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M c M innville , O regon , F riday , J anuary NO. 5. VOL. II. The» Dally Reporter, Entered in the Postoffice at McMinnville for Transmission Through the Mails as Sec ond Class Matter. o--------- E. L. E. WHITE. D. C. IRELAND. D. C. IRELAND A Co., PUBLISHERS. T he D aily R epobteb is issued every day in the week exoept Sundays, and is delivered in the city at 10 oents per week. By mail, 40 cents per month in advanoe. Rates for ad vertising same as for T he W eekly R epobteb . Beak & Job Priotloff. We beg leave to announoe to the public that we have just added a large stock of new novelties to our business, and make a special ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Note Heads, Statements, Business Cards, Ladies Calling Cards, Ball Invitations (new designs) Pro grammes, Posters, and all * descriptions of work. Terms favorable. Call and be con vinced. D. C. IRELAND & CO. E. E. GOUCHER, M. D. PHYSICIAN M c M imnvillk AND SURGEON. O ugoh . ... 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Oiplomaey, According I. “Monsieur." The French Figaro publishes the fol low ng minis ng incident, which is said to have taken place during one of the state dinners at Berlin, and at which the late Lord Beaconsfield and the Mar quis of Salisbury were present: Prince Bism irck, who is well known to be a great eater, tilled his piate with cherries; the Marquis of Salisbury ob served it. “Prince,” said he suddenly, “what you are doing is very unhealthy.” “What?” said Prince Bismarck, ìd astonishment “You have just swallowed two cher ry-stones.” ‘•You are mistaken,” said the Prince, with marked coldness. “Never!” replied Salisbury, with that hauteur which characterizes the proud English aristocracy. “Monsieur le Marquis!” said Bis marck, his eves shooting fire. It was at t'his moment that Lord Bea consfield came to the rescue. ••Perhaps,” he insinuated, in his softest voice, “yon are both right; your Highness must be so occupied with ser ious thoughts that you might inadvert ently have swallowed a tiny stone. “Two!” interrupted Salisbury, in a decided tone. “Or two,” continued Lord Beacons field as calmly as possible; “and you, my dear Lord and colleague, enjoy such good sight that nothing escapes you. Now, Prince and Marquis, will you allow me to decide this difficult question?” “How?” murmured Bismarck. “Your plate, Highness, if you please.” This last was in English, the corres pondent adding that Lord Beaconsfield was the only diplomatist at Berlin who never talked French. The plate was eent to Lord Beaconsfield, who at once emptied the contents on the table. All eyes were now fixed on him. With his long, bony, agile fingers, covered with precious stones, he began to arrange what looked more like a child's game than an occupation worthy of such a distinguished Minister. He put all the stones in a line, and placed a stem on each stone. Then in that clear, pierc ing voice that has so often moved the House of Commons, the English Prime Minister began to count one, two, three, and so on to forty-seven stones, and likewise with the stems till he had counted forty-nine. The proof was there—two stones were wanting. Bismarck rose and said in an agitated voice: “Marquis, you are right!” then, turning, said in a loud voice: “Lord Beaconsfield, you are a great man!” A Ghost Story About “H. H.” Spiritualists are interested in a curious little story, whose truth is vouched for by “leading women” of San Francisco, which is told of Helen Hunt Jackson. It seems that before her death a friend told her of a poor woman whose hus band had left her with an infant child to care for, and Mrs. Jackson directed that some articles of her own wardrobe should be given to the object of their sympathy. The woman in her gratitude gave her little daughter Mrs. Jackson's name. After her death, the poor wo man took up her child one day, and. calling it by name, said: “Oh, my little girl, the laiiy who was so good to you never saw your sweet face, and she never knew how I loved her.” At that moment, the woman related, a hand was laid on hers, a sweet, motherly face bent over her and said: "I am not dead, I am here.” The woman had never s jen Mrs. .Jackson, but she described her perfectly in feature, voice, and man ner. Under the postal telegraph system In England—that is to say, management by the government of all telegraph lines —the number of messages sent annually has increased from 9,000,000 in 1870 to 84.000.000 in 1885. 7. 1887. Living in Washington. Washington life in any form is costly. It was not so in the old times, or as late [ as the 'seventies, but at last the rich and i fashionable visitors have done their per- ' feet work in this city, as in Paris and ' Newport. One way to live in Washing ton, of course, is to go to a hotel, and | this wav is not so very much costlier than others, after all. Another way ra to buy or rent a house outright. But by far the larger part of the visiting con tingent seek a suite of rooms, either furnished or unfurnished, as the ease may be, with board. A suite of two or three furnished rooms in anv desirable location will cost a man and wife all the way from $X0 to $150 a month. Very stylish apartments will run still higher. Board ranges from $20 to $160 or more a month for each individual. There is one other way of living peculiar to j Washington, which is extensively used, but which cannot be conscientiously rec ommended. This is to take a suite i vntnout Doara ana nave meats Drought to one's room by a caterer. There are ; many of these caterers here, and they do their work as well as is possible in I the nature of the ease. They charge , only about $25 a month apiece, and | furnish an abundance of good food as expeditiously as they can. But the in conveniences anti drawbacks of the plan are obvious. The food has to be cooked at the caterer's headquarters anti carried in trains to his patrons’ homes. I Then the table has to be set and the viands extracted from the vehicle and i placed upon the dishes. By this time all the cooked articles have become cold j and must be heated again over the fire or an alcohol lamp. All the courses are brought in at once, anti while one is be ing eaten the next is cooling and be coming spoiled. In fact, ttie whole meal is spoiled before it reaches the house.— Capital Letter to Boston Travel ler. _____ ____ Magnesium, which has more than once been abandoned as a source of light, appears likely to be employed again, a process having been discovered for producing pure magnesium by eleo- trolysis, mid at a price much less than that at which it was formerly obtain able. At the works in Bremen, where the manufacture of magnesium is car ried on, prizes are offered for the con- I structiou of the best magnesium lamps having clockwork movement Donaldson, the swimmer, recently swam the Mohawk at Schenectady tied hand and foot. A young athlete thought that he could do the same, and after a friend had well tied him he started to cross the river. Half way across he gave out and went down. His frighten ed friend in a boat tried to get him in to the boat, but couldn't. Neither could he untie the ropes. Meanwhile the swimmer was taken with severe cramps. Finally the man in the boat tied a rope around the swimmer's neck and thus towed the half drowned athlete to shore, where it took considerable rubbing and stimulant to reduce the cramps and get the youth in good conditiou again. “Speaking of the meanest man in De troit? said Snaggs last night. “I'll tell you what I know of one man right here, and a millionaire ten times over at that. My friend Mr. Jaggs recently borrowed $10,000 of him for ninety days at 12 per cent, with good security. VVell. when he came to pay the lender a dispute about the sum of two cents arose, and Jaggs sworn that he wouldn't pay any olu skinflint two cents more than was due him. Why,’ he said, ‘you’re posi tively the meanest man in Detroit to quarrel about two cents.’ ‘That’s where you're mistaken,’ said the banker. ‘Let me introduce you to my son-in-law; he'd fight for a cent’ Jaggs declined the offer with thanks, paid the two cents to the next to the meanest man in Detroit. an<l left the office, glad to have escaped the meanest man.”— Detroit Tribune. PRICE TWO CENTS. Pure Milk ft>r a Hunimt-r Drink. “Anything new in summer drinks?** a reporter asked a bartender. “Yes—no, but tippling in pure milk is the fashiou uow. Hundreds and thousands of people in this city driuk several glasses of milk per day. and gladly pay a nickle per glass. There is a good protit in the trade, and the restaurants and eoufeetivuers are pre pared to meet the demand. Dozens of people, geutlemen and ladies, of all ages aud conditions, call here every day and buy a glass of ice-cold milk, and drink it with evidcut relish. Even the drug stores are beginning to see the demaud, and many of them are prepared to meet it. luucau go into ainmst any first-class drug store and obtain a large glass of pure milk, right off the ice. it is, I think, the best drink of all for hot weather. It queuch- es thirst, does not promote excessive perspiration, aud affords a healthful and easily assimilated article of food. It is largely taking the part of lager beer us a summer drink. There is as much food in a pound of milk as there i» in a pound of beef, and it is digest ed and assimilated without difficulty and with no overproduction of heal. I know several persous who, during the past ten davs of hot weather, nave not eaten as mucn sunu loou as woum make one square meal, yet they are in good flesh, have good appetites, and excellent health, and have not felt any bad effects of the heaL They are sim ply living on milk aud light bread al most entirely.” Journalistic Trials in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Hem <1 writes: Lawyers who do not belong to the coterie of news paper parasites never get their names in the papers. Possibly they may f<*el some envy or resentment; but they will never stoop to the ignoble act of coddling or intimidating newspaper editors or pub lishers. 1 use this word ‘intimidating’ with due consideration, for there is hard ly a new -pa|>er writer in Philadelphia who has not. nt some part of his career, been threatened by shyster lawyers, who insisted that their names must be con stantly put into the papers. Why, to choose an apt illustration and one known to nearly everybody, a lawver recently brought an action in a Philadelphia court for libel upon the flimsiest pretext against n Philadelphia newspaper man for the admitted purpose of getting revenge for the omi-sion <>f his name from a brief report of a magistrate’s com i ease. And a judge unwittingly lent himself to the outrageous persecution. This sounds in credible, but such things happen here. This same lawyer even went further, a great deal further. He tried to pul the newspaper man in jail by having the capias served so late in the afternoon that sureties could not lie found, hut, de bated in that, li<‘ actually had the audno- itv to go to the bondsman who had tendered his name to the persecuted writer and attempted to browbeat him into withdrawing his friendly assistance. He belong-- to the cla«« of lawyers who figure promilioJitl) in the newspapers here, and such is the treatment that men on the press in this city who can nut bs bought or cajoled linvi to expect. »oetiie urenin: “1 say, ma, my head aches. I’m going to stay home from school this afternoon.” Solici tous maternal ancestor: “Well, my dear, I’m sorry. Stay at home and rest It may do you good.” Three hours later feeble urchin rushed into the house witb cheeks aglow. “I tell you we ha<l a nifty game. Eighteen to 15. I played short. Gimme sathin’ t’eat” A writer in the New York un wants to know what became of the saddles used by the cavalry during the war. An English philosopher contemls that a thoroughbred fox terrier has the intel lectual development of a child two year» old.