A Spoonful of
ROYAL
Baking Powder
will raise one third
more biscuit than
the same quantity
of any other baking
powder, and will
make them lighter,
sweeter, purer and
more wholesome.
SeeU.S.Gov't Report oh j
Baking Powders, p, i 3.
They Only Knew Agaaela.
In 1859 a iiarty consisting of Lowell,
Emerson, Agassi. Judge Hoar, W. J.
Btillman and several others spent a taw
weeks of the summer in the Adiron
daekg. . The journey of the company gave rise
to an incident which has often been in
correctly told, and which, as a carious
comment upon human fame, deserves to
be told again. The coming of the party
was of course made known along the
track it would follow, and at Keese
ville, where the common roads then
ended, the town was agog to see the
"philosophers," as they were at once
collectively called. But neither Emer
son nor Lowell was known, Agassis be
ing the only celehrity to that world, ow
ing to his having recently refused the
offer by the emperor of France of the
keepership of the Jardin des Plantes at
Paris and a senatorship with a large sal
ary, he preferring to devote himself to
science and America.
The selectmen of the town waited on
the visitors early in the morning after
their arrival to pay their respects, they
aid, but really to see a man who had
no regard for money and distinction.
They were received formally, the spokes
man bringing a copy of a periodical
which contained a portrait of Agassis,
which he produced and carefully com
pared with the lineaments of the pro
fessor until he had satisfied himself of
the authenticity of the individual, when
ho addressed his followers with. "Yes,
it's him r And they then proceeded to
shake hands with him, the rest of the
party being ignored. W. J. Stillman in
Century.
How Did tb Dollar Mark Orlr;lnateT
Below I give five theories of the origin
of the dollar mark (?), they being select
ed from about 20 seemingly plausible
solutions:
That it is a combination of the "TJ. S.,
the initials of United States.
That it is a modification of the figure
8, the dollar being formerly called a
"piece of eight."
That it is derived from a representa
tion of the Pillarsof Hercules, consisting
of - two needlelike towers or pillars con
nected with a scroll The old Spanish
coins marked with the pillar device
were frequently referred to as "pillar
dollars."
That it is a combination of "H.
the ancient Roman mark of money tknit
That it is a combination of P. and 8.
from peso duro, signifying "hard Hol
lar.' In Spanish accounts peso is con
tracted by writing the a over the P.,
and placing it over the sum.
According to one writer the symbol of
the dollar is a monogram of the letters
"V- "8" and "J" the dollar being
originally a "thaler" coined in the val
ley of Sant Joachim, Bohemia, and
known as "Joachim thaler," and the
monogram the initials of the words,
"Valley Sant Joachim." St. Louis Republic.
PILCftlMAGlS TO MECCA.
balislnua " ul ut Mokammavlana a Oraat
tlnon 10 stintnnlilp Companies.
It is more tlinn remarkable that a cus
tom wliic'.i i;; vie shortly after the death,
tome l.SW years Ago, of a man whose
nnnio was for centurier- Identified with
all that was hostile to Christian domina
tion and opinion should within the last
few years have had an important and
favorable influence on the earnings of
certain British lines of steamers.
No race lias been more enthusiastic in
the way of pilgrimage to the holy city
of Arabia than that inhabiting the Malay
peninsula and archipelago. Although
their conversion to Islainisin dates back
only some 600 years, if indeed quite so
long (the records of the event being de
cidedly vague and untrustworthy), the
duty of performing the "Haj" is recog
nised by all right minded Malays as im
perative. The peninsula itself probably
furnishes a far fewer number of pilgrims
than the large islands of the archipelago
forming the magnificent territory knowi
as Netherlands Indies. Java aud Celebes.
Boyan and Bugis, to say nothing of in
numerable less known places, now send
forth multitudes yearly to visit the sa
cred fane. It would not at first sight,
seem that the journey made principally
in well appointed steamers involved any
particular hardships.
But the nsnal conditions of the "pil
grim traffic" are somewhat different
from those of ordinary passenger vessels.
The Malay pilgrim, whose ticket to and
from Mecca is provided by a passage j
broker, has to find his own provisions
while on board. In all cases he has to
pay smartly for conveyance from Jedd.i'i
to Mecca overland, unless he elects to.'.o
the journey on foot, but in any event he
has to provide the necessary commis
sariat. The steamers as a rule are over
crowded for ordinary comfort, although
permitted by regulation to carry the 800
or more pilgrims who embark. Should,
as sometimes happens, an epidemic
break out during the voyage, the death
rate becomes tragical. The worst hard
ships, however, commence on landing at
the evil smelling and by no means
healthy port of Jeddah.
Few of the pilgrims provide them
selves with adequate necessaries to
tramp the greater portion of the 100
miles which separate the city of Mecca
from its nearest port. Yet worse is their
condition on returning. .The price of
food is exorbitant, and thousands perish
annually of exhaustion and insufficient
nourishment and this despite the best
efforts of the British and other consuls
at Jeddah, who issue all needful warn
ings to the pilgrims. Quarantine, again,
tells heavily against the would be Haji.
A few extra days' detention exhausts his
small stock of provisions, and he falls a
ready victim to disease. The result fr
that a large proportion of those who
visit Mecca never return to their own
country. The trade, however, is profit
able to steamer owners, much as it is
disliked by captains and officers. As for
Europeans unfortunate enough to be
passengers in a pilgrim ship, they are
not to be envied. Pall Mall Gazette.
HOW PINS ARE MADE.
Out Pointed, Headed and Paokod
"jf Machinery.
raniad Oat at an Aatoe.lab.lut Bat
Wonderfully Ingwntoa Maehau.
Urn-How They Oat Thalr
Rich Pollah.
by
The machine that makes pins turns
out 7,600 of these tiny essentials in an
hour. Before the pin is finished it goes
through very many operations, which
are describedlu the Yout h's Companion
as follows: A reel of wire hangs over
the machine, the free end of which
passes between two rollers.
As the wire leaves the rollers it
passes between two matched dies until
it touches a gauge. J ust as it does this
the dies come together and elamp it
Character la OalU
Gait is an important part of physical
expression. By his gait a man tells ns
whether he is fresh or tired, strong or
feeble, in good health or in bad. To some
SETKX THOUSAND WSI AN HOUR.
firmly in a groove in their face. At
the same time the machine cuts it off
the proper length.
1 he gauge then moves away, and a
little punch forms the head by strik
ing the end which rested against the
gauge.
When this is finished the dies sepa
rate and deliver the pin into one of the
great many grooves in the face of the
wheel about a foot in diameter, and
just as wide across its face as the piu
is long.
When the pin is taken by the wheel
it has no point, but as the wheel turns
it rubs the pins against an outside
band, which causes each one to roll in
its groove, and at the same time car
ries them past a set of rapidly moving
files, which brash against the blunt
ends and sharpen them roughly.
They next pass against the faces of
two grinding wheels, which smooth
the points, and then to a rapidly mov
ing leather band having tine emery
glued on its face. This gives them the
final polish, and as they leave the band
they are dropped into a box under
neath the machine.
After this the pins are plated with
tin to give them a bright, silvery ap
pearance. They are prepared for plat
ing by being first immersed in weak
suipnuria acia to remove all grease,
ENTIRELY NEW MINERAL,
Crystal of "Carborundum" Created ay
an American Chemlat.
Incidentally to an attempt to pro
duce diamonds by artifice an American
chemist has recently discovered a min
eral hitherto unknown the hardest
Bubstanco In existence with one ex
ception. It is called "carborundum."
The inventor for making his gems
obtained from a concern in Lockport,
N. Y., the use of its aluminum-smelt-ing
apparatus. In reducing that
metal electricity is employed, $ en
erating an enormously high tempera
ture. As a chance experiment ho nut
into the furnace a lump of clay to
gether with a piece of graphite, which
is pure carbon. The result was some
small wino-colored crystals of rhom
boidal shape. Ou examination it was
found that they were harder than
sapphire. Diamond is the hardest of
natural ' minerals; sapphire comes
next, and then ruby.
Chemical analysis proved that the
crystals were composed of carbon and
silicon in a combitiutiou hitherto un
heard of. It does not occur iu nature.
The process above described, repeated
again and again, produced the wine
colored rhomboids every time. A com
pany has been formed to manufaeture
them for polishing all sorts of tliinirs,
even diamonds. They are crushed to
powder like emery and made into
wheels with a cementing compound.
The demand for them is already great
er than the supply. At the office of
the geological survey this new grind
ing material is to be tried in the
preparation of thin slices of stone for
microscopical examination. These
uuna 01 rocK granite, marble, or
what not are reduced to such thin
ness that one can read through them.
Sir. Kuns, the famous expert in
gems, believes that most of the pre
cious stones will eventually be pro
duced artificially. All of them arc
very simple in their composition the
diamond, for example, is pure carbon,
and the ruby is almost pure alumina
and the problem is merely to make
their elements crystallize pronerlv.
Chemists, who have hitherto confined
their attention to taking things apart,
are beginning to leurn how to put
them together ugain. The English
professor, Maskelyne, manufactured
diamonds in his laboratory several
years ago, though they were too small
to have commercial value. Emeralds
have been produced accidentally at the
pottery works of Sevres, France.
WHEN WAR 1 DKULAtis-ll
Aftomji rnan't napplnent by hit itomaob, tht
enomy may be pclili and brought eiwedlly
mil eiially to toruia. That potent regulator ut
turcitton, lloatetter'a Stomach Hlttera, dlael.
nllueath rebellloui Oman thoronithlT. luill
geatlon arUaa from wwltnew of th atomaah,
sud tli e food In II, for want of the power lo ill
goii, decomposes and aeldlltea. giving rla lo
heartburn, tltiiulenoe and pain, Vatdea s m oil i -tud
of ayniptoma ImiiIi ohanguful aud perplex
ing. Hot peace aoon rulKita when the great tto
machle la roeorled lo and uied wltn perelatenc.
DyKMita glvea rla to morbid illkcompoaur tf
lulud, and veu sleeplveaiieaa and hypochondria
In ohroiiui cuace. To the complete dlauilaaal of
thoao tlio IIIIIits lawfully adequate. Liver nmi
plalnt, oonatlpatlon. debility, rheiimatlam and
malaria am completely aubdued by tlili geutal
luedlulue.
Jai'kwm
Ion of an old nruverb.
Jackion Yon turn lk a bone to water, bul yo
unuu unuK yuuravii.
I have Juit heard (lie Kentucky ver-
iurri w uat it ttr
HAVK MO EQUAL.
Allcock's Porous Plastics have attained
a world-wide reputation solely upou their
superlative merits. They have many would
be rivals, but have never been equaled or
even approached in ouratlve properties and
rapidity and safety of action. Their value
hat been attested by the hlxheat medical
authorities, aa well as by unimpeachable
testimonials from those who have used
them, and they are recommended at the
beat external remedy for weak back, rheu
matism, sciatica, oolilii, coughs, sore throat,
chest and stomach ultVctions, kidney (11 III
oulties, weak nuiaales, straina, stitches aud
aches and paint of everv tioaurluiinii.
, I)i nut be deceived by misrepresentation,
Ask for and insist upou having Aluovk.'
i)mirith rim assist nature.
From Catarrh
It la BUtattap
To Consumption
And thoiuaudt of ptople art tnoou
aoloutly takliif the fatal step. If roll
have Catarrh In the Head do not allow
It to prouren unheeded and nneheektd,
It la a illieiae of the ayatcm ana not
Imply of the note and thrvnt. The
blond roaohet evary part of the nyiteni.
Therefore I he only way to cure Catarrh
li to take a thorouirh blood purlflar like
liond't Haruparilla, wlilnh perfvoUy
and pormaueutly curat Catarrh.
HOOD'S
Sarsaparilla
CURES
HOOd'a Pllla our all I.Ivor lilt, nillour
BewTJauiidlno, ludlKvatlou. Hink Itea'fanhe.
"Henry, weren't yon awfully
you proposal to met'1 " W liy yea,
11 thought I beard your falber'a 1
the ball, you know,
OArud when
1, dear, I was.
fjouto u
aBr aaer , r . r.9HHJ
C
tor throat diteaset and coughs
"ifroWi hrvnrhinl KVocAm." Price,
cents. .So rf ony n bojett.
ute
25
Chappie I'm awfully fond of himitnar doga.
1 ca I
She (lutioeeutly)'
uuiii lueiu r
Where do you go to
ota,
(Dot..
$1.00 pw Dottle?
Ouecauta
Tan Orbat Cornn
wher all others fa
Throat. Hoaraanaw
Aathma. For Conounaetleai
has cured thousands, and will curb too I
taken In time. Bold be Irraaslats on a guar
antee. For a Lam Daoks or Cheat, ue
inibvii 1 Bin.i)onwA ruiTM.ni.
LOH'SCATARRH
ROOFING
Ql'M-KUHTIO ROoriNll tKIT toale ouly
S.0O per wo u,uara laoli Maket a good roof
lor yrara, ami any one nan put It on.
UliM-tcUHTlU I'AINTooalijon y00cnlpo
Sal In bbl. Iiitui or II.W fur 6 gal. luba, Color
ark red. Will aUip leakt In tin or Iron rood
that wllllaat four yoara, r jr It.
Bend ttanii for aamplea aud full jurllmilarl.
'oiiM KI.AST10 KtlOt'lNd C(i.,
N ami 41 Wat II road way. New York.
Local agvma waiueu.
n Heart. 1
I I PLANT KHKHV'IMKI1M II
W thu vi'ar. ami iiiaka up fur Iimi llmaf
V rrrrr'aHred AnnaallurlMMwIII
Mva yvu many valuable htttuj
V alaint what mine amt how lujf
.k. ralaa It. Itiwilalnilliloriiia-
X Uon lo la- had rroiu no ot tiafX
XX auurce. Vn ta mil.Jy
A D.M. Terry Co. X
V Detroit,
iVlUoar
uromullv aurat
li. Couarha. Croup, lore
Throat, Hoaraanaea, whaoplaf Cougb and
tiaa it sat no nvau
II CURB too ir
KIDNEY,
Bladder, Urinary and l.lvar Ulaettet Dropay
Uraval aud Ulabetaa are carad by
HUNT'S REMEDY
THI
HOW'S THIS I
REMEDY.
BltT KIONIY
AND LIVIR
MBOICINI.
We offer One Hundred Dollara Reward for any
case ol eatarrb that cannot be cured by Hall
v.aiarrn vure. . J. t'H nNBY t O.,
iroitrilirH. T.kl.lii. I).
We, the unclenlgncd, have kuown . J, Che-
uv. Iur me laai iiiieuu yeara, ami believe aim
KrfiH'tly honorable 1u all hualiieaa tranaaetlona
aud ttiiaiiciaily able to carry out any obllitatlou
iutiuv ojr itiuir orin. r-.- a 1 KL'AA,
Wholiaale f)rniojlt. Toledo, O.
WALUINU. RINNAN A MARVIN.
Whottwalw OrlltflMla Ti,l.uln ft
uau vaiarrni ure la laavu luteruali) , actlnn
directly Hpuu the blood ami niiouiu aurlM-ea of
tneayalvin. frloc, 76 eeuta per bottle. Hold by I
SCII IFF MINN'S ASTHMA CURB
teed to oura you. rrioe.Uota,
This teimedr la ruaran.
injector i
rfreo.
HUNT'S REMEDY
Curat Bright'! Plaeaat, Reiantton or Kon-ra-
teniioa 01 unue, raiut in lie paus, uina or
Bid.
W BBBBBBBBaaan f'i
THE FIRST POLISHIKO PROCESS.
and then dried by beinfr placed a
bushel or so at a time, with about the
same quantity of sawdust in
A NEAT EXPERIMENT.
Row to Haks a Hoop That Will Roll Up
Illll.
Cutout a narrow strip of pasteboard
and join the ends together to form a
hoop. On the inner side of the hoop
fasten a small weight, such as a metal
button or a bit of sealir-jr wax. Con-
Instantly rellevea th moat violent attack, fa-
i-uiwiOT imeipwiuniuuii ana imiim real to
tboae otherwiae unable to aleep except in a
chair, aa a tingle trial will prove. Send for a
Ire trial packaire to lr. K.Hrhiff inaiiu.HL Faul,
dw.ui., vui aa jwui urugguu nrat.
ThUTrad Mark h) OB the beat
Oaa Bnaoellne 8 tor PoUaa ; no dust, no small.
Tst 0 ism i a for breakfast.
SEDENTART OCCUPATION,
Y.?Y,: i 'i'.Mi;1 S li ' YiXa-t I'?
. lu .": 'i1 ' II U'ai. - BT 'VaaB'
" Lull;..:. ..in.l.iil'l u.iri,, jn.m I jOT- g S
5- a r II .
n, a I 'e "
WATERPROOF COAT
SiJSSSl4 Intho World I
lT- A. J. TOWER. BOSTON. MASS
SEEDS I TREES!
Portland v Seed v Co.,
HUNT'S REMEDY
Curat Intemperance, Nervoua Dlteaaea, Oauara
Deblllly, Famal Waakuaa aud Kaveaaea,
HUNT'S REMEDY
Cure Btllonaneat, Ileadaohe, Jaundloa, gout
Stomach, Uyapapaia, UouaUpatlou and rilot.
HUNT'S REMEDY
AO IB AT OKIt'KonUieKleJaiera, l.lier
and Htlj raatorlng ibeat to a taaalthy ao
tloo, and ' K.whau all other metllolua
fall. UuudreiU have bean saved who bar oea
giva ap to at oy oiaaa ana phyilctana,
OLD BY AM. ItMIUIBTB.
171 Baeond St., Portland, Or.
PENft roR CATAIAX1UK.
.hi; . ; i, !niM''!'!;
DIL
I 1
E
lr. Willlama' Indian Pile
Ointment will our Blind,
Mleeilliia aud Itolt luar I'llea.
It abeorlw tfaa tnmora, allays
thtltoblngatouoe, acta a poiil-
lice, vivaa itiatant rellaL llr.wili.
lama' Indian I'll ointment la prepared
ma
i : Art InatrnctloB.
An artist had cold a picture for an ex
orbitant price and the purchaser sued to
recover. The attorney for the purchaser
was making the artist uncomfortable by
his questions.
'Now, sir," he said in that pleasant,
ingratiating manner of lawyers with a
witness, "do you think anybody could
tee beauty in that picture?" '
"Some persons certainly could," re
plied the artist.
"Yon think the initiated in technical
matters might have no difficulty in un
derstanding your workr
"I am sure they would not."
" "Do yon think you could make me see
any beauty in that picture?" this most
superciliously. , . ,
''Probably not now, sir" and the art
ist was most humble "but once I could
have done so easily."
"Now, sir, how is that? I don't under
stand you. Explain, if you please."
"That's quite easy, sir. I could have
done it simply by employing yon as my
counsel in this case." Detroit Free
Press.; .
. Courteay Among th Swedes.
The Swedes are a quiet,' taciturn rjeo-
ple. There is no jostling even among
the lowest classes. When a train leaves
a platform or a steamboat a pier, the
lookers on lift their hats to the depart
ing passengers and bow to them, a com
pliment which is returned by the pas
sengers. You are expected to lift your
hat to the shabbiest person ou meet in
the street, and to enter' a ?,lr), office or
bank with the hat on is corr ""red a bad
breach of good manners, retiring
from a restaurant you are expected to
bow to the occupants. Bowinir and hat
lifting . is so common that the people
teem to move around more slowly than
elsewhere, in order to observe the cour
tesy. F. H. Stauffer in Kate Field's
Washington.
The Dog Didn't Like HI Snore.
In bunting for evidence of a dog fight
Sunday the officers learned that one
Herbert Bprague, a stevedore, had been
bitten by a canine, investigation shows
that Bprague went to bed Saturday
night with a bull pup. Bprague snored,
and this disturbed the dog, so be
scratched his owner's face to wake him.
Bprague retaliated by cuffing the ca
nine, whereupon the bull fastened his
teeth in the man's nose and then shook
him, sadly lacerating the member.
Bprague finally broke the hold, disabled
the dog with a chair and then got a
neighbor to shoot him. The nose will
recover, but look bad.- "
extent also gait denotes occupation. The j chine called a tumbling barrel.
upright ana somewhat rigid walk of the
soldier differs largely from the rather
rolling gait of the sailor, and different
from both of these is the slow, jolting
gait of the country laborer, which, how
ever, is partly accounted for by his clum
sy and heavy boots. In the peculiarities
of gait, again, an attentive eye discovers
many moral qualities. Slow steps, wheth
er long or short, suggest a gentle or reflect
ive state of mind as the case may be. j
while on the contrary quick steps seem
to speak of agitation and energy.
Reflection is revealed in frequent
pauses, and walking to and fro, back
ward and forward, the direction of flu
ster wavering and following every
changing impulse of the mind, inevitably
betrays uncertainty, hesitation and in
decision. It might be asking too curious
a knowledge to distinguish by their re
spective gaits the miser, the spendthrift
and the philanthropist, bnt the proud
man is almost always known by his step,
the vain man to some extent and the ob
stinate man not a little. Leisure Hoar.
This is simply a cask suspended on a
shaft which passes through it length
wise. Two or three hours' rolling in
sawdust cleans the pins and wears
away any little roughness which the
machine may have caused.
Fins and sawdust are taken together
from the barrel and allowed to fall in
a steady stream through a blast of air.
: After this they are spread out in trays
having sheets of zinc in their bottoms,
which have previously been connected
with one of the wires of an electric
battery. The trays are then placed In
a tank containing a solution of tin in
muriatic acid, and the other wire of
the battery is inserted in the solution.
Electrical action immediately begins
and deposits metallic tin on the entire
surface of each pin.
They are then washed in a tank of
water and put into other tumbling bar
rels with hot sawdust. When they
have been dried and cleaned of the
sawdust, as in the former instance,
they are put into a large, slowly revolv
ing copper-lined tub, which is't.llted at
tiring on a BegrgarlT SIO.OOO.
So one who has not actually mixed
with New York dandies knows how
much they spend. Asocial philosopher
has lately reckoned that a young man
about twn, who takes his part in the
good things which are going, cannot
dress under $2,500 a year. His tailor's
bill will eat half of this, his shirts and
"gentlemen's furnishings" a quarter, his
boots not less than $225. It will cost over
$500 to outfit him for yachting, tennis
and polo. Then add to this his bill for
horses, his club bill, bis florist's bill, his
restaurant bill, his lodging bill and the
nameless sundries which constitute one
half of the outlay of a young man about
town, and it will be seen that a man mav
have $10,000 a year and yet be familiar
with the face of duns. I
One of the oldest and wisest clubmen
of the day recently, after an hour's study
of the necessaries of life for a man of
fashion, declared that he would advise
no one to attempt the life with less than
$25,000 a year. Cor. San Francisco Ar
gonaut. A Breach of Etiquette.
In Holland a woman is a secondary
consideration and a poor consideration
at that No Dutch gentleman when
walking on the sidewalk will move out
of his way for a lady. The latter turns
out invariably, however muddy or dan
gerous the street. Ladies very rarely
make any requests of the lords of crea
tion. An American woman asked a Hol
land gentleman at a party to bring her a
certain book from a table. The bewild-
THE riSAh TUMBLMO OPERATION.
an angle of about forty-five degrees.
'As this revolves the pins keep slid
ing down the smooth copper to the
lower side. This constant rubbing
against the tub and against each other
polishes tliem.
It was the practice formerly to allow
pins of all lengths to become mixed in
the different operations, and, after
polishing, to separate them by a very
ingenious machine, but it has been
found more economical to keep each
size to itself.
From the polishing tub the pins are
carried to the "sticker," where they
fall from a hopper on an Inclined
plane in which are a number of slits.
The pins catch in these slits and hang-,
ing by their heads, slide down the in
cline to the apparatus which inserts
them in the paper.
As the number of pins in a row on
ered stare with which he favored her the paper and the number of slits are
convinced her that she had committed a the ,ulme' on elitlr0 row " "tuck at once
conventional offense. He bronirht the Dv an ingenious device, which takes
struct an inclined plane by placing a
flat ruler on a table, with one end rest
ing on a slight elevation, such as a pile
of books. Mace the hoop on the In
cline in such a position that the weight
may be slightly in front of the highest
point of the hoop, in the direction of
the top of the incline. On releasing
the hoop it will be found to at once
roll up the incline, in seeming defiance
of the law of gravity It will increase
viie mystery u instead ol a hoop a
round pasteboard box is used, having
a similar weight on the inside.
THE HOTTEST SPOTS.
Death Valley In ralif,rnla Carrlaa Off thn
I'altn iu Anierlra.
In the eastern heminphere the hot
test spot is on the borders of the Per
sian gulf on the southwestern coast of
Persia. The thermometer during July
and Auguit never falls below 100 de
grees during the night, while the tem
perature during the day rises to 1'2S
or lilO degrees. Little or no rain
falls, and yet, in spite of the terrific
heat and other drawbacks, a compara
tively numerous population contrive to
live there, obtaining their water sup
ply by divers from the copious springs
of fresh water which burst forth from
the bottom of the sea.
In the western hemisphere the hot
test region is a valley in California
(known as the Death valley), situated
to the cast of the Sierra Nevadas, and
runningbetween two mountain ranges,
the Funeral or Tuneral (0,000 feet) and
the Amnrgosa (10,000 feet), which has
as high or even a higher mean temper
ature than the region on the Persian
coast. In four months out of five dur
ing which readings of the thermometer
were taken, the mean temperature rose
above 90 degrees, .while in July and
August it exceeded 100 degrees. The
mean temperature for the twenty-four
hours on the isth of July, 1801, was
plenty ol sitting
down and not
much exerelse,
ought to have Ir.
Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets to go with
it. They absolutely
'and DermatientlV
..
cure voiiKtipniion.
une tiny, sugar
coatctl I'd let is a
corrective, a regulator, a gentle laxative.
They're the smallest, the easiest to take,
and the most natural remedy no rear n rrrftr llliEimrti
tion afterward. Sick Headache, BUiout H. rtuUtftptllUttf,
Jirauiitnir, AiMHcniiuil, jjintiu .AUACKS,
and all stomach and Dowel derangements
are prevented, relieved and cured.
DOCTOR
Prte'sleiif,
lor Pile and llrhlna of the brlvate
part. Every box la warranted. By drug.
alata. bv mall on reoelt.t of nrfee. An eenta
aud II. (W WILLI Sit alaalUMCIUIIINe CO
Proprietor, Cleveland, Ohio.
THE GREAT CURE
-roE-
Portland. Or.,
leading Jeweler of the Pacific North
weal, kei-pa large elock ol all
"COLD I! TUB !tKAD" is
liy cured by Dr. Hone's Ca-
iioru(Kiy. Bo la Catarrhal
ache, and every trouble)
a lir Catarrh. So ia Ca-
i Itself. The proprietors
iut any case wnica
cannot cura.
SECRET SOCIETY BADGES
On hum!. Bot tood t lowect flf urri.
niaVde lo order.
INDIGESTION
-AND
CONSTIPATION.
tladgeal
"An mi of
Flower Mk
R U PTU R E fepktariif ttetaMiiliieis
TI.Y CURKDob
FKRMANKM1
M MY. Kn rT Bart I
i.v. bio. no rt-lcr to s.ooii
pntienta. No omunm, Sol
nrTKKTion raoa Bcamtaa.
Write or rail for circular ami
bank releranre. fuawna Ina.
-a si tcirio roR-
"One of my neighbors, Mr. John
Gilbert, has been sick for a long
nine, Aiimougntnnnpastrecovery.
He was horribly emaciated from the
inaction ot bis liver and kidneys.
It is difficult to descrile his appear
ance and the miserable state of his
health at that time. Help from any
source seemed impossible. He tried
your August Flower and the effect
upon him was magical. It restored
him to perfect health to the great
asionisnment oi ms family and
friends." John Quihell, Holt, Ont
ThfiO.E. MILLER CO.,
Maraaam auuoinf,
POHTI.A1U, WMKOI
litcrar'd Capital and lurplua, 11,000.000.
on. euHirs
ONION
smup
FOR COUGHS,
COLDS
AND CROUP.
GRANDMOTHER'S ADVICE.
13 fm'lr O" am eanavwn. air onlr aa.
dr for Oo.iaha, Cold, and Craup waa onion arm p. it
laMaaeffootfca t?-Ur aa It waa fwtr raara e.
2J7Jn" r,nd?,"lan Ir. Onno'a Onion Srrup
WMoh la alroadrpraparadaad mora elaaaaat lo th
Scroffili, Rhentnttisci.
Stit Rbeim, Neantgii
And 111 Otkir Bloodiod Skis Dliatsn.
It to a poalllr ear for all (hoe painful, dell
oatacomplalnuauaonmpllcatad trouble and
weaanoaeea common imnu. n i. ...
auddaujbtera -.....
m.errunl la immediate and laatlni. Twooi
"" dP!,ol rABUSf Ki.r taken (tail)
keep tli blood cool, th liver and kidney a(
lye.aud will entirely eradicate Iron theayateni
No mcdlelii aver Introduced tn thla eounlrj
baa mat with aueh ra.ly aala, nor siren auol
"i1 ",,'"',oo whenever uaed aa that ol
1 hla remedy ha been uaed In th noapltau
throughout th old world forth paat twenty
!!J 1?V " . "S"t ,or ,h dleeaaei,
and It ha and will cure wbw alloilirawialle3
re in (mi i tM i atii,
Hud lor pamphlet ol teatlmonlala from thoat
who bar bvan oared by Ita iu. Iiruialaui wli
JfW Pr botll. 'TliMdu 3rinoid
MACK & CO.,
O and If Front Su atari franolaoc.
! II a I Sfi. awrwharak Lara bolllaa ao " T9n '-. M" Fff
rooklyn Hotel sffimsn on
201-212 Bul St., Iu Fraocliei.
Tola farorlte hotel la nnder tha mmHm.n
of CHAKI.KM MONTGOMERY, and la a rood U
" ue o--ai r amity ana jDuaioea at en's uoteJ
In San Pranclaoo.
A ftPFriAl TV frlmarr. HaeoTKl
I "TDhllla Dermanemlr r-nnxt In in uua... .l
oan be treated at home for th aame prlra and the
earn avnraateeai with thoaa who prefer to eome
.....miMHnrtHinn in,- or rt'iuna n)orM
and pay ezpana or eonilua. railroad far and hotel
. i. ww inn vi cure, ir Jon
andal
bill., i
x... . .,.o j . id... n.r.i.i n:: n i .-rj-7""""'.v""
juDbovtriuonvvreeH. in h vaiifiv lit i n una i,nniinni i.iiivina iinariaaiian i i tv"
I to i I - I - "
uuuk, oui qmoiiy miormea ner tbat a
Hollander would never hare asked such
a favor. F. H. Stauffer in Kate Field's
WnshiriKton. -
Wild Uananaa liar Secda.
Wild varieties of bananas have been
found in Ceylon. Cochin China and tha
Philippines. These of course have seeds,
but they are Inferior to the long cultivated
varieties. The banana Is cultivated by
suckers, and it is in this way that the
plant Is perpetuated Indefinitely. Gold
thwaite's Geographical Magazine.
Although something is known about the
speed of birds and animals, there are few
ascertained facte concerning that of insects
and fishes. They rarely move In anything
like a straight line, and it is hard to arrive
at an; thing more than approximate
tulta.
one pin from each slit and inserts tlicm
all at once in the two ridges which
have been crimp: .n the paper by a
wheel that holds it in place to receive
the pins.
Slat-plns: In ejection,
Sir James Criehton lirown, the ex
pert on brain diseases, has asserted in
a popular lecture that insomnia is not
attended with such disastrous conse
quences as is commonly supposed. It
is not as dangerous as the solicitude of
the sufferer. He suggested that the
brains of literary men, who are the
most frequent victims.
trick of the heart, which takes a doze
a fraction of a second after each beat,
and so manages to get six hours' rest
in twenty-four. Some brains, in cases
( of insomnia, sleep in sections, different
I brain centers goin off duty in turn.
uninhabited, and derived its significant
name from the circumstance that an
active party of California emigrants,
who had strayed from the regular over
land trail, perished there in 1850 from
heat and thirst. The hottest region in
Africa is in Nubian desert, where food
may be cooked by being buried in the
sand. The Arabs say of It: "The soil
is like fire and the wind like a flame."
The hottest portions of the British
empire are India and Australia.
Work lion by the Heart.
I have always considered the heart
the most perfect organ of the animal
economy and one that never shirks its
duty Without one second's rest, night
or day; often without the intcrmiiwion
of a single puliation, at every beat it
propels two ounces of blood through
its structure. At seventy-five pulsa
tions per minute nine pounds of blood
is sucked in and pumped out; every
hour, 540 pounds; every day, 12,900
pounds; every year, 4,71)0,400 pounds;
every 100 years, 473.0-10,000 pounds.
Verity, a good organ! Medical Brief.
tOW Nl-.BU Hii A i iMiTrNow.
Dairymen should feed corn and
pumpkins freely now. They are far
too carbonaceous to agree with the
standard laid down by the German sci
entists, but they agree with the stand
ard as fixed by the cows of America;
As the weather grows colder cows nee I
to fortify themselves against the cold,
and they require an excess of carbona
ceous foods to do It with. The stand
ard rations apply to warm conditions.
In getting ready for winter cows store
up fat, and fat is a carbonaceous prod
uct Feed corn stalks and all and
pumpkins liberally.
Plratlaaaurrloeandtheblaheat itandard of Sit "it jS!AT.l7SKLStxl'i
Our
rea pec lability guaranteed.
room cannot b
rurpaaaed tor nealneM and enrnjart. Board and
room per aay, n.afl, 1.60, 11.70 and t&OO: board
and room per week, 7 to ill; ilngl rooms, 60r
' mtvm uuwu w aua irom num.
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. rKiMMiin motiin. mb tbb. i
DOOr. 1 1 tllP tlF l'tfhfaava araalll-I
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ilimaaa V (.,.
farulahed al treatly rdaod rate, and In ami.
Vi ill ' V,a"W rgoai, beat renowned
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lk JT Market atreet.San Krauclaon, W
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that w aaaraalee to cura. wa aitiili fh
badnala enaee and ehalleaa tha warld far
a eaaevannotrar. Thladlaeanehaaalwan
baSJed the aklll or the aaoatcialneat ahral-
"aa .Mw,e eai.lial behind our nneondl
.maai aiiarauiee. ArMainlearaMraiHintaaled on
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