The Oregon scout., August 14, 1886, Image 8

1,000 HORSES' HIDES A YEAR.
"Wlint it Taken to Snttsfy the Unso
Unll Fiend.
The Interesting fact was learned yes
terday, says The A'cw York Mail and
Express, that tho hides of about one
thousand horses and the skins of at
least ten times as many sheep are cut
up into coverings for base-balls in this
city every season. By ono manufac
turer alone three tons of yarn arc used
a year for tho insides of base-balls.
Tho hide nnd skin used is perfectly
white, being nlum tanned, and comes
from Philadelphia. Out of one horso's
hido tho coverings for twclvo dozen
balls aro cut, and out of one sheepskin
three dozen. Two strips of tho leather
nro required for each ball, cut wide and
rounding at cacli end so that tlioy lit
Into each other when put around tho
yarn ball. Each piece, for a league
ball, is soven inches long by two inches
wide at tho rounded ends. Tho pieces
nro cut with a die. Old-fashioned blue
Shaker yarn is used for tho inside of
tho league ball, which is wound tightly
around a small rubber ball weighing
one ounce. Tho improved league ball
has now double coverings of horschidc,
which is regarded as a great improve
ment It is also stitched with gut.
Tho balls aro made entirely by hand
nnd it requires no littlo skill to shape
them perfectly round. This is dono by
placing them in an iron cup about tho
size of tiio ball and striking it with a
mallet at different stages of tho wind
ing. Men do this work. They easily
make ten dozen league balls in a day
nnd from forty to fifty dozen ordinnry
baso-balls in tho samo length of t'me.
Their wages aro $2.fi0 a day. Womon
bow tho coverings together on tho ball.
This requires considerable skill and
utrong finger muscles. They can sow
from two-nnd-half to three dozen
leaguo balls in a day, and from four
teen to sixteen dozen of tho cheaper
grades. They aro paid by tho piece, 90
cents a dozen for tho leaguo work and
10 cents a dozen for tho othors. TJioy
earn about $12 a week. Tho balls aro
sowed witii what is known as Marker's
flax, which conies in red, blue, orange,
nnd pink colors. Tho iinest balls are
Bowed with pink. Horsehido covered
balls nro mado in fourteen different va
rieties. Mr. S. W. Brock, a veteran authori
ty on tho subject, from whom tho abovo
facts woro obtained, said: "People
fcavo tho idea that tho base-ball busi
ness doesn't amount to anything. Why,
I rcmcmbor that those who started to
go into it a few yours ago were hooted
at as throwing their tinio and money
nway. Thoy were told that thoro were
sot enough base-balls used in the coun
try to mako it pay. But you may bo
urprised to know it, yet it is a fact,
that ono house alone in this city does
a business of $50,000 a year at it,
making nothing else. There is a largo
demand for thorn, especially from the
west nnd south, and they are sent from
hero to Canada, Omaha, New Orleans,
nnd Cuba in largo quantities. It is an
interesting fact that in Cuba tho base
ball fovor is on tho rapid increase,
though as yet they buy only tho cheap
er grades. In tho ho:ght of tho season
tho largest house horo employes sovon-ty-fivo
persons and turns out three hun
dred dozen balls a day. Tills year tho
manufacturers have more orders than
they can (ill, and tho demand is far
ahead of any previous year. An inter
esting fact about baso-balls is that in
tho past fifteen yearn tho only impor
tant change in the professional dead
ball is that of a double cover. Of
course fifteen years ago thoy did not
have everything quite so lino about a
ball, for thoro woro no professional
clubs thon, and players woro not so, par
ticular. No patent was evor obtained
on tho fihnpo of tho covering to u base
ball, though there havo been u number
of claimants to its invention."
Capital and Labor.
"Pray, Uuasie, denr," alio coaxing said,
"Thu dlftercnco tell mo
Twl it capital ami laUir, so
Thnt I may clearly eco."
Ho ilrmv her on his manly knco,
Anil stroked her pretty head.
"Now this Is capital, my dear,1'
Tho lover fondly said.
Tho maiden pouted ni lie spoke,
And crossly cried: "1 see;
Tls capital until wo'ro wed,
And then 'twill labor lie."
Wattrtuien Timet.
A Noblo Husband.
A man and woman who woro evi
dently husband ami wife, and prolmbly
journeying to some point on foot, sat
on tho stops of tho Mechanics' block
with their bundles the other noon to
eat luncheon. Thu man spread a hand
kerchief on his knees and pulled out a
hunk of bread, a piece of moat, two ba
nanns nnd two onions, and began eat
ing. Tho wife mado no attempt to
help herself, nor was anything otl'ered
her. Tho man got away with tho
broad and meat and ono banana, and
ho was peeling thu other when a law
yer's clerk who had boon Interested in
tho atFalr remarked:
Aren't you going to share with your
wlfoP"
Alius havo," replied Iho man as ho
bit tho bauana In two, 'and I nllus
BbRll. Hero, Bets."
Ho selected tho smallest of tho two
onions ami handed it out to her, and
tho Biuilod her gratitude nt tho clerk ns
she vigorously munched away.- I)c
troit I'rec I'rctt.
PEG-LEG BILLY.
How IIIh Itnnch "Wn Converted Into
n Prosperous mid lluonilnc City.
Socorro County is almost entitled to
bo considered a community by itself,
and is certainly large enough to mnkc
a respectable State as States go in tho
worn-out East. It extends 1G9 miles
from cast to west and has an average
widtli of ninety-seven miles. Its nrca
is 15,232 squaro miles. It is altogether
a magnificent stretch of country, with
practically limitless possibilities at
least that is what tho cattlemen and
land 'boomers" tell you. But there is
so much of that sort of thing in the
bounding West that you soon get used
to it, and nothing surprises you. Thoy
loll a story of a tough old boy named
Peg-leg Billy, who is now employed in
"punching" cows in this region, but
who is a recent importation from
"Montany." As Billy tells it, ho is tho
victim of a ruthlessly advancing civ
ilization, from which ho declares that
ho is not safo even here. When ho
was in "Montany" ho had a few cattle
of his own from which ho derived a
rovenuo amply sufficient to supply him
with whisky tho ono commodity which
lie is willing to take from civilization.
One night Billy went to a raflle which
took place at tho ranch a fow miles
away, and with tho rest of tho boys
mndo not ono night of it, butsoveral, in
true cowboy stylo. After tho boys who
had been killed had been "planted"
with all the grand honors, Billy nmblcd
home, carrying a 32-calibro bullot in
his left leg as a souvenir of the event
As ho approached his ranch ho was
mighty surprised to find, not his ranch
at all, but a largo and bustling city.
Of course gambling-houses and saloons
predominated, but thoro were other
more substantial evidences of urban
life. A First National Bank stood
proudly on ono corner, whilo opposito
it stood tho City Hotel. Two daily pa
pers woro published, tho llipsnortcr and
tho 1'aralyzcr, between which tho most
deadly hostility oxistcd. Thoro was a
tlioator, tho Alhambrn, in which were
presented nightly plays that mado tho
the boys roar with delight. As ho saw
all this Billy swore for half an hour in
pure perplexity, and began to fear that
ho was tho victim of some wooful magic.
But on inquiry ho learned that a
"boom" had struck this part of tho
country. Settlers had rushed in during
tho fow days of his absence. All tho
laud was bought tip, a nominal sum
being allowed him for his rnneh, and
in a night and day a city had sprung
up, as if to defy Billy and all tho boys.
This is tho story that Billy tells to ex
plain why he left "Montany," and it is
considered dangerous in this part of
tho country to oall in question tho ac
curacy even of its slightest details.
"What did thoy do with your cows,
BlllyP" asked a sympathetic listener
tho other day in the Maverick, after
Billy had told tho story of his wrongs.
"Wall, stranger," replied Billy, "may
bo you won't believe mo, but I'll bo
domed if they didn't turn ono cornor of
my ranch into a pound and put my
cattle in it for trespassiu' in the city
limits, and before 1 eoidd git them
animiles out 1 had to pay tho pound
keeper tho hull tarual amount that
thoy allowed mo for my land, dost
think of it! More'u thousand drinks
gouo in ono lick!" and Billy drank his
"four lingers" in stately but pathetic
silence. A'ew Mexico Cor. A'cio York
Tribune.
.111.1 I I l i.im
How to Address Foreigners.
Our language is nothing if not irreg
ular and receptive. It takes words
from all (punters and incorporates
them into itself with a result which is
in most eases most benolielal. 1 have
recently joined in thu protest uttered
by Mr. F. Harrison against those who
would stultify and degrade it by mixing
with written anil spoken English every
form of foreign orthography so far as
regards proper names. I venture to
append to this a second protest against
tho manner in which wo speak of living
toroignors. In this, as in other mat
ters, tho French aro logical. If 1 visit
Paris 1 am introduced by tho French
man to his friends as "Monsieur
Urban." A Swiss, a Spaniard, a Turk,
a Russian, an Asiatic, a negro oven, is
similarly treated. Monsieur is thu
generic term of courteous address or
description. With our assumed cos
mopolitanism wo try to bo polyglot, and
wo givu a man, wlton possible, tho pro
lix common in ids nation. It is ".Mon
sieur A." "Hon- B." "Siguor C."
"Sonor D." Tins is all very well so
far as it goes; but nil languages, even
in their alphabets, aro nut known to
us. In thu ease of a Dutchman a few
may be able to say Mynhuor. How
about a Dane, however, a Pole, a Ser
vian, a Hum, a Turk? Willi a ridicu
lous assumption of geographical knowl
edge, thu residents on thu banks of thu
Danube aro probably classified as Gor
man. With the Huss, or tho Turk, or
tho Greek, wo are, however, absolutely
at fault, and we probably fullback, not
upon our own language, but upon tho
French. To us tho foreigner who has
no other handle is monsieur. It would
surely bo more convenient, more ex
pedient, easier, and less pedantic to
call every stranger Mr., as wo call our
selves. 1 am not very sauguiuu that
this plan Avill be adopted, but 1 am at
least coutuut (o point out thu absurdity
of which wo are guilty, leaving to t lino
nnd some better advoeatu tho task ol
reform. Gentleman's llagatine.
"IMMENSE."
The Chicago Clerk and the "DnRos.'
On a recent occasion two distin
guished Mexican gentlemen of, grea
wealth and no end of inllu -nco anion
tho Greasers of their own native wildi
reached Chicago in the course of
trip through the United States. Thcj
had previously visited New York nnc
shoved their highly aristocratic sciui'
Spanish limbs under tho mahagony o!
soino of tho nabobs of Gotham. Tlioj
had "smiled" with all tho highflycrt
of tho East, and then desiring a tastt
of genuino metropolitan city life, nat
urally camo to Chicago fully prcparcc
to be paralyzed by all thoy saw. Anionj
other letters of introduction thcj
brought ono to P. D. Armour, the grea;
pork aristocrat of tho greatest pork
market in tho world. That gentleman,
with hospitable intent, detailed ono ol
tho handsomest of his many liandsomi
and able lieutenants to "show tin
town" to these dusky children of tin
Montezumas. "Let joy and champagne
bo unconlined," said tho great packer,
Let them revel in trufiles and pato d
fois gras and let their stay in our grcal
city bo a rolling river of joyous oysters
nnd ice cream."
Tho lieutenant, nothing loth, started
out upon his mission. He took their
to tho stock yards, and, while holding
their copper-colored noses with one
hand, they murmured in concert:
"Immense."
Ho drovo them over the boulevards
and through tho parks, and again they
whispered with a sigh:
"Immense."
Ho took them to Pullman, mado tho
rounds of tho shops, showed them the
lyd in Hotel Florence where tho Grand
Duke sleeps when ho visits his colony,
and as thoy drove away and breathed
tho air of freedom onco more tho lone
some kcop-ofl'-tlio-grass and don't-you-talk-out-loud
policeman was awakened
from his customary nap by their swell
ing chorus of:
"Immense."
Driving to tho now Temple of Mam
mon, lie pointed them into tho visitors'
gallery of tho Board of Trade and broke
into flowing periods as lie described tho
tremendous financial transactions of the
put nnd call artists on tho floor, and
still thoy answered only this and noth
ing more:
"Immense."
Drivon to desperation by this ono
word of English, which scomod to ex
haust their vocabulary, tho almost ex
hausted guido determined to play his
last trump, certain to startle them into
a moro extended expression of opin
ions, even if nothing moro than a good
hearty Mexican cuss word. Ho drove
down Clark street, past tho Custom
House, past tho palatial gam
bling dens, and past the scalp
ers' oflicos, and past the bankrupt
actors lounging upon tho "Bialto,"
thou stopped at tlta City Hall and in
troduced his charge to tho Mayor of all
Chicago. For an hour his Honor, who
will not talk to tho newspapers, talked
to his silent but smiling visitors in every
known and unknown tongue. Never
before had tho Chief Executive of Chi
cago given away to such Hoods of elo
quonoo or cyclones of learning, but the
descendants of tho Moutez.unas mere
ly smiled, bowed low, and on resum
ing the carriage faintly oxelatmod in
feeble tones:
'Immense."
Tho next day a careworn young man
stood before Mr. Armour and dejected
ly bade his chief good morning.
"Well," said tho manipulator of
pork, "how was your day out?"
Tho sad young man answered, with
a groan, only this and nothing moro:
Immense,"
"Young man," said tho groat pork
paokor, mistaking tho causo of his do
jooted appearance, "do you suppose
that if I had got a head on mo ovory
tuno that I wont out lo show friends
tho town that I would now bo the
greatest pig killer in tho world?" And
thon there was an overwhelming silonco
in tho houso of Armour. Chicago Her
ald. How to Keep tho Hands Soft
A littlo ammonia or borax in tho wat
er you wash your hands with, and that
water just luko-wann, will keep the
skin warm and soft. A littlo oatmeal
mixed with tho water will whiten the
hands. Many people uso glycerine on
their hands when they go to bed, wear
ing gloves to keep tho bedding clean;
but glycorino makes some skiii3 harsh
and red. These people should rut
their hands with dry oatmeal, and
wear gloves in Ited. Tho best prepara
tion for tho hands at night is white of
egg, with a grain of alum dissolved in
ft. "Roman toilet pasta" is merely
white of egg, barley Hour and honey.
Thoy say it was used by tho Romans in
olden time. Anyway, it is a lirst-rato
tiling, but it is mean, stioky sort of
stulVtouso, and doesn't do tho work
any bettor than oatmeal. Tho rough
est and hardest hands can bo made soft
nnd white in a month's tinio by doctor
ing thorn a little at bedtime; all the
tools you noed aro a nailbrush, a bottle
of ammonia, a box of powdorod borax
and a little lino, white sand to rub the
stains oil', or a cut of lemon, which will
do uveu butter, for the acid of the
lemon wril clean anything. Manieiirea
use aeids in the shop, but thu lemon is
quite as good and isn't potsonnu.
whilo the aolds aru. Vcif York An
alisi.
W Troyau'w 2k
Absolutely Pure.
Tln3 powder novor varies. A tnnrvel of
purity, strength nnd wholesomcnesa. Moro
economical tlinn tho ordinary kinds, nnd
cannot be sold in competition with tho
multitude of low test, short weight nlum
or phosphate powders. Sold only in enns.
Hoval Uaki.no Powuuk Co., 100 Wall St.,
N. Y.
ENTENNIAL HOTEL BAR.
E. MILLER. Proprietor.
Having fitted up tho Centennial Hotel
Bar-room, and romovwl my stock of
Wines, Liquors & Cigars
to that plnce, I am bettor prepared than
over to entertain and regalo my customers.
I keep nono but the best of
Kaitcrn Liquor, JTIIlivniikcc, Walla
Wnlla, unci Union Iteer.
Also, the Finest Brant of Cigars.
-COMMERCIAL
Livery id M
Orrosm: Centennial. Hotel.
JOHN S. ELIOTT,
PROPRIETOR.
Having furnished this old nnd populnr
hostelry with ample room, plenty of feed,
good hostlers and new buggies, is better
proparcd than ever to accommodate cus
tomers. My terms nro ramoniible.
DOVE TANNERY.
Adam Choshman, Pkoimiirtor.
Hns now on hand and for sale tho best of
HARNESS, LADIGO,
UPPER nnd
LACK LEATHER.
SHEEP SKINS, ETC.
Paid for Hides and Pelts.
Sltnnted four miles west of Union depot
on Bouth sido of tho O. 11. ifc N. Co. 'a rail
road. '
II.
In Comfortablo Rooms.
Honltli for the Sick, and Rest for tho
Weary.
Esnecinllv ndnntcd for tho Relief of Wo-
nion. Is under tho miperviwion of ono who
tins had thirty years' experionco.
s. if, l'iw 1 1 A ltu, rropnetor.
SMOKE OUlt
PUSS3CH
66
Rest Havana Filled
Five Cent Cigar. 5
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Call nt once; -5 years experience Terms
Cash. Olllce hours 8 a. in. to 8 p. in.
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1112 i;U Third St. Portland. Oregon
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Manufacturers of and Dealers in
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192-191 Front St., Portland, Oregon. .
KIMBALL
Pianos 8c
E. M. FURMAN, Agent
WALLA WALLA,
HOWLAND & LLOYD,
Manfacturers of
Main Street, Union, Oregon.
Keep constantly on hand a largo supply of Parlor and Bed Room Sets, Bed
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Upholstering Done in the Best Style.
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Variety and Fancy Goods,
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Orders from all parts of tho country promptly attended to.
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New Scenery and Accessories Just Received.
All Work Warranted to Give Satisfaction
VIEWS OF RESIDENCES TAKEN ON APPLICATION.
Organs
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Done in a Snperior Manner.
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