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I- I ART OF LASSOING. The art of lassoing, or roping as it is called, is becoming a favorite athletic exercise in some parts of the country; all the more so, as in the eyes of the uninitiated, there is a halo of romance about it. Much exaggeration is indulged in when telling of the feats done with the lasso. The ropes used by cow punchers are ot three kinds hair, rawhide and manilla or sea-grass rope, and nine out of ten use the three-eighth orone-half manilla, while the hair rope is rare. For exhibition purposes a finely-braided, loaded rawhide rope is used, the additional weight near the houdoo, or small loop through which the rope passes, being of immense advantage, and enabling an expert to reach a greater dis tance. In a rope of 60 feet, the loading will probably enable a man to reach five or six feet further. As a general rule, the length of the saddle rope varies from 30 to 40 feet, and more often under 40 feet than over. In horse back throwing, the left hand, hold ing the bridle and spare coiled rope, guides the horse, while the noose or loop is swung around the Lead with the right. In swinging the loop the essential point is to keep the loop open, and this is done by a simple turn of the wrist the arm itself being hardly used In throwing on foot in a corral, or where a bunch of horses are hud died together, and care is taken not to frighten them unnecessarily, the noose is trailed on the ground and cast at the animal's head. These are the two ways of roping most commonly practiced, though there are several other fancy ways not often practiced. In the matter of authentic records, none probably exist. One hundred and sixteen feet has been claimed for a California man now traveling with Buffalo Bill's show, while ninety-lour feet has been published for a Billings, M. T., man, but both of these records are preposterous. The average cow puncher trom Texas to Montana uses a rope which rarely reaches fifty feet, and from twelve to twenty feet must be deducted from this measure for circumference of noose. Sometimes , a bo called "California loop? exceeds this by aearly five feet. In catching a wild horse or steer; after the noose is over the animal's neck or legs, the end of the rope is swiftly tied around the horn of the saddle, the horse being braced back to resist the shock, which in , most cases either snaps the rope or sends the captured animal all in a heap. What the possibilities of roping to catch are is hard to say. No doubt with a horse at lull gallop down hill, the wind favorable and a good Jong rope, an expert may reach 100 feet, but such casts are few and far between, and most good ropers feel extremely pleased when they can reach out the full length of their forty-five-foot .rope and catch. If roping was conducted under the conditions to which most athletic competitions are subjected, as regards level ground and stand ing at a scratch, a 50-foot throw would be a good record, while a 75-foot one would be an extraor dinary one, and in fact, considered by many to be well-nigh impossi ble. upon the inside at the end of each sixty minutes. No changes were noticeable until after the end of the fwelfth hour, when some of the lineaments of the head and body of the chick made their appearance. The heart appeared to beat 'at the end of the twenty-fourth hour, and in forty-eight hours two vessels of blood were distinguished, the pulsations being quite visible. At the fiftieth hour an auricle ot the heart appeared, much resembling a lace or noose folded down upon itself. At the end of seventy hours we distinguished wings and two bubbles for the brain, one for the bill and two others for the forepart and hindpart of the head. The iver appeared at the end of the fifth day. At the end of 131 hours the first voluntary motion was observed. At the end of 138 hours the lungs and stomach had become visible, and lour hours later the intestines, the loins and the upper mandible could be dis tinguished. The slimy matter of the brain began to take form and become more compact; at the be ginning of the seventh day. At the one hundred and ninetieth hour the bill first opened and flesh began to appear on the breast. At the one hundred and ninety-fourth the sternum appeared. At the two hundred and tenth hour the ribs had begun to put out from the back; the bill was quite visible, as was also the gall bladder. At the beginning of the two hundred and thirty-sixth hour the bill had be come green, and it is evident that the chick could have moved had it been taken from the shell. Four hours more and feathers had com meuced to shoot out, and the skull to become gristly. At the two hundred and sixty-fourth hour the eyes appeared, and a few hours later the ribs were perfect. At the three hundred and thirty-first hour the spleen drew up to the stomach and the lungs to the chest, When the incubator had turned the egg 355 times the bill was fre quently opening and closing, as if the chick was gasping for breath When 451 hours had elapsed we heard the first cry of the little im prisoned biped. From that time forward he grew rapidly, and came out a full-fledged chick at the proper time. St. Louis Repub lican. HOW A CHICKEN IS MADK. A French -scientist who removed without injuring the membrane, in patches about the size of the di ameter of a pea, and snugly fitted the openings with bits of glass giyes- the following report of his wonderful experiment: I placed the egg with, tha glass bull's-eyes in an incubator, run. by clockwork and revolving once each hour, so that I had the pleasure of looking through and watching the change It is almost incredible that Si mon Collins, of Marrietta, who has been blind for twenty -seven years is an expert carpet weaver, makes and prints paper flour sacks in colors, doing the printing on a Washington hand-press, with per feet register, but the Marietta Time3 vouches for ihat. I have known him for seven years, and have seen him frequently on the streets of his town, cane in hand, walking rapidly making all the ins and outs, going down into a base ment or upstairs to a business office, never making a mistake and never being hurt. A year ago he made a canoe rom his own design, and the same boat won a race in a regetta upon the Susquehanna at Columbia. He is a patentee of a brush-handle, makes fishing-nets and cane-seated chairs. His latest triumph is the mas tery of the typewriter. He bought one some months ago, and he is now able to operate it quickly and correctly. He is said to be an expert eucher player, but I cannot vouch for that, though it is scarcely any more notable than many other things already mentioned which I have known him to do. Phila delphia Tillies. ABOUT TANNING. A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. E. J. Baldwin, proprietor of the Baldwin hotel and a well-known millionaire of San Francisco has been a blacksmith, a farmer, a stablekeeper; he has kept a hotel a grocery store and a theatre. He was a boatswain on a St. Louis canal, became a traveling trades man, crossed the plains and did a rattling business in tobacco and rum with the saints at Salt Lake City. Finally he reached San Frrncisco, where the first thing he did was to start a temperance ho tel. He became a brickmaker and made money. Ophir stock was ruining everybody at the time, Baldwin tried his luck at it, and came out winner of $18,000,000, He is now 60 years old, tall, dark. wiry, nervous, energetic and, like Sharon and other millionaires, has had his share of bad luck with wo men. . SCISSORIAL PARAGBAPHS. ' Thomas Willette was the first mayor of New York, being ap pointed to that position in June, 1665, in accordance with an ar rangement previously made for a municipal government under Eng lish laws. His sheriff Schout and a majority of the new board of aid er men burgomasters w ere Dutch. Willett proved very popu lar. He served two terms, from 1665 to 1668, and was succeeded at the expiration of his first term by Thomas Delayall, who was elec ted to the office three times between the years 1666 and 1678. If " experience - is worth anything. Dr. Vanderpool'a S. B. remedies ought to be good. ag 23-m A BLIND TYPEWRITER. OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA ' '" . : via --.r " Southern Pacific Company's -LINE.-, THE MT. SHASTA ROUTE. Time Between ALBANY and SAN FRANCISCO 35 nouns. California Express Triini Ebb Silly ' PORTLAND And SAN FRANCISCO. OCTU. T Portland . . . 4:00 p. m. Albany 8:13 p. m. NORTIl Lv San Frisco... ,7:00 pm Lt Albany 0:45 am At S4H Firico...7:45 p.m. Ar 1'ortland. .. .10:45 a m Local Passenger Train, Daily, except Sunday lw Portland 8:00 a.m. I Eng-eos 9:00 a. n. It Albany 12:40 p. m. I Lv Albany 11:35 a. m Ar Eugene 1:40 p in Ar Portland . .3:46 p m L6cal Passenger Train. Daily.except Sunday TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, For accommodation of second-class passengers, attached to Express Trains, m Cf D " 'b Van. m.L.a mmiAft.iin wif.ll nil the rotjuiar trains ou tUe East Side Dirinien from lost oi street. The tanneries of this country have exhausted the oak and hem lock supply of New England, and are rapidly using up the bark of New York and Pennsylvania. There is nothing like leather, and it future generations are to use it, the tannin-producing material of the country must be renewed The Austrian black wattle, an acacia, is the richest in tannin ot any tree known. It will hot grow where there is frost, and therefore must grow on this coast, if at all It has the property of rapidly re newing itself Irom the stump when cut off, and plantations of it on lands that will grow nothing else may be the means of locating the tanning industry of the United States in California. A DIG IN THE RIBS, If on the right side and lower part of the diaphragm, though playfully meant and de livered, is calculated to evoke profanity from a chappy whose liver is out of order. When that region is sore and congested, pokes seem fiendish. Look at a man's coun tenance ere you prod him under the ribs. If his skin and eyeballs have a sallow tinge, you may infer also that his tongue is furred, his breath apt to be sour, that he has pains not only beneath his ribs, but also under the r'ght shoulder-blade. Also, that his bowels are irregular, and his digestion im paired. Instead of making a locose demon stratioo on his ribs, recommend hiru to take. and steadily persist in taking, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the linest anti-bilinus and alterative medicine exta.it. Iucom parable is it, also, for dyspepsia, rheuma tism, nervousness, kidney trouble, and fever and ague. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Hiss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she save them Castor) a. Those owing the undersigned will please call and settle in the next thirty days, as I am eoing to leave Corvallis by that tune. J. W. Hanson. To Farmers. A lot of 9's and 10's farm era' boots, Buckingham & Hecth make must be sold in thirty days at J. W. Han SOD 8. 5:20 p m...Lv. ..Albany.. ..Ar... 6:30 a in 9:06 p m. .Ar... Lebanon.. .Lv.. 11:35 a m I2:fl0 p m. ..Lv. . . Albany. : .. Ar. ..2:45 p in 1:36 p ra..Ar...Liebanon...liV...z-w p m Pullman Buffett Sleepers: Vest Si&f Bivlslon. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS.' Kail Trjii. Daily Except Suadiy. LKAVI. Portland 7:30 a. m. Corvallis 1:30 p. in. ARRIVS. Corvallis. ...... 12:25 p. an Portland 6:10 p. m Q J 1 tSigmtd) Vte, -jr iw IfAlflf from Ohio. Here lit, IflJiljC. Portrait orMr.GarrU " w w ou. of Balem. Ohio. writ; Wa at work oa a farm for i month ; 1 now have an mgmcy A Urn & Co's albums and publf u viivu DUKe ww a tiay. W. H. GABtuaojr. niinm Kline, Harrliburfr, Fn write: J nave nevrr known anything to ell like your altnnn. Vetnlur I took order enough to pay me over W. J. EL mr. Banr. Me- wriiM r take an order for your album at iurt7 noase 1 visit. iy profit U often a an ne has SZO ifor ainarle rinv's work " OtheraaredofntrqaiteasweC hare not imn ta sriv tract frum tht-tr letters. Every: onn wno uutee noia or Wis rrand bUMiwess pile up arand pronii. ouaii nc uinri mvu in I JUS Dl reader t re start I Children Cryfotf "Pitcher's Castoria. UNinea.. Write ton, and learn all about K for Yonrwlf. Wa . win ur yon ii rouaoBt delay until another ret. anrad of yoa In jronr part of the country. Ir roe, uui.i juo wiu oe aniew pica up cold fast. u.KeHl On account lof a forced manufacturer', sale 1 tS,tMMJ ten dollar Photacraph Albunea are u be eold to the people for Wis each. Bound In lioy.l Crimen Silk Veleet Fluah. Cbarmlnaly decorated ineideeHandeoineet a I bom. in the world. Larareat She. Ureateat bargain, ever known. Ae-enia ranted. Liberal tenna. Uig money for agenta. Any one ran become a aueceaaful airrnt. Sella itielf on ei:lit little or no talkinf neceaaaty. Wherever ahown. erery one wante to pur. euaee. Agenta take thousand of order -with rapidity Meet before known. Great profit! await every worker. A rent, are ntak tag fortune. Ladieemake aa much a men. Too, reader, can do aa well aa any otto. Full information and term free. ? who write for same, with particular and term for our Family Bible, Book and Periodical. Alter, yon know all. tkiuldyon conclude to go no further, why no barm la don. Add roe K. C. ALLEN at CO.. AUUU4TA. atALXX. F. M. JOHNSON, " ATTOBHEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, OR. J 3fPrtAa VMml mntiM In mil I. a . . (rent for all the first-class insurance companies.2:2l At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Pacific Railruad. Erprosi Train. Sail; Except Sunty. LBAVK. Portland 4:50 p. m. McVlinnville 5:4ft a.m. ARRIVS. McMinnville... 80 p. m Portland . . 9:00 a. m THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and East yia California Eor fall information regarding rates, maps etc., call on company's agent at Corvallis or Albany. - E. P ROGERS. Asst. G. F. &P. Agent R. KOF.HLER5Iana.rer CO.- "Columbia River Route. Trains for the East leave Portland at 7:45 a. m. and 9:30 p. m. dally. to and from priuoi oints in the urope. TICKETS pafio United States, Canada, and Eu ELEGANT NEW DINING CAES PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPERS. Free family sleeping oars run through on Express trains from 1'ortland to OMAHA, - COUNCIL HJLUlf'FS, and KANSAS CITY. Free of Charge and without Change. Close connections at Portland for Sau Francisco and Puget Sound points. For further pa-ticulars inquire of any Agont of the Company or A. 1 MAA.VVKL.1j. G. P. and T. A. C. J. SMITH, Gen l Manager, Portland, Oregon. Vi Tf ' '- TfTr'i i- 'I Tarvntr -- T'-- 'Vi ilrttT a " i' .-' 1 r f. 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