, 1884-03-13
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II one OL tli'' IsltSL Cdl'lltUttS 1tl
president lie i being run on his
10 collect maney IN Wall
street.
Queen Victoria Is very fond of ap-
piles. and they say 1t Is interesting to
watch the old lady popping the seeds
On the kitchen stove. tosea if she viii
get married this year.
\ private N .-e Z. s.. Army has
inverted Fa5e-s for ez,ractiug head
less shells from lilies. AID Gen. .. q.
Howard lbs racg nmended Its adopt
i0r hy the War department.
Seuator-cIect Payne. Of Ohio, says
the Office sought him The ease with
which it found him was due no doubt
to the briiliaucy with which its route
was Illuminated with Standard oil.
Only four states are represented in
both houses uf congress by u@tiycS.
according to the congressional direct
ory These states are Delaware,
Maine South Carolina and Vermont.
The new policy o j:a democratic
party j. silence and iuertia. 1t
wants no discussion in congress. no
newspaper talk. What ali individual
democrat may say IS bat experiment
al. The one idea Is To win. but what
means to use he cannot determine.
Senator Fair desires the uomina-
ton of Bayard a5 the democratic
candidate for president, and says he
Will invest a half million in Bay.
ards fight Fairs dinner to Bayard
last week * understood to have had
for its object the fwtherance OF Bay
ards boom.
1t Is said that mice are just as
much afraid of women as women are
of mice. But as the screaming ap
paratus Of the latter IS not construct
ed on the same principle as that of
the former. they are restrained from
communicating the intelligence to
the adjoining towns
Here IS fact that no Democratic
twaddle can get around. it IS war-
rant0d to wash" is full measure.
and weighs sixteen ounces to the
pound. It IS this: The public debt
has been reduced $lI0,OOO,OO0 during
the past year. The Democratic lead
ers assure Us thatif the people Will
only place them in power this shall
not occur again.
There are nine divorce cases now
pending in the Salem circuit court.
We will wager nickel that the
trouble grew ont OF the late cold snap.
Neither party would get up and build
the fires This question Will have tc
be settled by an act Of the Legislature
and it ought to have been settled IL
this Territory before the woman SUI
frage bill WAS passed.
An Eastern dispatch says that as
soon as the bridge at Ainswortn, W
T., is complete, which Is expected t.
occur about April l, the Northern
Pacific Will put on a fast through ex-
press, from st. Paul to Portland il
four days, to run in connection with
a fast train over the milwaukee, 4
st. Paul road from Chicago making
the time from that city to the Pacitil
coast five days, saving one day by
any former schedule.
From the Baker City RereilLe we
learn the welcome news that the track
of the Oregon Short Line Railway is
now completed to the site of the
large iron bridge which is to cross
Snake river at a point five miles be
low the ferry. The construction
trains are making daily trips tc
tlat point. 1t is said that it will be
some time before the bridge is com
pIeted, as the timbers for the same
WI be made in Omaha.
rhe year 1900 viii not be a lear
year, although it Is divisible by -four
without remainder In order to
make Il calendar and solar time agree
as nearly as they can be got for many
years to come, the Gregorian calen-
dar drops three leap years out of
every four centuries, and these oc-
caslons are upon such leap years as
will not divide by four hundred with.
out remainder, although they can
be divided evenly by four The year
1900 was leap year, but 1900 and
1900 were not, and 1900 will not be.
The girls should make a note of this.
Consider little whether the gain be
for yourself or the whole. Learn to
enjoy and suffer for the community.
Fill every open mouth, whether an
others or your own. Count in your
self IN all rights and duties. Do
what you would have the whole to do.
Violate no laws Il you want to be
general Be in harmony with that
which would exist il all men were
right. In disagreement seek better
understanding, or live charitably
without it. Love the unlovely. and
sympathize with man wherever found
We are forced to the reluctant con
clusion that the people of Seattle
and Portland are demagogues. They
howl that the Chinese must 90" and
at the same ti=le award street grad
ing contracts to them to the exclusion
of white labor. Beside this, even the
poorer class themselves patronize
Chinese laundries to the exclusion
of needy white women who have
orphaned children 10 support. Let
them practice what they preach and
the Chinese will go-"-lF lFhntcom
ReccIHe.
During none of her trips to the
Sound did the Queen of the Pacific
bring so many passengers or so much
freight as did the Georg W. Elder
this last trip. heather did she bring
any trip so many passengers and so
much freight as did the Mexico run
nIng at the same tine. Strange, too,
IN view of her being newer, larger,
hner and faster than either the other
vessels. The only way we have heard
the magnificent Queens disfavor ac-
counted for is by popular superstition.
occasIoned by her mishaps on the
Columbia Ri yer bar P.-L
The question of bridging the Vii
lamette has received another setback.
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