12 THIS IS BUSINESS. Exports and Imports Tia the Railroads. A Gain of Seventy-five Million Pounds. The Freight Business of Southern California. Statistics from the Southern Pacific aud Santa Fe Companies—A Great Gain In the Shipments or Onr Products. The annual compilation ot freight statistics by the auditor of the Southern Pacific road tells an interesting tale of the enlargement of the freight receipts and shipments at the city of Los An geles. The figures given are based on ten months of 1891, while the compara tive figures quoted for the preceding year cover the entire twelve months. In 1890 the freight received here aggre gated 50,660,210 pounds, and the ship ments east from here 71,668,500 pounds. For the ten months of the past year the receipts were 51,602,910 pounds, and the shipments from Los Angeles 116,658,500 pounds. This showß a sain of over 45,000.000 pounds in the shipments from this city for ten months atone, and a gain of 942,700 pounds in the receipts. The remarkable increase in the ship ments is a most gratifying feature, showing, as it does, the development of local industries and the rapid expansion of our horticultural interests. The following table gives a compara tive statement covering the staple articles of product and the increase in shipments as contrasted with the previous year: THEOCGn FREIGHT, EAST-BOUND, PROM LOS AN ELKS, FOR THE YEAR le9l. Pounds Aspha'tum 4, 72.410 Beans 22 709,190 Borax 5*8.960 Brardv 7i.5,»6c> Canned goods 2,0 9.070 Empty packages ' 295.320 Fruit, dried 1,841,860 Fruit, green, citrus 36,621.290 Fruit, green, deciduous 1,637,460 Hidesaud pelts 560.010 Honey 455,530 Horses 126.000 Household goods and personal effects 357 600 Nuts 1,010,500 Ouiuns 1,061,520 Potatoes 18.989,300 Raisins 1.550670 Vegetables 7,256,390 Wine :-',129 0(i0 Wool 2,629,900 Miscellaneous 8 732.760 Grand total 116.658,500 THROUGH FREIGHT, WEST BOUND TO LOS ANGE LES, FOR THE YEAR 1891: Pounds. Agricultural implements 911540 Alcohol £5,500 Ale aud beer 89 1,250 Alkalies •.. 153,090 Bacon and hams 49,560 Bags and bagging 96,230 Baking and yeast powder 272,170 Beef and pork 45,670 Boo»s—Printed 130,790 Boots and shoes 558 460 Brushes 33,830 Butter 356 330 Candies 133,750 Canned gouds 606,020 Carpets 382 640 Cheese 136.370 Cigars 228 700 Clothing 169,200 Coffee—Roasted 303,960 Con ectionery 167 830 Cordage and rope 452,580 Drugs 461,700 Dry goods 1,442.180 Furnishing goods 334 690 Farthenware, etc 3»3,250 Kg;s 12-<,OOO Engines 77,300 Fish—Lried anl salted 14\950 Fruit-Dried 23,96)* Fruit—Green 610.140 Furniture 228 610 Glassware 934,320 G'ass—Window 167,87" Hara.rare 1,248.810 Hats and caps 125,570 Horseshoes ... $ 375,210 Household goods and personal ef fects 2,488.190 Iron—Bar, sheet, etc 6,334.460 Lard 184,260 Liquors ... 303,8 0 Livestock 288,00)1 Living plants and trees 1,809,960 Lumber 397,190 Machinery .... 1,751,470 Marble 66 310 Mea—Corn and oat 917,530 Kent 1" bulk 452,720 Mineral water 32.100 Molasses 326,990 Musical instruments 186.110 Nails H23.130 Oil—Coal 4,525,820 Oil—Linseed 340,140 Oil—Lubricating 43,860 Paper 1,387,280 Preserves and pickles 91,550 Plumbers' toods 112 32(1 Primed matt-r 38.070 Bail road material 216 980 Refrigerators 45.4'>0 Kesin 279,060 Saddlery and harness 69.010 Scales snd beams 12 020 Seed—Farm and garden 202,220 Sewing machines 208,880 Soap common 127,200 Starch ... 11.1,020 Stationer-- 274,450 Slaves and heading 320,420 Steel 1,360,920 Stone 118,210 Steves and ranges 436,730 Syrup 142,960 Telegraph material 59,640 Tin pUte 667,820 Tobacco 466,400 Toys 79,600 Twine and netting 43,660 Vehicles 644,420 Wagon material 205,480 Windmills 64.740 Wire fence 548,8(0 Wire and wire goods 280,770 Woodenwtre 259,680 Merchandise 8,637,390 Grand t0ta1.... 51,002,910 SHIPMENTS OVER THE S. P. CO., EAST. Article. 1890 - 1891 - Article. Pouuds. Pounds. Potatoes and vegeta bles 11,051,000 33,352,000 Bai.-lns. 1,184,000 1,374,000 Walnuts 1.151,000 880,000 Canned Coeds 2,690,000 1,950,000 Wine aud brandy 3,360,000 2,825 000 Wool 2,9.0,000 2,170,000 Oranges. 38.100,000 .17,600.000 Beans 19,300.000 15,300,004 The above figures for 1891 represent only the first ten months, while the figures of 1890 are complete. The total gain in the shipments of the staple pro ductions of Southern California from tlii-s city by both the Southern Pacific and the Santa F6 roads was 72,537,200 pounds. THE SANTA FE. Statistics of Shipments During the Past Year. The statistics of shipments by the Santa road f*"m Los Angeles during the past twelve months show that there has been a very marked increase in the products of this section of the state. The total shipments or oranges, lemons, other fruits and vegetables and honey for the year were 101,323,000 pounds, an increase of 27.473,000 pounds. The shipments were classified as follows: Pouudr. Onntea 64,435.000 Lemon* 378,000 Other fruits and vegetables 41,300,000 lion, y 2,150,000 Total... 101,323,000 THE LOS ANGELE9 HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 1, 1892- The increase in the orange shipments over 1890 was 7,460,000 pounds, and the increase in lemons 203,000 pounds, while the showing for other fruits and vegetables is 19,810,000 pounds in excess o last year. Tbe following is a statistical statement of the freight business for the year end ing December 31st, 1891: Commodities. Weight in Lbs. Grain 69,960,200 Floor 10,541 600 Other mill productt 8,447,4t0 Hay 20,*S5,MM> Fruits and vegetables 126.644,400 Live stock 12,037,600 Dressed meats 46.1 4tio Other packiu boose products 7.106,600 Poultry,gim fish 2,617 400 Woo .... 3,276,000 Hides n 1,047,000 Hiiumi 136,633,800 Ores. 1,2.10,200 ston; „ tlcies 44,819 400 ium 88 207.:M4.600 pa ,i« ' .... 21,292,2 O Su ™ 1.555.000 Iro„ ,".. 1,246,000 Sir"- '9 6 f m.co Average number oi poisons employed, 1000. Dread for tho 'Russians. Mr. Squills (looking over the paper)— The Russian army is almost in a state of mutiny because the soldiers have to eat wheat bread. Mrs. Squills (a famous housekeeper)— That's too bad. I suppose it's because they don't know how to fix it. You must write to the czar this very day and tell him. Mr. Squills (starting)—Eh? Mrs. Squills—Yes,, tell him that he must be sure to furnish the army with, good butter; get print butter if possible; it's often as low as fifty cents and never over a dollar a pound. Then, on baking days, when tho bread is fresh, tell the soldiers to spread the butter on thick and it will be delicious. The following day, when it is a little dry, give each soldier a bowl of rich cream and tell him to crumb it in. I'm sure they'll like it.—New York Weekly. Executors Responsible. Judge Holmes, of the supreme court, has decided in the case of Gertrude P. Sheffield against Horatio Q. Parker and Francis J. Parker, that the defendants, executors of the estate of the late Judge Joel Parker, will not be allowed in their accounts as executors the sum of $10,0OC, expended in the purchase of stock in a mortgage company, which, since the purchase, has gone into liquidation. The executors invested in the stock at par, and at the time i£ was paying 7 per cent, dividends. After the purchase it stop ped paying dividends, and has gone out of business. —Boston Traveller. The Man and the Sruto. Before Judge Utley William Crowley, of Leicester, was charged with assaulting his wife, Johanna Crowley. He knocked her down, she says, and kicked her. She freed herself from him and ran into the street. He followed. She managed to break away for the third time and tried to make her escape. Crowley started in the chase, but was held back by the firm grip of a dog's teeth upon his trousers. The household pet had grown tired of the household disturbance.—Worcester (Mass.) Ixazetto. Seat and Carp. A 700 pound seal was captured alive off Fort Point the other day, and was purchased by the Spring Valley Water company and placed in their Lake Mer ced reservoir. Tho company already have thirteen seals that are useful in de stroying the carp that abound there in such numbers as frequently«to fill the outlet pipe. The big seal will be a great help in reducing the number of fish in the reservoir.—San Francisco CalL A tobacco dealer in New Haven, whose trado in the'main is with the Yale boys, says that the sale of cigarettes is falling off. Three years ago he sold 860,000 packages of one brand; last year he sold 200,000 packages of all brands. He now sella fifty pipes where be formerly sold one. The way to make money is to save it. Hood's Barsaparllla is the jrost economical medicine to buy, as It is the only medicine of which can truly be said "100 doses one dollar." Do not take any other preparation tf yon have de cided to buy Hood's Sarsaparilla. AN OLD FRIEND. All About Our Noted Glorious Climate. Figures Covering the Past Fourteen Years. Meteroelogical Statistics Which Tell the Story. Fnll Reports Regarding Temperature— The Rainfall—A Remarkable Showing or Kg nobility and Clear Hays. The record of the weather in Los An geles for the past fourteen years cer tainly presents a most potential argu ment in favor of this city as the garden spot of the American continent. With the assistance of Weather Observer Franklin the Herald is enabled today to present a series of statistical tables, covering a period of fourteen years, in all of which period there was not a va riation of over 5 per cent in the mean temperature of any month. Tbe high est temperature during the year was in July, whtjn the mercury rose to 109 de grees. There were no days during the year when the temperature fell below the freezing point. The number of clear days for 1891 exceeded those of the past five years. The tables also show that the wettest months of the year are January, February, March and Decom ber. The statistical tables are given be low. HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURE. The following table shows the num ber of days in each month, and each year, on which the temperature was above 90 degrees or below 32 degrees (the freezing point of water, Fahren heit): 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 188S 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 Year. s cr r» © CO o to a cr > ta cr £. - Co © to K cr » 2 o CO CO o to 2 ° C9 CO © to t Si SS co o to •n co o to o o CP W > 2 o © CO 2 9 s $ CO i S 09 55 o 'O CO to CO © to 6 18 2 17 10 19 26 27 17 30 20 32 cr o CP 5 TABLE SHOWING MONTHLY, ANNUAL AND AVERAGE RAINFALL. Precipitation, including deposit from fog and dew, in inches and hundredths. Table showing the monthly, annual and average precipitations: T indicates in precipitation. 19. .. 10 18 to 16 IT.... tu 14 15 13 10.... II 12 .... 9 .... Year. 7.8 3 3 1 3 14 1.0 1 6 3 I 1.0 7.7 .1 6 0 p c .01 1 .41 9.25 .97 1.56 n P 7.68 .97 2 66 2 87 12 36 .0' 2.52 .29 3.17 6.48 .66 .41 er 2 57 .49 1 45 .66 .4 1.8 3.5 2 0 3.3 2.3 1.7 11 5 0 ~3 p 3 SJ 1 > in cn a ST H o I I.' 5 : 1. 1 I .1 o tr 2 e ti ,s 2 5 4 t; 1 e S D P THE PRECIPITATION. The following table shows the number of days on which .01 of an inch or more precipitation occurred, including fog and dew : 1»78 1879 1880 1881. .... 1882..:.... 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1S88, .... 1881 1890 1891 Year. S a I > a s 1 THE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE. The following table shows the month ly temperature for fourteen years, with the highest, lowest and mean tempera tures for each month: 1878. . 1879. 1881. 1 188>. . | 18*3. . I 1884... i 1885. . 1886. . : 1837... I 18-8... 1889 18S0. 1891... Year. H. L. M. 72 0 37 0 54 9 73 7 36 0 52 2 76 0 30 0 51 3 7i 0 7 0 51 7 71 2 32 0 40 4 82 0 30 0 53 5 78 O 33 7 53 0 71 6 38 O 53 9 75 3 3« 0 54 7 79 6 33 1 55 4 71 0 30 0 50 0 71 0 32 O 52 0 67 0 31 0 49 0 80 0 31 0 56 0 January. H. L. M. 71 0 41 0 55 0 80 5 38 6 55 5 70 5 33 5 50 I FB 0 42 5 57 9 76 7 32 O 50 3 1-2 0 28 0 52 3 81 0 38 5 55 1 81 0 36 5 56 6 81 0 5' 1 59 5 8' 5 35 4 51 6 73 5 39 2 54 4 84 0 33 0 56 0 81 0 35 0 54 0 71 0 73 0 53 0 February. 76 0 42 0 79 0 4 ! 5 73 5 36 0 89 0 37 0 87 8 35 3 84 0 42 6 82 5 37 o 95 1 42 3 76 0 37 2 85 0 41 ' 79 0 35 0 81 O 410 810 40 0 82 0 40 0 H. L. March. M. 80 0 41 5 57 0 89 0 47 0 62 2 88 5 4' 2 58 7 97 0 4 1 0 61 0 83 0 40 0 55 9 97 0 42 0 61 1 94 0 48 0 61 4| 89 3 41 0 62 7 1-0 0 40 0 5a 4 86 1 42 I 61 7 89 0 3SO 57 3 100 0 39 5 62 1 80 0 41 5 57 21 79 0 47 O 616 88 6 *4 8 6i 9 8o 0 48 6 63 5 80 0 42 3 57 2 89 0 44 2 62 4 87 0 40 3 59 1 9 2 0 41 5 61 1 99 0 44 0 U 9| 83 0 45 0 60 8 93 0 46 0 33 0, 94 0 56 0 63 3 94 0 42 0 59 0 96 0 43 0 63 O 86 0 42 0 59 0 74 0 47 0 62 0 H. I.. M. April. May. L. M. 81 0 47 0 65 i 103 5 50 5 65 83 0 50 0 63 88 0 48 0 65 87 1 49 6 61 100 0 5 2 0 68 9-> 0 49 5 f 5 90 1 47 0 65 91 6 4* 2 66 10 ■ 1 46 7 66 94 0 50 5 67 81 O 510 66 105 0 48 0 68 i 89 0 49 0 66 June. 88 0 52 0 67 7 89 0 54 0 68 6 84 5 52 0 66 8 97 5 53 0 69 5 85 O 5! 0 64 2 87 o 52 0 66 4 96 I 52 1 68 8 1 P8 8 5 2 1 69 4 98 9 52 3 68 0 93 9 57 0 71 o 1 On 0 f 2 5 69 8 93 <> 50 0 69 8 F» 0 51 5 7<> 2 101 5 52 5 71 3 93 5 5 3 4 70 0 105 6 51 2 7 I 7 98 1 50 4 69 5 ', 98 1 53 7 71 « 98 1 51 1 69 5 93 6 52 1 68 5 95 0 49 » 67 9, 97 0 51 3 67 6 »P 0 54 0 71 Ol 95 O F5 0 70 97 0 55 0 73 0 ; 99 0 56 0 73 0 109 0 54 0 74 0; 96 0 54 0 75 0 H. L M. July. H. h. M. August. 103 0 50 0 65 6 I'll 0 47 0 67 2 91 0 44 0 64 5 102 0 50 0 67 9 1"0 0 46 0 67 6 03 5 53 0 71 9 9 -• 5 45 5 65 5 H>8 5 51 3 69 5 913 48 3 65 6 91 0 49 2 68 2 98 2 55 0 68 4 1- 3 0 52 0 73 O 94 0 54 0 710 100 0 52 0 73 9 L. September, M. 91 O 43 0 63 O 96 5 42 5 64 3 89 I) 44 0 62 0 82 3 43 O 60 9 88 O 44 O 63 0 8* O 43 5 61 0 89 1 42 9 62 3 102 3 41 6 61 8 82 2 41 1 59 3 93 2 47 2 65 0 98 0 41 0 61 9 89 O 50 O t*6 O 99 0 46 0 68 O- 89 0 46 O 66 0 H. L. October. 81 0 8* 5 85 0 80 8 81 O 84 0 88 0 78 5 84 9 86 0 84 0 82 0 96 0 85 0 H. Novsmber. L. 58 3 55 2 55 5 50 5 57 3 59 2 f 9 6 59 5 56 6 60 0 57 0 ft 0 6 0 61 0 M. - 88 2 30 < 76 0 30 £ 80 O 38 ( 79 3 35 f 82 O 35 ( 8(1 0 3 ' ( 75 6 45 £ 82 O 40 i 84 8 37 i 73 2 35 5 79 0 41 < 62 6''43 < 38 2 76 0 30 O 79 3 «a o 30 0 ;5 e 32 0 34 8 73 2 79 0 32 6 H. December. 30 < 30 £ 38 ( 35 f 35 C 3' ( 45 £ 40 I 37 S 35 5 41 ( 43 C Ik 0 54 4 5 51 9 0 55 6 3 54 7 0 57 4 0 56 3 5 52 3 3 57 9 3 55 7 2 53 7 0 55 0 6 61 2 M. NUMBER OF CLEAR, FAIR AND CLOUDY DAYS. The following table shows the number of clear, fair and cloudy days in each month and each year: 1878 1879 1880 1881 1832. 1883 1881 188) 1886 1837 188* 183:» l-<9<> 18J1 o"ao 2"*2 2^2 P * B P t fi P •» O 13 10 8 13 6 9 7 H 6 16 10 5 6 13 9 16 5 10 20 10 1 16 8 6 16 10 4 17 9 5 14 12 2 15 13 3 18 6 7 16 9 3 15 5 11 21 6 4 13 9 6 6 14 11 17 8 6 H 8 10 8 11 1 17* lo* 4 16 11 1 14 12 8 13 6 11 20 4 4 14 11 6 21 10 0 13 9 6 18 12 1 14 8 9 11 8 7 10 12 9 19 6 6 18 8 2 9 18 4 10 13 8 : 15 9 4 13 13 5 18 11 2 10 7 11 11 10 7i 2 2 p » a 2^2 ** a 2^2 p i b 9 13 9 13 12 5 8 10 12 6 13 11 16 9 5 19 13 2 11 13 7 11 12 7 13 10 1 11 10 fl 11 8 8 11 13 6 6 20 4 10 13 7 11 10 22 9 15 11 9 15 12 11 12 15 7 16 4 21 14 14 44 11* »5 18 9 19 5 18 4 20 2^2 p * c i 3 15 1 I 3 21 : 7 22 12 16 ' ; 11 14 1 is 12 I 8 9 i; li 14 i 10' 16* : . 17 io : i 17 12 !' 1 28 9 21 i 11 14 p e June. 5 3! 0 10 19 2 15 14 1 17 13 12 18 0 17 14 0 IS 12 0 19 9 5 23 3 12 16 3 6 23 1 9 16 11 19 1 12 18 1 17 11 2 19 9 0 22 O 16* U" 1 2.1 2 2 20 9 11 19 1 12 18 1 *1 8 0 3 14 ; 24 7 o 23 18 0'20 8 2 25 4 It 16 1 1« 14 1 18 12 O 21 10 i: 15 11 2 21 8 ? !5 1-4 0 15 11 1 13 13 5 11" 20 0 15 12 3i2l 6 117 17 1 2.1 8 0 22 7 2JC 10 15 16 0 14 16 1 ill 18 ! I 6 2 120 -1 OllO 2 1 lll2 12 6|25 2 i 8 23 0 9 22 • 17 13 0 10 2J ST E. o P t S ■4 P H- July. 2^2 P "I B p *i c V 11 10 12 5 8 11 7 8 7 9 8 8 4 10 2 3 1 0 6 1 2 8 1 3 7 1 o 22 4 5 10 10 8 10 10 11 15 14 2 22 8 1 22 7 2 13' ll> 6 21 5 6 18 12 1 ! 21 7 3 '118 6 7 i 13 12 6 2 ** 2 « ? I Dece mber. 141 359 65 173 146 46 14i 171 54 172 1 54 39 197 109 51 183 143 39 189 1)0 66 181 145 48 190 131 43 196 129 39 184 118 64 163 1&3 47 p «s 2 2. o THE HUMIDITY. The following table ahowa tbe monthly and annual mean relative hu midity : OUXCBXXQOXXXXXXCCX tD *C XCDoV CC OP US X CX X T-J J — © to -x «g a w^-ikOHOtcx Ml % OOQ MCCOOK OOP OS 00 WO I -1 Oi -3 <| 3D CT. -1 CO O. Ol *-! *-l ©»>. -j-gcasc wen© wcnAna qaj^jv oo©*JO"ccos©r--M(MH«cce 32 mdy (SCO QDCO*.SOtOi».OiO:-OI ABK OOOrc0350»W — -qOTO^-a-^Oi-l-JO".OS'S* OKI OOOHOIC93IVOI|-«-)»CC -ki o; o;-3 © *3 /.„ * ©Olb.OO'»CefO'-l**-©fcOlP' ( iiU£x-3-]a-3-3CJt*ncncjK|«)t wqtnaAOK 01 iooa rsnuuy ©' © to©►Si-'#•»©«©© . Total? October November... December.... September.. January. . February .. Ma'ch April May June July August 51 51 Number Nominal. 46' 883 1.3 1886. 1888 1891. * 528,153 4 484,485 8 766,239 3 1,098,840 1 760,705 8 1,019,644 6 5*6,248 1 631 171 5 588,91-1 0 794 796 8 965 548 914,665 0 ' 9,148,131 5 733,5 • 0 68 634,036 Od 1,003.901 02 l,02v>,264 3i 840.505 18 678,218 77 552,982 14 544,381 59 583 961 08 493 098 18 543.102 98 696,991 00 1884. 604 350 00 694,136 00 902, H52 00 696.566 ( 0 7 82,8>-3O0 751,340 00 1,234,964 OC 511,188 00 1.109,122 00 812,176 00 748.263 00 1,182,412 00 1885. ' 1886 1 1887. 62 847 1888. 1889. ■li 19.344 1 S 1 1890. 1831. .11 ; ESS The City Won't Pay for tne xrousers. There; was quite an ■ audible smile in the board of aldermen -tshcn a communi cation was received from Officer Milton C. Morse, asking for five dollars damages for a pair of pants while arresting a prisoner. Alderman Watson moved that the claim be allowed, but Alderman Ar nold jumped up and remarked that he thought that tho policemen earned salary enough to pay for their own pants, and moved that the request be refused. A minute later he withdrew his motion, but the request was not granted.—Hav erhill (Mass.) Gazette. A Hen That Lays Golden Eggs. There is danger of a breaking out of the gold fever in West Stockbridge. A thoroughbred hen up there laid a few days ago an egg with a shell that fairly glittered with tiny specks of gold. If the place where the hen found the metal can be found there is a party already or ganized to seek paying dirt. —Newbury- port (Mass.) News. The Whipping Deserved. Miss Susie Gardner, teacher in the Pales school, near Roachdale, Ind., whip ped Albert Coonkright, an unruly pupil, and his mother prosecuted the teacher for assault. The defendant was tried by jury and acquitted, the jury holding the ounishment well deserved.—Exchange. Don't suffer from dyspepsia. Take Simmons Regulator. It always cures. .v ONE OF A VANISHING RACE. He Hunts Over Wide Areas and Is at Home Wherever There Is Wilderness. The professional hunters and trappers who at one time comprised the whole of the white inhabitant class in this sec tion are becoming so few that a real old time solitary woodsman who plunges into the forest and divests himself of human companionship is becoming a rare sight. Joe Thomas is one of the best examples that remain of these men, and a study of his characteristics is in- teres ting. Thomas is a man of about forty. He is slightly below medium height and is not heavily built. He appears like a full blooded negro, although he says that his mother was a half breed Indian. He has sparse, tightly curled -whiskers and does not look like a Nimrod and fcirlighty man among coons and deer. Thomas follows as near the life of the red man as any one can in these days, arid has an antipathy to human society, though he is nothing of a misanthrope, and talks well to any one who questions him. In the summer time Thomas works at whatever he can get to do about the cities in this vicinity and through to Ohio. When tho squirrel season opens he is In Ohio, and puts in the first few weeks of |he autumn shooting squirrel. As the deer season opens, he emigrates northward, and for the rest of the win ter lives the life of the solitary hunter, shunning human habitations and sleep ing in the woods in the mc%t inclement weather. His domestic outfit consists of a tent, blankets and a small stove, and he declares that he is more contented in the woods than he would be in town. When the night is cold he lights his £re, chains his dog up in the tent and sleeps. While the deer run, Hopkins follows them tirolessly, and when night over takes him on the trail he lies ,down in the woods to sleep, confident that the deer is as tired as he and will not move during the night unless disturbed, and in the morning will be so stiff that the. second day's chase will be a compara tively easy matter. After tho deer season is over Thomas starts for the open, and traps skunks and otter and all other fur bearing animals for the rest of the winter. At all times he is ready in case old Zip Coon comes* racking around, and his dog he alleges to be one of the best coon dogs in the country. The animal is a liver and white hound, slightly larger than a fox hound, and with no more fat on him than is required to grease his joints. Thomas said that the dog got him more than fifty dollars' worth of coonskins in one season, and he would not part with him for three times that amount. Joe tells a story to illustrate the sagacity of the dog. He says that one winter the dog treed a coon in a big tree. Joe always carries climbing irons, and he skinned up the tree. He followed the coon out on a branch and shook him off, and he heard him squeal as the dog nabbed him. When Joe got to the bottom of the tree there was no coon in sight and no dog. He heard the dog running and called to him; the dog came out of the bushes a moment and then ran back. Joe fol lowed and found that the dog was run ning around a skunk, keeping it from going into its hole. Mr. Dog did cot , want to interview the skunk closely, but the skunk was not sure of that, and bo kept his eye on the dog, circling around, and the dog was gradually getting him away from his hole. Joe killed the skunk, but he could find no trace of the coon, and concluded that the dog had lost it. The next morning he reproved the dog, saying: "You didn't do right about that coon last night; you lost him. Now you go get him." The dog looked kind of ashamed and moved off. Joe followed him, and they went back to the place where the trouble occurred on the pre vious night. After nosing around a while the dog unburied the coon from where he had buried it, having been afraid to leave it while he went after the skunk, so he buried it, leaving the tail sticking out of the snow so he could find it again. Some one asked Thomas if he was not afraid that the bears would eat him some night. He said that the only thing that made him mad was that the bears kept away from him and didn't give him a chance. Joe says that the houses are getting altogether too thick, and when he meets up with a house he wants to get as far away from it as he can and as quick as he can.—Oil City Derrick. Cheaper in the End. Boutton —So you are not going to housekeeping when you get married? De Boarder—No. We shall take board for a year. "Isn't that rather an extravagant way to begin?" "Not at all. I desiro my wife to study economy of my landlady. Then we will start housekeeping, and I will make her | an allowance of as much a week as we paid for board." "Wliat do you think will be the re sult?" "Well, by the time we are old she ought to have about a million."—New York Weekly. Tree Toads in Demand. Tree toads are in big demand by young doctors and chemists, who are anxious to learn something of the circulation of the blood. The tree toad has legs that are almost transparent. The young doc tor takes the leg, spreads it out under a microscope and can see the blood cor puscles chasing each other hero and there in the veins of the leg of tho toad. We sell hundreds of tree toads for this purpose every month. — Interview in New York World. « Not to lie Taken Literally. "Is it your opinion," said the theolog ical professor, "that the portion of the parable which represents tho prodigal son as feeding among swine is to be taken literally?" "Perhaps not," the thoughtful young man replied; "maybe it is a reference to the meals he ate at a railway lunch counter." —Washington Star. Shtloh's Consumption Cure. This Is beyond question the most successful Cough Medicine we have ever sold, a few "doses invariably cmc the worst oases of Cough, Croup and Bronchitis, while its wonderful success in the cure of Consumption is without a parallel in tbe history of medicine. Since it's first discovery it has been sold on a guarantee, a test which no other medicine can stand. If you have a cough we earnestly ask yon to try It. Price 10c, 50c aud 11. if yonr lungs are sore, chest or back lance, use Shllob's Porous Plaster. Bold wholesale by 3«a», Baruch A- Co., and all retail druggists. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.