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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-09-01
GEO. M'LEAN.
Notice.

TIME SECOND ASSESSMENT OF TEN
Il Dollars per share on the stock of the
Clatsop County Road and Construction COM
pany is now due and payable at my office
All stockholders are requested to call at nv
office and settle at once and oblige,
C. +. THOMSON.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-09-01

Tonight.
The Hungarian Band.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-09-01

Private rooms for ladies and families
at Central Restaurant, next to FOard &
Stokes.
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Sold everywhere, Price, CUTICURA, 5Jc.
SOAR, 2oc.; REsoLyENT, 81. Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass
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KIDNEY PAINS
Strains and Weaknesses.

plaster. Especially adapted to in
stantly relieve and speedily cure Kidney and
Uterine Pains and Weakness. Warranted
vastly superior to all other plasters. At all
druggists, % cents: five for Sl.OO or postage
free of POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co,
Boston, Mass.
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r. HAhLORAN & COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors.
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AsToRIAN BUILDING. CAss STREE
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Having been very selection of the above goods this
still few left will sell them manufacturers
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PAID TO UNCLE SAM.
Duty on 1900 boxes tin plate
1882, 600 lbs at l. 1.1c......S 1882
Duty on amount of salmon twine 20,520
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Social History OF Five Years.

Five years ago q girl smoking cigar
cite with men was considered indecent
To-day she's daisy. Five years ago a
lawn tennis gymnastic rout would have
smirched girls reputation. To-day she's
q splendid kicker. Five years ago wine
supper at fashionable and free restaur-
amt, under the chaperonage OF fashionable
only approve, but assist. Five years ago
young girls did not vie in undress with
loud married women. Now q ballroom
exhibits nature in all ages. Five years ago
q wife did not run around the country with
men married, divorced and single. Now
its delightfully."- daring"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14

~ I,l1lS d - Z Il 81.
= l(n - tuzAsd y ~
III Y y N sidsd IL lsaasr
E6 u m ~ rpulOved ny hAt.
1uSA opT bustosasiv whispered the
i : ninnts naors Il ~ Ill right, snd
6Y Nese shaking my hand % vigor-
v t16t ny ahouldse Ached. The
n6614 oSbA : quaSter 81 ! mile away
~ go - - forever mote, md II was
Etup ~ bsgoes they would Let 90 81 me
~ rsnuIne my journey. The wife ~ the
|cahm ND more perception than the
~. BE looked ne over and then
|ao3d
r. on! sassafrsx, but you fellows is all
hind! HASN'T he Yank all over and Ill
4hruuRh? Whars the sunburn? Whar's
To hoss-pistols? Putty muss you'd
kev got yourselves into. kiln Yank,
Who don't keer II every branch in Ten
|neaee runs cl'ar whisky! Better not
be 10 handy with them guns arter this"
The leader walked beside me for
ilye miles when / left, and . we parted
he said:
stranger, when / told 70 TO say yer
peayers, 1 meant they should be mighty
short. I'd hey given ye about ten sec
onds, for wanted TO GIT yer body outen
the way. Yer couldn't hev told us
nuthin' else 10 prove that you wasn't
apy. Give this paw farewell squeeze,
and don't lay il up agin me.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14

There is no doubt that one of the most
useful qualifications Of an orator is good
voice. Burke failed in the house through
lack of it, while William Pitt, through the
possession Of it. was ruler there at the
age Of q. Mr.. Lecky says that o. Connel's
voice, rising with an easy and melodious
swell, filed the largest buildings and
triumphed over the widest tumult, while
at the same time it conveyed every inaec-
ton Of feeling with the most delicate fex-
Utility. The great majority Of celebrated
orators have been aided BY the possession
Of good voice. Webster's voice, on the
occasion of his reply to Senator Dickinson,
had such an effect that one of his listeners
felt oil night afterward as il heavy can
nonade had been resoundinR in his ears.
Garrick used to say that he would give 100
guineas if he could say OH as White
field did. Mr.. Gladstone's voice has the
music and the resonance Of silver trum-
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
On the yolga River In Russia.

Passenger steamers ply daily along
the entire river for over two thousand
miles-I perhaps will not err if say
twenty-one hundred and odd miles-up
and down, with every comfort for first
and second class passengers at from 81
to $1.75 hundred miles, not including
meals; good dinner, however, costing
about 40 cents, and comfortable quarters
with good sleeping hunks for third-class
passengers at from 26 to 80 cents for
hundred miles. Innumerable barges of
large size, some of them over two
hundred feet long and of good breadth,
and drawing from to IL feet when
loaded, are being constantly towed in
long strings up or down the river by
powerful tow-boats, ono of which l saw
having 1900 horsepower and drawing
barges on which were loaded, / was
told, 100000 puds, or 44,OOO,OOO
pounds. So many tow or passenger
boats are met that they themselves en-
iven the voyage. Vast numbers of
RATS are constantly seen below the
mouth OF the Kama, and some above.
These are Of all lengths, from couple
Of hundred feet up to aquarter of a mile.
They are built in sections, so that at any
time section can be detached and dis
posed Of. Many OF these RATS have
upon them comfortable log houses of
one, two, or more rooms, glazed and or
namented. The raftsmen live in the
houses and at the end of their journey
sell them at profit, when they are taken
down and re-erected-a sort of ready
made houses.
These log houses are so peculiarly q
Russian institution and are so pretty that
they deserve description. The logs
are perfectly straight, dressed smooth,
the inner side dressed fiat, the OUTER
left rounded, the upper and lower side
brought to straight edge. The cross
logs are SO let into each other that they
fit down close, leaving the ends pro-
jecting half-foot or SO very ornamen-
tally. These logs are often let down
upon each other with calking or q hair
felting between; making them thor
oughly close. We have seen some quite
large houses OF this kind, two stories
high, and with many rooms. The par
titions, being all Of the same structure,
are shown by the projecting ends and
thus form . pretty relief. Generally
throughout the wooded country in small
towns and villages the houses are Of
wood, the better ones built in this style.
Sometimes the logs are split in half,
but the rounded side is always out. In
some localities the thin space between
the logs is calked with tow or . fine
broken grass-perhaps most usually
with hemp tow. We have seen officers
quarters near encampments built in this
manner and painted brown red, but
generally all wooden houses seem un-
painted. Paint, except on . roof, is evil
IDENTIFY not to the taste Of these people.
have never seen any kind Of house for
wooded suburb which is as pretty a.
these log houses. - Carter H. Harrison.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Lamp Explosions.

Recent issues OF the Boston papers
contain an account Of an oil lamp explo-
sion by which two children Of John
Ralston, a banker Of Linn County, Or
egon, were burnt to death. The mother,
who had just left them, in attempting
to rescue the children, was badly burnt
BY the blazing oil, which was thrown
about the bathroom, in which the ACCT
dent occurred.
Although the daily press prints copi-
GUS statements Of these horrors, many
people continue to confide in the COM
mon oil lamp with fearless reliance
nothing short OF incredible, considering
the well-known dangers associated with
it's careless management. Some Of the
State Legislatures have enacted laws to
regulate the manufacture Of kerosene
oil, limiting the flashing point 10 not
less than 100 degrees F. This, how
ever, appears to be an illnsory safe
guard. Experiments seem to have con-
clusively proved that most Of the lamps
made will, even with the best quality
y of oil, generate gas in sufficient quanti-
ties 10 came ) violent explosion. A
writer in late number Of the Scientific
.Americ0n compares the ordinary kero-
sesae lamp - ! minia&ure - machine,
naakjnG ~ and depositing 4 n IL 81
Aana r. SGealivsly - though \ wess -
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Female Alteration or IiSZt.

Nine. Wohl, who was the private secre-
tsry of Liszt, in her memoirs Of the pianist
says: His influence over women amounted
to something but little short of sorcery.
A Polish Countess used regularly to receive
him in boudoir ankle deep in rose leaves,
affection for him-an affection without a
thorn and full Of humility At the corona
ton of Francis Joseph at Buda- Pesth in
1867 Liszt shared the honors Of the day
with his sovereign. The ladies of the
Hungarian aristocracy "smothered his
apartments with magnificent embroideries. y
Il have seen" writes Nine. Wohl, Charm
ing young girls prostrating themselves be-
fore him and crying bitterly at his annual
departure, and even sobbing aloud if he
but frowned at them"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Boom for Red Heads.

The red haired girl was always among
the brightest and jolliest and best OF her
sex, although for some reason she never
until now has had full justice done her.
But it is her innings at present. She is
on the top wave, SO to speak, not only at
the seaside, but everywhere else. An ap-
prsciative correspondent writes Of her from
Atlantic City:
a red headed girl, believe. never turns
brown. That, understand from learned
physician, is because she has too much
iron in her blood. It is the iron that gives
the fine, Titan hue to the hair. If she had
less iron in her blood her hair would prob
ably be brown or chestnut, or perhaps
blonde. The varying degrees of redness
that you see in different red-headed girls
is due to the different proportions Of iron
in their blood. girl with glossy, brown
ish hair that shows red In q strong light
has only fair share Of iron in her blood,
but a briek-top, il may be permitted
the expression, brick-tO is full OF ion.
The doctors know of no way Of neutraliz-
ing the effect Of the iron. Perhaps they
wouldn't resort to it, even If they knew it.
For it il the iron in the blood that make
red headed girls SO strong and hardy and
good natured. 1t is also the cause of
freckles, which are very good for the
health. And it is noted as singular
thing-probably also having some relation
to the iron in the blood--that mosquitoes
never bite red headed girls. So you see,
according to the dictum of this learned
physician, red headed girl has many ad-
yantages over her dark haired sister,"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Across the Continent

From the Atlantic seaboard daily journey thou
sands OF immigrants hosts Of enterprising tour
lists for pleasure, occasional European seekers
for material for books on America, mnltitudos
Of hardy native and foreign agriculturists and
artisans, all eager, all expectant, but ali unac-
customed to the new climate OF the frontier. and
all UNIT unless protected with u medicinal
safeguard-to encounter malaria. the chief foe
to health in regions newly cleared and opened up
for settlement. These Western-bound travellers
will find in Hos offers stomach Bitters the
safety from mn,arial infection they might vanly
sock from other sources. Tried In all parts OF
the world under xgencies the beat fitted to show
its value, IL has faiiel nowhere under the most
exactins conditions in so many lands Is 1t IN
universal. Not only malaria, but constipation,
dyspepsia, btiousness rheumt tisnl, debility.
nervousness. and inaction Of the kidneys are
thoroughly relieved by it.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
A Biz Snake story.

], alone, one day in June, was fishing
on the banks Of the Bayou Yucatan, un-
der the shade Of an oak, in north Lon
isiana, having left my sail-boat several
hundred yards from me in order to es-
cape the hot sun.
/ had hardly seated myself convent
emily when dark object was seen APP
preaching on the surface Of the water.
At first l thought it was an alligator,
but on closer observation discovered it
to be an enormous creeping serpent.
When this huge monster was within a
few yards of the spot where I was
seated l gathered some stones about the
size Of goose eggs and struck him eleven
times, and, strange to relate, the blows
did not appear to worry him TO any de-
gree, and he never left the surface Of
the water, but continued unconcernedly
at slow pace up stream.
/ Immediately left my rod and reel
and hastily scampered to my boat. Il
was only question Of several minutes
before I was in milstream in hot pur-
suit Of this object, which was soon over
taken. When within close proximity ]
noticed it to be blind and apparently
harmless. Fearing, however, an attack,
l seized my rifle, and, taking aim at its
head, fired. The bullet lodged in the
collar bone and broke his neck. There
was slight movement Of the tail, lit
tie slashing Of the water, and all was
over, the monster floating down stream.
Curious to learn the species of this
peculiar reptile, I made lasso from a
stout rope which had in my boat and
threw it around its body, thus enabling
me to tow it ashore.
A critical examination developed the
fact that had captured monster snake
never before seen by me. 1t lad ahead
resembling long, funnel-shaped horn,
the body being similar TO small kegs
joined together. What made matters
more queer, each key had q bung-hole
(some Of the bungs being on top and
some on the sides.) Hauling the tail on
the bank (Which was by no means al
easy task, out of curiosity to learn the
contents Of the kegs, 1 opened one of
the bung-holes by means OF jack
knife, and found it contained q very
pure, refined oil.
just at this juncture my uncle, who is
an old fisherman and has been MEM
Der Of the city council, came up, and,
the minute his eyes fell on the captive,
with frantic gesticulations he exclaimed
that / had captured veritable porpoise
snake, seldom seen in these waters.
The oil in the kegs found to be pure,
unadulterated porpoise oil. j had
twelve forty -nine-galion oil barrels sent
to the bank and filled them all. The
oil was shipped to the most extensive
matchmaking establishment in this
country and brought handsome sum.
By way Of explanation, I would say
that this snake obtains the oil by plung-
ing its sharp head into the side of the
porpoise and drains every drop of oil
from its body.
The snake had fifty-three kegs and
was sixty-nine feet long.
l still have possession of the kegs and
bungs (the head having decayed), which
prize
Should any one doubt the veracity Of
this statement, can exhibit the kegs
and bungs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14

z
Carelessness 10 often gets the better
Of our humanity. One reason that Ca
nary and other birds 10 often lead I'M
comfortable and unhappy lives is be-.
cause they are looked ON merely as dec
orative A gilded cage lights up dark
corner very prettily, or hangs gracefully
Ia An archway, 80 there it's placed with
ont much thought OF the little creature
shut mp in that shining prison, who,
born to live in the light and air, is as
fond Of sunlight as our plants.
Do not, then, hang your bird merely
where HIS cage looks pretty. Nor must
you hy to the other extreme and place
him in . glare OF sunlight, even in win
ter. Birds suffer and die from this
cause. The best way is to give him his
choice; put him in the sun and shade q
part Of his cage, 80 that he may do as he
likes. You will notice that he often sits
in the shade.
Remember, too, that he is visitor
from . warmer cline, and take care
about placing him in a draught or too
close to even closed window, except
on warm summer days. II is as great
= mistake to put him where he will he
subject to the dry, burning heat of q
furnace or stove. Do not hang his cage
too high nor too low, bnt let him breathe
the pure air which you breathe your
self.
From November till June wrap his
care nightly in warm shawl or draw
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14

The Passenger Department OF the Illinois
Central Railroad win issue new pamphlet
about November des ,ribing the following
prosperous Northern settlements in Ten
nessee. Mississippi. and Louisiana. viz:
Jackson. Tennessee: Holly Springs. West
Point, Jackson. Yaxoo City. Terry and
Brock haven, Hississippi: Kentwood. Rose
land Colony. Hammond. Crowley. Jennings.
Lake Arthur. welch. Iowa. Lake Charl ..
and yinton. Louisiana. Hundreds OF North
ern families are now happily located at the
above points. and in this now pamphlet
will appear interesting letters from North
IN men. 1t will also give the dates OF two
special land excursions South. each month.
from principal points on the line OF tho IL
iinois Central In Illinois. Wisconsin. Iowa
and Dakota. This pamchlet. and also
Southern Home Seekers Guide. should
be read by every person contemplating .
Southern trip. either for pleasure. health.
or q permanent home. Copies OF each VIII
be mailed free on application TO the under
signed. at Manchester. Iowa ]. +. 4ERAr.
General Western Passenger Agent.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Caught q Squirrel in His Bicycle.

Mr.. Edward Birge is quite fond Of
the bicycle, and often makes extended
runs out into the country. He has just
returned from weeks outing to Lynn,
Mass, all the way by wheel, his travel
ing companion being prompt little ter
rier, who is inseparable. just outside
Of West Warren red squirrel darted
out from the bush and started across the
road. Birge was going at good speed,
and his wheel caught the little fellow,
and, cnriously enough took him up with
it into the slot that the wheel passes
through under the seat, where he was Of
course killed. This certainly beats the
bicycle record in this particular direc-
ton. - Hartford C0urdNt.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
Ex.Spesker OF the Assembly Of the
State OF New York.
STATE OF NRw York. ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, |

STATE OF NRw York. ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,
ARBASY, AI9u Is. l86i
My family for the last twelve years have
been using ALLcoCKs Porous PLAs-
TIERS, and have found them wonderfully
efficacious in coughs, colds, and pains in
the side and back. About ten years ago
l was thrown from a wagon and badly
bruised. In three days these plasters en-
tirely removed the pain and soreness.
Twice they have cured me of severe colds,
which threatened pulmonary trouble.
They also cured my son Of rheumatism in
the shoulder, from which he had suffered
two years. JAMES w. Hustled,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-11-14
WOMEN IN COLLEGE.
Tho Higher Eaucatloa u Oar Garis -
ss Viewed Throush yasIous Eyea

Tho Higher EaucotI00 ~ VuS UsFAs -
Viewed Thrsush ysrioss Eyes
have been told, even in cultivated, In.
tellectual circles, that young woman had
better be in the kitchen or laundry than In
the laboratory or class room Of college.
Women should be trained, such persons
say, TO be wives and mothers. The finger
Of scorn has been lightly pointed At men
tally cultivated mothers and daughters
who are unable to cook and scrub, who
cannot make mince pie or plum pudding
such persons forget with surprising ia
cility all the cases of women who neglect
the kitchen to indulge in the lovesick seq
timentality to which they have been trained;
who think too much Of possible matrimo-
NAL chances to endanger them BY scrub
bling or by giving ground for suspicion
that they cultivated any other faculty than
the power to apostrophize the moonlight
and to long for lover. They 40 not care
to remember that it is no whit better to
wither under the influence Of ignorance or
sentiment, to cultivate . fUndness for
'gush, than to dry up the sensibilities like
book worm, or to grow rigid and priggish
as q pedant. II 10 Is bad to stunt human
nature a. to overstimulate ito stop its
progress in one way as In another
The danger Is in going to extremes. The
mass Of men choose the golden mean, and
and we trust women to avoid extravagance
in the pursuit of learning. We may and
ought to give her every help in the direc-
ton Of life that her brothers possess. 1t
is no longer doubtful, it is plain, that
whatever other rights woman should have,
those of the intellectual kingdom ought to
be hers fully and freely. She should be
the Judge herself Of how far she should go
in exploring the mysteries of nature and OF
science.
at is not question of putting all our.
girls through college. 1t is not question
Of their being taught in the same institu-
tons and classes with men when they go
to college. The form in which woman
should be taught and the subjects that
they should study are Of minor importance
at the moment, and time will settle them
in natural way. The great desideration
is that they be given the collegiate educa-
ton when they need it. and that they may
be judges Of their own needs.