OREGON SCOUT.
JOKES & CHANCEY, Publishers.
UNION, OKKUOX.
It is found that nearly every kind
of glass, especially that containing
jnangencBO, is liablo to a change of
color by tho action of tho sunlight,
but can bo restored to its original
color by boat. Stained glass in win
dows that has changed tint through
olar action can thuB bo restored by
heat.
Aluminum is coming into use as a
material for dental plates. It is nearly
as light us rubber, but little more
than one-eighth tho weight of gold ;
lias neither odor nor taste; is not af
fected' by tho elements of food or tho
secretions of tho mouth, and costs,
"bulk for bulk, about one-sixth the
.present price for silver.
One of tho most curious of the
safety appliances for theaters is the
iron curtain which has just been put
into the Theater Francais, in Paris.
Tho curtain is of sheet iron, stiffened
by braces of iron and decorated by
canvass attached to it.t It is worked
hydraulically, Uio valves arranged so
as to be operated by electricity.
It is pointed out by a writor in tho
Manufacturer's Guzotto that all com
pounds for improving steel and re
storing burned steel are useless. Good
steel cannot bo improved ; burned
steel is good for nothing and cannot
bo restored. Tho same writer also
condemns all compounds for remov
ing scalo from boilers, and advises
that they bo let alone.
The recent tearing down of a Now
Hampshire manufactory by means of
dynamito demonstrates a new uso for
tho oxplosivo. Tho concussion com
pletely separated tho bricks and did
not seem to injuro them in tho least.
Tho charges wore put in holes dug in
tho foundation under tho brick walls,
and tho number of cartridges was
graded according to the number of
bricks in tho wall to bo demolished.
A day or two sinco Mrs. Tom Shaft"
died, and was buried on Oow Grcok,
Xogan county, W. Va. After the
coromony tho minister publicly in
'vitcd any couplo who wished to be
joined in matrimony to stop forward,
-whereupon Shaft" and a thirteen-year-old
girl uamod Mary Browning
stopped out of tho funeral train and
-were united in marriage. Shall' is
Jifty-sovon years old. Tho affair
created quite a sonsation.
Mi8B Pahloa, tho eolobrated authsr
of cook-books and lecturer on cookery,
dined the other day with a Pittsburg
lady who had especially prepared a
salad for hor distinguished guest, but
"which tho lattor scarcely tasted.
"Miss Parloa, don't you know that
that suhd is mado strictly after your
.recipe?" the hostess askod. ''Yes,"
replied Miss Parlou, "and that's why
I'm afraid to oat it. I have told peo
ple how to mako a great many thinga
that would give mo nightmare for a
wook if I ato them."
A hkciihtkuki) letter camo to
Saccarappa, Me., the other day, di
rooted to Joseph Landry. Now, thoro
aro throo owners of that namo in
Saccarappa, each of whom was sure
tho letter was for him. Tho contest
-waxed warm, ami an interpreter was
called in, before whom tho respective
reasons of tho claimaints weroarguod.
Finally tho letter was opened, and
fouud to contain nothing but a small
bill, which 110110 of the three
'wanted.
A MBDioAii journal Btatos that now
experiments have changed old theories
upon the best mothods of treating
frost bites. A physician froze sixty
dogs into a condition of completely
suspended animation. Twenty of
these were treated by the usual
method of gradual resuscitation in a
cold room, and of theso fourtoou per
ished ; twenty were treated in a warm
apurlmont, and eight of theso died;
while of tho remaining twenty, which
vrero put at once into a hot bath, all
recovered.
Navioatoku in Oontral Africa know
that boats of iron and eteol quickly
corrode in tropical waters, while those
mado of wood art attacked by white
auto. A missionary society has there
fore built a steam cauoo for liko
Nyassaof tho comparatively now al
loy known as Delta metal, which ro
feist corrosion, is light and aa strong
an steel. Tho vostel is twenty-one
foul long, with a beam of coven and a
depth of three fuel, and draws only
lxU'eu tat of vvwUr with t'tiglnu and
boJIu w Ixwnl.
TELEGRAPHIC.
An Epitonb op this Principal Kviint?
New Attiiactino I'um.io Intkiust.
Tho loss by the burning of tho con
vent in New York is now estimated at
$550,000; insuiance, $430,000.
Tho main building of Wells' col
lego at Aurora, N. Y., was burned.
Tho lofs is over $200.000 ; insurance
$100,000.
The new Catholic church at Colo
man, Wis., collapsed, killing ono man
and crushing seven others so badly
that several may die.
Edward Hanlan, Jr., a young son of
Haitian, tho oarsman, of Toronto,
Canada, whilo playing with matches,
set fire to his clothes and was burned
to death.
A passenger train ran into the rear
end of a freight at Darlington, Ohio,
badly damaging tho passenger loco
motivo and breaking several cars.
Nobody was hurt.
Tho Mackintosh sampling works at
Sandy, fourteen miles south of Salt
Lake, was burned. Tho loss is aboui
$25,000, insurance $10,000. Tnc
cause of the fire is unknown.
For tho second timo in threo year
a largo part of the business portion of
Litchfield, Conn., has been burned,
Tho fire destroyed several business
blocks.
A fire broke out in tho Caldwell
Griilith block, on Market street, be
tween Sixth and Seventh streets, at
Chattanooga, Tcnn., and destroyed
$100,000 worth of property.
Tho wholcsalo agricultural imple
ment hotieo of Martin & Co., and
Kingman & Co., in Peoria, 111., wore
burned. Loss, $120,000; insurance,
$120,000.
Tho cottngo of J. D. McCarthy, at
tho Mount Tabor Methodist camp
meeting grounds, at Newark, N. J.,
was burned. Two children and the
mother were burned to death.
A boarding house and store at
West Charleston, W. Vn., was burned,
and Mrs. Wallace and son Simon,
aged 30, wore cremated. Robbery,
murder and arson aro suspected.
Deacon Levering, aged 00, and his
sister, Mrs. Richardson, of Greenfield,
Mass., were instantly killed by light
ning. Thoir farm house and out
buildings were bumod.
Information was received at Tuc
son, Ariz., that two men were killed
between Crittenden and Uuachua, and
that tho deed was supposed to have
been tho work of Indians. The men
killed wore Mexican vaqueros.
Whilo Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
was riding in a victoria in Bellvue
avonuo at Newport, R; I., tho carriage
was run into by a dogoart, and Mrs.
Vanderbilt thrown out. Sho sus
tained serious injuries.
Gcorgo Metzingor, who was the
chief instigator in tho Chicago bomb
makers, and connected with tho Hay
market riot, died in an insano asylum
at Jefferson, 111., recently. No one
claimed his body and it was used for
dissecting purposes.
Adolph Harman, a Gorman em
ployed as a clerk in Morford, Brown
fe Co's store, at Long Branch, N. J.,
tried to shoot Mrs. Hayes, his mother-in-law,
and thou killed his wife and
himself at highlands of Navesink, in
tho woods back of Twin lighthouse.
Whilo Ofllcors Jones and Rosenberg
wore attempting to make an arrest at
a house on Lafayette streot, in Louis
ville, Ky., which has been notorious
for crimes committed there, both woro
stabbed to death by Charles Dilger,
formerly privato policeman and watch
man. At Mooeo Lake, near Duluth, Minn.,
Japp Cox, a well-to-do farmer, shot
and instantly killed his 14-year-old
son. The father was testing a Win
chester ride, whon it was accidentally
discharged, tho bullet penetrating tho
boy's head.
Nancy Kalling, a colored woman
living at Norfolk, Va., who has been
sick for somo months, has vomited a
living frog, nearly as long as a finger,
and almost white from long depriva
tion from light. It is supposed that
somo timo ago tho woman swallowed
a tadpole.
During a heavy galo tho sloop Flora
B. capsized near New Castle, Dul.
Sho had on board, Mrs. Elijah
Wheaton, Mrs. Johnathan Turner,
Mrs. Saml. Wheaton and daughter, 0
years of age, and Mrs. Thomas Finite
gan, all of whom were drowned,
Jenuio Woolver, a domestic on a
farm near Woodland, Miss., was shot
ami killed by George Moons, aged 20
years, who then blow his brains out.
Moons lately returned from Colorado,
and it is supposed that; ho killvd the
girl because she was soon to be mar
ried to another man, and refused his
suit.
Throo young men Soloman Reid,
aged 10 years, Win. Lawrence, aged
18, and the third name unknown, were
drowned in tho Et river, opposite
Sixth street, in Now York, from a
boat which was upset by the wash
from a ferryboat, They tried to swim
ashore in a strong tido, and their live
companions were rescued after cling
ing to tho boat's keel for half an hour.
Tho locomotive of a west-bound
Chicago express on tho Erie road
jumped the track near Coming, N. Y.,
and dashed into a Lehigh Valley lo
comotive standing on the track. The
passenger locomotive overturned and
crushed to death John Morcc reau of
lloruellsvillu, the engineer. The lire
man esoaiHul, Henry FUlier, the I.o
hlgh engineer, wan hurt about the
head. Two baggage ears and 11
mokor we 10 wrecked. HvVra ptu
kvugeid woio bull; shaken up.
' AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to the Intkiiksto ok Eahmeiis
and Stockmen.
SlrnwLcrry Vlnm.
Now that the strawberry crop has
been taken off, the success of next
year lsrgely depends on tho treat
ment given tho vines from now until
tho winter comes on. There aro two
modes of cultivation, the first being
the removal of all vines except one on
a tnace. which is known as a "single
stool" plan, and tho other is tho cl02e
matting of the vines in rows, the rows
being nbout one foot wide, with room
between tho rows for cultivation. ,
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Tho total oat crop of this country
in 4887 was 659,000,000 bushels. Illi
nois took the lead in this crop with
109,000,000 ; Dakota raised 37,000,000
bushels.
A stock company with a capital of
$2,000,000, equally divided between
English and Minnesota cupitalisto,
proposes to ship wheat direct to Liver
pool by way of tho lakes. Tho prin
cipal object of this new plan is to
avoid the mixing in transfer elevators,
hitherto found so hard to prevent.
Mr. W. P. Atherton, whose success
ful apple culture is mentioned in the
Maine Pomological Report, urges set
ting tho trees of each chosen variety
by themselves, instead of scattering
promiscuously through tho orchard ;
and ho refers to soveral sorts highly
recommended and planted freely,
whiiih experience compelled him to
root out.
To show tho numerous sources from
which potatoes arc receivtd in Now
York City, it may bo stated that dur
ing a singlo day recently the following
lots wero received: By Rotterdam
steamer, 616 sacks; Amsterdam
steamer, 1.551 sacks; Hamburg
Btoamer, 3,928 sacks; Stettin steamer,
2,761 Backs; Nova Scotia schooners,
12,444 bushels, and by Princo Edward
Island schooners, 13,147 bushels.
A South Jersey asparagus grower
says that growers fifty miles north are
ofton earlier with their first shipments,
because as soon as the ground is in fit
condition in tho spring thoy throw a
light furrow from the sunny side of
tho row in tho morning and throw it
back again toward night, thus lotting
in tho sun to the crown of tho plant.
Ho thinks tho extra price received
does not pay for tho labor expended,
however.
A Now England paper says : "Oleo
margarine is not selling bo well thiB
year as in past Beatone, as its true
character is known by customors.
This bogus stuH' never would have met
a largo market, offered under its true
colors. Only by a series of deceptions
has it been sold" better last year, and
is selling better this season, by reason
of tho wholefcomo restrictions upon the
salo of iilthy substitutes."
A writer in an English jo.urnal dis
cussing poultry matters, says : "Cross
bred chickens tiro less liablo to disease.
They grow rapidly. Individuality is
not wholly lost by crossing. Tho lay
ing qualities of soveral breeds, and of
IKjultry generally, will be improved by
crossing. Cros-bred fowls will, as a
rule, attain a greater size than if pure
bred. An additional point for English
poultry-men is made of tho fact that
damp soil, which is fatal to tho Dork
ingthe favorito English breed
would not militate auainst tho produce
of a cross with that breed."
TMiimR nnd nt.tinr similar fruits mav
bo grown in ovory part of this wide
. 1 . . . .1 tint Will Willi.
UUUUbJJ, bllU IIUVO f,.. ill"!
Htiind the climate without any dam
ago from tho plum curculio, by spray-
liiir me ireea wim kiieiuBuiiiuai uutouiip,
l'urin lTriimi and London mirnlo. one
pound of oither to fifty or bixty gal
lons of water, through the uso of tho
mmiviinn nuinii First tmrav the trees
i ust before tho blossom buds open;
becono, two weens auor 1110 oetuesuy.
If a weak soap emulsion is useu 111
Miiikh miriivini's In mix tllO 1)01801)8. it
will also destroy the leaf lice, aphis,
bugs and all other insects injurious to
t)i. fruit mill tint fnliiiL'o. Then a
third spraying about June 10, and tho
fruit is sale.
Suit iTiithoi-H on tho outside of but
ter, writes Prof. Arnold, because of tho
iviitwiriitimi nf wnti'r contained in the
brino fornitd by tho salt added for
seasoning tho butter, tlio urine oeing .
crowded out of tho butter by con- j
traction from chungo of temperature. '
It occurs when too much moisture It j
left in butter when working it, and 1
u-limi 11 lord in mi much water in the
composition of butter that it separates
freely anil lorms an excebs 01 onno
ivlmn kiiI 1. is added, lir the latter
case tho butter contracts from tho
liberation of moisture without change
of temperature, just as curd contracts
from tho liberation of its whey by tho ,
action of ronnot, or as lean moat con
tracts hv sonaration of its moisture
from the application of salt.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
at Washington, has just received from
. - . - . t !... .III. '
r.urupo a ccusigumeiii ui utiuu-e buk
worm eggs which ho will distribute
gratuitously to all persons who desire
to raise Bilk-worms and who aro to
situated that they can do bo satisfac
torily. Ho will also uo able to turnisli
hooks of instructions in silk-culture
before tho serieultural season com
mences. Fur two scavonr ho has betm
lmroluuing cocoons from Amer can
silk growers at an average price of 95 ,
cents per pound. All, therefore, who
beck a murki t (or their cocoons or
who with ilkworm eggs, or hook of
Instruction or Informutljii of any
ort in relation to the Industry inut
obtain tlio name, free of charge,
uiHiii a indication to lion. iSnrniun
J. Column. UoiiiiuWmoiut of Ajjrlf ul
1 11 iv, W,uiuiuii, 1). U. 1
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Pri.nxipally to Washinoton
Teziiutohv and California.
Charles Rnssellor, a recont arrival
from the East at Sacramento, Cnl.,
was accidentally drowned while bath
ing in the river.
; Tho Brown house, ono of tho finest
I buildings in Phoenix, Ariz , caught
fire, and was totally destroyed, owing
to a scarcity of water. Loss, $35,000 ;
1 insurance, $13,000.
j Fire destroyed Leach's large plan-
! ing mill and the Poineer Box Com
pany's factory at Marysville, Cal. Tlio
loss is estimated at $30,000, and well
insured.
James Featherstone, a schoolboy 14
years of age, whilo bathing with a
cisco, got beyond his depth and was
drowned. His body was found by a
1
UlUIiUULI.
Charles Harvey, known as "Big
Charley," an employe at I he Bordou
farm near Maderia, Cal., was found
dead in the reservoir at the ranch.
Ho had gone to water stock, and was
subject to fits.
A littlo child of Hollis Edwards,
living three miles from Walla Walla,
W. T., while pl.tying in tho yard witli
its brothers and sisters, tripped and
fell head first into a small hole in the
yard, baeaking its neck.
Ernest Vanmet, a young man 21
years of age, while bathing 111 Putab
creek near Dix m, Cal., ventured be
yond his depth and was drowned.
Several companions witnessed his last
struggles but wero powerless to render
him timely assistance.
A young woman known as Shcller
or Ida BeiiBon, originally of ban
Francisco, arrived at Phoenix, Ariz.,
from Prescott. She started for El
Paso to vifcit her alleged husband, but
died suddenly on tho train. No cause
being r.ecribed, death is supposed to
have been the result of heat.
Nicholas Frederick shot and fatally
wounded his son at Virginia, Nev.
Father and on had an altercation, be
cause the lattor and his sister attended
a ball at a neighbor's. The father at
tacked tho sou and the latter ran out
of the house, when tho father shot
him with a rovolvor.
Tho body of Mrs. Ruchael Frazier,
who had been missing for soveral days,
was found in a canyon on Cedar
mountain, fourteen miles from Liver
moro. Cal. She started from her
ranch to go to Livermore, and evi
dently loBt her way. Tho woman was
quite prominent as an army nurse
(luring the war of the rebellion.
The sloop yacht Thetis, tho favorite
yacht of the Corinthian fleet, was
wrecked on tho rocks just outside
Port Point near San Francisco. She
is now alongside the wharf. Sho was
hauled off tho rocks and towed into
port. Her rudder is gone and there
is a big hole in her bottom. It is
thought onio miscreants cut her loose
for sport or for spite.
A young man named Geno Drake
committed suicido at Riverside, Cal.
Ho was lying on a loungo in his par
ent's, house, reading a newspaper.
His father and mother went out of tho
room a few minutes, and returning
found that ho hud shot himsolf through
tho head. Ho must have died in
stantly. No otiuso is aligned for the
deed.
An east-bound overland passenger
train ran off tho track near Siberia
Btation about 100 miles west of
Needles, Ariz. The entire train was
derailed but no body was injured, ex
cept a fow bruises and scratches to
1 somo of tho passengers, caused by a
1 broken truck on the baggage car.
J Louiso Parker, 12 year-old daughter
of Mrs. Dr. Cown, was drowned at
! Anaheim landing, twelve miles from
1 Anaheim, Cal. In company with a
party of children sho started out to
1 gather clams on the boach of the
, creek and accidentally foil into deep
J water. Soveral of the children tried
: to rescue hor, but failed.
: Mrs. Robert Nolson, a widow resid
ing on Schoolcraft island, near Rio
Vista, Cal., was fatally burned and
t died in a fow hours. Sho was at homo
i nlono and was found by a neighbor
ouudde, but vory near ttio house, with
1 overy stitch of clothing burned oil',
and her body and lower limbs fear
fully burned.
! Somo bovs swimming in tho arm
' near Victoria, B. C, found on tho
I shore a pair of pants, vest and coat,
1 also blood on tho rocks. In tho
pockets woro found letters addressed
to W. M. Culby, headed "Dear Father"
signed J. W. Crawley. Tho letters
show tho writer to bo connected
with a ciicus, selling lemonade.
Tho police aro looking into the
matter.
Mrs. Murphy, of Fresno, Cal., sent
hor 13 year old son to Btuko out a cow
near tho house Tho boy not return-
ing towanl night tho mother went out
to search for him, and found him a
short dutanco from homo lying on his
face iiiBonsible, and suffering from a
gunshot wound through his head.
The boy rallied enough to chargo tho
ohooting on a Mexican boy named
Euos. Enos has been arrested.
Murphy's wound is fatal.
William Odell, partner of tho young
man Nohon, who fatally Bhot himself
a bhort timo ago, committed suicide
by hanging hinuoH with a pocket
handkerchief from a branch of a tree
at Hangman' creek, near Spokane
FilU, W. T. Odoll, who was a rail
road laborer, broanio iliwpomlenl after
the death of hU pul and Uft a note to
ay that ho hud iirwM'd iho dark river
u iuln tho pirlt of his departtHl 00111
M'fi1. DiHHMsed hails fioin Minne
..ila, win re ho Ktivus a wilu and
urttl dIiiUIivii.
MARKET REPORT.
I?ni.iAnt.r. Quotations Carefully Ri:
vised Every Week.
WHEAT Valley, $1 22J$1 23
Walla Walla, $1 151 18.
BARLEY Whole, $1 101 12$;
ground, per ton, 25 0027 50.
OATS Milling, 3035c. ; feed, 44
4oc.
HAY Baled, $10$12.
SEED Blue Grass, 1416c; Tim
othy, 910c.; Red Clover, 1415c.
FLOUR Patent Roller, $4 00;
Country Brand, $3 75.
EGGS Per doz, 18c.
BUTTE 11 Fancy roll, per pound,
25c; pickled, 2025c; inferior
grade, 1525:.
CHEESE Eastern, 1620c; Ore
gon, 14lGc. ; California, 14c.
VEGETABLES Beets, pur sack,
$1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2f c. ; carrots,
persk., $1 25; lettuce, per doz. 20c;
onions, $1 00 ; potatoes, per 100 lbs.,
90c.$l ; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ;
rhubarb, per lb., 6c
HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c;
strained. 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8c
POULTRY Chickens, per doz.,
$5 006 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00
7 00; geese, $C 008 00; turkeys,
per lb., 12c
PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12o
per lb. ; Eastern, 1313c. ; Eastern
breakfast bacon, 12c. per lb. ; Oregon
1012c ; Eastern lard, 10llc. per
lb. ; Oregon, 10c
GREEN FRUITS Apples, $ GO
85c; Sicily lemons. $G 006 50
California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges
$6 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra
nean, $4 25.
DRIED FiUITS Sun dried ap
ples, 7c. per. ; machine dried, 10
11c ; pitless plums, 13c, ; Italian
prunes, 1014c ; peaches, 12J14c;
raisins, $2 402 50.
WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern
Oregon. 915c
HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c;
culls, 67c; kip and calf, 810c;
Murrain, 10 12c; tallow, 33c
LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00;
edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G.
sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor
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, per M, $22 50 ; No. 1 llooring, 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 60,
extra, $4 00; 1 lath, per M, $2 25;
lath, per M, $2 50.
SALT Liverpool grades of fine
quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tho three
sizes ; stock salt, $10.
BEANS Quote small whites,$4 50;
pinks, $3 ; bayos, $3 ; butter, $4 50 ;
Limas, $4 50 per cental.
COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17c;
Costa Rica, 1820c. ; Rio, 1820c;
Java, 27c; Arbuckle's's roasted, 22c
MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33c;
dressed, Gc; sheep, 3c; dre-sed, be;
hogs, dressed, S9c; veal, 7 8c.
PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at
$1 35.
SUGAR Prices for barrels; Golden
C,6gc. ; extra C,6Jc; dry granulated,
7u. ; crushed, flue crushed, cube and
powdered, 8c. ; extra C, 5c ; halves
and boxes, c. higher.
Left Him In Doubt.
When tho shower camo up yesterday
a certain pedestrian whoso jaw showed
great determination took ro'ugo in a
doorway on Monroe avenue Ho allow
ed numbers of pedestrians with um
brellas to pass him, but pretty soon tho
right sort of a man camo along and he
stepped boldly out, extended his arm,
and said:
"Aht you thief, butl'vo run you down
nt last! Givo me my property!"
"lies ah yes! stammered tho other,
as ho surrendered it.
Tho man with the prominent jaw
walked up the nvenuo as if nothing
had happened, whilo tho other skipped
for tho vacated doorway.
"Was it hisP" queried ono who had
witnessed tho performance.
"That's what worries mo," roplied
tho other. "I'm trying to think where
I stolo It from." Detroit Free IVess.
According to tho Electrical Review,
medicine may bo introduced into the
human system by oloetricity. Tho
eloctrodes of a battery aro saturated
with tho medielno and applied locally
to tho skin. Experiments show that
thoro is an actual absorption of tho
medicine into the system.
Russian observations hnvo shown
that tooth decay in a qulto regular
order, tho lower third molar being tho
first attacked, then tho upper, then the
lower fourth molar, and so on, tho
lowor, Incisors and canlno teeth being
tho last ntToetod. Uppor tooth, as a
rulo, nro more durable than lowor,
right than loft, thoso of dark persons
than thoso of blondes, thoso of short
persons than thoso of tho tall.
Investigations mado by Sohnoko
have led to tho conclusion that tho oloo
trlclty which Is discharged during u
thunder storm Is produced by tho fric
tion of water and toothat U, tho lea
Is olootritlod by friction with water;
just before a thunder storm, water
clouds (oumtilt) and leu ohmd (olrrl,
olrrosrntt) appour liimltmimsly In
tint sky, and Urn fruition of th parti-el-
of loe uud watw U, umumUng to
this tliwu-) . a tifUitiu)l wmmm of thti
Olm'lrW'll ttUli't) IHM wto..
EXAMINING RECRUITS.
')Mtncle In tlio Way of OrUliiB l' Vnc.o
Sam'n Army.
It Is not so easy for n man to get Into v
tho United States army. Ho must go
through as rigid an oxnmlnntion as a
life insurance company would Insist on, y
and oven if ho passes that ho Is not
jr-rtaln to bo admitted, ns defective
eyesight or Imperfect hearing, tkit
would not hurt a man's prospects or
longcvltv, keep him out of tho army.
The recruiting otlicers need to know us
much as a surgeon. Besides that, they
acquire a knowledge of human nature
which helps them pick out tho best
men. Hardly half tho applicants for
enlistment aro received, and as a re
sult of this careful culling, and the re
enllstinent of tho best of tho old men,
tho physical nnd tho moral standard of
tho army is constantly rising.
Tho most careful examination is
mado of tho chest nnd heart. A table
has been prepared giving tho mean
chest measurement nnd mobility for
each inch of height. A recruit fivo
feet four should weigh 128 pounds, have l
1 mean chest measurement of thirty
four inches, and a mobility of two
inches. At fivo feet height his weight
should bo Ml pounds, his mean chest
34 inches, and his mobility two and
one-half inches. Each inch in height .
over fivo feet four should mean an in
crease in weight of two pounds, with
live pounds extra for each inch over
five feet soven. After fivo feet soven
there should bo an increase of half an
inch In tho mean chest measurement
for each inch in height. Tho tablo gives
tho weight, hoijrht and chest mobility
up to (5 feet a, whore the weight should
be 190 pounds, tho mean chest 88 inches,
and tho mobility 2. inches. It would
bo ground for rejection if tho man
should bo under woight, or if his mean
chest or chest mobility wero too small.
Tho measurements of the chest are
made by having the recruit raise his
arms abovo his head. Tho tnpo is cir- .
cled around tho chest under tho arm
pits. As tho arms aro lowered and tho
air expelled, tho measure is taken.
Then a full inspiration, and tho meas
ure is taken again at tho same point.
Tho difference is tho mobility. A
mobility of over threo inches shows
that tho chest is in good expansivo
condition.
Tho recruit hops around tho room
first on ono leg and then on tho other.
Upon his return tho recruiting officer
feels his pulse, to see how much It has
quickened through tho exercise, Tho
glands, muscles and bone3 aro ex
amined, and occasionally measure
ments tiro taken of tho arms, legs and
stomach. Tho recruit then goes
through tho positions required in drill
ing, and ho Hops his arms, legs, hands,
feet and fingers around to show tho
officer that they work freely. Tho ex- t
amination oxtends to every part of tho
body, and is as thorough as it can bo
made iV. V. Sun. ' i
AMERICAN BON APARTES.
Member of tlin IlWtorlrtU Corxlruit l'um
lly Iti'tildln In V:iililnj;t()ii.
Two striking figures hnvo become
familiar to people along tho fashion
able part of Rhode Island avonuo and
out Fourteenth streot. They aro al
ways on horseback, sweeping along nt
a brisk trot or cantor, and whisking
uround corners with a reckless grace.
The ono is a man of striking appear
ance, in high military boots and with
tho strong face of asoldier. Ills heavy
shoulders bend forward In an un-Amor-icau
fashion for riding, but his strong
limbs and tho bold carriage of his head
attest that ho would bo an erect figure
dismounted, and whon his horso comes
to a. stand ho sits his saddle as erect as
a statue. His largo, round head is set
firmly, and his heavy black mustache,
brushed straight out on either side and
waxol at tho ends in tho military stylo
of Franco, and a black goatee, drawn
down and waxed In tho same stylo, give
him 11 fierce expression, and bring to
mind a historic portrait. His mount
is n blood bay of largo build, which
carries him at n swooping trot.
Tho companion who gallops on n
smaller animal tit his side is a littlo old
lady, with nn abunduneo of Iron trray
hair, and features that nl ways attract
attention. She Is a daring rider as
well as n good ono, and sho often
presses her horso to 11 moro reckless
pace than Is his wont. Sometimes
they aro accompanied by ti young girl,
apparently their daughter. Nearly
evory day In tho winter, whon less en
thusiastic horsomon restricted their
equestrian exorcises to tho quadrangle
of tho riding academy, theso two
would face tho cutting wind with n,
dash that showed them seasoned to the
tqort.
The man's striking rosomblanco to
Nnpoloon IU. marks him nt oneo fo
0110 of that stock. They are Colonel
Jerome Bonaparto and Mine. lJona
po,rt It Is Mine. Ronaparto's love of
tills oxorelso that swings hor husband
so often into tho saddlo. This nctivo
out-door lift) gives her n youthful color
that disputes tho accusation of her
gray hair. Tho Colonel's hair i
tinged with gnij. Any ono at all fa
miliar with- tho portrait of the last
Kmperor of Franco Is struck with tha
rosomblanco between tho two faces.
Colonel Houaparto rldos a hotter horse,
but ho is not as graceful ti rider as hU
wife. Washington J.ttter.
Silenco Is Golden.
They wero sitting In an easy uhnlr
out on th iMiroh.
l!t- Darling.
Sha Darting.
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She 8wMt.
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