r m t (
A recent discussion about the helg.-.t of
tree In the forests of Victoria, Autraliai
bring! from the gorernment botanist the
statement that he hat seen one 525 feet
high. The chief inspector of forests meas
ured a fallen one that was 4ns feet.
In Cvprcu the eggs of locusts are gath
ered,and the developed Insects are caught
In systems of screens. The quant It of
eggs collected was 37 J4 tons in 1S79, 337
tons In iS8o,and 1330 tons In 1S81. More
than 6000 screens were used In 1SS2, and
195,000.000 Insect were destroyed ; while
in 1886 there were tnorethan 1 1,000 screens
and 13,000 traps, the former representing
an aggregate leng'h of about 315 m'les,
Nineteen hundred will not be a leap year,
because tne length of the year is not exact
ly 365V days. It is really a little less
(eleven minutes and fourteen secondhand
as the difference keeps increasing from
year to year, it is necessary to drop out
the extra day every hundred years or so,
to bring the calendar right. Even this
correction is not suite exact, but t will
serve for a great many centuries, so there
Is no pressing need of reform.
' Hot water Is now a remedy so popular
and varied In its applications that It is not
surprising to hear It recommended for the
treatment of inflamed and aching eye.
An American writer ,a woman whose eye
dgkt was wonderful, considering her age
and the immense amount of labor she per.
formed, attributed it mainly' to the custom
of bathing her eye's freely In water a hot
as could be borne, night and morning, a
habit continued for many years.
' In Great Britain, according to an emi
nent authority, the ratio of increase from
1840 to 1850 was only 2.49 percent, while
from 1870 to 1880 It was 10. 57 per cent.ln
his annual report for i88 Consul Gen.
Rainc of Berlin estimated that Great Bri
tain doubled its population in fifty-one
years.' ' At this rate of increase it will take
but 34 years to give that country a popu
lation 01480,000,000, or S333 people for
every square mile of territory. Germany
doubles its population every forty-seven
years, which late in less than a century
will give It 868 persons for every square
mile. At present, with only 317 to the
mile, the country Is crowded. Dr D T
Tayloi, writing from Australia last Feb
ruary, said that at the present rate of in
crease the population of the island in 1991
will not be less than 94.000.000.
LEARN TO BE HOCSEK.ELPER3.
Rice Is no doubt the most extensively
used article of food the world over. Hun
dreds of millions of people subsist on It,
and Its consumption Is Increasing. It la
the principal diet of at least one-third of
the human race.forming the chief food of
the native population of India.ChinaJapan,
Madagascar, many parts of Africa, and in
fact of almost all eastern nations. The
Burmese and Siamese are the greatest
consumers of It. A Malay laborer gets
through Sfty-six pounds monthly ; a Bur
mese and Siamese forty-six pounds in the
same period. The eastern nations also
chiefly obtain their beverages from rice,
which is the principle grain distilled In
Slam, Japan and China. Saki.or rice beer,
Is produced in Japan to the extent of 150,-
000,000 annually. Although rice is such
a universal article of food, it Is not so
nourishing as wheat or some other grains.
More than nine-tenths of Its substance con
sists of starch and water ; consequently it
forms more fat than muscle.
Kid Glovta t Kid Wove ! I
I have just received a full line of kid
gloves branded Our Own. This is a genu
ine kid glove. I buy direct from importers
in New York and consider them the best
value of any gloye I ever sold for this
price, s button, 3 rows of st'tching, $1.50
per pair. . -
8. E. Young.
Lace Caruina. Lace Curtains,
I have just received mv fall stock of
lace curtains bought direct from importers,
the largest stock ever brought to this mark
et, and best value for the money.
OAMVEL t. X OUNG,
Begin with your own possessions, girls.
Reform your upper bureau drawer; relieve
your closet-pegs of their accumulation of
garments out o use a month or two ago.
Institute a clear and careful order in the
midst of which you can dally more, and
learn to keep it so that it will be a part of
your toilet to dress your room and its ar
rangements while you dress yourielf.leav
ing the draperies you take off as lightly
and artistically hung.orss delicately fold
ed and placed, as the skirts you loop care
fully to wear, or the ribbon and lace you
put with a soft neatness about your throat.
Cherish your Instincts of taste and fitness
in every little thing you have about you .
This will not make you "fussy," it Is the
other thing that does that,the not knowing,
except by fidgety experiment, what is har
mony and the intangible grace of relation.
Take upon yourself graduaHy.forthe sake
of getting them in hand in like manner, if
for no other need, all the cares that belong
to your own small territory of home. Have
your little wash cloths and your sponges
for bits of cleaning ; your furniture brush,
and your leather duster, and your light
little broom, and your whisk and pan ;
your bottle of sweet oil and spirits of tur
pentine and piece of flannel to preserve the
polish, or restore the gloss where dark
wood grows dim or gets spotted. Find
out, by following your surely growing
tense of thoroughness and niceneas, the
best and readiest ways of keeping all fresh
about you. Invent your own processes ;
they will come to you. When you make
yourself wholly mistress of what you can
learn and do In your own apartments, so
that it Is easier and more natural for you
to do it than to let it alone, then you have
learned to keep whole house so far as its
cleanly ordering is concerned.
Our Republican friends are likely to get into
trouble over the tariff question. With the great
fiVored class asking for more on the one hand.
and the New England iron men insisting for
free coal and pig iron, the bicycle makers de-
ttanding free steel rods, and the woolen manu
lecture's clamoring for free wool on the other,
the situation is becoming interesting.
This Trade Mai k on a stove
means It is the best that ex-,
perUnce and skill can con
trive. Sold only by G. W.
Smith.
Struck Oil At Si.ac. per c gallon can
Mtt Standard c- oil, at the Willamette
Packing Co.'s store.
The best line of kid clove, at W F.
Read's.
FOR SA.LE CHEa.P.I have a good
work horse five year old and past.
weisrbs about 1050 oounds-wblch I will
soil for to). For further Information
call at tbe Demoorat office or at my
residence one milo narth of Albany in
Benton county.
NOTICE. All persons indebted to the
late firm or B.rdus A Hobertaon
will p!ea9 oill at the as ire and settle
their accounts without delay. and trieatlv
oblige J at. Ba.hdcb,
successor to turn a c tiooertaoa.
IOR SALE.-Four yoke and a half of
; goor) work Oxen.tocotber wlib yokes
anil chains; are well Broke catMe. and
will be 'old at a bargain for cash, being a
part oi the estate of John Ro&iAatt, de
ceased. Appl- to John W. Pncb. Admin-
iatrator of tee Estate at Shedd, Oregon.
KINDERGARTEN. 1 re. Wait Mead
recently from New York, will nnan
a .select school and kindergarten, in too
W.C. T. U.Hall, Monday. Sept. th,
1889. Terms liberal, natranara anllnltaa.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
mm. Wait Mean,
Aibaby, Or.
1VTOTICE OF DISSOLDTIONiOF PART
Xl NERSH1P. Tne partnership hereto
fore existing uoder the firm name of Wallace.
Thompson & Co., wberein T E Wallace, W
8 Ihompson t. LsrTorest, ot the citv of Al
bany, Lion county, Oregon, were general
partners, is this the 7th day of Aaeust. A.
v. iotj, uiseoivea nv mutual consent, T L
Wallace, retiring. The business will be eon
dieted at the same plaee by W S Thompson
aaa r Lroress, unaer ine nrsn name, La
Forest & Thompson, who will assume all li
abilities and collect all accounts due the
rm.
Dated this 7th day of Augnst, 1889.
T. L. Wallsos,
W. S. Thokmox,
E. LaForkst.
Bank of Oregon.
ALBANY, - - - ORECON.
CAPITA!,, 850,000.
President .S..H. BP Y ANT
J. W. BLAIN.
Vice President....
Cashier..
...H. F, MERRILL
Sight exchange and teltgrepMo trans
fer on New York, San Francisco and
Portland, Oregcn.
Collections made on favorable terma.
DR. C A. WHITNEY,
Physician and Surgeon.
Grs'nste of Bellevee Hospital
College Now Yerk City.
Diseases r.f womaa a specialty.
fcTOSice, Fromau's Briek, Albany, Or
dioal
William Mahone made his first reputation as
a soldier in the rebel army, his second as a re
pudiator of the honest debts of Virginia and
his third as a political renegade. In his pres.
ent position he has done nothing to discredit
either.
A Sharp Item The finest line of cut
lery and shears In the city at Stewart &
Sox's. Their goods are the very best and
will stand the test.
For your watches clocks and -jewelry go
to F tenon's. Boueit goods, low prices and
quick salsa.
A reliable U.S.-Standard 8-ton scale,
onlvU". Delivered at Tour nearest rail-
row! ststiob free of freight on tolrty days
trial, Larger scales at proportionately
low 1 rirea. warranted ova ears.
Address,
F. C. HOFFMAN,
Albany, Oregon
J. J. DORMS,
Abstractor and Conveyancer,
"Ofllje at the Court Honse,
These Goods
will be aold
at the lowest
prloea by Blain,
A
No
One
Ties
Pins
Hats
Caps
Suits
Shoes
Boots
Jeans
Cuffs
Canes
Vesta
Knives
Gloves
Scarfs
Parses
Brashes
Chains
Charms
Shitts
Collars
Hosiery
Rubbers
Mittens
. Trunks
ValUes
. Suitings
Half Hoee
Overalls
Silk Hats
Clothing
Oil Goods
Slippers
Kid Gloves
Umbrellas
Overcoats
Overshoes
Undershirts
Suspenders
Silk Shirts
Trousering
Pea Jackets
Windsor Ties
Woolen Drawers
Rubber Ccata
Rubber Boots
Lea the r Coats
Ha n d k-ere hi e f s
Hackintos h Coats
Cardigan Jackets
Engl neer Jackets
Furnishing Goods
Tailor Made Suits and many
other tilings too numerous to mention.
IN
IZSR.
Stick a Pin
in the faet that I am offering better bargains than any one else in Albany
Bought at bankrupt sales I ean sell
First-Class Goods;
at or below COST.
FOP
General merchandise of all kiuds call on tne. Farlirilar bargains in a samp
01 snoee.
Cash for Goods or Country pridafce
G, W. SIMPSON
Albany, Oregoi-
At Cost Most
TO MAKE ROOM FOR MY LARGE STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER COODJ
I WILL SELL MY ENTIRE STOCK Or
BOOTS AND SHOES.
AT COST, THIS WILL BE A CLOSINC OUT
SALE, AND THEYIMUST GO. COME EARLY AND CET
Real Bargains.
AT THE SAME TIME DO NOT EORGET THAT I HAVE A COMPLETE
STOCK OF
DRY GOODS
WOULD ESPECIALLY CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING
LINES:
Dress Goods, Trimmings, Silk.
Table Linen, Gloves, Hosie
ry, Fancy Goods, etc
ALL AT LOWEST CASH PRICE-
". ' 1 . j I s : I-; -
RESPECTFULLY,
W. F. READ,
t
I
The Leading Cash Dry store'
HOPKINS & SALTMARSH
DALEl'S IN
STOVES; TIN WARE, SHEET IRON, COPPER WARE
ETC., ETC.
Apnuror..OnT.m.
CHEAPEST AND BEST PLACE IN THE CITY
FOR THE BEST FURNITURE
-CALL Olt 1HE
Albany Furniture Company
OPPOSIT STEWART 4 SOX'S,
BED ROOMISET8, TABLES, CHAIRS, UPHOLSTERED
GOODS. .WALL PAPERS , BABY CARRIAQE8
ETC. ETC..ET
HAWKIAB A. FAltRELL
MATTHEWS k WASHBURN,
Cany a first-claas'atock of
Stoves, TinwarejHardwarejEtc.,
"Which they are lelllng at remark alby low prices.
JOB WORK
carefully and promptly done at reasonable prices,
PURE DRUGS,
Paints, Oils, Stationary, Etc.. And Ptompt attention
-A.T1
DR. GUISS & SON