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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1893)
Be on your Guard. If some grocers urge another baking powderuponyouinplaceof the"Royal," it is because of the greater profit upon it This of itself is evidence of the supe riority of the " Royal." To give greater 'profit the other must be a lower cost powder, and to cost less it must be made , with cheaper and inferior materials, and thus, though selling for the same, give , less value to the consumer. To insure the finest cake, the most, wholesome food, be sure that no substi tute for Royal Baking Powder is accepted . by you. . Nothing can be substituted for the Royal Baking Powder and give as good results. 1 () 11 aomethlng Auuul lauarjr Hlrda. Whenever 1 buy a canary it eeenis to be a bird that is especially subject to coHb anil pneumonia, and it is only by the exornse of the greatest care that I can keep it from suc cumbing to some pulmonary trouble. Yet the canary bird sellers have their wares for sale in the streets in the coldest weather almost entirely unprotected from the wind. They stand around with them for hours ml no bad result seems to come of it. How is it ! I give it up. There must be some tnuHpiracy between the dealers and the birds by which the latter die as soon as they are bought compelling the purchasers to invest in more ca naries. You wouldn't think to look .at the little yellow fellows that they were capable of so much treachery. Dealers bring them over from Eu rope with very few precautions against disease or accident. If I leave one of my canaries alone for 10 minutes at a time, however, he swal lows a piece of rug and chokes to death, or the cat gets him. I sup pose the whdle Becret of the thing consists in knowing what you're about From results I am led to be lieve that the importer and the open air dealer know what they're about and that 1 don't at least as far as the canary birds are concerned. New York Herald. A Juke of a Court Fool. The term fool is often misapplied. Thus. Charles the Simple was no fool, but a emu of extraordinary simplicity and strength of mind and feeling. So Homer, when he called Telema chus a fool or "silly, " did not employ the word as a term of reproach, but of endearment The court f ool, or jester, was for merly an important person in the households of kings and princes. His influence over his master was consid erable, and many clever sayingB of fools are still in existence. Charles the Simple had a jester named Jean, who one morning tried his master's nerves by rushing into bis room with the exclamation: "Oh, sire, such news I Four thousand men have risen in the city I" "What P cried the startled king. "With what intention have they nsenr -Well," replied the jester, "prob ably with the intention of king down again at bed time." Youth's Compan ion. Bod Hair end Freckle. Science explains the phenomenon of red hair thus: "It is caused by a su perabundance of iron in the blood. This it is that imparts the vigor, the elasticity, the great vitality, the over flowing, thoroughly healthy animal life which runs riot through the veins of the ruddy haired, and this strong animal life is what renders them more intense in all their emo tions than their more languid fellow creatures. The excess of iron is also the cause of freckles on the peculiarly clear, white skin which always ac companies red bair. This skin is ab normally sensitive to the action of the sun's rays, winch not only bring out the little brown spots in abun dance, but also burn like a mustard plaster, producing queer, creepy sensation, as if the skin was wrin kling up." Analyst id, ; ! )! ' : K ; : ; : ; n Aneetlute nf Thaokeray, On the last niirht of the vear Thack eray wan with the family of George Tiekimr. The daughters of the bouse had gone to a lirty. and Thackeray was sitting for the evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ticknor. About 11 o'clock he arose, and his host inquired : "You are not going to retire yatr "Xo," was the answer, "for alwajn at the birth of the new year I drink to the health and bappiuesB of my daughters, but I do not wish to keep you up so late." 'Pray stay with us, urged the host "andwewill join you in a health to vour absent ones." When the hour arrived Thackeray took a glass of sherry in his hand, rose to his feet, and said in tremulous tones: 'God bless my motherless girls. God bless them and all who are good to them." Drinking the wine, he bade his host good night and without another word he-retired from the room, leaving his friends in tears. Chicago Tribune. The Manufacture ul tihwa Eyea. In Thuringia there is a whole dis trict which is dependent for Ha sup port on the manufacture of artificial eyes, husbands, wives and children all working together at tins means oi livelihood. And yet though these simple German village people turn out their produce by the dozen, no two eyes are ever the same. No ar tificial eye has its exact fellow either in color or in size in the whole world. The method of the manufacture is not a very complicated art They are firstly glass plates, which are blown by gas jets, then molded by hand into the form of an ovel shaped cup. The coloring of the eyes is effected by meansof tracingwith fineneedles, the tints being left to the taste of the individual worker, though the scope of their taste is necessarily limited to grays and lilut) and browns and blacks, which colors are assorted to gether before being eventually dis patched to their various destinations. 1 London Hospital. ' A Neat Baaeallty, A neat pickpocket dodge practiced upon rural looking persons in this town is based upon the known good nature and courtesy of the average American citizen. The pickpocket clad in fine raiment and carrying a stick, stands upon the rear platform of a street car, facing the dashboard. He struggles with a pair of tight gloves, and having vainly endeavored to button one after putting on the other, appeals to the kindness of the man facmg him on the platform. In nine times out of ten be picks the right man, and while the bene- tactor buttons the gloves the pick pocket with his disengaged band takes the other's watch. The confed erate inside is at hand to baffle the pursuers in case the thief is detected. New York Letter. UU OfTenee. The prisoner was a tramp arrested for chasing a watchdog all over the back yard and kicking him into a puip. "Guilty or not guiltyr asked the juage sternly. , "I was only rushing the growler, your nonor." "Sixty day,"-Detroit Free Press, ERIGNOLl AT DINNER. In a Fit ol Angr He VnnkiMl Off the Tattle eloih ami hmuHhtttl hvi'vwhhig. One night Bri;;noli invited several friends to sup with him after u per formance in Ealtimore. and on raich ing hisupartments found thetnblestit and tho waiters in readiness to begin bringing in the dishes. He was ex tremely particular about the appear ance of his table, and always took a critical view of the crockery, silver, linen, etc.. before inviting his friends to sit down. On this occasion his tagle eye discovered several small holes in the tablecloth, and his anger viu all allume iu an instant. Too full of wrath to spfcak, he caught hold of the comer, of the cloth and gave one long, quick jerk, clearing the table completely and scattering knives, forks, spoons, plates, etc.; all over the room. The astounded waiters ran to the proprie tor with , the tale, und when he ar rived on the scene there was danger in his eye. Brignoli knew be was in serious trouble, and forthwith brought into play all hiscuiiuflig to getoutofit. He pretended that the waiters had treated him in a most outrageous maimer; that the tablecloth was not tit for a hog to eat off of ; that the dinner was cold; that the wyies were warm in short, he made the proprietor believe that everything was just as bad as possible. Thon be began to mollify him by praising his house. How was it that even' one be knew in the whole United States had recommouded it to him! How could it lie that good people thought so well of itl Everybody had told him that it was the only first class hotel in Baltimore. And this and this was the way a gnest was treated I Surely there was some mistake. The landlord could not xssi)ly know thut one of bis guests had been so imposed onl No first chuti bouse would submit to it! In short, the wily old fellow mr.de the landlord think him the most abused man on earth, and they were soon the best of friends. The land lord himself attended to the setting of the table. The best of everything m the bouse was put on it, and an excellent dinner was served at bis expense. Brignoli gave the waiters tlUeacb fur having hurt their feel- uigs. Iew York Tribune. Tor Powder of Projection. The belief in transmutation and in the virtues of the "powder of projec tion" is to be found more clearly stated in the works of Zosimus of Pauopolis, the earliest known writer on aichemv whose authentic works have come down to us. for in his first lesson he exclaims, "How beautiful it is to see the changes of the four metals lead, copper, tin, Bilver till they become perfect gold !" The idea bad evidently been developed and the art assiduously cultivated in Egypt since the time of the spurious DemocntuB, for Zosimus quotes the opinions of many adepts, of whose writings, mostly apochryphal, noth ing is known save from his pages. Hermes Trismcgistus and Demoo ritus. Most and Mary the Jewess, Agathodemun and Cleopatra, the prophot Chymes and the "divine Sophar are quoted as authorities for the operations to bo performed on various minerals, which, after being duly melted, calcined, refined and sublimated over and over, are de clared to have become gold or silver. To these more or less intelligible descriptions of chemical processes Zosimus adds hm own commentaries, which he sometimes presents tinder the form of allegories or visions. Edinburgh Review. Narcotta Effects of a California Spring. Superintendent Stout recently de scribed a wonderful mineral spring that formerly flowed from the moun tain side some miles above the Butte Creek House and pear the Plumas county line. This spring was first called to Mr. Stout's attention some years ago while camping in that vicinity by an old prospector, who called it the "chloroform spring." The water which flowed from it did not differ in appearance or taste from the wa ter of other springs, except that it was slightly brackish. It was the ef fect that followed the drinking of its waters that was remarkable. A small cup would in the course of half an hour render the drinker totally insensible, and he would remain for hours as if dead. But few white .men had ever tried the experiment of drinking from it but those who have done so describe the effect as not unlike that resulting from a heavy narcotic. To the Indians this spring has been .known for generations. They call it the "heap sleep" spring, and it is said that more than one weary red man has entered the happy hunting grounds through the medium of its waters. Oroville Mercury, - MASTERED IT OVEfl NIGHT Determined MnoMlir; lllnl Tltr Sucweot!' o'i hi liuitutiix: a lluril Cry. A good story about a bird or tiny other animal 13 doubly interest inv; if tho n-ador can be mire that it is not only true suSwtantially, but bus not been dressed out by the writer s imagination. Such a story is the fol lowing, told by Mr. William Brew ster, one of the best knowu of Amorican ornithologists. He was spending some weeks at the little village of St Mary s on the coast of Georgia. Mockiug birds were abun dant, and being protected by every one were half domesticated, build ing their nests in tho shrubbery that surrounded the bouses and bopping about like robins uKn the grass plots and graveled walks. An orange tree in front of the window was ap propriated by a lairticularly tine singer. His rqiortory included the notes of nearly all tho birds in tliesur rounding region, besides many of tho characteristic village sounds, and most of the imitations wore simply perfect Moreover, he was continu ally adding to his accomplishments. An instance of this ocourre'l one afternoon when several of us were sitting on tho veranda. A greater yellow legs (a well known game bird of the snipe and sandpiper family) passing over the town was attracted by my answer ing whistle and circled several times above the house reiterating bis mel low call. The mocking bird np to this time had been singing almost uninterrupt edly, but at the sound of these 6traiige notes he rela'Mcd into silence and retreated into the thickest foli age of his favorite tree. Thon we heard him trying them in on under tone. The first note cams pretty readily, but the falling induction of the suc ceeding three troubled him. When over 1 ventured to prompt, ho would listen attentively, und at the next at t'jmpt show an evident improve ment! Finally he nliandoned tho task, as we thought, in despair, and at sunset that evening, for the first and only time during my stay, bis voice was missing in the general chorus. But at daylight tho next morning the garden rung with a perfect imitation of the yellow leg's whistle. Ho l.ud mustered it during the night, and ever afterward it was his favorite part. The diseomfoiture of the rival males in tho neighborhood was as amusing as it was unmistakable. Each in turn tried the new song, but not one succeeded. Whut Are We Coming Tut The following is printed "for true in a London journal: The houso of a well known lai'y novelist was the other day observed to be shrouded in the gloom of drawn curtains and lowered blinds. Sym pathetic friends presently called 10 inquire what family affliction had taken place. They were admitted into the darkened drawing room, where, clad in deep mourning and holding a clean pnekut handkerchief in her hand, the lady novelist sat weeping, upon the couch. A sympa thetic and inquiring murmur from the visitors elicited a fresh burst of tears as the lady sobbed forth : "Af diction ) Yes, I should think so. My hero is just dead I" The Borrow! U.ak. "The borrowed book." Whata text for a sermon, eaid a clevor author, If books are borrowed, mar them not; neither turn down the loaves, and, above all, be careful to return them in as good a state of preservation as when borrowed. To write on the margins is unpardonable, vulgar, Ul bred. Good Housekeeping. A Cow biineretltiun. .. According to Indo-Europem folk lore the clouds of the heavens wero nothing but cows, who were invested with the duties of a psychopomp. At times these cloud descended to the earth and assumed their bovine garb, but their duty remained the same. Hence the superstition prevalent in tnany agricultural countries that a cow breaking into a garden foretells a death in the family. The psycho pomp was merely looking for a soul to escort to the hereafter. New York Telegram. Wnat Wrtnklee Signify. Wrinkled foreheads in children be token consumption, rickets or idiocy. Vertical wrinkles of the brow come early to men who do much brain work. Arched and crossing wrinkles about the lower middle of the fore bead betoken physical or mental suf fering. Fine close meshed wrinkles which covor the face, sign of age and decrepitude, are caused by lose of contractile nervous force and on prevented by hot bathing, friction and electricity.' .' AMTI-FKItnitNllNB Is a tia'hmi.bss preparation in tablet form for preserving am, kinhs np KiituT without rooKiNO, Oiie pack ago preserves fifty pints or fruit or a barrel of cider, and only costs 60 cents. Fruits preserved with Anti- fermentino retain tlieir natural tiiBte and appearance. Ask your , druggist or grocer for Anti-fcrmen-tine. Turin propones an intoniutionul exhl bitiun in 1UU4. JUST A LITTLE pain neglected, may become RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, ,. , LUMBAGO. Just a little SPRAIN may make a cripple, lust a Utile . BRUISE may make serious inflammation. Just a little DURN may make an ugly scar. 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KIDNEY, Agents and school children winhf g to make t"oiiov, write ii- for circular of our Htata i and Cm Hnpa; every school child should havo on; sells KtUOoiH, tlw.our new Atla; iolUat Right; $160;juiithe book to anil these hard I limes uwi-n A Co , Aiiumorth blk, ForitandtUr. N.H.N. U.N(..fni&-H. U. Mo. 682