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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1888)
•i V' concerning 1 medals . - „ •» Aasiea« i— «• Th.lr «£«►•*•«••. i «5 I. now and, agM» “•<*• aeciul instructions at the mint; 'Liedsl« so produced are not to d for mousy- They are give, to persons out of compliment or bKc reward for some good or d«sd. The medal« on sale in the ppd those which come to ns .xhibifions are made in dif- . parts of the country. They obtained chiefly, however, in bpni. To make a coin re- J* one in sirculation and to en- £ past it is F sepous offense. «(tons guilty of doing this are g, punished. But any one may ¿medal- and indeed there is a so lo London for the encouragement rk ot this kind, which offers for the production of medals , upon public events or showing ttrf eminent persons. A good il not only a very beautiful, but useful article. When it is made or silver or bronze it may last «nturiesor for thousands of years, toperiy cared for, and it thus be esan important agent in convey- historieal facts. We owe a good of our knowledge of ancient ee and Rome to medals, and it is medals of those nations that we got our best portraits of tlie great she lived Alien Greece and Rome I grit in art and civilization. Even r own country we are very much ,ted to medals for portraits and i relating to our. early sovereigns, it is because we recognize the ns such articles teach that in the gut is placed in the hole of the dation stone of any great build- we place coins oh medals. This ue that men and women who come ■nsmay be helped in the inquiries will no doubt eagerly make , the condition of life at the time building was erected. There few things of man's making older I coins or medals, and some very ent ones have been discovered, e with portraits, however, have ■ got that enrry us further back i six hundred years before Christ e of the ancient medals gite the face, and this adds to their value, e some have more than one face.M ecase with a very beautiful speci- issuod for Ptolemy Philadelphus, was King in Egypt, and which ibis own head and that of Arainoe |ueen, on one side, and tlie heads »father and mother on the other, i usual in a portrait medal to give likeness of the person honored on side and to put a design of a gener- nd on the other side, and this was i commonly long ago as well as The oldest English medal of h we have any knowledge was d in Yorkshire, in the district ra as the Forest of Knaresborough. ITS the date 1380, anil is supposed we keen brought over to this coun- rom Italy. Our next oddest medal id to be that of Henry VIII., which issued or struck in 1545. It is irthan a five shilling piece, and I a portrait of the King on the one and on the other are inscriptions ng forth his titles and declaring to be head of the church. From date medals were often struck in land, and there ie a series in exist- bmught out in 1540, showing all Kings up to that time. All our tvictories have been commemorat- ' special medals, and it is possible cans of medals to trace the wars igland back to the Stuarts. Just ung people take a delight in coj- ig postage stamps, some of their s delight in collecting medals, i they divide into t-wo great class- ncient ,and and modern. The notable collector of medals was reh, the Italian poet. It is re- of him that he was asked on one ion by Charles IV. to write a work »ining ths lives of eminent men, to put this monarch in the list eplied that he would jlo ho as soon he Emperor’s life and conduct Id deserve such » distinction, e time afterward he sent Charles a mber of gold and silver eoins bear- the ]>ortraite of great men, and fwithitwasan address with the »: “Behold whom you have suc- M- Behold whom you should ad- '»nd imitate.”— Leeds Mercury. A cham>ing and unique friendpihp fod to hate sprung up between ’»ng German and a young diman in South Holyoke, Mass. let can speak the language ►’ other, and both are igno- of the English language. _ Un- "tinxry circumstances these young would be lifelong strangers, but , thrown them together asroom- ' in a boarding house, and, though “ to converse other than by ges- ' there has sprung up between yonng men a friendship of more "’’iitarv warmth. 0 enrich land that is poor, we i>»ve manure or its equivalent in "Me matter, ‘or apply plant food ► shape to induce the growth of ion. ARSEN IC EATERS. » STORY OF A PATTROY. THE “KICKER" MAN. ASTONISHED AFGHANS. □rMt lemaw hi ««• Maoakor ef ririlo Addicted to Thia CoUoa. . A Chl.t Writ.« •( HI. Tl.lt te Oaloatt. The habit pf arsenic-eating is becom ■ ud .r Wkat H. Saw. «•.alt ot Some Am.pu to lgnon la a Social Way. HI« The last number of the Arisons ing more and more common among th« Certain Afghan chiefs in charge ol Kicker co.tains the following«. -—-— young women of this city, and phyo the Khyber pais have lately visit«} “There is no use in attempting to icians say that uothing too harsh cai Calcutta as guests of the government. disguise the fact that certain rings and be uttered against this miserable pnio The following is an interesting ac factions in thia gulch have f r the last tioe. Arsenic preparations of ail kindl count whioh has been given by one of three months made desperate attempts are advertised and various prepar» their number of the imphisaiens de to ignore the existence of tt^e Kicker. tiona of this deadly drug are daily sold rived from his visit, Having failed to frighten or bribe us, “This ia a King's country; everyone ostracism was their little game. They for the alleged purpose of beautifying the complexion. They who use it are ought to be astonished at seeing all determined to freeze us out. We first daily laying the foundation of a dis- the wonderful things to be seenju 11. became aware, of this movement three ease that will one da^ destroy some oi The thing which has most astoiitehed months ago, when Mrs. Judge Gildere Gi their most vital organs. Tho actual us is the regularity wiih whioh every sloevegave horblowuut. At that ■ 1 time object to be gained by ai-senic eating it thing is conducted. During our railway we received'the follbwing card: » that clear, white, almost transparent journey we arrived at tho different All gentlemen attending this -e- * skin, which they so much admire and stations and left again with great which may mean an early death. A regularity, as arranged There is oeption will be expected well-known physician said to a reportei no king like this in our country.. A to wear a white shirt. country which is ill-goverued is not a to-day: “The health department hat . .................. ........................... —.................................... good country! become alarmed at the increase in th« “The inference was as plain as the “We arrived at C ilcutta early in the pimples on Mrs. Judge Gildersleeve’s sale and use of those noxious complex morning, and, being tired, stayed ill ion preparations. Advertisements ol nose. They thought we**iadn’t a white arsenic stare every body in the face is our lodgings the whole of that day. shirt They thought we’d attend with spite of attempts to prohibit the sale. On the day following we went an army blanket thrown carelessly ovor the railway our shoulder» The object was to let Claims have been made by the venders to Howrah to see that there is so little arsenic in the ’station and the workshops. We us know that Mrs Judge Gildersleeve preparations that ho harm can come pi saw all the engines at work, There is didn’t look upon us as knowing what it. In opposition to this is the fai l nothing like these in our own country, belonged to manners It was all right that wnll pa|>ers where the green colot wli ch is a poor country. We were We didn’t go. As to whether the Gil- ' is given by Scheel’s arsenic compound then taken to the mint and saw the ^lersleeve ring came out ahead opinions and four-anna pieces that are be ; differ. Our account of the party, head have been tabooed by the health au- qiice 1 thorities on the grounds that even the ing coined thore. The Cabal rupees ed: “Gathering of Vultures.” is still small amount of arsenic given off by are only worjji twelve and ono-hall going the rounds of the press. In that exhalation had caused .death in some annas; they are stamped with a die article we proved Judge Gildersleeve cases. Again, the results obtained and hammer. There is nothing to to be an embezzler and a horse-thief, by the use of arsenic show very, equal this government either in Its and we adduced |x>sitive evidence that plainly the hurtful nature of it Th« silver or any thing else, or in its Mrs. Judge was a broken «dawn and exact state of affairs brought about by mnnngenient of the country. W<- played-out fortune-teller Who had been arsenic eating is a diminution oi visited the fort the next day. and con compelled to skip from St. Louis. strength of the blood; the capillary sidered that very strong We saw all The Judge called at the Kicker office blood-vessels are stopped from wort the cannon and big guns there. They next day with a shotgun, but when we brought out more letters—-proofs that ing; theMmds of the blood-vessels art are very good guns. “We Were then taken to the bo he had served time in three prisons, killed; no blood is supplied to the skin, and the real reason for the white, trans tanical gardens in a steam launch. and that Mrs. Judge still had the work parent nature of the skin is that it it This is the first time we have been on house cut on her hair when she arrived practically dead. If the result of arse board a sieamer, and we enjoyed the in Arizona, the Judge didn't shook “The Jackass Hill set next tried to nic eating is the highly transparent trip very much. The gardens are by They got mad state of tne skin, and if this can only far the finest we have evor seen. We make us sing small. result from the killing of blood-vessels, Were then taken to the zoological gar- because we weren't puffing them in ev d us and to Mateabruz, the palace ol ery issue. Colonel Docker had two the claim that there is no harm done in the late King of Oude, which is a very shillings' worth of repairs made to his the habit becomos an absurdity.” Il le place. We saw all the animals at mule harness, and the Kicker didn't Physicians throughout the city'an tho zoological gardeks. Some of the notice iL Mrs. Prof. Frothingham up in arms against the use of the drug. animals here we had seen before at turned an old silk dress from top-to- One prominent doctor said: “I hops Cabul, but some of them we have bottom, and the Kicker didn’t come Out that something will be done, and don« never seen before, and they greatly with n notice that she had received an soon, to stop this abominable traffic. li astonished us, as we could not tell to other five-hundred-dollar dress from the destruction of blood-vessels was th« what country tlioy belonged. Worth. Major Hornblower put at only thing the arsenic-eater succeeded “Wo then paid a visit to the Bac porcelain doorknob on the frent door in doing it would be bad enough, but chante, and were truly astonished by that is not all. The arsenic has a bad I he big guns and by every thing on ! ' of his adobe, and the Kicker didn't come out nnd list it as one of the en- effect upon the kidneys, and is likely to board. We never saw such things 1 terprisos bound to bring in newsottlers bring out a disease which will end only beb.ru. Jio other government could and boom real estate. It was there- in death. It has also a bad effect on ever make ship» like that. The chief I Lily th*digestive organs, and soon~destroyi wau(ed to distribute R‘. 900 among 1 fore determined to down us. (heir action; the liver, too, is diseased the crew for showing all these won-, De Lisle, the red-headed daught one-legged county by the poison, and the nerves become derful things, blit th > Captain of the er - of- the affected to such an extent that tlieit ship said the siiknr would be very clerk, made her debut, but we were not control becomes impossible. It act« angry i^llieir . ai ceplinjf' a present invited to 4’10 blow-out It was an ac upon the system in such a way that the The chiefs again wanted to give the tion intended to break our heart and victims of the habit become lost to a'l sailors a present, but wore told that we promptly countered. It was on our sens» of morality. The practice of they could not be allowed to do so, as tip that the sheriff went up about ten o’clock that evening and gathered in arsenic eating is a vicious ohe that what had boen shown to them had two bigamists from New England, an ougljt to bestopped immediately before been shojvn f >r*thelr own amusement. I ‘ embezzler from Ohio and a fugitive any'more harm is done.”— N. Y. Cor. When we went down in the hold we I from Chicago, all of whom were Chicago Tribune. saw the men’s' tables aproad in a looked upon ns the cream of society minuto and again taken up, thoir De ds and were airing their frills and scol put down and taken up—all done In a lops nt the grand debut. minute—and in a moment the ship “We aro here to stay. We put up STRANGE MEDICINES. was made ready for a fight The big our own slniqty with our own hands. Mysterlou* Powders »nd Decoctions Pre- guns went tired, but only with fuse» Wc board and lodge ourselves, and we scribed by Oriental Physicians^ We saw’the sailors going up the rig have not only got the cost of our living Mr. Mitford has told us how he saw ging very quickly, at the double, and down so fine, but are getting our white a Chinese physician prescribe a decoc run up the masts and remain quiet paper so cheap that we can make tion of three scorpions for a child struck tlieie. We have 'never soon these money on a list of thirty subscribers down with fever, and Mr. Gill in hi. things before. We wero presented to and three pages of dead ada We are “River of Golden Sand” mentions har tho Lord Sahib of the sea, who was going to run tho Kicker after our own ing met a number of coolies laden with very kind to us. . * style, whether it pleases the bigbugs 1 red deer's horns, some of them very •■Wo were then taken to D um-dum, i on Jackass Hill or the half-starved) fine twelve-tine antlers. Theyareonly whore we saw a small-arms manu coyotes of Poverty Hollow. While we hunted when in velvet, and from till factory and 1b i workmen making don’t hanker after invitations toeucher horns when in this state a medicin« cartridges and ballots. Another day parties and church socials, we don’t is made which is one of the most highly we visited the Englishman uewspap r propose to take a snub from any set. prized in the Chinese phartnacopceia. office, and saw them printing, and Wbilo wo are willing to boom the With regard to the singular virtues also making lead letters. One of us town we don't propose to sit up nights supposed to attach to the medicinal wrote a verse in Persian. A sahib to let the outside world, know that use of tiger. General Robert Warden then took paper, and with a machine, some citizen has added A bath-tub to tells me that on one occasion when in which cut like a very sharp knife into his dugout, or that some merchant has India he was exhibiting some trophies some white stuff he wrote it. Then just received a fresh wad of bed-tick of the chase, some Chinamen who were lead was poured on. and in a few min ing. present became much excited at the utes they wore printing the verse on There have boon some hints thrown sight of an unusually fine tiger skin. some copies of the Englishman, whioii out by the court-house ring that we They eagerly inquired whether it would were presen ted to us. We .also spoke are to be starved out Try it on gentle be possible to find the place whore the through the telephone. Some of us men! We are now fifteen dollars carcass was buried, because from the were at ilio Englishman office and ahead of tho game, have paper enough bones of tigers dug up three months some nt Messr< King Hamilton's, and on hand for ton weeks, and our living after burial a decoction may be pre we recogniz.nl each other’s voice. expenses last week footed up only pared which gives immense muscular Then we visited the telegraph offie, Sixty-seven cents. We oame to stick. power to the fortunate man who swal where we spoke with a friend at —Detroit E'ree Press. lows it I am indebted to the same in P.-shawur—all in a iew minutes. One —An East Indian saientiflo journal formant for an interesting note on the of us asked a relative at Peshawur how medicine folk-lore of India, namely, he was, as he had been suffering from says that fibers of bamboo, China, gras- that while camping in the jungle one fever. Hr replied; ■Quite well; how’s and pineapple, after proper treatment, of his men came to entreat him to shoot your boil?’ Now. these words aston can be spun so fine that an expert a nightjar for his benefit, because from ished us very much, because none of could hardly distinguish the product the bright, prominent eyes of this bird us knew that thia man had had a boil from silk. Large quantities of cloth of night an ointment is prepared tyhich —only his relative at Peshawur. Great woven from China grass and bamboo gives great clearness, of vision, and is are-the way» of tho airkarl”— London are brought into the Rangoou market* f by China nen and Bhamo, and although therefore highly prized. Miss Bird, Times. the material is not manufactured by too, has recorded some very remark modern looms, the quality is so fine a; able details on the materia medica of China and Japan. When in a re —There is nothin? so contradictory to resemble tussore silk. —The total number of coke ovens in mote district of Japan she became so as human nature. J ist when we are unwell as to deem it necessary to con beginning to hate a man for his man the United States up to the time when sult a native doctor, of whom she says: ners, wo discover him to bo possessed last noted was 22,597; building, 4,154. “He has great faith in ginseng and in of some noble trait which compels us The production of coke for 1886 was rhinoceros horn, and in the powdered to admirer if not to love, him.—Dry 6,845,369 tons, oosting at oven (1.63 per ton. Six years ag > thore were only liver of some animal,- which, from th. (7oods Chronicle. 14.119 ovens, and the cost at ovens description, I understood to be a tiger, —Notwithstanding the depravity of all s|M*cifics of the Chinese school of human nature, there are some things was then (1.88 per ton. Pennsylvania medicines. Dr. Nosoki showed me a that men can not be hired to do. Take has produced seventy-nine per dent, of small box of unicorn’s horn, which he ihe tramp and the wood-pile for ex all the coke made in the United States. The consumption of coal for 1886 was said was worth more thin its weight in ample.— Merchant Traveler. 10.688.972 ton«. New coke works are <z,.ld. ” — Nineteenth Century. —The source of vanity is from with- still beiuK protected. 4 i ♦a I “ « » « ’ A Mrd That Asked Answered Qwee- . .dleae Like a Haman Beta«. Sir William Temple tells this about a / Brazilian parrot which Prince Maurice/ met in his travels: “I had a mind.1' said Sir William, “to know from Priuoe Maurice’s own mouth the Account of a common and much-credited story of an old parrot he had seen in Brazil, dur ing his -government there, that spoke, and asked and answered common ques tions like a reasonable creature. Prince Maurice said there was something true, buta great deal false, of what had been reported. He had heard of such a parrot when he went to Brazil,'and though he believed nothing of it, and it was a good way off, he had the our- iosity to send for it; that it was a very great and very old one, and when it came into the room where the Prince was with a good many Dutchmen about him. G said presently: “ ’What a company of white men • are here!’ „ “ ‘They asked it what it thought that man was, pointing to the Prince? It answered: t “ ‘Some General or other.’ “When they brought it close to him he asked it: “ ‘Whence camé you?” “ ‘The Parrot—From Miriannan.’ “ ‘The Prince—To whom do you be long?’ “ ‘The Parrot—To a Portuguese.’ “•The Prince—What do you here?’ “ ‘The Pari-ot—I look after the chick en».’ “The Prince laugliyd and said: “ ‘You look aftyr Hie chickens?’ “The parrot answered: I “ ",‘ïes, I; and I know how’to do it very well.’ f “And then he made tlugchuck, chuck, chuck, three or four times that people used to make to chickens when they called them. , “I set down the words of this dia logue,”’ said' Sir William, “just as Prince Maurice said them to me. I asked him in what language the parrot conversed, and he said in Brazilian. I asked him whether he understood Brazilian. He said no; . but he had taken care to have two interpreters with him—one a Dutchman who spok«. Brazilian and the other a Brazilian who spoke Dutch; that he asked them sepa rately and privately, and both of them agreed in telling him just the same thing t^e parrot said.”— Boston Record. A DARMojs^ HOUSE. r 7 The Charming Houses of Wealthy »nd In fluential Japanese Citizens. Life in one of the old families of wealth and position in Japan is full of unique and picturesque interest. We may oalL it heatheu if we will, but it is still a home and replete with sugges tive home history. Well do I remem ber one such, a grand old house of solid timber 69 feet broad by 100 deep, with lofty rooms and long, wide corridors.-_-x Its one atorv bail an Immense and im posing sloping roof, which covered 14 apartments and many balconies. The sliding partitions could all be removed and make on, occasion a noble hall, with many columns. The ceiling was made of fine grained wood and 15 feet from the floor. The front of this house was protected from the inquisitive gaze of the world by a wall of tiles built with cement and lined with a rojft of firs with mighty girth and far spread ing branches which' measured thdlr height by rods and their shadows by fuHongs. The main gate of the court-yard was supported by heavy tree trunks and covered with a handsome roof, while just within was the porter's lodge. Near this lodge was a clurtip of evergreens and trader their shadow stood an ark ‘ftut.from sdlid stone, per haps four feet iiigh, used as the family shrine and holding in its depths sacred emblems and holy symbols. -Just be yond was a rockery ;of great beauty,, where fountains tossed their spray and played witl^ the sun and moonbeams. Here and there the mockunji tree shed its purple blossoms to the breeze from lofty heights, while azalias and starry asters bloomed about its foot. All about the garden camelias of brilliant red or purest white unfolded their lovfi- ly buds from low growing shrubs, while now and then a cantelia tree, towfring fifty feet in the air, drew the eve with its lovelv wax-like blossoms — UvvJ TZ'.' Light Wcr». Eight hundred a year for clapping your hands a dozen times every even ing is good pay for light work. That is the lowest estimate of the income of the “chief of the claque" in Vienna; and the estimate is based upon the confes sions of/dome forty or fifty ladies and gentlemen of the opera and ballet who have been in the habit of purchasing applause at the cheap rate of from ton shillings per month each. Out of this the eliief of the claque has to pay his assistants; but as the work is pleasant , and easy, and occupies onlmne even ing—which might, no doubt! be much less agreeably, spent—the aiinual ex penditure upon this head can not be very large. It is tolerably clear that the astute gentleman who “controls” the claque in Vienna puts most of the fees into his own pocket, since he has quite recently purchased a pretty little estate in Hungary with his savings— , »