VOL. II. M c M innville . O regon . M onday . J anuary io NO. 7 How U e Tirai Our I eet. The Daily Reporter, Entered in the Post offioe at McMinnville for Transmission Through the Mails as Sec ond Glass Matter. ■ o---------------- D. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE. D. C. IRELAND & Co., PIHI.KHEHS. T he D aily K kpobtkh is issued every day in the week exoept Sundays, and is delivered in the oity at 10 oents per week. By mail. 40 cents per month in advanoe. Kates for ad vertising same as for T he W eekly K epobteb . &. Jab Printing. We beg leave to aimounoe 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 Gards, Ladies' Calling . Gards, Ball Invitations (new designs* Pro grammes, Posters, and all descriptions of work. Terms favorable. Call and be oon- Vinoed. D. C. IRELAND A CO. E. E. GOUCHER, M. D. PHYSICIAN "AND SURGEON. Mo M ihm villb O bboom . ... 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' I hap- •‘A well forme-* i< o:.” »avs Char man in the Anurica*. Drawing j ______ •‘is rarely to be met with in our day - • from the lamentable distortion it is compelled to endure by the fashion of our boots and shoes, Instead ol being allowed the same freedom as the tin- gers to exercise the purposes for which nature intended them, the toes are cramped together and are of little more value thau*if all in one; their joints en larged, stitl'eneu and distorted, forced and packed together, often overlapping one another in sad confusion, and wan tonly placed beyond the power oi ser vice. As for the little toe and it* neighbor, in a shoe-deformed foot, they are usually thrust out of the way alto gether, as if considered supernumerary and useless, while all the work is thrown on the great toe. although that toe is scarcely allowed working room in its prison-house of leather. It is, therefore, hopeless to look for a foot that has grown under the restraints of leather for perfection of form; and hence the feet of children, though les« marked in their external anatomical development, present the best model« for the study and exercise of the pupil in drawing.’’ Camper, who wrote in the seven teenth century, on ’‘The Best Form of Shoe.” says that his treatise originated in a jest with his pupils, who “did not believe I would dare to make public- a work on such a subject,” which indi cates the small estimate which was put upon the foot as an organ of the body. He begins by deploring the perversity which wholly neglects the human feet while forcing the greatest attention to the feet of “horses, mules, oxen and other rrfiimals of burden,’'aud deciares that from the earliest infancy the foot coverings worn serve but to deform them and make walking painful, and sometimes impossible; and he lays the blame on the ignorance of the shoe makers. James Dowie. a practical and scien tific Scotch shoemaker, in his excellent little book, makes the same statements as the artist; and the great Dutch sur geon, whose treatise he had translated into the English language, also laments that the subject of the feet is so much neglected by those who are competent to instruct us about them. Lord P:xl- merston said to Dowie that “shoe makers should all be treated i.ke pi rates, put to death without trial or mer cy, as they had inflicted more suffering on mankind than any class he Knew.” — Ada H. K<.plcy in Popular >'ct< nee Monthly. ---------- ♦ Ofc--------- 1887. PRICE TWO CENTS finement be your natural self. Be courteous and discreet, revere sacred ed Dy a subjects, never treat them lightly, even almost iu a joke; adhere strictly to the truth kept in and listen intelligently.— Annie L. proper Z« st lack, in Philadelphia Call. A Few Big Things. The greatest wall in the world is the Chinese wall, built by the first emperor of the Tsin dynasty, about 220 B. C.. as a protection against the Tartars. It I traverses the northern boundary of China and is carried over the highest hills, through the deepest valleys, across riv ers and every other natural object Its length is 1.251 miles. Among the most remarkable natural I echoes is that on Eagle's Nest on the ; banks of Killarm y, in Ireland, which i rep'ats a bugle call until it seems to be sounded from a hundred instruments, and that of the Naha, between Bingen 1 and Coblentz, which repeat* a sound seventeen times. The most remarkable artificial echo known is that of the castle of Simonetta. about two miles from Milan. It is oc casioned by the existence of two parallel walls of considerable length. It re peats the report of a pistol sixty times. The most remarkable whirlpool is the j maelstrom of the northwest coast of ’ Norway and southwest of Moskeniesol. the most southerly of the Lofoden isles. It was once supposed to be unfathom able, but the depth has been shown not to exceed twenty fathoms. The greatest cataract in the world is that of Niagara- The Horseshoe fall, on the Canadian side, has a perpendicular [ descent of 168 feet. The height of the American fall is 167 feet. The Horse- i shoe fall, which carries a larger volume ' of water than the American fall, is about 61*0 yards wide and < xtends from the Canadian shore to Goat island. The biggest diamond in the world, if indeed it be a diamond, is the Breganza, which forms part of the Portuguese crown jewels. It weighs 1.860 carats. However, not a little doubt < xists of its ! being a diamond, as the governnn nt nas never auowea it to De testeo. it was found in Brazil in 1741. The largest tasted but uncut diamond is the Mattam. belonging to the rajah of Mattam, in Borneo. It is of pure water, weighs 367 carats, and is of pear shape, indented at the thick end. It was found about 1760 at Landsrd, in Borneo. It has been the cause of a sanguinary war. Before it was cut the Koh-i-noor, which is one of the English crown jewels, wait the largest tested diamond. It then weighed 798 carat*. When in poHMwion of the Emperor Aurengc/.be it was re duced by unskillful cutting to 186 carats. 1 How Not to Be Disagreeable. During the Sikh mutiny it was captured bv British troops and presented to Queen "How do you manage to win the Victoria. It was recut, ami now weighs confidence of all the young people who 106 1-6 carats. Philadelphia Newt. meet you in society?" I asked a friend ------- a who was no longer young, but a great A Sea Cucumber. favorite with her own, and also the op " ' ■“ ♦ Yesterday there was quite a sensa posite sex, in friendship that seemed tion created on Sullivan’s island by the always sincere. “I do not know of any secret in it,” capture of a fish of a genus hitherto It was she said, “only that I am a good lis unknown in our waters. tener, and I can manifest an interest beached by the waves, and was taken and sympathy in conversation. To be by a party of ladies, who wi re unable an agreeable listener it is necessary to to satisfy themselves as to what man talk now and then, to look the speaker ner of fish it was, until one of the in the eye, and not to interrupt. I try party, a lady from Michigan now visiu not to show superior knowledge, for ing the island, and whose knowledge there is nothing more disagreeable than of ichthoiogy is by no means limited, to have people all the time setting you threw light on the subject. The fish straight. I do not like it myself; so, Delongs to the species known as sea when some one tells me a story that I cucumber, and to the genus hololliuria. have heard before, even if it is a little They are not rare., Dy any means, the different in detail, I let it pass as some only remarkable feature of its capture thing I am nearing for the first time. I being the locality in which it was '1 hi« fish is indigenous to think if anyone will talk naturally, found. •peaking with eyes as well as lips, and tropical waters, and it is the first ever without affection, they need not fear caught in our harbor. In size it is Briticism, unless the •onversation is about six inches long aod is shaped made personal by one’s own or neigh very much like «cucumber, from which bors’ affairs. If I were to give rules it take« its Dame. It has neither bn« (or becoming a good conversationalist nor feet, but swims by the motion of I should say, avoid slang, grammatical its body, M an eel does, its body being errors and bad punctuation, be as re very supple, considering its bulk, it fined as possible, and let that very re b« » large mouth, which is surround« soft fuzzy fringe. It will eat anything and can be easily an aquarium for year« with attention. — Charleston A«tos The Chinaman’s “Konr M oms Preet Tilings." In China the “four most preciou« things” are the paper-plant. Ink and Its saucer, and the brush. The hornet, whose sharp «ting 1« the terror of children, is the recognised pion eer of paper-makers. Its oellular nest, on trees and rooks, is built of material which resembles the most delioatw tissue-paper. Eighteen hundred years ago. the Chinese, acting upon the wasp's sug gestion, made paper from fibrous mat ter reduced to pulp. Now. each prov ince makes its own peculiar variety from the inner most bark of different tree« The young bamboo, which grows six or eight inches in a single night, is whitened, reduced to pulp in a mortar, and sized with alum. Freut this pulp sheets of paper are made in a mold by hand. The celebrated Chinese rioe paper, that so resembles woolen and silk fabrics, and on which are painted quaint bird« and flower«, is manufactured from compressed pith, which is first cut spirally, by a keen knife, into thin slices, six inches wide and twice as long. Immense quanti ties of paper are used by the Chineee for a great variety of purposes. Funer al papers, or paper imitations of earth ly things which lhey-desire to bestow on departed friends, are burned over their graves. They use paper window frames, paper sliding-doors, and paper visitiug-eards a yard long. It is re lated that when a distinguished reprä sentative of the British Government once visited Pekin, several servants brought him a huge roll, which, when spread out over the large floor, proved to be the visiting-card uf the Chinese Emperor. — From Paper: Its Origin and History" by < has. K. Bolton, us 6X Nicholas for August. Pasteur Rtutlyiog Hydrophobia. Biting dogs and bitten dogs fill the laboratory. Without reckoning the hun dreds of mad dogs tluit have died in the laboratory during the last three years, there never occurs a ease of hydropho bia in Paris of which Pasteur is not in formed. Not long ago a veterinary sur geon tel« graphed him: “Attack at its height in | mmm IJ c dog and bulldog.Come.” Pasteur invited me to accompany him, and we staried, carrying six rabbits with us in h bask«.. '¡'he two dogs were rabid to the last dcgrctC Tin bulldog cspe- cialiy, an enormous creature,howled and foamed in its cage. A bar of iron was held out to him; he threw himself u|M>n it. and there was a great difficulty in drawing it away from h- bloody fangs. One of the rabbits was then brought near to the cage, and its drooping ear wae allowed to pass through the bars. But notwithstanding this provocation the dog flung himself down at the tsittom of his cage and refused to bite. Two youtlia then threw a cord with a slip loop over the dog as a lasso is thrown. The ani mal wits caught and drawn to the edge of the cage. There they managtsi to get hold ot him and secure his jaws, and the <iog, suffocating with fury,his eyes blood shot, and his body convulsed with a vio lent spasm, was extended iqain a table and held motionless, while Pasteur, hvuiing over his foaming bead at the distance of a finger's breadth, sucked up into a narrow tune «onw drop« of saliva. In the bast merit of the veterinary sur geon's house witnessing this formidable tete-a-tete, I thought Pasteor grander than I had ever thought him befora.— Hitloire d'un Savani par un Ignorant, by Valery Kat lot. — I ■ ——• -^>fc— ■' -■■■ — Al the Ai nmifuiig Works, in Eng- Jaml, a gull that will cast a one-ton •hell fifteen unies has Esen in ad«.