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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1888)
THE TELEPHONE. PUBLISHED FRIDAY SVEBY BATES Of ADVERTISING. MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: One Dear North of oor .r Third and E 6u , M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IX ADVA.XCK.) WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. Oue year....... Six months... Three months VOL, III s, A. YOUNG, M. D. M c M isxvill «, - - - MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, JULY 20, 1888. CITY STABLES, Physician & Surgeon, The Great McMinnville, Oregon. All Henderson Bros. Props W. V. PRICE. PHOTOGRAPHER. Mm Pacific khuL First-class accommodat-ons for Cciumer cial men and general travel. Transient stock well cared for. Everything new and in First-Class Order Patronage respectfully solicited ------ VIA THE------- Cascade Division’ now completed, making it the Shortest, Best’ ut and Quickest. Great English Remedy. I he Dining Cur line. Tlio Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest T.ains, Low est Rates to Chicago anil all points East. Tickets sold to all Prominent Points throughout the East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Reservationscan be secured in advance. Murray’s Specfic. Dr. J. H- NELSON, Dentist Trea. M.rfc. A guaranteed cure for all a nervous diseases, such as weak ¡^memory, loss of brain power, hysteria, headache, pain in tbe back, nervous prostration, wakefulness, leucorrhoea. uni versai lassitude, seminal weak ness, impotency. and general R.fnr. T.LI.» lo»s of RO'fer of the generative De,or. laKln8* organs, in either sex, caused by indiscretion or over exertion, and which ultimately lead to premature Trad. Mark, Physician and Surgeon. old age,insanity and consump tion $1.00 per box or six M c M innville , - - O regon boxes for $5.00,sent bv mail on receipt of price, Full particu ---- fol---- lars in pamphlet, sent free tu Office two doors south of postoffice. every applicant. Idence two doors from railroad on WE GUARANTEE SIX street All calls promptly attended to, day BOXES to cure any case. Fo or night every $5 00 order received, weAfUrTsklnf. send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund tbe money if our Specific does not ef fect a cure Address all communications to the Sole manufacturers If so be sure and call for your tickets TIIE MURRAY MEDICINE CO. via the Kansas City, Mo. Sold by Rogers A- Todd, sole agents Rooms over First National Bank, in Mc Minnville, Oregon. Charges Moderate and Consistent Has the latest Discovery for the Painless extraction of Teeth. W H Boyd.M T>. To East Bound Passengers. Be caeful and do not make a mistake but be sure to take I he Northern Pacific Railroad. And see that your tickets read via THIS LINE, St Paul ot Minneapolis, to avoid changes and serious delays occa sioned by other routes. Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run on regular express trains full length of the line. Beiths fiee. Lowest rates. Quickest time. ARE YOU GOING EAST? Ciiciji ii Mreta Eailmy, FAITH’S VISTA. Transcontinental Route. Third Street, between E and F O bkgox . Office an<I residence on D street. «alls promptly answered day or night. General Office Of the Company, No, Washington St., Portland, Oregon. * A D CHARLTON. Asst General Passenger Agent. The Provincial Prize Horse —THE-- Tlie only “ MILTON ” “ im mi in, Will stand the ensu FIRST CLASS BAR W It is positively the shortest and fin ¡st line to Chicago ami the east and south and the only sleeping and dining car through line to ----- IN----- ing season, beginning McMinnville, is opened —IN— April 1st and ending Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed July 1st, 1888, at his train service and elegant dining and sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the old stables in M’Minn- Where you will find the best of title of The Iloyal Iloute ville, Oregon, Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Domestse Others may imitate,but none can surpass it TERMS. Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. Our motto is “always on time ” T. M. F ields , Propr. Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets $10. via this celebrated route and take none Single service, others. W H MEAD, G A 12. The St. Charles Hotel. No. 4 Washington street. Portland. Or. Season, connection. 15. Sample rooms o in ------ Insurance, o J. M. H ulery , Prop. Is now fitted up in first class order. Ouiaha, Kansas^ City, an<l all Missouri Stiver Points. Mrs. 11. P. Stuart, MILLINERY, ----- THE LEADER IN----- Hair weaving aid Stamping. Apr. 13, 3m Accommodations as good as can be foun din the city. 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. 'Wriefh.t Bro’s. AN Dealers in Opposite Grange Store McMinnville. Or Harness. Saddles, Etc, Etc, Proprietor of the PATENTS The leading JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT, —OF- YAMHILL COUNTY, Third Street. McMinnville Or TONSORIAL PARLOR, Caveats, and Trade Marks obtained, and all Patent business conducted for MODER ATE FEES OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U.S PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub agencies, all business direct, hence can transact patent business in less time and at less cost than those remote from Wash ington. ‘-end model, drawing, or photo, with description, We advise if patentable or not free of charge, Our fee not due till patent is secured A book, “How to Obtain Patents.” with references to actual clients in vour State, county, or town sent free, Address C. A. SNOW & CO. Opposite Patent Office. Washington, D C Shaving, Hair fut ting and- - - - - - - - Shampoing Parlors. M’MINNYILLE NATIONAL egBAEK.1» FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop's. All kinds of fancy hair cutting done in Transacts a General Banking Business. the latest and neatest style President,............... J. W. COW LS, All kinds of fancy hair dressing and liair dying, a specialty Special attention given Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. to Cashier.............. CLARK BRAL\. Ladies' and Childrens' Work I also have for sale a very tine assort Sells exchange on Portland, San ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc 0| I have in connection with my parlor, Francisco, and New York. • tlie largest and finest stock of CIGARS Ever in the city. WT hird S trkkt M c M inxvilli . O rsoox . Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Apr. 13 tf PROTECT YOUR HOMES! MARLEN DOU3LZ ACTION REVOLVER. These revolvers are an exact d-iplicata of the celebrated SMITH & WESSON, Caliber, using Centre-Fire Cartridges. A GOOD DEVOLVER no longer coets Belf-Ccch! Autcaatio FULL NICKEL PLATED, RU3BER HANDLF- «ABRIS r.D Bel’AI. is ETBBT SMJ BCT TO THB faMXTII «fe» VVEfitSSOW- For sale by Hardware and Gun Dealers everywhere. fie h T t H« »»af^taredly TEB mMgmnMB WORLD I WHILIN' Magazine Riflo For la.--« or mall rime, *11 lto*. Th« guaranteed, and tb* only a lately «afe nft« cs tha market IDEAL RELOADING TOOLS w.uT*7t o “ half the cost of a «™"'™* • fr>r an «tere Of cwtrdr*» ELEPHANT RIDE. Ex-Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, Has a Delightful Experience. Repairing neatly done at reasonable On our second day, being provided rates Wright’s new building. Corner Third with a permit from his Highness, we visited “Amber,” the old city, now and F streets. McMinnville. Or WM. HOLL, One sotuxre or less, one insertion. .. ......... >1 08 One square, each subsequent insertion. . SO Notices of ap|ioiijintent and final sett lemaat A 00 Other legal advertisement* 75 rents for first Insertion aud U) cents per square far each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business column« 10 cents per line. Regular business notice* 5 cents per Hue. Professional cards. |12 per year. Spedai rates for large display “ad*” ’J7?|I?4.**«ven». S'“! unV;.Ke^;Jy“sm.U.i' »¿¿»T»*" *i> «•“«« •• 1 SHOT 111 Mail, IAHI *«• cbe.per.ad b, u.r«h*n e»y »«I*»- »<■»<« for Frtce LI.« o ’* «O. I deserted- It lies in a rocky gorge, on a narrow valley. The mountains around are crowded by forts and Cus ties as dizzy and picturesque as any on the Rhine. Lofty walls climb the spurs of the mountains and tho old castle sits superbly on the crest of a high hill overlooking a beautiful little l 'ke of clear water, on the shores of which were several crocodiles bask ing in the hot sun. Our road lay through a wilderness of kiosk memor ials of the past dead. Little domes supported by the most delicate pillars and prettily carved. Then we came to a lake of perhaps five hundred acres, in the center of which is a large and fine old palace, its lower arches now in the water aad its I »Iconics and domes refleeted in tho placid sheet. This water is dark and unhealthy, cov ered with all sorts of wild fowl and filled with crocodiles. We counted twenty odd of them. Beyond this we readied the foot of the gorge leading to the old city. Here we found one of the Rajah’s huge elephants, of which he has eighty, which was to carry us over the steep’ pass. His face was painted in Oriental characters. We made our obeisance. He soon came down on his haunches, shot his legs straight out behind, and on a short step-ladder we mounted the mass of meat Then, with a motion which made Johnny think ftelingly of the swell of the Pa cific, our mastodon trudged slowly up. When ho reached a particularly steep place he groaned and grunted and finally gave a whistle, which told me that lie thought a Chicago two hun dred-and-odd-pounder was more than the law allowed. Along our up-hill road gray monkeys, with black faces and long tails, ran about the trees. Some of them with their old-folk faces made me feel liko saying: “Be good- natured, old fellow; 1 confess to our kinship.” After passing the little lake J before mentioned we were car ried up a very steep road into the court of the old palace, which is oo- „■asionally used by the Rajah for a few ■lays al a time.— Chicago Mail s ------------- «•*------------- _ The lady who|x>s.-d to her husband as the model for the figure of Freedom, pointed in the dome of the Capitol at Washington, now keeps a boarding house. and frowns upon the depart ment clerks who ask twice for butter. —Don't writ.- a K-tter wnen angry. It is too bad to put a venomous breath permanent form Let your hate athe itself into God's sunlight and pure air, where t can be oMiteratod, •wallowed up in the glorious light and forgotten. Don’t put it where It will live for years, a calm witness of your * . Don't give any wickedness and • folly- such a club for thine head. Angry >ne L——----- ----- , back at inconvenient tetters come Lrors; they 1 , are a kind of venomous boomerang. WHAT SHALL WE WEAR? When from the vaulted wonder of the sky The curtain of the light Is drawn aside. And I behold the stars in all their wide BUSINESS SUITS, FROCK COAT SUITS Significance and glorious mystery. AND DRESS SUITS FOR MEN. Assured that those more distant orbs are suns Round which Innumerable worlds revolve,— My faith grows strong, my day born doubts dis. How Pet Dogs Wear Harneu when Out solve. And death, that dread annulment which life shuns, tor a Walk—A Pretty Indoor Costumo Or fain would shun, becomes to life the way, Which Represents In Its Cut autl Gar- The thoroughfare to greater worlds on high, niture New Sty les. The bridge from star to star. Seek how we may. There is no other roa«l across the sky; The cut hero given illustrates an indoor And, looking up. I hear star voices say: costume that represents in its fashion and its “You could not reach us if you did not die.“ —Henry Abbey in Americau Magazine. ♦ '.rnitun', leading styles. Tho skirt of this this costume is of heavy brown cashmer?, Circus Man Before King Vmbandini. braided with the same color and trimmed It is not often that circus “artistes” iiud with a flounce thirteen inches deep, laid in their way into the realms of a South African boy nloats. chief; but when they do it would seem that their reception is likely to lie very enthusias tic. A “strong man” from a Cape Town cir cus, recently journeyed to the far off regions of Ama Swaziland, and there gave a display of his skill and power before Chief Umban- dini at his “great place.” So pleased was Umbandini at the performance that he forth with dictated a testimonial gratis. Here it is: “We gladly certify that you have per formed at our Royal Kraal, Swaziland, on rings, poles, chairs and sticks; that you hav< also played with an iron tree, and also car ried a large cannon on your back, and flml it off your back in our presence. We were astonished und gratified at the wonderful acts that you and your little son performed. We do not believe that you will ever die. Given at our Royal Kraal this 9th day of Decem ber, 1887. Umbandini (his f mark), Kiug of Swaziland.”—St. James' Gazette. NO. 13 STRAY BITS. J F Irwlu, of Oswego, N Y., paid 810.00C for a Bibia One of the buxine« colleges tn Cleveland has a department of phrenology. There are laws against using profane Ian guage by telephone in all states except Con uecticuU A barber at Rues. Art, while shaving » man was seized with an attack of bomicida mania and cut his customer’s throat iron, ear to ear At Denison, Tex., a belated passeuget emptied his revolver at the train that ha< not waited for him, and was promptly take« in band by the police. There is said to be only one survivor of a once powerful Indian tribe in California When he dies the language spoken by th* tribe will become extinct. Honesty is sometimes rewarded. A Nev Or loans lad found a valuable sachel, am! upon taking it to the owner, who had advei tised the loss, was made happy with a bran« uew $10G bill. Professional burglars are going the round- of the country tow ns just now. It is tbei* usual summer hegira, and the guardians o. the peace should be ou the watch for such un welcome visitor* Ix'ss than one-half of the senators now it ofllce were born in the states which they rep resent. Americans seldom emigrate out ol the country, but they do a great deal of emi grating about in their own land. The managers of a western railroad which is experimenting with natural gas believe that it ruay yet prove not only the cheat m *»’ of fuel for the locomotive, but excellent few A Gypsy Band from Russia. beating as well as lighting the cars. One result of Lord Randolph’s visit to Rus American authors are more read than the sia, may be the advent in this country of tho Englisb in Japan. l»ust year 85,000 Englisi famous gypsy band which is known by the and 119,000 American books were imports name of its leader and conductor, Nikolai into that country, so that the old question Shishkin. This Bohemian band has long bet n “Who leads an American book#'' was fairh one of the chief musical sensations of the St. answered. Petersburg season, and Lord Randolph had The Zilvern Kruis, the flt'st Dutch man o several chances of hearing it play during his war to enter the Golden Qet^in fifteen year visit. He first heard it at the Flench ambas 's lying off San Francisco. She u a trninin sador’s ball, and was so struck by the unique ship «11 her wav to Japan, China and tb character of both performers and music that Dutch colonies in India, where she will mak his curiosity was aroused. He sought and a prolonged stay, gained an introduction to Nikolai Shishkin Miss Eliza Bliss, of Reboboth, Conn., sui BRAIDED COSTUME. himself, and took subsequently the great«st interest in him and his band. The most curi the front drajvry arrangement, a plied a tramp with a meal. While she wa ous feature of this gypsy band is tho presence breadth of material on • yard and a quarter preparing the food the trump sang “Nearvi in it of a number of female gypsies, some of wide and ono yard fh e inches long is pleah d My God, to Thee,” and at the same tiin* whom are typical beauties. The more hand u to the band at the upper edge and caught vp stole the lady's pocketbook and |25 Iron some of these musical gypsy damsels make • »n tlio left side. The back breadth, which is her bureau drawer. I ‘«.»yards ten inches wide and ono yard six excellent marriages.—London Figaro. The uew Inman steamship, the City of Nev inches long, is pleated into the band, the ma York, is warranted by her builders to I m Rushing Through College. terial being arranged in a largo box pleat in unsinkable. That is, one condition laid dowi But we cannot afford to imitate England ibe middle and in smaller Hut one.» at the m the contract by the company was that sh< in the matter of education. We have no sides and then caught in the middle. should be unsiukable, although she is of iroi> Waistcoat pieces complete tlio fronts of the and has a capacity of 10,500 ton* leirare class. Everybody works. And boys rush through school and the higher schools-- Liodico, which is further ornamented with A New England man has beaten the greet' which we, by courtesy, call colleges—to rovers two and throe-quarter inches long goods sawdust men at their own game. H< plunge into invoice books, to make briefs of Largo flat bronze but tons uro also used in the ;ot oue of their circulars, aud in reply asked titles, to gulp down as much law as they can ornamentation of the bodice. (See cut.) Such for a sample of their good* They sent bln» before beginning the practice of what they braided ornamentations as here described a genuine $1 bill, and the gentleman of New will learn by their experience and that of may easily l»o imide by our readers, or braided Rugland stopped the correspondence then their clients’. As to the law—which ought set3 we.y be purchased for the pui*poso. and there. to be a learned profession—a long aq 1 sound As a wedding party was driving through Hames* for Dogs. preparation in the classics is almost a neces Tho dog has come to lx* an inijxirtant fea- the streets of a Pennsylvania town on theii sity. Few young lawyers and few young way to the church at which the ceremony doctors have the time for it. But for the turo in the world of fashion, and what ho was to be performed, the carriages drovt aspirants for success in the various forms of »hall wear an«I how to inak » it is therefore a over a little girl, killing her immed.ately business one or two modern languages arc question of more or leeQ interest. Tho pet The arrest of the party prevented the uiar absolutely necessary.—New York Freeman’s dogs owned by ladies nn t sent out daily to riage, and it has been postponed. walk are commonly led by a leather or chain Journal. The smallest circular saw in practical us« leader attached to the collar. Hard on Autograph Fiends. is a tiny disc about the size of a British sliil iiug, which is employed for cutting the sht> Young ladies with a passion for autographs iu gold pen* These saws are about as thick will not relish the arrangement whic h a as ordinary paper, und revolve some foui number of the poets and authors and other thousand times per minute. The high veloc celebrities of this and other countries have ity keeps them rigid, notwithstanding th< adopted of using a typewriter for all corre thinness. spondence, except in the most important and private letters. A lady who lately wrote an ijondon bankers have for a long tlmo l>eei> ingenious note to the poet Tennyson, asking seeking to obtain an additional fifteen inin an expression of opinion on a matter that utes of grace to get their checks through th« could not fail to command his attention, clearing house after the close of business eux-1 was deeply chagrined to receive an answer ilay. The clearing house has finally con wholly typewritten, including the signa ceded five minutes, and it is said that tb< ture. If this is to be kept up it is quite clear bankers welcome even this as an almost in estimable boon. that the autograph hunter's occupation is gone.—Philadelphia Times. Near North Adams, Mans., two girls of b and 10 went out after May flowers and lorn Horneshocs for Bad Roads. their way in the woods. Rome time aftei The Germans have invented horseshoes for »lark they stumble« I u|»on a I a rm house ano bad roads. This is how they do it. The asked shelter, but were refused, so they wen blacksmith, when finishing a hoi-se's shot», forced to remain al) night in the woods, and IIARrESS OF LEATHER WORK FOR DOG* punches a hole in the two ends. When the were found by the searching party at mom The harness here illustrated is not only in shoe is cold he taps in a screw thread and mg half dead from cold, fright and exhaus tended for ornament, but also to prevent th«» tion. screws into the shoe, when on the horse’s foot, a sharp pointed stud of an inch in length. collar from pressing into the nock of the dog A Montana new»{)aper says that the day» With shoes thus fitted the horse travels se *hen u leader is attached to it. Tho latter, of staging in the hills are rapidy de|>artmg curely over tbe worst possible road* When ¡:i tho arrangement shown, is put through •- Steam is fast taking the place of horse und the horse comes to the stable the groom un ring let i;i tho middle of tho lx»lly band of the mule power, and Pullman coaches are crowd screws tbe pointed stud and screws in a but bariums. The harness from which the illus mg out the swayback stages of old. Th« ton, so that no damage can hapjten to tbs tration is taken consists of four sirups, each noted North western Transportation com horse, and the screw holes are prevents I tliree-qunrtcra of an inch wide and long pany has begun to dispone of its plant, anu enough to reach around the body of the ani is preparing to bunt for business on tbe rap from filling.—Home Journal. mal. Sometimes light colored lent her .is used, idly receding frontier. Aometimes dark. Occasionally strips of rod Preservation of Foreat». The five stones erected to mark “Mason « loth, somewhat wider and pinked cut at the The preservation of forests from the dopn»- edge, are stitched on und*-r the leather. The and Dixous line” between Maiyland and dations of insects and aphides is largely de- scrips arc joined and ornamented with gilt, Pennsylvania have just1* had their annual jiendent upon the spiders that inhabit them, silver or nickel heade 1 nails. These harnesses visitation by commissioners, who rejiort one more effective work of this kind being per can bo purchased ready made, though many in gcxxl condition, one lost, one broken, one formed by them than by the insect-eating dislodged by mining o|ieratious, and the fifth, ladies prefer having them made to order. birds. Examinations of the viscera of the which tiears on one side the arms of Pennsyl spiders kept in captivity show them to be vo vania, on tbe other those of lx>rd Baltimore, New York Fc.shlons for Men. racious destroyers of these creaturers, and as The following New York styles in men's badly damaged by vandal relic hunter* they prefer dark spots in the forests, which clothing were recently described in Harper's A cobra bite has been cured. Dr. Richard» are the places most infested by vermin, the as reported by The India Daily News, wa»- results of their labor are very beneficial — Bazar: Business suits are of dark mixed suit ings and checks and stripes that are not con handling a cobra with the intention of ex Globe Democrat. icouM—indeed, arc almost invisible—pro trading some poison, when he was bitten on (lacing dark gray shade* brown and red mix tbe finger. He immediately cut it open t< Water I’roof Book Binding». tures, black and brown checks, etc. These tbe bone above tbe wound, and applied per A composition has been produced which raits may liavo u cutaway coat, fastened by manganate of potash, put ou a ligature and may prove valuable to book binders, having t.ireo or four buttons, a.i the size of tbe hurried off for advic* Another doctor for its purpose the rendering water proof ef scorer dictates, or ( Ise a four buttoned sack opened the wound and cauterized it with leather, cloth, paper, etc. It is a mixture of coat; the waistcoat may have a “step’’ rolled nitric acid, and Dr Richards has recovered water, silicate of soda, resin, alum, potash, Uiot-ched) collar or a standing “step” collar: fish glue, sulphate of zinc and sulphate of ib • edges are double stitv-hed. Trouser» for CREATIONS LOWER ORDERS. copper in various proportions. The applica thcj ? suit*»—an«l indeed for all suits—are cut tion is said to render the material impervious ra ilium wide and bang straight, but they are The pride of Kingman county, Kan., I* a to the influence of oil or water, and, if a net of exaggerated width, nor do they have variety of ingredients increase practical fb ‘folded crease down the front and back bull that weighs 4,250 pound* An alligMtor neat, found In Rice creek utility, should be very valuable.—Chicago which belongs to ready made clothing. A Fla., contained forty-three young saurian» Times. dsrk silk or satin scarf tied in a largo knot, n According to the naturalists wasps remem LLack Derby liât and tan or mahogany col Market for lied Oak. her the locality of their nests just ninety-six A profitable market has been found for the ored glove* with wide black stitching are boom poor, despised Americau red oak, that has wirn with business suit* There are 40.000 reptiles kept in one room Thoso dressy rooming suit* tlmt aro worn been considered of no value at all. Ameri in tlie ¡Smithsonian institution at Washing can dealers are buying up all they enn get in tho afternoon an well have a cutaway coat ton. It b needless to add they are kept io bold of anti shipping it to Liverpool. T lie re and vest of block or dark tint wirkserow alcohol. tbe lumber is manufactured into fancy fur «•loth, er of diagonal tliat is rot • ery wide, A great snowy pelican, that had somehow niture and shipped back to New York, when or else cf tbe crape finished cloth. Tho fnx k coat suit is c.eceptcd as the <-or- got woefully astray, was shot the other day it is sold to w«joltby people as the real Eng lish oak, and at pretty stiff prices, too.—Chi rcct day drem suit for formal reocjrtions in moot Albany, Ga. The bun ter says that “at tbe afternoon and for (Lay weddings, alike first be took it for a calf.” cago Herald. for the bridegroom, ushers and guests. Fine A mnn in Detroit was saved from a hor Idack diagonals, cork**rew cloth or rhevi t rible death by the courage of two pet cats, Sbr Thought So Too. H b —D o you know, M im Mabel, I bar« <li. —a cloth without facing—are used for tho which ebuwed hi in awake barely in time to covered why my brain 1» no active! She-- «ioutl » breasted frock coat, which is of mo- escape from a burning building. No, Mr Minuswit, what i. your theory/ H< diur.i length, b fastened by four buttons, lias The statement is made that no leas than six —It is because I so often start a train of corded silk facing, is bound with ribbon «peciea of Morth American birds have become braid and lined with black satin. Tho vest thought. Sb»—Ab, yeat Tbe “Limited."— f tho rame cloth is single breasted and me extinct during the last ten years, and it b Tid-Bits. dium high. Tbe trousers are of dark stripes, claimed that English sparrows were th* Tlie World’» Way. though »lightly lighter trouser* aro worn by main causa There is a man In Yankeebnsh, Pa., who My friend, don't forget thia—if you lit a bri«logruom and his attcrwlant* White or down, tbe world will go out of its way tc very light ottoman silk warf* with a jeweled tias two eggs laid by a Plymouth Rock ben, on* of than mea»uring inches long and drive o»zer you; but if you stand up and look scarf pin, and pearl colored glove« stitched severe, it will give you half the road at kost with |«xrl, aro worn by the groom, lient man 8% inches round, the other 8 inches long and and us)>er* The guest.-» also wear light scarfs Inches round. —Uncle Ezek. with tan colored glove* A high silk kuit A Philadelphia drummer astonisberl the The mrly bird cetohes tbe worm, aa,l it it complete* a frock coat suit Dre* suits for evening are of tho finest imnple of Omaha the other day by wearing a tbe early crocus that cak-bra Um ni|>piD( diagonal or Angola* especially those live chameleon as a watch charm The curi frost. Earlineua is occasionally a bwl habit. black f-jr young men; broadcloth hi liUlo u *xL Th» on* litth lizard was attached to a chain by —Pittaburg Bulletin. dr. ù coat is »-nt with narrow ewsllow tai) s Uiin band of gold wound about its neck, and low roilcl »bawl collar in Iflbg continu ind nestled In th* «Teases of the drummer's A “spotter" that should I« «’amped uus roil, or it may be u note bod collar if th- waisUxMt with every indication of uouUut , weartr prefer* j The •mallpoi.-B.jatoa Uoaunsrual. I I THE WONDERFUL MAXIM GUN—AN INTERESTING MAMMAL. Professor Mayer Illustrates in a Pleasing Manner With an Arrangement of Floating Magnetic Needles the Mutual Repulsion of Similar Bodies. Professor A. M. Mayer lias devised an ar rangement of floating magnetic needles which iwaulifuily demonstrates the mutual repul- sian of similarly magnetized Ixxlies A num ber of strongly magnetized carpet needles are in-ertetl in small corks, as shown in the pros pective view of the picture here reproduced. ÔÔE1A I MAYKR’H FLOATING NEEDLE* When H<wiling, explains The Sciqptiflo American, these needier arrange themselves in symmetrical groups, the form of the groups qyigiug with the numlier of needle* On«« | m »I h of a bar magnet held over the center of a vessel containing the floating needles will disjirrse the needles, while the other pole will draw them together. An AnMPMthctic Bullet. An anaesthetic bullet lias been invented by a German chemist which, it is claimed, will, if brought into general use. greatly diminish the horrors of war. The bullet is of a brittle sulmtanee, breaking directly when it cotnes in contact with tbe object ft which it is aimed. It contains a ¡»owerful snmsthetic, producing instantaneously complete insensibility, last ing for twelve hours, which, except that th* action of the heart continues, is not to lie dis tinguished from death. A laittle field where these bullets are used will in a short time b* apfian ally covered with dead bodies, but in reality merely with the prostrate forms of soldiers re« I need for the time being to a stat* of unconsciousness. While in this condition they may, the German chemist points out, b* packed in ambulance wagons and carried otf as prisoners. The Maxim Gun. The new and really wonderful weapon christened Maxim gun weighs over sixty-flv* pounds, is mounted on a light tripod, which can be lowers I, raisod, moved literally with one hand as easily as a garden hose, aud which pours out automatically 600 shots a minute. There ia no crank to turn; there is no labor of feeding. One man simply set* the bullets going, and then directs it at will; akinga whole regiment front if he likes, or keeping the fire within a range of five feet or five inches. The basis of it all is the utiliza tion of tbe recoil force to fire the next shot. Longest Tunnel in the World. It I m claimed that the longest completed tunnel in the world is at Rrhenmitz in Hun gary. It is 10.27 miles in length, with a crow section of 9 feet 10 inches by 5 feet 3 inchoa and is used for drainage purposes. The new Croton uquedu t tunnel now in course of ex cavation near this city will be much the long est tunnel in the world. When completed it will l>e nearly JM) miles long, with a section much larger than that of the Schenmitx tun nel, being alsmt 1H f»et in diameter. Twenty- two miles have already been excavated. A Remarkable Maiutnul. The a<‘«'<>nq»anying cut repivsents tbe top of the skull of the remarkable mamma), Trity- lodon, described by Henry F. Osliorn, of Princeton, in Me!f‘nce. It is re duced to two-thirds natural size, the genus living much larger than any other h i t h e r t o known from tbe Mesozoic (>ei iod. In •lie interval be tween the parietal» and front¡ils (I an«I 2) is scon the pari etal foramen (8), which has exactly th« same position and rela tions as in the lizard genus Kphenodon. From the large size of the parietal foramen in Tritylodon, which greatly exceeds that of any of the recent lixards in actual diameter, and com|Miivs with that of the labyrinthodonta and saurian*. Profewior Osliorii infers that the primitive mammalia, of this family at least, had a pineal eve of some functional size and value. The facts here recorded are consid- ere»l of remarkable interest to scientists, add ing, as they <lo, to the rapidly accumulating evident for the reptilian an<*estry of the mammal* Why Color* Cannot he Photographed. Photography has nover reproduced natural colors. Hcientists explain this fact by th* statement that color ha* no objective exis tence. It is simply th«» brain's interpretation of tho rapidity with which tbe waves of a ray of light Is-nt against the retina. mor* rapid produce the Muuation of the min«l known as violet; l>(*ats lek« rapid, that known as red. Violet nn«l red are nothing but vibra tions of tlie ether until they reach the optic nerve and communicate to that the vibration* which the brain translate* To photograph color h therefore as Im|xjMBible as to photo graph sound. Disappearance nf an Island. According to the official newspaper of tb* Forve islands, the ro-k island of Munken, south of H iihi I io , has sunk out of sight. In a word, one of the most striking object* in th* Fnrve group, which has been »ailed post and admired by thousands of people and played an inqiortant part in geographical literature, has disappeared. It once stood seventy feet aliove the level of tbe sea, but the rock gradually crumbled away so that th* tid* washed over its surface. The shallow water* around the island formed dangerous curr*nta> with eddies, or maelstroms, .which were much dreaded by mariner* A n<Mi»e nf Mraw. A house constructed entirely nf materials manufactured of straw is one of the promised novelties to he exhibited at the forthcoming American exhibition in Iymdon. Haul house, which, according to Iron, is being ma<le in Pennsylvania, is to represent an American villa two and a half stories high, and cover ing a space of forty-two feet by fifty feet. Rphirr» A tirar ted by Elert rie Light» A Washington cotrmpondent comment» on « «|»ede» of wptdrr that has «neared tinco ‘he introduetiuii of electric lights. It ply* it* craft day and night. Everywhere its webe are arm imjwrting a dingy, dirty ap|«ar*n*'O U» tbe architectural ornamentation oulaido arsi ceilings inaido building* that ar* Uh» miMUl l.v .«w* > iritv wi