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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,
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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
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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
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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
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.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. '