The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-06
A Little of Everything.

The vicissitudes of life were aptly
Illustrated in the person of Portlander
who passed up last evening on the Tele-
phone. A year ago be was worth $780,
900 cold cash. Too muchee private
curvee and bluffing on ace high, etc.
Now he is clerk in one of the city de-
partments at 500 month.-AstoriGn.
A mother gave birth to a baby boy
prematurely in New York City, but his
life was saved just the same by the use
of patent baby incubator at the Char
ity Hospital. He lived in the incubator
one month and when he was taken out
he was as perfect as babies usually are
and restored to his happy mother. 1t is
the first case of "baby Matching" on
record.
They are experimenting in Scotland
in the process of milking COWS by steam,
and DR.. Scmerville, professor of agricul-
ture in the Durham College of Science,
says he has seen upon farm the farm
ers' wife and daughter milking certain
number of COWS carefully by hand,
while little steam engine was milking
the others, with view to test the re-
suits.
Mr.. Joe Beck, of Hamilton, an exten-
sive sheepman of Grant county, returned
last week from Nebraska where he has
been feeding a band of sheep for the
market. Owing to an irregularity in
the prevailing prices, feed high and
sheep market low, he failed to make
much more than expenses. However,
he desires to buy 10000 head if they can
| be bought reasonable. Mr.. Beck is a
sheepman of experience and will under
stand making profitable shipments to
Eastern markets. if such can be DONE
Long Creek Eagle.
Captain Sewell, of the American ship
Solitaire, who crossed in from sea at IL
O'Clock yesterday morning, reports find
ing thirty feet of water in the shallowest
part. The captain of the schooner Nor
ma, when he came in yesterday, crossed
right over where Peacock spit used to be
and found twenty five feet of water At
| high tide there is from thirty -four. to
thirty-eight feet of water, according to
4 the height..of the tide; at lowest low tide
twenty seven feet in the shallowest
place. The Columbia river bar is abol-
! ished. 1t has ceased to be. The port of
1 Astoria is as much of a deep water port
as any seaport in the United States
] AstOraGn.
The sleek-faced, moon-eyed Celestials
are the most successful smugglers.
There is no portion of vessel or its
cargo sacred or safe from the manipula-
tions of the rascals. They have the
deadly drug plated in their queues
quilted in their clothing, packed in the
cork soles of their shoes, and tucked
away in the soft, clinging folds of theil
silk handkerchiefs., They have false
bottoms and sides to their camphoi
wood trunks, false bottoms to theil
cooking utensils, and they are false al
. the way through. They will construci
material to resemble coal, fill the inter
ior with opium, and. place it in the Goa
bunkers until all suspicion is aIlayed
and the steamer discharged they con-
, struct tin boxes to fit around masts and
cover their deception with false mas
coats well calculated to deceive the in
experienced eye of landsman. They
will store it away in boxes of tea, cover
it up with preserved ginger, and have
it they will, despite all efforts to sup
press the practice.-A AstoriGn.