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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1886)
THE JAPANESE IRIS A New Jersey Florist’s Display of the Com ing Flower of Fashion. FREEDOM OF THE STREET TOWN. An II ow It Wan Conferred Upon “Foreigners” in Days Gone By. GROWTH OF DETROIT, LEMONADE. Intercutting BtiMinens Conducted Italian Savants on City Streets. by kn American City Whkh b.s Cti,ns«l It. Nationality Three Tima». GOVERNMENT TESTS. Detroit is one of tho oldest cities on The haughty youths who jerk soda Good authorities say that the Japan In a recent historical address at Gor water did a tremendous business it continent. Before Hendr k Hud- this ese iris is to be the next fashionable ham, Me., Rev. Mlijah Kellogg, speak sirup and squirt, but the palm of hot- ion set foot on the island of Manhat- flower. Thomas Hogg, Jr., went to » _____ _ ' ing of his ancestors who were among weather commerce was awarded to the can, and while Henry IV. still sat on Japan in 1838 and sent to his brother the early settlers of that town, men Italian savants who brew lemonade on throne of France, the Hurons the -------- — many beautiful plants, and above all tioned an old usage of colonial times. the street, and who drew in fortunes pointed out the site whereon it is built fifteen named varieties of the Japanese “It was the custom," he said, “to warn hand over hand. Street lemonade is to Champlain, the founder of Quebec, iris. Since that time the admiration persons out of town unless they had gauged in price and quality to suit all as the natural gate-way to “the va t for them has steadily grown among real estate or had such a character as grades of society from tramp to million seas of sweet water," and then was amateurs, and all who know them agree rendered them useful members of aire. You can get a glass for two born in the brain of the great trench that they are destined speedily to cre society." Allusion to this practice is cents, three cents or five cents. For navigator the dream of a “New trance, The fact that Royal Baking Powder is, in all ate a craze. There is at present at five cents the man will rinse the glass frequent in our early history, and no Passaic, N. J., a floriculturist who has in a mysterious bucket under the which should extend from the Atlantic the best baking powder offered to the public has large beds of them, and he himself is doubt many readers are familiar with counter, and will polish it with his own to the I’aciflc, and have Quebec and surprised and does not know whether the characteristic story of the Puritan, private handkerchief, insert two spoon Detroit as its eastern and western fort established beyond question. their unusual splendor is due to accident who, upon receiving tne formal request fuls of crushed sugar with a flourish resses. •r whether the glory will be repeated to relieve the town of any liability for which alone is worth the price, squeeze This dream was inherited by the Prof. H. A. Mott, when employed by the U. S. G( his support, turned to his wife and in the juice of a whole lemon, till in French monarchs; but it was not unt I annually. The Japanese iris differs in the most said: “Come, Abigail, let us’be going. with cracked ice, draw water from the ninety years later that one of them, at ment to analyze the various baking powders of the »triking way from the indigenous iris The town is so poor that it was over- cooler, flip the whole thing into a tit. tempted to make it a reality. Then •f America (versi-colar—tho “blue populated by the first settler." to determine which was the best, and most economic^ extinguisher, and shake it up violently Lou s XIV. commissioned tho Sieur This warning a new-coiner out of for several seconds, jug-jug-jug-jug Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who from flag”), which grows so profusely in the marshy places of this State and town was commonly a mere matter of jug, dislocate the extinguisher, float a 16114 to 1699 had been in command at an extended investigation, reported in favor of the J Connecticut, and also from the yellow form. If a settler remained after this triangle of orange on top, plunge ir. Mackinaw, to found at Detroit a settle flag of England, the “great white fleur- warning the town could not be made tw’o straws, hand it over to you with a ment, and erect there a fort to hold the and it was adopted for government use. de-luce" of Florence, whose roots are chargeable with his support in case he bow, and while you drink it watch you region of the Great Lakes for the the orris roots of commerce, and tho became a pauper. Prof. Mott has continued his examinations of h with that admiring smile with which French Gjvernment. This was done: In those days it was customary to the true artist regards his patron, then and Detroit, under the successive reigns iris Germanics, which in spite of its powders sold at the present day, and now affirms it j, name belongs to Southern Europe, and elect men “free men of the town" in thank you and give you a punched of Henry IV., Louis XIII., XIV. and has been for a long time cultivated by town meeting. Originally the govern nickel in change. For three cents he XV. was for nearly sixty years a deliberate judgment, arrived at after most thorough rose the florists of Holland. These Euro ment of the town was in the hands of squeezes in half a lemon, flings in the French town—a bit of "sunny France” pean species and the American versi proprietors only, the plan was to admit sugar and a fly or two, drops in a frag hidden away iu the heart of the western and a careful examination of the principal brands of color are alike in conformation and re new citizens by voting them the "free ment of ice with his linger, gives the wilderness; and such it might have re dom of the town.” Since colonial mixture one circular swipe with a mained to this day hail not Wolfe, one semble the heraldic fleur-de-lis. market, that the Royal is undoubtedly the purest and i The Japanese iris, whether double or times this vote has been simply a com spoon, gives you one straw with a leak ! dark night in September, 1759, scaled single, is as flat as a camellia. If it is pliment rarely paid to a distinguished in it, and there you are. If he rinses 1 the heights of Quebec, and on the Plains reliable baking powder offered to the public. Prof. jjof single the sepals are large and the visitor, who is thereby made the public the glass at all, it is after you have ! oi Abraham changed the fate of Nortli petals about the same size as the stam guest, rather than a citizen. used it. For two cents he grabs up a [America. Tho surrender of Detroit his recent report, says : • * This usage was brought from Eng tumbler that hasn’t been rinsed this j 1 soon followed the conquest of Quebec; ens, which are very large and fleshy. If it is double the petals are as large as land. where it had prevailed from a season, fills it from a lukewarm tank, j and then it became an English town, “The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure ] the sepals, and tho whole six form a time so distant that the memory of man previously used as a dumping-ground ! and the western headquarters of tha large and imposing flower. Among runs not to the contrary. The munici for lemons already squeezed for five- I British power in America. It so re- have so found it in many tests made both for that com« the irises from Japan at Passaic is one pal records of London contain frequent cent glasses, and containing one spoon j mained—the extreme outpost of West called the Ida, which is said to be the mention of it. In 1305 four men were ful of sugar to the gallon, and then ern civilization—until July 11, 1796, and the U. S. Government. typical one from which the gifted Jap deprived of the freedom of the city be slaps it down before you with an air of when, in pursuance of the peace of anese florists have evolved these beau cause they rented land outside the city one who would rather have pay in ad 1783, it was quietly transferred to the “ I will go still further and state that, because of tiful varieties. Strange to say, it is in limits. i?o record will be found of ad vance and is prepared to give chase United States. Thus we see that De conformation exactly like versicolor mission to the freedom of the city, and use a stomach-pump in case of de troit has had a unique history. Three facilities that company have for obtaining perfectly | and the European species, with depend for this was entered upon the rolls of fault. Like the June-bug and the bird times has it changed its nationality, and ent sepals and erect petals. The latter Guildhall. cage car, the street lemonade man is a with each change assumed totally differ cream of tartar, and for other reasons dependent upon In 1326, “for avoidingcartain perils,” strictly summer institution. During ent characteristics. At tirst it was are most diminutive and bend toward it was ordained to the effect that all the center of the flower, while the the dog-days he amasses capital with French, then English and last of all proper proportions of the same, and the method of its p former are onl Iv large in comparison alien merchants who had been admitted gorgeous ease, and is a monarch and a American, and in the present town may with the petal .Is. This dwarf flower to the freedom of the city should be tiroprietor, but as the days wane his be seen a curious blending of the tra ts aration, the Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly grows upon a tall, handsome stem. If wholly removed from the same. lusiness takes a drop and he resorts to j of these various people. The old 1 “ It was expressly ordained that from Ida be really the original of the Japan and the courtly aniline and yelling to invite a customer French habitant purest and most reliable baking powder offered to ese irises, then their florists have ac thenceforth no alien should under any which conies no more, and then waxes English resident have long slumbered circumstances be admitted to the free complished miracles. public. D r . HENRY A. MOTT, Pu.D.” idle and somnolent, the sun gets at his in tlieir graves, but the close observer The colors of the irises at Passaic are dom of the said city, save only at the ice and blue mold and the small boy at will detect that their spirits still walk Late U. S. Government (fo* Hustings of London, and by the assent as superior to those of the best varieties his lemons, flies and red ants riot in his abroad, and promenade its streets arm of Germanies, as the shapo excels of the commonalty, and upon the suffi sugar-bowl, the dust chokes up his in arm with the irrepressible Yankee, them. The old Dutch florists by sedu cient security of six reputable men of straws and the wind steals and scatters who, in his seven-league boots, is now lous cultivation of the European species the trade which such person should them, and finally a blast comes down striding across the continent. Brother obtained some fine color effects, but have followed, and should intend to from the north and nips the business at Jonathan has every where the astonish follow. ” these aro nothing to what the Japanese ing energy which, in well-nigh a single 'AVAV : • V.-.„’s . .-.s. VA- ■Xvxx‘Á'-s;v.>s.v>*'WxV> It will be observed that during those a breath, and he vanishes and is seen day, raised Chicago from its ashes; but florists have achieved. They have not no more.— N. Y. Times. only superior colors, but these are times admission to the freedom of the here he has been held in check by those < ♦ » variegated in the most exquisite way of city involved admission to some guild, old worth s. who have now and then FOOT-ROOT IN SHEEP. Veinings, pencilings and mottlings. or craft, which the freeman was re whispered in his ear the fable of the No plumage of any bird, no wings of quired to follow, anil that in any other A Remedy Which Speedily Cures Even the hare and the tortoise. This accounts any butterfly, no cattleya among employment he could not engage. An Most Desperate Cases. for the fact that Detroit is to-day a cu orchids, can surpass the iris Ichi Ben entry made upon the records iu 1413 is For a-number of years we occasion rious compound of modern progress and in its artistic coloring. Irises only last suggestive on many points. ally had what Stephen Powers and old-time conservât sm a city of vast -Ki's..,.. “Be it remembered that on the first two days, but the plant is prolific in many other shepherds term “foot enterprises, but enterprise based on a buds, and as fast as one splendor fades dav of December, in the first year of broiuf, substantial and enduring basis. another discloses itself. The stamens Henry V., by the Wardens anil good scald.” We were able to control this In the summer of 1825 cannon plant, d in some flowers arc extraordinary. folks of the trade of Cutlers of the City by an occasional application of blue at intervals along the line of the Erie They range as high tn number as eight, of London, information was given irnto vitriol and vinegar, but the wet sum i anal, all the way from Albany to “Cutorla is so well adapted to children that I Cantoria Castorla cures Colic, Constipation. Constipation, instead of three, the legitimate number, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Chamber- mer of 1883 it (or a more complicated Buffalo, announced that Clinton's great t recommend it as superior to anv prescription I 8our 8tomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, known to me.” IL A. A bcusk , M. D.. I Kills Kin. Worms, gives .1»« sleep, «„a and »„»s but there is a marked tendency in all lain, of the snmecity, that one William case of foot-rot) became uncontrollable work was completed, and the West gestion, Ul So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. | the Japanese irises to variation in the Wvsman, of Waltham, in the County married to the East by a bond that Without injurious medication. by any such mild treatment. We re numbers of stamens.— N. Y. Tribune. of Essex, a foreigner, had been ad Its gates is indissoluble. were T hs C kntacb C omtast , 182 Fulton Stmt, I mitted to the freedom of the said city sorted to about all the remedies we no sooner opened than a tile folks of the trade of coursers, as one could hear of, but all to no purpose, of emigration set through them BEATING RESTAURANTS. who followed their calling; whereas still our sheep continued to hop. We westward. Soon all over New England Men Who Make Fee-Giving a Very Profit the said William was at that time of became not only discouraged but dis and Eastern New York whole families, able Investment. the eraft of the Cutlers, and not of the gusted with our sheep and remarked and in some instances whole hamlets, VAN B. DK1.AHH.MUTT. JUDGE W W. THAVKK Tlie Bt YEHS’GIU President. V ice President. ••It is wonderful how many promi said trade of coursers.” tamed Sept, and Mi that they would have to get rid of the were on the move, and such an exodus 8AM J. GORMAN. Cahier. It is enough to say that William con disease soon or the last one would have followed as never was seen except when nent business men, who would not put eoeh year. Kj“ 313 p METW0L1TAN SAVINGS BANK. PORTLANE S^xll^inchefl.with Transact« a General Banking Business ; allows their hands in your pocket to pick your fessed that he had gained the freedom to leave the farm. Just when the dis the Israelites came up out of Egypt, and 3,500 illnfftratki Interest on deposits as follows: purse for any consideration, will stand of the city deceitfully. For this "it ease was in ita very worst state and our the Kalmucks fled across the steppes of On 3 months certificates 4 per cent whole Pieture Gal was awarded that such admission to On 6 months certificates 5 ¡>er cent. GIVES Whokaal’l in with the restaurant waiters to beat the freedom should be held as null, hopes of recovery at the lowest point, Asia. At one time it seemed that rural On 12 months certificates 6 per cent. we saw a remedy that made a favor New England would be depopulated. direct to consumers on all good» DIRECTORS: the establishment,’’ said a promincut and that he should pay for his wares Judge W. W Thayer f" H. W. Scott, personal or family use. Tellah« able impression on our minds, and we Its best and youngest olood joined in Judge E. D- Shattuck, 1 H. W. Monaatea, hotel man. and merchandises from thenceforth resolved to give it a trial. The result the exodus; and to this fact may be order, and give» exact cost of ei Sylvester Farrell. ] Dr. W. H. Saylor tiling you use, eat, drink) wrif custom and all other things, the same was, the first application cured nearly traced the high character and wonderful Hon. Richard Williams, I Dr. 8. J. Barber, “How is the game worked?” have fun with. These INVALUA1 Van B. DcLashmutt, ] I. F. Powers. ••It is a simple thing, but it depends as one who is a foreigner, and enjoys every foot in a flock of over three enterprise o' the West of to-day. The 0. H. Dodd BOOKS cont&in information tl« no freedom of the said city. ” entirely on the large crowds that hundred, but to make sure work tirst wave rested for awhile in Western from the markets of the world, The reader will observe that Wys- Old Material is taken on account by will mail a copy FREE to any throng fashionable restaurants at din we went over all the second time New York, and then the gathering tide Palmer & Hey; retiember this fact. dress upon receipt of 10 ct«. to d ner time. When sixty or seventy men mnn, coming from Waltham, not more and the worst ones three times. swept gradually westward along the expense of mailing. Let us hear arc eating in one room the cashier than twenty miles from London, was a Since that time we have neglected lakes and the Oli o, and iinally, in 1830, STCIMU/AV *»**•»•*»« 1» <a to.», you. Respectfully, can’t see what each one has unless he "foreigner.” This does not mean that the trimming of our sheep’s feet it touched the shores of Michigan. Then w I ul 11 IiMl »Gabler, lioeniBh Pian-G, Bur.«-; band instrumenta Largest stock ul SLae MONTGOMERY WARD* leaves his desk, and it is very easy for lie was alien to the realm, but simply as we t^ver did before and have I for the first time Detroit became in real Organa, Music and Booka Bands supplied at Eaetera rrio&s 227 dr 220 Wabiu.li A.enue, 1«« a customer at the further end of the that he was not a freeman, though he had no trouble with our former foot ity an American town. M. GR a Y. 206 Post .street, S mi F fancy ca apartment to eat a ninety cent dinner may have been one at Waltham. scald, until this spring. During the In the beginning of 1830 Detroit num 0/ To LONG LO/ ...« .. .. It also appears that after he was de latter part of the winter mv help hauled suini ns long as interni ■ and pay for a thirty or forty cent •Lade expressly for the cure o Í.J 1‘ernonHl iMM'urlty only prived of the freedom of the city, he out the manure from the department in bered 2,222 people; that is, it stood pre derangements the generative meal?’ Sen 1 cents l<>t cisely where it was in 1805; and this organs. The continuous strear. could remain and follow the calling of sheep-house where wo doctored our etc. Name this paper. T. S.' of ELECTRICITY permeatinf “How?” during a quarter of a century when the Manager, Palac* " •Hdlnf.Ci* through the parts must restort "In this way: The customer gives “courser” (jockey), only he would sore-footed sheep nearly three years population of the country generally had them to healthy action D< not confound this with Electrj. rnrr a pretty * m > usefcl the waiter a daily tip of ten cents. The have to pay "customs and all other ago, and neglected to put in a good increased in a ratio altogether unparal Belts ¿dveftised to cure all ill rnrr lighted W all O knamkxt . Even from Lead to toe. It is tor U m waiter is careful to see that his bene things, the same as one. who is a for bedding of straw, as I have always done leled in history. But now tlie old town ‘ with it. Free to II ONE specific purpose eigner ’ ’ — that is, just the same as he factor gets a thirty cent check, say heretofore; consequently, in ten or began to fed the general impetus. It For circulars giving fui; to RAY TAYLOR & CO.. Box 382 O ak W formation address '. heevt every time he eats a ninety cent meal. would have to pay had he come front fifteen days I discovered some signs of increased fourfold in the next ten years; Electric Belt Co., so-, «VasWnr The check is paid at the counter and no Waltham, and not been admitted free foot-rot but took but little notice of it, and thus it has gone on ever since, man. This gives an idea of how many knowing that the sheep had not been one is the wiser.” doubling about every decade, til! now it "Are waiters never caught at these of our custom dues originated, and of off the farm and no others near them, numbers, with its suburbs, fully 200,000 the broader and more generous view» and did not think of their taking it in tricks P” souls. "Of course, onoc in a preat while. A that are now taken of citizenship.— the house after so long a time. I soon The slow-paced conservatism of its Youth's Companion. yellow chap that wore his white apron found that I had another case of genu old-time residents is still seen in the at the end of that eating bar for six ine foot-rot on hand, but only in this modern city: but it is now so wedded to of energy for buslnem* in her locality. A WHISTLING GIRL. months," said the speaker, pointing to one flock of ewes; others in the same Yankee enterprise that we meet here an Reference«. E.J. Johnson» MangnlJ BarclMj the bar, “got caught at last” He was How h Chicago Damsel Entertained ths building but in different departments almost ideal community, safe, but pro Piso’R Remedy for Catarrn isJJ» Will cure (with care) tho worst case, in flveto seven in the habit of giving an old, white- have never shown any signs of it. I Besu, Easiest to Use, and Cheap®1 Patrons of a Street-Car Company. gressive. not engrossed in mere money ‘sJ h b",îuCîn!H"’ “ treatise on spe mustached gentleman soup, roast, immediately resorted to my former getting, but cultivating as well the so cial diseases, with full instruction for self-cure, (loo Chicago has one thing that in a long three or four vegetables, desert, coffee, and varied experience I have never en remedy, and have them again sound cial amenities of life, and extracting PH'«») Price, »3. and often a few crackers and Roquefort and well. Here it is: Take equal parts from existence, as it passes, a healthful J. C. STEELE, Agent, Also good for COM In tlieHed. cheese every day. Well, that customer countered elsewhere—a girl that in weight of pulverized blue v itriol and and rational enjoyment. In proportion Headache, Hay Fever. Ac. SOcto» ought to have paid one dollar a meal, whistles in the street cars. One day red led; add enough nitric acid to make to its size, Detroit has a smaller foreign 63» Market Street. S»n Francisco, Cal. but he never Drought in a check for last week 1 boarded a Wabash avenue a thick paste; clean the foot well, re population that anv city in the Union, N P. N. U. No. 149 S F. N V. So over fifty cents. At last the cashier cable car, and had scarcely taken a moving all diseased parts, and apply and as the bulk of its people are of took note of the meal provided for tifty seat when a girl about eighteen or with a small paddle.— D. J. Green, in Eastern b'rth or extraction, it is to-day cents. I called the waiter up after in twenty years of age got on. She was Ohio Farmer. more truly New England in character specting one dinner purchased by that a nice enough looking girl (Chicago than the good town of Boston itself. In man and the tifty cent check turned women are seldom pretty), with good A Missourian's Little Game. no sense is it a Western town. In 1880 in. and bounced the darky. It had a complexion and trim figure. She sat the numerical center of the Union was good moral effect among the other down and no one paid any attention to And now comes a tale of woe from found to be fifty-eight miles west of waiters, forty in all." her, until all at once she began Burden, Cowley County, which, if true, < incinnati. \\ ith the speed at which “Are thei»' no meat»» to prevent this whistling like a blackbird or bootblack. takes the premium over all competi population is now traveling westward. beating the house?” She treated the astonished and Detroit will soon be the central city of The hotel man shook his head sadly amused passenger.« to selections from tors. A man who got mad at tho coun the country.— Edmund Kirke, in Har try and longed to sell his farm received as he said: "Not entirely." “The Mikado." “Black Hussar" and per's Magazine. B it whenever a waiter in his place “Nanon,” and when I left the ear she an offer from a Missouri man and ac gets regular tips that waiter is sus was just starting in on "Hear Me, cepted it. The Missourian offered him — William Evans a Columbus (O ) pected and watched.—JVtoAtirfA Com Norma.” Now I have often seen and seventeen mules for his farm, agreeing pugilist, struck Miss l.ou San lers, and mercial. longed to throttle the male streetcar to ship the mules as soon as the deed when arrested said he guessed he was • o> whistler, but this was my tirst experi to the farm was deposited with the “'ou P’e8S y°l> *r* gniltv?" —French Statesman—“I nnderstand ence with the female of that ilk, and ntule man’s banker. Accordingly the said the mavor. o i’re a coward and you have just fought a duel with M. de from the looks of mingled consterna deed was forwarded, and the putchaser a brute, and I’m going to give you the Bang-Bang.” French Journalist — tion and amusement on the faces of the looked anxiously for the mules. He The mavor was much "Yes." trench Statesman -“Did he other passengers, I judge she was new did not think of the animals coming bv full pen.dty. disappointed to find that lie could ini- hit you?” French Journalist “No.” to all of us. She whistled away, express until he received notice to call pom- only a tw. ntv dollar tine and ten French Statesman — “Did you hit seemingly unconscious of the fact that him?” French Journalist "No, but she was creating a sensation. I sav at the office. Upon calling he found .lavs impr «onment. He gave him that seventeen china mules — the price ol and sa d: "\ou II serve this ont, as no it was a narrow escape for both of us." see seemed unconscious of it. but don't his farm. He lost no time in going to influence on earth can sec ire your re French Statesman—“Indeed!" French believe she was so. I believe she see bis man, but the latter had sold out lease. and when vou g t out you’ve 2ot Journalist—“Ye.«, my second, who had wanted to show off her accomplish* and skipped.— Leavenworth (Kuh.) to leavQ the city. 7u eiio B ade charge of the weapons, mislaid them ment.«, and really her whistling Times. in making all the necessary arrange amounted to an aceomplishmonL— . A young man who had grown up ments. and when we got to the field Chicago Cor. Atlanta Constitution. — Mr«. Annie D. Clopper is «aid t within five mile of J.> n«onCitv, Tenn, we hadn't any thing to fight with." be among the most extensive raisers o' w thout ever seeing the town, visited it French Statesman — "I •ongrntulate —A Burlington youth obtained a tine hor.se* in Colorado. She hold you. Giv» me the name of your sec young lady's hand in rather an unfair regular sales once or twice a year, a recently. After returning home he was ond, will vouP I’ve got a little affair manner. She was trying to climb up which time aha offers one hundred o asked what was the biggest thinghe saw «’¡"ly. Cal on I^etX? 1 e win "<• n ’! _» »' our r» _ . 11 or p.irtRer^nin Y \vc will — _ ___. Stahles . ,_____ • _ in Petslnm» > there, and replied. “I seed a whole lot conntv «»ii overmner I ,»u C" »i our fihiiicn in i nn. of my own to settle next woet."— Tid a ledge at a picnic when he asked her more horses at different grades.— Ch our imported v, hrad«< of fol ows with reii clubs a »trackin’ ata ■elected French v___ L bits. cu|/o Journal. for it* Free ITus. ball. —A. 0. rtca>junt. The Royal Baking Powder Declared Si to all Others. CASTOR U for Infants and Children O HEART DR. TOUZEAU’S FRENCH SPECIFIC WANTED A WOl G. &G. catarrh "R * nd percheron stall » •e one year’s time AIRBAXK8. «r H. WII.RKY. Petaluma. Monoma C*-**