CAHE OF FLAT1RONS. Huw ta kiM-p TUtin la (MmmI Cofxtitloa nd Alwavs Kesiljr for t'w, It Is bo easy to kxp the fiatirons la food condition that tbcre is lit tie ex cuse lor any housewife neglecting thm, no matter how busy sho may bo. Any woman can easily tell at a glance when theso articles are well kept. Some housewives will have in their possession iron that hnve been their mothers before them, and though they have been in constant use for years, are still as firm and smooth as any one could wish. Other women, with the same kind of irons, would, by neglect and ca-elessness. in a year or two render them unfit to use. Where there are many stare-bed clothes to be done up weekly, it is a g-ood plan to wash the irons once a week, but where plain clothes and only a tew starched are to be done, once a month is enough to wash the irons. Take some clean ammonia soap suds, and with a cloth wash the irons well, afterward wiping with a dry doth, then put on the back of the stove in a clean place to dry thorough ly. To clean the irons always hare a pioce of course sand- paper, or a hand ful of coarse table-salt on a piece of wrapping-paper, in which to rub them. Always have the top of the range perfectly clean ere putting on the irons, and never, if it can be avoided, allow them to get too hot If such a thing does occur, cool them by setting up on end on the hearth. Some women, when in a hurry, coo! irons by plunging them into cold w ater. which is a very poor plan and those treated in this way win soon be ruined. Kever do this or a'low it to be done with your irons, unless you are pre pared to purchase a new set There is also the dancer of sca'ding from the steam that suddenly arises when the iron is first placed in the water. Some housewives black and polish the handles and tops of their irons the same as the stove, but it is scarcely to be commended, as there is always a danger of smearing the clothes. Don't keep the irons on the stove when nt in use. for it is sure to harm the temper of the iron, and don't if it can be avoided, have irons on the stove when cooking, more particular ly when the article cooking is one that is apt to flow or boil over, or while frying After taking an iron trom the stove, when wanted for use, first rob it over a piece of heavy wrapping-paper kept for that purpoer. then rub the smooth part with a cloth in which is encased a bit of wax Hub the iron well over a clean cloth and then it is ready for the clothe". In ironing starched clothes, if any ol the starch sticks to the iron always scrape it off with a knife ere putting again to heat on the stove. It is not always the best plan tc keep the irons on a mantel or open shelf, although it is the usual way. for they are sure to be dusty wnen wanted. It is much better to keep them in a dry, closed place, so they may alwaye be ready for use. An old lady of our acquaintance always used the lower oven of the ran;e, which is ca led the Hot closet but in her range, at least was misnamed, as it was a very coo! place, and was just the kind of re ceptacle for any thing that was to be kept dry, such as irons. Boston Budget CURIOUS PUNCTUATION. A JiumWrr f KprimM Colle-led by I Fttn-IOrlng; ridtluv. The following specimens of curious punctuation are given by the Printer" Beister: A man who mi sudden:; taken sick "hautened home while every means for his recovery were reported to. In spite of all his efforts, he died in the triumphs of the Christian relig ion." "A man was killed by a rail road car running into Boston, sup posed to be deaf." A man writes: -We have decided to erect a school house large enough to accommodate five hundred scholars five storie high." On a certain railway the fol lowing luminous direction was print ed: "Hereafter, when trains in an op posite direction are approaching each other on separate lines, conductors and engineers will be requested to bring .their respective train to a dead halt before the point of meeting, and be careful not to proceed till each train ha parsed the othe ." A steamboat cap tain, advertising an excursion, nays: " Tickets, twenty-five cents; children half-price to be had at the office." A hotel was thus advertised: "This hotel will be kept by the widow of the for mer landlord. Mr. Brown, who diet last summer on a new and improved plan." ''Wanted, a saddle-horse for t lady weighing about pounds." Ad Iowa editor says: We have received banket of fine grapm from our friend W., for which be will please accept oui compliments, some of which are ne&rlt two inches in diameter." "Board ma be had at No. 4 Pearl street for twe gentlemen with gas." Over a bridge at Atlanta, 'Ja., is the following: Adj person driving over this bridge in e pace faster than a w alk shall, if a wmutiu&u. uc utivHi uve dotiara, auu i. a negro, receive twenty-five lashes half the peualty to be bestowed on th informer." A newspaper contain this: "We have two school-rooms suf Bciently large to accommodate thm hundred pupils one above another." Another newspaper, in describing the doings of a convention at Cleveland, said: "The procession was very One and nearly two miles long, as was alsc the prayer of Dr. Perry, the chaplain.'- The Christian Leader, of Edin hurg, calls Dr. Amelia B. Edwards thi most learned woman is the world. GENERAL SPORTINQ GOSSIP. Spalding has refused two offers of 11,001 for tb rataa of Taiwan. -Mils Catly and bl eight assistants htht latest tor tb Boston club. Tbars ts no truth la tb report that Cs.pt Sam Brown Intends lo rotirs from the turf Iks Wen-, tb H Belfast Spider. will opM a sparring school is Boston. Paddy Ryan will next month shy his castor eat of the ring and begta work la ths United 8 lata mini to Han Franc-isoa . William Faxo fags, the champion rifle shot of Australia, t coming to America to contend against the bent rule shots in this country 4 Georgs Godfrey says that he ts ready to bos Sullivan sis. eight or ten rounds or to a fintsh. within four or eight weeks from sign big aruclea La Blanche say is too little for a fin ish fight with small gloves. And yet many good men are glad to get oua-fUlb of that amount for such a battle. Fat Kilken and Patsy Cardiff bare signed articiea to fiht fifteen rounds, with two ounce gloves, Marqou of Queeuxberry rnlea, at Minneapolis on Juue At George Smith, the sprinter, will short start fur Si-!!WJ. England, where be wiil run Id the Septetubrr handicap btuila woo tb great VTbitKUUlide handicap of ItSSt B. L Beeckmaa. who bo ids the middle states lawn tennis championship pennant, nil compete against several promising play ers in the championship touruanMSt that is to be derided at Hobofeen on June & Charley McCarthy, the ex-amateur cham pion feather weight. " training for his fif teen round skin glove fight with Tom Burns, of England, to take place in Boston la three weeks. They will fight at 113 pounds and for 3)0. Arthur Chambers will go to San Francisco with Jo Acton. Chambers will try to open a sporting renort at the Golden Gate, while Actoo wiil meet James Faulkner at the Olympic Athletic chib rooms in a catcb-a catch-can wrextiing match. Whoever beard of the batter running the bases the wrong way Dan O'Leary did It in Port Huron in 16S3, He was so excited that be made the circuit by way of third in .lead of first on a borne run bit Dan wa hot when the umpire called him out. Qeve laud Plain LtoaJer. Some oue asked Comukey about a certain piteber. under contract to the Ht. Louis club "Oh, he's a good niaa on the 1st and rb uf every month. " The point of Comwkey'i re mark will be seen when it is understood that tii pay days of every team m the aatocia t:on occur on the dates mentioned. Cumming" time for the late three-quarters of a mile race with George was S minutes M-5 seconds Georgv, when an amateur, went the distance to S minutes 8 3-4 seconds. In this country be ran it in 8 minutes 10 1-2 -ersjuds. The beat record by an American is the 8 uiiintea 13 """'fif,, made by Loo il ver as an amateur. Gaffney, tb umpire, and Bos hong, the catcher, are probably the only men in the business who wear chert prutertars under ttwtr shirts. They are small affairs, but an -ITertive and great improvement over the -umbersome big wind tag that twist catchers we, and weary the spectafa-s by putting hem on and OS daring the game. CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE. Cadillac Mich., has s barber who never talks He is deaf and dumb. A man in Hx. Louis ws fined t' or trying io ti.s a young lacy the other day. A ttUadtilptiia munk-rw bears the appro priate futiue of tiiier The bloom stalk of a cectury plant at a Florida exposition grows at the rate of six octirs a day. Darius Sfwtt, of Arkansas, Is 95 years old, and lias his gravestone all lettered, xcpt the date uf de&th A man in Cottneftieut, who built a fancy barn, stole eibt tomiMt'mes from a grave rard to build bis niangera. The female horw thief is the latert from Ohio, two prvtty and stylishly drained" cue having Uwn Jaiied at Akron the other day A bubbling well that throws up small rubies, diamond dust and fragments uf load stone among its eaud, is the latest wonder re port from Indiana. Every man on the KanxasCity police force, it is said, ai a cliurcti member. Two of the oflicem are ellw io (be church and a num ber of them are deacons. John Jon, a near sighted young man liv ing iu Bath county, Ky.. attempted to cut off the bead of a chit-ken. mmw.-d bis mark, and touk off bis left baud instead at ths wrist. A California widow bad plans for a fiO.OOO looounMitit fur tier late departed, but when the lawyers got through fighting over the es tate the widow was doing housework at f3 per week for the man who draughted the monument. . The maddeKt woman south of tbe line is that Georgia she who sat up till I o'clock awaiting ber tuwbatd's .retsra from "the lodge." and upon going upstairs found tbe supponed culprit safe in Usd, where he bad been enuring away ber hours of vigiL A Kt-w York bimin'sa man has a novel method of refreshing bis memory. When be has something wnKirtant to attend to the next day be wriree hiinxeif a postal card re minding him of tb matter, and. finding tb card among the moil tbo next naming, at tends to it tiie first thing. (MPP7BURRELL & Fam) macnincry. Saw ills, Sigie lis. Pitts' Engines and Threshers, Bain Wagons, Hacks and Buggies, and All Kinds of Two and Four Wheeled Vehicles. McCormack and Deerlng Binders and Mowers. Oliver Chilled Plows, Garden City and Moline Plows. Disc Harrows. Wood and Iron Floating Harrows. BARBED WIRE. MONITOR SEEDERS AND DRILLS. SINCLE AMD DOUBLE HARNESS. SOLE A CENT FOR THE LICHTNINQ HAY PRESS, THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Pa H. ROSCOB, MUCH THE MEWEST, Nobbiest and Largest Stock of CLOTHING! In the County, is now to be Seen on th u i en cf Of Albany, Oregon. fET" When vou want to "drees up," we would be glad to show you through and make the right price. Merchant Tailoring a pmalt Mr. E. A. Scheffleb is an exjiert, and has charge of this department. We guarantee satisfaction. ' iiJf3liTV:i(31 (HB 'JMaaaalRssMBVRaU P. COH Declares that he wilt again pay HONE FOB' WOOL, EGGS, BUTTER, OK Any kind of Produce, than any ether house in Albany AK Will Sell Goods Cheaper If you want to Make Maaey, Call oa Him. ALBANY, OREGON. W holesale and Detail Dealer in BLA SAW MILL FOR SALE. A Double Circular Water Power Saw Mill. j-TN'eur Ibanon, Or. ! Capaclfy about WW fm pr day. Alo, 4J seres of laud on which ths a wuiilt ' 4. I . A PRICK, .8,000 AIho y svs lanre stock of FIRST QUALITY LUMBER t At lowest market rates for cash. U. W. WHKKLIK, LlaBs). r. J. M. Keene, D. D. S. Dental Parlors Office: Breyman Bron. Building, MLKM.OKr.liOS. 1ST Hours from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. COMPANY, Manager. C. T. COTTON, DEiLU Iff Groceries and Provisions TOBACCO CIGARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY ( war as4 (iliMwtrf, Lass aa4 Lamp rislars. Mala Ht. sbaiit. rr. rff say k has tJb W. I Donna fUiors nuteoul asm and prios UnMMt Is. bottom, yot aiia dovs aa a fraud. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE Rrst la tk world. f"sn.liw hi. S.(K I.KMINr H ltDfWHl KUOE. .IMi VH T MiOK. lt hUJI K AMI FAKMI K SHOE. i.M r X I 114 V4I I K Al l KslOfc. SX.XS SOKKhUM 4WW Mllr.. tttAto kdi ai.:.i nov' m ikhii, shoes. AU uuwk tu VumrntM, fiutlon Slid Lsm. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE LArorn. Ott Material. rt grtft. lst t'iulaf. U but viifl i T'Mtr d-tcr, vriir W. 1 IHH tiLAU. UBOCKTON, MASot For Sale by C. C. Hackleman. Land Company R F. ASHBY and CEO. DICKINSON Oi'iieis! AgKOtt for Albany. Lynn Co., Oregon. Buying- sod (ielllng- Beal- EstalB-on -Cofflmission. Aad IIbk a Oarral Hsl Kstat Ba-iaraa. irLand 8oll:ited for Kale. . ASHBY & DICKERSON 0. ' I