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THURSDAY,
MAY 25, 1893
THE WOOJjSITVATION
It ie expected that the yield of wool in
item Oregon will amount to at least
17,000,000 pounds this year. While
this large yield should be gratifying to
all sheep men the market conditions are
in the last degree discouraging. At no
time has the price of American scoured
medium been as low as it is today,
which is 52c.53c. The lowest record
prior to this time was in 1885, when it
fell to 55c. While eastern mills are
fairly busy on old orders, they are
doing almost nothing in the way of new
business, and consequently manufactur
ers are not disposed to buy wool. It
now looks as though considerable ma
chinery would be stopped as soon as the
fall business gets a little further ad
vanced. The tariff change that is ex
pected next winter means a great falling
off in business while the order of traded
being brought aboutjand the disposi
tion with manutacturefs will be to go
alow and operate with conversatism
during the period between now and the
time the change is made. They will not
make any goods ahead to take the sure
chances of a loss in the iace of a tariff
reduction , and their business until a
lower duty goes into effect will depend
largely on the amount of goods the
clothing people will require to carry
them through. These are the conditions
that wool dealers are obliged to face in
negotiating with our wool growers for
the new clip, and it is needless to say
that they derive little comfort from the
outlook. The money question is also
bound to be a factor of importance in
handling the clip. The prospect is now
leaning strongly towards a tight money
market, and with the unfavorable out
look, the indications are that the banks
will curtail their lines of credit to a con
siderable extent, and through higher
rates of interest make dealers even less
sanguine of profit, and more disposed to
wards following a hand to mouth
method of operations. There is every
indication at present of a slow draggy
season in the wool trade, with the dis
position to buy close and conservatively
with quick turns, as there will be appar
antly no profit in holding wools under
the conditions promised for this clip.
The Six Companies who ordered the
Chinese not to register have sent the
Astoria Chinese another circular of a re
assuring nature, which, as translated for
the Associated Press, reads as follows:
"To our Astoria brothers, and espec
ially to those who do cannery work :
Tour officers need not telegraph to us
any more. You may feel secure. A
cablegram was received lrom Prince Li
Hung Chang yesterday. He says that
our imperial government is sending a
commissioner on the next steamer to see
President Cleveland in Washington. He
knows what to say, and the American
law will be altered when he tells the
American president what the emperor
desires. Do not be afraid or leave the
country. Yon will not be made to reg
ister. The men in the Astoria canneries
are good residents, and we want them to
be careful not to offend any American
officials, because we will prove that great
damage will be done by sending you out
of the country.. Nobody who is working
will be sent away. We will send you
word again soon."
The rule of the Six Companies ha6
been as absolute in the United
States as that of the emperor in China.
However a Chinamen in The Dalles said
yesterday that he had made a mistake
in not registering when the opportunity
was presented a few days ago, and that
the next time he had a chance he would
do so. The Chinese all over the coun
try, from all reports, seem to have
dropped on to the Six Companies, and
their last pandering circular will unde
ceive them thoroughly as to their pre
tended power.
Ex-Mihister Stevens gives his views
with no uncertain sound in the matter
of our policy with Hawaii. He appeals
to the American people not to - desert
their kinsmen in the battle for civiliza
tion, and closes as follows : "I do not
believe the administration of President
Cleveland will neglect this great Ameri
can opportunity, careful and cautious as
it is its duty to be ; but in due time, and
at an early date, I believe it will not fail
of its great duty to the American peo
ple. Failure to accept this valuable
prize would surely bring our statesmen
to the bar of history with an indictment
of blundering" criminality from which
there could be no escape."
There is not a single state institution
located at Salem. They are-all outside
the city limits, and are no more a part
of Salem than ia Dahomey.
Wanted.
Ladies to do writing at home, will pay
$18 to $20 per week. Send self addressed,
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22.3t
PRESIDENT'S.PRESENTS.
Queer Things That Have Been Sent
to the Chief Executive.
Enough Animals and Odds and Ends
to Stock a Large Museum JL
Trying; Ordeal to Un
dergo. If Mr. Cleveland takes to his home,
says the New York Times, all the pres
ents of one description and another
which have been sent to him since last
November he will have a museum that
will be worth going miles to see. His
admiring fellow-citizens from one end
of the country to the other have been
showing their devotion to him by send
ing him no end of remembrances.
If it had been Christmas eve every
night since November 8, and his stock
ing had been hung up every time, it
would have been stuffed more than
full every morning. He has" received
ilmost everything from live stock to
jewelry, and the accumulation is some
thing which cuts a considerable figure
vhen the question of moving is under
consideration.
Many, in fact most, of these gifts
have come from persons whom he does
not know. Some of them are of no
earthly use, and some which might be
useful if he were the owner of a dime
nuseum or the proprietor of a stock
arm would be out of place in the white
1 louse or the spacious grounds about it.
Somebody in Michigan showed his
Levotion to the president by sending
iim a deer about two months ago. It
iv as in a healthy condition and had an
appetite that was something enormous.
No one knows just what the sender
thought Mr. Cleveland was to do with
the animal or why he would appreciate
such a gift. It came by express to this
city, and, as his residence was not built
for the accommodation of such animals,
it was forwarded to his country place
at Buzzard's Bay. Soon after the deer
there came from a distant state a large
rooster that crowed incessantly.
It was a good enough rooster as
roosters go, but was not interesting
enough to be classed as a curiosity or
useful enough to pay for his "board and
keep." As a symbol of victory, he did
the best that his lungs and large expe
rience could do, and at unseemly hours
in the morning has been proclaiming
to a large section of Lakewood town
ship that he is on earth and is enjoying
life immensely.
Some one sent to the. president a
live raccoon about six weeks ago, and
this, thoujrh not considered intrinsical
ly of value, is said by "old inhabitants"
to be a proper present for a president.
It is said, too. that had not some one
sent a live raccoon to Mr. Cleveland
the precedents of a hundred years
would have been broken. Ex-President
Harrison received more than one, and
it is said that since the early days
hardly a president has been chosen
who has not been the recipient of one
or more of these animals. As a gift to
the president the raccoon is said to
stand at the head of the animal lnnfr
dom. with the oppossum a gooa second.
It was in June of last year that Mr.
Harrison received his last installment
of oppossum, when an admirer from
Virginia sent him a pair, a few days'
after his nomination at Minneapolis.
The gold-headed cane has been a
favorite with those who have desired
to send to Mr. Cleveland a token of
esteem. His rack is filled with them
and with canes that are not gold
headed. Canes from the old home
of Thomas Jefferson are among
the number; canes of hickory from
men who cast their first vote for "Old
Hickory"' Jackson and their last for
Mr. Cleveland have come in such num
bers as to indicate that there must be
nearly a quorum of the old Jacksonian
democrats still on earth. The supply
of this article which Mr. Cleveland has
on hand would go a long way toward
supplying timber for the annual cane
rushes in American colleges next faU
if it were distributed.
A great many people who say they
voted for him have apparently thought
Mr. Cleveland would be interested to
know how they look. As a conse
quence he has a large collection of
photographs. They show the voter in
all stages, from the stripling of twenty-one
to the patriarch of fourscore.
They show him in profile and from a
square front elevation. They show
him in broadcloth and in homespun.
Some of the photographs are of men,
apparently, who resolved in Lincoln's
time not to shave again until a demo
crat was elected president and who had
lost their razors eight years ago. Some
have sent two photographs, one show
ing them with a clean-shaven fae'e and'
one with a beard. Explanatory notes
have accompanied some of these photo
graphs which have depicted a degree
of -jov at the election of Mr. Cleveland
which the camera has failed to reveal.
Some of these photographs indicate a
hungry gleam in the eye, which, taken
with the general contour of the head,
is entirely inconsistent with the spirit
of civil-service reform as enunciated
and practiced by Mr. Cleveland.
Some look as if the original had had
his eye strained at a fourth-class
postmaster's job so long as to have im
paired the sight permanently.
Many persons have attempted to se
cure some free and widespread adver
tising for a business house by making
gifts to Mr. Cleveland. These are
dealers in hats and other articles who
recognize that'a note of acceptance
would be valuable. These articles
have been returned in some instances.
The presents which have come to
Mr. Cleveland have included slippers
enough to last him the balance of his
'life if he saw fit to use them, elabo
rate pieces of fancy embroidery made
by women who have taken great
pains with them, and curious pieces of
bric-a-brac. They are of little value,
for every one seems to have respected
Mr. Cleveland's policy of never accept
ing presents which would in any sense
put him under personal obligations to
the donors. They are taken as Indica
tions of a kindly feeling in the hearts
of the people which cannot bo other
than pleasing.
"THE DESTROYER."
Built from Plans Left by the Late John
Ericsson.
j3hortly after Capt. John Ericsson had
built the original Monitor and her sis
ter gunboats he conceived the idea of
inventing another vessel that would be
able to demolish his earlier creations.
With this end in view, he spent much
time and money over a vessel carrying a
submarine battery that finally met with
his ideas, but, says Harpers Weekly, the
old man died before he received any fa
vorable response from the government
Washington. The authorities, however,
approved of the plan of the boat
for the testing of the systent, and
the work was carried on by the Erics
son Coast Defense company, under the
supervision - of Engineer V. F. Lassoe
EXTERIOR VIEW OF "TITE DESTROYER.
and others, who were closely associated
with Capt. Ericsson for many years.
Improvements in the boat were further
made, and the vessel, aptly named the
Destroyer, now lies at the Brooklyn
navy-yard. She is 130 feet in length,with
12-foot beam; draught 10 feet, with a
displacement of 250 tons. Her bow and
stern lines are exactly the same, being
straight and very sharp. The upper
deck is low, with no rail, and from
amidships rises a long superstructure
with no openings, so that the vessel, if
required, may run with upper deck
submerged. At a distance of 32 feet
from the bow a heavy-armored bulk
head, which is inclined at a ver
tical angle of 45 degrees, crosses
the vessel. This is intended
as a protection to the engines
and boilers, and permits the boat to
run toward the enemy bow on. Eight
feet under water is the projectile, 27
feet 4 inches in length, and weighing
1,525 pounds. It is of steel, with a
heavy bursting charge in the forward
enc', which is exploded by percussion
cap. This charge is of 300 pounds,. and
the diameter of the projectile 16
inches. A tube runs the entire length
of the vessel just above the keel, and is
fixed with wateir tight gates at the bow.
Only 30 to 4'J pounds of powder are re
quired to prooel the torpedo, the muz
zle velocity of which is 54S feepcr sec
ond. A series of trials took place near
Now York recently, and the results
were extremely satisfactory. The
mechanism of the gun showed no de
i forts during the firing, and the report
J states that had a vessel 100 feet in
leii,?th. with a draught of 20 feet, been
stal ioned CX feet away, 15 out of 20
; shots fired would have struck her. The
; Destroyer is more effective than a ram,
j although the projectile has been termed
i "the detachable ram," for it is able to
achieve similar results at a distance.
:
HOW WE TASTE.
The Middle of the Tongue Is the Most
Sensitive.
Strictly speaking, with the tip of the
tongue one cannot really taste at all
If you put a drop of oil of bitter almonds
on that part of the mouth you will find,
no doubt, to your great surprise, that it
produces no effect of any sort; you only
taste it when it begins slowly to diffuse
itself and reaches the true tasting region
in the middle distance. But if you put
a little mustard or cayenne on the same
part you will find that it bites you im
mediately the experiment should be
tried sparingly while if you put it
lower down in the mouth you will swal
low it almost without noticing the pun
gency of the stimulant.
The reason is, says the Yankee Blade,
that the tip of the tongue is supplied
only with the nerves of touch, not
nerves of taste proper; they belong to a
totally different main branch, and they
go to a different center in the brain,
together with the very similar threads,
which supply the nerves of smeU for
mustard and pepper.
That is why the smell and taste of
these pungent substances are so much
alike, as everybody must have noticed,
a good sniff at a mustard pot producing
almost the same irritating effects as an
incautious dose.
When one is trying deliberate experi
ments on the subject in order to test
the varying sensitiveness of the differ
entrparts to different substances it is
necessary to keep the tongue quite
dry in order to isolate the thing you
are experimenting with and prevent it
spreading to all parts of the mouth to
gether. In actual practice this result
is obtained in a rather ludicrous man
ner by blowing upon the tongue be
tween each experiment with a pair of
bellows. To such undignified expe
dients does the pursuit of science lead
the modern physiologist.
German Railroads.
An official of a railroad, recently re
turned from Europe, referring to rail
way practice in Germany, says: "The
roadbeds are about perfect, while the
stations are simply magnificent, even in
the most insignificent places being very
fine. The roadbeds are quite rigid, but
this is mainly due to the iron and steel
cross tie's that are used. The lceomo
tives are fine pieces of mechanism, but
their capacity is scarcely equal to those
on this side of the Atlantic. Their en
tire passenger equipment is away be
hind that in use here. Their trains,
itowever, run like clockwork, and the
connections are perfect."
That man has reached a high state
of grace who never blames his wife for
his own mistakes.
BORN.
In this city. May 24th, to the wife of
Mr. Julius Wiley a son, weight 7 lbs.
Father, mother and son doing well.
BOGUS HYPNOTISM.
Astounding Confessions of Fraud
by Professional Subjects.
Some of the "Fakes" of Humbug Mes
merists in Europe How a Man
Was Apparently Hypnotised
by Telephone.
Hypnotism has been having a hard
time lately in London, Paris and Eu
rope generally, but especially in Eng
land. Confessions of professional sub
jects have become common. There is,
indeed, a very strong disposition to
reject hypnotism entirely and consign
it to the limbo of exploded fakes.
The London Times had a series of
letters some time ago from an eyewit
ness and alleged investigator of the re
markable doings of Prof. Charcot and
other less noted doctors in Paris, de
scribing in detail the "desensitiza
tion" of subjects, the "mind transfer
ence," and all the wondrous things
made familiar to us- of late years, and
setting up a seemingly strong case in
favor of all that has been claimed for
hypnotism.
This induced Mr. Labouchere of
Truth, to tell of an interview he had
with one of the hypnotic subjects most
before the public a short time ago.
This subject gave undoubted evidence
that he humbugged the doctors
throughout, and that by practice he
and other well-known subjects, whom
he named had cultivated the ability to
eat candles and soap, and to drink
castor oil and pepper sauce when "un
der the influence," smacking their lips
as if eating cake and drinking wine,
as "suggested" to them. He permit
ted needles to be thrust through his
ears and cheeks, and thoroughly satis
fied Mr. Labouchere that he could sub
mit to all the wonderful things com
mon in hypnotic demonstrations.
This seemed to hurt the mesmerist
business, and-apparently the subjects
were thrown out of work. They have
turned to and deluged the land with
confessions. Some are astounding, all
are amusing. One man tells how he
traveled for a year, along with five
other subjects, with one of the best
known traveling mesmerists in the
country. The man was reaUy able to
mesmerize people and perform some of
the actual wonders of the remarkable
agency; but he did a vast amount of
"faking." One time he declared to a
Committee of local doctors in a provin
cial town that he could as easily hyp
notize a man over the telephone as
face to face.
The professor went about a mile
away, called up his desired subject to
the telephone fixed on the stage, and
told him to go to sleep. The man
promptly complied, and the doctors
jabbed pins and needles into his flesh,
pinched him, pulled his tongue and
poked his eyes. The man was in pos
session of all his senses. A dozen times
he wanted to yell but held out, know
ing that the professor was driving to
the hall as fast as a horse could bring
him. Finally the subject was placed
with his feet on one chair and his
neck on another, and two fat doctors
:;at on his chest. His backbone was
just giving out when the professor
rushed breathlessly into the haU and
released him. This subject soon after
ward resigned.
STREETS UNDER GLASS.
An Extraordinary Proposition to Cover
Over London Thoroughfares.
A proposal to make London a glass
roofed city is the subject of a long let
ter addressed to the London Daily
News. The plan, which will not be
popular with the umbrella-makers, re
sembles one in Mr. Bellamy's "Looking
Backward. The writer, however, does
not treat the subject as part of a scheme
for a future Utopia, but as one to be
carried to a practical and successful
issue. He says:
"The covering of Cheapside, Poultry,
Queen Victoria street, Regent street,
lionu street, or uxlord street with a
glass roof may appear a quixotic sug
gestion, but other at first sight less
practical schemes have been launched
successfully, and the world has not
ceased to revolve on its axis in conse
quence. The gain to the great British
.public, or to that section who are in the
habit of traveling the main arteries of
London, from a point of comfort alone,
should be sufficient to warrant a trial.
Most people prefer brightness and beau
ty to dirt and discomfort. Nothing to
my mind, can have a more miserable
and tawdry appearance than a leading
London, thoroughfare on a wet day,
when poor, dripping humanity de
scends to the depths of despondency
and every object, animate and inani
mate, has a washed-out appearance. A
change from the conditions of things
would be delightful to all persons con
cerned those who would reside under
glass, so to speak, and those who would
use the thoroughfare for business pur
poses. The former would, of course,
be called upon to bear the expense of
improvement. If I say the outlay they
would incur would be returned to them
in a few years, owing to the increased
flow of business to their doors and to
the lessened expenditure upon paint
and cleaning I should- be under the
mark. Our wood and asphalt streets
would be dry, perfectly safe in all
weathers, and the lease of life doubled
or trebled. If the rain water were not
preserved for domestic use it could be
usefully applied in flushing the sewers
with clean water instead of liquid mud.
The health of the inhabitants would be
greatly benefited by breathing dry at
mosphere instead of a damp, humid
one. Our clothes, boots, hats and general
comfort would not suffer as they do
now." .
Queen Victoria has sent specimens
of her own art work to the Chicago
fair. She has three landscapes, mount
ed in plain frames, representing scenes
near Balmoral. A fourth is a view of
Aix-les-Bains, taken from the spot
where the queen intended to build a
villa. .
No hearses are used in the City of
Mexico. The coffins and mourners are
borne to the cemeteries in horseears.
He Starts for Europe "With His SI 80,000.
With languid, measured tread he as
cended the gang plank, the waiting
hundred stepped back in awed silence,
making a passage for him, and bowed in
speechless reverence as he passed. The
vision of loveliness had been too much
for them.
Paddy wore a tall silk hat much too
small for him, which nestled down on
his chrysanthemum locks like a cork in
a demijohn. He also wore a chastened
look, for he had been up late the night
before playing billiards and smoking
cigarettes, HisJong black overcoat was
thrown back and disclosed his low, roll
ing collar, flapping white tie and equally
white throat.
The women lost consciousness only for
a moment. When Paddy had reached
the upper deck they made a wild rush
after him, surrounded him, shook his
hand, begged for his autograph, and
hoped "Oh, so much, Mr. Paderewski,"
that he would come back. Most of the
women had the Pans passenger list in
their hands, and wanted the idol's auto
graph on thai.
He had a. hard time writing those
autographs. He wrote against the side
of the deck cabin sometimes, bat as he
wrote his left hand would be grasped by
one or two admirers, and having only
one hand with which to hold the paper
and pencil, he frequently dropped one
or both. Once when he dropped his
pencil he muttered to a reporter to kick
it overboard. This the sympathetic
man did, but a woman with phenomenal
adroitness found her pocket before the
ship sailed, and produced another pencil.
When it was seen that there were not
going to be autographs enough to go
around the women began stealing each
others lists which has already been
signed.
He said, in answer to anxious in
quiries, that his health was improved,
and that he had only pleasant recollec
tions of his American tour, excepting
his recent Chicago experience. He de
clared vehemently that his treatment by
the Chicago papers was nothing less
than outrageous, and all the women
shuddered to think that the Chicago
papers could be so incomprehensibly
wicked. He consoled his adorers then
by adding that he bad taken in $180,000
during the tour in return for 70 concerts.
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three doses each week.
Sold under a positive guarantee.
'50 cents per bottle by all druggists.
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