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T LEXINGTON WEEKLY BUDGET. VOL. 2. LEXINGTON", MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1889. NO. 11. O O PUBLISHED EVERY .THURSDAY EVENING BT SNOW & WHITSON, Tv.rms of Subscription : One Year, ..... $1.00 Six Mouths, . ..... go oents. Invariably In advance. Rates of Advertising : Ons square (ten lines or loxs), first Insertion $1.00 ; each subsequent Insertion, 60 Gouts. Speolul rates wltb regular advertisers. All transient adrortlBemeuts must be paid for In advance. Job Printino Of everjr description executed wltb neatness and dlspatuh. V. SHIPLEY, M. D., PRACTITIONER OF Medicine, Surgery & Midwifery, Registered. HEPPNER, OKEGON Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, LEXINGTON, OREGON. Attorney for the North American Attorneys and Tradesmen's Protective Unlou of Connec ticut. J1RANK KELLOGO, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, HEPPNER, OREGON. Money (o loan on improved farms. Office In first National Bank. C. BOON, Constable and Collector, LEXINGTON, OREGON, Will attend to auctioneering. JJRS. KATE PABSELL, Notary Public and Conveyancer, ALPINE, OREGON. Deeds, Mortgages and all others Lcira! Instru ments car fully drawn. Applications for ritale and School Lauds made, and Peusious obtained. J1RANK H. SNOW, Land Agent and Notary Public, LEXINGTON, OREGON. Filings taken on government land. Real state advertised and sold on commission. New comers are luvited to call and be tilled full of solid facts about the ad'-antages of Morrow country. Office hour '.oin 7 a. m. to midnight, BuDciST building. R. LIEUALLEN, GENERAL BLACKSMITH And J. lorseshoer, T9 ALWAYS ON DECK AND PREPARED TO A do anything in bis Hue In a neat and work manlike manner. Horses shod with care and accuracy. Shop on 0 St, Lexington, Or. G. W. BROCK, REPAIRING DONK. Arcade Street, Bet. C and D, Lexington, Oregon. ELKHORN I ELSE lAGXySOK, Proprietor. LSXINQTON, OR. HORSES BOARDED BY THE DAT OR WEEK. OntflU Famished far Coinmerelsl Hen at Reasonable Rate. A U. IIKD9 OF TURNOUTS AND 8ADDLK aiursc at Uie disposal uf eatruus. Livery & Feed Stable MISSIXG LINKS. Mr. Gladstone declares himself tr weigh 108 pounds. A Boston hotel advertises that it is near to Phillips Brooks' church. Milan Obrenovitch says that ho lefl Servia in order to teach his beloved people how a crown may be laid usidf without repining. Senator Ingalls has purchased a new homestead in the southwestern part oi Atchison, Kas., to replace the housf that was burned a few years ago. Philip Grenan, who left this country forty years' ago, is now at the head ol probably the largest stevedore bushiest in Bombay, India, employing no less than 7,000 men. The family of Richard Rockwell, ol Clark county, Missouri, consists ol seven children, three of them triplets, and two of them twins. The triplets are ten years old. An eagle weighing nine tons has ar riven in Brooklyn from its home in the mountains of Maine. Jt is of gKinile. and will be placed over the main en trance of the new postolliee. In the great Prussian Field Marshal's own immediate branch of the Moltke family there have been eight Ministers of State, four Generals and 0110 Ad miral, all in the Danish service. The gifts of the family of the late ex-Gov. Anthony Colby of New Lon don, N. H., and his son-in-law, James B. Colgate of New York, to Colby academy amounts to $100,000. A young woman of Soulhport puts the most deliberate method of suicide on record. She walked into the water and sat down. After a while she lay down, and the tide rose and curried her off. Benjamin F. Butler says that the reason ho has given up wearing a boutonniere is that he has come to the conviction that the only llower worthy of a lawyer recognition is a llower ol rhetoric. The lirst railway in China was torn up by the people last year, and the work abandoned; but it has now beeu decided to resume the building of Uie road, in spite of the warnings of the astrologers and the prejudices of the people. Mrs. Harrison is in receipt of nearly thirty requests a day for pieces of her dresses and clippings from the presi dent's neckties. The requests come from people who desire to use the pieces in crazy quilts or preserve them us mementoes. , The new Chinese Minister does not believe in love-making bet ween Amer ican girls and the liveiy young attaches of his legation, and gave out word, even before his departure from China, that under his regime here 110 such non sense will be permitted. Tuey Gwok Ying, the new Chinese minister to this country, is a good looking man, about 60 years of age. He dresses in the linest silk raiment, and spends a great deal of money. He is a constant smoker, ttnd when he is not pulling a cigarette is rolling one. A London correspondent says that the cause of Mrs. Rives-C'hanler's abandonment of literature lies in the fact that her success gave rise to a school of licliou which has produced a large number of female writers who have brought criticism into disrepute. At last Venice is to be made a sub ject of municipal improvement. She is going to have new boulevards or new canals laid through her after the manner of the new boulevards of Paris, and there is a tremendous hubub of alarm among those desiring to keep her as she has always been. Sir Kdwin Arnold looks more favor ably on the press of America than Mat thew did. He is a newspaper man himself, though we are sorry to say he speaks of himself as a "journalist," and he says il is "a very serious pro fession" and his "dclignt." American journalism he commands for "enter wise, dash ami vitror." The Afghan Ameer's method of ven- f:eance on his rebel prisoners is pretty lighly developed. One batch, num bering 300, were put to death three a day. One of the trio was always hang ed dressed in yellow and green, another was dressed in black and blown from a gun, and the third was dressed in red and cut up with a sword. The largest county in the United Slates is Custer county, Montana, which contains 36.000 square miles, be ing larger in extent than the States ol Vermont anil Massachusetts, Connecti cut, Delaware and Rhode Island. One tenth of our present population could lind a means of livelihood in this one county, nuil then it would not be so populous as Belgium. An old book on the gunpowder plot, published in London soon after it was discovered, speaks of the leaders of that attempt as "the darned conspira tors." The word "darn" used in this way has always been supposed to be a vulgar Americanism, but it would seem that, like many other suposcd Ameri canisms, it may be an importation from the mother country. A pamphlet, thought to be from high sources, lias just been published in Ber lin, saving that the reasons which pre vented Germany during the days ol Kmperor William from bringing mat ters to a crisis between Russia and France on one side and the Triple Al liance on the other have now dis;tp peared, and a precipitation of the con test may be looked for at any moment. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps sjent two years in writing "Gates Ajar," and two years more in finding a publisher for it, Francis Hodgson Burnett was 1 CiUQtry school-teacher on a small gist- ary wnen she began writing stories, and rumor has it that the stamps with which her contribution was sent away were bought with money obtained from picking berries. The shah of Persia has had a long in terview with Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan about America. The details of their conversation are not known, but it is understood that the Bhah's curiosi ty regarding our country has been roused to a feverish heat. It is rumor ed that he is now making arrange ments to come to America next spring incognito, though there are those who urge him to postpone his visit unf.fi 18U2 in order that he may take in tho world's fair. An exchange tells of the disappear ance of tho family cat. The Infirmities of old age were upon her, yet the fam ily shrunk from from putting her de liberately into the hands of the execu tioner. One of tho family said to the cat one morning in an earnest but not unfeeling manner: "Old cat, I wish you would go off and die somewhere." As an actual fact, Calamity" for such was the name of poor puss went off during the day and was never seen or heard of more. James McMillan is the resident di rector of the Cambria iron works at Johnstown, Pa. Fifty years ago he was driving a pair of mules on a tow path. When years of age he was the commander of a canal-boat. He made some money on a wheat specula tion and then began to lay up u for tune. He went to Johnstown in 1840, and from a poor young man became president of the two banks of that city, lie is a very wealthy man at present, but is still actively engaged in busi ness and is hopeful of Johnstown's fu ture. Berry, the English hangman, is as proud of his calling as was the hang man in "Barnaby Rudge." Berry is sociable by nature, and likes to talk of his professional success. As his occu pation is not conducive to popularity he is snubbed on all sides, but does not seem to admit it. He is a hard drinker, but never gets intoxicated. He seems to have an idea that tho highest ambi tion 11 sensible man can possess is to laj "worked off" bv such a skillful opera tor as he is. lie is very anxious to come to America and display his gen ius. SATURNIAN REPTILES. Georgian Snakes That Hwallow Their Own Young-Deadly Haulers. "Did you know," said Mr. Seaborn Jones the other dav. "that the slender snakes are never poisonous, and th' they lay eggsP The thick and deadly snakes bring forth their young anil swallow them when danger threatens. I once saw a large moccasin lying up on a rock near a water gin "where 1 worked. As I approached it made 9 strango chirping noise, mid I saw in numerable small creatures leaping down its throat. When the last had disappeared it plunged into the water. When I went home 1 told the folks that I had seen a snake swallowing quanti ties of what appeared to be insects. They explained that it was only housing its young. "There is a species of serpent molt deadly than the rattlesnake," he con tinued, as if warmed up upon the sul jeet of snakes. "It frequents old log and rotten timber, it is a pure white, surrounded by scarlet rings, and U known as the thunder snake.' "You often hear of the charminp powers of snakes. I can certainly be lieve in them. Once as I was standing by the base of an old, dead tree, waitiiij; for the approach of some game, I hap pencil to glume upward. Within si inches of my face I encountered the eyes of a large snake fastened directly upon mine, while their owner was slow ly and noiselessly sliding down the trc toward me. I shall never forget thf terrible expression of that serpent' eves, nor their singular fascination With an exclamation of horror I fell backward and lay iironc upon thf earth. The snake, foiled of its prey, turned and began slowly ascending tfit dead tree, its sinuous folds curvinp around it. When I had partially re covered from my singular experiencf I grasiiod my gun ami, rising, suc ceeded in putting an end to the ser pent's life." "I had quite an alarming experience with a rattler," remarked a young gen tlcman who had listened to the ahovf recital. "I was standing on the edg of a pond wailing for the apiniarano of some gannets. Suddenly 1 heard ar alarmed exclamation from a negrc who accompanied me. Looking around I saw right at my feet a large rattle snake coiling up to strike. I had beer too much engrossed in watching for tin game to even hear his deadly rattle, which was shaking vigorously. I took my gun and blew its head off. "Once I whs riding Mr. John Stephen's hunting pony and going at a furious gait. Right ahead of me I noticed two baleful eyes shining out from under the foliage of an overhang ing tree. A large snake was coiled around a bending limb and watching me as I approached. It was directly iu front of me. In a moment mora il loomed up before me or 1 Uion it. At a given signal the trained smy relaxed lis speed. Mud I rolled off its back to the ground. The horns of the cavalry saddle struck the snake and knocked it from its perch. Grasping a stout slick I attacked it. It made furiom and angry leaps at me, but I managed to kill it' Atlanta Conntilution. Shot if la Wli'e'a Foot. A W'averly (Mich.) man saw his Wife s foot sticking nn il... 1. ....... end of tlie U-il mi,,I n.i,.L ..... ;. .. .... .. I burglar lie shot at iu lli"wlfe uuw NYE AT A PAWS MUSEE. HE NARROWLY ESCAPES BEING LOCK. ED UP AS A FREAK. Permitted to Sit In nil Old Couch Onos Owned by a King-Tlie Red Tape of a French Cable Ollloo. Paris is full of Musccs. Everywhere one goes hu sees tliu Musee this and the Musee tho other. Tliey are first-rate and are spoken of very highly by the guido-books. I visited the Musee de Cluny this week as long us my eyes held iVA.(TbB building occupies thorite and is assisted by the ruins of a Roman pal ace supposed to luivo been occupied by tho Emperor Constantino Chlorus, who rosidod in Gaul along iu the third cen tury, when the country was compara tively new. It was here that Julian wits Inaugurated Emperor. Tho baths are still to bo secu. Tho ruins themselves have been recently refitted and refur nished throughout, nnd are rather a de sirable set of ruins altogether. They came into possession of the weal thy Benedictine Abbey of C.utiy iu 1840. Tho abbots constructed here a hotel in the sixteenth century, and this Is still In 1 ,'etty good shape. It reminds mo of the Gem CMv House on little F.fth avenue, New York. It was mostly 00 enpied by ihe kings of France, as the iihlmts seldom cnino here I liemselves. In 1H33. or during llie revolution, Il became the properly of M. do Siinimeriird, who was a great iinliqiiariiiii possibly you never s iw an nntiqii irian. Ho began to ncquire a large slock of second-hand guilds, former y owned by old people who afterwards died. Since t li -it the slock has been grcally increased. I tried to buy a coach Unit used to belong to the royal Ivi rv slablo in Ihe sixteenth ciiilury bat cou d not ui.iko my French understood. The display of ancient carriages and royal single nnd double harness is the best as 1 heard a man say that he had ever saw. I was going to get into one of the o'd royal rigi, but the uniformed Mijor-G jneral who had charge of that room gently J irked mo out. I gnvo him a copper cent with which to piece out his salary, mid when the crowd thinned out lie softly opened Ihe gold-embossed door and beckoned for me lo jump in, while he intruded the iitlention of the miilitudo lo a tapes try dog right. lata. IN TIIK HOVAI, COACH". I Ihen sealed myself wiihin die conch nnd thoughts of great iuiporiancc rush ed through my mind. In fancy I was 11 king going home Into at night wiih my head too larire for my crown. Bv mv side a court fool otherwise, I sin pine, foreman of thejurv. In 11 lr -11111 1 pass ed through all kuidi of dilliculi ies wilh other Millions and seat out troops lo tight each other so dial 1 could have peace. When I woke up it was dark, slid Ihe Janitor was Juki locking up Ihe museum wilh an cx.ri fn-ak Iu ihe col lection. 1 spuke to hi 111 in French, ask ing him lo let me mil, ami so saved my self a iliniier-ei.be hl'ht among the memories of Ihe molli-eateu pasl. The collect ion of wood carving and tnpesliy, luce and gents' fiitiii-litng goods at tue Cmiiy is eq 1 d in many re qiecis lo thai of the 11 in.' M .rsliay. l'he mutilated statuary is alio ghasllv and pleasing to the eve. Out on the grounds various shine figures present themselves lo tint inluiiishcil tourist. A 1 are old and hur-l lo gel. When yon comu lo visil the arl and mil que collec tions of Piris il is ri'in ii kulilu when you price tilings how they seem lo run into money. A lillle pieca of luce thai rantmud to lie u handkerchief, nnd also that it II nil wiped I lie none of a long waisted queen, win viiueil at a price that ma le mv hair stiiinl on en I, like frills upon tno disagreeable porcupine. "OMKWIIAT ASTOSISIIKO. Blill I live to price lli.ng-t here, be cause Hie vo en of (he Am r c 111 in Paris Verv pleiming to tin; sliopkeeper-l. The iHtcivioiH ple-Kins of ihe hue are nowhere. Manv P ins people ih nk that the Kxinbition is In make their fortune, and thai tin- American with his huge ti( is lo tl-i il llm gre it N itioual dulil of Fr.iiicu. The Ainuricau bates to be I., f I I J. M W called mean even by strangers, hut with a belter exhibit hero and a smaller pour boirt we would appear Just as well iu the eyos of the world. Did the bright-eyed reader who loks over this letter ever send a cable mes sage, from this side? If not, there is an ex periece in store for him. I got anxious as the days went by and no letters came from home. The old green stamp that I hud cussed at homo repeatedly in round nnd rubicund terms did not show itself in my mail. The soft colors of the French stamp and the English stamp and the German slump were lo be seen frequently, but never Ihe old bust of tho American on tho pale green medallion. So I decided to find oil I if all was well at my slosh by I ho sea. Thereforo I hunted up a cable office at the Grand Hotel tho Caisse Telegratiqno and asked for the mnn who speaks English and who, like the editor is not in. 1 did the deaf and dumb Hsyliim act and idler a long time the able mini at the window gave inu a blank. 1 gave him several under my breath. The blank he gnvo me look ed like the form of a warrantee deed or the nbstneted tillo to n home in New York, and it was in French. It had concliiVna on Ihe back like a pass or a porous plaster, and 1 could see that 1 would probably get myself in jail if 1 signed II, hut I wrote ray message mid tho foreigner counted tho words, also Ihe letters and figures, including the dale and llie address and tho signature and the conditions on tho back ami tho blols and tho puuctunlion and made three words of Toiupkinsville. Then 1 paid for it at tho rale ol $10 a thought and went away, That was a week ago nnd I have heard nothing from il. You may cast your bread upon the waters and they say thai after many davs, somewhat disfigured, it will return. But a cable message sent from France by a man who speaks French with a fcitatcn Island flavor is lost iu the capacious bosom of the moan ing sea. The placo to receive good treatment, if nowhere else, is at the bunks and es pecially the large banks. I go to the Credit Lyotiunisc and get money just as 1 would from my wife, without any identification mid the utmost courtesy. An English speaking young man shows me a big, luxurious department, where 1 sil down, ho brings tue a lot of Ameri can papers, nnd Ihen he goes lo the vault and gels me a quantliy of funds, says wo lire having rather an open Winter and iu every way he Heals me as his equal. 1 ucliiiilly yielded to the impulse iiinlgave him two I nines. Tins is as line as that 1 Sit here and hope lo safely reach amerira. Did anybody ever dare to tip 1111 American cashier? Never! The American cashier may incidentally tip himself, but the customer would hnrdly date to offer him 40 cents for being com tonus, lint In llils cnne.nmioiigh my brow Hushed delicately with shame at the moment, there was no cause for it. He ill once inviled mo to visit Versailles with him on Holiday, so that we could be belter acquainted. First on my arrival I was quite ill, owing lo the heat nnd change of cli mate. I was afraid I was going to dio, bill then I heard that it would he ex pensive to die and so 1 rallied. It costs 1,1100 for a stranger lo die in Paris at a hotel, to sny nothing of llie funeral. I go lo the Moreno whenever I feel de pressed. There is peace. Even Ihe Frenchmen are quiet there. It is not so shocking iir you might think. The sad harvest from Ihe river lies inside a glass inclosiiro in n low kind of "doby" build ing hack of Notre Dame. This Morgue is said lo be the most successful in tho world. By Ihe system of refrigeration bodies may be kept on exhibition for Idem mention a month or more; hut I wouldn't enre to spi ear in public so long. Profoundly thankful for the dem onstrations I would ask to ho excused from an uppcurunco extending beyond a week. For the Information of tho public I append a few illustrations of the Inge nuity of the Franco-American barten der. They are supposed to bo American drinks. Pipiarn meal 75 centimes 1'iek-nn -up m centimes r'urpse reviver I li-iiiui lleilll llf V llllol t 1 fiHIll! HhhIi of lailiiiilug 1 tiiine J, mill's' lilusti Initio Hilly I'm lemon 1 ir.uie H111I1II11 Hock 1 triiiiu 'J im Ely 1 frano Possibly some of the readers will re cognire some of these well-known Ami r lean beverages, but t do not myself. liitl Aye, in At York World. I'nris uiiil I10111I011. In the streets French traffic nil goes to the right; London coachmen drive always to the lefl. Parisians live to gether in largo houses like barracks; Londoners have one family in a house, They have a latchkey; the Frenchman a concierge; 1'aris has il cafes, Lon don its clubs. Parisian beds are up in an alcove in the wall; Londoners .sleep in the middle of Die room. London takes three or four meals a day; Paris two. Paris dines; London eats. Paris loaves are long; Iwnidon loaves are square. Paris drinks wine, Loudon beer. Paris lakes coffee, Loudon lea. Frenchmen, while dining, talk to their neighbor and enjoy each other's society; Britons sit alone at table and don't say much, but enjoy their food. London workmen work iu their ordi nary clothes, call each other "male," smoke clay pipes and punch each other's heads occasionally. Parisian workmen do their business in blouses, call their friends "citizens" or "sir," smoke ci garettes, take their hat oil lo each oili er, and do t heir lighting w ith their feet, - Lmiilnii 'I'ul-llilK liHule, to I'.iiix, llrli k .Maile by Prisoners. The prisoners at the Oregon peni tentiary are making brick. They turn out Itj.iXSJ a day, w ich liud qirck sales. Edinburgh, with a population of 300,. 000. has no street cars on Sunday, giving the cabmen a monopoly which enables them to charge one-third more than on week days. THE LtNCTH Of A DAT, Prof. F. II. Bailey makes the state ment in tlie Boston Journal of Educa tion that the day contains exactly forty eight hours, and that the week, though seven times as long as the day for any one locality, is, upon the earth as a whole, only four times as long. "We readily perceive," ho says, that the natural day travels around the earth with the sun ttnd never ends, it being dav or daytime continuously on the half of the earth toward the sun and night on the opposite half. The date, or almanac day, travels the same way and with the same speed as if it had no place for beginning or ending it would always lie the saints date. "We will commence- with the begin ning of the lirst day of the year. It is the moment of noon Dec. 13 on the meridian of Greenwich, forenoon over the western hemisphere, and ufternoou over the eastern. The mean sun is ex actly iu the south, and at this moment llie lirst day of the year is born. WhereP Not at Greenwich. The civil day begins at midnight, and il is mid night on the 1,'illth meridian at this mo ment, ami the New Year's day begins. As the sun travels westward from Greenwich across the Atlantic and America New Year's marches westward across the Pacific and Asia, conquering tlie earth at the rate of one twenty fourth part every hour. By the tiniethe sun reaches the Mississippi valley it is evening of the last day of the year in England, but Jan. 1 holds sway over one-fourth of the earth that lying be tween the OOth meridian cast of Green wich and the lHllth. "Six hours later, when the sun has traveled half way around the earth and is over the 1K0 meridian. New Year's has reached Greenwich and sways one-half the earth. In another six hours the bells of the Mississippi valley are ringing iu the new year, but it has been on earth eighteen hours. And iu six more the sun is again over tlie meridian of Greenwich, and New Year's exists for a single moment, over theenlire earth. But Mo her Earth does not stop her waltzing, nor old Sol his westward journey, and tlie 2t day of January puis iu his appearance where the 1st did twenty-four hours before, and immediately commences chasing his elder brother around the earth at the rate of more than 1,000 miles an hour, the chase continuing for exactly twenty-four hours, during which the portion of the earth under the sway of Jan. 1 . is continually de creasing and that of the 2d increasing. "Another met hod of presenting tho same fads may be considered better. Think of the days pant and fulura as threads each wound upon its own spool and of sufficient length lo reach, when unwound, around thecarth at the equa tor. The spools are kept at tho 180th meridian those bearing past dates have been used, future dates awaiting their lime, and always two in use at once. When it is noon at Greenwich mi the 31st of December the spool bear, ing that date is empty and its thread girdles the earth. Beside it, rotating about the same axis (the I HO meridian) is the spool dated Jan. 1; and at that moment some power capable of travel ing 1,000 miles an hour seizes the end of the thread and Hies westward; tho thread unwinds. The other spool ro tates at the same velocity, hill is wind ing up the thread of Dee. ill, dragging it around the earth, the free end keep ing e.viielly even Willi the advancing end of Jan. 1. Each thread is exactly twenty-four hours unwinding and the same w inding up again, and the por tion of the earth lying north and south of tlie unwound part of each thread bears lis dale, consequently each dale exists upon the earth for forty-eight hours, or 11 little more than two com plete rotations of the earth upon its axis. Il is evident thai Ihe thread of any day has been unwinding seventeeu hours w hen il reaches the 7ilh meridian west of Greenwich, that it is twenty four hours drugging itself across tho line, and that it will be seven bourn longer before it is entirely wound upon its spool and the dale is past for the en l.ro earth." Nipped In Urn nud. Julian Magnus tells an amusing tale of the late E. A. Sothcrn's first knock-out by the iiiihiin, says the De troit t'rr.e I're.Li. lie was playing Lord Dundreary in a small town, whose regular playgoers plumed themselves on their iinperliirbablo (therefore aris tocratic) demeanor in the theater. A joker w ho lived in that town had just returned from New York and gravely pill in circulation a hint that it was ex tremely unfashionable to laugh at comedians. The hint "took." Koth ern played the lirst net in a frigid at Unisphere. He could not understand it, bill he called the company together before the second act and implored them to "pilch in and wake 'em up." They did their prettiest, but without perceptible result. Utterly beaten, the great laiighmaker disconsolately dived into the dressing-room. Presently the manager of (lie house joined him. Shake! Ned, old boy," he ex claimed. "You're doin' great. (Jot 'em sum. Never seen a more delight ed ordience." "What!" was tho comedian's dazed response. "'Deliglited'be blowed! They haven't cracked a smile." "Laughed, sir!" replied the home manager. "I should hope not. There was one mini that snickered, and we bounced him afore ho kuowed what ailed him." The Oldest Form of llreail. Crackers are the oldest form of bread. Fragments of uuferineiited cakes wera discovered in tho Swiss lake dwellings. Which lNdoii!f the lu-olilliie mrt of I turn 'M "" " "" 1