Year: 1875

while trying to get his ship off the ice al


Martha's Vineyard, but by wearing these


strings, serious effects were entirely pre-


vented.


A Pittsburg man has invented a machine


for making maple trees leave out in March


He bores an anger hole into the trunk neal


the ground. A hydraulic force pump Of


immense power is applied to the hole and


warm sap forced into the pores of the wood


Luxuriant foliage was produced ON tree


two feet in diameter, within six hours


The success of the experiment is creating


much excitement among the farmers and


grangers.


A Colorado Yankee has organized com,


pany to tame buffalo for domestic purposes.


Water is scarce on the plains, and in many


places the pools are almost dry. Jack


Thompson, the manager, found that six


barrels of cheap forty-rod whisky, poured


in small pond, would make the animals too


drunk to walk, and when once in this con-


dition they can be subjugated with laugh


ing-gas and tanned in week SO as to be


yoked and worked like oxen. When buff


falo has once slipped at the Intoxicating


fount, he loses all control of himself and


becomes slave to his appetite. The Den


yer papers speak of the enterprise in the


highest terms Max Clark, the secretary
OF the company, writes that they have seven
thousand animals in perfect training, and
nearly every rancheman in the Territory
has ordered from three to seven yoke


They are of great service for ploughing
and hauling heavy freight wagons through
the mountains. A large boiler for the new
quartz mill at Fairplay, ninety miles from
Golden City, was taken over the road in
three days. Oxen would have required
more than week for the same trip. The
buffaloes become SO attached to their driv-
ers in a few days that they follow them
wherever they go and when they can get
taste of whisky they rear up on their hind
legs and manifest every sign of joy. A
herd broke into warehouse at Kit Carson
and destroyed seventy barrels of liquor, and
the next morning they lay in heaps all over
the town.


1t is astonishing how long men will stu M
BILE around an invention before they dis
cover it. Many devices have been tried
for protecting horses hoofs, but nothing
proved better than the ordinary iron shoe,
until Yonkers man set his wits TO work
and solved the problem. He first washed
the hoof with strong solution of iron he
then suspended the animal over tank of
copper electro-plating liquid, and applied the
wires of a battery to the hoofs. which were
slightly immersed. In short time they
were covered with solid metal. A finishing
coat of nickel was put on. Then the hoofs
were polished, and the way that horse
kicked his heels and waltzed around when
he saw them flashing in the sun, was a
sight to behold. He rubbed them with his
nose, paved the earth, rolled over. leaped
fences, and stamped around on stone
quarry, but the shoes were hardly scratched,
except on the bottoms. To make the job
complete in q sanitary way, holes were
drilled in the bottoms to keep the frogs
moist and give them plenty OF air. The
process was tried on a mule, but he upset
the tank and kicked the battery to pieces.
The inventor captured him and sent few
shocks of electricity through his system,
which made him as gentle as lamb 1t is
estimated that with proper facilities, about
forty animals can be nicely electro-shod in
an hour.


The natives who live near the India-rub
ber forests in South America are the most
agile people in the world. They live on the
milk that is found in the young trees, but
they drink it fresh each day, for it hardens
into gum when exposed to the air for few
hours. Max Clark, who owns a goat
Mountains, in Colorado, seeing these facts
in scientific journal, discovered process
for reducing all kinds of ordinary rubber |
to it's original liquid state. When he had
prepared seven or eight gallons, he offered
it to the goats, but they would not touch it.
Disguised, he put it in the spring house
with his milk. That night the goats broke
through the corral, smashed in the door,
and drank all of the milk. including the
India-rubber. In few days they rushed |
up into the cafons, and amused themselves
by jumping from precipices head first. One |
Sunday afternoon Mr.. Clark found about
twenty of the older ones standing at the
foot of cliff, watching the kids leap off.
The distance was fully nine hundred feet,
and when they struck the granite below,
they bounded fifty yards into the air, but
bones so elastic, and their flesh so tough,
that they suffered no injury and they fell |
in all positions-on their feet, sides, heads, |
and backs. When they became tired, the
old ones took their places. Then the kids
gave way to the most extravagant antics.
When the old bucks began to bounce OH
the rocks, they lay on their backs and beat
the air with their hoofs, while the baby
goats stood on their hind legs and walked
around like monkeys in pantomime.


Having once tasted the rubber milk they
grew fond of it, and every night they re-
turned to the rancho for their evening al
lowance. Their iavorite amusement is to
climb to the top of James Peak, back of
Caribou, and roll down the side. The dis
tance is about two and three-quarter miles
Sometimes the whole flock (fifteen hun
dred) start in line, and each goat tries to
reach the bottom first. The speed is so
great they bound over formidable obstruc-
tions. Seven old bucks struck large rock,
called the s.Camei's Hump" It is forty
feet high, and twenty feet in diameter, but
the entire seven goats shot clear over it and
reached the bottom half minute ahead of
the kids.


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