TH E TORCH OF REASON, MLYER'IGN. ORE( ON, THURSDAY, AUGUST I, 1898.
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-dentists predict that in a cen-
turv - time there will be no disease
not curable.
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Cases have been known where a
heartv laugh has banished disease
and preserved life by a sudden
effort of nature.
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The largest bible in the world is
the Buddhist tripitaka, or “three
baskets’’, which comprises 325 vol
umes and weighs 1625 ponuds.
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Spurious coins are legally made
in China. They are used to put in
the coffins of the dead, and the su
perstition prevails that they make
the dead happy.
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Dr. John Hall, pastor of the rich
est congregation in New York City,
has a salary of $30,000 a year,
which is increased to $50,000 by his
fees for christenings, weddings, etc.
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In Germany there is a law which
holds the newspaper as well as the
advertiser responsible for assertions
made, and if a promise to cure is
held out and the remedy fails, pros
ecution is liable to follow.
food for cormorants, fish-hawks and
turkey buzzards, but science as well
a> nature and analogy is now
teaching us that the human stom
ach was never intended to be a sep
ulcher for scavengers.”
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CASH PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF FAT STOCK,
HIDES. PELTS, ETC.
miles an hour has been ascertained
to require about one twenty-third of
a horse-powTer. An expert rider for
S chool
a short time may exert one-third of
S u p p lie s ,
a horse-power. For rapid work, not
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scorching, one-seventh horse-power
B o o k s and
RATES.
is needed. These figures are the
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result of a scientific investigation.
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When liquid air,containing from Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables
D ra k e & W e b b ,
forty to fifty percent, of oxygen, is
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mixed with powdered charcoal it
forms an explosive which is said to
be comparable in power to dynam
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ite, and can be exploded by means
of a detonator. This new explosive
has been tested in a coal-mine at
Peuzburg, Germany. The liquid air
evaporates so rapidly that the ex
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plosive cannot be stored, but must
C a r p e n te r s a n d J o in e rs , for m o rtis
he used within a few minutes after ing, such as le ttin g in locks, as it takes the
it is prepared.
place of chisel an d gouge; to
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C a b in e t M a k e r s , f°r inlaid work,
dow
elling, p atch in g , rem oving splits ami
Human beings are the only ani
mals with sufficient perversity to ) knots. In fact, no wagon o r p a tte rn m aker,
m an u fa ctu rer of pianos, organs, sewing m achines, a g ricu ltu ral im p le m e n ts, sash ,
breathe not through the nose alone, blinds, fu rn itu re , nor ANY O T H E R WOOD W O R K E R , sh o u ld he w ith o u t it.
as is right and proper, hut through
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED.
the mouth. That a sure punish
It is th e only ro n n d b it in th e world th a t
ment follows has no apparent effect
will Ijore a
upon the pernicious habit It is a
scientific truth that oxygen will on
ly enter the system in a required
and do all th a t any o th e r bit will do.
quantity through the nose. Conse
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quently, mouth-breathers become
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anaemic and suffer from numerous
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ills. The latest invention is the
rhinometer, which guages the ex
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tent to which the nose is used for
S il v e r t o n , O er q o n
breathing purposes.
The “duograph” is a device for
enabling direct correspondence be
tween the blind and those who can
see. It is a kind of typewriter,
which prints the letters in relief so
that they are both visible to the
eye and sensible to the touch.
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Club Rales.
One of the members of the Royal
Society of British Artists is B e r
The Weekly Oregonian is the
tram Miles, who lost both arms by best newspaper published in the
being run over by a street car when Pacific Northwest. The subscrip
he was eight years old. He had tion price is 81.50 per year. We
previously evinced a passion for will give it, together with the Torch
painting, and after losing his hands of Reason, for the exceedingly low-
he learned to hold the pencil in his price of $1.75.
You will get two
mouth. In this way he gradually papers for a little more than the
gained such skill that h»1 was able price of one.
to pass all examinations and win
several prizes.
Secularists, would you not like to
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have some letter heads printed with
Modern Medicine is waging an Secular sentiment and W ettstein’s
unrelenting warfare on the oyster. Freethotight badge, to use in corre
It says: “ A creature whose diet is spondence with your friends? We
the offal of the ocean, and which will furnish them to you with
dines upon material so filthy and your name and address printed on
noxious in character that it re them for 75 cents per hundred,
quires the unceasing activity of a 81.50 for 250, or $2.50 for 500, post
liver constituting nearly one-half paid. Let the people know where
the bulk of its body to protect it you stand.
from impending death, can under
Remember if you send us the
no circumstances be fit for use as a
human aliment. There is but one names and addresses of 25 of
means which can be safely relied your Liberal friends and acquaint
ances, we will make you a present
upon for protection against infec of a copy of the Torch of Reason
tion from this source, viz., to dis Song Book No. 1. This will only
card the oyster from our hill of fare. cost you a few minutes’ work and a
,
It may be a wholesome and proper 2 cent stamp.
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