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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

A man with dog is not always to
be envied. met Billy Gl .ason, heavy
villain by profession and story teller
by occupation, ON Broadway the other
day and he wanted to give me a dog.
It was very kind of him. 1t wasn't his
dog: it was Harry Mainhalfs dog, lead
ing man of "The Ensign"-Mainhall.
not the dog.
Just grub stake him for the summer
said Billy. He is big st. Bernard
stands three feet high in his oare feet,
and eats only seven dollars worth
week; give him to you for his board
and clothes Here's an order for him."
No. | didn't want dog. | wouldn't
give ten cents a bunch for St. Bernards
for my purposes. The man in town
with dog is to be pitied. Scanlan had
lovely dog and a fat. The dog was a
Gordon setter, trained for the stage and
was worth 81 900. The fiat was worth
fifty dollars month. The dog and the
fat went together during the summer
months. 1t took two servants-one for
the dog and one for the fat. Poor Scan
Ian is now in an asylum. Gleason has
no grudge against me, beyond what can
be satisfied by compelling Inc to listen
to his stories. The stories are usually
good, but they can't be printed. They
are too numerous and voluminous.
But he wanted to get rid of that dog;
so in short pilgrimage down Broadway
he mentioned the st. Bernard to various
people of his broad acquaintance. Most
of these, it is true, belonged to the pro
fesh." They had long summer of 'at
liberty ahead, and the idea of taking
ST. Bernard into the family to board was
enough to paralyze them. A ST. Ber-
nard can't live on free lunches because
he can't drink beer. Some wanted to
know if they could eat him, others
whether he could be farmed out, others
whether they got bonus and could
poison the dog when they had spent the
money.
Some were willing to take him if he
were an English pug, or a sp."ial, or a
setter, or something else. But tt lly very
properly refused to offer the g. Bernard
as anything less great and not'. than ne
really is.--New York Herald.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

Here's a short lesson in contentment
that may be worth noting. A gentle
man at the north end of the town had
been annoyed by huge rat which per-
sisted in making way with chicken feed
and pretty much everything else that it
found in the barn loft, where few hens
were struggling to reproduce themselves
in the shape of chickens. One of the
new tangled French rat traps that have
attracted so much attention about town
had been baited with a choice piece u
roasted cheese to tempt the trespasser,
but the old fellow was too fly" and so
an old fashioned steel trap was buried
under the chaff in the well worn path
from under the hay, the wire affair be-
ing pushed aside meanwhile. The old
rat tumbled into the hidden trap and
was caught This was perhaps three
weeks ago.
Nothing was thought of the wire cagr
(Which lay half concealed by lock of
hay) until Saturday, when it was moved
out of the way. A mass of stuff in the
center of the cage attracted attention,
and upon examination it was found that
couple of half grown rats had found
their way into it, had evidently given up
trying to escape and had settled down
to make the best of the situation. They
had drawn in through the spaces at
least two quarts of chaff and bits of hay
and had constructed comfortable nest
and gone to housekeeping. They looked
surprised at being disturbed Hartford
COllrant
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
A Halter of Dogs.

An old lady named Mrs. Sabra Carter,
who died recently at Wellington, Conn,
has left a fund of 100000 to be used in
the suppression of the pernicious habit
of keeping dogs" Her will provides
that the income derived from the estate
shall be used for the painting of the
houses in Wellington of all who shall
apply for it, provided they can prove
that they have not kept dog for two
years and will agree not to keep one in
future. The eccentric testatrix closes
her will with the following sentence:
mo habit has a more deadly hold upon
mankind than that of dog keeping, which
is itself proof that it ought to be
crushed out. Exchange.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
When Reptiles Inhabited the Earth.

AT different epochs during the time
known as the secondary period the
surface of the earth seems to have
been so predominantly peopled with
reptile life that it has been called
1.-THE Age of Reptiles" The huge
iguanodons stalked OF leaped about
in the wealds of Sussex and Hamp-
shire. Of these iguanodons marvel
ously complete skeletons are to be
seen amounted in attitudes of life) in
the Royal Museum of Brussels-a
sight in itself sufficient to induce a
visit to that capital. Other smaller
reptiles browsed ON the foliage of
the then existing plains, and were
pursued and preyed upon by fell rep
tilian monsters of various kinds. The
sea also swarmed with reptiles Gch
thyosaurD as aquatic as the whales
and dolphins of our own day. And
not only were the earth and seas thus
peopled, but there were flying rep
tiles of different kinds and sizes.
known as pterodactyles. Quarterly
Review.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
THE sAfFLso PessIMIsT.

| sat me down TO write a rhyme Of gloom.
All was In tune for II; my temples throbbed,
In scmidarkness was my cheerless room,
And through the trees the sad breeze
soughed and sobbed.
Ny heart was burning with fancied woe;
Digestion waited not on appetite.
My spirits came in dull and sluggish flow;
Naugit vas there In the world that pleased
lay sirht.
My pen itself would not put down the
Thought
The pes. imistic thought-that held my
mind.
Try as would the fancy fees uncaught,
Uncatcha BILE as any truant wind.
Yet wrote | on, and when the rhyme COM
picte
Stared boldly at me from the saffron page,
| found my self "A victim to defeat
I'd written this truly happy agel
I'd said that in this life were more OF good
Than wicked things: despite the heavy mist
OF present trial. those who understood
Life as II really is could not resist
The true conclusion, tried aud guaranteed,
That we have many blessings, and no grief,
However much because of it the heart may
bleed,
Alas that |, disciple true of gloom,
Philosopher of woe, should e'er confess
That JOY unon this earth hath any room,
That mort8ls find here aught Of happinessl
And yet, though seem faithless to my creed
In writing then that optimistic song,
| am not So. 1t proves its truth indeed
When even |. it's follower, go wrong.
j. X. Bangs in Harper's Weekly.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

! Once upon time there was a man
who owned what he called an eccen-
tric clock. The eccentricity of the
ancient timepiece consisted in the
fashion it lad of striking five times
more thea the right hour demanded.
such. for instance, as eight when it
was but 8 o'clock, etc. When the
clock would strike twelve the owner,
lying in bed, would say, 1T is now z
a. m. and time to arise" When it
would strike eight the owner would
say, Five from eight leaves three;
it is now 8 o'clock.
But it had a very different effect
on strangers. A guest would hear it
strike eleven when it was really 6 in
the morning. and he would roll over
for nights rest when it was time to
arise He would thus miss lis train
and be upset for the day. 1t played
very queer tricks on other people
until the owner was obliged to cast
it out.
The moral of this fable teaches us
that the peculiarities of many people
find a parallel in the eccentricities of
various objects that are totally in
animate, and that we must expect to
come to grief when we depend upon
people who. like the eccentric clock,
strike twelve when they are only
seven Detroit Free Press.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
His Ofense.

A New Yorker travelling in the
wilds of North Carolina fell in with
a guide who proved communicative
and interesting. There war a man
killed down yonder last week." said
the guide, pointing to the valley be-
low. what for?" said the traveller.
HE war a rev'noo officer" said the
guide. But what had he donel" in
quired the traveller. He war a
rev'noo officer" repeated the guide.
II understand, said the traveller,
but what was his offense?" why,
man." said the guide with energy,
"he war a rev'noo officer, an thar's
two men down in the valley waitin
with shotguns for the next one that
tries to go through. New York
S11D
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

The sod market opened pretty briskly
last week. There can be found at the
huckster stands wagon loads of fresh
cut sod which the vendors bring in from
Long Island to patch up the front door
yard of the New York house owner.
These men will furnish and lay the sod
for four cents a foot, and will make
special ratesfor large plats. The aver
age New Yorker isn't troubled with the
sod question-until he is dead, and then
he doesn't lie awake nights over it. Eut
the man with property to rent can offer
no more cheerful inducement than the
few yards of green--just big enough for
the fourth floor to see without micro
scope. 1t goes further than mahogany
and plate glass at this season. So the
sod man is pretty sure of customer at
some figure. Whatever it is it is pretty
much clear profit, as the sod is cut from
other peoples ands.-Exchange.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
A Good Sized Egg.

The latest rarity exhibited at the Zoo
logical gardens is an egg as nearly as
possible foot long. Its age rivals that
of the "shop' or cooking" egg, which
is one of the most ancient in existence.
So old, however, is this one that the
@pyornis, the bird who laid it, is only
imperfectly known to us by its fossil
fragments.
1t is much TO be regretted that the
@pyornis is not with us now, The mel
ancholy proverb, Zone cannot make
omelets without breaking eggs" would
have lost its force in this case of an egg
which was capable of making several
omelets. Globe.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

At the Gloversville Hair company's
works Monday morning the centrifugal
machine, a heavy revolving iron concern
used for cleaning hair, was packed full
of that material and running under great
pressure at the rate of thousand revo-
lutions minute, when it suddenly ex-
ploded, filling that portion of the mill
with flying hair and pieces of iron and
doing a great amount of damage. A man
named Helwig had narrow escape of
his life. He was sitting in an armchair
some distance away, and piece of iron
weighing about 200 pounds flew so close
ly as to chip off piece of his chair, and
passing through the building buried it
self in the ground.-Cor. Albany Argus.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

France began to manufacture silk
in 1921. 1t was forty years later
that silk growing began there. From
the first it has excelled in silken
stuffs. Lyons is today the headquar-
ters of silk weaving. All the best
China and India silks, so called, come
thence. In fact there is no sort of
silk tissue not made there-and bet
ter made there than anywhere else.
Chicago Tribune.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

A very rich but miserly gentleman
was in the habit of dining daily at a
certain restaurant, but he never "re-
membered" the waiter who attended
to his wants.
One day the long suffering waiter,
goaded to desperation, asked the gen
tleman if he would condescend to ac-
cept his-the walters photo.
What for?" was the query.
II thought it might make you re
member the waiter, sir" was the
quick reply.-London T1t-Bits.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

The main object of the school may
be said to be to create character, and
for this end it should seize upon
every opportunity of strengthening
the will and Of making it controlled
and consecrated, There is no lesson
and no regulation which may not be
consciously used for this; and when
everything is used for this purpose,
everything will fall into its proper
place and the school Will be what it
should be-Anna c. Bracket in
Harper's.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
German
Syrup"

Those who have not
A Throat used Boschee's Ger
, man Syrup for some
s''u -1s severe and chronic
SpecIalty, trouble of the Throat
and Lungs can hard
" appreciate what truly wonder
flil medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear
ing, strength-gathering and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and water may smooth a
throat or stopa tickling-for while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is a discovery, great Throat
and Lung Specially. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, splitting, hemorr-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal-
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and the
end is inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. 1t cures. You are
a live man yet if you take it. o
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

THE trouble with this family" 4"
blubbered Johnny, as he emerged
from the woodshed Immediately af-
ter a brief but spirited interview
with his father, lis that there's too
blamed much paternalism in its form
of government l'-EXchange
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

A telephone up the volcano on Ha-
waii is the latest novelty for dwellers
ON the island In the ola days men
rode on horseback ahead of the lava
flow to let the settlers know there
had been an eruption, but hereafter
it will be necessary only to turn the
crank and call up Central. Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
Wood Pavements i'm Paris.

To insure durability wood pave
ments must be laid with great care
and have a concrete foundation made
of the best materials. Those that
have been laid in Paris have stood
about seven or eight years under
heavy traffic and about fifteen under
moderate. New York Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

How Surgeons Horses Kept sunday.
Rev. Newman Hall once asked
Spurgeon what he replied to those
who objected to his driving to church
on Sunday. "Oh, l tell them I'm a
Christian and my horses Jews. They
rest on their seventh day Sabbath,
and so help me to rest on my first
day, Sunday. Were l to walk, it
would be my hardest day of work. !"
Good Words.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
Profit Sharing In ireland.

A conference on profit sharing as ap-
piled to the manufacture of peat fuel
from the waste bogs of Ireland has now
taken practical shape, and syndicate
has been formed to carry out the scheme,
thus providing employment for large
number Of unemployed Irish peasantry.
New York Times.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
Some Heads"

This is a sample of "heads" published
in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
ONLY A DOG
But Neighbors Lied-and Said He Killed-The
Sheep That Died.
His Master Clubbed-the Dog TO Sleep-An-
other Dog-.Had Killed the
Sheep.
The Wounded Dog-Went Home Again-His
Head Was Bruised-and Full Of Pain-He
Danced for Joy-When Master Came.
The Master Could Not - Hide
His Shame-So the Mas
ter Went.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
State Treasurer's Third Notice
STATE OF OREGON, ~ '

STATE OF OREGON,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE is hereby given that sufficient
~ fluids are on har d TO pay all outstaEd-
ing statewarran's endorsed, ,"presente0 and
not paid for want of funds and that the
same will be paid upon presentation at til is
office, interest thereon ceasing with the
date of this notice. PHIL. .METSCHAN,
state Treasurer.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

To remove ink stains from the
fingers moisten the spot and rub it
gently with the head Of a parlor
match, keeping the skin wet, and the
stain will rapidly disappear, New
York Journal.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
THE YAnUINA ROUTE.
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD

And oregon Development compsnya
steamship line. 225 miles shorter, ~ hours
less time than BY any other loute; flrst
ciitss through passenger and ireish nne
from Portland and all points in the WI
lamette valley 10 and from San franclsc"
TINE SCHEDULE. Except Sundays).
Leave AtDany lHJ
leave Corvallis La ID
Arrive YAquina a:'e' J n
Leave Iaquina -o;ie ::
iIRye Corvallis iU,Nl d
Arrive Albany ll;iO M
o. 4 c. trains connect al Albany and
corvallis.
The above trains connect at N-A[ lS.h
Win tns Oregon Development Cos ~
fStaa nship between Yanuina ano -
rrapcisen
\. B.-Passengers from Portland ara al
Willamette Valley points can make cln's
connection with the trains oi lnt
lAQUINA ROUTE Al Albany or CorYAlils
aud Ii destined 10 san Francisco, shonio
arrange 10 arrive at Yaquina the evening
before date of sailing.
Passenger and Freight Rates AMsls ilt
Lowest. For Information apply tn 1iessIs
HI uLMAN & Co., Freight and ilcBH
Agents 200 aud 202 Front ST.. Portland, IN
&C. HOGuE Act Genp fTt. :
Corvallis, g.
e. Z a-A5WiI4L, JT. Gen1 Frti
Pcss. Agt. Oregon Development
Co., SO4 Montgomery st.;l
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
new DAILY NAIL STAGE
Between Aurora, Butteville,
ChampOeg, st. Paul and
Fairfield.

Leaves Aurora daily at 1890 a. m. Ar
rlves at Fairfield Up. m. ReturniT g-leave
Fasrfeld at 4 p. IN. Arrives at hampoeg
6p,m Leaves Champoeg a. m. Arrives
at Aurora. via Butteville. ats a. m. Con-
meets with morning B. r. Co. trains going
north and south. Passengers, baggage and
freight carried al regular rates.
Service begins Monday, March II, 1892.
Gus. HoEFER, Propr.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23

If a shirt bosom or any other arti-
Gle has been scorched in ironing lay
it where bright sun will fall directly
on it; it will take it entirely out. =
New York Journal.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
A Novice.

Photographer-Did you ever sit for
a photograph beforel
Little Girl-No, sir. I've always
stood. Good News.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-23
Proposals for Supplies.

The Board OF Trustees ofthe oregon state
Insane Asylum hereby invite sealed pro-
posals tor furnishing at the asylum near
Salem, Oregon, the following supplies for
the six months ending January /, 1895:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-09
Through Trains.
81. Paul Union Depot


-- -
CWillmar, Morris Brown's( ,c.,ou
po"os' ia Valley and Breckenridge. ! O'0VP'"
be:3C @. m. Fer. Falls, Fargo & G. Forks b010pm
bS'S0p. m. Osseo Clearwater st. Cloud BILE n m
bS:30 p. IN. Anoka, st. Cloud & Willmar 613a55a IN
b3;Se p. m. So. Excelsior and Hutchinson b1l65L
(WillmRr, iBiOux City
Sioux Falls, dWatertown
dHuron, Wahpeton, cab
a630 p. m. erdeen, cElendale TAR 7 la7:I3 q. M
60, bClsselton Ora ton
Winnipeg and Pacific
Coast,
llAnoka, st. Cloud, saukl
Center Fergus Falls, Far
a74op,m 60 CrookstOn, G. Forks IaG5J O.. m
Great Falls Helena
Butte and Pacific Coast
Eastern Minnejota.--
Duluth w. Superior, ElkO
b1 hmm River Milaca, Hinckley lb7O0o ~.
Princeton. Anoka,~
n,daily; b. except Sundays; c, Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday. d, Sunday Tuesday aud Thurs
day. eBu ct parlor cars on trains TO Duluth and
West Superior tBufet sleepers. dining car
palace slcepers and free colonist sleeping cars.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-09

Monday. Low grades were slow and dam
lots difficult to sell. No. 1 northern sold
principally at s312c, with a few choice lots OF
timber wheat bringing S3s4c and some thin
lots S3Ac. No: had wide range OF prices.
running from 770S3c, according to the quail
". No. went principally at 72c. Wheat
closed as follows: No hard, on track, SAC
No. northern, March, S2l2e; May, S37sc: on
track, Sc; No. 2 northern, on track, 770SJc.
Flour : Demand very slow and prices
quoted: Patents in sacks to local dealers.
Patents. 81. 25@4. so; bakers superfine, 81 500
2.10 for low grades in bags. including red dog.
Bran and Shorts Steady at Sll@l1 80 for
bran; shorts, S116a11. 50.
Corn-Nominal; quoted at 52@36l2c for yell
low.
oats-Quoted at 270?Sc for choice No. .
white
Rye--In fair demand for local consump-
ton; quoted at 770S0c f. o. b.
Barleyoo39@t5c for very choice No 8
Flax-Quoted at 9Sc0S101l2 IN Chicago,
bought here less the freight.
Feed-Quoted at Si4 .5C@l5.50.
Hay-S7@9 50 for upland; timothy nominal,
Sales included: No. 1hard. cars. s5c; No,
1 hard. 1 car, f. o. b., S5c: No. l northern, 4
cars S3l2c; No. 1 northern, 1 car, I. o. b.,
S4Ac No. snorthern, cars, S3a4c; NO.
northern, 81 cars. S3l2c; No 1 northern. 3
cars, to arrive, S312c; No. 2 northern l car.
t. o. b., soc; No northern, cars, O. t..
'c72O' ANO. IOIlhCIll1 CaI. COF2Si w. -
northern. car. SOlac; No northern, cars.
fancy, SIC; No. northern, 5 cars, 79c; No. 2
northern, cars, use; No. northern, 2
cars, nc; No. northern, u6 cars soc;
No. . northern, car, sic; No. 3 northern, l
car. Use; No. northern, 3 cars. 72I3c; No. 3
northern, cars, 73c; No. northern, cars,
Tic; No. 8 northern, "A cars, re; No. 3
northern, | car. f. o. b. ,7334c: NO northern,
1 car 70; No 3 northern, car, 7O12c; No. )
northern, 1 car, 75l2c; No northern, l car.
74c; rejected, 10 cars, 64l2c; rejected, 6 cars,
zoe; rejected, ears, Csc; rejected car, zoe !;
rejected, car, l ID of; f. o. b., csc;
Csc; rejected, 1 car, l ID off, &c
rejected, cars, lb off, zoe; rejected, | car,
Id off. 69c: rejected, 2 cars ID off, SIC; re-
jected, 1 ID off. 73c; rejected, ID off, &c; no
grade, l car, 1 lb off, f. o. b., re; no grade,
l car, Id off, CSC; no grade 5 cars, 1 ID off,
Csc; no grade, 1 car, 1 Id off, Csc; no grade,
car / Id off, soc; no grade car. 1 ID off,
zoe; no grade. 1 car Id off, I. o. b., Soc; no
grade. 1 car, ID off. f. o. b., &c; no grade,
car, 74c: no grade, car. SOC; No. 8 barley 1
car, f. 0. b., 37l2c; Minnesota hay l car
wild, 81.
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION.