The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-06-06
Gleanings

| stored on the banks OF the kenneDec DUR
ing the past season, and now the Maine
ice men consider that they have struck a
| bonanza
IT has been discovered that choral by
drate is an antidote for strychnine, though
! to be effective dose which would kill
the person or animal, if in a normal con-
dition, must be administered. 1t has
been successfully given in the form of
hypodermic injections.
A FEVER of curiosity was excited in
Paris few weeks ago by the blank walls
throughout the city being adorl. Led with
| placards bearing no inscription except Il
huge interrogation point. A few days
after events showed that this was an in
genious mode of bringing to the notice
of the public new paper called La
Question.
| AMONG y number of Indian relics re-
Gently exhumed from mounds in Florida
and sent to the Smithsonian Institution,
in Washington, is piece of gold, rudely
elten into representation of the head
of woodpecker This, it is claimed, is
the first specimen of gold found among
the remains of the aboriginal tribes Of
America.
FEW people are aware that "pinching'
is not only painful but very danger
Gus operation, and that tumors, cancers
and other evils frequently result from
what is merely bit Of playfulncss or an
exhibition of petty spite. The latest in
stance comes from Baltimore, where
boy, whose arm was pinched by a woman,
is reported as being in dying condition
from "osteosarcoma" decay OF the bone,
his parents having refused to permit nm
amputation when recommended by the
attending surgeons
The New York Tribune says: "a com
parison has recently been made between
two Atlantic steamers, one of the year
| 1910, the other of to-day. The modern
steamship carries fifteen times rs much
| freight as the old one did at nearly twice
the speed; the consumption of coal per
! ton of cargo transported was in 1910
nearly eleven times as great rs at pres
cnt The reduction in the price of freight
and passage across the Atlantic is scarce
ly so great rs the dminution of cost
would seem to justify
rounds of the paper to the effect that the
Common Council of Dundee, Scotland
had ordered a number of barrOws for the
transportation of drunken men to the
station house. Late Europe mails bring
| Dundee papers which state that eight of
these wheelbarrows were delivered two
weeks ago. Each is shaped like coffin,
mounted on double springs, and is thirty
inches wide at the top and twenty-four
inches at the foot. There is box at the
top on which the head of the inebriate or
incapable passenger will rest. 1t is paint
ed red inside and dark green outside,
while the wheels are stencillcd in bright
yellow.
THE hunting of the buffalo in Texas
by professional hunters is not the exct
ing, dangerous sport which it is usually
regarded, but cool, brutal piece of re-
morseless butchery, if the words of a re
cent issue of a Texas paper are to be be
lieved. The paper says the hunters use
the needle gun, with telescope sights,
and the firing is done by one or two men
only, who actually kill "a drove of forty
or fifty on one or two acres of ground. A.
soon as one is killed the whole drove,
| smelling the blood, collects around the
body, snuiling and paving. The hunter
continues to shoot them until the last
one bites the dust. As long As the men
remain concealed, and the bulialoes do
not get their scent the game is not fright
/ ened, for it pays no attention to the re
| port of the weapon.
A YOUNG man named Powers, living in
! the Town of Dekorra, Wisconsin, whose
father died some time ago, and who has
! been taking care of his widowed mother,
met with quite a serious accident lately.
A boy had been out and started some
! fires in the marsh, which were spreading
! fast, when Powers took his team and
plow to pillow some burrows around the
fire to keep it from spreading, the boy
that started the fire going along to help
him. While they were at work the fire
made u leap of about thirty yards and
started near them, which frightened the
horses, which became unmanagcabc, and
got tangled in the harness so they could
not be moved. During the struggle the
boy became frightened and ran away, and
Powers stayed by his team until he
burned his feet and arms, and finally sac
ceeded in getting away with one horse,
the other being burned to death
THE seal fishers of Newfoundland
had all left st. Johns by the l2.h instant
to pursue their dangerous vocation, in
| which many lives are lost annually. \
! St. Johns paper says that about the 18th
of March the young seals are in the best
condition for capture, and the winter has
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