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“\Thhb to th/« way U» Teoipii Famn f*
an nagrr youth,
** And bow Ui g»(n th# bonorM narna,
And th#* tnina of truth
Hbniugb hf« hr |rti*b'*d Um* ra#v
A« only JO'ido*«».
To** full g! »ry rraju’d by on*
Who b»i f '«l f«w br’ ud find num
—4' (i in Ihf f'r fttii.
A I brec-Corncred Combat.
You will mt by the map that tin- Hu I
■uu lbv<*r of Idaho hfe* it* ri* in th< Hal
Bx»n If vrr Mount uiii-* Two aniftll < ri*b,
tJNwiiti# »iftbo mirth end of tin* moun
tain form tii<* Salmon, but it i* not
nni> I. of a Mn uni until it r<*««*%*•»■ Wild
Cat, 1 .tf«r H*<u*t and other Cfwkft down
toward th< B.lb i Hoot Mountain
I hud journeyed to the fork* of tin-
T • ihnon w itli u band of hunter
and 1 pp**r>, and, while they had |x fit
Uh i* f m trapping for fur* and lx It",
] ha«. <v< lo|H*d tin to t that < >al, mica,
•lab ride, <op|w r, and othei mineral’
w In- I-ad for tin inking in the
no * Owing to the depth of anow
»e< et iti of the weather. I had not fin
tob* work of pro*»|ieetmg when spring
e;. ihih the trapjier* weii- ready to
al .< n the rxhrillfct'd field aiid move
rm* I . the f<M»lhill»» of th< Bitf' i Root.
01. fir I <H) of 'I i) I v elt alone
1 had i. horx , two ph' k mill''”, a rifle,
two revolver”, and f»l<*nt) of food and
amll ti«m A mo«»ii a< the nn-ti left
im I j .’Jed up fttuki ami moved around
to th* »«>.( wide of th' mountain, wh< re
Uh r< |cm* wind and more Numihine.
Ik Iw' -a the foothill ami the mountain
w.u* a long, narrow, winding valley, vary
ing i’ with from ton to fifty feet. The
•new wip juftl leaving thia valley, ami
tin -• of laxt * anon had been pri "v rved
JU pfciiitidde nhapr* for the liorw
Nj thing of Kp« r ial interr -t occurred
unto the 3d of June. On that morning,
whHr ' ookhig bri nkfaM, a monster
gTi/.?’» the flrvt on< ween during tin win
ter Huddenly apja areil within 200 fret of
my cunp fire, coming up the winding
valley from the south. 1 wa Iwtwein
him i*bd the horst s, but tin lattei were
an Irrt tied that had th» v not been stout
ly MtfeKM] out they would have made
thri. ape.
Il • Im al halted. * I -aid, ami as he
disput'd no intent, m u> < ome nearer, I
did D«»t wish Io pruxoke him by any act
of horpitilily lb was in lean condition,
wilt bis xhaggy coat in hii\thing hut
prcn< i.t »bl<- mlim|m*. lie -tale latme w ith
rurie <■><*, aiiilT* <1 the nir, gn w uneasy
after a(<* minute*, and finally luiiilh red
of! di w n tin* valley out of -ighl I was
tbon uglily glad to b< rid of Bniin, but
bet<>» I hail tinished my breakfast hr re
turned and brought two other griz/.lira ,
will L in, all full grown
Well armed as I wa*. 1 rea!iz<d (hat I
flood no show Hgaiii>t the three The
hoiM was wild with terror, and the iiiulch
were mi overcome that Ilu y lay down
with weak liras. I piled on the brush,
and u> th< (In* bla/ed ,<nd i ruckled the
brar> t<>ok alnnn mid galio|Md off, look
♦ng luw k h- if tn m*v if they were pur
•u<<i
Tie prrM'nce of thr»M inonMer-tiun.neil
n ■ tn re thnii I i nn < \plain I w«» uiore
mu nr ilixii »■< if I liiui ili-envt red three
Jttdii.i prowling tdxuil \ ”ii//lv Iteiir
Irthe uuturHl f<x of everything that livnn.
He • without fear Hi- strength i«
ug tutnuiuiiug ,He will tight
*weut) men soon h* one Eire nil the
Ixill. t from the t hamhei of a \\ invite
ter it to him and not one may otrike n
Htai -pot The sight of ll.ttni and smoke
bad Io pl them from attaeking me, but I
M.i- ty tn. means tuitistied that they would
alibi it tin field
111 only plan to the hot,,- w i-to
build another tin- alxtvc them In one
ap< t tb< vidlvy narrowed until it was not
mon than right frat wide, ami here I
ksu.lt a aolirl tire oi heavy limits one
whirl would last fol a whole rltty A
quarter of a mile Irelow the eamp 1 found
another good aopt, ami built another tire,
ami then felt comparatively safe. The
only bar waa that I would keep the lx nrs
awat to bring Indians down ujxrn me.
The In ary smoke could Ire -< < n for twen
ty itvles, ami if srvii by red men they
would certainly itrve-tig de
1 did not leave camp that duy, being
bust with s|wx'imens ami in making re
pair* to my clothing and the day and
night partMxl without an alarm of any
soft, i'hts put me in uo<xi spirit-, ami I
permitted the fire- to die down to great
bmls < f < wals, which would retain their
heat all day, and soon after breakfast
abouldered my rifle and started off down
the valley to |Ww*p<xt and investigate.
-Vou may Ixlieve that I kr pt mt eye
open fig sight of gri/rlies, but they
neemtd to have left the nviglilxtrhtHHl for
go*’l
At tue emi of about five miles the val
fey suddenly braariencrl or dvlxmched
int»> ut'othcr Thi- larger valley opened
in frvm th, broad plain-, ami was a mile
long I had no sooner rounded a mass of
n»l nd earth and brought the larger
valley nto ti.» than my ears were greet
mJ with a terrible yell. Right before me.
and a< t over a .ptartr r of a mile away,
were a. ten ..r , ight Indian- aurrounding
a small camp tire, with their poniea gnu
iug rear by
At such .t tiim is that men think and
at kly. If I ran back up the valley I
aueh action would uncover my camp ami
lo»e my animala. There waa no place at
hand to make a *ti<r, ••fill defence, with
the <xi<l» «> much against me. A- th'-
Indiana -prang to their fret I turned to
the right and dashed into a ravine o|x fl
ing into the mountain itself. There wax
a stream tunning down it from the melt
ing snow, but presently I found a fairly
lesion path running along tip the ravine
. and w inding through the trees ami arountl
■ rmks. Km-wing tiiat my life »*- at
stake, I put forth every effort to reach a
I dt fensiv e spot.
When I had gone up the ravine
feet I found further progress impoxaible.
It -ht l>efore me waa an opening into the
■ cliff into which a man on honu bar k <-oul<!
have entered, while tin- width was all ol
twenty fe< t I da-l>i’<l into tin' plar i tr>
find in 1 . -'-If in large < liamlier. The light
w i- very dun. lint I 'iw two drifts lead
ing off from thi- further into the moun
tain Iw i after a- cure hilling place,
jand duelled into the rigid hand drift
without a mo: M-:d'« he il ition.
Th- Imli.'inwwei so elo. on my heels
J as I entered tie dark drift that th'- for'-
i most one op r d the with hi- revolver,
■ and th'- whole park yelled like liend
Th,- ri adt-1 who has -,-en the entrance to
a coni mine, -I tilting into the di.rktu***
from tin- start, can form an idea of the
drift I hail plunged into The grade
was very -tcep, mid th'- bottom so rough
that I fell ilown twice ingoing twenty
five fe, t That wus a- fur :r- I went. The
; drift was not over three feet wide, ami
only one Indian could come in at a time.
They did not exactly understand the
situation, ami wore eager to overhaul me.
As I turned at bay, the foremost [miian
was entering the drift. While he was
looking into the darkness I was looking
tow ard the light, and the first shot from
my revolver pierced his brain ami killed
i him as dead as n stone. As he fell I
fired again, ami wounded the warrior
behind hint. 1 knew this from the way
the fellow yelled out It was wonderful
how quick their enthusiasm cooled down.
They had holed me up, but at the same
time discovered that I was not defence
less Their safety ot.ligeil them to gi t
I out of range, mid in doing this they
, could not sliiait into flic drift and hit
me w ith a eham e Imllet.
All now la-fam'- a- silent as death,
and not a move wus made fur a quarter
of mi hour. I hud made a tcm|iormy
escape, but by no inc ms congrutiihitcd
tnv-ell that they would abandon their,
efforts. How fur lim k tin drift extend
i ed I hud no means ~f knowing, ami in
| stead of seeking to a-i <-itain, I crept to
within ten ft, t of the mouth. I hud n
W in, he.t, r mid two revolvers, mid could
have kill' d Indians all day long, had I
they sought to enter the drift But one
wnriiin. v. ,- enough. They knew of a
I safer way to g,-t nt me.
By mid by I heard the crackling of
Ihum ■ and stm-lled smoke, mid directly
alt, i that a heap if burning brush Wn
pushed to the ent ram eof the drift with
i a long pole. They were going to smoke
me out I 1 confess to making up my
mind that tny hours were numbered, but
I hud given wav to,l, -pair too soon The
draught of the drift was outward into the
, chamber, as might have been expected,
and not a whiff ot -mok, could be driven
in at me. Th, game wa- soon abandoned
for another. A rock large enough to fur
nish cover for an Imiiim was nilled to th,
mouth of the drift, ami a red-kin got be- ,
hind it mid bcgmi tiring into my cover. !
- Hv retreating a lew fi-, t ami lying Hut
i down I was safe front his bullets. He |
tired sixty eight times before he hauled
. off They couldn't -ay that 1 hud been I
killed, and the proper way to prove that
1 hadn't been was to send a warrior in j
with u light, <1 torch to u-k me. He hud
scimely entenxl the drift when I hanged
into him, ami dropped him. 11, tell so ,
neat the mouth that his companions >
sought to.drnw him out, and 1 wounded i
one of them in the arm.
1 hud killed two and wounded two, and
knew that not over four sound ones re
mained Iwa- w ondering il il wouldn't
Iw the lx'-t plan to dash out at them with
tny revolvers, when a serie- of yells,
shouts, screams, and growls tilled the
chamber beyond me. Then followed five
or six shots, more growl- and yells, and
as I kept my’ eye on the opening I t aught
a glimpse of a grizzly bear and a warrior
struggling. In five minutes from the
first sound there was no other noise than
that of low grow ling and the click of
claws on the nx ky floor.
What had hapjieiiedi I had run into
the den of the bears seen in the morning,
and the Indians bad followed. The (tears
, hail t ome home from their morning walk,
anil the result must have been disastrous
to the Indians Although realizing the
ferov ious nature of the animal. I was not
as fearful of him as I had Ix-en of the In
dians. A full grown grirzly , ouhl hard
ly sqmx'zc hi- way dow n the drift, and I
was certain t • kill him if he tried to.
After a bit I crept eaiefully sot wan!
until I could see into the chamber. It
w.v* a sight to make one -i, k. Two bears
lay dead on the dvxsr. and a thin! was»
licking the bl,xxl which flowed from sex -
end wounds. But othei- had suffered
more. I had two dead Indians in the
drift and five others lay in the < hamber—
bitten, claw,si. and torn until the specta
cle was a hideous one to gaze upon. There
i was blood every when- and upon every
| thing, and pieces of bloody flesh were
mingled and miied with patebes of In
dian tire*- and firearm*.
M bile I i-toml looking at th' horror
the wounded Ix-ur ro-<- up with a fiercs
growl anil atta, k'-d the corp-es. Hi
hurts drove him rnntl. and he wanted
rv.enge on the dend. I saw him put a
p ,v on the brea*t of an Indian, seizt
the throat in hi« tr-t-tb. mi l nt one single
wrench he ton- the hcatl from thclxxly.
f|e M’izcd another by the l‘-g. ju-t abovt
the knee, and 1 heard the Ix.ne- ent-h
like glass a* his teeth shut. He jerk,al
and twisted two or three time*, nnd the
leg was torn off.
It was the frenzy of death. As the
bear bit and ton- at one of the coip-vs
h<- suddenly tottered, braced his leg-,
and then sank down and rolled over, mid
Mam breathed his la-l. I wit* *<• f[h-ll
botind that it wa- two or three minutes
Ix-for, I could move. lln sjH-ctucle wa.s
even more horribh- when I -tep|H-d out
and sci’itrcd a stronger light, and directly
mv nerve- were so unstrung at the recollec
tion of what had o, < urr,-d that I rti-hed
out of tin- ' ,iv • into the iqa-ii air. A I
I gained th--cat-ide it -truck me that the
I Indian- had doubtless |,-ft one of their
! numb- r to wit !i t.s hoi- As I went
down the ravine 1 d--fmined, if this
was the i-a-,-, to at: k him. Vith the
l hope of wiping out th w hole party.
When I crept out of the ravine another
blood v -p'-ctavli- awaited me. Ihe In
dian ponies hiul b-'i-n hobbled to prevent
them from wandering away. and none of •
the party hud been left in charge. Ihe
grizzlies had come upon the horses first,
and every one of them was dead on the
gra-s, ami horribly mutilated. 1 ln-y
hud not been killed to -ati-fy hunger,
but to gratify a ferocious whim.
After a few hour-, during which time
I returned to my own cnnip, to find every
thing safe, I re-ent,-red the cave and se
cured the firearms of the dead redskins.
The stuff nt their camp fire consisted of
blankets, robes, ammunition, and powder.
While none of the party were in war paint,
there was nothing to prove that they were
out on a hunt. They had [a-rhaps deflect
ed front-ome march to discover what had
cati-ed th -moke.
Four WI-I k- later w hen a party of hun
ter- from Boi-,- City, headed by ('apt.
Hall, stumbled in on me. I turned over to
theni. as relic- oi the singular three cor
nered light, tin- firearms, bow- and arrows, .
the claws of the grizzlies, two full suits of
buek-'rin. tin -, alp, of white men, and
enough pipe-, bead- knives, charm-, and
feather- to-t irt : nmseunt. ,Tlie-e relies
a- -fill on exhibition in the Sheriff's
ofliee al Boise, and bear witness that I
have givi n you a truthful narrative.
A, a Eorl S»„.
The Value <if Hip-Pocketn.
The general practitioner is frequently
asked by anxious parents: "What -hall .
I do for my boy; he is getting so awfully
stoop-shouldered that I nm afraid hi
will get consumption; I will have to get
him a brace. What kind would you
recommend
It require- no extended argument tn
prove th,- importance of a well expanded
du-I. Apart from the inealeulnble ben
efits to health, an erect carriage find
grm eful movements attract the attention
of the most humble. It causes them to
correct as far as they are able, in their
children any tendency to awkward,
stooping or ungainly positions. Apart
from th, eo.it and ineonvenienie of ex
|a-;i-ive iii-truments, but few meet the
requirement- In many eases better
results may be obtained by attending to
a few simple details, within the reach of
every one, in the ordinary clothing.
The boy's pocket- are to him a very
important part of his dre.-«. and the
natural tend, in y is to keep his hands in
them When not actively engaged, there
they are usually found, ami if the pockets
are properly placed, they will inadvert
ently cause him to throw back the should
ers and much or less expand the chest. ’
For instance, the jacket or overcoat
should have what is called breast pock
ets, the opening should be high and as
far back as passible, parallel with and in
the line of the body, instead of low down
and transverse ns usually found in the
ordinary jacket or ovenoat.
The pants should have what are called
“hipqxv, kets," and no other. It will
then be apparent that, whilst the hands
an* in the pockets a better, if not a per
fect, position will be assumed and the
boy spared the many admonitions to
“Keep your hands out of your pockets,”
ami the aceompanying box on the ear.—
V, liciil <tnd Surgii il Reporter.
The Tune the Old Cow hied Os.
In Scotland and the north of Ireland
this saying is very common in the mouth*
of the [x-asantry. though all who use it
may not uud, r-tand it- origin. It arose
out of an old song
There was an ol,t man. and he had an old
txvw.
And he bad nothing to give her.
So lu- took «xit bi- ti idle .um ue pac ,-t tier a
tune—
Consider, good cow, consider;
This is no time of year for the grass to grow.
Consider, g,xxi oow. consxler.
The old cow died of hunger, and w hen
any grotesquely melanih >ly song or tune
is uttered the north country j-coplc say:
“That is the tune the old cow died of.’
£*•<'<» m/ (r-r:. *tz.
Seiwnd thoughts are always best, i
Woman wa- an aft-.-rthought of ervatioo.
BRICKS MABE 01 ; GOLD
A Visit to a United States As
say Office
Throwing Package* of Gold Dust into
Crucible* and Melting into Bar-.
visit to the United States assay
ol!',, e here is very interesting, writes a
11,-lenu, i.Montumi,) corr,-s|x>ndent of the
Jliiiiu a|x<lis 'lrlb'ini . Being ushered
into the receiving office I found u clerk
op ring several packages of gold dust
that had been brought from the postofflee,
and was told that no peckages had ever
been known to be lost, though no extra
precautions are taken in sending them.
After being weighed carefully the dust i
hamh-d over to the melter, who, accom
panied by a gentleman whose sole bu-i
--ne«s is to see that the dust is placed in
the crucible, for until the gold assumes
tin -hape of a bar, no man is allowed to
handle it while alone. The furnaces in
w hich the dust is melted produce 2,500
degrees of heat, and the crucibles arc
made of two parts plumbago and one
part fire clay, nnd arc of various sizes, to
accommodate the ever-varying deposits.
Tin mold- are of different capai itics va
rying from 12 ounces to 0,000 ounces,
and before i nch pouring they are carefully
scrap'd and smoked, the thin coating of
soot preventing the bar from sticking in
the mold. The metal is always poured
in the presence of one who watches the
milter all the time. “This is done,” the
melter explained, “ns well for our own
protection as in the interest of tin: depos
itors. For in-lance, if a depositor, de
ceived as to the value of his dust, claims
that some of it had been wasted
or stolen during the process of melt
ing, two of us are here to act as checks
upon each other. Every effort is made
to ascertain the exact value of the depos
it, and while there necessarily is a little
waste in the mechanical operations, it
is very slight. Every day the crucibles
are scraped of the little fluxing
that may adhere to the sides, and these
scrapings, together with the fluxing
poured out with the gold, and all the
dust that settles upon the iron floor of
the room, are carefully preserved, and at
the end of the year the mass is melted over
again, and the gold extracted and given
over to the government. After handling
over a million dollars last year, a little
over S3OO were obtained from the year’s
“sweepings.” Each bar is taken to the
two assayers, who each take a chip from
the opposite diagonal corners. From
these bits of gold the fineness of the
whole bar is calculated. The gold that
is bought for the government is sent to
New York, with the calculations on the
different bars, which are tested and aver
aged, and the results compared with the.
calculations here obtained. The most
perfect accuracy is necessary in the
weighing and calculating in order to
make the figures agree. The metric sys
tem of weights is used.
“A drop of water,” said one of the as
sayers, “at 62 degrees Fahrenheit weighs
50 milograms. These scales will weigh
one-tenth part of a milligram,” which, as
I figure it. would be one five-hundredth
part of a drop of water. They can calcu
late the value of ore that yields only 75
cents to the ton.
The government buys all the gold pre
sented for sale, but a depositor may have
his dust refined and made into a bar upon
the payment of a small fee. A short
time ago a deposit valued at $25,000 was
brought in by one man. The dust
equaled in bulk about two pailfulls. The
assaying of ore has lately been discontin
ued. Pure gold is worth $20.67 per
ounce. My guide showed me a brick,
which, for a number of reasons, I was
unable to put in my pocket, weighing 257
ounces; it was about Bx 3 1-2 by 1 1-2
inches in its several dimensions, and was
worth $3,046.
Queer Intoxicant*.
General George A. Sheridan is one of
the most entertaining conversationalist in
the country, says “Gath,” in the New
York Tribune. I met him up town the
other night when he was discussing intox
icants. Said he: “It is a singular state
of affairs that there is no nation on the
face of the globe, so far as known, that
has not an intoxicant of some kind. I
had curiosity once to go into an investi
gation of that question in a very thorough
way, and my statement is the result of
careful study. The Indians, before we
began to furnish them with firewater,
knew of a plant from which they made a
drink that was intoxicating. It had a
bulb in the center at the root and long
leaves from which the sap concentrated
in the bulb. It was then expressed from
the bulb and drank. The natives in
Louisiana as far back as 1850 raised a
sugar plant from which they expressed
the juices and made sugar ami from that '
• sweet rum. The Mexicans have a re
markable drink. It is made from a plant
that grows in the country. They skin a
pig and tie up the hide at the ends.
They fill it with the juice from this plant
and then sew up the stomach and let it j
ferment. You might drink a gallon of it I
at night without feeling mon' than a mo- |
mentary exhilaration. But when vo*i ,
wake up the next morning you would te
more gloriously drunk than ever before
in your life and it would take forty-eight
hours or so to get over it.”
Horry.
Some men are in incessant action, eariy
ami late and all through the day. They j
have no time for family or friends,
for holidays, the less for them the better.
Thev have inherited a nervous tempera- i
meiit. and are doing just the wrong thin:,
with it—allowing it to hurry them to nn
untimely end. They wear themselvc
out. Their brain is ever in a state of
morbid activity almost like that of an in
sane man.
To all such we say: Early learn to use
restraint, or, in spite of all later volitions, 1
your momentum will steadily increase,
and sooner or later there will be a break
down. The more nervous the tempera
ment, the greater the need of husband
ing the nervous energy by intelligent
self-control, by appropriate diversions
and by frequent season* of absolute rest.
The machinery may be of iron, but it
needs to come to a stand-still at times.
Many persons, not of a nervous tem
perament. specially hurry nt their meals.
They have vigorous appetites, and they
eat voraciously. Now. swine can do this
safely, for they have a vigorous diges
tion, and have nothing to do but to di
gest what they eat. It is otherwise with
human beings. That kind monitor
“enough” is seldom heard in season by
those who eat in a hurry. Rapid eating
is gcnerallv excessive eating, with, in due
time, dvspepsia. “bilious attacks,” liver [
complaints and gout. Besides, not only
health, but the good of all concerned, de- '
mands that the meal-time should be one
of restful leisure, pleasant interchange of
thought, and social cheer.
Many persons hurry to catch the de
parting ferry-boat or ears. They barely
get aboard by hard running—or perhaps
just fail. Such acts may start a heart
trouble, or increase one already started,
or precipitate it to a fatal termination.
The London Lmwet, giving an account of
two recent deaths from hurry and exer
tion, one a young man of 20, the other a
girl of 16, adds: “How often has the !
hurrv to catch a train, or some other sud
den exertion, throwing extra work on a
dilated, fatty, or otherwise diseased I
heart, resulted in fatal sycope!” Re
member, people often have heart troub- I
les without knowing it.— Youth's Com- i
jianian.
Vopor Bath* and Hydrophobia.
“One of the curiosities of hydropho
bia,” said an old physician of this city,
“is that the animals in which alone th is
madness voluntarily develops—a* the ;
dog, the fox, the wolf, and the canine |
family generally—are animals that never ,
sweat. That is why I have great faith
in the treatment of hydrophobia by Dr.
Buisson of Paris by inducing quick and
copious perspiration by means of vapor
baths. I never was called to treat a case
of hydrophobia, but if I were I should
not hesitate to depend on the efficacy of
the vapor baths. Dr. Buisson made !
known his remarkable experiences with
hydrophobia in 1835 in a treatise read to
the Paris Academy of Sciences. He said
he was unconsciously inoculated with
dydrophobia by carelessly wiping his ■
hands, on one of which he had a sore, ■
with a towel which had just been used I
in wiping the saliva from the lips of a
patient who was in hydrophobia parox
ysms. The patient died, and nine days j
later Dr. Buisson was taken with the I
symptoms of the disease. Believing the j
popular theory of the day that hydro
ahobia was incurable, he resolved to put
an end to his life, as he felt the madness
gradually coming on him. He chose as
the means of death stifling himself in a
vapor bath. He had the heat in the bath
raised to many degrees above the usual
temperature, and locked himself in. He
left the bathroom amazed. The desire
that had been growing on him to run and
bite animals, the constriction in the
throat that had prevented him from
swallowing, the distress that the sight of
water gave him, were all gone. Dr.
Buisson dined for the first time in twenty
four hours, drank with ease, and up to
1850, when I saw him, had not had a re
currence of the symptoms of hydrophobia.
He had treated successfully eighty cases
of hydrophobia by vapor of Russian
baths.”—A r . Y. Sun.
Reporting in Congress.
Mr. John J. McElhone was the first
man to undertake what was then con
sidered the herculean task of reporting
the proceedings of the house verbatim,
writes a Washington correspondent. This
was in 1850. He has since then been a
member of the house corps of reporters, ;
which now consists of six members, who
take what are called turns of about fif
teen minutes each, and then retire, and,
with the aid of amanuenses, transcribe
their notes, having a little over an hour
for this before they are again called into
the house for another turn. In this way
the debates are ready for the public
printer almost as soon as the house ad
journs, unless a member reserves some
portion for “revision.”
It is well known that to report the
running debates in the house is the most
difficult of reportorial work. The limit
of time to five, and sometimes onlv one
minute, drives members into speaking ex
travagantly fast, and what they say is
frequently indistinct anA confused, but
for years past the running debates of the
house, as published in the Cony rf M Vna l
•Rftwd, have deservedly won a high repu
tation for their accuracy and finish.
Carious Fact* About Flowers.
Within the antarctic circle there bn
never a flowering plant been found. ?*
the arctic region there are seven hundrJ
and sixty-two kind* of flower* ; fiftv m
these are confined to the arctic rwj 01 .
They are really polar flowers. Ihe co| on
of these polar flowers are not as brigbJ
and vaned as are our own, most of tbL
being white or yellow, as if borrswyri
these hardy hue* from their snowy
and golden stars.
Perhaps the most beautiful of all otv
everlasting, that longest defy
autumn frosts and most brighten ou,
winter bouquets, are white and y e fi ow
varieties. The rose of Florida, the
beautiful of flowers, ha* no perf Uaie
The cypress of Greece, the finest of tree,
beats no fruit. The bird of paradise, the
most beautiful of birds, gives no sobj,
and some of the loveliest of human
have the least soul.
The Dorosidae family of floweri
Ruskin tell* üb, including the five great
orders—lilies, asphodels, amarylid,"
irids, and rushes—have more varied and
beautiful influence on man than an T
other tribe of flowers. Nature sei m s to
have made flowers as types of character
and emblems of women. So we namj
our children after them, and always in.
tuitively compare a lovely, beautiful
child to a flower; we say the timid snow,
drop, the modest violet, the languid
primrose, the coy lily, the flauntin.
marigold, the lowly, blushing daisy, the
proua foxglove, the deadly night-sliade
sleepy poppy, and the sweet, solitary
eglantine —these are all types.
It Had to Come.
Col. P. Donan, the Dakota statesman,
and the one who has done so much to
encourage the immigration of unmarried
■nomen to the Territory,while remaining
whole-hearted himself, has written s
letter to the Fargo Argtts and confessed
his condition. How a Dakota man feels
when he is enamored may best be in
ferred from this quotation:
“The daintiest, ravishingest, enchant
ingest of pedals terrestrial. In vision*
of the night, before my moonstruck
eyes, float in mazy dance a long, unceas
ing whirl of tiny gaiter boots. I’m
bewitched, I’m begaiter-booted, 0,
star of the strickenhearted, beam softly
down upon me! For —I’m struck!
Hurlyburly, ringed, streaked, and striped
st te of pleasure and pain, of bliss and
of anguish, of certainty and doubt, con
tradiction and truth, despondency anl
hope,of ecstasy, and of despair, I endurs
thee. For I’m struck! O, chambermaid
of Juno! Struck ! Stru-uck ! Intru-u-uckl
by a remorseless, flirty, peerless young
damsel, who won’t be my valentine I and
the first six letters of her name are —;
but I hardly think I’D tell. She is ths
ideal mistress of a Dakota claim shanty
—the goddess, the tutelar divinity, seen
only in dreams, of a Devil’s Lake shack I
She is the incomparable, unfeeling
young damsel who won’t be my valen
tine, and won’t have me for hers.
A divorce suit came before the tribu
nal of Frankfort-on-the-Main a few dan
ago, in which the parties craved for a
dissolution of marriage on the ground of
incompatibility of temper. The Judgt
decreed a temporary separation of the
couple for two years, after which they
are to recommence their married life;
and if, after a few months’ experience,
they find their reunion a failure, the
court will be prepared to reconsider the
decision.
Hon. Wm. Mutchler, member of
Congress from the 10th Pennsylvania
district, certifies that he had persona!
experience of the efficacy of Red Star
Cough Cure. No morphia or opium.
Price, twenty-five cents.
A Kentucky paper states that one of
its patrons has not closed his eyes it
sleep for six months. What’s the matter
with him—blind in one eye, or got hit
property heavily mortgaged ?
The dream of the socialist is to live
without labor. This we cannot do, but
we canlive without pain. St. Jacobs Oil,
which cures rheumatism and neuralgia,
conquers it.
If anything in this world can put
wings on the feet of indolence it is a wo
man with a dipper of hot water and »
forward impulse when a tramp i>
“sassy.”
'Tis FRZquSNTLrIRKCOMMENDEP. -Mr. H. C.
Mooney, Astoria, 111., writes that Alien's Lirot
Balsam, which he has sold for fifteen yean,
sells better than any other cough remedy and
gives satisfaction. 'Tis recommended by ths
medical profession here. 26c., 50c. and $1 P»t
bottle, at Druggists.
A man recently committed suicide ia
England because he thought his wife was
too good for him. This will be queer
reading to some Americans.
For dtbpwpsia, indiossttow, deprowiea a
airits, general debility in their various n>*®J
K> as a preventive against fever and agne »“
other intermittent fevers,the "Ferro-Pho«po w
ated Elixir of Calisaya," made by CaawelEHas
ard & Co., New York,and sold by all Dra*gis“‘
is the best tonic: and for patients reooventg
from fever or other sicknea it has no equal
More substantial benefit can be
from aSO cent bottle of Dr. Bigelow’s Positi’’
Jure than a dollar bottle of any other couga
remedy. It is a prompt, safe and pleasant cur*
for all throat and lung troubles.
A New York scientist h»s been tryinj
for severs! years, without success, to dis
cover a means of making the shells o!
egg* transparent without injury to their
hatching qualities. It is needless to saj
he has not taken the right coorw,
What he wants to do is to stop fooling
with the eggs, and persuade the hew
themselves to use gelatine or something
else for shells that a body can see
through.
An English lady has arrived w
Orlando, Fla., with nine children, a pa f ‘
rot, and forty pieces of baggage
What liecame of her husband is not
itively known, but it is surmised tbs'
the poor man took to the woods at
first favorable opportunity.
The young man of to-day who claim*
to know more than Solomon, doe* not (F
to the ant with a willing spirit to obtain
wisdom, as that wise man enjoined, b BI
goes to the “uncle” with his overcoat
to see how much he can raise on it.
THi-tmau with a liver like a traioP
will have to stump a round considerably
lietore he can find a saddor subject
s intemplatim than the face of u *
hackman at a funeral.