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Lafayette Courier.
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Published every Friday by
The facility with which society
ladies rid themselves of the use
DORRI8S di HEMBREE,
less and wearisome task of envoiv-
ing ideas from their ihner con
TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION.
sciousness is something which chal
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One Copy, Ono Year,
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93 00 lenges the admiration and wonder
1 T5 of every dispassionate male spec-'
O m Copy, Six Months,
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O«« Copy, Three Month«,
tutor. It also displaps to the best
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the mother tongue.
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oecome oi
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of small talk?
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áínohes, ! 85C| 3 30Í460|>00| 1»' | 22 00 happy experiences of a now some
«Inches. | 30tf| 4OO (JJ_<»I H T?? J80<^ what retired society man, who
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would be described by the youog
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ladies as: In appearance, perfect
ly splendid pin dress, exquisite be
yond compari8?n; in gloves, fitted
Brndness notices in the Local Columns, 25
to perfection!—would seem to es
cents per line, each insertion.
For legal and transient advertisements $2.- tablish the fact thatpperhaps one-
50 pw square of 12 lines, for the first inser-
Uion/lnd^l-OO per square for each subsequent half the entire English language
wiser tion,
employed by a well-regulated soci-
Legal ‘^iteertisemente to be Paid for up- ety.lady while entertaining a for
,on making Proof by the Publisher.
g^Peraoual Adv», 50 Cts. a Linn. “O mal caller, consists of one simple
senjence, to which variety is given
Suberiptions Sent East, $2 00 a Year.
by changing the last and qualify
BUSINESS CARDS.
ing word.
The gentleman, be he young or
JAMBS MCCAIN.
KUGENE SULLIVAN.
old, does not matter, is no sooner
McCAIN «fc SULLIVAN,
seated thah, of course, he drops a
casual remark concerning the at
ATTONTEYS AT LAW, mospheric peculiarities which have
LAFAYETTE, OREGON.
suggested themselves to his mind
This sub-
ILL PRACTICE IN ALL OF THE previous to entrance,
State Courts.
marllvStt ject is one of mutual interest, and
though not so original asiit might
B. STOTT
CHÀS.X. BALL.
have been six thousand years ago,
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BALL. & STOTT,
what on earth would society do
without it? Perchance th^day is
A-ttorneys at ILaw,
nut oue of those over which suq-
Hi First Street, Oppoute Occidental notel.
sbiny poetesses go into raptures,
and the caller ventures the striking
PORTLAND, OREGON.
janlOtf
assertion that the weather is not
very good. With a good deal of
; W. M. RAMSEY,
enthusiasm
andimparting to her the
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.A. Horney at Law, fact that expression which practice
before the glass is most effectually
IÄFAYETTE, OREGON.
interesting, the lady replies that
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E. C. BRADSHA.fy,
attorney at Law,
LAFAYETTE, OREGON.
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Offlc» in the Court House.
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P. c. SULLIVAN.
Attorney at Law,
Dallas, Oregon.
ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS
of Yamhill, Polk and other counties
in Oregon.
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ILL BE AT LAFAYETTE ON THE
First Monday of eath Month and
n Remain
during during
Court Court
Week. Week.
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N. W. CFiret and Wora^
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Office Hours—91« Il a. m. till after 5 p. m
at Night.
Making choice of one or more
of the above closing words, as suits
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her mood or memory.
There is nothing left for the
caller but to pull at the bottom of
his left hand gbve, and admit that
she is altogether right To which
she reasserts that “It is certainly
outrageously------ )” with .• another
selection from the list above.
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The caller recollects that he par
ticularly admired some dramatic
or musical entertainment 'bvhich
both, had attended, and without
the slightest hesitation the lady
agrees that
It was perfectly
J. N. MILLER,
Mahr!
moi
perfectly horrid!
perfectly miserable!
perfectly awful!
perfectly disgusting!
perfectly abominable!
perfectly shocking!
perfectly terrible!
perfectly fearful!
perfectly frightful! 41
perfectly terrific!
real mean!
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alarmingly wretched!
quite discouraging!
aosolately senseless!
i entirely horrible!
too bad for anything!
unendurably stupid!
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charmingl
elegant!
enchanting!
delighting!‘:
bewitching!
beautiful!
sublime!
and!
wilde ring!
ravishing!
exquisite!
magnificent!
Bupurb!
glorious?
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The caller takes to the bottom
OULD ANNOUNCE TO THE CITI-
zens of this plaee and vicinity that of this right-hand glove, and says
he has returned to his old stand and
is really bad excellent, houses,
they
orenared to da ail work m his line, such as
manufacturing
WAGONS.
BUGGIES, and it certainly was a v&y popu-
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Repairing done on short notice.
“Yes, indeed! 1 have always
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Bath. -45 Cent«. ,
said it was perfectly
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word being dependent on chances.
If a young man, and one who
appreciated his entertainment, the
caller would thank his hostess for.
an “extremely pleasant,’’you know,
and give his adieux with the in
tention of at no distant day hav
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“ Will be perfectly—t”
This is not an overdrawn pic
ture, not in the slightest degree, as
the society man above referred io
can testify. It is Rot claimed,
however, that the ladies are alone
iu the use of ajectivea. But the
men ¿re disposed toward a differ
ent da® of them, and p&sibly a
worse class; nor do they^find time
to employ so many, Fof instance
the same young man, in u going home
from his call, greets ano
uother who
is returning from the theater and
inquires how he liked |hc show,
and gets the answer:
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No one can estimate the refin
tion as to the cause i of tides I. is ing influence of music in our homeB.
sowethjng by no means unattended Let us cultivate a taste for it in
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every way possible. We believe
mith difficulties. 4 it
the time is fast approaching when
All can easily
that the attraction
to be ignorant of music will be as
It is a demnitioned |
bejng stronger at the part of the strange and anomalous a thing in
earth next to it. will draw the this land as to be ignorant ojread-
Varying the central wonfls accord watery sphere ou| of its ordinary ing and writing. This change is
ing to his testes,’ and possibly in position
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at that point; but as to working through our public schools
tensifying the sentence, tai'more. ,how thiscanLals je the cause of where singing and reading music
If not elegant, this is i Ixpressive,
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the tide on the
o_. osite part of the at sight, go hand ih hand with the
aud leaves room to go on with earth is not so easily compre* alphabet and the multiplication ta
something else. It woj rid not do hended.
bended.
ble. When eye and voice are
by any means, to have 1 he ladies
The tide i opposite! the moon, trained, thè fingers fall easily into
adopt such brevity. Ifl they did which for convenience
cher of begin-
I shall call the ranks; any
what woald they diavl s to talk
nere
will
tell
you
e difference it
the opposite tide, is generally ac
obout.
fingers may
counted fof in this way; ¡¡that the makes, though t|
never have touched a key-board,
moon’s attraction, being greater JU
mvj
This school »• ins uction is anad-
>rth next to it,
at the part of the earth
Musquitoes very in si as much draws the intervening
ig portion of vantage, too, on e side of home
as potatoes,
but avera¡
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the boy or girl,
the earth away ippip Ii the
1 ’ water on music, even iho
this’region. They arq built on the further side, daus sing the water from want of di
tive ability, is
the same plan as the el4>hant, (on to fall back at U it point.
listener rather th
performer; ex-
ly a trifle smaller) having -plenty ; I Delieve that the attraction of cept in very rare
, the musical
legs, a bob-tail, with a small truRk the moon affects he water on the ear and perceptibn is capable of
or bill on the front cad of them. side of I'
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the earth next to it only, education and d elopment
Their body is all stomach, and and th£t t the other tide is produced existing in the ost meager de-
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their trunk is a suction pump, gim-i by a fQrce
which acts t in
i direct op- gree. Girls ha e been taught to
let pointed, and hard a4Damascus
enjoy music in nsely, and even
steel. They are a biri of song position to the moon’s I attraction.
Astronomers [1 us that when give pleasure with simple perform
although Audubon classes them one heaver inly body revolves about ances of their own, who at first
strictly as a game bird;A)ut he was
of them remains could not distinguish one note from
another, p
liable to mistakes as well as the relatively at retft, but that each re- another in pitch, or even recognize,
telegraph. In thefie pi?ts they go
much less catch, n popular air.
ter motion,
volves abqut i
wild, while in some States they
The influence of music on the
course they must
As a mattei
are utilized for labor® In some}
emotional
nature is incalculable;
have a tçnden
> fly off at a tan
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parts ol New Jersey, 1 where the
/rent to th» Ci
in which they through it the pèwer of expression
soil is so thin that horL
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and oxen revolve aroun
>mmon cen- as well as of appreciation is en
can not be worked wiih safety lest _
;ter. This centri
force must hanced; as a home association for
they break through, th^v are used equal their attjikc
forces
iu or-
or young men, too much cannot be
orces in
for farm purposes, three pair of der to keep thè bodies in . their said. For this reason, if for no
full blooded Jersey musquitoes be [relative positi
other, boys should be encouraged
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ing considered equal to a tandem
and attracting, to keep pace with their sisters as
The centrif
team of two geese, or pne middle
bodies will ex- long as possib in their musical
sized goat. We kpowjthiB
rjihis to be a forces of
:her at the cen- education, It is a refining influ
actly equi
fact, having f frequently seen the icrs vi me Douies.
enee in itself; home quartette, a
ter«
of ~ i tltô bodies;
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farmers thire plowings
‘ gjand doing
sister toplay dhets with, has saved
Now as wo recede from
. .. allEthe
_ll| the above
other work with
above ter of motion the
n from dangerous
centrifugal force many a young
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named labor-saving machines.
will ihcreasO wl
vhile the attractive company and ejvil habits.— Journal
Down South, when la vessel is
force decreases; if wo a ™ ch
ch the
the of Education.
ready for planking, th| | plauks are center f
the effect fipon the forces
laid on to the timbers and a little will be : reversed.J ih'liilk.
cation of sever il
After a
blood rubbed on the ini ide of them,
On the
next to months, a part(of which was passed
when lbe>musquitoesI ; will sting
vel, Mr. Nast ra
next to in European
the- cehtei
through the plank and? timber, and
will sumes the pe il with all his accus-
the moqn,
the men inside will rii let up their more thjac
r force, tomed vigor d esprit. In addi-
bills, and thus save boj ¡ts and treo-
and will t
e mova- tion to his A anac for 1874, and
nails. A well-built fessel, mus-
ntributions to Har-
dit. his regular
ble portio
t juito fastened, is considered a first-
will soon give the
ce we per’s Weekly,
But on the o
•chus job.
treat in his lectures
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ter of public a r
Musquitoesiii thesejiarts are a have raced
on
Carica
ts, illustrated with
motion, the witjer
ate and
trifle smaller than a■ humming-bird
sketches. Those who
rwave. extempori
form the opposi
and aa muaicaj as a Jsewiug ma
the facile and as
satisfac- have witn
This is oertai
chine. There are fowf more pleas
“To re- tonishing powers of draughtsman
ing fnomebts in a maj’s life than tory than that <
B water ship and the; keen scintillations of
store the equil
those iu which he lies - in bed on a
. toward humorand fancy displayed by Mr.
on all sides tenc
sultry night anc| listen^ to the mus
n; and Nast at social gatherings for the
the region of le
quitoes warbliag in tjie distance,
duces entertainm t of friends, predict
and he$rs then! approaching hi« its accumulate
Jr. for him a g t success in his new
bed, bumming over |he familiar the counter wav
role.
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song of “ Fe.
Fc, fi, fo,.fir I smell the A ( A Ne#.iY<
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says:
blood of an Engli
Englisbmun,” and
C ostgfa P et D og .—The ad-
caused
Some surprise I ’
kfiow
that
heis
thepfi-son
meant.
know
he is they.
ministiatorbfaNew Yorfc estate re
As songsters I they |re equal, if by the fai ure
ceived, amo|ng other bills, one from
call the new
Gynan
who had undertaken the
hie
or
shang-
not superior, totthe’m
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whom
so
cure of the/ dead man’s pet dog.
hai. We heard of a < hap who,.on
ct
At-
and
written,
Aji
entering his room in Ja boarding •ferney Al|e
tion For this arduous duty he present
house is Brooklyn,
n, 1 lrqard some one
ed a bill of five dollars for dog tax,
She
(Dever
intern
twenty-fou^ dollars for. training
singing, and on lighting the
«uv gas,
be ig-
was
ignorar
he espied a musquitoteitting on a
the dog, and two hundred and
with
match sailing round |jn the wash . norant, on
forty dolls •s for boarding the ani-
be fa-
which 'she v __
bowl $ingmg,
singing, “A lifeton the ocean
mal, makii _ gtwo hundred and sev-
miliar, and/inorec
charac-
wave,” but he
le was
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a: i exceptional
idesira- enty dollars expenses of the dog.
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iss-box. The case went to law, and the tax
payer, tra|ner, and boarder receiv
If there is onesatii »la iction that is
4c any other m A lacetious
at least ten feet aheaijof
la fresh- ed judgment for ond, hundred and
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satisfaction, it is >t<>| enter your man to tell hi
nee be- thirty-five dollars.
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sleeping room and see a gang of ' tween a ’fac-Bitp ile
At the I trial oF Stokes, on the
fami-
musquitoes lounging |*ound on the
ly; but the la
n tne sen- morning of the 20th inst., the de
window
and
window ‘ sills
sills ‘R
ndb efiairs, and to ior, for the *
litly re-. fense introduced testimony , to
then and there disrob®; and crawl plied:;
A sick show that' the prisoner intended
into bed beneath a ¡rood bar, lie family is
ck, and going to ¡Providence
iPr<
at Che time
there and hear them cu*s and swear fac-simile
of
the
tragedy,
and
that
he was
outside the net: [We’ consider this
paper passing the hotel on the opposite
Theed
the most satisfactory thing it is
a new side of the street, when he was sa*-
possible to concei re. —Belfast Jour beard
Andes. luted by a lady from one of the
nal. ::::
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rroteloA man in windows, and be enterfcd the hotel
He immt
A man’s reputation is not in his South Ai
the pass was and went straight to her. Fisk
own n keeping,,
keeping, but lief
liegat
at the mercy his, and he
>e much obliged arrived a few minutes afterward.
or the profligacy of ’others. Cal- if the 1
forward ili Jff John Moo^e Tiffin said he heard
umny requires no »grcoof.
.¡proof, Thé
The once J 'i
shots, and went to the door of the
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throwing out of malfcibus imputa
private eji trance and saw Fisk
A lady teac 1er inquired of the wounded, who sMd Stokes was
tions against any character leaver
a stain which no aftfcr refutation members of a cl^ss of juveniles if too quick or him thia time.
nainejme four
can wipeout. To Create an un
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favorable impression,St is not nec
lady, Lydia' Rodel -
y the chubby
should
Id wifc raised, rena, has given 140,000 toendow
essary that certain
iustruc-
B answer, a department for
r medical
med
be true—they ", rû been said.
The imagination Is So delicate a
en’in St. Peter8burg
and mu8- tion for
Academy of Medicine.
taxtutfi that eyeo wo
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London is full ( starving jour
nalists.
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r., lawyer paid
An Albany,
$2,000 for an old 1 ddle of “Ama-
tiv make.
fair is to
Knox county, Indiana,
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have a “spelling match, open to
the world.”
The manufactui of butter from
fat is a growing i lustry in New
York.
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Among the rece tly patented in
ventions is A wate proof and wa-
ter-tight coffin.
The first-class otels of New
York are to j educe prices 15 per
cent, after the 18th inst It is
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abóut tíme.
New York has | fourteen street
beggaru who preti md to be blind,
but who see os wel 1 as other folks.
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The costliest
ace in the
Upited States is oWned by a New
York widow wh is not worth
$1,000i in cash.
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A Chveland
crawled under
a lounge to avoid
hipping, went
ndred persons
to sleep,
and two
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searched four hourijfor him,
A Philadelphia s
vast left in
for a week, ■.
charge of the hoi
cleared the house <* $7,000 worth
of furniture, and
d it for $650«
A Cincinnati girl was married
three times in one day to the same
man, having a Methodist, Baptist
and Uni verbalist clergyman.
Anil Akron woman ran three
miles i after a moving passenger -
train, and then became obstinate’
and sat down on the track and
made all trail s stop.
A lead mine has been discovered
in Banta Springs, Kansas, where
solid nuggets of four to seven tons
are discovered within eight feet of
the surface.
The telegraph reports a mar
riage on boa:
board a Western train.
Upon whioh a wit remarks: “It
was a railroad tie!”
In ancient Christian churchhas
been recently discovered in the in-"
teriot| of Japan. It is in perfect
preservation, though not bow used •
ior worship.
Miss Nettie Cronise is a practic
ing lawyer in Tiffin, Ohio, and her
sisten Miss Florence Cr< rise, has
just been admitted to the bar in
Kenton, same State.
A new style of boys’ trowsers
has been invented in Boston with
copper seat, sheetiron knees, riv
eted down the seams, and water
proof pockets to hold broken eggs.
A facetious young lady wickedly
ramarks' that the reason that the
peculiar equipages seen at water-
ing-places are called dog-carts is .
that puppies always ride in thenj/
Those who find a difficulty io
choosing wiveSx seem as if they
would take none of natures’ ready- “
rhade works, but want a vwoman
manufactured particularly to thier
order.
A-’ Western paper tells us that a
favorite hotel is to be kept this
season at one of the watering-pla
ces ‘Jby the/widow of Mr.—,who
died last eummer oa a new and im
proved plan.”
A judge at Montgomery« Ala.,
receptlfp interrupted a very flow
ery young orator with—uHoldon,
hold on, my dear siri Don’t go any
higher!* You are already out of the
jurisdiction of this court!”
“Let jjo that jib! Let go that jib
quickly!” shouted the captain of a
Do^n East sloop to a raw hand,
in a squall t “I ain’t touchin’ yer
old jibr replied Jonathan, indig
nantly, a* he jammed his fists deep
er into his pockets.
“HoW far is it to Cub Creak?^ .
asked a traveler of a Dutch w<h
man. “Only shoost a little ways.
Sh
it four, six, eight or tenM nites, »
tently asked the stranger.
impatiently
is, Tdinks it is,” serenely re-,
e unmoved gate-keeper.
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