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.