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,
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Toilet Sets
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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.
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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.
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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
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about the great merit of Foley's
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and lung trouble, you never -could
be induced to experiment with un
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WINES AND LIQUORS.
Eagle Concert Hall
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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. According
ly a special discourse was prepared
and the following 8Hnday afternoon
literally hurled at the offending mem
ber as he sat on a desk In a corner of
the schoolroom. Everybody present
appeared to fully appreciate the sit
uation and at the close of the serv
ice departed quietly and somewhat
thoughtfully for home an except the
black sheep, who lingered to assist
"parson" to hitch up his team and to
remark: "That were a fine sermon, sir.
Til bet that bit some on 'em pretty
hard!" Bellman,
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The Japauese are a most Imitative
and observant people and copy every
thing they see with minute fidelity.
A. Newport man engaged a Japanese
valet, who was very attentive and
satisfactory. His duties rarely took
him Into the kitchen, but when he had
a chance of watching the cook he did
so with extraordinary interest
Tbe cook caught a severe chill and
left somewhat suddenly. The lady of
the house was In despair, aa she could
not replace her. At last tbe valet an
nounced diffidently that he thought be
could cook a little, and the mistress
gladly agreed to give him a trial.. The
first thing he started on was the pota
toes. He took off his shoes and socks
and put his feet in a bath of hot mus
tard and water., The ludy wanted to
know what on earth he was doing.
He replied that he saw the cook do
that when she was peeling the pota
toes,' and nothing would persuade him
that this was not a necessary part of
tbe process. New York Times.
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