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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1888)
OREGON SCOUT. JOHES & CHANCEY, Publishers. Tlio TurlfT on I'micr. Congressman Whiting mado a speech in the Houso on the tariff as it concerns paper, lie deprecated any chango in tho rates, notwithstanding paper is made horc, lie said, of as -good qjiality and quite as cheaply as abroad. Ho concluded as follows : This ought to bo a satisfactory con dition to tho consumer of paper, and to tho laborer who makes it, and I re jeat that I am at a losato understand why in tho absence of any complaint on the nart of tho consumer, laborer or manufacturer, there should bo any proposition to chango tho tariff rate. ' 7t will bo said in reply: If thcBo things aro so, why do you want a tariff on paper at all? My answer is that we want a tariff to prevent tho European -manufacturer from sending his sur plus production here thus breaking down our market, closing our mills and throwing our labor out of em ployment. Wo welcomo homo com petition,.but we do not want to com pete with tho whole world, and espec ially with that labor which does not receive one-half tho compensation of American labor. Tho advocates of tho policy of prolection to American manufacturers claim that the con sumer obtains tho product at a reason able prico through competition among our own people, and tho facts I have narrated furnish tho most conoluivo proof that tho paper indubtry is a marvelous instance of tho good re sult and practical effect of such a policy, and of tho correctness of tho position taken by those who favor protection. When it is now proposed to reduce tho duty on paper wo con front you with a condition, not a theory tho condition being high wages, low cost to tho consumer, con stant improvement in quality, and no general demand for any chango in the tariff. A South Carolina nowspapor says that there is an old colored man in Jonesboro who has been married nino times and has hud 1 17 children. It is estimated that not less than $ 500,000,000 aro invested in watering place and tourists' resorts in this country, tho Jersey coast leading off with at least $ 100.000,000. Michaki, Cudaiiy, onco a bright oung Irish hog-chopper, and now tho partner of Phil Armour, is worth over $2,000,000, and ho and his wifo aro leaders in Chicago's best society. Thk DoSoto BliiUio to bo erected at .Arkansas City, Ark., is designed by Sonor Murvello, of Madrid. It will 1)0 in bronzo, of horoic size, mounted on a pcdostal of Arkansas marblo. An elm treo growing in tho grounds of tho Pennsylvania Hospital, in Philadelphia, is a scion of tho famous tree nndor which William Tonn hold tho first treaty with tho Indians. Dakota has tho latest wondorful old couple Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, who aro respectively ninety-nine and Jiinoty-Boven yoarS old who have lived in wedlock for sovonty-sovon of them. Down at Anderson, S. 0., thoy havo two boss curiosities a gourd that liolds seventeen and a half gallons and u grass that exudes a gum whicl will hold any furred or foathorei tiling that trios to got over it. Two young boys of Lifuyotto, Wis went out hunting a few mornings ago and shot live wolves before noon Uhcn thoy took tho scalps to tho County Clork and received 100 in bounty certificates for their morning work. Tiikisk are yot some rich lumllortU in England. Tho young Earl o Derby, who has just reached his mix- jority, succeeded to a ront-roll of nt least 150,000 a your, and an immense urn of mouoy Unit had been accumu lating during his minority. A mubkum fakir in a Western town -recently announced that ho would ex hibit an educated man, born and bred in Chicago, who could, novoitholoss, epoak only broken English. When the peoplo wont in to see the curios ity they found that ho was a btanv moror. -No city on tho I'aoitlo Coast has blown its trumpet louder than Los Angeles Quo would imagine that it -was doubling its population and wealth every week, mid yet it is pro poectl to discharge thirty of the school teachers and oblige thoso rotuined to .do double work for (lie same pay. TELEGRAPHIC. An Kpitone of tuk Phincipai. Evknts 3fKW ATTKACTINQ PUHLIC iNTl'ltKST. Threo boys Jacob Heom, Samuel Ditson and Win, Anderson were drowned in tho Missouri river near Omuhu, while bathing. Nearly the entire business portion of Suffolk, Vn., was destroyed by fire, which started in Webb's oil warehouse. The lost&s aggregate $100,000, with light insurance. A daughter of Dolph Mills, colored, of Yazoo City, Miss., poisoned her father and threo brothers fatally at breakfast.. Family dissensions were the cause. Jacob Moore, a carpenter, shot and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Moore, at Detroit, Mich., then shot at her daughter, and missing, shot him self fatally. Kate and Dennis, children of Pat rick J. Byrnes, of Now York, were drowned in tho harbor by tho upset ting of a rowboat. Tho father was saved with difficulty. A. L. Pruden. assistant secretary to tho president at Washington, received intelligence that his son, aged 10, was killed in an accident on his farm in Virginia. A masked robber entered tho farm houso of Conrad Doup, near Cleve land, Ohio, and beat the old man with a club, bound his hands, and stole $2,G00. Willio Ellsworth, 18-year-old son of Dr. Ellsworth, an old resident of La Porto, Ind., was shot in tho bowels and killed by Oliver White, another young man of tho same ago, during a quar rel. Fremont Emmons, a young man who deliberately stabbed Bertha Sluilts at Pawnee City, Nob., a short time ago, because sho had refused his pro posal of marriago, was taken from tho authorities and lynched by a mob. E. B. Eddy's lumbor mill at Dirch ton, Canada, burned, togethor wilh tho entire seiiFon's cut, valued at $ 120, 000. A numbor of workmon's houses and tool-houses were lost. Tho total loss will amount, to .$500,000, on which there is an insurance of $100,000. On (bo Ohio Valloy railroad, be tween Henderson and Marion, Ky., William Cardwell, James Nichols and Sam Nunn indulged in a shooting scrape. Cardwell and Nunn were fa tally shot, and Nichols jumpod from tho train and escaped. A Burlington fast train, westbound, ran into a car which got on the main track near Bound Grove, 111. I lie en gine and ono car wero completely wrecked. Tho engineer and fireman wero badly hurt. Nono of tho pas sengers wero injured. Albert M. Field, of Decatur, 111., shot and mortally wounded Florence Kilpatrick, hecauso she refused to at tend camp meeting with him. Fiolds attempted to escape, but was captured four milos from tho scouo of tho tragedy. Threo armed robbors entered tho houso of Win. Clark, a wealthy farmer, at Now Castle, Pa., and bound and gagged the ontiro family of seven persons. Thoy then ransacked tho house, but only succeeded in getting threo gold watches and a small sum of money. Fifty armed mon visited tho jail at Carthage, Tonn., and took out O. H. Handly, who, on Soptombor 17th last, killed J. B. Warman, a doputy sheriu. Tho Bhoriff refusing to givo up tho keys, the mob, with axes and crowbars broke into llandly's coll. Tho mur derer .was carried across tho river and hanged to a treo in sight of the jail. D. F. Ford, an old prospoctor of Tucfcon, Ariz., has beon robbed and murdered by PupagocB near tho Quia land ranch, on tho Quijotoa road. Ford has beon missing for two months, but was thought to bo prospoeting in tho mountains till a few days since, when one of tho Indians disclosed tho murder, and offered to escort a party to tho placo. An inmato of tho asylum at An ehorage, Ky., Laura Crull by name, litorally boiled herself to death. Ono fof tho patients in tho fonialo ward in sonio manner opened a hot water fan cot in tho bath room, and allowed the tub to bo tilled. Mrs. Crull, seeing the tub full, throw oil' hor clothes and jumped in. Sho was cooked to doath before asaiiftanco arrived. Her trouble was melancholy. Doputy Sheriff llayos, of Blakfoot, Jclalio, arrived at liozomuii, Mont,, and iden tilled Alex. Woods, tho negro ro contly arrested thoro, as the man who murdered his wifo anil was sentenced to be hanged on Juno 20. At the same time Williams was oxecuted Woods broko jail and escaped, and has been at largo over since. Hayes had the necessary requisition papers with him and took his prisoner back to Idaho. Tho hnnging has been fixed for August 17. Doputy Sherlfr L. S. Elinor mur dored Miss Mollio Korbol, at Wash ington, Dak., under circumstances of peculiar, atrocity. Sho was a domes tic in tho sheriff's employ, and had been interested in tho managetnon of tho household during tho temporary! uusonce oi tho family. Sho had just Kiien uio prisoners supper when Elmer, who boarded in tho house. iiBkcd her if she intended going 'out that evening. Sho replied that she would if sho ohoso. whorounnii Klmnr shot hor threo times, can nine- iimtuiit death. Ho hnd not beon ltavim' Imr nttontlon, and no cause is known for his act. He wuu at onco looked im. A crowd gathored and triod to storm the jail, but tho riiigloadem woro arrested hours. Ho wu blacksmith, and re before auythhig wan douo. I snooted by all. WilHtuna wan arrested. COAST CULLINGS. Dkvoted Pri.n-cipally to Washington TEniUTOIlY and Califohnia. A young man named Peter Leon ard, of Sacramento, Cal., was caught between two fruit cars in a freight yard, and crushed to death. A son of Morris Murphy, 13 years old, of Marysvillo, Cal, was accident ally killed in a drift in the old mine at Smartsvillo. John Gore, the young man injured by tho explosion of tho boiler of a threshing machine at Valleio, Cal. died from tho effects of his injuries. Won Ah Ly, who murdered another Chimin a i in San l'rnncisco July, 18 was arrested in Ah Fook's place Chinatown, in San Jose, by Chief of Police Brown. Frank Havery, an employe in the Denn Lomond vineyard in Santa Cruz, Cal., was shot und killed by Carl Ituss. a fellow workman. The shooting was accidental. H. W. Platte, a well-known real cs tato dealer and pioneer resident of San Jose, Cal., fell from a stepladder at his residence and broko his neck dying instantly. Tho east and west bound freight trains collided at Antelope btation near bacramento, Ual. ion cars are badly .wrecked, anil threo engines dis abled. No ono was injured. Wm. Hood, conductor of a passen ger train, was crushed in tho chest while coupling cars near Vacaville Cal. It is thought his injuries aro fatal. A firo broko out in the Hidden Treasure mine, near Forest Hill, Cal A number of miners wero killed and sonio who went to tneir rescue were alao killed. W. B. Howard, a piano agent of Los Angeles, Cal., deserted his wife and children, leaving them penniless. It was also learned that ho was a de faulter in a largo amount. John Blake, a laborer, about -15 years of age, was run over and killed by a freight train at San Mateo, Cal. He was sleening under a hay car, and the train in switching ran over and killed him. Charles Konnott's boot and shoe store was being burglarized at Seattle, W. T., when tho proprietor, sleeping in tho bask part of tho store shot twico. Tho man was not hit, but was captured by the police. A liro destroyed tho following prop erty at Virginia, Nov. : I. Rosonbuum's furniture store, loss, $5,500; Young Bros.' saloon, -$500: Joseph Singleton'B lodging houso, .152.000: other prop erty, $1,500. No ono but Young Bros, was insured. Joseph C. Margot, a Frenchman, of San Francisco, who was brought to the receiving ho-mital with a bullet wound in liis right eyo, and who told a wild story about being attacked by footpads and robbed, has finally con fessed that tho wound was inflicted by himself with suicidal intent. A robber stopped a stiigo at San Luis Obispo, Cal., containing six per sons, mado thorn all stand in lino, and robbed them. Ho hIbo obtained Wells, Fargo it Co. '6 treasure box, containing about $1,000 and mado good his es cape. Near lied Bluff, Cal., tho clothing of two young Indian womon, passen gers on tho Redding local train, bound south, caught firo in some inexplic ablo way, and in their fright thoy jumped from tho train, ono being in stautly killed, and tho other dying shortly after. Tho remains wero buried where thoy wore found. Antono Klespar, a Gorman living at Port Konyon, Cal., who hud beon away from his family for some time, returned, and asked his wifo to live with him. Sho refused, and ho cut her throat with a pocket knife. Then ho camo to Forndale, procured a box of "rough on rats," took it and died in a short time. Wm. Bein, a misor, at S.m Fran cisco, left a fortuno of about $250,000 to charitable institutions, but it was declared void, on account of a law compelling a will leaving ii n estate to charitable organizations to bo mado out at least thirty days before tho ton tutors death. Bein mado his will just twonty-eight days beloro his death. Tho Napa train ran into and killed Alexander Carmichael, near Valltjo, Cal. Ho was 111 years old, und, with another boy, ran away from homo. Ho was walking on tho track and had sat. down on a rail to rest, and fell asleop. The ongineor of tho tr-iin did not scO him in time, and ho was struck on tho head, and soon died. Tho othor boy narrowly escaped. At Dangber'u ranch, near Gonoa, Nov., n band of Wushoo Indians ho oamo engaged in a drunken quarrel. Ono of tho band was knocked down with a club and thou tramped to death. His head was beaten in with bricks, and nearly ovory bono in his body brokon by tho infuriated savages. While ho lay, begging for his life, half a dozon Indians wore jumping up ami down upon his body until ho was a shapeless mass. Tuo murderers lied to the hills and have not yot been captured. A fatal shooting ecrapo occurred at Merced, Cal. It serins that a man named Williams borrowed a pistol and started out to kill Dan Donovan, against whom he had a long-stumling grudge, Failing to find him ho got in a quarrel with a man named Morley. Williams was drunk. He fired ut Morley, missing him, but striking a man named Adams in tho chest. Ail ii in A illmt aftitr llifrliu a fmv AGRICULTURAL. Dr.voTKD ri Tim Inteuests op Fakmeus and Stockmen. To Kill I.lco nnd Ticks on Sliecp. The following from tho Indiana Farmer is a most excellent method, and worthy tho attention of every man who owns sheen, whether tlmv liavt) lice, ticks or any other vermin or not. It is practiced by Mr. Bothwell, the largest sheep-grower in Missouri Take ono quart of sulphur to every gallon of salt, mix thoroughly, and put the mixture into a trough. Let your sheep have access to it. Set your trough in tho pusture where your thcep are most accustomed to lying down, or in under a shade tree, and keep the mixture dry by making a shea out ot boards. Use the mix ture until you nre confident tho lice or ticks are all killed. Any ono tnat has never used it will be surprised at the results. Fivo hundred thousand orange trees havo been set out in California and their cultivation is extending. Ihe whole value of fences ,in the United States may bo sot down at $2,000,000,000, and it coats $100,000,- UIMJ annually to keep them in repair, By far tho best potato for lato spring use is the Blue Imperial. It docs not sprout readily, but remains compara tively sonu until early-planted new potatoes are ready for use. Now is the teuson when butter taints very quickly, and nono more quickly than the choicest article. It is a time for special cue in manufuo lure, and for tlv earliest nraotieablc consumption. Tho-wool product of California ha? averaged nearly 40,000,000 pounds por year since IbfcU, bringing to tho State $0,000,000 a year. This is about one toventh of the entire wool product of the country. Penuts are becoming a popular- and prohtablo crop in Georgia. The pea nut plant makes forage and rich and nutritious nay, and izo bushels to a single acre will raise and fatten many pounds oi bacon. So long as tho milk is warmer than . 1. I- . .. . tuo surrounding atmosphere it is throwing off vapor und is thereby pur ified. It will not then absorb odors, but tho germs of fungi and other mi croscopic life may fall into it and do it injury. Odors in the stable indicate tho air therein is impure. Use of absorbents is very import mt in summer. Once a week tho stable should bo sprinkled with a solution mado of ono pound of copperas in two gallons of soft water. A churn should bo scalded with boiling water, made alkaline with washing soda. Every pirtiole of milk and cream should bo removed. After being well washed the churn should bo rinsed again by using boilin water. If the fruit is likely to bo at all crowned, mo removal oi a third or i i n even of a half of it will often result in a niuch larger and finer crop than if all had been allowed to remain, and mo pecuniary returns win ho corres pondingly bettor. I ho sour currants aro sure to be plagued with the currant worm. Look out for them. A little hellebore dusted on the leaves is an efliciont protection. Tho worm nover gets a second taste of this insect destroyei. Apply it early in tho morning, while dew is on the leaves of tho bushes. it is not uosiraoio to pasture cows T i it'll in woodlands, especially in early spring. Tho grass grown under the shade of less nutritious, and the am muls aro apt to find many wild plants, tho 11 ivor ot which spoils tho milk for any use. mis is especially true in woods where wild garlic abounds. It is generally acknowledged that winter dairying pays best, and for this reason farmers should givo more attention to this part, of tho bushiest To attempt this next wintor suitable feed must bo raised this summer, and good warm stabling provided. Corn and potatoes may often bo top-dressed to advantago after plani ng, providing lino manure is used. Tho cultivation of these crops during tho season will mix tho manure with tho toil much tnoio perfocllv than it could bo if plowed under. sprouts oi suckors in appio or chards should bo promptly removed. Thoy frequently start in great num bers where tho pruning has been sovoro, and thoy should bo pinched ofi' as soon as they appear. Boinoved when in loaf, suckors or sprouts of this character aro less liable U have successoie. Ono advantago in keeping tho soil loose is that when a showor comes, no matter how hard, tho water does not run off, but goes down into tho soil, whereas, if tho surface of tho soil bo hard, some of tho water will run off during a heavy shower. Honco, cul tivation not only protects tho plants during a dry Bcason, but enables tho soil to ubsoib a larger proportion of wator when rain falls. Whon grass has stood to long and is overripe before cutting, it looks so dry that it seems to need but little curing before pulling into tho barn ; yet lute-cut hay is as frequently dam aged in tho mow by not being well cured as is that which is cut before it has bloomed out. It is most fre quently 'siuoky." To provont this it should bo cut when thoro is no dew or rain upon it, nnd put into heaps, in which it should stand twenty-four hours or longer, that the juice which is in tho stalk may sweat out. Then give it an hour or so of sun and air, und it will bo found to bo more thor oughly dried than it would bo by two days of hot sun. MARKET REPORT. Rei.iaih.e Quotations Carefully vised Zveiiy Week. Ri: WHEAT Valley, 1 22i251 23 Walln Walla, $1 151 18. BARLEY Whole, $1 10ml 12i: ground, per ton, .25 00027 50. OATS Milling, 3G38c. ; feed, 14 45c. HAY Baled, $10$12. SEED Blue Grass, 1416c; Tim othy, 910c; Red Clover, l-l15c. FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 20c. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound. 25c; pickled, 2025c; inferior grade, 1525;. CHEESE Eastern, lG20c; Ore gon, LllGc. ; California, 14c. VEGETABLES Beets, par sack, $1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2Jc. ; carrots, per sk., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20c. ; onions, $1 00; potatoes, por 100 lbs., (J0c.$l; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ; rhubarb, per lb., (5c. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8o. POULTRY Chickens, per doz.. $5 00G 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00 7 00; geese, $G 008 00; turkeys, j per lb., le. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12c per lit.; Eastern, 1313c. ; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12c. per lb.; Oregon 1012e. ; Eastern lard, 10llc per lb. ; Oregon, 10c GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00 2 50; Sicily lemons. $7 508 00; California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges $0 00; Riverside, $1 00; Mediterra nean, $1 25. DRIED FRUITS Run dried ap ples, 7c. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 11c; pidess plums, 13c,; Italian prunes, 1014o. ; peaches, 12Allc; raisins, $2 -102 50. WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon. 915c HIDES Dry beef hides, 810;.; culls, G7i; kip and calf, 810c; Murrain, 10 12c. ; tallow, 33c LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00: eugeu, per iu, .jn vu; x. aim u sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor ...l l -r J.1C1 tl . m i ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4 S, porM, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M, $22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50; stepping, per M, $25 00 ; over 12 inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to GO, extra, H 00; 1 lath, per M, $2 25; 1 lath, per M, .$2 5U. BEANS Quote small whites, $1 50; pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; Limas, $4 50 per cental. MEAT Beef, wholesale, 3(5)3 Ac ; dressed, Gc; sheep, 3c; dressed, Gc. ; hogs, dressed, S'Jc. ; veal, 78c. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17c; Costa lliea, 1820c. ; llio, 1820c ; Java, 27c. ; Arbuckle's's roasted, 22u. SALT Liverpool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tho three sizes; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels; Golden C,5$c. ; extra C, Gfc ; dry granulated, 801 ; crushed, fine crushed, cube and powdered, Vic ; oxtra C, 55c; halves and boxes, c. higher. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Water will always rind its loveL but as a lovolor it can't stay in the samo class as wlnskv. rhuadelphia Call. A Denver man has boon arrested for stealing threo boxes of cigars of tho value of eighty-three cents a box. The defenso will bo insanity. Life. llio editor who saw a lady making for tho only seat in the street-ear found hiuisolf "crowded out" to niako room for "more interesting matter." A tramp denouncing tlie erusado against the duno novel, said that if a dinio was as novel a thingto the others as it was to him, it wouldn't bo done. Texas Si flings. First bursar "Hello, Bill; get any swagr bucoml burglar "This bug full." "Whow! What did you strike?" "Anti-poverty bureau, 1 guess; leastways thoro was lots in the drawers." New Haven News. l'ou wero severely wounded at Gettysburg. 1 believor1" "Lot's soo; I beliovo 1 was." "Boliovol Don't you remember it?" "Not distinctly." "How's that?" "I've beon married over since the war." Lincoln Journal. Solemn man "No, sir, I nover tisli. I think it is decidedly wrong." Chipi noiio "Don't liko to bo so eruol to tho fish?" Solemn man "No; 1 don't niind hurting tho lish, but I think it is wrong lo lie." Texas Colonel "1 don't wish to say any thing against the Individual in question." said a vory polito gantloinan, "but would uiorely romark in tho language of tho poot, 'that to hliu truth is stranger than fiction.' " A sister always gets a good do.il of nttontlon for about a wcok after hor brother has boon jilted by tho only girl ho could over love. It takes him just about so long to find out that he could lovo somo other girl. Somtrville Jour nal. "Why did you strike the plaintiff?" was askeil of a prisoner in tho pollco court mo otucr day. "Uecauso ho said I was. no geiitloiiuin." "Well, aro you a gentleman?" "I don't suppose 1 am. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Cavendish in 17GG discovered hvtlro- fe gen; and between 1774 and 1779 Priest ley discovered oxygen, azote and nitrous gas. A new attuchinont to tho micro scope has been devised, the objoot of which is to observe the melting points of mineral' while under tho process of examination. It is estimated thnt the sum spent on new buildings in this country last I year was $2,600.000, 000. and that tho transfers of real estate amounted to I $10,000,000,000. Careful experiments have shown that waste silk is the most effective of all non-conducting coverings for steani pipes. and the demand for this purposo is great in spito of tho cost. The values of the exports of min eral oils from tho United States for tho year ended December 31. 1887, showoif a decrease of 2,534,977 from tho values of the corresponding period of 188G. The process of manufacturing gas from water at Los Angeles. Cal.. is a magnificent success. Its bright, steady light has been, pronounced a decided improvement over olectrieity. A simple formula for the prepara tion of hektograph ink is given by a competent authority. Take one part of aniline, of the color desired, dissolve in about seven parts of water, and add ono part of glycerine. Meteorites sometimes attain a ve locity ot 180.000 font per second. When passing through the air at this rato tho friction is so groat that the air is heated p to a temperature of 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The French national printingolHce-employ- girls as type-founders, print ers, book-sewers, book-binders, etc., tho wages ranging from fifty cents lo one dollar por day. Afl0I'lhirtv years' service both men and woiiun aro re- tirod upon a pension. , Civilization is spreading rapidly beyond n doubt. African rubb -r is now systematically adulterated with saw dust, bark dust, etc., and after purify ing docs not contain more than thirty three to fifty-live percent, of pure gum. Tho natives add this substance to over come the stickiness. As a wood preservative naphtha lino is now largely used in Scotland, its action beinir to destroy all albuminoid compounds in the wood, leaving it dry and clean to handle, and with only a faint, aromatic smell. Tho naphtha lino is melted in a vessel capable of be ing tightly sealed, and in this the wood is saturated. Extensive use is now being mado in France of tho unique article known as wood wool, consisting of extremely thin and slender shavings of wood, that v aro comparable to paper cut for pack- ing. It weighs some forty or fifty per cent, less than the materials generally ,ised for such a purpose, and its beau- ful appuurance, fineness, and exceeding cluanne-s havo brought it into great favor. A recent chemical examination of several prominent brands of "family lard" showed them to bo variously constituted of different ingredients, and in ono c;iso not a trace of real lard could be found in tho sample analyzed. A prominent lard manufacturer tes tified before tho Senate Committee on Agriculture, at Washington, that so far as ho know tho lard thus manufact ured is more popular wun tno people than tho genuine article is. RUSSIAN SCHOOL-BOYS. Tyrannical Itcu-iiliillons Ailoptod AntliorilicH of Klt-r. by tlitf 1. It is prohibited to tho pupils to visit institutions of pleasure, as Cha- teau do Fieur, Tivoli. Mineral Waters, or pleasures in Bokovaya Rosclia, (grove,) on tho other sido of tho Dnieper, or in any other pleasure gardens. It is allowed to visit the Botanical Garden. 2. It is allowed to visit the theater only whon permission is gVunted by the authorities in each special ease, and not otherwise than by tickets issued by tho said authorities, and by no means in tho gallery. 3. It is prohibited to visit public balls, mas querades, clubs, dancing evenings, tea gardens, cafe houses, eonfeetionaries, billiard halls and other like public in stitutions. It is strictly prohibited to visit secret sociotio's or eireles. 4. It is prohibited to go boating on the Dnieper and on pleasure trips out of tho city, unless togother with the parents or guardian. 5. It is prohibited to walk in the streets or bo out of doors later than nino o'clock p. in. unless there be sonio extra event, or together with the parents or guardian. C. Evorv pupil is compelled to have liis ticket with him and to present it at tho first demand of tho police or persons om ployod by tho Government known for that duty by their appearance. In caso the pupil refuses to fulfil this doinand, or if thoro bo plain disobedience, tha person to whom this mattor is entrusted has tho right to apply for assistance to the police in ordor to bring tho offender to tho school where ho belongs. 7. Tho pupils, when not at homo, nuisi fulfil punctually tho ordered form of dross, not excluding the knapsack for books, with all tho school supplies, and all his buttons must bo buttoiied. To wnjr civil dress is strictly prohibited. 8. On meeting with officials, and also with touchers or assistants, tho pupils must greet thorn with a polito bow, taking oil tho cap or hat. 9. It is prohibited to take out books for reading from pub lic libraries. There is a library in every school purposoly for tho scholars, from which tho pupils only may draw books for reading. Should it happen that tho pupil shoul I tuko out a pro hibited book, ho must nresmit it in tim . .in . s . I0, ,?ono of IupIU has r i I i