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O O O O il O Q Jeweler.), wtth a Awta (teadln. . eiu waaawf. roa Tf.. Machines & Machine Supplies. OREGON Coal in California recently solJ nt $25 per ton, and btrawberrits in New York at $7.50 a quart. Thb United Slates produces $233, 443,356 of cotton and cotton-seed oil ; British India, $83,121,980, and Egypt gives $43,805,4(30 for ex pott. The details of a gigantic pn-ject for placing upon the market 55,000,000 acres of land in eleven states of Mexico have just been published. Sib Movkll Mackenzie, he physi cian to the German Crown Prince, has just refused a fee of $30,000 to risit a patient in Michigan. Thb yield of the Drum Lummon mine, Montana, during the year 1887, was over $2,000,000. This was the product of 75,000 tons of ore. Johh T. Allen, formerly State Treasurer, died suddenly at his home in Texas. He bequeathed hi fortune of $150,000 to the city of Galveston for the establishment of an industrial school. Thb oil field in McKean county, Pennsylvania, has since 1875, produced 140,000,000 barrels, or B,9ft4,000,000 gallons of crude petroleum. This hjs been the richest petroleum field ever discovered. Thb value of live stock in the United States is $1,279,600,190. Ruosia and Great Britain each have $80,000000, Germany, $60,000,000, and Austria Hungary $35,000,000. In dairy pro ducts Germany has $83,573,000; the United States, $50,482,186. Ovkb 35,100,000 ties were used in builning new lines of railway during the year 1887. Anyone who has seen 100,000 ties piled up in one place may try to conceive the immensity of this amount of lumber. And an equal amount was used in replacing old tits. Add the timber used in bridges and trestles, and the total goes up to a figurn enormously higher. A sew census of Rhode Island shows that the population of the State u 304,284. Over two-thirds of this num ber 207,778 are grouped within a radius of ten miles of the city of Prov idence. The femalts outnumber the males by 11,498, and there are still 199 Indiaus in the State, the remnant of the once powerful Naraganett tribe. Thb most obvious application of Yolapuk is for international corrts pondence, especially commercial cor respondence, which is of the mt impottance. It will require no argu ment to convince the business world that a common language, if easily learned and once established, will be sn immense facilitation of commerce. Prof. Kerckhofls some months ago estimated the numbea of persons who have studied Yolapuk at 210,000. Deleoatb Voobhebs has introduced a joint resolution in the House, au thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit vessels arriving in ballast and trading in waters of British Col umbia to anchor off Semiabmoo, Washington Territory, when awaiting orders, without either entering or clearing at the custom house; pro vided, however, that vessels taking cargo on board at ports or places in Puget Sound shall enter and clear at the port of entry of the district of Puget Sound, as now required by law. Thb Interior Department, in ad justing thtMights of settlers within the limits of the Coos Bay wagon road grant, at the request of Represeatative Hermann, finds that the wagon road company has selected and received patents for lands outside of its limits. The whole area of the grant is 99,819 acres. There has been patented to the company 104,009 acres, and there remains within the primary or granted limits of the road 6,166 acres vacant and subject to selection, making 110, 178 acres, or an apparent excess of 10,357 acres over the grant. Thb highest mountain in America must now be changed from Mount St. Elias to Mount Wrangle, a little to the north. Several of these mountains have been newly measured. Mount Hood, once "roughly" estimated at 15,000, then "closely" at 16,000, was brought down by triangulation to 13,000; an aneroid barometer made it 12,000, and a mercurial barometer 11,255. Mount St. Elian, estimated by d'Egelot to be 12,672 feet, is trian gulated by Mr. Baker to 13,500. It now appears that Mount Wrangle, lying to the north, rises 18,400 feet above Copper river, which is in turu 2,000 feet above the sea at that point. If this holds true Mount Wrangle is at least 1,000 feet higher than any other peak in North America. It li s within the United States boundary. A story Is ' told of the' late Rev. William Drury, vicar of Braddan, Isle of Man. to the effect that he was once on the rocks with a picnie party, when a sea bird known as a 'diver" was seen on the water some little distance from the shore. The vicar, who was then about sixty years of age, said, 'Watch me catch that bird," and iu a moment, without taking off any of his clothes, he rushed to the edge of the rocks and made a quick dive into tlte water. The bird dived too, but the vicar caught It under the water and brought It ashore alive to the party. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest In a Condensed Form. Glanders prevails anion e the horses at Tula lake. Ninetv-onn marrino-pa 1viV nlaM in Jackson county during 1887. A EOOd minv rwarh trm-a in TTms. tilla county were killed by the cold snap. Luke countv will nav 7 R70 81 at at - rf X J T - taxes this vear. more than houttln that of 1887, siys an exchange. It 18 Said the OakLind romrmnv owners of the Salmon creek mines, will emolov while labor exclusively hereafter. The fruit growers about Milton sav that the recent cld snap will certainly prove fatal to the peach crop and pos sibly other fruits. Congressman Hermann has notified CapL Gray, of Astoria, that $5,000 has been appropriated for repairing the cable between Astoria and Fort Canby. Percy Olmsted, son of Judge Olm sted, of Baker City, has been tendered a cadetship in the United States naval academy at Annapolis. Herman Kosmeter. of Woodhurn. killed an eagl that measured eight feet across the wine. It was an Am erican or gray eagle. Georee Lakin committed aniridn at the town of Milwaukie, by catting hisj throat during a fit of temporary in sanity. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the stockholders of the Cas cade G"ld and Silver Mining Com lany. The capital stock is $1,000,000. The different mines of Prairie City mining district, Baker county, are developing into exceedingly rich ore bodies and the coming summer will note great activity in that camp. Judge Deady recently sentenced an Indian to six months' imprisonment for horse stealing. In the absence of an interpreter the Judge delivered the sentence in Chiuook, but it was en tered on the records in English. When the ice in the Willamette river broke up, many logs were car ried out to the ocean. Following is a partial list of the lo-ers : Gov. Pen noyer, $20,000; WeHler, $15,000; Smith Bros. fe Co., $3,000; Jones fc Co., $3,000; Hogue, $1,000. The bridge across the river at Pen dleton coll ape ed and several persons were seriously injured. The disaster was caused by a large band of cattle crossing the structure. Six of the animals were killed and a number in jured. The bridge- cost $6,000 and is almost a total loss. A contract for building a new five- story flouring mill at Milton has been let to an Eastern contractor. Lumber has been purchased and work com mence!. These mills and a large foundry on the same acre of ground, ill cost $30,000. The powrr will c-me from the Walla Walla river by r ice and Hume. Vm. Hawser, of Harney City, Grant county, while hauling a load of hay from the wand was frozen to death. It seems that the young man had stopped at a log cabin some distance from the ro&d and his team went on home. Search was made for the missing boy, but it was nearly a wetk before his lifeless body was found in the cabin, his faithful dog still there watching his master's remains. The total number of commitments during the year 1887 to the insane asylum from Multnomah county was 65. Of these forty three are males and twenty-two are f finales. The av erage per month is a little over five. During the first six months the num ber of unfortunates was thirty-eight. and during the hut half year twenty seven, showing a decrease of eleven. Their average age is about 33 years. The inquest over the body of Au- rilla Straight, the young woman who was found drowned in Mill Creek, at Salem, was held by Justice O'Donald, acting coroner, and a jury of six. A number of witnesses were examined, but the testimony of all threw no new light on the mystery surrounding the young woman's death, except tint it was evident that she deliberately com mitted suicide for some unknown reas n. The jury returned a verdict that deceased had taken her own life by throwing herself in the creek while temporarily insane. The guardian and relatives of Miss Straight were notified of her death. Tltomas S. Wilkes, in a communica tion to the Orrgonian, says : My grand parents are, I beliee, the oldest couple on the Pacific Coast. Thev live at Greenville, Washington county. Pey ton Wilkrs was born in 1791, and so will be 97 years old next May. He ia one of the few pensioners of the war of 1812. His wife, Anna Wilkes, is 91 years old, and they were married in 1815 (in June, I think). They came the plains across in 1845, and settled in Washington county in 1846. They were both, born in Bed fold county, Virgftm, eame to Indiana about 1820, and to Missouri in 1839. So in fol lowing the Star of Empire they, kept ahead oi the iron horse until he over took them at the "jumping off place." They have three sons living, twenty seven grandchildren, forty-one great grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren living. Grandfather is one of the boys yet ; at least be calls my father the old man, and bids fair to reach a Hundred, and l will say that if they live to celebrate their diamond wedding the old pioneers of Oregon shall bo invited, and we will make them welcome at the old home stead If there is an older pioneer in Oregon or an older couple in the Uni ted States we should like to hear from them. - . Guest (at country tavern) "Have yon any cheese, landlord"" Landlord "Not a hit in the house, sir." Guest "Not even a little piece?" Landlord "By cum, there is. come to think! Pete ran down cellar and fetch up that rat-trap." Detroit Free Press. Father "Ain't vou .troinsr . to work?" Lazv son "Guess not" "J don't understand how anybody can loaf such weather as this. Why, it is n real pleasure to work now." "I know it, but I don't want to give myself uj Uto much to mere enjoyment" Texa Blf lings. .... . PUT TO THE TEST. new m RrfToI.tloni.rj- Hero Was Harfly ftart toy Hla Hob. Among the revolutionary stories which are traditional in the old Polk family of North Carolina is one which will be new to our readers, and which proves that the boy of 76 did not differ very greatly from the boy of to-day. The chief of thn family in that day was Colonel John Polk, who from the first outbreak took an active part in the revolution. Ho formed a small com pany arilong Jie neighboring planters, and with them attacked and routed the largo body of Tory troops under Sir William Campbell, the last British Governor of North Carolina. He served nftorwards in every campaign until the surrender of Corn wall is. when he returned to his family with the rank of General. . Hi; had four mischievous sons, the oldest of whom was about sixteen. He fell Into the habit of incessantly telling them alxiut lite dangers he had seen. prompted to do so by a little pardona ble vanity and nl.to. no doubt, by the desire to stimulate the courage of the boys. As time wore on, the boys were bored by the many-times-told tales, and one day Charles, the eldest, re marked: "I snppose a man's courage depends on his arms." "Not at all. sir!" replied the Gen- end. "I would meet a foe as coollv without a sword or gun as with them, and so would any bra fa; man." Ch:trles made no answer. Thateven ug. his father was returning from a neighboring plantation through a dark lane, when a masked and cloaked figure leaped out from the hedge and grappled with him. "Your money! Your watch!" he de manded, fiercely. The General felt for his pistoL He had left it at home. Ho struggled, but the robber held him as in a vise. Sud denly he felt the touch of cold steel to his forehead. For the first time in his life, a chill of fear crept over him. He was helpless In the crip of the thief. To end here, like a dog, done to death on Jhe highway! Shall I shoot?" demanded the hlgh- wavman. No. no, no! Here here!" pulling out his purse and watch, a heavy gold one. an heirloom in the family. hen he reached home he found'the 1mvs gathered around the fire and told his story amid great excitement. 'How many robbers were there r asked Charles. 'I am ashamed to say there was but one. But I acknowledge that I was badly scared. The fellow had the grip of a giant and there was a murderous gleam in Ids eye "O. father! father!" exclaimed Charles handing him the purse and watch amid shouts of laughter. "lou dog! 'said the General, joining in the lauzh. 'But remember. I was nn armed and you pointed a loaded pistol at my head." "Nothing worse than this," produc ing his mother's steel candlestick. General Polk, who enjoyed a joke. was the first to tell the story on himself in the neighborhood, but he always re minded his hearers that courage de pended largely on circumstances, and that there was a legend that Ctesar had been frightened by a rat in the dark. In fact, the General's part in the affair is to lte commended; while nothing can be said in defense of the young man's joke. Touth's Companion. - - IMITATION JAMS. How Soma of Oar Winter DcUeaelea Are M anaractared. A gentleman happened to be in con versation with a man who makes rasp berry jam on a large scale, and asked him where the raspberries were raised that he made his pro duct of. The gentleman was in a posi tion to warrant the confidence of the manfacturer and the latter told him frankly: "Y hv, we don t use any raspberries at all." "Do yon mean to say that you make raspberry jam without any raspber ries?" "Certainly." "What's the process?" "Why, we boil tomatoes, and then strain the product to get the seeds oat. Tomato seeds are quite too big to look like raspberry seeds, and, besides, are not shaped like them. Then we add about an equal quantity of glucose, and mix in a little prepared raspberry fla vor that we may buy from the chemists, and also a quantity of hay seed. The hay soeds look very much like rasp berry seeds, and are besides very much more nutrition than the raspberry seeds nnd eonstitute a positive merit in jam. With a little further prepara tion our raspberry jam, made out of tomatoes and glucose, is ready for the market" Boston Transcript oseph Hoffman, the infantile pi v anist, rules the whole family, as prodi gies are very apt to do.. Happening to tike a meal on an ocean steamer be fore he started, ho refused to cross on that vessel becanse the cooking did not suit him, and his father had to have the baggage carried hack to the pier. Ex-Secretary Manning lives a very quiet life. He is constantly nnder a physician's care. The latter will not permit him to walk any great distance or climb a single flight of stairs. Mr. Manning has, therefore, had an ele vator placed In his new home on Fifth avenue. He always rides in his car riage to and from his office. Women who can play the fiddle are all the rage in' Boston. The Hub folks now frown on the banjo, and the squeak of the catgut is heard in the land. Among the really good players are Miss Belle Botsford, who has had five years of training in Paris, and Miss Nettie Carpenter, whose bowing is par ticularly good. N. 1. Sun. There are "about 150 Washoe In dians atTruckee, Cal., who prove that some Indians will work. The bucks chop wood nnd do work of that sort, and the squaws wash and iron. Ono objection to them s servants is said to be their extreme sensitiveness. Tell an Indian to cut your wood and he'll turn disdainfully away. Impart to him, in a casual war, that you have wood to cut, and wonder who'll do it at such a price, and the noble red man will, with the air of conferring a favor. miimate that he wilL and he does. MARVELOUS MEMORY. A Xiaw York Kanortar HaI WltloU Is Bnttar Thau a Not. -Book. Ho said: "It is wrth while to pause a mo ment to consider the principle in volved. It is as much the duty as it is the right of Congress to make provls rn for the commerce of the country 1 1 navigable waters, to construct lighthouses, to dredge riven and do Uiat which is dne for the promotion of the general welfare." "I beg yor pardon,1 was the reply, "and I think I oaght to know." "Why should yon know any better tli an I do?" returned the first Speaker, botly. I have my stenographic notes of die lecture in my hands. You didn't -ouch pencil to paper during the en Sire evening." Two reporters employed, on rival Biorning papers were returning to their offices from a lecture in an up town halt During their journey on Hie elevated train a dispute arose con cerning a certain passage which the ij eaker had nsed. . "That may all be true, answered Jte first disputant "but I would rather rust my memory than your notes. You lon't know what was said withont re- l-rrine to them. You don't keep a-iy Srack of the subject in yonr mind. Yon irorked mechanically over your note Vok. while I recollect every word he poke." "Prove it" I wilL Open yonr note-book. The skeptical reporter did so. Now follow me closely." To the tmnsement of the former, the tan with a memory repeated page titer page verbatim, not only the lan guage but with the proper emphasis of tho lecturer. -Old I know how you did It" ex claimed the note-taker. "You have beard the speech before and committed It to memory." T never saw him before to-niffhf. snd I never heard him read a word of the lecture before I went to the halL" Then how did yon do itr I simply remembered it" O i! You've been taking a course at one of the memory schools?" 'Yes, it was a memory school, but not one of the kind you refer to. and the course of study was the most pain ful t can possibly imagine." . What was the school?" The sctool of bitter experience. I was blind the first twenty-two years of my life stone blind. Daring that time I had to make my memory dj tervice, not only for my memorandum pad., bnt for my text-books as welL I had a naturally quick memory, and ibis constant straining so developed it that I can easily recollect a whole con versation verbatim without a single note. I can't recollect what I read so well nnlesS I read it out loud, as I was taught to remember through my ears.' -Do all blind men rememb r so well?" "No, not alL B it memory Is one of the faculties which natura gives to supply the sense of seeing, and blind men. as a rule, remember far more easily than those who are gifted with all iheir faeulties. WelL here we are. and next time you may aeeept my ree rleclipn without, asljtng for proofs." HE WAS ADMITTED. A SasaretslBa; Kxanxf aatlosi Wssless Failed Forth a Hsatlf Weleoaao. A horseman dismounted before a lonely dugout in Missouri, and con fronting the proprietor of the place asked for accommodations for the night The farmer surveyed him crit- ! ically and said: "Air vou selling a cure for hog cholera?" "No, sir; Tm selling nothing.' Is that so? Well, p'r'aps ye mout roost in the barn ef that's so. But say. stranger, yer not takin ary subscrip tions for the 'Life of Grant air yer 'No, sir." "U that's the case I mout let ye bunk on the floor of my dngout But yer not sellin ary new-fangled oats, air ye. that'll peri nee four bushels to one of ary other kind?" "I have nothing to do with oats, I assure you. "Wal, this beats all! m hef to try an rig up a cot fer ye to sleep on, an I guess I'll find room fer yer hose in the cattle shed. But see hyar, stranger. I want a sqnar deal. Ye won t spring ary patent revolving churn on us ef we treat ye right will ye?" "I don't know a churn from a water- wheel." "Now, this is sing'lar. Ye seem to be a white man, an' I guess Til chuck ye in the spar room -n' put yer hosa in the barn. . But I want ye to look me squar in the eye an say that ye haven't ary condition "powders to sell; ye don't want to flash out ary stove polish, er French blackin', er harness ile. Do ye promise?" Certainly I do. I'm not an agent for any sort of a trap. In fact I'm ont here trying to find and arrest a rascally dealer in mowing machines who swin dled a lot of farmers in our neighbor hood." "Stranger, ye'll sleep In my bed ter night an' me an'the ole woroan'U bunk on the floor. Go in an tell her to flash up the best grub she hea while I curry an feed yer boss." Nebraska State Journal. An Unpardonable Break. "Mrs. Snyderly, my wife wanted me to drop in and ask if you would kindly loan her some reading matter?" i "Why certainly; I have a perfeet li brary of books she can have. .By the way, Mr. Seacook, now that you're here, I'd like you to see the baby it's such a little beauty." - "Oh, never mind; all babies look the same to me." - "They do? Come to think, I do not believe there's a book in the house that my husband would permit me to lend." Chicago Time. Meant What He Said. "Didn't you say that the defendant Donovan was a hard-working man? asked the lawyer of a Hibernian wit ness. "Oi did, sorr." "You know that to be the case?" "Oi do, sorr. I know any number av work in' men. and Patsy Donovan to be-the harruqest wan av Uto lot"-- WOMEN WHO SMUGGLE. Two Bundle That Ware WoBderfolijr Bofll and Looked Queer. "It does not take much experience to guess when a woman is trying to smuggle goods past us," said Mrs. Morgan, one of the women inspectors. "If they try to look unconcerned fbey overdo it but generally they are per sons who have been to Europe ou like missions before, and their nervousness gives them away, to use rather a slangy expression; They found more trouble in getting their goods through last spring than ever before, but thought they would try some new de vice and were nervous about it The lady whom I have particularly in my mind brought only about half a dozen trunks, the contents of most of which were duly declared, but in one were articles of a description that could have been omitted from declaration only by design, and then I looked her straight in the eyes. She colored, and as I ran mj eyes over her, I suppose, with rather a stern expression, she fairly collapsed. I noticed how badly her bustle sat and how singularly her skirts draped. When my eyes met hers again she knew she was detected, and followed me to a stateroom with out remonstrance. I told her she must be searched, and she disrobed." "Withont protest?" was asked. "WelL hardly." said Mrs. Morgan, with a smile. "She first said that it was worth $20 to let her go. Then, seeing me grow angry, she said she would make it $40. When I angrily told her to disrobe she sat down on a berth and pretended to get angry he self, saying: You are trying to make me give you more. When-1 convinced her that she must bo searched she sub mitted, although she was twice as large as L and one by one the clothes came off. Her skirts were made heavy by festoons of lace and trimmings. Her bustle was home made for the occa sion. Its substantial part consisted of g early 20 yards of splendid silk, heav- iiff embroidered in gold thread. There jrere several pieces composing this silk, and between the pieces and in the folds were 174 yards of lace of various costly varieties. Thei eame several boxes of silk dress protectors and boxes of French hooks and eyes. Some of the latter had been declared in the baggage, and these tew boxes had probably been left out by mistake, A big mistake it was, for they furnished the weight which turned the bustle awry and led to the discovery. The whole arrangement weighed about 10 pounds, and was worth nearly $1,009 dutiable value. The young woman said she was a milliner, and had been bringing in goods every trip without difficulty. Her complaints against luck were ludicrous, bnt it did make a cost ly trip for her, for the intent to smug gle was so patent that the goods will surely be forfeited. " ' t.Y'H . 1 1 V. . 1 xl T j . i u icu iuu awai a uuaue imuuiv. said Miss McQuesney. "It was two beautifully polished and mounted horns, and inside of each of them were fourteen cigars, which must have been the best for each was wrapped in sil ver foiL I suspected it becanse the bnstle did not fit set straight yoa know and when I touched it I knew it was crooked. V Several other inspectresses added to the experiences. One had found a five dollar bill on the top of a tray, which was placed there evidently as a bribe. It however, led only to stricter search than might otherwise have been made, and dutiable goods nndedared. were found hidden in stockings, between dress folds .and like sir places. The other day a lady came ashore in two stiff-looking skirts, which on search were found to be curtains. Another displayed a dress which she said she had worn; but when each of the front breadths was found to be composed of half a dozen pieces of silk, the whole basted together, it was thought worth seizing. Duchesse point lace, lace col larettes, kid gloves, dress shields and like articles are found by the dozens hidden away where the possessors hope they may be overlooked. I Some may be. bnt enough are found to give a warning to those like disposed that it is going to be very difficult to get dutia ble goods past the lynx-eyed inspect resses. N. T. Telegram. ; Pine Needle Powder. A powder of pine needles is now prepared in Germany, and is becoming popular for use in baths, A half-ponnd or a pound of the powder is allowed to digest in lukewarm water for a few minntes, when the bath is ready. The principles extracted act npon ' the kin as a tonic and antispectie, and ttie baths are prescribed for rheumatic complaints, gout certain skin diseases, and for invigorating the system gen erally. The powder is also nsed for fumigations in chest affections, etc., "or as an antiseptic a little may be placed on a hot shovel and carried about the room. Arkansaw Traveler. Doors Made of Paper. Feel the weight of this door." said a New York builder to a reporter who was looking at an unfinished apart ment house np-town. The reporter prepared to lift what seemed a polish ed mahogany door, but it proved too light for any wood. "It is made of paper," ssid the builder,, "and, while it costs about the same as wood, ia much better, because there is no shrink ing, swelling, cracking or warping. It is composed of two thick paper boards, stamped and molded into pan els and glued together with glue and potash, and then rolled through' heavy rollers. It is first covered with a water proof coating, then painted, and var nished and hung in the ordinary way. Few persons can detect that they at not m .da of wood, particularly when used as sliding doors." Stoves and Hardware. ' A writer In the Kpock ,hinks Eng lish girls are superior to the American girls in the knowledge of housekeep ing. The daughters of farmers are ex cepted, and the remark is applied to the children of mercantile ami profes sional men. In England girls are trained to relieve their mothers of many of the duties of housekeeping. Board inghouse life interferes with this im portant matter in this country.