VOL. 1. NO. 16.
J. D. RIRKWOOD,
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PULLMAN, W. T.
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r.
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Dealers in all kinds of
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FROM WASHING-TON.
CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRIDGE IS
REQUESTED TO RESIGN.
Additional Appropriations in the Naval
Bill-A Constitutional Govern
ment for Samoa—Sewell to
be Relieved as Consul.
The House public lands committee
have recommended higher rates of pay
to surveyors in exceptional instances.
Senator Mitchell has introduced a
bill to establish a port of entry at
Blame, W. T.
Senator Stewort, of Virginia, has
presented a petition for the restora
tion of silver to its place as a co-equal
measure of value with gold.
The Liberal members of Parlia
ment at Ottawa, Canada, have decided
to continue the present policy, which
favor* unrestricted reciprocity with i
the United States.
The President has made the fol
lowing nominations: C. D. Wright, »j
Massachusetts, commissioner of labor ;
Thomas M. Vance, of North Carolina,
receiver of public moneys, at North
Yakima, W. T.
The Senate committee on woman
suffrage has reported favorably on the i
joint resolution proposing a constitu-1
tional amendment to prohibit the de
nial of the right to vote l>y the United
States, or any State, on account of sex.
The survey of the lands in the Um
atilla Indian reservation is to be made
before they are effered for sale. The
secretary of the interior holds that
they must first be inspected, and an
order to this effect has already been
issued.
A Congressional committee has
been examining the construction of
the Washington aqueduct tunnel, and
have concluded to order the entire
lining of the tunnel replaced at the
expense of the contractors, nearly
$500,000.
Secretary Bayard suggests a very
good scheme of constitutional govern
ment for Samoa, with a native legis
lature, securing its independence and
autonomy, including the acknowledge
ment of Malietoa as king and Taoia
se se as vice-king.
A bill has been favorably reported
in I otl> Houses of Congress to place
G^n. W. S. Rosecrans on the retired
list of the army. He is at presen reg
ister of the treasury. If the bill be
come a law he will receive retired pay
at the rate of $4000 per annum.
There is an outspoken sentiment
amtmg the Republic in Senators and ;
Republicans in the House, that a com- :
pltte change be made in the civil j
service commission, and the commis
sion for the District of Columbia.
There is not a Republican on either
board.
The Senate committee on military
affairs has ordered a favorable report
upon the proposition to present Mr?.
Irene Rucker Sheridan with $50,000,
in token of the country's appreciation
of the services rendered by her hus
band, Gen. Phil H. Sheridan. This is
urged in lieu of a pension.
In view of the insufficient evidence
produced to support the charges made
by Representative Steel, of Indiana, j
against Judge Bond, of Ar.zona, as a
basis for impeachment proceedings,
the House committee on judiciary
has declined to enter upon considera
tion of the case at present.
There is a very loud call for Con
gressman Breckinridge, of Arkansas,
to resign his seat iv the next Con
gress and ask for a new election, on
account of Clayton's assassination;
and many of his friends are advising
him to do so. They insist that this is
the only way that he can clear him- j
self from the suspicion of sharing in
the results of the assassination.
Secretary Whitney has issued an
important order regarding the naval
records of the war of the rebellion. It |
has been found on examining the pa- j
pers on file in the navy department,!
that almost the only ones therf, are
those addressed directly to the depart-1
ment. He desires certified copies of j
all orders to officers and war memo
randa to be forwarde \ to the war de
partment.
Superintendent Thorn, of the coast
and geodetic survey, has submitted
an estimate for an additional appro
priation of $3680, which he says is I
necessary to make the repairs on the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey steamer McArthur, now at San
Francisco, to put it in condition for
the work off the coast of Washington
Territory and Oregon tke coming sea
son.
It is announced that the recall of
American Consul General Sewell from
Samoa, has created an excellent feel
ing in Berlin. The German papers
urge the necessity for the recall of the
English consul also, alleging that he
contributed largely to the trouble.
The three powers might then oe rep
resented by other trustworthy agents,
who would assist in bringing about a
friendly settlement.
Heavy additions have been made to |
the naval bill. The construction of
two steel gun-boats, or cruisers, is pro
vided for, to be ef from 8000 to 12,000
tons displacement, and to cost not
more than $700,000; also, one steel
cruiser of 2000 tons displacement, to
cost $7C0,000. An appropriation is
also made for one ram for harbor de
fense, in accordance with the plans
prepared by the naval advisory board
of 1881. In order that the vessels
may be speedily built, the appropria
tion for steel machinery is increased
by $1,500,00, and that for armament
by $1,400,000. All the new vessels
are to be lighted by electrity,and $60,
--000 is appropriated for that purpose.
PULLMAN, WASH. TER., FEBRUARY 16, 1889.
THE PAGIf IC COAST,
A WORKMAN'S DISCOVERY OF
RICH TREASURE TROVE.
Clever Sneak Thieves at Work in San
Francisco—A Five and a Quar
ter Million Mortgage—The
Quake in California.
Sacramento is overrun with thieves.
In Ventura, Cal., flowers are bloom
ing prematurely
Herring are caught in large num
bers in Humboldt bay.
The Gurney cab system has been
introduced into San Diego.
Sam Jones has completed his revi
val meetings at Los Angeles.
The lumber mills of Olympia are
pushed to their utmost capacity.
It is now unlawful to sell i«toxicat
ing liquors to a woman in Nevada.
Eighty-two boxes of opium were
seized at San Luis Obispo, recently.
No immediate trouble is appre
hended with the Indians near Bridge
port, Mono county.
It is believed that the voters of Ne
vada will defeat the lottery amend
ment to the constitution.
A scarlet geranium leaf in Tulare
county, Cal., measnred forty-seven
inches in circumference.
The assessment roll of Vancouver
for 1889 shows an increase of 90 per
cent over that of last year.
The cold weather at Los Angeles has
injured the ostrich-farm eggs that
were intended for hatching.
Since electric lights were introduced
at Willows, Cal., not a wild goose has
been seen to fly over the town.
George Hopper, of Los Angeles, a
well known mining man, is the latest
victim of the gold brick swindle.
Several earthquake shocks are re
ported to have occurred at San Ber
nardino, Co'tin and Lj>s Angeles.
Tht postoffiae authorities are nego
tiating for the purpose of dispatching
the mail by the Golden Gate special.
The deposit of slickens in the Spo
kane river has alarmed the people of
Spokane Falls as to their future water
supply.
A Sin Diego man has planted ten
acres in mulberry trees, preparatory
to going into the bueiness of raising
silk-worms.
At Rincon.C.il., a thief had thiiteen
bullets put into his body while run
ning from a party ef cow-boys who
were after him.
Petaluma haa memoralized the leg
islature of California to pass a law
making it unlawful to kill larks, rob
ins or blackbirds.
The bill introduced into the Neva
da legislature restricting the wearing
ol high hats in theaters, has been de
feated in the upper house.
J. F. Glennon, the S.in Francisco
policeman who attempted to murder
Willie Burke, has been found guilty
of assault to commit Diurder.
It is reported that the 0. R. and N.
will commence construction in the
spring on a line from La Grande to
Joseph, in the Wallowa valley.
The young and dashing-looking
Spaniard, who has been swindling a
number of San Francisco firms by
means of bogus bank checks, Has been
arrested.
The people of Santa Ie are indig
nant that a petition should have gone
to Washington from Albuquerque ask
ing that New Mexico should not be
admitted into the Union.
Hardin Yager, treasurer of San
Bernardino county since 1865, was
found dead recently. He was known
as "honest old Hardin." and was be
loved by all who knew him.
The parents of Alexander Golden
son, the slayer of Mamie Kelly, hive
instituted suit for the possession of 101
pictures painted by him during hie
confinement in the San Francisco jail,
A first mortgage for $5,250,000 has
been filed in San Diego by represent
atives of the Mercantile Trust com
pany of New York on the rights, fran
chises and property of the S^n Dego,
Cucamonga and Eastern railroad.
At Grass Valley, last Thursday, as
Superintendent Skewer, of the North
Banner mine, was going to town he
was stopped on the road by two
masked men and relieved of three
thousand dollars' worth of bullion.
On the 31st of January, E A. Har
bour, an old and highly respected cit
izen of Meda, Or., was instantly killed
by the top breaking out of a dead
spruce and striking him on the head.
Sam Poster was also struck and his
recovery is doubtful.
Two unknown men entered the of.
fice of F. Reichling, at San Francisco,
Friday last, and while one engaged
the attention of the clerk, the otUer
! succeeding in gaining possession of a
bar of gold bullion, valued at $4000.
The theft was not discovered for two
hours after they had disappeared.
It is reported that while excavating
recently north of Penawawa, a work
| man unearthed a cannon and a lot of
ammunition which had been buried
in boxes; also a lot of silver coin, in
rotten buck-skin sacks. Tradition al
leges that Steptoe, on his retreat from
i the Palousa country in 1854, buried
| the material at that place.
A clever piece of burglary was cxc-
I cuted in a shoe store last Thursday,
at San Francisco, by thre small boys.
The eldest of the trio pretended to
purchase a pair of slippers, while the
youngest engaged in a romp with the
cat uHtil he got near the safe, which
stood partially ajar, when slipping his
hand through he grasped a sack con
taiag $240 in gold and the three cool
ly walked away.
MISCELLANEOUS.
REMARKABLE BILLS INTRODUCED
INTO STATE LEGISLATURES.
The Eccentric Will of a New York Ped
agogue—The Ghastly Crime of a
Philadelphia Street-c r Em
ployee—Cold Waves.
An exodus of negro laborer? from
South Carolina is now iv pi ogress.
President Cleveland will practice
law in New York city after March 4.
The'new union depot at Pueblo,
Col , will coht between $200,000 and
$300,000.
The Kansas legislature has pag6ed
a bill restricting the ownership of land
in that state
Wisconsin lumbermen are up in
arms at an order forbidding logging
in certain districts.
The Dakota legislature has passed
a law taxing railroad property the
same as other property.
The bill to provide for inflicting the
death sentence by electricity has
passed the Ohio senate.
Four Chinamen were scalded to
death by a Geyser at Canyon City,
near Yellowstone Park, last week.
The post-mortem medical report in
the case of Crown Prince Rudolph,
sets at rest the rumors of his murder.
Major Stewart, of Austin, Texas, is
in New York in the interest of a na
tional home for ex-Confederate sol
diers.
Dr. E. A. Kelley, superintendent of
the State Insane asylum at Norfolk,
Neb., has besn arrested on a charge of
! murder.
Ohio and Kentucky tobacco grow
ers have agicud to raise twenty-five
per :ent less tobacco next season than
the last.
It is said that Secretary Bayard has
accepted Bit-nnvrck's proposition for a
conference at Berlin on the S.imoan
question.
A very large meteor fell in Chicago
last week. It burst into many pieces
and specimens] have been picked up
for analysis.
Canada is making an effort to se
cure independence of all lines of traf
fic passing through any portion of the
United States.
. The Trades 'assembly at Chicago at
a mass-meeting has demanded the re
moval of Police Inspector Bonlield and j
Captain Schaak,
The cold wave and blisgard through-1
out Canada is intense, the tuermonie
; ter registering in many places forty
i degrees below zero.
The supreme court at Washington
has lately decided the law constitu
tional which prohibits ranchmen from
fencing any of the public domain.
At Marion, Indiana, an outbreak
! was prevented among tobacco strip
jpers and stemmers owing to the im
! portation of negroes to do the work.
Some of the Canadiins not only
! want annexation for their own coun
! try to the United Staten, but want to
| have Mexico annexed on the south.
The Arkansas legislature has of
i fered a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the thieves who
stole the ballot-box and poll-book last
! November.
The wolves, it is said, are making
things deadly lively in some districts
in Montana, killing colts and steers,
| and in some instances pursuing hu
man beings.
A bill bis passed the Indiana Sen
ate declarikg unlawful all trusts,
pools, agreements and combinations,
in restraint of trade, production, man
ufacture or sale. The House wili also
pass the bill.
Inspector Bonfield, Captain Schaak
and Detective Lowenstein, prominent
in the trial at Cbic.igo of the anarch
ists, have been ind< finitely suspended
from the police force pending charges
of corruption.
The report that General Boulanger
was to have been arrested at the insti
gation of the government ministers on
the night of his election from the de
partment of the Seine, proves to be
unfounded.
Otto Kaiser, a married street-car
conductor at Philadelphia, shot Anna
Klaus, a young girl wbo believed him
single. He then returned to his home,
cut his wife's throat and ended his
own life at the approach of officers.
A bill has been introduced in
the Pennsylvania legislature prohibit
ing treating, and making it a penal
offense, punit-lnble by a fine of not
less than ?50 or over $100, for any
one to treat another to intoxicating
liquors.
Twenty-four persons, mostly all
children, have died, recently, in Web
ster county, Kentucky, of a disease
with which the doctors appear to be
unable to cope. The deaths usually
occur from six to twelve hours after
the attack.
M. W. Merriam, an eccentric Suf
folk county, N. V., school-master, has
willed his property in bulk to the Unit
ed States government. One of his rea
sons was the government was rich
and could fight his sister if she at
tempted to contest the will. He was
worth $100,000.
It is proposed by the people of Mon
tana to elect two Senators, to go to
Washington in the interest of the
Territory, and to urge its immediate
admission into the Union.
Mr. and Mr*. James Olsen, with
their three children, were drowned in
the Missouri river at Bismark recently
when the ice broke. The horse,
wagon and its occupants were all lost.
AGRICULTURAL.
STRiW AS A MATERIAL FOB SUB
STANTIAL STOCK SHELTERS.
A Good Idea fora Hoist for a Barn—The
Treatment that Should be Given
to Fowls—Receipt for De
stroying tha Weevil.
The longer turnips and cabbages
: can remain out without actually
freezing, the better they are fur eat
ing purposes ami the better thf>y will
ket i") through the winter.
Economy is certainly wealth in the
feeding of farm horses, and yet it does
not necessarily mean stinting or cut
ting off of rations. Give this matter
a thorough investigation, and gee if
there is not more in it thaD a tsper
ficial glance would indicate.
Corn meal in small quantities, lin
seed meal in i^mall quantities, and a
liberal quantity of good bran meal
with the roughness, will make an ad
mirable winter feed for milch cows,
and if given liberally, with good shel
ter, it is possible to secure a good How
of milk during the winter; provided,
of course, that you have a good breed
of cows, that this feed can be given to
doriog the winter.
By pouring boiling water over pny
kind of grjiin, and allowing the grain
to remain twenty-four hours, it will
swell and prove an acceptable change
to the fowls. The yoiked grain un
dergoes a partial chemical change,
contains a slightly larger portionoi
| sugar, and is really more digestible.
Nothing is added to the grain by soak
ing it, bat it will be more readily
eaten tor some time than dry grain,
though the birds will return to dry
grain as a preference if fed too long
on that which is soaked.
A correspondent of the Xesv Eng
land Farmer gives the following direc
tions fjr destroying the potato weevil:
Take an ordinary manure hod, one
that is broad and light is to be pre
ferred, and grasping it by the hole
for the left hand near the mouth of
the bod, with a broad and limber
broom carried wfth the right hand,
proceed through the field, placing the
hod against vines inftsted with grubs
and gently beating or sweeping them
over the eilge of the hod and into it
with the broom. In this way a great
msjarity of all the grubs in a small
potato patch may be gathered in a
short time and destroyed. This may
be of service, especially in cases where
there are objections to the use of pois
ous offered in the markets. A little
practice will enable a person to do ex
ecution with the above implements
with considerable dispatch.
Strj.w as a material for stock shel
ters have favorable qualities: It is a
very poor conductor of heat, hence it
makes a warm shelter. It costs little.
being produced in abundance on a
large majority of farms; and its em
ployment for this purpose does not
rf quire t-pecial skill beyond the farm
er. But it is not us economical as
many suppose. It is as ueces&ary
that the top ©f the shelter be water
tight as that the sides be wind tight—
even more important. A straw roof
can be kept lain and snow proof only
by frequent re-pairings. Straw is not
a durable material and a straw shelter
ie not long-lived. In many cases
where straw hhellers are now used, a
proper computation would show lum
ber to be more economical; and as it
is usually cheaper to piint lumber
than not to do so, the cheapest shel
ter would be a neat, substantial paint
e I one.
One of my neighbors had a fine pen
of fowls; had had them confined in a
small, dark house, with no run at
tached, and I suppose all the corn
they could eat, as they were very fat
when I purchased them. My neigh
bor said he was sick and tired ef them ;
no demand for eggs and no eggs;
could never make a living raising ian
cy fowls. I was not suitably fixed for
taking another breed, but as I got
them for $1 each, about one-tenth
their value, I bought them and took
them home, intending to do the best
possible by them,considering the con
veniences at hand. Took two orders
for eggs before driving home. I placed
them in a small house with m 16x10
foot run. As I said before they were
very fat. My first move was to see
that they had" plenty of exercise, and
thereby reduce them in flesh. I di
vided a portion of their run c 11' and
put, in about, one foot of straw, and
they had to scratch for a living. It
was not very long until they were
shelling out eggs to their full capacky.
—Poultry Keeper.
A good idea 'or a hoist for a barn
is to erect two upright posts six inches
square and firmly fastened in the up
per part of the building, one on either
side of the hatchway. Strong iron or
wooden boxes attached to these posts
support the journal of a round shaft
one foot in diameter, upon which is a
wooden wheel four to six feet iv diam
eter. The larger size gives increased
power, but for ordinary lifting four
feet is large enough. The wheel is
made of eight segments cut from two
inch plank, each one being a quarter
of a circle. They are put together
with spikes or bolts in a manner to
"break joints." Before being fastened
together the segments are notched to
receive the ends of the four arms,
which are also made cf two-inch
plank, halved together at the center
of the wheel. The short end of the
shaft, as far as the wheel goes on, is
shaped to fit the square hole in the
center of the wheel. Long iron
spikes are driven and a groove turned
' in the on ter periphery of the wheel to
keep the rope from slipping off. The
hoist rope is firmly attached to the
shaft upon which it is coiled by the
revolution of the wheel.
' PORTLAND MARKET REPORI
1
GROCERIES-Sugars. We quote Golden
C 5Jc, extra C He, confectioners' A 6Jc,
dry .granulated 6gc, cube, crushed and
powdered 7c. Colters Java toe, Rio 20.c,
Arboekle'a roasted 21ic
PROVISION'S—Oregon haras are qnot
ied at 124(c13Jc, breakfast bacon 13c,
Eastern meat isqnoted as fololws: Hams
r.'4<« Vi^a, Sinclairs 14 a 15c, Oregon break
fast b con 13c, Eastern 13@13 c.
FRUITS — Apples Slffli.3s, California
oranges $3§4.i0 lemon* §<>, bananas
$3.50<.a4.50,
VEGETABLES—Cabbage "c per H>,
celery BUfeßsc per doz bunches, carrots
and turnip 'ioc per sack, onions 70 i7cc
potatOasS per »ack.
DRIED FRUITS— Sun-dried apples sc,
slic d ti.*c, Oregon prunes d4(o7c, Italian
9c, California French 8 10c, peaches Ha
10c Dears 8 1 9 c, Cali ornia flgsSc, raisins
§'.75 it per box.
DAIRY PRODUCE— creamery
and choice dairy 250, medium ■0c Cal
ifornia fancy 25c, choice dairy 2.
EGGS- Oregon 23c.
POULTRY—Chickens $\ ducks $7.50,
gesse 810, turkeys 14c.
WOOL— Valley 18jg20c Eastern Oregon
8«15e.
HOPS-Choice
GRAlX—Valley «[email protected], Eastern
Oregon §1.221®1.35. Oats 32 **SJc
Fi.OUR-Standard 84.50, otner brands
FRFSH MEATS-Beef, live, 3J@3Jc.
dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3Jt3'c, dressed
7c, lambs $2.£0 each, hogs, live, oi^.tie,
dressed l(afi^, veal bis Be.
ELECTRICAL LIGHT.
How It Affects Flowers, Vegetables an*
Other Plants.
From time to time, of late years, ex
periments have been made of the effect
of the electrical light on flowers and
plants, with results seemingly the
same, to wit, feeble efforts of some
plants to prolong their periods of
bloom into the night and then pre
mature decay. One has only to study
their actions, as observed, to conclude
that even plants need, rest, or, to be
more precise, they seem to thrive best
under the conditions which nature has
imposed—the period of darkness and
the period of the light, which is
heat as well; or else that the
family of plants, as now they are,
sprung from these exact con
ditions, and will not thrive without
them. It is the nature of some flowers,
I as every one knows, to open at one
period of light and close at another; of
others to open only at night and close
before or at the moment when the orb
of day tops the horizon. So strictly
do some of these follow their unwritten
laws that floral clocks have been con
structed, so that one may step out into
his garden, of a bright day or clear
night, and learn the time by the con
dition of bloom on the floral dial.
Pro. Wollney", of Munich, satisfied
by experiment that electrical light will
not advance or improve plant growth,
recently tried the effect upon them of
the current itself. We quote the fol- j
lowing, being the means employed and
its result:
He "took patches of ground twelve
or thirteen feet square, separated by
boards penetrating the earth to the
depth of a foot. In one case he ap
plied two earth plates and interposed
five earth cells; in another he inserted
an induction apparatus; and in a third,
a plate of copper at one side and a
plate of zinc at the other side to form
a natural battery. Peas, potatoes, car- I
rots, etc., were planted on these and
other patches, but the electrcity,
whether of high or low potential,
seemed to have either no influence or
a bad one upon their growth."
Plants being full of sap, and sap a
fairly good conductor, every fiber must
have been reached, and, so far as the
Professor was enabled to perceive, tha
only effect of the rent was to pro
voke a perturbation on the protoplasm.
— Scientific American.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
r — costs the Prince of Wales |50
--000 a year to keep up his hunting
stables.
—Hundreds of English girls are non
adopting shorthand for a livelihood.
—In Berlin heavy wagons are mot
allowed on certain streets. In Paris
any carload of rattling material must
be fastened till it can't rattle.
—The telegraph lines entering th«
central station at London are all un
derground. It appears all the more
wonderful when it is said there are
1,700 different lines.
—Princess Eugene of Sweden ha?
sacrificed her family jewels to build a
hospital for cripples upon an island ofl
the coast.
—The Queen incurred expenses in
her jubilee as well as other people,
the cost to her having been £60,000,
and the largest payment being in the
department of the master of the
horse.
—Paris receives 100,000 francs by
♦he will of a citizen who was run ovei
and killed in that city. He bequeathed
the money to erect bridges over the
streets at the most dangerous points.
The old Town Hall at Leicester, a
curious wooden building, in which
Shakespeare is said to have acted, ie
now occupied as a school of cookery.
A pulley still shows where the drop
curtain was. -::V^
—Emperor William of Germany is
still carrying on his crusade against all
things not Teutonic. He has ordered
the officers of ' his army to discard
pointed English boot 3 and wide creased
trousers. He has also made a change
in the royal crown, which he consid
ered too high for his style of beauty.
—A man was fined one dollar in a
New York court for calling a lawyer a
liar, and yet the offender had sworn to
tell the truth.— Texas Si flings. :
—The largest carpet in the world
has been on exhibition at ; the Cincin
nati Exposition. It contains 2,700
square yards.
$2.00 PER YEAR!
LIFE.
Joy comes and poos*, hope ebbs and flow*
like ilio wave,
Change doth unkiiit the tranquil strength of men.
Love lends lifts a little j;race,
A few sad smiles, and then
Both ore laid in one colt] [Aace,
In the grave.
Dreams dawn and fly. friends smile and die
Like spring flowers;
Our vaunted life is one long funeral.
Men dig graves with bitter tears
For their dead hopes; and all.
Mazed with doubts and sick with fears.
Count the hours.
We count the hours! These dreams of ours,
False and hollow.
Do we go hence and find they are not de&df
Joys we dimly apprehend
Fares that smiled and lied.
Hopes born here, and bora to end.
Shall we follow f
—Matthew Arnold.
Widowhood Among the Hindoos.
Take the case of the widow from infancy,
shorn of all that women value anywhere iv
the worM, dressed in coarse clothing, de
prived of her ornaments, compelled to fast
till health breaks down, made to subsist on
the coarsest of food, kept out of what amuse
ments come in the way of the rest of tha
household, forced into being the unpaid
drudge of the family, held to be the legitimate
butt of the ill nature of all, considered fit only
to amuse the children, openly called and
taught to think herself a creature of ill omen
—this being cause of all the rest of her
sorrows—superstition has indeed nowhere else
shown more clearly its power to pervert the
reason of man.
How much the women dread widowhood is
exhibited to the full in tho fact that to call a
women a widow is to offer her a dire insult,
and from her earliest childhood a girl is
taught to pray that she may die while yet
the red spot of coverture remains on her fore
head. In any case the fear of widowhood
overshadows he Hindoo lady's life, even
though she hate her lord.—Capt. R. C. Tem
ple in Journal of the Society of Arts.
Picturesque Scenery In Spain.
The little towns wo pass look like houses
made of building blocks, with elfin castles on
the summits of miniature mountains. They are
very picturesque—almost too much so—and
add much to the unreality and beauty of the
landscape. They seem so quiet in appearance,
that it is bard to believe that the time worn
walls contain the group of beggars, the tink
ling bells of the donkeys, and the noise of the
brightly dressed throng.
There can be no country in tho world
which offers such a panorama of natural in
terest as Spain. It is as shifting in color as
a kaleidoscope. Here are flocks of goats
coming down the mountain paths to water at
the clear valley streams. The steep road*
are covered with burros and Bayly dressed
drivers, and along the roads stand the crosses
raised to show that some one was slain there
by the wayside. The mortality must have
been great, judging by the number one sees
everywhere.—W. Parker Bodfish in Demo
rest's Monthly.
A Great Saving in Fuel.
"Boy," said a clerk in a Woodward avenue
grocery to a lad who was hanging around,
"do you want to save the price of an over
coat this winter and feel warm all over!"
"Yes, sir."
"Then eat one of those."
They were red peppers, and the boy
promptly took a large bite. Ho turned red
in the face, the tears came, and be had to
hustle around the corner to prevent breaking
down. It was an hour before he returned.
Then the clerk said:
"Well, how did it work
"Splendid:"'replied the boy. "It not only
saved me an overcoat, but I don't believe my
brother Bill will have to have any shoes this
winter! I'll take the rest up home. It may
save our bouse rent and coal."—Detroit Free
Press.
Popularity of Macaroni.
Macaroni is now largely manufactured in
this country, only one pound in ten of that
consumed being imported. The industry,
however, is solely in Italian hands and under
Italian control. One peculiarity of this
staple article is that it, is almost proof against
climatic changes and influences. In one of
the caches constructed by Sir John Frank
lin's party a box was found intact and un
tainted forty years after, and at the time of
the Greely rescue the first food served the
survivors was mncaroi:; soup. P.". Javing
ston always endeavored to keep a supply
while engaged in his African explorations,
and but a few weeks since the statement was
published that Henry M. Stanley's supplies
had been reduced to a quantity of vermicelli.
—Detroit Free Press.
■Writins About Rich Girl*.
Tho manner in which the society paper*
discuss the chances of an heiress's marriage
in America nowadays is rather startling to
the old school jor.--nalists of the town.- Every
suitor who presents himself to a rich girl is
duly written about in print, bis chances dis
cussed and his eligibility weighed. He pur
sues his loverlike way under the vigilant eye
of the vast horde of society gossips who con
tribute to the weekly papers, and every move
is duly chronicled and set forth. The posi
tive or prospective fortune of the girl is con
stantly printed and commented upon, and til
together the courtship assumes a phase of
publicity which is decidedly 4 new feature In
jonrnalism in New York city.— York
Sun.
Settling with a Check.
A man living in an outlying district near'
Concord, N. H., recently opened a bank ac
count in that city, depositing 1300. He was
given a liberal quantity of checks, which he
used so ignorantly that he was soon brought
up and told that he had overdrawn. When
asked to settle, with great indignation he
made this characteristic reply: "Didn't you
give me all these checks, which are not half
used? If I owe you anything I will draw a
check and pay Springfield Repub
lican.
A Barrel Making Machine.
A Philadelphia man has invented a ma
chine that, with the help of six bands, will
turn out as many barrels in a day as sixty
men can make. The machine has been suc
cessfully operated, and coopers are taking a
good deal of interest in it If it proves
financially successful it will probably revo- ■
lutionize the cooper's trade. —Chicago Herald.
The Debating Society. /
The Schwenksville Debating society re
cently wrestled several hours at the question,
"Why do handbooks have so many footnotes
in them}"— Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Before and After. .
When a man is going out to the races he
calls them "pointers." When be comes back
be "»i<« them "disappointers."
Cauliflower seed are eight times as valua
ble by weight as silver. They sell at $8 on
ounce*. I
Gold was first coined in Christendom In '
1320. ''^iigjSß ";; ' ' -:'
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