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The National tribune., 1882-08-12
THE VALUE OF EGG-FOOD,

The Popular Science M0nthLy contains some
new facts in relation to egg food of special
interest. One is that the eggs, even of ami
mails which impress us most unpleasantly,
have their value as food, and seem to be
capable Of inspiring a~relish in the palates of
those who have learned to eat them. The
eggs of the terrapin and of several species of
the tortoise are excellent for eating nutri-
tious, and agreeable to the taste, and those
of the green turtle are held in great esteem
wherever they are found. Says the Monthly:
The mother turtles lay three times year,
depositing sometimes as many as a hundred
eggs at laying, and carefully covering them
up with sand, so that it requires an exper-
fenced searcher to detect them. The Indians
of the Orinoco and Amazon obtain from
these eggs kind of clear, sweet oil, which
they use instead of butter. About five thou
sand eggs are required to fill one of their
jars with oil, yet so abundantly are they
deposited that about five thousand Jars are
put up yearly at the mouth of one of the
rivers. The harvest is estimated by the
acre. Young eggs are frequently found in
the bodies of slain turtles by hundreds, in
all stages of Development, and generally con-
sisting entirely of yOlk. They are often
preserved by drying, and are considered
great luxury Alligators' eggs are esteemed
by the natives of the reCiOns were those rep
tiles abound; and Mr.. Joseph, in his His
tory of Trinidad" says that he found the
eggs of the cayman very good. The female
alligator lays from 100 to 100 eggs; they
are about as large as the egg Of turkey,
and have a rough shell, filled with thick
albumen. One of the lizards, known as the
iguana, is capable of furnishing as many as
fourscore eggs, which, when boiled, are like
marrow. The larvae and nymphe of ants
are considered by many people choice rel
ish when spread upon bread and butter, and
are said TO be excellent curried. In Siam
they are highly esteemed, and are so valu-
able as to be within the reach of only the
rich. In some parts of Africa, where ants
swarm, they are said to form at times con-
siderable portion of the food supply. They
are used in some countries of Europe for
making tormic acid, and are subject to an
import duty. The eggs of insects belong
ing to a group of aquatic beetles are made in
Mexico into q kind of bread Or cake called
hautle, which is eaten by the people, and
may be found in the markets. They are got
by means of bundles of reeds or rushes
which are put in the water and on which
they are deposited by the insects. Brantz
Mayer, about forty years ago, noticed men
on the Lake Of Tezcuco collecting the eggs
The National tribune., 1882-08-12
A CHICAGO FATHER,s LOVE.

My darling papa!"
AS she spoke these words to her father,
the only father she had in all the wide, wide
world, Myrtle Hathaway placed about his
neck pair of dimpled white arms, and
looked into the bearded face with a trusting,
l-would-bet-seven-to-three-on-you look that
told more elOquently than could any words
of the deep love she bore him.
Bending over his daughter, and kissing
her tenderly where the Bloom of Youth was
thinnest, Mr.. Hathaway seated himself on O
fauteuil, the girl kneeling by his side
"Do you love me very much, papa?" she
asked, smoothing with her soft white hands
the bronzed forehead over which the furrows
of time were beginning to spread.
"Wby, what foolish question for my little
one to ask" was the reply, and a kiss stopped
the prattle of the pretty lips. "You know,
my darling" the father continued, that my
whole life is wrapped up in yours; that
your happiness is my joy, your disappoint-
ments my bitterest woes"
"And would you do anything to please
me, papa?"
"Of course I would, my child. Why do
you ask such q foolish question:"
"Then," said the girl slowly, every word
telling by its pathos of the earnestness with
which it was spoken, " take me to the races
tomorrow"
Reaching silently around to his pistol
pocket, Mr.. Hathaway drew forth q quarter
stretch badge and placed it in his dauchter's
hand. The girl looked at it eagerly, gave
little cry of JOY, and kissed her father again.
Rising from the fauteuil, Mr.. Hathaway
went to the window and looked out upon the
night. "God help me-" he said in husky
tones, choking down sob that was swelling
up from his supper, s. shall be broke to-
morrow night, for there are two pacing races
and free for-all trOt on the programme"-
Chicago Tribune.
The National tribune., 1882-08-12
AWoMAN,S GRIT AND GRIP.
Holding By the Gown SOmnambulist VINO W"
Suspended From Window.

Suspended From Window.
Last night lady who resides on Ivy street
was Z" at home" to quite number of her
friends and pleasant evening was the re-
suit. Before the hour for separation had ar
rived, however, one of the guests of the lady
was taken quite i'll and was escorted to
bedroom, where she was disrobed and made
to feel as easy as every possible kindness
could offer. About IL o'clock she fell into
quiet sleep, and the young lady who was
watching by her side, thinking that her
guest had forgotten her ills i'll sweet slum-
ber, laid down upon a sofa, beside window
In the room, and was soon lost to the cares
of this world. How long she slept she does
not know, but whilst in the midst of pleas
ant dream she felt something brush across
her face, and with a start awoke. Her
awaking saved the life Of her friend, but
came near being her own death.
The something which brushed across her
face and awoke her was the night-dress of
that friend, who had, in somnambullstlc
fit, arose from her bed and walked across the
room to the window, beside which the lady
was sleeping. To get to the window she
crawled over the sleeping form of her host
and then began an exit, which must have
resulted in death but for the work of her
gown. Hardly realizing what she was doing,
the lady grabbed the white fabric which had
aroused her with both hands, and as she
did so her ears were greeted with screams
just outside the window In an instant she
realized that she was holding her friend in
mid-air, and that to loosen her grasp on the
cloth was to insure her death. She was not
physically strong, but with nerve rarely
equalled, she frightened her hold and then
joined in with her friends call for aid. Soon
their combined screams awoke the inmates
of the house. who hastened to the room and
rescued the young lady from her aerial posi-
ton.
AS soon as the somnambulist, for such she
acknowledged herself to be, was drawn into
the room, the young lady who saved her life
tainted, and this morning her nervous pros
tration is so great that her friends are in
great anxiety for her.-AHanta Constitution.
The National tribune., 1882-08-12
WHY THE TOY PISTOL is DEADLY.

There are two kinds of toy pistols. One
uses small cartridge, charged with pure
rife powder, and similar in all respects ex-
cept size to the ordinary pistol cartridge.
The other explOdes a decorating wafer,
charged with Illuminating compound. The
latter is supposed to be the dangerous weapon.
The illuminate of mercury with which the
wafer is charged is known to be nerve
poison when taken into the circulation. 1t
can be administered internally without seri-
Gus danger. But if it passes into the system
from the outside through an abrasion or cut,
it will almost surely produce lockjaw and
ultimately cause death. The toy pistols are
clumsy instruments. The waters seldom ex-
plode promptly, and, even when they do,
throw off sparks and fragments that may
break the skin of the pistol-hand. If through
The National tribune., 1882-08-12
AWONDERFUL THING OF LIFE.

In our boyhood we often heard of hoop
snake, one that, bringing its head and tail
together, rolled over and over like wagon
wheel. 1t was said that this snake did its
execution with its tail, that being pointed
like needle. We never had the terror of
seeing one of them, but did, when about 8
years old, see q jointed snake. The joints
were about six inches long. When alarmed
the snake fell to pieces, the head joint dart
ing off like an arrow to place of conceal
ment. That was the last snake of the kind
we ever saw until quite recently we saw a
hoopjointed snake. We were walking leis-
urely one day through our field.
All of a sudden we were startled out of
ourself by something rolling by u.s. which
looked like the rim of buggy wheel with
out the spokes. When it passed about ten
steps beyond us, in making an effort to turn.
it accidently struck the end of projecting
rail. This must have alarmed it, for all at
once it fell to pieces, and the head Joint darted
through crack of the fence and into the
swamp as quickly as possible Remember
piiO jo1htCu ouahC VI Uu1 DOy ana
that our grandfather had told us if we would
watch we would see the head return for the
joints left, as badly as we were scared we
determined to watch and wait the heads
return. Not unmindful that we had been
told by them of old time that the only pro-
tector from a hoop-snake was to get behind
tree or stump on the opposite side from
the one it was coming we took position
behind an old stump and waited develop
ments.
1t was not long before the head came
slowly and cautiously through the crack of
the fence, raised itself to an angle of forty
five degrees, looked in every direction. and
then commenced the work of reioininp its
body and tail to its head. This was soon
done. Its next movement was to rear itself
up perpendicularly, or in other words to
stand on its tail. AS the head went up we
distinctly saw that each joint possessed
India rubber qualities, for as it went up each
joint became extended until, when the per-
pendicular position was attained, the head
was entirely out of sight. BY a mathemati-
cal calculation we ascertained its head to be
a little less than five miles high, when it
passed out Of sight. Having taken its bear
The National tribune., 1882-08-12
BILLY ARP TELLS OF HIS WIFE'S FIF-
TIETH BIRTHDAY,

We've had birthday at out house,
semi-centennial as it were. There are big
birthdays and little ones, common ones and
uncommon ones, but when the female patri-
arch of family, the queen of household,
completes her fiftieth year, and has got too
much good sense to 60 back On her age, or be
ashamed of it, it is an eyent,-it is sorter like
a golden wedding or the declaration of indie
pendence, or some other big thing. But
there is no collapse, no surrender, no let
down, not silver thread among the raven
hair, no crows feet or wrinkled brow, no loss
of speech or language, no weakness of men,
Ory Sometimes / wish she would forget
something, but she can't, and my shortcom-
ings, like Banquo's ghost, come up before
me ever and anon. So the queen had birth
day dinner, and she got nice new dress and
hall lamp, and a beautiful chair, and a pair
of peafowls wherewith to raise her own fly
brushes, and that night we had music and
dancing and song, for Solomon says old age
is honorable, and could never see any good
sense in a woman or q widower trying to
contradict it. l never expect to be either the
one or the other, and can't appreciate their
peculiar feelings, but never hear of mar
ried woman concealing her advancing years
but what I think she is fixing the trigger for
q second husband before the first one dies.
But one thing is certain-there's no trigger
about our house, and there will be no step
father to nay children; for, as Mrs. Arp says,
sometimes burnt child breads the fire.
Jesso.-AHdntG Constitution.
The National tribune., 1882-08-12

were not different from fish-spawn, having
the same appearance and flavor. "After the
frogs of France and the birds nests of China,
1 fancy they would be considered delicacies,
and found they were not disdained on the
fashionable tables of the capital" Accord
ing to the report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture of 1870 the Larvae of large fly
which frequents Mono Lake, IN California
are dried and pulverized and mixed with
acorn meal and baked for bread or with
water and boiled for soup.
The National tribune., 1882-08-12

ings it gradually contracted to nine feet. 1t
then made circular dart for its tail, and
without more ado rolled off rapidly IN the
direction of Atlanta.-Tbe Clarion.
The National tribune., 1882-08-12
SONG OF THE HAMMOCK.

Maiden also
Thinks of swing,
SHADY tree Wants to go back,
Babhline brook, Too. Poor 'hlng'
Girl in hammock,
Reading book, III.
Golden curls,
Tiny feet, Hour of midnight,
Girl in hammock BABY sq'lalIihs'
Looks so sweet. Man in sock feet
Man rides past, Bravely walking.
Big mustache, Baby yeiis on
Girl in hammock Now the other
Makes n mash" Twin, he strikes up
Mesh /. mutual. Like his brother.
nav is set. Paregoric
Man and maiden BY the bottle,
Married get. Emptied into
Baby's throttle.
II. Naughty tack
Points in air,
Married now. Waiting some ones
One vear aoo Foot to tear.
Eoorino house Man in sock feet,
On Baxter Row. See hIm-there,
Rod-rot stove. Holy Moses,
Becfsteak frying, Hear him swear
Cir got married Raving crazy
CcoI-inrr irving. Gets his gun,
Checks all burning, Blows his head of,
F,ves look red. Dead and gone.
Girl got married,
Nearly dead. ~.
Biscuits burn up,
Reefsteak charry, Pretty widow
Girl cot married, With a book,
Awful sorry. In hammock
Man comes home, BY the brook.
Tears mustache,
Mad rs blaZes, Man rides past,
Got no hash Big mustaclle,
Thinks of hammock Keeps riding,
IN the lane. NARY MASH.
Wishes maiden
Back again.
The National tribune., 1882-08-12

these wounds the illuminate of mercury gets
into the blood, lockjaw is natural result
Chicago Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
WhaGErof. Foss Says.

We are permitted by 4 friend TO pub
fish the following portion Of q letter
written by Prof. Foss III reference TO
operations 81 Barker:
tI presume the story will be eircu-
lated in Benton that,we have closed
down the snaelter. This Is not the fact.
We have come to the conclusion, owing
to the lateness of the season, to postpone
building the addition to the mill until
spring. We shall work the Wright g.
Edwards with increased force, and run
the s%rnelter during the winter TO its full
capacity. The balance Of the ore that
we are unable to treat will be held until
the new furnaces are built in the spring.
You can make this statement TO the
RIVER PRESS ] you wish.
1T has stormed nearly every day for
the past three weeks, and at this writing
is showing hard. It looks very much
as If winter had come for a fact.o
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
VIII Build q Road to Benton.

AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders OF the Rocky Mountain railway
company the following gentlemen were
elected as directors for the ensuing year:
A. Anderson, e. &. Bonner, S. T. Hau-
ser, J. T. Dodge, Henry Willard, Fred
erick Billings, Ilaos. T. Cakes, A. II.
Barney, Edward Stone, w. T. Sanders
and q. NJ. Hotter. The Independent
says It is the intention Of the companyto
work Immediately on q
branch to the National Park; that work
will be begun during the foil on a line
from the Little Blackfoot to Butte and
that early next spring work will be be-
gun on o line from Helena to Benton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
The Orc Cache Nine.

From gentlemen just arrived
Maiden We learn that the new mill OF
Messrs. Hauser & Hotter, to be erected
at the Gro Cache mine in the Warm
Springs district, has arrived on the
ground, and a large of workmen are now
employed in puttingit in position, erect
ing the mill building, etc. The mill is,
we are informed, Of the kind known as
the oscillating stamp mill. 1t has two
1850 pound stamps, and is capable of
crushing about twenty tons OF ore every
twenty-four hours. A large body Of
rich ore ia exposed by tunnels, shafts
levels, and there are something over 800
toms Of ore already on the dump. This
ore averages in value about $165 to the
tom. A. M. Esler, the superintendent,
promises The owners to give them a. a
product Of the mine $4,000 in gold bull
lion by Christmas. By the time the
the mill il in shape for operation be will
only have about two months in which to
make COED his pronsise.-Indepefede1et.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
From Tuesday's Daily.
TOWN LOT TALK.
The Excitement in B enton Over the Open
ing of the Reservation.

Since the announcement in Sunday
mornings RIVE PRESS that the plat OF
the new addition TO the townsite Of Ben
ton had been filed in the land Office and
that applications for entry of lots would
be received in q short time, the land
question has been the one OF absorb
ing interest at the river metropolis.
Little else has been talked Of or thought
OF, and as the time for getting action on
the lots approaches, the interest mani
tested grows In intensity.
Yesterday morning the plat was hung
up in the probate judges office for the
inspection of the public, and as soon as
the door was opened by Deputy Clerk
Murphy tlae crowd gathered, and during
the entire day the Office was %thronged
with wouId-be landed proprietors, anK-
ious to get a glimpse of the plat or learn
the psodas operGadj by which they
could come In possession OF o portion Of
the released reservation. Judge Tattan,
being i'll, was not present, and 1t fell
upon John f. Murphy to answer the
i~nnlpnerable questions and hand out
blank applications TO the anxious ones.
Meantime the reservation was the
scene Of considerable activity. Parties
who had already located LAND were busy
ascertaining the block and numbers Of
their lots and others were stalking of
and fencing such tracts as they expected
to hold. On Sunday and yesterday the
scene on tho reservation was one OF IN
terest and at the same time presenting q
good many amusing and ridiculous
phases. Two frame houses were moved
on to the reservation yesterday by /. u.
Baker g. Co., in order to hold additional
lots In a desirable portion ofthe addition,
and to-day g brick house will be started
by Wilton & Werrick, who do rot pro-
pose to be left.
The notice required by the townsite
law, that the plat has been entered al
the land office end the land Is ready fol
entry, will be published in the RIvEF
PRESS tomorrow znorning-azad then
the fun will begin. At that time-to
morrow neutrality-suspicious. will bt
received by the probate judge, and al
the first who present themselves will b'
frat served grand rush may be ex
peeted.
There Is o good deal OF room for favor
itism in this matter, and the River
PaEss, therefore, repeats las wish tina
everyone be treated exactly alike. yh'
proceedings will be watched with in
terest.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
Go West, Young Milan.

Rev. =. II. Tuttle, pastor OF the c--:srch
Of the Redeemer, Of Minneapolis, who
accompanied Mr.. Paris Gibson to Inc
National Park, writes a letter TO the Bill
lings Herald, giving his experience q
observations in Montana. We make the
following extract from it:
tMy friend, Paris Gibson, 3 genuine
son of New England, with plenty OF love
still left in his heart for his native state,
Maine, now 8 resident Of Fort Benton,
drove his own team from here to the
Park, and I heard him inquire at every
place for Montana, Gallatin valley, oats,
and seemed sadly disappointed, and not
q little indignant, when put off with the
light. gaunt cats imported from the
states. It surprised me to be told that
more wheat, and equally good, can be
raised to the acre, in many parts Of this
territory, saan IN the Red River valley.
Well, If a1I these signs are not delusiye,
IL what one now sees with his own eyes,
and what one hears from perfectly trust
worthy sources are taken as 9 basis OF
estimate, Montana will st least hold
rank with any portion Of our great
country.
MI. Gibson, whose opinion is authority
on this subject, (ashe has been four years
in the territory, and has great oppor-
tunities for observatory says that no
other country is SO favorable 50 this fol
poor men, men OF small means. Young
men with only their hands and brains
to start with, If they are temperate, hon
est, industrious, brave, energetic, per-
severing, can be cure in o few years of q
competence if not of wealth. Why not?
Land is unlimited and the mean for
possessing it, temporarily at least, . til
one Is able to buy it, are IS easy rs the
most ~inapecuniccs could wish. With a
few sheep or cattle, or horses to begin
with, he can roundup his thousands
in a few years. OF course 1t all involves
hardships, rough living, frugal fare, but
life is a battle everywhere; the chances
Of winning, however, seem to me more
certain here, cut on the ranches, than in
the cities. After all is the suffering
greater, on the whole, in g new country
like this, than in the large eastern cities?
We pity the pioneer. Are not many
who remain behind, tied to small clerk
ships, living in the sunless cellars and
rickety garrets Of New York, quite as
pitable? One has plenty OF 9 and
good air out here st anyrate. The say
ing has been somewhat jocularly used of
late, but the great Horace Greedy coined
q wise advice when he said, .Go west,
young man., These words have not
lost their appropriateness yet. But did
~ intend TO preach
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
In Aemor1am.

At the stated communication OF Ben
ton lodge, No. ., A. Z. & a. ~, held
October 7, 1892, the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS. Bro. Maitland Wright has
been called by the High Worshipfui
Master Of the Universe 0 the suDor-
dinate lodge to the supreme and impec-
cable lodge Of eternity, therefore be it
Resolued, That we, his remaining and
egpectant brothers. bear testimony to
the exceptional gentlemanliness OF his
manners and his true adherence TO the
cause OF our order.
Resotoed, That his virtues be cherished
in our hearts and minds, and that we
| endeavor to make them profitable IN
| guiding u w conversation.
ResoJved, That we kelly feel the loss
sustained by his removal, but that we
| have confidence in Him who has called
| our brother, and SO rejoice to think that
his "rais:ng'' must be his eternal gain.
May he rest in peace, and may perpetual
light shine upon him.
Res0tved, That the bereaved family
have our deepest sympathy, and that in
our prayers we commend them TO Him
who careth for the distressed.
Resogved, That the secretary Of the
lodge be instructed 10 enter this pre-
auable and accompanying resolutions al
length upon the minutes Of the lodge,
and that a copy be attested by the sec.
rotary and sent to the family OF The
missing brother; also a copy be furnished
to the Benton papers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
Tighty-fve Dollars Lost.

"You do not tell me that your hus-
band is up and entirely cured by so
simple q medicine as Parker's Ginger
Tonic?" "Yes, indeed, I do said
Mrs. Benjamin to her neighbor; land
after we had lost eighty-fse dollars in
doctors bills and prescriptions. Now
my husband feels as well as ever
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
Notice OF Final Es,trv.
LAND OFFICE At HELEEA, bIoNrAS4 !
Semi. Nth. 1850

Sept. z7tt, 1852.
Notice ia hereby given Thar the followinq-naraa
settler has flen notice Of his intention to n Ike 6HsiI
prnof IN Support Of h- claim, and that said ,To" rS
will be made before IN ". Iat'an. probate jadse
C Chote u ouufy, NJ 2. as Folt B,Dtan, W. Il, on
pdneeday. Nov let, 1882, Wig: Isaac N Hazletf, wba
made presumption d. No 45fo, tor the wegt ~
ep CRATER section % snd W half Is quarter section "
tp "a n, range 5 w..
re lanlta III following witncsaes to prove hf2 cen-
tinuona resideIGe upon and cuitiv ton of raid land
viz: Alfred B Hasni len, John 5 lirg, Of 0o Ag ncv'
Chot an county. NJ. T.. and Thomas 4. HeaIq md
John j. Healy, OF Fort Benton. GhUte u corngy. n
j.. II. NOE Pepjsfar
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-10-11
HlCH a AgE

Besides o large number of thorough
bred sheep, Messrs. Paris Gibson K Son
have at their Belt creek ranch 8 lot of
high grade Merino rams, which can be
purchased at very reasonable rates. Call
soon or you will be too late.
PARIS GIBSON Il Son,
Benton.