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ARGUS CHANGES.

its columns.
Mrs. A.. J. Duniway is on leotur-
ing tour east Of the mountains.
Two million francs have arrived
from Russia. This is said to be the
final installmsnt Of the loan.
The Workingmen's Greenback
Club has been organized in this city
with a membership Of 143. The
club is oficered as follows: A. C.,
Woodwork, president; Fl. Neppach,
secretary. Portland "Bee."
In Pittsburg the Pennsylvania
railroad company have 5000 tons of
scrap iron left from the ruins for
sale. The Pittsbvrg Telegraph"
estimates that the gun dealers of that
city lost $4,000 in goods stolen by
the mob.
When small boy with prejudice
against yellow dogs observes an old
oyster can in condition of mac
tivity, he at once begins debating
whether it was created to point a
moral or adorn n tail. The dog gets
the first news Of the decision.
The Tribune's" Salt Lake City
special says Brigham Young's will
was read to tho family. An estate
of 100000 is divided equally
among seventeen wives and forty
four children. The division is to be
made when the youngest child shall
be of age, which will be thirteen
years hence.
A GOOD WORD FOR HowARD.--The
"Missoulian" says: "Gen. Sherman, in
the presence OF a number Of citizens in
this place, expressed himself as highly
satisfied with General Howard's Indian
campaign. lie said that he did not want
Howard to attack the Indians, but merely
to herd them ont of the country, and keep
them In view until the troops coming mp
the Yellowstone could strike tn M
The Washington Territorial Lcgis-
lature convened at Olympia on
Monday last, the session being res.
trictsd to 40days. The members re-
ceive compensation of So day,
and are allowed mileage coming and
going. The presiding officers re-
ceive $40 day, and Zee clerks door
keesrs, etc, are allowed So each per
day. This is much more liberal than
our legislatures are paid, and should
obviats the necessity Of outside pres
sure.-Portland " Boe."
Rev. Theodore Cuyler says: Novel
reading, like spices and hoL,e-radish,
should be used sparingly, and only
to season solder food. To thous-
ands it is sheer poison, both from the
quantity and quality of the romances
dsvoured. With rare exceptions 6c.
tion is the most ephemeral form of
literature; the favorite of to day is
forgotten tomorrow. | could pack
into a bushel basket about all
the romanaes yet written which are
likely to be read by the discriminat.
ing classes in the twentieth century.
MYBA Clark Gains has q rival.
Another widow, Mrs. Miller, who
keeps = little hotel in New Jersey,
has brought suit for the recovery of
ll4,391, 900 acres of land in West
Vire nia and Kentucky, S2,000,000
,crs Of which are in Fayette county,
n.y., the city of Lexington standing
on part Of the land. The property is
said to be worth thirty million dol.
las. Her claim is based on her heir.
ship to John Young, who moved
from Philadelphia to Alexandra,
va, in l775, and purchased this
iand. There is long story to it aud
II will doubtless be I longer before
'he widow obtains possession.
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They remained until late in the evening
and not until the majority Of the guests
of the house we're retired TO their rooms
did the carriages begin TO fill Tor the
homeward journey. About this time some
joke came up, and from the circumstances
of the case one of the gentlemen ran, the
Others joining in his pursuit. Dodging
around the yard for few minutes, he es-
capped into the hotel, ran up the stairs, and
hid in one of the halls. The tramp OF
feet, however, soon told him he was fol-
lowed, and, in his great desire to escape,
he skipped through an open door, into
bedroom. The pursuers were almost at
the door, and, in a fit of desperation, he
concealed his somewhat substantial cor
porosity beneath the bed. His friends
looked in, saw no one, and passed on. In
few minutes they went down stairs again
and the concealed fugitive was just about
crawling out 10 go down when a new
figure appeared on the scene. A lady
entered the room, and to the horror of
the gentleman under the bed, began 10
show unmistakable symptoms of her in
tention of going to her nights repose.
There was but one course to pursue ON
the part of our hero, and he pursued it.
Sticking his head and arms out from un-
der the bed, he exclaimed: MADAM,
don't be frightened. It's all right, and
I'll explain how came here. Don't be
scared. Don't scream, beg of you. The
business can all be explained in'-the re-
mainder was lost in a wild scream of
alarm, and the rush OF the whole hotel
force TO the ROOM
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An Awkward Predieaa ent.

We have heard the history of man
who was for many hours watched by a
bear without his being able to remove
from the spot where he was sitting; here
is a more terrible one of man and lion.
4 man returning from visit to his
friends at Bethany, South Africa, took
circuitous course in hopes to kill an ante
lOpe to carry home to his family. Seeing
no game when he reached the spot, he
laid his gun down on a low, shelving
rock, and went down to a pool to drink,
after which he returned to the rock,
smoked his pipe, and fell asleep. In
short time the heat reflected from the
rock awoke him, and he saw large lion
crouching before him, with his eyes glar-
ing in his face, and within little more
than yard from his feet. He sat mo-
tionless for some time till he had recover
ed his presence of mind then, cycling his
gun, he moved his hand slowly towards
it. The lion, seeing this, raised his head
and gave a tremendous roar. He made
another, and another, and another attempt,
but the gun being far beyond his reach,
he gave it up, as the lion seemed well
aware of his object, and was enrsged
whenever he attempted to move his hand.
The rock on which he sat became so hot
that he could hardly bear his naked feet
to touch it, and he kept moving them,
alternately placing one above the other.
The day passed, and the night also, but
the lion never moved from the spot.
The sun again rose, and soon rendered
his feet beyond feeling. AT noon the
lion rose and walked to the water, only a
few yards distant, but looking behind as
he walked, lest the man should move;
and seeing him stretch out his hand to
take his gun, turned in arage and seemed
about springing upon hin. The animal
NeLs to the water, drank, and returning,
lay down again at the edge of the rock.
Another night passed; the man in describ-
ing ii said he knew z lt whether he slept,
but, if he did, it must have been with his
eyes open, as be always saw the lion be-
fore him. Next day the animal went
again TO the water, and while there he
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killing Dogs in Philadelphia.

We find the following in late number
of the Philadelphia Times; The dog
catchers had started out at -four o'clock
yesterday morning, and at eight o'clock,
the hour set for the killing had not yet
returned The pound was, therefore,
somewhat short of hands for catching the
dogs in the yards. What help could be
improvised, however, was soon at work,
coaxing the dogs near enough to capture
them, and then dropping them into the
place devoted to their death. The
smaller dogs were taken first, the larger
ones being left for a second execution, to
Immediately follow the first. BY eight
o'clock there We're eighty-fve dogs in the
smothering chamber. The chamber Is
simply a walled space, flush with the
ground, and with openings on three
sides and trap door above, all the open
ings being furnished with movable wire
gratings and glass windows. The glass
windows were left out as the dogs were
being gathered together for the purpose
of giving them a little respite of air, un-
Ill the full capacity of the chamber was
filled. The animals were pretty general
ly quiet and unalarmed in their narrow
quarters, but one or two, perhaps wiser,
perhaps weaker than the rest, kept up a
constant whining. Now the blue fame
at the top of the half-consumed charcoal
announced that a sufficient supply of the
poisonous carbonic oxide was ready. The
chamber was then made ail-tight by means
of its tightly fitting glass windows. and
the gas was let into it.
At first all that could be seen was .
little restlessness and certain surprised
anxious movement of the wretched beasts,
Gradually and very soon this grew into a
real intoxication. They could not hold
their legs; they swayed to and fro, their
eyes were wild, their heads TREMBLING
from side to side. As yet no whine or cry.
But now their intoxicatiOn becomes COM
plete prostration. One after another
falls over on his side, tries to rise, cannot,
struggles convulsi1ely. Then the cries
begin, in nearly all cases an indesciiba-
bly, pitiful wall, which no one who has
ever heard il will ever get out of his
ears. A few more struggles, gradually
weaker and weaker, a few more gasps,
and the dogs are motionless in death.
From a minute TO a minute and a half
after the gas is turned in upon them, they
have fallen over and are said to be insen-
sible, and in two or three minutes more
there is no sign of life. Their bodies are
allowed TO remain in the chamber ten
minutes to make sure, and then the win
dows are removed and their limp bodies
hauled out one by one, and flung into a
wagon. A firm at the canal wharf at
Mitflin street, Delaware front, contracts
for the carcasses, and renders them into
oil, whose virtues are highly extolled as a
remedy for rheumatism, and all other
pains of man and beast. The more valua-
BILE skins are also preserved, and are
made up into gloves, shoes, and other ar
ticles.
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New Idea for Rival Directory Men.

"What makes you fellows anxious to
get out your books early in the season n
asked twinkling. eyed chap Of Chicago
city directory man lately.
1--WE want TO issue as soon after the
first of May-moving day-as possible, 4"
replied the man.
Well, you are very foolish said the
twinkling chap" that is if you want to
get ahead on names"
"How's that." asked the directory
manager.
"Why, along further in the summer
you could do twice as well,n said the
other.
"Could-how sol" queried the pub
Usher, growing interested.
BY waiting until the green corn sea-
son arrives" earnestly answered the
merry talker--'' you see that's the time
when the whole population doubles right
upn
The directory man, usually so smart,
had never once thought of that.
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Four Infants ElOpe.

An extraordinary instance of juvenile
precocitv has Just come to light in st.
Louis. A lawyer Of that city, who re-
turned the other morning from visit to
Louisville, reports that at Terre Haute,
Ind, his train took on a detective with
two little BOYS and two little girls in
charge. The boys appeared to be about
twelve wears old, and the girls about q
year Older. They are the children of re-
spectacle parents residing in st. Louis,
and were on their way to New York for
the purpose of getting married.
These two childish couples had been
" sparkling for some time, and knowing
the utter impossibility of obtaining pa
rernaI consent to marry, concluded to run
away to New York and try their chances
there. By hording their nickels for sew
eral weeks they saved enough to pay the
fare of the party, and when everything
was in readiness they boarded train at
the st. Louis bridge, an took section
of sleeping car.
1t was about midnight when the train
arrived at Terre Haute, and their slum-
bers were rudely distW bed by the officer,
who took the quartette in charge, and
putting tlcin Oh tue Ncceci u-DouHo II odu;
escorted them to St. Louis. The boys
we're a good deal disconnected by their
contretemps and willingly returned to
their homes.
1t seems that the father Of one of the
lads obtained an inkling of what was go
ing on, and on missing his young hope
full, made INQUIRIES and learned the route
he had taken. A dispatch was sent to
the police at Terre Haute, and the child
rem were captured and sent back to St
Louis.
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MADAM, I'll Explain"

A Rochester paper tell this story Quite
a large party of gentlemen from the city
went down to the bay and were hospit-
ably entertained at the cabin of the Birds
and Worms. Among the party were
several prominent men from present and
former official boards Of the municipality
Lawyers. commissioners and other
equally weli-known and influential citi-
zens. No ladies were in the party, and
therefore 1.-THE boys went in for good
time. everything. of course, being kept
within safe and reasonable bounds. At
ter an afternoon Of good sport the party
repaired to the Newport House 20 make
preparations for their return TO the city.
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Why the Barometer Rises and Falls.

First Of all, what is a barometerl 1t is
a tube or pipe, closed at one end and
opened at the other, made of some trans
parent material, such as glass, so that it
may be seen through. This tube is filed
with the melted metal called mercury,
and, when quite full, the thumb is placed
over the open end $50 as to keep the mer-
curry from falling OUT, and the tube is
turned upside down. So the closed end
is at the top, the open end at the bottom,
and, if the thumb were removed, the mer-
curry would of course run out. But now
suppose you wished not to waste any, and
so put the open end of the tube into a
basin with some mercury in it, and then
remove your thumb, what would happen!
"Why, the mercury would all run out in
the basin.' some one will say. But this
is a mistake, as the Italian philosopher
Torricelli found out; and whatever size
or length of tube be taken, the whole of
the mercury will not run out, but length
of about thirty inches of the tube will re-
main full of mercury, and you cannot
wake il run out into the basin unless you
either pull the open end of the tube out
of the mercury or make hole in the
closed end of the tube.
This puzzled Torricelli for long time,
until at last the thought struck him that
the only thing which was on the mercury
in the basin was the air, and that it was
probably the weight of the air pressing
on the metal which prevented its running
out into the basin. aft So" thought Tor
ricelli, " then if take my tube and basin
of mercury up mountain, less and less
of the tube will remain full, for there is
evidently less air above the basin at the
top of the mountain than at the bottom. .
You may be sure he didn't wait very long
before he made the experiment; and to
his great delight, he found the mercury
getting lower and lower IN the tube, thus
proving that it really was the weight of
the air that kept it in the tube at all; and
so the instrument was called barometer,
which is derived from the Greek, and
means in PLAIN English " weight meas
uror."
But if the barometer is watched it will
be found to contain different quantities
of mercury ON different days. On fine
day the mercury will, as a rule, stand
higher in the tube than on wet day or
Just before rain; and now for the reason
Of this Why does the barometer rise (or
rather, the mercury in it, in fine weather,
and fall when it is going to be wet!
Now, dry air is much heavier than wet
air, or air containing steam. The conse-
quence is, that when the air gets moist it
becomes lighter, and presses less on the
mercury of tho barometer, so more mer-
curry flows out into the basin, and, conse-
quently less remains in the tube, or, as we
usually express it, the barometer falls.
Now, when the air is very wet, there is,
of course, more chance of ram than when
il. is dry, for rain is formed by the cooling
OF the steam contained in moist air.
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Changed Times and Tunes.

Cincinnati Gazette.
How short the time is since there were
great combinations of Changers against
the prices Of railroad transportation, in
timidating courts, capturing all political
demagogues, taking possession of State
legislatures, passing acts prescribing low
freight tariffs, and causing Congressman
and the President to agitate schemes for
great continental canal routes to
make transportation cheap! The confis-
cation Of the capital invested in railroads
seemed light thing to them in the great
cause of cheapening transportation for
the benefit of the city laborer and the
farmer. The great argument was the
benefit to the workingman by cheapening
the transportation of his food and all the
articles Of the subsistence, clothing and
shelter of his family. Cheap transporta-
ton seemed then the only thing lacking
to human happiness.
How the cry has changed! Now 1t is
that the roads have been carrying too
cheaply; that their competition with each
other has reduced freight charge so that
they have to reduce the wages of their
laborers. And now we behold multitude
of laborers in all other branches of indus
try assuming that they have been wronged
by low rates of transportation, and that
they have a cause for quitting work and
becoming enemies of their employers.
A couple of years ago low freight was the
workingman' 5 cause. Now high freight is
the workingman's cause. A little while
ago the workingmen were called TO COM
bine to destroy the capital invested in rail-
roads to make them carry cheaply. Now
they are called to rise up and burn the
railroads becahse they have carried too
cheaply, and thereby have had to make
their laborers work more cheaply. Only
little while ago the workingmen's cause
was call upon the nation to spend ahun-
dred or two of millions to make canals to
cut the throats of the railroads by COM
petition Now the workingmen's cause is
against the railroad competition which has
cut their own Threats. The American
politician has to have a versatility in
steps to keep time to this changing music.
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"An Upside Down.


A regiment quartered at a certain town
in Scotland had among them an expert
gymnast, who taught his brother subaltems
how to walk across the barrack room on
their hands. While engaged one even
ing the door opened and the colonel, a
stern disciplinarian, enterrd the room,
looked attentively at the inverted COM
pany, shook his head gravely and de-
parted without uttering a word. An or
der to be on parade next morning was
the least punishment expected for this
breach of discipline. Some days passed,
however, and no notice being taken, it
was thought an apology and explanation
should be offered by the prime instigator
of these unsoldierly movements. A ref
erence being made to the memorable
night the colonel amazed the intended
apologist by excla:ning: "Hush, ser
geant, would not nave anybody know It
for the world Tie fact is, / had been
dining out with an old brother officer
who had served with me in India, AMI
pom my life l had no idea the wine could
have had such an effect upon me but
when came to see if you were all right
in your quarters | could have sworn that
saw you all upside down.
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EYES.

Sweet baby eyes,
mat .ooA around with such grave surprise
What do you see?
A strange new world. where simpIest thine.
Engender Wild imaginings
And fanci : frees
\ resting place that is not home
paradise wherein to roam
For years may be:
q placid, wondering baby eXcs
The mystery that in YOU lies
OF puzzles me.
Clear. boylsh eyes.
nhOse fearless glance uncOasciOusiy defes
Trouble and care:
When babyhOOd Is past and gone,
v hat Is Il that You gaze upon:
A land most fair:
\ sunny shore with pleasure rife;
And that great Gift Of life
lis bliss TO share.
@ happy, tTustful, bOyish ewes.
Let sages envy, fools des use,
The faith YOU wear.
The anxious ewes
OF mar hood, slowly piercing eaTtli's disguise.
Discover, what:
That life al best Is quickly done
That hopes fulfilled and wishes won
Are dearly got;
That shadows chased in headlong haste.
And golden fruit he strOye to taste.
Delight him not.
% restless. doubling, troubled eyes.
To learn in sOTrOW 10 bc wise
Is manhOOd's lot.
Dim, aged eyes.
Gazing across the wreck Of broken ties.
What do they see:
Behlnd-dead leaves that witheTed fall,
fading wilderness where all
ls vanity;
BefOre-tO gladden. weary sight
i glimpse, promise of the bright
Eternity.
- dim and fearful aged eyes
u waiting till that dawn shall rise.
Blessed are We
And angel eyes,
who have their dwelling place beyond the
skies.
Eainly 10 ~
Image the glorses they must know.
Picture the pcarly gates aglOw-
The crystal sea.
For brightest visions m0Ttals paint
Of that celestial country. faint
Must ever be.
No, pure and holy angel eyes,
w can but pray that what you prize
our own may see.
-Leis.rrc Hon.
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WHAT'S A BOY LIKE.

Like a wasp, like sprite;
Like a goose, like an eel;
Like a top, like a kite;
Like an owl, like a wheel,
Like the wind, like a snail:
Like a knife, like a crow:
Like a thorn, like a fail;
Like a hawk. like a doe;
Like the sea, like q weed;
Like a watch, like the sun;
Like a cloud, like a seed;
Like a book, like a gun;
Like a smile, like a tree;
Like a lamb, like the moon;
Like a bud, like a bee;
Like a burr, like a tune;
Like a colt, like a whip;
Like a mouse, like a mill;
Like a bell, like a ship;
Like jay, like a rill;
Like a shower, like a cat;
Like a frog, like a JOY;
Like a bell, like a bat;
Most Of all-like a bow
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listened to some noise apparently from
an opposite quarter and DISAPPEARED in the
bushes. The man made another effort
and seized his gun, but his ankles were
without power and he could not walk.
He crept down to the water, gun in hand,
expecting the return of the lion, which,
however, never came back. The untortu-
nate man remained cripple ever after.
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Plain Facts for Advertisers go Head and
Consider.

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-, eFtiSiRg medium bit TIE cheapest
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A gentleman caught pickpocket in
the act of robbiDg him. You are not
clever enough, my fine fellow said he;
'.and what dirty hand you hare" My
hands clean enough" coolly replied the
rascal, ats your pocket"
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BABBITT'S TOILET SOAP
SlNDAL-WOOD

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eight days No other nasdieine can do this.
Owing to It's great suo,c7s many substitutes have
been advertised. such Pastes. Mixtures Pills. Bal
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