The Dalles Daily Chronicle. OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLES CITY. Published Dally, Sunday Excepted. THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Corner Second and Washington Streets, The Dalle, Oregon. Terms of Subscription - . bv carrier Per Year .fS 00 50 6 Per month, by carrier Blngle copy STATE OFFICIALS. Govcrnot.'.. 8. Pennoyer Secretary of State G. W. McBride Treasurer Phillip Metschan 8 apt. of Public Instruction E. B. McElroy U W TWilnh snntor. H Mitchell Congressman... . .B. Hermann State Printer Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge Sheriff. Clerk Treasurer Commissioners. . C. N. Thornbury D. L. Cates ..J. B. Crossen , .Geo. Ruch I H' A. Leavens I Frank Kincaid John E. Barnett Surveyor ? E. F. Sharp Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Sheilev Coroner......". William Michefl Omaha is a spunky town. The Union Pacific has for some time presisted in a system of excessive charges on jobbers shppers and wholesale dealers for switch accomodations. The company has for a long time refused to fulfill its contract for the construction of a new depot building in Omaha and in many ways sought to injure the business interests of that city. Hence Omaha got its back up last Wednesday night and the" city council passed an ordinance declaring forfeited all the franchises granted to. the company by Omaha, and instructed the city attor ney to tear up every track of the com pany that is laid on city property. A big legal fight is expected to ensue. Tony Noltner suggests that Blaine, in his declining years, may. have begun to see the error of his republican ways and has declined to rnn for the presidency for fear he might endanger his chances for eternal happiness. In that case Blaine has the advantage of Tony for, notwithstanding the latter's declining years years he continues to prevaricate about tin plate and the McKialey tariff as though it had never been written "No liar shall inherit, the kingdom of heaven." The unanimous approval of the course pursued by the administration toward Patrick Egan, United States Minister to Chili, was expressed by all of the New York municipal council of the Irish National league of America at a meet ing held by that body in New York city on the 6th inst. The council warmly endorsed the administration for its sup port to Mr. Egan, "that distinguished Irishman whom it had seen fit to honor" nd a committee of five was appointed to draw np appropriate resolutions. The total number of patients in the Oregon insane asylem is 764 524 males and 240 females. Traveling la China. In north China yon may perhaps have ing. Yon may, if .you will, take your place in a springlens Peking cart, a kind of box or cage with no seat. The pas senger is obliged to squat on the floor cross legged, or to sit with legs stretched ;Out at right angles with his body, and aa the cart jolts over great stones or through the deep ruts in the road, he is liable to be bruised black and bine. If such a cart looks uninviting, yon may conclude to try a mule litter. This consists of an oblong box slung between two mules, which never keep step, and not infrequently quarrel, and the sway ing, nnsteady motion is as bad as that or a ship in a heavy squall. Or, one more, you may prefer to ride a donkey with a backbone like a razor., and proba bly with no Raddle and a single rope for bridle. Exchange. v T,wo Smart Answers. "Asiuart atiKwer' is good when un premeditated. "1 could write like Shakespeare if I had a mind to." said Wadsworth to Ltainb. Yes. if you had a mind to." was Elia's quick reply. "Do you see anything ridiculous in this wigr said a pompons little jndge to Cnrran. "Nothing but the bead," was the re ply. New Vork Home Journal. Famines In Kuaaia. Russia has been visited by eight na tional famines during the ' present -century in 1801, 1811, 1813. 1833, 1840, I860 and 1891. -In addition to these there have been several provincial famines aa severe if not as extensive, as those which affect the whole . population. Boston Herald. . It is not true that large heads always indicate intellect. Professor ' Virchow, the German scientist, points out that the Greeks, one of the most intellectual of nations, are also one of the smallest headed of races. ' - There are only three places in the world where women possess, all the privileges of voting which are accorded to men, 'viz., 'Iceland, Pitcairn islands 'and the Isle df Man. f Tlann milium nn vnnlan i ar Ut-a man'. coats, etc., by sponging' with ammonia and water, then with alcohol; then rub ury wiui a uanuet cjolu. ' The population of the city of New York, as estimated by the health depart ment, was 1,680,796 on July 1. 1891, as against 1.631.333 in 1890. J -.1- Ml I t . 1 A Modern Athenian's Dilemma. "Did I ever tell you." said Thalia to a reporter, "my awful experience theonly time 1 was ever honored by a call from the elder Salvini? My sister bad been ahorn many kindnesses by him while in Italy, and bad begged him to call en us when he cam to America. It was the maid's afternoon out. ' I was alone in the flat with Jack, . my ' irrepressible ten-year-old nephew. An accursed impulse whispered to me that a hot bath was a good remedy for headache. -' "1 was in my bath wrap, my dripping hair hanging about me, when the bell rang. Oh, horror! The name on the card which Jack poked under the door was Tomaao Salvini I , 1 knew he scarcely understood a word of English. ' 'Jack,' I gasped, 'say after' me till yon get it, "Madame D. est sortie," and then go in and fire it off at him. Hell know what it is if yon don't. Hell go away.' So said, so done. The little scamp caught the words quickly and repeated them glibly. "Fancy my anguish when Signor Sal vini began to question, to regret,- to dep recate in a flood of swift French, Jack gazing in widemouthed terror, 1 on the verge of' catalepsy behind the bath room door. Jack bore it as long as he could, and then his sky piercing accents rose upon the air. I don't know what you're driving atf wailed 'All 1 know is that she told me to say she was sortie, aud I've said itf Don't aak me the rest. 1 collapsed in the bathtub and tore my hair and wept." Boston Commonwealth. Air Strata Over Cities. The popular idea that' the higher one gets in the city air the purer the atmos phere becomes, has been disproved by evidence given before a select committee on house of commons ventilation in Lon don. It is found - that the air of cities like London, where soft coal is burned, is purest at thirty or forty feet from the ground. Lower than that the dust is encountered and higher the smoke from the chimneys. These conclusions were arrived at from experiments with frames of wood covered with blanketing material put at different elevations one on top of the clock tower at Westminster, another on the highest point of the roof and others at various heights down to the court yard. After five hours' exposure there were found to be more smuts at high elevations than at low, but on .the level of the courtyard there were considera ble quantities of dust. - The inference from these experiments is that the common notion that the high est stories of the tallest blocks of flats are desirable for their salubrity is apt to be a mistaken one, and that beyond forty feet nothing is gained by going higher unless a very great height some say 400 or 500 feet is reached. Louisville Courier-Journal. Is Iron Rnst n Cause of Fire? When oxide of iron is placed in con-: tact with timber excluded from the at mosphere, and aided by a slightly in creased temperature, the oxide will part with its oxygen, and is converted into very finely divided particles of metallic iron having such an affinity for oxygen that, when afterward exposed to the ac tion of the atmosphere from any cause, oxgen is so rapidly absorbed that these particles become suddenly red hot, and if in sufficient quantity will produce a temperature far beyond the ignition point of dry timber. Wherever iron pipes are employed for the circulation of any heated medium, whether hot water, hot air or steam, and the pipes are allowed . to become rusty, in close conftict with timber, it is only necessary to suppose that under these circumstances, the particles of metallic iron become exposed to the action of the atmosphere and this may occur from the mere expansion or contraction of the pipes in order to account for many of the fires which periodically take place at the commencement of the winter. Iron. Benevolent. There was, not long since, a venerable and benevolent judge in Paris who, at the moment of passing sentence on a prisoneraconsulted his associates on each side of him as to the proper penalty to be inflicted. "What ought we to give this rascal, brother?" he said, bending over to the one upon his right. "1 should say three years." '"What is your opinion, brotherr to the other, on his left. "1 should give him about four years." The Judge (with benevolence) "Prisoner, not desiring to give you a ; long and severe term of imprisonment, as I should have done if left to myself. I have consulted my learned brothers, and 1 shall take-their advice. Seven years!" Life. Henry George's Qaery.- Henry Ueorge is a singularly absent minded and preoccupied man. so much so, indeed, that he frequently passes ac quaintances by without seeing them, though be may seem to be looking them straight in the. face. At the same time he i often minutely observant,' and when anything unnsual attracts his at tention he is prompt with a query. - He reduced a harmless young Englishman to a state of painful embarrassment amid the crowd of a London drawing room by looking hard at his monocle and suddenly saying, "Do yon wear that because one eye is different from the other?" San Francisco Argonaut Two Rales for Martini Happiness. Lily Devereux Blake suggests m one rule for "martial happiness that the wife should not always ask the husband where be is going when he goes away, and where he has been when he comes back. And as another the equal divi sion of money, for she claims that oner half of every dollar the husband has be longs in the law to the wife. ' A Rhode IhfSid man made a net profit of $3,700 in six months by raising skunks for market. He sells the felts of the odorous animals at good figures, and manufactures skunk oil, which he dis poses of to the druggists for a rheu matic cure. Bard sa Cnmbridre. 1 This is a short story that Cambridge people may not find exactly humorous. It is told, however, concerning & bright youngster who lived among them for bis nine short summers, and by reason of the cultured atmosphere he breathed and the experimental systems he was 'brought np on ought either to" have been dead or one 'of their own. : But he defied both these fates and in due course received his reward by moving into Bos ton. Here he at once found congenial companions ' and no doubt ' began" to contract -those unfortunate habits of speech that indirectly led to this tale. One - day his papa heard him using lan guage that no nice little boy, especially a university town boy, is supposed to know the meaning of. - "Teddy," said his stern parent, "never say that again; it's swearing, and God wUl hear you and be very much dis pleased," - , "Well, m go down cellar," said the youngster defiantly, "then 1 guess he cant her me." "Yes, he can," insisted the devout man. . "Is he in the attio too?" '. -Yes." "Then," announced the youngster, with the triumphant air of one who set tles the question, "I'll go to Cambridge, for I'm sure he's not there." Boston Transcript. , - Dancing- for n Footing. - . A mild way of hazing uninitiated schol ars has been . in rogue for a long time at the Eclectic Medical college. Every new man is required to get up before the whole school and give a little jig before he will be recognized as a fit person to associate with. If he refuses at first to give the jig he is not in it with the boys, who slight him on every possible occa sion and make him the butt of their jokes. Some very dignified scholars found it terribly hard to get through the little ordeal, but experience taught them to succumb, and there is not one of them who has n3t rattled his feet in accordance with the unwritten rule of the institu tion. Of course this is a matter which does not come under the jurisdiction of the faculty. Cincinnati Enquirer. , Criticism for tbe Eagle. Why cannot some able designer get up a. representation of the eagle that looks something like that glorious bird? The spread wing idea is unnatural and ab surd. It is only because of its antiquity that it is tolerated. An eagle that would spread its wings and legs in an attempt to symbolize peace and war deserves to be shot. A fine design of an American eagle at rest, perched.on a crag or limb of a tree, would not be a bad one for our silver coins. Cincinnati Commercial Oazette. Twins Nine Times Without Skip. Mr. John Miscall, who is one of the head bakers in James Reed & Sons' bakery, Norfolk, Va., has been made the proud possessor of the ninth consecutive pair of healthy and strong twins, & boy and a girl. Mrs. Miscall has never given birth to one child at a time. Cot Baltimore American. . . , , j ' . . " For the Children. : ' - "In buying a cough ' medicine, for children,'5 says H. A. Walker, a promi nent druggiBt of. Ogden, Utah, "never be afraid to buy Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There is no danger f.om it and relief is always sure to' follow. I particularly recommend Chamberlain's because.I have found it to be safe and reliable. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Blakeley & Houghton, druggists, dw As Staple ns Coffee. "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is as staple as coffee in this vicinity. It has done an immense amount of good since its introduction here.'- A. M. Nobdelx, Maple Ridge, Minn. For sale by Blake lev & Houghton, druggists. " dw SOCIETIES. ASSEMBLY NO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets in K. of P. hall the second and fourth Wednes days of each month at 7 ;M0 p. m. VCfASCO LODGE, NO. 15, A. F. & A. M. Meets T T first and third Monday of each month at 7 P. M. DALLES ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. 6. of earn month at 7 P. M. MODERN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. ML Hood Camp No. SO, Meets Tuesday even ing of each week in the K. of P. Hall, at 7:30 r. M. pOLCMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F. Meets of P. hall, corner Second ahd Court streets. Hf1nnmin V..V. , 1 H. Clouoh, Sec'y. H. A. Bills, N. G. FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. 9., K. of P. Meets every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in Schanno s building, comer of Court and Second streets. - Sojourning members are cordially in-Jfl- W. 8. Cram. D. W.Vacss, K.of R. and S. C. C. W?,5S. CHRISTIAN TEMPERENCE t So clock at the reading room. All are invited. npEMFLK LODGE NO. 8, A. O. U. W. Meets A at K. ef P. Hall, Corner Second and Court Streets, Thursday evenings at 7 -.30. ' Gborbe Gibokj", W. S Mtsbs, Financier. M. W. .TAB- NESMITH POST, No. Z, G. A. R. Meets - uw,, v. . n . jv. mixvs every Saturday at 7:88 r. u., in the K. of P. Hall. B ' OFTV E: Greets every Sunday afternoon in . the K. of P. Hall. HANG VEREIN Meets everv Sunday luiiie jv. ui r. nan. BOF L. F. DIVISION, No. 167 Meets in the X. of P. HaU the first and third Wednes day of each month, st 7:ai r. m. . . ', . . THK CHTJKCHES. ST. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father Brons gkbbt Pastor. Low Mass every Sunday at 7a.i. High Mass at 10:30 a.m.. Vespers at ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Breaching in the Y. M. C; A. rooms every Sundav at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m, ' Sunday school immediately after morning service. J. A. Orchard, pastor. STvJAT:rI8 CHURCH Union Street, opposite Fifth. Rev. EUD.Sutclifle Rector. Services every Sunday at 11a. m. and 7:30 r. x. Sunday School 9:45 A. M. Evening Prayer on Friday at FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. D. Tat- lob. Pastor. Morning services every 8ab- ism.li . lue . wauemj , aft X I A. H. oaDDath School inimediatelv f tr mnminw sowiwm. Prayer meeting Friday evening at Pastor's resi deuce. Union services in the court house at 7 CONGREGATIONAL" CHURCH Rev. . W. n. KJ Cv HTI8, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 a. M. and 7 r. m. Sunday School after morning service. Strangers cordially invited. Seats free. f E. CHURCH Rev. A. C. Spkncer. pastor. if I Services every Sunday morning. Sunday School at 12:20 o'clock r. M. A cordial invitation lsextenaea by Dptn pastor and people to all. A- A. Brown, ' Keeps a full assortment of . ' and Provisions. which he offer at Low Figures. SPECIAL :-; PRICES to Cask Buyers. HiEliest Casl Prices for E&p anj ' otlBr Produce. . . ' ; 170 SECOND STREET. J. S. SCHBSCK, President, H. M. Beali. Cashier. first Kational Bank. ;he dalles, - - OREGON A General Banking Business transacted j-eposiia receivea, subject to Sight Draft or Check. . Collections made and proceeds prompt ly remitted on aay oi collection. Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold. on rew lors, can rrancisco and prt land. DIRECTOWS. D. P. Thompson. Jso. S. Schenck Ed. M, Williams, ' Geo. A. Likbk. H. Al. Bkall. " STAGY SHOOIN, Tie WalcHiiiaRer, Has opened an office for Cleaning and Kepairing Watches, Jewelry, etc. All work guaranteed and promptly attended. AT C. E. DUflJlflflS OLD STAND, Cor. Second and Union Streets. W. E. GARRETSON, 11 SOLB AGENT FOB THK All Watch Work Warranted. Jewelry Made to Order. 138 Second St.. The iValles. Or. Pipe Work, Tin Repairs and Roofing. Mains Tapped' Under Pressure. Shop on Third St., next door west of Yoang& Kaes' blacksmith shop. G.V7. Johnston & Son, GarpeiitBrs autt BuililBrs. Shop at No. 112 First Street. ' . ' All Job Work .promptly attended and estimates given on all Wood work. . il Chimneys Cleaned Carpets take np, cleaned and pat down, also Closets and Chimnevg cleaned on sjiort notice at reasonable r ; . "... rates.' Orders received through the postoffice GRANT MORSE 1015-tf- FLOURING MILL TO LEASE. THE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER Company's Flour Mill will be leaned to re sponsible parties. For information apply to tbe . . -. WATER COMMISSIONERS, ' 'I be Dalles, Oregon. Staple and Fancy Groceries, Mm Jeweler EOBT. TVT A 5TS- MAYS & ' ' -SALE AGENTS FOR STQVES AND RANGES. ; Jewetfs Steel Raw ani Martan's ani Boston's Furnaces. We also keep a large and complete stock of Hardware, Tinware, Granite, Blueware Silverware, Cutlery, Barbed Wire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps j Pipe, v ; ' Packing, Plumbers Supplies, Guns, , '. ; Ammunition and Sporting Goods; : :;; Plumbing Tinning, Gun Repairing and Light l'; " ; . - Machine Work a Specialty. COR. SECOND ANI) FEDCKAt STS.. G r e at B arg ains ! . . ' ' Ss Removal ! Removal I On account of Removal I will sell mv entire stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Trunks and Valises, Shelv ings, Counters, Desk, Safe, Fixtures, at a Great Bargain. Come and see my offer. GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL. 125 Second Street, JEW FULL BHD WIIITEB DRY GOODS , ' COMPLETE I If EVERY DEPARTMENT. Boots and Shoes. Full Assortment of the Leading Manufacturers. Cash Bayers mill save money by examining our stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere. a H. Herbrinsr. The Dalles . Mercantile Co., Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers in .General Merchandise, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc. Groceries, Hardware, . Provisions, ' . Flour, Bacon, HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE Of all Kinds at Lowest Market Hates. ' Free Delivery to Boat and Curs and all parts of the City 390 and 394 Second Street H. C. NIELS6N, Clothiep and Tailor. WWXO XX IN XJ OXXWJliO, ; Hats and Caps, Trans and Valises, CORNER OF SECOND AND WASHINGTON, PAUL KREFT CO.. -DKALBK8 IN- Paints, Oils, Glass ' ' And tbe Most Complete and the Latest i Patterns and Designs in ' WAT iT m Practical Painters and Paper Hangers.' None cj-ut tbe beet brands of the Sberwin-Wllliams Paint used in all our work, and none but the most skilled workmen employed. All orders promptly attended to 10-17-d fttor sad lalnt Shop -orar Third and Washington 8treta X.. 35. CBO WJfl. CROWE, THE CELEBRATED- 1- THK DALLES, OREGON. The Dalles. THE DALLES, OREGON. The Old Germania Saloon. JOHN D0NRV0N, Proprtetor. The best quality oi Wines. Liquors and Cigars, Pabst Milwaukee Knicker bocker and Columbia Beer, Half lind Half and all kinds '. of , Temperance Drinks. . ALWAYS ON HAND