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COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Waihington Territory and California. At Siseons, Cal., there is three feot ot gnow on tho ground. At Tacoma, W. T., A. B. Nelson almost Bovered his hand with an ax. There aro a number of cases of measles in Boiso City, Idaho. A man named Lafayette Hood jumped from tho passenger train near Dixon, Cal., and was instantly killed. William Schick and Hiram Good win wore thrown out and Goodwin run over and killed by a runaway team, at Pomona, Cal. The miners of the Comstook now work ten hours a day, receiving $4, tho price formerly paid for an eight hour shift. Ed. Emery, of Emery, Mack fc Wood, eawmill operators, was drowned at Aberdeen, W. T. Ho was aged 2G, and single. A man named Johnson cut Ella worth Benson's throat at Atusa, Cal. Benson first shot at Johnson. Benson died from the effects of his wounds. Sesario Arniola, an Italian woman, was burned to death in her room, at San Francisco, by tho explosion of a coal oil lamp. There are sixty-four flouring mills in Washington Territory, with an esti mate capacity of 3,885 barrels per diem. Claude Glonn, 59 years old, died at Tehachapai, Cal., from injuries re ceived from a collision between a horse he waa trying to catch and one ho was riding. Irwin, who with John S. Prewott and fourteen otherB conspired to kill Dr. A. W. Powers two years ago at Hol lister, Cul., has been sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin. A bill has been introduced in the "Washington Territory Legislature pro hibiting persons holding the offices of Sheriff and Treasurer in any county in the Territory for more than two terms. Eva Cox, 3-year-old daughter of J. 31. Cox, a farmer residing near Fresno. Cal., waa scalded te death. Tho child was playing in the kitchen and fell backward into a tub of boiling hot water. cveral young men of Mooro's Flat, Cal., went to Chinatown and attempted to capture the settlement. ChiueM) fired ten or twelve shots at their as sailants, probably fatally wounding Blaze Sullivan, aged 21. Wm. Campboll committed suicide at North Bloomfield, Cal., by shooting himeclf with a revolver. Campbell waa formerly clerk of Tehama county, and until recently waa held in high esteem by his employers. The San Jose (Cal.), council has passed an ordinance prohibiting tho sale of tobacco to boys under sixteon years and making it a misdemeanor for boys under that age to smoke or chow in public places. Among tho passengers on tho steam ship from San Diego which arrived at .San Francisco, was Frank It. Whet niore, in charge of police officers. Whetmore was a partner in tho firm of Warren &. Co., stockbrokers, and absconded sotne time ago with several thousand dollars belonging to the firm. While George Baker and Alexander Goofs wore in iking some repairs in a Homing mill at San Francisco. A large mass of flour and barloy dust was ignited by their torch and ex ploded, burning them severely. On his whaling voyage just onded, Captain Baldry, of tho steam whaler Orea, San Francisco, killed thirty-five whales, stowed twonty-eight (all he had room for) and brought into port 2,800 barrels of oil and 48,000 pounds of botu tho largest GAtch on record and valued at about $2(56,880. Governor Zulick has pardoned Bar ney Biggs, serving n life sentence in tho Territorial prison at Yuma, A. T., on condition of his leaving tho Terri tory. Bigga was tho prisoner who assisted in keeping down the insurrec tion of convicts tome time ago, and in saving the lifo of Superintendent Gates. A distressing accidont occurred at tho Tahoma mine, at Mountain Home, Idaho, whereby Oscar Goblo and Riley Boatwick were severely injured. While in the mine some giant powder ex ploded near Ihoir heads. How it came to ignito is not know. It had the ef fect of destroying the sight of both of Goble's eyes and one of Bostwick's. At Fresno, Cal, while Willy Buck, 10 yeare old, was trying to lasso a dog Tvith a long rope by which he waa leading a mulo, the noose caught him around the body, and the mule be coming frightened, dragged him over a field, breaking his back, and killing him in view of hia parents. Tho body of a sailor waa found in San Diego bay. A tub, in which waa a full sailor outfit of clothing, all clean and carefully cared for, waa attached to tho body with a line, and the theory of the coroner was. that the man do seated from tho ship, put his clothes in tho tub and attempted to swim ashore, but his legs becamo entaugled in tho rope and he had drowned. M. D. Babcock, inventor of the fire extinguishing apparatus bearing his name, diod at tho almshouse at San Francisco, aged 70 years. Tho cause of death waa toftening of the brain. At ono time he was in icceipt of $10,000 a month for royalty on hie machines, but after selling patent rights tho money waa soon spent, and for some years he wanderfd about the State in a destitute condition. About ix years ago he waa admitted to tho almshouse, where ke remainod until k'n death. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Into rest in a Condensed Form. A new M. E. church is being built at Gold Hill. Centcrvillo has organized a company of Oregon National Guard. The yearly shipment of bullion from Jackson county aggregates $100,000. Saloon licenses in Bakor City havo increased from $300 to $100 a year. Tho survey of the Grand Roude res ervation has been completed. A porcupine was recently killed on tho mountains neer Weston. These animals are very scarco in Oregon. Tho Northern Pacific runs a train of sovon or eight cars over the switch back every hour. There aro forty-two patients at tho Spokane hospital, a number of whom came from outside the city. During the paat year there wore 130 business failures in this State, with liabilities of $048,500 ; assets, $38 1,500. Cattle aro reported poorer and grass shorter this year in Harney valley than waa ever known before. Sanger has but three ladies, while her malo population numbers over flirty. A company has been incorporated at Enterprise for tho purpose of build ing a flouring mill. Two wash-house Chinamen were murdered at Monmouth, and their bodies were thrown into a well. Tho object was robbery. John Glick waa sentenced by Judge Ieon to eightoen months in tho peni tentiary. Glick is a Baker county horse thief. Sportsmen havo been able U find a fow doer on tho desert, but tho mulo deer, onco so plentiful in Eastern Oregon, aro becoming almost extinct, The pupils i the muto school at Salem will soon commence the publi cation of a small monthly paper in the interests of the school. At Meilford tho Episcopal Church people have secured a handsome building site, and expect to erect a cuurch thereon. The city council of Junction havo passed an ordinance compelling all persona engaging in the laundry busi ness at that place to pay a license of $50 per tpiarter of $200 por year. Tho Northern Transportation Com pany has filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. The liv cororators are Holt C. Wilson, Jos Delay, J. H. Stefl'en and Joseph Good, Capital stock, $30,000; principal office, l'ortland. Tho M. E. Church of Burns, Grant county, has hied articles of incorpor ation with tho Secretary of State. In corporators, P. S. Stemyer, J. O. B Embree, J. II. Pratt, Amy Byrd and W. C. Byrd. The object is dhino worship. Cook county exchange : For moro than three months Cook county has not hud a pauper to support, nor has there been an indigent family to be supported by the chanties of tho peo plo in Prinevillo this winter. At Benton, the wife of Wealey Roy, a farmer, bore him a quartette of boys and girls, two boys and two girls. This is remarkable as it is tho first ot tho kind that evor occurred in this State. All of the children and mother aro doing well. M. Wilkins, commissary at the pon "itontiary, has received from Dr. Lano tho appointment as steward of tho asylum, vice W. J. Irwin, resigned. H. J.. Ellis, chapel guird, will tuc :eed Mr. Wilkins, and D. D. Dickey, captain of the guard, will take Ellis' old plaoo. Mrs. Severs, who lives on the Sandy near Cherryvillo, while in an opiloptio fit fell on tho kitchen stove and waa so badly burnod that she diod within two hours after the terrible accidont oc curred. She waa alone at tho time, and after recovering consciousness got off tho stove and went out of doors, where she was fonnd by the neighbors As tho road on tho Siskiyou moun tains is eoft and in poor condition, the railroad company will koop four stages there in caso of accident. A sli-ie of earth may cover the track at any timo so that it may not be possible to move it inside of several days. It is then that tho stage? will provo handy. D. R. King, aged about GO, boarded the down train at the Pendleton depot on his way home near Nolin. When tho train reached tho curve just across tho bridge, about a milo below town, Mr. King, while attempting to walk from ono cur to another, was thrown headlong from-the car plut'orm to tho rocks below, a distance of twelve feot, and was instantly killed. Governor Ponnoyer has addressed a letter to the commissioner of tho gen eral land office at Washington, stating that Col. Elliott, special agent, has forwarded reports to that office of all his examinations of swamp landa in Oregon, and Col. Shacklo'ord has in formed him that all of his reports will bo completed aud forwarded by tho 1st of Fobruary next, and asking tho commissioner in act at once upon such reports, and cause patents to isauo as to tho stato of all swamp lands 60 re ported, on or before tho 1st of March next. Ho also informed tho commis sioner that tho Stato relinquished all claims to lands embraced in list No. 38, rejected by tho land office March 21st, 1883, for want of proof, but which lands are yet withdrawn from sottle moht in the local land offices, except us to filch landa concerning which supplemental proofs have been fur niched, and asking that with these exceptions the lands embraced in said Hit be opened fer settlement. , SAVING A LIFE. A Younp Jinn TVlln Whr Ho I No Longer In tlio Itrro limine. i am a good swimmer, and, I am I old, noted for my fonts of skill am' enduranco in tho water. If I wasn't 1 wod.l not bo alive now to toll ni) story. My knowledge of tho art, combined with a perfect confidence in mysolf, have, on tlireo different occasions, saved my life, when others, giving mi' up for lost, havo stood by, watching mo nearly drown, without an attempt at rescue, although sonio of thorn woro capital swimmers. Of course, they yelled and rushed inndiv about, anil throw things in tho water, and shouted crazy commands, but not ono of them would risk his piv clous life for mine. I thoroughly dotost such cowardice. ' Though I have always burned to dis tinguish myself in saving lifo. ami have often purposely gone whero my services in that lino might bo needed, it was only recently that tho longed for emergency came to enable mo to prove myself the brave and fearless man that 1 know I was. It happened thiswise. Attached to tlio hotel where I was boardi'ig was an immense cistern so deep and dangerous that its vicinity was a forbidden playground for the children. I, as was my custom, was lounging on the beach in front o tho hotel, watching the bathers, especially the venturesomo ones, and hoping that ono of them might give mu tho desired chance to rescue him, or rather her, from tho breakers beforo all tho pooplo there and bo crowned a hero, with my mime conspicuously printed in all tho pavers. O.io beautiful girl in particular 1 noticed, and each timo she tossed her shapely bare arms from tho water my heart leaped in my throat, for I thought lny dream of rescuing a lovely heiress and then marrying her was about to ho ren'izod. As her handsome f rm floated grace fully oi the crest of tho waves farther and farther from tho shore. I grow more excited over tho glorious pros pect of heroism before mo. The. thundering surf was very high and filled with sand, showing tho ebb ing tido was making a strong under tow. Recklessly or ignorant of danger my angel continued to increase tho dis'.aiicii between herself and safety. 1 would havo, hallooed to her but for the grand feeling within mo that I was there able and anxious to save her. Jo-it then a female's agonized shriek from tho direction "f tho hotel brought mo to my senses. Morn shrioks and a hurrying crowd toward tho cistern told me tii.it my hour of triumph hud arrived. My nerves suddenly seemed as iron, my head grow cool, and 1 felt, now ut last on trial, that I was moro ilyui equal to tho awful emergency be fore ine. I certainly preferred to reseuo an hr.'ross from tho moro romantic ocoan, hi'.t 1 thought while pushing my way through the terror-stricken crowd Hy ing to gaze into the dark and ugly cistern that perhaps saving her little brother or sister might bo also re warded with heart and hand. "Tommio had fallen into tho cistern!" 1 waited to hoar no more. "Mako way!" I cried, as without, taking timo to remove even my coat I plunged fearlessly into that black aid chilling rain water. I opened my eyes and tried to soe, hut llie frightened hoads above mo shut, out all light. I dove and groped this way ami that, vainly trying to find tho unconscious hodv of tho drowning hild. 1 listened for its cry, hut tho noiso above prevented my hearing. Tho suspense was horrible. 1 swam to tho opening to shout for light and air, when down dropped a heavy ladder, hitting mo between tho oyoj, partially stunning and forcing mo down, strati- -nsi to tho slimy, nasty bottom, .there in that hideous trap, if a colored waiter hadn't at onco climbed down id hauled mo up and out, 1 would have miserably perished in trying to save tho lifo of Tommio tho cat who crawled up tho ladder after us, looking no loss ridiculous than I, gasping anil dripping, on the cistern box, with my ijiir bather covered with a shawl laugh ing at us both, mid offering a quarter u tho man who jumped in after hor darling Toininie. I'm not in the life-savin.g buslnoss aiy more. II. V. Bodge, in Yankee Wade. One for the Microbe. M'-a. Noseup had always contended that her husband's tobacco habit was u vilo and injurious one. "There," said Mr. Nosotip, turning from his scientific journal, "it is said there are no mlcrohoa to bo found in tobacco." 'That's whero tho microbo shows his good souse, Hv. Nosoup." Chicago New it. The schooner M. A. Button re cently hrousht to Gloucester from La II nvo hault most peculiar sua mon ster, unlike any thing seen 1)' tho ohl ot fishermen (lure. It was four foot long and flvo Inches thick; had ono dorsal fin, extending ihn whole length of its back, aud a triangular-shaped bond, tho lower jaw extending two inches beyond the upper. Both jaws were armed with very sharp teeth. Tho upper jaw had thron long prongs at tho oxtromo tip. This quuor fish will bo sont to tho Smithsonian Insti tute. -There has beon a fall of red snow In Alleghony, Vx., and it just mutches ino mua or mat region. FRENCH CHILDREN. T.tttte Sinn nnil Women who Allan no Fn vnr to Go Uniirktmwlodcoil. Politeness with tho French is a mattor of education as well as nature. Tho French child is taught that lesson from the beginning of its existenco, and it is made a part of its life. It is tho one thing that is never forgotten, and lack of it is novor forgiven. Tho shipwrecked Frenchman who could not got into a boat, as ho was disap pearing under tho waves, raised Ills hat, and with such a bow as ho could mako under tho circumstances, said, "Adion, niosdames ! Adieu, mos siours !" and went to tho fishes, doubt not that it really occurred, for 1 havo seen ladies splnhod by a cab on a rainy day smilo politely at tho driver. A roco that has women of that dogreo of politeness can never bo any thing hut polite. When such ox osperation as splashed skirts and stockings will not rufllo them nothing will. Tho child ron are delightful in this particular. French children do not go about clamoring for tho best places and sulking if tliov do not get Ihom, and talking in a rude, boisterous way. They do not take favors or attentions as a matter of course and unacknowl edged. The slightost attention shown thorn is acknowledged by tho sweotest kind of a bow not tho dancing-mas-tor's bow, but a gonulno ono and the Inviirlablo "Merei, monsieur!" or madatne, or mademoiselle, as the caso may 1k I was In a compartment with little French boy of twelve, tho ago at yvhieh American children, as a rulo, dqsorve killing for their rudeness and general disagreeahloness. H was dressed faultlessly, hut his clothes woro not the chief charm. I sat between hiin and tho open window, and ho was oivtlug pear:. Now an American bo of that ago would havo dropped the cores upon tho tloor. or have tossed them out of tho window without a word to any bod B it this small gentleman every time, with a "Permit ino. mon sieur." said in the most pleasant way. rose and eaino to the window and dropped them out and then, "Merei, monsieur." as ho q'lictly took his seat. It wai a delight. I am sorry to say that juch small boys do not travel on American railroads to any alarming e.xtoti. Would they were moro fre quent. And when in his seat, if an elderly person, or any one olse, camo in, ho was the very first to riso and offer his place, if it woro in tho slightest de gree more- eomfortahlo than tho ono vaea.it. and tho good nature with which ho insisted upon tho now-eomor taking it was something "altogether too sweet f r any thing," as tho faro hankeress would say. And this hoy was no oxcop'lon. Tlo was no show boy o"t posing liefore the great A neriuan "epiihlic, or such of it us happenod to he in Franco at that time, but ho was a sample, a typo of tin regulation Frone.h child. 1 havo seen just ns much politeness in the ragged waif.? in the Faubourg St. An loini', where the child never saw tho blue iky more than tho lilllo patches that rould ho soon over tho tops of seven-storied houses, as 1 evor did in the Champs Klyseo. One Sunday at St. Cloud, whero the ragged children of poverty aro taken by their mothers for idr and light, it was n delight to fill tho pockots with sweets to givo thorn. The' had no money to buy, and tho little human rats looked longing at tho riches of tho candy stands, and a sou's worth made tho difference bnlweou perfect happi ness anil half-pleasure. You gave them tho sou's worth and what a glad smile camo to tho lips, and neooin pan hid with it was' a delicious hail bow mud half courtesy, and invariable "Mcivi, monsieur." Ono littlo tot, who could not sponk, filled luir tiny mouth with the unheard dolicaol -s she had lvieeivo I, and, too young to say "Moroi," put up hor lips to ho kissed. Church Union. Ingenuity on Both Sides. A gentleman about to close his sum mer iiouso at Nahaut conceived what ho considered a brilliant idea to in sure tho daily personal inspection of overy room in his villa during tho winter by the old man in whoso charge the establishment was to ho left. Accordingly, ho said to tho old man that ho hhoitld leave rll his clocks, one In each room, at Nahant during the whiter, and ho desired that every ono should bo wound up at a regular hour each dav. Tho old man concurred In tho plan witlr nil his heart, and promised lie Would not fail. Tho hoitso was closed. Tho owner bragged a good doal about his schomo for having every room guarded agaiurft leaks, etc., during the winter, and camo to Boston. A week or two afterward this gontleiuau thought ho would tako a run down to Nahant, and seo how things were going. When ho arrived there ho found his man, u ho was very glad to seo him, nil I told him that he wound each clock taiilitully as ho had directed. Oi neriug tho house the two proceeded In tho roar drawing room, and the astonishment of the owner may be heller imagined than de scribed when ho saw ranged along hi a row his thirteen clocks, which the old man had brought down to savo himself tho trouble of going all over tho hotiBo evor day. Hoston Gazette. The telephone between llorllu and Hamburg lias been used no much that the managers havo lately shortened tho timo for a single couvereatlon from five minutes to threo mlniitos, without, howover, reducing tho price. A'. Y. Ledger. , HOW MIRRORS ARE MADE. How IIimicIi riccrn of I'lntn (lint Aro MhiIh Inlo (lorcnnui Mirror. One of the factories in Chicago cm ploys somo one hundred and fifty men and boys, aud its spacious four floors present an interesting series of sights to the visitors whoso nerves aro steel and tympani proof against splitting. On tho first tloor ho will seo huge stacks and piles of glass in assorted sizes, ranging from sixteen feet by seven squares down to tho smallest ovals for mirrors. Theso are all polished, somo being run over huge felt-covered wheels kept powdered with rouge, and the larger sheets scrubbed by sweating toilers with hand blocks covered with felt liko a printer's proof planer in rouge. After tho glass is thoroughly polished it is taken up to tho next floor, where it is laid on tables and cut into U'ie sizes ordered. It then passes into the hands of tho borders, who, with sand and water and large grind stones, artistically finish the edges ol .the glass. It takes a trip upward again, to another lloor, and is once more put through a polishing process to remove any scratches or blemishes tiiat may be on tho glass. After every spot or scratch, no mat ter how minute, has been re moved, careful hands convey the now beautiful and sparklingglass to tho room where it goes through tho final process the silvering. Huge tables of cast iron 'or stone, made like billiard tables, with raised edges, aro used in tho silvering room. These tables are of great strength and solidity, aud all around the edge is a drain, for the superfluous mercury is pourod over tlio tables in quantities Mtllleient to float tho glass, iwhich, after being tinfoiled, is gently and carefully pushed across tho table containing iho mercury. Great care must bo used to prevent, blomishe, the least speck of dust being ruinous to the miiror. Mercury, like molten load, is alwivys covered with a dirty-looking scum which can not ho removed by skimming. Tlio least bit of this scum would spoil the mirror, so tlio difficulty is obviated by shoving tho scum along with tho edge of tho glass. After suc cessfully floating tho glass on tho mer cury, a woolen cloth is spread over the whole surface and square iron weights are applied until tho vrholo presents a a compact mass of iron, two or three pounds to tho square inch. After this pressure has been confined for ten or twclvo hours, tho weights aro removed and tho glass placed upon another table of wood with a slightly inclined top. The inclination is gradually in creased until tho unaniejgainated quick silver has drained away and only tho perfect amalgam remains, coating tho glass aud perfectly adherent. This ends the process, and the erstwhile rough piece of plate glass emerges iroin tlio silvering room a gorgeous mirror. Western Manufacturer. ANURADHAPURA'S RUINS. An (Mil City or (Intuitu In tlio Kurtlln Island of Ovlon. Some slight idea of thosizo of ancient Anuradliapura may bo gathored frorti the fact that tlio ruins at present dis closed extend for n distance of at least four miles from north to south by about two and a half from east to west, tho whole of the space inclosed being cor era! with remains, whilu it is becoming more apparent every day that theso fictitious boundaries by no means rep resent tho former limlLs of the city. Whether the gigantic measurements ascribed to it in the "Mabawanso" will over be verified, must, for tho present, remain an open question, as it wHltako a considerable time to trace the various connections between the extreme limits ,to which the city reached. Tho work already done, however, has made clear oncoit wo important points. It is quite evident that all tho secular buildings, palaces and privalu dwellings woro in tho north western quarter of tho town; that the other three-quarters were entirely covered with temples, monas teries, statues, rclio shrines, ihtgohux and various other ecclesiastical elect ions; that thero was a great street run ning from the peculiar quarter right through the sacred part of tho town toward (aud piobably up to) the sacred mountain of Mihiatate, eight miles to the eastward, and that tho ecclesiastical section of tho town was pierced by sev eral cross streets, two of which aro now being completely unearthed and par tially restored. This entirely agrees with the most authentic account wo have from nn eye witness of ancient Anuradliapura tho description given by the Chinese traveler, Fa Hian, in the early part of tho fifth century of our era. One detail in his description has been curiously and exactly verified. After wpeaking of tlio gigantic monu ments creeled in honor of Buddha, and of tho gems and gold that adorned his statues, and describing tho Bo-tree (our great ami illustrious sovereign Lord, the Sacred Bo-tree, as its worshipors call It) in language that is almost liter ally applicable to It at the present day, he goes on to say: "Tlio city is tho resi dence of many magistrates, grnndeofc and foreign merchants; the mansions beautiful, the public buildings richly adorned, tho streets and highways straight and love), and houses for preaching built at every thoroughfare." Quite recently, while excavating tlio upper portion of one of tho newly dis covered cross streets, a sfnall building was unearthed which lookod suspicious ly likoouoof the preaching hallrfalluded to by tho Chinese monk. Macmillan'a Magazine. That gifled South Carolina boy who feeds upon gravel will bo a man of n good deal of sand if he grows up. N. J'. Sun. v Over $20,000 h year Is spent bj Quakers for tobacco. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. , It is said that tlio Bolgian glass workers aro rlow preparing to maka glass into various shapes and patterns by running sheets of it at just tho right temperature to work nicely through: steel rollers. The question as to what Is tho exact mechanical equivalent of boat has long puzzled engineers. Tho latest experi ments show that ono pound of water raised ono degrco Fahrenheit, is equal to ono pound lifted 709 feet. Philadel phia llccord. The Pittsburgh Iron World says that Pittsburgh stcol-inakors havo es tablished agencios for the sale of tho liner grades of steol suitable for inaking cutlery in Europe, India and Australia. Their sales havo beon so considerable, as to practically guarantee an estab lished trade. Steel has been sold in competition with an English-mado arti cle at tho same price. An investigation as to the height of summer clouds, made in Sweden, under tho auspices of tho Iioyal Scien tific Society of Upsala, shows that clouds occur most frequently at heights of twenty-throo hundred and fifty-five hundred feot. In the summers of 1881 and 18Sj. the loftiest. cloud observed at Upsala was forty-one thousand feet above the earth's surface, or nearly eight miles. Ar. '. Ledger. During five school years tho director of tho Uoyal Deaf-Mutc Institution at Copenhagen has made semi-diurnal measurements of tho height and weight of the children under his care, aud hp deduced a number of coincidences be tween variations in their weight and those in tho temperature of tho air. Arkamaw Traveler. The. copper mining business has fallen to a very low ebb in Russia. It is reported that out of 1,753 copper mines in the Ural Mountains only twenty-eight are being worked. Thodc cliue of the industry is attributed to tho destruction of tho surrounding forosU and thu consequent scarcity of fuel, acting in conjunction with great diffi culties of transport. Tho bottle industry is a very largo one, tho number produced por day in the respective countries boing estimated as follows: Great Britain and Ireland. 9.200'; Sweden. 'JGO; Norway, GOO; Den mark, 3G0; Germany and Belgium, 30, Olt'J; Austria, 7,000; Franco, 100; United States, 810; Canada, 120; Australia. 207; total, 1G, 132 gross. With 300 work ing days this gives no fewer than 15, 'J2o,000 gross per year. A new building material called stone-brick, harder than tho hardest clay-brick, is made from siniplo mortar, but a scientifically made and perfect mortar; in fact, a hydraulic cement, and the grinding together of limo and sand in a dry state including also some alumina, which is usually present in sand and tho subsequent boating by steam, givo the mixture tlio properties of tho burned hydraulic oemonts nt present in use. Public Opinion. During August tlioro were 2,000 freight cars required to carry California shipments (o tho East. The amount carried, in pounds, was -10,000,000, and ot that enormous quantity over one half, 20,500,000 pounds, consisted of green, dried and canned fruit. Tlio railroads carried 10,000,000 pounds ot sugar and 5,000,000 pounds of tea. Tin, last article was imported, of course, and transhipped, as was also part ot the remainder of tlio 40,000,000 pounds. San Francisco Examiner. Tho Sierra Nevada rango might bo called a continuation of the Cascade Mountains; but those aro of volcanic, origin, and tlio Sierra Nevadas ura granite, though traces of volcanic no tion are often found on tho Hanks ami base. It commences at Mount Shasta, 14, 100 foot high, and runs in a southerly direction to Tejon Pass, whoro it joins the Coast range not far from Mount Whitney, tho highest mountain in tha United States south of Alaska. Thoro are but few passes ovor these mountains, anil tho Pacific slope is very stoop, tha Central Pacific road descending 6,300 feet in eighty miles. Public Opinion. EVAPORATING APPLES. Infurinutloii Hont Out liy lli National De partment of Acrloultnre. In reply to questions sent out by tha National Department of Agriculture tha following items regarding dried or evaporated apples have been evolved j Acid apples with white flesh mako tko best product. In largo establishment! the apples are prepared for tho evap orator by machines which pare, coro aud slice the apples in one operation. Hand-prepared fruit is not divided Into such neat and uniform pieces or rings, honco docs not dry as uniformly or present as attractive an appearance. Somo of tlio manufacturers placo tha apples when they come Irom the purer into n solution of salt and water, ona pint of salt to ton gallons of water. This Is thought to cut tho gum on tha fruit and clean it, also to prevent fer mentation and aid in bleaching. Bleaching is done by exposing the fruit in a wooden box or special. ma chine to the action of sulphur fumes. Apples when cut and exposed to tlio air discolor quicklv, and this bleaching brings back the natural color. Thu sooner tho bleaching is done after tlio fruit is cut tho hotter. Caution is given against over-bleaching the fruit and causing it both to taste aud smell of sulphur. From different drying establishments, come dilferont reports ns to tho heat of tho evaporator, Answers included from ninety-five to over two hundred degree F, Fresh trult will stand two hundred and fifty dogroos F, without burning. With an evaporator full the fruit must remain in from two to five hours, accord ing to tho, heat in tho evaporator.. It it estimated that one bushel of apples frMi make from five to soyen pounds of dried,. frulU-Af. r. World.