The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-25

males to one female The latter lays it
eggs in the months of June and July, IL
large quantities. Sea sickness never In
terferes with her plans.
To remove ship worms battle the bot
tom Of the ship every morning IN ho
borax water, rinse thoroughly in tepid
distilled water, wipe dry with coarse
crash towel, and then smear thoroughly
with creosote oil This should be KEPT
up for at least forth AIT, after which i
will be found that the worms are Sc
stupefed that they may be readily re
moved from their holes by means of 9
nut pick.
In preparing the above interesting de
scription of the Teredo, | am indebted
for valuable suggestions to tie Natural
History of the Tereda, by z. Percival
Wright, vol XIV; Monograph Of the
Family Teredae, by G. W. Tryon, and q
little brochure by E. Fl. Baumhauer, en-
titled Sur lie Taret ct les Moyens de pre-
sewer les Bots de ses Degats, or words to
that effect.
Seattle cut 1O0Q0O,0OO feet Of lumber
last year and had to import lot more
for its own use, aad yes it costs 800 an
acre to clear of and destroy the beauti-
full timber that now stands on what are
the lots and additions to the city. I saw
a pine tree growing in the park that was
| forty-four feet in circumference six feet
from the ground. Many others near it
were about as large.
Most every stranger thinks the snow
must have been very deep in Washington
in winter because the stumps are SO high,
some of them being cut off eight and ten
feet above the ground, but that is not 80.
learned very early that this pine Is ex-
tremely pitchy at the base or butt, so
much SO as TO be practically worthless,
so the lumberman cuts notch above this
Objectionable point and inserting spring
board with iron or steel points to it, he
mounts this little scaffold and cuts off the
tree at point which would have been
two or three feet above his head if heahad
stood on the ground.
To test the courtesy of the woodsmen
Mr.. Dearborn and l, one afternoon while
driving through the forest, assumed the
Parker house role of Boston tourists IN
search of information, and asked thirty
or forty different woodsmen about this
apparent depth of snow on the land, and
in each case got a polite and lucid ex-
PLANTATION of the whole matter, SO plain
and clear that anybody with a single,
disinfected brain could not help under
standing it. could not avoid contrast
ing this uniform courtesy of the piney
woods with the paucity of politeness and
intellectual desolatiOn sometimes met
with at the elevated railway gates and
other thought gangha of New York.
Seattle is called the Phoenix city. This
is because she was consumed by fire last
summer and is now almost entirely re-
built. The Phoenix was a tabled bird
which could rehabilitate itself after hav-
ing been consumed by fire, and was even
more bright and cheerful afterward than
before. Even the scorched feathers Of
the Phoenix, it Is said, did not smell dis
agreeably. Phenixes are now very
scarce, and setting of Phoenix eggs
this spring would bring a fancy price.
The day is not very distant when, like
the buffalo. the last phoenix bird will
have disappeared from our shores. Seat
tie is port of entry, and her land Office
shows more entries than any other In the
United States, it is said.
Human life is quite safe now in Seat
tie, the sanguinary Chinook having be-
come quite tame and 2ocile. entered
the cage of one of them while there and
remained twenty mi1u5eS- The Chinook
is essentially water fowl and is most at
home in dugout. When he lands he
loses his dignity, for he is knockkneed
and has gait like mud turtle with a
stone bruise Before one knee can pass
the other it has to have q written per
NIT. The squaws are industrious to
degree, bringing in to town every morn
ing large bouquets of dew laden clans,
which are sold at nominal price to the
people OF Seattle.
The churches are numerous and well
built, every denomination being repre-
sented The Methodist, Baptist and
Lutheran churches have services in three
languages, 80 that each may attend and
put up his petition in the language to
which he's most accustomed.
On the sound 1.-The typical American"
of whom we hear so much and read so
much in the books written by foreigners
who come TO our shores, smoke a cigar,
take drink and go home, practically dis
appears. 1t Is great congress Of repre-
sentatives from all states and all nations.
The Yankee, the reformed rebel, the
negro and the Chinaman lie down to-
gether, and the cosmopolitan children
Of the great globe, under gentle skies,
toll on together and prosper together.
The papers are handsome and metro
politan in appeararce-two in the morn
ing and two in the evening. A press
club was formed during my visit and
started of with splendid prospects.
Seattle has no horse cars. The talent
ed, versatile and anbideXterous bobtail
car driver can never enter there, and the
pleasing aroma Of the car stables does
not cling to the good clothes of the pas
senger when he gets OF. Two fine lines
Of electric cars. with four systems Of
cable cars which scoot up the hills and
across the ciUy. give q styled of rapid tran
sit which would put many an older city
to the blush
Along the water froa+ lots were iocat-
ed; then the tide water flats, covering
several hundred thousand acres, more
or less. were located as lots and staked