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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1891)
CM Bicycle Tragedies. Bicycle statistics prove tt constantly increasing demand for improved models, and there is no donbt that the capacity of the existing varieties have been con siderably overrated. Upgrades and gravel roads are still obstacles which the best inventive will has failed to over come, and every now and then the rival ry in the attempt of 'new feats leads to fatal results. A few weeks ajjothe chtun pion bicyclist of northern U-ermany was astonishing .the natives of Hadersleben, in the province of Sehleswig, but was in liis torn surprised to find that a local youngster seemed able to imitate his most daring evolutions. Resolved to discourage the competi tion of amateurs, the professional then turned into a street with a steep down grade, and dashed along at a rate of speed which made it impossible to check himself in time, when he suddenly came across a flight of stone steps leading to the Unterstadt, or riverside suburb of the little town. For the first five or six steps the daring rider actually kept his eat, but in the next moment his ma chine jumped the track and dashed him down headlong against the stone balus trade of the steep terrace. " The wit nesses of the accident rushed for a doc tor, but might have saved themselves v the trouble. The champion's skull had been broken into splinters. Philadelphia Times. At the Wedding la Spirit. A very novel mock wedding ceremony was performed in Columbus, Ind., at 9:30 a. in., June 7, at the residence of Henry Lang, a wealthy and influential German. At the time mentioned a number of the friends of Mr. Lang and family met to celebrate on this side of the globe the matrimonial union of Mr. Lang's nephew, Ernest Feldman, with Emma Kleb, in the far distant city of Helen bach, Westphalia, Prussia. Mr. Lang's daughter Emma, who sailed some weeks ago on board the Fuerst Bismarck, for Hamburg, acted as the first bridesmaid in the real wedding, while Miss Ella Martin and Mr. Gus Kuenneke person ated the happy couple in this city. The ceremonies, by a careful calcula tion of the difference in longitude, were performed at the same moment of time. The happy young couple will establish their home in the old Prussian home stead, where Mr. Lang was born sixty eight years agr. At the mock wedding here a very happy hour was spent. The refreshment served was wine from Mr. Lang's own vintage. A case of the same wine was shipped sometime ago to Prus sia, and it was drunk at the real wed ding at the same hour jt was drunk here. Cor. Indianapolis Journal. A Sidewalk of Pins. .vuduujii, vjonu., wm nave almost a unique pavement, if one of her citizens carries his ideas into execution. He is president of a brass pin company, and intends rebuilding the sidewalk in front of his home with pins. He has at the company's shop some twenty barrels of odd and imperfect pins, the accumulation of years, and these he will utilize. On the corner of Broad and Pine streets, some years ago, several barrels of pin scraps were placed. The neces sary factor in this style of sidewalks, corrosion, accomplished the rest, and now there exists a walk of solid iron. The hardness of the walk was tested re cently, when the telephone men'attempt ed to set a pole on that corner. By dint of much hard work, drilling and blast ing with dynamite, they succeeded in penetrating the three or four inches of pins and corrosion and set the pole. The walk will last forever, after once being laid, and neither travel nor storms will affect it. Ansonia Sentinel. John Rogers' Usefnl Horse. ine feunsylvaaia law in regard to fences requires them to be "horse high, bull strong and pig tight," but John a. Kogers, one of the big farmers of Delaware county and leading light in politics, has a jumping horse that no five rail fence will keep in his grazing ground. pet ween the duties of his occupation as a tiller of the soil and scouring the coun try two or three times a week for a lost horse. Mr. Rogers is a busy man. Everybody knows the horse, but Rog ers has to call for him all the same at the horse'sj-isiting places, so that counting lost time he is the most expensive ani mal in Rogers' collection. His owner would sell him but for his prospective campaign for the shrievalty, in which the horse is already a iotent factor, hav ing introduced his owner to more men than Rogers could . count in a single month by constant application, and coun try folks are beginning to understand why Rogers . keeps this high jumping horse. Philadelphia Record. The Voune Man Fainted. While a young man and young lady of tma place -were gathering plums the young lady stepped on the head of a ' blacksnake. Her first intimation of the situation was the presence of the snake's coil around her ankle. She shrieked and swooned. The young man flew to the rescue, bat the reptile was moving slowly away when the excited youth assailed him. Tbe snake showed fight, and striking with his full force fastened his fangs in the man's waistband. . The horror of his predicament overcame him, and faint lug he in turn fell to the ground. The young lady was first -. to recover, and when her beau returned to consciousness tHe snake had. disappeared. Abbeville Omt. Atlanta Constitution. . In one of London's fashionable churches the preacher made an appeal to the ef fect that a certain baronet was, throagb o fault of bis own, in debt to the amount of sixty pounds, and had no means of paying., . 'Consequently the con gregation were called upon to provida the amount required. Five trunks full of important paper were left by the late Prince Napoleon; and U wifl be the endeavor of Mr. Fred erick Masson so. to edit tneui.as.t9 make trim them a history rather Hmn. a nt jnov How to Take Care of the Complexion. A noted French dermatologist recom mends a certain number of hours' sleep at night, with an afternoon siesta each day, as the best and only sure remedy for a faded complexion. One or two Turkish baths a week, with a great deal of rest, will transform sallowness into freshness and color. A veil worn on the street, especially in the springtime, pre vents the fine dust playing havoc with the skin. The face should be washed every night with pure soap and hot water and dried with a soft flannel cloth. Nearly all cosmetics are harmful and should be eschewed. Rice powder is healing and healthy, but it should be carefully removed from the face before retiring. How to Treat Sunstroke. When a person is seized with symp toms of sunstroke, or heat apoplexy, the chief aim should be to abstract heat from the body. Cold douches and ex posure to a current of free cold air are the readiest treatments. In India it is a common practice to plunge a . sunstruck person into a well or puddle of water. Because of the well known effect of qui nine in reducing temperature, the hypo dermic use of this agent has been em ployed with excellent effect. How to Wash Clothes. Plunge the clothes in warm water, to which has been added some washing powder and a small quantity (say a tablesjJbonful per gallon) of ammonia. Knead them for a few minutes and allow them to rest for, say, half an hour; then strain off and add more water, powder and a smaller quantity of ammonia. Al low the clothes to soak for several hours, at the end of which time they can be removed, rinsed in cold water and hung up to dry. Every particle of dirt will have been removed by the decomposing chemical action of the powder and am monia upon the alkaline matter con tained in the body stains on the clothes. Linen and white clothes should be boiled after steeping, before rinsing in cold water. By this simple process much muscular energy will be saved and clothing be made to last longer. How to Stuln Wood Hlue. Boil a quarter of a pound of turnsole for an hour in three pints of lime water and color the wood with it. How to Act on the Street. Probably the first rule of street prom enading is, "Keep your own side of the road." Never jostle against ladies; al ways get out -of their path when they are approaching you from an opposite direction, and if, perchance, you knock against them, lift your hat and apolo gize politely, but briefly. This polite ness should also be exercised -between men, and is indicative of good breeding. Never stare at a lady in the street or turn around to look at her it is unman nerly and rude. Loud talking is vulgar; spitting barbarous; cursing (and swear ing abominable. How to Select Lobster. There are many -ways of telling good lobsters from bad. If "they are freshly caught and alive the claws will move violently when you press the eyes with your fingers. The heaviest are always best. . If the shell yields upon moderate pressure they are not good. If the tail of a ready boiled lobster is flabby, or will not spring back when pulled, reject it. Medium sized lobsters are best, but they should not be too old. If the shell is in crusted it is a certain sign that they are old. How to Prevent Dry Rot. Many a building has fallen in because of "dry rot" in the joists and beams which supported them. This disease can be easily prevented by soaking the tim ber in a solution of copperas. The sul phuric acid of the solution reaches every part of the timber and has an effect upon it somewhat analogous to that which charring has upon the surface of tele graph poles. Beams prepared in this way have been tried side by side with some which were not treated, and it was found that the soaked beams remained sound for many years, while the others had acquired the "dry rot" and decayed. How to Cure Burns. If a burn or scald is instantly covered with wadding, wool, cotton, lint or any dry, harmless powder and the air ex cluded it can safely be left to nature to heal rapidly. If these be not at hand, cover the parts .with sweet oil. A salve of burgundy pitch, beeswax and olive oil put on with a linen bandage is also an excellent remedy. x How to Select Silk. There are so many imitations of silk upon the market that a few simple rules will be useful for discerning the good material from the bad. If you gather the fabric into folds, across its width, and the folds are sharp likp those of paper, it is bad; the folds of good silk will be rounded and soft. To ascertain, if white silk contains cotton suspend a piece in a wide mouthed bottle contain ing chloride of lime. The threads of cotton will, remain white, while the chlorine gas evolved from.. the lime wjll change the silk to a dull yellow. How to Use Pepper. '? Many people are under the impression that black and white peppers are the products of two separate plants. Both are the dried seeds of a creeping plant known as piper nigrum. The white onlv differs- from the black by having been blanched by soaking in water and the removal of the skin. But as much of the;: white pepper consists of inferior seeds which, having shriveled and fallen from the pUnt. bare been blanched by tiMexpoMtr. U wiseat fr as only tb j Uaok, ; , . Shoes Find Their Mates. A very remarkable shoe story has been brought to light. About four years ago Dosser Bros, bought a stock of shoes from Ziegler Bros., in Philadelphia, and some time after the shoes had ar rived they discovered a box that con tained two shoes that were both for the same foot. They supposed that some one had got the wrong shoes and would find it out and return them and correct the mistake, but this was not done and the shoes were marked odd and put back on the shelf, where they remained for a long time. About two years ago Mrs. S. S. Lut rell came to this place from Washington, bringing with her a pair of Ziegler shoes purchased in that place. On her arrival she discovered that she had two shoes for the same foot, and the distance being too great for her to send them baclx she left them with R. M. May, of this place. The odd shoes had been in Mr. May's store for about two years when last week his wife decided that she would try to wear them, and finding she could not use them gave them to Mrs. A. J. Patterson, who brought them to Dosser Bros., thinking they might send them to the factory and have them mated. They examined the shoes and recognized them as being the identical pattern of the odd shoes they had in stock, when a further investigation proved that they were the same lot, number, and corresponded in every par ticular. These shoes had been manufactured in Philadelnhia on a Inf. KTiinruwl tn Woc. ington ciy, tne other to Jonesboro, and after four years' time the shoes were mated, having been shipped in different directions and about 500 miles apart. jonesDoro ( enn.) Herald. A HiR Stick of Timber. Colonel D. Soper, a member of a Chi cago lumber firm, was sent out to this coast about four weeks sicrn bv n. tit-rm i nent brewing company to obtain, if pos- biuie, a scick or. timDer over 1UU reet long and 4 feet square. After spending some little time in prospecting, he finally found a tree in Shoqualmee valley, in Wash ington, which filled the bill. " The job of cutting down the tree and trimming and loading it on tne cars was let to a con tractor, who successfully did the work. A half mile of railroad track had to be laid to the spot where the tree stood in oraer to ioaa it on tne cars. The stick from this tree is 111 feet long. It is cut square, each side be ing 4 feet. It was loaded on three 34-foot flat cars, its weis-ht beine' no ftno pounds. The cost of getting out this sticic or timDer nas Deen so far $1,300. The cost of moving it to the cars was $100 and the tarpaulin to cover it cost $100. It wl be placed in a big beer hall, in which it is to be used for a counter. It will be polished up in the mgnest style or art. f ortland Oregonian A Clock's Long Strike. J. here was a remarkable clock in the Union depot Tuesday evening. . It was quite a large one, and was done up in a package wmcn a young man had placed upon the flat back of -a depot settee while he waited for a train. The remarkable thing about the clock was that it struck and struck, evidently for a better posi tion, and did not stop striking until its demand was complied with. People came in, neard the musical chime, looked around for tne clock and saw it not. Some passed by with evident surprise at not being able to see the cause of the sound. . Others, after looking ' up and down and all around, located the sound in the package lying on the back of the settee. The owner of the clock' said to a companion that the clock began strik ing when he was coming down Asylum .street and had kept it up ever since. It lay on its side on the settee until finally some one tipped it up into its proper po sition, when it promptly ceased to strike. Hartford Courant. Connecticut's Share of Illinium's Estate. Under the collateral inheritance law of Connecticut, 5 per cent, of all the per sonal estate over $1,000 goes, into the treasury of the state. .The personal es tate of the late P. T. Barnum inventories $1,28j,599, and 5 per cent, of that sum less the $1,000 limit amounts to $64,229. 95, which the state will get as its share of the sum total. The extensive property holdings of the late Mr. Barnum at Denver were deeded by him to Mrs. Buchtelle, his daughter. previous to nis aeatn. xneir value is fully $2,000,000. The fee of Judge Beardsly for merely receiving the inventory is $743.91. Bridgeport Standard. W Saved a Girl and Himself Also. . A remarkable display of courage and quick thinking was given at Westbury, L. I., Thursday, by Robert Burgess. A young woman fell from the railroad sta tion in front of an express train that was about 200 yards distant. Burgess quick ly rolled the imperiled woman off the tracks under the platform, leaving him self with "insufficient time to get up and out of the way. He realized bis dancer instantly, and throwing himself full length between the tracks the train passed without harming him in the least. Exchange. Notice. Tie following notice appears in the Leominster letter in the Fitchburg Mail, the signature there printed being omitted: To the Leominster liars: If the parties or party who wish to lie in the, manner that they have and are doing do not stop it, they will 1k stopped in a manner which they will not like, as I shall make them prove their statements.' - Possible Postal Improvements. Postmaster Hart's idea of attaching letter boxes to the suburban street cars is a good one. Why not suburban steam ears also? .When a person is riding home at the close of business the sudden re membrance that he has forgotten to post aa Important letter gives such poignant grief as almost to overbalance the happi tteas oaoaed by thoughts of a well spent Boetoa AdvertsMrv A looryard Discovery. - Funny, isn't it, what queer things old winter will leave in your dooryard when he yanks off his white sheet Of course every one had opportunity to hunt up and throw over the fence into a neigh bor's lot the usual assortment, of olrt tin cans, pails, bus dress improvers, ashes ana aismanued household utensils. But a man up Dextervay found a find in his dooryard last spring that caused a lively uuiter in ma peaceiui iamiiy tor awhile. He was puttering about in his yard. making various discoveries .ilnn tVio edge of vanishing snowdrifts, when he suddenly round something that surprised him. It was a 20-foot well. He went to the bottom in ten feet of water and had an opportunity of thoroughly ex ploring his new possession before the neighbors came nn with a In drier tv same neighbors got the water out of him arter a course of rolling and punching. Some early settlers had dug that well and had boarded and sodded it over. wnen tne covering rotted away our friend found himself "one well in." Lewiston Journal. Wheat Growing From a Boy's Head. A grain of wheat- has sprouted in the forehead of a nve-vear-old bov. On May 15 little Thomas Stretch, the son of miller Reeve A. Stretch, of Lower Alloway Creek township, was quite seri ously injured by being caught in a belt at the mill, and would have been killed but for the promptness of his father in stopping tne machinery, no has now almost recovered from the effects of the accident, but a few days ago a dark spot was noracea over ms eye. it was care fully opened with a lance and was found to be a grain of wheat which w sprouted. The grain was probably forced under the skin when his head struck a bin while he was being whirled around the shaft. Cor. Philadelphia Press. Mongol Mechanics. A few months ago the foreign residents of Foochow, in the Chinese province of r o-Kien, were treated to the curious spectacle of a wheelbarrow apotheosis. Hundreds of almond eyed admirers gathered about the novel monrwrvnlo turned it over and over, trundled it along amid snouts or exultation and surrounded its proprietor with the liveliest demon strations of armroval. That nthnni;urH appreciation of mechanical achievements seems not easy to reconcile with the fact that four or five new China railways were demolished by an excited mob, but the truth seems to be that the mechan ism of a locomotive passes the compre hension of the average Mongol, and that the motion of a steam engine is apt to be ascribed to witchcraft. Philadelphia Times. . 24. In lust 24 hours J. V. a relieves constipation and sick headaches, After It sets tho system under control an occasional dose prevents return. We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns wick House, s. F.; Geo. A. Werner, 831 California St, 8. F.; Mrs. C Mclvln, 136 Kearny St, 8. F., and many others who have found relief from constipation and sick headaches. . W. Vincent, of 6 Terrence Court, a F. writes: "1 am 60 years of age and hare been troubled with constipation for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's Vegetable Earsaparilla. , I recognized in it at once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us in the early 60's for bowel troubles. (I came to California In 1839,) and I knew It would help me 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 euro In constipation and bowel troubles." Ask for Joy Vegetable w Sarsaparilla For Sale by SNIPES & K1NERSLY. THE DALLES, OREGON. A Revelation. Few 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 used for this purpose.. The effect Is .two fold. It not only makes the tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits 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 a'finer appearance, is carried on exten sively. Green teas, being in this country especially popular, are produced to meet the demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric. gypsum, and indigo. TMt method id mo gen eral that very little genuine uneotored green tea i offend for Mate." 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. Bid yoa ever see any genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ask your grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon will, see it, and probably for the very .first time. It will be found in 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 purity makes It also more economical than the artificial teas, for lest of it Is required percup. Sold only In pound packages bearing this trade-mark: BEEG "ruTOTls If JOS i rdoeanot havU.hewia sjss ..XSli.jTtl.-tloi-'ja,: Just HfiUdhood? Tiie Dies is here and has r.rvmp. t.n rt.piat T Tinvoo to win its way to public favor by enei gy, industry and merit; and to this end we ask that you give it a fair trial, and if satisfied with its course a generous support. The Daily four pages of six columns each, will be issued every evening, except Sunday, and will be delivered in the city, or sent by mail for the moderate sum of fiftj cents a month. Its Objeets 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 er position as the Leading City of Eastern Oregon. The paper, both daily and weeklv. will be independent in politics, and in its criticism of political matters, as in its handling of local affairs, it will be JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL. 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