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COATING STEEL WITH COPPER. Expert
ments are at present carried on in Belgium
TO preserve steel, and steel gun barrels in
particular, by coating them thinly with
copper by process of which NJ. F. We'll is
the inventor. Its popularity consists In
the composition of the baths used, iu which
the usual and always dangerous cyanides
of the alkslies are replaced by organic acids
and glycerine. According to M. We'll,
these baths require no renewal of organic
elements, and can be used continuously
when they are saturated with peroxide of
copper. They possess, also, the advantage,
owing to the property inherent in organic
alkaloids of dissolving the peroxide of iron
without attacking the metallic iron itself,
of cleansing the steel before the commence
ment of the coppering process, and more
perfectly than can be done mechanically.
The coppering is effected by putting porous
clay vessels filed with caustic soda lye, in
which zinc plates have been immersed, in
the basin containing the organic copper
base (alkaloid) and the steel. The zine
plates are connected by a thick copper wire
with the steel articles to be coated with
copper. The caustic lye may be used over
and over again. Should it become satu-
rated with oxide of zinc, it is sufficient for
its regeneration to treat it with sulphide
OF sodium, when the oxide (of zinc) will be
precipitated and by-product obtained, by
which the cost of the process will be con-
siderabIy reduced. Tbs coppering process,
it is said, occupies but very short time.
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THE REQUIREMENTS OF JOURNALISM
Journalism cannot be taken up as the
pastime of an idle hour, or as special
means of gain, or as a stepping stone to
other literary work, and made complete
success 1t requires laborious apprentice
ship, special skill, the result of training
and single-minded devotion, to the exclu-
sion of other fields of labor. Like the law.
journalism is jealous mistress, and will
not permit divided allegiance, except in
a very limited degree. Its rewards are
success and influence, but not, except in
very rare instances. any personal fame.
It's products are ephemeral, and the news
paper writer must be content to see his
product swallowed up in the pile of daily
sccretion, and forgotten with the memory
of the occasion which called it forth. But
this should make the pride of the profess
sion all the stronger, and the more honor
able the determination TO do good work for
its influence, and not for its reward. 1t is
growing to absorb more Of talent as it rises
in requirements, and its product as whole
is even now superior in quality, and it is
greater in quantity, than that of any form
OF contemporary literature except the
works of supreme genius, and its members
should govern themselves by the spirit of
the words of Thackersy in speaking of the
literary profession 1t may not be given
to most of us to win the baton and the
epaulets, but we can all sustain the honor
of the flag. III Providence Journal.
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AdyIces from saIf Lake.

SALT LAKE, March 30th.--In Big Cotton.
WOOD, snort distance from Salt Lake, a
with men engaged in cutting, aud being
warned away from falling tree, failed to
heed the warning, when the tree fell upon
him, crushing his skull.
a Salina (Utah) special to the Tribune to-
night says: This afternoon young man
namei Parsons and teanster from Wales,
Utah, drove into Salina with the body of q
man named Duterburg, who, with the parties,
was paddling goods. The story they tell is
that Dnserhurg attempted to pull shotsun
out Of the wagon from among some bedding,
when the gun was discharged. killing him IL
stsnt'y. They were in search of Coroner,
and not finding one at Salina, they took the
body to Manti
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BRITISH eOLEsIBiA.
ltems from Victoria.

Victoria, March 30th.-The ship csrpeu-
ters employed in this city are now receiving
So day. The owners of the Gartrude &C.
ceded to the demand at that figure, but the
agent of the Marine and Fisheries Depot has
declined to pay the advanced rate, and work
on the Sir James Douglas has been suspended
for several days.
A new fre.engine companN to be called
the Princess Louise, will shortly be organized
for the James Bay side of the town.
Yesterdays mail brought the necessary ex-
tradition papers from Ottawa for the delivery
of the Seattle desperadoes to the American
authorities. Saturdays steamer will un.
doubtedly relieve our public authorities OF
these undesirable guests.
Copious rains have fallen, and the country
is blooming like rose.
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AsIATIc RUG MAKING.

When an American buyer arrives in the
heart OF the rug.making country in Asia he
selects the best agent he can find and gives
him an order for, say 100 rugs, of about the
colors and sizes of certain samples which he
may find in the bazaars. The Turkish
agent then employs natives of the villages
where the kind of rugs selected are wanted,
giving to each bag of gold and instruc.
tions to order four rugs. The sub.agent
then goes among the families, and talks
rugs with them, drinking many cups of
coffee and discussing the price for days at a
time. When bargain is concluded some
money is furnished the family for wood,
dyes and food, and the agent goes away,
sure that in the course of few months the
rug will be ready. Upon a carpet measuring
eight by twelve feet a whole family will
work for months. The cotton or wooden
threads which form the groundwork or warp
of the fabric are stretched upon huge
frame the width of the rug, and the fam
lily, or such members OF it as are able to
work. sit on the floor and tie knots in the
warp threads with the colored wool tufts,
Tightening the finished fabric now and then
with rough comb Each worker takes
about twenty-seven inches of the rug and
works along his strip. From two to nine
inches day is the speed at which the rug
advances, if the family is large enough for
the whole width of the rug to advance at
the same time. A rug eight or nine feet
wide requires four persons, who work side
by side. The finishing of the rug, smooth
ing, clipping, ETC., is work requiring skill
and judgment. The wages are very small,
and the payment is according to the mum.
Der of square feet. The workers know
certain patterns by heart. and dye their
own woods. The old dyes have in some in.
stances been supplanted by aniline colors.
which do not keep their tones, and fade
without giving to the rug the softness of
tint which is the chief glory of a fine East
ern rug. So many merchants have refused
to buy the carpets in which sniline dyes
have been used, that the use of them
may eventually be stopped. The rug ma
kers as class are very poor in money,
very ignorant and very religious, but live
comfortably. Especially around the bor-
ders Of the Caspian sea, in the country
watered by the rivers from the Caucasian
mountains are the people in comfortable
circumstances, although about three eentu.
ries behind the rest of the world. Wine
is still brought into Tifiis in ox-hides holding
hogshead of wine, and is sold for about
fifteen cents a gallen. The rugs and carpets
are brought in from Persia and the neigh
boring districts on camels' backs, and ar
rivals of camel trains being one Of the Gu
rious sights Of the town.
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DlURHAL REST FOR PLANTS.

No one doubts that plants require peri.
odical or annual rest, and up to the present
time the necessity of diurnal rest has also
been fully acknowledged, but it indicates
uncertainty of their convictions in such
matters that botanists and psychologists
now tacitly admit that the necessity Of
cent experiments with the electric light
have led to this but meanwhile gardeners
will do we'll to hold on by Lindley, and
others of the same school, who affirm that
"diurnal repose is as necessary to plants
as to animals" Should it be discovered
that Lindley was wrong, we shall be pre-
pared to believe anything afterwards, and
doubt everything, in regard to plant life.
Orchids living and growing without the old
bulbs and the like would be nothing to the
discovery that plants thrive as well
without diurnal rest as with it,
for that would involve changes
in the physiological creed of the most
momentous description. The report of the
Paris experiments states that they afford
"no grounds for supposing that nocturnal
rest is necessary to the assimilation of the
food imbibed in the daytime, which may
be true; but nothing has been more conf
IDENTIFY asserted hitherto than that the or.
gans of plants perform quite different func.
tiors during the day and night respective
ly. "The processes of assimilation are
suspended no digestion of food and con-
version of it into organized matter takes
place and instead of decomposing carbonic
acid by the extrication of oxygen, plants
part with carbonic acid and rob the air of
It's oxygen Changes thai are going to
completely upset this arrangement of ma
ture must, it appears to common sense. ex.
ert corresponding influence upon plant
life, and produce changes something akin
to what would happen if human beirgs
were TO begin to inhale carbonic acid in
stead of oxygen, and exhale the latter in
stead of the former. The changes sug.
gested by the no-rest hypothesis in plant
growth are strictly analogous to this =
journal of Chemistry.
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PHoToGRApHISG SOUND. = The direct
photography of sound vibrations has re-
Gently been effected by Professor Boltz-
mann, as follows A small, thin platinum
plate was attached perpendiculsrly TO the
centre OF, thin iron plate, which, as in the
telephone or phonograph, was fixed on
wall piece and vibrated to sound. With
solar microscope an image of the platinum
plate was focused on screen. Then
prepared phonogfaphic plate was quickly
moved across, in the plane of the screen,
by strong spring, while the mouthpiece
was spoken to. A bounding line between
light and shadow was so obtained on the
prepared plate. forming curve which
closely corresponded to the sonorous vibra-
tions. To The vowels pretty simple curves
correspond, often approximately curves OF
sines, often interference curves of two or
three curves Of sines. The consonants give
very multifarious curves.-[N. Y. Tribune.
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horses, and fight is hourly expected. Mex
ican troops, under General Cardo, are in the
field, under orders to take no prisoners, but
to kill bucks, squaws and children. The cas-
ualties in Arizona have been heavy, Four
men have been killed at Clark's camp, four
at Total Wreck, four at Gill river and two at
Beach's camp. The hostiles are believed to
belong to Juh's band. reinforced by some
Chiricuahuas. All the troops in southern
New Mexico are in the field, and all possible
measures for the protection Of settlers and
the punishment of the Indians is being
taken by General Mackenzie.
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Daniel Whelan, informer, has been shot
Parnell goes to America the second wesk oi
April. He has not yet decided to accept the
invitation of the Philadelphia Convection.
Cork, March 30th.-An American named
Featherstone and man named O'Henelhy, q
Parne lite, have been arrested charged with
consDiracy to murder. One Carwody. a
plasterer, is also arrested. The fourth person
fed. Documents were found on o. O'Henelhy.
The arrests are believed to be due to the in.
formation of man arrested in Liverpool.
The Postoffice is occupied by force of
police. Threats have been made to blow up
the building.
DUBLIN. March 30th.-Three Conservatives
have been elected Poor Law Qua, dians in
place of three Parnellites in the Rotunda
ward. This indicates an important revulsion
of feeling, and has considerable political
significance.
Adyices from France.
PARIS, March 30sh.-Louise Michel called
at the Prefecture of Police yesterday even.
ing, but as the Prefect was absent left the
Office. announcing that she intended to sur.
render herself to the authorities to-day. This
morning she was arrested without any Diff
Guilty or objection on her part. She said she
subject her mother to any further annoyance
from the police. She was arrested while
leaving the house of friend. The specific
charge brought against her was that she had
entered bakers shop at the head of an
armed band and plundered the place.
BORDEAUX, March 3Oth. = Numbers of
copies of the manifesto of Prince jerome
Napoleon have been posted in conspicuous
places and upon the various public buildings
In this city. As soon as they were perceived
the police removed them.
Terrific and Destructive Gale.
LONDON, March 30sh.-Reports from the
Scottish coast say terrific and destructive
gale to-day visited that section. Three ves-
sells have gone ashore in the vicinity of
Aberdeen. There are no reports of loss of
life. The damage to property, however, is
considerable.
Another Explosion Threatened.
LONDON, March 30sh.-The Police are in
receipt of letter purportiug to emanste
from Fepian sources, threatening, unless the
men charged with the Pi enix Park murders,
and now confined in Kilmainh sm Jail await
ing trial. are at once released, the central
Office in London will be blown up. |
The Montenegrins and Albanians.
SoUTARI, March 30h.-All the Montene- |
grin residents of this place have left town, on |
of peremptory order issued by their |
Government. Within the past few weeks |
there have been m any affrays along the Al |
Danisn border, accompanied in many cases
oy murder
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RULES TO JUDGE OF THE WEATHER =
De Voc, the Hackensack meteorologist,
gives the following excellent rules in regard
TO the weather First When you see a
bank of thin, hszy clouds along the north
west. and it is clear over the rest of the
heavens, then the wind will be from the
southeast ON the morrow, the temperature
will rise, and it viii rain in less than is
hours. Second-When there is dark
ring around the sun there is a storm form.
ing TO the south of you, and on the morrow
the wind will be from the northeast, with
snow. Third-When the sky looks very
black and the stars shine unusually bright,
q storm will advance suddenly from the
southeast, beginning with snow, followed
by rain. If any person living in any sec
tion of our country can cite an instance
when these rules did not operate as have
stated, shall be pleased to hear from
him.
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HOW TO SLEEP.

Health and comfort depend very much
on attention. to matters that to some seem
very trivial. We have sometimes heard
persons complain that they did not sleep
well that they were troubled with horri-
BILE dreams, and arose in the morning weary
and nervous. Inquiries as TO diet, exer-
else and other essentials of health have
often failed to reveal any thing that could
account for these unfavorable conditions.
1t is not well in these cases to limit our in
vestigations to the routine of day but
we should inquire at what hour the patient
goes to bed, what he thinks about usually,
and most particular what position he places
himself in to invite sleep? II he lies on
the back with his hands over his head,
there will be a half conscious sense of COM
preston of the chest, with difficult breath
ing, to relieve which he opens his mouth.
The air coming in contact with the throat
causes dryness, and then snoring will be.
gin. In the meantime the pressure of the
viscera on the large artery, whose course
is along the inner portion Of the backbone,
impedes the circulation Of the blood, pro-
ducing discomfort which manifests itself in
horrid dreams. Thus the whole night is
passed in a disturbed sleep, and perhaps
many nights pass without one of refreshing
sleep. A most unwise course under such cir
cumssances would be TO resort TO the use of
opium or any other drug. The ranks of
the victims of this unfortunate habit are
recruited mainly from such cases as we
have described. 1t is wonderful what con.
troll an individual-can get over himself if
he tries. There is no reason why person
cannot lie upon his side instead of the
back, and keep his hands and arms down
then he viii not open his mouth; then his
throat viii not become dry, neither viii he
snore or have bad dreams But often he
can't help thinking about his business, aud
hig thoughts will run on for hours. This
is also habit that may be broken up.
Have the will to put aside your thoughts,
and in time you will have the power to do
So We do not say that there are not
other causes that habitually interfere with
sound sleep but believe there is remedy
for each difficulty, which may be found by
seeking for it'll Herald of Health.
The great question of the day at present
q. L II u 4 I
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A band OF fifteen San Francisco news
boys are en- route from the Pacific slope to
the New England coast. They tarry at
points along the road long enough to earn
stake to take them to the next city,
and thus they expect to finish their jour
ney before hot weather comes. The oldest
of the band is fourteen years of age
[Chicago Herald.
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PACIFIC SLOPE.

Shocks-End or n Murder
Trial In solan0 County = Accidental
Death OF a Mtner-The shasta County
Husband-Eilling Case-COntinued Dev-
iItry Of the Apaches-Fire at oriand-
Boy Terribly Injured In San Francisco
Schooner Wrecked = Verdict OF Not
Guilty at Nevada Cify-Etc.
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OREGON.
Death on a Merchant.

PORTLAND, March 30sh.-Charles Hodge
died at IL o'clock this merning of pneumonia,
aged "a. He had been engaged in the whole
sale drug business here since 1861, and YVES
one of the best known merchants in the State
His death is generally regretted.
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HOME AND ABROAD.

Woman Hanged in New EngIand-The
Panama Canal-Glrl Arrested for Poi
sonIng Her Mother-Train Wrecked by
ndsiide-ConkJfng Rearresfed-The
Mining Trouble in Colorado Ended
Billiards in ChicagO-Items Of Foreign
NeWs-Ete.
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James P. Voorhees,, the sculptor, a son
of Senator Voorhees,, has taken studio in
New York.
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ELECTRIC FLASHES.

The Railroad Pass Question in New York
Mormon Converts In the south-Un-
licensed Statesmen In Delaware Body
snafchers sentenced Proposed Irish
Convention The Mexican congress
Shot by a 1oonshiner-The Lunaffc
Asylum Poisoning Case-Etc.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Anairs bal IreInnd.

DUBLIN, March 30sh.-Eleyen persons
have been arrested as Castle Connell charged
with intimidation.
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CALIFORNIA.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO rHE REcoRD-uMoN.l
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weather probabilities.

WASHINGTON, March S0th.-FoE northern Pacific
coast Light rains.
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The great question of the day at present
is how to wear high all-round collar and
still be able to sneezs hard without cutting
your throat. Puck,
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COMPENSATION. OF LAST NIGHTS DIsrArcHBs.l
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Instified in the KiIIina.

SHASTA, March 3Oth.-In the case of Mary
Baioa, who shot and killed her husband,
Charles Barop some days since, Justice
Knox this morning. after hearing all the ev-
idence, rendered a judgment that she was
justified in the killing, and ordered her dis
charged from custody.
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Accidentally KILLED.

NORTH SAN JUAN, March 30tb.-A young
man by the name of John McArin was acci.
deutal,y killed last evening while working in
the shaft of the Alaska quartz mine at Pike
City, Shasta county. He WAS about "a years
old, and has been in the employ of the COM
pany for several months past. His father re-
sides st Nevada CITY.
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Not GniIty of Mnrder.

NAPA. March 30sh.-The trial OF Jacob
Fuqua for murder was finished in the SUI
perior Court of Solauo county last evening
by the jury bringing in verdict of not
guilty. Fuqua killed one Charles Rice in
Napa county in 1879. and afterwards escaped
and was not arrested for year. He was
ihsn tri7d and convicted twice, and each
verdict was set aside by the Supreme Court.
A change of venua was granted, and the
third trisl was had this week, resulting in his
discharge.
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Good TempIars, orphans, Home.

PETALuMA, March 30th.-A musical and
literary entertainment for the benefit Of the
Good Templars' Orphans Home is in pro.
gress at-ths Petaluma Theater. Despite the
unfavorshle weather there is large audience
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DOMESTIC NEWS.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO rHs RseoRD-UMos.l
National Republican., 1883-03-14
PROTECT THE PAvEMENTs.
The Gas Company Want TO Tear Up Ger
tain Streets to Lay Gas Mains.

The Gas Company Want 20 Tear Up Ger
tain Streets to Lay Gas Mains.
The Washington Gaslight company, through
It's engineer, Mr.. George A. Mcllhenny, sew
oral days ago sent communication to the
district commissioners requesting permission
to tear up certain streets for the purpose Of
laying large gas mains. A reporter ofTHE RE-
PUBLICAN called ON Maj. Lydecker yesterday
nd was informed that no action had been
taken in the matter. The streets that the
company wish TO dsembowel are as follows;
New York avenue, from Fifteenth TO Fourteenth
streets.
Fourteenth street, from Z TO X streets.
q street, from Fourteenth to Seventh streets.
Tenth street, from g to ID streets.
The particular necessity for laying gas
mains on these streets is not stated. They
are all built up with houses and well sup
Piled with the feeble liquid which is politely
termed gas. The residents, property owners,
and merchants along the streets in question
are anything but pleased with the idea
that their dwellings will be barricaded
with huge mounds of mud all summer Tho
merchants say that street eXcavatians are
very injurious TO business, and that they
should not be permitted save where an alb
solute necessity arises. The injury to tho
pavements, also, will be incalculable. On all
of the streets named, save that part of Tenth
street between ID and Il streets, there are con-
crete roadways. 1t has been proven time and
time again that whenever q concrete street is
broken for any purpose, such as laying gas or
water pipes, il needs continual patching, and
is nearly always afterward in shabby state.
National Republican., 1883-03-14
Den,h OF Mrs. ChnrIo,te Brndshnw.

The death of Mrs. Charlotte Bradshaw,
wife of Henry Bradshaw, of pneumonia, on
Capitol hill, will bo. sincerely mourned by
many, and in their loss her husband and sons
have the sympathy of all their friends. Mrs.
Bradshaw had reached the full age of 40 years,
yet her activity and brightness of spirit con-
tinued up to her last illness, which was only
for week. She was gentle, always compan-
ionablc, and of u generous, helpful nature.
Throughout her life she found comfort in
every trial in her Redeemer and her last ill
ness was marked by an assured trust in Him,
and her end was perfect peace