The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, January 25, 1894, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextThft dalles Daily Chronicle. Entered at the PofetodJce at Toe Dalles, Oregon as second-class matter. THE DALLES OREGON THE STORMY PETREL. Queer Superstitions or Old Sailors About the Bird. ' One of the best known of the sea birds is the stormy petrel. It is oftenest seen during storms flying .above the waves in search of the shell fish and other small animals that are brought to the surface by the tempest, says St. Nicholas. The sailors call petrels "Mother Carey's chickens," and do not view them with much favor, owing to their being constant compan ions of storms. "Jack" thinks that rough weather may be expected when .he sees petrels about and is not quite sure that they do not in some way cause the tempest. Yhen the bird is on the lookout for its prey it seems to walk on the water. Hence the sea men of olden time, in allusion to the Apostle Peter's walking on the water, " called the bird petrel, from the Latin Petrellus, "Little Peter." So far from the sailor being super stitious as to the "capture of another kind of petrel, the cape pigeon, which is of black-and-white color and about the size of a tame pigeon, I have known "Jack" to take a hand occa sionally in capturing them as. a bit of recreation during a dog-watch. In southern latitudes the cape pig-eons follow a ship in thousands. A common bottle cork is tied to the end of a piece of thread and trailed astern so that the cork touches the water. This gives the required tautness to the thread. As the birds fly in clouds from side to sid e astern some of them constantly strike the thread with their wings and the resistance is enough to turn them over it, when the thread is wrapped around the wing and the bird 'is hauled on board. In this manner I have seen hundreds caught in a day. On one occasion a clipper ship carry ing passengers to India captured pigeons by hundreds and the surgeon by some mischance succeeded in en tangling a stormy petrel. Now, the doctor was an enthusiastic naturalist and what to the sailors is known as a "land-lubber" that is, he was on his first voyage. The doctor at once took the specimen to his cabin and made - preparations to skin and preserve it. In hot haste a deputation of seamen, headed by the old gray haired sail-maker, came aft. with a re quest that the petrel be set at liberty, saying that otherwise the ship and all on board would surely suffer. The doctor, somewhat surprised, in tended to set the bird free, but his en thusiasm as a naturalist prevailed over the superstitious warning and -when the saiiors had disappeared the bird was added to his collection. The fact soon became known forward among the men and the doctor was re garded with black looks by the crew . for the remainder of the voyage. Tin the course of time the good ship anchored in the Hugil river and that day at dinner the doctor suddenly died. There was a gathering of the sailors around the windlass that dog-watch and the doctor's sudden dea th was at tributed by the superstitious sailors to his slaughter of the stormy petrel. Large Foreign Cities. Of cities with more than one hun tired thousand population England has thirty, Germany twenty-four, France and. Russia each twelve. Italy ten, Austria-Hungary six, Spam five, Bel tfium, the Scandinavian states, Eou- mania and the Balkan islands each four, the Netherlands three, Portugal two; the, total in Europe being one hundred and sixteen great cities. Asia has one hundred and five, China having fifty-three and British India thirty. In Africa there are seven, in America forty, of which the United States has twenty-six; South America nine. Aus tralia has only two large cities. Face and Figure Show it if you're a healthy woman. They'll have a beauty of their own. no "matter what your features. Perfect health, with ita clear skin, rosy cheek9 and bright eyes, is enough to make any . woman attractive. To get perfect health, use faithfully Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. That regulates and promotes all the proper functions of womanhood, improves di gestion, enriches the blood, dispela aches and pains, brines refreshing sleep, and restores health, fieeh and strength. For periodical pains, prolapsus and other displacements, bearing-down sen sations, and "female complaints" gen erally, it is eo effective that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't benefit or cure, you have your money back. Is anything that isn't sold in this way likely to be "just as good?" A Leader. Since its first introduction, electric bitters has gained rapidly in popular favor, until now it is clearly in the lead -among pure medicinal tonics and alter- atives containing nothing which per znits its nse as a beverage or intoxicant, it is recognized as the best and purest medicine for all ailments' of stomach, liver or kidneys. It will cure sick head ache, indigestion, constipation ana drive materia from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed, with each bottle or thc money will be refunded. Price only 50c. per bottle. Sold by Snipes & Kinersly. Warner's butter at Maier & Benton's grocery store. "I have been troubled with liver com plaint, kidney disease and bad blood for a long time. I have used Simmons Liver Regulator, and it has done me more good than all the medicines I ever took. ""Geo. H. Pratt, TJ. S. Dep'y Col., 21 Dis't.Ga. MIDWINTER FAIR. California Mid winter Interna- tional Exposition. Department V of Publicity and Promotion. )' Weekly Circular Letter No. 8. - With the single exception of the Ad ministration building, which needs a full week's work before it will be com pleted, the five main buildings of the California Midwinter International Ex position are practically finished. Still, it has been found impossible to open the Exposition in all its departments on J an. J. When the projectors, of this indus trial enterprise took adVantage of the plorions midwinter weather in Califor nia they did not expect that the wintry winds on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the mountains of snow between that point and this, would array themselves in opposition to their plans. This, how ever, has proven to be the case, and hundreds of carloads of exhibits wnicn were to come from the Columbian Ex position to stand on - dress parade in Golden Gate park have been seriously delayed by the weather. There has been great difficulty experienced in getting cars to load eoods on at Chicago as fast as they were ready, and when they had once been started westward, a series or obstacles had to be overcome until, even though the buildings in San Francisco are practically ready for their reception, the bulk of the exhibits which are to be made by foreign nations have not yet arrived. It has been found necessar . therefore. to postpone the formal ceemonies of opening the Exposition for a few aays, or until everything is in place. .On the first day of January, however, an infor mal opening occurs. . The flags of all nations will fly from the flag poles on the Exposition buildings and m the grounds, there will be music and gen eral gala day effects, but the "day of days, " the day when San Francisco shall be a perfect sea of bunting, when her people shall turn ont en masse, when an extra legal holiday shall be declared and when all California shall join in tne great ceremony of the opening of this great midwinter festival that day will come a little later on. Quite a number of the concessional features of the Exposition are all in. readiness and will be in full blast on Jan. 1. The great Firth wheel begins its revolutions with the New Year; the lions and tigers in the wild animal arena will roar to New Year audiences; the Santa Barbara sea lions will roll and roar in the great tanks that have been provided for them; the forty-niner mining camp will receive calls in true frontier fashion; beer and pleasure will flow at the Heidelberg castle; the Ha waiian cyclorama will be open to the public; the curious ones can do down into the Colorado gold mine;" and even the great electric tower will be almost completed. But this word "almost" will be changed into "quite "in its appli cation to everything projected in con nection with the Exposition before the grand opening day comes on, and when that day comes there will be spread out before the visiting multitude the most complete and most picturesque exposi tion that the western sun has ever shone upon. t " . Speaking of the great JJirtn wneei sug gests mention of a very interesting in teresting incident which took place in connection with its construction the other day. During a temporary lull in the work of putting up the spiderlike spokes of this wheel, a man was observed to clamber up in the mass of timbers surrounding the base of the superstruct ure. He was at first supposed to be a workman, and no special attention was paid him. Presently, however, he clam bered out on one of the lower spokes. The superintendent of construction, catching sight of him, asked what he wanted up -there. The adventurer made no response, but continued his as cent, working his way inside the periphery with catlike agility. The superintendent ordered him down. The only answer he got was an invita tion to come and fetch mm. He kept on climbing, and where the periphery' has not been placed he had to slide down the big spokes until he reached the chan nel irons. Crossing on these to the next spoke, he worked out to the periphery, and proceeded as before. By this time quite a crowd had gathered, watching the progress of this daring fellow, 120 feet from the ground. He was repeatedly warned to look out for himself, buthowed himself abund antly able to do so. Finally he reached the the j highest point, and, standing at full length, gave an exulting yell, which was answered by a group of friends near the volcano building. Of course he came down the other way, and thus made the first revolution of the great JTirth wheel. On reaching the ground he disclosed his identity, and was recog nized as a sailor and rigger. He said he had made the trip to settle a bet that he would make the ' first .trip around this great rotary construction. , One of the sensations of the Exposi tion will be the famous diver, Kohana Maka, whose record as a long-distance swimmer, deep diver and shark hunter surpasses that of all aquatic wonders of the great Pacific. It is Kohana Maka V&o has kept alive the old shark-hunting custom of the early kings of Hawaii. In former days it was the custom of royal sportsmen to go to sea in their war canoes or catamaran, taking along a large Ibpwl bf chopped enemies. This bowl was- placed over the water, -ahd iragmnw oi numiea muuuaiweie tnrusc through a hole in the bottom of the bowL thus attracting schools of man eating sharks. When the sharks be came thick around the boats a native king would dive in among- them, knife in hand, and, coming up under the school, would stab one as he arose. This is one of the things that Kohana Maka does in these days. There will be no sharks in the little lake within the Hawaiian enclosure at the Midwinter Exposition, but there will be ample room for diving and for Kohana and other great swimmers to exercise. Four women and three men, all experts, form the little company of Swimmers, headed by Kohana Maka. 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