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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1891)
’A Well-Written and The Telephone-Register JOB PRINTING ROOM IS WELL EQUIPPED WITH MATERIAL ALWAYS HAS FINEST PAPER STOCK. With Competent Printers in Charge it is an Easy Matter to Guarantee Satisfaction. ht PROPERLY DISPLAYED ADVERTISEMENT In a newspaper like the T elsphone -R kgistib . IS WORTH DOLLARS TO A BUSINESS MAN. •• A »rep of Ink May Make * Million Think.’ Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. TELEPHONE ’Established Hine. 1886 Consolidated Feb. I, 1889. VOL. in. NO. 34 M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , S eptember 24,1891. * I I How They Won $50,000 at the Races after Business in tuc CIRCT PRI7R (~ip 4,10000 thev won was a good name for Square, Honorable Dealing. The Second Prize, $80,000. they won when they secured the agency of Yahhill County for tlw CEL^E^TED STOVES AJSTD made by Bridge, Beach & Co., of St. Louis. They are _ __ * ' an enviable reputation, which accounts for Opposition trying to adopt Our Stoves Trade Mark “SUPERIOR, by attaching^ it Io anothei line of stores. so well known and have an enviable reputation, which accounts for Opposition trying to adopt Our Stove’s Trade Mark “ SUPERIOR," by attaching it to another hue of stoves. ■ - Superior, “ ‘ ‘ And ’ when we sell Ten Thousand more of them, as we surely will in the Don’t be deceived; all stoves with Bridge, Beach & Co’s name are called others are counterfit. Third ------------------- Prize of $ 18,000 is what we have been able to save our customers by Cutting Down Prices and Giving them the Best next ten years, we will have our 880,000 clear. ” The ...------- Goods in the Market for Less Money than they could get them elsewhere, and that is what they owe us in good will. Now' we have -Accepted tlxe Agency of de artd. anarxg'sd to ZBvi/y a g-ood many Farm Goods in. tlxe East direct. And by seeking to please and bene- fit you in every way in our power we shall try to make the other 814,000 if life last long enough. o - tt - ktan a - kt MANNING & 'of a makeup that has not been seen be I decompose. The heat of decomposition fore, will sell in bits for a couple of hatches the eggs, and the young fowls thousand dollars, if its possessor knows burrow their way out of the mound, WERE ALL DIAMONDS BROUGHT Zxdlt. Ta’cor. how to dispose of it. People are not less not upward, but through the sides. It BY METEORS? ..Portland"« Mott Beautllnl Suburb- I interested in other worlds because they is a wise brush turkey that knows its McMinnville, Oregon, own mother, for the parent birds give Professor Henry A. Ward’s Story of a know nothing about the next one. For the treatment of Nervous Diseases, Mighty Bird’s Nest--A Plan to Culti espeaially those suffering from nervous ex Paid up Capital, $50,000. The most interesting man among the no thought nor care to their offspring haustion and prostration, chronic diseases, vate the Intellect of Apes—Curious scientists who have been visiting Wash after depositing their eggs. You can and all those who need quiet and rest, good News About Grains and Grasses. Transacts a General Banking Business, nursing, massage and constant medical ington is Prof. Henry A. Ward, the imagine what a vast amount of mater care. At Mt. Tabor will be fou d pure air, Deposits Received Subject to Check great natural science collector of Ro ial is put into one of these nests when I W ashington , August 29. — Of all the absolutely free from malaria, good water, Interest allowed on time deposits. chester, N. Y. He has spent his life in tell you that a friend of mine in Aus beautiful surroundings and magnificent Sell sight exchange and telegraphic trans curiosities which the wise men of the views. Ample references given if desired. traveling all over the world for the pur tralia made his whole garden patch fers on New York, San Francisco and Port Association for the Advancement of For further particulars, address the physic land. pose of gathering material for museums. from one-half of one of the mounds. Science brought to Washington for ex ian in charge. _ Collections made on all accessible [«lints. OSMON ROYAL, M. D.. The adventures he has met with while A man of large means who resides in hibition to their fellows, the most ex Ninth <k Morrison Sts., Portland,Oregon. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p m. traordinary was a meteorite with dia in pursuit of curiosities in one far corner Washington has recently declared his monds in it Such a thing had never of the earth or another would fill many intention, privately, to devote ¥100,000 I. r. CAt.BBBATn. B. K. GOUCHER. been seen or heard of before; in fact, It delightful books. In conversation the to a very original purpose. His idea is that no satisfactory oppor Calbreath & Goucher, was the only specimen of the kind thus other day he referred to an expedition Successor to H. Adams he once made in search of an extraordi tunity lias ever been afforded for the far discovered In the world. The dia PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, monds were little ones, but what they nary Australian bird, whicli has a com development of the intellect of the M c M innvilu , - - - O regon . munal nest, a whole flock uniting their brute. Intelligence, like bodily quali signified was big. (Office over Bralv’s Bank.) The meteorite in question was one of efforts in its constructon and sharing ties, is susceptible of improvement I nave purchased the Harness Shop of IT. many found recently in Arizona, near its conveniences for the purpose of lay through breeding, as everyone knows Adams and will keep a S. A. YOUNG, M. 0. who has thought about the evolution the canyon Diabolo. It was supposed ing their eggs. “I was in the neighborhood of Fort of the dog from the wolf by artificial by the discovers that they had hit upon Complete and Reliable Stock Physician & Surgeon, an iron mine of enormous value, but in Darwin on Torres straits,” said the pro selection. This rich man proposes that of Harness and Horse Furnishings The M c M innville . - - - O regon . people of Yamhill county are invited to call vestigation proved that the great chunks fessor. “I had some native black fel monkeys or apes shall be taken as sub of metal picked up had been shot out of lows with me and a lot of biscuits to jects for experiment, simply because Office and residence on D street. AU look over the stock and get prices. FRANK WRIGHT. the realms of space. The place whence pay them with. Biscuits go witli them man understands those animals better calls promptly answered day or night. they were obtained is known as the them for wages as well as money, be than he does others. Let fifty of them, Dll. J. C. MICHAUX “Crater,” because it looks like one, be cause they care for nothing in life but half males and half females, lie placed ing a eiicular hollow 100 feet in depth, eating. If you give them coins they in paddock, suitably provided with —DEALERS IN— three-quarters of a mile wide, and sur carry them in their ears, and they are separate quarters for each sex. Then Practicing Physician and Surgeon, rounded by a wall of rocks so steep that more apt than not to wear no clothes at have them breed, pair by pair, as shall the bottom is strewn with the skeletons all, save a band around the left arm to be directed by those who superintend. LAFAYETTE, OREGON- of animals whicli have got in and been hold a tobacco pipe that is stuck into it Some of them will develop certain abil Jan, 21,’88. The Finest Line of Confection unable to climb out again. Nevertheless when not in use. One must take care ities more conspicuously than others. it is not of volcanic origin, as is proved not to let them have any ‘bixit,’ as they For example, certain individuals will ery in the City. J. D. Baker M D., 1 All kinds of Produce taken at the with certainty by the fact that there is call them, until their work is done; exhibit a superior understanding of the no lava, obsidian (volcanic glass) or otherwise, having gobbled them, they commands addresed to them, or will likely to lie down at any moment show a greater dexterity in the hand SURGEON AND HOMEOPATHIC HIGHEST MARKET PRICE. other volcanic product in the neighbor are hood. What was it, then, that made and go to sleep, though it may lie in ling of objects. Those who appear stu PHYSICIAN. I Call and examine our Stock and the crater? The geologists say that it the middle of the road and the occasion pid are to lie expelled from the colony, get Prices. their places being filled by fresh re was formed by the impact of a single one of serious exigency.” Office Upstairs in the Garrison Building. “These particular black fellows had cruits. When a male and female are H enderson & G aunt . gigantic meteor, which at some time in the past struck the earth and buried it promised to guide me to a nest of the found who exhibit the same sort of G. W. GOUCHER M. D., M c M innville self out of sight, leaving a hole which ‘brush turkeys.’ I had never seen one aptitude in any direction they are to be ---- AND----- has since become partly filled up, sur and was very anxious to do so. On our mated. This process, carried on for A. G. SMITH M. D., rounded by a wall of rock that was journey my companions seemed inces generations, would necessarily result in CARLIN & COULTER, Proprietors forced out of place. Imagine what a santly looking for something to eat. the development of superior characters, Have associated themselves together, and will lie known in the future as Drs. Goucher Goods of all descriptions moved and care big one it must have lieen to leave a When opportunity served they climbed until finally, after the lapse of twenty- Smith. Professional calls attended to ful handling guaranteed. Collections will tall trees for oysters. The rise and fall five years perhaps, there would almost day or night. Office: Two doors east of be made monthly Hauling of a 1 kinds cavity three-fourths of a mile in width of the tides in Torres straits are enor certainly be had apes or monkeys far drug store. Residence within a short dis done cheap 1 where it hit this planet. The huge mass tance from the Office. mous, and the oysters, which are under higher in the scale of reason than any of iron of which it was composed is A mity - O regon there yet, of course. Perhaps it is not the water when it is high, being at known up to the present time. sunk too deep to render mining for its tached to the trunks of trees, are left These putative cousins of the human I material unprofitable. Fragments of it ten or twelve feet out of the water when race have already exhibited a mental I formed the masses that were picked up it is at its lowest. I saw two gigantic and even technical develonment in kangaroos on that trip and measured point of intellect. Chimpansees have 1 by the prospectors above referred to. Shop With Hewitt Bro’s. That one which contained the dia" tlie leaps of one of them. Thirty-two been taught to bring things to table, Charges Reasonable. Give me a call. I monds, however, has opened an absorb feet the tape line showed for each jump, and the big Langun baboon of India is M c M innville . : : : O regon . ing subject for speculation. It proves taking it from toe-mark to toe-mark, as commonly used in that country to-day ! that there are diamonds in other worlds the animal left them in the sand. It is as a servant for working their punkah | than ours, but also it points to many’ marvelous to see one of those great mar fans, with which the flies are kept other important conclusions. The dia supials streaking across the country iu away from dinner tables. Explorer monds of the famous Kimberly mines, immense bounds, literally throwing It Stanley has given an account of apes Watchmaker which at present produce almost the self through the air with its mighty which carry torches at night. This is and Jeweler. entire world’s supply of these gems, are hindlimbs, and hardly seeming to believed by scientists to lie an absurdity Dealer In All Kind« ol Watche«. Jewelry. Plated Ware all found at the liottoms of just such touch the earth in its flight. The beast because all the anthropoid and simian Clacks and Spectacle«. McNINNVILLE. OR. HAY FORKS, craters as the one just described iu Ari really looks as if it was flying, and I tribes are too afraid of fire to render zona. It is believed that these craters, am not surprised that Captain Cook’s such a thing possible. It is a fact well STRAW FORKS, so-called, were formed by the impact of naturalist should have mistaken the known that gorillas, while they will BARLEY FORKS, great meteors, because there is no other first kangaroo he saw for a big bird.” gather about a deserted campfire for the FORKS at all PRICES. “On our way to find the nesl I came sake of warmth, will never think of conceivable way in which they could Carries the Best Line of Choice Meats in the City. Game and Fish in Season. Poul have been made, and for other reasons across a beautiful specimen of a rare keeping the embers alight by adding try, hides, etc., bought for the highest mar geological. Ifso,thenitmust be inferred kind of lizard, commonly called the fuel. Nevertheless, every book on nat ket price and cash paid for same Your attention is called to the fact that we al that probably all the diamonds in the ‘flying dragon,' because it sometimes ural history relates many an instance ways serve the best meats to be found. world were brought to this terrestrial appears to fly, supporting itself in the illustrative of these creatures’ thinking Your patronage is solicited. BOND & FLETC HER. sphere by meteorites. In other words, air to some extent as does a flying powers, and there is no question that it these precious jewels are not native to squirrel. This one whicli had an es could be greatly improved by the pro the earth, but have been fetched hither pecially large and fine ruffle around its cess of judicious breeding. Even a pig with the dust of other stars. That ac neck, crawled into a hollow log to es can be taught to count up to ten. counts for the manner, hitherto deemed cape. I upended the log, when it fell The department of agriculture says unaccountable in which they are scat out, and I told one of the black fellows that the recent extraordinary rise in tered everywhere through drift of all to pick it up. He did so and, immedi market is not in the least surpris ELSIA WRIGHT. HOSC and Wired llOSC ! sortH, having apparently no birthplace ately carrying it to his mouth, bit off grain ing. its head. I was very angry to lose such or definite relation to other minerals. Carries the Largest Assortment of “This is the third year of short wheat Over a Thousand Feet Sold this Sea Harness and ^addles and also the Some scientists go so far as to assert a treasure in that way, but when I crops everywhere abroad,” said J. R. son and Still Plenty of Hose Left. that diamonds, like coal, which is so scolded the man simply looked aston. Dodge, the most eminent authority on LARGEST STOCK IN YAMHILL COUNTY. nearly’ of the same chemical composi- ished, rubbed his stomach and said, such matters in the country yesterday. Harness of all kinds Made to Order. Re pairing Neatly Done iion, could not possibly come into exist ‘Good, good.’ Soon afterward my at “Not only has the left over surplus HODSON ence without previous vegetable tention was called to a sort of ‘Jack-in- been exhausted, but what is called the Robes. Whips and all the Necessaries Will sell you better goods and at growths to generate tiieir material. For the-pulpit’ that grew in a little dell. Its are Kept in Stock in Endless Variety. Less Money than any one in town. this reason they infer that the finding leaves were somewhat withered, which ‘invisible’ reserve in the farmers’ bins has been used up. The present wheat Call and See Stock. Store on Third Street, C all and S ee H im . of the gems in the meteorites demon fact was accounted for when another of crop in this country is unusually big, McMinnville. Oregon. strates that there must have been vege my aboriginal companions plucked the and it must be drawn upon largely by table life, at all events, in the place plant up by the roots and showed me, Europe, particularly by England, I whence the meteorite came. If there hanging from them, a bright green cat which eats enormously more wheat THE COMMERCIAL STABLE I was vegetable life there it is a fair pre erpillar quite a foot in length. This than she produces. Hence the rise in Gates & Henry , Props. McMinnville, Oregon. sumption that there was animal life, latter he coolly held up by one end, price. McMinnville. - Oregon. also. All this may lie untrue, but it af dropped it down his throat, closed his “Russia is the rye-producing country fords the first guess glimpse that has eyes in an ecstacy of gustatory appreci of the world. The crop is very poor, Fall Term Opens ever been obtained into the greatest ation and rubbed his stomach also.” and the Czar has commanded that problem that mankind has ever at “We reached the nest at last, and it none of it be exported. The Germans, tempted to handle—namely, the ques- was well worth seeing. It was a circu who eat rye and not wheat, are alarm Everything New whether life exists in other worlds than The aim of the College is to give ours. From tlie philosophical point of lar mound, eight feet high and twenty- ed. The soldiers are grumbling consid two feet in diameter. The birds begin erably at the prospect of being obliged And Firstclass. view the fact cannot but be taken for the construction of such a one by get to feed upon wheat bread, for lack of THE BEST EDUCATION Special Accommodations for Commercial granted in a universe in which the sun ting together a big heap of leaves. On rye bread, this year. Incidentally, the Travellers —AT THE— is merely a star of the fourth magni top of and around this heap they gather few millions of bushels of rye grown in Corner Second and E Streets, one block tude. Nevertheless, some absolute evi eartli by scratching it backward toward the United States, have advanced in from Cooks hotel. least zzzzrr’Ensrszo dence on tlie point would be extremely the pile, and it was in this way wholly value. To the Student. It has better satisfactory. that the great mound I describe was “It is very curious to observe how JOHN DERBY, JESSE EDWARDS. Facilities for the coming year than Meteorites ordinarily are nearly all built up. All the surface soil had been the different nations eat different iron, with a small percentage of nickel. scraped away for a long distance around grains. In the United States we feed ever before. None of them have ever been known for adding to the accumulation. When largely upon corn, which in England For the last catalogue address to contain a particle of any precious the brush turkeys have thus made their thought to be only good for horses. A Proprietors of The McMinnville T. G. BROWNSON. metal. Nevertheless many of them are earth-heap ready for the season’s lay I very few years ago we ate no oats. At worth many times their weight in gold> ing, they cut a cylindrical hole down ' present we consume more oatmeal than President. because of some peculiarity of structure into the middle of it. Into this they : does any other people. We don’t care or otherwise. Every collector of miner get one by one and lay their eggs. As : much for rye, except for distilling into ft ft ft I-A It J I undertake to briefly Situated at the Southwest corner of the Sk ft J I I I I ■ |teachany f"‘‘ .y intelligent p.-rs, n of either als makes it a matter of pride to have a soon as all are through, they fill up the whisky, and so our production of it is W I IB I I ■•ex, who cun read nud write, and who, Fair Grounds. All sizes of ■Jl ■ 1 1 I II liaft'r in.trm lien, « ill work induatriouai v, specimen of every known kind of me hole, leaving a cavity shaped like a comparatively small. Germany and wF Mr Vlmw to earn Three Thousand Dollar« a Tear in their own localities, wherever they live.I will also furnish First-Class Drain Tile the aituation uremploynient.at which you cun earn that amount. teorite in liis cabinet. If a new sort washbasin on the top of the mound. Russia eat Rye, while all western Eu- 5o ntonev for nieunleseitucevaaful aa above. Easily and quickly kept constantly on hand at lowest living learned. I desire but vne worker from each district or countv. I turns up and lie lias not a piece he is Rains come and the water retained in have already taught and provided with eniplovmeut a large , rope feeds upon wheat. Go into a Ger prices EDWARDS A DERBY, number, who are making over *3000 a rear each. Ila NEW unhappy. It happens sometimes that this hollow filters through to the de man beer saloon and it is always rye Pl??’1 tr”* H,’r* FI< K- A.ldre.s at once, 41- Molli inville, Oregon. L. 4, ALLEX, livx 4)20, Augusta, Aluiue. one weighing not mon1 than a pound, posit of leaves, which are thus made to ' bread that you will find upon the bar. COTTAGE SANITARIUM! J. W. COWLS. LEE LAUGHLIN J. L. STRATTON. President. Vice President. Cashier mchiui ram u FRANK WRIGHT, HARNESS SHOP! HENDERSON & GAUNT UHK TRUCK AND DRAY CO., D. -A. smith , 0.0. ODSOI. WATCHMAKER A JEWELER. WM. HOLL, Êb Red Jacket Force Pumps, Pitcher Pumps, Pumps of all kinds The People’s Market. Harness and Saddles. Paawlar tot: ui kg::, Arguì tot: u: Rugs, Sta ud Raigc: by Us hto M c M innville college , Livery, Feed and Sale ! ON SEPT. 8, 1891 Edwards à Derby, ÏE FACTORY SS GEMS FROM THE STARS. Cnina and Japan choose rice for their grain. So does India. The latter also is a large consumer of millets—grassy- looking cereal plants—which are only’ considered fit for forage in this country. A MILLION A YEAR. UNGERMAN. i Testing the Baking Powders. Comparative Worth Illustrated, by PROF. PETER COLLIER, late chemist in chief of th « DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WASHINGTON, I>. C. Lottery and 1’rlze Schemes used to sell Almn an<l Ammonia Baking Powders. A New Y’ork concern, manufacturers of an ammonia baking powder, boasts that its yearly profits are over a million dollars. While, perhaps, none of the makers of alum powders individually can show so large earnings yet their profits are enormous. A business so profitable will always attract to itself those whose greed will cause them to utterly disregard the effect their traffic may have upon the health or life of others. Alum baking powders are introduced largely by gifts, prizes and lottery schemes. A piece of glassware or china, a child's wagon, sled, a pewter spoon or some other article of attractive appear ance, but of small intrinsic value or cost is given with each purchase or a number is attached to the can which entitles the customer to a similarly numbered article or to a prize of some kind. It is in some such way as this that the trade in alum ami ammonia baking powders, which has now at tained such giant proportions and their consumption by the public which has reached an extent which is truly alarm ing. The highest authorities of all coun tries condemn the use of alum in bread without reserve. In America the most distinguished physicians, chemists and hygienistshave declared that the traffic in alum baking powders should be sup pressed by law. In England and France, where the subject of pure food and its effect upon the system has lieen more fully considered and made the subject of extended experiments by the scientists, so serious a matter is the use of alum in bread or ether food consid ered to be, that most stringent laws have been enacted to prevent it. These laws are rigidly enforced, and the sale of alum baking powders would not be permitted for an hour. Any one who attempted to make for use in food, or attempted to use them for raising bread, biscuit or cake would suffer severe pen alties. The ill effects upon the system of food raised by alum baking powders are the more dangerous because of their insidi ous character. It would be less danger ous to the community were it fatal at once, for then such food would be avoided; but their deleterious action, liecausc imperceptible at first, is no less certain. The puckering effect which alum has when taken In the mouth is familiar to everyone. Physicians say this same effect is produced by it upon the deli- eatejeoatsof the stomach and intestines. What housewife would take home to her family a can of alum or ammonia baking powder if she knew it? Such powders not only undermine the sys tem, but it is pointed out that ammonia into the system in even inflnitestimal doses day after day, imparts to the com plexion a sallow and blotched appear ance. It is safe to discard all baking pow ders sold with a prize or gift. What a misnomer are the words “Ab solutely Pure,” as applied to baking powders two of the largest selling brands one made from alum, the other containing ammonia, and both of these drugged baking powders have stamped upon their labels and circulars these words absolutely pure; as a matter of fact they are "absolutely poor,” as shown by official examinations. DODSON tk 11 ILS it < Alum and Ammonia, Above diagram was drawn and verified in all its details, by Prof. Peter Ccllier, who is pre-eminent as a Chemist, and Scientist. The illustration u ma le in accordance with his chemical tests of each bond enumerated. The Carlxmic acid gas was calculated to get the leavening strength and the qualitative analysis to ascertain the comparative wliolesomcness, purity, ar.d general usefulness of the leading Powders. The result of Prof. Collier's examination and test, reveals the fact, that, with but one exception, every brand tested contained either Ammonia or Alum, and a liumlier lioth. Not one woman in ten thousand would use an Ammonia or Alum Baking Powder if she knew it. Such Powders not only undermine the health, but ammonia imparts a sallow or blotched complexion. N ote .—Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder, as shown by Prof. Collier's examinations, is the only pure Cream Tartar Powder found free from adulter ation and the highest in strength. All authorities report Dr. Price's free from Ammonia, Alum, Lime, or any other adulterant. The purity of this ideal Powder lias never lieen questioned. < Indicates the Powder containing cither Ammonia or Alum * A Indicates the Powder containing both AmnTOuia and Alum. While the diagram shows some of these Ammonia or Alum Powders to lie of higher strength than others classed la-low them, it must not lie taken that they possess any value. All Ammonia or Alum powders should be avoided as dangerous, no matter how high their strength. Noble Don’t Smoke. A few days ago Secretary Noble got so angry because a visitor appeared in his private room holding a lighted ci gar that he threatened to have him ejected by the colored Department messenger. The Secretary’s antipathy to tobacco is unconquerable ami has possessed him since he was a very small boy. An old friend tells this story of his dislike for the weed. “Johnny Noble was a boy of ten when his father kept tlie old Dcniison hotel in Cincinnati. The Dennison was noted for its hot buckwheat cakes, and little John’s chief duty was to trot between the kitchen stove and the din ing tallies with smoking pyramids of flapjacks. He was known as Jack, the cake-boy. Another duty was to can- for the big living room, where the river men to the numlier of twenty or thirty would gather in the long winter even ings, smoking the strongest Kentucky tobacco. The smoke always made lit tle Jack very sick, hut he stuck to his work like a Trojan. He made a very solemn vow, however,that when he got to lie a man nobody should smoke in any living room he could control. It is said the Secretary once discharged a clerk for presenting a fellow employe with a box of cigars. “A Back Number.” Trice of Bare Metal.. Iridium, a very heavy metal of the platinum group, so named from tbe Ir idescence of some of its solutions, and well known in connection with Its use for the points of gold [tens, may be Isiught to-day at approximately $73» a pound. The present price of platinum the better known tin white, ductile,but very infusible metal, is on a par with that of gold, namely, aliout $350 per pound. But generally its value fluctu ates between its more |x>pular brothers, gold and silver. The rarest nieti.l— and it is so rare that recent discoveries have thrown doubt on its elemental character—Is didymium,and its present market price, if one may thus term the quotation of an article that never ap- pears on tlie market, isjf;4,.7OO a pound. Tlie next costliest metal is liarium, an element belonging to the alkaline earth group; its value is $3,760. Berylium, or glueinum, a metallic sulmtance found in the lieautiful beryl, is quoted at $3,375. -------------- --------------------- Jaeoli Steel, the oldest man in Penn sylvania, died at Uniontown, aged BH. Mr. Steel was Ixirn Octolier 18, 1873, in Springhill township, Fayette county, and has lived near Masontown nearly all his life. He has always lx*cn a dem- ocrat. He east his first vote for Jeffer son and Ids last for Gov. Pattison. He never used tobacco, but used whisky in a moderate degree. He was an early riser, and was noted for the easiness of his temper. On the day of Washing ton’s second election Steel could re- member lie was gathering hickory nuts^ When Jefferson resigned from Wash ington's caliinet to lead the new demo cratic party Mr. Steel was a boy of ten. This is the slighting remark that is The startling fact is shown by reports often applied to women who try to ap- of tlie Massachusetts commissioners of pear young, though they no longer prisons that during the last fifty years 1 look so. Sometimes appearances are while the population of the state has ' deceitful. Female weakness, function only trebled, the numlier of criminals i ary troubles, displacements and irregu has increased fifty fold. There is one ! larities will add fifteen years to a prisoner for every 400 inhabitants of woman’s looks. These troubles are re the state, and in Boston one to every | moved by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favor 222 inhabitants. This large proportion I ite Prescription. Try this prescription, however, includes recommitments. all you whose beauty and freshness is These facts are interpreted by Mr. W. fading from sucli causes, and no longer There lias been noted for tbe first time tlie appearance of a species of large P. Andrews, for many years clerk of figure in society as a “back numlier.” herring at Yaquina bay, larger by one the criminal court at Salem, Mass., as It's guaranteed to give satisfaction in half than tbe spring run, and very fat evidence that the “reformatory” con-1 every case, or money paid for it re and of a superior quality of flesh and duct of prisons has caused an alarming turned. See guarantee on Ixittle-wrap- flavor, much resembling that of mack increase of crime and that the substitu per. erel. They run in large schools. tion of reformatory for punitive treat ment is fast bringing us to state social Highest of all in leavening l’owcr.— U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889, ism through the attractiveness of pris on-life. Mr, Andrews will contribute an article to the October Forum, con taining the results of many years' ob servation of the working of the two systems. ---------- --------------- The newspapers in the Sacramento valley give the temperature of the hottest days lately as having been as high as 114, but parties writing letters make the figures at least 4 to .5 degrees higher Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE