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A Maverick.

The word "Maverick" is used in the
cattle ranges of the West to designate an
unbranded and hence owncrless animal.
The San Francisco -hacerick, gives this
as the origin of the word:
A few years since Sam Maverick went
from Massachusetts, to Texas, where he
entered largely into stock business. After
buying several herds he neglected his
range and left his stock to shift for them
selves. Mr.. Maverick, with humanitarian
feeling. refraincd from branding his young
stock, believing in the implicit honesty
of his neighbors. When the genuine
stockmcn of the region ran across an un!
branded animal on the round up they
would say, ''Theres one of Mavericks;
let's brand it.
The word sprang into popularity, and
it's limited meaning was broadened and
enlarged by constant use throughout the
cattle ranges and mining camps OF the
frontier. If man was unpronounced in
his opinion on any subject, people would
saw, ..He holds Mavericks views"
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MusSel SteWs.

The Rockland Courier Gazette re ports a
new rival to the oyster which it thinks
will bring fame if not fortune to North
Haven, where the discovery was made.
1t seems some enterprising citizen of that
place, with an eye to developing home
talent, conceived the idea of making an
oyster stew without the oyster, substitu-
ting in the place of the bivalve
some of the mussels with which the coast
abounds. The result was brilliant
success. Such stew had never been
eaten before. Local epicures now turn
their noses at the oyster and vote it dccid-
edly fashioned, and arc preparing to
impart their discovery to less enlightened
regions. Their missionaries have already
got as far as Rockland, and it is predicted
that ere long the markets of all the big
cities will abound with the legend
"North Haven mussels, twenty cents a
quart" It is enough to make the clam
turn green with envy.-Leaoiston (Me.)
Journal
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Not q Cancer but q Lizard.

Mrs. J. G. Williston, the wife of a
contractor and builder of Cleveland,
Ohio, has recently returned from an ex-
tended trip after most remarkable ex-
perience. Mrs. Williston IS not yet
thirty, but her hair is almost white, and
her face bears the signs of life of suf-
fering. She has been the victim for
years, at varying hours ofnightand day, OF
pains like the cutting of knife, and
physicians supposed her to be suffering
from cancer of the stomach. EN-
inent physicians failed to exactly locate
the trouble or afford the lady relief. She
spent months in travel and large amounts
of money endeavoring to find effective
treatment for her malady, but most OF
the physicians whom she consulted said
that her disease was cancer of the. stom-
ach and that death would ultimately re-
suit.
Last October she went to San Fran
cisco, stopping and treating, while en-
route, at the soda springs of Idaho, but
in vain. Later she tried the waters of
Calestoga Springs and the baths of Passo
del Robles, without effect. San Fran
cisco's best physicians could afford no
relief, and she started for Sonora, Mexico,
intending to visit some celebrated springs
near Nogales. She was taken seriously
i'll at Tucson, Arizona. One day
during her illness Papago Indian, of
local notoriety as "medicine man."
visited Tucson from St. Xavier's mission.
He was taken to Mrs. Williston's rooms
and asked if he could tell her ailment.
He looked at her, had her describe the
pains and their location, and then with
the exclamation, 'tMe sabe heap bad
spirit" he rushed out and toward the
mission. In a few hours he returned
with herbs and basket of mescal, root
used by the Indians for food.
He motioned to Mrs. Williston to swal-
low the herbs. They made her deathly
sick, so much so that she almost died
from fright, thinking she had been
poisoned. The result, after few hours,
was the emission of dead lizard that
was fully four inches in length. It was
apparently of a species common to the
East, but how it had managed to live
for so many years was the mystery. Mrs.
Williston says that but one explanation
occurs to her, which is that when child,
and living at Phillipsburg, N. j., she
and her brother were accustomed to
drink from little brook that ran near
the house. They would scoop the water
up with their hands, and she thinks that
possibly in this way she swallowed the
embryo lizard. Mrs. Williston's re-
covcry has been rapid, and she is now
fairly on the way to a complete restore
ton to health. Though the taking of
living objects into the system is not rare,
medical men say that this is one of the
most remarkable cases on record.
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Imitating Valuable ViOlinS.

eve have persons coming in here
every day with so-called Stradivarlus
violins," said maker of violins in the
Bowery. "They are common German
violins with copy of the Stradivarius
label printed or pasted on the inside.
Pretty much every violin, no matter by
whom it is made, has some such label, so
that labels nowadays do not count for
anything. inexperienced persons may
be fooled by them, but anyone who
knows anything about violins pays no
attention to them.
"I suppose makers put the label in be-
cause some people like to pretend they
have valuable violin. A Stradivarius
is worth anywhere from 3,OOO.to SIS, 900
and they are not very plenty: They can
be told by their shape and by the kind
of varnish on them.
cit is unsafe to pay a big price for a
violin until it is passed upon by experts
I have known label to be taken off a
genuine Stradivarius and inserted in an
imitation one, for the reason that one
could be sold on its merits, while the
other needed the label. ."-Neao York Sun.
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A Horses Intelligence.

A horse which had been in possession
of the Peters family, in Bushkill, Penn,
for twenty. years, and which was famous
for the almost human intelligence be fire.
ouently displayed, died recently. Dur
ing the last few years of the horses life
he had been permitted to run at liberty,
but was freqently hitched up to haul the
dead bodies of cattle or horses that died
on the farm to place near the Delaware
river, where the carcasses were burned.
The old horse always stood near and
watched the burials with great interest
and attention.
Some time ago this horse fell sick. One
dav he was missed from an enclosure
where he was being cared for. A search
was made for him, and he was finally
found lying dead on the spot where he
had hauled the dead bodies of so many
of his kind. As the place was out of the
way of the old horses usual haunts, and
he had never l,ecn known to go there ex-
cept when driven there with some dead
animal, no one who knew the horse be-
licves that he did not seek the spot feel
inc that he was about to die, and save the
trouble of hauling his dead body there to
be buried.
Among the instances told of his intel
lirence are the following: Late one night
members of the family that owned him
were awakened by great noise on
piazza of the house. There was the loud
neighing of the horse and heavy
stamping on the piazza floor. One OF
the inmates of the house went to the
door. There was the old horse stamping
and kicking and neighing with all his
power. The discovery was made that an
clubhouse near the dwelling was on fire.
The old horse had given the alarm, and
disastrous fire was prevented.
One spring there was flood in
stream on the place. A blind horse be-
longing to ne eighbor got out of its pas
ture, and wandering down to the swollen
stream in some way got into the water.
It swan about in circle, and was un-
able to reach either shore. No one
could render any aid to the poor animal,
and there seemed no escape for it from
drowning. The old Peters horse came
along while the blind horse was strug-
Cling in the water, and, after moments
survey of the situation, plunged in. lie
swan out to the blind horse, and headed
it off as it turned to make its usual circle,
thus keeping its head pointed straight! ! for
shore as it swan By heading the blind
horse first on one side and then on the
other, he guided it safely to Shore
Ne0 York Sun.
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Initiating Foreign Cheese.

eff things keep on as they are, " said a
leading cheese merchant to New York
Mail and Egpress reporter, "there will
not be any necessity for importing any
foreign cheese. American ingenuity is
rapidly solving the cheese problem. We
already produce domestic Swiss cheese
which 1 consider fully equal to the i'm
ported article, although the latter brings
five cents more in price. The importa-
ton of Limburger cheese is now very
small. Still the importation of foreign
cheese into this county last year amounted
to over $3.50, 900. The principal foreign
cheese are the Stilton. (heddar, Cheshire
and Gloucester cheese from England !;
Gruyere from SwitZerland; Roquefort,
Camcmbert, Pout PEveque, Fromage de
Brie and Neufchattel, from France, Edam
cheese from Holland; Parmesa, fromagio
Romans and Caccio Cavallo Napoli, from
Italy. Stilton cheese is in the shape of
cylinder, ten inches in height and eight
inches in diameter. 1t is worth forty y-five
cents per pound wholesale. Cheddar is
similar to factory cheese in appearance,
and is worth thirty-two cents. Both
Cheddar and Gloucester are fiat cheeses,
and are worth twenty-eight cents. The
genuine Gruyere cheese comes from
Switzerland, although an inferior article
is made in France. The Swiss Gruyere
cheese measures three feet across. -Four
cheeses, weighing about $50 pounds, are
packed in tub for expectation. Swiss
Gruyere is worth twenty-five cents per
pound.
Roquefort cheese is made from the
milk of goats, ripened in limestone caves.
Each cheese weighs five pounds and is
worth thirty-fve cents per pound. An
old French gentleman, residing on
Staten Island, owns a large herd Of
goats and makes very fair article OF
Roquefort cheese. He supplies quite a
number of dealers aud is worth quite a
little fortune made in the business.
Camembert cheese is imported in boxes
of five dozen pieces and wholesales at
So. 80 per dozen. Pout rEveque is worth
So per dozen and fromage de Brie $3.50
per piece. Neufchatel, species of pot
cheese, is worth ten cents per portion.
Limburger made here is worth twelve
cents per pound and Munster cheese
twenty cents. The bright red Edam
cheese from Holland, as round as a can
non ball and almost as hard, is worth
$40 a case of dozen loaves. Parmesan
cheese, almost exclusively used in the
preparation of macaroni, comes from
italy in tubs containing five loaves, and
is worth twenty eight cents per pound.
The favorite cheese of the Italians is the
caceio caya!lo or horse-head cheese,
which is shipped to this country from
Naples, and retails at thirty cents. 1t is
only question of very little time when
all these varieties of foreign cheese can
be successfully reproduced here in our
own dairies.
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Chinese Paper.

Eighteen hundred years ago the Chi
nese made paper from tibrous matter re-
duccd to pulp. Now each province
makes its own peculiar variety. The
celebrated Chinese rice paper, that so re-
scmbles woolen and silk fabrics, and on
which are painted quaint birds and flow
ers, is manufactured from compressed
pith, which is cut spirally by a keen
knife into thin slices six inches wide and
twice as long. Funeral papers, or paper
limitations Of earthly things which they
desire to bestow on departed friends, are
burned over their graves. They use
paper window frames, paper sliding
doors, and paper visiting cards yard
long. It is related that when distin-
guished representative of the British
Government visited Pekin several SER
wants brought him huge roll, which,
when spread out on the floor, proved to
be the visiting card of the emperor.
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of the broilers. My opinion is that the
fish had simply been plunged into boil
ing water to make the skins tender.
We advanced to o range and saw a
cook skewering the pieces of eel on long
bamboo splints. Then he placed them
on the rods over the glowing Goals, and
when one side was Drowned, dexterously
picked them up with pair of iron chop
sticks and turned them. After they
were thoroughly cooked he seized the
fish with the same instrument and plunged
it into vessel containing old shoyu,
which was thick and dark as molasses.
The steaming unagi was then drained,
placed in lacquer box, and sent up
stairs to the customer.
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Native Sacrifices in India.

The following extract Is from Jcy
pore Gndia) letter to the London 1ele'
GrapA: Yet the palace is not quite empty
even to-day. At the side of the main
entrance beneath the ramp exists tenn
ple dedicated to Devi, and here it is the
custom every morning in the year to
sacrifice a goat. At the Durga festival
q whole herd of bufaloes and flock OF
sheep are offered to the dread goddess,
but the daily tribute is a goat, which re-
places, it is said, the human victim whose
life was taken every morning in this
gloomy fame before the time of the Brit
ish raj. 1t CHANGED that we entered the
temple just at the hour of sacrifice, and,
although the ladies would not view the
ceremony, a brief conversation with the
attendants induced them to admit one OF
the party to the presence of the goddess:
She sat-the awful blood-loving Kali
all black and red, upon plat
form, inside the darkest part OF the
temple, with eyes of glittering mother
o'-pearl and necklace of skulls. At the
foot of the platform was heap of sand
and near it some wide-mouthed brass
vessels and broad heavy-bladed sword.
A rajput was worshiping in the corner,
and the priest with two assistcnts moved
about arranging for the ceremony: The
victim, black goat, stood plaeldiy
enough upon the heap of sand, shifting
curiously at the edge Of the stone plat
form where so many of his predecessors
had perished. Suddenly q bell was
touched, and the priest took the heavy
sword and laid it in front of the image,
while he made the "ashtanya" or eight
fold prostration, and repeated the man
ira of expiation. Then the two attend
ants laid hold of the goat quite gently,
one steadying it at the tail, and one keep
ing its head straight with cord lightly
fastened round the neck and ears. The
poor animal, alarmed and concerned, !,
stood perfectly still while the priest barred
his right shoulder and squared him
self athward wise, the sword, grasped
by both hands, balanced upon the
goats neck. Abruptly he raised it.,
swung it back far behind him, and then
brought it whistling round with blow
which combined the cut and draw.
There was slight sound, as when a soft
stick is chopped, and the blade had shred
clean throug gh the goats neck, so that the
boy with the cord caught up the severed
head into the air before it could touch
the earth. The body of the victim fell
sideways, guided by the other attendant,
who directed the bleeding neck to one OF
the brass vessels. Taking the goats head,
the priest then laid it on the platform,
before the glaring eyes of the goddess,
and placing his brow on the earth, re-
peated the prayer prescribed. Thus the
horrid ceremony ended, but we learned
that the priests of the temple, being of a
special caste, themselves ate daily five
seers of the goats flesh, and had the
right to sell the remainder in the bazar.
The palace pays seventeen rupees
monthly to the contractor who supplies
the innocent victims. The priest said
that the goddess would be very angry if
the goat were not decapitated at one
blow, and that. he would cut off the head
of buffalo with equal certainty in one
attempt.
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PHILOSOPHY.

As the earth rolls over, on its axis whirled,
There is always midnight somewhere in the
world.
But, though darkness pinions ever are un-
furled,
There is always morning somewhere in the
world.
Sorrow has its nilsson, so Fate's shafts are
hurled;
There is always sorrow, sorrow in the world
Gwen as the morning CLEANS with light i'm
pearled.
There is gladness always, always in the
world.
Laura Rosa,nond While.
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The Major was Right.

"Wall, YES" said the major, unfolding his
knife,
And shaving slice from his chair,
"T come from family of purity long life
The longest, reckon, round hyar.
sMy grandfather lived to mighty old age
He died at two hundred an four"
But the major stopped short in his yarn at
this stage,
For the judge entered in at the door.
"Now, major" the judge very gravely re-
marked,
sI knew your old grandfather, we'll;
He was just eighty-three when his spirit en-
barked
For that bourne where the good spirits
dwell"
For q moment the major had nothing to say
But finally rose to his feet: :,
:sHe died at two hundred and four Broad
Then the Judge moseyed up and stood treat
Chicago NelUs.
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At the great Sutton seed farm at Read
ing, England, samples of all the grain
vegetable, and flower seeds are tested to
ascertain if they will germinate before
they are placed in packages for sale.
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''Don't you know I love YOU best? No
body can't take your place now" !"-Nina
II Clark.
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they are the most expensive fish in the
Nippon Bashi market. Are they not
worth looking at2"
"How do you contrive to completely
extract their bones?" I demanded. "Our
cooks cannot accomplish that fact" Mo-
tioning lightly-clad servant to ap-
proach him, he said:
"Some customers have just come III.
Prepare an eel in the presence OF these
gentlemen. The man, who evidently
took great pride in his work, selected a
vigorously squirming fish, struck ITS
head smarty upon wooden block
! placed upon the floor, and kneeling by it
grasped the creatures neck, inserted a
knife in the left side of the vcrtcbrie
and dexterously ran it down to the tall
then rapidly applied his instrument to
! the other side Of the backbone and re-
pcatcd the process. leaving the eel split
open. Holding up the head, to which
was attached the vcrtcbr;e and lateral
bones inclosing the intcstines, he bowed
and said:
"There is not a splinter left in the
fish"
''That is SO, proudly remarked the
proprietor. 81 only employ the most
skilful men and cooks" The operator
washed down the block, chopped the
lattened eel into three-inch lengths, and
shouted to cook, who advanced to re-
move it on q dish. The next process
was mysterious one and was performed
behind screen, from whence the platter
of eels was presently handed out to one
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~ las ne Press hns asppsd. Ne
other word expresses Ne sxaei sitaa
tlon. The Psopls's partg bed . con-
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The so rata from Seattle 10 81. Paul
and Minneapolis and return via the
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Il
siili 10 foroe. Tickets viii remain on
sale until Oct. 18th. fhesa tiokefa ara
acod for s mnntha for return passage.
A SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAIN
viii leave Port Needy for 50. Paul Ost.
itfk, carrying the Mayor and Oounoii
81 Victoria. Tia eompany have broaehi
oaf enc q their anesa palaca alsspsfs
and plaeed Il a thsir disposal. Exaar.
steaiats isavlnR Seattle Ost. YSth can
have tAs pEixileea q this nagniHcani
aieaper.
Tia ianR limit given on thens kickeas
vs. s1a1ie tee RnFekAsers b visit far
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In OTIS AND BLOCKS FOR SALE IN
A North Seattle.
Lots and blocks for sale h d. I. Dea.
ny's firsk second. third. fourth. nth and
sixth additions
Lots and blocks for sale in D. 7. Den
ny 3 Park addition.
Lots and hlocks for sale n d. I. Dem
ny's East Park addition.
Lots and blocks for sale n Mob Hill
Lots and blocks for sale Ia Green's ID
dition.
Lots and blocks Tor sale in various paxtu
OF the city.
Farm lands IN King and skagiteountisu
SPECIAL BARGAINS
The aE Of NE sec IL ID IS north.
range east 40 aczesl at $50 per acre.
Ia lot in NE sec II. 70 95north. range
4 east. II acres, $3.50 par acre improved
Lot !. block 81. Terry's addition, $500.
"A hne house and lot in d. 7. DennyiH
nth addition, $3.50.
A house and two well improved lots,
Nos and 2, block s Eden addition. $1eer
All Of block q Eden addition. al e7sl
for corners and S225 for inside lota.
Lots and 9 block 60 D. 7. Denny's fri
addition. $500. -
Property IN all parts Of the city and
county 70 sell
Money % loan On improved city a.d
HOUSES TO RENT
Houses for reat and fer sale.
Loans negotiated aud investments made
Taxes paid for non-reaidaHt parties,
Orders Tor All kinds Of rough and dress,
cd Lumber, Lath. sash, Doors and Mould.
inga. win receive prompt attention
Correspondcnee rom ahrpad solicited
se4dW0m
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