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Copyright by C S. Woodruff. Journal Staff Photographer.
This photograph of Portland's skyscraper district and its immediate environs was taken from the captive balloon Venice at a height of 1200 feet, and is the most comprehensive view of the business section of the city ever made. It includes the district west,
of Third street and north of Main street. The Journal building is is seen in the middle foreground, surrounded by the skyscrapers that constitute the retail and hotel districts. In the background are seen the wholesale houses and rail and water terminals, with the
new Broadway bridge on the right. .
BY WAY OF A FEW SMILES
Gardening Days and Nights
"Now . comes the season when the
wife goes to the country and the hus
band In the words of the song, shouts
Hooray! Hooray!'" -
Thus Jerome JB. McWado. in an af
ferdinner speech at Duluth, began his
response to a toast on "The "Ladies."
"When the ladles are with us, we are
safe," he resumed; "but when they ir
off to country or shore, leaving us In
town alone, -then our troubles begin.
"A man one summer day called on a
doctor. k
" 'Doc.' he said, 'I'm all run down.'
" "You look it, too,' saijd the doctor,
sympathetically. 'I'm not going to pre
scribe drugs for a man In your condi
tion. No. sir. what I'm going to pre
scribe for you is gardening.'
"The patient started and his un
healthy pallor turned to a dull brick
red.
"'But. doc, he said, 'gardening Is
the cause of all my trouble.'
" 'Humrfi, what kind of gardening?"
said the doctor incredulously.
" 'Roof,' the man replied."
stranger; where I' can; get a cigar In
this town at this time of night?"
"Why, sure!" exclaimed the citizen,'
straightening up. "I know where you
can get two cigars."
Did His Part
A little boy of five was invited to a
children's party. The nejtt day he was
giving an account of the fun, and said
that each of the little visitors had
contributed.- either a ' song, recitation,
or music for the pleasure of the rest.
T3h, poor "little Jack!" said bis
mother. "How very unfortunate you
could no nothing!"
"Yes, I could, mother," replied the
young hopeful. "I stood up and said
my prayers 1"
on the tablecloth, says Judge. One
day Johnny was observed rubbing his
finger for a long time over the cloth
at his plate.
"John, "what are you . doing?" said
his mother at last.
"Nothing. I was Just trying to rub
two spots into one:"
. Saving a Dane,
Johnny's mother bad instituted a
fine of 10 cents for every spot made
Too Old for Exchange
, "I hear you have a little new sister
at your house," said the kindly neigh
bor to a small boy. "Isn't that fine?
Do you like her?"
"Yes. I like her." answered Willie,
"but I'd rather had a brother so I
could play ball with him an' wrestle Bolivia has adopted
with him an' teach him how.trwira.raptoy." V
"Well, if you aren't satisfied, why
don't you take her back and exchange
her?" asked the neighbor.
"Oh, it's too late now," answered
Willie, with rather a downcast face.
"We got her a week ago, and she's
been laundered a couple of times already."
POPULAR SCIENCE BRIEFS
Peking has
service.
wireless teleg-
n extensive telephone
repeating his words when making an
announcement.
. The suburban system
being electrified.
of Paris is
A five barreled megaphone, with
tubes radiating, in as many direction,
has been Invented by a Maine woman
to save a person turning around and
A church, at Nuremburg is heated by
electricity.
AS THE CARTOONISTS PICTURE EVENTS IN THE PASSING
Slow Work
It was on an east Texas train. The
little coffee pot of an engine, having
wheezed laboriously over serpentine
rails, jolted to a restful stop at no
place In particular. Time passed tedi
ously. Some-of the passengers stalked
nervously up and down the aisles,
while others drew their felt hats down
over their eyes and tried to forget it.
When a half hour had elapsed, the
conductor came through.
"Say, friend," said a querulous voiced
old man. "as near as you can tell,
what's holdln us?"
"We're taking on water, was the
explanation.
"Well, why don't you git another
teaspoon? ; That un seems - to leak
something dreadful 1"
On His Last Legs
David Belasco, apropos of the ter
rific inroads that moving pictures have
made on the regular theatre, said in
New York:
"The cream of the theatre has not
suffered. No, the best has not suf
fered. But down at the bottom down
amongst the skim milk, so to speak
there the suffering has been terrible.
I heard of a sad case the other day.
There was a chap who had a dozen
performing parrots. For a long time,
thanks to . the movies, this chap had
been, out of a Job. But at last his
agent wired him that he'd signed him
up at a good price, r,
"Several days passed. Then; the
agent received on a soiled, postal card
from the poor fellow this tragic declin
ation: "Can't accept. . Have eaten my act."
Not for Her.
The suffrage parade was rounding
the plaza. A Jeering youth with his
velvet bat far back on his head and a
pair of large yellow shoes, made fa
cetious remarks as the marcher trailed
by. . '
"Back to the cook stove,? he cried.
An elderly man looked around at
him.- "
"Is your mother in the parade?" he
asked. ,
'My mother!" gasped the youth.
"Well I should say not! My mother
ain't got no time fer such foolln.' She
goes out washln'."
Raised the Limit.
He was stronger in the town and
arrived on' a late train. The cigar
stand in the little hotel was locked
for the night, so he went out on the
street, where he found an idler leaning
against a post.
"Can - you tell me," ' asked the
I TTMV
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Ozone Is to be used to sterilize the
drinking water at St. Petersburg.
Eighty-five million incandescent
lamps were made during the past year.
The electrlo flatJron has been suc
cessfully used for drying photographic
prints.
A motor driven dredge Is reclaiming
two miles of new shore line for last
St. Louis, IlL
The Brooklyn navy yard is in wire
less communication with the Panama
canal station.
A storage battery train Is in use In
Cuba running about 100 miles out from
. Havana.
More than 2.000.000 electrical horse
power is used throughout Colorado
every day.
Time signals sent out from the Eif
fel tower are received throughout
France and Switzerland.
Some of the finest automobiles are
provided with a small electrlo light
to Illuminate the steps.
Baltimore's system of ornamental
street lighting covers E0 blocks, or
nearly three miles of streets.
An English Invention Is a safe fast
ened with a wire stretched to respond
to its musical tone produced by some
musical instrument, its vibrations af
fecting electrical mechanism that op
erates locks.
Los Angeles Times.
TIRED OF IT
Philadelphia North American
GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS
Westminster Gazette.
THE PRICKLY CACTUS
A Rhode Island man has patented
a suit for aviators, covered with pock4
ets open only at the bottom, which he!
believes would fill with air and acri
as numerous parachutes should ther
wearer falL T
A French scientist who has beVn
experimenting for IS years to sscertetn
the effects of low temperatures on
fish and animals has found that com
mon snails can withstand the greatest
amount of cold.
Blue print paper may be used to de
termine electrical polarity, a white
spot developing around the negative
pole when the paper Is In contact with
the wire, while the positive wire will
not affect it.
A French scientist has combined
wireless receiving apparatus, an ane
roid barometer and recording pens to
form apparatus with which the ap
proach of thunder storms is foretold
with remarkable accuracy.
For use In small gatherings there
been. Invented an attachment for
phonographs that illustrate songs as
they are sung by projecting lantern
slide views on a screen hung in front
of the phonograph.
- Chicago Tribune
A DIPLOMA FROM THE SUPREME COUP1
" Chicago Evening Post.
THE GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT
- Sacramento Bee.
BAD BUSINESS FOR CROAKERS
Force of Habit.
"What is the price of a ticket to
Montbrsskar
TJmpbsty-seven dollars and um'ph
teen cents." said the agent, display
ing several yards of yellow paste
. beard. '
"X an just shopping." said the lady
absently. "Can you cut me off a sampler