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life as a aim:intiXEUivrMi,h I ra in whatever 1 might find. Tnon I PRENTICE MULFORD DESCRIBES THE EXCITEMENT OF 1862. 1(P rishnM by the Author.) X. IV j' t SB 1 js tSrVJ-3 a copper fever I 1 win had been found in Stanislaus count v. A"citv" f'l'-V iwa lled Opperopolis. I Tho citv came and went in side of ten. vears. When first I visited Copperopolis it contained 8.000 people. When I last saw the place 100 would cover its entire population. But the copper fever raged iu the be ginning. Hold was temporarily thrown in the shade. Miners became speedily learned iu surface copper indications. The talk far and wide was of copper "carbonates," "oxides," "sulphnrets," "gosson." Great was the demand for scientific works on copper. From many a miner's cabin was heard the clink of mortar and pestle pounding copper rook preparatory to testing it. The pulver ized rock placed in a solution of diluted nitric acid, a kuife blade plunged there in aud coming out coated with a precip itation of copper was exhibited triumph antly as a prognoeticator of coming fortune from the newly found lead. The fever flew from one remote camp to an other. A green verdigris stain ou the rocks would set the neighborhood copper crazy. On the strength of that one "surface indication" claims would be staked out for miles, companies formed, shafts in flinty rock sunk and cities planned. Nitric acid came in great de mand. It was upset. It yellowed our lingers and burned holes in our clothes, but we loved it for what it mi0'ht prove to us. A swarm of men. teamed iu cop !er soou c;.me from'San Francisco. They told all about it, where the leads should comnieuce,. in what direction they should run, how they should "dip," what would be the character of the ore, and what it would yield. We, common miners, bowed to their superior knowl edge. We worshiped them. We fol lowed them. We watched their faces as they surveyed the ground 'wherein had been found a bit of sulphuret or a green stained ledge, to get at the secret of their superior right under ground. It took many months, even years, for the knowledge slowly to filter through our brains that of these men nine-tenths had no practical knowledge of copper or any -other mining. The normal calling of one of the most learned of them all I found ont afterward to be that of a music teacher. . Old S , the local geologist of Sone ra, -who had that peculiar universal genius for tinkering at anything and everything from a broken wheelbarrow to a clock, . and wboee shop was museum of stones, bones and minerals collected from the vicinity, "classified" and named, some correctly and some possibly otherwise, took immediately on himself the mantle of a copper prophet, and saw the whole land resting on a basis of rich copper ore. Be advised in season and ont of season, in his shop and in the street, that all men, and especially young men, betake themselves to copper mining. It was, he said, a sure thing. It needed only pluck, patience aud perseverance. "Sink," he said, "sink for copper. Sink shafts wherever indications are found. Sink deep. Don't be discouraged if the vein does not appear at twenty, thirty, sixty or a hundred feet." And they did sink. For several years they sunk shafts all over our county, and in many another county. In re mote gulches and canyons they sunk and blasted ami lived ou pork aud beans week iu and week out, aud remained all day underground till the darkness bleached their faces. They sunk and sunk, and saw seldom the faces of others of their kind, and no womankind at all. They lived coarsely, dressed coarsely, and, no matter what they might have been, felt coarsely, and in accordance acted coarsely. They sunk time and money and years, and even health and strength, and in nineteen cases ont of twenty found nothing but barren rock or rock bearing just enough min eral not to pay. 1 took the copper fever with the rest. In a few weeks I became an "expert" in copper.' I found two veins on my forcer gold claim at Swett's Bar. I found veins everywhere. I really did im agine that I knew a good deal about cop per mining, and being an honest enthu siast was all the more dangerous. The banks of the Tuolumne became at last too limited as my field for copper explor ation and discovery. I left for the more thickly populated portion of the county, where there being more people there w liable to be more copper, and where the Halsey claim was located. The "Ualsey" was having its day then as the king claim of the county. It had really produced a few sacks of ore, which was move than any other Tuolumne copper clxin had done, and on the strength of this its value was for a few months pr-fc.d far up into high and airy realms of fir'ince. : ild some of my acquaintances in Si .. a that I could f;:i.. . in 'c.mlinna- ..f the Halsoy 1 - !. Tli-.y "staked" Hi ith ix few doi:..: -, in consideration went forth into the ehspparal to "pros pevt." The llalsey claim lay about a mile east of Table mountain, near Mon trauma, a mining camp then far iu its ' decline Table, mountain is one or the A Flareely Kalif lr-Sn h for a j p,,,. curuisitiee. if not wonders, of ; I.d-su.i.if H-Teimint of Mtnrmt- f Tuolumne and California. Through , vgf ami -,Mi..Kir wurena-Ttm, I- I Tuolumne it is a veritable wall, from bar, Hralili ami Life Sunk In Ui Sliafu. ; S.Vt to IhM feel in height, flat as a ll.vr on the top. That top had an average j width of 300 varvK The "table" is com- i j posed of what we miners call "lava." It is a honeycombed, metallic-looking rook, which on Wing struck with a sledge emits a sulphurous smell. The sides to the ungeologioal eye seem of a different kind of rock. But parts of the sidra are not of rock at all they are of gravel. On the eastern slope you way see from the old Sonora stage road two parallel lines, perhaps 900 feet apart, running along the mountain side. Mile after mile do these marks run, as level and exact as if laid there by the surveyor. . Climb np to them and you And these ! linen enlarged to a sort of shelf ox ware j washed and indented bau of hard ce ment, like gravel. ou may crawl un der and sit in the shade of an overhang ing roof of gravel, apparently in some former age scooped out by the action of waves. Not only on the Table mount am sides do you find these lines, but where Table mountain merge into the j plains about Knight's ferry will you see j these same water marks running around j the many low corneal hills. ! A geological supposition. That's what i water seems to have done outside of j Table mountain. Were I a geologist I should say that here had Wen a lake maylie agroat lake which at some other ; time had suddenly from the first mark j been draiued down to the level of the ' second, and from that had beeu drained i off altogether. Perhaps there was a j rise in the Sierra Nevada, and every-1 thing rising with it the lake went up ! too suddenly on one side and so the wa-; ters went down oil the other. Inside of j Table mountaiu there is an old river bed, smoothly washed by the currents of per-1 haps as many if uot more centuries than any river now on earth has seen, and this forms a layer or core of gold Waring gravel. In some places it has paid richlv, iu more plat-en it has not paid at ' all. " I said to myself, "This Ilalsey lead, i like all the leads of this section, runs j nurtheast and southwest." (X. B. Three ' yuars afterward we found there were no leads at all in that section.) "The Hal sey lead must run under Table mountain come out somewuere on tlie otlier " So I took thebearingsof the llal iead, or what I then supposed were Wariiigs, for there wasn't any lead any way, with a compass. I aimed my 1 compass at a point on the ledge of the flat sjumiitof Table mountaiu. I hit it. Tlu-u I climbed up over the two waler shelves or banks to that point. This was ou the honeycombed lava crags. : From these crags one could see afar nrth and south. Smith, over Tuolumne ' into Mariposa, the eye following the great white quartz outcrop of the Mother j or Mariposa lead. North was Bcur j mountain, the Stanislaus river sud Stan islaus county. This view always reminded me of the place where one very great and very bad historical personage of the past as well as the present showed another still greater and much Wtter Wing all the kingdoms of the earth. For the earth wasn't all laid out, pre-empted and fenced in those days, and its kingdoms were small. Then I ran my lines over the flat top of Table mountain, south east and northwest. So they said ran all the copper leads, commencing at Copperopolis. So then we believed, while tossing with the copper fever. Certainly they nu somewhere, and ran fast, too, for we never caught any paying copper vein in Tuolumne county; at least any that paid except to sell. I aimed my compass down the other side of the mountain. ' There, when the perpendicular lava rwck stopped pitching straight np and down, sometimes fifty, sometimes two huudred feet, was a dense growth of chaparral the kind of chap arral we called "chemisal." I got into the chemisal. Here the compass was of no more use than would be a certificate of Copperhead copper slock to pay a board bill. It was a furry, prickly, blinding, be wildering, blmidcrin;,', irritating growth, which sent a pang through a man's heart and a pricker into his skin at every step. At last, crawling down it ou all fours, for I could not walk, dirty, dusty, thirsty and jierspiring, I lit on a rock, an outcrop of ledge. It was gray and moss grown. It hid and guarded faithfully the treasure it concealed. Like Moses, I struck the rock with my little hatchet. The broken piece revealed underneath a rotten, sandy like, spongy formation of crum bling, bluish, greenish hue. It was cop per! I had struck it! I rained down more blows! Red oxides, green carbon ates, gray and blue sulphnrets! J had found the Copperhead lead! I was rich. I got upon that rock and danced! Not a graceful, but an enthusiastic pas senl. I deemed my fortune made. I was at last ont of the wilderness! But I wasn't. PRENTICS M OXFORD, aanan Pr??T r f ip-it rfl ? ir mrv f " ' L. wi " V" & ii -JS A fJf : ' f f S W lis i V f A -'v - !; ' ' V I HUM 44 Jit t i t i plumoftheKnlUhlof I L obj.H-t Nvhlch o..iUyWlmirv. 1 1 u ,l,uttnee. Ui not W allured b,vhliutoloonerippr.MM'h. "IWwan-l W's fooling lh't" , .. ,, At last It dawnwi upon the collective mind of the l.WrhMj .mny Ul their surli.lendeul, the Hiillilislasl.wa digging too much and getilnK 'l"w little, Thev accepted his re.ltillell. inatteml little to him, for by ltd-H'-his mind was overwhelmed by another stuiH.ndous mmlng scheme, t.. which tw Copi-rhead was barely a prlmlmf ' II,., Ioh.i-v talent of II vii.K l U'' in mi in l nili Imi, II el u pruno i Ill tit vrnl huii.lml n"" ft, mhit tt vniiniih in lvr. MILLRMETTE band Company oKKKHs IMU'i'KMKNTS TO HOME SEEKERS The ftUhuaUrtl rtcn wim t ' , " , .,. eorkei, ' in Ids head, but n i''i''i nip , in us neaii, i.n if ! ovnf board. Km aftnr ,Ll! Z tM ntm M nmcn I ',"" " " ' ,,. Ultl,,,n f .i.. ri -la V " . n rM"??AZZ,Z U After .he third trial rktl l II. i l IUIm MiaMmliatnlita A Fmll' ll Canadian pro. nn),j 1.1..,, II.. .,l,llH.I I.I.....II goblen vision-which, to Mm W J , "'f; f,vt n-ahit. II- Md !U ; f, -kl IHiw mid w.ut u, that the Id.va. the hoe. the antl. I pUoti , ' ' swti: bathing lrre.r more-theUihig ij, ZJZ' Uiail Hie iiiiiik " . . ... i,i. Il. and tbsu BII-.I .,.. t m ., J . .. . . t. .,1 Hrid IIKT I. rill ' - - tijiatly Ibelll tWy ... ' . - III. vorv dtltnrellt sunnen. Wing from what ha Of she was deemed while in proem f' M" .UKht for. The long lomf-d J have estimated an anifd. Hie angel, after wMlUk, way pMve ' have Wen a myth. The reality may W a devil, or within a few shade or degree, of a devil. So the shaft was sunk, a they said. ! properly and i ientitllly. by the new i superintendent. The r-ck M harder as j we went down, the on- !. lh" "" uarrxwer, me (piaiiiuy " n-- -ASP- Investors -1,: We liiivo Kum r.(K-VH iVet, lOOx'-W lot. nil tavoruoly Wnte.1. I lieso , lots twice the onlinary si.o ur Imt half the iistnil price of other lots sini ilarly located. Wo have one-iuTo, two-acre, livo ntul ten-acre tracts, auitahlo for sulmrlmti homes, ounvcnient to town, schools, churches, etc., and of very productive soil. A large prowinit 'i'ruiu' Orchard," of which wo will sell part in small tracts to suit purchaser, and on easy tot in. an I Sid" sy tlie Call and see us and get prices at Oregon City office rm Robert L. Taft at Portland office, No. 50, Stark street, Portland. Mw Mlltloa fn(r Put teaMHmf til of cltri,l 1 Into quart f watuf. itrja j, J and dip tlx WlhWweJ 4at tiill.Uw has not tllpiirt ; pMcma t I " Any Mm! claM bank will ta.4,1 of cnlil UHu tha rmelpt ,4 aa ? ' ; of the etnlit and a small romij.,; I This Iclti'f euablea yuu to (lrt,l the progress slower, the weekly eJprui- I , u, amount of the erndit ftJ first doubled and then trebled, the Mock f , bank eormspondeiiU I prlutnl upon the b k of llm !ou I Hum tm Mmk HaMt The following la the uld Melt a lablmMHlifiil of nkt ' uikviwii and aUI aUmt half ..: The CopTlicd claim and IVippertiead r,,., oru,ubl)r chM'Cut In Iwll ik: city sulwided nutetly. The harHnlrr w(r WIM- ovcf w flfBi f became urml of mining for coin to y rlMmt ir pour In atfill u ij ais.wmenh out of their own p.kn.i when lh"ro"ahly mUrd KUsjui' Tliey came al last loiloum wieevir ne-w j.n,,, .ppnf. Uiy t!lrr lug. hop. ful asmTUoU of the rUllliUrta-t ; (Uluu.itn with UaleJ w!i that from Indliatlom he knew the "41m j.mm,, jwur (h luoitoj cW, was fonniiig." The InevlUbls I'aiue. ; 1(,m( Copierliea. city was .lenerVM lv I la IHI- 1 man inhabitant. The skunk, the make, 1 tlw sipiirrel, the wolikrf and thl tnunard came again into full ptMnwioti, and 1 bitterly ngr.'ile. tfuit 1 hud not sold more at ten dollars a f.'l wlieti I found the to k a drug at ten cents. rusvritit Mi l rvmn. HM-allli1 less coveieo, imi -- i" ...... u( iuimm? .(TaiMiniieiiu u value, reached thai fatal dean level which really means that ll Is on lu down ward diweut. The shareholders f- Uvaine longer and longer t uietr wwai) Sumlav afternoon liitlng In the s - d ' i'i M.a M Tll HImI fft tna ' Aquafortis apdlm to tlx stHtv,' '1, tuel piMlue a b)a'k I; ott ' "" metal rnmauia clean. Tlw lilv!i'!". of iron or tHl can be rvadilj inr'i ;-n,,'( tiy till Mieth.iJ. COPPKRIIKAD CITY. FOUNOED AND LAID OUT IN CALI FORNIA BY PRENTICE MULFORD. rho Majority of lh fltliena Vtr, ll.tw Ttr, mtuitlt. n.l NuHkra, Not Mit. Rapl.l Itlui an.l Fall uf lit Mmk TU. latlt of tli lluoiu. Copyrtithted hy tlw Author.) XI. I "mil's" invariably loiin.lerwl. Actuai.-I also, at that time, by thiwe bnni. pnnciples so largely prev.kli tit 111 111 ..t t'hri.-ti.lll CollllllUIUtle!., I 'cl.OUK'.r' tlie only Kpriog of g'Hid drinking water 111 the neighlorhood of my "city." My in tent 111 t'.ii was in time to realise 11 pn tit from the indirtvt mU of this water to such of the future "city's" population an ini'lit want water -not to s"II it bv Inn glat or gallon, of emir'; but if there wa to be a "city" it would wed wati-r works. The water works would n. ci- sarily lie on aiy land. I would not be guilty or tueitilniiuaiiityor .llng water 1 crutch, which they place under to parch tongue.! people, but I proposed , t, w(lt,n t),ry wish to nt without tin" " ' i') snoui i imyot meiiw n.mviii)( it from tlw-ir backs. The av ground out of which came the water. . .,K 4 in p kag., or from Iiw But one hot. was everenvtwt in tV.p- U) ,)llm, but 1 paawd a ntiiuber of perneau . uy proper, ami tnui nan nui one room, lint tliree men ever lived lu It. j twenty-one. A man, 1 was told, had a Yet the city was thickly populated, ltj frw Tninl brought an in ir was lix-at.l in a regular jungle, so far j weighing 400 pimnds fnr Mgr. HI from as a jungle is ever atuinrd in California. 1 Ya-chou to Tahii-I In twenty two anu leemeo ui uea.1 ceua-T anu 1x7.1111 . d.yi. iM r urrfTpit p, f(Mmu(lly II.IK Tr. I. 1 In lhlkrl, The a.-L.igea of tea, r. Ii alut four ftvl long, n inches bro.i.1 and threo to four thick, and weighing from m veie tn to twenty throe pouudi. i placed horiont.illy one alh.vo the oilier, the upT unci proj.t'iing as to come omt th" rtii head. '1 liev are held tightly together by coir ro n,l little balllll.1.1 (.takes; str.lM, nm ol pluitinl cur ro'. ium over the (urier shoulders, while a little ntrilig f.uU'lie t to tile top of the load helpn to balance the huge utriif lure, which It re.ptirt morn kuai k tli ui strength to carry, t r Us weight u.u-l Im nr imi all the ba. k and only slightly 011 the shout Jers. In Uieir liaiuls tlie portent carry , tow lu t..aa.l'l Tkal In Hal Til !!' of call Iw iJMkkilt tx III a rHU C-'bl tatlnw t! fe. p4nt by rubbing tlm warn olhir tluii la .lliaala II hal a II omIu I A hore can draw on lurtaltv aul two llilrda a Hindi u m (.aveuirnt, thrv and one ti.uj 1.., Uiiicb aa oil g l Itelun tC. tune as much a on whuirt hi bio. k. seven times a liiii. li a I'obhUl lollea, thll toel) llll.tta. ou ordinary ciibhla atone, twi-stf as much aa nurrtli r.w.t.aiidlufitJ as umcli aa on a.tnd. 11 "4 it ta llow (a Tra..laMl lir Ill tlw autumn, ta'foro tin un. din a trriw h around Uietretsc tlia roots, but not too bear Uw tea ! move lu the wvulor wlwo las p. frosatn. lUias tlie true wtlk tot ii men carrying seventeen, aud oue h. ,,,0, adlwrtmi to the rou TX" 4 1 .. k t . I . . . ' . . ... niaaa U eaatlv Willi tortn a trucif lint, wtwo It can b4nti by brw or oxfit Tresa nwwii way will row la tho sprint Th AllJcator Fad. Quite a popular fad nowadays is a taste for live alligators. They sre taken in the rivers of Florida by negroes when very young, placed in boxes and sent through the poetoffice to friends in the north, and often emerge to find them selves in some very fashionable houses in New York. The alligator is not a cheerful companion, as he spends most of his time in sleep. It is only when he is hungry that he displays any social qualities or animation. The penchant for alligators is not likely to be a lasting one, for in the course of time they de velop greatly in size, and then it is not safe to leave the buby In the immediate vicinity. New York News. "No person to be buried in this church yard except those livi'.giu this paiihh; und those who wWi to I buri-;. are d. sii'i.'d to apply to tin- o- ri-h clerk," wa.' a notice riven bv an !Jn;jli';-ii pftrinh clerk. TRUDGED back nine miles to Sonora, my pock ets full of "specimens" from the newly discovered claim, my head a cyclone of copper hned air castles. I saw the "boys." I was mysterious. I beckoned them to retired spots. 1 showed them the ores, i told them of the find. They were wild with excitement. They were half crazed with delight. And in ten minutes some of them went just as far into the do maiusof unrest and unhappiness for fear some one might find and jump the claim ere I got back to guard it. The Copper head company wiui organized that night. The "Entiiutiiast," a man who lived in the very top loft of copper insan ity, was writ down with me to buit intend the sinking of the shaft. The secret was wxm out. Shares in the vein were eagerly coveted. I sold a few feet for 1-700, and deemed I had conferred a great favor on the buyer in letting It go so cheaply. I lived np, way up, in tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The "company" in Sonora met almost every night to push things, while the Enthusiast and myself blasted and burrowed in the rock. By day they exhausted their spare cash in horse hire, riding down to the claim in hope of be ing on hand when the next blast should reveal 1ed of ore immense in breadth and unfathomable in depth. My company was made np chiefly of lawyers, doctors, politicians and editors. They never realized how much they were indebted to me, For four months I made them feel rich, and if a man feels rich what more should he want? For a millionaire can do no more than feel rich. Feeling certain that the Copperhead was a very rich claim, and that other rich claims would be developed from the "extensions," and that a bustling town would be the result, I pre-empted a sec tion of the laud which I deemed most valuable, on which it was intended that "Copperhead City" should be built. This "city" I partly laid ont. I think thiH was tho third city I had laid out iu California, There is a sepulchral and post mortem of Table mountain. Wlan the winter wore off and the warm California spring wore on and merg-d into the sununcr beat of May, and the pa.h made by the winter ruins dried up. I think all the rattlesnake and copperiitud for niileo around went for my pre-empted spring of pure water. The "city" I mean tlie house was lo cated within a few feet of the spring. Returning thith-T at noun for dinner, I have started half a dozen snakes from ; the purlieus and snbnrlw of that spring. ' I Snakes get dry like human ts'ings. 1 I Snakes love water. Snakes, poor thing, ! i can't get anything eln to drink, and j j must till up 011 water. These were so-, , viable snakes. When startled at our ae 1 ; pruach tliey would not run away from I our society. No, They prefo T'd to re : main in the "city," and bo, iu many iu-; i stances, they ran under the house. It is ! i not pleasant at night to fuel that you are I sleeping over a veteran rattler four feet j long, with a crown of glory on his tail in ' 1110 snape ot louriewn or uiiwn ralllm. Yun won't crawl under your house to evict such a rattlesnake either. Skunks inhabited our "city" also. Sknnks know their power their peculiar power. The evening gloaming seems the fa vorite tiuie for the skunk to go abroad. He or she loves the twilight There must lie a vein of sentiment in these far smelling creatures. 1 have in tlie early evening traveled up the only street out "city" ever laid out a trail and ahead of me on that trail I have seen a skoiik. I was willing he should precede me, In the matter of rankneas I was perfectly willing to fall a long way behind lrim. Now, if you have studied skunks you wiU know that it Is far safer to remain in the skunk's rear than to get ahead of him, because when he attacks with his favorite aromatic means of offensive de fence he projecta himself forward (as it were). I have, then, in my city, had a skunk keep the trail about fifty feet ahead of me, at a pace which indicated little alarm at my presence, and, do my best, 1 could not frighten the animal, nor could I get ahead of him or her. ' If I ran he ran; if I walked he concurred in rapidity of pace, I dared not ap proach too near the animal. I would rather break in upon the "sacred divin ity" which, they say, "doth kodgo a king" than transgress the proper bounds to be observed with reference to a skunk. Let a king do Iiih licst, ami tin cannot travel along this road borne on tlw barks of porters. Many of the women porters carried seven packagw of tea. nearly tW pounds, and children of five and six trndgini on behind their parent with one or two. The price paid for the work 1 twenty tael ceuts (alsmt twenty five cent) a packafte, and it Ukos about seventeen days to make the trip from Ya-chou. Su far as my knowledge goes, there are no porters iu any other part of tlie world who carry sucli weights as these Ya chou , tea aihe; und, strange as it may ae ! pear, they are not very muscular, and j over half of them are continued opium ' smokers.-Lieiiteumit lU khill iu Cent ! ury. llollanil llyk... A loaf ll,. Allrhu,. It is too lata now to talk of street grades riuse.l hIiov.. hih wal.-r level m I'lttnburg und Allegheny. It is b.,r,!lv worthwhile to talk nlxiii! a system ,,'f reservoirs to collect nn,l hold the water which pours down the hill ami mountain side to the Allegheny and Monongaiiela. ; liefore tint could be done this tfi.m.ru. I There are taw thing niort than foul tomato. Tula occur Is Ik : uffnjiatrs form front dorayid twu from mucus adhertnf to thi2lj. miatlb aa.) throat, whiA "Wt ouuiinm by Uw its" and ei.ll ysttun. A almpla and afTscUvt i reuwdy this U U drop fsw crrn! psruuiigatiat of potash into I of waler. and gargle the llmaviaoJ Die mouth well with It after avl or before going to bed au4 a I morning This solution U a pen's" tslonser of all organic! decay, sal' train. the ofleunlvo odor ariit " tho decaying (virtlclivi of foul fc mam lu tlie ravltiea of or bet" Usitli, eti; ll a hnruilew. ll... I11 I Iran Martila. A strong piepar.itioii f.n ilctnisj bin is line puiiiice stone, newi? linn 1 and verdigris, mind tlm'k ' soft soaji Dip a Wisdeii rag is compound, and rub tho stains u' Then wash oil with map and warn lion would be long gathiirwl to Its fa-1 other excellent preparation is suggestion in the term "laid out" which 1 punish an intruder as can a skunk, is peculiarly applicable, to all the "cities" Tho skunk is really a pretty crnaturu. which I attempted to found, and which ' Its tail (Initios over its back, like the thers. I!ut is it not worth wlohi in 1..11. of some possible means of saving thine cities from tut frequently recurring lumen by the floods? Count up, however roughly, the loasea in various forms due to this flood and tho total would go far beyond the ex jH'iise of a dv kn or any similar means to conlinii high waters to the natural course of Uie river. It should We remembered that the floods will be Increased in vol ume in proportion as the watershed is denuded of forest These lossee will not oease with laiwe of time, PitUburg Time two part of common soda, oas P piinil.ii Btono and one of finely r' chalk, which should he sHf Loci throcf fma tieve and mixed with watsf. used In the same manner, if can be usually removed by roMaM Imuon Juice. RMoiulllug UM Enaoilaa, There may not be much lu a name, but an item gatherer of the I'alatka (Kla ) HoraM foand some fun ia rso namm the other day, and went away reflecting on the beautiful impartial! tim of peace An old colored woman sUxsl at the Station waiting tor the Jacksonville train Beside her sUxsl two litUe tark Minniea with face, as black as the inside of a stovepipe. When the old mammy's train arlved she Mclaimad, "Ureas de Lor'I" and then, looking down at her children, remarked, "Here, yoU Abra ham Lincoln, tako hold of Jeff Davis' hand, mid come along heah, rpiickl" And the namesakes t the tw , slale.unenof tho war joined hand! .and walked away, 11s though the names had not expressed Huch a dissimilarily f purpow). ' ' ...fw w iimtiar i.nr h ihc---- t Many deaths would be prevetj ladies eugaged l household W0ti( wear incombustible or non-laflssu Ranuenia. Tho process of llnoas and cotums is very slmpl the (toisk, in 7 Jier cetit. soluUo pi site of ammonia, or a SO per ot Uon of tongsUto of soda and tbK ? them. If they are no w heU In 1 of a caudle or gas lamp they win t fire, Tliat jsirtioiiof thefahrk'1! was in contact with the ll(M J)F. coma charred, but it will not ijf and hence the burning stats 1 spread to the rest of the garment' fjj Ing In borax aud hot water wui similar effect. H.w to u i, raaxl Writ" OfUin the writinir unon M'"' other dixiuments becomes fails" most illegible. If they are of IwP0, Urn writing can bo easily nl0(r;, urst coviiring it with a soluuo" siato of potash, and then aiUM tho priiHsiato, sninu dllnle'l W": acid. )v this nieioiM the fallen Will asslliiiH a liei-iniLnelit alul I"'1' ilark blue color. : -r M I