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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1888)
THE TELEPHONE THE TELEPHONE. PUBLISHED RATES OF ADVERTISING. EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: 0ns Door North of oor er Third sad K 8u, M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IN ADVSNOB.) (2 00 1 00 30 One year............... Six months.«....... i Three months.... DAUGHTERS OF EVE. A New York woman is making shirts for seven cents a dozen. Belva Lockwood expects to mako a small I fortune from her lectures in defense of Mor- I monism. They say that the queen regent of Spain has asked President Cleveland's wife for her photograph. In Morocco women who talk scandals are punished by having cayenne pepper rubbed into their lips. Mrs. Lowis and her husband have been do ing Euro;» on a tricycle. They are Ameri cans, oT course. Ex-Queen Isabella has packed her carpet bag and left Spain once more ou an ‘ intima tion” by tho government. j Mrs. Charlotte Cf , of Milton, Moss., is (H years old, and has a green parrot which is not less than 55 years of ago. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in spite of her advanced age, is fond of outdoor exercise and walks from five to seven miles daily. Imitation is tho sincerest flattery in Eng land as elsewhere. London girls have taken to dressing their hair a la Mary Anderson. i One of the ladies present at a recent fancy costume ball in Denver wore a dress of white satin completely covered with copies of a [local newspaper. Thero is a rumor that Dr. Mary Walker ¡will celebrate her jubilee year by returning Ito the costume of her maternal ancestors, but it kicks confirmation. Miss Sibyl Sanderson is an American who promises to mako a name for her voice. She [is now in Paris, and Massenet has become ¡greatly interested in her. The ex-Empress Eugenie had the remains of hor husband and son removed to Earn- ¡borough privately in orda. not to give Pion Pion a chance to exploit hiiaself. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has been very ¡liberal to the soldiers’ ffo.no at Leavenworth, having presented it with 2,000 books from ¡tho great Henry Ward’s library. There are more ladies in Washington at ¡present trying to get into the departments than there have been for many years. There are about fifty applicants for every position. Mrs. Reid, widow of Mayne Reid, the nov elist, is engaged in writing her husband’s ¡life, and is searching for information of his ¡life and adventures here before and after the ¡Mexican war. i Miss Frances Lord was for years superin tendent of the kindergarten system in Eng land. She claims to be the only living woman tvho has held a public office in that country, jave Queen Victoria. | Mrs. Charlotte Simonton, of New Rich mond, Wis., has reached tho full term of 100 ears. Her only caro is that her young son— io was 81 last birthday—may learn to smoko, ike tho other bad boys. Miss Meuk Meyer, a grandniece of Anton tubenstein and a pupil of Liszt, is the musi- al prodigy of Vienna. She is not yet 18 ears old, but sho lias composed tho music and written the libretto of an opera. Miss Louisa M. Alcott does most of her rriting in Boston. There sho takes a room rbero sho can bo perfectly retired and quiet, nd with a bottle of ink by her side and a lap ablet on her knee, she writes until her task s done. RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS. Two ladies in Philadelphia have offered co iced a roll of fifty Presbyterian women to five (1,000 apiece toward tiro Million Relief unit Tho Church Army, an organization of the Lurch of England similar to tho Salvation .rmv, has just dispatched three missionarie« i Indio. t The Lutheran Church consistory of Dres- sn, Saxony, has passed a resolution that arsons known to be adherents of spiritual- m shall not be admitted to the holy com- luuion. Rev. Dr. Judson Smith reports cheering rospects for Christianity among the Mon ili. The fact that the number of converts i China has doubled within ten years, and 5w exceeds 30,000, is at once a proof that hristian work is grandly successful there, rd Is a powerful stimulus to more abundant ibors. At tho twentieth anniversary of WomeW oard of Missions (CongregationalI, Boston, ’0 delegates were present from various parts t tbe country. The report» show that tho viety bas 113 missionarie» with mission •hools ia largo numbers, in various parts of io world. The roceipts for the year were 123,229, and tho expenses ( 120,835. The 26th of February is the day designated ltje Presbyterian church for recounting le past hundred years in the Sabbath ihools. The board of publication and Sab- nth school work has prepared a suitable fecial exercise for that day, historical, doc- •inai and practical. A collection for the 1,000,000 for the relief fund will be taken in he schools on that day. Removing Grease Spots. The following is an excellent way to remove ¿reuse from delicate fabrics: Cover the spots thickly with powdered French chalk. Lay a >iece of blotting paper over this and place a sarin but not hot iron upon it Let tbe iron -»main a little. If the grease is not entirely «moved, repeat tbe operation. Fir Tree Oil. “Fir tree oil" is a new remedy that horti- ‘ultnrists are recommending for all the trou- 'les incident to plants; a half pint df tbe oil n ten gallons of water is the proportion for *ift wooded plants. It is accredited with re moving verbena rusts and destroying rose fug. etc. _______ __ Roman Lnnches Not Popular. Our demoiselles are giving lunch parties, inch of which has a distinct color—yellow, link, blue or green. At one given the able was lighted by tapers of yellow wax n yellow shades, there was a profusion of ’ellow tulips, the dinner service was lecked with bow 1 b of yellow ribbon, and he guests wore more or less yellow. A Ionian lunch was proposed by a classical lat-.isel, but was found to be rather incon eni-nt, especially the custom of serving mctics to the guests at the done of the hiril course, that in due time nature night supply c. receptacle for more good beer. Such a prat^ice would not find such favor here. WEST SIDE TELEPHONE VOL. II SURPRISED THE SNOBS. rhn Way tu Which a San Francisco Mil- llonalrc*. Wife Vanquish*.I Them. A few days ago a lady from San Fran cisco who hud a very solid bank account went to Ijike Tahoe on a pleasure trip with her daughter. She concluded that lie would have a good time, aud accord ingly took along some plain, serviceable clothes and no jewelry. Wheu she struck one of the fashionable resorts sho fouud herself in the midst of a lot of people mak ing a vulgar display ot clothes aud dia monds, and every time she turned around she was the subject of the most unmerciful snubbing. She was put off iu an obscure corner to eat, and uot one of the fashion able guests condescended to show her tlie •'lightest civility. Tho lady bit licr lijis tor a few days; took in the situutiou and, with true fomiuiue instinct, decided ou re venge. She drop;>ed a line below, and presently there were deposited at tlie hotel twelve Saratoga trunks waybilled to lier address. She and her daughter retired to their rooms, and that evening camo down to the dining room in a blaz-j of lace aud diamonds that took everybody’s breath away. No such gorgeous or tasty toil ets had ever bewildered the quests at that hotel before. It blinded the eye to look nt the pair as they quietly entered the room. The steward, after recovering his i>oise, rushed forward and pulled out two chairs (rom the most fashionable table in tbe hotel. She shook her bead and replied: 'Tho old table will do,” and went to the obscure corner where she had eaten all the lime. The utmost consternation spread about the dining room, and the low hum of voices rose to a fashionable buzz as they warmly discussed the situation, Wasn’t it awful? They had been snubbing a voniaii and her daughter all the week who could outdress them all. Ill the evening they attempted to hedge, but couldn’t to any considerable extent. The dudes tried to shine up to the girl, but she wouldn’t have it, and those who tried to scrape nn acquaintance with the mother found it like try ing to run a tunnel into an iceberg. For a while she flashed like a cornel through that hotel into a constant change it riiviihing toflots, each more costly and liewilderkig than the others, until, like tlie kings who predestriuiiized in “Macbeth,” they threatened to stretch out till the crack of doom. At the end of the week it was learned from tho chambermaid that Blie had only- gone through half of her immense Sara togas. There were several womeu there who had displayed ut least a dozen differ ent toilets, and they felt that they woulil just die if she beat tlieir record. But she kept right on. and when she was three ihead of their score they packed up and left. One by one she vanquished the coders and the rauk and flic capitulated, lisplaying tlie rarest generalship itnngin ible. ’* Mrs. —-appeared in any special color to nakc a spread in the morning, she adopted tlia color at ouce, ouly in a dress that eclipsed the others as the suu out shines tlie dog star. Site was the absolute John Sullivan of he toilot ring, and knocked out all who had the temerity to stand before her. The last of her opponents was a red faced vul- ;arly dressed woman from San Francisco, vliose flashy toilets had attracted general ittcntlon and admiration from persons lg- :orant of harmony and color. Whatever iress this woman donned in the morning 'ho fashionable Nemesis was on her trail with a color that literally killed the other. The heretofore cock of the walk w as un ibit to stand her defeat, and, packing her trunks, started for home. The army of snobs yvas routed, and one >y one dropped out of sight. They just -settled up und quit. Then tlio quiet little lady resumed her plain clothes, put on un ild straw lint with her daughter nnd went fishing. As the last gang left, she abso lutely had the coolness to be down nt the •vharf fishing in an old calico dress, cot on gloves and straw hat. Tlie landlord considered that she litcr- illy cleaned his place out, and she thinks ■ho liad nn awful lot of fun.—Corson Nev.) Appeal. The PrlnceM of Wales. In less than a month the Princess of Wales will complete her 42d year. Iler royal highness remains one of the young est looking women of her age in England, despite a married life that has not been nil sugar plums and coffee. During the last year or two, however, the princess lias, regret ably enough, aged somewhat, as those wli > know her most intimately and love her best have been forced to admit. Time Is tracing lines about her kindly eyes, and her neck, that sure chronicle of a woman’s age, has its dis agreeable little tale to tell; but these little things detract nothing from the magnetic charm of her presence, and it is a satisfac tion to know that she makes ns good a portrait as ever—a satisfaction, becaus- it Is by means of her photographs that the princess is principally known to the common people. The princess' birthday will be cele- ’•rated by a ball to the Sandringham tenants, whose ladies are already scour ing the country for appropriate dress in which to meet her royal highness. Necks and shoulders and arms are lieing nightly inspected before the mirror in their owners' anxiety tc know whether they will be sufficiently presentable for baring to tbe critical gaze of royalty. A great trade is being done by the Norfolk chemists in skin washes and blood mix tures. A revival In this branch of their business occurs about this time annually, we believe.—London Letter. No. 60, the Stayer. “The oldest locomotive now in use any- where near Chicago,” remarked a rail roader, “is No. 60 on the Illinois Central, still making regular trips down the rood. She has been in use thirty-three years. It is estimated thnt in that time she has traveled 1,650,000 miles, or equal to sixty-six times around the globe. She lias hauled passenger trains, freight trains, special trains, pay cars, gravel trains and done switching. She lias been in several accidents, bnt was never badly damaged. She Las killed ‘her man’ half .-i dozen times. The average life of a locomotive Is ten or twelve years, nnd so you can sec that old No. 60 is a stayer." —Chic — We—Id __ Au lrun (Aou!»e. At tbe rerent Liverpool exhibition so:m pretty examples of iron bouses, choicely fur Blindly Written ftlgnntuie». nHwd, were exhiliited by all Eiiglisli firm ot It may he the proper thing for bank iron workers, oue being a tropical villa. Tbe residents, cashiers and congressmen tn buil'iing itself was of wrought iron, and nc Tawl their names in the hen track masonry foundation wo« requir'd for the ishion, but men who write for a living column« ami main oupporta, which bad st-i »d enough writing to know better than fixing bases. Tbe interior was of pine «B>1 > puzzle correspondents with blindly rad wood. Tho liou*> «n so devi-ed that ii rritten signatures. If a man is consti could be readily bolted together by ui> utionally unable to write bis name and - uiled native» or workmen.—San Francis« sidre» plainly, he should use letter paper •.’Uronicie. ____ • ith a printed heading containing the de President Cleveland writes few letters am 1 ruble information. Biul writers often ictatei none. Ills public papers ho Writ«» orm-t that while a dubious word in thi uiddle of a seutence may be decipl.ere*' with hi« own baa*l. Be uso a stub pen an' cork penholder, s:id in reading or wriUuf rith the help of its neighbors, nothing, I sears «pectaclo« with a daru >cau frame. He !"es with tlie «Ignatu on which to lias' .bars» h.iMSif every morning. z ven so much as a surmise. —The Writer MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, APRIL ». 1888 RAINFALL ON THE PLAINS. HORSEMANSHIP ON THE PLAINS. PIE IN THE SOUTH. SOME AMUSEMENT NOTES. BASEBALL TALK Ixaidou is to have a new theatre for light opera that will cost (350,000. Jane Hading, tbe groat Paris favorite, will probably coms to America with Coquolin next October. It is rumored that Mary Anderson intends to play in Germany before returning to America uext August. Etelka Gerster is on a tour with the Cam panini Concert company and will ooutiuue with tbtuu some weeks. Mary Anderson is bringli tier Londou season to a close. Her audio., s are almost exclusively conqKMed of provincial tourists. Clara Louise Kellogg, it is announced, will tour next season with an opera com pany of sixty-llve persons, under tbe manage ment of her young husband, Csrl Strakosch. The annual pay roll of tlie Paris Grand Opera foots up (473,341, and iu spite of the tact that no rent is paid and government fur nishes (100,000 a year, the manager is invari ably a loser. Arrangements have been completed whereby Fanny Davenport will play a sum mer season on the Pacific slope under Al Hayman’s management. Miss Davenport opena at the Baldwin theatre, San Francisco, May 14. Theodore Thomas may be forestalled in his professional tour through Euro|>e The French conductor, lauiioreux, is going to make a concert tour through Spain, Portu gal, Russia and England with ninety per formed Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, is to go to England in the spring, and, as a social nov elty, she may vie with Adelaide Detehon, whose pretty pipings and bird imitations have been the correct thing to listen to for several seasons jsist. Australia has just got roller skates and is lo busy with them that the theatres suffer. It is decided not to take “A Parlor Match” there, but George Knight will undertake a professional tour. While W. 8. Gilbert is building a theatre In London there is no foundation for the rumor that Gilliert and Sullivan have had a falling out. Their union is as strong as ever aiul a liett r opera thau “The Mikado" is said to be preparing. Lillian Olcott is credited with the most ec centric fashion ot these times The young actress lias a small live snuke of a greenish hue, iini>orted from Africa, inclosed In a sort of harness of gold encrusted with small liamonds and fastened to her collar with a liamoud clasp. Coquelin, the French comedian, 1s having a social as well as an artistio success in Egypt. His five performances in Cairo wore attended by the khedive, and be has been re ceived at the palaeo with distinguished honors. M. Coquelin has broken the record in Egypt by declining to ascend the big pyramid. Nat Goodwin broke a glass at a dinner some time ago. Ono of the guests, a very homely man, remarked, laughingly, that he had uover broken a gluss in his life. “What,” quizzingly inquired Nat, “not even when you looked into oneF’—Dramatic News. Charles H. Hoyt, author of “A Rag Baby," “Parlor Match,” “Bunch of Keys,” “Tin Soldier,” “Hole In the Ground” and “Brass Monkey,” says his sleep is interrupted by the fear that after he is dead some Ignatius Don nelly will arise and attribute his dramatic works to William M. Evarts. Getsetn signed with Detroit for (9,700. The new Milwaukee ground will seat 5,300. Omaha has organized an amateur baseball association. The California leaguo season of 1888 will begin March 25. Florida is ;>assing through a severs attack of baseball fever. Tbe Chicago» will play a series of games at New Orleans after leaving Hot Springs. The St. Louis club is said to be trying to make a d<sil for pitcher Hughes, of tbs Brooklyn club. The California league has adopted another eastern innovation and will have a staff of salaried umpires. Smith and Mullane are said to have mads nearly (5()0 apiece last season for extra win ning games pitched. If the Cincinnati team clears more than expenses on the present trip, the surplus will be divided among the players. It is thought that tbe southern trip will cost tie Cincinnati club in tlie neighborhood of (1,500, but with good luck expeusea may be cleared. From Omaha comes word that Van Dyke, of the De Moines team, has challenged Sun day, of tho i’ittsburgs, to run him a 100 yard dash for (250 a side. Many of the players who wintered in Cali fornia are heavily in debt to Hart and Foutx, who acted as bankers, to the tune of several thousaud of dollars. Anson reports that ho has quite recovered the throwing use ot his right arm, which bas been strained for some years. He attributes his reeovery to hand ball playing. Smith can go to Boston for (2,200. This is about all President Soden will pay for him, and the increase in salary will hardly pay Smith’s expenses of removing to Boston. Tiernan has accepted the terms of tho New York club, but lias not yet signed. He says that rather than leave tbe New York club he would play for (1,000 less than he could get elsewhere. Brooklyn will have three big threes this year: Caruthers, Bushong and Foutx, of St Louis; D. O’Brien, Orr and Radford, of the Mets, aud Smith, Terry and Pinckney, of the home club. Atlanta has declined to go into the South ern league, which leaves out Chattanooga, and the league will bo composed of four cities—Birmingham, New Orleans, Charles ton, S. C., and Memphis. Slattery, who will play left field for ths New York team next season, was at one time tbe champion amateur high jumper of Massachusetts. Slattery is a runner of no mean ability, and hus a 100 yard record of «Mam Smiling Mickey Welch, of the New York club, who is now at Holyoke, refuses to either ’onflrin or deny the re;>ort that ho would not sign. He said ho bad until March to con sider the matter and his decision would then be mads public. Harry Wright thinks Billy Sunday will strengthen the Pittsburg nine in base run ning. Ho says: “They talk about tho little fellow not getting a good start off first base, but he manages to get to second before the balk 1 thiuk he is ouo of the best base rius- tiers in the Ixiague. And iu the field—wen, he chances everything." Going to “Nlglit yuartera.” J. R. Haggiu decline to sell Jockey Ham ilton’s release to Capt. Blown. A big trotting meeting, with (30,000 In purses, is talked of for Belmont park in Sep tember next. Charles Marvin says that the Palo Alta colts will not come east next season, but next year be expects to bring on a string that will do credit to California. A Maine breeding concern has offered (50,- XX) for the California stallion Guy Wilkes. The offer was first accepted and then refused. The owners now place the value at (60,000. Dan Daly, of St. Louis, bas received a let ter from Ike Weir, the “Spider," who is now at Minneapolis Weir says be contemplates a trip to St. Louis to remain some time, and wants to know if there is a 120-pouud man in St. Louts with whom he could arrange a sparring match. A letter has been received from Jake Kil- raln in which he says he is well physically and doing remarkably well financially. He further says be will return to Baltimore in April, and requests that his single scull, which is now at the Ariel boathouse, Spring Garden, be put in order, as he wants to prac tice rowing this summer. Friar’s Balsam is still a red hot favorite for the English Derby, only 3 to 1 being offered •gainst him, while the next in favor is Orbit it 8 to L Friar’s Balsam is about the strong set favorite ever known for the English race it this time of the year, and the general opinion is that nothing short of an accident ■an bring about hie defeat. Some Inter»),!lug Statistics Showing That It I. Slowly Increasing In Volume. How the “Broncho Buster” Tames the Wild Steed ot the Prairies. New England*« Pet !• Very Highly E m teemed iu New Orleaua. Wlieut growers and other large classes of citizens have been much interested in the repeated statements, made iu the last few years, that the annual rainfall be tween tho Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains is slowly increasing. The fact, if it be a fact, lias great agricultural lm- portauce The testimony offered in proof of it, however, has, until recently, been unsatisfactory, and has fallen short of demonstration. Something more conclu sive is now adduced by Mark W. Har rington, editor ot The American Meteor ological Jourual, in a recent number of that publication. If a chart bo constructed on which lines are drawn through places having the same annnal rainfall, these lines, in the region under consideration, will be fouud to run nearly parallel. The one along which the precipitation is forty inches passes near Montreal, Albany, the south ern shore of tbe great lakes, the north western Iowa and then southward to the Texas coast near Indianola. The line for thirty inches runs near St. Paul, Minn., through eastern Nebraska, and central Kansas and Texas. And twenty inches fall along a line starting in northern Min nesota, curving out beyond Bismarck, and then aiming nearly straight for the upper Rio Grande. At Cheyenne the rainfall is about eleven inches. Mr. Harrington lias made a comparison between the position of these two periods thirty years a|)art, and finds a distinct westward movement in some portions of them. He uses Blodgett’s and Denison's data. Lorin Blodgett’s collation of rain fall statistics for tne United States, which came out in 1857, though now out of date, Is a work of recognized value and covers a period of several years. Harrington, in making an average from these figures, thinks they may be said fairly to repre sent the situation in 1850. Denison is a Denver physician who has written ex tensively on climate, from a sanitary point of view, and has employed in pre paring his tables the signal service re ports of a term of years, ending with 1883 aud averaging about 1880. The method employed by Mr. Harrington and the character of the work done by the authors whom ho cites justify much confidence in tbe results attained in his inquiry. It appears from this comparison that tn the extreme northern part of Minnesota the lines of equal rainfall have receded eastward slightly. A more trifling move ment, in the same direction, occurs in southern Texas. Elsewhere there has been progress toward the mountains, the most marked change being between lati tude 40 and 45 (legs. Thus the twenty- five inch line has moved from the neigh borhood of St. Panl, ont into Dakota, being replaced by the thirty inch line. In southern Dakota the twenty inch line has advanced from the vicinity of Huron to ward Fort Bennett, upward of 125 miles, and is succeeded by the twenty-five inch line. In Iowa nnd Minnesota the move ment is equivalent to about flvo miles a year In thirty years; in Nebraska and Kansas slightly less. Without entering into any detailed explanations of the phenomenon, Mr. Harrington observes that the increased rainfall occurs along the line of largest immigration to the plains; and ns that invasion is still going on, ou an enorm >us scale, it is hardly safe to conclude that the attendant me teorological change will not continue even further.—New York Tribune. Imagino yourself then firmly seated. It the horse is blinded you reach forward and remove the blind. Now the struggle begius. For a moment he stands in his tracks, but you can feel his muscles grow ing tense as he gathers himself together. Crouching like a wildcat about to spring, he leaps high into the air aud twists aud shakes himself in a tnad effort to throw off the unaccustomed burden. He comes down with Ills head between hisjore legs and his tail behind his hind legs, striking the ground stiff leggod; und as soon as he has given you the full benefit of the shock crouches for another leap. This is “buck ing,” or as the more Initiated commonly term it, “pitching.” No two horses pitch alike, and no horse pitches twice alike. Sometimes he will strike on his fore feet and noso, throwing his breach so high as to turn a somersault forward. Sometimes he will make a lateral jump, and at others "change end," or turn half round in the air. Now a "bronco buster” generally does his work iu the presence of a hand ful of spectators; anil if he is oue of the faw men who are absolutely certain that nothing can unseat him, he lets the horse buck himself weary, while ho de lights the claque by rolling nud lighting a cigarette or stooping to pick up a hand ful of dirt and throw it in the horse’s face. Another favorite proof of his dexterity is to rowel the horse front ear to tail. A sharp pull at tho horse’s head just at tlio right moment, and the steel thrown into his flank will break the rhythm of his pitching, and a sharp blow on the hind quarters with your whip compels him to lunge forward. He will then run a hundred yards or so and stop suddenly with his fore legs planted firmly before him. This of course necessitates your throwing your body well back, and ho seizes this opportunity to rear and throw himself vlolenty on his back. Now is the time when a man shows whether he is a rider or a foolhardy braggart. Obviously you cannot retain your seat. A horse in executing this maneuver will often thrust the horn of tlie saddle fast in the ground and bo left kicking turtlewiso. You must see how he is going to strike and throw yourself to the one side or tbe other, so that you have always one foot in position to cross him with as ho strug gles to rise. It is perfectly legitimate for a horse to throw himself backward in this way three or four times, but when you have conclusively demonstrated to him that ho accomplishes nothing by it, if he persists iu it it must be trcatelas willful misconduct. If you cannot, by spurring him in the flank as he rises and thus bringing Ills hind parts into action prevent his overrearing, you must striko liim a sharp blow between the ears with tho butt of your whip ns ho rises, and let him understand that ho is over stepping the bounds of fair fighting. After an hour or two he is completely exhausted and should be turned loose until the next day. His second lesson will try your seat and your patience even more severely, for you will then have bitted him for the first time and he lias learned better how to handle himself under your weight. But on the third day, if he is not a very recalcitrant subject, he will begin to learn something, and is then considered a “broke” horse.—Cor. New York Snn. There are a great many different kind.- of pie, from the currant aud punipkii. variety of a colder climate to that juicy Southern confection, sometimes cooked in an earthen plate and then again ein braid ered with leather trappings, called the potatoe poue. Not feeliug conqieteut to grasp the complex subject fully, or give an Intelligent synopsis ot the question unaided, the reporter visited some of the most prominent merchants and inerchant- resses of New Orleans, gatherlug a few interesting facts in regard to the trade. The first colored pastryman called on was a tall, powerful man, whose unusual development of muscle showed tho effect of his labor in this line, lie makes a tour of the town twice every day, save Sunday, when the law coniines his sales to a few local aud strictly private cus tomers. Pies vary with the season, all except dried apples, known to the craft as the “old reliable.” "You see," the vender continued, “I have all kinds—peach, po tatoe, cocoanut, cherry, apple aud cran berry. I believe I am the only merchant in this citv al ile to shown cranberry pie in .June, and I’m proud of It. They ain’t ensj things to keep neither, but a person must study anil understand their nature. Now, I know you can’t air-bound cran berries—’taint possible. Just as fast as you get ’em stewed dowu and stopped up just thnt soon they blow the very heads off the jars. They make such strong vin egar you can’t hold them down. I humor things like that. I bile mine down, leave the jars open, give ’em plenty of room, aud they never seem to caro about making a fuss. I sny now what I said at first—they is a kind of fruit you can’t air-bound, and it ain’t auy use to try. “1 find,” lie went on, "that most in general it’s clerks and newsboys eats the biggest numlier of pies, straight along durin' the week. Bosses eats 'em, too, but they linve so much stayin’ up at night to do and treatin’ customers that It kinder spiles tlieir taste for sweets. I make ev ery last oue of them you see in my bosket fresh every morning, and I make ’em my self. I won’t have any woman fussin’ rouud my work. They ain’t got the strength or the discretion to make pies accordin’ to my notion. I slap up the pastry light and easy, and have my ’gradi ents ready to have till in. Some I lattice, others the tops left clean off, and the rest have all over covers. “ ’Bout payin', I ain’t fooled easy. 1 can tell most every time; when a man picks over my pies, smellin’ and sniilln’, askin’ if I'm shore tlicy’s clean and if 1 make certain the fruit wasn’t spiled, I know his change is scarce. I cut the pie mighty slow, givin’ him plenty of time to get the nickel before I lay the pie down.” The next party interviewed was an an cient bright colored mulatto woman, wearing a purple dress and sun bonnet, the picture of cleanliness. She sat on a stool beside lier stand, the wares protect ed by a tent of mosquito netting. All the day long her stick moves ceaselessly, its ninny streamers fluttering to tho terror of every sort of insect. The marchnnde was sociable and communicative. Said she was a Creole woman, und had cooked in a rich family before tlio war. After free time camo she drifted into rcstauraul life, but had a rough experience. Gave that up and tried private catering again, but things were so different from old times sho couldn’t enduro It, nnd set up her little stand, which hnd been a land mark for ten years past. “Now, mon sieur, it pay poor,” she answered her in terrogator. “Some days, yes; some days” —und an expressive shrug told the dull ness and depression in business that occa sionally reigns over tbe tiny plo bazar.— New Orleans Times-Deinocrnt.. The Lime Kiln Club. “It am my painful dooty to inform dis club dat Brudder Arbustus Jenkins lias History of a Locomotive. passed from airtli away,” said Brother There lately entered the Grand Central Gardner when the triangle had ceased to depot the other day a locomotive with a toll, “lie was an honorary member of tragic history. It was the locomotive dis club, libin' in de stait of North Caro- which drew a train to the first frightful liny, an’ he was only 15 cents behind on railroad accident that ever occurred. Up his dues. It kin not be said of Arbustus to 1848, while there had been some catas -lat he was either a statesman, poet, trophes on the railroads, there had been philosopher, philanthropist or scholar, nono accompanied by great slaughter, but lie was simply an eberyday man, who that year this engine drew a part of a did not shrink eandwise when he got train on the New Haven road into anopen wet. draw at Norwalk and caused a great loss “As a citizen of de United States he of life. The accident was the sensation did not go braggin' aroun* about our of the year. The engine was fished out beiu’ de greatest nash'in on alrth, but he and repaired, and has been running on had a hickory club laid away for any the road ever since. country which might knock de chip off A singular circumstanee connected with our shoulder. this nccident is that it indirectly proved “As an elector he weDttodepollsebery the fortune of the man whose incorrect time dar’ was a chance to wote, an some signals caused it. He fied and settled in times when deir wasn’t, an it he split his western Pennsylvania, and was the vic ticket it was lickase lie was deeply inter tim for many years of remorseful reflec ested in de matter of honest guv’ment. tions on his carelessness. But it was this “As a laborer he was worthy of hfs man who first dug an oil well in what Is hire. When he wasn't workin’ he was now the oil region and developed this thinkin' fur de benefit of his boss. If de colossal industry.—New York Evening boss didn’t know disit was his own fault. "As a naybur he liebber borrowed Sun. coffee an’ sugar widout makin' a mark HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. on de tin cup, so he could return good measure. In sewing and winding carpet rags double “As a member of de community in them with tbe right side up. which he dwelt he upheld de law in de Clothespins boiled a few minutes and daytime an’ stole watermelyons under quickly dried once or twice a month become kiver of darkness, thereby settin* a good example for de young. more durable. “As a church member he prayed soft Nice table cloths and napkins should not be illowed to become much soiled, so that they an' low, an’ he was half a line behind ail de rest in de singin'. In case he happened will require vigorous rubbing with soap or to be cotched wid a ham belonging to in hot water. somebody else no reflechuns could be cast Bronze may be renovated and recolored by on de church. mixing one part of muriatic acid and two “As a husband he bossed de cabin, an’ parts of water; free the article from all as a father he brung his chill’en up to grease and dirt, and apply the diluted acid fear de law an’ respect ole aige. with a cloth; when dry polish with sweet “Wo shall hang out the usual emblem oil. of mourning' on de outer doah, an’ we To take rust out of steel rub the steel with ihall feel a bit sorry dat a fair to medium tweet oil; in a day or two rub with finely tnau has passed away. Dat will be all. powdered ur.slaked lime until the rust ail We shan't pass no resolushtnis to send disappears, then oil again, roll in woolen to Ills wife, who knowed him better dan and put in a dry place, especially if it be anybody else, nor will we claim dat our heartfelt sympathies go out fur de chil- table cutlery. The little white worms which sometimes 1’en, who am probably no lietter dan any- make the earth in a plant jar look as if it was liody else'». It am 'nuff for us dat we alive, can be driven out by stopping the hole kin say Arbustns was up to tho aiverge, in the bottom of the jar and covering the an' dat death could have tooken a wusser an’ not half tried."—Detroit Free earth with water in which you have dissolved man Prooa ___ ______ a little lime. Let this stand for several hours, and it is not likely that you will be She l’r<l an<l Clothed Genlua. troubled with the worms any more.—New Several years a to a sensitive, unpracti York Mail and Express. cal poet, while dining with some literary ;>coplc in New York, called on his wife to RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS. help him remember the name of ii certain Mr. Moody will not go to the Pacific coast wonderful mountain view in Switzerland. “Switzerland!” she exclaimed, “I re- this swuvin. ns was ex|>C' ted. mcmlxT uothingabont It, except that ;here Tbe English Church union has established was bnt one inn there where you could a “yearly celebration" (of tbe communion) get n chop fit to eat I” for its deceased members. There was mnch pity expressed after The receipts of tbe A. B. C. F. M. for tbe ward by his friends for the poet who was first four months of tbe fiscal year are linked for life to so coars« and dull a (50.WX) more than for the corresponding nature. They did not know that the homely period last year. Rev. Frank Russell, D. D., pastor of tbe little woman, by her constant drudgery Congregational church, Oswego, N. Y., has and tender care, fed and clothed this sen been appointed field secretary of the Evan sitive genius, nnd stood between him and gelical alliance. His work for tbe present the rough world, giving him quiet and will be tbe organization of branches through leisure iu wliich to sing his song. out tbe stale of New Yvk. First Stork Broker's Wire. Liquid Solidified by Preuan. Hitherto there has been no instance known of a liquid, properly so called, be ing solidified by pressure alone, but this experiment has now been accomplished by tbe French chemist, Amagat, who bas succeeded in thus solidifying the bichlo ride of carbon.—New York Commercial Advertiser The first private stock broker’s wire be tween New York ami Chicago was put up In 1881, and a few years later there weie fifteen such lines in operation between the two cities, at an annual expense of (450,- 000. Tbe number of these wires lias now been reduced to five, although ths yearly rental Is only half what it was.—NsW York Evening World. NO. 52 One square or less, one Ineertion................. (1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.... 30 Nuticesof eppuiiilneml ami final settlement 3 00 Other legal advertiaeiuents. 73 < enta for first insertion ami 40 cents per square fur each sub- »equeut insertion. Special business notices in business column*, 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 3 cents per hue. Professional cards. (12 per j eer. Special rates for large display “ads.” Finding llrwt In Gotham. Distinguished men must find New York restful, us so many come here to live after they have passed middle ago and been for years objects of interest in small er places. Here even tho great man is one of a crowd. There are distinguished soldiers, engineers, doctors, merchants, writers, scientists who come to the me tropolis to spend the last years of their ex istence after the battle of life has been fought and won elsewhere. Such men as Gen. Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Collyer, Benjamin II. Bristow, Whitelaw Reid. Roscoe Conkling, with the whole world from which to select, choose New York as the most fitting and desirable place for a home. In any other city a distinguished mnn Is conspicuous, but here he can walk the streets and attract no attention, he can take a seat in a street car without being stared out of counte nance by all the other passengers, he can enjoy life, for distinguished men are com mon on the streets, and the inhabitants of New York are broad and cosmopolitan, and lielieve in each man attending strictly to his own business unmolested by all others.—New York Coy. Cleveland Loder. Th. Business of ItallrondlHg. The business of railroading has one great drawback, which more than anything else detrae'.» from the fascination of the life and operates as tlio greatest argument against embracing it. This is the uncertainty of ten ure to which overy position, from that of the general manager to clerk, whether elective or appointive, it susceptible, and which, it is needless to say, is nowise rendered more at tractive by that commonly seductivo factor, t.ie element of chance. This unc ertainty is but comparative, he who holds an executive position b"iug l>ut subjected to the annual proposition of to be or not to b>*. while be who»' lieing hinges on apfiolntment must be continually bunging on tlio ragged edge. No matter how faithful, bow efii lent or bow trustworthy one may be deemed, or bow much attached to tbe road to which these qualities are devoted, some line day there comes a transfer of officials, following which no sub ordinate head is »«cure from decapitation, .lometimes it may be a friend of the newly arrived chief who wants your place; again, tbe net earnings may have decreased aud a man is wanted capable ot bringing forth fruit from the watered stock; but whatevertbeex cuse, the coming event has cast its shallow before, ami no man can say that bo is safe.— Railroad Official in Gioie»-Democrat. Beit Trade to Learn. The best trade to learn is one that can never be handicapped by machinery. In ventive genius has well nigh driven the shoemaker to tbe jxxir house, fur shoes can be manufactured so ebeaply by ma chinery that many cobbler« have been driven intoother pursuits. And it is the same way with the carpenter, tailor, black smith, «addict and ot hers. For a while typesetting was thought to be safe from the inroads of progressive machinery, but now I see that some genius ha« invented an instrument that ia calculated to drive the printer from hl« cane. It is doubtful, however, if sny machine will ever be con structed to lay brick, paint carriages or npbolster s lounge; and so these trades are the best for young mtn to learn. The operation known as "going to night quarters" consists In preparing a ship for Immediate action, aud the celerity with which it can be carried out is so extraor dinary as to be almost incredible. It is nearly midnight; tlio flagship is plowing her way across tho calm sea, and the regu lar thumping of her screw Is almost the only uok.o thnt is audible ou lioard of her. Tho officer of the watch passes liko a shadow backward nnd forward along the bridge. On the poop the marine sentry mid u few ghastly looking signalmen move silently hither and thither. A light shines from the skylight of the admiral's cabin; but if you look down you may sco the ad- nvral asleep in his armchair, with a book upon his knees. On the dimly lighted nain deck there is n steady murmur caused if tho concert of several hundred snores, •n<l the officers, like the bl tie jackets and marines, uro in the arms of Morpheus. But, unfortunately for the peace of the ship, the admiral lins given orders that he Is to be called at midnight, and shortly lie fore that hour tho little midshipman of the watch steals softly below and wakes tho flag lieutenant, who iu his turu wakes the admlraL Then tho admiral suddenly appears on the poop, followed by a few heavily coated sulsird inate«, aud the order Is given. In nn Instant the ship from stem to stern leaps from sleep. Men drop from their hammocks and partially dress themselves with a haste which could scarcely be ex ceeded with their lives in jeopardy. The hammocks, which interfere with the fight ing arrangements, are lashed up, and are placed on the upper deck abreast of their proper nettings, anil ready to lie stowed and covered. All lights which show out side the ship are extinguished, and the fighting lauteri s are lighted. Electric search lights are got ready for use. All water tight doors are closed, the mngn- zincs are opened and lighted, fire engines and hoses are prepared, nnd the guns are cleared nway nnd nuvlo ready for action. When a sliip is over 10,000 tons displace ment, has n complement of more than 70t men, and carries a numlier of guns, the operation of going to night quartern in volves an amount of work and bustle vhlch might well make n civilian despair ' f accomplishing the business In n day. Yet in five minutes and a half after the giving of the order an officer reports that tho guns are clear, nnd that, in fact, the ship is in n'l respects ready for action.— Court Journal. SPORTING AND ATHLETIC. The Men Who Sueeumb. It is the genial, lovable men, the men of fine sensibilities and winning traits of char acter, who usually succumb to the stern testa which speculation imposoa on its vota ries. The men ot coarser fiber, of steel nerve», arc, as a rule, the only men who withstand tho moral shock which follows a turn of the fatal ticker which so monoto nously ticks out the grim lnteiigcnco that the victim must step down from bis scat of wealth, »ell his houses, horses and carriages, give up his club, opera and a hundred other social comforts and enjoyments, which have bccorno in a m-nso necoseitic, and take his place among tho innumeru bio host of ths hopelessly poor. Many a num has loft a broker's oflico, his slow footsteps timed as to muffl'd drum bean*. And it will bo so ss long as iiuW have a passion for specula tion, as long as human nerves are of fleshy fiber and not of stoel.—Cor. Kansas City Times me "Tootbpicit lunch earn m a nov elty. Japenese toothpicks arc tied up in "If we had two or three terrific hail a bundle which makes a pcrfoct miniature storms each year,” said a man from Wis umbrella, and are fasten. I on a ragged consin, “tbe English sparrow nuisance edged card on which is printed in ths would soon be abated. There are fewer quaintest possible type: "And now I will «narrows In Wisconsin to-day than nt any fetch you a toothpick from the further time within the past tan years. This is most wilds of Asia.” Ths quotation In nil due to the fierce hail-storm which from "Much Ado About Nothing."'— swept over tho state about five months Pioneer I’’ oqo. Tho icy missiles fell for less than Snoring and Dancing. five minutes, yet In that short space of A pair of lunatics disturbed all ths sans time thousands of sparrows were pelted to death. Since then tho southern part of dancers tremeudously. Each put an arm the state has been comparatively free from behind tbe other and each leaned back on this support. This gave them a sort of •-iiese little pugnacious birds." *■' purchase so that they could whirl around with tlieir lx.lies leaning far outward Glory of Modern Chemistry. from each other. I have seen little gin« Prof. Bolton express«« tbe opinion that piny at a game something like this in the crowning glory of modern chemistry effect, and go rushing around like small Is the power of producing in the laboratory windmills. This pair of danc’.'rs dnshod from inorganic matter, substances »dentI- about among quieter conples in a must cal with those existing in the vegetable headlong and ungraceful way. I saw on« sr.d animal kingdom«—it being known or two couples simply stop dancing and aow that the same chemical laws rule ani run away when they saw them co ning. I mate and inanimate nature, and that uny was told that this was a new kind ot waits definite compound produced in the former called the “Kensington whirl,” or some :an be prepared by synthesis as soon aaits thing like that. It bears ths same re lation chemical constitution baa been made out. to true dancing that snoring does to sleep* -New Or lean* Times-Democrek Ina.—Philadelphia North (mertssn, Rail Storm« Versns Kngll.ti ftparrows.