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Tillamook Headlight, January 11, 1912. Tibetan Incenia Sticks. The most valuable Incense sticks in I China and those which seldom, if ever. Lire Imported into this country are those In the manufacture of which Ti betan Inreuse ia used. These sticks are made almost exclusively for the Im perial court, which requires them for I all Its ceremonies. The sticks are long and thin and are never allowed to be wholly con sumed by the court. They are careful ly extinguished when about three inch es remain. These remnants are either sold or given by court officials to friends or foreign visitors. The cheap est variety of the Tibetan Incense stick comes In thin sticks of great length and coats from 2H to 5 cents a stick. The larger and more costly sticks range in value from $1 to $2. The Chinese have a tradition or a theory that the smoke from one of these cost ly Tibetan sticks, if the genuine Tibe tan Incense has been used, will rise to a great height without being affected by the wind, no matter bow strongly It may be blowing.—New York Herald. Africa's Gold Coast. The Gold Coast is a British colony on the west coast of Africa. Its cli mate is notoriously unhealthy, the heat and moisture being excessive: the coast is lined with unhealthy swamps and shallow lakes, while the peculiar rock of the country is said to give off. under the influence of the air and moisture, large quantities of hydrogen gas. The native towns are crowded and dirty, intermittent fevers and oth er diseases being always present. These are peculiarly fatal to Euro peans. though the natives do not suf fer so much. The whole region Is more or less n gold producing country, but at present the value of the terri tory is chiefly due to the profusion of vegetable products supplied by the rich soil. Cocoanut and palm oil, bread fruit. Indian corn. yams, sweet pota toes. limes and oranges are only some out of many other valuable produc tions of tbls territory. The principal exports are gold dust and palm oil. Soma Mysteries of Dress. We have wondered at the popularity of the fez In the east in spite of its ap parent unsuitability to eastern suns Sir Charles Eliot has some observa tions which are in point. "Dress in the east is a matter determined by rank or race and Is not affected by such trifles as climate or temperature. Some people think it proper to go about almost naked, others bury them selves under a mountain of clothes, but all would scorn the idea of putting on an overcoat because it was cold or leaving off a fur lined robe because the thermometer was at 90 degrees in the shade.” These remarks are made in connection with the Bulgarian wom en’s gala costume—white linen gown with woolen embroidery on skirt and sleeve, various sleeveless garments over this and above all a thick quilted jacket and voluminous sash. In all I this they will perform the national dance throughout a blazing afternoon. —Pall Mall Gazette. ' ' j , Masses cf Mussels. The mussel's natural home la at ttofl bottom of the sea. never tn very too* water aud yet deep enough to be Mar ly always covered at any state of the tide. for preference It likes a bo* at sand or smooth, fine gravel. Th ttoto tied It attaches Itself by tbe Ugotwe- llk* growth ou tbe shell known M tbe byssus. and thus, standing an end with Its point to tbe bottom of tbe sea. it form-« itself In a dense mans so closely packed together that Mt an Inch of tbe sea floor is visible. As new ones come they do not extend tbe ground space occupied, but range tbetuselves one on top of another in layers, all firmly fixed together by a living cord of connection. In thto po- sitlou they are exposed to many dan gers. A heavy storm may break tbe mass to pieces aud disperse its con stituents far and wide. An alteration of the tidal current may sweep a sand avalutaebe upon them and bring about their end by suffocation. Even if they escape these dangers it la certain that bottom layers will be crushed out of existeuce. i i 1 j i : The Vegetable Lamb. Oro of tbe most remarkable mat ural fetish’s in the world is tbe Cbl nese kouchi. called by some people “the vegetable lamb.” It is regarded by tbe natives of China as something supernatural. They believe It to be part vegetable and part animal. Tbe plant certainly bears a resemblance to nn animal, altbougb it might be taken for a pig as readily as a lamb. Kou- cbi is composed principally of the plant known as rhizome and springs from seed. After attaining its full height roots and tendrils spring from tbe fiber and grow downward until they enter the earth. It is tbls peculiar formation which has caused it to be re garded with so much awe. Tbe Chi nese claim that after it has reached its full size It ceases to be vegetable and turns animal, feeding upon the tender shoots of plants which grow near it —Watrnrapa Times. A Submerged Crater. During tbe explosion of the volcano of Krakatoa. in the strait of Sunda. in 1SS3. a large part of tbe Island of Kra- katoa was blown away, and the sea took its place. Not long afterward measurements were made of the shape aud depth of the cavity left covered with water at tbe northern end of the disrupted island. The results were pub lished by Dr. Verbeek in 1886. Lately Dr. Von Hemmelen has remeasured the submerged basin formed by tbe ex plosion. and be finds that within the partial ring formed by the three re maining islands of the Krakatoa group there is a central basin, oval in shape and with a fairly level floor, having a depth over a considerable area of 820 feet. Comparison with the former measures Indicates that there has been no change in the sea floor during tbe intervening years. There is no sign of volcanic activity. Whan Liszt Met D Iriks. A Paris contemporary relates an In j Careering story of Liszt. The great pianist was living In a little German town when Diriks. the Norwegian painter, went to reside at tbe same i place, thinking be would be able to j work there without interruptions. He bad been Installed In bis uew quar- 1 ten» only one day when be made tbe piauist’s acquaintance. Tbe painter bud beeu trying his art for about two hours, uud then be gave up in despair. He went outside, and at tbe same time Liszt came out for a breath of fresh i air. Tbe painter addressed tbe pianist, and this dialogue ensued: "Are you tbe pianist, monsieur, whom I have beard all day?" “Yes, monsieur.” “It is very Irritating." “Alas, monsieur, you do not love music?” "1 detest It.” "It is very regrettable, but I must practice.” "But you disturb me in my work. Moreover, you play atrociously." "Ab. yon think so? it is the first time any one has ever told me so” “Judging from your age. there have been many opportunities." was the painter’s au ewer Then there was silence for a moment Liszt, going Indoors, content e* himself with tbe observation, "My name ia Liszt." Nature’s Parachutes. Careful examination has been made of tbe tieads of Canada thistledowns IB order to determine their effective ness as parachutes carrying the seeds of tbe plant to great distances through tbe air. Tbe results of this exami nation are quite remarkable. Calcula- lion shows that a thistledown starting from an elevation of twenty feet in still air would require two-thirds of a minute to reach tbe ground. With a wind blowing twenty miles an hour it would be carried ou the average about a fifth of a mile. The total sur face exposed to the air in an average thistledown is. on account of the great number of batrlets. a little more than one-third of a square foot. Another well known and very beautiful exam pie of nature’s parachutes is furnished by the light silken threads with tbe aid of which tbe little gossamer spider makes long aerial voyages.—Scientific American. Teaching the Teacher. Tbe teacher of tbe first grade ta tbe district school In tbe cattle country hud much trouble with tbe slx-year-old boy wbo was tbe sole member of that grade The boy is tbe son of a cattle man After a week or so of refusal to learn th« alphabet tbe teacher said: “Johnny. if you do not learn your letters you never will know any- i thing.” "Shucks!” replied Johnny. "1 know more'n you do.” “Why. Johnny, what do yon mean by such talk?” gasped tbe teacher. “I never heard of such impudence." Johnny bolted for the blackboard and drew half a dozen cattle brands— the Flying D, tbe Lazy B. the Trian gle Dot. the Lazy Crutch, the Bar 7 and some others. "What’s them?" he asked. Tbe teacher couldn't guess. "Well." said Johnny, "don’t you talk to me no more about them things you call letters when you can’t tell cattle brands apart." — Saturday Evening Post. WEINHAPD'S COLUMBIA BEER, ¿XPORT BEER, KAISER BLUME. Unsurpassed. Non-Intoxicating MALT TEA. STAR Special Brew. BOTTLED BV THE Columbia Bottling Co., Astoria, Oregon The World’s Worst Penman. Most remarkable among execrable writers was John Belt, the barris ter of whom Lord Eldon said to the prince regent that he was tbe ablest equity lawyer of bls time, though he could "neither read, write, walk nor talk." Bell was a cripple, and his Westmorland accent combined with bis stammer to make bis sjteecb until telligihle. The character of his writ ings appears from his own statement that he had three styles, one of which he could rend, but bis clerk could not. u bile the second was Intelligible to his clerk, hut not to himself, and the third baffled both of them. Something slm liar is told of Henry Ward Beecher, whose daughter, acting as his copyist, had throe chief rules—that no dotted letter of his was meant for nn ”1." that no crossed letter stood for a "t” and that no capltnl letter ever began a sentence. —London Chronicle. Noda Waters. Sipthons, Bartlett Mineral Water. ONE WEAK SPOT Will not mar the appearance of new Harness but it will make it very unsafe. If you buy your HARNESS Here you may test assured that you are getting not only l..r- ness that presents the veiv finest appearance, but Harness that is well made in every detail. W.A, Williams & Co. Next Door to Tillamook County Bank Drunkenness In China. As regards the sobriety of the Chi nese there seems to be a difference of opinion, and it is a question upon which writers disagree, but it seems to be the geueral opinion that very few Making Love by Telephone. intoxicated men or women are seen Wooing is a slightly more compli upon the streets. Wbat drinking Is cated matter in Sardinia than it is done—and from all accounts there here Tbe marriage customs are very must be considerable—is carried on curious. If a father has a marriage within doors. Habitual drunkenness is able daughter the would be suitor ap punished by banishment and servitude, plies to him for permission to see her but occasional intoxication is only a as she goes to church, or In the event matter of comment, and the result Is of her not wishing to be seen be com the notifying a person on the street in muñientes with her by means of a spe w hich he Ilves that so and so is drunk, cies of telephone which has been In and If the subject Is not boisterous uae since time immemorial. It is a the affair is let drop. But. on tbe long string with a wooden knob at other haud. If ho Is noisy and shows a each end. The father's permission disposition to quarrel and fight be to having been given, the lady drops one at once taken to bls rooms and com knob out of tbe window and. the shut pelled to remain there until the effect ters being closed, places the other of the liquor has worn away.—New knob to tbe ear, while down below her York Sun. would be lover pours bis protestations lato tbe knob she has thrown into tbe Concerning Frsshmsn. street. Sometimes this curious form James, aged five, aud Sarah, aged of courtship continues for two or three seven, were the children of a profess years, tbe mau never seeing tbe face or and took a gre.it interest at tbe be of bls inamorata ginning of tbe college year In tbe class Preserving Spiders’ Webs. Naturalists employ an ingenious method of preserving all kinds of spi Changed Hie Mind. A southern senator was alone In his ders' webs. Tbe webs are first spray office one morning when a middle aged i ed with an atomizer with a thin solu Longfellow's Incomplete Library. woman entered, bringing with her a tion of artists’ shellac, and then, should 1 remember there was one little boy they lie of tbe ordinary geometric wild gleam in her eye. of whom Longfellow was very fond “Can you lend me $20?" she asked, form, they are pressed carefully against a glass plate, the supporting | atoi wbo came often to see him One calling the senator by name. day tbe child looked earnestly at the “I’m sorry," replied the lawmaker. strands at the same time being sev | long rows of books in tbe library and *but I’m afraid I can’t this morning. ered. After the shellac solution has at length said. "Have you got ’Jack dried the plates carrying the webs can I’m pretty hard up.” the Giant Killer?’ ” The visitor fidgeted in the chair be stored away In a cabinet. Even Longfellow was obliged to confess which she had taken without invita dome shaped webs may be preserved (Mt bls library did not contain that tion. "I need $20 very badly." she in their original form by spraying venerated volume. The little boy look continued. “In fact. I’ve just escaped them with shellac and then allowing sd very sorry and presently slipped from a lunatic asylum.” The gleam in them to dry before removal from their «own from bls knee and went uway. supports. Many spiders' webs are very her eye got wilder, and she began to tart early next morning Longfellow beautiful, and all are characteristic of wave4 her hand bag in long swinging saw him coming up tbe walk with motion before her. “1 just got out the sjiecies to which they belong, so something tightly clasped in bis little :hat from a scientific standpoint their yesterday,” she said. flats Tbe child bad brought him 2 "That being the case." concluded the permanent preservation is very desir cento with which be was to buy a senator somewhat hastily, ¿¡here's the able. “Jack tbe Giant Killer,” to be.his own. twenty.’’—Washington 8tar. —Annie Field, "Authors and Friends." How Flying Fish Fly. Tbe popular notion that flying fish The Absentminded Record. Insect Tones. Duluth is the home of a woman who beat their “wings" Is a mistake, If we An Investigator given to tbe collec are to rely upon the results of studies In the line of absentmindedness has tfoo of curious data has observed that of these fish made by no less an au the whole world beaten to a finish. tbority than Captain Barett Hamilton I there are at least three different tones She Is absentminded from the time It appears that the wings are not true emitted by insects—a low one during she wakes up until the moment she organs of flight, but rather play tbe Mgbt. a blglter one when tbe wings goes to sleep. part of a parachute or an aeroplane I are held In such manner that they do "Emily.” a friend asked her on one The whole motive power is supplied | Mt vibrate and a yet higher tone occasion, "bow old was your mother by the tail, which acts as a propeller. I wkn tbe insect to held so that none of when she died?” and tbe vibration or quivering of tbe ‘ Ito limbs can be moved. This last. It “I don’t know.” replied Emily sweet wings in tbe air currents and their to pointed out. to the “voice proper" of ly. "Yon know she died long before 1 occasional shift of inclination are not j tbe Insect. In some cases It is pro- was born.”—Popular Magazine. phenomena connected with the propul - «need by tbe stigmata of tbe thorax. sion of tbe fish In Its aerial flight Life’s Crucible. Thoughtful Painter. It was said of Diderot that in bis In “1 see you are paying tbe hospital Dear In Scotland. variable optimism he was like one of The deer are probably the safest crop expenses of that tut inter wbo tell off the old alchemists, who always found In Scotland Oats may perish and the roof” gold In bis crucible because he had never ripen by reason of too early “Yes He's too good a man to lose. first put it there. That Is wbat the frosts and long continued wet Grouse Ao be went down be touched up two instructed soul learns to do. for life may tri re disease and < ea«e to count er three places which would have been consists always of wbat we put into on any moor for several years. Sheep very bard to reach."—Louisville Cou it are generally voted of less value than rier-Journal. grouse But deer are very rarely af Hard Hearted. fected by tbe seasons In such a way Where It Hurts. "Poor Bickers has a very hard heart as to touch the sport and the letting “I tell you." said Slnnlck. "men are ed wife.” said Tri wet. value of forests. —Illustrated Sporting getting so deceitful these days that “What’s tbe trouble now?” asked News yea can't trust your best fr ends " Dicer. “And what's worse.' interrupted "She not only broke the broomstick Whore Now! Borrougbs gloomily, "you ant get over his head, but made him go to the The Family Frlend-My dear. I «are year beet friends to trust you Catb store and buy another ” Bay yon And comfort In the thought ellc Brand a rd and Times. fhat you made your h-t’band Sappy while he lived Tbe Widow -Mt reel Nature. It Certainly D'd Nature paints the be«t part of tbe tzlng the double-meaning of her words, "Johnny." «aid tbe Munday school picture, earves tbe best part of tbe -Yes. Indeed Foor Jack was to Muv teacher, "can you tell me oust caused statue, but'ds the best part of the bouse en until be died.-London Sketch tbe flood?” and speaks tbe best part of tbeoration “Tea. ma'am." answered tbe little —Emerson. Test fellow; “It rained -Chicago News ■How sball I dose tkto lefter te «te* Marine Yem. pay-*youre truiy or •respeetfuHTF " Well Worn. Pilpper-And bow did your boat "Sey 'reepeetfully.' hot add. 1« «e Wlgg—Tbst wss a pretty old joke reme to be wrecked? Skipper—Well, reotbeses. foe thè test tl**'"-rtos- Itorem cracked at dinner R agg-Bor you see. she wan making so many geode Riattar. rm didn't crack It. That joke t>as been knots the crew wasn't able to unravel cracked for years-f’blladniphia Rec them ord He that tossa bls eooarleace baa The tree art of memory to tbe art notblnr left that la worth seeping — of aneetteto-Jotaaom Proverb. BREWERY The Best Hotel. THE ALLEN HOUSE, J. P. ALiUEN. Proprietor. Headquarters for Travelling Men. Special Attention paid to Tourists. A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation. 111 ' 1 1 —\h Morning Star FlouJ 1 Is an exceptional flour, is made of choice valley wheat, blendid with hard wheat, making a strong white gluten- ous flour, it is the best all round flour on the market, results produced please the eye and palate. Order a sack to-day and be con vinced that Morning Star Flour is far superior to ordinary flour. Every sack guaranteed. For sale by A. FINLEY & CO. collisions which they daily witnessed on tbe campus. They discussed the merits of tbe case from every side, .lames usually preferred the freshmen, wbile Sarah always sided with tbeir j enemies. One afternoon Jnmes was trotting across tlie campus, bolding tightly to bis father’s hand His little face was quite serious, and be kept looking be hind him more or less fearfully His father. deep tn meditation, was not no : ticing until finally a small voice said: "Father, they wouldn't mistake a lit tie boy for a freshman, would they?" — Woman's Home Companion. Antimilitariam In Germany. At Strassburg I saw a general leave barracks. Tbe sentries stood at atten lion, then when be had passed on they both at tbe same instant mimicked bls gnlL which was peculiar, behind bis back—sentries, mind you! I have also seen street boys in Germany mock the paradesebritt of troopers when an offi cer passed by. and the troopers grin ned broadly and tbe officer saw. but said naught. Such antimilitarism 1s unthinkable in France.—London Globe. DR. D. A. SANBURN, Freneh Specialist. I treat aucccHHiully all Chronic sexes with Imported Herbs, ar so-called magnetic treatments. most stubborn cases without the Diseases of both I with my hands I will cure the use of the knife. OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE. Ho Made the Sale. "Yes, tbe property Is cheap enough. Why do yon went to sell ItF’ "You won’t give me away'f "No.” "Well. sir. It's because I'm the only man In this neighborhood that doesn't move tn high society, and I'm lone some."—Chicago Tribune CONSULTATION FREE. OFFICE a I Old Fashiened. "What’s the trouble with yea aud your fiance? Is be Jealous?" "Well, he isn’t exactly JealoM. bat he's v hut you might call old fash lor—I He doesn't want me to be en gaged to anybody else.'-Washington t Herald Good Sense. Cold sense Is a* different fro* gentes as perception to from Invention; yoL though distinct qualities, they tM- qnoncly e ubata» together. » TO 12 A M TO 8 P.M. 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