ I’m in a hurry to catch a train. Fact is, I stopped over in Chicago on pu’pose to collect this note. Here it is. ” And from the depths of an ancient and time honored pocket book the old man drew forth a piece of thin, cheap paper, a good deal worn, and bearing upon its face in cheap printing, with a bit of inartistic coloring in the ornamental designs, one of Potter Palmer’s promises to pay. “Is that good for twenty-five cents?” inquired the old man. “I don’t know anything about it,” was the astonished clerk’s reply. “I never saw anything like that before. Mr. Palmer never gave me authority to pay his notes. But still I think that ho is able to pay it, and probably will if you will wait till he comes. ’ ’ The old man waited as patiently as he could until tho landlord of the Palmer came in from his castle on tho shore. “W.hy, bless my eyes,” said Potter P., as the queer old note was handed to him, “I thought till of these w ere in and paid up long ago. The terms of the issue, sir, were that tho bills would bo redeemed when pre sented in sums of $4 or over, but I guess I’ll waive that and redeem the note. Here, Townsend, give the man a quarter and charge it to my account. Stay, figure up tho interest at 8 per cent, for twenty-four years and let him havo the whole sum. I guess that is the last of my old dry goods notes. You remember, boys, that at the beginning of the w’ar we had no fractional currency. Tho silver coin was all hoarded, and tho government pai>er scrip had not come out. Every firm printed its own. I was in tho dry goods business on Lake street then, and I had to issue thousands of pieces of scrip in order to carry on business at all. Other merchants did the same.”— Chicago Journal. I ! , I The Reproducing lllrror. I was informed tho other day by a mem ber of tho Academy of Sciences that ex periments which M. Pictet and Dr. Raoul Duvernay have been making during the last five yeare have at last been crowned with success, and that these two distin guished men of science are now able to con struct mirrors in w hich old impressions can at any time bo reproduced at will, and thi mirrors be forced to yield up the history of all that has taken place within a room since one of them has hung there in such a position as to command a fair view of tho apartment. The full secret of tho process through which these tell-tale contrivances are constructed has not fully been made public, though it is pretty generally under 1 stood that tho mirrors depend for their effect upon tho peculiar action of light upon selenium, the metal by means of which, when fortified by aid of electricity, it is now possible to reproduce in light and shade, at ono end of a long wire, a photo graph exposed at the other extremity. The latter contrivance has been perfecting for tho last ten years at least, but now, as I recently read in La Nature, it has been brought so near to the end desired that it will come to work satisfactorily ai id cheaply w hen a little more ingenuity stall have been expended upon it. The uses to which this contrivance may bo put must readily suggest themselves to the reader. Tho instrument may bo so constructed that no one can at sight dis tinguish it from an ordinary mirror, and in due time it can bo mode to yield up its story, incideut after incident, of all that lias taken place before it—crime» lovo, villainy, intrigue—all shall bo read in tho open light of day.—Paris Cor. New York 1 inics. A Maker of Fiddle ltowa. In a quiet street uptown, I recently saw a trim looking young man shaping a fiddle bow at the window of a snug little cottage. He informed me that lie worked entirely to order, and gave mo the names of a num ber of prominent amateur and professional violinists and teachers who are his patrons. He is always well ahead with orders. A few years ago he was a journeyman in a factory. Being of an ingenious turn he worked at homo and turned out a number of I kjws that were of a far superior order to any manufactured at the bench. He found a ready sale for these among the in strument dealers, and having saved enough money to start himself lie abandoned the factory forever. “I can make as good a bow as Vuil- laume,” said he, proudly “if any one will order it of mo. But people who can afford $50 or more for a bow believe they can't lie got here. My customers pay mo from $10 to $20 for a bow. I could run a house full of journeymen and make money. But I am satisfied to keep at the higher priced bows and make less. I expect to see the time when I can get as much for a stick as any maker in tho world, and the only way I can get there is by doing only the best work and improving it wherever I can.”—Alfred Trumble in New York News. Extent of Ixmrfon Sewer«. There were, in 1855, 2,800 miles of sew ers in London, of which about ninety miles were main intercepting sowom. The mile age 1« of course, constantly being added to as new roads are opened up and houses built. The total cost of the main drainage works wm estimated at £4,100,000; 818,000,000 bricks and 880,000 cubic yards of concerta were consumed and 8,500,000 cubic yards of earth removed in the progrès« of the work. The nr wag* on tho north side of the Thames is over 10,000,000 cubic fret per «lay, and that on the south side over 6,000,000. In addition to thin, provision is nwl© for 28,500,000 cubic feet of rainfall per day on the north side and 17,250,000 on the south side,* the total being equivalent to a lake fl fteen time« as large a« the Ser pentin* This Krrat work was formally Inaugurated April 4, 1865. The area drained is about 117 square mile«.—Chicago Tri bune. A Correction. Office Boy Bov—I couldn't get In through U*e door so — 11 . clum in the window. Employer (with a significant emphasin on the “clum”;—You clum in the window, did you? “Wall, dim» than.”—Tid Bit* YANKEE DOODLE. HISTORICAL FACTS IN REGARD TO THE ANCIENT TUNE*. Synopxi« of an Essay Read Before the Historic Genealogical Society of Bos ton—Origin of the Word “Yankee.” The Primary Expression. At a recent meeting of the Historic Gene alogical society Dr. George H. Moore, of Now York, was introduced to read an essay on “The Origin of Yankee Doodle.” The tune, ha said, is familiar all over the known world, and the phrase “Yankee Doodle” is on the li|is one time or another of all English spunking jieople; but of the origin of it few people know anything. In considering the question it is manifest that theI*u &re two elements in it, one being tho meaning and derivation of the word Yankos, and the other of the song and tune. One explanation given of the word Yankee dates back as far us 1713, when there was a farmer living at Cambridge named Jonathan Hastings. He was a familiar acquaintance of the college students of that period, and it was reputed that he invented the word. At any rate he used it constantly in the presence of students and others as an adverb to signify a high degree of excellence—for example, “a Yankee good horse,” “Yankee good cider.” This use, it is said, the students adopted, and after leaving college spread the knowledge of it in places near and distant. Its first appearance on record, so far as the essayist knew, is of date 1725, when an ad vertisement appeared of the sale of the effects of an English gentleman in Morpeth, Eng land. One item of the list was, “One negro, named ‘Yankee.’” Many plausible sugges tions have been made, some in earnest and some apimrently in a frolicsome spirit, that the word is of Indian origin. By some it has boon traced to the Cherokee Indians and by others to those of New England. Among those who manifest sincerity in this way the essay ist mentioned the author of a history of the Moravian missionaries in 1818, a writer in the North American Review alxmt the same time, aud of more recent date, Dr. Trumbull, the philologist. Tho theory is that “Yankee” is an attempt of the Indians to pronounce the word “Eng lish.” The essayist held that these are mis taken judgments on the ease and that the writers have been misled by a resemblance, real or fancied, in the sound of certain In dian words. He held it to be impossible to believe that the word is of Indian origin, when it is considered that none of the early accounts of the dealing of ».bite men with Indians, from the Fifteenth century forward, inako any mention of it. Neither Capt. John Hmith, nor the father of New England, nor Roger Williams, nor John Eliot, nor Hutchinson, nor Belknap ever appear to have heard of such a suggestion. The essayist foflnd a perfectly intelligible and natural explanation of the origin _ and primary significance of the word in th« Dutch word, of which the substantive form is “janker” and the form of the verb ‘.‘janken.” The meaning of tho verb is to grumble, to snarl, to quarrel, to scold; the meaning of tho noun is a howler, a crier, a weeper, a barker. As used it is expressive of contempt, derision, or objurgation. To call a man a barker br howler is equivalent or is exactly tho same as to call him a dog, and in almost all languages and among all nations such an spoliation is one of disparagement and abuse. The essayist gives a luminous account of the rivalries, jealousies, controversies, and clashing» which occurred in early times be tween tho Dutch settlers of New Netherlands and the English who inhabited New England and hail any occasion to deal with tho Dutch In any form. The feeling of antagonism and contempt for the English colonists continued long after the territory of New Netherlands had come under English dominion, and, the Bssuyist added, that to this day in some of tho families of New York of anqient Dutoh origin, the Yankeo is regarded with a feeling at least of distrust. Tho word “janker” and other words de rived from it are not, the essayist said, any part of the language of reflnemeht among tho Dutch. The primary word is a low word, used by the mob; it is slang of rather a vile lort. A gentleman might think hiiflself jus tified in using it under great provocation, or amid very exciting circumstances, but it would not l>e ordinarily a part of his spriech. Various facts were given in the essay going to show that in its early use, whether by tho Dutch or others, including tho English at homo, the word Yankee wan expressive of 3ontempt. Accordingly it came very natur- illy into service when, upon the occasion of the asKombling of an army near Albany for & cani|Niign against the French and Indians, the New ’ England contingent of troops ap peared, and the New York troojm and British regulars felt diaposed to ridicule these New Englanders. As the essayist described the New England troops they were indeed a ridiculous lot, so tar as looks went. A littlo later, when they bore the brunt of tattle and struck the en- imy his deadliest blows, that appearance did not cling to them. But they came to the rendezvous without uniforms, wearing all «orta of outer garments, dyed of various hues. They were comparable only to the ,*rmy of FAlstaff as to outside appearances. Dr. Richard Shuckburgh, then resident in Albany and later in New York, gave voice to the camp feeling of contempt for the New England contingent. He composed certain verses of derision and adapted the air known in England as “Ficher’s Jig." This tune was printed in England for the first time, so far ft« known, in 1750. The verses of the original iriginal ’long are now unknown, but there con n be no loubt that they were the merest doggerel, They have been superseded and their suc- ?re«ors have been superseded by others of various merit, more than 700 in all, it is laid« But «there is no particular set which :an be called distinctively the song of “Yankee Doodle.” The word Yankee was a nickname of de rision for a New Englander long before the revolution. The ame and the original words ftntedate that period, and they were intended for ridicule. It is not protable that in the Continental armire the tune was ever a ¡>opu- lor one with the troops. collection of fife music used in that army does not contain it. it was a tune of Briti»h origin, and for a long while played only by British tands. When the Second brigade marched out of Boston on the day of the tattle of I ^ex mg ton to the relief of the First brigade of British troops, they played “Yankee Doodle" as they tnarcheil. The American musician« iww. it only ap parently by way of retaliation. When the British troops surrendered at Yorktown they turned their faces away from the Americana and looked toward the French troops. I a - fayette observing this, ordered all <he Conti nental bands in his command to play “Yankee Dcxwile,” which was done with good will and a» a note of triumph. But after the final victory the popularity of the tune m an American national air steadily increased. The easeyist found in the word “d-swlle” tomethmg of disparagement rather than of compllnu-nt, and as the compound words flapdoodle. e<x*ka-doodle and whang doodle One square or less, one insertion. ........ fl 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.... 50 Noticesuf appoint men I ami final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements. 75 cents for first insertion uiul 40 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business column«, 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards, f 12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads." TEA TABLE TALK In arranging the “Psyche twist,” first get your Psyche and then all will be well. Crazy quilts—“insane bedspreads,” as they are called in Boston—bring very hign prices at charity fairs. Ladies in Parisian cotillons are now ar ranged according to the colon of their gowns. Striking effects result. Very fine silver watch chains are affected by some youths whoso fathers or mothers have tho money to procure them gold ones. Girls who wear plaid gaiters are often the ones who talk slang and whose grammar is of the kind that disturbs the late Mr. Murray. The newest Paris bonnet of black velvot and black ostrich tips goes up on one side like a hat and is well described as “rakish.” A very expensive fashion was set lately by the distribution of real ostrich feathers as favors to the ladies in a fashionable german. Stout women, painfully laced, creak and groan in a crowd like a locomotive endeavor-, ing to haul freight cars through snow drifts. Buttonless kid gloves are in highest favor, but it almost breaks many a girl's heart that fashion decrees they should tie of a size too big. Everything is a “fad” nowadays, and the silly, English term has been run very far into the ground, even through the frozen snow. Best dressed women now almost wholly discard the bustle, and they not only look much tatter, but ure probably far more com fortable. Tho man who wears a double breasted waistcoat, with gilt or coral buttons, with a dress coat, ought to pull his boot legs up over his trousers. Beauty spots of court plaster, or painted on the face in India ink, are observed more frequently now, and this is another fashion able revival. Yellow or red handkerchiefs about the neck with the sealskin jacket are “common.” This is given on the authority of those who ought to know. Silver forks and spoons are undergoing some changes in pattern and style. The modern oyster fork is quite different from the Original affair. Necklaces of colored stones, as the sapphire alternating with the ruby or the emerald with the turquoise, have lately driven out the diamond in Paris. Helen of Troy may have had bogus jewels in her ears and falso diamonds around her neck when she raised such a fuss in ancient society circles, for it is said that even before Trey was built emeralds and other jewels were imitated in glass. A large bowl of cut flowers, or a fairy lamp almost hidden with flowers, in the center of the table, is one of the most fashionable effects in the line of decoration this season at dinner parties. The idea is said to be Rus sian, and Mrs. Whitney, the secretary's wife, is said by Jenkins to have been the first to in troduce it here. In this Jenkins is as “far off” as if he were in China. GASTRONOMICAL TIDBITS. The length of time a large turkey will last in a small, economical family recalls the scriptural widow with the vessel of oil. A school for instruction in the art of carv ing in Paris has over 300 pupils, nearly half of whom are said to be young ladies. In the making of hotel sponge cake there does not appear to be the smallest difficulty in getting the “sponge” for a foundation. In old times they used to be called red head ducks, but now on the fashionable bill of fare the reading is like this, “Canards, a Teto Rouge.” American fruits and dainties are all the rage in Paris, and the most fashionable din ner party without them is regarded as in complete. There is complaint of the gastronomic monotony of the average public banquet, now that tho feasting season is gradually drawing to a close. Commercial travelers who have to frequent inexpensive hotels want a law calling in the everlasting smoked beef invariably served for tea or supper. In union there is strength, but the same cannot be said of some of the new brands of pickled onions whose chief attraction is ths handsome glass jars. Pickled oysters, which years ago were a standard dish at receptions and parties, and then were neglected, have come into gas tronomic fashion again. The hostess who can introduce something gastronoinically new at her dinner party now has all the honor and distinction of being “talked about” as a full fledged social heroine. Croquettes of ahrimps instead of fish proper is an affectation of some caterers this season, who tell you fish is obsolete. Caterers, how ever. do not everywhere set gastronomic fashions. CMtase straws are a new wrinkle at dinner parties. The cheese comes in long sticks like macaroni, and one end is tied with a narrow strip of ribbon, which is not eaten—a fact mentioned for the benefit of the unsophisti cated ! These cheese straws were first intro duced at ths 5 o'clock teas two seasons ago, and now find their way to the fashionable dinner tables. SPORTING AND ATHLETIC. St. Louis has a new sensation in the way of prize fighters in a man named Howe, who weighs 260 pounds and is six feet seveu inches In height. R. F. Edge, an English cycle rider, covered 7,201 miles last year, 5,638 miles on a safety, 723 on a tricycle, 52V on a tandem and 811 on an ordinary. Winnipeg “Spring,” a famous fighting dog, who Is said to have won over 100 contests, re cently fought Madge, owned in Minneapolis, and was killed in twenty-six minutes. Both dogs fought at fifty pounds and for $100 a John Moulds, of St. Louis, «ays he will play any of the billiard experts of the east balk line or cushion carroms for $500 a side, except Maurice Daly or Sexton. He prefers McLaughlin, who he thinks is the best of them. A swimming race of ten miies for $500 a side and the long distance swimming cham pionship of the world will probably take place on the Monongahela river at Pittsburg about July 8, between Professor Levy and William B. Johnson. The idea that the muscles of the legs only are developed by 'cycling is a very common and very erroneous one. In reality nearly every muscle in the body is brought into use, those of tho lower limbs for propulsion, of the trunk for balancing, those of the upper jimtm for both balancing and propulsion.—* Medical Brief. The Australian «porting press is angry with Beach for resignii^Jthe championship. The Australasian «aya. ^»each’s policy h cer tainly not so strung as his arm. In handing over to Kemp the champi jnship, or, in other words, forfeiting the title to him when challenge.I, it has nut neen «Iona so well as it i should have beau.”