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Ufa** “\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.