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POPULAR SCIENCE.

NJ. Joannes Chatin has found para
site in the common onion that gives rise
to disease. nj. Pasteur, who has exam
ined it, finds it similar to the parasite OF
mildew in wheat, but with less vitality,
The affected plants should be pulled up
and burned,
The annual literary prize of 50, 000 in,
stituted by the King of Belgians, will,
for 1885, be granted to the author (Bel-
gian or foreign of the best work on the
means of popularizing the study of geo
graphy and developing it in the differ
emit educational establishments. Tho
works of competitors must be sent to the
Belgian ministes OF the interior before
January l, 1885.
An American observer finds that tho
planets, taken in order outward from
Mars to Neptune, show five of the seven
spectral colors, and in their proper order
Mars, red; Jupiter, orange; Saturn,
yellow; Uranus, green; and Neptune,
blue. The arrangement is singular,
though, of course, there is nothing really
significant in the correspondence between
the distances of these five planets from
the sun and the tints of the solar spec
trum nor does Mr.. Maxwell Hall, who
notices the relation, suggest that there is
any physical significance in it,
Vegetable tallow, which is obtained
from tree of the genus Hopea, growing
in the south OF Borneo, has been recently
studied by Mr.. Fielding, and found to
keep solid at temperature of 1876 Cen
tigrade, and mclt at 44.4 Centigrade. 1t
dissolves in cold ether and in hot acetone,
alcohol and turpentine. 1t is obtained
from the fruits Of the tree by terminating
| them in a humid place and then drying
| them in the sun, and boiling out the
grease. The tallow thus made in Java
and Sumatra is now used for greasing
machines, and in the manufacture
of candles. 1t also yields glycerine and
soap.
An ingenious way of turning an or
binary watch into an illuminated clock,
for showing the time by night, has been
arranged by NJ Joyeux, 1t consists in
projecting an image of the watch-face
on screen, which may be semi-tran
parent. The lamp is an ordinary oil one,
| anu IL Is pldCeu Ill u Sliluil poA h'toN'
with an. object glass which can slide out
and in little, in a telescope fashion, to
adj just the focus. The size of the re-
Elected image of the watch, which is hung
within the box behind the object glass
and illuminated by the lamp-light, is de
termined by the power of the lens ana
the distance of the screen.
Professor Thomson, in recent lecture,
informed his audience that the magnetic
pole is now near Boothia, Felix, or more
than 1000 miles west of the geographical
pole. In 1867 the magnetic pole was due
north, it having been eastward before
that year. Then it began to move west
wand until 1916, when the maximum was
reached. This is now being steadily di-
minished, and in 1876 it will again point
due north. Professor Thomson says that
the changes which will have been OBJ
served not only in the direction, but in
the strength of the earths magnetism
will show that the same causes which
originally magnetized the earth are still
at work
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Oyer.SenSitiyeneSS.

There are some people, yes, many
people, always looking out for sights.
They cannot carry on the daily inter-
course of the family without some
offense is imagined If they meet an
acquaintance on the street who hap
pens to be preoccupied with business
they attribute his abstraction to some
mood personal to themselves and take
umbrage accordingly. They lay on
others the fact of their irritability. A
fit of Indigestion makes them see I'M
pertinence in every one they come in
contact with. Innocent persons, who
never dreamed of giving olfense, are
astonished to find some unfortunate
word or mGmentary taciturnity mis-
taken for an insult. To say the leaS
the habit is unfortunate. There are
people in this world who have some.
thing to do besides talking, joking and
complimenting. There are persons
who get too weary to answer foolish
questions repeated again and again.
There are persons who now and then
appreciate the privilege of moments
thought or silence, and it is not need
full for over-sensitive persons to con-
strue WEAKNESS and care and labor into
Indifference, unkindness or contempt.
1t is far wiser to take the more charita.
BILE view of our fellow beings and not
suppose slight is intended unless the
slight is open and direct. After ALL
too, life takes its hues in a great
degree from the color Of our mind. If
we are frank and generous the world
treats us kindly. If, on the contrary
we are suspicious, men learn to be cold
and cautious toward us. Let person
get the reputation of being touchy and
everybody is under more or less re-
straint, and in this way the chance o!
an imaginary offense is vastly in
creased.
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A Test for Butter.

every housekeeper should know
how to tell oleomargarine from but
ter" said Washington market dealer
to New York Herald reporter. "The
market is full of bogus butter, so skill
fully made that it cannot be told from
the genuine article by the eye or the
tongue. To detect it market men
draw the blade of knife across the
suspected butter. Ii it is oleomarga-
rine the place where the knife was
pressed will look white, and the track
of the blade will be marked with little
beads of water When the test is
made with the genuine butter the
white look does not appear, but the
butter holds its color"
Another test is to drop piece of the
suspected butter into well-heated fry
ingpan. If it is oleon.argarine it will
sputter, because of the water in it. If
it is real butter it will melt and bubble
or boil, but not sputter. Any house
keeper can tell the difference.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19

the greater portion of their surface,
they arc reported to contain consider
able tracts of open arabic land, well
adapted to stock raising and agricul-
ture, also deposits of coal and other
minerals, and waters teeming with
cod, halibut, and other excellent fish.
Their sole inhabitants down to the
present time with the exception of the
agents of the IIudson's Bay Company
and recently of the Skidegate Oil Man
ufacturing Company, are the IIydah
tribe of Indians, now numbering about
500 souls. Among the Indians of tho
Pacific Coast they are distinguished
for their fine physique, intelligence,
mechanical skill, enterprise and thrift.
Owing to their isolated position =
though mariners, traders, prospectors
and missionaries have skirted the
shores of these jslands-they are at
the present time practically unexplored
and unknown. But the advancing
tide of emigration is now setting far
up the north coast and will soon in
wade the home of the Hydahs. The
route thence from Victoria is through
wonderland of unique and striking
topography, touching at numerous
Indian villages, trading and fishing
stations and missionary posts, present
ing a succession of scenes of absorbing
interest.-Portland (Or.) West Shore.
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Cal1fornia's Decayed Mining Towns.

All of the old California mining towns
are in a decayed or decaying condition.
Some of them, most fourishing from 1S49
to 1854 or 1856, are blotted from exist
ence and lost to memery, save in the i'm
mediate neighborhood where they once
stood. Nearly every one OF the placer
mining counties has some such melan-
choly unwrittcn histories of its own.
Perhaps I'll Dorado, where the first placer
was discovered has the most. In 1850
there stood an exceedingly lively town
on a stream known as Matthew's creek,
tributary of the Consumes, which
'forty miners christened by the preten.
tious name of Aurum City. The country
was full of cities in those early days.
Beside Sacramento City the county
of Sacramento had place to-
ward its eastern line called Prairie City,
which lasted till about 1865 and then
vanished out of sight, since then out of
memory. In 1856 the place known as
Mormon Island three miles east of Gran
lite, was large town. AT present 1t Is
mere shadow of what it was. In
1851 Aurum City contained population
of 1900, and that in those days
implied 1850 active workers in the
mines, at an average earning of ten dol
lars to an ounce per day to the worker.
In 1856 Aurum was in the list OF de-
cayed towns and ten years later it had
''gone glimmering amid the dream of
! things that were" Even the name OF
| Matthew's Creek is now extinct, save IN
| Ell Dorado county, where it constitutes
an election precinct, or did few years
ago; and the Cosumnes is now the mod
ern substitute for the ancient Macon
suma" river. Nobody from 1919 to 1854
called Placerville by any other name
| than "Hangtown, which it earned at
the hands of mob and by-and-bye ex-
changed for its present more euphonious
name. AS early as the fall of lS4S pros
! pecting had extended from Coloma, on
the South fork of the American. over to
Weaver creek and northward to the Mid
die and North forks, and eastward to
Weavertown, and the following winter
up to Placerville and Kelscy's. Within
radius of fifteen miles from Coloma
there were existing in the summer OF
1850 not less than twenty towns, "cities'
and camps, the largest being Hangtown
Diamond Springs, Mud Springs, George
town. Uniontown, Spanish Dry Diggings
Ringgold and Weavertown. All o
these, save three or four. have gone GU
of existence, and the three or four re
naming are now chiefly supported b.
orchards and vineyards. Francisc
Chronicle
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Facts About Leaves.

AS is well known, tree cannot grow
without leaves. These are put forth
every year, and are a continuance for
vastly increasing the surface. An oak
tree of good size exposes several acres of
surface to the air during the growing
season. 1t has been estimated that the
Washington elm at Cambridge, Mass,
not very large tree, exposes about five
acres of foliage, if we include both sides
of the leaves. Leaves are more nearly
comparable to stomachs than lungs. A
leaf is a laboratory for assimilating or
manufacturing raw materials into piant
fabric The cellular structure of the
leaves, wood and bark of tree is a
complicated subject to treat in popular
way. 1t requires a vast surface of leaves
to do little work. By counting the
leaves on a Seeding oak, and estimating
the surface of both sides of each, we
can see how many inches are needed to
build up the roots and stem for the first
year. After the first year the old stem of
the oak bears no leaves. 1t is dependent
on the leaves of the branches, or its
children, for support.
A tree is a sort of community, each
part having its own duties to perform.
The root hair takes up most of the nour-
ishment. The young roots take this to
the larger ones, and they, in turn, like
the branches of river, pour the flood OF
crude sap into the trunk. which conveys
! it to the leaves. The assimilated or di-
gested sap passes from the leaves to all
growing parts of the plant, and a de-
post is made where most needed. If q
branch is much exposed to the winds,
the base of it has certain support oil
certain amount of nourishment. So with
the trunk of tree. If the base of c
branch or the main trunk is much ex
posed to the winds and storms, mucf
thicker deposit of food is made there
The winds give tree exercise, which
seems good to help make it strong. Gu
toughest wood comes from trees grow
ing in exposed places The limbs of ;
tree are all the time striving with eacl
other to see which shall have the mos
room and the most sunshine. Will
some perish in the attempt, or meet will
only very indifferent success, the strong
est of the strong buds survive.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
willing TO Oblige Him.

A Chicago murder recalls very old
story of the Pacific Slope A good-na-
tured miner made his first trip to Sar
Francisco, with lot of gold dust for
sale. So long as he had business on
hand he attended to nothing else; but
his dust once sold, he felt at liberty.
He took bath, got shaved, bought a
suit of 'store clothes" and "biled
Shirt" registered at first-class hotel.
dressed. and then started out for a
good time. As he left the hotel door,
he met, standing there, a stranger
with a pleasant-looking face, who
nodded cheerfully to him. "Why.how
do you do2" said the miner, grasping
his hand with squeeze like a vice,
"Pm desperate glad to see you. Been
lookin' for you some time, stranger.
Let's take drink" The stranger
politely expressed his thanks, but de-
tllned. a puzzled look stole over the
miners face, then one of wrath, and
finally one of unmistakable sorrow
| Under the latter mood he burst forth
For heavens sake, stranger, don't de
me that way. I've just started out tol
a flyer, an l don't want to kill maa
in the first hour" The stranger re
nccted moment, and responded quiet
": sWell, am a minister of the Cos
pel. and do not drink; but if you fec
chat way about it, l guess Twill take
glass of soda water" 1t was fixed VI
on that basis.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
Dog Stealing in New York.

This is a lay pursued by boys with
much success, and it is surprising to
see the ingenuity practiced, writes the
New York correspondent of the Troy
Times. During the summer the gen.
tlemen generally have their canine
pets kept in their stables, which thu
boys contrive to enter under variou,
pretexts, and coax the dogs away b.
the use of little dainties. They then
wait till the pet is advertised and get
the reward. Another method is a..
follows: The pet dogs are frequently
taken out to walk, being held by y
cord. The boy-thief cunningly passe'
along and cuts the latter with hip
pocket-knife, then catches up the AMI
NAL and runs away with it. The AMI
NAL is then advertised and the thiel
gets the reward, which in some in
stances is $50. | noticed in one of ou'
papers fourteen of such advertise.
ments 1t may be mentioned in this
connection that the senior Bennett
founder of the Herald) was very fond
of dogs and kept number of the best
breeds at his Fort Washington estab
lishment. A butcher in that city once
mentioned that Bennett had paid him
$40 at one time merely for dog-meat
Rather heavy bill, but mere triGe
for millionaire. Bennett had waged
war on mankind with such bitterness
that he knew that his dogs were his
only true friends.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS.

The Queen Charlotte Islands, the
extreme northwestern lands of the
Province of British Columbia, are stu
ated in the Pacific Ocean, about COO
miles northwest of Victoria. They
are three in number-Provost, Mores-
by and Graham altogether about l5t
miles in length, Graham Island, The
largest. being 81 miles in width. Al
though in common with the whole
Northwest Pacific Coast region dense
forests and rugged mountains cover
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,

The value Of the dynamo electric
machine for use in tunnelling has
recently been demonstrated. The drill
is coupled to the spindle of the dy-
namo, and the electric power brought
by wires into the tunnel. The same
current serves to light the scene of
operations and fire the blast. More.
over, it could be employed to draw out
the trucks with earth and rock, and
with economy, provided the power
were supplied by some waterfall or
stream in the neighborhood.
Hitherto it has puzzled eminent sur
geons to account for sudden death
caused by apparently inadequate
wounds in the heart, such as those
made by the prick, without penetration
even, of needle. Herr Schmey, a
student of the Physiological Institute,
Berlin, has, however, just discovered
that when needle pricks certain
small spot on the lower border of the
upper third of the septum cords,
quite instantaneously the movements
of the heart are arrested and forever
set motionless in death.
Mr.. Z. Wethered has Investigated
the structure and formation of coal.
He concludes (l) that some kinds of
coal We're practically made up of
spores while others were not, these
varieties often occurring in the bells
of the same seam, and (2) that the So
called bituminous coal was largely
composed of the substance which he
termed hydro-carbon, to which the
wood tissue had contributed beyond a
doubt.
Some curious investigations have
been made by DR.. Richardson the ia
nous writer on the physiology Of alco-
hol, showing that mortality from that
substance has its regular seasons in
England, declining below the mean
from February to April, rising to its
maximum in July, declining again
until the close of December, anG
finally rising to the smaller maximum
in the first week in January. The
Government revenue returns are also
said to follow the same variation.
Mr. Richard A. Proctor holds that
if the full power of the arms and legs
can be so applied to ingeniously ar
ranged mechanism as to work wings
more or less resembling those of birt
there is little reason of doubling mans
power of sustaining himself in the ali
and even travelling with great rapidit.
through it. Probably, he adds, i
will be much easier for him to sustain
himself while travelling rapidly on
ward than while lowering over tn
same spot.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
Seven Wise Men Rafiled.

The N. Y. Nj rni n Journal, says that
Mrs. F. g. Kello; 6, 80 E. seth ST., was par
TALLY paralyzed, and lay for seven days in
commissions. Physicians were engaged and
discharged until seven had failed to help or
cure her. She was unable to leave her bed +,
and was as helpless as a child. After using
all sorts of salves, ointments. lotions and
plasters, her case was givenup as hopeless.
She was induced to try ST. Jacobs Oil as a
last chance She began to improve from the
time the first application was made, and by
its continued use, she has completely r.
covered
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
The Baboon and the Ostrich.

The baboon was on good terms with
all the animals of the neighborhood,
but took great dislike to some os-
riches which wandered about and Of
ten came close to him, not apparently
that they were necessarily unbeloved
by apes, but because they did some
very evil services unintentionally. He
liked to get on wall under aquantity
of straw, which protected him from
the sun, and there he dozed away.
Now the ostrich has very bad habit
of trying to swallow orpeck at every
thing; nothing comes amiss so that it
can be swallowed, and they, one and
all, are constantly pollirg here and
poking there for most curious tid-Dits.
This was the case with the ostriches
n the baboon's neighborhood, and it
now and then happened that as they
were ia the search for novelty they
noticed his fine stout tail hanging from
the top of wall. OF course the first
ostrich that was near gave it a good
peck with his strong beak, and doubt
less a good pull also. This was a most
uncalled-for liberty, and not only woke
up the sleeper and hurt him, but also
offended his dignity. He awoke full
of rage, and before the ostrich could
give second peck at the gristly NOR
sci the furious baboon rushed from
under the straw, seized his enemy by
the neck, and cuffed his head most
soundly. lie hated ostriches ever af-
ter. -CassePs Natural History.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
Vital Questions IL!

Ask the most eminent physician
OF any school. what is the best
thing in the world for quieting and
all irritation of the nerves,
and curing all forms OF nervous COM
plants, giving natural, childlike re-
freshing sleep always?
And they will tell you unhesitatingly
"Some form Of Hopsii!"
CHAPTER l.
Ask any or all of the most eminent
physicians:
"What is the best and only remedy
that can be relied on to cure all dis
eases OF the kidneys and urinary
organs; such as Bright's disease, di-
abetes, retention, or inability to retain
urine, and all the diseases and ailments
peculiar to Women"-
"And they will tell you explicitly
and emphatically "Buchuli"
Ask the same physicians
"What is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia,
constipation. indigestion, biliousness,
malaria, fever, ague, etc, and they
will tell you
Mandrakei or Dandelioa mr.
Hence, when these remedies are combined with
others equally valuable
And compounded into Hop Htters, such wonder
fu and mysterious curative power IL developed winch
Is varied in Its operations that no disease ut ~
health can possibly exist resist Its p1 weranu
Harmless for the most frail woman weakest invalid
or smallest child TO use.
CHAPTER II.
Patients
Almost dead or nearly dying 4.
For years, and given up by physicians, OF
Brights and other kidney diseases, liver COM
plaints severe coughs, called consumption
have been cured,
Women gone nearly crdzy!!!!!
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness, wake-
fulness, and various diseases peculiarto women,
Pc ope drawn out of shape from excruciating Ianss
of rheumatism, inllammatory and chronic, or suffering
from scrofua.
Eryslpelasl ,,.,'
'saltiheun blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in igeston.
and In fact almost all diseases frail'
Nature is neir 10 =
Have been cured by Hop Biters, proof of which can
be found In every neighborhood In the known world
EI-None genuine without a bunch of green Hops
on the white label Shun all the Vile poisonous stun
with Hop or Hops in their name
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
A contributor to London scientific

A contributor to London scientific
paper, says that very simple and
effective way of coloring a mereschaum
bowl is by painting it while you are
smoking, and after it becomes warm
with the creamy surface of good milk
Cor with cream by means of common
hair pencil, which brings out the
brown and yellow colors beautifully.
and as if by magic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19

Remember the poor" says an ex,
change. We will. We do. We can't
forget him. He charged us So cord
for saving wood and cut every last stick
of it four inches too long for any stove
in the house. We remember him. And
he'll remember us, if we can ever find
him, and hire man to hold him while
we starve him to death. --Haaokeye.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
The hair and beard of Jas. Campion

The hair and beard of JAS Campion
of Rochester. Mimi. (which had al
ways been so black as to give him the
sobriquet of "Black jim" suddenly
began to turn grey, and in less than
one week, says the st. Paul Pioneer
Press. became as white as the driven
snow. Mr.. Campion is about As years
old, was in perfect health at the time
and can assign no reason for the sin
Oular occurrence
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19

Six billion, seven hundred and fit
million gallons is the annual production
of milk in this country, one-half OF
which is used in the manufacture of
cheese and butter.