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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 20, 18S2.
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THE TWO ROM:.
I sonil two roie3 to my fair,
A. redone ii!ii a white,
And if she love mo, she v ill wear
The pure white rose to-nigh
But if my love deny me s;rav,
To biit mv hope be dead.
In her sweet bo.soiu she will place
The fat"! one, the red one.
In hope and fear the day I spend,
Each moment eiowly g.Hs,
For all m future doth lejontl
Upon a simple rose
' Oh, that the night wotild come," I
Then vrlh 'twere only noon:
For me, if hope 1h-doomed "to die.
The night will come too soon.
igh,
She corner ! and with her comes -a breath
. Of roses on t lie Air;
. And be it lile or be it death,
I look ajHu my fair.
- " I see the white ro e on her breast,
The red rose on her cheek;
What need of words to tell the rest,
So plain the roses speak !
Chicago Tribune.
Sau Francisco.
' Somebody has poked fun at San Fran
cisco ly calling it "The Venice of the
"West." and then qualifying the conipli
liient by explaining that the only resem
blance between the two cities is in the
volume and variety of the disagreeable
smells that prevail in them. Uut the
San Franciscans take no notice of this
explanation. They accept the conipar-
ison in its broadest sense and positively
expect you to see a resemblance between
their very wonderful but very new and
very ragged town and Vonice! Indeed,
there is no limit to the San Franciscan's
expectations from a stranger. No ex
cess of admiration ever becomes flattery.
They will cooly accept every word yon
say, and even then will think you have
not risen to the whole truth about "the
Golden City,""the Queen of the Pacific,"
etc., etc., and perhaps go awav after all
with a loftv sort of commiseration for
vour rustic incapacity to grasp all at
once the metropolitan splendors of San
Francisco.
Now, I was sitting in the hotel one day
and overheard a party of San Fran
ciscans bragging in an off-hand way to a
poor wretch who had been brought up in
New Mexico or somewhere like it, and
calmly assuring him that there was no
place "in ihe world" of greater beauty
than San Francisco and of more delicious
fruits. (They said a great deal more
about fine buildings, institutions, Sic,
.vc, which was sh?er nonsense, but let
all that pass. I venture to attack them
only at their strongest points.) Hearing
the conversation, and being inwardly
exasperated at the imposition that was
being put upon the simple minded bar
barian, I pretended to fall into the same
easy credulity myself and drew them on
to making such monstrous assertions as
that San Francisco was a revelation of
beauty to every tourist and the perfec
tion of its fruit a never-ceasing delight
o him. Having these grossly ignorant
men thoroughly committed to what they
had said, I ventured to inquire what
standard of comparison they had for their
self -laudation, what other countries they
had visited and what fruits they cousid-.
ered California produced in such per
fection. Now, it is a fact that these
three impostors had never been
out of America; in fact, that except for
short visits on business to the Eastern
States they had never been out of Cali
fornia and Nevada! I then proceeded to
enlighten them told them that to those
who liave traveled, to the cognoscenti,
San Francisco does not appear at all
beautiful; that on the contrary it is a
groat disappointment; that in America
itself there are rnany places far more
beautiful, whila "in the world" there
are scores of seaports with which San
Francisco can no more venture to com
pare itself than a mud-pie can with a
meringue. As for its fruits, there was
not in its market now, in its best shops
and the height of the fruit season, too
a single thing that deserved to be
called first-class. From the watery
cherrie3 to the woolly apricots, every
fruit was as flavorless as it well could
be, and as a whole they were so second
rate that they could not find a sale in
the best shops of either Paris or Lon
don. This was very rude, I know, but I
found to my surprise that every traveler
in the room had been just as exasperated
as myself by the local habit of exaggera
tion and several of them corroborated
me. It is a great pity that San Fran
ciscans should have this weakness. They
have plenty to be proud- of, for their city
is a marvel. But it has all the disadvan
tages of newness, and in a greater de
gree, too, than any other new places, for
instance Chicago or Denver. Its popu
lation, moreover, is more disagreeably
unsettled than in any other town I know
of except perhaps those on the Levant.
All the mud and dirt are still in suspen
sion, and a very undesirable mixture
they make, too, those half-breed and
hoodlum elements. I have no doubt, of
course, that improvement is making im
mense and rapid strides, but to the visi
tor the act of transition is of course in
visible and he only sees the place at a
period of repose between the last point
of advance and the next. He can im
agine anything he pleases. But this is
not what he actually sees. For himself,
then, I found San Francisco, as so many
other travelers have described ii, dior
derly, breathless with haste, unkempt.
Here and there, where trees have been
planted and there is the grace of flowers
and creeping plants, the streets look as
if rational people might really live in
them. But. for the vast major
ity of the buildings they
seem merely places to lodge in dark
bungalows or rest houses, perches for
passing swallows anything you like ex
cept houses to pass one's life in. They
are not merely wooden, but they are
sham too, with their imposing "fronts"
nailed on to the roofs to make them look
finer (just as vulgar women pin curly
"bangs" on to the tops of- their heads)
and their inexcusable dearth of orna
ment. In many ways the Queen of the Pacific
was a surprise. I had expected to fiud
it "semi-tropical." It is nothiDg of the
kind. Women were wearing furs every
afternoon in June, because of the chill
wind that springs up about ii o'clock.and
men walked about with graet. coats over
their arms ready for use. The architec
ture of the eity'isnotso "semi-trophical"
as that of suburban New York, while
vegetation, instead of being rampart, is
couspicuously absent. Three women out
of every four wore very thick veils, but
why they were so thick I could no dis
cover. In hot countries they do not
wear them, nor iv "semi trophical."
Perhaps they were vestiges of some re
cent visitation of dust, which appears to
be sometimes as prodigious here as it i
in Pietermaritzburg. But they might
very properly have been made an armor
against the flies which swarmed in some
parts of the town in hideous multitudes.
N. Y. Sun.
A Georgia
Corn Shucking.
The farmer who proposes to give a
corn shucking selects a jlevel spot in
his lot, conveniently near: the crib, rakes
away all trash and sweeps the place
clean with a brush broom. The corn is
then pulled aff the stalks, thrown into
wagons, hauled to the lot, and thrown
out on the spot selected, all in one pile.
If it has beea previously, "norated"
through the neighborhood that there is
to be plenty to eat and drink at the corn
shucking, and if the night is auspicious,
therb will certainly be a crowd. Soon after
dark the negroes begin to! come in, and
before long the place will be alive with
them men, women and children. After
the crowd has gathered and been moder
ately warmed up, two j "gin r Is are
chosen from among the most famous
corn shuckers on the ground, and these
proceed to divide the shuckers into two
parties, later comers reportiug alternately
to one side or the other, so as to keep
the forces equally divided. The next
step, Which is one of great importance,
is to divide the corn pile. ; This is done
by laying a fence-rail across the top of
the corn pile, so that the vertical plane,
passing round the rail, "will divide the
pile into two equal portions. Laying
the rail is of great importance, since
upon this depends the accuracy
of the
division ; it is accompanied with
argument, not to say wrangling,
position of the rail i being
much
The
detei
iaount work
mined, the two generals
the corn pile, and the
begins. The necessity for
the
gin r Is ' to pecupy the most conspicu
ous position ' accessible, from which to
cheer their followers, is one reason why
t liey get up on top of the corn ; but
there is another, equally important,
which is to keep the rail from being
moved, it being no uncommon thing for
one side to change the position of the
rail, and thus throw an undue portion
of the work upon their adversaries. The
position of the "gin'rT" in a corn
shucker differs from that of the soldier,
in that the former is in greater danger
than any of his followers; for the chances
are that, should his side seem to be
gaining, one of their opponents will
either knock the. leader off the corn
pile and thus cause a momentary panic,
which is eagerly taken advantage of.
This proceeding, however, is considered
fair only in extreme eases, and not nu
irequently leads to a general row. If it
is possible, imagine a negro man stand
ing upon a pile of corn, holding in his
hand an ear of corn, and shouting the
words of a song belowand j-ou will
have pictured the "corn ginVl." It is a
prime requisite that he should be ready
in his improvisations and have a good
voice, so that he may lead, in the corn-
song. The corn-song is almost always a
song with a chorus, or to use the lan
guage of the com-shucKers, the gin r is
give out," and the shuckers "drone."
These songs are kejjt up continuously
during the entire time the work is going
on, and though extremely simple, yet,
when sung by fifty pairs of lusty lungs,
there are few things more stirring.
October Century.
Root Fruiting.
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The London Garden prints the follow
ing regarding the pruning of roots: The
experiments were made on the apple and
pear. " A vigorous apple tree, eight or
ten years old, which had scarcely made
any fruit buds, has done best when
about half the roots were cut in one sea
son and about half three years later, by
going half way round on opposite sides
in one year and finished j at the next
pruning, working two feet underneath
to sever downward roots, j It has always
answered well also to cut from such
trees all the larger and longer roots
about two and a half feet from the stem,
leaving the smaller and j weaker ones
longer, going half way round, as already
stated. The operation was' repeated
three or four years later by extending
the cut circle a foot or two further away
from the tree. By this operation unpro
ductive fruit trees become thickly stud
ded with fruit spurs and afterward bore
profusely. This stortening of the roots
has been continued in these experiments
for twenty years with much success, the
circle of roots remaining greatly circum
scribed. The best time for the work has
been found to be in the latter part of
August and beginning of September,
when growth has nearly ceased, and
while tho leave are yet on the trees,
causing greater increase of bloom buds
the following year than when performed
after the leaves had fallen.:
The King and the Wasp.
The following is from a correspon
dence entitled, "The Funeral Tent of an
Esrvptiant Queen:" 1
It was desirable in the interest
of science to ascertain whether the mum
mv bearing the monogram of Thothmes
III. was really the remains of that mon
arch. It was, therefore, unrolled. The
inscriptions on the bandages established
beyond all uouut the fact that it wa3 in
deed the most distinguished of kings of
the brilliant eighteenth dynasty, and
once more, after an interval of thirty-six
centuries, human eyes gazed on the fea
tures of the man who had conquered
Syria and Cyprus and Ethiopia, and had
raised Egypt to the highest pinnacle of
her power, so that it was said that iu his
reign she placed her frontiers where she
pleased. The spectacle was of brief du
ration; the remains proved to be in so
fragile a state that there was only time
to take a hasty photograph, and then the
features crumbied to pieces like an ap
parition, and so .passed away from hu
man vision forever. The director told
me that he felt such remorse at the re
sult that he refused to allow the unroll
ing of Ramses the Great, for fear of a
similar catastrophe. Thothmes III. was
the man who overran Palestine with his
armies zvv years oetore the birth or
Moses, and has left us a diary of his ad"
ventures, for, like Ciesar, he was author
as well as soldier. It seems strange that
fr'jough the body mouldered to dust the
flowers with which it had been wreathed
were so wonderfully preserved that even
their color could be distinguished, and
they looked as if only recently dried,
yet a flower is the very type of ephemeral
beauty that passeth away, and is gone
almost as soon as born. A. wasp, which
had been attracted by the floral treasnres,
and had entered the coffin at the mo
ment of closing, was found dried up but
still perfect, having lasted better than
the king, whose em 3lom of sovereignty
it had once beeu; now it was there to
mock the embalmer's skill, and to add
point to the sermon on the vanity of
human r ride and power preached to us
by the contents of that cofiiu. Inexora
ble is the decree, "Unto dust shalt thou
return." Running in the same line of
meditation it is difficult to avoid a
thought of the futility of human de
vices to achieve immortality. These
Egyptian monarchs, the veriest types of
earthly grandeur and pride, whose rule
was almost limitless, whose magnificeut
tombs seem built to outlast the hills,
could find no better method of insuring
that their names should be held in ro
membrance than the embalmment of their
frail bodies. These remain, but in what
a condition, and how degraded in the
uses to which they are put! The spoil
of an ignorant and theiving population,
the pet curiosity of some wealthy Yan
kee, who buys a royal mummy as he
would buy the Sphinx if it were remov
able; "to what base uses art thou come,"
oh body, so tenderly nurtured, so care
fully preserved! How far better to have
mingled with friendly mother earth, and
served the nobler purpose of enriching
other lives in nature's wondrous trans
mutations! Uermaa Peasant Women and American
Invalids.
An American woman expresses her
pain at seeing the German women car
rying on their backs great baskets of
earth, which men filled with their
shovels; and at a Holland woman's pull
ing, by means of a strap across her
breast, a canal boat in which two men
sat smoking, She had also seen women
and dogs harnessed together dragging a
cart in which sat a man, laying his whip
impartially over both wom xn and dog.
Being a woman," she says, "thank God
I was born in America."
It certainly is one of the privileges of
birthright hero that women are not
forced to toil, as the women do whom
she describes. Yet in all probability, so
far as health creates happiness, and hap
piness is almost impossible without
health, the hardy peasant women of
Holland and Germany might not have
much occasion to envy their pitying
American sister. The chances are that
the American woman has scarcely known
since she came of age a whole year of
healthful hearty life; that she has some
ache, some ail, some weakness, brought
on by bad habits of living, imprudent
diet or fashionable clothing; that her
hips are loaded down with several
pounds' weight of skirts; her waist laced
so tight that she can scarcely breathe;
and the heels of her shoes are in the
middle of her instep, and bound to pro
duce, if they have already proJuced
serious physical complications. The
peasant woman's lot is a hard one, but
she has a healthful appetite; and if sho
is killed by toil too severe, it is quite as
likely that her American sister will die,
or live a protracted invalidism, in con
sequence of a too luxuriou and fashion
able existence. J Detroit Free Press.
It would be hard to find a more pitia
ble set of human beings anywhere than
the female emigrants that arrive in this
this country rrom various parts of
Europe. They ae not only ignoraut of
the country, but usually without money
and frequently without heart, and so in
too many instances are the common prey
of sharks and sharpers, who seek to use
them in many evil ways. Castle Garden
is one of the dreariest places on this
earth. Whatever, therefore, Mme. Elise
de Roerber and Lady Jane Taylor or
other ladies can do or conceive looking
to any amelioration of the conditions of
the female emigrant deserves the popular
sympathy of mau aud womankind.
Philadelphia Times.
Venerable white-haired colored ser
vants are the newest craze among fam
ilies who live largely on their pedigrees.
A faue of Immorality.
The hardest class of shop girls to deal
with are those who have seen better days.
In her forthcoming report, Miss Jennie
Collins, manager of Boffin's Bower an
institution organized twelve years ago by
that lady to ameliorate the condition of
unfortunate shop girls and workwomen
generally: has much to say of the eil
effects of the ruinous competition in the
clothing and other business. The
meagre sum paid shop girls in not a few
of the large and small establishments
frequently results in the demoralization
of the purest and best. One prepossess
ing yotiug woman, some two months
siL&ie, reVPted her.oase to Miss Collins as
follows: "I came to make you a little
present of $10. Use it to help some one
else before they get where I am. I had
to earn my living. I tried housework
first. The family's washing was beyond
my strength. I then procured a place in
a shop, commencing with three dollars
a week, with the promise
that at the !enJ of three months my pay
would be increased according to my
ability. At the end of that time I was
discharged, and another novice taken
with the same inducement. My next
place was in a office for $3 a week, and
from that I went, to do up packages of
groceries, with the promise that wlien 1
got used to the business I could make $G
or 7 a week. It was the same old story;
I was discharged and another novice put
in my place. 1 next got a position to
tend in a cheap variety store, with an
advance of 84 a week on this .'stipulation
that I was to dress as well as the other
young ladies. To do this I was obliged
to live upon one meal a day. Half
starved, disheartened and oppressed,
I drifted where I am now."
These are facts; and the
story of this girl is the story of hun
dreds of other girls. The police here
say that Boston has more "drifted'' wo
men to the square acre than any other
city in the country. Crowds of young
women come from Maine, New Hamp
shire and Vermont to get their living,
and, failing it that, on account of starva
tion wages, are tempted, and lead a life
of immorality. The women who apply
.t the Bower for aid are of all classes.
The young and intelligent ones are
easily disposed of. During the past 12
months Miss Collins has furnished over
oOOO meals to destitute girls. She is do
ing a humane work, but her labors are
not half appreciated by the Boston pub
lic. She saves hundred of girls from
death and destruction every year.
Protect the Ulrls.
There is a case coming up before a
Chicago court that will be of great in
terest to thousands of people who have
long desired a decision on some of the
the points that will be developed. It
seems that a young man, a member of
one of tho Chicago clubs, a gentleman of
wealth and refinement, is to be sued by
the father of a young woman for $50,000
damages for injuries received while in
his society. The young people had beeu
keeping company for some years, and
the carriage of the young man was often
seen in front of the Michigan avenue
residence of the young lady. Last De
cember he ceased visitinpr her, and smee
that time she has been an invalid, and
has been treated for a spinal difficulty,
and the father will go into the courts, it
is said, against his daughter's wish, to
have the matter of responsibility settled.
It seems that the voung man is bow-
legged, so much so that it has always
been considered dangerous lor anyone
to sit iu his lap, for fear they would
fall through on tho floor and
break some bones. It is said that the
young man Knows ins rauing, and that
he usually holds any person who may be
in his lap with his arms, so that there is
no danger of falling through, but in this
case he forgot the danger and let the girl
slip. The father claims that the young
man, kiiowing how fearfully and how
wonderfully he is made, should have
adopted precautions, and in his com
plaint he will swear that on several oc
casions he has warned the young man
that he should place a' board across his
lap, or someday his parenthesis legs
would let somebody through. In his
answer to the complaint the young man
will say that his legs are just as nature
made them, and that anybody who sits
in his lap takes the chances. He adds
that if the girl had used all precaution
that one in so dangerous a position
should use, and thrown her arms around
his neck, as others have done, there
need have been no danger, and while he
sympathizes deeply with her and her
family, owing to the alleged injury, he
cannot consider himself responsible. Of
course thero are two sides to every ques
tion, and both sides will have sym
pathizers. f Burlington Hawkeye.
An Omaha correspondent of ihe 19th
instant gives the following, which will
be of interest to tho Christian world,
and particularly the denomination
mentioned. He says: Almost an entire
Pullman car on the Uniou Pacific west
bound train to-day was occupied by
some American .rresoyterian mission
aries, some accompanied by their wives
and families, who are enrouce to various
points in Eastern and Southern Asia.
Rev. D. McGilvary, Mrs. McGilvary and
son are bound for Laos; Rev. E. P.Dun
lap, Mrs. Dunlap and three children, on
their return to the kingdom of Siam,
where they have already spent several
years; Rev. S. C. Peoples, J. P. Hurst
and Mrs. Hurst, go to .Laos; nev. iur.
McLaren and Mrs. McLaren go to Siam;
and Misses Wishard, Warner and Wirt
to Laos; Miss Linnell and Miss Griffin
to the land of tho white elephant; Miss
Hesse and Miss Garvin go to Japan, and
Rev. W. W. Hayes and Mrs. Hayes to
China. The party sailed on the 28th
from San Franoisco.
The Minister Ceased to Wonder.
Appropos of the Egyptian troubles, we
wish to relate a little story, the circum
stances of which occured during our trip
to the Holy Lard several years or more
ago.
He was a devout Christian, and had
maue me study or tne jjidio and a proper
understanding of the Big Book the high
est aim in life.
When he arrived at the Sea of Galilee
his heart was filled with awe, and he felt
enervated and cleansed by the thought
that lie was : gazing on the very spot
where his Savior once stood.
Approaching the boatman, he address
ed him in his choicest Arabic, and with
Bible and commentary in hand he await
ed an answer.
"Ah! what 'smatter 'th yer? Why don't
yer talk United States?" asked the man
contemptuously. He was a real live
Yankee, who was picking up a living by
ferrying tourists across the sen.
"So this is the Sea of Galilee?" de
voutly murmured the searcher after
knowledge.
"Ya-a-s."
"And the is where our Savior walked
upon this waters?"
"Ya-a-s."
"How much will you charge to take
me to the exact spot?"
"Wa-al, you look like a clergyman an'
I don't want to charge you nothin'."'
The devout man boarded the boat, and
at last is pointed out where the miracle
is said to have occurred. After gazing
at the waters and dividing his time be
tween glances at his books and devout
ejaculations of satisfaction, the searcher
signified his willingness to return.
"Charge you $20 to take you batik,"
said the speculative Yankee.
"But you said yon would charge me
nothing.
"Naw, didn't. Nothing to bring you
out. Twenty to get back."
"And do you charge everybody to take
them back?" asked the searcher.
"Y-a-a-s, that's about the figure."
"Well, then," said the devout one,
as he went j down into his clothes,
"no wonder our Savior got out and
walked.' N Y. Dispatch.
The Incisors of tue Horse.
The
down
many
which
incisors of the horse, once worn
or lost, are gone forever, but in
species' a provision exists by
the wear and tear of mastication
is compensated by tho perpetual growth
of certain members of the dental series.
This very convenient arrangement exists
im all the rodents or gnawers, an order
of which the beaver, the rat and the
rabbit are familiar examples, and also in
the elephant, the walrus, wild boar, etc
The incisors of the rodents are tho seat
or tnis perpetual growth, ana any one
who will take the trouble to examine the
skull of a rabbit will at once see how
admirably they are adapted to the animal
wants. They are of curved shape, and
occupy sockets extending to the back
par- of both! jaws, the upper pair de
scribing a larger part or a smaller circle,
and the lower ones a smaller part of a
larger circle. Lach tooth consists of a
solid column of dentine, with a plate of
enamel in its outer surface, and, conse
quently, diminishes in hardness from
front to back, j The constant wear pro
duced by the continual collision of the
opposing" surfaces forms an oblique
chisel-iike surface, sloping from the bard
enamol of the front to the softer dentine
of the back part of Hie tooth. " As these
are perpetually growing, they require
constant exercise to keep their growth
within due bounds, and the rat and
others of this most mischievous family
might assign, as an excuse for their rav
ages, the necessity of finding constant
employment for their front teeth. All
th3 Year Round.
Tne Title or Rall-Splltter.
Mr. Seward was nominated in the. Con
vention by Mr Evarts of New York. Mr.
Lincoln was nominated by Mr. J udd of
Illinois. The nomination of Mr. Lincoln
was seconded ; by Mr. Delano of Ohio,
who said: "I desire to second the nomi
nation of a man who can split rails and
maul Democrats Abraham Lincoln."
This probably joriginated the term "rail
splitter," which immediately became
popular. Decorated and illuminated
rails surrounded the newspaper offices,
and became a leading feature of the cam
paign. "Rail8plitter battalions" were
formed in the different cities and minor
villages of the North. At a great ratifica
tion meeting at Cooper Institute, June
8th. after speeches by Messrs. Evarts,
Blatchford, G.j W. Curtis, General Nye
and Judge Tracey of California, the last-
named said: "We wage no war upon the
South, we harbor no malice against the
South. We merely mean to fence them
in;" (pointing significantly to a rail ex
hibited on the platform) "this is all we
propose to do: to stop the extension of
slavery, and Abe Lincoln has split the
rails to buil 1 the fence. The Century.
Pekpetuaij Ice Snow. The Hon. G.
W. Stapleton returned yesterday from a
business trip I to Glendale, and while
there was told of a lake which a hunter
had seen near! the heawaters of Wise
river about eighty miles south of Butte.
It is situated high up in the mountains
and surrounded by steep crags, and the
water is frozen
solid, notwithstanding
the remarkably
section. The
it never thaws.
warm weather in this
hunter is convinced that
and states that in the
center of this great body of ice is an av
alanche of snow piled up to a great
height, which (has evidently slid down
the crags surrounding the lake. It is de
scribed as a jbeautiful spot, scenery
grand, and the whole country alive with
game. A glorious spot, no doubt2, for a
summer excursion. f Montana Star.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEM8.
William Shakespeare is a booming
politician in Michigan.
Pennsylvania is infested with tramps,
who amuse themselves by burning barns.
It is said that alcohol equal to that
made from grain can bo produced from
acorns.
The city of Ottawa has expended $15,
700 on electric lights, which, after all,
have proved a ail ore.
Richmond, Va., has a debt of $4,741,
707 65, on which she pays an annual in
terest of $303,134 43.
The insignificant youth with a very
large cane looks like a two-inch sparrow -lugging
an eight-inch feather. j
Of 1000 ounces of healthy human
blood 781.5 ounces consist of water and
318.5 ounces consist of solid matter.
Twelve perpendicular feet of water are
annually evaporated irom the surface of
the Red Sea between Nubia and Arabia.
An old Philadelphia druggist says
that no soda water dealer can use genu
ine syrups and charge less than ten cents
glass.
All solid bodies become self-luminous
at about the same temperature, begin
ning to show a dull light at about 1000
degrees.
The greatest pressure of a steam boiler
is at the bottom. The water adds one
pound pressure for each twenty-seven
inches depth.
It is said that 14.000,000 bushels of
sweet potatoes will be raised in Georgia
this season, and how to dispose of the
crop is a problem.
Furnaces in Germany are now beincr
encased in silk, which is found to be a
much better non-conductor of heat than
felt, and no more expensive.
About twenty tons of old iron, com
posed of rolls, skulls and salamanders,
were recently placed in a pit at Chicago
and reduced to fragments with dynamite.
The United States has one medical man
to every 600 inhabitants, while Canada
has only one to 1200 inhabitants. Great
Britain one to 1672 and Germany one to
3000.
Oyer 500,000,000 feet of lumber will
be out by the mills of Menominee. Mar
inette and Menekaune, Wis., this season.
The entire amount will be. shipped and
sold in Chicago.
Th brightest of stars appear the mott
unsteady and tremulous in their light;
not from any quality inherent in them
selves, but from the imperfections of
vision in the surveyor. f Plato.
Giiflin, Ga., has the largest peach
orchard in the South, containing
50,000 trees, and covering most C00
acres. On the same farm are 4000
grafted apple trees and 5000 pear trees.
Tho trustees of Ogle th rope's Colony
in Georgia legislated in 1733, and here is
what they did: "Enacted that the drink
of rum in Georgia shall be absolutely
prohibted, and that all which shall be
brought 'there shall be staved.' "
The 11,071 fishermen of Maine in a
year use 19,111,640 pounds of fish for
bait, each pound landing ten pound of
fish. How many fish worms are used
and the number of times each fisherman
spits on his hook, the census man ne
glects to tell.
In the six months ending June 30th,
there were granted in the city of New
York permits for 1365 new structures, es
timated to cost $26,048,705; and for 1998
alterations of buildings, estimated to cost
$2,747,532 in all, $28,790,237 to be ex
pended on dwellings and warehouses.
The building mt the New Haven break
water has ruined the finest oyster plant
ing beach on the coast. The swift and
continuous current essential to success
ful oyster culture has, the oyster men
claim, been totally destroyed at many
points. They are without remedy at law.
Oscoda (Mich.) News: "A Bay City
young lady, recently married, sent a
friend here one of her stockings filled
with wedding cake. The balmoral was
emptied, and its contents filled a six
gallon churn, and enough was left for
the girls of the family to play 'keep
house' for a week."
Elijah Tracey, of Mount Carmel. 111..
shipped & valuable and yet vicious stall
ion, and, that the animal might not be
neglected in transit, he himself occupied
the box-car with the horse, when the
car was opened at Robinson, Tracey was
found dead, having been kicked and
trampled by the angry brute.
The St Louis Globe says ahat Tel-el
Kebir means the "City of the Tomb."
The St. Louis Post says it means tho
the "River Bank." The Cincinnati
Commercial says it means the "Plain of
Fire." And the Cetroit Free Press savs
that when three distinguished Egyptolo
gists differ on such a question the plight
of common folks is, as regards such mat
ters, pitiful in the extreme.
Pennsylvania undertakers are about to
organize a State association for mutnal
protection. - Their grievances are based
upon the allegations that undertakers
are often imposed upon by impecunious
customers and dealers in undertakers'
goods; and that people in distress and
families whose iove of display exceeds
the capacity of teeir purses ore often bo
extravagant in providing a good "send
off that they are unable to pay the bills.
It has been proved in New York that
pearls are not beautiful food for cats. A
gentleman's pet tabby did, one night,
suddenly jump npon its master's expan
sive bosom and tear from his immaculate
shirt front a $40 stud. All attempts to
make the cat givo up the jewel were in
vain, and now ; the only consolation en
joyed by the unhappy man lies in the
fact that the pussy, once so rat.and so
playful, is rapidly beooming thin, feeble
end moroso.
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