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cATHEN A. ORE.. DEC. 23 1910
Praotioally every part of tbe itate
Of Oregon Will be benefitted by the
plan for tbe extension of experiment
work in all phases of horticulture and
agrioulture wblon is now under con
sideration by President W. J. Kerr of
tbe OregOD Agricultural College and
tbe authorities of Washington. Ihe
plan will be submitted to the regents
of the college at a meeting wbioh will
be held within tb ; next two weeks.
In all probability the regents will ap
prove tbe plan and it will then be
ready for presentation to tbe legisla
ture at its next meeting. The plan in
cludes extensive experiments in irri
gation in tbe Willamette valley. Tbe
experiments will be carried on in co
operation witb farmers and frnlt
growers at snob points in the valley
as , will beet suit tbe Varying con
ditions. This may) necessitate work
in as many as fifteen different oom
Vrouulties in , the .valley. It will in
clude iavestisaticas of methods of irrl
gatiusn and testing of soils, drainage,
tbe adaptability . of various kinds of
farmlugt aud the time and methods of
tillage. .
Wallowa has a startling potato story.
One vine that grew on new ground,
is said to have attained tbe height of
I 6 feet, 1 inob, and produoed 40 tubers.
tbe total weight of tbe potatoes being
10 pounds.
Edgar Allep Poe got into a niche in
the hall of f atfce just in the niok of
time. Ha had 06 votes. "Only this
and nothing mWe," His spirit baa
beenVtspping, grently tapping" at the
v. v. u .-.y, .v. -v.
time. Poe was a kenius sure, for did
he not write rauchUbat nobody knew
what be really moaW?
State bankn bovej'beeq prosperous
tbe past year, us sho;wu by tbe annual
report of State Buukf Examiner Wright
who found individual deposits iu Ore
gon banks on Nojvember 10 totaled
104,370,3OO, a Del gain sinoe Novem
ber 1(U 1000, of 14,321,650. Total
reaoutoes of Oregon bauka increased
during tbe year almost 130,000,000.
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' The biggest vybaat cargo ever sent
away from tbe Columbia river was
that taken theast week by the Nor
wegian tramp ateamship, the Djorns-
1-triT.nA Pnrifduit whinh anitad with
805,86(1 bushels for .Europe. This is
tha secoudi' la roe-it oarso of wbeut
over loadodjon the PaoiQo ooast. .
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The actoual report of tbe Portland
Union Stockyards company shows
PtirUftn,4 fa becoming great paoking
ooutev. The value of livestock shipped
l&t- flmt year the ooboern was in oper
ation amounted to $3,336,000.
. Orogoa has a population of 673,765,
tttmth census, aa increase of 63.? per
cent over tea years ago, whou the state
bad 413,530. - The iuoiease of 20
years has been 114 per oeut.
Four hundred boxes of Comioe
pears, grown ccar Medford, sold in
tbe London market this season, for
fioa boi..-.? 55 '
A large aoreage around Hermiaton
is being seeded to alfalfa. This is
not only a profitable orop for hay, but
there is money in raising seed which
brings 23 oents per pound.
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Oregon's financial condition, as
shown by tbe state treasurer's report,
is in excellent shape. There is f 424,
013 on band, with no debts, bonded or
otherwise.
The writer who said that an optim
ist believes in a mascot and a pessim
ist takes stook in a hoodoo, bad a
fair view of human weakness.
Somebody said that there are no
flies in tbe Philippines for au ant de
vours them. This is an anti-fly cru
sade of the right kind.
Oregon City has a paper mill that
is tbe third largest in the world.
AMBASSADORS.
They Enjoy Some Curious Privileges
at European Courts.
In the popular inind the American
mind at least there is very little dlf
fereHqe between tin ambassador and a
minister, but the former is entitled to
very many privileges abroad that are
denied to a mere envoy.
For Instance, one curious privilege of
an ambassador Is that he, and he
alono, when dismissed, may turn bis
back to the sovereign to whose court
be is accredited. The mode of pro
cedure, generally speaking, is as fol
lows: When the audience is at an end the
ambassador waits to be dismissed by
the sovereign. When dismissed tho
ambassador bows, retires three paces,
bows again, retires three puces, bows
a third time, turns on his heels and
walks to tho folding doors. But when
the reigning sovereign Is u woman,
still politer methods obtain. To turu
his back would be discourteous: to
walk backward would be to resign a
privilege; therefore the ambassador re
tires sideways like a crab. He keeps
one eye on the sovereign aud with the
other ho endeavors to find the door.
By this unique niennS he contrives to
evince all politeness to the sovereign
and at the same time retain one of his
privileges.
Another privilege of ambassadors Is
tho right of being ushered into the
royal presence through folding doors,
both of which must be flung wide for
him. No one save on ambassador can
claim this privilege, the most any non
ambassadorial individual can expect Is
that one of the doors shall bo opened
to him.
One privilege appertaining to tho
ambassador, one capable of causing
gTeat inconvenience to tho ruler, is the
right of demanding admission to tho
sovereign at any hour of day or night
This was one of the reasons why
Abdul Ilamld, when sultan of Turkey,
opposed the raising of our mission at
Constantinople to an embassy. It was
decidedly inconvenient at times to sco
the American representative at all.
To the European the most important
feature of the ambassador's makeup
la his sword. There the blade of the
word Is a rapier blade with the point
blunted. It has been facetiously ob
served abroad that the use the sword
la put to In addition to its trick of
tripping up its wearer is usually the
harmless one of poking fires. One di
plomatist was said to file bis bills on
his sword when it was not otherwise
engaged, and for a long while it waa
standing witticism of the corps dip
lomatique in Europe that the Russian
ambassadors used their swords to file
broken treaties, a circumstance that
was held to account for tho lnonllnatA
length of thelf weapons. Harpers
Weekly.
Emmet's Presence af Mind.
A story is told of Robert Emmet
which proves his secretive power and
resolution. He was fond of studying
chemistry, and one night late, after
the family had gone to bed, he swal
lowed a large quantity of corrosive
sublimate in mistake for noma Hf41
cooling powder. He immediately dis)
covered his "mistake and knew that!
death must shortly ensue unless he in-
stantly swallowed tbe only antidote.,
chalk. Timid men would have torn at
tho bell, roused all the family and sen
for a stomach pump. Emmet called no
one, made no noise, but, stealing down
stairs and unlocking the front door,
went into the stable, scraped some
chalk which he knew to be there and
took sufficient doses of it to neutralise
the poison.
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Queen Elizabeth's Amulet.
Queen Elizabeth during her last ill
ness wore around her neck a charm
made of gold which had been be
queathed to her by an old woman In
Wales, who declared that so long as
the queen wore it she would never be
ill The amulet, as was generaly tho
case, proved of no avail, and Eliza
beth, notwithstanding her faith in the
charm, not only sickened, but died.
During the plague in London people
wore amulets to keep off the dread de
stroyer. Amulets of arsenic were worn
near the heart. Quills of quicksilver
were hung around tbe neck and also
the powder of toads.
No Swelling at All.
. "I see not one ripple on the water.
All is calmness," said the little Ger
man lady, looking out dreamily over
tho quiet sea. "I haf crossed the
ocean when it was calm like this all
the way over."
"Do you mean that there was no
swell even in mldocean?" asked her
companion, who had never crossed at
all.
"No,, no swelling at all," was the re
ply. New York Press.
Wherein They Differ.
Jack Widows are wiser than maids
in one respect at least Tom What'r
tho answer 7 Jack They never let a
good chance go by, thinking that a
better one will com their way. Chi
cago News.
Bad men excuse their faults; good
men will leave them. Johnson.
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