Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194?, January 28, 1898, Image 8

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    A DIUUTIFUL CITY.
tO BRUSSELS IS CHARACTERIZED BY
AN AMERICAN TOURIST.
fotn of Iu Moit Attrartiva Fraturca A
llamUoma Ilonlovard la I'lar of tha
OKI City Wall The lminionte Town Ball.
How tha Trmm On Ar Operated.
Brussels U a beautiful city and owe
fit beauty in a large measure to the
d sense and public spirit of its citi
teus or a ruling king who rules iu the
Interest of the people.
Que good thing conies of a fortified
city, or at least has come to Paris and
Brussels, and that is when by expansion
. ' It has become necessary to tear down
llio fortification it has left the boule
vard. Ilrussels is now abont throe times
(s large as the original walled city, and
this boulevard forms a broad street
uronnd between the center and the out
aide from 200 to 800 feet wide. It is
more than a street or avenue; it Is a
Street and a park. It goes by different
Dames at different parts, and Boulevard
Waterloo the widest is first a side
walk, then a paved street perhaps 15
feet wide for business purposes, then
f round with two rows of trees, 80 fiet
Wide, fur horseback riding, then 40 feet
qr so of asphalt or macadam for car
riages, then bO feet (at a guess) with
four rows of trees for pedestrians, with
scats for resting ; then another paved
street for business and street cars, and,
lastly, the other sidewalk. At different
places uie booths for selling papers, etc.,
waiting rooms for the street cur service
and public conveniences. Through the
towu there are two broad avenues and
many outside, like the Avenue Louise,
which leads out to the Bois, and, like
the boulevard, has the same combina
tion part street and part park of itself.
The other streets are neither wide nor
straight, but cool in a hot day and like
ly warm iu winter.
The buildings are not whole blocks
freni street to street as in Paris, each
separate house or store varying some
what one from the other, but they are
all in a locality or block about of the
came height and degree of finish all
kept clean and bright the telegraph
Bud tt li phone wires all over the tops
strung from roof to roof and the whole
city supplied with street car service.
Cue cf . the lines is supplied with cars
tbat run on the track where there is a
track and turn out on the pavement
wL re there is none. This is done by
nsii.g common omnibus wheels for the
carriage and two leading wheels which
drop into the grooves in the rails
when iu line which keeps the car on
all right. By custom, law or common
sense none of the carriages has tires
less than about two inches wide, so
that the ground rail does not interfere
at all with the common street traffic
The king, either by his power or influ
ence, sees to it that the companies give
the worth of the money. The fares are
very low only a cent for short rides,
varying according to the distance and
the companies are no doubt managed on
economical linea As an example, the
tickets or receipts are printed on paper
and are canceled by the conductor tear
ing off the ccruer. How simple com
pared wiui the tmck ticket and punch !
The street cars, or tram cars, have maps
of the route over which they travel
posted so one who can follow a map
can see where the special line he is on
goes, what main streets it crosses and
where it connects with other lines.
Probably nothing has been said about
Ernsst la for the last j00 years that did
not include the Hotel de Ville, or town
ball, with its openwork spire. Inside it
is a museum, with many curiosities and
noted paintings. Surrounding it and
throughout the old part of tbe town
there are many ancient Flemish build,
ings, and in the new part is the Hull of
Justice, one of the largest buildings in
the world, if not the very largest, It
is larger than St Peter's, and though
Philadelphia claims to have the largest
this is 000 by 600 and 400 feet high, as
against tbe Philadslphia structure's 4C0
feet square by the same height, and the
Philadelphia building has a large open
court, which the Brussels Hall of Justice
bus not. Anyway there is an awful lot
of stone and architecture about it.
I do not know whether they deal out
justice on the same scale as the build
ing, but the affairs of the, city seem to
be well managed, and one would think,
from the talk of the people, that the
king has a good deal to do with it. He
is greatly liked, is around the streets,
and in the exhibition every day and
stops to talk to the exhibitors and work
men. We hud tbe honor of meeting him
two or three times. He was going one
way in tbe aisles of the exhibition and
In the street, and we were going tbe
other. "Long live the king I" John K
Sweet in American Machinist
Such Is Fame.
A Prussian officer in the German ar
my has been in the habit of questioning
raw recruits on simple matters of na
tional history. Here are a few replies
to his question, "Who is Bismarck?"
"Bismarck was emperor of the French. "
"Bismarck is dead." "Eismarck is a
pensioner and lives in Paris." "Bis
marck took part in tbe campaign of
1870 and received a medal for good con
duct." "Bismarck descends from the
Iiohenzollerns aud was born on April
1." Of 00 recruits whom the officer
had to instruct, 21 had never in their
Lie liuud the name of the Iron Chancel
lor. IHuatUfled.
"Is young Ilopley much of a lawyer?"
"No, he isn't any good at all. I em
ployed him in a case a short time ago,
and he didn't say a thing to the counsel
tor the other side that a gentleman
onld object to." Chicago News.
According to Dr. W. J. BeaL the na
tive grasses of North America number
about 1,275 species, included in about
140 genera, while in Europe there are
cnly 47 genera and C70 species.
Rrk.tJAlr ! Indian I t 'ra.
1 tliiiiu that the sorrows ol u iliild
less wile in liuiia are not n ly so
pit i.l as Mrs. Steel i .-rribes l ban to
be, simply because of that "chih.i.s res
ignation, that impressive acquiescence,
w hii h, " she says, "docs more to ocparute
east trom west than all the seas which
i lie between Knglaud aud India," and be
cause, even u inn uarrenness ot me
first wife necessitates the marrying of a
wcoiid (with a view to the future per-.
formauee of religious rites), there can
be no jtalousy between the two, for to
them "marriage has for its object tbe
preservation of the hearth tire, uot the
tire of passion, and tho jealousy which
is a virtue to the civilized is a crime to
these barbarians." Mrs. Steel, I fear,
has also fallen into the common error
(it would have becu a marvel bad she
not) of assuming that every graduate of
an Indian nuiversity is a prig.
The Indian graduate is also tbe pet
version of Mr. Kudyard Kipling. But
both are wrvg in their assumptions. Iu
the discbarge of my academical duties,
uot so very long ago, I came daily into
contact with more than TOO undergrad
uates of tbe Calcutta university, and I
did not notice in them as a class any i
particular priggishuess, anything which '
would differentiate them in that respect, !
say, from English varsity men. Acad-,
emy.
Floating I'p a River.
It was a vexed question in 1800
whether tbe Pilcomuyo river, which
flows for hundreds of miles from the
Bolivian Andes to the Paraguay, might
be used as a commercial highway from
Bolivia to the ocean. Our countryman,
Captain Page, settled this question so
conclusively that no further effort to
utilize the Pilconiaro is likely to be
made, and in this work, that cost him
bis life, for he died of bis privations
after being hemmed in for mouths by
hostile Indians, he devised a plan for
steaming up river when the water was
so low tbat his vessel was stuck in tbe
mud. He was determined to go still
farther; though his little steamer,
which drew only 18 inches, rested pn
the river bottom, so behind the boat be
threw up an embankment of earth clear
across tbe channel, backed it with palm
trunks and brushwood, and before long
the water bad risen a couple of feet,
aud the little Bolivia was able to go on
her way four miles before she stuck
again. Then another dam was built,
and this process was repeated seven
times, and with tbe aid of the dams the
vessel advanced about 35 miles above
the highest point she could reach at the
natural low water stage. Harper's
Round Table.
Court Fonla Who Owned Whole Town.
Hitard, who was attached to Edmund
Ironsides, is the first conrt jester of
whom we have record. He owned the
town of Walworth, a gift from the king.
He held it through four succeeding
reigns, and before leaving England for
Rome, where he spent his last days, he
presented it to tbe church, placing the
deed upon the altar of the cathedral of
Canterbury.
Uallet, Uaiet or Gollet, a native of
Bayeux, was one of William the Con
queror's jesters. He was attached to
William when only Duke of Kormandy
and saved bis master's life by disclosing
a plot for bis assassination. Berdio was
another. He is eurolled in domesday
book as joculator regis and lord of three
towns, all rent free, and five carucates
in Gloucestershire. Rahero was jester
to Henry 1, and William Piculph, or Pi
col, jester to King John. Master Henry,
who, it is thought, may be identical
with Henry of Avranches, the poet lau
reate or versificator, was jester to Henry
ILL Amelia Woffurd in St Nicholas.
Coocliuive.
A doctor on tour through tbe high
lands came upon a fair sized village
where there was no brother practition
er. Surprised at this and anxious to
learn bow the people got on without
one, be took the first opportunity to in
quire. "A doctor!" said tho old woman
whom he accosted. " We need uae doc
tor. "
"And what do you do for tjiedicine in
tbe case of illness?" pursued tbe man
of medicina
"We need nae medicine either. We
jist keep whnsky for the man an tar for
tbe sheep," replied the old woman.
The doctor admitted that a glass of
whisky might be good enough in some
cases, but not always.
"A weel, " readily responded the old
woman, "if ae glass disna dae we gie
twa, and if twa disna dae we mak' it
three, and if that disna dae they were
gaun tae dee onyway. Scottish
Nights.
Did She Ever Live In Doatonf
A young lady of Buffalo who wanted
something that would koep her stock
ings up where they belonged thus ad
dressed the terror stricken young store
clerk :
"It is my desire to obtain a pair of
circular elastic appendages capable of
being contracted and expanded by
means of oscillating burnished steel ap
pliances that sparkle like particles of
gold leaf set with Alaska diamonds and
which are utilized for keeping in posi
tion the habiliment of the lower ex
tremities which innate delicacy forbids
me to mention. " Buffalo ( Wy.) Voice.
The "Voice" at a Political Meeting.
A candidate at an election was known
to be strongly iu favor of flogging in
the army. He said be saw no necessary
disgrace attached to being flogged.
"Why, " cried he, "1 was flogged my
self once, and it was for telling the
truth. "
"And it cured eo, naw doubt," said
a rustic in the met ting. Loudon Tele
graph. Hortensius, tbe Roman orator, had a
memory so woudeitul tbat, ou a wager,
be spent a whole day ut an auction and
at night repeated . :!ie sales, the
prices aud the uuuu ut the buyers.
DOES SHE LOVt- ME!
Piw ) lov im f Hint U Urk
Knr loo vnvp tor i. e iu know.
Do t Up ha-km li ai uja k
From t lis hi-urt 'a iliop uvortluvr t
On I toll VHih iit'iule nik'li
U tha broil h of aniwprinf loraf
Are tha tflnncoa of hrr tr
Foritml by Cupid or by Joint
Only thla to in la known
That I lorr hor, tier alone.
Only thla I clearly ave
the la more than aanh ran b
And full halt ot hoavou to ma,
IXwa ahe lor m1 Do 1 know
Chrtat haa riaca from tha tomb?
Or whrr roam, whoa tlioy blow,
Ot't their oiilnr and iwrfumct
Faith would havs no uilwuoa her,
ili would atlll In honvvn ba,
It I did Bui .rust the dour
Plixlit of hor love for me.
Though 1 cannot prove It niln
by so alitobrnio aiun.
Yet, aa lor divinely grow,
It believe ami foola and know.
Thua thruifgh aoul and every aenao
Hor true lov gtroa evideuoe.
And I clenr and clearer ao
th la more than earth ran b
And full half of heaven to me.
-Charlo M. Dickinson.
A WOMAN'S WIT.
8h Urared ller lluaband'a Anger and
llouatrd Illiu to tiuceeaa.
"Know him?" asked ono of the two
men talking at the comer as ho nodded
j toward a handsome old gentleman just
i passing by. "No? Well, sir, that's Dr.
XJiaUK, IU0 IIOICU surgeon. 1 VO Known
nim 0Vl'r iu wo U!iwi to fwqueut tmj
j811"10 swimming hole. Just how long
,hat vru8 before the war I'm uot goiug
t0 110 blat Ule iu tue riloe f,,r the
Kirl that no aiwl, and if ho hadn't
the chances arc that the doctor wonld
still be driving, night and day, over a
little buck county, attending to a prac
tice that couldn't pay if it wanted to.
"When they were back there in the
woods and he was performing opera
tions that no other member of the pro
fession had thought of undertaking, she
gathered from the talk of friendly doc
tors in the same section that he was
original, daring and successful She
begged him to advertise his abilities,
but he sternly rebuked ber for asking
him to transgress the ethics of the pro
fession. "But you know how it is when a bright
woman sets her head. The doctor's of
fice was a shabby little den without
carpet, window shades, pictures or any
thing else but the plainest furniture.
He resisted all her efforts to change
this. One evening ho came home from
a 30 hours' stay with a patient to find
that ofllce so transformed iu velvet car
pet, tapestries and pictures that ho flat
ly declined to enter it His wife was
away on a visit. Met) had been there,
done the work and disappeared. There
were no bills, tho home merchants knew
nothing, aud the doctor was so mad that
he advertised everything for sale. The
thing was told in .tho local papers as a
huge joke, aud incidentally there were
related some of the stories of how he
took people apart and put them togeth
er again. City papers copied and city
doctors ridiculed. This riled Blank. He
proved that he bad worked greater won
ders than were credited to him, and he
was famous. The means and the end
were the work of the little woman who
had figured them out before giving a se
cret commission to furnish that office. "
Detroit Free Press.
Herrmann and th Cheat.
A characteristic story is told of Herr
mann. Tbe incident took place at a
well known London club, where ecarte
was one of the favorite games indulged
in for stakes by no means insignificant.
It was observed tbat on these occasions
a certain member almost invariably rose
a considerable winner. At length sc.
marked became the good fortune of this
member tbat another determined to
probe the matter to the bottom. One
evening, accordingly, at his own rooms,
he introduced Herrmann under a fale
namo to a select party of the members,
among whom figured tho suspected one.
At the close of the night's amusement,
when tho guests had departed, tho host
turned to the conjurer and demanded
bis opin'on. "Not a doubt of it," re
plied Herrmann, "our friend cheats,
but exactly bow I can't say yet Give
mo another chance." A second meeting
was subsequently arranged, and pluy
began. Suddenly Herrmann, looking
straight at the supposed culprit, ex
claimed, "Where did you get that
king?" "When?" replied tho other.
"Out of the pact, of course." "Impos
sible, my dear sir," retorted Herrmann,
"fur I happen to have all the four kings
here," and thereupon ho calmly drew
tbem from his sleevo and laid them on
the table. St. James Gazette.
Drew Keforra Fur Ilabiea.
The latest invention in the dress re
form for babies, which is rapidly bo
coming more popular, is that all tbe
garments can be put ou ut once. The
first garment is a princess slip of fine
flannel or crepeliue, made with high
neck and long sleeves. The next is a
sleeveless garment of nearly the same
shape and material, and last comes the
nainsook dress. All three fasten to
gether at tbe back with three buttons.
Tho abdominal band is sheer and not
tight, and the feet are left bare.
Hi Pertinent Queation.
He bud taken his punishment like a
little man aud for -ome time afterward
bad been buried in thought.
"Mamma," he said finally.
"Well, Willie?"
"Do you really spank me because yon
love mo so much?"
"That's the reason I punish you,
Willie."
"And don't y u love papa ut all?"
Chicago Post.
In a London paper a young married i
woman of title asks 1,000 for the (lis- ,
charge of the duties of a chaperon for '
the space of three months. i
No fewer than 7,633 patents on kitch
en utensils have been taken out at
' Washingtoa
.A NATURAL WONDER.
rb Tramp Red Randatona llo wider of
lh New Jeraey Mouulalna.
Countless thousands of years ago vsst
itretelies of glacial tl -its came slid
lug across the state ,.i New Jersey,
mounted the Palisades, pushed their
way across tho Hudson river, scoured
over Maiilinttuu Island and slid out into
tho Atlantic ocean, whither they disin
tegrated mid hi uk into tho deep or per
i.ips glided tin to tho other shore i
! But in their onward march thorn)
flnelers Iff t indestructible evidence of
tneir grinding stride, and today all
; slung tho palisades the trap rocks and
bou lders are worn smooth whore the
mountains of ice and sand passed over
lliein In some rocks are deep scratches,
ill pointing eastward aud showing
which way the, glacial deposits drifted
there is the evidence, uiuto, but indis
putable. To the careful observer there are
uumberless other evidences of the pres
ence of glacial influences in tho past,
but uotio is more convincing than tha
tramp bowlder that has dually settled
dowu iu the woods iu tho heart of Kit
glowood borough There it sits, a tow
ering mass of rock weighing per hups
200 tons and resting upon three points
which in themselves llud a purchase ou
a tint rock that is part of aud common
to the character of rock which couixca
the palisades But, strangely enough
aud to tbe wonderment of geologists,
the tramp bowlder is red sandstone from
tho Jersey hills 23 miles inliiud, and
the pedestal is uietamorphite or soft
granite.
Around this marvelous monument
have growu trees that may pcrhaa bo
century old, aud they have completely
hedged it iu, while tho ris k itself has
stood where it stands today for thou
sands of years. Ou tho edcstal or that
part of it which is protected from the
action of the elements call be scon the
deep ridges and scars made across its
fiat surface by tho great griuding pres
sure of the body of ice aud saud that
passed over it countless years ago wheu
New York was ice unci snow clad and
the world was a desolate waste iu a
state of chaos
This tramp bowlder has caused geol
ogists much wonderment and is regard
ed today as one of the finest specimens
over left in tlio wake of a glacier. It is
equally astounding as though au explor
er should find the hull of a steamboat in
the Suhara desert The only way it could
get there would be through Nome great
couvulsiou that had lauded it from the
sea iu the beart of the lulaud sands.
New York Journal.
BIRDS' EGGS.
Th Reaaon Why They Are Not All of
On Miepe.
Why is there net a fixed form for all
eggs? We can see no reason lu the anat
omy of the bird, but we may often 11 nd
reasous for the shape of auy particular
egg iu its later history
It is noticeable, for instance, that the
more spherical eggs, as thosu of owls,
troguus and tbe like, are usually laid
in holes iu tho earth, rocks or trees,
whore they cannot fall out of tho nest,
aud that the eggs of the ordinary song
bird, which mukes a well constructed
nest, are oval, while the slim, straight
sided, couoidul eggs, tapering sharply
to a point, belong to birds that construct
little or no uest to the shore birds,
terns, guillemots and tho like. Why?
Because these last drop them in small
clutches aud with little or no prepara
tion upon saud or rock, where, were
they sphericul, they could only with
difficulty be kept closer beneath the sit
ting bird, bnt conical oljeUs will tend
always to roll toward a center An ad
ditional advuutugu is that en'gs of the
latter shape will take up less space
form a snugger package to be warmed.
lu the case of guillemots the single egg
laid is especially fiat sided and tapering,
aud the species owes its perpetuation
largely to this circumstance, since,
were it not for the egg toplike tenden
cy to revolve about its own ujiex, tho
chances ure that it would be pushed off
the ledge of uaked sea cliff where the
cureless or stupid bird leaves it.
This suggests a word iu reference to
tbe popular fable that sitting birds care
fully turn their eggs every day or often
er in order to warm tbem equally No
such thiug is done, because unnecessary,
since, as we huve seeu, the germinal
part always rises to the top aud places
itself nearest the influential warmth of
the mother's body. Ernest lugersoll in
Harper's Magaziue.
A Lucky Find.
Two men walking on Campbell street
toward Twelfth one night were accosted
by a negro woman who was excited.
"Kin either one of you mens give me
a match?" she said.
"Whut tor?"
"1 lost a quahtah down there, an 1
want to huut fur it "
Shu wus given several matches aud
ran ahead and begun striking mutches
and looking along tbe sidewalk. When
tbe two men came up, she bud stopped
hunting and bad apparently fouud the
torn
"Well, did yon find it?" Inquired oue
it the men.
"No, bat 1 done find this horseshoe,
an that's better'n two quuhtahs, " she
said. Kansas City Star
Theatrical.
Brutte 1 never saw such a cold au
dience lu my- life
Light Didn't they warm up a bit?
Bretto Well,' when they spoke of
bringing out the author 1 believe some
of the audience got hot Youkers
Statesman.
A contemporary mentions tbat there
are schools iu Belgium where the girls
are uot only taught housekeeping in all
its branches, but the management of
shildren as well.
Seven British regiments bava been
qlven permission to add the word "Chit
cral" to their colors.
A French woman's PuneraU
Tho Paris correspondent of tho Lon
d i Telegraph, writing of a funeral re
cently held iu an interior towu of
Franco, says the dead woman had been
in easy circumstance and had long been
besot by the odd ambition to lie buried
in pomp aud splendor and with the so.
roiiipanimeiit of a largo crowd. With
this end In view she bequeathed to her
principal tenant, a steady going green
grocer, tho greater part of her fortune,
consisting of about f 1 8,000, ou tho ex
press condition that alio should be In
terred in state, tho hoarse being drswu
b) six horses caparisoned in the trap
pings of woe, with all tho usual adjuncts
to match. Not content with this pre
caution, the worthy daino, when sha
perceived that her end was uigh, left
legacies not only to a variety of churl
table institutions, but also to the tiro
luen of tho place, to the local band aud
to tho gyniuiifttio clubs of tho district
All these societies were, of course,
represents! with becoming gratitude at
tho obsequies, which in scrupulous no
cord a 1 1 eo with the wishes of the do
Censed belief actress of tho lucky green
griM'is aud tha charitable and other in
stitutions, were on a magnificent and,
indeed, eoloxhul hcuIu, seeing that up
ward of 0,000 pcrniis belonging to all
classes of society followed lii-r mortal
remains to their last resting place.
An I'p Slalra lllarkamllh Hliop.
As is well known, the Baldwin Ixv
comotivo works are located In the heart
of tho city of aliiladelphia, where real
estate is valuable. This condition of
things leads to a great many details in
the construction of tho works which
would uot be thought of under different
circumstances, although, us very often
happens after one has accommodated
himself to circumstances iu this way,
tho result Is found to have no disadvau
tages, but, ou tho contrary, Is fouud to
be positively atlvautugcous.
One of the features of the Baldwin
works, which is a blacksmith shop,
steam bummer aud all, is loeutud ou
the second floor. This shop docs wlitit
the Baldwin works call the light
work. It doc uot do the frame forging
or other heavy work, although the
work done is, as already Intimated, suf
ficiently heavy to call for steam ham
mer. Tha entire shop contain 87
forges, served by two fans, which aro
driven by electric motors A complete
system of exhaust piping for carrying
away tho smoke is provided, which, to
gether with the very liberal window
aud skylight urea and elevated location,
results iu the chuiicht and lightest
shop, when tho number of fires I con
sidered, that we have ever seeu. Amer
ican Machinist
Dlckeaa and Crulkaliank.
The last time 1 saw Dickens was in
1803, at the funeral of William Make
peace Thackeray, to which I accom
panied my father. Although December,
it was a bright and suuuy as summer
day. On getting out at the railway sta
tion we encountered George Crulkshank,
with whom iu early life Thackeray had
studied etching ami whose illustrations
wero a feature of Dickens' curlier works.
Cruikkhauk was then in his seventieth
year. He walked with us to Ken sal
Green cemetery, and the day being
warm I carried his overcoat
The great temperance artist was as
quaiut and odd iu manner and appear
ance as any of his owu caricature.
Goorgo, as his intimates culled him,
possessed histriouiu tastes and used to
appear as Macbeth and in other Miuko
speareuu characters at tiaddler's Wells.
He was associated with Dickens, ti, in
the amuteur performance in couuectiou
with tho promotion of tho Guild of Lit
erature uud Art. Cruikshauk wus also a
volunteer officer, and ou tho oecusiou of
some review u comic bard wrote lu al
lusion to bis temperaiico proclivities
lines which 1 still recull:
Funcr Cruiknhank, If yuu plonae,
Ou a liurMi v nil itnwy kniiwl
Chambers' Journal.
They Will Lay Scrambled Kgg.
"Here, call your dog into your owu
garden. If you don't keep him within
bounds, I'll shoot him," yelled Loouey
to bis neighbor.
"You seem to make a nice fuss ubont
my dog getting into your yard, " said
the neighbor coolly. "Suppose yuu
think it's a park?"
"I'm keeping fowls, mnlldou't want
your animal running 'em all over tho
placo. Yuu don't think I keep poultry
to omuso your dog, do you?" rourod
Loouey. "Call him iu, d'yo hear?"
"I reckon that dog is doing you a
service by chasing your hens about, " re
marked tbe other as ho dragged tho dog
away. "Will savo your wifo a lot of
troublo prepariug the eggs for break fust.
You seo now, ufter my dog bus chased
tbem about the yurd, if they don't go
and lay scrambled eggs. " Strund Mug
azlue. Wanted a Life Term. -
A young man in tho treasury depart
ment who took au examination recent
ly for promotion ran up ugaiust a curi
ous question, but be was equal to the
occasion, aud his ready reply will doubt
less stand him iu good stead when his
average is mude up. The question asked
was this: ,
"How long do you expect to remulu
in tho civil service?"
"Until death do us part," was the
reply, unhesitatingly written dowu,
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Pruss.
Amuaed Them,
"How did your Prench go in Paris,
Mrs. Parvenu?"
"Beautiful I They were really tickled
with it. " Detroit Free Press.
The oldest wooden building in the
world is a church at Borgund, Norway.
It was erected in the eleventh century,
aud frequent coats of pitch have pre
served the wood from decay.
The first mention of the ninn nrsnn in
- . . n -
history is in connection with Solomon's
tempie, wuere mere was an organ with
tea pipes.
SPr WlllliiNia' Indian llls
iiiiltiKint mill euro Hllnd,
lllooilluv and lluliinK
I'lli'. 1 1 uUiirli lh tiimnra.
alluya Hi llehiim at ont o, aeU
ia a mmlllee, vln-a iiNiant re
lief, Or, vVlblitiiia'lnillnnl'llrOlnt.
ninnt l proiuirnl for I'llex anil Iti'h-
Ing n( lh private pnria. Kvery bin I
nrraiiteil. Ilv ilruutfixU, l mull on re
ef let n( prion. Ml rents and .ini. WILLIUM!
MANUf ACIUHINQ CO., l'ri. Uuvolai.u.bhiu,
For sale by C. (1. Huntley,
H. W. JACKSON,
Umbrellas, Guns,
Sewing Machines,
And nil kinds of small nut
chines juit in good order. No
work to dilllciilt to undertake.
Tricon reason aldo.
Simp In Caulleld building
Near Court Mouse
IF YOU ARE.
DO NOT FORGET
Three Important Points
FIilKT Go via fU. Paul Liraus.
tlie lines to llint point will alFord
you trtt) very best service.
SKC'OXI) Seo that the cotijMin
beyond St. I'mil reads via tho Wis
consin Central U'cutiso that linn
makes close connections with all
the trans-continental lines entering
tho Union Depot there, and its wr
vice is first-class in evrry particular.
THIRD For information, call
on your neighlsir and friendthe
nearest ticket agent and ask for a
ticket reading" via the Wisconsin
Central, lines, or address
Jas. C. Pnsn. or Oso. H. Bm.
(Jan. i'aa. A!.. (liierl Atfritt,
Milwaukee, Wli U4i Hiark tit.,
I'orllantl, Or.
IM
Depot Sixth and J. Street
TWO TRAINS DAILY
Kor All PointH ISnnt
"FAST MAIL ROUTE."
Leaves for the Knst via Walla Walla
and Ssiksne, daily st 2:00 p. m. Arrives
st 12. ft) p. m.
Iiavna for the Kssl via Huntington
and Pendleton, daily at 0 p. in. Arrives
at 7 a. in.
THIIOCGU PULLMAN AM) TOUIII8T
BLKKI'KKH.
Ockaw Division .Steamship sll from
Alnswotth dock Sn, in. For Sun Fran
cisco: Htate of t'ali(iirnia sails Jan.
27; Columbia sails Jjii, L'2.
C0LUJJD17I IIYK1 MYIJSI0N
POHTLANI) AND AHTOUIA
Steamer It. It. Thompson leaves
Portland daily excent Kunday at 8 p.m.,
and at 10 p. m. on Saturday; returning,
leaves Astoria daPy except Htinday at
:4.r) a. m.
Willamette River Route.
Ash Street Wharf.
Hteamor Ruth, for Salem, Albany,
Corvallis srid way points, loayss Port
land Tuesdays. Thursdays ami Kuii.r.
days at (1 a. m. KoturniiiK leuves Cor
vailis Mondays. Wednesdava ami l.vi.
days at 0 a. in. .
Bteamer jumore mr halein and war
noints, leaves Portland Mondays, Wed-
nuarluua unit l4VI.l11.ru .l t . .
,.,.,,,,.,.,,. njnuHis, 111, nuiiirn-
ini, leaves Halein, Tuesdays, Thursdays
ami (Ou t iwfl iiiio at it . AK ... "
Bill I'HtU till JfO Rt it nj h, if 1
nwm river mm
Steamer Modoc, for Dayton' anil way
........ m, 1. a,:o 1 uniaiiij 1 uesoays. Thurs
days and (Saturdays at 7 a m. Kettirn-
n.K, ihbvb imyton lor rortland and way
points Mondavs. Wed IlPiltiuva on1
. ' j "'- t
days at 7 a. ni.
Stmke River Route Steamer leaves
Rinaria dailv exennt fin t,, ,!,
at 1:45 a. in . nn orn'uol r ,.:
from Portland. Leaves Lewlston, return
in);, daily except Friday at (J:00a. ra.,
arnvinu at Riparia at 0 p. m.
W. II. IIURLBURT,
V. A. SCHILLING, C.tyT;cse?AVgent
Telephone (Main) 712,
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Repairer.