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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1889)
MARTIN & SANDERS Personal and Pertinent. 1 George 1». Squires has lieen elected president of the San Francisco press club. Facetious Englishmen call the Amer ican minister’s house in London Lin coln’s inn. Senator lliscock denies that he has gone to Europe. Syracuse is classic enough for him Commissioner Tanner lias not scored a success, but it looks as though he had earned a successor. Sitting Bull has had several offers of marriage from white women. They found it useless to Sioux for his hand, however. Poetmaster-t icucral Wanamaker has decided to raise a bird this winter. This is more praiseworthy than raising a cam paign fund. Jay Gould lus greatly improved in health this summer. He looks forward . to many absolutely farewell retirements from business. I Wm. E. Gladstone weighs 168 pounds, i This is not much for a man of bis build. | But a man’s appearance is not measured i by dropping a nickel in the slot. A newspaper vote has shown than Ben Butler is a lugger man than John L. Sullivan in Boston. Neither of these gentlemen, however, is popular in the South. Col. Paul Frederick De Quincey, the i sole survivor of the five sons of the fa- | mous essayist and opium-eater, lias lieen appointed sergeant-at-arms of the New ; Zealand parliament. • Mrs. James Brown Potter, Mrs. James | G. Blaine, jr., and Mrs. O’Sullivan i Himpfel seem to have left the American | stage to its fate. Here is a great chance for an ambitious elevator. John If. Surratt recently had his life! insured in Boston. In the application i blank lie wrote opposite the question as j to the cause of the death of bis mother: “She was murdered bv the United States government.” When President Harrison reached Washington on Friday, among his boxes was one containing a six-volume edition 1 of Dumas's “Count of Monte Cristo.” | This was doubtless a present from Post- master-General Wanamaker, and an ap propriate one from such a source. Thomas II. Anderson, who lias been ’ appointed ministjr resident and consul- general to Bolivia, is a lawyer living in Cambridge, O. At one time he was prosecuting attorney of Guernsey county, O. He has been an active politician and served on the republican executive com mittee of the buckeye state. Capt. L. G. Shephard, commander of the revenue cutter Kush, the great seizer of the Behring sea, lias been in ! the revenue marine service since 1866, and has served through all the grades from third lieutenant to captain. He is a native of Massachusetts, and is regard ed as a cool ami brave officer. Prince Bismarck is suffering from in flammation of the veins This is the outcome of his refusal to obey his physi cians. They forbade him to drink wine or beer or to smoko cigars. With Mon taigne’s contempt for the advice of doc tors he continues his usual habits and the result has proved disastrous. The Clover club ot Philadelphia made Joseph Dugniol, Mi . Vanderbilt's $10,-! 900 cook, an offer, having learned that 1 he was dissatisfied with catering to a small number of people. Monsieur Jos eph telegraphed : “Very much honored! for your proposal, but most go to Paris. Will see you later.” The last sentence looks as though the famous c/icf had j learned a little slang in this country. Lord and Lady Meath had a warm welcome in Newport from those who like to do honor to philanthropists. Lord i Meath has done great deal to improve the condition of the poor of England. His published writings only show a part of his labors. He has spent much time in securing the co-operation of other phi lanthropic men and women end has per sonally investigated the condition of the lower classes of English society. He has been warmly seconded by his wife. TheV will remain in this country only a short time. Ex-Senator Jeremiah Lynch, of San Francisco, Arrived at Cairo on September '2 after a week’s stay at Athens. While in Italy he visited Prince Doria’s villa near Rome, who is engaged in an at tempt to manufacture from the ramie plant a substitute for cotton and cheap silks. Capt. Doty, of England, is also interested. At Sorrento he found Mr. F. Marion Crawford, author of “Mr. Isaac,” Ac. -Mr. Crawford writes a tlnee-vol- ume novel, when tic gets started, in thir ty days—a chapter each day. Mr. Lynch will stay in Egypt at least three months. Wilson-Barrett, the English tragedian, had a narrow escape from being badly- swindled recently. The promptness of his American representative protected him. A man claiming to be "Prof. Rat- leigh, of Harvard,’’ offered to write some newspaper and magazine articles for Mr. Barrett on this side of the Atlantic. His address and appearance were captivating and the tragedian was pleased with him, but took the precaution to send over here for information. There is no “Prof. Ratleigh” at Harvard and the impostor proved to lie Ross Raymond, the swind ler, of international notoriety, who is now held in England for passing a bogus draft. Says a Wa.-liingti.n correspondent: “Miss Mary E. Alexander, ot No. 822 Preston street, West Philadelphia, Pa., has the best recon! ever made by man or woman in examinations before the Civil- Service commission for certification to the executive departments here for ap- l>ointment. Her percentage is 94 out of a possible 100, which is just two or three (Klints higher than anybody else’s mark. This is one of the things I discovered in looking through the ‘eligible list' down at the cool rooms of the Civil-Service commission.” .Miss Alexander, living as she does in Philadelphia, lias bad a chance to pursue her studies in absolute quiet. Curiosities of Figures. A problem that at a glance seems enough to tempt many a sehool-lxiy to spend a jiortion of his vacation in an en deavor to solve it, appeared in a Maine journal, and is as follows : Take the number 15. Multibly it by itself and you have 225. Now multiply 225 by itself, and that product by itself, and so on until fifteen products have been multiplied by themselves in turn. The question aroused considerable inter est among lawyers in Portland, ami their best mathematician after struggling with the problem long enough to see how much labor was entailed in the solution, made the following iliseoir aging re|>ort upon it: •'The final product calle I for contains 38,5.39 figures, the first of which are 1442. Allowing three figures to an inch, the answer would be over 10711 feet long. To perform the operation would require about .">1)0,000,000 figures. If they can be made at the rate of a minute, a (KTson working ten hours a day for 300 days in each year would be twenty eight years about it If. in multiplying, he should make a row of ciphers, as lie does in other figures, the number of figures will be more than 523,939,2.38. This would be the precise number of figures used if the product of the left-hand figure in each multiplicand, by each figure of the multiplier was always a single figure; but, as it is most frequently, and yet not always, two figures, the method employed , to obtain the foregoing result cannot be ! accurately applied. Assuming that the cipher is used on an average once in ten times, 475.000,000.0 0 approximates the actual number.” Are fully prepared to meet the demands of the Fall trade for all kinds of Hardware Agricultural Implements, Pumps, Etc. Hardware. Our Stock of General Hard- ware EE BE2LT in the county. WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO MITCHELL WAGONS, HACKS. BUGGIES, RACINE CARTS. WAGON MADE. CUTLERY. Have We have the Largest and Fin- OSBORNE Valley. Rose Disk Harrow CYCLONE WINDMILLS BEARINGS DRILLS, SEEDERS AND RUNNER PRESS DRILLS. Double, Adjustable Force ARE SIXTEEN INCHES LONG. Made in Fonr Sections. 16 or 20 Incn Disks. Davis Sewing Machine. We have a machine quite unlike anything el«« New Principles. New Ideas. It is the New High Arm “ DAVIS.” It is new patera ; A New Model. Did you ever see a sewing machine with Only Six Working Parts? If not you never saw this new ma chine. The old method of feeding from lielow is entirely done away, and all the complicated machinery con nected therewith taken out and dispensed with. No Machinery Underneath to clean or oil. This New Feed method does not Stop at Reeme, hut Steps evenly over them. There is Only One Tension to regulate. No hole« to thread through. It is a Mechanical Wonder, vet no more interest ing for what It Is. than what it will do. It is the only machine having Steel Roll Bearings for its needle bar. The only machine having a Support for the Needle after it leaves the needle bur. This “ New Davis ” is as far ahead of the old ma chines as the Telephone is ahead of the speaking tul S'. Come and See for Yourself. It will pay you From Curiosity. We are so much interested in this ourselves tiiat we are anxious you should see. know, tell and help us get these facts before the people. Ladies, come; Tailors, come; Mechanics, come; Expert«, come; Everybody Come ant See this new model machine and learn what it will do. THE FINEST PROPERTY IN McMINNVILLE ! STRICTLY “INSIDE” PROPERTY. BUT ALSO SUBURBAN THE PREMIUM LOCATION I I ELEVATED! WELL DRAINED! SIGHTLY! LEVEL! PURE AIR! TITLE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. TERMS LIBERAL I ’.'S' iHF * EASY INSTALLMENTS! -¿to'.. ^r^-¡=>r: •vrw’/. This magnificent property comprises 460 lots and lies in the very heart of the residence portion of McMinnville. It is high, commanding a beautiful view of the valley. Many of the most prom inent residents of McMinnville are now purchasing property in “Oak Park Addition,” and many elegant and substantial residences will be constructed there during the coming year. Water works and electric lights will be put in this summer, giving all the comforts of the choicest villa property. Lots are from 50x100 to 50x150, and blocks 200x215, with a 15-foot alley down the center of each. The advantages of having an alley in each block are obvious. “Oak Park Addition" adjoins the depot of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the new county court house, the elegant public, school building, and is three blocks from Third street, the business thorouhfare of McMinnville. “Oak Park Addition" offers superior inducements to investors, the settled policy of its proprietors being to steadily advance prices with its growth, rendering investments absolutely safe and profitable. * * f “Oak Park Addition’ will be planted in shade trees; cross and sidewalks constructed and streets graded. The proprietors; are turning in 10 percent of all sales as a fund for this purpose. This property is being offered for from to 25 to 50 per cent less than any other property in McMinnville of half tin* advan tages. Prices of lots range from S25 up and are sold either on the cash or installment plan. A plat of this growing addition can he seenat .las. Fletcher & Co.’s and J. I. Knight & Co., where all further information and price of lots and blocks will be furnished. Also at office of Barnekoff A Co.. McMinnville Flouring Mills. PORTLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. F. BARNF.KOFF. LOCAL MANAGER. 4 4 ♦