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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
An Appreciatiye Listener.


Customer want some kind Of a door
spring, and one that won't get out OF order
Hardware Dealer-A door springS
Customer-Yes, and one that won't re-
quire the strength of an elephant to open.
Dealer-Heml
Customer-And yet it must be strong
enough to bring the door all the way to,
and not leave it swinging open couple OF
inches.
Dealer-I see
Customer-And when the door closes L
don't want it TO ram shut like catapult.
with a jar that shakes the house from it's
foundations.
Dealer-Yes; you want one that will
bring the door all the way to, and yet do it
gently
Customer-That's the idea But don't
want any complicated arrangement that
requires skilled mechanic to attend to it.
Dealer-No, of course not. You want
something simple, yet strong and effective.
Customer-That's the talk; something
that can be put on or taken off easily: souAE
thing that will do its work quietly, vet
thoroughly, and won't be eternally getting
out of order
Dealer see. know exactly what YOU
want, sir, just exactly.
Customer-Well, show me one.
Dealer-We don't keep door springs
New York Weekly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
Great Truths.

You cannot tell which way train has.
gone by the tracks it leaves-Lowell Citi-
zen.
Because a pair of trousers are reseated
1t does not follow that the bill for them is.
Lawrence American.
Though nothing is the matter with a
mans hands hands they can't be all right.
Paradoxical though it may seem. the
Dark Ages came before knight-fall.-
brakes Magazine
De man, who W hen he sells yer snthin'
would cheat yer, would, when he gins yer.
suthin', gin yei de bes' he's got.
1t IS de small things in dis heah worP
dat er man haster fear. It's de little mule
dat's de mos APP ter kick er pusson.-Ar-
kansaw Traveller
Filing won't take the edge off a mort@
gage.
Speaking of miracles, the speaker who.
sets the table in a roar is no small nuts
st. Joseph News.
The child that cries for the moon will be
wanting the earth in maturer years.
Munsey's Weekly.
The man who wins the day ought ia.
have plenty of time at his disposal -Bin9-
hamton Republican.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
THE KOOTENAI HERALD
Issued Every Saturday By
S. D. TAYLOR, Proprietor.
TerrorIzed BY a BALBOA.

An account which recently appeared
IN The Novoe Vremya of balloon vow
age from st. Petersburg to a point not
far beyond Lake Ladoga CONVEYS a
striking picture of the benighted CON
dition of the Russian peasantry, even
within a few hundred miles of the
capital The balloon in question, con
tanning a Col. Pomostzeff and Count
Covanko, descended at place called
Moustoi, in the government of Oletz.
300 versts from st. Petersburg, and this
is what followed:
There was a general panic. The
peasants thought the anti-Christ was
descending from the sky, and that the
end of the world was come. Women
screamed, children cried and all the
inhabitants were well nigh out of their
wits from fear. Soon from the wood
came the women who had been gather
ing mushrooms, running as fast as their
legs could carry them. "a house" they
cried, ''has come down from the sky
with wonderful strangers in it'll"
The peasants thereupon hid them
selves in the village as best they could,
with the exception of few bold fellows,
who took their hatchets and cudgels
and proceeded cautiously to the forest
1t was long before these latter, who as
sisted to convey the apparatus to the
village, could prevail upon their fellow
villagers to come out of their hiding
places.
The aeronauts spent the night in this
village, and in the morning marched
back, the balloon being packed on a
sedge, because there was not a wheeled
vehicle in the place.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

mana Uoucned MS nose as 4 slipped the moose
over. Then / made the other ends fast. got
out the lassoes, and standing on the front of
the wagon / noosed three horses inside of tive
minutes. 1t was no trick at all, for they
were pressed right up TO the wagon byAthe
weight of those behind, and the awful war Of
the elements tanned them.
The herd was ten minutes working through
the camp, and as they cleared it they took
away every horse and mule that we had
Every tent was Frustrated much OF our pro-
visions and ammunition destroyed. and one
ambulance smashed to pieces. One man was
killed and three were injured by the rush Of
horses As an Offset WAGNER had lassoed
two. had five, and Two more had hobbled
themselves with tent ropes. In the course Of
day we got all our animals back but one
old mule, and managed to repair damages.
Our captives were the finest wild horses ever
seen on the plains Ny lot included three
stations, and sold one of them right there
with the moose around his neck for $500. The
others kept until our return to Texas, tam
ing them little every day, and then got
81, 600 for the four The span of stations
went to st. Louis after bit, and one Of them
proved himself the fastest trotter of the de-
cade.-New York Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

A young lady in town has been very much
troubled over number Of large warts on her
hands. She has tried every remedy she ever
heard of with the exception of having them
removed with the knife. And all to no effect.
until last novel remedy mas done its work.
she claims to have got il from eypsv
woman She cuts pieces of paper in squares
ana large enough to cover wart. After
wetting them She plastered one OF them On,
each wart. When the pieces Of paper had
dried she took them in the full Of the moon
and placed them upon the ground beneath
the caves OF building, where the water eopld
drip upon them. After they had been thor
oughly wet she placed them in an oven ia
dry, and finally she placed them in the shape
OF a triangle upon her hand and then thrust
heT hand out OF a third story window and
Die" them of TO the winds. In three DAYS
the warts had disappeared. Sine is SO CONT
dent of the cure that She recommends il ~ All
her friends. -Danbury News
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH.
Reasons Why 1t Is Impossible for the
Naked Eye TO See the Roundness.

Reasons Why 1t Is Impossible for the
Naked Eye TO See the Roundness.
Generally speaking, we say that the
curvature of the earth amounts to about
seven inches to the statute mile; more
exactly, 1T is 500 inches to the mile, or
1859 inches for geographical mile
ANY amount of artificial assistance with
optical instruments does not make it
possible for the eye to perceive the least
iota of curvature, even though the gaze
rs directed from the highest eminence.
This is because the vision is not capable
of comparing heights and distances. The
effect of the known curvature of the
globe may be illustrated in the following
manner:
Take down your globe, place a book,
pane of glass or even ruler against it
either of the two objects first named
being best adapted to such an expert
ment; you will observe instantly that
the book or pane only touches in one
point, the globes surface falling away
in all directions from the point Of con-
tact.
Now suppose the oceans surface to be
calm and frozen, and sheet of glass
many miles square laid upon it. At one
mile from the place of contact the glass
will stand out nearly inches this
measurement being upon the ocean, the
mile is nautical one), in fact, will lack
but .039 of an inch of being 8 inches
from the pane; at three miles it will be
d feet, at nine miles 81 feet and so on.
The number of feet of depression is equal
to two-thirds of the square of the num-
Der of miles for any observable distance.
The atmosphere plays an important
part in estimating the visibility of OBJ
Jects. On this account part of this de-
must be cancelled to make good
the phenomenon of refraction, which
causes objects of all kinds to appear
higher than they would if there were no
Careful measurements have
shown that the error from refraction |
averages more than one-seventh of that
from curvature. The rule, therefore.
commonly used for correction of cur /
Nature and refraction is; Square the
number of miles and take four-sevenths
of 1T for the correction in feet. Thus. if |
an object is visible at distance of five
miles we may know that it's height is at
east 14k feet.
sOr, if the height of visible object is
1nown-say 100 feet-take one-fourth of
his, multiply by seven and take the
'quare root of the product (Which gives
he distance Of the object) in this in
tance fraction of over thirteen miles.
man swimming in the ocean can per-
GIVE tower 200 feet high and nineteen
niles away as a mere speck on the hori-
on; but if the man were elevated 100
eet above the surface of the water he
ould plainly perceive tower 100 feet
high at a distance of twenty-six miles,
It, Louis Republic.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

us this the police stationr oueried a fe-
male voice through the telephone the other
day
"Yes'm.n
well, want you to arrest my husband .
"What forf'
He's carrying on the awfulest you ever
saw"
"How"
why, he's gone and got crowbar. and
he says he is going to dash out my canary
BIRDS brains. He keeps making the awfuiest
motions you ever saw and know he intends
to commit murder
Tim afraid we can't do anything"
isn't it against the law for a great big
man to strike wee little canary bird with a
crowbar or sledge hammerf'
Hardly, ma'amn
well, that's pretty state of affairs. and
shows what kind Of country we live in!
Good-by, andn-
The crowbar probably descended with a
"sqush" just at that time, as she closed the
telephone with a snap.--Detroit Free Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

Miss Summit--Why didn't Mr. Clever
ton come, Mr.. Dashaway?
Dashaway-He was coming, but, YOU
see, his clothes didn't come home from the
tailor's
Miss Summit-That shouldn't have made
any difference. What we want to see is
the man, not the clothes.
Dashaway-Well, if he had come YOU
would have had first class view OF him.
-Clothier and Furnisher
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

lTate Father-I can see through you, you
little sneak
Suffering Boy-You ought to be able to;
I'm transparent. Life.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
Len and Rigl,t.

Bowles-My eyesight is affected, doctor.
Optician-let me see. You are in nat
ural state. Your sight has left the left
eye. but your right eye is all right.-Jewel-
ers' Circular
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
ONLY A LEAF.

Only leaf. but it speaks to me
OF soul as pure as the souls above:
Only Ieaf. but history
Il breaihes in my ear OF sanity love
Only leaf To my dim eyes
IL doth chamber OF death recall
And far away graveyard, where slumberiug Lea
One thai was childhoods all in ALL
III. L. Spencer in Woman.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

The Only Way IL Could BE Done.
Why do you imagine that Miss Dutton
will accept youT'
She promised 70 be sister to my
brother you know, and there's no other
way to De so except by marrying -
Harper's Bazaar.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

She Gin the background)-I wonder who
those people at the other table are. Pm
sure it's bridal couple.
He-Whyt
She-Well, they look as il they didn't
know each other Life.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

"Why is il thar l3oms is always sicks'
Because he Is a health crank Cape A
God Item
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
IN SPECIAL SESSION.
The Council Meets to Pass q Front
Street Ordinance for the s. p. Co.

Owing to fears that the s. p. Co.
would exercise its privileges under
the old ordinance and put track
down Front street before the next
meeting, the council met Tuesday
evening to consider an ordinance for
new right of way with better pro-
lection to the city ON Front street
compromise ordinance was offered.
1t grants ten foot right of way
for 20 years to lay track on center
of Front street, subject to super
vision by the city; the company is TO
lay tight planked track between
the rails and one foot on each side, a
switch may be put in north of Di-
vision street to the mills; the com
pany must grade, pave and keep in
repair the street the whole length !;
no cars, locomotive or aught else to be
left standing on the tracks within
the city on tracks granted. 1t repeals
the old right of way ordinance.
The ordinance was then taken up
aud passed all voting aye. Mr..
Shiel, local agent for the willamette
Milling Co. was present and assent
ed to the passage of the ordinance.
Mr.. Clinton, of Portland represent
ed r. l.. Polk & Co IS proposition TO
publish directory and the or
dinances. There had been a great
desire to have this publication, 81 50
was added to the charges for the
book and sales were so much less
that Polk & Co. had suffered great
loss. They wanted to be helped out
and needed $500 to make up tins loss.
They could spare so copies bound at
500. to be used as exchanges with
other cities. Mr.. Moores moved re-
ference to Com. on ordinances.
Carried. The council then adjourned.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
FRUIT PALACE NOTES.

o. Dickinson, the veteran Salem
nurserynan, Tuesday contributed to
the fruit palace twelve Charlotte
peaches that weighed six pounds.
In size, beauty, rich taste and regu-
lar full bearing this variety is the
best so far shown. No doubt others
will try to bring peaches that will
overshadow this contribution.
Hop. Geo. w. Mcbride, secretary
of state, has sent the committee Il
warm personal letter enclosing a
handsome check for the fruit palace.
Teams are at work hauling In
apples for the outside decorations
and the committe find no little diff
Guilty in getting what they want.
Every farmer who has an orchard
should contribute few sacks Of his
best apples and bring them right to
the fair grounds this week.
STRAWBERRIES
Fire samples of the Oregon Ever
bearing are being procured. The
fruit will be shown in quantity and
on the vine-whoie yiEes in pots, in
fruit and flower.
Many interesting facts as to the
ca apaeity Of this country for fruit
production are being brought out by
the fruit palace idea. For instance,
Il leaks out that in Mr.. Beardsley's
orchard "a trees four years old bore
800 bushels Of peaches that sold for
50 50 hnshel. This would be $3.50
from less than one-fourth Of an acre.
Some Of this fruit will be on exhi
bition as an object lesson Of what
land ia this valley can produce.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
THE BIG BRIDGE.
What the County Court has to say
About Protecting the Piers.

A reporter asked Judge Davidson
this morning if the county court
would do anything about protecting
the big steel bridge at Salem. His
honor said, after reflections: awe
can't put any rock down there. 1t
will only wash away. We could
put q lot of clay over the gravel
foundation and thus protect the
gravel from wearing out. The force
of water there is so great that rocks
weighing tons will be tilrled away
We cannot spend $4,000 or $4,000 in
there unless we are sure it is going
Uo do some good We want to save
the bridge if it is possible to do 1t.
We will go and look it over when
the commissioners meet. IF we
could get a practical reliable engi-
neer to say what should be done, we
might be able to act. The trouble
with the bridge is that il was not
started right 1t would have been
cheaper to put in a $4,000 bridge
than the thing we've got. Sixty
feet of water moving at velocity
of Is miles an hour as the Willamette
does when it is up will tear out any
obs ruction that merely rests on the
gravel. The only way to save the
bridge is to keep the gravel from
washing away from around the
piers. The county will he put to
immense expense yet to replace this
bridge after the first flood. We
shall go and examine the bridge,
but don't know what we can do. "
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
One Pure Baking Powder.
Like Telling a Secret.

story is told and it story that seventy
GER of all the baking powders sold contain either alum
or ammonia many of these powders contain BOTH The
i'll effects upon system of food raised by alum or ammo
MIA powders dangerous because of their nsdous
character 1t would be less dangerous for the people were 1t
fatal at once such food would be avoided but their
banefu because impeceptbe at FIRST and slow in its
advances is no less certain
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder is declared by all
authorities as free from alum ammonia any other adu
terant It's purity has been questioned and while
does finer and better work. 1t at retail than
many Of the adultsrated powders
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
NAVAL MILITIA.
fh: New Law that is OF Vital i'm
pOriance TO Oregon.

Alembeis of our various military
Organizations are much siuteresled
in l he new law creating "a naval re-
serve for coast deteuces in connection
with the national guards. Volun-
teers for u company of naval militia
can be rapidly obtained ut Salem,
once the objects of the act AZ under
stood.
An act of the state Legislature is
Necessary to ensure the companies
composing the naval battalion of
volunteer militia all the benefits of
existing laws and also that they
may share all general benefits aris-
ing from future legislation for mill
tary purposes.
From u circular letter issued by
Lieutenant Commander Soley of the
Massachusetts reserve, we learn that
the financial assistance rendered 10y
the state is uniforms. use of armory,
and pay for men and officers for six
days duty, when actually per-
formed.
The Federal government, by act of
congress has appropriated S25, 900, 10
b, distributed pro rata among the
states having organized naval mill
tin. Besides such Federal assistance
II command is allowed TO live aboard
u United States receiving skip dur
ing tue six days tour of duty.
The personnel of the Massachu,
setts members is of a high order
Une-half of whom are yachtsmen,
The remainder from all ranks of life
Each company shall be Officered
" it'll one lieutenant commanding,
iwo lieuenants Gunior grade), two
ensigus, to receive the same pay as
Ca plains, first and second lieutenants,
respectively, of infantry, two boat
swains' mates, two gunners' mates,
two coxswains, two quartermasters,
and forty-f0ur seamen. All enlisted
men shall receive the pay of compa-
MES of infantry of the militia.
Two uniforms are provided, one
of navy blue cloth, au0 one of white
linen duck for warm weather. The
b!ouses of the officers are trimmed
with lustrous black mohair braid
one and one fourth inches wide, and
inside of this black silk braid one
eighth of an inch wide. The rank
devices are on each side of the collar,
and gold lace on sleeves.
The importance of a naval resesve
in any state bordering Oh the ocean
is universally admitted, and Oregon
will not be left out. The matter will
no doubt receive the atte ntion Of
the next legislature.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09

inflicted by the dread Torquemada have
abominable prototypes in the shape of
chronic rheumatism and neuralgia. At.
tack these agonizng complaints before
they reach the chrouic stage with the SUI
perb blood depurent, Hostetter's stomach
Bitlers, which Will assuredly expel their
virus from The life stream. To procrastl-
natels 10 encourage the growth OF inclpient
rheumatism, which rapidly tightens ITS
grip upon the system. Itas the very octo-
pus OF diseases, and painful indeed Is the
clasp of its dreadful tentacles. BE prompt,
berilg that both rheumatism and gUut,
close relatives, are dangerous as well as
painful. Debility, chills and fever, bilious
remittent, dyspepsia, constipation, liver
complaint, nervousness and kidney dis
eases succumb to the Bitters. Appetite
and the ability to sleep well are improved
by IL.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
Am nrenlnnr Homrmnde Cnnoe.

In the back yard of an up town
house down at the end of the grass
plot rests canoe that gives evidence
Of the ingenuity and perseverance of
two young lads who are its designers
and makers.
was an interested spectator of the
work from the beginning. First the
neighbors saw a long pole brought into
the yard, then for a few days the
grocers round about were bothered for
barrel hoops, and when at last suf
ficient stock of these was obtained the
real work began. The soundest and
best of the hoops were tackled TO the
under side of the pole, the largest ones
in the center and with a sloping off
in size down to either end of the stick
At this stage the structure took on
the appearance of horses cadaver, in
verted With mathematical nicely,
then frame work was nailed to the
free ends of the barrel hoops, inclos-
ing them and giving less of a ghastly
appearance to things. Then the but
terlnen in the district were kept busy
supplying the call for old cheese boxes
These the youngsters broke apart, using
the round body of light wood for a
cover to the skeleton, thus giving it, so
to speak, local habitation and a
name"
Canvas came next, through the me-
dium of persuading butcher that he
needed a new awning for his shop.
Newspapers were pasted all over the
cheese box cover of the shell, the old
awning over that, cover of like ma.
terial was affixed, leaving only open
ings for the paddler and the one TO his
locker. Two coats of paint were ap
piled, a seat of light wood was inserted
and those boys will soon paddle theil
own canoe at neighboring summer
resort.
One of them told me it cost "an ever
fifty cents in cash for the whole busi
ness, but it will be worth fortune tc
the boys, provided it does not sink witt
them, if it has taught them to sail ii
their own boats through life.-New
York Herald.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-09
AUSTRALIAN BALiNr.
What Will it Cost Marion County to
Provide BNGths, etc.


One of the very important matters
before the present session of the
county court and commissioner is
the necessity of making provision
for carrying out the Australian plan
of ballotting adopted by the last
legislature. Various patterns of
voting booths ale proposed, ranging
all the way from steel to canvas.
Wooden ones will cost nearly as
much to erect and maintain us steel
as the latter are portable and can he
folded up and stored away until
wanted from year to year. Steel
booths will cost seven dollars each
and one hundred and fifty-five will
be required for the county. The
county will be put to several thous-
and dollars expense to provide for
this new way of voting and the
county court proposes to make the
arrangements of a permanent char
acter.