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J, W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor HAST* WEATHER. On * day like this, when the streets are wet, When the skies are gray and the rain is falling, can you hinder an old regret For a joy !on S dead, and a hope long set, From rising out of its grave and calling— Calling to you, with a voice so shrill, Thai it scares the reason and stuns the will? Qpa day like this, when the sun is hid, And you and your heart are housed to gether, 5( memories come to you all unbid, And something suddenly wets your lid, Like a gust of the outdoor weather, Why, who is in fault, but the dim old day, 'Joo dark for labor, too dull for play? On a day like this, that is blurred and gray, When the rain drips down in a ceaseless fashion, If a dream, that you banished and put away Comes back to stare in your face and say Mute eloquent words of passion; If the whole vast universe seems amiss, Why, who can help it, a day like this? —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.. THE PURSER'S STORY. IiV LUKE sharp. I don’t know that I should tell this itory. When the purser told it to me I know it was his intention to write it out for a Mgazine. lit fact he had written it, ind I understand that a noted American Mgazine had offered to publish it, bu have watched that magazine for over hree years and 1 have not yet seen the mrser s story in it. 1 am sorry that I iid not write the story at the time, then perhaps I should have caught the ex piisite peculiarities of the purser's way if telling it. I find myself gradually for retting the story and I write it now for ear I shall forget it, and then be har assed all through after life by the re lembrance of the forgetting. Perhaps after you read this story you fill say there is nothing in it after all. Veil, that will be my fault, then, and I :ao . ..i v regret that I did not write down he don Bteu was told to me, for as [satin the purser’s roo.„ th ., f dav u “ l u “- v cemed , , to that .. . 1 . had . , heard me never v jthijg more graphic. , "'•c purser's room was well forward on heAtanUc: Hcamship. From one of the little red curtained windows you could look down to where the steerage passen hih were gathered on the deck When how Ol i the great great tcmcI Tc33c, .love uove uo» down n . nto the big Atlantic waves, the smother >1 foam that shot upward would be borne long with the wind and spatter like rain gainst (he purser’s window. Something bout this intermittent patter on the iane reminded the purser of the story nd so he told it to me: [There were a great many steerage pas sngers getting on at Queenstown, he iid, and as you saw when we were there is quite a burry getting them aboard. wo officers stand at each side of the an gw ay and take up the tickets as the eople crowd forward. They generally ave their tickets in their hands and here „ no trouble. I stood there and :atched them coming on. Suddenly here was a fuss and a jam. * .ay. hat it. T I asked , the officer. „ "u gtr.s, sir, say they have lost tICkct8 ' | I took the girls aside and the stream If humanity poured in. One was about and the other, perhaps, 8 years old. se little one had a firm grip of the dcr’s hand and she was crying. The ger girl looked me straight in the eye * i questioned her. “Where’s your tickets?” “We lost thim, sur.” “Where?” “I dun no, sur.” Do you think you have them about ou or in your luggage?” “We’ve no luggage, sur.” “Is (his your sister?” “She is, sur.” "Are vour parents abroad?” “They are not, sur.” “Arc you all alone?” “Wo are, sur.” “Ton can't go without your tickets. „ 1 he younger one began to cry the more D| i the elder answered: tl> quick, straightforward answers, and 1 seemed so impossible that children so [oung should attempt to cross the ocean nt-hout tickets that I concluded to let licrn come and resolved to get at the ■uth on the way over Kext day I told the deck steward to ring the children to my room. They came in just as I saw them the hand of the younger, whose e, eyes v°, j ,hf S„07 .Ub r o*“ JC8. “'Veil, have you found your tickets?” “No, sur.” ! “\ci, , * , r name „„ “Bridget, sur ” “Bridget wh f ■ . “S1»U did Khere 'Th Kildormey sur ” bfm did you gei your tickets?” Mr. O’Grady, sur.” 1 knew Kildormey as well as 1 this ,h.:,*,»‘ ship and 1 knew b^g,le. O’Gradv wa. . - dd ealat that moment for a few '« d * with him. But I knew of no viomnaton lew miles from Kildormey. Now, thinks I to myself, if these two children can hnffle a purser that’s been twenty years on the Atlantic when they say they came from his own town, almost, by the powers they deserve their passage ove r the ocean. I had often seen grown peo pie try to cheat their way across, and I mayday none of them succeeded on my * UfJS ' “Where’s your father and mother?” “Both dead, sur.” “Who was your father?” “He was a pinshoner, sur.” “Where did he draw his pension?’ “I aonno, sur.” “Where did you get the money to buy your tickets?” “The neighbors, sur, and Mr. O’Grady helped, sur.” “What neighbors? Name tlmm.” She unhesitatingly named a uumber> many of whom I knew, and as that had frequently been done before I saw no reason to doubt the girl’s word. “Now,” I said, “I want to speak with your sister. You may go.” The little one held on to her sister' 8 hand and cried bitterly, When the other was gone, I drew the child toward me and questioned her but could not get a word in reply. For the next day or two I was bothered somewhat by a big Irishtran named O’Donnell, who was a firebrand among the steerage passengers, As we had many English and German passengers, as well as many peaceable Irishmen, who complained of the constant ructions O’Donnell was kicking up, I was forced to ask him to keep quiet. He became very abusive one day and tried to slriko me. I had him locked up until he came to his senses. While I was in my room, after this little excitement, Mrs. O’Donnell came and pleaded for her rascally husband • i had noticed her before. She was a poor, 1 ' weak, ’ broken-hearted woman whom her husband made , slave of, and a T1 I have no doubt beat her when he had . the cha UC e. She was evidently mortally seemed Enough ^^ake'rim lUe° ont^f 1 ber ' Well, ,, Mrs. O’Donnell,” I said, . “I’ll . V0Ur civil >“ tongue U ‘ nd 8°> hut he heau "'ill have Keep to a m ms aim is hands off peo/ile. I’ve seen men or i esg p U t j n i ro ns during a voyage banded over to the authorities ben they landed. And now I want 0 ti to do me a favor. There are two biidren on board without tickets. I don't believe they ever had tickets, and want t0 fiud ou t. You’re a kind hearted Mrs. O’Donnell, and perhaps the will answer you.” I had the two called in, and they came in band as usual. Th elder looked me as jj s b e couldn’t take Iter eyes oil ^ " , . , -j t h s e wan ai o spe 0 '•' A '' questons about herself, I wins to Mrs. O Donnell. “Acuslila,” said Mrs. O’Donnell with n f m i te ten deruess, taking the disengaged of the e der girl. “Tell me, dar where yee are from.” I suppose I had spoken rather harsh to them before, although 1 had not illtended to do so. but however that may l c at the first word of kindness from the Liri. lips of their countrywoman both ^ broke down and cried as if their dreVthem ., ,, h k The noor woman toward her, and stroking the fair hair of the elder girl, tried to com fort her while the tears streamed down her own cheeks. “Hush, acushla, hush, d irliuts shure the gentlemir.’s not goin to be hard wid two poor childher going to a strange country.” Of course it would never do to admi that 1 the 1 ° company 1 could carry emigrants ‘ free through any matter , of f sympa >, and I must have appeared rather hard ^ wH ** b * 1 .he duldrc, »W«., .od let her ' 1 could S et n0th,n " fr ° m S ’ rl CX cent that she had lost her ticket and . when we sighted New York I took them to the steerage and asked the passengers if any one would assume charge of the children and pay their passage, ho one would do so. “Then.” I said “these children w. tlievne zzzioZ s tiZ* U> There «,re grh.n. M M «> cabinstewardcsswithorderstoseeth.it 1 at they did not fcave the ship was last convinced that they had no friends onrr the steerage passengers. I in „, n be tended to take them ashore myself S"7w fore-we Lk sailed, and I knew of good hands Uo ,™,ld ... .« .he W. JlhOPgh Idid not lmpoulto, of the emigrants should know that anv -^enough .nMd bachelor purser to pay for the passage o a known Irish children. We landed our cabin passengers a steerage bbb-*f“V*| passen^rs to CasJGarfen. I got the stewardess to bring out COVINGTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 12, 1885. Just as the tender moved away there was a wild shriek among the crowded passengers, and Mrs. O’Donnell hung her arms above her head and cried in the most heart-rending tone I ever heard; “Oh, my babies, mv babies.” ; “Kape quiet,” hissed O’Donnell, grasp ing her by the arm. The terrible ten days stiain had given way at last, and the poor woman sank in a heap at his feet. “Bring back that boat,” I shouted, and the tender came back. “Come aboard here, O’Donnell.” ‘I’ll not!” he yelled, shaking his fist at me. “Bring that man aboard.” They soon brought him back and I gave his wife over to the care of the stewardess. 8he speedily rallied, and hugged and kissed her children as if she woldd never t ,art with them. “So, O’Donnell, these are your chil, dren?” “Yis, they are; an’ I’d have ye know r,n in a frae couutry, bedad, and I dare ye to ’ay a finger on me.” “Don’t dare too much,” I said, “or I’ll show you what can be done in a free c oun tiy. Now if I let the children go will you send their passage money to the company when you get it?” “I will,” he answered, although I knew he lied. “Well,” I said, “for Mrs. O’Donnell’s sake I'll let them go, and I must con¬ gratulate any free country that gets a citizen like you.” 0f course 1 never heard from O’Donnell since .—Detroit Free Press. Greeley's Wakeful Sleep. On another occasion, says Oliver John¬ son, I went with him (Horace ,Greeley) to hear a discourse from Rev. William Henry Channing. It was Sunday morn¬ ing, and the topic announced was one in which he felt a special interest, Mr. Channing was then, in fact, ministering to a congregation of which Mr. Greeley was a prominent member. It was in a liall on the west side of Broadway, above Canal gtreetj w here Dr. Dewey had ^ached Mr ’ Grcele aforetime. V be gS ed On me the t0 way kee thither P h,m - awake. We occupied a settee within s ix feet of the platform, and right under tj Him }e eve awake q f t Kg Tiy frequeut tuggings .1 at ms c ibow and playing a by no means soft tattoo upon his ribs. But it was of no use. He was “nid nodding” through the whole discourse, not a little to Mr. Channing’s annoyance, who observed my unsuccessful efforts to keep his great auditor awake. j3 U t n ow comes the wonderful part of my story. Mr. Greeley and I, when the se rvice was over, went back to the Trib une office together. He sat down to hi de sk at once, and made an abstract o j[ r . Channing’s discourse, filling some w hat less than a column, which appeared k y, .g t ■ £ ban a7d nin „ ato^rd was utterly aS amazed tTf when he saw it, I R was possh b , Mr Greelev had made the report nen i torn mm that p saw a him w hil he was preparing it, and could certify that it weut to the compositor in his own handwriting, and that, moreover, 1 had myself read the proof, he expressed the greatest astonishment. “Why,” said he, I “Icould not myself have made so accu¬ rate an abstract of my discourse, which, thougli premeditated, was extemporane ous. He has not only gBen the sub siance of what I said: he has followed my line of thought, and remembered not a little of my language.” I do not pre tend to offer any explanation of this grange mental test. But I am absol ute y certain of the facts as I have related them, and that wh it had the appearance of unqualified sleep was in reality a con. dition in which the mental faculties were somehow awake and active. T. ~ A Spanish c , Vendetta. . S The Madrid correspondent of the relates a striking in t0 death - but h,s e « c “ tldn 1 the the victim , s fa bf v vc!1 ? ence 0 . - bet There had been ill feeling ee families for three yeats bu bw n no open quarrel until the murder of Moralis. Soon after the execution o the month, murderer, th ‘‘ ^ turn.from a fai ^ het ;"“° fr a ^ ri™..oh side including women and children. A rogui.r plt.Md bml. cn.u.J. the men, wh P - tbaiiMitew. comp the chil ^ t , nately. the r.i 1 1 he dS , ““ . 4b * 4 ** * ® ‘ ® ™ ““ killed, two of ' a th. ohild™ Tta.mu mutilate. V the^-^ ^ of t he mulas were killed, and the baggage „f the two families was strewn about in S ^j^^ph-db..,. d that the road for half a LADIES' COLUMN. I Health and Culture. Weak spines, weak eyes, weak legs and dyspeptic stomachs are so common among the “highly educated women of Boston that in the minds of many people L ill health and mental development inseparable. The Mail and Express com menting upon an article in a medical journal on this subject, observes: “Weakness is the result of ignorance and negligence of the laws of health, rather than of overstudv. Proper food and proper exercise will insure a devel¬ opment of physical strength for the av¬ erage woman which will enable her to master any college curriculum without injury to health. It is strange that wo men do ‘ not give more attention to diet and exercise for the sake of good looks, for most of them are willing to undergo almosl any torture in the hope of be¬ coming more beautiful. Any girl who eats as a sensible person ought to eat, and walks not less than two miles daily in the open air, may expect not only to be able to endure the hard study requi¬ site to the ‘higher education,’ but also to paint becoming color on her cheek without cosmetics.” Freak* of >orletf Girls. Only a minute minority of our fash¬ ionable girls, says a New York corre¬ spondent, take an interest in anything so serious as evangelical work. Even when they go into benevolence, it is apt to be in a freakish way. I met one who told me, with giggling rhapsody, that she had a whole hospital of her own—a play¬ house, I felt like calling it, after finding out what it was. The pet charity of New York’s “best society, is the skin and cancer hospital, for which the annual charity ball is given, and in the manage¬ ment of which several of the most influ¬ ential matrons are concerned. It is a truly beneficent institution. But the belles are now caught by the idea of personally supporting the small, separate pavilions iqto which the hospital is di¬ vided, Each ccntains four beds. The girl with whom I talked was elated with the horribleness of can¬ cer as developed in the four pa¬ tients in her pavilion, and seemed to be proud of th<? , fact that they were worse than those in a friend’s beds. Well, the caiise and effect were both X’dfyruamxv good anyhow. 1 - in • w a r Wfc t -«*—«*— At xiunv in the less useful line of amateur pho¬ tography. This maiden’s modesty was not cute enough to keep her from self¬ appreciation. She had never been satis¬ fied with the portraits which professional photographers made for her. She felt sure that her sweetest expression had not yet been caught by the camera, as she often saw it in her mirror. Having a camera with the usual attachment for taking instantaneous views she has spent her leisure hours for a week or two in making negatives of her own visage. A j string hitched to the trigger of the in str “ meo4 enables her to be both operator ^d subject; and thus, m the F nvacy of er chain >er, wit nospiOa or to niter or make afraid,.she transfers her srmlea and frowns to the plates, to be subse quenf)y deveJoped int0 photographs, in j case sbe deeins theln vvo nh it. She has ^ ^ made m different pictureg Q k erse lf. - Fashion Notes. Watered Irish poplins are revived. Stringless bonnets are worn by youth ful women only. The fine embroideries on fine bonnets are marvels of artistic work. Yellow is as fashionable with white as it is with black, not the deep buttercup color, but the tint of pale gold or cop pery yellow, which has a decided sus picion of terra cotta about it. The ncw bonnets are high in front ana pinched in as closely at the sides as the formation of the head will allow, Gold appears in nearly every one in some sh other but chiefly in that of tin- ! p r ’ ‘ ! . , • . ' A pretty feKion with the open | of i ore pc lisse which form part of ! are ^ phcmjsi . tte- The delicate suggestion ^ t!u . color of the dress in the i ace is , very >1 pretty : - --- i , Catchtng Porpoises. The capture of a school of porpoises furnishes very exciting sport. A seine uea rly a mile long is paid out from the — lrom tt,e °l’ en " , "a “irlgto , th’. >o charge upon the net. As the huge crea tares, often each, weighing easily one break thousand if j pounds can seme thev set out for it, the onlv safeguard is to distract them and divert their atten tion blowlv a^d steadily *e seine is ! U .»«„M .h. HU* .... -I... .„,„ough, , uulbr b brought into J p i ay inside the larger one. With th few ^ n«e arc cut off from the main schoo an ia 'i e ’ main force on the shore, where they are dispatched w th lances or knives It is ..............g .hi. -1. through the wt.-Ci**,* Im*. CATTLE RAISING. - Immense Area i »ed for crazing -*'«-**» « '»»“«"• ^ 7 _ l 6 ° p0rtifm ° f and the kn United StateS the ^ d6V ° ° WD aS 9 'l uare ^ “‘! 6 es area 44 ’ P" embraces cent of ^65,000 the tota ' ' °* ^ Umt * d SUteS eXClUS1Ve , ° f Alaska. It is a surface equal to that of Great Britain and Ireland, France, Ger¬ many, Denmark, Holland, Belgium’ Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Por¬ tugal, and one-fifth of Kussia in Europe combined. Foreign as well as domestic companies own cattle that graze on this immense territory. In Texas, where are the larg¬ est ranches, the cattle exhibit marked self-reliant traits of the wild animal being strong in the instinct of seeking food and water, and of self-protection against the inclemency of the weather. In the language of the herdsmen they are g -od “rustlers,” which means tha they know how and where to find food and water and have the alertness and 8p * r ‘ 4 to 8eeb t * lem u pon the vast plains and ’ n vade ys and mountain fastnesses - where they roam, and even beneatlr the snows which in the winter at times, in the more northerly regions, cover their feeding grounds. It is estimated that during the year 1884 about 300,000 cattle were driven from Texas to northern ranges, to be there matured for marketing, and that about 625,000 beef cattle were shipped from Texas direct to the markets of Kansas city St. Louis, Chicago and New Orleans, Already the range and ranch business of the Western and Northwestern States and Territories has assumed gigantic proper ions. The total number of cat tie in tins area, east of the Rocky moun tains and north of New Mexico and Texas, is estimated at 7,500,000, and their value at $187,500,000. ] The average cost of raising a steer on the ranges, not including interest on the capital invested, is usually estimated by the large stock owners at from seventy, five cents to $1.25 a year. Thus a steer four years old ready for market has cost the owner $4 or $5 to raise. When driven to the railroad he is worth from 125 to $45. A recent estimate, approved by a number of Wyoming ranchmen, ylhrW'ft lAfcfr (/(Mi 1 - sand cows with one thousand yearlings, md thirty-five short-horn bulls, repre aenting in all, with ranch improvements and horses, an investment of about $70,000, at $40,000. Recently the cattle owners have joined in a request to the government asking for the establishment of a Northern train to Northern fattening grounds. The quan tity of land which the government of the United States is asked to donate for the purpose of establishing the proposed trail begins at the southern border line of Colorado, and extends to the northern Dorder bne 0 f the United States. It is proposed that it shall be of variable w j dtb ’ f rom two hundred feet at crossing placeg {or „ n ati ve catrie,” to six mites a t the widest part. It must, of course, have sufficient width not only for a line of travel, but also for a feeding ground of cattle “on the trail.” Such a trail, of an average width of three miles, and extending to the Dominion of Can ada, would be 090 miles in length, and have an area of 2,070 square miles, or 1,324,800 acres. They think thig would not be too much, when it is considered that forty eight millions of acres of the public do main have been given to railroads. To a very considerable extent foreign ers of large means, and who indicate no intention whatever of becoming citizens of the United States, have purchased lands within the great range and ranch cattle area, and embarked in the cattle business. Titles to such lands have been secured, not only by indivi duals, but also by foreign corporations, Certain of these foreigners are titled nobl«meoolcomtrie<mEuro f e. Some the lar « e landed esUtes of Euro P e ' 1 hc P ubllc ^ntim- nt of this country appears to be opposed to allowing foreigners to acquire title to large products of land in this country. During the second ses sion of the Forty-eighth Congress, the Hon. William G. (lates of Alaouma,pre seated a report upon the subject to the House of Representatives, from the com „ iri n-r turn to or owning lands within ,h. Wi..d Sum. ownersnips, were presented during a digcuisioa o{ the subject by members of that body. EnglishSyndtalto English Syndicate Na No. 3 1 (in (in Texas) Texas) S,<»0,000 4^000 a (Er !^. c . B L d Company of Lon- ^ Gerluiui HVndioate’'' .V.l’. ioo’ooo svn'dicate, . . An an headed l y Mr. Hog •«, London .. ..~ 7o0,00) A.^.1. D^e « mrn 5 -« W of Sutherland............... British Land and Mortgage Com¬ Captain pany............................ Whalley, M. 320,000 P. for Peler Missouri boro’, Eng....................... 310,000 Land Company, Edin¬ Hon. burgh, Scotland.................. 300,000 Robert Tennant, of London.. 230,000 Scotch Land Company, Dundee, Scotland........................ 247,660 Lord Dunmore.................... 100,000 Benjamin land Nswgas, Liverpool, Eng¬ ............................ 100,000 Lord Houghton.................... 60,000 Lord Dunraven................... 60,000 English Land Company (in Florida) 50,000 English Land Company’, repre¬ sented by B. Newgas............ 50,000 An English capitalist (in Arkansas) 50,000 Albert Peel, M. P. Leicestershire, Sir England......................... John 10,000 Lester ICaye, Yorkshire, England........................ 5,000 George Grant, of London (in Kan¬ sas) ............................ 100,000 An by English Close syndicate (represented Bros.) in Wisconsin..... 110,000 A Scotch company (in California).. 140,000 M. Kllerhauser, (of Nova Scotia,) in West Virginia................... 600,000 A Scotch syndicate (in Florida).... 500,000 A. Boyesen, Danish Consul, at Mil¬ waukee .......................... 50,000 Missouri Land and S. S. Co., of Ed¬ English inburgh, Scotland............... 165,000 Syndicate (in Florida)..... 59,000 Total.......................... 20 , 541,666 Wall Slreet Brokers’ Lunches. Between 1 and 2 o’clock in the ifter noon, Wall street is at lunch. Some times it takes a bite, sometimes more, but never a feast But the whole “street” must have the bite at least in the middle of the day, and for two hours then the neighboring restaurants are thronged. The remainder of the day they are deserted. Wall street has been suffering from the large financial depression. Yet during it all the re» tauratenrshave thrived. Many of them have grown rich in the business, and the prosperity of private individuals has im pelled the organization of heavily capit alized stock companies to supply the inner wants What on the lulls of fare are desig- | nated “Dishes ready,” are most called for. The patrons of the restaurants have not ™d time to wait for dishes to be pre- j P a for them. For that reason roasts, fillets, stews, soups and the like are gen erally called for. Many of the bankers and brokers do not leave their offices for lunch. Their appetites are satisfied at their desks, where they can alternately cast their eye on their plates and on the tape. No restaurant could exist without a ticker, and whenever one sits down for a mouthful the clatter of the instru ment awaits his ear. { spoil'a good dinner by a' good - lunch ' to earlier. Mr. Gould’s lunch is as light as he can make it. It is as a rule served to him in the office of the Western Union building, and consists of a small piece of beei, lamb or chicken, followed by a modest amount of fruit in season Df strawberries, Mr. Gould is particularly fond, and he has them for lunch as long as they are in the market. Mr. Gould drinks water only with his lunch. Addison Cammnck, the “Big Bear,” is equally as abstemious as Mr. Gould. He lunches when down town at Delmonico’s Broad street, or Beaver street place. His order is for something that is pre- j pa,ed-a piece of beef or lamb nearly | always. No stimulants or sweetmeats are taken by him. Cyrus W. Field’s lunch is more elaborate. When his office wag at. Broadway and Liberty street he took it at the Down Town Club. Now he takes it in the Washington building, at the foot of Broadway, where he has his office. Russell Sage is a plain liver. His lunch consists of nothing more than a sandwich and an apple or two, eaten at his desk, Sometimes when business brings the two together he lunches with ,, Mr. Gould. „ He avoids liquors. Few of the men in ^ lunc “ “’ arket ^noto-wthy^hingH^the “ * * fact that f they ao not , can , . . . p ate of soup, a piece ot mca o p of hsh, is all they require. a on the other hand show a li mg sweets They have more time a„ da t.tes than the operators^ ^ot nearly the amount of wine is drank in the street that is supposed to be. The men who risk their fortunes on the market have lo keep cle.r l»«d. m.d lho« .hoe.n -»» Well e.re.h s . rMt a8 the 1 fly ^ by and BWal , ow them - Th sf / gandwiches would ‘ J’ ^ S.ovs .„ aevfr a e d in^rnai , )ut me , sen g „e r ‘ feel an Z - ,, , ta u W [“ drank th ^ gtreet is sllrprisia g. Milk ■ d vicbv i* « common order. Vichy ze8 t to the milk, ai,d an old partner of Mr ' bould s ’ ** “1 ™ ** distributed on the street, a copy must be sent, with the editor’s name, to the government and one to the censor. When the paper is returned with the censor’s indorsement the paper may go out to the public. One of the newspa ,«7. o. Hft.an, dl.u^d, ,h. bw. pub li.h.. wh.l It pi...... ,,nd »h™ « get. ready. Every few weeks the government new name. Its frequent brushes with the government advertise it. and people buv lt to see what new indiscretion it' {-«-£*• The subuription pric. 18 * U * VOL. XL NO 39. WORDS OF WISDOM. He that gets out of debt grows rich. A hovel well kept is a palace to the inmates. Much learning shows how little mortal knows. Better go round about than fall into the ditch. A pleasant tone and a sweet smile cost nothing. Virtue and a trade are the best por¬ tions for children. Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it to be a part of the tempera¬ ment. Useful knowledge can have no enemies except the ignorant; it cherishes youth, delights the aged, is an ornament in prosperity, and yields comfort in ad¬ versity. As they who, for every slight infirmity take physic to repair their health, do Tather impair it; so they who, for every trifle, are eager to vindicate their char¬ acter, do rather weaken it. Gastronomical Jumble. A traveller relates in Lippincott's Mag azine, the following story of the cuisi»e of Sweden: “The habit of lunching in the very presence of dinner, of going to a side table and eating your fill of an¬ chovies, raw herrings, smoked beef and cold eel-pie while dinner is on the very table, still prevails, and is hardly condu¬ cive to health. It is said that the habit of taki , ft , ag the Swedes call it[ aro8e lrom the 9cardty of dfclicacleg . It wafl hard t0 t enough of any one nice thing to make a meai 0 f, so you were (irBt delicately innuendoed off to the brand table (a8 it ig cal i ed) , and then allowed to Bit down to dinner The prac . £ . . . , . „ , Private 0 u ,e“ feed yQu on preliminary scrap8) and woe be tQ you if you innocently turn avvay from the plofIered i uncheonl Y ou fare ukQ an and feed yourse if 0 n odorg The ordinary routine of dining Beems in Swedeu t0 be in wiid coufugion sometimes ends instead of begin ^ d - nner Iced and cold fish are daintieg t0 the Scandinavian pal ate Much of the soup ’« nauseously sweet, flavored with cherries, raspberries. cakes 8nd spikes of cinnamon floating w jj d ]y about in it. This is eaten as a * sort of de8 scrt, and is cold and often beautifully clear, If Heine bitterly rev j] ed the English for bringing vege tab i es on the table au naturel, there is no such complaint to be made here, Heaven, earth, and satan’s dominion are eaten w ith sauce — sauces red, white, and blue, green, yellow, and black— sauce celestial and sauces infernal, strange combinations of ice-cream heaped over delicious apple-tarts, or gtrange dishes of berry juice boiled, down and m ixed with farina, sugar, and al mo nds, ’ then cooled, f’ molded, and turned out in t0 , J88ill8 0 cream, to be eaten w j t li crushed sugar and wine, appear at the end of dinner. The Swedes share w jth the Danes and Arabs a passionate f ondn ess for sweetmeats. Everything is gijghtly sweet; even green peas are gU g ar ed, as well as the innumerable tea and co ffee cakes, so that long before the unhappy tourist has finished his tour he j 8 a hopeless dyspeptic or a raging Swe dophobe.” An Oregon Sturgeon’s Sagacity. Many remarkable stories have been told concerning the sagacity of the stur geon, some of which are hard to believe, That these fish are endowed with a heap of savey is shown by the following: Yegterday afternoon a number of repre. 8enta tives from the fish markets of this cit barked on the steamer, “Calliope” ^ see lhe launch o{ the “Multnomah.” They ^ were standing J in a row along the ^ & hi Qphical looking old 8,1 , , r(Tpnn S i pan Pf „ d ml t of the river on the guard of the boa , . f g a better oI art’d"'."™ 0 witK a minute later came to the surface half a mile off, looking ha«k to see if he was pursued. Seeing the fishermen ■ still standinginarowandlookingdisconso late, he and^eutly put his tail to the end of his. no, waved it. like a long/ bony hand, at them, and then teent bo¬ low to resume his regular business of catching sucker,-PoM Oregonian, -«. Reports collected since the memorable »' heard over a circle of thirty degrees radi ' I9 ; A more astonishing announcement still is now made by Dr. F. A. Forel, the ■well-known Swiss physicist. He has learned that on the day ol the great eruption startling subterranean noises re¬ sembling the rolling of distant thunder were heard in Caiman-Brae, a small island in the Caribbean Sea, near the antipodes of the volcano of Sunda Strait. These sounds can not readily be attrib u t e d to any neighboring voicanic dis turbance , and Dr. Forel is forced to infer that they may have been propogated through the entire diameter of the earth-