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THE OREOON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENTNO. OCTOBER 80. 19M. IN THE PUBLIC EYE M. Msychs. says the Paris Matin. haa Invented a wireless telephone, with which M claims to have succeeded In speaking from Toulon to Corsica. Mr. Puaer of Erdington, England, on a recent Saturday, cut soma wheat In a field near Button Coldfleld, threshed It at 11 o'clock In the morning;, ground.lt Into flour, and produced several loaves of good bread from It by 1:10 In the afternoon, the total time from wheat to bread being three and a half houra. By accepting the post of head of the German colonial office. Herr Dernburg makes a great pecuniary sacrifice. He la a director of several banks and of about a dosea of the leading Industrial enterprises in Germany, hia annual in come amounting. It Is stated, to about 1100,000. He relinquishes this for a salary of 18,760 and an official resi dence. e Blr William H. Bailey, In his Inaug ural address to the library Association of the United Kingdom, st Bradford recently, bald that tbere are 6.809.198 books now In the free libraries of the United Kingdom, and It Is estimated thst nearly 60,000,000 readers used these Institutions last year. e e Dr. Edward Hoeber, of the staff of the Berliner Tageblatt, who not long ago wrote an art Ids on how to avoid Alpine accidents, has been killed while climbing the Little Zlnne. In the Dolo mites. The rope attaching him to the guide was dut by a sharp rock and he fell a great distance. The doctor was on his honeymoon. C. I. Crawford, who recently won the Republican nomination for governor of South Dakota, threw up his attorney ship of a railroad and fought all over tha stats for a primary election system and an anti-pass law, saying: "We want one so that we can run this stats ourselves; ws want the other so that we may know the railroads are not run ning anything more than the railroads." Two years ago he secured 400 of the 1.200 state convention delegates, but this yaar 11a secured 100. e e "Old Jonas Lie," the most beloved Norwegian writer, baa returned to his native land after a 20-year sojourn In Paris. Ha la TO years old and almost blind. e Mrs. Carrie Chapman Celt the well known American clubwoman, has bean received abroad by royalty and soma of the foreign papers hare the temerity to declare that she has a proverbial tight to look at a king. e Professor Goldwln Smith some time ago formally willed his brain to Cornell University. Some remarkable brains have been sola, not given. An English man has disposed of his to an American university for 110,000. He Is a man of little education and for many years worked as a coal miner. He has a mar velous memory, especially for dates, and la now earning a good salary on the music hall stage. e Despite his 02 years, Blr Charles Dllka la one or the most active mem bers of the bouso of commons. He Is an enthuslaatlc sculler, and goes through a course or training every year. He Is also an enthusiastic fencer. ., Miss Frances Zerbey of Pottsvtlle. Pennsylvania, a newspaper man's daugh ter, haa paassd ner law examinations and Is now licensed to practice In tha Pennsylvania courts. She Is also locally famous as a pedestrian, equestrian and camper-out, la handy with rod and rifle, has tamed bucking bronchos, has writ ten pieces that have been printed, and plays tha violin antranclngly. e e . Tha American artist Mrs. DuPont Coudert, better know ss Amelia- Kuss nar, baa had many royal commissions, so it can bo no surprise to her to have received an .order for a miniature of Queen Maud of Norway. She will paint Queen Maud's portrait when her majes ty goes to her little unpretentious house In the king's grounds at Sandrlngham soma Urns during the early winter, e e In St. Paul's Episcopal church In Mount Vernon. New Tork, tha Rev. W. B. Coffey, the rector, repeated recently a sermon deliver! by tha Rev. Dr. Johnson, the first president of Columbia college. Jn tha old church, September II, 1176. e e Dr. Charles Russell has retired from the editorship of the Glasgow Herald and Dr. William Wallace has succeeded him. Dr. Russell was educated for medicine, but turned to Journalism, e e United States Civil Service Commis sioner Atford W. Cooley has announced that ha Intends to resign next summer snd return to New Tork to engage hi the praotlee of law. Mr. Cooley was formerly a practicing attorney In New Tork, but gave up his profession la First photographs of Chile's devasta tion. The upper photo shows tha removing of the dead from the rums of Vina del Mar, a suburb of Valparaiso. Vina del Mar is a fash ionable watering place, situated about three miles from the dry. Below on tbe left ia a photo of the ruined Congress building at San tiago. Tbe capital of Chile was much lesa severely injured than ha commercial metropolis, but this pic ture shows how destructive was the shock at tha former city. On the right is the wrecked entrance to the Valparaiso cemetery. The terrible shocks tore up the graveyard also. 1903 to accept the appointment aa civil aervloe commissioner. He declines to give any reason for his contemplated resignation other than that be preferred the practice of law to a government Job. Mote. Petti has astonished the world almost aa much by her wonderful vital ity as by her vocal powers. "I will be young as long as I live," she Is said to have declared aa a child, and she has fulfilled her promise. Perhsps It Is because of her unconquerable optimism. "If there is the tiniest speck of blue In the sky," she says, "and there nearly always Is. I look for it, and that nukes ths whole heaven blue for me." More over, she knows tha virtues of the open air. "I spend three hours dally In the open air, walking or driving In an open carriage; and I accustom myself tp bear the extremes of eummer and win ter." e e ' Now that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain haa J A ... 1. ... I , V, I, f. lntMt(nv lA recall an amusing story which goes tu prove now wen-preservea tie is ana now young he appears to those who are not personally acquainted with htm. Traveling on the continent with Mr. Jesse Colllngs. only five years his senior, the two sat down at a table In a restaurant, when the waiter, handing Mr. Colllngs the menu. Inquired If his companion was his son. e e General Nogl of Port Arthur fame Is paying the penalty of popularity at the hands of autograph seekers. But ths form which this has token In Jspan hss about it a touch of sentiment, inasmuch as the relatives of soldiers who fell be fore Port Arthur are seeking the gen eral's autograph Inscription to place on the tombstones of the dead. The bishop of London spends no great amount of time In the planning of his sermons forceful though they sre. He writes them only on very special oc casions. Usually he selects' a suitable text, ponders It for a moment, notes down the heada of his subject, verifies his quotations and references, and in the space of a few minutes hs haa settled the whole matter. The Marquess of Alias la a man of many hobbles. He has made a study of naval construction, and has a shipbuild ing yard at Troon, while he is an au thority on motor engineering and runs his own motor-boats. He Is known, top. as an enthusiastic floriculturist, and at Culsean Castle. Ayrshire, has man aged to grow flowers which can be seen nowhere else In Scotland. " There has passed sway at' Hofstetten, near Thoune, at the ripe age of 14 years, Captain Oulllauroc Kjiechtrnhofer, who was a personal friend of Napoleon III, whom he received at Thoune on the. oc casion of the Emperor's visit in ii&u. Captain Knechtenhofer was 'formerly proprietor of the Hotel Bellevue. He contributed greatly to the development of Thoune and to the steam navigation of the Oerland lakes. By his death tha poor of the district hsve lost a gener ous benefactor. ' 1 Thomas Bent, the premier of Vic toria, Introduces . songs Into his speeches. A word or a phrase strikes a chord of memory, recalls some half-forgotten melody and then the premier breaks forth Into song. Replying to criticism. Mr. Bent says he never Intro duces songs of the present day, of which he haa a very poor opinion, e e 'Ireland la the mystery of the world," says Bishop Gsllor of Tennessee, "and to an American standing upon Its shores It Is mors of a mystery than when It Is viewed from this distant spot. Tbe Irishman is sn anomaly. At home. In the narrow confines of hla little Island, he Is the Isslest person In the world. Here he beats the American at hust ling." e e Alfred Mosaly announces that 600 British teachers will visit the United States snd sea the work in our Ameri can schools this winter. There's a marked predominance of. "H" In recant New Tork politics, as the Troy Press points out. Last time Hlgglns and Herrlok were up for the governorship, and this time we see Hughes and Hearat. Another coinci dence: Hlgglns Is a word of seven let ters and so Is Herrick. Hughes is a word of six letters yd scls Hearst. SOME APPLE FRAUDS American Fruit Sent to Europe Is Not the Beet American applea arriving In Chrle tlanla, it Is stated, are, aa a rule, packed In barrels holding from 140 to 110 pounds. Some of the fruit is shipped from England, Denmark and Germany, while a portion comes direct by the Scandinavian-American line steamers from New Tork, Boston or Philadelphia. Charles Former Governor of the Canal Zone. He Says That Chinese Labor Was Not a Success. "ggj Bijjjhxw. efl bbbbbHbbbbbbVX am W WBbL I Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Latest Photograph of the Wife of the President. Tha import duty on apples la 12 ere. equalling 1.2 cants per kilogram, or about 12.21 per barrel. American ap plea are In high favor with the people, and If the trade la Judiciously handled there Is reaaon to believe It can be fur ther Increased. But the apples re ceived at Chrlstlanla last season were, aa regards several shipments, of very poor quality, The principal Importers have Joined In making a formal protest, claiming that most of the fruit received by them Is very poor, the barrels having a layer or two of fine fruit on top and bottom, bnt filled In between with fruit of nearly unsalable quality. Unless these methods can be stopped the American fruit trade with this country will, in all probability, be seriously Injured. Apples sre also brought from Canada. Germany. Spain and some other coun tries. This fruit la generally packed in PEOPLE E. Magoon. Cwsas-spAJr shallow boxes and baskets. This mode of packing has many advantages over barrels. Considering the fact that American apples by the time they reach the Norwegian consumer sre very ex pensive. It would seem best If only choice fruit were exported. The freight, as well as the heavy Import duty. Is no more on a barrel of the beat than on a barrel of the poorest kind. Of Inferior apples the Norwegian market Is well supplied by fruit coming from the na tive orchards. It la the best Amerlcsn varieties of apples, well packed, large, sound and attractive, that are In de mand. In Belgium the native apple quality Is so rapidly diminishing that very soon they will only be suitable for stewing, and good table fruit wtt have to he sought for abroad. It is asserted that the bast known qualities of apples slss where owe their origin to Belgian seed lings. Signal-Mo At many railroad signal boxes In re mots oountry districts where men must remain on duty for long hours and who yet have muoh time on their hands, many useful arts are employed, includ ing gardening. One company has a "sig nalman poet." who nils in the long hours by verse-making In connection with rail way subjects; but the generality of men go In for rug-weaving, fretwork, basket weaving and the like. In some cases wood carving of a really artistic kind has been executed. OF NOTE I irt tTri Charles E. Representative From Maine Who Recently Defeated tbe Labor Forces. I I 1 ,, , i Fletcher Governor of Vermont, Son of Lions Kept m a Den Without Bars at at st CONSIDERABLE progress has-been made during the last 12 months with the wonderful natural aoo loglcal garden which Carl Hag enbeck. the well-known animal dealer. Is erecting at Btellingen, a pretty Uttlo suburb of the great port of Hamburg, says the London Sphere! He has now completed his lion enclosure, snd It is no exaggeration to say that It is the most unique dwelling ever designed snd erected for the sccommodatlon of the big cats. It was quite recently that the New Tork Zoological Garden got over the objectionable iron bars by resorting to netting, but Mr. Hageubcck has gone one better by doing away with obstruc tions of any kind. Hence, one gases at lions and tigers with nothing whatever Interfering with the view. At the back of bis lion house, which is covered with Imitation rockwork, there la a large open apace surrounded on three sides by rockwork and boul ders. They are built so high that no animal could Jump them. The other side is entirely open, a broad ditch 16 feet deep preventing the animals from getting to the public footpath. Imme dlately in front of this latter Is a nar row strip of garden full of tropical plants. Then comes the ditch, but It is so designed that it cannot be detected by the public. Hence, one looka over the flower bed at Hons and tigers only It feet away, that being the distance between the snlmsls' side of the ditch and the path. At the present time there are eight lions and three Bengal tigers In thin unique lion den. The tropical plants, rocks snd cave-Ilk appearance of tholr den make an Ideal and natural . settlrg for these beasts of the Jungle and f rest. Hut this Is by r.o means the end of the nov 'ties seen at this original soo. It hss be -n designed on this principle: The. animals sre so placed that full view of them csn be obtained, yet to all appearance they appear to be at large and ubla to roam about of tbelr own free will. One. for instance, look over a prettily -designed water pond full of all kinds of aquatic birds, at various hay-eating animal. uch as camels, dromedaries, llama and ostriches.. They appear to be sble to move about at lib erty, but are securely confined to their particular enclosure. Rsyond comes ths lion-house snd then great mountains on which Ibex sheep snd goat disport themselves. When the garden Is fin ished, aa It will be by. April l next, one will be able to stand In the soo and ob tain s view st one time of over (00 ani mals and birds snd yst be unable to de tect the presence of Iron rails or cages. The animal will be prevented from getting loose by cunningly-devised ditches. Iron bars and other Ingeegajjfjj contrivances. Home of the artificial mountains are cleverly designed structures; they tower' from M feet to 160 feet In height They ware erected by Mr. Eggenschwyler. a j very skilled Swiss expert sad sculptor, la the-following manner;' A fraBMwMMeeg end end to Littlefield. ..!, ;V:-j D. Proctor. United States Senator Proctor. of timber and poles was built on pillars of brickwork. The whole structure wss then covered with wire netting which wss coated with a layer of thick cement. To prevent their slipping small and large pieces of granite stones have been put Into the xement to afford the ani mals a firm Spbthold In climbing during frost ly weather. The mountains that arc finished are populated with various mountains animals such as deer and chsmol. It I quite a fascinating sight to watch the mountain sheep snd Ibex Jump from one rock to another and stand on the highest pinnacles silhou etted against the rkyllne. The park covers 14 seres of ground, and although still In sn Incomplete stste Is nevertheless visited by over 10,000 persons every week. The charge for admission Is Id. Tbere Is csrtalnly much ito Interest the visitor. The col lection of nnlmals in the park Is very large, and more valuable In fact than the animals seen In any one ecological garden In the world. Thla arises from the fact that Mr. Hagenbeck Is an ani mal dealer and Is always selling wild beasts, birds snd reptiles. THE TRADE RAT One of the oddest little aqlmals In existence Is the California wood rat better known as the "trade rat." It owes the latter name, says the Strand, to the fact that, though It Is a great thief, it never steals anything without putting something else In Its place. The story is tola or a paste pot which hsd been left overnight in the assay office at the Silver Queen mine, and which was found in the morning filled with the oddest collection of rub bish. This was the work of trade rats. They had stolen the paste and left In ex change a piece of stick, a length of rope, some odds and ends of wire and an unbroken glass funnel. The object of the trade rat In as scrupulously paying for what he takes is something of a mystery, but these same rats certainly Take the greatest pleasure In the odd and ends which they collect. A description Is given of a trade rat's nest found In an unoccupied house. The outside was composed entirely of Iron spikes laid in perfect symmetry, with the point outward. Interlaced with the spikes were about two dosen forks and spoons and three large butcher knives. There were elso a large carving fork, knife and steel, several plugs af to bacco, an old purse, a quantity of small carpenter tools. Including several augers end a watch, of which the outside cas ing, the glass and the works wsrs all distributed separately so as to make the best show possible Altogether the oddest collection! None of these things was of any earthly use to ths rata. They m i them Just the same w 14 hoards ODD FACTS and FANCIES si at n By hia will a rich land owner, named Blslau. who haa died In Ieonaewlta. Saxony, leavas a large property to tha military authorities, which. In case ef war. is to be sold and two thirds of tha money given to the soldiers who cap ture the first standard from tha enemy, and the third part to the first soldier who captures gun. This Is the sge of advertteemeat. and It looks as though the British museum will have to recognise It. According v a parliamentary return Issued on Sat urday, the number ef visitors in IMS was nearly 140.000 less than In 1104, tbe figures being 111.111 and 146.611. respectively. e e ' The American consul at Shanghai re ports that all classes of Chinese In bis district are yearly consuming mors and more foreign foods, such as whsat Sour. Ths abnormal pries of rice, ow ing partly to the Hoods and partly to the greed of dealers, has resultsd la riots In many places. Vegetarians will doubtless hall with delight the advent of a new potato, blue of skin and yellow of Interior, which la about to be placed upon tha market This potato Is known as ths Salanum commersonl violet, and la the result ot scientific cultivation at Reading, Eng land. It haa a distinct flavor of lta own. Epicures describe It aa a com bined flavor of turnips and asparagus. e High prices were paid for manu scripts at Sotheby's ths other day, "St. Cuthbert. Bishop of Undlsfarne, Hie Iylfe and Miracles," data about 1210, and the property of Sir John Lawson, Bart., being purchased by Messrs. Quarltch for 17.600. A Tork ritual, written In Gothic characters, realised 11.600, and a highly illuminated manu script book of honrs of the fourteenth century brought 11.476. Every cyclist in RoUmanla is forcsd by ths authorltlea to have his name and address not only on ths frame of hla machine, but also on the lamp glass, so that It may be read at night. The new public elementary school at Yarmouth. England, haa a pets section, which already Includes a white An gora rabbit, canary and bowl of gold fish, in all of which the children take immense interest. e In view of the celebration of the cen tenary of the Aged Pilgrims' homea In Camherwell and various other places In ! England, on January 1 next a fund of l.OeO.OOQ shillings la being promoted so as to "make the Institution more ef ficient. It is stated that nearly 1.000 school gardens exist In Austria, not including the sister kingdom of Hungary. Ther are connected with both private and public schools and are used for pur poses of practical Instruction In horti culture and tree-growing and often con tain botanical museums and beehives. Gas pipes of paper are being made In Prance. Manila paper la cUt In strips equal to tha length of the ptpea to be made. These are then placed In a re ceiver filled with melted asphalt and wrapped around a core of Iron until the : desired thickness Is reachd. After be ing submlttsd to strong pressure the ! paper Is coated with sand, cooled, the I core Witfldrawn and the outer pipe aur face covered with a waterproof prep aration. It Is claimed that these pipes are as good aa and more economical than metal ones. A Glasgow business house has re ceived a communication from Bagdad, Turkey, dated August 1. which ststes: I "The European mall due here on July j 21 has not resched Bagdad, aa the post , csrrier's camel is said to have escaped ; whilst hs wss sleeping, and It Is sup i posed to have perished In ths desert Consequently the mall Is lost." I a e . Supposed to have been burled In a ; snowstorm some centuries ago. millions I of grasshoppers, forming two strata each a foot thick, have been discovered In one of the glaciers of Montana In a perfect state of preservation. One noticeable feature of consular re ports is the frequent mention of ar ' rangements made by foreign govern . ments to extend their foreign trade by j Increased transportation facilities and the repeated complaint of the lack of ' facilltlea for American exporters. In msny parte of . the world American products are practically excluded be cause of the frequent transfers neoes , sary In shipping, ths consequent long aMay in filling orders snd the high cost 1 of transportation. "Four good-looking sons In ths family " This Is ths last sentence In an advertisement for a girl, for. a dairy farm, which appears In a New Zealand paper. During the Esperanttst conference at Geneva, a Protestant service Wss con-' ducted In the new language, and the Drat Protestant sermon preached la Esperanto. In ths ancient church near the Cathedral of St Peter's. In the hsll where John Knox listened to Calvin's lessons. A Johnson county (Missouri) woman found a new use for the phonograph the other day Her husband waa cavorting around trying to settle a swarm of bees by ringing a bell, beating en a dlshpan. and hammering the daylight out of a lard can. when she thought of ths new phonograph In the parlor. Shs brought It oat, started it going, and In a few mlnutea the swaraa of bees settled snd ; hived. e e In Tunis, when a reigning prince finds I It necessary to go outside hla Immediate family to choose hla successor, he fel lows an odd custom. There the wear ing of hair on the face la the exclusive privilege of sovereignty. When the ! prince selects a successor h sends the ! court barber to the fortunate Individual to notify him that be may wear a Mara. This Intimation Is equivslsnt to a for mal announcement that he haa baas se lected aa the Mir presumptive. TM authorities of sevsral states eg Brasll are reported by Consul-Oenerel I Anderson of Rio ds Janeiro as sashing -determined effort to stamp out tra choma, the eye disease that haa Men rapidly spreading in that country, e The most remote mission station le the world la on Hereehet Island, la ths far northwest earner of IMIfgfgfgftfgfa of Canada. The nearest saawsfffes It 1 000 mllee away Conessnwtlv the packets are few and far between, eat dom more then two In tn year. ss a mw uimm months In t ins of . revBrJSjsWosrw f ' . ' V . i