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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1887)
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. h Epitome of the Principal Erects Attracting Public Interest Now Chief Justice Sir Mathew Crooks Cameron died at Toronto. The reduction of the public debt for dune was about $15,000,000. ThoGenesta won the Jubilee yacht race. Time over course, 12 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes. Several persons were killed and much damngef done bv the - explosion - of an acid retort at Manchester, Eng. I in the case of grass seed. In some Three brothers named Mofl'ott, aged I !nm i'lfs many seeds of weeds are 12, 15 and 17 "years, were drownetr!'0'1"'1, amI in. "ot. a few cas03 there is u while in bathing in Burnt river, near . lllck of germinating power in the seed. Fenelon Falls Ont. j Ihese fuels have led to the practice An explosion in the mine of the ! nnionp prominent seedsmen of guar Susquehanna Coal Company at ""teeing the purity, cleanliness and Wilkesbarre, I'd., killed four men and j vitality of seeds sold, and it has been fatally injured three others. observed that during the past few years A ,, i, , , . i r a marked improvement has resulted. v LtLJ rP7lPt fb'enf,c of Leading Canadian and American Mrs. August Beluer. of Pittsburg, hreo , i i ... ... ... of her children were fatalU- burned bv ... . ' an explosion of a can of coal oil. A lire at the Union Stock Yards, t lucng, destroyed property to the value of $1,250,000. About 2.000 em ployes are thrown out of employment, M. Murphy, Nationalist member of 1 Parliament, has commenced proceed-1 iugs against the captain of Her Maj-1 esty's ship Shannon for seizing his'l yacht in Bantrv buv because she car-1 ried a green tlag. Ten Broeck. the famous Mw.mnMi. bred, died at the homo nf bis nwm.r -it Lexington, Ky. The cause is thought to be apoplexy. The horse was 15 years old. His owner was offered 50,- J00 for him a week previous A workingman in Holquin, Cuba, as a precaution against smallpox, built a coal fire before retiring for the night, and placed thereon several leaven of tobacco, the fumes from which he- had been told furnished a safeguard against the disease. The next morning the nun, his wife and eight children, were dead, suffocated by coal gas. An order has been issued from the War Department, by direction of the President, restoring to the army Maj. Henj. P. Buukle, retired, who was tlropped upon judgment of the Court of Claims. His judgment was n versed by the United States Supreme Court, May 27. He will be borne on the rolls as never having been legally separated from the army. News of a wholesale slaughter conies from Ilinggold, Ga. Two farmers named Dennis and Clark quarreled over the result of a lawsuit, and Den nis, to save his life, thrust his knife into Clark's throat. Clark's aged father and brother, who witnessed the tight, then attacked Dennis, each ariticd with a club. Dennis stabbed the brother in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound, and turning plunged the knife into the elder Clark's heart, leav ing it sticking there. Dennis then fled. At Victoria, ii. C, in the libel suit of Walkem vs. Higgine, the nlaintifl being thclate premier, and now Judge soldered around the edges : atone cor of the Supreme Court of British 'Col- ner a tube pastes through the bottom, umbia, and the defendant the late for the purpose of tilling tho boiler and publisner and proprietor of the Colo- under pan with water. After coming imt newspaper, the jury awarded -$2,500 , from the copper vessel the heated wa damages. The case will bo appealed ' ter runs back and forth several times to the divisional court, and if necessary carried to the Supreme Court of Can ada. The libel consisted in reproduc ing certain sworn evidence, which was commented on unfavorably to the plaintiff. Fire broke out in a tenement house in Oxford street, London, and flames spread so rapidly that several inmates were unable to make their escape. Frightful scenes wore witnessed by the enormous crowds of people attracted to tho spot. One youth jumped from the ton story to the ground and was nisiani.y k.i.cu ins momer louoweu striking upon tho ladings in front of i . -1 . 1 -I, I II! .1 f1l I . tho house, and rebounding on the heads of the crowd. Another woman appeared at the window holding a child in her arms. A moment later she fell lnnl.ti..i.li !..t. tlm til. I -II JT.li" .tin I. ' im.r. n .nun nut, ijiu lmiw.i. .. . inn- red remains were afterwards found. Keeent advices from Honolulu are to the effect that tho Chinese residents ! of the Sandwich Islands have offered a I reward for King Kalakau's head. It I appears that the King sold the exclu- sive license to sell opium, the privilege j of which dees not include the duty collected by tho Government, for $75,- 000 to a syndicate of Chinese, and that , the cash was paid in advance, the priv-; ilegc to extend for two years. Some- how a similar privilege of exclusive rieht to import opium was sold to one rich Chinaman, who was a student at Yalo College. It is also said that the white residents of the islands are arm ing themselves to protect their inter ests in the event of a general riot. A special from Wichita. Kan., says : N. B. Bird, with his wife and daughter Lotta. has arrived in this city and re- SUl- feri m nndnrpd while confined in 1110 i prison at Del Ncrte, in Old Mexico, last winter. Bird was malinger of an latee a ternme siory oi njuBim.Su.-,in. opera company touring in that coun-1 iiuiiKnrlan rn. try, and .while playing in Del Norte ( Stephen Powers, a well-known writer tho entire company were arrested on a on agricultural matters, in acommuni flitnsv pretext and thrown into tho cation to tne Country Gentleman on this same' prison where Editor Cutting was foreign plant says: "in addition to its confined. They were denied a hearing , value as a supplementary forago crop, or trial and were not even allowed to 1 1 found this grass one of tho best me tee or converse -with Americans, though diums for tho renewal of an old moss--.pveml tried to see them. While they I bound or otherwise deteriorated mea were confined four members ot tne company died of smallpox, while all suffered privations and sickness. Lately the company were released, having lost all their wardrobes and mu sical instruments. Step3 hnvo been taken to secure redress by placing the matter in the hands of the proper authorities. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the and Interests of Stockmen. Farmers j How to Test Seed. I The Ontario Agricultural Collect' has issued n bulletin on this- subject, of which the following are extracts; For tome years past, especially in England, farmers hare had their attention di rected to the condition of the seed town on tiie larm, anil in inauv cases have found that seed is far from being pure or suited for the purposes intend ed. It fails in being true to its label : ! other goods are mixed with it, especially i sim-iih 1 1 leu iiuvf iiisn Miinnieii inm iiip:i ot testing tueir seeds belore leconi mending them, and find that the ex pense is well repaid by securing the e I confidence of the people. With a view l of calling the attention of farmers to j this question of testing seeds this bul- letm Is written. While all failures in germination can not ")e attributed entirely to poor seed, t,,cre is no -doubt that much seed is 80W11 which has very little vitality.and m some cases, especially grass, several ' varieties spring up where only one was i expected. The seeds of weeds, too, are not uncommon in seed grain, and thus " -";" .arming, wm-io 1 i i r. t i ere ,.so ll,ucn ,IU,?ro'1",nSe 01 Snun ! for s(lmg purposes -is tne present, it uib u iii.itivi yji in. it i' ll nil weeds on the increase, both in regard to number and variety. The following methods of testing seeds are recom mended : 1. Place 10'J seeds between sheet of blotting-paper laid on sand, and keep the paper damp in a place where the temperature is about 78 to So degrees Fahrenheit. The number of seeds germinating will indicate the percent age good. 2. Place the seeds on a piece of llan nel in a saucer, with sufficient water to moisten it thoroughly. After scat tering the seeds (100) on the flannel, put a piece of damp blotting-paper over the whole and place in a warm room. Keep it continually damp, and in a short time the seed will germi nate, the number sprouting will be the percentage of good seed. o. The following method is much , more complicated than the preceding, and an only be adopted whore the subject is made a study. This is the apparatus used at the college. It con- sists of a hemispherical copper boiler, one foot in diameter, fastened to the bottom of a galvanized iron pan two I feet wide, four feet long and five inches I deep. The water passes from the cop i per boiler into the pan through four small holes, and is made to circulate over every part of it by guides three j fourths of an inch high. Another bot- torn resting on the top of these is firmly, in tho lower pan, and is finally con ducted by a return tube back to the I copper boiler, entering near the bot tom. Some sand (about two inches deep) is put in the upper part of the pan, and on tins rests the boxes, etc., : containing the seed to be tested. This 1 tin box and boiler is set in something liko an office desk, about four feet high, standing on four legs and having a hinged, glazed top. Heat is pro duced by a small coal-stove below. This germinator is well adapted for testing many .samples at the same time. J. hor examining seeds as to puntv, scatter them on a ;ec(J ()f blnc ; ,)0iml) am, t,,0 for(jj . 9 ,in rum,. ily observed, if a good selection of seeds, true to their kind, is kept for comparison the impurities can be i easily identified. Here follow the results of several tests in the germinator, hutt.be follow ing inferences drawn from them cover the ground so far as all practical pur- poses are concerned : 1. Age has a marked effect on the vitality of certain seeds, 2. Many seeds have lost much of their vitality from improper curing, or ot'er causer. H. Frozen wheat is not reliable for seed, oven though germinating a fair per cent., its growth in the lield is of a more or le.-s weakly nature. . 4. All seeds should be tested for vi tality and purity. 5. Seeds are more likely to be good from seedsmen than from commission ngents. 0. A small percentage of impure seeds means very many in a bushel. 7. Thistles can be grown from seed a fact contradicted by some farmers at several Institutes. They maintain m,isW ,ir nmnnciiml rn.,n rcot only, and imperfect. that all the seeds are dow without tlioloss of a year, it will grow in eighty days, so that it can be sown after timothy is cut, and a crop of hay secured from it in time to plow the laud and reseed it to meadow again in the fall, for which it leaves the ground in good condition. One year, I remember distinctly, a severe winter had reduced my stand of timothy on a spouty piece of red, creek-bottom sugar-tree land to a 'thing of shreds and patches,' but as it was tit only for meadow I did not want to break it up for corn, and it was useless to sow it for oats. So I cut early the straggling timothy and at once broke it up about six inches deep, turning a smooth, even furrow, harrowed and sowed it to Hungarian grass. A timely rain gave it an excellent stand ; I cut and saved more hay than tne timothy would have, yielded at its best, and still had time to reseed it in timothy and get a growth A ferryboat upset near Ogden, Utah, strong enough to withstand the winter and Nels Johnson was drowned. Cl,'yins- . S. P. Palmer, a shcepherder, was "Hungarian grass h not German or foluu, de,u, uear gft1 ui c u any other millet; tho Hungarian grass ... , x. . , ... , has black seed.thVmillet yellow. Most , A lf 2avajoei! killed, a trader Hungarian grass seed in'the stores is; n,unecl 15iirt0 Cty. I T. mixed, but that should be selected! Chaumond, of Virginia City, which has the highest 'percentage of' evada,was.killed by a runaway. team, black seed. German millet, if sown 1 About 2,000,000 young trout will be very thick, makes a tolerably good feed ( turned loose in Iake Tahoe this sea for cattle and horses, though not equal, i ton. I think, to Hungarian, but for sheep ( Carson, Nevada, boasts of a Hoi the Hungarian is much superior, on stul covv wj,;c, yiel(ls twentv-seven account of its fineness and gteater , quarts of milk per day. """TheluuS small and light, re- J"'"010" ,a n.elt! ouires a very thoroughly prepared bed io secure lisgerininaiion.anu inc more so since is sown in hot weather. Itl. is imperative that tho land should bo well harrowed with a fine-toothed bar- row. if the lairl is left rough and1 cloddy some of the seeds will fall deep into tho cracks and never appear above il..i ..,-r...... ,..i.:i .i. ,. V r i . V8. i lumps, no ligntij covereu, or not at an, inddryout. They will come'up scat- tering, and the resultant hay will bo so . , ..V 'V " "".'', am. ueciacuiy unfit tor horses and cat - ue. ane lauu must oe narrowed unin . . . it is well compacted, else there will be !.,ml eum her intention of becom air spaces left below the surface, which , inS a L Stales citizen, will dry out in the summer heat. Then '1'wo boys, Fred Maltby and Thomas the seed should be sown one and a j Deacon, wore drowned in Pike lake, half bushels to tho acre is not two much "ear Victoria. The bodies were found if the hay is for sheep ; one bushel will locked in each othei's embrace, answer if for cattle just before or after The Mono county marblo quarry, a rain, and lightly harrowed in, not , near Carson, Nov., valued at $1,000, brushed in, for a brush will toon wear 000, was mined by the recent earth- out and go on its knees, leaving un- Mgntiy streaks or seams. Last ot all. let it be rolled very smooth for there will be no sod' as in an old timothy meadow to hold . , up tho lnowor-knifs, and if the land is uneven the knife will i be constancy cutting off the tops of ' ment am, waa c hj muk1. ,h, hillocks and getting gritty and dull.dkH, ;u tl few hoHr8 ome farmers are in favor of lott iii I Hungarian grass stand until the seed i The' Indians of tho Puyallup (W. T.) -paper. While having some kindjof cere is nearly quite ripe, but I prefer to cut I Agency are required to work- two days , monies the other day a strange China it much greener than Hint say when ! ei,eh year upon the graveyard on the "an tried to ring in and was summa Iho heads are fairly in sight.' What 'reservation to pay a tax, which isyearly rily killed. He was first shot and then may be gained in seed is more than lost J levied to improve and keep in repair 1 stabbed. in foliage if it is left to ripen. TheCali-; l-'o lorune burial ot tl.eirdead Tho President signed an order fori foin.a farmers are compelled to sow j p. , k Pullman, W. T. e removal of the district land office! barley or wheat for hay, and they al-, d . nearly tho e i e busi ,es I 0 WishinRton Territory from Olym-I heV wa nt Jtlru v SHri in" So ! ',0rtio of thc to- " otifAri , t ' Soatlje. The object of tho re hi, H .no. ?rl n 8 1,10 8ii1onco of I). Stewart while ho ,n0Vl11 sIlt lo. to render the office si h Hungarian grass. ... I and his family were taking dinner at Kenerally accessible to the people of "Of course, when cut so gioen l will . , ,i , , ' l"n.'"t ' i ho Territory who mm-h-m Inwimwn r..;r.. ,u.J,..rU thehotel. A strong wind prevailed. U1V.. 'u, tn"-v ,w'w business moUting m the mow, and hero id where ti.,, iin:MI1 i:.,ni.. k i.: l. .. . V. -1 est mistake. Tho large, succulent ' heads ought to lie in tho sun two full I days, else they will mold, and tho sheep will consume all the foliage ex cept them, leaving the bottom of the hay-iack full of them, liko so many gieen, fuzzy caterpillers. Left so long in the sun, of course tho hay will look rather yellow, but is far better this than moldy. If cut aslato asSeptem ber the short days render it difficult to aim heavy dews cure Hungarian 1 grass well, and it is absolutely neces- sary to let it have at least two days of ! sunshine. It is betterto sow it, if pos- , sible, by Juno 1st, to bring out the cut-1 ting earlier. Before tho (low falls on I the second day it should be raked and j cocked up; but if it seems very heavy on tho pitchfork and the juico conies out when a wisp of it is twisted in tho hands, it must be uncocked, spread out say twice as thick as it grow on tho ground, and dried tho third day, else it will bo almost certain to' mold in tho' mow. I prefer to rako it. the snino di rection arounu tne 'land' tliat it was mown, especinllv if it was lodged. In ! tins way the rriko teeth aro less liable to get fouled in tho stubble. If tho swaths aro very heavy thoy should bo carefully gone over with a pitchfork right after the mower and tho thick places shaken out, or a tedder may bo used if preferred." iiintH to Jiaii(-.(;ioivei-H. ; Go through the vineyard and take j out all tho suckers that start from be-1 low tho ground and use your judgment 1 as to those above. They may eome- I times bo left as a sort of safety valve r.. .. .. i : . ... .1. lur a iwu niAiii mot grun in. Look carefully to the new grafts, if you have any, and when you seo that they are growing do not fail to caro- , fully pull out all the suckers from the old stock. Sulphur the second time as soon as the fruit is sot. Attend to your summer pruning. You can in a great measure control the setting of a second crop, preventing it a great deal by withholding for a time the pinching of the tips if tho growth is very vigorous. If you have wines in the collar they can be racked when they conio clear. Bun a weed-cutter in your young vineyards and in the old before the vines get loo long. Keep tho ground stirred and mellow in tho young orchards, at least, and you can't do too much of it anywhere. The regular sunimei pruning or !l,!i, f .l..-w.i.l .... .V "fi . .i" 0r.;n7". b ' . " r '"" ing in wrong places may be removed and some attention paid to shaping the tree, but as a rule wait till the .eg- ular winter pruning tune. A good garden, well tupplied with j choice varieties of vegetables and fruits, is one of tho greatest luxuries of tho farm and household. There is i no farmer but can afford to have a garden and take care of it in the best possible manner. COAST CULLINGS. ! Devoted Territory and California. A son of J. W. Haines was drowned at Genoa, Nevada. ' George Old hanged himself at Car son, Nevada, while insane. There are sixty-four convicts in the Idaho territorial penitentiary. ; U U ml e , , . x 11 "ui:1'h' wreicn, mis ' ;,ctn convicted or manslaughter at liOS Angeles, Cal., for killing u babe. auo roster and Leo Turner, two boys 10 years of age, were horribly mangled by a team near Tehama, Cal. ttn Francisco's suicide record for i Q .... , . . n v Arvi...;.i. ... v?. i:.. j iVudanuVn. I Mr- I ,..,(,....,.... l.f.,. it..:..i , . - "' quake, the marblo being broken into cubes about a foot square, j At jockli, Cal., an Italian named , , ,wlmn i;..,.i,u ,..i. i f .. ... ....w . IllHIUU, I.IIW MUM lllUlli; UL tl i i ullmner ...... .jonkov clm.,.. tin. o t - I nP(l Mm Wllnlll lUWII' L litll n.nn.i..,. . k TiKOiiMsr. iNOJll lV OVPI'VlinK' U'llJ iKiimlllKr nuinn. As 'l ti" wna leaving Clc-olum, W. -ue of tho brakemon was missed, but notliing imrticular was thought of it at tho time. Afterwards ho was' found dead under a bridge above Cle-1 elum. Tho man's name was J. S. Horn and he carried a card from a Du buque, Iowa, engineer's society. Advices from Blackfoot, Idaho, tell of a daring jail delivery. Mrs. Henrv Nickerson calk-d upon her husband. who was imprisoned for horse stnnlimr Sho brought revolvers, and together tiuv overpowered and locked tho'gmird i ti,0 cell, and then released Aleck Woods and one Williams, both son- toncud to be hung July 22 for murder; nlso another horse thief, and then made their escape, horses having been pro vided. Woods refused a horse, and was caught. Tho others are still at large. Information has been received that tho Sloop Sea .Bird, which loft Port Townsond for Alaska May 18, 1S80, never reached port, but that the crow )ve 'dered by Indians at Knight's inlot. Tho crow consisted of Captain Wells, Henry Moore (pilot), Henry ' Bolt, and a German, nanio unknown. , Mooro lias a family in Victoria, and I Bolt a family in Seattle. Tom, 'an I Indian, whose brother was hanged at i Nanainio, W. T., last year is Bitpposcd ! to have committed the deed in re ! venge. ' I The Tmjo (Cal.) rntlepemlent says: A number of horses are kept together at ( Independence. A few days ago a load of alfalfa hay was brought and put in the yard near the stable; ono horso :.. ii ..... . ' o iuubu in u.u vii.ii, uiu uiiiur iwu being tied up in the stable, tho door j being loft open. After eating a fow j bites of the alfalfa, of which ho is very fond, tho loose horso appeared to re- member that his companions woro do-1 barred from tl.o feast. Ho took Wnl mouthful of tho alfalfa, carried it into ' i ..i.,.i :. i...r.... ii. i the stable and placed it before tho other horses. If reason had anv nart in tho action of tho good Samaritan, Z ! : who shall say that it had no part i. lJ, h uf'i T'T'i hl i tbu octioii of this bo.se? ; Mr 1)oollttl raised its head about i "" aa," 01 tlm ,,om ' four feet and hissed wickedly at htm. i A very remarkable dam is about to i Tho hunter was considerably taken 1 bo constructed by a water company at back, but quickly dodged behind some tho San Mateo canyon, near San t bushes ami began shooting at the rep Matco, Cal., in order to form a reser- lilo with his Winchester. The third voir. The canyon is very narrow and ' idiot broko the snake's neck, about steep, and seventeen feet below the three inches back of the head, and in bottom is a tolid rock, on which the ' its dying struggles it coiled about a foundation of tho dam will lest. Tho I littlo fir and bent it to the ground sov- struclure will bo 170.feet high, 175 feoti oral times. A few well-directed blows .,i !.,. i...,. oo (Vw.i i .... .. i ..,:.. .. .......... ii... i .. -"iHiuiHm; lu imm 700 feet in length. It wifl he tho largest; stone dam ever known to have been bl,n, The dike will have a curvature of 80 feet , , M( , , ul).eUvam, Tho limteriHl wiU hu ft nw Mrt of concr(J,0 comp0BCl of stone. Tho walls will bo perfectly smooth. The roservoir that will bo formed by it and tho adjacenthills will bo about eight miles in length and 10 foot deep in the deepest placee. Its capacity will be about 32,000,000,000 gallons. The water will bo conveyed by tunnels to the city of San Francisco. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. A Swede named Harry Stevenson was killed at tho Clatsop mill. Panthers are killing otf large num bers of sheep in Camas prairie. Mrs. H. M. Scarles was fatally in jured by a runaway near Albany." John llottner, a Portland saloon keeper, committed suicide by drown ing. The corner-stone of the new I. O. O. F. temple at Balder Citv has been laid. Ashland has an industry in the shape of a canned cooked venison es tablishment. A postolfiee has been established at loraue, Lane county, with William X. Crow as postmaster. John Larson and P. F. Peterson, fishermen for the Point Adams Com pany, upset at Wyoth river and both men were drowned. The steamer Alaskan recently made tho run from Portland to Astoria in the unprecedented tinw of four hours and forty-six minutes. Railway postal service has been or dered on tho line from Dundee Junc tion to Airtio, and Mr. P fie for, of Al bany, has been appointed to tho line. Capitalists have made a proposition to build and operate combined woolen 'vursiwi nd worsted mills at Albany, f tho ' d"w uld raise a bonus of 20,000, Two Chinamen were mining on Ap plegate, near Steamboat, when the bank unexpectedly caved and threw a log on one of them, holding him fast. He died before he could be released. Ulvin .Miller killed a white deer on Brushy Hall, says a Curry county pa per. The hoofs are also white. These skins are very rare, and pass among the Indians for big money. The last of tho series of games be tween the Portland and Willamette baseball clubs for the league cham pionship was won by the first-named club, the score being It to 2. The Chinamen are very belligerent aiong tlio railroad, says a Jacksonville. mill IV, Several weeks ago an account of tho ".'""""f , 'fPl'earanco of Jolin j :k'fm obl,r: iM county was s iuuu uenovei huh ,oi,ll(l hoen rdered. He at last, s Up lUlvw ium v,'e11 1,1 , '''8tern Oregon. Tho coal mines at Newport, Coos county, aro again being worked, and thore is a demand for miners. AJ1 ap- j ' plying aro employed and numbers are' , being sent from California. It is the only mine exporting coal from Oregon at present. The shut-down was caused , by litigation which is now settled. : The officers employed on tho steamer Joseph Kellogg have watched with in terest a log which lies flouting in the Willamette slough. It is a very large log and its proprietor is a largo hog. No matter how rough it is, the hog keeps its balance. The log is about two miles from land, and tho passing boats keep it well supplied with eata bles, for this poor lone hog has been there nearly a month, and has learn to distinguish tho Joseph Kellogg whistle from the other steamers, and stands ready to receive his lunch which tho steward waits to serve. ! ItcpoillW- fnr llio firut titw in .!! I ....j , aw. ...' V.t.liy ,. V.IVJ j history of Clifton, religious services I were hold thore. Dr. T. L. Elliott, I pastor of the rnitarian church, was1 i visiting thore, and the citizens hastily I i built a "mootiii' house." It was in the' cannery warehouse. A lot of emntv salmon boxes wore used to mako walls, openings being left for a door in tho rear and windows at tho side. In tho front tho boxes woro piled to high as J to form a semi-circle, and directly in! f . it.:.. .i i... ... ' . iioni o. mis llio puipil WHS oreciCU, also of salmon boxes. Boxes likewise served as seats. Tho congregation numbered sixtv-threo men, women and children. ,.. . r.., . . Mr' P ol,.ttle' .f 8 Ucr "' ,0l)0rts iV M11 Z "V. K; . U , , , Mountain rock ho jumped tin a bull- ...... ...i.:i,. l ..i - , snako twenty-two feet long. His i! , , ' , , . A""' ""ii unu unwell uiu i.K.ll, UIU. uy tearing a portion of his white shirt into strips he was enabled to get tho monster's length, as above given. The idea that there aro no big snakes in Oregon is disputed by Mr. Doolittle's find, and that these reptilos live high is also evidenced by tho finding of two squirrels and a jaybird in the monster's stomach. Mr. Doolittlo says his Hud is identical with tho Virginia bull-snake in color and general appear anco, though the one killed near Can Prairlo U larger than anv he ever saw in "old Virginia." THE GOLDEN BERYL. An Kxprrt'i I.Picrlptlon or n t Storm Vlilch I Growing I'npuhtr. " Is there any thing new in gems?" a well-knnwn dealer in precious atone.? was aked. "The only thing I can think of at this moment." replied the dealer, "is the golden beryl, which has recently made its appearance in the jewelry market. The dUthictie feature of thi tonc h that it i.-. native only in this country. It lia- been pronounced b Prof. Dana, of Yale College. :w different in color from any thing he has ever before seen. Beryl stones have been discovered in both hemi spheres and include varioin colors, among them the emerald and aqua marine. Formerly it wa ela.-silied :u a different specie- from the emerald, but modern niineralogi.-.K cla.x-dfy tlw fine given tint as the same specie.-.. The beryl has never attained any great popularity in this country, but in Kiiglaud it N prized as highly as the topaz: in Spain. A blue beryl sur mount. the glove in the crown of (treat Britian. In the Hope collection, in London, there is a single gem which U allied at -'..".OO. A .specimen of aqua marine bervle found in Ktisia in 182" wfl -valued at $11.1500. Many beryl gem-i liae been brought here from Si beria, but as the stone was not gener ally known it was called by some othci name a the sapphire and other ori ental stones. The beryl i always found in deposits of mica, with granite or gneiss. The golden beryl was dis coveied in a mine of this character in Connecticut. It is found attached to a rock composed of quart-, turmaline. spar aim mica, uiuer neryis nave been found there, but much was opaque and unlit for gem-. "After the golden beryl had been de clared to be a new mineral it was placed in the hands of a lapidary to be cut into gem. The result was the pro duction of a gem which has excited considerable study and interest in the diamond trade. Three shades of golden colors were obtained. One was pro nounced, ami -the other a shade less than this mid a trifle deeper than the third, which ii faint. Its hardness is tU as compared with the diamond standard of 10 by actual test. This quality has been found sufficient to en able it to obtain its brilliancy. Its spe cific gravity is per cent, less than the diamond, and its density ranks next to that ino-t precious of stones, lis transparency is greater than N characteristic of other colored gems, and theplax of light it affords is some what similar to that of the diamond. The gems are being used in bracelets, brooches, rings and ornamental de signs for evening w ear, and in nearly every instance are mounted with dia monds. They rank in value with stone.- other than diamonds. They art being exported in limited numbers to Loudon and the continent, and have been shown by the the court jeweler-. The crystals have been found in small quantities, and it is a question whether many more will be obtained. But even as it is the deposit is consid ered a remarkable one by expert miu-eralorists."--A". J'. Letter. CIRCUS LEMONADE. IIOIY n Sinlllnir Struucc-r I'nralred a Vender or tlin (Uinntly l'lulil. "This is lemonade, is it not?" in quired a light-haired gentleman bland ly, as he stopped up in front of a stand on the circus ground. The proprietor replied that it was ice-cold lemonade, and geuerously threw in tho information that the price was only five cents a glass. "I'll lake a glass, if you please." said tiie stranger, and it was placed before him. "If thoro is any tiling I am fond of," lie continued, with much affability, "it is good lemonade;" and lie drew a lemon from one of Ids pockets, cut a hole in it, and w ith great deliberation squeezed the juice into tho glass. Then from another pocket he took a spoon and a small paper sack filled with sugar, with which ho proceeded to sweoten the mixture. A crowd wat gathering about him by this time, and tiie proprietor of . tho refreshment stand was becoming red and very moist. "I'll give you half a dollar to go " , . . o1'"'1''"1;1'1' anxiously. "Ah- friend." villi 1 away Ironi here, lie said to the bland .m.v ineiKi, saiu tlio sinil nar cus tomer, sipping with evident satisfac tion tho beverage he had mixed, "it affords me pleasure to say that this is the best lemonade I ever drank on a show-ground. Here is your live cents." And ho finished the glass, paid his money, and elbowed his-way out through the crowd. Half an hour later the lemouade vender, broken up hi business mid dis guised in a pair of green goggles and a. false board, was doing tlio thrce-eanl monto act in a secluded place among the en n vas-wagons and looking about seai cliingly for a light-haired ami smil ing stranger. ---'iVy Tribune. One Dose Was Enough. A prominent physician, who lias sinco died, once wrote a prescription for :t powerful liniment. Ho was noted among the druggists for his .ohirogra phy. He had a largo practice, mid oft en wrote hi such haste that It was difll fiilt to read his prescriptions. Tlio di rections written upon tho above-mentioned "recipe" xvoro; "Apply locally as directed." Tho olorkread itl "Tako a tcaspooiifiil threw times dallyi" The patient took only one hw.Jlurf)er'a M(iijiiiue. I There Is a-villaglu Wales with a fliunc containing swenty-two letters ml tweuty-two syllables'