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ABOUXD TIIE CITT.
Captain Hustler has a few remarks in
another column of general interest to
citizens.
Eeserved seats for the Hen Cotton en
tertainments at the New York Novelty
store.
One's were out last evening and had a
lively, spin 200 yards in thirty seconds
with the old hose cart.
Bob Ingersoll is lecturing in Montana,
and js liable to drop in on this neck of
woods about August 20th.
The Woodlark cleared for Liverpool
yesterday with $180,435 worth of salmon,
and goes to sea at four this morning.
The showery woather of the week has
extended through the Willamette valley,
and done some little injury to grain
there.
Elijah Smith, president of the Oregon
improvement company, succeeds 1. d.
Coolidge as president of the O. R. t N.
company.
Manuel, who stabbed Zoahur a few
days ago, was given a preliminary exam
ination yesterday, which was continued
till to-morrow.
In the police court, yesterday, E. N.
Curtis was fined $40 for disorderly con
duct, and Martin Geist was assessed $5
for drunkenness.
Tee "Weekly Astobian, in stamped
wrappers, ready for mailing, published
this morning; full of news and home hap
penings; price ten cents.
Jeff's waiters yesterday picked up on
the dining room floor twenty-six buttons
that had "busted" from persons' cloth
ing that eat dinner there.
There will be an auction of jewelry,
cutlery, watohes, musical instruments,
and sundry merchandise at; B. S. "Wors
ley's sales rooms next Saturday at ten
o'clock a. 11.
"Johnson's Cyclopaedia is a work which
is found, in the library of congress, to
answer more questions than any other
work of .reference." Hon. A. R. Spofford,
librarian of congress.
Our genial friend, Sheriff Albert, of
Wahkiakum county, has been getting
married see notice' in another column
and The Abtobian wishes him and his
bride many years of happiness.
George Werner, who managed the
Henry Ward Beecher route and other
prominent entertainers, is in the city.
Mr. Werner is now traveling in the inter
est of the Ben Cotton combination.
Ben Cotton, the original minstrel and
a man that has delighted millions, will
'give three of his characteristic perform
ances at Occidental hall on the 25th and
26th inst. His established reputation
will insure him a full house.
Mrs. Dr. L. M. Hunt will deliver a free
lecture on "Pathology of Maternity" at
Liberty hall at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
to ladies only. This evening she will lec
ture at the same place on "Mental and
Physical Evolution of the Human Race."
Work progresses on Genevievo street.
The cut on Court street will bo forty-six
feet in depth when completed and at its
intersection with Seventh tho grade will
be Jrat 7-10 of a foot. The work of build
ing the street is somewhat expensive, the
entire oost from Chenamus to Seventh
being in the neighborhood of $16,000.
About ten o'clock lastinight, Mr. Barc
lay, bookkeeper at Wm. Hume's cannery,
while examining some cans in the seoond
atory of the building, fell through an
open hatchway, a distance of (fourteen
feet and sustaining severe injuries about
the head and face. Dr. Baker was sum
moned and bound up the wounds which
were very painful but not necessarily
dangerous. It was a narrow escape.
The Portland city council, following
the example in this city, have concluded
to raise circus licenses, and propose to
make Cole's circus pay a higher rate for
the privilege of performing. Tho Orego
nian thinks that Cole mado n mistake in
not giving the Portland councilmen a
pass all around, and intimates that it
isn't too late yet for the circus man to
make everything right with the city dads
of the metropolis.
Messre. Gennari and Gori, importers
of Italian statuary, who have held suc
cessful sales of their goods in Portland
and other cities, will open to-day at E. C.
Holden's auction rooms, two cases, all
they have left unsold, of these works of
art. As per announcement in our adver
tising columns, the goods will be on ex
hibition and sold without reserve, at auc
tion, at two o'clock this afternoon. It is
but seldom such an opportunity is offered
Jo decorate the homes of this city.
. Old man Crisp, talking of the late con"
vention, says that the persistency with
which New York has claimed and ob
tained the Democratic candidate for the
past twenty years without being able to
elect him once, reminds him of his father
who would not allow any of the boys to
go fishing except with a catfish hook and
catfish bait, and in a hole where nothing
but catfiBh would bite. The result was
that he and his brothers generally went
borne without anything, but never with
more than one or two catfish, while the
other boys who went to the water with
all sorts of bait and all sorts of hooks,
went home with a good string of fish of
various Kinds and good sizes.
For Parents to Read.
This is on age of many and cheap
books and free libraries, and almost all
topics are treated by specialists and
within ordinary reach. But we cannot
all have time and ability to master num
erous subjects, hence demand for works
of reference is now greater than ever. A
busy man's cyclopaedia being what we
need, is most nearly met in that of John'
son's.
For family and school, as useful aids
TO cauaieu m iueir tauuies uuu geuerui
reading, we probably can never have any
thing better.
Parents, teachers, and others, engaged
with or interested in the education of
youth, cannot escape responsibility in re
spect to the furnishing suitable matter
and references, calculated to render
genuine literature palatable, and to
replace therewith the trashy -elements
that'so largely engage the attention of
young readers.
"Mr. C. H. Libby can supply you with
the best, Johnson's, if you will make your
wants known by dropping him a card.
FouhHL
A pocket-book with declaration of in
tention of E. E. Gustafson, and other
papers.
Apply at Eldorado saloon.
Geld ad Silver Jewelry,
Warranted as represented at Carl Ad
ler's Crystal Palace.
Whv will you cough when Shlloh's
Cure will give Immediate relief. Price
lOctoWctsandfL Sold by W.E.De-mct.
FATAL ACCIDE5T 0" THE CITYOFDKLHL
Charles Lawrence Almost Instantlr Killed.
For some days past a force of men
have been busy taking out 'tho ballast
from the City ofDeVii, lying at the O. E.
fc N. dock. Yesterday afternoon, about
five o'clook, as the tub was being run up
to tho mainstay before being swung to
tho wharf, it canted over when at a
height of forty feet, and a piece of rock
weighing about three pounds fell from it,
striking Chas. Lawrence, who was in the
hold of the vessel, directly on the skull.
The unfortunate man was immediately
carried to the hospital. Dr. Fulton was
summoned, but the case was a hopeless
one, tho skull was crushed in from the
forehead and cracked at the base, the
brain was protruding, and death was but
a question of a few hours. Lawrence
died about half-past five. He was a sin
pie man. aced FA. nnd vena woll VrinTrn
here and in Portland by the name of
"Gassie Charlie." His wife died some
years ago, and he is known to have but
one relative, a daughter, supposed to be
now in this city. The funeral will be at
two o'clock this afternoon.
JUKI' LIST.
List of jurors drawn tho 17th day of
July fo serve during the August term of
the Circuit courtof tho county of Clatsop,
state of Oregen:
P. H. Bagley, farmer, Knuppa.
W. A. Foster, farmer, Fishhawk.
Conrad Buchter, farmer, Astoria.
P. B. Hecknrd, farmer, Lewi3 and
Clark.
Eobt. Carruthers, drayman, Astoria.
Thos. Daaly, canner, Shively precinct.
John Ferry, fisherman, upper Astoria.
J. L. Hayseth, canner, upper Astoria.
C. L. Parker, merchant, Astoria.
J. W. Conn, druggist, Astoria.
Wm. Edgar, tobacconist. Astoria.
J. C. Adams, farmer, John Day's.
W. J. Denver, farmer, Fishhawk.
j. a. Liuurcn, larmer, iinappa.
J. W. Minaker, farmer, Knuppa.
N. A. Eberraan, farmer, Seaside.
S. D. Fifield, farmer, Young's River.
J. F. Bender, farmer, Knappa.
Peter German, boiler-maker, Astoria.
E. C. Jeffries, farmer, Lewis and Clark.
W. H. L6wis, farmer, Fishhawk.
M. Knutsen, fisherman, upper Astoria.
J. R. Dickinson, clerk, Astoria. .
J. C. Lidwell, fisherman, upper Astoria.
Geo. Davidson, carpenter, Astoria.
Wm. Douglass, carpenter, Astoria.
C. Timmins, canner, upper Astoria.
M. J. Kinney, cannor, Astoria.
Moses Rogers, Astoria.
R. J. Morrison, farmer, Clatsop.
Carl Hansen, merchant, Astoria.
Flfty.fonr I'onnds of Milk a I)a.
Deep River. W. T.. July 8.
Emron Astebiak:
As you have a weakness for praising
tho products of Clatsop county (which iB
all right), I should like to inform your
readers through The Astobiax, that old
Wahkiakum can step to tho front once in
awhile as well. I allude to a certain
small cow that I sent you an item about
two years ago as having produced over
two pounds of butter a day. This year,
for thirty days ending June 30, she gave
an average of fifty-four pounds of milk
a day, from which I cleaned up sixty
three pounds of well worked Al butte'r,
and besides fed tho calf three quarts of
fresh milk a day for three weeks of the
time and used some cream, and I think
sho is entitled to wear tho belt ns tho
champion butter cow of tho lower Colum
bia river until further heard from.
Yours, L. Heeset.
ACROSS THE COXTISEXT.
Among our summer visitors is n party
of relatives of Mr. Samuel Elmore, who
arrived last evening via the N. P. R. R.
This is their ninth trip across the conti
nent, and each ono is of the opinion that
for fine scenery, pleasant travel and supe
rior accommodations that route has tho
preference. Among the party are R. P.
Elmore, father of Samuel Elmore, an old
merchant of forty years' business expe
rience in Milwaukeo, Wis.; Mrs. R. P. El
more, and two of;hor daughters, Mrs.
Geo. B. Clayson and Mrs. E. D. Huntley.
Mr. Huntloy is pastor of tho Metropoli
tan church at Washington, D. C, and
chaplain of tho United States senate, and
will probably pay Astoria a visit next
season.
The Shorter Political CatcehWni.
What is a platform?
An indefinite esBay on the visionary
ambiguity of tho vague, as applied to
party policy.
Of what does it consist?
One preamble and twenty resolutions.
In what iB its great strength?
Non-essentials.
What does it denounce?
Tho slave trade, tho English policy in
the Soudan and the murder of Abel.
What does it uphold?
Civil service reform, excursion rates
and the free pass system.
What is .its definition of civil service
reform?
More offices and higher salaries.
What portion of the platform relates
to the tariff?
The section which is left out.
What is tho spirit of the platform on
prohibition?
It is opposod to its use aB n beverage,
but believes that for strictly campaign
purposes "a little of it goes good."
Wherein does the platform of 1884 dif
fer from the platform of 1789?
In the date.
Music Books 1 Music lloolis.
A large assortment of the best works
just received at Carl Adler's.
Stop That Cough
By going to J. E. Thomas's and getting
a bottle of Leroy's Cough Balsam.
It wilt, CURB TOU.
Groceries Crockery and Glass
ware In latest styles and at lowest prices at
Mrs. R. Zimmerman's, corner Main and
Squemoqua. A first class stock of fam
ily groceries.
Just Received.
A large stock of soft and stiff Hats in
all the latest styles, at Mcintosh's Fur
nishing store.
The Z.cadiB Publications
At Carl Adler's at publishers' prices.
For a Kcat Fitting Boot
Or Shoe, go to P. J. Goodmans, on Che
namus street next door to I. W. Case.
All goods of the best make and guaran
teed quality. A full stock; new goods
constantly arriving. Custom work.
Roscoe Dixon's new eating house
is now open. Everything has been fit
ted up in first-class style, and his well
known reputation as a caterer assures
all who like good things to eat, that at
his place they can be accommodated.
Arvold sells Boots and Shoes cheaucr
than any one else in town, because we
buy for cash.
Arvold will sell a large stock of Boots
and Shoes at cost, at the Leading boot
and shoe store.
Shlloh's Catarrh Remedy a posi
tive cure for Catarrh, Diptneria and
Canker Mouth. Sold by W.E. Dement
Buy your Lime of Gray at Portland
prices.
ASIATIC CHOLERA.
Where It Start, How It Traxeli, aad
What Boads.
by
There are comparatively few people
now living in this country who havo over
witnessed a case of Asiatic cholera, and
there is probably no disease of which
mankind in general stands in greater
fear, and which is tho object of more su
perstition. The act of the dread mala
dy spreading its contagion by personal
contact, and following in its march tho
main roads of commerco induced Eugene
Sue to select Ahasuorus as the personal
propagator of cholera, especially as it
formerly advanced with tho slowness with
which eastern caravans carried the tea
across the Asiatic prairies,
In Asia, in the neighborhood of Cal
cutta; in Arabia, near Mecca, and in
Egypt, not far from Cairo, are the breed
ing places of cholera. There famine is
a frequent occurrence. 'ITio people crow
up surrounded by filth such ns an Ameri
can citizen has not the faintest iden of.
and an infectious, disease finds the most
favorable conditions for its development
in thoo unhealthy districts. The pil
grims who in thousands yearly proceed
from Egypt to Mecca, and who live off
the poorest food and amid the greatest
squalor, carry with them the seeds of
cholera, and thus form the connecting
link in the transmission of tho disease
from Asia to Africa. If we consider the
commercial importance of Alexandria wo
cannot wonder that tho cholera, once
epidemic in Egvpt, should swiftly travel
to Europe. Thus far medical history has
not recorded n single instance of an orig
inal outbreak of cholera any where but
at the places mentioned. Filth seems to
be tho sine qua -non ot its development
and cleanliness tho most powerful bar
rier to its march.
Tho fact has baen established that the
human beingialone acts as tho carrier of
the cholera poison. There is no well
authenticated caso on record where rags
or clothing, as has been proven of yellow
fever, had transmitted the infectious
material of the Asiatic disease. In olden
times, when no railroads, no steamships,
hastened the travel, the march of the
cholera kept pace with the rapidity, re
spectively slowness, of human inter
course. The disease either followed tho
road of the great tea caravans, which
brought tho high prized leaves from Asia
to Russia, or it traveled tho usual ways
of commorco across the Mediteminean
sea. Wherever n large belt of water
separated two countries the epidemio
marched from the one to the other in the
same length of time that it took n ship
to sail across the water. Such instances
we saw in tho spreading of tho contagion
from the continent of Europe across the
channel to England and from Great Bri
taid to America. In tho latter case the
infectious material is not wafted across
tho Atlantic ocean and carried tho long
distance by the air. From the moment
of the outbreak of cholera in England
about seven days must at least elapse ere
tho first case of the disease can happen in
our country, for the fastest steamer needs
about that time to cross tho ocean.
It was known, therefore, long since that
neither in Europe nor America could
Asiatic cholera develop itself without its
germ having been first introduced into
theso countries. It was also known that
human intercourse alone propagates tho
contagion, and experience has taught us
that filth favored and cleanliness pre
vented the spread of tho disease. In
modern times, whero publio hygiene has
become such an important factor in tho
governing of nations, where publio san
itary matters are generally understood
and highly appreciated in civilized coun
tries, the facts just ennmerated have
been made subservient to tho general
welfare of the people. The original
breeding places of tho malady were first
determined: then the utmost precautions
were taken on the first signs of the out
break of the disease to confine it to its
limits to isolate the district attacked.
Besides, overy state, overy city, every
county established its own board of
health. This board had to see that the
greatest cloanliness existed in its local
ity, and that travelers from the suspect
ed rogions were first quarantined ere
thoy were permitted to enter the protect
ed district.
That it is possible to limit the spread
of Asiatic cholera, to lessen the number
of its victims, and to diminish its se
verity by the measures just described,
expericnoo of the last ten years has prov
en. Tho last epidemic just reached our
shore, but, finding no suitable soil for its
development, it died out of its own ac
count after having attacked a few victims
in the filthiest quarters of the metropolis.
The epidemics which last year raged in
Egypt and Calcutta wore totally confined
to their original startiug point. Perhaps
tho best proof of the utility of strict sani
tary measures was given by the epidemic
in Egypt. In the immediate neighbor
hood of the infected place some thou
sands of English soldiers were camping:
many foreigners from all parts of the
civilized world wore then living not fifty
miles from the dangerous district; a
greatly augmented intercourse took place
between Egypt and Europe, and still the
disease never spread outside of the sani
tary cordon or befell but a few persons
in the protected quarter.
We need, therefore, have in our coun
try but little fear of a visit by the Asiatic
cholera if we but use the common pre
cautions which modern science has
taught us. The united exertions of tho
most enlightened nations may suffice to
prevent the disease from spreading be
yond its original limits; still wo had bet
ter adopt the most efficient means our
selves to keep the destroyer from our
boundaries.
GOOD ADVICE.
A pretty face a treasured gift,
Believe mo, 'tis not a fable,
Art can preserve when nature fails,
Have it photographed by Abeix.
Take the elevator 29 Washington St.
Furnished Rooms to Ren I.
Inquire at Mrs. Campbell's, over Gem
Saloon.
Notice.
The meeting of the Woman's Relief
Corps, G. A. R., has been postponed to
next Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at their hall.
A full attendance is desired.
A full lino of Ladies' Lace Mitts of all
descriptions, to beound at the Empire
Store.
Gray sells Sackett Bros. Al sawed
cedar shingles.
The latest patterns and styles of
Ginghams and Calicoes, at the Empire
Store.
A full lino of ladles' and children's
Shoes, latest styles, to be found cheap
at Arvold's, sign of the Golden Shoe.
A Nasal Injector free with each
bottle of Shlloh's Catarrh Remedy
Price 50 cents. Sold by W.E. Dement
Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread
every Sunday at Jeff's from 5 a.m. to
2 P.M.
Dontpay 50 cents elsewhere when
you can get the best dinner in town nt
JEFF'S for 25 cents.
Shiloh's Cough ana Consumption
Cure is sold by us on guarantee. It
cures consumption. Sold by W.E. De
ment. That Hacking Cough can be so
quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We
guarantee it Sold by W. E. Dement
All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
perfumery, and toilet articles, etc-can
be bought at the lowest prices, at J. W.
Conn's drug store, opposite Oc.-.Iden
hotel, Astoria.
SPARKS FROM THK WIRES.
San Francisco is shipping beer to Chi
cago. New York seamen are opposing tho
Dingloy shipping bill.
T. H. Murch of Maino will stump tho
Pacific coast for Blaine.
Ono of tho Chicago delegates from
Connecticut has gone crazy.
Three thousand Egyptian rebels nro
marching to attack Dongola.
Aguero,the Cuban, insurgent chief, has
repulsed the government troops.
New York papers claim that Do Les-
seps Panama canal is a failure.
The cholera still devastates southern
France. Seventy thousand people have
fled from Marseilles.
Tho French prime minister has apolo
gized to the German embassador for tho
insult offered the German flag.
Eastern cities fear the arrival of chol
era. Philadelphia is especially alarmefi
by reason of the filtbiness of its streets.
During a hurricane in the Phillipino
islands tiro Spanish ironclad Gravine
has been wrecked, and two of the officers
and seven of the crew lost.
Tho lease of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company's lines to the
Northern Pacific Railroad will not bo
executed until tho return of President
Harris to New York.
The anti-monopoly, greenback, labor
and national union parties met in joint
convention at San Francisco on tho 16th.
A resolution supporting Butler for tho
presidency was unanimously adopted,
and eight Butler electors were chosen and
will be placed in tho field.
An express train on the Manchester
and Sheffield railway, in England, was
wrecked on the 16th. Twenty-five per
sons were killed and forty seriously in
jured. It seems the axle of tho engine of
the express tram, when near Penniston,
broke, and the train jumped the track
and fell through a bridge.
Tho French minister at Tientsin has
demanded the withdrawal of Chinese
troops from tho frontiers of Tonquin,
and the payment of the indemnity de
manded by France. This demand was
delivered to Tsunc Li Yamon. who has
rejected it. Tho time allowed China by
rruncc lor compliance win expire to
morrow. War is apparently inevitable.
Tho treasury department has been in
formed bv one of its ntrents on ihn C.nnn.
dian border that paper rags, supposed to
be collected in cholera infected districts
of Egypt, Turkey and south France, are
ueiux nupuriuu iuio me unneu otates
through Canadian ports. They are dis
tributed as low grade, and are likelv to
contain germs of disease. A largo lot
was recently shipped to this country from
ajiverpooi.
Johnson's Universal Crrlopwdla.
Astoria's many book-reading and book
buying people are being visited by the
general manager for tho coast of "John
son's Cyclopedia," Mr. C. H. Libby,
lately of Portland, whero he has been
canvassing over n year, and has met with
wonderful success, nnd no wonder, for he
is a thorough gentleman and carries n
work that almost sells itself. Tho work
is condensed nnd gives facts, not opin
ions nnd conjectures. Dr. M. B. Ander
son, president of Rochester university,
declares it to contain more knowledge
than an ordinary library. Our greatest
Institutions of learning havo adopted it
as the best, viz: Harvard universitv.
Yale, Brown university, Amherst, Hamil
ton, Rochesteruniversity, Richmond, Pa
cific university, etc., etc. Thousands of
our greatest scholars declared it to bo the
best. But it is a whole library of "uni
versal knowledge" from tho pens of tho
greatest scnoiars on earth.
Two thousand of our most eminent
scholars living have become responsible
for the accuracy and thoroughness of tho
work by signing their names to tho arti
cles. It has what no other book can
claim, viz: Thirty seven of Ameri
ca's greatest scholars as editors, nnd over
2,500 contributors in America and Eu
rope. In accuracy of statement, com
pactness of style and convenience of ref
erence it is unsurpassed. It contains
just tho facts a busy man wants to know,
stated nneny and ciearjy, and so classi
fied as to bo easily found; each subject is
treated by ono who is recognized as au
thority. Handsome type and plates, and
at a oost which brings it in reach of all.
Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone says: "Tho
amount of valuable information is won
derful." "Tho best wo have." Hon. Wendell
Phillips, LL. D.
"Not excelled bv any othor." Hon. Jo
seph Bradley. LL. D.
general use." Prof. T. W. Dwight,
LL.D.
"More information than con be found
in any other." Prof- T. D. Woolsoy,
JjU. jj. .
Be sure to examine Johnson's if Mr.
Libby calls. Sold by subscription onlv.
It is rich.
IVoticc.
Dinner nt"J EFF'SfiHOP HOTTSF.
everyday from 4:30 to 8 o'clock. The
best 2."-cent meal In town? sniiii. fish.
seven kinds of meats, vegetables, pie,
puuuing, etc. icaor couee included.
All who have tried him sJiv.lptTU flir
BOSS."
Will you suffer with Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint . Shiloh's Yltallzer is
guaranteed to cure you. Sold bv W. K.
Dement
Just received a new lot of Parasols, nt
the Empire Store.
Sleepless Nights made miserable
by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is
the remedy for you. Sold by W. E. De
ment it Co. .
SniT-OH'R filTHP will imiurulintnlf
relieve Croup, Whooping Cough, and
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The Leading House.
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Toys, Baby Carnages.
Solid Gold and Silver Jewelry
IVatckes and. Clocks,
Pictures, Albnmn,
And the largest and finest assortment of
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San Francisco.
Pianos aii Musical Instruments.
J-A11 my goods are guaranteed to be as
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And me here six months or a vear from now
to make everj thing right.
A FIRST-CLASS watch-maker in attend
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You are cordially invited to call aud in
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CARL ADLER'S
CRYSTAL PALACE.
A XOTEL BOAT.
Jfade to Bna Under Water Guide! by Fins
and Drlren by Electricity.
In the boiler room of tho Delomater
iron works, at tho foot of West Thir
teenth street, a dozen men are building
an iron steamboat of peculiarly design,
and havo about all tho plates riveted in
placo. It is thirty feet long by seven and
a half broad and six deop. The model is
very sharp where tho water is divided,
while tho run aft will giro solid water to
the wheel. It looks mur- substan
tial steam launch, exc rames
are carried up and arcucu uvu iuu top to
form tho rounded deck, which wholly
covers the hold except at a round hatch
in the center. At this hatch a well is to
be constructed, with a door in one side
leading into the hold. On eaoh side of
keel enough lead will bo placed to load
the vessel to the water's edge, after all
tho machinery, stores, etc., aro on board.
There are a number of small compart
ments which can be filled with water and
emptied at tho pleasure of tho crew, and
by this means the vessel can be sunk to
any depth below the surface. Over the
water ballast compartments, on each side
and beneath the door, are a number of
six-inch iron tubes which will be filled
with compressed air, to be liberated as
tho air grows foul within the boat.
The motive power is electricity fur
nished by storage batteries which will
turn the propeller by a common dynamo.
Incandescent electric lamps will furnish
liht. Tho boat i3 steered to port or
starboard by a common rudder, while a
horizontal rudder or fin on each side of
the stern post will elevate or depress the
stern, and thus shove the vessel further
from or nearer to tho surface, independ
ent of tho action of the water-ballast
pump. The inventor, Mr. J. H. L. Tuck,
says that she will attain a speed of eight
knots an hour, and can trnvel 100 miles
with her ordinary storage batteries. A
hand crank is nlso fitted for turning the
propeller shaft, by which a low speed
could be obtained.
The well holo in the center of the boat
infilled with an air tight hatch, which
can bo removed from within. Any one
of tho crew wishing to go on deck when
the boat is below the surface has only to
dres in an ordinary diver's suit, with air
tubes connecting with the interior of the
boat, enter tho well, close the door, grad
ually fill tho well with water, and then
remove tho hatch. In tho well aro suit
able devices for directing tho man at the
wheel as well as those in charge of tho
appartus for elevating, lowering and pro
pelling tho boat. "When leaving the well
the hatch is closed, the water runs into
tho water ballast compartments, and
then the man opens tho door nnd removes
his armor.
In warfare a largo torpedo can be at
tached to each end of the boat, with a
strong insulated wire connecting the two
together, and with an electric battery in
the boat. To apply the torpedoes to the
bottom of a' ship tho boat has only to run
beneath it. When directly athwart
ships, under her keel, tho pilot in the
well -holo can loosen tho torpedoes and
allow them to rise under the bilges of
the ship. Then ho can run his boat
ahead a safe distance and explode the
torpedoes. If desirable a small cupola,
with glass windows and on electric lamp,
can replace tho well; and the boat can be
operated from within.
The boat is designed to remain under
water without any inconvenience to the
crew for forty-eight hours, but a rubber
tube device will be attached by means of
which air can be drawn from tho surface
of the water undor ordinary circum
stances. A small mercury indicator will
show the boat's distance below tho sur
face. Xew York Sun.
A 0R.IXD CIBCUS FESTIVAL.
The Coming of Cole's Colossal Sboira and
Some of their Features.
Evorybody is waiting for tho promised
great circus festival which will be inaug
urated here when W. W. Cole's colossal
shows open their doors to the public.
This is the greatest entertainment to
which the peoplo of this country have
ever been treated. It is complete, and
for extent and variety surpassos any
thing ever seen beneath a canvas. Mr.
Colo, whose word is as good as his bond,
promises that his patrons will see every
thing in the ring just ns thoy are repre
sented on paper. All is novelty; overy
act, and there are sixty of them, is start
ling. In the three rings and on the ele
vated stage, there will be loaping, tumb
ling, bareback riding, coiling walking, by
the human fly, aerial bicycling, roller
skating, trapeze performances, acrobatic
evolutions, performing Arabs, Turks,
Moors and Egyptians, besides dozens of
other festivities of more or less extra
ordinary merit. In the menagorio 100
cages of wild animals are to bo seen, be
sides numerous trained animals in the
exhibition urena. Among the menag
erie novelties are tho sacred white ele
phant, a white hippopotamus from the
Kile, Samson, the largest Asiatic ele
phant ever brought to this country, and
several other astonishing attractions.
Cole's is undoubtedly the best show on
the rood, press and public uniting in so
declaring it. Nobody should miss seeing
it. He will show here on "Wednesday,
July 23d.
The Gem Saloon.
The Popular Resort for Astorians.
For the
Finest of Wines and Liquors
Go to THE GF.M SALOON.
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We are now showing the largest and choicest assort
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Astoria at REMARKABLY LOW FIGURES.
Ladies in. need of such goods and want to get the
genuine article would do well to give us a call.
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ASTORIA
Bakery , Confectionery
Coffee and Ice Cream Parlors.
CIIEIVArtlUS STREET.
SUPERIOR
Bread and Cakes
OF AT.T, KIXDS.
Weddings and Parties supplied with strictly
FIRST-CLASS WORK.
o-Frenek and American-o
CANDIES
Manufactured, Wholesale and Retail.
BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT,
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BLACKSM1TH1NG,
At Capt. Kogors old stand, corner of Cass
and Court Streets.
Ship and Cannery work, Horseshoelnc.
Wagons made and repaired. Good work
miaranteed.
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can all be accommodated.
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Fine Clinu, Straw Hats,
Merwear, Extra Large Sizes.
Fine
Choice Summer Suitings
M&da to
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and Clothing House
ASTORIA LIPR STORE,
AUG. DANIELSON,
- Proprietor.
Rebuilt and Refitted Thromjtfcemt.
Tho Best of
WINES:.lQ,UORS, AND CIGARS.
For a Good Cigar, call for one of
"Danielaon's Best."
Corner West 9th and Water Streets. Astoria.
no-Cm
J. H. D. GRAY.
Wholesale and retail dealer In.
GROCERIES, FLOUR, AND FEED
Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc.
LIME, SAND AND CEMENT.
General Storage and Wharfage on reason
able terms. Foot of Benton street, Astoria.
Oregon.
THE BEST
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Manufactured by the
OREGON MILLING COMPANY
Is of Superior Quality, and fs Endorsed
by all who use It.
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Of Superior Rising Quality.
Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction.
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