Chief Grafefc, of the National Bureau of Engraving and Printing, being asked what design would be placed on the government oleomargarine stamps, said 6* had thought "a «ttiffed goat—a bogus ‘•butt r,’ a« it were would be about the right thing.’’ This will be received b_t th. victim-. of the law as the gravest joke yet developed by this adnnniatra» tine. - Pedantic old gentleman (to restaurant waiter)—“! believe ’It is improper to apeak disrespectfully of one’s elders?” K W • So IA-- <••1.1. - r. ” I’ <). (i. — "Thun 1 will be silent concerning the duckling you have just brought me.”— Loudon Judy. Old gentleman (to small boy smoking a cigarette) —“Little boy, don't you know that a great many people die from smelting cigarettes?” Small boy —“Yes (puff), but many ueople (puff) die who (puff) don’t smoke ’em."— New York, limet. One ot the most humiliating experien­ ces m a man’s life is to sit in a dentist’s chair and have him bore up six or eight inches into the head x\itiiok here, Levi! I believe that if 1 brought you the Kohinoor you'd find some fault with it” Cautious uncle "Veil, you know dere ajn’t much market now tor dem larch diamonts.” f’Ae Judge. M iMtClaru "Such a shocking acci­ dent at the ball game this afternoon, mamma! Poor Mr. Twobagger was run into and instantly killed. Mamma *-"Terrible. The game was stopped, of course.” Miss Clara “No; Mr. Onebagger took his place ami the game went on But. mainuia. it wasn’t near­ ly so interest lug. Mr. Twobagger win such a lovely pitcher.” -New York Times. We do not believe that a lien scratches for n living. She scratches for exercise. If you don t believe it. watch a well-fed hen in her humble cage at the market. Stic will scratch on the sheet-iron floor with all the vigor of a gold-digger, and affect to find things to eat wiin all the innocent assumption of a man who slips on the ice, break* both legs and his back, and tries to look as though he badn t fallen down. Hurd»tie. Declined with thanks. Monsieur R., the well-known painter, is at work on a picture representing a nymph in very scant costume. 1 'lie other dav while he was w aiting for a young girl who was posing as his model an old lady of mature years and rotund figure made her appearance. "My daughter is ill.” •aid this respectable matron, ••and she will not lie aide to pose this morning. If monsieur wishes, 1 will take her oiace.” t'uris Figaro. The blind men of Brooklyn are in the main self-supporting. Ail are engaged either in commercial pursuits or else work at trade* Piano-tuning is their favorite pursuit Nearly all are mar­ ried and have families. None have married wives similarly affected, and the total number of blind men in the city, which is less than one hundred, are friendly, and aid each other in time of need. One of them is worth *100,000, and a dozen more are worth halt that amount Mr Howells says the home of fiction la to be America. Mr. Howells has evi­ dently bis’ii reading the newspaper ao connts of storms in the West, where mules were lodg <1 on the top« of four- •torv trees and hailstone* fell "as large ae pumpkins.” And yet we don't sup­ pose the newspapers would exaggerate •bout a little tiling like that.—Aorrte- kus Lera d. • "Mamma, what'« hereditary*” asked Bobby, laboriously tripping over the •yllab.es of the ioug word. "Why, it is —It ta anything you get from your fa­ ther or nr me, me," nudk repihal the mother, a little puuled for a definition suited to his year*. Sileno* of two m.nut««. "Then, ma." he aioced. **i* spaiikina hrredlta- ryF”—7W-2/»4x A favorite retort—before the fire. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS MISCELLANEOUS. «RUIT mi: TRANSCONTINENTAL -ROUTE UORTHERNnACinCnAILROAD TIME IS MONEY! mi 14 I i SHOKEST! SAVE Time and Money i»y T MV calling a . m . Ashland...... 4.(X ia . k . Ashland 8:45 f . m . Portland..... 3:45r.x Albany Express Train. LEAVE. Portland....4:00 p. Lebanon....4:45 a . ARRIVE. m . m . Lebanon Portland .9:20 I. a io;« a . a Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars daily between Portland and Ashland. Oregon and California, West side, trains I The O. regon Development Company's VIANEE, *>ole I'roprietor. McMinnville ... Oregon. FINE Al Steamship Yaquina Qity West Side Division. RET. POHTI.AND AN D < ».wilh over 3,BOO lllwtr»Uoni — a whole Plctwre Uallery. U1VKM Wholuilc Price, rt.rcrl t0 roMumm on all good. for perwnal or frmlly war. Tell, low to order, and giveo era«* eo.t of every- Uhing «aw, eat. drink, wear, or kave fWu wit*. These INVALVAHl.K HOOK« ro.Uln Information gleaned front Ikr market, of the world. We will mall a cv I'RKK to any ad« dree, npon receipt of 10 eta. to defray expenw of (mailing. Let ua hear from yon. He» pew t frtlly, MONTGOMERY WARD A CO. tn A ttt Wahaah Aveaae, CMcw«o. HL City Stables HENDERSON BROS., Express Train. LEAVE. I ARRIVE. Portland ...4:50 p. m . MoM’nville..8:00 1 * MoM’nville .5:45 a . m . ¡Portland ...9:00 Li- Lax»! tickets for sale and baggage cheeked at the company’s up-town offioe. oorner of Pine and Second streets. Tickets for prin­ cipal points in California oan only be pro­ cured at company’s offioe, Corner F »nd Front streets Portland, Or. Frieght will not be reoeived for shipow* after five o'clock p. m. on either the east « west side divisions. E. P KOGERS, R. KOEHLER. G. F. & P A«“1- Manager. samuel corr, Late of Independence, having purchased tin TEAMS AXD TRICK* Of Logan Bros. A Henderson, offer« services in that line to the public, and