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VOL. 1. NO. 14. J. D. KIRK WOOD, s I> ENTIST, Poll man. AVSHhtncton T«r. Office Hours : 9 a. m. to 12 m . and 1 to 4 p. m. STEWART BLOCK. MAIN BT. E. H. LETTERMAN & CO., Dealers in Grain. Highest market price paid for Wheat, | Oats, barley and Flax. PULLMAN, - WASHINGTON TER. WILLIAM NEWTON. Attorney and Counselor at Law, PULLMAN, W. T. Money to loan on real •ctate at the lowest rates of'nUrfst. All legal business promptly attended to. Tuxes paid for non-residents. Col lections promptly made and remitted. II J. WEBB. J. F. WAIT. WEBB & WATT, Physicians and Surgeons Are Prepared to Treat All Special i Diseases. Office in Stewart Block. PULLMAN, WASHINGTON TER. 11. C. WILLIAMSON, FASHIONABLE Barber and Hair Cutter. Special Attention is Given to Cutting : and : Trimming' i Ladies' and Children's Hair. . Hot and Cold Baths. PULLMAN, WASH. TER. j PACIFIC <■ INSURANCE CAPITAL STOCK: 5500000 $500,000 $500.000 1 PORTLAND - - OREGON. W. V. WINDUS, Agent. Pullman, Washington Tit. MASON BROTHERS, Proprietors Pullman Meat Market. Dealers in all kinds of Fresh and Cured Meat. Specialties In Hea»o«. - £|^-lligtaest market prices paid for Cattlt and Ilidea, Hogs, etc. ~Ko4ine Block, - - Main (Street. VICTOR HUNZIKER, Jeweler: and Engraver — AND — -:- Practical -:- Watchmaker. -: rullman, Washington Ter. IHi|nlilll| of Watches, ClockJ,'«nd Jew- : lry a specialty. Postoflice Bnilding. BARNEY IIATTRUP, # — PROPRIETOR — | l Pullman Sample Room, Cor. Main and brand afreets. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Perfect order maintained and jreptlemanly treatment to every one. Pullman, - - Washington Ter. | i Union Pacific Railway. OREGON SHORT LINE. Through Pullman Sleepers and Modern Day ■roaches to Oinaba, Council Bluffs and Kansas S. ..Kkinu' DIRECT CONNECTIONS to the " cities of DENVER, CHEYENNE, SALT LAKE CITY, OGDES, COUNCIL HUFF?. OMAHA, KANSAS CITY.ST. LOUIB, CHICAGO, and all points in the East and South. - Ba*gag<- cheeked llirough from Fall - . i man to all points named. Family Sleepers Free on All Through Trains. '■ For further information regarding territory traversed, rates of fare, descriptive pamphlets, eW apply to nearest agent of tW Union Pacific Railway, or O. R. & N. C0.,0c address H. H. BROWX, Agent, Pullman. ■' T S. Tebbets, G. P. i T. A., Omaha, Neh. A. L. Maxwell, 0. P. 4 T. A., O. R. & a. Co., Portland, Oregon. Uht tollman 2lefid& »__^^i^^ ' FROM WASHINGTON. THE PRESENT OUTLOOK REGARD ING GEP-MAN INTERFERENCE. A Novel Set erne for Coast Defence—The Repor' of Mexican Outrages Un founded—More Bills for Ter ritorial Admission. International money orders have been increased from $50 to $10fi. Charges of bribery were made in the Senatorial contest in Minnesota. The Senate has adop'ed the sugar bounty amendment to the tariff bill. The Lord Mayor of London gave a banqi.et last week' in honor of Mr. Phtlp?, the American ambassador. The Secretary of State has received a cable fiom the consul at Colon, say ing that affair? on the Isthmus are quiet. The English cabinet disclaims co operation with the United States re garding the present misunderstanding with Germany. Vice President-elect Morton has leased the residence of Alex Graham Bell, at Washington, and will occupy it for the next four years. The supreme court has decided that a broker who fails to obey the instruc tions of his principal in a stock trans action, is liable for damages. The United States District Court, at Balimoie, in a recent decision, says that the law of civil rights must be interpreted by public opinion. Dispatches have been received at the State department from the Amer ican minister at Berlin in regard to the Samoan question. Thttir con tents are withheld from the public. A late dispatch to a French journal from Zanzibar says an American sail ing vessel, bound from Zanzibar to Midagascar, was fired on by a German vetsel. One of her mas's was broken. It is ch.rged tint attorneys and middlemen lnve used up ove: $1,000, --000 of the $2,000,000 awarded by Con gress to the Choctaw claimants and that the latter will get little or noth ing. United States Consul Willard, at Gu*ymas, Mexico, has sent a dispatch to the State department denying the report that a number of American cit izens had been killed by the Indians in Sonora. Many leading Senators and Repre sentatives of all parties scout the iden of a war between the United States and Germany. Nevertheless the arm ament and tquipment of war ships is being pushed at the various navy yards. Representative Springer will intro duce in the House another omnibus bill, providing an enabling act for the admission of Arizona, Idaho and Wy oming. The bill embodies all the features of the omnibus bill recently passed by the House. Petitions, said to contain the signa tures of 14,174,734 persons, were filed in the Senate at Washington last week, praying for the passage of Sen ator Blair's Sunday rest bill, and all were prepared, bill and all, by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The conferresfi on the bill to amend the interstate commerce law upon three amendments of importance agree, with the exception that the House members recede from the one nquiring the commissioners to adopt uniform clarifications for all rail roads. A letter from the Secretary of the Interior in response to a Senate reso lution, says there is not on the riles of his department anything to show what Dart the citizens of Washington Territory and Idaho took in volun teer service to suppress the Nez Per cos war. The report of the commissioner of schools of Utah, for the year 1888, says the taxation in the erritory for school purposes is in insufficient.. And I that the leaders of the Mormon church are actively pushing the scheme to establish Mormon denomi national schools in each county in the territory. Congressman Morrow says his views of the Samoan affair are positive, and that the 6tatu quo at the time the rep resentatives of the United States, Ger many and England met, must be re stored, and this would necessitate the replacement of King Malietoa in the position he was so unjustly removed by the German agents sent to the Mar shall islands. The Canadian lumbermen are re joicing over a measure which has been introduced in Congress, and claim that it will protect the Cana dian forests from American invaders. It is provided that no raft of logs or timber shall be brought into or taken out of any harbor or port of the Unit ed States, or brought into or upon any of the great lakes, from any part of Canada. It is stated that a powerful com pany of capitalists has proposed to the government a plan to defend the entrances to the harbors by forcing petroleum to the surface of the water through pipes laid at the bottom, and igniting it with a burning bomb, thus creating a eea. of fire through which the enemy's fleet must pass. An ex periment is soon to be made, the nec essary apparatus being now ready. Germany's views of the Samoan muddle and the Zanzibar question, causes distruct in English admiralty circles. Mysterious silence is main tained regarding Germany's naval preparations. Among leading men in Washington the idea prevails that the present truble between this coun try will have a tenden ;y to cause Con gress to vote sufficient money for the proper protection of our coast cities and towns. PULLMAN, WASH. TER., FEBRUARY 2, IHB9. MISCELLANEOUS. OLD LIBBY PRISON TO BE REMOVED INTACT TO CHICAGO. An Ohio Murderess too Depraved for the Gallows—A Remarkable v\ ell Near Pittsburg—Fruit of the Dime Novel In Boston General Payne has sold the yacht Volunteer. The wife of the Czar of Russia has become insane. A threshing machine in England is run by electricity. Teams crossed over the Mississippi j on the ice last week. All the American war ships will soon be leady for sea. A portion of the imperial palace at | Peking has been burned. The Mormon settlers in Minnesota are selling out and going to Utah. Oranges are now being moved in Florida in bulk, the same as potatoes. The Man li's followers are said to have made a saint of Geneial Gordon. Three murders similar to those of I the Whitechapel fiend have been per- i petrated in Jamaica. Three hundred houses were de stroyed by an earthquake in the Saba- 1 ret valley, Asia Minor. The house in which Lord Byron was ' born in London will be demolishes, to enlarge a draper's shop. The cotton crop this oear will be the largest e\er made, and will ap- j proximate 7,500,000 bales. A Paris letter states that the whole j of DeLeseep»' fortune disappeared in i the Panama canal scheme. The Kansas house has passed the! senate resolution favoring the opening of Oklahoma for settlement. It cost a Nebraska county nearly I $3000 to run the poor farm last yeai. There were but two paupers. The St. Liwrence river rose thir teen feet in four hours, last week, and , submerged the wharves of Montreal. ; There is apprehension of trouble during the centennial celebration of the French revolution next summer. Dining the past two months Mrs. ' James G. Blame, jr., has been study ing hard for her debut on the profes- ; sional stage. A young physician of Fall River,: Mass., is laid up with a disease of the ! tongue, attributed to excessive ciga rette smoking. On December 1, three strong earth- \ quakes were felt in Iqtrque, Peru, with an intermission of only from rive to nine second?. Dr. J. Milk Jenkin, who correctly locnt<d the bulle'. in Girfield'a body , dropped dead at Wilkesbare, Perm., of apoplexy, last week. A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., says the German gunboat Olga has , taken MiilietOH, ( x king of Samoa, to the Marshall islands. William Pierce, probably the oldest convict in New York in point of continual penal servitude, has been discharged from the asylum for in-1 sane criminals. A rocking stone in Now Marl- . borough, MafS., is so nicely balanced : that, notwithstanding it weighs many tons, the pressure of a single finger is ; sufficient to move it about an inch. The Canadian Knights of Labor are seeking to secure the exclusion of for- 1 eign labor from the Dominion, and de mand that the government pay no! more money to secure immigration. Joaquin Miller has finished the novel he was to write, as his contri bution to the literary syndicate. It is entitled "The Buried River." He was engaged but six days in its com- 1 position. A remarkable well has just been i struck at Pittsburg, Perm. It pro- ; duces at one and the same lime pure, cold water, salt water and a flow of j gas that when ignited illumines the entire surroundings. The Empress of Germany cannot use the imperial crown on her coat of arms, but must be content with the in- i signia of the Queen of Prussia. This j is the latest token of the filial affec- i lion of her eldest boy. The pride fight between Frank Shepley, of Helena, and John Cronin, j of New York, which took place at j Missoula Friday, was a remarkably i brutal affair. Cronin was knocked in- j sible and seriously injured. At Boston Sunday George Gretzen gar, aged twenty, held up his father j with a pistol and secured $10. After ward he attempted to hold up his | mother but she called the police. He shot two policemen before he sur- j reudred. Libby prison is to go to Chicago The work of taking apart the old structure ie now going on in Rich mond, Va, and as the bricks and beams are displaced they are num- j bered so that the building can be put: together again just as it stood in Vir- i ginia. The interior of the old prison is to be used as a sort of war museum. The colored washerwomen of Al bany, Ga., have served notice upon Chung Lee, a Chinese laundryman who arrived there recently, that he must leave the city at once. A year i ago they drove a couple of Chinamen ( out of the city by force. The China- 1 man says he will go. Phillip O'Brien, of San Francisco, committed suicide last Saturday, by j taking poison. \ Phillip, his son, shot j and fatally wounded one Barney ; Rosengrave in I^B7, for which he was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. Mrs. O'Brien was so atiected that she also died of bereavement over her double loss. THE PACIFIC COAST. INHUMAN TREATMENT OF PRISON ERS IN A PENITENTIARY. Mrs Langtry's Impoitation of Blooded Btock—The Lake Washington Ca nal—Survey of Reservations A Brute's Deserts. The Southern Pacific is believed to be building into San Diego behind the Ocean Beach and Delmar railroad. Reports from the Harqua Hila mines in Arizona are now discourag ing, and many prospectors are return ing. Charles Lumsteller was arrested at Port Townsend last week, charged with the murder of his wife in Minne sota. An examination of the great regis ter of San Diego gives promise of evi uence of fraud of a sensational char acter. The leading men in New Mexico say that the Territory is more in need of public schools than State govern ment. Arlee, chief of the Flathead Indians, proposes to inaugurate important re forms on the reservation among the tribes. The bill to remove the capital of Arizona from Prescott to Phoenix passed the Territorial council Thurs day. W. B. Reynolds, of Healdsburg, has been appointed inspector of Chi nese for the Coast, as provided by the Scott law. Mrs. Langtry has purchased an im ported thoroughbred stallion and four imported brpod mares, for her Califor nia ranch. The police of Spokane Falls made a raid last Thursday on the opium dens of that city, and captured twenty-five Chinamen. There is great difficulty in landing provisions on Destruction island to supply the men building the light house there. The mail service on route from Hillsboro to Portland, commencing February 1, has been increased to six times a week. John T. Black, under indictment for the murder cf his brother last M;iy, died in the county jiil at Virginia City last week. Reports from Helena, Montana, s;iy that indications point to tlie fact that there will be no little activity in rail road enterprises in that vicinity the coming soasun. The estimated cost of cutting a ca nal from Lake Washington to the Sound, so as to a-'mit. deep sea vessels to the lake, in $1,500,000. Miss Nellie Reich, who was so frightfully stabbed by an unknown m>in at her home near Colton, Cali fornia, recently, will recover. William Johnson while trying to discharge a gun at Hillsboro, Friday, I received the whole charge in the side oi the head, killing him instantly. The grand jury of Elko couniy, Ne vada, calls upon the Elko delegation I to the legislaiure to vote against the I lottery bill contemplated by that body. Resolutions were adopted at a mass meeting held at North Yakima, last week, urging the Governor to call a constitutional convention to adopt a State constitution. The Pulimin palace ccr company has acquired control of all parlor cat companies doing business in this country, with the exception of the Wagner, which is used on the Vauder bilt lines. The badly decomposed body of a supposed German, about mxty years? of age, was found near San Rafael, California, last week, in a tree, about fifteen feet from the ground. A raised umbrella was above the body. About $40,000 of the $50,000 re quired for the establishment of a watch factory at Otay, San Dieso county, which a company of Illinois capitalists have been talking Of start ing at that place, has been subscribed. Surveyor General Green, pursuant to instructions from the land depart ment at Washington, has posted no tices calling for bids for the survey of the Blackfoot, Fort Belknap and-Fort Peck Indian reservations in northern Montana. The Union of Walla Walla is pub lishing communications from convicts in the penitentiary concerning the in human treatment of prisoners in that institution. If the charges are true the prison authorities should be re moved forthwith. A requisition has been issued by the Governor of Oregon to the Gov ernor of Washington, for the delivery to the sheriff of Multnomah county of Morris Johnson, William Ashton, Dick Rogers and Agnes Woodward, charged with the murder of Cunning ham, in Portland, last year. Arminta Gardner, of Union county, has been placed in the insane asylum at Salem. She is but sixteen years old, and has been a mother for the past fifteen months. The author of her ruin, an! also of her insanity, is named Wiggins, and is serving a ten years' sentence for the outrage. Jacob Wilkerson, the colored man who was sent to San Quentin in 1872 for forty-five years, for the murder of a woman in S.m Francisco, was par doned in 1876 on the condition that he would leave the State and never return. He went to Honolulu, but returned a few days ago, and was recognized by the police and warned to leave. He was arrested Thursday night on the charge of drunkenness, and ia now in the city prison. The police will ask Governor Waterman i to revoke Wilkerson's pardon. AGRICULTUKAL. : A PLAN FOR THE RECLAMATION OF PEAR AND PEACH TREES. I The Effect of Too Much Pepper in the Fowl's Food—Bisulphide of Car bon as an Antiseptic—A Model Barn-yard. Very cold weather does not injure stock ms much as dampneea. A mod erately cold day, with a driving rain storm, causes more illness to ttock, tkan severe cold on a dry, clear day. The tlower-bed for the next year may be nude very rich by scattering the sweepings of the poultry-house over it. Bonpsnda may also be well utilized by throwing them on the Bower beds. If the bulbs of certain ilowers start to sprout while in the cellar ie indi cates that they are kept too warm. They should keep cool enough to re main in a dormant condition until npring. Sprouting injures .them. The object of the farmer in feeding animals through the winter should be for profit. Feeding stock to gain ;i profit from is a nice point, and re quires study and attention. It is not i enough to feed a sufficient quantity, l but the feed must be of such a nature as is best for accomplishing the ob ject e>f feeding. Bisulphide of carbon is one of the best and cheapest antiseptics and in secticide*. Already more than 8,000, --000 pounds of it are used annually to check the ravages of phyloxera, the i-courge of European vineyards. Bi sulphide of carbon has an extrpmely offensive odor, and is highly inflam mable and explosive. Feeding pepper often to fowls as a regular appetizer is a bad practice. Although a very little will elo no harm, yet the continued use of the condi ment is liable to cause liver complaint. Warm feed tends to have the same etimulating effect without possessing the injurious qualities of the cayenne. The only way to make roosts is to; make them on a movable frame, that I may be taken out of doors, there to be scalded with boiling water in which, is a little cm !e carbolic acid. Mak« j the roosts ail on a l;vel and not more than two feet high, thereby prevent-; ing much quarreling and the bumble i foot. Why more men do not make the dairy pay is because they refuse to be i lieve th<it there is any study or inves tigation needed in regard to the care, treatment and management of the dairy. If they chance en a success they call it luck, and if they fail they never investigate the matter to see wherein they tail, to as to steer clear of a repetition. The kind of feeding that keeps a lot of pigs or stockeM from threo to six months without grain is a total loss of graiu; also, a loss of time in the maturing of the animals. That is s.iiftless feeding that carries a lot of hogs rough winter on one cl.iss of feed. The need of variety brings them to the boneyard when grass is almost in Bight. A farmer with considerable exper ience who has siloed clover for two years, says if it should be left to wilt oh the ground for two hours after cut ting, and each day's rilling of thu silo be allowed to heat before the fresh cover is added, and the sides, not the Center, kept thoroughly tramped, the clover will come out moist and green, and the cattle will relish it as thoroughly as summer pasture. To make pullets trot along toward maturity with a wonderful accelerated pace, give them every morning a warm feed of bran and shorts and ground oats mixed up with milk, or meat stock in which is a little salt. At noon give a feed of meat, and at night all the wheat they will oat and a little left to scratch for the next day. In ad dition to this provide green food, crushed bones and pure water, and give eacli day one heavy feed of brok en dishes; they will be eaten with avidity. Freezing of the food and water will be one of the difficulties this winter as usual. The troughs become ice bound and the soft food freezes rap idly when the weather is severe. In such cases it is best to water the 8 ock at intervals rather than to keep water in the troughs. If you have no ar rangement for warming water, try the plan of a Western farmer, who heat* stones and drops one in the trough when the water is pumped in. It is better, however, to warm the water, using a boiler or steam-pipe, and if there is a large number of animals ii will pay to do so. A person who has some old pear trees that have about run out, asks advice of Popular Gardening and re ceives the following: Try the plan of digging a shallow trench, say one foot deep, six to eight feet away from th« body of the tree, and throwing into this a liberal supply of sod i, leaf mold, ashes, lime and manure and covering with earth, and then cut away all dead limbs and give the body and limbs a good coat of whitewash. We have seen old peach trees renewed beyond belief by this process. In some cases a large barnyard might well be divided into two or more smaller ones for different classe of live stock. A fruitful source of lost is the keeping of weak animals with vigorous ones; young with old; horses with cattle, sheep and hog*. By letting one set of animals out of stables or pens at one time and another, it may be possible to get along with > single yard, yet the best plan, whet' much stock is kept, is to have several yards. I PORTLAND MARKET REPORI GROCERIES -Sugars have fallen C Jc sine* our last report. We quote cube, extra C sc. dry granulated 6|c, cube crushed and powdered 7|c. Coffees firm, Guatemala KS.ia.'l c, Costa Kica IB¥*tte . Kio 20 "-■.•lU\ Salvadorli)@a)c, Arbuckle's roasted 23jc. PROVISIONS-Oregon haras are qnot ed at Ilk 13ic, breakfast bacon 13^b13Jc" Eastern tii"»t isqnoted as fololws: Hams 14" IS I*,1 *, Sinclairs 14 ■■15c, Oregon break fast 1) iron 13v<bI4c, Eastern KSfa, 13 c. FRUITS—Green fruit receipts 1^39 bxs. Hard fruit is scarce, and the supply of ap ! p'es not equal to the demand. .Apples Ki(cH i $1 per bx, Mexican oranges $4, lemons | Ms'<jti.sO per bx, bananas £3.£0C<54.50, | quinces 40 COc, V-GETABLE>—Market well supplied. i Cabbage | i lc per 16, carrots and turnip* j "5c per sack, red pepper 3c pertt>, potatoes i BVa.4t>e per rack, sweet lj@'^c per ft. DRIED FRUlTS—Receipts 91 pkges. i Sun-dried apples 4'»sc per Ib, factory ' slic d Be, factory plums 7@9c, Oregon : prune* 7 ~9c, pear* 9 • 10c, peaches 8210 c, ■ rai-ins $2't£2;k per box, Cali ornia figs Be, Smyrna 18c per Kb. ._ DAIRY PRODUCE—Oregon creamery and choice dairy 35c, medium 7<230c Cal ifornia fancy 30c, choice dairy 27ic eastern 25a30e. Receipts 293 cases. Oregon 25c. POULTRY — Chickens $5*5.25, for large young and $4 475 for old, turkeys llfol.'c per Ib, ducks $s<aj7 per dozen. 1 WOOL—Valley 18g20c Eastern Oregon 10®15c. HOPS-Choice 8?14c. GRAlX—Valley $1.35, Eastern Oregon $1.30 Oats 33a35c. F OUR-Standard 84.50, otner brand $4.25, Dayton and Cascade $4.10, Giaham $3.25, rye flour $6, do Graham §5.50. FRESH MEATS— live, 3Jf3ic dressed 7c, mutton, live, 31*3' c, dressed 7c, lambs $2.50 each, hogs, live, si<s6c, dressed 7@7J, veal 6(aßc. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —We dote upon this world as if it were never to have an end; and we neg lect the next as if it were never to have a beginning.— Fenelon. —The Japanese Government has In stituted a college for women, with English professors, and put it under the control of a committee of English wo men for six yeara. —The safest way to stay the progress of wrong is to advance the right. Every direct attack upon the wrong, by the right, imperils the right by inviting a counter-attack upon itself. —No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar. Labor, iron labor is for him. The world ! was created as an audience; the atoms \ of which it is made, are opportunities. ! — Emerson. —Doctrine serves to gather humanity Into the various folds, according to their individual convictions; but the \ actual worship flows from each through but one channel, finding equal accept ance from a loving God. —"I will pive you an orange, Wil lie," said a famous English Freethinker to a little boy, "if you can tell me where God is." "And I will give you two," replied the boy at once, "if you | can tell me where He is not."—liar \ per's Young People. —The Ten Commandments were given to the people some thousand years ago for their moral advancement, and the Sermon on the Mount is nearly 2,000 years old; and still it is hard work for , nearly more than half of the people of civilization to give them more than cas ual observance. —One of the most important imngs that the Christian can do, says the N. Y. Independent, for the culture of his own piety is to acquire the habit of systematically and devoutly reading and studying the Bible. By this habit , he will "grow in grace" by growing "in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" The more he reads the Bible the more precious will It become in his experience. —How lonely the mother feels when for the first time her boy shows that he feels too big to be kissed! As they be gin to feel like little men, too many boys thing that any show of affection on their part is babyish; they are afraid of being called "girl-boys" or milksops. Just as if a man is ever more manly than when he loves and protects the mother who loved and protected him through so many helpless years, Such j a boy is sure to grow into the man who ! takes such good care of his wife. — Rural New Yorker. WIT AND WISDOM. —"One man's conduct may lead a host into a snare; beware how you fol low man; the prudent man looketh well to his going." —Why is it that, whenever you are \ looking for any thing, you always find ' It hi the last place you look? The reason is because you always stop look- Ing when you find it. —Young man, don't break in two in j the middle if the world goes against j you. Brace up and go against the j world awhile, and see how quick you ! can knock it out Washington Critic —The faults and weaknesses of others, instead of being woven into gos- ! sip, scundal and useless criticism, Bhould be used as danger signals, to warn us away from the paths which have led to them. —It is clearly an undeniable fact that mankind generally had rather remain actually ignorant of any certain thing | not a'ready known to them than to learn it in any way which will show and virtually acknowledge their igno rance. — Dcs Moines Leader. —If the right is not used as a weapon of offense, it is not so likely to need to ! spend itself in its own defense. And if | the wrong is busy neither with its own ; defense nor with the direct offense against the right, it ia more fairly open to see the right as exhibited in the right It is better to draw one into the right than even to drive him out of the wrong.— S. 8. Timtt. $2.00 PER YEAR. CONTINENTAL ENGLISH. Thing* That Reminded^ an American Trawler of 111* Native Toneue. A Boston musician who has been making a European trip ("carefully avoiding Bayreuth" is a malicious pa renthesis which he puts in, in a note to the Listener 1), jotted down such ex amples of English defiled as amused him in his wanderings. Hero are some of them: In a hotel at Vienna: The P. T. Customers are requested intending to give money or objects of valuo in deposits at the office of the hotel against receipt, it can be garan ted for. Leaving the room the P. T. Customers are requested to lock tho door and leave the key at the hall por tor. The P. T. Customers who leaves the hotel in the evening are requested to {rive notice at the office of the hotel until 12 o'clock A. m. Dejeuners, diners, supers, und a la carte zu jeder Tagezeit a toutes heures, every time. Over a money changer's office In Salzburg: Buying and sale of all sorts of in landish and outlandish monies here. Advertisements in a German paper: First-class pension; pleasant home; decent prices. Toilet articles recommends cheapest in best qualities. Address left in a hotel register: Mrs. Craig; Postrestaurant. Voniea. Sign in cafe in Von'.ce: Shores gooble. (Sherry cobbler). In a catalogue describing the tomb of the Scaligers at Verona: He was one of the Ghibelline party, as the arms on his urn show, that is a stair-case risen by an eagle. In catalogue of a picture at Venice: In the dome, St. Roch conducting into the charity's presence^ a person recogniting the fraternity of St. Roch. The door of second floor is adorned with six columns with bas-reliefs rep resenting an illustration of einigo facts of the history of old testament. In tho coiling, the following pictures by Tintoret: In the middle, the sin our fathers; on every side, three kinds in the oven of Babylony. In the mid dle, tho sacrifice of Abraham; on every side, Daniel in the trench of the lion. Eliseai dispansing brods. The wood carvings are by anonymous. On the right hand we see: The resurrection of Lazaro. Multiplica tion of brods and fishs. In the mid dle, Moise who spring the water; on every side, the ard :nt wood, the lu minous column in the desert. Sign in museum at Antwerp: Defense de toucher; dont touching. Sign over restaurant in Antwerp: KofTy, eten, boefstucken, English launching house. — Boston Transcript. BULL AND PYTHON. Story of a Fight to the Unath in the South African Mountain*. Lust Sunday week one of the most remarkable scenes on record is report ed as having been witnessed in the vi« cinity of Table mountain. A troop of cattle, consisting- of twelve cows and a patriarchal old bull, were grazing on one of the plateau-like spurs of th« mountain, which is surrounded OB three sides by precipitous ravines, and on the fourth side, that nearest the mountain, by dense bush. Some na tives higher up the mountain were at tracted by the sudden bellowing; of th« cattle, and saw two enormous pythons coming out of the bush and making for the cattle, which had drawn themselves up in a compact group with the bull al its head. As the pythons drew near the animals gradually backed until they stood on a small space that jutted out over a tremendous precipice. At this stage a sudden rush was made, but only one heifer succeeded in escap ing, The other cattle, bellowing most piteously, gradually backed, and one by one fell over the precipice till final ly the bull only was left. He suddenly charged at the big python transhxing the reptile on his horns, but the sec ond snake seized the bull in its folds and, having its tail around a huge boulder, commenced to crush the bull, which, moaning piteously, struggled frantically to escape. The tail of the python lost ita hold of the rock, but the larger snake, which had slipped off the horn, lapping its tail around a smaller boulder opposite the one the other snake had just released, seized the bull and compressed the animal in its scaly fold. The other python suc ceeded in regaining its former position, and the bull was literally suspended in mid air by the snakes. The whole scene looked like some ghastly tri umphal march. The snakes were evi dently getting the best of the poor brute, which was bleeding profusely, when, by a sudden effort, his struggles forced both reptiles to loose their hold of the rocks and the whole three were hurled into the ravine beneath. The cattle were found on the first ledge of the precipice, all being dead, but the bull and the pythons had bounded from ledge to ledge, and were found 400 leet below the scene of the fight. The bull was merely a mangled mass and the snakes were greatly mutilated, the larger one having the vertobrse broken in nine places. Tho pythons, which were of the rock species, male and female, measurea respectively 40 feet 3 inches and 36 feet 9J inches.— Katal Witness. —A Michigan farmer, who had lost three pigs that a bear stole froa) the pen. put his big boar in their place and awaited results. The bear camo and attempted to hug the hog, but tha boar used his long tusks so skillfully that after a hard fight he got the best of the bear, and rendered him so help- . less that the farmer finished Mm with