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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1879)
March, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 79 A CHEAP FRAME COTTAGE. ORIGIN OF We give on this page a design for a oheap frame cottage, which would make a modeat pretty home for a small family. It is planned by Isaac H. Hobbs & Son, of Philadelphia, the intention being to secure good large rooms with mi waste space and without expensive features in construction. In this, we think the archi tects have succeeded admirably. From the porch one enters a hall 10x16 feet, with a win dow at each end, which would give as light and airy hall as one could wish. This is a desirable feature which is too often neglected in small houses. As will be seen by the dimensions which we Bhall give, the rooms are all of gener ous size and well lighted. The projecting roof will help to cool the upper rooms, a line feature in our wanner regions. Train some handsome climbing vines or roses over the porch ami diversify the foreground more with handsome shrubs and (lower beds, and one would have as eon a home as con 1.1 be longed for. In the floor plans, No. 1, istheporoh ; No. 2, entrance hall, 10x10 feet ; No. 3, living room, 14x20 feet ; No. 4, dining room, 16xl8feet; No. -. kitnhan 1 v I I fl . Nn ft. rear Doruh from which entrance can be had to the living room from the outside. It will lie noticed that the house has no narlor. This is according to our "hobby." Put your best things in the living room aud enjoy them. The chambers uustairs. marked 7, 8 aud '.I, aru tlie same sizes as the rooms beneath, and therefore vorv larue anil airv. The upstair's hall is also large, and would be a good play place for the children on a wet day. It should ho furnished with a curtain with a small peep hole in it, because the window commands a view of the front gate, and you, therefore, can sue who is onminu to call without iioing around the house and peeping around the corner of the piazza. The latter method is inconvenient when it is raining, and besides that you are liable to be caught at it. We think no article should be written without a practical suggos tion in it ; therefore we injeot this. curious information on the various broods of fowls aud their different origin : "The names of fowls arise from other peculiarities than their form or appendages. For instance, the Dork ings were named after Dorking in England ; the Black Spanish, or as they are otherwise known, everlasting layers, after Spain ; the Polanda came from Poland; the Houdans (pmnounoed Huudoii) from lloudain, France; the Shanghais are named after Shanghai in China; the Huff and Partridge Cochin Chinas also take their names from Cochin, Chiua; the Siberia or Rus sian fowls from Russia; the Malaya, .1 ays, Colum bians, Barbery, Dutch fowls, all from their DIFFERENT iW..,. BREEDS OF Thi Utbwt Wondm w Aaiaom The molt recent novelty announced in Ansona is the discovery mad at Mountain Spring Station, of either a very old and extensive mine or a very wonderful cave, being very curious which ever it is. This opening has a Has arched entrance, cut apparently out of the solid rook. At a point about 40 fast in from the mouth a room about 7o feet square is reached, from which several halls or tunnels branch out. Bom of these have been explored for a diatano el 900 and 300 feet Thar are several .halts indica tive of artificial workings. The incline of Ik tunnel i. about 10 (eet to the 100. Th main oave or tunnel has been explored for about 500 ksxsn BssBP aararaaWsjas Ifm Bex ' A (iooi) RacoMMENiiATioK. "Sir," said a lad coming down to one of the wharves, and ad dressing a well-known merchant, "sir, have yon any berth for me on board your ship? I rant to earn something." "What can you do?" asked the gentleman. "1 can try my beat to do whatever I am put to," answered the boy. "What have you done?" "I nlve uwed tad split all mother a wood for nigh two years," "What have you not done?" asked the gentle man, who was a queer sort of questioner. "Well, air." answered the boy, after a mo- "I have not whispered once in school for a whole vear. " "That's enough,1, said the gentleman; "you ahip aboard this veesel, and I hop to see you the master of her some day. A boy who can master a wood-pile, and can bridle his tongue must be made of good stuff." Cunt ffieianev in steam engines is, ac cordinii to Mr. Walt, an eminent Liverpool DKSWN FOR A MODEST FRAME OMftaVM ft from th sntranoe. The ceiling Is a red apar anil in th aid tunnels are number of Inautiful stalactite and ineruotalioas, The direction of th seavatioa ib toward a large ledge of mineral matter eboat a quarter ot a mile from the entrance. Everything here eeem to point to this having bsn a min rthr than a natural oav. In such oaa It is doubly interesting as a reminder of ike sitteci ran which is known to have one Inhabited Use! region. A mora thorough exploretioa of Ike place is soon to be mail. respective countries. There are also the t luildars from Muilderlaod. Holland, the Bolton grays til. I liJiVH from Eunland, and thn Shakclieg, named from the fact that they wer carried to the oookpita in logs which the owner shook as a ohallengo irom some uvnor sen mi mauv other, auoh as the Croveonura, from , 1 I ..,l I ai.in France, allay iowis inim vmmm "-i--; Hamburg, Leghorns aud Brahma MM all of which indicate whence they are named. Tho there are the Creepers, a small variety of Ban tams with ahort leg, th Jumpers mentioned by Iluffon, another of the diminutive races, era so short-legged that thy are onmuidled to OtuN.u Haow. Th Jele of four large or- i i i L ' FIRST FlOOK. a nutted of stopping. Rmp . . .i .i.i i. ..) owla, rim mini ine wih SECOND FLOOR. advance by lumpl kins, or ladle" f' of Oeyloav" . A North Caaou editor declares that "lb k .ill l a nnwHiiei-r three or loor Mr. without leyinf for it will pastor a goal on lb grave of hw grandfather coming vu ir. "hi " . r , in lu. obtained bv an increase of pre. aure and expaaaioa. To accomplish this the point lie not so moch with th ngine as with 1 1... lw.il. .nin.ra Hndini no difticlllty III working an engine with steam at ISO or 200 iMiunda per square inch; and at present he ik.,.k. ,..r. i. ., ,rai lical limit t" the working VZTmimn will b. inclined glSKSS 'inn I Willi i ill's "(sasi , - - if angxa and on Utnoai Ik grated rind of an or eng and half a lemoa. Rook a peek of fel aline in a coffe cap of osid water i wkea die ...u -.1 .J.I the luiee and rratod nnd aad a oaf- "Hi," eaid an old judg to a yonng Uwyr, -,.U do wll to pluck aom f the feather from the wings of your tmaginalwo and expansion Ala fee cap of white sfl gr ('over and IrtAttM boar; Ibeo poor on two and a half wfa eaps of bulling wleri lraln ihrtHijh neaaeli whee eld whip in lh beaten white of three egasi turn late a mold aad set tea. A u.rrtaaua la Doytoa, Okie, wka tea year ago bereaae gaerdian of his g'aaddaaghtev aad took charge of the eetete of UCOOO Ml her bv bar father, he ) orraoro is, m oeeaeed to geO.OUO, upon her allaieiag her saa- rr ioftty- Taaaa ar J "IBMinlii ' tweea Ike agea of 12 and 21. la Illinois be t nded with diflicultiee