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Sometime.
Sometime, sometime,
Tbo clouds of ignorance shall part asunder,
And we shall see the fair blue sky of truth,
Spangled with atari, and look with joy and
h.'s wondor
Up to tho happy dreamlands of oUr youth,
Whoro we may climb?
Soinetimo.
Somotime, afemotime,
Tho passion of the heart wo koep dissembling
Shall free hei-self and rise on silver wing, ,
And all these broken chorda of musio trembling
Deep in the soul our lips shall learn to siug,?
< A stmin sublime?
Sometime.
Sometime, sometime,
Love's broken links shall all be reunited,
But not upon the ashj foige of pain;
The full-blown rodes doad, the sweet buds
blighted,
Shall boom beside life's gaiden walks again,
Iu fairer clime?
Sometime,
Sometime, sometime,
The prophet's unsooled lips shall strait deliver
The message of eternal lito, uncursed;
Wind-swept, tho poet's soul with joy shall
quiver,
And from his trembling lyre at length shall
burst
Immortal rhyme?
Sometime.
?Arthur Wentwortk Eaton.
Miss Ella on the Farm.
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V A CARD FROM MR. THISTLEPOD.
Editor of the Eagle: 1
Noticin' in your columns quite recent
a paragraph to the followin': <
Miss Ella Witchazel, a charming
young school-teacher of Villisca, Iowa,
finding the close confinement and arduous
duties of the school-room injur- ]
ing ho health, tried the out-door cure. 1
Instead of spending her winter's sala- '
ry and summer's vacation in a crowd
ea notei at trie seashore, she went on <
a farm, cut 25 acres of prairie hay,
harvested 40 acres of wheat, gained \
20 pounds in weight, a coat of tan on <
her hands and face, and a rugged t
health that cannot be equaled anywhere
off a farm. There's the girl i
you are looking for, young man." I
Now, what I want to say: I am \
well acquainted with this young school <
marm. Fact is, it was my farm she <
spent the summer on. Nice girl, Ella 1
is, as ever run wild in the sun. We t
was glad, wife and me, to have her i
come an* she did 'bout as she pleased t
on the farm. I'd often read in the s
papers 'bout these young women that l
taiiffht Hnhnrvl in tlm ?flntor or>* ~.i
0 fiauvwfc nu lailUCU (
in the summer, but I never hail any 1
experiences of 'em before. i
Well, sir, she farmed. First day, t
nothin'd do but she must drive the t
hoss rake. Well, every man an' worn- 1
an that comes from town wants to t
drive the hoss rake, an' they call that 1
gettin' in the hay. My little Janey, r
eleven years old next May, usually i
drives the rake for us, but she ain't 1
feelin' overly peart this summer an' I c
kinder kept her out of the sun. So <8
Miss Ella gits herself boosted up on the s
Ihoss rake, an' then she screamed an' r
fell off. Then she got on again, hit r
the hoss a crack an' away she went on t
the dead jump out o' the field into the ^
road, hoss a-goin', dust flyin' an' Miss [
Ella screecliin*. Some of the men s
headed her off an' stopped the hoss. t
Then she tried it ag'in. This time she i
? truck right straight through ttie standin'
grass, where it was tallest, thickest s
and tangledest; boss a-balkin* and tug- 1
gin' away by turns, and grass holdin'
on or comin' up by the roots, rake
teeth a-snappin'. "VVe got her out of
that, and we lost a whole day on the i
rake, gettin* it mended.
Then she tried drivin' a load into
the big barn. Had to send to the
house for a ladder, an' then she climbed
up on the load. Drivin' in she got
the wagon caught in a hedge gap as
wide as the Missouri river, run over
two stands of bees, upset the load, and
uuriea nerseu under iiUU pounds of t
hay. It waa the safest place for her i
u-jder the exciting circumstances; so i
we jest left her ther' ontil the bees got i
cammed down an' we got some work 1
done. Next ioad she went in on, and I
climbed up into the mow, an' then i
she wandered around ontil she stepped
into a chute aad shot down about 28 >
feet into tne cow barn an' lit right on ,
the back of a Jersey calf that was
worth $250 of any man's money an
hour before. Miss Ella wa'n't killed,
but she was that jammed up that she
lay in bed two days, an* but for that
providence we'd hev been workin' at
that hay yet. Aa* anybody that wants
a broken back calf can have one at his
own fiffgera.
Weil* come when a harvest, she
must drive the self-binder. That was a
little too risky, but she bad her own way.
But she couldn't be trusted up above
the knives, so somebody had to set on
there and hold: her on. My boy Joe,
he held her on?I told Joe she was
makin' a fool of hitn?an' if she didn't
make him drive asound every poppy
an' every blossomin' weed she s^e in
that field to save it: Never mind the
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wheat, but save the blhmed weeds.
There was only one stump on the 320
acres of prairie land, just one stump,
an' I hope I may go to seed before
thanksgivin' if that girl didn't run into
it an' break the reaper. Lost all
the rest of that day a mendin' of it.
Next day she was proud an* confident
she could drive alone. Well, we
tied her into the seat soVt she couldn't
fall off, an' she started. Two rods
from the start a big black snake stuck
up his head?an' you know how slick
them knives amputate a snake? ' Miss
Ella, she gives a faint little squeak,
au iamts aeaa away. My Doy Joe?
he's always hangin' around?he jumped
for the horses, took Miss Ella down 1
and carried her to the house. Money, 1
nor healthy tan, nor rugged appetite,
nor nothin' couldn't coax Miss Ella 1
Witchazel into that field ag'in, an* we !
got through harvestin' all right. 1
Land, how the men laffed. And yet ]
we all liked the girL But the idea of 1
her farmin'?why do you know sir,, 1
one day in hayin' she went to town? 1
took one of my best work-horses an' <
was gone all day?an' came back with 1
'bout twenty yards of blue and white 1
ribbon an' tied 'em on the men's hats
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all to wear biled shirts, with the sleeves
looped up} with the blue ribbins, go
marchin' out to the hay lield, me at the
head with the most and longest ribbins,
a singin', "We merry haymakers,
tra, la, la, la, lal" She saw it done
once that way in a concert or theayter,
an' thought that was the way hayin'
was always done. An* she was so
vexed that she cried when we wouldn't
wear 'em. Law, when I put on that
hat, ma laid back and laughed till the
tears ran down her dear cheeks. "Job
Thistlpnod " shn snirl "if wnn n
work ia that rig, you'll scare away the
grasshoppers." My boy Joe, he did
wear his hat out, but he hid it under
the hedge when he got out of sight of
the house. I told Joe he was the biggest
fool I ever see.
Well, Miss Ella got along fairly well ?
ifter wheat harvest. Gathered some 1
graceful sprays, she called 'em, of r
poison ivy on9 day, and couldn't see v
jut of one oye for nigh a week. One 3
lay she took a tin pail to go out after
jerries, and when she went through v
ho cow pasture the cows thought there I a
Lvus salt in the pail and chased her r
ill she was nigh ready to drop. And a
ihe went to the barn once an' tried to v
larness a young Tuckahoe colt that *
lad never had a halter on him, an* *
f
iow she got out of that stable alive 's
nore'n I can telL But what I wanted ^
:o say is, that that's about the way s
he young women, who farm s6 grace ^
'ul in the newspapers, usually farm on ^
he farm. But we liked her. An' we 11
lated to see her go. An* she will n
nake a splendid wife for some mau, *
f she can't run a farm, but I don't v
enow about your young men comin' ^
>ut to look after her, for when she v
laid anod-bv t.n mn tn mi hn/?lr tnum S
o ~J ? > ? ""..u, ihe
throwed her arms around my neck
m* gim me such a kiss that I says to f
ny boy Joe, standin* by the wagon to ^
ake her to town, he was always somevhere
around, "Joe," I says, "you'd ^
five your share in the farm for that,"
in' Joe he didn't seem to care for any,hing
of the kind, an' Miss Ella, she v
ip an' give me another squeeze an' a *
ciss, an' 1 saw her looking over my
ihoulder at my boy Joe and?haw !
law ! haw I E
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Bringing tlie Dead to Life. v
Some facts mentioned by Dr. Rich- ^
irdson, the English physiologist, sug- E
jest the possibility of restoring persons ^
o lite after actual death. By com- fl
lining artificial circulation with arti- t
Iclal respiration, a dog was restored to {
ife sixty-flve minutes Ffter having $
>een killed by an overdose of chloro- c
form, the heart having become perfectly
still and cold; and frogs poi- r
soned by nitrate of amyl were restored t
after nine days of apparent death, r
signs of putrefactive change having \
appeared in one case. A quite start- T
ling effect is produced by peroxide of f
hydrogen in reanimating the blood \
and restoring heat to a really dead ,
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uuuy. xuese uuservauouH, in me (
opinion of Mr. W. Matteau Williams, ,
justify the conclusion that a drowned j
or suffocated man is not hopelessly dead ,
so long as the bodily organs remain G
uninjured by violence or disease, and j
the blood remains sufficiently liquid to
be set in motion artificially and supplied
with a little oxj-gen to start the
chemical movements of life.
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iiiiuuMiiieu millions.
In the poatofflce department at ;
Washington there are over #2,000,000 i
which have been taken from registered
letters, and in the treasury one <
item of $50,000,000, being the money j
paid by the French government to
idemnify the owners of American
vessels illegally seized during the
Napoleonic wars. The savings banks
of New York are said to contain
$1,000,0<k> of unclaimed deposits.
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A New Use for the Frog.
A new use for the frog has been discovered.
A medicinal correspondent
of the Lancet says that, finding the
treatment of granulating wounds by
skin-graftings, is in country practice
liable to fall into disuse through the
unwillingness of patients to part with
the little bit of skin necessary, he has
lately been itiduced to try experiments
with other substances as a substitute
for human grafts. As the outcome of
these experiments he finds that bits of
skin from a decapitated frog make
grafts which admirably answer all
purposes, forming a source of supply
always at hand in the country, except
during the winter month*, and being
easily applied on account of their uniformity
in thickness, and necessitating
no pain to suffering humanity. Ths
skin of a single frog yields grafts for
an enormous extent of surface, and
preserves its vitality so long that, it
the patient is at a distance. th? nnr.
tion of skin required can be carried by
the surgeon in his pocket for an hour
jr more without injury, provided it is
wrapped in gutta-percha or other
waterproof tissue to prevent dying,
rhe frog is so extensively used for experimental
purposes by surgical
tavanto that the appropriation of its
ikin for the convenience of human bengs
whose own skins require renewal
s not a proceeding to which it can
easonably object, more especially as
t is decapitated before being thus
xtilized. The public, however, would
)8 interested to hear a ^little more
ibout these frog-grafts before adoptng
them generally. Does the skin of
he frog when grafted retain its peculiarities?
The point is of some iraporance,
as the appearance of a person
n a speckled frog-skin would hardly
>e prepossessing. May not frog-graftng
also lead to an increase of toady3m??Pall
Mall Gazette.
A Kind Yoice.
There ia no power of love so hard to
;et and keep as a kind voice. A kind
land ia deaf and dumb. It mav be
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ough in flesh and blood, yet do the
trork of a soft heart, and do it with a
oft touch. But there is no one thing
hat love so much needs as a sweet
oice to tell what it means and feels;
nd it is hard to get and keep it in the
ight tone. One must start in youth,
nd be on the watch night and day, at
fork and play, to get and keep a voice
hat shall speaks at all timas the
houghts of a kind heart. But this is
he time when a sharp voice is apt to
e got. You often hear boys and girls
ay words at play with a sharp, quick
one as if it were the snap of a whip.
Vhen one of them gets vexed, you will
ear a voice that sounds as if it were
jade up of a snarl, a whine, and a bark,
t is often in mirth that one cets a
olce or tone that is sharp, and sticks
o him through life, and stirs up illrill
and grief, and' falls like a drop of
all on the sweet joys of home. "Watch
fc day by day, as a pearl of great price,
or it will be worth more to you in
ays to come than the best pearl hid
a the sea. A kind voice is to the
ieart what light is to the eye. It is a
ight that sings as well as shines.
?rain it to sweet tones now. and it
vill keep in tone through life.?
Ulihu Burritt.
A Well-Kept House and Yard.
The old Athenians spent their
ooney freely to build temples and
il-.l. l
iicuk suibuoa, win id Liicir own Homes
vere unattractive in appearance to the
>asser-by. We are glad our people do
iot follow their example wholly. We
udge of the people by their homes,
md not by the public buildings, for
he home is, in a great measure, the
ndex of the characters of the home
Lwellers. This applies to the outside
>f the house as well as the insida
The man or woman who seeks to
nake the exterior of the house attractive
as well as the interior, is as
nuch a public benefactor as he who
rnilds costly temples, though he may
iot be aware of it, nor have the publio
food at heart, but only be gratifying
lis own taste. However, the man
vho cares the most for his own home
jares the most for the public irood
is u ally. A well-kept house and yard
a an educator, however humble it
nay be, and the man or woman who
ipends money in decorating his home
s not so selflsh as might appear.?
Vick's Magazine.
Poor Turkey.
Head of Family?Dear me 1 here
baey uro vuuiu|( up xursey again.
A.bout once in every seven or eight
irears this sort of thing occurs, my
love.
Wife (guilelessly)?Oh I not so seldom
as that, my dear. I don't think
Lt has been more than twelve months."
"Twelve months, woman I You're
mad1 Whereabouts in history does
that occur?"
"In the history of this house, dear.
Have you forgotten last Thanksgiving
day?"?CaXL
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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Crime, according to the statistic*
recently published, is increasing it
this country with remarkable speed
as there was but one criminal to tc
! every 3,432 inhabitants in 1850, whih
| in 1870 there was one to every 850
I meanwhile crime is decreasing ir
Great Britain. ?
Statuary hall, in the capitol, the olc
| house of representatives at Washing
j ton, is becoming even now crowded
I Within the hist ten years space ha*
been given here to various states thai
wish to place in the capitol statues
representing their leading men whc
have acquired national fame. Tht
last addition to the collection is the
statue of Gen. Garfield, presented b>
the state of Ohio.
In the British Medical Journal, Dr
Fothergill says that a patient dying oi
exhaustion is generally dying of starvation.
"We give him beef tea, calf's
I loot jelly, alcohol, seltzer and milk;
j that is, a small quantity of sugar ol
j milk and some fat. Hut the jelly is
the poorest sort of food, and the beef
j tea a mere stimulant. The popular
I belief that beef tea contains
j 'the very strength of the
meat' is a terrible error; it has no food
value."
Sportsmen should be careful not
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ku oili. ui meat irorn animals which
have been much tortured by doga
during the death agony. Dr. Detmars
of the National Society of Microacopists,
in examining samples of the
meat the eating of which had killed
several persona in Momence, III., found
changes which were clearly attributable
to a frenzied condition of the
animals from which it was taken.
The Doctor's opinions upon fcthe subject
were formed after careful microscopical
examinations of hundreds of
samples or meat from cattle slaughtered
in Chicago while there wore in a
frenzied condition from fright.
A broad tract of lund in Lisbon,
Maine, known for years as the "Pine
Woods," is now one of the most highly
valued lota of land in that State.
Two years ago it could have been
bought for $5 an acre, and to-day $25,000
an acre is its estimated value. It
is owned by E. N. Chamberlain, who
leased it a few months ago to E. II.
Caylor, of Columbu*. Ohio. Mr. Chamberlain
is to receive a royalty on the
product of a paint mine that it contains.
The value of the earth comprised
in this truct of land was discovered
through observation of the fact
that the mud clinging to the wheels of
vehicles driving through it dried on
like paint and was removed with difficulty.
The earth is yellow, and has
been pronounced by Prof. Stanley, of
Bates College, to be a variety of sienna.
Temperance advocates are pleased,
disinterested persons amused, and injured
dealers dumfounded by a blow
at the very low dregs of the saloon
business in New York. The stalebeer
dives, so numerous in the worst
quarters of the city, get their beverage
by draining the kegs set out in front
of other bar-rooms. Their keepers
have systematically made morn in h
rounds to Oil their buckets just bofore
the removal of the kegs by the brewera'
wagons, and this sloppy stuff was
subsequently retailed to tne most miserable
drinkers at a cent a glas* Now
a vinegar manufacturer has contracted
with the brewers to get the leavings
irom trie Kegs, and wagons, provided
with tanks, go over systematicallyarranged
routes every morning. This
is going to eliminate a characteristic
feature of New York intemperance.
The Government astronomer of
Hong kong has published an account
of t&e phenomena which precede typhoons.
The first signs are feathery
clouds m the sky of 'he cirrua type,
looking like fine tufts of white wool,
and which travel from qast to north.
Those appearances are accompanied
by a slight rise of the barometer, clear
weather, heat, and light winds. The
barometer then begins to fall; the heat
becomes oppressive' there is a swell
on the sea, and the sky assumes a
threatening appearance. As the storm
approaches these effects become more
marked, while the wind gradually increases
in force. Near the centre of
the storm the wind blows with such
violence that no canvas can hold
. against it, and tue rain pours down in
torrents. Still nearer the centre, the
sea is lashed into such fury that this
is the most dangerous position for
ships. Typhoons are most common
during September and August, but
they are met with all the year ronnd,
"What sort of a lightning rod do
yon wear?" may bo in the near future
a pertinent question. The occasional
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discharge of oloud electricity was all
our ancestors had to dread, and against
J this they found protection in the metal
1 points which showed the fiery fluid
' desirable routes to travel earthward.
} j We run additional risks from the
; treasures of lightning stored up around
' i us, and death is the penalty for the
unwary. Personal safeguards have
been contrived to meet the new dant
ger, and a portable lightning rod has
been originated by Mr. Delane, inventor
of the Synchronous Telegraph.
This is described as consisting of cop'
per cords for the body with branches
for the arms and legs, the whole con*
necting with metal plates fastened to
' the soles of the shoes. There is also a
metal p.hnfn whifh 41?
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5 ground when both feet are raised.
Details are not given in r<igard to insulating
the body or the general appearance
of the mechanism. It is
j perhaps immaterial within cartain limit
what shape the projecting wires
take, so that there is great scope for
decorating ideas. The real worth of
't 11 invention will be tested and recognized
by electric light men, who,
when they adopt it- as wearers, may
also become marked objects of attention.
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i A Long Year.
It is over twenty-nine years since
we were able to view Saturn in perihelion
before and that is the length of
u Saturnian year. While in perihelion
he is under certain conditions nearest
the earth, and under circumstances
most favorable to scientific observation.
His journey around the sun of
9.000,000,000 miles covers almost a
generation of the lives of the men and
women of this planet, and when he
makes each fresh appearance with his
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i^.vwviv uiouiuv/uucsa, iii is ail tjvtjm indeed.
The science of astronomy is
etflarging as constantly and as rapdily
as any other science, and the observations
that astronomers will now be
able to take of the splendid planet under
its present favorable conditions,
ought to add much to the information
concerning it, and certainly none of
the heavenly bodies has inspired more
eager or intelligent research than the
one whose return we celebrate. But
I what a innrnpv i?
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rv, whose mean distance from the sun
is 831,000,000 miles or more than nine
times the distance of the eaath. If it
has a race of beings fitted to exist at
such a distance from the source of lieat
and light, what lengthy seasons they
must enjoy. Under such conditions
there would be some satisfaction in
having a seaside cotiage or a mountain
chalet, for what they would call their
heated term would extend over a number
of years. But the fact is a hundred
millions of miles or so make very
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distances.. Probably distance
lends enchantment to tho view. But
when our earth is dead the Saturn and
the other great planets in the course
of some millions 01' years will take
! their turn in physical development,
and perhaps in somo countless ages
hence the wandering ghosts that have
vanished from the earth will reappear
in new forms of life upon the yet imperfect,
but magnificent world rolling
in spaco and waiting for its day to
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The Usos of Asbestos.
Asbestos, as it is well known, is employed
in a great variety of ways. Its
first use was as a packing material for
j steam machinery, and as such it soon
put other materia!, such as copper,
lead, putty, red lead and rubber, in th*
shade. Asbestos proper is a mineral,
a sort of stone, which in different
places bears different names, as Cana-<
ada fiber, Baltimorite, Bostonite,
amianthus, stono flax, mountain or
earth cork, also wood, leather or cork
flax. Tho chief pi (tees where asbestos
is found are Zoplitz in Saxony; Richenstein,
in Silesia; St. Gotthardt, Tyrol,
Piedmont, Savoy, Corsica, the Vosges,,
Bussia a?d America, particularly in*
the neighborhood of Quebec in Canada.
As a packing material for boilers,
eta, it is superior by reason of its
durability in heat and in contact with
iron, water and steam, its softness and
pliability, and its resistance against
tearing. Asbestos is also used for oth
er important technical purposes. In
paper making it is employed with success
on account of its fibrous quality.
Asbestos paper is peculiarly valuable
since it resists fire. It can be employed
as ordinary writing paper, and the
writing can be removed by means of
acid and chemicals without the paper
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suitable' as a colander for acids. These,
however, are not the only uses for
asbestos, for by means of it can be
made fire-proof gloves, stockings,
clothes, hats, which are of a tasteful
silver color, and laces are made at
Como out of this substance. In short,
the uses of asbestos are manifold, and
> in future there can be no doubt that
i it will be far more widely employed
I than we have any notion of at present
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PEARLS OP THOUGHT. Vfl
Want of prudence is too frequently
want of virtue.
Three things to avoid?idleness, loquacity
and llippant jesting.
I A man's own good breeding is the
! best security against other people's ill
manners.
The seeds of love can never grow
but under the warm and genial inI
lluence of kind feelings and Mfl'wHi.n.
ate manners.
Keep your conduct abreast of your
conscience, and very soon your conscience
will be illumined by the radiance
of God.
It is always good to know, if only
in passing, a charming human being;
it refreshes one like flowers and woods
and clear brooks.
Old age is the night of life, as night
is the old age of day. Still night is
full of magnificence, and for many it
is more brilliant than day.
Stories heard at mother's knee are
never wholly forgotten. They form a
little spring that never quite dries up
in our journey through scorching
years.
The man who is jealous and envicus
of his neighbor's success has foes in
his heart who can brinff more bitter- '
ness into his life than can any outside
enemy.
Even in the fiercest uproar of our
stormy passions, conscience, though in
her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy
of rectitude the voice of an
undying testimony.
What Tin Foil Is.
It may not be generally known that
tin foil, as now so widely known tc
the trade, is not a foil of tin alone, but
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slight alloy of tin. The manifold appliance
of tin foil to articles of consumption
and medicine is not regulated
with any law such as exist in European
countries, forbidding the use of
lead or composition, or otherwise impure
tin foil, hi all casos where it may,
through oxidation or contact with
the goods, become poisonous and injurious
to the health of the consumer.
Too little attention has been paid to>
thissubiect thus far. It is honed that
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that ignorance and not willful oversight
of the facts has led many manufacturers
aad dealers to use an article
accompanied with such risks for the
sake of saving a trifle in the cost.
Besides this saving is. in most instances,
imaginary, as tho German pure tin
foil combines such a fineness and large
yield, with relatively great softness
and strength, that it will practically
answer most purposes, and not cost
more than an equal surface of the
lightest composition foil, while the i
heavier grades of the latter will be
uiucu more expensive to use. 'ine
yield of the regular German tin foil
is seventy-two square feet, or 10,368
square inches per pound; a heavier*
grade yields sixty-six square feet.
The sheets are of large size, and wastein
cutting is consequently small.? .
Cultivator.
Where Bears Abound.
The early snowfall on the summit ol
the Pine Greek mountains has started:
the bears down to the lower levels.
The miners will have their bear steaks
and bearskin cups or overcoats, or the
bears will have lodgings furnished for
the winter in the tunnels and prospect
holes. Bears have increased greatly
tn number in this state since the great
Wind storm of January, 1880, which
threw down so much timber and rendered
the woods almost impassable in
Some parts of the state, and preventing
the hunting of bears with dogs.
?n some parts of Southern Oregon*
"the woods are full of 'em." A gentleman
who has lately been out to Coos
county says there are more bears than
hogs in that county. He saw a "neck
of woods" out there called Packard's
Home Market It appers that a settler
named Packard had a lot of hogs
running in the woods which get fat od>
mast He was aBked what he was going
to do with them, and said he had
a "home market" for them, meaning a<
gang of Chinamen working close byJust
at this juncture the bears found'
the fat hogs and killed and ate them,
all, and since that time the place,,
which is littered with ham bones and
short ri|)&, has been called Packard'sHome
Market?Portiand Oregonian.'.
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An Uncomfortable Position.
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A young countryman gave a graphic
description of a narrow escape that he- *
huH ro/iRAflv fmm an anrnimH 1?>ll '
"I seized him by the tall," he ex- v'3j
plained, "an* there I was. I was
afraid to hold on, an' I dassn't let go."'
"Between the horns of a dilemma, 5
as it were," ventured a young lady,
very much interested.
"No, ma'am." replied the country* .
man. "I wasn't between the horns at. fX
all, an* besides, he wasn't a dilemma;:
he was a Jersey."?Puck. . .
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