I HE TORC H OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1898.
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nearly fainted when the
face of a church deacon appeared.
NEW AND CURIOUS.
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o * ..at individual confessed to all the
robberies, and promised to make
The first book printed in the | reS^^Ut'on avo’^ arresU
United States was the “ Bay Psalm
One of the methods of testing the
Book’’, which was issued in Cam- question of the existence of a per­
iridge, Mass., in 1640. Specimens ceptible atmosphere on the moon is
f this publication are extremely the observation of a star at the in-
rare and command very high prices.j slant when it disappears or emerg- T H E O N LY S C H O O L OF T H E K IN D
Recent studies of the animal life es from behind the moon. If there
of Lake Tanganyika have shown were a lunar atmosphere it would
that that lake differs from all the produce some effect on the appear­
other African lakes in possessing ance of the star. No such effect
inhabitants that belong to oceanic has ever certainly been observed.
species. Still, these singular deni­ Recently (his method has been ren­
zens of Lake Tanganyiki are not dered more delicate, perhaps, by the
exactly like the marine organisms introduction of photography. Pho­
of the present day, and the conclu­ tographs of stars, made as they are
sion is drawn that a sea, connected about to disappear behind the lu­
with the open ocean, once occupied nar disk, show no indications of Pupils are Given Every Opportunity to Learn Without
Being Hampered by Superstitions and Dogmas.
the part of Africa w’here Tangan­ change in the intensity of the im­
yika now lies, and that the lake is age, such as would he expected if
the last remnant of the aucient sea. the moon had a perceptible atmos­
phere.
Alarm concerning the progress of
In an attempt to turn “ wireless
Mormonism is beginning to prevail
among the other religious sects in telegraphy” to practical account
Ontario, Canada. In the political and make it a commercial success,
canvass now going on the usual W. J. Clark, of New York, has pro­
forecasting of the attitude of the duced apparatus for sending and A Splendid Corps of Teachers and Good Facilities for
several religious interests is made, receiving telegraphic signals with­
1'eaching.
For information, address
out
wires,
which
is
to
he
placed
up­
and the estimate based upon it,
J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D., B.S.D., President,
on
the
market.
Where,
for
any
that before the year passes away
SILVERTON.
OREGON.
reason,
it
is
not
desired
to
use
the
there will he 100,000 Mormons in
the province, is now thought to be Morse signals, a special receiver is
within the mark. This result is furnished either with a vibrating
confirmed through inquiries made f
or an ’ncan(fescent lamp, the
D E A L E R S IN-
by the Presbyterian Review.
I!at,er enablil'« ‘he person receiving
¡the message to read it visually. In-
The surgeon’selectric cauterizing • asmuch as Marconi’s experiments
wire has been used by the United have shown that telegraphic sig-
States fur seal commission with nals can already be sent ten miles,
much success for branding female or more, without wires, it is hoped
Corner Main and Water Streets,
fur seals. A dynamo, driven by a that the new system will have a
gasoline engine, supplied the cur- ’ rapid development.
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rent,
which
heated
a
platinum
wire!
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tecientinc experiments extending
to incanaescence.
Bv
moving
this
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over two
years , have , been made
once over the anim als body the j
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! der the auspices of the Studehaker
hair and fur were , virtually J mowed Bros., the widely . known wagon
away.
. determine
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* 6 of the builders, to
wire
across
the surface destroyed
„„!•*. of c wide
- j and i narrow wag-
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J 'qualities
the cells so that no more fur can I on wheel tires.
Some nice Yard-Sticks to remind you that w-e have
Every kind of
grow there. This destroys the road was used to test the question.
value of the pelt, and thus operates It was found that on macadam road
to prevent the killing of female seals the narrow tires were far inferior to
at sea.
the wide, and they required much
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The novel feat of catching a
chicken thief by means of a camera
was recently performed by a West
Philadelphian, says the New York
Sun. Finding that his hen roost
was persisntly raided, he set up a
snap-shot camera in such a way
that it was focused directly on the
greater effort to draw a given load.
In a deeply rutted clay road, the
narrow tires running in the ruts
and the wide tires on top, the nar­
row tires were far more efficient.
This was also the case with wet
mud. But as soon as the mud 1.
gan to dry, the wide tires showed a
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of flashlight powder. An ingenious proved to he thoroughly had roads. i# :
arrangement of wires was then run
from a battery to the camera and
Club Rates.
Hash powder and thence to the
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door, which when opened would
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work the camera and ignite the best newspaper published in
powder simultaneously. One morn- Pacific Northwest. I he subsc
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ing he found that the coop had tion price is $1.50 per year.
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by the flash of the powder. Anx- price of $1.<5
ious to see how the scheme had papers for a little
worked, he at once developed the price of one.
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