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The Portland daily press., 1894-02-22
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY %.

Such performances as those at Cornell
Irniyersity in which the freshman class
was nearly suffocated with chlorine gas
can easily be put stop to if the proper
remedy is applied. But the proper rem
edy isn't lecture by the faculty OF the
college OF dissertation by a newspa-
DER. The proper remedy is an indict-
ment by the grand jury followed by con-
yiction and a term of imprisonment
The Portland daily press., 1894-02-22
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Con-
tain Mercury,


as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Toledo. O., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally, and made in Toledo. Ohio
by F. j. Cheney & Co., Testimonials free.
DYSold by Druggists price 75c. per BOTTLE
The Portland daily press., 1894-02-22

Advocates of the listing system can
study the report which the tax COM
mission of the State of Ohio recently
made to Governor Mckinley with profit.
In no State in the Union has there been
more ingenuity expended in devlslng
ways and means to compel people to dis
close their intangible property to the as
SCISSOR than in the Buckeye State. All
the people are sworn with great solem-
nifty, severe penalties are imposed for
false returns, the blooming" process is
invoked and to cap the climax, each
county is authorized to employ :" tax in
quisitors" who are to receive 20 per cent.
of the tax, which may be assessed on
property that they discover. 1t is hard
this. And yet in spite of it the COM
mission report that the general property
tax in cities has become a tax on tangi
ble property almost wholly. That is to
say, the law has almost completely failed
to reach the property it was designed to
reach. In the State at large intangible
property pays 9.4 per cent. of the total
tax, but in the counties where the big
cities are and where this kind of property
predominates, it pays only So per cent.
of the taxes, and in Cincinnati but per
cent, showing that the law operates in
directly opposite way from what its
advocates hoped and believed, in that it
squeezes the people of the small! places
more than the people of the big ones,
and inferentially, therefore, people of
moderate means more than tn. rich, the
class which the law is especially aimed
against Prof. Ely, who investigated the
workings If this system some years ago,
discovered the same tendency, and
though since then there have been many
additions to the law designed to perfect
it, it's tendency remains the same. Flies
are caught in it's meshes, but the hornets
manage to get through.
The Portland daily press., 1894-02-22
gIIIII 246 MIDDLE STREET. IlIIlE
= MANSON G. LARRADEE. :
Kitchen Necessities.
BASEMENT.

We shall have better facilities for
waiting on customers in this department
today as we have added to the number
of clerks for this Special Sale.
Today we shall have every size from
Is ~ to 10 in the Famous Senator,
Bonanza, Forest City and Portland Pride
White Shirts.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
NOTES FOR WOMEN.


A WASHINGTON woman supports herr
self By shopping for other women on
commission.
THERE are two hundred and eighty
eight cities in Kansas in which womers
have municipal suffrage on equai
terms with men.
A THOUSAND Denver women attended
a recent meeting of the Wornan's
Political club to consider What Col
orado Women Can Do for Colorado"
MISS ELLEN HAYES, professor of
mathematics at Wellesley college, has
recently revised her textbook in higher
algebra, and new edition is about to
be issued.
THE Colorado legislature has passed
the bill for q house-to-house registra-
ton of voters and twenty-seven women
have been appointed on the list Of can-,)
vassers for registering the women
voters.
THoUGH the duchess of Cleveland is
seventy-five years of age, she spends
several hours every day writing his
torical monograph of the mysterious
Kasper Hansen, the prince who was,
raised in solitary confinement.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
ODD BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS.

Pigs, Poultry, Cocoanuts and Fruit in Pay
ment for Concert in the Pacific.
| There is no more interesting subject
| of study than currency People do not
realize how difficult it would be to ret
along without it. Some years ago, says
a writer in the Washington Star, Mile.
Zelle, of the Theater Lyrique, at Paris,
on q professional tour around the
world, gave concert at the Society
islands, in the South Pacific. 1t was
arranged that in payment for an air
from Norma" and three or four other
selections she was to get one-third of
the receipts. Her share consisted of
8 pigs, rs turkeys, a chickens, 5000
cocoanuts and considerable quantities
of bananas, lemons and oranges The
live stock and produce would have rep
resented value of about 1000 francs
in the markets of her native CITY, but
it was hardly practicable to dispose of
the former off-hand and the latter had
to be fed to the pigs and poultry. A
joint stock company, known as the At
rican Barter company, limited, now ex-
listing in London, carries ON a great |
business on the west coast of Africa |
entirely by bartering European manu- |
features for palm oil, gold dust, ivory, |
coffee, gum and other raw products.
Eggs have been in circulation in lieu
of money in the Alpine villages of |
Switzerland. Nails have been similarly I
employed in Scotland, dried Goldfish in I
whales teeth in the Fiji
islands, mats of rice straw in Angola. I
GA T. IL, A bIrcciroi.
red feathers in the isles of the Pacific,
tea in Tartary and iron hoes in NADIA
gascar. A century ago tobacco was
made legal tender in Virginia. When
women were imported mo that colony
for wives for the settlers 100 pounds of
tobacco per head was charged for them,
the price being subsequently raised to
$50 pounds.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
SHORT BUT INTERESTING.


THE best pearls are perfectly round,
the next best are pear-shaped, and egg
shaped ones are considered the most
inferior.
THE first meerschaum pipe was made
and smoked by Kavol Kowates, shoe
maker, in 1928, in Pesth, Hungary. It
is still in a museum there
HOUSES which are damp because of
proximity to undrained land may be
rendered more habitable by planting
the laurel and the sunflover near them.
A MINIATURE ivory chariot, perfect in
every respect, with movable wheels,
has been made by Max Kaufman. a,
!. Berlin jeweler. 1t weighs only two
grains.
SOME inhuman wretches have just
been arrested in Biskupitz, Austria,
who pursued shocking calling. They
stole children, then deformed them, for
begging purposes.
WHILE coon hunting, John Rider, of
Dutchtown, Mo-, lost an eye in very
peculiar way. He was going up a tree,
in search of a coon, when an owl flew
down and tore out his eyeball with its
claw
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
SPRING STYLES.

BLUE in dark colors begins to make
its appearance, though it is early yet
for yachting. &
WHISPERS there are of walking trou-
serettes and boating Knockers and-oh,
ever so many things. But we shall see.
THERE are whispers of kniclerbock-
ers or Turkish trousers for tennis girls
The trousered or divided slSirted bicy-
cliennes who travel in the wake OF.
Mrs. Bowman and Mrs. German and
Mrs. Cheney are no longer a novelty,
though in numbers not yet a host.
EMPIRE cults still much in use for
tea gowns and house wear generally.
and always looks well with fine fig
ure to show it off. Empire means to-
day broad belt of ribbon just be-
meath the bust with huge ribbon bow
and long hanging ribbon ends that
reach nearly to the foor.-Ellen Os-.
horn
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26

WERE KNOWN YEARS AGO.

LEATHER trunks for transporting
clothes were made and sold in Rome as
early as the time of julius Caesar.
THE trades of the joiner and cabinet
maker are first mentioned as distinct
from that of the carpenter in 1910.
HOMER mentions locks and keys, and
Pliny attributed the invention of locks
to Theodorus, of Samos, b. G. 73O.
MOORISH pottery and vase makers
were brought to Italy in Ills, in order
to teach the trade to native workmen.
TIE cloth weavers' unions were great
political forces in Client, Bruges and
Brussels as early as the twelfth CEN
tury.
PLINY says that the Romans learned
the use of yeast from the Greeks dur
ing the war with Persius, king of
MacedOn
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
JEWELERS. Fun.

HusBAND--''This paper says man
of-war costs over million dollars. -
Wife-"And it's only plated ware at
thatl''
GIGLAMP- Political rings have a lot
of gold in them" Paresis-"Yes; but
there is also great deal of copper
in their composition. Truth
MARY-"Do you believe it is possible
for girl to be SO homely as to stop a
clock?" janet don't know. You
can easily find out, however" Boston
Transcript
SHE-"What Citing token of mar
ried love is the wedding ringp' He
st is. A ring has no end. and it also
has no beginning. 1t is absolutely
without variety. and much easier put
on than taken off '-Harlem Life.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
He Didn't Like coons.

A northern visitor in Florida recent
" asked a native negro as to the char
lcter of the sub-tropical raccoon, and
5his was the reply: "Coons is mighty
curious leetle animal, but All doan' lax
coons, an All tell yo' why Onct All
lSetcht lcetle coon an All TUX i'm
home, All did All lef' i'm in de house
whal An went aout in de yad, an
wen All come back dat leetle coon had
foun' de m'lasses jug. All watcht i'm,
an dere he sat a-puttin' his leetle ham
daown in de jug, an a-drawin' it up,
an a-swipin' it acrost his mouf. Den
he'd lick off his whiskers, an he'd put
his leetle han down in de jug, an he'd
draw it up aRin, an he'd swipe it
acrost his mouf agin. He KEEP dat up
twel he had all de m'lasses he waited.
Den ne jes' jump upon de baad an he
walk right acrost de pillows, he did.
10, All doan' lax coons, All doan'."
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


THERE are few flies ever seen around
black walnut trees.
FARM animals in Japan are shod with
sandals made of straw
THIRTY mines in the United States
use electric locomotives.
CRIPPLEs are seldom seen in China
When a deformed child is born, it is at
once put to death.
IT is considered unlucky in Ireland
to view funeral procession while the
beholder is under an umbrella.
RAHRoADING in Denmark is still in
its infancy. An express train there
makes not more than one hundred
miles day.
AN engineering authority declares
that the flesh side of leather, when
used as betting, should be placed
against the wheel.
A GoLD-wEIGHING machine in the
Bank of England is so sensitive that
postage stamp dropped on the scale
will turn the index on the dial dis
lance of six inches.
BLACK lists of tardy debtors are cir
culated in Vienna, for the benefit. of
landlords and other persons likely to
be victimized by persons who live be-
yond their means.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
WORTH YOUR WHILE TO READ.


COAL is dearer in South Africa than
any other part of the world; it is,
cheapest in China.
A CANADIAN court has defined the
word "boodler" to mean 'the very.
meanest class of thieves"
THE only source of the great lakes is
rain that falls within their basin,.
which averages forty inches per year.
A WIND blowing at the rate of nine.
teen miles per hour exerts pressure,
Of but one and four-fifths pounds to,
the square foot.
PROF. BELL, the inven tor of the tele-
phone, has been graphing with aerial
locomotion in Nova Scotia, and, like
all other experimenters in that science,
he is very hopeful of success.
The Bhatgur reservoir, a great arti--
fetal lake in India, said to hold about
4,G4l, 100000 cubic feet of water, acts
as feeder to the Mira canal. 1t is
formed by masonry dam one hundred
and three feet high and three thousand
and twenty feet long.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
VARIED AND INTERESTING.

COOPERATIVE agriculture thrives in
France.
MANCHESTER, Va, uses tramps in
chain gangs.
SYRACUSE students have human bone
cane handles.
OVER ninety per cent. of Tennessee
labor is native born.
The worlds standing armies and
navies employ nine million men.
BAMBOO has been known to grow to
height of thirty feet in six weeks.
ALL the telephones now operated in
Japan are owned by the government.
THE highest mountain in Japan is
Fujiama, which is thirteen thousand
feet high.
THE average trip around the world
comprises about twenty-five Thousand
miles of travel.
THE metropolitan police commission
er of London employs fifteen thousand
and eighty-three men.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
SOME ODD CUSTOMS.
Similarity of Hawaiian Usagas TO Those
of the Hebrews.

k5AAnooThSY VA A8Whuhu OSa26S TO InOB6
of the Hebrews.
The manner of disposing of the dead
in the Hawaiian islands is also in ac-
cord with the Hebrew custom, saws a
writer in Lippincott's The body was
embalmed and covered with glutin-
Gus substance or wash, to seal effect
ually the pores of the skin and exclude
all air. The body was then deposited
IN the side of precipice. The prac-
tlce of immolating one or more wives
of chief was carried on to a consider
able extent in the Hawaiian group in
earlier days. AS manifestation of
love end attachment. the wives OF a
CHIEF would voluntarily die, which act
was called moespu, companionship in
sleep. This practice can be traced to
the Vedic Hindoos, the only difference
being that the wife was inundated on
the funeral pyre. Some stress has
been laid on the peculiar institutions
called cities of refuge, or Pun-honua,
which were found to have obtained
prominence among the Hawaiians. and
which have been quoted as another in
stance of Hebrew influence upon the
customs and culture of the islanders
The cities of refuge, however, were
not peculiar to the Hebrews. They
existed in the time of ancient Greece.
We read of the temple of Ceres at
HemioDe, in Argolis, which was sim
liar institution. and there were numer-
GUS others, both there and elsewhere,
where the Cushite influence had mod
fled the customs and nodded the cults
of the people on its own pattern.
Besides the traditions of the Ha-
their practice of incarnation
and divination, and many peculiar
tiles of their language, show relation
not only with the Hebrews, but also
with the fre-worshipers of Persia, the
Brahmins and Buddhists of India and
other branches of the Aryan race
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
THE PEST OF FLIES.
Ean's Life Rendered Miserable by the
Troublesome Insecta.

| troublesome Insects.
The bee is but one of several plaques
that have to be set off per contra in
the ledger of Terai joys The fly is
another-that common nuisance which
infests the Terai country as an en-
tomological anomaly. c., a house fly
where houses there are none.
Wherever in those regions the camp
of man is pitched, there do these
dipterous insects-these minimized
harpies-swarm.
At night they are only moderately
active, but when the day has warmed
. little they fill the air with their dis
eordant buzzing, and every teacup,i
nilx jug or other possible receptacle
with their bodies. The only way of
eating breakfast in their company,
;iys Blackwood's Magazine, is to take
chat neal in an inclosure of mosquito
netting, and even then hundreds of
them contrive to effect an entrance,
ara, being inside, dispute each
naouthful between the plate or cup and
lip.
Then there are sand flies, whose di-
mansions are such as preclude seclu-
sion by any material that will admit
the air. and whose stings are as ag-
gravating as those of mosquitoes.
And, finally, there is an insect that, as
an amateur entomologist, I call the
eye-iiy an insect that attacks one dur
ing the heat OF the day, and particu-
larly when one is open-eyed for tiger,
with the set purpose of getting into
ones eye.
That villainous insect does not
sting; it is satisfied with committing
suicide, when the consequence is in
dammation to the eye that brushes out
is useless life, and it persists, in spite
IF frequent rcpulse, in finding grave
here. 1t is q nuisance when it lodges
about within q foot of ones face, aim
ng now at one eye, now at the other
t is painfully SO when it perishes tri-
lnphant
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
MISSING LINKS.

CHINA is the most ancient empire in
the world and contains one-ffth of the
human race.
FLORIDA oranges are being shipped
to Europe, where hitherto the Italian
fruit has reigned supreme.
MASSACHUSETTS Humane society
erected the first lifeboat station in,
America at Cohasset. Mass
ONE of the earliest shipwrecks re-.
corded in this country was that of
Dutch vessel on Sandy Hook in 1920.
A SMALL horse power engine which
is said to make forty-two cigarettes
minute is the invention of French.
man.
IN Sicily it is claimed that fire will
not burn nor snakes bite the person
who was born on ST. Paul's day
June 3O).
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
JEDoE wAxEM's PROVERBS.

PovEETY is NIFTY nj crime in polli-
ticks
The best test NV mans ability to
hold emmy offs is to gitit.
IT'S powerful bad sine when win
men git the polliticks habit.
CONGRESS thinks it amt dom its
dooty eff it amt maxim laws all the
time.
PUBLIcK offs is publick trust, and
the man that hain't got the offs is agin
trusts.
THAR amt a foot on erth big enuf
to trampel on the star spangled ban
ner NV freedum.
Eff eny q. s. seniter oarrys a htenin
rod to keep the presidential litenin
from strikin' him nobody ever seen it
stickin' up in site.-Detroit Free Press.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
- DO1 > s~.OsLGL>>4l VI s,".--.
1nstances Which Go TO Prove Remarkable
Canine Intelligence.

How do dogs know the time of day?
some one asks the writer, and proceeds
to relate some stories to prove that
they do know it. One of these stories,
says the Boston Transcript, is about a
collie who starts every afternoon to
meet his master, who always comes on
the $50 train, Trains are continually
coming and going, and whistling and
ringing, but Pete pays no attention to
any but this one AS soon as its whis-
tie is heard he begins to bark joyfully,
and never makes mistake. Another
dog became SO much accustomed to go
ing to the schoolhouse every morning
with his little master that, when the
boy was absent for sever al weeks, the
dog still went on going to school, ar
irving punctually at nine o'clock every
morning. Moreover, he never went on
Saturday or Sunday.
With regard to the first case, it
might be replied, perhaps, by skepti-
cal person, that the dog was more like
ly to be able to distinguish the special
whistle of the locomotive which drew
the half-past five o'clock train than
to know it by the hour of the day. And
yet the writer has no sort of doubt that
dogs do know when certain hour ar
rives at which something regular and
accustomed takes place The second
case seems to prove this very thing.
There is a case on record in which a
doctor, who was accustomed to visit
certain village at certain hour on a
certain day each week, always found
dog OF his acquaintance waiting for
him outside the town, and it was
proved that the dog never came to the
place at any other day or hour. Eyi-
IDENTIFY all that can be said in explana-
ton of such cases is that animals are
susceptible of having periods or circles
OF time established in their intelli-
gences by use, and that their ignorance
OF timepieces only serves to make the
instinct the keener. 1t is well known |
that men who have never possessed |
and who work or hunt habit |
ually at a distance from clocks, are ex-
pert at estimating the lapse of time.
Perception of this kind undoubtedly I
may be cultivated in an intelligent
animal as well as in man.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
CHARITY NOTES.

THERE are 1900 soup kitchens in
France.
ITALY has 100000 inmates of the poor
houses.
The aims houses of France have $780,
600 inmates.
AUSTRIA has $4,000 orphans cared
for by the state.
GERMANY has 100000 paupers in the
public aims houses.
ENGLISH charity hospitals annually
relieve 1880 sick.
The annual expense of raising an
orphan in France is $50.
THERE are in Austria 900, 1000 persons
receiving state aid.
BERLIN charity hospitals receive an
annual subsidy of $3.50, 0OO
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
A DYING CUSTOM.
The English Queens seconder No Longer
Wears G Court Costume


Wears Court Costume.
1t is under the administration of the
so-called peer premier. that the old
aristocratic custom which required the
mover and the seconder of the address
in reply to the queens speech to do so
in court costume is receiving its first
death blow. Mr.. Fenwicls, who sec
onded the last address, did so in his
ordinary apparel, and the absurd re-
vival of old usages thus received
warning to go. But the mover of the
address, Mr.. Warner, appeared in mill
tary garb. That Lord Rosebery has
upon courtly practices shown by Fem
wick argues much for his breadth of
mind and his good sense. Al one time
the wearing of court dress and Of
swords in parliament was the general
habit, and though that habit died out
about the end of the American war
members still continued to appear in T,
the house wearing their stars and rib
bons. Some old members also con
least on special occasions. and finally
about one hundred years ago this dis
tinguished parliamentary garo was
abandoned. 1t is only retained by the
mover and the seconder of the address
from some prevailing notion that it
implies mark of respect to tie SOW
ereign, and it has fingered on through |
all the influences introduced by the !
great reform bill of 1882 even into this |
n n na
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-05-26
AMUSING BLuNDERs.
Desperate Situations OF DIfadent YOUNG
OratorR.

Desperate Situations OF DIfIldent Young
Orators
Some amusing examples Of uninten-
tional transpositions are given in re-
Gently published collection Of bulls
and Blunders.'' Slips of the kind
usually result from nervousness rather
than from ignorance, but it is a ques-
ton which was responsible in the case
of the pompous colored preacher who
told his flock that it was 'easier for a
camel to go through the knee of an
idol than for rich man to enter
Heaven"
Noy so in the case of the courtly and
cultivated George William Curtis, who,
it is said, was so overcome with stage
fright when he commenced his first
lecture that instead of the reference
to the bottomless pit which he intend
ed to make, he astonished his hearers
by beginning TREMENDOUSLY:
Ladies and gentlemen. the pittom-
less bott-!"
The browning specimen of ludicrous
helplessness in the face. OF elusive
sgllables is that of the unfortunate
sEealser who, at pathetic point OF his
aaoiress, when his hero was about to
sssdergo heartrending parting from
nome and friends, uttered, in his most
melting voice:
"Biddy, diddy-'
He stopped confused; flushed, set
his mouth and tried again, with
resumption of the interrupted |
atGos;
0idiy biddy-'
Something waswrong still. Hegrew
sIlst, perspired, and gasped forth a
aird attempt, not more inteiiigiblc
i1is hearers could none of them inter
pref it, 1t might be High German, or
it might be a Mother Goose refrain:
'Diddy, hiddy, biddy door,
The situation was desperate: but the
persistent orator rallied, paused unit
ne had fully recovered his self control
ind trying once more, with slow utter
snce and distinct enunciation, CON
luered at length the simple phrase
yh;ch had overthrown him. He said:
Did he bid adieu2"