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Year: 1877

Dr. Richardson has come a little nearer to the level of ordinary life since he startled the world by his picture of a city of health. The kind of house which he recommended is not beyond the reach of any one who is about to build dwelling for himself, and has strength of mind enough not to be turned from his purpose by the object ions which builders are sure to raise in the first instance. Dr. Richardson mentions four essential points in which house constructed on his plan would differ from ordinary houses. In the first place, there would be no rooms un- derground. The basement. would be simply an arched subway, with free current of air passing through it, thus preventing any damp from ascending into the upper stories, and affording an opportunity of warming the air ad- mitted into the house. Secondly, the kitchen instead of being in the base ment, would be at the top of the house, by which means all smells of the cook ing would be kept out of the living rooms, and the conveyance of hot water to the bedrooms would be much easier, Next, the staircase, instead of being in the center of the house, would be in a distant shaft at the back. There would be door on each floor communicating with the staircase, and lavatories and similar apartments would be placed in the shaft so that they would be out of the house, and yet accessible from each floor. Lastly, the roof would be level. paved with asphalte, and covered with glass. In this way garden would be obtained on the top of every house, sheltered from the weather, and pro- tected from frost by the warmth of the kitchen beneath. There is no doubt that Dr. Richardson's picture is an ex- ceedingly attractive one, and there seems to be no reason, beyond the diff culty of getting new ideas accepted within any reasonable time, why it should not at once be subjected to tn

 test of experiment..
Year: 1877

he saw how completely he had been de- feated.

 As the men began to search the room, the landlord protested his innocence, declaring that they had no right to hold him or his men prisoners, or to search the house.

 Breaking open the door, above which was the bust, the men rushed in. The room was empty, save for long ladder, which reached shelf above the door. A hole above the shelf disclosed the bust to be broken in half, so that man could easily climb up the ladder, get on the shelf, thrust his head in the bust, which was large enough for an ordinary mans head, and see all that was going on in the adjoining room.

 This certainly looked suspicious, but absolute proof was yet wanting. On re- turning to the room occupied by MT. Spencer, they again searched every nook and corner. Suddenly Carrie and Mir. James, who had been standing by the fireplace, gave loud cry, for on close examination, they had found spots of blood on the bricks which formed the hearth.

 They began to pull up the bricks, which proved loose, when Carrie, feeling faint, gave way to the sheriff and his men, who soon had them all pulled up, when cavity was disclosed, containing the murdered body of a gentleman whom Mir James and the sheriff remembered to have stopped at S., three days be- fore. The evidence was conclusive.

 The landlord and his confederates were well guarded through the night, and the next day were lodged in jail, where in due time they were sentenced and suffered the extreme penalty of the | law.
Year: 1877

A writer in Nation advances the theory that the curlew is directed by the sense of hearing in its probings in the sand for food. The bird has bill often eight or nine inches long, and this it forces into the soil as far as the nostrils, and rarely misses securing a worm at each thrust. It cannot be supposed that it makes it's borings at random, else these would be repeated many times fruitless- ly. Neither can the sense of sight assist it, as it's victims are imbedded too deep ly in sand or mud, which is often per fectly smooth on the surface. It must, therefore, so the writer suggests, be guided solely by hearing. "It is diffi- cult" he confesses, "to believe that this sense is is so delicate and precise as to enable the curlew to perceive so exceed ingly slight sound as that which must be caused by the movement, say, of a small worm at distance of ten or twelve inches from the surface of the sand, and at the same time to localize the exact spot beneath the surface from which so slight sound proceeds. l cannot see, however. that any other ex- planation is open, and perhaps the one now offered may not seem so incredible, if we remember the case of the thrush. No one, think, can observe this bird feeding and doubt that it finds its worms and grubs almost exclusively by the sense of hearing. And. if the distance which it runs between successive pauses for listening represents-as we cannot butsuppose it must-the diameter ofthe circle within which this bird is able to hear the movements of worm, l think that the hypothesis have just advanced with regard to the curlew ceases to be improbable"
Year: 1877

finish to textile fabrics, for making plasters to take the impressions, and finally in the kitchen for making jellies. The amount of caviar consumed in the United States is not very large, and is almost wholly imported. The market prices obtained from the commission and shipping merchants of New York are sufficiently large to make the busi- ness a very profitable one. Smoked sturgeon is very palatable meat, afford ing quite good substitute for smoked halibut. The oil obtained from the sturgeon is sold under the common name of fish oil. As the sturgeon is & very fat fish, this production is quite profitable one. An effort has been made to utilize the skins in the manu- fracture of leather. A number have been tanned by way of experiment., in few instances, making good, durable leather, though the presence of the plates on the sides, back and belly will probably prevent it ever becoming an extensively used article.

 The Lower Columbia river and its several tributaries are known to be the homes of countless numbers of these fish. Every season hundreds and thous, ands are captured and brought to Port land, where the flesh is used for food, being commonly known as ''sea bass" Why could not some enterprising per- sons, with a small capital, engage ex- tensively in the business described abovep Any number of sturgeon can be easily obtained along the Lower Co., lumbia, and all that is necessary is capital and experience, to build up and maintain very large and lucrative business. The question is certainly one worthy of the attention and careful consideration of those who have the means and disposition to embark in such an enterprise. The suggestion has been made that salmon eggs can also be manufactured into a good article of caviar in the same manner as the roe of sturgeon. So far as is known the ex- pertinent has never been made. During the fishing season immense quantities of salmon roe are thrown away, which might be converted into marketable article. Is not the matter worthy of ex- pertinent?
Year: 1877

Do our young readers ever think how little it takes to stain their characters A single drop of ink is very small thing, yet dropped into tumbler ol clear water, it blackens the whole; anc so the first oath, the first lie, the first glass, they seem very trivial, yet they leave a dark stain upon the character Look out for the first strain.
Year: 1877

for the interest Of Puget Sound.
The Postmaster General listened to
the srgument, and replied: al am
satisfied, gentlemen, and have been,
that Port Port Townsend is the pro-
per point for a steamer to take the
Sitka mail, for among other advanta-
gcs it is the end Of the mail route,
and ] see no advantage in doubling
up the line by starting from Port
land. But the Attorney General
has given an opinion and do not
care to create a dissentiOn from him
in the cabinet by differing upon so
small a question as the Sitka mail"


Thus we see that the unjust decis.
ion Of the Attorney General, which
was acknowledged by the Postmas-
ter General, was the means Of de-
priving this town of a trade which is
ours by right. This is the end of the
postal route to the north, and in
these days of pretended economy we
cannot see why the Government will
pay the extra and unnecessary ex-
pense of starting from Portland when
so much time and danger can be
saved by starting from here. We
believe that Mr.. Cornwall has more
interest in the BellingbGm Bay Coal
mines than he has in Portland, and
we think if our merchants will stir
themselves, and represent this mat
ter to Mr.. Cornwall he will listen to
them.


1t is true that Holidays contract
was that the Sitka mail shall start
from Portland, but is equally true
that there is nothing in that contract
which says that the contractor may
not take the very limited Sitka mail
at the Portland post Office and bring
it, via the railroad to Puget Sound,
and put it on board the steamer here.
Suppose, for instance, one of Mr..
Cornwall's boats was lying here, and
the one in Portland was disabled,
does any one doubt his right to bring
the Sitka mail here, or would he be
forced to get another boat for the
sake of bringing that mail here via
Cape Flattery, for it is well known
that all the Sitka mail boats are oblig-
ed to call in here both going and
coming in order to transport the mil
itary mail to and from the Garrison
at Fort Townsend.


We consider the present moment
very opportune one for our merchants
to act in this matter, and we suggest
to them and to all our citizens who
feel an interest in the welfare of this
town, to take some action on it, and,
if possible, secure to ourselves
small portion of that trade of which
Portland now has the lions share.
Year: 1877

After long use sponges are liable to
smell very badly unless carefully cleaned
every day. BY rubbing fresh lemon
thoroughly into the sponge and then rims
ing it several times in Mkewarm water it
will become as sweet as when new. st
Year: 1877

Yes, we agree with the old poet who said that a low, soft voice was an ''excellent thing in woman.'. Indeed, we feel inclined to go much further than he has on the subject, and call it one of her crowning charms. No mat ter what other attractions she may have she may be as fair as Trojan Helen, and as learned as the famous Hypatia of ancient times; she may have all the accomplishments considered requisite at the present day, and every advantage that wealth can procure, and yet if she lacks low, sweet voice she can never be really fascinating. How often you are irresistibly drawn to plain unassu- ming woman, whose soft, silvery tones render her positively attractive. Be sides we fancy we can judge of the character by the voice; the bland, smooth, fawning toness seems to betoken deceit and hypocracy as invariably as the musical, subdued voice indicates genuine refinement. In the social cir cle how pleasant it is to hear woman talk in that low key which always characterises the true lady. In the sanctuary at home how such voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband. How sweetly its ca dence floats through the sick chamber and around the dying bed. With what solemn melody does it breathe the prayer for the departing soul! An

 yes, low, sweet voice is certainly Gan excellent thing in woman. F.
Year: 1877

room in every rich mans house. The. card-table, that once was synonym of wickedness, is part of the rich mans furniture, which his children may use at will, in the pursuit of a harmless game. A good many manufactured sins have been dethroned from their fictitious life and eminence, and put to benefcent family service on behalf of the young. Athletic sports, such as skating, boating, shooting, ball. play ing, running and leaping, have sprung into great prominence within the past few years-amusements of just the character for working off the excessive vitality of young men, and developing their physical power. This is all well "a reform in the right direction. Much of this is done before the public eye, and in the presence of young women, which helps to restrain all tendencies to excesses and to dissipation. -

 The activities of young women take another direction, and nothing seems to us more hopeful than the pursuits in which they engage. The rich young woman in these days, who does not marry, busies herself in tasteful and intellectual pursuits. The reading club, the Shakspere-club, the drawing class, and kindred associations. employ her spare time; and now there is hardly more busy person living than the rich young woman who is through with her boarding-school. The poor, who sup pose that the rich young woman leads an idle life, are very much mistaken. The habits of voluntary industry now adopted and practiced by the young women of America, in good circum- stances, are most gratefully surprising. One of them who is not so busy during the winter that she really needs a re- cuperating summer, is an exception. Our old ideas of the lazy, fashionable girl must be set aside. They are all at work at something. It may not bring them money, but it brings what is much better to them-the content that comes of an earnest and fruitful pursuit. Ii may take the form of amusement, but it results in training for self-helpful- ness and industry. -..-..

 So, while not much can be done fol | the adult in this matter of amusement

 much is done for the young, and much that will help to give us a generation o1 older men and women, who will not be content with the poor business of kill. 1 ing time. For it must be remembered that while the young women ''assist'

 at the athletic games of the young men

 the young men are indispensable to the intellectual associations of the young women. They meet together, anc stimulate and help each other; and ii

 does not seem possible that either party should ever subside into those time

 killers who haunt the clubs established for men, or those jaded women wht drag themselves around to dinners ant lunches and thronged assemblies.
Year: 1877

Almost everybody has heard of the walking leaves of Australia. For a long time after the discovery of that island many people really believed that the leaves of certain tree which four ished there could walk about the ground. The story arose in this way:

 Some English sailors landed upon the coast one day; after roaming about till they were tired, they sat down under a tree to rest themselves. A puff of wind came along, and blew off a shower of leaves, which, after turning over and over in the air, as leaves generally do, finally rested upon the ground. As it was midsummer and everything ap- peared quite green, the circumstance puzzled the sailors considerably. But the surprise was much greater, as you may well suppose, when, after short time, they saw the leaves crawling along on the ground toward the trunk of the tree. They ran at once for their vessel, without stopping to examine into the matter at all, and set sail away | II OIA OlAC SCCAhCN to be bewitched. One of the men said that he expected every moment to see the trees set to and dance jig" Sub. sequent explorations of Australia havS taught us that these walking leaves are insects. They live upon the trees

 Their bodies are very thin and flat, theil wings forming large leaf-like organs

 When they are disturbed, their legs are folded away under their bodies, leaving the shape exactly like leaf with its stem and all complete. They are of 8 bright green color in the summer, but they gradually change in the fall, with the leaves, to the brown of frost-bitter vegetation. When shaken from the trees, they lie for few minutes upor the ground, as though they were dead but presently they begin to crawl along toward the tree, which they ascend again. They rarely use their wings although they are we'll supplied in thi | reSnact
Year: 1877

The very basis of good taste is formed

 by common sense. It teaches man, in

 the first place. that more than two el- bows are highly inconvenicnt in the world; and, in the second, that the fewer people you jostle on the road of life the greater your chance of success among men or women, It is not nec- essary that the commensurate man need be an unimaginative man; but it is necessary that his imagination should be well regulated. Good taste springs from good sense, because the latter enables him to understand, at all times, precisely where he is, and what he ought to do under the circumstances of his situation. Good taste is just appreciation of the relationship and probable effects of ordinary, as we'll as extraordinary, things; and no man can have it unless he is in the habit of con- sidering his own position, and planning his own actions with coolness and ! accuracy. -.-~ -.ss' , 2
Year: 1877

A correspondent asks: "Do you think that the telephone will take the place of the telegraph now in use?" As this question is one which great many are now asking, we would say that we do not. It may perhaps supersede the Morse system to some extent for pri- vate lines and the like, and, possibly, may be utilized somewhat in forward ing press reports; but for regular con- mercial telegraphing, it does not appear to us to possess, as it now stands, any advantages. In the first place, messa- ges would require to be taken down in shorthand by the receiving operator, and afterward copied in long hand and we all know the liability to error, not to speak of the great delay of such a system. Then, again, while "Auld Lang Syne, 'sHome, Sweet Home,' J or anything with which we are per fectly familiar, could be very easily recognized, it is questionable if regular messages could be s'telegraphed' with out serious errors occurring. It is very much like talking through the little

 toy ''lovers' telegraph, '' or an ordinary speaking tube. If great carej is taken to speak slowly and distinctly, and you have an idea of what is coming, you can generally make out enough to un. derstand what person is talking about

 But it seems to us that nobody would care to trust important messages, some times involving life and death, or thou sands of dollars, to being sent in this manner. We chronicled, issue before last, ludicrous mistake made in just this way. A reporter telegraphed over the police wires to the editor of Brook. l lyn paper that he was at the lunatit asylum, where he had gone on busi. ness, and could not get back in time for the afternoon edition. The sergeant told a policeman to step around to the newspaper office and inform the editor that Koselowski (the reporter) was al

 the lunatic asylum. The policeman misunderstood the message, and re

 ported to the editor that Cardinal Mo

 Closkey was insane, and had been re

 moved to the lunatic asylum. It is no

 too much to expect that just such mis

 takes would constantly occur were tht telephone in use for commercial tele

 graphy. For the above reasons we dt not think that telegraphers need have any fears about the telephone usurping to any great extent, the place of th' system handed down to them by Prof Morse.-Tbe Operator.
Year: 1877

The large grounds surrounding the Capt.
tol have recently been the scene of several
very serious violations of the law, and at
tacks upon persons who have had occasion
to pass through or by them after nightfall
have not been infrequent. Recently MUIR
Year: 1877

Captain John T. Ford brought to a
Maryland newspaper Office an oyster be-
tween the shells of which was firmly
fastened the bill of a fisherman or
pheasant duck. The duck while feed
ing had evidently inserted his bill into
the open mouth of an oyster which shut
down on it and held it fast. The duck
came to the surface, dragging with him
the oyster, which was so large and heavy
tho duck could not keep it's head above
water. In this condition they were
found by gentleman, who caught the
duck but could not get the oyster loose.
So he cut the ducks head off, and bill
and head will remain held by the oyster
until it is opened.
Year: 1877

The San Francisco Chronicle has been
put in possession of a curious story by
Captain Refs, of the British steamer
Fleur de Lis, which recently arrived at
that port from Androssan. The captain
says that when off Staten island, which
lies eastward from Cape Eorn, the ship
encountered school of whales, which
seems to have resolved itself into an
escort to attend her on the remainder of
her passage. The whales kept in close
company with the ship throug gh this long
stretch of thousands of miles, and did
not leave her until she arrived off San
Francisco and put in for the shore, when
they took their leave with series of
lively founders and an occasional spout
to assure the master they were taking in
bumpers to his health. AS the passage
around Cape Horn and through the Pa.
oifo was good one, it is fair to presume
that the escort Yves auspicious,
Year: 1877

John B. Young, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
while transacting some business in law
Office in New York, happened to lean too
far out of the window and before he could
recover his balance he fell out. In front
of the building stands gas lamp, and
the unfortunate man struck upon this in
his descent, the sharp iron fixtures at the
top impaling him and passing through
his body. Several people who were pass
ing assisted policeman to remove him,
but it was with extreme difficulty that
they succeeded in lifting him free of the
pointed metal, which had passed inte his
bowels
Year: 1877

kept tho dogs to work with perseverance, deserving
Of more success than was achieved.


DEATH.


Tho fox during all this search was creeping through
a swamp TO the north OF the road. sheltered oy ttie
brush that grew along tho stream Just as we entered
the wood to beat through IN search OF old heynard
We heard some shouting the hillside and presently
nalloaed the dogs In the direction indicatcd tn-
fortunately this proved too rapid cast, US Tue
iox Tor did not take 10 Inc open.
With few sharp cries the pack dashed INTO she
swampy ground near tho creek, and. after running
few hundred yards, captured the ox The held -
must said pressed too closely on the dogs at this
tme as well as on other occasions throughout
the day. Many rode right up 10 the heels
OF the pack, and some crossed the scent
after the first cheek. OF course there was
no groai credit attaching TO any ones presence
at the death after such run MI Griswoo removed
Ihe brush and presented II TO Mss Mary b. Wagstan
the FIRST lady TO arrive the DEATH pad each was
given 10 Miss oe,richs and Miss Randall With this
distribution OF trophies the chase ended ana We
started for the kennel There somc OF the adres
INDUCED little jumps, and by an unfortunate acc-
dent Miss Wagstaf unseated Her orother's horse


rather hard pulIer ran against hers, after crossing
ience and threw her 10 the ground She was liitle
frightened for a Tow moments but was not hurt Alter
viewing the Kennel the company logged merry home
ward, having had very pleasant day though not
very successful hunt the next meet Will bo on Satur-
day next AZ New Cassel Wood. at one O'Clock r 81.
Year: 1877

ENGLAND and Germany do not agree in
relation to affairs in Turkey. The former
declares she will not suffer Russia to oc-
cnpy Constantinople.. The latter replies
that the occupation Of the Porte BY the
Gar is the best way to obtain the purpose
for which the war was commenced. This
stand taken by B;-mark gives point and
strength to the rumor that Russia is acting
upon programme in Turkey, which has
the express sanction of Germany.