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t I MMRnrthr other not a LI year will be novels bv G-” and Charles Dudley W 3 exl * ALL GOODS AT BIG DISCOUNT! KAY & TODD. THIRD STREET MCMINNVILLE y 1 T ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING. V Your V *D Ingenious Cornbluation of tlie Siereop- ticon anil Sky Sign. A new departure has ?>een made in the rapidly spreading application of electrici ty to advertising. Any large open space on a wall or hoarding is covered closely Is the most important part W your organism. Three-fourths _ hree-fourtbs of CB with incandescent lamps—that is, they are placed at equal intervals in horizontal taissta to which the «y»- * i th«* the S'ftmrd complaint« tem is subject are due to impuri- W and vertical rows, and as near together as tic» in tie« iu the blood. You can, there- there —— they can be without touching. A cable, consisting of as many separate wires us fore, realize how vital it is to I there aro lamps, connects them with a small table or operating board, which is Keep It Pure placed in aconvenieut room or at any point For which purpose nothini me nothing can desired by the operator. This operating It effectually re equal I board is closely studded with little pro moves’ al 1 impurities, jection»! which are in reality push lint cleanses the blood thoroughly tons, and each of these tiny kDobs corn- and build* up the general health. spends to n lampou the large exposed sur Our Trciuto cm B x,d ar. . ta*ii«-l face outside. It is thus evident that by Free to any a^Urati, pressing on r.ny single push button the SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Qa. circuit is closed aud a lamp correspond ingly situated on the sign will be lighted. The push buttons are v> designed that when pressed upon they will continue to keep the circuit closed and thus maintain the illumination of the lamps ou the sign board until they are restored by the ojier- ator to their normal position. This sys 3 tem gives an amount of flexibility in the creation of illuminated devices of all kinds •7. I that ha f ■-xr l*fore been attained. Hith- -♦o •• ms been necessary to have any « ft I u. gn prepared tieforehand and ~ - Uxed in permanent lines ou a ngid back : i t ground. Now, by drawing the finger on tho faco of the operating tioard, any kind of inscr> j *1 or desigu can be brought rnlx.ard and will remain out ol x e ‘°s Pic^ro^v there in I if; nt lines of light until the TO operator d •• • to release it. This is .ant by done in _ the pressing of a lever at tue side of the operating tioard, and the signboard is ready for a new de sigu. Writing on the operating tioard in letters 6 inches high will produce letters 6 feet high on the sign. It necessary, the operator can bo at quite a distance from tho sign, which there is ANO ALL no necessity for him to see. He has a bright light behind his operating board, •nd the push buttons are slightly conical tn form, so that he has always before him I a clearly defined and exact facsimile of the play of light on the signtioard. This l^YK'JTO ingenious combination of the best points <-?HI( A(i<> of t he stereopticon and the electrical sky sign will probably be largely utilized in tbs night pqblication of election returns, results of games and any matters of pub U aiipa The Quickest to Chica lic interest, besides offering infinite scopo nOUlS go and the East. for the moat effective possible kind of ad vertising. For the latter purpose stencils of uuy special desigu can be prepared and U aiipa Quicker to Omaha ant kept on baud, aud where it is preferred to flOUrS Kansas City. flash out a figure or inscription suddenly, Iu.stead of stimulating the publiocuriosity by working out ths lines of light more lei Pullman and Tourist Sleepers, surely, all that need bo done is to place Free Reclining Chair Cars, the stencil on the operating board and . Dining Cars. press firmly until the push buttons are H. It. H CLARK, ) driven home.—Chicago Record. OLIVER W. MINK, '.Receivers J Heart’s Blood J V V V V V SSS V V V Tickets SALT LAKE, DENVER, OMAHA, KANSAS CITY. ST. LOU’S, CHICAGO, EASTERN CITIES. Ol 02 E. ELLERY ANDERSON’,) For R aw » or general Information 0*11 bn or ad dress W. II III ill.Ill HT, Awl. Gen. I’aaa. Agt. VSI Washington SI. Cor. ad. P< iRTLAXD, OR. EAST AND SOUTH VIA The Shasta Route OF THE KxprtiMi Train» Leave Fortland Daily -------- nKVx---------- ARRIVE Portland......... illPMI Ssn Francisco.. 10:15 A 51 Hun Francise« 7:00 P M I Portland s.'J" A M Above trains stop at all stations from Purtlaml to Albany Inclusive. Abo Tangent. HhedUs, Hal sey. Harrisburg. Junction City, Irving. Eugeni and all stations Irum Rustburg tj Ashland lnclu Btvs. Roseburg Tlrsll Drlily. LEAVE: ARRIVE Fortland..... -ADD AM I Rowburg.......... 5 50PM Roseburg......... 7MU A M I Portland......... 4.30 PM DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE. PVL.L7VYMN * QUFFBT SLBBPBRS ANO SECOND CLASS SLEEPING CARS Attached to all Through Trains. BETWEEN West Side Division. PORTLAND AND OORVALUb Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) I.fo A M • Lv Tort land Ari t <5 1’ M '0 15 AM L v McMinnville Lv 8:91 .............. P M »a 15 P M Ar ____ t orvB.ll» _ Lv__ 1.Ü0 P M Drama or Dissection? I am not a prude, but I think the time has come when we must decide whether tha theater is to be for the people or is to serve simply as a rendezvous for gentle men who are anxious to discuss moral sci ence in all its varying aspects. For my own part I want the theater to be for the people—to be u place where a uian may take his daughters without it being nec essary for him to go first in order that lie uuty judge whether the piny is one which his girls ought to sec. People may call me a Philistine, a prude or whatever they like, but my contention is that the stage Is uot the place to discuss subjects which, as « rule, i-.re only introduced nt the din ner table after the ladies have left. That is ii mere questiou of taste, I aui willing to admit, but I feel confident that tho ma jority of the publio are with me, notwith standing the fact that the new school of critics are agaiust me to n man. What I am lighting for is that tho stage may be maintained for the people. The playhouse us ordered for the last 80 years has been a delightful resort for women us well as men. I for one wish to maintain that state of things. Women are as fond of the theater os meu, and I do not want to see the theater door, ns it were, prac tically closed against them. As I observe in the article, “Our opponents started with Ibsen, and the public voice sent Ibsen about his business. But the trail of tho Ibsen serpent baa been left on tho stage, and our cleverest and most literary dra matist, Arthur Wing Pinero, Las been ensnared into the pessimistic net.” My contention Is that everything may bo dis cussed in public on the stage that is dis cussed at every liberal dinner table in re lined and polite society. Society has cer tain rules, and ffie stage cannot do better than follow th< -se rules —Clement Scott in Sala's Journal. Indian Conjuring Tricks. At Albany and Corvallis -connect with trains of Oregou Pacific Railroad, Moat of the Indian conjuring trick ure Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) imperishable secrets, which are banded down from father to son through a long •:40 !’ M Lv Ar 826 A M line of descent. Now and then a traitor Fort land 7:15 P M Lv St. Joseph Lv ; 5.58 A M may be found willing to barter his jug 7:25 P M Ar Lv 1 5:50 A M McMinnville gling inheritance for a mess of backsheesh, Through Tickets to all points in Eastern and so occasionally a trick leaks out into ¿tales, '"auaiia and Europe can be obtained al Europe, but this, I think, happens very lowest rate* frotu U. A Wilcox Agent, McMinn seldom—almost never. Th» plant grow rille. I- P ROGERS. ing trick is no more wonderful possibly A sm . G. F. AP A . Portland. Or. R KOEHLER. Manager than many of those sudden appearances of bushels of paper flowers out of nothing but a small cornucopia, except that all our conjurers are cn stages, with appli ances and accomplices, even if we do not see one of either, whereas the Indian does CHURCHES the plant tric-k on the matting in your Bernei—Services Sunday 11 a. m. and front bail if you like. 7:30p. m ; Sunday school 9:56 a m.; the He wears no clothes possibly but a • young people's society 6.15 p ui P Prayer blackened cloth around his loins and a meeting Tliursiiay 7.30 p. id . Covenant ” meeting first Sat each month :U) ... p. _ m. _ greasy turban of cotton, once white, on his head. He squats la-fore you close by and Cn.is. L. B okhax , Pastor. M ctmodibt Ertscorxi Services every places a small square cf cloth about the Sabbath 11 U0 a. m. and 7 ;30 p. m. Sunday size of au ordinary pocket handkerchief school 9 3l) a m. Praver meeting 7 :00 p on tho fluor. The cloth suddenly peaks up in tho middle, and taking it off a tiny in. Thursday. S E. M bmin - ier , Pastor. C vmb . P resbttxbian - Services every Sali- shoot of bright, fresh green is seen grow bath 11:60 * >n and 7;30 p. m. Sunday ing apparently from the matting. The school 9-36 a. m. Y. P C. E Sunday 6:W> little plant is left, u larger cloth is arrang p. m. Praj er meeting Thursday, 7:3U p. m. ed, aud a larger peak raises it in the W. H. J oses , Pastor middle. With increasing cloths and C mmbtias —Services every Sabbath" 11:00 growths, until a large branch of banana a. m and 7:30 p. in. Sunday school 10 palm appears, does the trick keep on aug a. in. Young people’» meeting at 6:30 p. m. menting in size and interest. This is, to H. A. D kxton , Paator, my mind, one of the best tricks of all.— S t . J ames C atholic —First st., between Exchange. GtmiH. Sunday school 2 '30 p. m. Ves ters 7:30. Services once a month. Made It 31 ore Legal. W. K. Hoc, an . Pastor Old Squire C----- , one of the first clerks of Cass county, Mo., was a man who, al SECRET ORDERS Ksuwi xs C h a era» No, 1.‘. O. E. S.—Masts ■ though his early education had been sadly Masonic ball the tir-t and third Monday eveninx neglected, fairly reveled in the use cf big In each month. Visiting members cordiallv in words. The grand jury had come into vited. MRS. O. O. HODSON, See. court to report a lot cf indictments which MRS H L. HEATH. W. M. it had found and upon which the foreman CosTt« P ost N o . »—Meets the wond and fourth Saturday of each month in Union ball at 7 30 bid properly indorsed “A true bill,” sign j m. All members of the order are cordially lag hi« name. The clerk, uot being satis ! ivited to attend our meetings. fied with the simplicity with which justice I. S. D owxixg , Commander. was clothlug herself, wrote upon each in B. F. ClCBiNZ, Adjt. dictment, under the foreman's name the following. “Wc, the undersigned jurors, IV. C T. IL — Meet« on every Fri concur in the above effluvia,” to which tar, in Wright's hall at 3 o'clock p m. each juror signed his name, supposing it L. T. L. at 3 p. m. LOCAL DIRECTORY. 1 13 Ma* A. J. W kitmobx , Pres C laim G. Essox, Sec y. to be some necessary legal appendage.— Green Bag. THEPAINOF ANXIETÌ NOT PETRIFACTION THE BAT WINGS OF TROUBLES WHICH COME IN THE QUIET NIGHT. NEVER WAS SUCH A THING AS A PET RIFIED HUMAN BODY. Yet It 1» the Minglin" of Hope and Fear That Form» the Moit Powerful Stimu lant to Energy and Exertion—Why a Devouring Fear Must Be Overcome. A Few Facts on u Subject Which Is at the Mercy of Popular Ignorance—Cliffs on the Yellowstone River—V. hat Petrifac tion Really Is. All who survive childhood feel the grip cf anxiety at some time aud under some form, for if a man lie not anxious from care aud busincrJi be will I ki anxious about his pleasures nnd indulgences. Anxiety is ns searching ns the eHSt wind; 1? pierces into the marrow of our bontu, finds out u weak »pot, and chills it only to inflame it into a fever—au intermittent fever, however. Intense anxiety is hardly consistent with a persistent ill fortune. Resignation—a mild despair—comes to the relief of the man constantly cast down ?>y ill luck, and he ceases to kick against the pricks. Hoping nothing, expecting nothing, he fears little. Tlie essence of anxiety is a feverish hope; its quintes sence. a sickening fear. The atmosphere of anxiety's uncertainty; its food, sus pense. D '. ries a keen chisel and carves men's countenances into more wrinkles than all the greater passions put together, while its acid bites into their minds, leav ing channels into which fear will run so long as their lh es last. Though a tuan may lie so fenced aliout thnt for himself he need entertain no anx iety, yet if he be of any magnanimity of soul anxiety will creep into it for the sake of others. In vain does nian try to fore cast the object of his doubt. While watch ing the east, in all probability his dread enemy will be stealing upon him from the west. If be looks to tlie north, beholdl his fear has found him out, creeping upon him from the south, or he may teach a cause for anxiety to appear by dreading it, for courage to overcome a devouring fear of the future is as necessary as putting ou a liold front in the presence of a wild beast. This is one reason why it should lie as much os possible repressed. Another and stronger one why it should lie zealously guarded agaiust is that it clouds and dims the mind, as fasting or ill food sub dues the liody. And so we liecome ojieu to an infection, cnpable of ill thoughts, weak enough to entertain sick suspicions, which would gain no admittance in a healthier state of being. An anxious night—who lias not passed it? For anxieties, li’ > bats, fly best by night. Aa the twiL^at falls, how insid iously au anxiety flits into the mind, scarcely troubling us at first; still it is there. By and by, as tho gloaming deep ens into darkness, the creature brushes past our face and rouses us with a start to a senso of its presence, Glliug us with a nameless dread, We coax ourselves into a doze, only to be awakened to a cou- sciousness that the vampire has settled and is sucking our lifeblood. No more sleep for us. We toss and tumble from side to side, the flitting bat wings of the trouble aud our sighs the only sounds disturbing the darkness. Now is tho time for an exorcism. We try it, ami listen fearfully. All is still. Tins the enemy de parted? For 10 punting seconds we be lieve it has, till a sudden sinking of the heart—a sudden inrush of thoughts and fears that kindle fears, “an indistinguish able throng”—warns us to put aside all vain notions of reprieve, all hope of re lease for this one while. We have com pared troubles to bats, and when bats have once entered a room they nre dlffi cult of dislodgment, despite drivings to and fro, beatings up and down; they swoop silently and uninjured from wall to wall, just managing to elude their pur suer. An open window and n light outside is a better remedy than all tlie buffetings within the house; so to open the window of our mind and let our anxiety flit out into the light of another man’s under standing, to tell otir fearful anticipations to a friend, is more likely to bring relief than the battering of it up and down in our dark aud ruffled minds. A man may be anxious by habit, or by temperament, or, still oftener, by igno rance, and all these things, like mist, by confusing the outline ofnn object mag nify it. When a man has suffered anxi- etiy silently and, as the event proves, needlessly, he draws n long brenth and dismisses it wholly from bis mind. He was mistaken, that was all. But should his anxiety have been aroused by another necukm'iy.he feels himself nt liberty to de spise his prognostications henceforth— without, however, suffering bis opinion cf his own wisdom to be impaired by ;i per haps similar error of judgment. But then no one but himself knew of his mistake, and we live so much in wbat we think to be other people’s opinion of us that what they do not know is comparatively easy for us to forget. Many nourish a secret dread of naming a fear lest a whispered word may bring it—like an avalanche, unsettled by a brea’h—down upon their i heads. Others, impatient of suspense. . unable to wait with s:eady nerves to pav their debt in due season, burry the toll into the reluctant hand of the glim, col- 1 ’-ter; cf these nre suicides. It is not de spair— certainty — that unnerves a man, so much ns a prolonged uncertainty; events inclining now this way aud now that, until the balance of the strained and anxious mind is lost. 5 et it is exactly the mingling of hope and fear that forms the most powerful stimulant to energy and exertion of which human nature la capable. Under iu in fluence men aro goaded to excel them selves. Nay, more: without it the jovs of life would be robbed of half their poign ancy. Who is it, think you, that relishes the desire fulfilled like the man who has experienced hope deferred? There is no one object on which our minds are greatly set from which all spice of anxiety can be completely banished. The Indian shoot ing the rapids in his frail canoe feels it, and it adds a thrill of pleasure to his sense of the audacity of h’s venture. The states man perorating to the house on a question by which his cabinet is prepared to stand or fall tecls it running, tingling, through his veins,adding fire to his imagination, lending eloquence to his tongue. The gam bler is so enamored of its power to brace up his relaxed and overstimulated nerves that to iu delirious enjoyment he will sac rifice state and station, mankind's and his own esteem and think the madness chea(i- ly purchased—Chamber’s Journal. One reads almost every weak in the new spapers of the finding of a “petrified” human Ixidy. Such u thing never did aud never will exist. Nevertheless, so dense is the popular ignorance of such matters, and so ready the Luman mind to be de luded, that reports of this kind are com monly accepted as facts. It would bo well if they could be deprived of credibility for all future time by the publication of a few truths on this subject. In the first place a “petrifaction” is not, «trictly speaking, a trunslormation of the original animal or plant into stone. It is merely a replacement of the organic tissue by mineral substance. As each particle of the plant or animal decays and disap pears, its place is taken, usually in water or mud, by a particle of mineral matter deposited from the water which has held it in suspension. Thus tlie perishable original is changed into imperishable stone, preserving its form and even, its structural appearance when cut into. By such means have the skeletons of an imals millious of years old been preserved iu the rocks of the everlasting hills, so that they may be reconstructed today as they were ages before man appeared on the earth. But it is only the bones that are in this way kept; never the Cosh, because water cannot percolate through it. In tho same way whole forests of trees in the Yellowstone region and elsewhere are changed into agate aud other forms of stone, tho hollow logs of the forest prime val being often found filled with lieauti- ful crystals of quartz and amethyst. The cliffs that border the eastern branch of the Yellowstone riverufford a view of a series of such forest» buried ou top of one another. The lowermost level was origi nally a wooded plain, hundreds of thou sands of years ago. Volcanoes burst forth in tho neighlsirhood, aud it was over whelmed by their debris. Ou top the lat ter fresh trees took root and grew, to be iu their turn buried by subsequent erup tions. This sort of thing continued through century aftes- century, until 4,000 feet of accumulations were heaped ubovo the for est at the bottom. Beneath the hills thus formed water flowed, as it does constantly through the earth’s crust. The buried trees gradually decayed, aud their decomposing substance wan replaced by mineral matter, trans forming them into stone. Afterward the Yellowstone river cut down through the strata formed of volcanic debris iu the manner described. For thousands and thousands of years the great stream plowed out its bed, until today the latter is a cut 4,000 feet deep—a canyon walled in by towering cliffs. And as one looks upward at those cliffs the buried forests are plain ly to be seen in the successive lnyers com posing them. They can be counted easily, the reckoning carrying the observer back to the very night of time, when real drag ons and chimeras dire walked on the earth, swam in the seas and flew in the air. Nearly all tho trees which line these wonderful cliffs are turned into agate. One can climb up nnd knock them off, as they break readily into sections. Many of them, which were hollow before they were buried, are filled with beautiful crys tals of quarts nnd amethyst. Water, per colating into such hollow trunks, brought particles of silica, which formed them selves into crystals, finally filling up the cavities. It is iu hollow parts of buried trees that nearly nil existing crystals of amethyst and quartz were originally form ed. They are treasures which were hid den away by the hand of nature iu old logs nnd stumps. Amethyst of course is merely quartz crystal with a little coloring mat ter from metallic oxides. Much of tho agatized and jasperized wood found in various parts of the west was thus transformed under water. There in a fossil forest of such material at Los Ccrillos, N. M., and another at Chalcedo ny Park, A. T. It is largely used for or namental purposes. The trees fell and were submerged, becoming silicified in the manner already described. While this was going ou, spores of fungi floated into the cracks in the trunks and branches, ger minating and extending their threads of mycelium through the decaying wood. These threads aro still visible in tho “pet rified”—tho xMiril “fossilized” is consid ered preferr.blo — substance, ramifying through the cells of the wood. The water also brought salts of iron in solution, which were secreted by the fungus and after ward deposited by it, thus enriching the coloration of the fossilized structure. Iron, being plentiful iu many rocks nnd readily soluble, often replaces organic sub stances and forma fossils. In t he depart? ment cf prehistoric anthropology at the Smithsonian institution is preserved a hu man skull of iron, which was dug out of a billside Dot long ago. Not only has iron replaced the sulistance of the bone, but the brain cavity is filled with the metal, so that the skull weighs many pounds. The hill in which its owner was buried was rich in iron ore, of course. Shells, inclosed in tho strata of hills, are sometimes transformed into opal by a process of fossilization, opal being merely a form of quartz. Petrification«, properly termed fossil remains, of plants are read ily distinguishable in beds of coal, so that it Is easily determined from what sorts of giant ferns and otl.er trees the coal was originally formed. Among the most an cient of fossils are numerous insects, which, despite the delicacy of their struc ture, have been preserved through millions of years for the instruction of a modern generation, the very fluff on the wings of the primeval moth being plainly distin guishable. Most of the bodies reported iu the news- papers as found “petrified” are examples of a phenomenon long familiar. They have tieen transformed not into stone, but into a substance called “adipocere,” or “grave wax. ” This is a true soap, into which Uie corpse of a human being will ordinarily be metamorphosed if buried in a grave yard or other place where water has ac cess to it. This ndipocere is one of the most en during of substances. It is uot subject to decay, and the liody which has assumed this constitution may preserve its form for many years, and even fur centuries— nay, for ages, since evidence on the point has been obtained from the orthoceras, a mollusk that became extinct millions of years ago, of large size, and built after the pattern of the chambered nautilus, but with a straight shell. In shells of tho orthoceras has been found adipocere—the flesh of the animal transformed ini J the soapy substance de scribed, which would thus appear to have been preserved intact from the Silurian Electricity Versa» Steam. Electricity and steam recently had a tug of war at Chicago. An old engine weighing 31); tons was pitted against nn electric engine weighing 25 tons. They were coupled with a cable 20 feet long. At a signal both were “pulled wide open. ” The electric engine buzzed ami scattered lightning over the surrounding country, but was unable to budge the ancient «witch engine. The latter simply gave * couple of puffs and walked away with the modern engine.—-Traffic. epoch until now.—Wash In gwa Star, THE TENDERLOIN DISTRICT. ENGAGEMENTS TO MARRY. Wherein They Legally DtC I i«u> All Other Kinds of Coa|racte* It may well be doubted whether young The Tenderloin district is a human sew- er, the playground of the chief prodigals men generally iu this state appreciate the of the country nnd the theater of dude- - true condition of the law iu respect of im dom, of frivolity, of vice and of lawless plied engagements of marriage. A recent ness, always gilded and maintained alike breach of promise suit in Chenango coun- by those men and women who, by reason ; ty is an extreme case on this subject aud of their money, their social position or furnishes a fresh illustration of the legal their connection with the theatrical stage, doctriuo that no express promise or formal are accorded the publicity which they work lauguage is needed in order to constitute for unceasingly, and without which they u contract to marry. The plaintiff In the case to which we would seem to possess little else than vul garity, assurance, good clothing aud the iffer was introduced to the defendant iu litorals < f white mice. In this remarka December, 1885. He told her he had ioug ble district is the so called “Rialto,” or wished to make her acquaintance. 11c actors’ promenade. Delmonico’s, the great was in the habit of attending the same Broadway hotels, the headquarters of both church aud prayer meetings as she did the Republican and Democratic politi and frequently escorted her home. He also cians, the majority of the fashionable the took her to public entertainments occa aters, the opera house, the chief gambling sionally. This went on fur more than two hells, the all night drinking and supper years. In the spring of 1888, the defend- , ant’s attentions grew more marked, and resorts, and some of the leading clubs. Any American citizen iu any part of the J he went home with the plaintiff from country, if be read the newspapers, can ' church nearly every Sunday aud from picture to lkmself the motley throng and prayer meeting nearly every Thursday the delirious life that the mere mention evening and would often go into the house of these places brings to mind. Any one and remain with her, usually alone in the in his mind's eye can see the actorsand parlor, until 10 or 11 o'clock. On one oc actresses, artificial and fevered iu their casion there was a conversation iu refer lives as well as in their work; the mash ence to a trip to Europe. Ou another, the ers and dudes, whose aim in life is to get defendant talked to the plaintiff aliout their names coupled with these semiptiblic building a house and asked her wbat men and women iu the newspapers at any building lot she preferred. In May, 1888, the plaintiff told the de cost of money or self respect; the spend thrift gamblers, the cheeky promoters, the fendant that she had heard somebody say loud and dissipated sporting men, the rich that tho only reason he went with her was and idle clubmen and their noisy shad to please himself and see how big a fool he ows, the empty beaded prodigal rich men’s could make of her. She asked the defend sons; the gurgeous outcast women, the ant whether this was true, aud he declared chorus and ballet girls, the owllike detect that it was not, saying that he had ad ives and ‘lie imperious and tyrannical mired her from hi.s first acquaintance with high officials of the police force; tho bar her and that be had never met a young room Bohemians Hashing alcoholic wit lady whom he regarded more highly; that that sells by the column as dry goods are he longed to make her happy and would sold by the yard; the first set of society—• always protect her. The plaintiff respond more vulgar than -o many licensed vend ed that she wanted to know whether he ers— an’’ ‘ ho whole phantasma was true, and he replied that, he had aaid all be could to show that, he was true, goria ot • lighted hothouse, champag lot lies laden popula adding as he was leaving, “If I live, I will make you happy.” tion. It furthermore appeared on the trial that Such fro-ii i; v> ipeil to the top of ev ery great cityful, . : such torn and drag the defendant had more than once told gled lace clings to tbs skirts of society ev tho plaintiff that he did not believe in long erywhere, but^iowhure ci .6 Is it daily cel engagements, aud that the plaintiff re ebrated in leaued tj pe, except as it forces ceived uo attentions or visits from other itself upon the attention of tuo police young meu during the period in which the magistrates. Here it is paraded to the defendant was in the habit of visiting her. From these facts the trial court left it extreme of journalistic madness, until the participants in this saturnalia of profli to the jury to say whether or not they gacy become not only nationally famous would infer that there was an engagement for the number of times they change their cf marriage between the plaintiff and the clothes, or the rapidity with which they defendant. The jury found in favor of the marry and remarry, blit are reported from plaintiff and awarded her a verdict of $3,- abroad at 10 cents a word by cable, when 060, which has lately been affirmed by the they go to Europe and are lucky at Monte general term of the supreme court in the Carlo, uneasy or scandalous in their do fourth judicial department. It will be observed that there was no mestic relations, or when they fight fake duels—fake French duels, to be exact.— suggestion or pretense on the part of tlie plaintiff that the defendant hail ever in New Y’ork Letter in Providence Journal. express words either promised to marry her or asked her to marry him. The in How a Snake Swallows. The formation of a snake’s jaws is pe tent of the parties was solely to be inferred culiar aud enables it to swallow bodies from their language, not amounting loan i much larger than itself, or than it seeuis express agreement to marry, hu <1 theircon- to be. A small snake found in Africa, duct toward one another. The leading case in this state on the where this tribe of animals abounds, is known as the egg eater, and one of them, same subject is Homan against Earle, less than 20 inches long and only half an which arose in Brooklyn 20 years ago, and inch in apparent diameter, cau easily take went to the court of appeals, where the into its stomach a hen’s egg. This is done opinion was by Chief Judge Church. That great judge laid down the true by the formation of the head, and espe applicable to such questions as fol cially of the jaws. The bones of the head rulo are not sutured together, but are loosely lows: “Contracts of marriage are unlike all articulated by elastic bauds. Thus tue jaws cau be extended to an amazing ex others They concern the highest inter tent, considering the apparent size of the ests of human life and enlist the teuderest head. A snake less thun two inches in sympathies of the human heart, and the and declarations done and implied by diameter at the neck can swallow a rab acts bit, and by taking plenty of time smnlltr parties negotiating them are often corre ones will uiaunge to g» t outside of a large spondingly delicate and emotional. As a frog, and to hold the prey during the proc matter of law the learned judge was clear ly right in holding that no formal lan ess of slow deglutition—a time of horror, guage necessary to constitute tlie con probably, to the unhappy victim—the teeth tract of is marriage. If the conduct and dec of the snake are hooked. In this process of swallowing the snake larations of the parties clearly indicate secretes a glary saliva, and by gradually that they regard themselves as engaged, is uot material by what means they have drawiDg th« jaws and neck over the prey, it as one would draw a glove on the band, arrived at that state.” The application of this rule to the Che and by the help of the hooked teeth hold nango county case led the general term to ing all it gains by each effort, in time the affirm the judgment. A consideration of prey is finally swallowed. The writer has the facts upon which the jury found in fa watched this process in the swallow ing of vor of the piaiutiff suggest to young a large frog by a small snake during more men that if they should themselves as than an hour, and when the frog bad dis though they were conduct engaged they may be appeared down to its last quarter the an come defendants in breach of promise suits imal kicked continually vtith its hind legs whether they have ever actually eaid any in struggles to get free.-—New York Times. thing about marriage or not.—New York Sun. v Mr. Asquith’s Double. Ilers is a good story of Mr. Asquith, A Royal Rainmaker. who lived recently at Hampstead. King Lobengvla has ths reputation of A photographer in fib John’s Wood was being a remarkably good hand at making visited one day by a man bearing a strik a thunderstorm, and in this he gives way ing resemblance to the home secretary, to no man. I remember one day In June and he took his portrait. The photogra —the month in the whole year in which pher, who prided himself cn knowing Mr. you least expect rain—some natives had Asqul h by sight, jumped to the conclu brought a large python into camp and sion that he had the home secretary as a were singing some of their rain songs. It Bitter, and when ho took the picture ho is sudden death to any native in Matabele- hinted that he should be glad cf the right land who if he sees a python does not by to sell it if Lis distinguished visitor would some means or othor manage to secure it make terms. and bring it in alive. The king took pos The man seemed astonished, but ulti session of the reptile und said be must go mately said that he would take £10 for all and make rain. I laughed at this aud rights iu the artistic work. The photog said I did not think be could do so, to rapher was somewhat surprised that so which the king replied, “You will see.” important a personage should r.sk money, The python was skinned nlive, its liver but said that if the sitter would allow him taken out and cooked, ami the usual rain be would send £10 bv past, and then the making rites performed. Curiously enough, man left. A few days after St. John's just before sundown the sky clouded over, Wood was placarded with portraits label and soon afterward one of the heaviest ed “The Home Secretary,” and Mr. As thunderstorms I had ever seen broke over quith recieved a check for £10, which tiie place. Next morning the king asked was a mystery to him. What were the me if n white man could make a thunder feelings of the photographer, who Boon storm like that9 I said, ‘-‘No, king, if we found out his mistake, may he better im could get you down among the farmers in agined than described.—London Corre the Karoo, we could guarantee you a for spondent. tune. ”—Review of Reviews. Gotham’s €’tided Center of Frivolity, Vice, Society, Politics and Theatricals. A Thrifty People. Richard Tnngye, the great engineer, in his autobiography gives some curious ex amples of the economy of the Cornish miners. Compared with these thrifty folk, Scotch peasanLs and farmers of New Eng land are extravagant. His grandfather was a miner, and when once asked what his dally work was he replied: “Ten hours at the engine and eight at digging. The rest of the day I have to waste.” Tangye states that ha once saw this same old man fall into a fury of rage be cause a boy whom he had hired threw away a match after lighting a candle with it. “D’ye waste my property, ye loon? Then ye will never be worth saxpeuce of yer own!” he shrieked. A careful old woman lamented a stolen pie for mon- than 40 years. The tears would come to her eyes whenever she talk ed about the lost dainty.—London Mil- lion. Tunnel and Bridge to Copenhagen. Copenhagen is often cut off from the mainland during a part of the winter by accumulations of ice in the great belt, and it is now proposed to make a tunnel between the islands of Eeelandand Funen, and a bridge between l-'uncn and the main land. The termini of the tunnel will be at Italskow Pynt and Kunnsbaved, and its length about 11 miles. The construc tion will be easy, owing to the soft nature of the bottom, and the island of Spragal will be used for ventilation and other pur poses. The cost of the tunnel is estimated at 20,000,000 Danish crowns (about £1,- 120,000, that of the bridge, 12,000,000 crowns (£680,000), and Copenhagen will be brought two hours nearer the continent. —London Globe. Tlie Hottest Spot In the East. In the eastern hemisphere the hottest «pot is on the borders of the Persian gulf on the southwestern coast of Persia. The thermometer during July and August Just Exactly. never falls below 160 degrees during the He was perhaps the most phlegmatic night, while the temperature during the and cautious servant in the world. day rises to 128 or 129 degrees. Little “If I should send you to the cigar store or no rain falls, and yet, in spite of for a box of cigars.” his master said to this terrific heat and other drawbacks, a him one day, “how long will it take you comparatively numerous population con to return'1” trive to live there, obtaining their water “Well,” was the reply after a long 1 supply by divers from the copious springs pause, “as near as 1 can judge, about the of fresh water which burst forth from the lame time it will take me to go there.”— bottom of the sea.—Spare Momenta. h'ew York Herald. HOW LONG CAN A POTTER WORK? □ETTER TO DIE THAN FALL IN LOVE. Interesting statistic« About ilia Average Age aud Years of Labor. Well lie slumbers, greatly slain. Who in splendid battle dies; Deep his sleep in mid most main. Pillowed upon pearl wlio lies. IIow long can an operative in the pot teries follow his usual occupation and yet continue to retaiu his health? is a ques tion often asked. We Lave made a pretty thorough investigation of the matter aud have gathered facts which will throw aiime light on the subject : The average age of a molduiaker is 34 years, and the average years of work are 31. After working 13 years they begin to de cline. Twenty three per cent are American liorn. Jiggermeti live 32 years aud work 18. They begin to fail after 11 yeurs of work. 'Thirty-live per cent are American born. Turners average 84 years and work an average of 17 years, and they begin to de cline after 14 years of work. Thirty four per cent of them aro Americans by birth. Handlers average 28. They begin to de cline after working 16, and 6 per cent of them had commenced to decline at the time thesestatistics were compiled. Fifty- five per ceut of them are of American birth. General wnre pressers reach the average age of 80 years. They begin to decliue aft er spending 15 years in the dusty shop. Forty-nine per cent are American born Throwers average 42 years and begin to decliue after spending 29 years upon tha thrower’s wheel. Sagger makers reach the average of 34 years, but begin to decline after spending 16 years at the trade. Thirty five per ceut of them are Americans. Kilnmen enjoy an average age of 33. Ten per cent of them begin to decliue after spendiug 14 years in the cheerless kiln shed. Fort y-five per cent ure native Amer icans. Dippers average 38 aud spend 21 yean nt work liefoto they commence to decline. Thirty-seven per ceut of them are Ameri cans. Decorators average 29 years, but begin to decline after they liase spent 18 years in the shop. Thirty four per cent of them are Americans. Packers arid warehouse meu eujoy au average existence of 30 years. They liegiu to decline, however, after they have wres tled with the musty straw for 13 years. Sixty per ceut are Americans.—Treuton Potters’ Jiniriiu!. Ease, of all good gifts the best. War and wave at last decree; Lovo alone denies us rest, Crueler than sword or tea. —William Wilson in Christian Educator. Eels and Tlieir Spawn. Young eels iu passing up a river show the most extraordinary perseverance in avarcoming all obstructions. The large foodgates—sometimes 15 feet iti height— on the Thames might be supposed sufli- cient to bar the progress of a llsli the size cf a darning needle, l’ut young eels have a wholesome idea that nothing can stop them, and in consequence uot Ling doe*. Epeaking of the way in which they ascend floodgates and other barriers, one writer says: “Those which die stick to the post; ethers, which get a little higher, meet with the same fate, until Ht last h layer of them is formed, which tuables the rest to overcome the difficulty of the passage. The mortality resulting from such ‘forlorn hopes’ greatly helps to ac count for the difference iu the number of young cels on their upward migration, aud that of those which return down stream iu the autumn. In some places these baby eels are much sought after and are formed into cakes, which are eaten fried. “Eels spawn like other fishes. For long, however, the most remarkable theories were held as to their birth. One of the oid beliefs wasthatthey sprang from mud. A rival theory held that young eels de veloped from fragments separated from tlieir parents’ bodies by the rubbing agaiust rocks. One old author not only declared tiiat they came from May dew, but gave the following recipe for produc ing them : ‘Cut up two turfs co”ered with May dew and lay them one upon the oth er, the grassy sides inward, and then expose them to the heat of the sun In a few hours there will spring from them an in finite quantity of eels.’ ” Hydrogen and Oxygen Gaieu. Chemical experiments prove that hydro gen and oxygen gases will combiim with tremendous violence at. very high pressure —2,700 pounds to the square inch. In these experiments a small glass tube was employed, into the ends of which two platinum wires were fused, and after in troducing a cubic centimeter of acid u 1st is I water the tube was hermetically sealed, then placed in a large glass vessel of cold water and an electric current of six volts passed through it. The acidulated water was rapidly de composed into hydorgen and oxygen gases, the action continuing as energetically aft er 10 minutes had elapsed; 15 and 20 min utes passed, the action within the minute vessel continuing; exactly 25 minutes elapsed, when a vivid Hash, succeeded by a violent report, terminated the experi ment, shattering the glass vessel and seat- teirug fragments in ull directions. The force of the explosion may tie understood from the fact of the sealed tube being but an inch and u half in length, and contain ing only one cubic centimeter of water, nevertheless portions of the glass were burled with sufficient force in the imme diate neighborhood of the explosion to penetrate a wooden bench to half an inch. —New York Sun. A Needed Reform In Telegraphy. At a recent comfietitive trial of skill ?>e- twcs-ii telegraph iijs-rators on«of the must interesting features was a test of a receiv ing instrument technically known as the “audison”—a small instrument fitted to the head of the operator, giving u sound which, although perfectly distinct to him, is wholly inaudible to any one else. It is high time thnt the use of u receiving in strument of this character became general in the telegraph service. Under the present condition of affairs, it is almost literally truetliut he who runs may read. Hundreds of telegraphic sta tions in hotels, railroad depots and other equally public places nre equipped with noisy aoRuders, enabling every message that goes over the wire to or from that or any other station to be read by any person within hearing who is able to do so. There Is not the slightest attempt to preserve the secrecy of communication, which ought to lie one of the all impor tant requirements of the service. There are t he c sands of ex operators and other parto is in the community who cau read these si^kials as easily as they could read a bulletin board, and there is obvious ly nothing whnteier Usfrgvcnt any oneiif them from obtaining in formal Ion of other persons’ business or personal mutters in this way and using it to their own ad vantage. It is a state of affairs which calls loudly for immediate reform.—Engineer ing Magazine. What He Thought. Down in South Carolina, said the Ilun. \V. J. Talbert of South Carolina in a speech in the house, there was a man who hired u lawyer to conduct a case in court. As the lawyer was not talking exactly to suit him, he got up to make a few remarks himself. The judge of course made him take his seat. He got up again, and the judge made him take his seat again. A third aud fourth time this happened, and finally the old farmer got up and said: “Well, judge, if you won’t let me talk, won’t you let me think?” “Why, certain ly,” replied the judge. “Well, judge,” he said, “I think you and all these lawyers are a set of d— -d rascals/'—San Fran- cisco Argonaut. Blackburn’s Gallantry. Lily’s Predictions- Wonderful invention. To Be In the F ashion. “Now that we are in a position to enter society, Edmund,” said Mme. Newriche, “I want you to do nie a favor.” “What is it, Maria?” queried Mr. New riche. “Isn’t your new carriage good enough?” “That’s all right, dear,” replied Mme. Newricbe. “Bull do wish you’d get one of those receivers that so many men are having now.”—Chicago Record. < Senator Blackburn is known as a rep resentative of southern chivalry, aud he is entitled to the distinction. He was u prominent figure at a reception or fashion able “tea” in a house of a Kentucky host and hostess. There was present a young southern debutante. She was new to Washington. As the senator passed her a cup, a sort of dowager duchess, distin guished for her large figure and Intrusive manners, pressed forward toward the sen ator. The little southern girl let the cup fall. Smash it weut, and the contents spattered over the dowager’s bat gown. Before the latter could utter a word the senator »aid : “That’s my fault. I’m too clumsy to wait on ladies. Madam,” to tte dowager, “I am ready to suffer any penalty you see fit to impose upon me.” Subsequently Blackburn felt his arm gen tly squeezed It was the timid southern beauty, aud she said: “Oh, Mr. Black bum, you’re the nicest man in the world. I’d hav* ysrt L.ii'ied ft yra hadK-'A**id "TTIrtropped that cup.” “Well, didn’t I?” queried the senator. “Yon know you did not,” with a grateful look. “Well, it’s all the same,” retorted the gallant Senator - Exchange. Lilly, the great English astrologer, an nually published a little leaflet under the title of “Astrological Predictions.” In the one for 1648 occurs the following, “In the year 1665 the sphelium of Mars will be in Virgo aud all kinds and sotts of disasters to the commonwealth, monarchy and king dom of England may be expected in that and the two following years. ” It is needless to add that 1C65 brought the “great plague,” which carried away 68,556 people and 1660 was the year of the “great fire,” in which 13,200 houses were destroyed.—St. Louis Republic-—" The weight and dimensions of each and every piece in the construction of a United States warship is computed before start ing to make any of them. Such a great volume of computation is too much for the brain. Formerly much cf it was per formed on machines made in Europe, but now 95 per cent of it is computed on comp tometers, invented by Derr E. Felt of Chicago. The adding aud other calcula tions in many cf the accounting depart ments of the government are done in the same manner.—Chicago Herald. >» The Behemoth. I The mammoth, or behemoth, is not yet universally regarded as extinct. Accord ing to Siberian and Chinese belief, thera< e is merely bauished underground, its “ blind life” being instantly terminated by a glimpse of the sun’s or even of the moon’s rars. The inference might almost be called a logical one from the state of the unearth ed remains. In several cases the great beast has emerged from his millennial retirement as completely arrayed as if death had only just overtaken him, liis hide densely cloth ed with fulvous wool, and that again cov ered by long black hair, his mane falling over his shaggy shoulders, his antedilu vian eyes actually staring from their sock ets! Contemporary dogs aud wolves fiDd mammoth flesh appetizing, in spite of its bemifossil character Mammoth bones bave been proved to coutain a remunerative", amount of gelatiu, aud iu Kamchatka to this day mammoth fat is largely used for fuel.—Edinburgh Review. Lobsters are not peace abiding crusta ceans. They cannot be persuaded to grow up together peaceably. If a dozen newly Some Irish Bulla. hatched specimens are put into an aqua Some people were laughing at an Irish rium, within a few days there will be man who won a race for saying, “Well, only one—a large, fat aud promising I’m first at last. ” “You needn't laugh,” youngster, lie Las eaten all the rest.. said he; “sure wasn't 1 behind before?” The following conversation was beard in Mohammedans think the oath only pos the Fenian times, nuine years ago. A cab itively binding when they are sworn -upon driver named Tom begins the colloquy, the Koran, while the Hindoo prefers to “These are terrible times, Bill.” “Bedad, swear by touching with his hand the foot they are, Toni; it’s a wondher if w< of a Brahman. <mt of the world alive.” ,p A won’t, even jf wo had as The latest statistics prove that more Plutarch.'’ “If Oliver < than two-thirdB of the grown male popu only come up out of hell, he' ® lation of the globe use tobacco iu some one it.” “Bedad, maybe he'd-<,^ 1 of the many forms in which it is taken. where he is.”—“Seventy Year, Life.” “Young gentlemen,” said au earnest Tough. sjieaker, addressing a company of college students, “if you have a spark of genius Customer—If you ever send me another in you, water it!” piece of meat like the last, 1’11 take awa/ ’ my custom An Englishman recently bet that he Butcher—What was the matter with it? Customer — — Why. could smoke 100 cigars down to an inch i.ustumer '»uy, it ti Was was go so tough that in 10 hours. The dispatch simply adds, when it wa» cooked I couldn’t get my fork “He won.” even into the gravy.—London Tit-Bit*. -• X—■»---------- ‘ ■ I -V ; ► ; t 'i / / J