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A RAILROAD INTERVIEW. East Oregon Herald. BURNS,OREGON. A RICE PLANTATION. The raselnallnir Study f-resented by th« Bice Vlclds of the Atlantic licita». No fairer prospect exists in the whole realm of agriculture than the landscape of a well-appointed rice plantation, whether viewed in early spring before planting, with tho tawny seams of its embankments intersecting tlie check ered squares, the yellow mold yet steaming from the plow, and the whole visible area apparently as cleanly swept and garnished as a parlor floor; oi later, during the nursery reign of the fostering "stretch water,” each square a lake, its wavelets rippling under the fresh sea breeze, with the tops of the young plants immersed for forcing, in long, waving lines of tendrils floating on tlie water, and the russet banks, separating lake from lake, now paths of emerald, their grassy carpet blowing in tho April sun; or later still, during the "long water,” the entire landscape one waving sea of green, broken only by the crystal ribbons of canals and quarter drains; or, finally, in the full noontide of harvest-time, the level fields, now lakes no more, but vast stretches ot stubble dotted with stacks of golden grain, as if un army tented there. Tho wheat landf ot Dakota are im pressive, but their unbroken, unre lieved monotony is almost painful. The vino-cla l hills of the upper Ohio are novel and interesting: the velvety slopes of the valley of tho Roanoke anil Kentucky’s blue grass meadows pretty and attractive; but a study of the nee fields of the Atlantic deltas is simply fascinating. In other agricultural pursuits man’s efforts are the sports ot the elements, and largely depondent upon tho ca price of the future. In this man works with God, in the very shadow of His presence, with the intelligence and Judgment regulating the wayward freaks of nature, grafting chemical affinity and physicial force, and direct ing both to an end, reasonably certain if properly compassed. The high plane of thought necessari ly traver.-e<l by the planter pursuing this avocation from generation to gen eration naturally induced a broader in telligence. greater elevation of mind, superior refinement and a more univer sal and thorough cosmopolitanism than has ever boon attained either before or since in any other kindred employ ment Yet thia incidental super-refinement was far removed from effeminacy. During tho late war, wlienover a cais son stuck fast in tho mud, the first vol unteer shoulder under tho wheel was that of tho young rice-planter, who a month previous hail daintily aired him self in his spotless white duck suit, while Juke and i’at, the stevedore and llitoher, invariably "stood afar off” watching the performance, nor lent a helping hand except "under orders.” The word “rice’’ is evidently of east ern origin: Tamil, arts«; Arabic, arm, Latin, oryza; Italian, nss; French, riz. It is only second in importance among the cereals to wheat, and forms the grain food of over one-third of the hu man race. Ils use by tho inhabitants of China and India extends as far back ns the aarlioat records of either country. A t'hiñese classic describes minutely the drainage and irrigation works con itructod by the Emperor Yu on the Yang-tse-kinng 4.236 years ago It was cultivate I in Egypt fullv fifty centuries ago, though not the principal food of the latter country. Frequent Biblical references to rice are found. Herodotus fully describes it, as doos Pliny in his treatise upon the food plants of India. Whilo Gibbon considers that it was cultivated in Spain at tho lime of the Roman occupalion, it certainly, as an industry, attained no prominence in Europe until comparatively modern limos, and it is generally ladioved to lave been introduced by the Moors into Andalusia during tho eleventh sentury, and to have crossed from Spain into Italy about a ountury aftor. Riee is now grown in nearly ovorv portion of tho globe—in Japan, Brazil, Hawaii, America, Italy, India, but principally in China and Burmah. Thu llurmeso crop is nearly all exported, the inhabitants subsisting on some cheaper fixxi, as millet or dourrha; that of China is principally consumed It home, though a good deal finds its way Into thia country.— Southern Biv- tuac. ■ AUCTION SPECULATORS. How Ono New York Woman Get« a Hand some Yearly Incom A noticeable feature of ovorv auction lale, especially of household furniture, is that the audience which attends and listens to the gl,b tongued auctioneer Is oom|xised to a large extent of tho «ame persons. It is easy to guess why the see md-hand dealers, whoso faces are readily recognised, should bo con stant attendants, but tniny of tho reg ular company are not dealers, and it has alwavs puzzled the reporter to classify them until thia morning. Drop ing into an auction salesroom he learnod that these people are engaged in an occupation but little known to the gen oral publio. They are stieculators They buy for a rising market. It an article goes oheap they buy it In and hold It f»>r tho next sale. Sometimes they get as raueh again for tho piece as they paid for it. They always get a >nio profit over tho commission which they are obliged to pay the auctioneer. There is « woman in this city who visita every house that hangs out a rod flag Speculating In auctions is her sole eon roe of income. She has the reputa tion ot being a sharp buyer and active bidder She has been known to not fifty dollars in a single dav. If she buya goods al a private «alo she sends them to an auction house at once. Her (Hirehases include every thing from a tin cup to a grand piano. Sho has never been known to make a losing speculation.—.V. F. Mail and Btprc»». - ^ « 1^1 —Two students, desirous to make thenia-lves comfortable, had a stove put in their chamber; one bought the - _ an<l the __ __ other __ _ paid __ _ the ________ stove mason _ to have •he holsT cut 'in the eldmney. They broke up housekeeping the other day and divided the effect*. One bad the stove and tho other the hole. —Ji. T. The Man With a Thirst for Informatloa and the Munoeyliable lady. He boarded the train at Roebeater ami came to the onlv recant seat in the ear. beside a young lady. "This seat taken, ma’am?” “No.” "Wai, then I guess I’ll ait down.’’ Two minutes' silence. "Have some peanuts, ma’am?” "No, I thank you.” "Jiminy. don’t like peanuts? Just like my wife. My great holt is peanuts and bananers. Perhaps you’d like a bananer, ma'am?” "No. nothing, thank you.” "Live up to Buffalo, ma'am?” “Yea.” "P'raps you know my friend Cap'n Jack Sloan; lives down in Elk street.” "No, I don't know where Elk street Is.” "By gol! and you live in Buffalo. Why, I’ve sold butter on Elk street market nigh onto twenty years. My name's Johnson. Your name ain’t Jones, is it?” "No.” “Tain’t Williams, or any thing of that sort?” "No.” "That’s what I thought I don’t s'pose now it's Brown or any o’ them colors?" “No." “Been far?" “Not far.” “Svi scuse, mebbe; or Albany, eh!” “No.” “No? gol! "Hain't been to New York?” “Yea." “Jiminy! I’ve nevet been there though I saw a pretty slick feller from there once. Them New Yorkers is regular goers, ain’t they? Any rela tions there?” “low.” “Gosh! Wonder If they know mv cousin Jake. He's getting f 10 a week jest to walk around in a store and look slick. Your folks ever speak of Jake?” “No.” "Jake and me bought some land out West last year. Ever buy any?” “No." “Don’t Jake and me lost five hun dred dollars. It was way at the bot tom of a river. Ever been West?” "Chicago.” “Jee! you hev traveled, ain’t you? Father and mother living?" "Father. ’’ “Live in Buffalo?" “No.” "Our folks all live together down to Rochester. My father and mother have been doad a long time. My wife’s mother lives with us. Her name's Martin. That ain’t your name, eh?” "No." “I was jest thinking you looked like a man I know in Buffalo named Wat ers. He ain’t your brother?” “No.” “We must be coming pretty near Buffalo. That there lot of tracks looks like it You don't hapjien to live on Main stroot?” “No.” ‘•Thon you name ain’t Robinson?" “No.” “You must have a curious kind of * name. Sure it ain’t Sanders?” "Sure.” “Wai, here we be; can I help you gettin' off?” “No, thank you.” “Oh. is there a door-plate on your house?” “Yes.” “Name on It?” “Yes." "P'raps you wouldn’t mind tellin* what tho name on the plate is?" “Smith.” “Gol!"— Itot> ibeth Sunday Herald. REASONABLE ENOUGH. What It Cost Ilia Colonel to «1st Ills Mall Out ot tha Voat.oflloa. The Colonel had left Birmingham without being able to got within twonty feet of the general delivory window of tho post-office, owing to the crowd ot colored people, and when wo got over to Anniston and found It still worse lie went out-doors and sat down on a dry goods I hix and spent an hour in retli'C- tion. By and by he brightened up and made a bee line for a printing office, and inside of another hour a boy wa- going about the street and handing out to every colored person he met a dodgei reading: “Don't miss it! Prof Elba and his celebrated cundurango wdl arrive at tho depot nt three p. ni. this afternoon. Only one ever brought to this country. Colored people oan see it without charge." At two o'clock I wont with the Colonel to tho post-office. There wasn't a colored person within a block of it, and tho postmaster was almost in a doze. At two o'clock we went down to tho depot and there were seven or eight hundred colored |>eople waiting around to see the spotted oundurango. “How much did it cost you?” I nak ed. as ho sat down on a barrel of apples to read his letters. seventy cents," ho replied, got twenty-two letters which ha<l boon trying to find nie for three weeks."- Delmil J'rea I'ro.t. —A drunken laborer named John Davies, at Dowlais, Eng., on his way homo lay down beside the railroad track so close to the rails that, a train coming along, tho engine ran over and cut off the heel of his boot. When tho train stopped and backed up the man was still asleep and was indignant at being mails to gel up and go home. —A cat In P. Pearson's feed store at Burlington. Kan., attacked its master the other day and bit him severely in the leg. He ran out for assistance and brought back two men, who charged the enraged animal, but were routed | and driven out after being badly bitten. ca* *’•'*1 I*1® premises until tho marshal camo along with his revolver **>d shot it - clergyman, - —A ‘ New — York who went to preach In a neighboring city, anion- i ished the congregation by saying: "1 PERSONAL AND LITERARY. must take the first train home.after th* service, as I hare a wife and three chil- —A granddaughter of Charles Dick i dree there, and have never seen one of ens does a flourishing business with a them." The people were greatly relieved typewriter. nn learning that tho "one'' that tho —A bureau of journalism has been cleryman had never seen had been born established at John Hopkins Unit or- since he left home the day before.— silt and is now un ler full headway. > X Ledger. . SUPERFLUOUS DUTIES. Wow Many Womr« Make Hoose-Keoplaff a Tarribia Hurdao. A woman's instinct of cleanliness is so strong that she will actually squan der time in unnecessary work, just as a squirrel in a cage will store up nuts by force of his instinct of accumulation. If some house-keepers had double the time at their disposal that they have now. yet they would manage te occupy it with superfluous duties. But this Is going farther than any semblance of a reason can attempt to excuse. There is no sense in working like thia A woman can tie a^oial house-keeper without taking all her time to do her housework. If she can not, let her after all be satisfied to be an ordinarily good one and take some of the time from her previously self-imposed drudgery tor reading, education of children, self-improvement and for recreation. There is no reason why a long programme of work should be laid out for every day, nor why it should be carried through at all hazards. If eaeh hour of the day is arranged for some kind of work, one hour at least ought to be set apart for recreation, and that hour of all others rigidly ob served. These housekeepers who are facing so much superfluous work every day, never think of doing such a thing as reading a newspaper or gathering in formation that will enable them to im prove the quality of their work. They do no know what is taklqg place In 'the world, of whx'h they are so small a part They like to listen to other people's tales but never think of in forming themselves by reading or ob servation. The children ask her ques tions that any one would be supposed to be able to answer, and are sent to somebody elso for reply, or put off with no satisfaction at ull. They soon come to the conclusion that mother isn't sup posed to know any tiling outside of housekeeping. The reader has seen the more agree able housewife who is not always fur bishing up something and yet who has a house so clean that no sense detects any thing unclean,the housewife who is a companionable sort of person, at least fairly well informed regarding the events ot the day as well as her specinl dully duties, and who finds time to get out of that everlasting grlud of work that extinguishes a manifestation ot those womanly anil motherly instincts that may make her an adorable wife and mother if they are not laid asids for that perpetual cleaning and multi plying of work that make everyone uncomfortablo at home. Such a house wife is by no means a rarity, and her opposite, tho one who squanders time In superfluous duties, ought to culti vate her acquaintance.— Good Hotme- Iceeping. -I THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. Seaalde Elfe of the W oiiim Who Rules the Spaniard« for Her Baby Son. If Queen Christina of Spain were pretty, she would carry all before her) unfortunately, she hits the sort of com plexion which English doctors term roseate—a complexion which would ruin the effect of the most peifectly- modeled features. It’s a pity that her hands and feet aro so long. Don't mind my saying so, but in their arms and tho extremoties of both sots of limbs the House of Austria shows more than "traces" of descent from Darwin's common simian ancestor. I dare say It would be a vast relief to the Queen- Regent if sho could wear gloves when she takes her public sea-bath. Fortu nately for her. there aie pockets in her tunic. Into which she sticks her fingers, and so hides their extreme length and sinewy anatomy. She carries a sun shade that nearly hides her face. She gives it to the bather in the water, and ho slings it by tho strings <>n his arm. The marine attire consists of lint shoes, stockings, pantalettes of the Zouave kind, with deep frills hiding the ankles and a short tunio. For tho promenade after the bath—and her Majesty is frequently to be met like an ordinary mortal walking along with a baby Infanta dinging to each hand— she weal's usually a black cashmere skirt, with horizontal bands of crape ami a cosaque trimmed with crape. Her veil is very long. She has a figure that lends itself well to drapery, al though tho shoulders are rather high. Wo hoar that sho smokes cigarettes, having learned to do so as n girl at V ernia Her cousin, the Archduchess Matilda, who was to have been Queen of Italy, was a continued smoke ", and lost her life through thrusting the cigar lieliind her back, on seeing an undo on the terrace under a window at which she was smoking. She forgot that she hnd on a muslin dress, which, coming In contact with it, at once caught fire and biased up. This will explain why Queen Christina has no objection to Ministers smoking in her presence al Araujuea The tittle King Is a jolly sort of tmby. He Is tho Image of Queen I»a- Iwlla. and enjoys lielng noticeli and shown to the crowd, to which he blows kism's with a pair of little.-fat hands He goes through this form of salutation with all his heart, and his eyes jump out of his head with glee.—SI. Selnutian Letter. — a t-uexy Escape.—Cousin Jack— "Going to bed so early!” Edith—"Yea. to gel my ‘beauty sleep,'you know.” Oiusin Jack (fishing) —"I'm afraid my beauty sleep didn't do me much good.” Edith—"But just think what you might have been."— Harvard Lam/coon. —Roast Quail: Draw the bird, wash quickly, season with pepper and salt, «•over the breast with a thin slice of salt pork and bake full fifteen minutea Serve on toast with current jelly.— Fanner anti Manufacturer. —The woman who can control her own tongue is greater than he who ruleth a city. — Somerrille Journal That Is not saying much in the way of great- nesa if the arcrage mayor is called the ruler of a citv.— !f. O. Pieamtnt. — A bath-room should be »applied wi. h fresh towels every day, and thor oughly renovated to keep it sweet. — The industry of extracting oil from eedar boughs is growing Co large pro. furtivns la Meme- TURNED HERJjAIR WHITE. The Effect of Inter»»* Fear on a Souther« Girl In War Time«. I happened to be in New Orleans a few years after the close of the war, and at a reception one night I met a young lady who could not have been more, than twenty years old, but whose hair was a pure silvery white. She was a beautiful girl, and with this crown of silver naturally attracted ev ery one’s attention. I learned how she came to have white hair soon afterward. She was the daughter of a wholesale grocer in New Orleans, and during the early part of the war lived with her parents in that city. Just before New Orleans was occupied by General But ler, her father, who was then an inva lid, took his family out to a small plan tation that he owned near Baton Rouge. At the same time an uncle of the girl I am talking about managed to run the blockade, and took with him a very large quantity of diamonds and other valuables—for he was a jeweler. He reached England in safety with his precious cargo. The family enjoyed peace and secur ity for some months at Baton Rouge, until General Butler had hoisted the stars and stripes at New Orleans. One night soon after that event a party of bummers, or camp followers, said to be attached to the Union army, but who, as I believe, may just as likely have been thieves and cut-throats of Con federate sympathies from the purlieus of New Oilman*, puyle a descent upon tiib hoiise 'at’Baton Rouge. It was nearly midnight when the family was aroused by loud knocking at the door. The door a minute or two later was burst in and five or six masked men entered the house. They proceeded at once to the room wh$re a lamp was burning by the bedside of the master of the house, who was very ill at the time. “I should have stilted,” said the lady, “that the gentleman’s name was Hythe, if I remember rightly. One of the masked men, revolver in hand, stepped up to Mr. Hythe and said: ‘We want the diamonds and jewelry you brought away from New Orleans.1 Mr. Hythe realized at once that the robbers had mistaken him for his brother, the jew eler, and tried to explain that he had no diamonds or any thing of any par ticular value in the house. They refused to believe him, and proceeded to make a thorough search of the house. Mr. Hythe’s two daughters hail been sleep ing in the room below their father’s, but, of course, were awakened by the noise. The experience of the tide of war which had swept over them once or twice before enabled them to under stand the situation at once. By good fortune they were able to get out of the house in safety and reach a neigh boring canebrake, where they hid. Meanwhile the robbers, having discov ered nothing but a little confederate money, tried to induce Mrs. Hythe, whom they had captured, to reveal the whereabouts of the treasure. She could only affirm what her husband had said. They subjected her to horrible indigni ties aid finally set fire to the house. She escaped from the building. The girls in their hiding place saw the torches applied; saw the'.r father, as the flames leaped up to tho roof, come to the window of Ms room and then fall back into tho fire. They dared not move, and when the neighbors found them, hours later, the hair of the younger girl, then about fifteen years old, had turned as white almost as her cheeks, bloodless with fright Her hair had been black as night before.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. CHRONIC TEA-POISON INQ. Condition« Under Which Tea-Drinking Is Poaltlrely Harmful. There is no doubt that one of the essential elements of tea, as well as of coffee, is a violent poison; but we can not hence argue that all tea-drink ers are slowly poisoning themselves, for the action of an elementary sub stance is modified by its combinations. Still, tea-drinking is harmful under certain conditions. Dr. William N. Bullard, of Boston, read an article on the subject at a late meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which the society recommend ed for publication. A year and a half ago tlie author published a paper, giv ing the results of somewhat extended investigations on the subject These were that the poison is not readily elim inated, but accumulates in the system; that its prominent effect is on the young and those who are in a depressed physi cal condition; that the average amount of Oolong and Souchong teas (medium grades) needed to produce injurious symptoms is a little less than five cups a day, and that the most common symptoms are loss of appetite, dyspep sia, palpitation, headache, vomiting and nausea, combined with various forms of functional nervous affections, hysterical and neuralgic. These results have been confirmed by further Investigations — mostly among woman who are accustomed to drink a considerable amount of tea daily, without taking adequate food, and when in an exhausted condition. The vigorous and well-nourished and those actively engaged in the open air are not often similarly affected. The nervous disturbance, due to chronic tea-poison tag, is of a peculiar character. Says Dr. Bullard: “The normal condition of tlie nervous sys tem is disturbed and replaced by a con dition of hyper-excitability, or of a less stable equilibrium. This is shown by their want of calmnrsa their general restlessness and irritability, mid the desire to be constantly moving, while, at the same time, there is a subjective sensation of a loss of self-control, and of inability to act slowly. Such per sons are subject to exaggerated efforts from ordinary Impressions: they are startled, jump at unexpected noises or sensations, or, in other words, react loo freely to slight external influences” — 1 C'wtwnifin.______ — me bterra A>w»ada i*ange might be called a continuation of the Cascade Mountains; but those are of volcanic origin, and the Sierra Nevada» are granite, though tract's of volcanic ac tion are often found on the flanks and base. It commence« at Mount Shasta. 14,400 feet high, and runs in a southerly direction to Tejon P.tss. where it >»ius the Coast range not far from Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the United States south of Alaska. There are but few paseeeover these mountain^ and the Pacific slope is very steep, the Central Pacific rued descending 6.300 feet in •*<hty uu M a —JWto MEDICAL PROGRESS. Example* oí the Knowledge Produced by the Work of the Laet Fifty Year«. ANCIENT WATER-WORKS; M«iueducts and Reservoir» Built Many Hu«- dred Yearn Ago. SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES. Bow to Treat Minor Ills Which Are of AV tu<»t Hilly Occurrence. During the first century of the Chris Half a teaspoonful of common tabl« tian era the water supply of ancient salt dissolved In a little cold water and Koine was so abundant “that whole drank will instantly relieve "heart rivers of water flowed through the burn" or dyspepsia. If taken every streets.” It has been estimated at morning before breakfast, increasing three hundred and seventy-five million the quantity gradually to a teaspoon, gallons per day, or three hundred and ful of salt and a tumbler, it will in a seventy-five gallons for each inhab few days cure any ordinary case ot itant, and was conducted through nine dyspepsia. If al the same time due at conduits of masonry, in the construc tention is paid to the diet. There it tion of which wonderful engineering no better remedy than the above foi skill was shown. Tlieir aggregate constipation. As a gargle for sori length was 249 miles. 'The principal throat it is equal to chlorate of potash, aqueduct* were the Aqua Martin, and is entirely safe. It may be used at erected 431 years B. C., thirty-eight often as desired, and if a Uttle is swal miles in length, and partly composed lowed each time it will havu a bene- of 7,000 arches; the Aqua Claudia, a ticial effect on the throat by cleansing subterranean channel for thirty-six and it and allaying the irritation. In ilosoi one-fourth miles, for ten and three- of one to four tenspoonsful. in half s fourth miles a surface conduit, three pint to a pint of tepid water it acts miles a vaulted tunnel, and seven miles promptly as an emetio, and", in cases ot on lofty arcades, with a capacity of poisoning, is always on hand. t». j, aI] 96.000.000 gallons daily; and the Nova excellent remedy for bites and sli,.^ Anlo, which was forty-three miles in of insects. It is a valuable astringent length. Some of these aqueducts rose in hemorrhages, particularly for bleed in three distinct arches, which con ing after the extraction of teeth. Il veyed water from sources of diflerent has both cleansing and healing prop elevations. erties, and is therefore a most excellent The ancient w’ater-works at Jerusw- application for superficial ulcerations. lem consisted first of wells in the lime Mustard is another valuable remedy. stone ridges on wh'ch the city was built; but as the population increased No family should be without it. Two the tJews were obliged to gather the or three teaspoonfuls of ground mustard rainfall during the winter season and stirred into half a pint of water acts as store it in tanks and cisterns placed in an emetic very promptly, and is milder secure inclosures and within the walls and easier to take than salt and water. of the temple. An aqueduct, con Equal parts of ground mustard and structed of stone laid in cernenL brings flour or meal made into a paste with water from the pools of Bethehem, warm water and spread on a thin piece about six miles, to a tank lying under of muslin with another piece of muslin the chief Turkish mosque. The popu laid over it, forms the indispensable lation of Jerusalem seldom suffered “mustard plaster.” It is almost a spe from water famine. Strabo mentions cific for colic when applied for a few as something remarkable that there minutes over the "pit of the stomach.” was always a plentifiul supply of water For all internal pains and congestions within the city while a famine prevail there is no remody of such general utility. It acts as a counter-irritant by ed in the region around about. Among the great waterworks of the drawing tho blood to the surface; hence world tliAse of Peru were in some re in severe cases of croup a small mus spects the most difficult achievements tard plaster should bo applied to ths of any. The incus built aqueducts back of tho child's neck. The sains from the slopes of the Andes for a dis ’ treatment will relieve almost any cast tance of over one hundred of headaeho. A mustard plaster should miles to the capital, car be moved about over the spot to be rying the water partly through tun acted apon, for it loft in one place it u nels mt in the locks and partly on ar liable to blister. A mustard plaster cade* on supporting pillars of mason acts as well when at a considerable work to span valleys, the channels be distance from the affected part. An ing composed of cu: stone without ce excellent substitute for mustard jF ment From these gr ?at aqueducts a ters is what is known as "mustard number of branch conuuits and fur leaves." They come a doz.on in a box. rows were laid laterally for irrigating and are about four by five Inches. They aro perfectly dry, and will keep for a purposes. In France the famous Pond du Gard long time. For use it is only necessary aqueduct which supplied the town of to dip one In a dish of water for a Nismes, is still an object of interest It minute, and then apply It consists of throo tiers of arches, the Common baking soda is the best oi lowest of six, supporting eleven of all remedies in cases of scalds and A ZIGZAG CONUNDRUM. equal span in the central tier, sur bums. It may be used on the surface Tlie Australian Bo«»tneran< a Puzzle to mounted by thirty-five of smaller size. of the burned place either dry or wet. Scientific Men. Its height is 180 feet with a channel of When applied promptly the sense ol Scientists have in vain studied the 5 feet high by 10 feet wide. The ca relief is magical. It seems to withdraw boomerang to discover the secret of its pacity was estimated at fourteen mil tile heat, and with it the pain, and the curious flight. It is against ali laws of lion gallons per day. healing process soon commences. It is gravitation tiiat an object hurled into In the year 600 B. C., Polycrate«, the best application for eruptions space should return to the same spot King of Samos, built an aqueduct to caused by poisonous ivy and othor pol- from which it was cast, as it is impos supply his capital, bringing water souous plants, as also for bit«» and sible to explain the eccentric action of through a tunhel driven for over 6,000 stings of insects.— Hali't Journal of a curved ball. The boomerang is all yards through a limestone rock, while Health. the more marvelous when we consider about the same time the people of Ly- that the savages of Australia were first cia, in Asia Minor, carried water across THE GOOSE BONE. to use it and to apply the peculiar the vale of Patera through a stone sy Oat th. chan.M of t.« properties of its form. phon, which would indicate that the H.w to rin.l W».th»r br It. AIU. A German scientist found that there ancients were not iguoran; of the laws The best reading of the goose-bone i> were larger and smaller boomerangs. of hydrostatics. obtained before it becomes thoroughly Tlie larger ones are slender crescents, Carthage was supplied by water plain on the lower side, rounded on brought from the hill ranges on the cold after being removed from the pot top, pointed at each end and sharpened south, over seventy miles distant, and and scrapod. If tho bone is left to stand toward the edges. The lower end is tlie ruins of an aqueduct, built in tlie the murks becomes dim and uncertain and tho readiug is very unsatisfactory. cross-grooved to aid in holding it The Roman style, may still be seen. Having your bone prepared the best careful manner in which the savages The water-works of Athens were be manipulated the weapon, trying its gun about 560 B. C., and consisted of way to study it is to go into a dark shape, testing its qualities and scraping stone aqueducts lined with baked clay room and hold it before a bright lighL itdown, is significant of the importance and carried almost wholly on the sur The bone is translucont, and held be fore a strong light the marks upon it they attach to its having exactly the face of the ground. right curvature. The wood of which the In Constantinople, the capital of the may bo plainly discerned. The mark! instrument Is made isan extraordinarily Eastern Empire, the Romans left upon tho keel of tho bone are the ones heavy Australian iron-wood, and the numerous snbterranean reservoirs cov that are of significance. The other dis only tools used in making it are sharp ered with stone arcades resting on pil colorations on the bone are merely cor roborative. The most distinguishing stones and pieces of glass. The smaller lars. boomerangs are bent at an angle of In India tanks and reservoirs were marks are in the shape of carets, breves, forty-five degrees, but are in other re constructed on an enormous soale and dots and semicireles, and it is their po spects conformed to the larger ones. were the chief dependence during sition on tho bone and the direction in which they are turned that gives the An exhibition of boomerang-throw droughts.— Chicago News. general indication of the weathor. ing revealed a degree of strength in MISCELLANEOUS. the natives which was in astonishing If a majority ot the caret-shaped contrast with the thinness of their point upward, it will be cleai —An English engineer proposes by marks 1 forms. They took the weapon in their means of electricity to condense the and cold; but if they point down it will 1 right hand, with the fiat side down* solid part of smoke, and send the solid- be ' gloomy, falling weather, with more oi ward and the concave side forward, ified portion back to the furnace. less snow. The small breve marks and 1 and with a run and a shout, threw it —The saw-mills of Maine now ship 1 the semi-circles, as well as the dots and by a short jerk about one hundred great quantities of baled sawdust to the 1 the scratch-like marks on the bone, in yards up into the air. It flew away in market, where it is sold for packing dicate tho temperature, and the heaviei ' a straight line, then turned to the purposes and for bedding purposes. and darker they are the colder will be left, and returned in a curved line weather. If they are light, or but —Mrs. Grundy bobs up long enough to the 1 back to the thrower, whirling around say: “What are wanted in society are few of them on the bone, the winter constantly and whizzing unpleasantly. more pocket editions of books that will be open and pleasant If th« The curve which the weapon de teach how to appear as ladies and marks near the beginning of the bon scribes in its return is not a screw-line gentlemen.” point out, it indicates that there will lx or a spiral, but is more like a figure 8. disagreeable weather during —Mrs. Marv Coy, of Covode, Pa... stormy, 1 The savages seemed able to control during the twelve months last past Novemlier; pointing out at the othei their instrument, even when wind in wove 1,759 yards of carpeting and 340 end of the bone, they indicate bad ' terfered to complicate its course. Once yards of cloth with an ordinary hand weather for March. The ridge run the projectile went astray, anil coming loom. ning along near the middle of th« in contact with a gentleman's hat cut —Farmers were given amuchpoeded keel of the bone Is Indicative of th« it oft* as cleanly as a razor would have time to stop and think. Many have be length and severity of the winter; il dune. — Popular Science Monthly. gun on more careful methods, and the the ridge extends, uninterrupted, the thirst after specific knowledge has been length of the bone, and is dark and !ner?a«ed. — Prairie Partner. heavy, the winter will be a severe one; FOREIGN GOSSIP. —The shipment of cheeses from but if the ridge grows weak and indis —Odessa, in Ru sia, has a new the- Canada for the past season amounts to tinct at places, for that part of the ater that oost (600 000. 1.103.000 boxes, being 212,000 more winter the weather will be warm and —The Public Museum at Nantes. than last year. The exports of butter thawing. Franoe, has just acquired the casket In amounted to 60,000 packages, against All these features must bo closely which was placed the heart of Anne of the 54,000 of 1886. studied, first separately, and then to- Brittany, Q ie«n of France and Nav —A bit of soft paper is recommended gether. Any one^ by closely studying arre. It is of soli I gold. by an English doctor for dropping this bone, can correctly predict the —Corea recently broke down her medicine into the eye as being equally general character of the weather dur ai Cient barriers so far as to send an effective as brushes, glass droppers, ing Inc three months; but it takes time, envoy to Japan, but the government etc., and far less likely to introduce study and experience tedividetbe bone was so poor that it could not support foreign substances. into days, so as to locate the date ol him, and, soon coming to the end of —You may be one of the heirs to a the different changes. In Kentucky his resooro-a he lied to ask aid of the vast estate in Europe, but if you hare many of the belt readers of the bone Japanese Govemm-nt to avoid being reason to suspect that such Is th. case do not worry about reiluelng the pul in desperate s rsi'a keep still about it If you admit it prophecy to days, but are content with —According to S r Walter Buller, a you'll be taken for either a crank or a learning the general character of the person may now live for weeks and swindler. — Detroit Free Prezz. winter, and this information is of great months in New Z aland without see —"New York has a Girls’ Endeavor value to farmers when they And it such ing a single specimen.of the birds Club." The woods are full of them. that they can depend upon it_ Loma- originally existing in that colony. In The girls endeavor to catch a husband, Ville Courier Journal. th - settled districts th y have been re but the club is not used until after mar placed by bin 1s of foreign origin, and riage—and not then, if the husband Im- ornithologists are ap|H-ehensive th 11the haves himself.—J^orrulovn Herald. Negotiating for a Dog. Indigenous spechw will wholy disap A little three-yearAiiit was in front Robinson -That V . fine dog you pear in the course of a few year*.— of the camera the other day. The bare, Dumley. Do you want to M|| Ji. K. J«f-er. photographer had placed her to his himF —The E iglish armv consists nomi mind. ha«t told her what to look at, Dumley-ril aril hi(n fo, cftT dol. nally of ill. 474 offie >rs and men, bill and steppe<| back to make the ex lore. • It is s aid that only one army.corpa can posure. The little chick evidently R bfnson — Is he intelligent? actually be got i t the fi id. and that cuncludrd the preliminaries were satis (w,th Intelli- onlr by frantic makeshifts. Of the factory, for she electrified the photo «by, lhat dog kuo<, M muctl 71 610 officers and men stationed la grapber with the cheerful advice to «« I do. England it io alleged that 15 OX) are ',r Gallagher!" The pho RobiMon-You don't say au! Well, hys under nineteen and that 10,000 tographing was deferred till the rnerri. II give you twenty-fir. cents far him, ■ore are under twyuty. ment sulmideO. - Gthden b-zyz. Dumley.-.V. r. tun. England may without boasting claim that she has taken the lend not only in gaining knowledge of the Conditions which are concerned in the production of particular diseases, but that she has also been first in modifying her laws and in creating a public health admin istration in response to this teaching. Dr. Thorne took as an illustration of the benefits which had been conferred on the community by these changes the reduction in tlie deuth-rates from certain special diseases. Fifty years’ experience of small-pox had provided data by which the extent of the useful ness of vaccination might be better de fined. Tlie Vaccination acts passed in Queen Victoria’s reign had le<i to a vast saving of life, and especially of child life, and these had especially protected those who are unable to guard their own interests. “Fever” had been found to consist of at least two differ ent diseases—typhus and enteric fever; the former largely due to the crowd ing of people in houses and of houses on a site where air and light were shut out; the latter mainly due to excre mental pollution. Each required its sjiecial means of prevention and these had been applied with astonishing re sults. London had spent fourteen mil lions of pounds in the improvement of unhealthy areas, and among the results might be cited the almost complete dis appearance of typhus from the metrop olis. Enteric fever had enormously diminished, and this hnd been brought al>ou.t through the adoption of methods which the new knowledge showed to be necessary. Further investigation had indicated the different channels by which disease could be dissemi nated; Ballard and Michael Taylor had demonstrated the part that milk could play in the diffusion of enteric and scarlet fever; Power and Klein had shown how milk-scarlatina had its or igin, and had proved the urgent need for human and veterinary medicine to work together for the saving of human life; Buchanan had taught that phthisis, the scourge of the British Isles, was chiefly dependent uoon conditions of soil which would be removed. These are but a few examples of the addi tions to knowledge which the work of the last fifty years has produced. Not least In imjiortaiice must be reckoned the development of a system of precise investigation, which will confer in the future even greater benefits than those experienced in the past, and to tlie perfecting of which the new president of the Epidemiological Society has con spicuously contri buted. — Lancet.