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EUGENE CITY GUARD. E.I CAM KM Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. ' It is found that nearly every kind of glass, especially that containing xnangenese, is liable to a change of color by the action of the sunlight, "but can be restored to its original color by beat. Stained glass in win dow! that has changed tint through volar action can thus be restored by heat Aluminum is coming into una as a material for dental plates. It is nearly as light as rubber, but little more than one-eighth the weight of gold ; baa neither odor nor taste; is not af fected by the elements of food or the secretions of the mouth, and coats, bulk for bulk, about one-sixth the present price for silver. TELEGRAPHIC. An.Kj'itonb or tub Tuincipal Evkxts New Atthactino Tublio Ixtuhiut. One of the most curious of the safety appliances for theaters is the iron curtain which has just been put Into the Theater Francais, in Paris. The curtain is of sheet iron, stiffened by braces of iron aid decorated by canvass attached to it. It is worked hydraulically, the valves arranged so as to be operated by electricity. It is pointed out by a writer in the Manufacturer's Gazette that all com pounds for improving steel and re storing burned steel are useless. Good steel cannot be improved ; burned stool is good for nothing and cannot be restored. The same writer also condemns all compounds for remov ing scale from boilers, and advises that they be let alone. The reoent tearing down of a New Hampshire manufactory by means of dynamite demonstrates a new use for the explosive. The concussion com pletely separated the bricks and did not seem to injure them in the leapt. The charges were put ia holes dug in the foundation under the brick walls, and the number of cartridges was graded according to the number of bricks in the wall to be demolished. A SAY or two since Mrs. Tom Shaft" died, and was buried on Cow Creek, Logan county, W. Va. After the ceremony the minister publicly in vited any couplo who wished to be joined in matrimony to step forward, whereupon Shall" and a thirteen-year-old girl named Mary Browning topped out of the funeral train and were united in marriage. Shaft" is fifty-seven years old. The affair created quite a sensation. Miss Parloa, the celebrated authsr of cook-bottks and lecturer on cookery, dined the other day with a Pittsburg lady who had especially prepared a salad for her distinguished guest, but which the latter scarcely tasted. 4'Misa Parloa, don't you know that that salid is made strictly after your recipe?" the hostess asked. ' '"Yes," replied Miss Parloa, "and that's why I'm afraid to eat it. I have told peo ple how to make a great many things that would give me nightmare for a ureek if I ato them." A bkgihtkkkl) letter came to Saccarappa, Mo., the other day, di' reeled to Joseph Landry. Now, there are three owners of that name in Saccarappa, each of whom was sure the letter was for him. The contest waxed warm, and an interpreter was called in, before whom the respective reasons of the claimaiuts wore argued. Finally tho letter was opened, and found to contain nothing but a small bill, which none ' of the three wanted. A medical journal status that new experiment have changed old theories upon the best methods of treating frostbites. ' A physician froio sixty dogs into a condition of completely suspended animation. Twenty of these were treated by . the usual method of gradual resuscitation in a cold room, and of these fourteen per ished ; twenty were treated in a warm apartment, and eight of these died; while of the remaining twenty, which were put at once into a hot bath, all recovered. Navigators in Central Africa know that boats of iron and steel quickly corrode in tropical waters, while those made of wood art attacked by white ant. A missionary society has there fore built a steam canoe for Lake Nyassaof the comparatively new al loy koowq as Delta metal, which re tiata corrosion, is light and as strong aa steel. The vessel ia twenty-one (eot long, with a beam of seven and a oVpth of three feet, and draws only siiUin fwt of waUr with r-ngiue and boiler uu board. The loss by the burning of the con vent in New York is now etirnaled at $550,000 j insurance, f 130,000. The main buildinfr of Wells' col lege at Aurora, N. Y., was burned. The low is over $200.000 ; insurance $100,000. The new Catholic church at Cole man, Wis., collapsed, killing one man and crushing seven others so badly that several may die. Edward Hanlan, Jr., a young son of Hanlan, the oarsman, of Toronto, Canada, while playing with matches, set fire to his clothes and was burned to death. A passenger train ran into the rear end of a freight at Darlington, Ohio, badly damaging the passenger loco motive and breaking several cars. Nobody was hurt. The Mackintosh sampling works at Sandy, fourteen miles south j)l Salt Lake, was burned. The loss is aboul $25,000, insurance $10,000. Toe cause of the fire is unknown. For the second time in three years a large part of the business portion of T.iii'l.flnM f!nnn.. 1ms been burned. Tho lire destroyed several business blocks. A fira broke out in the Caldwell- Grillith block, on Market street, be tween Sixth and Seventh streets, at Chattanoogt. Tenn.. and destroyed $100,000 worth of property. The wholesale agricultural imple ment houre rf Martin fc Co , and Kinymnn & Co.. in Peoria. 111., were burned. Loss, $120,000: insurance, $120,000. Thecottaeeof J. D. McCarthy, at the Mount Tabor Methodist camp meeting grounds, at xNewara, jn.j., waB burned. Two children and the mother were burned to death. A boardine house and store at Went, Clurlr-ston. W. Va.. was burned, .ukI Mm. Wallace and son Simon. aged 30, were cremated. Robbery, murder and arson are suspecteu. Deacon Loverinsr. acred W. and bis sister, Mrs. Richardson, of Greenfield, Mass., were instantly killed by Dgni ninz. Their farm house and out buildings were burned. Information was received at Tuc son, Ariz., that two men were killed between Crittenden and Huncb.ua, and that the deed was supposed to have been the work of Indians, ine men killed were Mexican vaqueros. While Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was riding in a victoria in Bellvue avenue at Newport, K. 1., the carriage whh run into bv a docroart. and Mrs. Vanderbilt thrown out. She sus tained serious injuries. George Metzinger, who waa the chief instigator in the Chicago bomb iQkers, and connected wiih the Hay market riot, died in an insane asylum at Jefferson, 111., redantly. No one claimed his body and it was used for dissecting purpose?. Adolph Harman, a German em ployed as a clerk in Morford, Brown & Co's store, at Long Branch, N. J., tried to shoot Mrs. Hayes, his mother-in-law, and then killed his wife and himself at highlands of Navesink, in the woods back of Twin lighthouse. While Officers Jones and Rosenberg were attempting to make an arrest at a house on Lafayette street, in Louis ville, Ky., which has been notorious for crimes committed there, both were Btabbed to death by Charles Dilger, formerly private policeman and watch man. At Moose Lake, near I)uluth,Minn., Japp Cox, a well-to-do farmer, shot and instantly killed his 14 year-old son. The father was testing a Win chester rilK1, wheu it was accidentally discharged, the bullet penetrating the boy s head, Nancy Railing, a colored woman living at Norfolk, Va., who has been sick for some months, has vomited a living frog, nearly as long as a finger, and almost white from long depriva tion frum light. It is supposed that some lime ago the woman swallowed a tadpolo. During a heavy gale the sloop Flora B. capsized near New Castle, Dal. She had on board, Mr. Elijah Wheaton, Mrs. Johnathan Turner. Mr. Saml. Wheaton and daughter, 0 years of age, and Mrs. Thomas Finue gan, all of whom were drowned. Jennie Woolver, a domestic on a farm near Woodland, Miss., was shot aad killed by George Moons, aged 20 years, who then blew his brains out. Moons lately returned from Colorado, and it is supposed thatt he killed tho girl because she was soon to be mar ried to another man, and refused his tuiL Three young mon Soloman Reid, aged lo years, Wm. Lawrence, aged lit, and the third name unknown, were drowued in the Est river, opposite Sixtn. street, in New York, from a boat which was upset by the wash from a ferryboat. They tried to swim ashore in a strong tide, and their five companions were rescued after cling ing to the boat's keel for half an hour. The locomotive of a west-bound Chicago express on the Erie road jumped the track near Coming, N. Y., and dashed into a Lehigh Valley lo comotive standing on the track. The passenger locomotive overturned and cnuhid to death John Mercereau of lloruellsville, the engineer. Tho fire man eoax'J. Henry Fisher, the Ie-l-.igh engineer, was hurt about the head. Two baggage tars and a smoker were wricked. Several pa vuvis were badly shaken up. AGRICULTURAL Devoted to tub IxteiikmthofEabmeiui and Stockmen, Strawberry Vlne. Now that tho strawberry crop has been taken off, tho success of next year largely depend on the treat ment given the vines from now until the winter comes on. There are two modes of cultivation, the first being the removal of all vines except one on a space, which is known as a "single stool" plan, and the other is the close matting of the vines in rows, the rows being about one foot wide, with room between the rows for cultivation. The total oat crop of this country in 1887 was 659,000,000 bushels. Illi nois took the lead in this crop with 109.000,000; Dakota raised 37,000,000 bushels. A stock company with a capital of $2,000,000, equally divided between English and Minnesota capitalists, proK)ses,to ship wheat direct to Liver pool by way of the lakes. The prin cipal object of this new plan is to avoid the mixing in transfer elevators, hitherto found so hard to prevent. Mr. W. P. Atherton, whose success ful applo culture is mentioned in the Maine Pomological Report, urges set ting the trees of each chosen variety by themselves, instead of scattering promiscuously through the orchard ; and he refers to several sons' highly recommended and planted freely, whish experience compelled him to root out. To show the numerous sources from which potatoes are received in New York City, it may be stated that dur ing a single day recently the following lot were received: By Rotterdam steamer, 610 sacks; Amsterdam steamer, 1.551 sacks; Hamburg steamer, 3,928 sacks; Stettin steamer, 2.7G1 sacks; Nova Scotia schooners, 12,444 bushels, and by Prince Edward Island schooners, 13,147 bushels. A South Jersey asparagus grower says that growers fifty miles north are often earlier with their first shipments, because as soon as the ground is in fit condition in the spring they throw a light furrow from the suuny side ol the row in the morning and throw it back again toward night, thus letting in the sun to the crown of the plant. He Chinks the extra price received does not pay for the labor expended, however. A New England paper says: "Oleo margarine is not selling so well this year aa in past seasons, as its true character is known by customers. This bogus stuff never would have met a l.i rge market, offered under its true colors. Only by a series of deceptions has it been sold better last year, and is selling better this season, by reason of the wholesome restrictions upon the sale of filthy substitutes." A writer in an English journal dis cussing poultry matters, says: "Cross bred chickens are less liable to disease. They grow rapidly. Individuality is not wholly lost by crossing. The lay ing qualities of several breeds, and of poultry generally, will be improved by crossing. Cros-bred fowls will, as a rule, attain a greater size than if pure bred. An additional point for English poultry-men is made of the fact that damp soil, which is fatal to the Dork ing the favorite English breed would not militate against the produce of a cross with that breed." Plums and otner similar fruits may be grown in every part of this wide country, where tho trees will with stand the climate without any dam age from the plum curculio, by spray ing the trees with the arsenical poisons, Paris green and London purple, one pound of either to fifty or sixty gal lons of water, through th use of the spraying pump. First spray the trees just before the blossom buds open ; second, two weeks after the beetles fly. If a weak soap emulsion is used at these sprayings to mix the poisons, it will also destroy the leaf lice, aphis, bugs and all other insects injurious to the frnit and the foliage. Then a third spraying about June 10, and the fruit is safe. Salt gathers on tho outide of but ter, writes Prof. Arnold, because of the evaporation of water contained in the brine formd by the salt added for seasoning tho butter, tho brine being crowded out of the butter by con traction from change of temperature. It occurs when too much moisture is left in buttir when working it, and when there is so much water in the composition of butter that it separates freely and forms an excess of brine when salt is added. In tho latter case the butter contracts from the liberation of moisture without change of temperature, just as curd contracts from the liberation of it whey by the action of rennet, or aa lean meat con tracts by separation of it moisture from tho application cf salt. The Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, ha just received from Europe a consignment of choico silk worm eggs which he will distribute gratuitously to all persons who desire to raise silk worm and who are so situated that they can do so satisfac torily. He will also be able to furnish books of instructions in silk-culture before the sericullural season com mences. For two season he has been purchasing cocoons from Amercan silk growers at an average price of 95 cents per pound. All, therefore, who seek a market for their cocoons or who wish silk-worm eggs, or bonks of instruction or infornulun of any rt in relation to the industry can obtain the same, frt of charge, iiHin application to Hon. Norman J. Col man, Conimiioiur vt Agricul tuie, Washington, D. C. COAST CULLINGS. Devotkd Principally to Washington Tkrritouy and California. Charles Rnssellor, a recent arrival from the East at Sacramento, Ca)., was accidentally drowned wbile nam ing in the river. The Brown house, one of the finest buildings in Phoenix, Arix , caught fire, and was totally destroyed, owing to a scarcity of water. Loss, $35,000 insurance, $13,000. Fire destroyed Loach's large plan ing mill and the Poiueer Box Com pany's factory at Marysville, Cal. The loss is estimated at $30,000, and well insured. " James Featherstone, a schoolboy 14 year of age, while bathing with a number of companions at San Fran cisco, got beyond his depth and was drowned. His body was found by a boatman. Charles Harvey, known as "Big Charley," an employe at the Borden farm near Maderia, Cal., wa found dead iu the reservoir at the ranch. He had gone to water stock, and was subject to fits. A little child of Hollis Edwards, living three miles from Walla Wall, W. T., while playing in the yard with its brothers and sinters, tripped and fell head first into a small hole in the yard, bieaking its neck. Ernest Vansant, a young man 21 years of age, while bathing in Putah creek near Dix n, Cal., ventured be yond his depth and was drowned. Several companions witnessed his lust struggles but were powerless to reuder him timely assistance. A young woman known as Sheller or Ida Benson, originally of San Francisco, arrived at Phoenix, Ariz., from Prescott. She started for El Paso to visit her alleged husband, but died suddenly on the train. No cause being r scribed, death is supposed to have been the result of heat. Nicholas Frederick shot and fatally wounded his son at Virginia, Nev. Father and eon had an altercation, be cause the latter and his sister attended a ball at a neighbor's. The father at tacked the son and the latter ran out of the house, when the father shot him with a revolver. The body of Mrs. Rachael Frazier, who had been missing for several days, was found in a canyon on Cedar mountain, fourteen miles from Liver more, Cal. She started from her ranch to go to Livermore, and evi dently lost her way. The woman was quite prominent as an army nurse during the war of the rebellion. The sloop yacht Thetis, the favorite yacht of the Corinthian fleet, was wrecked on the rocks just outside Port Point near San Francisco. She is now alongside the wharf. She waB hauled off the rocks and towed into port. Her rudder is gone and there is a big hole in her bottom. It is thought ome miscreants cut her loose for sport or for spite. A young man named Gene Drake committed suicide at Riverside, Cal. He was lying on a lounge in his par ent's house, reading a newspaper. His father and mother went out of the room a few minutes, and returning found that he had shot himself through the head. He must have died in stantly. No chubo is assigned for the deed. An east-bound overland passenger train ran off the track near Siberia station about 100 miles west of Needles, Ariz. The entire train was derailed but no body was injured, ex cept a few bruises and scratches to Borne of the passengers, caused by a broken truck on the baggage car. Louise Parker, 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Dr. Cown, was drowned at Anaheim landing, twelve miles from Anaheim, Cal. In company with a party of children she started out to gather clams on the beach of the creek and accidentally fell into deep water. Several of the children tried to rescue her, but failed. Mrs. Robert Nelson, a widow resid ing on Schoolcraft island, near Rio Vista, Cal., was fatally burned and died in a few hours. She was at home alono and was found by a neighbor outside, but very near the house, with every stitch of clothing burned off, and her body and lower linibi fear fully burned. Some boys swimming in the arm near Victoria, B. C, found on the shore a pair' of pants, vest and coat, also blood on the rocks. Ia the pockets were found letters addressed to W. M. Culby, headed "Dear Father" signed J. W. Crawley. The letters show the writer to be connected with a citcus, selling lemonade. The police are looking into the matter. Mrs. Murphy, of Fresno, Cal., Bent her 13 year old son to stake out a cow near the house. The boy not return ing toward night the mother went out to search for him, and found him a short distance from home lying on his face insensible, and suffering from a gunshot wound through his head. The boy rallied enough to charge the shooting on a Mexican boy named Etio. Enos ha been arrested. Murphy's wound is fatal William Odell, partner of the young man Nelson, who fatally shot himself a short time ago, committed suicide by hanging himself with a pocket handkerchief from a branch of a tree at Hangman's creek, near Spokane Fall", W. T Odell, who was a rail road laborer, became despondent after the death of hi pal and left a note to say that he had crossed the dark river to join the spirit of bis departed com rade. Deceased hail hunt Minn mlU, wh re he have a wife and aivi ral children. MARKET REPORT. Reliable Quotations Carefully Re vised Every Week. WHEAT- Valley, $1 22$1 23 Walla Walla, $1 15 1 18. BARLEY Whole, $1 101 121 ; ground, per ton, 325 0027 60. OATS Milling, 3035c ; feed, 44 45c. HAY Baled, $10$12. SEED Blue Grass, 14J16c. ; Tim othy, 9$10a; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00 ; Csuntry Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per dox, 18c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound, 25c; pickled, 2025c; inferior grade, 15 253. CHEESE Eastern, 16 20c; Ore gon, 1416c; California, 14 jc VEGETABLES Beets, per sack, $1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2$o. ; carrots, persk., $1 25; lettuce, per doz. 20 j.; onions,$l 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 90c. $1; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ; rhubarb, per lb., 6c. HONEY In comb, per IK, 18c; strained, 5 gal. tine, per lb. 8c. POULTRY Chickens, per doz.. $5 006 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00 7 00; geese, $6 008 00; turkeys, per lb., 12 Jc. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12Jc per lb.; Eastern, 1313c; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12 Jo. per lb. ; Oregon 1012c; Eastern lard, 10lljc per lb.; Oregon, lOc. GREEN FRUITS Apples, $ 60 85c; Sicily lemons, !fG 006 50 California, $3 505 00; Naval oranges $6 00; Riverside, $4 00;, Mediterra nean, $4 25. DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap ples, 7 Jc. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 11c; pitiess plums, 13c,; Italian prunes, 1014c ; peaches, 1214c; raisins, $2 40 2 50. WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon. 9 15c HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c; culls, 67c; kip and calf, 810s.; Murrain, 10 12c; tallow, 33ic LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00; edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G. sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4 8, per M, $22 50 ; No. 1 flooring, per M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M, $22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50 ; stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12 inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, extra, $4 00; 1J lath, per M, $2 25; li lath, per M, $2 50. SALT Liverpool gradea of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three Bizes ; stock salt, $10. BEANS Quote email whites, $4 50; pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; Limas, $4 50 per cental. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17c; Costa Rica, 1820c; Rio, 1820c; Java, 27c ; Arbuckle's's rsasted, 22c. MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33c; dressed, 6c; sheep, 3c; dreeed, 0c; hogs, dressed, 89c; veal, 78c PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels ; Golden C,6fc ; extra C, GJc. ; dry granulated, 7fc. ; crushed, fine crushed, cube and powdered, 8c. ; extra C, 5c ; halves and boxes, $c. higher. ELEGANT BUT COSTLY. Charming Noveltle In Jewelry for the Lucky Owner of Dank Account. A handsome bracelet consists of sev en alternate diamonds and rubies, each in a separate box sotting, and all mounted on a knife edge band of Ro man gold. A tasteful pattern in a child's ring consists of a number of small tur quoises, set at equal distances all around a plain golt band, having slightly raised edges. A hollow ball of gold, having stars and leaves pierced through the shell and set with smull jewels, makes an ornamental top for a single prong ladies' hair-pin. A six pointed star sot with small diamonds radiating from a central cat's-eyo, and overlapping a similar star set with rubies, is a pleading pat tern in brooches. A very pretty brooch represents three entwined garlands of flowers. The blossoms are in colored enamels, and the Roman gold of the wreaths proper can just be seen between them. An irregular scroll of enameled gold filigree, in which the principal curve start from rubies, the whole enehvled by a diamond paved silver ribbon, make a very handsome brooch. Small hammered gold paint tube fastened together, side by side, with platinum links, make a bracelet which will probably find favor in the eyes of customer with artistic tendencies. A pretty design etched on a child's silver mug represents a party of juve nile merry-makers, some gaily dancing about a May pole while others stroll about and pluck the early blossoms. A tasteful design in sleeve links U In theformof an oval havlngtwo platinum and two dull gold quarter. In the center is engraved a Maltese cross, in which are set a ruby and a sapphire. An odd design In ring represents the familiar "hook and eye," hereto fore saered to feminine garment. One end of the shank st with rubie repre sents the hook and enters the emerald stud ied eye.WiKYTj' WuUy. f n so uow me imioirrHph All,d . I r..r.i..Xp;LJ At tnis stiijro of the cam,,,; ami Mii,!..,.!.!...! ... mi'J!r; .. .... "'"Keu, signal service, and to thin end cd tho Cliiuf Signal Ollla.r to him with a detail of men from to report to the comroandin. i' of the Department of Arizona l' tary signal duty in the stations were located on the l peaks along the line of coramutl Each station was equipped wfo two to four operators, BccordjL amount of business which through it Ia addition to thj ators there wore lookout tt(J swept the surrounding comv neighboring peaks with pow ' glasses. While on duty, 0pew ' lookout men were guards h, Bircngin oi w men depended p. location of the station, haviJ ence to its liability to nUack; tiles. Messngos were transmitted, to peak and down in the y!'.' what is known us the hc!i system of signals. The hdio sun-writer, coiwists ol an arraV of mirrors mounted on a trip adjusted as to enable the op th: ow a flash of reflected sun! distant point with mathemat:,! noss. In muking signals long fc: sun-flashes takolhoplaceaofiht and "dashes" of themapwio,, tho same call being u.ed fr strumonts. in a clear utmost1 nals made by this instrument -j enyly read by tho naked eve t tanco of eighty miles, and by a; operator at the rate of fiftoa per minute. loand fro ncross the ntfr lower mountain ranges flitted!! sages which told of the recent t. about of the hostiles, and c!o the heels of those mcwagescaa ordering the troops in pursuit I presume it would be a difi to try to imagine the surprue t Indians felt when they sudk that they could not move with; Ing that almost immediately ti, would be cut by scouting cavib saw the light of the heliogrspt ing across tho valleys, but the;:; at first comprehend iU to canee. At last they began tot those flashes with the fact 1 were constantly being pressnij:. as.-!ed, and within two weelBk date of the establishment of t gruph they fled southward ir Sonora border, there to mi: chased back again by Captain li to tho place of surrender. For nearly two months Moi flight of the hostiles into llcii sound came back from the ik the Siorra Mudres, into whose pursued and pursuer had&ayf At. last, on a scorching hot it near the close of August, U courier galloped into Iibbeo-r lis tiwn nesir the border with Kp.'iis ligence that Geronimo and bt in the mountains about twrir from Frontoras, Mex., wishinj". with the authorities of Sojot. There was a helioginj U! Iiisbee, and the Information tarA 'HI by the "Greaser" Was HaiMrr ft to Fort Bowie, seventy-hvemii' Within two hour from the tit arrival of the Mexican courier, bee five troops of cavalry ' forced marches on Fronted Geronimo had escaped from: that the United Slates troops woave around him at Fronv was flying eastward, pursued cavalry In the field, a 'hi alonir the line that negotut been opened looking to the ' of the hostiles. t'onsequw'; nal-men were on the tip-we aney. One evening about the lw; the operators at a station toi helm mountains were nodi under the shelter of their tent suddenly from the highest ? Chiricahua range came the heliograph, and the following was received: "Send a bitekboard torn'1 White's ranch. I shall be : to-night and shall bring with me." This is the modest manner General Miles announced the of Geronimo. That the emp. the heliograph was a na1 factor in bringing the casr' speedv and successful issue i; conceded.-Srf. ' 1 ville Courier-Journal. Two Parlor Pardo' Two interesting phy?-. are amusing French seienti the first a lighted candle r hind a bottle, and the upon with the breath froo about a foot. The meetitf currents set in motion aro quickly extinguishes the 3; extinction would be im!-"' board or sheet of carJl jitnt,H for the bottle. ir ' sxperiment two bottles . .. ... f hull tame, witn a ei i" - . them. The canu.e this space, and from the i before, on the on-" breath Is blown smartly -flame, Not only will th ;W burning, but it will "Ji T he l Ire ward the operator, as if ti ... , . h- .ffi-t nf auction. inu ' inalogous to the first, is dint a portion of the air between the bottle a iround them and back t porimentor.-J'-'-"' Toronto will try t- I'un-lYobytoriun coU'i 1