Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

06 % YOL. I. The British Government is about to abandon the island of Ascension, 730 miles south of St. Helena, which it s ei/ed in 1815, solely for the purpose of preventing the possible escape of Na poleon. The new Orphan’s Home at San Diego, Cal promises to be one of the most im portant aud best-endowed charitable in stitutions in the Union. In addition to thc Home proper there will be an educa tional and technical school. Four cit izens of San Diego have subscribed $2, 000,000, and the city has given 100 acres of land in the city limits, worth nearly $1,000,000. One hundred and thirty miles ot electric railroad are now in operation in this country, and nearly 200 miles more are in process of construction, The At lanta Constitution prophesies that “thc electric motor will at some time do away with steam, and ihe many improvements now being made in the application of electricity gives room for the belief that the day is not far distant when such practical application of it can bo made as to make it the general motive power throughout the world.” AV. A. Lyman, of Milford, Conn., is making the smallest possible specimen of an engine. It will be made with a silver half dollar. The boiler is to hold about eight drops of water, but with four drops the engine can be worked several minutes. When finished, it is to be placed in a glass case three-quarters of an inch in diameter aud an inch aud one eight in height. Some of the parts will lie so fine and delicate that they cannot be made without the use of a magnifying glass. The French have discovered an an nexable island in the Pacific, declares the New York Times , and have straight way proceeded to annex it. Their ac quisition is llaratonga, which lias an area of possibly fifty square miles. It is more of an island than some recent British annexations, since it at least can and does support a population of several thousand natives, who live in those set tlements. Karatonga is a leading island of the Cook or Uervey group, made very well known to the world through the successful labors of missionaries, who have converted a great part of the neoQje to The Mexican paper, Diario del Ho jar, tells of a large railroad contract for the construction of a road by an English syndicate, from Espcranza to Oaxaca, which was signed a few days since in the City of Mexico by General Pacheco, representing thc Mexico government, and Mr. Louis Pombo, as representative of the syndicate, by which the govern ment guarantees to the company 8 per cent per annum of thc net proceeds on the capital invested in tlie building of the road for a term of fifteen years; the total proceeds from the stamp revenue of the Mate of Oaxaca to bo appropriated to this purpose, as also 8 per cent of all the customhouse collections throughout tlie entire republic. So vast have modern fortunes become, ■remarks the New York Pun, that the term millionaire lias taken on a new sig nificance. A millionaire no longer means a man who possesses one million of francs in France, of lires in Italy, of rou hies in llussia, of dollars with us, but, according to “the modern phraseology started by Sir Morton l’cto and Janies ■McHenry, and adopted in England and file United States,” lie is the possessor •°f £1,000,000 iu England, $5,000,00 ) in ’his country, and 25,000,000 francs in i'ranee. Following that standard, M. fie \ arigny estimates that out of a total °f 1 00 thc proportionate number of millionaires in the different countries is: i-Qgland, 200; United States, 100; Ger many and Austria, 100; France, 75; hussia, 50; India, 50; other countries, 125. The Charleston News and Courier t-lairns that Claflin University, located at Grangeburg S. C., is the model tiniver sitr rtf tv, e o ou tn * tor colored . people, 1 there ___ P eo P* c a . the recent - mencement exercises. The 1 niver f ffy has seventeen teachers, fourteen superintendents and 945 studr-nts ’ it PV ' . ceeds in si/o m C r amous school , . at Ilamn- TT ton >ia. Y \r More than , five hundred students actually pay for their own education by the work of their hands In the rurnVu. lam ’ are six- courses °f f stuay, , - ... . strum- cuon in nine different industries, m-ented by rep nine special schools of agri culture, carpentry aud cabinet makbU Printing tailmi nn shoemakin i , S’P alnt ' n S and srraini ? blacKsmithing, ,'-> merchan “‘»mg and domestic economy. The I Diversity was ”•*» founded iounaeo 1,V by Mr. n Claflin, fl; - a n ofp Jn ^ * s upheld by Louth r ’ v_ ,. whicli J iDci, giv63 it fiiuuiciai assistance and moral "Our Ambition is to make a Yeracious Work, Reliable in GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1888- THE MAJORITY. How fare they all, they of the pallid faces, Beyond our power to beckon their return? How is it with them in the shadow places? How shall we learn Their solemn secret? How can we discover. By any earnest seeking, the true way Uuto the knowing in what realm they hover, In what high day, ’ They are forever hiddou from our si bt; We question vainly. Yet it somehow pleases, When they have spoken the last sad good-by, It somehow half the pain of parting eases, That in the sky, In the vast solitudes of stars and spaces, There may be consciousness and life aud hope. Ami that when we must yield to death’s eni braces. There may he scope For the unfolding of the better powers;. So sadly stilled in this life of ours. —Tracy Robinson, in Boston Transcript, THE CANNOH’S M0UTK BY F. A. MITCItEIi, First, They said it was a forced march. some soldiers on horseback went tearing by with a terrible clatter, leaving a cloud of dust behind them, then it was all quiet for an hour. I heard <t tramp ing, and looking up to thc crest of rising ground to the north, saw the road packed with soldiers cm foot. They came quickly up, and I scarcely had time to see what they looked like before those in front had passed. They didn’t march like soldiers I had seen in the city on a gala day, when I was a little girl; they hurried along, each man walking as lie liked I wondered how they could go so fast, they were loaded down so. They carried great heavy knapsacks and blankets, sides their and tin pans and canteens, be muskets. They look more as if they were going to set up house-keep ing While than to war. I was leaning on the widow sill, looking out and watching them, 1 saw a young officer ride into the yard, just as if he belonged to the place—or, rather, as if the place belonged ' to him — and back toward the barn. Two soldiers rode dose behind him, and they got down oil their horses aud went into the barn. I thought at once they were after our horses. My pony was there, and I made up my mind they shouldn’t take him without walking over my dead barn. body. I ran down stairs and out to the If I had been making a forced march myself 1 couldn’t have gone faster. Before 1 got there they had two horses out, farm and were I harnessing marched straight them to the the Officer wagon. up to and asked him what he was dd.vrgr'-' ..... He was a trifle startled at seeing a girl standing before him, looking as if she intended to make a resistance. “We’re ’pressing all the horses and wagons we find along the road,” he said. “What do you mean by ’pressing them ?” “We’re ’pressing them into the ser vice.” “What for?” “To carry the men’s knapsacks. They can march faster.” “Do you think it makes it any more respectable to call it 'pressing?" The officer’s face was flushed. I thought it was because he was ashamed of his work; but I soon noticed that he was in a burning fever. “You shan’t take my pony, anyway,” T cried, going to a man who was leading him out of the barn and seizing the halter. “Nevermind that horse,” said the of ficer; “it’s only a pony. Take it back into the stable.” The man obeyed at once. They har nessed two horses to the wagon, and led the team into the road. As thc soldiers marched past it they threw their knapsacks on the wagon, and it was soon loaded, and one of the negroes drove it away. Just then an officer came along with a number of other officers and a train of i horsemen following f him •» 1 noticed . * ill that lie had stars on his shoulders, and wore a straight sword instead of a crooked one lme tne rest. “Captain,” he said, looking at the of ficer who had taken our horses and wagon, “you'd better not try to go any farther.” “1 can go on, general. It’s only_ in termittent.” The general cut him short with, “Stop where , you are.” „ He „ spoke . so sharp , that . 1 though, he was going to bite the cap tain s head off. I wished the captain had the courage to answer him, but he hadn t. The general and those who were with him rode on, leaving the sick man sitting on Ins horse looking after them, to take care of himsc.lt as best he could. I noticed lie wore the same orna meat on his . . cap as those , about , the , gen era j— a wr eath—and I concluded he was oneoi . them. There was an interval in the passing . regiments, and no one was near but the captain and ine. What are you going to do : I asked him. I was sitting on the fence, with my dangling. It wasn’t a very graceful position, but I was only a country girl then, and didn t know any better. “I don’t know,” he said, wearily; “I suppose I must ride back to A-. There’s hadn a hospital been there.” and ro1 If he ' ,t; a Vankee a ’ ber, or a ’presser, which is the same thing, I’d have asked him to come into the house at once, he looked so sick. “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself,” I said, “to take horses that don’t belong t0 you?” j( e did look ashamed. “It isn't a pleasant business,” he said. “You’d better get that pony of yours out of the OOUNTY e »«» ft r m way; there’ll be more troops along here by-and-bv.” \Y hen he said this his voice so I made pleasant, and he looked so sick, up my mind to ask him in. But I couldn’t bring myself to speak kindly to hint. I couldn’t forget that he was a Yankee soldier. “Come into the house,” I said, sharply; He looked at me out of his melancholy! feverish eyes. Y-and “.No, 1 thank you. I’ll ride back to he turned his horse’s head to ride away. I called to him to stop, He obeyed me, and I went out into the road and took bold of his bridle. “What do you mean by that?” he asked, surprised. going to ’press your horse.” “What for?” “•To keep for the safe return of those you’ve taken.” He looked at me sort o’ dazed. lie put liis hand to his head, and didn’t seem to know what to do. I led his horse up to ihe veranda. lie dismount ed and walked feebly up the steps and sat down on a bench, while I took his horse round to the barn. had Well, typhoid the captain was put to bed. He fever, and a very bad case it Was. Occasionally, when Would come into the neighborhood, wound mount my pony, and ride to their camp and ask to have a surgeon come and see him. Between the sur geons and my nursing we got him through the crisis. I nursed him for six weeks. Then lie became con him valescent, and it was very nice to have sitting up in an arm-chair and ott the veranda looking so pale handsome, I used to sit by him with my work, and he seemed so gentle and so patient—not at all like he appeared to me when I first saw him riding back to the barn to ’press the horses—that of I began to feel sorry he wasn’t one our own men in stead Yankee. of being nothing but a detestable One day while I was sitting on the veranda beside him, sewing, he said: “Miss Molly, are you still holding my horse as a hostage?” “Yes. Ours haven’t come back yet.” “Don’t you think you could let me take him when I get well, if I should promise to go and find your horses, and have them returned?” “I’ll see about that when you get well.” He’d been talking already about going On to join the army, but I din’t think him well enough, and didn’t mean to let him go. He couldn’t very well go without his horse, so I wouldn’t let him have it. “Whathostage do you require in token of my appreciation of your kindness since I’ve been sick?” he asked. “You haven’t anything to leave. Be sides, I’ve done very little, I’m sure.” somewhat He thought sadly: a moment. Then he said, “Y'es; there’s one thing I can leave— only one. I’ll leave that with you.” 1 couldn’t think of anything be had except his revolver, and I was sure he wouldn’t leave that. It wasn’t appro pi iate. 1 waited for him to tell me, but he said nothing about it then. At last he was well enough to go. At least he thought so; I didn’t, lie was still as weak as a kitten, but I saw how anxious he was, and I didn’t oppose him any longer. So one pleasant morning, when the air was soft and the roads were dry, I told one of the colored boys to bring the captain’s horse round from the barn. The captain stood on the veranda ready to mount and ride away, liis blanket and rubber saddle, poncho be were had strapped left them, behind and the his just as horse was so anxious to be off that the boy could hardly hold him. The can tain took my hand in his to say good-by, and looked straight into my eyes. I lowered them to his spurs. “You’re a good girl,” lie said. “I’ll not forget your kindness.” “Oh, J would have done the same for one.” “Any one?” “Any one.” Then I asked myself: “What did 1 want to say that for.” ™ 1 ’ ' l I ' ‘ P u 'l[ n much , kindness—a • , mere bagatelle, , „ j could have bitte n ln y tongue off. He j j to make a rcturn-to pay 1 3 for h d donc for him . “Yon will find it,” ’ he added, “if you thc shrewdnc ss to guess b where it •, s ' With that he gave my hand a pressure, and looked long and steadily into my eyes. Then he mounted his horse and rode away without once looking back. As soon as be had ft gone l commenced to think what hc cou mefln about leav j n g a hostage. I was sure he wouldn’t oder any thing very valuable. He must know j wouldn’t like that; but I thought be m ight leave some little trinket lor me to remember him by. I ransacked the room be bad occupied, looking into buleau drawers, into closets, any place the ingenuity of man could find to hide anything. I even looked behind the pictures hanging thc on the wall. Then I went all over house from attic Then ce ii ar recalled _ Not his a thing words: could 1 find, I “IS you are shrewd enough to guess where it is,” and wea t a ll over my search again. AtlastI gave it up. “A pretty way to treat me,” p grumbled, “after that taking care of him so i on gp> j vowed if ever I should gee him again he should tell me whether he Lad really left anything, and what it was< * .,* ’ * * * * * „ ?iU , ! ‘u, front. , ‘ ? Stragglers, f, r broken-down i „, horsey wagons, ambulances from which now and a ghastly face would look out 1 days. ( ^ e >* g °Thevard' The yard, \he thebarn, ^barn'^the the kitchen kitchen, were full of men. They first day they drank up all the water in the well. J hen regiments marched almost as fast as wkeu they were making their forced ♦ yy <> Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Views. ” uarch South. Vi st0 They L” passed th on by thq j un St ’ Ul Pl K>t u ® cre ? t of lbo i up the road. 1 here they began to ; tig with spades and shovels, and the I next morning long when I looked out there 1 | vas a hue of forts, and the Yankee f»g „ flying a , above . them, , and, , great lioav- , msPthe black mouths of cannon frown i ^ < 0 "," at uS * ! While 1 was looking . I heard some- j ning rattl e far down the road. It, sounded like emptying a barrel of stones ; nto another barrel. 1 lieu another rat- j ;le, mingled with a constant dull doom-| (ng. All the morning the sounds kept j Joining'nearer, till at. last 1 could dis inctly bear the loud reports of f. iced j a muskets great stir all in fired the at forts once. above, T no- j lloisemen were galloping back and forth; new guns were every moment ,trusting out their ugly mouths, and men were marcning and countermaicli ng. I could hear their officers shout tug gibberish at them, which they must lave been.liid.au or ( liiueso to under itaud. hen more soldiers passed the jouse from the > outli, tued, dusty, grimed, wounded some and of them running some All passed tottering steady along behind slowly, in a stream the forts. house—he Suddenly a hosreman dashed up to the was all dust and dirt, and his horse was covered With foam, lie threw himself from the saddle and came up on to the veranda. Good gracious! the captain. “Come away from here at once,” he said: “our men are retreating; we are going to make a stand behind the works. the You are is directly in range, Bo quick! fire liable to open at any •moment.” Then there was a scramble to snatch a few things. One took a lamp, another It a pitcher, seemed another if everybody a photograph album. as took the most Useless thing to be found. All except me were hurrying down thc walk to the gate; I stayed behind. The captain tried to make me hurry. lie was stamping Up nnd down on the veranda and through ihe hall, almost crazy at iny delay. “Come, be quick 1” he said, as as if he were the general himself. “Captain—” I said, hesitating. impaticn “What, is it?" he asked, “The “What hostage.” hostage?” “That you left when you went away, couldn’t find it. Must we leave it.” He looked at me a moment as if he thought burst I had lost my senses; then he into a laugh. I never could stand to be laughed at, and just then made it was particularly mind that obnox- he ious. I up my Should tell me wliat I bad bunted for, ind tell me there ana then. “Never mind that,” lie said, seeing that I was irritated. “Save yourself and A will be in no especial danger. “ ..pji n( , t ] tavu whatever it is,” I said, resolutely. “Come, come! this will be a battle field in a few minutes.” “I won’t stir a step till you toll mo what I want to know.” “Nonsense!” he said, severely. The more severe his tone, the more resolute I became. I stood stock-still. “For Heaven’s sake!” he urged, be coming really frightened; “the gunners are standing with the lanyards in their hands ready to tire.” “Let them fire!” I folded my arms. A volley sounded a short distanco down the line of forts to thc west. Tito captain “Do come,” tried to he seize pleaded. my wrist. “Tell me what was the hostage,” I said, stubbornly. “Here?” “Here.” “No, no; this is not a fit place to tell you that. For the love of Heaven do come vowed away!” would him die I I conquer or on the field. “You shall either tell me or I will stay here till the battle is over.” He looked at the frowning forts anxiously, then back at me. “Y T ou must know?” “Yes.” “Now?” “Now.” “Well, then, Molly dear, I left you my heart.” “f stood as one who sees an engine and coming straight down on him, sud whose limbs are paralyzed from the denness of the discovery. Merciful Heaven! what had 1 done? What stu pidity! The blood rushed in a torrent to my cheeks; I covered my face with my hands, “And now, sweetheart” taking one of my hands from my burning cheek and leading me away—“if you’re satisfied about tile hostage, we won’t stay hero any longer.” explosion in As he spoke there was an the forts, and it seemed as if a dozen shrieking cats were whirling of over would our heads, I almost wished one t hem strike me dead. The captain led me like a child toward the forts through smoke and noise and confusion. I didn’t think of the battle that was opening; I only thought how immodest he must think me, and that he never would believe I could be so stupid as not to know what he I meant have had by leaving a hostage. for that to suffer all my life one mistake. I never can have my way about anything; for when my husband finds all other expedients for to be failures, he invaribly taunts me non’smouth.— with having forced hi.s secret Weekly. at the Earner's -- - ----- Experiments by Karg, Kolliker, Abey demonstrate that the skin of a person transplanted on thc skin of colored man becomes as black of the African. On thc contrary, tJ.e of a colored man inoculated on' the of a white person ] oges j ts becomes as white as its surrounding The new St. Catherine’s Light, Isle Wight, -will be the most powerful trie light in the world. The Climate of Siberia. From George Kcnnan’s account of the "Plains and Prisons of Western Siberia” in the Century we quote the following: “It is hardly necessary to say that a country which has an area of five and a ba if million square miles, and which cx teilds in latitude as far as from the southern extremity of Greenland to the i9land ot Cu h a , must present great diver sities of climate, topography, ^ and vegeta tion> and cannot everywhere a barren arctic waste. A mere glance at a map is suf ticient to show that a considerable pald 0 f wes | cra Siberia lies further south than Nice, Venice, or Milan, and that the southern boundary of the Siberian province '. of Semirechinsk is nearer the ( quator dlan Kapleg> !n a country which thus stretches ftotn the latitude of Ita)y to the mtitude of central Grcen j and ono would naturally expect to find, aud a sa matter of fact one does find, n ,nny varieties of climate and scenery, j n gome parts of the province of Yakutsk i bc mean temperature of the month of January is more than 00 degrees below of /ero p a i lr while in the province Bemipalatinskthcmeantcmnwatureof the month of July is 72 degrees above; and such maximum temperatures as 1)5 and 100 degrees in the the shade are peninsula, comparatively east common. On 'Taimyr permanently of the Gulf of <)b, the frozen ground thaws out in summer to a depth of only a few inches, and supports but a scanty vegetation of berry buslies and mo s, while in the southern part of , Western Siberia watermelons and canta loupes are a profitable crop, tobacco is grown upon thousands of annually plantations, aud the peasants harvest more than 50,000,000 bushels of grain. The fact which l desire especially reader to that impress Sibe upon the mind of the is ria is not everywhere uniform and homo generous. The northern part of the country differs from the southern part quite as much as the Hudson Bay. Terri tory differs from Kentucky; and it is as great a mistake to attribute the cold and barrenness of the Lena delta to the whole of Siberia as it would be to attribute the cold and barrenness of King William Laud to the whole of North America. “To the traveler who crosses the Urals for thc first time in June nothing is more surprising than the fervent heat of Siberian sunshine anil the extra ordinary beauty and profusion of Siberian flowers. Although we had been the partly prepared, the experience by our voyage which up Kama, for awaited us on the other side of mountains, wc were fairly upon the threshold of western by the scenery, the weather, and flora. In the fertile, blooming presented to us as wc rode swiftly east ward into the province of Tobolsk, was absolutely nothing even remotely suggest an arctic region. If we suddenly been blindfolded the middle and transported of to in a sunny noon, we could never have guessed had been what part of the world we taken. 'The sky was as clear and and thc air as soft ns the sky and air California; the trees were all in full leaf; birds were singing over the flowery meadows and in the clumps of birches by the roadside; there were a drowsy hum of bees and a faint lagranec the of flowers and verdure in the air; and sunshine was as warm nnd bright as that of a June afternoon in the most favored part of the globe.” The Coenilie Ilahit. Dr. C. F. Belcher, of St. Louis, said: in an interview in Chicago recently, The cocaine habit is now as regularly an accepted disease as phthisis than or gout. dozen We have in St. Louis more a cases of it men and women who have let this fatal drng get tho mastery of them, and who have been completely wrecked by its effects. One of our phy sicians is among the number one of the brightest men in the profession, treated Deis now in an insane asylum being for this habit. Cocaine is worse than alcohol and opium pul. together. the It robs a man of his will power from start, anil changes him into a drunken bea t after the first exhilaration passes away. I do not know of any drug which moral seems side. to attack so severely man’s The cocaine us r becomes a villain as naturally as a chloroformed man goes to sleep. 1 In loses his sense of right and wrong and is violent, passionate and brutal. The effect is the same in both sexes, i have studied cases enough to know that cocaine must affect that part of the brain, if there is such a localization, where what wo call man’s moral quali ties abide. Training Athletes. It is weil known that pugilists, pe destrians and others who perform in public feats requiring great strength and endurance undergo beforehand severe training to develop their powers to the utmost. The rules laid down by their trainers are very strict and rigidly en 'forced. The following are a few with regard to diet: Little salt. Xo coarse vegetable. No pork or veal. Two meals a day—breakfast at 8 and dinner at 2. If supper is allowed at all, it must be a very light and simple one several hours before bedtime,and is not recommended, it is reckoned much against a man's wind to go to bed with a full stomach. No fat meat is ever given, and r.o butter and cheese, both of which are considered indigestible. Dies and pastry arc allowed. Meal must always be taken fresh, and not seasoned. Salt meats not allowed. Puddings and dumplings are considered unfit to eaten. The trainers say “people may well take earthenware into stomachs.” _ The London and Northwestern way Company has begun to lay along the Shropshire Canal in order try the substitutmn of locomotives lwrses for caQal boats - NO. 40. HOW IT HAPPENED, I got to thinkin’ of her—both her parents dead and gone— And all her sisters married off, and none but her and John A-livin’ all alone there in that lonesome sort o’ way, Ami him a blame old bachelor, e firmder ev’ry day! I’d knowod ’em all from children, and their daddy from the time He settled in the neighborhood, and hadn’t ary a dime Er dollar, when ho married, fer to start housekeepin’ on! — So 1 got to thinkin’ of her—both her parents dead and gone! I got to thinkin’ of her, and a wundem what i she done That .-ill her sisters kep’ a-gettin’ married, one by one. And her without no chances—aivl the best girl of the pack— An old maid with her hands, you might say, tied behind her back! And mother, too, afore she died, she ust to jes’ take on, ,When none of’em was loft, you know, but Kvaline and John, And jes’ declare to goodness ’at the young men must be bline To not see what a wife they’d git, if they got Kvaline! I got to thinkin’ of her; in my great afflic tion she Was sick a comfort to us, and so kind and neighborly— She’d come, and leave her housework, for to help out little Jane, And talk of her own mother ’at she’d nover see again— Maybe sometimes cry together—though, for the most part, she Would have the child so riconciled and happy like, ’at wo Felt lonqsomer’n ever when she’d put her bonnet on And say she’d railly Uaf to bo a-gittin’ back to John! I got to thinkin’ of lior, ns I say—and more anil more I’d think of her dependence, and the burdens ’at slio boro— Her parents both a-bein’ dead, and all her sisters gono And married off, and lior a-livin’ there alone with John— You might suy jes’ a-toilin’ and a-slavin’ out her life Fer a man ’at hadn’t pride enough to got bisso’f a wife— ’Loss some one married Kvaline and packed her off somo day— So I got to thinkin’ of her—and it happened thataway. Whitcomb Riley. James PITH ANDP01NT. Vein expectations—prospecting for gold. A foot-note—“Please use the door mat.” Marked intelligence—A ; rofessorwith a black eye. That things are mixed up slightly When Everybody “live knows, beet” ill the garden a Of a * ‘dead beat” grows. —/lansville Breeze. “All roads lead toroam,” remarked a tramp, studying a guide board.— Boston. Budget. A Jaw prohibiting the intemporate hoarding of wealth might prevent money from becoming tight. A cradle in a house may or may not bo a boycot. It is just us likely to be a girl’s nest.— Picayune. Bride—“Give me a kiss, Harry?” I Harry—“No; that I cannot do; but will loan you one -if you will return it.” — Tidbits. The Empress of Japan is taking lessons on the piano. The Mikado’s fifty-seven physicians arc giving him every atten tion .—New York World. Although he covets it from life's birth, brief Ami covets it. through span, Man never, never gets the earth, Jt is the earth that gets the man. — I.alior Leader. “Have you Browning?” she asked at the village store. “No,” replied whiting, tho clerk; “we have blacking and but no browning.”— Life. “Gentleness cannot be kicked into a cow,” says an exchange. Neither can tenderness tr there wouldn’t be so much tough beefsteak .—EnusoUle Breeze. “What does menu mean, my dear!” “Food for me an’ you, ’tisclear." “Whai. does meander mean! Who knows:” “When me and her out walking goes. —Mercury. Seals Very Foiul of Salmon. Thc baby seal recently added to tho free menagerie on Morrison street has seemed content to bask in the sun, eat the salmon given it, and whine for more. Saturday, however, it seemed to wake up to the exigiences of life, and concluded it had to hustle, so it rolled into the tank and started to catch one of the fish, and the way the pair went around the tank was a caution to alL observers. The seal weighs pounds only of 10 pounds, but it cats four sal mon per day and looks around for more. From this a slight idea may be formed of the amount of salmon consumed by the thousands of seals and hundreds of sea lions which haunt the mouth of the Columbia, and it would seem that while the Legislature and the United States Government of are endeavoring in to keep up the supply salmon the Columbia by means of a hatchery they might help the matter by taking some steps to ex terminate the seal and sea lions.— Port txind Oregonian. A correspondent writes: “How Ion can a man walk without a rest?” can walk without arrest just- so long he behaves himself.