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There is fun, instruc tion and entertainment in it. The old and learned will find ns much mystery in it as the young and unsophisticated. Thisgreat puzzle s the property of the New York Press Club, for whom it was Invented by Samuel Loyd, the great puzzlcist, to be sold for the benefit of the movement to erect a great home for newspaper workers in New York. Generous friends have given $25,000 In prizes for the successful puzzle solvers. TEN CENTS sent to the "Press Club Building and Chrrity Fund," Temple Court, New York City, will get you the mystery by return mail. Every It.ecloi- OK this journal is invited to aid in the erection of a great home for newspaper work ers by sending one dime to "Press Club Building and Charity Fund," Temple Court, New York. You will aid a great work and re ceive by return mail a wonderful puzzle-gatne which amuses the young and old, bailies the mathematicians and interests everybody. Public spirited merchants have contributed 25,000 worth of premiums for such as can solve the mystery. Everything from a "Knox" hat to a "Hteinway" piano. DID YOU TRY "PIGS IN CLOVER" or the "FIFTEEN PUZZLE." Well, the man who invented them has just completed another little playful mystery for young and old, which is selling for TEN CENTS for the benefit of the fund to erect a home for newspaper workers in New York. This puzzle li the property of the New York Press Club and generous friends of the club have donated over 125,000 to provide prizes for lucky people, young or old, who solve the mj-Btery. There is a lot of entertainment and instruction in it Hend a dime and get the souvenir puzzle by return mail. Address "Press Club Souvenir," temple Court.New York City. COUNTY, OREGON, Highest of all in Leavening Power.- wd6f- AR&QWTEDt PORE HOLLAND WILL EXHIBIT Influential Notherlanders Interest ed In the World's Fair. The Life and Surroundings of the Duter. Peoplo to l!o Illustrated A Splendid Representation Evpccted to lie .Uadc. The active participation of the linf dom of Holland tit the worlds fair ii now an itsstirtd fart. Hem. Walkei Fearu, chief of the. department of for eipn affairs, has received a letter froir Hon. Kamnel Thayer en the subjocl from the location of the Pnited States al The HiiH-ue. in v.hi. li tile authorities oi the Columbian exposition are. informed that a royal order appeared in the of tieial Gazette, of June 23. announcing the appointment of the following com mission as representative of the Nether lands government at the Columbian ex position: M. Jleos, J!. Ileldrinfr, (. JI Boissevain, .Mr. Svan Citters, (. liirk hoir, Jr. These are all men .of prom inence and aetively interested in the success of the exposition. An earlj meeting of the commissioners will b held at the L'niteJ States legation. The Netherlands government has de clined for years all invitations of the character from other nations, ever from such near neighbors as France and lielgium, and only through the in fluence of persistent pressure was Hol land lmally brought to concede an ex hibition to the Columbian world's fair yrhroutrh the cooperation of an or- man of Mannheim, in the grand duchy gimizatiou composed of a number of in- ot lladen, my native place, and he ilticntnil people in Amsterdam and showed me a number of inventions, other parts of the kingdom a consider- among which was the bicycle, able sum of money has been' raised to be I "The baron was a great person for in used in the construction of a special ventions. lie spent all he had on his building at the fair, to be built in projects, and was in very reduced cir various styles of architecture, ancienl eumstanees. Still, he kept on with and modern. The exhibit to be mad them,, living on but very little. His at the Holland headquarters will be .midday meal consisted of a piece of haractaa-istwaUy Dutch, and it is the" bread and a small bit of sausage, Pco inteution to illustrate the life and sur- pie called him the crazy baron. Among roundings of the Butch people. It is his inventions was a contrivance for intended, if possible, to create a canal snufling out a candle when it burned running through the center of the space allotted, with ample scope for exhibit on either side, and in connection there- wiui a uuten dairy showing then process of butter and cheesemaking, together with rare specimens of Dutch cattle, cte. The Holland commission will make application for the necessart space to make this exhibit, and it i; quite inteiy mat the consul of tht ground, lie invited me to take a ride Netherlands government at Chicagc with him. lie rode beside me on one and one other commissioner may b and kept me from falling off the other delegated to act for the royal commis i until I learned how to get along, slon in this matter. While some mem "It was pretty awkward, and I re bers of the commission are designatec ; member that I scraped the toes of my as the committee and others commis shoes off in the course of the journey, slons, they are all of royal appoint We rode about two English miles. The ment and have practically the sami baron never made anything out of his function, though the chief work of th inventions, but the government, I be committee will be in the Netherlands Heve, gave him a little pension to keep eany an tne leading industries an tht kingdom of Holland have alreadj pledged their active cooperation in th development and maintenance of ai adequate representation at Chicago. EXHIBIT OF EAST INDIA. It Promises to He it Large anil Attract It, they do, the Navajos cannot be pre Dlsnluy. "I i.. i..,t.. ..:o , The East Indian exhibit is likely U bit. A writer in the Rocky Mountain develop into a large and attractive dis News has known some very ludicrous play. Lmted States Consul Genera things to happen when meanly mis Ballantine at Bombay, in a recent com ehievous Americans deluded Navajos mumeation to Director General Davis into eating either of those forbidden shows that interest in the world's fail dishes, and sometimes there have been is becoming very general in the larg. very serious retaliations for the ill cities and at some of the native court! mannereil ioke. Rnbliili t, wnn,i.,.i. of India. The native princes as weL as opulent merchants and manufactur ers are now fully awakened to the im portance of a representation. Consul General Balhmtine paid an of ficial visit to the court of his hlo-bnou ficial visit to the court of his highnesi . - n the gmcowar or maharajah of Baroda The guicowar of llaroda is the most im portant prince in western India. Aftei 4..1. 1. "'"8 consul ueneral liallantini every attention the prince confirmed hii promise of assistance given in a pre virtue i,il,.m. 1,., ,.,!,.:.. n .. : i ...-v.,., ,, y omo, any instructing secure the coveted prize. When Mr. his prime minister to give every assur Tusa ventures from his bedroom deep ance of assistance, and added that hi underground he sees a familiar image would get an exhibit from his principal- mocking him at the front door; and ity representing a value of certainlj when he hurries out to confront the im not less than ten thousand rupees ant ptulent intruder, whizz! goes a chalce probably much more. The guieowai dony tipped arrow through him, pin added that he would possibly make thii ning him to the ground so that he can much larger and more extensive. II ii not tumble back into his home, as h action in this regard is most likely tc induce other native princes to follow it The guieowar's brother, his excellency Sumgatra, lias already promised to vish Chicago. With a large retinue of offl cers and attendants he contemplate! visiting England next year. The visil of a native East Indian prince, sur rounded by his oili.-ial staff and retinuf of native assistants, would be a striking and attractive incident of thcexpositior period. The official jeweler to his highness, the maharajah of Cuteli, lias decided tc send rare specimens of filigree gold and silver work. The brahino samuj of In dia in Calcutta has chosen Babu 1'. C. Mozoomdar, and the arya sainaj of In dia has selected Swanii lihaskaraiianc as representatives of their Hindoo sects to the world's religious congress to be held at Chicago in connection with the exposition. A Hindoo gentle man is making arrangements for twe hundred of his countrymen to visit tin fair. Reproducing; the (ii-eat Allmmbra. Ground has been broken for the Moorish palace to be erected in Midway Plaisance. Considerable material is on the ground, and the erection of the building will proceed at once. It will be two hundred feet mimrj, r:ti.'i al F1UDAYL SEPTEMBER 1, 1893. Latest U. S. Gov't Report, The h,1n,w :' CVTd V"h Staft ging is here sliht- il hM sufficient en Altata, ndlt Slt,, pnW dr.ven sQuth mtL nlT K:Lr' r- , ,Iofr-:ds,and thus limit its excursions to mn '.n , , r"il' A ,"ra'tur f the American shore. Setting out into company holding the con,ossion, was the Atlantic from Davis strait there ,U on he ground with . Mr Stepanny, who , however, a strong stream of Arctic was ongimilly identified with the water, which, in part, slips under th, scheme. Mr. Hoffmann savs that the o.,l...m . . ' ? . tM million dollars in gold is to be the nrin. cipul attraction in the palace. The building will contain a restaurant which will seat two thousand people, and a Vienna cafe with a capacity for a thousand guests. The Probst Construc tion Company will erect the buildirxr. of which Mr. August Fiedler, consult- ; , . , ' ing architect for the German emDirn. U the rcl,ltof ' ' - Kncklen s Arnica Salve. The best sulve in the world for cnte bruises, pores, nlcers, salt rheum, fever sores, t. iter, chapped bands, chilblains oorns nnd all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, nr no pay required. It is nuarnnteed to give perlect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Sloonm-Johnson Drug Company. BICYCLES SIXTY YEARS AGO. they Were Invented by a Gorman Baron Who Called Them "Tresinas." Cyclers will be interested in this talk from the Baltimore Sun: "It wa about the year 1837," said William Boucher, Jr., one of our oMlest and best-known citizens, recently, "that I visited Baron von Tresel. a noor noble- down to the danger line. ! "This was for the benefit of folks who read in bed. But the bicycle was tne principal thing. The wheels were of equal size, but had no pedals. The seat rose up from the middle and could be regulated like a piano stool. You sat on that seat and propelled the ma- chine' by striking the feet acainst the nim irom want, lie called his bicycl invention the 'tresina.' HUNTING THE PRAIRIE DOG. (favujo Indians I.uro Thorn from Thel ISurrows with Mirrors. living almost wholly on game ly numerous in the Navajo country, be ing molested only by feathered and four-footed enemies; but the Indian who would light to death sooner than tOtlell a llelieioilS Villtldf utir iu ,rr.t.A- ilv fond of the f.-it. ami n,,.,!,,,.' rai,i i .... ... . 'I .'j mv; mi ttnu iU dog. That whole regio "dog towns," and they t besieged by their swar ion abounds in are frequently Navajo will stick a bit of mirror in the entrance of a burrow and lie behind the little mound all day if need be to . . has a wonderful faculty for doing even in death, or n rl.-irlr bund ,lriB frnm Ko. hind like lightning, seizes his chunky neck safely beyond the reach of his chisel-shaped teet, and breaks his spine with, one swift snap. . . .i.-iti A Scythe as Old as Moses. " An Egyptian scythe, dug up on thf banks of the Nile in 18110, is exhibited among the antiquities in the private museum of Flanders l'etrie, London. The shaft of the instrument is of wood set with a row of tine flint saws, which are securely cemented in a groove. This discovery answers the oft-asked question: How did the stone age man harvest his crops? Sleeping on Stones. The Russian likes no sleeping plaot so well as the top of a big soapstoni stove in his domicile. Crawling out oi this blistering bed in the morning h likes to take a plunge in a cold stream, even if he has to break the ice to get into it. The general merchandise establish ment formerly owned by Collin & McFar land, bus lately chnnged hands, now be in under the control and management (if Tbe MoFnrland Meroanlile Companv, which continues biisioess at the old stand with a larger "took than ever. s THE GREAT OCEAN CURRENTS " Singular Facts About These Llttla h. Understood StrnRma. f All the superficial parts of the west ern Atlantic, except the portion of it area next the coast of America, are per vaded by a slow movement which setf the water toward the poles, says Prof. N. S. Shaler in Scribner's. This current is due to the Gulf stream, which, emerg ing from the tropics as a deep, narrow, swift moving tide, skirts the southern coast of the United Statos, grad uallj widens like an opened fan, dimini shin'f in depth and losing its velocity a s i comes toward the Arctic circle. Al though the speed of its the surface of the sea next the Lnhra. dor coast. In the southward-setting current the floe-ice drifts with a speed of about a mile an hour down the Amer ican shore until it attains the mouth of the St. Lawrence. The Labrador cur rent, as this southward-moving water is called, would, but for certain accidents vuulu, Huum, uui ior certain accidents f x... i u,'uu,:u"1 , s"-6'i"'i "u uus uoe-ice mucft farther to the southward than it now does. If Newfoundland and Nova Scotia should disappear, so that there could be a nearly straight shore from Greenland to Massachusetts bay, it is likely that these floes would in large quantities attain to the coast of New England, and give to the shore lands of that part of the continent the subarctic and inhospitable climate of the islands of the eastern St. Lawrence. This shore-current bears few true icebergs with the floe-ice, for the reason that these greater ice-islands are formed to gether on the Greenland shores, and. pressed to the eastward by the prevail ing winds, do not come into that super ficial, shore-skirting. Labrador current. THE WESTERN PKDAOOUUE. We are in receipt of the May number of our stBle Bchool paper. It exceed any of the former numbers it value. Tbe paper this month contains many new and valuable features. The illus trated series on the schools of the state is introduced by a paper on tbe Friends Polyteohnic Institute at Salem, Oregon. These papers oannot fail to be of great value both to the schools sod to the public lucre are also several fine articles by our best writers and the departments "Current Events,""Saturday Thoughts," "Educational News" "Tbe Oracle Answers, Correspondents," etc., each contain much valuable reading for teacners or parents. The magazine urn, uuu uu pages oi matter, well . ... pimieu ami arranged, we pronounce the Western Pedagogue the best educa tional monthly on the coast. Everyone of our readers should have the paper if they are at all interested iu education. No teacher school direo tor or student can get along well with out it. We will receive subscriptions at this office. Price only $1.00 a year. When desired we will send the Western Pedagogue and (lazette one year to one address for $3.00. Call and examine sample oopies, Teaohers, direotors and parents, now is the time to subscribe, tf PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get Twenty-five Hundred Dollars for Nothing. The Winner has a clear Cift of a Smal Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents that may Bring them in Still More. Would you like to make twenty-five hundred dollars? If you would, read carefullv what follows and you may see a way to do it. Ihe Press Claims Company devotes much attention to patents. It has handled thousands of applications for inventions, but it would like to handle thousands more. There Is plenty of Inventive tallent at large In this country needing nothing but encouragement to produce practical results. That encouragement the Press Claims Company propose to give. NOT SO IIAIIU AS I rsi:i:viN. A patent strikes most people as an appalling ly formidable thing. The idea Is that an In ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Bell; that he must devote years to delving In complicated mechanical problems and that he must spend a fortune on delicate experiments before lie cun get a new device to a patentable degree of perfection. This delusion the com pany desires to dispel. It desires to get into the head of the public a clear comprehension of the fact that if Is not the great, complex, and expensive In venliuus that bring the best returns to their authors, but the little, simple, and cheap ones the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feci somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the atli-nllon of the Patent Otlicc. Edison says that the profits he has received li-oni the patents on all his marvelous Inven tions have not been nillicient lo pay the cost of his experiments, lint the mull who con ceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a child's bull, so that It would come back to the band when thrown, made a fortune out of his scheme. The modem sewing-machine is a miracle of ingenuity the product of the toll ot hundreds of busv brains through a handled anil lifty years, but the whole bril liant result rests upon Hie simple device of putting the eye of the needle at tlm uilm i. stead of at the oilier end. DPRICE'S i.e omy rure t.ream of Tartar Powder-No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Million of Homes 40 Years the Standard. An advertisement, iayi Printers' Ink, to bear fruit in one night You can't eat enough in a week to lait you a year, and you can't advertise on that plan either. Those who advertise once in three months forget that moat folks cannot remember any thing longer than seven days. . ,- ' WEEKLY KO.MS. I I SEMI WEiKLY NO. 158. THE LITTLE THI.WS THE MONT VAMAHLE. Comparatively few people regard themselves as inventors, but almost every body has been struck, at one time or another, with ideas that seem calculated to reduce some of the little frictions of life. Usually such ideal are di. missed without further thought. "Why don't the railroad company make its ca r windows so that they can be slid up and down without breaking the passengers' back?" ex claims the traveler. "If I were running the road I would make them In such a way." "What was the man who made the saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "Ha never had to work over a stove, or he would have known how Bought to have been fixed." "Bang such a collar button!" growls a man who is late;for .breakfast. "If I were in the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip out, or break oil', or gouge out the back of my neck And the various sufferers forgot about their grievances and began to think of something else. If they would set down the nn r.,. venlent opportunity, put their ideas about car windows, saucepans and collar buttons Into practical shape, and then apply for patents, they might find themselves as iodependently wealthy as the man who invented the iron umbrella ring, or the one who nuient.H the fifteen puzzle. A TEMPTING Ot'FEK. To induce the people to keep track of their bright ideas and see what there in them, the Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a irlze. To Ihe person who submits to it the simplest and most promising; invention, from a commercial point of view, the company will g-ive (went) -live hundred dollars iu cash, in addition lo refunding; the fees for securing; a patent. It will also advertise Ihe inveu. tion free of charg-e. This offer Is subject to the following condi tions: Every competitor must obtain a patent '.for his Invention through.the company. He must flrstapply for a preliminary search, the cost of which will be fivo dollars. Should this seach show his invention to be unpatentable, he can withdraw without further expense. Otherwise he will be expected to complete his application and take out a patent In the regu lar way. The total expense, including the Government and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars. For this, whether he secures a prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of three reputable patent attorneys of Washihg ton. Intended competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward It with their applicatien: "I submit the within described Invention In competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press CI? ' 'pany." NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETIOM. This is a competition of rather an unusal na ture. It is common to offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful one merely selling bis for the amoun of the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something- entirely differ ent. Each person is asked merely to help him self, and the one who helps him self to the best advantage Is to be rewarded by doing it. The prize Is only a stimulus to do something that would be well worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan for a club houso on a certain comer is not occept cd has spent his labor on something of very ittle use to him. But the person who patents a simple and useful device in the Press Claims Company's competition, need not worry If be fall to secure a prize. He has a substantial result to show for his work one that wil command Its value In the market at any time. The man who uses any article in his daily work ought to know bettor how to improve it than the mechanical expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view. Get rid of the idea that an improvement can be too simple to be worth patenting. The slmplerlhe better. The person who best succeeds la combining simplicity and popularity, will gat the Press Claims Company's twenty-five hun dred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be Judged from the fact that Its stock Is held by about three hundred of the leading newspaperi of the United States. Address the Press CIhIiti. iinmn.nv Wodderhuru, managing attorney, 618 f' street ii. asiungiou, u. o. . A. K. NOTICE. We take this opportunity of informieg our subscribers that the new commis sioner of pensions has been appointed He is an old soldier, and we belinv that soldiers and their heirs will re ceive justice at his hands. We do not anticipate that there will be any radinal changes in the administration of pousioa affairs under the new regime. We would advise, however, that D. S. soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take steps to make application at onee, if they have not already done so, in order to secure the benefit of the early filing of their claims in case there should be any future pension legislation. Suoh legislation is seldom retroactive. Ihere' fore it is of great importance that ap plications be filed in the department at the earliest possible dale. If the U. B. soldiers, sailors, or their widows, ohildren or parents desire in formation in regard to pension matters, they should write to the Press Claims Company, at Washington, D. C, and they will prepare and send the necessary application, if they find them entitled under the numerous laws enacted for their benefit. Address P11K8S CLAIMS COMPANY. John Weddkuburn, Managing Attor ney, Washington, D. C, P. O. Box 885 tf.