The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-12-26

OVER IOOO tons OF Ice have been
stored on the banks of the Kennebec dur
ing the past season, and now the Maine
ice men consider that they have struck a
bonanza.
IT has been discovered that chloral n.y.
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 adorLe with
placards bearing no inscription except a
huge interrogation point A few days
after events showed that this was an in
genious mode of bringing to the notice
of the public a new paper called La
Question.
AMONG number of Indian relics re-
Gently eXhumed from mounds in Florida
and sent to the Smithsonian Institution,
in Washington, is piece of gold, rudely
e lten 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
exhibition of petty spite. The latest in
stance comes from Baltimore, where a
boy, whose arm was pinched by Il woman,
is reported as being in dying condition
from "osteosarcoma" decay OF the bone),
his parents having refused to permit an
| amputation when recommended by the
attending surgeons.
TIE New York Iribul,e 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 as 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 as at pres
ent. The reduction in the price of freight
and passage across the Atlantic is scarce
| y so great as the dlminution OF cost
would seem to justify"
SOME time ago paragraph went the
rounds OF the paper to the effect that the
! Common Council of Dundee, Scotland
| had ordered 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
I nlsG - CHI in
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 stenciled in bright
yellow.
The hunting of the buffalo in Texas
! by professional hunters is not the eXcit-
| 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 Il 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 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, shutting and paving. The hunter
continues to shoot them until the last
one bites the dust. As long rs the men
remain concealed, and the butlaloes 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 ont and started some
. fires in the marsh, which were spreading
| fast, when Powers took his team and
! pillow 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 unmanageablc 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 sue
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 12.h instant
to pursue their dangerous vocation, in
which many lives are lost annually. a
st. Johns paper says that about the 18th
of March the young seals are in the best
condition for capture, and the winter has