The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1878-11-16
All Sorts.
Smart thing A mustard plaster.

smart tnlng-A mustard plaster.
In France, parsnips are very COM
mon horse food.
These last rains have laid the dust.
moistening the ground and made digging
pleasant. All the perennial garden roots
may be moved now, the sooner the bet
ter. If done little too hastilya bucket
or two of water in the time of it and
mulch of stable manure just before win
ter, will make it all right
An entertainment was given recently
at the old homestead of the Holton's,
at Southold, Mass. Holton House is
believed to be the oldest house in Amer
lea, having been built in 1859. There
was large display of antique furniture
and household goods from 200 to 250
years old. The participants wore cos
TUNES of 200 years ago and altogether
the party was success.
The Howard Lampoon believes that
there are three things which no man
can keep-a point on pencil, a pointed
joke, and an appointment with the den
tist. There are three things which all
men borrow-postage stamps, cigarettes,
and car-tickets. There are three things
| which no woman can do-cross before a
horse, hurry for horse-car and under
stand the difference between ten min
utes and half an hour
As an illustration of the rapidity with
which sheep husbandry is advancing in
Texas, Sheep Husbandry in the South
says that in 1866 San Antonio received
but 100000 pounds of wool, which was
sent through Galveston. In 1877 she
received 100000 pounds. The wool
of Neuces and the neighboring counties
is shipped from Corpus Christi. In 1866
there were shipped only 100000 pounds.
This year there will be shipped $780,
000
The Italian newspapers call attention
to the prevalence of pellegra, a malady
which, beginning with the skin, impairs
the digestion and nervous system, and
becomes fatal. In Lombardy, in 1880,
| there were 10000 peasants attacked by
it in 1856, there were $4,000; and,
| though no statistics have since been pub
| lished, there are believed to be now 40,-
00o The disease is produced by the
habitual consumption of the flour of
damaged maize, but also by overwork,
uncleanliness, and unhealthy dwellings
New York continues to be the great
| dairy State It has l,139 factories for
| cheese, OF butter and cheese efferson
county leading with l26, followed by
Herkimer IS, Oneida 81, Madison IS,
and Allegheny The average number of
cows contributing mill, was 30S,342,
owned by 23,005 patrons, and produc-
ing SO, ,ll6,006 pounds of cheese, 3,214,-
125 pounds of butter, and 7,SS0,753
| pounds of skim cheese. Orange county
sold 13,530,700 gallons of milk; West
chester, 244,007; Duchess, 5,l01, $40;
Putnam, 2,42s,692.
| An experiment which promises incal-
culable improvement to the river navi-
CATION of the country, is the introduction
of the Chamoin system of dams in the
Ohio river, few miles south of Pitts
burg, Pa. A government appropriation
Of about 100000 is to be expended on
the work, the design of which is prim-
arily to give Pittsburg harbor of navi-
gable depth at all seasons, and further to
show the feasibility of rendering the
whole length of the Ohio navigable at
the lowest water by succession of these
dams. The popularity of the dam is
that it consists of series of wickets
which can be raised or lowered at will
by hydraulic power When the tide is
high, the wickets bend low beneath the
flood, and boats pass over them; when
the water falls as midsummer approaches
the wickets are hoisted, and the confined
waters become of sufficient depth to
float the river craft, which will pass the
dam by means of lock. This dam
is French institution, and is success
fully applied to many of the European
rivers. Col. Mahan who is superintend-
ing the construction of the Pittsburg
dam, stakes his professional reputation
on it's success. Such result certainly
opens immense possibilities of increased
transportation capacity in American
| rivers.