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■ • HIE TELEPHONE. THE TELEPHONE »EMOC11ATIC. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. TELEPHONE PUBLICATION OFFICE: One Dior North of cor er Ihird and E Sts , M c M innville , ok . SUBSCRIPTION KATES: (IX ADVANCE.! One year .............. Six months........... Three months.... |2 00 1 (Mi 50 Its Early HUtory—Several Kinds of Ma nipulations—How Practiced. In the ruined mill long shadows fall. The mice creep over the floor, The cobwebs swing on the crannied wall. The sun sifts in through the door; The great millstone hangs idly there. And the brook as it trickles by Gives a happy laugh to the sunlit air And a smile to the far off sky. It springs and it leaps the mill race down. It whispers over tlie grass, It gurgles under the tree mots brown. It calls to the birds as they pass; Over feathery moss it softly flows Where the pines their bows interlace, And the great, gaunt rocks in their calm repose For ages untold have their place. In the deep ravine, in tho summer noon. The lazy leaves scarcely stir; A wayward bee gives a honeyed croon, The crickets faintly whir; The trees grow green in their fallen state. The squirrels run out and in, And the very stones seem to watch and wait For the life of the mill to begin. —Marie C. F. Sieboth. BLOOD. MCMINNVILLE, OREGON. APRIL 6. 1S88 THE ART OF MASSAGE. THE GULLY. HE WAS A VOL. II « A Young Man Pays S3 for a Ride in a Street Car. The art of massage is of great antiquity. fHiere are always some kind folk who will take the time and trouble to search deep down into the annals of the ¡Nistand transmit to as the facts they there find recorded. On the question of massage, those who have truced out its history tell us that this system was practiced iu very early times by the Chinese, and that the Greeks and Romans also resorted to its aid, evidences of which appear in the literature of those two great countries. This ancient art has been revived, in the present day, ou tho Continent and in America, as well as in England, aud is being very extensively practiced. I have spoken of massage as a mechanical mode of treatment—and so it is; but those who undertake to perform it ought to huve some head knowledge con erniug their work as well as finger dexterity. The masseuse has to make herself acijuaiuted with the structure aiid the function of the tissues aud muscles ou which she is called upon to oper ate, and therefore somo study of books on this part of the subject is required. Then there aro the necessary dexterous manipula tions to be acquired; these particular move ments cau only bo learned from actual dem onstrations, and nothing but patient practice will attain the manual dexterity needful to perform the process. Tho general term of massage includes several kinds of manipula tions ; these are also designated by French names. One of these is known as effleurage; this consists in gently stroking the part under treatment, which stroking increases in strength, and terminates in a firm rubbing of the skin with tho palm of tho hand. Under the effect of this treatment hardness and dryness of tho skin give way to sol’tecss, und the effect is very soothing. Another form of treatment is named petris sage. This process consists in pressing and kneading and rolling the skin and muscles— a form of massage brought into use in cases where the patient is deprived by infirmity or accident from taking bodily exercise. The advocates of massage affirm that the uso of petrissago also soothes and reinvigorates the overtired and fatigued limbs of those who have gone through an unusual amount of physical exertion. Tapotement is a rapid mechanical movement used as a stimulus for rousing into action organs which are inclined to remain dormant. Massage a friction may be described as a series of circular rubbing with the finger tips, performed in a rapid manner, tho object of which process is to squeeze out the waste products formed in tbo tissues of joints.—Cassell’s Family Magazine. THE CURIOSITY SHOP. PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. Charles Dickens* Grandmother — The Source of the Novelist’s Gift for Story. Why Some People Wear Eye Glasses. Various Practical Items for Every Day'. Mr. T. Wemyss Reid writes in The London Daily News of tho grandmother of Charles Dickens, repeating what wus told him long ago by tho first Lady Houghton. “Old Mrs. Dickens,” he says, “was not nurse but house keeper at Crewo in the time of the first Lord Crewe, the grandfather of the present holder of the title, and of his sister, tho first Lady Houghton. I well remember Lady Houghton speaking to mo with enthusiasm of Mrs. Dickens’ wohderful powers as a story teller. It wus her delight us child to listen to the tales which tho old lady was ublo to relate with so much dramatic force mid feeling; end it was with tho greatest interest that, later in life, Lady Houghton recognized iu tho illustrious author of ‘David Copperfield' the grandson of tho favorite of her childhood. Old Mrs. Dickens had one grievance which Lady Houghton still recalled when she told me about her. It was tho conduct of her sou John—Charles’ father—against whose idle ness and general incapacity sho was never tired of inveighing. The.ro havo been many conjectures as to tho source from which Dick ons derived his wonderful gift as a story teller. It is hardly a far fetched fancy to suppose that he inherited his special gift from tho old housekeeper at Crewo. ” Spectacles are much more worn than they were half a dozen years ago. It is no longer a matter of surprise to see them on children of 8 to 10 years of age. An oculist being asked if diseases of the eye are on the in crease, thinks they are not, but that vanity puts many people into spectacles. Only an oculist can have any idea how many people wear eye glasses because they think it adds to their personal appearance. In regard to young people, they study and read by dim lamp light, and, of course, the eye becomes somewhat weakened; then the parents rush off and get a ]>air of spectacles, and often patronize men who will sell them any kind of glass, just to get the money. This carelessness is dangerous and sometimes fatal to the organs of sight. The Proper Treatment of the Hair. Dr. G. T. Jackson, of the New York County Medical society, sums up tho proper treat ment of tho hair, which is a preventive of baldness, as follow’s: Tho scalp should bo kept clean by an occa sional shampoo of soap and water, borax and water, or some such simpio means. This should not bo repeated oftener than once in two or three weeks; and after tho washing tho scalp should be carefully dried, and vase line or sweet almond oil applied. Women should dry tho hair by the Arc or in tho sun, and not dress it until dry. The hair should be thoroughly brushed and combed daily, for five or ten minutes, with vigor sufficient to make the scalp glow. For this a brush ihould have long and moderately stiff bristles, set in groups widely separated from each other. Such a brush wall reach the scalp, and brush out tho dust. A comb with large, smooth teeth should be used with the brush to open up the hair to the air. Pomades should not be used, and tho daily sousing of the hair discontinued. Women should not use bandoline, nor pull or twist the hair, nur scorch it with curling iron», nor smother it under false hair. He was young, stylish, and very drunk. As be sat in a corner of a Mission street car last night and surveyoJ the tips of his patent leathers through a pair of bleared optics that Suez Canal Statistics. bulged from their bony orbits, it was evident Tho number of vessels which havo passed that be was a typical member of the haut through tho Suez canal since it was opened in votee. December, 1869, up to 1885 was SO,621. Of A young lady and an ultra fashionable this number 1,513 were men of war, 22,009 chaperone, with a large fan and false front, were freight steamers, 5,396 were iuuil boats, sat opposite the young man. The young lady 128 wero yachts and 289 were sailing vessels. Feemed to be greatly amused in watching the Ono million four hundicd and fifty-eight efforts of the intoxicated individual toap|x»ar thousand six hundred and seventeen pas perfectly sober, while he seemed to be totally sengers have parsed through tlie canal in the oblivious of her presence. sixteen years in which it has been opened. The young lady watched intently; the i. i. Among theso were 166,522 pilgrims to Mecca, hiccoughed mildly, and the driver notified 6,864 Russian convicts, 5,505 Siberian colo the occupants of the car that a fare was due nists, Chinese coolies. There were also by jerking the bell violently about every 812,000 soldiers and 394,465 general travelers. minute. Tho receipts of the canal for tho entire period Presently the car stopped, and an aged and of service are 14,970 71M francs. Vessels of 2,000 decrepit ¡nan slowly entered. His arms Jonnago readily pass through tho canal, seemed to be paralyz d, but be managed to while 4,000 toanago vessels experience no How to Woo Gcnfle Sleep. get out a thin wallet, from which he drew a unusual difficulty in making tho passage.! nickel. He gave a pleading look around the A woman who has tried thorn advocates the Tho largest (broadest) vessel which pas^xi ’ car, and the young lady quickly reached following remedies for sleeplessness: When through tho Suez canal was tho iron clad about to retire, wet a soft linen towel iu cold over, smiled pleasantly, received the nickel, Agamemnon, which has a lx»am <•£ sixty-six und deposited it in the box. The aged man water, and wring as dry as you can, then feet, and made tho passage iu 1885 in 147 fold it lengthwise, so there will be threo thick bestowed upon her a look of gratitude, and hours. the blase young man appeared to be startled nesses, and place it around tho neck, having by the trifling incident. Just about this one end folded smoothly over the other at tlie An Old Couplet. time the driver became tired ringing for tho back of tho neck; over this place a dry flannel _ The couplet fare. He threw open the door with a bang, or cloth. If you have a headache wet a For ho that fights and runs away and in the regulation car driver’s voice com May live to fight another clay, similar totvcl, fold it cornerwise and tie manded the young blood to pay his far». will be found in Goldsmith’s “Art of Writing around the forehead, so that tho lower part The latter started as if the angle worms Poetry on a New Finn.” Butler's “Hudibras,” of tho fold will rest lightly on tho eyelids. Seedsmen Busy All the Year. Read nothing exciting during tho evening. that precede the hu ge ugly reptiles had met “What does the soedman do in winterT written about 100 years l>cforo Goldsmith’s his view. He quickly regained his com A gentleman connected with a prominent version, contains the following: If you road a story, let it l»o an entertaining or diverting one, and do not finish it, but posure, however, and with bis thumb and house which deals in plant germs, roots, For those that fly may fight again, Which can never do that's slain. when you close your eyes to sleep, think how forefinger took a coin from his vest pocket. seeds, bulbs and slips, repeated this question Then he cast a beseeching glance at the of a reporter the other day. Ray’s “History of the Rebellion” (1752) and you would end tho story if you had written young lady, leaned so heavily upon the “There seems to be a general impression, Ud.^U’s translation of Erasmus (1442) ex it yourself. And my word for it, before you chaperone that she managed to conjure up a which is erroneous,” said lie, “that there is press the samo idea iu almost the identi have disposed of tho hero or heroino, you will blush, and in a voice strained with counter nothing for the seedsmen to do through the cal languago of Goldsmith, allowing for the be in slumberland. If tho compress around feit emotion said: “Would you bo so kind?” winter, but it is far from being the dullest more primitive state of tho languago in your neck causes you to feel chilly then do not keep it on. If you wako in tho night and “Certainly,” was the meek rejoinder, and season of the year with them. Really, the Udall’s time. Ray gives it: it feels hot and uncomfortable wot it again in she took the coin and deposited it in the box, only busy season i3 from March 1 to June 10, He that fights und run away May turn and fight another day. cold water. In tho morning remove it and just as she had done with the aged gentle although some of the market gardeners who In Udall’s translation rrom Erasmus tbo wash the neck in cold water and rub briskly. man’s fare. When it reached the bottom she start their early vegetables under glass, pur saw it through the glass, and an expression chase their stock of seeds as early as Feb couplet is: That samo man that runneth awaie Backward and Dreamy Children. of pained surprise suffused her countenance. ruary. Maio again fight another daic. She quickly turned and said: “Why, sir, Growing children should seldom be hur “The very dullest season is in the middle of The last is tho earliest English expression ’ you guve me a $5 piece.” ried or pushed forward in any way. Ner summer, which nature designed for the He was just prepared to beam forth a growth and fructifying, and not tbo germina of tho thought, which can bo traced to Ter- vous diseases of tho most obstinate and baf tullian, who lived in tho Second century. smile of thanks, but the announcement tion of vegetable life. During that part of fling type, affecting the whole life of tho in affected his breathing. He staggered up to the year no seeds are put into the ground. dividual, are sometimes brought on by the Hans Breitmann. tho door, and in a loud voice demanded Until the ground is frozen pretty stiff there injudicious forcing of the child Those chil This is tho nom do plume of Charles God dren who develop slowly and steadily will change for the $5. The driver had pulled the is considerable for us to do. We put on cur string that projected the coin to tho bottom stock of now seeds and sell some. Up to frey Leland, but is now little used by its orig usually prove strongest in nerve and mind, of tho box. He thought that it was only a Thanksgiving people set out bulb.-, hyacinths inal bearer. Mr. Le land was born in Phila just as tho most enduring treos aro those of nickel, as he had only taken a casual glance, and crocuses. Currants, berries and grape delphia, Aug. 15, 1824, and becamo a member slow growth. If a child inclines to day and tho demand for change phased him. He vines are also set out in tho fall, and that is If the bar of tliat city, May 6, 1851. Litera- dreams let your interference, if any, be of quietly told the passenger to go and get tlie season, too, when the perennials, daisies, 1ure, rather than law, has proven his voca a very gentle character. sober, and when the latter became obstrei>er- carnations, digitalis, hollyhocks, cardinal tion, and to it he has for many years devoted Cure* for Warts. ous he was told that he would be thrown off flowers, pansies, petunias, mignonette, helio his time. IIo is distinguished for his knowl Following are remedies for warts, any one tue car. He then muttered something about trope and verbenas aro sown for early edge of tbo Romany tongue, being, it is said, the only American who has mastered the of which often proves effective: Moisten the suing the company, and finally took his de flowering. speech of that strange nomadic people, the parture, but he never again glanced at the “There aro several months of tho year when gypsies. Tho diligent study of and acquired warts and rub salaimnouiuc on them night and morning. young lady.—San Francisco Post. tho seedsman has much less to do tlian those familiarity with tho history and customs Wet the wart with vinegar and cover with of tho lato fall and winter.”—Now York this interesting people, which distinguished The Terms an Inventor Made. soda, lotting it remain on ten min- Evening World. George Burrow in England, likewise distin-i cooking George Stayner, Ives & Co.’s sole remain utes, do this several times per day. guishes Charles Godfrey Leland, who is alsJ ing partner, got his start through a valuable In an English Car. Rub till they are green with a bean leaf. widely known through liis Indian researches,’ invention. A man in whom Stayner was in Now, the American car and tho English especially for his works upon the language Cover with a cloth wet with diluted tinc terested died suddenly in New Haver., Conn., of thuja; two days later pull out by where Stayner was a small tradesman, and carriage run on two different principles. The and legends of tho Algonquins. Mr. Leland ture tho roots. left an invention for engraving tht backs of English railway manager expects you to do a is at present residing abroad. bank notes. Stayner, by some means or great deal for yourself. He expects yoa to A Wedding; Ring Motto. SOCIAL ETIQUETTE. other, got hold of the machine and camo to buy a rug to wrap around your legs, and you The word Mizpah is of Hebrew origin, and, New York at once. He went to the New do it. Ho expects you to buy a shawl to put A Plea for Improvement in Our Public York Bank Note company—a sort of Stand around your shoulders, and you do it. lie literally translated, means beacon, or watch Manners. tower. From this it has come to mean the expects you to buy a reading lamp if you are ard Oil monopoly in this sort of work—and memorial or reminder of a covenant. The The subject of behavior in public places to travel by night, aud you do it. Ho doesn ’ t asked to see the president. “Does he know you?’’ the attendant asked. provide you with any drinking water, as he earliest mention we have of this word in the is of interest to everybody, and the sins of Bible b when Laban, pursuing the fleeing the American woman in this respect have “Nop,” said the visitor, carelessly, “but you expects you to buy a glass of beer if you feel finds and becomes reconciled to him, been much remarked upon. Harper’s Bazar tell him that he’ll want to know me pretty thirsty, and you do it. A traveler in winter Jabob, anil the heap of stones piled up by them both asserts that sho has no sense of etiquette in in an English carriage sits muffled up so that darn bad when he finds out what this ma he can hardly move. He dresses for the oc on Mount Gilead served a double purpose— public places. She talks and laughs at tho chine can do.” as witness to the covenant between theso two an artist is singing. She behaves In a few moments the president and the casion as 1 would if I were going to enjoy an and as landmark of tho boundary between opera when at a matinee than any other woman in superintendent looked at the machine, and afternoon sit down ou the banks of the De them. Laban called tho place Mizpah; for, worse world. She crowds, shoves, shows temper saw that it could perform the delicate and troit river w’ith the thermometer below zero. said he* the Lord watch between thee and me the a lack of good feeling. She does not in kaleidoscopic tracery on bank notes in a fash Now, an American doesn’t like that sort of when we are absent from one another. The I and her opera box always behave quietly and ion that put their prevailing methods to the thiug. If the car is not hot enough for him word M izpah is frequently, in the significa like a lady. She gets up, turns her back on to sit in his scat in the same costume he blush. tion thus expressed by Laban, engraved in the audience, adjusts her dress, laughs and “What are your terms?” asked the presi would use in his own house he travels by engagement or wedding rings, both as a talks audibly to her cavalier. somo other road. If the lamps are not bright dent. token of the covenant and as a prayer that The same authority makes other pointed Stayner said be wanted a lump sum and a ho blows up tho conductor, and if there is no the wal ch angels of God will hover over the comments, some of which are, in brief, as big block of the stock. The terms were stag water in tho tank all that section of country beloved. follows: will hear from him.—Luke ¿Sharp in Detroit gering, but the machine was a nailer. A young American prima donna used to be ______ __ “Give us ten days to think it over,” said Free Press. Tlie Great London Fire. invited by an American lady to go with her the presi<lent, “and we will then give you our lasted four days, commencing 8ept. 2, It Darwin’s Mental Relaxation. to the opera and sit in a conspicuous box. answer. ” Charles Darwin found backgammon a 1666. It broke out accidentally in a house She took her manners with her, talked, “1’11 give you just twenty minutes,” said great mental relaxation, and he was very near London bridge. A strong east wind laughed, ate sweetmeats, threw papers into Mr. Stayner, dryly. Then he picked up his fond of novels for tlie same purjiose. Tho caused it to spread with great rapidity, and i the next box, and behaved as if she were bat and strolled out. When he came back, great naturalist did most of hie writing sit thus London was given up to the flames tipsy. Christine Nilsson sat in a box near the president smiled and said, with forced ting in a large horse hair chair by the fire, Two-thirds of the city was destroyed—eighty- | her. Gravely, silently respectful to the carelessness: upon a board stretched across the arms. nine churches, including St. Paul’s cathedral, singers was the great Swedish genius. Sho “Well, sir, we will pay you your terms.” When he had many or long letters to write and mere than 13,000 dwelling houses. One did not do any of theso things. She looked “Well, the fact is,” said Stayner, thought ho dictated them from rough copies written g?>od result camo from this fire—it purified mournfully at the American. The best und fully, “I’m not exactly pleased with the on tho backs of manuscripts or proof sheets, the city and rid it of a plague tliat wai far the highest aro respectful. The lowest in terms. I want a larger amount of stock.”— lie kept all the letters he rei-eived--a habit more fearful even than the tire. W ©are told rank are impertinent and poor in manner Blakely Hall in The Argonaut caught from his father. Wuen his letters in the “Dictionary of English History” that and in style. In society, in a crowd, we need les con were finished he lay on a sofa in his bedroom “the fever dens in which the plague lurked and ha<l novels read him, while no smoked a were burnt, and the new houses which w<re venances; they help as to keep our natures in A Cowboy’« Bit of Experience. erected were far more healthy and better ar < »check; they maks the world a fit place to cigarette or regaled his nostrils with snuff.— I am not di&satisfied, but my foolish notions Harper’s Bazar. ranged.” __ ______ live in. When wo aro exposed to tho brutality have been corrected, and I am sure if the of ill mannered people we learn how uncom An Old Haying. young men in tho oast knew the facts and A Flen<li-»h Thought. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” fortable the world would be if there were no understood the real work that cowboys do Little Sister (angrily)—Now you do what I This is a very old aphorism, dating back over •tiquette. they would be glad to stay at home and earn The best book of etiquette should bear the say. 200 years. Its origin is attributed to Franck’s | motto: a living in an easier manner. “Do unto others as ye would that Little Brother — I won ’ t “ Northern Memoirs, ” written in tbo year The work is fully as hard as a sailor’s. It others should do unto yoa” “ You, won't, eb? Oh, don ’ t I just wish we 1658. These memoirs, however, were not has Its redeeming features, of course, and a say tliat dororuni in public is printed until 1694, and twenty-two year» be i not Foreigners cowboy has good health and is independent to was grown up au’ you was my husband. a peculiarity of the American woman. fore the appearance of said publication (1672) | Americans a certain extent. If I were asked to advise a Omaha World. do everything welt Why tin? idea was expressed in Wycberly's “Love cannot they can young man about a cowboy’s life aud the to behave decently n. in a Wood," act iii, scene 3. Georg» Farqn- public places? learn Bnrress at Bootblacking. chances of success, I should tell him the life Why should not an American was bard, and that without capital the A New York professional bootblack har also makes use of it in his “Twin Rivals,” gentleman infaso into his correctness a cer chances were poor. says: Now, you Bee I employ a dozen act i, produced in 1705. tain frosh originality, a vivacity and wit, and Then, if he insisted upon trying it, I should boys, and they arealways busy. To wliat lnstea/1 of being a dead copy of an English Jay Gould*« Yacht« tell him to go out oa some big New England do I attribute my success? Gentlemanly Thr* following arc the dimensions of Mr. | swell, have a flavor of his own? And why farm, put on a pair of overalls, do all the manners nnd a pood shine. " hen it v as I should not an American woman lie 1 w hard drudgery and then multiply his work by found that courtesy was the rule in n>y Gould’s water palace: Over all length, 250 . ▼ol< ed, thoroughbred, quiet, polite, as well ns feet 3 inches; water line, 233 feet 3 inches; two, and he would get an idea o* a cowboy’s place my business increased. I pay my well dressed, original and lieautiful? shiners, who are worthy colored men and draft, 26 feet 4 inches. Cramp & Son, Phila life.—Youth’s Companion. delphia, builder«. ______ boys, fl a day. Many, however, who Ch nr ch Etiquette« make themselves agreeable to customer» Th« Aristocracy of Mind. A Charge Not Sustained« A little hesitancy «s to the proper thin? to and do good work, often cam nearly He—Charming youth, that young Bellamy It is claime 1 tliat Thomas Campbell pin-1 do sometime* disturbs a gentleman when —such a refined and cultivated intellect! double the sum. The work perform d 1» gianzel the line. *Tis distance lends cn- j grangers _____ are _______ ushered ____ into ________ a church pew pleasant. — Chicago Tim's. When you think what he’s risen from, it really chantmrnt to the view ’’ The original inter- which ho with one or more ladies to ocrupy- nearent to th« South l ’ ole. does him credit! pretution from Dyer » “Grouger Ilili” «bows ' jng Therefore, it may not be amiM to say Sir James Ross, in command of two expe that th» She—Why, were his people—a—inferiahl the charge of plagiarism canuot cannot be mis - that if the strangers are a lady or ladies, ac He—-Well, yes. His grandfather ’■ an earl, ditionary vessel«, the Erebus and Terror, tamed. companied by a gentleman, all that to neces As yoa siimn!:, soft and tslr, you know, and hto uncle ’s a bishop; and be reached s point nearer the South Pole than sary is for tLo first party V> move toward the any other man l»ef<<re or siune. On Feb. 23, CUd ta c* Ion of the air, himself is heir to an old baronetcy with Inner end of the pew and make room for ch to those who journey near, 1842. lie reached latitude *>uth 7» degs. and £80,000 a year!—London Punch. them, but if tlie new comers are ladies alone, Bnrruu. bruwn and r <ug!. ap]H*ar; 11 mins, on a large island, which he named th» gentleman should step into tbs aisto and Bthl. we tn-itol the *<n»e »ajr, Dog est dog—A canine eating bologna, Victoria’s L ad «1. He was only 11 degs. and allow them to bass in UreU Thr slUi • olovdv day. AU nun« frr.ni tlie txJa. Tke Epoch. ___ _____ _____ __ _ A FAD IN JEWELRY. Hiding a Eady Love'» Likeness in the Heurt of a sliver Dollar. “I gave you a silver dollar for some cigars half au hour ago. Will you look over your money drawer and see if it has been passe4 out?” | It was in a Chestnut street cigar store late Saturday afternoon. A well dressed young fellow was the speaker; his face wore a wor-1 ried and anxious look, and betrayed consid-1 erable peturbation of spirit over the loss of the silver dollar. The dealer found that he . had just eleven of tho coins, aud ho spread , them in a row on the counter. The young 1 man took thorn up one by one, weighed each , in turn in his hand, and an expression of vex ation overs]>rea<l his face as ho laid tho last ’ down very carefully and murmured: “I knew I couldn’t tell that way.” Then ho went at them again. This time I he grasped tlie dollar firmly with one hand ' and pressed his nail upon the letter “E” in ' “states.” At tho eleventh dollar, to which he applied tho nail of tho little finger, all the | others having been broken in the fray, there 1 camo a sudden change in tho appearance of | the coin. Half of it slid one way and half tbo j other, and in tho lower half, covered with a flat crystal, was the miniature of an extreme-1 ly pretty girl. Tho young man heaved a sigh ' of relief, laid down u greenback in exchange and left tho store, ruefully regarding his i broken finger nails. i Ho was one of tho numerous victims of a fad that has lately struck Philadelphia with all the vigor of oddity and exjiensiveness com bined. The pocket pieces aro made of two coins, hollowed out and fitted together with such exactness that they cannot bo distin guished from a genuine coin even by a mi croscope. A picture of the owner’s best girl is tbo correct thing to go insido, and tho fad dist may pay from *6 to *35 for the fame.— Philadelphia News. Lieut. ZalinskPs Dynamite Gun. NO. 50 One square or less, one insertion. ......... fl 00 One bquure. each subRequent insertion.... 50 Noticesof appointment und final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements. 75 <ents for first insertion and 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. *12 per year. Special rates for large display “ada." DAUGHTERS OF EVE. A GRAY DAY. Women carpenters have appeared in Lon don. Maria Mitehell has discovered eight com ets, and has never worn a Worth dress. Mrs. Mackay will be iu Newport next sum mer, and intends to entertain ou an elaborate scale. St. Louis has a mining company conqxised entirely of women, who owu a mine iu Col orado. Tweuty-eiglit women are now studying at Columbia college, aud co-education is likely to be the rule there in tho near future. Aunt Matilda Riley, of Raywick, in Nelson county, Ky., has just celebrated her 13lst birthday. She is still spry and active. Mlle. Zuechi, a celebrated Iudian dancer, who has been tho leader of the ballet at the Eden theatre in Paris, is about to be married to a Russian prince. Lady Colin Campbell, writes a London corn's]xindent, is now to be seen in the black stuff dress and white cap and apron of a hos pital nurse at St. George's hospital. Mrs. Frank R. Stockton is said to be a fair, serene, happy tempered woman, whose na ture is in strong contrast to that of lier hus band, which is nervous aud restless. Miss Lucy Hooper, whose pen has been a power in the land, is to marry the Marquis d’Adda Sanaliara, of Milan. The pen in her case has been mightier than the title. Frances E. Willard thinks it funny that men are willing ^at women should enter any profession except their own. Miss Wil lard is hard on the sex. Journalists are al ways glad to welcome the ladies. A Portland woman has read the Bible through eighty-five times; sho is 75 years old and began when she was 7. She reads from I he same book with which she first began, uid has read it at least once every year. The queen of the Belgians excels in the art o£ producing bowls of fish from handker chiefs, and causing coins, watches and other articles to vanish into thin air. In other words, she is a practiced adopt at conjuring. Probably no cotillon in this country has .'qualed in splendor that recently given in Paris by Mme. Oyagne, of South America. Among the favors were sunshades covered with real lace, real fur boas, gold pencils, ?x]>ensive fans and other substantial kuiok- ’< Backs. Modern Greek women excel not only in personal refinement, but in general _ intelli- gence and desire for self-improvement. The Greek women of the upper class are generally clever, well bred, well informed, and might rival in accomplishments, culture and con versational jjowers their sisters of the west. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has been obliged to give up his old habit of answering peraonally all letters addressed to him. A printed note which opens as follows is now trequently received by his correspondents: Dr. Hulmes regret«? that impaired eyesight and the large demands made upon his time by distant and unknown friends oblige him to contrast his hitherto extended corres]>ond- )nce and to avail himself of au assistant in vriting.” Gray of stretching sea, gray of heaveu's drooping. Gray of shore where waves sob low. Gray of sea gulls swooping: Not a light on wave or lea, not u shadow showing. Clouds not dense enough for rain. And an ocean gently flowing. ■ ! Such this day to me; skies are dull and ashen, Hopes in flight but gray wings show. Over silenced passion; No glad light or shade to see, No regrets tor saddened reaping; Gloom not sharp enough for pain. Eyes not sad enough for weeping. —Jeuuie Maxwell Paine in Brooklyn Eagle. STORY OF A DINNER. Potatoes, Oat Cake and Goat’s Milk on a Mountain Side—A I.au^hable Chase. We entered the hut and found the owner, an Irishman, sitting on a stool beside a pot eating potatoes. His mole of eating was to break the potato in two piece«, dip the eyd of tne half in salt that was spread on his knee, and then squeeze it out of Its skin into his mouth. When I told him that we were hun gry, he expres s! regret that he had nothing but ixitatoes to offer us, but what he had, he said we were welcome to “wid a heart and a half.” His hospitable wife suggested that while we rounded the edge of our appetites with the potatoes she would make a scone of oatmeal bread, and if John, her husband, would catch the goat, we could have milk. John found the goat in the act of masticat ing the heir stuffing of a new horse collar. When he realized that his horse collar was being filed away in the digestive machinery of a $2 goat the disastrous character of the misfortune dawned on him, and gave vent to his feelings in a yell that aouuded like the wall of a hist soul prowling around a Chicago street at 1 a. m. With dismay in every feature and a singletree in his hand, he went for the goat. Sue did not wait for him, but, spreading hei tail to the breeze, she prome naded off in a jaunty and delxmair way peculiar toimmntain goats. She went streak ing around the house, up the hill, then down and across the brook, and back, and around the house, with John in full cry at her wake. As the pageant came tearing pastt the door, the goat bleating a de risive defiance, John waving the singletree in the ambient {¿naming, and calling on us to head her off, and we trying to eat hot pota toes, trip up the goat, and laugh all at the same time, it was a spectacle the like of which is seldom seen. The goat went around the house fo often and so rapidly that she looked like a procession of goats that wanted to go somewhere and was pressed for time. John was suddenly possessed with an in spiration, and as suddenly he stopped in his mud career. Why should he pursue the ani mal; why not turn, meet, and intercept her on the next lup? With John to think was to act. He w as no sooner struck with the idea than he turned, and—then he wus struck by the goat, mid doubled up like the mattress bf a folding bed. When a gout, rushing through space, is suddenly confronted by a man, who hits her on the head with his stomach, the goat is in variably surprised. This goat was so aston ished that she stood still for a moment, and during that.inoment she was seized by two of the white haired children and tied to a cart. We had to slam John on tho back with a board to straighten him out. While this was going on the woman milked the goat. Boon the oat cake was cooked, and such a dinner w we had! There was nothing, alwolutely nothing, but the oat cake, the milk and the potatoes. But how I enjoyed them, and how much of these things I ate, words would fail mo to express.—J. Armoy Knox in Bostou Herald. A reporter hapjiened to meet Chief Engi neer George II. Reynolds, of the Pneumatic Toq>edo Gun company when he was dilating upon tbo recent successful exjierintents, and it was evident that ho had lost nothing of his well known enthusiasm. The peculiar Yankee smile of triumph overspread his handsome visage as ¡io exclaimed: “Yes, the newspajiers and evorylxxly else, on both sides of the water, have found out that the gun is a thing that has come to stay now! ‘Nothing succeeds like success,’ does it, in this world, eh? There is one thing about our gun, though, that the papers haven’t got to understand yet, and that is what we can do with an ironclad. Now I don’t care how many feet thick the plates are on the sides of a vessel, that isn’t where we uro going to shoot. The shot that did the business for that schooner wo knocked into splinters the other day exploded right under her, didn’t it? —Just where Lieut. Zalinski meant that it should, aud it lifted her bodily out of the water. If ho had wanted to hit her dock he could have done it by slightly elevating the range. Now tbo heavier the armor upon the bides of the ironclad the less she will be able to carry on deck and on her bottom. Take one of those big foreign war vessels, 400 feet long and seventy feet wide, what a tar get it would make for ouV gun. “Wo wouldn’t shoot at her sides; her dock and her bottom, where her plating is neces SENATORS’ AGES. sarily thin, would lie where we would explode our shells; and whether the shell exploded on Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, is 69. top or underneath, the result could only be destruction. Great Scott! what a smashup Turpie, of Indiana, is 57. Allison, of Iowa, there would be! I tell you, boys, that ship is 59. would go to hunt the fish in a hurry, and all Morrill, of Vermont, is 77. He is the oldest the people aboard would have to go along!” senator. —New York Tribune. Pugh, of Alabama, is 07. Jones, of Arkan sas. is 48. A Eouiftiana Sugar Plantation. The Wife In France. Halo, of Maine, is 51. Gorman, of Mary A sugar plantation is divided by main Take now tlie shop keeping classes. Thera land, is 48. ditches and roads into sections known in you will see the wife the active partner of the Cockrell, of Missouri, is 53. Vest, of Mis husband. Behold them both as the commer some parishes as “cuts,” in others ns “strips” and in still others as “blocks.” These have souri, is 57. cial traveler displays his goods on the names familiar to all the people on the place. Reagan, of Texas, is 69. Edmunds, of Ver counter. The wife is supreme. Her objec At Magnolia they talk of the “Polly Garden mont, is 60. tions are without appeal, her opinion final. strip,” the “Molly Shanty strip,” the “North Jngalls, of Kansas, is 54. Beck, of Ken It is she who generally has charge of the Front strip,” tho “Big Oak strip,” etc. Each books and the cash box, and neither books of there sections is subdivided by small i tucky, is 66. ttor cash were ever intrusted to a better Vance, of North Carolina, is 57. Bhermau, guardianship. She is not a mere housekeeper, ditches into fields containing an averaft of about twenty-five acres. Every well man of Ohio, is 64. with or without wages; she is the partner. aged plantation is carefully mapped, and the Cullom, of Illinois, is 58. Voorhoea, of Dot merely a sleeping porta r. This not only planter, running his eye over the map in his Indiana, is 60. enables her to be of great help to h<*r hus office, will tell you just what fields are in Colquitt, of Georgia, is 63. Baulibury, of band, but it also enables her, if she happens plant cane, in stubble cane or in cow peas. Delaware, is 70. to iiecome a widow, to carry on the business He plans his operations on his map as a gen her husband, to be independent, and Spooner, of Wisconsin, is 45. Paddock, of without eral does a campaign. It is a stirring, fasci to bring up her children. She has not, to ob nating business, which keeps a man on the Nebraska, is 57. tain her living on her husband’s death, to be Blackburn, of Kentucky, is 49. Gibson, of come a working housekeeper or a nurse; she alert, mentally and physically, and develops tho most in tell igentj type of tho country gen Louisiana, is 55. is the misti ess of her own bouse as before. tleman to be found in tho south. Evarts, of Now York, is 70. Hiscock, of Hid now the head of the firm. In her shop Tho cane cutting season begins the 1st of New York, is 53. llie is most iX)lite and empressee, but never October. It would be advantageous to wait Davis, of Minnesota, is 49. Walthall, of rrvile, and if you wish her to take you for a longer, for tho canes are constantly sweeten MiHsissippi, is 56. gentleman, don’t keep your hat on w hile you ing their juices, but there is danger that the ire engaged with her in a commercial trans Jones, of Nevada, is 58. Blair, of New crop may not all lx) harvested before the action. Hunqxshire, is 53. frosts come. In Cuba, whore there is no ■ It is Raid that Louis XIV, the most haughty frost, the planter can continue to cut and Hoar, of Massachusetts, is 61. Stockbridge, Hid magnificent monarch of modern times, grind until tho new sap begins to flow in the • of Michigan, is61. ised to lift liis hat even to the female servants stalks. Not infrequently it happens that a I Quay, of Pennsylvania, is 54. Aldrich, of )f his court. If so, no man need think that Louisiana planter raises more cane than he Rhode Island, is 46. le derogates from his dignity by keeping bis can work up in his mill before the cold I tat off in a respectable shop wbeu he is weather of January sets in. The next year ' Hawley, of Connecticut, is 61. Wilkinson lerved by a woman. Call, of Florida, is 54. ho reduces his acreage. Tho amount of land I might say a word or two on the draw Mitchell, of Oregon, is 52. Don Cameron, jacks of the influence of women on Freneh- ho can cultivate mast depend on tho capacity of Pennsylvania, is 54. of his mill.—E. V. Smalley in Tlie Century. Jien, but there is no doubt that this influence Riddleberger, of Virginia, is 48. Kenna, las polished our manners. Even in busin ess Street Car Statistics. of West Virginia, is 39. ntercourse politeness is not banished. In Few people who use the Broadway horse Leland Stanford, of California, is 64. England, for instance, checks are marked railroad ever stop to consider the largo num ‘Pay to.” In France they are wort led, ber of men, horses and cars which the road Bowen, of Colorado, is 52. Chandler, of New Hanqmhlre, is 52. Mc ‘Veuill z payer"—“Please to pay,” “Kindly must employ and tho number of passengers >ay,” etc.—Max O’Rell in Harper's Weekly. Pherson, of New Jersey, is 54. carried by those cars. In a conversation with one of the officers of Peculiar Freaks of Innanity. the road tho following interesting facts wore CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES. Keeper Maest, of the Erie county alms- learned: The stables of the road contain 2,100 louse, says that in his experience one of the horses, and for each of them two seta of har The total number of Shakers is 24,000. peculiar freaks of insanity is the seeming re- ness must be provided. Tho average street Fersal of natural tendencies. “For instance,” The total number of Adventists is 97,711. car horse is short lived, three or four yeurs’ le says, “we have in tlie male wards fine coi- work generally using him up. There are, The total number of Mormons is 250,000. ections of potted plants and climbing vines, of course, horses that have proved them The total number of Moravians is 10,686. which grow so luxuriantly that they curtain selves capable of twice that length of service, The total number of Unitarians is 20,000. Jie windows. The mon tend these carefully, but they are exceptions. One of these old The total number of Mennouites is 100,000. pluck away the dead leaves, stir up the dirfe stagers, if the word is not a misnomer, died last year at tho age of 29 The 215 cars of the The total number of Universalists is 35,- tn the pots, prune the vines, keep them care* fully watered, ami in divers other ways company make 1,075 trips a day and carry on 800. manifest the tenderest wat 'hiulnesa. Not so an average 59,5V) passengers. During the last The total number of Swedenborgians to with the women. Every attempt to intro- year tho rejxjrt shows that the largest number 5,015. lure plants and vines as a feature of the fe of passengers carried during one month waf in Octolx.T, the numlrr being 2,017,136. Feb The total number of Friends “Hicksite” to male wards, save iu tl.o cottage where the mildest coses are confined, has proved a flat ruary is the dullest month in tho year for the 23,000. The total mnnl>er of Friends Orthodox to failure. The women pull out the plants by horse railroad*. The Broadway road during Uie roots, tear down the vines, and manifest that month carried only 1,480,032 passengers. 70,000. —New York Commercial Advertiser. The total number of Congregationalists is atber destructive tendencies entirely at va riance with tlie nature of the sex in general.” 436,37». —New York Sun. Naming a Guiana Town. The total number of Protestant Episcopab Tlie story of Maracaibo’s christening to 418,531. Floor» Painted with Tar. runs tlitis: It was almost 400 yenrs ago, The total number of Lutherans of all classes Home months ago the floors of many Aus when Spanish invaders* came »ailing up Is 9H0.K30. trian garrisons were ]>ainte<l with tar. and the lake to see what »tores of gold or Tlie U>tal nmnlier of Buptists of all classes the results have proved so uniformly advan precious «tones might be plündere«I from tageous that the method is liecoming greatly the rulers of its «höre«, und found where I n 3,727,037. The total ntindjer of Reformed Episcopal! extended in its application. The collection the city now is a native town called <’o- '>f dust in cracks is thus prevented, and a quivacca, governc<l by n powerful chief ans is 12,060. ?on«equent dim! iiition in irritative diseases namo<l Mara, who resented the coming of The total number of Methtxlists of al) if the eye has lieen noted. Cleaning of the foreigners with Aereo warfare and many clawes is 4,532,6^. rooms has bean greatly facilitated, and para battles. But mail clml soldiers were more The total number of Presbyterians of all sites are almost completely exclrded. Tbe than a match for naked Indians, and one classes is l,0fifi,48& 'oating of tar to inexpensive, requires renewal by one the villngrs succumbed, until the •The Vital number of Friends Non-affiliating but cnee a year, and presents but one disad Last one only remained. A determined vantage, namely, its sonilier color.—Bostou stand was made here, and in the heat of Orthodox is 12,000. _ I battle the chieftain fell. Seeing his death The V>tal number of Roman Catholics (es Budget. a Spanish soldier rai»ed a cry of victory timated) is 7,000,000. e. Slaughter of Sea F«»wl«. ¡■that resonn<le<l throughout the attacking The Vital nuintierof Reformed (both Dutch There 1« a complaint that a new Paris fash- • force, Mara cayo! Mara rnyol “Mara and German* is 259,974. ’on, which requires tbe gray featliers of sea I has fallen!’’ And around the spot where |ulb* for trimming, to causing a great slaugh The total numtor of Jews who are mem- Mara fell, the fair town has grown that Eaiuaesn Bo«uja ’terpetuates his name —Dr. W. F. Hutch- bsis of the Jewish church to 13,688. Tbs ter of «ea f«>wU Jewish pouulaUou is 25U.0UQ. Lstoon in Ths American Magazine.