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t4J .1' . Rmding In Bed. It la a widespread belief that to read while in a lying position is hurtful to the eyes, and is therefore a dangerous lux ury. As a rule, some truth can be sifted oat of every popular saying. More or less Influenced by the superstitions which seem a part of our very organization, we have of ten abused this privilege, quieting our con science by a kind of mental protest. Ex periencing no inconvenience from the en joyment of reading in bed, we came to the point of questioning the truthfulness of the adage, however hoary with respecta bility age has made it. A reporter got the opinion of the surgeon in charge of the Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat. Charity hospital on the matter. "Injury to the eyes in reading," he said, "conies not from the position of the body, but from the way in which light falls upon tho book. Provided the open page receives tbe light, and at the sarrte time the eyes Are shielded from the direct harsh rays, reading can be indulged in to any extent when the body is in the recumbent posture. Ho one questions this when, during their Mmmer outing, they stretch themselves on the turf or in a hammock, under the shade of a friendly tree. Why should they ques tion it when they lie on a soft couch at tome? "The straining to sight comes from the improper illumination of. the printed sur face; as, wheu persons read in bed from a distant gas jet, which throws the light on the back of the book, and necessarily into the eyes of the reader, while the page pe rosed is in shadow. If the gaslight in the center of the room or at the bureau is good and tbe reader reverses the pillow to the foot of the bed, so as to have the light fall ou the open book, no more harm can come to the eye from the recumbent pos ture than from reading at a table with the light overhead. "The popular saying of our grandmoth ers that reading lying down was injurious originated at a time when 'artificial light was proverbially indifferent, and when the neuter table oil lamp was the only light fit for reading purposes. . The tallow dip substitute, placed on a table at the side of the bed, should have been classified with moonlight reading, which no sensible per- son should ever be guilty of." Baltimore . American. Tho Future of Cassia. Russian refugees in Paris are in general people of a kindly and humane temper and certainly not naturally inclined to violence. They give the impression of being represen tatives of a race worthy of a very high civ ilization, and which is nevertheless gov erned like the degenerate races of the east. There is au evident discrepancy between the laws and the men. No force can pre- Tent this state of things from falling into ruin. And certainly this immense, empire, these 130,000,000 of inhabitants, this slow, sure and indomitable propaganda repre sents a mysterious and terrible force a force that will surely astonish the world and have an extraordinary influence upon the destinies of the European race. The world has there an incommensura ble unknown quantity, an epopee in, the cerm, which will be the astonishment of nr eons, terrible perhaps, or consoling and prolific, as considerable as the prodigious dissemination of Europe in America, as far sounding as the French revolution. Bat in what form and in what cortege of bloody or pitiful events will it be devel oped? This is the secret of the future, the enigma of the great Sphinx, which none shall guess and none shall read until af ter! J.- H. Rosny in Harper's. World's Fair Notes. Dr. Nardyz, a Pittsburg physician, is at work upon an immense papier mache model of the human heart for exhibition at the World's fair. It will be three feet in liameter. The Catholics have chosen a committee to supervise the making of a national Catholic educational exhibit at the expo sition. Many prominent Catholics . are Bnueii interested in the enterprise. There is a possibility that the visitor to the exposition may see the' celebrated Spitzer art collection, the most compre hensive collection of European art in the world and valued at above (4,000,000. Two complete palace railroad, cars, of tie Pullman style, are to be hewn out of a monster redwood tree that stands In the forests of Tulare county, Cal. it is a stu pendous undertaking, but when it is com pleted it will furnish the World's fair with one of its most interesting exhibits. An appropriation of $150,000 has been made by the exposition directory, for tbe expense -of the ceremonies attending the dedication of the, buildings, Oct. 13, 1692. The ceremonies will be extended through several days, and some 45,000 militia and United States troops, it is expected, will participate. - Does Tlila Mak You Feel Cool? Owners of wagons of every description, and who wish they had sleighs instead when snow is on the ground, wiU be inter ested in the special construction of sleigh runners just patented. The parts are de signed to be readily separated or put to gether without the use of tools, and may be conveniently carried .in the vehicle to which they are to be applied. Besides the usual tires, the runners have each a side shield, extendingsligbtly above the surface of the runner, aud in the runners are set threaded blocks, in which are removably secured, by means of thumbscrews, the tower mis -of .-wrought iron legs, bent iu-wardly.tn-iheSr upper portions to nass clear of the hub ; '' . .' . . . , i ' ThW;jti4i hers 'can be-removed from a Vehicle in a lew minutes. Should the sleigh ing become poor, or they can be as readily applied when desired. Should the wagon be too heavy to poll into position on the runners, to . make the attachment- the Miunibscrews securing one of each pair of legs may be removed, allowing the cross bars to drop down, when the horse may be employed to pull the vehicle on the run ners. New York Journal. A Story About Mozart. " Here is a - story about Mozart which we do not remember to have heard before. The great man was paying a visit to. a mon astery, 'and during mass was tortured by -the playing of a ludicrously inefficient organist. At di n ner the prior asked Mozart how he liked tbe organist's performance. "He plays in quite a Biblical fashion.'' said Mozart. " -j, "What do you mean?" . ,. ! "His left hand does not . Jfnoy - what his right band doetb.? - ; , ' Average Wages of Laborer. , Based upon tbe estimates furnished b; the superintendent 6 the . census: bureau, the average wages of laborers in the man " nfacturing industries of the United States are a few cents less than (411 each yearly. Taking into consideration the large pro; portion of women-, children -andnskiileti-that are employed, this is not a very bad showing for American labor in the opinion at American Cultivator. Girl and m Coal Chats. i : - we naa more iun tasc winter man yon could shake a stick at," said a pretty little friend of mine who is puzzling her dear little brain over all the isms and ologies that are taught at Sage college, the female annex to Cornell university. : "I wouldn't tell you about it for the world if school wasn't out and everybody gone away. But mind, if you print a word of it I will never speak to you again. "You know most ef the girls at Sage are serious, solemn things, who seem to think that the chief end of life is to beat the boys and take all the prizes. I don't. I prefer to have the boys take the prizes and then take me. Then it is all in the family, don't you see? But the girls ain't all prigs and digs. Some of them are lovely that is, I mean real jolly and full of fun. "We had some of that kind there last winter, and poor Mrs. Hooper, the matron, was almost driven wild by them. You are supposed to be in your room at a certain hour, and not think of poking your nose out till morning. Bless your heart, do yon think a real, live girl, filled with the love of nature and fond of studying astronomy in companies of two is going to put up with any such imprisonment. We that is to say, they didn't last winter, but found some means of escape, and had lots of good times sleigh riding with the boys. "The leakage of students was discovered, but how did they get out? That was the" question. Poor Mrs. Hooper sat up at nights and watched. She had insomnia with thinking. She actually lost flesh with worrying, for she was afraid that there might be some horrid story get into the newspapers, don't you know. "At last the mystery was solved, and what do you think it was? The coal chute that ran down into the cellar! This was the way hat the girls got out. "Did they nail it up? Well, I should say so! So that impending tragedy ended hap pily. But don't you dare to print itl" New York Herald. - The French Colony of Algeria. While a number of the leading European governments have recently adopted the so called colonial policy as a means both of increasing their national trade and of pro viding an outlet for their people, experi ences which have recently been brought 'to light in France would indicate that a colonial policy may be an exceedingly ex pensive luxury for a nation to adopt. - In a recent debate in the chamber of deputies on the government of the colony of Algiera the calculation was made from official reports that in the last forty years that colony had cost France, over and above the income received therefrom, quite $800,000,000, and what is more, the annual costs at the present time are even larger than in previous years. It might be'said that these large outgoes were no more than France was justified in sending for the purpose of providing a de sirable outlet for her people; but, although Algeria is a remarkably fertile country and offers many opportunities, it doos not seem to attract the French colonists. The total population of French origin is only 260,000, while there are an equal number, of white people not of French nationality. These latter have, by the - local laws, ex emption from taxation granted tbfim that the French colonist is not accorded, and, what is more, the rate of taxation upon, the 3,000,000 or more natives is several times greater than upon the French col onist or foreign resident. The French will not settle in Algeria as colonists, although large numbers visit the country each year as tourists, which would seem to prove that unless a nation has an aptitude, for colonization and this was no doubt what the French possessed six or eight generations ago when they settled Canada it is useless for it to spend money and exhaust an effort in acquiring and at tempting ' to develop the waste places on earth. Boston Herald. . A Cheap Method for Coloring; Glass. Some of the German porcelain and glass manufacturers are now using a new color ing material, capable of being "fixed'' without fire. In carrying out this process, ordinary water colors are used, these be ing rubbed down with a certain mixture, consisting of two solutions,- compounded in definite proportions, one of them being composed of 100 parts of a syrup of potas sium water glass, to which has been added ten parts of a lead acetate solution fifteen parts lead acetate in 100 parts of water and stirred by an air stream until well mixed; the other solution is a mixture of fifty parts of borax dissolved in 100 parts of warm water and twenty parts of glyc erin. ; ; '" -.- . Sixty parts of the first described solution are mixed with forty parts of the second, and .with . this mixture the colors are rubbed down. . For .thinning purposes wa- -ter and the first named solution are mixed well together in equal parts. After the products have been painted they are placed in a bath composed as follows: One part of borax is dissolved in twelve parts of water and mixed in a gutta percha vessel with fifty parts of hydrofluoric- and ten parts of sulphuric acid. On the immersion vof the articles some ten minutes in this bath they are washed in clean water, and the color appears as if burned in. New York . Sun. - - . How Louis Kapoleon Died. . A telegram from Borne has announced the publication of a "Life of Prince Napo leon" which is likely to create some sensa tion in the political world. There is an earlierwork which, though- it ;does not b&r the signature of Prince Napoleon, was undoubtedly inspired by him of which a few stray copies have reached England. It -is called "Le - Prince Imperial," and pur-. ports to be written by D'Herisson. - It is aimed against tbe Empress Eugenie, whom it savagely pursues from her birth to the downfall of tbe empire an event directly attributed to her influence. There is a long chapter describing the in trigues that went on around the deathbed of tbe emperor. It will be remembered ' that at the time of his death t'bere was a report that that event was due hot to the effects of the operation which Sir Henry Thompson performed, but to an overdose of chloral. This singular book, certainlv written with intimate knowledge of the inner circle or imperial affairs, confirms this report. Napoleon Ed, it says, took the chloral, fell asleep and never woke again. :. London Cor. Liverpool Post. Little Danger from Water Poisoning-. In Glasgow the practice of supplying houses from cisterns is comparatively rarer -and should be entirely abolished when the additional aqueduct, now in course of con-! . struction between Loch Katrine and the city, is completed. Taking all things Into consideration, it seems clear that the dan ger from lead contamination, if it exists at all, is not-such as to cause public alarm. The appearance of an occasional doubtful I case of poisoning is very different from the teatensive epidemic?, xcl&rtyr l-aceable to the water supply, which have at various times occurred at Sheffield, Bradford and other towns. London Engineering. ODDS AND ENDS. '- Japan has built its first factory-for the manufacture of woolen goods. -. Beware of the vicious man who proposes to reform his life on the installment plan." The manufacture of cotton goods in the island of Ceylon has made remarkable progress." The life insurance policies in force upon the lives of the citizens of Pennsylvania amount to over $448,000,000. Sparrows have become such a nuisance in some parts of Germany that a reward is offered for their destruction. The governor general of India receives -a salary of $350,000 a year and extras which increase the amount to $500,000. It ' is estimated that 20,000 horse power will be required for the electric, lighting plant of the Columbian exposition. Old newspapers torn in small pieces and wet in water softened by the addition of a little ammonia are excellent to wash lamp chimneys. Can any one tell why it is that when a woman is being weighed she smiles, while a man having his weight ascertained al ways looks serious? -. The Greeks sacrificed many dogs in hon or of Hecate, because by their baying the phantoms of the lower world were sup posed to be disturbed. , .( , - : The output of cigarettes throughout the country for the month of March amounted to 250,501,860 against 154,234,800 during the same month of last year. "" The Coreans are the largest eaters known. Their stomachs are generally abnormal in size, and the one possessing the largest is generally considered the richest. - Baron de Rothschild has a collection of postage stamps that is valued at $40,000. He is also a prominent and enthusiastic member of a Paris philatelist society. . . A Church Flooded with Money. Who ever heard of a church being flooded with honey? The very idea sounds ridicu lous, and in any other place than Califor nia would excite only a smile of incredu lity. We have all heard about places that "flowed with milk and honey," and meta phorical references to the "droppings of the sanctuary" are familiar, but it has re mained for a swarm of bees to make literal facts of these familiar metajihors. It appears that a lot of vagrant bees, while in search of a suitable home, found an admirable location in the loft of an Episcopalian church in Tulare county. Here, having an abundance of space, they increased and multiplied, and at the same time laid in a large store of honey. Great white combs were attached to the rafters overhead, and were built downward and added to- until hundreds of pounds of sweetness were hidden away in the delicate white waxen cells. " -One contingency, however, was not pro vided against, and, indeed, was ' not ex pected. The normal temperature in the contracted proportions of the loft was of a character admirably suited for the best ad vantage of the bees, and had that tempera ture continued this story would never have been-written. . - - It is almost unnecessary to remind' read ers that a week or two ago California was visited with something bearing a remark able likeness to a sirocco. In a word, it was hot deucedly hot. . ' In the loft of the 'church,- where the bees were holding high carnival, the tempera ture rose and rose until it reached the melting point. Wax gave way beneath the torrid heat, and now, down the rafters, along tbe scantlings, over the laths and down the joists began to flow streams of liquid . sweetness. They found crevices here and there, and soon altar, pulpit, chancel, furniture, prayer books and all the belongings of the interior of the sacred edifice were treated to such a deluge as the world had never seen. Efforts were made' to stay the sticky tide, but these were only partially successful, and before anything could be done the in terior of the church was a sight to behold, and damage had been done that required expense and hard work to remedy. San Francisco Chronicle. Baby's Foot Is Like a Monkey's. "How many people have ever taken no tice of a baby's foot, except to- admire its pinkness and prettiness?" said a- well known scientist. - "And yet to the anato mist it is a revelation. Take, for exam ple, the tootsies of a child of ten months that has never walked nor stood alone.- It has a power of grasping to some extent and is used instinctively like a hand. - The great toe has a certain independent work ing,, like a thumb, and the wrinkles of the sole resemble those of the palm. These markings almost entirely disappear after the pedal extremity has come' to be em ployed for purposes of support and loco motion. "The hands aud feet of a human being are strikingly like those of the chimpan zee in conformation, while the gorilla's resemblance to man in these respects is even more remarkable.: The higher apes have been classified as 'quadrumana,' - or 'four handed,' because their hind feet are band shaped; but ' this designation Is very improperly applied, because the ape's pos terior extremities are not really hands at all. They merely look like hands at the first glance, whereas in fact they are bnt feet adapted for climbing. The big toes cannot, be 'opposed' to the other toes as thumbs are to the fingers, but simply act pincerwise for the purpose of grasping. "Now, funnily enough, the Infant's' feet have this same power of grasping pincer fashion, and the action is performed in precisely tbe same way. Advocates of evo lutionary theories take this to signify that the human foot was originally; utilized for climbing trees also before the species was so highly developed as it is now. Also they assert-that the fact that the art of walking erect is learned by the child with such dif ficulty proves that the race has only ac quired it recently." Washington Star. I.Nr'hy Does the Sun Continue to' Burn? Thousands of curious and ingenious the ories have been brought forth to account for -the. fact that the sun, although he . has whirled his 'burning disk across the heav ens for untold ages, continues to burn without being consumed or his bulk being lessened in the least. . Some learned men affect to' -believe that the -great orb is a monstrous ball of gas, but even a great ball of gas would be consumed in its ut most atom in the course of a few thou sand years. Others pretend to believe that its fires are kept up Uy the remains of wrecked worlds which are constantly fall ing into its depths, but even - this seems far from probable, not to say a purely absurd conclusion. ' In giving his opinion on the last conten tion, one of the most eminent astronomers of the day has figured that a mountain range consisting of 176 cubia miles falling into the sun would only be sufficient to maintain the' present heat Mr a single sec ond; a mass equal to that of our earth would engender only enough of heat to last ninety-three years. New .York Tele s People Who Soil Beoks. .,, Librarians are not the only ones who complain of persons who habitually soil books loaned to : them by thumb stains and marginal penciling. , That habit is the heaviest cross imposed on dealers in rare and expensive books. , It is a prac tice with such dealers to send such books out for inspection when requested by those to whom, the dealer thinks there, is a chance to make a sale. - Valuable books h orten suiter from the practice. . Samuel J. Tilden, while a good buyer of books, was also a great offender in this respect. He thought nothing of keeping a book for weeks, making dealers send to him for it several times, and finally returning it thumbed and dog eared, with a mes sage that he did not want it. On the whole, booksellers lost nothing through Mr. Tilden. for he did not spare money when a book caught his fancy, and his library contained many treasures, but at times his whims' were costly and vexa tious to those who tried to please him. Dealers' say that there are many men in this city now to whom his habits seem to havA hem. trari ami Hud. "Naur - VnvV . Funeral Services Interrupted. During a funeral the other day at Ev ansburg, near Norristownsome one told the minister conducting the religious services that the. funeral director was in waiting outside. The dominie took the in formation as a piece of officiousness on the part of the undertaker, and stopping short in his remarks put it to a vote of the mourners whether he should proceed or no. No one voted, and the minister cut the de votions off short. "The wearer of the gown sought the undertaker out later on and gave him a most orthodox piece of his mind. Scranton (Pa.) Truth. Paper Bleaching by Electricity. Very satisfactory results are now being obtained by some of the English paper manufacturers in bleaching paper by elec tricity, the process rendering the paper perfectly white without in the least injur ing its strength. This process in question depends on the use of a solution of mag nesium chloride, which is decomposed by the action of a strong electric current into chlorine and oxygen on the one hand and into magnesium and hydrogen on the other. . Plates of platinum are used as electrodes. New York Sun. Demands of the Seashore. A little girl spending the summer at the seashore wrote, a few days ago, the follow ing touching appeal to her father in the city: "Dear Papa Can't you send me one dollar, or half of it? lni so hard up for it now. There's a cent for one thing here, five cents for another, one cent for some thing else. Then there's merry-go-rounds, toboggans, popcorn balls,' etc. Sister, got the money out of her dime bank, so she has plenty. Please send me one dollar. Your loving daughter." Philadelphia Ledger. . . The crucifix which Columbus wore when he discovered America is reputed to be in the. keeping of .the Sisters of Loretto, at Durango, Colo. Head Aches. Sick-headaches are the outward indications of derangements of the stomach and bowels. ; As Joy's Vegetable Sarsa pari 11a is the only bowel resisting preparation of SarsaparUla, It is seen why it is the only appropriate SarsaparUla in ii l:-!ief(luches. It is not only appropriate; it is n:i absolute care. After a coarse of it an occa sional dose at intervals will forever after prevent reiarn. ' . .Ino. M. Cox, of 735 Turk Street, San Francisco writes: I have been troubled with attacks of tick-headache for the last three Jean from one to thrcso times a week, - Borne time ago I bought two bottles of Joy's Vegetable S&raaparilla and have only had one attack sinee and that was on the nevoR.! day after I began using it." fiii' a Vegetable UU V SarsaparUla For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY. THE DALLES, OREGON. A Revelation. . ..lew people know: that the bright bluish-green color of the- ordinary teas exposed in the windows is not the nat ural color. Unpleasant as the fact may be, it is nevertheless artificial; mineral coloring matter being ased for this 'purpose. - The effect Is two fold. " It not only makes the - tea a bright; shiny green, bat also permit the : -ase of " off-color " and worthless teas, which, : once 'under the green cloak, are readily ' worked off as a good quality of tea. -. An eminent authority writes on this sub ject: ." The manipulation of poor teas, to give them alflner appearance. Is carried on exlen-. ; lively. Green teas,' being in this country especially popular, are produced to meet the demand by coloring cheaper b'-ack kinds by glazing or facing with Pruxsiaa bine, tumeric, gypsum, and ludigo. TIU method U so gen ' eral that very Utile genuine nncvlored green tea if offered for tale." ' It was the knowledge "of this condition, of affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's Tea before the public. . It is absolutely pure and "without color. Did you ever see any genuine uncolored .Japan tea? Ask your grocer to open a package of Beach's, and yon will see it, and probaUy for the very first . time. It will be found la color to be Just be--- tween the artificial green tea that you have been accustomed. to and tbe black teas. It draws a delightful canary color, and is so fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea-. drinkers. Its parity makes it also more economical than the artificial, teas, for lesi of It is required per cup. Sold only In pound packages bearing this trade-mark; ' - BEEEKit- TEA .' 2- i.i i If yoar grocer does not have -it, ha will gel .It. for you.- XttceCOo per pound, fox sals at Iieslle S-ix-tioxr'js, ' THE DALLES, OREGON. SiGK The Dies 3jG is here and has come to stay." It hopes to win its wav to -niihlin fa-am Tvu- gy, industry and merit; and to this end we ask that you give it a fair trial, find f satisfied with its course a generous support. The four pages of six columns each, will be issued every evening, except Sunday, and will he delivered in the citv. or sent by mail for the moderate sum of fifty cents a montn. Its Ob will be to advertise city, and adjacent country, to assist in developing pur industries, in extending: and opening up new channels for our trade, in securing an open river, and in neipmg THE DALLES to take her prop er position as the Leading City of The paper, both daily and weekly, will be independent m politics, and in its criticism of political matters, as in its handling of local affairs, it will be JUST FAIR AND IMPARTIAL We will enedayor to give all the lo cal news, and we ask that your criticism of pur object and course, be formed from the contents of the paper, and not from rash assertions of outside parties. THE WEEKLY, sent to any address for $1.50 per year. It will contain from four to six eight column pages, and we shall' endeavor to make it the equal of the best. Ask k your Postmaster for a copy, or address. Office, N. W. Cor. Washington and Second. Sts Health is Wealth ! ' Da. E. C. 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Keeps on hand a fall line of ' MEN'S AND YOUTH'S Ready - Made Clothing. Pants and Suits MADE TO ORDER On Reasonable Terms. Call and see my Goods before snjchasLng elsewhere. Daily the resources of the Eastern Oregon. Cleveland, Wash.,- - ) June 19th, 1891.) B. Medicine Co., Gentlemen Your kind favor received, and in reply would say that I am more than, pleased with the terms offered me . on the last shipment of your medicines. There is nothing like them ever intro duced in this country, especially for La grippe and kindred complaints.. I have had no complaints so far, and everyone is ready with a word of praise for their virtues. Yours, etc., M. F. Hacklet. The Dalles FXEST STBEET. FACTORY NO, 105. ftr A "D Q of the Best Brands' VAVJTx.X0' manufactured, and orders from, all parts of the countrynilled on the shortest notice. : The reputation of THE DALLES CI GAR has become firmly established, and the demand for the home - foa-nuf actured article is increasing every day. - A. 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