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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1888)
el f , v livn rirnv rBimvl ,.. j HKI'ATItll'K . : Publishers v -.Jim; i- or HL'Hsritiri'ii'it. v-i Mr . . ........... $5 M t- M !,(. , 1 "1 iirm Mw tlu,., . ... 6A I V able in 4rne.) TKIIMS Of APVF.RTISlNa (i.ttiAt.) lnniM, ftifj-tiaevTlm . .$3 W Kaon JiU.til luswrliiin.... ...... 1 W lral Jf vt).-, per linn 18 mt iiorfuitr n.Woiu.-MmmnU Innerled upon liberal W-rtn. SOCIKTY n u im JELi LEBANON m "r 13 o iiT VOL. II. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1888. NO. 41. tnrVXOT J.nPflE. N. 44, A. F. k A. M : MU mi thtitr nr tt)t In Maxm'.to lllock, ra SAturtlaj eVBiiiug, in or cm ra uitt luii mon. J WAS80X, W. M. .FBASOH tjOnoR, Tfrt. 47. X. O. O. r.: Metis t- nntAy tfveuin of a to WMk, at Odd rVU'iw'i 1111, Miu Rtrwi: vlmung ?thren commit; mviiaa 'v stteiul, J. J. t HAKUoN, K. U. O. IT. W . 1,1-h.non. i r- .ii Mu every una ami Uilm Tmirmiiw vn- li. tci t a j.. n . HONOR LOPOK NO ltia in the mouUi. .n A. A. R. CYRUS A CO., Real Estate, Insurance & Loan Agent. Krarral Collection an it Notary Pabtle llaslnraa Promptly Attended to. M. DESIGNER N. KECK, AND 8CULP.T.OR Manufacturer of . Meaameat and Ileaastenea. AND AL!.KISOI' I'EM ETE11V WORK FIKK MONUMENTS A SPECIALTY. Opp. Knm Houae, ALBANY, OBEOON. SAW FOR SATFl. A Double Circular Water Power Saw Mill, Near L.eliioi, Or Capacity about 6001 feet per day. Alo, 4J i acre ol land on which toe sawmill is located. PRICE, 2,000 Also I are a large stock of FIRST QUALITY LUMBER At lowest market rates for cash. . TV. WHEELER, I.ebaaen. Or. WINTER Artistic Photographer, BROWXSVILLE, OR. Enlarging from Small Pictures. In Blautaneous Process. WORK WARRANTED. C. T. COTTO DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CIGARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY, taeeasware aad Cilaaaware, Lta;t aad Lamp Flxtaresi. Mala St., Leaaaaa. Oregon. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. I PACIFIC COAST NOTES. JOB PRINTING. Entry (tescriitlua of An Interesting Resums of the Week's Happenings In Both Branches of the Nation's Leglalatur . Mat 'era of Local and General Import Gathered from All Bouroes for the Benefit of Our Readers. " McCreary hopes to get through tho House at this tension a bill to provide lor a permanent exposition of the three Americas, in honor of the 40Ot.li anniversary of the discovery by Columbu. The bill is merely pr- liminry in (is provisions, authorising the Prrsklent to appoint a boimi cf nine directors to formulate a plan fori Hie exposition, and appropriating 25,000 for the expenses of their meet- irg. Tluir plan, it is provided, shall Iki to constitute nn advisory board of 02 menibe re, appt-intrd by the govern nrscftho Btaies and Territories and ihe executivt s of 16 American nations. Snuce is to be provided in Washington for the exposition, and a suitable site selected for the statue of Columbu. A lively discussion arose in the I lf use Fridjy afternoon, based on an article in a New lork paper, declar ing that there were two elements united against the Xicsraeua canal bill, the agents of the Pacific railroads At Mariposa hay is f 25 a ton. The Fresno Expositor has been en larged. The D.iUes, Or., piys a bounty for dog scalps. A turnpike from Chico to Oroville is projected. The ugr r finery at Watsonville gives $3 a ton for beets. The streets of Traver, Tulre county, r to be graded this winter. A woolen mill is lo be started at Brownsville, L'nn county, Or. The strike on the Montana Union railroad has forced several mines to close down. lion. Stephen M. White fainted in the court room at Los Anteles recent ly, the euect of overworkj Two rqitaw, who were intoxicated. roueu into a camp tire at Colton re- MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS A Brief Mention of Matters of Oen.ral Interest.-Note Gathered from Home and Abroad. Portsmouth, Ohio, la to have a corn fair. Diphtheria New Jemy. rages In Morrittjwn, and the attorneys of the Panama cen,y nd were dlT burned canal, and containing an interview with Judge Daily on the subject, inti mating that the gentlemen (naming them) who iff -red amendments to the bill did so for the purpos of de- icuting the measure. Messrs. Wilsu and Bland, of Missouri, Cobb, of Ala.- bania, and Spinola, of New York, in dignantly denied being influenced in their action in ouering amendments by any purpeso except a desire to 1 er feet the measure. The Utter referred to Judge Daly as a man who, since his retirement from the bench, had been connected with breesy enterprises. Cox, of New York, paid a warm tribute to Judge D.tly s integrity, and in an emphatic manner denied the charge that be was a lobbyist. As regards the commission recently appointed by the Secretary of the Na vy, under a provision, for that purpose contained in the List naval approprla tion bin, to examine the coast ntrth of the forty-etcond parallel of north latitude, in the State of Oregon and the Territories of Washington and Alaska, and to select a suitable site for a navy-yard and docks, it may be said that the commissioners bad an inter view with the Oregon Senatois at the -aptto!, and discuesed various possible lec&tioce. The names of prominent business men at each lecation were se lected ; also such 01 her information as the Senators could give them. The commissioners will examine Coos bay, laquina bay, Portland, Aston., Ta- coms, Beaiue, rori lownsmd and other places on Puget sound. The commission will confer with promi nent men at each point, and will make a careful examination of the ad- is believed he is internallr iniured. vantages wnicn cacu presents. The woodland town authorities want to drive out the Salvation army and raise the price of theatrical li cense. Senator Stanford will be shown points for needed legislation on the southern coast. The corporation publishing the San Bernardino Times has taken the name of The L. M. Holt Publishing Com pany. Chinese gamblers have been hirinr. i substitutes to appear for them in the lx8 Angeles courts and have thus es caped. William Wright, a 14-v ear-old col 6 red boy, stabbed Franklin Mc Allen aged 13, with a pocket knife at Stock ton last week, The Board of Suoervisort of 8jno- ma county have let a contract to build a f'20,000 bridge across Russian river at Uloverdale. ine orcuams, vineyards and can nery connected with ueneral Bid well a rancho Chico are to b leased to a San Francisco company, Dipthena still afflicts BloomGeld rv . n k Donom count several cases are yet in danger. The schools have been closed for six weeks. Four celestials on a hand-car were badly injured near San F.rnando, Los Angeles county, last week, in collision with a cpecial train Jacob Hodge, a carpenter at the Coe mine at Graos Valley, had both arms broken recently in a fall, and it OREGON Land Company V R. F. ASHBY and CEO. DICKINSON. General Agents for Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon. Baying and Selling Real-Estats-on-Coiissioi. Aad Itnfr a deaeral Real Itaelaess. Estate TLand Solicited for Sale. ASHBY & DICKERSON. BURKHART & BILYEU, Proprietors of the t-Ii?Gry, Sale aafl Feefl StatilBS LEBIXOX, OR, Souti eaat Corner of Main and Sherman. Fine Buggies, Hacks,Har ness and - COOD RELIABLE HORSE8 For parties going to Brownsville, Wa terloo, Sweet Home, Soio, and all parts of Linn County. There are some very important measures anecung the north I'acinc oast pending before Congress. Senator Dolph states that he has been prom ised a favorable report on the bill in the Senate for the payment of Oregon nd ashington Indian war claims, pendirg before the committee on mil iary aff.tirs, and the bill tor the croa tion of a court to a1iudicae Indan depredation claims, which is before the Senate committee on Indian af fairs, which he thought would be re poited with amendments making the bill perfect. He had strong hopes that the conference committee on the railroad forfeiture bill, now that the election was over, would be able to come to an agreement, and if not, when the disagreement waa reported the House would recede from its mendment, and forfeiture of the land grant from Wailula to Portland would be secured. Among the bills which had passed tho Senate and were pending in the House, he said, were his bill for forfeiture of Oregon wagon road grants; for the erection of public bridges at Portland and Sa lem; to grant certain townships to Oregon for a public park ; to extend the limits of Portland as a port of entry, and to create ports of entry at Tacoma and Seattle, and a port of de livery at Port Angeles, and to credit the State of Oregon with the value of arms borrowed of Washington Tern tory and lost in the Nei Perce Indian war : also Senator Mitchell's bill mak ing an appropriation for a boat rail way at the dalles of the Columbia river. He said that the Oregon dele gation was oing all it could to secure consideration lor these and other measures of interest to Oregon, and that they hoped that some or all of them would pass the House at the present session. The bill which has already passed the House, providing for equipment ol the militia of the State of Oregcn with certain arms, ammunition and equipage, has been referred to Senator Stewart of the ot mmittee on military affairs. Sena tor Stewart will report in favor of the bill and in all probabilities it will pass the Senate within a short time. Sena tor Mitchtll's bill, which he intro duced in the Senate Friday, providing for the admission of Idaho in the Union, is identical with that mtio- duced by Delegate Dubois, of Idaho, with one .exception. The Mitchell bill confers upon women in the Territory the right to vote. Both of the Oregon Senators are in favor of woman suf frage, and on every occasion they have voted to give the ballot to women. Aged horses should have ground j 1 grain at all times or they will not ' thrive, owing to their inability to mas ticate the whole grains. Where a horse is subject to heaves it is best to moisten all the chopped or ground food. All kinds of Teaming DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. BURKHA.RT & BILYEU There is no necessity for pampering a bull and allowing it to become vicious. It can be made to work, if de sired, in providing power for fodder cutters, grain-mills, etc. It is done in Europe, and is practicable here. . Safe-crackers and burglars are mak ing profitable hauls in San Bernardino. There is a larger yield of cotton per acre in Missouri than in any other Sate. Three deaths so fir are reported to the I'ortland police as a result of the unmese name recently. Many are wounded, but they are keeping quiet. Revenge and not robbery is de clared to have been he motive that actuated the scoundrels who attempted to wreck the Oregon exprees on lues- dy. The S ilvaliou army at Petaluma has won a victory. They have obtained permission to parade the streets, and parlies molesting them will bj arrested Samusl Sheplar,of Chicago, has pur chased a 125,000 ranch a few miles west of Santa Rosa, which he intends converting into a stock aud breeding 1 arm. Railway postofflce service has been established on the line of the North ern Pacific and Puzet Sound Shore railroads between Seattle and Tacoma. Alfred Schwarti, of Slaughter, W. T., uas been swindling tae people by obtaining money on pretendeJ cer tificates of deposit on San Francisco banks. The first annual promenade con' cert and ball of the Grand Army of the Republic was given last week at the State capita at Sacramento and was a great success. Rails have been laid on the Feather river bridge of the Knights Landing extension of the Northern California company, and as engine crossed from Marys ville into Butter county recently. Oregon's tax levy has been fixed as follows: State levy for current ex penses, three and eeven-tcnths of a mill; militia tax, one-fifth of a mill; University, one-tenth of a mill. To tal, four mills. Charles Marshall, a noted horse thief, was shot in the leg recently by Will Roberts, a San Bernardino deputy sheriff. Marshall was found in the brush in tho mountains. He will probably die. There are eight charges of robbery against him in Los An geles and Sau Bernardino counties. It is proposed, to build a sea-wall 200 feet wide on top around the en tire city front of San Diego. The idea is to lurnish terminal facilities, main tracks, switches-round-houses, etc.. for nil railroads entering the city, besides coal bunkers and warehouses for all the shipping business of the water front. In the trial of John A. Dimmig, of ban r rancisco, a book agent, for the alleged murder ot Henry Benhayon m October, 1887, a number of wit nesses were called, but the testimony variid little if any from that elicited at the former trial. Louis Goldberg, a cloak dealer and a close associate of Benhayon, testified that he didn't think that the latter could have writ ten his alleged confession at the lime he called at witness' place of business to do some writing, as he remained too short a time 'to write so long a docu ment. 1 1 envy siiicning on me back of a glove la bad form. Archbishop Riorden ha left Rome lor tiie United States. A famine is threatened among the cast Airican colonists. There are 3,000,000 women In tho Uuiled States who work for wages. T-i -at r a no new xora law against car stoves goes into effect Jauuary 1st. Straw-bail goers are having an en counter with the courts in New York. Two-fifths of the Dominion of Can ada are uuder no-license liquor laws. From 1880 to 1883 no less than 4,(iJ7,2o2 persons have come to this country. Louisiaaa haa five newspapers edit ed by women, ayune is one. The sword that Ethan Allen can ied at Ticouderoga, is owned by a Lansing, Aitcti., woman. Winnipeg, Manitoba, U rapidly be coming one of the most enterprising cities ot Canada. The Bible haa to be printed in 29 unierent languages to supply the peo ple '.iving in Pennsylvania, From the best statistics obtainable there are about 1,000,000 Union sol diera living at the present time. Tramps have filled up the Brooklyn almshouse. One hundred men have been put at work on the sand pile, Alexander II. Stephens during his THE AGRICULTURALIST - -. Newsy Notes Concerning the Farm a-d of Espeotat loterest to tbe Pa cine Coast Husbandman. The fresh fruit crop of California this seison has au estimated value of $10,000,009. It is said that by forcing salt into the holes made by borers in trees, the borers will be destroyed, f The water trough needs a thorough scrubbing and tcalding occasionally, or it will soon be coated with slime. It is better to feed a cow everr mimo of food she has the ability in luk( far a of than to try to gaiu profit by saving Too much grain ia more detrimental to breeding stock than not The food fhould be bulky, with a small allowance of grain. No animal h so hardy as to require no attention. The more an animal is exposed the less it will produce, either of pork, wool, mutton, beef or milk. Major Alvord condemns dehorning in toto. He says in the Boston Culti vator that it is rrnol. at rn. tl,.t The New Orleans Pic- it does not render rattla Ipsa t m on a. '" clous. The Iowa Agriculture! college, it ia said, has been crossing Southdown ewes with Shropshire bucks for four years. As a result the average of alt fleeces hat increased from 4.58 lo 8.2 pounds, and the percentage of lambs from 77 per cent, in 1880 to 131 ier cent, in 1888. Horses can, of course, stand more exposure in cold weather thau men. out ine same kind of exposure thtt produces colds, rheumatism, ate., in men, will be liable to fftct horses in the same way. It is, therefore, ap parent that warm stables, good blank ets and protection from severe weather are necessary, rrofesjor Henry gives the following PORTLAND MARKET REPORT. 1 ie condition of the loe-1 market ! nil that eniild he (It'Kiro 1, orders from the Interior being numerous, owlinr to the gfpali-r circulation among the fanning. 1 lie lioll.lsy trade has augmented sales to loini entirety satiHiactory to our tnJr-c-hanu, anil Christina week promises to be unusually active. OttOCKUIKS-Suguars have declined le I? 7, Kr" "! last report, as follows: esxra u rjc, err frranulated 73e, u.j i-runiinu ana powucreu yjfe. (Jolles ""ii, wuu nmitea stock on the market. a 1 u . " lt,c ana 1110 lie ritO VISIONS Oregon hsn, nfc ed at 1 1c breakfast bacon lie, hou'rter 10 I'-iwirrn mr is q noted as follows: I'"1?, ,:,(liic. breakfast b -con 13.c, lard crj au 1 Ii;, FRUITS-Green fruit receipts 1283 bxs. Apples Ii V.75c, Mexican orange tl. lem- Otis tl od.fiO per hx, barninm 3.JO4,50 h1 Muiii ii, tuners w u per ikix. V rliK TA IlLKi-Mnrkol. .roll mnU.. .1 Cabbage a le pr lb, car-ruts and turnip lie per sack, red pepper 3 pr fb, potatoes ': per aca, sweet Ifnio per It,. DRIED FltUirS-Iteceipts 8 pkges. Sun-dried apules 46c per lt, factory slic d He, factory plums H4Ue, Oregon prunes 7 Pe, pear 0 10c, peacliei I 1 Ic, -ninfi.ii prr oox, i,aii ornia rigs He. Smyrna 18c per In. DAIR Y PRODUf E-Butter receipts for the week pkger. Fancy creamery .T.'o wr lb, choke dairy c, tnediumj i&IJOc, rAjli.s-llecelpU 1J cases. Oregon 83c, vaovci is u rj,Us 1-uuirilY Chickens 3.SO4, for isrge young ana f 4 t 00 for old, turkeys l!4'l.i;c per tb. ducks th ai nt-r rinn UJl.i Ilecelnti fnr ! nnn ik. v si icy infiHK r.wiern uregon la 15c. iiUl"S-Ilecelpt for week 25.630 lbs moice i.'yanc. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. How They Are Conveyed From the Sick t I'rrsons at a Distance. It Is sometimes quite difficult to de termine the extent to which the com municating particle ean be carried. It is probable that the air from a small pox hospital has given the disease to persons a mile distant On the contra ry, scarlet fever has been brought Into the ward of a full but well-aired hos pital and continued there a day with out a single person contracting the disease If we could be sure as to the secretions and all the skin separations from scarlet fever it would not be a very communicable disease; yet w have known a dress folded up at the bed of a dying patient and placed In a trunk, to convey the poison to a fami ly of children four miles distant, when the dress was unfold'! In their pres ence in roe months arterward. Whooping-cough and diphtneria are proba bly never conveyed by the first case occurring, except by the breath or sputa or the patient. Meaelea, on the other hand, are communicated at much greater distances. In general . anv one of this class of diseases having become epidemic, tho communication to other Is from house and clothin? fnr more than from persons. Dill cult as it is to determine accurately alt the facts as to the conveyance of these diseases, their transmissibility, their times of Inceo- tion and the time of greatest risk o! contagion, or when the patient ceases to be a risk to others, 110 subject is ol more vital importance to communities. Job Printing Dene ca start Kallec. Legal Blanks, Business Cards, Letter Heads. Bill Heaia, v F.xecot4 lo cowl tflc sod t Inwwt Hrtaf pricta. SCIENCE AND PIIOGRESS. fcEMARKABLE SALT . CEO IN SOUTH WESTERN LOUISIANA. A Room Melting Machine That DNpws ' of tbe Snow fa the (loads Where It I'ltfhtoDimcnaioD of Animalcule Found In gtsgaant Waters, A method Is described In The fJeiMiUQc American which has proven u-ful in plying student of tbe microscope tome adequate idea of tbe dimension t animalcules found la staguaut water. Flo. 1 DllWIX.J THB TL'BS. A drop of epiHtwittly -lr wat-r ,1afd 00 a glaa alMts end put under the obje tiVe, will cume irontbr and aftoai.-Iimnnt wiM-n tbe mnltitudf- of aniaialcular lifo are hroul't to view. Tlit-re they arc, swimming, twisting, sf anding, tiut how Jar To are tL-y D'in't know, Iki uu- ti-r bt uothing U com pare tliein with. Take a piece ( sfirt mm lulling nij' I soften is hi tbe flunm of a gas or alcohol kunri, and tha draw it out into a very tine thread, which wi!l be a capillary tube (see Fig. 1). That it is a tube may he prored by inserting 000 end in water aud Mowing into tho other end, when minute bubbles will rise. GItAIV-Ttsceipta for week ft) Wl ctls vr' ne.r, 'the medical officer of falley.tMiJlfcBMS. Eastern Oregon 1.37s Birkenhead, and Dr. Dukes, of Rugby. El.fio. Hit, li 1 . .. . .. fa f given mucn atiention to me suo-1 V (flMK Oatt a2i35c FI OUR -Receipts for week 3139 bbla. oisniimu eo, outer tiranas f t.ia. FEEIJ-Harley f2125 per ton. bran fin. rnop fioai. Rhorts fi7, baled hay fi:i13,loo4$126M. FRfTSII MEATS Beef, lire, 3c, dressed mutton, live, 3c, dressed 6 lambs f2Z.ieach,iiog, live, Sit 5 dressed 7 l, Teaj u ,c. ject and hare classified a large number 01 cases a to the time from the first symptom to rhe bcginnlnsr of emotion. the tlmo from beginning of eruption to cessation or lover, and the time from beginning of eruption to when the na- . . . uent ceases to be infective. They state ine latter as follows: For small- A la life educated 150 boys and 60 girls, as a good ration for a dairy cow where giving mem au collegiate educations, corn louder constitutes tbe main por There arc 1,100 colored preachers in The estimated loss to Hie cotton, P. &6 days; measles, 27 days; scarlet Tennessee, and the highest salary re ceived by any of them is f 200 a ear. Military men lielieve that the White Pasha' now at Bahr el Ghsiel. and moving north, is the great explorer, cstaniey. A Brooklyn boarding-school propri etress has sued a plumber for f 15,0001 because the pupils have become sick irom sewer gas. apple and potato crops from insects is $10,000,000. Yet the farmers take no precaution to protect the birds. Kvery bird killed adds just the work it would perform to the labor of tbe farmer, wii consequently in s a greater num tion of the coarse fodder: Corn stalks. cut, 15 lo 16 pounds: clover hay. 5 pounds; bran. 6 DOunds : corn most. 4 pounds. This can be fed twice or three limes a day, as the feeder prefers, ber of insects to destroy The drains should be uut down ht fore the ground free tea. A single tile arain wui sometimes carry off the sur plus water from a large field, but enougn aram should be used to ren- er the field dry in earl v snrintr and 00 in proper condition for plowing ihe use of the dram will add bun. R Tjii? nrV'fn lit ft. I th? practice of the painting of fire- dreds oI dollara to crop, nouses and police stations bv Dolice- . ... - men anu nremen. They are going back in Philadel phia to the old fashion of selling grains and vegetables by weight in stead ot measure. A Weutern dairyman has hit unon a very simple plan ol warming water for his stock to drink in winter. He puts an iron plate, say 18 inehes sauare. on me Bottom 01 his water tank, rut ting away the wood, of course, where in uuuuiug a lence around our young orchards several years ago we j tried many plans .'or preserving ixists. iiaving occasion to remove ihe feme this winter we noted the conditions of the posts as follows : Those set with 110 preparation were decayed au inch or more in thickness: those coated with a thick wash of lime were bttter preset ved, but were quite seriously at tacked with worms : those Posts coated ith h )t tar were perfectly sound as wnen put in the ground ; those painted with petroleum and kerosene were equally as sound and as good for set- ttie iron was. Under the nlate be hops tin. !t tho ot ihnmncri. .1,. The Brooklyn Engineers' societv I an oil stove. II mti lOmhU' nrth iml ilnn iti. . n...ii,..nv.. last week protested against tb grant- m oil a day would warm the water for anu a whitewash brush, give tho lower uv tuns up to iv arerees or mnn. 1 nn r.r ha iu ihsn..i in 1 - - - u w. . - - . v. - j'vo, j'mt w yj 1U iuv ing of raiiseion to a company to lay pipes lor not water. i Governor Beaver has iust sent in i,uuu lor the John A. Logan monu ment fund of the G. A. K., collected in vanous Pennsylvania post;. The Newark Law and Order league is taking steps to counteract what it eems the "growing influence of liquor interests in State politics." Minneapolis flour men have unWinl St. Albans, YL,m their distributing do will tbe result. center lor new England, and intend building there two immense storage nouses, Ia developing cows for butter thn tieder should be sure that he does not overfeed, but as he finds they eat with good appetite lie may add a little more to each feed, and so continue gradually to increase the feed a-) they j win oear it, 1 his power if ilippntion ill increase, and he mav gradually . . . . increase the milking capacity of his cows and their production of butter. 1 The skill f that feeder baa much to I lever, 43 days; diphtheria. 23 davs: mumps, 21 days; typhoid fever. 29 da Vs. These will serve ns general mildes. In all cases where schools are con cerned the time of return should be guarded. It is to be remembered that more depends upon tbe cleanliness of the house and family and upon the garments worn than upon the person. It Is often a question how far boards of health shall require reports f con tagious diseases. In any good sTstein of sanitary government such report is required as to small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus fever, cholera, and as to, measles when extensively epi demic. We think strict rules should be enforced upon physicians as to such report, but that they should be paid therefor, inasmuch as such report Is of special service, quite different from the certification of a death. The hab its of different countries and States differ much, but all agree that the re- irt enuuiu 08 niaue Dy some one. ' s riLUSO THS TCBE ENLARGED A!TI MALCULES. Now insert this tube in a cap of stagnant water, and tbe wat-r will readily entrr it, rising, perna?8. sereral incbss shore the stir face of the water in tbe cap (A in Viz- 2. Iloid the tube (B) lfvre you. No larger than a hair of your bead and tbe bore much emaller. Is it ksm!.); there are livhig creat ores in that small imacef Place the tur under the mienisrope, and lo! many a curious creature disporting itself in as much space til a man would bare in a wide street of a city (C in Fig. 2). Tbe hare lieen seen where it would take at lunst a score of them placil end to end to make a chain long enough to reach across the space in the tut. How lni-e are they? IloJd the gUa thread before year eyes erwl coiB-iJ.T. It ia smmu, me rore is smnl.'cr and tbey are iwemy, per hap? fifty, times snjuli. Vet each is a perfect creature, with ( ted stractore, and organs odnptcd for i 1 ous functions. Iiow large is one's boouV foot, beeil Where ia the limit! m Tis ssl that all the larger fleas have feaser Seas to bite 'em, And tbse ia turn have smaller fees, and so ad loiuutuin! Snow Melting Apparatns. A system of snow melting has been devised 1 at. t. t , , uj axr. r. i-.yon, uma'HU itnen It is con- ground, two or three applications of Th Is fs rendered more essential bv re-1 siJ?r,, that fall of snow 6 inches deep, orer the oil, letting it soak in well each lime. Poet so treated will not be troubled with worms or insects of anv kind, but will resist decay to a rerrark- able degree. Thn we find to be Ihe simplest, cheapest and best methoJ of preparation. As a breeder of diseases, there are few things that excel the average farmhouse cellar. It underlies the cent facts, which show that by early ana strict isolation the common com municable diseases are often prevented irom becoming epidemic. It is often a question how far attend ance at funerals should be prevented In cases of death from communicable diseases. We know of a recent case ia which tho attendance of children at a Public men in Canada say that the Liberal party will ultimately take up annexation in opposition to the Im perial federation policy of the Con tervauvea. Ihe editor of the Mark Lne Ex press advises farmers to cut off po tato blossoms as they appear.-The ball a ... or irue eeea 01 me potato, which re sults from tbe blossom, are net only unnecessary to the formation of the tuber below, but are a prejudicial strain on the plant, lie says : "I bavn tried It strain . Colorado is becoming an oil prod uc- large scale three rows left and three rows cut tnd the results have more than satisfied me." mere are several stales which pro- auce a surplus of corn. Of these Illi nois and Iowa are coual. the product 01 each being estimated at 270.000.- Ihliwll fidmtMil ,m I. 1. I u.hi!i T' WU-1- n0t? rreVent causea by malignant diphtheria, prob- lJlS1lZlt0TVPI?T ab ,ed to a dozen deaths and many rooms, except a thin board floor. In CABf.a in a snnrfia . r . 1 r I , .V..U... W . 1 IBU. A iin ail manner 01 things for are kept the year round. ing State, In the valley of the Arkan sas, near Pueblo, there are a numlver of wells, the yield of which is 1,000 barrels per day. The Rev. Dr. David Spurgeon. aged , is au inmate of Flatbusb, Long Island, almshouse. He gave away j 000 bushels; Missouri ranks as t'lird, above. ibis cellar family use Meat, vegetables, milk, butter, bread, pastry, iireserves, pickles and fruits are hero stored in their various recep tacles, x here h very seldom anything to separate tho fruit and vegetables irom the other parti of the cellar, and there is usually more or less decaying .n. ... 1 1 .. t t-geiaoiu waiter to mail me air wuu poisonous germs. At various seasons of the year the cellar walls collect dampness, or small pools of water lie under their loose board tloors, sending up malarious odors into tho rooms large sums and was failure of a company. It is estimated that fiom five to six million pounds of turkey and a mill ion quarts of cranberries were neces sary to enable the city of New York to enjoy its lhankrgiving feasts. Minneapolis street-car drivers are no longer furnished with free passes, r are must be rung up when the pas senger gets on the car instead of at the time of payment of the fare. Seventy per cant, of the infanta in the Foundling hospital at Ottawa have died during the year. Within five ruined by the with 210,000,000 buBheW : and of the otner tour, Kansas has made a gan of I,UtA,W0 bushels, as compared with tbe crop of 1887 : Indiana has gained 69,000,000 bushels : Nebraska. 64.000.- ww, and Uhio 41,000,000. Tho total increase for tbe yeav is believed to be There is no dodging the fact that the American arbor vilae is the best all around tree for an evergreen hedge. Its hardiness, density obtained by shearing, and its rapid growth alone recommends it for the general pur pose of a hedge above all coniferous competitors. For a narrow and effectual wind break, a double row of Scotch or white pine, in rows eight or ten feet apart and at about the same distance be tween the trees in the' rows, will form in six or eight years, in a climate where they can be grown, a close and effectual screen. - more thau twice the entire product of Illinois and Iowa together- The com parison affords aid to the imagination in forming a conception of the surplus available lor exportation, cither di rectly or m the form of meat and other provisions; but only when the mind dwells upon the magnitude of tne entire product of more than 2.000.- years 607 have been buried. Im-1 000,000 bushels is it possible to realize the significance of the name to which corn is now entitled as king of cereals. Now is the time to get rid of the poorer animals. I', will not pay to winter them, as better animals will give larger returns for shelter, care and feed. It is not economy to keep a poor animal through anr season: but it is most extravagant to keep it through tbe winter. It is the bight of folly in stock raising to sell the best and keep the worst. True, the best bring the largest prices ; but if you sell the best and keep the worst, Boon your best will be no better than your woret is now, and your worst will be such that tbe more you bave the poorer you will be. You, by this plan. constantly make your animals poorer; and as the stock raiser makes his ani mals poor he makes himself poorer. If he keeps np the process, bankruptcy is as sure as fate. The opposite policy is the winning policy. Sell the poor est and retain the beat. And sell enough of the poorer animals that you may buy a few better than the best you now have. .This is making your animals constantly better and yourself richer. Soon your worst will bring .s much aa your best now. If you have not pure bred animals, Bell enough scrubs or grades to buy an an imal of each sex, pure bred. Hold fast to the full-blooded produce and to the highest grades.- Almost' before you are aware ot it you will have onlv pure-bred animals. If once we start with pure-bred animals, the increase The trado in Christmas trees and greens grows larger year by year. Thirty years ago a Christmas treo was seldom seeu except in tome borne of the richest claps, and the adornment of churches for tho festival season was j confined to the Catolic and Episcopal But the immense in- proper nursing is said to be the cause. A deposit of natural eas waa struck the other day nine miles north-east of Tuscola, 111, The pressure creates a name thirty feet high. The discovery has caused great excitement in the district. There are 2,800 members of the Michigan Anti-Horse Thief society, aid during the past year they have not nad a cent's worth of property stoien, aitnougn they are worth an ag gregate of $2,800,000. A man in New Bruswick has dis played ,a strange tavte about dving. He dug his grave, lowered his coffin, got in and took a dose of poison and then pulled a string to a landslide, wnicn descended upon him. The Toronto Trades Council has re quested the city to inform intending emigrants from England that the Canadian labor market is overstocked. The Legislature will be asked to abol ish the existing immigration laws. No flower is more popular than the aster, and few have held bo high a placo in popular esteem for bo many years, and it is still growing in favor. Ivor an autumn show of flowers we have not its equal. Feeding red pepper to laying hens is not benehcial unless given very moderately, and not of tener than three I of breeding makes us rich in flocks times a week. It acts as a temporary and herds of the best blood in what. etimulant, but if given continually I when the goal is reached, seems a very tsuen uijiuiuui euevw, . i snort time, creaso of our German population has popularized the Christmas tree throughout the length and breadth of the land ; and with the waning of old Puritan ideas the decoration of church es ol all denominations has become customary. The extent to which ma terials for theso purposes are now re quire! is shown by the fact that a single dealer in New England last year disposed of 10,00!) Christmas trees, 25,003 yards of wreathing and 800 barrels of evergreen spray. The smallest that are sold bring on the ground 10 cents apiece, whila the largest 25 to 30 feet in height bring from $4 to f 8. Garden and Fbr- est. The question comes to the stock raiser, how shall I lessen the cost of producing calves T One way is to feed new milk almost wholly at the start. Give it to the young animal fresh from the cow, but never let it suck. Feed it well when young, at threo or four weeks lefsen the quantity, and at two months gradually wean it. In the summer season the calf will do well if weaned at lee s than two months' old. In winter.skim-niilk, after two months, will help calves a great deal, Thev de velop naturally and easily, learn to take care of themselves, growing fairly wen. i he green feed doe most good to an animal when it is three or four years old. Chairman Brit ton, of the inaugural committee, has received favorable answers to his requests for the use of the corridors of the Interior and Post office department buildings for sleep ing quarters for troops during the in auguration. The available space will accammodate about 10,000 men. The sub-committee on civic organization has aheady received applications for positions in the parade from 75 organ izations, aggregating 13,000 men. This is 2000 more than there were in the parade four years ego. parse country village The exposure is far greater for children than for adults. If all details as to the washing of the dead body, the dealing with clothing, the time of transfer to the coffin, the use of disinfectants. could be carefully regulated, it ia probable that the risk would be very little; but as we can not rely upon the carrying out of all theso details, it is better to prohibit public funerals, and to announce cause of death in all cases of the more dangerous communicable diseases. Similar caution Is needed as to the visits of friends upon those who are thus sick. While there is no need of such fear as will preclude assistance from older persons where there Is need of help, there is ne excuse for ex posing tho young. With due precau tion as to airing garments, it is very rare that communicable diseases are carried to others by the casual visitor. We thus desire to caution .ll against unnecessary exposure, and to secure public opinion as an aid in preventing the spread of a class of diseuses which counts so many victims IV. T. Independent. 1 m Auto-Inoculation af Boils. Those who are ever troubled with boils know as Job did. that it is com mon to have a crop of boils. This la doubtless due to impurities circulating in the bleed; it is also supposed that It is possible to get a crop of boils from one by what is called auto-inocu-' lation. Which means that the dis charge from one boil if carried by fingers or dressings tft a healthy por tion of the skin, may plant the seeds of another one. To avoid this auto inoculation it is well to use the precau tion of antisepsis, or in short to disin- foct the emanations from the boil by frequent applications, both before and after it opens, of a solution of boric acid and absolute alcohoL This affords a pretty short means of preventing a repetition or increase of boils by auto Inoculation, and where there is ten dency to recurrence ia spite of such precaution, thorough constitutional treatment for the blood is certainly advisable, Dr. FooWs Health Monthly. The Patrol Wagoas Exhibition. The "faun-y up" wagoa, as the boys call it, migns oe improved. Una day last week great crowd cheered ax.U iau after it as it clattered along Fifth avenue. There was a drunken woman in the wagon, aad she pre sented a sickening spectacle. It was this that attracted the immense crowd. It is horrible to witness two or three police mea dragging s drunken woman to the statioa house. The wagon shcilens the exhibition. Bat why make au exhibition! A oorer could pro-' vided, with, leather em-tains which could be pulled down, Theanorai effect would be worth tli p rice of a thousand actains. Does any senahj man think it Improves the chances of a boy to haul him up Into tba wag and place him where all eyes can see himf A plainer, more palpable error was oarer made. We need not sneer at the gener ation tat nurtured the pillory aa use patrol wagons withe ut covers.- one mile of road 0 feet wide, amounts to 5,s(t cubic yards, tbe impossibility -cf remov ing it promptly by horses and cans is at aws apparent the more so when it is retnemlieTC that some metropolitan vest ria hard Iran J-5 to 100 milesof road awl thus would have to deal with from SttO.K) to fXW.OOO cubic yarj of snow, assmr.ing a 0 inch fall to occur." Tha principle of Mr. Lyons invention, according to Scientific Amerkaui, is that tbe snow can be dealt with in the roads on which it falls, when it is in a light and fleecy condition, and therefore easily melted. " The apparatus consists of a wrought iron tube about S5 feet long, having a furnace at one end and a short length of vertical pipe for a chimney at the otber. The tube is in vie In lengths of 6 feet, and each length is tapered so that they all fit into each other and are closely packed for transport rn wheels. When a fall of snow occurs the ap paratus is to be laid along the gutters of the roads to be cleared, the width ocenpied being about 4 feet. A fire is then to ho lighted in tbe furnace, tbe heat from which will pass along the horizontal tulw, which has a flatly arched top, Tbe snow it then to be shoveled on to tbe heated tube, which will melt it, the resulting water flowing away to tbe nearest gully. A trial of this apparatns took place in the St. ilarleybone district in February, IS35, on some snow which had fallen lone prevfojislv and had been twice carted. Not withstanding the solidified condition of tbe snow and tbe imperfect condition of the ex perimental apparatus, it is stated that 21 yards ot the consolidated snow, weighing Id tons 8 cut 3 qrs.. and equal to 193 yards of freshly fallen snow, were melted in ten hours with a consumption of coke of the value of la. 74, or under l4'd. per ton. A Bemarkable Salt Bd. One of the most remarkable salt beds ia the world, says American Naturalist, is located on tbe isle of Petit Anse, southwestern Lou isiana, 135 miles due west from New Orleans. The deposit is pure crystal salt. So far as it has been traced there are 150 acres of un known depth explored 140 feet down. The surface of the bed undulates from one foot above to six feet below tide tovel. By analyses tbe salt is 9f.S8 per cent pure. - The position of the salt shows it to be older than the coal and sandstone which he above it. Scales in a Steam Boiler. , The very best way to prevent scales. a a steam boiler, says one who has tried it, is to use a feed water heater that will deposit the scale by raising tbe temperature of the water in tbe heater high enough to liberate the soluble matter before the water gets into the boiler. Nobody ever heard of "bagged sheets" on a heater. We see one every day on boilers. Don't let the scale in and.it won't trouble you. DriUlns; Holes ia Glass Plato. An experimenter tells of his successful ex perience in drilling holes three-sixteenths of an inch ia diameter through glass plates about one-eighth of an inch thick, by the use of an ordinary bow drill, with spirits of turpentine as lubricant. Tbe holes were drilled from one side until the point of the drill just punc tured the opposite side of the glass; then the glass was turned over and the holes finished by drilling from the opposite side. Duplex Principle in Telegraphy. The duplex principle haa been snoccssf s 3y adapted to the Phelps system of inductive telegraphy, so that messages may be sent to and from moving trains in tbecxxUnary maimer without interfering with the traos mision of messages by indunctioo. With this improvement, a single line is ail that is required for both train and ordinary teleg raphy. .. A Smart Ctrl. : "Rebecca, you shall not ah peak mit dot, Moses Levi vonce more.1 "O, f adder, you preak "mine heard t. Ve vos almost engaged. Vy shall I not ahpeak of himf" "He haf cheated me. He haf sold me a paste diamond for a shenuine slitooe. "O. fadder. dot shoul.it recommend him to you as a Eoa-io-taw. If he n fool a vise man Ufa you, see vat a fortune he haf in da chewelry piziness. "VelL Rebecca, you vas schroarder as I thought. " Get married ve,n you like, . I am ankchious to go into bardnership with mine son-in-law." Saa Francisco Wasp. -