ing to a large group which descril* Fort Worth, Tex., a hardshell Bap- I A ° e ° ° 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 •> NEW AND CURIOUS. •’ ET k | * p Q 1 /Q ln the 8anie l,uni" r" usff>«y t h e q « - tist from the woods of K aufm an l U ' v C l f l I R U U l V t ) f lül dish 1 1 Î B Pl «XV or product t.lilr.» f* of - a ....... 11-.- county ..I visited . .Î • .k the .. city, and 1 upon . . . • A 'cial peculiar By special a rra n g e m e n t w ith th e p u b district. An Essex lion is a calf; his return reported that they were lishers, we a re able to offer th e public o • • ing p ap er-b o u n d books at ten • j xi_ x • i i a r Field l e l d l lane a n e d duck u is a baked sheep’s m aking ice every dav up in Fort c th e e n ts follow per copy, p o stp aid . O rder one ami It is said th a t in the sandy des- . . , . . • |. head; Glasgow m agistrates or Nor- W orth. It was during Ju ly , and yon will lie su rp rised to find th is good erts of A rabia w hirling winds some- ’ s n so cheap. M ention T ourist ____ nnn r . . folk capons are capons are red herrings; Irish the pilgrim w as at once brought be e L d ib itio rary . t.nies excavate pits 200 feet in The White Company, by Conan Doyle. depth, extending down to the j a l‘r,c“ G or M unster plunaa are po fore his church on • •Imr”“ «if Ivins» / , O* «he D eem ster, hy H ali Caine. harder stratum on which the great Gravesend sweetmeats are At the request of the accused, a A Romance of Two Worlds, by C orrelli. shri tnps com m ittee from the church was ap- .i,i’eab,‘lre Is lam l, by R obert Stevenson. Led of sand rests. , i , ... „ 1 he Sign of th e Four, by Conan Doyle. p o in te d to g o w ith him to F ort Kidnapped, by Roliert L. Stevenson. I he Flag Salute. The astronom ers have figured W orth a n d v e rify h is s to r y . The 7J‘.e B<»“ ’h n a n . by Hall C aine. Micah C larke, by A. Conan Doyle. out a sort of continuous p e rfo rm - commi, te returned and reported Sport Royal, by A nthony Hope. Some ar- th a t they were indeed m akine ice The Manió ance this year in th e way of «clips- , - ; tim e - ago a - - we - copied t — - a, »■- 1 lie Man in Blick, Black, by by St. S tanley W eynian. e-. Two eclipses have already : tK e b “ul tbe American Sentinel • . Beyond tlie City, by A. Conan Dovle incurred one of the moon on Jan u - rega rding a salute required of the I *‘V*'ry ‘ Hy 1,1 * ° r w orth> U 8,nP a Cncle T om ’s C abin, by Mrs. Stowe. ' ’ , . , . nurnls in tho RnnlH r P l i big steam engine for that purpose. JJ« b te r s Pronouncing D ictionary. •try 7th, and one of th e sun on the i?1? , 1,1 the Boulder, Colo., pub- . Cosm opolis, by P au l B ourget. .‘ .Ú q ’ tx tt m o r e e c l i o s e s o f t h e s u n b c s < ‘ l,O olR - Kefering to t hat arl icle ! thereupon a church m eeting was People’s Reference Book. t the Sentinel says in its last issu°: prom ptly called; and both the Ar° u»‘d the World in Eighty Days,Verne are sceduled J o r J u ly 18th andI “ The flag salute is „eith er local uor a n g in a l' offender and th e whole ^ , ^ ^ “ ‘ 1 % H ±de„ December lo th ; also two more of accidental. T h e boulder Incident c o m m itte e w ere ¡g.m .uiniously ex- Xaoee. a K entucky K eH eJw G reene M ark Twain, H is Life and W ork, hv the moon, for J u ly 3d and Decent- ¡ ■« mt t out" ' ’PP">8 » " ¡"- pt.||ed fr()1„ the ohurch for , ¡ Will M . C lem ens. I I •>< || || ¡ n fluence u t nee m o rk H11 n ro n a h r • - & th a t It* is a at t w work all t through Tom B row n'8 School Days, by H ughes. the land. Since noticing th at, the A H oliday in Bed, by ,1. M. Barrie. A French in ventor converts grain news comes that the same salute is By R ight, Not Law, by R. H. S h ep ard , lb«- C hild of th e Law, by De A larcon. into dough at one operation w ith being practiced in the Iowa State v?v A ddress, out milling. The grain is soaked, Normal School, where the young' people ¡re trained in the a rt ofi J O N E S ’ BOOK S T O R E ,’ and entering one end of the m a teaching, the design being that th e ' 291 A l d e r S t . PO RTLA N D , O R E . chine is crushed and disintegrated, graduates ¡is they go out to teach j the paste passing on to the knead introduce the salute in th eir schools, i rsoooi ing m achine a t the other end of the In Pennsylvania the same inflence aparatus, where it is aerated and is at work, and experiences sim ilar If to those in Boulder have occurred. 2 The only jo u rn al w hich presents f u lla c - « i kneaded ¡..to (lough which can be Thog fo re « „re g athering fo ran «5 counts o f the progress o f th e co lo n i- zation m ovem ent along the lin e s o f preserved indefinitely w ithout inju- attack upon the principle of relig-1 =5 co-operation . 3; ’2 The o n ly jou rn al that g iv es full ezp la n a - 5» ry. The n u tritiv e qualities of the >°us freedom in the public schools.” i ¡5 tio n o f all the various th eo ries for J» «5 social im p rovem en t. 5x grain, bran included, are kept ;S The o n ly jo u rn a l that offers free d isc u s- "• <•> is a /.V " V W V 1’’ t-'v-» V-v?' livrent ' ¿boutjbtJ Just for Fun. The custom of christening a new An E nglishm an and an Irish-! vessel by breaking a bottle of wine over its prow is o fo ld Saxon origin, m an, according to S hort Stories, ... ’. . . ’ . and it certainly hears the im press Were WRikllig 111 th e su b u rb s o f' i,. , . , ¡ of its heathen birth. The Japanese D ublin one day, and halted for a have a much more beautiful and few m inutes to view the suiround- appropriate cerem ony. When the ing country. It so happened there subjects of the .Mikado launch a had been an execution in the vicin new ship, they liberate a bird or ity th a t day, and the gibbet was several birds from a cage swung still standing. “ P a t,” said the E nglishm an,' near the bowsprit. T he cage is so constructed th a t * pulling o a string, co | pointing — to it, . ‘‘where would you' just as the vessel slides down the be now. if th at gibbet had its dues?’ “ Begorra,” replied Pat, “ I ’d be ways, causes it to fali to pieces,and the birds flutter m errily about the sth an d in ’ here alone.” new ship, w hich, liberated from Maud: “ M am m a, please answer her land cradle, is to skim the me this one question. W hat is a waves like one of iiiem. sp irit?” ;2 sions o f social and relig io u s su tu ects. < • 2 Each issu e con tain s fu ll report o f best current th o u g h t in all th e lea d in g E n g lish and A m erican p eriodicals. CURRENT THOUGHT is an open court. It . offers the best th o u g h t o f the 3! b rig h test th in k ers o f all sch ools. 5 R egular su bscription price $1.00 per year, i p ost-p aid to any part o f th e w orld, Special Offer : until further n otice new subscribers w ill be received for on e yea r at 5 0 C T S . each, p rovided th ey send ten nam es and addresses o f liberal and p ro g ress ive m inded p eop le. A d d ress, ater Street... Market CASH PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF FAT STOCK. HIDES, PELTS. ETC. MEATS SOLD AT REASONABLE RATES. CURRENT THO UG HT, C l e v il a n d , O h io . Prem ium book “ H om ilies on F i- _ n ance,’’ sent free to each subscriber. Drake & Webb, Silverton TORCH OF REASON SONO BOOK AND Oregon KINNEV PORTER NO. Main S treet Silverton, Ore. A Germ an inventor has made an improvement in incandescent gas burners which m ay prove of much importance. The invention depends ««pon the fact th at when the press- ure of the gas upon the incandes- cent body from which the light is derived is sufficiently increased th e light becomes very intense, al- though agreeable to the eye. Gas ’• 'Upplied. to the b u rner under a ['.i " lire of three-and-a-half atm os- plmreB, and it is said th at a single in< (iridescent jet of th e ordinary size can lie m ade to em it a light eOUal than 1ÍW» equal If) to fHnf th a t nF of mnro more th an 1000 candles. The inventor claim s th a t cost of this light is much less *“ 1,1 t h at of the electric arc light. M amma: ‘‘W hy. M aud, I ca n ’t explain it to you; you would not understand if I did.’ Maud: “ Oh, yes, I should.” M am m a: “ Well, then, a spirit is som ething you perceive but don’t Hee- Now you don.t know nnv het- ter tb an 5’ou did before.” M aud: “ 'V es, I do. Its a skunk, n A sm all schoolgirl in one of the ru ral d istricts of Georgia was told to write a composition on “ Temper- ance.” She turned out the follow- ing: “ Tem perance is more better th an whisky. W hisky is ten cents __ 1 1 lots x_ of r ix it a _ drink and it. My pa d rin k s whisky. He has been full 113 times. One night he came > home late and ma went out and s Those who have accepted the in- consistent nam e of Welsh rabbit for toasted cheese on the assum ption that it is a corruption of Welsh “ rarebit” , will have to revise th eir view, x^ccording to a w riter in M cM ill.n’8 M agasine, “ Welsh rab- cut some hickories and walloped him good. Then she ducked his head in a tub of soapsuds and locked him U N C L E S A M ’S UP ^ ,e ^a rn * And the next H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E . m orning my pa said he reckoned ------------- Postpaid for 25 Cents. be swear ofi. 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