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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1880)
Ul)rrttri of t'Wea Prison. . sv a correspondent, looks Sl,8nrv from the water, but the vision 1 ''nil nn landing. The streets aro ..!, not moro iuu - feYide and the houses overhang, .Vr-rlr touch overhead, ut- .(;.,rout the sunlight; ana, In ion 'to being narrow,- are reeking i with Tha sodan chairs aro the only of' conveyance used here. They irricd by tw0 men wb0' 'honever Jet a customer, start off on a run, Tyt;nff in a sort of a sing-song tone: SSSr inpr! Heavy lugerl Oh.ga! flJ.i'luKerrin one of the principal ncWiires I saw a constant stream of 1 im clairs, the bearers chanting all in SJe and keeping military step-and a tnresque procession it was. P shsnfihw old town is completely walled mil the gates are just as I have seen !um in pictures. Over one gate was the S of six criminals, with the pigtails incing to and fro with the breeze. After passing through this gate, I made n mv mind toavoid the disgusting sight, Renter the city by another road, but the (rate through which I passed this " bad four heads over it, and I am old that all the gates are decorated in he same maimer. I went to see six Chinese pirates be aded yesterday. The open square here all the executions take place was fliM with Cbineso of all ages and condi tions and a few Europeans among them. prisoners were the most forlorn tarveling9 1 ever saw, and betrayed no more fear at their approaching fate than if thev wore to be spectators of an execu tion. ' A huge Tartar officiated as execu tioner, rle was armed with a native urord, and stood on a small platform in the center of the square. After the criminals, with their hand tied behind, Dad been taken upon the stage, the exe cutioner took one of the pirates by the arm, brought him to the edge of the platform, hit him a sharp rap with his hand on the head, which caused the poor fellow to bow his head, and then the ex ecutioner's sword went up, was poised in the air a full minute, and with a swoop the glittering blade descended, and the criminal's head went flying off in one di rection, and the body in another. One dv one the others met their fate in the same wav, tho Tartar making very short business'-like job of it, merely turning to receive tho plaudits of the crowd af ter each head rolled off, and responding by a grin, which showed every one of h'is teeth. But tho stolidity of the poor wretches was beyond description. Not a musclo quivered, and even when waiting for the blade of the executioner to fall I could not detect a sign of emotion. The crowd seemed to enjoy the sight im mensely, and sot up a yell of delight at sack cut of the Tartar's sword. I am told that executions are common here. Sickened with the sight, I went down one of the roads, and coming to a prison, went in. Of all places in this world, I believe there is not one where so much ahject wretchedness can be seen as in a Chineso prison. Tho prisoners serving out sentences get but one meal a week from the authorities; the rest of the time they are fed by thoir friends, if they have any, or by the contributions of visitors, or they starve. ,1 had not much money with me on going in, but came out pen niless, the poor creatures so worked on my fooiings. Some of the prisoners had lostahand, others were heavily ironed, and all wore the same pinched, starv id look. I saw three women in process of execution for murdering a man. They were hanged by the neck in a sort of wooden stocks, so arranged that their feet could just touch the ground, and were left in this condition till dead. Some times death ensues very soon, but oftener a day or two passes before the poor wretch dies, as there is no pressnre on the neck. I waaglad to get away from this place, too. But the piteous tones of the poor prisoners begging for "cum sliaw," (a present) ring in my ears yet. Catching a Hare with Hook and LIuc. They had a grand coursing match at Merced, Cal., and, after two or three byes an!l go-byes, tho human partici pants of the sport were very much an noyed by the remarks of a lank, cadaver ous specimen, who had been fishing in the lake near at hand, and who had left his angling to watch the work of the hounds. This party amused himself by making surcastio and coutemptious remarks regarding what he considered the stupidity and folly of going to all that expense and trouble in killing a few hares "What on earth," he said to the ref eree, earnestly, "why on earth don't you kill the hares with a club instead of taking the chances on the dogs catching them, when you could save them all with half the trouble?" "Oh, you go to blazes!" said one of the dog-owners, impatiently. "But just reason about the thing," expostulated the lean economist. "It's a clear loss of two hares out of three. Now, if you must use dogs, why not pnt say twenty rabbits into a barrel with a rat-terrier?" "Oh, dry up and mind your own Business." "Yes; but I hate to see you wasting o much good meat. Now how would it Rtrike you to bitch the next hare to this trout-line before yon let it start. It can't get away then, and, when the dogs fall behind, all you have to do is to bear on the reel and kinder slow it off. Now" "Will nobody put this man off the grounds?" yelled an umpire. "Put your Aunt Middy off," retorted the practical fisherman. "Fact is. your dogs ain't worth four bits apiece, any ay. Bet $40 I can catch a hare better than thev can by casting this line every time." "Done!" says the Judge. 'Tut up,', and to the surprise of everyboby the in truder at once covered the money the Judge Lad handed to a bystander, and then began reeling out his line and get ting his pole ready for a throw, while all hands crowded to" watch the resnlt of the nngnlarwacer. low, men, snouted uic reum, the hare was released, and the next mo ment the Judge's hat flew off and his wig dangled out in front of the crowd on the fisherman's hook. There w as a terrible row after that, when the latter claimed the com on the strength of the "hair" be had caught; and, if it hadn't been shortly dweovered that the ntakeholder had lit out with the purse, the meeting onl J bave ended in a free fight all Wound. ,S'. F. lt. A Typical Turk. During my perambulations in Smyrna I was caught by the ingenious face of a handsome Turk, who sat smoking on his stall, with his legs coiled under him, with an air of supreme complacency. Ho was a vender of tho perfumes for which "Araby, tho blest,," is famous. It was pleasant to stand and sniff the mingled aromas that surrounded tho spot. Jars of various essences and boxes of spiced shrubs emitted a fragrance ravishing to the nose. As we examined his sweet sented wnres, I glanced occasionally at their owner, whose countenance con tinued serene and impassive. He might have passed for a statue, so perfect was the repose of his features and attitude. There was not the slightest indioation of solicitude as to our intentions. Wo would buy if the prophet so ordainod. We purchased some attar of roses and other extracts, which were no cheaper than in Faris, but far more genuine. After the parcels were make up, I felt inclined to have some chat with our marchand. Though sedate and reticent, as all Turks are, yet there was a frank ness in his visage that was encouraging; and so I bade my interpreter to ask him if ho could be tempted to leave Smyrna and go to my country, where the rare perfume would yield him ten times the profit ho could hope for here. At the end of a few years, he might return to tho East, a rich man. A look of undistinguished astonish ment overspread his face. "What!" ha exclaimod, "leave the land of the Prophet, to go among infidels! Abandon my home, to accu mulate money I do not want! I have enough to eat and drink, and my pipe to smoke. I have a wife, and, pleasoAllah, I hope some day to have another. What more have I to desire? I am satis fied." This sample of Turkish philosophy was not a little staggering. "But tell him," I continued to the in terpreter, "that in my country ho would be under the protection of law, where no cadi could cither imprison or bowstring him. He would be instructed, would have books and papers to read, and might learn what was passing in the world; also, in that happy country the patlishah is chosen by tho peoplo, to govern them, and he could take a share in his election. This enticing description of tho ad vantages of a superior civilization whero all thrown away on the incredulous if not contemptuous Turk. "What are those things to me?" he an swered. "Would they mako mo happier? Could I eat and drink more in your country than in mine? Could I smoke more or love more? My fathers have always lived in this holy land. Why should I leave it till Allah calls me away, when I shall go to Mahomet's paradise, where houri innumerable await me? Do you think I would give up this to go to your unknown world?" I felt that it was idle to hold out in tellectual delights or political privileges as baits to this true son of the Prophet whose faith in the Koran was implicit far more so than that of most Christians in the Bible. As I was moving off, I said with a smile, he little knew what he lost by not listening to my suggestions. Suddenly a thought struck him, for, taking tho amber mouthpiece from his lips he inquired if women were cheaper in my country than in Turkey. I told him that no one in my land was allowed to have more than one, and then only with her consent. This settled the busi ness. A scrowl of unutterable scorn darkened his flue phisiogomy, and re- E lacing his pipe, he raised his eyes to eaven, evidently in a spirit of thank fulnoss to Allah that it had not been his cruel fate to be born in such a benighted land. Wilkofi's Reminiscences of an Idler. Ei.eituo-Magnetism anu Sea-Sickness. A peculiar kind of electro-mngnetic belt has been frequently referred to of late by the London journals as a cure for sea sickness. The belt is made of a silken tissue stitched and disposed so as to form parallel ribs, and these latter are tilled with "Titanic iron powder," which is naturally magnetic. The belt measures at the widest end, which is the positive pole, six inches, and at the narrowest end, which is is the negative pole, three and one-half inches. From end to end it is divided by a kind of rib. which creates i. t. ,.lnn.n t.-tnntiiif tt in (font tho other small ribe, which aro parallel to: eacli otner, oi unequal mugum, unmg iu the varying widtn oi me ueu, mm oer which they extend for its full length, run obliquely to its central rib, into which thev throw their currents, thus giving it greater nower. The result of this dispo sition is that the mapnetic power is equally distributed over the surface of the belt, insuring the closest and largest pos sible contact with the body, which is an essentiid condition of the cure. When the belt is on, the body is a true eleciric bath; and it is the magnetic network thus formed and applied that causes the action of the apparatus to be ercised upon the muscles of the diaphragm which, by this aciion, iskeptinits normal state, free from those movements that create the leraiipementof the stomach and produce sea-sickness. Wendell Phillips on Eubopeah Tkaits. In the course of a lecture de livered in Troy upon European sights and scenes, Wendell Phillips said the Englishman was a piece of granite, jag-g-d and sharp; the Yankee, a pebble rolled on the beach a thousand years. (Laughter.) In this country we all make tho same appearance on the streets. You can not tell a man's position in ..;t iw.ro hv liia ilrpss. It is not so in other countries. There they are willing you should know their standing, in America no one can imagine the custom of kissing carried to the extent it is in v. kftar tha l.attlo of Waterloo JJUiJCi Aliv the Duke of Wellington said Blucher caught him m his arms ana repeaieuiT kissed him. Imagine Grant kissing But ler. (Laughter.) In Europe there is a noticeable freedom and reverence of churches not held by Americans. In ficent cathedrals uiuac n . there are no seats, and the peoplo, with- . a i 1. 1 n out distinction oi ciasn, -" " " nAvtila fl rsw Ain al hpfnre God. The ill a a tjio - noble, with his dozen descents, kneels side by aide with the applicant ior ui bounty. Prnfpor: the intensity of trravity greater at the poles or at the eqoator?" Freshman: "lei. sir." Professor "Which?- Freshman: "It's greater. Recent Deep-Sea Researches. Dr. Carpenter, tho English iilivsicist, has recently published in the Nineteenth Century some remarkable results of his elaborate studios of the latest deep-sea explorations. I he work of the scientific circumnavi gation expedition, though completed in 187t, has not until within a few months, if even now, been fully reduced, and some of its most important discoveries aro now announced by Dr. Carpenter, its originator. Ono of the first questions its labors contribute to solvo is tho depth aud configuration of tho ocean basis. Tho prevailing notion of the sea-bods, Dr. Carpenter bIiows, needs considerable modification, nono of them having been carefully outlined, except that of tho North Atlantic, when sounded with a viow to laying the first Atlantic cable. "The form of tho depressed area which lodges the water of the doep ocean," he says, "is rather to be likened to that of a flat waiter or tea trav, surrounded by an elevated and steeply-sloping rim, than to that of the 'basin' with which it is compared;" and ho adds, "the great continental platforms usually rise very abruptly from the margin of tho real ocoanio ddpressod areas." The avorago depth of the ocean floors is now ascer tained to be about M.OUO feet. As the average height of the entire land mass of tho globe above sea level is about 1000 feet, and tho sea area about two and three-quarter timas that of the land, it follows that the total volume of ocean water is thirty-six times that of the land above sea-level. These deduc tions, soemingly unimportant except to the votary of science, are destined per haps to serve tho highest practical pur poses of deep Bea telegraphy. Tho iutol ligenco now quarried out of tho enor mous collection of later ocean researches shows the modern engineer and capitalist tho feasibility of depositing a telegrapbio cable over almost any part of tho ocean floor, and ought to give new confidence in the success of all such enterprises properly devised and equipped. hen it is remembered that at tho begining of this century La Place, the great mathe matician, calculated or assumed tho av erage depth of the ocean at four miles (or 8000 foet more than Dr. Carpenter determined it to be from actual surveys) , and that La Place's conclusion was the received view among scientists until 1850, or later, we got some idoa of the ad vance made in this branch of terrestrial phvsies by niodorn research. Not loss interesting is a deduction Dr. Carpenter makes from the deep sea temperature ob servations in the North Pacific In con sequence of the evaporation produced by the long exposure of the equatorial At lantic current its waters contains such an excess of salt as, in spite of its high torn ufiratnre. to bo si)eciticallv heavier than the colder underflows which reach the equator from the opposite Arctic and Antarctio basins : and consequently it substitutes itself by gravitation for the colder waters to a depth of several hun dred fathoms. "Thus it conveys the solar heat downward in such a manner as to make the North Atlantic between tho parrallels of 20 degrees and 40 degrees a srreat reservoir of warmth." The clim atic effect of this vertical transfer of equatorial boat is obvious. If tho great heat-bearing currents which enter the North Atlantic traversed its bosom as surface currents they would expend thoir warmth laurolv in the high latitude. But. as their heavy and slightly-heated volumes in a large measure descend to the deeper strata south of tho lor tieth uarallol. their stores of tropical tern perature aro permanently arrested off our eastern coast, anu uiuiuuk;. mono subserviont to our climate. French Bohemians. About twenty years ago La Belle Poule, a brasserie, in Rue des Martyrs, was frenucnted by a queer troupe of Bohemians. Thoy were Bohemians of tho Ecrger typo, bright, ponuilcss, full of good resolutions, but lacking in will to carry them out. Thoy were Pelloquet, and Destouches, and Potrel, and Marc Trnnadoux. and Leclero. They are all dead and eono now, but thoy were origi hal mortals in thoir day and merit a good word here. Potrel had had a good edii; cation, but ho wasted all his intellectual gifts among a crowd of do-nothings who could never appreciate him, and who never encouraged him to better his con dition. Potrel lived on bread, wine and hopes. His hopes were that ho would one day become heir to a good fortuno and he did. Pelloquet was a real or im aginary art critic. He passod most of bis time at tho Belle Tonic, drinking petit verres, smoking most villainous tobacco, and taking fine air. Pelloquet had a lady-love; her name was uoorgette, He loved Georgette, but Georgette did not love him. "Just think," said sho one day at the brasserie, "Pelloquet comes to tho door of my house every morning, and there stretches and yawns, as thonijh he wished to maKe people be lieve that he had just como down from mvroom! One day rolloquot doter mined to give a lecture on fine arts. That would surely win Uoorgotte s love, no ho hired a hall, all his friends came, and Georgette, gayly dressod, occupied a front seat. Pelloquet begins his lecture solemnly, but he becomes confused, loses his memory, and can't find his manuscript. "My dear friends," said he at last, "excuse me, but really my naners. like my ideas, are in disorder. Seeing that, you read the entire history of my life!" Pelloquet became crazy a few years later. Destouches, another of this Bohemian circle was in turn, a pro prietor, an editor and a wine dealer. He occupied a room and a bca-room so small that if he opened tho window his foot would be in the outer air. He used to dress so shabbily that ono evening entering tho portal of a house, where ha was invited to dine, the concierge cried out to him, "On no chaute pas dan la cour!" Marc Trapadoux hailed from Lvons. He was the greatest talker aud laziest fellow in his goodly company. A Catholic paper had been established and the manager imprudently sent Trapadoux into the provinces as an advertising and and subscription agent. At the end of the month tho voyager came back with out a trunk, without money, without subscriptions. !'I didn't get any sub scribers." said he to the enraged man ager, and his eyes beamed with a light of faith. 1 umn I get any aovemsemenis, but I bring for the journal what is far better, the blessing of Monsiegneur, the Archbishop of Beims. Such were some of the habitues of La Belle Poule twenty rears ago. faruian. Advice to Ladles First Be sure you know whoro yon want to go before you sret on tho train. Second When you purchaso vonr ticket you will have to pay for it; no uso to tell ticket agent to "charge it and send the bill to your husband." And if he says tho price of tho tickot is $2 SHi, don't tell him yon can get ono just liko it of the conductor at tho other store for $2 50; ho wou't beliove you, and ho may laugh at you. lhird ISover travel without money. It reollires broad vinwa lilvnrnl film' a. tion, keen discernment and profound judgment to travel without money. No one can do this successfully but tramps and editors. Fourth Beware of tho commercial traveler. Fifth Dou't cive a strancer your tickot and ask him to go out and check your trunk. Ho will usually be ouly too glad to do it. And what is more, he will do it, and your trunk will bo so effectually checked that it will never catch up with you again. And then whou tho conduc tor asks for your ticket and you relate to him tho pleasing little allegory about the stranger and tho baggago, ho will look incredulous aud smuo down upon you from half closed eyes, and say that ? . -- i i i . t . i u is a Dcumuui romanco, nut no uas hoard it before. And then, you will put up your jewelry or disembark at the next station. Sixth If you are going three hundred miles dou't try to get off the train every fifteen minutes under the impression that you aro there. If you get there in twelve hours you will bo doing excel lently. Seventh Call tho brakemau "conduc tor;" he has grown proud sinco ho got his new uniform, and it will flutter him. Eighth Put your shawl-strap, bundle aud two paper parcels in tho hat-rack; bang your bird-cage to tho corner oi it, so that when it falls off it will drop into the Inn of the old gentleman Hitting bo hind you; stand your four houso-plants on the window sill; set your lunch basket on tho seat kesida you; fold your shawls on top of it; carry your pockot-book in ono hand and hold your silver mug in tho other; put your two valises under the sent nnd hold your bandbox aud the rest of your things in your lap. Then you will have all your baggage handy, and won't bo worried or flustered about it when you havo only twenty nino soconds in which to change cars. Ninth Address tho couductor every ten minutes. It pleases him to have you notico him. If you can't think of any new question to ask him, ask him tho samo old ono every time. Alwnys cidl him "Say. or "Mister. Tenth Kck up all the information von can whilo traveling. Open tho win dow anil look forward to seo how fast the engine is going. Then when you got homo you can tell the childron about tho big cinder you picked up with your eye, and how nico and warm it was, and what it tasted like. Eleventh Dou't hang your parasol on the cord that passes down tho middlo of the car. It isn t a clothes lino, it Iooks like oue. but it isn't. Twelfth -Keep an eye on tho passcn trer who calls tho day after Monday "Chewsday." He can't bo trusted a car s length. Thirteenth Do not attempt to change a $20 bill for any one, if yon havo only 8!) 25 with vou: it can t bo done. Fourteenth If yon want a nap always lie with your head projecting over the end of tho seat, into tho aisio. inon every body who goes up or down tho isle will mash vour hat. straighten out your frizzes, and knock off your back hair This will keep you from sleeping so soundly that you will be carriod by your station. ISnrlmgwn uawheye. Ascending ( hlmhornzo. Tho most romarkablo of all Andean ascents has recently been niado by the distinguished traveler, Edward Whym nor Writinir from Quito. March lHtb. he modestly says he liad "polished off Lhiniborazo, uarazou, oincuoiagoa anu Antisana.ond passed twonty-six conseou tivo hours on tho ton of Cotopaxi, en camping 19,000 feet above tho sea." The scaling of Cotopaxi, tho ico-clad volcanic cone rising almost under the equator, is, the traveler thinks, his principal feat, though Antisana was found the most iifiif'iiH, to surmount. Tho achieve ments of Whymper cast into tho shade the many recent asconsions oi aioni Blanc and all Alplno adventures. In IHO'i Humboldt was bullied in his attempt to reach tho summit of Chimbo ho determined bv tritrono metrical measurement to bo 21,420 feet high. Tho eminent savant, Boussin If. RiiWnnentlv cot within sixteen hundred feet of the top, but could go no farther. In KM Jules Kemy, a French man, claimed to havo accomplished the feat, but as ho asserted that tho summit was found over 24,000 feet above tho sea, his wholo story was discredited. Other trigonometrical measurements of this immense natural fortress put its altitude IKK) feet below Humboldt's figures, but, make it certain that Kemy's account is not reliable o tunt iir. Whymper may justly chum to have niado flm first authenticated ascent of its dome. Tho dazzling apex of Cotopaxi the most daring of geographic investigators have considered insur tnmintiildc. as beneath its surface are sleeping volcanic fires which, on one oc casion, it is said, hurled a mass of stone weighing 21 W tens a distance of nine miles, and tho glassy sides of this cone are peculiarly inaccessible and perilous, link in the recent exploration which nil difliculties. Whvmper' party, ho says, had "grown out of being affected by rarefaction of tho air, and (All 1,1 1m i?av and lively at nineteen thousand feet." The summit of these equatorial peaks have many secrets of nature to tell their visitors, and bear on their frosty slopes the indelible marks of the wind and storms that sweep the up per atmosphere, which meteorologists havn nn lonipd to understand. No doubt the full notes of these latest and loftiest ascents, tho barometno, thermomotne on, I r.tlinr observations will be found pregnant with interest and instruction. "Feet like Mr. Whyropcr's," says the London Time, "leave a traek, though none be discernible; and Chimborazo and its snows, with the ice-clothed innux rt Cotemnzi. have now and IVlum' - I 1 ' henceforth a road traversing their rugged as plain and legible as if it had been engineered.". Y. JIa-aUl. M01117, aud Row to Get II. There is no word in the English language more often used and univers ally admired than monoy. In fact, it is considered tho thing altogether dosirod, and to obtain it many w ill go through all kinds of toil and hardships imaginable. They will oven commit the most heinous crimes. Everybody is after monoy, and the great desire to gain it often ends in a total fail 11 ro to accomplish tho desired end. About tho first question a youth asks when ho gets old euongh to think about tho futuro is: "How can I get monoy, and how can 1 get rich?" There are two ways of getting rich. One is by industry and economy, and tho other is by dis honesty. Riches accumulated by industry, economy aud judicious investments never detracts from a man's dignity nnd self- respect, but carry with them Happiness, contentment and a clear conscience, and leave no regrets. Tho trno secret is, 'Make haste slowly." In getting monov it does not mako so much difference as to what kind of business a mau engages in, for any businoss will pay if attended to prop- orly. No man should embark in nny business to which ho is not adapted; but when he docs make his selection he should go in with a steady and de termined purposo to win, and succoed by constant and persistent labor, romeuibor- 111K that "little by little Is tuo snre way to succeed, and out of that littlo a little should be saved. Romomloring also that it is by what we save that wo get rich, aud not by what we make. A man may make a million a year, and if he spends it all ho will ho no better off at tho end of tho year than at tho begin ning; whilst tho man who makes five hundred a year and saves but ten dollars is cetting rich. Tho man at thirty who can save fivo dollars a month, and invest the samo m real ostate, is lu a fair way to bo in easy circumstances when ho reaches his fiftieth year. No man has yet livod who saved his money and in vested it in real estate that did not make money. Thoreforo, tho true and only certain way of getting money is by industry, economy, saving, and investing in real estate; and tho man who follows this rulo is sure to win. ' What Rattlesnakes are (Joed For. It may not bo generally known to our readors that snuko poison is used for modicinal purposes in theso days; and that, under tho name of "Ciptalus Hor- ridns " the poison of tho ruttlosmiKo is utilized in homoopathio pharmacy. Thompson & Capper, ol Liverpool, hav ing recently imported a number 01 rat tlesnakes, abstracted tho venom from tho livo animals in tho following in cenious manner: Tho roptilos were in separate compartments of a case fitted with a thick India-rubbor noose at ono end, which could be loosenod or tight cnod by the hand at pleasure, was insorted through the partially opened lid, aud tho opportunity quickly seized by slipping the noose over tho snako's head, tho loop being immediately drawn tight by moans of tho oord thoroto. With a similar contrivance tno tail was next fastened, and tho snako boing so curolv held, was lifted out of tho box to tho floor of the room. A pickle bottle containing chloroform was then thrust oyer the snake's head, and carefully hold in its place by keeping time with the an imal's efforts to extricate itsolf. As tho reptile became stupefied tho nooso. was gradually relaxod to enabio tno lungs 10 have fuil play; and, when it appeared powerless, tho snako was laid in a narrow box mado for this purpose, with an apor ture at 0110 end. in which its head was fixed whilo tho after oporation was per formod. Its jaws were then oponod and flxnd. niul the poison elands were pressed open with forceps and tho gloved finger and thumb, while a small graduated phial .was held to receive tho drops as t, , , 1 , ii 1. t. tney OOZOil siowiy out uiruugu mo fangs. Twenty drops was tho avorago quantity yielded from each snako. Tho venom is 'of a straw .color, thick aud gummy in consistency! and decidedly acid in its re action on litmus papor. It is readihly solublo in clvcerine or water. Its toxi- cological properties wero fully triod on a variety of auiinuls. Half a drop pro duced death on a linnet within three minutes after being injected under tho wing. The symptoms produced in U1 cases aro very similar. When a Man's a Coward. "It's nstonishin', " remarked the old fortv-niner this moruinjr as ho nodded over his glass to our ro porter; "It's nstonishin' what a cow ard a man is ut homo a reg'lar crawlin' sneak, by Jove! I vo trav clod a good bit, and held up my nd in most 0' tho camps on tho coast senso '40. I've got three bullets in side o' 1110. I'vo shot an' boon shot at. mi' never heard nobody say I hadn't us good grit as most i'cllci that's coin'. But ut homo I'm a ky- oto. Al'oro I'd let tho olo woman know that her hot biscuits wasn't A 1 when it's liko stiff amalgam, I'd fill myself us full as a retort. I've done it lots o' times. Most o' my teeth is gone from tnggin' on beefsteaks that tho old woman hud fried. D'yo think I roar out and cuss when I go over a chair in tho dark? Ao, sir, Whilo I'm rubbin' my shins nn kecpin' back tho tears, I'm likewise aweatin' fur fcur the olo woman has been woko bv tho unset. It didn't use to bo so," sighed tho poor fellow, thouerhtfullv. rubbiutf his shining scalp. "When we was first hitched I thought I was tho superintendent, but alter a year or two of argyin' . . . T ...... I. .1 .1 t A I. , . ! n ' lliat plllv A BCIWOU uunu siiutiu the car at low wares. lean lick any man o' mv aire nn' size," cried the old trcntlcman, banging the saloon table with his wrinkled fist. I'll shoot, knife, stand up, or rough and tumble for coin, but when I bang my hat on the peg in the ball, an' take off my muddy boots, an near the 010 woman ask if thats me, I tell you the starch comes right out o' me." I irgima (Art'.) Chronicle. A .New Tructsi lu Printing. A process of printing many colors at ono impression is said to bo in suooessful operation in Paris. The following ac count from The Iron gives a fair popular notion of its nature: "Tho pigment for tho ground colors is formed into a solid block of tho required thickness, to tho surfaco of which tho dosign, traced in artificial tale, is transferred by mere pressure All the parte of the block that do not form the ground aro then cut out by hand with a sharp knife set in a jointed parallelogram so as to bo capablo of moving in all directions in a horizon tal piano, but at the same tiuio kept rigidly vortical. Tho spaces thus cut out are then filled by pouring in tho hot liciuid pigmonts corresponding to the colors or shades that are to lie repre sented, pieces of wood, soaked in water, serving to complete tho sides of tho tem porary mould. When cold, thorocently added color is trimmed off by tho knife and another poured in. In tho case of a largo design, scvorol operators aro en gagod at the samo tinio ou different parts, which are afterward fitted to gether; and the method is being tried of cutting out the pattern in wood or metal by the hand-saw, and forcing tho dies so cut out into the block of gronud-color by means of a hydraulic press, thus forming tho pattern at once. When the whole mosuio.jjasitmay be culled, is com pleted, it is pluced in a press somowhat resembling that used for lithography, and tho upper surface is shaved off. So as to render it truo and lovcl. J ho sur faco is also slightly moistened with a suitable combination of chemicals, and tho material to bo printed on is placed thoroon faco downward. A frame carry ing six rollers is then passed once or twice backward and forward over tho material resting on tho block. A per fectly clear impression is thus obtained, and, in tho case of textile fabrics, the color goes completely through thoir sub stance. After exposure for a few mo ments over a hot plato to drive off tho fumes of tho chemicals employed, the work is finished." The Human Race Running to Brain. If there is to bo so much head w ork, what will becomo of us all? If both men and women are to develop more and moro their brains, wo shall soon be not far from tho realization of the words of Diderot, who said: "Wo walk so little, wo work ho littlo, and we think so much, that I do not despair of man finding by boinir nothing but a head." Fignro to yourself civilized man 100 or 200 years honco, when manual lauor snau nave been rtalized, and man, even in tho low est grade of society, shall bo ablo to gain his livelihood by working say throo or four hours out of tho twonty-four. Tho tendoncy, you will observo, is con stantly to reduce tho hours of labor, lu many parts of England, for instance, tho hours of labor are little more than half what they were fifty yoars ago. Imagine, then, tho movement spokon 01 by Didorot constantly progressing, and mau walking less and loss, owing to the in creased facilities of communication and locomotion, and working less and less, owing to tho constantly increasing use ond perfection of machinery, and think ing moro and moro out 01 tno pure dis traction nnd out of tho ennui of civili zation I Imagine woman, thanks to tus realization of the project of Mr. Camilla Hoe, and to the establishment of Girton Colleges all over tho world, imagine woman walking ovon less tnau sue does now, working loss, and tninking moro and more I W hat shall we come to, groat Darwin? Does not the thoory of evolution point to the iuovitablo realiza tion of Diderot's words? Will not our logs wither awav and return to the rudi- montary stage uko onr vans r w m uoi our arms nnd bodies diminish, and muscles for which thero is no longor any uso, dry up, and their elements be ab sorbed by the brain and head, which will acquire the phenomonal proportions of a. creaturo ? rorisian. How SItite Pencils are Mado. Itr-nlimi nlnlii from the nuarrios is tint into a morter run by steam.and pounded into small particles. 'Ihonce it goes into tho hopper 01 a mill, wiiicii runs into a bolting machine such as is usod in flouring mills, where it is bolted into lino, almost inpalpable flour that results being takon to a mixture tub, wiicre a small quantity of slatite flour manufac tured in a similer manner, is added, and tho wholo is thon mado into a stiff dough. Tho dough is kneoded toughly, by passing it several times between iron rollers. Thence it is conveyed to a table whero it is mado into chargesthat is, shart cylinders, four or five inches thick, and containing iron from eight to twelve pounds each. Four of theso aro placed in a strong iron chamber or re tort, with a chamber nozzles, so as to regulate tho sizo of tho pencil, and sub jected to a tremendous hydraulic press ure, under which tho composition is pushed through tho nozalo in a long cord, like a slender snako sliding out of a holo, and passing over a sloping table slit at right angles with the cords to give passage to a knifo which cuts them into leugths. They are then laid on boards to dry, nnd after a few hours are re moved to sheets of corrugated zinc, the corrugations serving to prevent the pen cils from warping during tho process of baking, to which tney are suujecteii in a kiln, into which superheated steam is in troduced in pipes, the temperature being regulated according to the requirements of the article exposed to its influence. From tho kiln tho articles go to tho finishing and sacking room, whore the ends are thrust for a second under rapidly revolving emery wheels, and withdrawn neatly and smoothly pointed ready for use. They are packed in pasteboard boxes, each containing 100 pencils, and these boxes in turn are packed in wooden boxes containing 100 each, or 10,000 pencils in a box. Nearly all the work is done lmys, and the cost therefore is light. Manufacturer and builder. Mr. P. T. Barnum enjoys a circus per formance as much, watches the feats as intently, laughs at tho clown as heartily, and applauds as vigorously as it boy. But w hen it comes to crawling under the canvass without getting canght, the boy can give him points. Send your kitten to Beecher. He says it is a crime which heaven will never for give to drown them.