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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1898.
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in the British Museum there are
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written on bricks, oyster
bones ami flat stones, and
manuscripts on bark, ivory, leath-
er. iron, copper and wood.
Photographers, in their constant
studv of the face, find that the left
side makes the more pleasant pic
ture, and that the profile as seen
'from the left gives a more correct
likness than when viewed from the
right.
It is claimed that very young
children are not sensitive to pain
to any great extent. Dr. Denger
calculates that sensibility is seldom
clearly shown in less than four or
five weeks after birth, and before
that time infants do not shed tears.
\ French inventor has designed
a new lifeboat, which has a weight
ed keel extending low enough from
the bottom to prevent its overturn
ing, while air-tight compartments
are placed in the ends and sides,
which will keep it from sinking
when full of water.
A writer in Harper’s Round Ta
ble describes a piece of amber in
which is imbedded a lizzard eight
inches in length and belonging to a
species which is no longer extant.
The little animal is perfectly pre
served in his golden-hued prison,
all of its colors showing through.
This is not the only instance in
which the fossilized gum called
amber has preserved specimens of
living forms that have now become
extinct.
oblong figures of varying propor
tions. Jdaving cut out the segment
of leaf, an operation requiring
about twenty seconds, the bee car
ries it to the sand-bank, and then
returns for more materials. When
a piece has been nearly cut off. the
bee, in order to prevent tearing,
poises itself in the air with its
j wings, and completes the operation
with a clean cut.
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In Place of C h ris tia n ity :
1 Can Sin^ he Forgiven?
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2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil
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3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
According to statistics obtained
Always on h a n d and sold a t
by Mr.» W. H. Hornaday from
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sportsmen and naturalists in all S tandard * Prices.
parts of the United States, there
to h an d to y o u r C h ristia n frien d s. Send
2 cen ts for 6, or 6 cen ts for 25 tra c ts ,
has been a decrease of no less than
to E liza M owry B i . iv en , Brook
lyn, C onn., or send 10 cen ts
46 per cent, in the number of na
W e pay th e h ig h est price
for 60, e ith e r kind or as
tive birds during the last fifteen
sorted k in d s, to
years. Among the alleged causes Cash fo r Fat S tock.
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are killing by gunners, plume
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hunting, egg-stealing, fire, and the
spread of the quarrelsome English
sparrows. Game and edible birds
are becoming scarce, and in their
stead song birds are used for food.
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The examination of volunteers
for service in the army and navy,
which has been in progress at the
recruiting stations since the presi
dent’s call for troops, has empha
sized the fact that bicycle riding,
as commonly indulged in, is detri
mental to health. Derangements Corner Main and Water Streets,
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of vital organs of the body sufficient
to debar the victim from enlistment
on the ground of physical unfitness
were in many cases directly trace
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able to the cramping caused by the
common bicycle posture. The bi
cycle rider shoul take pains to sit
up straight.
At a recent meeting of the An
thropological society in Washing
ton, Dr. Matthews described the
snake-worship of the Navajos. A
Navajo, he said, never kills a snake.
If he finds one coiled in his path
The latest scientific conclusions , he gently lifts it with a stick and
concerning the planet Mars, are tosses it aside. I he Navajos think
that the planet is analagous snakes are very wise, and un
to the moon, and has no atmos derstand the language of men. At
phere, no clouds, no canals, and the same time, they believe snakes
therefore no human life. M. An- are evil, and will employ the infor
tionadi, of the observatory of mation they get by listening to
Juvisy, Paris, after a long study of men for their disadvantage. Ac
Mars under Flammarion, under cordingly, the Navajos hold their
takes to deny Schiaparelli’s theory most sacred rites and recite their I M P E R I A L ............................................................................... $ 4 0 and $ 5 0
of the parallel canals on Mars. The myths only in winter, when the P A C IF IC ..................................................................................................... $ 3 0
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French astronomer attributes the snakes are hibernating and cannot
appearance of canals to optical j overhear them.
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illusion.
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A writer in Knowledge describes
Tenth Annual Convention.
C o m m e r c ia l S t r e e t ,
the interesting operations of the bee
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called the “leaf-cutter”. This in
sect drills in a sand-hank a hole of the Oregon State Secular I nion
ten inches deep and half an inch will he held at Wagner, Oregon,
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in diameter, and divides it into three days, beginning Sunday, July
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about a dozen compartments or 3, E. M. 298. This is the first time
cells. Each cell is composed of a convention has been called to
pieces of leaf, cut into proper shape meet in this part of the state, and a
T he G o v ern m en t nationalized th e Postal S ystem , why n o t also
and carefully fitted together. Rose splendid time is anticipated. The
th e Money System ? A plan is told by C. ELTON B L A N C H A R D
in h is book e n t i t l e d .................................
and sweet-pea leaves are among the first day will he devoted to exercis
favorites of the bee. The cutting is es at the grave of Katie Kehm
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done with the jaws, while the six Smith, and the second day to the
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legs hold the leaf in position and celebration of Independence Day.
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enable the insect to turn itself
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about with the precision of a pair la te r .
President.
It should be in th e h an d s of every th in k in g p erso n . A ddress all o rd ers to
of compasses. Some of the cut
The TORCH OF REASON, S ilverton, Oregon.
pieces are perfect circles; others are) Silverton, Or., May 5, 1898.
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