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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14
sHERIFFs SALE.

In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for the County of Clatsop:
Chas. Il. Runyon, plaintiff, VS.. William
B. Adair, substituted for B. Van Du-
SEM as administrator of the estate Of
Mary Ann Adair, deceased, Ellen
Adair Mendell, and George II. Mem
dell, her husband, KatyAdalr Welcker
and William Il. Welcker, her hus-
hand, John Adair, Mary Ann Adair
Jordan, and w. II. Jordan, her hus-
band, $. ID. Adair, Laura p,
Adair Barker, ana William B,
Barker, her husoa,cl, Robert IL
Brenham. Betty M. Brenham, Laura
]. Brenham,, Mary II. Adair, Adair
! Welcker John Adair Mendell, Mary
Kendall and Mary Ann Adair, and
G. II, Thomson as guardian ad litem
OF the defendants, Mary Ann Adair
and John Adair Mendell, minors, de-
PENDANTS.
BY virtue OF an execution and ordel
of sale issued out Of and under the seal
of the above entitled court, In the above
entitled cause, on the 10th day OF De-
cember, 1S9S upon n decree OF fore
closure and judgment duly made and
entered on the 9Th day of October. 1898,
which said execution and order Of sale
was to me directed and delivered, did
on the 21st day Of December, 1898, levy
upon all the right. title. claim. and in
terest OF the above named defendants
In and to the following described real
estate. towit.; Blocks numbered seven
ty-four C7D In the town Of the Port of
Upper Astoria, and blocks numbered
seventy-six (76), seven ,y-elght (7S), elgh-
ty-four go elghty-slx (S6), and ninety
600, in the East Addition to Adairs
Astoria, according 10 the maps and
plats thereof as laid out and recorded
by John Adair, In Clatsop county, State
OF Oregon.
And shall on Saturday. the Goth day
OF January, 1894, at the hour OF 10
o'clock q, m, In front OF the court house
door IN the city OF Astoria, In said
county and state. proceed to sell the
same or so much thereof as shall be
sufficient 10 satisfy the sum of S1blS.g3.
together with interest thereon from Oc-
tober 6. 1898, at the rate OF eight per
cent per annum, and costs and dis
buraements taxed at S159.20. together
with aecruing costs OF this suit, az pub
lie auction to the highest bidder for
cash IN hand In U. S. gold coin at time
Of sale. II. A. SMITH.
Sheriff Of clalsop County. Oregon.
Dated, Astoria, Or. Dec. sist 1893.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14
pHoNETIc sPELLINd.,

A good story Of the danger Of phonet-
ic spelling is told by an Australian pa
per. A Scandinavian named Ole Baum
Gartz, who is established in Australia
as a schoolmaster, was astonished and
enraged one day by the receipt Of the
following missive:
"Old Boom CUTS, is queer.
Cur, ass, you ar a man of no legs,
wish to inter my bowie in your skull"
A conference was held, and the writer.
newcomer, was visited by a body of
inhabitants and asked Indignantly to
read his letter aloud, and say what he
meant by it. He read:
"Ole Baumgartz, Esq:
"Sir: AS you are a man Of knowl-
edge, I wish to enter my boy in your
school"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14
ADMINISTRATORS FINAL
COUNT.

Notice is hereby sivan that the un-
derslgnec, adninistrator Of Tho rs,nte
OF Alexander Mcdonald, has nled in the
county court of the state of Cgreon for
Clatsop county, his final account as
such administrator, praying ''or Settle-
ment OF said estate and his discharge.
and the said court has set Monday,
February 5th, 1894. at the hour Of 9
O'Clock p. M, of said day. at the court
house, for the hearing OF said account,
and all persons interested are notified
hereby to then and there appear and
show cause II any, why the same should
not be allowed.
.s WILLIAM MCDONALD.
Administrator of the estate of Alex
ander Mcdonald. deceased.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14
TO PRINTERS.

The Astorian has the following des.
oribed printing material and fixtures
for sale:
A large number of cases. news and
job, OF the various sizes and stvles
Several news sttlnds.
A large assortment OF advertising
display and poster type, running In ser
les, and In fair order--just the thine
for country newspaper.
Propltetors OF country newsnapers
VINO wish bargain should correspond
with the Astorian. or call and look ever
the material for sale.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14
FINAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
NOTICE.

The undersigned, assignee of Parker
q Hanson, insolvent debtors OF Astoria
Clatsop county, Oregon, having filed
his final account as such assignee, with
the clerk of the circuit court of Ore
gon for Clatsop county. Oregon, the
hearing and settlement Of account will
be held In said court on the first day
of the next regular term thereof, to-
wit: on the nineteenth lay Of February,
1894
Objections, II any, to such settlement
must then and there be made.
w. w. PARKER,
Assignee Of Parker Il Hansen, insol-
vent debtors.
January 1S, 1894
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14
NOVICE on ApMINIsrRATIoN.

Notice Is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been this day appointed
the administrator OF the estate OF A. X.
Barrow, deceased. BY the county court
OF Clatsop county. Oregon. All parties
having claims against said estate must
present the same. duly verified. 70 the
undersigned. at the Office OF Fulton
BroSs attorneys. IN. Astoria. Clatsop
county. Oregon. within six months from
s, II. AMEs.
rAnuat,. "a fcat
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-14

lob THE DAILY Historian
=. Job Office is the best equip
HULK ped for all kinds of First
Class work, and at prices
as low as prevail in Portland or
San FranciScO.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
Americas Dead Sea.

Medical Lake, so-called on account
of the remedial virtues of its waters,
situated on the Great Columbian
plateau, in Southern Washington, at
an altitude of 2300 feet above the
level of the Pacific, is the Dead Sea
of America. 1t is about a mile long
and from a half to three-fourths of
mile in width, and with maximum
depth of about sixty feet.
The composition of the waters of
this Alpine lake is almost identical
with that of the Dead Sea of Pales
tine, and, like its oriental counter
part, no plant has yet been found
growing in or near its edges. 1t is
all but devoid of animal life, a species
of large "boat-bug," a queer little
terrapin, and the famous "walking
fish" being its only inhabitants This
walking fish is an oddity really de-
serving of a special "note." 1t is
from eight to nine inches long and
has finny membrane extending from
head to head, even around both the
upper and lower surfaces of the tail.
1t is provided with four legs, those
before having four toes, the hinder
fve.-S Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Corundum is worth about 5000 per
ton.
Hose of aluminium is now used in
Germany.
Sugar alone will sustain life for q
considerable time.
Only one out of every fifteen per-
sons has both eyes in good condition.
An airpump is said to have been de-
vIsed which sweeps q room by suck
ing the dust all out of it.
A spoon in a glass filed with hot
water prevents the breaking of the
glass, because the metal readily alb
serbs large part of the heat Of the
water.
The United States consul at Odessa,
Russia, reports to the State Depart
ment that of 1893 cases treated at the
meteorological station for year for
hydrophobia by the Pasteur method,
but six died, all children.
The snow huts of the Esquimaux
are the warmest dwellings that can be
constructed in polar regions, becau,,
snow is the poorest conductor of heat
that can be found there and keeps
the warmth of the fire within.
Sir Andrew Clark, late President of
the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons, advised that each mouthful
of food should receive thirty-two
bites-that is, one for every tooth if
one wishes to avoid dyspepsia.
Professor William Hardness, of
Washington, states the magnitude of
the solar system as 5,57S, 400, 900 miles
measuring across the diameter of Nep-
tunes orbit, while the radius of the
earth's orbit is 92,797, 900 miles, with
possible error either way of 50, 700
miles.
The use of the electric current in
the treatment of disease is extending,
as shown by the large attendance upon
and widespread interest in the second
annual convention of the National So
ciety of Electro-therapeutics in New
York City. Physicians of the old
schools of practice now use electricity
for many troubles.
Cocaine Is one of the most useful
drugs known. Its use was demon
strated on the eyes of animals by Kol-
Ter, of Vienna, not many years ago,
and it is now indispensable to the sur
geon. Cocaine applied to the eye en-
tirely removes sensibility, and allows
the most delicate operations to be
painlessly performed. 1t is also used
in operations on the nose and larynx,
which otherwise could only be per-
formed with great agony to the
patient, for the administration of
chloroform in these cases is impossible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
Moving Mountain.

A travelling mountain is found at
the Cascades of the Columbia. 1t is a
triple-peaked mass of dark brown
basalt, six or eight miles in length
where it fronts the river, and rises to
the height of almost 2000 feet above
the water. That it is in motion is the
last thought that would be likely to
suggest itself to the mind of anyone
passing it; yet it is a well-established
fact that this entire mountain is
moving slowly but steadily down to
the river, as if it had deliberate pur-
pose some time in the future to dam
the Columbia and form great lake
from the Cascades to the Dalles, says
a writer in Goldthwaite's Geographi-
cal Magazine. In its forward and
downward movement the forest along
the base of the ridge has become sub
merged in the river. Large tree
stumps can be seen standing dead in
the water on this shore. The railway
engineers and brakemen find that the
line of railway that skirts the foot of
the mountain is being continually
forced out of place. AT certain points
the permanent way and rails have
been pushed eight or ten feet out of
line in a few years. Biologists at
tribute this strange phenomenon to
the fact that the basalt, which consti-
tutes the bulk of the mountain, rests
on substratum of conglomerate or of
soft sandstone, which the deep, swift
current of the mighty river is con
stantly wearing away, or that this
softer subrock is of itself yielding at
great depths to the enormous weight
of the harder mineral above.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
WISE WORDS

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital
power.
Who loses all the fault that is
found?
1t is as great to be q woman as to be
, a man.
Castles in the air are seldom fur
nished.
Life is a riddle, to which the answer
is death.
Impudence is sometimes mistaken
for liberty.
A hen pecked husband is often
chicken hearted.
Talking is the safety valve of the
feminine boiler.
What lot of things people hide
from each otherl
Every man makes a different noise
when he sneezes.
To clever woman every man is a
possible husband.
A signature to a mortage is usually
pretty bad sign.
People are not shocked as often as
they pretend to be.
The surest way to be bad is trying
too hard to be good.
The secret of success is success in
keeping ones secrets.
The great wisdom il not to talk
wisely, but to act wisely.
The man who does most has the
least time to talk about it.
There is nothing more serious than
what some consider o joke.
The shortest day in the year is the
day before your note falls due.
A boy always experiences nervous
affection on the eve of proposing.
Love is the paradise of the foolish,
but only the playground of the wise.
A good man is one who behaves
himself, and forgives others who do
not.
The worry of to-day is usually the
result of the carelessness of yester-
day.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12

"What, the palmistry or the hyp-
notism2"
Both; and the frightening thrown
in"
"Well, you will see her tonight,
and can then judge for yourself.
Here we are, now." Saying which
they walked up the broad steps of a
comfortable looking brown stone
mansion and were ushered into the
drawing room by stately looking
butler.
Miss Morgan was as charming q girl
as one would care to meet. She had
beauty, numerous Accomplishments,
and, incidentally, wealth. Within the
past few years she had developed a
craze for anything bordering on the
mystic or supernatural. At first it
was palmistry, but recently it had de-
veloped into mird-reading, hypnotism
and ingeniously planned though en-
tirely unsuccessful wanderings of the
astral body.
Yet she had impressed.some of her
friends to such an extent that they
would dream nightmareish dreams
about her, and when they informed
her of the fact she would calmly an
nounce that she really had been with
them in astral form.
Tom Bransford thought of all this
as he was presented TO this self-con-
fessed witch. To her credit be it said
that the young lady thought too much
of her personal appearance to adopt
any outlandish form of dress; on the
contrary, the tout ensemble, while
certainly bewitching, was anything
but uncanny.
After the first tintroductions and per-
funstory conventionalities, the con-
versation was turned to the subject of
hypnotism, and Bransford volunteered
to become subject with foolhardy
daring ''just to see what the sensa-
tion was like, " as he meekly explained.
Overioyed at the prospect of new
victim to experiment upon, the young
hostess offered him an invitinRly com
Portable looking armchair, while she,
seating herself before him and taking
his hand in hers, directed that he
should look steadily into her eyes.
Brsnsford did so, while Miss MOI gan
fixed her lustrous eyes on his as though
she would look him through and
through.
Don't stare at me that way too
long, Miss Morgan, 1 have weak
heart" interrupted Bransford.
Estelle laughed. "You must not in
terrupt the physic current by talking
but tell me, have you experienced any
strange sensations yet?"
Yer" replied Bransford, "the
strangest and widest sensations. /
can hardly talk. feel that am go
ing, going. "
And as a matter of fact, Toms eyes
closed while he was yet talking, and in
another moment lie collapsed, helpless
and powerless in the chair.
81 have never been so successful, "
cried the girl, clasping her hands de-
lightedly. "He has passed beyond the
suggestion stage, and now must be in
the somnamhulistic stage" Then
turning the limp form of Bransford,
she commanded; "Stand up. You
are now completely in my power.
Stand up and open your eyes.
But Bransford did nothing of the
sort. On the contrary his legs and
arms became rigid, his teeth elenched,
and his breathing labored.
Estelle turned pale. "He is in ths
cataleptic stage; but 1 think l had
BETTER wake him up, don't your"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
RATKs OF ADVERTISING ,
DEACON HoPEFUps der

Dear friends, when I am dead an gone,
Don't have no woeful takin's on,
Don't act so tarnally bereit,
As though they weren't no sunshine Left.
Don't multiply your stock o. woes
By sorry looks an gloomy clothes,
An make the trouble ten times worse
BY alters follerln' hearse.
When depart, it's my idee,
The most consolln' thing ter mo
Id be to hear the ones 1 tried
Ter comfort here before died
Say, sort o. smilin' through their tears,
"Well, ennyhow, fer years an years
We had him here, so let's be glad
An thankful fer the joy we had"
II amt no use ter make fuss
When death comes after one o. US.
The ways O. Providence, 1 low,
Are as they should be, ennyhow.
Things suit me purity middlin' well,
An even at funeral
III sing, amid the grief and woe,
"Praise God, from whom all blessln's
flow."
Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Journal
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
The Eyes of a Portrait.

How it is that the eyes of some por-
traits seem to follow a spectator
around the room? 1t is thus ex.
planned; Suppose portrait have its
face and eyes directed straight in
front, SO as to look at the spectator.
Let a straight line be drawn through
the tip of the nose and half way be-
tween the eyes. On each side OF this
middle line there will be the same
breath of head, Of cheek, of chin, and
of neck, and each iris will be in the
middle of the whole of the eye. II
one now go to one side. the apparent
horizontal breadth of every part OF
the head and face will be diminished,
but the parts on each side of the mid
die line will be diminished equally
and at every position, however OBJ.
lique, there will be the same breadth
of face on each side of the middle line,
and the iris will remain in the centre
of the eyeball, so that the portrait
will preserve all the character of a
figure looking at the spectator and
must necessarily do so wherever he
stands. In portraits the apparent
motion of the head is generally rem.
dered indistinct by the canvas being
imperfectly stretched, as the slightest
concavity or couvexity entirely de-
forms the face. e.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12

Iceland can hardly be considered as
a new country, admits the Washing
ton Star, for it was colonized before
the Vikings made an excursion to the
North American coast. Yet attention
is now being directed to the resources
OF the island, and projects for devel-
opment are being planned and pushed
with the vigor usual when a new land
has been opened for settlement. An
English syndicate has secured con-
cession to build railways, and a line
of steamers is to be established to run
all the year between Iceland and Liv-
rpool The export sheep trade is
.he incentive that has given life to
these commercial projects. Iceiand's
geographic position is such as to sug-
gest it as a field for American enter.
hprise.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
II is encouraging to know that n,

1t is encouraging to know that the
Hcientific application of electricity to
therapeutical work is gaining ground
rapidly. Not only are medical men
themselves actively investigating the
subject, but electricians like Edison,
Tesla, Elihu Thomson, A. E. Kennel
'iy, ]. j. Carly and others, are devot-
ing considerable time and study to
il, American medical papers contain
many notes on new lines of work, and
even the more conservative English
press finds space TO record advances
IN the electro-therapeutic art. Tho
London Lancet contains interesting
references to the very successful use
of electricity in curing trigeminal
neuralgia, and to long continued
treatment of cases of ticdouloureaux,
which ia practically the same thing,
with long and short applications of
lhe current. Success is uniform in
all cases.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
Oldest Scrthe in the World.

Quietly reposing on one of the
many well-flled shelves in Flinders
Petrie's private museum in London is
an ancient agricultural implement
which throws much light on the art of
husbaudry as practicei by the prehis-
toric Egyptians. This antique farm
ing tool is a wooden scythe blade,
which was found securely imbedded
in the mortar of one of tho oldest
tombs of the valley of the Lower Nile
The shaft of the instrument, as al
ready stated, is of wood of some un-
known species, the edge being carefully
set with a row of aints so as to pre-
sent their jagged edges in a manner
not unlike that exhibited by the teeth
of saw. These hints are of uniform
size, the base of each being fashioned
so as to fit the curve of the wooden
blade. The teeth are not set into u
groove along the edge of the blade, as
one would naturally suppose, but are
each firmly cemented in place, the
material being of such excellent com
position and the workmanship of such
superior quality that after lapse Of
time closely approximating 6000 years
they appear as sound and perfect as
when first taken afeld by their origin
al owner. st. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
AN ANswERINa THOUGHT.

1iman be but mere sojourner here
A borrowed presence from some distant
sphere,
A passing shadow 'twlxt smile and tear
thing OF fieetIng breath,
Then, o ye heavenly choristers, draw near
And tell me what Is death.
II mortal strength be but q borrowed might
A clrcling sun that WINES before the night,
taper burning with transient light,
Borrowed from worlds above,
Oh, pause, sweet spirits, In your phantom
flight,
And tell me what is love.
II human life is but feeble spark
A fitting CLEAN consumed by shadows dark
Or spirits soaring upward, as the lark,
Let me not blindly grope;
Ahoy sweet sailors In your phantom bark,
And tell me what is hop,
II my poor heart, a thing OF trust an pray'r,
Must throb-then vanish as dissolvlng air;
II must struggle through world OF care
A vicious, fieetlng strife
Then tell me, o thou shapes OF beauty rare,
Tell me what Is life.
Alb. yes hear you answer, clear anil
strong,
Like flood OF decd, unfathona5lo song;
ITO live is Christ To triumph over wrong
The souls sweet mission is;
Or day, or night or life bo short or long,
IT'S writ-ye are His"
hearken not to Evolutions droue,
The goddess critic or the cynic's tone;
l nsk but grace to "walk with God" alone
Trustful, exultnnt, free,
To bide the sacred presence OF His throne,
Through all eternity.
Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
Chinese Victims of Consumption,

That there is large Chinese popu-
lation in Boston is we'll known, and
yet it is seldom that one hears of a
death in the Chinese quarter. The
proportion of Chinese residents is
small as compared with those of other
nationalities, and there is no way to
tell the exact number of deaths among
them, as they are recorded by the city
officials under the head of miscel-
laneous nationalities. Inquiry reveals
the fact that Cinnamon in nearly every
case die of consumption. They are i'll,
as rule, but short time. In their
native country their principal diet is
rice, which from its healthfulness,
tends to lengthen life. When they
begin business here all their
habits change. They work early and
late, seldom leaving their shops, and
as they succeed they begin to eat
American food. 1t is remarked by all
with whom they have dealings that
they always buy the best the markets
afford. 1t is their custom to work un-
til midnight or after, and then enjoy
q hearty meal, If they are well-to.do
they are certain to have chickens and
whatever fruit can be procured, no
matter how expensive it may be. If
they have just started in the laundry
business it is quite likely that they
will form company and adjourn to
the nearest "night lunch wagon" or
restaurant.
Living as most of them do, in such
small rooms, when sickness overtakes
them they cannot receive proper care,
and they are carried to the hospitals.
Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-12
The Horse Knew the Days OF the Week

A Dexter Me man has a marc that
knows several things, and among
other accomplishments apparently can
tell the day of the week. On Sunday
last the gentleman hitched up, and,
having assisted his wife into the car.
riage, got in himself. He was busted
for a moment in arranging the robe,
and before he had taken up the reins
the horse started out of the yard into
the street His purpose was to attend
church, and, as the horse took that
direction, he decided to let her gu
without guiding to see what she would
do. The route is altogether different
from that taken in the weekday driv.
ing. He left the reins hanging on the
dasher, but nevertheless was carried
as straight to the church as he would
have gone if he had turned the
horse. Without a word, when she
had turned up to the church door and
the carriage was in position at the
steps. the mare stopped for her mas
ter to alight. Lewiston Journal