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VOL. II.
LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1888.
NO. 41.
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.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
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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. -