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OREGON SCOUT. Oregon news. COAST CULLINGS. JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers. Everything of Qoneml Interest in Condensed Form. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. u.viox. oitK;o. Adolphus Chambers, nerd 03, walked off the pontoon of the Album board of trade xhk uovornment oi uuatemaia nas lorry ana was drowned. Q'j,0 citizonn "Wailsburg, W. T., has organized a sanctioned the existence IMaaonry in that republic. of Freo Fibh must have air in winter as well as summer, and if they cannot got it 4 1 l fttn HMiifn i o - Sol rt uiuj will UIU JLJiUiu io ill JDitiivuii I t i . . i rnp I llnrmrr fm lacif frmr rvirttitlw nf I HUT laca mat tno nsn irozen in bouu ico .i,,i,Bnn fP1I;. ui,:n.i win survive, nnu wncn uie ico maws over itfZo.wu worth 01 mm . . .1 they will exhibit healthy life. It is It is estimated, says the Jacksonville not the case. They survivo but a few Sentinel, that 10.000 deer were killed anionics. lur wvir iuh in tins county last year. Robert Cloiv has been removed from of Lcwiston, Idaho, iV postofhee has been established at have organized a board of trado. si. Junns, jJoiiglas county, ana V. D. Th(J Bteumer Qeorgo W. Elder will IIofT appointed postmaster. run between Portland and Alaskan A postoflico has been established at I'erry, Curry county, and Sarah E. Cooley appointed postmistress, The English co-operatives have a the position of Superintendent of tho killed hank whoso transactions amount to btato l'nson. His successor is Geo asnnrmnnnn var ti,ov lmvn i .ion s-UownnS- .Ur,vv j J -I ports. Washington Territory has 100,000 acres of coal lands, and 2,000,000 tons have been marketed. George W. Lewisjof Elko, Nevada, was sentenced to ninety nine years in tho State Prison for murder. A boy named James Hooker, son of a widow who lives in 'Sacramento, Cal., was run over by the cars and t,..: . (imnnnnnn vr. unuo huh causcu every one Their 900,000 members rc- lum wllo hns not bo(!n 5n()C11iIllr(1 m. of a. year, ceivo an annual profit of $15,000,000. Their profits during tho past twenty four years havo been $50,000,000. side of five years to be vaccinated. William E., son of William and Captain H. W. McDonald, late of the whaling brig Hidalgo, committed suicide at San Francisco by taking carbolic acid. Tho Spokane Falls city council has adopted an ordinance taxing Chinese washhouses at the rato of $50 por Gov. West, of Utah, has returned tho anti-tobacco bill to tho House. Tho bill prohibits tho salo of tobacco and cigarettes to minors. Ho sug gested that a provision bo inserted making it a misdemeanor to sell to bacco to a minor only after written notices from parents or guardians for bidding such sales. Gardiner, and stabbed him in the back, which it is thought will prove fatal. Nyberg was arrested, and now languishes in jail at Koseburg. Officer Merritt, of Baker Citv, was Amono tho "fowls of tho air" are shot in tlio left leg, below the knee, ... i, , . . . - -. . , il, tlm r.n.ln.Rwm ami r.ive.n.whmh wiino attempting to arreBi a man WHO ' O I (rivnu u niiinn t u J .rwtailnir i wl vitts . - nr. I .iTa .sin uiviiiu tQ JiVMllDuaiUi iviivi lYllU 1 im 4n n iin rtf 1 1 HI tena " vi rft I ... ' u fcw w.u bU Ui j.v1D u. "'u,v' it was thornr it wiw ondnavnr ni? to Biancti Hill, of Wilbur, died from a quarter, lractliro Ot IllO SkUll, CaUteU by a fall n,,,.; Mm nWnr. mnnllm omlinir from a bluff of rocks near his home. iw,in,r 1 1RR7 tim ,l,inmnn.H r.f nm Near West Stayton an old man from Hailev. Idaho. aueroEated 22.- nained Jesse Morris was struck by a 829,877 pounds. falling tree, and his skull WHS mashed f!,irl Tv'r.iMn tnnnnl mnn nf Mif. so that ho is not expected to live. Cloverdalo & Ukiah railroad, near A man by tho name of John Nyberg Cloverdale. Cal.. was drowned in ltus' got into a row with a half-breed at sian river by a boat capsizing. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of and Stockmen. Fanners Tho charred remains of Louis Gib bons wero found among the ruins of his burned cabin in the Huerhuera region, near San Luis Obispo, Cal. The Presidont has nominated Edwin Eolls, of Washington Territory, to be agent for Indians of the Puyallup iirfnrTr nnnonl win f m l 1.. Wa alii 11 rrl. n or more. .hi. i "t""j vuudv....i.....; ... ,.D,Ubu wub ii uui:iil was anno avnrinc to 'ir,,r- , ... . . " a v.. . i vw. r I I. nnrnnnnf n.i.l Itnrnn nf Inln I lift I nTV.nl .... I -. i .. i ... I gooaiy age oi uu years, xno sparrow- uno advices from tho Chlondo mine SPrihPfl in finlilmwlalo W T m lmild Jiawk, duck and pelican may livo to bo at iiocK creek give tho width of the ,i armory for Company B. The 40. wh lo tho ncacock and linnet reach vi' eigiiu icui, aim cxceeuingiy nen. building will bo about 40x100, and tho canary Xll . L . u." ' " "? ior.! , Klxtecn Icet lnB- r .i .i i ,j.irfi i i ' .V While tho freight train bound for ruin uiu ..urui ur.u .Tiuu. gom to uie Garrigon WU8 8witobinB at 1)oer Li)dfio, tho quarter century, and 24 years. In this country the chief creators ton. 'I Im trnvfirnmnnl. ia laamnir vtilinna oi wenitn are uie larmors. i no money to tll0 HUrvimr piute8 ; tho vieinitv received for our surplus agricultural of Fort McDormit, says tho Lake products is almost wholly tho total amount of wealth this country draws from foreign peoples. Tho valuo of farm products Bold in foreign coun- County Examiner, About twelve tons of Hour and 22,000 pounds of beef will bo distributed among them by the military. . , A burgkr ontcrcd tho rcsidonce of trios, it is estimated, has averaged for John Williams, in linker City, a fow tho hist ton years $600,000,000 por nights ago through a bedroom window, Annum 1111(1 holped himself to all the cold victuals that could bu found, setting Ariioros of tho recent salo of an the table and partaking of his meal m ... . .... . lfimrlv llt.vlo TCilfriri) lf.nvitirr Mut Iimiui tfc n t in crnnt mile wnmii lotclind -ov t i r ho wroto a note returning thanks to j,iud mo nignest price on recom ior f..milv fo. .... o-C0lIcilt Inni.i t .ti ?i i r i a oirci s egg n is wormy ui i.uu, uum, SnyH tho prinovillo Newa : A fatal according to Prof. Nowton, there aro accident happened on, or rather in, but sixtv-six of these eggs in existence. Bridge creek, near its mouth. A Montana, it backed on to and killed a man nnmed John Ganloy, from Helms- villo, who waB walking on the track. Montana has an area of 92,016,048 acres; a population estimated at 17o, 000, and a taxable property valuation in 18S6, of $55, 076,831. Indian res ervations in that territory comprise 20,574,618 acres. Josoph Garcia do Cadiz, aged 84 years, formorly professor of mathemat ics, while sitting on a window sill in nis room at San Francisco, lost his balance and fell. Ilia brains wcie dashed out on tho sidewalk below. and forty-threo of them aro in tho. British Isles. Tho great auk is now believed to bo extinct. Swede, hording slieop for Mr, crossed tho creek on tho ice in the morning, and when ho came buck in tho evening tho ice had brokon up and was floating furiously and madly with tho swollen current. Ho attempted to At a meeting of Alaskan fishermen held at San Francisco, a resolution was adoptod fixing tho rates for tho coming season as follows: Wages, $50 iVustin, a month, and ton cents additional for One of tho laws passed by tho recont Legislature of Washington Territory, recross tho ttroam on horseback to his -nrnvi.loH that r.niintv enmniisHionerH Hi was drowned aro authorized to levy a tax not ex cooding thrco'tenths of ono mill, to create a fund for tho relief of indigent Union soldiers, sailors, marmos and their snawn. Tho rack will conmut of families of those deceased or indigent, pifkots drivon into tho bed of tho to bo expended under tho direction of v,ur Jlt 11,1 aiiRlool 4!j degiees, in front flnm.l A rinv .,. of ft.r(.)W .f l),hnB- wt year wire was J 1 1 hilt, hna liiin diunnTvfrwl nu Ttiibnta driven two inches anart havo been Thk mystotious Phlladelphian who found to answer tho purposo bettor. jb inviting proposals irom an over tne Plncor minill 0,)erationa hllV0 com. country as to tno best disiiosition to menecd at tho old camp at Mormon niako ot ifuu,uuu, which ho will gtvo oasui, unci uiougn tno water Biipply is awav when ho finds thu best wav tn u'88 man usual, a run ol two or threo . -- ..,, i :n i. i... ,i ..i.i each king salmon, and half a cent for each small salmon caught. Tho Governor of California has ap pointed James F. Houghton and Colonel C. F. Crockor, as regents of tho State University, tho former in place of A. L. Ithodes, and the latter Preparations aro being mado to put in placo of John Swift, the terms of a rack in tho Clackamas livor at tho both gentlemen having oxpired. lish hatchery, in order to catch salmon mu, r v..M.;.rio Tnr,:inr,. ; bound up tho river and strip them of ,,,...,., ... 4.i7!jG.160 acres, of which j i ' - f 4,107,558 are Indian reservation hinds. The population in November last was bestow tho money, is bolievcd to bo Isaac V. Williamson, a wealthy and oharitahlo Quaker. Mr. Williamson is worth $18,000,000, lives at tho rato of $2,000 a your and gives away thous ands of dollars on the dead quiot and -without making as much fuss as tho ordinary millionaire would over a $5 bill. paper. Tho placers of this camp are estimated at 160,000, and the taxable property in 1887 was given at about $56,000,000, not including railroad property. Black meaclcs aro creating frightful havoc with tho Nez Perco Indians of Chiefs Joseph and Moses' bands, on thu western side of tho Colvillo In dian reservation. Forty-two aro dead from tho disease, and fourteen more aru at tho point ot ucatu. liiomeui- all rich and tho body of gravel exten- eino men thoro treat it with hot steam sivo. 1'ortor Colt, superintendent of under a blanket, and then a din in tho I lie treatment is attended with tho Colt claims, anticipates a good season up to tho month of July. Tho mines of Amelia, a few miles from the basin, aro aUo being worked. The report of Superintendent II. McBride, of thu Multnomah county poor farm, for February, shows that during the month two persons wero admitted, while sixteen left or wero discharged. On March 1 thoro woro fifty porsops at the farm, including Since tho farm was opened 1,564 persons havo river. fatal results in narly ovory case. The whites in that section have it, but tho disease yields to treatment in their eases. The Indians a Hooted are tlioe transferred from Indian Territory on account of their ill health, some time since. In tho Chewala mining district Washington Territory, a shocking ao cuient is reported, a man named Louis Gilmoroaud his partivr Hiiichu wero working in tho "Sam Slick" mine, uno nrsi punsion over granted a Chinaman has been given to Ah Lin, of San Francisco, who on tho 4th of July, 1867, was in tho service of tho lourtoon Chtneso lepers. ......... . farm wiim rmnnoil 1 united btatos navy as a landsman. . ., 'ftf ; ml a blast w s prepared, but it failed Whiles firing a salute on board a vossol 1056 wm w)iii. tunli.c foi a .;. to explodo. Very soon after Gilniore in San Francisco bay, tho gun ox- cans and 463 foroiirners 135 colored Mklessly went to tho shaft to ascer and 7:t whim wnmnn "o irouuio, ami commenced an I iiivnci irrtitirwi rlMi.i Itltiuf iiImIiw! inuf ! im ...... I .1.1 ..1 " "b--v. cu tu m iciiubi iiimiaii.m uLuuBanr', -imuutuu uiumrcdH ui wild came hoforo him His head was nearlv W. , . . I Za. .l.n l.Ill . ..1.11-.. .1. IT I-. . . ilia claim ior a ponsion was presented "' d BKiriuignno uiupqua blown away, and tho body was shock but no favorable action could bo so- ' T Jnu ,"10,0." f r,irb MKly mangled. llencha, who was ....,. Hn,.u.n, M, i.i ohl' ..Ahy' '!ro concealtH in thu dense sUnding near, had his face and head ,...vM -bb-" growtnot oak and ttr in tho mountains. Ulimaman has been mado happy by While feeding there aro alwaye a fow receiving a pension of $8 ner month hulls to act as sentinels. They irot with um-arnucw. which amniiMt in nvr wild in 1853, when tho first tettlors 0 mi...! , T fWVl viuuu m iiiu vaiie', anuir cows wano nri.il off .iii.t ,,l,l .,! In. 1.. . n ii i i . Tjik Senate has passed a bill which n " f.Bur" HU V1" l'10"0" ? " is of great importance to tho and ro- thu lmniuluillB ,id kill it. Some of gionifof tho country. It requests tho tho cattle aro very lrgo nd fat, ono Becrutury bf tho Intorior to direct tho luryo bull weighing at least 1,400 lbs. director of tho geological survey to Nay Simmons, a young man of 19, examine tho water courses in tho committed suicide in a mokt shocking Western States and Territories from M!"""wr larm 01 Wm.bapping- hich water is taken for purposes of n,rff irrigation, and to locatu at various Lixty-llvo aoro field with a throe-horse points thereon sites for tho construe- team, and when on the opposite side iion of reservoirs, to hold, out of th0 of tho field east of tho house, hitched abundance of tho winter supply of vti V n . ' , 11 ,", ,or 8lr,"P waUir, Btilhcient for irrigation in tho lllMMn nf tl.n mimr oml ..k l it. m.. i summer. Tho reservoirs are to be I his neck, and then started tho team. located in natural basins adjacent to walked a few steps, and then fell down tho stroums from which thoy will bo was ma,-ged todou h. 'Iwoyoung M.w.iin.i 'ii.v. iuiu iv, i;, i ... i mun hunting for cattlo found him supplied, 1 hey will only bo located .iu.i.1. Thu hnr-..- ,iM,,..,r.,i i.,.v In such portions of tho publio domain walked about 600 yards and to havo i are suscoptiblo to cultivation. choked tho life out of tho young num. very seriously injured by tiying trag- meuts of stone. During a galo tho steamor Alico Garrett, which was anchored in San I' rancisco bay, having on board seven teen passongors from tho .China steamer Citv of Pking, dragged her anchor and drifted to and ag.iinst the Spoar-btreot wharf. Tho Ahco Gar reti was in quarantine on account of Binallpox which had developed among tho passeugurs and tho City of Peking's crew while on route from China. J?rom Spear-street wharf tho stoamer drifted down to Stuart wharf, breaking off several piles en route. Tho passon- gers, mostly women, scrambled ashoro as best they could. Some took des purato chances and mado reckless leaps. Others climbed tho slippery piles, and more hauled themselves up by means of chains. Every ono es caped. Tho Belief tug camo to tho rescue and had towed tho steamor hcarcely a hundred yards from tho whurf when tho Alico Garrett sank. Sho turned completely over, nearly twampiug tho tug, and appeared bhunly after on tho surfaco, bottom up. Vnlne of .Strnir. Said a well-known farmer: "The time has come when every man should bale his straw as soon as threshing is over, and what he cannot uso ship to Portland and sell for seventy- five cents per cwt. or whatever it will bring. He should have his own feed mill, or there should be one owned in every neigh borhood, and fanners should thus co operate to bo able to grind their own meal." Now, every man should have a tank or boiler for steaming stock feed. The cut straw should be put in tho boiler, and meal or chop mixed with it, and when steamed or cooked it should be fed to stock. This feed will keep cat tlo gaining and make them fat enough for beef. Any farmer can have cattle worth raising and fattening, and should uti lize his straw for that purpose. His oats, wheat, barley or corn can be ground into meal or chop, and by mixing with straw and cooking and steaming you can make beef or feed milk cows to advantage. When our farmers get this far ahead there will bo no complaint made by tho grange that "agriculture does not pay four per cent, interest on the investment." Of course it does not pay where men uso no judgment or are too lazy to work, but hero in tho Pacific North west, the best country to farm that is known, any good farmer should earn bis living and clear ten per cent, per annum upon the value of tho farm and tools and the stock on the place or on all the capital he has invested. The farmer who burns his straw sins against knowledge and deserves no sympathy. Last summer, stand ing on a hill in Bight of tho state Capi tol, tho writer saw columns of nmoke by day and fire by 'night, going up towards heaven to bear witness against Oregon farmers. It is criminal and inexcusable. Tho time is come when all this waste should stop, and straw bocome a means of income. To farm properly men should mako all things around them that can bo utilized a source of income. A man with a forty aero farm well tilled can rajse grain, roots, fruits and vegetables ; can fatten sheep, pork and beef and sell wool; can sell live stock and poultry; make butter and sell eggs and honey, and put to shame tho showing of many farmers, so called, who now pretend to cultivate a wholo section of land. Portland Ore goniun. This is generally -a month of abund ant rain on tho Pacific Coast. See that tho poultry yards are well drained, and that all depressions where muddy, filthy water may collect are filled up. As a rule short-legged fowls will fatten more rapidly than those "well up on their pins" This is important to tho broiler raiser, as his object is to get a nice plump chick as soon as possible. A good supply of dry earth and fine gravel will bo found a great conven ienco during the winter months. The gravel supply should not bo neglected until the creeks aro running full of water, and it is impossible to get it. Almost the entire crop of hemp grown in tho United States is raited in Kentucky. Tho total is about 12 000,000 pound. But the annual pro duct of tho manufacturers of cordage in the United States is ten times as groat, or 120,000,000 ioiinds. The best roots for horses in winter is tho carrot. Give two or three iircs a week, though when they aro plenty, feed some every day with oats or other grain, tho rat'on ol which muy be pro portionately diminished. A damp roosting- place is an abomi nation and yot fowls prefer a wet roost freo from lico to a dry ono eov ered with vermin, which sap their blood and strength. This will explain why some people's chickens prefer to roost in trees. If eggs are tho main desideratum in keeping fowls, avoid short-legged fowls of any breed. They rarely lay well tho second year on account of laying on too much fat, while a (owl with good length of leg will ordinarily luy well until three years of age. When scalding hogs, if tho water be too not tne nair will not come on as readily as if the toniporaturo bo lower, Boiling water discolors tho skin. A temperature of 100 is warm enough for a young hog, but there aro some hogs that require as high as lbO . A slab or smooth surfaco permits of the work being done in a cleaner manner than when a rough bonch or tablo is used. Some years ago benevolent-minded people donouueed tho dehorning of cattle as a cruel practico, only worthy of barbarians. Lately tho stock jour nals of tho country have asserted tho contrary, and cito proof that the op eration of cutting oil tho horns of a milch cow is not a painful or any way dangerous act, as the flow of milk does not lesson and tho relibh for food does not weaken. These assertions arc homo out by the actual experience narrated in the Seattle Post'Intelligeii' err, wnoro it assorts that at tno ruy allup creamory they havo cut off tho horns from sixty-eight head of stock within two weeks, many of them being. much cows. Tho operation is simply to cut off tho horns us clcso to tho head as possible. Tho result has been that more than twico tho number of cattlo can bo put in tho same inelos- uro and tho vicious ones havo no way to imposo on tho quiet ones. That is tho chief reason .for to doing, and that is enough of itself to justify dehorning. It would seem that cattlo without horuB were to be tho rule hereafter, TELEGRAPHIC. 4b Epitome of the Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas, destroying tho carriage works and causing two deaths. ;The French steamer Fleur de la Mer foundered off the island of Cayenne. Sixty passengers were drowned. Thos. J. Potter, Vice-President and General Mannger of the Union Pa cific Railroad Company, died at Welcker's hotel, in Washington. The survey of the canal contem plated in Southern New Mexico is about completed. It will co.-t nearly $5,000,000, and, will reclaim 3,000,000 acres. At St. Johns, Arizona, Alex. Itudd shot and instantly killed a slieep herder named MeCaw. The difficulty was over sheep. Immediately after the killing Itudd mounted his horse and fled to tic mountains. Tho state deaf and dumb asylum at Fulton, Mo., burned. The fire caught in the dome in the fifth story, and the building burned down. It was a large one and cost the state nearly half a million dollars, and was insured for but $50,000. There were 180 pupils in the building, but all wero removed without injury. A fire, occurred in the Methodist University, at Mitchell, Dakota, from the spontaneous combution of rags in the art room. There were forty in mates in the building, including the faculty, students and servants. All but ten of these escaped. Four young men jumped from a second story window. Four others and a professor jumped from third story, and another professor descended from the roof by a clothes line. The building was com pletely destroyed. The loss is $50,000. The university will ba rebuilt. A man and his son living at Poplar Grove, Dakota, wero eaten alive by a pack of wolves. The facts, as near as can be obtained, are that the father and son left their house with shovd to clear snow from some haystacks not more than fifteen or twenty roils dis tant. They wero at once attacked by a pack of sixteen wolves, which liter ally ate them alive, whilo the wife and mother gazed through a window at tho horrible sight, knowing it was certain death to go to their assistance. After the brutes hud eaten all the llesh off the bones they came up to the house, ran around it several times and then went away. Next day the re mains were visited, but nothing was found but a few bare bones. The new office of the Evening Union at Springfield, Mass , was burned out, and the blaze was attended with the most sickening horror ever witnessed in that city, six of the employes meet ing a terrible death, most of them jumping from tho fifth story and being crushed into a shapeless mass below, six others were badly injured. A large canvas sheet was stretched over the i-idewalk. Three men jumped on this but broke through and fell on tho pavement. A woman also fell through the canvas and launed on the sidewalk insensible. Joseph Lindford was standing on the sidewalk at the cor ner, when Mrs. Farley fell. He stood his ground and reached out his arms to catch her. She fell on his neck, throwing him to the ground senseless Mrs. Fai ley was killed instantly. The dead are as follows : Henry J. Gould ing, foreman of tho composing room, burned to death ; Miss G. Thompson, proof reader; Mrs. Frederick E. Far ley, iditorial department, fell from the window and killed; Mr. Lamzon, Quebec, jumped and killed ; W. E. Hovey, ot Boston, fell to the sidewalk ; Mr. Brown, a compositor. It). I'OUTliAKI) l'KOIUJCK MAJtltKT. BuTTun Fancy roll, IP Uregon luferlor grade Pi.kled California roll tto picklod . . . CiniKsu B.slern, full cream. On'Kon, do California Ekgs Frewh DlilKI) Fwuits- 15 SO i8 4 1(5 3 14 Apples, lira, kn and bxs. .1., r..il...i.. . 18 & 8 C4 37 iu 20 3) 30 20 10 14A 18 0 0 28 14 10 40 124 U 10 12J AnricotH, new crop Peaches, un peeled, new ... Pt-ars. machine dried Pitted cherrloH Pitted plums, OreRon Fitrs. Cal.. hi bus and bxs.. CaT. Prunes, French Oregon prunes ixoun -Portland Pat. Roller, bbl a Salem do do White LHy V bbl Country brand 3 60 ffl Superfine 2 iO URAIN Wneut, Valley, 100 lba... do Walla Walla Barley, whole, f ctl do irround. fc ton Oats, ohoice nitllinpc t' bush Co leed.KOOil tocliolce.old live, PlOOtlm 1 r kkii Uran. y ton 16 00 ffllT 00 Shorts, tf ton 18 U0 felO 00 Hay, b ton. baled fol8 00 Chop, t? ton ?3 TO 2. 00 Oil cake meal V ton 32 00 a83 0C Fhksii Fruits Applea, Oregon, K box 1 22J 15 00 00 5 75 75 25 20 121 20 00 325 00 47 60 48 (to 47 10 1 25 Cherries, Oregon, fdrni. Lemous, California, pbx,. Limes, 100.... Rlvertide oranges, box... Los AnKeles, do do ... Peaches, box HlOKS Dry, over 16 rba, fc tt Wet salted, over 65 Its..... Murrain hides Pelts Vkoetahlks Cabbage, k lb Carrots, V? sack Cauliflower. v doi Onions Potatoes, new, f 1C0 lbs , . Bast Oregon, Spring clip,. Vallev Oregon, dn ,, 21 3 00 1 60 50 23 U 12 C4 5 7 (ai 0 10 1 23 21 1 CO 1 10 76 14 ffl 10 16 d 20 SCIENCE AND IN DUSTY. -Profs. Trowbridge and Hutcbins, of Harvard College, report that their extensive and careful researches tent to disprove tho view that oxygen cxi&U in any part of the sun. Illgh scientific attainments seem tc be favorable to longevity. The average a;;e of .the fourteen members of the Royal Society of London who have died during the past year was no less than sevonty-live. N. Y. Ledger. Chicago has over 7(W shoo factories employing 13,000 people. It is only of late, however, that the Chicago girls' shoes have been made nt homo' since some fif the factories have enlarged... Detroit Free Press. A company has been formed in Buonos Ayres forworking the petroleum deposit recently discovered near the city of Mendoza. The Argentine Ite pulilic has hitherto obtained the bulk of its petroleum from tho United States. Public Opinion. In tho wood-working and lumber industries of Momphis, Tenn., about 750 men are employed, and these are paid in wages from 323,000 to $350,000. The value of the business done by Memphis concerns each year now is over 8:5.003,000. The business and the industries are constantly growing. The mills in that city are now running night and day. and m nt of them employ two sets of men. The wood-working busi ness will likely increase twenty-live pur cent, within the next twelve mouths. The woody melon-shaped fruit of the and-box tree ot -.Iki Vet Indies is made into a neat box by sawing oil' the top ami scooping out the seeds and is ned in Batbadoes for holding saniL When, however, the fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree, it bursts explosively, scattering the seeds over the ground. An experimenting naturalist recently nought to preserve a specimen of thu fruit by drying carefully, but it ex ploded with such violence as to destroy the box containing it. Arkansaw Traveler. During the past fowyears Japanese manufacturing industries have made very considerable progress, and full advantage has been taken of the limited liability principle. Foreign residents in Japan looked upon tho movement with soiiii! amount of suspicion, think ing it might be wanting iu stability. Recent returns, however, have shown that substantial profits havo been earned. Iu a miscellaneous lit ol thirty-four companies tho dividends vary from four to twenty-six por cent, for tho half year. Mr. C. V. Boys, whose extraordi nary success in producing extremely minute threads of mineral substances was recorded some time f-ince, has con tributed a paper on the subject, to the Journal of the Physical Society of Lon don. The mineral libers which he has produced are described as being far finer and more perfect than those made of spun glass. Light arrows of straw were attached to beads of incited mineral and then shot out of a power ful cross-bow. Threads of rook crys tal obtained in this way wero less than the one hundred thousandth part of an inch iu diameter. Threads of this sub stance are as strong as steel and pos sess enormous elasticity. They aro useful iu many kinds of delicate scien titic apparatus. N. Y. Ledger. Dr. Dubois has investigated the light-emitting organs of tho cucuyo, or I'yrophorus noctilucus. They are three In number two prothoracic and one ventral. The prothroraeie plates give a good illumination in front, laterally and above, and servo when tho insect walks in the dark; when it llieo or swims iu tine abdominal lantern is un masked, throwing downward an in tense light with much greater range. The insect seems to he guided by its own light. If tho prothoracic appar atus is quenched on one side with a lit tle, black wax tho cucuyo walks in a curve, turning toward the Mdo of the light. If both sides aro quenched it walks hesitatingly and irregularly, feeling tho ground with its auteuiite, ami soon stops. I'h'jUc Opinion. FUNERAL EXPENSES. of A Clerlcul Sicl-t.v lor tint Promotion Iturlitl Uitrorni. Tho Episcopal clergymen of New York, under the advice of Bishop Pot ter, have organized an association for the promotion of burial reform. Tho first purpose is to do away with the ex travagance of funeral expenditures. Most burials aro unnecessarily expen sive, by reason of costly burial caskets, and numerous carriages anil people go to an expenditure which their means do not justify. Besides, there arc sanitary considerations, such as are leading to the growth of tho cremation sentiment. One of tho aims of tho new association will bo to abolish thu uso of close colli i. and metallic burial oases, and tho substitution, of wicker-basket or paper-macho coverings, so that "dust to dust" will have a literal and whole some meaning. Bishop Potter mado tho following re marks after tho various points had pbcon discussed at the first meeting: "I am in entire sympathy with this move inont, and it will receive my hearty and active co-operation. I trust tho 6rgan ization will be so formed as to includo representatives of all roligious de nominations, to tho end that its work may bo mado as ellectivo and far-reaching as possible. It will bo necessary to bear in mind that at every stop tho or ganization will be fought by powerful oombinations of trailesinon, whoso in comes this movement will tend to diminish, and whoso hostility, thore iord, may bo confidently predicted. It is my belief tlnr.t tho methods of intor nient at present iu vogue aro vicious, and that the highest typo of Christian burial will only bo attained when tho administration of cemeteries is placed entirelv In the hands of tho church."- Milwaukee StntmcL