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About The West. (Florence, Lane County, Or.) 1890-1921 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1892)
prio rs of the world . , Gen Pop« and grandsons o f C. F. Sm ith ¿ u g the latest e n tries as cadets < ¡ ¿ ’¿ ki . es II. IIBVU Of th e infantry, h has as been de , 1 Af fMrd infantry, been ae- «^enty-tmru ‘ ,,d to’represent th e w ar d e p artm e n t libit at the world s fair. ntFS are so pestilential in Siam th a t • soldier is compelled to assist in Sing their num ber by c atch in g ' u<rh of them every day to n il a ^'tehbox. r i recently issued decree all sol- • .4 the Russian em pire m ust in &i\ u s e handkerchiefs w hich have i3tX)fon‘ been restricted to th e officers. . arm __ y 2.. is said si 4 to -.-* nr\nt<)i»i t -Prussian co ntain t one officer from th e rank’s—Col. iIo a n n , who was prom oted for a<;ts »..«votional f exceptional bravery in th e behleswig- i,¡stein campaign in 1804 lie lias stlxen gazetted com m ander of th e 'ixtie’h infantry. „ p o p u la tio n o f 70,000 I n ¡ X i — th e only m ilitary force ‘ 'r a stationed at the capital, Reykjavie. and 'heoniy two law yers in th e island are ,he state's atteney, as he m ay be called, and another, who is on h a n d to defend jBvlxxly that may be p u t on tria l. RUMBLINGS ON T H E R A IL S . T rains in Russia ru n tw enty-tw o miles an hour. C heat B ritai M is r e p o r te d to h a ve id, mw locomotives. Os several of th e railro ad s in Russia ¡pm telegraph poles are to be substi tuted for wooden ones. M exico has 22,500 mileg ! ago th ere lived in W ash.ngton a Unit S tates naval jofhcer who thought hi self unjustlW treated by the naval?] tirin g board / and made incessant qtnu plaint about lit to his brother officers. “ Well, Sank ’ said one of his friends, " ’ho w as a liktle worn out by hearing the suiae story over and over, “ w h’ in the w orld do you submit to it. if it is so? T here is a man here who will in- J vest ¡gate it for tw enty dollars, aud may ‘ correct it.” “ W hat!” ejaculated the com plaining, officer, whose reasoning powers hail j evidently become a little confused through m editation on his wrongs. ) “do you suppose for one in stan t th a t I would take tw enty dollars for u griev ance like this? You don't know me!” —Y outh's Companion, • LORENCE TO THE FRONT Every Spot in the road! B aby Jack*« rh eo lo g y . The doctrine of original sin is a diffi cult one to controvert, taking the world a t large into consideration, bu t it is one which Baby Jack, aetat tw en- ily S h r e e -aonihs, su.a,iily .m l stu rd ily refuse» to adm it into h i , thoohwy. ilc w "•,th th" ” tm o rt fervor and in a language of his own, which only the audacity of a m other would claim to mean anything, lie asks: “ Pod” to “ b*esa” every one of his relatives to the forty-fourth do- gree, not forgetting his pet e a t and “ Iloo-Polly ” the unclean rag-doll, but when mamma prompts: “ Please m ake Jack a good boy,” Master «lack says: “ Pas" in response ns earnest us th a t of any good Methodist brother. “ Pas" m eans “yes,” and Jack thinks lie is a good Ixiy, and no moral suasion can in- . dneo him to suggest to Providence th a t 1 there is the slightest necessity for m ak ing over.—N. Y. Recorder. of telegraph awl 600 of railroad. A d istric t m essen PE O P LE ACROSS TH E SEA. ger service will soon be introduced. E min P asha is now perfectly desti T he life of a locom otive c ra n k pin, tute, according to the latest news. He which is almost the first th in g about an and j Is living with an Arab at Taliora, and engine to wear out, is 60,000 miles, cannot leave until he receives help. the life of a 33-inch w heel is 60,733 P ope L eo XIII. attributes his long miles. T he Japanese governm ent contem life anil genera! good health to the reg plates the construction of six lines of ularity of his habits and his abstinence railway,aggregating 800 miles in length. from anything hut the simplest fare. N v ’ ak P asha , the senior field m ar The purchase of th e p riv ate railw ays shal of the Turkish array, lately died at by the 6tate is also projected. the age of 110 years. His eldest son* Ox foggy w inter days E nglish ra il who is over 70, is also an Ottoman field1 ways employ thousands of e x tra hands to place detonating signals on rails, the marshal. T he rapidity with which caste is giv "hlinary sem aphores being invisible. A ing way in India is indicated by the f::et new method of sig n allin g is by an elec th a t it recently cost a wealthy in m tric bell on the locomotive, a contact who had lost caste only 1300 to be rein- device causing each signal sta tio n to I stated. Seventy years ago it would sannd autom atically th e num ber of beats required to tell w hether to stop I have eost him flOO.OOO. M avboyb . ni B ey , Turkish minister to or proceed. W ashington, is not a solemn and no- SPARKS A N D FLA S H E S . i eluded person like most of his country- PtowTNo by electricity is in contem- j men. but a jolly little “ Preachy” sort lation for a large property in C entral j of man, w ith a fondness for social lire, i He lately added » knowledge of tennis pain. to liis o th er accomplishments. T he Pennsylvania railro ad is equip- ng its an th racite collieries w ith elee- S A L T A N D PEPPLR. ic light plants, and w ill cu t coal i “ D o l o t ’ have natural gas here? Mild 'enty-four hours a day. No.” j Washington. T he importance of electricity on the stran g er in congress isn’t in session idem steam ships is show n by th e fact was the reply ; co 1 ode on Star. it the new E nglish b a ttlesh ip , Royal i now,’ Woshingt« 1 met ( rereign, has no less th a n eig h t S h e —“ T hat's a perfect g « ndred electric lig h ts and th ir ty miles him at a w atering »da «• as . . * ! - “ Em inently proper place to meet with wire him, I should say.”—N. V. Herald. A S ty lis h C orp««. A nd H e W ent a niff Custom "She was the m ost sty lish corpse." ' heard a wom an rem ark the other er (slouching into barlKj shop) of me, old Lathers. ' V ia speaking of a leader of fashion ahead “Two gentlem« u!”-C hieago Trilame <dy deceased, and, prom pted by cu- HlCKS—“ W hat did you ever see a lsm t | •sity, we inquired w hat w ent to m ake T ic k e r I o m o ke y..„ think ! ' a “stylish corpse.” "Oh!” replied th e gusher, w ith no u Station, “she w ore a b lack velvet crumb* ui but tout "n with point lace trim inihgs, and “‘ srcnK T A .r X,nnK. - ' »h' r eyebrows penciled and cheeks and 1» * rouged, besides having her hair er any ................ ne in the m ost d elig h tfu l fashion bureau?" Inspector Slisrp ssible. Positively, to lie such a of the employes were hard s'ltiful corpse w as w orth dying for.” N. Y. Herald. “T hh io oar prosaic m ind th e solem nity of W hat 1» toe 1 . sth seemed to have been robbed of F ilh ln » - " V - its g ran d ?u r and force by the arti- ial trappings and ad o rn m en ts of the then. I d e a l ' |k ll, u u, the issuing half fare | '»p'.exion specialist: y e t in th is age g a i n by k „ .. Sun. f kls the tim e is not fa r off when ju st c l e r g y . N . I put di caprices m ay be expected, for if \ keoo NFEI »liion sets the pace th e re will be, bc- ,’ilher re !’•» oth er m odish follies, fads in ;n the gravy «»f Halt »erals th a t will probably lie even me at» is an Im p "* -« “ " 1 injf Bnoii. •UniU *>’•;”»' »nd it b ridiculous th a n the o th e rs .—Phila- *phia Tim ex draw s th - ¡ " ¿ ¡ „ i f p ^ H ’le. desintble to P » „.ilk arH| T oo < heap. To <I.».AS oil ' ’’i1 ,,». Il n e l c l o t h . A nme people vulue a pet grievance wlpo with a fi- ahoy« m oney or a n y th in g which « a te r aud will rum brash s.’.J tuT can buy A good m any y ears "» <rW W ill he occupiei -n e x t w eek Toy- REAL ESTATE DEALER, Florence, lis keep your EYE on the