OREGON NEWS.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
tEverythini: ot ueneral interest in a
Condensed Form.
A postofhee has been established at
Briedwell) Yamhill county, with J. W.
13riedwell as postmaster.
Mrs. Louisa Cambridge was exam
ined in the County Court of Multno
mah county and declared insane.
., Pay Coon, who with one Higby stole
a span of horses of Mr. Stowell, of 13 u
gene, has been arrested in San Fran
cisco. A number of engineers in Astoria
are preparing to organize a branch of
the National Marine Engineers' Asso
ciation. W. G. Todd was tried at Priticvillc
for the killing of J. N. Brackett. The
jury returned a verdict of man
slaughter.
Charles Erickson, a stonemason, lost
his life by the falling of the crib work
at the railway bridge under construc
tion in North Portland.
It is now estimated that thero will
be upward of 200 acres of now orchards
planted at Ashland this fall and next
spring. The planters are waiting for
rain as it is too dry to do anything
yet.
The railroad company have with
drawn the sale of all their town lots
south of the depot, at Ashland. This
sictually withdraws about -10 acres of
land. It is supposed they need it for
railroad purposes, as this is to be the
end of the Shasta division.
At Robert 1 Tally's place, near Salem,
a sitgular accident occurred. His
sheep we're probably stampeded by a
coyote, and ran into a ditch witli water
in it, and twenty-five wero piled up
dead, either smothered or drowned.
They wero valuable merinos.
It is reported that a number of
drunken fishermen mado a raid on
fcome Chinese in their quartets at Ya
quina city, drove them out and threw
out their furniture. The Chinamen
tired at them, hitting one of the as
saulters in the back, not hurting him
seriously.
Frank Hanna was drowned opposite
Ash street wharf, Portland, from the
steamer Rustler. A small ski fV at
tached to tho steamer got loose, and
Hanna and another man attempted to
jump into a boat for tho purpose of
pulling to and securing the skiff.
Hanna lost hie balance and sank with
out a struggle.
Multnomah county, in which tho
City of Portland is situated, is very
much the smallest county in the State.
The value of agricultural land is set
Iown at S?:i,5S7,5 15 ; city lots, $9,
737,lK)ft; improvement, $5,039,12.');
merchandise, $l,2G2,OGO ; mortgages,
notes, etc., $2,028,-110. The value of
horses, cattle, etc., added to this makes
the gross value of all property $27,
123,780. The indebtedness and prop
erty exempt from taxation is $(i,057,
535, making the total value of taxable
property $20,450,215.
The Superintendant of the Insane
Asylum at Salem was sinking a well
for the convenience of that institution
When about completed a most remark-
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aoie cnange in me onaruoier oi me
water took place. Clouds of vapor
were seen to lise from the mouth of
the well, and investigation showed that
the well c attained twenty-five- feet of
-water, almost boiling hot, and its tem
perature has not changed. Tho pro
jectors of the well are much disturbed
over the transformation, and fear that
the water may not return to its former
condition of coolness.
Senator Dolph telegraphs from Wash
ington to State Senator J. H. 1). Gray,
of Atoria, that ho learns that the Sec
retary of War declines to suspend the
-order for the abandonment of Fort
Canby. When Gen. W. T. Sherman
was en route to Portland from San
Francisco, r.fter the G. A. R. Encamp
ment last year, he came on the deck of
tho steamer expressly to see Fort
Canby. "If that point was properly
firLUHHl. III? Hlllfl III LIHlSt? KI.imilIlLr
around him, pointing to tho lowering
point of land, "it could be made tho
strongest position in the United States."
Ad 'Epitome of the Principal Events
Attracting Public Interest
Now
The propcllor Vernon was foundered
during a heavy galo on Lake Michi
gan, and thirty lives were lost.
Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish
singer, is dead, aged GG vears. She
had been seriously ill for some weeks
Sixteen thousand miuers have struck
work m the Betrinago district, Ger
many. A renewal of rioting is feared
No less than a dozen small schooners
and barges have been reported as
wrecked during the same storm on
Lake Superior.
John Hodel, a silk-weaver living at
neuron, Uonn., kuled.his wife and then
set fire to the house. Two children
were burned to death.
It is reported that the British bark,
Temple Bar, bound for Rio Janeiro,
foundered in Bristol channel, and the
crew, numbering eighteen, were lost.
Hie French steamer Ilindoostana,
winch arrived at Marseilles from New
York, took lire and was entirely burned
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one nau .100 ions oi merciianuiso on
board. All was destroyed.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
m a lead mine at Matlock, County
jjerby, Ireland. Twenty-live men
wero in the pit at the time. Five dead
bodies have already been recovered
Advices from Warsaw state that tho
town of Kusin, in tho province of
Minsk, wns totally destroyed by fire.
Ihree hundred and fifty houses and
number of stores were burned, and
many lives lost.
Martha M. Crockett has been sen
tenced to state prison for life for tho
murder of her husband lust December,
oy administering poison m fried ap
ples, at Belfast, Me. She received her
sentence stolidly.
The steam launch Mary burst her
boiler at New York city, killing John
and Patrick Cunningham, brothers.
Carl E. Schmidt, owner of tho launch,
was blown into tho river, but was
saved. Several others were badly
bruised.
An cngino on the Fort Wayne rail
road etruck a street car at Federal
street crossing in Allegheny city, Pa.,
and two passengers who jumped from
the cars wero caught under the wheels
of tho engine and ground to death.
Those remaining on the car were not
injured.
Count DeLesscps has announced 10
tho Academy of Science that the Pan
ama canal will bo opened February 30,
1S90. The work will not then be en
tirely completed, but tho passage will
bo free for twenty ships a day. It is
estimated that the traffic will produce
an annual revenue of from 90,000,000
to 100,000,000 francs.
A disastrous explosion occurred at
one of the peeking houses of the At
lantic dynamite works, near McCains-
ville, . J. Four men were instantly
killed and three aro missing. The
names of the dead men are John Fan
cher, H. Todd, Fred McDeod and his
orouier rump, u no missing men aro
believed to have been in the vicinity of
the mill at the time of the explosion,
and they cannot now be found.
George King, who resides in Frank
lin parish, La , gave a danco and sup
per at his residence. After supper was
nearly over, all the guests were taken
violently ill. A doctor was sent for
and said thoy were poisoned, but did
all ho could for them. Since then six
wnues and one colored person have
died, and all tho others aro seriously
ill. No motive can be assigned for the
dastardly deed. The cook 13 not sus
pected, as she is dangerously sick, and
her husband and child aro dead.
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to "Washingto
Territory and California.
A man supposed to bo a drummer 1
for a San Francisco pickle factory had 1
an altercation with a barber known as j
Joseph at Stockton, Cal., and pushed !
the barber through a glass door. The !
barber was so badly cut that ho nearly j
bled to death, and the drummer disap-:
peared.
A 12-year-old son of a rancher named
Cook, living on Hornet creek, Idaho,
saved tho life of an elder brother who
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Eugene Semple. Governor of Wash
atgion lerntory, in ma annum report
tho secretary ot tho Interior, esti-
14d,o(rJf an increase of over lu,UOO
tho ltiAt two years. Tho taxable
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children of school age, tho averago
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Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, in his an
nual report, estimates the value of tax
able property 111 tho territory at $10,
000,000, exclusive of tho Alaska Com
mercial Company's establishment on
tho Seal Islands. The increaso, ho
says, will be rapid eo soon as congress,
by necessary legislation, gives encour
agement to tho settlement of public
lanus. 110 says inoro is a very con
siderable acreago of tillable land in
Southeastern Alaska with a soil that
produces the most luxurious vegeta
tion, the fact being that 110 one conies
into the territory with a belief that
either the soil or climate is adapted to
either agricultural or horticultural
pursuits, but the few experiments that
have been mado leavo no room for
doubt that all tho cere Is, except corn,
can bo grown to per.i otion in many
sections. As to stock raising, he Fays
tho winters of Southeastern Alaska aro
much milder than those of Montana,
Wyoming and Dakota, and tho seasons
altogether aro quite well adapted to
this industry. The giv. 1 nor says won
derful results aro being achieved in
mining, showing the territory to bo
rich in precious metals. The governor
says it is reported that Mr. Ogilvio,
who was sent out by the Dominion
government last spring to locate tho
boundary line between Alaska and tho
Northwest territory, claims that somo
of the new gold fields aro in British
territory, and has suggested that on
tho strongth of his report hie govern
ment is likely to attempt, next sum
mer, collections of miners' license, pro
vided for in tho Canadian law. Tho
governor says any attempt of this kind
will bo resisted by the miners, a largo
majority of whom aro American citi
zens, and if persisted in will certainly
end in bloodshed, and suggests that in
view of the imminent danger of such
troubles, tho rocommondation to con
gress in behalf of a joint commission,
to definately settle tho boundary line,
be urgently renewed. The Baluion,
cod and whale fisheries, he siiv, will
yield about $3,000,000 during the yoar.
Steamers aro now compelled to line
over tho rapids of Snako river.
One apple tree in the Walla Walla
valley tins' season boro 1200 pounds of
tine I rm t.
ai rrineviuo r . b. Uurrin was sen
teneed to live years imprisonment 111
the penitentiary for grand larceny.
Arthur dough was killed almost in
staidly by falling from the roof of the
new sehoolhousc at Tacoma.
Henry Edgerton, the well-known
orator, was found dead in a lawyer's
office at San Francisco. Apoplexy was
tho cause.
A young man named Henry G
Cook was shot and instantly killed by
h:s lather-in-law, George Cox, at
ranch near San Andreas, Cal.
A man was killed at Kamloops. 1
C, by an Indian constable, while re
sisting airest bv tho lavter on tho res
ervation.
Thieves wore discovered making of!
with $3,000 wortli of quartz from a
Nevada city (Cal.) mine, and tho booty
ecov ercd.
A. bootblack, aged 1G, name un
known, was run over by a train of Hat
cars on the Santa Fo road, at Los An
geles, and killed.
A specinl from reka, Cal., says : A
special ran into a work train near Sod
Springs, killing one man and injuring
six, three fatally.
:Vt Middleton, Cal., Thomas G
Christie was shot by Wright Farmer
with a revolver, tho shot taking effect
about an inch below tho heart.
Cornelius J. Hanavan, 1. years of
age. an apprentice bricklayer, fell from
the top of a building at San Francisco
and was almost instantly killed.
Frank See, of Copelle valley, Cal.,
whilo unshnging a deer on ms return
from a hunting expedition, was killed
by the accidental discharge of his rille.
V special train consisting of fourteen
coal and two box cars was wrecked at
Puyallup, W. T. Eight coal cars were
smashed and seventy feet of track torn
up.
A jury in lakimn, W. T., awarded
James O'Brien $0,000 damages for in
juries received 111 tho railroad accident
near Cle-elum, on the 21st day of April
of this year.
The Piutes are having a big fan
dango at Winneinucca. Shoshoins,
Bannocks and Washoes will lv) theie.
Every other person is invited except
the Chinese.
In the case of Jochim Henry Tim
merman, the Klickitat county (W. T.)
murderer, motion for a new trial was
overruled, and defendant sentenced to
be hanged December 10.
The residence of C. A. Sanders, near
EUonsburgh, W. T., caught fire from a
defective Hue and was burned, together
with most of the furniture. The build
ing cost $5,000, and was one ot the
finest in tho county.
Dan Gorman, a laborer, was brutally
murderded by two drunken Mojavo
Indians, at Mojave. His head was
iiiashed and ho was shot. The mur
derers were arrested and also the whites
who furnished them liquor.
Senator Stanford has about com
pleted arrangements to bring 100
skilled vineyard hands from the Bor
deaux district in France. Thoy and
their families will bo located on his
proporty in Tehama county, Cal.
A boiler explosion took place at the
Terrace baths, Alameda, causing the
death almost instantaneously of Ilobt.
Haley, proprietor of tho bathing estab
lishment, and seriously, if not fatally,
injuring Charles Beeker, an employe.
George Shearer, a sovontoen-year-old
youth, was haulted by a highway
man at Santa Cruz, Cal., and fired at,
but pluckily returned the tiro and the
robber decamped. A coin in Shearer's
vest pocket stopped tho robber's bullet.
During the month of October coin
age of tho branch mint at San Fran
cicco amounted to $2,500,000. Gold
coined was about equally divided be
tween eagles and double eagles. Thore
is also work just commencing upon an
order for $loU,UO0 in dimes.
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to
tho
and
Interests of
Stockmen.
Fanners
IIOIHO FctMllllfr.
It makes little difference what kind
of grain a horse has been fed whilo in
the stable, if he is taken out and im
mediately driven fast or worked hard
on a full stomach ho will scour nino
times out of ton. When a horse is to
bo driven rapidly a long distance or set
to work without previous preparation,
his morning meal should bo very light
and ho should bo watered before feed
ing and not again for nearly two hours
after. He should have water and a
light luncheon of oats in the middle of
the forenoon and afternoon, and ho
will step along livelier all day and not
be worn out when night comes. It
does a horse just as much good to have
a drink of water and a light lunch
when at hard work as it does a man.
and ho will show it in his sprightly an-
pearanco and lively gait, and when he
comes homo to his regular meal he
will not gulp down water by tho barrel
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inn uuuoiu ms mod like a ravenous
dog. A hungry horse is like a hungry
man weak and tpiritles,and the mail
who keeps him at hard work when he
is in such a condition ought to bo
roundly fined or soundly trounced for
cruelty to animals.
Deep fall or curly winter plowing
should be followed by another deon
plowing in tho soring. This nronorlv
done is the biggest half of the work in
growing a good crop. Then let it bo
remembered that deep plowing pre
vents the soil on tho undulating nn-
lands from washing away. Millions of
acres in tho older states bovoml tho
Mississippi have been scratched and
scratched until their soil has washed
away and now constitutes the mud
bars at tho mouth of tho Mississitmi.
Thus have their best uplands been de
stroy ed.
writer claims that seed potatoes
are much 111010 valuable if tho sprouts
nave not, started until planting tune;
that tho first sprouts that start will
inaKe more vigorous plants than any
subsequent ones. He says that whore
twenty-four bushels of seed are to bo
planted, tho increase in tho crop will
pay 30 per cent, on the cost of a suita
ble building for cold storage. Ho takes
great pains to keep his seed potatoes
hard and KHind as possible till tho dav
of planting.
Purnips should not bo dug until late
111 autumn. Like eabbaeo. thov will
( ntinue to grow after tho first light
uosts. lliey are canablo of ondurinir
low temperature without iniurv.
Phey roquiro a cool storage. When
placed in a warm collar thov becomo
corky, tough and unpalatable for both
man and beast. If wintered in a nit
or cellar at a point just abovo freezing,
inoy win 00 as crisp and as good in
the spring as they were when dug.
Cabbage for winter uso should bo al
lowed to remain in tho field until late
in tho fall. We always had tho best
estilts when thoy wero gathorod iust
before the ground freezes. They will
tand a fairly hard frost, but not a
bevore one. At best, thov aro a difibnilt
egetablo to keep through tho winter.
If stored in a cellar or root house, at a
temperature of about 3(5 degrees, thoy
will come out fresh and sound in tho
spring.
KEEPING A DIARY.
AUrnntncn rnlrtiliitetl to ltrsult from
KrrnrdltiK Dully KvcnU.
Many people regard the keeping of a
diary as a meritorious occupation. The
young are urged to take up this cross
it it supposed to benefit girls especially.
nether women should do it is to some
minds not an open question, although
there is on record the ease of tho
Frenchman who tried to shoot himself
when he heard that his wife was keep
nig a diary. This intention of suicide
may have arisen from the fear that his
wife was keeping a record of his own
peccadilloes rather than of her own
thoughts and emotions. Or it mav
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nine oeeii noin ine lear that she was
putting down those litt eoniiifal
remarks which the husband always
dislikes to have thrown up to him, anil
which a woman can usually quote
accurately, it may be for years, it may
be forever, without the help of a diary,
So wo can appreciate without approv
ing 1 no terror of the 1 ranchman at
li ing on ami on in the same hou-e with
a growing diary. Tor it is not sininlv
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mat mis ni'ie iiook 01 liuigeinent is
there in black and white, hut that the
maker of it is increasing her power of
minute observation and analytic expres
sion. In discussing the question
whether a woman should keep a diary
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u is uiuiorsioou uuu 11 is not a more
memorandum of events anil engage
ments such as both men and women
of business ami affairs necessarily keep,
but the daily record which sets down
feelings, emotions and impressions and
criticises people and records opinions
isiu uus is a question that applies to
men as well as to women,
It has been assumed that tho diary
serves two good purposes: it is a dis
ciplinary exercise tor tho keeper of it
and perhaps a moral guide; and it has
great historical value. As to the first,
it may be helpful to order, method,
discipline and it may be an indulgence
of spleen, whims and unwholesome
criticism and conceit. Tho habit of say
ing ngni. out wnai you think ot every
body is not a good one and the record
of such opinions and impressions, whilo
it is not so mischievous to the public as
talking may be, is harmful to the re
corder. And when we come t tlin
historical value of tho diary, wo confess
to a growing suspicion of it. It is such
a deadly weapon when it comes to light
after the passage of years, It has an
authority which the spoken words of
its k-jeper never had. It is ox parte
and it can not bo cross-examined. The
supposition is that being contemporane
ous with tho events spoken of, it must
he true and that it is an honest record.
Now, as a matter of fact, wo doubt, if
people are any more honest as to
themselves or others in a diary than
out of it; and rumors, reported facts
and impressions set down daily in ihe
heat and haste of tho prejudieal hour
aro about as likely to bo wrong as right.
Two diaries of the same event rarely
agree. And in turning over an old
diary we never know what to allow for
the persona! equation. Th, diary i.
grea'ly relied on by tho writers oi' liis
tory, but the Drawer doubts if there is
any such liar in the world, even when
tlie keeper of it is honest. It is certain
to be partisan and more liable to be
misinformed than a newspaper, which
exercises some care in view of imme-
SAVED BY A
Henry Colby shot and killed Joseph
uirard near Granitevillo, Cal. Colby
is watchman lor tin Milton Minnie
Wator Company, and claims he caught
Uirard setting hro to lumber belong
ing to the Milton Company. Ho called
on him to stop, when Girard ran for
his gun. Colby then fired killing Gi
rard.
One of the most terriffic explosions
that over occurred in a mine hap
pened at Anaconda, Montana, which
resulted in tho death of two men, Jer
emiah Lynch and Daniel O'Brien. It
seems these two men went wliero fifty
pounds of giant powder was deposited,
and by some unknown cause this elo
ment was exploded. Their bodies wero
literally torn to shreds. Not enough
of either body was recovered to show
semblance of a man. Both wero mar
ried and had families living in Butte
city.
An engine exploded near Ilackberry,
A. T killing engineer Schroeder, fire
man Long and hrakeman Trapp. The
bodies were found about 300 feet- from
the track. Several froijjht cars wero
badly wrecked. Tho engiuo was at
tached to tho east-bound freight train,
and tho boiler exploded when the train
was two miles from Aeh Fork. Tho
bodies wero found about eighty yards
from tho sceno of tho explosion, man
gled beyond recognition, Thoy wero
only identified by clothing. Tho ex
plosion derailed six cars and damaged
the track for a great distance. Long
and Trapp wero raakiug their first
trip.
The farmer who is producing hay on
land that cannot bo easily made to
produce three tons to tho acre, had
better devote it to somo other crop, and
drain and clear up land that will. It
is now a well settled fact that fanning
will not pay when only small crops aro
grown. To skim over three acres for
what ought to grow on one, is an ex
penditure of tinio that rarely pays any
profit.
Evory farmer should study and have
a general knowledge of tho internal
structure of tho horse his greatest
helpmate at labor. Ho should know,
and probably does, that of all the do
mestic animals the horso has tho
smallest stomach, and therefore should
be fed and watered the oftencst.
T. W. Follico, a well-known farmor
living near Garfield, W. T raised
11,000 bushels of wheat this year, by
weight, on 200 acres of land. This is
reported to bo a hilly country, but Mr.
Follico hauled on one wagon with four
horses just 7930 pound.- of wheat.
Clover is considered one of tho best
crops to renovate the soil that can bo
sown, and it is usually profitable to
grow it on tho farm, if for no othor
purpose than to enrich and strengthen
tho soil.
Many good farmers keep horses in
stanies during the entire yoar, exoopt
when out at work. Those who do not
should at least get the horses under
shelter at night and during stormy
duys.
Tho South is increasing its food crop
heavily and this year's corn crop will
bo 50,000,000 bushels larger than last
year, and 100,000,000 bigger than tho
unusually largo crop of 1881.
It ought- tako but littlo thought
on tho subject to convince farmers of
tho advanirtgtM derived from keeping
good ktrong icams to perform thoir
work.
Tho whip is the parent of stubborn
ness in a high-spirited animal, while
gentleness will win obedienco and at
tho samo time attach the animal to us.
Devon cattle is
rich dark to a
Tho color of pure
red, varying from a
palo chestnut.
Beasts with small chests do not fat-
ton readily and aro vory suscoptiblo to
disease.
Tho corn crop of 1887 Is nut down
at 1,300,000,009 buhU.
iliate publicity. The writer happens
to know of two diaries which record, on
the testimony of eye witnesse-, the cir
cumstances of tho last hours of Garfield,
and they dill'or utterly in essential par
ticulars. One of these m ly turn up
lifty years from now and bo accepted
as uiie. vu iiiiiiuie amount or gossi.)
gousinto diaries about men and women
that would not stand tho test, of 1
moment's contemporary publication
isut, ny and ny it may all bo used to
smirch or brighten unjustly some one's
character. Suppose a man in the Army
of the Potomac had recorded daily all
his opinions of men and events. Bead
ing it over now, with more light and 1
juster knowledge of character and of
measures, is H not probable that he
would find it a tissue of misconceptions?
l-ow things are actually what, thoy seem
today; the' aro colored both by mis-
apprehensions and by moods. If a man
writes a letter or makes report of an
occurrence for immediate publication,
subject to universal criticism, there is
some restraint 011 him. In his private
letters, or diary especially, he is apt to
set down what, conies into his head at
the moment, often without much ell'ort
at verification. Iftirwr's Magazine.
The Season s Favorite.
Thore is 0110 thing very notieoabU at
all the resorts this summer, too, and
that is tho red-headed girls are im
mensely popular all round. That must
be because they are so agreeable A
red-headed girl is sure to be jolly, just
as a homely girl Is sure to bo bright,
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1 nereis 110 nonsense either anout a
red-headed girl. She is full of courage
and strength. Many of tho pluckiest
and most daring swimmers hero have
hair of the cardinal hue. Thero were
so many of the girls in batliinj; this
morning that the surf reminded 0110 of
strawberry water ice. Afterwards tho
girls .stood out on tho beach wringing
the sea water out of their long, thick
tresses. When a half-ilozen ot them
got in a row, with their shilling hair
llowingoiit behind them, you might
have fancied, if you had a good imagin
ation, that there was a now sun-sot at
eleven o'clock in the morning, and one,
too, that might put the old sun-set to
tho hUish.I'uliiilelphiit Press.
An investigation of Spanish earth
quakes by two Italian physicists shows
that they are moro common in the coast
regions than in tho interior, and In the
south than in the north; also that thoy
occur most frequently In tho autumn
und winter mouths.
LAUGH.
UelUhtMll
now 11 Trnvnlrr In AintrnlU
Ilnnil or .Viitlvm.
The judgment which a superior raco
passes upon an inferior raco is arbi
trary. When a white man gangos a
black man, ho usually stands him
alongside of a fine specimen of tho
white race. If ap Hnglish Australian,
is asked what sort of a race the blacks
ot Australia are, ho promptly answers,
the most degraded race, physically and
intellectually, in the world. Yet tho
black Australian is a match for any
race under the sun, in swimming.diving,
running, climbing, or picking up and
following a trail. Men who can do
these things aro not physically de
graded. "But. my dear sir." the Australian
Hnglislmian will add. "these blacks nro
so low down, mentally, that they haro
never invented a bow and arrow."
But they have invented the boomer
ang, the most ingenious and scientific
ally constructed of projectiles, and tho
only weapon that will do what thn
Irishman wished his gun would do:
"Shoot around tho corner of a hedge."
Necessity is the mother of invention,
and so long as the Australian black
can kill game and enemies with tho
boomerang or spear, he has no occa
sion for inventing a bow and arrow.
The ancient Kgyptian was highly oivil-
i.eii, yci ne never invented an um
brella. A climate where it rains only
once in live years does not provoke tho
most ingenious of men to invent .
portable roof.
If a man is the only creature en
dowed with the ability to laugh, -tho
Australian blacks are intensely human.
Phey have the keenest sense of humor.
and nothing which has a ghost of ,
joke in it fails to provoke them to
laughter. A man looking for a pipe
which lie has in his mouth, or a dog
searching for food upsetting something
on his head, and then running awav.
will make them roll on the ground in
convulsions of laughter.
A traveler once owed his life to their
keen sense of the ridiculous. They
have a bad habit of spearing travelers.
and will follow one for days, keeping
out of his sight until they get a cood
banco to kill him; but they seldom at
tack a man on horseback. They pre
fer to spear him when he is oil hi
horse, eating his lunch or drinking at
water-hole. One day a traveler.
while riding quickly round tho corner
if a patch of scrub, came suddenly
upon a camp of blacks. His horso
slopped short, and sent him Hying over
his head into the middle of tho cainn.
If he had shown the slightest sisrns of
darni, a dozen speais would have been
piivering in his body. Hut he, know
ing them, burst into shrieks of laugh
ter, as if Iks had tumbled headlong into
tin ir camp for a joke. The bucks woro
lolighted; all of thorn began to laugh,
mil the camp was tho scene of men
oiling on the ground, convulsed with
laughter. Instead of niolestinir thn
traveler, they caught his horso for him.
mil sent him away with a laughiny
horns. YoutWa Companion. j.
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WATER FOR ANIMALS
water,
a uat-
water.
Tim Ailviinliiu'i-M ol' It 1 1 it lit 1 1 Sumll tinrliiirc
IntoTnlM or Troughs.
All animals should be provided with
pure water, and with none is it nioro
necessary than with milch cows. Sori-
oiH results have been known to follow
the use of impure or stagnant
It is not every farm that has
ural and unfailing supply of
although many have, a condition that
hould bo observed 111 the putehasoof a
farm, as it is one of the most valuable
considerations that can be named. A
never-failing spring of abundant sup
ply can not be loo highly prized; it
costs nothing for repairs and is always
in good working order; but such bless
ing aro not shared by all, and hencu
irises the necessity of providing somo
irtilicial means of .supply. Wells with
pumps will answer all demands upon
farms with a small number of animals,
but upon farms where they aro num
bered by scores pumping water from a.
well by hand would bo both laborious
and expensive. In such cases thero
would probably bo no better mode of
supply than by wind power, which
when adopted should bo so situated
that the power could be utilized for
other purposes upon the farm. Of
course this is an expensive method of
procuring water, but under some con
ditions becomes a necessity. In a dis
trict witli an undulating surface reser
voirs can bo formed, whereby tho sur
plus of water in autumn and winter
can be stored for summer use, and may
serve satisfactorily. Upon some farms
there are springs, waieh, if utilized
properly, by conducting the water into
troughs, would be amply sulllcient. but
left to themselves are iusiillieieut to do
more than make a mass of mud wliero
the cattle tread continually toslake their
thirst. Quite a small spring run into
some troughs or tubs will furnish an
abundant supply. Uertnunlown Tclc
ijraph.
9 9 m
Down in Georgia they havo con
cluded that the world will come to an.
end in l',177. Their reason for think
ing so is that a hen has laid an egg;
upon the shell of which is plainly "in-
jscribed" the outline of a heart, an
acorn and tho number soventy-seven.
In Cuba, Mo,, a hen has laid an egg
having 011 one side the face of a clock
with distinct Homaii numerals. It
would seem that the hens are likely to
start a kiiidergarteil" after they becomo
a little more proficient in object teaching.
The Princess Piguatolll Is acting
as a waiter girl in a second-rate cafo J11
Vienna. This Is the lady who, attne
luarrellng with hor relatives lately;.'
nine at a London muslo hall for a livw
llhuod. ....