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• ’ * » ■■ |*V ir^ you Do ÿou a iA r& re That tala Pap t t tke ITEMUER ) i « t the Largest fo lia tio n e f t . y Paper Publi.iud in ilk Canity, and ia Head by Nearly « r y Faulty within ita Baundariea. [y o e with ta Reach Everyone, pat- ■ lia t b . « « advertiaing column«, and af lag rapraaaataB; the aawaiaat and ebaleaat la every way a family paper. Yea el For P r o ii't’ by ¡t. P R O F E S S IO N A L [J. M- OREGON CAROS. KEENE, D. D. S. M o re OREGON. SALEM. AN D SURGEON, REDUCED RATES OF FARES AND FREIGHTS ON ALL TRANSP T'N LINES. Dalian, Oregon. H. M cC A L L O N , P A V I L I O N open four evenings during the week, with good music in atten du nee. T H E N E W G R A N D S T A N D and the N E W R E G U L A T IO N T R A C K are conceded •d to be among the most comfortable and the bos' on ttie Pacilie Coast. S I'L E S J N D ID C O N PESTS OF SPJ^RD euoh day. There is entered for these com eats the best field of horses this year that has been on the grounds for »asons. many sea V À LIJ FABLE and handsome improvements have been made on the ground, ami build [dings. D, M. ’hysician and Surgeon, D A L L A S . S \ 5, OZO i n C a s h T han W ill he p:iid up Premium« for Stock, Poultry, Swine, Agricultural Products, Fruits, Native Woods, Minerals, Works of A rt and Fancy Work,and for Trials < f Speed. L. N . W O O D S , M. D. B. STATE F A IR . U nder the management of the Slate Hoard of Agriculture, on the State Fair Grounds, near Salem, commencing Sep tember 11 th 1893, an^ continuing one week. Dental office in Breyman B roth er’» ild in g, corner of Court and Com- k .re ia l atreets, P H Y S IC IA N D O . f jp r rttflau over Brown & Sou it store. P 1 M ÏM 1 U M io . J. D aly , J. E. S iblky , i . i s s r I ! Has been revised and improved to the benefit of exhibitors. Entries for prem I iums close at J p. in. the first day of the Fair, and Exhibits must be in place ! bv 10 p. m. of said day. H. 0. K akih . DALY, SIBLEY & EAKIH, A A tt o r n e y s *ii t-G u tv . C I We have the only net of abstract book a in Folk oanty Uelubl.; abatraotA furulehed, and un*uey *«> >*n. No L'MiamiMion . liarged on Ioann. ltooina 2 lid 1 Wilion’» block. DallM. J . L. C O L L I N S . l t l C K S O F A D M I S S I O N . . .$*2.50 W om en 's Season Tickets ......... $1.00 M en’s Season Tickets . .50 W om en's Day Tickets....................... ‘ Men’s Day Tickets .. . ,.w~ Track _____ _____ _ ____ j ............ 25 W om en to the liaee Course, Free. Race Tickets, Daily Children under 12 years, Free to all. Send to the Secretary at Portland for a Premium List. J. A T P E liS O N , President. J. T. G R E G G , Secretary Attorney and Counselor at Law, S o lic i t o r in I ’lia n c c ry . Has been in practice of bis profefiaion in thi* place i oi about thirty year«, and will attend t*» all buslrea« ntruated to his care. Office, corner Mai a and Court | m, Dallas, Polk Co, Or Suitor’s Saw M ill. — THE [ N . L. B u t l e r , J. H . T ow nsend , ! BU TLER A TOW NSEND, A T T O R N E Y S -A T -L A W . Office upstairs in Odd F ellow s' new I block. D A .X .r ,A .fl, o b k o o n . PLASTERING! — OF A L L • A ll work guaranteed firstelass. J. A. B A R K E R , Prompt. Progressive. D a lla s . Popular. Iv M Fin wi M arias I N S U R A N C E C O . H e a d . O ffic e : .« > WASHINGTON STKÏET, PORTLAND, OR. T k e Leading Home Oomp&ny. mm marc * 8 P E 0 U L T Y « Charbsi and Parsonages, Dwellings and.Household Goods, Schools and other Pnblio Buildings, Farm Buildings and Farm Property. —DIRECKORS — McCRAKEN, F. K. ARNOLD, D. D. OLIPHANT H. L. PITTOCK, J. K. GILL, J. LOKWKNBERO, F. EttOERT, F. M. WARREN, J. S. COOPER, U. K YOUNG, E. P. McCORNACK. J H. M. GRANT. Sec retai y and Manager J. LOWKNBKRG, President. VERY D. B. MCDONALD, TRUCKMAN, M A R T I N P A I N T E R , “ The Rochester.” CREAT SPEAR House, aigu and ornam ental, grain " O kbooh W IL S O N & C O . , Druggists i iputariss. Dealer in drug*, chemic Is and |»erfumery statUaery, toilet articles, meercliaum pi***» eifarn, tobacco, etc., etc. Tore H<|uornfor ¡S é ie U a l pur¿oee* only Physicians OcHpCloae compounded day or ^ night. ore- M a in street, oppftnite court house. Dalla**, Ur. P E ItR Y D A L E DRUG - STORE. — THE P R O P R IE T O R S — BARTEL & VTGGERS, Deal ia d rag«. painW. o il., glare d o r«, w i.d ow s, candy, auU, tobacco and uo- t i.ii« . rtssem m eN S eA E truiir n u t e . eiVE THEM A TEI AL HEAD C O N T E S T . H£T 40 A R THE TAGS. Ooe Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, , in g. kalsonung and paper hanging. — OP’— Rough and Dressed Lumber. SAVE J . f NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED, As a général family remedy for dyspepsia. Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., I hardly ever use anything else, and have never been dis appointed in the effect produced; it seems to be almost a perfect cure for all disease* o f the Stomach and Bowels, W. J. M c E luot , Macon, Ua. Ita ly 's Prem ier. AMONG THE GEMS. 8ignor Giovanni G iolitti, who succeed Btrastone i . on ly » v ariety o f aventu- ed the Marchese i Rudini as premier o f Italy, is a Piedmonter and was born at > rlne feldspar. Mondovi in 1842. His father was a ju The tourmaline becomes strongly elec rist, and he himself once intended to tric by friction. adopt the legal profession, but entered The black diamond is so hard that it the customs service in 1802. His ad- cannot be polished. A MILLIONAIRE’S WHIM. B « Is A b o u t to B u i l d a P a la c e P e r f e c t ly F ir e p r o o f. $ 173,250.00 SPEAR HEAD TAGS. NTT K ID M l T U S K F W K J U S U f I. M M . , r Purple, green and b ln . tourmaline, are found in Brazil. H o rn « Ralph Brisbane Nouesuch, who is re puted to have made a fortune o f $23,- •00.000 in South African diamond mine», ha« purchased a 300 acre tract in the Tern(wcul district, near San Francieco, where he w ill erect a novel reaideuoe— a palace, in fact— upon which $1,300,000 w ill be expended aside from the finish ing. T h i» is to be a structure built al most entirely o f steel and glass. The building is to be abont 280 long by abont 100 feet wide. A t one end it w ill be surmounted by a tower 113 feet high; at the other end by a similar tow er, but of less size and height. A striking feature w ill be the side, be low the cornice, which slope to the ground with a carve at an angle o f about 43 degree». In the sloping side, are to be ■et huge oval windows 12 feet long and made to conform to the lines o f the sides of the wall. The roof w ill be a huge gable extending the entire length o f the building and terminating in another gable at right angles, in which are placed immense stained glass windows, one o f which w ill be 50 feet long and 80 feet wide. N o t a foot o f lumber or wood in any shape is to be used in the building. The materials w ill be iron, steel, aluminium, brass, bronze, platinum, silver, concrete, cement and stone. And the only stone used w ill be sculptured marble in the stairways and the main frieze, and onyx and decorative marble in the bathrooms, the stairs and a few other ¡daces. Then the foundations w ill be o f steel and con crete. The floors w ill be of concrete, brass and aluminium, the walls o f steel, and the roof o f steel, brass and copper. The inside walls w ill be some o f oxidized sheet iron, some brass, covered with a preparation that protects the burnish of the m etal; Home copper, some nickel and so on to correspond with the decorations o f the room. The ceilings w ill be arched and re lieved here and there with great brass medallions. The partition walls w ill be composed o f metal grilles extending from floor to ceiling, arranged in vari ous designs, form ing a vast network through which the visitor can see from the grand stairway at one end to the great ballroom at the opposite end. Rich tapeetries w ill ordinarily cover the metal grilles and divide the Interior into 14 apartments, eight o f which w ill be cham bers and consist each o f a suite o f four rooms— a sleeping room, dressing room, bathroom and study. A ll the heating, lighting, ventilation and cooking w ill be done by electricity. The servants' quarters, the kitchen, the machinery and the laundry w ill all be in the basement. The waterwheel and dy namos w ill be locuted at the foot o f the hill a considerable distance from the bnilding. The sole entrance to the base ment from without w ill be at the foot o f the h ill through a tunnel, so that no ons from within or about the house w ill see the approach or entrance o f servant, gro cer, butcher or delivery wagon o f any kind. The structure itself w ill be surround ed by a broad walk, and outride o f the walk w ill be an artificial lake surround ing the building and form ing a moat to be crossed by a movable drawbridge, thus placing the house practioally upon an island. This lake w ill be fed by wa ter from artesian wells already in opera- tiou and pumped up by pow erful pumps. The waters o f tbe lake w ill also serve to run the dynamos that furnish light, heat and power for use in the building.— American Contractor. I f m y readers who sit in the ranks o f the laity w ill go back with mo to the stomach, I w ill seek to help them to un derstand the damaging influences o f al cohol upon that organ without being so Scientific in m y term inology as to be be A good su p p ly on b a u d a n d for sale a t e ith e r th e m ill or yond th© comprehension o f those who have not delved in the mysteries of phys th e y a rd in D allas. iology and chemistry. In these days o f liberal education in our schools, by C H E A P A S T H E C H E A P E S T . newspapers and enlightened conversa tion, the simplest o f us understand that in the processes o f digestion and assim ilation beginning with the salivary glands o f the mouth there are chemical secretions throughout the alimentary tract which enter vita ll}” in to the changes A n d a go o d lam p to be wrought upon our food. must be simple; when it is not simple it is The high office o f these secretions is to not good. Sim ple, B ea u tifu l , Good —these so chemically change our food that it words mean much, but to see “ The Rochester ” may be appropriated to the building up will impress the truth more forcibly. All metal, and m aintaining o f our bodily life. This tough and seamless, and made in three pieces only, is a mechanism whose functions could it is absolutely sa fe and unbreakable. Like Aladdin’s have been conceived only by a God. Its workings are so mysterious that the most o f old, it is indeed a “ wonderful lamp,” for its mar scientific and learned stand in the pro- velous light is purer and brighter than gas light, fonndest awe of its presence. How it is softer than electric light and more cheerful than either. that a little salivary gland in the mouth Look for this stamp—T h b R o c h e s t e r . I f the lam p dealer hasn’t the g e n u i n e Rochester, and the style you want, send to us for our new illustrated catalogue, should secrete a substance just fitted to and w e w ill send you a lamp safely by express—your choice o f over 2,000 prepare our food for the stomach, and varieties from the Largest Lamp Store in the W orld. another gland in that latter organ should ftO C H E B T liiK L A D P CO., 42 P a r k P la c e , N e w Y o r k City. take up the work o f furnishing quite a different substance whose chemical prop erties should so influence the food which we have eaten as to enable nature to ap propriate its valuable elements and send its useless substances on into the sluice ways which the God o f nature has fur nished fo r worthless material is truly marvelous. N ow , i f this wonderful mechanism is to do the high office indicated above, a machinery so fearfu lly and wonderfully made must needs be guarded with the most righteous vigilance. A ll sub stances which tend to interfere with the functions o f such delicate organs must be excluded. L e t us now see what alcohol does in an organ whose mechanism is so marvelous and whose functions are j>erfonned in such a delicate chemical lalioratory. It has been stated above that alcohol could C H E W not be digested by the human stomach, and that it goes directly into the circula tion, where it inflames the blood with C o m in e n t on D r . D e p « w a n d th e R a ilr o a d s . Dr. Depew and the magnates w ill find the fires o f hell. The destroying influence o f this in that their pretended concession in rail flamed circulating fluid may be traced road rates to the fair w ill not catch the as it rushes in its mad fury through the people; see if they don’t. The American excited arteries o f the stomach, where people aro not to be treated like a herd nature should pour its invigorating and of immigrants and crowded into excur life givin g powers into the delicate glands sion trains minus sleeping cars and lia o f the digestive organs that they might ble to be side tracked for honrs at half a perform the mysterious functions o f se dozen flag stations on the sand plains. creting such substances as would enable The 10 day lim it, too— that is a positive nature to appropriate to its uses every insult. Silver tongued Dr. Depew has element o f food introduced into this dictated to the reporters a lot o f enco mysterious laboratory. The circulation miums for his plan and expects the pub o f such a substance, instead o f givin g lic to swallow the stone he is giving added life and vigo r to these glands, so them in the belief that it is bread. Tbe congest and inflame them that they have greed and the consummate cheek o f sorno little power to do their work. When of these railroad managers are matched In valuable Presents to be Clven Away In datum for this has been many times repeated, thene only by their shortsightedness. The ex glands become hardened and can per position w ill continue to feel the effects, form their functions only as they do it and the railroads too. — Hpringfield under the influence o f stimulants. Under (Mass.) Homestead. this spur they are roused like a tired W an t F o r H o c « and U ot Bears. aorse under the lash to rush in a head John Bingmau and W illiam Bowler o f long manner through the duties imposed 1 ,1 S S STEM W IN D IN G K U H N GOLD W A T C H E S ......................................t a * # 00 upon them only to fall prostrate and Grant's Pass had a lively time with two 6 . 7 7 8 F IN E IM PORTED FRENCH O PE R A GLASSES, MOROCCO B O D Y , _____ B LAC K E N A M E L T R IM M IN G «, G U A R A N T E E D A C H R O M A TIC ... VSJtto 00 helpless under the certain reaction which large black bears on Mnrphy creek a 2 3 . 1 0 O IM PORTED G E R M A N BUCKH ORN H A N D L E , rO U R BLADED few weeks ago. They w«*re out hunting * POCKET K N IV E S ............................................... TT............................... 10,100 00 follow s the unnatural strain produced for some hogs and were separated by by stimulants. I I S . 8 0 0 RO LLED GOLD W A TC H C H A R M R O T A R Y TELESCOPE TOOTH 1 ' PIC K S ......................................................................................................... «7,700 0» The road over which this abnormal some d is tan os. W hen Mr. Bowler saw his gat as, it was close to him, so he shot 1 1 S .S O O l a r g e PICTURES (14 x 00 Inches) I N E X E V E N COLORS, for framing, 1 no advertiaing on th em ................................................... ........................ 08.075 00 process travels is?first, that of conges it dead, but Mr. Bingmau, who was also tion; second, inflammation; third, indu 2 6 1 , 0 3 0 PH IZE S, AM O UN TING T O ............................................. $ 1 7 3 , 2 6 0 OO ration; fourth, ulceration and ultimate close to his bear, did not make a fatal shot, only wounding old bruin, who im The ebove artlelee w ill be dletrlboted, b y r e v e d e i . among part lea who aba w S P E A K breaking down o f the tissues. H E A D Plug Tobaero, and return to ue tbe T I N T A G S taken therefrom. The influence o f alcohol upon other se mediately proceeded to take the gun W e w ill distribute S S . o f theee prlxee In th ia eo a n tjr aa follow *: cretory organs is quite similar to that himself. Mr. B. kept on shooting the To T H E P A R T Y »ending ua the greatest number o f S P E A R H E A D bear as he neared him and finally killed TAG S from t k l . aaw w ty we w ill g ive...............................................1 GOLD W A TC H . which it produces upon the stomach To tbe F IV E P A R T IE S eendlng ue the next greateet number o f Home confusion has arisen, however, re it when it was but a few feet away. The S P E A R H E A D TAGS, we w ill give to each. 1 OPERA G L A S S ... A O P E R A G LA SSE S garding the pathology produced in the tw o hunters caine across the bears al To tbe T W E N T Y P A R T IE S eendlng ue tbe next greateet number liver. An indurated or hardened liver most at the same tim e.--Portland Ore Of S P E A R H E A D TAGS, we w ill give to eaeb 1 POCKET ________ _ K N I F E .......................................................................................... » PO CKET K N IV E S has often been diagnosed as resulting gonian. l b tbe ONE H U NDRED P A R T IE S eendlng ne tbe next greateet from the use o f alcohol, so also a soften C a r r ie d M o n e y In | f « r H .m d k e r r h le f. number o f 8 P E A R H E A D TAGS, we w ill give to eeeh I ___ ____ ing o f this organ has been said to be pro ROLLED GOLD W A TC H C H ARM TOOTH P I C K ....................... MO TOOTH PICKS, It ia arid that a rail o f b ill» containing f . tbe ONE H U NDRED P A R T IE S «ending ue tbe next greateet duced in the same manner. The theory $2,030 waa accidentally dropped by a number o f S P E A R H E A D TAGS, we w ill give to each i ________ L a r g e p i c t u r e i n e l e v e n c o l o r s ............................................ u p p i c t u r e s . held by the w riter is that the first action woman from a car window on the Boe- o f aloohol upon the liver ia to congest, ton and Maine railroad jo lt after leav r a t a l N u m b e r a f Prtuan f b r th in C a n t y , M g , then to inflame and later to harden ita ing Portatnontb, N. H.. Tlmraday even C A C T IO N .-N o Tag» w ill be reeelved before January let, Ita , nor after February let, substance.— Mark M. Thompson, M. D.. ing. Tba inou«/ waa rolled In a hand M b Sacs package containing ta n muat be marked plainly with Nam e o f Sender, Town. kerchief, and m »lie pulled it from her C ou n ty B eta, and Number of Tega In aaeb package A ll charge» on package» muat ba in National Temperance Herald. pocket abe said that the b ill» went out - * * 1“ r K A D.—»P E A R H EA D poaaemea more quail tie» o f Inlrtnate value than any other Harlad In th » Ocean. o f tbe window. The woman waa frantic p ita tobaero produced- It le the .w re trot, the tougbeM, the rt chare I F l i l M E A D b A cabin pasneuger on the Anchor link over her loae. but could not leave tbe abaolataly, pnatuvely end d t . i l n e t l . e l y dldbrant to flavor fr o m a a y a th a r plug tobaoca A trial w ill oonvtnee tbe moat ekeptlral o f tbla fa c t It la tba larger! teller or any similar steamship Ethiopia was, according to tbe train until it reached North Hampton, abapa ami rtyle on earth, which prove» that It baa cangbt tbe populer teats and pleases tba officers, a very lively passenger while he aa tbe conductor ref need to atop between people. Try It, and_port‘ ‘ ip»te In the contaat for prlaea. See Umt a T 1 S T A « (a on »vary I* sent pteee a t S F E A R HEAD_T'>o hoy. “ »n d In tba toga, no matter bow small tba lasted. He developed delirium tremens ataticna. She got off tbe car et North a a m IH l Very e n ie r r lr , «bortly alter going aboard ship and be- Hampton and stated that she was going * 7 T H E V. J. SORO C O M PAN Y, M n m t m v p , O un, a ia e ao violent that it was necessary to to walk back to Portsmouth, a A llat o f the people obttlolng tbeee prises la this county W1U ba pubUabed lb tbM trap him down. He died in one o f tba 4 nine m llaL— Boston Transcript. immediately after February 1st. 1*4. U and wi ^ A fair share of patronage solicited and all O'slers prom ptly tilled. D allas , Q U A L IT Y Is the Oriental salutation, know ing that good health cannot exist without a healthy Liver. W h en the L iv er is torpid the Bow e l» are sluggish and con stipated, the food lies in the stomach undi- ested, p o i s o n i n g the lood; frequent headache ensues; a feeling o f lassi tude, despondency and nervousness indicate how the whole system is de ranged. Simmons Liver K egulator has been the means o f restoring more people to health and happiness by giving them a healthy L iv e r than any agency "known on earth. It acts w ith extraor dinary pow er and efficacy. H O W LIQ UO R POISONS. — .UlBhfea. .D a d ia s : O r e g o n A . BEST How’s Your Liver? S o m e o f th«» R e s u lt s o f W h i s k y D r in k in g T o ld b y a P h y s ic ia n . “Seeing is Believing.” K IN D S .— TilE Setting ,1 NO. 34- DALLAS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SE1TEMBER 1, 1893 V O L . X IX - PREMIER o i o u t t l ▼ancement waa rapid, and in 1878 he was appointed general inspector o f finance and under the Depretia ministry became director general o f customs. He was elected to the deputies from his native province almoet without opposition, and Criapi made him minister o f finance, though he held the post bu taah ortt'm e. G e o r g e G o u l d 's M o u n t a in R e t r e a t . Furlough L odge ia the pot name given to Oeorge Gould’s mountain home and favorite retreat from business, and it is in the highest part o f the Catskill range, on the border o f Ulster and Delaware connties and about 150 miles from N ew York city. There he owns 2,800 acres and a magnificent log house on the bor- FURLOUGH I.OtVJ*. der o f Furlough lake, which is a crystal m o.utam tarn covering abont 40 acres and lyin g just 2.000 feet above the sea. The prim eval forest is there almost no- broken. and in Mr. Gould's dooryard are treee 200 years old. There his fam ily live the summer through, there Mr. Gonld puts in all the time he can spare from business, and there he has pet deer, blooded sheep and fine cattle. S h e Ie N o w M rs. H u ll. Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., whose tronbles and divorce made snch a pain ful episode in the life o f the great states man and his fam ily, waa the daughter of Colonel Richard Nevins, once promi nent as publisher of the Ohio Statesman. She is now the w ife o f Dr. W im am Til- DR. B U LL MRS. BLAINE. Ilnghast Bull. She is still quite a young woman—born in 1865—and has regained her health and beauty. Her husband was a prosperous bachelor o f 44 when married, born in Newport, R. 1.. in 1849 and graduated from Harvard in 18(19 He has a large practice In N ew York city, where be and bis w ife w ill reside. N ew Y o rk 's PoMtmMter. CharloH W Dayton, postmaster o f N ew York by the #race o f President Cleveland, was born in that city in 1846 He was admitted to the N*»w York bar in 1808 and has amassed a fortune in the practice o f his profession He is a resident of the Harlem district and was oue of the organizers of v . the Harlem Dein o era tic club, which has had s powerful in flu C h a r l e s W. DAYTON, encotn New York politics. He was a member of the aa sembly in 1880 and the anti-Tammany candidate for president o f the N ew York aldermen in 1885. when he was defeated. He is a member o f numerous clubs and associations besides Tammany and di rector and counsel o f several hanks. Pythian* In Chi caff a. The supreme officers of the Knights of Pythias established a headquarters for the order during the W o r'd ’s fair in the residence Dortiou of South Chicago and m ade c o n ta c t s with responsible parties for taking care o f Pythiana and their families at r e a s o n a b l e rates during the big show. 8a> prerae Chancellor Blackwell, M ajor General Carna han and Inspect or General Ken nedy are highly w. w. r l a c k w e l l . praised by Pythiana for the skill and ef ficiency with which the idea was carried out, and a very U rge percentage o f the order availed them— Ives of the benefit*. The pearl is on ly carbonate o f lime, is readily affected by acids and burns into lime. The O rloff diamond is now set in the Russian scepter just under the eagle on the top. The coloring m atter o f Ihe emerald i . derived from the foesil remains o f ani mal life. Ancient and modern engraved sap phires are very numerous and extremely valuable. The turquoise was regarded by the Mexicans as a magic stone and waa worn as an amulet. The Austrian government has a Hun garian opal 8 } inches lon g and 21 thick. I t weighs 17 ounce, and is worth $800,- 000. T h e color o f the turquoise varies from pea green to greenish blue and almost black blue. The beet color ia a clear sky blue. The late Dom Pedro had the largest aquamarine ever known. It was said in size and shape to approximate a calf's head. Coral, often need in jew elry, is an in sect product. The best specimens are found in the Mediterranean sea and In dian ocean. The most famous opal o f history was that worn b y the Roman Senator Nonins. An ton y tried to buy it as a present to Cleopatra, bnt Nonins refused to sell. It was buried in his tomb, where it was found in the present century.—8L Louis Globe-Democrat. A PERILOUS OCCUPATION. T w o K w r a l Accidents Km phaslae tko D a n g e r o f M o nk eying W ith T rain e d A n im a ls. “ Don’t monkey with the animala” may be very good advice to give most people, but it would be rainous if followed by Uon tamers, snake charmers and other people who make a business of monkeying with various specimens of the brute creation for the edificat ion of an admiring public. Nev- DOT BOSWXLL ertheless these professionals are sometimes compelled to wish they had taken it fbr just once. Two recent cases are directly in point. One of them is that of Mias Am elia Berg, who gave exhibitions with trained tigers in the Midway plaisanoe of the World's fair, and the other is the case of Dot Son well, the snake charmer, who waa recently bitten for the fifth time by a rat tlesnake in a New York dime museum. Miss Berg’s “ act” was to enter an iron barred cage containing 10 trained tigers and put tl through the paces of various tricks they had been taught. She carried nothing into the cage with her but a lig h t whip, but that was usually sufficient. It did not answer, though, in the case of the tiger i-ioo, who attacked her, knocked her down, and with his sharp, powerful claws tore three ugly, gaping wounds in her right thigh, one of them 7 inches long. It was Leo’s first public performance, and his pre FASHION’S FANCIES. vious training had probably not been ef T o women who cannot wear the very fective enough. The case of Dot Sonwell is chiefly re fu ll cape or series o f capes that fashion markable for the fact that it was the fifth so favors the “ bell cape.” as it is called, occasion on which she had been bitten by a often proves becoming. venomous diamond rattlesnake and that Fashionable modistes are just now she seems to be proof against death by their poison. Her first “ accident” occurred at m aking great nse o f oriental broche satins fo r bias skirt borders to handsome dress Fall River, Mass., a couple of years ago, and soon afterward she was again bitten at es; also fo r vests, revere and cape linings. Providence. In the summer of 1802 she The silk linings o f old evening toilet, was bitten for the third time at a Fouis can be cleaned w ith very weak camphor teenth street museum in New York city, and ammonia w ateror gasoline and fash and on the 1st of July last, at the same es ioned into pretty petticoats for summer tablishment, a deadly diamond back for the fourth time buried ita fangs in her w ear beneath light gowns. flesh. Am on g summer dust cloaks are cir Dot had barely recovered from the effects cular styles that envelop the whole fig o f this fourth bite and was still weak and ure, made o f changeable and striped unfit to work when she returned to the glorias, o f lnstrous shot mohairs, or of museum. It was her first performance, and she was handling new snakes. The secret tw illed snrah, plain or changeable. of success in ker business, she says, is in Some o f the rich brocaded skirts are her mesmeric power over the reptiles. But w h olly untrimmed, and In making up one big fellow, 5 feet long and nearly 3 these handsome skirts the silk lining inches thick, resisted all her efforts to con and crinoline are cut in breadths exactly trol him. Feeble and nervous. Dot became like the outside, seamed up together and frightened and momentarily relaxed her gaze upon the snake's beadlike eyes. It then silk faced. but for a fraction of a second, but it j The india silks, with black ground was was all sufficient for the writhing monster sprinkled with tvliitp flowers and white that struggled in her grasp. Quicker than grounds w ith all over arabesque designs, thought hiAhead darted forward, and the w ill be equally fashionable with shot ef poiaou fangs were buried in the woman’s fects in black and white, plain or with neck just )>ack of the left ear. She was at Che changeable ground dotted with once liberally dosed with whisky and re moved to a hospital, where she slowly re i black. covered, as she had so many times before, Sleeves differing in fabric from the from an injury that most people consider dress continue to be favored, velvet still certain death. I retaining its hold, being associated with Dot Sonwell is a handsome little woman i ligh t wopls like crepoa, veil.ng, clairotte and only about 20 years of age, but she is etc., and also with the more substantia, the mother of three children. Her hus camel's hair fabrics, wool bengalines, band was a snake charmer and taught her serges and the like.—N e w Y o rk Evening the secrets of his business, and they per formed together for a time. He got bitten Poet. ____________________ so many times, however, that be lost hie nerve, and since then Dot has performed ANIMAL LIFE. alone, while he has devoted himself to A house dog often takes a cold in an washing dishes in a restaurant. eye from lyin g close to a door where he A Congress o f Criminals. seeks the cool air. A congress of criminals is to meet in New A horse on the farm o f N . J. Beil in the Bellefonie valley, Pennsylvania, is York this fall—that is, it w ill meet if Red dy Burdick, the notorious hank robber of said to be 40 years old. many aliases, can succeed in getting it to A bit of glass, sharp gravel or w ild oat gether. He is working bard for It and is very hopeful. Highwaymen, train robbers, g can Um e a dog’s foot, and i f a wound caused by any o f these articles is not at bank burglars and all sorts of “ profes tended to permanent lameness may set in. sional” criminals are to attend, pickpockets alone being barred. Burdick calculates T o escape from dangers which menace that he can get 200 or more delegates to at them starfishes com mit suicide. This tend and thinks tbe congress« will be a instinct o f self destruction is found only unique and interesting affair. in the highest and lowest scales o f ani mal life. Falcons are being trained in Russia to take the place o f carrier pigeons for dis patch carrying in wartime. N o t only are these birds sw ifter than the pigeons, bnt they can resist bad weather better. The horned toad is considered a harm less animal, bnt its ire is aroused when the house cat attempts overtures, and it manifests its feelings by squirting tw o small streams o f blood from the gleam ing e y e s . ___________________ N O V E L T IE S . S ilver bowls o f all sorts are now used for flowers. There is a new silver um brella clasp re cently introduced. Three minute glasses in silver stand ards come abont w ith the e g g eating sea son. Dresden china handles and round knobs o f colored stones aro prominent among the new designs in nse for umbrella •tick*. Old silver decanter stands which used to be called cruses, or, as we call them now, casters, are used for flowers. In the passing o f the casters the old fashioned silver bottoms are also utilised.—Jewel ers’ Circular. ODDS AND ENDS. The number o f Russian convicts sent Siberia avsrsges 700 a month. T b e state o f Massachusetts is said to have the most valuable records o f any state in the Union. Paris has an insurance company that refuses to Issue policies on the lives of any people who nse hair dye. Four thousand new poetoAres were established during the past year; 55” .646 unmailable letters poured In the boxes, 82,612 o f them w holly without any out- REDDT BURDICK. He expect, that “ measure, for tb* com mon good” will be considered, but tba» must not le token to mean Anythin* af » reformatory nature. He »iso think, tb. congress will extahlish • beosfldsi fund. Something of th . nature of tb . A cto n ’ fund I. w hot be »ppmr. to bore in mind. A pemmnent organization of tb . u M o e racy of tii. crooked fraternity Is an. of tb. pomibiiitis. he look, forwmd to, m d wltb characteristic effrontery b . bra bferady bo gun ralmUtlng ao tb. M way to d m » rent police tnlertsrm oo T ii. polios author!tim g ra ta , to hellere th*t tb. whole n h .M In b great hoox. but eorns of them adml being undertaken. 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