Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-06-17
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10 one YOU never Salu worn dDOu'
it.
Don't linger where "your love lies
dreaming" Wake her up and tell
her to get the breakfast.
A game of poker, lasting eighteen
hours, was played in Glenwood
Springs, Col, the other day. 1t be.
gan with an ante of So so. rising
gradually till several times there
were from $4,000 to $4,000 on the
Soard at a lime.
A New York court has decided
that stable, however well kept, is a
nuisance in the neighborhood OF
handsome houses. Just how hand
some house must be to entitle the
noses of its occupants to the protec-
ton IF the law does not appear.
One of the most pleasant remind
ers of the civil war was the presenta-
ton Of flag, a few days ago, to sur
vivors of Pickett's division by the
Philadelphia brigade. These organ
izations met in bloody encounter on
the fields of Gettysburg.
Speaking of The raising of flax, the
statement that mill in lndianap-
oils has converted 100000 bushels of
fiaxseed into oil and meal in the last
year would seem to indicate that a
considerable quantity of the plant
was already raised by somebody.
Hop men say that hop growers
should not be IN hr rry TO contract
their crops. u is reDorted that frost
has badly damaged the crop in New
York end it is thought they will
command a good price tbs fall.
Buyers are in The valley now trying
to contract for this years crops.
There is scarcely a position in
which any man can find himself
where he cannot discover some
necessity for an inventible improve
ment. In our homes, our stores, our
streets, our parks, our carriages; in
all places where we work or recreate
there are conditions or things that
need improvements.
Fond Mother-"Oh dear, docter!
| am so troubled about my baby
being left-hanGed. What shall | do
with him?"
Family physician seriously
"You might make baseball player
of him, madam. Left-ha'ided bat
ters and pitchers are always in de-
mand."
The returns from Salida. Colorado,
where n young woman under charge
of Christian scientists has just died
from the effects Of typhoid fever,
confirm the position that the social
ed Christian science should be con-
fined to colds in the head, or warts,
or corns, or mild cases of constipa-
ton.
They have great unknown in the
st Joseph Mo-, work house. He
" us run in rs Il vag ard is doing
time on the rock pile. He is way up
In the law, medicine, literature, poll
tics, theology and science, but is
coLl 'letely mum as regards himself.
In Shakespeare and the Bible the
being is said to be n giant.
Missionary letter to the anti-Slaves
association say the Mahdists have
made western Abyssinia desert.
Whole fiocks and herds have been
destroyed and thousands of Chris
liann thrown into slavery, while
thousands have been butchered.
Hundreds of the noblest inhabitants
have been taken to Mecca as slaves,
In violation of the treaties.
The announced discovery of a new
method of treating flax in retting
,nd the invention of improved ma
chinery, which will enable manu-
lecturers in this country to compete
with the cheap-labor linen of Eu-
rope, are calculated to engender the !
most sanguine expectations of pro-
liable industry. by the new pro-
'ess of retting no injur ous chemicals .
are used, only n preparation of lin /
'eed oil, which is taken up 10y the /
iher, and the fiber is freed from gum .
md woody matter and left fine, soft ,
'nd white.