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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Dews are less abundant on islands
and on ships in midocean.
Darwin declared that insanity is
not peculiar to human beings He as
serted that animals often become in
sane.
The earliest known attempt at an
explanation of the rainbow was made
by Aristotle. 1t was along the line of
modern scientific Investigation.
Many psychologists believe that in
sanity is return to the habits of the
wholly undeveloped man. Professor
Freeman writes that at different peri,
DDS of insanity the action of the un-
fortunate patient becomes horribly
monkey-like.
Milk should be kept at q distance
from every volatile substance. and
milk which has stood in sick chambers
should never be drunk. The power
of milk to disguise the taste of drugs
as potassium, iodide, opium, salicy-
late, etc. is well known.
The depths to which the suns rays
penetrate water has recently been de-
termined by the aid of photography.
1t has been found that at depth of
BOB feet the darkness was to all in
tents and purposes the same as that
on clear but moonless night.
The Canadian authorities have de-
cided to test all cattle imported into
the Dominion with the Koch tuber-
culine lymph. ''If any animal is
found to be affected with tuberculosis
the owner will have the alternative of
taking it back to the place whence it.
came. or having it slaughtered with
out compensation.
AS far as is known swallows NIL
gratory flights are always carried on
by day. The fact that, though warb-
lers and other migrants are constantly
found dead around lighthouses, hav-
ing dashed themselves against the
windows of the lanterns, swallows
have never been known to meet their
fate in this way, furnishes strong
presumptive evidence of this peculiar
ity of the swallow tribe.
The habit of feigning death when
attacked is widespread among animals,
and Angus Gaines has found it in the
microscopic insect which produces the
itch. When he touched an itch in
sect with the point of needle it
feigned death, remaining perfectly
still for some time. This it did re-
peatedly. The same habit of "pos-
suming" has been found to character
ize several varieties of snakes
A medical paper reports cases from
Philadelphia hospitals where men who
have recovered from electric shocks
of upward of thousand volts ''folt
no pain whatever. AS in the reports
of several of these cases it is said that
the subjects moaned and writhed be-
fore recovering consciousness, it
would seem to be more accurate to
say that they did not recall their suf-
ferings at the time they made the
statement to their physician.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
a Useful Python.

Once, while passing through Dutch
farm, writes the author of "Three
Years With Lo Bengula," in Africa, l
went up to the house to buy some
eggs; standing in front of the door
was large barrel, and while passing
l carelessly tilted it up to see what
was inside, but promptly let 1t down
again, as there was a big python I'M
derneath. The Dutchman told me he
had shot at the snake some months
previously, and a few grains entering
the head, the reptile appeared to be-
come stupeied and unable to move
quickly. He then dragged it home,
and extracted the fangs, and it gradu-
ally became tame. The python, which
measured sixteen feet, was allowed to
crawl about the place at night, never
attempting to get away or do any dam
age; in fact, they found it useful for
killing rats and vermin. By day it
was kept under the barrel. The chill
dren fed the snake, and played with
it. l saw one of the little Dutch boys
drag it out, and pour two bottles of
milk down its throat, and then give it
six eggs, which it swallowed. When
they teased the python, it made hiss
ing noise and reared up on its tail ;
they were not bit frightened, and
would catch hold of it by the head,
and drag it along the ground over
their shoulders.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
The Yosemite Park Threatened

Galen Clark, the guardian of tho
Yosemite Valley, in his report recon-
mends that much of the underbrush
in the valley be cleared out. He de-
clares that the Indians by their an-
nual burning over of the valley kept
down this young growth, winch is
now hindrance to tourists and an
obstruction to clear views. Mr.. Clark
declares that there is serious danger
from fire, both in the valley and in
the Mariposa big tree grove. Two
hotels will be open next year in the
valley, the Stonemau AMI the Sent
mel. Upon tho latter improvements
have been mado amounting to s.,
900. New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

The Chicago Record states that in
very able and scholarly address de.
livered before the Kansas Irrigation
Association Judge j. S. Emery, of the
National Irrigation Society, put for
ward some facts of vital interest not
only to the inhabitants of arid States,
but to the whole Nation. 1t will
doubtless be surprise to most read
ers to learn that that portion of
America which may be considered as
practically arid and unproductive is
nearly half as big as all theeUnlted
States, save Alaska. Judge Emery
vouches for this fact and also for the
other fact, sustained by the opinions
of expert geologists, that of this enor-
nous area 100, ZOO, 900 acres can be re-
claimed by the use of proper methods
of irrigation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

extent taken the place of manual H.
Dor in grinding and polishing saws.
When the saws are polished they are
placed in machine which automati-
ca ly sharpen the teeth Then the
handles are fitted on and the laws arc
tested and packed.
In some circular saws the teeth are
inserted instead of being cut in the
disk. The teeth with their holders
are fastened in the rim of the disk SO
that they will not fly out when the
saw is tipping through log with its
edge racing 10000 feet a minute.
Yet, when dull, the teeth can he easily
removed and new ones inserted at the
saw-mill. To the unobservant all saw
teeth are alike, but the saw-maker
knows teeth as chisel, solid, beveled,
gullet, diamond, hook. lancet and
scores of others. If rip-saw is ex-
amined it will be seen that the teeth
are the largest at the handle, gradually
diminishing in size toward the tip.
Yet, to such perfection has saw-mak-
ing machinery been brought, ma
chine will take blank blade, and, be-
ginning with large teeth at the butt,
will bite out the teeth in uniformly
decreasing size to the tip. The strip
of steel, sometimes eight inches wide
and fifty feet long, which makes a
band saw, has its teeth cut by ma.
chinery. The strip is fed into the
machine after each bite it moves along
a certain distance aud the machine
bites again. Band saws are gradually
superseding circular saws in saw
mills, for on large logs two circular
saws are required, one at the bottom
and the other for the top, and some.
times the saws getting a trife out OF
alignment, do not track, and damaged
lumber results.
The band saw is an endless tooth
steel belt running at high speed
over wheel above the log and under
similar wheel beneath the log. With
it the largest logs can be sliced up
into boards, and, as the band saw is
thinner than the circular saw, the loss
OF lumber in sawdust is less and more
can be obtained from the log.-Cbi.
cago Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

Diamond powder and chips, and
even the finest dust, are of great value
in the mechanical arts. Brazilian
diamonds are now put TO n novel and
interesting use. A thin disk of steel,
seven feet in diameter, has spaces Mt
intervals of about one and one-half
inches. These spaces are filled in With
pieces of steel that exactly fit, and
into these are set the diamonds fixed
in countersunk screw-heads. They
are arranged in groups of eight, and
are SO placed that they do not follow
one exactly after the other in the cut,
but each line takes its own course.
This circular saw is used for cutting
up blocks of stone, and so efficient is
it that in less than two and one-half
years it has to cut out four hundred
and twenty thousand square feet of
stone, at cost OF triHe less than
two cents a square foot. In this time
it has been necessary to renew twenty
of the teeth, the average cost of which
has been about two dollars per tooth.
The Ledger.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
Wanton Destruction OF Game.

Our attention has recently been
arrested by n recent invention which
is q menace to wild water game, aud
an outrage on the sentiment and prac-
tice of all true sportsmen. A recently
devised pneumatic boat has for its
upper portion simply circular rub
Der float, arranged into water-tight
compartments, easily inflated with air.
Attached to this on the under side is a
pair of rubber wading boots. The
operation is very easy. The boatman
thrusts, his legs into the wading boots,
initiates his boat with air, propels him
self with his feet; his body being con-
cealed in his boat, which is covered
with loose sea weed, he can easily ap-
proach and mingle with the unsuspect-
ing water fowl to his profit and their
destruction. We do not know when
we have heard of more piratical ma
chine for the determination of our
wild game. Some gunners will un-
doubtedly use it, but the true sports
man never will. 1t might be well to
make target of this pirate boat and
its vandal occupant whenever it makes
its appearance on the water. Atlanta
Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

"Are you cold, Dolly?" he said.
"Not very, thank you," she replied.
care you?"
81? Oh! it doesn't matter about
me, dear. You are the important
member of this small community.
Are you sure you are not cold? Viii
you have my mufller?'
He commenced to take it off.
"No, indeed!" exclaimed Dolly,
preventing him. "Do you think I
would take it from you? But it was
kind of you to offer it-very kind |
You are kind to me-"
"Kind! !" said Tom, warmly. "Who
could help being kind?"
He pressed more closely to her.
Outside the snow was descending
heavily.
Dolly" said Tom, speaking low,
"have you quite forgiven me?"
She smiled, but did not say any.
thing. His arm stole round her
again. She made no effort to repulse
it. He looked at her face. The cold
had turned it dead white, but it was
beginning to glow again, and he
thought it had never looked prettier
"Dolly," he whispered, 81 love
you"
Her heart bounded. He loved her |
Oh! the blissful thought
"Dolly." he whispered again,
"could you care for me ever SO lit
tle?"
eyes" she murmured.
Their eyes, and then their lips, met.
After that don't think either of them
minded the cold much.
They were prisoned in that sancti-
fed doorway an hour before the snow
abated, and then it took them another
twenty minutes to get home. They
were received with rejoicings.
"We thought you had got lost"
said the master of the house.
Dolly ran straight into her aunt's
arms, and burst into n fit of sobbing.
"My poor child !" said the lady, ca
ressing her, ''you are overwrought;
and no wonder. Tom, you haven't
taken proper care of her"
ooh! but he has, said Dolly, smil-
ing through her tears. SIT isn't
that.
''She has promised to be my wife /"
said Tom.
The rest isn't worth telling.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
The Greater New York.

Some of the larger cities that are to
be distauced by Greater New York are
content to boast of their acreage. Chi.
cago has the biggest municipal acre.
age in the country, covering over 100
square miles, while New York covers
only about forty. Some idea of the
sardine civilization of New York can
be had by rejecting that it covers but
little more ground than Boston. What
is still more astonishing is that when
the Greater New York comes to cover
SIS square miles it will still be more
densely settled than Chicago. We
fancy Boston to be Il very crowded
city, with 1875 persons to tho acre.
New York has over So persons to tho
acre, and Chicago, with all her boast
ing, has but 10.7 to the acre. II we
are to estimate population by the
acre it greatly disturbs all previous
calculations. When the greater me.
tropolis is completed it will still have
more people to the acre than London.
Boston Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

Expert Moore estimates that it will
require about 50, 100000 per year for
the next five years for the physical
needs of the Atchison railroad system.
This amount is considered moderate,
as it amounts to less than $1,000 per
mile and includes many extraordinary
expenses, such as replacing wooden
with iron bridges, and contemplates
putting and keeping the road up to
the highest standard.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
THE RIDDLE OF WRECK.

Dark hemlocks, seventy and seven,
High on the hilI-slope sigh In dream,
With plumy heads in heaven
They silver the sunbeam.
One broken body of tree,
Stabbed through and slashed by lightning
keen.
Cnsouled and grim to see.
Hangs DER the hushed ravlne.
hundred masts, hundred more,
Crowd close against the sunset fires.
Their late adventure DER,
They mingle with the spires.
But one is lying prone, alone,
Where cleaning gulls to seaward sweep,
White sand of burial blown
In sheets about its sleep.
When lightning's leashed and sea is still,
Ye sacriacial mysteries dread,
5capegoats of shore and hill,
Your riddle may be read
Helen Gray Cone, in the Century.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

The visible working of the jaws in
chewing gum is not II pleasant sight,
and that it exasperates sensitive peo-
pie beyond measure is not unnatural.
A Buffalo coachman lost good posi-
tion the other day because he would
persist in chewing gum on the box
while driving. The severest criticism
levelled at certain regiments of the
Massachusetts National Guard at n
recent inspection was that many pri-
Yates and some officers chewed gum
on parade. The only persons who
really ought to be allowed to chew
gum are policemen, on night service
only, and members of football teams
in actual conflict. Buffalo CONNER,
cial.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07


The annual report of Governor
Renfrew, of Oklahoma, furnishes an
interesting picture of the wholly
unique American way of colonizing
and State building, according to which
new commonwealths grow up into the
Union as naturally as younger child
is born into family, on equal terms
with the rest from the beginning.
Oklahoma, it is true, Is not yet State,
but it is getting ready to become one.
AS the Governor remarks, at the orig.
inal opening of Oklahoma proper the
world beheld the strange spectacle of
a city of 10, 900 inhabitants built in q
day, and a Territory of 9400 square
miles settled in half a day. That was
four years ago. Its present popula-
tion is given as 250, 900, and the value
of it's property as $20,00O,000. Moth
ing there was begun more promptly
than provision for churches and schools.
Already there is school house conven-
lent to every family, G Territorial uni
versity, Normal School and an agri.
cultural and mechanical college. As
for churches, there are ninety-fve
Baptist, ffty-fve Congregational, for.
ty two Methodist, thirty-one Presby.
terian, twenty-four Catholic, and SO
on. 40 to Statehood, some desire to
have Oklahoma admitted at once; I;
others would wait little, hoping that
Indian Territory may yet be Joined
with Oklahoma, both making one great
State, in which case, says the Govern.
or, sit would be equal to the greatest
and, in my opinion, the finest State
west Of the Mississippi"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

1t is said that Thomas A. Edison
has been the subject of more biogra-
phies than any other living man. The
latest, entitled "The Life and Inven-
tions of Thomas Alva Edison" has
just been issued by an English firm.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

A Las Vegas New Mexico) news.
paper calls the attention of patriotic
New Mexicans to the fact that Arizona
has 119 inmates in its State insane
asylum, while New Mexico, with nearly
three times the population of Arizona,
has only fifty in itsasylum. Further.
Arizona's insane population has in.
creased thirty per cent. in the last
eighteen months. The newspaper
urges that "the next Legislature
should remedy this crying defect"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
An Eye TO Business.

"A proposal having been made in
London that boxes should be erected
in public thoroughfares for the recep-
tion of orange-peel and matches, re-
calls the story told of II young gentle
man of excellent principles walking
with an eminent surgeon. As they
neared his house, the lad kicked away
a piece of orauge-peel that lay on the
pavement into the road. The sur
geon said, "My dear boy, what are
you about?" aud replaced it exactly
opposite his own door. -Argonaut.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

Official steps have just been taken,
without opposition, to abolish the
only remaining toll road in Connecti-
cut, the Derby turnpike. Tie COM
pany was chartered about one hun
dred years ago.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07

Sixty-three years ago Daniel Web
ster had Isaac Barrett appointed q
page in the United States Senate.
Fiftytwo years ago the special posi-
ton of doorkeeper was created for
him, and he has held it since. He
now has the distinction of having been
in the service of this Government
longer than any man living.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-07
LOVE In A SNOWSTORM,
DY NJ. DARLINGTON BAYLEY.

HE was a little
Puritan maiden,
with honest gray
eyes and n sweet,
bashful face. Her
parents called her
Dorothy; h e T
friends, d o ii y.
She had been
brought up very
strictly, and it
was not without
misgivings tha t
her family allowed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-06

IRON IN CALIFORNIA.
A CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF AN IMMENSE UND
yELOPFD DEPOSIT.

CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF AN IMMENSE UNDE-
vELoPED DEPOSIT.
To the Editor of the "Cdtp'-SIR: In common,
no doubt, with the great majority of your read
ers, have been much interested in your recent
revelat tons regarding the magnitude of the
manufacturing industry of your City. 1t is
really marvellous when one considers the great
distance at which San Francisco is situated
from the source OF supply of the raw materials
which enter largely into its manufactured prod
ucts. This is especially so as relates to iron
work, in which your numerous extensive works
excel in mechanical construction. Of this COM
modify, in the form OF pigiron, steel billets,
rods and bars, thousands of tons are annually
imported into your City and not one pound pro-
duced in the whole of this great State. That
this is the fact is matter of more astOnishment
than the unwilling of your great factories for
within our borders, in less than twenty miles
of rail communication with San Francisco and
other tide water points, exists q great body of
bessemer ore OF unexcelled purity many times
demonstrated by the leading experts and
metallurgists of the country East and West. In
quantity inexhaustible, in purity with scarcely
rival-with none in the West, this mountain
of wealth slumbe unveXed by drill or powder.
Why is this so? We are told that reducing fuel
is high. Granted. So are trancontinental and
around-the-Ho freights on iron and steel in
the rough. California and Arizona have great
forests of accessible timber readily convertible
into charcoal, and charcoal-iron is not out
classed- Have we no capitalists with sufficient
nerve to thoroughly investigate the possibili-
ties of economic home production of one of the
which once established would take front rank
among the industrial affairs of this thriving
commonwealth? G. j. H,
Daggett, CAL, Aug. 1.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-06
RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS.

The State Board of Equalization COM
pleted the work of assessing the railroads
of the State yesterday, and the people will
be glad to note that it refused to grant any
further decrease of taxation on the roads,
but on the contrary raised the assessments
in the aggregate by the sum of S28S,OO
This is not much, but it is something.
When it is remembered that former boards
decreased the assessment of railroads In
the State from $17. 1853 mile in 1885 down
to 1926 mile IN 1892, it will be seen that
the action of the present board is at least
the beginning of right doing and promises
better results in the future.
As the present board is new one and
this is the first year of its work it was per-
haps justified in proceeding IN a cautious
and conservative way to rectify the errors
of former boards While the elaborate
tables and unanswerable array of figures
published by THE CALL yesterday showed
that much larger increase OF the assess
ments might have been made and still
have railroad property favored far above
that of the citizens generally, still, mas
much as something was done to check the
wrong, there will be no tendency to ad-
verse criticism. The board has taken a
long step in the right direction by raising
the assessments at all, and this in itself
will give no little satisfaction to the
people.
While, however, we accept with some
qualification the present raise, it must not
be supposed that THE CALL is fully salts
fed. The contrary is the case. When the
issue arises next year, we shall ask for a
still further raise of assessments and sub
nit again the unanswerable arguments for
it which we published yesterday. The
members of the Board of Equalization will
then have had fuller experience, and we
may reasonably expect them to act more
vigorously on behalf of the people and deal
more effectively in righting the great
wrong upon the taxpayers. In the mean
time what has been done, is at any rate an
improvement on the past, and for that we
may well afford to be thankful and rejoice
that our argument of yesterday on be-
half of the people was not wholly in vain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-06
PERSONAL.

DR.. A. J. House of Santa Ana is at the Grand
DR.. NJ S. Charles of Suisun is guest at the
Grand
DR.. and Mrs. J. L. Assay of San Jose are at
the Lick.
Rev. Richard II. Gushee of Los Angeles Is al
the Grand.
Judge ]. E. Prewett of Auburn is guest at
the Grand.
this City yesterday.
Superior Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is
staying at the Lick.
is visiting the City.
staying at the Grand.
Mrs. E. T. Buckingham, large fruit-grower
OF Vacaville, is at the Palace.
FL. A. Hebron, a leading merchant of Sacra-
mento, is guest at the Palace.
Chaplain w. E. Edmondson of the navy reg
istered at the Grand yesterday.
George F. Winslow, Medical Inspector of the
United States navy, is at the Occidental.
James II. Wadsworth, a banker OF Yreka,
came down yesterday and put up at the Lick.
S. T. Black, Superintendent of Public In
struction, came down from Sacramento yester-
day and is staying at the Lick.
Andrew Rocca, one of the owners of the
Great Western quicksilver mine, registered at
the Lick yesterday.
j. A. Barham, member of Congress from the
First District, came down from Santa Rosa yes
terday and registered at the Occidental.
w. J. Coombs, one of the Government direc-
tors of the Union Pacific and an ex-member OF
Congress from one of the Brooklyn districts,
arrived here yesterday on his tour of inspec-
ton of the railroads and registered at the
Palace. Mrs. Coombs is with him.
w. G. Purdy, second vice-president, seere-
tary and treasurer of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Western Railroad, with his family, from
Chicago, and Charles Kennedy. general north
western passenger agent from Omaha, arrived
here Yesterday and registered at the Palace.