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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1888)
0E3ERT8 Of AMERICA. SCIENTIFIC Th. M.d Ptalaa rf Ik* ■ T- T-------- rt —- hi - DAM TUI Fd «y a Up lo al» I » U m predicted that d» boring» thrnogp Khw Htraita ot lk>vcr will reveal U m iwnre, usive coat bail Mag um refnee of «C m ! warka, wOm rom iron and redu«wd to powder, to be a Tiluabit fntüuvr MadicaJ «uUKXTty epn be fonnrt for U m •dry tbat it ■ U m early naer wbo catena» mama if umtv ba any in U m air Florida prenuaes to barooM a large pro car of opium Kixteeo plants will produre ounce, and an acre at popyne» will yield $l,0U0 worUkof optum. Il bas been aacvrtained by careful exoeri meota conducted by M Xoger that poison» toae one-fifth of their toxic power when takao into the ayveem by farting An instrument called U m autograpbometer baa lately been dervrd. which, when in uae. indicates the topography and differences of level at all plarea over wb»cb it paean Japanese engineers to ail opt a ry>- tern of earthwork defenses protected by an iron shield one fool id thiekoeas. and extend . “You'd better grt back to your camp at mg twenty-five feel each side of the gun. ( once,’’ said the paymaster. “Who pave In China there are over 4W species of you permission to com* here, anyway? plants used for food, and in the world jwoba Come now. get out. or I will call the guard biy ten times that number Sawdust in Swe and have you placed under arrest. Git!” 1 den is used in bread and found digestible Suiting the . action to the word the A light, sibaous earth is found in France doughty payma«^«^* arose and proceeded to —— and Germany, from which are made bricks •‘fire’’ the private. “Hold on a minfo*; take your hands off! that will float in water Such bneks are j I tell you I mean I «ay. I b long to mentioned by Pliny, they were also made in* the —th Connecticut? an<i I can afford to Tuscany in the Eighteenth century pay my regiment^ «f there’s no objection. A Nuremburg inventqr ha* produced a., Something ought to be .lone, and I'm will shoe sole cocn^paed of wire net overlaid with r»oney. My name is a substance resemblffig India rubber. These ing to advance fl“* Elias Howe?’. soles, which cost but half the price of leather, This gave an entirely new aspect to the’ have been tested in the German army, and case, and PaymaoU*.’ Walker grew quite found to be twice as durabla deferential. The man who stocxi before A new double pointed nail to the invention him was the famous inventor of the sewing of an ingenious woman. The points turn in machine He. could pay his regiment all opposite directions. They are especially use their back pay;; be had the will, and he had ful for invisible nailing in wood word. It is i the money too. Col. Walker thought an simply two nails joined firmly, the sides of apology was demanded. The apology,was the beads being placed-togetber given and Elias received it with the air of Professor Schmidt, <rf Gau university, has a man who had but little to forgive. “Well, colonel.’’ said he. when this bit upon the plan of cutting off pieces of liv ing sponge and planting them in a suitable j trouble is over I want you to step, .dowp to place in the sea, as if they were willow twigs. New York sometime and see me.” In this way be fias succeeded, at the end of j The “colonel’’ lived then in Vermont, three years, in producing 4.000 sponges ai a and when the war was closed he managed to find himself in New York. He had cost of $45 l started a law office; that is to say, he helped Dr Worms, of the Paris Academy of Medi to occupy the office of a few friends of his. cine, has ascertained that bees, anta and Business was not specially active. One day wasps show a marked dislike to the new sac Walker thought he would step in and see charine. To the human palate there is no whether Elias Howe recalled the misadven ( difference in the taste between it and sugar ture of the war. Two years had then It has been shown, however, that its use dis elapsed. Elias H<?we was there and his turbs digestion. memory was good,. They sat down together Thoughtful of Others. A physician of Philadelphia analyzed a and talked. Howe was /roy Massachusetts, Tramp—Can you give me a plies to sleep, black japanned bat band worn by a patient | Walker from Verntfmf." The Howa^Machine -uffewag from headache, and found it con- I | company had just been organized. Wal m’am? Woman—You can sleep in the barn it you rained three grains of one of the feed salts. ker was appointed its attorney. With an From this case ba concludes that many bead office in every city, town, and hamlet in the ilka Tramp—Couldn't you give me a bed in the < aches are often due to the absorption of the civilized world, no wonder the Howe Ma bouse? rm a heavy sleeper myself, ma'am, lead in the hat band chine company was the foundation of Wal and 1 wouldn’t feel right if 1 should keep you Supervising Inspector Lubbock, of San ker’s fortune.—St. Paul Dispatch. waiting for breakfast. —The Epoch. Francisco, having reported to the treasury A Charming Girl She -Was. rëpartïhént that petroleum to not safe fuel j Where It Is Stored. for large boi 1ère, has been instructed by Sec “I had a little experience once,’’ said the “Is there any such thing as law in this retary FaiacMld to withdraw all permits young analytical philosbpher. “Yjpu don’t seem to have kept it,’’ said country 1 should like to know?” said an irate heretofore given for its use except in the individual as he rushed into the prosecuting case of small steam launches. his friend. “I had a strange experience once,” he attorney’s office. In drilling glass, stick a piece of stiff clay “You know I'm passionately “Yes. of course there is,” was the reply. or putty on the part where you wish to make went on. fond of music, I weDt to a musicale in “ Whereabouts r the bole. Make a hole in the putty the size “Just glance through that copy of the Re vou waut the bole, reaching to the glass, of New York some years ago. and after some vised Statutes over there.”—Merchant Trav course. Into this hole pour a little molten austere classical performance a young, eler. lead, when, unless.it to very thick glass, the pretty, blue eyed girl sat down at the piano piece will immediately drop out.— Trades- and sang. She had a pensive far away, Calm Advice. dreamy look in her eyes, and her whole man. Enraged Husband-Maria, I can endure soul seemed to go into the ballad she sang. Both In China and Japan soapstone has this existence no longer. I am going to blow She had one of thé most glorious voices long been largely _ _ used for _ protecting struc I ever beard. It touched my nature and I my brains out! Wife «calmly)—Don’t attempt it, John. turcs built of soft stone and’ other materials never was eso deeply entranced. I made You have never had any success in firing at •»pecially liable to atmospheric influences, it her acquaintance, and by a little deft has been found that powdered soapstone in small targets.—Chicago Tribune. maneuvering I obtained an invitation to the form of paint has preserved obelisks call upon her. I did so. She was alone to formed of stone for hundreds of years which A Terrible Threat. receive me. would, unprotected, have long ago crumbled “She was a silent, shy, reserved girl, with ’ “Then you absolutely refuse to marry me?” away., For the inside painting of steel and little to say, but she was perfectly charm said he. r iron ships it is found to be excellent It has ing. We had little conversation before she “1 do,” wa« the young lady’s flrm reply. .«Have ft (.ara< Miss Kajones," said the qo inti-fouling quality, but is anti-corrosive. went to the piano and began to sing. She A writer in The Economiste Français esti sang everything I asked her, and I could young man. with a dangerous glitter in his •ye, “consider the matter well I am the nates the total loss to France from the rav not restrain myself from little, tender She took publisher of an elite directory that is almost ages of the phylloxera since 1875, when this pressures and loving glances. scourge of the French vineyards first made them all kindly and even reciprocated ready for the press.”—Chicago Tribune. its appearance, at the enormous sum of IQ, I them. It was a case of love at first sight, «0,000,000 of francs, or about £400,000,000. and I fell yadly into it. She seemed as A Valuable Instrument. This estimate is based upon French official A New York man owns,a piano which cost statistics giving the aggregate area of vine deeply affected, and later, when*I took her $46.000..4t is not stated what makes it sc yards destroyed in the country at about 2.500, in my arms and pressed my lips to hers, valuable, but probably it refuses to give »00acres; ahd on the assumption that, in ad our spirits seemed to meet It was very se I went off in the very seventh forth a sound when struck before 7 a. m. or iition to the acreage of vines thus utterly de» rious. after 9 p. m., or when the.neighbors next stroyed, the extent of vineyards more or less heaven of bliss. This was the ideal of my dreams. The love of my life had come at door have the windows open.—Norristown infected with the phylloxera amounts to last. I was flattered, too, to win this Herald. about 500,000 acres; making thus together thing of beauty at first meeting. A day 3.000,000 acrea or two after I met the lady who had intro The Shiftless Swiss. duced me to her. “ What a charming girl Omaha Councilman (traveling in Europe) she is!” said I. “Yes,” she said, “she —What’s them bluffst CURIOU3 THINGS OF LIFE. sings charmingly, but isn’t it a pity she’s Native—Those, sir, are the Alps. An altogether unprincipled thief in Macon, not quite right in her hea^'”—San Fran “HumphI They need grading badly.”— cisco Chronicle. Ga., stole crape from the door of a bouse. Omaha World. William 8herwood, of Baltimore, Md.. will It is well to remember that too much blu Trouble In the Neighborhood. spend one year in prison for stealing a Bible. ing renders clotbee yellow after a time. In At Tilton, Ills., there was a man who lived experienced or careless servants think the out doors under an umbrella all last winter, more bluing in the water the better for the even when the.thermometer touched 22 degs. wash, and it is a difficult matter to convince below zero. them that the clothes will look far better if A queer flower which grows in Yucatan is Only a small quantity is used. the manito (little hand) of the guarumo. - It is in the exact shape qf the human hand, If. when obliged to be en your feet all with four fingers, thumb, nails and knuckles day, you change your shoes several times for all complete. a fresh pair, you will be astonished bow Miss Kate Bishop, an actress in Australia, much it will rest the tired feet, for no two wears a silver bracelet on the left arm night shoes press the foot in the same part. and day Her only sister locked it there be Turpentine mixed with carbolic acid and Visitor (to Mrs. McMolligen. bruised and fore she sailed for America to get married. battered)—You are not looking very well The ship went down with all hand^ and the ♦ kept in open vessels about the room will, it is said, greatly lessen the risk of contagion this morning, Mrs. McMolligen. key is with the drowned girL in scarlet fever, diphtheria and kindred dis- Mrs. McMolligen—No, mum, but hiven A remarkable case is recited from Michi rest yer sowl, me leddy, wait till ye say Mrs. gaa Three years ago M iss Hattie Cotton, of Conn Kelly in the shanty beyant.—Judge. Constantine, lost her voice and surgical Nice tablecloths and napkins should not treatment for its restoration was of no avaiL be allowed to become much soiled, so that She went to western Iowa and her voice re they will require vigorous rubbing with soap turned. Going back to Michigan, her voice or in hot water. weignt of Statesmen. again failed This experience has been re Nearly al) of the United Butcs senators pealed three times. Miss Cotton's voice fail are large men, their average weigh; run Mug mg at home, but coming out strong id low cloee to 180 pounds. Their entire weight ac cording to a statistical correepondeat, is Quite a DlflDerence. nearly 14,000 pounds.—New York Evening World. Citizen (to small boy outside the Polo grounds)—Are the New Yorks playing ball Chicken Thief (to detective)—Hens, horri to-day. sonny I I ' ** ble shadow, hens I—Boston Commercial. Small Boy (witheringly)—Naw, dey ain't playin’ ball. dey jest thinks dey’re playin’ baH.—New York Sun, i _ tv * y a *■ A de*rt b generally considered M a barren waste of sand; probably on ac- oouut of our familiarity with dpscriptipna of the sandy deserts of Egypt. The American deeerU, haweuy, are flat mud plains, the beds of ancient fakes, and are but seldom covered with drifting sand. During the dry season, when not a drop of rain falls on their surfaces for four, five or even six’months at a time, they be come dry and hard, and broken in every direction by intersecting shrinkage cracks. At such times they bear a striking reeem bianco to some of the old Roman pave ments made of small blocks of cream I colored marble. When in this condition one may ride ovoprthem without leaving more than a * faint impression of the horse’s hoofs on i their smooth, glossy surfaces. In the i stillness of night—and no one can appre- i elate the stillness of a desert until he lias ’ «dept alone with only the boundless plain about him—the hoof beats of a galloping ! horse ring out as on the pavements of a city. As the summer's sun dries the desert mul, the salts that the waters bring to the surface in solution dke loft behind, and gradually accumulate until tlwy are several inches thick, and make the deserts appear as if covered with snow. This*illusion is especially marked when one traverses the deserts by moon light. During the long, hot days of sum mer, when the dome of blue is above the deserts without a cloud, the strange delusive mirage transforms the land scape beyond all recognition, and makes it appear |oufold more strange and weird than it is in reality. At such times bright clear lakes, with rippling surface» and willow fringed banks, allure the un wary traveler, and would lead him to de struct ioti should he believe them real The mountains around the desert are sis' deformed by the mirage and made to as sume the most extravagant and fantasti shapes. During hot summer days the monotoir of the desert is varied by dust columns, formed by small whirlwinds, which some times reach such magnitudes as to lx decidedly uncomfortable to the travele who chances to be in their path. Man; times these columns are 2,000 o 3,000 feet in height, and have ai approximate diameter of from thirty t< fifty feet. The fact that they are hollow whirling colums of dust is indicated, evei from a distance, by their spiral appearano and by a light line in the center of each These bending and swaying columns mov ing here and there across the desert land scape, impart a novel feature to the plain and call to mind the genii of Arabian tulet- Such in brief are the deserts of the\ fa west during the arid season. In winte they change and become impassable mu( plains.—Israel C. Russell .In Over lane Monthly. Emma Abbot on “Artistic Sense.” “Can you define the artistic sense 'to which you referred?” “Ah, there is the thing. That' is what no opera singer can get on without. T< define it would be to define art itself, h includes taste and a thousand other thing? which are indefinable. You' know th« best of everything is indefinaible. Bui what is the useof defining it? The persot who has the artistic sense knows what it is without a definition and the person whe has it not can not understand any defini tion_of it. The person who has it in the greatest degree Jjecomes the , greatest artist, the roundest and most symmet rical. Michael Angelo had it, and there fore he was a great painter, a great poet, a great sculptor and a great architect. Il be had a voice he would have been a great singer. Adelaide Neilson had it, and therefore was a great actress. Nature gave her about the ugliest pair of hands 1 ever saw on a woman, but it gave to hei also the artistic sense to learn so to use those hands as to make them seem to look perfectly beautiful. If I were to attempt a brief definition of this sense I should say it is that in us wnich prompts us to make beautiful everything with which we have to do. The opera singer must have a beautiful voice, beautiful manners, beau tiful costumes, beautiful stage settings, and she must have the artistic sense to know what constitutes these.”—Chicago Times Interview. Th. compw.tlwl, Ueta In th. north frigid ¿O,’T of explnnntton, but lhe sLU-ncy b.Cw«.n lt farther «outh ta not In the former ernw -emiomi when the ind nutamn—the of winter belng^unf,,^ fact, I have wen a and Angtut I wa. in .J«*« ■ here were a numbe- .f „ winter of which I conM naT**» The Eakimo plainly season, of »now storrj.1^ • different names for t>. ' «now.. During the winter th-, winds, which carry th, drifting pack»,bo thdt . C* ' out in such a gale eight that hewn» |* ,’2^ norm; but. neverthel^.. and although drift, h»-« j?*«* here and there, this ¡Ul, ¿2*» from the ridges an<i mm-J1 average depth is the »■«aeuC 1 ttil«, too, the natives hSv, « will Inform you that M tk* ature and that tin- ¿T ' no snow^fili,. In * servatlons have been many year, by Danish nwtenmL!' Dr. Rink, the best region, says that "in northmZl,* amount of snow anmi.il, ¿7* fetiortothat of son.:, tais law seems to be ¿enpr.1? ‘?.e '■e“vie,t f,dl of »-low IT2*' frigid no more than '« th« ¿5’ but somewliere between th, .. Frederick Schwutka ( r<MMilnC the RM||dy I stood at a corner on Main ■*. other day and watched the peonk their way across the mutkhS you ever notice ho* done by different people. There is the lady who pane«, arily in dismay, then gather» J with one han«l and dnlr.Uiy nicb striving to step where some brogan has left its imprint, but fa cause the brogan took such long Then comes the Well dreaaed L never deforms his shapely feet shoes. He glances down at ished boots, mutters an imp»— h Z the street commissioner, and waft! on his heels, maintaining bb balaa difficulty and losing his temper alto The old resident who la used tot of thing, and who would not feel l with a clean pavement in thespriiw does not permit the muddy «i delay him, but with a skill, bond experience, takes advantage of even jeering dry spot that the pavement? and doesn’t get very muddy afieral But the inan who produced th ■ est impression upon me, the man i you wil| nt once recognize, waitk whose unpolished boots and in«M to dirt enab'ed him to disregard th This man sets his foot down likei driver, or yanks it through the liqig like a snow plow and liberally ba everybody and everything withini of five yards. You have met him; body has met him. He baasplMb with mud; he has splashed everyb He should be abated as a publ sance.—Kansas City Journal Americans in England. Americans cannot understand t| nabit, almost universal with oar )f wearing costly clothing, of iuxuriqs (unusual with Europeans those of assured fortune), such m I bedrooms, unlimited gas and i great variety of food at every n best seats at the theatres, const bi ng instead of walking, etc., 4.hem to be looked upouasrickid whose efforts to reduce expenses, retain all the comforts, must be frowned down, as unworthy genii, ladies. On the other hand, if ov pay on the guinea scale without’ mur, they are treated with the n exaggerated deference which the la lish yield to their social superion. fortunately, that is the one 1 —so dear to the English “d themselves!—which our people ( mi care nothirig about. Sometimes th vility is offensive to Americani- Logan in Kansas City Journal. ____________ I— s Destroying Weeds With Tttwl Where such plants as dock, pls dandelion are growiug in law», I be effectually destroyed by the tion of oil of vitrol. The vitrei i in an old. bottle with awirean neck to hold it by, so as to keep ■ gers from the liquid. A stick long and thin enough , to go into the L the only other necessary; the stick be slightly' cut at the end to allot holding the vitrol better. One An Excellent Recommendation. vitrol off the eud of the stick drop •‘Could you direct me to some restaurant?” the center of the weed should d “Yes, sir; go up the street two blocks and at once; one dip ought to destroy you’ll find the best place in town." tour weeds_________ _ “Best in town? Really?” We hear a gooJ deal about to» ' “Yes, sir. 1 board there myself.” and inhumanity of landlords who I “Is that a recommendation C let flats to people with families of I “1 should say so. Tm the owner of the es but after all there may be anottar tablishment.”—Nebraska State Journal the story. In a house agent's offles L to an argument between the agent m man who wanted to rent a flat (ns Retiring to Primitive Simplicity. Ouspensky, a popular Russian writer, re It was a flat that I happened toJ* quiet house, filled with nice cently found a river steamboat in the Cau casus piloted by a youth of 47, who, al the argument was going on, •uwCJ* though he was possessed of remarkable in agent came in on some tellectual qualities, had abruptly aban- when he saw the woman beckoned »» donedr his studies for manual toil, with agent away from her, whispered intent to put Count Tolstoi’s doctrines into to him and went off. 'lbs practice. Many Russian families—people get her lease and went away is MP of standing and education—are taking geon. The agent said to tns; “That is a sample of the p*op"*J their children from school abandoning the delusions of so-called civilization, and retir to the papers about landlords wto flats to ¡*ople with families. fr®* ing into remote country districts, where they propose to realize some vague ideal of was just in. rented hpr a flak primitive simplicity. This strange move in it yet, but must move by the ment is * vigorously supported by Count six roomed flat, and in it she Tolstoi. The count divides each day into live, with their two Uusbands. ** four periods separated from one another by dren, three cats and two big dogM a meal, and he indulges in hard labor and also board two young clerks to** in literary work alternately. He has thix their .husbands. One of the r* become accomplished in bootmaking, ex kitchen, so that these pert in wood splitting and a very decent to mention the menagwie. are s«w^ agricultural laborer. Whenever he visits Ing hi five rooms, in • n*pV\Z| his estates he assists his farm hands in where their uoise and dirt m**• . plowing, sowing, and getting in the crops. non nuisancer "-Alfred in