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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. We arc headquarters for high class holiday gifts, we guarantee pur prices to be the lowest in town, and if -they are not right we will make them riht as we are determined not to carry any articles over Christmas. Everything must go. Following isa suggestive list to choc:: from TUESDAY, DECl'MDIvR 22, 1908, PR,CGS feS quau,y LOWEST fCC ' ' TtJ "EST Toilet Sets t i : "I , ' V Toilet Articles Cut Glass Shaving Outfits Manicuring Sets Fancy Whist Broom Leather Collar Caga Fancy Jewelry Doxcs Fancy Stationery Holders Leather Music Fleds Perfumery Cric a brae Fancy Cigar Cases Military Brushes The above is only a partial list. To fu fly appreciate our line of holiday goods, a visit to the store is necessary. Remember everything must be sold r before Christmas. We have the largest assortment of Post Cards and Christmas novelties in town. FOURTEENTH 1 COMMERCIAL GT. ;i TUT - A- TH) Tj? ... 1 ' il O La liL NEW YORK LETTER LARGS CHRISTMAS GIFTS. NEW YORK, Dc 2l.-Tbo first $100,000,000 Christina in the hUlory of the country, to for at any jingle city U concerned, will be New York's record next Friday. When Father Knickerbocker tit down the day J ter to figure up the cost of bii cele bration be ia likely to find it in excess of tbit figure. Reportt from store of II kinds show that tt least $75,000, 000 will have been spent on present, tnd incidentals, such as dinners, en tertainments tnd charities will easily raise the total above the hundred mil lion mark. Outside of actual presents themselves, the biggest Item In this record-breaking Christmas bill will be for food. Not less than 2,000,000 oys ters will be consumed and the esti mated Chrlstmaa dinners is aa fol lows: 600,000 pounds of butter, 700.000 pounds of turkey, 3000 roast pigs, 300, 000 pounds of beef, 73,000 eggs, 13,000 lobsters, 5000 game birds, 10.000 pounds of chestnuts, 250,000 pounds of potatoes, 500.000 quarts of milk, and 2,500,000 qusrts of wines and liquors These are only the major Items of the record-breaking Christmas dinner. At present It is estimated that New Yorkers will spend $50,000,000 and out-of town people who do their Christmas shopping her $25,000,000 more. The most extensive single pur chate yet recorded was for jewelry, amounting to $308,000. More than 200 automobiles, it is reported, will be given as Christmas presents, and stocking in alt parts of the city will bulge with gifts of a costly nature After the lean Christmas last year, as a result of the panic, Father Knick erbocker la apparently anxious to make up for tost time, with the result that this year's Chrlstmaa will be the most expensive ever known. v Two year ago a written test dis closed the fact that not a single child in the public schools of this city knew the word of the "Star Spangled Ban ner," A very few adult know them either, the discovery did not cause as much of a sensation as those who made it evidently anticipated. The whole theory of public school educa tion now promises, however, to come in for severe investigation, Mar garet Doolittle, a teacher here, has compiled a series of answers to exam ination question of which some of the most astonishing appear Id Appleton't Magazine. While the answers are lu- dicroua the problem which they pre sent is serious. The idea of a verte bra which the New York child gains in school is suggested by answers to the question asking description of it which include such statements as the following: "Vertebra is a chain "jf little bones running all around the body. It is considered very danger ous." Another answer to the same question state that "a vertebra ! the spinal column and it function is so we won't squeak when we bend over," Other answers showing the general Ignorance of the human frame which now prevails in the public school in clude the following: "The kidney hasn't any definite position; it ia said to float." "The large intestine is a tube five feet in diameter leading out of the thorax." The strangest answer to the question a to why tadpole cannot croak took the form of the following statement: "because it has no legs." One pupil in answer to a question as to the best way of caring for the eye said "Never look at op tical illusions," Tuberculosis seemed to be an unknown quantity, one pupil writing in answer to the demand for simple rules to prevent it, "Tuberculo sis is consumption germs which spread very easily. If the handkerchief is dry they float If it ' is wet they re main where they are. They should not expectorate jn company, neither from nose or mouth." Altogether the juve nile idea of the human body, its func tions and diseases, as shown by these school examinations, is remarkable in many ways. .''' .....: Everybody Seems to be Awake to the Advantage of Early ' Shopping.'-' With the largest tnd most varied assortment of holiday good w have ever presented; with prices ss low as cn be offered on thing of such Ideal quality, the search for proper gift and needed mer chandise appropriate, to the glad season can profitably tnd eatUfac tor& begin and end here. W cannot urge too strongly the import anc of immediate shopping. Ample a our stocks are, perfect and complete a ia our organisation of salespeople, the rush of the last day chooser i sure to deplete assortment and render service less prompt and satisfactory. Now all our line are intact and promi nently displayed, and ervke ia at the very maximum of excellence. Plenty of room for inspection, plenty of time for the showing of thing, and the fullest scope is offered for choice. Everything to be gained by chopping NOW much to be lost by delaying The first job for this city's new sub treasurer just appointed will be tits unique and laborious task of counting $282,000,000; that is, the cash on hand in the sub-treasury at the present time. Were the whole of this tre mendous amount in bills and coins of the denomination of one dollar each, it would take one man, counting at the rate of 60 pieces a minute, more than 80,000 hours to finish counting them, a matter of 10,000 working days of eight hours each, or something more than 30 years altogether. Indeed if the man who is responsible for the count had to do it all himself he could come nowhere near finishing before another president was elected and his successor appointed, who in turn would have to repeat the whole pro cess. 7 he retiring assistant treasurer cannot be released from bis duties un til the count is finished. Fortunately, however, the money on hand is not all in one dollar coins and bills, nor must it be counted by one man. The work will be done by 25 experts as sisted by a force of laborers, and heavy scales. All the silver, nickel, copper and bills will be gone over, piece by piece, but the gold will only be weighed in 'sacks, with an occa sional count to verify the accuracy of 'this process. Even so, however, the counting will be a laborious process for there is on hand at present in the sub-treasury $170,000,000 in gold coin, '78,000,000 silver dollars, $2,800,000 in fractional silver, that is dimes, quar ter and halves; $300,000 in pennies and nickels, and $30,000,000 in bills. All this amount the new sub-treasurer will have to count and his efforts in this line will be watched with special interest as it is rumored that he will attempt to make a new record. Matrimony is in a fair way to be come an obsolete institution among New York's so-called best society. During the past year the number of marriages in the circle constituting the city's most fashionable set has de creased more than one-tenth, a falling off which in the same class is reflected all over the country though not in such an alarming degree. In what is regarded as the cream of society here 'only 662 marriages have taken place this year as against 763 last year, a falling off of more than 13 per cent. In other large cities the decrease was much less, while the fashionable world A Personal Appeal If we could talk to you personally about the great merit of Foley's Honey and Tar, for coughs, colds and lung trouble, you never -could be induced to experiment with un known preparations that may con tain some harmful, drugs. Foley's Honey and Tar costs you no more and has a record of 40 years of cures. ti m WINES AND LIQUORS. Eagle Concert Hall -' ' tJ20 Astor Street) I'M AN OLD COOK AND JUST as good as a new one; I've got some fine Turkeys that are guar anteed to keep until used. To be given away Christmas ' at the Cosy Corner, P. A. Peterson, Prop., 375 Astor street. in Washington actually shows an in crease in this respect The decrease in this city is held by experts to be due to the panic last fall in which man yof the ultri-fashionsble were so badly pinched as to make marriage a too expensive luxuary. Another cur ious fact whjch has just been brought to light would seem to indicate that New York's "400" will ultimately be composed entirely of men, since fash ionable women here are dying at a faster rate than men. While 248 men notable in select society have passed away during the year, the the number of women who died was 298, or an ex cess of 20 per cent Heretofore men have always furnished the greater number of fashionable funerals. New York' "400" is not, however, in any great danger of immediate extinction, since the number of persons now ad mittedly belonging to it is in excess of 29,000. More people are taking Foley's Kid ney Remedy every year. It is con sidered to be the most effective rem edy for kidney and bladder troubles that medical science can devise. Foley Kidiiey . Remedy c fix's irregularities, builds up worn out tissues and restores lost vitality. It will make you feel well and look well. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. Not Introspective, The minister of a large pariah in a certain western diocese bad for some time been much troubled by the scan dalous gossip that seemed to be occu pying the minds of a portion of bis flock and after exercising a great amount of tact and perseverance at last succeeded In running to earth the originator of most of the settlement society slander. Tbe guilty one was a regular attendant at the schoolhouse services, and the minister knew that should he take him to task personally and Individually he would Inevitably lose a sheep, albeit a black one, so he decided to sermonize him. 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