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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
MAoHINE.MADE SPEECHES.
Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by q
Recent English Invention.


Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by a
Recent English Invention.
There is no doubt that both the type
writing machine and the phonograph
are very ingenious and useful inven-
tions, but the chief difficulty with
them, says the New York Times, is
t,iat they cannot be made to act auto
1atically. 1t is in order to fill this
want that distinguished inventor,
chose name is for the present with
held has invented an automauc writer,
and, Judging from the private exhibi-
ton of the machine which was recently
given in London to committee of
members Of the Royal society, it bids
fair to prove the greatest invention Of
this or any age.
In appearance the machine Is said to
be not wholly unlike q tgpowrlting
rlaehine. 1t, however, is provided with
sort Of hopper, In which are placed
blocks Of typemetal, each one of which
is provided with complete word, in-
>iead of a single letter. When this
topper is filled and the small electric
engine which furnishes the motive
eoyTer-af the machine is set in action IL
Instantly begins to print. OF course,
what Is printed depends in good de-
gree upon the selection Of words which
are placed in the hopper, but it is i'm.
leastood the machine can be used fol
almost uny sort of composition.
At the exhibition already mentioned
the hopper was filed with a supply of
words relating to the English political
situation, and in ten minutes after the
engine had been started the machine
had Fprinted two'full columns, each Of
about the length Of an ordinary col
umn Of a newspaper. When these were
read they were instantly recognized to
be speech on home rule in the general
style of Mr.. Gladstone The hopper
was next filed with choice selection
Of the very finest words in the Ian
guage, and the machine thereupon
printed what was at once perceived to
be an essay after tho manner of Mr..
Ruslsin on political economy, More
words were added and three pages Of
what any critic would have unhcsi-
tatingly accepted as passage from g
new novel by Mr.. Meredith delighted
the committee. The last experiment
was made with the hopper filled with
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
Things Learned In the Morsue.

The old keeper Of the morgue in this
city, who has seen hundreds OF un-
known bodies exhibited for identified
tion, has arrived at some interesting
conclusions, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord If the face Of the dead person is
perfectly composed and natural, Of
course, intimate friends or relatives
recognize them Immediately. But, he
says, If the face is distorted through
pain or disfgured by injuries, casual
acquaintance can identify the body
much easier than the closest relation.
lie explsins this by saying that people
who have known o person well for a
long time lose sight Of the features and
see rather the personality reflected in
the lines Of the face, "A casual &C.
gliglntsnee notes the ieAtiisss, s,(a can
az ;.|.ss !. / |, lf|5 ~ ~
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
STRIPPED ~ LIGHTNING.


The Startling Yxperienco OF MNntana
Alan, Who S;in survives ,sN sa9cl,
Charles Il. Hoffman, OF Bu;tc, 8lon6,
was standing At the mouth a 4 mine
not long aco when he 1S sstWcl; lF
lightning, The tlmndrho.,, alHks,
first s,.ltc' thestlsw hat Va sd, wenr-
ing, ard it tore hoie in tie tgt that
-.eai raGt OF tho rim Then Il tlro his
clothing inte sllreds ard lei6 him
naked, Both his oveinls ana the shirt
he was wearing presented the appear
ance of having passed through Ii sau,
sage mill NpbQdy can tell him why
he was not Killed by the lightning,
The bolt, he says, after passing through
his hat struck him on the shoulder and
ran the full length of his body, burn
ing the skin toa crisp on the side and
legs. 1t also eut his left foot on the
eide and bottom, breaking the bones of
the foot,
Why clothes were torn to pieces and
thrown from my body said Mr. IEoff-
man to writer for the New York
World, 'and my shoes were torn from
my feet
He became unconscious as soon as he
was struck by the lightning and did
not revive for an hour and q half.
When he regained his senses Hoffman
was in great pain and he was confined
to the hospital for nine weeks, When
MISUNDERSTANDING was examined after
the accident twas seen that in many
places the lightning had cut thc cloth
as neatly as If 1t had been done with n
razor. Some of the cuts were long and
straight. The lightning took his
clothes off quicker than he could have
undressed himself and il threw them
in pile ON one side of the track, with
his shoes carefully deposited beside the
pile. The clothes seemed to have been
neatly folded until they were exam
med and found 70 be o pile Of rags
lIoffmans ''pants" had been yal.lSed of
him without the fornality cf pulling
them over his feet This seemingly inn
HO-oAbN ttA9N NNN t-GShhllIlAAoAllN ny
the lightning first cutting each leg
open, and then itappeared to have taxi
en- them by the seat and dropped them
on the coat, and T. finish tie job by
depositing Mr.. Hoffman's straw nat on
top of ALL After it got through with
Hoffman this remarkable streak of
lightning ran along metal track into
the Glengary mine, at the mouth Of
which he had been working, ran to the
end of the shaft, which is four hundred
feet below the surface of the ground,
and then it ran along Gross cut two
hundred feet where it branched off and
for sixty feet followed a "winze,n
There were several men at work mt this
point,and all were more or less stunned,
The bolt of lightning went into the
earth when it reached the end Of the
''winze." Hoffman is now known in
Butte as ''the human lightning rod
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
WORK WITHOUT PAY.
Weli-Known Autl,ors Who Decline TO Ac-
ccpt Money for their Works.

WeH-hnOWn Autii9rS VINO Decline to Ao-
cept Money for Their Works.
This is true of Count Lyof Nikol-
aieyitch Tolstoi, the famous Russian
author, who, while in the army as a
member of the staff Of Prince Gorts-
chalsoff, was present at the storming
OF Scbastopol in 1866. Leaving the
army, and alreadya a famous poet and
novelist, he devoted himself TO liter
ature, and spent short time in the
most brilliant literary and social
circles Of st. Petersburg. Since his
marriage he has lived more or less in
retirement, and during the Russian
famines of 1891 and 1892 made great
efforts on behalf Of the peasants on
aud in the vicinity Of his estates. In
the latter year Count Tolstoi resigned
all social standing and privileges Of his
rank, and he now deYotes most Of his
time and money to good works, while
living as poorly as any Of the pelsan-
try. He insists that the literal inter
probation Of the Sermon on the Mount
Is the only rule Of Christian life, aud
he has expressly declined to avail him
self Of any copyright in his works Or in
translations Of them into other
languages. Dr. John Charles Ryle,
bishop Of Liverpool has written above
two hundred tracts on religious sub.
jecte, many Of which have been trans
lated and reprinted In French, Ger.
man, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian,
Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish,
Hindostani, and Chinese, and IL Is said
ihat he will take nothing from the
NI!El.sts ~ sAs'n aHt will mike 10
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
More Pathetic Than Humorous.

An aged couple living south Of
Brazil Ind. who had devoted their three
score and ten to rural life and the
iDtl;ing of q farm, sold their posses
1li3s for the snug sum Of sixteen thou
saad dollars When the purchaser
eallad with o notary to close up the
deal by taking the deed of title, the
husband having signed andpasscd It 10
tho wife, she positively refused to tign
without consideration, saying she had
spent her life in making the farm, G !
had never realized enything ehe colltl
call her own md now was her oppor-
tunity. The husband failed to eati5fy
her and secure the signature. Then The
purchaser asked TO know what che
would take and sign the deed. fearful
that she would be exacting beyond his
inclination to comply. After u good
deal Of heeitancy she said she thopght
sae ought to hare two dollars, Which
l.e promptly handed her, and fhc
ti.@catAc title. She turned over the
il9es dcllars t!mo and ;ime aguin,
iangA!ng oger her coed lnals ishc saidi
''93..l vel, t!iis Is the tlrst money
Ihaye aseF aad IN ny life that I could
asil lag oNp lud apSpa u " uiAgtwiah
Iii GM Hi NAN t,sSl}EIfb
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
DOWN in A CRATER.
Wonders Witnessed by q Noun
tain Explorer.



----
Crater mountain is one of the Una
tilla Indians great spoolt dcpots from
ancient time, says the Baker City Dem.
tcrat. Bucks that are now white with
the hoary frosts Of many winters rec
cllcct hanging in the trees tightly
strapped to their nursing boards, while
their mothers roamed the forests in
search Of game for the lords of crea-
ton or wood for the tepee, and from
infancy love to relate how the great
spirit spoke to them with the awful
voice of terrific thunder in the bowels
of the earth; Many are the stories and
legends Of Indian lore told of Crater
mountain. One Of the favorite ones is
told of q great war between the
Shoshones and Umatillas. When the
Umatillas had conquered their foes
they proceeded to slaughter old and
young, regardless of sex. One beauti-
ful Shoshone maiden, seeing that
death was inevitable from her pprsu'
ing foes, plunged headlong into the
burning crater, and instantly the vol
canic eruption ceased, much to the
CONSERVATION Of her pursuers, who on
the following day found, on looking
down the chasm of inky darkness, a
resplendent light with the form Of the
shoshone maiden in the midst of the
annar;t;on. Thev told it to their dusky
varriors-aud to this tlay Crater noun
tain is looked upon with reverence
from an Indian point of view.
The following is from the diary of ].
A. Wright; 'sCrater mountain is located
some eleven miles from the Camp Of
Cornuoon;a. on the south side of the
range whose caps are tipped with
eternal snow. MANY chasms and fls-
sures have in the misty past cleft the
mountains and left them in the most
fantastic shapes. Vegetation ceases to
orow after certain height is reached,
and close under the base Of one of the
peeat peal,s is the famous extinct vol
cano. Ashes and lava are found in
great profusion and in such indescrib-
able masses that It makes the ascent
one of peril and great difficulty. How
ever. once at the TOP, q peek down into
the blank. fathomless abyss supplies the
most morbid minds with all the sensa-
ti2nalism necessary for lifetime. A
fayorite amusement was to throw rocks
down and listen to the sounds as they
struck on the projecting sides Of the
dark chimney until the sounds died
awav leaving nothing hut for the
mvstified explorer to guess it had
reached the bottom
MANY have been the stories eircu-
lated of the wonderful cavern that ex-
tended from the sides of the great
chimney A stout cable was provided
and a basket swung from pulley.
Hon. joseph, with camera and note
book, was carefully lowered some
three hundred and seventy-eight feet,
when he noticed an aperture in the
side Of the chimney, and, by signals
..,reed upon n halt was called In MS
downward career, and he crawled
through cleft in the great chimney,
and the work of exploration began.
THE first sight that met his astonished
raze was a most stupendous chamber,
from whose mighty dome hung stalac-
tites Of great beauty, which were en-
HANGED by the light Of the candle, and
fairly struck terror to his heart, as the
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-01-25
Lebanon Express.
FRIDAY Jan iS, 1896.
STATE AND COAST.
Taken From Our Exchanges Through
out the Northwest.

Farmers of West Chehalem COM
pain Of many sheep being killed
BY dogs.
Marion county commissioners
have reduced bounties for wild ami
mails one-half.
Application has been made to
the Pendleton city council for q
telephone exchange franchise.
The Lostine FIGURING Mill COM
pany has been incorporated, and
citizens Of that place are subscrib-
ing the stock.
The Southern Pacific will build a
hope warehouse at Salem 4OxlcO
feet. Last season 8240 bales were
shipped from that point.
Atew days ago John Wyatt killed
thirteen skunks, young and old,
near Corvallis, and still is not quar-
antined by his neighbors.
The Hillsboro mill has filled an
order for nineteen cars Of rolled
oats the past month, and has an
other order for seven more.
Albany has taken hold of the
creamery matter in business way
and appointed committees to re-
port 1T meeting January 23.
Thomas O'Leary has secured u
Judgment for 5000 against the Pu-
get Sound & Alaska Steamship
company for damages, at Seattle.
1t is reported that Colonel Jay P.
Lucas, county clerk Of Gillian
county, will resign his office in
March and remove to Monmouth.
The Tacoma Poultry Associa-
tian'stirst annual show began in
that city Tuesday with more than
FIVE bundled birds on exhibition.
DIR. Y. C. Blalock, retiring fire
chief Of Walla Walla, was presented
with cane by the members of
Tiger engin comnany Monday
night.
Mrs. Caroline B. Showers died 1t
Forest Grove January l9, aged 81
years. She came to Oregon in 1877
from Iowa, and was q native of
Pennsylvania.
4 NalIowa county has the priyi-
lege Of footing the bills Of q legal
contest growing out of a dispute
about ten cents in adjusting an ac-
count at Joseph.
The highest water ever known in
Dairy creek, Washington county,
occurred few days ago. Portions
Of the dreenyille ard Centerville
bridges were swept away.
j. A. West, superintendent OF
the Sumpter Valley railroad, was
severely injured Saturday by a
yelocipede car on which he was
riding jumping the track.
News has been received in Ia
coma from the East that Paul
Shulae has succeeded in placing
$1,O00.000 bonds of the 4i,d, de
ditch, in the Yakima country.
The Newsboy's Union ofspokane
has boycotted the Chronicle be-
caue it will not take back unsold
papers at cost price. Everybody
who buys one is to be listed as a
'sscabp
Deckhands Of the stemar Hoag
saw in the river near Half-Moon
bend an object they took to be
human body a few days ago. 1t is
surmised that it may have been
the body Of Pryor Scott.
Hilda johnson, a girl fifteen
years Of age, living at 0lalla, Kit
sap county, took strychnine Sun
day morning, and died intwo houre
in great agony. She wanted to livs
in Seattle if she staid on earth at
all.
The peculiarties Of the Chinook
wind are shown in the region south
cnla TNnlIoo All A. ,,.1,,, -,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-31
A Mathematical Prodigy.

Young Vernicr, tho French matho-
matical prodigy from the provinces,
OF whose success in obtaining admis-
sion 20 the higher normll school with.
out undergoing an examination YOU
were informed a few days AGO, has or.
rived at Paris, and is the object OF
much curiosity. This youth of eight.
cen has great opinion Of his genius,
for, when compilmeutoi on hi, won.
deriul proficiency, he calmlyremarhcd
that mathcmatics were SO badly taught
in France that he hal no trouble in
convincing the real saynrts OF tIc Gin.
sanity" of the prevailing methods.
He says that during his stay at tho
Lyons Lyceo his master treated him
rs visionary; - but. he adds gcncr.
ously, "I forgive tho poor man"
Ncrnier attracted notice by entering
into correspondence with several
mathematiciHus of note, who imagined
that they were replying to an elderly
sayant like themselves, aud were as.
tonished when they ascortained that
he was n schoolboy. The Minister of
Public Instruction was informed of
the existence OF this "infant pheuom.
enon," and promptly admitted him to
the higher normal school on his own
responsibility. Young Nernier does
not intend TO reposc on his laurels.
On the contrary, he IS writing for tho
Academy OF Science, n work which
viii be ready by the summer, and
Mhich, as he confidently pats it, will
bring about "a revolution like that
accomplished by Laplace and New
ton" He attributes every muthc.
matical discovery to Intuition" OF
which he evidently believes that he
has considerable stock Mt his com.
mand. Ii remains to be seen whether
young Vernier will succeed in carry.
ing out his threat of demolishing the
existing system, and it is quite pos5i-
BILE that he overrates his powers.
There is no doubt, however, that he
possesses exceptional talents. and his
c4ter will be watched with interest.
-London Telegraph.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-31
The "Boom, Blom" Of The blasts.

People within ten miles of the val.
ley OF the DE-, PLANES River, ia I'LL.
Uois, can hear the diuucr-bc,l of tho
sanitary canal They know when the
low growi, OF the cyplollng dynamite
como from the r3cG-cut that hundreds
of tons O.. limestone are breaking
away iroA the bedrock aul that
thousand, %! iaborcrs are cleaning the
plates on the mess tables in the con.
tractors camps, Tor the blasts are shot
\. noon.
Visitors are first warned Of their
danger by the red flag which is al
ways displayed near the face of the
working where the rock is 10 be
blasted, and they receive another
warning from the men who scramble
from the floor OF the cut TO the sur.
face on their way to dinner. The
'boom, boom OF the blasts rolls
along the canal from one end of the
rock-cut 10 the other, for II is dyna-
mite which Is clcaviug way through
the backbone of the divide preparing
"a bed for the great river which is TO
carry Lake MIchigan's waters TO the
Mississippi, Before the canal is com.
pleted thousands of tons OF dynamite
will have been eXplolel, for it is osti-
mated that for every cubic yard OF
rock hall pound Of dynamite is used.
The three-legged rock drills drive Il
series OF holes across tho canal; tho
chanueling machines cut narrow fur
rows twelve feet deep along the sides
of the canal, and then IA man with II
wooden ramrod drives dynamite cart
ridges into the holes. At noon u
pressure o. the finger on an electrical
button oSp!oies the mine aud mass
Of rock 300 feet long, seven TO nine
feet deep and from ten 10 twelve feet
thick is shattered into pieces which
can be handled by the men who load
the skips and buckets OF the convey.
ors.
A dynamite cartridge is about eight
inches long, an inch aud quarter "a
diameter and weighs about half T.
pound. II il shipped 10 the canGl
from the factories IN wooden boxes,
which hold fifty pounds Of the ex.
ploslye, and comes carload at time.
The dynamite used in the roct.cut il
known as forty per cent. dynamite,
and, contrary 20 the general belief,
can be thrown from the top OF the Ma.
sonic Temple 70 the ground without
-xploding, for it is made of forty per
cent. nltro-glycerine and sixty pei
cent. dope. Chicago Record.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-31
Mushroom Poison.

The poisonous principle Of mnsh.
rooms mas often been extracted by
chemists, but 1t is dinicnlt TO deter.
mine whether the poison is really
natural to the species or specimen IN
which it is iouuI or has been absorbed
from the soil or other material on
which tie mushroom has grown. In
other words, species OF mushroom
may be poisonous when grown IN one
spot, aud perfectly HARMLESS when
taken from another spot in the same
field or ueighborhood. Ii there axe
noxious materials in tho manure or
other decaying substances within tho
reach Of growing mushroom it will
absorb these and acquire poisonous
nature. This was long ago pointed
out by European investigators OF the
edible fungi, and they warn collectors
against gathering even the best known
kinds from low grounds wet with stag
nant or poisonous waters. Now Yorl;
Sun.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-31

burying itself in the ocean. Long be-
fore the cable was made the ocean bed
had been sounded so that tho cable
steamer travels over n known way.
Sometimes the cable parts in paying
out, and then il must be picked up.
This is done by lowering a grapnel at
tachod to long rope over the bow OF
the steamer. When the grapnel
reaches the bottom the cable ship
steams slowly back and forth over the
course. The dynamometer tells when
the cable is hooked. The engineers
know what the strain should be and
they are not fooled il the grapnol
catches on rock or ledge. When the
cable is hooked the dynamometer
shows steady pull, the word is given,
the drum OF the pickingup gear winds
in the grapnel cable and tho lost sub
marine cable IS hauled aboard. 1t is
then passed around 60 the stern,
spliced 60 tho cable aboard the
ship and the work of laying the cable
is resumed. Chicago Record.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-31
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The sense of touch is dull est on tho
back.
The estimated population of hs
world in 1898 was 800, 100000
Russia is again agitating the ques.
tion of introducing the decimal sys.
tenn of weights and measures.
Gas from petroleum is very exton.
eively made and used 10 Russia, Aus.
tria and many parts of Germany.
Partisan doctors have warned tho
people that the eating of horsehesh i,
attended with danger of trichinosis.
Under normal circumstances, ma,
throws off two pounds every day in
sensible aud insonsible perspiration.
Petroleum has been used for some
time in Germany as means OF pre.
venting tho formation of scale in
boilers.
The power of horculitc, q now ey.
plosiye, is almost beyond belief
half pound OF it will move thirty ton.
Of stone.
Explorations ofNorthcrnS Siberia dc.
monstrate that that region was inhlb. !
tied by tigers until within coml.rl.
lively recent date.
The lltcst navigablo balloon OF Cip.
tain Rcnard, of the French Army, l4,
gasoline motor IN place OF Que driven
by electricity. He hopes thcrcwtl
to maintain Il speed OF twcnty.ay
miles for ten hours.
Goats milk is valued in pari- be-
cause it is always free from tuhcreg.
iosis germs. But NJ. Burgnult o1 .s,s
TO the custom Of taking the goat. %
the customers, because the auimlu
fatigue Injuries tho quality Of the mi.i
The novel vessel that VI. Brain
constructing mt Argcuteuil, Franc.
TO be rolled over the water on ,aos
nous copper cylinders instead otb
ing forced through it, and il expect.
10 attain n speed of at least thirty.o.
knots 1t IS to he steered by ki1
Of hydraulic pump.
The common dock is considered
nuisance by cultivators, and yet son
of the species serve useful purpua
The one known as "sorrcl' is use
the Old World TO make special a1.
tor meats, and one of the specie,
usod in the form of spinach; tlu
known as the spinach dock
The effect which living at hirh si
tudcs has on the blood of man uui \
imals has recently been investisat G
The result shows that the propor. /
Of oxygen and other constituents !,
the blood of Alpine men and oa- h
is exactly the same as among si- bI
creatures living below sea level. w
A writer in La Medicine Modern >,
serts that sedentary occupation, ne
dispose to tuberculosis more than 81
others. Italian and English stat. Bo,
show, he says, that there are S
deaths per 1000 from this dis slic
among students, seminariaus a1i 9i
young ciergymen; while iar2 ud
boGtmen and mountaineers enjoy y,
most complete immunity from 10 ri