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
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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
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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
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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
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.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
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Mr- I ,..,(,....,.... l.f.,. it..:..i
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quake, the marblo being broken
into
cubes about a foot square,
j At jockli, Cal., an Italian named
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... ....w . IllHIUU, I.IIW MUM lllUlli; UL tl
i i ullmner ...... .jonkov clm.,.. tin.
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nP(l Mm Wllnlll lUWII' L litll n.nn.i..,.
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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
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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 '
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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
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-"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.
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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!
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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.
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Mr' P ol,.ttle' .f 8 Ucr "' ,0l)0rts
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Mountain rock ho jumped tin a bull-
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, snako twenty-two feet long. His
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""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'