Lebanoii Express.
FRIDAY Jan 18, 1885.
STATE AND COAST.
Taken From Our Eichingea Through,
out the Horthwut.
The local excitement at Nehalem
ia a sheet and pillow-case ball.
Farmers of West Chehalom com
ii':iin of many sheep being killed
by dogs.
Marion county commissioners
Imve reduced bounties for wild ani
mals one-half.
Application has been made to
the Pendleton city council for a
telephone exchange franchise.
TheLostiue Flouring Mill com
nanv has been incorporated, and
citizens of that place are subscrib
ing the stock.
The Southern Pacific will build a
hope warehouse at Salem 40x100
feet. Last season 8240 bales were
shipped from that point.
A tew days ago John Wyatt killed
thirteen skunks, young and old,
near Corvallis, and still is not quar
antined by his neighbors.
The Hillsboro mill has filled an
order for nineteen cars of rolled
oatB the past month, and has an
other order for seven more.
Albany has taken hold of the
creamery matter in a business way
and appointed committees to re
port rt a meeting January 23.
Thomas O'Leary has secured a
judgment for $50G0 against the Pu
gct Bound & Alaska Steamship
company for damages, at Seattle.
It is reported that Colonel Jay P.
Lucas, county clerk of Gilliam
countv, will resign his office in
Marcjit- and remove to Monmouth.
The' Tacoma Poultry Associa
tion's first annual show began in
that citv Tuesday with more than
five hund.ed birds on exhibition.
Dr. Y. C. Blalock, rearing fire
chief of W lla Walla, was presented
with a cane by the members of
Tiger engin company Monday
night. '
Mrs. Caroline B. Showers died at
Furest Grove January 13, aged 61
viirn. She came to Oregon in 1877
from Iowa, and was a native of
Peunsy'vania.
4Vallowa county fat the privi
lege of f.iotinR the bills of a legal
contest growing out of a dispute
alitiut ten cents in adjusting an ac
count at Joseph.
The highest water ever known in
Dairy creek, Washington county,
occurred a few day a ago. Portions
of the Greenville and Centorville
bridges were Swept away.
J. A. West, superintendent ot
the Bumpier Valley railroad, was
severely injured Saturday by ft
velocipede car on which he was
riding jumping the track.
News has been received in Ta
coma from the East that Paul
' 8h ulwe has succeeded in placing
$1,000,000 bonds of the jitu.i de
ditch, in the Yakima .vuntry.
The Newsboy's Union of Spokane
has boycotted the Chronicle be
caue it will not take back unsold
papers at cost price. Everybody
who buys one is to be listed as a
. "scab." '
Deckhands of the stemar Hoag
saw in the river near Half-Moon
bend an object they took to be a
human body a few days ago. It is
surmised that it may have been
the body of Pryor Scott.
Hilda Johnson, a girl fifteen
years of age, living at Olalla, Kit
sap county, took strychnine Sun
day morning, and diedintwn houre
in great agony. She wanted to livs
in Seattle if she staid on earth at
' a"-
The peculiarties of the Chinook
wind are linwn in the region south
of The Dalles. All of the now on
the lngli ground, from Th ridge
to the Flue mountains, has dieup
peaitd, while winter still reigns in
t.e toner ultitudes,
; A petition being circulated ask
ing t:- iisUtiirc to Appropriate
110,000 for a state wtfron rosd int
the Bohemia minion dlatrkt. the
nA Irt fun (mm tihm,m flraftV Ml .
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Frank usffoid'd iu FtlrVtew gapl
j urn n fAiinit
DOWN IN A CKATEll.
Wonders Witnessed by
tain Explorer.
Moun-
I.dfcui l)rnd f a, Piiimim Kitlset Vdl
. mo In the Wet Strange Ant
aaftla VoDd In tho Subter
ranean CnTOrna.
Crater mountain i one of the Uma
tilla Indians' (Trent spook depots from
unoient time, Bays the linker City Dem
ocrat. Ihielts that, are now white with
tho hoary frosts of many wintera reo
olleot lianjrinir In tho trees tightly
strappad to their mining' boards, while
their mothers roamed the forests in
search of gome for the lords of crea
tion or wood for the tepee, and from
infancy love to relate how the great
spirit spoke to them with the awful
voice ot terrific thunder in the bowels
of the earth. Many are the stories and
leirends of Indian lore told of Crater
mountain. One of the favorite ones is
told of a great war between the
Shoshonea and Umatillas. When the
Umatillas had conquered their foes
they proceeded to slaughter old and
young, regardless of sex. One beauti
ful Shoshone maiden, seeing that
death was inevitable from her pursu
ing foes, plunged headlong Into the
burning crater, and instantly the vol
canic eruption ceased, much to the
consternation of her pursuers, who on
the following day found, on looking
down the chasm ot inky darkness, a
resplendent light with the form of the
Shoshone maiden in the midst of the
apparition. They told It to their dusky
warriors and to this day Crater moun
tain is looked upon with reverence
from an Indian point of view.
The following is from the diary of J.
A. Wright; "Crater mountian is located
some eleven miles from the Camp of
Cornucopia, on the south side of tho
range whose eaps are tipped with
eternal snow. Many chasms and fis
sures have in ithe misty past cleft the
mountains and left them in the most
fantastic shapes. Vegetation ceases to
grow after a certain height is reached,
and close under the base of one of the
great peaks is the famous extinct vol
cano. Ashes and lava are found in
great profusion and in such indescrib
able masses that it makes the ascent
one of peril and great difficulty. How
ever, once at the top, a peek down into
the blank, fathomlessabyss supplies the
most morbid minds with all the sensa
tionalism necessary for a lifetime. A
favorite amusement was to throw rocks
down and listen to the sounds as they
struck on the projecting sides of the
dark chimnoy until the sounds died
away, leaving nothing but for the
mystified explorer to guess it had
reached the bottom."
Many have been the stories circu
lated of the wonderful cavern that ex
tended from the aides of the great
ehimney, A Stout cable was provided
and a basket swung from a pulley,
lion. Joseph, with camera and note
book, was carefully lowered some
three hundred and seventy-eight feet,
when he 'noticed an aperture in the
side of the chimney, and, by signals
agreed upon, a halt was called in ms
downward career, and he crawled
through a cleft in the great chimney,
,md the work of exploration began.
The first sight that met his astonished
raze was a most stupendous chamber,
from whose mighty dome hung stalac
tites of great beauty, which were en
hanced by the light of the candle, and
fairly struQk terror to his heart, as the
nickering candle seamed to possess the
power of some unseen hand that made
millions of -the brilliant stalactites
dance in resplendent beauty. A great
snowy owl blinked at the astonished
Joseph.
The explorer groped his way to the
far end of the chamber, where he
thought he heard the sounds of falling
water nor was he mistaken, for
squeezing himself through an opening
lie found himself in another chamber
ot great beauty, with a stream of hot
sulphur water running into the earth.
The incrustation from the sulphur
water had transformed the cavern into
a coral-like substance and left it in
such fantastic shapes. He found in the
water some lively little lizards and
some frogs that change color on the
slightest provocation and two large
rats, who eyed the explorer with a cu
riosity that teemed to bode no good,
and he longed for his little gun.
Maw Terror for V reach Convicts.
Life in the French penal colony at
New Caledonia has been pictured as so
agreeable, both by reason of the cli
mate as well as the leniency with
which convicts have been treated, that
transportation seems to have lost most
of its terrors. Criminals do not con
ceal their preference for a long sen
tence in the beautiful Pacific island to
a much shorter term with hard labor
iu one of the penitentiaries at home,
and when perpetrating a misdeed have
sought as a rule to render their offense
as serioas as possible, so as to entail
transportation if captured. It is with
a view of putting an end to this senti
ment that the French government has
now decided to stop sending convicts
to New Caledonia, and is making ar
rangements to deport them instead to
Gaboon, the fever-stricken and most
pestilential of all districts of French
Congoland in Africa.
Thin ri Leariietl In the Monroe.
The old keeper of the morgue in this
city, who has seen hundreds of un
known bodies exhibited for identifica
tion, has arrived at some interesting
conclusions, says the Philadelphia Eec
ord. If the face of the dead person is
perfectly composed and natural, of
course, intimate friends or relatives
recognize them immediately. But, he
says, if the face is distorted through
pain or disfigured by injuries, a casual
acquaintance can identify the body
tnuch easier than tho closest relation,
lie explains this by saying that people
Who have known a purson well for a
long time loan sight of the features and
sve rather the personality reflected in
tlw lines of the face, A casual ao
(jualnuoee Botes the features, and gen
VII IU ,tltr wU' -3-iMi:bfllin.
STRIPPED bV LIGHTNING.
The Rtnrtiin? 1 jerlinro or n M mmna
Alan, Vh RttU Survive!! tlio HMr!(,
Chnrlesll. Hoffman, of Kittle. Mont,,
wiis standing at tho .mouth i-. f a, mine
not lorv? c.fro when ho 1 ;..:v. vl; by
lifrh1r.ir.fr. ri'lit? tlnmiloriioi.. i, . liiiiks,
tir:.t. s.;viL' tile i.t;v hut l.v. v. vmir
iii? imd it tot-o u hole in t'm t tlint
piuit of t'iui rim. 'liwv. it t :vi. his
ct'uiiiug into idiri'ds nr.tl leii. iiim
nuliml. ' tioth his overalls iirv.l Dim 'shirt
he won wearing1 presented the nnpear
tinee of having passed through n wui
Ki,i mill. Nobody can tell him why
ho was not kilted by tho lightning.
The bolt, he says, it fter ptniM utf 1 hrouh
hia hat, Btruek him on tho shouUov nnd
ran tho full lentrth of his body, burn
ing the skin touevisp on the oide nnd
legs. It also cut bis left foot oh tho
Hide and bottom, breaking the bones of
the foot,
"My clothes were torn to pieces nnd
thrown from my body," suit! Mr. Hoff
man to a writer for tho New York
World, "and my shoes were torn from
my feet."
He became unconscious ns soon ns he
was struck by the 'lightning and did
not revive for an hour imil a half.
When he regained his senses Huffman
was In "rent pain nnd he was confined
to the hospital for nine weeks. When
Hoffman's clothing was examined after
the accident it ras seen that in many
places the lightning had cut the cloth
as neutly as if it had been ilouo with a
razor. Some of the cuts were long and
straight. The lightning took his
clothes off quicker than he could have
undressed .himself, and il threw them
in a pile on one side of the track, w'ith
his shoes carefully deposited beside the
pile. The clothes seemed to hnvu been
neatly folded until they were exam
ined and found to be a pile of rap's.
Hoffman's "pants" had been yanked off
him without the formality of p illing
them over his feet. This seemlrrdy im
possible tiusk was aeeo'.upiished by
the lightning first cuttiuy eaeli leg
open, and then itanpeared to have tak
en them by the seat nnd dropped them
on the ccat, and ti finish Uie job by
depositing Mr. Hofi'man's straw hat on
top of all. After it got. through with
Hoffman this remarkable streak of
lightning ran alonp1 a nietnl traclt into
the (llenrrary mine, at the mouth of
whieh he had been workin;;, ran to the
end of the shaft, which is four hundred
feet below the sm-faee of ttie frround,
nnd then it ran along? a "cross c.i V two
hundred feet where it branched off and
for sixty feet followed a "winze."
There were several men at work at this
poiut,and all were more or les.i st n nned.
The bolt of lightning went into the
enrth when it reached the end of the
"winze." Hoffman is now known in
Kutte as "the human lightuing rod."
SHAVING IN JAMAICA.
It Is CaneUjr e Very Primitive Proceed
ing. The natives of Jamaica have no need
to buy soap, for the woods nljotmd in
plants whose leaves and bulbs supply,
very well the plaee of that indiciisu
ble article. Amoii" the best of these
is the sono tree, so called, though it is
more a busli than a tree, its tun.inieai
name is Phnlangium Pomci-idianum.
Its bulb, when ruR'ed on wet clothes,
makes a beautiful hither, which smells
much like tho common brown sonp.
The Jamaica uc;rroes. some of whom
are great dandies in their way,' make a
soap out of eocoamit oil and home
made lye; anda fine soap it is, smootlr
and frcfrrant. This cocoanut-oil soap
is used for shaving.
When a man wishes to shave in the
morning he starta rmt with his cocoa-nut-shell
cup and hisdonkey-tail brush
and a bottle. It is never any trouble
to find an empty bottle in Jamaica,,
even in the mountain?. At luast twenty
generations of thirsty peoplu have
lived there, and thrown away the
empty bottles.
The man carries no mirror, because
he has none to carry, Not one negro
cabin in a dozea has even a cheap
looking-glass. Dirt nature provides the
mirror tin well as the soap. The man
goes to a convenient pool in the moun
tain stream, where the water is still,
and there is his mirror. He breaks his
bottle on a stone and picks out a good
sharp piece. Then lie lathers his face
profusely and begins to ccrape away
with his piece of glass, which works
almost as well as a sliarp razor.
The men rarely cut themselves in the
operation. "At first," suys a New York
bun writer, "I trembled fin: them, but
afterward I tried tho method myself,
and soon became almost an cxpertat it,"
WORK WITHOUT PAY.
Well-Known Aatlinn, Who Decline to Ac
cept Hnnuy for Their WorkH.
This is true of Count Lyof Klkol
aievitch Tolstoi, the famous Russian
author, who,' while in the army as a
member of the staff of Prince Oorts
chakoff, was present at the storming
of Kebastopol in IfiSS. Leaving the
army, and already a famous poet and
novelist, he devoted himself to liter
ature, and spent a short time in the
most brilliant literary and social
circles of tit. Petersburg, riinec his
marriage ho has lived more or less in
retirement, and during the Russian
famines of 1801 and 1U3 made great
ciforts on behalf of tho peasants on
and in the vicinity of his estates. In
the latter year Count Tolstoi resigned
all social standing and privileges of his
rank, and he now devotes most of his
time and money to good works, while
livin;; as poorly as any of tho peasan
try. 11c iu-iists tliat the literal inter
pretation of the Sermon on the Mount
is the only rule of Christian life, tad
he has oxpressly declined to avail him
self of any copyright iu his works or in
translations of them into other
languagos. Dr. John Charles Hyle,
bishop of Liverpool, has written above
two hundred tracts on religious sub
jects, many of which have been trans
luted and reprinted In French, tier-
i man, JJutoh, Portuguese. Helton,
, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish,
illndostnnl, and Chineno, and it is said
,:uuv nu mu tuner uutniag irom n
lf' M,'.tfc'rtttTO Slid will nraUe no J
A FOREIGN INDUSTRY.
We Use MUllom of Split Steel Rln(e, But
Don't Alulce Any, ....
"I've handled hud sold forty thou
sand gross of split key rings since
1807," said the little man in nu over
coat and a white sweater, "and not
one of them was uf American make."
"Why, how is that?" asked a New
York Sun reporter.
TVUeeauso tMtti Ve' nonVnTaTio tn4
this country,", replied the. little man,
with a smile that lifted one' corner of
his gray mustache, "po, slr.V he con
tinued, "tho making of split steel rings
is an nrt that we haven't got hold of
yet, somehow, and I must say T often
wonder at It." . , , . .
"Where are thoy made, tben?" .
"The best, sir, are made about fifty
seven miles outside of Paris, at a little
manufacturing town whose muuo f
can't just now recall. The next beat
rings are made In Sheffield, England,
while rings of inferior quality, made
from Swedish iron, are manufactured
in Alsace. I dont know that the steel
iu the French rings is any better than
that used by the Sheffield manufac
turers, but the Frenchmen in this, as In
0 many things, have got the hang of
naldng their thiugs look well. Thr.
iiefileld rings are polished with oil
oul emery, and that gives them a dull
. ieely look, while the French rings are
polished by tho dry process, with what
they call 'crocus powder,' a tort of
coarse rouge."
"What are the extremes in size of
split rings?" the man was asked.
"The smallest that I ever handled,"
lie replied, "were three-sixteenths of
an inch across. Thoy are gilded when
'.hey reach this country and are used in
elieap jewelry. The largest key rings
1 ever sold were two and a half inches
in diameter, and those 1 sold to the
wardens at Sing Sing. In fact, they
are called pri- on rings. That key ring
with the two little knobs or bosses
through which you slip the key, is niso
a French manufacture, and indeed 1
have never seen an American key ring
except .that clumsy little tiling whero
you have to move around a small round
double plate with a notch in it, nnd
then spring out the open end of the ring
through this notch. I must say," con
cluded the little man, musingly, "I
often wonder why wo don't nmko
rings over here. Even now there's n
forty-five per cent, duty on them, and
they could be sold at half their present
mice nnd still bring a good profit.
Why, just think. 1 sell over one hun
dred and fifty thousand rings a year,
and there must be millions of them
handled every year in this country."
MACHINE-MADE SPEECHES.
Tnraea Oat with Marvelous ltapldltj br a
lieccnt Uuvllah Invention.
There is no doubt that both the type
writing machine and the phonograph
arc very ingenious nnd useful Inven
tions, but the chief difficulty with
them, says, the New York Times, is
that they cannot be made to act auto
matically. It is in order to fill this
want that a distinguished inventor,
-.'!iosc name is for the present with
held, has invented an automatic writer,
and, judging from tho private exhibi
tion of the machine which was recently
given in London to a committee of
members of the Royal society, it bids
fair to prove the greatest invention of
this or any ago.
In appenranco the machine Is said to
bo not wholly unlike 8 typewriting
machine. It, however, is provided with'
a sort of hopper, in which arc placed :
blocks of type metal, each one of which
is provided with a complete word, in-,
.'end of a single letter. When this
a pper is filled nnd the small electric
';u;;iiiO' which furnishes tho motive
p owerqf the machine is set in action it!
instantly begins to print. Of course,,
.what is printed depends in a good de
cree upon the selection of words which
are placed in the hopper, but it Is un
derstood the machine can be used foi
almost uny sort of composition.
At the exhibition already mentioned
trie hopper was filled with a supply of
words relating to the English political
situation, and in ten minutes after the
engine had been started tho machine
had printed twcfull columns, each of
about the length of an ordinary col
uirin of a hownpaper. When these were
read they were instantly rocogniz'cd to
be a speech on home rule in thegencr.il
style of Mr. Gladstone. The hopper
was next filled with a choice selection
of the very finest words in the lan
guage, and the machine thereupon
printed what was at once perceived to
be an essay after the manner of Mr.
Buskin on political economy. More
words wero added and three pages of
what any critic would have unhesi
tatingly accepted on- a passage from a
new novel by Mr. Meredith delighted
the committee. The last experiment
was mado with the hopper tilled with
words taken from the Slang Diction'
ary and the result was a story in dia
lect which was hold to bo superior to
almost any dialect story hitherto pub
lished, :
Alore Pathetic Than ilamorouii.
An aged couple living south of
l!ra2il,Ind., who had devoted their three
scow; nnd ten to rural life and the.
iirildng of ii farm, sold their posses-
j;is for the snug sum of sixteen thou
dollars. When the purchaser.
caH-cd with a notary to close up the
deal by tailing the deed of title, the
.husband having .signed nnd passed ii to
the wife, she positively refused to Mgn
without a consideration, paying she had
spent her life in making the farm, a 1
had never realhwd anything the c uld
call her own and now was her oppor
tunity. The husband failed to itvti .fy
her nnd secure tho dgnature. Then the
purchaser asked to know whnt she
rould take and tign tho deed, fearful
tlattshe would lio exacting beyond his
inclination to comply. After a good
dual of hooitoncy oho said she thought
the ought to have two dollars, which
i;o pr.aaptly handed her, nnd rho ;
i :;;r;cd the title. She turned over tho '
Ih'jr dollars tiir.o and timij again,
Jr.s 'dii? ever her pocd ImAiK Um soldi
"'.Vm, v.'cil. tills is the l&t money
1 have uini In Ely life thft I aould
f-U my owp ,m noniid kits oW'WeUii
mi ii . m i , i. -.ii
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