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THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER Jamaica Lore. The Health of Canada. How Birthmarks are Hidden. The island negro is full of legends, The Park toboggan slide is the, correspondent writing from finest and longest artificial slide in Paris on the subject of tfae conceal. 1890 stories and ’ D-iaint proverbs, says February - - 27, __ Howard Pyle in Harper's Magazine. — Montreal, and it is the most fre- rnpnt. nf ment of nprcnnnl personal rlnfnnt« defects, says thn the | It is a pity that they should never quented, says a writer in the A’eic reason why the bodices Mme. Mod- Eating an Orange. have been regularly collected and England Magazine. There are two jeska appears in are always decor Until the last few years, since recorded, for the race of the old- chutes, both nearly a mile in length, ated with a cluster of flowers or ' oranges have become popularized, it time house-slave-woman, who held and every night during the season knot of ribbon just at the left of , was a matter of no little difficulty her audience breathless with the the toboggans are continually whiz their fastenings is that an ugly scar and concern to those who desired to wonderful doings of “Anancy” and zing down them, traveling at the on the breast, which looks as if it •at gracefully to hit upon the best his wife, “Crooky,” and a son“ “Ta- rate of the “Flying Dutchman” of might be the result of a wound way to eat an orange. The thick, cooma,” is now almost passed away, world-wide railway repute. The from a poignard—a souvenir of easily broken skin of the Spanish All of the strange, out-of-the-way scene around the slide is very pic- some past romance—must be con and Italian oranges admitted of but phenomena of tropical nature are turesque. A thick mantle of snow cealed in some way. When this little variation in method. The alive with suggestions of the super- is thrown over all the surroundings, device becomes monotonous a little skin was carefully removed, and natural and the mysteries to the Torches placed on either side of scarf of silk will be trailed careless the fruit separated in its natural negro mind. the shutes cast their shadows upon ly across the open corsage in diag sections and eaten piece by piece. At various parts of the island the faces of the animated groups» onal lines, a tiny fan of lace will With the thin, tough peel and ten arc subterranean rivers that here and outline for an instant the forms spring out from the corner or a lit der interior skin of the Florida or and there make a sudden appear- of the travelers who fly past, leav- tle knot of featners will wave softly ange this was a matter of greater ance, to run swiftly for a few miles, ing a little cloud of snow in their against the disfiguring mark. difficulty. Fastidious people ob and then to disappear again in the wake. Montreal’s fairest and most Pretty Mlle. Anthelme, who jected to the style which is the de bowels of the earth. In places the famous divinities crowd together on made such a successful debut in light of childhood, viz., punching a water appears only in circular the landing-stage, awaiting impa the Nouveautés two yearB ago, is hole in the orange with the forefin sink-holes, always brimming but tiently their turn to descend. Of afflicted with a most undesirable ger and extracting the juice by never overflowing, even in the wet course there is some danger in to and repulsive birthmark. She is a pressure and suction, and soon the season, or never diminishing, even bogganing. That’s half the charm pretty woman, with a tall, com fasion was set of dividing the orange in the dry. In one of the mountain [ of the thing. Down the far-strctch- manding figure, dark hair and in halves at the equator, if the ex fastnesses a negro pointed out to me I ing glare of ice, in the uncertain 1 eyes, but she is a sort of female pression may be permitted, and such a gloomy pool, with neither I light, one can see a toboggan just Esau, like Lucille Western, and digging out the pulp with a tea inlet or outlet. To him it was the I shooting the dip, with another has a thick growth of silky hair spoon. Some genius improved up habitation of some monstrous suba- speeding along half-way down the from her waist up. Of course her on this by cutting off only a small queous creature named Croomie. I slide, and as the second toboggan skin is carefully shaven above her slice at the top of the orange, at the He told me that nobody ever dared | flies into the shadow the sense of bodice, but it has a coarseness of Arctic circle, so to speak, then with go near the margin, for Croomie | danger makes one’s veins tingle texture and a blue tint which ne a sharp knife cutting out the core. would catch him and pull him un-J with pleasurable exeitement. cessitates the fair Anthelme’s en A second circular cut just inside the der. I could gather nothing from I The physique of the Canadian crusting with blazing jewels that skin separates the pulp, and if the him but the bare facts, for when 11 people has become the admiration part of her throat which evening operation is skillfully performed pressed him for further details con-1 and despair of the world. The men dress exposes. the fruit can be eaten with a spoon cerning Croomie’s character and I are noted for their brawn and mus- Sophie Croizette of the Theatre without spilling a drop of the juice habits, he evidently took my ques-1 cle and their excellence in all ath- Français had a deep vaccination a recommendation which has made ! tions for covert ridicule, and with-1 letic exercises. The women are scar far down her plump arm, it more popular than any other drew himself into the shell of non-1 noted for their erect and graceful which she used to conceal with a method. The native Sicilian, who ’ comprehension. | carriage. They do not amble, but knot of ribbons or trail of flowers does not care if he does get a little And Rattle and Ring Car Line will heard. In their peculiar dialect the ne-1 walk military-wise, straight from and with a gold bracelet before she of the juice smeared upon his coun groes possess a fund of quaint saws]the hips. The mingling of French became so stout that the bracelet tenance, takes his long, sharp knife and proverbs. “Alligator lay eggs, | and Scotch, English and Irish, has had to be as large as a waistband. No city in Valley presents better for of Capital. —every Sicilian carries a long, but him no fowl,” says one. “Fish-1 produced a distinct type of beauty Speaking of the disfigurement one sharp knife for family purposes, as ermen never say him fish t’ink,” | which combines the Anglo-Saxon night to some friends one of the la he generally has a vendetta or two says another. Referring to the | race with the wit and vivacity of on hand—and cuts the orange spir land crab, “Little crab hole spoil I the daughters of La Belle France, dies quietly picked up a wax taper off the toilet table, and, holding it ally around so that it becomes a big race horse.” Some of these 11 believe that no woman is ugly, above the arm, allowed a single long strip of pulp and peel, He quaint sayings show not only the | There certainly are no ugly women drop of melted wax to fall over the grabs this at either end and draws keen insight of the semi-savage in-1 in Canada—I do not think there is place. When it hardened she dust it rapidly through his mouth, ab- to the characteristics of the voibe-1 one that can be honestly called ed a little pink powder over it, and sorbing the juice as it passes. It less creation, but also a wonder plain. The climate forbids any Croizette’s scar was lost to sight. is not pretty, but it is remarkrbly fully sly and cunning knowledge of such thing. All our Canadian Croizette’s make-up box contained effective. A modification of this the weakness of poor human na maidens are endowed with a health ever after a bit of wax taper. style is practiced in the United ture. Are few number, number people. ful ruddiness that is at once attract Suggestive Bookbinding. States, and used to be known as the ‘“Duck and fowl feed togedder, ive and aggressive. This is the re Among them are McMinnville with Bar “New Orleans fashion.” It consists but no roost togedder.” “When a sult of plenty of fresh air and exer Edgar Saltus’ new book is bound of dividing the orange diagonally man dead grass grow at him door.” cise, of snow-shoeing, skating, and in pale green, the color of absinthe. rels lumber yards, door in into four sections, cutting across the “Dog run for him character pig run dancing. Canadians rival all na He has made arrangements with ( creamery and cheese factory, capacity one pounds of per core. It is not, however, considered for him life.” “Hungry dog cat tions in their skill and knowledge his publishers that this color is to . good form by the many orange ex cockroach.” “Man bit by snake, of the two latter diversions. in infancy, with increased in be kept exclusively for the outside furniture factory, perts. him run away from lizard.” Such of his literature, and no other au- ' future. A Chinese Panacea. Another fashion of eating an or are a few of the many score of the thor is to haye the privilege of using ange—which is considerable trou like sayings that pass current from The Chinese consider ginseng it. This is going to set a fashion in ble, and has but little to recom mouth to mouth of the merry black their most valuable vegetable reme bindings, and the probabilities are mend it on the score of elegance— island peasantry. dy, a superstition that has rebound that one is going to be able to tell is to cut just through the skin at ed to the profit of many a hoosier, an author’s befoks on sight, by the Tlie Coining Man. the equator, and by carefully turn for China offers a ready market for tint on the outside. Stevenson’s, And is constanly increasing; faster in proportion cities of same size ing the peel back, form a cup of the I imagine that, when we look all that can ever be dug in this perhaps, will be bound in Highland skin at each pole of the orange. The back from our home in the unseen The exceedingly yield per acre, state. They readily pay in New plaid; Rider Haggard will have in Oregon. pulp is then bitten off around and universe ages hence we shall see, York $30 an ounce for the real Cor- something lurid, with lions and being within in any section of YAM around, as a schoolboy cats an ap without much doubt, a race of men ean article as medicine, and $2.50 savages on it. Howell’s will be in ple. While this style keeps the differing from those of to-day much is known as for ours, and of course one is often virgin white, as suggestive of how hands comparatively clean it smears as the man of to-day differs from substituted for the other. The very harmless and milk-and-water thé the face most unpleasantly. The his simious, perhaps simian, ances word is a Chinese one, signifying contents are, and how well suited same objection may be urged against tors, writes Professor Thurston in “the power of man,” so called be to the eye of the young person. the fashion of peeling the orange on the North American Reriew. The cause it is supposed by them to in Stevenson’s “Wrong Box” has been a fork and holding it in that way brain will be developed to meet the crease virility. And all this is be ! returned from three different quar while eating it. more complex and serious taxation cause of the frequent fanciful re seat metropolis of ters to its American publisher, with Some people thrust a fork into of a more complex and trying civi semblance of some roots to the hu ! an indignant note from the purchas the core of an orange, peel the fruit lization; the vital powers will be man body, legs and all. The hunt er, saying that the cover was defac and then slice it as one would an intensified; the man, reducing the ing of these roots is pursued with ed with a torn scrap of newspaper apple, losing thereby a large quan powers of nature still more com I all the ardor of gold-seeking. Large that stuck so tightly even hot water tity of the juice. At a dinner table, pletely to his service, depend if the orange knives are very sharp less on the exertions of his muscles pre8crve(1 in embroidered coverings i would not remove it—a warning to —a circumstance which rarely hap and they will be correspondingly Ij inclosed ¡n cagcg of varying publishers not to trench too far up on the denseness of the general pens, by the way—this is perhaps and comparatively less powerfill. tbc whole being Jockcd jn as good a way as any. It is simple though they will probably, never- bragg.bound chegtg an extraordi. public. and makes no fuss, and there is an thelesB, I imagine, continue to grow larily finc spccimcn being vahied The newspapers of the country air of refinement about touching the W ™l™lat $500’ and this for a Paltr-V root are calling with a loud voice upon fruit only with the knife and fork, tionably have grown since the Mid named by us Panax, and classed as James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier if it be gracefully done, which re dle Ages; the lungs must supply a feeble tonic stimulant, and in a ■ Poet, to brace up. He seems to commends it to many people. aeration to a larger and more rapid country where a human life is not ! have a great deal of sympathy. A ly circulated volume of blood richer valued at the paltry price of the literary society in Indianapolis pro Seed Corn 4,000 Years Ohl. in the phosphatic elements especial rice it takes to sustain it! poses to give him a reception as During the season of 1889 a most ly needed for the building up of soon as he sobers up. His friend remarkable crop was raised by Da brain and nerve; the digestion I Reed When Angry, Pink Fishback says that the drunk vid Drew, at Plymouth, N. II. In must supply its nutriment in simi- wben Speaker Thomas B. Reed enness of Mr. Riley was due to the 1888 Mr. Drew came into possession larly increased amount and altered I ge^g angry, says the New York Tri fact that the contract which he of some corn grains found wrapped character and composition; the I bj8 features assume their made with Major Pond turned out with a rnumy in Egypt, supposed whole system must be capable of |mOst benignant aspect and an al- to be very profitable to the major. to be 4,000 years old. These were more rapid, more thorough and most seraphic smile illuminates his Riley could not bear to see the ma planted and grew. It had many of more manageable conversion of the I countenance. Those who know him jor making $400 while he only re the characteristics of real corn; the energies of the natural forces to the besf gay that it is the time to stand ceived $200. Hence his poetic na leaves were alternate; it grew to be uses of the intellect and the soul I from under. ture gave way and he sought solace •ver six feet high; the mid-ribs which inhabits it. I member of the Pennsylvania in the flowing bowl. were white; but the product of the stock, there is where the curious Why Women are Rarely Robbed, [delegation in congress was remind J Says a Washington newspaper: ed, apropos of this peculiarity of “The most noted father of the house part comes in. Instead of growing It is singular that more ladies Mr. Reed’s, of the reply an old and senate of the past was a man ing in the ear like modern maize, it hung in heavy clusters at the top, are not robbed on the public thor- [ Quaker lady made when she was altogether forgotten now. His name on spikelets; there was no tassel; oughfares, for the majority of them told how lovely Quakeresses were was Nathaniel Macon, and Jefferson no Bilk; each sprig was thickly carry every cent they possess in generally; what a charming simpli- called him the last of the Romans! studded with grains, each provided their pocketbooks, which in turn city was theirs; how quiet they ap- He was a democrat from North Car with a separate husk, like wheat are carried in their hands. I sup peared; what a serene spirituality, olina, and he had a political career pose, however, the reason thieves so far removed from all earthly of more than fifty-seven years. He grains. ______ _________ do not snatch more of these money taint, shone in their faces. The Stitcl.es in a Shirt. resigned from the senate when he books is that they know well the “That is all very nice and sweet was eighty years old, and died at The following singular calcula chances are they would get little, to think about,” replied the old la tion of the number ef stitches in a even after successfully evading the dy, with a sly twinkle in her eye eighty-nine. He was for forty years plain shirt has been made by a police, after an assault, of the kind clearly denoting that she herself in congress, and during the whole • Leicester seamstress: Stitches in upon a woman. The great hand had “been there;” “that is all very of his career he never recommended collar, four rows, 3,000: cross ends some silver-tipped Russian leather nice, but when they look like that a relative to office.” of same, 500; buttonhole and sew affairs called purses are very at they are just a-boiling inside.” Several persons who took part in ing on button, 105; gathering neck tractive in themselves, but in nine Can it be the Honorable the the foxhunt near Media, Pa., in the and sewing on collar, 1,204; stitch J out of ten cases the inside of them Speaker of the House of Represen inteiest of Adjt-Gen. Hastings’ Gu- pt ing the wristbands, 1,118; ends of ■ are “very lonesome.” A profes- tatives is “just a-boiling” whenever ! bernatorial aspirations have been wristbands, 68; buttonholes in wrist j sional thief said once that it was he looks his most angelic? convicted of offending the statute bands, 148; hemming slits. 264 ; ! regarded as extra hazardous in his against cruelty to animals. They Murat Halstead has been hired, ■ should also be fined for inflicting a gathering sleeves, 840; setting on profession to rob a woman, either The this paper sum can easily afford to spend in wristbands, 1,468; stitching on in the house or on the street, and it is said, to edit a portion of a New deathblow to a towering political let true merits city. This first a shoulder straps, 1,880; hemming the for two reasons: Firstly, that a magazine. This means, it is per- ambition. sumed, his gradual retreat from bosom, 393; sewing in sleeves and woman always screams, and, sec ; uv w ’ vivu 1 L-iv .uuniw.H. <«nvi uiii|iiviv with « h h superb portraits and n it in ui i complete making gussets, 3,050; sewing up ondly, she has seldom much to be Cincinnati on New York. His re Senator Hearst, of California, is professional mon, of buildings points side seams of sleeves, 2,554 ; cord taken. A man, on the contrary, cent experiences in Ohio politics said to talk less and to listen most of i of all the members of the senate.i must make him feel very much like ing bosom, 1,104; “tapping" the either gives the thief a chance to These are rare accomplishments in ; sleeves, 1,526; sewing all other get away or fights, and then his emigrating. a statesman. seams and setting side gussets, watch, money or valuables are Pitcher ’ s Castoria. Children Cry for 1,272; total number of stitches. 20,- much easier to get at. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. 640. M c M innville , - O regon . .V -- ----------------- ----------- cqvo THE PRESENT RAPID GROWTH Both in Public and Private Improvements and Popu lation of the Beautiful and well situated M’MINNVILLE CITY Demonsrates that the Nucleus for a Great City has been formed. During the last two years in the neighborhood of $200,000 Have been Spent for Public Improvements It is the Only City in Oregon that Owns and Operates COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHT and WATER PLANTS. of a Street soon the the Willamette be a field the operation The Manufactories of the Town comparatively the of Flour per day; two yet its but still they employ a large of Flouring mills, a capacity of One Hundred with sash and factories connection; a wit a of thousand butter day; a but the surety of operation the near in The Population of the City is 2,500 raised HILL County surrounding country is a radius of ten miles than than other the productive, a larger other the State. “The Banner County of Oregon, and And McMinnville is the county the Banner county. V This city is receiving deserved comment from the press of the State, and it is the intetnion of the propri etors of The Telephone-Register To issue on March 1st a Mammoth edition devo ted entirely to McMinnville. Her business interests and business men will each receive attention in their respective columns in the issue, together with a history of the town from its first settlement to date. The edu cational facilities will receive their portion, together with interesting statistics, Banking, Commercial, Ex press, Freight, Municipal, Building, Religious and Fra ternal will given. Articles by prominent people; sketches of the Lawyers, Doctors, County and City of ficials are being prepared, making it, as a whole, a pa per which should be read and distributed throughout the State and Union in order to give the outside popu lation a correct picture of McMinnville, the ha rm town of the banner county of the banner state. price of will be 10 cents, a which you order to your friends know the of our i> the newspaper devoted entirely to McMinnville, will he her business and with views the principal interest. edition of and of Send in Your Orders Immediately for Copies, HARDING à HEATH, PUtìLISHERS