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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
A Laughing Rooster.

The historian of the Boston Record
has a small nephew who says some
cute things once in while. He no.
tees animals a great deal. The other
dav, while out walking. he became
much interested in the movements of
lot of feathered beauties, headed by a
handsome rooster, which were crossing
the roadway Just ahead. They got over
in safety. but one of the fowls had
narrow escape from being run over by
a passing team. and her frantic at
tempts to flee from impending danger
excited him considerable. just as she
reached the sidewalk the rooster
crowed Justify, and Master Bert turned
70 the historian with indignation in his
tone. Uncle, uncle - he cried, .'isn'f
that rooster naughty TO laugh At the
hen 500"
He once accompanied his parents and
the historian on a pleasure trip down
the harbor When our destinationw was
reached he placed his small hand in
the historians 3-4 palm and an
nouneed his intention of walking out
with him. 1t so happened that roast
veal had been the principal feature on
the dinncr-table tiv '', praviaGs. and
the historian, in ~ sundry
questions. had given his nephew con-
siderable of a lesson on the subject
We had not gone far before he spied q
COW and calf in an adjoining field. Full
of the importance of his discovery he
| ran back tQallis mother as fast as his
( legs would carry him. shouting in his
/ shrillest tones:
I Mamma mamma, come quick and
/ see the cunning little vealv'
The Emperor's Fayolfte Hymn
/ Under the heading Of the emperor
Frederick's Favorite Hymn the music
/ shops Of Berlin are exhibiting hymn
! set to music by Robert Radeeke. The
words are bv Earnest Won Willich,
I the only son Of Ehrenfried Won Which,
I the stepson of Schleirmaeher, composed
Mt u wears Of age, when the boy lay on
the bed from which he never r.sc
again. The HYMN, and the tuia 20
I which it is set, pleased the present Enn-
/ peror so much that he often ordered il
20 be s6sg, and so it has got to bt ac-
cepted as his fav-ite. In as clio 5
translation as possible the hymn re7s
as follows.
When the Lord me sorrow sends.
/ Let me bear il patiently,
Lifting mp the heart in prayer,
Comfort He will not deny
Therefore, let there come what VIII
In the Lord my heart Is still.
Though the heart Is often weak.
In despair and a Il f0rlorn.
When in days OF utmost pain,
Not day OF Joy win dawn,
Tell it: Let there come what Will.
In the Lord all pain is still.
So / pray. o Lord. my God.
That my faith and hope may stand.
Then no care know nor heed.
Guided ever by thy handt
Therefore, let there come what Will,
In the Lord nv heart Is still.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
Jnst a Trif1e too shrewd.

The inaptitude of the female mind
lin rare instances, we mean) to take a
comprehensive view of business trans
action is marvellous. At a drygoods
store in this city a woman recently
called for some sort of trimming,
which we will not attempt TO describe,
because we could not. She was told
that a piece, containing ten yards,
would cost her 80 cents. Then cou-
Yersation something like the following
ensued:
Customer | don't want a whole
piece How much is it by the yardp
Saleswoman-We have to charge 5
cents yard when we cut il.
Give cents? Well, / guess seven
yards will be enough. (Here the stuff
is measured.)
S.-Thirty-five cents, please.
Glow much is there left?
S.-Three yards.
{. presumably mentally reckoning
that ten times five are fifty How
much for the whole ten Nards9
S. (demurely, but with an eye to
business) oh, you can have the ten
yards for As cents.
C.-Very well, | guess I'll take ten
yards Planks down Is cents and de-
parts satisfied. ScWburupor Herald.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
Lovers in Luck.

They had to conceal their love. The
parents were solid against the match.
They selected unwonted hours and ex-
traordinary places to walk and talk.
One afternoon they had met by pre-
arranged accident, and they were going
for a walk in the suburbs. They came
up quiet street and found a whole
row of carriages, waiting apparently
for a funeral. The procession was just
starting, and as they came up hack
man most politely took off his hat
and waved them into a hack. They
did not hesitate They stepped in,
the door was closed, and away they
went They had a blissful time. The
funeral went on. The ceremonies
over they were shown into the hack
again, and the polite hackman asked
where he should drive them to. He
was told, and they were driven back
into town.
"Whose funeral was it?' asked the
young lady's friend, to whom the story
had been told.
1--WE didn't know; we don't know
now; but it was just loyely."-Sa2l
Francisco C7lroHicle.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
A vapor Ba,h on the Frontier.

In 1770 started from Coinstock on
prospecting expedition. The first
day we travelled about thirty miles and
eainped on the Carson River below
Fort Churchill IL was my luck to
have been mounted on bucking
mustang. Lhad been pitched over his
head ami over his tail and had besides
gone of once or twice on side excur-
sions. | had not been on horse be-
fore for years and the constant jolting
/ received was about rs bone breaking
as my tumbles among the rocks. !
was sore from the crown of my head
to the soles Of my feet / feared l
would not be able to mount my mus
tang the next morning. | therefore
determined 10 drive the pain out of my
body by means of hot bath. / took 4
shovel and lcveled space of ground
on the bank of the river about six feet
long and three feet wide. / then
gathered some dry cottonwood and
willow poles, brush, and such other
fuel as | could and built n fire on the
charred patch of ground. When the
fire had burned down and the bed of
Goals left had begun to die out, Iraked
| all of down TO the ground Ithen dug
up the ground TO the depth of two or
| three inches, throwing ont all eobble
stones and sticks, when ] leveled it all
down and spread on 1t one of my
blankets. / then covered myself with
the other blanket, tucking in bothhead
and heels. A hotter bath / never ex-
perieneed. A sort of dry vapor
poured up out of the ground that al
most cooked me. II poured up through
the blanket in thousand streams
and had a strong flavor of mother
I I
two, then was Obliged 10 remove TO
cooler quarters, when ! cooled down by
degrees in order not to take cold. The
next morning / awoke without single
pain or ache and as climber rs m eel. y
Although no moisture was perceptible
in the ground on which / built my fire.
vet certain degree ofmoisture seemed
to have come into it when raked away
the fire and began stirring up the soil.
We were out in the mountain about
month. While in Humboldt range
one of my party had an attack oi
mountain fever / made a big sage.
brush fire on the little fiat in which we
, were camped and gave him one of my
baths He howled like coyote about
} the heat. He swore he was being
! cooked alive and had hard work tt
; keep him under the blankets for Al
: hour. He would have been outin spit
} of me had / not handed our guide. :
: wild raw Indian, shotgun and tolC
him to shoot the man if he got up. Thi
: patient knew that the Indian was jus
: big enough fool TO shoot. and so wa
9 obliged TO confine himself 10 groan
r and howls until took the gun ava,
: from the Indian and relieved him Q
; his watch The Indian was sulky tn
8 remainder Of the evening. as he di'
\ not like Tom and hoped to have bee
allowed 10 shoot. Tom never had th
9 least sign of mountain-fever during tn
9 remainder of the trip. and alway
1 after the experience of that eyenin
l was ready TO take his turn n. cooking
? getting wood. or hunting horses
n Virginia City letter 10 SAT- Lake 9f'
n 6sIIe
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
ea,e s7o.ooo . .he niele soele,y.

The man is still living who, seven
tean wears ago, walked into the rooms
of the Bible Society in Boston and cleo
trified the persons whom he found
there, first by his appearance, and, sec
ondlv, by the communication which he
had to make. His appearance betoken-
ed more than poverty. for his shabby
clothes were tied together with strings
What in the world had brought such
man there was the question which ev-
erv one asked himself. and the wonder
can be better imagined than described
when the stranger remarked that he
had property To the amount of $4,000
which he would ike To turn over to the
society, If he could be guaranteed ten
per cent annually upon it for the re-
mainder of his life. his age then being
20.
The officers suppressed their amaze
ment as well as they could. took his
name, verified his schedule of his pos
sessions, and submitted his ease to the
directors. Thev looked The matter over
in the light Of actnaries' tables, ETC.,
and finally, after much deliberation,
decided that the risk was too great,
and so notified the would-be donor.
Not long after he came back and re-
newed his proposition to turn the mon
I ey over TO the society and said that he
would be content with per cent an
nually. That proposition was accept
I ed, and for some years he appeared
/ regularly at the expiration of the year
\ and drew his interest, taking 5000 cash
/ and the company's note for the bal
ance. After doing this for seven years
IL so he turned those notes back 10 the
nmpany, saying that he had no use foI
/ them He is now. at the age of 96
blind, deaf. and crippled by fall SC
hat he cannot walk, and the Bible So
ciety paws the bills for his support
( S,,y.iy316 6e}d T71lios,
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
when snake Eats snake.

A letter lust received from Mr.. Prin-
gle, of Louisiana, the well-known Am
erican snipe shot, whose wonderful bags
were reported sometime since in your
paper, contains the following extract,
which may prove interesting to some
of YOUR readers: 81 was walking across
a very boggy marsh, where there was
a good deal of water, and was stumb-
ling along, not with my former youth
full agility, when l came near stepping
on a snake in coil, what is called a
scotton-mouthed moccasin, whose bite
is not fatal but somewhat poisonous.
There being no stick at hand to kill
him, stepped back and shot him, cut
ting him not quite, but nearly in two,
and exposing his 'innards,' as the me-
groes say. My man Caesar exclaimed,
sMassa, he got another snake in himr
and so he had-one nearly as long
as himself. / pulled the swallowed
snake out and held him by the tail
alongside the other. The swallower was
about thirty inches long andvery thick,
and the swallowed one and half inch
es shorter, only that the latter's head
and neck were doubled so as to be fore
ed into the other Did you ever know
OF one snake eating another? They say
that snake will perform that opera
/ ton on auother snake. London Field
The shooting of big dog bya French
custom house officer in the North of
France the other day has given rise to
some queer dog stories in the French
papers The officer shot the dog be
cause he was suspiciously fat. The post
mortem examination revealed the fact
that the dog wore leather coat made
to look like his own skin, and skilfuily
fastened at the shoulder and launches
in such a way as to completely conceal
the ends of the hair In this coat the
dog carried several hundred cigars.
A remarkable photograph was taken
In Shelbyville, H., recently. The pic
ture represents group. of five genera.
tons, from the aged great-great-grand
mother to the little child of but few
months. The parties to this remarka
| BILE sitting We're Grandma Catherwood
aged eighty-six; Dr. I. L. Catherwood
her son, aged sixty-one; Mrs. Maggi,
Hoxey, her granddaughter, aged thir
ty-eight; her great-granddaughter, Mrs
Eva Corrington, aged nineteen, anC
little Harry Newton Corrington, he
great-great-gr aged 8 months
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
The Newspaper Side OF Literature.

A long editorial on The Newspaper
Side of Literature, concludes as fol-
lows: Notwithstanding all the evil
tendencies of current journalism the
disregard Of accuracy, the irreverenee,
the cruel and impertinent gossip
there are indications which are highly
encouraging.
1.-The fact must be recognized that
not all the successful methods of the
immense dailies are bad methods
There is certain thoroughness and
enterprise about them that impresses,
and which viii he n feature of the man
agement of the ideal newspaper of the
future We notice, also, tendency
In some of the most sensational Of
these papers toward better things-to-
ward a certain legitimate sensation
alism.' Manners and methods have
been modified under an increasing
sense of responsibility and in the en-
deavor TO reach a solid as well as num-
erous circulation. We have spoken
recently of the growing Independence
of the political press, of which indie
pendence examples accumulate. The
sensational newspapers editorial page
already often shows a gravity and
pith of style evidencing ability and
conscience. There is growing ten
dency towards the fearless, generous,
and public-spirited discussion of living
questions Let us hope that these signs
indicate n reaction against a state OF
thing that is deprecated by the best
men engaged in the profession of daily
! journalism.
with al! its. faults the newspaper OF
to-day is tremendous power for good;
for the perpctuation of freedom; foI
| the criticism and reform of govern
ment; for the bettcrment of social con-
ditions The daily press has reformed
many things, and ought to be. and is,
4 fully able TO reform itself s-'.C .Cnrrec'
Journalism. y ia The CeHtttrg.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
The witty Nobleman.

An American girl recently had tho
honor Of meeting an English noble
man, Lord E, at an entertainment
in London. He opened the eonversa-
ton by asking if she had heard the
story about the man who wished TO
cross the river with his donkey, there
being no bridge, aad only small skiff
as a means of getting over. The young
lady adroitly avoided saying she did
not know how the party managed to
cross, wAci eupon Lord F. conde-
scended to try her on another tack.
'Are you the head of an awse2n said
he.
No. replied Miss P.
"Are You the tail of an awseP"
"Cersaiuly not answered the lady,
rather provoked.
"Thcn," said his lordship, you're nc
end of an awse. "-Harper'S Magazine.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
An Artist.s voeabularx.

The only mark of their Identification
that we can think of is their decided
tendency TO cultivate special parlanee
to use an artists vocabulary; tech
nology which to the uninitiated ear is
equal to any Gypsy lingo, pigeon Eng
1ish, or dog Latin. As general thing
the richer this vocabulary becomes the
more indefinite are its terms. If you
listen to a group of students in an art
gallery you are apt to hear some such
expressions as these: s.Isn't thata stun
ming Millet? I tell You what, there's
tone for YOUR 'sBut / like the quality
in that Rousseau better; that's atmos-
phere; it hangs together, too; | call
that harmony 'sThat chase over
there s got some stunning bits to it. !"
Yes, / like some of the morceaux, but
the teehnic is the thing; just look at
that brushwork."
Furthermore, you would hear men
toned mice feeling, y "a well balanced
composition, . cloud, !" '.hard, . crude, .
ssdrT, = and sraw" color, and many
other terms whose meaning is depend
ent upon the artistic context.
Don't YOU think that No. so, over
there, is a showler' ?1 we remember be-
ing asked once by speaker who
pointed to a painting by Wyant-a
most delicate. misty. Adirondac scene!
Pxas sshowlern was meant notice
picture or one that possessed sal
1t qualities the remark being intend
las entineiTS complimentary Ernest
K7aaatFf. IN the 479eTJcan Magazine
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
An Anarchist G,rI's Awful Deatl

The following story comes from Mos
COW: Last week beautiful young wo-
man rented a room at the house of
tradesman of the town. Half an hour
later detachment of police, led by an
officer of the gendarmerie, arrived at
the premises and tried to force open
the door of the new lodger's room,
which was fastened securely. While
the police were tins engaged the girl
Jumped out of The window, which was
on the third iloor, and fell into the
courtyard below. rlortally injured. The
trunk in her room was found to con-
tain six dynamitc sNlls. alleged to
have been destined for the cZar's as
sassination. The girl was identified as
the daughter of an official in South
Ru ssia.- London Standard.
Walters in restaurants, particularly
where table d'hote is served, say they
can always tell lady who has been
reared in the country. The lady may
have been city bred for quarter of a
century, and the sharp brilliancy of
her diamonds and general Endorsement
may convey the idea that she Is one oi
the great DANES of the city, but when
she gets to her claret it is all up with
her. The walters say that nine out oi
ten such ladies put sugar in theiI
claret. Perhaps the walters discover
her at the start, when she tackles the
oysters. Many ladies whose girlhood
/ homes were in the rural districts insist
/ on using vinegar, pepper, and salt in
J big doses on their oysters.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17

There has recently been discovered
In Southern Kentucky very fine grade
of ONYX Heretofore onyx has been
found only in Mexico. Tbs mineral is
extensively used for decorative pur-
poses, and the discovery of il in the
United States will tend to cheaper il
and extend its use.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
A schoolma'am Among Miners.

-sIlive in New Mexico mining camp
nearly a hundred miles from a railway
station said w F. Austin. 1T was
several years before the young lady
school teacher now in our camp came
there since the miners in that section
had seen white woman. She went
from Boston out to Albuquerque to
visit her sister, who was the wife of a
banker there. She went up in the
mountains on a pleasure excursion a
year ago last summer, and ON the trip
visited our camp for two or three days.
When the miners found out she was
there they came in from every direc-
ton to see her, and she expressed a
desire to live there. The camp grew
and several miners with families came
in last year. We had no teacher, and
the boys got me TO write to the Boston
girl.
We'll, she came up to the camp, and
about one hundred miners subscribed
$1.50 a month each to pay her for
teaching the school. She was paid in
this way until recently, when there
was in the camp enough children to
organize the school under the Terri
torial laws. Now she is paid out of
the Territory treasury. She seems to
to enjoy the wild mountain life very
much. Her principle amusement is
riding on horseback. When she came
there she had never been in a saddle.
The young school teacher is greatly
admired and profoundly respected by
the miners, and she is certainly 4
bright ray of sunshine in that camp.
--St. Louis GlObe-DenloeFGt.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17

Anew York ma4sf sfacturer advertises
for ssmen to hang dumb-waiters-" This
IS too severe. A dumbsWaiter is often
preferable to the loquacious waiter.
It is the waiter who expects Zee
larger than the price of oneSs dinner 1T
that should be hanged, if anys1-Hor-
fistoaC1z Herald.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-17
PRACTICAL SCIENCE.

In France wood-pulp is rapidly be-
ing substituted for plaster of paris in the
manufaucture of all sorts of mouldings
and ornamental parts of buildings.
The method is newly devised.
Scientists have determined by care
full experiments that man can barely
taste 81 ,O00ths of a grain of sugar,
II, ,0ooth of grain of salt, and 5-l0,-
600, 0,0ooths of grain of stryehnine.
Fumigation is said to have originated
with Acron, a physician Of Agrigen--
tnm, who is said to have first caused
great fires to be lighted and aromatics
to be thrown into them to purify the
air, and thus to have stopped the
plague at Athens and other places In
Greece about 473 B. G.
Yellow diamonds are made blue OF
the purest water for the time being, by
being colored with a common indelible
blue pencil, equalized by rubbing
with cotton or linen A magnifying
glass will fail to show the, fraud, but
alcohol. turr entine. or henzine viii
wash of tne color
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04

offer all the great prizes to business talent
Public ownership would inevitably be the
death OF the spoils system in politics, for IL
could not live when its real significance was
so plain. We might reasonably expect
something like military organization OF
the railroads, at the head of which would be
asecretary ofrailways. who would also control
all other natural and artificial monopolles,
as the Government acquired control OF
them., 1t would be organized like any
other branch of the Federal Government,
and would be as free from political inter-
ference as the Department of War, Navy,
interior or Agriculture. The PAstofhce
der government control.
Think, too" said the Doctor. as.he felt
his wallet, show cheaply people could
travel. In Hungary the roads are under.
state control, and since the adoption OF
cneap fares and simple system OF tickets
on sale like postage stamps, passenger
travel has increased more than 100 per cent.
II the same system prevailed in the United
States, ticket from Pittsburg to New York
would cost 40 cents, one from Philadelphia
to Chicago 50 92 One could go from Balti-
more to Washington for 10 cents, and the
fare from New York to San Francisco would
be less than $40. Freight would be paid by
stamps according to classification and dis
tance.
IF we had Federal control would spend
the Thanksgiving recess on a visit to GER
tain prominent bimetalist in Boston" said
the Professor humorously, as he bade The
DISPATCH reporter pleasant journey back
to Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
REORGANIZING THE DEPARTMENT.
Wauamnker Has n Number of Plans for
Beiterinc the Service.

Wauamnker Has n Number of Plans for
Beiterinr the Service.
WASHINGTON, October Second As
sistant Postmaster General Whitfield quail
fed as First Assistant and will assume his
new duties tomorrow. Mr.. J. Lowry Bell,
the present General Superintendent of the
Railway Mail Service, has also qualified as
Second Assistant Postmaster General, and
will take charge OF his new Office tomorrow.
These appointments are strictly in the line
of civil service reform. With these changes,
the Postmaster General contemplates a re-
organization of certain offices in the depart
ment Offices which are in the same general
line will be placed under one head.
That is, the railway mail service and rail-
road contract Office will be under the i'm
mediate supervision of the new Second As
sistant, Mr.. Bell. In other words, all
matters relating to mail transportation will
be under his charge. Mr.. Whitfield, as
First Assistant will have supervising
charge of the salaries and allowances and
the free delivery Offices, in addition to his
otner duties. These Offices have heretofore
been regarded as independent bureaus, their
chiefs, as a rule, passing upon nearly all
questions. 1t is expected by these changes
to bring the several offices more under the
direct supervision OF the Assistant Post
master General.