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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1893)
I You can Economize By using Royal Baking Powder to the exclusion of all other leavening agents. The official ana lysts report it to be 27 greater in leavening strength than the other powders. . It has three times the leavening strength of many of the cheap alum powders. It never fails to make good bread, biscuit and cake, so that there is no flour, eggs or butter spoiled and wasted in heavy, sour and uneatable food. Do dealers attempt, because times are dull, to work off old stock, or low grade brands of baking powder ? Decline to buy them. During these times all desire to be economical, and Royal is the most Economical Baking Powder. Auoliier Mew Siuoke Preventive. James Murphy, a Chicagoan, is the latest to come forward with a smoke consuming device. Rather, though, is it Air. Murphy's plan to prevent smoke, and this he seems to do very effectually by a patent arrangement which he places on boilers and stoves, it is the idea to catch and burn the gases that are liber ated from the coal before they form the smoke. The smoke itself, the inventor says, cannot bo burned after it has once been formed, so he burns the gases. The principle is that of taking air op from the ashpit in a furnace through .fire clay pipes to a hot air chamber above the grate bars, From here it is thrown from all four sides of the grate through a three-quarter inch space which is left open all around the fire, the space being partially leilged over with a "lip" that throws the air across the furnace. The distribution of this hot air equally over the fire catches the gases from the coal before they are formed into smoke and ignites and burns them. Thus only about 20 per cent of the usual amount of smoke contains no car bon, is not dirty at all and is white instead of sooty. Mr. Murphy demon strates the principle of his device in a stove, where the results are more easily seen. The stove is fitted with three fire clay pipes on each side to conduct the arr. The stove burns any kind of coal or coke and from none of them can any smoke be seen to arise. The stove makes its own draft from the nil-shaft The flame burns inward and close to the middle of the grate. An examination of the chimney shows no smoke going np. New York Telegram. Tbe Leaning Tower at Saragossa. A committee appointed to report on the famous Torre Nuova in the Plaza Son Filipe, in the capital of Aragon, has issued a pessimistic account. It is feared that r :iis clock tower, a very fine example of the kind, will have to be pulled down. Excessive rains and floods have caused a subsidence of the soil and the structure is deemed unsafe. The construction of this torre inclinada was begun in the Fifteenth century, under the direction of two Spanish, two Moor ish and one Jewish architect; it is octagonal in form, 800 feet high, 43 in diameter, and leans about 10 feet out of the perpendicular. Stone steps, 260 in number, lead inside to the top gallery. It has been stated that the leaning of the tower was due to the caprice of the architects, but an old crack in its side and a careful examination of the founda tion led to the conclusion that it was want of care on the part of the builders. The Aaragonese speak of the ancient crack as an old wound in its side, of which the Torre Nuova is now dying. This "old wound" was under treatment in the year I860, but an unfortunate re lapse threatens to result in an entire col lapse. Tablet. (letting Rich Fast. Two young men near Los Angeles, Cal are rapidly making a fortune slay ing coyotes. Last April they were not worth fifty dollars, but now they have t!i,7U0 to their credit in bank and they are adding about $150 a week to their deposit. They have fifty traps set, and with these and their rifles are rapidly thinning out the coyotes in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. At five dollars a scalp there is more money in hunting coyotes than in growing grain or fruit, but the business will probably come to an end when the next legisla ture meets. The law which was passed as a joke has proved to be very costly pastime. San Francisco Chronicle. Thirteen la Lucky. In Chicago a horse car, a red hot stove and thirteen passengers were struck by an engine. The car was reduced to kindling wood and took fire, but not a passenger was killed. And yet people will go right on insisting that thirteen is an unlucky number. Indianapolis News. - f- $ - t' - On 11 la Mind. Pat was a hodcarrier. Long practice had made him an expert at threading the mazes of unfinished buildings, but it had also made him somewhat careless in his movements. Be had just stepped from a ladder to one of the landings, and after setting down his load of bricks with a sigh of relief, he straightened up. Whack! his head came smartly in contact with a heavy beam. When the foreman passed, a few min utes after, he saw Pat sitting on a keg, holding his head in both hands. "Hullo, Pat," he called. "What's on yourmind'" "The whole top av me head, sir. Oh myl Oh myr Youth's Companion. Mamma' Diaries. Little Girl The teacher says 1 must get a diary, and write in it all 1 do every day. Will you buy me one, mamma? I Mamma There are plenty of them up stairs in the lower bureau drawer fif teen or twenty, I think. Little (iirl But isn't those ones writ ten in? Mamma Only the first pageu of each. Good News. As Ilrave as a Stump Orator. A rooster was put on the block at Han ford the other day and his head was cut off, but when the plucker reached for him the ambitious fowl had walked off. The head was completely severed save a small portion of the base of the skull, but the bird could still hear and feel and even cry out. He lived for sixteen hours in that condition. San Francisco Call. A New Precious Stone. A hitherto unknown stone has been found in the mining district of (Jande laria, in Nevada. It is of a dark green color and tukes on a very high polish, and is classed by the slate geologist as "sariscite." Several beautiful ornaments have been produced from it, but so far it has not been found in any consider able quantity. Ketuil Jeweler. Twins Nine Times Without a Skip. Mr. John Miscall, who is one of the head bakers in James lleed & Sons bakery, Norfolk, Va., has been made tbe proud possessor of the ninth consecutive pair of healthy and strong twins, a boy and a girL Mrs. Miscall has never given birth to one child at a time. Cor. Baltimore American. Some Costly Necklaces. Mrs. Robert Goelet, daughter of George H. Warren, has a necklace of diamonds and sapphires which cost 111, 000, a pearl necklace worth f 10,000 and a diamond necklace of solitaires from seven carats down worth about (35,000. Besides these she has a large and varied collection of valuable stones. New York Herald. Mew Light on Hunker Hill. "History as she Is wrote" receives a val uable addition from the pen of a Brttisb female bookmaker, who says of her visit to Boston, "We went up to Bunker hill, where is a ridiculously ugly monument in honor of the victory gained by tbe Yankees over the English." Hitherto it has been the general impression that after a gallant defense the "Yankees" retreated. A Decided Improvement. Schoolboy Mother, what do you think? Professor Dryasdust told us tbat he knew of a boy who sheds his whole skin twice a year. Mother I think there is one clean boy in the world anyhow. Good News. A young man lost an eye the other night in Chicago by a jab from a needle like weapon that projected from the bat of a young woman who was accidentally thrown against him. Joseph Banson, who died recently in Cincinnati leaving an estate amounting to $0,000,000, was the largest holder of United States bonds in that dty. A WOULD BE SWINDLER BEATEN. Be Was Only Trying to Learn the Bhell Trick, but Ilia Scholar Knew It. After awhile the young man with the white hut and red necktie obsorved that a friend of his hud posted him on a now trick, and he took from his pocket the shell of an English walnut which had been cut in two to nutke twosmull cups. He also took from his vest pocket a com mon field pea and explained: "1 don't say that I can do tho trick luccossfully, but after a little more practice 1 hone to catch on." Half a dozen of us exchanged winks and spotted him at once for a sharper, but there was a middle aged man from Indianapolis who tipnenred innocently interested. Ho was not a green looking man by any means, but he had a confid ing, childish look which would. have au thorized any stranger to ask him for a match or the time of day. "What is the trick?" he asked as he laid aside his paper. "Why, it's to manipulate this pon in this way so and so and this way, until you can't tell which cup it's under," ox plained the other, "That's a new idea." "Yes. perfectly uow." "Snyt" I'd like to learn that myself," continued the Hoosier. "The boys down our way are full of tricks, and I'd like to get something to astonish 'em. tt all depends on the twist of the wrist, doesn't itr "Partly that, and partly optical illu sion. As 1 told you before I can't work it yet, because 1 haven't practiced suffi ciently, but do you think you could tell which cup the pen is under now?" "I think I could," replied the Hoosier. "And could you now?" asked the yonug man after further manipulations. "I'm sure of it." "How sure?" "Well, as 1 want to learn the trick, and as 1 am always willing to back my own eyeB, I'll bet ten dollars I can." We winked and shook our heads at him, but his smile only grow more child like. "Don't want to make it twenty dollars, do you?" asked the sharper. "I'd just as soon say thirty dollars." "Thirty it is. Just hold tho cups firmly down on my knees while 1 get out my sugar." I took his last dollar, and when it was np he asked: "Wluch cup is it under?" "This one." The cup was raised, and there, sure enough, was tho pea, it having failed to stick to the substance inside und be lift ed with the shell. The look which canto into that young man's face was some thing queer to see, and he kept swallow ing as if he had tacks in his throat, He gave up the stakes without a word, but sat for a long time like one in a dream 1 thought ho needed sympathy, and after awhile 1 found opportunity to in quire: "How did it happen that way?" "That's what I want to find out," he absently replied. "Say. you childlike Hoosier, take these things and let a see what you can do with 'em." "Certainly, to oblige." He took the cups and tho pea, and the manner in which he performed was enough to show everybody in ten seconds that he was an old professional. "Anybody wish to bet?" he smilingly asked, as the pea went hopping about. Nobody did not even tho young man. He sat and stared and stared, and watched and watched, and when the outfit was returned to him all he could say was: "Well, by guml" Detroit Free Press. Feats of Carrier Pigeons. There are remarkable instances on record of wliat pigeons have done. A French bird captured near Paris was taken to Berlin, 500 miles away, and kept there for four years. It escaped somehow, and at once mode a straight line for home, safely reaching the loft in Paris where it had been reared. Colonel Cameron relates that he purchased in Toronto two birds that hud never flown eastward of that place. From Toronto they were taken to Kingston, 150 miles due east, and there kept for some time. They were then sent to Sharbotlake, nearly fifty miles north of Kingston, to be flown. Instead of returning to King ston they went westward 150 miles di rect to their old loft at Toronto, As they had been, in the case of both moves, conveyed in a closed basket, they had no chance of seeing the intervening country, so that sight evidently had nothing to do with their return. There are numberless instances of birds in training making their way swiftly and safely back over 100, 200 and even 250 miles of utterly unknown territory. Denver Republican. He Drove Slowly. It is not uncommon to refer to the forms used in many households by some familiar name, and dressmakers fre quently designate them as "Mary Jane." A household wherein the skirt form had come to be called "Miss Susan," had an amusing experience on account of it, Tbe form had been lent, and a new coachman bad just driven up with some of the family, when the skirt form was remembered. He was directed to drive to a certain house, get "Miss Susan" and come back with her in a hurry. After a long delay, the carriage drove up at a mournful pace. "Shure, ma am, said the coachman, in explanation of his delay, "they had to lift her aorost the sidewalk into the coach, and I thought she was a very sick lady indeed, and sol had better drive slow." " v A RECONCILIATION I do not Itnnw If I wero wrong or yont It rcrlaves mo m To think I Rave you pnln That 1 my gift must ruo Ami taku It book again. 1 do not know If you or I won right; Your team have caused me wee, Ami if you wop attain 1 sluillgrow more contrite And covet all your pain. 1 do not know Nor care which one was right. For when your dear eyee How 1 cannot speak for pain, And tear mints tillnd my tight Until you smile again. Bolotltgo- Wo may have both been wrong. Or partly so. Hut sin Is purged by pain, Ami royal souls are strong To wound and heul again. -Ella Diets Clyuor in Harper's Baxar. Fine Crusted Preserves, We have been shown by Mr. and Mm John Graves a unique and interesting relic of the civil war in the shape of a half gallon jur of peach preserves which were made in ItffiJ. The relic was given to Mr. and Mrs. Graves. Oct. 27, IHlll, hy Mrs. Wash Koborts, of Hucheport, and its history is as follows: In 1HI11 John Roberts joined -the Confederate army along with Ben. Sam and Jack Kay. brothers of Mrs. Roberta. In 1MB this lady and her sister-in-law, Mrs, John Roberts, were together putting up pre serves, jellies, etc. They tilled some jars which they agreed not to open until their brothers and husbands should return safe from the war. It turned out that John Roberts w.is killed, and astlinydid not all come back the ladies did not open their preserves. Time rolled on. Mrs. .Mm Rolivrts moved to California, where she married again and became the uiothor of several chil dren and is now dead. Recently Mm Wash Roberts concluded she would send some of these preserves to these children, and also to give some to her mends, tho Graveses. The preserves are in first class condition, of excellent flavor, and would no doubt keep anothor quarter of a century. Wash Roberts has been for many years a popular citizen of Hoc he port, while Jack Ray is somewhere in the state of Washington Fayetto(Mo.) Banner. Ravages Hlaughturlng Deer. Game Wardon Taylor came in recently from the lower country, whore be has been kept busy driving the Indians out of that section. Mr. Taylor report that the Utes have been playing sad havoc with the gumo, slaughtering wherever thoy could. Ho was very indignant over it, and from his version of the mat ter ho has good reason to bo. lie states that from the Iron springs divide to Yel low creek it is impottmhlo to travel a hundred yards without finding the bod ies of deer lying around, und in most cases nothing but the hides and brains have been taken, tho bruins being used by the Indians in the process of tanning On Blue mountain and in the Lilly park sections tho rotting carcasses can be seen, while on Snake river they are so thick as to absolutely poison the air Warden Taylor estimates that since the deer began to travel down the Utes havo killed between 5,001) and 8,000 of them, and what makes matters worm tho major portion of them are does and fawns, the bucks always remaining in the uppor country till later in tho fall. Denver Sun. The Highest Hallway In Kurone. The opening of a now Alpine railway the Brienzer Rotlihornbahn is an nounced. It is the highest railway in the Alps and commands magnificent views. It is 8,351 meters (7.IW0 feet) high at the summit level, and ascends 1.6H3 meters (6,600 feet), or sixty-sevon meters (228 feet) higher than the Pilutns railway. The journoy occupies an hour and a half. The gauge is O.t) meter. Tbe line is a pure rack and pinion rail way on the A lit system, and is similar in construction to the Monte Generoso railway. The steepest gradient is one in four that is, less than the maximum Pilatus ascent. The railway has been bnilt in a remarkably short space of time; it was begun so recently as the 1st of October, 1800. No fower than ten tnnnols wore bored; numerous streamlets were bridged and heavy stone dams had to be erected. Iron. Warning Against Antipyrlne. Let roe say something about the indis criminate use of antipyrine, I think it is villainous. Its use should be restricted like laudanum and morphine, and used only upon a physician's prescription. Peo ple use it carelessly, not knowing tbat it is a heart depressant and cumulative in ite action, Many persons come to me and aay that they have been using ten grains every three or four hours, and without any idea of the harm it does. I came across two or three deaths last year directly due to its use. Too much cannot be said about the danger from its indis criminate use. Interview in Philadel nhia Press. ' Too Suggestive, Miss De Pretty Let's form a secret society. Miss De Pink Let's. Just like the Odd Fellows and Red Men. Call it the Ancient Order of of Kings' Daughters, Miss De Blond Or the Ancient Order of Dianas. Miss De Young Or the Ancient Order of American Miss Oldmaid-Ob, don't let's call it the ancient order of anything. Good News. At a remit dinner tile centerpiece was an oild shaped basket lined with white plush, in whose loose tolda tho water holder was concealed. 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