The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-24
GENERAL NEWS.


Mrs. Grant, wife of the great COM
mander, is enjoying good health, and
has many years before her.
Over two and quarter millions of pies
are eaten in the United States every
day. Is it any wonder that Americans
are dyspeptic?
Germany imposes duty OF $4.76 per
100 kilos t2201a pounds) on bacon, ham,
salted pork and canned beef, and forty
eight cents per 100 kilos upon lard.
The attempts to induce Yakima In
dians to enlist in the army have been
futile. Said one old buck: ''Twenty
years ago they were forcing us to lay
down our arms for the plow, and now
they are urging us 10 lay down the plow
for the gun"
Tillamook county will be for Binger
Hermann because Binger is for Tilla
nook county. Headlight. Binger is for
every county. But really, Oregon wants
a congressman who can do something be-
sides get appropriations. Oregon needs
some other services quite as much.
If as reported the number of Russian
peasants w liz diC bCSilIuIO StA1Nl LluEI OC
provided for are 32,o00,OO0, or about
equal in number to half the population
of the United States, the coming winter
will witness scenes of unparalleled suf-
fering.
absolute rest and freedom from an
noyance'' are what Jay Gould needs, his
physicians say, but these blessings are
L1,4
trip Jay can't make without hesitating
awfully, The grave has low rates, ex-
eellent accommodations and aposlute
freedom from annoyance, yet Jay pauses
in uncertainty about taking stock in it.
His doctors are beginning to think he's
afraid he might put his foot in it.
Postmaster General Wanamaker re-
parts that free delivery in Astoria is a
success. He is now about to introduce
a patent mail box, costing lilo for
folks to put on their doors. 1t is so ar
ranged that it will be postoffice in
miniature and will deliver all mailable |
matter to the postman and receive all
the mail carrier brings without any effort
On the part of the householder beyond |
putting the letters and papers in the |
box, or taking them out.
John H. Parnell, a brother of the
dead Irish leader, says he thinks the
'uncrowned king" left considerable |
estate, though much of it may have
been consumed in the litigation forced
upon him in his last years. At the time
Of his greatest affiuence he was worth
e150,000. He had an estate in County
some stone quarries, copper
mines and mills, but it is unknown
whether they were mortgaged John
Parnell himself has small fruit farm
n Georgia. He is described as a rather
,eedy-looking man of forty seven, who
lresses in rough suit of brown goods
ind wears faded slouch hat.
The Sunday Welcome gives this Incl
lent of railroad management in Wash
ngion, which is another of the rapidly
arguments for government
conduct of our railroads. Until recently,
t says, the U. P. company had given
reight rate on fruit from Walla Walla
o Wardner of $12 a ton, distance
100 miles. This rate was unconscion-
lbly high, but under it fruit growers
we're shipping, and last week dispatched
tons. Seeing chance to op-
oress the shippers the company at once
advanced rates to $24 ton, notwith-
standing they are receiving from the
southern Pacific their pro rata of about
q per ton for carrying fruit from Cali
iornia, distance of 900 miles. The
point is that the fruit growers must
ship their fruit or lose it, and the rail
road company knowing this take the
entire crop.
Scarcely any fall fish was put up on
the Columbia this season. One cannery
up the river, put up some, but they
closed down yesterday. 1t doesn't pay.
Nearly every cannery has tried putting
up fall fish but there's nothing in it.
Silverside salmon are singular in one re-
spect. When first caught, cut up and |
canned it looks as red as Chinook sal
mon, the regular spring salmo quinnat,
all wool and yard wide; but after it is |
in the can a while it pales, and the |
longer it stays canned, the whittier it gets.
Negroes on the New Orleans levees who |
don't care whether canned salmon is ten
cents a can or twenty-five, will buy
canned salmon for lunch while rolling !
the cotton bales, but epicures prefer !
something choicer than the flavor and
quality usually afforded by the fall pack.
Heavy foundations in England.