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Year: 1878

swer was, $4,000; and you have
purchased that engine on the
best terms that any engine has
been purchased in Oregon or
Washington Territory, and upon
better terms than have been Of
fered to Olympia. Astoria paid
81, 900, cash, freight and insur-
ance, for a fourth class rotary.
Portland has contracted with the
agent of the Amoskeg for a
fourth class, with a capacity of
$50 gallons a minute, and pay
cash, freight and insurance, with
no guarantee of how far it will
throw. 1t will only throw two
streams and has no relief valves.
The Mayor before you, wrote to
the Silsby factory and got their
terms, and if you will compare
them, you will see that their
prices are considerably more
Cnan niue.


We never saw in print the
article referred to, nor heard it
mentioned until after the receipt
of the above letter, so little in
terest do we or the public gen.
orally take in the perusal OF
that organ of private gossip and
personal defamation. It is rare
ly heard of in this community,
but in connection with some
grossly libelous article upon a
reputable citizen. The statement
that the city was swindled by
the Mayor, is purely a malicious
fabrication, utterly and entirely
without any foundation in fact.
All the material facts mentioned
in Mr.. Burke's letter were known
to the Council before the con-
tract was made; every means OF
information available, both in
regard to price and quality, vas
exhausted; every detail Of the
purchase was settled by unani-
nous vote Of the Council before
the Mayor was authorized to
make the purchase, and then all
that he had to do was to approve
the necessary ordinances and
sign the contract; and the only
complaint Of the transaction We
have heard of from any source
is in the lies Of Tommy Prosch.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is alternative. or lood-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed In California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rQtpa
Year: 1878

At the West Point military school the


cadets are taught to ride bareback, to ride


without stirrups, to jump hurdles, to use


the pistol and sabre while riding, to "cut


heads TO right and left" and other feats.


The heads are leather balls about four or
five inches in diameter which are placed


on posts Of various heights. The trooper


moving at a rapid gaIIop must cut these


heads riding to the right and left, and also
cut heads resting on the ground, the last
rather difficult feat when done to the left,
compelling the rider to swing his sabre
over his bride hand and reach down from
= horse sixteen hand high. They also cut
heads with the right and left cut at the
instant of jumping hurdle. The most
sklltul maneuvre is the cutting Of head
upon the ground between two hurdles
placed about forty feet apart, the trooper
riding at full speed and cutting to the
right and left in the interval between leap
ing the hurdles. The trooper is also
taught to turn his horse at full gallop in a
circle four yards in diameter. Most of
these feats Ere \performed in the riding
ball, room about one hundred and nine
y feet long by sixty eight wide, with
tanbark floor. The parade ground is
about three hundred and fifty yards long,
BY one hundred and Gfty in width. Sew
snty five horses are kept in use, the sta
oIes accommodating about one hundred.
The animals are cared for by detach-
nent Of regular soldiers provided for such
'ervice, the cadets being too busy to per-
orm this duty.
Year: 1878

A THIRSTY MANS ExPED1ENr.
A glass Of intoxicating drink
bears a multitude of names on
ordinary days. But on election
DAYS, when the law enforces total
abstinence, new names have to
be manufactured by the grand
army Of the thirsty. On such
days it has ordinarily been
Known as "coffee beam or a
Glove" but even these names
have now become stale. Yester-
day thirsty elector walking
along Market street, stopped IN
front of a saloon, whose door was
few inches a.iar, and seeing
some one peeping through an
opening, he said, Say, friend,
do you know where can get
some legs for No. 6 stove ?"
Yes" was the prompt reply,
right in here" And the door
few open wide enough for the
thirsty elector to slip inside. He
was seen to emerge soon alter
ward stroking a bountiful nous
tache.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Year: 1878

The difference between tree OF shrub
we'll set in the ground and one imperfect
Iy set is very great. In the one case, the
tree will become vigorous aud thrive so as
to afford qualification and profit to the
owner; in the other, it viii die speedily,
Or live out feeble existence, proving a
"urce Of annoyance and disappointment
to all who are compelled to look upon it
from day to day.
Year: 1878

NAUGHTY German rose in Buffalo
Temperance meeting the other night and
said Shentlsments and ladies. you
see ds temperance folks have put blue
ribbon on me I am going to wear II I;
and guess now | will take drink


With that he drew an ominous looking
bottle from his pocket. removed the
cork. and. in the presence OF the entire
houor-stricksn assemblage. took long,
thick. deep and wide pull a, the nozzle.


Az English writer says he was much
impressed with the gentleness OF Ameri-
can manners. He ought to send his boy to
one Of our colleges, or try getting out
Of q crowded depot with two grip.saeks
when our haekmen are feeling well.
Year: 1878

The sixteenth annual reception of the
Shields Library Association takes place
this evening at the Institute Hall. The
committee in charge have neither spared
time or expense to make this the grand.
est ball that has ever been given in this
city.


The room WILDE handsomely decorated
and will be something worth seeing to be
appreciated. First class music has been
engaged, and in fact the minut.st thing
that will tend to the pleasure aud COM
tori of the guest has been attended to.
The programme to be presented 10 the
ladies on tue grand march is one of the
finest that has ever been seen in this
CITY.


sold, il will be the largest ball thls sea-
son.
Year: 1878

The man who penned the following par
agraph for the Methodist Recorder left no
margin for misapprehension as to his Opin-
ion on the above subject:-''The popular
clamor for short sermons is kept up by
restless class of young persons who are
smarter than their parents OF pastors.
They get the fidgets if sermon reaches
beyond fifteen or twenty minutes. And
yet these same goslings Of both genders,
when they come together in a social party
or meet in the parlor, will waste solid
hours in the stupidest common places.
Their talk does not rise to the dignity of
conversation; it is nonsense from FIRST to
last; it is worse than the waste Of time, of
life, Of every thing. But these giglers
from the goose pastures presume to know
how long minister should preach, and
here and there the kind-souled pastors ae-
cOmmodate their sermons to the gOshng
taste. Let the pulpit have time to discuss
the topics it undertakes, and let the dis
cussion be so fresh, vigorous and attrae-
tive as to arrest the attention from all who
have heart and brain to understand. For
goose in the pAlpit is worse than gos-
ling in the pew"
Year: 1878

Some one who seems to know about the
relation Of a good newspaper to the family
writes as follows THE strong attach
ment of subscribers to well conducted news
papers is fully confirmed by publishers.
"Stop my paper" words of dread to be-
ginners in business, lose their terror after
a paper has been established for a term OF
years, So long as a paper pursues just
honorable and judieious course, meeting
the wants of its customers in all respects,
the ties of friendship between the subscrib-
ers and the paper are as hard to break by
an outside third party as the link which
binds old friends in business or social life.
Occasional defects and errors in a news
paper are overlooked by those who have
become attached to it, through its perusal,
for years. They sometimes become dis
satisfied with it on account of something
which has slipped into its columns, and
may stop taking it; but the absence of the
familiar sheet at their homes and offices
for week becomes an insupportable pri-
vation, and they hasten to take it again,
and possibly apologize for having it stop


ped. No friendship on earth is more con-
slant than that contracted by the reader
for journal which makes an honest and


earnest effort to merit its continued sup
port. Hence a conscientiously conducted


paper becomes a favorite in the family
Year: 1878

beautiful star-like blossoms of the jessa-
mine are not plunged into the dark-hued
greasy mass, that looks exactly like boil
ing sugar, for it was destructive of all ro-
nance to see the fate of the roses. But
the manner in which the jessamine is cul-
tivated is not what one would call pietur-
esque. Instead of trailing over some pro-
teeting tree, as in India, or upon a sum
mer house or long wall, as with us, it is
cut down like vine, and is restricted to
a number of shoots which send out sprays
thickly covered with flowers This muir
derous process makes the plant SO very
sensitive, that it has to be covered with
earth from October to the end of March.
Year: 1878

The mountain, divided into two peaks
called Great and Little Ararat forms an
elliptical mass Of about twenty-five miles
in length from northwest to southeast and
about half that width. Little Ararat is
an elegant cone or pyramid, rising with
steep, smooth, regular sides into a compar-
atively sharp peak. Great Ararat is a
huge, broad shouldered mass, more like a
dome than aeone, supported by strong
buttresses, and throwing out rough ribs or
ridges of rock that stand out like knottv
muscles from its trunk. The latest mark
which the hand of nature has set upon
the mighty mountain was made in 1910,
and the story is pathetic one. Near the
mouth of the great chasm, with its crown
of tremendous precipices, there formerly
stood pleasant little Armenian village
Of two hundred houses named Aghurri.
The dwellers there were pastoral people like
their forefathers, who fed their focks in
the Alpine pastures and cultivated few
fields which were watered by the glacier
stream. They claimed that the vine which
bore these delicious grapes was Father
Noah's own, and that the ancient willow,
the pride of the village. had sprung from
one of the planks of the ark. The little
monastery of St. Jacob had for eight hun
dred years stood just above the village, on
the spot where the legend had appeared
to the monk. With the exception of the
wandering Kurds, the inhabitants Of Ag-
hurri were the only dwellers on the noun
tain; in their village its traditions centred,
and there they were faithfully preserved.
Thus Dir. Bryce relates the fate of the
happy mountain village Towards sun
set in the evening of the 21st of June,
1910, the sudden shock Of an earthquake,
accompanied by subterranean roar, and
followed by terrific blast of wind, threw
down the houses of Aghurri, and at the
same time detached enormous masses of
rock with their subjacent ice from the
cliffs that surrounded the chasm. A
shower Of falling rocks overwhelmed inan
instant the village, the monastery, and
Kurdish encampment on the pastures
above. Nota soul survived to tell the tale.
Four days afterwards, the masses Of sncw
and ice that had been precipitated into tae
glen suddenly melted, and, forming an ir-
resistible torrent of water and mud, swept
along the channel of the stream and down
the outer slopes of the mountain, far away
into the Aras plain, bearing with them
huge blocks and covering the ground for
miles with deep bed of mud and gravel.
Since then, few huts have again risen,
somewhat lower down the slope than the
sight of old Aghurri; here dwell a few Tar
tars and pasture their cattle on the sides
Of the valley, which grass has again begun
to clothe But Noah's vine and the prim-
e1al willow and the little monastery where
Parrot lived so happily among the few old
monks who had retired to this hallowed
spot from the troubles of the world, are
gone forever; no Christian bell is heard,
no Christian service said upon the noun
tain of the Ark - Chambers Journal.
Year: 1878

ANovELTY IN THE WAY OF A WATCH.
We were shown an unique piece of
mechanism, the product of the ingenuity
of our fellow-townsman, 4. Hibarger 1t
is a wooden watch, both movement and
case, the works having been made of ap-
pie and box wood, and are made on the
style of an American Lever. The dial is
made of French Walnut with white figures
and the hands are brass. In the upper
plate of the works are engraved Z. Hi
barger, No l. The case is made of ap-
pie wood on the style of Hunting Case,
and opens and closes the same as any gold
or silver watch. 1t is about the size of an
ordinary watch, weighs II ounces, and
keeps perfect time As a specimen of
what an ingenious mechanic can do it is
we'll worth seeing.-Hagersto'oh, Md. Her
aid
Year: 1878

DIsAPPoINTMEYTs. = Remember that
there are no heroes in real life, One day
yOu will be pleased with friend and the
next day disappointed in him. 1t will be
SO TO the end, and you must make up your
mind to it and not quarrel, unless for very
grave causes. Your friend, you have
found out, is not perfect. Nor are you;
you cannot expect to get much more than
you give. You must look for weakness,
foolishness and vanity in human nature;
it is unhappy if you are too sharp in see
ing them.
Year: 1878

This from an exchange is sound advice
'Habitual promenading Of the streets by
young girls and the counting of stars by
corner lOafers is injurious to a good repu-
tation" A little gum on the back of this
paragraph win enable the parents to stick
il on the looking glass.
Year: 1878

1t is five years ago this month since
Maggie Mitchell was in this city, and yet
her hundreds of admirers have not for
gotten her, nor her acting, as was evinced
by the most enthusiastic reception that
she received at their hands last evening
The audience numbering about 1000 was
composed largely of the very best citizens
and no matter how much applause, or
how large an audience, Miss Mitchell has
received elsewhere, she has never received
any that We're more flattering than the
one that greeted her here, and she may
will feel proud of her reception, as il
seemed to be an ovation from the time
she made her appearance at the window
of the house of Father Barbeaud, until
the curtain dropped upon the scene. And
even then the audience had not seen
enough of her,as they called her before the
curtain which made the fourth time for
the evening. OF Miss MITCIIELL's act
ing there is no criticism needed, il can all
be embodied in the one word, perfection.
She has not changed but is the same jolly
Cricket. Mr.. WILLIAM HARRIS, who
still continues to support her i'll the lead
ing roles, was well received and of course
was the recipient Of well merited applause
The remainder of the company were all
good in their parts, there not being a
''stick" among them.


Tonight Miss MITCHELL will appear
here for the last time this season. She
will present "The Pearl of Savoy, or n
Mothers Prayer" by many considered the
finest of all her repertoire.
Year: 1878

A Drrespondent of the London Times
tclegraphing from Calcutta, says:


A special High Court Bench, consist.
ing If the Chief Justice and two Puisne
judges, will sit tomorrow to hear an ap-
peal in the case of the Rajah of Pooree
The Advocate General, on behalf Of the
Government, will support the conviction.
No case since the famous Baroda trial
has excited so much interest. The Rajah
is the hereditary guardian of the Temple
of Juggernaut, his special duty in that
capacity being TO sweep the space in
front Of the throne when the god leaves
the temple for the Juggernapt car. He
is also the secular head of the Hindoo re-
ligion in Orissa, and is worsnipped by
the o ryah people as the visible incarna-
ton of Vishnu, being regarded as the
Iineal descendant of the old Hindoo
Kings Of Orissa, whose dominions are
said to have extended from the Ganges
to Godavery. The murdered man, u
Hindoo ascetic Of great sancity, enjoyed
a special reputation for curing diseases.
The salient facts Of the case, as given in
the Judgment Of the District Court, are
shortly these The victim of the murder
was discovered by the police in front OF
the Lion Gate of the Juggernaut Temple,
covered with burns and other marks OF
indescribabe torture. He lived fifteen
days in agony. His statement was that
two servants Of the Rajah had come to
his house and told him that their master
wanted him. He was accordingly con-
Quoted into the gymnasium of the palace,
where the Rtjah, with ten or twelve ser.
wants, was present. He wss :hen thrown
down and overpowered, and after being
tortured for three hours was thrust out
through small back door. After crawl
ing some distance he was eventually dis
covered by the police. The motive for
the crime is a mystery. The murdered
man was unconscious of having offended
the Rqjah, but stated that the Dowager
Rance had consulted him regarding the
state of the Rajsh's mind, and he had
given directions for his cure. He had
only once visited the palace. 1t was
possible that the Rajah was induced to
believe that he was employed by the
Dowager Rance in the work of incanta-
ton against him, or that there was some
intrigue between them. The trial, which
lasted considerable time, created pro-
found sensation in Orissa, in consequence
Of the special sanctity both of the ac-
cused and the murdered man. The AS
SCISSORS were for acquitting the Rajah,
but the Judge convicted him, though Gu
riously enough he sentenced him only to
TRANSPORTATION for life.
Year: 1878

bottom of neighbOring lake; that both
they and their fathers were familiar with
these sounds made by two species Of shell
fish. They call them 'crying shells"
So Sir J. L, Tcndcut took boat and went
out on the lake, one moonlight night,
and thus describes the sound he heard :
"They came up from the water like the
gentle thrills of musical cord, or the
faint vibrations of n wine-glass when its
rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. 1t
was not one sustained note, but multi.
tude of tiny sounds, each clear and dis
tinct in itself; the sweetest treble
mingled with the lowest bass. On APP
plying the ear to the wood work Of the
boat, the vibration was greatly increased
in volume The sounds varied consid-
erably at different points, and they did
not hear them on all parts Of the lake.
Did you ever rub the edge of thin COB
let round and round, after dipping your
finger in water4 II not, ask your mother
to let you Try it some time after dinner,
that yoa may know how fishes music
Sounds.


A party of five intelligent persons
heard music in the harbor Of Bombay,
described as "like the protracted boom
ing Of distant bell, the dying cadence
of mn -E)lian harp, the note Of a pitch
pipe or tuning fork, or any other long
drawn out musical note" The fish that
was said to produce these sounds closely
resemoed in size and shape the fresh
water perch The sounds rose from the
surface of the water all around the boat.


Singing fish seem to me almost as
wonderful as mermaids, but assure you
on the authority Of NJ. Dufosse, an emf
nent French naturalist, that this fish
story is a true story.-Work and Play.
Year: 1878

Within few years, uubolted wheat or
Graham flour has become quite popular
throughout the country, aud deseryedly
so, on account of its pleasant flavor, as
well as its well-known superiority in re.
gard to healthfuness. For mush, gems,
griddle cakes or soda muftins, there is
nothing superior to it if rightly cooked,
though many are SO prejudlced against it,
considering it little better than bran or
cattle feed-that they will make no use
Of it. 1t should always be kept perfectly
clean, 50 as to require no sitting, for the
most beneficial properties are supposed
to lie in the hull, and in whatever form it
is cooked, it should be mixed thinner than
If fine flour were used, else it will be
dry.


Graham bread is made similar to white
bread, with the exception OF sweetening
a little with molasses, and mixing quite
soft-so soft that it is very difficult to
mould, and is usually baked without.


Probably no article of food has been
more improved in quality, since the in
PRODUCTION of stoves, than corn and rye
bread. The old-fashioned brown bread,
which was mixed hard enough to stay in
a round heap on the bottom of the brick
oven, although once staple article in
every household, would now find few ad-
mirers, except, perhaps, an occasional ell
derly person who whimsically believes
that food cooked ia the old fashioned
way would taste as good to them now, as
it did in the growing, romping days of
their childhood.


In order to induce the present genera
tion (Which appreciates too well the lux
ury of light and tender fine -four cook
ing), to patronize coarse bread very lib
orally, it must be made as appetizing as
possible, without affecting its healthful-
ness; it must be moist, light, trihe
sweet, and baked with as tender crust
as possible. Brown bread, mixed thick
enough to make rounded, heaped up
mass, and baked four, five, or six hours,
is usually so dry and hard that it is any
thing but tempting, after twenty-iour
hours old


For some years past, we have mixed
ours thin enough to require no smoothing
Oh "tNSi PJuiibS iAtO thS p'hihB WIS,
unless the meal is unusually fine. Our
experience has been that, the thinner it
can I've mixed without falling, the lighter
and more moist it will be when baked.
Whether this rule holds good when yeast
is used, am unable to say, as have had
no experience with that kind, but can see
no reason why it should not, Although
some may consider either yeast or sour
milk necessary to make good brown
bread, l think, should they try the for
lowing method, that they would be we'll
satisfied with the result:


Sitt three-fourths Of quart each of rye
and Indian meal together, add three
fourths of cup of molasses, and one
teaspoouful of sods nicely dissolved
mix with warm water as thin as it will
bear-no quantity can be given, as meal
varies SO much in quality, the coarse re-
quiring to be mixed much thinner than
that which is fine. Bake two or two and
one. half hours in q hot Oven-not hot
enough to burn it, but sufficiently hot to
bake it nicely, in that course of time; if
kept closely covered while baking, the
crust will be much more tender, and con.
sequently, better reliShed by the majority
of people.
Year: 1878

To CLEAN THE HAIR. - Ammonia
should not be used on the hair; it tipjures
the gloss and softness, causing the hair
to become harsh and dry. The best way
to cleanse the hair and keep the scalp
healthy is to beat up fresh egg and rub
it well into the hair, or, if more conven.
lent, rub it into the hair without beating
Rub the egg in until lather is formed |;
occasionally wet the hands in warm wa
ter, soGtened with borax; by the time
lather is formed the scalp is clean; then
rinse the egg all out in basin of warm
water, containing a tablespoonful of pow
dered borax; after that rinse in one clear,
warm water,
Year: 1878

A BALTIMORE man has been arrested
for playing ghost by dancing around at
night on the tops of houses in his
night. shirt, his object being to depreciate
property in his neighborhood SO that he
could buy it cheap.