A Acrobat' rail. ? -
An act was given at Cordray's audlto-
liom performance recently that was not
printed on the programme. Stanley and
. Mason do a perilous act in midair on the
trapeze. There are two bars suspended
by ropes from the ceiling, one large and
one small. Stanley was on the small
trapeze near the ceilinrand Mason on
the lower one. The man on top was
preparing to hang by his legs, let go,
drop, and, falling, catch his partner by
the feet. Stanley, who had a boil on the
inside of his leg, slipped and fell. His'
partner could not save him. -
Every eye was riveted on the falling
acrobat and every heart stood still. To
the man himself it seemed an age. Ma-
on, who was below, as quick as a flash
measured the distance, and saw that if
his partner fell in that position nothing
could save his neck from being broken,
so, as Stanley descended, he gave the
falling man a" quick turn, somewhat
broke the fall, and the psrformer fell to.
- the floor with a hard sound and struck
on his back.
A doien men rushed up the aisle to
pick Up the man, and for a moment quite
an amount of excitement prevailed. He
was picked up and carried behind the
scenes.
He had fallen twenty-five feet, and his
only injury was a rough shaking up and
a bruised back. Two minutes later
George Stanley appeared before the foot
lights and bowed. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
An EclfpM Dlnuir.
"I have been to an 'eclipse dinner,
said a yonng woman. "There were any
nnuiber of them, you know, of course
with .the part of Hamlet left out. At the
one at which 1 assisted three gilt boys
at each end and in the center of the
table held uluft, respectively, in flower
. figures, the dates of the last, the present
.and the next eclipse, garlands of flowers
" passing from, one to the other. At every
corner lay a pretty sketch, showing
earth, moon and snn in space and in the
proper positions to produce the eclipse.
"The ices were served in gilt stars.
The host, who is an enthusiast in . as
tronomy, had a small telescope mounted
on the roof for use had the night been
clear, and, to be frank, I had crammed
all the afternoon to be equal to the occa
, sion. , It was love's labor lost, however,
for we did not even go up to the roof,
messengers being dispatched from time
to time to return with the invariable
cloudy report . But" it was great fun,
' . and everybody laughed when lobster
cutlets a la totalite were served. New
York Times. ,
His Intention Misunderstood.
- There is a certain small boy living in
the vicinity of the armory who has con
cluded that the finding of a pocketbook
is a misfortune. He picked up one the
other day on the street containing about
ten dollars. Being on his way to the
baker's he generously paid a score of
1.25 that was "hung up" there against
the family, and then - meandered down
town to invest another dollar in a Buf
falo Bill gun and ammunition. "But
when he reached home maternal per
suasion so quickened his conscience that
he again started out in a sorrowful quest
for the owner of the money,' who was
soon discovered.
;And J it ' is further alleged that this
owner would Hot abate anything from
' the full amount lost and that the man
- who sold the little fellow the gun refused
. to take it back after all the circum
stances had been explained, so that even
to this day the mention of that pocket-
, book causes a shadow to creep over the
- countenance of that boy. Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
KflVctlve Work by a Lawyer.
A very amusing incident occurred
the city hall a few days agoJ :
at
A couple of men, while in a state of.
cheerfulness, became boisterous in their
wordy warfare and were taken' before
. Judge Cavin.
A friend of the two belligerents, who
had also been looking upon the wino
' when it was red, appeared as counsel for
them. .-V--
The self constituted attorney had talk
ed but a moment,;however, when Judge
Cavin said, "Discharge the prisoners and
lock up their attorney."
The order was complied with amid an
outburst of laughter. Galveston News.
Mr. "Klein's Private Ruin. '
The story of a wonderful phenomenon
comes frouT-Rossville, nineteen miles
west- of Topeka, on the Union Pacific
For nineteen days, it is said, rain fell in
cessantly on the orchard . belonging!, to
H. Klein, a prominent Rossville resident. -I
This nif hard 1r tfi'r.hA trran'n.nrl in Wn1 1
d on the east by Mr. Klein's residence,
on the other three sides by lines of fences.
The Tain; did not, fall outside of Mr.
Klein's premises, but for nineteen days
there was no intermission in the fall,
' -and it was. only stopped by a cold snap.
' Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Real Sarins Farmer. .
There is a farmer in Massachusetts
who got his corn husked this fall with
' out cost. Last spring he sowed a quan
. - , tity of red corn in his field among the
yellow, and then incidentally mentioned
the fact to some of the male pupils of a
: .neighboring high school.. : At once they
elicited the privilege ' of husking his
orn and furnishing the refreshments
besides, and he granted both. The young
people had a good time and , found
. enough red ears to satisfy ihem.Phila-
wHelphia Ledger.--S '
The rage for blond locks has infected
Italy to such an extent that even the
children's heads are blossoming out in
golden curls. At -this rate, the raven
. tresses of Italian song and story will soon
"be a misnomer. "- - -.
Ttois country has nearly 2,000,000 acre
.. -devoted to the raising of flax and hemp,
- It is proposed to make a grand showing
of these industries at the World s fair. -
Steam whaling vessels are soon to try
the waters of the Soatb Pacific, as recent
reports show that whales re again fre
quentipg that locality, . ." . . .
i COAL DOLLAH A TON
AN INVENTOR CLAIMS TO BE ABLE
; TO MANUFACTURE. FUEL.
KIs Proceiu fs a Chemical One aud Sun
ply Emlow Klcjnito or Inferior Coal,
Whieli I Common Everj-wttt-re. with
Uurning Qualities How Ho Worked.
Many inventions are in the field. An
other inventor has come to the front
with an invention which he believes will
rival even those of Edison and bring to
mankind generally a degree cf benefit
which will bo in direct inverse proper-,
tion to the.woe inflicted upon the indi
viduals commonly known as the coal
barons.
What he has to offer is no less than a
scheme to manufacture a coal which
will be superior in its results to either
bituminous or anthracite coal, to which
the -world has been so long accustomed
to look for its chief Supply of fuel.
So .many vast conceptions have been
already brought to the attention of the
public only io end in disappointing fail
ures that every new great scheme is apt
to be regarded with suspicion. We have
not suffered from the Keely motor proj
ect and the many plans for navigating
the air, to say nothing of the many ideas
for submarine crafts, without having
our confidence in such matters seriously
impaired.
The new aspirant for undying fame
and incidentally for the-millions of
money that are attendant upon great
discoveries which are world wide in
their uses has at least the courage' of his
convictions, and his ideas are entitled to
respect.
Mr. Albert Edelniaun claims for his
invention that it will enable him to man
ufacture his coal at a cost of only one
dollar per ton." Besides the exceeding
cheapness of the new article Mr. Edel
niaun claims for ( it the merit of being
absolutely odorless and capable of being
burned without smoke and being con
sumed so utterly that it leaves but 1 per
cent, of ashes. . . .
Mr. Edelmann was born in Warsaw,
Poland, in 1823, and was educated at the
university at Dorpat, one of theprov-'
mces of Livonia, on the Baltic sea. .He
was graduated there as a civil engineer,
and then made the grand tour of Europe.
In 1853 .he went to Australia, the voj'age
from London to Sydney occupying six
months.
HIS FIRST INSPIRATION.
Australia Mr. Edelmann devoted
In
himself to his profession and spent his
time in building railroads and in other
engineering enterprises. In 1860 he first
turned his attention to the discovery of
cheaper coal, and since then he has de
voted all his time and money to that pur
suit. ."
In the first place he argued that it was
a well known fact that there exists upon
the surface or the globe a large quantity
of what may be termed inferior coal.
which is commonly called lignite. Brief
ly defined,' lignite is a coal formed at a
much later period than either bitumi
nous or anthracite coal, and therefore
without those chemical properties which
would enable it to burn as well ae either
of them, and which, therefore, renders it
practically useless for fuel or other pur
poses. , j. ;
That this lignite would, in centuries
to come, develop . into a fuel which
might be utilised exactly as well as that
which was already known as bituminous
or anthracite coal was a source of pain
and vexation p Mr. Edelmann. - He
could not sleep at" night from his con
tinual study of the problem. He was
actually jealous, he says himself, to
think that a people a thousand years
hence would avail themselves of that
which the world might use today could
he bnt solve the problem of effecting by
chemical processes that for which nature
would take centuries:"
;,A Q LEAH OF LIGHT. .- .
After u study of many weary years
Mr.- Edelmann believes that he has
solved the problem whose solution he so
faithfully sought, and is satisfied that he
has found a process for transforming
this worthless lignite into coal, which
for all purposes is equal, and in many
instances superior, to either anthracite or
bituminous coal.-
In other words, the inventor believes
that by the mixture with lignite of cer
tain chemical ' bodies a coal is produced
which is as perfect as any that was ever
mined, and this lignite, he claims, , were
it allowed to remain in the earth, would
require a thousand years for its transfor
mation into perfect coal. --
In his technical description of the pro
cess alluded to the inventor says:
" lo accomplish this result the lignite
f nd certain chemical bodies (which have
first been reduced to a. powdered condi
tion in order to permit of their perfect
commingling) are placed in molds and
subjected to great pressure in machinery
expressly constructed for the purpose,
and from which the mass comes in the
shape of what are termed, for want of 'a
better name, 'brickets. These bricketa
can be made of any size or shape in or
der that they may suit different condi
tions, as, for instance, if the material is
to be used for furnaces they would be in
the neighborhood of eight inches inaize
(either square" or oblong), - whereas for
stoves they would be made correspond
ingly smaller. New York Herald.
- Objections to Hand Shaking-.
Hand Bhakmg is said to circulate yel
low fever,' smallpox, gangrene, cancer
and all ' -other-, infectious diseases; it is
.absurd and inconvenient, and in ninety
nine eases out of a hundred' it is insiu
cere. In ' hot weather no one wants to
clasp a- still warmer hand. In cold
weather ho one cares to remove a warm,
comfortable- glove and run the chances
of catching cold by winging the palm
into contact with a hand that is several
degrees colder than an icicle. Let lovers
intertwine their digits and poets rave
about, the warm, true clasp of hands,; but
let us nrrest and punish those thought
less, foolish people who delight to meet
in our busiest thoroughfares and shake
hands across the- walk while the-crowd
must pass around them.' Chicago
Herald. . - ' ' ; u
. F ' " : FassleS tm Relationship. :l ' :
A strange relationship exists in the
family of a couple of Englishmen in this
state. - Some ten years ago two brothers
named Beers came to this country from
England and settled on a small farm in
Menef ee county. - .Things prospered with
them, and soon one of the brothers,
Philip, becoming tired of lonely life on
the farm, wooed and won Miss Lizzie
Johnson, a young rural beauty.":. They
were married and lived happily together
nearly eight . years. Something, how
ever, disturbed the harmony of their
married life, for last summer Philip ap
plied for and obtained a divorce. Life
seemed to have lost all charms for him. '
In the mean time the other brother,
Louis, also tired of the unlnc&y lot of
the lone bachelor, began to cast about
him for a helpmate, and must have dis
covered in his brothers late wife the
8 am of all his future happiness, for the
little village near which the brothers re
sided was one day suddenly electrified to
hear that Louis and the grass widow
had been made one. The news came to
Philip, who simply smiled and replied,
''Never mind; my inning comes next." "
Little attention was paid to the. re
mark, and certainly no one thought of
the strange denouement that would fol
low. The ordinary, routine life of .the
mountain village" went smoothly on un
til, only a day or so ago, the villagers
were astonished to hear that Philip
Beers and Mrs. . Johnson, his ex-wife's
mother and his brother's inother-in-law,
had been quietly married. Then there
was consternation in the family of Mrs.
Louis Beers.
The neighbors and friends of .the
several parties are now busily engaged
trying to figure out the relationship of
the several parties to each other's rehv
tives. Kentucky Cor. - Philadelphia
Times. "
A Great Day in China.
Within a short time- the greatday for
state worship will again come in China.
At the coming of the winter solstiee the
whole nation is supposed to pray, at least
in the person of the emperor. - This great
worship takes place at Dight. The em
peror squats on the bottom of a great
elephant car, and' drawn by the white
elephant which the king of Siam senH
him, is escorted by 2,000 grandees, princes
and attendants, while bauds of music
play along the way to tho great temple.
He first goes into the palace of fasting.
There he meditates before a copper statue
representing a priest with his mouth cov
ered by his fingers, indicating silence.
- Upon the altar of heaven he should
sacrifice burnt animals calves, hares,
sheep and pigs. How this worship will
take place, now-that the altar of heaven
is burned down, I do not know; .but the
occasion may call out some expressions
of opinion from different parts of the
empire which will be more or less dan
gerous Frankti. Carpenter iir National
Tribune. -"
Curious Debate on a Boned Pinafore.
- A burned pinafore has been the cause
of a curiens debate. .A girl belonging
to the Cuckoo Lane schools, at Han well,
belonging to the city of London and St..
Savour's union, dropped the chalice at' a
communion service and stained the pina-
fore. Thereupon the high chaplain or
dered the pinafore not to be washed, but
to be destroyed. As it belonged to the
ratepayers - the managers inquired- bis
authority for destroying their property.
The' chaplain pleaded the ' precedent
that old Bibles are destroyed in the same
way, bnt offered to buy a new pinafore.
The managers however are determined
not to let the matter rest, and two com
m:Vees are to investigate the practices
,f Ritnalistic chaplains in regard to
damaged pinafores and Bibles. London
Tit-Bits. - ;
A Co-operative Root Factory.
A striking proof of the steady progress
of the principle of co-operative produc
tion was given Friday at Leicester,
where over 500 delegates from all parts
of - the kingdom assembled to assist at
the formal opening of the largest co-operative
boot and shoe factory -in the
world. The, factory stands on six acres
of ground. The buildings cost 150,000,
and when fitted with machinery the to
tal outlay will haye been $350,000. . The
working capital will be $1,000,000, and
the factory will Ce able to turn out 50,
000 pairs of. boots every weekl This huge
enterprise has been and will continue to
be managed by workin gme? , and the
men who make the boots will share in
the profits earned 1)y their labor. Lon
don Cor. New York Times.
Cartons Recovery of TLost Records.
; Gorham met with a serious loss over
twenty years ago. -About 1871 -it was
discovered that a book . containing the
earliest town records, from its incorpora
tion in 1754 to 1815, was missing. The
town offered a reward for its return and
many individuals joined in the search,
but hope of finding these records : was
abandoned long ago.- Last -week, how
ever, the express brought from Boston a
package containing three books in excel
lent preservation, -without any explana
tion; One of them was the early rec
ords of Gorham.' The other, two books
contained the - marriages, births -and
deaths of the inhabitants of- the town
from 1764 to 1823. Lewiston Journal. '
. Wedded In a Blixxard.
a big snowstorm Miss Lyia E.
In
Carder and Mr. James William Watson,
both of West Virginia, -were wedded by
the Bet, 3. Eolk; of Pawpawy-W.. Va.
The ceremony was performed on an is
land in tho Potomac, near Oldtown. The
wind, was "blowing a perfect hurricane
and the snow -fell thick and fast.; The
bride wore a white cloth costume, with
bonnet and gloves to match. 7-Cor Balti
more American. '-.. .- : --' ..7
A White KfMv .
On of the strangest wonders in the
way of a man that' we have been per
mitted to seo was in town -recently, and
is a citizen of this county. " is Eb
enezer Long, and was born, black, in
Georgia sixty years ago. ; He is now per
fectly fair, except a few dark spots that
may be discovered by looking . at him
closely. Marianna (FJa.) Times. " '
" . tVhj' the Shark tm Aljrayav Hungry.
As it is a source of wonder how the
flea manages to exist in the sand, where
his chances of , obtaining - a meal, may
not occur once in a lifetime, so natural
ists are puzzled as to ...how the shark
maintains himself. The ocean is wide,
and the number of men who fall over
board small indeed in comparison to its
area, The vast proportion of sharks,
then, must go through their lives with
out a remote chance of obtaining a meal
at the expense of the human kind.
There is no ground for the supposition
that the 6hark can exiM upon air; he is
not like the whale, provided with an ap
paratus that enables him to sweep up
the tiny inhabitants of the seas. . He is
'too slow in swimming, and infinitely too
slow in turning,' to -catch any fish that
did not deliberately swim into his mouth;
and unless we suppose that, as it is' said
of the snake, he exercises a magnetic in
fluence over fish and causes them to rush
headlong - to destruction between his
jaws, it is impossible to imagine how he
obtains a sufficient supply of food for his
'sustenance.'.
- Indeed,. it would appear. that it is only
when he gets the good luck to light upon
a dead or badly injured fish that the
shark has ever, the opportunity of mak
ing a really square meal. - His prolonged
fasts certainly furnish an ample explana
tion and excuse for his alleged savagery
of disposition. ;London Standards
'The MHtchine Habit.
- A woman brought a small sugar coated
pill into a South End drugstore the other
evening and. wanted a box of pills just
like them, ' under the impression that
matching pills was as simple a matter as
matching ribbons. Springfield. Home
stead. ' ; .
24.
In just 24 hours J. V. 8. relieves constipation
ud sick headaches, After it gets tho system
under control an occasional dose rr?vents return.
We refer by permission to wfll. Marshall, Bruns
wick House, a F.; Geo. A. Werner, Ml California
6L, S.F.; Mrs. C. Melvin,-138 Kearny St,, 8.F.,
and many others who have found relief from
constipation and sick headaches. C?.W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrenco Court, S. F. writes: "1 am 60 years
of age and haro been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. -1 was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparillo. I recognized In it at
once an herb that tho Mexicans used to give ns
in the early SO's for bowel troubles. (I came to
California ih 1839,) and I knew it would help ma
and it has. For tho first time in years I can sleep
well and my system is regular-and in splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy
aro a certain cure fa constipation and bowel
troubles. "'. : Ask for :
'A Vegetable
wSarsaparilla
For Sali by -SNIPES t KINERSLY
THE DAIXEB; OREGON. 1 f r..i -
BJEAIi MERIT
- lBOTRI-a ;.
Say the S. B- Cough 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.'
Fpr sale by all druggists.. " ; ',' "
- . S. B. Medicixe Mfg. Co., ;-'
"'' . Dufur. Oregon.
A Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
'to the genuineness
pf these staples than
ye do. ' In fact, they
have a law under
' which . they make
. seizures and do-.
troy : . adulterated
. - .. . ' products that are
. not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands jl pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adnl
. teration. . . , ; ' ; ' :
: . Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not
alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifl
. claUy colored, but thousands of pounds of
substitute- for tea leaves are used to swell
.. the bulk of ehcap.tean ash, sloe, and. willow
-leaves being those most commonly used.
-Again, sweepings, from tea warehouse are
colored and sold as tea. . Even exhausted tea
. leaves gathered from the tea-houses are kept,
dried, and made over and find their way into
. the cheap teas. . ' . . . ; ,
' The English government attempts to stamp
this out by confiscation; bnt no tea is too
.poor for ns, and. the result is, that probably
thepopret teas used, by any nation are those
Consumed iu America. ,' -."'
-.Beech's.; Tea .is presented with the guar
amy that Jt ls.nucolored and unadulterated;
-in fact, the sun-cured tea leaf pare and sim
ple. Ita purity' injures superior strength,
. about one third less of it, being required for
. an infusion than of the artificial teas, and its
' .fragrance and exgnlaite flavor is 'at onceap
- parent. ' It win be a revelation to you. In
order that Its purity and quality may be guar
anteed, IV is sold only In poand packages
.hearing thia traae-mark : : Y' , -
'Pure As' Childhood
Just
Joy
ffiSTF y
IBiEIMpBV
: Trice e0o per pound. ; Vat sale at '
Xjioslio "Oaxtler'i
. - THE DALLES, OREGO?.
The Dalies
IS
TIE
: Of tlicILeadiiijr City id' Eastern Oregon.
During, .the little oyer a year of its existence it.
nas earnestly tried to fallfil the objects for which it
. - ' . ' - ."''-"' -' . -
was founded, namely, to assist in - developing our
industries, to advertise the resources of the city and
adjacen try and to work for an open river to
the sea. Its record, is "before the people and the
phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the
expression of their approval., Independent in every
thing, neutral in nothing,
for what it believes to be
. Commencing with the
vclume the weekly has' been enlarged to eight pages
while the price ($1.50 a year) ' remains the same.
Thus Ibothjthe weekly;
moie'reading matter for
published in the county. -
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first number of the second
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