Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, February 21, 1895, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextOLD CLOTHES IN DEMAND. ffcomlhand Dralen Find It Difficult to Stock Vp This Year. The demand for old clothes appear to bo looking up eo far as New York is sonceraed. X do not know whether it is ,, because of tho recent election aui the aouKcqncnco of betting on the wrong ticket or tbo molancholy sequel of tho last year's hard times, by reason of which men feel tho necessity of wear ing out tlmirclothiiiff instead of turning t over to the secondhand dealer. If yon should be accosted on Broad way a couple of times a trip by agents of the secondhand dealers with tho ques tion whether you have any old clotheB to sell, it may not bo taken as an indi cation that your attiro is ont of dato mid coveted by tho trudo, but that the trade is ruuning short of stock and is pushing out for a frosh supply. It is better to consider tho attention a subtlo flattery, that you have the appearance of on individual who doesn't care for ' dress and are likely to have a score of bettor trousers hanging np in closets for the moths to feed upon. Twice on a single afternoon last week, while conversing with a friend on Broadway, I was accosted by sharp looking young men in tho interests of the secondhand trad?. My friend was inclined to resent the intrusion. He said it was getting too hot for him when he was beset by old clothes men every time he Btopped on Broadway. "Is there anything out of the way about wo?" he inquired, looking him Bulf over eritioally. "That is the second time you've asked roe that question to day," "I beg your pardon, sir, " said tho so licitor for tho secondhand clothing house. "We didn't want the suit you uuVu Oil. " Wo walked fully a block beforo my friend realized what I was laughing at, 7Hjnvwbnn Jho li"iiior of it finally per meatod his intellectual system ho too . rue in for a glass of vichy and milk.- New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. HOLLAND MAD. Che Enterprising- and Honest Dutch nave Captured Gotham. The town has suddenly gorio Holland mr.rt, not as tlmt thrifty Uulo kingdom did when it lost its hoart over tulips and threatened to bring the finances of tho country to ruin, but wisely, (lis orootly mad, as New Yorkers booome. Tho china shops aro filled with Delft, the silvorsmith's oases with Dutch sil ver and tho very milliners display lit tle Dutch' bonnets, fashioned like tho quaint peaked caps worn by tho good dames of old Amsterdam. Even Dutcsb furnituro has become a crnzo, and rash iouablo shoppers aropassini? by tho fjor goons ompiro styles, decorated with tho laurel loaf, to buy the Dutch sofas rod ' oabiunts, ouriously inlaid with raro woods and wrought with pioturesquo carving. In far hotter tasto is this Dutch fur uituro, fashioned, as It is, by hand to meet tho doiuostio ueods of a sincere, -. honest folk, than tho enipiro furniture, with its bizarre ornamentations of gild tNid metal and its mock classic patterns, designed to suit a nowly created aris tocracy. If we oonld but bring back tho simple domestic spirit of tho Dutch with our Dutch fashions, it would settle many a social problum, but Dutch fashions as hoy now appear are as costly ns tho gildod fashions of Louis XV or tho em pire. It has long been an established foot that one must pay most extrava gantly for refined simplicity, so that Polft Is often almost as costly as Dres den. Thero ore pretty fruit baskets in Delft, "drug vases," low bodtimo can dlestioks, bIiocs and tho most altogether delightful tiles Imaginable, duplicating In pntturu old tiles, Borne of which slill exist in manor houses in old Now York and nea Albany. It is now possible to got nlmost all the new elinpns in this modem Delft, as it is n wise European ouslom to buvu all designs used in the ohina factory. Now York Tribune MILTON AND GLADSTONE. The Ilrltlili rUnteunnn Challenges the I'nct as a Translator of Horace. This is Milton's rendering of Horace, book 1, odo 6 (CJuis graotlns Puer): Wlmt slender yoirth.beduwed with lliiutd odors, Courts then on rosea In some pleasant eavo, Pyrrlin? For whom biml'st thou In wivatlu thy golden hair, Plain In thy imntiiissf oh, how oft shuM ho .Uu faith and changed gods oouiphiln, mid ecu " Kouph with lilnek wlnug and storms Vnwontnl ahull mini 1 ml Who now vnjnya thou cn-dulous, all gold, Who always vacant, always Anilnhlo Holm thee, of fluttvrlittf gales Unmindful. Haiileas they To whom thou untried seem 'at fulrl Mo In my vow'd Cloture the aacrod wall declare to hafo hung - My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sou. v Mr. Gladstone, at tho ago of 85, thus render theso beautiful Hues: What ooutod tripling, Pyrrha, wooa thoo now Iu pleasant grotto, all with roses falrf For whom thou auburn tresses blndeet thou With simple caret Pull oft shall he thine altered fnlth bewail, His altered gods, and hi unwonted gate blinll watch tho witttm darkening to the galo In wild amazo. Who now believing gloat on golden charms. Who hope thoo ever void, and ever kind. Nor know thy changeful heart nor the alarms Of changeful wind. i For me let Neptun' tomplo wall declare How afe mcaiml In votive offering, Uv dripping garment own, suspended thore, litiu ocean king. Jim Hoot Leave the Btag, Jim Hoot, tho locomotive engineer Kboso heroism at Hinckley caused him to fall into the hands of a theatrical manager in New York city, has retired from tho stage nud is homo again aftor playing a brief cngogemout at salary of fSOO per week. "I don't like this noting business" be said. "It may bo all right for young follows, but I'm getting too old to start lu noting. H koeps a man up too late 'gnts, nud I never did liko a nigh Tho only thing that caught w Ho salary, and I couldn't rcfu1 nderstood that Mr. Root - vocation, on tho 8t Pud. ''A St. Paul Globe. WHEN I WAS A BOY. Dp In the attle where I slept i When I waa a boy a little boy ; In through the lattice the moonlight crop, . fcrijiinf a tide of dreams that swept ! Over the low, red trundle bed, ! Bathing the tangled curly head, ! While moonbeams played at hide and seek ! -With dimples on each aun browned check When I was a boy a little boy I And, ohl the dream the dream I dreamed When I was a boy a little boy For tho grace that through the lattice streamed Over my folded eyelids seemed To have the gilt of prophecy And to bring me glimpses of times to be Where manhood's clarion seemed to call Ah I that was tho sweetest dr'wtm - all When I was a boy a little boy I I'd liko to sleep where I used to sleep When I was a boy a little boy For In at the lattice the moon would peep, Erilifng her tide of dreama to sweep The crosses and griefs of the years away From the heart that Is weary and faint today, And those dreams should give me back again Tho peace I have never known since then When I was a boy a little boy I Eugene Field in Chicago Record. BUYING PRECIOUS STONES. Some of the Valuable Gem and What They Are Made Of. Buying jewels is as hazardous a Toy ing horses, and could anything possibly be moro risky than the latter? White sapphires have occasionally been sold as diamonds, and as proof that white topaz may easily be confused with them one bas only to recall the fact that the lar gest diamond in the world, the Bragnu za, belonging to the crown of Portugal and valued at f 88,000,000, is by many considered to bo only a topaz. Carbon, in o pure crystallized state, is in every color of the rainbow, red, orange, green, blue and even black, and occasionally the colored are as valuable as a brilliant of tho same size. The jewels next In hardness to the diamond are the sapphire and the ruby, called by experts corundum, or crystal lized clay. Blue corundum Is oalled sap phire; red, ruby; green, oriental emer ald; orange, oriental topaz, and violet, oriental omothyst. Tho word oriental distinguishes these from real emerald, topaz and amethyst, which ore distinct minerals. The largest and most famous ruby in tho world forms part of the imperial stato crown mado for Queen Victoria in lbU8. It is believed thut this ruby was worn in front of the holruot of Henry V nt Aglucourt. The most precious sapphires and ru bies, when cut and polished, show rays from the center to the sides in the form of a six pointed star. On this aooouut they nro culled star sapphires or rubies. It Is difflonlt to produce a gom upon these stones on account of their exceed ing hardnoss, but thore are a few good intaglios and cameos extant in both one, a cameo head of Cupid, by Isler, one a sapphire; another, a front face cameo head of Diana on o ruby, by PiB truccl. Topaz is the next jowel in decree of hardness. It consists of about half clay, one-third flint mid the rost fluoric acid. The best oro yellow, with sometimes a greenish tinge. Bomo found in Brazil aro porfeotly colorless and aro oalled "novamiua" diamonds. They aro moro brilliuut when polished than any jewol. Thero aro a few blue topazes found theso aro taken by tho uninitiated for sapphires. Philadelphia Press. An Expert Opinion. An old watchman, who used to keep guard iu tho department of justico, from long association with tho legal lights In tho building bcliovcd he had imbibed a f.'.ir share of learning in the law, and so when ouo night a telegram addressed to tho attorney general came after hours ho had no hesitancy in opening it and reading its message. It asked tho ques tion, "Is a man to bo held responsible for o crime committed while under the influence of liquor?" The watuhman pondered over this message for some time, and, as ho know whut tho influ ence of liquor was, he sunt the laconio answer: "No indeed. (Signed) John Jones, in charge of department of jus tice." Of oourso there was on immedi ate attack ou tho attorney general for such a decision, and tho matter came to the cars of tho department An inves tigation was mado and tho watchman suspended for throe months. That did not worry him, however. With ef frontery that simply dumfounded the clerks, ho camo to the building every pay day during that timo of suspension and drew his salary. Kate Field's Washington. A Queer Postofflce. One of the strangest postoflicos iu tho world is away down at Terra del Fueiro. In tbo toe eud of tho big shoe, which is what tho map of South America looks like. The "offloe" is a big barrel, and it Is fastened to a rook overlooking the straits of Magellan. Everv shin thnt rounds Cape Horn stops nt this odd pccfHce. A boat puts out to the shoro with lotters to lo left, and the sailor who takes them look's over those already in the barrel, taking out and bringing away with him any that his ship can forward to their destination. Then he fastens tho cover on tho barrel with its hook and staple, and the queer old post oPdco that needs no postmaster or mail bags is left to itself until tho next ship comes by. New York Times. lrcervtiia Wood. It is sulil tbut wood way be tlioroy u" ' ly proHcrvtxl byU'ilit; iuiiyi'",T" a Htrong solution s ou f nmi niterwnril wli HotTH aro thus tioutt, which a to the nir mid of tlie wood t Iluimt' Aftor ) Italy Ca BIG PAY FOR TEA TASTERS. One Kxpert I Exported to receive Sal ary of fcVSO.OOO a Vear. "Since the Canadian Paeiflo riilroad was completed and a lino of steamer? established from the orient." said a tea taster to a reporter, "immense cartas of tea have been going thero from Chi na, Japan and other countries. It has been my business to examine and taste vcrious samples from these cargoes, i h:'.va also vi-it-jd Ceylon and nearly all of the tea growing countries of tho ori tut to observe the mode of putting up the tea. It is astonishing the way they manage It adulterate it over thero. The packers are eo skillful .that they slip iu a great deal of inferior tea and work it eff under good brands. This makes the tnerehauts who afterward handle it complain. Packages of tea of a certaip. bra.id will bo found all that could be desired, while other packages bearing the same brand and In the same cargo will be highly adulterated. As this tea is very costly, there is need of experts to examine it. They must be good ones, for everything depends for the timo be ing on their judgment. A taater can only taste a few hours at a time, when be is weakened and has to take a rest Besides this, when he begins a job of tasting, be must take speoial pains to get himself in shape for it I was about six weeks getting myself ready for exam ining some cargoes in the warehouses here for the government. Before I be' gan I did not taBte intoxioantB in any form and did not even smoke. At the same time 1 was careful not to eat strong peppers or spices, or, in fact, anything that oould distort the taste. One must be in as perfect condition, in order to properly judge of the teas he tastes, as o horse is when prepared for the Derby. He must be at his best and must feel that he is. The best tea tasters of the country make enormous sums, consider' ing the time employed; fig, 000 a year is a low sum, and oftentimes from $20, 000 to $80,000 is mado, and even more. I know a man In the business who made 50,000. It oil depends on his standing, the number of times he is called as a taster and what he can endure. "San Franoisco Examiner, HE BATTERED HIS OWN CLOTHES. His Bright Cook Succeeded In Getting the Better of Him. A oitizen of Kiev, Russia, found fault with tho dinner prepared by his new cook and rashly embodied his ont1 lcism In cutting sarcasms. The young woman heard him in silence. In the evening ho knocked np against a man in a doserted littlo street, and when he ventured to remonstrate he was vigor ously assaulted. Unable to got the bet tor of his adversary, he determined to do what bo could at least to identify him later on, and with this object in view tore his assailant's fashionable clothes into shreds. On his return home, some few hours later, he found the cook standing at the door, ready to shake the dust of his house oil her feet. The gen' tleman, whose wounds and bruises left him in no very amiablo mood, simply said: "Joy be with you I Sometime will pass before you get another place. And as to charaoter well, trust me to give yon one that will stick.' Ou tho following morning he discov ered that his best clothes in the ward robe were in tatters and his glossy silk natan unsightly wreck. ,. Hastily sum moning the other servants to the room. he angrily asked them what they knew about the matter, whereupon the nurse replied that tho cook, in one of her freaks of fun, had donned her master's garments and gone out to walk in them the evening before, sticking on on arti ficial mustache to help to keep np the illusion. Then it dawuod upon the wretched man that his assailant of the day before was the touchy, turbulent cook, iiess than a fortnight later he re ceived a letter through the city post in' forming him, in somewhat ungrammot' leal but unmistakablo language "Xou lied about tho place, respocted sir, when you eaid I could not got another if I left yours. I'vo been in fivo different places sluoo then, and I'll be going to tho sixth next Monday. Trusting your Diuies isir g aching, l remain Proskovia. " San Franoisco Argouaut Speed of Electricity. The faot is generally known that, ao oordiug to tho experiments of tho late Professor Heiiirioh Hertz at Bonn, the voloclty with whioh electricity is prop agated is noarly identioal with the ve locity of light. The identity may be utus feet, but experiments have as yet failed to prove it so. In a recent communication to the Freuoh Aoademy of Solenoes, M. Mas oart has shown that the mean velooiK of elootrioity, as deduced from ex'' meuts, is 188, 188 miles per - ' This is about 1 per cent gre tho velocity of light, which' mum per second. It it believed thai if trloity do move with peed the Telocity closely represents velocity ascribed Jr tho experiment and probably ur of light. Ye ' WEiTHEB BtrCBT. The following is a summary of ,.f Ton- the weather tor tue raomu uary, 1S95. as ta-en at the obsen" in? station at Toledo, Oregon: Elevation above sea level, doieei, . . , . rtiavinilim mem temperaiuie Jy, 6o, date ist; minimum temperature , date 27th; meau of maximum temperature 60, mean oi minimum temperature 27; number times min imum temperature 32 degrees or below, 13; number times minimum temperature 40 degrees or below, Total precipitation, io.oinciies, greatest precipitation in 24 con secutive hours, and date, 2. 7m. Prevailing direction of wind, south; total movement of wind, 12 miles. No. of clear days, 7; No. of partly cloudy days, 7; No. of cloudy days 8. Date of light frost, 16th. Dr. H. V. Vincent, Observer. Notice. All parties are hereby warned not to hunt on my tideland near Toledo, under penalty of the law. Thos. Horning. For Sale Thorough-bred Partridge Cochin chickens. Cocks, hens and set tings of eggs, $1.00 each. Jas. McPovATn, 2-t. Chitwood, Or, Notice. All persons are hereby warned not to trespass on any of my land near Mill Four, for the purpose digging clams. All trespassers as above will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 4-t. Chas. E. Montgomery. Farms For Sale. I have two good farms for sale near Elk City. The first is a good farm of 123 acres joining the town, has j;ood house, barn, and out buildings; good orchard and plenty of all kinds of fruit; good farm and meadow land. Also a good ledge of sandstone on the place. Also 80 acres i mile from Elk City, house, barn, etc., good orchard, and a good piece of land. These places will be sold at bed rock prices aoct on good terms. Must sell out on account 01 old age. Enquire of J. H. Bevins, 2-m. Elk City. Farms for Sale. I have several farms, both culti vated and uncultivated, for sale in racts ol 40 acres and upwards. These lands are adapted to fruit, vegetable and sheep culture. Will be sold very cheap and on reason able terms. Anyone desiring to purchase such lands will do well to call 011 or address M. J. Allphin, tf. Little Elk, Oregon do you go HUNTING? You will buy l:.nCAt)ep. lll.asaaolld top P 1'. vti'CU at the-' ' liMiiht' It xV r Bind- mm 0 mi i SEEDS! SEEDS ! J SEi Fresh Stock just receired, sold in bulk uk ' lied Clorer, Alsyke, Orchard Grass Lawn Grass. Onion Sets. ARTICHOKE SEEDS and TUBERS, the eed that everybody is going to try. n. j M sTAM smam GmaJm JJQll Ti seuti ftwaym jxiim.. wcoub wuen yOH Can frtrt Monogram Cigar Store, Cigars, Tobacco, Cpufectionery, Fruit, etc Billiard and Pool Parlors, (JUIJJT AND ORDERLY RESORT, YAQUINA CITY, Farm Lands, Tide Lands, Coal Lands, Tow Property in single Lots or Blocks iprr: oa usi proved. Ahstrct of Title to any property in Lincoln Cjjti , fiirnished on demand, Toledo BARGAINS IN REAL ESTAT for sale. Below we give a description of a few of them: 160 acre ranch on Beaver creek; good house, barn and outbuildings; this farm has lots ofajnadow land and is an myf tri, price 1,200, ey 1 hi n tin er than by tlie package., Timothy, Wfiliea? ( Vm.LA&UAV 1llRi U II II r. aim it 1 new hii All Package Seeds sent by mail at the same price. Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes Always on Hand. OTTO O. KROGSTAD, Registered Pharmacist OREGON. C. B. CROSNO & CO., kl U Ms ni Ml HAVE BARGAINS. IN Oregoi We have some good Bargains in Real Estate placed in our M and small fruit. A splendid of land with a good body ofy oottotn. Price $600 c TwcJ V. ,