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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
THE Z. =. STEAMER ALBATROS.

After leaving Alaska, the AlbdtrOss
came south, skirting the shores of WASH
ington territory and Oregon. OFF this
coast three banks were di5covered-one
sixty-fve miles off Cape Flattery, one
thirty miles west of Shoalwater Bay and
the third sixty miles west of Point Green
yilIe-the depth of water on these banks
running as high as 1899 fathoms. From
Cape Flattery to Gray's Harbor, founders
and other slow-moving food fish were
taken with the trawl. The bank off
Point Greenville is the most extensive of
the three, being twenty-five long by
eighteen miles wide, with very shallow
water, the average depth being only
forty-two fathoms. Although the season
was too late for successful halibut-fshing
along these banks, some few fish were
taken with trawl lines, but the presence
of numerous dogfish and sharks gave
good reason for the absence of the hall
but. In fishing here, however, the trawl
lines cannot be left down over night, as
they chafe on the rocky bottom, and be-
come too weak to bear any great strain.
South of CAGE Flattery black cod and red
rockfish were taken, but in small numbers.
So far the AlbdtrOss has hardly COM
menced the work mapped out for her,
and she will be detained on this coast at
least three years. 1t will be necessary to
60 over the ground already covered at
other seasons of the year, in order to de-
termine when the fish arrive at and when
they leave the banks; beside which, many
banks on the route passed over have been
merely outlined, and have yet to be ex-
plored. One of these is the Heceta Bank,
i2O miles southeast of Tillamook Rock.
The bank is small one, not more than
thirty miles long, but the water is rich
in food, and it ought, at certain seasons
of the year, to be favorite haunt for
halibut. So far the main work done in
Alaska has been the developing of the
100-fathom line, and, of course, in con-
nection with this, great deal has been
learned regarding the richness of the
water SO far as it provides food for fishes.
The richest water has been found off
Alaska, where it swarms with shrimps
prawns. crabs, marine worms. small
holothurians, mollusks, etc. The Oregon
banks are also rich in similar fish food
but not to as great an extent as those of
Alaska.
As fer as can be determined, the vari:
eties of food fish are about equally di-
yided between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, some kinds being common here
which are unknown to our eastern
cousins, while they enjoy some varieties
which are never caught in our waters.
No work has yet been done within two
hundred miles of San Francisco, and
none will be for some time. The Alba
trOss will probably remain in port for a
month and will then pass the winter on
the coast of southern California, return
ing to Alaska in the spring of next year.
From Report In S. +. Bulletin.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
Wasn't Particular,

Guest lin restaurant)-T've no time
to give you an order from the bill OF
fare. Bring me anything bring me
whatever you have got.
Waiter (deferentially)-
that we've got in one order, sir!
Guest-Yes, that will do.
Waiter lin loud. imperious voice) J.
Clam chowder for one!
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
THE CANDIDATES sOLILOQUY.

When cool November's frosty gales
Begin to nip and bite;
When coal trusts send the price of Goals
Far upwards out of sight;
When ballots fall like blizzard SHOWS
And cover all the lea,
While some are buried in the drifts
Then who'll remember me?
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
The Heather wouldn't Care.

"The contribution box will now be
passed for the heather fund.-" an
nounced the minister. "'Let your
light so shine,'" etc.
"Why, pa, you put plugged half
dollar on tbs plate" whispered Miss
Bagley.
'That's all right" replied the IA
ther. "You don't suppose cannibal
knows the difference between thai
and a good half do your
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31

Sweet Apple Cider.
At the Astoria Soda Works.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
A Rabbit Stale.

An editor advising his contribu-
tors says: "Brevity always gets to
the front" Not if it happens to be
doing duty as a rabbits tail
Binghampton, Neo0 York, RepubE-
can, last September.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
A FATAL EXPLOSION.

Ludlow's Ladies' $500 Fine Shoes
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids,
at p. j. GOODMAN's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31

The best Oysters in any style, al
the Telephone Restaurant.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Uouse.

Best Beds in town. Rooms per night
80 and 25 cts, per week S1.50. New and
clean. Private entrance.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
Stamping and ErnbI

A fine cup of coffee, at the Telephone
Restaurant.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31
When You Go to Portland

Frank Fabre, Occidental hotel restau-
rant, will be glad to see his Astoria
friends, A good dinner alta moderate
price and everything in season.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-31

StahHPIng anu ElnbrOideFy.
Mrs. g. E. Briggs-Lessons given in
all kinds of Art Work. Rooms at Mrs.
Derby's Millinery store.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
How the Chinese Keep Warm.

The evening is chilly, and everybody
IS swollen cut 10 ridiculous proportions
by the numerous thick quilted gar
ments they are wearing. -hl present,
whether male or female, are like wise
distinguished by abnormally, pTotrud-
ing stomachs. Being Manchus and
therefore the accredited warriors OF the
country, 1t occurs to me thai perhaps
the fashionable fad among them is TO
pad out their stomach in token Of the
possession Of extraordinary courage, the
stomach being regarded by the Chinese
as The seat of both courage and intelh-
geuce. la the absence of large stou-
achs provided ~ nature. perhaps ths Sc
proud NJ nchus come to the correction
of n!ggaIdly nature with wauding, as
do various hollow chested people In the
''rsgion o. misg and snow," the dreaTy
sunless lard whence cometh the genus
Faukwae.
But ara the females also ambitious
to be regarded as warriors, Amaz)uian
sol jiers, ful; OF courage and wsrlike as
pirations ? AS though in direct rep'y
10 my mental queries, woman stand
ing by solves the problem for ma at
once by producing from beuea,h her
garments q wicker basket, containing
jar Of 40. ashes stirring the deadeu-
ed Goals up little she replaced it, evi
dent'y attaching it 10 her garments
underneath by little hook.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
PatmOs Now.

Before the Christian era the name of
Patmos only occurs in few passages of
ancient writer's, and of its history, IL it
had one. nothing is known it was when
it became the place of Punishment of
st John the Divine, and the scene of his
apocalyptic vision, that it once for all
attracted the attention of mankind.
At the present day it is one of the least
accessible Of the 1Egean islands. for
owing TO its remote position and the
Cnproductiveness of its soil no steamers
ever touch there. Long before we ar
rived, the monastry of ST. John, which
is the most conspicuous building in the
island, had been in sight, GROWING the
summit of high hill, like vast SOM
bre castle, with the white houses of the
town clustered round it behind this
rose the peak of Hagios Elias, which
reaches the elevation of more than 800
feet The scala, or village at the land
ing place, has very peculiar aspect,
for each of the small two-storied houses
of which it is composed resembles a
square, fat topped box, IS white as
whitewash can make it, This mode OF
building prevails throughout this island,
and, as We afterwards found, in those
that lie to the southwark of ii.
In shape PAtmos may be roughly de-
scTibed as forming a crescent, the horhs
of which face eastward but its outline
is broken up by innumeIable promonto-
RES enclosing lanolocked creeks. so
that, when seen from above, it presents
somewhat the aspect of a strange poly
pus. Its length from north to south is
about eight miles, and its area is rug
ged and broken but the most marked
peculiarly is that it is almost divided
in two in the middle, for in this part,
within distance of little more than
half mile from one another, are two
isthmlses only few hundred yards
wide, and rising but slightly above sea-
level. On the southernmost OF these
the scala is situated, while between the
two stauC the steep hill on which the
acropolis Of the Hellenic city was built.
The narrow waist thus formed serves
for boundary line to determine the do
main of the monastery, for while the
| southern half of the island belongs to
the monks, the northern part is the pos
session of the civil community. At the
time OF the foundation of the convent
no women were allowed to pass this
limit, but within shorI time the 70
| stric5ion had TO be abandoned. The
soil of which the island is composed is
everywhere volcanic and very barren,
and its coasts are fauked by red and
I gray rocks, which ever and anon break
into quaint pinnacles. The absence OF
running water is shown by the numeI-
| Gus wind mills, and there are only three
or four wells in the whole area the
want OF these, however, is made up for
! by cisterns, and the inhabitants are
never obliged to import water, as some
times happens in Sautoriu. Tue male
population are chiefly employed in the
| sponge fishery, which is carried on il
many of the Sporades. The island is
most commonly known by its medieval
name of Patine, in like manner al
Astypa,el is still called Astropalel
nd Carpathos Scarpanto.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
Dyspepsia and liver Con,,,,n,

Is u not worth the small pie of 80 cents
- free yourself OF every sYmp ptom of these
distressing complaints, n yOd think 50 cal
AZ our sure and get a bottle Of SEiloh's Y~
faiizsr. Every bottle has a printed puar
aitee on n. use accordingly. and II 10 n,
yCu no good u viii cost you notb'ae. Sod
- Dr. L. ! Dlyisan
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
Make Lime Water at Home.

There is no need whatever of running
to the druggist aud buying lime water
every time it is needed. Aud, Sy the
way, it is very useful to have in The
house in case of sour stomach, etc. A
teaspoonful of il with half pint OF milk
viii often make the milk quite dIgesti-
BILE, when without the lime water, it
might sour and produce collie, or dis.
tress In the stomach. To make lime
water, get lump of good unslaked
lime, the size of hens egg, or larger ::
put 1t in an cd pitcher and pour on a
pint or SO OF water. AS soon as it is
slaked and cool enough, stir it with a
spoon or stick and pour off the prInci-
pal part of the milky flnid into a pint or
quart bottle, leaving the dregs in the
pitcher to be thrown away. Cork the
bottle well and let it stand quiet. In 4
few hours the lime will settle TO the
bottom, except what is dissolved in the
clear water above it, and this water viii
nearly always be of uniform strength.
Whea used down 50 that it caunoL be
poured off without stirring the bottom,
add more water, shake the bottle. cork
1t well. aud let it again settle for use.
Oace yeaS or SO, make up new lot as
at hrst. Lime the sizs of an egg will
be enough for good many quarts OF
lime water, which will practically cost
nothing At the ordinary temperature
OF 90 degrees, pint OF clear lime water
contains only % grains of lime. "a
pound is 1000 grains). Lime water is a
little antacid. and little tonic also.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
Frances sinking Shsre.

Just lately. OIL the coast of Brittany,
one of those geological discoveries has
been made which suggest TO the min0
periods OF time making the longest hu-
man life appear but a span. and exhib-
IJing processes quite dwaIfing the am
bilious human achievements. This is
the disclosure, by the displacement of a
mass ot sand, during the last high
tides. of forest that must have been
buried for some twenty centuries at
least. The situation is just opposite
Saint Malo. at the foo. of the cliffs of
Saint Enogat and Saint Lunaire. The
forest is supposed to have once extend
ed from Saint Malo to beyond Mount
Saint Michel. This discovery IS con-
sidered of great scientific interest, as it
affords remarkable illustration of the
gradual sinking of the French shore.
Tne progress of this sinking during the
last 900 years IS clearly shown in an
old map found at the ABBY of the
Mount Saint Michel. Within no more
than seven centuries back as many as
seven parishes are said TO have disap-
peared By the subsidence of this region.
And il the Bay of Douranenez there is
known TO have existed in the fifth CEN
tury quite dourishing town called Is,
the scene of the famous tragical legend.
Even now, at low water may be seen
the old walls of Is. which are called by
the Inhabitants Mogber Greghi (wall of
the GIeiks). The people of the coun-
try pretend that they can sometimes
hear the old church bells of the sub
merged city ringing with the motion of
the current.
French geologists estimate that the
gradual sinking of :he soil of Brittany.
Normandy, Artois, Belgium and HoI-
land Is not less than seven feet a CEN
tuTy. At this rate it is calculated that
in about ten centuries all the Channel
ports will be destroyed, and Paris it
self will have become a maritime CITY.
In another ten centuries it is predicted
that the French capital itself will have
become entirely submerged, excepting.
perhaps. that the tops of the Pantheon,
of the Arc de Triomphe and other such
monuments 10 AZ be discernable at low
water by The people who will then be
living.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
Time 10 Plant Gardens.

Considerable loss comes from neg
lect of the prompt start of garden crops.
The only plausible reason for delay IS
the fear Uf frost. But the injury nine
times out of ten IS greater from drought
Of summer Than from frost in spring.
Peas, roots, lettuce. etc., are so hardy
that they seldom suffer, even from a
pretty severe frost. Corn will bear a
slight frost, for if slightly nipped it will
continue to grow. and make as good
stalks generally as if left untouched by
frost.
In early planting, although the wealth
er subsequently, may not be favorable
for the plants rising SO quickly above
ground as when the soil is warmer, the
SEED sends forth roots, and these obtain
greater size and strength to push the
stalks forward more rapidly when they
come up than from later planting.
Bsaus are more tender, but have occa
sionally seen them escape frosts which
at other times killed them-the reason
OF which could not divine. for the cir
cumstances OF the two cases were ap-
paIently precisely alike.
For garden crops, considerable risk
may be taken in early planting, for in
Case of loss by frost it is little labor to
replant, and things get so forward be-
fore the summers excessive heat or
drought comes on, that they scarcely
suffer TO any great extent.
For field crops, which are SO much
larger, it is better to wait planting sufi-
ciently late to insure the crops from May
fros's. Where the soil is naturally rich.
or il poor. well fertlized, the crops push
up SO vigorously as 10 make them less
susceptible to unfavorable weather of
my kind. This shows the necessity of
putting the ground in first-rste condition
before splan:ing, ard adding any fertil-
lzsr during the growth of the crops ne
cessary to ensure paving crop.-Ei.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
A Desperate Mother Saves Her Child.

Speaking of serious cases of diph-
liberia, !" says DR.. Willis, of Brooklyn, in
the New York San, II know of a sing.
uiar case that occurred in Sixth ave-
nue, New York. only short time ago.
Ii was child 4 years of age. 1t was
so near deaths door that the family
physician had given up all hopes of Its
recovery. The poor mother was al
most distracted. She pleaded with the
doctor to save her child it possible, but
to no avail. His last call was about Q
O'Clock in the evening. AS he left the
house, the mother took up the child in
her arms and looked down its throat,
and saw that it could scarcely get its
breath. As the mother watched its
sufferiDgs she became desperate. and
thought 10 herself "If 1 could only
pull that false membrane out of its
throat believe my child would live. ;,
In twinkle she put her fore-finger
down the child's throat and extricated
the false membrane that obstructed its
breathing.
when the physician called in the
morning he expected 10 see the corpse
of the child. He inquired Of the moth
er of the sudden change for the better.
when she told him what she had dUne,
"Why, my good woman" said he,
you have saved the child's life at a
great risk. Let me see the false mem.
brane.''
when shown 10 him he asked leave
to take II. as he desired TO make it the
subject of lecture before the Medical
College in this city, and his request was
granted"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
The Earth's Supports.

In tie early groupings of the hun
mind probably DO problem was N q.
perplexing than that of the ear
foundation. One or the most TTi -
tive ideas represented the earth a.
vast fat island, surrouEdel ." an 'nte.-
minable ocean and this tag y-F ~"
subsequently modif5d by giving u
ocean a circular boundary, with Cd
less roots stretching downward benea
the whole. The priests OF Neds assei'
ed that the earth was supported 1-
twelve columns, between when 40
sun passed. Aneximander regarded '-'
earth as cylinder floating IN comp -
ed air. The Idea that the earth foa.'-
long prevailed, even the the early y p.
docs, who supposed the hemispher
earth to rest Oh the heads Of four "'
plants standing on the back OF ,,'-
toise, maintaining that the '
toise rested on the universal oc7''
Aristotle and Strabo conceived ,''
spherIcity of the earth. but what S''
ported 1t as the motionless cenlI'
their universe puzzted them. OoSn'''
\. ID. $50, prcpounded the system o.
square earth, resting on nothing o..
supporting the heavens on solid WI
Tue Venerable Bede, who lived ID -.
eighth century, regarded the earth o !
floating egg. and this notion iSs'
many centuries. These crude theoi
have come down to a surprisingly :
cent period-so much a thing OF TO 4"
il our modern science.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11

OF lie seventy-six United States
Sena ors only ten have received a class
cal education, and of the Representa-
tiyes Cniy los have attended college.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
Oh, What a Cough.

viii you heed the warning. The signal
perhaps OF the sure approach of that more
terrible disease, Consumption. Ask your
selves if you can afford for the sake OF saw
ing 90 cents, to run the risk and do nothing
for it. We know from experience that
Shiloh's Cure will Cure your Cough. II
never fails. This explains why more than
a Million Bottles were sold the past year
1t relieves Group and Whooping Cough at
once. Mothers do not be without it. For
Lime Back, Side or Chest. use Shiloh's
Porous Plaster. Sold by DR.. T. j. Dawson
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11

There is woman in Defiance, Ohio
who is quite out OF her sphere. The
other day she sent the following note 70
TO the teacher who has her niue Ittl,
ones in charge Deer Cir. you will
plezs not learn my children ennything
about the dzzyology sun. do not not
think itbursy 10 talk TO children about
their SkiliLon and Bones and L wo-'.
have it. want ny eli dren raised
nice. you can learn them to speak
grammar and talk korrect, but | do
not desire TO know they have sech
things as bones. P.ezs let hem come
homo before the fzzyology class begil s
60 talk
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
PIoughs and PIoughing.

P.ofessor J. W. SAnborn, of the MIS-
souri, State Agricultural college, has
issued bulletin giving the results OF
experiments made by him, in which he
shows that as ploughing is usually done
there is great loss of power, resulting
in either inferior work or overtsxinR
the team, from the improper adjust
ment OF ploughs with reference todepth
and width Of cut, improper adjustment
of harness, the use of coulter OF any
form, and the non use of wheel or truck
under the eud OF the beam to regulate
the depth of furrow. The tests of
draugLt were all made with the dyua-
mometer previously tested for its cor
rectness and its indications carefully
noted so that the results arrived at can
be accepted as correct.
Most farm harnesses have an eXten-
sion of the hip straps with a loop 1t the
end Though which tbs traces Fs1s 10
hold the latter in place when the team
is uuhitcheG. This loop is on about a
direct line OF the trace when the horses
are hitched 10 q farm wagon. But
when ken from the wagon and hitcEed
TO the plough the dOublelrees are Sc
much lower than when on the wagon IS
20 cause an angle IN the trace from
where IL passes through the supporting
loop to the wh.flletrse. Such condt
tions he found caused a serious increase
of the draught. The least draught i:
found where the trace extends in a di-
rect line from its attachment ut The
hame TO the centre of draught in the
plough when adjusted to its best depth
for working.
The use of a coulterof any kind ais:
added to the draught, while the use of {
wheel under the end of the beam-noN
fallen into Gisuse-lessened materially
the draught. Thus, as a result of sey-
eral tests, with and without truck ol
wheel, the following averages were
reached : Average draught per square
inch of furrow turned with wheel or
4S7 pounds without wheel, ) 81
pounds per cent. Of draught saved by
use of wheel HI. In the test of coal-
ters, the old and the new style knife auC
rolling coulters were used with follow
ing results Average draught with
coulter on per square inch of furroW
turned, 5.7T poInds; with coulter off
4.99 pounds. Loss by use of coulter in
per cent. 15.6 or about the same as the
gain by the use of the wheel.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-11
Renting Articles for Occasions.

"Renticg articles for occasions. :" said
a New York iewelsr, "is a growing
feature with Us. Il is hardly regular
business. bnt a number of the large
houses aIe in IL to an extent. They ca i
II accommodating their friends, but
they collect fees. There is u woman
in New Yo'k In the business of renting
jewe'ry who frequently lets out fifty
thousand or seventy-iive thousand do
Jars worth OF jewels in an evening.
They blaze On their wearers' persons
and nobody knows they are only Dor
r0wed glitter. Who are the borrowers g?
Mostly men. You would not think IL.
You would guess that femme vanity
was at tba 5CLtlm of the business.
But The mails bird Is the vainest, let me-
tell you. Besides, women usually own
more gems than men. The articles
loaned are diamonds principally-stu+s.
collaT-huttons, rings, sleeve-buttous,
etc. Men want them for receptions.
weddings and dinners. Women borrow
bracelets, and OCCASIONALLY a necklace.
Now, magnificent necklace can be got
up for three thousand five hundred. or
four thousand dollars, that the non
professional observer Will think worth
ten thousand dollars. Fancy the f-e'-
ings of woman who wears such an
article ct p swell entertainment She's
happy, isn't she? Well, such an article
has been rented several times this win
ter. Jewellers, of course, 10 not let
these veiuabies to peop'e they do net
Enow. They exact security for the
most expensive. Articles OF vertu and
bric-a.brac for adorning room are
often rented, also. All of these mus.
be returned early the next morning. -