The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-01-02
Gleanings .


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 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 ed 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 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
telten into representation of the head
Of a 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 playfulness 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 an
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 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
Iy so great as the diminution 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
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 stencilled 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 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. As
soon as one is killed the whole drove,
smelling the blood, collects around the
body, snuifing and paving. The hunter
continues to shoot them until the last
one bites the dust. AS long as the men
remain concealed, and the buffaloes 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 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
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 leap of about thirty yards and
started near them. which frightened the
horses, which became manageable, 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 zeal 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