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BOTTLE MESSENGERS.
NERVE OF RUBINI. T ?
TTtey R«««rd th* CourM of th* C ur­ A Broken Collar Bone D idn't Stop the
Q roat T enor's Singing.
rent» of tip Oeeana.
DR. A. M. DAVIS
The hydrographic bureau is al­
ways interested in endeavors to aa-
sertain by means of bottle mes­
sages information as to the move­
ments of the oceans. These bottles
contain papers that have been
dropped overboard from vessels in
mans places to drift at the mercy
of the winds and waves. Many of
PHYSICIANS 4 SURGEONS
R a n k in
A
D o o lit t le
current of the see carry them. Bach
bottle contains s record of the place
and the date of its starring. Some
of those found have floated for
many months and sometimes years
on the bosom of the ocean and have
traveled thousands of miles.
It has been found that bottles
dropped overboard between the
shores of the United States and
England or France generally travel
toward the northeast, following the
oourse of that great river in the At­
lantic ocean called the golf stream.
Bottles started off the coasts of
Spain and Africa travel, as a rule,
westward until they arrive among
the West India islands. Along the
European side of the ocean the bot­
tles take a southerly course and
along the American side a norther­
ly course.
It thus appears, as a result of
winds and currents, that the whole
Atlantic ocean is slowly circulating
round and round, like an enormous
pool. This accounts for the stories
that were current in Europe hun­
dreds of years ago of strange ob­
jects of human manufacture having
floated from the new to the old
world, thus giving a clew to the ex­
istence of undiscovered lands be­
yond the sea.—Harper’s Weekly.
A n w niivw ssB i jf w u esiion.
Asa I ln iiM M A R M f O iiM tiA n
“Is the guv’nor in?” asked the
visitor.
The office boy, with his chair tilt­
ed back and his legs stetched out
upon the desk, made no reply.
“I asked if the guv’nor was in,”
said the visitor.
The offioe
threw him a dis­
dainful glance, blew a cloud of cig­
arette smoke down his nostrils and
resumed his reading.
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“Didn’t you hear me?” snapped
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the visitor.
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“O’ course I ’eard you,” answered
M e M ian T llU N a tio n a l B a n k .B u ild in g
the
office boy scornfully.
M eM ln n T llle.
On
“Then why the dickens don’t you
tell me if the guv’nor’s in V*
retorted the
DUNLAP BROS. office “Now, boy I as ask he yer,”
recrossed his legs
A
upon the desk and prepared to re­
Residences a specialty. All work guar­ sume his reading, “does it look like
anteed first class. Estimates furnished. it?”—London Answers.
JONES FLAGG
Contractors Builders
Call at 110 Main street. Phone Black 18
Firat Uae of Napkin*
The singer« of the old dajs were
not the delicate plants that our op­
eratic idols of today are, as appears
from a story told of Rubini, the
tenor of seventy or more years ago.
In those days European audiences
listened with rapt admiration to
Rubini, of whom it was said that,
though he could not himself act, his
voice acted for him. The intensity
of expression he gave to his voice,
the judicious use of the tremolo,
and the management of light and
shade are said to have produced a
thrilling effect But his m a t feat
consisted in taking the B flat of the
upper stave without preparation,
sustaining it for a long time and
then letting it imperceptibly die
away.
The adventurous are always on
the edge of danger. On one ooca-
sion Rubini, after repeating this
vocal feat and being a second time
encored, found himself unable to
produce the expected note. Deter­
mined not to tail, he gathered up
his vocal strength and made a su­
preme effort The note came with
its wonted power, brilliancy and du­
ration, but at the cost of a broken
roller bone.
A surgeon examined the singer
and found that the tension of the
lungs had been too powerful for the
strength of the collar bone. Two
months’ rest would be required to
reunite the clavicle, and this the
singer declared to be impossible, as
he had only finished several days of
a long engagement.
‘‘Can I sing at all with a broken
collar bone f " he aaked.
“Yes; it will make no difference
in your voice,1* answered the sur­
geon. “But you must avoid lifting
heavy weights and any undue exer­
tion—above all, yon must leave the
B flat alone.11
Rubini continued to sing with a
broken clavicle until the termina­
tion of his engagement.—New York
Press.
W kat H . Couldn't Do.
Two Irishmen employed in a fac­
t o r y in Maine were given a holiday
ana went to enjoy themselves hunt­
ing. After walking through the
woods for some time one of them
happened to look np a pine tree
and saw a large catamount.
“Holy smokes, Pst, look at him I"
“Howld on, Mike, that’s a Mal­
tese. I know where we can get $4
for him. I’ll go up an’ chase him
down and yon ketch him when he
comes down,” said Patrick.
Pat did s6 and, coming down the
tree, looked down and saw Mike and
the cat describing circles among the
leaves and dust. “What’s the mat­
ter, Mike? Can’t you hang on to
him ?” he asked.
“Oh, I can h*ng on to him, all
right, but I can’t let go of him,”
said Pat.—National Monthly.
All kinds of grsvel for con­
crete work, cement blocks,
or wood work furnished on
short notice. Leave orders
at the office of ft. B. Linn-
willa.
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Keklme Sen and Mean.
Among certain tribes of Eskimos
there is a tradition that the sun and
moon were once human beings, the
moon being an Eskimo boy and the
nm his sister. The boy tormented
his sister, and to get sway from him
she fled up into the sky and was
turned into the aim, while the boy
w«« doomed to pursue her continu­
ally without ever catching up with
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you make a purchase at this store you are
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REPAIRER
Cushing’. Chair For Visitor*
“To fetch the doctor for my hus­
band.”
“What's up with him?”
“He tells me he has got hepatitis,
dyspepsia, rheumatism, enteritis,
gastritis, appendicitis, nephritis and
cerebro-epinal meningitis.'’
“Holy terrors! Where did he get
all that?”
“Why, s man induced him to buy
s medical dictioi
begun reading
Weekly.
F R E E !!
With every boy’s suit we are giving a baseball an,d bat or
a fielder’s glove or a catcher’s mitt. We have a complete
line of snappy made clothing from $ 4 . 5 0 t o 7 . 5 0
These are exceptionally well made and good values. See
windows. The little men will be delighted with the gifts
Caleb Cushing desired to keep
people at a distance from him while
talking, and many of his callers had
a habit of gradually moving their
chain nearer to him during a con­
versation. So one day, having been
very much annoyed in that way, he
sent for a carpenter and made him
fasten two pieces of board to the
legs of the chair and then screw it
to the floor at the place where he
wanted people to a it When it was
done he contemplated it with a
smile and remarked: “I guess I
have got them now. They can’t
blow their bad breath in m j face
any more.” That chair raised a
laugh on many a visitor, who, after
several attempts to move it forward,
would, on looking closer, find it fas­
tened to the floor.
A French writer who evidently
was
conservative and did not wel­
E. A. ELLIS
come the napkin kindly records
G e n e r a l C o n t r a c to r with scorn:
“The napkin is placed under the
Septic tanks built after the
chin
and fastened in the back as if
latest approved methods.
one were going to be shaved. A
Sewer and Tile Work. Well Digging person told me that he wore his
that way that be might not soil his
frills.”
Yamhill County Abstract Co. beautiful
It was a difficult matter to tie the
two corners in the back, and it is
J. H. GIBSON, Mgr.
said that thence originated our
T h a only A bstract Books in
expression for straitened circum-
stances, “hard to make both ends
Yam hill County
meet.” This custom led to the
In Deubt.
McMnnmu*.
O r e g o n habit of the table waiters of carry­
. In one of Wilkie Collins’ pub­
ing a napkin on the left arm.
lished letters he write#:
For the last week while I was
Why S h . Sent For Him.
finishing the story I galloped along
A clergyman was once sent for in without feeling it, like the old poet
the middle of the night by one of horses. Do you remember how the
his women parishioners.
fore legs of thoee post horses quiv­
“Well, my good woman,” said be, ered and how their heads drooped
“so you are ill and require the con­ when they came to the journey’s
solations of religion? What can I end? That’s me, my dear; that’s
$1.50 and $2.50 per setting.
do for you ?”
me.’ Good gracious, is “me” gram­
$8.00 per hundred.
“No,”
replied
the
old
lady;
‘1
am
mar? Ought it to be “I?” My
First class tborougbred stock.
only
nervous
and
can’t
sleep."
poor
father paid £90 a year for my
“Gold Eagle" «train.
“But how can I help that?” said education, and I give you my sacred
the parson.
word of honor I am not sure
Mrs. E. S. Greer,
“Oh,
sir,
you
always
put
me
to
whether it is “me” or “I.”
Phone 18-152
Dundee, Ore.
sleep so nicely when I go to church
Where He Get Them.
that I thought if you would only
preach a little for me I”—Ladies’
Home Journal
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new patterns. You need not be
ashamed to go anywhere with a
GRIFFON Suit There are none
better and at the prices we ask
for them are extra good values.
C. A. MORRIS, the Jeweler
Opposite Postoffice
$1100
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