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About The Coast mail. (Marshfield, Or.) 187?-1902 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1902)
,-Jh-T AlWlWM( t8 l MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM f'ii Viifi Ho.vw II or I'rnre Tlit II t'nnnul II NoIvimI At a lecture ut tlio Royal Imdltutlon 0:1 tlic fanelttntliig Ktihjrct of "Magic tiilltiii'CH" Major 1', A, MiieMohoii, !'. It. tf. reminded lilii audience of I he cxlm ewe of a C'lirloiiM problem which, de Hpllo ItH apparent simplicity, llllH IH'VCr .vet been Holvcil, lie commended It to the iitti'iiltini of miy nni prcHcnt wlio (.(Hired to cxcrelno IiIn Ingenuity mid imtlcnci'. I'lic problem Ih iih followrt: Thcru nr tlirtyMlx oIIIccih of mIn different ronlm iiml ilrau'ii from lx different regl iiu'iiIh. mill It Ih rciptlrcd to nrrntigf) ilu'in in ii wittarcof thirty nix compart uit'iitH. no tluit lii each row iih well nr In each column there nppcitrit mi oil! etr ut fitch limit mid a I ho mi officer from each regiment. KuU'i-'m "Itcchcrchcii fitir nnc Nouvcllo l.'npeeo ill iJiuiriCH Mughiui'K," which appeared In 17ft!, iIImcuhhch HiIh prob Ictii, hut give no Holutloii, nnil the lute 1'iofi'nnor ('uylcy, writing more tlinn n century afterward, eonfcHitod that It wiih beyond IiIh power. Major MncMiihon, who haa added ho much to our litiowhxlK of tin theory of gronpH--it fiihclniitlug hranch' of mathcinatlcN which Iiiih an Important bearing mi many hrauchtM of phyNlcal kcIciicc- Iiiih not yet found a key to the mystery. Whoever can hoIvc iIiIh problem or price that ll cannot he tulvcil will achieve Immortality on the IIih of iiiathciiiatlclaiiH anil pcrhapH open n door Into a new realm of the hcIciiiIHc wondetland which Ih called puru math vanillin.-London (''jut. IVnriinl in n llrrnm. An Instance In which a d renin wnn tixiful In preventing an Impending en tnHtrophe In recorded of a daughter of Mih. Ittitherfunl.at IMrrtoi;, thu grand daughter of Kir Walter Kcott. Thin In. dy dreamed more than once that her mother hud heen murdered hy a bind; ncrv.int. Six witH to much uptiet hy thin Hint chc returned home, ami, to htr great iiMuiilihmciit mid not n little to her dlKiuay. rhe met on entering thu Inucc the very Muck ncrvnut hc hud i.x t In her ilreaui. He hnd Itrcn en piged In her nliKcncc. Site prevailed upjit a gentleman to watch In an nil Joining mam during the following night. About .1 o'clock In the morning the gentleman heard footMcpH on the Mnlrx. ciime out and met the xcrvaut iitrrylug a uantlty of coal. Itelug iUCh(nticd ax to vyhorc he wan going, he iinMvcril coiifiiNedly that he wiih going to mend the mlMrcxH lire, which nt .1 o'clock In the inoinlug In the mid die 'of fttimiiirr wan evidently lmpoH. hie. On further luveitlgatlon a ntroug l.n!fe w.th found hidden In the coaln. The lady efcapcd, hut the man wiih HUtiKeipiently hauled for murder, and Icfr.rc IiIh execution he conferred that he Intended to have naHliiutcd Mm. Itutherford. , A llncril I'orlrr, fieerte t'ullmaii car eiitrrlng Rt. LorIh. Porter obHcitiloii8ly whlHk blooming woman puHxcugcr. After lingering exiiecianlly he rccclvr-H a tip -a live cent nickel. He lookH at It critically, then dropn It Into the cuh jildur, remarking delimit ly. "Ah'm cr portah fruui Chicago:' "Open thin window!" commuiidH the woman. He oheyn, whereupon Khe utoopH, picks up the cuspidor mid elliptic. It upon the tract; ; then, drawing hemdf up haugh tily, oum'ivcm, "I mu a Indy from Hos ton." When In the Htntlon every rmsneiiRcr hnd left the car the porter said to the e inductor: "I.os' dat nickel, en' Ah'm er fool. It tcnchcH me er Icbsoii. how. Homdevcr. never tcr fool wld none o dehe Vankee women, Why, der nln't cr woman through de whole west who'd er thought o' cnstln' dat nickel on de roaiUlde when dey Unowod Ah wanted lt."-Ncw York TreKB. A I'opulnr Viiiiilvrlillt. Young CornelltiH Vandcrbll Ih becom ing u favorite with other 'workmen In the Mott Haven hIioph of the Now York Central railroad. It Ih not uncommon to tico him lying on IiIh hack among coal UtiHt and cIiiiIoih limpectlng the couHtrtictlon of a locomotive tlrebox. ('limy faced engineers and llreinuti like to chat with the young millionaire not no much because he Is Ida father's eon, but hccatiKu he Ih n good mechanic and itnderawiudH the topics they like to dlB cuss. New York Timed. liirnir Ainlillloii. The hlghcHt iinihltloii of u Uurmnn'ii lire Ih to build it pagoda, by which ho wU the title of Kyanng Tagit during thin liic.ii-iaillon ami hccuicu n mort gage on Nirvana. A lliiimaii iIoch not Uecoine n CliilHtliin ciiidly, hut when he iIoch he hrluH with him the con vie. (Ion he had iih ii HitddhlHt that (o build a place of uondilp Ih thu mom incrl torlotlH net of n inau'n life. TIjIh aceoiinlu for the prcm-nt cnthe dinl of .Mitmlalay, built at a cot of i !( 1,00(1 I'tipcen hy Kyiimig Taga I'titil Ohoti, a IIiiiuiL'xe ruby merchant of tb:it city. The old church of Allium punwiiH hiillt hy mi Armi'ulau and the two uhiirclicM of the TcimcHHarlm coniif ly a gentleman named He CaHtro. .Many of the "(H) mid more chtipelN mid chiirchvH throughout Utiruia are 'jullt of Jungle wo.d, which Ih destroy. cil In a rew yeaiH hy the white aiitn. T replace them by teak or pylugkado. not to Npuak of mudcHt HtructurcH, Ih u linttcr of hope with every prlent. Hut hi their Htrnlteiied llnnnci'M they do (he bent they .an and pray for Kyutmg TageH to eniii'.' .ilong. UoiiuIioo'h Mag. n.ltie. llfillfni. Tlt evil repute of Halifax Implied In the adage "Co to Halifax:" ciime to It hy Inheritance from Halifax In York- ! bin. Knglaml. Halifax law, iih may he gathered from a letter of l.ord I.clciKtiT quoted hy Motley. wa: that f-rlmlunlH hIioiiIiI be "condemned Unit 'Hid lnitilreil -spoil after ward." Halifax lay within the forent of llatdwlek. where the law wiih Unit If n felon watt taken with lt'.'j pence wrtL of Htolen gooiln he nhould he tried "y four llrth burgeiH from four of the pre cinct Iowiih mid If coiiilemued by their be h.i'igcil the next day. After thin prx dlwg tin 1 been carried out to the letter he cane might be neut to n Jury. H.illfax Ih alxo credited with being the home of the guillotine, which the tegetit. I'm I Morton. Introduced Into Kio'.land o'tly to have IiIh own Ii-jh! cbinc' "-T with It. (InttO mill I'juiiiIcb in Atnrr. Tluit Ih an luiuiciifc range .f differ euce In the hrlghtueHH of the HtnrH when the Mill Ih taken for n Htnndr.'il of fotuparUoii. Some of the Htarn emit only one one hundredth iih much light iih the huh cmltH. Othi'tN emit a thou Kami tlnieH an much light hh he doe. Indeed, one hclcutlxt thlukH there are at least rwo titai'H each of which Ih prob ably lO.C'O tlmcH iih bright iih the-Htiii, which HlgulllcH that If either of lliupc xtar. wen' iih near to tin iih the vun Is It would outshine, him 10.000 tlmen In hrlglitnt'HH. The two ntnrn are Cnno. pun. which Ih In the southern heml Hphere and Invisible from our part of the earth, ami Itlge!. one of the two htlshtcxt Mar In the coiiHtellatlon Ori on. Tin- Flr of Crfiil llrlliiln. On at I'rl.nlu Ih only half iih big an Htmuitra and double the size of New fouiidlaud It stanilH lift It In point of hIkc In the llM of the world's Islands. I.uglnuil without WaleK Is almost Iden tical In point of size with Itoummilu It Ih IchH than iine-quarter as big iih Prance or ('ermnuy. The whole Mr!. Ish Isles otny occupy the one sixteen huiiilredth pint of the Httrface of tills globe. (5re.it Mrltitlli Ih widest be tween Land's Hnd mid Kent. The ut most width Ih IILTi miles. It Ih narrow, cut hetw'eeti Lock llruoiu, on the west coast of Scotland, and lloruoch llrth, on the east coast. Tin? distance be tween the headH of these two Inlets la but twenty-four miles. KlltilliHlflii'M llily. When ItuhliiHtelu wiih travrllug tliiough the 1'i.lted StatCH upon a con cert tour. It chanced that Itanium's elrctiH followed almost exactly tho same route, chosen by the great Uus sin ii. On one occasion, when the train wiih tilled with Minike charmerH, acro bats, clowns and the like, the guard, noticing perhaps Itublusteln'a remarka ble appearance, asked him, "L)o you belong to the showV ' Tinning IiIh leonliit head, with n pav n gc shake Itublnstelr. auswerct. tierce, ly, "Sir, I mn the show." DoilbllilU Up, A boy of eight years was nsked by tils teacher where the zenith was. lie replied, "That spot In the heavens di rectly ovur one'H head." To test his knowledge further tho teacher asked: "Can two persotiH havo the Bntue zo ulth at the same tlmeV" , "They can." ,r"How?" "If one Btitud on tho other's head." . i . . A CARELESS CONSUL. I'lio AVity ISret finrln Cnr.it- lo hot IIIm I'onlttoii nt Ulnicon V,'l:c:i Bret Ilurte wan consul nt 01a cow, ho wi.h seldom to he found in that city, tin he hpent mom of IiIh time In tho Lo:ii!cn drawing rooms, where ho was u gciicinl favorite, and delegated tho comtulni' bUHliKHH to UKHlutantii. Ouo day while making one of IiIh rare vltu llti to (JltiHgow he scraped iiciiuulntutico with u ittraugcr on tho train. Kach M.'i'mcd fascinated by the other's per sonality, and time panned (julckly. At IriHt they reached the outskirts of a large city. "What place Ih this'" Inquired tho stranger. "I haven't the slightest Idea," replied Hitrie. after looking out of the window. A few mluutcH hit It tho railway runrd opened the door of the compart ment and announced that they hud ur rlvcd ut (JhiKgow. When Harte showed up nt the con sulate the next morning, the Ilrnt per sou who advanced to gleet him wiih the agreeable stranger, who Introduced himself iih a special agent of the homo government dent to Investigate charges of neglect of duty on the part of tho connul. The agent may have been affable, but ho wiih lacking In n sense of humor, for he evidently cabled IiIh government mi uccount of (he train Incident, as Hurle'H sttcccKfc'or was mod uftcr ap pointed. rn oil on it Clinrnctrr. One might almost nay that tho recipe for a happy home wuh what has been ' aptly called n "bland" dirt. While It ! Ih not literally true that eating hog ' makes a hog of ti mini, yet It Ih true ' there Ih ii large connection between It aid character. Bloodthirsty, lustful races are those that eat meat Inrgely rare meat-freely, whereas the gentle, Industrious, persistent races tire most ly grain and fruit enters. While the couttoversr over vegeta rianism Is one for cclcut.'MH to r.ctt.o. even the humblest of us can afford to try for himself the advantages of n "bland' diet. It Ih a most Interesting experience to see how acute and sensl live the bcuse of taste can become by avoiding fi.od that ban a strong taste. No o:ie knows the delicate sweets mid acids, oils and bites In our con:, moil cereals mid fruits who eatH huge hunks of llsh, flesh mid fowl highly flavored and deluged with biting i sauces. Simplicity of life can be us , much it part of diet us of furniture ur ' clothes. William Noyes In Good Housekeeping. 'I r .OiiIiii Crrr,', A Oermnn (.'hrlstimi mlssloimry who Iiiih wprked for many years among tho Mohammedans wiys: "Honchty compels every candid studeni to acknowledge that the old view formerly entertained In Christian eLreh'H concerning Mohatn medanlsi;i,necord:ng to which the teach IngH of the great Arabian prophet art nothing but devil's doctrines and dog miiH, h altogether Incorrect. In reality, Mohammedanism Is nothing but a ra tionalistic type of Christianity In tho form of a most unfortunate state re ligion. The tlmea are past when scold ing about the Moslem creed as the pro duction of the devil wll satisfy, and the struggle against I sin in on these premises Is a failure. Practically' all of the iuIsrIou literature that In the six teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies was written against Moham medanism Is useless." Tenierntiirc of rorct. For ninny years the Swiss govern ment has been 'making observations through Its forestry stations on tho temperature of the air. of the trees and the soil In the forests. The; observa tions show that the temperature In the forests Is illwnyH below the tempera ture outside. The temperature also varies according to the trees compos ing the forests. A beech forest Is always cooler ttiiu n forcBt of larch. As to the trunks of the trees, they are always cooler than the surrounding air. Regarding the temperature of the soil, It Is found that , In thy forest the temperature Is invari ably below that of the nlr. Outside the forest tho soil Is always wnrmer thnn the ah lu summer and colder lu win ter. Hemcmher that you will never gain, but always lose, by being afraid to do tho thing that seems to you right, by following the crowd without cultivat ing your own Individuality. Ladiea Home .turnal. s Cobs Bay Wlesale Limor IIKADQUAItTKUS FOIt II I 11 (MIAI)B LIQUOUH CIloICB W-INKH AND PUltK ISIMftDIKS. .LEADING BRANDS OF BOTTLED BEER family Orderj Solicited. SOI,K AGENT FOIt TUB CK1.R. IHIaYR!) Ranier Beer. Family order.- fur I'., pin's am iiinrts,ilelivereilby lliccin-t'. Robert Marsden. The Old Reliable Firm, E.B.Dean&Co. C. II. MERCllANT'igcgj? Is constantly adding to its stiieK of (5iieral Merchan dise, already tho largest in MarVlilielil. When you buy at the Mill Store yuu knnw tho good arc first clnr. and tlie price is all rig'il . All kinds of lumber and building material, feed and sup plies at wholesale and retail. visit DR. JORDAN'S qhcatI MUSEUM OF ANATOMY lt5HHKETXT.,lirtlICSC.ClLI Tkt laitctt Atoralcl Mimuia la tb . WmhL nAkft. 99 Ml clrftclfld ' diwt.f flllrlrrarJhlkf o!0l OR. JORDAN-OISEASES 07 MEN NVIBlt.l ikotMifhlr tdlrll , lianr,itm.likuuiitUKolMrrj'. ' TraftlUilbvUI KlMrL M&4L . I curs lot Mxplsr. A qakk .! 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New bt-di and spring maurcsJrt hnve liei plr.ccd in almost every sleeping room ol th's house and neither trouble nor expsniw- har bee:. jred to put everything In first-ciui order. TERMS. t Ccudand Lodging, per eek JS-'o Hoard, per week 4.00 SngleMls .. , 35 Fast nnd , ' Cqinmodtous Steamship ALLIANCE COCOCOOCCOQgO ur HABDW1CK, Master Make regular trips between S.in Fmncitco ind Portland via liumlKjIjit and Coos Bay, calling at above ports each way. Tho ALLIANCE in .1 first cla-n passenger bunt, and h'na all the modern convenience: and in one of the fajitest Stenmers of hi r cla-n. For Freight ' and, Passenger Rates orailiug Dates, Apply to . SENGSTACKEN, Agent, M VRSH"I?IELD, Oregon 8 8' SI o S, 8 81' 8 l 8 8 tsi GEE FEB. DEALER IN GROCERIES, I FRESH FRDITS.TEGETA, j , iiles rRoyrs.iONs; I FLOUR FEED, ETC., OF j THE BEST QUALITY. I ' PRICES REASONABLE. j FROZEN OYSTERS I ', EVERYDAY. : : : 1 j A Street, Marshfield, Ore 1 'B S ".--- 1 . -y .-. -4