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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1891)
EdUou'a First Marriago. The story of Edison's first marriage hows how completely he is dominated by the experimenting fever. He had never thought of getting married, but when some of his friends urged upon him the advisability of talcing a wife he assented and said that if they would find a nice girl he would marry her. He finally picked out a pleasant faced girl from his factory and asked her to marry fcim. She consented, and Edison agreed to lave his beloved laboratory for a day's wedding trip. On the way from the chapel in which they were married to the railway station the carriage passed the laboratory. The temptation was too much. Edi son stopped the carriage and, telling the bride that he would follow her to the station in time to catch the train, he plunged into some experiment that had occurred to him during the church ser Tices. Hour after hour passed. The poor bride waited all the afternoon in the station and was then driven back to the house. It was 11 o'clock at night before his assistants could tear Edison sway from his laboratory and get him home. When he is at work Edison loses all count of time. He will keep the whole establishment on a rush for hours at a 8 1 retch, and seems astonished when any one hints that it might be well to get something to eat. He is capable of work ing all day and night without showing fatigue. Chicago Journal. Speed uud Form In Shifts. The primary condition for high speed is fineness of form, so that the water at the bow of the vessel may be separated and thrown to one side and brought to rest again at the stern and behind the essel with the least possible disturb ance, and the measure of efficiency of form for the maximum speed intended is inversely at the height of the waves of disturbance. A ship that has been designed to attain a speed of fifteen knots will, when mov ing at twelve knots, show a very slight disturbance indeed, and in one designed for eighteen kuots, when moving at this lower speed, it will be scarcely observa ble; but however fine the lines of a ship may be, she must at every speed pro duce some disturbance, although it may be very slight, as the water displaced by her must be raised above the normal level and replaced at the normal level; hence, at or near the bow of a ship there is always the crest of a wave, and at or near the stern the hollow of one. When a vessel is going at its maximum epeed. and is properly designed for -that speed, the wave should not be very high, nor should it extend beyond the im mediate neighborhood of the bow; like wise the wave of replacement should be the same at or near the stern of a ship, and the "wake" or disturbance of water left behind in the track of the ship should be narrow. A. E. Seaton in Scribner's. Coat in Theaters. What ought one to do with one's coat, hat and umbrella on entering a res taurant or other place of entertainment? What one ought not to do is to hang Titingly these conveniences may offer themselves, it is at your own risk that you intrust your property to their keep ing. Yon have no remedy i (as will sometimes happen even in the best regu lated restaurants) somebody makes off with them, leaving a very inferior as sortment ,of articles behind. If, how ever, a polite waiter offers to help one off with one's coat, all is well. If he takes your property and hangs it up for you he does so as an agent of his em ployers, and you can f ecover from them if it disappears. This principle lias been asserted for theatrical clonk rooms by a decision ' against Mr. Augustus Harris in the Westminster .cionntv rnnrt A frAtitl- man bad left his coat and hat with Mr. Harris that is, in Mr. Harris' cloak room on the occasion of one of the fancy dress balls at Coveut Garden. "TJhey disappeared. He had to leave without his property, and has only lately and partially got some of it back. His honor said (we are glad to see) it was monstrous to say that merely nominal damages were sufficient. Pall Mall Budget. Why Called "Outaibus." The father of the popular name "oin mibus," according to Richard Kauf mann's story of "The Omnibus in Paris." wasacertaiu M. Baudry, of Nantes, at the beginning of our century The Pas cal coaches, which obtained a monopoly from the king in 1CC2 for carrying his subjects at five sous a head, along three different routes in Paris, were first used by the bourgeoisie. But after a few years eutlenien and ladies of high birth and courtly breeding ruled that it was mot vulgar to ride in a Pascal chariot or -''five sons coach." - The use of these public conveyances by the "quality" was noted as an im portant event in the journals of the time; but it resulted in the exclusion of .J. 1 - .1 1 i. virtual appropriation of these privileged coaches by the aristocrats. The favor of "the classes" ruined the monopoly, how--ever, which only paid so long as its" coaches were crowded by the masses, or "omnes." So the Pascal chariot disap peared from the streets of Paris because it had ceased to be omnibus, or a demo cratic vehicle. Pall Mall Gazette. i flow Hair Xs Ulanched. - It will be observed that, if the papilla is obstructed or incrusted with deposits from the sweat glads, such as sodium chloride or organic salts, the sebaceous secretion not being able to resich the pa pilla the hair is deprived of its coloring material. This we believe to be one of the most common causes of blanching of the hair. The skin eliminates a small quantity of salts, a little carbonic acid and a large quantity -of water. The average amount of solids, according to Foster, in the fluid perspiration or sweat, is about 1.81 per cent., consisting of common salt and organic salts gener ally. Hyland C. Kirk in New York Times. . , , . Didn't Know It Wasn't Loadad. A well dressed man made a bold at-' tempt to commit suicide at Briggs' gun Btore, in Chester. He asked to be shown' a SS-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. The stranger examined ; it intently, and then questioned Mr. Briggs as to the method of loading it. He appeared to be ignorant of the manner of using fire arms. The modus operandi was ex plained to him. The stranger insisted that a cartridge be placed in the revolver, but a certain look in the man's face excited Mr. Briggs' suspicion, and pretending to charge a chamber he handed over the empty revolver. In a flash the stranger placed the muzzle to his breast and pulled the trigger. Bitter disappoint ment swept over his face when there was only a harmless click. "You can't harm yourself, friend," re marked Mr. Briggs, "the revolver" is empty. Give me the pistol." The in tended instrument of death was returned, when the stranger said: "I intended to commit suicide, and my mind was fully made up when I entered your store. 1 had no revolver of my own, and 1 thought T i .1 x i a i m. i a i I could get a chance to shoot myself by pretending to make a purchase. I have had trouble more than I thought I could bear, but the last straw was laid on last night. If you had loaded that revolver I would have been a dead man now." The stranger hurriedly left. Cor. Phila delphia Telegraph. Two Skeletons. While extending and repairing the old buildings of the late Royal Naval school at New Cross, S. E., which is shortly to be opened by the Goldsmiths company as their Technical and Recreative insti tute, it became necessary to remove the floor of the old gymnasium. In doing so the workmen discovered the skeleton of a cat in close juxtaposition to that of a rat. The bodies of the animals were not quite two inches apart in a sort of a wedged shaped cul de sac, which was wider at the top than the bottom, and so preventing the cat from quite reach ing the rat. When found, the entrance to the hole or passage was filled tip with dust and rubbish, and there was nothing to prevent egress of the animals by the way they had entered except the disin clination of the cat to leave its prey. The skeletons when found were more than half covered with dust from the floor above them, and have probably been many years in the position they were found, in which position Mr. Red mayne, secretary of the Goldsmiths' in stitute, has had them carefully mounted and photographed. A curious coinci dence is that exactly the same discovery of the skeletons of a cat and rat together under a floor occurred while pulling down some old buildings to construct the People's palace, which is the imme diate predecessor of the Goldsmiths' in stitute. Pall Mall Budget. Julian Hawthorne Oatrowed. A small party of Philadelphia and New York newspaper men and authors spent Sunday at the Delaware Water Gap as the guest of Mr. George W. Childs, who entertained them . with his customary lavish hospitality. Paul B. du Chaillu, Joseph M. Stoddart, H. B. Gross, Henry C. Walsh and Melville Philips went from this city, and Julian Hawthorne. John Habberton and Nugent Robinson came on from New York. An interesting feature of the jaunt was a boat race late on Saturday after noon in which all the guests participated with a rather extraordinary result. Julian Hawthorne, with .all his biceps, came in last, a good two lengths in the rear of John Habberton. It was a neck-to-neck contest for several hundred yards between Paul du Chaillu and Henry C. Walsh, the African hero, however, a conspicuous object in his white flannels, winning by a powerful spurt. Philadel phia Press. Work That Never Stops. Upper Broadway presents a weird scene these summer nights. The flare of torches, the chink, chink, chink of the drill, and the swinging lanterns above the workmen in the trenches greet re turning amusement seekers. This labor goes on all night and continues all day, the day being punctuated by dull rever berations of the dynamiters that make the contiguous buildings tremble. All this is the forerunner of Colonel Dan La mont's cable railway. In the lower city other night workmen are sinking test holes in anticipation of the rapid transit tunnels. " There is al ways a little knot of more or less belated people gathered about these busy fellows in the pits. They pause for a moment and then trudge along homeward. Every thing else but the streets is shut up. Broadway is open all night. New York, Herald. Tlnrtkslias for Chicago. There were taken out of the Chicago custom house a few days ago a lot of queer looking packing cases, bearing upon their exterior some peculiar hiero glyphics that were undecipherable to Uncle Sam's clerks. The boxes were claimed by Isaac Wool f, the west side merchant, to whom 'they were consigned from Japan. They contained the parts of two of those Japanese vehicles known as jinrikshas, which are to be used in the west side parks for the amusement of the little folks.. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf while traveling in Japan became so im pressed with this land of vehicle that they decided to bring two of them to Chicago and two Japanese runners to j draw them. Philadelphia Ledger. Tired of Belus a Frenk. . ;.- "Darky Sam," the county infirmary t character who has been posing as a prince of the royal blood of "Fiji with the col-. lection of freaks and curiosities in a small traveling circus, returned to the poorhouse recently, content to retire to private life. To heighten the outland ishness of Sam's natural appearance his exhibitors had shaved his head, with the exception of a strip extending from fore head to occiput, resembling the roached tnane of a mule. He was worn out by the hard labor with the canvas gang, . and is willing to remain in the infirmary, i Warren (Pa. J Ledger. klr. Quinn'i Ghost. ', John Quinn, an old man, died at his residence on Bowman avenue, Danville, Ills., about two weeks ago. After his death the family vacated the house, which was soon occupied by another family. Yesterday afternoon, after locking all the doors, the family left for a few hours' visit with some friends in another part of the city. ' On their return home about dusk they were startled to see Mr. Quinn, dressed in his ordinary wearing apparel, walking up and down the floor of his former sleeping room. Several neighbors were called to wit ness the strange spectacle, among whom were Wilber Walker, Mary Wilmer and Mrs. Henry Kirby. Mr. Quinn's ghost came twice to the window, bowed to people gathered in the street and then sat down in the window. Suddenly every trace of him disap peared. Mr. Spreht and Miss Wilmer mustered up courage enough to enter the house and found that not a lamp in the house would burn. Lights were ob tained from the neighbors and search was made throughout the house. Every- ... , thing was found securely locked, and there was no trace of any one having en tered. The neighborhood is greatly ex cited over the occurrence. Cor. Indian apolis Journal. Moderation In Fishing. It may be as well once again to remind readers of the necessity for moderation in fishing. Several records of catches glanced over lately show far too many fish killed for the fishermen to honestly lay claim to the title of true sportsmen. Season after season the old disgusting story of the wanton destruction of our game fish is told, while alleged gentle men anglers and sportsmen keep on de stroying fish recklessly, as though they imagined the supply to be inexhaustible. I do not mean to suggest that all anglers are alike guilty. There are plenty of men who know how to kill fish in sea son, and who know enough to cease cast ing when they have enjoyed a reasonable amount of sport. But there are others who appear to measure their pleasure by the number of fish killed, and who think more of being "high hook" than of genuine sportsman ship, and so they take fish as long as fish will rise, though they know that half the victims will never be used. The man who will kill a trout or bass and throw it away to rot among the bushes is no more a true sportsman than is the man who uses dynamite instead of the legiti mate tackle. Outing. A New Use for Rook Plates. 1 have a bookish acquaintance who has conceived a new and by no means a bad use for the plates of one of his books. About five years ago he wrote a novel which was quite successful that is, it sold through three or four editions. Its title would be perfectly familiar to any literary person were I to print it. Fer the las? year the book has ceased to sell, and as quite a number of -copies of the novel were on hand any further printing would be improbable. This summer my friend built a new summer house, and when the builders reached the fireplace in his study an idea struck him. He forthwith opened nego tiations wttff his publishers to sell him the plates of his novel. The deal was consummated, and the author, as he will sit before his fire next autumn, will have the pleasure of seeing his entire fireplace made cf the plates of his book, and it is not such a foolish idea, by long odds. New York Cor. Chicago Herald. Peony Bed 250 Tears Old. In the yard of the old Foster home stead is a flaming bed of peonies. The bed has a history. Hundreds of years ago maidens in Germany plucked the gaudy flowers, and in the days when our forefathers were struggling for suprem acy with the red men Indians used to beg a flower to stick in their topknots. Mr. N. Foster, who was at work in his garden yesterday afternoon, said, point ing with pride to the big red flowers: "Those peonies were brought from Ger many by an ancestor of mine 259 years ago. They were at first planted in the yard of the old Breed house at the cor ner of South and Summer streets. All the Breed family today have flowers from that stock growing in their gar dens. In the early days the Indians used to come to the old Breed homestead and trade a basket of clams for one of the flowers to wear in their hair." Lynn (Mass.) Press. A Woman's Hot Day Lunch. Nobody will deny that it was a very hot day. It was so hot at noon that men dispensed with their coat3 and hats and carried fans. Few persons cared to eat, and the average luncheon served in the down town eating resorts was very light. Barrels of iced tea" and iced cof fee were drauk. A perverse ' woman, however, stepped into a "quick lunch" place in Nassau street and calmly or dered hot coffee and ice cream. She took a spoonful of each alternately. The man who sat next to her moved to an other seat, becanse be said he could not stand the steam from that cup of coffee. New York Times. I Near Lamar, Colo., a little girl of four j years wandered to the platform of an ! express train and was blown off while ( the train was running at the rate of j thirty miles an hour. A locomotive was sent back, and the searchers found the ! child at midnight sitting unhurt in a clump of weeds and keeping very still : for fear the Indians would get her. Too i:uch c:ir cannot be exercised in striking a :i:;iu.:V .A Uridgeton JN. J.) girl was eiyiiged ia the act when the in.-iteh head Sew off. :iadv going into a basket of paper flowts. ignited them and some curtains that were near by. From these the flames spread to the girl's clothing and she was severely burned- ... . 'A; wealthy Londoner" recently pur- ' chased some, Ceylon tea at 'the rate of $26.80 per pound. The tea was of a fine chop arid had come overland through Russia, avoiding the supposed deleteri ous tf:icts vf a, f-a voyajje.. . A Manor for a Soap. William I had a fine sense of what was becoming at a royal table. He was so well pleased at one of his little dinners with a savory soup compounded by his cook, Tezelin, that lie sent for him and asked how it was named. "I call it dillagrout," was the reply. "A poor name for so good a soup!" cried the king. "Nathless" everybody said "nathless" in those days "we be stow upon you the manor of Adding ton." ; This manor, I may add, reverted to the crown. In the reign of Henry IH .we find it in the hands of the Bardolfs, and held on the tenure of "making pasties in the king's kitchen on the day of his coronation, or providing some one as his deputy to make a dish called grout, and if suet (seym) was added itl was called malpigernoun." At . Jame3 II's coronation the lord of the manor claimed to find a man to make a dish of grout in the royal kitch en, and prayed that the king's cook might be the man. The claim was allowed, and the claimant knighted. But what was this grout? Was it identical with Tezelin's dillagrout and the Bardolfs mal pigernoun? And was a pottage called Bardolf , of which a Fourteenth century recipe has been printed by the Society of Antiquaries, identical with these? If so, as among the ingredients were almond milk, tho brawn of capons, sugar and spice, chicken parboiled and chopped, etc., it was doubtlessly a dish for a king. All the Year Round. Wonderful Campello Doe. I want to speak of a rather interesting example of animal sagacity I saw out in Campello this week. As the perform ance was of such a rare nature, and simply demonstrated the affection dogs will sometimes have toward horses, 1 will speak of the case. A groceryman owns a horse and a remarkably intelli gent canine, and every time the horse is hitched to the delivery wagon and it starts the dog is sure to follow in the rear. In. the case I refer to I noticed the wagon stop in front of a residence, and as soon as the driver had left the -vehicle the dog commenced to crop grass. He got under the horse's head, reared on his hind legs and transferred the grass to the horse s mouth. Wonderful dog, that. Brockton Dispatch. Water Cresses. These thrive admirably on this Coast in all permanent streams of good water. They can be had in abundance after once being started. The plant belongs to the mustard family and may be started from seeds or by cutting the stems up into bits and mixing them with the soil under shallow water. It- makes very wholesome greens or appetizer nearly the year round, " especially in winter vfhuii we need such things. Just In just 2-1 hours J. V. S. relieves constipation and sick headaches, After it gets the system under control an occasional dose prevents return. We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns wick Bouse, a P.; Geo. A. Werner, 531 California Bt, S. F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, ISC Kearny St., S. F., and many others who have found relief from constipation and sick headaches. G.W. Vincent, of 6 Terrenco Court, S. F. writes: "1 am 80 years of age and have been troubled with constipation for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I recognized in it at once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us in the early 50'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 steep well and my system is regular and in splendid condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy aro a certain core in constipation and bowel troubles." Ask for Joy Vegetable w Sarsaparilla For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY. THE DALLES, OREGON. A Revelation. Few people know that ths 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 se 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 tea, in Rive 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 blcc-k kt;i!s by glasingorfacingwith Prussian blue, tumeric, gypsum, and- iudigo. This method is so gen . eral that very little fftnuine vneoloretl green tea is offered Jot tale." It was the knowledge of this condition cf affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's Tea before the public. It is absolute!; pure and without color. Did you ever see any genuine nncolored Japan tea? Ak your grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you - will seo 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 the black teas. It draw6 a delightful canary color, and is so fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea drinkers. 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