- " v -J S t ptojilc'fj press, L. V. & E. T. BLUM, publishers and Proprietors. ' TEUMS:-CASH IN ADVANCE. nB cor OD yr m " tlx months, .......... .76 thro H . .... . . ... J - - - - QttcltA to goUBts. , gtftrxhre, JfcpiatJhtrt. flie Urtls xnd g aural gnfcrvaUmf. VOL. XXXYI. SALEM, SVC., THUESDAY, JULY 5, 1888. NO. 27. JOB PRINTING is ma in imvcssi u pptu4 with an 1. rally prepare! to aa wea wua MtATKCM, OIVATOM. AJT AT m VERY LOWEST PRICES . m to -! as trial he WmUm vtOk u;m tut. Holland reclaims an average of eight res per clay from the sea and the salt water is no sooner crowded out than cab bage is crowded in. n the ten years, since 1878, 376 per son have been killed or maimed or seri pii! v hurt nt crossings of the Reading railway in the city of Philadelphia. - At Fisk I'niversityj. Nashville, Tenn., pround has been broken for the first cyinna-iium and mechanical laboratory for olored people the world has ever seen. ' The merits of newspaper advertising were well estimated by a prominent soap man of Philadelphia when he said that li.' confined his advertising to newspa pers 'Recause the man who does not i read the papers does not use soap. It is reported from Cape Miy that if the Government cannot be induced to build the proposed channel from Cape Ahiv to Atlantic Citv an effort will be tnuile to raise the money by popular sub scriptions at the two resorts during the m:nincr. The people of the Pacific Coast are taking considerable interest in the Mel bourne Exposition, which wi'J be opened in August, though why it should beheld in winter is not clear. It is expected that there will be a very creditable ex- liii nit of California products at the Ex position. - Europe now has twenty-two cremato ries, ten of them added within the past year, while no less than 600 bodies have been burned in Germany and 800 in Italy. The United States have seven crematories, w'th six building.. Thus it feema, infers the New York Observer, that prejudice against cremation is fast ., abating. : If the Emperor Frederick should get well, the Sultan of Turkey will take no miall part of the credit to himself, for he has sent the Emperor a collar consist ing of nine hazel nuts with inscriptions from the Koran, over which the der vishes and sheiks of the palace had prayed, and which,, as the Sultan assured the German ruler, would cure him with out doubt. A prison revolt, which was not quelled without much bloodshed, took place re cently at Damanhour, Egypt, about twelve miles from Alexandria. Two prisoners in the jail who were under sentence of death, aided by eighteen other convicts,' managed to make their escape from the prison. " The police at once starte I in parsuit, but before they could come up with them the prisoners took refuge in a mosque. Here a des 1 orate fight took place, in which fifteen of the prisoners ve e killed and two were wounded, while the police had four killed. . . The Taos Valley of Colorado and New Mexico is about to have a boom. A company will soon irrigate the eutire valley, f-ays a recent visitor: '"The beauties of the valleys of Southern Cali fornia are much extolled by tourists as well as by the inhabitants. Tao3, how ever, discounts anything in the Golden tiite. The climate is much more de l'phtful, and the enemies to vegetation much fewer. None of the destroyers of fruit which are common to California are found in the Taos region, and I can as sure you that watermelmons picked there two years ago are good and fresh, and tit fe the table at the present time." WEDDED. Borne quick and bitter words we said And then we parted. Haw the sun Swam through the sullen mist of gray 1 A chill fell on the summer day, Life's best and happiest hours were done; Friendship was dead. How proud we went our separate ways. And spake no word and made no moan I She braided up her flowing hair, That I had always called so fair, Although she scorned my loving tone, My word of praise. And II I matched her scorn with scorn, I hated her with all my heart, Until we chanced to meet one day; She turned her pretty head away; I saw two pretty tear-drops start, Lot love was born. Some fond, repenting word I said, She answered only with a sigh ; But when I took her hand in mine A radiant glory, half divine, Flooded the earth and filled the sky Now we are wed. Chambers' Journal. A DRUMMER BOY HERO. I A c rrespondent of the Philadeldhia lsd'jer suggests that the court of the new City Hall in that city should be embellished with statues of eminent I'hiladelphians, after the manner of the I'llizi at Florence, lie suggests, as ap propriate subjects, William Pcnn, Ben jamin Franklin, Pcnjamin Ru-h, Ben jamin West, Bishop White, Stephen Girard, John Fi:ch, I'obert Fulton, Robert Morris, Lind'ey Murray, Dr. Kane, Charles Brockden Brown, Thomas Buchanan Bead, Hayard Taylor, Henry C. Carey, Dr. Gallaudet, Horace Binney, Vice-President Dallas, Dr. Hayes, John Welsh, and others. Boulanger, the fleeting idol of the volatile French, is described by the Boston Tramrript as "an off-handed, rather open hearted fellow, who likes to please, delights in rendering services to no matter whom, is charmingly gallant to women of all ages and ranks, has an elegant figure and a handsome face, a winning smile, sits on horseback like a centaur, and took when he was in the army as much enjoyment out of his fine belongings as a child does out of its Sunday clothes. He was really pictur esque on his black prancing horse, sur rounded by his staff. The rank and file adored him; for why? he gave them clean beds, lavatories mess tables and plates, tumblers, knives and forks. For men who had to spend three years at least in the army this was a good deal. Before the time of Le Beau General they fed almost like hogs, each eating out of a tin can,' with his fingers or penknife as best he could. The beauty of the thing was that this change cost the taxpayers nothing, it being clipped off contractors and their patrons. Wilson didn't like it; but Boulanger, didn't care. Boulonger didn't care either whether influential politicians took, when he was war minis ter, in bad part his refusal to tame col. liers on strike by sending a military force to their black country to dragoon them. When the colliers were starving, Boulanger telegraphed to the soldiers to share their victuals with them. I don't think he did this to win popularity, but jaerely frop a kid impulse On the first day of the battle of Cus tozza, the twenty-fourth of July, 1818, about sixty soldiers belonging to one of the Italian infantry regiments, having" been sent to occupy an isolated house on a height, were unexpectedly attacked by two companies of Austrians, who, firing on them from different points, barely gave them them time to take refuge in the house and hastily barricade the doors, leaving several dead and wounded in the fields.- After barricading the doors the Italian soldiers hastily ran to the win dows on the first floor and began to pour a steady fire into the assailants, who were gradually, advancing in a semi circle, and replying vigorously. The sixty Italians were commanded "by two subalterns and a captain, a tall, old fellow, lean and severe, with white hair and moustaches; with them was a Sardinian drummer boy, a boy not much more than fourteen years old, and who scarcely appeared to be twelve; he was small, with olive-brown face and two sparkling little deep black eyes. The captain was directing the defence from a window on the first floor, shouting his orders like pistol shots and with no sign oi emotion on nis nam lace. The drum mer boy, who was a little pale, but firm on his legs, got up on a table and was stretching out his neck to see out of the windows and leaning against the wall: through the smoke he saw the white uni forms of the Austrians, who were slowly advancing through the fields. The house was situated on a summit of a steep slope and on the side towards the slope had but oue small window, high up, which looked out from the garret; therefore the Austrians did not threaten the house from that side and the slope was clear; their nre was directed only toward the front and two sides. It was a hail of leaden bullets, -which on the outside cracked the walls and crumbled the tiles, and on the inside smashed ceilings, furniture, window frames, and door posts, filling the air with splinters, clouds of plaster and bits of pottery and glass; hissing, re bounding, crashing into -everything with a noisa, tit to drive one mad. From time to time one of the soldiers who were firing from the windows fell back onj the floor, and was dragged to one sid.d. Some tottered from room to room, pressing their hands on their wounds. In the kitchen there was al ready one dead man, with a ball through his forehead.; The semi-circle? of the enemy kept closing up. All at once the captain, who until then had been impassible, was seen to show signs of uneasiness and to stride out of the room followed by a sergeant. About three-minutes afterwards the ser geant came running back and called the drummer boy, beckoning him to follow. The boy ran after him up a wooden stair-rase, and went with him into an empty garret, where he saw the captain, who was writing with a pencil on a sheet of paper, leaning asainst the win dow, with a well-rope on the floor at his feet. The captain folded the paper and looking with his cold, grayish eyes, be fore which all the soldiers trembled, into the eyes of the boy, said abruptly: "Drummer boy !" The drummer boy saluted. The captain said: "You've got grit." The boy's eyes lighted up. "Yes, captain," he answered. "Look down there," said the captain, rushing Him to the window, "in the plain, near the houses of Villafranca, where there is a glittering of bayonets. Those arc our friends, standing idle. Take this note, catch hold of the rope, slide down from the window, run down the hill, go through the fields' and give the note to the first officer you tee. Chuck away your belt and knapsack." The boy took off his belt and knap sack and put the note in his breast pock et ; the sergeant threw out the rope and grasped one end of it with both hands; the captain helped the boy to pass back wards through the little window. "Take care," he said to him, "the safety of the detachment depends on your courage and on your legs." "Trust me, captain," replied the drummer boy, swinging himself out. "Stoop as you go down," said the captain again, helping the sergeant to hold the rope. "Never fear." "God help you l' In a few minutes the boy was on the ground ; the sergeant drew up the rope and disappeared ; the captain sprang to the window and saw the boy flying down the niu. He was already hoping that he had succeeded in escaping unobserved, when five or six little clouds of dust which rose from the ground both before and behind the boy warned him that he had been seen by the Austrians, who were firing at lym from the top of the hill. Those little clouds were earth thrown up by the bullets. But the boy contin ued to run at a breakneck pace. All at once he fell. ''Killed I" roared the captain, biting his fist. But he had scarcely said the word when he saw the boy get up. "Ah! only a fall I" he said to himself, and breathed again. In fact, the boy began to run again as last as ne could, but he limped. "A sprained ankle," thought the captain. A few more little clouds oi dust rose here and there around the boy, but they were always farther off. The- captain gave an exclamation of triumph. But he continued to follow him anxiously with hi eyes, because it was a question of minutes; if he did not get down there as quickly as possible with the note, which requested immediate re lief, either all his soldiers would be killed or he would have to surrender and become prisoners with them. The boy ran swiftly for a while and then unpad and slackeaed his paca, ?4 then broke into a run again, but he seemed to become more and more fatigued, and every little while stumbled and paused for a moment. ' "Perhaps he has been hit by a glanc ing bullet," thought the captain, and he snudderingly watched all his move ments, and encouraged him and spoke to mm as it tne boy could hear him : he measured incessantly with keen eyes the distance interposing between the run- ring boy and the elittering of arms which he saw down there iu the plain in the midst of the wheat fields, gilded by the sun. And meanwhile he heard the whistling and the noise of the bullets in the rooms below, the imperious and an gry cries of the officers and sargeants, the groans of the wounded and the crashing of the furniture and plaster. "Up! courage!" he cried, following with his gaze the distant boy. "Forward! run! he has stopped, curse him! Ah! he is running again." I An officer came, out of : breath, to say that the enemy, without ceasing their fire, were waving a white flag as a sum mons to surrender. "Don't answer!" he cried, without re moving his eyes from the boy, who was already in the plain, but -who was no longer running, and who appeared to be dragging himself along with difficulty. "But get on! run!" said the captain, grinding his teeth and clenching his fists; "kill yourself, die,! scoundrel, but go on!" Then a horrible oath burst from him. "Ah! the infamous coward 1 he has sat down !" . In fact, the boy, whose head till now he had seen projecting! above a wheat field, had disappeared, j as if he had fallen. But in a moment his head came into view again; finally he was-lost be hind the hedges, and the captain saw him no more. He then flew down stairs; it was rain ing bullets; the rooms were encumbered with the wounded, some of whom reeled about like drunken men, catching at the furniture; walls and floors were spat tered with blood; corpses were lying across the doors; the lieutenants arm! had been broken by a ball ; evervthing was in a whirl of smoke and dust. "Courage!" yelled the captain. Stick to your posts ! Relief is coming ! Cour age for a little longer !" The Austrians had drawn nearer yet, their contorted fa-es loomed through the smoke; above the rattle of the firing rose their savage cries, insulting, de manding surrender, threatening slaugh ter. Occasionally a I soldier, terror- stricken, retreated, from the window; the sergeant drove him back, but the defenders' fire was slackening; their faces showed discouragement; it was impossible to prolong the resistance. Suddenly the firing of the Austrians slackened and a thundering voice shouted, first in German, then in Italian : "Surrender!" "Nol" howled the captain from a window. And the firing began again steadier and fiercer on bothsides. More soldiers felL , Already more than one window was without defenders. The fatal mo ment was close at hand. The captain was muttering between his teeth in a broken voice: "They're not coming! They're not coming !" and he ran furi ously about, twisting his sabre in his clenched hand, resolving to die, when a Sergeant, coming down from the garret, cried in a loud voice: ! They're coming!" "They're coming,' the captain re peated with a shout of joy. At this all shout, unhurt, wounded. Sergeants and officers rush to the windows, and once more the resistance grew fierce. A few moments after a sort of uncertainty and beginning of disorder were remarked in the enemy. Immediately, in great haste, the captain formed a small company down stairs, with fixed bayonets, ready to make a sally. Then he flew up stairs again. He had scarcely got up there when they heard a heavy tread, accom panied by a formidable hurrah, and from the widows they saw advancing through the smoke the two-cornered hats of the Italian carbineers, a squadron dashing along at full speed, and the flashing of sword blades brandished in the air, de scending on the heads, shoulders and backs of the enemy. Then the little troop rushed out of the door with low ered bayonets; the enemy wavered, be came disordered and tooK mgnt ; tne ground remained cleir, the house was free, and a short time after the height was occupied by two battalions of in fantry and two caanons. The captain, with his remaining sol diers, re joined his regiment, fought again and was slightly wounded in the left hand by a glancing ball, in the last bay onet charge. The day ended in victory for us. But the day after, the fight having begun again, the Italians were over whelmed, in spite of a brave resistance, by the superior numbers of the Aus trians, and on the morning of the 2th they were compelled to retreat sorrow ful y toward the Mincio. - The captain, although wounded. marched on foot with his soldiers, who were tired and silent, and toward sunset reached Goito on the Mincio and imme diately sought out his lieutenant, who had been picked up, with a broken arm. by our ambulance, and who had arrived there first. He was directed to a church- where a field hospital had hastily been installed. He went there. The church was full of wounded, reclining on two rows of beds and mattresses stretched on the floor; two doctors ana various as sistants were going and coming, and stifled cries and groans were heard. On entering, the captain stopped and looked about him, in search of his orh cer. Just then he heard a faint voice close by balling him: "Captain!" j He turned around: it was the drum nier boy ; he was stretched on a trestle bed, covered up to the chest by a coarse window curtain with little red and white squares, with his arms out ; he was pale and thin, but with his eyes still sparK ling, like two black gems. "Are you here?'? the captain asked him in an astonished but stern manner. "Bravo! You did your duty." "I did what I could, ' answered the drummer boy. j "Have vou been wounded Vy said the caotain, looking around for his officer in the beds near by. ."What would you have?" said the boy, who took courage to speak from the proud pleasure of being wounded for the first time, and without which he would not have dared to open his mouth in the presence of the captain, "lhad to run like a hunchback, they saw me immediately. I j should have arrived twenty minutes sooner if they hadn't hit me. Fortunately I found a staff captain directly to whom to give the note. But it was hard coming down after that lick 1 I was dying of thirst, kept thinking that I t-houldn't get there, and was crying with rage to think that every minute's delay some one was going to the other world up there at the house. BahJ J did, what i cpuio. J, am cop- tented. But, allow me, captain. Look at yourself. You are bleeding." In fact, from the captain's badly bandaged palm a few drops of blood were trickling down his fingers. "Do you want to tighten the bandage, captain! Hold it out a moment. " The captain held out his left hand, and put out his right to help the boy undo and retie the knot; but no sooner had the boy raised himself from the pil low tnan ne grew pale, and was com pelled to rest his head again. "Enough, enough," said the captain. looking at him and drawing away his bandaged hand, which the boy wished to keep; "take care of yourself instead of thinking of others, because even slight things can become serious when they are neglected." The drummer boy shook his head. "But you," said the captain, looking at mm attentively, "you must nave lost a good deal of blood, to be as weak as that." "Lost much blood?" answered the boy, with a smile. "More than blood.' Look!" And with a jerk he pulled off the cov enng. The captain stepped back, horrified. The boy had but one leg; his left leg had been amputated above the knee and the stump was bandaged with i which were covered with blood. Just then a fat little army surgeon passed in his shirt sleeves." "Ah, captain," he said, quickly, nod ding at the drummer boy, "that is an unfortunate case; one leg which could have been saved easily if he had not forced it in that mad way; a cursed in flammation; it had to be cut off at once, Oh, but a brave boy, I assure; he didn't shed a tear noi utter a cry! On mv word of honor. I was proud he was an Italian boy, while I was operating. Ue came of good stock." And he hurried away. I he captain frowned and looked in tently at the drummer boy while draw ing the covering over him again: then slowly, almost without knowing it, and still looking at him, he raised his hand to his head and lifted his cap. "Captain !" exclaimed the boy in sur prise, "what are you doing; captain to me:" And then the rough soldier, who had never said a gentle word to an inferior, replied in an inexpressibly soft and af fectionate voice: "I am but a captain ; you are a hero." Then he threw himself with open arms on the little drummer boy, and kissed him three times on the heart. Cosmopolitan. The Early Supreme Couit Judges. Scarlet and ermine were the robes they wore in the primitive court, with clean shaven faces and hair drawn back into a queue tied with a black ribbon. Velvet suits, rutlles, knee breeches and buckles were the only wear. The lawyers were required to dress in a similar fashion. and a barrister in any other color than black and without a profusion of ruffles stood a chance of being fined, for con tempt of court. By the time Marshall arrived on the bench the scarlet robe had given way to tne biactc eiik robe, still dear to the heart of the judges. "The lean and slippered pantaloon" made slow progress of that high tribunal for many years, even after pantaloons were in com mon vogue on the streets. The great Picknev, Attorney-General for Madison, was a famous dandy as well as being the ablest lawyer of his time. He was dar ing enough to appear in court, and set a fashion in colors for lawyers. His dress was a blue coat with brass buttons, bull waistcoat buckskin breeches and top boots. He wore the Brummel cravat, which required high art to put on tie. His hair was short and uu powdered. But the bar geneially stuck to black, even after pantaloons came fully into fashion. The bench, however, wore smallclothes until the advent of Taney. With the great Marylander another de parture from precedent is to be noted. He was absolutely the first of Chief Jus tices t-y preside at that august tribunal and deliver judgment in trousers, to the horror and dismay of many a barrister and gentleman of the old school. What sans culotteism was to be expected next? Pigtails had already departed, and what kind of law was to be expected from men in pantaloons, and without powder and BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Jaw-Breaking NomencUtnre-Jnt About A Doubtfnl Compliment Experimenting Of a Financial Nature. There was a Russian came over the sea jusc wtn the war was growing hot; And his name it was Tjalikavakaree- nju-inaoDroiiKauanuuarofr Danerik Varagobhot A Turk was standing upon the shore ' Right where the terrible Russian cross!: Ana be cried : "BismiUah ! I'm Ab-El-Kor- caaaron-iiiifronautoRgobross-Getflnpravadi-KligekosUdji Grivino So they stood like brave mn Ions' and trvTl: A I.I Ii j . .. ..r. mey caiiea eacn oiner witn toeir proper Till the lockjaw seized them, and where they They buried them both by the Irdeshalmme jvtuaiaiusLcnuic Mischtaribusiceup- Bulpary- Dultiary Bag hari rasing. Detroit Free iVeas. Just About. "How much cider did you make this year?" inquired one farmer of another who had offered a specimen for trial. "riiteen barrets," was the answer. Another sip. . en, it jou had another apple you mignt have made another barrel." Leu ure Jloun. fate of a suicide, and won the life-long respeci anu esteem oi a grateful heart. Good evening." Chiraio Tribune. The Man With the Rabbit Eye. There." said the beautiful Amelia Wintergreen, casting a diamond ring at the feet of tthelbert Flitterbat, "takt the jewel you gave me. I shall marry jur. emitnereen, who owns the horrid dog irom wnicn you ran yesterday, leaving me without protection from that dread ful beast. Vou are a coward, Mr. Flit- terbat. If Mr. Smithereen had not kindly saved me," sobbed the charming girl, hysterically, "I should not have been rescued. Please go, Mr. Flittcrbat, anu iorever." "Amelia," moaned that wretched young man, "near me. Know that my right eye was once a rabbit's. It was with my right eye that I saw Smith- ereen's cur approaching us. I knew he was a great rabbit dog, Amelia, and so I ran. i am the victim of science, but I am no coward." "How romantic!" exclaimed that glorious girL "Forgive me, F-thelbext Chicago JV'r. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A Doubtful Compliment. r irst i oung- Lady "Fred is getting positively spooiiy ; he called me a flower just before I came upuiis." llival Belle (with much sweetness) "Vou hud been sitting against the wall for a long time, but it wasu't nice of him to allude to it." VrotUeru e Journal. Enough Said. Brave Stranger -"What is the rent of tnat handsome residence . nonesi Agent it is lor rent Jor a song to any one who will take it. The house is haunted." "Pooh! I'm not afraid of spooks." "o tenant has staved there over one night since a murder was committed in it. They say the racket raised by the spirits is fearful; howls fill the au.c ha ins rattle, dreadful spectres flit about " "They can't scare me." "But tenant complain that the furni ture is knocked and broken." Til risk it" "And the piano is played by unseen hands." "Whose hand?" "The hands of the woman who was killed. They recognize her by the fact that the tunes were her favorite show p eces '.Maiden's Traycr,' 'Silvery Waves' and 'Boulanger M"rch. " "Show me some other house." Omahtt WvrUL. Experimenting; Mr. Somborn "I'm very glad yon con eluded to come again this season. Miss Elson." ! i ; l-i tT. l i I i'lua i.iai-u i. iucic any eiieciai rea- .v . , , .. son for your joy after yoar experience of i Hl "2, owing to a heavy rainfall durio? the Rack and Head. "Brown is like necessity he knows no law," used to be said of a huge, pompous member of the bar of Western New York. One morning the Tillage street which last year?'' Mr. Somborn "Ves, I've joined an 1 amateur dramatic, society, and I want you to help me rehearse that refusal scene of ours again. I'm going to play a crushed lover." Judge. Of a Financial Nature. Bobby (thoughtfully) "Pa, do men in business worry about money mat ters f" Father "Sometimes, Bobby. For instance, when a man whose credit is not first-class owes me money. I worry more or less until I get it. Do you under stand :" Bobby "Yes, pa, and when you owe money to other people I s'pose they worry until they get it?" Epoch. night. Brown stood looking at the water from the tavern pia'.za, and so did White, another member of the bar, who, though physically a dwarf, was a brilliant and powerful lawyer. "White, my dear fellow, what will you do? ' said Brown, with a patronizing air. "You caa never get acro-s the street; you will drown. 1 shall have to take you across on my back." 'If you should," retorted White, "you would have more law on your back than you ever had In jour head." Yuuth's Civipanion. Damp Cellars. The most prominent causes of damp cellars are: 1. Dampness permeating the walls. 2. Dampness from saturated soil ap pearing below the walls. 3. Dampness from imperfect plumb The Progreaa of Evolution. Visitor (to lunatic asylum a century hence ) "What a beautiful girl!" Superictcndent "Yes, poor thing. She was a great society belle once the pride ' ing. of one of the most fashionable circles in ! 4. Moist ground air permeating cellar the city. Her parents' hearts are almost : bottom, forced in by air pressure. " ' broken. It is a pity, a great pity, that The first is an evidence of cither poor so lovely a caKet should contain such a workmanship ana material or imperfect diseased mind, j She is not dangerous; only a monomaniac; but the case seems hopeless. " j What is her mania?" Sil- vnli ft marrv fnr lnrp Omaha World. six An Apology. Scene: The supreme court room. judges being seated on the bench. Air. h. to Judge 1. (contemptuously) "I thought I was addressing a gentle man. ' l Judge P. (severelyj "What do drainage. Should it be the former, and discovered in time, a compulsory re moval of the work is the best remedy. A good wall (stone is here understood) should have every space completely filled. Small fiat stones make the best work when carefully bonded aod fitted. Look out for walls showing nothing but large flat stone on the outer faces such are often but dry concrete in the center. If the work has progressed too far to allow the wall to be taken down, the remedy is a thorough coating of re ou ! mcnt on the outside from grade to' ! footing backed by a careful drainage of I the immcdute vicinity, l.roat rare is ! necessary to keep the surface water from the building ou all sides. It will not The Care of Lamp. The disagreeable flickering of a stn- lent lamp is sometimes caused by tiny particles of the wick dropping into tie uisiuo inoc oi inecyiinaer sunounaing the wick, thus preventing the oil flow, ing freclv from the barrel. Before insert ing a new wick remove the oil tarrel. tnd empty the lamp entirely of oil, pour into the opening, down the wick cylin der and wherever fluid will touch inside, boiling water to which has been added a spoonful of spirits of ammonia. J-ampt are now so universally usea that the care of them has become one of the daily and most important of domes tic duties, not only of the country, but 01 the luxurious city home. II not at tended to every dav, the perforations of the burners become clogged with carbon and dust in a short time, refuse to move easily, the light is dimmed, and a mod unpleasant odor ensues. If occasionally our duties exceed the limits of our time, and we find the wick well-nigh consumed, a strip of old soft cotton may be pinned to the end of the wick for the nonce, and thus convey the oil to it. At some inauspicious moment a hole In the lamp chimney confronts one, no other is nearer than the grocer's : a neatly cut piece of letter-paper, generously covering the offending fracture, nict-ly pasted on, will serve until we can do better. - Whenever the lamps are filled, with a clean soft piece of flannel polish the burners and mountings of the lamps. It is but a moment's work and keeps tbem bright and shining. Smoked chimneys and ill-kept lamps are trying alike to eyesight and tenner. A clear, brght light adds so much to the comfort and enjoyment of the even ing occupations, that one is well repaid for the daily disagreable task of keeping the lamps la perfect order. Kerosene oil and lamps are now so cheap that, even in the country, it is no longer, regarded as a lutury, but a necessity to Lave an abundance of liht for home iheer and use. The lamp used for sewing and read ing should be provided with shades, not only for the comfort they impart, but for the positive saving tbey are for the eyesight. A chimney frequently breaks from having been too tightiy screwed on; the glass eipands from the heat of the flame. The wick i more evenly snuffed by rubbing the charred edge with a piece of rai er or soft rag. then ly trimming with a pair of scissors. Ketore using lamp auk soak them in vinegar, and dry thoroughly to prevent their smoking. Turning the wicks lightly into the tube, and removing the chimney before blow ing out the flame, is a safe and cleanly method of pntling out a lamp. ISot only is the odor from a lamp partially turned don extremely disagreeable, but tne noxious gases from it are e UUy unhealthy. The chimney may be quickly and easily cleansed by breaihin; upon and into it, and wiping and polishing it with newpaper. A piece of red cannel put into the bowl of the lamp, besides giving a dash of color, gathers the im purities of the oiL Burners sometimes get clogged snd re fuse to turn up and down Tiiis msy be remedied by putting them into aa iron kettle containing a ijuart of water and a double handful of wood-ashes. After boiling a little while take out, and with a soft lag wash and dry them nertectly. Or they may be put into a bath composed of equal parts of milk and vinegar, and boiled. If after putting the wick into the bowl of the lamp, and before pouring in any oil, the bowl is crammed with sponge, the wick and sponge then satu rated with the oil to the fulle- capacity of the bowl, the lamp it converted into a safety lamp, to that there is no danger to life from accidental upsetting or breakage of the lamp, or fer of spots on table-scarf or carpet. Add more sponge as the nick burns away ; keep the bowl full of it. The lamp will continue to burn until the oil in wick aod sponge is exhausted. Independent. THE OtX-FASHtONED HA.1. Oh, the c4J-fahiond hair of tV swe-4 long to It the kind I shan always .w And the faros it (nun.l with lU t-raoUftd jraca Of the dear ooV- Ions sir' gone to rat. There were ., al ringlet. arl lonj braided ork. ' There wre U-autiful. b-wini lf ct cnrH, Anlhlgh combs ant side coniba, atvl fair shining to 1 1, That weed worn by the ell-fat!kKl (iris. I rwrvinb-r the roarh that ray grma lXlWr Rrashel back from M brosi. Ho it brow, .lit an elegant, ey simplicity, which, Though I look for, I urrer ane mow. And ray irranlrootber's hair snowy whita- hid awar "Neath a baad-drwn of dainty wh.te la-. Curvinz down from htr brow la a smorah ailver banl. Framed a qawnly anl baaatif a! fane. As the t rood, noble far of my great Unci George Looks dowa from the canvas at mw. With tba "oil tiiucT"" stock aod the fine powderwi wi,j Tn as baudotn and grand as caa be! But the drarat and loreliatt hair la tha woril It my mother's soft, besattful trown. With a touch of the (oil, anl c'.tot of the son. And away to her knees falUn; dowa. And it tells its own story of womanly frarm. And the old fadiiotk-d moJarty, lo- Of tbat sweet, ind-.Y.bl4e b-antr of ouI. And the mother's love, trol.-r and true. For tbe angel that painted the rainbow could And Not a tint to etquhut and rare! Oh tbe wealth nf luturtou. ripp'in waves. Of my toother's brown, bruuf ul burl fVi I honor tbe hair of the sweet lonx as, Whether silver, or duky. or fair. For it bring-. tck dear faces, aal goal, booest beam And I love it -tbe ohl fashioned hair! XlarparH Andrt- tift-- pigtails. Chicago Herald. mean, siri ' l'he Chief-Justice (sternly) "Mr. K., you must retract what you have said; -ba mnct snAlnnifo JVU aJtvsosj as I - I v-. v ... . . r Mr. K. (blandly)"! w.li retract, your ! iLv.ii" ' II " , kbuI unvthinfT wrnn tr '. - How Sherman Was Discharged, "Speaking of California," said Gen eral Sherman to a Cincinnati Commri-il Ga-ette reporter, with a twinkle in hi left eye, "it reminds me of how I was once discharged by my colored boy Jim. I was first lieutenant in the b nth artill ery in those days, and was ordered out to California. I took my colored boy Jim with me round the Horn, in a clip per ship, I paid him $16 a month. I was getting a month then. Mg pay! Not very much, for in addition to being first lieutenant I was adjutant-general of the department, but I didn't get a cent for that. Well, we were down at ban Diego, and Jim worked along pretty steadily. "One day he came in to me and said 'Boss, l'se gwine to quit. l'se been of fered $300 a month to work in a libbery stable up yar, and you must pay me dat much or I quit. Three hundred dollars a month for a colored boy and I just getting $72 from the Lnited btates! That proposition of "Jim's rather stag gered me. I said: 'Jim, I guess you bet ter go to the livery-man ; I can't pay you that much. 'Well,' said Jim, showing the whites of his eyes, 'I reckon, then, boss, as how l'se got to discharge you.' Discharge me he did, for Jim left. It was the first time I was ever discharged from the army," said the general, ending the story, "and by a colored boy who was earning four times as much money as I was." An Improvement In Dentistry. A well known Pittsburg dentist has lately received a patent upon an electrical appliance that has certainly solved one of the many difficulties attending the proper handling of tho human teeth. Heretofore a whole gold tooth has been made by the old-fashioned s wedging pro cess, at once clumsy and hardly effect ive. i ne gold cones are tecnnicaiiy called galvano-plastic tooth crowns, and the process of making them is very simple. A soft metallic model of the tooth is made, this being done perfectly by first taking an imp ession of the tooth. The metallic model is then placed in a dynamo electric bath, and a deposit of pure gold is thus formed all over the model. When this gold h is attained a suitable thickness the soft metal is easily melted out without injuring the cone, leaving a perfect, smooth gold tooth crown. This process is far easier than the b!d way, and has received marked at tention from the scientific dental organs in the East. l'ltU'wry Vtspat:h. honor, if I have said anything wrong; but what I said wa, th t I thought I was addressing a gentleman, and 1 still 1 think so." Commercial Adcertiier. Ills Majesty Excepted. Tho celebrated court preacher, Kober, once preaciioa a very poweriui sermon against intemperance. The (Jrand Duke of Saxony, whose nose looked like a Chi nese lantern, happened to be present, and he naturally regarded the remarks as re ferring to himself; consequently he looked very severely at the eloquent court preacher, who, catching the Grand Ducal eye, modibed his remarks by say ing: - I Drunkenness is undoubtedly a great and heinous sin, against which every true Christian should be warned, except ing, of course, our beloved Grand Duke, whom God preserve to us many years yet. Fliegendt BlaetUr. Not. His I. They stopped the horse on Second street just as the driver was pitched out on the grass. ' He was laid on the cushions, the horse tied to a post, and the ambulance! telephoned for. The crowd of fifty! were waiting to see the end of it, when a citizen came running up, looked from tne trembling none to the wrecked vehicle and then to the man ith the broken leg, and pushing his way further he exclaimed I "Why, dear me, something has hap pened ! Say, did your horse run away f .... wb a "It isn't tnat; l nave uroxen a leg ana will be laid up for weeks," replied the victim as he looked arotnd, ' "but it is my helplessness to take this fellow and drive him head first into the ground three or fourl feet I Have I any real friends here who will do it former"-- Detroit Free Press. poo as the ground will absorb it, and if the strata should happen to incline in the direction of the cellar, conduct the moisture to the wall, where although perhaps not appearing in drops on the surface, still keeping the joints damp enough to affect the atmosphere and cause the mortar to decay. Good, clean, yellow clay, well pud dled and rammed around the walls, is an excellent protection, and one that should never bo omitted. Frequently, in neighborhoods thinly settled, where the s-.wsge system is im perfect, or, rather, not completed, the ground becomes waterlogged, or so satu rated with moisture as to cause any shal low excavation to collect water, and it will be noticed in such ground thst after a rain all these depressions hold the water with great tenacity. In fact, the soil seems unable to absorb any more. Cellars sunk in such ground will be damp at the foot of the wall, the moist ure extending out on the cellar floor, while any small knoll, raused by uneven excavation, may be perfectly dry on top, and even, as has occurred in my practice. the clay opening in seams from contrac tion in drying, while but a few feet away the mud was three to six inches deep. This has been noticed even in a house situated on a small plateau with rapid drainage to all sides. Building Trade JjurnaL The Biggest (iejser at Work. The Excelsior gever in the Yellow- Accepted HI Refusal Gratefully. "I am truly sorry to give you pain, Mr. Jlankinson," sa:d the young lady, "but please do not allude to the subject again. I can never be your wife." 'That is tour final answer, Miss Irene?" "It is." j "Nothing could induce you to change your decision ?' 'my mind it fully and unalterably made up." ( stone Park is in operation. 1 his geysti is in the great middle geyser basin, close to the r ire Hole river. It is in the form of an immense pit 320 feet in length and 200 feet wide, and the aperture through which it discharges its volume of wster is nearly 200 feet in diameter. Iu gene ral appearance is thst of a huge boiling spring, and for many years its true character was not suspected. Its first eruption ocmrred in 18o, when it revealed itself as a stupendous geyser. The power of its eruptions was almost incredible, sending an immense column of water to heights of from 100 to 300 feet, and hurling with it rocks and bowlders of from one to 100 pounds in weight. Its present eruption is said to be a repetition of that of 1880. It ii throwing its volume of water 300 feel into the air. and Fire Ilole river is re- iti Recipe. Thickf-si-jo for Sorr. Put into a saucepan half a pound of butter; whea hot, stir into it half a pound of very dry flour; stir this over the fire till a delicate brown, taking care that it does not burn. One large tablespoooful thickens a quart of soup. This thickening will keep a a long time. Scalloped Pak5!P- A nice way of cooking parsnip is to take it prepared as for the balls, except tbe eggs.. Place in the bottom of a buttered pudding dish, coter with bread or cracker crumbs, season with pepper and salt, dot it with bits of butter, aod bake it in tbe oven to a nice brown. Poverty Pie. Pare and slice as many potatoes as you think you will need; put them in a baking-pan; pour in water so you csn just see iu I lace slices of fresh pork, bacon, or beet teak here and there over the potatoes. Sprinkle with flour, pepper, and salt, -ttoast in oven for one hour. AsFARAr.r Sai.ad. Boil two bunches of asparagus in salted wster until quite tender. 1 lace on tbe ice until very cold. Serve with toe following drea'ng: Two tables poonfuls of olive oil.two saltspoon fuls of alt, one of pepper, and two tables poonfuls of sugar. 31 ix all to gether aod pour over the asparagus. Uapberut Visemah. Hed raspler ries, any quantity, or su'licieat to till a stone jar nearly full, then pour upon them suiticient vinegar to cover them. Cover the jar closely aod set it aid for eight or ten days, then strain through flannel or muslin, aod add to the clear liquor one and a half pound- of sugar to each pint, place over a fire aod boil for a few minutes. Allow it to cool, aod bot tle for uta. PITH AND 1'OIXT. Lost at st The sight of land. A game of card Formal vUits. Unbiddra guols are welcomes when they are gooc. The rboir organ hould always be dls-tinguWht-d by its high moral tone. Milk bat so little to do a ith tbe milch cow tbat a distinction is made ia the spelling. Umch Jvrwl What aa immense town must l Parts Unknown. Ontario, C ana la. Prophs keep going there i?.r l'vti-ll-pre: In the public schools they do not have to keep up the intrreU of the srholars is order to pay the priociiAL Jk JV That EthH i aa artt. Ad Diiti4 aloi.t wuh eras; H.w rnaM oue rr doubt it b id cvr aorvi ter f I 4o rw- Bf. Was Home founded by Poneoj in quired the pup 1 of the tear ber. o, my son," repl.cd the wUe man; "it w a Juliet who was fouod dead by Homco." O a a W.ik At a Traveling Agency. To Clerk: "Did you ever resbre anything in the German lotteries ! "Ves sir. "lined ooe live times ami re!i.rd that I was aa idiot! Ae-r 1V4 O'trter. There was a young dortnr of hk re. KhiiH patient fWioel 4eUOal twdja. Hut be left tbeta one day. To CO niin. tbey hi, And Uv-y aU weii. jut fw a ray. "What a beautiful ch Id! What aa extreme'y haod-ome fellow r ssys tho gushing visitor to tbe lady of tbe houae. Ves, he is a ban lome"boy. I think. ' b, indeed, be is. He is tbe perfect imae of his fa"ber- the perfect image. Don't you think !" Well, I don't know. I never saw his father. We adopted him." Tne rhanninit dam4 had at aprt.te: Her beaith was dflirate, ber nxrtiwr said; Bat at the table ne put out o Mht As mix fa aa would bave t wo 'knibur eu a I eat no more than woold a bird,' UojWl she: But new she ro and from the Uhl aeot. The lao-ikird frovned and Ut hie up; be. I fuc-tf aa ostrk b ti the bird aba meant," .VoTTMtava HeralX. r V. wn.inr. nn via- i j i,.r!l e' i.k- norted to have risen two feet from luK ami IUUK.IIIE aooufc lui we ufc, w , ' , . , . . , , . I made a f u",m, ""v"- " " . " r be tne most poweriui geyser mcaiskcui-c Chieagd Tri'tM. Take heed rf enemies reconciled meat twice bgued, fore coming here this evening bet of $-0 with Van Perkins that you would say no I to my proposal. I have won. It was I taking a nsk, but 1 was dead broke. Miss Irene," he continued, his voice quiverinz with emotion, you have saved a despairing man Iron the English chemists have discovered fluid that will dissolve metal of any sort, even gold. Aa Interesting Spider. The habits of a running spider of Southern Europe, are curious. It makes a vertical round hole in the ground about ten inches deep, aod this with a small earth wall sometimes made rouod the mouth, is lined with web. A little wsy down is a small lateral bole into which the spider shrinks when ao animal falls into the tube; when the animal has reached the bottom, the snider pounces on it. Ooe can readilv tell that a tube is tenanted by the br ght phosphoresceot eyes of the spider turned upward. In Cghtiog the spider erects nimseii on its laat pair of legs,stnking with the others. Tbe bite is not fatal to man, but if causes large swellings. The children ia Bucba est angle for these spiders by meant 'of ao egg-like ball of kneaded yellow wsx tied to a thread. This ia lowered with jerks into tbe hole, and the spider fastens on it, and can be pulled out: whereupon another thread is passed round one of the legs and the animal is played with. Crania TTha Uaaat a City Park. "The Vrank season' has arrived. said the sergeant of the Central Park Arsenal to a New York Trl'jmm rej-nrtrr. 'It is ao every season; they'ie a lot of aarraless lunatics living up town, wboae relatives aod guardians turn tbem looa la the park as soon at tbe warm weather sets in. Tbey are a nuisance. One young man. about tweoty yeais of age, 'iters about the reveoty-second street eat ranee under tbe impeioo that be is a polKemaa. When children rf.me romp og along he orders them to keep of tbe gra-a and be caief ul not to pick tbe flowers' or be will arrest thtm. "Kvery morning about ten o'clock an old gentleman noely dreed aod avCoso panird by a nure approaches socne ooe of our officer aod declare be has not stolen Mr. t ro!ey. He begs to be searched. er eioce Mr. Crowley sr Fived this old gentleman imsgine that tbe )o!ic are going to sxrri him for stealiog the rhimpaaree. As be not disorderly tbe o beers humor bint by pretending to searrh hi pockets for Mr. C. and tell him that be is inoorei.t aod ought to sue tbe city for de amatioo of character. The crank then goes o5 sat isfied. Tbe nare declares that he has no trouble with him for tbe retoftbe day. But be returns agaia tbe oett morning. Wo have ooly one female crank and she iscnder the im rrion that she is to be abducted. As she isover eeieoty aod not wealthy there i no daoger of any ooe mooing awar aith her. An oflicet escorts her to tbe ga t and she g es home content There are doens of othei cranks who hauot our beautiful Park." There are seven stars in tbe dipier, seven days in the week, evrn wonders of tbe world, seven ages of man. and. c cording to M. 8crite, a Kreorh p'ar wright, there are seven dramatic iiua tioos of which all others are mere varia tions. The new Hebrides which ar sitnstrd about midway bet wen atern sad Western Polynesia etobrece a tul area of some -100 square miles, aod have voii.. 000 native iobabitaota, who are noted foi their savsge barbarity.

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