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About The Redmond spokesman. (Redmond, Crook County, Or.) 1910-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1911)
X? THE PICAYUNE. THE NEW RUBBER HOSE. DEEP SEA LIFE. BOTTLED LIGHT. W hat »►»« C a i« U ».d ta Buy W tiM It W a t In Circulation. Natural Caura« of Evonta A fto r Fothor Fontootio Fiohoo That Aro Found Hoar IHo Oooon'o Bod Brilliant Inaaats That B ar»« a* Lam p« In Trapmal Nsgiana. The first turn* l ever * » « a penny «at, at schvxxl in Yankealand in 1S47. It * * » given me to pay the man for bringing mo a letter from the poatoftioe— 10 cent» postage, 1 < ont delivery in those »l*xs. I W ¡•le had to get their mail at the of- t'oe. Títere « a » no free deliv ery. Certain neighborluW* of spinsters. howexer— the college t o w n was full of such— secured the services of a lame, halt or blind man to bring their letter* from the office to their door once a day for t he stipend of a penny each. There « a * no coin in circulation o í les» value than a picayune where » as mv home. A picayune repre sented »o little value that a miser »as called ptcayuniah. At the *aiuc time it represented such a big value that we children felt rich when we had one tied iu the corner o f our handkerchief. Old Manette, who set up her table and urn for an hour or so everv morning at the corner of Camp and Canal streets, served delicious hot coffee— a big cupful, too— for a picayune, but when I « a » out o f lied early enough for that it was to go to market with John. Then we t-x*k our coffee at Pal- myre’s stand, for she supplemented a greasy cake the size of a cracker ss lagmappe with the coffee. At the corner of Chartres and Canal streets was a tiny soda fountain where one could get a glass o f soda for a picayune— or mead. We chil dren liked mead. I never see it now, but as I recall it was a thick, honey, creamy drink. We must have preferred it because it seemed so much more for a picayune than the frothy, effervescent, palish soda water. It was a great lark to go with pa and take my glass o f mead while he ordered ginger sirup (o f all things!) with his soda. In the changes years bring, a penny now buys about what a picayune did in my day. One paya a penny for ever so big a newspaper today. A picayune was the price of a small sheet in mv time.— Mrs. E. Ripley in New Orleans Times-Democrat. “ Don’t you touch it,” *aid the mother a* the coil o f nice new rub ber hoae waa deposited with a thump on the back porch, radiating a ainell unlike am thing clue on earth. “ Wait till your father get» home.“ The children met the father a hlock from home They informed him with whoops that the hove had arm ed, and the father beamed upou t hern. A fter supper, and not before, the father removed his eoat and went forth, hearing the hoae and followed by the expectant children. He stretched it tenderly out on the gras*, having heard that to drag a hose wore it out. Then he went to the tap and turned on the water. The ho*e writhed in the middle, then spit fix- ungly and delightfully at the tiox- *le. and, turning aU>ut like a snake, sent a heavy stream o f water »qua rely into the open parlor win dow. “ H ere!” veiled the father. “ Why didn’t too children hold that noz- I 4 H * r “ Yon said not to touch it,” they -»plumed. “ Oh. papa, lemme sprinkle,” pleaded the little girl. “ D m m r, papa,“ begged the little boy. “ Me first." But the father continued to sprinkle, first the street, then the grass, and wound up br washing off the porch with ^etreshiug jeta. “ Yon can sprinkle tomorrow,” he told the children aa he unfastened the hose. The next evening was marked by a fight in which the little girl re ceived a biack eye, the little boy a tittered nose and both a thorough wetting. A week later the father looked up from the evening paper. “ Heavens," he said, “ how dry everything is! Why don’t those children sprinkle the grass?” “ Children,” said the mother, “ go sprinkle the grass." “ Make sister do it." said the little boy. “ 1 sprinkled last.” “ He didn't, neither," »aid the lit tle girl. “ He never doea want to do any work. Make him do it, mamma.” — Dallas New». A Pardonabl« Pun. - m • * * %aL , Brought It Homo. Most if not all o f the deep sea sounding now done is done with steel wire. Professor Silvanus P. Thompson in his recent ‘‘ L ife of A Turning Paint In History. William Thomson,” better known as Lord Kelvin, says that that sci- On the morning o f the 1st o f enlist was one o f the first to recom May, 1637. there occurred an inci mend the abandonment o f the old dent that, unnoticed at the time, afterward proved to be ono of the hemp rope system. In connection with this use of turning pomta o f history. Eight steel wire the story is told that immigrant ships lay in the Thames Joule, visiting W hite’s shop, found ready to sail. A body of pilgrims Sir William surrounded by coils of were about to embark, and Oliver wire which he was inspecting and Cromwell and his famous cousin, on inquiring their use was told that John Hampden, were among them. they were pianoforte wire for But they were »topped at the land ing by a guard of soldier». The king sounding. ‘ T o r sounding what note?” in- had decreed that his subjects should not leave England. Cromwell quired Joule. “ Th e deep C,” was Sir W illiam ’s stayed, and with him, aa Macaulay wrote, “ stayed the evil genius o f the ____________________ house o f Stuart.” Had Cromwell O n« W ay to Craat« Poor«. and bis friends been allowed to car Peerages have sometimes been ry out tlieir project o f emigration acquired in curious ways. When the the whole history o f the English head o f a well known west country civil war might hare remained un family was raised to the upper written. house a good deal o f surprise was expressed at such a distinction be Just a G< •««. ing conferred upon him, for he had The eight-vear-old »on of a Balti not rendered any particular service more physician, together with a to his party, having lost practically friend, was playing in Ilia father’* every election he had contested. office during the absence o f the doc I.ord Bearonsfield furnished me tor when suddenly the first lad with the key to this enigma. “ W ell,” threw open a closet door and dis said he, “ we really did not know closed to the terrified gaze of his what to do with him, for he was little friend an articulated skeleton positively doing us harm. Wherever When the visitor had sufficiently he stood lie was beaten, so at last recovered from his shock to stand we thought the best way to get rid the announcement the doctor’» aon o f him would be to send him to the explained that hi* fattier w»§ ex upper house.” — From “ Under Five tremely proud o f that skeleton. Reigna.” “ la he?” asked the other. “ W hy?" “ I don’t know,” waa the answer. Tha Ironclad Vasaal. “ M.iyhe it was his first patient.” — The famous naval battle in Harper’* Magazine. Hampton Roads was the first real te*t o f the ironclad vessel. Before A Roland For an Oliver. that memorable affair there had Roland and Oliver were two of been one or two armored craft, but Charlemagne’* general*. They were they had not been tried in battle. equally o f giant strength and huge The Hampton Roads fight sounded stature. T o determine which was the doom o f the wooden warship. the superior man they engaged in a I t was seen at once that such ves combat on a small island in the sels were useless against craft like Rhine. The fight lasted fo r five the Monitor or Merrimac, and the successive day*. At the end o f this navies o f the world were instanta time the victory still hung in the neously revolutionized. Since 1862 balance. Every blow Roland deliv no nation has had other than ar ered was returned by Oliver. Thna mored warships.— New York Am er when we say a “ Roland for an Oli ican. ver" it is the same as saying “ tit for ♦at” on a “ blow for a blow.” Caaay’s Picture. Casey decided to go into business, Not So Far Wrong. so be bought out s small livery •Tamra waa halting and utammer- stable and had a painter make a ing through hit Latin translation, sign for him showing him astride a aid Miss Graham was deftly trying mule. He had this sign placed in to stimulate that none too brilliant front o f the stable and was quite student’» memory. “ Sinister” waa roud o f it. Ilia friend Finnigan the word ahe wanted. appened along and stood cazing at “ Come, come, James,” ahe urged the sign. “ Just think hard. Yon know the ‘That's a good picture of me, Latin for ‘left.* Now what is it ?” ain’t it?” asked Casey. James did aa directed and “ Sure; it looks something like thought hard for a moment. T h e » you,” said Finnigan, “ but who the be looked up triumphantly. devil is the man on vour back?"— ! National Monthly. C “Spinster,” ha announced —We- man’f Home Com^enicn. Thera eiista in the tropical cotin The treat Challenger expedition returned to Britain in 1876 after trie« of America and in the Weat having *|>ent over three year« in the Ituliea a curious specie* of inaect exploration of the great ocean ba which the native* call “ cocuyoa" or sins o f the world. Among it* many “ Uolaopterua noctilucid,” meaning results the one that riveted moat of night light bug. This insect emit* the attention o f the public was the a brilliant green light from each discovery that living organism* eye and a green light from tha on were to he found everywhere in the tier part o f tha stomach Some of th# native* in Cuba. neean, from the surface down to depths o f three or four miles. Men Mexico and South America use the were, indeed, surprised to learn that bug light to read by, placing alsiut in the»** great depths, to which sun- fiftv bugs in a long gla*a tu t* or An light never penetrated, where the bottle, called a ‘V ocu ver*" temperature approached the freex- other method is to hung tha cocu lug point and where the pressure yera over one's bed and thru alien was four or five ton* on the square you want to see the time at night inch, large and delicate animal* be •trike Ilia bottla genily with the longing to nearly all marine tvpes ham), when the cocuyoa will light could flourish in great abundance up. They were also surprised to learn This bug ta quite harmless and | that small |xurticles such as fall to inoffensive and can he carried in the bottom of a tumbler o f water the hand. I f its stomach is gently will aUo fall to the bottom o f an pressed br forefinger and thumb ocean six miles in depth. Acquaint the bug will give a light like a small ance was made with new specie*, electric torch. These peculiar ani genera anil even order* of animal* mal» vary in sue. but tha largest which recalled extinct forma found come from the province of Pinar imbedded in rock* as fossil*— the del Rio, in Culm, and measure two »talked crinoida, for example. New and a half inches in 'angth bv one and extremely interesting instances half to three-quarter inch in thick- were otmervrd o f the wav in which nesa. They give forth a very pow- organism* adapt themselves to re erful light. They are black in color markable a n j hitherto unconceived and feed on aweet potatoes, rotten conditions o f life. wood and corn cane. The strange and fantastic fish es They are easily A bo> ily captured capt brought up from great depths were ill light a cigar, and. wtnrling the all dead when hauled on deck. •ame in his band orer hi* head, be Their eve« were often blown out of make* a noise with hit mouth their head* by the expansion of sounding like r-r-r-r-r-r. In a few their bodv gases as these fishes were minute» his arm will be entirely hauled by the nets into sliallower covered with the Coeuvoa, taking water, I.urg* number» o f these on the aspect o f an electric pole of strange fishes, crustaceans, cuttle green light. He then proceed« to fishes and aoophytea, emitted from take them off and |ilacva them iu a anecial organs a blue-green phos basket where previously lie has phorescent light resembling in func placed a few piece* of corn cane. tion searchlight*— in this way the Care must always be taken to eternal darkness o f the cold, mo keep the cocuyoa from rating sugar, tionless region at great depth* was for if they do their leg* drop illuminated Sometime* the trawl off, their brilliant light fades, and brought up an ooze made up o f cal they will die. The coeuvoa lav careous sheila, aoinetunes o f sili their egg» in rotten tree*, and ceous shells, sometime* a red clay sometimes th ese tree* assume a very containing cosmic spherrulea, doz beautiful aspect, for from a distance ens of ear bones of whale* and hun they look like a long pole full o f dreds o f shark*’ teeth, all covered glowing little green electric glol-es by manganese oxide. Scientific men Senor Felipe Poey, the Cuban had evidently invaded a new weird naturalist, whom the great German field o f research o f surpassing im naturalist, Humboldt, came from portance to all who take an interest China to confer with, has expressed in the advance o f natural know!- his opinion that the light produced edge. by Coleopterua noctilucid is due to Th e modern science o f oceanog an excess o f electric phosphores raphy waa practically founded by cence. Sometimes they conceal their the (Challenger expedition. In more light, but by gently preaaing the recent year* our Knowledge o f the atomach the light will flare forth ocean has been greatly extended by again with renewed strength.— New expeditions sent out by the govern York World. ments of nearly all civilized coun tries, by cable ahipa and by private P lavar»' C »«w individuals like the late Alexander Few people realize that there are Agassiz and the Prince of Monaco. other egg* bcaide* those o f hen* Th e development o f this new which have enormous commercial science ha* also been greatly helped | value. In England ao called "plo- by the work carried on at the ma vem’ eggs,” which are really those of rine biological atations, which have lapwings, are sent to the city mar been founded in many part* o f the ket* from the rural districts by world.— H arper’* Magazine. hundreds of thousands. They are «•teemed a great delicacy and fetch O n« «n Grandpa. a very high price, the use o f them L ittle Grandson— Grandpa, you being for that reason confined al atid last summer when you were most exclusively to the aristocracy here that if I took a cold bath ev- and other luxurioua persona Being «•7 morning you would give ine only about the size of pigeon*' eggs, •omething nice. a good many o f them are required “ Y e*, Henry, but you didn’t do to make a iliah. Men make a husi- it.” uea* of gathering them from the “ I ’ m taking them now, grandpa. I nest* in marahea and wet field*.— I ’eluded yon knew best.” Loudon Standard. “ Glad to hear it, my boy. It will be the making of vour health. Take Bmbrya Arctiitast. thia ♦■> and pet what you want with A popular conception o f the ar it. How long have you kept it up, chitect’* failing in completing a Henry ?” house within the estimate is illus “ I commenced thia m orning."— trated in the atory o f the proud fa St. Louis Globe-IVmoorat. ther who thought he discerned great architectural talent in h issii- Caught at th « First Trial. year-old son. Mr. Cleverly— I have n great joke “ Why," asked a neighbor, “ doea on my wife. I ’ ve juat bought her a he draw well?” hat for (5 and had it aent home “ No,” replied the father, “ but he with a fifteen dollar mark on it. started u few day* ago to build n She’ll never know the difference. hencoop at an estimated cost o f G5 Mr*. Cleverly (later)— Harold, cents, and it has already coat me dear, I gue** I would better buy my aljout $3.50.” — Metropolitan Maga- own hats after this. 1 could have tine. done a good deal better for $15. You ’ ve been awfully cheated. Why, Food Par Rapsnlsnca. I *aw this very anme hat in the win A well known federal official am dow with a five dollar mark on it. strolling down Philadelphia avenue — Detroit Free Pre*a. one afternoon when lie encountered a very »mall boy crying bitterly, A Cool Bandaff. “ What’a the matter with that A young couple appeared not long | child?” demanded the offical, some ago in a prayer meeting in a middle what peremptorily, o f the woman weat town and requested the minis who had him in charge, “ la he ill?” ter to marry them. The service waa “ He ain't exactly ill," responded interrupted to oblige them, and a ft the unmoved woman, “ but, between er the eeremony they took a front yon and me. air, no atomach ain’t »eat while the regular meeting re goin* to stand nine doughnutai” - sumed. A hyrnn was then given Snccea* Magazine. out that had evidently not been se Safer and Burar. lected with thia incident in view. The opening line said, “ Deluded “ I want you for rny very own," koula that look for heaven.” — L ip laid the rich old gentleman when he pi neott 'a. had succeeded in getting the beau tiful girl to listen to him. ■aay. “ But how can I be your very “ Now. Arthur,” »»id his father, own ?’’ “ Why— why, you can marry me “ vou've l.een going to »ehool long enough to write decently. Don’t I can’t yon f” you knos how to make a figure .1?” | “ I suppose I could, but don’t you “ Sure,” said the lioy. “ You nul think, if you really want m e, R your pencil on the paper and tnen would bo aafer to adopt me?” — Judge. - ‘ jo u »hirer.” - Enhance. Redmond Steam Laundry wi»h to announce to the p eo p le of Redmond und vicinity and nur- rounding town* that I have *turt- ed u ST KAM LA U N D R Y in Redmond t»n Oth street between I) und K street«, and solicit their patronage. I PROMPT ATTENTION TO ORDERS. PUCES RE ASON ABLE. ROOD WORK GIARANTEED. Packages (’ailed for and Delivered. M R S . W . A. 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