August, 1879
232
THE WEST SHORE.
A THOROUGH BRKO TURK.
In tlic course of conversation 1
twccn two tourists on the steamer
"Wilc West" the other ilay, one en
quired of the other, "What is your
name ?"
My name is I-cvy."
" What else, please?"
" Isaac lcvy."
" What it your business, Mr. Levy.
" Itiznesa! 1 keep a clothing shtorc."
" WhereaiKiut. Mr- LTJ "
Q Chatham street, New York."
" What is ymir religion, Mr. Levy?"
Religion! wie heist religion! My
fifty, which is low. the whole number
men. three thousand and three hun
dred. Mr. Knight carefully cleaned the
wheat from this one hunch and weighed
it making just six ounces averdupois.
This sample Mr. Knight proposes to
take with him on his proposed tour
through the Eastern States. Such ex
hibition will do more good than mere
words to convince people of the rich
IWM "f our country. Smlmn States
man. That ; ,,,,,!. .uliir.ll v food wheat. Ml
the specimens that we have from I ma
tilla county will grand discount it.
From one of the stools the product
of a single grain we counted 00 stalks,
and from the heads which we have
counted and averaged, coming from
THE COLUMBIA RIVFP
In many respects the Columbia river
is the grandest on the continent. Four
teen hundred miles above its mouth
it is as large as the Sacramento river it
at Rio Vista, and it rolls to the set
with increasing grandure all the way.
Where it hews its way through the
Cascades, a new and gorgeous picture
is painted every moment, and after the
mountains are passed, it sweeps in per
fect purity and immense volume to the
sea. It washes the most magnificent
mountains in the union, and where the
river joins at the ocean there is in
everlasting war of waters, which is is
beautiful as it terrible. By and by
I 1 MOt S 1 HIM si I Nc.KAYlNl. UK A M AN OK WAR. From the I'ckin Illustrated News.
name is Lav Levy. I keep a clothing
shtoti- M Chatham Mrr. t, New York.
Of GOWN, I'm a TurU"
us mot SAND 1 1 -it 1 in m.rkh
poux
Rev. P, S. Knight brought into out
ortiie vesteidiy a sample of wheat
taken from hi farm south of Salem.
It wai the product of a single grain.
There weie sivty ix stalks from one
mot. M's Knight had counted the
rain in everal of the heads and found
that they ranged from forty to eighty
in each head, placing the average at
that stool of stalks, we find the product
to U- to,Soo or ttn thousand tight
hundred fold!
A section of country that can pro
duce nearly eleven thousand grains of
wheat from one kernel most certainly
should Ik at the top of the heap in the
line of w heat cultivation.
We are glad I'matilla county is in
t hegon. .-ltawy Democrat.
These would-be-king-killers are a
disgrace to the shooting fraternity
Such t'.ul shots.
A line affair ten dollars and costs,
when communication between Oregon
and the outsiders cheap" and com
fortable, people will cease to go to bu-
tZ Lv u... ,:u tn the
rope in the summer, i
Cascades of the Columbia, ami a- t7
watch will grow to be better A""
cans, as thev more fully real." "
claims which their native land na
upon their admiration. The Mississip
pi has greater volume than the Colum
bia; the Hudson make rival picture,
which areas fine as any painted in tnc
Cascades, but there is a power, a t
ty, a purity and wildness about the riv
er of the west which it altogether un
approachable in its charms.