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What Philadelphia Eata. ' ' ;
Daring one year alone Philadelphia
has devoured 185,475 slaughtered and
dressed calves, ' 511,142 sheep, 548,940
hogs and 59,290 barrels and 97,390 boxes
of poultry. The hens who were spared
from the hatchet had to lay for the city
15,984,600 dozen eggs. Over 312,183 bar
rels of apples had to be shaken from the
trees and 3,063 carloads of potatoes dug i
Tip from the ground. During the twelve
months the city made havoc of 11,118
packages of dried ' green peas, 119,521
packages of dried fruit and 355,337
packages of - berries.' The cooks con
sumed 16,489 tierces arid 75,031 tubs of
lard, and in the kitchen and on the table
disappeared from view the tremendous
amount of 256,591 tubs, 33,384 firkins
and 87,846 boxes of butter. A huge heap
of crackers must have been swallowed
along with the 226,459 big boxes of
cheese.
During one year Philadelphia con
sumed nearly 3,500,000 bushels of grain,
including nearly 1,500,000 bushels of
com, 877,508 bushels of wheat, 98,425
bushels of rye, 1,056,300 bushels of bar
ley and 203,600 bushels of malt. Out of
these 877,508 bushels of wheat were
manufactured 195,002 barrels of flour,
and from this flour were baked 52,650,
540 loaves of bread. Most of the flour
used by the bakers and the good house
wives is shipped from the northwest, al
ready barreled. This manufactured into
bread would easily swell the total to
nearly 150,000,000 loaves, or their equivi
lent to a certain extent in rolls, buns
and bakery.
Philadelphia ' eats daily an enormous
barbecue of 510 calves, 1,410 sheep, 1,510
hogs and 7,550 poultry, besides a huge
banquet of at least 6,000,000 oysters,
525,528 eggs, 856 barrels of apples and 9
carloads of potatoes. Philadelphia Rec
ord. ' Wrecked by a Mi race.
A mirage in the Carribean sea was the
cause of the total loss of the new Ameri
can barkentine Steadfast, while bound
from Port of Spain to Philadelphia.
When the Steadfast" sighted the lofty
peaks of St. Croix the atmosphere as
sumed a peculiar light color, and it be
came impossible to detect the sky from
the island, everything assuming a sim
ilar shade and color resembling the cir-
rostratus clouds, hiding the entire lower
portion of the island. The peaks and
mountain appeared to be twenty miles
away.
The tops of the mountains seemed to
be inverted, the tall cocoanuts appearing
to grow from the sky to the earth. The
sugar grinding mills were pouring their
smoke downward, and the workmen
working upside down. The Steadfast
- was kept nnder easy sail and perfect con
trol. Everything went well until a
grinding sound was heard, and a sudden
tremor went through the ship. The ves
sel crashed over the reefs and was Boon
fast on the rocky shore, where her wreck
still remains. . The mirage made the
island appear twenty miles away. Bos
ton Transcript.
The Coat of Italian Opera.
Talking of money reminds me that
Signor Vianesi says he left the Paris
opera, .where he has been conductor for
the last four years, because the salary
was not large enough and the work too
exacting. He received f3,400 a year for
ten months' work, and very hard work
at that. . He comes to America and gets
(8,000 for seven months. Mr. Abbey's
salary list is a formidable one. Miss
Van Zandt gets $1,000 a performance,
Miss Eames, $800; Lasalle, the French
baritone, $800; Mme. Albani, $600, and
five other singers from $400 to $500.
There is a chorus of eighty, averaging
$20 a week, or $1,600, and an orchestra
costing $2,000 a week.
The expenses of giving opera with
such a company cannot fall below $5,000
a performance, so that even at five dollars
for a parquet seat, the price for the
coming season, Mr. Abbey may not
make a fortune. The average cost of
the German performances at the Metro
politan last season was $2,600. New
York Epoch.
The Wedding Flower.
The flowering of the "Wedding Flow
er," at Kew this year, is an event of more
than ordinary interest, both to botanists
and horticulturists. It is the giant not
only of the genus Iris, but of the whole
natural order to which it belongs.
It is found wild only in a small island
off the east coast of Australia, thousands
of miles distant from the habitant of any
other Iris. While all other Irises may be
grown out of doors, or with a little pro
tection in winter, this one is happy only
when treated to subtropical conditions.
Its value in horticulture is dne as much
to its stature ana elegance or - foliage as
to the size and beauty of its numerous"
flowers.
The flowers last .only one day, but there
axe so many of them that the flowering
season extends over a long period. :
. This Iris is known far and wide as the
wedding flower. London Garden.
A College President's Chase.
Harvard men who attended chapel one
morning last week were very much sur
prised to see President Eliot pursuing one
of the students ns the men were leaving
the building. Those in the immediate
'vicinity heard a very short but animated
conversation. "Young man," said the
president to the individual in question,
who turned around surprised, "young
man, excuse me, but you have my hat.
It was indeed true. In the confusion of
leaving the chapel the student had picked
up the wrong hat and was making away
with the president's best tile. Boston
Gazette.. ' ' " "' .;"-.
Cleaning m Marble Statue.
Commodore Perry's marble statue
Cleveland, having acquired such a heavy
coating of smoke and spot as to render
unsightly, was recently scrubbed, bnt
with the effect of making it look worse
than ever. The black came off the "high
lights." and the stnudge is deepened in
the shadows. And. though the brave old
sailor never did a mean thing in his life,
they now -talk of giving him a coat of
whitewash. Cincinnati Times-Star.
, Found Him at Last. .
She had been away all summer. The
mountains-had felt her stately tread;
the sea had taken her-to its ever chang
ing bosom and folded her in its, billowy
She had flirted from Old Point to Bar
Harbor, from Mount - Mitchell to the
Adirondack
She had tasted the sweets of hope; she
had drained the bitter cup of disappoint
ment. . ' "
Now she is at home again.
Home, the Mecca of the weary pil
grim; tne uanaan oeyona tne wilder
ness: the altar around which we all
kneel in thankfulness; " the dear, walls
which take ns to their loving embrace
and hide ua from the comfortless world
without. "... . -
Home again, and a peace had come to
her she had never known since she had
gone out in June as the birdlet from its
nest.
At the front door her dear old father,
who had been at his desk ten hours daily
all the weary while she was away, piet
her.
'My daughter!" he said, holding out
his arms to her. ,
Like a tired wanderer, footsore and
heartsick, she came to him.
Trustingly, confidingly, restf ully, she
laid her soft white face, in its frame of
golden hair, upon his bosom.
"At last," she murmured, "at last 1
have found some one to be a popper
tome."
And the dear old father, in. the tumul
tuous joy of having his darling chi Id
again, didn't catch on. Detroit Free
Press. . '
Three Costly Hothouses.
This is the season of the year when the.
great army of gardeners employed by
New York s millionaires who have a fad
for flowers are putting their hothouses in
shape for the winter. I met Jay Gould's
chief gardener yesterday and he told me
that everything was in excellent shape
at the railroad king's $500,000 hothouse
up the Hudson. A lot of choice plants
and exotics have just arrived from India
and other eastern countries.
John Hoey's difficulties have not de
terred him from looking after his pet
flowers in his grand hothouses at Holly
wood, N. J. I am told his chief gardener
has had several conferences with Mr.
Hoey during the past two weeksxbout.
his favorite flowers and their care. Mr.
Hoey is passionately fond of flowers, and
selects the seeds, and bulbs himself, and
at times superintends the work of his
gardeners. '
Another man who has a half a million
dollar hothouse is the Standard oil king,
John D. Rockefeller, who has a palace on
the Hudson. It has not been completed
long and his gardeners are constantly re
ceiving new additions. Mr. Rockefeller
says he will have the finest flower show
in the world in a year or two. New York
Telegram. '.
Crime Decreasing;.
All the criminal returns published of
late have happily tended to show that 1
crime is decreasing. The judicial sta- I
tistics for the past year bear the same
testimony. , Whether under the head of
"criminal classes at large" or "in local
and convict prisons and reformatories,"
the figures show a steady decline. The
same is true of the houses of bad char
acter, by which is meant such as are
the resort of thieves, depredators and
suspected persons. In England and
Wales there are 2,683 houses of this de
scription. ,
It seems rather odd to be told that of
these 345 are public houses and 265 beer
shops, because if they are known resorts
of such characters, why are their licenses
not withdrawn? Is it for the reason
once given by a French administrator
that they serve the ends of the law by
providing places where those who are
wanted by the police can easily be
found? The known houses . of .receivers
of stolen goods had declined' from 778
two years ago to 724 last year. London
Telegraph. ' .
Rewards to the Good and Had.
- Every schoolgirl and boy in Bellmore,
L. I., knows- Lawyer George A. Mott.
A few days ago he visited the village
school in that place with the pockets of
has overcoat bulging out with prizes for
the pupils. The prizes were for good
conduct and excellence in .- different
studies. . More than a dozen boys and
girls were made happy. Two prizes
still remained, and then Mr. Mott re
quested the teacher. Miss Fish, to call
up the worst boy in the school. A bright
eyed1 urchin named Clinton Moore was
produced by'.MissFish in response to Mr.
Mott's request. He was presented with
one of the remaining prizes and promised
to try to do better. When Mr. Mott
asked for. the 'Worst girl in the school
saucy Jennie Hicks raised her hand." She
received .the other prize. New.. York
Sun. . x - ' y .;. .
What Is TxottyT"
I ask or information. I have been
reading lately a very clever novel .about
English artist life and English smart
"society. " Twice over in the story a smart
young woman is made to describe cer
tain articles of costume in a bride's
trousseau as "quite too awfully trotty
for words." I have never to my knowl
edge heard the phrase "trotty" used in
that sense. Is it an epithet of London
smart society? If so, what is its sup
posed derivation? Is it imported from
America," as most of our slang phrases
lately are? Any information on this
point kindly supplied will be rewarded
with the best thanks of this writer, who
feels a considerable interest . in slang,
bnt likes it genuine when he can get it.
Justin McCarthy in New York Herald.
. ' ' Open Cars to Be Bettodeled.
"The days of the street-car, grips as
well as trailers, having the seats, ar
ranged crosswise instead of parallel with
the car, are numbered." . This remark
was made a few days ago by a well
known Chicago physician who is the
medical examiner for an accident insur
ance company which' insures the lives of
many street car employees as well as
patrons.- . ' - '
"Why do you say that?" was the query
of a friend. ; "' " .
"For this reason the cars built with
the seats crosswise almost invariably
have footboards running alongside so
that the passenger may get on or off the
car 'at any spot hi the road,' as the sport
would say, and these footboards facili
tate a passenger in getting into danger.
For instance, the. rules of all the car
companies require the passenger to get
on or off the car on the side nearest the
sidewalk. This rule was intended to
keep the people off the track of the car
going in the opposite direction. But
these rules are not obeyed, and street
car companies must pay damages when
any one is hurt, and the conductor has
no opportunity to stop his car if the
passenger takes a notion to get off with
out signaling him to stop, and many peo
ple are injured while getting off a car
while it is in motion sometimes by be
ing struck by a vehicle or another car,
sometimes by slipping on the treacher-
ons footboard or by making some kind
of a misstep. ',
"The car with the end door as the only
means of exit is the one which protects
the company from many . damage suits.
The open car with the running foot
board may be cheaper in construction,
but statistics will show that nine-tenths
of the accidents caused by getting on
and oS cars occur on open cars or grips
with the cross seats and running foot
boards. I think there should be a city
ordinance against their use. Besides,
the street car companies will some day
awaken to the fact that cars of that
style sometimes cause in one minute
damage equal to their first cost." Chi
cago Times.
Albert Edward's Slumming Experience.
There are' just now stories flying about
of the Prince of Wales . visiting the
"slums" under a rather comical disguise,
but though it is known that the prince,
accompanied by Lord -Carrington, made
himself acquainted with the "seamy
side of life, very little art was required
to conceal his identity. Indeed, it is
surprising, though Englishmen are as
rule familiar, more -or less, with the ap
pearance of their future sovereign, how
often his presence in a place where he is
not expected passes without recognition.
Some years ago the prince, quite in
cognito, traveled down to Folkestone to
meet Princess Louise, who was coming
over from the Continent, and as there
was some time to wait before the arrival
of the steamer, he" strolled about on the
I quay and ultimately went out with
boatman of local fame for a short cruise
in the channel. - When they got safely
back the prince1 remarked, 'Perhaps
you would like to know who I am?" -
"I don't know Tas I cares; it ain't no
odds to me," came the reply.
"Well, I'm the Prince of Wales."
"The Prince of Wales!" ejaculated the
old mariner, giving his customer a play
ful dig in the ribs. "Get along with
yerl" London Cor. Chicago Times.
about a mile above the Millard House
jwhen they heard a peculiar, crashing
Boise. Looking up they saw on the cliffs
high above the stream, and about a quar
ter of a mile from them, two noble
bucks standing, with ' heads lowered,
about ten feet from each other. Thus
they stood eying each other and pawing
the dirt for fujily a minute. Then they
made a simultaneous spring, and came
together with a noise like a falling tree.
So violent was the concussion that the
animals were thrown back until a dis
tance of ten or fifteen again intervened
between them. The men, fascinated
with ' the sight, watched ' the deer go
through the same performance again
and again. ;
Finally, after a more than usually
violent rush, the bucks did not separate,
but struggled as if apparently trying to
push each other back. It soon became
plain to the men, however, that instead
of pushing they were pulling away from
each other. In other words their horns
had become locked, and from raging
combatants the bucks became fright
ened animals, and were only bent on se
curing a divorce. Messrs. .Ross, Pol
lock and party then conceived the idea
of taking advantage of the helpless con
dition of the bucks and capturing them.
They made a great rush for the scene,
but before they reached it the deer in
their struggles approached too near the
edge of the cliff and both of them fell
to their death in the pool below. When
the party reached the water the. deer
were found locked in each other's horns
quite dead.
The gentlemen thought to skin the
deer and bring in the hides to lend an air
of authenticity to the tale, but the law
is so strict as to having in your posses
sion the hide of a newly deceased deer,
no matter whether the deer dies of la
grippe, commits suicide or falls out of a
balloon, that they forbore. Banning
Herald. .,
Still on Deck.
JOHN PAS H E K
Phoenix Like has Arisen
From the Ashes!
JAMES WHITE,
The Restauranteur Has Opened the
Baldwin - tyestaufaat
, ON MAIN STREET
Where he will be glad to see any and all
. of his old patrons.
Bin
r
t - Tailo
Next door to Wasco Sun. ""
Madison's Latest System used in cuttil
garments, and a ht guaranteed
each time.
ST I PAT IO N.
A :.ivts"lir.lf tbe American yet tlieiv i.i
ouJ.v o.ii- in arulio:i of Sursapariila that acts on
the bo.reis am! reaches this !::;. ortaut trouble;
and that is Joy's Vegetable .'.sin-cparilla. It re
lieves it in 21 hours, ami tin oecasional doso
prevents return. 'Ye refer by permission to C. E.
E!V!iiKion, 125 1-ocust Avenue,, Sail Francisco;
J. II i;r.iwn, Tetaluma; II. S. Wiun, Geary Court,
Snu Fj-aneisro, aim hundreds of others who have
useil it iu constipation. One letter is a sample of
hundreds. ElkinRtou, writes: "I Jiave been foi
years subject to bilious headaches and constipa
tion. Hare been fo bad for a year back have
had to take a physic every other night or else I
would have a headache. After taking one bottle
of J. V. S., I am in splendid, shape. It has done
wonderful things for. me. People similarly
troubled should try H and be convinced." " ...
Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
osc luthh-rrr. fn is: t:'ff! i , largest bottle,
same price, Sl.ui. te . iv ,7
For Sale by SNIPES &. KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON. ;
Open day and Night. First class meals
twenty-five cents. '-'
YOUR flTTEflTIOfl
Is called to the fact that
Repairing and Cleaniri
Neatly and Quickly Done.
R. B. HOOD,
Livery, Feed and Sa
Horses Bou&ht and Sold,
Commission and Money
a (juvancea on it orses
Left for Sale.
-OFFICE OF
Hugh
Glenn,
Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement
and Building Material of all kinds.
Carries the Finest LIn of
Picture
PIOUIQQS
The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Li
Stage Leaves The Dalles EveTy Morning
at 7:30 and Goldendale at 7:30. All -freight
must be left at R. B.
Hood's office the eve
ning before.
R. B. HOOD,
Opposite old Stand.
Proprietor.
The Dalles, C
Joy
To be found in the City.
72 Washington Street.
A NEW
undertaking Establishment !
THE
Dalles, Portland & Astor
NAVIGATION OOMPAHY'S
Elegant Steamer
REGUIilTOl
Will leave the foot of' Court Street
, every morning at 7 A. M.
for
Portland and Way Poin
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IK
A Storehouse of Electricity.
Minnesota, not to be behindhand in
marvels,, tells of an electric well which
one of its citizens claims to have been
discovered near Bed Wing recently. Ac
cording to . the ' story the drillers had
drilled about 150 feet when they lost
their drill rods and a diamond drill.
The whole business had dropped to no
where in an instant. There was quite a!
force of air coming ont of. the hole, and
the men said there was no use going any
farther, because there wasn't any bot
tom. They concluded to fish for the
rods and drill, but as soon as the rods
were dropped into the hole they began
to shiver in a queer way.
One of the men took hold of the bar
with a pair of leather gloves, and he was
knocked down. Then Holly well touched
the rope and got a shock, because it was
wet.. .. There seems to be a perfect natu
ral storehouse of electricity. It is gen
erated in some way in that pocket where
the drills went, and there is enough of
it to execute a whole county at once un
der the New York law. Philadelphia
Ledger. .
A Grand Old Commoner.
Though essentially a modest man; Mr.
Smith had a certain pride of his own.
Public rumor was always conferring a
peerage upon him, and I suppose that
had he lived he would have accepted
one. . Bnt he ;wa8 proud of his inde
pendent and "self made" position as a
Wealthy commoner.- ? 'Yen see,",he said
to -me, "I . have no aristocratic connec
tions, no; family interests i indeed, I
haven't a male relative alive except my
own boy. 1 am completely unprejudiced
and unfettered." - ' He was aware of the
advantage this -gave him. He was rich
and a plebeian, and his colleagues had
confidence in him accordingly &s a strong
administrator. Pall Mall Gazette.- .
REAL MERIT
iWJnJs
furniture and Carpets.
We have added to our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
tne undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
Remember our place on Second street,
next to Moody's bank.
Connections Will be Made with th
Fast Steamer
MhltES
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks
the
GIlYi
For PnsBentrer or Fre.icht Rates Anr
c 0 , i
. to Agent, or Purser on Board.
Office northeast corner of Court and Main
-. PEOPLE '
Say the S. B. Cough Cnre is the best
thing they ever saw. . We are not
flattered for we known Real Merit will
Win. All we ask ia an honest ti ial.
For sale by all druggists. . .. -
S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
. . - Dnfur, Oregon.
Robert Shaw, of Snow's Falls. Ate,
went to sleep in a field the other day. and.
when he awoke he was minus a good pair
of. trousers. Field mice, which swarui
in Oxford county, had gnawed the gar
ment into shreds and carried it away.
Recent experiments upon the electro
lytic generation of pressure from gases
formed in a closed space have been very
successful, and a pressure of 1.200 at
mospheres has been obtained. -
". Question of Telephone CUstrges.' . v
A proposal has been made by Dr.
Strecker, of Berlin, which seems to solve
the question of telephone charges. . He
proposes to levy a fundamental charge
to meet the . expenses for installation,
maintenance and depreciation, in addi
tion to a time charge, to meet the work
ing expenses. Nothing could be fairer
than to charge for the. use of the tele
phone according to the duration of ' con
versation, and Dr. Strecker proposes to
use a clock which goes as long as the con
versation lasts. New York Telegram.
Two beer Fichu -
The gentlemen comprising the survey
ing party now working for the Bear Val
ley company up Millard's canyon, were
on Monday treated to a sight which sel
dom comes to men in this center of civili
zation. We get the story from Messrs..
Pollock "and Ross, transit men of the
party.
The men were working up the canyon
A Severe Law.'
-' The English peo
ple look more closely
f to the genuineness
of these staples than .
we do. In fact, they
have a law under
' which they make
seizures and de
stroy . adulterated
products that are
pot what they are 'represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
i been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. " ". . '
Tea, by the way, is one of the most notorl-
' ously adulterated articles of commerce. S!ot
alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, bnt thenvnnds of pounds of
subs;i:ute for tea leaves ere used to swell
tbe bulk of cheap tea -; nab, sloe, aud willow
-leaves being those most commonly used.
Again, sweepings .from tea warehouses are
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from the tea-houses are kept, :
dried, and madeoverand find their way Into
i the cheap teas. t . t- i
The English government attempts to stamp
thik out by conSscail.m; but no tea is too
poor for U', a id the result if, that probably -
the p-.icrest teas used by any nation are those '
consumed in America. - . , -
ccch'a Tea Is prexented with the guar
au:y that It 1 ii:icolored and unadulterated;
' In fact, the sun-cured tea leaf pore and sim
pie. Its purity insures superior strength,'
alwrit one third less c '-' bains required for
an infusion than of the atifl.-ial teas, and Its
. fragrance and exquis!:e flavor Is at once ap-
. parent. It will be a revelation to you. In
order that Its purity and quality may be guar
anteed, it la sold only In pound packages
bearing this trade-mark: , '
BEECI&E TEA
Ullll
dhoodT
'Pure As
Trice 60c per pound. Fox sale at
Ijeslie Sutler'!
. THE DAILE8, OREGOJf.
NOTICE. ,
K. E. French has for sale a number
improved ranches and unimprov
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhoj
tn Sherman connty. They will be sot
very cheap and on reasonable term
Mr. French can locate settlers on son
good unsettled claims in the same neigf
borhood. His address is Grass Vallei
Sherman county, Oregon.
-: DEALERS IN:-
Staple and Fancy Gioceiies
y ; : "" . . - - - ' -r ; ; . ..
Hay, Grain and Feed.
Masonic Block, Corner Third and Court Streets, The Dalles, OreW
flew -o.
i THE . DALLES, OREGON. '
Best Dollar a Day House on the Coast
First-Class Meals, 25 Cents'. ." :V
First Class Hotel in Every Respect. '
: None but the Best of White Help Employed
T. T. Nicholas, Prop.
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire.
v Best Selling Property of
the Season in the North
west. . .. - ; '
. For Further Information Call at the Office of '
Intepstate Mestment Go.
0- D.TATLOOHE DALLES.
72 WASHINGTON ST., PGBTUIL