THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895.
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"GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND. COINS OF LITTLE USE.
A Terrible Catastrophe Averted By Pub
lic Speaker's Self-Control.
One of the "sights" of Philadelphia,
fifty years ago, was a magnificent
Chinese museum, whose treasures, col
lected by Mr. Dunn, a munificent mer7
chant, were displayed in a building
erected on the site on which now stands
the Continental hotel. Over the mu
seum was a long, narrow upper room,
about thirty-five feet high. It was a
public hall, used for lectures and con
certs, and with it was associated a most
remarkable instance of presence of
mind. A correspondent of the London
Spectator tells the thrilling story.
In the central part of this immense
auditorium were collected one 'evening
about three thousand persons. At
about nine o'clock, the manager of the
building came to . the leader of the
meeting, white with affright, and told
him that the floor had sunk nearly a
foot, and that in a few minutes more
the tenons of the joists might be out of
their sockets.
The floor would then fall through
onto the Chinese museum, and the
walls, sixty feet in height, would col-
lapse and be precipitated, with the
roof, upon the assembly.
The leader explained to the person
whom the audience expected next to
hear, that by addressing the assembly
from the end of the hall, he could with
draw the company from the sunken
part of the floor to that where the
front walls strengthened the joists to
bear the weight of the people.
The reply to this was that his own
family was in the audience, and that
he must get them out first. " You shall
not!" said the leader; "a hint of danger,
a rush, and we. shall all be under the
fallen walls and roof. Five minutes'
delay may kill us altogether."
As a boy in the audience I well re
member my surprise at seeing the
leader suddenly appear at the far front
of the room, and tell the people that
they would next be addressed from
where he stood the organ-loft. As
the audience turned and moved to the
front, the flooring rose six inches.
The people were entertained partly
by an impromptu sentimental song in
a voice without a quaver, in the very
face of death, and as soon as practica
ble they were quietly dismissed.
Not a single individual in that great
assembly was aware that, by the pres
ence of mind of one man, an awful ca
tastrophe had . been averted. The
imagination sickens at the thought of
what would have been the consequence
of a panic and sudden .alarm by the
failure of the courage of this man.
I am confident that, excepting the
speaker referred to and the manager of
the building, no one outside the imme
diate family of the man whose courage
prevented this catastrophe has known
the whole story till now.
The terror of those minutes before
the crowd was moved and the floor
rose toward its level, was such, that he
never, even in -his own family, alluded
to the scene, though he lived for forty
years afterward.
The Gold Dollar Had Mo Utility, WMle
the Three-Cent Piece Served a Purpose.
To one who has not given the sub
ject thought it would seem that the
most useless coins ever issued by the
United States were the silver three
cent pieces. They were small, as thin
as a sheet of manilla paper and before
they finally disappeared from circula
tion they came to be regarded as
nuisances. i
Although there is much to be said
against the annoying little coins, says
the New York Herald, they were, as a
matter of fact, of far greater utility,
as far as circulation is concerned, than
another coin. This is the gold dollar,
which, experts at the sub-treasury say,
has never served any useful purpose.
Said Maurice Muhleman, cashier of
the sub-treasury, recently:
"From the mutilated condition of
the gold dollars sent here for redemp
tion it is positively shown that the
public do not regard them as coins.
Their only use appears to be for ban
gles, necklaces, watch charms, scarf
pins and the like. It is doubtful if one
in a thousand ever really passed in
circulation
"With the three-cent silver piece, it
was different. When first coined, the
country had nothing in the shape of a
coin between the huge copper cents
and half cents and the silver half
dime. The small coin was hailed as a
blessing, and became popular at once.
There was an excellent reason for its
issue also.
"Strange as it may seem, it was not
provided for by a coinage act, but by
an act revising the postal rates. This
law lowered the cost for transmitting
the unit of weight for letters from five
to three cents. It was deemed advisable
by congress thereupon to issue a coin
of corresponding denomination. The
coin was of great utility, and circulated
freely until the advent of the nickel."
STORIES OF NAPOLEON.
For Housekeepers.
The Table aska housekeepers to try :
Bobbing tough meat with cut lemon.
Bacon fat for frying chicken and game
Steaming a stale loaf of bread to fresh
en it.
Warming crackers slightly in the oven
before using.
Dipping sliced onions in milk before
frying.
Fried sweet apples when you have livr
er or kidney.
Heating dry.coffee before pouring on
the water.
Pouring vinegar over fresh fish to
makf the scales come off easily.
Adding lemon juice to the water in
which rice is boiled to keep the grains
separate.
Beating the whites of eggs at an open
window if the kitchen be hot and.
steamy. The Table.
Escaped Prisoners Captured. -
Santa Ana, Cal., Jan. 7. Two notori
ous characters, William juenby ana
Thomas Brown, dug through the county
jail here yesterday and scaled a big
board fence around the jail grounds.
Officers gave them a hot pursuit oh
horeeback, and captured both prisoners
after a sharp fight. Both men are
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to commit murder.
"The Restalator Line'
The Dalles, Portland anil Astori
Navigation Co.
LAND AT THE NORTH POLE.
Evidences of It Traceable in the Icebergs
of the Arctic Ocean.
There is no reasonable doubt that
there exists in the Arctic ocean, some
where in the vicinity of the north pole,
an ice-covered land of considerable ex
tent. This is evident from the charac
ter of the icebergs observed at various
points within the Arctic ocean; for
there are different classes of icebergs,
as there are different kinds of coal.
The difference between the floeberg, or
palaeocrystic iceberg, and the ordinary
iceberg of the north Atlantic, says a
scientific exchange, is as great and as
easily distinguishable as is the differ
ence between a block of bituminous
coal and one of anthracite. The floe
berg is distinguished by its tabular
form, great uniformity of height, rec
tangular shape, nearly flat surface, per
pendicular cliffs, and especially from
its laminated structure. Whenever a
palaeocrystic iceberg is seen in the far
north, before its face has suffered much
from the melting action of the sun, a
close observer notes that it presents
along its front a series of faint blue
lines, separated by interspaces of
opaque white. These lines show a
a stratification due to yearly accu
mulations of snow upon a nearly level
surface, which are transformed grad
ually into ice, and each line also repre
sents the limit of the accumulation
of a single year. In a similar manner
are formed the glaciers of the Alps and
Greenland, but these latter ice-shects
are torn, distorted and reformed a thou
sand times in their descent down rapid
slopes and through confining valleys of
greater or less width. Floebergs, then,
are parts of great ice sheets which,
formed from successive snowfalls over
a land area of no great elevation and
very gentle gradients,' flow downward
from its highest level in the direction
of least resistance. The slope being
gentle, the ice moves gradually sea
ward, with its structure unchanged
and its stratification unbroken, and
passes slowly into the ocean, whence
eventually its buoyancy causes it to
rise and disrupt in a vast mass from the
main sheet. .
With All His Opportunities He left the
Throne a Pauper.
No man in the history of the world
ever had such vast and varied opportu
nities for piling up a personal fortune
as those which fell to the lot of Napo
leon Bonaparte. Yet, on the first ab
dication, when the allies robbed him of
his wife and child and sent him to Elba,
he left the throne of the most powerful
nation in Europe almost a pauper, says
the New York Recorder.
The imperial treasures had been
kept at Orleans. After the abdi
cation the provisional government,
under the influence of Talleyrand,
the most notorious self-seeker in
France, was more concerned about i
these treasures than about the future of
the nation. A decree of practical con
fiscation was drawn up and a force of
men under M. Dudon was sent from
Paris to Orleans to seize on everything
that could be found.
Napoleon's personal treasury had at
one time contained about 114,000,000
francs. Of this amount more than
t 100,000,000 francs had been used to
equip the army of France for its final
! struggle with monarchial Europe. The
I remnant was seized as per programme
! by Talleyrand's minions. They took
i 10,000,000 francs in gold and silver coin,
I 3,000,000 francs in gold and silver plate,
! perhaps 400,000 francs' wo. -h of snuff
i boxes and rings, a good part of Napo
1 Icon's wardrobe, and even his embroid
I cred pocket- handkerchiefs. There
I wasn't anything modest about M. Tal-
leyrand. The Russian officers refused
I to interfere with this pillage, although
! appealed to.
I The loss of this money only occa
sioned a moment of irritation to Napo
leon. The loss of his wife and child
made him like a caged lion at Elba,
and, in his opinion, fully justified his
dramatic return to France.
Mexican
Mustang
Liniment
ON A CHERRY
STONE.
Petition
T FACTS AND FIGURES.
There are 150,000,000 opium smokers
in China.
Twelve average tea plants produce
one pound of tea.
The railroads of this country em
ploy 33,130 locomotives.
It is estimated that the land in the
United States is worth $13,500,000,000.
The king of Samoa has forbidden his
subjects to sell or to use intoxicating
liquors.
The University of Chicago conferred
its first degree of doctor of philosophy
, upon a Japanese.
An ant's brain is larger, in proportion
to the animal's size, than that of any
other creature known.
Last year the " postmasters of this
country handled about 4,000,000,000
pieces of stamped paper.
Sib John Hajst declares that the Chi
nese pay every year for their national
curse, opium, $100,000,000.
A Talented Convict Carves His
for a Pardon.
Gesa Berger, the actor and news
paper man, has a picture in caligraphy
that has a remarkable history. It is in
size thirty by forty-two inches, and is
the work of Joseph Loew, the most
noted counterfeiter that the Austrian
government ever knew.
When an application is made for a
pardon in Austria the red tape policy
of that country compels the applicant
to address the emperor with all his
titles. Emperor Ferdinand had about
forty titles. Loew engraved all of
these names, together with his petition
for a pardon, on a cherry stone.
Tho letters were so fine that it re
quired the aid of a powerful micro
scope to decipher them. One day
when the emperor visited the prison
Loew in person presented a cherry
stone to the emperor and told him
what it contained. The emperor made
an examination and was so amazed at
the work that he gave him an uncon
ditional pardon. Not only did he par
don him, but gave him a position as a
detective to trail down counterfeiters.
Loew was a well-informed man in all
the arts and rascalities of counterfeit
ers, and in less than two years after
his pardon he ran to earth almost every
counterfeiter in Austria, and died a
few years ago covered with detective
honors. The ' picture, although made
fifty years ago, is in a remarkable state
of preservation.
Hindu Occupations.
The Hindus are curiously frank in
specifying their occupations for the
census reports. Among the accounts
many of them give of their trades
they designate themselves as debtors,
living on loans, men of secret resources
or plainly thieves, village thieves or
robbers. Others more modestly call
themselvesguests, visitors, story-tellers
from house to house, dependents on
relatives, supported by their son-in-law,
or idlers; and one is without work
because he is silly. Among the more
serious occupations are declarer of
oracles, cleaner of eyes, sorcerer, fore
teller of storms and hail, player of the
tomtom, or player, . barber, doctor ac
cording to the Greek method, servant
of a candidate, marriage broker of
young domestics, marriage broker of
his own daughters for money, etc
for
Burns,
Caked & Inflamed Udders.
Piles,
Rheumatic Pains,
Bruises and Strains.
Running Sores,
Inflammations,
Stiff joints,
Harness & Saddle Sores,
Sciatica,
Lumbago,
Scalds,
Blisters,
Insect Bites,
AH Cattle Ailments,
AH Horse Ailments,
All Sheep Ailments,
Penetrates Muscle,
Membrane and Tissue
Quickly to the Very
Seat of Pain and
Ousts it in a Jiffy.
Rub in Vigorously.
Mustang Liniment conquers
Pain,
Makes flan or Beast well
again.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is Eaid to be
the best paid novelist now living. Out
of her three books that have been pub
lished in the last six years she has real
ized no less than $200,000.
You can tell a young doctor from an
old doctor in the dark, because when
you ask an old doctor a question he
doesn't answer you immediately, as if
he were cock sure. Somerville Journal.
A New York monkey slipped his tether
and went on a jamboree among the sa
lxri8. Ail the accounts agree that be
made a human being of himself. Bos
ton Herald.
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Thus the child is rendered healthy and its
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" Castoria Is so -well adapted to children that
I recommend It as superior to any prescription
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Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so.
as it has invariably produced beneficial results. "
Edwih F. Pardee, M. D.,
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its merits so well known that it seems a work of
supererogation to endorse it. Few are the in
tern pent families who do sot keep Castoria
within easy reach."
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