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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1888)
the telephone . THE TELEPHONE DEMOCRATIC b » tks of advbrtising . ruiiuuzii EVERY uthor legal ad’.rlitomenta, 75 tents for tiret Intortlon t»“'1 w «mW I“1' *lu*ru fur “«h aub Jequwit iwwrUoa. MnoelaJ business notices in business columns, 10 cent» Per H“®- lu<ular uustutste tioUeea, 5 oeuta per Hue, profsssiousl cards, |H per year. Special rates for largo display "ads," WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. Oregon & California R. R. Time between M c M ikmvili . i , . - . Office and residence on D street. tails promptly answered day or night. BETWKKN PORTLAND and SAN FRANCISCO. PHOTOGRAPHER. ABHtVX. Local Passenger Dally, Except Sunday. ARB1VX. LEAVE. Portland . 8:00 A. M.IEugene.. 2:40 P M Eugene 9:00 A. M.IPorltand 3:45 P M. Pullman Buffet Sleepers. EXCURSION SLEEPERS for second class Passengers on all terough trains FREE OF CHARGE The 0. & C. R. R. Ferry makes connection with all the regular trains on the East Bide Division from foot of F Street West Side Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND A CORVALLIS. Mail Train. (DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS) ARRIVE. LEAVE. Portland 7:30 A. M I Corvallis .12:25 P. M. Corvallis 1:30 P. Ml Portland 6:15 P.M. At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the’Oregon Pacific R. R. Expre.a Train LEAVE. Dally Except Bunday. ARRIVE. Portland 4:50 P. M |McMinnvjlle8:00P.M. McMin'ville5:45A.M.¡Portland 9:00 AM R. KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS, Manager O. F. <t Paes. Agt The Great Transcontinental Route. Iota hsio Kiilta ------- VIA THE------- Cascade Division’ now completed, making it the Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. The Dining Car line. Tl»n Direct Route. No Delay«. Fastest Tiaina. Low est Rates to Chicago and all points Fast. Tickets sold to all Prominent Points throughout th« East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Reservations can be secured in advance. To East Bound Passengers. Be caeful and do not make a mistake but be sure to take the Northern Pacific Railroad. And see that your tickets read via THIS LINE, St Paul or Minneapolis, to avoid changes and serious delays occa sioned by other routes. Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run on regular express trains full length of the lin«. Berths free. Lowest rates. Quickest tun«. ________ General Office Of the Company, No, 9 Washington St., Portland, Oregon. A I) CHARLTON. Asst General Passenger Agent. PATENTS Caveats, and Trade Marks obtained, and all Patent business conducted for MODER ATE FEES OUROFFICE ISOPl’OSITB U. 8 PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub agencies, all business direct, hence can transact patent business in less time and at less cost than those remote from Wash ington. ‘•end model, drawing, or photo, with description, We advise if patentable or not free of charge, Our fee not due till patent is secured A book, "How to Obtain Patents,” with references to actual clients in your State, ceunty, or town sent free, Address C. A. SNOW & CO. Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D C Murray’s Specfic. F—4« w.rb. A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases, such as weak memory, loss of brain power, hysteria, headache, pain in the back, nervous prostration, wakefulness, leucorrhoea. uni versal lassitude, seminal weak ness, impotency, and general _ _ loss of power of the generative Berers rsklsg.organSi ¡n either sex, caused by indiscretion or over exertion, and which ultimately lead to premature Trwd. Mart, old age,insanity and consump tion $1.00 per Imx or six boxes for $5.00,sent hv mail on receipt of price. Full particu late in pamphlet, sent free to every applicant. WB GUARANTEE SIX BOXES to cure any case. Fo every |5 00 order received, weAftsr Tsklsg. send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund the money if our Specific does not ef fect a cure Address all communications to the Sole manufacturers THE MURRAY MEDICINE CO, Kansas City, Mo Sol^^^^oger^^Todd^sol^agent^^^^^ —One of the most unreasonable things in friendship is to he mad with a friend because he is not mad with a man yon are mad with. —He is worthy of honor who willeth the good of every man; and he is much unworthy thereof who seeketh his own profit and oppress -th others. —What some noted men have done for the world i. might It insignificant rompared to what the world ii:ts done for them.— Merchant Traveler. —If a spark falls into the water the e can be no fire. If a brand is thrown in upon us we need not be a powder magazine and blow up.— Dr. Goodell. —Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of •11 mortals are those who have more of either than they knowhow to use.— Johruon. —There Is no person in this world *ho so uniformly takes his pay as he Roes along, as be who does good at th« expanse of his own comfort and convenience. Third Street, between K and f McMinnville, Oregon. THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK CITY WHO LIVE TO EAT. All W. V. PRICE. 1.KAVK. CITI STABLES, GOTHAM GASTRONOMY. O regon . California Express trains run daily Portland 4 :00 P.M. I San Fran' 7:4 A M. San Fran'6:30 P M. I Portland 10:40 A M PUBLICATION OFFICI: Css D.er Forth of »or sr Third and I Sts., M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATBS Henderson Bros. Props First-class accommodations for Ccmmor cial men and general travel. Transient stock well cared for. Everything new andin First-Class Order Scraps of Information on Itiany Different Familiar Subjects. Barbarians lu the Midst of High Civili* cation—The Enormous Importance oi Dinner Giving—The Modero Style—A Burlesque of Hospitality. The essential difference between barbarism and civilization, according to epicures, is Patronage respectfully solicited ltf that then men eat to live, and now they live to eat in American cities, notably in New York, there are, it must be coufeased, many McMinnville, Oregon so called civilized beings of this order. When they are not euting, they are talking or, Sample rooms in connection, Dr. J. H. NELSON, Dentist thinking about it, and their faces show what ' Rooms over First National Bank, in Me- o------ o an absorbing idea and habit it is. They may ¡ t>e seen, any evening, at Delmonico’s, the1 Minnville, Oregon. Is now fitted up in first class order. Brunswick, the Hoffman, or at some one of . Charges Moderate and Consistent Accommodations as good as can be the fashionable clubs, intent upon the dinner i Has th« latest Discovery for the Painless they have ordered, and enjoying with repel- | foundin the city. extraction of Teeth. lent sensuality their various dishes and rare 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. wines. They are apt to have round, pro truding eyas, large coarse mouths, double chins, florid, oleaginous complexions, a gen- sml expression of matter dominating and controlling mind. They are barbarians in ' Physician and Surgeon, Dealers in the midst of high civilization, for they are i M c M innville , - . oregon to their appetites, and impervi Harness. Baddies, Etc, Etc, consecrated ous to the liner issues of life. —[0]— A far larger class relish fine food; but they i Repairing neatly dona at reasonabls Office two door» south of postofflee. Res relish other things, things appertaining to 1 idence two doors from railroad on Third rates Wriglit'e new buildinr. Corner Third literature, art and science. They wish it un- I street All calls promptly attended to, day end F str re to. McMinnville. Or or night derstood that they are delicate in all their ¡ tastes, that the refinements of tho table ad- > M c M innville minister to the refinements of the mind, and ' that the two are natural and proper accom- , paniments, depending on one another. They ¡ may be right, in a measure, but even they t If so be sure and call for your tickets are inclined, notwithstanding their modera via the Cor Third and D streets, McMinnville tiou, to set too much store by the pleasures I of the palate. The metro)K)lis leans the same ! 1 way You see it particularly in the region between Twenty-third and Fifty-ninth Proprietors. streets, and tietween Fourth and Sixth ave —THE— núes, where cooking and catering are con sidered fine arts, and eating is elevated into an elegant recreation. There are the great hotels, the choice restaurants, the fashionable It is positively ths shortest and fin lit clubs, with most of the elegunt residence: line to Chicago and tlie east aud south and where dinner giving is thought to be the the only sleeping and dining car through sumptuous symbol of hospitality. line to The Provincial Prize Horse Dining and dinner giving have assumed Omaha, Kansas. City, and all Missouri enormous importance there—an importance River Points. out of all proportion, I might say, to the serious concerns of life, if dinners were not Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed regarded as among the most serious. Ever) train service and elegant dining and day during the sejason scores and scores ol sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the dinners are served within those boundaries title of that have never been surpassed, seldom equaled, for variety, elaboration, eleganc* and cost. Paris has long been accounted tht Others may imitate,but none can surpass it culinary capital of the worlds but within Our motto ia "always on time " twenty-five years New York has rivaled it in this particular. We have imported many ol Be sure and ask ticket agents for ticksts the licst French and Italian cooks who admit via this celebrated route and take nont that the Old World does not furnish half our others. W H MEAD, G A dishes, and that those it has are in no way No, 4 Washington street, Portland, Or. superior to ours. This is the land of constant invention and improvement. Our cooks, native as well as foreign, are continual!} producing new and remarkable combina tions, evoking novel dishes from the re sources of their growing knowledge. Vet ----- THE LEADER IN----- eran gastronomists who have traveled widely and lived much abroad say that there arc restaurants in New York eclipsing those of the Reform club, the Maison Doree, the Cafe Riche, Vefour’s or tho Vachette Brebant. Fifty years ago, I have heard, prosperous New Yorkers invited their friends to din Opposite Grange Store McMinnville, Or ners of four or five courses, with one or two kinds of wine, and they doubtless had more Apr. 13, 3m comfort and solid satisfaction than are got now out of twelve or fourteen courses with six wines. Tho swell dinner of today is Proprietor of the really brutish. Nobody but a trained gour mand, not to say a glutton, can eat it. I rarejy see a man who doos not neglect sev eral courses, often five or six. After oysters, ----- IN----- soup, fish, roast (or game), stlud, what natural stomach wants more than sweets, Ths leading McMinnville, is opened fruit and coffee? I am usually satiated with what seem solids after fish, and I have, 1 J1WELRY ESTABLISHMENT, —IN— think, a fair appetite. —OF— At formal, public dinners, you way expect a long menu, but in dinners fn private houses you ought to be content with some thing simple. But it is at such houses that Third 6treet. McMinnvil’« Or expense is carried to a point of ostentation, Where you will find the best of and, therefore, becomes vulgar. A public Wines and Liquors, also -ivr’TvrTTTTsrvTiLieS; dinner at Delmonico’s or the Brunswick is Imported and Domestsc commonly served at 112 per plute, wines Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. extra. The dishes can hardly be 1 letter or more numerous at private liouses, but their T. M. F ields , Propr. .Accompaniments are altogether moro elal> orate and costly. I know of private dinners for twenty, where the flowers in the dining room have cost #300, and where the menus are wc»*ks of art, done by hand, at $40 to $50 FLEMING, & L06AN, Prop’«. each. Such banquets are not provided for All kinds of fancy liair cutting don« in I Transacts a General Banking Business. less than several thousands of dollars, which to my mind, a pecuuious burlesque of ths latest and neatest style J President,.......... -J- W. COWLS, is, hospitality. All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair I 4 dying, a specialty. Special attention given Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. If Croaras Is resolved to demonstrate his wealth, why should he not put two or three to Cashier............... CLARK BRALY. $1,000 Ladies' and Childrens’ Work bonds under the plate of each of bis guests? This would 1« simpler, director and I also have for sale a very fine assort-1 Sells exchange on Portland, San a more practical method of self advertising, ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc which would apilar to be the chief object of I have in connection with my parlor, Francisco, and New York. I the largest and finest stock of such senseless prodigality. A dinner for Interest allowed on time deposits. twelve is seldom given by a man or woman Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m of any pretense to fashion—which commonly signifl«* a deal of money—for less than from Ever in the city. Apr. 13 tf $300 to $500. What a waste of cash I What toTTnisD S tbxzt M c M issvillx . O rzgoiv I an abuse of appetite, and the simple privi leges of home! Buch a dinner might tie de licious, elegant, perfect in its kind, for $100, or considerably lew. I was told recently of a genuine lady, of slender means, who de lighted a dozen of her friends with what is ACTION REVOLVER. calk*d an exquisite dinner, the total cost of MARLIN DOUBLE These revolvers are an exact which did not exceed $35, claret being the GOOD only wine. Why can not such simplicity duplicate of the celebratod and delicate taste tie widely imitated? It never will be in Now York circles Iliat as SMITH fit WESSON. sume to be fashionable, for the ordina. y .83 Caliber, using definition, locally, of fashion is dbnlay and no longer costs Centre-Fire (»ecuniousnesa.—“Demrace” in Globe- Demo crat« _____ Cartridgaa. Up Stairs ii Haas' Building, The St. Charles Hotel f YV. H. Boyd, M. T). YVTicfht ZBro’s. ARE YOU GOING EAST? linry M ui Sill Sbta, Chicago !i lutata Uiilrny, L0GA1 BROS., ic HE^DERSOM, The Best Rigs in the City. Orders Promptly attended to Day or “MILTON” Will stand the ensu The Ltoyal LToute ing season, beginning Mrs. H. P. Stuart, MILLINERY, Hair weaving and Stamping. April 1st and ending July 1st, 1888, at his old stables in M’Minn- ville, Oregon. TERMS. $10. Single service, 12. Season, 15. Insurance, J. M. H ulery , Prop. WM. HOLL, The only FIRST CLASS BAR COOK’S HOTEL YAMHILL COUNTY, TONSORIAL PARLOR, Shaving, Bair Cutting and- - - - - - - - Shampoing Parlors. M’MINNVILLE NATIONAL «tBADK.fr Os CIGABS PROTECT YOUR HOMES! REVOLVER a What a Menagerie Man Says. Stlf-CccHnj, AutomiUo Ejecting. FULL HICKEL PLATED, RU3BER HAMDLF. v.aaxrm »«<:"• '* »’”T “ ” ™ BMI'I II <» -w»«i-»c»rT- _____ For solo by nxrflw.ro snfl Gun De^en ererrwhem li.sxftot.rrd by THE MABLU 1BE *«8 00., J.w Hx’.s, Muirtow««----------------------------- : BEaT ,N TH| WORLD! tvtatit .TTJ r- iot . « e~n r—• •*1 *“ Magazino •*“w»M <‘~*»< atoms» BALLARD'o.LLlxr fj'iWl««*..* • * • ■N*w i-*—. a t ~7 bl ÎEÏLO ADI N G TOOLS •’Jf* IDEAL __ _ __ W.L T Í O-.C-H.IF _ l xv Mato Mr rt sf-e rr HM ov : witiow . TH« CO.T of OF ÄVMU AMMUHITiOH. * -. »au for ».: ; w “*,K‘wT H. Miu., ehren« »M W«.r Ü.re ^Deeper ana X«X—1 o. tor •* ««L._____ ten« for rrle. LUI o, tk^toels U» V CrtW- ».g 'Ini E F n9> Hr WEATHER SIGNS THE CURIOSITY SHOP. Our hunters who are kept busy catching •11 sorts of wild anlmnls In all sorts of coun tries bare no fear of a bite as a bite. Of course. If a lion or a tiger bites your bead off. you miss It. but that is only because the lacerntlon Is so severe A wound from a wild tx-ast • tooth is no worse than a wound from any other weajxm. The result depends on whether the tooth is clean, or bow severe tho wound is, and ou the physical condition of the man. __ Our hunters, naturally enough, are greatly exposed to bites They have to capture live animals whenever U is possible, and many of the animals object But in case of a bite they treat It simply ss a laceration. They have some liniment or salve that they use, I really don't know what It is, and then they use the harks and leaves that the natives use. Of course, if a man’s blood is tn a bad condition when be is bitton, or if any dirt or decayed matter gets into the laceration, the patient is likely to suffer, but from the bite as a bite there is nothing to fear unless It is from some poisonous creature or from a rabid animal That is, of course, a general statement Circumstances may make an ex ception. but the rule is truo.—New York Mail and Exprm. _____ The Dead sea is a salt lake of Palestine, about eighteen miles east of Jerusalem. Even in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, which were situated in the district, it was probably of a peculiar geological character, the valo of Siddim being described as full of slime pits. The destruction of the citiee and the forma tion of the sea is computed to have occurred about 1,900 years before tho Christian era. An earthquake accompanied by volcanic action appears to have sunk the valley to a great depth, and tho waters of the river Jor dan flowing in produced this sea, which was mod« very salt by tho saline strata exposed to their action. From a mountain on the southwest retaining the name of Sodom stands a lofty pillar of salt, which travelers have spoken of as Lot’s wife. Bitumen is ejectexl from the liottom of tho sea, oozes from crevices in the rocks and is deposited on the lieach. These facts and frequent changes of the bottom indicate volcanic agency. ------- Must Priests Testify V It has long lieen a mooted question whether the English law requires priests, especially Roman Catholics, to disclose secrets on the witness stand which have been imparted to them at tho coufesstonal. Sir James Stephen, i in a note to his “Digest of the Law of Evi dence," says: “The question whether clergymen, and par ticularly whether Roman Catholic priests, can be compelled to disclose confessions made to them professionally has never been sol emnly decided in England, though it is stated by the text writers that they can. A pamph let was written to maintain the existence of tlie privilege by Mr. Baddeley in 1865. Mr. Baddeley’s argument Is, in a few words, that tho privilege must have been recognixod when the Roman Catholic religion was estab lished by law, and that it has never been taken away. I think tho modern law of evi dence is not so old as the reformation, but has grown up by the practice of the courts and by decisions in tho course of the last two centuries. It cam. into existence at a time when exceptions in favor of auricular confes sions to Roman Catholic priests were not likely to bo mado. Tbo general rulo is that every person must testify to what he knows.” First Guns. The first gun fired during the civil war In America was discharged by Franklin J. Moses at tho steamer Star of the West, sent to supply Fort Sumter in 1861. Edmund Ruffin, an old Virgininn, flrod the first gun at Sumter. It is said that f loses is now a convict in the Massachusetts penitentiary, and it was stated in southern papers after the war that Ruflln had committed suicide soon after the sur render of Fort Sumter. The Picayune. It was a Spanish coin, worth alxtut six and a quarter cents. It was also called a fl’penny bit (probably a contraction of five penny). There wore a number of Spanish coins circu lating in tho country, which mado their final disappearance at the beginning of the war ot the rebellion, when coin was at a premium, and have nevor returned. United States and Canadian Territory. The relative area of the United States and Canada is seldom understood by those who are not especially versed in geographical facts. Many people are surprised at learning that the area of the United States only ex ceeds that of Canada by about 30,000 square miles. The United States has 3,501,404 square miles; Canada, 8,470,392. INDICATIONS OF CHANGE FURNISHED BY NATURE’S SIGNAL SERVICE. Animals Who Foreoeo Weather Change». Sign, ot the Moon—Wind anel bun. The .Field Kplder — Crows—What tlio Clouds Foretell. Our weather bureau, with its flags and hieroglyphics, is regarded tut something new —a progression in a progressive age—and yet it is merely an infringement on a system of signals ailopteei by nature, as old as tbe oldest hilla Nature knows our needs and she knows we must be warned of weather changes; hence her warnings. What ate these signals! Where are they displayed! Everywhere; animals, birds and insects can read them, Seamen and country folk understand them, Some time ago a statement concerning some anta was puti lished In the papers, lt seems myriads of these insects inhabited a section of low boto tom laiuL One day—a particularly bright day—they were noticed leaving their dwell ings for tbe high grounds. In immense masses tbe exexiua continued until api>arently the last ant had moveel Then came a few clouds, then a groat pall of ashen vapor, and a terrific rainstorm completely inunelated the bottom where the ants had their home«. A gentleman related to me a very similar inci dent. He was in Arkansas, and In bls neigh borhood was a stretch of rather depressed country that, by reason of its rank vegeta tion, was a favorite hunting ground, it abounded with game. Suddenly tho creatures vanished. Tlie deer, the cougar and the cat amount could only be found lift he high lands. A few days after this vagary was noted came a violent storm. A river burst its banks and for tbe first time in many years the region n>ntloneJ was completely floexleeL Now, bow did those creatures foreseethese weather changes! By instinct! Yes, instinct enabled them to read the warnings given by nature’s signal service. What are these signals! Where can they bo seen! BIONS Or TUB MOON. Everywhere; tho moon ia Bometimos used as a storm flag. Go out some night and gaze at the clear heavens in which every star sparkles like a diamond. Around the moon is a curious misty halo. One might almost compare her to tho palld face of a fair Baint encircled with an aureole of glory, it is an unfailing admonition that bad weather is near at hand. For a long time man has been prone to credit the moon wit« weather wisdom, tn some cases without any good ground, I fear. The wind is a rusty prophet If a steady, piercing northeaster is sending tho rain plaxh- ing against your windows, mark when it changes If it veers from east to northwest and clears the clouds away, nature's storm signal is still hoisted. If, however, It goes to tbe northwest via the south, you can fold up your umbrella In the first case the clear weather will be temporary. In tbe second the stormy elements are extmpletely exbausteed. Tho sun takes a hand in weather prodlo tion. It he lifts bis taco above the eastern horizon, takes a peep at tbe world and then creeps behind a veil of clouds—like a young life made sombre by great grief before it could reach meridinn—then foul weather Is at hand. Your trusty old chimney that has lieen staring in open moutlied wonder at the heavens this hundred years is one of natures signal posts. If tbe smoke «Vinces a repug nance to going toward tbe clouds, but de scends to earth, it would be well to bunt up your goloshes. Tnn Pig Iron. When being smelted Iron flows in a molten state through a main channel scrajxxl in tbs floor, called a sow. On each Bide of the main stem are shallow ditches or molds to receive the metal. These molds are called pigs, and tho iron molded in them is called pig iron. Fits John Porter. Gen. Fitz John Porter was not, as some suppose, restored to tho army with arrears of pay since his dismissal. Ho was restored to his rank at the time of tho court martial, and placed on tho retired list with a pension to take effect from the time of such restoration. The Poets Laureate. The poets laureate of England since 1670 are John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Nicholas Rowe, Ixiwrence Eusden, Colley Cibber, William Whitehead,Thomas Wharton, Henry James Pye, Robert Southey, William Words worth and Alfred Tennyson. The Schooner Vega. The schooner Voga, under command of Capt Nordenskjold, is the only vessel that has passed to the north ot any continent In 1880 sho succeeded in passing eastward along tho eastern coast of Europe and Asia. Butter and Oleomargarine. To detect tho difference is a problem which it is said experts have failed to solve. Even by chemical analysis the processes are very complicated and their reliability is doubtful. •2 0» 1 00 ¿0 NO. 7 MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, JUNE 8, 1888 s, A. YOUNG, M. D. Physioian & Surgeon, VIA Portland and San Francisco, 39 Hours. MORNING. (IN ADV à NCK.) VOL. III. OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA And Connections. THE MT, 8HA8TA ROUTE. FRIDAY field sriDEn. The field spider 1 b a skilful prognosticator. When you see hie gossamer web scattered over the grass, looking In the morning sun beams like some weft work of fairies doue with silver threads, you can rest assured the insect foresaw no storm tn tbe near future to I demolish bis fabria A convocation of i erows, noisily debating some Important sub ject in a field, to, in autumn or winter, a sure sign of wind or snow, while the swallows, darting closo to tbe ground instead ot circling in mid-air, would shout “It’s going to ralu” In your ear if they did not think you had ■ense enough to understand them without l Then the clouda. Anyone can prophesy rain when be seex a cloud, you say. Home- : how, however, clouds moan just tbe reverse. If they rise In masses and then break Co nieces, clear weather is coming if they fly over the zenith In little inky patches, rain will follow. If 1' they shape themselves into :s or curls, a Aange for the wisps, streaks worse is at hand. Very black clouds Indi cate winds. Have you noticed the approach of a thunder storm I First, an array of black, forbidding looking clouds, behind them an expanse of wild looking drab. The first di vision to tbe cavalry, rushing, howling and iwarming over tho land, then comes the In fantry, Bteady, pitiless and slow, pouring torrents of rain on the earth. These are a tew of the most prominent of nature’s warnings. Them are a host of others, and a little otnervatlon will enable you to read them plainly.—J. C. l’lummer in Fhiladeiphia Times. “The Last Rose of Summer." The song, written by Thomas Moore, was adapted to an old Sicilian melody, and was used by Donizetti In the opera of "Martha«* Mediterranean. The name Mediterranean is a composition of two Latin words, media and terra», mean ing the middle of the earth. In ancient times the sea of that name was the center of the known world. Brief History of the Ball. The ball has given rise to so many popular games that wo feel convinced our young readers will like to bear something of its history. Herodotus attribute« th. Invention of the ball to the Lydians, but succeeding writers have affirmed that Anagalla, a prin cess of Corcyra, was tbs first who made a bail for the purpose of pastime. The most ancient game with the ball is known to us as bandliall, a pastime which consists in two or more players beating a ball from one to another with the open palm; if Homer may be accredited, this game Is coeval at least with tbs destruction of Troy. It is altogether uncertain at what period the ball was Intro duced Into England, Ixit it is well known that many of the games which are now played w.-re jxipular in this country in Ute Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries. Catting Glass by Electricity. Mr. Esters says that glass tubes of wide diameter may be cut by means ot electricity; tho tut» is surroundeel with a fine wire, and the extremities of the latter are put in com munication with a source of electricity. It to necessary to see that the wire adheres closely to tho glass. When a current is passed through the wire the latter becomes red hot and beats the glass beneath it. A simple drop of water deposited upon the boated place will cause a clean breakage of the glam at that point Contrary to what happens «nth the usual processes, the thicker the sides of the tubes are the Letter tie» experiment euc- The weight of the new Imnclad Nile k oeorto. It Is unnecessary to say that this pro- •AIM t/enx, l.ixtì UBO beavisr UaM «nJ W»wiw to labor«- iogurt ifjwUtoA . —r PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. Eating Before lletlrlng— Prswrvlng Good Complexion»Di.lnfectanta. • Edward Everett Hale anyet “Never go to bed in any danger of being hungry. People are kept awake bv hunger quite as much as by a bad conscience. Remembering that sleep is the essential force which starts the whole system, decline tea or coffee within the last six hours of going to bed. Avoid all mathematics or intricate study of any kind iu tbo last six hours. This is the stuff dreams are made of, and hot heads and the nuisances of waking hours. Keep your consciem-e clear. Remember that liecauso the work of life is infinite you cannot do the whole of it in any limited period of time, and therefore you may just us well leave off in one place os another. ” Beauty of Complexion. Winos and liquors of all kinds are to be severely let alone, advises W. Pitt Mayer, in pointing out how to acquire or preserve a beautiful com plexion. There can be nothing more detri mental to the tint than this fluid Are that fills the blood with heat and drives its impurities to the surface, producing that copi^er com plexion so commonly seen in the ladies who visit Wiesbaden, Carlsbad, Ems and other European watering places. No additions of sugar or other sweetening sulistances have the slightest effect iu allaying this [temicious property in wine. Furthermore, excessive quantities of heated drinks, such as chocolate, coffee and tea, pro duce the same effect, according to Mr. Mayer. Tea both weakens the digestive organs and produces congestions in tho face. If tho tea is strong, its acidity soon indicates itself on the skin of the imbiber. If too weak, it is simply so much warm water acting on the stomach, when that organ is occupied with the prepara tion of focxl for alaorption. The complexion may not lie ruined immediately by tea, but sooner or later this will follow. How to Make a Good Disinfectant. In making a gixxl disinfectant the prefer ence is given by Dr. W. Domett Stone to chlorine. This may be evolved by mixing in a bottle two tablespoonfuls of red lead, two of common salt and half a wineglassful of strong oil of vitriol in a quart of water. The bottle should be. kept cool and tightly corked and in a dark place. A little of this fluid ex posed in a saucer, sprinkled on the floor or soaked in sheets of old linen and hung about the room, rapidly destroys »illuvia. Plants In Bleeping Rooms. That plants in living or sleeping rooms are not in any way injurious unless their number Is so great as to keep the air of tile aimrtment damp, is tile opinion of The Popular Science News They doeonqxiae carlsmic acid gas Into carlxai eonqiound» and oxygen, and thus tend to purify the air. They may also be of indirect tieneflt by loading oceu|Hinte to koep tlie air free from coal gas unil other im purities iu which plants will not flourish. Splitting of the Finger Nall». In not a few tieople the finger nails split and break very readily. Tills most annoying con dition lias boen treated by Dr. Irqulutrt l>y simply anointing the nails daily with oleate of tin and at night enveloping them in the oleate spread on flannel bailliages. In two months all the nails became sound and tough. Remedies People Advise. Hot water for a sprain or bruise. Cranberry poultice for erysipelas. Buttermilk for tho removal of tan and freckle« Taking cod liver oil in tomato catsup to make it palatable. Snuffing powdered bornx up tho nostrils for catarrhal cold. Good fresh buttermilk mado from sweet cream as a serviceable drink in dialietes. Bathing tho affected parts, In inflamma tory rheumatism, with half an ounce of salt petre into half an ounce of sweet oil. Tbo whito of an egg laiaten to a stiff froth, whipped up with tho juice of uno lemon and taken half hourly, to reliove the hoarseness aud soreness of the chest. SOCIAL Manners ETIQUETTE. and Customs Practiced Polite Society. in When a wedding takes place at home, the space where the bridal (»arty is to ptimd ia usually marked off by a rihlwm. in some districts remote from social centem it is a prevailing fashion for the bridal pair to face the company. This, however pleasant for the company, is not in accordance) with con ventional etiquette. The proper arrangement is just the same as if the party were in a church. The clergyman oomes down Wore the bridal pair; they fac-e him and he fa<*cs the company. When the marriage ceremony is concluded the clergyman retires, the party turn in their places and face their friends, who wait to congratulate, tho nearest and dearest first, in the order of their kinship. What a Jangle Is. By the way, we have now been the whole length of India, from Calcutta to Peshawar, and back to Bombay, on the otbor side of th« land, and, except at the foot of the Hima layas, have not seen a single forest, or Indeed what we would call a wood. Trees there are every where along the roads—along the hedge rows scattered about the fields and plains and dotted over the hills and moun tains, but nothing like what the moot of ua at home have supposed to constitute an In dian jungle. All uncultivated or waste lands are called “jungle." “Out in the Jun gle” means about the same thing here as with us to say “out on the prairie”—that Is. on the uninclosed lands, whether bare or in heavy grass The “mountain jungles," where the tiger has his home and from which he comes down to carry off people or domestic ani mals, have no trues other than low scattered lauhes and rocks. On these no native thinks of going alone at night or even by day In some of them.—Carter llarrutou in Chicago Mail. _______________ The Natural Gas Output. The total mileage of pipes In the United Rtates cannot l>e far from 2,500 ml lew, not Including small pipea for Individual uxa I Ona fifth of this quantity of pipee to laid In the city of Pittsburg. The gnx wells of Penn sylvania produce from 1,500,1X10 to 15.ix4i.ixiO cubic feet a day. High and low pressure wells are also found in Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and ax far wret as Kansas. The total oonsumptlexi of ga» for 1387, ax e«tl- I mated by coal displaevnumt, was squlvalent to 10,000,000 tons of coak The value of this coal was calculated at about 815,500,000 in I8H6 tlie dbq larement was placed at 6.50OJXD tone, nearly all of which occurreil In Pennsylvania, al»ut Pitt» burg. If the name ratio of In.reaxe in di» pbtoement could tie given In lWk, as that of 1680 over I WO, the amount of cool displaced by natural gas In 1387 »bould be plaeLi at 13,(XJ0,lXX) tons inxteaii of lO.OOli.OiD tons, as alxive, which Is a reasonable estimate, ax no official or authentic figures are al han4^- , Mining Review, Curious Contrastn in Manners. Etiquette in a cui lons and arbitrary thing, and differ* in every country. An American gentleman doe« not smoko when driving with his wife in tbo park, but an English gentle man does, and it 1» not conmdered bad man ner«. A Frenchman always lift* his baton entering a railway carriage, if ladies are in it; ho takes it off a* he leaves them. An Eng lishman rarely takes his hat off unless the pr neoes is passing or he meets an acquaint- aa««1’. _ _ Courtesy to Social Inferiors. There is no surer sign of vulgarity than the discourteou.« treatment of those lielow us in the social wale. Let your manner toward servants be gentle and courteous, but not un duly familiar. The world ovor, tho members of the old aristocracy are more popular, be cause they are more affable, with the lower orders than are the newly rich. Ball Room Introduction». At a ball a gentleman is Intnxluced to a lady that lie may axk her to dance with him; the acquaintance do-»» not necessarily go any furtlieF. W ix-tber it xlial 1 or not depend» en tirely upon the lady. Should they meet afterward the gentleman will wait for a rec ognition before be speaks. Card, nt Ilnaband and Wife. The husband's card should accom|Any that nt his nil« u|>on all formal occasions; I ait it is no longer stylish for both nariH-a to lie en graved ujinn the Mme card, except directly after marriage. Oyster Gardens In North Carolina. The oyster reservations are fence«! in like gardens wtih rails nailed to peats, but our correspondent thinks the system objectionable lex-aux«» it creates obstructions to nav igat ion and affords no real protection to tho planter from the depreciations of oyster thieves. The public sentiment in North Carolina, unlike the feeling In some portions of Mary'anet, to so Strongly in favor of planting that it to thought there will bo little, if any,difficulty in securing a general recognition of individual property rights in oyster lot« aial in enforc ing the law for their protectiou.—iiailuucr, Hua,