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THE WAVEKLEY OAKS.
Ancient Trees of V, ,1 ,i:-. ... ; Vnaati- In
State .if Mn.s-iiK'liu.sort.
The great oaks at Vi uverlrv, M;
are survivals of anon!: forest that n
have existed in that r.",'ion, accorr
to the geologisls and Ktwdcnts of tt
as far back as the tenth century. 1
bear every evidence uf great an-e, i
an elm tree in the iiiMi'liborhood.'i
almost dismantled, with its (?reat lii
lying on the ground and nearly all
its branches decstyed, is the must vei
able object in the line of trees that ,
probably be displayed in any part
New England. It is well worth a v,
toWaverley just to see tiiis venera
elm. It is immense iu the size of 1
trunk, and its dignity in decav is v
impressive. 1 no cKiwa oau trees in 1
neighborhood are of the sort that
tain a very great ngu, and that mn
tain their virility trj. impaired. . 1
know of only one uthir oak tree,
New England, saya the Boston Hera
that can be compared with them. Tl
is located in Ipswich, and is larger n
more venorcib-e. apparently, than a
of the VYav,-i-i.'.y , m::k, and 'that and t
Waverley oaks, v are srlad tf
it DO
nave been im-ppi'ted by the
state pa
commissioners and are likely t. 1
served. It, is worth on- ivhlle
e p
to h
and study these m'fj.r.t!.' onI;s. Th
are seen to rrosu advauLi fe iu tbo vi
ter, when their rt'.ed limbs tire ba
and their immense :iiA;,;rt'.i is revealt.
and in summer, when they are covert
with foliage, they are nhjeets of wo
derful beauty. The state of Massaeb
setts has a duty to enfrruiehir-.e the)
trees and make them public prope-rt
They are the glory or' the state, and
most as much an object of interest s
the old state house, or the venerab
stmcture called the Old South Meetin
house. SAVED A DOZEN LIVES.
Presence of Mind 10,. I Coimnendal
Pluck of a Colorado .tri :e Owner.
"I have heard of some rare cases f
presence of mind. ' said a trawler toa
reporter for the f t. Louis (ilobe-Denj-crat,
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We were comiiur s iuth on the Santa le
from Denver a few nights before Chris
mas. At about two o'.Oock in the mori
ingr, somewhere north of Colorato
Springs, we went over an embankmem.
The papers were full of it and I wont
go into details, but nobody knows hov
a millionaire saved, the lives of a dozen
people that awful morning. As 'on as
we came to our senses we all tried to
get out of the slecpii.'jf .-ar. When wc
did we found that the forward end was
afire. Just then liiil Yankee, a million
airii miutwuvv im. J-lM-,wfcMy
an armful of blankets, and, jumping
across the flames, landed in n deep
snowdrift. Hi wai
only in his under -I:
seem to mind that
a blanket, piled k
threw it over t he i
time and time. R.pji
blaze completely
wasn't another in
would have thon'
; b'.iveiootc '. and clad
I lies, h'.'.t he didn't
; 'ov. lie spread out
' ill with sunw and
nines. 'J'l.i.s he did
a uut.il he had the
f.. :io::!iereij. There
:.n in t.e ear who
.1
!h;:t but Yan-
;i eliieky thing
e i ' iei' I'd like to
. It looked tis
be oiie i r the
kee, and I tell
it v.
to do. I don't !:inv v.
freeze or roast f. i ,U-atl
though it would have V
other there for
nerve saved us. "
while, but Yankee's
GLADSTONE AS A RCADTn.
It la the Premier's Habit rv.'P to 1,04c
a Minute's Time.
It is rather discouraging to know that
if one should read more hours a, day
than the average American is able to
spend away from business, ho would be
able to road only ;i l'e.w of the works
that are really worth reading,
Mr. Gladstone, however, is not to be
discouraged by this knowledge. lie
goes upon the principle that the only
way to get any reading done is to read.
In a volume of conversations, recently
translated, Dr. Dollinger said: "I think
it was in the year 1871 that 1 remember
his (Gladstone's) paying me a visit tit
six o'clock in th? evening. We began
talking on political and theological sub
jects, and both became so engrossed
with the conversation that it was two
in the morning when I left the room to
fetch a book from my library bearing
on the matter in hand. I returned with
it in a few minutes and found Mr.
Gladstone deep in a volume he had
drawn out of his pocket true t:j) his
principle of never losing time during
my momentary absence. And this at
the small hours of the morning."
The Andes Kinking.
The startling announcement is made
that the whole range of the Andes is
slowly sinking into the earth's crest.
As proof of this La Gazette Geograph
ique says that Quito was 9,51)3 feet above
the level of the sea in the year 1745; in
1800 it was only 9,570; in 18111, 9,567,
having Bunk 2(5 feet in the 55 years fol
lowing 1745, and but three feet during
the 81 years which intervened between
1800 and 1831. In 18C8 the city's level
had been reduced to 9,520 feet above
the level of the Pacific ocean. To sum
up the total, we find that Ecuador's
capital has sunk 78 feet in 122 years.
Antisana's farm, the highest Inhabited
spot on the Andes (4,000 feet higher
than Quito itself, which is the highest
real city on the globe), is said by the
same authority to be 218 feet lower than
it was in 1715.
Christening a Town.
r According to a local tradition, proba
bly invented, Sayville, L. I., received
its name in a peculiar fashion. The
settlers were gathered in debate upon
the shore trying to agree upon a name
for the place, and one after another
proposed his suggestion with "Say,
how'll this do?" After many sugges
tions had been rejected, some one, bar
ren of imagination but sensitive of ear,
proposed that the oft-ropeated word
"say" be made the first syllable of tho
name and thi.t ville be added as the
second syllable. The idea took, and,
says the legend, then and there the set'
tlement was christened .Sayville.
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THE WESTERN PEDAGOGUE.
We are in receipt of the May number
of our state school paper. It exceed
any of the former numbers it value.
Tbe paper this month contains many
new and valuable feutures. Tbe illus
trated series on the schools of the state
iB introduced by a paper on tbe Friends
Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon.
These papers cannot fail to be of great
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nublio.
There are also several fine articles
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THE GREAT BARRIER REEF.
One of the Marine Wonders of the Aus
tralian toast.
One of the wonders of the world is
the great barrier reef of Australia,
This stupendous rampart of coral
stretching in an almost unbroken line
for twelve hundred and fifty miles
along the northeastern coast of Aus
tralia, presents features of interest
which are not to be equaled in any
other quarter of the globe.
Nowhere is the action of the little
marine insect which builds up with un
tiring industry those mighty monu
ments with which the tropical seas are
studded more impressive; nowhere are
the wonderful constructive forces of
nature more apparent. By a simple
process of accretion there has been
reared in the course of countless cen
turies an adamantine wall, against
which the gigantic billows of the Pa
cific, sweeping along in an uninter
rupted course of several thousand
miles, dash themselves in ineffectual
fury.
Inclosed within the range of its pro
tecting arms is a calm inland sea,
eighty thousand square miles in ex
tent, dotted with a multitude uf coral
islets and presenting at every turn ob
jects of interest alike to the unlearned
traveler ami the man of science. Here
may be witnessed at one hundred dif
ferent points the singular process by
which the wavy gelatinous living mass
hardens into stone, then serves as a
collecting ground for the flotsam anil
jetsam of the ocean, and ultimately
develops an island covered with a lux
urious mass of tropical growth.
Here again, may be seen in the
serene depths of placid pools extraor-.
dinary forms of marine life, aglow
witli the most brilliant colors and pro
ducing in their infinite vuriety a be
wildering sense of the vastness of the
life of the ocean.
FOREIGN INFORMATION. v
Tim average marrying age of t rench
men is thirty years.
The British mint coins twenty-five
tons of pennies every year.
At the present day sacred pigs roam
inviolate about tho Buddhist monas
teries of Canton and elsewhere in China.
The coal beds of China are five times
as largo as those of all Europe, while
gold, silver, load, tin, copper, iron, mar
ble and petroleum are ali found in
abundance.
Lightning Proof.
Women who are afraid of thunder
storms are having their chairs and bed
steads made with glass feet to serve a
insulators. What is the matter wit!
the. old-fashioned feather bed where al
the women and children of the family
took refuge in a thunderstorm? Or tin
dark closet when the preserved were
kept? Perhaps the glass jars made thai
secure, but no power on earth evei
laved the preserves.
Produce 'l 60 and net the Qazette for
one year. Mice family paper, and bill
y to paper cabins.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
A NOVEL DUEL.
Vie Principals Walk Into a Dark Boon.
Filled with Tarantulas.
The details of one of the strangest
duels ever fought has been brought to
this city, says a Las Vegis letter, by a
prospector who has been in the moun-
tains southwest of Las Vegas. The
country is near the border line between
Old and New Mexico, and the people
there are a mixture of the two races,
Two young men an American and a
Mexican fell out over a young woman
they both loved, and the result was that
the enmity became too great to be car
ried, and it was determined to end it in
a duel.
The matter came about in an unusual
way, however, and it was not a regular
challenge and acceptance, butwnucm
company of mutual friends the Mexican
taunted the American with being a
member of a race of cowards and said
the Americans had no bravery. The
American, of course, disputed this and
said he would test the Mexican's brav
ery if he wished it. He would be will
ing to go into a dark room with the
Mexican and there decide the point.
But the stipulation was that in the
dark room there should also be a lot of
tarantulas turned loose. If either
came out alive he was to have the girl.
If either showed the white feather and
came out before the death of the other,
or before all the tarantulas was killed,
he should give up all claim to the girl
The Mexican was disposed to refuse,
but the fear of being looked upon as a
coward caused him to accept. The
room was prepared and the two men
went in. There tvere at least a dozen
tarantulas in the room and also two
scorpions. The American walked boldly
into the room and took his stand, while
the Mexican followed, but was hesitatr
ing in his manner. The; doors had been
closed but a short time until tho Mexi
can was heard to scream out Unit he was
bitten and was dying. The doors were
opened and he staggered out and fell to
thaanur-TluLa nuicicao.. stuDmnI. out.
Mexican had not been bitten lit all, but
had scratched his hand on a protruding
nail in the wall and had thought it a
spider's bite.
OLD TIME RAILROADERS.
On. of Them Hum Jlcen In Harness Kver
Mince l.SIH).
Christopher Smith, who lives on
Maryland heights, opposite Harper's
ferry, is the oldest living locomotive en
gineer on the continent, says the Balti
more Sun. The next oldest is Joseph
York, of Meailville, Pa. Samuel Double-
day is the oldest living employe of the
Baltimore A. Ohio and William Ijams
the next oldest. Doubleday was the
tirt finishercver employed in a railroad
shop in the country, and entered the
Baltimore fe Ohio service in s:t0. Ijams
was not long after hi:u, and was the
first blacksmith in the eunipany's em
ploy. Doulilcduy subsequently became
superintendent of the Wimin shops and
Ijams foreman of the Winan smith
shops. The former is eighty-two and
the latter eighty-six years of age. Chris
topher Smith began wit h the ltaltiinoro
& Ohio in ltttt as a driver, when there
was no steam power on the road, and in
38H3 was a lireuian on tin: Traveler, tho
third locomotive placed upon the road,
and a year later became the engineer of
the John Quiuey Adams, one of the
earliest of the grasshopper engines. He
was an engineer two years before Cal
laway, the veterun Baltimore & Ohio
engineer, who died a year ago. Smith
is over eighty years of age, and was for
nearly if not quite a full half century
in the Haltiinore & Ohio service. He is
a hale and hearty man for his extreme
age and bears a striking resemblance to
the later portraits of Washington. York
became a lialtimore &Ohio man in 1836,
acting as a fireman upon one of the
grasshoppers, and in a short time was
running her as engineer. He is the
youngest man of the quartette, being
about seventy-eight, and so well pre
served and active as to be competent
to take a traiu regularly.
MOVING PLANTS.
Interesting; Facts About the Mysterious
Organisms Called Bacteria.
Bacteria are not insects or "bugs,"
?ays the Popular Science News, but
plants. They have, however, the power
af spontaneous motion. Like other
living things they take in matter and
potential energy and give off matter
and manifest energy.
In common with all vegetables not
possessing chlorophyll they require
organic food for the maintenance of
life, but they can subsist upon food that
contains no proteid, being able to take
nitrogen and sulphur from inorganic
sources and carbon from organic
sources, and with water they build up
proteid material. They share resnira-
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tion in common with ail living inmgs,
taking in oxygen and giving off carbon
dioxide. Certain bacteria, however, do
not require free oxygen, being able to
unlock it from the substances in which
they exist; and certain chemical pro
cesses attributable to tuern eviucuuy
acpenu upon u.is Fc, 01 u uB
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teria r.re very widely distributed, being
present in the atmosphere m vast num-
Ders, anu aiso cxiomi,; iu tauu auv.
water. They cover the surface of our
bodies and line our entire alimentary
canals; fortunately, however, they are
chiefly of the benign variety, which
will riot thrive in living tissues hence
called non-pathogenic.
These micro-organisms are among the
smallest objects which the microscope
reveals. A very common form of ba
teria is that known as the bacterium
fermo, which is an elongated, rod-like
cell about 1-25,000 of an inch in breadth
and less than twice its breadth in
length. It is non-puthogenic, easily
killed by antiseptics, and is always
found in putrefying or septic fluids;
hence it is sometimes called the carrion
or septic fungus.
Cold (32 degrees Fahrenheit) suspends
the animation of uactcria, but does not
kill them; many withstand a much
lower temperature. lloiling water
kills many bacteria, but those that are
in the condition of spores can with
stand a much higher temperature or
can withstand the temperature of 212
degrees Fahrenheit for a much longer
time than can the mature bacterium.
In general terms extremes of heat have
a more destructive action to bacteria
than extremes of cold. Heat without
moisture does not necessarily destroy
the lives of all bacteria, but renders
some simply inactive.
BRONCO KATE.
fcoung Girl Who Can Ride the Worrt
Horse That Lives.
i -Ih&-feaijLof.mvbava in. riding, wild
interest to eastern riders who have
been so Impressed with the powers of
these half-wild men that they imagine
them to be a species of centaur. While
it is true that many of the cowboys are
expert riders, there is nothing unusual
about their riding. There is a rider in
Texas, however, who is greatly out
of the ordinary, and whose riding is
Lhe comment of even that section, where
jood riding is the rule and not the ex
ception. This rider, says the Philadelphia
Press, is a girl, "Bronco Kate." She is
the daughter of a cattleman and has
been all her life on the plains with the
sowboys and could ride a horse when
ho was three years old. She i3 the
idol of every cattleman on tho range,
ind when Kate wants a horse there is
not a man in the country but would
walk if she would take his animal.
Kate Chapman is but sixteen years
5ld, but she is undoubtedly the most
fearless rider in the world. She never
lesitates an instant about getting on
.he wildest and most vicious animal on
the range, and it makes no difference
jo her whether it has ever had a saddle
m or not. Her latest escapade was to
ide and break in a mur,taug w hich had
.he reputation of being a mankiller.
This animal is especially vicious, and
lot only throws its rider, but goes after
lim when he is down and strikes and
oitcs him, trying to kill him.
Kate had been wanting to ride thit
bronco for sometime, but every one on
the range opposed it and did all in hit
power to prevent it. The girl was no
to be balllcd, however, and catching
the horse in a corral she saddled him.
She then blindfolded him, and in this
londition forced him out on the open
prairie and mounted him. The brute
rtood perfectly still until she lifted the
blindfold, and then began a terrible
battle, in which the girl finally came
ut victor and rode the horse at will
wherever she pleased.
An Ancient Negro.
Kiehard Hoops (colored) who elaims
to have been born in 17T0. is still living
In a dilapidated little shanty on the
Cole county (Mo.) side of the Osage
river railroad bridge. He has occupied
the same uninviting quarters for a
number of yeurs. To all outward ap
pearanees he is just the same that he
was twenty years ago. Occasionally he
does small jobs of work, but for" the
most time hunts and fishes, and is very
proficient in both the latter callino-s
Some people think that crows are no
good to eat, but Uncle differs from
them. He considers crow meat only
second to a good fat possum.
A good thing for vou to do is to sub
scribe for the Onzette.
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