The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-09-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

In learning to ride the bicycle the
ancient advice to $50 slow and learn
to pedal" should always be followed.
The Mitchell Monitor says that ~.
D. Stephenson, who is 81 years old,
| has killed 32 porcupines in the past
eight weeks" The quilted piglets
must have been plentiful in that neigh
| borhood.
The Hamburg American Packet Co.
| has contracted for steamship Of 20,-
00O tons capacity. This will be the
| largest vessel ever built except the
| Great Eastern, and will be only 1000
tons smaller than that ship.
Rocky Mountain Smith is now chief
editor, manager and reporter for the
bright little Mitchell Monitor, Messrs.
Meyer end Misner retiring. Rocky
| is first-rate newspaper man and will
attract attention to the Mitchell coun.
| try.
President Chapman, of the state
university, says "the best intelligence
| in the country is in the women" 1t
| mentally constituted as to be self
measuring, and fewer yet are they who
can conscientiously use their own in
tellects as a yard stick.
The Providence Journal ventures
the following suggestion concerning
"boss" Quay of Pennsylvania: Soon
gresham Stone declared that Senator
Quay,s only Inheritance as poor
country lad was the example of his
Presbyterian father, and the prayers
of his Christian mother.' From this
we are led to infer that he squandered
his Inheritance at an early date"
The most prominent senator of the
New York legislature is Senator
Lexow, and he has within the past
two weeks declared that if the present
prosperity of the country continues it
will prove that the Republicans are
wrong on the tariff issue and have
been all the while. Senator Lexow is
not Democrat, but a protectionist
Republican, formerly of the most ex-
treme type, but he is also reformer.
Mrs. Duniway in her new paper the
Pacific Empire says: "The New Wo-
man is here to stay" Mrs. Duniway
is undoubtedly correct, not only is the
New Woman here to stay but so is the
old woman. In fact it seems just as
necessary for an old woman to stay as
new one, for they are used to it. In
these days woman who does not
''stay" is q rarity. Bloomers have
come to stay too, that is they fasten
around the center of the corset.
The California courts are the most
accommodating of any on earth, or at
least the one trying Durrantis. When
ever juror has little private busi-
ness to attend to Judge Murphy kindly
adjourns court for day or two to per-
NIT said business to be transacted.
The trial has been going on eight
weeks and if it is fought to finish on
present lines, it will continue until
the prisoner and ali connected with
the case die OF old age.
"Bradstreet's" calls the present one
.'the greatest boom in iron and steel
in our history" Prices have advanced
sharply in the face of largely increased
production. The supply is nearly on
level with the highest figures of the
past, but demand keeps ahead of it.
AS consequence, the imports of iron
and steel are heavy, and revenue from
this source is increasing. This growth
in imports, however, is probably one
of the causes of the gold expectation
at the present time.
The dispatches state that 200 Chi
nese. 80 Of whom are women, are try
ingto get into the United States at
Ogdensburg, N. Y, claiming to be
actors on their way to Atlanta, where
they will conduct theater. Every
body on this coast knows tE ct women I
never appear as actresses in Chinese
theater, the parts being taken by men.
It the officials at Ogdensburg do not
know that, they are not competent to |
ell the. position. There is no doubt
about this proposition being correct.
England has gone mine mad again,
and this time she is sending her good
money into Africa. After the Com
stock was discovered the Englishmen
got their fingers burned to the queens
taste, If not to their own in the wild.
,at mining speculations of Nevada.
There are dozen of mills standing idle
n that state that cost millions of dol
ars, and many an old prospect hole
hat never had a pound of pay quartz
n it, is an inside-out monument to
British gullibility.
1t is to be hoped that the fight be-
ween the two newspaper prize-fght-
rs, Corbett and Fitzsimmons, will be
flowed to come off. They have shed
niles OF dispatches and barrels of
rinters' ink, now let them get at each
ther, and that continuously until they
he'd as much as possible of each
ther's gore. Whom the fight is over
hey should be arrested and each sem
enced to wear an e-ounce boxing +,
love In his mouth, between meals, for
Mrs. -Langtry, the Jersey Lily, is s
vidently preparing for tour of the {
ountry. She has made bid for free
dvertising, by having the report tele- I
raphed to the World that she had Z
cen robbed of 100000 worth of a
'welry. The scheme is very chest \
utty, but will take just the same. I
he only claims Mrs. Langtry ever
ad to being an actress were her al q
'ged good looks and a besmirched q
'putation. She may have been con- g
dered good looking in England, but :
ere In Eastern Oregon, every village q
'uld discount her with home products. a
The scheme of raising fund of s1O,. o
% to buy a silver service for the bat Is
eship, Oregon, by gathering up the Il
ckels OF the children is being made. W
those who hob-nob with the Officers g
the battlesbips are SO anxious for al
q ship to have silver plate, thew al
ould buy it, or at least If thew are
ing to beg it. they should ask from
lie bodied men. The children will
on have their. patriotism tested hv
ing compelled to put up taxes to
rry on the government, and the les.
n in patriotism those advocating the
,eme talk about is premature and be
necessary. lie,
The water level of the Great Lakes da
a curious study. Last week six sp
hes of rain fell over Superior, CO
chigan and Huron, whose combined sel
"a is T,450 square miles. These sel
,wers added to the three lakes 1,O79,- se
JIG, 900 cubic feet Of water, with ~
counting the water received by ies
image. on tributary streams. It
nd take the canal under construc.
4 in Illinois seven years to
~ off this rainfall alone at the rate on;
SOC, 600 cubic feet q minute. The me
should not be forgotten that the an, ,~
es &re fresh water oceans with enor- -
ls powers of storage, and it Is not &c
tain that dozen ordinary canals ;ss,
I'D pull upon them perceptibIy. Tn
~ have gradual poriode ~ IT,, | II