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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1886)
FOREIGN GOSSIP. adobe tombs. The vaults are mostly empty, except a few moldy bits of «•Odin (as any one may see by looking j ;n), but each is graced by the owner's skull and cross-bones. placed carefully on top. There is something charmingly grotesque in the id a that th se long-dead folk have come out to watch the little world they left, and listen to the endless gossip at the fountain; and each eyeless “domeof thought” se 'ins to wear a cheerful grin, as if npprec ating the situat on. No‘h ng more picturesipie can be imagined than the evening home-com ing down the Viga—the happy-hearted natives singing on shore or in their boa's, or fandango «lancing to twang ing guitars, while tho dusky gondoliers keep time to the music with their pad dles. Meantime the sleepy wat r is g owing purple beneath the willows, an«! the soft twilight of this marvelous cl mate is throw ng its glamor over all. Everybody, of whatever age or color, sex or. station, wears a poppy wreath, and since it is "better to b.i out of the world than out of fashion,” Betsy and 1 don them also, and enter heartily into the spirit of the oc asion.— Fannie. B. H artl, in Boston Transcript. PRESIDENTIAL LOVES. Something About the Sweetheart« of Lin time are still in existence. He sighed for a vear before he broached the sub ject of marriage in a stammering way at a ball. Miss Burwell did not give him an explicit reply, and a short time afterwards he found she was engag' d to another. — Frank G. Carpenter, in Lippincott's Magazine. —Adolp L. Reichenheim, a wealthy coln, Washington, Jefferson and Others. citizen of Berlin, has willed to that city President Lincoln's first love was a 1,000,000 marks (nearly $250,000) for golden-haired blonde, who bad cherry charitable purposes. lips, a clear blue eye, a neat figure and —M. Pasteur says it is easier to cure more than ordinary intellectual ability. temperate men who have been bitten by a mad dog than it is to cure those who Her name was Anne Rutledge. She SPIOER-LIFE WONDERS. are addicted to the flowing bowl. was the daughter of a tavern-keeper in A Noted Monarch1» Complete Sult of Finest —To visitors at the Edinburgh Ex Salem, Ill. Mr. Lincoln met her when Kplder-Thr**ad. position Mr. Lloyd's exhibit of five he was about twenty-three, and, after Tbefemale is much fiercer and larger m les of "news” paper in an unbroken a romantic courtship, became engaged web is one of the most striking exam than the male. There is peril to the to her. She died before they could be ples of modern paper making. latter in paying his addresses. “Loxe married; and Lincoln was so much af- —Experiments in Austrian garrisons me or I die” is not a phrase of poetry fected by her death that his biographer, prove that where the floors of barracks are painted with tar the collection of War«l Lemon, says his frien. i pro or sentiment with the male spider, but dust in cracks is prevented, and there is Under tho direction of tho New York Stato Board of nounced him crazy for a time. He was often is a literal statement of the trag a consequent diminution in irritative watched carefully, and became especi ical fact, and his usual experience is diseases of the eye. There is also a eighty-four different kinds of baking powders, embracing ally violent during storms, fogs ami that he loses some of his legs in the great diminution of parasites. damp and gloomy weather. At such rebuffs which he receives. In one —At the entrance of a restaurant in brands that could be found for sale in the State, were submit times he would rave, declaring, among tribe of spider* the female is 1,800 Pesth,. Hungary, where young ladies other wild expressions: “I can never tim« larger than the male. Accord are employed, is posted a notice read- to examination and analysis by I rof. C. I'. C handles , a Iff be reconciled to have the snow, rain ingly, there is never any occasion ing: "Gentlemen are requested to ab ami storms to beat upon her grave.” among them to hold a woman’s rights stain from kissing the waitresses on the her of the State Board and President of the New York ( At this time he began to quote, it is convention. The spider’s thread is stairs, as this is a fruitful source of said, the poem which is so well identi composed of innumerable small threads breakage and impedes the services.” Board of Health, assisted by Prof. E dward G. L ove , the » fied with him, beginning: or fibers. One of these small threads —The King of the Belgians is about O, why should the spirit of mortal bo proud? has been estimated to be one two- known late Lnitejl States Government chemist. the only European sovereign w ho was It is supposed that he was thinking millionth part of the thickness of a born to a throne and reached it. The of his first love during the times he so hair. The snider spins three kinds of RELIC-HUNTERS. The official report shows that a largo number of the powj kings of Prussia, Portugal ami Sweden often repeated it. Years afterwards, thread. On?kin«l is of great strength, were born younger sons, the King of How They Are Victimized by Professional when he had become famous, he was ai«d of this the radiating or smoke Ke'ic-Fakirs. Denmark a «listant cousin and the Queen examined were found to contain alum or lime; many of them asked by an old friend as to the story lines of the web are made. The cross of England but fifth in succession to the "Why is it that the East Room of the of his love for Anne Rutledge, and he lines. or what a sailor might call the reigning sovereign. such an extent as to render them seriously objectionable for i White House is kept so bare of furni said: “I loved her dearly. She was a ratlins, are finer and are tenacious; —'The proprietor of a menagerie ture?" asked a visitor to this city of a handsome girl, and would have made a that is, they have upon them little in the preparation of human food. wrote to the Liverpool Post that he suc good and loving wife.” specks or globules of a very sticky ceeded in saving a lion cub that hail Wh te-House official. Lincoln's next love was a tall, fine- "Because if it was filled with small looking woman, named Mary Owens, gum. These specks are put on with Alum was found in twenty-nine samples. This drug ut been deserted by its mother by putting inter-spaces. They are set quite it with a female dog to suckle. Now pieces of furniture, bric-a-brac or knick- with whom he became acquainted even along the line, anil are what, ployed in baking powders to cheapen their cost. The presa the young lion takes freely of any knacks, it would present a most dilapi about a year after Anne Rutledge «lied. thickly in the first instance, catch and hold cooked food, especially vegetables, but dât «1 condition,” was the answer. “As Upon her rejection of him, he wrote a the legs or wings of the fly. Once of limo is attributed to the impure cream of tartar of tg refuses raw meat. It follows the keep it is. the relic-hunters cut oft- tassels letter to his friend, Mrs. O. II. Brown caught in this fashion the prey is held er’s wife life a dog. ing, saying that he had been inveigled secure by threads flung over it some merco used in their manufacture. Such «ream of tartar tvaij —According to English statistics the from the fr'nge of the furniture, or tear into paying his addresses to Miss what in the manner of a lasso. The death-rate among doctors is large and oft' pVces of the curtains. If there was Owens, but on being refused he found third kind of silk is that which the analyzed and foumf to contain lime and other impurities, ian on the increase. It is about twenty-five any thing portable handy, off it would he cared more for her than he hail spider throws out in a mass or flood, per thousand among doctors, twenty go as a memento of the vis'L thought, and proposed again. In this by which it suddenly envelopes any samples to the extent of 93 per cent of their entire weight. Washington is perhaps the greatest letter he says: among lawyers ami sixteen among prey of which it is somewhat afraid, clergymen. In proportion to theii place for relic-hunters in this country. “I most emphatically in this instance as, for example, a wasp. A scientific All the baking powders of tho market, with tho single era numbers there are more deaths of doc Ilei'e they have lull -wing at all sorts of have made a fool of myself. I have experimenter once drew out from the tors from contagious fe« ers and diph historical places, and each vis tor thinks come to the conclusion never more to body of a single spider 3,480 yards of tion of “Royal” (not including the alum and phosphate puwda theria than the average of the mass of that he or she must carry something think of marrying, and for this reason thread or spider silk—a length a little home to the old folks. Just at present —that I can never be satisfied with any the people. which wore long since discarded as unsafe or inefficient by pj pieces of the Washington Monument one who would be fool enough to have short of three miles. Silk may be —The latest accounts state that the woven of spider's thread, and it is the most salab e. Everywhere you me.” new island which has sprung up in the j are dent housekeepers) are made from the impure cream of tartiri more glossy and brilliant than that of you see a piece of white marble, Still, it was not long after this that the silkworm, being of a golden color. Friendly group, in the South Pacific, is go some with rude sketches of the monu about nine square miles in area, and ment on them, others plain; but there is he was engaged to Miss Mary Todd, a An enthusiastic entomologist secured commerce, and consequently contain limo to a correspond well-educated, rosy brunette, of Lex enough of it for the weaving of a suit rises from two to three hundred feet still on sale Io raise the monu ington. Ky., who was visiting at above the level of the sea. The volcanic enough extent. ment fifty feet Ifgher, and the greatest* of clothes for Louis XIV.— Boston Ad eruption which produced the island part of the joke is that all of the stone Springfield, where Lincoln was a mem vertiser. threw up a column of water and steam for sale is said to have been chipped ber of the Illinois Legislature. Both The only baking powder yet found by chemical analysis Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas pro fully a mile in height. DOES GOLD GROW? from the cap-stone! posed to her. She refused Douglas —A curious experiment has lately ¿e entirely free from litne and absolutely pure is the “ Royi ( hie would hardly believe that relics been made in Italy. A couple of swal of (lu tenu still exist, but they do, or. at am! accepted Lincoln. Lincoln became The Somewhat Novel Assertion of Poetical Joaquin Miller. suddenly ill, and it was more than a lows, the proprietors of a nest of little least, some people are made to suppose This perfect purity results from the exclusive use of era Years ago I wrote and published in ones, were convey from Pavia to Milan, i they do, ami they find a ready market. year before the marriage was consum mated. It took place finally in Spring a London magazine an article in which where they were set at liberty at a cer Talking to a well-known “relic fakir” of tartar specially refined and prepared by patent proas tain moment previously agreed upon. he spoke of some int resting tilings in field, and the couple began their mar I undertook to prove that gold-grows— ried life by boarding at the Globe Thirteen minutes later the parent birds regard to his trade. He manag 'd soon of the N. Y. Tartar Co., which totally remove the tartrate grows the same as grain or potatoes or reached their nests together, having after Guitean trieil to suicide to have Hotel at four dollars per week. Lin any thing else. 1 reckon I did my coln was thirty-three years oh' at ’ this performed the distance at the rate of mentioned in a paper that the impro The cost of this chemically pi lime and other impurities. work crudely, not knowing any thing one and a half miles per minute. vised knife with which Guiteau tried to time and Mary Todd was twenty-one. A number of Presidents have been in about chemistry or even the ordinary cream of tartar is much greater than any other, and on —Some very attractive specimen* of commit the deed was in his possession. paper slippers, sandals and other covqr- He was soon overrun with requests from love more than once, and several have terms of expression about such mat suffered the pangs of love unrequited. ters, and so my earnest and entirely count of this greater cost is used in no baking powder ings for the feet—a substatute for ■ relic hunters for the knife, but he had leather, etc. — have been brought to no- [ an eye to business He remembered a Washington Irving says that General correct sketch was torn all to pieces Washington had a serious passion at and laughed to scorn. Well, I have at the “ Royal.” tice in London, whore their manufacture friend who o was hard up in New York lias been recently undertaken. For this ami wrote i to him: “1 send you the fifteen for some unknown beauty which last found positive proof of my general made him really unhappy for a time. statement right here in the mountains Prof. L ove , who made the analyses of baking powders 1 purpose paper, paper pulp or papier knife which Guiteau used in his attempt mache is employed in making the up ed suicide. Use it to your best a«h an The son of President "Iyler, who is dis by the Pacific Sea. Briefly and simply, the New York State Board of Health, as well as for 1 per, which is molded to the desired form tage. and return it to me w thin a tantly related to the Washington fam 1 have found a piece of petrified wood and size; the sole is made of paper, j month.” 'lhe friend sought a well- ily, tells me that the General tried to with a little vein or thread of gold in win the daughter of Colonel Cary, of it. How did that gold get into this Government, says of the purity and wholesomencss of “Row pasteboard, leather hoard or other known dime museum manager, made a adapted paper material, a union of this bargain to exhibit it for a few weeks, Denby, Warwick County, Va. Colo piece of wood? Was it placed there by “I have tested a package of ‘Royal Baking Powder’™ sol«« to tho upper being efl'ected by e’ean'd a lot of money, anil got a lot of nel Cary was very wealthy, and Wash the finger of God on the morning of means of cement, glue or other ad aitvertisemcnt for the relic dealer here. ington, who paid attention to none but creation, as men have claimed was the I purchased in the open market, and find it composed of pa hesive material. The plan is to have I Soon after, a man came from England prospective heiresses, was much at case of the gold found in the veins of the upper creased, embossed or perfo especially to see the dealer in this tracted by one of his daughters. He the mountains? Nonsense! Gold and wholesome ingredients. It is a cream of tartar powder rated at the instep and sides so as to c ty. lie was delegated by one of the was a poor Major then, and he rode on grows! Certain conditions of the air, prevent any breaking or tearing whilo I Government museums to purchase rel horseback to Warwick County, and or certain combinations of earth and a high degree of merit, and does not contain cither alum I in use. Th«1 sole may be made with or ics. Among otherthings he wanted the called upon Colonel Cary. Cary, a air and water, and whatever chemicals without a heel. Guiteau knife. The dealer told him he stiff old gentleman with a ruffleil shirt may be require«!, and then a rock, a phosphates or any injurious substances. could have it, and thereupon went into and niucn dignity, asked Major Wash piece of quartz, or petrified tree, for ington, as he alighted from his horse: the gold to grow in, and there is your his workshop, took a piece of steel, AT SANTA ANITA. ‘•May I inquire, sir, what has caused gold crop! Of course, gold grows “E. G. LOVE. P h .D.” sharpened it, bound one end with cord, you to honor me with a visit at this slowly. Centuries upon centuries, it A Sunday Spent at the Pleasure Resort of and nail a duplicate made exactly as he may be, are required to make the least luul made the so-called original knife tim«?” the City of Mexico. Major Washington blushingly re sign of growth. But it grows just as bited in New York. “That's noth Santa Anita, the first village on the exh ing,-' said the dealer. “When Guiteau plied that he had come to ask permis I asserted years ago; ami here at last Viga beyond the City of Mexico, is the was hung, 1 bought a lot of common sion to pay his addresses to Miss Cary 1 hold in my hand such testimony as A'*,*,'- ' < X y \ \ V universal rallying point on Sundays, rope, cut it up in small pieces, and sold with a view to marrying her. no sane man in this world will be rash “Well, sir,” responded the stately enough to question—a portion of a both for natives and sight-seekers from it all over the country. I came very the cauitol. There is always a fiesta at near making a fortune in it, only one Colonel, “I would have you understand petrified tree with a thread of gold in my daughter rides in her own car .it—«/oayutn Miller, in Chicago Times. Santa Anita, and the Indians are for th ng happened my rope gave out, that ami. besiilcs, I luid worked all the suck riage; anti if that be your business you ever fandangoing, pulque-drinking and ers. ” '1 his same man has donea thriv may as well mount your horse, sir, and GLORIOUS AMERICA. ballad-singing. □ On arriving at this ingtrade in Cleveland wedding eake. return.” village, the first business of every body He has some relies in shape of unused Miss Carv afterwardsftnarried a man An Elderly Traveler Compares American and Italian Politeness. is to secure a wreath of poppies and I oxes ami plate pieces of cake yet at his named Ambler, a member of one of the noted families of Virginia She was “Yes, I’ve been in Yurrip,” said an corn-flowers, which the women wear house. — Washington Letter. present at the celebration which took upon their tangle«! hair and the men I after the surrender at Yorktown, and elderly passenger, “and they have HARVEST MONTHS. upon their sombreros though, perhaps, it is said that when she saw Washing some curious customs over thero_ ól^rUJ:S.’O’rell‘<i,'>WlocMdre",i'“ I Castori» miros Colic, Constipation, the "human form divine” thus beauti Fair Lun» Constantly Shining Upon Kip« ton so highly honored she fainted awav some that seem purty strange to us Irecommend it a» superior to any prescription I ouur Sour C31OII1UCU, Stomach, liiarrtwea. 1 ’lurrinr», Eructation, ------ ■« fully crowned may lie but partially cov Field« of Golden Wheat. in the realization of the great mistake Americans. An’ then agin’ they have I 1 Kills known to me.” H. A. Aacnxa, M. D., V'"“ Worms, ------ ~ gives --------- sleep, nru“® *nd pronw«1 ered with scant ami dirty rags. Lovely ! gestion. some that have evidently been bor It is an interesting fact that wheat she had made in not marrying him. 111 80. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T. I Without injurious medication. wreaths sell for a madio (six cents) A year or two after this, when apiece; and the woman, young or old, growing has now become so widely ex Washington had become a Colonel at rowed from this country. For instance, Tus C kntaub C ompany , 182 Fulton Street M who is not wreathed before the day is tended over the surface of the earth that twenty-three years of age, he fell in I was taking a trip by stage-coach in Italy one day — me an' some more tour over is either deep in disgrace or hope the moon never fails to And a ripe field love with Mary Phillips, a rich New lessly out of fashion. This innate love to shine upon. When the growth of Yolk heiress, at whose bouse he spent ists—when a parcel of ugly looking of flowers is a direct heritarge from th s grain was largely confined to one a week- The authorities are divided as men, wearing masks over their faces, VAN.£■ I> k L.A8UMUTT. judoew w thayek the swarthy founders of the float latitude, tho regular occurrence of the to whether he proposed to her or not. stopped the kerridge an’ put up a few Pre’id™‘i„ VI«» President. n.Aiic rxp. ei-s,y/i’L J ing guldens, . tlerangcincuisdl History tells us All. concede, however, that he was guns an’ said we hail to give ’em a lot METCPOLlTANSiÄ'BmPORTLANC "harvest moon" was considered by of money 'fore wo could travel any that the most valuable gift slighted and went away very angry, Transact« a General Banking Business ; allows through the P«» J which Montez'.ima presented to tho some a special arrangement to lengthen and it is charged that he carried his further on that load. interest on deposits as follows: thou io '’“tt JJl On 3 months certificates 4 per cent ‘But we ve paid for our passage Spanish ambassadors who camo to his the «lav for the hurried reapers. As now anger to the extent of aiding in the not confound »» 1 On J month* certificates 5 per cent Belts advertised » grain is falling somewhere every month ’ said the man sittin’ next to court, was accompanied by a rare front head to toe On 12 months certificates 6 per cent confiscation of the Phillips estate after already, of the year, many must have to get me. ONE specific pufr* bouquet—and a strange anomaly it . . _ director «: the revolution ha«i become a success For circuiart Judge W. W Thayer H W Booti, must have seemed, the love of the beau along without this helpful phenomenon and his love hail married his rival. “‘No matter,’ renlie.l the swarthy Judge E. D. Shattuck, form-’tiou H, W. Mon&stes, Vh-.iti. Belt c«»>. Sv Hester Farrell. Dr W. H. Baylor tiful combined with their blood-curdling No doubt a statement of the Continual John Adam s love affairs were nu man with the gun, ‘fifty lire all around, Hon Richard William«, Dr. 8. J Barber. religion! Baron von Humboldt re harvesting, and the time when different merous. In 1764, the year in which he please.' V an B. DcLaahmutt, I. F. Powers. C. H. Dodd marked upon the same peculiarity cen conntr es accomplish their in-gathering, was married, he writes in his diary: “And we had to whack up, too, too. turies afterward, and so have other will be of general interest We find the Didn't mind the money so much as i "I was of an amorous disposition, writers on Mexico. To-day those who following in an exchange: an«l very early, from ten to eleven did the insolence of the cusses. Just It is harvest in January for Australia. years sit in the market-places must embower of ago, was very fond of the so compare their brutal way to the deli New Zealand, ( hili and Argentine; themselves in green branches garlanded ciety of females. I shall draw no cate politeness of our sleeping-car por February ami March for East India and with flowers, w bile some prosaic pulque characters nor give any enumeration of ters in America. Of course the furrin- barrels are wreathed with roses, and Upper Egypt; Apri for Lower my youthful flames, it would be con ers borrowed that idea from the Pull Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Persia, sidered no compliment to the dead or man porters, but just see how the loaf mugs ami pitchers ar«' similarly adorned. The poorest village church has its floor Asia Minor, India, Mexico and the living. This I will say: they were ers bungle it np when they try to play ( ill a: May for Algeria, Central strewn with blossoms, and fresh bou all modest and virtuous girls, and it. It takes an American for true po quets are always arranged upon the Asia, ('bina, Japan, M«ir«>cco, Texas and always maintained their character liteness, after all.”— Chicago Herald. Florida; June for Turkey. Greece, Italy, altars before services begin. Th«» babe through life. No virgin or matron at its christening, the child at its confir Spain, Portugal, South of France. Cali ever had cause to blush at the sight of Uses of the Card. mation. the bride at her wedding and fornia, Oregon. Louisiana, Mississippi, or regret her acquaintance with me. Alabama, Georgia, Carolina, Tennessee, tho corpse in its co flin are alike The card is the epitome of civiliza- V rginia, Kentucky, Kansas. Utah, Col- Thes«> reflections, to me consolatory ion. A lady s visiting-card is repre adorned. beyond expression. 1 am able to make orAtlo ami Missouri; July for Koumania, At the Indian village next above with truth and sincerity, and 1 pre sentative, and implies far more than Santa Anita is a rare old church, wlich Bulgarin, Austro-Hungary, South of sume I am indebted for this blessing to the mere data of name and residence. Ru>s a. Germany, Switzerland, France. was built by Cortez more than thr«e my education ” Giving you her card, a lady gives with hundred years ago. but is still in daily South of England, Nebraska. Minne- first love occurred when it her social recognition, her goo«l will use. It is well worth a visit, i«n<1 if the sota. Wisi on «in, Iowa. Illinois, Indiana, he, Jefferson's youth of nineteen years, was her remembrance, the entree to her doors chance to la« closed, a few cents M i higan. Ohio. New York. New En going a to at Williamsburg. His house. The card being thus repre will induce the custodian (who lives gland and Upper Canada: August, Bel- inamorata college Rebecca Burwell, anil sentative should stand for more than conveniently near) to produce the k«'V gii m. Holland, Great Britain. Den his letters of was this date are full of her it often does. A call is a call, ami save and reveal all its treasures of antique mark. Poland, Lower Canaila. Columbia ugliness. In the rear is a weed-grown and Manitoba: September ami October. and his love. He devotes many page« among special friends it is the most grave-yard with rows of grinning skulls Siotl nd. Sweden. Norway and North to his grief over losing a watch-paper desirable form of a call. It implies ranged along the arms of its central of Russia: November, Peril and South which she had cut for him. and Christ that you are hel«I in kindly regard, and cross, which is surrounded by the usual Africa: December. Burnish. Rural mas-Day. 1762, be wrote a letter about that future meetings will be agreeable his sweetheart to his friend John Page It does away with anv possibility of heap of human bones. In front of the Press. which would have filled, say» Parton, mistakes, or with any ¿wkwardnew of church, facing the plaza fountain where mncisvo Cani n il G bb >n.«’ red hat is said to twelve modern sheets of letter paper. chance meetings. In fact, the card is tiie women collect with the r water E 7 "■‘“’»»r« Fin. and .»me p.r.n»« He wm continually comparing her to the s:gn and symbol of social enlight jars and linger to gossip, aseien Indian have cost him no less than twenty« the loves of the poets, and copies of enment, and deserves to be canonized women will are several blue painted I live thousand dollars. cr,.t*lll.e4 frult Th’7 d° b"‘ love songs written by Jefferson at tbi- — Chicago Tribune. patl.,n. Pile. Liver ’ Wh,ch *• ““mrpM.ed for the cure off»*" “ Royal ” the only absolutely pure baking p tier made.—Action of the New York Si Board of Health. CASTOR II H amburg / X57 T . W ecu. At d’v»r.p.p.1. »<* »'«***1