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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

There are innumerable odd and in
teresting things in the names of Lon
don streets as well as in their APP
pearance and the fantastic ways in
which they wind about. Probably
there is nothing odder than the ex-
perience of a stranger in walking
along Bishopsgate, who looks up and
suddenly sees that he is no longer in
the street of that name, but in one
bearing the preposterous title of
Bishopsgate Without. To the Lon
doner, always accustomed to that
sort of thing, there is nothing out of
the way in this, and probably not
from one years end to the other
does he give a single thought to the
fact that the latter name indicates
that that portion of the street was
once outside of the gate bearing the
designation Bishops. Cor. New
York Tribune.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04


In the French primary schools the
children pay for their.midday meals
by means of counters, which are
bought by their parents at so much
dozen, but in case of poverty,
either chronic or occasional, these
tickets can be obtained without pay
ment, though when the children
give them in they do so just as the
others do, and none of their compan-
ions know whether it is by the care
of the state or of their own parents
that these little ones are fed. Be
fore we exclaim at the cost to the
taxpayer we must remember that
the French have no poor law Like
ours and that this is simply one of
their methods for distributing relief,
and probably less costly than our
own.
1t is something to be able to feel
that there hardly can be such thing
as an absolutely starving child in
Paris within the limits of school age,
and this not in winter only, but all
the year round. One meal a day at
least the state insists upon, and it
seemed to me that this vigilance over
the health of the young this deter
mination to take off for them the
sharpest edge of extreme privation
without marking them with the
brand of pauperism, must in time
have visible effects on the physical
well being of the entire population
What an untold relief to many moth
ers it must be to know that on school
days at any rate their children are
sure of at least one good meal day.
tits eaten on temporary tables formed
with boards and trestles i-Macmil-
lan's Magazine.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
Catching Rabbits with clubs.

This is tie way they catch rabbits
in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
The hunter goes out just at dusk
and builds large fire at the edge of
a cedar swamp, then retires. The
rabbits seeing the light are attracted
in large numbers. Finding the fire
warm and agreeable they sit around
until the fire burns out. The snow,
being warm and melted, freezes
rapidly, and very soon the rabbits
find themselves frozen fast. In the
morning the hunter comes armed
with club and knocks them ON the
head. Cor. Forest and Stream.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

Much has been heard of late of
drugs, leaves Of plants, ETC., with
the property of comforting upon
mankind the power to withstand fa-
tigue. A pastil which is said to
take the place of food and drink
was lately tested on company of
Roumanian soldiers who completed
a march of seventy-five miles in
twenty-seven hours, and whose sole
food during that time was in the
form of these pastiles. First, each
man had pastil every half hour,
and later on, three every hour; at
the same time the pastils dissolved
in small quantity of water were
supplied to the horses which accom-
panied the troop. At the conclusion
of the march both men and officers
declared that they felt no fatigue
whatever, and spoke highly of the
sustaining powers of the new prep
aration. The pastils are said to
contain large quantity of caffeine.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
Coal on CasunltIe. m rur,and,

In England alone there are more
than 10000, 900 lamps burning min
eral oil in nightly use, and though
perhaps some of us hardly realized
that the employment of these lamps
was so general, we are constantly
reminded by the newspaper reports
of terrible accidents that the use of
such lamps is not only common, but
dangerous. At a recent inquest upon
a victim of one of these accidents it
was stated that 800 deaths every
year are caused in this country alone
by similar disasters, and in one year
Captain Shaw. the former superin-
tendent Of the London fire brigade,
reported 1856 fires caused by the up
setting of lamps in the metropolis. =
Chambers Journal.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

The principle of the electric clock
is very simple. A standard electric
regulator is placed in the hall of a
private house. or in the chief offices
of works. This regulator works by
its own action for, say, 595 seconds,
when electric contact is made and a
magnetic pull is exerted, and during
the remaining half second required
to complete the round of the minute
wheel an ingenious contact arrange
ment lifts small hall and momen-
tarily breaks the circuit, so that the
wheel becomes free again. Then by
the aid and momentum of the PEN
dulum the motion is continued, and
the automatic electric action goes on
perpetually day after day, year after
year, for one, three or five years, ac-
cording to the battery power sup
Piled
The regulators are made to regu-
late ten, twenty or thirty secondary
clocks connected in series. These
clocks can of course be fitted in va
rious parts of the house, buildings,
works or railway station, as the case
may be, and can thus be successfully
driven by four to six volts of inter
mittent current within a radius of
two OF three miles. The secondary
clocks, being in sympathetic action
with the main circuit clock, are cleo
trically regulated every minute, and
it is claimed that by new method
of regulation no clock can deviate
from another of the same series for
more than one second under any con,
ditions whatever. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
Robert y. Burdette Draws Picture of a
Man In an Intelligence Ofice.


Man In an Intelligence ONCE.
He enters the precincts of tie bu-
rcau Black is his brow, and rasp
ing with unwonted harshness is his
voice, writes Robert j. Burdette in
The Ladies' Home Journal of the man
who enters an intelligence Office in
search of a ''cook" and a second
girl" Sternly he bends bis gaze
upon the superintendent. She lifts
her own eyes passing moment to
meet his ferocious expression, tran
gully as one who had been weaned
in early infancy on just such glances
from much larger men. She resumes
her writing. There is something in
the atmosphere of this strange place
that chills him. He snorts "Good-
aft'noonl" in one word, and in the
same tone in which he had snarled
''G'mornl'' to his typewriter. The
superintendent looks up pleasantly
and says, Good afternoon, sir, with
excessive courtesy and just a little
Boston icing on it.
He breaks into a cold perspiration
as the horrible thoughtsweeps across
his mind that she may have followed
him there to witness the battle. He
looked over his shoulder as muir
derer might look around at the ghost.
He would give dollar if the Office
boy would just come after him with
a message. He knocks his head off.
His tongue cleaves to the roof Of his
kiln dried mouth. He takes off his
hat. He prefers request for an in
terview with lady who might be
willing to accept situation to assist
in general housework.
The lady is presented "An how
many hav yez in the familya"
Give" He is alone. He hears an
unfamiliar voice beyond the parti-
ton saying, as to an audience,
"Thayre's house full O thin" He
suggests, in hoarse, strange voice,
that he will try for two. They are
summoned. The candidate for cook
is taller than himself; the sticking
gyrul'' demands of him where he
lives. He names the street. The
two ladies turn to look into each
others faces; two harsh and hollow
bursts of laughter CRATE upon the
startled air; two faces look down
upon him with plying commisera-
ton, and he is once more alone. He
goes out like man walking in his
sleep. He falls over dog and "begs
pardon" He meets the Office boy
and lifts his hat to that astonished
young rebel.
He sees his typewriter waiting for
a car, and calls a hanson for her.
He reaches home, and when the lad
interim" Ellen Eliza opens the door
he calls her madam" and apologies
for troubling her. You say, Where
is the new girl?" He says 'Oh, didn't
have time to go for her" And he is
correct. She went for him. After
this perhaps you had better not say
to him about it.
0 patient, much enduring, long
suffering woman, no man living
knows upon what heartaches and
trials and tribulations of the flesh
and the spirit his happy home is
founded! Ii he did he couldn't sleep
in It,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

The Spanish regard for a fine bull
Is well known Very often the ami
mails of the bull ring are as famous
as the toreadors. This regard for the
bull was put to very new and sim
gular use in town in the province
of Toledo. An election was being
held i'll the little town of Oropesa,
where the ministerialists, or govern
ment party. and the Carlists, or Span
ish "old liners" were nearly of equal
strength. Each party therefore was
trying to prevent the other from poll
ing its full vote.
The polling had gone on without
any apparent majority on either
side until nearly the end of the day.
All at once all parties were greatly
interested in the appearance of
superb bull, led by a countryman,
exactly before the door of the voting
booth. Everybody took an interest
in him
Presently it was observed that as
certain voters approached the door
of the booth the Lull made sudden
lunge toward them This frightened
them so that they took to their heels,
and did not dare to approach the
door again.
But when certain other voters
came up the bull stepped back
politely and let them enter. In
course of time it turned out that all
the voters who had been frightened
away were ministerialists and all
those who had been allowed to vote
were Carlists.
When it was too late to change the
result, and the Carlists had carried
the day in Oropesa, it came out that
the supposed countryman was
Carlist ''heeler" in disguise, and that
by means of a braided stick con-
cealed under his flowing cape he
had goaded the bull forward when
ever a ministerialist appeared and
urged him backward when a Carlist
hove in sightl-Youth's Companion.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
sorne sehaoi RsnIiea.

In New Zealand school a right
, angle was drawn upon the black
board and correctly described
enough, but when another was
drawn the description was thus
given, "A left angle" Perhaps
the best reply was upon an historical
subject. What caused the civil
war in the reign of Charles H. His
leaving tacks" lfor levying taxes
probably ION the seats Of the house
of commons A very good reason
for persons rising in Indignation. =
San Francisco Argonaut
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
MOTHERS posIes.

Kind o. purty, don't yuh think
Green an red an yeller
Bloomin in tn winder there
Sort o. makes feller
Think Z summers back agin,
Even though he knows his
Eyes " ou'y caught tn shine
There NV mothers posies.
In tn ole tomater cans
An th' pots an boxes,
There they bloom as big as life
Pinks an hollyhockses.
Creepin things an vi'lets. too.
Purity colors shown,
Peekin through tn winderpane
Out whur it's a-snowin.
There's n grea' big fuzie there
Neth some ferns aside 1t,
All Il primrose weth some moss
Tryin fer tub hide It:
An geraniums an sich
Cluttered all together,
Bloomin there like sixty an
I4aughin al tn weather.
Pots o. green and pots o. red
Make up lights an shadders.
Weth tn ivy an tn vines
Climbin' up tn ladders
Whut whitfield ont m'self
Jes' fer them to grow on
An Their banterin tn snow
An TIL wind a-blowin.
Yes, Stree, it's purity an
Soothin like. an cheerin
To set here on days like this
An seq mother clearin
Ont tn dead leaves an sich things
FFrum tn vines an phloxes
In th' ole tonater cans
An tn pots an boxes.
Carl Smith in Harper's Weekly
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

The four-in- hand is the favorite
scarf Of the legion of well to do men
the country over. There is a feeling
for wider goods in this staple style,
and demand for the wide aproned
species tied in smaller knot and
spread out amply over the shirt
front. The graduated four-in-hand
Is an innovation of recent date that
may DO formed into many individu-
alistic knottings. -Clothier and Fur
nisher,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

Clerk lof furnishing storel - Is there
anything else, madam. that you
would like TO get for your husband
todayi
Mrs. Bingo No, believe not. BY
the way, when you send the pack,
age home, he sure and have the
pajamas done up separately. II you
don't he viii get the idea In his head
they are for him. Clothier and Fur
nisher,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
circumIocutieu.

The Boston girl never hollers ''hel-
To- az the mouth Of telephone
She simply SAYS as she puts the re-
ceiver 70 her ear, Il take the liberty
Of addressing you via q wire sur
charged g with electricity."-- Tsxas
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04
SUCCESS or ,s4e rnuruesApH.



SUCCESS or ls7t rnuNvGRApH.
II II Believed to ISc More Practical and
Reliable Tban Typewriter.
The phonog1nph has probably seen
more ups and downs than any OTHER
instrument Of equal usefulness. When
first presented to the public it was
not commercially serviceable, and its
early days were beset with legal com
plications and financial obstacles.
Later Edison again turned his atten-
ton to the instrument that he knew
had more in it than had yct been
brought out. and he eventually pro
duced the perfected photograph. The
new instrument was tried in many
offices and pronounced failure. The
user either would not or could not
learn to adjust it properly, or did not
know that photograph dictation has
to be learned like any other art, on
the regulation of the batteries became
an irlkso1ne task; at all events the
ultimatum was pronounced, he
''could't be bothered with it, and the
monograph company was requested
to take the instrument away.
Men of more intelligence and pa
tience, however. had as rule very
different result from this, and the
instrument is now rapidly gaining
ground and is spoken of most en-
Enthusiastically by those who use it
daily. In Washington the old method
of debating to a typewriter is declin.
ing and the stenographer dictates his
notes direct to the phonograph at
any speed at which he can read them.
The convenience Of this plan is al
most incalculabie and the saving in
time immense. Commercial men are
just beginning to realize what it
means to have phonograph at their
elbow, and appreciate the ability to
dispose of mail of 100 to $50 letters
in morning.
In novices at phonograph dictation
there is generally little nervous,
ness and disinclination to subject
possible repetitions and mistakes to
the critical ear of the typewriter.
Mannerisms and hesitancy of speech
are not noticed in ordinary dietation
after the ear has become accustomed
to them, but on the phonograph they
are so reproduced that their pecu-
liasities become more apparent. But
this difidence, as a rule. soon passes
away and the triumphant expedition
with which an overwhelming mass
Of correspondence can be disposed Of
is the best possible tutor in enabling
the business man to do justice both
to his own resources and those Of the
instrument.
The popular idea of the phonograph
il gained from the nickel-in-the-slot
instruments that are distributed all
over the country, the records on
which are but too often thin, squealsy
and unnatural, and utterly nlislead-
ing as an indication Of what the pho
nograph really can do. The singing
and speaking records on skillfully
and suitably adjusted instrument can
only be described as magnificent, and
the voice comes out with natural
quality and with such resonance that
nearly 100 per cent. of the original
sound Is reproduced. Such results as
these are not to be obtained by
bungler, hnt that they are available
Is certain.
One of these days the general pub
lie will be educated up to the proper
adjustment Of their monographs,
and then the best and the truly mar
velous results of the use of the instru-
ment will be obtained. --Pittsburg
Dispatch
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-04

indemnity old
At death
III Cotton Gen of the Maachu
the city and youre thinking
Call the Willamette Hotel the Office
Of MllCHElIL " LoNN, heHdent Agents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
A Successful Company.

1t is well to know how and where to safely
invest and at the same time feel certainty
of reliable income OF at least six per cent
per annum. The Northern Investment
Company, whose offices are at 246 Washing
ton street, a corporation organized nearly
two years ago, having for its basis the best
central business real estate in Sioux City,
Ia, has achieved a remarkable success,
owing to great public improvements in
augurated in that city since they purchased
their real estate. Not only has the COM
pany acquired already paid-up capital of
over 100000, but it has accumulated a
large surplus from the appreciation in value
of it's real estate, and win soon be rapidly
increasing this surplus by its income in ex-
cess of its dividends. This surplus belongs
to the stockholders, and will be divided from
time to time in the way of extra dividends.
The Northern Investment Company has
been managed with scrupulous fidelity
and care, and as result great success has
attended its investments, and the future
prospects Of the company are all that could
be desired. The present dividend OF six
and one-half per cent per annum is always
promptly paid quarterly at the Traders
National Bank, Boston. These dividends,
with the extra dividends sure to come later
on, make this stock one of the most desir-
able in the market The present value of
the stock is $10S.25.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
Congress-.

WEDNESDAY, February I7.-Joint resolu-
ton was passed by the senate requesting the
president to return to Mexico twenty one
battle-fags now in the museum of the
United States military academy. The
Idaho contested election case was discussed,
the point OF the argument turning on the
precise period at which the senate of Idaho
was organized Mr.. Claggett contests the
seat OF Mr.. Duboia - The house com
mittee on fisheries considered bill to al
low the menhaden and mackerel fisheries to
be pursued within the marine jurisdiction
of the United States, regardless of state
laws to the contrary.
THURsDAY.-Mr. Proctor of Vermont in
troduced u Joint resolution providing for
constitutional amendment, so that the pres
ident shall hold office for one term of six
years, and shall not be eligible to re cleo
- The house spent its time discussing
silver and the Indian bill.
FRIDAY.-In the senate the bill regulating
the immigration of Chinese was continued
in force for ten years. After discussion
upon a highway bill for the District of CO.
lumbia the senate adjourned until Tuesday.
- In the house, free silver had the
floor, and Congressman Harter of Ohio dealt
some more of his sledgehammer blows at the
policy of forcing seventy cents worth of
silver upon the people as legal tender for a
dollar. Mr.. Cobb of Alabama and Mr..
1dTttr ROJ lHbO u DTleI OuU angry COllOQuy,
and their words were drowned by demands
of regular order" from the democrats and
cries of "Oh, let them go on" from the re-
pubicans. When comparative order was
restored, Mr.. Cobb stated that the gentle.
man from Ohio had been wilfully and de-
liberately violating the rules. Mr.. Harter
made no reply, and the two gentlemen
shook hands amicably. Adjourned until
Tuesday
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES
SENATOR MORRILL, says no tariff bill will
pass the senate. 1t was at one time thought
possible that free binding-twine bill
might pass, but the operations of the Nc
Kinley law had shown that binding-twine
had been rendered cheaper to the consumer
because of it.
The president last Wednesday sent to
congress message calling attention to the
Cboctaw and Chicasaw claims for the pay
ment of which congress appropriated ST.
99l ,450 at the last session. The agents are
charged with extortion, and the president
commends the matter to the attention of
congress-.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24

He entered the money car, and shot Daniel
T. Mclnerney, the messenger. The latter
had pulled the signal rope, and the train
was stopped at Lyons. A search was begun
for the robber. He was standing in the
crowd, cool and unconcerned. An attempt
was made to seize him, but he held the
crowd at bay, boarded freight engine, cut
IL loose from the train, and dashed down
the track followed by Conductor Laas and
four other men in the passenger engine.
The Central Hudson il four-tracked road,
and the puTsuers soon everhaued the rob-
Der. A volley of shots were exchanged.
AS his engines steam gave out, the robber
jumped OFT at a cross-road, stole q horse and
cutter, and was off again After a wild pur-
suit across country he was finally captured
in swamp He is supposed to be the
much-wanted Oliver Curtis Perry, who was
alleged to have been captured at Montpe-
lier some time ago.
MT. VEsUvIUs is again in a state Of erup-
ton.
THE elections in Japan have been at
tended by many riots.
SIXTY houses have been destroyed by an
earthquake at Nanetsu, Japan. Smallpox
is raging at Yokohama and Iokio.
II is thought that parliament will not sit
longer than Easter, and that the general
elections will he held in the spring More
will be known after debate closes on Mr..
BalfOur y local government bill for Ireland.
Mr.. Morley challenged Mr.. Balfour to go to
the country on it. The bill me- cts with
fierce opposition from the liberals and
McCarthyites. March is fixed for its
second reading.
A CRIME in high life is reported from Col
eraine, Ireland. A daughter of Lord Rob
ert Montagu was committed for trial, last
Wednesday, charged with causing the death
of her daughter, three years old. Mrs.
Montagu became enraged at her daughters
conduct, locked her in a dark room, bound
her arms behind her back, and tied her to a
ring in the wall AT the expiration of three
hours the room was revisited, when the
child was found dead.
THK pope has spoken in significant man.
ner: "All the citizens of France should
meet upon the ground of legality. Each in
dividual may cherish his own preferences
But when in the domain of action, nothing
else exists but the government which France
has chosen. The republic is ds legitimate a
form of government as any other The church
should keep to its true mission 1t should
reform souls and inculcate the spirit of self
sacrifice and devotion"
DAISY HOPKINS, the recent heroine" of
Cambridge, Eng, was last week sentenced
to seven days imprisonment for being
drunk and disorderly, using obscene Ian
guage, and assaulting the police Some
time ago Daisy was caught walking on the
streets with college student, and was locked
up by the proprietor under an old law
which gives the University authorities juris-
diction over the townspeople of Cambridge
for walking on the streets with the students.
This " outrage caused storm of virtuous
Indignation to sweep over Great Britain.
Daisy was released and became an object
of popular sympathy, and popular sub
scription was raised to defray the expense
of suit for damages which she brought
against the proprietor.