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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1888)
the telephone . THE TELEPHONE. PU ULI SHED EVERY FRIDAY DEMOC It ATIC MORNING. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IN ADVANCE.) (2 00 1 00 00 VOL. Ill .-jsj)'.' . J- .■ * tLtsjyau RATES OF ADVERTISING. WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. PUBLICATION OFFICE: One De or North of oor er Third and E Sts, M< MINN VILLE, OR. Otic year....... Hix months • • • Three months IB. ,-ga'^ MCMINNVILLE. OREGON. NOVEMBER 23. 1888. NO. 31. One square or lesa, one inaertlon............... $1 M i One square, each subsequent insertion.... S9 I Notice*of appointment and final aettlemaafe 5 00 Other legal advertiaenienta. 75 cent« for flrat inHenion and 40 cents per square for eaoh sub- ; sequent insortion. Special business not ices in business columns. 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 6 ! cents per line. Professional cards, $12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads." 1 Tlie Great Transcontinental Route. S, A. YOUNG, M. D. SMART Physician & Surgeon, McMmxvmLS. - . . o„UO!t an<A re’id*I>0» OU D street. All falls promptly answered day or night. ------- VIA THE------- Cascade Division’ now completed, making it the Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. The Dining Car line. Tim Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest. Trains. Low est Rates to Chicago and all points East. Tickets sold to all Prominent Points throughout the East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Reservations can be secured in advance. To Faat Bound Panflenger«. W. V. PRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER. lip Stairs in Adams’ hilding, MeMinnville, Oregon ZbÆ’ZbÆIJSrjSrWTTHLZE TONSORIAL PARLOR, Shaving, Hair Cutting and- - - - - - - - Shampoing Parlors. FLEMING, &. LOGAN, Prop's. Be caeful and do not make a mistake All kinds of fancy hair cutting done in but be sure to take the the latest and neatest style All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair dying, a specialty. Special attention given to • And see that your tickets read via Northern Pacific Railroad. Ladies’ and Childrens’ Work THIS LINE, St Paul or Minneapolis, to avoid changes and serious delays occa I also have for sale a very fine assort ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc sioned by other routes. Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run O| I have in connection with mr parlor, • the largest and finest stock of on regular express trains full length of the line. Berths free. Lowest rates. Quickest time. _____ c i Ever Gr in the city. n s General Office OT the Company, No, ‘J Washington St., Portland, Oregon. BS^T iiird S trbit M c M iknvillb . O rkoon . A l) CHARLTON. Asst General Passenger Agent. M'MINNVILLE NATIONAL 4BAßK> The only FIRST CLASS BAR ----- IN----- McMinnville, is opened —IN— COOK’S HOTEL, Transacts a General Banking Business. President,................ J. W. COWLS, Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. Cashier................CLARK BRALY. Sells exchange on Portland, San Frunciico, and New York. Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Apr. 13 tf Where you will find the best of Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Domestsc Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. T. M. F ields , Propr. ARE YOU GOING EAST? The St. Charles Hotel. ¿iucijo !i Mwista Mwy, If so be sure and call for your tickets via tlie YANKEE GIRLS. UonU Wages Mnile by the Mioe-stltchers ot New England. Perhaps you would like to know what part of tho work of boot-making is done by the girls. Aitor the shoes ire cut out they are sent upstairs to the work-room, together with the lin ings. Sixty pairs, that is, a case, are tied up together. The linings are stamped with a number of boot and last, and below this the number of the case. W hen the boots gc into the stitching room they are given to ono set of girls to have the seams sewed; the next set of girls stay them at tho back; the next sew tho linings in; they are then turned smoothed by another set; the buttonlio'es are then made; the but tons are put on, the vamps sewed on, and then they are ready to be soled. I ho men take them from that point. Some nf the girls can do four cases a day, although that is a large day’s work. Three cases are about a fail average and a girl does not call herself a “smart worker” who can not do this without working her full ten hours; they can do it in nine or nino and a half. As they work by tho piece they can do more or less as they please. If they feel indolont they will not do so much; if they feel like “putting in,” i as they ' _ express it, they will do more; but three cases are a fair average. They are paid fl.10 a case and the girls earn from $1,5 to $20 a week; they sometimes go as high as $22 and there have been girls who have, when they worked their full time during the week, made from $24 to $25, but these aro isolated instances. The buttonhole girls can easily make 3,500 a day; they often run up to 4,000, 4,500 and even 5,000; but the latter number is attained only by the swiftost workers, who work up to their full time of ten hours. A good average is considered from 3.500 to 4.000. The machine does about all the work; the one in charge has to set it, then it does the rest itself. It is one of the most interesting machines to watch that is used in the room; al though the joker of the whole affair, the one that seems to play at work, is the machine that sews on the buttons. Tho way the bottons come out of the little hopper at the top and come on io the boots at the bottom of tho ma chine is like the trick of a necroman cer.— Boston Herald. Sample rooms in connection. —THE— o------ o CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Is now fitted up in first class ordar. The Different Forme of Execution In U.« In Various Countries. Accommodations as good as can be It is positively tlis sliortast and flnul Now that the mode of executing lins to Chicago and tlis sa.t and south and foun din the city. the only sleeping and dining car tlireujh criminals is again attracting1 the at 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. line to tention of humanitarians, and it has Omaha, Kansas^ City, and all Ml.sanrl been thought that an entirely new Rlv.r Points. method of taking life, namely, by Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed electricity, should bo adopted, the fol j train service and elegant dining and lowing summary Of different for.ns of Third Street, between E and F sleeping cars has honestly earnsd for it the execution is opp-S/une: Auto da fe, or title of McMinnville, Oregon. execution ny the Spanish inquisition, Tlie Ttoyal Route usually by burning, beating with Others may imitate,but no«e can surpass it clubs, practiced by the South African tribes; beheading or decapitation, First-claw accommodations for Ccmmer I Our motto is “always on time ” known to the Greeks, Romans and cial men and general travel. Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets Jews, and used formerly in England via this celebrated route and taks none Transient stock well cared for. and France, and now in China and W H MEAD, O A Everything new and in First-Class Order others. No. 4 Washington street, Portland, Or. Japan; blowing from cannon, employed in quelling a rebellion among the Patronago respectfully solicited ltf Sepoys in India; boiling, formerly used DOINGS OF WOMEN. in England in the case of poisoners; burning, a familiar mode of execution Notes of Particular Interest to Represent in the time of the early religious per atives of the Fair Sex. Murray's Specfic. secutions; burning alive, employed Mrs. Austin Dobson, the wife of the TraJ<>2l2,k- A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases, such as weak well-known poet, has taken up the pro among barbarous tribes and even in memory, loss of brain power, fession of letters. She has published a civilized countries; crucifixion, a very hysteria, headache, pain in the ancient form of execution; decimation, back, nervous prostration, volume of stories of an evangelical wakefulness, leucorrhoea. uni character, entitled “Cherryburn.” She employed by military tribunals, where versal lassitude, seminal weak is also authoress of a number of relig every tenth man was chosen by lot to ness, inipotency. and general die in eases where a large number of loss of power of the generative ious tracts. While there has been no falling off soldiers mutinied; dichotomy, or Before Taking. organs, in either sex, caused bv indiscretion or over exertion, and which in the increase of feminine medical bisecting mentioned in the Bible, ultimately lead to premature Trnjo Work, practitioners, the growth for the last whore it is written men were drawn old age,insanity ami consump three months would probably have asunder; dismemberment, used in tion $1.00 per box or six boxes for ifl.OO.sent by mail on been larger had not a goodly number France in the seventeenth century; receipt of price. Full particu of the medical neophytes been diverted drowning, in vogue in ancient Syria, lars in pamphlet, sent free to to the study of the sister art, dentistry, Greece, Rome and Persia; exposure to every applicant. WE GUARANTEE SIX which has recently gained many re wild beasts, an ancient custom; flaying alive, formerly used in England; flog BOXES to cure any case. For , every 00 order received, « efifter I axing- cruits from the sex. In New York, ging with a kneft, used in Russia; gar- particularly, the number of women send six boxes with written guarantee to re- fund the money if our Specific does not ef matriculating at dental colleges is rap roting, a punishment originally de vised by the Arabs and Moors; the fect a cure , k ., a . ____ guillotine, Address all communications to the Hole idly growing. hari-kari, impalement, The statistical crank has let himself manufacturers poisoning, hanging, pounding in a THE MURRAY MEDICINE CO. Kansas City, Mo. loose again, and now turns up with tho mortar, precipitation, pressing to information that the seaside resorts Sold by Rogers & Todd, sole agents death, the rack, running the gauntlet, last sumn nr have had an average at shooting, stabbing, stoning, strangling tendance of twenty-eight women to and suffocation.— Chicago hews. every man. There has, indeed, been a Cotton-Seed Makes Cheap Beef. deplorable scarcity of men at all the Dealers in resorts. At many of the balls the lu A series of feeding tests at the Penn Harness. Saddles, Etc, Etc, dicrous spectacle of a set composed of sylvania Agricultural College, very Repairing neatly done at reasonable one man and seven girls is common, carefully conducted, show unmistak rates. _, . « and the entire set is not infrequently ably that cotton-seed meal at current Wright’s new building. Cornar Third danced by girls. prices is one of tbo cheapest feeds for and Fstreets, McMinnville. Or. The Empress Victoria is not a high- fattening animals. After threo winters church woman. In fact, her religious of feeding experiments, it wan found views are so exceedingly liberal that, that if cotton-seed meal is judiciously as Labouchere says, "it has been a combined with corn meal it can take matter of speculation as to whether the place of more than its own weight Caveats, and Trade Marks obtained and she really held on religion; subjects of corn meal. It was also evident that all Patent business conducted for MODER any special doctrines whatever. 1 he when the price of cotton-seed meal is ATE FEES OUROIFICEI8OPPO8ITB U. S PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub other members of the royat family are not much greater than that of corn agencies, all business direct, hence can in very much the same condition, al meal, the former can be fed profitably transact patent business in less though the lato Princess Alice, who to beef cattle. Since this statement is at less cost than those remote from ington. -end model, drawing, or P110“1- was for several years a decided free made without any reference to the with description, We advise lf patentable thinker. entirely altered her views and manorial value of the two meals, it or not free of charge, Our fee not due ti became very devout in the few years certainly is not exaggerated. Many patent is secured _ . „ farmers do rot know that tbe quantity A book. “How to Obtain Patents, with preceding her death. references to actual clients in your ■-tate. Tho American Analyst warns all of nitrogen, potash and phosphoric county, or town sent free, Address women to abstain from the use of hair acid contained in a ton of corn meal is C. A. SNOW & CO. dyes to produce “the delicate golden so small that it would cost only about Opposite Patent Office. ashington shade so much admired by the court ill to buy as much of these elements in circles of Europe and the high society the form of commercial fertilizers. In of tho United States.” These dyes are cotton-seed meal, on the contrary, the composed of peroxide of h^r0^“ amount of plant food it contains is sc aqua regia, and bronzers «id.. The great that it will cost »28 to supply in Proprietor of the first is the least harmtul of the> m the form of commercial fertilizers the gredients, bat it produces scalp sores manurial elements contained in one and skin complaints. The acid, attack ton of cotton-seed meal. Certainly no and burn the hair a. well as the skim more arguments should be needed to The leading and produce—if their use be pers.stod convince cattle feeders of the profits, JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT, in_inflammation of the hair cel*s- both direct and indirect, to be derived charges of the scalp, and. eventually, from this food, since most of !•* -OF— I baMness. Altogether, it would bo bet- bet manurial elements are retained in ths ter if the ladies decided to ge on wuh- manure.— farm and Home. I .» the "delicate -told .hade’ of batr. | Third Street. McMinnville Or. “MS IE 10M" Henderson Bros. Props Great English Remedy. Wright Bro’s. PAIENTS WM. HOLL, YAMHILL COUNTY, Ì REFLECTED. CHINESE COOKERY Tour heart is like a beautiful smooth pool. That mirrors clear whatever bends above— tVann with the sun, and with the evening cool— So. love it "ives me, if I bring it love. KITCHEN SUPPLIES OF A RESTAU RANT ON MOTT STREET. My grief lies lu your heart as in my own, My gladness hashes back from you to me; No passing cloud of thought is mine alone. Reflected in your mind each thought 1 see A Great Variety of 6pices and Condi ments—A Stock of St und urti Foods, tVhy Is It. then, that 1 am not content? What do I long Tor? Is there more than tills— That you should kuow each unsaid thing I meant And givo me thought for thought, and kiss for kiss? And yet, sometimes. I grow to hate the thing That, imaged in your heart. Iles clear and fair. What is beneath the love or thought 1 bring? What hidden in the depths or shallows there? -Bessie Chandler in American Magazine Woman’s Crown of Glory. A woman’s hair may grow to the length of six feet. Mme. Hess, of Paris, refused 5,000 francs for her “crania) covering,” which was about that measurement Four hundred hairs of average thickness would cover an inch of space. Tho blonde bell has about 140,000 filaments to comb and brush, while the red haired beauty has to be satisfied with 88,000, the brown haired damsel may huvo 109,000; the black haired but 102.000. Few ladies consider that they carry some forty or fifty milos of hair on their heads; tho fair haired may even have to dress seventy miles of threads of gold every morning. A German experimentalist has proved that a single hair will suspend four ounces without break ing, stretching under the process and con tracting again. But the hair thus heavily weighted must be dark brown, for blonde hair breaks down under two and a half ounces. No wonder then that “beauty can draw love by a single hair.”—Emile Nou veau in Philadelphia Times. Two Stenographers in Congress. I know of only’ two practical stenographers in congress. One is Hitt, of Illinois, who was formerly assistant secretary of state and secretary of the Paris legation, and tho other is Ford, of Michigan, who before be became a congressman was an official court stenog rapher. Mr. Ford has found his accom plishment of the utmost use to him since ho has been in Washington. During the tariff debate, whenever a speaker said anything that ho thought could be refuted, he would take it down in the mysterious characters of his art, and when his time came to answer he often surprised his adversaries by tho way in which lie quoted their remarks. Ho has taken verbatim reports of many bright thing, that have been said in the house, and doubtless has a good stock of effective cam paign material on hand.—New York Tribune. Care of tho Body. Most of those who die between 25 and CO, unless they dio by accident, die by some in discretion—such ns the over indulgence of appetite, or tbo neglect of food when needed, or the overstrain of business, or exposure to changes of the temperature without corre sponding changes of clothing. It is intelli- gent caution that saves sickness; and this caution ought to be in possession and exer cise before middle life. It is so much easier to prevent serious sickness than it is to se cure recovery from it. Hen co it is that many who are deficient in vigor in early life out live the vigorous and careless.—Once a Week. Tho Aggressive Eucalyptus. The inhabitants of Oakland, Cal., whoa fow years ago imported largo numbers of gum and eucalyptus trees from Australia os fever destroyers, havo come to tho conclu sion that tho roots of these Australian mon sters do more harm under ground than tho branches do good above, and havo set to work to destroy them. Tho roots havo a playful way of strangling those of othei trees within their reach, breaking drain pipes, cracking pavements and loosening foundations in an extremely alarming fash ion.—Chicago Herald. Locating tho Boundary. Tho English have a happy way of avoiding lawsuits about boundaries. They form a procession on Ascension day, when the clergymen, parochial officers and parish- toners of note, followed by the boys of the parish school, go to the parish boundaries, and with peeled willow wands strike or touch them. Formerly, at any important boundary, one of the boys was soundly beaten, so as to mako a deep Impression on bis mind of tbo exact location of that bound ary. —Globe- Democrat. Russian Small Coins. It is said that in the southern part of Rus sia the peasants use a coin of such small value that it would take 250,000 of them to buy an American dollar, and these coins are so scar co that a man who has a hundred is looked upon as rich, and one who has a thousand is considered very wealthy It is strange to think a person wealthy who owns two fifths cf a cent, and comfortably well off on one-twenty-fifth of a cent—Bos ton Budget What the Chiu Means. An old writer says: “A long chin deciar- eth a man to be peaceable, yet u babbler. They that have little chins are much to be avoided and taken heed of, for they are full of impiety and wickedness, and are spies like unto serpents. If the end of the chin Lo round, it is the 6ign of nice manners; but tbo chin of a real man is square.”—Chi cago Herald. Pbonetle Chinese Symbols. Missionary Beach, of China, claims to havo succeeded in representing the Chine» spoken language by a system of clear and simple phonetic symbols, fashioned after tho pitman style. It is said iliat an educated foreigner can learn tbe system in from two to five hours, and a bright Chinaman ill teu hours.—New York Bun. A Vital Question. Young Wife—Doctor, 1 am about to pre pare for a trip to Ostend, and havo come to ask your advico. Doctor—On what subject, madamet Young Wife—You must tell mo what is the proper complaint to go to Ostend with.— niegendo Blaetter. No Small Change. Small chango U extremely scarce In Hon dura«, and iu a number of villages, and even in Tegucigalpa, it is sometimes difficult to change a dollar. The sale of articles, such os food, cigars, etc., is made difficult or Im possible, as no small chango exists.—Chicago ilerald. Lowest t>e<ra<lat*oa. Tbe lifting of a man's self up in his own opinion has had the credit in former ages to bo thought the lowest degradation that hu man nature could wall sink luelf to.—Locke. An agreement without consideration b void, a note made on Sunday is void; con tracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced Tbs City and Guild« of London institute for technical éducation report a larga to rrease in pupil«. Many of Which Are Not Fumillar to American*—Sauces. Irang before Luculhis immortalised him- self by regaling the jeunessc doree of Rome with bis hundred thousand dollar dinners his prototypes were indulging in the same pleas ures on a similar scale in Pekin and Fook- Chow, for gastronomy has been among the fine arts in China almost from the beginning of Chinose history. Tbe Chinese chef has au official status of at least forty centuries’ du ration. Two thousand years before the Chris tian era ho was esteemed as highly and paid as liberally as he is today, and now he is ex ceedingly well paid. For example, the chef in a restaurant to Mott street came to New York from San Francisco under a contract by which he re ceives $100 a month, besides his board and lodging, for his services. All things consid ered, this salary is fully equivalent to the $6,000 a year paid to such chefs as preside in the kitchens of the Hoffman house, Delmoni- co’s, the Union League club and tbe Vander bilt mansion. Tho Mongolian chef, to judge by liee-Ah,wlio is the distinguished individual mentioned, is curiously like his Caucasian colleague in that he is dignified, egotistical, petulant und thoroughly inde»>endent. Un like the Caucasian, however, the great man of the Chinese kitchen believes in working himself ut the simplest tasks in order to keep himself iu practice. In taking charge of the kitchen of a great restaurant his first work is to supply himself with a great variety of spices and condi- nents, and in this particular ho is fully qualified to give points to the jaded sybarites of the Occident In his stores will bo bluck, white and red pepper, as well as tho pimento of the tropics; curry, chutney, mustard, ginger (the favorite spice of the east), green, dried, pickled, sweetened and pulverized; seo-yu, which is the father of soy and the grandfather of Worcestershire sauce; olive oil, peanut oil, cotton seed oil, clarified butter (the guee of India); onions, shallots, chives, leeks, garlic, fu-qua and su-qua (highly cul tivated bitter cucumbers); mr.-tai, for which there is no English name; orange and lemon peel, vinegar, lemon juice, powdered crab and lobster shells, a curious preparation con- tatoiug iron, half a dozen forms of dried mushrooms, and not less than fifty powerful condimentsand spices unknown to Americans and having no English names. In every kitchen is a stock of standard foods, but a few of which are familiar to the American eye. Among tho more interesting are smoked chicken, duck und pigeon, which, unlike our smoked meats, retain the natural color and npi>earanco; shrimps, prawns, oysters and clams which havo been dried by frame mysterious process, unknown to us, until they are oa hard and durable as wood; a fish that suggests sardines in oil, but which is a foot in length, from two to three pounds in weight, packed in a sardine box a cubic foot in size; dried fishes which rango from a tiny sprat smaller than but similar to tlio English whitebait, to a monster eight f<<?t tong, two feet wido, and two tochc-s thicx; preserved cabbage, which is rolled up so as to suggest a ball of yarn; bean, pea mid wheat gluten in long candy like sticks, which aro made by crushing tho cereal uiul removing the starch by often repeated washings; odd saus-.ges, of which each ono is suspended by brL.iant colored cords, and is stuffed, not ith an indistinguishable hash or paste, ut with alternating dice of fat and can meat; Hugo cans filled with the famous edible bamboo tips, which look and smell like hugo asparagus, but taste unlike anything in Christian markets; water lily leaves, which are used both us a food and as coloring material, imparting a beautiful green to any white food with which they may Lie cooked; preserved eggs, of which each one is embalmed lu a rough mass of quick limo, charcoal and fish glue; sea sprouts, whiéh resemble a string beau two feet in length. Occasionally in the wealthiest establish ments may be seen tbe celebrated birds’ nests, which look for all the world like irreg ular masses of coopers’ glue; sharks’ fius, which are greenish white pieces of desiccated soft cartilage; becbo-de-la-mer, a mollusk of a high order, which is a first cousin of Victor Hugo’s devil fish ; and dried sea anemones, which bear the same culinary resemblanco to birds’ nest3 that snapping turtles do to tbo diamond back terrapiu. Some idea of the luxuriousuess of the Mongol is afforded by tho prices ha charges for these delicacies. Dried clams costal a pound; dried oysters, $1.50; sharks* fins, $2 to $3, according to quality; beche-de-la-nicr, from 40 cents to $3, and birds’ nests, from $1» to $50 a dozen. In ChiiMoe cooking sauces play as import ant a part as in the cuisino at Les Freres Provenceau. For tbe preparation of these, ns well as for tho thickening of soups and the concoction of “made dishes,” there will be bowlfuls of tho finest wheat flour and starch, and of that finest of all amylaceous foods, rice flour. In this and in other re spects the stores of the kitchen contain the same articles as first class American restau rant kitchens. Whatever is to be found in our larders finds a placo there, and the numerous articles mentioned add tbe variety which is the main distinguishing feature of tho Chinese cuisine. The furniture of the kitchen presents a curious instance of the invasion of tbe east by tbe west, for the cast iron stove or range Is found beside the brick liench used in China, which greatly resembles the one rec ommended by Count Rumford in his famous studies at the beginning of tho century. This bench is about four feet high, four feet wide and from ten to twenty feet in length. At ono end of it is a largo fireplace cylindrical in shape, two or three feet lu diumeter raid three feet deep. This is used in roasting. Tbo remainder of the top of tho bench has several circular openings of different sizes. In tbe Rides and ends there oro smaller fire places, seldom more than eight inches square. Tbo fuel used iu cooking is kiln dried wood, hickory or tomo similar variety being pre ferred. —Harper’s Bazar. A COCKROACH MAIL CARRIER. Novel Means of Communlcatfoa Employed by Two Indiana Convicts. A common cockroach was trained to act as n letter carrier between William Rodifer and "Starlight Jack” Ryan, convicts in the Southern Indiana peniteutiarv. It is prob ably the first instance on record, too, whore tliero was any use found for this little crea ture. A writer in Tid Bits tells the story as follows: Rodifer occupied a cell in the tier just above tbe one where Jack was confined, and for a long time they had no means of com munication with one another. Rodifer was n daring fellow, but lie had not sufficient imagination to get up a plan of escape, and bo relied on tho bright mind of bis friend, “Starlight Jack,” to suggest an idea. One evening Rodifer noticed an innocent looking cockroach running about on tbe floor. After watching its gambolings for a time, be concluded he would use it. So, writing a short note to his friend, be tied it to the cockroach's wing, and, kneeling down on tbe floor, lie put it out on the wall under tbe iron balcony in front of his cell. He calculated that it would run into the cell underneath; and it did. Jack noticed tho paper, caught the insect, and read the note. Then he answered it, and poked the little creature out on tbe wall from the ceiling over tho door, whore he re leased it. Tbe roach went into Rodifer’s cell and was caught. Then they fed and cared for it, and used it in this manner for some months. In fact, it grow to understand its business. It must havo been a female cockroach, however, for one day it stopped to chat with a friend, and was noticed by a warden. The note, which was written in some sort of cipher, was taken off, and the hospital stew ard, Dr. Sid C. McCure, read it. Then the beetle was put on the balcony floor and it ran into Rodifer’s cell. Thus the officials were kept posted as to the two famous jail breakers. After a time Jack began to suspect that something was wrong, and he added a post script to his letter something like this: “If everything is right, you will find a hair from my head in this note.” Tho warden read it as he did the others, but uropped tho hair and lost it. “Never mind it,” said C’apt Craig, whose hair was red; “put one of mine in it" Tho answer came back: “That last whip ping must havo boon au awful one, Jack, for it bus changed tho color of your hair." Tho scheming of these two worthies came to naught, however, and they served their terms.—Inter Ocean. Japanese Coating for Ships. Tho Japanese admiralty has ilually finally de cided upon coating the bottoms ot all their ships with a material closely akin to the lao- quer to which we are so much accustomed as a specialty of Japanese furniture work. Al though tho preparation differs somewhat from that commonly known as Japanese lacquer, tho base of it is tho same—viz, gum lac, as it is commonly termed. Experiments which havo boen long continued by the im- pcrial naval department havo resulted in af fording proof that tho new coating material remains fully efficient for threo years, and tbo rejiort on tho subject demonstrates that, although tho first cost of tho material is threo times tlie amount of that hitherto employed, the amount ot dockings required will be re duced by its use to tho proportion of ono to six. A vessel of the Russian Pacific fleet has already been coated with tho uew prep aration, which, tho authorities say, com pletely withstands tho fouling influences so common in tropical waters. It occupied the native inventor many years to overcome the tendency of tbe lac to harden and crack, but having successfully ic omplishod this, the finely polished surface ’f tlio mixture resists in an nlmost perfect ¡carco tho liability ot barnacles to adhere or vends to grow, whilo presumably the same nigh polish must materially reduce tho skin friction which is so important an element iffectiiig tho speed of iron ships. Tbo deal- ■rs in gum lao express tbo four lest the de- uand likely to follow on this novel applica tion of it may rapidly exhaust existing sources ot supply.—Scientific American. A Smuggler of Cofltea. I have been told bow a shipmaster got to .vindward of the inspector detailed to look liter bis vessel. He had six barrels of cof fee, for which ho had been offered a high price. It was during the war, and things went with a rush in those days. Tbe master took a teamster into hie confidence, who at loontune, while the stevedores were eating their dinner, drove boldly down the wharf, hailing the skipper, who was standing on the quarterdeck convening with the officer. “I say. Cap,” he shouted, -‘Mr. «ent mo down here after six barrels of beans which Iiavo boen sent by mistake. They be long to another vessel, and I Iiavo an order to deliver them right now. They are marked B, in a diamond. Can I have ’eml" Tho master blandly put the question to tbe officer, who bad, of course, heard the conver sation, and failed to detect either evil inten tions or deception in the proposition. He glanced at the barrels, which had been left close to tho gangway; tho owner carelessly rolled one over and the beans rattled glori ously. It was a clever touch, a delicate stroke of shading and diplomacy on tbe part of tbe wily smuggler, and the bait was swal lowed. The barrels disappeared, and a hand some profit was pocketed.—New York 8tar. Not Fit for'the Business. Fow people have an idoa bow few there are who could become barbers by any amount of application. 1 have had nineteen appren tices at various times, only seven of whom are tonsorial artists. Some boys are too ner vous to acquire the ability, and particularly cigarette smokers. Others are too lazy. Still others have not the suaveness necessary, for a successful barber must lie a polite man. Others have not tbo essential mechanism or cannot attain to the requisite lightness of touch. But morbid peculiarities are great factors in unfitting a candidate. For In stance, I havo just dismissed an apprentice because of his Inordinate antipathy to warts. When a customer who is tbe possessor of a wart is down in a chair at tho boy's mercy he shaves all around It with the utmost care; then a devilish grin distorts his features, the expression being tbe funniest I ever saw, and Butter Inspection in France. ho cuts off tbe wart. Tbe customer rises and Among tbe reccn. decrees mado In France discovers bis face bleeding terribly, and the is ono relating to tbe inspection of butter for result is a row and a lost customer.—John the repression of fraudulent dealings By Beck in Globo-Democrat. this, special persons are authorised to Lake samples of butter in any place, whether the Torment for the Cyclists. butter is exposed for sale, stored in a ware The street rowdies of Chelsea have invented house or in transit by land or water. No ol> a new torment for tho cyclists who avail stacla is to 1« thrown in tlie way of this, and themselves of Battersea park. They are not all way bills, receipts, bills of lading, or dec content with flicking them with switches and larations must bo shown on demand. Each inserting bits of stick in tho delicate wires of sample taken is to Lo subjected to a special their wheels, but they set on little boys to examination. Pure butter, mixed butter, run across a cyclist w itb a view of getting margarine, oleomargarine, and treats in knocked over. Boy Iklls^prostrate, howling, tended for consumption, forwarded in park keeper hurries up, takes cyclist’s ad transit must be contained in cloeofi packages, dress, a crowd soon gathers, compensation is, and tbv and nature of the merchan of course, furthcoming, especially if the dise must be conspicuously specified thereon. cyclist is a lady. Tbe wounded child skips I d every war tbo article to be exported must merrily off with a half crown, divides the )4ave its full history 1 . recorded.—London booty and tries tor another spill tn anotbar rimes. part of the park.-Fail Mail Gaastt*. COME ROTEL HAWKSHAW& ?io Men Who Erro Eecmno lai ll s pW oblo to Our Coalfaces. "Ob, lie's a hotel detective, is he! I Yell, what on earth good is a bote) de- !:otivc! What do hotels want with de- tcctivcs, anyhow!’’ This remark, made in a petulant tone, was uttered in tbo corridor ef the Hoff man house th« other afternoon by a western man who was on a visi» to tho metropolis and bad been looking at the art treasures of tho cafe. He eyed in a contemptv.oua way tbe well dressed little man, with a slouch hat, who was lean ing against a pile of trunks near tho ele vator. A friend showing tho western man tho city sights had happened inci dentally to point out Detective Jacoba os ono of the features of a big metropolitan hotel. Ten minutes later the westerner saw tho little detective step up to a woll dressed man in a group of three who had just sauntered into the art gallery. “I'll havo to ask you to move on, air,” the dctcctivo said. “Who aro you?’’ growled the man, angrily, “what do you mean by talking to me that way)" "Just what I say, and I mean it,” the little man replied, undaunted, “and here's who I ant, and I know you per fectly well.” The little detective threw open his coat and showed Iris glistening detective shield. The well dressed man cut short his bluster instantly, and walked quickly out into the street. Ilo was a local bunko man, who had casually dropped into the hotel cafe with two out of town crooks. The conversa tion with tho little detective was anima ted, but not so loud that anybody in the art gallery could understand it. The Gothamite who was showing tbe west erner around knew what was up, though, and turning to his friend said playfully: "That’s some good a hotel detective is. That was a confidence man that he talked to. May'oo he’d have caught on to you if it hadn't been for the detec tive.” It was an apt illustration of one of the duties of tho hotel detective. In tho marvelous perfection of the equipment of a metropolitan hotel in tho last few years the private detective has como to bo an indispensable detail, and today there is not a hotel in town that enjoys any select patronage at all that does not employ a guardian- who is empowered to make arrests if nt essity arises. Some of the detectives nre men specially as signed from the police force, and whose salary is guaranteed by tho hotel in con sideration of the policeman's exclusive service. Often, however, tho special guardians are regular private detectives. They are men well trained in detective methods, and enjoy the ml vantage of a wide and varied acquaintance with the laces of metropolitan rascals and the confidence operators of tho country. Keeping the hotel clear of this cln-8 of -•rooks,however,is only a small part of tho hotel detective’s work. Upon them de- >olves in most cases the supervision of t he porters and hall hoys, and all the irni.v of help that a big Gotham inn has to employ. If a guest loses anything in he hotel, or outside of it cither, he is ent ut. once to the hotel detectivo to con dili about its recovery ; and if chamber maids or porters find articles that havo Isen mislaid or lost, they are expected to bring them direct to tho hotel detective, and lie, in turn, hands them over to tho hotel proprietor, or his representative, to be delivered to tho owner. It is also tho detective’s duty to pro tect his employers from tho numerous and persistent army of pests known as the hotel beat, and it is duo to the pres ence) of detectives, in every well regulated city hotel, that New York has ceased to bo it spot where this peculiar gentry can thrive. Tho petty thievery of guests’ valuables has also come to be a rarity, anil nowadays tho man of means, stop ping nt any well regulated New York ho tel, can feel as secure as if ho were trav eling with a private station house of his cwn in tow. Moro than all, however, tho old timo harvest of victims that Hun gry Joe and his pals used to gather front hotel corridors is all cut off. All this the detective has to do for tho regular salary, but he has legitimate per- quisites. These are the moro or less lib eral fees that good natured out-of- towners, who want to see what tlie lifo of a big city really is after dark, pay for straight tipis on the places where the ele phant "cuts up his most fluniboyant and startling shindigs.” It is worth a hand some sum to the hotel detective who pilots a party of strangers through the multitudinous and more or less pictur esque maze of after dark spectacles known to tho experienced man about town as “the sights.’’ And there are few more experienced men about town than your quick witted hotel detective. — New York Sun. The Wondrous Weather Plnut. That remarkable specimen of the vege table world, the “weather plant."con tinues to excite considerable interest. Men of science, who on its first discovery were unwilling to express an opinion on its prognosticating virtues, now agree, after extensive experiments, that tlto shrub is in truth prophetic. Tliirty-two thousand trials made during the last three years tend to prove its infallibility. Tho plant itself* is a legume, commonly called the “Paternoster pea,” but known in botany as the Abrus Pcreginus. It is a native of Corsica and Tunis. Its leaf and twig strongly resemble those of the acacia. The more delicate leaves of its upper branches foretell the stat* of the weather forty-eight hours in ad vance, while its lower and hardier leaves indicate all atmospheric changes three days beforehand. Tlie indications con sist in a chango in the position of the leaves and in tho rise and fall of the twigs nml branchleta.—Pall Mall Ga- zette. Iauurnaga nt the World. An English correspondent gives as * reason for possibility tliat the English language will liccome tho "world sj>cech" the mental slowness of tho Anglo-Saxon taco in learning two languages. They traverse tho globo unaffected or undis mayed by its eccentricities of speech. The English speaking countries have an area of more than one-flftli of tbe whole habitable globe. English is the language of the high seas, and is spoken in every maritime port. What demand can th«* 1« for VoUpuk!—Bozton Budget. - - ,- -»