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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. An Epitome of the Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest A fire at Memphis destroyed cotton 4ind buildings valued at $750,000. J Fourteen persons wero killed by an explosion in a coal mine at Greizance, 'Germany. A young man named Rafferty was killed by the upsetting of a hay wagon near Placerville, Idaho. By an explosion of a furnace in Cleveland, Ohio, two men were killed and live others badly injured. Fourteen men were seriously, and it is feared sonic of them fatally injured by an explosion of gasolino at Phila delphia. The official list of tho members of i,ho next House of Representatives shows that it will consist of 1G8 Demo crats, 153 Republicans and four Inde pendents. China officials have reported to the empress dowager thatanamountequal to $12,750,000 will bo required for the young emperor's marriage. An edict has been ordered to raise this .amount. A. A. Cohen, attorney for tho South ern Pacific Railway Company, died -while en route from New York, near t .Sidney, Neb. It is believed that the ' immediate cause of his death was par alysis, though ho had been ill for some months. The Union Pacific has issued a new freight tariff, winch reduces rates from Omaha to all Montana points on an average of ten per cent, on all classes of goods. This action grows out of the Manitoba rate recently promulgated, and which cut the Union Pacific felt bound to meet. A special from Coffee ville, Miss., sayB a, body of men, estimated at 150, went into Pittsborough and demanded of the commissioners that they either deliver up tne oatiot-noxes or issue certificate1, -of election to the labor candidates. The commissioners chose the latter alterna tive, and certificates were issued. At Amsterdam, N. Y., aerolite weigh ing three tons dropped with a loud re port in the main street, making a deep identation in the ground. Great cx- citement was created by the occur y rence and large crowds visited tho ce lestial visitor. Local experts find traces of iron, nickel, aluminum and other metals in the aerolite. William Kibler and others have filed application for a writ of mandamus to compel tho Susquehanna Coal Com pany to produce the bodies of twenty six miners who were buried in the N. 1 slope of that com pan', at Nanticoke, Pa., on the ISth of December, 1885, and whose bodies are still entomed in tho pit. It would cost $200,000 to dig them out. In 1SSG there were handled by the clerks in the railway mail service of letters, ordinary matter and registered packages, through registered pouches and inner registered sacks, 5,315,8-17,-014 pieces. In 1SS7, 5.S5 1,391 ,057, be ing an increase of 505,5IS,013 pieces. During the year 1,73-1,(517 errors in dis tribution was found, making one error for each 3373 pieces handled. Lieut.-Gen. P. II. Shoridan has pre sented his annual report to tho Secre tary of War. At the date of the last consolidated returns, the armv con sisted of 2200 officers and 2-1,220 men, including Indian scouts. Tho lieutenant-general briefly sums up the condi tion of tho various divisions of the army, and says that while it luia been free from Indian hostilities of any mag nitude, many operations of a minor nature have been rendered necessity. The Hancock Chemical Company's -packing house, for dynamite, was blown up at Ishpeniing, Mich. Tho follow ing named men, who wero on tho prem ises, wero annihilated with the build ing: Willio Renaud, Charles Barkel, Thomas Thompson, Tim Crowley, Will Xing and Wm. Lapp. There were 1500 pounds of dynamite in tho build ing. Search was begun immediately for tho bodies of tho six victims. All that was found were a few scraps of ilesh. Tho cause of tho explosion will never be known. Tho annual report of Treasurer Hyatt shows tjiat the revenues of tho Government for tho fiscal year wero -$371,403,277, and ordinary expendi tures $207,932,179, tho surplus of re ceipts available for reduction of the public debt being $103,-171,097. As compared with the previous year, re ceipts increased $3-1,903,559, expendi tures $25,418,010, and surplus reve nues $9,514,509. There was an in crease in every article of revenue, tho largest being in receipts from customs. Tho largest increaso in expenditures was on account of Indians and pen sions, and tho largest decrease on ac count of interest on tho public debt. Jieceipts of the ppstoflice department amounted to $54,752,347, and expendi tures to $53,583,835. Revenues exclu sive of deficiency appropriations, in creased $3,500,405, and expenditures $2,001,249. Tho amount drawn from the treasury to make good deficien cies in the postal revenues was $0,909, 138,as against $8,714,422 in 1880. Five negro laborers wero killed by a dynamite explosion in tho cut on tho extension of tho Nashvillo it Florenco railroad near Nashvillo, Tenn. Tho calamity was tho result of a misunder standing. Tho foreman had sent his hands away to a placo of safety, with orders not to return until he sont for them. He, with one or two hands, remained to charge the holes in tho rocks and fire tho fuses. Five of tho hands came back in tho cut just below facing whore tho blasting was to bo dono, and instantly tons of boulders and earth wero hurled in on them. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. A new picture frame factory has been started in East Portland. Many new contracts have been let for the erectidn of dwelling houses in this city, says a Baker city paper. The grain crop of A. B. Conley, of vSand Ridge, near tho Cove, Union county, amounts to 40,000 bushels. Nine car loads of ore have been re ceived at the reduction works in East Portland from tho Comr d'Alene miues. Notwithstanding the fact that eighty one new residences havo been erected in Astoria the past year, desirable houses are scarce. Regular shipments of flour arc now being made to China by a Portland firm. By the latt Canadian Pacific steamer GOO tons wero forwarded. It was sent by rail to Tacoma nnd thence by boat to Vancouver. The steamer Telephone, tho fastest stern-wheeler probably in tho world, caught fire near Astoria and burned to the water's edgo. All the passengers with one exception (an intoxicated man) escaped without injury. The steamer cost about $45,000. Near tho old mining camp of Clarks ville, a couplo of white men made a raid on a Chinese cabin, and took by force whatever of food supplies they wanted and then wont to the mining claims near by and helped themselves to a $50 clean-up that tho Chinamen had raised from the sluices. Reports of tho coast Hiirvey from Tillamook bay down to the Yaquiim Heads lighthouse, and from Yaquina pier to tho Umpqua, havo just been made by Messrs. Rockwell and Dick ens, of tho United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Much new and im portant information is included in this survey. Southern Pacific officials state that the California it Oregon road will un doubtedly be completed by December 1, and that before tho 10th of tho month through trains will be running to and from Portland. Just as soon as tho last rails are laid General Manager A. N. Towne says that an initial excursion will be run to Portland, to .give busi ness men a chance to see the road and the new territory. John H. llogan, of Dufur, died fiom wounds inflicted by his own hand. Ho had a quarrel with his wife and shot five times at her, one ball aking offi'ct in her arm and one in her hand. He then tfhot himself in the breast, the ball coming out under the shoulder. It was a very unfortunate affair, llogan was a well-to-do farmer, and an old set tler. He leaves a wife and four chil dren. He was quarrelsome when drunk, but generally considered a good citi zen. Martin Chrisman, who came near being murdered on Sucker creek, Ogn., by one Raney, has so far recovered consciousness as to be able to tell all about tho facts in the matter. He whs struck in tho head by a rock thrown by Raney, which knocked him off his mule ; then Raney beat him with a stone and left, him for dead, but seeing him trying to crawl oil', camo back and beat him again, dragged him to an ir rigating ditch, threw him in and piled stones on him. Raney is still at large. James Hamilton, a native of Lanca shire, aged 18 years, an apprentice lad aboard the British bark Lady Law rence, lying at Victoria wharf, Albina, was drowned. Ho was engaged in painting the side of tho vessel from a staging, and, at the time of the acci dent, was leaning against a wheat chuto which projected from tho lower floor of the wharf. Suddenly the chute slipped back and tho lad was precipi tated into the water. Immediately three bravo sailors aboard tho ship, hearing the splash, sprang into tho water to rescue him, but lie did not rise to tho surface. Tho body was re covered about twenty minutes later. Walter Sutton, editor of tho Gold Beach Gazette, at Ellensburgh, Oregon, shot and killed Thomas Cunningham. Cunningham fired one shot at his wife, who ran, and then pointed the pistol at Sutton, but tho latter killed him in stantly. Tho coroner's jury brought in a verdict of justifiable homicide. Family trouble was tho cause of tho shooting. Cunningham, about four years ago, married Lena Zahnizer, a nieco of Sutton's. Ho was a sailor, ad dicted to drinking, and when in his cups quarrelsome, and at times mur derous. He was at these times very abusive to his wife. Sutton is a highly esteemed citizen of Coos county, and was a member of the Legislature of 1855. There are now confined in the Terri torial ponitentiary at Walla Walla 107 prisoners. One of these is a woman from Seattle, two arc colored men, one Chinamen and four Indians, and the others of different nationalities. Tho postoflico at Winlock, W. T on tho lino of tho Northern Pacific, was robbed of $244 by two young men, who boarded a passing train and got away with the money. One of them was ar rested at Silver Lake and the other took to tho woods. A special train of twenty cars.loadod with raisins, left Fresno, Cal., con signed to a firm in Now York. This was the first full train load of raisins over shipped from tho Pacific Coast. Georgo Asmussen, 15 years of age, elevator boy in tho Bancroft building, San Francisco, foil down tho elovator shaft, a distance of sixty feet, and re ceived injpries from which ho died. John Montrule, a teamster, fell under tho wheels of liis wagon near Tybo, New, and was crushed. When found ho was conscious but could not explain the accident. Ho 60on bled to death. COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to 'Washington Territory and California. Near Seattle, W. T., James Young was struck by a falling ,treo and in stantly killed. A boy named Day was drowned in Lake Washington, near Seattle, by the upsetting of a boat. Tho name of the postollico at Burke, Idaho, has been changed by the de partment to Bayard. James Murphy, a miner, was killed in tho Anaconda mine at Butte by a chunk of ore falling on him. August Marks committed suicide at Colusa, Cal., by shooting himself with a bull-dog revolver through the brain. John O. Davis, a prominent Odd Fellow, living near Oakvillo, Cal., died from tho result of having a tooth ex tracted. A great How of blood choked him, suffocation ensuing. At a meeting of tho Bodio Miners' Union, held recently, Hugh O'Hara, financial secretary of tho organization, was found guilty of embezzlemont and expelled from tho union. George Clark, about 50 years old, just arrived from St. Louis, was found dead in his room at the Pico House, Los Angeles. Ho had blown out the gas and been asphyxiated. United States District Judge Hoff man sentenced James Harkins, con victed of bribing ex-United States Com missioner Obeime, to one year's im prisonment and a fine of $2,400. A Portland bridge carpenter named Lurka fell from tho bridge over the Nesqualla river near Mcida, W. T., on the lino of tho Northern Pacific rail road, and was drowned. His body was not recovered. At Los Angeles the jury in the case of Win. Williams, who killed his wife for allowing their child to attend tho theater, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree, with the penalty fixed at imprisonment for life. Within tho past two months tho Fish Commission distributed young trout in California as follows: Ton thousand in the vicinity of Santa Cruz, 10,000 in Ventura county, 10,000 near Colton, and 10,000 near Los Angeles. Tho mining companies of Deer Lodge county, Montana, returning " net proceeds" this year for taxation are tho Granite Mountain, $1,500,000; the Blue Eyed Nellie, $100,000: the Hope, $G8,000, and the Cable, $27,000. Tho board of managers of tho Na tional Soldiers' Iloilie will hold a meet ing in San Francisco for thu purpose of selecting a site for tho Pacific Coast branch of that institution, for which the last congress appropriated the sum of $150,000. West Jones was instantly killed at the Lumpkin mill at Oroville, Cal., while unloading logs from a truck. 1 le had unloaded tho top log, and while getting it out of tho way a second slipped from tho truck, striking him on the head and crushing his skull. R. J. Fleck, a miner, took his wife and son from the mountains to winter in Chico, Cal. In unloading the goods he stepped to the rear and pulled a riflo towards him. It caught and was dis charged. Tho ball entered tho right side and passed clear through tho body, llecried, "My God, I am dying I" and fell dead. His wife and son wit nessed his death. A paper published in the Bitter Root valley, Montana, gives a list of forty- eight residents there who this year raised ninety-seven tons of fruit, mostly apples, which are described as unsur passed for size and flavor. Many thou sands of new trees are being set out, and Bitter Root will soon bo a valley of orchards. It is a valley forty miles long and live to twelve miles wide, be ing not far from Missoula. A fearful tragedy occurred at Gran ite, Montana. C. L. Scott murdered his wife in cold blood. Trouble in tho family seems to have been tho cause. The murderer was discovered lying by the sulo of his murdered wife, seem ingly in a beastly state of intoxication. The officers wore apprised of the facts, and at once proceeded to tho placo whero tho dastardly . deed was com mitted and placed the murderer under arrest. A horrible tragedy was enacted at tho south end of the Montana Central tunnel, near Wickes, Montana. A finish workman jumped outof his bunk in tho house whero a working force of thirty men sleep, Avhipped out his re volver, a 38-caliber self-acting weapon, and without a word fired at John Eld, a fellow-workman, who was standing in tho room scarce six paces distant. The bullet entered tho base of tho brain, and Eld dropped dead on tho instant. Tho murderer then coolly turned to another man, John Limburg, standing near by, and quickly planted another bullet in his head, striking him near the left eye. Limburg fell dead. Tho fiendish man then turned the weapon against his own breast, and completed tho tragedy by shooting himself through tho heart, falling dead without a groait. Tho whole thing happened so sud denly, without any warning, and passed off so quickly, that tho men around, some of whom were still in their bunks, had no time to interfere. Before they had recovered from tho surprise occa sioned by tho first shot tho tragedy was enacted, and three bodies wero stretched out on tho floor as corpses. Tho official report of the catch of whaling vessels for tho Beason shows that a total of 300 whales havo been taken. Tho catch of 39 vessols, now in port at San Francisco, shows a ro sultof 32,331 barrels of oil, 011,352 pounds of bono and 550 of ivory. Tho Ocean is expected to brintr in 450 bar rels of oil and about 11,000 pounds of bono. This will bring tho value of the total catch to nearly $2,000,000. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. Sonic Points nnil InrhliMiM ltecnnllnc the Trnilo In Them. "I wouldn't exactly say," remarked a manufacturer, "that people can get along as well with artificial limbs as they can with artificial teeth, but tho art of industry is fast approaching that stago of perfection. Men and women can eat and drink, play tho violin, write, and do various kinds of light work with artificial arms and hands, and they can dance, skato and run with artificial legs. "The proportion of thoso whoso mis fortunes rcqtiiro the use of artificial limbs is about ono in 12,000 of tho pop ulation. Of these, from twonty-livo to thirty per cent, aro women. Of tho limbs lost, the legs are in tho largo ma jority about seventy-five percent. "A great many aro under the impres sion that tho war made most of tho cripples now living. The fact is that for one person who lost a limb in tho war, twenty to twenty-four lost theirs through .lomo accident on the railways, or in somo other manner nntirclv dis connected from warfare. Tho railroad is the groat source of our business, probably one-half tho cases that como to us being attributable to railway ac cidents." "1 suppose," said tho reporter, "that you mec; with some queer incidents in tho courso of your business?" "Yes, I remember a customer coming to mo not long ago for his soeond arti ficial leg. He had worn tho first for a number of years. lie said ho was in much trouble of mind. Ho was going to get married, and had boon courting his intended for a year and a half, and she did not know but that ho was 'en tirely sound. Tho question in Ins mind was whothor to tell her before, or wait until aftor marriage. I advised him to inform her beforehand, as othorwiso sho might have logal ground to apply for an annulment of tho marriage on the ground of deception. Ho told nio afterward that ho followed my ad vice, and the lady concluded that sho loved him none tho less on account of his misfortune Another singular j incident, but of a different charactor. I was in connection with tho collision of two steamers, one of which had just j started from this port for Europe, and had to put back again on account of the damage. Nono of tho passengers i wero injured by tlio ncoidont, and a friend jokingly remarked in my pros i enco that 1 wouldj no doubt, bo groatly j disappointed that thero was no loss of i limb, as 1 would therefore got no revenue from the occurrence. Strangely enough, the day following a man from Ohio walked into my oflieo and said that ho wanted an artificial log. Ho related that he had been a passenger on tho steamer which had to put back on account of tho collision, having started from his homo in Ohio to pay a visit to Europe. When the vessel re turned to port ho concluded, on reflec tion, to give up his European trip and to oxpend tho mono ho had reserved for tho trip in providing himsolf with a new artificial leg in placo of tho ono wnieh he then wore. So it seems that the collision of thoso two steamers brought business .Cter all." "Who supply limbs for tho soldiors?" "The business is distributed among different manufactures, nearly, if not, all in the largo cities of tho Atlantic coast. No Union soldier who has lost a limb in tho war need bo without an artificial one. Northern manufacturers also supply a good many artificial.liinbs to Confederate veterans, on tho orders of States of tho South that havo mado provision for tho maimed of tho Lost Cause; but a great many of tho South ern veterans are unprovided, for tho reason that the appropriations for their relief are not sufficiently frequent and adequate." "Of private cases, do tho greator number come from tho city or coun try?" "I think tho danger of city and coun try life arc about even, so far as tho artificial limb trado is an indicator. The mowing machine is a fair set-oft to tho horso cars." N. . Sun. Soiling Crops for Sheep. It has been claimed by somo that ifc was impracticable to feed soiling crops to sheep, becauso of tho liability of disease when they are kept in small in closures, hut this may bo guarded against by moving them frequently onto fresh feeding grounds. To do this, Inutile fences should bo provided that can bo handled easily and not moro than eighty or ono hundred sheep should be kept in a llock. Racks should bo used, placing thorn on tho shady sido of tho field when thero is one, and a mod erate quantity of green food should be placed lu thoso threo times a day. When used for soiling sheep, tho clover, millet, oats, corn, rye, or whatovor crop is used, should not bo allowed to ripon, as tho sheep will eat it with hotter relish when fine and juicy. Live-Stock Jour nal. In somo European countries ve hicles with narrow vires pay heavy toil, while broad tires go freo: A now vil lage ordinance of Medina makes it an offense for a load weighing over 3,500 pounds to bo drawn upon any macad amized, paved or improved street on a wagon with tires loss than four inches in width. Tho penalty for violation is twenty-five dollars. It would groatly benefit country roads if moro broad tiros wore used, and if the width be tween wheols on different vehicles wore not so uniform as at present. Indian apolis Journal. The Inconvenience of having two wives, both living and looking for blood, has caused a Texas editor to evuporateto South America. Arkansas Qatttli. MONGOLIAN TARTARS. Hoy. 1'ntlirr Oiinily'. Itorltnl of Ten Yo.ir' I.ittmr with TIhiii. A strangoly-attirod Belgian priest arrived on a recent steamer from China. Hois Rn. Father A. Gundy, president of tho It tnian Catholic mis sions in M uigolia, whoro ho has been arduously laboring for ton year3 past. Ho is a man of about forty years of age, with a full flowing beard and a rich silken gown of an oriental de sign. Other marks of dress betokon him a resident of a land most remote from ours. A reporter sought an inter view with him. Said he: "My life work has boon with tho Ta r tars who inhabit Mongolia, and tho scenes of my work havo been closo by the groat wall of China. The commer cial emporium of Mongolia is Kalgan, a town of 10.000 inhabitants. It is hero that tho Russians como to buy chamois skins and tea, which tho Chinese resi dents of Mongolia raiso in immonso quantities. Tho Mongolians themselves dospiso tilling tho ground, and as tho land belongs to tho different tribes, .heir chiefs havo boon soiling it off to the ChinesV. "Tho Mongolians aro descend ants of the old Tartars, and raiso tons of thousands of cnttlo nnd horses. Ho yond this t hoy do nothing except hunt. They aro a wild, ungovernablo race, living in touts. They aro niagnilieont horsemen, soniothing liko your wild Indians. Their religion is Tartaric Buddhism. Ono of thoir sacred tem ples is at Knnhun. In Thibot. thn great toniplo of U Lassa is constructed after tho manner of nn Indian Budd hist temple. Only one or two Euro peans havo over boon admitted within its .sacrod precincts. Thoy think thu mere admission of a foreigner within its portals would forever defile it. "Tho Russians who tried to invade this country threo years ago havo re linquished their ell'orts. They 'got two consulates established on tho Mon golian coast, and thoy havo had to give way. Thoy now havo open ports as far as Poking, but no further. All tho talk you hoar of invasions from tho Russians now goes for nothing. Mongolia is under tho domain of China. "The country is largely a desort, al though with water it is exceedingly productive. Thero aro very rich mines of copper and silver as well as mag nificent beds of coal. Mongolia is colder than China, and consequently tho inhabitants, although dressing somewhat liko tho Chinese, put on moro clothes. Thoy aro unliko tho Chinese ontirely otherwise, being mora aggressive and warlike. Thoy aro not a tractablo raco by any moans. "Hunting tho chamois is groat sport with tho Mongolians. Thoy aro skilled horsemen and dead shots with their weapons, a variety of which thoy use. Thoy aro also skillful with tho dart. "In tho ton years that I havo boon there wo havo succeeded in converting about twouty-live thousand of these wild Tartars. Though wild they aro open to civilizing and humanizing in fluences; but thero aro so many of them, and their country is so large, that it takes a long while to mako mmh cll'oct upon them as a mass." The reverend gentleman is accom panied by a wealthy resident of Brus sels, Viscount do Roughen), who has boon making a tour of lortnin parts of Mongolia and studying up tho habits of tho natives. Sun Francisco Exam iner. DANGERS OF BENZINE. Why tho Utmost Cunt Should llu 13vr olwttil ill HllllltllllK Somo weoks ago in a Philadelphia music printing establishment, whilo a boy was engaged in cleaning a press with benzine, rubbing it with a rag, tho fluid bla.isd up; tho lad's clothing caught lire, and ho was so severely burned that his recovery was stated to bo doubtful. It has boon popularly supposed that Uamc, or at least a tem perature equal to tho whito or rod boat of iron, was necessary to ignito bon zino, but this is a mistake. It is a fact little known that hard friction can develop sufficient heat to inflanio benzine vapor, especially if tho surface rubbed bo varnished with shollac. Wo aro informed by a competent and truthful mechanical en gineer that a fow years ago (whilo try ing with bonzino in a closod tin vessel to construct a thorhu-iat to ignite a powder giving out sulphurous gas in ease of firo outbreak), ho found that tho vapor was leaking from a minute crack in a soam. Ho requested a tin man to soldur tho leak, supposing that a copper soldering tool at dark boat would nor bo dangerous. To his sur priso and that of tho workman, tho vapor ignited, witli a blue flame, as soon as tho tool approached near tho crack, and a llanio played around the tool liko a will-o'-thc-wisp. This gen tleman several times experimented afterward and found that at a dark heat tho tool did not inllamo tho vapor whon at a distance of twelve inchos from tho crack,,but did always set flro to it if within six to four inches. No matter how small tho crevice, thoro always camo out enough vapor to Ignito at this low de gree of temperature. In thoso trials, as In the first instance, tho tin-man's furnace was kept at a considerable distance. Wo moiitiouod a few mouths since a caso in which this vapor was ignited by electricity gonoratod in rubb'ng a llaiiuol garment, which was being cleaned iu a tub of the fluid. ThN last ocein ronco ouca moro em phasizes tho need of tho utmost cau tion in tho handling of bonzino In tho scouring nd furniture establishments and printing offices, in which It is so generally and ixiouslvely mado use nLFiftunil Water. TRIBES OF TONQUIN. They T.lvo In llitinhoo Huts anil Aro Cnro Ic ami Apathetic. The huts of tho principal tribes aro constructed of wood and built upon piles. Tho walls aro of braided bam boo, mado in such a mamior thaL oven when tho windows and doors are closed, thero is littlo difficulty in reading and writing within, tho poor braiding allowing tho entrance of light, Tho roof is also mado of bam boo covered with palm-leaves. Not a singlo nail or pin is used in the con struction of thoso hottsos. When a now one has been completed the head of tho family makes grand prepara tions to properly colehrato the ovonL according to his moans. Oxen aro killed, wine is drunk, pipes smoked, and there is gonoral rejoicing on tho part of tho family and its guests. In toxication, however, is rarely mot with on these occasions. The interior of tho hut corresponds in simplicity with its exterior. In order to gnln admission it is necessary to first climb tho ladder suspended from tho door; beforo entering tho feet are bathed in a long bamboo tnbo filled with water, as shoes are but littlo worn. As thero is no outlet for tho smoke arising from tho lire-place ex cepting through tho roof and tho crevices at tho sides tho room is con stantly tilled with it Threo largo stones servo as a tripod. Shelves con taining rice, salt and othor articles o food aro ranged about the room. Knives, hatchets and thoindispensablo bamboo tube containing fresh water aro conveniently placed. On what may bo considered tho ground floor fowls, pigs and othor domestic animals mako their home. Rico is tho principal food, and thoy obtain a very delicate llavor by st nam ing it through a bamboo tube. Smok ing is indulged in to a considerable ex tent. Thoso peoplo are, gonorally spoak ing, somewhat careless, apathotic and without fu.tr for tho morrow. Ibmco. they livo in a -sort of hand-to-mouth fashion, confining themselves to tho cultivation of tho nni row strips of land at tho foot of the mountains. Tim fields aro very small, and water is fre quently brought to thorn by moans of canals. Tho mon work tho fiolds with a light plow, but often disponso ovon with that, and uso a harrow, thu tooth of which aro mado of bamboo. Or dinarily thero aro two harvests, excep ting in certain districts, where tho winters aro too sovoro. Tho mon rise at daybronk at all soa soiis of tho year, smoke their pipes, lounge about the house for a time, thou work in tho fields until about ten. or cloven o'clock, when thoy return for breakfast. A short sleep is thon indulged iu. Tho afternoon is spout in roaming about tho mountains, fish ing, hunting or gathering bamboo. Tho evening is passed at homo. At about eight o'clock tho only other inoal of tho day is partaken of. Thoir dross resembles that of tho Auamites. 'I ho women hero, liko thoso of most other wild tribes, aro tho roal la borers. Thoy pound and gal her hi tho rice, bring ilrowood from tho mountains, spin cotton, mako cloth, prepare tho meals, and, in a word, do almost all that is to bo dono. Popular Science Monthly. EXCESSIVE COLD. SiiKKOHtlonH Coucornliu; thn Thiuvlnj; Out Of I'OI'NUIIH IS.Y llONUll to J t. Many persons havo tho idea that lifo is ondangorod only, if tho patient bo brought too suddenly from tho cold into ti warm place. Thoy beliovo that, if ono proceed vory carefully and slowly with tho wanning, tho cold can never produce a lasting injury to tho system. Thero is certainly no doubt liial Hiuldon wanning is vory dangor ous, and that a groat deal doponds upon the right troatiuont of tho frozen limb. Experiouco shows that, whilo somo people havo frozen joints troatotl iu such a manner that thoy aro com pletely restored, othors aro less fortu nate, and suffer frequently iu aftor yours. But ono must admit that in tense cold alone, without bolng fol lowed by sudden warming, which proves so disastrous, suffices to causa severe suffering. In this rospect. a groat deal depends on tho naturo ot tho person. If very Biiddon transi tions from boat to cold and from cohl to boat bo avoided, a healthy person can withstand intonso cold with out sorious conscquoncos, espe cially if ho bo inontally active, ouorgotio and muscular, and has a sound heart that is, if his pulso bo regular and strong. A robust person can withstand tho tompor aturo at which alcohol and mercury freeze. Mombors of North-Polo ex peditions have experienced tompor at tires of fifty or moro dogroos bolow novo without suffering harm. Howovor, It happons not unfro quontly that oven niodoratoly cohl weather, when tho thermometer is but a few degrees bolow tho freezing point, causos serious ills, and some times oven fatal results. This is apt to linppon to poisons who nro anui mlc, poorly fod, offonilnato or montnl y depressed. Old men, childron, imuuiio girls, drunkards, and pooplo with a weak heart, aro all liable to bo frost-bltton, and easily freozo to doath f thoy succumb to sloop whilo ox poBod to intonso cold. Thoy fall Intor .x sort of stupor, sit down to rost, soon fall asloop, and in most instances never awake. For a long tiino thoy .oiualn In a condition bordorlug prf -loath; thoy broatho a littlo, und tho heart makes feeble attompts to main tain tho circulation of tho blood. Or, Von Nttstbaum, in 1'opular Science Monthly. . . .