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VOL. 1. NO. 31. 1~ ' i J. D. KIRKWOOD, ! i> X 3 TV ri? i « j? rulluiaii. lVn»hin|[ton IVr. Oi in i Hours : 9a. m. to 12 m , and 1 to 4 p. m. STEWART BLOCK. MAIN ST. i E. H. LETTERMAN & CO., 1 ale I*B in Grain. Highest market price paid for Wheat, Oats, barley and Flax. PULLMAN, ■ WASHINGTON TER. WILLIAM NEWTON, Attorney ami Counselor at Law, PULLMAN, W. T. Money to loan on real estate at thelovrnt rut of inter st. All legal business promptly ' attended to. Tuxes paid for nonresidents. C'ol leelioiiH prompt); maduana remitted. i J. WEBB. J. F. WAIT" WEBB & WATT, Physicians and Surgeons! Are Prepared to Treat All Special Diseases. Office in Stewart Block. : PULLMAN", WASHINGTON TER. 11. C. WILLIAMSON, FASHIONABLE Barber and Hair Cutter. '' Special Attention is Given to Cutting : ami : Triuiuiiiitt Ladies' Mid Children's Hair. ] Hot and Cold Baths. PULLMAN, WASH. TER. PACIFIC INSURANCECOi T^_ CArir.M. STOI'K : ' SbOOOOO $500,000 $500,000 , PORTLAND - - OREGON. i 1 W. V. WINDUS, Agent. Full man. Wii»hinetoii Ter. MASON BROTHERS, Proprietors Pullman Meat Market. Dealers in all kinds of , Fresh and Cured Meat. Wpcolwltlr- In H.u-011. rtp-lligliest market prices p«W for t'attl* j and Hides, Hog», etc. jSodVi.c'lilork. - - ■•!»««*•* \, VICTOR HUNZIKER, i Jeweler: -.Engraver — AND — -:- Practical -:- Watchmaker. -:- Pullman. Washington Tor. gm-lWvnirlux of Watches, Clook^aud Jew lr> a specialty. Postofflce Building. BARNEY 11 ATT 1? UP, — FROrRIKTOR — Pullman Sample Room, tor. Mai" and «raml street*. Fine Wines Liquors and Cigars. Perfect order maintained and Rertlemanly treatment to every one. ..„,!.«»... - - W«-UI»«I.« I>r. Union Pacific Railway. OREGON SHORT LINE. , r-n-ian HwWfi snd Modern P«y $xsi\* riTY* ST UHiS. CHICAGO, and all, £oiutViu the East and South. ■« _ — *a«S«ee checked throne" from Full nian to all point* named. Family Sleepers Free on All Throu h Trains For further i«^«^»^^ 11. 11. BROWN, Agent, Pullman. T. S. Tebbets, G. P. '& T. A., Omaha, Neb. a. l. Maxwell, a P iT A , I. It. i V C^ on fortlaud. Oregon. ' THE PACIFIC COAST. DEMOCRATS HAVE A MAJORITY IN THE MONTANA CONVENTION. Seattle Has a Building Boom—The Ore gonian Railroad Unable to Pay Its Employes-Fine Granite Querry—Suicides. Seattle is building 200 dwelling. Reno, New has 506 school children. Willows makes all tramps move on. Shasta's board of trade will disband. Spokane Falls has now seven banks. Petaluma'S race-track is in good repair. Cutworms are in the Fresno vineyards. Yuma Indians have a big wheat har vest. Elsinor is forming an irrigation dis trict. The scale bug hold's its own near Po mona. The almond crop in San Diego is im mense. A granite quarry near Seattle is to be worked. Astoria has just pledged $30,000 for a railroad. Woodlard complains of vagrants and j burglars. Fresno and Selma have telephone com- j munication. A battery of artillery is to lie sent to Fort Canby. Selma proposes to light up with gas by the 4th of July. None but union tailors can find work at Helena, M. T. Twenty-five acres have been planted to tigs at Chico. The railroad is expected to reach Pacific Grove by June 10. San Jose banks after June 1, will close at noon every day. A turkey farm near Bakersfield has 1900 eggs in hatching. Large orders are coming to Pomona j from England for wine. The name of the postoffice at Ingrains has been changed to Cazanero. The steamer Rush has been ordered to Alaska for duty in Behring sea. A corner lot on Pacific avenue, Tacoma, i W. T., recently sold lor $65,000. Peter D. Fisher, a '4!>er, was found dead in a saloon at Fresno, last week. The high-license ordinance at Peta luma will go into operation July. 1889. Dubois Bros.' sawmill at Vancouver, \\ . 1., lias oevii umx i, i,,—, v < ■»■ "> William Clark, a photographer, com mitted suicide at Portland. Or., last week. The Democrats have a small majority in the Montana Constitutional Conven tion. The Gallup, N. M.. coal mine strike has been a failure. It has lasted two months. The Debris Commissioners are inspect ing the mines in Nevada and Sierra counties. The Oregonian Railroad is unable to pay its employes and must be sold at some price. The contract for building the Butte, M. T., branch of the Northern Pacific road, has been let. David McCoy, aged 99 years, works in the field with the boys at Brookside, San | Bernardino county. The value of land in Delano has ad vanced $10 an acre since the formation of an irrigation district. Commander Percy Hokin of H. M.S. ; Swiftsure, died at Victoria. B. C. on the 19th inst.. of acute rheumatism. The green sandstone found Dear the Southern Pacific in Ker.rn county, is claimed to be the finest in the state. M. T. Hatch stopped the Northern Pa cific graders with a pistol on the 18th inst.. at Portlnad.and drove them off. It is said that live sawmills and seven shinge-mills cannot supply the demand for building lumber at Centralia, W. T. B. T. Hedges, of San Pedro, has caused his wife's arrest as insane, and she | charges that he wants to get her property. Smallpox is reported to be raging among the Okanagon Indians. Physi cians have been sent to vaccinate the tribe. "Cyclone Bill" and W. E. Cunning ham have been held at Tucson for trial on the charge of robbing Paymaster Wham. Ground is now being broken on the Butte, M. T.. branch of the Northern Pacific railroad, known as the I lomestake pass route. George P. Connors, of 1201 Howard street, San Francisco, on the 20th inst., slipped from a brakebeam and was killed near Ogden. John B. Barnum,aguestattheQuiraby House, Portland, ends his life on the 23d inst., by blowing his own brains out with a revolver. Mrs Harriet Campbell, mother of the late Mrs. Esther Holladay. has been ap pointed guardian of the Holladay chil dren at Portland. The people of Wheatland will soon be supplied with water by the new system. Work on the trenches for the main pipes have been started. A dozen boys have within a short time been committed to the Napa Insane Asylum, whose insanity has been caused by 'smoking cigarettes. Miss Mamie Ladd and Charles Reed ran away from Miss Mamie's parents at Paicines", San Benito county, on the 18th, and were married at Santa Cruz. O'Connor, the oarsman, is anxious to break the record, and will make some strong efforts in that direction at the regatta on Lake Washington on Memorial day. A woman, giving the name of Mrs. A. Sanderson, of Oakland, Cal., killed her self at Butte, M. T., recently. She is known to have been a woman who had gone to the bad. Two young men, Moses Danzigar and Harry "C.oehring, were drowned in the Willamette river, at Portland, Or., bun day, May 19th. A gale upset their boat | and they tried to swim to land. PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, JINK l, 1889. roitnn.x KKASIIKS. Christians Massacred—Tbe Labor Con gress—A Scandinavian Opera— Bee-Keeping in Germany. In Silesia 17,000 men are on a strike. The Pope lias been taken suddenly ill. Great Britain's fisheries employ 250,000 men. General Boulanger contemplates a visit to Wales. William O'Brien's libel suit against Salisbury is for £10,000. Vienna tramway employes won their demand for tweve hours. Oldham, England, is to have a new 80,000-spindle cotton mill. In Germany bee-keeping is taught in many of the public schools. Forty-live persons have lost their lives through floods in Bohemia. The interest on money in London is 1 per cent on permanent loans. Christiana are being massacred by the Turks on the Montenegrin frontier. Two sisters of Piggott, the forger of the Parnell letters, are nuns in Ireland. The English court is in mourning for the late Dowager Queen of Bavaria. Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg, has given birth to a son. The extraordinary session at the Peru- I vian Congress, opened at Lima last week. In Great Britain, last year, 919 persons j were killed and 3,826 injured on the rail ways. The German Emperor and Empress will spend the summer chiefly at Reich enhall, Bavaria. The trouble with the mines in West phalia is being settled, and the miners are resuming work. The public authorities at London an nounce that they will suppress all gamb- ! ling clubs in the city. The Teresa Central Sugar-grinding i factory at Manzanillo, Cuba, has been i burned; loss, (400,000. Dhuleep Singh, the Indian Prince, was privately married to Miss Ada Wetherell in Paris", on the 19th inst. The Czar will dismiss Gourko from the Governorship of Warsaw, owing to his unpopular administration. The proprietor of the Field Club in i London has been fined £500 for per- , mitting gambling in his rooms. Phyllis BrOUghton's suit for breach of j promise against Lord Dangao is expected \ to come up in a couple of weeks. The ship Sutlej at Havre, from San j Francisco, was slightly damaged last j week in a collision with the quay. Holland has potteries that enu>ly ehil in en tinaer twelve who wor* mum s. i in. to 11 p. m. for 50 and 75 cents per week. It is reported that Sir Charles Russell's j tee for acting as ■ OUnsel for the Parnell- j ites ln'fore the special commission is j 150,000. The bill to legalize marriage with a de-! ceased wife's sister has again received its usual defeat in the English House of | Lords. One hundred bouses have been swept ; i away in the Pilsen district, Bohemia, and ; ninety-one persons have been drowned j by the floods. The Parisian papers unanimously com- j pliment Sibyl Sanderson, the American priina donna, upon her success in Alas-1 senet's new opera. There is much dissatisfaction among ! the operatives in the lace factories at j | Nottingham. England, and a general ; j strike is impending. A Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says the Samoan conference is cementing the friendship between En gland and Germany. The anarchists are fermenting land agitation in 1.0-nbardy. There has been serious rioting and a number of "nouses have been ransacked England Gets her ice from Norway. It sells in London at from 58 to 81 cents per 100 pounds. England used to buy large quantities from Boston. In the British House of Commons last week, tins bill providing for addi- , tional naval defenses passed third read | ing by a vote of is:; to 101. The police at St. Petersburg, Russia, have discovered that the ringleaders of the recent plot against the Czar belonged to the garrison at Cronstadt. Emperor William lias accepted the in vitation of Emperor Francis Joseph to at tend to autumn maneuvers of the Aus trian army in Moravia and Bohemia, The French Solialists have secretly in vited their German brethren to take part in a congress of Socialists, which it is proposed to hold in Paris on July 14th. It is reported that T>gitime has con cluded a treaty with France, by which the assistance of the French Goverment is given in the suppression of the rebel- | lion. Sir Frederick Cowen has signed a con-, tract in London to compose an opera ' upon a Scandinavian subject for the Carl Rosa Company. Zennett is to write the libretto. It is stilted on the Continent that En- ! glish physicians found General Boulanger suffering from diabetes in an advanced stage and ordered him to go to Vichy or Carsbad. The French Government has given its sanction to the Labor Congress, which has been proposed by the Swiss Federal Council, to be held at Berne or Geneva in the summer. Lord Duiiraven has practically accepted all the conditions attending the challenge for the America Cup, but suggests slight modifications, which he deems of more convenience to himself. Two French fishing vessels, the Ella and Four Brothers, which left France some time ajio for the Newfoundland fisheries, with fifteen men, have been lost and all hands drowned. Louis Conlou of* Montlueon, France, has probably the longest beard in the world. He is scarcely five feet in height. his beard measures seven feet and he wears it wound round his neck. EASTERN ITEMS. VILLARD AND THE OREGON TRANS CONTINENTAL. Secretary Bayard's Marriage— Suffrage—Factories Established— Prisoners Lashed—Miners Resume Work. Maine farmers complain of a scarcity Of help. Natural gas. will soon be piped to San | dusky, Ohio. ["resident Harrison will not talk poli- I tics on Sunday. Congressman Samuel S. Randall is con ! valescing rapidly. ! The Chicago Drainage bill has passed ; the Illinois senate. Worms are destroying the cotton crops J in Southern Arkansas. ; Anarchist literature are being exten i sively circulated in Chicago. The Atlanta is to relieve the Omaha as flagstaff of the Asiatic station. Oil has been struck at a reported depth j of ICOO feet in Torre Haute, hid. No now developments have been made ! in the Cronin mystery at Chicago. The Woman's Municipal Suffrage bill was defeated in the Michigan senate. All of Mrs. Langtry'S stage properties I are to be sold at auction on .May 2Sth. j A Northern syndicate has purchased j 30,000 acres of land in North Carolina. j A Chicago meat firm will build a five story refrigerating depot at McKecsport. Compulsory education laws are likely to break up child labor in several states. "Uncle DickTate," ex-State Treasurer of Kentucky is believed to be in Califor ! nia. A report in the West Virginia Guber . natorial contest is not expected before i [July. A million dollars in gold bars has been ordered for export to France from New ' I York. i Eleven prisinors were lashed and five of them pilloried at New Castle, Del., re-) cently. The town of Cummings, 111., suffered from a disastrous tire last week : loss, j | $60,000. Mrs. (irover Cleveland has received! from the Queen Regent of Spain, a pho-! tograph. i It is thought the sum of $2,000,000 will cover the entire cost of the New York pageant. The Illinois house has passed the bill i reducing the rate of interest from Bto 7 ! per cent. I Ex-Commissioner it, .,,,^u;ns JOhn C. Black u'il make his home at Chicago] hereafter. j Villard claims to have secured a ma jority of the stock of the Oregon Trans continental. ; Horrible stories are being told of the i management of the asylum for the Chi cago insane. The coming conference of North Amer- J ican nations at Washington promises to be a success. The Pennsylvania legislature appro- ; priated $75,000 for dress uniforms for the ! ; State militia. ! Mrs. A. E. Horton, of San Diego, was thrown from a cab at Washington, last j week, and killed. The Canadian Fisheries Department is • already Bending out its armed cruisers to I ; watch American fishermen. The New York legislature has appro priated if 10,000 for a monument to John: Ericsson, in New York city. Artesian we 11s have a future in this: ; country. The towns in Dakota are put ting them to important OSes. A wind and hailstorm passed through the northern portion of Texas, last week, 1 doing great damage to crops. j It is said that the negroes of Louisiana and Mississippi are moving out by thou- I sands and are going to Kansas. Nearly eight thousand miners have re sumed work at Pittston, Pens., after an j idleness of over seven months. A mob at Wyckliffe, Ky., on the 18th inst., hanged Joe Thompson', who had: criminally assaulted a little girl. Viscount Adolph de Vallcourt, a dis- j tinguished Frenchman, died suddenly at San Antonio, Texas, of epilepsy. At a recent birthday celebration in Fairhaven, Vt., thirteen persons were: 1 present whose ages aggregated 1013 years. William Hansen, a 17-year-old boy. was wantonly shot at Joliet, 111., last week, by a "colored policeman named . Babb. Fish in the lowa river are dying by I thousands from Marshalltown down. It | is believed the glucose works have pois tsoned the water. Denver, Col., authorities are making a vigorous war on vice. Over four hun : dred prostitutes have been arrested with- ; in the past few days. A woman's walking match is in pro-j gress at Baltimore, one of the conditions ; 1 being that 300 miles must l>e covered in six days or no money is paid. Francis "Wayland Goddard, of Provi dence, It. 1., died suddenly in a dentist's office in Boston, on the 17th inst. He I was widely known in the state. ' The marriage of ex-Secretary Bayard ' to Miss Clymer, daughter of Dr. Clymer, • of the United States navy, of Washing ton, will occur early in the summer. The Sioux Reservation in Dakota, which is expected to be soon ceded to the ' i United States, is five times as large as Oklahoma and five times better farm lan Is. Twenty factories, with the aggregate capital of $1,500,000, have been establish ed in Florence, Ala., a town of some 2500 people, during the seven months just, passed. The Constitution of Missouri requires members of the legislature to serve for $1 a day after having been in session 120 i days". That* the pay the Missouri legis lator is now petting. HOHK A\l» FARM. Early Plo log—Pat Sh*>ep-Foul Air In Stables—Soiling Cropi- Oatmeal Mush for Children—Notes. When pear trees refuse to grow and ap pear dorment cultivate them well and apply plenty of wood ashes around them. Trim back the wood and give the trunks a- r ! washing with strong soapsuds. A heavy plank drawn over a lawn-plot will serve to render it smooth, thus greatly aiding the lawn-mower alter tin- I grass is u]>. The lawn grass, being very ' short, may be cured and stored away for I the use of poultrj in «inter. _ Have you evergreens about the house? Trim rlirni up this spring so thai they will look ship-shape. Two or three hun dred dollars can often be added to the value of a farm by an hour or two s u..i k in priuiiri..' the ornamental trees. Everyltfnly can raise berries—thefarm ; er. the villager and the resident. If you have a walk ten feet long bordei it with the finest strawberries. Do not try to yrou them in a careless, slip-shod way. Fill the ground with richness ,:nd you : will !»■ astonished and well paid. Tomatoes cut into thick slices and j baked in a dripping pan make a mosi ageeahle garnish. Sprinkle pepper and I fine bread crumbs over each slice, and in I the space between the slices put little ■ lumps of butter. Bake till tender, and serve hot on the platter with meat. Soiling crops is another very impartani : feature in farming. Bye sown last tail . gives the first catting of green fodder this •jpnTiL', and should give a second cutting later. Oats and peas should he sown \ early as a soiling crop. When the weath er is warm enough fodder corn sown al- I niosl io the exclusion of everything else as a soiling crop. Foul air in stables affects the quality of milk, and where stables are small and: crowded the air is BO leaded with impuri-. ties as to destroy the natural sweet flavor of the milk. These are facts for all users oi milk to know. They should stimulate careful persona! inquiry as to whether the milk used is clean or is filled with poisonous animal matters. One of the prettiest ornaments fora shelf is a square or oblong glass with \ Leveled edges. On this glass paint a landscape. A snow .scene is particularly adapted for this. A glass ten inches high by eight wide is a good size. This may be placed upon an easel when it is i done, or may be glued to a plush panel. which can be hung on the wall. Most every farmer is aware of the fact that a sheep must be tat to make the best mutton, but few conceive the idea that a properly and well fed sheep produces more and better wool than one poorly fed and cared for. Wool is a product from feeding, just the same as fat or tlest. and the Hock should lie led and managed with ji,yj<:}\ to wool growth, and that of fine i 'how chow requires one peck of green tomatoes, four very small, solid cabbages, six onion.- and six green beli peppers, all chopped line and mixed. Sprinkle a cup ful ever the mixture and let it stand over night. In the morning drain off the juice and add two pounds of brown sogar, one cupful of mustard seed and one gallon of vinegar t<> the chopped mixture. Boil until it looks clear and tender ami put in jars. This is declared to be. ''way up." Tomatoes lv! into slices and baked mike a delicious entree, but to serve with brazed fouls an.l in highly seasoned gravies the tomatoes should be cut into slices, be dipped in flour, and then be browned in butler, with salt and pepper scattered '>n each slice. This process imparts an indescribable flavor to the tomatoes which nothing else could (live, anil a new joy awaits the lover ofjjood things who has not partaken of this relish. It is moat agreeable as a garnish for a fat and juicy roast of beef, as well as of fowl and lamb. The ways in which an omelet may be made to vary are almost without number. The omelet with fine herbs is a favorite with those people who like high season ing. '1 hen the most fastidious delight in an omelet with inushroons. These, ol course, must be chopped, or be broken in fine bits, before they are mixed with the omelet ; parsley alone, rubbed very fine, imparts a delicious flavor to a plain omelet ; tomatoes added to the omelets just before it hardens, those having been already cooked, give an excellent relish ti> it; later in the season oysters chopped line, or the Little Neck clam, render an omeiet a dish to be longed tor and to be eaten with indescribable gusto. Oatmeal mush for children or invalids: Take one cup granulated oatmeal, a half teawpoonful of .-alt arid one scant quart of boiling water. Put the meal and Salt in the double boiler, pour on the boiling water and cook two or three hours. Re move the cover just before serving and stir with a fork to let the steam escape. If the water in the lower boiler be strongly salted the meal will cook more quickly. Serve with sugar or salt and cream! Baked sour apples sauce and apple jelly are delicious eaten with the; oatmeal. * They should be served with the mush, and the cream and sugar poured over the whole. They give the acid flavor, which so many crave in the morning. Coarse oatmeal is not suitable for any form of wv.tcrhrash, acidly <<: bowel' irritation. It often causes erup tions on the skiu in warm weather. Planting Trees: The trees beingsnogly heeled-in, do not plant until the weather is settled, especially until the long wind storms are over. These winds are dan gerous and shrivel op the bark and des troy the verdure of the buds, which the roo'is cannot yet supply with moisture. If the trees come to hand early in the spring, it is best to heel them in until the weather gets warm It trees after a long jonmey m warm weathfr are found to have the' buds started and the bark shriveled, trim them back and cot each branch back to a sound, dormant bud. Then dig a t vnch in suitable soil, and lay in the trees one by one, takingcare that in filling in every part of theshrivel ed bark is in eont.it t with the moist soil. Cover all completely, root and branch, taking care that Hie labels are properly preserved. When the trees are taken up at the end of B weik or more, the bark will be found completely restated. Ex amine the roots and prune the mutilated ones with ■ soomth cut. Prune the tops into piopor shape. Some nurseries give a large head, while others cut the young. trees into shape while yet in the nursery rows. A covering of finely divided, light soil over the roots is a great benefit to newly planted trees. PORTLAND MARKET. THE CONDITION OF THE MERCHAN DISE MARKET GOOD. ■ No Change In Sugars Since Last We k —Coffees Firm VVUh an Upward Tendency- Oata in Demand —Wheat Very Dull. The condition of the local merchadise markets, while not *<> active as it has j been, continues good, the numerous ar ; rivals in every county of Oregon and | Washington, helping; to swell the volume i of trade, which shows that in spite of much keen competition bom several quarters, Portland merchants manage to i acquire a very fair share 0/ new business. : Bright sunshine is all that is now needed ; to mature crops of all kinds, and bring i quantities of the early fruits into market. j Sugars have been without change since ■ our hist report. Provisions are steady, I while dried fruits of all kinds move fairly i well. We quote: OKOOEKIEB. Sugars, Golden 0 ti'oc extra C '> 7e, dry granulated .S'-.,c, cube, .-rushed and I powdered B%c. Coffee.: Java 25@!i7c, ; Mocha 2g@3lc, Costa Rica 21>_@22 I.c, I KioL'L''" 1.'.".i. Arbueklu'g roasted "&%c, PROVISIONS. '. Oregon ham 12^£@13c, breakfast ba- I con L3c, sides 10@10J 2 e, shoulders S}4 I (rfOc. Eastern ham i:>ini:> 1...c, breakfast | bacon 13<gl3!_,'c. sides a *((i:10c. Laid i His "t'.-c, FRUITS. Los Angeles oranges $2.25, Riversides $:;.!'.). California lemons $3..">0(u;4 per lx>x. Oregon strawberries $2 ]>er crate. VEGETABLES. I Potatoes 40@50c, onions $1.50, rheu ' barb 3c, tomatoes $1 @3 per box. DRIED FKL'ITS. Apples 4@sc, sliced fie. pears He, Ore gon prunes, Italian Be, silver 7c, German ; ii.M,._,(•, plums s<P7c apricots 13(g14c, peaches B@loc, California figs Be, raisins $1.75@2.25 per liox. OA-IHY PRODUCE. Butter. Oregon fancy L'Oc, medium 15@ 17'.jc, common, 10@l"Yi. Eastern 22e, Califoraia lS@2oo. EGGS. Eggs 18c. POULTRY. Chickens $5, broilers $3@4, ducks if.", per doz., geese $!», turkeys 20e per lb. WOOL. Valley 16@17c, Eastern Oregon 10@15<\ HOI'S. Hops 10@15c. GRAIN. Wheat, Valley il.L'^ 1.,, Eastern Oregon $1.15. Oat«2B@3oc. FLOUR. Standard $4.10, other brands $3.75. FEED. ChopfTßC?2u, sfiorfs !•>, iwrlev fJ'J.oO @24. FBESH MEATS. Beef, live. ,!\.e, dressed, 7c; mutton, live, '.'■'■<(•, dressed 7c; lambs $2.50 each, hogs live oe, dressed, 7w7'..-c ; veal 6@Bc. THE DEADLY OVERCOAT. A Justlflcatlon of the Sensible Man Who Don't Wesr (Hi*-. We protest against the indiscrimi nate use of the thick and heavy over coat. Wo would rather see men in \ fairly robust condition, especially if young, clad warmly next the skin, and wearing either a light top coat or none at all. There can be no doubt that the habitual use of greatcoats is indirectly accountable for the chilis which they are intended to prevent. Were the overcoat worn continuously it might attain its object Its intermittent use, even when ample underclothing is worn, affords no solid guarantee safety, but rather the reverse. J'he man of sedentary habits has es pecial need to remember this. He emerges da:jr from a warm breakfast room clothed in his ordinary winter garments, with probably woolen under wear, and over all the heavy ulster or top coat. After a walk he finds that the sense of warmth he began with is more than maintained. He arrives at his office or place of business, and off goes the overcoat, though the air of the newly-opened room is as cold as that without,, and draughty in addi tion. Daring the day perhaps he travels to and from adjacent business houses wearing only his house cloth ing. The overcoat is laid aside till closing time reminds htm of the jour ney home. The frequent result is that somehow, between the hours of his de parture and return, he is chilled. No doubt, he would run as great a risk if, lightly clad, he were to face the rigor of a winter day. In this case, how ever, exercise and habit might do much to develop the power of endur ance, and there would, at all events, be less danger of sudden cold acting upon a freely-perspiring surface. Woolen underclothing represents a state of healthy comfort intermediate between these extremes, and more re «'stant.to «■*■"' *'.! j,">SI it' •»«•«•-» — Barium sells for $976 a pound, when it is sold at all, and calcium is worth 91,800 a pound. Cerium is a shade higher—its cost is 100 an ounce. or $1,920 a pound. —One Dr. Terc. in England, is advo cating the sting of bees as a remedy for rheumatism. He declares that he has treated with success 173 cases and has given in all 39.000 stings. —The process of manufacturing India ink has been a secret with the Chinese for many centuries, but a firm of Eng lish chemists claim to have discovered a process of treating camphor with sulphuric acid that produces a pigment identical with India ink. —There are, according to Rev. George Henslowe, more than 100 vari eties of maize, which differ among themselves more than those of any other cereals. Some come to maturity In two months: others require seven. Some are as many feet high as others are inches. They vary similarly in shape and size of ears, color of the grain, and also in physical and ch«mi <sil composition. ' $2.00 PER YEAR. I FOREIGN GOSSIP. —An elephant died in Bombay late ly who had lived to be 800 years old. —A young woman at Ostend. Bel gium, is said to take a sea bath every day in the year, remaining in the water about fifteen minute-, —Li Hi, the present Kin? of Cores, belongs to a family which has held the Corean throne since 1992. During that time twenty-nine Kings hare reigned, and the power of each has bean sore despotic than that of the C/.:yv of Rus sia. The Czar is said to wear always a ring' in which is embedded a piece of the true cross that was given to an an cestor of the Czar by a Pope long ago. The. Czar is said to be superstition* about this ring, and once, when he had started upon a long journey and had forgotten it. he had his train held while a messenger went back upon a locomotive and fetched it. —At Russian places of amusement the ladies wear fur caps and big fur collars instead of the hats and bonnets worn in other countries. An observer siys: "Some of them have such won derful complexions that one might well say the effect of their faces above the white fur is that of roses in snow." — Among the hereditary jewels be longing to Duke of Cumberland are Queen Charlotte's pearls, valued at $720,000. about which, for twenty years. Queen Victoria and the Han everian King quarreled with ma jesteria' dignity. The Queen main tained they belonged by right to Kit gland. The King insisted they should have been sent to Hanover in \M7, on the death of William IV. The other jewels belonging to the Duke are valued at $2,000,000. His gold and silver plate weighs twelve tons. DRAWING-ROOM SECRETS. An Knclir.li fitly Who Drill* K.hntuiitc* fur til** Oii#»km'h K**t'4>|lt itlllH. Next to the Queen as a model of court carriage stands the Duchess of Teck. Mrs. R told me all this in a soft, motherly way. Then she sudden ly turned practical, and fixed her eyes keenly and critically and said: "But come, take your hat off and we will have a lesson. Place this on your head.'' She handed me a disk of wood about tne size of a tea-plate. "There, put that on your head. This ribbon prevents its falling off. Now walk up to me!" said madame. "Keep your head up. Don't walk," she cried. "You musn't venture to walk. Your your shoulders up. Keep your chin high. Now try again!" I wouldn't be a maiden of the Sunny South. We are tod that the cause .of their erect bearing is long practice with a water-pitcher on their heads. A platter of wood convinced me that the maidens of the Sunny South de serve all the erect carriage they can get. Have you ever tried to walk with j your head up with a bit of wood . bal ancing on the top of your skull"? I tried again. "You must not lift your toes." I did so and balanced the piece of wood with ease. "Now, I will be the Queen pro tern. Glide up to me.' She retired to the end of the room. "Yon must regulate your steps and count two between each -4ep forward. Take another step, and then curtsey. I obeyed. It was a very unsteady one. "Try again, and go down very slowly. Slower, slower," she said, stretching out her hand, which I kissed. "You mustn't try to grab the Queen's hand. You must sweep your hand round BO**—and she made a grace ful curve in the air "and be careful your nose doesn't touch the Queen's hand. Any time can be given to the curtsey to the Queen.. Then you must curtsey to each member of the royal family. The Empress Frederick may be next the Queen. Make a deep curtsey to her, and a shorter one" to each of the others according to their distance from the Queen. The regula tion number of curtseys is six. That is what I train my pupils for. Having finished saluting each member of the royal family you back out swiftly— still with a gliding motion, to allow the other ladies to come up. This back ing out is really a succession of curt seys with first the right foot and then the left foot forward. You kick your skirts away all the time. "I see all my pupils in their full dress." said Madame, "to give them the finishing directions. I keep trains here four yards long for practice. Les sons are almost required if you go to the state balL Debutantes are often invited. The only formality to ba re membered in the drawing-room is the | mode of carrying your ticket This must be carried in the left hand, with your right-hand glove between the fourth and little finger. Ladies are also permitted to carry handkerchiefs, but it is not advisable. You give up your ticket, as the Lord Chamberlain announces your name, and then you advance up the room to the Queen." "Do you get many American pu pils?" I asked. "Yes, I had several last year. They were very agreeable young ladies, too. Some English people think that Ameri can women are too go-ahead to be as decorous as good taste demands. But [ can not say that. I think Americans, with all their curiosity and their read iness to plunge into any conversation, ire animated not 90 much by a desire to be forward in evidence as by a live- . | lier intelligence and animation than the English. I have* had some English . heiresses to teach; and oh! they are so ■ stupid when they come fresh from the •ountry to make their first appearance n society."—Pall Mall Gazette.