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COULEUR DE ROSE.
1 vaot more lives In vrbicb to love
This world so full of beauty,
I want more days to use the ways
I know of doinpr duty.
I ask no greater Joy than this
(So much i am life's lover).
When 1 reach age, to turn the page,
And read earth’s story over!
(Oh. love, stay near.)
Oh, rapture—promise of the May,
Oh. June, fulfilling afteri
If autumn sighs when summer dies,
*Tls drowned tn winter's laughter
O, maiden dawns—O, wifely noons,
O, 6lren sweet, sweet nights.
I'd want no heaven could earth be given
Again with its delights
(If love stayed near)
There are such glories for the eye,
Such pleasures for the ear;
The senses reel with all they feel.
And see, and taste, and hear. .
Thero aro such ways of doing good,
Such ways of being kind;
And bread that's cast on waters, fast
Comes homo again, 1 find.
(Oh, love, stay near.)
There nro such royal souls to know,
• Thero Is so much to learn.
While secrets rest in Nature's breast,
And unnamed stars still burn.
God toiled six days to make this earth,
I think the good folks say;
Six lives we need to give full meed
Of praiso—one foreuch day.
(If love *tay near.)
Cut oh if Love fiotl f;.i away
Or vailed Ins face from me,
One life too much, why then wero such
A life ns tills would be.
With suheu May, and blighted Juno,
Blurred dawn and haggard night,
This drear old w orld in space wero whirled
If lovo lent not his light.
(Oh, lovo, stay near.)
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox In Once a Week.
From tho Great Fipcstono Quarry.
There is much to indicate that tho In
dians for many generations havo highly
prized tho pipestone for tho manufacture
of their pipes, and that it lias been ex
tensively used by tho red man for pipo
sculpture throughout North America.
Chips of tho stone, beads, arrow points,
hatchets and pipes of this material havo
been taken from graves, mauds and
wells, even plowed up from Can, in tho
various states, from Massachusetts to
Georgia. Tho Dakota Indians employ
seventy-five different patterns in as many
materials, but tho calumet is the ono
venerated. Mr. Edwin A. Barber says:
"Tho fact that this stono has been taken
from Indian graves in the state of New
York, and that others wero found on an
ancient site of a villago in Georgia, at
opposito points, 1,200 miles from tho
pipcstono quarry in Minnesota, reveals
tho great extent of intercommunication
which formerly existed among this North
American people. Thero is certainly
strong presumptive evidence that tho
stone of tho Cotcau dcs Prairies has been
used for centuries, and perhaps n much
longer time.”—Helen Strong Thompson
in American Magazine.
Wiiut Constitutes it XtlolHle?
Few people understand what consti
tutes u blonde. Every iadv with light
hair is not a blonde. The word wo got
from tho French. The adverb blondo,
on tho authority of Clark, tho eminent
philologist, is defined as meaning fuir,
light or flaxen, referring to any object,
whereas Simraonds describes a blondo ns
being "a woman of fair complexion.”
These definitions nro given in Worcester’s
dictionary. If you will give tho matter
a moment’s thought, you will recall how
many ladies havo light hair and dark
complexions. I venturo to (jay that in
all the galaxy of beauty at the Veiled
Prophets' ball thero wero not fifty ladies
who' came up to tho strict requirements
of flaxen hair and absolutely fuir com
plexion.—Georgo H. Small in Globo-
Dcmocrat.
Superstition Ttifo Todtiv.
Pcoplo nro wont to boast of tlio en
lightenment of this ago and laugh nt tho
superstitions of their forefathers. But it
is quite safo to snv that superstition is ns
rifo today as it over was, tho only differ
ence being that now people are ashamed
to acknowledge their weaknesses. Said
a real estate man: "Thero is nothing
whicli gives a building a lasting black eye
quicker than a re|>ort that it is or was
haunted. Tho slamming of a door, tho
rattling of a window, tho knocking down
of a tin pan by pussy cat are all tho work
of ghosts in such buildings. And tho
worst of it is that pcoplo nro just as
afraid of a new building erected on tho
sito of a haunted one as they nro of tho
haunted ono itself.”-—Buffalo Express.
Tho Mother In China*
In motherhood alono docs tho Chlneso
woman find protection and honor. Yet
even hero Cliincso customs and laws nro
peculiar, and even grotesque. A mother
can claim absolute obedicnco from her
children, even when they nro gray headed
and themselves fathers of families, but
she is still only a servant and a drudge to
her husband. In,the < cent >-r her death,
her sons must .1 y'.t'hiiie . law, wear
mourning, and go ; ' uui wh . unshaven
heads for a himi.ni! da; . t at her hus
band would rem!''! !:in . mi object of
ridicule among h* .. nils if be put on
mourning for her.- ■Cluster Holcombe in
Youth’s Companion.
The editor, of course, may bo a fallible
and iinilluminated being, greatly in need
of having his literary standards revised
by those who would bestow on him their
inspirations; still, as things go, it is ho
nnd not tho cloud of contemporary wit
nesses who is responsible for the conduct
of his periodical.—Boston Traveller.
Tho Hawaiian! Disappearing.
• The native Hawaiians aro said to be
disappearing very rapidly, and it will not
lie long before the rr.co is extinct. Their
language Is still quite generally spoken,
but as English is tho languago of tho
court the native dialect is bound to fall
into decadence.—New York Evening
World..
BEAUTIFUL CREOLE GIRLS.
Many Perfect Blondes Among Thera Con
tradict a General Belief!
Wo aro not hidebound nor narrow
minded in our admiration for female
beauty. Tho fair and tho dark, the
blondes and brunettes, all havo tljeir
special charms and admirablo points.
Besides tho beauty of feature and color
thero is also a spiritual and intellectual
beauty which is quite as potent ns tho
other. In tho presence of a puro and
lovely soul or a sparkling intellect and a
delighting disposition, one may lio so
completely enchanted ns to bo utterly
blind to material things. But whatever
may be our liberality in matters of lovo
nnd admiration for tho beautiful sox, and
wo recognize their claims without regard
to the etunological or geogrnph ical limits,
wo are bound to reservo a special homage
for our own southern women, and we
are moved to this by the following tributo
to Louisiana beauty. It was contributed
to The Bovco (Rapides parish) Headlight
by one who signs herself a “Cano River
Girl.” This is her verdict:
"Many of our northern friends picture
all creoles with dark, swarthy skins, hair
black as tho raven’s wing nnd eyes of
ebon darkness. Now, this is altogether
an erroneous fancy. Why, somo of tho
girls have lily whito complexions, golden
locks and eves of heaven’s own blue! In
the Iittlo villago where I livo there are
four sisters, all of tho purest blonde type,
nnd it would be difficult to find anywhere
in tho wido world fairer, sweeter, lovelier
mnidens than they. Whenever I read of
‘the dark skinned croolo’ a smilo crosses
my faco, and I wish tho readers’ eyes
could rest upon my ‘rosebud garden of
girls.’
"As I writo tlicso lines a dainty crcolo
maiden enters my presence. Shu lias
come, like a gleam of sunshine athwart
a murky sky, to clmse away tho clouds
whicli sometimes surround me; and truly
6he is n fair vision to gnzo upon, sitting
where tho sun shines full upon her, re
vealing tiio glint of gold in her wavy
brown hair, which ripples above a broad,
fair brow. Her pearly cheeks aro slightly
tinged by tho sun’s kisses, and her eyes
of ‘passionless, peaceful blue,’ are gazing
tenderly tqion me, utterly unconscious of
licr own picturesque loveliness. The mind
of this gentle girl is as puro mid blight ns
her face. Altogether she is ono of earth’s
fairest flowers.
I have lived among tho creoles nearly
all my life, but I am not one of them. I
am what they call ‘on American.’ Why
that term should not be applied to them
is a mystery which I cannot solve. I
havo a penchant for creole girls. They
nro usually dainty nnd refined, sensitive
and sympathetic, light hearted and sunny
tempered. Then the murks-of deferenco
they pny to old ago is truly something to
be admired, and might well be imitated
by many of my American sisters. A
creole girl rarely ever sullies her lips
with that slang which is so generally
used nowadays. She is usually reared in
seclusion, and her tlays glide by peace
fully nnd tranquilly. This tranquillity is
seldom disturixxl by a storm cloud. Slio
is content to remain at home, where
there is nlwnyB a wide field of notion,
and ‘do her duty ill that state of life
unto which it shall plcaso God to call
her.'
There are many either fine char
istics which the crcolo girl jKissesses, and
I regret that I have not time to mention
> Tho Dingo and the Kangaroo,
We had just rolled up our blanket!,
after camping out, preparatory to mak
ing up the flro and putting thy billies on
to boil, when we heard tho heavy thud
of a kangaroo leaping rapidly fa a neigh
boring scrub. "It was the work of a
moment,” as tho old fashion^! novelists
used to say, to get out our revolvers on
tho clinnco of a shot; but wo paused to
watch an interesting sight A'dingo was
stealing swiftly along the edge of tho
scrub, parallel to the course pf the kan
garoo, and in ordinary circuinstances a
leaden messenger would have been
promptly sent after him, with all tho
more probability of stopping him, as ho
paused occasionally to listen; but pcssiblo
kangaroo steak was just then uppermost
in our minds. In n minute or two tho
kangaroo suddenly broke from the open
country, and the dingo, for whom hq
was evidently unprepared, made a splen
did dash nnd pinned the marsupial by
the shoulder. Almost instantly after
ward a second dingo, who had no doubt
been driving the game toward his com
panion, ruslied out of the scrub nnd took
the kangaroo on tho opposite side. In
spite of tho poor beast’s violent bounds
hither and thither, ho soon rolled over,
and in an astonishingly short time tho
dingoes had put an end to his struggles.
Au Exploit** nioro Destructive* Vet.
W. T. Chamberlain, an American en
gineer residing in London, paid a visit
to Woolwich in connection with a new
explosive whicli be is introducing to tho
war department He is the inventor of
tho newest and most powerful explosive
known, namely, clilorino of nitrogen,
whose destructive effect! ore terrible in
the extreme, a very small quantity doing
infinitely more damage than a much
larger amount of any other explosive in
use. It is very sensitive, a very slight
concussion causing it to explode. Ha
lias more than once been injured and in
danger of being blown to pieces, but kept
at it, determined to conquer 6r dio in the
attempt.
Ho has completed a method of* charg
ing or filling shells and projectiles with
clilorino nitrogen so .that they /nay bp
fired from a gun using powder with per
fect safety. Military men competent to
judge in regard to tho invention declare
it to he one of tho most remarkable in
ventions of tho age, and aro of tho
opinion that if any country had tho mo
nopoly of this invention it could defy
tho wholo world. Tho invention, it is
thought, .will causo a complete change
or revolution in warfare, while for blast
ing or mining purposes it will probably
never ho equaled. Mr. Chamberlain has
ANGEL8 UNAWARES.
Iu the hours of mom and oven, ,
lu tbc noon and night.
Trooping down they com* from heaven.
In their noiseless flight.
To guide, to guard, to warn, to cheer us,
'Mid our joys and cares.
AU unseen nro hovering near as
Angola unawares.
When the daylight Is declining
In tho western skies,
And the stars in heaven are shining
As tho twilight dies, *
mrtscAne
like celestial airs,
Voices on our hearts cn» stealing
To our spirit senso revealing
Angela unawares.
O, faint hearts! what consolation
For us here below! *
That augelln ministration
Guides us whero we go.
Every task that is before us
Some blest spirit shares;
Watchful eyes are over o'er us,
Angels unawares.
—J. F. Waller in Tho Quiver.
s Mntmaiaon Going to Piece*.
Malmaison, the famous chateau of the
ill fated Josephine do Bcauharnais, is
simply going by piecemeal to the dogs,
or rather to the rats, and it has been ad
mirably suggested that the place should
bo converted into a museum containing
historical relics of tho- first empire. In
tho beginning of tho present summer
Malmaison was offered for solo at an
upset price Of £10,000, but no bidder
could be found. The park is now let out
in small lots to builders, and Iiideous
villas are rising around tho chateau. The
two facades of the mansion—that of the
courtyard and < f tho garden—aro intact,
but tho interior L< like a barn. The salon
of Josephine still exists, with its mural
decorations of birds nnd gilt flowers, and
'A fresh feed for certain now,” whis- | had offers from parties on .tho continent
jiored tho stockman, and wo began crawl- | which ho will probably accept in tho
ing on our bands nnd knees toward the j event of not cowing to terms with our
spot, aliout 100 yards away, for a shot nt j own government.—Woolwich (Eng.) Gn-
tiio dingoes, who had been too much J ziHtc. /
occupied in the excitement of tho chaso 1
to notice tiq. Tho slightest noise, tho j Rabblt » Must Go.
chance breaking of a dead twig, or per- , Pasteur is, according to recently pub-
imps the motion of a tali blade of grass, I Iished accounts, in a fair way to wm tho
sufficed to alarm them, and though the ] J ‘S prize to go to tho man who would
revolver bullets cut up the earth closo to 1 banish rabbits from tho big island of the „
them, both went nway unscathed. Tho southern Pacific. Tho Frenchman has so do tho dining hall, tho council cham-
kangnroo was quito dead. How they made lib lancet mo: - yotent than 10.000 ; her—shaped like a tent—and the library;,
had mauled him in tlioso. two or three shot guns, tons of prison or a million j but tho furniture is all gone, nnd the
minutes] His chest was tom open under snares. 11- ‘ emulates rabbits with the “pleasure house” of old is a melancholy
tho foreleg, mid his neck bitten through I virus of a disease fatal to the little beasts, wreck.—Paris Cor. London Telegraph,
and through. Theso wild dogs seem to i Before death overtakes them tlicso rab-
know instinctively wliero tho great ar- j bits beget a host of other rnbbits, and , . Ten Hours of Sleep,
teries nre situated, and, unlike our do- these becotno tho parents of millions. • James Payin tho novelist and corre-
nicstic hounds, understand perfectly | Heredity docs tho rest. The descend- 1 spondent, has oomo to the conclusion that
well how to kill a kangaroo without in’- ants inherit their progenitors’ disoaso, tho only salvation of our writers and
curring the risk of a fatal stroke from its I and tho second nnd third generation of literary classcs'in general lies in going to
powerful hind legs, armed with tlioso ratote dio off oven more surely than tho ; bed early, getting ten hours of sleep, und
formidable chisel liko nails. Somo fresh ; iiicwRated first. If this method operates j understanding that brain work heeds
cut steaks off the loin put us in good trim ! successfully with rabbits, why might not | more complete and certain recuperation
for tho dav’s work.—Chambers’ Journal, a somewhat similar process decimate tho j than ordinary physical labor. Tiio office
Clillcat Woinuti of Ainslui.
Tho civilized woman when sho wants
to l>o wooed attempts to make herself ns
attractive as possible. So docs tho Cliil-
cat woman, but sho has a different idea
of what is attractiveness.. Ono evening,
after all the lishingcanoescamo in, I saw
a young squaw, robed from bend to foot
in a deep red blanket, sitting stolidly on
tho end of a great spruce log a few rods
nway from tho cannery nnd nt n short
distance from whero the fishing canoes
wero moored, nnd where tlie.firos of tho
Cliilcat fishermen had been lighted,
' armies of bugs and worms that mako tho
life of tho American fanner ono long
warfare against things flying and creep
ing? Pasteur, if ho lias solved tho rab
bit problem, will ho tho St. Patrick of
tho great island. If ho can vanquish in-
Ecct pests ho will find immortality.—
Pittsburg Bulletin.
Thero' is a young girl down in Missisj
sippi who is destined to moke her mark.
Some ono gavo her 5 cents ono day. She
went nt onco to a dry goods store, bought
a yard of calico, made it into a sun bon
net, nnd sold tho bonnflt for 40 cents. Sho
it was blacker than that of thoor- j platform sloping toward tho center, ■mad^moreiximietsTsold theXreto vested!
y negro minstrel. ! where n cistern, 150 feet in circumfer- j mn j 0 0 ^ er garments, nnd prottv soon
There was not atrieoof her native j eace, is placed. This platform is divided hadftl0 with thl* At 0 she boutrht a lot
and necessity of sleep is gotting to be bet
ter appreciated. Littlo is heard nowa
days about burning midnightoiL Obedi
ence to physiological laws, alone, will
enable a man to escape mental break
down at an early age. Genius cannot
overrido nature. It is impossible to turn
night into day, or to habitually do two
days’ work in ono. Common senso and
method are better than brilliance, and
judgment is in tho end ahead of genius.
Tiio “Tower* of Silence.”
Sir Jamsadji Jijibhai, a Persian
banker, has sent a model of a “Tower of
Silence” to tho Anthropological museum
at Berlin. Tho Parsecs, or Fire Wor-
shipers, hold it to bo n sin to pollute air,
When, out of curiosity at her singular j water or earth with dead bodies. They,
costume mid position, I approached her, ( therefore, build high towers on hills, 300
I found that she hail blackened her faco ; feet^ in circumference. At tho top is a
until it
dinary nog
Thero was not atrtcetf her native |«w, » pumeu. xmspraHorm ,s u™ had $10, With this $10 she bought a )ot
duskiness but tiio nrtiflcial black shone i into three sections, ono each for tnen^ nlntittxl thoifr mid for their
as if it wore composed and put on from i women and children Corses placed
an article of good French blacking. In I hero are at onco pounced on, by vultures,
ter- | addition to that a long silver pin was which soon leave only clean bones.
' nm l ] stuck i:i her under lip and extended out These nre swept into tho cistern, and tho
from the chin a couple of inches, while a water, after the hones arc dissolved, is
them. I have had to steal tho moments
•rite even those few lines. But be
fore closing this article I must admit
that the majority of creoles are dark;
thero aro many nut brown maidens, but
some of them are 'fair, very fair.”’—
New Orleans Pieavune.
Funning -on tho PlitiiiK.
At a fair in Wray, Washington county,
was an exhibit of eastern Colorado agri
cultural products. It wns a creditable
display ami showed that the farms of
that part of the state aro producing good
crops in spite of tiic assertion that ull of
tho "rain licit” region is burnt up.
This is the tliird year ,of success in
farming without irrigation on the plains.
Tho most skeptical must ho convinced
from the experiences of these three yonrs
that the experimental stage is passed,
and that "rain licit" farming may lie
depended upon.
The farmers in tho vicinity of Wray
aro not the only men who havo met with
success for exhibits nro mado of pro
ducts grown near Akron and Yuma.
Both of theso places aro centera of agri
cultural districts that liavo been tested
during the past three years and found to
bo worthy of the praise that was given
them three years ago by tho morO'con
servative settlers who havo mado their
iiomcs there.
Tile truth seem* to bo that, except
among tho sand hills, tho wholo of tho
plains lying within seventy-fivo or ono
hundred miles west of tho Kansas-lino
aro fusccptiblo of cultivation witboMjt'ir-
rigation.—Denver Republican.
Against tiio African Slave Trade.
Cardinal Laviegerie’s crusade against
the African slave trade is already pro
ducing good fruit. Tlie war against tho
Arab 6lavo stealers in Central Africa has
begun in earnest. Twenty-six white
men, witii several hundred nativo allies,
will soon take the field against this
Arabian traffic in human flesh. Tho
missionaries in Africa liavo taken sides
heavy silver ring liung from licr nostrils ; carried through a series of canals nnd
and a host of massivo silver bracelets I disinfected. Tho Parsecs havo never yet
adorned her wrists. Sho wns simply a been surpassed as a raco of clean, puro,
belle of the woods and of Chilcat Inlet ' manly, energetic people. They rcsido
endeavoring to makq known to tho young now mostly in Bombay, but aro fow'in
bucks around that sho was in tho matri- numbers.—Globe-Democrat,
menial market according to nativo cus-
| torn hero. After sitting for an hour or
I more and not attracting any moro ntten-
! tion tluui that prompted by my own curi
osity, sho left her twilight wooing placo,
snook out tho folds of her red blanket,
and walked with un r.irofindifferenco to
an old tent on the beach,-which appeared
to 1» her habitation, nnd disappeared.—
Sitka (Alaska) Cor. New York Times.
The Earth Slowly Changing.
In tho universe everything is chang
ing and everything is in motion, for mo
tion itself is the first condition of vital
ity. Tho firm ground, long thought to
bo immovable, is subject to incessant
motion; the very mountains riso or sink.
Not only do tho winds' and ocean cur
rents circulate round tho planet, but tho
continents themselves, with their sum
mits nnd valleys, art changing their
places and slowly traveling round tho
circle of tho globe. In order to explain
all theso geological phenomena it is no
longer necessary to imagine alterations
in tho earth’s axis, ruptures of the solid
crust or gigantic subterranean downfalls.
This not the mode ir, which nature gen
erally proceeds; she is more culm and
moro regular in her operations, and,
chary of her might, brings nbout
changes of the grandest character with
out oven tho knowledgo of tho beings
that she nourishes. Sho upheaves moun
tains and dries up seas without disturb
ing the flight of tho gnat. Some revolu
tion which appeara to us to havo been
produced by a mighty cataclysm has,
perhaps, taken thousands of years to ac
complish.—Science.
cultivation, harvesting and marketing^
and camo out with a clear profit of $40.
Let tho young men of the south look out.
for this girl. That $40 is still gtowing.
It may run Into tho millions some of
these days.—Columbus Dispatch.
Crafty London Shopkeepers.
Tho other evening a nativo bom Lon
doner, during a discussion of tho mys
terious Whitechapel murders, fell to talk
ing of Petticoat lano. "It is," 6aid he,
“merely another name for ono side of Mid- ... ,, , . ... ,,
dlescx street. The street forms tho;
boundary 1
while tho t
its proper name, the opposido
Hombostio Stylo of Royalty.
The terms in which these ancient
rulers addressed each other resemble in
their bombastic stylo those employed in
royal households in our own days to a
striking degres. Ono begins: “To Nim-
murija (a surname of Amenophis HI),
tho great king,- tho king of Egypt, my
brother, my son-in-law, whom I love and
who loves me, ’ ’ speaks as follows: ‘ ‘Dush-
callcd, from the largo number of second
hand clothing stores, Petticoat lane,
Very crafty nre those dealera down tho
lane. A man may stroll past their shops
and, seeing a handkerchief hanging out-
sido that lio fancies, stop in and purchase
it, then if he will turn and walk back on
reaching tho end of tho street ho will
find tho identical handkerchief in its old
position. Tho thrifty seller lias in his
employ ono or moro small boys whoso
solo duty is to follow purchasers and
‘prig’ from them their nswly acquired
property.”—Chicago MaiL •.
Phase* of Chinee® Life.
An official report upon tho Cliincso
quarters of San Francisco, mado about
with the lenders cf this lnimano move- I two years ago by,a committee of tho
ment and arc using voice and influence ‘ board of supervisor^, after several months
to rally tho natives against tho Arabs, of careful survey ami investigation, pre-
Thero is no doubt that n well organized
movement will follow and that in a little
whilo slave trading in Africa will bo an
extremely dangerous business. Bat the
campaign against tho-Arabs will by no
means be mere boy play. Tho Arabs aro
well stockaded and armed and ittwill re
quire some hard fighting" to-get them out
—Detroit Free-Presa.
tented probably in a clearer light than
ever beforo tho truo phases cf Chineso
colonial life. Thirteen Joes houses were
found; Christian churches wero turned
into Chinese lodging bouses and brothels.
Missionary work, in nearly forty yearn
of effort and labor, had not brought a
dozen converts into tho field who could
bo properly vouched for ns such. In tho
contest between idolatry and "” l ‘ "
ity, tho former was ir'
puted possession of t’f
■ and T. o*jan-
A New Calculatin'? Machine.
A resident of Chicago, Mr. D. C. Felt,
lias invented a machine which will add,
subtract, multiply or divide without
error. It is said to work perfectly, and
will secure n saving of timo in commer
cial ojK-intions. quito like n typo writer
in the hand:i of letter writers. Babbage's
calculating machine, which for genera
tions was the wonder of philosophers,
would, if invented now, bo only a nino
days' talk. Mr. Felt's invention will bo
of vastly more use than Babbage’s, but
will draw less oratorical attention .^Mean
while Edison turns from machinery to
sanitary discoveries, nnd proposes by
scienco to cordon yellow fever. Science
is cmoluticoily king Globe-Democrat.
house, to thy consort^ thy nobles, thy
o thy chariots, tl
Harper’s "Weekly.
people, to thy chariots, thy horses, thy
land.’’—F
Peculiar Form of Hysteria.
Dr. Richardson mentions a caso of a
young woman attending a consumptive
patient and was so impressed with tho
B srns of coughing that sho began to
thorn. The imitation was per
fect and continued two years, hor friends
behoving sho hod consumption, though
not a sign of it existed in her longs. At
lost she suddenly recovered. It was only
hysterii of a peculiar form. Now many
similar cases ore cured, and from this tho
doctor thinks $o has found tho secret of
arresting this malady.—M. L. Holbrook,.
M. D., in Herald of Health.
Woman as a “Hoodoo, .
There is a mine near
which women ore never odmi
woman, were permitted to enter
I believe every last man on tho
would quit work. - Tho mine has had
accident for every woman who has
itod it. Every timo to woman liasl
admitted immediately after her depar
ture somo mishap with damage to prop
erty or lifo lias followed. Hence tho su
perstition of the miners.-^Globe-Demo
crat.
“Tho Spider and the Fly.**
. Every one bd3 by heart those charm
ing littlo verses' of "Tho Spider ,ond the
FJy." They lihvo always been accredited
to Mary Howitt, and natnmliy, for they
T!u> "Itluo Block” Salmon.
According to The Walla Walla Journal,
the red fish have for the first timo in sixteen
years disappeared from Wallowa lake,
and the packers are idle in consequence, ; are always published over her name-.
Tho fish nro identical with tho “bluo ■ Mrs. Howitt was a charming writer of
black” salmon of tho Columbia, and prose as well os verso, but in this instance
liavo been accustomed to making tho lake is guilty of the sin of plagiarism. Tho
their breeding grounds, whero they verses aro adapted with but little change
swamten i.i immense numbers. Like from a song by tb^ English oornfa post
many other fish, they change color at Hudson, which is to bo found in tho
the breeding season. The bluo black is “UniversalSongsterorSIuseum of Mirth”
ono of the finest species of salmon, and (London, 1820), set to tho music of
its utter extermination seems to bo n Thoxpos Moore’s “Will You Como to tho
matter of only a short time.—Chicago Bower?"—Pittsburg Bulletin.
> .Flora 1:1.