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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1880)
March. 1880. THE WEST SHORE. The forthcoming report of the Publio Lands Commission will recommend that swamp and pasturage lands hercaftor be surveyed and pat ented lv townships: that, hetter 1m.'isie.i.s 1. made tor making boundaries of surveyed traots that the system of letting public surveys and' boundaries between Nut, and Territories be hereafter made undor the direction of the Coast and Ueodetio Survey. It will also, probably recommend that the offloe of Ileceivor at each local land offloe be abolished. Thero are about 93 of these officers. It will also reoommend the classing of public lands into Ave general clauses arable, irrigable, pasturage, timber and min eral. It will also recommend the repeal of the pre-emption law, on the ground that its chief use now is to inorease large iudividual holdings. The commission will probably supplement it by another, making arable public lauds dis posable under the Homestead laws. The com mission will probably reoommend no limit bo plaoed upon amounts of irrigable land which any one person may buy; that the land be sold at 2S oouts per acre, one-fifth to be paid down and the balance at the end of three years, aud that no patent to suoh lands be issued until it is shown that a specified sum per aero, say $2, has been expended on its reclamation. Lands classed as pasturage, will comprise mitimWcd and new mineral lands, not arable or Capable, ol irrigation. The commission will probably reoommend that the quantity one person may buy be not limited, and that the price be graduated as fol lows: All lands sold prior to January, 188(1, lie at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and all lands sold from the latter date to Jauuary, 1890, to lie at the rate of (I an acre. After the last named date all lands remaining be sold at 7ft cents an acre, with a reduotion of 12j oents per acre every three years until tho minimum price of l'-'4 cnts is reaohed. Tasturage lands shall he opened to homestead settlement, 110 ono entry to comprise more than 2,ft00 acres. It will probably recommend that colonies of 2( or more families msy enter homesteads either on arable, irrigable or pasturage lauds, and lay out a vil lage in the center of the tract. Radical changes will be reoommendod in the mineral laud laws, among them the following: That the time during which a prospector or dia ooverer shall be able to hold his claim by pos sessory title shall be tixed and limited by law; that all local organisations and regulations re specting mining titles shall lie abolished slid the sole jurisdiction of all iiuestions relating there to be reserved by the United States; that the "lode location," which iermits the discoverer to follow a lode any distanoe, in any direction, whether within the boundaries of his surface location or not, be repealed; that hereafter every mining claim shall oomprise a oertain number of feet, breadth and length on the sur face, and that subterranean property rights shall uot extend beyond the aurfsce boundaries thus lixed. It is quite probable that the com mission may refrain for the present from making any recommendation as to the area whioh each location may comprise. It also recommends that a system of official survey and mineral in spection be adopted to prevent blackmail and robbery, and to obviate the necessity of legal contests before claims are patented. What Stbcno Drink Do is. This was the terribly suggestive statement crayoned on the blacklioard which stood on the plalfnnn at the Chicago noon prayer-meeting the other day: It coats 11,000,000,000 a year in money. It make Hfty per cent, of our iusane. It makes ninety-five per cent, of our crimi nals. It causes directly seventy-five per eent. of onr murders. It seeds forth ninety-five per oept. of our vicious youth. It lends one every six minutes into a drank aid's grave, or nearly 100,000 year. COLD FEET IN BED, While winter is at hand, and with it tho many attendant discomforts and annoyances of a chilly, frosty atmnsnher it i herninvWtn for tify ourselves against the influences aud effects of cold. It is hotter to be so clothed as to feel a little too warm, rather than not warm enough. One of the common obstacles to personal com fort is odd feet, particularly cold feet at night. When abed ono feels that he ought to be com fortable. Wu may succeed, perhaps, during the day in maintaining a passable degree of caloric in our oxtromitiea, but at night we may groan in sleepless torture until tho small hours with icy feet. A contributor to the Jlrituh Alnlicul Jtmw gives a few simple suggestions 011 this seasonable topic, which wo copy here for the benefit of our cold-footed readers: Tho association betwixt oold feet and sleep lessness is much closer than is oomuiouly im sgined. Tenons with oold feet rarely a cop well, especially women. Yet, the number of persona so troubled is vory cousiderable. We now know that, if the blood-supply of the brain he kept up, sleep is im)iosiible. An old theo logian, when weary and sleopy with much writ ing, found that ho could keep his brain active by immersing his feet in cold water; the oold iliove the blood from the feet to the head. Now, what this old gentleman accomplished by design, is secured for many peraous muoh against their will, ('old feet are the bane of many wo men. Light lioota keep up a bloodless condi tion of the feet in tho day, aud in many women the re is no sulwoquout dilatation of the blood vessels when the boots are taken off. These women come in from a walk, and put their foot to tho tire to warm -the moat ofTootivu plan of cultivating chilllilaius. At night, they put their feet to tho lire, aud have a hot bottle in bed. Hut it is all of no uso; their feet still remsin cold. How to get their feet warm ia the great question of In., with them iu cold weather. The effective plan ia not very attractive at llrat sight to many minds. It oonsists in first driv ing tho hlood-vosaols into linn contraction, after which secondary dilatation follows. See the sunwhaller's hands I Tho first contact with the snow makes the hand terribly cold; for the null arteries are driveii thereby into linn con traction, and tho nerve endings of tho linger tipa feel the low temperature very keenly. Hut, as the alum bailor perseveres, his bauds com mence to glow; the blood. vessels have become aeeondsrily dilated, ami the rush of warm arterial blood is felt agreeably by the peripheral nerve-endings. This is the plan to adopt with cold feet f hoy ahould be dipped in cold water for a brief period ; often just to immerse them ami no more, is sufficient; aud then they ahould lie rubbed with a pair of hair flesh-gloves, or a rough Turkish towel till they glow, immediately before getting into lied. Alter this a hot-water l.ottlr will be sucoessfii! enough in maintaining the temperature of the feet, though without this preliminary it ia impotent to do so. Die agreeable as the plan at llrat sight may spuear, it ia lti- lent, ami those who have onoe fairly tried it continue it, and find that they have put an end to their had nights and cold feet. Till., potions, lozenges, " night-cape," all narcotics, fail to enable the sulTerer to woo sleep success fully; get rid of the oold feet, and then sleep will come of itself, 'hrrnotoyirol Journal. KxAMRt, Im. We Uarn from a flerman trails journal that the drug house of Louis Mn Her, in Leiueio, has reoently put on the market, colored inks which may be nsed for writing laln-la on glass, poroelain, ivory, marble, mother-of-pearl aud metal. The writing ia done with a goosequill, and when dry, adheres so firmly that it cannot lie removed liy any liquid, Kour different oolora are made- black, white, THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HARVESTER raMs In our issue of February we gave the results of the first oomnetitiv trial ' - inn prize offered by the South Australian govern ment for a complete harvester. Tha last An.. tralian mail brings accounts of the second .lays' reaping by the contestants, and the re.uk ia, as we foreshadowed in our previous arti.de. that none of the maohinea succeeded In satisfying the conditions of the prise award, namely, nan. ing, thrashing and oleaning of tha grain by a oomtiiuod apparatus. Therefore the splendid nrizo of s-.'ii akki will .1,11 1,.. in 11... I , " ... ..I., . IMMIO.I treasury subject to the pleasure of the gown. .......I ft.. 1. . ....!. 1,1 - ... I .M. M., , oe witiiurswu or ueia out again as may be thought beat. At the final day's trial there was work of a oertain degree of merit shown which, though it (ell .hurt (if ill. rinmr ,,1,1. HU tl 1, ft the judges to be entitled to recognition in the "hap,- of email bonuses, from f 160 to MOO. to . I. 1 n ... ... ft ft me 0001 eoi ci m ics l. I a. What will Im tin. ,il, ,..., ,.f 11... f. , wwmmm Mas i.oiou. trial of harvesting machinery It is too early to docide, but it. will lie strange if some good re sults do uot follow from suoh an effort on tha part of so many earnest inventors. The report of the judge seems to indicate that the attempt will nut be wholly .,.,1 ,,,,1 ,. .. ... it ..... that the judges consider that an' extension of lone ,ur hi r 1 1 1.-r inaia miring next harvest would Im tint iu.t to 1 1,.,.., m.1i I.. ... .......... I much time sud money upon their inventions, and would be calculated, from the publicity given to the subject by what has been already dons, to bring about the desired result, Tho numerous ingemiiua contrivance Drought out hv this oointuililiiiii ,. I ,.l ., il... I...I,... ii. .1 ft.- V ----- - I"" -- i Jiang. .111. iiinj are fully warranted in expressing the belief iL.ft fti .. . i . . no. i irum vneiu some eminent machine will yet lie develiined which will nniv of .tiin.l l,.,,,.,i;i to tho oomtnuuity, provided that the offer of the bonus as liefore lie still continued as an In centive and enoouragement to inventive minds. The very limited opportunity afforded during a abort harveet to an inventor thoroughly to test his invention and bring it to perfection, welgha much with the judgee in inducing them to ree ninmend au extension of time. Prom observa tion of the above trials, the judges gathered that it would be an assistance to future Judges in arriving at a dsuisiou to specially consider the following points in their order of sequenoei SL moat ur.iu amiMil, , I . I ..r ... ..I.. . simplicity and durability of construction of ma- nine; o, simplicity m WOrBlhg machine; , amount of work done; , oost of mas hum; g, lightness of draft (I i.i) a for manly use may be prepared by add ing to a given quantity of beat ulue. enouuh common whisky to make It of tho proper oou- aiaieiicy, rut ixiiii lugeii.er 10 a bottle, oork it tight, and set it away for three or four days, when it will be fit for use without tho applies tion of heat. (Hue thus prepared will keep for yean, and It is at all timss At for nee exoept In very oold weather, when it ahould bo set la w in in water before ueing. To obviate the diffi culty of the stopper getting tight by the glue drying ill the mouth of the vessel, us a tin Tea sel with the cover fitting the outside, to pre vsnt the escape of the spirit by ..va,ration. A strong solution of Isinglaa mad to the same manner is an excellent oement for leather. Tho holier the glue when uasd, the bettor It will keep the two parts glued together, hence la all large and long joint, the glue ahould be applied immedtaUly after boiling. Olae lose much of iu strength ny frrqusnl I A SMS is like or not be ii good, an egg. Yob can't Mi -hetto 1, until he r "W-.ta ' Tn io.i ri h Wrirs IM ir.MK.Kr. The AViiHaHrisr Xtiluny says that a eompaay with a capital of ttAO.000. has been formed at Bra men to work th reoently discovered petroleum springs in Hanover, and that a similar company is forming laBerha,
