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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1896)
RICH IN FOSSIL, "The Bad Landa," aid HonttoQ rett, one of the most earnest rooa! del vers of the party tram Prineetoa col lege that recently riaited the Bad Lands of North Dakota and alontana to collect f os&ila, to a northwest naga riue representatira, "are a etrangv combination of desolation, horror and incomprehensible freaks of the prime val world. There'ixe lofty peaks, ban and brown baked into spires of burn ing rock by the hot sons of millions of years. The valleys between are white descrta, covered with bitter, dusty and blinding- alkali that has made all that country a desert worse than Sahara ever was said to be. "The rivers run wide or turbid jawith this alkaline concretion in win ter, and are dry and dusty channels in the summer. The peaks, the valleys, and every f eatnte of the whole region, in fact, seems to be thrown down upon the earth in nature's angriest mood a nideous conglomeration, in which ei the geological strata aredisplaoed and entangled. This strange region i once the salt-washed bottom of a sea, and the traces of the needing waves are visible on every band. The fossua, which were ndw our main pursuit, art mostly aquatic animals. Few birds, and those mostly of the eeml-reptiliaa character, are found among them, while innumerable bones of gigantic saurians dot the sitale and sandstone of the valleys. Mingled with them are remains of bear, antelope and buffalo. and relics of an intermediate age, the bones of the mastodons and elephants not mammoths and of a three-toed equine, one of the ancestors -of tag . present horse. "Some of the saurians of the eocene and miucene periods were indescriba bly hideous. Looking upon the n nants of these monsters and gazing on the awful scenery of the conn try, a bit of hades upturned to view, one might say is it any wonder that the Indiana shunned the Bad Lands and said they were the haunts of ghosts and the home of evil demons." CHINESE ASTROLOGERS. Beau&raabta Hcitf af M Wlrmmt SU kn'. teartai aB. The household of the Emperor of China includes thirty umbrella-bearers and seventy-five astrologers. The as trologers, who correspond to the signal serrioe bureau of this country, pre dict every day the weather for the morrow. If they predict rain the umbrella-bearers take a day oft ' If they announce fair weather, on the other hand, the umbrella-bearers, mandarins of the overshoe and mackintosh an report at the palaoa at 1:10 a. The Emperor of China may be a heathen Chinee, but be knows enough to copper his astrologers and matsor ologera. As an Instance of the sagaci ty of the Chinese Imperial family la this regard we may mention the sig nal refutation of judicial astrology made by Hung-Beef-Tung, a grand uncle of the present Emperor. Chow Cbow, president of the Imperial Col lege of Astrologers, came to Prince Hung'g palace one morning and (aid: "Scion of seventy thousand genera tions of Hongs, your poor servant ha dreamed a dream, lieeeemed that thou and I were transformed into great black dragons. Our wings were of equal length, and with equal flight we soared through the upper sir." "WelL" asked the Prince, graosfttlly polishing his middle finger-nail with the flat of a dagger of the first dynas ty, "what of it, young feller'" -This, my puissant and graceful lord, that thy life and mine shall be long and of equal length. Astrology, Colonel Hung, is infallible." "You are a liar!" cried the Prince, und slit the astrologer's weasaad. And it seems that Cbow was a liar. For Old Hung survived him twenty-eight years and would be alive now if he had let opium alone. Binoe Chow's death the Chinese astrologers have, by Imperial order, confined their pre dictions to the weather. If they make a correct prediction they are executed, but thus far none hare incurred the penalty. The American signal-service bureau has still something to learn from Chinese methods. N. T. Boa, How He Lost Tims. Pedestrian B-b-boy, can yon t-t-teB me how f-f-far it is to the pc-po-post- office? Newsboy What d'ye say. mister Pedestrian I-I reckon yon-yon heard me. How f-f-far is it to the po-post- office? Kewsboy Only half a block, mister. If you hadn't a-e topped . to ask nu jou'd a been there a' ready. Life Substitute for Window Sums, A peculiar substitute for window (t!;::. known as "tectoriam," is stated to have been-for some time employed in Austria. Italy, Germany, Bwitzer land and Russia, as a covering for hot 1iohb ranrqrtces. verandas, windows f (.i jioricii. roofs of stores, etc It is a tywAui, insoluble, bichromated gelatin, ttv.rx-lucent as opal glass and ineor jwratcd in wire gauze. It possesses, wc arc toid. tbe translucency of opa fl.iKh. i t'luh and flexible, bends with out breaking, does not dissolve in water sn;t h not injured by frost It ii a bait ent-lnetorof heat, andbseoniaa stronger, it is stated, tbe longer it It expohed to the air. , A Om rLaae far Eultn. Judging from late statistics, India e'-iil remains a magnificent country for frrorttanen. In itwi il.'jm human before- arid 81.608 head of cattle were jailed by snakes and wild beasts, the fiiiof human .nortality 19,025 having l.ecn due to ;,nz'.:c bite. Tigers claimed i'!T human victims, leopards 200, wolves -, lars 141, and elephants 73. On t m oilier hand, whereas only 4,498 cat Us were killed by snake bite, no fewer t.'.aa 20,9C9 were devoured by tigers, lio.oH lif leopards, and Hal if toawtt ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM. Ooaatrj ut ? Be Mad. Xm Laherirral av a Kew Aocy. Part of the growing 'difficulties oc casioned by the b- ertioii rf the eoun try and the arowding of the cities will be remedied, pcrliap.s by six years hence in that wonderful year 1900, which electricians set as a mile post of human progress by the crowning of steam's rival, says the New York Press. Machinery is rapidly taking the dead ening drudgery out of farm work when conducted scientifically and on a large scale, and is causing it to attract the attention of city people who long for the healthful fields. Only the bodily diseomforta of farm work have pre vented an exodus from th aity to the country. Already electricity la turn ing its attention to the long neglected farm work, and has discovered profita ble results to be had by subjecting crops to currents of electricity. It is beginning to simplify the ponderous farm machinery, and as soon as the storage battery has received its finish ing touches and can be applied to light ening the farmer toil and increasing his profits the fanner will be looked upon with envy by the prisoners of city streets end counting house walls. Those particular effects of electricity upon tana machinery and farm life are, however, visible chiefly in the im agination at present, and are not at all likely to be realised In six years; but one great change may be looked for in this direction in the Immediate future, and that la the improvement ofnthe farmer condition by means of good roads and the rapid transit which electricity is almost ready to bring, thus greatly enlarging his market and bringing him higher prices for fresher products, and also bringing him closer to the life and pleasures and stimu lating effect of the city. There is to be a wonderful change in farm life in the mora thickly settled parts of the country in a very tew yean, and rapid transit will be largely responsible for it. The cheap transmission of electrical power must bring soon many changes that will be felt in the city household, and perhaps the chief of them will be the abolition of the cook stove as it is known at present. The small electric beater baa already begun to take its place, and it is aim net certain that even in six years coal will be banished from a majority of the kitchens in cities ad jacent to water power from which electricity b) generated. When heat is wanted for cooking purposes it will be had at a moment's notice by the press ing ui a duiwu. CATS' EYES. Faro la the SaaM as i atBBMB Bye, The pnpQ of a cat's eye ordinarly ap pears aa a long, narrow -oval, or straight, vertical black line. Tbe ani mal seems to be looking through mere slits in tbe iris of its eye, especially when it faces the light. In semi -dark ness the pupil widens into a beautiful ovaL One is accustomed to regard the narrowness of the pupil as the distin guishing peculiarity of the eyea of cata. All animals of the rat family share this peculiarity. And yet, according to the results of a scientific investigation of cats' eyea re cently made in England by Lindsay Johnson, the natural shape of their pnpila at circular. By varying the quantity of light en tering the eyes he has seen the pupils of cata and tigers change from straight lines to perfect circles, sad while un der the influence of atropine, which suspends fern time the muscular con trol of the eye, they arc always cir cular. The normal form of the cat's pupil is, then, the same as that of the human pupil, but when submitted to the influ ence at light its behavior differs. In a bright light pur pupils become very small circles, while those of a cat turn into ovals or narrow slits. The general effect is tbe same in either case nai ly, to diminish the quantity of light naming into the ays. Curiously enough, is the larger ank mala of the eat tribe, such aa tigers, the pupil sometimes behaves exactly like a unman eye, ana when brightly illumin ated contracts into a minute circle in stead of becoming linear. In the case of domestic eats the older the animal the mora frequently does the pupil of mo ajs asaiimi a circular lonn. . - sj . KEPT HER PARLINQ WARM. aasOklaao Siaf Man Mvtss a auaaard. Aa far as herself wss concerned she held the storm lightly. She had on a little jacket not longer than a reefer. Her eyea were nprateeted, and bar ring a pair o hid glove bar bands were uncovered. It was in a drug store on the north side, says tha Chicago Trib une, when abe came in evidence. There was a crowd inside the door waiting for a ear. twa was out of sight behind a big sltoweaas wing the telephone. Aft er ordering .oilcloth for a room three and three-fourths yards wide by four yards long, and having forgotten to ring oar, u waning ssaengers heart) her say: And was sit sweet darlinr eold? It ia too bad, dear, aa cutter, wo will soon be home." Tough weather tor a babv to be out," thought the par waiters in cho- Than an amataaad around tha showcase and put a bundle on the cigar stand. Tram tbe folds of the envelop ing wraps waa poked the nose of as thoroughly an unattractive dog as ever tookspriie for ugliness in a bench show. Tbe outer covering of the ani aal was a heavily quilted and em broidered wrapet" dark goods. Under this them was delicate white flannel offering worked with silk thread. Both wen of extent enoughlto go around the dog twice. She adjusted Its wraps carefully, so that not even the tip of He Uil was earposed, and aaadcovt into the atom regardless of bar ears wnproteeted tsea, cars and Rich Red Blood la the Foundation of the Wonderful Curat by Rood's Sarsspsruls. 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