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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1880)
76 THE WEST SHORE. March, 1880. A LUCKY FALL. Th Sonora, CaL, Independent says: The moit lingular manner o being struck with a fortune in prospecting that we ever heard of occurred bore Spring gulch on Sunday hut. Mr. Snow, law oi ...... Fraucuuo, now pioauecliug iu lliia vicinity for other parties, wai out on a quartz hunt with Dr. Drake, of San Kranoiaco. They were returning home, it being stormy, when Snow (who wai riding a hone alonn tho trail) waa luddenly miaaed by his companion. Snow's horae had dipped off the bluff, and down he went at an angle of 40', horc, rider and rifle (whioh ha grippled firmly in hia hand), rolling ovar and over in the anow, until he brought up againat a maaa of atone standing out of the anow, ita top covered with moaa. He waa not nuit aa the oold, aoft cuahion had aaved hia bonea from the hard ground beneath. Scramb ling up againat the rock, he noticed that it w uuanr., auu wnere me nnrao hail acci dentally kicked of the moa something "littered Hia eyoa "bugged" out, but he did not atop to bruah them off, hia handa were too buav clawinii .,11 II . ILJ ; '1 , J? -7 vmm. ' iiimmh uoming on no nan only t,mt0 break off a few apecimena, which are filled with pure ore. One amall piece, exhib ited in town, waa eatimated to be three-quar-tare gold. Tona of it are apparently atill await ing ita owner. Hnow aaya the vein ia about 30 . Miiua, auu in nia impuiaivo genoroaity ho save awav several ah III I'M MmiiIi 1. f t . . l,,u ,,,.,, ,! H told u that ho "would not look At M&OOO lor du iDMrwt." if u without doubt the rich Mt IllAUof (lll&riv .va.i-.li.,w..,..r...l las, 111. a.. . ....... mlvvloi in iu Hi VvaUlM e-ioept the Divoli bonauza, recently opened here in Sonora, Of oourae, he told ua to keep it out of the paperi but the caution t .... I an 1,.. . t ting monotonous Mr. Snow ia very.well known ... .. . rawaaaaeau aa an aouir 01 merit, und a gentleman well-deaerving the good fortune ho baa "tumbled to." Some men are born rich, othera have riches thm.t ........ ,...... i...t u. - ... . - huwm II.' Ml, I. Ill Snow haa drifted through air and anow, right p pauiu pus 01 rionneaa that would make old Kothaohild'a keen eyea turn green with envy. HOME-MADK TROUBLE. Edward Berwiok contributes the following to the 'iicic Itural Prtu: Those that have no trouble are daadj" so runs the old saw aa set by some "old file." I suppose, by tho way, that "old Me" ia an abbreviation of old philoso pher. At laaat the old tile who set my saw hail aome knowledgo of human nature. Hut, though "man is born to trouble aa the aparka lly up ward, " it ia wonderful how mauy of our troubles ra Aome-movie. We may fairly apply that ad jeotiva to somewhere near 90. Kvan the countless woas arising from ill health, and for whioh wa are so ready to hold Providano raapouaible, are, in the vast major ity of oases, simply the result of our own igno ranos, wilfulness or wickedness. One nurses bit dyspepsia on hot cakes and fried grease; another shrivels his liver by a too constant making in gini a third benumb hia brain by a oeaaelee devotion to tobaooo, and unspeakable aversion to oold water and fresh air. Obviously home made troubles, all I Another malady that sorely afflict humanity 1 the disease called AMOTION. Innumerable are the trouble incidental there to. The ambition, dear reader, not to na, but to 11 a vs. Not the laudable desire to bo manly, Under, loving and good) but the damnable lust to taw gold and more gdd and yt mora. An insatiable thirst that maddens and bru tallies, bat never did, and never will truly ennoble one of Us human race. Ala I (or the oountleaa homo-mad troubles arising (rum ambition to hav worldly wealth ! Food, raiment and con tent know none of thorn. "Joy, and temperance, and repose Blam His door on the doctor's uoae!" After money troubles what so common as FAMILY TKOUBLE8. Troubles incidental to the management of chil dren, it aeema to have become tashionahle 01 lAtfl In Allllinn fhnf .l.ll.lr.... .... I....... ,. .tl. an enormous amount of intuitive knowledge; that 1 .in y need no guidance, no restraint and vastly little schooling Education, the careful draw ing out of the faculties, bodily, mental, spiritual, has become a thing too tiresome for the fast living mothera of fast-living California. Avarioe or vanity must be nursed and the children ignored. The vory few who are de voted to their offspring appear rather to wish to make something for them inatead of some thing of them, Striving to accumulate dollars or acres, treasures that moth and rust may cor rupt; an inheritance that "Uoywllltuiticipato, Lavish and dissipate." I '. iriel inu tin- to-imar" nn.l intintf.il.r .....rn Im - - B " I- J M.UMBBV. UIUID ,1- portaut need of molding tho pliant uharacter af ter a worthy model. Porgettiug to cherish the tender buds of love frnfh ami t I I.'..- gutting to implant the sterner virtues of obedi ence and self-deuial, Forgetting that hoarded gold is by no means necessarily a blessing. Forgetting "How widely Its i- vary, To cunt, to ruin, do irood or bless; As even Its minted coins express, Now stiimicd wilh Ihu mi.. , ol good Qmm Boss, And now of a Moody Mary." If uarents would think morn of 1 1... I Worth, anil leas of th nminliM I . ..f o,n:. " - I " ..... ... v., Llll 11 children, the world would be the better for it; parents woiini no the bettor for it; children Would be the better fur if. and ,l.nnM I, ...... but little of that greatest of Itome-iitade troubles: ehildren, a curse to their parents. HOMKSTEAD SETTLER'S BILL. The bill passed by the United States Sonate lately for tho relief of homestead settler is a measure ot great importance. It waa origi nally introduced hv Xenaly,- I ...... I . .....I 1.1. ... - sistent efforts procured its passage both in the uimio i.anu i mi num. ! and iu the Senate. Under the oiistinu law tin. r,,,hi ,,r ...... 1 If 1 , "B"w I VWIUHUU ou public land attaches from the date of settle- iiienv, bus wie rigntot a settler under the home stem! law oulv from the ,1.1., nl ..,.1,,. ajiLt. f - "...v w. uuvijr. A II, B lull provides that the land shall be given to the mi kiuw, wneiner no claims as n pre-emptor or as a homesteader. Souater Booth said on ttlia IMlllli Tin. 1,. ! .... mmm L I , . .... .. ,, ,,,, y lnn nolt of a homeatead aettler ahould not relate back by ... egiuK win uaio 01 nia settlement in hia homeatead allidivit ami 11... f....t ,1.... ah Y". ' mai, a seiner now before a survey, has no option, but must claim under tho pre-emption law in order to out intorVellillLI settlers or isranf. la ...IK..: A eon why it ahould relate back, for many settlers have already used their pre-emption right, and are now, although in possession of valuable im provements, entirely at tho mercy of 'interven ing pre-emptors, or railroad grauts.'" The bill next provides that the lint settler upon an anaudoned homeatead entry shall have a prefer enoe right to acquire title to it after the oriiiinal entry is cancelled, and the last section substi tutes tor the nresenfc r. ... ...1 . 1 I All . - - - r, - -". auu uuaiory method of cancelling relinquished homesteads and timber culture entries iu the (ieneral Und (mice, the common sense provision that such re linquishment shall be effeetual aa soon aa thev are tiled in the local laud office. Senator Booth in exulaiiiinii this saeAlna ..1.1. , ' r fiieoo renn- luuhment are nearly alway. made as the re sult of the purchase of the improvements bv some liersnn who ia I....L,.,.. f .- . . I.. . rJ nomeiiead, and if the cancellation were immediately noted he. iv mi .f In. Iu...... . . ... . T ' ould be able tn anlar K. f.,... .... I- , ' i "uyoue eise; out as lonu as canellati,ti,a m .....i. . . , Aara are made t present, ha ha no advantage by reason of such purchase, for in the interval it become widely known in the neighborhood of the Land Office that the claim to that tract haa been re linquished, and all the jumpers and speculators of both localities are immediately on the alert to ascertain in advance of every one else the moment of the cancellation." This desire is no small annroe of nnrninfinn in tl,.. 1.! l j " 1 .Wl l(IMI offices, and the reporting of cancellation, by telegraph which goes by mail, forms a consider able part of the business of some land attorneys. Tint Aik in Ska Water. It is only in re cent years, and through the well-equipped ex peditions that have been engaged in exploring seas, that the question aa to the amount and composition of the air in water ha been system atically treated. Important researches of the kind were carried out by Herr Jacobsen on the Pomerania, in the Baltio and North sea: nn result of these being that the proportion of oxy gen in the air of surface water was found pretty constant betweep 33.64 and 34.14. Again, Mr. Buchanan, of the Cliallenaer exnedifinn V , , found it tn vnrv hpf.WAnn MV 0,.,1 QUO AL- o "'o, fcu largest proportion being in the neighborhood of tl,.. . .,.!. Ii.. I .1 1.. J .1 , . ..... uo uuuui x uinr uircio, auu line lease in mat ot tho trade-winda. A npur afiidi, ,.f H... imiai 1 1 Tt O 1 "V""J 4UCOHOU by Herr Svendsen and Herr Tornoe, in connec tion with Norwegian expeditions to the sea be tween Norway, the Faroe islands, Ioeland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen, has reoently appeared. In some respects former method of procuring the water and of analysis were improved on, and laboratory RYnerimonta nam . ,,.. a- - J r-" nv.w ......... MO All the absorption of air by sea water. These ob servers got higher numbers in the surface pro portion of oxygen than were obtained for tho North sea; thus, south of 70" latitude the average was 34.96; and between 70, and 80', 35.64, instead of 33.93. This corresponds, however, with what Mr. Buchanan met with in the lati tude of the Antarctic circle, viz: 35. It ap peared, further, that the oxygen in the surface water was always considerably greater than as found by laboratory experiment; so that, appar ently, it doe not depend alone on pressure and temperature, but also on some still unknown causes. Manilla Eopk Tests. One of the most im. portant, and perhaps most critical, operations which have to be performed in connection with torpedo service is lowering the torpedo boats irom tne declt ot a ship ready for being sent on their deadly mission. When it is oonidercd that some of these mischievous little orafts weigh from 8 to 10 tons, it will be seen that the ropes used in thus manipulating them are re quired to be of the highest quality and most trustworthy make. To this end the authorities at Portsmouth dockyard have reoently oast about for a really reliable rope for the torpedo ship Ileela. The rope selected ia beat 8-strand white manilla, of two sizes, namely, 6J inches and 6 inches circumference, respectively. The fij-inch rope was guaranteed by the maker to lift 12 ton, and the 9-inch 14 ton. Sample of these ropes were recently tested at Portsmouth, under the superintendence of 8taff-Uaptain Kiddle, the Master Atf,.,I.mt ial 5i A It m, 1 , ..v....... T. llll CAUOIICUI results. The lengths tested were ay,h 10 ff between the gripping point, and the 6J-inch rope tint not break until a .ai- Ji im - . munuo atrauu ui iza tons was reaohed; whilst the 6-inch rope held out up to 10i tons, thus giving an ample mar gin over the "uarnntafwl ut ...... .,al a . - a BvitiugBij. as a means of .comparison, it may be int. resting to mention ..... . iwa Avauan nrjer rope would not stand a Strain of more than 1M1 t..... a.:i.a n 1 1 . '"3 Bwiia, wiiiisa ivuaaian hemp rope o( the same size cannot be reokoned '" wi uiuio man 1 1 5 con. "I'M ffettinc fat" caught stealing lard.' aid the tramp, when