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ANTIQUE OAK THAT IS OLD
Sesssifui Resulss whh Pieces Buried Us- der Chicago 1000 Tears Ago.

White oak logs that have been bur jed under the site of Chicago for 1000 years have just been put to use. Prof. Ossian Guthrie, the Chicago geologist who has studied the local strata and helped to unearth the remnants of some of these. prehistoric trees, has Just come into possession of two toilet brushes made from this ancient oak, that have surprised the manufactur- CT of imitation antique" woods by the wonderful color and polish of which the genuine antique oak is cap able. No precious woods that have ever been imported into Chicago are so maryefously beautiful as these specimens with which Prof Guthrie has just been presented.
 Most of these prehistoric logs have been resurrected from the 7,000-year- old graves to be divided up among the museums and universities of the coun- try. Walnut, willow, beech and most of the modern native woods have been dug up under these glac1al deposits and alluyium of seventy centuries, but the white oak, the same tree evidently that fourishes in the parks to-day. has been preserved best of all.
 Some frightful cyclone appears to have bent and laid low the trees at first. The iron fibre is bent and twist ed in nearly all of them in one partics ular spot in the trunk, and it is evi- dent that this was the cause that first buried thR giant forests under the sands an0 alluYium. Some of these trunks have been followed by Prof. Guthrie in the excavations for streets and houses for many feet. One trunk in Sheffield avenue, was unearthed for seventy feet.
 Evidently this forest was the first growth after the glacial period. It lies close to the glacial clay, under the al luyial drift, at q general depth of four teen feet. The cyclone apparently laid the forest low, and the sand and drift were blown up from the lake and eoV- cred it. The water formed an. air tight capsule about the trunk, aud kept 1t from deeaying.
 Of late years, however, the surface sewers have drained the water" away from the trunks, and the bark and out CT layers Of wood have gone to decay. The iron fibre of the inner wood is still intact in most of them, however. The wood from which Prof. Guthrie's souvenirs are made was dug up near the corner of Calumet avenue and Thirty-ninth street, where many of the trunks are sbeing chopped away in sewer eXcavating.
 No imitation antique wood has ever attained the singular beauty of this old oak. It is dark, almost a greenish black, the result of hundreds of years discoloration by the surrounding wa. ter. The polish which it has attained is unlike anything ever seen by wood importers. The fibre of the wood was found almost as tough as fae wire in working it up.
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The Tvnewriters spread.

There are probably few even among those who use the typewriter who have any proper conception of the variety and universality Of the ingenious sub- stitute for the pen.
 Although only in It's very early vouth. it has already penetrated into every corner of the earth. It has gone with invading armies and explorers in 10 the very heart of Africa. Lieutenant Peary has introduced 1t to polar ice and it has travelled thousands of miles over Siberian snov-s. It travels with every army and feet, and it was one of the first things rescued from the sunken Maine.
 Two of the most costly typewriters helone to the Queen and the Car of Russia. They are exquisite machines of white enamel and gold, with keys of livery. The Queen Regent of Spain nses one for her correspondence. the Khedive possesses one. and. in fact, there is scarcely court in Europe where the typewriter has not place.
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Snakes Do Swallow Their Young.

I met with a curious incident some
 years ago while hunting snakes in the swamps at Melrose l came across a male and female striped with numer- ous young ones. The parents were near each other, the family crawling over and around them. 1 was going for them, when. on second thought, l con- cluded to watch them. They did not appear to be frightened, but went on gamboling about for some time. we3t a little nearer when both snakes turned toward me, making a faint noise, and placed their heads fiat on
 the ground. It was curious sight to see these snakes, not long born, some of them foot or two away, turn at the noise, and instantly seek refuge in
 their parents wide-open mouths. l am certain it was a note of warning of danger. I caught both snakes and put them in separate bags. The female had ten young and the male had swal- lowed five. This is the first instance of any notice of a male snake perform ing this affectionate duty for its young. I placed the whole family in a box. where they lived peaceably a long time. From Forest and Stream.
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pussv,s victory over an Eagle.

A tiger cat, belonging to Farmer Hazard, of .Herrick, Susquehanna county, was strolIing out toward the barn somes time ago, carrying in her teeth a piece of meat for her young. A bald eagle, which had been lowering over the farm for week, suddenly de scended upon her and whirled her up ward in rapid vertical flight.
 The path Of ascent, to the eye of spectator watching the scene, was clearly indicated by loose feathers xiolently tossed from the point of con- bat. In a brief time the struggling pair came to standstin in the sky. The eagles wings had dropped now and then, and he had given plain evil dence of pain and terror, yet not once had his awful grip appeared to relax. At length a descent was begun, with a rapidity which increased every mo- ment. and the two animals struck the ground at the point where they had at first encountered each other. but the eagle was dead. and the cat, as soon as she felt terra frma beneath her feet. shot away for the barn, still carrying her bit of meat.
 Investigation showed that the cat had cut the eagles throat and so lacer- ated it's breast that its body was'liter- ally laid open. After the death in mid- air, however, the eat had been too clever to relax her hold and thus fall to the ground, but let her enemy serve R parachute to ease her descent.
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MAKING PEARLS TO ORDER
Nusssi and oys;er Being Domss.lcats ed and
 Taught the Jeweiry Businsss.

Diamonds, rubies, emeralds and san phires have all been produced in the laboratory and it is now the turn of the pearl. The chemist, however. ia not himself the maker of the new arti. fcial pearls; be is only the collaborator It IS true that false pearl are made rom mother=of-pearl, but their lustre IS hot up 10 the mark. The Chinese have long introduced grains of sand and little knots of wire into the shell of the pearl oyster in order that the animal, to relieve itself from the irri- tation so caused, may coat the foreign substance with pearl If this matter be Inserted between the shell and the mantle the oyster can eject it bv con- fractions of his body. To prevent this M. Boutan, French experimenter. has trepanned the she'll and introduced a small bead of nacre, which might. how- ever, be true pearl of a small size. through the hole, and fixed it by means of cement to the shell. This bean was ln course of time covered with nacre by the oyster, and a fine large pearl was the result. Dealers cannot distin- gulsh 1t from an Oriental pearl. The question of making pearls in this way was recently discussed at meeting of the Acedamies des Sciences. Paris, and NJ. Berthelot. the famous chemist, ob- served that such a pearl could only be considered a true pearl if it had at least a hundred layers of the pearl naere; otherwise it would only be. foreign substance covered with nacre. Of course, if the. foreign matter is a pearl itself this objection disappears, and we have the means of producing pearls at will. According to NJ. La cage Duthier, some two years would be required for haliotide to produce a big pearl. The artificial pearl of the trade, fabricated from nacre. could also be coated in the same way. Evi. dently the pearl mussel and oyster are about to be domeshcated for the prod- uction of pearls, as the spider for silk. Pearl divers may become a legend of the past.
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Tha First Past Omce-

The fact that there is a regular mai route through Alaska, and that even remote towns in Africa are not with out postal facilities, is in these progress. sive times accepted quite as a matter of course. Yet this wonderful system, which has reached out until it includes every country on the face of the earth, had it's beginning in the mind of an in- genioEs Erenchman wlQ lived less than two hundfed and fifty years ago.
 In 165S early in the reign of Louis XIV M. de Yelayer established a pri. vate penny post, says the writer in Harper's Round Table. Boxes were set up at the street corners for the recep. ton of letters. Offices were opened in various quarters of Paris; collections were made once day from the street boxes, followed many hours later by a single delivery, and thus the first Post Office in the world was established.
 NJ. de Valayer was so greatly eneour. aged by the success of his enterprise that, in order to develop it still further, he printed certain forms of billets or notes which were intended to cover all the ordinary requirements of business in great towns. These forms contained blanks which were intended to be filled up by the pen with such special matter as might be necessary to com. plete the writer's object. The idea at once became popular, afd the printed forms accompanied the eXpahsion of the postal service throughout the larger cities of France and it was many years before they fell into dis uSP
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DOGS HAVE QUEER DlsLIkEs
Here Are Some Curious and Amusing Cases
 in Point,

Animals. like human beings, have been known to exhibit strange antipa- thies toward certain persons and things, dogs, perhaps, more so than any other of our four-footed friends.
 That famous canine, Oriel Bill, of Ok ford, was for a time such violent hater of postmen that it was not safe for any uniformed letter carrier to ap- proach the Mitre, where Oriel Bill held undisputed sway. Accordingly, ar- engagements haj to be made for all mis- sives to be held at an adjoining house by the postmen in order to save their feelings-physical as well as mental and the dog from venting his curiou aversion upon them.
 The same precautions had to be taken in the case of another but less famous, canine. Until a postman was foolish enough to throw stone at this animal. without the least provocation, it was on good terms with all the letter car- riers who called at the house. After that, however. a furious hatred of Her Majesty's postal servants took posses sion of this previously amiable cur, and when it had severely bitten one of the postmen they all refused with one ac- cord to deliver letters at the house. At hotel in a West of England town there is a dog which exhibits an in- tense dislike for soldiers. What are the why and wherefore of this feeling to- ward the redcoats it is impossible to say, but the sight of one has the same effect on this eccentric canine as red rag has on a bull The consequence Is that the dog has to be kept severely under restraint, so that soldiers can come and go without running the risk of losing portion of their anatomy in the process. What makes his antipathy toward them all the more remarkable is the ct that the animal shows de- eided partiality for policemen.
 A terrier belonging to friend of the writer will run a mile at the sight of siphon. When it was considerably younger than it is now it's owner de- luged the dog with a siphon of soda water, and ever since it has exhibited mortal dread of siphon, full or empty. The remembrance of that unexpected bath is evidently responsible for this 1 extraordinary aversion. s84A
 One Man's Luck.
 Fortunes come to some men almost
 St their will. MT. Herbert Molly
 sS hard, but could not dispose
 in the Riyas diamond mine
 He now asks e225,00O.
 Sompany is negotiating
 Echase. and the prics
 Ato pay, should the
 Ny, is variously es-
 100000 to G2.000.-
 Is Plant.
 IS the laughing
 a. Is so
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An Immense Coral Reef.

The great barrier reef which fringes the coast of Queensland north of Bris- bane. in the direction of Torres straits, must always rank among the wonders of the world. For 1900 miles the coral animalculae have raised a solid pro- lection against the range of the ocean swell at distance varying from 20 to 150 miles from the shore -.
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Bluff City Lumber Co. manufactur and dealer in all kinds of inmber iso sashes, doors. blinds @-. all
 nds of interior and exterio- 1nish. at reasonable prices.
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blun City Lumber Go. manufactur rand dealer in all kinds of lumber. aso sashes, doors, blinds and all AlAds of interior and exterior finish. everything at reasonable. prices.
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DUE City Lumber Co. Manufactur T T ana dealer in all. kinds Of Lumb Der. Aso sashes. Doors. Blinds, and all aos Of Interior and Exterior finish. c ASefything at reasonable prices.
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|BlufatyLumDer @. manufactur
 and dealer in all kinds of lumber.
 llso sashes doors. blinds. and all Hnds Of interior and exterit r finish at reasonable prices.
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Rms and Carriages- blic brewster & Henslee. ,l1On0 S eare.

!. ritv Lumber Co. manufac lh v's' soaler in all kinds of Lnm- ! aau casbee. Doors, Blinds,and
 Slf0 ot Interior and Exterior lllo9 everything .lat Reasonable
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\ Hammond in constant use for

diamond in constant use for cut- ting cold glass lasts about three months. but f used to cut hot glass would only last for one day.
 Early man used to be able to wag his ears as an indication of pleasure or to brush away flies from under his back hair, but as the muscles were not brought into continual use they be- came rudimentary.
 Carbonic oxide being found normally in the blood of living beings existing lin Paris, M. Nieloux has demonstrated to the French Academy of Science that gas forms within the organism itself without external causes.
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lfyou are thinking of having your pictures framed see my 'afge assOrtm ment of mouIdings.
 t~>Aa Frank J. Murray.
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Don't fail to have Eek make you one of his best photos before he loses his gallery for the summer.
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MF. Eek. the photographer, will ,cupy his Monticello gallery during le ,ummer, closing his Pine Bluff om the first of June until the first
 October. 203
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tbe Mccain Grocery Co.,, corner and Main streets, you can buy 'eans , lbs best corn, 25e. 'sops best ! lb tomatoes, 25c. 'sons hest 3 ib Boston baked beans !,
 mart bottle tomato catsup. be. 7ancy $. c. Hams, 10c ID. Fancy Breakfast Bacon, 10e ID. Fifteen cents worth of chewing n for five cents.
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:, tn introduce into the famil- |el'D 'farson county luxury and P 9, sr introducing the De Muth Fal' II p. McDaniel. Agent
 Ni'' No. TIP W. Fourth.
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Plut City Lumber Co. manufactur- and dealer in all kinds of lumber, so sashes, doors, blinds, and all nds of ipterior and exterior finish Tergtbing at reasonable prices.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-28

Bluff City Lumber Co. manufactur- rand dealer in all kinds of lumber lso sashes, doors, blinds and all inds of interior and exterior finish. ,Ferything at reasonable prices.
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E. pInff City Lumber Go. manu
 2, .as III k1nds Of bank, store and sr,nres and can furnish any
 : u4 mapted in that line. Getq941i9 2 4s.te if you contemplate pur- lpe.s 2277-
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D' Just received a large stock of seed !, ,.'amph and N. Y. Rose potatoes aeeain Grocery Co. m
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,. Telephone Brew ster & Henelee for sas s or carriage to Imeet trains, 9. passage, h
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|Tbe best cypress shingles in the late are handled hy the Bluff City
 bmber Co. All grades. 279
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Asap Bros. Meat Market gives pi- alo coupons with a 25c purchase.
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pun City Lumber Co. Manufactur 7 z, aud dealer in all kinds of Lumber. |. 4'so sashes, Doors, Blinds and all p'uas D of Interior and Exterior finish.
 erything at reasonable prices.
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tls,' saccess implies thorough prepara- fo e, We are thoroughly prepared aee.. N your prescriptions promptly, ot . t'asely aQd as cheaply, as a use
 'as purest materials will allow. BAILEY. Druggist.
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B.,.o coupons given away vi Il N @ 95e purchase at Reap Hras. Iat Market
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an kinds, free delivery in inevl' D o,r prices. Bluff City Lu'n- ge' 279
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,, flckets all styles, or picket fence Bluff City Lumber Co. 26I
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rha Rest Air Temperature.

The conditions affecting the temper ature of the body other than those due to physiological conditions are very numerous. First and most obvious is rhe temperature of the surrounding atmosphere. It is well-established fact that an average temperature of the air of 54 degrees Fahrenheit is best adapted to the public health, for it that temperature the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter is slight and normal temperature is most easily maintained. Every degree of temperature above or below that point requires a more or less efforC of the heat-regulating power to maintain the proper equilibrium. Even Glore potent in e.ovating the bodily temperature is the introduction into the blood. wheth- er by respiration or by direct injection of putrid fluids and the gases of de- composing matters. If this injection is repeated at short intervals, death will occur with high temperature.
 The air of cities contains emanations in hot weather from vast number of sources of animal and vegetable de- composition, and the inhalation of air so vitiated brings in contact with the blood these deleterious products in a highly divided state which causes a fatal elevation of temperature in the young, old and enfeebled. The same effect is produced by the air in close and heated places, as In tenement houses, wQrkshcps, schoolhouses hos, pital wards and other r0oids
 many persons congregate for
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a 'our teeth can be bridged, repair Al, reset or made oyerby pr. Gran1y. Ma. work guaranteed. Office 2ilAa s9 ' second avenue. Old Phone
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IS NOW ALMOST OBSOLETE.
The Hoecake is Fast Disappearins
 From Southern Tables.

Most middle-aged persons remember well when corn bread was served upon nearly all tables in the south and west at least twice day. Sometimes 1t ap- peared in the form of "hoecake" or batter bread and again in "pones." It was par excellence the bread of the negro, and every man who served in the Confederate army was also full graduate in the use of it. Now the aarkies esehew it where wheat bread is 10 be obtained, and upon the tables of thousands of southern and western whites it never appears at all, while others continue to use 1t only for din- ner..
 Now. why Is this? Surely corn meal is as it ever was Those wno sincerely, hut probably mistakenly, believe that 'water-ground" meal is better than the product of mills tlrued by steam can always find a supply of that in most cities, and it is common enough in the country. There is Ilo trouble about the meal; but we dorht whether the art of cooking it has bean preserved. The high-toned cclereti damsels who are turned out by our public schools are not the adopts that our old Aunt Di- nahs and Aunt PeGgys were. No self respecting pap of dough would be con- jured into shape by such unskilled hands. And thea we may seriously doubt whether corn bread can be cook ed in a stove as well as in an epen fl B. place.
 The Indians laid their dougbeakes between layers of forest leaves or upon the hard ground, and cooked them in the hot ashes. Hen.'e ash cake" very luscious product, indeed, when one has Whetted his appetite for 1t by long days hunting. The hoecake was so called because it was originally baked upon a hoe-that ever-ready and useful instrument of agr.culture which is to be found upon every plantation. But later. on cooking utensils were manu- faetured which took the place of the humble hoe. So, too, shingles were used whereupon to place the dough while it weht through the process of becoming a well-done ash cake. i
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 .sylOr's
 Itetures at l ]. Mitehell3s.
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Commerce.

Acceptance Affidavit Balance of Trade Ranking, Banks Bankruptcy Bookkeepng, etc. ogreat value and interests This department of the work illustrates practical useful
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-07

New York. oct. T--Bruistreeta re-
ports iig failures In the United States
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-07
BY BEDLAMlTE COUASELS.
says tho Tran.vaaI Dimeuiiy Could
be settled " Ordinarily wise
Diplomacy Prevailed.

London. oct. G--Addresslng a peace
meeting at Caernaryon this evening.
John Morley asked the country to
realize the predicament to which II
had been brought by unhappy diploma
cy and the bedlanite oounsols Of tho
war press and the war party.
III" said Mr.. Morley, President
Kruger had accepted the franchise
proposal OF September sth. with re-
lance upon the convention OF 1884, he
would have been planted behind diplo-
matte intrenchments, which by fair
and reasonable means could not have
been forced. Even after that refusal,
thGrc was still room for friendly set
Element. but Just de the Trnnsvaal
made mistake, our government
capped II by Withdrawing the fran
chiae proposals."
Mr.. Morley dwelt upon the modera-
ton and reaaonablcneHa OF the recent
speech OF the duke OF Devonshire,
which proved that Great Britain did
not desire to interfere with the Trans
walls Independence. The speaker
said he had always pressed the ur-
gency OF the Tranavaal meeting Great
Britain half way. He regretted the
withdrawal OF the 1--WE years franchise,
but condemned Great Britain for now
abandoning the franchise, which had
hitherto been the foundation OF the
government policy. He dilated upon
the eventual danger OF having at tho
back OF a strategic post like the Cape
dlsaffected population held down by
force Of arms, and said he failed TO see
why the Transvaal and Great Britain
were unable to come TO terms. Mr.,
Morley spoke deriSively OF the talk Of
a Pan-Afrikander conspiracy In South
Africa.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-07

New York, oct 6.-Georgo McFaddon
Of this city knocked out George u<id)
Lavlgne, ex-light-wcight champion OF
the world In the nineteenth round be-
fore the New broadway Athletic club
tonight, They met at 1888 pounds, and
put up n ilght which was aa sensation
nj us IL was prolific OF hard hitting and
clever ring work. MoFadden's block
Ing OF the KIDS PUSHES ana leads was
phenomenal. and toward the end OF the
bout he had the Saginaw boxer very
raw and sore At the opening Lavigne
was the favorite. hut after the twelfth
round odds Of 100 TO so were freely Of
fered on McFadden. Lavigne was well
battered, and several minutes elapsed
before he realized what had happened
TO him. McFaddcn left the ring vir-
tually without a mark.