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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1888)
A BAD SEA BONG. ASTOR PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON. WAGES OF FAMOUS COOK&. LIBRARY'S F w l*** Wbleb Bleb New Terker* Fny ter ’ Farm Life in Kort C»liR*n »kill—H«W Ckefe DI m «. Previous to W JL Vq^derbUt's culinary extravagance in hiring a $10,000 cook Corne- hite was supposed to hare th* most expensive one in town, paying Fred Hemmerle, Ml chef. $1.W a month, the highest salary jMi<i bv any private family in New York. Mr*. Langtry is not so far behind. She pays Con stant Migirard, who get* up her meals and travels with her, $100 a month. Ogden Goelet gave Valtet $100, but Judge Water bury bid a little higher and ba* him now. John Jacob Aster ba* a Frenchman, Jcm-pb Paeteau, who get* $100 a month and who ha* little to do thi* winter, the family being too deeply in mourning for even the *uialle... dining. Eliot Shepard, another Vanderbilt son-in-law, is fond of good cooking, and pays a good price to Mathxee. a man who used to be assistant cook in the Jockey club, of Peris. Whitelaw Reid is th* dhly newspaper mm ; who can afford a famous chef as caterer to his appetite, but he pays a good, round sum to have his meal* prepared by Gaillet. His rich father-in-law. D. O Mills, pay» no mo’e to Menier, who presides over his dinner par ties. August Belmont imported his cook himself, having found him in rather an ob scure Parisian restaurant, and has never had reason to be dissatisfied with his discovery. 'W. B. Astor employs Gustave Berand,‘and pays him $125 h mont h. The Marshall O. Robertses and Efradley M rtins have English cooks, being strictly Anglican in all their ap pointments. When these chefs have anight off they never dine in their own place, but seem to take great delight in sampling the food of their rivals. I have seen Fred Hemmerle in Delmonico’s with all the bead waiters flutter ing anxiously about him while he critically examined the menu, and no millionaire was as carefully served as he Delmonico’s heaii coiik goes up to the St. Ck i d and to the res taurant of the Hotel Norma.idie when he has an evening away from c a»y, and while be is dining it’s very nearly impossible to get waited on, for the waiter all get nervous and forget your order while they hang about the famous cook and wait to see upon what food doth thisxnir Csesar feed and then rush off to the kitchen to see that his order* come up hot and in perfect shape. I was told on one of these occasions by a hysterical waiter, whom I corraled with a half a dollar and induced to give me some attention, that these great cooks order the simplest sort of food. They themselves adjure most of the sauces and gravies with which they stimulate the jaded palates of the public and, looking carefully over the bill, pick out just those dishes which require, through their simplicity, perfect ennking to make them palatable.—Brooklyn Eagle. An Italian woman gives a sad account of the state of farming in the northern portions of her country. Almost all the farmers are tenants. They furnish the team and imple ments» while the landlords make repairs and pay the taxes. The crops are equally di video. As a rule IxAh classes have a hard tune. In regard to the foud and drink of the laborers she writes: The, light, pure wine, which fore the vine disea&e cost next to nothing, and acted as a corrective to all the defects of diet, has been sui'cecded by wine which is more beady and k«s wholesome, and of which the price places it out of tboredchof the Iteasaut as »daily beverage. On a feast day be may drink a glass or twp>at the osteria; but, being unaccustomed to it, it does him snore harm than good, and violent quarrels are the ounst-quenca The Italian navvy is «till a prodigious worker; nearly all the greatest engineering feats of modern times are the work of his hand. But then, it must be remembered that he eats and drinks better 'than* the peasant. The rural poor can not afford coffee, which is heavily taxed; their drink is water, and not always pure water, and their staple food is maize flour, Uther prepared as polenta or made into a very indigestible kind of bread. The former ■ is the usual and kes objectionable way of eating it. “Maize matures so late that in wet seasons it does not harden naturally, mote of the rich proprietors have introduced stoves for drying the grain; but the jieasante are < are- le«s and leave it out in the ram till it be comes moldy. Polenta forms the unfailing morning meal; for dinner tber^ is sometimes a minestra or soup made of rice or of the coarser Italian ¡»astes, with cabbage or tur nips and a little lard. Un fast days linseed Charitable Fair tn Switzerland. __ «Ml is a substitute for the lard. Kausages, gen After dinner we went to the vente, or char erally of a home made kind, aud raw vege tables with or without oil and vinegar, ure itable fair, which the young ladies of the added when they cun be got, and eggs, cheese town were holding in one of the public build aud dried fish are luxuries. On dairy farms ings. It was bewilderingly like the church the'peasants get-a little milk or buttermilk, fair of an American country town, socially and mezzajuoii who keep a cow reserve a and materially. The young ladies had made .«mall portion of the milk for the chil afl sorts of pretty knick knacks, and were dren. Those who keep chickens eat one selling them at the little tables set about the now and then, but butcher’s meat is hardly room; they also presided, more or less allur ever bought, except for a marriage or ingly, at fruit. cofTee and ice cream stands; for a sick person. ' if a hoi-se has to be shot and—I will not be sure, but I think—some of the jjeasants are very glad to eat the flesh, them seemed to be flirting with the youth of and some are said to also eat that of animals the other sex. There was an auction going on, who die of disease. Hedgehogs, frogs aud and the place was full of tobacco smoke, snails are esteemed as great delicacies.”— which the women appeared not to »mind. A booth for the sale of wine and beer was set Chicago Times. off, and there was a good deal of amiable drinking. This was not like our fairs quite; Queer Dwelling House*. £,The Gilbert Islander does not generally and I am bound to say that the people of • care to have any sides to his dwelling. He Aiglp had more polished manners, if not bet w;t* in four corner posts, about four feet ter, than our country town, average.—W.D. high, made from the trunks of screw {»alms, Howells in Harper’s Magazine. cut off and inverted so as to stand alone ou the stumps of the branches. Lashed from Street Car Conductors and Driver*. one to tiie other of these are long, slender “How often do street car conductors and trunks of cocoanut palms, and from these drivers miss their cars in'the morning C again spring pairs of ratters, which, in their “Not often, I tell you,” said an employe. jturn, support the neatly thatched roof. The “When we miss our car we go to the foot of gable eu<ts are then closed, and the house is the list and take our chances '„with the ne^ <*omplute. Not a nail or a piu of any kind is men. Sometimes it is nearly a year before used. All the twams, rafters and the thatch we can get another car regularly." T have are secui-ed by ingenious lashings, made gen seen the boys running to the barns in "th* erally from the juilm leaf fiber, though some morning half dressed. Once I saw a driver times braided from the owner’s own hair. in the winter rushing through the snow in The floor spuce is smoothed off, and then his bare feet, his boots in his hands, yet, poor covered with a thick bed of small, smooth fellow, be was two minutes late after all. pebbles or coral. On this are spread plenty He had a big family, and I noticed he went of soft, thick mats, made, of course, Iron around behind some cars. I wâs a good palm leaves, and then, with a supply ot friend of his, and slipped around at the risk young cocoanuts at hand, with a string of of miæing my own car to comfort him shell* filled with a good supply of “toddy" tie, and found he had broken down and was " .hanging outside the house, and the huge taking a good cry. Luckily, he got back in fragment of shark, baked in a w.do oven in two weeks.”—Chicago Tribune. the sand, the islunder is content to eat and --------------------- sleep uutil hungry again«. . Safety of Building Association*. In the middle of every village is a “council The co-operative bpnka, sometime* called ! house.” This is a large hut, one that we building association*, although they never measured being 120 feet long, GO feet wide build directly, are the very ingenioh* out and GO feet high at the ridgepole, built on growth of an endeavor to make the savings the same plan as the dwellings, but intended of men of moderate means yield a higher as a place of meeting, especially for the “old rote of interest than savings banks pay, aud men,” who rule each community. These also todistribute these savings in small loans “potent, grave uud revereud seignora” meet daily, aud hear and deende all complaints, among the same class. They have proved eminently safe and successful in both re and istfue all ordinances for the government spects. But here, also, the borrower must of the people. If their decisions and ordi lave a “margin,” albeit a smaller oner will nances happen to meet with the approval of pass muster than in thé savings banks. This a majority of those interested they are is no indication of insecurity, for the loan is adopted. If they don’t, another lot are pro at its maximum and the “margin” at its mulgated the next day, and so on until the minimum only at the outset, for the monthly matter is settled or dropped. —Kan Francisco payments immediately and constantly in Examiner. **T' crease the latter and decrease the former.— Boston Herald. The Ranchman'* Commissary Department. A ranchman’* life is certainly a very plena Grave of Alexander the Great. ant one, albeit generally varied with plenty Saida, the town at which has been discov of hardship and anxiety. Although occa sionally he pasMM days of severe toil—for ered the sarcophagus supposed to cntain the example, if he goes on the round up he works remains of Alexander the Great, who died in as hard as any of his men—yet he no longer 334 B. C. from a fever contracted while sur veying the merahes around Babylon, and tc has to undergo tfie monotonous drudgery at tendant upon the tasks of the cowboy or or which he was the more susceptible because he had just got over a protracted drunk, h the apprentice in the business. His fare ii simple; but, if he chooses, it is good enough. about twenty-four miles from Bey rout, in Syria, and is the ancient Sidon or Zidon. In Many ranches ore provided with nothing at all but salt pork, canned goods, and bread; 1850 gold* coins of the time of Alexander, indeed, it is a curious fact that in traveling valued at $40,000, were unearthed there, and it was while at the head of the French ex through this cow country it is often impos sible to get any milk or butter; but this fa ploring expedition there in 1860 that M. Renan picked tip a good many of the point» only because the owners or managers are tot lazy to take enough trouble to insure their which he used in his famous “Life of Christ.T own comfort. We ourselves always keep up —New Orleans Times-Democrat. two or three cows, choosing such as are nat Rolling Out Rifle Barrel«. urally tarns, and so we invariably have plenty of milk and, when there is time for churning v By means of recently invented processes in the manufacture of rifles as many as 130 bar a good deal of butter. We also keep bens, which, in spite of ths rels can now be rolled m an hour by one ma damagiug inroads of hawks, bob cats and china. They are teraighte”«»! cohl and bored foxes, supply us with eggs, and in time of with corresponding speed, *xjd even the rifling need, when our rifles have failed to keep us in im done automatically, so that one man tend game, with stewed, roast or fried chicken, ing six machtnes can turn out six|y or seventy also. From our garden we get potatoes, and barrels per day. With the old rifling ma uuiess drought, frost or grasshoppers inter chines twenty barrels were about the limit ol fen» (which they do about every second year) a day’s work, but the improved machines at> other vegetables as well For fresh ment we tend to everything after being started, and when the rifling is completed ring a bell U dt ¡»end chiefly upon our prowess as hunters. call the attention of the workmen. —Theodore Roosevelt in The Centurv. An Incom peter t Railroad Engineer. Ikmbrandt Peal«** Aecou«t of H«w th« Firte PrMldeat tor Hi* Father. Rembrandt Ptede, the artist who painted th© famous, but horrible in its subjact and •uccestivenes*, picture, “The ’ Court of Death,” waaaMof the also famous Charles Wilson Peale, who painted from personal ■itting* several portrait* of Washington. In a recent interview be said: ‘ Washington gave sitting* U> Stuart and iny father at the same time, and I was often with him. Thi* was when he wa* president -about 1734 Ho sat for my father in the quiet early morning, before his state toilet had been made, and when he appeared to the eyes of the charmed olwerver simply as George Washington, the man aud citizen. He was then about 62 year* old, and the toils and trials which he bad ;*as*ed through a* the commander of the army, and the quite as great cares of six vwere of the presidency, added to the weight of increasing years, had told with no little severity upon his tall, stately and still impos ing frame and features. His somewhat thin ha’.r was gray; years and fear* and care* had all left traces on his face, and his teeth being gone, the lips and cheeks and lines about the mouth were somewhat ckpressed and contracted. My father’s portrait of him,” related Mr. I^ale, “was exactly of Washington as he really was while he wo* the man only, and before he had prepared himself, a* president, to enter upon his, more especially then than now, arduous duties us chief executive of the great but very young republic,” “But why,” it was asked, “the two por traits being painted at the same time, should Stuart’s be so very unlike your father’s!” “Simply because,” continued Peale, “as I have already stated, Washington gave his sittings to Stuart on the same day, bite after 'a careful preparation of bis state toilet; and he was exceedingly, almost austerely nice in all matters of conventional dress and deport ment. Indeed, the remove from the manner* and customs of England's monarchy was so recent and so slight that the social atmos > phere of the White House partook largely of : the etiquette of the court, and the expected I and practiced deportment q^«|^ executive chamber was as formal in’ffegree as that which had been necessary in order to have i i audience with the king. “This state toilet, among other things, in cluded the careful combing and powdering of the hair and the tying of it in a cue; also a discreet “make up” of the face, and, most i noticeable of all, the fitting into the mouth of a full aet of false teeth. Now, th* art and skill of the dentist in those days had not at tained to a very perfect imitation of nature, end the plates being large and clumsy, gave to the mouth and whole lower portion of the face that flat, full, square and unnatural ap pearance which all careful observers of Btuart’s great portrait cannot fail to observe, and which., is very often questioningly re marked This portrait adopted — as m/H ACT1 upon. UfJVU. * •» waw was wmr vwyrww ^harmonizing more fully with the courtly conception of what the personal appearance and habiliment* of one in so great authority' should be; but m a portrait, it is of the president rather than of the man. and is to be regarded as the ideal, rather than as the real Washington.”—A 8. Pease in The Sara- togian. The danger of running on an engine han dled by an incompetent engineer or a man who has remained at some other business long enough to get rusty is not fully under stood by the traveling world. I had an ex perience of that kind that drove me off the road and into more pleasant lines of labor. The Iowa legislature passed a law in 1877 holding all railroads responsible in heavy amounts for loss of life or in juries incurred in their service, and to offset the liability the railroad addressed a circular' to all employe* Who h'Bever CrazyT asking them to relinquish their claims. One There are many firm believers in the theory morning I had fired up as usual, and run the that most people are crazy at times, and engine around to await the freight which Wo facts seem to support their belief. T^ie fol were to take west from Burlington. Before lowing, from a source unknown to the the hour an agent stepped up and asked the writer, will likely remind a number of our engineer to sign the agreement. He refused readers of some incident in their experience, and was discharged on th£ spot. A new man which at the time of its occurrence seemed was put in the cab. He had an engineer’s to them most unaccountable. license, and everything looked straight, so ■“A wise man will step backward off a far as papers went. During the talk my fires porch or into a mud puddle; a grg£.t philoso had run down, so 1 filled in coal until steam pher will hunt for the specks that are in his was hissing out of the safety valve, and then band or on his forehead, a hunter will some- I opened the furnace door. ----- um«« shoot himself nr insdog. A working Having taken our train, an hour later we girl bad,beetv feeding a great clothing knife were spinning along nicely when I turned to for ten years. One day she watched the feed the fire. Throwing open the door I ob knife come down slowly upon her hand. Too served the crown sheet and rivets showin; late she woke out of her stupor with one through the fire box, and lodked up at tiu hand gone. For a few seconds her mind had gauge only to find that we were running witl failed, and she sat by her machine a tem a dry boiler. I yelled to my partner, and h< porary lunatic and had watched the knife started out on the running board with i approach her own hand. hammer in one hand. The pump had stoppec A distinguished professor was teaching working. The new man struck the meta near a canaL Walking along one evening gently to loosen the plunger. That's all i in summer he walked as deliberately into saw. I started over the cool in the tender the canal as ho had been walking along the and, climbing up on the side of the first car path a second before. He was brought to was not long i|i putting twelve or fifteen car his senses by the water and mud and the ab between me and that engine. Reaching th surdity of the situation. He had on a new caboose and sitting on the cupola, I waitc suit of clothes and a new silk hat, but though for the explosion. If that fool with his han; the damage was thus great, he still laughs mer had succeeded in starting that pump h over the adventure. Our mail collectors would have gone into eternity the nex find in the iron boxes along the streets all second, for the toiler was at a white heat, sorts of papers and articles which have been wasn’t in a suicidal frame of mind, and taat’> put in by some hand from whose motions the why I lit out. But the old adage about fool mind has become detached for a second. A and children proved true, for that engine? glove, a pair of spectacles, a deed, a mort had to stop, draw the fire flud wait for: gage, a theatre ticket, goes in, and on goes relief engine. We had only run fifteen miles the person, bolding on to the regular letter but the damage in half an hour took which should have been deposited. This is months to repair.—Globe-Democrat called absent miudedness, but is a brief view. lui^jy.”—Scientific American. A KlDf Who Hesitated. The king who heritatc* is very often lost, just as muci} as though he were an ordinary aortal A very interesting dis covery of recent date shows that if Louis XVI had only been ¿. little less dilatory he might have prevented the taking of the Ba*tile, and possibly changed the course of history. It is now clearly proved that early in 1788 he had given his conditional approval to a plan for demolishing the Hostile and for laying out the site as a garden; and a p.an was actually prepared rbowing how the proposed change could be effected, but the king, unfortunately for himself, did no: at once approve this plan when it was placed before him. He •:dd he would think about it, and while be was thinking other and more stirring events followed, till presently, on July 14, 17S9. the Parisians, tired of waiting for the king’s consent, pulled down the Bastile on their own account. The original plan for laying out the site as a public garden is still in existence, and may be seen by the curious among the historical treasons, •it the National library at Paris.—London Figaro Dakata Kdltor and flla£ , Stranger (to Dakota landlord >—l ■oticed a party of scarred and crippled eutiemen at a 'able in. the dining room, »far veterans, 1 s’pose, enjoying an an null df lner* Dakota Landlord—Na str; it s agrees (inner, given by the editor of the Daily Paralyser Io his staff.—The Epoch. A 8o|<iler*s Special Pension. Benjamin Franklin, of tlie Second Mln- ^esqfa volunteers, is the only man on the government i«cnsion rolls who sacrificed both hands and feet in the late civil war, and ns there is no provision of law ap plicable to such special cases, a bill will be presented to congress increasing the pension he now receives to $150 a month, lie now receives the pay provided for a soldier or a sailor who has lost both hands or both feet — Nev York World. Not a Word of Praise. Mrs. Frou Frou—George, dear, you have never said a word in praise of my reception gown; the blue one, with the V-shaped back, you know. Mr. F. F. (with a deep drawn sigh)— Na dear; my mental obtuseness is due to the thoughts I had of the V-shaped green backs which that dress represents.—Pitta burg Bulletin. Flowers for Wall Street. Among the many expenses that Wall street broken have to face every vear ts the Item for flowers with which they brighten and adorn their offices. Winter and summer, spring and fa H, huge bunches ■d expensive posies are kept on hand in many of the very attractive offices. It is reckoned that the average expense for an •ffice is >10 a.day. At dusk the office »ys and lesser clerks divide the flowers. —Chicago Herald. BUPERSTITION8 OF THB the Opinio« of Loudon I Omena and the LihT’^O Mr. Toole, the comedian, J in the subject, says that althouaS cnsely superstitious hirnxIT.- J n ghosts—not the ordinary ghctt/uS out one that walks every w«ek^5JW As for omens, h* coufeMe« thw SI the theatre at 7;8O and juople right ncroes the street loor* to open, he usually con*iA?UH iooil Mr. Edward Terry, jg London actor, is vei y fond of pyjM »ay* tiiat bis new pieces have producad on that day, and thathsS travels with a company of thirtaS^B The same boldness is a chariMtisSH Marius. His opinions of stag« ure as follows: “I would rather produce a ^0^1 on a Fri<lay than a bad one on aZ!H would rather receive £13 thaa£K3 tune. 1 would rather sit down thirt-Jj good dinner than twelve to a 1>M uot believe in unlucky theatrss actors, but I believe m a gog* ¿J acted, drawing good houses, be. If there is ono superstiticte^^H to get the best of everything at tuTR rate.” On 4.lje otfief hand, confesses that she is exceedingly «upqxS! Miss Millward » even more Fanny Leslie, the burlesque era it unlucky to pluce an uinfatS] prompt table, and also to drop the »J?J duri ng rehearsal. Black cats she very lucky, but she will never ¿a?’ tract ou Friday. Miss Letty Lind L J some strong opinion* on the Mum ¿fl • I am peculiar enough,” says Mim i»j! iielieve the number thirteen to bevuykj It was the number of my drt«iag ¿3 Lho Gaiety theatre when a L ndoJ ¡3 was kinci to me for the first tima C? return to that theatre I snail «Ain allowed to have the same From. tinio I went to see a manager and m woman with an evil eye, or rath» a m eyed women. I walked deliberate» □ again, knowing that the muuagarh3 lion would hot believe in me. White flow i believe, are very unfortuuate. fa »3 ladder 1 will uot. And T have found tte 1 ha peu to meet any oue on the «tin» i am going on for a dance I don’t get u core.” From these few examples it "lay bi a ¿hat the English actors and actress, tte not quite so superstitious as their ]te •brothers and sisters, are yet not wholly fj .rom the same influences.—Phii*^ /inies. J An Extraordinary Mental Po««r, S I know of a case where the ¡¡J recognised evidence of a jxjwer of '"feM ncing another’s mind through mim -uthetic action, was most unwilling J uiivinced. He was a doctor and oppoteM ill belief in faith cures, and to allwwl ecmed to favor the doctrine uilueuce mind. He had conceived date trong feeling of ¡jersonal dislike for ihl nought reader—an American of souead3 ity.or notoriety, I will not say whichIkl offered himself as a “subject,” belieUrl hut the exhibition was chiefly humbug,(bl »tlier “subjects” mostly coniederste, &] nentaliy located a “pain”—that is, hl .bought of a pain—in a particular nenl io Lis surprise the thought reader beguhl ¡ kiss his hand over his (the exhibiteru right jaw, and presently marked with hhi . ■th)ger the precise course of the nerve al»| which the doctor had imagined theptefl extend. I We see in such experiments — farhaJ form of the power which seems in io«J cases to have been possessed by person»»I der* strong mental emotion, of lnflueocagi the evidence can be rejected showing tte j on certain occasions such power has btel exerted—usually " without any comcted effort. It seems much more incautiooilfl reject the evidence than to admit the a I istence of such a power—not, however,« something supernatural, nor evenaipti tem£t>ral or extra natural, but simply mi - quality not yet explained or understood, tel recognized, as it seems to merit, gped*l>i vesti»ation.—Richard A. Proctor in BoteM Globe. The Wife of Th eoxlore Thomsa. ]■ Very few people knoW anything of Thotmf ■ domestic side, which is a very happy oa l Some twenty years ago Miss Porter, wtel teaches the far famed girls’ schools at Far» ■ ington. Conn., undertook to educate ayouM girl to be her assistant and eventualsliced». ■ Jurt about the time she had crammed her ill« of Greek and t he higher niathematicsatoifljB unwisely invited a certain musical Gennufl up to the school to lecture before her pupil 1 on orchestral effects aud composition Ttol learned young graduate followed theeiampbl of other young women less learned, and fell promptly in love with the lecturer. He ws 1 wise enough to return it and Miss Porter tail an assistant, while Theodore Thomas gaired w a wife. , I It is the proud and uncontradicted bote® | this classical and mathematical scholar tte I in all the post-twenty years her husband M eaten but three inferior meals in his tell house. She comes of a race of “notabW 1 New England housekeepers, and the inhtete 1 instinct" is sb strong that the theory tte] learned women are lacking in domestkffij if true—has no demonstration in her. are a thoroughly affectionate and conge*»! couple, and Mr. Thomas’ domestic existent* | is as happy as his public career has bte] graat. There is a pretty daughter just grown! ] up who does not appear to greatly resemtej either parent, as she is but a mediocre»* sician, and despite the fact of being a *^”1 at the Harvard Annex, is considerably mtej concerned with the fashions than with ferential calculus.—Brooklyn Eagle. —. —------- a “One day a man whom I met,” Mid tfa. Chicago man, “had occasion togofrte; hie home to the county seat. HewzM' man of more intelligence than most Ot te fellows, but he had never in his life be« away from home before. He had note Been a town. The nearest approach toog he had seen was the collection of bonte about tbfe store whei*S he sold his true* and bought bis bacon. When he gotbsc* from the county seat I asked him what» thought of what he saw. 'Well,* »J* * ‘all I got ter say is this: If this 'vorld«ij big on the right uv us as it is on tte* she must be a reglur whale.*