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left on a fishing trip and upon return- 

 ing July 10 went over to investigate 

 the Robins doings. The nest contain- 

 ed five eggs of the same type as Set 

 No. 2, but were too far advanced to 

 save. This pair of Robins was watch- 

 ed every day, by a young lady inter- 

 ested in birds and we both are posi- 

 tive the eggs were laid by one bird. 



I had never seen a set of more than 

 four eggs of either the common Robin 

 or our Western variety before, al- 

 though I have examined and talven 

 notes on about three hundred nests 

 in Oregon and Washington in the 

 past five years and have also collected 

 a good many sets in (New Brunswick, 

 Canada,) cf the eastern Robin. This 

 ssason has certainly been a red let- 

 ter year with the Robins' nests for 

 me. In some future paper the writer 

 hopes to tell some of the readers of 

 the "Oologist" about the Black-throat- 

 ed Gray Warblers he found this sum- 

 mer. 



Yours truly, 



Stanley G. Jewett, 

 Portland, Oregon. 



Gave Him All the Lot. 



"So that is your final word?'" said the 

 rejected cue. "^'ery well, then, Ara- 

 bella lu your presence I will end the 

 life you have blighted." 



He drew forth a small bottle la- 

 beled "Poison," drank off the contents 

 and fell senseless at her feet. Did she 

 sink beside him sobbing with remorse? 

 No. She hastily left the room and in 

 two minutes had returned and was 

 kneeling beside him. Then she forced 

 between his lips the following: Half a 

 cup of turpentine, one pint of milk, a 

 cup of warm soapsuds, a tablespoonful 

 of aromatic ammonia, a cup of black 

 coffee, a gkiss of mustard and water, 

 a gill of vinegar, the juice cf a lemon, 

 the beaten whites of six eggs and one 

 cup of flour and water. 



"Algernon." she observed coldly as 

 he slowlj- opened his eyes, "it is evi- 



dent you had forgotten that I am a 

 graduate of a correspondence course 

 m first aid. My one regret is that, as 

 I could not on the instant ascertain 

 whether you had taken an acid or an 

 alkali, I was compelled to administer 

 all the antidotes I had learned."— Lon- 

 don Scraps. 



A Picture Romance. 

 It is said that one of the most beau- 

 tiful ladies in French society today 

 was first revealed to her husband on 

 the walls of the salon. It was while 

 visiting the salon in 1S78 that the 

 youthful Marquis de C. was sti'uck by 

 the childish beauty of a young girl, 

 one of the prominent figures in a pic- 

 ture of a village fete. Her tumbled 

 golden locks, her dancing blue eyes 

 and the freshness and graceful aban- 

 don of her figure so fascinated him 

 that he sought out the artist and learn- 

 ed from him that the "little w^itch" 

 was the daughter of a poor peasant 

 near Avranches, where the picture was 

 painted. To seek out the peasant and 

 to make the acqiiaintance of his fas- 

 cinating daughter, child of nine sum- 

 mers, was soon accomplished, and the 

 marquis lost his heart even more com- 

 pletely to the real than to the pictured 

 maid. With the father's approval he 

 had the girl educated at one of the 

 best schools in Paris, and nine years 

 later, on her eighteenth birthday, the 

 maid of the village fete blossomed 

 Into the still more lovely Marquise 

 de C. 



How to Scale Fish Properly. 

 When sculiui'' lish hold them under 

 water in a dishpau. The scales will 

 not lly all over if this is done, but 

 will fall to the bottom of the pan. 

 When the water has been poured off of 

 them they can easily be transferred 

 into the garbage pail. The kitchen 

 will 1 1!.' free from the scales, which fly 

 about if the fish is scaled in the ordi- 

 nary way. and a great deal of extra 

 and troublesome labor is saved. Dip- 

 ping the fish in boiling water for a 

 moment and then into cold will make 

 the scales come off without trouble or 

 delay. 



