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ASTORIA. OREGON :
. C. IKELAXD ErtUor.
SUNDAY April 0. 1870
Cultivate Your Talent.
One talent, well cultivated,
deepened and enlarged, is worth a
hundred shallow faculties. The
iirst law of success this day, when
to many matters are clamoring for
attention, is concentration; to bend
;ill the energies to one point, look
in"; neither to the right nor to the
left. It has often justly been said
that a great deal of the wisdom of a
man in this century is shown in
leaving things unknown : and a
xgreat deal of his practical sense in
leaving things undone. The day
of universal scholars is past.
' Life is short and art is long.51
The range of human knowledge
has increased so enormously that
no brain can grapple with it, and j
the man who would know one
thing well must have the cour
age to be ignorant of a thou
sand things, however attract
ive or inviting. As with knowl
edge, so with work. The man who
would get along must single out
his specialty, and into that must
pour the whole stream of his ac
tivity all the energies of his hand,
eye, tongue, heart, and brain.
Broad culture, many-sidedness, are
beautiful things to centemplate:
but it is the narrow-edged men
the men of single and intense pur
pose, who steel their souls against
all things else who accomplish
the hard work of the world, and
who are everywhere in demand
when hard work is to be done.
That Funny Column.
The Peculiar Effect of Humorous Para
graphs. Camden Post-
A city paper thought it must do
x-. 1 - ftfc-e fts neighbors and'have a para
graph column. It advertised for
the right sort of a man in this way:
"Wages no object; good looks not
desirable; good sense not expect
ed." The man came and went to
work. One column was his task,
and he furnished it. It looked
well as printed, and the publisher
hoped for good results. During
the following day a plain-looking
farmer came m and asked the edi
tor for the man who wrote that
column. The paragrapher was
-speedily summoned.
"You are the author of this col
umn, I hear" said the farmer.aY"es,
iiir," proudly rubbing his hands.
"I owe you a debt which 1 can
only partly repay you in money;
but here are $5 which I insist on
you taking as an earnest jf grati
tude I feel toward you."
The man of paragraphs took it
and asked what was the special
cause of gratitude.
The farmer said : " You saved
my brother's life after he had
been given up by the doctor. t
was this way : lie was taken last
Monday with a fit of laughing hys
terics, which got worse and worse.
We had tried everything in vain;
had taken him to funerals and
scenes of all the horrible accidents
we could hear of, but still he
laughed and laughed. Medicine
was equally useless, and there
.seemed nothing but death for him.
He could not eat, drink, or sleep ;
nothing but laugh. His mouth
stretched twice its usual width,
and his jaws were almost para
lyzed. I got your paper and com-
irienced reading your column of
omics to him. Before i had got
to the end of the first one I could
Jiotice an improvement in him,
nd by the time I had got half
through the column his mouth was
imtirely closed, and he wis calm as
-ever. He has never latin led since.
nnd I don't believe he ever will.
That is the cause of n y gratitude.
Is it not enough?" The publisher
thought so, and concluded to dis-
23nse with the original column of J
'luunj paragraphs.
Tudor, -yho 3eft New York for a
'Sinrse back ride to Pataironia. wins
A-nAAi. 4vi a
& $00,000 bet if he succeeds.
Egyptian Writing
now the .Indents Perpetuated their
Thoughts.
Contemporary Iievicxc.
"Writing was as old in Egypt as
architecture and sculpture. The papy
rus reed furnished the most ancient
material for paper in the days cf the
oldest monuments. The dry climate
has preserved a great number of ancient
rolls, of which part are religious, and of
these again the greater are part copies
of one book, the "Ritual," which
French scholars call the "Funeral
Ritual," and Germans the "Book of
the Dead." It is a book evidently
compiled from time to time, divided
into sections, originally separate books,
and chapters, each chapter being usual
ly illustrated by a representation of
its chief subject above the text. Part
of this book has been found of the
date of the eleventh dynasty (B. C.
2000,) and, according to its own state
ment, which derives collateral support
from a more general assertion of Mane
tho, one chapter was discovered in the
time of the great pyramid-building
kings of the fourth djmasty. There
can be no doubt that the greater part
is of extreme antiquity.
TWO GREAT DIFFICULTIES
Assail us m the endeavor even to con
strue this book. Ic was held to be
specially advantageous to the muinmi-
Gecl Egyptian that a copy should be
deposited in his tomb.
Consequently
it became the custom to write these
copies in great numbers, and, as they
were not intended to be read, the
scribes were careless in their copying.
Hence arise a multitude of errors
which at every step embarrass the
student. The other difiiculty is due
to the causes which render the Egyp-
i tian religious writings more hard to
interpret than the historical. Yet,
thanks to M. DcRougo's patience and
skill, the general purport of the work
is n w understood. It is, throughout,
text and commentary, and curiously
simpler than the commentary, which,
by its allegorizing method, renders
the obscurity of the subject greater.
The theme of the ritual is the story of
man's fate in the nether world, and the
text consists of a series of prayere to
be said in each of the several zones
through which the soul was to pass on
its way to judgment, and the con
fession of innocence that was to insure
its aquittal. It might be supposed that
so great a matter would have been
treated in
THE LOFTIEST STYLE
Of which the language was capable,
with the simplicity of the Egyptain
memoir, the pathos of the dirge, and
the occasional grandeur of the histori
cal writings and the religions hymns.
But it is far otherwise. Nowhere is
the lower element of the Egyptain re
ligion so evident as in the "ritual. It
is
obscure and mysterious, without
elevation or disnitv. The student
seeks in vain for a single passage
worthy of the ideas conve3red through
the eye by the pyramids and the tombs
of the kings. He wanders through a
labyrinth peopled by the forms of the
lowest superstition, and the idea forces
itself upon him that the negro element
of the Egyptain mind is here dominant,
not aiwaj's in the thoughts, but always
in their expression. Nothing more
forcibly shows the strength of this ele
ment, not even animal worship. Side
by side with the ritual we find another
work relating to the underwood, the
"Book of the Lower Hemisphere,"
describing the journeyings of the soul
after death through twelve zones cor
responding to the twelve houra of the
nocturnal sun. This book was in
fashion at the period to which most of
the tombs of the kings (nineteenth and
twentieth dynasties) belong, and their
pictures afibrd the illustrations of its
chapters,
A Bad Fix.
Tfcc 1Viiiuit Mho Kolhcrcd n rostOfllce
1 crlf.
Fiinn the Detroit Free Press.
At an early hour yesterday morning
a woman called at the post-office and I
irarchased a three-cunt stamp, and had !
it already ' 'licked" to paste on her
letter, when she discovered that she
had left the letter at home. She re
ceived the heart-felt sympathy of the
stamp clerk and went home for the
letter. At 11 o'clock, when the
stamp window was besieged by a
crowd, the woman returned, having
the letter in one hand and a minute
fragment of a postage-stamp in the
other.
"Stand out of the way for a poor
distressed woman T' she called out s
she made for the window, and those
who didn't obey were poked aside in
a way to be remembered by their ribs.
The change which one biryer was
about to p(cket was swept off the
board on the floor by her arms, and
she held the fragment of stamp and
exclaimed to the clerk:
" Do you dare deny, sir, that you
sold me a three-cent stamp two hours
ago?
"I think I sold you a stamp," here
pl eel.
"And I didn't have any letter here.
After I'd eaten all the paste off the
stamp I couldn't find my letter. You
remember?"
"Yes, 1 remember?"
"Weil, sir, I carried that stamp all
I the way home on the tip of my finger.
! , t i-i ... . .:j.J b-.n
" i uu is uuwn on uie wmuy-axu
iiiii I could find my Litter, and what
did my little Clarence do but pick it
up -nd begin to chew away, and by
the time I could choke his mouth
open nothing was left but this little
bit."
"And you want another!"
"I demand another, sir, in place of
this!"
"I couldn't do that."
"But you'll have to! This is the
stamp I bought of you ! Look for
yourself and see. I make oath that I
never put it on a letter. Am I to be
cheated out of my three cents in such
a back-handed way 1"
The crowd began to call out and
jostle her, but by vigorous use of feet
and elbows she cleared the space
again and said :
" I demand a new stamp !"
The clerk tried to explain how she
couldn't get one in exchange, but she
interrupted :
" Have I got to murder my child
and get the rest of the stamp! !N ev
er ! I'll never leave this windy till I
have a new stamp put on my letter to
Thomas !"
The clerk tried to explain again,
but she brought the letter down with
a thud and said:
"1 leave this letter here. It is to
my Thomas in Port Huron. If he
doesen't get it in three days you'll
hear from me and my four big girls
and three sons, and when our family
nets started on a row, we never stop
mi tiie uujjUiJl puau-uuiuu m xiiiiwiv-u.
At dark last night the clerk was
undecided. He doesn't like to be
bluffed into going down for his small
change, but in the dim future he sees a
solemn procession, headed by a de
termined old lad3T, marching down the
corridor to make a vacancy in the
ranks of government.
The IVceklj A.storian.
One of the best paj.ers published on
the Pacific coast, is mailed to Mibscri
hers every Friday, postage paid to any
part of the "United States, at the follow
ing rates, in advance:
One Year $:t 00
Four Months 1 00
Single Copy 10
Tf A. limited number of Miiall adver-l
tisements will he inserted at the usual
rates.
Apply at the office, or address
D. C. I uk land. Publisher.
2iAKItIi:i.
Iii Ilwaco, March olst, 1879, by Rev.
Mr. Mathews, at the residence of the
brides parents, Mr. Lewis D. Williams
and Miss Eliza M. Whealdon, all of
Pacific countv.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
jF'ODBL SATiE
I.OW roit CASH.
1 Xargre Steaxx Boiler;
44 by 1C feet.
One Imrse Retort ; Two Portable
Forges; 1,000 Fire ilrick;
Eastern Oak ISont Jjuniber;
2.000 lbs. Xew Cotton Rope;
Two Die Presses.
ASTORIA FISHERY.
ATTJEXTIOX.
BIDS "WILL RE DECEIVED FOR THE
construction of a dwelling hiui.se in As
toria, for Mrs. Eliza Kinuev of Sak'in, until
noon of Saturday, April 12th. 1870. Plans
and specifications may lie seen at the office
ttf Dr. Aug. C.Kinney, Astoria, after April
7th. The light is reserved to reject any and
all bids.
fTUIIS AGREEMENT "WITNESSETH that
JL all business relations including the co
partnership heretofore existing between the
undersigned under the name of Leveridgc
4t Prindle, in which firm the said Hume was
a silent partner, has this day. by the mutual
consent of the undersigned, been dissolved.
AY. K. LEVERIDGE,
R. 1). HUME.
C. W. PRINDLE.
San Francisco, March 21, 18 1 9.
4 IV. FERGrSOX.
Contractor and Builder,
All kinds of Carpenters and Joiners AVork
promptly and neatly executed.
! PLAN'S, SPECIFICATIONS, and BILLS
OF MATERIAL
Furnished on short notice at reduced rates.
Shop Next door east of Episcopal church.
SEEDS!
FllSSU AXI TltUK TO XA3IE.
TTTE "WILL SEND THE FOLLOWING
T i seeds, post-paid, on receipt of price. Ite
mit by post-office onler or postage stamps:
Beets, per oz 10c
Carrot, per oz ice
Cabbage, ,per oz..2"c
Lettuce, per oz 1
Onion, per oz... .13c
Parsnips, per O7...i0c
Kadish. per oz lOc
Spinach, per oz...loe
Turnip, per oz lOe
Tomato, peroz. are
Also, in 10 cent packets. -all varieties of
Yegetabies, Flower and Tree Seeds. Send for
price libt. THOMAS A. COX & CO.,
1017 Howard street, San Francisco.
-1EOKGE
ROSS'
!f&
C- BilliardHoom
The only Billiard Itoom in the city wheio
no liquors are sold.
NEW TABLE JUST PUT UP. GEOKuis
has a cosv place and keeps on hand tnc
test brand of Cigars. Also, soda, eanuj,
nuts, etc. Opposite Altona Chop House.
95-tf GEO. BOSS. Proprietor,
T. S. JEWBTT.
B. S. KIMBALL.
Draying & Trucking.
ASTORIA TRUCK & DRAY CO,
Squemucqiuj at., hetweon Ca53 and Main,
Contracts for graying made and satisfaction
eurantceL Orders loft at tho Occident ilo-
(teiorfuc eirdby mail promptly filled
J jEWETT i KIMBALL,
Ia&ies Attention !
1874. SPRING
HAS
f!2!
r
The best selected stock ever before carried in this city.
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS, GAPS.
CROCKERY, GLASS WARE, CARPETS, MATTINGS,
A FULL LINE IN EACH DEPARTMENT.
We call especial atttention to our extra huge invoice of
PRICES WAY DOWN.
WE SELL ONLY FOR CASH, NO CREDIT. NO HOUSE SHALL UNDERSELL M2.
IB. BCAMBUK.G-EH.,
MAIN STREET. ------- ASTORIA, OREGON".
Sole AjceitT for the Xew American Scivihj; 33aeliii:e.
TX A iTfjrT7"
J
2J& & JU A lU
SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW.
RECEIVED DIRECT FROM THE EAST PER STEAMER OREGON i
BEAUTIFUL AND VARIED LOT, SOME CONTAINING
NICELY COLORED PANORAMIC VIEWS.
OTHERS ORNAMENTED AVITII
CUPIDS, VARIOUS DEVICES Alse: BRIDES AND GROOMS;
GODDESS OF LIBERTY; CUPIDS AND WREATHS,
And other large, handsome and newest style rake ornaments. ho N'ice fresh e-iu-dies.
cakes, and all kinds of confectionery
OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE,
AT
OPPOSITE THE BELL TOWER.
'SLU
uneoms
AT THE
Old Stand, Near tlie Walla Walla Restaurant
--TJIE-
IS NOW OPEN AND READY TO SUPPLY FISHERMEN, AND MECHANICS
GENERALLY WITH THE BEST QUALITY OP
CXUOLXESXS&G BOOTS. jETZZZ SHQES,
Gent's Furnishing Goods, Etc.
EPffThis is the only place in the cit of Astoria whore jou can huv the (iemiiiie
Garters Cane Am Oil Skins, ail all Kills "of Ruler Boots.
STXiOods will be sold at the very lowest market rates, hut for CASH ONLY.
S. IAXKDER. Proprietor.
BUSINESS CARDS.
B. F. DENIS0. Y. J. TAYLOK
DENNISON & TAYLOR,
ATTOKXEYS AT LAW.
ASTORIA, OlTEOON.
Office Up stairs in Farker's building,
comer Chenamus and Benton streets.
p xv. rinzrox,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Offick. Pages new building
street, Astoria, Oregon.
Squemoqhe
DK.
J. Tv. OLIVEU,
lIOXfiOPATHIST.
Office. In Shuster's Daguerrean build
ing. Entrance Second door above that of
the Daily Astokia Cass street.
Residence on Jefferson street, corner of
Main.
"TlOCTOIt
HATCH.
Successfully treats all Chronic Diseases.
AXD DISEASES OF WOMEN AND
CHILDREN.
Cancer cured by a new and painless method.
Office Chenamus street, corner of Main
street, Astoria.
D"
J. OIJKIEX.
CUKES BILLIOVS AND IXTEBMITTENT
FEVERS
With from one to three doses of his harm
less medicine.
Also, Private diseases successfully treated.
Okkick O'Brieifs hotel. Astoria. Oregon.
OTTO BITTEK,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
II S KKMOVED TO
Main street, Parker's building,
ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON.
W
J3I.
BECK,
Manufacturer of
Boots and Shoes.
All kinds of rpimirinf npntlv and
iiromntlv attended to EH
MAIX ST.. - ASTORIA, OREGON.
J. H. D. GRAY,
Wholesale and retail dealer in.
OYSTJEIiS, by lite SACK,
Kay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc.
General storage and Wharfage on reason
able terms.
J)OX KOSS,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER.
Shop on Cass street, Astoria, Oregon.
KB- Paper hanging and Kalsomiming a
specialty.
kso-aiI work guaranteed to give satisfac
tion. TO LKSE,
TEN ACHES OF TAXI.
On Youngs Bay, cleared, will be suitable
for dairy, or a chicken ranch, or for garden
ing purposes. Within one mile ot the As
toria Ttost-olfice fey land.
alse:
FIVE ACRES.
Covered with Hemlock timber, suitable for
tannery purposes. Leases will be made for
a term of yoarsau may be arranged.
KT Apply to J. II. D. (i RAY,
fY iii
Astoria, Oregon, I
1879:
OPENED AT
3)
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AUCTION SALES.
"P C. HOLDEN,
Notary Public for the State of Oregon.
Keal Estate Agent ami Conveyancer.
Agent for the FIREMEN'S FUND INSUR
ANCE COMPANY of San Francisco.
COMMISSION AGEN1 and AUCTIONEER.
Rents and Acconnts Collected, and re
turns promptly made.
Regular sales day,
SATURDAYS at2P. M.
N. B. Parties having real estate, lurn)
tureorany other goods to dispose of either
at auction or private sale should notify me
soon as convenient befor the ilav of sal.
No storage charged on goods sob' at Auc
tion. E. c.iiolik-:x.
td Auctioneer.
Grand Auction Sale !
I am instructed to sell on
Thursday, April 10, 1879,
The entire
Costly and EICH"t Furniture.
Of Mrs. E. Arrigoni, of the Arrigoni Hotel.
This furniture was made by the celebrated
Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Company
of Portland, and is of the best material and
new. The furniture will be on exhibition at
the premises live days before the sale.
For particulars see large posters.
B. S. WORSLEY, Auctioneer.
MISCELLANEOI'S.
New Furniture,
WALL FATER,
AND OTHER GOODS
AT
Chas. Heilborn's,
ASTORIA, OREGON.
The finest and best in the market, all new.
pS-HOUSEKEEPERS AKE IN
VITED TO CALL AND INSPECT
MY CAPvPETS.
osrThe public is invited to call, examine
my goods and prices.
CHAS. TIEILBORN.
Astoria, Oregon, April 2. 1ST!).
Astoria Liquor Store,
AUG. DANIELSON. Proprietor.
Water st. Roadway, - Astoiua, Oiucgos.
Importer and dealer in
WINES, LIQUORS,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CIGAltS.
Sole agent for the celebrated
STONEWALL WHISKEY.
SEASON !
GERMAN1A BEER HALL
AND
BOTTLE BEER DEPOT.
Chekaiius Street. Astokia.
The public are invited to cil! and lenre
their orders'. Splendid Lnger o cents a glw.
Free Lunch ovory night.
WAi. BOOK & Co.. rroprieio.
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