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1 CASSIUS M. CLAV. A YIMt In tlip Vrtormi rnlltl-;an' Horn In MiicIIboii County, lly. This county of Madison, from which I write, is one- of tho old nnd rich Blue Grass nnd former largo slave-holding counties of tho State. It has n reputa" tion outside of tho State as tha homo of Cassius M. Clay, the famous anti slavery agitator of tho ante-helium days. I am sure your readers will ho interested in hearing something about him (for ho still lives, at seventy-eight years of ago), especially thoso who're member the speech he delivered at Wheeling in 18.VJ and tho oxoitement that attended it. "Cash" Clay, as he is familiarly known, was born in this county, of Virginia parents, and inherited a large fortuno in land and negroes. But he was educated at Vale College, and this accounts for his anti-slavery ideas. He imbibed them at the North during his education sojourn, and never "gave them up afterward. Ho became an ad vocate of emancipation in Kentucky, and in this he had the sympathy aiid to some oxtunt tho countenanco of his o-re.nt. kinstiinii. llnnm- r!.... a., t.... " ti v. ' ' t . Jill J back as 18 lo he undertook to publish an emancipation paper in Lexington, but he was mobbed and suppressed. Curi ously enough, and apparently also in consistently enough, ho at the outbreak of tho Mexican war, soon afterward, volunteered his services and led a com pany to tho front, although tho war was notoriously a pro-slavery raid on Mexico for Texas and other territory. Ho confessed that ho enlisted in it as a matter of expediency, to gain tho mili tary prestige that would give him an influential following for emancipation in this State. I had known Mr. Clay, and corre sponded quite often with him just be fore tho war, but I had not met him since the war until this visit. First, I went out with a friend, and paid him a call, and since then have, at his invi tation, spent a couple of days with him at his large country home tho largest and most unique country home in the county and perhaps in the State. He lives almost as a hermit in this big house in tho country, in tho midst of thirty-eight acres of forest trees planted by his own hands many years ago. It is soven miles to the west of this placo by way of the Lexington pike. .Just where you turn to leave tho pike and go across tho country to his home stands tho elm tree underneath which ho and Turner engaged in combat at a politi cal discussion in 181'J, in which combat both men were wounded unto death. Clay was stabbed into tho lungs and Turner disemboweled. Clay barely re covered and Turner died. The former having acted in self-defense was never indicted and, of course, never tried for tho killing of Turner. This was his second encounter at a political meeting and it became apparent to his opponents that ho was a dangerous man to attack. Nono but such a man could have car- 1 11 .. 1 . . ... ...., . f rieu on too unequal contest wnn slavery hero. Ilis knifo and pistol woro re spected, but his arguments were not. Jlichmond (Ky.) Letter. HUNTING FAT FROGS. Tlio ICtpnrlrucn or 11 Xmv Yorluir in tho Mhi-hIk's r .liTMoy. "Tho Ilaekensack meadows, over in Jersoy, is about tho best placo to hunt for frogs." So spoke a Fulton street markctman tho other morning. "Last winter," ho continued, "I dug cloven dozen frogs out of ono hole on Sprout branch of Saddle river. An or dor came to mo for eight dozen, and as I had not a jumpor in my winter pit at homo, and not a nose was to bo seen abovo water, tho prospects for my $12 for that eight dozen frogs looked blue. But I took a jaunt ovor to tho branch, and after looking over tho ground found a holo that seomed likely, and all at onco tho idea jumped into my head to drain it and dig out tho sleep ing beauties. Wator-loggod wood and leaves had formed a natural dam at tho littlo pond's outlet, and it only took half a day's work to cut tho dam away and thou bail out tho water which would not flow, and thoro I had tho whole naked bod of tho pond spread out ready for my work. "With a couple of flat boards strapped to my foot so that I would not sink, I went ovor tho mud with a scoop shovel, turning it over to tho depth of about oight inches, and out of that lit tlo pond E took eleven dozon table-size bullfrogs not very fat, to bo sure, and awfully drowsy; but I soon remedied that by soaking thorn at homo for a couple of days in warm water. A frog takes in water through the skin, you know, and every conscientious dealer soaks his frogs boforo ho soils ihom. My wintor frogs woko right up in tho warm wator, and when 1 delivered Ihom woro lively and plump." "If tho frog has ono ono'my ho has a thousand. Herons eat him, and so do ducks, snakes, llshos, kingfishers, owls, crawllshes, and most every wator in sect that lives. Man is not his worst enemy by a good doaljand whon a man is willing to pay onough for a frog to onablo thohotol to paymoil a dozon for them, then 1 say man dosorves ovory frog ho gets. Yes, thoro is monoy In frog hunting for ono who knows how, especially in winter. I havo what 1 call a wintor frog-pit at homo, mado up of soveral tubs of mud and warm water In a room kept at a mild torn poraturo all tho tlmo, which I stock well In tho fall, and soil from whon tho raarshoa aro frozon up. It is an old country Idea, and is common in Paris, whero thoy novor soo a frog half aa big as our bullfrog from ono year's end to tho othor." K. V. Mail and fx-paw, GARIBALDI'S IDEALS. A.Mo,Ie, K,tl,n,.tT"n7tl.. OrcU Itnlln Iiitrlot't ClmrarlrrMI. It . was as a popular soldier that Gari baldi won his fame. had no equal. The forces he captained Worn in;,T.,lii..... , ....Kuim..uib in mimoers com pared with tho great armaments of modern times. His tactics were Uiom of the Uio Grande guerrillas; never theless his success was astonishing, be muse no was peculiarly adapted to lead u revolutionary uprising liko the Ital ian. From the minuteness with which in f1.i.it.il..... .1... . . - v--uiura inu piuns oi ms cam paigns and the disposition of his troops in each battle, and from tho copious ness oi me military precepts which ho sprinkles over his memoirs, it is evident that he deemed himself a master of the art of war; but tnc captains of the futuru will not turn to lilm for instruction in tactics or strategy. Hi strength lay in his pet- si-iiiu vaior. and in the unbounded confidence and devotion which he in spired in his comrades; and those aro qualities without which excelence of discipline, or numbers, or technical skill can win victories. His favorite dream, that the Italians could oinnnei pate themselves without foreign assist ance, by rising en masse and arming themselves with a million muskets. was impracticable for two reasons, which he ought to have understood: lirst, tho peasantry (as ho states many times) were not to be easily aroused; and. second, a multitude of raw volunteers could not havo overthrown tho trained armies of Austria. Tho god of battles uecides for justice and patriotism, pro vided they marshal tho best regiments. When wo havo stripped from Gari baldi his eccentricities and Haws, trail sient in their nature, when we look in to the heart of tho man and conteni plate his achievements, wo behold a hero of tho Homeric brood. Wo are igain in tho presence, of a man of a few simple but elemental qualities, brave, disinterested and outspoken, whose habit it was to exhibit his pas sions without that reserve which bo longs to our later, sophisticated age. Liko Achilles, ho dirt not disguiso his feelings; ho wept when ho was moved, sulked when he was angry. Ho was Inspired by two ideals, and thoso two tho noblest love of lib erty and lovo of his fellow-men; ideals which ho might not cherish in secret, but, which ho must proclaim before a hostile world; ideals for which ho en dured poverty, oxilo, fatigues, and tho perils of battle, llo believed that in ovory man thero dwells a consciousness of right which needs only to ho quick ened in order to produce righ'eous acts. Ilis career, which typifies in tho largo that of thousands of his contemporaries, confounds those materialists who assert that tho ago of emotions, of high-souled unselfishness, of romance, of truo trag edy, has been left behind, and that wo have entered tho Sahara of egotism and commonplace. In the history of mod orn Europe, which is the history of the reconstruction of society upon tho principles of nationality, political equality, and commercial equity, feud alism having crumbled into ruins, thoro is no nobler chapter than that in which the unification of Italy is told. Garibaldi was tho popular hero of that opisodo. Tho race whoso heart beat tr-it, iu Garibaldi, and whose head thought wisoly in Cavour, if its char acter weakens not, will contribute generously to tho civilization of tho future. Mr. It. Thayer in Atlantic. CRUEL CHILDREN. Uvliiff Ti'HtlniiinliiN to tlio Trutli of tho Dni'trliii) of OrlKlnul Sin. In the gradual development thoro is always a senso of pleasure in the ex orcise of power, but this pleasure has' to bo subordinated to tho good of so ciety; and this is ono of tho first nec essary stops to successful social growth. So tho young boy who is, oven among us, more frequently cruel than sympa thetic, may go through a period of bul lying, etc., to becomo a refined and sympathetic man, full of generous im pulses. I say this is tho ordinary method, but, as might bo expected, some boys never becomo kindly, and some, instead, grow from cruel to brutal, and end as social pests. It is supposed that tho lower animal, es pecially tho carnivora, aro pleased with tho torture thoy cause, but I doubt If this is tho only interpretation of tho treatment of the mouse by tho cat and of his victim by tho lion. Thoro aro children who inflict torture on ovory kind of living thing. Thus I havo known a child of tondor years begin by pulling oil tho wings of flies, thon proceed to bake frogs, and next talco birds and boro out thoir eyes, and later still try to Injure any child who might fall into his power. I havo known such chihlron icicle cats and dogs to death, or sot light to them, or pour boiling wator ovor thorn, tho ilondish plonsuro being increased if the young of tho animals wore thus re duced to starvation. Tlio morally un dovoloped child has boon pointed out to mo by soveral dovout frionds as a proof of tho oxistonco of tho dovll aa well as of tho truth of tho doctrine of original sin, and I own their actions -o far to sutisfy thoso who sook such support. 1 Jo not know of any ago at which this brutality may not dovolop, as I havo soon brutos of this naturo as young as four. In ono such tho vico and cunning woro oxtrome. that though many ovll and cruol doods wor dono tho culprit was long undiscov ered. Another most serious trait is that thoeB morally insano children will mako false accusations, and will ovon destroy their olotho" and produco tho Hppeanm,-.- of Injur- to support tales ,,f ,,., i and robb.-rv. -tvrhnjMly KEEP DABY WARM. nor? m a umber of I'.rer li:tetrtltit urcry Topic. Keep babies warm In the fir.it place, doing away with aches and crimps, and perpolual need of handkerchief; keen them well fed. and strike off all dys peptic trouble; dress them loosely and lightly, covering wrists well, and If they cry, nervously, soothe them by nut-door airing, or a warm bath, or warm wet cloth laid over tho skull, or by stroking them from the shoulder iown with both hands as they lie on -ho bed. The mesmeric influence of this treatment is wonderful. Not a fow babies are born insane with nerv Diisness. and cry violently at slight discomforts, which are not slight to them. "I'm afraid of these crying babies." said a wise doctor to mo one day. "1 havo several of them In my practice who cry for hours, apparently without cause. I am always afraid of mischief with the brain in sich cases." The treatment for such highflyers is aot spanking, but a warm bath when ever the fits of crying come on. dr ing with soft, warm towels nnd -a Ions:, loiwurely rubbing or stroking as it lies ia its one gown on tho blanket. Let the baby lie undressed on a pil low in a perfectly warm room, and sprawl like a frog to relievo his mus cles and make them grow. It is good for tho development of children to let them run about a warm nursery naked, half an hour at a time, after they can walk. You remember the lovely figures of children in Alma Tadeina's classic Interior, playing naked about tho gyna cojum and tho bath. They were nobly built, because naked, or nearly so, tho first year of their lives; and their houses, with thoir heating flues iu the walls and under tho floors, were bettor than any thing wo shall have In this generation, Tho constraint that bands and tapes and tho weight of cloth rta to a baby's pulpy form and butterfly strength can hardly bo understood by us "grown ups," but thoy are quite enough to deform in frequent cases. Carrying a child too much on ono arm will make it misshapen. Babies ought to bo hold with their breasts against tho mothors, and an arm at their back, supporting tlio back of tho head by a hand carefully, as it rests against tlio shoulder. They should lie on thoir stomachs a good deal, on a pillow or icross the knees, for chango of position and the ease given by warmth and pressure of the little abdomen. Babies' limbs aro mado symmetrical and vigorous by leisurely, tondor strok ing, and if thoy will get bow-logged by dancing on thoir eager foot too soon, there is no need to torture them with surgical appliances and steol boots. i'lio surgery for such cases is daily, hourly stroking tho legs with both hands, and gently moulding them into straightness. Clover doctors discour age tho uso of appliances for straight ening young children, profcring the gradual traction of tho mother's hands. which will be found all-eflloient. You can do any thing with a baby, except keep him still, when awake. And there is ono ule which ought to bo tho Draconian codo of nurseries: Never wake a child for any thing less than a lire or an In dian attack. Tho babies who havo tho best chance. 1 really believe, are thoso brought up in homely ways, in the warm and neat living-rooms, along with kittens and house plants and singing of kottles, in the sunshine of tho mother's constant presonee, comforting voice and ready tendance. Most of our great men and greatest beauties havo been reared so. l'ho child is apt to got more of the con ditions for healthy development in this unstudied way than in formal, secluded nurseries. Shirley Dare. ANTIQUITY OF SUGAR. Tim I'mci-m of Milking the Swnct Hub- Htitnre of CliiiK'HH Origin. The Chinese, who inventod almost overy thing boforo any body olso hoard of it, claim to bo tho original discover ers of tho process of sugar-making, and it is said that sugar was used in China as long ago as three thousand years. I'his is misty, but tho fact Is well estab lished that it was manufactured in China under tlio Tsin dynasty two hun dred years at least boforo tho Christian era began. India has put forward a claim for priority of invention, but the probability is that tho Hindoos learned tho art of sugar-making from tho Chi nese and that through them tho knowl edge finally spread to tho Westorn na tions; Search us, whon sent by Alex ander on an exploring voyago on th; Indus, brought back reports of "honoy' which was mado by tho Asiatics from cano without tho holp of bees. At this tlmo neither tho Greoka nor tho .Iowa nor tho Babylonians had any knowl edge of sugar, but later tho art of mak ing tho artificial "honoy became known and practiced, though Its prog ross and development was exceedingly slow. It was proscribed as a medicine by Galon in A. . ISO, and up to the sovonteonth century It had becomo nothing mora than a costly luxury, to bo used only on special occasions. Kvon as lato as tho beginning of tho eighteenth century tho annual con sumption of sugar in Groat Britain had reached only 20,000, 000 pounds, wlioro- as It is now moro than 'J.OOO.OW.OOO pounds. Kenned sugar was not mado In Kngland till 1059. Tho art of rofln lag was learned by a Vonotiau mer chant from tho Saracens, who sold tho socrot to him for 100,000 crowns.- Good Housekeeping. A Danish officer has invented u portable Dullot prooi hiiioiu lor two holdiors, which may bo easily carried and fixed, and the men then cooly blaze awny from buhind, either with rifles cr machluo guna, without being plokoil eft b unv luintf loa tiiau a zunnon uuu. OF GENERAL INTEREST. Tho Chinese word for "hash'1 Is tho longest and most dlfllcult word to pronounce in tho language. A man in tho northern part of Maino recently moved a barn. After tho building had been raised on rollers the man placed himself underneath tho building and turned It around. It Is said thero aro twenty cen tenarlans In Paris, tho most noted being M. Chevreul, tho famous chem ist Of tho twonty, four aro bachelors, ono a benedict, four aro widowers, ono a maiden lady, ono a married woman and soven aro widows. Meinbets of a church at Adrian. Mich., have been supporting an old widow there for years. The other day sho went on a spree when she boasted that she had been saving the money received from the church for that pur pose. An Investigation showed that sho possessed four hundred dollars. A lady of Kansas City had a large mole on her cheek which she regarded as a disfigurement. She didn't liko her teeth, and had them all extracted. Brooding over her imaginary personal plainness she became morbid, and leaving written directions to "llx mo up to look as nice as you can," sho in haled a half pound of chloroform and died. A resident of Litchfield. Conn., who carved his initials thirty-flvo years ago on tho limb of an apple tree, found tho souvenir tho other day just as a piece of tho tree was going into tho fire. Tho gentleman has often looked for tho initials but thoy had disappeared from tho surface. A short time ago the tree was cut down, and tho letters, as found, must have been about four inches from tho surface. Two innocent looking farmers were arrested tho other day at Pittsburgh and taken to tho police station, whero they were asked to disclose tho con tents of a small satchel thoy were carrying. "Five thousand dollars in good greenbacks," thoy replied. Tho satchel was opened, and was found to contain old newspapers, for which tho verdant countrymen had paid $175, thinking they woro getting counter feit bills. In some parts of Africa a man's wealth is judged by tho number of his wives. A man with sixty wives is looked upon as a sort of bonanza king. Ilis wives probably go out washing at fifty cents a day, or mako shirts at forty cents a dozen. In this country a man's wealth Is judged by the number of dogs ho owns. Tho possessor of eight dogs is generally too poor to pay school fax. and his wife takes In washing. Drake's Magazine. Tho members of a Nnugatuck (Conn.) family were awakened tho other night by tho screams of a young woman who dreamed some ono had kissed her. Tho father of tho family appeared with a lamp in ono hand and a revolver in tho othor. No man could bo found, but the daughter said ono must havo been about, as sho folt his moustache. Tho mystery was thoroughly solved when a pot kitten emerged from behind a pillow. Tho Statue of Liberty on Bedloo Island has wonderful attractions for tho swarms of birds that aro at present migrating southward. They bocomo attracted by the glare of tho oleotrie. light, and rushing headlong upon it aro killed in great numbors. Tho other morning no less than five hun dred birds were picked up lit tho baso of tho statue. Twenty-llvo distinct species wore counted. Nearly all of thorn were small, and most of thorn were "yellow" birds. A red-headed woodpecker, two cat birds and several English sparrows woro among tho slain. In a recent scientific discussion of "Benevolence" it was said: "Kxpor ionco is showing moro and moro that thoso who aro supposed to stand in need of all this voluntary benovolenco derive but little real advantago from it; that, on tho contrary, it further weakens thoir already defective char acters, and tonds to mako thoir condi tion ono of chronic and constitutional dependonco on tho assistance of others. The time, wo hold, has now come, whon, broadly speaking, tho host thing any man can do is to hold hlmsolf orect, to practlcoa high-minded justice in his relations with his follow-mon, and to cschow all modos of action cal culated to oncourago others to expect that thoy may reap whero thoy havo not sown." Tho most plauslblo vlow, among many doctors was that baldness was especially liable to follow tho wearing of a tight-fitting hat, tho blood vessels bolng constricted and the scalp de prived of tho necessary supply of blood. But this view has been controverted by a fact brought to light about tho Par sees of India. Tho Parsees aro com pelled to keoptho head covorod during tho day by a hat so tight as to crease tho seal) and possibly tho skull, and at night thoy wear a skull cap; and yot not ono of thorn has boon known to bo bald. Tho Orientals say that worry causes tho nair to fall, and it may bo truo in some cases. Tho general state of health naturally affects tho scalp, but tho fact remains that no special cause can bo given for baldness. He Thinks It a Success. "What is your opinion of tho question now occupying so much spaco in tho paperri.'IsMarrlago tiT'alluroP1 " asked u gentleman of a now acquaintance. "Well, I am emphatically of tho opinion that marrlago is a groat suc cess. Indeed, if it woro not for mar rlago my occupation, liko Othello's, would he gono. ' "Ah! Mny I ask your profession? "I am a divorce luwyer." I'ucL SUNDAY IN LONDON. nip Sliurnr of Cintr:it III Miilrnpoll tun I.I To Vlvlilty Itonllrril. If one wants to realize tho real sharp ness of contrasts in London, whore horrible slums aro side by side with wealthy squares, and whero the beggar nnd millionaire tread the same pave ments, one can not see it better than by walking a very few stops from the well-dressed, middle-class decorum assembled in St. George's Church, Bloom-dairy, or the tine drawn intel lectualism of Mr. Stopford Brooke at Bedford chapel. Into Seven Dials, on any Sunday morning. It Is really a matter of some di'.Teulty to pass along Noal street or littlo Karl street, so crowded is tho wholo roadway with costerniongors and Cheap .lack's bar rows. Kvory one of the little povorty stricken, grimy shops is open, and th'j wholo sceno is more busy than it is on any other day of tho week. The sight is ono to freeze the heart of a strict Sabbatarian, but more than that, it is a truly dreadful picture of the real con dition of life in Wvst central London. 1 stood for some time in the doorway of ono of tho sickoningly odoriferous butcher shops, where loathing scraps of trimmings of bone, fat and skin were sold at two pence a pound. A tall, gaunt woman eamo and looked them ovor, but tho butcher said: "No pick ing; yer 'takes as thoy comes' with them, missus!" "Well," she answered, "then yor might, let me havo two pounds for three ponce half-penny." "Can't," was tho vender's prompt and laconic roply. and tho woman turned away; but sho sto;.l by the barrow of a potato dealer till his buck was turned, and furtively appropriated first ono and then auothor of his Inborn. Not only woro tho evidences of pov orty something appalling in this Sun day fair, but the looks of utter degrad ation of soul and body in the majority woro truly lamentable. Angry words, and an occasional blow ovon, occurred; but that terrible apathy and sullen in dttToroueo to all but tho immediate ob ject in view, spoke volumes of tho lives thoy lived. Young men in dirt and rags; girls who had lost tho feminine prido of vanity which leads them to bestow a thought upon their personal appearance, strong, middlo-aged men whoso lovo of drink was apparent; mothers with babies in thoir arms, but who looked old and careworn enough ti bo grandmothers, these prevailed in thb crowd. And tho noiso and tho bustle, tho tumult and bargaining, lasts till about 1:!10, whon things resume a moro week-day like tranquility. But one passes out into Shaftesbury avonuo and sees tho conventional and well-to-do going homo to Sunday dlnnors. and ono realizes that in London of all places "Quo half of tho world knows not how the othor half lives." London llcho. NAPOLEON'S FAMILY. How tlio I.il Ilmpm-or Wat it.itlsoroil j Ambitions Iti'lutlviw. The late Kiuporor Napoleon does not appear, from Count Falloux's memoirs, to havo got on very woll iu his privato transactions with his numerous rela tives. It was during tho period of tho Presidency of tho Republic that his Uncle Jorome, we aro told, said ono day to his nophow, after a storm of re proaches, "You havo nothing of tho Lmperor about you," to which tho President answered bitterly, "You aro mistaken, my dear undo; I havo his family." While his colleagues In tho ministry woro deeming it good policy to show court to tho Emperor's "un cles, cousins and aunts," M. do Falloux "dispensed with all this," and ho adds, with a sly touch of cynicism, "tho Presidont novor showed me any lll-wlll on that account." It was a rollof, ho assures us, from a painful oinbarrasa mont when M. Odlllon Bnrrot helped to solvo tho problem how to provide for "needy undo," by suggostlng that ho should bo mado Governor of tho Invalldes. Tho President appears to havo been equally frank in the case of Ills cousin, Prince Napoleon. M. do Falloux rolatos that when M. Drouya do Lhuys, at a Cablnot Council was entering, with somo em barrassment and much poriphrnsls, on tho subject of tho Prince's lntrlguos at Madrid, whore ho was thou occupying tho post jf Fronsh Ambassador, tho President interrupted him, and "with his usual coolness and deliberation1' said: "I seo your conclusions, M. Drouyn do Lhuys. You may bollovo that I am woll acquainted with my cousin. My cousin Is a monster.1' It will bo percoivod from tills, as woll as from othor passages In the volumes, that lack of outspokenness with thoso ho know Intlmatdy win not ono of tho Kmporor's failures. In 18(10, when M. do Falloux, as Director of the Academy, sought, according to custom, an audi ence of tho Kinporor, in ordor to an nounce tho election of Father Lncor daire, tho ox-Miulbter took occasion to express his opinion tliut tho English alliance, from tho dynastio point of view, was no moro favorable thun tho revolutionary alliance. To this "our illustrious neighbor and good ally,1, as it wan thou tho fashion In many quar ters to cull him, replied, "I know that very woll. Kngland novor Is a truo ally;" und ho added with somo bitter ness,11 sho is ovon an onomy. Sho spoils ovory thing sho touches." Juh, itappQiirs, was the private opinion iu 18G0 of tho sovereign who eleven years later was dreaming, tw wo know, of retrieving his fallen fortunes by incit ing Germany to an unprovokud wur against that country. Clovelund Lcwler. -According to report, thsro aro 2, Vi2 physicians mid surgeons, 105 minUtora and 75 Inwyora in thia country who are woraoa. I SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. About 150 species of lishos aro known in tho waters of Indiana, ac cording to Profs. Jordan and Kvor niann, and about fifty may bo regarded ,Q food fishes. The Interesting and important dis covery has been mado that tho fila inents of incandescent lamps soon break when used near moving belts or other sources of frictlonal electricity. Tho life of such lamps may bo greatly in creased by covering them witli wire netting connected with the earth. -A new material is announced, un der the name of culluvert, being mado by passing paper, or any form of cellu lose through a bath of nitric acid; tho glutinous surfaces thus produced aro then pressed together and washed, forming a very tough and hard sul stance, useful In some of tho industrial arts. -Scienco has claimed tlio sponge fishery of tho Mediterranean. Tho na tive divers, who could stay under water not more than two minutes, aro being driven out by men in regular diving armor, who can work by tho hour. A German professor has origin ated a method of planting cuttings from sponges, and it is being prose cuted with success. Old as is tho theory that trees pro mote regularity and plentitudo of rain fall, and generally accepted as though an axiom in natural philosophy, it is being vigorously attacked, says tho Similary Xews. The trouble has been that only facts favorable to this hy pothesis' havo been available. Now tho result of impartial investigation seems to show that cause and elTcct havo been badly mixed. Masons will be interested in tho invention by an Knstern man of two kinds of plastering composition. That to bo used for tho first coat consists ot sand, sawdust, plaster of par is, slacked lime, sugar and carbonate of soda, while that for the second coat is mado. of cream of tartar, pumico stone, sugar, lime, and plaster of purls, each compo sition being compounded and applied in proportions and after a inannor de scribed. Botli compositions havo been patented. Professor Brown-Sequard has boon making experiments to determine whether the human breath was capa ble of producing poisonous ofToeta. From the condensed watery vapor ot tho expired air or breath, ho obtalnod a poisonous liquid, which, when in jected under tho skin of rabbits, pro duced almost immediate death. Tho rabbits died without convulsions, tho heart and largo blood vessels being on gorged with blood. Tills seoms to show that human breath contains a volatile poisonous principle which ia moro deleterious than carbonic acid. A Belfast machinist has discovered, a process by which tho fibors of tho plant rheea can be readily soparatod from thoir woody and gummy cover ing, thus producing a liber at a low price which will admit of being used for tho manufacture of rope, cordago and woven goods. Bheon is a plant grown very widely in Southern and Eastern Asia, and ono capable of cul tivation in the temperate parts of Europe and America. Ills tho strong est vegetable liber that has yot boon discovered, and is, besides, tho smooth est and most lustrous. Thero aro fow, if any, branches of manufactures, in which labor-saving and liine-savlng devices aro moro gen erally used than in boot and shoo making, and iu none of them has in ventive genius been more gonerously ruwardod than In this. Tho luvoator wlio can save a fow cents In tho cost of making a pair of shoes is suro of a handsome fortuno, often greater than any of tho people who uso tho product of his ingenuity can hope for. For tho ono object of lasting shoos by ma chinery no less than t'Dfl dilToront do vlces havo been patented. Shos ami htather lleview. Wholesome Regulations. Tho most strenuous efforts will bo mado in soveral States, including Now York, to improve tho medical profes sion. It is boglnning to bo rocognizod that tho present looso plan of allowing moro tyros to practlco on tho public health is dangerous, not only to indi viduals, but to communities. Tho council of tho medical societies of Now York City and county recommends, among othor changes, that a minimum ago bo fixed, under which no one van practlco as physician, dentist, or phar macist; that not loss than two full yours of study bo required; that prelimin ary studios bo required equal to thoso required of studoiits admit ted to a law school that no medical school bo Incorporated without u specified minimum capital that will In sure thoir ability to thoroughly toach, and no ctuiloiit shall bo licensed to practlco who does not reach a grade of at least seventy in a prescribed course of study. All courses of study must Include botany, chemistry, physics, anatomy, surgery, physiology, hygicna, microscopy, as woll as obstetrics und diagnosis. Tills form will ho com mended by ovory one who seeks a family physician without running the risk of securing a moro charlatan.- HI. Louis (I lobe' Democrat. A Reasonable Voter. "Who'd you vote for for Congress, Colonel?" asked one citizen of another. ".Jim.11 "Jim? Thought you didn't bollovo in Jim?" "Noltlu? I do. That's why I votod for him. (Jot tirod o'soelu' hlm laiiglu' 'round home." -llarjier'a Muqaiia.