OLD 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.
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It is sulil tbut wood way be tlioroy u" '
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nmi niterwnril wli
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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
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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,
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er than by tlie package., Timothy, Wfiliea? (
Vm.LA&UAV 1llRi U II II r.
aim it
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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
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