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WORD CURIOSITIES.
Wheat farms in Gilliam county. Ore., in the famous Ferry
canyon wheat district where you can raise from 26 to 40 bushels of
wheat and a good yield ef eats and hurley fee fehe acre, and you can
raise 20 bushels of field peas to the acre on your summer fallow
ground, and raise a crap of wheat the neat year. We hare a few
farms in this district, for sale, where the owners have made some
money growing wheat and raising stack, and are willing to giro
the “other fellow” a channo
1160 acres, 6 1-2 miles from Condos^ about 700 acres in culti
vation, 360 acres in summer -fallow this year, 1-3 goes to purchaser,
6 room house, painted, bath, pantry and mood-shed, 2 large barns,
one for stock and the other for machinery, orchard in bearing of
apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots and cherries. 16 acres of
alfalfa land, water piped into house from a big spring on the hill
side, all bricked in. Water runs through the entire place, and it
is from another large spring that the City ef Condon gets her
crater supply. The pasture am this farm is fenced separata from
the grain land, and the stock runs into it right from the barn.
The pasture land on this place is rolling but net rocky. The build-
tegs are in the canyon as is usual in this country. Telephone Una
ha Condon, and a 1-3 interest in it goes with the farm. Can talk
dteeet from here to the farm if you wish. A gaad renter is on the
farm, and if you care to, you can let him stay on there and run it
for you. Price $30.00 per acre. Will take your farm or city prop
erty in exchange as pert pay. This is one of the beet places in the
country, and must be seen to be appreciated.
For further information sea
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BABOONS IN B A T T L E
ef the Oddities Peund In the Thaaa Craaturaa Vae Mathod In Fight*
English Language.
Ing Thalr Enemies.
Special Sale on Dishes!
It it perhaps only batural that a If we are to credit all testimony
language made up of so many het on the subject offered by naturalists j
erogeneous elements as is our own man is not the only animal who
ahould abound in curiosities not to carries on his warfare by means of
be found in a language whose devel organised bands and calls in the
W e Are having a special After-holiday
opment was little influenced by out- forces
at
nature to aaaist him.
sale on dishes* Prices greatly reduced
aide sources or in a scientifically There hare beep witnessed in Af
constructed tongue like Esperanto rica fights that were conducted in
on all china. Call and see our fine
or Volapuk. Certain it is that a as orderly a manner as if the war
line of china w are and take advantage
knowledge of these curiosities riors had been really men instead
of our exceptional prices.
brings with it something of fasci of only somewhat like them in form
nation and serves to endear to —i. e., baboons.
nr carious old language.
A certain naturalist was once
Noticeable is the fact that words atoned out of a pass in a very few
which rhyme perfectly may have minutes by these creatures, who
gather different terminations, sprang upon ledges and stones,
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words ‘‘gneiss” and “mice,” looked down for a few moments on
Corner of Firet and Meridian sta
and that words which terminate the valley, growling, snarling and
similarly not infrequently fail tc screaming, and then began to roll
rhyme, as in the case of “brides" down atones with so much vigor and
and “esntharides.”
adroitness that the intruders took
In “suspicion,” “remission” and to flight. The baboons evidently
“contrition” we have three words knew the value of co-operation, for
in which the final “ion” is preceded the naturalist saw two of them com
in each case by s different con bine their efforts in order to set a
sonant, but as the “t” and “c” both particularly heavy stone rolling.
take the sound of V these words One monkey, bent on making the
all rhyme perfectly. Further in most of his missile, was seen to car
vestigation reveals the interesting ry a atone up a tree that he might
fact that, whereas there is a great hurl it with greater effect
T H E PACIFIC LIN E
variety of words ending in “tion” Once while some baboons were
and "aion,” only five bear the termi crossing a valley they were attacked
FOR LADIES
nation “cion.” These five are by dogs, and, as is usual during a
SCI ion,” “coercion,” “suspicion,” march, the females and young were
“epinicion” and “interneción.” “Ep- in the center, the males heading
T H E RED
inicion,” meaning a song of victory, the column and bringing np the
and “interneción,” meaning slaugh rear. As the dogs rushed upon
ter, are not in common use, but the them the males turned and faced
so * ez
G O O SE
other three words are familiar to their enemies, growling, beating
all. It is perhaps worthy of re the ground with their hands and
last
SCHOOL
mark that of words bearing the opening their mouths wide, so as to
phonetically similar ending “tion” show their glittering teeth. They
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SHOE
there are over 100 examples.
ooked so fierce and malignant
The termination “dous” is, how hat the dogs—Arab greyhounds,
ever, even more exclusive than accustomed to fight successfully
fo r C hildren a re in a
cion,” as it is borne by just four with hyenas and other beasts of
class all by them
English words. These are “stupen >rey^—shrank back. By the time
selves. T hey have
dous,” “tremendous,” “hazardous” hey had been encouraged to renew
and “horrendous.” Curiously, all he attack the whole herd had made
no com petitors.
the words in this latter group are its way, covered by the rear guard,
adjectives, while the former group o the rocks, one six-month-old
is composed entirely of nouns.
monkey alone excepted.
W e a re giving aw ay a 42 piece D inner S et every
It seems somewhat strange to This little monkey sat on a rock,
S aturday a t 3:30 P. M.
speak of beheading a word of one surrounded by the dogs. But he
syllable and leaving a word of two was not long left in his perilous
syllables, but there are several msition. An old baboon stepped
monosyllables that admit of this rom a cliff near by, advanced to
)os8ibUity. If we behead either ward the dogs, keeping them in
caged,” “raged” or “waged,” need check by threatening gestures and
as monosyllables, we have the word sounds, picked up the baby monkey
“aged,” which, when used as an ad- and carried it to a place of safety
Near First National Bank
ective, is pronounced with two syl- on the cliff, while the whole crowd
ables. “Staged,” twice beheaded, of baboons watched thfi act of her
eaves the same result. Better yet, oism and shouted their battlecry*-
»head “vague” or “Éfague” or , Iarper*s Weekly.
iwice behead “plague,” and we have
ague,” which admits of only bi-
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syllabic pronunciation. Likewise Patrick, a thrifty tradesman in
Guns and Umbrellas
Sporting Goods
Live and Dead Storage
“shrugged” twice beheaded leaves he neighborhood of -the Dublin
he different word “rugged.”
docks, was, the story goes, a man
JN O . N . C R O S B Y & C O .
There are over 1,300 words in who never spent a penny more than
tour language ending with the long le needed to spend, but he was nev
sound, such as “tree,” etc. But ertheless as good a man at the
even this remarkable showing is, making of an Irish bull as any who
eclipsed by words ending in “ess,” ived between Bantry and Bally cas
E. M. F.-“30”
Flanders “20”
tle. Having one day occasion to
as,there are 1,40Q of these.
From the citation of these two send a letter to a place some dis
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ses it might be inferred that the tance, Patrick called a messenger
>oet has a sinecure to select a and asked him his price for going
G arage an d A uto Livery
Newberg, Oregon
rhyme for any word he chooses to such a distance.
employ. But such is not always the “It’ll be a shillin’,” said the man.
case. Exclusive of the ordinal nu “Twice too much,” said Patrick.
merals, most of which are unrhyme- “Let it be sixpence.”
able, there are more than sixty “Nivver,” answered the messen
words that have no rhyme. Well ger. “The way is that lonely that
mown examples of these include I’d niwer go it under a shillin’.”
such words as “gulf,” “month,” “Lonely, is it?” said Patrick,*
•^orange,” “scarce,” “silver,” “win scratching his head. “Faith, an’
dow,” “warmth,” “spoilt” and ye’re right. Now, man, I’ll tell ye
“wasp.” — Harold M. Haskell in what we’ll do. Make it sixpence
Q u a lit y S to re
an’ I’ll go wid ye to kape ye com-
New York Tribune.
Post Cards and Albums. Post cards with os has come to mean
pany.” _____________ '
Tha Orchestra.
a very fine thing. We have the cleverest and most complete line in
The Water Wheel.
Modern “orcheetras” never re
this section. Cards of every kind for big collections, for fun, for in
structions, for art lovers. We also carry the albums in large variety,
vert to the etymological and his The water wheel is probably the
at popular prices.
torical significance of their name. oldest method of obtaining me
An ^‘orchestra” was properly a chanical force apart from the em
dancing place—the space between ployment of animal force. This
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the stage and the auditorium, wheel was no doubt at first work
Perfume pleasure is attained only when you buy perfume that will
where the ancient Greek chorus ed by a flowing river and then by
last* Good perfumes are not cheap, cheap perfumes are not good.
went through its evolutions. Then, a falling stream, and it would not
Toilet articles of every class too, and of high quality that has marked
in Roman times, when the chorus be a very great advance on this
our goods. Headquarters for Lowney’s Candies.
hsd retired to the stage and finally method to dam back the stream so
“Home Phone”
disappeared, the name meant that as to obtain a continuous supply of
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part of the house where the sen force even in times of drought.
ators sat, the front seat, so that Such storing of water at a suffi
Newberg.
Oregon
Juvenal even speaks of the senate ciently high level is the simplest
W c Never Sleep
as “the orchestra.” And then method of storing force. If care
when the band took up its place be fully arranged the loee by evapora
fore the stage “orchestra” came to tion and leakage is small and may
mean what it does today. It is not be partly or wholly replaced by
the only word from which the danc rain, so the force is always availa
ing associations have vanished. ble, and but little labor is needed to
“Chorus” itself originally meant a keep such works in repair. The
dance, and a “ballad” was a dance water clock of the Romans was an
W hen in need o f B uilding M aterial of any kind
song, “ballare” meaning in late elaboration of this method of stor
call on ua.
ing force and was for them the
Latin to dance.
only form of “motor.”
Tha Diffsrenes.
The Ross.
A nobleman against whom insan
ity was imputed by his relatives Old as the history of the world
Lumber, Shingles, Lath
was asked during examination by itH J is that of the queen of flow
Lord Loughborough, “How many ers. The ancient Greeks and Ro
Doors, Windows, Mouldings
legs has a sheep ?”
mans reveled in roses. They were
“Does your lordship mean a live used lavishly at their feasts. In
Cement and Lime
or a dead sheep?” asked the noble the time of the republic the people
man.
had their cups of falernian wine
W e also m ake all lan d s of Box Shooks
T s it not the same thing?” said swimming with blooms, and the
the chancellor.
Spartan soldiers, after the battle of
“No, my lord; there is much dif Cirrha, refused to drink any wine
ference. A live sheep has four that was not perfumed with roses,
legs, a dead sheep but two. The while at the regatta of Baiae the
others are shoulders!” — London «hole surface of the Lucrine lake
Tstler.
war strewn »«Mi flowers.
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R Y E BAD T W ENTIES.
T hs Judge Said M* Racily W u N et
Sure Who Got Them.
Nash & Finley
1 had got rid of all the money ex
cept five twenty-doDar bills, which
all the banks had agreed were coun
terfeit, and my fee in the case, in-
stead of being the $1,000 which I
originally charged the" man netted
me $1,400, and I’ve always had a
suspicion that if there had been a
few more experts in the town I
would have got rid of those last five
twenty-dollar bills.”
“What became of the five bad
i?” some one asked the
judge.
“I'm not sure,” replied the old
lswyer. “My wife asked me for
them, and shortly afterward she
made a trip to Washington. When
she returned she showed me a
brand new hundred dollar bill,
which she said she had got at the
United States treasury. But I never
asked her any questions. I knew
the treasury department had ex
perts too.”—Chicago Becord-Her-
A noted lawyer of one of the
southern states, famous got only
fbr his brilliant mind and legal
ability, but also for his rigid code
of honesty, used to teU this story
on l^ijnself:
A ^Soon after the civil war the
judge was called on to defend a
man accused of passing counterfeit
money. The old lawyer, after in
vestigating the matter and satisfy
ing himself that the man was inno
cent of any intent to do wrong and
had only paid out money which he
had received in good faith, under
took the case. When the case came
up for trial the jury was so im
pressed by Judge ------’s plea for
his client and his explanation of
the circumstances that a verdict of
not guilty was rendered without de-
________________
fK The acquitted man was very
the Table.
grlteful to Judge ------ and, after “You’ll Enlivening
be
the
of our din
thanking him profusely for getting ner table tonight,” star
said
materfa-
him out of the ugly scrape, said". milias after an amusing a conversa
“Judge, I’ll never forget what
with a friend she had chanced
ou’ve done for me, and some day tion
to.
meet,
“for I’ll tell the family all
hope to be able to prove my grat the amusing
things you’ve been say
itude. But the only thing I can do ing. It’s a rule
of the house that
now is to pay your fee, and I’ll pay we must try to remember
inter
whatever you ask. How much is esting happenings, so that all
they
can
itr
be
served
up
with
our
food.
I
don’t
“Well, I think about $1,000 will suppose the men Fred meets in
be fair,” replied the judge.
are really especially bril
‘That's fair enough, sir,” agreed business
liant,
but
they do display
the client, “but, judge, the only any wit he whenever
always
tells
in
money I've got is the same kind of this way we hsve grown to ns, feel and such
money that I have just been prose interest in them that we can en
cuted for spending. Some of that an
hearing even of quite unimpor
money is good and some of it is the joy
tant
events with which they are
counterfeit that was worked off on connected.
It’s just the same with
me,- and I don’t know t’other from Ned’s and Edith’s
and you
which. Now, I will pay you $1,500 have no idea what friends,
a
jolly
crowd
in the bills that I have got, and you have at our table sometimes, and we it
do the best you can with it.”
our digestion wonderfully.”—
As there seemed nothing else to helps
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York
Tribune.
do, the judge agreed to this, and
the client paid him the $1,500 in
Origin *f tha Ward Starling.
bills and left him.
The
of the word “sterling”
The judge took the $1,500 to his is very origin
curious.
the early
bank and explained the circum minters of coin in Among
northern
stances to the cashier and asked were the dwellers of eastern Europe
him to take out the bills which he many. They were so skillful Ger
as an expert pronounced good. The their calling that numbers of them in
cashier did so, and the judge depos were invited to England to manu
ited the accepted bills to bis credit, facture the metal money of the
and then, taking the package of
The strangers were
doubtful money to another hank, kingdom.
known
as
“easterlings.”
After a
he made the seme explanation and time the word became “sterling,”
request of the cashier, the bank re
in this abbreviated form it has
ceiving on deposit the money and
come
imply- what is genuine in
which, as experts, they pronounced money, to plate
or character.
good.
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“And do you know,” said the
judge, “after \ had visited six banks
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