-r,f"!r?KTr,ir" ' "-f "MTWtomfBE The Coast Mail. The Coast Mail. rlllll.lHIIKII DEVOTED TO KVKltV SATURDAY MOHNINd, IIY WEBSTER, HACKER & LOCKHART, THE INTERESTS OF SOUTH EKN OKEGON ALWAYS FOItEMOST. MarshAeM, Cixm Co., Or. Tcrnm, In AtlYiuire. Ono venr $2 fiO Six months ... W) Tliruu months - - - 1 (H) The Development of our Mine, tho Improvement of our harbors, nnd rail road communication with the Interior, specialities. Vol. 2. MARSHFIELB, OR., SATUBDAY, Jan. 31, 1880. :n o. 5. OFFICIAL 1A1KII OF COOS CO. " I !! " i "wu "- pimwwj ' i mm trnrnrn tmm n iiiiiii.ihm iHnninywwM iiwimbiiiiiiwi mi wipwiimiilj iuiluli iiLiniijiiitiiLUi-j a nPTTTH sv x a rw nri JST u -m - a t t H 1 fl B vk k. I ' H ' . ft a AWLi "m k Js-fa A H L H H i ,i i aa ln i jzzmmmms- i i i m jt m l f rnHe w m 'I'hr .tllchlnn lrnlnnulit--Nul- lernnfim n'atrrCoiirNtu, An Eiuitcrn paper Hiiys tho Mii'liI Knu ic(iili) aro beginning ' tliink (lint Statu in a vast limiting peninsula, ns Nome of them hiivo lictm asserting for n long lime. Thoro aro in tlio State dozens (if lildo lakes without outlets, niul yet never stagnant, and apparently fathomless, Species of Unit ntiil amphibious itnimiilH nru found in these ponds, which i x i k t on ly in tho larger liodies of frunli water. The lUttlo Creek correspondent says that several yearn ago, on Lake Cog nno, near lliu former city, some mini iner rosorters tried several times to Intild a sort of log causeway across llui edge between two of thexe ninall lakes, lint it mink out of night every time. .St. Mary's Luke is four miles north of Hnltlu Creek. Its water lev el in niiieh higher than that of (he other lakei in the surrounding coun try, and their exists at present neither a Mourcc from which it body in deriv ed nor a stream emanating from it. Heverul yearn ago an effort wan made io Hioex it with eelH, ami specimens wcru procured and deposited in tlie lake. Homo time after an eel wan eiliight in the Verona Mill dam, in the Hat lie Creek river, live mile dis taut, although none had ever been placed in that river, mid no coiineo tion exiutn above ground. The de scription of thexe eels correspond lo the identical ones placeil in the lake, nnd us none of tliene cols, nor any of their progeny, were ever nfteruatd neon in the lake, ( lie coiieliuion arriv ed at in that an underground channel exists between. The hike which is about three miles in eireuiuferenee, has decreased in depth between live and six feet in as many jc.irs, ihe for mer water marks being distinctly visihle. The amount of water contained in a foot in depth, and of the area of the lake, is simply enormous, and when taken into consideration with the hiiimII amount of rain and snow which goes into it, io iders the evaporation theory almost absurd. The favorite theory in the neighborhood is that (he bottom has fallen out in the deep est Mirtiou, and that the hike is slow 1 hut surely leaking out, and will even tually sink to the common water lev el, or dry up and Ik known only among lliu traditional history of the past, mid that although the result may be delayed, it is believed by many that soon the now favorite fishing ground mid pleasure resort will inevi tably eventually be only a mucky, slimy, dismal, pestilential valley. Auto ll MnmlllNK of Co-rift. A writer in the l'ruirie Farmer gives the following hints with regard to the management of cows . In a busi ness like dairying, where so much de pends upon tho quantity and quality of the milk, theowner will iuveriahly lose money and eventually go to ths wall unless special care is exercised in tho selection of tho cows. What ever the breed, first the interior ones ami next tho ordinary cows should be conscieulioiilv weeiletl out ironi vcnr to year. It makes no didereiico what the breed may be, these will always be found, Nit that there is no choice in breeds; there is, and they must be selected with a view to what is want ed, whether butter or cheese. What ever the breed, none but the best breedors should be selected to perpet uate tho race, nnd as fast as develop ed the best should bo rotalued. There is also very much in this question of development. An miimnl that, un der good care ami attention, will turn out a superior milker, will, under ad verse treatment, prove worthless. When the first calf in produced, tho heifer should ho handled carefully ; tdio should bo milked clean, and every means used, by good feeding nnd warm stabling, lo produce as uniform mid largo a flow of milk ns possible, Tho calf should not bo allowed to Mick ; it should bo raised by hand, but on the cows milk, just us drawn. Tho cow should be trained to give her milk freely, (loot! euro anil good feed ing will bring her milk to tlow freely, if she have it in her. If not, discard her at once. Tho education of a heifer to give her milk freely consists solely in gen tle handling nnd in milking so that the cow may feel reliel in the opera tion, Holding up of the milk, mid kicking and running about are ahvuvH tho result of improper or Iniital handing. (Ion. Joseph Lane, Col. W. II, Kf linger, Judgo K, 0, niadshawmul two other pioiuiiieut Dcinorntx have pro pared mi address lo the Demoeiuey relative to their duty in tho coming I'limp.iigu, wiuitkn huh tiik coaht maiu HISTORICALJKETCHES r OrcgoH'M Noutlirrn ,'ont. NtlMIIKH V. Tlir Kngn Hlmr Indian War Kuril. r r til. Ueli.l Family. The night mid morning that wit nessed the events narrated in our last Feb. 22-Ua, lTi(J wore distinguished by n tragedy, the details of which will illustrate, the treachery and cruelty of the Indian character, mid furnish ono of the saddest chapters in tho history of that bloody season. .Some seven or eight miles north of Itogue river, a (icrmaii, named (Seize!, hail located his donation claim on tho prairie, mid with his family had es tablished n home, where, in tho natur al order of events, n few ycani would have found him surrounded with that comfortable nOlucucc which in the re ward of honest and well-directed in dustry. The family consisted of Mr. nnd Mrs. Oeiicl, three bright boyn, aged rcsiteetlvely nine, soven, and five years, Mary, a comely girl of thirteen, mid an infant daughter. An Indian had been working for Mr. Oeizel a short time before, and that afternoon he went out, as was supposed, to hunt for some stiay hogs; he did not re turn at evening, hut the circumstance caused the family no uneasiness and they retired as usual. About mid night, a rap was heard at the door. A call at this unseasonable hour, at a lime when reMrln from only across the eo.ist line of mountains were rife with Indian murders, was calculated to awaken apprehensions in tho cool est brc.i.tt, and the summons was an swered with caution. The voice of the Indian who had left the hoiuc that day was recognized, mid an the door was opened, threo stalvrnrt In dians entered unbidden. The hearts of the anxious husband and mother sunk, as they looked upon their sleep ing treasures and then Umiii the dusky intruders, whose very presence was a shadow of evil ; but before their fears could assuni'i a definite form or sug gest a hope of escape, n murderous ansa ult was made upon Mr (leiel by the Indians, vihu were armed with knives. The luave wife Hew to the as sistance of her husband, and recieveil a wound which nearly severed one of her lingers, but n conllict so unequal could not hist, and Mr. (icizel fell an easy victim to his iisKailnnK The mother and daughter were taken out of the house mid tied, while tho In dians returned to complete their bloody mission. The boys were one after another killed by tho incarnate fiends, and when the work of death win done, the house was set on lire Who shall tell the anguish of that mother, as with weary and reluctant steps she was driven away by her ca tors? One hour before, she wan a w ife, the conscious idol mid centre of a happy household ; now a widow mid a captive, lighted by the tlamos of her dwelling, as they consumed the bod ies of those who weie dc.tror to her than life. Death would then have been welcome, for the present was the blackness of despair, mid the future pointed only to a captivity worse than death. Tho settlers who assembled in the fort that morning, Hiipixiscd that all the (icizel family were killed, but a short time afterward they learned from u squaw that (tho female portion of the family were nlivn, and wcro held as prisoners at tho Too toot na ranch, on Itoguo river. On hearing thin, a squaw who wan a prisoner in the fort, was sent out to propose mi exchange. Shu faithfully performed Jier misaion, and a day or two afterward the Indians came in night in largo numbers, bear ing a llag of truce. Charley Ilrown, now" residing at Crescent City, was sent out of the fort to negotiate tho ex change; the Iuiliannngreed that if the vvhitoH would surrender tho squaws which they hold, mid give them a cer tain number of blankets and n certain number of coins, they would return Mrs. (leizel nnd her daughters. The price was made up by subscription, and tho next day Mrs, Q. mid the babe were brought to tho fnrf, and the day following, Mary, tho girl, wiu also sur rendered, Tho remains of tho murdered flci zels, were afterwards collected mid buried whom tho house had stood, and u marble monument, with appropriate iiiseiiptiou, now marks the place of thoirrest. The infant daughter, who was tho unconscious witness of her mother's suH'erlng, is now u graceful woman; mid the mother and elder daughter mo estoeiued inombuis of so ciety, but the horrors of that dreadful night are indelibly graven in their ineinoiy, only to boeUaeed when they shall bo culled to a reunion with (ho lost ones "on tho othdrside." NiitllrK MUyvrurd A I our. When Mr. John Wiso wan lost in his baloon, called ''Tho Pathfinder, n month or two ago, the ncwspnpcin printed many accounts of trips made in the air, noma by brave men and some by foolish ones. A lady who liven in the town of Centralin, in the State of Illinois, naid nothing until all tho rent wcro through talking. Then, one day recently, nho told tho editor of the St. Louis Republican to look up tho copy of that paper that wan printed on tho Slstduy of Septem ber, 1868. The editor looked nnd found an account of how two children made a trip in a balloon all by them selves. Cn that day an ncronaunt named H rooks filled his air ship with gan on tho farm of a Mr. Harvey, who lived near Ccntrulia. Ho expected to sail up in tho afternoon. About noon lime Mr. Harvey put his two child ren in tho banket of tho balloon junt to plcaao them, and not thinking for a moment of any danger. Tho bal loon wan tied to a tree by ropen. All at once a gust of wind broke tho ropes mid the balloon shot up into the nir with nobody but two children in the basket. Mr. Ilarvoy was wild with grief and nhouted aloud: "Thcy'cr lost I" All tho neighbors ran to the spot only to see the ballon drifting oft" to the north and more than a mile high. One of tho children wan a girl, Nel lie, eight yearn old, the other wan her little brother Wiilio four yenru old. Holli cried when they found them selves leaving the ground and going on a very, very ntrangH journey in deed. Nellie looked over the edge of tho basket and saw her father wring ing his hands away nclow. Soon the people looked to her smaller than b.ibien and tho houses like toy houses. She and Willie were going up all the time. "I expect wc arc going to heaven Wiilio," said Nellie. Willie thouget it was very cold in heaven then, for the higher they went tho colder it grew. Nellie wrapped Willie in her apron and held his head in her lap until he cried himself lo sleep. Then Nellie folded her hands and waited. Sho said, "I think we must bo near tho gate now. She meant the gate of heaven that she had heard about in Sunday School Hut Nellie fell aalecp too. When she awoke she found some starngc man was lifting her from tho basket. The strange man wan a farmer in north ern Illinois, who had seen the balloon drifting low down across his field. The rope was draging nnd eo he caught it and landed tho children safely The balloon had floated all night. Nollic nnd Willie's father soon learned that they had been found and took thotii home two days afterward. Nellie is now a woman the very nanio one who (old the Republican to look back in his files for the story. C'im-k for fnper. A great diversity presents itself in the various useful purposes to which paper, or papier macho has been npplied of late years. Resides orna mental articles, clothing, bedding, stamps, Itoxcs, barrels, picture frames, furniture, stovepipes, chimney potni bricks, partition walls, carriage and car wheels and boats, it would seem an if the inventive ingenuity of manu facturers has succeeded in adapting this single substance to some now use every day. The last remarkable ap plication papier macho is tho manu facture of a revolving dome for the astronomical oborvatory of Trof. Greono of tho Polytechnic Instituto at Troy. This domo has an internal diamoter of 29 feet, and if constructed in the usual manner, would weigh flvo or six tons and require powerful and complicated machinery to manipulate it, besides also requiring foundations ol considerable depth for its support ; whereas tho total weight of tho pa per dome will not exceed a ton and three-quarters, and mounted on piv ots working in iron groves, is capable of being revolved in any direction without tho nssistonco of any inn ohinoor apparatus of any kind. Tho paper is put upon a light framing of wood, and is, by means of a special preparation, rendered fully iih hard nnd even more rigid than wood. Tiik flovernor of North Carolina will call a special meeting of the Leg islature of that State to act upon mi oiler on tho part of ciipaliats to buy tho Western North Carolina rnilioad from the Stale nt $800,000, binding tho new company to extend the road to Duektown, Tenn., on or boforo 1882. Tin: South raised 12,000,000 pounds more of tobacco the present season than ovoy boforo, IJzponMlvn linro JtlrctlnfC" A French correspondent nays a cu riotls nfuiir ban junt come before the Court d'ansizen nt Versailles, nn affair vraiment and romanncqtic. During many weeks the newspapers of Paris gave information of repeated fires in the commune of Auvcrn. They were evidently tho work of incendiaries, and the police were net diligently to work lo find the criminals. Their search resulted finally in the nrrest of a young girl of sixteen, Clcmencc Mossier, a sewing girl of Auvcrn. The motive which led her to this wanton destruction of property is one that every one will recognize nn a par ticularly inflammable ono love. It scenia that this girl of sixteen was madly in lovo with a youth of her own ago named Albert Romnru, a laborer in a neighboring village. Tho girl's paronU had forbidden her to sec her lover, and the two had great difficulty in managing a clandestine correspon dence. It won thin obstruction to the course of love, that gave the girl an extraordinary idea of setting fire to farm houses and haystacks. The alarm was given, bells rang, neigh born ran to the scene. Albert Romaru ran too, met the young girl in the timing and fled away with her to n neighboring forest, where they passed a few hours together, while the fire worked its ravages. Six times in six weeks there were niystcricus confla grations in Auvcrn. Six times in six wccks mo lovers lieu io inc nine woods, and the farmers of the com muiio paid for lighting their love making a sum of 30,000 francs. Rut finally, one fine night, just as Clom- ence was thrusting lighted matches into the haystack of one of the neigh bors, a strong hand was laid upon her shoulder, and she wan lead away a prisoner. She confessed all immedi ately, mid has been sentenced to ten years hard labor. Journalism and Authorship. During the last thirty years New York journalism has absorbed much of our best talent, and well it might, for it demands the best. No severer lest can be applied to a writer than that of his ability to furnish leading articles regularly. More than one who has succeeded easily as a book-wright or essayist has found his equipment and powci of composition inadequate to tho off-hand production of compact, polished, well informed leaders, Mich as are needed for the editorial pages of our great newspapers. Journalism is annrt; but under our system it brings little beyond his weekly stipend is sure, and that means a great deal for ono who lives by his pen. Newspapers thus far have supplied the readiest market to a writer, and the magazines next to them. In a chapter upon Hood, London's journalist poet, I have claim ed that the task of daily writing for the press, while a good staff, is a poor clutch : it defuses the heat of author ship, checks idealism, retards the des truction of master-pieces. Resides, it brings an author into attention with members of the craft who possibly know him so familiarly as to under rate him. He is subjected to local jealousies, to tho over-praiso of the newspaper which bofriends him, and sometimes to tho unjust or ungener ous treatment of rival sheets. All this may be thought peculiar to New. York, and one which wohall outgrow. Hut tho same phenomena uro visible in the matured nowspapcrlifo of tho capitals of England and Franco, and must bo holdd as part of a journalist's warfare and surroundings. Edmund C. Stedoinan in Seribner's for Decem ber. Silk Worm Tor France. Tho Now York H'orW Bays : There is something strango in tho way tho wealth of far oil China and Japan sweeps across our Continent on its way to the countries of Europe? To inorrw ft Bteamship sails from this port which will bear across tho ocean to Franco about $850,000 worth of silk worms' eggs, which has been brought from Japan. They were shipped across tho Pacific from Yokohama and from San Francisco wcro brought to Now York in six freight ems, reach ing hero Friday night, It is strange that nearly a million dollars worth of eggs of the silk woim should tiavorso the American Continent to till an or der bent from Franco to Japan. Of eoiibo inuoh fieighl now leaches En lope fioui China and .Japan by our overland route, but its passing tluoiigh our laud has not become to common a thing that such n ship ment as that wo mention is no won der. What stiaugo tesulls modern commerce is pioducingl HniniuM Youno's estate finally sim mers down to $75,000, which is lobe divided among seven heirs. An Old KUrry. One winter's evening a mother nnd four little children, in a sleigh, wcro passing through ono of tho dense for cstn of Russia. They have been visit inga neighbor, and arc returning home. As night comes on the howl- ling of wolves in tho distant is heard bv tho littlo party. The horses are urged forward at their highest speed. Soon the whole pack of the pursuers gaunt, hungry nnd ferocious, linve overtaken the fugitives, and are about to leap into the sleigh. The mother seizes her youngest child and throws it out into the miilBt of the howling beasts. To kill and devour tho help less innocent delays the wolves a few moments, and the remainder of the company hurry on. Again the wolves surround them, nnd another child is thus sacrificed. Another and another is treated in the same way until the mother alone reached her home. It issaid that when she 'rolat- ted to her husband the story of her escape he seized an ax and split her head open, asserting that it mother who would save her own life nt so great a sacrifice was not fit to live. Important TcIcRrnpli Project. A rime' Washington special pre sents details of a telegraph scheme in troduced in the Senate recently in the form of a petition for tho incorpora tion of a. company by James A. Scrym ser,of Cuba cable notoriety, nnd Will iani G. Hamilton. It is surmised that the Western Union Telegraph Co., is backing the scheme. It proposes es tablishing a submarine cable from Texas by the shores of Mexico, across Tehauntcpcc. for which privileges has been granted by the Governments in terested ; and to extend this line by way of San Salvador", Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Equador to Peru, where connection can bo had with es tablished lines to Chili, Ruenos Ayroe and Rrazil. The petitioners suggest that the completion of the railway across the Isthmus of Tehauntcpcc and proposed ship canal will open a direct trade between China, India, Australia and Japan, by way of the Gulf of Mexico, nnd that this trade will be greatly benefitted by rapid tel egraph communication. They ask tho Government to survey the route to the cable and to grant them a sub sidy in the form of a contract for bend ing Government messages, Vouiir Jjiy Gould. The following annecdote is told of the great railroad king as having oc curred in his early carreer : " He had a knack for trading, was very sharp as a cattle dealer, and one time he got a lesson that lasted him for life. A farmer had a herd of cattle and Jay went to look at it. In the midst of the bartering a woman ap peared who had a talk with the farm er now and then, he heard her im ploring him not to sell her cow, ''I shall die, if you do," sho cried. "What's the matter with that wom an?" asked Gould, in his usual cool way. "Oh, nothing; she's afraid I'm going to sell her favorite cow, old Pailful." Gould thought he had found a prizo, and demanded that the cow bo brought out, nnd insisted when ho saw her that she must go with tho lot. Tho cattle wero driven home, and Jay's father sent him to see what kind of a milker old Pailful was. Jay had hardly seated himself before tho cow kicked him, pail and stool skyhigh, tore around the pas thre, leaped tho fence and started for home. Jay never bought anything from that day to this that a woman wanted to keep." A. Froioa "Mull Currier. The Mammoth City (Cal.) Herald, has tho following: '-Tho pony rider, Billy Haines, familiarly known as "Clevorly," was badly frozon on his last trip from Bodio to this pl.ice. The particulars, as given us by William Blackmore, tho mail contractor, are as follows: Haines loft King's ranch as usual on Friday last, with about eighty pounds mail matter. Being caught in tho storm, he pi eased fur ward until, when within about the miles of Dcmlninn's Station, his ani mal gave out. Ho then built a fire and camped for two days and nights, when, being unable to get any nioro wood, he niudo n despoiato dibit to reach Deadinnn's. As soon ns tho storm abated parties stalled out in search of him. Ho waf found within a half mile, in a pitiable condition, llis feet and legs wcio fiozcn neaily to tho knees, and his hands mid anus to the elbows. Ho was floundering about, almost seiiMdoss, having given up hope define help airivud, Ho was taken tn the station." Words of Wisdom. The path of moderation is the nnfest to trend. It's poor foolishness to run down your enemies. The mother's heart is the child's school-room. Make yourself necessary and your success is certain. Hide the faults of others and make known their virtues. Reason is the test of ridicule not ridicule the test of truth. When reason is against man, a man will be against reason. Our actions arc our ovv n ; the conse quences belong to heaven. The festival which bears the great est fruit is the festival of duty. Our nets make or mar us ; we arc the children of our own deeds. Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises. Age that Icsons the enjoyment of life increases our desire of living. Watch your own speech and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is what life is made of. Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom. Think twice before you believe every evil story you hear, and think twenty times before you repeat it, especially if it is about a woman. Say to yourself, "This may not do true, or it may be exaggerated," unless you have proof of the veracity of your informant. Persons sometimes tell folsehoods; they often make mistakes, and they sometimes "hear wrong." A Solnr Engine. But even a greater revolution than that which I'rof. Ayrton suggested ma- be wrought by the invention upon which Capt. Erricsson has been engaged, with scarcely n day's respite, for fifteen years past the solar engine. If erected near the seaboard, where water is to be had, the now engine will, lie claims, gen erate steam, and where water is not procurable atmospheric air may be made the medium for transmitting the solar energy to the motor. In recent experiments under a clear sun, the engine worked witli perfect uniformity at a velocity of two hun dred revolutions per minute, and consumed only a part of the steam furnished. To obtain some idea of the future possibilities of the engine says an exchange, it should be borne in mind that there is a rainless region extending from the northwest coast of Africa to Mongolia, 9,000 miles in length, and nearly 1,000 miles wide. Estimating a widtii of one mile only to be employed, not less than 22.300,000 solur engines, each of 100-horse power, could lie kept in constant operation nine hours a day, but utilizing that heat which is now wasted on the comparatively small areas of land extending along some of the water fronts of some of the sunburt regions of the earth. A lilrehsIiiC'nse. The sympathetic kindness of an editor is well illustrated by the fol lowing from the Carson Tribune : Just as good a young wife as ever lived approached us this morning with tears in her dark eyes and in quired. "How much does a divorce suit cost?'' Our answer was, it de pends, my dear, on whether your at torney is old nnd married, or young and good looking. Hut what is troubling you? lias the young fel low been and done and gono ofl'with another female woman already? "No worse than that. I'm so dis tressed and humiliated 1 scarce know bow to answes you. I I I went to tbe auction yesterday, and and I bid four dollars on a cradle, nnd it was knocked down to me: and when Tasked for the money to pay for it, he he told me to sh 8b shut up and not bo a fool. I nin't"got no baby yet, Mister, but -no ono knows what may come to pass, and oh, it would bo so handy to have that cradle!" Wo wont and licked that brute and took away tho cradle, giving a promipsory note therefor. Tiikuk aro IlO.lXH) persons serving sentences in tho Stato prisons of the United Status, and yet no man can Mop into n hole through the nidowalk without complaining that this is no ooimtiy for law and justice. rcmnle 8miiffjIor. Hnrriet Thorn pon, a female detec tive in the employ of the Canadian customs department at Windsor, has been telling a Detroit reporter some thing of her official experience. Poino of the fcninlc smugglers arc very nice. The youngest ones will cry and some times faint, but all are compelled to tell what they paid for their good. They can keep the goods by paying us what they originally coat. We np" praise them ourselves if they give false prices. Sometimes the Detroit firms make out bills of lower aluc, or fur nish the parties with billheads which they fill up to suit themselve. Thuso wc estimate at our own figures, and re lease the parties on payment." "What class of goods do the smugglers give the largest preference lo?" "White and gray cottons, heavy-colored dril lings, fancy-knitted goods and that class. The duty on such is about 25 tat cent. The goods are bulky and hard to handle ; that is why they aro so easily detected. The women pin whole pieces of cotton about them, sometimes folded in their shawls or disposed nbout their skirts, and it makes their movement very awkward. I brought one young lady in here the other day who wore a very large bus tle composed entirely of American laces." Why tiold C'linngCM Color. It is well known that the hitman body contains humors and acids similar in action to and having a like tendency toward baser metals as nitric and sulphuric acids have, namely, to tarnish or disolve them, varying in quantity to different per sons. Of this theory we have aband ant proof in the effects which the wearing or jcwelery produces on different persons. Thousands were' continually without any ill effect the cheaper class of jewelry with brass ear wires, while if others wear the same articles for a few days they would be troubled with 'sore ears; or, in other words, the aciil.-i contained in the system would so act on the brass as to produce ill ef fects. Instances have occurred in which articles of jewelry of any grade below eighteen caret have been tarn ished in a few days merely from the above named cause. True, these instances arc not very frequent; nevertheless it is ns well to know them. Every case is not the fault of the goods not wearing well, as it is generally called, but the result of the partiular constitution by which they are worn. What not to Kill. The French 3Iiniter of Finance has done a good deal in causing a placard to bo posted, which it would bo wise for citizens of all countries to have be fore their eyes. It tells farniers.sporu- men boys and others, what creatures not to kill, as follows: Hodglibg Lives mostly on mice, small rodents, slugs and grubs aid nials hurtful to agriculture. Don't kill tho hedghog. Toad Farm assistant ; lie destroys twenty to thirty insects per hour. Don't kill tho toad. Molt Is constantly destroying grubs, larva?, palmer-worms and in sects injurious to agriculture. No trace of vegetation is ever found in its stomach. Don't kill tho mole. Birds Each department loses sev eral millions annually through insoots Birds arc tho only enemies able to con. tend against them vigorously. They aro the great catarpillar killers and ag ricultural assistant. Children' don't disturb their nests. Higher lMucatloa of GlrlM.- There aro now fifty girls among tho students at Cornell University, and thirteen of them are Freshmen. Michignn Unviersity has 134 wom en student, and the President tayt of the experiment of eduenting tho sexes together : " After our nino year's experience in co-education, wo havo become so accustomed to seo women take up any kind of Uni versity work, cairy it on succest!.''ul ly, graduatu in good health, ciium no embarrassment in tho adnunis tration of tho institution, and awak en no special solicitude in the mindd of their friends or tholr toaohor, that many of tho theoretical discus, sions of co-education by those who luivo had no opportunity to cxaiu ino it carefully, read btruugoly to us horo on tho ground," Subsokhie for the Maii. $2 50 par annum,