o
LITTLE OF EVERY-THING.
(iermany has a 4000-ton forging press.
A natural gas gusher has been struck
nettes, etc., and it frequently applied
the polish will remain bright for a long |
time. Combs of tortoise are said by
good authority to be better for the hair
than either rubber, bone or celluloid,
an(1 WOI1)en wjlO |,Rve used them for
it would be quite impossible
fo* t |jem to dreg8 t |,ejr |,air with any
Qther
j„ tjnw t bese combsalmost
gee)n {O become a part of one’s self, to
partake of the owner’s personality as far
as H„y inanimate object possibly can.
W H O L E S A L E A N D R E T A IL ’D E A L R E S IN
in Boone county, Indiana.
Bee« never store honey in the light be-
cause honey so exposed granulates and
Id thus useless to the bees.
Dr. F. Werner records that, in captiv-
ity, certain grasshop|»ers bite ofl and
even devour portions of their legs.
A fresh egg contains the same amount
of nourishment as one ami a half ounces j
A F is h T h a t B u ild s H o u se s.
of fresh meat and one ounce of wheaten
bread, but in a more digestible form.
III Lake Nyassa, Africa, there is a
Women require one hour of sleep more curious little black fish which builds a
a day than men. Fewer of the latter ! breeding house every year. In the bot
reach the age of fifty than the former, tom mud of the lake it scoops out a ba
but afterward the sterner sex has the sin two or three feet in diameter, heap
ing up the mud removed from the hole
liest of it.
Electricity is never visible but in its so as to form a wall around the margin.
form of zigzag lightning. Edison thinks In this lake within a lake this queer lit
differently as to the first point, and pho tle fish erects a mud house about four
tography has proven the second to be an teen inches across at the bottom, rap
idly coming to a point in the shape of a
optical illusion.
broad cone. A hole about four inches
Boston is talking of disposing of its
in diameter, always on the south side,
garbage by chemical treatment instead
i serves as an opening
for egress and in
‘
of by cremation. I lie plan proposed |
A dried specimen of this queer
would require the investment of about !^rt8S
piscatorial domicile preserved in the
$175,000 in a plant.
Royal Museum at Berlin has two doors
In experimenting with potatoes, Kau
C orner Olive and E ig h th S treets.,
and a mud wall separating the dwelling
lin finds that the crop decreases in pro
1 into two rooms.
portion as the clay and limestone in the
S u p p ly o f E n teral»!« D e c r e a s in g .
OREGON.
EUGENE,
soil augments, and increases with the
Emeralds are said to be steadily dis-
augmenting proportions of sand and hu-
nius.
appearing. In the ’50s and ’60s em-
Ainong the waste products now find- eralds were the favorite jewel, ami were
Ing application in agriculture are woolen worn strung on a thread like pearls,
Will Pay, through its Advertising Col
waste, wood dust and residue from crude hucli a string of emeralds was exhibited
umns, a larger Dividend for the Money
wool. These are used successfully after in a jeweler’s w indow’ and was estimated
Invested than can be realized from any
proper treatment as fertilizing materials. to he worth $3,000. Now emeralds art*
polisbph fntn a WWIftl form,"1
r Abilin of ( pih hiniriiave Revise»! ’what
other source.
but
are
polished
like
diamonds.
Fault
they call a “ Hat Detective Camera."
It is provided with a complete appara less stones of a deep ami good color have
tus weighing only tw o’ ami one-half always been as valuable as diamonds.
Because it is read by the people with
ounces, w hich van be fitted into a hat, The reason of the scarcity of emeralds is
. s i being
!
i . i .i
in the Ural
whom you expect to do business. ,Can
the operation
conducted
through i 1 the decrease in production
1
Mountains.
Emeralds
were
first
discov
the ventilating hole.
you expect them to trade a t your store
ered on the right hank of the Tokowoier,
Thu black, solid-looking shadows cast
unless you invite them to do so? 1
near Kalhcritichurg, in 1830, and in the
by the electric lights that may be seen
first years the harvest was a rich one.
in the air when it is not dear suggest
Now the decrease, both in quantity and
that the “ cosmic dust’’ which is sup-
quality, hardly repays the labor. The
Is a standing invitation. Do you want
posed to occupy the inter-planetary
harvest of emeralds in Lahaehthal, in
spaces may he enpahle, in certain con
T H E P E O P L E ’S T R A D E ?
i the Salzburger Alps, has also proved
ditions, of showing a profile of the earth
disappointing, so that emeralds are now
under the powerful light of the sun.
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c --- c -- c —
W w
only to he had from Australia ami from
Muso, near Santa Ee de Bogota, in Co
Tortola«« S lu -ll.
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lombia, in any appreciable quantity. O
The greater part of the tortoise shell
! The latter spot has been not»d for its
used in the mnnufiietiire of hairpins,
emeralds since the Sixteenth Centurv.
combe and other articles both for the
M o c k i n g . o f P it p e r .
toilet and for deeoiative pur (wises is im
ported from the East ami West Indies
Stockings >( paper are among the
ami is worth in tin rough slate from latest products of German inventive
IN T H E C IT Y O F E U G E N E .
$2.56 to <6 per pound. The price varies genius. A Berlin paper, devoted to the
according to the thickness of the shell, shoe trade, stales that the socks are UND ER TAK IN G and E M B A L M IN G a Specialty
not according lo the making, as is gener- m ad e of a specially prepared impreg-
AU orders for Furniture sent us from the Siuslnvv will be shipped from Portland direct’
ally thought to lx* the case. The quan- nated paper stock , for w hich an extraor-
tiiv reaching the market is always about dimiry elleet on perspiring feet is claimed,
the same, as the turtlea deposit their The pa,x>r absorbs the moisture as rap-1
«•ggs on the sand, ami the natives, who idly as it is formed, and the feet remain
consider tl em a great delicacy, take all dry and warm ami perfectly sound
they can tind. so that only a small ,x«r while the constant tenipcr»iture main-1
cent, of those laid are ever hatched, taiiied in the shoes is said to be a great
© © c c
This shell docs not melt, but welds like preventive of colds. The manufacturers
CLO CK S * A N D * JE W E L S |
iron, and when soft is pressed into the instruct bits of their (taper to lx« put be- W A T C H E S ,
<l»««ired shape and the carving is »lone. tween the tix’S, and then a lnrge piece
Ohj»x*ta »if tortoise shell, when broken, to lx* w rapp’d over the foot, ami tie
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can he mended ao tbe repairing will lx* stocking to be put on over nil. Because
A N D W O R K W A R R AN TED
quite invisible. C anton flannel—not paper absorbs moisture may lx> a n ison
cbauiois skin, as it contains too much why some shoemakers make shoes with
AT
F I . <» F. E X C E V A It I F. T Y S T O It E ,
oil—should be us»sl to m b coml s, Ivrg-1 paper soles instend of leather.
F lorence , O b *00''
F ront S t r e e t .
A gricultural
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