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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
NOT A DONATION PARTY.
Bazaar That Took some Cognizance OF
the Needs of Bachelors.
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.1

WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH1
eff I am to run this bazaar" said Au-
gusta, her black eyes shining with an ex-
ecutive glow, 'I'm going to run it to make
money. And I'm going to reach for the
money just where it is to be found in the
largest quantities-in the pockets of the
men,"
"Well, but the men always buy half the
things at a church fair anyway" suggested
Florence, timidly."
"Of course they do, poor things" Augusta
assented, land to their everlasting confu-
sion and shamefacedness, too. If I live to
be 100 years old l shall never see more
pathetic sight than Willie Wallace, that
dear old moth-eaten beau, tripping gaily
about last year with q pink satin party bag
under his arm and a shepherdess' crook in
his hand, with yellow butterfly bow upon
it. What I'm going to do is to give these
men whom we mean to levy upon, fair
equivalent for their money in things they
can use themselves. I'm going to organize
a new kind of fair for men, and I'm going
to call it"
"Call it Bachelors Bazaar!'' cried out
little BERTHE Wilcox, excitedly
'"That's capital, and we'll have q be-
wildering arrav of things that bachelors
like, and we'll make more money and give
more satisfaction than ever bazaar gave be-
fore in life.''
And'they did. There were pocket hand
kerchiefs with initials and without in little
boxes of half dozen each, and there were
neckties of all KINDS, which any bachelor
could buy with confidence, knowing that his
women friends would approve them. Be-
sides these, there were silk dkerchiefs
and silk protectors, and gloves and key
chains, and the kind of writing paper that
men like. There were boxes for collars and
cuff, already filled, and silk umbrellas, and
scores of other things that any sensible
man would be willing to give up good, hard
dollars fol-, because he could see use in
them. But it is by no means to be supposed
that women and their needs and fancies
were wholly neglected in this bazaar
HELEN WATTERsoN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
HEALTH IN THE SUNBEAM.
A Ray Will Kill the Germs of Consump-
ton and Most Other Diseases.

A Kay VIII hlIl Tue Terms OF COnSump-
ton and Most Other Diseases.
twRITTES FOR TIE DIsPArcH.1
Half the zymotic disease in the world is
the result of damp, dark, and their progeny
mold, decay and dirt. Any physician
will testify to that. The following quota
ton from paper read recently before the
American Public Health Association by its
President, Frederick Montizambert, NJ. ID.
T. r. C. S, D. c. L., of Quebec, ought to
be read by every housekeeper in this
country:
Everyone can do little, if onlv to
make one home or one room bright, more
cIeanly and more wholesome. Sunlight.
pure air and thorough cleanliness are nat
ural enemies to disease germs. The expert
ments of Koch, Ransome and others prove
that the living germs of consumption, when
exposed TO the sunlight, lose their vitality
in few hours, or even in a few minutes, if
the layer in which they are exposed be thin
enough, and that even ordinary daylight, if
it last long enough, will have a similar
effect. There is no sounder philosophy than
the old saving that there is more health in
a sunbeam than in drugs, more life in pure
air than in q physicians skill. "
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
WHAT FASHIONABLE WOMEN WEAR.
DRESS skirts longer than ever.

DRESS skirts longer tn:ln ever.
MINK fur and mink tails on hats.
MUCH fine white point de chene on black
hats
SEAL skin heavily trimmed with Persian
lamb.
WHITE kid gloves with black stitching to
shop in.
Fur girdles in costumes that are trimmed
with fur.
HEAVILY braided jackets in half and three
quarter lengths.
L1zARp-green velvet hats, with black Prince
of Wales feathers.
REAL lace wells with flowers and vines
climbing over the face.
LONG ends of velvet ribbons floating from
the back of their hats and no ties.
Fur cravats, with the head and tail and
sometimes the feet Of the animal preserved.
MARIE ANToINETTE fichus of chiffon hemmed
plain, ruffied or embroidered, folded corner
wise and knotted in front.
SAsHEs on evening frocks, with long ends,
but no loops, falling either from the waist or
from between the shoulders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03


| little town of Ogunquit, on the Maine coast,
There,was little lake or pond here that
was an eel paradise.
Ny young readers must not think that I
went sailing on the lake expecting to hear
the.notes of the eels rising in chorus from
the water. Not at all. I merely thought
that when there were so many surely few
would be found that would utter sounds
The lake was a tidal one; that is, at low
tide it ran out into the ocean, being then
fed by little stream of fresh water, and at
food-tide the ocean swept in, filling it up.
The lake was about three feet deep, with a
bottom of soft mud that was fairly alive
with eels. My first visit to the locality was
at sundown. The tide was low, and rapid
stream running from the lake. To cross
the stream removed my shoes and stock
ings and stepped in; the next moment was
floundering and slipping about on the
rocks, while seemingly hundreds of eels,
large and small, dashed against and around
nv feet, and left the water to go wriggling
awav at a rapid rate of speed, presenting a
marvellous spectacle.
Too Much Like Wriggling Serpents.
Thousands of the snake-like creatures
filled the little stream; were, in fact, going
down to the ocean in a solid mass, into
which 1 had stepped-an experience so dis
agreeable that gave up the investigation,
being willing to accept the word of other
observers that these fishes produce dis
tinctly musical sound, and that the note, a
frequently repeated single one, has a
slightly metallic resonance. In the days of
old Rome eels were believed to talk, and
the Emperor Augustus pretended to under
stand their language.
The sounds made by eels, and also cat
fishes, are produced by forcing air from the
swimming bladder into the esophagus. 1t
may be assumed that because the sounds are
uttered from the air bladder that they may
be meaningless; but my readers should re-
member that the air bladders of fishes is
homologous to the lungs of the higher back
boned animals, and the pneumatic duct
when referred to as a sound producer is to
be compared, as regards its function, with
the trschea of birds and milk-givers.
The Noises Made by Drum Fish.
The loudest sound-maker is the drum fish,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Tho Poison of Bamboo.

A cut inflicted with blade of grass or q
sheet of writing paper is bad enough, but
the most disagreeable wound that can be in
flicted On the human body is that made with
a strip of bamboo. The outside of the bam-
boo contains so much slick that it will cut
like knife: in fact, the Chinese and Japa-
nese do make knives of it, which are cheap
and for time tolerably effective. A cut
made with bamboo is exceedingly hard to
heal and obstinate ulSteFs are ap. to result.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
rivaled by humans,


AS they sweep
On sounding skates q thousand different
ways.
In circling poises, swift as the wind along,
sings Thomson.
The boy who has never learned to skate
has lost a pleasure that is dear to boys
heart, but there are few who have not tried
skating, however limited the streams, pond,
or icy place for practice may have been.
Skates are very old; hundreds, nay, per-
haps thousands of years before this damp
winter, skating was a merry sport Per-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
A City of Wide Latitude.

Clothier and Furnsher.l
Chicago Mani want to change my order
for linen duster, and order a fur-l1ned.
coat.
Tailor-Yes, sir. Nothing wrong, sir?
Chicago Man-Oh, no. 1 have just moved
into more northern part of the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. ]

H E r E is no more
graceful and healthful
exercise than skating.
A skillt'ul skater makes
one almost look for the
wings that the ancients
fixed to the ankles of
Mercury, Perseus and
Minerva. In one thing
an the birds be
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

No matter how active retail business may
be, the last two or three days Of a month are
almost invariably easy for the statesmen,
while the first few days of the month are
always the busiest. 1t is obvious that this
is the result of the diplomacy of BUYERS who
are aware of the custom Of issuing all bills
on the LIST, and who are anxious to secure -
much credit as possible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

below in box. an if it's shook it'll eg-
splode. 1t must not on inny account be
opined till yes wants ter use it. Now,
where'n yer put it?'
There's the high dogcart in the car
riage-house," suggested Dick. "Fath er
never uses it;,why wouldn't that be good
place."
"Sure an it would Take it there now,
an put it under the seat, an mind We don't t
stumble An afore we breaks up, let's
give three cheers for the knights that's
goin to trow off the yokes from their hicks
to-morrer night.
ssWell, how do you think it went OFF,"
The members of the brotherhood stopped
in the lane near the common and looked
gloomily at each other.
Jack shufiied his feet, and twisted his
torch from side to side.
''It wasn't as good as 1 thought it would
be-" he muttered. sit made me feel mean
when we came to mother. Wish 1 hadn't
carried Shall our pareRts rule us no?' -
''W1sh hadn't been in it at all, shifted
Tommy eff you had seen the governors
face when he saw the old thing carried
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
machine, namely, to get wide surface for
the support of the air, has been successfully
applied to the snowshoe.
Development of the Snow sho

Whoever this forgotten wise inventor
was he must have noticed that sometimes
the snow would almost bear him up on the
area of his shoe stles and he reflected that
if he had larger feet it would be positive
advantage. He plaits up some twigs into a
circular shape and finds that the surmise is
correct, but the snow collects on these
primitive shoes and retards his walking.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

lSTEN J We were
fishing on the edge OF
the great coral reef
that reaches out to-
ward Yucatan from
Florida, and as my
companion spoke he
held his hands, in the
act of unlocking it, q
brilliantly colored fish
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Circumstoutial Evidence,

Clothier and Furnisherl
He-You didn't know was color blind,
did YOU?
She-I suspected it from the neckties you
wear.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Knew What He Was About.

Clothier ana Furnisher.l
Clerk--You had better get this underwear
a size too large, to allow for shrinkage.
Crstomer-Oh, this is all right. It's for
my Youngest boy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
A TALK WITH A FISH.

The Ii tile Fellow Pleaded Hard to Be Put
Back in the Water-Sounds Made by
Other Species-Some Can Make Music
Eel Language,
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

charged from crossbow The generous
Holland boy, Hans Brinker, was forced to
go back to the primitive way, when he had
given his skates to poor friend and had
foregone his chances in the race for the ''sil-
yer skates" 1t is thought that skates came
into use in Northern Europe, perhaps in
Holland, where it is cold and there is plenty
of smooth water, because, where the rivers
are swift there is no skating. The wooden
skates with iron runners curling up into a
wonderful spiral, terminated with brass
acorn at the point, were introduced into
England from the Low Countries.
Over Two Centuries Ago.
Cosby Pepys, in his diary of December
1, 1861, records: ''To my Lord Sandwiches, S,
to Mr. Moore and then over to the Parke,
where first in my life, it being great
frost, did see people sliding with their
skates, which is a very pretty art" The
Scotch have the reputation of being good
SKATERS, both in the fen or straight, swift
skating, and the Clancy" skating Our
country as the champion, 1 think, at pres
ent.
The snowshoe may be called the overland
skate. While the snow lay in great drifts,
defying progress, keeping hecivilized New
Englander in the house and setting Whit
tier to writing the beauties of "Snow
Bound" the Indian, fixing framework COW
cred with netting to his feet, could sally
forth to kill the foundering moose or deer
Snowshoes must have originated, like
skates, from sheer necessity. The savage
cannot lay up supply of food for long
time, he must be able to hunt all seasons
The same principle that MEN are trying to
apply now in the invention of the flying
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
SKATES AND SNOWSHOES.

The Boys of Three Centuries Ago Glided
About Shin-Bones of AnimaIs-The
Dutch First Used Metal-Devices for
Walking on Snow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

haps too many in this age of invention
think that more ideas are new than really
are so. If we remember that everything
we see around US grew up, then we can
begin the inquiry about skates that came
before the keen-edged "club," with all the
ardor of historians. 1t is certain that
skates would be of no use in the tropics:
we must look for their home in the land of
long winters, of crusty snow and slow, ice
hound rivers
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
Skating on S1lin-Bones.

as he bound the shin-bones of some animal
to his feet and went through a kind of
sprawling gymnastics that was the skating
of the period. In Iceland skates are called
isleggir, 'ice bones," the shin-bones of a
sheep.
If sheep shin-bones were the first skates,
then the boy who lived before iron or
bronze were known, back in the stone and
bone age, could enjoy himself with this
CHEEKY sport The boys of London in the
twelfth century, Fitz Stephen tells us, in
winter bind under their feet pair of shin
bones, take in their hands poles shod with
iron, which at times they strike against the
ice, and are thus carried along with the
rapidity of a bird on the wing or bolt dis
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
ONLY 4 FORM NOW.
The Electoral College Does NotDO
What the Framers of the Con-
stitution Intended.
IT DID THAT ONLY TWO TINES.
After That the Electors Considered Them
selves Duty Bound to Be Merely
Part of Machine.
TIE INNOVATION MADE BY MICHIGAN.
Henry Cabot Lodge Explains How Presidents Were to
Be Elected and Are Elected.
IT DID THAT ONLY TWO TIMES.
rwRIrrrN FOE THE prsPATcH. !

EEidea that written
laws or constitutions
of government are
unchanging and un-
changesble is at
least very old. The
laws of the Medes
and the Persians
have become, indeed,
a proverbial express
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

The idea occurred to me when visiting the
little town of Ogunquit, on the Maine coast,
There.was little lake or pond here that
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12
SCHOOL FUND.

The state treasurer made the annual
apportionment of interest arising from
the common school fund last Tuesday.
This money is distributed on the
March census of school children OF
scoool age in the state. The number
of persons in the state between the
ages of 4 and 20 years is II no, and
the total amount now apportioned is
$162,06650, being 81 As per capita.
The following is the amount appor-
toned to each county:
Baker, s32s2 o5; Benton, $500 IS;
Clackamas, $992s Is; Clatsop, $S774 80;
Columbia S2733 25; Coos, $2l2S IS; Curry,
1864 25; Crook, $l529 IS; Douglas. $6S99'
10; Grant, S2543 80; Gillian, $l85S so;
Harney, $llSl IS; jackson, $527S so; Jo'
sephine, $2646 Is; Klamath, $l344 Is;
Lake, Sll6l 45; Lane, s908S so; Liam.
$40. .434 20; Malheur, Sl23S 80; Marion,
SI274S 40; Morrow, S2l54 10; Maltnomah.
S26, 623 45; Polk. S4982 20; Sherman, ST.
l64 35; Tilamook, $2034 35; Umatilla. ",
2l5 20; Union. S637S 55; Wallowa, S2408'
As; Wasco, $4I7O 20; Washington, 1924
35; YamhiIl, $6736 70.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12
LOCAL NOTES.
First National Bank of Corvallis. Oregon.

First National Bank of Corvallis, Oregon.
C"oking butter at Kline's 10 cents per
pound.
Col Robert Avery, of New York, is in
the city visiting relatives.
Take your old silver cases to U. B. Vogle
and get new one in exchange.
Go to A. f. Peterson, for Picture frames.
Best of moulding constantly on hand.
Seasonable goods at Fish & Murphy's.
Lightning ice cream freezers, Enterprise
cherry sJoners, coal oil and gasoline stoves,
hose, lawn sprinklers.
If YOU need letter heads, statements
cards or envelopes you can get just what
you want at the GAZETTE office. Before
giving your order call and see our stock and
get prices.
o. q. Hopkins started on Saturday for
Colorado, with the expectation of being at
sent about two weeks At Denver he will
be Joined by his mother and sister. who re.
side in Chicago.
L. [. Mercer has returned from his vaca.
tion, and is ready to resume work again.
The regula, Sunday services will be held in
Fishers hall, next Sunday. Sunday school
at 10 a. m. preaching at IL a. m. and at s p
m. Everybody invited.
The excursion to the bay last Saturday
evening was largely attended, most of the
patrons coming from. Eugene. Another ex-
cursion from Salem will be given next
Saturday evening and will be accompanied
nv the Second Reoiment band
A young man by the name of Miller while
working on threshing machine on John
Richards farm last Friday, accidentally got
his hand into the cylinder where it was so
badly torn that 1t was found necessary to
amputate all but one of the fingers.
The dance at the opera house last Fri
day evening was well attended, there being
large number present from Albany besides
the dancers of our own city. The music,
supplied by the Marine orchestra,
was very go d and called forth many
mplimentaly remarks.
The reports of the San Francisco Board OF
Health, and the Tacoma. Seattle and Spo-
kane Boards of Health, are unusual tributes
TO De pald even to an iiCicie vi So hSh
character as the Royal Baking Powder.
These Boards say, in their judgement cit is
impossible to make purer or stronger bak.
ing powder than the Royal"
! Charles Denny, recently pardoned from
the penitentiary by Governor Pennoyer, is
to marry Miss Smith the woman he attempt.
ed to kill for which crime he was sentenced
to five years imprisonment, from Albany
after marrying he will settle down in Cor.
wallis. Denny evidently thinks there is
more than one way to get even with 9
wo nan.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12
THE TEMPTATION

To 90 out of doors in rough weather iss
not strong, but we are, many of us, CON-
PEELED to face rough weather frequently
Diseases which arise from chill are pecu-~
liar to no season of the year. This is true.
therefore there should be in the closet Oft
every household-what? Not an unmedi--
Gated stimulant, absolutely devoid of any,
thing but an excitive action, but tonic=
combining, in the effective forms an invig.
GRANT and an Alternative, the quality of dec
fence against changes of weather. Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters has three or four pro-
perties that no other article of its kind pos--
sesses Not only does it relieve the com.
plants which it eventually cures, it fortitiess
the system against the bad effects of changes
of temperature, fatally and too often shownr
in the deadly form of '1a grippe;" it pro-
duces radical change in the weakened con-
dition of system peculiarly liable to he at -
tackled by it, and it tends to provide against.
the danger resulting from an impoverished
condition of the blood and disordereoE
state of the liver or bowels.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12
DEAD SEA FRUITS.

They slay multitudes when they are the
product of neglect of incipient disease A
s'slight" cold, fit of indigestion, bilious
ness or constipation each or any of these
''minor ailments" advance in many cases
with '1eague-destroying strides. - Give
them swift, early defeat with H"sterters 8
Stomach Bitters and avert the danger.
Abernethy administered an alarming rebuke
to the man that informed him that he had
''only cold =, ''Only a cold" repeated
the doctor ''NNhat would ye have-the
plague ?" Rheumatism and la grippe are
easy extinguishable at the start, Why then
allow them to get up a full head of steam
The genial warmth which this superb medl-
cine diffuses through the system, and
impetus it gives to the circulation of the
blood, its soothing and strengthening effect
upon the nervous, specially recommend 1t 70
the enfeebled and sick. 'Tis the great speci.
fic for malaria,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12

by the Alpine club the day before WITH
their names and record. We put this iss
the box and having eaten lunch were ready
and anxious for our return to the warIat
mother EARTH!
The descent seemed more difficult thana
the ascent. We came without accidents
until we were across the crevasse abovss
the crater when the writer who had ;beena
placed in the lead on the way down slipped y
his alpenstock breaking from the ice. Thes
startling thrill when one feels himself slipping
is awful. The others held me with the ropes
till gained footing This SO unnerved NEE
that found difficulty in getting down frona'
the point We reached camp at five o'clock.
1t took us nine hours and a half to makes
the ascent and three hours to make the de-
scent. In coming down except on the steer'
dangerous places we could jump and slides
or fall down without danger
That night we all suffered from our eyess
having been injured by the sun. Miss
Evans eyes were swollen shut and her faces
was one blister.
July %, 1892, will be long remembered
l have thirteen views of Mt Hood whicha
give good idea of its ascent. All who'
wish can see them. l also have severaA u
hundred pebbles from the summit. If any"
one wishes a pebble he is welcome.
The company all agreed that they would
not have missed the trip for any amount of
money and that no amount of money wouldl
ever induce them to take it again.
The was party of three, two men ands
one woman. who started up the mountains
about an hour before our party. They lost
their footing and slid about three quarters"
| of a mile, brusing themselves badly. Two.
| days before we made the ascent, q party
started from Hood river to make the climb
They became ost and party of explorers
were sent out and brought them in. So ives
feel that our party We're successful, indeed
One of the ladies in our party, Miss How
ard, deserves special mention. She was justj
as fresh in the evening as in the morning..
and our party fifty named her ga bundle et-
| barbed wire"
We reached Portland in rags, withouti
provisions money! wiser, sadder ),
blacker company than that of six days beA-
fore. VIM. s.. GILBERT
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12
HOW'S THIS?

We offer one hundred dollars reward for
apy case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transae.
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o. WALDING, KINNAN MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucou
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by al
Druggists.