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