H IL A R IO U S T S IL T C O O S . prepared for the m arket, at lia - t $--> a yURD & DAVENPORT. :n. head, and the profits of the contractor A» it is im pssible to catch onto a sin were consequently very large. O u r W in te r Stock gle item of news this week, I will present We have you with some pen pictures of people I O f B oot s and Shoes T lie C o lo r o f In d ia n a . Just Received know. I)o you recognize them ? The color of th e Indian race varies An immense line of D ry Goods, lia s arriv ed . Fine assortment f(n. (— ) This is E . If. D. who dashes • both ladies and gentlemen. 1 much individually, as does th a t of our ' Fancy Goods, L adies’ Hoods, about driving oxen, building saw -mills not fail to ask lor our famous own Caucassian race, and it also varies Fascinators, In fan ts’ Hoods and and w hat not. much w ith the different tribes. It is safe Ja c k and J ill children school Sacks. Come early for bargains (.) This is O. L. B., who, when he gets shoe—all sizes. to describe them in general term s as —before supply is exhausted. angry, ulwavs makes a long pause before brown. Some tribes are of a decidedly lie speaks. light shade of brown, while others ( ;j This is J . L. F ., who stops ju st are so dark—the California coast tribes, long enough to make sure it is a bear, ( for instance—as to almost suggest th e Then be turns and niim away— Numerous individuals have For a lie ’ll “ w rap” a tiear some other day. J negro Groceries, (:) This is M. F. I1., who fails to been notjced by travelers in some Indian HURD & nftUENPüRT. C rneeries, Groceries^ Few Days “ grasp th e situ a tio n ,” until he is fol­ tribes, as the M andau, Zuni and others, W e w ill close out our entire line lowed by convincing proof th a t the po­ who are so light t bat the idea of th eir Fresh stock always on band. descent from European people gained cur­ of S traw Goods. Those desir- tatoes are not dug. (,) Here is <1. II., who can pause but rency. It was chiefly this fact th a t lent Well Selected ing a ’w ay down bargain will it m om ent—he is so busy getting moved weight to the theory propounded less Stock of Hats. In this line we ex­ call a t once. These goods will than one hundred years ago th a t colonies go a t h a lf price. and so on. cel all competitors. (!) Why, my s ta r s ! T hat m ust have of Welch had been planted in the wilds of America. A h we know now, however, been a “ sh rie k ” from B. F. W. (?) This will represent the policy of these light colored Indians are simply of th e new adm inistration. a natural brown, or are albinos. Of th e (“ ” ] This is “ (i. M .” who is fond of latter class perhaps those at Zuni are the liglit company’s m ains. The hotel is quoting old saws. best know. i now fitted up regularly with an electric [W.] Here is a young man who always ioven. A S n a k e W illi a H aliy's H ead . represents one point of th e compass. It is pointed out by a scientist th a t th e ( ’«] This is Mrs. V., who possesses the Jo n ath an Baker, while working on bis world’s most precious gems are com­ best husband and the finest ranch in Or­ farm at Coalton, Ohio, one day recently, posed of the commonest substances, th e egon. beard a strange hissing sound coming diamon 1, for instance, being pure car- [-] This is (J’s. ami M ’s., w hoalthougb ! fro|n u ,og pi,(, W ondering w hat it bon—that is to say, charcoal devoid of two d istinct families, seem to be always could be, be removed th e logs one by I impurities. connected. one. After several bad been removed The little village of Brem en, T h u r­ [tj Here is J . E. W., who always lias lie was horrified to see a mighty serp en t, ingia, boasts of the sm allest electric a good story to tell by way of ex p lan a­ with a head resem bling th a t of a babe, light installation. A single arch lam p in tion. spring up. Back from the low forehead j the church is operated, when needed, by I A. it B.] These are th e poor tired coursed an abundance of soft h air, and j a little dynamo driven by the water- editors who have hint quite enough and beneath the w rinkled brow peered eyes ! wheel of the village mill. w ant to (piit this foolishness. of evil. Now, whim I meet a friend who tu rn s Kush Valley, U tah , has a mine of n a t­ From its lips darted a forked tongue, hi" head the other way as I pass by, 1 as the m onster, fully eight feet long, and ural shoe blacking. An analysis of th e shall take it ns a sign th at he bus recog­ us thick us a m an 's th ig h , tried to spring peculiar stuff reveals the fact th a t it is nized bis portrait. upon th e farm er. M r. Baker called a composed of sixteen per cent of carbon, Please read Mrs. Miller instead of friend, Joseph M cCartney, who v.us eighteen per cent of bitumen and the re- “ Mrs. W ilkes” in last week’s Tsiltcoos working near. Both took their axes, and ' m ainder album en, almost pure. item s. (.¡All. M aker . one struck the m onster a blow on the C U R IO U S F A C T S . buck of its head, while the other tackled Tu K e e p (In n a F r o m K iih I lu g . HURD & DAVENPORT. its hoily. The brute w rithed and hissed in hor- rusting is to have a ring of zinc soldered rfbk, agonVt aI|(| the ¡t emitte(J round th e barrel, or, if it is not conven­ was perfectly aw fill. It made an effort ient to dn this, to have a long strip of to strike with its powerful tail, but the •zinc aoldcred out of sight underneath the men kept d e a r of it until the snake was barrel. The galvanic action which isex- dispatched by repeated blows. cited ls*tween the zinc and the iron ef­ The best wav to preserve a gun from England is as large as Iowa. The cry of a wounded hare resembles th a t of a child in distress. The first mill built in Oregon was erected in 1817 by the Hudson Bay Com­ pany. The sills, which were of oak and are yet sound, have been converted into lum ber, and will be used in the finis hing of a residence. will driv e th e sap back into the flowers, causing th em to become fresh. Then cut aw ay th e th ird of the stein which has been h e ate d , and place the flowers in cold w ater. E ig h t m illion eig h t hundred and three th o u san d bales of cotton were used bv th e w orld la st y ear. New South W ales is a great stock rais­ ing c o u n try . T he num ber of miles of fencing ia 1,690,000, built at an average cost of $209 per m ile. There are 32,000 dam s used for stock purposes, at an aver­ age cost of $415, 33,000 water tanks,each costing $965; an d 3744 wells, averaging $1145. T h is to ta l expenditure exceeds $4,000,000 for improvements in stock raising. How’s This! W e offer O ne H undred Dollars reward for any ease of C atarrh that cannot be cured by H a ll’s C atarrh Cure. F . J . C heney & Co., Toledo,0. W e, th e undersigned have known L J . C heney for th e last 15 years, and be­ lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus­ iness tran sactio n s and financially able to carry ou t an y obligations made by tbeir firm. W est & T kvax , W holesale Drug­ gists, Toiedo, O. W alding , K issax a M arvin , W holesale Druggists, Toledo, < H a ll’s C a ta rrh Cure is taken internal­ ly, acting d irectly upon the blood an;1 mucous surfaces of th e system. Tesu- ; m onials sen t free. Price 75c. perl’0' ,; I »Sold by all D ruggists. I fectually prevents the oxidation of e ith ­ P O P U LA R S C IE N C E . er m etal, mid us long as the zinc remains Moisture is a promoter of decay in in contact with the iron not a particle of fruit. A woman in Kennebunk, Me., has FO R S A L E . rust will apiH'ar on either the inside or made pets of live field crickets. Each A fine farm of 160 acres situated on Four-tilths of the engines now in the outside of the b u i l d . has a nam e and seems to know it when ■ th e Lakes South from Florence. Tin* world have been constructed during the spoken. They are peculiarly sensitive to j ranch is m ostly ald er and vine maple last twent v-tive years. H o w Henil H o r s e s XX e r e I t l l l i e i l . music, anil are always chirping when bottom lan d , h aving nearly a mile We Electric baby carriages are seen in the sound of a musical instrum ent is : Montage. T en acres under cultivation Among other arm y contractors of high j and 5 m ore slash ed ; a good orchard j01’ and low degree at or about W ashington Paris. The nurse holds a cord, and the heard. come in to b e a rin g ; 5 rooms in a frame during the war was one who had pur- buttery underneath furnishes the motive Among th e most rem arkable in v e n -' bouse th a t is ceiled and papered- good power. chitxod, as the highest bidder, the dead tions at the recent paper exhibition at out-buildings, and stock of all kinds 1 The search-light on Mount Washing­ borne« of the Army of the Potomac, for Berlin was a set of pajier teeth made by be sold w ith th e place at reasonable pn which he had paid $1.76 each, delivered ton, New H am pshire, is so brilliant that a Lubec dentist in 1878. They have been ces if desired. Price of farm, $2000, em at his establishm ent. Tin" averaged in ' lH‘''l ’b‘ at the I abvau House, seven miles half cash and reasonable time given o in constant use for more than thirteen balance. A pply for further particular* the w inter about fifty a dav, and were a " a-v ' C1UI read big print by its rays, years, and show absolutely no wear at th is office. tb u s disjoined of : First, the shoes were -Yt Sterling, Scotland, Professor Den- w hatever. pulled nil, then the hoofs were cut off, ton. of tbe Department of Agriculture Flowers may tie kept fresh for a long CHURCH DIRECTORY. th en th e m anes and tails were sheared. has plowed and reaped bv electric pow- SB Y TEK I IA N C H rK C H ' tim e by putting a pinch of soda into the ! K E ESB AX CHURCH,Hore' T be a n im ili was then skinned, the ear- er " ith a distinct gain in sjH»ed and w ater in which they are held. They 1 sch o o U O o ’c ^ ’m '.m " iS c lu n g . eass was boiled th a t th e tallow might lx* economy. should not lie gathered while the sun O t‘lv>ck a. in. an d 7 p. hi . of e x tra c te d , th e le s t of the bones were A whole table d ’hote dinner nt the . i , , . , , , . in tbe sold fot knife handles, and th e remain- W indsor Hotel, Ottawa, Canada w is re morning, or alter the sun has been down Everybody is welcome to all