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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
SPEAKING TO THE DEAF.
A Mistake rs often Made In Trying
to Enunciate Very Plainly.

Many people, and am sorry TO say
some teachers of the deaf, fail TO realize
lin practice at least-that speech is not
as clearly visible to the eye as it is aud
ible to the ear, and think that by, speak
ing slowly, word by word, and opening
their mouths to the widest extent, they
will render the task of the speech read
er easier. AS a matter of fact they rem
der it all the more difficult A child in
school may learn to understand teach
err who mouths his words in this man
ner, but this ability is of no value ito
him when he leaves school. Indeed per
fectly natural, deliberate speech is easier
to understand than the exaggerated
form of articulation which people are
apt to use the moment they know they
are talking to a totally deaf person.
People who depend entirely upon
their speech reading for understanding
others have requested me, when intro
ducing them to strangers, not to say
that they were deaf, because they find it
easier to read the lips when the person
speaking is not aware that he is being
understood in that way. have in my |
a young man educated
wholly by this method who travels
great deal and picks up acquaintapces
on the steamer or on the train just as
people do who possess all their facul
ties.
have in mind also a congenitally
deaf girl of IA who is not considered I'M
usually bright, yet whose speech is
clearly ineligible to strangers after the
irst ten minutes, who is intelligent on
he topics of the day, and whose larger
Ind more conversational repertory is
much larger ard more entertaining
han that of many young ladies of 20
nd over that have met in metro
olitan society.-John Dutton Wrightin
century.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
Dean Stanley ana Jennie Lind.

Dean Stanley actually suffered from
listening to music, and yet Jennie Lind
once told Max Muller he paid her the
highest compliment she had ever receiv-
ed. Stanley was very fond of Jennie
Lind, but when she stayed at his fathers
palace at Norwich, he always left the
room when she sang. One evening
Jennie Lind had been singing Handel's
81 Know That My Redeemer Livetb."
Stanley, as usual, had left the room, but
he came back after the music was over
and came shyly up to Jennie Lind
"You know" he said, 81 dislike music
don't know what people mean by ad-
miring Il am very stupid, tone deaf,
as others are color blind. But" he said
with some warmth, "to-night, when from
a distance / heard you singing that song
/ had an inkling of what people mean
by music. Something came over me
which had never felt before; or, yes,
/ had felt 1t once before In my life"
Jenny Lind was all attention. "Some
S"i9 ago. HS SOHtihuCui = was At
Vienna, and one evening there was a
tattoo before the palace performed by
400 drummers. / felt shaken, and to-
night, while lister ing to your singing,
the same feeling came over me; felt
deeply moved" "Dear man." she add
ed, II know he meant it, and a more
honest compliment never received in
III my life. "-Ex0hange.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
An Island of Chalk.

The English island of Thanet form
ing part of the county of Kent is
almost wholly composed of Chalk The
island is ten miles in length and about
five in breath, and has more chalk
exposed to its surface than any other
spot of equal area on the globe.
British biologists say that there are
not less than $4,000, 900 tons of
chalk ain sight" on Thanet, and that
it would take 10000 men and 5000
horses and carts 10000 years to move
it, providing it were dug up ready to
be carried away-ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
NOTES.

The moon rotates on its axis in ex
aetly the same period that it revolves
around the earth
AT Andre du Poirier. France, there is
a coal mine 3,oS5 feet in depth. Is this
the deepest coal mine in the world?
A huge wine cask constructed at
Paris in the year 1895 is % feet high
and has capacity of 1910 gallous.
The skull of Douglas, the famous Ute
chief, is now used as paper weight by
an editor in a Colorado mining town.
The "Brashe $40 gold piece" which
was struck at Newburg, N. Y, in 1886.
was the first upon which az Pluribus
Unum" appeared.
Arkansas has town named Credit.
Iowa one named What Cheer and Flor.
ida one called Hurrah.
George Greenwood. born at Maiden,
Mass, In 1896, lived to good old age,
but never sprouted a single hair on
either head or face.
A window pane at Argyle, n. Y, has
ipon 1t "lIghtning photograph" of an
I'D lady who was sitting near It during
IN electric storm.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
queer Things About Cats.

Perfectly white cats are invariably
deaf; they are sure to be If they have
blue eyes.
The Egyptians considered the cat q
sacred animal and usually mumefid its
remains.
The cats of the Isle of Man and those
of North Borneo are all tailless.
All of the mummy cats unearthed in
Egyptian tombs have red hair.
There are three times as many mus
cles in the tail of cat as there are in
the human hand and wrist.
At the end of each hair of cats whis-
kers is bulb of nerve fiber which makes
that particular hair a very delicate
''feeler."
A cats head has regular partition
wall projecting from its sides inward,
which naturalists say is a provision
against conclusion of the brain.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
jules Verne.

Except when he brings out one of his
marvellous books, we hear little of NJ
Jules Verne, but the fact is that he is
leading very quiet life at Amiens. AL
though 66 years of age, and wearing the
appearance of retired general, he is
full Of energy and as hard working as
of yore. He is now busy in the execu-
ton of his plans for publishing a series
of stories bearing on different countries.
Before beginning a particular work M.
Jules Verne reads up a number of geo.
graphical, historical and other books
treating on that part of the world, and
as he goes on the plot gradually germi-
mates in his mind. He Is. indeed, an
active and laborious toiler. He rises regu-
larly at O'Clock in the morning, and
writes steadily until noon. He retires
TO rest at nine, except on two evenings
in the week, when he accompanies his
wife 10 the Grand theater, dining before
at restaurant opposite the building.
This Is his great treat, and he is fond of
-emarking that on these occasions he
md his wife enjoy themselves just as i'll
hey were young couple on their honey
noon. AS a matter of fact, M. and
Madame Jules Verne have not been near
Paris for the last eight years, and find
hat their life at Amiens suits them per-
ectly.- London Telegraph.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
COIN CuRIOS.

Rome's first coins were of brass anC
weighed 1000 grains.
Two thousand four hundred and fifty
three years B. c. China had iron coins
in the shape of daggers.
Plucheria, empress of the eastern EN-
pire, was the first woman to have her
face pictured on a coin.
The heaviest gold coin minted by the
ancient Romans was the aureus, worth
about $s.o3 in United States money.
Roman coins of the very earliest date
were ali Inscribed with the figure of an
OK on one side and a wreath on the
other.
The very first attempt to represent
face on a coin waa that made by Archie
laus of Macedon, B. c. 400.
Simon Maccabeus in the year 143 BIC.
struck the first regular Hebrew of which
we have authentic record.
The St. Patrick half peuny, an Irish
coin. has upon its face representa- on
of the saint in the act of expelling the
serpents from Ireland.
The mite, mentioned in the Scrip
lures, was Greek coin which circulated
freely in Rome and Palestine.
about IS grains.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
The Clay Eaters.

In several localities in the South IN
the mountainous regions of GEORGIA
South Carolina and North Carolina in
particular, there are families or even
whole communities, which use CLAW as
part OF their regular diet. In North.
ern Alabama lin Winston County,
mere is a bed of this peculiar edible
clay F.; and, of course, community of
clay eaters. This queer clay is Of
ghastly white color, of an oily nature
and according to chemical ANALYSIS II
has extraordinary nutritive propertv if
considered only as variety of earth
Persons who have visited the cIov
eating communities say that a steady
diet of this white, oily earth has ten.
dency to turn the skin pale olive
green. Some medical writer's claim
mat this deathly pallor is caused bv the
presence OF a large per cent of arsenic
n the clays composition. but this can
hardly be when the clay eaters live &C
ong or longer than their meat. grain or
'egetable neighbors. The teeth of the
lay eaters often remain sound and
'nite to beyond the seventh wear.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

No one knows exactly when or where
the original coin was "struck" or what
metal was used. Certain passages in
Homer would lead to the inference that
brass was coined as early as the year
rIao B. {. But Herodotus, the acknow.
lodged "Father of History" is of the
opinion that the Lydians invented"
coins some time during the ninth cen.
tury B. c. One of the Oldest coins now
known as gold daric, coined by the
Persians during the reign of DARIUS. On
one side of this coin is a bust OF Darius.
and on the other side fignre of a
kneeling archer.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
spoons.
hc American

you desire to know about the scar
city of really reliable data on the history
of spoons, take down your handbooks
and encyciop edias and see if it doesn't
take you long while to learn anything.
concerning their origin, nativity" etc
In fact, the antiquarians do not pretend
to give us anything OF value in that line.
1t Is admitted that they are every an
Gent" but just exactly how old they are
and by whom and where they we're first
used are points upon which we are left
completely in the dark. CreightoR says;
spoons must have been a very ancient
invention, for Saxon spoon of perfo-
rated silver gilt, ornamented with gems,
was found III grave at Sarre, Thanot."
When forks were unknown, spoons
played very important part at the
table. Spoons of the thirteeth century,
and even later, had handles terminating
in knob, knot, acorn, or other odd and
cumbersome devises. About the period
OF the Restoration, of which so much
is said in English history, a great
change was made in the forms of
spoons. In some of the unique patterns
the "spoon" part was divided into two,
three and even four parts, and the
handle always split or twisted and turn
ed up, instead of down and back.
Spoons of that period were all blunt,
Instead of being pointed, as in the forms
generally seen. at present. They con-
inued short and blunt down to the time
Of George l., when they were first made
pointed and had the handles turned.
Town instead of up.
About the year 1850 what were known
IS apostle spoons" were introduced.
They were so called because they had
he figures of the twelve apostles carved
lPon their handles. They were gener-
lily given by sponsors to children. at
he time of baptism. The wealthy pre-
ented the entire twelve, those who.
ouid not afford to indulgs in such ex.
-avagance giving one or more, accord
ig as they felt able.
The most curious and remarkable
boon in the world, perhaps, is a "coron-
ion spoon" preserved among the other
'yal relics in the Tower of London
he bowl is of gold and the handle sill
er. The handle is split down the mid
e and set with all kinds of precious
ones. The relic is valued at about
10000 or upwards of 100000.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
Family Arithmetic.

In negro colony near Sodus Point,
Mo, lives couple who seem TO be
gifted with sort of arithmetical pro.
gression in family affairs They are
named Mr.. and Mrs. John Newport and
their ancestors were slaves in the PENN
sula portion of Virginia. The couple
we're married in 1873. Six years later
Mrs. Newport presented to her husband
pair of twins which were named Robert
f. Lee and George Washington. In
1890 triplets were born. They were
James A. Garfield, Chester
A. arthur and Ulysses S. Grant. Two
weeks ago there was another birth, and
the result was quadruples. Both father
and mother used to be Republicans, but
In 1892 the father adopted the Democra-
Tic faith. So, when 1t came to naming
he new arrivals, Bryan's three names
we're utilized, but as sop to the mother,
who still remains a Republican, the
ourth pickaninny was named William
Mother and babies are do
ng finely.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
We see Red Quickest.

All 'colors are not equally quickly
perceived by the eve. When, in grad
ual succession, luminous rays of all pos
sible frequencies are caused to strike the
eye, we obtain in successive graduation
the sensation of all the coIors of the
spectrum. The waves which most slow
ly affect the eye produce a sensation of
red; those which act somewhat more
rapidly, sensation of scarlet; then in
succession we find, as the frequencies
increase, that the sensations produced
are those of orange-red, reddish-orange.
orange, yellow-orange, orange-yellow,
yellow, greenish yellow, yellowish-
green, green, blush green, greenish-
blue, blue, blue-violet, violet. Waves
If still greater rapidity than those which
produce the sensation of violet are prac- |
ically invisible to the eye.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

same tongce that was used by Plato,
Demosthenes ard Plutarch. The Greeks
OF today, he says, speaks a language
which Pericles and Socrates would un-
deniably have understood.
Dr. Rose, In attacking the method of
teaching Greek in the schools, has his
adopted daughter as evidence of the sue
cess of the methods he favors. Many
prominent men are in sympathy with
his work, and have spoken enthusiast
.ically Of bis chiId's accompIishments.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
Famine Bread.

In times of famine bread has been
baked from "wood bran," or saw
dust, and husks of corn. This wood.
bread is made by selecting the sawGust
of the least resinous wood-the beech
for examPle-and washing it with water
to remove any soluble matter. It is
then dried in an oven and reduced to q
fine powder.
With the addition of little -four
some yeast and some water, it forms =
dough which, when baked, constitutes
bread much resembling in ordinary ap-
pearance and taste the common Brow
bread of the bakers.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
The Mystery OF Life.

The questions, "What is life" and
"What is death'" have often been asked
but have never yet been answered in a
manner that was entirely satisfactory to
the biologists and other investigators.
Years agoit was asserted that the mys-
terry was on the eve of solution, and
that the pursuit of the vital principle
was about to end in a discovery of its
various workings. Three or four years
ago the British scientist announced that
1.-THE discovery of the cellular principle
of all life has been discovered, and. if
the conclusions of the most eminent
thinkers are to be takenIinto considera.
ton, the great secret of life itself Is
about to be disclosed" About the same
time London cablegram asserted in re-
cent years that the chemists will soon
be able to compose the necessary parts
Ind conditions of living thing and
,reate life itselfw 1t Is not necessary
o inform the host of intelligent readers
hat the necessary parts and conditions"
# living things have never as yet been
mixed in a chemists laboratory. I'm
i this is done the mechanical theory
t life, 10 which so many biologists
dhere, will remain unproven.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
when The SUN VIII Rurn Hin.

That the sun is slowly but surely be-
ing consumed by its own fires there is
but little doubt. No one can tell.
however, to a certainly whether it is or
not. Astronomers say that its diameter
could be reduced feet per day for 5000
years before the finest instruments
could detect the fact that any reductions
have taken place.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

familiarIY Eknown al the "lead tTeeT

q
Familiarity Eknown as the "lead tTee-'
The effect thus produced is due to the
superior affinity of the zinc for the
acetic acid combined with the
lead, and which causes the two met
ais to interchange places-the zinc COM
bining with the acid and entering into
solution and the lead being deposited in
the metallic state in place of the zinc.
If the action be kept up long enough
every particle of lead may in this way
be Withdrawn from the liquid. Scienti-
ic American.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

The inhabitants of the Andaman Is
lands are said to be the smallest race of
people in the world. The average height
of full grown Andaman Is less than
four feet, and the anthropological ex-
perts who recently visited them found
but few that weighed over rs pounds.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

United States Senator Edward Q.
Woleott Is the guest of Baron Roth
schild at his country house In Herford.
shire.
Edward S. Emerson of Concord, son
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has been cho-
sen as poet for Phi Beta Kappa day at
next June.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

ohe-Have you any poor relations?
He-None that I know.
She-Many rich onesl
He-None that know me-Tit. Bits
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22

Mamma-Johnny, when you feel an.
cry, you should always counter before
you say anything.
Johnny-But 1t takes too lone D.,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03
WHERE SOLD.

Locality: Cascade mountains from the
Columbia 20 the Fraser. Uses: Ornamen-
tai trees.
e. Ab4es nobiMs 0Andl) noble FIR To-
caiity: Cascade mountains from Mount
Hood to Mount Baker. Uses: Wood highly
priced for interior ....ish. etc.
81 Ab.es Ynagn.hea tMurray). magnifl-
cent FIR Locality: Sierra Nevada and
Cascade mountains. Uses: Bridge tim
bers, lumber, etc.
g. Abies Iasiocsrpa Cetutf). suealpine
mr. Locality: Cascade mounsains. Uses:
Ornamental trees.
S. Pssudotsuga taxifofa (BrGon).
Douglas spruce. or fr. Locality: Through
out Pac.ac coast Uses: Princlpa. lumber
tree OF the Northwest: trees also used for
ornament in parks and gardens.
g. Tgnsa merfenslana CARR. herrlock.
Locality. Pacific coast from Msndocsno
20 Alaska. Uses: Bark used Tor tanning;
wood useful for lumber
"a Tsuxa pattonsaaa tEuElD. Alpine
heml0ck Locality: Pac-Fc coast mount
ans Uses. Ornamental trees; timber and
tanning
e Pfces sItaaensls Carr. tide land
snrucs. Locally: Northern Pacific coase.
Uses: Lumber. wo0see ware musical ia
sarumea5s, boxes, &c.
% Picsa engsefnsuui fEnKi). Engis-
rrrann's spruce Locality: Northern Rocky
mountains ard Cascade range. Uses:
Timber.
y Tarlx oecisenaaisa C,Sartt.). weze ira
iarch IsatnlNy: Cascade ard Rocky
mountains north 70 SeIkirS mountains.
uaes: Timber.
n Lark Iyalln Cpar1as1. woody larch.
Isc-sltv: Cascade Ts1gs and northern
Rocky mountains Uses: Ornamental
trsss.
"A Plnus oos7torta (Douxi). scrub pine.
T,oenIs+y: Pacific rsaSg from Msndocf1o 90
Alaska Uses Fuel
=. Plnus ngentioota cDougf). white pias
Locality. Throaghos4, IAacaac co2Ez from
Moan shassa . Erltish Columbia Uses:
T4ssEaper.
e Pinus lambertisna eD0Jgi1. sugar
pine TsoeaIsgy: Cascade SD Sierra Ne
vafkx rnsu8ssszas. Uses; Lumber.
= Pfnas sIsscaGlls lEugil. whFs-Szrk
cfna Isgrallty. sierra Nevada Cascade
ara Rreky rl0grnr2lrs
* Pln9s p0nderosa Dough-. western
yeeorw psEe. Loeslaky. Throughout shs
&sr1tFy s1ss. Iees. Lsfmosr.
ED1oND & AfE.A%Y.
P.ss.dsat State Forestry Association
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03

asscs 90 co-cuer. o-ty two naenths age
enc large shipper the -. Pau and Tseo-
IA Lumber Company. OF TzcouA cent
rsrresenta-.vs TO HAWAII Ce:rss Japan.
Australia ana c.hsr sorssg1 countries -
estab1tsh Few Business rsatt-ns aac ether
eraaz. II n believed, VIII toEsow sur u y
ccnfdezfly expected thai South AerscA
ard Australia wEi again ss large buyers
snis year. Tia latter aas net ceugst
rsucn iurscer since 1851. willie ms former
(. now In shape 20 use an Increasing 1aan-
stty. Not much car be expec.ed o. Eu-
rope aa1 the sast coast CT Scnsn Africa
untE TIE compilation OF ere Nicaragua
canal WHEN tbs lumber Industry of rhs
Pzcanc coast viii receive iss greatest TN
retas However. thers VIII always Pc Q
Tood demand for spsciaEtss net obtain
ed elsewhere.
REGARDING the Eastern traAs the manu-
fscturses confidently ioook forward g
large trade this year. Siaos lss3 very 1t
e. building hzs been done In ths Eastern
sts.ea and what ha. been Sens
has been II compssi.ion vita Canadian
lumber white pine from the std NoEta-
west and yellow pine from the SOUTH, AL
OF witch were soli a. lower prices than
ever oefoFe. The placing o. duty en-
Canadian lumbar early after sns fnSnsa-
ration OF Mckinley win leave the white
and yellow pine In coed eaRpe and create
. demand tor Ar. cedar and sorucs from
this stats. Ia fact The small Stocks on
hand Ia me country towns. the needed
building which must b done. togeshss
with The tacs thea the snhanoed
values Of cereals VIII give the
farmer money. ali carry oas tas
ceduotiea. However, 40 far - the
demand from this state f. concerned,
sniy the upper grades can be sold Il the
Mn1ber1aen can secure q lower freight rate
this year the common grades viii be IN
large demand. Such al event would start
up the many tdls mills and raise the
price OF stumpags. A reduction OF 10 cents
in freight rates means q difference OF
from use TO s. per 1000 feet. which would
enable Us 20 compete vita white and vel
low pine.
As regards red cedar shinglea. the de-
uard this year must be larger thar last.
Red cedar shingles are very much in Ia
vor IN tka East, the consumer preferring
them TO any other shingle made. Shingles
cut IN the forests OF this state find a mar
ket in nearly every state IN the Union.
and IL the demand exceeds t9e supply. an
advance in prices will surely follow. AZ
present there Is TO money 70 be made IN
tbs trade. there being q plethora OF mills
and competition keen.
VICTOR II. BECKMAN.
EciteT Pacific Lumber Trade Journal
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03
THE EXPORT TRADE.
Shipments to Foreign Ceuntries
Great as Ever-Big Contract
for an English Dock.

The export or lumber from Puget sesna
has held its own during the past ivs
years with the Eastern ran trade, and ~
prospects are that II VIII increase IN lN
The success that has crowned the sfuta
of the Washington rnillmen In securing
large share Of the worlds lumbW use
has been attained against great d'sedna
tsges. especially as far - the markeh
the Eastern hemisphere are eonoer0sa
Especially now that Washington d
coming into such large use In Engiiaa
and continental countries u the mesa ~
the speedy completion Of the Nietrasa
canal felt.
If Europe requires washington OF
such an extent that II 10 willing 70 o'a~
Il and have IL conveyed around the Net.
involving a long, stormy voyage ana e's's
OK psnse. to what an extent would PEI w
trafIe be increased by completion = I'm
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03
THE LOGGING INDUSTRY.
Thousands Employed In Cutfin q
Raw Material for sswmiiis
to Cmt Into sticks.

Laundering IA the best developed OF
Washington Industries and tho Oldest n
point % tirne. Il has always been pre-eEni-
nent ard will FOR sons time 70 come at
least. keep pace with ths RAPID growth os
other Industries Early IN he century
Maine became the chief lumber state Of
ire UnIan. and Tor years ret4ineG hsr So
preInzey. Then her adventurous and sx-