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
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