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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
Relative Strength of Men and Women.

Relative Strength of Men and Women.
By means of especially devised instru-
ment French scientist has carried out
some experiments for determining how
the average strength of the two sexes
compares. The palm of the hand is
placed on the instrument, and then the
greatest downward pressure which the
individual can give is exercised upon it,
and the force thus produced is recorded
by the usual clockwork device. Fifty
robust men, and the same number of
healthy women, both belonging to the
middle class of society, with ages vary
ing from twenty-five to forty-fve years,
were tested in this way by the Paris
scientist.
The strongest man of the company
was able to produce with his right hand
pressure equivalent to eighty-fve hlo-
grams "a kilogram is rather more than
two pounds) and the weakest to forty
Kilograms, the average being fifty-siz
Kilograms. One curious result was ar
rived at: The short men were all very
nearly as strong as the tall men, the
average difference between equal groups
of two sizes being only three kilograms
The force of the strongest women of the
fifty who were selected amounted to only
forty-four Kilograms, and that of the
weakest to sixteen kilograms, while the
average was thirty-three kilograms
Herald of Health.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27

The front stoop offers facilities for
courtship, and among the young people
of Brooklyn the front stoop is a popular
summer institution. The Brooklyn bridge
is a bridge of signs. 1t lis the high bridges
over the Central tracks in upper New
York, however, that are most ardently
worked for this purpose.
An evening stroll that takes the OBJ
server over one of these bridges will show
dozens Of couples leaning against the
rails and apparently investigating the
myriad tracks and colored signal lights
and passing trains below. A manly arm
will be withdrawn from a slender waist
as you pass, to be stealthily slipped back
again within the moment. The skirmish
of hearts is going on there while you are
asleep or at the theater. It the engage
ment ground of the poor and lowly who
live in tenements and have no front gate
and no doorsteps. For them the bridge
on these warm nights is a dish of ice
cream with two spoons in it.-New Yorl
Herald.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
The supply of wha,ebone.

About 200, 900 pounds of whalebone were
secured from the Atlantic catch of whales
during 1890, and less than that amount was
secured from the Pacific waters. Fine
whalebone is worth its weight in silver,
and only the wealthy woman can afford to
use it. The ordinary principles of produc-
tion and trade are overturned as regards
whalebone. Modern appliances and i'm
provements appear to have decreased rather
than to have enlarged the amount of the
product. The price of whalebone f1uctuates
worse than the stock market, owing to the
fact that it is impossible to calculate upon
the amount of seasons catch until the
bone has actually been extracted.
There are only seven manufacturers in
this country, according to the latest report
five in New York and two in Boston.
They pay $4,000 Tor ton of raw mate rial,
and split it up and prepare it for market.
| Quantities are used in the silk mills where
ribbon is manufactured. It is used there
for the edge of the ribbon in weaving.
Some of the best hat manufacturers use it
in the sweat bands of their silk hats. AL
though the corsets and dress stays of wom-
en- still take up practically about the whole
supply of whalebone, yet fully 80 per cent
of the corsets manufactured here are
braced up with something else.-Mercer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
A New Antiseptio AGENT.

A new antiseptic agent called microci-
dine, which is composed of rs per cent
of naphtholate of sodium and 25 per cent.
of naphthol and phenyl compounds, has
been tried in France. It is white pow
der. soluble in three parts of water. The
solution, which is cheap, is said to be a
very effective antiseptic, without being
poisonous or caustic or injurious to in
struments or linen Its antiseptic prop
critics are inferior to those of corrosive
sublimate or napthol, but surpass those
of carbolic and boracic acids ten and
twenty times respectively. The solution
has given excellent results in dressing
wounds. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
minneapolis Larger Than Paris.


The existing Paris covers 19,275 acres,
or about thirty square miles, while met
ropolitan London, with 4,000, 900 popula-
tion, contains 118 square miles, and Chi
cago provides an area about as extensive
for 1, 100, 900. The average distance from
the center of Paris to the circumference
is only three miles. Minneapolis, with
only 1856. 900 people, has municipal area
more than twice as large as that of Paris.
Almost the entire population of Paris is
housed in the flats of tenement struc-
tures averaging from four to five stories
in height.
According to the revised figures of the
census of 1886 there were nearly 20, 900
houses in Paris, and the average number
Of people in a house was about thirty.
In the old ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the inner
Paris there are probably about 10000
houses, accommodating about 1000, 900
people.
For total contrast in the plan of
house construction we have only to cross
the channel and to examine London,
where we find an average of about eight
persons to a house for the whole metrop-
oils. But the people of Paris are better
housed, all things considered, than those
of London. A population of 2,500,O0O
within circle whose radius is only three
miles is certainly very dense, but it must
be remembered that Paris is a many
storied city.-Dr. Albert Shaw in Cen
tury
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
SO, MOON, DON'T TELL.
OMoonI did you see

o Moonl did you see
My lover and me
In the valley beneath the sycamore treef
Whatever befel
o Mooni don't tell;
Twas nothing amiss, you know very well
MoonI you know
Long years ago
You left the sky and descended below
OF q summer night
BY your own sweet light;
You met your Endyplion on Patmos' height
And there, Mooni
You gave him q boon
You wouldn't, I'm sure, have granted at noon
Twas nothing amiss,
Being only the bliss
OF giving-and taking-an innocent kissl
Some churlish lout,
Who was spying about,
Went OF and babbled, and SO It got out;
But for all the gold
The sea could hold,
o Mooni wouldn't have gone and toldi
So, Moon, don't tell
Whatever befell
My lover and me in the leafy dell.
He is honest and true,
And, remember, too.
Heonly behaved like your lover and you'll
New York Truth.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
HIS FIRST ASSIGNMENT.
Tnitiation OF = Fresh Young Man From
College Into Reportorial Work.

Initiation OF Fresh Young Man From
College Into Reportorial Work.
Horace Greeley once said. "Of all
horned cattle deliver me from the col
lege graduate who wants to break into
journalism" The commencement sea-
son had hardly opened, but the advance
guard of the graduate crop walked into
the city editors room the other day, ex-
hibited his college diploma, said that he
had "written several pieces for the
county paper" and asked for chance
to show what he could do. Like all
writers of his class he did not want a
salary so much as he wanted an oppor-
tunity to jump right into the middle Of
journalism. The annual vacation sea-
son had left the city force short handed,
and the editor decided to try the new
man.
"Go down to the Illinois Central depot
right away" he said, 'sand see what
there is in a case of mayhem there. l
know nothing about this except that
some one telephoned me few minutes
ago that there was q case of mayhem at
the depot. Go down there and see what
you can find Ask the railroad and
depot employees about the case, and if
you strike lead follow it up and inves-
tigate the matter thoroughly"
Two hours later the would be journal
ist reported at the Office with very
long face.
"Well, what was there in that case,
asked the editor.
81 do not know. SIR" replied the new
reporter.
''Don't knowi Why don't you know
Didn't / give you instructions to look
into it?"
eyes, sir, but couldn't find it."
Ibid you canvass the subject thor
oughly? What did you do?"
81 went down to the Illinois Central
depot and told the freight agent that
was looking for case of mayhem. He
asked me the name of the consignee.
told him didn't know it. He asked me
/ where the case was from and wanted tc
know if it was shipped alone. couldn't
tell that, of course, so we went over the
whole stock of shipping bills, but we
didn't find the slightest trace of it.
! 81 don't believe there is any such case
at the Illinois Central depot, but didn't
look for it anywhere else. found thai
it would be useless for me to stay there
longer, however, because the agent as
sured me that unless l had an ordel
from the consignee he would not permit
me to look into it, even if we succeeded
in finding it. What shall do next?"
After moments reflection the editor
slowly replied: ttWell, as there is no va
cancy just now in our janitorial depart
ment, perhaps you had better stel
into the composing room and ask tn
foreman to let you clip the bangs off tn
hair spaces in the cases. If you escape
come back and I'll let you answer tn
telephone until it is time for you t.
draw your salary tonight" +" = Chicag,
Mail
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
a Year,s WORK at the RoxaI Mint.

The number of coins struck in the royal
mint last year was IS, 900 900, of which IT,
10000 were rejected in the weighing room
The total coinage issued was e7, $50, 1856 in
gold, e1, ,6o4 ,6S8 in silver, and e9O,2S5 in
bronze. There was no demand for the five
pound and two pound Jubilee gold coins,
and the four shilling pieces will be with
drawn. The metal manipulated weighed
1872 tons of gold. 3SS tons of silver and "A
tons of copper. The theft of small guam
tity of gold by a lad during the year was
the only case of theft in forty years.-Lon-
don Tit-Rita
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
How to &c. Ink Out of clot,.e..

Nearly every housekeeper has many
garments spotted with ink. Here is a
good way to get the ink out. Ink spots
may be removed from linen with tartaric
acid while wet. To remove ink from
cotton, silk or woolen goods, saturate the
spot with spirits of turpentine and Let it
remain several hours; then rub between
the hands. It will crumble away with
out injuring the color or texture of the
article.-New York Journal
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
velocity of Meteorites.

The singular fact has been demon
strated that, while the most rapid veloc-
ity of cannon balls scarcely ever attain a
speed of 600 meters second-abont 500
miles per hour-meteorites arg known to
permeate the air with velocity of 40,-
900 or even co. 600 meters per second.
This unthinkable speed instantly raises
the temperature of the air to 1000 or
5000 degrees centigrade.-St. Louis Re
pHblic
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
A Ono sided Contract.

The Hon. Benjamin H. Field was re-
lating the other day how he induced his
son to abstain from chewing tobacco.
when my boy was at college" said Mr..
Field. II agreed to pay for all of the
cigars he might smoke, provided he
would not chew tobacco. He entered
into the agreement. and although that
was several years ago he still holds me
to the contract. New York Times.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27

Headache may be due to defective ac-
ton Of the liver, constipation, inactive
condition of the skin, poor blood, excess
i've mental exertion, exhaustion from fa-
tigue, the condition of the stomach, eye
strain or rheumatism of the scalp. Some
headaches are purely neuralgia
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
Answered.

What would you do if you had a
voice like miner" said Binks, who is
rather proud of his basso profundo.
I'D take it out into the woods and
yell with it till it bust" said De Garry,
who prefers his own tenor.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27

Belgian railway officials, after three
years Of investigation, report that under
ordinary circumstances the average rail-
way train in passing over one mile of
track wears from it two and one-fifth
pounds. This natural destruction of
track amounts for the whole world to
about .S3o. 900 pounds daily.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
Bad Blood.

Impure or vitiated blood is nine
times out of ten caused by some
form of constipation or indiges-
ton that clogs up the system,
when the blood naturally be-
comes impregnated with the eff
fete matter. The old Sarsaparillas
attempt to reach this condition
by attacking the blood with the
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27

s. B. Medicine Co.,,
GENTLEsfEN-You our kind favor received,
and in reply would say that am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred complaints. have
had no complaints SO far, and everyone
is ready with word of praise for their
M. F. HAcKLEY.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27
A Necessity.
The consumption

ally discontinue its use, and finally. cease 1t
altogether.
This state of things is due to the fact that
the Americans think SO much of business
and so little of their palates that they permit
China and Japan to ship them their cheapest
and most worthless teas. Between the
wealthy classes of China and Japan and the
exacting and cultivated tea-drinkers of
Europe, the finer teas find a ready market.
The balance of the crop comes to America
Is there any wonder, then, that our taste for
tea does not appreciated
In view of these facts, is there not an i'm
mediate demand for the importation of Q
brand of tea that is guaranteed to be un-
colored, unmanipulated, and of absolute
purity7 We think there is, and present
Beech's Tea. Its purity is guaranteed in
every respect It has, therefore, more In
herent strength than the cheap teas you have
been drinking. fully one third less being re-
quired for an infusion. This you win dis
cover the first time you make It Likewise,
the flavor is delightful, being the natural ia
vorof an unadulterated article It is a reyela-
ton to tea-drinkers. Sold only in packages
bearing this mark:
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27

drastic mineral potash" The potash theory is
old and obsolete. joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla is
modern. 1t goes to the seat of the trouble. 1t
arouses the liver, kidneys and bowels to health
full action and invigorates the circulation, and
the impurities are quickly carried off through
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-27

Try it and note its delightful ss$s
action. Chas. Lee, at Beamish's 81
Third and Market Streets, S. r., Az-.
writes: al took it for vitiated .T
blood and while on the first bot q
tie became convinced of its mer- -
its, for / could feel it was work 5z5is.> :
ing a change. 1t cleaasc.i, pnri- .4:S5i "a .
fed and braced me up generally, 7
and everything is now working full and rcgJ
The record-union., 1891-07-22
THE SWIMMING BATHS
They VIII be Opened Some Time Mex
Week.

Iney VIII be Opened Some Time Next
Week.
The opening of the new swimming
baths, at Twenty-1irst and O streets, will
take place some time next week. 1t was
hoped by the Board of Directors that
they could be thrown open to the public
on Thursday evening of this week, but it
has been found necessary to strengthen
the cement bottom of the great tank.
Silas Carle had contracted to construct
the building and have it completed by to-
day, the I'D. He accomplished the task,
and had all of his work done on Saturday
night last, except little painting which
cogld not be done until the plumbers had
finished their work. Crouch * Lyman.
who bad the plumbing contracts will have
their work completed to-day.
On Monday the tank was filled with
water and the great weight-some six
hundred and fifty tOns-caused a crack in
the cement and consequently q leak
The Board OF Directors held meeting
yesterday afternoon, and after consider
ing the situation fully, determined to
postpone the opening for q week in order
TO give Mr.. Carle time TO put on another
coat of cement, SO that there will be no
danger of having to close up tho baths
on account of trouble with the tank after
they are once opened. The question as
to who was to blame for the leaking OF
the tank was fully discussed, ard it was
decided that it rested upon the sub
contractor employed by MIR. Garlic to put
the cement-lining i'll the tank. The
board admitted that Mr.. Garlic had done
all he could to have the work done in the
best possible manner, but believed that he
should put the tank in perfect condition.
Mr.. Carle said that he believed he had
| carried out his contract fully and fairly.
but he was willing to 60 on at once and
do the necessary work to make it salts
factory to the board. He was allowed
eight days within which to accomplish
this.
The building is model of neatness
within and without, and is a credit and
ornament to the city. Mr.. Carle is en-
titled TO credit for the manner in which
the work has been pushed forward and
the handsome manner in which the
building has been finished up, while the
architect, w. II. Hamilton, may well be
proud OF the beautiful design of the
structure.
The attaches of the baths, selected by
hte Board of Directors, are: Superin-
tendent, w. L. Willis; in charge of suit
room. Miss Bertha Hitchrick; ticket
office cashier, Mrs. j. r. Dodson; porter.
w. Il. Wallace; laundress, Agnes Young.
The record-union., 1891-07-22
CREST OF THE HOT WAVE.
Observer Barwick Discourses on Me
teorology and Grasshoppers.

Observer Barwick Discourses on Me-
teorology and Grasshoppers.
The temperatures at 5 a. NJ. and 5 p. NJ.
yesterday were 70o and 1912, while the
highest and lowest were 1852 and 69o.
The barometrical readings at 3 A. NJ.
and p. NJ. were 1854 and 2977 inches,
showing a falling barometer, which is
not much of an assurance of the weather
being cooler for several days.
The highest and lowest temperatures one
year ago yesterday were 81 and 620, and
one year ago to-day 9So and go.
The grasshoppers have made their ap-
pearance in this city. Observer Barwicll
found his latticed instrument shelter,
where the thermometers are kept on the
roof, sixty feet above the ground, full ol
the hopping and jumping pests. as
though they were attempting to read the
thermometrical record in this city. They
were even found climbing the scale oil
the thermometer. There were about a
half-dozen of them found in the shutter.
Yesterday was the tenth day of con-
tinuous hot weather, during which time
the temperature during the day ranged
from 92o To 1862, and during the night
from SO TO 69o, all of which admonishes
US to keep cool" and free from excite
ment, and to drink nothing that is ice-
cold. By so doing the hot wave will pass
over without physically iniuring the
tenderest babe or the oldest citizen.
The record-union., 1891-07-22

After full discussion of the matter i.
was resolved to provide such an adjunct
to the entertainment, and the location
was fixed at a point 500 feet down the
river from the lower end of Belle Island.
1t was still further decided that the dis
play should be the finest pyrotechnical
exhibition ever given in Detroit.
At the conclusion of the conference
Colonel Dutfield and Controller Rush
repaired to the Hotel Cadillac, where O..
i. Skill, representing James Pain x Son
OF New York and London, is stopping
and the details of the contract wAe fully
arranged. Mr.. Slitf is the same gentle
man who gave the OBSTRUCTION Of Pom
peii" at the Exposition last fall. He is
confined to his room by an acute attack
Of hepatitis. but kindly admitted Free
Press representative, to whom he said:
The display arranged for by the gem
tlemCn Of the q. A. II. Committee is un-
questionably the greatest ever given in
America. About Il year ago, when the
Citizens Committee of st. Louis were
arranging for the carnival festivities, a
programme of pyrotechnics was arranged
that was to have been the grandest thing
in that line ever witnessed: but the wharf
boats refused 10 clear from the wharves at
the foot of the streets, so the people could
witness the display, expecting 20 charge
an admission TO their boats and so the
/ piOjGCl w as tO0LlOOlltIi. ildl
with q few notifications and improve
ments, will be given here on the occasion
Of the national encampment. | state
now, and anyone who desires may
preserve this statement for veriiicatiOn,
that nothing ever conceived in the pyro-
technical art in the past will eQual the
spectacles OF grandeur that will be pre-
Sentcd at this festival of fire.
''There will be twelve set pieces. occD-
pying two hours III their execution. The
river will be brilliantly Illuminated with
twenty powerful magnesium lights on
! twenty floats. One hundred monster
shells will be fired from 100 mortars. on a
| barge simultaneously by electricity. All
the other numbers will be on fully rs
grand a scale. IN the concluding piece of
Perrys victory, four barges, arranged to
represent men-Of-war, viii be fitted with
spars and masts and manned by lo5 sail
ors in uniform, with number Of dunn
mics. a perfect representation of that
famous sea fight will be given, the NOR
tarS throwing shells whose burning fuse
will present a brilliant effect AS the
masts are shot away, the live sailors
abandon their vessels; then the maea-
zines explode, hurting the dummies into
the III and the ships sink. Commodore
Perry will be seen leaving his sinking
ship, AND q ] as real rs art can make it.
The grantt finale will be a bouquet OF
5000 rockets, fired simultaneously, and
representing in graceful arrangement the
national colors. red, white and blue.f
The record-union., 1891-07-22

4 departure
from ordinary methods has long
been adopted by the makers of
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. They know what it can
do-and they guarantee it. Your
money is promptly returned, if it
fails to benefit or cure in all dis
eases arising from torpid liver or
impure blood. No better terms
could be asked for. No better
remedy can be had. Nothing else
that claims to be a blood-purifer
is sold in this way-because moth
ing else is like the GO. NJ. D."
So positively certain is it in its
curative effects as to acdrr0nt It's
makers in selling it, as they are
doing, through druggists, on triali
It's especially potent in curing
letter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Fry
sipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore
Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and
Enlarged Glands, Tumors and
Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers
rapidly heal under It's benign
influence. Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, G63 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.