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VOL. 10.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1876.
NO. 33.
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THE ENTERPRISE.
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SOCIETY XOTICES.
OKKGON I.OIHJi: XO. 3, I. I. O.
Meets ev
,-erv Thursday A&f
H o'clock, in the 24
veninir at 7
o.ld Fellows' J tall. Main
street. Members or thu Or
der are invited to attend, liy ordr
ItKKUCC.V dij(;hkuloi)gu XO.
'1 I. O. O. 1" ., Meets on the Wr;
i i i.'..,,,-M. rrn..- f 'i
dav evenings each month, tr
at 7 o -lock, in the OtUi
Vellows' Hall. Memhersof the Degree
nro invited to attend.
MLU'xon.vn loixji: no. i, a.i
A A. M., Holds its regular com- fx
tuunications on the First and V'Vr'
Third Saturdays in each month,
at 7 o'clock from tho'JOth of Sep.
tember to the 2iUli of March; ami
..'clock from the 20th of March to the
-iOtli of September. Ilrethron in good
tanVm are invited to attend.
Uv order of
FAI.LS UXCAMPMUNT NO. 1,1. O.
O F., Me4i at O ld Fellows r
Hall on the First an d Third Tuos- JoX
,1.1 .if nii-li month. Patriarchs
in good standing are invited to attend.
It U i T X K S S CAR 1 X.
A. J. hover. r. n. J. w. xokris. m. d
1IOVETJ jNTORItlS,
P5IYSU l.N AM) SfKCKONS,
rtf-onic- ITvt-tairs in CUati:nn's Rrick,
ain Stfet.
Ir. Hover's r -sidnee Third Mreoi, at
(oot of cli stairway. t f
M. vr. noss, m. r.
WARREN . UAViS, r. n.
DAVIS,
1MI VSICI VN'S AM) C Ji i: O N" s
Or-vn City. ' Or. -on.
n.-omo; at th City Hispensary, ern-r
ir Main ami Fourth sts.
lr. lavisis a graduate of th 1. nlversit y
of I'.-iinsvlvania, and lias lately arrived
from the I",ast.
Particular atteiitiou ivi n to surgery.
il!l'e hours troin S o'clock A. m. to 5 v. M.
DK.JOHN WELCIT
DENTIST, CIPT
OFFICK IX Xj.
0!tKtN CITY, OllKtJO.N.
UIV,t t:aU lrirs itl for t-u "
Dvilers.
U GLAT&EAQTHA Fwl ,
ATTO RNE YS-AT'L A V7-
POHTI.ANIMu tpit.s new brick, 0
l'i rt st reel,
OUKHOX rtTY-riiarmrin'H brick, up
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'JOHMSON & McCO W M
ATTQRNEVS AM) COl'NSELORS AT-LAW.
Oregon City, Orcson.
iyVlll practice in all the Court s of the
iitate. Special attention given to cases In
th U, S, Land OfMoe at Oregon City.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
OREGON CITY, : : OEEGOX.
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practice in all the Courts of the
Nov. 1, 1S75, tt
JAAIES 13. TJT?TOST,
Attorncy-at-Liaw,
Oregon City,
Nov. 6, 1S75 ;tr
" JOHN 31. BACON',
IMPORTKR AND DEALER i7i
In Pooks, Stationery, Terfum. '-"
ory, etc., etc. wiAioi.
Oregon City, Om'ou
tt.At the Post Oflio
eid.
Main stgeot, cast
V. II. HKJHFIELI).
Established since '49.
One door nortH of I'ope'a Hall.
Main Street, Ort'ron City, l)rr?on.
An assortment of Watches,. Tewel-
rv.and Seth Thomas' eigtu iocks
all of which are warraniea to oe as
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yrtepalrins done on short notice, and
thankful for pasi pairoiwi.
Cash paid for Countj- Orders
MILLER, MARSHALL &CQ.,
iAV TTTK TTTGTIEST PRICE FOR
WHEAT, at all times, at the
Oregon City Mills,
And have on hand
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FEED and FLOUR
to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring
Feed, must furnish sacks. novl2tf
CIIAS. KNIGHT,
CAXI1Y, OPvDGOX,
PHYSICIAN' AND DRUGGIST
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Prescriptions carefully filled at short
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JIV FIIIKND.
(AFTER THE GERMAN,)
The friend who holds a mirror to my
face,
And hiding none, is not afraid to traco
My faults, my smallest blemishes
within;
Who friendly warns, reproves me if
I sin
Although it seem not so, he is my friend.
But he who, ever flattering, gives mo
praise.
Who no'er rebukes, nor censures, nor
delays
To como with eap;erns and graapmy
hand,
And pardon me, ere pardon I demand,
lie is niv enemy, although he seem my
friend.
. Scribner's Monthly.
Oregon City and Her Industries.
Sunday Welcome.!
A visit to Oregon City must con
vince any and all of its superior posi
tion for a great manufacturing cen
tre. Enormous -water power, vast
forests of trees easily attained; while
in its near vicinity is a large deposit
of coal, destined at no distant day to
bo worked to good advantage, thus
affording all that is necessary for
manufactories'to be run upon a cheap
basis. No doubt in our mind exists
that Oregon City, or near there would
have been the commercial metropolis
of the State had not very grave and
serious mistakes been made by land
litigants not quieting titles at an
early day. A. slight" sketch of the
place will show this more fully.
It was the first city established in
the State. Dr. McLaughlin, chief
factor of the Hudson Bay Company
built here the first cabin in the year
1835. In 1838 he had erected a
building somewhat resembling a
house in form by which means to es
tablish his right to the site, which
he did two years later. The pioneer
missionaries of the Methodist
Church first settled here in 1810;
they were soon followed by other
immigrants. The Provisional Gov
ernment elected the first Governor
in 18-15, and the same year he was
inaugurated at Oregon City. The
first newspaper published in
Oregon was issued at the
same place in 1815. The citv
grew with much rapidity from 1810 j
to 1S50. It was up to 1851 the capi- i
tal of the Territory of Oregon, in '
that j'ear the seat was moved to Sa
lem. Trade was carried on between
Oregon City, Fuget Sound, San
Francisco aud other places, until
lund title became so faulty (squab
bling over Dr. McLaughlin's proper
ty) that persons were afraid to pur
chase property and consequently
many weio driven to Portland,
through which means this city gain
ed largely, and which gain has been
retained.
Tlio Willamette Falls can give
water power sufficient to turn the
machinery of several hundred mills.
The only factories that are establish
ed there, with the machinery run by
water, are two ilouring mills, one
woolen mill, one wooden ware manu
factory, a sash and door fac
tory. One of the flouring mills
the Oregon City is deserving of
more than a passing notice, lt is
owned by the enterprising firm of
Miller, Marshall & Co., and has in
troduced the latest improved ma
chinery. The building is of fair size,
but not largo enough to accommo
date advantageouslv the amount of
machinery run. The foundation
wall is several feet through and built
of stone. The receiving of wheat
from boats and delivery is made on
hand cars. The wheat asn'eceived is
cleaned, and if any way smutty is
put through a smutting machine
previous to being dumped into an
elevator and taken to the top of the
building where it js received in bius
for future use. There are five run
or set of stones which turn out 250
barrels of flour a day. On the sec
ond Jioor we found -a machine for
packing llour in sacks. It c'.oes the
work of several men. It can be reg
ulated to pack a more or less amount
in each sack. "We saw several sacks
filled and they did not vary in weight
half a pound, so exact is the machine.
Here is also a bran packer. TJy it
more, by one quarter, can be gotten
into bags besido saving labor. The
company uses the original French
middling purifiers. They are more
expensive and are claimed to be su
perior to the other kinds in use. To
us they appear more perfect. 15 v
these machines G5 per cent, of mid
dlings is put into llour which is the
best part of tho wheat. There are
two chests of bolts with seven reels
in use. In the unoer storv are the
bins which received the wheat raised
from the ground iloor by elevators.
On the same Uoor there is some kind
of horrizontal machines used in dam
pening wheat when too dry. The
arrangement against fire is perfect.
Leading to the top of the building
is a three feet diameter iron pipe
which at fhe lower end is attached
to the pipes of the water works. Bv
means of a wire which when pulled
Hoods the entire building with water.
So simple and perfect is it that no
fire can get under wav. The company
has m view the building of a ware
house on the river bank a short dis
tance from the mills, at which boats
running ln any of the other com
panies lines can load,
The woolen mills owned by Jacob
Bros J . S. Ladd and Brown Bros.,
aro the finest we have ever seen. The
main building is made of brick and
three stones in height. Owing to
the late hour we were compelled to
visit the factory, we found only a
few hands at work, and the rapid
pace with which we were shown
through afforded no satisfaction, and
did not allow of our taking full notes
Th ere are thirty-four looms, eiht
sets of oards and nine self-actTn
jocks. The machinery is thi very
latest and best improved saving
labor and turning out superior made
rrnrAct rV a nnTrninT7 line t
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about one hundred and ten hands
about four-fifths of whom are China
men. The dry house is of tho most
perfect character, as also the picking
room. This room is sixty feet di
tant from the main building, with a
most admirable place for putting out
any fire that might originate. The
storehouse is some distance ;off, at
tho time tho mills were destroyed
some years ago it was saved.
Th roughout tho main building a
most admirable system Las been per
fected for putting out fires. On each
floor is a -hoso fifty feet long - that
throws a powerful stream of water.
The Wooden Ware factory ia not
running on full time. It turns out
excellent work. The Imperial Flour
ing Mills we were unable to visit,
but learn that in all its arrangements
it is perfect. We wore also unable
to visit two or three other industries.
From Mr. Thomas Charman we
learned that the fruit dryer was not
rnnnning. The fruit preserved by tho
company gave marked satisfaction
wherever introduced. The company
forwarded some of the same to the
East, Europe, and Honolulu, and
also Sail Francisco, and other coast
ports. Honolulu is tho best market.
About all tho fruit has been placed
and to good advantage too.
The scenery of Oregon City is
beautiful. From the high bluff a
beautiful sijrht unfolds itself to the
stranger. The place boasts of some
six churches, two hotels, and many
business houses. The Cliff House
is most admirably kept, and of
course is the favorite. Among the
business men wo found one old Cali
fornia acquaintance, Mr. Levy.
Oregon City has improved him most
wonderfully. The EulrprJae, a week
ly paper, is issued here. Typo
graphically and editorially it would
do justice to a place of larger growth
than Oregon City.
Then and I ov.
They had not met for years. Orce,
they had leaned over the self-same
garden gate, aud sat side by side on
the old-fashioned hair-cloth sofa,
whispering those platitudes which
young love makes of such breathless
interest, while the kerosene lamp
was turned down to the faintest
glimmer compatible with perfect
propriety.
He had said that her image, and
hers alone, could fill the void which
ibsence from her left in his heart;
and when after unutterable agonies
of broken but impassioned English
he had faid that he adored her, she
had gently reclined her head upon
the homo-starched shirt-bosom that
creaked above his manly breast, he
having, with great piv.seuceof mind,
placed his handkerchief thereon, in
view of possible pomatum.
And then he had taken the assur
ance that she reciprocated his affec
tion, from her own lips, and ho re
mari.s with a sad smile that her
breath was faintly suggestive of fried
onions eaten the previous day; but
in thoso heavenly gold-plated mo
ments he thought that tho odors of
violet in spring was exhaled from
her rosy lips.
He went away to work; they cor
responded until, from two letters a
week, the correspondence dwindled
down to the exchange of a casual
newspaper, and then silence.
She finally married so did he.
And now they have met, before his
heart had done beating, he saw that
instead of tho sweet girl with brown
hair and a lithe, willowy grace, which
somehow lie had dreamed of encoun
tering, there stood a stout lady with
a false front, who said:
"Well, James, I do declare! How
old you've growed an' how gray you
be."
And he had replied, "Well, Han
nah, I never should have- known you.
How stout you are."
"Good Heavens, is that fat old
woman the girl that I thought I onco
loved T' he whispered to himself as
ho turned away, while she murmur
ed, half audibly, "Lemme see, wasn't
Jim an' I 'ngaged?"
To Dkive Off Yf-K.mix. If mos
quitoes or other blood-suckers infest
our sleeping rooms at night, we un
cork a bottle of tho oil of pennyroyal
and they leave in great haste, nor
will they return so long the air in
the room is impregnated with the
fumes of that aromatic herb. If rats
enter the cellar, a little powdered
potash thrown in their holes, or mix
ed with meal and scattered in their
runways, never fails to drive them
away, Cayenne pepper will keep the
buttery and store room free from
ants and cockroaches. If a mouse
makes an entrance into any part of
your dwelling, saturate a rag with
cayenne in solution, and stuff it into
the hole, which can bo repaired with
either wood or mortar. No rat or
mouso will ever eat that rag for the
purpose of opening communication
with a depot of supplies,
Yasn't it rough on Ella? Just as
she was telling Frederick at lunch
how etheral her appetite was, the
cook called out, "Say, will ye have
yer pork and greens now, or wait
till yer feller's gone ?"
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The man who cheats the printer
Out of a single cent,
Will never reach tho heavenly land
Where old Elijah went,
The congregation will please sing.
The Angnsta, Ga., Chronicle insists
that when women will treat ministers
just as they treat other men, there
will be fewer scandals than there are
now.
The married ladies of a Western
city have formed a "Come-home-husband
Club." It is about four
feet long, and has a brush, on the
end of it.
Subscribe, don't borrow.
The King Of Bavaria.
A few weeks ago, we gave, from
"Lee Prussiens en Allemagne," by
M. Victor Tissot, an account of some
of the vagaries of Kng Louis of Ba
varia. The Taris correspondent of
tho Boston Saturday -Ecenin j Gazette
translates from the same book ad:
ditional particulars of the oddities
of this queer monarch, as follow0;
The reigning King of Bavaria has
made the terrace of Suaibau his pal
ace. The lodgings are in the most
extravagant rococo style, ad there
is a garden compared with which
Semiramis' were but vulgar kitchen
gardens. It is in this fairy garden,
where all tho flowers of the tropics
sing a voluptuous symphony of per
fume, that the King spends his win
ter days, days which are so dark
and melancholy at Munich. When
one enters this garden, one scarcely
believes tho evidence of his own
eyes. One is tempted to take the
servant, who guides you, and who in
doing so violates the strides orders,
for an iufant magician, for a sorcerer,
for an enchanter. On the right hand
is a large rock coverdwith moss, on
which trail, liko enormous serpents
bristling with darts, cacti, and orch
ids. The back-ground represents an
East-Indian landscape, with tall,
slender bamboos and broad-leaved
banans; and in the rear is a cascade,
which pours its opal waters with sil
very, musical tumult. When one
gets near tho rock, one discovers un
der ivy drapery the entrance of a
cavern which leads to the waterfall.
As one proceeds further into the
cavern, its sides widen, and,
through the vaporous blue shades
which fill it, precious stones, dia
monds, and golden stalactites glitter
like drops of dew in the sun. Let
us leave the cascade on our right, and
move towards the left. We shall
enter an avenue of palm-trees, and
reach a Moorish kiosk, whose bul
bous cupola rises to tho glass roof of
the green-house. x. blue silk curtain
closes this kiosk, where reigns a
religious calm unbroken as in some
chapel. The windows have the form
of the trefoil leaf, through which a
delicate light filters, and a cut-glass
chandelier throws in the centre of
this sanctuary its rainbows innum
erable. A narghile, or Turkish pipe,
adorned with long, pearl-embroider
ed tubes, stands on a lapis-lazvli ta
ble. One thinks one's r.clf in a Sul
tan's saloon. This edifico is called
"the Kiosk of Delights," The King
of Bavaria never crosses" tho thres
hold except dressed as a Turk of the
old school, wearing an enormous
turban, and with a golden crescent
in the middle cf his back. Ho winds
up the self playing" piano, which ia
concealed behind a curtain, lights
his Turkish pipe, stretches himself
at length on a sofa, and passes away
whole afternoons amid tobacco amber
clouds and the melodies of his me
chanical orchestra. There are many
mysterious and perfumed paths,
bordered with seats covered with
satin, and well-stuffed, and evergreen
arbors at whose farther end is a
Venus, or a crouching Sphinx,-lead-ing
from the Moorish kiosk to the
enchanted banks of a little lake,
which is blue and limpid as a frag
ment of Orient sky, and which seems
to d renin of its nrdive land under
the motionless cupola of palm trees.
It requires Bore's pencil to depict
this marvelous scene. It is a
splendid vision, a corner of Para
dise. Mountains obedient as those
of Holy Writ, docial cliffs, frame this
lake, in which thousands of gold and
silver fishes sport, on which beauti
ful Chinese ducks swim, and which
is lighted by day as by night by
eternal moonbeams. There is ma
chinery by which the star-spangled
sky may at will be covered by black
clouds, vivid lightning Hash, hoarse
thunders peal, and the lake becomes
tossed by angry billows. The King
of Bavaria, costumed as William
Tell, then enters a boat moored to a
tree on the bank, casts off, and rows
among tho darinj; billows. Ho has
had a photograph of himself and lake
taken during one of these mimic
storms. The photograph is really
an interesting picture. It is said
that the King one day asked the
prima donna of the Munich opera to
come and sing the ballad of the King
of Thule in a boat on this lake.
When she reached the second stanza
the King range the electric bell,
which was the signal to his machinist
to raise a storm on the lake. In
stantly the lightnings flashed, the
thunder pealed, the waves ran high,
tho boat in which the prima donna
stood rocked violently aud threaten
ed to upset. She screamed in terror,
and the King rolled over and over
on his sofa, laughing as if ho would
split his sides. At one end of the
lake is an Indian wigwam; it con
tains buffalo-skins, moccasins, bows,
arrows, tomahawks, spears and fish
ing implements. A grove of exotio
trees, filled with parrots taught to
pronounce the King's name, sepa
rates the lake from a chain of moun
tains made of cement, and made
the exact counterfeit of the Hima
layas. The decoration of tho fore
ground represents a tropical lake,
with islands filled with gigantic
vegetation and extraodinary birds.
Berg Castle, which is situated on
the banks of tho tho beautiful Starn
berg Lake, near Munich, is not less
fantastically arranged than the ter
race of the Saalbau der Resident at
Munich. Berg Castle is the King's
favorite retreat. He lives there nine
months of the year. If he has his
winter-garden in Munich, he has his
island of roses at Berg Castlo. His
island of roses, too, is a scene from
the East, from the caliphate of a poet
like the Caliph of Bagdad; only it
contains no Scheherazade. The story
of a nightingale that was enamored
of a rose must have taken place in
this enchanted island, placed like an
immense nose-gay under the royal
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windows. The island contains every
species of rose; the eyes are perpet
ually delighted and all the senses are
intoxicated by the atmosphero of
odors and colors. Formerly, there
was a fisherman's hut on this island;
it has been removed, and, in its
stead, a Swiss cottage built. The
King has placed a piano in this cot
tage, and during summer nights the
boats which glide over the lake can
here the King playing fragments of
"Lohengrin" and "Tannhauser."
The Bavarian people have given
Berg Castle the name of "the Magic
Castle." I did not try to-cnter it,
for the excellent reason that may ef
forts would have been useless. The
dragons which guarded the nes
perides kept less jealous watch than
the sentinels who kept ward over all
the avenues leading to this castle.
It is said to be crammed with stage
machinery and scenery. It contains,
among other things, a Moorish
kiosk, in which the King frequently
spends the night surrounded by ala
baster lamps smoking incense-burners.
Berg Castle is always silent
as a tomb. It never receives a visi
tor. There is not, even at the meal
hours, the joyous clatter of dishes
which indicates the master's pres
ence. The King dines alone. He
is as temperate as an anchorite. He
has a horror of material existence.
He commonly rides on horse-back
around the lake before dinner. - He
is followed only by an outrider. He
sometimes stops at the first house of
Amerland Village; it is a poor cob
bler's house. He drinks a glass of
water, gives the cobbler a florin, and
rides off". People who enter the
roads reserved to the King aro fined.
Watering Horses.
A full drink of water, immediately
after being fed should never bo al
lowed to horses. When water is
drunk by them the bulk of it goes
directly to the largo intestines, and
little of it is retained in the stomach.
In passing through the stomach,
however, the water carries consider
able quantities of tho contents to
where it ledges in the intestines. If,
then, the food of the stomach is
washed out before it is digested, no
nourishment is derived from the
food. In Edinburgh some old horses
were fed with split peas and then
given water immediately before be
ing killed. It was found that the
water had carried the peas from fifty
to sixty foot into the intestines where
no digestion took place at all. Mr.
Cassie is quite correct in the views
set forth regarding the injurious ef
fects of quantities of water swallow
ed immediately after eating. A small
quantity of fluid swallowed along
with, or immediately after, dry food,
beneficially softens it, and assists in
its division and digestion. An inor
dinate supply of water, or of watery
fluid, on the other hand, proves in
jurious. It dilates unduly the di
gestive secretions; it mechanically
carries onward the imperfectly
digested food and thus interferes
with the proper functions of the
canal, and excites indigestion and
diarrhoea. These untoward effects
a.te especially apt to occur where
horses freely fed and too liberally
watered are shortly put to tolerably
quick work. There is no more in
fallible method of producing colic,
diarrhoea raid inflamatiou of the
bowels. Tho horse is not peculiar
in this effect; dogs, and even their
masters, similarly suffer from copious
draughts of water immediately after
eating much solid food.
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Husic in America,
The prominenco of music at the
opening of the exhibition, and the
generally confessed excellence of it
all, ought not to pass without notice
of the fact that we are, like the Eng
lish, becoming one of the most mus
ical people by education. Within
the last quarter of a century, no fine
art with us has made such progress,
both popular and professional, as
music. The American music at Phil
adelphia on Wednesday strikes the
critics quite as favorably as Wagner's,
and the American choruses receive
the highest encomiums of those ac
customed to the best English chor
uses, led by 33r. Costa himself. So
says Bayard Taylor, who is also of
the opiniou that Sidney Lanier's
mystical cantata became a great suc
cess under the music of DudlevBnck
and tho rendering of the chorus
John K. Paiue's setting of Whittier's
hymn also is generally commended,
and Myron W. Whitney's bass solo
in Mr. Lanier s pieco was immense
These arc all Americans, as well as
most of the chorus, and wo have
some claim on Theodore Thomas, the
skillful leader of the orchestra and
the whole.
Tho conspicuous success of this
feature is merely one of a series of
facts declaring our musical growth.
American vocal talent is decidedly
the rage in Europe, and no operatic
season is complete in one of the great
cities without a transatlantic star.
Perhaps foreign audiences look upon
these as genuine wonders of our bar
barian civilization, as though we, for
instance, were to regard Rubinstein
as a musical Cossack, liable at any
moment to exchange the piano stool
for his native saddle. But, however
that may be, the" American-'-climate
and temperament are-found to attune
the vocal strings and. J$ie- aural tym
panum to a rare delicaoy. ;We shall
perhaps never rival tlie'old continen
tal masters of composition,, but we
bid fair to be among her most skillful
interpreters, and to -come up abreast
of England and Germany in making
music a rich element in the popular
education, entertainment and life.
A vinegar hearted old bachelor
savs he always looked under the
head of "marriages" for the news
of the weak.
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News Column.
Daniel Drew is failing rapidly.
Seattle is infested with footpads.
The Iowa delegates are almost a
unit for Blaine.
The Alabama delegates to the St.
Louis are uninstructed.
The TJtsalady mill is expected to
resume operations soon.
Cereals in Spain have not promised
such bountiful crops in 100 years.
Seven thousand soldiers sailed
from Madrid on the 1st for Cuba.
The XortJ, era Star, published at
Snohomish City, is to be enlarged.
Parties on Snake river offer to sell
sheep at 81 50 per head after shear-,
ing.
Ann Eliza Young has made $50,
000 in gold, lecturing and out of her
book.
Ex-Gov. Woods, of Oregon and
Utah, wants to be the next Vice
President,
Sam Stoltz of Silver City has left
numerous creditors to mourn his un
timely departure.
The deposition of the Sulta-n it is
thought will practically settre the
Eastern question,
Sixteen persons, claiming to be
blood relations, will contest the will
of the late A. T. Stewart.
Count Antoine Rudolph Appou
ger, formerly Austrian minister at
Paris, died on the 2d inst.
The Tumwater pipe factory has re
ceived an order from California for
over four miles of water pipe.
The majority of the Minnesota
delegates to the St. Louis Conven
tion favor Tilden for President.
The Vermont Democratic Conven
tion which met on the 1st. instructed
the delegates to, vote for Tilden as a
unit.
Andrew Moore, aged 14, stabbed
Frederick Lawler, another boy, to
the heart, in New York oil the 2d.
The murderer was arrested.
Collector Comly, of Philadelphia,
was removed on the 1st and ex-super-
visor fuller appointed in Ins place.
Pennsylvania dislikes tho r.ppoint-
ment.
CapT. Sawyer, who wrecked the
steamer Pacific and the ship Orpheus
last November, 13 to have command
of the ship Pride of tho Port, of Bur
rard Inlet.
At tho meeting of the board cf re
gents of Corvallis college held last
week, President B. L. Arnold was
unanimously requested to remain in
charge of the school.
Sffrvia refuses to recognize the
new Sultan of Turkey on the ground
of his irregular accession to the
throne, and declines to pay her trib
ute, two installments of which are in
arrears.
Miss Minna Jury, sister of the
Tichborno claimant and one of the 1
witnesses against him in the famous
trial, was on the 2l)th ult. sentenced
to seven years penal servitude, hav
ing been convicted of stealing.
Harney, Speaker Kerr's Jaccuser,
has absconded. Ho is supposed to
have fled to Canada, as his testimony
is full of contradiction which would
probably render him liable for per
jury. His residence at Xew York
was seai-ched but no traces of him
were found. It is said ho is unable
to read or wrie,
A young woman named Pinegar,
who had deserted her husband in
Montana last fall, drowned herself at
Walla Walla last week. She had re
pented of her crooked way and wrote
a penitent letter to her husband, but
he requested her in a harsh note not
to write to him again. She ended
her unhappy life in a watei-y grave.
The Tribune's Washington special
says the committee has decided to
refuse Robeson's request that testi
mony be taken in publicly; but will
allow him to have a shorthand re
porter present, and will not prohibit
him from making the testimony
public.
Tho preliminary work on the
channel tunnel to connect England
and France has been commenced at
Margate. The French shafts have
been sunk to a depth of 100 metres
When thoso reach the depth of 100
metres below the sea, a gallery one
kilometre long will be made in the
chalk, and if this is successful 'and
nothing indicates tho impracticabili
ty of the project, the tunnel will be
definitely commenced.
An absent-minded editor having
courted a girl and applied to her
father, tho old man said: "Well, you
want my daughter; what will you
give her?" "Give her," replied the
other, looking up vacantly, "Oh, I'll
give her a'puff." "Take her," repli
ed the father,
The "tendency of people to carry
quotations too far was illustrated in'a
prayer meeting the other evening by
a .sister exclaiming, in agony of
piety, , "Gy 1 Lord, hae mercy upon
us poor sinners, of which I am chief
among ten thousand, and tho one
altogether lovely 1"
A Franklin, Ky., man lately took
a liyo bee into his mouth along with
some honey. He then reflected, "Chew
bee or no chew bee, that is the ques
tion." Here his tongue happened to
touoh the hot end of the aggressive
insect, and he decided negatively,
"Have you heard my last song?"
asked a music writer of a gruff critic.
"I hope so," was the reply.
Why and When Lamps Explode.
All explosions of coal oil lamps are
caused by the vapor or gas that col
lects in the space above the oil.
Wh en full of oil of course a lamp
contains no gas, but immediately on
lighting the lamp consumption of oil
begins, soon leaving a space for gas, -which
commences to form as the '
lamp warms up, and after burning a" 0
short time, sufficient gas will accu-r
mulate to cause an explosion. The
gas in the lamp will explode only
when ignited. In this respect it is
like gunpowder. Cheap and inferior
oil is always the most dangerous.
The flame is communicated to the
gas in the following manner: The
wick tube in all lamp burners is
made larger than the wick, which is
to pass through the wick work tight'
ly in the burner; on the contrary, it
is essential that it move up and down
with perfect ease. In this way it is
unavoidable that space in the tube is
left along the sides of tho wick suffi
cient for the flames from the burner
to pass down into the lamp and ex
plode the gas. Many things may oo-:
cur ta cause the flames to. 2"ass down
the wick tube and explode the lamp,
1. A lamp mav be standing on a
table or mantle, and a light puff of
air from the open window, or a sud
den opening of a door, cause an ex-
plosion.
. A lamp may be taken u p quickly
from r table cx mantle and instantly
explode.
A lamp is taken into an entry
when there is a draft, or out doors,
and an explosion ensues.
1. A lighted lajup is taken up a
flight of stairs, or is raised quickly
to place it on the mantle, resulting
in an explosion. In all the cases the
mischief is done by the air movement
either by suddenly checking tho
draft or forcing air down the chim
ney against the flame.
5. Blowing dovn the chimney to
extinguish the light is a frequent
cause of explosion.
G. Lamp explosions have been caus
ed by using a chimney broken off at
the to), or one that has a piece bro-;
ken out whereby the draft is render
ed variable and the flame unsteadyt
G. Sometimes a thoughtless person
puts a small sized wick in a large
burner, thus leaving considerable
space in the tube along the edge of
the wick.
8. An old burner, with its arr draft a
clogged up, which rightfully should
be thrown away, is sometimes con
tinued in use, and the final result is
explosion.' - - -
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A Cure- lor Colds in the Head,
It would seem as if the cure foy
thoso worst of small nuisances, colda
in tho head, which Dr. Ferrier, of
of King's College, suggested in tho
Lancet, might prove to be a remedy
ot very great value. It is a snuu
white powder composed of the
the following ingredients: Hydro-
chlorate of morphia, two grains; ac
cacia powder, two drachms: trisni-
trato of bismuth, six drachms; the
whole making up a quantity of pow
der of which from one quarter to oner
half may be safely taken if necessary
in the course of twenty-four Lours.
Dr. Ferrier says that with this
snuff' he lias twice cured himself of
very violent colds, once, indeed, by
taking tnsnitrate of bismuth alone
which is a ixwerful remedy for ca
tarrh of the mucuous membrane, and
is the most important iricredient in
this snuff. Dr. Ferrier mentions two
other persons who were cured of via-
lent colds by the same snuff, and to
these instances we may add that o
the present writer, who. having- a
very violent cold coming on, with the
sensation of weight in the templed
and tho usual disagreeable feeling in
the throat, as well as ordinary catarrh,
made trial of Dr. Terrier's remedy
one evening, and got up on the fol
lowing morning completely free from
cold, which has not since recurred.
The snuff, instead of increasing the
tendency to sneeze, almost immedi
ately begins to diminish it. London
Spectator.
Tit for Tat,
Among the annoyed and dripping
pedestrians who sought the aid of a.
Grand River street car yesterday to
help shorten the way home was a
man with gray locks and an old maid
with beau-catcher and false teeth.
They seemed to hate each other at
first sight, for he was hardly seated
beside her when he growled:
"If you women didn't wear bustles
there'd be twice as much room in,
street cars."
"If men didn't sit cross-legged
there'd be three times as much
room!" she snapped in reply.
'If I was a woman I wouldn't be
gadding around with the rain pour
ing down in this way," he remarked.
"Yes you would. If you were a
woman you'd want to go out and
show those feet!"
He drew his Xo. ll's under the
seat, flushed up a little, and growled:
"They are not false, liko some
folks' teeth!"
"Xo, and they don't turn up quite
as much as some people's "nose!" she
answered.
He was silenced for a time, "bnt
presently recovered himself and went
on:
"Thirty years ago women got along
without paint, powder .bustles, straps,
buckles'and such nonsensical fixings.
"Thirty years ago," she promptly
replied, 'it was a rare thing to see a,
man come out of a saloon wiping hia
mouth on his thumb!"
He didn't say anything more, but
he wondered if she wasn't looking
out of the window when he signaled
the car.
One never feels so much put out
as just when he has been regularly
taken in,
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