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. . . .