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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08

\ correspondent of German
paper calls attention to the inju-
dicious practice of blowing dust
off the watch work. He says that
the operation looks so harmless
that but few ever think of the de-
structive consequences attendant
on the contact of humid breath
with polished steel surface and
springs. At lower temperatures
a kind of veil covers the parts at
once after blowing, which gradual
ly disappears again, but it is in
fact nothing else than watery
deposit, or steam reduced to water
Generally the deposit evaporates
as the object gets warmer, but this
is not always the case. Many
NdlCuihdhtIS HiASb nave ODScINtb
that polished steel surfaces are
sometimes dotted over, apparently
with particles of dust, which or
closer examination are found to be
rust. Perhaps many have been
puzzled to account for rust spots
between the coils of a spring, very
minute but still sufficient to render
the article useless. These serious
defects, says our authority, may in
many cases be put down to the
evil influence of warm breath
microscopic particles of water, for
want of sufficient heat to evapo.
rate, have remained on the sur.
faces and done the mischief de,
scribed.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08
Picked Up.

A SKIFF OFF SMITHS POINT. painted
~ black two pair OARS. and sails laShed in
side. The owner i TequeSJedtO call at ChaS
TInSleyS, just above Astoria Packing com
pany. 2dlws
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08

The following straws regarding
Ere insurance methods in New
York city are supplied by the
leading insurance journal there,
the Spectator: "a story is told
of verdant agent in this city who
was induced to sign a binding slip
insuring $4,000 in the London and
Liverpool, on a clothing store in
the Bowery while the property
was on Ere. His humiliation a
half-hour later is said to have been
quite affecting. His principals
should be charmed with his dis
examinations in the selection of
risks. To secure a FIVE days risk
In the New York Central elevator
lately, the owner of the grain
agreed to a clause in the policy
that if the property was destroyed
before the end Of FIVE days, be
would pay full years premium.
The shops and cars Of the Metro
-politan elevated railway were late
Iy insured by city company at a
rate for three years very low. We
are net permitted to mention the
rate, but may say it was less than
one per cent. The company which
carried half the risks the previous
year actually received more for
the single annual policy than the
new company receives for three
years. 1t is about time, we think,
to agitate a tariff association"
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08
Rooms for Rent.

SIN UNFURNISHED ROOMS ON MAIN
- Street, Astoria. Apply 10
III. FOX.
ialG.5ld Justice Of the Peace
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08

The Chicago physicians are very
much perplexed with the case of Will
lie Crawford, aged fourteen, who has
for seven years been sweating blood
at intervals. His in6rInity comes on
usually after taking cold. Great dark
patches appear on his body, from
which bloody drops, the size of PIN
head, exude. Blood flows from his
mouth, nose, eyes, stomach and KID
neys, but no pain accompanies these
discharges. Sudden fright or excite
ment will temporarily check the flow.
He is mentally bright and his father,
mother, brothers and sisters are all
strong, healthy persons. The physi'
Clans being unable to understand the
case propose sending him 10 Edln-
burgh and London for examination by
the academy of surgeons.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wanted.

TX nOO POUNDS RAGS OF all kinds.
csOOO clean and dry, II the Umbrella
shop. Main street, by J. JOPLIN.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08

An exchange says: "There ap-
pears to be growing demand fOr coin.
Any editsr who doesn't know that
without taking anybody's "say so, "
ought to have his salary reduced.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08
Prices are Nothing when the DUAL.
ify OF the Goods il Considered.

sE-I fully understand my business, and
cannot be swindled in buying, and having
made personal selection of every article i
have for sale, have no hesitation in guarantee
this stock. q. HANSEN,
CaSs Street, Astoria.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-08
House and Lot for Sale.

RESIDENCE PROPERTY
~ now and Will soon be good BUSINESS
property. For particulars apply ar
TIE ASTOEiAN OFFICE
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21

Nebraska loudly call on congress 10 en-
act law making the 100th meridian the
western limit of the lands subject to the
homestead and entry laws. They claim,
and with apparent reason, that expert
cnce ia the Arid Belt has conclusiyely
proved that the land west of that line Is
utterly unfit for agricultural purposes.
They assert that the men tillIng the
desert lands have failed to harvest suf-
fcient corps to support themselves, and
that they speedily become, in part or
wholly, charge on public charity. If
adequate measures are not adopted to
counteract the incorrect impression re-
gardlng the climate OF the plains that has
been created by the Immigrant railroads
they hold that the western portions of
Kansas aud Nebraska will become pau
per colonies. They also assert that many
homesteaders break land on the cattle
range, planting corn with the aYowed in
tention of permitting the cattle to de-
YOUR the growing plants, and then claim
ing excessive damages from the owners
of the stock tor the destruction of the
crop that in all probability would have
failed to ripen.
IF the only result Of the immigration
that is pushing into the Arid Belt is to
annoy and distress the cattle growing in
dustry and to ruin the Immigrants, the
movement should be checked by a
prompt compliance with the requests OF
the stock raisers
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
THE SOUTH POLE.

The Folly OF Attempting to Explore It.
Again there is a frenzy for Antartic
exploration, of which there has been lit
tie since 1912. The rage for visiting in
accessible regions, where there are no
human beings and no possible human
interests. seems to us quite a waste of en-
ergy. We know enough of the southern
pole to know that more knowledge would
not be worth the trouble of attaining we
know that the southern hemisphere win
ter is longer than the northern winter;
we know that the north pole is approach
able from all directions much nearer
than the south pole; we know that the
south pole is buried under q vast ice
field two or three miles thick and $500
miles in diameter-so huge and heavy
that it has shifted the earIh's center of
gravity, caused the oceans to flow over
the southern half of the planet, and ex-
posed to view and habitation the land of
The northern half; we know that in
the procession of the equinoxes-12,50 800
years-this ice-field will melt. evap0rate
and float through thesky TO CONCEAL at the
north pole, and that then the northern
hemisphere win gradually sink under
the sea till the salt water stands two hum
dred feet above New York city, and the
released southern hemisphere will slow
iy and slily tip ont of the oceans, reveal
ing continents and islands where new
nations viii be born, and great eiviliZa-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
MAN.
/.

Extracted from an old Volume
The average weight of an adult man
is 40 pounds and 6 ounces.
The average weight of q skeleton is
about IA pounds.
Number of bones, 240.
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the heighth of the living man.
The average weight of the brain of a
man is 81 lbs; of woman 2 lbs. II OF.
The brain of man exceeds twice that
of any other animal.
The average height of an English
man is feet 0 in; of a Frenchman, 5
feet 4 in; and of Belgian, 4 feet go in
The average weight OF an Englishman
is $50 lbs; of Frenchman, 1876 lbs. OF
a Belgian, 140 lbs.
The average number of teeth is thirty.
two.
A man breathes about twenty times q
minute, or 1900 times in an hour
A man breathes about eighteen pints
of air in a minute, or upwards of seven
hogsheads in day.
a man gives off 40S per cent carbonic
gas of the air he respires; respires 10, 1850
cubic feet of carbonic gas q twenty-fouT
hours; consumes 1867 cubic feet OF
oxygen in twenty-four hours, equal to
twenty five cubic inches of common air.
n Aldn dHuudliy COuLELDulcS 10 VeISt-
alton 1874 pounds of carbon.
The average of the pulse in infancy is
100 per minute; in manhood, 80; ut GO
years, GO. The pulse of females is more
frequent than that of males.
The weight of the circulating blood is
about % pounds.
The heart beats rs times in a minute /;
sends nearly 10 pounds of blood through
the veins and arteries each beat; makes
4 beats while we breathe once
Five hundred and forty-six pounds OF
1 hogshead n pint of blood pass
through the heart in an hour.
Twelve thousand pounds, or "a hogs.
heads 4 gallons, or 1O.762X pints pass
through the heart in "A hours
One thousand ounces of blood pass
through the kidneys in one hour.
One hundred and seventy-four millions
of holes or cells are in the lungs, which
would cover q surface 80 times greater
than the human body.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

During the last ten years, said MIR.
Frank w. Grierson in late address on
the national value of cheap patents, no
fewer than %, S63 patents were crushed
in Great Britain by the heavy stamp du-
ties demanded under the existing law
in that country. No comment can urge
more eloQuently reform in the treat
ment of inventors by that nation than
the simple fact that three patents are
granted in the United States for one
there.
There is large cave on the Dry Fork
of Arrow creek, in the Belt Mountains,
Montana, which contains a mass of solid
ice half an acre in superficial area, and,
as yet, of unknown depth. This cave is
a great resort for game of all kinds. May
it not be possible that the reforming
nature of certain caves in prehistoric
times attracted to such caves the various
animals whose remains discovered with
in this century have thrown some, though
on the whole, a rather unsatisfactory and
very incomplete light upon the state of
our globe ages ago.
Pampas grass is very agreeable
thing to everybody possessing what i'm
pressionists delight TO call, in their own
peculiar and vague way, the artistic in
stinct. Some farmers in southern Cali
fornia have found that, this beautiful
grass can be grown WITH a very little
trouble, and sold for decorative purposes
at a large profit. One of these men put
three-quarters of an acre under the grass,
and was able to sell each head or plume
at 81 cents, s 90; another sold all he
raised at ~ cents a plume. This in
dustry is growing. Ten thousand
plumes were disposed of in southern
California last year. Europe could take
an almost unlimited number of them.
Mr. J. Bantiog Rogers, says the Ma
ture. has devised and published game
which is likely to be of service not only
as really interesting amusement but
also as means of acquiring consider
able knowledge of navigation and me-
teorology. 1t IS entitled ''the game of a
voyage round the world,' and Is played
on large board representing the oceans,
suitably divided for counting
by knots, and with hazards
in the shape of cyclones, collisions,
etc, which add excitement 10 the game
The game is played by means of num-
Der of small models of ships of various
kinds, end cards on which the number
Of knots is marked, within which the
players may move. Logs are kept,
watches arc appointed, and captain of
the watch is set TO record distances, etc
Altogether it will be seen that in Mr.
Rogrs' ingeniousiy devised game there
are great possibilities both of amuse-
Inent and instruction.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
HERE AND THERE.

1t has been remarked that newspaper
men have been fortunate in securing fat
offices in the Kansas Legislature. This
Is probably in pursuance of the old
adagc that virtue brings its own re-
ward.
The announcement that Rhode Island
has built seven miles of railroad during
the past year has suggested the proba-
bility that the people of the state find
room for their garden patches between
the ties.
Kansas manufactures most of her own
furniture. As there will be great deal
less Of It broken after the amendment
gets on a full head of steam, the proba
bilities are that she will make some TO
sell to other states by another year.
The Topeka Daily Paragraph, de-
clares the publishers, Is to be continued,
and finally made u paying institution.
Mother Shipton must be wrong. shipped.
II Messrs. Hamilton s. Curl are true
prophets, the world is not to come to an
end this year.
The boisterous silence of the st. Louis
clergy in relation TO Bernhardt, has Civ
en- rise to the suspicion that they have
been subsidized with complimentary tick.
cts BY the newspaper men, who desired
monopoly of the advertising patron
age of the French lragedienneS man
ager. - Ni4
Persons who have questioned the wis
dom of the disI.ensaIion which gave r ar
nell. the great Irish agitator, to the
world, are probably not aware of the
fact that it takes about $4,000, 900 to pay
the annual expenses ofthe 10000 hounds
which are said to be owned in Gree
| Britain.
The Germans present flowers to de
parting guests. We are not so sure tina
our Teutonic friends can lay claim TO 1
monopoly of that agreeable custom. L
is said that there are any number of To
peka girls who always give two-lips Il
their best young men when they bic
them good night at the front door.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
HEATING BY FRICTION.
The Novel and Useful Invention of a
Boston Scientist
Boston Herald

The Novel and Useful Invention of a
Boston Scientist
Boston Herald
A Boston gentleman has invented a
simple devise, which, if its present
promises are realized, ought to work
revolution in the methods of heating.
1t is nothing less than an invention TO use
friction as practical means of produc-
ing heat AT the time of the Ashtabula
horror, when SO many persons were
burned to death by the wrecked cars
catching fire from the stoves, Mr. Web
ster Wells, then professor of mathemat-
les at the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, began TO consider the prob
lem of heating cars without fire. He has
now solved 1t. His invention consists of
strong iron cylinder, at one end of
which, inside, is a fixed plate Of hardened
iron, against which, firmly attached to a
revolving shaft, another plate presses,
either closely or lightly, as required.
The cylinder is filled with water, and
this, heated by friction Of the two plates,
circulates through pipes, warming the
room through which they run just as
steam pipes do. The water is kept in
constant circulation in these pipes, re-
turning to the cylinder, to be heated over
again. The water in the cylinder, which
is brought to high degree of heat in a
remarkably short time, keeps the plates
fabricated, preventing their wearing
away at ripid rate. When worn away,
the cost of renewing them
is trifIng, and the machine
has no complicated work about it, So
that it is easily kept in repair. The pow
er required TO run the machine is so
slight that the waste or surplus power
of the engines in use for running eleva-
tors and other machinery in hundreds of
buildings throughout city is enough
for all ordinary purposes. The machine
can be utilized in any place where pow
er is used. The ordinary sized machine
has thirty-six square inches of friction
surface in its plates, sufficient, it is said,
to heat 10000 cubic feet of space. This
requires but half horse power. A ma
chine with 225 square inches OF friction
requires but four horse power, and would
heat a room 60x200 feet, or containing
129,000cubic feet. In railroad cars the ma
chine is operated by power taken direct
from the wheels, doing away with all
danger from fire in case of a smash-up.
When the cars are standing still the ma
chine can be operated by power from
the locomotive, by a continuance some
what like that which operates the West
inghouse brake. In mills it is calcu-
lated that great saving can be made,
both in fuel and in the rates of insur-
ance, especially in those run by water
power. The agent of mill where wa
ter power is used estimates that in
twenty years, by the use of this DEVICE,
a. saving OF at least Sl95,390 in fuel alone
could be effected. Prof. Wells is now In
Europe, looking out for his patents there.
The machine has now been in operation
in Boston for seven months.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
NOT GOING TO THE BOW.
vows

Despite the luTid prophecy of Mother
Shipton, and the chaotic horoscope
which has been cast for the present
year by innumerable jaundiced sooth-
sayers, il is pleasing I'd have high as
Economical assurance that the planets
are not to make a Simultaneous rush on
the sun this year, as has been noised
abroad, TO the great CONSERVATION of
timid people, and decided downward
tendency in corner lots ard other classes
of valuable real estate. Why a few
celestial travellers who are always on the
so and never go indoors should not get
close 10 the central heater once in a
while and compare notes is something
that no one has explained. 1t may seem
very nice 10 some people TO be out all
night and have nothing 10 do but wink,
but planets, like other material beings,
get tired of things with too much same
ness about them. Besides, even if the
planets make n concerted dead set'' up
on their grand centre, il is not possible
for them TO make that dignitaIy any.
80 w lCdA :
Still further,tbc only plancisthat propose
a closer acquaintanceslip with the sun
are our own earth, Mercury and Venus.
The earth. indeed, has already INDUCED
in the utmost familiarity possible, having
made her call on New Years Day, per
haps out of courtesy, but more like be-
cause of the intense cold with which she
was shivering At the time. As for Venus
and Mercury. every one should be glad
If these can lind anything anywhere to
divert their attention temporarily from
the earth, where they are perpetually
m liking mischief, their mere names be-
ing suggestive of love aud Fobb- ~.
Mars who visits The sun in May. can also
be spared, for his name is indissoiubly
associated with fighting. Altogether
the planetary movements promise a
peaceable and virtuous springlime, in
stead Of anything TO be- afraid of.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21

days aud other fur-1earing pet animals
The Maine house OF representatives
without debate, accepted the report OF
the majority committee on the Guberaa-
torial votes, declaring Plaisted elecied
governor. The president and speaker
were requested to notify Gov Plaisted
of the result
The house committee on agriculture,
sat Washington, has unanimously agreed
10 ask suspension of the rules TO take
from the calendar and put upon its pass
age the bill TO make the agricultural de-
partment an independent department,
aud its head cabinet officer.
1t is stated that there is movement
on foot III California looking to the ap-
pointment of Major General Mcdowell,
now commanding the military division
OF the Pacific, as secretary of war. The
prime movers are prominent civilians
who are acting without The knowledge
Of Gen. Mcdowell.
4 concurrent resolution has been in
troduced in the Missouri legislature in
structing the senators and requesting the
representatives To congress TO secure the
establishment of a territorial govern
ment in the Indian territory, and to open
the public domain in said territory, TO
settlement under the homestead and pre-
epsptioa laws.
( MAI in Ti:usyilie, Pennsylvania, IS
years of age, is about to see his father,
wealthy resident of Youngstown, Ohio,
for the first time. Forty-five years ago,
the mother set out for a visit to her
brother, who resides in Curlsville, Clar-
ion county, Pennsylvania. While there
a son was born, her visit was prolonged
a number of weeks. The uncle was
childless. He took fancy to the infant
and wished to adopt it. After much so
licitation on his part the mother consent
ed, and the father never saw the child,
who grew up, went west, served In the
army during during the war, and has
only lately returned 10 his native state
Gen. Grants article in The North
American Review. on the subject of a
canal across the isthmus, that connects
North and South America is out. 1t
treats first upon the benefit of such
canal; then speaks of the difficulties
which surround the Panama scheme,
and the enormous cost-not less than
10000, 000-while the Nicaraugan ca
nal win not be over 100000, 600, and
has many other advantages which he
mentions. 1t closes with plac-
ing strong stress upon what is
known as the Monroe doctrine"
and the necessity of enforcing it, COM
mending an American canal on Ameri-
can soil by American people. The arti-
Gle is carefully written and has evidently
been the subject of much thought and is
well worth perGsal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21


Senator Fhacher has struck the right
keynote in his concurrent resolution in
reference to the destitution in the west
ern counties. He regards it the duty
of the senate to investigate the reports
which have been published regarding
the suffering alleged to exist on the
frontier, and after determining the exact
truth, take some measures to put quie-
tus on the solicitation for Kansas aid in
the east, the annual recurrence of which
is doing more to stigmatize our common
wealth than all the droughts and
grasshoppers that have ever figured in
the history Of the state. We are sincere
ly rejoiced to know that this question is
being agitated in the legislature, and
that measures are on foot to suppress the
shameful custom of publishing our pow
erty and exhibiting our sores in COM
munities which are annually flooded
with the glittering advertisements of
land companies, which portray Kansas
as land flowing with milk and honey
and teeming with prodigality Of prod.
uets SUFFICIENT to Eesd the world.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
A GEN FOR EVERY MONTH.

JANUARY.
BY her " no il this month Is horn
No gem save Garncts should be worn;
They will insure her constancy,
True friendship and fidelity.
FEBRUARY,
Y! c February born will find
Sincerity and peace of N nd,
Freedom from passion and IRON care,
If they the ADeythist will wear.
Who on this world of ours the eyes
In March first open shall be wise;
In days of peril firm and brave,
And wear a BloodstOne to their grave.
APRIL
She who from April dates her years
DIAMONDS should wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flow; this stone
Emblem of innocence is known.
Who first beholds the light OF day
In Springs sweet howery month of May.
And wears an Emerald al, her life,
Shall be Z loved and happy vile.
JUNE
W no comes with Summer to this earth,
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring OF Agate on her hand,
Can health, wealth, and long life command
The glowing Ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born;
Then will they be exempt and free
From loves doubts and anxiety.
AUGUST.
Wear 81 SardonyX, or Tor thee
No cOpipEal felicity; 5.-..-.5=- -.
The August born. without this stone,
Ills said, must live unlovcd and lone.
SEPTEMBER.
a maiden born while Autumn leaves
Are rustlinG in Septemher's breeze,
A sapphire on ner brow should bind
Twill cure u disease OF the mind.
OCTOBER
OctOber's child is born woe,
Aud LIES vicissitudes must know:
But lay an Opal on her bres.-t,
And hope will lull those words to rest.
NOVEMBER
Who 1rst comes to this world below
With drear Sovember's fog and snow,
Should prize the Topaz amber hue
Emblems OF friends and lovers true
DECEMBER.
II cold December gave you birth
The mo IN OF snow and ice and mirth-
Place on your hand u Curqoise blue;
success will bless whase'ef you do