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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

Customers who show by their mnnne,
thet thoy prefer to be nione with thei,
thoughts while under tho razor are neve,
annoyed. says nm exchange.
a Grcnt deal has been said about the
! tnlkntivenees Of BARRIERS. but II those who
w 70 be funny on that subject were
- ftez posted they would find reason
ether than the mere loquacity OF
~ ,nri bor.
{ne sa Infinitely easier 10 handle Gus.
pho In interested In conversa.
Wv Dis Is particularly true of o
~ or fidgity man. who, IL the oper.
III goes on IN silence. becomes rest
(eea and growls mt the razor, or objects
~ She why In which no is being shaved,
The talk takes his mind away from his
fncc. ~ That hu h often surprised 10 find
The work finished when he thought II
scarcely begun.
a barber mover gets into an argument
with bis customer. His opinions yeer
around like weather vane TO suit the
particular man upon whom no may be
oparRting ~ the time. The econversation
dodge II merely ono OF the tricks of the
trade. OF course there are a few young.
or mcmbers Of the tonsorial fraternity
who use little Judgment In talking 10
customers. aud no ono liz more amused
than their fellow BARRIERS when they get
3 setback from some irascible tempered
victim Of their gabble. Exchange
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28


Once n awhile q svelier gets 4
wfDie impression ns ~ The wishes
of his eudiprce. Daring the cam
pai1n of igeD I whs addressing n
macs meeting IN q grove ote even.
ing Tho ciioirnan had Informed
me that after my speech the audience
would We addressed by two or three
local speakers. who were then sitting
on The platform but whose names
he dii not mention Afpar | had
talked for about en- hour and was
about 10 close made a point that
seemed 10 meet with marked az
tfoval. for several porsDns IN The
audience cried out. "Ilight. iightf'
Il was pleasant 10 be thus indorsed.
80 talked on n little willie longer.
and when another period wa
reached a hundred voices 81 outed
Fright, right. rightr' said "Yes.
gentlemen ! am surely right, as you
say. and am glad you agree with
me but ] must not talk all night, as
there are other speakers 10 be
heard"
But being 80 completely en- rapport
with the audience / felt disposed 10
crafty their wishes still further. SO
I talked on for about twenty minutes
longer, when there came astill louder
shout Of fright, rightf ] closed and
sat down with a self satisfied feeling.
Immediately the chairman stepped
forward and said to the audience,
The hour IL quite late, but in ac-
yordance with your expressed desire
you shall now be favored with a
short speech from our candidate for
'tate senator, Mr. Wright"
Then II was that the cold truth |
lawned upon me and realized that
had been most cruelty self deceived |
Is TO the temper and wishes of that
audience. - Interview in Chicago |
News Record
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28
The Light of the Future.

IL seems hard TO believe that In n very
Few years the incandescent lamp. which
we now regard as in many respects an
almost perfect light, will be regarded
rs crude makeshift which mankind
availed itself Of while science stood on
the threshold Of the discovery of the
perfect luminent. Mr. Tesla has shown
IN ms experiments an ideal form of
electric lighting which would transcend
In luxury and convenience our present
system OF electric lighting by incandes-
cent lamps ms far as the latter transcends
the OIL lamps and tallow dips used by
our near ancestors.
Every drawing room would become
an electric field in a continual stats of
rapidly alternating stress, in which the
occupants would live, experiencing no
unpleasant effect whatever. while yacu-
ons tubes Of phosphorescent globes and
tubes, without care or attention. would
shed a soft ditfuse light OF color and In.
tensity arranged to suit the most lux.
urious fancy.
Mr. Tesla's watchword is that the
phosphoreseent glow is the light Of the
future. He hints az artificial aurore
spreading from the SUBMITS OF towers
or hitherto nndreamed Of height, and he
has at all events got as far as produo.
ing IN the air at atmospheric pressure a
slowing plane bounded by two rings
about a foot and thirty inches in diam.
e'er respectively. Whether all his yis.
ions VIII be realized remains 10 bs
proved. There & no doubt that thev
are are guiding him right.-Chicago Inter
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28
Is Man an EIectricaI Battcryo

He Is, says Du Bois- Raymond, the
learned professor Of physiology in Ber-
lin, who has been experimenting along
this line Of investigation, as only Ger
man can, ever since 1871. Other men
almost equally learned and scientific
have come to the same conclusion, so
there is no doubt about it. The ines
timable value that the frog has been to
modern physiological science is demon
strated anew here. What in fact would
modern physiological science have been
without the frog2 His eye, his heart,
his foot, and finally the muscles of his
tidbit OF thigh have all been utilized
to discover what kind of processes are
going on in the inwards Of the human
being, where science cannot direct its
knife and microscope, at least while the
person is alive.
SO experiments on frogs legs and eyes
showed that electrical currents passed
through their muscles. There are two
exceedingly delicate instruments-one
sensitive galvanometer," the other a
capillary electrometer"-- which showed
the variations of electrical currents in
o frogs heart and p.dscles when they
had been injured. The next step was to
apply the instruments TO the human be-
ing. All muscles in health contain what
are called static electricity or resting
currents" II the muscle is injured or
II 1t contracts more or less violently
these changes are duly registered by
corresponding changes in the galva-
nometer or the capillary electrometer.
II has not indeed been proved in black
and white, but there is reason to infer
from what has been proved that every
thought, every emotion that fits with
rapidity across the con-
seriousness marks itself by electrical
changes and flashes of light in the brain
and along the nerves 1t has been found |
that there are different electrical cur
rents in the transverse and cross sec.
tons OF the muscles. Scientists have
tapped the living telegraph wires" and
discovered that electrical currents flow
along the motor strands of the spina'
cord when the motor centers in the
brain have been excited.
The uses to be made of these discover
les In disease in the future are among
the prophecies that are sure to be full
hiled. II is plain that in perfect health
muscles and nerves will be in certain
electrical state. In disease they will be
disturbed and the disturbance can be as.
,ertained and located.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

The two main distinguished species
among the hundreds Of varieties OF
eemeIs nre The Southern, Arabian lcne
hurnped eamel) aud the Northern Bac-
trian two bumped camel. Each Is
especially adapted to its locality. The
Bactrinn camel is long haired. tolerant
Of the intense cold Of the steppes and Is
said 10 eat snow when thirsty. The
Arabian species is short haired, intoler-
ant Of cold. but able to endure extreme
heat The limbs and the structure OF
the foot differ also in each. to conform
TO desert caravan paths in the one case
and 10 mountain trails and passes in the
her.-Rev. s. NJ. Zwemer in Christian
lntelligeDcer.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

n 5t< &ANe tsf ofss srssf 4
UftfftHi fthtsA4f
~ n f'|iha a. nl from one
<< t'f||r 4 few thllcs often use
diffcftnt dialftl forms IN
N lhr Iaffef cilies. fucll ~
WITH fnte thah 600. o0j W.
[|ff|e une 0flen nhds fevmuI
ftyftne ~ use. Tho variations
{'h'ncsc tongue are 80 great
HINT " u not too MITCH 10 say
||>fe Gre ~ many dialect forms
FIowefy Kingdom ~ Gays ~
~ fIs<rt Widely rj,read lsnynsvn
~ Mandarin n a. used III ore
ylIH of nhothef IN f0ursean ~ ff
~ ~ iI,c nineicpii pfoviiiota com
|1k China. There afe also north
1 fff0 southern Mandarin to1giee
Inc tc~f northern Mandarin diale e is
eI)oHtt u, pehing. while Tire beal
ev'ftbefsl Mandarin IA spoken IN Nan
&In A third marked form Of the
9afno &oneue IL used In west Clina.
especially IN Tsen Kiang Peopls
who epenk The various Maadarih
a|a|ccfs however can fndefstand ore
smother readily II we eetifnste The
population of China AZ 800. 0e0r r11 of
{Hppln ~ leaet 800. O0D 900 rss the
Mandarin tongue. All persons, from
wl'atever part ~ China, who desire
" enter political on official hfs learn
tbie tongue.
The other Chinese languages are
fpokef, by comparatively small mum
bcfs ~ people About 90,OOO,00 for
Instance, speak Cantonese IN ons
form or another Il is used IN the
Ereatcr part of tho province OF
(5tang Tong. About one third of tha
people NJ this province use the Hal
q tongue In its northeastern pa.
{be 6wntow dialect IL also htas,
<antoncse is also spoken In Il,
kua1iRsi province.
There ARE not 80 many dialcciic
sormH Of the Hakka tongue as cf the
CAntoncsc. Passing up the coast we |
and shout 10000 people spenl.in'. |
4watow. In all probability 1900. 900 |
Chinese slse the Annoy dialect, Which
reeomblos Swatow about as closely
- Portuguese resembles Spanish. /
8ti1l farther up the coast we find the
kutwa dialect 1t is used In dis-
trlet about i5o miles long and 300 I
niles broad. containing n population
of 3, 900, GOO. This country IL for the
most part mountainous.
The dialects OF Eingho and Shang.
hal, although only few miles apart,
Infer greatly. The Hainanese u
spoken by the people Of Hainan II
= related to the Annoy and Swatow
iialects slightly resembling the
Japanese and Is spoken by about
!. 10000 people. The inhabitants of
bout Lutshu, between Japan and
sor1nosi. also speak IIainanese.
)staintischer Lloyd,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28
A Clever nepiy.

In a volume OF memoirs 1t is told
that on the first council day after
Lord Derbys elevation TO the pro
miorslip Greville showed his disap
proval by not appearing in his place
as clerk Some busybody asked
Lord Derby whether he had noticed
Greville's absence, and Lord Derby
replied, with face of benevolent
apology mo, reallyl You know, /
ann tho most inattentive fellow in
the world about these things. |
never notice, when | ring the bell,
whether John or Thomas answers
IL"
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

a pair of terms hare been seen to ala .
wounded companion ON the water In
shis case they lifted il from the surface
and uisd to assist it 20 tiy. The terms
not only showed sympathy but were
Ihie To translate II into action. oth.r
birds. either less intelligent or Isss insif.
terent 20 the danger which the nresenc.
~ human spectator suggests. exhibit
'"e ssAnls eoosesn TOR wounded mates or
ss'al'anlons by flying round them or
sasusshs near The sufferer. 81. John
naenuons case az sheldraks which
would not leave its wounded mate. and
psewi's viii sometimes return and
hoser osvF wounded birds. eSpecislly,
early In the sear, hefors the fali srows
yoans have lsarosd shs sxtrsms csnrso~
~ns<a n'.Fks th~ax esh>vior isnos = -
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

A popr Irish lad was sitting by a
1urf fire IN his fathers cottage when
suddenly ma explosion occurred and
G0gnothing struck him In the eye,
oAxlsinx q wound which necessitated
~ removal Of the eye, The only
oxplanation seems 10 DO that car
(<idRe had been dropped ON tho turf
~ some sportsman, had been trodden
"A and out OF sight and finally OK.
cIQIlod when tho dried turf was laid
~ ~ lire London TtBits.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28
4 f1,s.,a ,oieosess orns ! rsarl q

A Persian pofensate owns srsarl o.
iat< carats Witch Il quite transparent
II Il 10 be had for the sum Of seOO,ooo.
One man IN wiconiico county, Md,
on tho eastern shore, shipped this season
nearly 29, 600 quarts Of huckleberries in
= single week, and a near neighbor Of
bis shipped nearly ~ many. Smart
berry pickers earn two dollars q day
picking huckleberries.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

II the sun gave forth sounds Il 1d
enough to reach the earth, such
sounds. instead Of reaching us in the
space of about eight minutes, as
light does, would only arrive after
period of nearly fourteen years.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

There is perhaps nothing for which
an educated Chinese feels a keener
appreciation than for what is called
ku-tien. or historical allusion, in
whatever shape it may present it.
eelf
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

When the thermometer registers
100 degs. the cable which draws the
cars of the East river bridge is z
feet and 6 inches longer than when
the thermometer is at zero.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28
Love. Young Dream.

Mrs Dwentioff-Vy you admires
dot man So RachelG
Daughter-lie pought dose Clothes
init our store and he pecomes dem
no beautiful. New York Weekly.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

There are 95S street car plants in
the United States and Canada now,
of which $50 are operated by ami,
mails, so by cable, 246 by electricity
and 70 by steam.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

A new use has been found for bicycles.
A timber thief lately rode up to the door
OF q chicago house upon one. rang the
bell, held revolver to the servant girls
head and robbed the mansion Of 81 800
worth OF diamonds. Then he mounted
ms hying steel wheel and got safe away,
though the Chicago police chased him
mile In patrol wagon.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

5atnn has recently eiven 4 striking
example ~ whot cah be done IN tho
development ~ water towef with
Tho ed ~ electricity About ssven
miles from Tie city n Kioto Il lake
I3iwn. having an htcu ~ Zoo miles ne
on elevation N iig feet. From the
lake to IfiOto q fiavlgalle canal has
been cut. involving two miles Of tun.
mel and q long aqueduct on reach
ing The city there IL q decline Of iis
feet The difference In level IL over.
come by inclined laneways 2. 100 feet
IN length. on which bonts are raised
and lowered from one canal 30 the
other. These planeways ure operated
by electric motors, which nre driven
BY turbines using the fail just men
timed. The wheels are supplied with
water from the high level canal by
three lines OF 80 inch pipe I, 800 feet
~ length, delivering the water under
a head ~ 100 feet
Not only do these water wheels
furnish power 10 run the electric gen
erator for tho planeway motors, but
they also operate another dynamo
whose current Is distributed 20 mo.
tors which run rice mills, spinning
mills, a watch factory etc, and also
drive an arc and incandescent light
ing plant. The whole work cost
about 81 800, 600 While the enter
prise was planned and executed by
the eminent Japanese engineer Ten.
abe. the water wheels are American,
the dynamos are American, and the |
motors and lamps are American.
New York Telegram.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

Heaven viii be no heaven TO inc il
J do not meet my wife there. An.
drew jackson.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

Mr. J. was clerk In a city office.
aud owing TO the jealousy of his fel
low clerks was daily subjected to
many petty annoyances. One day
bis enemies thought they had hit on
a plan which would amlise them and
add 10 Us discomfort. The next
morning when Mr.. j. entered the
office one after another came up and
said to him in tone ofAvDrror:
why, whatever il the matter
with your Are you ill1 You look
simply ghastly.'
Mr. J. sat listening quietly for
few minutes; then suddenly, to the
surprise of everybody, got off his
stool and slipped into the managers
Office. A short time only had elapsed
when the manager appeared, fol
lowed by Mr. j., and addressing the
astonished clerks said,
"As Mr.. j. Is 80 unwell, / have
granted him permission to take
day or two's holiday, 80 you must di
vide his work equally among you
until he returns. - London Tit Bits.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28

AooVe trains stop only al folloWino a.
nous north Of ROseburg, Fast PorfSio PS ons s.s
TTr1son CITY, Woodburn, salem. AIhanTI
tangent, shedds, Halsey, HarrishnnrsS iPhans
1anctlon City, Irving aud Eugene '''urs
RosEBURG MALL DAILY
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-28
for Infants and Children.

"cssoris is 80 well adapted to children that
recommend It as superior to any prescription
snown TO me-" II. A. ARCHER, N. d.,
iii So. oxford ST., Brooklyn, N Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-01

transported any distance without de-
, terioration, are warranted to keep in
amy climate, and can be utilized when
ever desired by Il simple automatic
device
The separation of them into three
grades for commercial purposes was
the most difficult operation. This was
finally accomplished by an ingenious
device, difficult to explain without draw
ings; consisting. however, chiefly in the
placing between the sounding boards
and Photographs of tunnels of different
dimensions
The United States lighthouse board,
a very conservative body. has decided
TO use them for fog signals about to be
established at Hog Island. north end of
Lake Michigan and Sow and Pigs shoal,
III Lon% Island sound. The English and
French governments are also nego-
uating for a large quantity for similar
use on their coasts. Only the largest
grade of SquealS are suitable for this
purpose.
The medium size is used on sailing
vessels in place of the tin horns hereto
fore used by them for fog signals.
There is a brisk demand from toy
manufacturers for the Squeal of small
pigs, which are found to be far more
amusing to infants and small children
than the old-faShioned nursery rattle.
This grade is subjected to the most rig
id tests now in vogue for trichina. and
mothers need have no meaSinesS for
their loved ones from this source.
At 4 recent meeting of the packers
association, called for the purpose of
establishing price for this new article
Of commerce, several of the leading
members urged that a high price should
BE- adopted, and that it could easily be
maintained, rs they controlled nearly
the entire product-in fact had a
mOnopOly-but the wiser counsel
of Mr. Armour prevailed wien he
forcibly pointed out the fact that
while he admitted that the competition
that might be expected from criminals
squealing on their pals, and from young
ladies frightened by mice would not
prove formidable, still, if the price was
put unduly high, the market might be
glutted with superior article by syn
dictate of wide awake farmers boys
wearing out their fathers pitchforks
on the swine before they came to mar
kpt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-01
TANSY KILLS MOTHS.

There is one sure preventive of
moths. 1t is tansy. Sprinkle the leaves
freely about your woOlens and furs,
and the moths will never get into them.
When I was a child my Grandmother
used to send me to the tansy patch
on the hill with a large basket in which
to bring home plenty of tansy leaves.
In the garnet were five large hair COW
cred trunks, studded with brass nails,
filed with her best blankets, coverlets,
fannels sheets, etc.
I can we'll remember how grand
mother took the extra supply out of
those trunks in the garnet once a year,
hung the articles on a clOthes-line down
in the orchard, beat them and then
put them away again to lie amid the
tansy leaves until another year. The
fourth generation of her posterity are
sleeping under those same blankets and
blue and white cGVerlets now, which
proves the efficacy Of that remedy Of
the Olden time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-01
PIONEER DAYS IN TENAS.
Rigorous Laws Enforced on the
Brazos Twenty Years Ago.

Alexander w. Terrell (who was re-
Gently appointed United States minister
10 Turkey in an address at Houston a
few days ago paid the following tri-
butte to the men who achieved Texas
independence, says the New York
Evening Post: Il speak not the IAN
guage of undeserved praise, but the
simple truth, when l say the pioneer
immigrants of Texas from 1921 to
1910 were as noble a race of men as
ever established empire" TO those
who have always regarded the Texas
of that time as nothing more than an
asylum for outlaws these words will
have the ring of eXtravagant eulOgy,
but Nh Terrell spoke advisedly. More
than 40 years ago he settled among
the survivors of the colony of Stephen
F. Austin, who is known as the Faith
er of Texas and for six years Mr..
Terrell presided as a judge in the courts
set up by these men. Austin's advance
guard reached the BraZos river in 1872,
and soon afterward his colony was aug
mented by 2S5 recruits, all Of whom
were native Americans, and chiefly
from the Southern states. They finally
settled in the region where now are
the counties of Travis, Bastrop, Cald-
well, Guadalupe and Hays, and drew
up code of criminal laws which, it is
the testimony of survivors and their
children, were rigidly enforced. In
cases of theft, murder or robbery any
person was authorized to use arms in
apprehensing the guilty party and take
him or her before the alcalde. If the
guilty party tried to escape, any one
could shoot him. When the stolen
property was recovered, it was return
ed to the owner. Gambling was an
indictable Offense, and the fine for
gambling or keeping a gambling house
was not less than 500 or more than
5000. All men and women who at
tempted to live together without being
married were fined not less than 500
or more than $500 and condemned to
hard labor on the public roads. Any
person buying stolen property was
condemned to pay three times it's value
to the owner and labor on the public
works Any person guilty Of assault,
of abusing. manning, or ill-treating
another wilfully and maliciously, was
fined not exceeding 500 and imprison-
ed not exceeding three months. Any
person passing counterfeit money.
knowing it to be such, was condemned
to hard labor on the public roads. It
was made the duty of the justice of the
peace, the 'alcalde," to arrest all va
grants or fugitives from justice and
take them before the superior court
for final judgment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-01
THE EARL OF CRAVEN.
A Name Very Well Known in the
CarolinaS.

This name and title are well known
their earliest settlement. Craven is
still the name of Il county of North
Carolina, and was the name also of a
county in South Carolina in colonial
days, says the Baltimore Sun.
William, earl of Craven, was one of
the eight Lords proprietors of Caro-
lima" named in the charter granted in
March, 1863, by Charles II. of England
and in the amended charter granted by
the same in June 1865, in which he
styled ''our trusty and well beloved
William, Lord Craven" For some time
he was "Palatine," or presiding officer
of the lords proprietors. During it's
proprietary government the laws of
the province were enacted in the name
Of His EXcellency the Palatine and the
rest of the true and absolute lords and
proprietors of Carolina
According to Bancroft. Lord Craven
was reputed the mOrganatic husband
of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the daughter
of James the First, but his portrait,
which hangs IN the henSlngtOn muse
UNI, London, bears an inscription in
which it is stated that he was ''Son of
William Craven, merchant tailor and
lord mayor of London and that he
died unmarried"
He was succeeded by William Cra-
ven, the grandson of Thomas Craven
a cousin of the earl of Craven. This
(seconO William Craven, succeeded
only to the baronetcy, not the earldom,
as second baron of Craven. The
seventh baron of Craven, in 1901, was
created earl OF Craven, and was sue
ceeded by his eldest son, William, who
died in 1866 and left his eldest surviv-
ing son, George Grimston, third earl of
Craven, the father of William George
Robert, who married Miss Martin