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Sailing OTr,akauut Crmtars. ".. ,;
Tbs American bark' Hesper has ar
rived from Kobe, alter an excellent pas
sage of twenty -even days, with a full
cargo of tea and a graphio account of an
experience with, a submarine volcano,
hot sea "water and sulphurous gases. ' "
Captain Sodergren states that about
5:4j a. m. on Oct. 28, while laying at
' anchor in Kobe, the bark received a end
den shock that caused the masts to strain
aud creak. Some of the standing rig
King snapped like a piece of twine and
aU hands were thrown from their feet.
The vessel pitched heavily and caused
one of the cross trees to break from its
fastenings and fall on deck. The waters
became still an hour later and the bark
pat to sea. -
Early on the morning of Oct. 30, when
about seventy-five miles off the Japan
coast, the bark was almost thrown on
Jer beam ends by the sudden eruption
-of a submarine volcano. The water be
f.iine so hot that when a sea was shipped
oa deck the crew took to the rigging.
The heat became so intense that the
pitch in the deck was melted and the
sennas opened.
"Great blasts of hot air with a strong
sulphurous smell," said the captain yes-
ing surface of the ocean and almost suf
focate us for the moment.' Then the
membrane of the nostrils became irri
tated, causing us all to have a fit of
feueeeing. This phenomenon lasted for
several hours. I have had all I want of
tbe Japan side for some time to come."
San Francisco Chronicle.
Kather a Curious Accident.
We have just learned of a curious ac
cident which befell the team of Otto
Barber, of near Dixonville, recently.
Some time ago Mr. Barber in prospect
ing for coal dug a. hole in one of his
fields about sixteen feet deep, and suc
ceeding in finding the coal he filled the
hole up again, and going down the hill
lo the proper place started a drift, the
mine passing directly under the place
where he had been prospecting. A few
weeks ago he was harrowing in the field
and his team passed over the site, when
the loose earth gave way suddenly, car
rying both horses down, the timbers be
ing the only thing to prevent them from
.going clean into the coal mine.
Mr, Barber's first thought was that his
team was lost, and that the best thing to
1 was to cut the animals' throats and
bury them where they were. But upon
further thought he went to a neighbor's,
rnd securing help took the timbers of
the mine out and let the horses clean
O.own into the banks. Then, tying their
feet together to prevent them from strug
gling, he dragged each animal out of the
mine by the means of a long cable and
team at the entrance. '
It was about fifty feet from the mouth
of the bank to where the horses fell in,
and beyond a few bruises the. animals
were not much injured, and were able
to go to work again after a day's rest.
.Morion Centre Independent. ,
Climbed Down m. Crater.
C Webster, an American newspaper
correspondent, had an experience at the"
crater of Kilauea a few weeks ago which
might have cbst him his life, but which
lckily allowed him to escape with only
a few burns and bruises. He accom
plished a feat never before, done by any
tourist and by only a few native guides,
that of going down to the surface of the
crater and getting specimens of the fiery
lava. This he succeeded in doing in
company with a guide, and twice came
near falling into the abyss on account of
being overcome with the sulphuric gas'
of the crater. The guide saved him both
times, though not without having suf
fered some bruises.
The volcano is gradually rising to its
old level of last March, and if the pres
ent lake continues to rise at its present
rate there will be an overflow in about
seven or eight months. San Francisco
Examiner.
TUe Typewriter iu the Schools. -A
suggestion that the course of in
struction in our public schools might
properly include stenography and the
ase of the typewriter has brought out
the fact not generally known before
UlAt t.VlA MTV nf T.V-T1T1 1 a almnJn i .
duced these studies' in the evening
schools of Lynn as, indeed, in those of
Boston there have been classes in short
hand for a number of years. '
Typewriting Iras been taught in these
schools for one year, and in the Lynn
English high school for a yet longer
time. The results are said to be very
encouraging. There would seem to be
aw ichbuu wiiy mu;u lllWLruCLlOIl SllOUiCl
ot" be included in the course of our
higher schools everywhere. Boston
Commonwealth.
Things Some People Don't Know.
The death of Horace Greeley occurred
nineteen years ago, yet every now 'and
then letters still come to The Tribune
office addressed to him. Izaak Walton
died 208 years ago. A- new edition of
his "Complete Angler" was recently
published in Boston. The firm which
published it has received a letter ad
dressed to "Izaak Walton, Esq.," con
veying the information that his book Is
attracting considerable attention, and
requesting, in behalf of a certain bureau
of "newspaper "clippings," the privilege
of sending to Mr. Walton notices of the
cook from the papers of the United
States and Canada! In spite of the diffu
sion of knowledge, there is a vast deal of
ignorance in this world yet. New York
. Tribune..
The centennial of the invention and
operation of the cotton gin will be cele
brated next j ear in Augusta, Qa., by an
internationa cotton exposition, and the
unveiling of a statue of the inventor,
Eli Whitney.
. Ex-Governor . Meriweather, of Ken
tucky, has very lately been celebrating
his ninety-second birthday, and seemed
to be as hale and hearty as any of his
guests.
The new structure over the Missis
sippi at Memphis will be 8,000 feet long.
It will be supported by eight piers, vary
ing in height from 117 feet to 197 feet.
"i, Maaf jf Um oa Dtntna; (Cara.-3" '
"It , is' imagined by nearly every trav
eler who pays seventy-five cents or one
dollar for a meal on a dining cor that
the company is reaping a wonderful
harvest," said a traveling passenger
agent of ; one of ' the leading ' roads in
America, "but the figures will soon con- !
vince the most skeptical that the project
is a losing one' to the companies, and
every one would dispense with the din-.
ing car service if they only could. It
is the great competition existing between
the different roads and the desire on the
part of the public for rapid transit that
forces . the " companies to place dining
cars on their through trains. All of the
preat trunk line roads are putting on
faster . and ' faster trains every few
months.
"Ad soon as one company puts on a
train that will cover the distance be-,
tween any two important points quicker
than the other roads can, then all the
rest of the roads set to work to reduce
the time, and inside of two or three
months some other road will announce a
train that will make the distance in fif
teen, thirty, forty-five minutes or an
hour faster than its rival. And so it
goes. If any of those fast trains should
stop twenty minutes at a station where a
dining hall is, then the trains with the
dining cars attached would reach the
point of destination all' the way from
forty minutes to an hour earlier, and the
result would be that they would carry
the majority of the traveling public. It
is not cheap meals the people who. travel
on railroads want so much today as rapid
transportation. Last year the Pullman
Car company served 5,000,000 meals on
their dining cars, and profits realized did
not pay 1 per cent, upon the investment.
A leadiug western road ' last year lost
$36,000 on its dining car service." To
ledo Blade.
Cave. Her Ring to Uncle Sam for Liberty.
A young lady, a gold ring and a United
States patent letter lxx were the central
figures in a little sidewalk drama en
acted at the corner of Joyner and Chel
sea streets, Charles town, which was
witnessed by a large and enthusiastic
audience.
A young lady in Charles town went to
drop a letter in one of the new patent
letter boxes, with the tilting lever, and
being evidently used to the old style of
box, where it is sometimes necessary, in
order that the letter be really dropped to
the bottom to push it through the slot
with the finger, she followed the missivo,
with' her hand to be sure that it was
safely deposited.' Then, satisfied that
her sacred epistle was all right, she
started to withdraw her hand, when the
ring on her finger held her hand firmly,
and all her efforts to withdraw it proved
in vain. .
Some suggested that she try : to pull
her finger out of the ring, but the at
tempt proved unsuccessful.' Then a few
excited persons favored breaking the
box with an ax, when a bright police
man appeared upon the scene, and view
ing the situation, immediately went for
a file with which to tile the ring off the
finger. . It proved impossible to get the
file into the box, and. finally after half
an hour the hand was extricated minus
the ring. Boston Cor. Chicago Herald.
A Lapse of memory
"Humph! It's very clear that I am
not in the proper vein today," growled
Mr. Scribbler as he threw aside his pen
and substituted a stumpy lead pencil in
its place. "
"What's the matter now?" asked Mrs.
Scribbler as she left her ironing to come
to his assistance.
"It's only that Christmas story I
started to write for The Echo. I can't
for the life of me get beyond the open
ing sentence."
"Let me see what you have written,"
said his wife as she looked over his
shoulder and read from the paper on the
table: " 'It was bitter cold. The poor
little match girl on the corner shivered
in the biting blast.' "Why, that's all
right. Go on," she said encouragingly.
"But 1 can't seem to remember what
comes .next." remonstrated Mr. Scrib
bler. .
"Let me see! Urn 'in the biting
blast' aud and draving her ragged
shawl about her slender, frozen body,
timidly offered her scanty stock of wares
to the passers by." .
"That's it!" exclaimed the author as
he drew his wife to him and kissed her
tenderly. "What a help you are, dear.
I 8Uipose I have written that thing hun
dreds of times, and yet I had utterly for
gotten it." Life.. - - :
A Freak of Science. .
An English chemist who was at; a
Washington hotel exhibited a little mi
crophone b9 had made which would
render audible the footsteps of a fly. It
was only a small affair and consisted of
a box with sheet of thin straw paper
stretched over the upper side. By means
of a little electrical device, consisting of
two"fcarbon disks, a carbon pencil and a
weak battery, the sheet of paper over
the top of the box was caused to produce
vibrations when a fly walked over it
strong enough to react energetically on
an ordinary telephone transmitter when
held close to the latter. Washington
Post. -.. - ' .- -
The Postage Stamp Nearly 53 Tear Old.
The postage stamp will be fifty-two
years old in May. Its inventor was a
printer, James Chalmers, of Dundee,
Scotland, who died in 1853. England,
fifty-two years ago, introduced the new
system of prepaying letter postage, and
according" to a decree of Dec. 21,1839,
issued the first stamps, which were to be
put before the public on May 6 of the
following year. , A year later they were
introduced in the United States and
Switzerland, and within three years had
become" common in Bavaria, .Belgium
and ,' France.. Charleston News and
Courier1. .' ' ': -'
The OIiIbnI Voter.
Nathaniel Laird cast his eighty
seventh vote at OsWoiio. N. V., Tues
day, Nov. 2. Ho was born 109 years
ago in Iceland aud came to this coun
try at the age of fifteen. His wife is
still living at the age of seventy-nine,
but they have no living children. Ex
change.. ..
Bvwto' Original-KstlfW
' Ten days ago Colonel John R. Davis,
of Mississippi, who had been a resident
of the Old Men's home since a year ago
last April,- received a stroke of paralysis.
This was followed in a few days by an
other, and then a third, which proved
fataL - :
The deceased was a cousin of Jefferson
Davis, and during the war was the col
onel of a Mississippi regiment known as
the Tigers. Colonel Davis had in his
possession the original knife constructed
for Colonel Jim Bowie, who, though a
native Kentuckian, moved to Texas and
married the daughter , of ex-Governor
Veramendi. The knife was said to have
been invented while Colonel Bowie was
confined to his bed in Natchez, suffering
from these ffecte of a wound he had re
ceived m a border fray. He was a man
of : " great " 'mechanical ingenuity, : and
whittled it out of white pine as a model
for a hunting "knife, which he sent' to
two . brothers named Blackman, in the
city of Natchez, and told them to spare
no expense in making it. It was made
from a large sawmill file and afterward
perfected by ah Arkansas blacksmith.''
Davis, who was a young man at the
time, was present the ' first time the
knife, as perfected, was used in a duel,
and, as he described the scene, the par
ties out the underbrush down and fought
to the death. The peculiar part of the
knife was that the end was poisoned, an
operation that cost Colonel Bowie ten
dollars. Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Tree Climbing; Pic;.
A curiosity has lately been shot by Mr.
Le Mortemore. who has a selection on
.Tinana creek, Queensland. He says it
is a sort of tree climbing pig. For a
number of years the wild pigs have been
numerous in this locality, and his theory
is that the original or common pig must
have amalgamated to a certain extent
with some aboriginal animal, or that the
necessities of climate, etc., have caused
the variety. The captured animal weighs
about 100 pounds, and is pretty fat, with
bristly brown fur, small black spots,
snout and ears like a pig, but the jaw is
furnished with front teeth like a rodent;
it has large canines and powerful back
grinders.
The fore feet are furnished with hook
like claws; the hind ones have two hook
claws on each hoof. The tail is thick,
about a foot long, and highly prehensile,
and in a state of rest is usually carried
in what is known as a Flemish coiL The
animal is also furnished with a pouch,
which it only appears to use for carrying
a supply of food in while it is traveling
to fresh pastures. The skin is saved and
will be sent to the Maryborough exhi
bition. Mr. Le Mortemore says the flesh
is excellent, and that it tastes just like
veal and ham pie. He is sure there are
plenty more about by the marks on the
trees. In drought the animal climbs
trees aud hangs by its tail while it gath-
i ers its food by the hook claws. He in
tends capturing some live specimens and
breeding from them. Pall Mall Budget.
The Liverpool. Moslems Mobbed
The little building in Brougham ter
race, Liverpool, in which the few Mos
lem worshipers thereabout gather , to
gether for prayer and to listen to ser
mons in Arabic and English is hidden
away in a garden, and it does not seem
that its congregation has ever done any
thing to give offense, yet for more than
a month past they have been exposed to
persecution, and the ferment appears to
be increasing. On a recent Sunday, ac
cording to a local report, the appearance
of the "Muezzin" in the balcony to give
the customary "Azan," or call to prayer,
was the signal for a great uproar from a
crowd of some 400 roughs, indulging in
the usual oaths and execrations and
throwing of stones and filth.
Several times, it is stated, the Muezzin
was struck. After he had retired th
disturbers burst into the inosque and
threw stones, one of which fell within a
few inches of where the little son of
Ahmed QuHiam Bey was kneeling in
prayer. These annoyances, it is added,
continued during the service, and the
congregation on leaving were pelted and
struck. London Public Opinion,
Calendar Croraders.
The calendars for 1S93 are beginning
to put in an appearance, and the calen
dar fiends are also hard at work. "I've
had about 500 applications for calendars
this week," said an insurance man yes
terday, "and some of the calendar beg
gars are very impudent in their de
mands. Women are the most cheeky
applicants we have to deal with. : One
yoman today requested me to give her
one of 'each kind issued by our office,
and I granted her demand, but she came
back in half an hour and asked me to
duplicate her haul in order to please a
female acquaintance who could not come
herself. I gave her a blotter and told
her to blot herself out of existence. , It
was ungallant, of course, but I wasn't
in the humor to deal otherwise with her.
Buffalo Express.
Bees Graft a Rare Apple.
Horticulturists who have seen it say
that an apple which was picked in E. B.
George's orchard, New . Franklin, Pa.,
could only have been produced by a
peculiar grafting done by the bees in
the apple blossom season. ,
: Exactly one-half of the apple is golden
russet, like the apples that grew on the
same tree, and the other half "is bright
green pippin, such a variety as grew on
trees 100 yards distant. In blossoming
time a bee must have transplanted a
part of a distant pippin blossom into the
petals of the russet's flower. Exchange.
The recent stir in the freight lines of
steamers caused by the trip of the whale
back steamer Wetmore to Europe has
been extended to passenger boats for
ocean service, and recent designs for a
vessel carrying 800 passengers have been
made which is expected to cross the
ocean in five days. .
. The authorities of Vancouver island
have received an offer from a Chinaman
to take into the interior two Chinese
lepers who were recently landed there
and dispose of them so that they would
never again be beard of for $-300. ; . r
. One Better.
People m the" waflang'roomof the De
troit, Grand .Haven -and Milwaukee
depot were more or ' less inferested' the
other afternoon in the conduct of a mid
dle aged couple who" were evidently Very
much in love." ; As they sat together' 'on
a seat the man had his arm around her
waist and she leaned confidingly on his
shoulder. .. The depot policeman might
have looked at them rather sharply as
he passed through the room, for soon
thereafter the man came outside and
queried)
"Do you remember mer" ' '"':
' "Can't say that I do," replied the offi
cer after a careful scrutiny;
' "I was in here last summer on an ex
cursion." '. ; -----
"Yes." ' ' '- -
"Had a girl with me girl with long
curls and a white dress." -.
"Yes."
"She was a widow's daughter and had
forty acres of land in her own name." 7
"I see." ' "' "
"That was the best I could dd at the
time, but that's the widow and mother
inside, and she owns the rest of the farm
and all the stock. 1 I've gone one better,
and do you blame me fur kinder squeez
ing around, even if folks do laugh at us?"
The officer assured him it was all right
and according to Hoyle, and he returned
to business much relieved and encour-
-Detroit Free Press ' .
What Cleanliness Really Is.
What is needed is not that a place
shall merely look clean, but" that some
thing shall be used that will "purify it,
so that it shall be to some extent scien
tifically clean. . This means that it shall
be purified from microscopic germs as
far as possible, which 'simple ' soap' and
water will ' not reach. New York ' Trib
nne. " "' " ' " '' ' '" ' ; ''
imples.
The old idea of 40 yean ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "Wood humor," for
which they gave potash. Thus all the Old Sarsa
parlllas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,
actually creates moro eruptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other Sarsaparillaa than
Joy's. It Is however now known that the stom
ach! the blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations.- A stomach
clogged by Indigestion or constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it and they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
after the modern idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate tbe digestion. The effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial' to
contrast the action .of the potash' Sorsaparillas
and Joy's modern vcsntaUo preparation. Mrs.
C. I). Stuart, of 400 Tlayrs St., S. F., writes: " I
have for years had indigestion, 1 tried a popular
Sarsaparilia but it actually canned more pimples
to break out on my face, Iicarir.3 that Joy's was
a later prepa-n ion au.l acted diiTerently, I tried
it and' the pimpies Immediately disappeared."
:Tnil96 Vegetable
Uy .O Sarsaparilia
-" 'largest bottle, most eHN:t.ive. same price. ' 1
For Sale by SNIPES & KIN ERSLY
- THE DALLES, OREGON,
LK.GRIPPE
By using S. B. Headache and Liver Cure, and 8.
B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were
JSXTC3C3UfilJS"TTXaLs-Sr
Used tWO Vftirn ntrt riurinflr thu I. Rrlnrta .
demic, and very flattering testimonials of their
power over inai disease are at r-ana. Manuiact
ured by the 8. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur,
vivguu. r or saie Dy ail aruggisis.
A Severe Law.
The,, English peo
ple look more closely
'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
not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. f ' ' ' :
Tea, by tbe way, is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not
alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, but thousands of pounds of'
substitutes for tea leaves are used to swell '
the bulk of cheap tea?; ash, sloe, and 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 made over and find their way Into
the cheap teas.
The EugliBh government attempts to stamp
this out by confiscation; but no tea is too
poor for us and the result 13, that probably
the poorest teas used by any nation are those
Consumed in America. '
Beech's Tea is presented with the guar
anty that it is uucolored and unadulterated;
in fact, the sun-curca tea leaf pare and sim
ple. Its purity' Insures ' superior ' strength,
about one third less of It being required for
an infusion than of the a Uncial teas, and its
fragrance aud exquisite 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 is sold only in poand packages
bearing this trade-mark r
BEECHil TEA
HI -
"PureAsWdhood:
Fdce eoo' per pound. 'For sale at : '
Zieslie Sutler's,
THE DAILK8, 0 RFGOIf .
Tije Dalles
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Of the leading City
During the little over
has 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
adjacent country and to work for an open river to
the sea. Its record is
phenomenal support it has
expression of their approval. Independent in every
thing, neutral in nothing, it will live only to fight
for what it believes to be just and riiht.
Commencing with the first number of the second
vclume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages
while the price ($1.50 a year) remains the same.
Thus both the weekly
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