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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-30

The value OF breadstuffs export,
1890. was as follows:
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-30
WASHINGTON.

Whatcom and Lehome have been con-
solidated, making the fourth town in the
state in population.
The persons who strung up E. l.. Bur-
ris at Dayton, and attempted to make
him confess arson of which he was not
guilty, were members of a gang of white
caps who have committed numerous out
RACES in the neIghborhood. The grand
jury of Dayton is after them.
The commission to report on the ad-
visibility of opening the Puyallup reserv-
alton, across Commencement bay to
Tacoma, to settlement has arrived on the
ground.
A slide of rock and mud at Palmer
Jan. II covered 300 feet of the Northern
Pacific.
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PACIFIC COAST.

The San Francisco IL likely to be- made
the flagship OF the Pacific squadron.
Congress has appropriated 81 ,s7s 900 for
the Improvement of the Columbia river
only 100000 OF which IL 10 be spent In
any one year.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Ills Looks Were Against Him.

A trader named Smith, from the in
terror, visited Galveston, and purchased
bill of goods from prominent firm
there. lie was politely received, and
one Of the proprietors conducted him
over the immense store. On reaching
the fourth floor, the customer perceived
a speaking-tube on the wall, the first
one he had ever seen.
What is that he asked.
20, that is speaking tube. It is q
great convenience. We can converse
through it with the clerks on the first
floor without taking the trouble of GO
ing downstairs
Can they hear everything you say
through that?" asked the visitor.
Certainly, and they can also reply"
"You don't say SO! May talk
through it?"
Certainly"
The visitor put his mouth to the tube
and asked: Are Sam Smiths goods
packed up YETI"
The people in the Office supposed it
was the salesman who had asked the
question, and in moment the distinct
reply came back:
NO, we have not packed them yet
We are waiting for telegram from his
town. He looks like slippery fellow"
Youths Companion
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
NEXT WEEK..

TIL work will be easier next week.. she said.
III. Extra baking i done and the bread
Is the most shall do IL that line: Master
Ned
IIas . brand ncw suit: no patches he'll
need.
shall re. quite resi~-I need one, indeed.
vii read rny ncw cookhoek--at Christmas
Charles said il wo,.id give me pointer on
game.
In the cooking o. waich I'm decidedly lame.
Alas confess ny shortcomings are many
All. ne. that might only live without any.
- And II find time. I'll try over that song
That Isabel lent me 1--we kept IL so long
I'm really ashamed 10 return II It's wrong
To neglect social autics-but then I've no
time
To spare for society arts nor for rhyme.
But Ill catch up next week with some
o. these matters.
And garnish both inside and out Of the
platters.'
These high hopes had possessed this poor
housewife before,
And as often been dashed upon fatcs stony
floor:
But the storm ovcrpast-grew courageous
once more,
And, as hope springs eternal she gath
cred them up,
Thinking some day to auaI from high,
trimming cup.
Bat these dainty air.castles came down with
smash.
A. Jimmy came in broken out' with RASH
And she heard wild yell and horrible crash
From the pantry 1t came-JoAnny lay
midst the wreck,
And had broken his arm, instead OF his
neck
But time healed the wounds and hope came
again,
To dwell a brief space with this mother OF
men.
But the rainbow wings paled in the strife
that came then,
For new trial rose in the buffalo bugs
That rot into the carpet and nice parlor
rugs.
"The work will be easier next week" she said.
The west wind is warm. the clover Is red.
I'll try a brisk walk. twill help my bad head
Through bright country lanes I'm pining to
roam.
There's nothing whatever TO keep me at
home"
But when next week came, she rode out in
stead
With coaches and horses; her poor aching
head
Al rest on a little square pillow. They said
Twas a beautiful funeral" the flowers
immense"
Poor Charles did his duty, he spared no ex
pcnse.'
w. b. Cossitt. in Good Housekeeping
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
A BATTLE BENEATH THE SEA.
An Ocean Divers Fight for Life with an
Octopus.

An Ocean Divers Fight for Life with an
Octopus.
The occupation of diver is one that
offers but little attraction To those who
by temperament have no fancy for ex-
ploring the mysteries of the deep" 1t
is. however. not so monotonous an en-
divers occasionally meet with exciting
adventures while engaged in their
labors.
One of these fell to the lot of gov
eminent diver in Victoria, Mr.. Smalc,
while at work on the bed of the Moyne
river at Belfast in that colony: and
from the account he gives Of it. it must
have been more exciting than pleasant.
Having thrust his arm into a hole he
found that 1T was held by something;
the action of the water was stirring up
the clay. and therefore | could not See
distinctly for few minutes: but when
it did clear away saw to my horror
the arm of large octopus entwined
around mine like boa constructor: just
then he fixed some of his suckers on
the back of my hand, and the pain was
intense.
II felt as if my hand was being pulled
to pieces. and the more l tried to take
it away the greater the pain became:
and from past experience | knew this
method would be useless; but what
was to do lying in this position?
Il had the greatest difficulty in keep
ing my feet down, as the air rushed
along the interior of my dress, and in
flated it: and if my feet had got upper
most. | should have soon become insen-
siblc. held in such position: and also
if had given the signal to be pulled up
the brute would have held on, and the
chances would have been that | should
have had a broken arm.
II had hammer by me, but could
not reach down to use it on the brute.
There was small iron bar about
five feet from me. and with my foot
dragged this along until could reach
it with my left hand.
And now the fight commenced; the
more ! struck him the tighter he
squeezed. until my arm got quite be-
numbed. After awhile found the grip
began to relax little, but he held on
until | had almost cut him to pieces,
and then he relaxed his hold from the
rock and pulled him up.
II was completely exhausted, having
been in that position for about twenty
minutes. | brought the animal up, or
rather part of it. We laid him out,
and he measured over eight feet across;
, and feel perfectly convinced that this
fellow could have held down five or six
men."-Jury.
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him. but would not let him send lot

him. but would not let him send a l.t-
ter.
II was after Christmas when he came
home and to Startled.
Il owe my life to stranger" he told
me; land not until he was dying did he
tell me the motive that ed him to st.
Louis to nurse me back To life. II was
the most peaceful. beautiful death
ever imagined, and must have been the
end of Il sinless. unselfish life. .Not q
doubt. Not fear. lie babe me give
his love TO Alma. and told ne it was an
entire happiness to him that he had
helped to save my life for her.
They are very happy. Alma and her
husband. living useful Christian lives,
''doing good without firing" But /,
who am still at Startled Amos Iscnt-
lcy's housckeepcr-I think, with tears
always, of the noble life laid down SO
calmly-the great. generous heart stillcd
forevcr-and wonder If. in the great
hereafter, the mystery will be ex-
planned and | shall know why happi-
ness was denied Godfrey Owen in this
lite.-Anna Shields, i'm n. Y. Ledge
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
SILVER COLLARS.
Put Around the Necks OF slaves Centuries
Ago,

Put Around the Nccks Of slaves Centuries
Ago.
In the London Gazette for March,
1853, there is an advertisement to the
effect that black boy of about fifteen
years of age, named John White, ran
away from Col. kirke on the 18th inst.
"lie has silver collar about his neck
upon which is the colonel's coat-of-
arms and cipher. lie has upon his
throat great scar" etc. A reward is
offered for bringing him back.
In the Daily Post of August 4, 1720, is
a similar notice: Went away the ed
of July last from the house of william
Webb, in Limehouse Hole, q negro
man, about twenty years old, called
Dick, yellow complexion, wool hair,
about FIVE feet six inches high, having
on his right breast the word Hare
burned. Whoever brings him IA the
said Mr.. Webb's shall have half guinea
reward and reasonable charges"
Again, in the Daily journal for Sep
TENDER %, l12s. is an advertisement for
a runaway black boy. 1t is added that
he had the words MY Lady Brom-
fields black in Lincoln's Inn Fields"
engraved ON collar round his neck
The degrading custom of decorating
male and female slaves in England
with collar bearing the name and Dies
ignation Of their owners had the exam.
pie set for it in high quarter.
There still exists at Hampton Court
the bust of a favorite slave of King
William Ill. the head of which is of
black marble, while encrcling the
throat is carved white marble collar
with a paddock, in every respect like a
metal dog collar.
In the museum of the Antiquarian
society in Edinburgh there is spcci-
men of those slave collars, although in
this case the wearer of the collar was
not a black man, but white. The
collar bears the following inscription:
alexander Stewart, found guilty of
death for theft, at Perth, December 5,
1901. Gifted by the justiciaries as a
perpetual servant TO Sir John Erskine
of Alva"
That a collar was considered as es-
sential for black slave as for dog is
shown by an advertisement in the Lon
don Advertiser for 1856. i'm which Mat
thew Dyer, working goldsmith at the
Crown in Duck lane, Orchard street,
Westminster, intimates to the public
that he makes 'silvcr padlocks for
blacks or dogs, collars" etc.-Cham-
bcrs Journal.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Chinese Women slaves OF Fashion.

An idea has prevailed that Chinese
woman had at least never to bother
herself over changes in the fashion Of
her dress, which, it seems, is highly
erroneous A Canton or Pekin belle
endures her styles longer than her Amer
lean or French sister, but every few
years novelty is introduced. just
now the sleeves of her dress are wide
and loose, but a few seasons ago they
were very tight. The length of the
overjacket or tunic also varies at diff
ferent times, for the moment being
quite long, and the tlowery pattern of
the stuffs from which her gowns are
made changes perhaps once in five
years. A Chinese woman has, how
ever, one great compensation. The
mems and women's fashions are prac-
tically the same, and her lord has ex-
actly the same bother that she has
when she has any.-Chicago Post
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
NATURAL FIGHTERS.
Russian Soldiers Go Into Battle to Win
Some Examples.

Russian soldiers Go Into Battle to Win
Some Examples.
1T may be worth while, now that
there is so much talk about Russia's
preparations for war;" said the army
officer, ito recall the fact that Russians
are natural fighters. DO you recall the
war stories which appeared awhile ago
in one of our magazines? Here the dis
cipline of the cars army and the love
for fighting were shown in most con-
vincing ways. In the paper on the Rus
sian army the story was retold of an
order given to Russian regiments to
take some hills then in the possession
of the enemy. The regiments started
with rush, and thrice the order for
retreat was given. But by some mis-
understanding one regiment failed to
receive the orders. When it was learned
that this rcgim ent was missing the
whole Russian army received orders to
advance and to take the nights. When
the sun rose next morning it was dis
covered that the one missing regiment
had taken the nights, licked its own
army on one side and the enemy on the
other. That's the Russian idea of fight
ing"
This same war article" the speaker
added, tells of another night attack.
The enemy fell upon the cars troops
when they were making forced march
at night. They were in confusion, blu,
they stood still and allowed themselves
to be shot down until they could form.
And how do you suppose this was done:
The first man of the first company fired
and the company formed, each man
finding his position by the fash of the
preceding mans rife. The first com
pany once in line, the second formed in
the same way, and SO the whole army
by the fash of gunpowder in the black
ness of night found its position. Wher
daylight came the whole army was
seen to be stretched across the plain il
line as true as if drawn with rule
The Russian is a natural soldier, anG
the discipline which he undergoes makes
him superb fighter. T. Tribune
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11

"Pop-eye portraits is what one wag
calls the photographs that are taAcu by
dropping a nickel in the slot of one of
the new picture mills. The customer
drops in his nickel and regards with a
tender smile the fair maiden who oper-
ates the machine. lie fatters himself
that his picture will be what the ladies'
call sweet But fizz! goes the flash
light and out pop his eyes. 1t can not
be helped unless you wear blue glasses.
IN. Y. Sun.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Foolish Funeral Gust oms.

Experience. especially in recent years,
teaches that funerals produce funerals.
Many fatal disease has been con-
tracted through standing in cold and
wet beside the open grave of a friend or
relative, and inhaling, while the last
rites of religion are being paid to the
memory of the dead, the seeds of death
There are thousands of examples to
prove this fact The members of the
family, who are exhausted by long and
trying vigils beside the bedside of a
loved one, who has, at last, been OBJ
liged to succumb to the grim reaper,
are subjected on the day of the funeral,
especially during the winter season, to
the sevel est tests, and it is not at all
surprising that many of them are in
volved in the same fate. They stand,
shivering and wet, beside the grave
until it is filled up, grassed and trimmed.
Some of the public men, who have re-
Gently died, owe their fatal illness to
this pious but extremely dangerous
custom A sensible reform seems to be
eminently in order in this direction
Albany Argus.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
A Glass Savings Bank.

Savings banks are now all the rage,
and the inventors of novelties are vie
ing with each other in making unique
things in this direction, says an ex-
change. The latest device in this line is
a safe made of glass. AS it's contents
are always visible it cannot be pilfered
without detection, while the character
of the material of which it is made is
proof against the within of the owner in
the matter of emptying it. 1t is claimed
that the bank will encourage saving
habits, while it is neat and attractive
ornament.-N. Y. Continent.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Why Some Marriages Are Failures.

One reason why marriage is SD often
failure is that the average man falls in
love with woman because she has two
or three of the qualities which he attrib-
utes to the ideal woman and never gets
over blaming her afterward because she
doesn't have the rest. Women don't
make any such mistake. They don't ex-
pect to find in the average man any Of
the qualities possessed by their ideal
and they are very seldom disappointed.
--Somcrville Journal
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11

Tho spiders appeared, bringing elegant lace
Woven in patterns OF beauty and grace"
Not often, however. are such exhibits
shown in bulk, yet reliable accounts
furnish instances of showers of gossa-
mer webs. as seen in different parts of
the world, presenting an appearance of
wonderful beauty. One such. mentioned
in Whites Selbourne, had webs strong
of texture, in the meshes of which heavy
dew-drops hung in abundance, making
in sunlight avery brilliant show; one
such fall continued all day. In Wis
consin such showers have fallen in sew
eral towns at once; the aerial tourists
having charge of this singular visitation
of beauty were supposed to have come
from the lake. The webs varied in
length from sixty feet to a mere speck,
and were seen as high up in the air as
the power of the eye could reach. Oar.
win observed a similar shower of Cos.
samer webs from the deck of a vessel
when sixty miles from land.-Harper's
Razar
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Food preiudice9.

The climate of IIindoostan explains
the religious scruple which would make
millions of Brahmins prefer starvation
to meat stews, but a less ineligible
prejudice is that of the Japanese peas
ants, who could as soon be persuaded
to drink blood as cows milk. The
Abyssinian highlanders would shrink
from neither alternative. but would
promptly cut the acquaintance of
neighbor who should defile himself by
broiling rabbit Moses, too, interdicts
rabbits flesh, which constitutes the
only luxury of the snow-bound Jakoots,
who would scorn to waste a copper coin
on Chinese tea, but are apt to get drunk
on a decoction of fiy-toadstool. The
Tartar emirs scandalize American mis-
sionaries by their fondness for milk
brandy lkoumiss), but are in their turn
amazed at the caprice that makes their
pious guests prefer pork to horse-flesh.
Toledo Blade.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Thoroughly Refined.

Mrs. Fangle-How do you like your
now maid, Mrs. Jingle?
Mrs. Jingle-O, she'd be all right il
she were not SO over-refned.
Mrs. Fangle-In what way?
Mrs. Jingle-She never breaks any.
thing but the most costly Dresden china.
st Joseph News
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
The English Language In Mexico.

1t is most significant fact that En-
glish is largely replacing French as the
first foreign language to be learned in
the schools and colleges. Travelling as
have recently done in South America
and Cuba as well as in Mexico, l have
been impressed with the contrast in
this respect. Many times when l have
put questions in the streets to shop
keepers and police officers, the answers
to my Spanish have come in clear,
straightforward English such as is
never heard in the countries of the
South from natives. Mexican children
are learning English in the schools, and
their fathers are picking it up whenever
they have chance to learn a new
word. There is a very strong prejudice
in the country against the incoming
horde Of Americans, but the natives are
learning to speak English as they have
never mastered French. This is one of
many signs showing that the United
States and Mexico are destined to have
closer and more harmonious relations
with each other in the future than in
the past.-Mexican Letter.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Origin of the French Early Breakfast.

The origin of the French fashion of
taking before breakfast some beverage,
which either takes the shape of coffee
or chocolate, or some less innocent"
fluid, is curious and amusing. The GUS
tom is still popularity called ''killing the
worm" 1t is explained in an old diary
of the time Of Francis l., in connection
with the sudden death of the wife of
one of the kings court officials. NJ. La
Vernade. When she was opened liv-
ing worm which had pierced her was
found upon her heart. Then they put
some mithridate upon the heart in order
to make the worm die. But it did not
die. Then they put some bread soaked
in wine, and from eating it the said
worm died. 1t therefore follows that
it is expedient to take bread and wine
in the morning, at all events in times of
danger, for fear OF the worm. Pail
Mall Gazette.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11

Inkcrs-I see you took in Niagara
Falls on your wedding tour.
Winkers-Y-e-s, l noticed my wife
hadn't the first notion Of how much it
costs to live. SO l spent week there
N. Y. Weekly.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
Learning to Walk.

People sometimes ask at what age
can we seat a child in chair, when put
him on his legs, how old must he be be-
fore we teach him to walk? The an
swers are easy. lie must not be made
to sit till he has spontaneously sat up
in his bed and has been able to hold his
seat. This sometimes happens in the
sixth or seventh month, sometimes
later. The sitting posture is not with
out danger, even when he takes it him
self. Imposed prematurcly upon him
it tires the backbone and may interfere
with the growth, SO the child should
never be taught to stand or to walk.
That is his affair, not ours. Place him
on carpet in a healthy room or in the
open air and let him play in freedom,
roll, try to go ahead on his hands or
feet, or go backward, which he will do
more successfully at first. 1t all grad
ually strengthens and hardens him.
Some day he will manage to get upon
his knees, another day TO go forward
upon them and then to raise himself up
against the chairs. lie thus learns to
do all he can as fast as he can and no
morc.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
A Family Affair.

Rich uncle - You might as well stop
incoming about Miss Beauty. She
hasn't been in love with you after all.
She's been after the money she thought
You would inherit from me-
Nephew Impossible! Why do you
think SO?
Eich uncle-I have proposed to her
myself and been accepted. - N. Y.
Weekly.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11
He Earned 1t.


The other hot day when a tramp asked
a woman on Clifford street for some
thing to eat, she replied:
Earn it and will"
but what have you to do?"
Nothing, really, but you get that
snow shovel from the shed and go out
and pretend that there's foot 0f snow
on the walk Go through the motions,
anyhow"
The fellow saw the humor of the stu
alton and he piled the shovel so vigor-
ously that at the end of twenty minutes
he had crowd of thirty people looking
at him.
''Snow all cleaned off, ma am" he re-
ported at the door.
"Very web, clean your feet and come
into the kitchen. detroit Free Press.