January, 1879.
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go, and then he beholds, reposing al
most at his feet, the city with all its
hustle of active business life, and yet so
near to all the lovely verdure which
surrounds him. Refore he leaves he
takes one more glance seaward, and
now can just discern in the distance the
white cliffs of Dungeness, which the
rising sun has illuminated; and then
again, looking a little to the right,
Race Rocks and the light-house, stand
ing boldly out against the misty back
ground, catch his eye for the first time
that morning. One might fill a good
sized volume in describing other at
tractions in and about this young me
tropolis, but the want of space forbids
further mention in this number.
to a hall fund, and as the lectures
are to be delivered by the best talent
that Portland affords, we hope to sec
the hall filled on each evening of these
lectures.
Our winter is over, and at the pres
ent writing (January 23rd) the air is
( balmy and pleasant as in May. At no
jtime during the entire winter, which
lasted just sixteen days, has the ther
mometer been lower than twenty-four
degrees above zero, whilst the snow
king was not generous enough to af-
i ford us a sufficiency of snow even for
one hour's good sleighing. Grass is
starting up, and whilst our Eastern
neighbors are shivering in the north
wind's icy blasts, we, here, in the most
shoulders to the wheel and assist this
association all that they possibly can,
for Oregon should and can have one
annual fair where honest and moral
men; with their families, can gather
without fear of having their boys and
girls initiated into all the different ways
of gambling and whisky-drinking.
A saloon-keeper of this city offered
to furnish the grounds and necessary
buildings for holding the annual fails
of the Northwestern Industrial Asso
ciation rent free for six years providing
he could have the monopoly of the
whisky and pool-selling. Plus modest
oiler was politely but very promptly
declined. They want no whisky or
pools. They'll have trials of speed
without jockeying. If pools are sold
it will not be under the auspices of this
association, and such persons as may
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GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS Vn fMA, B. '.
Send twenty-live cents to this office
for three months' back numliers of the
West Shore, or one dollar for seven
teen months' back numbers. For ten
cents additional we send one copy of
the Oregon Spectator, dated Oregon
City, February 5, 1846. It is an exact
reprint of the first number of the very
fust newspaper ever published on the
Pacific Coast.
Tiik I'iiii.om a tiikan. Under the
auspices of this society a course of lec
tures will be given at Masonic Hall,
beginning Friday, January 31st, and
ending April 1 ith. Tickets for the en
tire course have been placed at $1.50.
each. The proceed arc to be devoted
favored spot on colli, make preparation
and lay out plans for spiing woik in
the garden.
Portland used i,, barrels of lime
tat Vetr, which nil came from Pnget
Sound. San Juan supplied S,.,, bat
rels.Orcas yioo, and Puyallup 1,000,
The Northwestern Industrial Asso
ciation was organized here recently for
the purvmc of holding annual exhi
bitions of the products and manufac
tures of this State. The members are
moral, high-minded gentlemen, who
will sec to it that all gambling schemes
sre carefully excluded from theii
grounds during their annual exhibi
tions. Our citizens should put their
want whisky will have lo bring it with
them.
A CHEAT STUMP EXTRA! rok
Any of mil n ailers whose lends are
dieflfiirod by ugly, hlsck stump of
trees, will do well to give 1 1 - follow
ing a trial :
lime a hole 111 tin- lop, say one 01
two inches in circunili mice, ami right
inches deep. Put in the hole from one
to two miners of saltpeter, fill with hot
water, nod plug up tight. In the spring
takr out the plug, pour in a half gill of
kerosene oil, and set fire to it. The
stump will burn entirely up, even to
the smallest roots.
The trouble with a good many mar
riages is that the parties ipiit I mi,
i wnen tney enter matrimony.