Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-24
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

No fewer than 372 different ways of
Spelling Ypslanti have been copied
from envelopes and recorded by post.
master.
The African peanut Is less delicate
than the American as an article of
food, but 1t yields more generously in
OIL, and Is more easily crushed
When a vessel is on her trial trip
she runs four times over a measured
mile, twice with and twice against the
tide Her average speed Is thus ar
lived at.
Sailing vessels are coming into vogue
again, especially within the last five
years, after having been practically
bahished from the ocean by the quicker
and more easily controlled steamships,
Owners of even the smallest toy man
hfacturing establishments in the Nu-
remburg district, Germany, cater for
the foreign trade. Factories employ
ing from six to twenty people are no
exception
Doki Indians In Canada are to be
made wealthy by the sale Of their pine
lands. The total revenue from the sale
of the lands will approximate $1,000
600, and some families will receive as
much as S2O,0OO
kilograms from Kiev state that
there Is a plague of caterpilars in
nrfu nf h N
some places the railway tracks are
covered by swarms of the insects and
traffic is being Kindred owing to the
state Of the rails.
China IS bad place for furniture.
In the summer months it Is so damp
that furniture put together with glue
falls apart and drawers stick, while in
the dry months furniture goes to the
other extreme and often exhibits cracks
half an inch or more in width.
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt recently in the Congo district At
rica. There have been no casualties,
but the natives were panic-stricken.
Many of them ran for miles and re-
fused to return to their villages unless
hey received guns and ammunition.
Canada's government has sent out
survey party to lay out the town site of
Fort Churchill, the future metropolis
of Hudson Bay The only settler who
on the east side of Churchill river, OPP
posite the Hudson Bay post, will be en-
titled to a free grant of 100 acres.
The following advertisement recently
Being aware that it is in
delicate to advertise for husband, |
refrain from so doing; but if any gen
tleman should be inclined to advertise
for a wife. will answer the advertise
ment without delay. l am young, am
and considered ladylike. |
Apply" "etc.-Philadelphi Gossip.
Some navvies in a railway carriage
were once in loud conversation, swear
ing boisterously the while. One of
them was especially fluent. MY
friend" said another passenger in
tones, 'where did you learn
to use such language?' Learn" |
cried the navy. You can't learn it,
guv'nor. It's a gift, that's wot it is"
Dundee Advertiser.
OF the late Langdon Smith. the jour
nalist and author, a Denver reporter
said the other day: Il remember my !
first visit to Washington. Smith, big
and handsome and vivacious. showed
me about. From an eminence a great
pale dome rose up against the blue sky,
the dome of the Capitol. What is
thatT said l. That said Smith, Oh
that's the national gas works."
A process for protecting iron and
steel from rust has been invented and
patented by I. W. Coslett, of Temple
'ow, Birmingham, England. This con-
siStS in immersing the article in a hot
solution containing an
ron compound. The surface of the
ron is converted into Il mixture of
'errous and ferric phOsphatoS. and pre-
'ents a pleasing dull-back appearance.
This process makes the iron highly re
,istant to corrosion. and is being ap-
)lied to all kinds of light engineering
work, such as cycle frames, gun bar
els, etc.
Otto f. Schaar president of a club
# New York walters, said the other
lay of a parsimonious young man.
He resembles a chap they tell about
n Bucks county. This chap lived
lone with his father. On the old
mans death he would inherit the farm.
Veil, finally the old man took sick.
lis end drew near. The son sat up
With him a night or two, expecting him
o pass away, but he fingered on. On
he fifth or sixth night the son, in
tead of sitting up. put lamp, turned
cry very low. on a table by the bed
nd went to his own room with the
aution: When you feel that 1t is all
yer with you, father, don't forget to
low out the lamp"
A beautiful story is told somewhere
f Sir Hubert Herkomcr, the great
ainter. His father was poor man,
nd the professor brought him from
is native land of Germany To live
18th him in his beautiful house near