CM
OOOS AND ENDS.
:Ban Krancisco has-Chtnese eoopen.
There are about l.tOO placcm of worship
in London.
'Charles Dickens' salary as -editor of The
Daily News was $10,000 per aim am.
To think wisely is the part of a sage; to
act wisely requires a combination at man
and angel.
The coast lineof Alaska-exceeds in length !
by 3,020 miles that of all tht rest of the .
United suites. .
The ordinary young; father chinks its
much of the first baby as he does of the
next seren put together.
A billion dollars wonld buy ovws for ail
'the women in thecivilized world, aad shoes
for 500,000,000 homeless children.
Dr. Johnson was partial to new honey
and clouted cream, and all bis, life had a
voracious attachment tor a leg of mutton.
-Shakespeare and Moliere are reported to
be the only books Lord Randolph Churchill
takes with him on his tear through Africa
The runaways on the Brooklyn bridge
average two a month in summer and one
a month in winter Arrests average four
a week.
There isnothiog that so promptly cuts
short a congestion of the lungs, sore throat
or rhenmatism as hot water thoroughly
and promptly applied.
When you incline to weary of well doing
solace yourself with the Arab proverb,
"The reward of good works is like dates,
sweet and ripening late."
it is -calculated that Wordsworth, na
ture's poet, walked during his lifetime a
distance of nearly 300,000 miles, and what
splendid use he made of his saunteringsl
The Y..M.-C. A-'s of the country now
own property worth $12,500,000. One thou
sand and eighty-three persons are engaged
as paid officials, and there are 225,000 mem
bers. '
OlrlB Are Afraid of Canity Mow.
If there is anything in this great and
glorious republic of ours that a girl likes
better, than any other one thing it is candy.
Even the young man who unwillingly
yields the major portion of his salary to
her in the purchase of it can't bold a can
dle to this sweet competitor, lie puts, as
it were, a rival in the field to steal away
his gains. He hates to do it, too, worse
than he . hates to get up at 7 a, m., after
sitting up until 12 or 13 a. m. helping her
to eat it. lie hates it not only because it
is his rival, but because he knows that the
manufacturer is making about 10,000 per
cent, net on every pound that is sold. Cupid
or no Cupid." v
Of course, in 'these .figures reference is
had to these candies that come in tucks
and frills and satin boxes and bags, which
are the only brands a veteran candy girl
will accept. But the young man's turn
has come now, and the candy -manufacturer
will have to suck a pebble for sweet-
-enin' while the young man grins.
The girls are scared, and they won't eat
candy, any more, because last week a New
Jersey young woman, on a visit to Wash
ington, received a box of candy from her
"'beau" as she was leaving the national
capital to nibble tn daintily ns she hustled
homeward. She got home before the box
was. emptied, and .then she hit it again.
But.it was one time too many, and the ap
parently succulent, saccharine and sincere
.chocolate-drop in its sober suit of brown
xploded with terrific force in her month
and blew. pearly teeth, and jaw bone splin-
Sers, and rosy cheeks, and dimpled chin,
and cherry 'lips, and peachblow skin all
. over the. town of New Horeb and clear out
into the suburbs.
Nobody .who saw; t he dreadful sight had
the slightest idea that there was so much
in .a chocolate drop of the regulation di
tensions, but there was, and the girl got all
out of it that could be got in the brief time
at her disposal. Of course report of the
accident not the chocolate drop flew all
over, the telegraph wires and dropped into
the homes of the fair in every state, and
now the young girls won't touch candy,
even though the young men swear it isn't
loaded, which they are not tin any harry to
aa-Aew i ork Truth. .
Kate .of the "Ark of the -Covenant."
It mill probably never be known what
became of the ark of the covenant at the
time of the destruction and plunder of the
temple. .Even conjectures concerning it
are altogether useless. Some say that it
was taken away and .destroyed by Nebu
chadnezzar. The Jews believe that it waa
miraculonsly concealed from the poilerH,
and account it .among the hiddeu things
which the Messiah .is to reveal. It is ad
mitted, however, frorn an .examination of
all Jewish writers, that the old ark wus
never in the second temple, and there is no
evidence on record to show that a new one
was made. -
It is generally understood that the ab
sence of the ark was one of the important
particulars in which the second temple
was regarded as inferior to .that of Solo
mon. Josephus states that "the most hol
place" was vacant in the second temple;
certain rabbinical writers assert that its
place was simply marked by a stone. The
fact that Ezra, Neheniiah and t he Macca
bees frequently mention -the other sacred
utensils, but never refer' to the ark, seems
to be an acknowledgment on their part
that they knew nothing of the great me
morial of the covenant. St. Ijoui Repub
lic Alt Aeriai Tp.
Street fakirs have brought out a new toy
that neither runs along the pavement nor
makes a noise if placed at the mouth. Men
and boys who had gathered about a fakir
at Stny vesant park yesterday were startled
when he cried "Look out!" With a whizz
and a whirr, something roas swiftly in the
air, curved, and swept, gracefully down
again. ? (- '.': ,
The new toy is an aerial lop. and the fakir
sold several on the spot. It consists of a
thin ring, with three apokes, mounted de
tachable on a slender steel rod. The spokes
are flanged and twisted a bit. The hub has
a' band for a string. The haridio of the
steel rod is held in one baud, while the,
other pulls off the string with a jark. The
wheel revolves rapidly and ascends. Some-
. times it will ascend several hundred feet,
the height of flight depending on the force
with which the string is jerked. New York
Sun.
Eccentricities of Milliliter.
Dr. Fisher, of Salem, hud a singular way
of satisfying his conscience. He was asked
how he could read the Athanasian creed
when he did not believe it. He replied, "I
read it as if I did not believe it." Mr.
Pyle, beins directed by his bishop to rend
it, did so, saying, "1 am di recti-:! to r-::i.
thiQ whu-li la ci'tirl liMi-n !iiuii Mi r-i.....)
of St. Athauasius, but God forbid that it i
should be yours or mine!" John lJulri-i !
Wilson, when spealcing rl .Mcodemus txn
referred to in the third chapter of John,
would uniformly say, "There was a gentle
man of the Pharisees called Nicodemus,?'
and when commantiug on the parable of
the ten virgins he used to call them the
"ten young ladies." St. Louis Globe-Deni
Ccrat.
SHIPS PULL DP CABLES."
QUEER-FISHING WITH PROPELLER
SCREWS OF BIG BOATS. .;.
A Oecu Steamship Carries a Piece of
Submarine Cable from New York to
Unrpool and Back Experience of.
Ship That Ran Into the Mud.
Submarine cables laid in shallow wa
ters are often exposed to greater risks
and rougher treatment than the great
ocean cables, which sometimes cost their
owners a small fortune in repairs. Not
long ago an ocean going steamship, in
leaving her dock at Jersey City, plowed
up the soft bottom ; with her . powerful
propeller, and secured a costly and vain
able .catch in the shape of about a dozen
submarine cables, which enmeshed them
selves in the blades of the propeller so
effectively that all the cables were torn
asunder, and the ship had to go into dry
dock to clear her screw of the garlands
of iron, hemp and Kerite with which it
had become embellished not to say e em
barrassed. .
The learned judge who presided over
the argument -s to .- whether the tele
graph company,, which owned the cables,
or the steamship company, which owned
the inquisitive vessel, was the aggrieved
party, decided in favor of the latter,
holding that a harbor1 is to be kept free
for navigation, and that a steamer is en
titled to plow through mud as well as
water, cables or no cables. If the cables :
were thought to be secure because they
were lodged in two feet of silt, why, so
much the worse for the cables, or rather
for their owners. ;
According to the learned judge, ocean
steamers possess the right of way through
the silt, even down to hard rock, and the
waters of a harbor for purposes of navi
gation have no "bottom." This is cold
comfort for owners of submarine cables
in harlvirs, bnt by way of adding insult
to injury the very practical suggestion
was made that cables might be laid in a
species of submarine trench, and thus be
kept out of harm 8 way when ocean
steamers (rr others) find it necessary to
take the ground." '
TUGBOAT AND CABLE.
It is quite conceivable that the power
ful machinery of an ocean steamer should
make light work of gathering up and
rending into fragments a dozen or so of
submarine cables, but that a river tug
should take to the same game and twist
some hundred feet or so of heavily ar
mored seven conductor cable into a bunch
of Gordian knots is a little too much.
The cable is the property of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company, and
serves to connect the pole line across
State n Island with that running through
New Jersey, the cable crossing the Kills
between Linoleum villa and Carteret.
The tug caught up the cable in the
most approved manner, according to the
laws of harbor navigation, snatched it
from its quiet resting place in the silt.
and a stern battle between the pugna
cious propeller and the inoffensive and
defenseless (though armored) cable en
sued. Needless to say, the propeller was
victorious. The iron armor resisted vig
orously, but it was never intended to
withstand the attack of a river tug's pro
peller, so, after a stout resistance, ac
companied by endless writbings and con
tortions, it Buccumlied. ,
The sea servient itself could not have
made a better fight.-. If the cable was
vanquished, its enemy was also, at least
for a time, placed hors de combat, for,
so closely were propeller and cable in
terlocked in their deadly feud that, the
tug had to be brought to New York and
-put ' iu dry dock in order to separate
them. . The -snarl contains about one
hundred feet of cable, and bears strong
evidence as to good construction.
Few would believe that a cable could
resist long enough to be twisted up into
such hideous shapes instead of breaking
almost at once. The cable, which is a
seven conductor, Kerite make, has been
down for about five years, and was found
to be in perfect condition when repairs
were made. Indeed, the snarl testifies
to that. '-'
.some cable: stories.
Not long ago Frank Stockton contrib
uted to one of the magazines a nonsensi
cal story, in which a startling incident
was narrated. By a stroke of lightning
a steamer had been converted into an i
immense magnet, and had attracted to
itself a submarine cable, which held it
fast until the cable ship came to the res
cue. This flight of fancy is not alto
gether without excuse.
There is a story of an ocean steamship
catching np a piece of cable in the North
river, and towing it all the way from
New York to Liverpool and back with
out discovering to what mysterious cause
the strange reduction of speed on the
round trip could be attributed. -
There is yet another story of a sound
boat which fouled a submarine cable in
New York waters and towed a goodly
length of it to New Haven. There the
piece of cable was cleared away, .coiled
down on the dock, and subsequently sold
by the steamship company to another
corporation, whose business it is to main
tain electrical communication between
places.. That corporation put the cable
into service; and (so the story goes) is
using it at the present time. Herbert
L. Webb in Electrical Engineer.
To Preserve Shoe Lcatlior.
A German chemist has invented a
preparation which, it is claimed, when
applied to the soles of shoes, has the ef
fect of increasing their wearing capacity
from five, to ten times, besides making
them waterproof. The preparation is
applied ' after the shoes are finished and
the soles are buffed. The right to use it
has been sold to - the Bavarian govern
ment for the army. The inventor says
it has been tested in the German army
' ' satisfactorily. -Exchange.
An Kvery Morning? Incident.' .
Mr. Suburb (slowly waking up
and
rubbing his eyes) What time is it?
. Mrs. ..Suburb (looking at watch) It'l
three minutes of train time. '
Mr. Suburb (springing out of bed)
Tell Mary to hurry up the breakfast,
New York Weekly.
.---.?; Cnezplsiaed.' -'- -
In .Captain, King's ..'fTrial of n'stafl
f Officer, an amusing-story told of Gen-'
eral Upton, who was at one time com
mandant of cadets at "West Point. . The
commandant's tent was a great place for
fighting battles oyer again..
One day six or eight of us were gath
ered there, and the floor was held by one
of those blatant gentlemen who, having
graduated before the civil war, and hav
ing had just as good a chance as the gal
lant band of ambitious young lieuten
ants who rose to be generals, had pre
ferred the safety, ease and slow promo
tion of mustering and ' disbursing duty,
and whose only brevet was for the ser
vice of the "recruitment of the armies of
the United States." ,
For some reason or other such men
have often been prone to disparage the
services of ; successful, men. and to at
tribute the promotion over their beads
of such soldiers as Upton and Custer to
political influence. so .Major was
on this day holding forth about luck in
the line, ending with this startling state
ment: - - . ,: .
"Well, now, Upton's auother instance.
I Of course, I don't mean to say but what
you fought all rignt, oli I lei low, when
you got a ch.-ince. but you won't deny
that there '-were fellows - wflo 'went
through the whole war with the regu
lars, stuck to their regiments or .bat
teries, got wounded time and again, and
only got a brevet: but hero you are a
lientenaut colonel, and never got a
scratch!" ' . .- . ..
Considering the fact that Upton bad.
been wounded in three different engage
ments, he might have been excused for
making a pointed reply, 1 but he only
smiled quietly, as he sat writing at his
desk, and said;
"Well, there are lots of men who think
just as yon do, Ivo no donbl."
Different Kinds nf iold.
"Most people suppose." says an as
sayer. "that all gold is alike when re
fined, but this is not the case. . An ex
perienced man can tell at a glance from
what part of the world a gold piece
comes, and in some cases from what part
of a particular gold district the metal
was obtained. The-Australian gold, for
instance,- is distinctly redder than the.
California., and this difference in color is
always perceptible, even when the gold
is 1,000 fine. Again, the gold obtained
from the placers is yellower than that.'
which is taken directly from the quartz.
Why this should be the case is one of
the mysteries of metallurgy, for' the
placer gold all comes from the veins.
The Ural gold is the reddest found any
where. ."Few people know the real color of
gold, as it is seldom seen unless heavily
alloyed, which renders it redder than
when pure. The purest coins ever made
were the fifty dollar pieces that used to
be common in California. Their coin
age was abandoned for two reasons:
First, because the loss of abrasion was
so great, and, secondly, because the in
terior would be bored out and lead sub
stituted, the difference in weight being
too small to be readily noticed in so
large a piece. These, octagonal coins
were the most valuable ever struck. ?
New York Tribune.
'Thou Iiest on'Point at Fox."
Fox blades were celebrated all through
the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries
for their excellent temper, and mention
of them is frequent in English drama.
This is their history: There was a cer
tain Julian del Rei, believed to-be a
Morisco. who set up a forge at Totedo in
the early part of the Sixteenth century
and became famous for the excellence of
his sword blades, which were regarded
as the best of Toledo. ' That city had
for many ages previous been renowned
for sword making, it being supposed that
the Moors introduced the art, as they did
so many good , things, from the east.
Julian del Rei's mark was a little dog,
which came to be taken for a fox, and
so the "fox blade." or simply "fox" for
any good sword See -Henry V," act
iv., scene 4. "Thou diest on point of
fox." The brand came to be imitated in
other places, and there are Solingen
blades of comparatively modern manu
facture which still bear the little dog of
Julian del Rei. Notes and Queries.
Sick Room Vacariea.
"It is curious to notice the moral effect
of illness upon people," said a prominent
physician the other day. For instance
among my patients are a preacher who
swears when be is sick and a gambler
who prays. A 'successful and well
known business man will not go to his
bed when illness attacks him because of
a morbid .fear that ho will never rise
from it again. A lady of not the prettiest
character has all her jewelry and fine
dresses laid on the foot of her bed, I sup
pose to keep her mind from terrifying
thoughts. A hundred other peculiari
ties are developed, but the most remark
able one to me is that of a professional
man who reads up in current .literature
when he is really seriously ill because he
hasn't time to do it when he's weH.'"-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
. llo Won't Do It Again.'
An amateur .beekeeper in Penobscot
county learns a thing or two- almost
every day. Among other valuable les
sons was this: While working smong his
hot footed charges he clumsily upset a
hive) He was shielded by uetting and
loose overalls and could watch with
amusement the frantic jabbing of the
40,000 bees that" covered his anatomy.
After, a moment, however, he thought
fully stooped to pick up the hive. Then
it was that the bees were amused. The
loose overalls were drawn tight by the
stooping process, and the beekeeper
didn't sit down and enjoy himself for
two weeks. Lewiston Journal.
Cost of America' Ills ttrltlse. "'
The cost of the Brooklyn bridge was
$15,000,000, which wns $3.000,000... in ex
cess of .the final estimate of the engineer,
Roebling.. who was appointed in- charge
of the work on May as, 18GT. . Two years
later, he was injured by an accident,
from the effects of which he died, and
the engineering was carried through by
his son. New York Sun.
Th Run Problem. Er ln jAutrall;
' Sir George Grey thinks thai, a barrier
agains.t the. participation of New Zealand
in. Australian federation ' is to be found
in the colored labor question, ' which, he
believes is one of the first ; difficulties
which an Australian federal parliament
will have to face.- He has declared that
the northern territories, if. they are to be
worked at all, must be worked with col
ored labor, and although he is opposed
to the employment of - Chinese . labor,
thinks that Kanakas and Indian coolies
might -wisely be employed in the north.
. Sir George Grey's information differs
entirely from my own, which -is to the
effect that even in the event -of a divi
sion of the colony of Queensland the
majority ' of the people in', the north
would oppose the introduction of colored
labor, and I regard it as most unlikely
that . this question will be raised in the
federal parliament, should it ; meet, or
at least.be raised with the slightest
chance of a reversal of the recent policy
of exclusion of colored labor. '' ;
'No .doubt , the . growinjr 'of:'tropical
; produce upon the northern coast will be
prevented, if I am right, but I firmly be
lief that , the, Australian, 'people . have
made tip their .minds that' the continent
is to be reserved for white men, and that
those Industries which' .cannot be sup
ported by white labor are not to be en
couraged upon Australian , soiL Sir
Charles Dilke in Forum.' .
Tradition of Scotland's Thistle.
jueen facotia had led her troops in a
.well fought battle, and when the day
was won retired to the rear to rest from
her toils. She threw herself upon the
ground where, as ill luck would have it,
a bristly thistle grew. : Whether the fair
amazon fought in the national costume
ct Scotland or not the tradition fails to
say, but at any rate the spines of the of
fending plant were sufficiently powerful
to penetrate the skin in a very painful
manner. A proverbial philosopher has
said that "he that, sitteth upon nettles
riseih quickly," and -the same remark
holdj good with thistles.
Queen Scotia sprang to her feet and
tore the thistle out by. the roots. She
was about to cast it aside, when it struck
her that the prickly herb would hence
forth be ever associated in her mind with
the glorious victory which she had just
gained. Her intention was changed. She
placed the thistle in her cask, and it be
came, the badge of her dynasty. St.
- A rule allowing . tenants 5 per cent.
discount on rents paid the day they fall
due is followed by more than one rich
Philadelphiaa and not a few agents. It
is said to give, great satisfaction all
around.
-Congress , passed the .bill authorizing
the construction of the Brooklyn bridg
in. 1869, after the: secretary of war had
decided that it would not impede com
merce and navigation.
In Just 21 hours J. V. 8. 'relieves constipation
and sick headaches, After It gets tho system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W..H. Marshall, Bruns
wick House, 8. F.; Geo. A.Wemer, 531 California
8L, 8. P.; Mrs. C. Mclvln, 136 Kearny St., a P.,
and many others who have found relief from
constipation and sick headaches.- U.W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrence Court, S. F. writes: "I am 60 years
of age and have been -troubled with constipation
for 25 years.. I was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable BarsapariUa. I recognized in it at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to give ns
in the early 508 for bowel troubles. (I came to
California In 1839,) and I knew it would help mo
and it has. For the first time in years I can sleep
well and my system is regular and In splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs In this remedy
are a certain cure In constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for .. .. .
Vegetable
y Sarsaparilla
A" Revelation.
' Few people know that the
bright blufeh-green color of .
the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows la not the nat
ural eolor. ''Unpleasant as the.
fa-t may be. it U nevertheless
nrtiSt-'.tt : lisineral coloring
matter leii rr used for this
1 l.iir o. e. TLe ell'ect Is two
fold, li. not only makes the
,tea a bright, shiny green.but also permits the
, nse of ' uffrco'.or " a:;d worthlo s teas, -wliirh,
once Tinder the green cloai, ere . rtf.dlly
worked off at a good quality of tea.
'-'' An erai.iont au:horlty writes nu lh' rub
Jeot: "The Tiia-jipclarim rf ; o- r ton ! tive .
them a finer a; p'.araiu e, i ..r . 1 li ,.'en
sively. Gree.i teas, bel' in c- iiniry.
especially pop -:livr, ore pr t'.'n . l- lutvt the ,
demand l v .eo '!g tlica -t. l-vfcii ':, by
giaziugorlaclng'A'ith rni-i la:- . i u-.-.a '.- '.c.
gypsum, a id I d'g3. Thi mrt'- -l I t" gen
em! that very UUit genuW; .:f..'jn. jfpm tsa
is offered fir sale."
It was the knowledge f th'-i fPDdltlon r f
afiairi thai prompted, the : g i i Ueech'M
Tea bef.ne the public. It is lib ol if .-!;.- paro
and vrl.iMKt color, rid you ever seo any
genuine oiu-olotc-d. .la s:a A. k your
' frr cer to opsn a a. lea .Ii'is, cudy u
will see I', and vr.j!jau;..- t'.ie very first
lime. Itw'llhefoa J 1 i c- or ti te J:ii.t he--
' tween the trtifi-ial rri-;i ri. f;a' j;-i have
been areu -t.m 1 ;! l ol..i:l lw.
It draw.- adyW-b ul a a . lir, and Is so
fragrant t a'. It vi I I. u levcla-icn to tea
drinkers, lis 'parity i: iJ-:t i it a'.t- piore
economical than' the ar i... :al lor lest
of it is required per cop. ;J :-.'... '. a. ;und
.1 ackages beavlug this trade-.Tu: k :
-"Pure AsSlldhood "
Just
Joy
X.
If your grocer doe not have It, he will gel
it for you. Price 600 per pound. - For sale at
Leslie Sutler,
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we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its
support.
The
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and will be delivered in the city, or sent
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Its Objects
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing an open river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
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of
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criticism of political matters, as in
handling1 of local affairs, it will be
JUST. FAIR AND IMPARTIAL.
We will endeavor to give all the lo
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of our obj ect and course, be formed from
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THE WEEKLY,
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For those wishing to see the quality
and color of the above paint we call their
attention to the residence of S. L.. Brooks,
Judge Bennett, Smith French and others
painted by Paul Kref t.
Snipes & Kinersly are agents for the
above paint for The Dalles. Or.
Daily
W. H. NE ABEACK,
' PROPRIETOR OF THE
Granger Feed Yard,
tAird street.
. - AtGrrmes' old place ol business.)
Horses fed to Hay or Onts at the lowest possi
ble prices. Good care given to nnimals left in
my charge, as I have ample stable room. Give
me s call, and I will guarantee satisfaction.
W. H. NBABEACK.