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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1888)
hie telephone . THE TELEPHONE. PUBLISHED FRIDAY EVERY DEMOCBATIC. MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: One Door North of eor er Third and E fit», M c M innville , "* SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IN ADVANCE.) ....$2 00 .... 1 00 .... 30 VOL. Ill MCMINNVILLE, OREGON. NOVEMBER 30. 1888. The Great s, A. YOUNG, M. 0. Transcontinental Route. Physician & Surgeon, lorUwi Pacific Mod. M c M immvill «, . . . Like Props in ,,n Ocean. o „ ao K re‘‘illc"ce mi D street. calls promptly answered day or night. All --------VIA THE-------- Cascade Division’ now completed, making it the Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. The Dining Car line. Tho Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest Trains. Low est Rates to Chicago and all points East. Tickets Bold to all Prominent Points throughout the East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Reservationscan be secured in advance. To Fast Bound Passengers. W. V. PRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER. Ip Stairs in Adams’ Building, TONSORIAL PARLOR, Shaving, Hair Culling and- - - - - - - - Shampoing Parlors. FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop's. All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair dying, a specialty. Special attention given And sec that your tickets read via Ladies’ and Childrens' Work THIS LINE, St Paul or Minneapolis, to I also have for sale a very tin# assort avoid changes and serious delays occa ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc sioned by other routes. I Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run Of I have in connection with my parlor, • the largest and finest stock of on regular express trains full length of the line. Berths free. Lowest rates. Quickest time. ________ CIGARS Ever in the city. General Office Of the Company, No, 2 | JSTT hibd S treet M c M innville . O regon . Washington St., Portland, Oregon. M'MINNVILLE NATIONAL General Passenger Agent. | ®§BAI2K S® a d charlton . Asst The only FIRST CLASS BAR ----- IN----- McMinnville, is opened —IN— COOK’S HOTEL, Where you will find the best of Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Dotnestse Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. T. M. F ields , Propr. The St Charles Hotel. Sample rooms in connection. o-------- < o And now cne college graduates Have spoken all their pieces And carried oil their sheep skins rolled. Robbed firstly of their fleeces. They’ve eomo into "the cruel world" Aud, sadly be it stated, The greatness of the graduates Has not the world inflated. How Is It that so many things O! size can be inserted, And neither that which take« seems swelled. Nor that which gives, deserted! —Celumbus Dispatch. First Omaha Man-Eh! What’s that! Didn t you just tell that plumber your water pipes had frozen and you wanted him to go to your house light away! Second Omaha Man-Yes. As I was say ing, betweon Harrison and Cleveland I___ “But your water pipes, sir. Water don’t rrcezo m July.” "Oh! Of course not But my pipes al ways freeze iu the first cold snap'of winter, and by notifying tho plumbers in July they generally manage to get there iu time.”— Omaha World. Tlio Fitness of Things. A sailor sea And a spinster for tea, A lawyer for talk and a soldier for fighting; A baby for noise And a circus for boys, And a typewriter man to do autograph writing. A banker for chink And a printer for ink, A leopard for spots and a wafer for sticking; And a crack baseball (linger, An opera singer, ▲ shotgun, a mule and a choir for kicking. ________ —Burdette. A Decided Improvement. Mr. Wabash (visiting friends in Pittsburg) —You are looking much better than when J saw you two or threo years ago, Miss Monon gahela. Mias Monongahela—Oh, do you think so, Tran.act. a General Banking Bu.lneaa. Mr. Wabash? I President,................ J. W. COWLS, Mr. U abash—Yes, there is no doubt of it. Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. I think the substitution of natural gas for soft coal makes such a difference (hastily)— Cashier................ CLARK BRALY. er—in tho general appearance of the qjty, you know.—Drake’?. Magazine. Sells exchange on Portland, San Francisco, and New York. Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Apr. 13 tf ARE YOU GOING EAST? If so be sure and call for your tickets via the tap & Hdtn Railway, “Mis m ms; -THE- W A Fishing Smack. In the seat at the stern of the boat. As happy as mortals could wish They sat with their lines hauglng over tho aide— George aud Laura—pretending to fish. In the silence a strange uolse wns heard. "V hat's thati" And the skipper looked back. And tho maid whisjiered "Ilushi" when George said with a blush, “It was only a small dshlng smack.” —Chicago Tribune. A Wife*. Little Joke. She—I’m so glad you can stay to tea. Such a joko as I’m going to have on my’ husband. He's always growling about my cooking and today his mother happened to drop in and I got her to make some biscuit. Won’t he feel cheap when ho begins to criticise and then finds out his mother mado them herself! Is now fitted up in first class order. HALT AN HOUR LATER. He—My dear, you’re becoming an angel of Accommodations as good as can be It is positively the shortest and finest a cook. These biscuits aro as flue as my foundin the city. line to Chicago and the east and south and the only sleeping and dining car through mother makes.—Omaha World. S. E. MESSINGER, Manager. line to CITY STABLES, Third Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. Henderson Bros. Props First-class accommodations for Ccmmer cial men and general travel. Transient stock well cared for. Omalia, Kansas' City, and all Missouri River Points. Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed train service and elegant dining and sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the title of i The IToyal Route Murray’s Specfic- 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, inipotencv. and general loss of power of the generative Before Taking, organs, in either sex. caused bv indiscretion or over exertion, and which ultimately lead to premature old age,insanity and consump tion $1.00 per box or six boxes for $5.00,sent by mail on receipt of price, Full particu lars in pamphlet, sent free to every applicant. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES to cure any case. Fo ' every $5 00 order received, wefifter I »Klug. send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund tlie money if our Specific does not ef fect a cure . , Address all communications to the Bole manufacturers THE MURRAY MEDICINE CO. Kansas City, Mo. Sold by Rogers A Todd, sole agents Tna. Mark. ’Wright Bro’s. Dealers in Harness. Saddles. Etc. Etc, Repairing neatly done at reasonable rates. . Wright’s new building. Corner Third and F streets. McMinnville. Or PATENTS Caveat», and Trade Marks obtained and all Patent business conducted for XIODEK- ATE FEES OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE V. 8 PATENT OFFICE. We have nosub agencies, all business direct, hence can transact patent business in le’s time, an.‘‘ at less cost than those remote from » asn- ington. -end model, drawing, or pnoto, 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, county, or town sent free, Address C. A. SNOW 4 CO. Opposite Patent Office. Washington, 1> V WM. HOLL, Proprietor of the MtlMli Jewelry Stere, The leading JÏWELRY ESTABLISHMENT, -OF- YAMHILL COUNTY, Third Street. McMinnville Or. For then ’tis so diminutive To our ecstatic view, We half imagine it was made Just large enough for two. —Life. Others may imitate,but none can surpass it Our motto is “always on time.” Be sure and ask ticket agents for ticket« via this celebrated route and take none others. W H MEAD, G A Everything new and in First-Class Order No, 4 Washington street, Portland, Or. Patronage respectfully solicited ltf Great English Remedy. Cupid's Geography. When we are far apart, my loro, The world is very wide; But it assumes a different shape When wo are side by side. Children of Kansas City. Professor Stanley Hall published re cently the result of examinations made of very little folks in Boston schools. Professor Greenwood made similar in vestigations among the lowest grade of pupils in the Kansas City schools, and a table of comparisons is printed. The per cent, of children ignorant of common things is astonishingly less in Kansas City schools than in the Boston; even the colored children of the western city made a much better showing. Another subject of investigation is the alleged physical deterioration in this country. Examinations were made of hundreds of school children from the age of 10 to 15, and comparisons taken with the tables in Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics, London, 1884. It turns out that the Kansas City children are taller, taking sex into account, than the average English child at the age of either 10 or 15, weigh a fraction less at 10, but upward of four pounds more at 15, while the average Belgian boy and girl com pare favorably with American children two years younger. The tabulated statis tics show two facts, that the average Kansas City child stands fully aa tall as tlie tallest,'and that in weight he tips the beam against an older child on the other side of the Atlantic.—Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’s Magazine Opium for the Yellow Fever. Our Chinese reporter asked Dr. Yong Tyse Hing, of Pell street, about his ex perience with yellow fever in China. “In Kwong Tung, Foo Kien, and Kwong Si,” he said, “there were a few cases of yellow fever several years ago. Tlie fever was called by the natives ‘won biun. It never became epidemic, owinj to the people’s habit of smoking opium.” “Does tho smoking of opium prevent or cure yellow fever?” “Certainly it does. Wherever opium is smoked it destroys yellow fever. “But ii not the opium smoking habit as dangerous as the fever? “No; it takes at least a year of con stant smoking to acquire toe habit, as all old opium smokers will testify. There might be yellow fever all over the United States, but the Chinese opium smokers would not be affected.” __ Dr. Li Shi Leon, of Mott street, said; “Why, certainly opium smoking cures yellow fever. I had two consins in Mem phis during that terrible yellow _fever scourge in 1875, who sunply_smoked their pipes the moment they fever and got weU in less than twenty hour«. No, there is no danger of getting the opium habit if the patient does not smokellonger than six months; but, then, it is a Lard thing to learn how touse^hs pipe. Won Chin Foo tn New York Sun. There are fewer sadder sight, in this world than that of mates whom the oassage of year. hM mi.-m.ted. —J. G A Dire Threat. “Vat,” said the collector for a little Ger man band to a citizen who sat in his front window, “you no git nodding# for dot moosicf “Not a cent I" replied tho citizen, with hopeless emphasis. “Den vo bliv some more, dafs all I” threat ened tho collector, so tho citizen hastily gave up a quarter.—The Epoch. I The City Man’s Attempt at Farming. A farmer I’ll be, cried he, As he trudged behind the plow. I’ll show these fanners how— The plow struck a stump, Oh! what a horrible thump And back to the eity went he. -Detroit l'ree Press. The Wrong Medicine. Young Doctor (to patient)—That prescrip tion 1 left last night, sir, was a mistake. It was intended for another patient. Did you have it filled! Patient—Yes, doctor. Doctor—Well, how are you feeling this morning! Patient—Very much better.—New York Sun. Early Economizing. His face had a look as if famine bad traced Upon it the lines of privation, And one would suppose he devoutly embraced The rigors of Lent's regulation. But no—the fact Is he's already in haste having up for the summer raoatlon. —Boston Budget. The Big Four. Miss Waldo (of Boston)—Ye«, now that w. have secured Mr. Clarkson, Boston can justly point with pride to her “Big Four.” Mr. Wabash (from tho westl-What are the names of tho gentlomen who comprise the “Big Four,” Miss Waldo! Miss Waldo—Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Kelly, Lowell and Holme«.—Drake's Magazine. They Are In Season. No this year's apples yet ore found In the New England states. But every night fresh pairs abound Un cottage garden gales. —Boston Courier. Exasperating Stupidity. Sloopkin (as an illustration of tha rapid growth of western towns)—Why, Blockly, only seven years ago a band of Ute Indians held a war dance right here on this lawn! Think of that, sirl Blockly(not to bo astonished)—nby, Id thought they’d broken the vases and tram pled all the shrubbeiy down.—Harpers’ Be xar. __ _______ Following the Doctor's Advice. •Take rest; the trouble Is you're tired!” The one addreseed «a* wise; Be straightway with a merchant hired Who did not advertise. -Boston Budget Not Very Gratifying Bcsulta. Old Lady (to grocer's boy)—Kin you recom mend this soap, boy! Boy (hesitatingly)—Well, I wouldn't like to go fer to recommend it too high, ma'am; tte boea usee it biaselt—The Epoch. A Painful Duty. The days are growing shorter now, But docen t It seem droll To go. with a perspiring brow. To buy your winter coal! —SomervQle Journal I PERSONAL AND LITERARY. NO. 32 * — “Sidney Luska,” the novelist. Is Mr. Henry Harlan. —Mrs. Jessie Wilson Manning, a lecturer and writer, entered tho Iowa Wesleyan University at the age of fif teen. —Colonel A. L. Rives, the father of the young Virginia authoress, isacivll engineer now employed on the Pan ama Ship cr.nal. —Editor Charles A. Dana receives a royalty of twelve and one-ha'.f per cent on each volume sold of the Amer ican Cyclopedia, and thus far he has realized over $100,000 from this source. —Ono of tho most valuable books in tho remarkably valuable collection of Columbia College, New York, is a copy of the first folio of Shakespeare, print ed in 1623, of which there are few duplicates. Its price is estimated at $2,500 to $3,500. —It has finally eome out that the passages from a play called “Irus,” attributed to Shakespeare by tho li brarian of Stratford-upon-Avon, were really from n comedy lr Shakespearo's contemporary, Chapman, entitled "The Blind Beggar of Alexandria.” —Henry James is usually system atic in his work, going to his private apartments at once after breakfast, and toiling until the noon hour. He is h I ow and painstaking in composing, rewriting and retouching one day what he has written tho day before, never satisfied with his labor until he has applied tho tost of the real artist 10 all he has written. —Bayard Tuckerman in 1881 was the only author in New York, accord ing to the eity directory of that year— that is, he is the only person who had himselt put down as an author, al though at that time Brander Mat thews, Richard H. Stoddard. E. C. Stedman, Bronson Howard, Oliver B. Bunce, Edgar Fawcett, Frauk R. Stock- ton aud other well-known authors lived in New York. - -Of the pioneer editors of Illinois, the thiee oldest are Thomas Grogg, of Hamilton, uow in his eightieth year, whose first journalistic venture was the establishment of the Carthaginian in Hancock County, in 1836; Thomas Cake Sharp, who started at Warsaw in 1810, and uow in his seventieth year, edits the Carthage Gazette, and James Monroe Davison, who first established the Fulton Gazette at Can ton in 1843, and now conducts the Carthage Republican. —Colonel John A. Joyce, who wrote Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem, “ Laugh and the World Laughs with You,” re cently said: “I have traveled in every country of the globe. I have had deal ings with the white, the black and the red. I speak several languages. I have seen prosperity and enjoyed it. I have seen udversity; I know what it is now. I have boon in the insane asylum and in the penitentiary. I have never yet been in a corner that I didn't got CANNIBAL COOKERY. out of it. I have never been broke Horrible Feasts Prepared by the Natives cry long, for just when the day seemed of Sumatra and New Zealand. the darkest, tho dollar turned up HOme- A friend of the writer, who for more how. I wonder why I was born." than forty years has been in the em ployment of the German Government, HUMOROUS. bears personal witness to the preva —“I think my profession,” said a lence of this custom in Sumatra up to violinist, “is by far preferable to any recent times. Ho was once making other, it is the easiest of all." “IIow scientific investigations in the Interiot so? ’ “Because I work when I play. of that island, and was being enter and I play when I work ” tained in the most hospitable manner —At drill a soldier spits in the by the native Rajah, or chief, of the place he was then in. A feast had ranks—Sergeant of Maneuvers (in been made to which he was bidden, dignantly)— “The follow that spat, and to which ho went, taking his own four days in tho guard-houso. There shall be no spitting in the ranks. We native servant with him. are not in u parlor hero!”— Fliegendc The bnnquet had proceeded for some Blatter. time without interruption, when at —Professor of c,lass in Journalism— last, as crown of the feast, a beautiful brown roast joint was brought from "What is the difference between an the back of the house to tho open airy editorial and an editorial paragraph?” placo where the repast was being held. Student—“An editorial is of tho same This was cut up without remark and nature as an editorial paragraph, but is larger und doesn't have as much handed round, and the Dutch gentle man was on the point of eating his to say.”— Harper's Bazar. Y’oung lady—“Have yon a position portion, having raised part of it to his lips, when his servant rushed forward vacant in your store for a—” Old and stopped him, saying: “Master, merchant (with hardening features) — master, do not cat; it is a boy." The “For a—” Young lady (modestly) — chief, on being questioned, admitted, “For a saleswoman, sir?” Old mer with no small pride ut the extent of chant (warmly)—“I have, miss. You his hospitality, that hearing that the shall have one of the best in the store." white man would feast with him, he — Chicago Tribune, —Miss Augusta Mayne (to Pat bad ordered a young boy to be killed and cooked in his honor, us the great Chogue, who has just tendered her his est delicacy obtainable, and that the seat—“ You have my sincere thanks, joint before them was the best part, sir!” Pat Chogue-Not at all, mum; not at all. It’s a duty we owo to the the thigh. Early travelers in New Zealand al sect Some folks only does it phen a ways express astonishment when they lass be pretty; but I says, says I: ‘the discover the cannibul propensities of sect. Put,' says I; ‘not the indivi- the inhabitants, that so gentle and dool!”’— Puck. —He (in a store)—“ I’m looking for pleasant-mannered a people could be come on occasions such ferocious sav something in the shape of a diary— ages. Earle, who wrote a very read something in which I can record my able, Intelligent and but little known daily thoughts and ideas upon current account of the Maoris very early in events.” She (new clerk, and eage, the present century, speaks of the to please)—“ Oh, yes; you won’t want gentle manners and kindly ways of a any thing very large, then. Here's New Zealand chief, whom afterward something, three days to a page; he discovered to lie an inveterate can thirty-three cents, please,—thanks.”— nibal. He relates that he visited the Yamt're lll'iile. —Ambitious young musician (ef place where was cooking the body of a young slave girl that his friend had fusively) —" I had the thoughts and killed for the purpose. The head was inspirations of the old musters in me severed from the body; the four quar when I composed that, professor!” ters, with the principal bones removed, Professor (sarcastically) — “So you were compressed and packed into a had, Mr. Kribber. Your ‘com|>OHition' small oven in the ground and covered contains a little of Mozart, Beethoven, with earth. It was a case of unjusti Haydn, Handel, Bach and a score of fiable cannibalism. No revenge was other famous composers. By tho way, gratified by the deed, and no excuse what part of it is yours?”— Judge. —Tourist—"My physician has ad could be made that the body was eaten to perfect their triumph. Earle says vised me to locate where I may get the that he learned that tho flesh takes southwind; doesitever blow here?" many hours to cook, that it is very Native—“Well, 1 may say as you're tough if not thoroughly cooked, but lucky to have come to this place; the that it pulls to pieces like a piece of south wind always blows here.” blotting paper if not very well done. Tourist—" Always? But it seems to be He continues that the victim was a blowing from the north now.” Native handsome, pleasant-looking girl of —“ Oh. it may be coming from that sixteen, and one he used frequently to direction now, but It's the south wind; see about the Pah. — Gentleman's Mag- It's coming back you know.”— Bing, ampton {Ji. F.J B^ubUcan. amne. — Yale was organized in 1701. It has 123 instructors. 1,180 students, and 165.000 volumes in its library. —The Yale sophomores have de- elarod against hazing. They are en titled to commendation. Although the practice of hazing has disappeared from most American colleges, its mod ern prototype, “rushing," still lingers. —Tho Romanists have less than 7,000 church edifices in the United States; tho Baptists nearly 41,000; the Congregationalists, 4,000; Presbyter ians, 13,000; the Protestant Episco pal«. 4.500; and the Methodists, 47,- 000. — It is reported that the English church establishment receives yearly in tithes about 3’20,000,000. Of this, $15,000,000 goes for salaries of clergy men, and the remainder goes to hos pitals. schools, church buildings and the like. —Canon Wilberforce is reported as saying of Dublin's two cathedrals, which have been restored by the lib erality of a brewer and a distiller, thut they are “memorials of drink.” St. Patrick’s of Guinness's stout and Christ’s Church of whisky. —The McCall Mission is doing a fine work in France—tho Gospel in its simplicity, divested of all tho intricate uud trilling ceremonies of the Romish ritual. This is a new thing to French men, most of whom have no respect for Romanism, without knowing that there is another Christianity.— Chris tian Advocate. —“If only more scholars would come to our Sunday-school, how much more good we could do!” is frequently on the lips and in the hearts of Sunday- school workers. “If only we took bet ter care of the scholars who come, how much more faithful servants we should be!” is a sentiment that is neither heard nor acted upon so often as it ought to be. — S. 8. Times. —\\ arden Hatch, of Michigan State prison, said at a recent meeting of the National Prison Association: "Noth- ing can really be done for the 1m- provement of prisoners unless tlie Christian religion is taken into the prisons. If Christ is good for any thing in the world, He is good in a prison. He does more in the Michi gan prison than all the discipline.” —An International Bureau of Mis sions has been organized, having for its object the collecting, sifting, con densing and wide distribution of fresh missionary intelligence; tho establish ment of a common medjuin for a free interchange of views and comparison of methods in missionary work; the preparation and distribution of tracts, leaflets, diagrams, maps, charts, etc. ; the promotion of fraternal relations, and. wherever practicable, unity of effort among all mission workers, II will be under Methodist auspices. On the Safe Side. MoMinnville, Oregon Be caeful and do not make a mistake AU kinds of fancy hair cutting done in but be sure to take the the latest and neatest style Northern Pacific Railroad. SCHOOL AND CHURCbA LIGHT ANO AIRY. . a ■ j 1 -r il —i RATES OF ADVERTISING!. WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. or . on« ye*''. ■•••• si I months ... Three montila ■ ’ Ilou SAVING THEIR YOUNG. Mother 5 ... .k«s Bo It When At- tacked by Kuemles. I have, on at least four occasions, stood by and witnessed a family of young snakes disappear down the throat of the mother. She did not? swallow them; she just lay straight with open mouth and allowed the youngsters to go down her gullet with wonderful rapidity. (In such occasions the mothor snako svinces tho fearlessness and tenacity of most wild things when trying to save their young. She will remain I quiet at the risk of her life until the Inst little wriggler has been taken in, and then do her best to escape. And it always 6oems to be the case that at such times she happens to be mighty handy to a good hiding place, such as a ledge of rocks, a hole among roots, or, ¡1 a watersnake, where she can flop into the water in an instant Pre mising that I was taught from my earliest recollection to regard serpents as not only harmless and useful, but beautiful as well (all save the rattler), I will briefly narrate the incidents ubove alluded to: In the first ease I was called by a sensible mother, who udmired rather than feared serpeuts, “to come and see the little snakos hide.” 1 hurried to the spot, and this is what I saw: A large garter-snake stretched to its full length and a lot of tiny snakes rapidly disappearing down her throat My mother meantime had untied her apron, and, as the last little snake disappeared, she quickly grabbed the old snake and enveloped it in the apron. It was taken to the house and placed in an old lumber chest, where it was found the next day with twenty odd little ones around it, and again they took refuge in the mother’s stom ach. As our curiosity was satisfied, the old snake was turned out in tho garden to catch bugs. Take note that the garter-snake is oviparous. Although snakes were very numer ous in the region where my boyhood was spent, mid though most of my leisure time was passed ia outing by flood and field, it was long before I saw a second incident of the kind, and this time the actors were watersnakes, supposed to be viviparous. [I say suppose, for I um by no means certain of it.] The mother snake was about tho largest I ever saw, and I camo upon her suddenly as I was fishing down a trout stream, very cautiously, of course. It was evidently a surprise, but slie straightened herself, gave a short, low hiss, and lay still with open mouth. In much less time than it takes to tell it, a lot of little snake- !ings were rushing into her mouth and disappearing with marvelous quick ness. At that time I was accustomed to handling serpents, evon rattlers, without fear, mid with some vague idea that she would bo a prize, I made a dash to capture her alive. It was rather a failure. Instead of attempt ing to dart overboard, us I expected, she faced mo savagoly, and, as I grabbed her with one hand around tho hotly, she whisked her tail about my arm, turned, and gave me a vicious bite on the back of tho hand. Al though I knew the bite was perfectly harmless, it somehow looked so wicked und dangerous that I lost my grip and nllowod her to escape. It may be worthy of mention that tlie slight wound did not swoll or become in flamed and healed quickly.— Forest and Stream. LIFE IN One Buuare or leas, one insertion................. $1 00 Oue square, each subsequent insertion.. . 30 Notices of appointment and Huai settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisements. 73 cents for first insertion aud W cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business column«, 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 3 cents per line. Professional cards, $12 per yaar. Special rates for large display “ads." KIMBERLEY. Whnt a Traveler lu the Great South African Diamond Town. “The first thing I heard when I ar rived at Kimberley was an English voice: ’The Transvaal Hotel, sir? Five shillings!' Tho voice Iwlongod to a muscular-looking cab driver, whom I engaged. He snapped his whip and we Hew over tho pavements. Of course he ran into several other cabs and wagons, but he did not care for that: he was bent upon getting me to my hotel in ten minutes, and ho did it. ••In the afternoon I climbod up on the roof of the hotel to obtain a bird’s- eye view of the town, and saw that it was built upon u quadrangular plan, tile streets being parallel to the sides of the square. The houses are con- structed of baked brick; they are plastered inside and tho roofs are noarly all of iron. Many of the natives, however, live in tents. “A curious thing I noticed was that every body appeared to be in a hurry. The people are always running hither and thither. I asked the way to the mine; it was pointed out to me, and I suppose that It would have been in order for mo to have run there alBo, but 1 walked to it leisurely. “An iron wire fence surrounds the mine. Stepping inside of that I came to a pit some 3<X) or 400 feet deep, a fun nel, so to speak. At the lowest level the Kaffirs work, several white men acting an overseers. ()n tho edge of the pit stood somo hoisting machines, which aro used for hnuling up the excavated earth. A dull sound is continually beard, but now and then a distinct noise of the pickaxes below is audible. “High prices are charged at Kim berley for the ordinary necessities of life, but tho pay of the workmen is also very high. The laborer gets rid of his money fast enough. In the evening a number of the streets are illuminated by electric light, while from the private houses colored lanterns arc hung out. The workmen go singing through the town and many of them are to lie found at the public houses; but by midnight all is still.”— BEHIND THE EYE. Nothing Is Seen Until It Ia Separated From Its Surroundings. A man looks at the landscape, but the tree standing in the middle of the landscape he does not see until, for the instunt at least, he singles it out as the object of vision. Two men walk the same road: as far as the bystander can perceive, they have before them the same sights; but let them be ques tioned at the end of the journey, and it will appour that ono man saw one set of objects, und his companion an other; and the more diverse the intel lectual training and habits of the two travelers, the greater will be the dis crepancy between the two report«!. And what is truo of any two men is equally true of any one man at two different times. To-day he is in a dreamy, reflective mood—he has been reading Wordsworth, perhaps—and when lie takes his afternoon saunter he looks at the bushy hillside, or at the wayside cottage, or down into the loitering brook, and he sees in them all such pictures as they never showed him before. Or he is in a matter-of- fact mood, a kind of stock-market frame of mind; and he looks at every thing through ecouomical spectacles— as if ho liad been set to appraise the acres of meadow or wood land through which he passes. At another time he may have been read ing somo book or magazine article written by Mr. John Burroughs; and although he knows nothing of birds, and can scarcely tell a crow from a robin (perhaps for this very reason), ho is certain to have tantalizing glimpses of some very strange and wonderful feathered specimens. They must be rarities, at least, if not abso lute novelties; and likely enough, on getting home, lie sits down and writes to Mr. Burroughs a letter full of grati tude and inquiry—the gratitude very pleasant to receive, we may’ presume, and the inquiries quite Impossible to answer. Some men (not many it is to be hoped) are specialists, and nothing else. They tire absorbed in farming, or in shoemaking, in chemistry, or in Latin grammar, and have no thought for any thing beyond or beside. Others of us, while there may be two or three subjects toward which wo foel some special <lra w ing. have nevertheless a general in terest in whatever concerns humanity. We are different men on different days. There is a certain part of the year, say from April to July, when I am an ornithologist; for the time being, whenever I go out of doors, I have an eye for birds, aid, comparatively speaking, for nothing else. Then comes a season during which my walks all tako on a botanical com plexion. I have had my turn at but terflies, also; for one or two summers I may bo said to have seen little else but those winged blossoms of the air. I know, too, what it means to visit the seashore, and scarcely to notice the breaking waves because of the shells scattered along the beach. In short, if I see ono thing, I am of necessity blind, or half-blind, to all beside. There arc several men In mo, and not more tiian one or two of them arc ever at the window al once.— Atlantic. Punishing Gods in China. "* A funny storv illustrative of Celes tial simplicity (or superstition?) comes from Foochow in China. There is a joss-house or temple in that city, to which persons of a revengeful disposi tion are wont to resort when desirous of obtaining satisfaction for an injury, the deities there being credited with the power to cause instant death to those against whom their aid is in voked. After tho death of the late Tartar General—the cause of which appears to have boon rather mysteri ous—the supposition that he had fallen a victim to these particular josses was started by some of tho gen try, and the Viceroy thereupon gave instructions for un inquiry to be held into the matter. The Taolal was com- missioned to see the order carried out, and he went to tho temple und arresU ed fifteen of the josses. These idols are of wood about five feet in height. Before being tuken into the presence of the Taotai their eyes were put out in order that they might not see who was their judge, so that they might not be able to identify him in the realms above or below—wherever they go ! After an investigation a report of the case was sent to the Viceroy, who at once gavo orders that the josses should be decapitated and then cast into a pond ! Yet withal China claims to be a civilized country.— Lon don Figaro. » ...... —When the grape rot has previously existed in the vineyards it will be necessary to begin in the fall with the use of lime and copperas solution in order to destroy the spores. It will require two seasons to become rid of it in the vineyards, and the solution should be used both in the fall and spring by sprinkling it freely around the vines, os well as spraying it over them. The solution is a pound of copperas to four buckets of very thin whitewash. —One of the most irritating of tho recent idiocies of tourists is the fashion of leaving cards at the tombs of dis tinguished people. The bust of Ix>ng- fellow in Westminster Abby is con stantly surrounded by these Inappro priate bits of pasteboard, and the grave of “H. H." ia said to be literally Jewelers' Weekly. covered with the visiting cards left by —Our strength. tom per, intelligence tourists who climbed the lonely mount and wnslbility depend greatly upon ain near Colorado Swings to visit tha the quantity and quality of our food. last resting place of the poet and • novelist.