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About The West. (Florence, Lane County, Or.) 1890-1921 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1892)
dent, is to remain at tn e n m ic ~ > presiding in her m other s stead. Lus sell H arrison and wife will also live there. In places in New York, away from the gilded palaces, population is pretty dense, as mav be judged from th e fol lowing: New York has 8162 dwellings which contain ten families each. Burial at sea is to be abolished for HURD & DAVENPORT We have ju s t Received O u r W in te r Stock O f B oots and Shn»f „’immense line of I>ry Goods. Fancy Goods, I-adies’ Hoods Fascinators, In fan ts’ Hoods an d Sacks. Come early for bargains hnihro sunnlv is exhausted. ns arriv ed . those who have money to pay for the both ladies and gentlemen, d , not tail to ask lor our famous J a c k and J ill children gchOo| HURD X OAIÍENPIIRT transportation of their remains in case of death on board ship. A ir-tight steel way which indicates m e erection 01 »« __ i,.a„ o... ♦ !»»» trnnanortation of bodies line dwelling house—now pretty soon. Fine a s s o r t ^ fo, Groceries, jjrocerietiJOrowtei The most im portan t item of the last two weeks was the d osing of our school. Fresh stock always on hand. The e n tertain m en t was said to he very line. W ell S e le c te d C. H. and I). W. Y anderburg are working the road betw een th eir houses and Mr. Young's. When completed it Stock of Hats. In eel all competitor will he a lirst-elass road. e w i l l close out our entire line of S traw Goods. Those desir- ing a ’w ay down bargain will call a t once. These goods will go at h a lf price. HURD & DAVENPORT I beg your pardon, Mr. Y oung! Last hut not least! Mr. Young is building a line house on his ranch, lie hopes to time, “ that there was an accident on enlarge. your road last night.” Pleasure shortens life ; happiness pio 10,006 lives to he a Only one person in 'flic Fiddle creek people are arranging “ Oli, do y o u ? ” was the sarcastic re longs it. to have a C hristm as tree ami an exhibi centenarian. ply- The condition of hum anity rests with Parts of th e A tlantic ocean are live tion on C hristm as evening. It is de “ Y es, s ir .” humanity. miles in depth. sired th a t all attend who can. “ Do you know anything about it?” Take care of your living and your dy A Florida man grows four cabbage A. V. Gibson and M. I). Scott are e x “ O nly th a t it happened to the train ing will take care of itself. pected to arrive in a few days from In heads on one stalk. w hich was due here at 8:15.” have it completed by spring. SOME STRANG E FACTS. The greatest tru th s are the sim plest; dependence. They will sjiend the w in The London Zoological G arden now “ T h a t tra in cam e in promptly on time, te r with Fiddle creek people. and so are the greatest men. s ir ,” said th e m anager, firmly, contains .‘5060 anim als. “ A re you su re of th a t? ” Kindness in us is the honey th a t ,1. A. Gibson, while going to Mr. In every m inute sixty-seven people W ilkes’ place last Sunday evening, was die in the world and seventy are born. caught in a severe storm , and in going The hourly rate of w ater falling over from the wharf to the house, a falling Niagara Falls is 100,000,060 tons. tree struck him with such force as to H indoostan is about, tw enty-live times throw him to the ground. The body of uh large as the state of New York. th e tree struck him across th e leg, be Before the year 1806 twelve papers tween the knee and foot, hut fortunately were published in t h e United States. nothing more serious than a few bruises A lum p of coal weighing 1660 pounds resulted. blunts the sting of unkindness in others. The pain of losing is softened in th e memory of pleasure in winning. “ Of course I a m .” “ T h an k s. T h a t must have been the accid en t referred to .” People who do not know how to laugh dodged ou t safely. —M in n eso ta H o tel, in Eugene, is one are always pompous and self-conceited. block from depot. Kates, $1 per day, Never be afriad of w h at is good; th e All w h ite help. This hotel lias been re good is always the road to w hat is true. fitted an d new ly furnished. Patronize Kind words will never die. W ith was recently mined in ( ascadt county, some people it is because they were IT E M S OF IN T E R E S T How’s This! never born. M ontana. And the reporter W e offer O ne H undred Dollars reward A man w ho does not learn to live Two hundred and fifty million letters for an y ease of C atarrh that cannot be pass through the postal office of London while he is getting a living is a poorer cured by H a ll’s C atarrh Cure. F . J . C heney & Co., Toledo, 0. m an after his wealth is won th a n he every year. W e, th e undersigned have known b MuTs were lirst used by doctors to w as before. keep th e ir lingers soft and wen* adopted N othing gives such a blow to friend by ladies about 1550. ship as the detecting another in an u n In Hebron, Conn., is an apple tree tru th . It strikes at the root of our con that was planted 125 years ago, ami still fidence ever after. bears good fruit each year. Satio.itctioh Guaranteed Yeddo, the capital of tie? Japanese “ I'm nearly always disappointed in Em pire, contains 4,000,000 inhabitants the Christm as presents my husband and has a greater area than Li ndon. buys m e,” confessed Mrs. Dimmiek to Sherm an, Texas, has a $60,000 jail Mrs. Kickshaw. from which ten prisoners recently es- “ Is th a t so?” caped by sawing through iron bars with “ Yes. lie means well, hut lie doesn't a thirty-live cent tile. seem to get me the things I want. I try Nineveh, the ancient city, was four to appear pleased, of course, hut I ’d teen miles long and eight miles wide, rath er base things I care for. I give him surrounded by a wall 100 feet high and '.lints but he never seems to eateli tw enty-nine feet wide. th e m .” WORDS OF W ISDO M Pension Cointnissioner Kanin says the im m ediate deficiency in bis bureau is 1 15, (MM),(MM). Traffic was alm ost entirely sus|n-ndcd in th e slrtH-ts of London recently for a l most tlm -c days on account of the in tense fog. J . C heney for th e last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly lionorable in all bus iness tra n sac tio n s and financially ablet" carry ou t an y obligations made by their firm . W est & T kuax , Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, O. W arding , K ixnax A M arvin , W holesale Druggists, loledo, ' H a ll’s C atarrh Cure is taken internal ly, actin g d irectly upon the blood an' m ucous surfaces of the system. ■ nionials sent free. Price 75c. per bo • Sold by all D ruggists. A fine farm of 160 acres situauy - th e L akes South from Florence, ran ch is m ostly alder and vine mar* bottom lan d , having nearly a mile a* frontage. Ten acres under cultivation and 5 m ore slashed ; a good oreba J" come in to b e a rin g ; 5 rooms in a house th a t is ceiled and papero , !?* out-buildings, and stock of all kinds «i “ Now I never have any trouble like he sold w ith th e place at reasonedle p ces if desired. Price of farm, $ th a t with Mr. K ickshaw .” half cash an d reasonable time £iven “ How do you manage it? ” balance. A pply for further partícula “ Easily enough. I buy him for his a t th is office. C hristm as present ju st w hat I w ant to have myself, and he gets for me just CHURCH DIREC4UH K E S B YT E R 1A N C H F KCH w hat lie th in k s lie would like to have, O regon. S abbath service and then we exchange the articles with school, 10 o ’clock a. in. 1 re' each o th e r.” o ’clock a. in. au d 7 p. ui. > th e L o rd 's su p p er on 4tn • M arch, J u n e , Septem ber am It Was an Accident. E verybody is welcome to an P asto r req u ests C h ristian sto » “ I u n d erstan d ,” rem arked the selves know n. A. Koiiixs* reporter to the close-mouthed m of a western railroad noted for it P The total num ber of Chinese who en tered C anada and paid th e poll tax of $50 each d u ring die (¡seal year ending Ju n e l!0 w as .*5276. room