To Protect Lives of Railroad Han. An ingenious and simple instrument has been devised for the protection of eurface men at work on the railways. The inventor, Sir William Arrol, was led to apply his mind to this matter in consequence of the numerous fatalities which have lately occurred among that class of railway servants in England. The instrument consists of a steel spring connected with a portable electric bat tery, and bell by a coil of wire two or three hundred yards long. When the spring has been bolted into position on the inner side of the rail and almost flush with the top of the rail the battery is carried to the neighborhood of where the workmen are engaged, the connec tion being kept up by the coil of " wire, which- is unwound to the necessary length. When a train comes along the spring is' depressed by the flanges of the wheel as they pass over and two metallic but tons, one on the under side of the spring and the other on the upper side of the sole plate, are brought into contact and complete an . electric circuit supplied from the battery, ringing the bell at the battery and thus warning the workmen of the approaching train. The instru ments are to be kept at the signal boxes along the line so as to be readily avail able by the workmen. Sir William Arrol does not intend to patent the invention. His sole desire is to render the surface man's life a less dangerous one and he gives all railway companies permission to manufacture as many as they please. Chicago Newss Big Gun In China. The Pekin Gazette contains a curious memorial from the viceroy of Canton re specting 103 7i-centimeter guns manu factured by Krupp on the order of Chang Chihtung, the late viceroy of the prov ince. The viceroy says the guns are excellent in every respect, but they do not suit the fortifications for which they were intended. The damp climate of the province and the white ants, "which eat anything and everything," would destroy them; the district is so hilly that they could not be moved, the coast is composed of wet sand, in which the wheels would get fixed immediately; the guns are too long for the embankment on which they were to be placed and could not be turned around; there are no horses in the province to drag them, and if there were there is no forage for them; finally, the horses in the adjacent prov inces are so small that if they were im ported they could not drag such heavy guns. The obstacles being so numerous and insurmountable, the memorialist asks that he may be allowed to transfer the guns to his brother, Li Hung Chang, for use in the north, payment to be made for them when he can. Should he re ceive any money from his brother on this account, the memorialist promises to report the fact. The emperor author ises this course to be followed. -'. Death Above Her and Death Below. Clinging for her life to a rough beam while a flying express train thundered and swayed above her head! Swinging in midair, with death above and below her, until almost exhausted by fatigue from the terrible strain! This was the dire predicament in which Miss Norah Oldham, of Nashville, was placed, and it was only due to her cool judgment and calm presence of mind that she was saved from . death. In attempting to cross the railroad trestle which extends from Cedar street to beyond Line, she was rnn down by an express train, the engineer of which, Dickson, was trying to enter the Union depot on time and had been running un usually fast for some minutes. . She was compelled to let herself down on the outside of the track and hang on until she was rescued. Memphis Appeal Avalanche. Kept Money In the Parlor Stove. One of our well known school teachers and her mother met with quite a loss re cently, and a novel though costly one it was. They had saved some money dur ing the summer, and had placed it for safe keeping in the parlor stove, this stove being unused, of course, during the summer. With the coming of the cold snap a fire was . lighted, the money for the time -being forgotten. When the parse was thought of.it had been en tirely consumed. The ladies' lost fifty dollars. They had used the stove be fore for a saving place, but everything bad turned out well. Lawrence Amer ican. - -, : A Curious Orange Tree. EL H. McClure has produced a curios ity in the shape of an orange tree, which in all probability is not exceeded by anything of its kind in this or any other country. Mr. McClure calls it his World's Fair Tree," and intends, if possible, to place it on exhibition at Chicago. The tree is budded with no less than thirty-one different varieties of citrus fruits, including lemons, shad docks and most of the fine varieties of oranges. The buds on the tree are only two years old, yet many of them are fruiting. Apopka (Fla.) Advertiser. To win a bet of $1,000, Baron Paul de Side, a young French nobleman, shipped as a common sailor on the Bed Star steamer Noordland during her last trip from Antwerp to New York. He says be wouldn't try it again for ten times the sum, as he was very severely worked during the voyage. The new Maxim flying machine will be propelled by a light screw making 2,600 revolutions per minute.' Its sus pending power will be a kite 110 feet long by 40 feet wide. The motive power will be a petroleum condensing en gin a Five century plants, all in bloom, is the interesting and very rare sights now to be seen in Los Angeles in the garden of the Church of Our. Lady of All Angels. They are said to be growing about a foot day. . - A gentleman at Eastman, Ga., a day or two ago on opening a freight car dis covered a hen hatching a nest of eggs -which she had laid during a long rail road journey from another state. - . Dr. Taltnace'a Athletic Son. r . Mr. Edward T. H. Talmage, the sec ond son of Dr. John F. Talmage, was born twenty-four years ago in the house in which he 'now lives, at the corner of Joralemon and Clinton streets. He was educated at the Polytechnic institute, afterward completing his studies under private tutorship with Professor Caskie Harrison at the latter's sohool on Mon tague street. At the age of nineteen Mr. Talmage entered, the offices of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, railroad, where he remained for some time. His health , becoming somewhat impaired, Mr. Talmage spent a year in California, which he devoted to the out door life of a sportsman, gaining much benefit thereby. Two years ago, short ly after his return from the west, he was made a member of the New York Stock exchange, being at the time of his ad mission next to the youngest member on the floor. . - . Mr. Talmage is . a member of the Crescent club, and is one of the financial committee recently engaged in negotiat ing the funds to carry through the building of the Say Ridge house and making other improvements contem plated in connection therewith. He is a member of the Hamilton club, and his name has recently been added to the membership list of the Riding and Driving club. Mr. Talmage is an en thusiastic lover of equestrian pastime, and is a sportsman of considerable skill. He is active in the social interests of the Heights, and is a member of the Brook lyn Heights assembly. Brooklyn Life. Clement Seott Coming to America. - A private letter from London brings the information that Clement Scott, the dramatic critic of the London Telegraph, is to visit America this winter. Mr. Scott is one of the best known first nighters in the English capital. He is stout, gray haired, has a gray mustache, wears eyeglasses and is rated the best authority on the drama in England. He has many friends, but an army of en emies. He has made and unmade many playrights and actors. His dramatic column is still regarded as the standard authority, and his article is nervously awaited after the performance of a new play. His judgment is usually good. He finds a good 'deal of fault, but is lavish in praise for good work. A nice paragraph from him will some times mean five pounds more a week on the salary of some deserving actor or actress who is little known and not ap preciated, and his condemnation of a new play is usually the end of the ven-. ture. Taken all in all, he is regarded as eminently fair and just. He has never used his position to injure any one. What he has done has been from con scientious motives. Mr. Scott is a patient student of the drama. He has the best theatrical library in England. He will be warmly welcomed in America, for he has been particularly agreeable to , American actors and actresses, and many dinners and receptions will be given in his honor. Foster Coates in New York Mail and Express. A Chinese Governor. Tshang Yao, the governor of the pro vince of Shantung,' who died recently, was one of the highest dignitaries of the Celestial empire. He had a highly ad venturous career. Born in lowly posi tion, he was obliged to flee in his yonth on account of having murdered the tor mentor of an old man. He became a robber and soon stood at the head of all the brigands who made the province of Hunan unsafe. When, during the re bellion, the chief town of the province was threatened, the governor issued a proclamation in which he promised the hand of his daughter to the man who would save the town from the enemy. At the head of 000 bandits, Tshang beat off the attack of the rebels, and led home on the next day, as a reward for his bravery, the almond eyed beauty. Then he made rapid progress. He was not able to read or write, but was of great integrity, and died poor as he was born. He was called by his people, on account of his charity, Tshang, "the blue sky." It is said, however, that he was not always just toward Europeans, and especially the missionaries. London News. v , '' A Snake Attacks a Wagon. . The following snake story is evolved from a Texas exchange: Thursday even ing last while Judge A. McFarland and his son Guy were driving homeward they saw a large snake lying in the road. The judge attempted to kill the snake by cruening it witn tne wheel of his gig, but instead of "bruising the serpent's head"-the judge's 'wheel passed over its tail. Instantly the .snake coiled, itself around a spoke, and at every turn of the swiftly revolving wheel made vicious strikes at Guy's face. Guy's only means of escape was a backward tumble from the gig, which he took, falling into a pool of dirty water. Then there was a mad boy as well as an angry snake. Strange to relate the snake freed itself from the wheel and attacked Guy. in the pool. A shower of stones from Guy's hand finished the snake. A Turtle's Unavoidable Delay. During a windstorm in the early days of last Jane a tree on the farm of Mor timer Hamilton, in Jackson county, Ind., was blown down, and in falling a limb struck squarely across the back of a large snapping turtle and forced it down into the earth. A day or two since the limb was cut away 'and the snapper, released from its imprisonment, trudged away, apparently uninjured, from its prison, where it had lain im movably fixed without food or water for over four months. Cor. Chicago Trib tine. - . The damp weather at Lancaster, Kan., caused a package of 5,000 postage stamps to become glued . together in a solid block, making it necessary to return them to Washington. , When Queen Victoria's head gardener left her Bervice recently the queen pre sented him with a superb silver tea serv ice as a token of the esteem in which she held him. . Radical English Fashions Loat ot. The , recent refusal to' sanction with the customary, prompt enthusiasm sev eral of the most radical changes in the regime that have been made of late years by London swells has had a decidedly discomfiting effect upon our English cousins. Their confidence of leadership has received naturally a severe shock in consequenceC'From all accounts the London swell mob is passing through a period of experimen talis in. . As a result men's fashions abroad have not been so unsettled in fifty years. , , The heavy swells continue groping aimlessly after the elusive innovation. For their independence . at this time, therefore, Americans have cause for self congratulation the more particularly so on account of the very divergent character of some of the foreign ultra speculations. . Advanced copies of the recent London fads in coats and top coats, had they been tried - suddenly on the New York-public, would have creat ed almost a riot in the streets. The Eng lish swell, be it known, can dress him self up as his fancy dictates and (he yeomanry makes no outcry. . - Now that we have thrown off the shackles of slavish emulation and blithe ly accept or reject what we want, or what does not appeal to the sense of the fitness of things,; the English fashion framer will come down from his oracu lar eminence and in the future pose with ameliorated despotism in the light of guide, philosopher and friend. I am aware that the sentiments above set forth would have been regarded a few yeara ago as rank heresy, bht they veri fy the .aphorism of Brer Rabbit that "the world do move." Clothier and Furnisher. An Ingenious Prisoner.. It is seldom that a convict turns the. hours of hi3 enforced confinement to such good purpose as an inmate of a Maryland prison. His term of imprisonment is thirteen years, on a conviction of horse stealing, of which he insists he. was in nocent. By working overtime he has earned such sums of money as to enable him to purchase books, of which his cell contains over 200. A short time ago, when electric light wires were being placed in the - prison, he became inter ested in electricity and bought some standard works on the subject. The re sult was the construction of half a dozen different electrical appliances, including a burglar alarm, which he has just com pleted for the bedroom of the warden of the prison. Another result of his industry is a lock which is so arranged that hammering on it drives the bolts deeper into their fas tening. He exhibited a model of this lock to the warden, who was so pleased with it that it was at once adopted for use in the prison. Castings for the locks were made in the prison foundry, a lathe was set up in the prisoner's cell and he was relieved of all other tasks so that his entire time could be devoted to the man ufacture of his locks, with which in a short time all the dormitories of the prison will be provided. Exchange. Against the Insurance Company : i A merchant who was a member of a mutual accident . insurance association was killed, while hunting for recreation, from an accidental shot. The associa tion provided for the payment of sums ranging from $5,000 to $500, according to the occupation of the member. Mer chants' certificates call for $3,000; but the company paid the beneficiaries of the man in question only $300, on the strength of a provision that any member receiving an injury while engaged tem porarily in another occupation more hazardous than the one given in his cer tificate, he shall be entitled only to such sum us provided for in the occupation in in which be is engaged at the time of injury. The Illinois supreme court held' that the beneficiaries were entitled to the whole $5,000, as the word "occupation" in the bylaw has reference to trade, vo cation or profession, and does not pre clude a member from the performance of acts which are simply incidents con-' nected with the daily life of men in all pursuits. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . Amusement for the Baby. Mr, Waldrige surprised his baby Sun day night.' He didn't intend to surprise it; he intended to amuse. He had been to church, and on reaching home drew his revolver from his pocket to put it away. Baby reached for the weapon. If baby wanted it, baby must have it, so papa took out the cartridges every one of them and then to show baby how to operate the toy, he pulled the trigger. That was where the baby was surprised! It would surprise any baby . to see its papa shoot the cook stove on a quiet Sunday night with an unloaded revolver, when the cook stove was quietly pursu ing its vocation and digesting hard wood at the rate of an armful an hour. Myrtle Point West Oregonian ..; - It Was Hot. Some wretch, who evidently delights to see mankind sweltering in . perspira tion, nlaved a rascal lv nrm-tira.! infra nn about two hundred passengers who were in tne waiting room or tne Staten Island ferry.- For some reason, the arrival of the long expected boat was delayed; the crowd was therefore large, and as the night was intensely warm, the atmos phere in that close room was not only enervating, but distressing. The weather was unanimously voted to be the warm est of the season hot enough to parboil a Hottentot. It was then discovered that the Turkish bath temperature had been caused by a practical joker, who had unfeelingly turned on the : steam heat. Yankee Blade. ' The Potato with the Iron Stask. J. T. Choate, Esq., showed us this morning a veritable curiosity taken from the ground by his father while digging potatoes on his place. It was a heel iron from a lady's boot, through the cen ter hole of which had grown a potato. The iron was nearly in the center, and on each side was a growth nearly large enough to hide the iron, which formed a metallic collar around the center of it. Amesbury Cor. Newburyport News. Climbing Mountains In Iceland. The highest mountain in Iceland was ascended last summer for the first time. The successful mountaineer was Mr. F. W. W. Howell, who was encouraged when he started for Iceland by informa tion from the- Royal Geographical so ciety that the difficulties in the way of climbing the Oroef a Jokull were sup posed to be insuperable. " The mountain is near the southeast coast, and is an im posing sight from the sea. ,,. Mr. Howell made an attempt in 1890 to climb the mountain, but was defeated by the weather. ' On Aug. 17 last he left Sandfell, a little settlement on the coast near the base of the moon tain, at 4 a. m., when of course it was broad daylight in that latitude? He was accompanied by two Icelanders as porters. He struck the snow slopes at 10 a. m., and it took him nine hours and a half to reach the top of the mountain whose sides are quite steep and covered with ice and snow. Though this mountain is the highest in Iceland, its elevation was found by Mr. Howell to be only 6,550 feet, but owing to the latitude the phenomena of the snow slopes compare most favorably with those of mountains 10,000 feet high in Switzerland. Mr. Howell says the icicle galleries in the upper crevasses are particularly fine. This is undoubtedly one of the most, successful feats of mountain climbing of the year, for the mountain presents as many difficulties as any of the Alps, with two or three' ex ceptions. It is comparatively easy to as cend Mount Hecla, and the climb is made.every once in a while by one or more tourists. New York Sun. After many trials it is now shown that color can be given to cotton while growing, and a beautiful red variety of this article is now being raised in Georsria. ST I PAT I Ai :U-M half the American jicople yet there is only u-.ie preparation of SarFiipariilu that acts on the hoivcls and reaches this i.-iiwi-Lint trouble, and lliat is Joy's Vegetable Sarsuparilla. It re lieves it ia 2i hours, aaU ca occasional doso prevents return. . "Vereferhr wnntalnn me v ElkJnstou, 125 Locust Avenue, San Francisco; j. ii. i.rowu, i-euuuina; 1J. s. Winn. Geary Court, Sun Francisco, and hundreds of othmvhnhara used it i! constipation. One letter is a samplo of iiuuurcus. jiiKingtoD, writes: "I have been for years subject to bilious headaches and constipa tion. Have been ro bad for a year back have had to take a physio every other night or else I would have a headache. After taking one bottle of J. V. S. , I am in splendid shane. Tt hu rinna wonderful things for me. People similarly troubled should try ii and be convinced." Joys Vegetable Jarsaparilla Most modern, iniKt efTectivj, largest bottle. Borne price, 1.0 ). si ; for S3.00. For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY THE DALLES. OKEGON. RE A Li MERIT PEOPLE Sav the S. B. Coueh Cure is the best thing they ever saw. . We are not flattered for we known Real Merit will Win. All we ask is an honest tiial. For sale by all druggists. S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., . : Dufur, Oregon. A Severe Law. The EDglish peo ple look more closely 'to the genuineness of these staples thaa we do. In fac, they have a law under which . they make seizures and de stroy adulterated products that ore not what they are represented to be. Under -this statute thousands of pounds of tea have been burned because of their wholesale adul teration. Tea, by the way. Is one of the most notori ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi cially colored, but thournnda of pounds of substitute! for tea leaves ore used to swell the bulk of cheap tea ; ash, sloe, and willow eaves being thoso most commonly used. Again, sweepings from tea wareh. uses are : colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea leaves gathered from the tea-house are V ept, dried, and madeovernnd find their way into the cheap teas. The EngiUh government at'umpts to ktamp this out by ronCscetiou; but no tea is too poor for u , and the rextilt is, lhat pnbcbly the poorest icfeUMnl by any l.ation are Ihuse consumed iu Anier'cc. Leech's Tea Is t-reenlcd with the guer ai:y tlial it is rruolored and unadulteiaied;, , in fact, the sn:i-cu;c i tea leaf pure and sim ple. I:s purity -!i..-irs superior strength, alKjut or.e third less tl ii. k-jlag required for as infusion than of the a 1il':cisl teas, and its fragrance and exquUi;e flavor is at once ap parent. It will be a revelation to yon. In order that its purity and quality may be guar anteed, it is sold only in pound packages bearing this trade-mark: , .- BEELm TEA rPureAsTdhood; ON. 1 i 1 iMssLr SUN ' Price 60c per pound. For sale at Xiosilo Butler's, THE DALLES, OREGON. Still on Deek. PhcBnix ' Like has Arisen From the Ashes! ; ES WHITE, The Restauranteur Has Opened the ' " ' '"- ' - Baldwin - Restaurant OK MAIN STREET Where he will be glad to see any and all of his old patrons. Open day and Night. First class meals - twenty-five cents. YOUft flTTEJlTIOJl Is called to the fact that Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement arid Building Material of all kinds. Carries the Finest Line of Piciure To be found in the City. 72 UJashington Stfcet. ANEW Undertaking Establishment ! PRINZ & NITSCHKE. DEALERS IN Furniture and Carpets. We have added to our business a complete Undertaking . Establishment, and as we are in no way connected with the Undertakers' Trust our prices will be low accordingly. Remember our place on Second street, next to Moody's bank. JOLES Hugh Glenn Uouiflifigs iva.ii Jin f : DEALERS IN: Staple and Fancy liioceiies, Hay, Grain and Feed. Masonic Block, Corner Third and flew .o. Qolumbia J-lotel, THE DALLES, OREGON. Best Dollar a Day House on the Coast! First-Class Meals, 25 Cents. First Class Hotel in Every Respect. - None but the Best of White Help Employed. T. T. Nicholas, Pfop. Washington QFth DllSS, Washn6ton ' li SITUATED AT THE Destined to be the Best Manufacturing Center In the Inland Empire. For Further Information Call at the Office of Interstate Mestment Go., JOHN PASHEK, t - Tailor, Next door to Wasco Sun. Madison's LatestSystem used in cutting . garments, aha a fit guaranteed fepaliring and Cleaning Neatly and Quickly Done. R. B. HOOD, ' Livery, Feed and Sale Horses Bought and Sold on Commission and Money Advanced on Horses Left for Sale. OFFICE OF r ' ' The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line. Stage lves The Dalles Every Morning at 7:30 and Goldendale at 7;30 All freight must be leit at K. B. Hood's office the eve ning before. R. B. HOOD, Proprietor. Opposite old Stand. The Dalles, Or. THE Dalles, Portland & Astoria NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Elegant Steamer REGULATOR Will leave the foot of Court Street every ururuiug at a. ai. for Portland and Way Points Connections Will be Made with the Fast Steamer DflliliES GITY, At the Foot of the Cascade Locks. For Passenger or Freight Bates, Apply to Agent, or Purser on Board. Office northeast corner of Court and Main street NOTICE. R. E. French has for sale a number of improved ranches and unimproved lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood in Sherman county. They will be sold very cheap and on reasonable . terms. Mr. French can locate settlers --on some good unsettled claims in the same neigh borhood. His address is Grass Valley, Sherman county, Oregon. BROS., Court Streets. The Dalles.Oregon. HEAD OF NAVIGATION. Best Selling Property of the Season In the North - west. : . . ... mercnan o. d. taylor; the dalles. 72 WASHINGTON ST., PORTLAND.