I «i* SPELL OF THE ’m 'm m Their * The haunt o f that remarkable ora. the frigate bird, fa the where It m*k« Powerful Lenses With a Few of Their Fiery Feats. -V CHAPIN . Ä - Ä r f c ? The M M w r t* easy if y « that Haary H. Heyl gave the first exhibition o f hit invention, “ the pl.aaiiiatrope.” He aleo exhibited it before the Franklin institute, March ML making the first exhibition ■> i- eot have been more then thirty or leos than 100 foot from the p ! _ I Rankin Littlefield & Romig PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS Ni KT - w “ ' » In bln Oral experiment, using twenty ! „ _ __ , *1 four mirrors, be set fire to pitch and ■< WB" » M .» a « distance o f seventy feet turned to our car __ Si > tow at “I Then, with a kind o f polyhedron. con °°A ** I stating o f Its pieces o f plain looking " TT _ _ ‘ glass, each piece six Inches square. W®?KI *** ! boards o f beecbwood were set on five un" ' ¡n * 'I at a distance of Iflh feet Next then " ° n* ,1 were employed MO plain minora, ssch Tt** ” * * * * w® II eight Inches long and six broad, and i w c b llttie eettleroefi - with an tbe m irror. In use „ „ k , j church, and each ch, »♦ could be Ignited at a dtetanee o f 226 i 8t" * p,e crndeand p 1 foot Tbe last machine o f this nature i pr***,on of •^rort 00 1 2 constructed by Buffoo contained 400 ,,tt,e ** V mirrors, each six Inches square, and , * ny oth" r ho" " * *&* 7 with the rays from this be could melt ’,0,taD ,n Co,H Jr lead and tin at a distance o f tSO fe e t ------------ i The moat powerful burning m inor of Bayonets Is i modern times was constructed by on# The bayonet fc> os J Penn, an English artisan. Qesucceedsd eancb as ever Its < J In producing' a burning lens no lass moral effect upon a It HQ than three foet hi diameter, and this reasons why a con - cost tbe man who was financing tbe oumber are actually NS experiment upward o f $3.000. (te pow onet are that those cl I ar was astonishing, and the hardest *3« attack or those i I and most solid substance*, such aa down or foil back b Iron, flint and steel, melted like wax trnted Ir a The bam i I when exposed to Its tn»»— ns» focus. With bayonets Is cc I only a few seconds being required. A because one or the otl I diamond weighing ten grains was ax- way before gripe are I paaed to’ tbe rays for thirty minutes dtera In tbe United O Ses fa First N a tl Bunk Bldg. and was rodeoed to six grains by tbe trained In this type Phone, Black 31 process. Doling tbe operation the Tork Tribune. stone opened and foliated like tbe ---- ------- leaves'of a flower end emitted whitish The “ UnivsrsiV fames: bat when It bad closed again The town o f Ham It still bore a polish and was Identical most notable cbateai In shape, though four grains lighter ancient as Rhelms cl I and proportionately smaller Ten cut moos walls nave b garnets melted and ran together In Joan o f Arc. Condi u few second* In fact, nothing was leader, and Prince U found that could resist the terrible er Us attempt at Bo beat generated. This remarkable ms win over Prance. H NEW BERG - - OREGON chine was afterward taken to China be was a com pul nor by aa officer connected with tbe Brit himself put I t In tin lab embassy and finally lost sight of. Ham until bis escape With these modem experiments to as a workman.-Lond consider, the tale o f tbe burning o f —— — — DR. SARAH E. SMITH Marcellas* ships stems mote probable. xhs Fishing ( * Brocqolers. e traveler o f the Bf- Newfoundland wo teentb century, says that at Damascus «ritbout that great st Office fa City Had they made mirrors o f steel that mag known as the "bank allied objects “ like burning 1 glasses.'* the Ashing la don* i Office Phone—White 147 Tbe telescope was not Invented till within the edges of Reeidence Phooe—Blue 68 •arty in the seventeenth century. that tbe cod loves at -NEW BERG OREGON This would seem corroborative evl- qalu smooth it Is deuce concerning Ptolemy Buorgetee' gghing on tba bank mirror, which La Brocqutere does not thooo that have arrtv< men M od and o f which be perhaps nev nsa ns to what sort er beard. A but fed*. In bis description -* broad.” DR. FRED H. WILSON of Egypt, says that the wonderful mlr « ............ ror was made o f Chinese Iron and that y M comm Osteopathic Physician Bad ¡I soon after Mohammedanism prevailed Bobbie - 1 saw yo the Christians destroyed ft by strata aRa|D lM t night. CDs **“ not going to pay yot In a work published at Marseilles In tlme -j>en cents la < I7d3 Father Abbot argues Ingeniously Thstfs tbe tendency 1 la favor of tbe probable existence o f c « ont the mlddlen tbe mirror, but contend* that Its pow It must therefor* bevo been considered as • great won dar In those times and most have filled with astonishment all who saw Its of foots Even though its effects bad not been greater than those o f a small tel­ escope • • • to Is notarsi to think that those offerta'ware exaggerated ha rood all probability and orso passibili ly. commonly bappaas to raro sad admirable machines and laventiou a "- Bmmett Campbell Haff fa Clevolaad Leader. D r. John S. M S,'. ^ a ML« :.v o f destruction. Buffou constructed a machine con I “t war bawtoa • , • £ ... On the ering they show perfect com­ mand o f the air Their flight te sw ift bold and foil of grace. They «re ap­ parently untiring, keeping «w a y from lend for week* at a time, soaring to enormous heights sad rtseranrttng with a maxing speed. They can rids eat a hurricane, scudding low end talcing a reef In their wings, so aa to txpoee only the iargeet quills to the gale They are able to support tbemseirea for long bourn without apparent mo­ tion. end It Is a baanttfnl right to watch one o f them floating overhead egalnat tbe deep Mae sky. the long forked mil alternately opening end shotting like a pair o f sriaaom and tbe bead swinging slowly from side to aide, ns If search bur tbe bortsou. Frigate birds feed on surface swimming Bab. squids, crabs and young turtle*. ! I': A Dlscleswr*. Little W lllfa wai fl(*l)pr MI p RoMfiwoo j » • • • ♦ • • » » ♦ • • • • e e e e e e e e e e e l —y <»n the subject of Tbl* was Ufa brief essay: “ My snty dote« on cbocoisto y«. novels. otN»mebllfa end Loodon Telegraph Capital la ▲t that time the flexible ribbon films and instantaneous exposures were unknown, end it was neces­ sary to limit the riewa to tboae that could be taken by time exposure upon wet pistes, which pistes were afterward reproduced as positives on very this glass plates. T h e de­ vice fo r holding them consisted o f a skeleton wheel divided into eight­ een parte, into which tbe plates were fastened end tbe wheel then revolved before e lantern's rays, causing each picture to register ex­ actly with the position just le ft by the preceding one. The wheel was revolved by band and controlled by USK: Band, Vel Vole* Piène. String, Band. Ne tuition. Reduced rates so ill ads. For further Inferma ion addn The Oregoa Agricultural Collage, TRAINED FOR THE GAME. Ms Played His Part Wall and Wan When Mis Cbanoo Cam* Senator Harry lame, who Is a loo an M. D„ was ooce superintendent o f tbs Oregon State Insane asylum. One day be was telling a group o f bis col leagues some of bis experiences while there He said when be took tbe Job be ordered the walls around tbs Insti­ tution tom down, arguing that If any real lunatics escaped they would be detected and returned, bat that If u y •scaped who could not be detected they did not belong thece anyway. > "A patient came along one day," he said, “and began a performance that was new to all o f us Tbe Inmates o f lawn each morning for exercise Well, tbe n »n 1 waff talking about Immedi­ ately began to run on a dog trot from one end o f tbe building to the ether Tbe patients having specialties o f their own didn’t notice him. "Beck and forth ho wane eot only oo the ftrst morning, but on ovary morning for month* and months. He wore a path along the side o f the say tom. We couldn't help but admire bis perseverance. He certainly stuck to bis Job. Rut one day Mr. Man. the moment he * a « let o a t wriggled away from tbe crowd and started across tbe field* Guard« followed In pursuit Trained for months, and that bad b en Ms game all along, be rapidly made monkeys o f tbe guards He'd let them get almost within reaching distance and then be would sprint 8o be van- la bed. and we never beard o f Mm again."—fit Louts Post-Dispatch. \\ fir. C.E. Brom, D.V.S. preeenting ita merita to an audi- Rsssmsry. th e home o f tbe rosemary was origl sally In tbe south o f Europa more especially In Italy, where It groam to tbe height o f six or eight fe e t either being trained upward from tbe ground or embedding Its roots la ao old wall It grows In three varieties—gold, silver and green.- London MalL v It Oet Them Out. Tbe “ Keut street ejectm ent" com- bkni In England in days gone by. eon •fated in taking off tbe front door. (I was originated by landlords to tbe Kent street (Ronthwarh. London* dis­ trict (gberv many tenants ware la er raera far rent. - Loodon Mall. Burning Now* A t e recent conference o f c méta in this city a venerable f No other like It m J g p ^ f No other as good ||J^^4 T?!3 H dw Rons taring Uaetioi ta p e ? ed the neve around. It was to the effect that tbe old gentleman had md a birthday cake the night be- Tkm • N a tion a l Beared Hiss. D aring the week Brother Gettit bad, knifed Mr. Latnby in a stock deal, had foreclosed e mortgage on hi* house, sued him- on a demand note end attached his personal prop­ erty. Sunday morning Mr. Lamby vent to church, thinking to hear something that vould make his heart more peaceful. A fte r the services b ro th er Gettit cam« to him, grasped him varm ly by tbe hand and asked him vh at condition hie immortal soul Vas in. “ A re you thinking o f foreclosing on that, too?” asked Mr. Latnby desperately.— Chicago P o e t . Wmmkly ÜL C l u b » U s ili this year f t l a ’i has ban soldst $5.5i fact.-—World*» Work. » . bsMsibsr lita, Thsnday, D m » Th a radix, Jsaaary 1 White Bronze made from re­ fined ainc, will never moee grow , deface or lettering grow dim. 4 J. C. Gregory, A gt„ ---------------------- Ncwbwjj, Or.. both ooe year $3.36. »