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Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
ADSOULTiELY PURE
A Storm an PLke Peak.
It 'r do fun to he on top of Pike's peak hi
a storm. H B ao experience thai few care
to have. ! won't forget mine of two yean
ago. A party left Alanitou for the peak one
annoy da; in July, when a storm was the
last thing that would suggest itseit We
tnok a carriage at Cascade and started for
the summit. The vehicle was strong
ermneh to have carried a 10-ton pun. and
wan slang on strong leather straps like a
stagecoach We all enjoyed the superb
scenery, and reached the signal service
station on the snmmit in good order. Be
fore we had been there an hour a thunder
storm broke over the mountain. The
women took refuge in the station, and we
men threw ourselves flat on the huge
granite bowlders.
The rain came down in torrents but it
was not in it with lightning, f can laugh
now. tint I did not then. The lightning
strork the summit time and time again
until the whole thing seemed to be a mass
of bine fire that sprang from bowlder to
bowlder and enveloped the place. It
blinded me. Every moment I expected to
be struck, and I was afraid to yell to my
friends for fear that the fluid had killed
them. My hair stood on end, faorrihte sen
sations chased themselves apaud down my
spine at each clap of thunder, and they
came at the rate of a million a niinnte.
Unless yon bare been through it your
self, you cannot imagine my feelings as 1
lay there nearly drowned, awaiting to be
electrocuted. When the storm ceased it
took me fully ten minutes to realize thai
1 was alive, Xo one was killed, hut six
mules had been struck by toe fm- from
heaven. Interview in "Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A Worthy badge's Dilemma.
Judge L W. fioniware, of Fulton, is one
of the best known criminal lawyers in
Missouri, but has forgotten many of the
good tilings he learned at Sunday school
ilisKranddaughter, four years old, came
to pay him a visit the other day. She ar
rived In care of the conductor about 11
o'clock in the evening, tired and sleepy
from an all day's journey. Her grand
father awkwardly but successfully pre
pared her for her couch, and with an at
tendant sent her to bed. while he settled
himself to study. Presently he heard sobs
from the child a bedroom, and entering
asked in jrrand fatherly tones what was the
m fitter, totandpa, I n forgot my prayer.
' Weii, never mind the prayer tonight; go
to bed and go to sleep. "But, persisted
the little miss, "mamma and papa will not
let nie go to bed without saying my pray
er, and I've forgot it, and she sobbed
again. "Well, daughter, never mind to
nie ht; tomorrow night you may say it
twice,' replied the kind hearted grand
Cither.
btili the sobbing lips replied: "No. not J
must say it. Yon start it, grandpa, and
rii remember it." A great silence fell
upon the household; great beads of cold
aweat started out upon the perplexed brow
of the head of the house. He couldn't
think; bis mind was chaos. Finally, with
heroic effort, he began: "Mary had a little
lamb" o. no, grandpa: that isn't s
protested the troubled little appealer
Then frantically the judge be can again.
''Kock-e-bre baby in the tree top" "No.
n-o-o," came from the child, and the next
moment srte was fast asleep on her knees.
"Jefferson City (Ma) Tribune,
XJghtaing as a Photographer.
' On examining the field glasses used at
the observatory on Mount Arie. situated
near the summer resorts. West Baden and
French, i-iek, it was found that one of the
fieid glares had an impression of flowers
in both 1 uses, like a negative. It mast
have imtti canned by liuutniiig, as the
glow wait left on the upper platform of the
oDuervatory and the inijiraaaioo is of such
flowers as are gruwing on Mount Arte.
The quality of the iam U not impaired at
all thou,: the roipreattion seems to go
clew through the ieiwei, Mr. ttnerk, toe
proprietor of Uie observatory, cannot ac
count for this freak of iightning otherwise
than the electric action on the Rowers and
koaea. LouisviHr Courier-Journal.
A Meet Astounding- La put.
An absent minded doctor, on calling upon
ft gentleman who had Iwen for some time
aiime, put a fee into the lament's hand
and took the medicine himhelf which he
had prepared hn the sick m i. He was
not made sensible of in error till he fonnd
himself getting ill and the patient getting
better. London lit liu-
Flacky Lihthoua Keeper.
In February. lbHl, the Sharp's island
lighthouse was carried away by ice in
Cneaapeake bay. The keepers tended the
lamp to the last and clung to the structure
wiien it was swept from its foundation,
finally saving not only themselves, but a
great part of the valuable apparatus.
M ashiogton Star.
Tne largest town clock in the world la Is
the tower of the Glasgow university at
Glasgow. Tne clock weighs about a ton
and a hah and has a pendulum weighing
IWO pounds. .
It is well enough for the politician to be
an earty bird, but it is a good thing to be
careful and not come across the worm at
its proverbial turning point.
The city of London proper is only one
mile square, but so valuaoie is Its real ea
u;e that it produces a rental of f7,0Mu,Auti
year. ' - .
CaodoHe, the investigator, says that the
boakh of dark eyed persons is much supe
rior to fihnt of the light or the blue eyed
1 um .i?.
Much confiiKttw bus arisen from con
found id jr the common iaurvl U-aurus cera-
sua, or laurel cherry i with the famous
laurel of the m-u-nta (l. nobilis). The
former not introduced into Europe
until 1576. Its tea ptmtain the potent
poison, prosaic acid, whereas the leaves of
JL nobilis eoutHin a fragrant aromatic oil
used in ctiofrctiouery h is to this, the
true laurel, that we appJy the term bay. I
and we use n an rmftirai term for an I
honorary crown or garland bestowed as a
prise for any fciud of victory or excellence: i
Beneath km reign almil Eaxden wear the bays, j
Weapparently get the word bay throogt: :
the Latio bacca, a berry from the French
have, or, h Holland's "PUnie" has it,
"The bates or herriea (HatT, that It (the
Roiall Laurelh beareth." Hence also the
term "bachelor" w supposed by some to
be derived from the ancient practice of
crowning eandtuateit for honors with bay
leaves and beTi, wheuce the term hacca
lanreus and laureate. Those who were
found worthy of the honor obtained the
laurel of bachelor or the laurel of doctor
(Laurea baccalaureatus. Lanrea doctara
tos). In the Scotch universities the act
of conferring degrees is, or was, styled
"laureation" and a ehaplet was used in
some of them. In the ages of chivalry the
has chevaliers, or men below the degree of
knight, were admitted to serve by being
crowned with a ehaplet of laurel berries,
and were hence called bnccalaurei Notes
and Queries.
Ancient fiwhw Families.
From the very nature of the case all
Swiss nobility is more or less ancient, and
is, therefore, still venerable in a republic
which has not yet cast off all reference for
historic tradition. The Valais. for i
stance, contains a very ancient noblesse,
some of whom, as the De Sepibus and the
De Cocatrix, bear Latin names, whether
or not they claim a Romas descent. And
a Roman descent assuredly is claimed by
the Bernese family of Lenta Ins, who affil
iate themselves to that most Ulustrious
house of the Gens Cornelia.
in a conglomerate nation like the Swiss
the fountains of honor have been numer
ous. Some of the nobility owe their dis
tinctions to the empire or to the dukes of
Austria; some to the dukes of Zahringen,
the founders of Berne and Frtbourg; some
to the dukes of Burgundy; some, who
were Huguenots, to the kings of France,
and some of the more modern ones even to
the kings of Pruaxia.--Ten.pie Bar
Stone Cornice Cotter.
An Ingenious instrument is used in Italy
for the cutting of stone cornices, moldings.
balustrades, etc The general features of
the machine are very similar to those of
the ordinary metal planing machine. The
stone to be operated upon is firmly clamped
on the bed. to which a reciprocating mo
tion w imparted by suitable mechanism.
The cutting tools are carried on a saddle
plate capable of horizontal movement upon
a slide by means of a screw and handle.
The slide m. in turn, capable of vertical ad
justment on slide piilurs by means of bevel
gearing and screws. The machine turns
out sixteen feet of cornice, well nmaned.
in twenty minute. New York Telegram.
Cloekwerfc fa a Llehtbmme.
A first order lamp in a lighthouse con
sumes two and a half rations of oil in a
long winter night. Tbe oil is fed to it by
clockwork, and the flash is controlled by
similar mechanism. An opaque pane in
the cylinder of glass revolving about the
light makes a dark interval and a red pane
produces a red flash. The lens of s first or
der light is six feet in diameter, and tne
light has four concentric wicks, the big- j
gest being four inches in diameter. Waah-
Votablo Famines la History.
Famines were formerly much more com
mon than during the last half century, and
many notable calamities of this nature are
mentioned by historians. Not including
the seven years' famine in Kgypt men
tioned hi the Did Testament, the first great
famine noted in history was in Italy, B C.
4& Tnousandsor persons, driven mad by
want, threw themselves into the sea and
rivers to escape from further suffering. In
A. D. 42 there was a great famine in Egypt,
and another in Rome and the vicinity in
A D. 2nU In 272 famine prevailed in the
British islands, and people ate grass, roots
and the bark of trees; thousands died in
Scotland from privation in A D. 306, and
over 40.000 perished in Britain four years
later. Providence Journal.
An Apt Statesseat.
I When the late binhop of Carlisle was
once preaching in aid of hospitals in the
I abbey, he upset a glass of water placed for
! him on the pulpit lie fore he bad begun to
1 speak. The water trickled down the neck
of an unfortune young man sitting below
and the bishop, who was quite unconscious
j of the mishap, began bis sermon, strange
I to say, with the words, "Accidents will
happear' Pali Mail tiaaette,
For Aboriginal Efforts.
As an indication of advancing civfliza
i don among tne red men, It is announced
' that the Yuma Indiana of California are
about to build a theater of their own. It
will be devoted; doubtless, to Yumarous
entertainments. Boston Herald.
' A Kcmiador. ' '
A man bad ft donkey for sale and, hear
ing that a friend wanted to boy one, ha
sent him tin following, written on a post
card: -
Dear D , If you are looking for on
AS donkey, don't forge me, Xours, etc
THE PASSING OF THE YEAR.
With whir a alary wmwiand kit inn year
Tho bud t wring, ilmne bcuultf ul h&rbtiitfvrt
i Of fuony fehhti and ckoiHlienw tttuw. eajo
Uie iwwinttti, and earui garuuure pread
out;
And whiMi the silver babil of the elyadu
Cooiea dnwu uMtn tlii autumn sun, iuuI with
A sober Klodn the ultl ytuu-Ukittw Qp
It ws bright inbtiriiance of eu&en frutu,
A. pouip and pageant fill th splendid aeeoe.
LawKtolkiw.
Kipling's Story of an Interview.
An Australian paper said very humor
ously. "Uudyard Kipling landed on this
island at 12 o'clock and at taMS he bad
formulated an Australian policy."
"Yea, that is very funny," said Kipling,
but it is not true. This is bow it was: A
young reporter cornered me just after I
had landed. I treated htm kindly, but I
said firmly that 1 was not to be inter
viewed.
! have no thought of interviewing;
you.1 replied the reporter with a touch of
sadness in his voice, i ask a much great
er favor thau that.' "
It turned out that the reporter was a
man with a theory who had been persist
ently sat down upon by his superiors on
the press. He had an Australian policy
that be knew would be of the greatest
benefit to the country. No paper would
print it. His modest request was that
hapltng would let htm put forth his theory
as the scheme of the young novelist.
"They will print it," he said, "if I give It
as coming; from you."
"All right," agreed Kipung, "fire
ahead."
So the young reporter got in four mortal
columns telling the people of Australia
how to run their country.
"I never read the article. continued
Kipling, "but there must have been some
amazing theories in it, from the storm it
raised. 1 hope that young man realizes
my forbearance in standing all the un
merited abuse heaped upon me for it."-
Detroit Free Press.
1 Now or Kerw.
There is hardly anything so bad that a
wise person cannot get some good out of
it. Indeed, it is one of the principal marks
of a philosopher that he reaps an advan
tage even from misfortune.
A little Boston girl bad for some time
wanted a dog. Finally she was taken very
ill with pneumonia. One day. when she
had begun to get better, she told her mam
ma how very much she wanted a dog, and
begged her to ask grandpa to buy ber one.
jidamma answered that grandpa did not
like dogs and probably would not be will
ing to buy one. Then seeing the little
invalid look sadly disappointed, she said:
"Wait till you get well, my dear, then
we will see,"
Oh. no," answered the child, whose few
years bad taught her a little wisdom, 'the
sicker I am the more likely be wall be to
buy it for me." Boston Herald.
A Flacky Greyhound.
A circumstance which I should say was
m uncommon one in the annais of shikar
hapnened the other day. A gentleman
while out shooting in the Eastern Dun in
acanebrake started a leopard and a cub.
Among bis dt$w which were beating was
a powerful English greyhound. This dog
drove off the leopard and killed the cub.
This same dog also killed a very powerful
lnngoor (gray monkey), one of tlie largest
sue, standibg fully 3 feet 9 inches or 4
One of the spaniels Lad cut this lungoar
off from the tree for which it was making,
and it turned upon the dog and hit it in
the neck very severely, its tusks being as
large as a small leopard s. It then tried
to strangle the dog, when the greyhound
came to the rescue. It caught the lungoor
by the nape of the neck and with one
crunch kiilea iU Asian.
A Humorous gaaae.
In Marianne North's "Recollections of a
Happy Life'' is a description of ft tame
snake.
Its mistress would sometimes twist the
pretty hronse creature in the great piait of
hair she wore around her head, and once
threatened to go down thus decorated to a
dinner party of rather stiff people.
But one of the snake's own eccentricities
serves to distinguish it among all other
reptiles of a similar nature which have
pets.
It was as fund of glittering things as its
mistress herself, and when she took tiff her
many rings and placed them on different
parts of the table it would go about col
lecting thorn and stringing them on Its
lithe body. Then it would tie itself in a
knot, so that the nogs could not be taken
off until it was pleased to untie Itself
again.
Taming Leopards la India.
The chetab is tied in all directions,
principally from a thick grummet of rope
around his loins, while a hood fitted over
his head effectually blinds him. He is
fastened on a strong cot bedstead and tne
keepers and their wives and families re
duce him to submission by starving him
and keeping him awake. His head
made to face the village street, and for an
hour at a time several times a day bis
keepers make pretended rushes at him and
wave cloths, staves and other articles in
his face. He is talked to continually, and
women's tongues are believed to be the
moat effective antisoporifica. No created
being could resist the effects of hunger,
want of sleep and feminine scolding, and
the poor chetah becomes piteousiy. ab
jectly tame. "Beast and Doan in inuia."
Only On Clean Thing.
When Jones was at Oxford he was a
most excellent; fellow, and only bad one
enemy soap, fie was called Dirty
Jones. One day the wag Brown went
into his rooms, and remonstrating with
him on the nntidv, slovenly and dirty
state of everything, said:
"Upon my word. Dirty, it's too bad;
the only clean thing in your room u the
toweir London Tit-Bita.
Doctor I believe yon nave some sort
of poison in your system.
PatientShouldnt wonder. What was
that last stuff yon gave me? Exchacga
MMtttrianrles la Mmlirln.
Re waa a ilu toi ot the advnnwd school.
He laid ht li i iifer ou my pulse, and with
his watch in lutwl gave it a fair start and
observed it can tully allof the way around.
Stroo. H la sam m a moment, thru
he committed a card that wa covered with
figures and continued, "That equals oV'
and be placed that number ou a slate
Put out your tongue, boodl That is Is.
he said.
Inches.?" 1 asked.
Hnw i your apatite " he inquired, ig
noring my question.
"hqtial to the supply.
"That makes SIM,' he replied.
"Cant you reduce it a lit tie?" I asked.
but t ai led to get hi attention.
-Cold feet!1'
"Yea.' I answered.
Three." brand
"No, two," I replied, to Porrrcl him.
He set the three under the other figures.
He then placed a thermometer in my
mouth, which he afterward consulted in
connection with the card, "A gout) IVft."
he said.
"IropuKsiblef" 1 suggested mildly
He wrote down the m and anted if 1
had headaches.
"Sometimes in the morning, after being
kept late at the ofltc." 1 answered.
r our, be wild.
"Isn't that rather low!" 1 asked.
"Do you smoke?" be inquired,
Ym"
Ton." he replied.
"No. two for ten." I said.
He put down the ten.
"Do yon slwp well!" he asked.
"That depends upon the baby,' I an
swered,
"We won't consider that," he said.
"Yon had better call it m," I suggested.
He added together the figures t hat he
had placed on the slate "That makes 4tV'
he said.
Is that the amount of the hilt!" I
asked.
"Bill!" he replied. That is the Bomber
of the preemption. 1 want you to know
that medicine with me is no longer an ex.
perimeut, for I have reduced it to a matbe
matical certainty. Every symptom has its
number, and the sum of these numbers in
dicates the medicine that is needed. 1 have
worked fur fifteen years in formulating my
prescriptions and perfecting the treatment,
hut 1 have it now Your hilt is ten do)
lors."
1 understood that number, and left the
office feeling relieved and deeply impressed
by the doctor's lea ruing. Harry C. t uiton
in Harper's Bazar.
Salt la the Lake of Aatla Paafcai.
The famous salt lake of A alia Paakai.
oar Honolulu, occupies tbe crater of an
immense tufa cone, whose ejects covers
several square miles, and are especially re
uarkahle for containing numerous aggre
gallons of crystalline grains of pure olivine,
the lake is just at mean sea level, and 's
scarcely a mile distant from the ocean, but
there is evidently no free communication
with the waters of tbe sea. During the
dry mouths crusts of salt are deposited,
sometimes six inch- or more in thickness,
on the bottom of the lake, and the salt has
at times been takn out for use. In tb
rainy aeaxon the salt is wholly redissoived
The crust of salt is at the present Untr
from one to three inches thick, and t!ir
water is. of course, a saturated brine.
It is interesting to note, however, that it
does not correspond in composition with
the waters from the ocean. Like the Dead
h tbe take contains an excessive quan
tity of calcium salt. The iuteriorof the
crater basin is crusted in many places with
deposits of cart male of calcium, proving
that it was at one time occupied by a high
ly calcareous water, proliabiy of high tem
perature. 1 have given in connection with
the results of my analysis, which extends
only to tbe constituents present in large
amount, an analysis of concentrated sea
water from the salt works of Kakaako, and
an average of number of analyses that
have been made of tbe waters of tbe Dead
sea.
These latter sometimes contain a larger
proportion of solids than tbe average fig
ore, hut to uo analysts that 1 have seen has
the quantity been as large as that found la
the water of Aaiia Paakai. Cor. Nature.
Tall Girl. iUmpoaalM..
. "Put two extra Ilftaoo the heel." accom
panied an order to a shoemaker.
'Tally another victim of the tall girL"
the Rhoemaker remarked.
"How in tUtil?"
"Why, there are to many tall girla now.
adayM that the average beigbtof men mujtt
be rained. Up to a few years ago tbe low
eat heel waa the rage, but now tbe heel it
decidedly higher 1 fifrure it between half
and three-quarter, of ao inch. It ia all the
growth of recent year. Itian'ttbefaehion,
either, for you'll not find the high heel
among tall men. lt' only among the lit
tle fellow wbo try to add to their height
by ever ao little. But even half an inch
counta in a maa'a height. A few yuan
ago a man of & feet 0 waa aeldom over
topped by a lady. Now tbe man of 6 feet
8 is not infrequently looked down on. 1
don't anppaw any city in the world can
show ao many tail girls as are to be seen in
Broadway, fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets these days. Tbey are not thin girls
either, but well proportioned and aolidly
built, which makes their height all the
moreexasperating to an undersized man.
yon see, by adding a little to his heels and
to his hat, a man Just under the average
can lift himself up to it." New York Sun.
Beoefils from Ituaalng,
Running is the great beautiller of figure
and movement, it gjvea muscular develop
ment, strung heart action and free lung
play. The muscle eomes where ft ought to
be, the shoulders go back, the loins hold
tbe trunk well balanced, and the feet take
their correct pomtiona. It was running
which made tbe Greek figure. Tbe more
active tribes of American Indians nave
been runners from time immemorial, and
from the cheat to tbe heels tbey are mnch
more beautifully built than tbe average of
white men. Knnulng people have usually
the firm but elastic texture which 1a the
beauty of flesh. London Tlt-Bitt.
As to the number of persons speaking
tbe western languages, it is estimated that
over 100,000,01 people now speak the Bug
lish language, over oV.OMO.Ouu tbe German.
41,MJ,0W the French. 41,000,000 the Span-
t.k .nri M fain th. ftAli.n linmw.
KIDNEY,
Bladder rrinsrv and Liver Ptiessw Dropsy
Gravel and Unbelt arc cured lj
HUNT'S REMEDY
THE BEST KIDNEY
AND LIVER MEOICIMC.
HUNT'S REMEDY
Cures Brirbt's Divest, Retention or Son-retention
of l'ruie,Fsuu la ths Back, Loins ot
Side. t
HUNT'S REMEDY
Cures In if ratf ran re, Nervous DteaM, General
Debility, Female Weakness sad xceM.
HUNT'S REMEDY
Cures Btlionnr.ew. Headache, Jaundice. Soar
titooasch, Dyspepsia, Constipation snu Hies,
HUNT'S REMEDY
! AC AT M F. on the Kleoeya. Mver
1 and Howris, restoring tben u s benitby sc-
tion, and 41 tlr.fi when all oihtr medicio
i fall. Hundred hare been tsvd wbo have been
liven ap to die by friends and physicians.
not. fa BY ALL LHt .-lst
Bakin&Pon'der
When in Portland be cure to take in
the preattwt Dovclty at the Expedition.
We ahull bake biiwuiU and cake every
afternoon and evening on our pretty
Jewel ia Store. Everybody cordially
invited to bare a biscuit with at and see
the wonderful merit of (iolden Went
Baking Powder proved by actual work.
CLOSSET&DEVERS,
PORTLAND, OR.
Driving tlie Brain
at the expense
of the Body.
While we drive
tlie brain wse tHgl
.... ...;m nxra.
the body. Ex
ercise, pure air
foods that
make healthy flesh refreshing
sleep such are methods. When
loss of flesh, strength and nerve
become apparent your physician
will doubtless tell you that the
quickest builder of all three is
Scott's Emulsion
5f Cod Liver Oil, which not only
creates flesh of and in itself, but
simulates the appetite for other
foods.
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