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W A SH IN G T O N PACIFIC STATES tS T IN G N EW S N O T E S FRO M PLACES v a r io u s st f af N orth w est F u r n is h « . >|„ re T h u n H um « G e n e r a l I ii t e r - _ l»» v « lo p m « n * um l P rogre«. In I u d u .t r le .-O r e g o n . ,rtuu ii working to secure a mill. sey people are going to build a all by popular subscription. ,bnrg will use July 8 and 4 lor ual pioneer reunion this year, allis evangelists have laid lions lor new ohuroh and par- buildings. bscription paper is in oiroulation roe to assist in getting another mill there. Salem small boy is reveling in ¡icipation ol three monster allied this summer. bers ol the East Calapoola I Club, ol Douglas county, oap- hree coyotes last week, nusually small crop ol lambs is ort ol almost every sheepman in i county,except those who begin iarly. ohooner Mayflower sailed Irom e last week with 120,000 (eet ber, and the Danielson with l Laok, formerly a newspaper Baker City, recently cleaned up in Cripple Creek, as the result kilning ventures, says the Baker emocrat. ill-starred Stultz Company 'grudge against Humboldt ooun- where one ol their recent dis horning up the coast overtook They want $800 damages from my commissioners. 1 has begun to arrive in the ¡ton warehouses. The quality is ad as a general thing, very | The scouring mill proposes to i its capital stock by $80,000 at 'ual meeting, the 5th. uductor on the Heppner branch jo. K. & N. Co .when in Pendle- urted that ol 500 sheep and "hich had been shorn a few days Heppner, all the lambs, over Inumber, had died Irom cold, ioettcher, the Umatilla sheep- ects soon to commence his Jr's drive to the East He will e usual number, about 12,000. weather and snow in the moun- ill prevent Mr. Boettcher irom for some time yet. Herrick, ol The Dalles, has iug in readiness to begin can- Boon as sufficient quantities of be taken. Enough flsh are 4aught there to supply the looal , and to make shipments of fresh t not enough to justify the les opening. IKlamath shipping season was ,y opened one day last week, e Lottie C. was sighted steam- the river, toward Klamath She arrived at the wharf late | afternoon and, after giving a s a ride on the lake, tied up night. She left the next day Jwnell, at the southern extrem- iwer Klamath lake. Williamson has the contract mantling the steamer Three and is now engaged in the The engine and boiler is said _e best and most economical of -t on the river, and may, the ,.y say, be used in the oonstruc- a new boat for the upper river next season. The original cost ¡Sisters’ machinery was $8,000. 1 Clark, ol Blalock, Gilliam has prepared and w ill plant es of sorgum this spring. He ^complete manufacturing outfit ingthe syrup, which he brought fall from Kansas, where he has the past few years. He is no experiment now, as before 'St several years ago, he grew to good advantage on his place ck. ig logging outfit, which, in the of Captain Smith, has been , g in the vicinity of Corvallis past five months, has about oom- |ts oontract for furnishing 1,- feet of balm and white fir logs | Oregon City pulp mills. All have been taken down except a 150,000 feet now at the island orvallis, and another of 100,- down the river. W H Aiiiutf ion. COUNTY it again in operation, and the oitizens hope that a satisfactory agreement haB been reached by the Edison company uiid the bondholders. FACTS FOR FARMERS. The residence of W. E. Mitchell, in Olympia, burned with its contents last Saturday. There was $800 insurance on the building and furniture, whioh about oovers the loss. The effects of the bank of Auacortes, which suspended in 1893, were sold at assignee's sale the other day, aud brought but a small sum, compared with the bank’s liabilities. The dead body of an unknown man was found in the bay at Seattle last week. There was a frightful wound on the right side of the head, but the real cause of death has not been ascer tained. HELPFU L S U G G E S T IO N S FO R T H E A G R IC U L T U R IS T S . The Whatcom Reveille claims that the old brick oourthuuse on E street in that town is not only the first brick building built in the territory of Wash ington, but the first built north of San Franoisoo. Mrs. Sidney T. Ford, of Centralia, last Thursday oelebrated her 90th birthday, among many of her old friends. Mrs. Ford is one of Wash ington's earliest pioneers, having set tled on Ford’s prairie. A surprise was created in land office circles in Spokane last week by the ar rival of patents to the Northern Paoitte Railroad Company for lands near Pa- louse, occupied by Edward F. Powers and James D. Holliday. The settlers had contested the company’s claim and the local office decided in their favor. The railroad company appealed and pennding a decision patents were is sued to the company. It is claimed that there is a snake, measuring about three inches in length, in the eye of a horse belonging to Alex McAllister, of Yakima City. The snake can be plainly seen wriggling around in the ball of the eye, and the horse is gradually beooming blind. Mayor Lake and George Gervais vouch for the truth of this statement, says the Yakima Herald. Commander Wadhams, of the Mon terey, says the damage to the Monterey when the steamship Transit collided with her in Seattle harbor recently did not need immediate attention. Une of the Monterey’s plates was sprung by the collision, but it had been caulked, and there was no necessity of perma nent repairs till the monitor returns to Mare island. Commander Wadhams said the Monterey might remain on the Sound all summer. A number of farmers living near Lake Stevens have organized a society called the Lake Stevens Mutual Benefit Sooiety. The sooiety is organized for practical co-operation. Each member is asressed an equal amount, and has the use of the community property, which at present consists of a stump- puller, fruit sprayer, some full-blood Jersey stock and several improved farming implements. It is the inten tion of the sooiety to erect a fruit-dryer at the lake in time for this season's crop of prunes, whioh w ill be a large one. Id a h o . The postofflee department has or dered discontinued the special mail service from Caldwell to Sucker, Mal heur county, Oregon, to take effect May 31 next. At no distant date the New Colum bia Gold Mining Company operating in the Yellow Jacket mining district, will be absorbed by the new company organized for that purpose and known as the Idaho Chemical Gold Mining Company. The postoffice and general store at Cameron, about five miles from Kend rick, was robbed of a quantity of stamps and groceries last week. This is the second robbery in the last four months, and it is believed that an or ganized gang of boys in the neigbor- hood is responsible for it Lemhi oounty is to have a new mill, and all the planB have been prepared and aocepted The mill w ill be erected by the Gold Dust Mining Company near Leesburg. It w ill be a twenty- stamp plant of 850 pounds each. There is plenty of ore blocked out to keep the mill running fully one year. From all indications this w ill be an active year of mining, in Custer coun ty, says the Cballis Silver Messenger. Our mines are not boomed to any great extent on the outside; they do not re quire it, as they show for themselves. Just how much work will be done on them this year depends greatly on the price of lead and silver. New and rich strikes are reported almost daily from some section of the country. M o n ta n a . Whatcom is to hare a storm rvice. A new stage line is soon to be put on ich of the state board of immi- that will connect with Graham’ s line was organized at Asotin last from Butte to Sheridan, and make the trip from Butte to Virginia City in machinery for the flax mill at one day. The terrible accident at the Broad is being built, and w ill be water mine at Neibart resulting in the lout June 1. ily named Keller bare been loss of several lives this week, was in Hoquiam from trichina, caused by the explosion of giant pow aten of improperly cured pork. der. This makes the third serious mine accident in Montana within two amounting in value to $200 weks—two of which are laid to p ow offered for the field day oon- der explosions. be held by the garrison in The Butte smelters are offering very alia on June 1. favorable terms just now to ore ship alth officer of Seattle disoov- pers. For the oopper ores of the Butte ild case of small-pox, about district leasers and shippers have se ks from polioe headquarters, cured a price for concentrating as low ient was immediately quaran- as $1.25 per ton, and for smelting the concentrates a fee of $8 is charged and snd oat hay is bringing $0 a pay 95 per cent of the value of the ores. Big Bend oountry, and there After a shut-down for several weeks sition on the part of a num- the Butte & Boston concentrator started e farmers to raise hay instead up again this week. Some much needed repairs are being made in the York company offers to put smelter when it is expected that it will mery plant at A 'otin if the again be running with a full force of 800 cows can be secured, men. Tbre Trout mine at Granite is ation company w ill give a shipping in an excellent grade of ail- | Ter ore to the Colorado smelter in trio lig h t p lant at Cheney 1 Butte just now. A P r o l i f i c K r e e d o f . * h e e p —N e w P r u n i n g S h e a r s H avinvg a S lid in g — H o w t o S e l e c t P o t a t o e s D e h o r n in g V otin g C a lves. S h rop sh ire Sheep. lilu d e for Seed — IIA T C IIE T tain milk, when tested, has the re quired amount of udlk solids, but the percentage of fat is very low. It has been found thut this State of affairs is due to the addition of a condensed skimmed milk after the cream has been removed by the dealer. The report says that the dealer practicing this fraud cannot be successfully prosecut ed, because It cannot be proved that the cream has been removed, and the addition of the condensed skimmed ndlk Is not an addition of “a foreign substance,” prohibited by statute. It appears that a concern iu New York is doing u thriving business furnishing dealers with the condensed skimmed milk. The number of cans of milk received by dealers in Boston in 1895 was 9,856.500, of which there were sold 8,(K£732, each can containing 8% quarts. This quantity supplied about three-fourths of .the "greater Boston” district.—American Cultivator. The Shropshire branch of the Down family partakes of the general charac teristics of the Southdown, says the Orange Judd Farmer, although much heavier both in fleece and body, and also more robust. It is said to be the most prolific of all breeds of sheep, the average rate of increase in some flocks of pure Shropshire often being 15U per cent., while the product from the cross of the Shropshire ram on half-bred long-wool ewes frequently reaches 200 P o t a t o e s f o r C ow «. per cent. The prolific tendency of the Potatoes have been found In many Shropshire is a point of great import trials to be an excellent feed for meat ance with the breeder, as it materially production, and the general estimate increases the profits in furnishing early of their value for this purpose is that lambs for the market. They are also four pounds of tubers are about equal good mothers, a yd generally have an to one pound of meal. Some rate them | even higher than this. Their value, ac cording to tlie Orange County Farmer, however, does not depend upon the nutrition they contain solely, but upon the fact that as part of the ration they tend to keep atock healthy and nre an aid to digestion. No very accurate data exists as to their value In udlk production, although they used to be regarded as a good milk feed In a gen eral way. Some experiments confirm the old-time view, witn the qualifica tion, however, tlmt when fed largely they lower the quality of the product to some extent, but a small ration of, say, five to six pounds 11 day produces no effect upon quality, nnd Is valuable from a sanitary point of view, and for the sake of variety, answering in this respect to the office performed by roots in mixed feeding. While pigs do not SIIItO 1*811 IKK I, A MB. readily eat raw potntoes, or at least abundance of milk for their young. In prefer them cooked, cows cat them this respect differing from many of the witli avidity iu their raw stale. large breeds. The Shropshire has n longer face, of uniform dark tint, than N e w I runtttv ihenr*. the Southdown, a full and spirited eye, Here are a pair of garden shears, spreading ears of good size, and a fore which are constructed on a principle head rather flat and well wooled. Their quite different from ordinary shears. fleece weight is generally from five to The latter will, uo matter bow sharp, seven pounds. The meat Is like tlie never cut taiga and branches very Southdowus In fineness of texture, the easy. Tlie way they shut pushes tbe presence of fat In the tissues, and rich twig away from tbe cutting edge, and ness of color. These sheep are hardy much force is uselessly spent. Tbe In moist climates, nml will endure a shears shown ill our cut are quite dif wide range of soil nnd feeding. The Il ferent in that respect; tlie upper blade lustration herewith shows a blue rib while closing slides toward tlie hand bon ram lamb belonging to W. H. Beat- by a simple, yet very ingenious contriv tie, of Canada. ance. which is fully explained in the Illustration. The sliding upper blade P ota toes fo r Seed. There needs to be greater care taken does not allow tlie twig to slip away In selecting potatoes. Not only the from the grasp of tlie shears, but will right form nnd size nre Important, but even draw it into its cutting edge. Tbe It is quite as much so that the seed Inventor of these garden s'..ears Is now should be grown from plants that have constructing other scissors upon the kept their vigor until the tubers were same principle, and claims Hint cutting m jfflSs»**-* fully rlpeued, and that had not suffer ed from attacks of tlie potato bug, says the Orange County Farmer. The only way to be absolutely sure about having good potato seed Is to mark the strong est hills while they were growing, and select the best potatoes from these hills. Such seed should easily be worth five times as much per bushel £ for planting as seed selected at ran dom from a pit or bln. If a farmer can once get started with seed of this 8IIEAKA HAVE A SLIDING HT. A DR. character, it will require much less labor to fight the potato bug. It Is a of several layers of cloth is performed good plan, also, to try the new varie with much less use of force and with ties as quickly as they come Into mar better results than with the old-time ket. Most varieties grown from seed scissors. will yield much heavier crops for two F r e s h W a t e r f o r t in g s . or three year» after their Introduction No animal suffers more frequently than they ever will again. from thirst thnn does the hog. especial ly when it is fattening. If it is fed K e e p th e H en s a t W o rk . An active fowl is usually a healthy milk and swill, the latter made salty one, and a hen that has this characteris by the addition of the brine made front tic, if possessing a large, red comb and salt pork while it is being freshened, egg-pouch, can be counted upon ns a its case is so much the worse. Milk steady layer, if only she ts given kind contains some water, but it is so mix attention, says the Independent. In ed with fat and casein that It cannot cold weather you must not expect any serve ns n substitute for water, as any thing but trouble from a flock of idle one may see by placing fresh water chickens that have nothing to do but where the hogs can get it at will. They mope about in a half-sleepy condition; will not drink large nmounts. The It is unnatural; what they require ts ac hog’s stomach is not large enough to tivity. Make them scratch among hay hold a great bulk either of food or or litter for every mouthful you give drink. But the hogs that have fresh them, keeping them a trifle hungry; this water will have better digestion, an.l will stir the blood, and give them some if fattening will be more free from thing to think about. Please remember fever for having pure water. On many this when you complain about not get farms bo much salt meat Is freshened, ting many eggs. Activity, meat scraps | and the water used In doing this is and a variety of food, with milk occa | saved for the swill barrel, that the sionally. will solve the question better hogs fed swill are constantly suffering than anything you can do for them. Intense thirst, making them unhealthy Winter is the time they require your and diminishing their ability to make best care. Don’t blame the hens be the best use o f the food they eat. fore you take yourself to task; be Just O d d « a n d E n d«. In all things. Clover tea is excellent for purifying D i s h o r n i n g C a lv e « . the blood, clearing the complexion and Dishorning calves, when two to three removing pimples. Dried clover may days old, wltb the chemical disborners be used for the tea. (which, I believe, are simply dissolved If castor oil is applied to a wart once potash), is In my ease a complete suc a day for a month the wart will en cess, says a contributor to the Country Gentleman. 1 have found a better way tirely disappear. In many case* It will for me, yet ^will describe the chemical ! not require so long a time, way; Before the born has come through j The discovery that cold coffee Is an the skin—on the second day after blrtb. excellent tonic for growing plants If possible—cut the hair away from the should do away with the last remnants place where the born would come—you of the custom of warming over cold can feel the bump—and moisten a coffee. place as large as a silver quarter dollar To prevent a bruise from discoloring thoroughly with the dishorning fluid, apply immediately hot water, or. If nibbing it In with a small swab. Do that is not at hand, moisten some dry not drop any on clothes, flesh, or on the starch with cold witter and cover tbe calf’s eyes. In ten minutes mb more bruised place. on. Then let alone, and have no more It is said that if parsley is eaten with uneasiness on the horn question in tbe onions or a salad containing onions tbe case o f that calf. A brown crust forms, odor of the onion will not affect the wbicb is tbe skin killed by tbe dishorn- breath. The sprigs or parsley should er. Let this alone and It will come off | be eaten as you would celery. In due time. To make tbe chemical dis- A small piece of candle may be made horner, dissolve a little potasb in as lit tle water as will do; keep in a glass- to burn all night by putting finely powdered salt on it until it reaches tbe stoppered bottle. black part of the wick. A small even light may be kept In this way. F r a u d A m o n g M ilk D e a le r s . When bak'sig cake, on removing it Tbe report of the Massachusetts State Dairy Bureau calls attention to from tbe oven place tbe tin containing a new fraud practiced by milk dealers the cake on a damp towel for a mo which cannot be reached under he ex ment and the cake may readily ba isting statutea. I*, appeara that cer- taken from tbe tlb without sticking. A GREAT BOULEVARD IT WILL LEAD OUT OF THE CIT Y OF NEW YORK. W i ll Coat • ‘¿ 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 W ith in Three CroMK I t M ost 11« Fin lulled Year*— No at O rad e— A n H oad* Ideal W i ll H ighw ay For R ider, B icyclist or W a lk e r . Gotbum w ill some day— and not a very faroff day either— possess one of the most famous thoroughfares iu the world. (Quietly and irresistibly as the operation of tbe tides and other forces of nature, New York has proceeded to ward the realization of one of its inevi table improvements—a grand concourse or boulevard extendiug from the Harlem river to Mosholu parkway. It will be a grand drive and promenade connecting the park systems of the metropolis. This enterprise when realized w ill surpass even the famous boulevards of Paris. It is to run for 4% miles along the river, dividing the Hudson river aud Long Island sound, beginning at the in tersection of One Hundred and Sixty- first street and Mott avenue, its north ern terminus being Mosholu parkway, just east of Jerome avenue. No streets w ill cross it at grade, bnt all will go beneath it, a result that is particularly practicable by the natnrally elevated sitnation of this unique highway. Its cost is to be about $20,000,000, $8,000,- 000 of which, it is estimated, w ill be required for the acquisition of right of way. The time allowed for its constrnction is three years. Within a year, according to the engineers in charge, the work w ill be well under way. The last legis- latnre gave the city authorities in charge of such improvements all the law need ed to condemn property, make prelimi nary surveys and perfect arrangements for prosecuting the work, which is to be unique urnoug tbe famous streets of the earth. A glance at the plans prepared shows that the width of the conconrse w ill be 182 feet, and every inch of this space w ill be utilized so as to make the thor oughfare attractive. In the rough sketch es which have been made the engineer has provided for a sidewalk on either side. Next to each sidewalk w ill be an ordinary driveway. The speedways w ill be in i .:e middle, flanked on either side by a promenade. It is likely that this plan will be al tered so as to provide two bridle paths skirting the speedways. Mosholu park way, into which the conconrse w ill run, is 600 feet wide. It connects Van Cort- landt aud Bronx parks. Another wide street connects Bronx park and Pelham Manor park. It w ill tints be seen that from the new bridge over the Harlem the concourse w ill provide a splendid means of communication with the great parks in north New York. There w ill be at least five rows of trees tho entire length of the thorough fare. The fifteen streets, which will run beneath the concourse, w ill also connect with it, but w ill not cross the main street. This magnificent highway will he a paradise for bicyclists, tlie possess ors of high steppers and those folk who still stick to the good old fashioned con stitutional. And its relations, logical and material, to the further develop ment of up town New York cannot well well be overestimated.— New York Cor. Fittshnrg Dispatch. S W E E T POTATO W H ISKY. I f Fcum l Paying, the Tu ber May B e c o m e a V alu able Product. J. W. Crow has a small bottle of swer t potato whisky that is a very in teresting commodity in this section of tho conntry, and not a famliar one to tbe world at large. The liquid is ernde and white, as all new whisky is, bnt it is the genuine old stuff and not a coun terfeit. Among the home seekers who have been to this section lately was Mr. Hausburg, a German, who is skilled in the distillation of spirits. When he saw how abundantly sweet potatoes were raised in this section of the conntry, it occurred to him that he conld distill whisky from them. Several bushels of sweet potatoes were shipped to him, and sood Mike Brown received a half gallon of sweet potato whisky. As a result of the success of the scheme arrangements are being made to distill the liqnor for commercial pur poses. If the residue can be converted into starch, the sweet potato will soon I become one of the most valuable prod ucts of southern soil.— Augusta (Ga. ) Chronicle. T H E W ES T IS LOSING. T h . N ext Census M ar M o t « th« Cantor of Population Eastw ard. One of tbe surprises of the next de cennial censns maybe tbe discovery that the national center of population has moved eastward for tbe first time since the government was formed. The state censuses taken last year indicate that the east is growing more rapidly than tbe west. In tbe five years since 1890 Massa chusetts gained in population 262,000, ¡or 11.7 per cent. The gain of New Jer sey in tbe same period was 313,000, or 15.7 per cent. Iowa's corresponding gain was 146,000, or 7.6 per cent. Kansas reports a loss since 1890, and Oregon's I increase in tbe five years is not qnite 8 per cent.— St. Louis Globe Democrat. I t I . Farad W l t b Gold. Prescott, which is the capital of Ari zona, comes pretty close to being the New Jerusalem. The granite used for street pavements contains $4 in gold and 20 cents in silver to every ton, so that in time, when lees expensive meth ods of reducing ores are used, it may pay the city to tear np and crush its street pavements.—Boston Herald. T h « W h it « Meat. No one knows yet when that Turkey is to be carved. But when It is we miss oor guess if Russia does not get tbe white meat — Indianapolis Journal. H td « a n d Ha«k. A pastime in which all the cats de- | light is hide and seek behind the p il lows of a bed or sofa. In the drawing room there are some old fashioned di vans against the wall with several cush ions set upright, which have been tbe playground of generations of pets; the mothers begin by playing with their kittens, the kittens keep it up together, aud teach it to younger sets. The point of the game is which shall see the other first and surprise her by a cuff on the nose, which stands for “ I spy.” When two play, it is simple enough, but when there are three or fonr one always re mains outside the cushions to seek, and by degrees the little pink nosed white faces peep between tlie cushions with the inimitable aud provocative expres sions of a kitten at play, aud the seeker is surprised by a tap. If she be on the alert, the hider sometimes vanishes, and sometimes they try which can get with in the other’s guard and give the first whack. M'liss was particularly fond of hide and seek, and established a mode of playing it with ns while we were at dinner. She would hide on the window sill behind the long winter curtains which are dropped iu the evening, and would peep out at one side or between them and mew, popping back again as we called, ‘ ‘ I see you.” She never tired of this slipping unseeu from window to window to vary the surprise until we had more than enough of it.—Temple Bar. ________ M rs . M c S w a t’» H u s b a n d ’ s S u g g e s tio n . “ The Woman’s clnb is going to dis cuss parliamentary law tomorrow even ing, Billiger, ” remarked Mrs. McSwat, “ and I don't think I shall g a I don’ t take any interest in it.” “ Parliamentary law, Lobelia,” said Mr. McSwat magisterially, “ is some thing you can’t know too much about. You ought to familiarize yourself thor oughly with its usages. A clear under standing of parliamentary law,” be went on, warming with his subject, “ would be useful in all the relations of life. If I were asked to came one thing. Lobelia, that is calculated to add self reliance to character, assist in solving the problems that arise from day to day, aud make the burden of life less” — “ Now, what is the nse of yonr goiDg on like that, Billiger?” interrupted Mrs. McSwat. “ What good would it do me to study parliamentary law, I ’d like to know?” “ You would learn not to talk when you are not in order,” replied Billiger, burying himself in his newspaper again. And Mrs. McSwat went out to the kitchen and talked in a loud aud expoe- tulatory tone of voice to Bridget for the next 15 minutes.—Chicago Tribune. A M a s te r ’s C o n c e p t io n . Fronde has admirably described tbe spirit in which Carlyle views the revo lution, the spirit of a Hebrew prophet, discerning divine retribution on ill do ing, and Carlyle himself styles it, in a letter to Sterling, “ a wild, savage book, itself a kind of ¿"reach revolution. • • • It has come hot out of my own sonl, born in blackness, whirlwind and sor row. ” He thought it had "probably no chance of being liked by any existing class of British men,” but it speedily achieved popularity. Mill described it in this Review as “ one of thoso works of genius which are above all rules, and ore a law to themselves,” while Kings ley says, “ No book, always excepting Milton, so quickened aud exalted my poetical view of man and his history aa that great prose poem, the single epic of modern days, Thomas Carlyle’s ‘ French Revolution.' " — Westminster Review. E u rope's Holding;« In A frica. Within the scope of a magazine arti cle it is impossible to describe the steps which France, Germany aud Italy sev erally took. A sufficient idea, however, may be gained by the casnal reader of what has been dune when I say that within the last ten years France has ac quired of equatorial Africa abont 300,- 000 sqnare miles, in whioh there are now 800 Europeans; Germany, 400,000 sqnare miles; Italy, 547,000 sqnare miles; and Portugal has now a defined territory extending over 710,000 square miles. France, moreover, has been ac tive farther north, iu the ¡Sahara and in west Africa, and claims rights over 1,600,000 square miles, while Germany, in southwest Africa aud the Cumeroona, asserts her rule over 540,000 square miles.— Henry M. ¡Stanley iu Century. A sb estos l a B o o t . The invention consists of a prepara tion of asbestos wool compressed into thin sheets by bydraulio pressure. These sheets are then waterproofed on one side by a special solution, and portions in serted into the boot* as middle soles. Asbestus being a nonconductor of heat, its interpolation into the fabrio of our boots and shoes in conjunction with • waterproof material has tbe effect of connteracting the influences of beat, ocld and moisture. Asbestos lined boots can not creak in wear, and are, besides, many times more flexible than boots made in the ordinary manner. Lastly, asbestos being a nonconductor of elec tricity, persons wearing bouts thns made may walk over live electrio wires in perfect safety.— Public Opinion. L igh ted C ig a r , on t h . K lerated. "Perhaps it wonld be too much to ex pect the elevated road to enforce its rule prohibiting the carrying of lighted cigars on the cars,” said Mr. Biffington, “ but how would it do to amend that rule so aa to make it prohibit the carrying of I lighted bad cigars aud then enforce it? It would be a difficult thing to do, I know; the man who stood on tbe plat form to prevent the carrying aboard of lighted’ twofers’ wonld need to be not. | only a connoisseur in tobaoco, but an athlete, too, and even then he mighti make mistakes in one way or tbe other, but it would be an effort in the right di rection. ” —New York Son. According to Ovid, tbe white anemone sprang from tbe tears Venne abed tor I Adonia I