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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1895)
I mm FOR ALL READERS Mrs Cramer, of 'Neenah, Wis., 82 years old, has read the bible through 258 times. Fifty million silver dollars in the Philadelphia mint were counted and 769 were found missing. Perfectly fire-proof celluloid is the latest English product from the spent fibers ot paper mills. The opal is the only gem which cannnt he counterfeited. Its deli cate tints cannot be reproduced. A Baden wine seller supplies his customers with as much wine as they choose to drink for 24 cents an hour. Berlin has no slums, kven in the poorest, quarters the streets are faultlessly clean. Tn ancient times in Greece it was nnstomarv to Dlace a coin under the tongue of a dead person to pay hi fare to Charon.- The total net debt of Canada up to Dec. 1st was $246,000,000. '1 hat is something that the United States does not want to annex. The queen of the Belgians is said to be a very clever conjuror, and the king is always on watch for the 1 tricks which she plays upon him. In China, which has long been , known as "the land of opposites," the dials of clocks are made to turn around, while the hands stand still. An immense meteor fell near , Juarez in Lower California, the other day. The shock of its strik ing the earth was felt a distance of 45 miles. Prof. Drummond thinks that "the great factor in the future evo lution of society must be the ascent of woman." Nobody is trying to prevent it. The JaDS heat their rooms by 4 means of a square hole in the mid- gates were also instructed to oppose . r, i - t cn.j :.u I trinfpr Mcinflf ntifl nil assnr i at ionft that NEWS OF THE WORLD. THE GIST OF THE WEEK'U HAHHEN- INGS AS TOLD BY TELEGRAPH. WASHINGTON NOTES. Interesting Items Picked Out from the Dully Diapatchee. The senate has confirmed the presi dent's nomination of Erskine M. Ross of California to bo United States circuit judge for the ninth judicial circuit. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire created a sensation by outlining some important steps to 1 0 taken by the next congress, including a rigid investigation of the recent gold bond matter. By a vote of 152 to 114 the house non concurred in the amendment to the con sular and diplomatic appropriation bill appropriating 500,000 for the construc tion of a cable to the Hawaiian islands. The bill was sent to further conference. Senator Mills of Texs has given no tice of the introduction of an amend ment to the sundry civil appropriation bill repealing all laws which authorize the secretary of the treasury to sell bonds for any purpose. The situation in the senate indicates very strongly that neither the railroad pooling bill or the bankruptcy bill will pass before March 4. The advocates of the pooling bill are ready to take advan tage of anv opportunity to get this measure before the senate. senator Perkins has presented an amendment to the naval appropriation I bill providing an appropriation of $700,- j 000 as the total cost of construction of a I dry dock at the Mure Island navy yard, i of such size, design and material as may ! bo determined by the secretary of the j navy. Only $150,000 of this money is to j i be available during the preseut year. ! ! fl Senator Blackburn of Kentucky has j Interesting Items From Europe, Aaln, Africa and North and South America, With Particular Attention to Impor tant Home News. A revolution has begun in Cuba. The movement seems to be general. Mrs. Cleveland has become a member Pf the Women's Christian Temperance Union. A. Phillips, a logger at Chehalis, Wash., killed his wife and himself re cently. Jealousy. ' The Ferris wheel of the World's Fair will remain in Chicago. It is to be erected on the north side. Colonel Harry L Thornton, a well known San Francisco lawyer, died sud denly at Fresno a few days ago. A valuable filly was foaled at Pulo Alto stock farm the other day. It was dropped by Fairy Rose, sired by Ormonde. .News comes from Hongkong that a far-reaching plot has been discovered to overthrow the present Chinese dynasty. The Russian squadron in the Medi terranean has been ordered to join the Pacific squadron to protect the czar's interests in case the Oriental war ends. A bill has been introduced in the Ne vada assembly making it a misdemeanor to prevent or attempt to prevent any person from securiug employment. The bill is especially directed against the Southern Pacific railroad for taking such action against former employes who are on the company s blacklist. ; ment of the u,nnty on mgM j)roauced ! menus or -uajor v. i. i m 1S93, and one-eighth of a cent per round on the product of 1894, to com- KISSSING AMONG WOMEN. introduced an amendment to the sundry 1 t) " ont'z irls w:e'nt to civil bill to provide for the full pay- nml out of tho!iC at is under sentence of death at Honolulu, are making strong efforts to secure a commutation of the sentence. A peti tion signed bv prominent Pennsylva- nians has been sent to President Dole. Seward's war record is recited and his services to the United States are urged in extenuation. The treason charge against Seward is that he bought rifles in San Francisco for the royalists. The directors of the Kentucky Trot ting Horse Breeders' association have appointed two delegates to a convention to be held some time this spring tor tne purpose of organizing the Sporting League of America to prevent legisla tion adverse to the interests of legiti mate racing and other sports. The dele- die of the floor, which is filled with coals, over which a blanket is hung horizontally. Unfortunately no modern novel troat of divorce as a sin, or, at least, makes such a theme the bur den of its Dlot. The balance is all the other way. It is said to be of no use to whis tier in the presence of Queen Vic toria. Her ears are so sharp that she can almost hear a person wink in the next room, Recently more than 100 employ es of the Carnegie works at Home stead held a meeting to organize a laWhodv. The next day all of them were discharged. Governor Peck signalized his re tirement from the gubernatorial chair of Wisconsin by granting par dons to ten murderers, highway robbers and other criminals It is rather comforting to know that very aged people are generally from the ranks ot the very poor, and that no millionaire has yet succeeded in living to a very great age. Isaac Bassett, acting assistant doorkeeper of the senate, is the oldest official in public life at Washington. Daniel Webster ap pointed him a page sixty-three years ago. . Georee Washington was the richest man in the United States when he died. rflS DrODertV WaS worth about $9(50,000. There were no millionaires i:i the country in those days. In Italy a plant, Agaricus olear ius, is found on the trunks of olive trees, that often emits a bright light of a blue tint that is so vivid that sometimes it can be seen in the davtime. pensate producers who complied with the provisions of the McKiuley bill, which was repealed and payment of bounties refused. Secretary Gresham has decided to make no further effort to induce con gress to pass the bill appropriating $425,000 to pay damages sustained by British sealing vessels soized by our naval ships and revenue cutters in Ber ing Sea before the making of the modus yivendL If the bill fails now he will proceed immediately to draw np a treaty The Tasteless Baluto Heine Abandoned by Fashionables In Eastern Cities. Not a few society women of New York and other eastern centers of pop ulation have revolted against the practice of kissing each other when they meet. Kissing began to go out. of fashion when physical culture came in. It was the athletic girls who helped to bring about the change in salutation, says the New York World. Dr Sargent, Dr. Savage and other eminent but less prominent professors of physical de velopment have unconsciously done more to solve the woman question than any other profession. Kissing, not be ing wholesome, is not good form, and that is why the fashionables have de termined not to kiss. The last impor tant case of kissing that society can re member occurred at the Marlborough Hamcrsley wedding. It was a civil serv ice for obvious reasons. Mayor Hew itt oillciated. He was a personal friend of the late duke and an ardent admirer and intimate friend of the beautiful Mrs. llamerslcy. It was the bridegroom's intention to present him with a purse for the purchase of a souvenir, but his honor wouldn't have it. His fee was a kiss from the bride, and she paid it. In describing it after ward the duchess of Marlborough said that she offered her cheek, but he chose her lips: and every body accused his j ! honor of having taken a mean advan tage of his position. The decline of the society kiss began j some time ago. It dates from the rise of the college women's gymnasium. Trainers from Yale and Harvard were inveigled into lecture courses: Smith, Vussar, Wclleslev, Kannington and hear them, thletic mati nees grew the physical culture fad which has eliminated kissing, head aches, nerves, fainting spells and hand shaking to a degree. The society girl is calm. She has repose. She has powder on her face lots of it to keep her cool, and even if she did not con sider kUsing bad form it would annoy her to have her complexion mottled. TjOTEL W BDFORD, HAMILTON & LEGATE. Proprietors. NEW MANAGEMENT, kj, i STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS, TT FREE SAnPLE ROOM The Medford has been thoroughly renovated. Accomodations the very best. If you try us once you will surely come again. RATES FROn $1.00 TO $a.oo PER DAY. . . . The Gem Saloon, In connection. The best and cigars courteous treatment. purest of wines, liquors and. MITCHELL LEI & STAVER COMPANY -liEALEKS IN- MACHINERY AND VEHICLES. Women In the World. A French scientUt figures that the number of women in the world is nearly equal to that of men. In France the nuniK-rs approach more nearly to equality than in nnv other country. winter racing and all associations that j give over so days racing eacn year ana betting through foreign books. for submission to the senate, creating 1 there bcina- 1.007 women for 1.000 men. an arbitration committee to adjust the i For the same number of men in Swe claims. i den there are l.OiH women, and in Senator White has introduced a bill ! Ureccccnly 033 women. In the French .-;.i; n,f in nil ri f n,, colony at Reunion there are 4... Creole f O M -. mines made under the provisions of the We Carry the Celebrated: 1 ena aiw m'.tm art. rt .rltww 1 George JL C. Whitney, a commercial . m min( ml 20 Mcrea of UnJ j women for 1.1100 provincial rrrnch men. colored men included. In Hong Kong there are LOOT men for women. 336 4 V Kolb, the defeated Populist candidate 1 or'governor of Alabama, is thinking of becoming the head or a dual govern ment at Montgomery. His supporters claim he was defrauded of the govern' orship in the last election. Oates, the present governor, declares that he will firmly and promptly meet any attempt of trouble on the part of Kolb and his followers. The strike in the New York building trades caused by differences existing be tween the members of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Electrical Contractors' association is assuming serious proportions. It is said that 85, 000 members of the building trades are traveler for a Boston shoe house, en gaged a room in a boarding house at Providence, R. L, and during the day was introduced to Miss Grace Grant, daughter of William H. Grant of In dianapolis. Twenty minutes after the introduction he was engaged to marry her. Sh? consented and they were mar ried bv Rev. Dr. G. JT. Yose of the Con gregational church the same afternoon. The young lady is 24 years old and very beautiful. hitney is 2S years of age. A special correspondent who was sent from London to Armenia to investigate as to the atrocities said to have been committed by Turks upon Armenians says that it is extraordinarily difficult to get at the real tacts, llie lurkish authorities, to hinder the work of inves tigating, have established quarantine regulations against cholera, when that disease does not exist. He says that the Turks removed traces of the massacre. and that the Armenians whom he ques tioned all had different ideas of the ex tent of the atrocities. The English law has pnt the official stamp of its condemnation on palmistry as a guide to tne future, it is a common thing to punish ordinary fortune tell ers, card readers and astrologers in the police courts, for British courts take excellent care of the pockets of British citizens, and fortune telling has long been a punishable offense. The law winked at the fad or crime of hand reading as long as it was a mere draw ing room amusement, but when a palm ist undertook to read the future for pay from the lines in the hands of super stitious women, the police promptly summoned the palmist before the lord mayor's court. The magistrate seemed to regard it as a peculiarly heinous of fense, for he imposed a fine of $125, equivalent to the combined penalties for half-murdering scores of children in England. Rev. Madison C. Peters in the Blooin ingdale Reformed church. New York, in a recent tunday sermon raised poor, foolish Howell Osborne from his grave and set him np as an awful example to young men. Mr. Peters told his hearers how Howell Osborne had spent nearly $100,000 a year in loose living, "gallop ing through a course of infernal revelry in tne voriex oi sinrui pleasure, ana dying "nnlauiented" at the age of 38. "Mr. Osborne's was not an isolated case," said Mr. Peters. "The prevalence of that abominable notion that' a young man has to sow his wild oats is the rea son why this ruin is brought to the doors of so many, and a pastor or other who aids ia dispelling this idea is per forming an inestimable service to hn inanity. " Lawyer G. F. wahle made a motion in the supreme court of New York re cently in the suit of Caroline Gerty, embraced by the entries shall not be re quired, but proofs of discovery of min erals and development thereof on any part of the entire land shall be deeuitsl sufficient. It is provided, however, that the full amount of $300 must be ex pended for the development of each claim, as now required by law. The house committee on Pacific rail roads has decided to report a new bill, MitcM LimliBr ani Spring Wagons, Corvallis Top and Open Buggies, Backboards, Carts, and in fact a fall line of vehicles of all descriptions. Case and Canton black land plows, both single and gang. Bissil and Gale Etubble plows, Case steel frame lever harrows. gWCall and see us before purchasing. Catalogue sent on application. Mitchell. Lewis & Staver Company D. T. LAWTON Manager, Medford Branch. An Old Spanish Tax Law. To what extent Spain is still under the influence of medieval laws and re- j : strictions which hamper its progress j ; and development may be gathered from s the fact that among other imposts j which the taxpayer is called upon to pay that entitled "The Crusado." which was originally instituted for the i Dnnxxc of providing funds for the which has remained in It's proceeds are now applied to the repair of churches, the payment of the stipend of the clergy and other ecclesiastical purposes. based on the Reillv bilL The amended crusaaem. ana bill wiU provide that the principal of j exUtcnw ever since. the government debt shall be paid ct j once and that the first mortgage bonds j and the interest paid upon bonds by the i government and due to the govemmeul at the date the bill takes effect be ex tended and paid in installments through a period of 50 years. The extended first mortgage bonus will bear interest at 4 per cent. The extended interest will h secured by practically a third lien on the property subsidiary to the claims of A Modrra 1 label. Switierland, with its mixture of races and tongues, is a sort of modern l&bel a fact which causes much trouble, in particular to the military authorities. At Wallcnstadt the other dar. at the recruiting station, there JflCKSQ II V 1 LLE mHRBLE WORKS, J. C. AVHIJPT?, Propr. Does General Contracting in ail lines ai - GRANITE AND MARBLE WORK. CEMETERY WORK A SPECIALTY Jacksonville, Oregon. the parties who advance the funds to was a guard composed of five men. pay the principal of the government i The chief was a lieutenant who spoke bonds and who will be entitled under , the bill to 5 per cent interest. j CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. ready to stand by and support the 1,000 oWtriral workers who are out. Frederick Douglass, the noted colored fheJw?dow of Ge0rg.10(!e of 9!eve: ru1 flinlnmat. died at Waihincr. w iw'" ,.Uw ton the other day. His name will stand prominent in American history as that of a man who occupied a peculiarly con spicuous place in the affairs of the na- tion during tne slavery sime, ueing as sociated with Garrison and Phillips, the great abolitionists, in their work. He was given permission in 1868 to assist in the enlistment of men to fill the col ored regiments. After the war he de voted his time to lecturing and conduct ing a paper. Several of the presidents conferred important offices on him. His mother was a negro slave and his father a white man. Douglass' second wife, a ' white woman, Burvives him. Three chil dren of the first wife are living. worth of property which she alleges she was forced to sign over to the Standard Oil company. Mrs. Gerty says she signed over to that company the property to keep her husband from going to prison, under the supposition tnat He bad em bezzled $275,000 from it. Lawyer Wahle told the court that the corporations ledger showed that Gerty was not an embezzler. Wahle said these facts were shown by private papers of Mr. Gerty and also that these bonds had been stolen by somebody and that the books of the company had been falsified so the directors could not learn of the transac tion. A decision was reserved on the motion. Vicious Acta of Latrbraakan and Loum bx Flra and Aceldant. P. O. Rice committed suicide at Red Bluff because of family trouble. Eleven miners were killed by an ex plosion of gas in a coal mine at Ash land. Pa. W. G. Hammer, for 20 years teller of the First National bank at Lynchburg, Vs., has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $23,000 of the bank's funds. A fire at Hot Springs, Ark., totally destroyed four large blocks of buildings and six persons were burned to death. There will be great loss on account of little insurance. Bishop Hale of Cairo, El., was robbed of a satchel containing his robes, jew els, eta, valued at 100. He said to a policeman: "I will pray for the recov ery of my property, " and closed his eyes reverently, shortly after another offi cer cangnt tne tniei wiin ine articles. James B. Gentry, the murderer of Actress Madge Yorke, has become the especial lion of a number of women at Philadelphia, lbey send mm armloads of flowers, with photographs and co logne. Friends are paying his expenses at the hospital where he is confined by injuries self-inflicted. Harry C. Stillwell, a messenger of the Bank of California at San Francisco, committed suicide on board an ark an chored off Belvedere, Marin connty. He borrowed money to hold his own with other men and then stole to pay his debts. He was detected taking money at the bank and discharged, and the thonght of disgrace impelled him to take his life. While performing the "human tar get" act on a recent night at Engle's pavilion, Chicago, William Haderlc, aged 17, was fatally shot by "Professor Alfred Rieckhoff, champion rifle shot of the world." Hadorle was Rieckhoff 's assistant. Strapped across his breast waa a steel plate 13 inches square, in the center of which was a bell. Rieckhoff, at a distance of 20 paces, was supposed to fire at the target 20 times in rapid succession, hitting the bell each time. AH went well to the twentieth shot, when Haderle threw up his hands and fell to the floor crying, "My God 1 1 am shot. " The bnllet struck Haderle in the stomaoh. Rieckhoff says the gun went off accidentally. German only, the second a sergeant, who spoke Italian only, the third a corporal, who could sr -ak Trench and Spanish, the fourth, a private, who could speak French and tiennan. and the fifth a private who could speak French and Italian. 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