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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1889)
f MAX O RELL'S IDEAS. Amorlnt and Amerlrana ('r.tlUl by tha imKttt r rvnrhiiuiu. Mr. Btouot, m ho jroes in Pari, has m Ul Homo vry true thlnfrs and some absurd tiling's; all brightly, lie lma proved himsolf nn apt reporter, with a terse stylo and t'onsiderable Imagin- tion. If ho made fun of the American newKpnpor, he pays it the complitueat of adopting its style and manner. Here are some of his crisp epigrams, that pive in a nutshell a good idea of the whole book; Jonathan parses his life in admira tion of all that is American. He can not pot over it. The American men are ponerally thin. Their faces glow with intelli gence and energy, and in this mainly consists their handsomeness. Oh, those diamonds in America! Tou see them wherever you go! Not one woman in a hundred will see you without a pair of them in her ears. Boston ladies seem to bo an excep tion to the goneral rule. They are a great deal more English in stylo, es " chew show and glitter and wear dia monds very sparingly, even in the evening. The American may be eccentric or what you will, but he is never monot onous. In good American houses tho cook ing is excellent; you will not find bol ter in London and Ptiris. From the age of eighteen the Ameri can girl is allowed almost every lib erty. She takes the others. She can travel alone, and go to concerts and even to tho theaters unattended by a chaperono. That passion for rich marriages which burns in the hearts of so many young American women, often leads them to disastrous results. I am going to launch a rather dan gerous assertion: Jt seems to me that the American woman does not render a , man a hundredth part of the adoration he renders to her. If love could spring from gratitude Jonathan would be the most beloved of men. Every American with the least self respect Is Colonel or Judge. I did not know what lively reading was until I saw an American news paper, An American newspaper is a con- scientific and fashionable, of reports of trials, of amusing anecdotes, gossip of all kinds, interviews, jokes, vcundal, the whole written in a style which sometimes shocks the man of taste, but which often interests and always amuses. I must say that if you want to hear Arrafc.nd every thing American severely criticised, you have only to go to lioson. There you will hear IJoston and England praised, and America picked to pieces. There is but one company of actors ux nmci ivtt, aim buui, in .u i . .txugumiu Daly's excellent company of come dians. If good companiei are rare in Ameri ca, good actors are numerous. The Americans are Christians that is to say, they attend church on Sun days. The priesthood is not a vocation, it is a profession; no talent, no success. An American will go and listen to the minister of a Beet d ffering from his own rather than sit and be bored by a tiresome preacher belonging to hi own denomination. The Union Is a true and firm one. It WfHJses on contentment. Each com munity governs itself, the Union, the State, the country, the town; many re publics in one republic. HER UTTLE WAY. ' How yixr AYeragt) Woman OItm Order! to r HarHuaband. r- If there ever was a woman who gave a man a commission in a simple, direct way, the writer of these lines has failed to discover such a woman dur ing the many years that he has spent in the study of the foibles of woman kind. When she bethinks her of some thing she wants, after her husband has !-.aped from the house and is running t i pet his car, she races wildly to the l.Kjr, and shrinks out as he is turning t e corner: "Ob, John! I forgot i , thing, dear. I'm sorry to detain i s, but If you'll just remember to get nitj spool of whiW thread on your v-y home. I would't trouble you, bu 1 1 really must finish baby's aprons to-day, or I can't get them done this week, and she needs them so badly. I thought sure that I had several spools f white thread, but I can't seem to find them, and. of course, if I'd known I was out I'd have got some yesterday when I was. in the city.ibut then, as I've said, I thought I had plenty, and I junt know I did have several spools, and where they've gone I don't know. I hope it won't be any trouble to you, 4,ar; it won't take but just a moment, ou know, and I really mustoh. the number? Yon', dtaa, get either 36 or 4), bufc.'lOlf you can, although 80 if, nil do, still it's pretty coarse, and I'vo been using 40, and oh, well, if tl'fy haven't one, get the other, only io Hiire and what's that? Your car h.n gone? Oh, I'm so sorry! Well, It'll bo but ten minutes until tho i:ext comes, ami you've plenty of time to got that. Good-bye, and remember to- Aonas Dane, In Drake's Mag azine. Tha Flva &IMM. ' -LIf Willie' Judicial Hind. Mother (severely) Robert, yon did very wrong to do w bat I toMyounot to do. A a punishment for your disobedience, I for bid you to play with w Ulia again this after noon. Bobby and Willie twist nervously about their respective chairs for half an hour, when WUlte observes: Ma, do you think it's fair to punish both of us for what Bobby doner' Biughamton Kepuulican. A Mean Bias. Philanthropist (joyously) I am deliehted to learn that you bave promised your sick daughter t-'iU on lb day the is well enough to go out. Old Close fist Y es, the doctor laid the only needed encouragement. "That will no doubt do ber good. Fifty dollars is a good deal of money to ber." "Yes, and to me, too; but it would cost more than that to bury ber. "New York Weekly. - Tba Age of Steal. Grocer (to clerk) Did you read aooat tab sugar aUo. James I " Yes, dr." "hat robbers there are In the world I Tbs days when bonest men were in business seev to have gone by." "Yes, sir." "By the way, James, you might put an other gallon of water in the vinegar barrel while you bave nothing to do." Aebratlui State Journal. Both HUtakeo. He stopped in front of a maiden (air Twaa at a araxworks ibow And be said. "How lifelike to bar tarsi Bow natural ber gokien bairl Her cheek i beewbaiabuetbey wear! Tbey actually glow f The maiden opened wide ber tjm, "Not only can tbey walk." Ehe said in ertdeot aurprtoe, "But dow it aeema tbeae efilgies Are made in aucb a wondrous wise Tbey actually talk I" Chicago Tribune. If all were perfect Christians, in lividuals would do their duty; the peo ple would be obedient to the laws; the magistrates incorrupt; and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a itate. J. J. Itousseau. , -Commissioner White, of Massa thusetts, reports finding factories where twenty per cent, of the children could a t read in any language. This is the banner State of the Union in respect to lompulsory education." Counterfeit coin can never succeed b spoiling the character of gold, it nly compels one to ring every piece on the counter. So pretense and sham sever injure religion, but only make men more watchful. Christian Stand ard. , A Christian movement among the lews of Siberia Is reported, the leader being a Polish Jew, Jacob Shoi tmann. Exiled to Siberia twenty years ao be cause of avowal of belief In Christian ity, he thera began to proclaim tho Gospel Though be aaa reached bis three-score years and ten, Firtb, the painter, very naturally complains of tbe highly anticipatory action of the boutb Kensington Museum authorities in labeling one of bis pictures witb bis name, tba date of bis birth and a blank for that of his death. ; Guy de Maupassant, wbo is at present is Algiers putting the thiikhlng touches to a new novel entitled "Btrong as Death," In about to make an excursion to Central Af rica, together with bis valet, Both are going to don the garo or the natives, aud, wrapped in the black burnouse of tbe Arab, vUit the borne of tbo Cbaatnhais and of tbe Touraegs, an undertaking which is not without persona) danger. ii i m 8I0I1T. " BMKLL. " TASTK. HXABElb TOUCH. DD Farm Mill, Saw mills, Pitts' Engines and Threshers, Bain Wagons, Hacks McCormack and Deerlng and Mollne Plows, BARBED WIRE. MONITOR SEEDERS F. H. 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