Heppner gazette., October 21, 1909, Image 8

ALL NIGHT BAKERIES.
Where New Yorker Can Have Wanta
Supplied at Any Hour.
AiMonu ilu inauy iu-os of business
of i!o juhI iinotlior sort that in a jroat
:it y arc kfpt open all niht arc luik-
Vfii'S.
Tho lakory Is n luvulhui.v domes
tic business establishment, supplying
mostly homo wants, and as most jv-pU-
v ik .lays and sloop nights it
mii:ht bo supposed tliat there would
be i: i.ooasion to koop baKeries open
i!i-!'.t. but hero, whore with tho oity's
laaLifi ill industries 'dure must bo a
laro mni.bor of people working at all
limes to koop things going, there two
liakt'i-ios that do knp open and find
trade at all hours.
Some of these all night bakeries
have luiKli room attachments, whore
people stop in to eat going to or from
work, while others do a bakery busi
ness only. At either customers come
in at all hours of the night to buy
things to carry away, just as people do
at any hour of the day, for the people
who go to work at midnight or at 1. 2
ir :5 o'clock in the morning want bread
and bakery stuff before they go, just
the same as do those who begin their
labors at 7. S or 0, and there is likely
to be in their neighborhood an all night
open bakery where they can regularly
supply their wants.
From 2 to a. in. are the hours that
mark low ebb iu the all night bakery
irado. but customers are dropping in
ell night long. New York Sun.
ANCIENT GUNS.
Rema.-kable Weapons that Were Used
by ths Turks and Chinese.
At the hi. ue of Klu des the Turks
o::s;n:eted mortars by hollowing out
-aviiios in the solid rock at the proper
angle, and in the arsenal at Malta is a
trophy of the long ar.d glorious defense
f Valetia in a Turkish gun. about a
six pounder, c omposed of a copper tube
ociietl over witlrstrong rone and "jack
eted" with rawhide. In the same col
lection are some antique "quick firers."
breechloaders, with small bores and
Immensely loug barrels, like punt guns.
The Malay pirates put great trust In
the long brass swivel guns called
"lela," and in Borneo these lelas were
used as a kind of currency, large sums
being estimated in guns.
The Chinese cast excellent bronze
funs (there is a fine specimen of them
in Devonport dockyard), but so little
did they understand gunnery that In
the so called "opium war" the forts of
the Bocca Tigris, defending the Can
ton river, had the guns built immova
bly Into the walls. The Sikh gunners
opposed to England in the two Punjab
wars, though they loaded with amaz
ing recklessness, shoveling in the pow
der from open boxes, stuck to their
guns to the last. The blood of the first
man killed was smeared on the gun,
and the whole detachment died beside
it sooner than retreat. Chambers'
Journal.
Too Much of a Tonic.
When Mr. Chinchin returned home
from Chinchin & Chinchin's the other
day be found his wife lying worn out
upon the sofa.
"Nothing wrong, I hope!" he ex
claimed. "I'm afraid I shall have to stop that
tonic the doctor prescribed for Tom
my," Mrs. Chinchin faintly murmured.
"Why? Isn't he any better?" asked
Chinchin.
"Oh, yes, but I think the tonic must
lie too invigorating. Why, he has slid
down the banisters six times this
mor.Mng. broken the hall lamp, two
vases, a water jug and a looking glass,
tied a tin can to the cat's tail and
scribbled his 'name on the drawing
room paper. Of rourse it's very grati
fying, but I don't feel I could stand
much more, so I think I I'll stop the
tonic."
Bats Inside Bamboo.
The cutting down of a clump of
bamboos in the royal botanical gar
dens, Singapore, 6hows that the hol
lows in the stems f these plants may
afford a dwelling place for bats. On
the splitting of a joint three bats flew
ut, and it was perceived that others
were within. Care was taken to pre
vent further escape, and later exami
nation of the joint revealed the pres
ence of twenty-three bats in the hol
low. Four of these were adult females
and nineteen young ones. Other bam
boo joints were also found to contain
a number of bats. The species is
known as Vesperugo pachypus. Lon
don Scraps.
The Proper Question,
The man with the glassy eye and
preteriiatur.-illy solemn demeanor put
down a sovereign at the booking office
at Charing Cross and demanded a
ticket. "What station?" snapped the
book'ir.g clerk. The would be traveler
steadied himself. "What stations have
youV he asked, with quiet dignity.
London Glol.
A Criticism.
"lie said ? his skirt of mine was a
perfect symphony."
"MaybV. but it's not well conducted."
"What do you mean?"
"It drags." Cleveland Leader.
The Real Want.
"What we want is a square deal."
"!i, we'll compromise on that in e
pincli. What we really want is
uliade the best of it." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Insincere.
"Oh, John, don't you wish we could
it ber and ppoon forever?"
VtS dearest. But let's go now. I
think I Lear the dinner bell." Boston
Tost
It costs the devil little trouble to
eatcb the lazy man. German Proverb.
MATHEMATICAL SIGNS.
Origin of Plus, Minus, Multiplicati
on
and Division by m bo Is.
The sign of addition is derived from
the initial letter of the word "plus.'
In making the capital letter it was
made more ami more carelessly until
the top part of the "p" was finally
nlaeed near the center: lienee the plus
sign as we know it was gradually
reached.
The sign of subtraction was derived
from the word "minus." The word
was tiit contracted iu in. n. s.. with a
horizontal line above to indicate that
some of the letters had boon left out.
At last the letters were omitted alto
gether, leaving only the shore line.
The multiplication sign was obtained
by changing the plus sign into the let
ter "x." This was done because mul
tiplication is but a shorter form of ad
dition. Division was formerly indicated by
placing the dividend above a horizon
tal line aud the divisor below. In or
der to save space in printing, the divi
Jend was placed to the left aud the
divisor to the right. After years of
"evolution" the two "d's" were omit
ted altogether and simple dots set in
the place of each. As with the others,
the radical sign was derived from the
Initial letter of the word "radix."
The sign of equality was first used
in the year lo"7 by a sharp mathema
tician, who substituted it to avoid fre
quently repenting the words "equal
to." St. James' Gazette.
UNCLE SAM.
The Vay Our Nickname Is Said to
Have Originated.
This familiar nickname for the Unit
ed States Is said to have come about iu
the following manner:
During the war of 1.S12 the United
States government entered into a con
tract with Elbert Anderson to furnish
supplies to the army. Whenever the
United States buys anything from a
contractor it appoints an inspector to
see that the goods are up to the speci
fications. In this case the government
appointed a man by the name of Sam
uel Wilson. He was a jolly, whole
souled man and was familiarly known
as Uncle Sam.
It was his duty to Inspect every box
and cask that came from Elbert An
derson, the contractor, and If the con
tents were all right the cargo was
marked with the letters "E. A.-U. S.,"
the initials of the contractor and of
the United States.
The man whose duty it was to do
this marking was something of a joker,
and when somebody asked him one
day what these letters stood for he
said that they meant Elbert Anderson
and Uncle Sam.
Everybody, including Uncle Sam
himself, thought this a very good joke,
and by and by it got into print, and
before the end of the war it was
known all over the country, and that
is how the United States received the
name of Uncle Sam. Des Moines Reg
ister and Leader.
Worshiping a Turtle.
At a place called Kotron, on the
French Ivory Coast, the natives be
lieve that to eat or destroy a turtle
would mean death to the guilty one or
sickness among the family. The fetich
men, of which there are plenty, declare
that years ago a man went to sea fish
ing. In the night his canoe was
thrown upon the beach empty. Three
days afterward a turtle came ashore
at the same place with the man on Its
back alive and well. Since that time
they have never eaten or destroyed
one of that species, although they en
joy other species.
If one happens now to be washed
ashore there is a great commotion in
the town. First the women sit down
and start singing and beating sticks;
next a small piece of white cloth (color
must be white) Is placed on the tur
tle's back. Food is then prepared and
placed on the cloth, generally plan
tains, rice and palm oil. fThen, amid a
lot more singing, dancing and antics
of the fetich people, it Is carried back
into the 6ea and goes on its way re
joicing. A FLOWER AND A WISH.
The Romantic Marriage of De Lesseps
of Suez Canal Fame.
Sir Henry Brackenbury tells in
Blackwood's Magazine the story of
the romantic marriage of M. de Les
seps. A Frenchman living in Reunion
was compelled by the illness of his
wife to take her to France. He sailed
with his wife and two young daugh
ters, but the wife died on the voyage.
Some time afterward the Frenchman
called on M. de Lesseps, told him of
his misfortunes and of bis sufferings
on the long sea voyage and expressed
the wish to dedicate the remainder of
bis life to 1 he furtherance of tho con
struction of the Suez canal. De Lesseps
gave him an appointment at Ismailia,
and employment was found in one of
the workshops there for his daughters.
One day De Lesseps' attention was
attracted by these two girls, with
whom lie entensd Into conversation.
He came again next day and gave to
each of them a flower, saying that
they should frame a wish the last
thing at night and that if in the morn
ing they found that the flowers had
opened the wish would b granted.
On the following morning he went
to their house and found one of the
girls smiling, the other in tears. He
asked the cause of the latter's sadness.
"My flower has not opened," she re
plied. "Tell me your wish, so that if possi
ble it may be granted," responded M.
de Lesseps.
"Ah, to you least of all men I can
tell it!" was her answer. The great
englneef married her.
THE HORSE.
He It 8o Stupid That Ha Can Be
Taujjht Any Habit.
There have been on exhibition at
various times horses that are appar
ently prodigies of mathematical lusi.uht
that can do anything with numbers
that the trainer can do. Yet we ab
solutely know that no animal can so
much as couut at all. Furthermore. It
Is always the horse that performs
these marvels, though the horse is the
most utterly stupid of all the dumb
creatures that man has made his
friends.
That is precisely why the horse Is
always taken to be nunle into an arith
metician. He is so stupid that he can
be taught anything an.v habit, that is
and, having io mind to be taken up
with his own affairs, can be relied on
to do exactly as he is told.
All these arithmetical fakes, what
ever their details, are worked In essen
tially the same way. The horse is
taught, by endless repetitions, some
mechanical habit. A given signal, and
he begins to paw the floor. Another
signal, and he stops. Press the proper
button, and he takes a sponge and
rubs it over a certain spot on a black
board or picks up a card lying hi a
certain position. That is all he does.
The meaning of the act exists for the
spectator only. The pawlngs count
tho answer to a problem iu addition,
the card bears the reply to a question,
but the horse does not know It. lie
merely follows a blind habit, just as
he will stop when you say "Whoa!"
though you interpolate the word into
your recitation of the Declaration of
Independence. McClure's Magazine.
IT CAME TRUE.
The Large Party and the Calamity
That Followed.
'You can't make me believe," Uncle
Abner Jarvls was saying, "that there
isn't something in fortune telling."
His auditors were grouped round the
stove in the corner grocery store. "Ever
have auy experience with it?" asked
one of them.
"That's what I was going to tell
you," resumed Uncle Abner. "Once
when I was at the county fair I saw
a little tent with a sign on the outside
of it that said Mme. Somebody-or-other
would tell your fortune for 25 cents.
I stepped inside just for fun.
'A' woman with a thick veil over her
face was sitting in a chair on a raised
platform. I gave her a quarter, and
she looked at my hand. One of the
things she told me was that I was
going to have a large party at my
house in less than a month and that it
would be follered by a calamity.
I laughed at that. Thinks I to my
self, 'We hain't had any parties of any
kind to our house for two years, and I
don't reckon we'll have one quite as
soon as that.'
But it did come true. In about two
weeks my wife's Aunt Jane came to
visit ub, and if you think she ain't a
large party you ought to see her. She
weighs 287 pounds."
"But how about the calamity?" In
quired the man who was sitting on the
nail keg after a long pause.
"Well," said Uncle Abner slowly.
'she broke down our spare bed the
first night she slept In it." Youth's
Companion.
Had Forty Homes.
Yollon, the painter, was a unique
personage even among the odd charac
ters of Paris. While he was essen
tially a bohemian, there were .times
when even his patience was taxed to
the utmost, and to obviate the neces
sity of meeting unwelcome people he
conceived the idea of multiplying his
lodging places. At the time of his
death he owned no less than forty
homes, all In apartment houses, situ-
quart
e&rett
W. J. Van
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ated In nil the out of the tfny corners
of Paris, plainly furnished and with
just enough accommodation for him
self, lie chauged from one to the
other all the time In order to escape
importunate acquaintances and to take
refuge from his friends It was in or
der to throw tlieiu all off the scout
that ho engaged rooms all over the
city. He finally died in the Hue de
Dunkerque, where he bad as many as
three different apartments, all within
a stone's throw of one another.
The Stone Houses of Easter Island.
The remarkable stone houses of
Easter Island are built against a ter
race of earth or rock, which In some
eases forms tho back wall of tho
dwelling. They are built of small slabs
of stratified basaltic rock piled to
gether without cement. Is'o regularity
of plan Is shown In the construction of
a majority of them. The average
measurement is as follows: Height
from floor to ceillug, 4 feet 0 inches;
thickness of walls. 4 feet to 10 Inches;
width of rooms, 4 feet 0 inches; length
of rooms, 12 feet 9 Inches; average
size of doorways height, 20 inches;
width, 19 inches.
Skeptical.
"I kind of agree with the folks who
say that story about George Washing
ton aud the cherry tree Is a myth,"
said Farmer Corntossel after a thought
nil silence.
"For what reason?" inquired
his
wife.
"Well, human nature Is party nrai:
the same In all generations, and if
had a boy who picked up an ax
an
voluntarily went out to chop wood
wouldn't chide him. I'd hand him
medal." Washington Star.
Practical.
"I send you 10,000 kisses," ho wrote.
"Bah!" she exclaimed, tossing his
letter aside. "Why doesn't bo come
and look over his terminal facilities in
person?" Chicago Record-Herald.
A stout heart may be ruined iu for
tune, but not in spirit. Victor Hugo.
What Forty Poles Make.
A good story is told about a certain
professor whose business It was to lec
ture to a number of students on sur
veylng. During one of the lectures the
professor said that in his opinion the
pole was of little or no value. To the
astonishment of those present a Polish
gentleman arose and after accusing the
professor of insulting his countrymen
demanded an apology.
The professor thereupon explained
that the pole to which he referred was
merely a term of measurement. The
Polish gentleman, seeing his mistake,
asked the professor to forgive his ap
parent rudeness. To this the professor
smartly replied:
."You could not be rude, sir, even If
you tried, for it takes forty poles to
make one rood!" London Mall.
The Amazon River.
Although not the largest or longest
river, the Amazon is the most wonder
ful river in the world, with a mouth
150 miles iu width and with a force
of water that repels or at least over
lays the oceau to a distance of more
than fifty leagues. Yet in spite of
the weight of the river the tide makes
its influence felt for 500 miles from
the coast. The easterly trade winds
blow almost invariably upward, so as
to be ready to help the vessel against
the adverse currents.
In Disguise.
"Do you mean to say that you flirted
with your wife all the evening at the
masked ball and didn't know her?"
"That's right. But she was so
deuced agreeable how was I to know
her?" Exchange.
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"Well Irrigation of Small Farms
n the Willamette Valley" is the
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Companv lines in Oregon, of which
Wm. Mc.Murray is the general
passenger agent. The author ia
R. M. Brereton, of Portland. The
publication ia devoted to an ex.
planation of tha well-irrigation
system and the advantages which
may be derived therefrom, and a
copy of it should be in the hands
of every farmer and agriculturist
in Oregon. Copies of the pamph
let may be obtained free of charge
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Notice For Publication.
Department of the Interior,'
U. S. Land Oiiice at Lapiando, Oregon,
iOrtoher 11. 1UW.
' Notice is hereby (riven that Artimui Hrowtt
of Heppner, Oregon, who, on July 11th. lUol,
made homontead entry No. 136'.H5, nerial No.
07057. forB'4 NE4 N!i eE. section 18, town
ship 5 H. Range 27 E. W. M., hasflleil notice of
intention ti make final Ave year proof, toes,
tablixh claim ti the land above described, be
fore J. P. William, O. 8. CommiFniotier, at his
office in Heppner, Oregon, on tha 0th day ut
Decern b r. 1909
Clrlmant names as witnesses:
Charles Kideway. Enoch V'ave, John V.
Riilpewar and Walter Davis, all of Heppner,
Ortsron.
OcWNoTia F. C. BHAM WELL, Register.
Hnlfhti ! Pfthlna.
Doric Lodge No. 20, K. of P. Meets every
Tneadsy evening. Visiting members invited.
VAWTtB CRAWFORD. C C.
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