anaheim-gazette 1883-10-27

ANAHEIM VOL. XIV. HANNA & KEITH, REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. Great Clearance Sale OF FURNITURE AND CARPETS, AT BARKER & ALLEN'S, We offer our immense stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, in order to make room for our Fall importations. Call and get prices and see that we mean business. Nos. 322, 324 & 326 North Main Street, (Next to Pico House.) LOS ANGELES, CAL. ANAHEIM ANAHEIM Center Street JOHN DIETZEL, - Having leased the hotel and being determined use every endeavor to make stopping place. I understory thoroughly, and will spare date my patrons. I respectfully solicit the A Bar in which the Liquors are kept to the l FREE COACH f The table will be supplied the market, and the kitchenonal supervision. Respectfully, FRANK DEALER Glassware, Candies, gars, Notice Adjoining Planters' Hotel We offer our immense stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, in order to make room for our Fall importations. Call and get prices and see that we mean business. Nos. 322, 324 & 326 North Main Street, (Next to Pico House) LOS ANGELES, CAL. J. YAGER Wagonmaker C. H. ARTUR Blacksmith S. A. DENNIS Painter ANAHEIM Carriage & Wagon Factory WOODWORK Of all kinds, Bodies, Wheels and Gearing put up on short notice BLACKSMITHING Of all kinds Horse-Shoeing a specialty SIGN & CARRIAGE PAINTING Done in first-class style All work of the above description will be guaranteed and we pledge ourselves to give satisfaction. We are here to stay and will spare no paints to please our patrons. Our wood shop and blacksmith shop is on Center Street, west of Mitchell's stable, and our paint shop is directly opposite. We are sole agents for the STUDEBAKER & LA BELLE WAGONS And are agents for all kinds of Farming Machinery DR. JAMES ELLIS. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Garrett office. Homopathic Medicine wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. and at 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. DR. E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metz' building, Los Angeles street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. He is sole of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. Gazettee Office. H. C. KELLOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES WILL PLEASE LEAVE THEIR ORDERS with Mr. John Hanna, Anaheim. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory Kroeger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law PLANTERS' HOTEL ANAHEIM, Los Angeles County, Cal. The only First-class House South of Los Angeles. Offers Superior Accommodations to Tourists, Families and the General Public. Suites of Rooms for Families. HENRY S. KNAPP, Proprietor. ALBRECHT BROS., Manufacturers of Family Fruit Dryers. An Assortment Always on Hand. Will take contract for Erecting Buildings, Tanks, Frames, Etc. etc. Agents for the BACHELDER WINDMILL. FREE COACH fr The table will be supplied the market, and the kitchenonal supervision. Respectfully, FRANK Glassware, Candies,gars, Notion Adjoining Planters' Hotel THE CHEAPEST ST WASHIN Meat M CENTRE STREET C.F LEONARDE THE PATRONAGE OF THE heim and vicinity is reser QUICK TIME AND To Eastern and Eu Vis the Great Trans-continental CENTRAL PAC OR SOUTHERN PA Daily Express and Emigrant connections with the several the East New York and B with the several Stee ALL EUROPE PULLMAN PALACE S attached to Overland E THIRD-CLASS SLEE are run daily with Overlaan No additional charge for Berths Tickets sold. Sleeping every other information given upon a party's offices, where passenger secure choice of routes etc. RAILROAD L IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA For sale on reasona Apply to, or add W. H. MILLS, Land Agent, C.P.R.R. Co., San Francisco, Or H. B ANDR Land Commissioner, G. H. & tonic, Texas. A.N. TOWNE, General Manager, Aug-4-6m San Francisco, PEARSON'S DININ NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS A WITH EVERYTHING THA affords. No. 269 North Main St., Los An VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law Rooms 56 and 57 Temple Block. LOS ANGELES. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry done promptly and warranted. Sale Agent for the Johnston Optical Co.'s Improved Spectacles and Eve-Glasses (interchangeable). Improved Eye Pester to perfectly suit the eye. ALBRECHT BROS. Manufacturers of Family Fruit Dryers. An Assortment Always on Hand. Will take contract for Erecting Buildings, Tanks, Frames, Etc. Etc. Agents for the BACHELDER WINDMILL. Shop on Center Street, near Railroad Depot. F. & J. BACKS. Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc, UNDERTAKERS. Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street: Anaheim. Eureka! Eureka! Eureka! The long desired TEA Free from all poisonous mixtures, that makes a healthy drink, of delicious flavor, can now be had at the Store near the Depot. Call for the "Mayflower" brand and test its merita. Also when there sample the various COFFEES that have been provided for his customers by M. H. CHEESEMAN. NEW BUTCHER In the Meat Market at Anaheim Hot On Center St ALL ORDERS LEFT AT THIS promptly filled. MOORE'S REMED POISON And other Sk in Diseases. PREVENTA And certain cure. Sold by all drugs REDING 25¢ a box. General Agents. THIS PAPER may be found on the at Gen. Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St.), where advertising contract may be made for it in NEW YORK. ANAHEIM HOTEL, Center Street, Anaheim. JOHN DIETZEL, - Lessee and Manager. HAVING LEASED THE ABOVE-NAMED HOtel and being determined to remain here, I will use every endeavor to make the house a popular stopping place. I understand the hotel business thoroughly, and will spare no trouble to accommodate my patrons. I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public A Bar in which the Choicest of Liquors are kept is attached to the House. FREE COACH from all Trains. The table will be supplied with the very best in the market, and the kitchen will be under my peronal supervision. Respectfully, JOHN DIETZEL. FRANK EY, DEALER IN Glassware, Candies, Tobaccos, Cigars, Notions, Etc. Adjoining Planters' Hotel, Anaheim. FACULTIES OF BIRDS. From the Month. In studying the habits of birds one cannot but be struck with the fact that in proportion to their many dangers, experiences and pleasures, they become warm-hearted, quickwitted, bold or timid, ferocious or cunning. passionate as the falcon, or deliberate as the rook, according to the life they have to lead. And more than this, we find that they display in many ways a remarkably high degegree of intelligence. The water hen, for inSTANCE—which is found from Siberia to the Cape—has a kind of human facility, as Mr. Rusakin observes, in adapting itself to climate, as well as almost human domesticity of temper, with curious fineness of sagacity and sympathies in taste. A family of them, much petted by a lady, were constantly adding materials to their nest, and made real havoc in the flower-garden, for though straw and leaves are their chief ingredients, they seem to have an eye for beauty, and the old hen has been seen surrounded with a brilliant wreath of scarlet anemones! This aesthetic water hen, with her mate, lived at Cheadle, in Staffordshire, in the rectory moat, for several seasons, always, however, leaving it in the spring. "Being constantly fed, the pair became quite tame, built their nest in a thorn bush, covered with ivy, which had fallen into the water, and when the young were a few days old, the parents THE SEEDLESS SULTANA. The Sultana requires long pruning. By the short spur system, which is used on the Mission and many other vines, it is not profit-able, as I have learned by many years’ ex-perience. I can not, in this paper, give a full description of the method of long pruning, which can be better learned in the vineyard. It will be sufficient to say that the stock is headed down to about a foot from the ground, and from this point two or more canes, according to the strength of the vine, are brought up for bearing wood the following season. At the winter's pruning these should be left two or three feet long, and also short spurs with eyes enough to produce wood-for the next year. All the balance of the vine, including the wood that has borne a crop last year, should be cut off. Those who have followed the short spur system, and have their vines already formed for this system, will find it to their advantage to change it immediately, even at a loss of a portion of their crop for a year or two. The maturity of the grape varies much with the season and locality. At Stockton, in early seasons, I have been able to commence drying the fruit by the 10th of Septenber. This has not always been the case, however. In 1881, the season being backward, I commenced on the 20th. In 1882, being a still more backward season, I was compelled to wait until the 25th of the same FREE COACH from all Trains. The table will be supplied with the very best in the market, and the kitchen will be under my personal supervision. Respectfully, JOHN DIETZEL. FRANK EY, DEALER IN Glassware, Candies, Tobaccos, Cigars, Notions, Etc. Adjoining Planters' Hotel, Anaheim WASHINGTON Meat Market! CENTRE STREET, ANAHEIM, C.F. LEONARD, Proprietor. THE PATRONAGE OF THE PEOPLE OF ANAheim and vicinity is respectfully solicited QUICK TIME AND CHEAP FARES To Eastern and European Cities Visi the Great Transcontinental All-Rail Routes, CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. OR SOUTHERN PACIFIC R. R. Daily Express and Emigrant Trains make prompt connections with the several railway lines in the East. CONNECTING AT New York and New Orleans with the several Steamer Lines to ALL EUROPEAN PORTS. PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS attached to Overland Express Trains; THIRD-CLASS SLEEPING CARS are run daily with Overland Emigrant Trains. No additional charge for Berths in Third-Class Cars. Tickets sold. Sleeping car Berths secured, and other information given upon application at the Company's offices, where passengers calling in person can secure choice of routes etc. RAILROAD LANDS IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS, For sale on reasonable terms. Apply to, or address W. H. MILLS, JEROME MADDEN, Land Agent, C.P.R.R.Co., San Francisco, S.P.R.R.Co., San Francisco. Or H. B. ANDREWS, Land Commissioner, G.H. & S.A. Ry. Co., San Antonio, Texas. A. N. TOWNE, General Manager, Gen Pass. & Tkt. Agt aug4-dm San Francisco, Cal. PEARSON'S DINING PALACE. NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE MARKET affords. No. 269 North Main St. Los Angeles (Rose Block) ing materials to their nest, and made real havoc in the flower-garden, for though straw and leaves are their chief ingredients, they seem to have an eye for beauty, and the old hen has been seen surrounded with a brilliant wreath of scarlet anemones! This aesthetic water-hen, with her mate, lived at Cheadle, in Staffordshire, in the rectory moat, for several seasons, always, however, leaving it in the spring. "Being constantly fed, the pair became quite tame, built their nest in a thorn bush, covered with ivy, which had fallen into the water, and when the young were a few days old, the parents brought them up close to the drawing room window, where they were regularly fed with wheat, and as the lady of the house paid them the greatest attention, they learned to look upon her as their natural protectress and friend, so much so, that one bird in particular, which was much persecuted by the rest, would when attacked fly to her for refuge; and whenever she called, the whole flock, as tame as barn-door fowls, quitted the water and assembled round to the number of seventeen. They also made other friends in the dogs belonging to the family, approaching them without fear, though hurrying off with great alarm on the appearance of a strange dog." Frank Buckland gives several curious instances of the special habits of some birds in procuring their food. The blackbirds, thrushes, etc., carry snails considerable distances for the purpose of breaking their shells against some rock or stone. Thomas Edward, the Scottish naturalist, describes gulls and ravens flying to a great height with crab or other shellfish, and letting them fall on stones in order to smash the shells, and if they do not break on the first attempt, he says they pick them up again and carry them up yet higher, repeating the operation again and again till the shell is broken. Ravens also often resort to this contrivance. When the lagring is searching for food, it pounces upon a wormcast, and stamping the ground beside it with its feet, waits till the worm, alarmed at the shaking of the ground, issues from its hole in the hope of making its escape, whereupon it is immediately seized and eaten by the cunning bird. Darwin tells of a bird having been repeatedly seen to hop on a poppy-stem, and shake the head with his bill till many seeds were scattered, when it sprang to the ground and ate up the seeds. Some birds are gifted with a sense of observation approaching to something very like reasoning faculties, as the following anecdote proves. At a gentleman's house in Staffordshire the pheasants are fed out of one of those boxes, the lid of which rises with the pressure of the pheasant standing on the rail in front of the box. A water-hen observing this, went and stood upon the rail as soon as the pheasant had quitted it, but the weight of the bird being insufficient to raise the lid of the box so as to enable it to get at the corn, the water-hen kept jumping on the rail to give additional impetus to its weight; this partially succeeded, but not to the satisfaction of the sagacious bird, which therefore went who have followed the short spur system, and have their vines already formed for this system, will find it to their advantage to change it immediately, even at a loss of a portion of their crop for a year or two. The maturity of the grape varies much with the season and locality. At Stockton, in early seasons, I have been able to commence drying the fruit by the 10th of September. This has not always been the case, however. In 1881, the season being backward, I commenced on the 20th. In 1882, being a still more backward season, I was compelled to wait until the 25th of the same month before I could commence to pick. The consequence was, that I lost a portion of my crop by the unusually early rains which commenced a few days after. At Fresno, where the climate is much hotter and drier, I am told that the grape will ripen by the 20th of August. This will give growers there, and in other localities similarly located, a great advantage over us, as they can easily have their crop cured in ten or twelve days, whereas, if they were compelled to wait a month later, it may take from twenty to thirty days. Care should be taken that the grapes are not picked before they are fully ripe, which can always be determined by the taste. When vines are bearing heavily it will be found that some bunches are riper than others. The early clusters should be picked as soon as ready, as this will give the others a chance to mature. It is the custom in California to cure grapes upon wooden platforms, or trays, and it is particularly desirable to do so with this grape, as it is very small, and would be wasted by drying upon the ground. After the raisins are fully cured it is only necessary to rub them from the stems and pack for market. It is the custom in the Sultana districts of Asia Minor to dip the grapes in lye before drying. This cracks the skin and allows the grapes to cure much quicker than they could otherwise. They are also dried in the shade, which gives them the light color so noticeable in the imported article. It would be well for our raisin makers to experiment upon a portion of their crop, with a view to mitating the imported Sultana. This vine is subject to the same diseases that all grape vines are. Its tender leaf is a favorite with the rabbit, and the vine-hopper takes special delight in ravaging it, yet such is its vigor that when pruning time comes we hardly notice their work. The seedless Sultana raisin, as produced in California, has a very delicate flavor. It is not perhaps as rich as the Muscatel, but it is very suitable for cooking,and should recommend itself to every housekeeper who uses the dirty,gritty Zante currant,或the high-priced imported Sultana.To the city baker and pie-maker it should be invaluable.Of its merits(a wine grape),I have no means of determining.I was ,last]year.compelled to sellthe productof seven acres of Sultana grapes,the season would not permit me to dry,tothe wine-makers.Thewere satisfied,and wishto buymy cropthis year. Do you City of two brots? PEARSON'S DINING PALACE. NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE MARKET affords. No. 269 North Main St., Log Angeles (Rose Block). je30-3m KIDNEY-WORT IS A SURE CURE for all diseases of the Kidneys and LIVER It has specific section on this most important organ, enabling it to throw off torpidity and inaction, stimulating the healthy secretion of the bile, and by keeping the bowels in free condition, effecting its regular discharge. Malaria. If you are suffering from malaria, have the chills, are billious, dyspeptic, or constipated, Kidney-Wort will surely relieve and quickly cure. In the Spring to cleanse the System, every one should take a thorough course of it. NEW BUTCHER SHOP In the Meat Market adjoining the Anaheim Hotel On Center Street. ALL ORDERS LEFT AT THIS SHOP WILL BE promptly filled. C.E. GROAT. MOORE'S REMEDY FOR POISON OAK And other Sk in Diseases. The only PREVENTATIVE And certain cure. Sold by all druggists. REDINGTON & CO, General Agents, San Francisco. THIS PAPER may be found on file at Gro. P. KOWELL & Co.'s Newspaper Advertising Bureau (19 Spruce Street), where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK. Woman, with dog jumping at her, to Professor, owner of the animal—"For heaven's sake, man, call your dog off or he will upset me." Professor, standing on one foot and scratching his head. "One minute, madam, one minute; (to himself) as soon as I can remember the infernal brute's name." At a gentleman's house in Staffordshire the pheasants are fed out of one of those boxes, the lid of which rises with the pressure of the pheasant standing on the rail in front of the box. A water-ben observing this, went and stood upon the rail as soon as the pheasant had quitted it, but the weight of the bird being insufficient to raise the lid of the box so as to enable it to get at the corn, the water-ben kept jumping on the rail to give additional impetus to its weight; this partially succeeded, but not to the satisfaction of the sagacious bird, which therefore went off, and soon returning with a bird of its own species, the united weight of the two had the desired effect, and the successful pair enjoyed the benefit of their ingenuity. This singular instance of penetration can be vouched for, says Mr. Ruskin, on the authority of the owner of the place where it occurred, who witnessed the fact. Piracy reaches its highest development among birds. Gulls congregate in numbers wherever they perceive that the guillemot have secured a shoal of fish. Flying over the surface of the water, the gull waits patiently till a guillemot comes to the surface with a fish, when he snatches it out of the beak of its unfortunate owner. The robber tern subsists entirely by plundering other terns, and no sooner does the robber tern appear among the others than the greatest consternation prevails among the flock, who fly about screaming in frantic alarm. The frigate pelican is a terrible pirate and commonly attacks the booby, which has received this name because it allows itself to be easily caught. Not only does the frigate pelican force the booby to drop the fish it has just caught, but actually to disgorge those which are in its stomach, which is accomplished by stabbing the unhappy booby with its powerful beak till it yields up its last meal. The ant-eating woodpeckers of California have the habit of storing up food for the inclement season. Small round holes are dug in the bark of the pine and oak, into each of which an acorn is inserted so tightly that it is very difficult to take it out again. The bark of these trees when filled in this way appear at a little distance to be studded with nails. The Underflow of the Santa Ana River. Press and Horticulturist. Riverside needs the underflow, or at least a portion of the underflow of the Santa Ana river for irrigation purposes. The question of how to get it must in time receive careful consideration. It will cost money in any event to save the water now running beneath the bed of the river, and we suggest that a tunnel commenced in the arroyo above the Spanishtown flume can be run east of the lower foot-hills near where the present Colton road now runs to tap the river near the railroad bridge would furnish a large supply of water. This tunnel would be about one and a quarter miles long and it could be made to tap the underflow at least forty feet below the bed of the river. Such a scheme would cost money, but if it is practicable from an engineering stand point (and we think it is) it would pay. The Ontario Land Company are now at work on a tunnel three quarters of a mile long having gangs of hands working in five facings so as to keep the work going night and day. If that settlement can prosecute such a work what is to hinder Riverside taking hold of a larger one? GAZETTE. OCTOBER 27, 1883. PRESS SULTANA. less long pruning. By the which is used on the Misvines, it is not profited by many years' expensive in this paper, give a the method of long prunter learned in the vinecient to say that the to about a foot from this point two or more the strength of the vine, bearing wood the followwinter's pruning these three feet long, and mayes enough to produce ear. All the balance of the wood that has borne old be cut off. Those the short spur system, already formed for this to their advantage to even at a loss of a for a year or two. The grape varies much locality. At Stockton, have been able to comby the 10th of Sepalways been the case, the season being backin the 20th. In 1882, backward season, I was all the 25th of the same THE MAKING OF STEEL PENS The steel pen is a modern invention, not fifty years having elapsed since it was introducd, and like many other innovations it met with much opposition and had a number of rivals. Of these the quill pen was the most formidable, and to this day the quills of geese are used by some old stagers. Pens of silver and of gold, the latter espeally, have been great favorites with those who admire much flexibility in a pen, and the handy self-feeders, as the stylographic, have plenty of users. But, after all, the steel pen is the most generally used, and unlike most inventions, the method of its manufacture has not been essentially changed or improved. The steel from which pens are made is the finest crucible cast steel rolled into sheets 7-1000 of an inch thick. From this the blanks are cut by means of a punch and die in presses worked by hand or foot, the operators being girls. The side slits in the pen, the central oval or semicircular hole, the corrugations or embossings, the curved or semicircular form to the originally flat blank, and the stamp of the pen or the maker, are all formed and produced by similar means— the screw hand press or the lever foot press—by the use of punches and dies, each pen being handled separately. These corrugations and slits and central cuts are not merely fanciful ornamentals, but A DEATHBED CONFESSION. FLEMINGSBURO (Ky.), October 20.—On September 22, 1878, Ned Trumbo, an inoffensive colored man, was shot dead in his own door in this city. The assassination created great excitement. Heavy rewards were offered and a number of arrests made, but no one was convicted. At the time of Trumbo's death a woman of ill-repute named Millie Walker was staying at Trumbo's house. This girl was shot in Johnson county on Monday. Told by her physician that her wound was surely mortal, she made the following confession: "My name is Mary Ganale, but I have called myself Millie Walker. I am now in my thirty-eighth year and have followed my present life since my fifteenth year, when I was seduced by George Radcliffe, whom I killed as soon as I learned of his perfidy to me, and buried his body in a sawdust pile on the Red river, in Menifee county. When his body was found, Frank Tompkins, who had left the county about the time of Radcliffe's disappearance and had gone to Greensburg, Ky., was suspected, and an armed party went to capture him. He surrendered without resistance. The mob hanged him in front of the jail. "I went to Flemingsburg immediately following his lynching, and having nothing to live for I resolved to make life burdensome The short spur system, already formed for this purpose, even at a loss of a year or two. The grape varies much locality. At Stockton, have been able to commute by the 10th of September always been the case, the season being back in the 20th. In 1882, Edward season, I was sold the 25th of the same year commence to pick that I lost a portion unusually early rains few days after. The climate is much hotter than the grape will August. This will give other localities similar advantage over us, as their crop cured in ten days, if they were completed later, it may take days. Care should be taken not picked before such can always be done. When vines are found that some others. The early and as soon as ready, users a chance to make in California to cure worms, or trays, and able to do so with this call, and would be the ground. After it is only necessary the stems and pack custom in the Sultana so dip the grapes in cracks the skin and be much quicker than They are also dried them the light is imported article. Raisin-makers to extend their crop, with imported Sultana. The same diseases. Its tender leaf is a and the vine-hop-in ravaging it, yet when pruning time their work. Raisin, as produced delicate flavor. It the Muscatel, but looking, and should housekeeper who date currant, or the Sultana. To the city should be invaluable. Grape. I have no I was, last] year, duct of seven acres the season would not wine-makers. They buy my crop this 7-1000 of an inch thick. From this the blanks are cut by means of a punch and die in presses worked by hand or foot, the operators being girls. The side slits in the pen, the central oval or semicircular hole, the corrugations or embossings, the curved or semicircular form to the originally flat blank, and the stamp of the pen or the maker, are all formed and produced by similar means—the screw hand press or the lever foot press—by the use of punches and dies, each pen being handled separately. These corrugations and slits and central cuts are not merely fanciful ornaments, but are intended to adapt the pen to the user. Some want a resisting pen, very stiff and allowing considerable pressure without opening the nibs wide enough to make a heavy mark; others a yielding pen that requires but a touch to open the nibs. Then there are many degrees of these qualities required, as well as differences in sizes; so that a single establishment makes no less than forty-six styles of steel pens. Of course, cast steel of such extreme tenacity becomes hardened by these successive pressings and punehings, and must be annealed. This is done by placing the blanks, or unfinished pens, in a cast iron box, which is then covered by a larger box leaving a space all around of half an inch, or more, which is filled with ashes or fine charcoal. The whole is then subjected to a glowing red heat for about two hours, and allowed to cool. When annealed, these blanks may be rolled up by the fingers just like so many bits of tea lead, which they much resemble in softness. In heating for hardening the same method is used—packing in double boxes six or eight inches square—and when the pens are red hot, they are poured into a tank of animal oil. When taken out from this bath they must be handled carefully, and they are not only stiff and brittle, but crumbly; they can be squeezed to minute fragments between thumb and finger. They are then placed within a cone-shaped sheet iron receptacle open at the large end and mounted on a spindle, and are rotated over a glowing fire until they turn to a full or "low" blue. They are then chilled in oil, and when cool are rattled in saw dust until they are quite clean and bright. The next process is the grinding of the nibs on minute wheels of fine emery and of corundum, and lastly comes the essential process that completes the pen and makes it a pen—the slitting of the nibs. This is done by a pair of shears acting the same as the presses and punches. This splits the steel from point to central hole without removing a particle of material. The pens are then lacquered, straw or brown, blued or blacked, or left bright, as the style demands, and packed for the market. A Beautiful Legend. Do you know how the site of the ancient City of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The I learned of his perilty to me, and buried his body in a sawdust pile on the Red river, in Menifee county. When his body was found, Frank Tompkins, who had left the county about the time of Radcliffe's disappearance and had gone to Greensburg Ky., was suspected, and an armed party went to capture him. He surrendered without resistance. The mob hanged him in front of the jail. "I went to Flemingsburg immediately following his lynching, and having nothing to live for I resolved to make life burdensome and as unpleasant as I could for the rest of mankind. Hopper and Emmons, the two men arrested for the Trumbo murder, both were steady company of mine while I was staying at Trumbo's house and both were jealous of each other. Seeing Emmons pass one night I went to the door to call him, but he either did not hear or did want to hear me and rode on. This made me mad, and having a pistol in my pocket, I fired at old Ned. Why I did so I do not know. Suspicion was immediately directed to Hopper, who was thrown into fail. This assisted me, but I would have been better pleased if they had hanged him. I could not appear against him because I was afraid I might myself get caught. My life since then has been the usual one of abandoned women, until I met George Frankson here, to whom I represented myself as good and virtuous, and he, seeing me in company with Doc Martwell Monday night, shot me." The woman died last night. A Large Family. The Madrid Estafette states that a Spanish gentleman, Senor Lucas Nequeiras Saez, who emigrated from his native land to America seventy years ago, recently returned to Spain in a steamer of his own, and brought with him the whole of his family, which consists of no fewer than 197 souls, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law not included. Senor Saez has been three times married. His first wife had 11 children at 7 births, his second had 19 children at 13 births, and his third had 7 children at 6 births. The youngest of this family of 37 is aged nineteen; the eldest, who is seventy, has 17 children, of whom the first born is forty-seven. Of Senor Saez's 23 sons, all of whom are living, 13 are married, 6 are unmarried, and 4 are widowers; and of his surviving daughters, 9 are married. The granddaughters number 34, and of these 22 are married, 9 are unmarried; and 3 are widows; and of the forty-five grandsons, 23 are married, 17 are unmarried; and 4 are widowers. There are also 45 great-granddaughters, and 39 great-granddaughters, of whom 3 are married. Senor Saez has never tasted wine or any alcoholic liquor, and lives chiefly upon a vegetable diet, with but little salt. In spite of his ninety three years,他是 still hale和 hearty makes a point of walking briskly for at least three hours every day. A Beautiful Legend. Do you know how the site of the ancient City of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, the other had no family. The brother with a large family said: "There is my brother with no family; he must be lonely, and I will try and cheer him up, and I will take some of the sheaves from my field in the nighttime and set them over on his farm and say nothing about it." The other said: "My brother has a large family, and it is very difficult for him to support them, and I will help him along, and I will take some of the sheaves from my farm in the nighttime and set them over on his farm, and say nothing about it." So the work of transferring went on, night after night, and night after night; but every morning things seemed to be just as they were; for though sheaves had been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had also been added, and the brothers could not understand. But one night the brothers happened to meet while making this generous transference, and the spot where they met was thought so sacred that it was chosen as the site of the City of Jerusalem. If that tradition should prove unfounded, it will nevertheless stand as a beautiful allegory, setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed, that is the spot fit for some temple of commemoration.—Dr. Talmage. A concited young country parson, walking home from church with one of the ladies of his congregation, said, in allusion to his rustic audience, "I preached this morning to a congregation of asses." "I thought of that," observed the lady, "when you called them beloved brethren." There is a story told of the late Professor Henry Smith that when explaining some new discovery in the theory of numbers to his Oxford pupils he added the remark, "And the great beauty of the thing is that it cannot possibly ever be of the slightest practical use to anybody." For a cough or cold there is no remedy equal to Aimmen's Cough Syrup. One of the favorite fruits at Rangoon, in Burmah, is the dorian, which is brought in large quantities from Moulmein, and the rind of which has a most peculiar and overpowering smell. Every year special steamers are sent from Rangoon to Mandalay with shipments for the use of the King and the palace, though after the voyage only about two per cent. arrive fit for eating, while the smell of the bad ones is enough to betray their presence all up the river. Bad as the dorian is for the olfactory nerves, the Friend of India mentions another fruit called tannichthe which is in great favor with the Burmese for their curries, and the effects of which are at once experienced by standing within a few feet of the person who has been indulging in it. The odor is impossible to conceal. The Burmese consider it an excellent digestive and tonic, though there are very few Europeans who can go the length of trying more than one experiment upon it. Not a Romantic Subject. The man who thinks he's going through this life on a bed of roses had just better give up that ridiculous idea at once and come right square down to worldly thinking. There's no telling when he may be attacked with itching piles and be subjected to continual itching and scratching. For every pain through there's a cure, and for itching piles the world never has seen anything to equal Swayne's Ointment. It never fails to cure itching piles. A Scotchman standing by the family grave said: "There lie my grandfather and grandmother, and my aun father and mither, and there lies my brither Bob, and my pair girl Jennie, and there lies my wife; and, if I'm spared, here I'll lie too." The Diamond Dyes for family use have no equals. All popular colors easily dyed, fast and beautiful. 10 cents a package.