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Ethnologv Of Weddingg.

II is very odd that the uniform object OF we'd
dings should be so Yariably introduced. Oere-
monies are as different as duck feathers. In
Canada everybody kisses the bride on Christ
mas in the absence of her husband. In Penn=
sylvania, among the red rpofed barns Of tho
Dutch, the process of "bundling is still carried
on. A young man, obtaining the parents con-
sent to his nuptlals with the daughter, makes a
practical test of his choice under their own
roof If he is pleased, as he must be after such
open display of confidence, the banns are pub
lished, and they continue to "bundle" at lei
sure.
Of late years, the Dutch doubt the policy of
"bundling," as the young men have fashion
of running away after the application of the
test, and forgetting to marry the young woman.
Our advice to the latter is never to "bundlo."
First cover yourself with the bright @gis of q
marriage certificate In parts Of New England
and New Brunswick the lovers go sleighing un-
der the promise of marriage, and forget TO re-
turn till morning. The recreation is called tar
rying." 1t is first cousin to "bunding.' Among
the strict Bethehemite Morayians, the brothers
and sisters are married in rotation, not accord
ing to choice, the names being read out of o
book, so that rosy young fellow may get
slab-sided "trip for whom he can have no love
whatever. This is done to interdict the pas
sions and make matrimony a Platonic arrange
ment. Rather than draw in such q lottery, we
would favor "bnndling" at once The Shaw
nee boys play upon o reed near the village to
seduce the young women into the woods. II
the latter come, the ceremony is finished, and
the lucky boy is a pig Indian The Kikapoos
are even loss formal The red skinned lover en-
ters his mistress wigwam and lights pipe. If
she puts it out, he stays until daybreak and is q
Benedict; if not, he goes away disconsolate.-
The greatest Incidence on record is that of the
Moxes Indian, who are allowed by law to keep
two wives, but who dread the labor of support
ing them, and stop with only one; the Hurons,
on the contrary, marrying young girl, marry
all her sisters The Dog-ribbed Indians, Of
British America, when young woman is court
ed by several men, put snow shoes upon her,
give her a start, and the suitors follow her with
all their speed The beautiful woman, Opan-
wee, was run down by chief with seven wives,
and conveyed to his wigwam. She stabbed her
SELF becaused she loved another. The Cham
ose lover must seek his bride in a wigwam filled
with women, and bear her off despite their at
tempts to scratch his face; this is the way with
many a marriage in Manhattan. The Charwo-
man lies on mat with her face covered, and
her suitors, in succession, lift her veil He
whom she selects does not put it on again.
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GOLDEN EGGs-M. Hermann, conjurer, lately
performed the following impromptu trick in the
streets of Constantinople. Returning in COM
pany with a friend from the bazaars, he met a
Jew egghawker near the Stamboul end of the
bridge, and stopping him, asked the price of
eggs. "Thirty paras apiece, said the jew, "fOr
they were all fresh laid this morning"
''Yery good," said Hermann, 81 will take
dozen at that price
The nine piasters were accordingly paid, and
the conjurer then proceeded to crack one of the
eggs The result did not bear out the Jews
ayerment as to their freshness; but Hermann,
nothing daunted by tho smell, slowly Clipped off
the top of the shell and ished out n sovereign
from the odious yolk. To the amazement Of the
Jew he did the same with a second and third
which both proved as rotten as the frst-and
was taking up a fourth, when Moses flung back
the nine piasters, shoudering his creel and
scuttled rapidly off, declaring that he would nos
sell at that price.
Hermann and his companion slowly followed,
and, after while, came up with the Hebrew in
quiet corner Of the neighboring mosque-yard,
where they found him hard at work breaking
his eggs. Another offer was made for the whole
but though more than dozen had already been
sacrificed without the expected soverigns turn
ing up, the Yondi refused business, and was left
deliberately smashing the whole contents of his
basket in search of the golden deposit.
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The Atchison Champion says; "a cores
pondent in Doniphan county furnishes us an ac-
count of a remarkable feat of nature. In one
mans family on Friday night last, the wife had
twins, boy and girl; the marc had colt;
the COW, twin calves, a hoifer and q bull; the
SOW eleven pigs; the hen hatched ont thirteen
chickens, and two ewes had four lambs. The
above, remarkable as it may appear, is an alb
solute fact. It demonstrates to the world what
a prolific State Kansas is.
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Charles A. Dana, Esq, formerly the manag-
ing editor of the New York Tribune, and late
Assistant Secretary Of War, has accepted a
proposition to remove to Chicago and assume
the editorial management of the Chicago Daily
Republican, the first number Of which was to
be issued on the goth Of June.
, 1865-07-14

The RULING AssIoN.-Bonaparte died in bis
military garb, his Field Marshal's uniform and
his boots, which he had ordered to be put on a
short time previous to his dissolution. Angus
tus Caesar chose to die in a standing position,
and was careful in arranging his person and his
dress for the occasion. Siward Earl Of North
umberand, when at the point of death, quilted
his bed and put on his armor, saying, "that il
became not man to die like beast
moro remarkable instance is that of Maria Their
esa, of Austria, who, short time before she
breathed her last, having fallen into slight
slumber, ono Of the ladies in attendance re-
marked that her Majesty seemed to be asleep
"No, said she, ~ could sleep if would in
dulge in repose, but am sensible of the near
approach of death, and will not allow myself
to be surprised by him in my sleep; l wish to
meet my dissolution awake" Such are the ef-
forts of poor expiring mortality-still clinging
to earth-stll laboring for the breath of poster
ity, and exhausting itself in efforts to rise with
"gracefulness at the last"
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IT is said that Gen. Lee designs, if ho can re-
cover his Arlington estate, to retire to Europe
and either seek a situation in some of the great
continental armies, or spend the remnant of his
days in retirement, divided between reflection,
study and devotion. His sons will accompany
him. He has already been proaered, by two of
the great powers Of Europe, high rank in their
armies.
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MIXED RELATIONSHIP. "A correspondent Of
Harper's Drawer is involved in domestic per-
plexties He writes
I got acquainted with a young widow, who
lived with her step-daughter in the same house.
married the widow; my father fell, shortly af-
ter, in love with the step-daughter of my wife,
and married her. My wife became the mother
in-law, and also the daughter-in-law to my
father; my wifes step-daughter is my step
mother, and I am step-father Of my mother-in-
law My step-mother who is the step-daughter
of my wife, has boy; he is naturally my steps
brother; because he is the son of my father and
my step-mother; but because he is the son ofmy
step-daughter, so is my wife the grandmother of
the little boy, and am the grandfather of my
step-brother My wife has also a boy; my step4
mother is, consequently, the step-sister Of my
boy, and is also his grandmother, because he is
the child of her step son; and my father is the
brother-in-law of my son, because he has got
his step-sister for his wife. | am the brother
of my own SON, who is the son of my step-moth-
er; am the brother-in-law of my mother, my
wife is the aunt of her son, my son is the grand
son Of my father, and am my own grandfather
, 1865-07-14

An American tourist, while visiting Naples
saw Vesuvius during an eruption. "Haye you
anything like that in the new world?" was the
question Of an Italian spectator. ''No, replied
the other, 'but we have a Niagara that would
put it out in five minutes.
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Said a searcher Of the papers, the other day,
s'I am much troubled with a word have just
een-impecuniosity-w does it mean z" On
being told that it signiied want of money, he
exclaimed, "Is that it? I shall always be
troubled with that word, I am afraid
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It is a remarkable fact that electricity travels
so rapidly that it may be sent through gunpow-
der without igniting it, and it is only when the
current is retarded that an explosion takes
place. The progress of electricity is swifter
than that of light, being about two hundred
thousand miles a second.
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A husband as willing to be pleased at home,
and as anxious to please as in his neighbours
house, and a wife as intent on making things
comfortable every day to her family as on set
days to her guests, could not fail to make
home happy.
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BEET SUoAR.-The beet sugar manufacture of
France commenced in 1905. After many un-
successful experiments and great waste of time
and money, it has proved complete success,
and is to-day viewed in my native land as one of
the greatest, if not the greatest blessing, OF
French agriculture, not only for sugar-making,
but also as a root crop for fattening purposes.
Flanders, Arrols, Picardy and the environs Of
Paris have become rich on the beta vulgaris and
beta sacharifera, and the soil has increased con-
siderably, both in value and fertility, since the
regular introduction of the beet in the rotatiye
cultures of the northern farmers in France.
But it has been ascertained, scientifically and
practically, that, as far as sugar-making is con-
cerned, beets cannot be grown pro6tably beyond
a certain climatic limit. In France, south Of
the beautiful river Loire, it is too warm for the
beet to keep sweet, and capable Of yielding su-
gar, an important portion Of this last substance
being transformed into potash before the root at
tains its complete maturity y.-Ludovic Lechant.
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NEW TIN SHOP.
Painting.

#. b. HAWLEY, HOUSE AND SIGN AND
Carriage Painter. All kinds of jobs in tho line done
with nestness, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Paper-Hanging and Glazing done to Order.
Shop on Main Street, doors below Krafts Livery
Stable.
Walla Walla, March 81, 1865. lift
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SIMPLICITY IN DREss.-Those who think that
in order to dress well it is necessary to dress
extravagantly or grandly, make great mistake.
Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty
as simplicity. We have seen many remarka-
bly, fine person robbed Its true effect by being
oTer-dressed. Nothing is more unbecoming
than overlooking beauty. The stern simplicity
of the classic tastes is seen in The old statues
and pictures painted by men Of sureror artistc
genius In Athens the ladies wer guadily
but simply arrayed, and we dolt oar amy
ladies ever excited more admirati1 So also
the noble old Roman matrous, Waoe superb
forms were gazed on delightcdly by men wor-
thy ofthem, were always very plainly dressed.
Fashion often presents the hue7 of the butter
fly, but fashion is not classic goddess.
, 1865-07-14

At a colored ball the following notice was
posted on the doorpost: 'No gemman admitted
unless be come hisself"
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The cheerful live longest in life, and after it,
in our regards. Oheerfulness is the offshoot Of
goodness. It is a sanitary principle as well to
the body as the mind, and it is to both the cause
and effect Of health
, 1865-07-14

A boy whose general appearance betokened the
want of a fathers care, being asked what his
longer"
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Sailors are improyident rascals Many Of
them in the service are receiving large amounts
of prize money, but they squander it recklessly.
A petty officer lately received $1,000 in New
York. He walked away from the bank with
this amount in his hat at noon one day, and
next day at daylight was locked up in the sta
ton house dead drunk, and the possessor Of a
single ten cent bill.
, 1865-07-14

In Australia spurious gold, eleven carats fine,
has been detected, which purchasers have freely
bought It can only be detected by means Of
the blow pipe. It is very adroit cheat. Ey-
cry particle of the metal which is fine, is simply
an exceedingly small particle of lead or silver,
either round or fattened, thickly coated over
with gold.
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Biddy while on a begging expedition, was
asked by lady if she had any children. eyes,
num-" replied Biddy, with great readiness,
"I'm the mother Of an orphan"
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To smother a young lady in happiness, give
her two canary birds, dozen yards Of bright
silk, a moonlight walk with her beau, an ice
cream, boquet, and the promise Of a new bon
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tits predicted that, in the course of time, it
will be possible to illuminate a street mile
long at the rate Of one cent an hour by means
of the newy-discovered magnesium light.
, 1865-07-14


F1aHr Your WAY UP.-The many who have
to take the world rough and tumble are prone
to envy the few who roll through it unjolted, in
cushioned vehicles on patent springs. The toll
er as he stumbles through its thorny thickets,
and limps over its foot-blstering gravel, is apt
to curse the i'll luck that placed him on such
hard road and to sigh for a seat in one of the
splendid equipages that glide so smoothly over
Fortunes macadamized turnpike. Born with q
pewter spoon in his mouth, he cOvets tho silver
one which was the birth-gift of his do-n0thing
neighbor. The moro fool he. Occupation is
the immediate jewel" of life. 1t is true that
riches are no bar to exertion. Quite the reverse,
when their uses are properly understood But
the dscontented worker, who pines for wealth
without being willing to labor for it, regards
the idleness in which it would enable him to live
as the acme of temporal happiness. He has no
idea of money as great motive power, to be
applied in enterprises that give healthful employ
ment to mind and body. All that he desires is
to live feather-bed life-to "loaf' luxurious
ly. We have no sympathy with such sensuous
longings. People who indulge in them never
acquire wealth. They lack the energy to break
their way to the worldly independence Of which
they yearn and whine. They don't know how
much more glorious it is to fear affluence from
opposing fate by main strength of will and in
hexibility of purpose, than to receive it as a
windfall There is infinitely moro satisfaction
in conquering a fortune with brain and muscle,
than was ever experienced by "lucky heir"
in obtaining the golden store that some thrift
er hand had accumulated. Your accidental
Cr9sus knows nOthiug of the pride of success
of the honest exultation with which the self
made man looks back upon the impedments he
has overcome, and forward into the far future
which he has earned the right to enjoy.
, 1865-07-14

Josh Billings says: God save the phools, and
don't let 'em run out, for if 'twan't for them,
wise men couldn't get living
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A Railroad Accident.

Strange incidents occur on railroads some
times-so strange that they are really amusing,
Among the strangest is the manner in which
pockets are picked-and the pockets too Of la
dies. Now what more audacious act is there
than putting q hand in lady's dress pocket,
but the pickpocket is an audacious fellow as
well as a thief An incidentlately occurred on
the railroad between this city and Boston which
is well worth relating. A lady had suffered from
the enterprise of one of these chevaliers deaaus-
frie, and friend of hers about to take the same
route was cautioned to be on her guard, es-
pecially against any we'll dressed, prepossessing
young man who would take seat by her side,
and that TOO, Just before entering the long tun-
mel ne ie, this city. The cautioned lady took her
seat, hooked nervousy abouther She did
did hot SAe "a4y prepossessing young man" just
then, but as the train stopped at Springfield,
one such entered, and, with much politeness
took the vacant seat by her side. Of course the
nervousness of the lady increased, and especial
ly as the young man offered her his paper to read
which she declined, and to his remarks she res
ponded only in monosyllables. She was deter
mined to keep him at his distance which, how
ever, was limited in those narrow seats. At
length they approached the fatal tunnel, and the
caution she had received took sudden hold of
her already greatly excited mind. AS the train
entered the darkness, she made sudden plunge
Tor ler pocket IN WHICH Sne udu u6f pOfVe mon
naie. But the folds of her dress were somewhat
dsarranged and she did not at once find her
pocket; still she nervously persevered diving
first into one fold, then into another, until at
length she found an opening, when, what was
her horror to find the hand her ''prepossess-
ing companion" on the seat was already there
She convulsively clutched the hand with all her
might, but she was so frightened that she was
unable to use her voice. She held on to the
hand thinking to expose the thief on emerging
into the light and though it seemed that the
train would never reach the end of the tunnel
still she held on with the grippe of vice. Her
companion made no effort whatever to release
his hand-whether through fear Of exposing
himself, or rather liking the soft, velvety pres
sure, is not known But daylight at length
came, and with it the fact was revealed that the
lady in searching for her pocket, had inserted
her hand into the pocket of her ''prepossessing
companion, where she found, properly enough
one of his hands. 1t is needless to add that the
lady presented very confused appearance, gent
ly relaxed the hand, glanced out of the car win
dow, and left to her comparion the task of fill
ling in the meaning of her strange conduct.
, 1865-07-14

Dying words of Archbishop Hughes-"Bury
me in the sunshine"
, 1865-07-14

Iron, Steel and Nails.
A FULL assortment just received and for sale
IA al BROWN, BROS. g. cos.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

Rapids, and particularly in the section north
and west of the Columbia, he will find the
most convenient and easily improved loca-
tons, and the finest climate. If he wishes
to contrast the degree of comfortrespective-
ly enjoyed by the miner and farmer, he will
do well TO visit Walla Walla and observe the
effects of five years of moderate exerton.
In that place he will also have an opportu-
nifty to contrast the relative financial pros
poets of the farmer and miner, and this will
convince him of the advantages of the me-
thod of life we recommend. After practi-
cal lesson Of this kind, most men will be anx-
ious 10 secure similar chances in life, and
they need not hunt far to find them.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

THE Policy OF FoRBEARANoE.- Joseph Holt,
who was Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary Of War,
and is now chief of the Bureau of Military
Justice, recently wrote letter in reply to the
aspersions of Montgomery Blair, upon his
conduct while Secretary OF War. Mr.. Blair
charged Judge Holt with making "an ar
rangement" with the rebels 10 relation to re-
inforcing and provisioning Fort Snmter. In
reply he says:
affirm most solemnly that never made, or
was in any manner party to an armistice
with the rebel secretary" never signed, or
was in any way party to an agreement that
no act OF war would take place on the part OF
the United States during Mr.. Buchanaus
term = nor do believe that any such agree
ment with Davis, or anybody else, signed by
the Secretary of the Navy, was authorized by
Mr. Buchanan, or ever existed. | assert posi-
lively, that there never was day, during the
! period referred to, when the President was
not perfectly free to perform his duty, and his
whole duy, in defense, of the forts and other
property of the United States, and to open fire
from the forts whenever, in his Judgment.
their safety demanded it. There never was
an hour when the guns of Sumter were ''uuz-
zled nv any "agreement" or compact on the
part of the President or his Secretaries, or by
their authority, or either OF them. That the
batteries around Sumter were not fred upon
while in course Of construction was because
the. Pre- ident shrunk from the dread respon-
sibility of inauguraiing civil war, and deemed
forbfarance his duty; not because he was re-
strained by any agreement or understanding
whatever Looking ut the glorious results OF
II mud ,nari rinr hn, xunp Hrni q "
Providence has dealt with US in its progress,
and how sublimely the firing upon, instead OF
from Fort Sumter, served to arouse, instruct
and unite the nation, and TO nhhme lis mar
,ial and patriotic spirit, we stand awe struck
aud mute, and that man would be bold indeed,
who. in the presence of all that has occurred,
should now venture to maiutain that the
policy OF fprbearance was not, at the moment,
the true policy.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

A TEAM loaded wi h paper and ink for the
Union Vedette, at Salt Lake City, was tely
robbed, on the road f.om the Missouri River,
paper and ink, are all missing. The Vedene
is forced to arrive at the conclusion trat he
villainy was perpetrated by Mormon Danites.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03
DissOlu1iOn NOTICE..

TWNHE CO-PA NERSHIP heretofore existing between
IL A. LAUER and Il. sCHUTz under the name Of
Lauer Schultz in the Jack'on Saloon is this day is
solved by ua consent, Mr. Lruer having sold out his
interest to H. Schultz who will continue the business
his account. All debts due the late firm will be
paid to e. Schultz, who will settle all liabilities.
A. LAUER.
Daes, Dec. 1st, 1865. E.SCHUTZ.
Thankful for past patronage the undersigned would
respectfully inform his friends thathe will be found
at the old stand ready to dispense his choice liquors
them. &. Schultz $
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

LAuNcnEp.-We have news from Co'ville
that Capt l. White hnd launched the steam
er built Mt that place. and would proceed on
his trip of exploration up the rver, on or
before tie first of December. The boat was
looked upon as perfect success.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

AUCTION SALE- Parties DESTROYS Of OBJ
tanning land ONE furniture at II bargain,
should attend the Auction tomorraw, ut the
residence of J. W. Miller, corner OF Second
and Fede al street.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

\ A CHANGE Friend Shutz has bought out
Mr.. Lauer's interest in the jackson Saloon,
AMI intends "ri.nning the machine on his
account He wi please accept the thanks
Of heprinte 5 for copioussupply Of CHAM
pagne.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

Columbia Lodge, No. 8, I. o. o. F.--
Meets every Thursday evening at ~ o'clock ia Gates
Hail. of Second aud Court Streets. Brothers in
good standing invited to attend. by order. N.G
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

The returns from the special election in
Grant county have been forwa ded 20 the
Secretary If State, and we have b, en- unable
to learn the result officially. ,.-.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

JAS. L. 0RR, tits said, is elected Governor
of South Carolina and not Wade Hampton,
as ~ e St repor ed. t..-
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

JAS. D AoSEw, (Dem.l has been elected
Representative to the l 'aho Legislature from
Ada county, % gil vacancy.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

QuiScy A. BaooKs has been duly qualified
special agent of r. o Dep rtinent, for
Oregon, Idaho aud Washington to tito.1es.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03

Dn. Gua EY re,u ned to this city on Thurs-
dy last, after nm absence "i several weeks ON
N professional tour IN the upper eonntry.