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...
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treasury subject to the pleasure of the gown.
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.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
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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.-
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are fully warranted in expressing the belief
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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,