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4 TIM Pf k Epitome of Hie Principal Events Public Interest King (Uto, of lliivuria. has boon ofli v hilly declined .insane. (iov. Hill, of .Vow York, him signed :ho bill abolishing stove.- from railway rain--. By thoburningof thestoamer Cham- j plain oil' Charlevoix, Mich., twenty , lives wore lost. ' I One man was killed anil many poo-, pie injured by a railroad collision at , Havre do Grace, Mil. An explosion in a mine at Wilkes barre, Pa., killed four men and injured three others, probably fatally. During a squall on Lake Krio the steam barge H. Walter capsized, and twelve people on board were drowned. A toronado blew down twenty-live buildings in Grand Forks, 1). T., killed four people and injured foortecn 1 other. At North Industry. Ohio, Conrad Doll, a carpenter, quarreled with his wife and killed her and a stepson with a hatchet. A collision between two trains be tween Melbourne and Brighton caused the telescoping of the cars, the death OREGON NEWS. ' Everything; of General Interest in a Now j Condensed Form. i Prank Stewart was fouud dead in a box oar at Ashland. May K. Smith has been commis sioned po.-tmistre-s at Xohalcni. The Eagle crook bridge on the Tine creek road was washed away by high water. Win. Hopkins fatally shot George Simpson at the Book corral in Jordan valley. Oswald Kohendablor, while intoxi cated, shot himself through the heart at his homo in Portland. V. S. Marshal Kelly sold at the pub lie levee at Portland, the steamboat City of S.ilom for She was built " thirteen vears ago at a cost of $27,000. Reynolds I-elle, a Gorman, of Drew sey, Grant county, is supposed to have been murdered by a horse thief while on his way from Devine's ranch to Mr. Grave's place. A Portland merchant sued Dairy Commissioner Sunderland fordainages in the sum of $10,000, on account of the complaint made by the latter that the P. m. was handling bogus butter. The Malheur and Harney lakes wore COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. An exploding lamp at Los Angeles caused a $20,000 lire. A hook and ladder company ha been fonnod in Spokane. Idaho is said to have a population of S0.000 and has thirty-three newspa pers. Spokane Falls is to have a stove fac tory, paper mill, oil factory and woolen mills. A German Methodist Episcopal Church is to be erected at Spokane Falls. A company has boon organized to navigate the Columbia abovo Priests Ua pids. 11. Wachorst leaped into a blazing basement at Sacramento, and saved his little boy's life. Joseph Porter fell under a wagon which, ho was driving near Gualala, Cal., and was killed. Thos. Hartley was killed by falling down the shaft of the Burlington ! mine at mute, .Montana. John Thomas was killed on Stock creek, Idaho, the wheel of the wagon he was driving passing over his head. The President has accepted two sec tions, aggregating thirty-four miles, of ine oniiurii AGRICULTURAL. t Devoted to the Interests of Fanners and Stockmen. of live persons and the injury of over formetly separated by a large sand I ' . f b fifty. " ' reef, but it is now said that, owing toa ',c l;R' L T At Philadelphia Dr. Carver, the break made in the reef, they are united i l" "L 1 ' marksman, suffered a severe injury to his eyes by the explosion of a cartridge. If inhumation sots in the result will be a total lo-s of sight. Curnigie, Phipps & Co., of Pitts burg, granted the terms of the coke .strikers because a continuance of the Mrike would have entailed an expense of nearly :$,000,000. A collision occurred between two trains at Potsdam, Germany. One car was burned. The bodies of three poi-.-ons killed, two women and one man, were taken from the wreck. Several others were injtued. Over 400 Chinese laundry employes at New York struck for higher wages : ironers wuntd $4 a day instead of $!!, and washers wanted $2 ."0 instead of $2. Tne bosses of the laundries ac cepted the terms through sheer ne cessity. The east bound California express on the Southern Pacific Kailroad was rob bed near Eh tonia. It is estimated the robbers got $1.",C00 in money besides much valuable jewelry. The robbers escaped and are believed to be now in Mexico. Two carloads of shelled corn recently passed through Xogales, W. T., which , were labeled : " For Topolobampo. Bush through." This will be aid for those sutlering colonists who went , .south expecting to find an el dorado. The corn came from the East. 1 It has been proved beyond doubt that tne steamer Sir John Lawrence was lost in the recent cyclone oil' the ; coast of Hindoostan. The steamer carried 7.'i0 passengets, and it is be- ', lieved all were lost. The. largest part.i, of the passengers were native leadorti On route to the Juggernaut, in Orissa, to celebrate the Juggernaut festival. Mrs. Henry Miller, wife of a rancher neur Ukiah, Cal , left her baby in chargo of two of her children, the old- , e,t being live years and the younger three. In her absence the children ' laid the baby on the floor, and while one held it the other took a can of coal 1 oil and poured oil down the child's throat, and on the mother's re- j turn the child was found in a dying j condition from strangulation, living only a short time afterwards. A prize tight took place between two women at the Abbey in Sussex, near 1 London. The contestants were Mrs. Christinas and Mrs. Noonan, and the battle appears to have been fought with greater vigor and determinatiouon the part of the former than are usually exhibited by latter day exponents, of the fistic art. Mrs. Christinas won the tight and Ellen Noonan died in the ring from the injuries inflicted by her adversary. The victor was jailed. Fire broke out in the Gould & Curry mine at Virginia City, Nevada, im prisoning Edward Jeffrey, Martin Tre gallis, John Kennedy, P. Eddy, Chas. Dougherty, Richard Bennett, W. .fames, II. T. Carah, W. Williams, James Trenbath, J. C. Morgan, W. C. Carnenter. Andrew Bean anil a man and should be denominated as one lake. Fred Rodor, more generally -known as "Hans," mate of the steamer S. (!. Reed, while under the influence of liquor, fell off the boat at the foot of Ash street, Portland, and was drowned. Gustav Johnson was dtowned in the J river, near the railroad bridge, at Uma-j tilla. Ho had been swimming, and. evidently was taken with cramps. He 1 had been bathing, and the finding of j his clothing on the river bank gave a clue to his fate. A youth named Hubbard. aged about JS years, was drowned in the mill pond at Milwaukee. In company with a number of boys and young men he was bathing, and in diving mot with some accident that must have disabled him, for he never came to the surface after the fatal plunge. . Four saloon-keepers in Baker City were indicted for selling liquors to mi nors, and plead guilty, to the charge. They were fined $50 each and costs. In addition to this their licenses were revoked in accordance with the new law on that subject passed at the last session of the Legislature. After remaining out forty-eight hours, the jury in the Saunders ease, at Salem, returned a verdict of mur der in the second degree. The jury was evenly divided dining the entire time of disagreement between murder in the first and second degree. Saun ders was sentenced and at once taken to the penitentiary for life. ' The Secretary of the Interior has passed upon the claim of Martin Comb?, of Douglas county, forlosies sustained by depredations iiulS5." of Cow Creek, Rogue Bivor and Grave Creek Indians. Tho amount, of his claim was .T. lU l, but the Secretary do1 cided that the loss sustained was only $5,G20, which amount he ordered to be i paid in full. Work will shortly ho commenced on ni road extending from Astoria to For est Grove, a distance of 110 miles. Tho line will connect with the Oregon it California branch of the Southern Pa cific Railroad. Rails for tho line are expected shortly from England. Lo comotives and rolling stock are being constructed in tho East. The cost of the road and equipment will be about $1,000,000, and the entire sum has been subscribed. G. L. Eastman, a California artist, has sued Clackamas county for $7,300. Plaintiff alleges that while traveling on the Gerdes and Salmon river road, I whidh leads from Sandy to Mount , Hood, and in crossing the bridge oyer , sinlmmi rivi'i- nni of 1 1 is horses shied I at a hole in the bridge, and there be-, A party ing no railing the whole outfit went off i ' 11 J'011" the bridge, down to the rocks some twelve or fourteen feet below. Mr. Eastman's arm was broken, and ho re ceived other injuries, for which he seeks to recover, damages in the sum above named. Three young Chas. Williams and Dan Sheehan foil down the shaft of the Jay Gould mine at Idaho City, Montana, and were fatally injured. Mrs. J. M. Bowers was fatally crushed by the collapse of a brick building which workmen were raising to the street grade at Butte, Montana. Charles, a 'bus drivei, of Olyinpiu, W. T., who was thrown from a wagon and killed, was the second man killed by the same team within six weeks. Judge Dillenbaugh, ex-probate judge of Chehalis, W. T., attempted to com mit suicide by shouting himself with a l$2-ealfber revolver through the head. S. D. Topine, a Tuscarora (iNev.) teamster, fell asleep while on the way with a load from that town to Bull Run Basin and fell oil' his wagon and was killed. A heavy sea tore the schooner C. II. Merritt from her dock and cast, her on the rocks, at Wesport, Cal., where she soon wont to pieces. Part of her freight had been landed. The crow es caped with difficulty. Some kind of a disease last winter killed everv rabbit in the Weisor val ley, Idaho." In the winter of 1870-80 a strange fatality tackled the jack rab bits of Nevada and came near exter minating th.'in. The new hotel in the Vo.-emito val ley, for which the State of California appropriated $10,000, is nearing com pletion. It is expected that the hotel will ho ready for the reception of guests about the latter part of August or the beginning of September. John Coleman, a workman of the O. A C. R. R., was drowned in the lake near Sissons, C.il. It is supposed that he was stiieken with cramp or became entangled in the weeds. He was- found under water, i.i a standing position, with about one foot of grass over him. He was a native of England. A freieht train was ditched by the Foot! nml Cure of llrooil Jlnrcs A majority of colts are raised from mares that 'work more or le.-s regu larly on farms, and while this is trying on ihe mares, it is remarkable how well they do if given proper food and care. . Continuous hard work, such that a strong gilding can barely en dure, should noverbe requited of mares kept f-r breeding. Before foal ing, the maro should not be driven at more than a very moderate gait, nei ther should she be heavily loaded, es pecially when the footing is poor. A week or so of rest should always be al lowed after foaling, and she should not bo allowed to becomo very tired or warm. A common mistake among fanners consists in keeping their horses through the spring on corn and hay alone. For the brood mare this ration is particularly poor, as she must furnish material to grow muscles, bones and nerves in the colt. Corn not only lacks much of the growth making material, but its one-sidedness has in it an element of injury. It is rather heating than cooling. No one food comes so nearly answering the requirements of a grain food as do oats. Together with a good allowance of nice hay, oats supply the wants of! the system. Mixing lood, or more especially com pounding rations, should receive more attention. Very often the farmer has no oats for any of his horses, and a sub stitute is von.' desirable. He has plenty of corn, but oats cannot be purchased without paying out money for them. In this case bran and oil-meal can bo mixed with corn so as to make a good ration. The corn furnishes cheap fat and heat-producers, while the bran and oil-meal furnish the nitrates of growth producers. Bran and corn in equal parts by weight furnish about the same proportion of nitrates and fat-formers as oats, and a little less in weight of this combined ration is required for a feed. Six parts corn, thiee parts bian, and one part giound oil-cake, also fur nishes nearly the same proportion of the food results if care is taken to not increase the oil cake beyond the dan ger line. For general use this lust mix ture is not so good a substitute for oats as the former. Very little oil cake should enter the ration of the marc beforo foaling. Green foods are adapted to keeping both dam and colt m good condition. Whenever practicable they should bo allowed to run in the pasture together. Green fodder should be fed in the barn if the maro is not frequently out in the pasture. If the mare is a poor milker tho proportion of bran should be in creased. Where a great many chores make the time in the field each half day rather short, it is usually best to keep tne colt in Ihe barn or adjoining lot while the maro is in the field. But where the mare is absent full half days, she is irritated by the large quantity of milk in the udder, and the colt is compelled to take all this milk when the mare is heated. If both mares in the toam have colts they usually play together, and are not much, if any, bother in the field. ClilckN lor Kiuly Murkct. Iii raising chicks for early nuirkel.it is verv desirable to have soino breed that grows very fast during the earliest to nearh mature, then u and shocked asirdinar corn fodder, or if a silo is already built. Uie crop will make good silage. The amount to sow depends very much on circumstances. The t,timlcr i if cows, tho length of time drought i- liable to atl'ect tho pastures, the desirability of tho corn fodder, and many other thing must bo consid ered. Feeding should begin before drought has matirially lessened tho How of milk. Not onlv is there a loss of milk for the time being, but liberal feeding afterwards does not furnish the same amount of milk that would have been produced had not the fall-off oc curred. A less percentage of gain on food eaten is produced afterwards than if the How had been regularly sus tained by sufficient food. The addi tional supply of milk produced while tho fodder is being fed, will usually par for tho crop. A supply of good water is auother matter to receive attention. Insuffi cient or stagnant waterduring drought is as serious a matter a is poor pas ture. If never-failing streams, well or spring, are not already provided, plans should be laid for making good wells these can best bo dug in dry tunes, because easier to get to the proper depth, but thev should not be left uu til the drought is nearly over. Where water is pumped from wells, good pumps should be provided, especially if hired men or boys are to do tho work. While laying out tile drain, it is well to have in view a trough in each field, where such an arrangement can be provided at outlet.'. Shade trees in pastures are another help in the production of milk What the shado tree or cool porch is to the farmer for his few minutes rest after a hearty din ner, tho clump of shado trees on the breezy knoll is to the cow while digest ing the groat quantities, of grass she must eat to make largo supplies of milk and butter. Itleli Soil lor I'otutoOH. The potato requires, more expendi ture for both seed and labor than any grain crop, and it follows that they should be planted on rich soil. It is not safe to manure late potatoes heavily with fresh stablo manure, as its fer mentation in the soil makes just the condition in which tho potato-rot fun gus ilourish.es. But in lioh laud from nrevious manuring this evil does not exist. For early potatoes the land can .scarcely,. be. made too rich. The crop is marketed beforo rot in even the most favorable season can do serious injury Ficsh mimuro is often a groat benefit to early potatoes on land that is amply fertile to produceaerop without it. As it ferments it keeps the soil moist, which for early potatoes set during the extreme heat of the summer is a point of the greatest importance. Moisture is apparently a greater necessity in making an early potato crop than for tuity, though rich soils are more apt to keep moisture in dry weather than those less fertile. The most successful growers partially insure their crop from severe droughts by subsoiling. This requires extra labor, but tho res ervoirs of moisture thus stored in the subsoil keep tho plants fresh and green long after those on land not subsoilcd have withered from combined heat and drought. Subsoiling is a partial pro tection against tho potato blight. It saves the plants from the sudden ex tremes of temperature which prevail in shallow soils and are the most com mon causes of the blight. snrendinir of tho rails at a noint near period of life, and experience soon Perris. Cal., on the Southern Pacific. I shows that there is a great deal of dif- nien, James Simple, ..., . - , . c. i ri .. M..I.,.. ...1 ...l.,. ..... .,nt luum .icK.ii'Miinoil r.mill! O 111 lies .11111 null) .uhiu-iu nun WUUSU iiiiiuu mm n i.i-v... ... ............ , - - , At latest accounts every effort possi-1 two young ladies, Molhe and Lizzie hie was being made to rescue tke un- , Hoy, were boat riding on the Coltim fortunate miners but with little hope , bin river at '1 ho Dalles. hen oppo of success. 'Ihe origin of tho liro is a isite the freight depot the boat began terv. ;to leak and caused excitement, and " i Mm l.r..il ! iwl nil tlirmi'ittp 1 1 in noon- Rev. Charles Stowo, needier s ; , 7, ,:'" ,;" ,","5: Hv ! Messr nephew, has been o hosen lv ly mouth - P11"011 118 Ur,ertyoXTifo l?o5.i : the boat and were rescued. The, iwaVSrnSl hem"1 , cZ others were drowned Eddie. Snipes! away anii st- i , . , was a sou of George R. Snipes, aged ihJ. IJ v Sk d ' n tjrsi! 20 years. The girl was about 20 years tion of first mate and then quit. Ho 01 "e0- .r.irtnafixt at. Harvard, entered tho mill- The State .Military Board, consist fstry and first settled at St. James jug of Gen. J. M. Siglin, of Marsh Episcopal church at Bennington, Vt. field; Col. J.T. Bowditeh, of Ashland ; Later he became a Congregationalist, Gen. J. C. Schofner and Col. M. F. and is now located at Ilartlord, Conn. Freeman, of Portland, met at Salem. Ho is a son of Harriot Beecher Stowe. Surgeon General Saylor was absent. I ater particulars show that tho re-'The session w..s informal, and the cent ferry accident at Paks, on tho ! status of the Oregon National Guard Danube river was much worse than at, was generally discussed. Owing to tlrt reported The boat was fearfully the failure of the Legislature to pro overloaded having 400 passengers on vide for paying the expenses of the hoird It is stated that the boatmen organization from the present date, no vnro intovicated. The panic on me cuorai m.iiiiiiim.-ii - m... 1... Soiu was Erhii. The'.Ybbo Szept- year. The Board divided the . State llllOlllU lllllOUlllg icmiuiliai moil tbio . First Regipient To include Multno mah, Chiekumas, Yamhill, Washing ton, Columbia, Clatsop and Tilamook counties. Second Regiment Marion, Linn, Polk, Benton, Lane, Douglas, Jackson, Coos, Klamath and Lake counties. Third Begiinent To . in clude Eastern Oregou counties .iH,ni..i a nilcriiii. iuniped overboard and swam ashore with a child, but died an hour later from rupture of a blood vesbel. The bodies recovered give evi dence of fearful death struggles in their tattered clothes and distorted faces. It is estimated that 800 persons were drowned, over 200 Indies having been recovered. Engineer Goorgo Stone was caught beneath his eiudne and was cooked to death by escaping steam, the train hands who could seo him and hoar his cries agony, being powerless to re lease him. Lou Robertson, formerly clerk of tho court at Rathdruni, I. T was fa tally shot at Wardner. The deceased was in a room with a woman when the shot was tired, and the wtnan states that sho does not know whether he shot hinu elf or was shot by some par ties outside. The whole case is shrouded in mystery. party of live persons, composed man named Manuel Jo seph, John Roth and wife, Annie Bar tolmao and James Ross, wont out on Sail Francisco bay for a sail and have not since been heard from. Accord ing to the testimony of a young girl on tho shore, the boat capsized near (ioat Island and all wore drowned, A disastrous lire raged in the busi ness part of Dayton, W. T., destroy ing property to tho value of $115,000. About one half the amount is covered by insurance. All the ity records were distroyed. Tho office of the Columbia Chronicle was burned, but White it Rainwater, the pub lisher, immediately purchased Ironi , Palmer it Roy, Portland, a complete outfit and issued tho Chronicle with ' full details of the liro. A U-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Bates, who live at Ilwaco, W, j T., met with a somowhat remarkable j accident, which came near proving fa 1 tal. The child had been missed for j about three hours, and after a thorough 1 search was found in a well near the 1 house. The little fellow when found j was standing in the well, tho water up to his chin, and was about exhausted. He was taken home, ami restoratives ' being applied, came around all right. An unknown man called at a house I in Smith Hollow, near Dayton, W. T., and stated that he had taken a drink from a bottle found at a sheep camp close by. and believed he was poisoned I as he felt very had. He called for a drink of milk, which was given him, and as soon as ho had taken it ho fell over dead, without giving his naino or further particulars It was found that the bottle he had drank from con tained aconite, which he in'stook'for bruudy. feronce betwoon tho breeds in this ro gard. Sonic grow very fast and feather out in less than a month, which of courso is a protection to them and materially assists in rapid grow that this time. If it is the object of the poultry breeder to sell broilers for early market ho should uso some variefy of this kind that will grow fast while young so as to bo desirable for table uso at an early age. Good crosses are peihnps better than the puio stock when raised for market purposes albno; as they seem to grow faster and generally make larger birds, which pointof course is always desir able to obtain. The breeder should, however, bo very careful to dispose of all tho half-breed stock atmarket time, for if they are kept and allowed to grow up on tho place thero is a considerable liability of their becoming mixed witn the pure stock, as oftentimes it is hard to distinguish in looks, but tho foreign blood will most surely show itself sooner or later, and generally when it is least expected by tho breeder. To one who Inn not given tho mat ter much attention it would bo fciir prieing to note tho difference in tho growth of tho different breeds during the earlier part of their life. For in stance, such fowls as tho Iloudansor any of the laying breeds, will grow very fast for the first month or two and generally mature earlier than the lariror breeds do, while on tho other hand, the larger breeds of tho Asiatic classes are very slow in their growth for the first month at least, but after that time they seem to take a jump and they continue to grow remarkably fast until thev 1110 fully matured These largo breeds aro undoubtedly tho lest for market purposes when thoy aro kept all tho season and sold during the fall and winter, but my exierienco Bus been that they are not tho most profit able to raiso for the earliest markets. A cross between the two breeds will be much letter for early market and will partake soino of the nature of both U. K. M. I'lautliiK foililer Corn, H in coming to bo tho practico of many of tho dairymen to provide a crop of fodder corn or other green crop thut will supplement pastures during a drouth. A crop of corn in drills is en tirely practicable and profitable. If no drought comes the cornea n beal'owed It is said that 1,000 women own ivul manage farms in Iowa. bout 715,000 sheop aro being driven from various points in Oregon to Ne braska this year. Sulphido of potasiuin has been re commended as a remedy for mildew of tho strawberry leaf. An exchange says that Arlington, Oregon, is . the largest wool-producing section in the United States. Loinpoe, Cal., produced 25,000 cen tals of English mustard last year; this year tho yiold will be greater. Tho fastest sheep shearing overdone in Washington Territory, was aceoin- phshed near Spraguo, for Coohdgo it Renshaw, of Colfax. Twenty-one men sheared 2,1180 sheop in one day, eight of tho number being bucks. Tho highest tally was made by Joe Bur- linganie, of Ponioroy, 174 sheep. Gor don Burlingamo sheared 100. Tho acreage of hops in Washington Territory this year is estimated to bo fully 20 per cent, greater than last .... . 1 . t. .1 year. 1 no prospects lor a douuiiiui yield is good. Not only is tho hop acreage larger this year than Hereto fore, but tho number of growers is also quite largely increased. Washington Territory stands first to-day over every State or country for tho proline yield and superior quality of its hops. This is the record given in the Lasleru unit foreign markets. Every farmer who has hay rained on while lying in the swath after being nicely "cured, knows how seriously it i injured as a food for stock. During tho curing piocess tho evaporating moisture leaves a Kicat deal of nutri ment in a soluble form. That is, it is easily taken up again by water. A soukiug rain takes out thu sugary mid soluble nitrogenous bubstiuicos, to gether with other food eloments which aro in a seiluble form. These soluble substances give to tho hay its relish, ami form a great part of hs digestible food. Homo of tho carbohydrates (starcheB, etc.,) which remain 111 tho liny, in fact from tho greater part of its bulk, aro said to ho changed into a form called crude liber, which is much more difficult of digestion. Dews in jure cured hay in tho same manner, only in less degree In a word, the best food is extracted by the rain, and tho remainder is made less easily used by the animal. RIVER DRIVING. Tlir Mull mil IliirliiK or tlin lira Uinployail In Thin rur-ult. Probably no other industrial pursuit involve such hardship and danger art ri er-driving guiding tin; rough logs out in the remote wilderness down tho river to eivili.ntion and tho saw-mill- -nor can .-my other show a 'liner body oi men than thine who conduct this oper ation. They aro all young, since tho plnsiial wear and tear to which tlmy aro subject break down tho strongest in a feu jours: and all are athletic, since none but the most vigorous have the uiueul.'ir power and agility neces sary to carry them safely through tho daih perils of their oration. I'ndora long eauva-i "lean-to" tin- "crew" pass I ho few lunir-i devoted to "loop, lying; like herring- in a ho. ddo by side, upon an equally long coverlet com posed of double blanket stuff quilted with cotton. One similar quilt cover them all.- At the liist gray of the morning the voice of the cook calls all hand- to breakfast. Another meal fol lows at eleen a. in., another at four p. in., and another at dark, when the dav's work i- done- -somew hero from eight to nine p. 111. The commissariat over which the cook presides, and which i.- called the Woiigun." follows the crew, so as to be at hand at meal time. The -kill and daring of tho-o men would ieito the admiration of this most apathetic. lie who can not, standing upright, keep his footing on a -ingle log while it plunge- and rolls down a rapid o rough that an ordi nary man would refu-o to attempt to pa-- it- -eething water in a boat, is "no kind of a river-driver" in his comrade-' estimation. For such a feat i- often the only line of retreat from in-tant death when driving "quick" water; and he who can not keep on Ihe upper side of hi- log under such oireinn-tatieo-. and once falls among the hundred- of other loo-o logs churn ing in tho tierce current, i almost to :i moral certainty a dead man. Many aro the lio- thu- ln-t oven .-oa.-oii. For two of ihoin to mount, standing up right, on the same tloating log. and each try to inilior-e the other hv .som motion imparted to tho log. is 0110 of their favorite trial- of skill, ruder thu quick action of their foot the log sphi upon its axis like the main shaft of :t. steaiu-ongino. Suddenly one bounds into the air, and descending- with his ijiiked lio". upon the log. seeks victory by the sudden chock thus given to its motion. Thi- and many other evolu tions am tried, till at length, through fatigue or unequal skill, one loses his balance and souses into the water. Tho-o contests aro often q'uilo pro tracted, and ho who defeats all coiners earns tho envied reputation of a "cham pion bubble-walker." Not only does the river-driver under go the most severe physical exertion and faeo constant danger as long as there is light to work, but the seven teen or eighteen hour- of his daily toil aro pa.ed a- much in as out of tint snow-water which then swells tho stream. From the time the drive be gins until it ends, neither day nor nighc does he know what dry clothes aro. Such is a river-driver's life. No wonder some think that it is rather tho excite ment of con-taut peril than the wages earned w hich induce- so many to brave it. lho'inr'a Weekly. iJUi -W. l j J 4 : GREAT EARTHQUAKES. List or till- Alnxt I l-il-t I'll llH Oiii-h Tllllt lllivs Orriirrt'il Shu n 1 1. '17. The following is a list of the principal earthquakes that havelakeu place sinco tho twelfth century, with tho casualties caused: mr-sieiiy tlSS-Syriii .- K'lH-Clllclu 1 n-Nupli!s I.VII -Lisbon IIW0 Naples MOT Scluimulea WW .luiiuili-st , .. ... WtM-SIeily ran Aijuiiu, inuy nu'i-Yciido, .lupiin ITiKI Tim Alirazzl 1710-Alxli'i-K 17-.li I'lilcnuo lMI-lVUIn 17il-t.iam ami Culluo VI (JiiiiiJ (iiln) Vi KunIiuii, I'l-mla 1T.M I.IhIiiiii ITMI-Syriu 17HI K.liiKlilim- Asia Minor 17117 Country butwettn Sunlii I'uiiiinr.t lNi'i N'uplo , IHW Alopim IWU-Miiii-lii. 1KI Clinton IHIi-Cupe Uitylion lSV,-Culubriii 1S.V.I -(Jlllll IHW) .Menilozii, South Ainofk'ii IKtiS Towns In l'eru unit Kiu:ulor. . Is;.'.- Sun .lose tin Cucutu, Columbia, last Si-io ISMII Clllll lUHtOII Tint Hlvluru lrnoim llllnt. rj,0i) ),oui in I.OOI I io.ooo :t),t) 7U,( HD.uai .1,1X1(1 100,1 Ml .Vim) aio,(M l.Mxn ,ouo 0.1)011 loo.ouu , 18.0U0 -10,01)1 WXM W).0I iW.'WO 5,000 unit 10,001 -.o.oui isinx) r.,ioo :t, on I 10,0110 n.ooo ".Oil sr., ono 11,101 I.UOI uti 2,000 .V. (), Times-Democrat. Mimicry of a Caterpillar. S. K. Peal, writing from Assam, notices a singular case of mimicry on the part of a caterpillar, which, when suddenly MirpriM'd, erects its head in an attitude that caused the writer to mistake it for a shrew, probably tho very animal that preys upon it. Tho resemblance is caued by two lateral prolongation and a pointed tip to tho head; these, when lifted in the peculiar attitude a-simied, simulate ears and a long inu..le, while tho mouth parts hi prolllo look like the mouth of a ver tebrate. Tho saiuo writer states that tho tiger causes tho Sainhur door to rim to it by uttering a whistle which only nu expert can tell from that of tlm deer. Tho eye and nose lumps of a crocodllo are so like lumps of foam that Mr. Peal confesses ho has been de ceived until ho saw tho supposed foam sink. Ho believes this simulation us fid to the crocodile Sn obtaining iu food, Xaiure. '