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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1888)
1 : I i I. v !! L- i WOMAN JOURNALISTS. Some of Thou Whn FloarWhed la the Kiiriiteeath Oeaiury. The first daily nnwspipor-rprinted in the world was established" and edited liy :t woman Elizabeth Mallet. i:i Lon--don, 1702. In her opening address alio j.iiil .she had started a newspaper to spare the public half the impertinences -which the ordinary papers contain." 'Woman-like, her paper was reforma tory. The first newspajwr published in America of which we hare any record was in Massachusetts. It wa3 called the Mas-t Gazette and Newsletter. After the death of tho editor the widow dited it in the most spirited manner for two or three year. It was tho only paper that did not suspend publication when Boston was besieged by the British. In 1772 Rhode Island issued 5ts first newspaper. It was owned and ts;dUed lv Anna Franklin. Shu and her two daughters did the printing and also worked their printing press. His tory tells that for her quickness and correctness she was appointed printer to the colony, supplying pamphlet, etc., to the colonial offices. She also printed :.u edition of the colonial laws of three hundred pages. In 1776 Sarah Goddard piinted a neivspajier and very siblv eontlueted it at Newport. She traded under the name of Sarah God tlard & Co. In 1772 Clementina U.-i.l )iublihetl and printed a piper in Vir ginia, favoring ttic cohiiiial causo and greatly offending the Koyalists, and J wo years af:er another piper was started in the interests of the Crown by a Mrs. II. Boyle, borrowing the name of Mrs. Real's paper, which was the Virginia Gazette, but which was y-hort lived. Bo; h papers were pub lished in the town lif Williamsburg. Tiie colonial newspaper was the first in xvlrch the Declaration of Independence was printed. In 177:1 Elizabeth Timo thy printed anil edited a paper in Charlestown, S. C. After the rei'olu lion. Anna Timothy became is olo proprietor and editor, and was ap pointed State printer, which position idle held for seventeen years. Mary Crouch published a paper in the same town about the same time in special opposition to the St amp act- She after vrard removed her paper to Salem. VIa., and continued its publication for uianv vears. Stationer anil Printer. CHINESE ASPECTS. A. filance at Art ami I.andtrapa A the Celetial. aon There are said to be something liko fifty thousand characters in the written language of the Chinese. I am sure it would take them all to fully describe the queer ights ami strange customs we witnessed in Peking during tho few clays Ave re.-tcd there, at the cheerful United States Legation, before making our final start for the Great Wa".!. The anomalous impression I received if the exterior of !h town in my mem orable ride, was intensified as I came to know something of tho interior life of Peking. My sister and I felt like two Chinese Alices in Oriental Wonderland when we came to visit some of the peo ple who live- in those strange, inhospit able looking houses, their own homes, for it seemed a if all the pictures wo Iiad ever seen on Chiueso porcelain had sMtnu to life and the figures were now -stepping out of their slippery state to greet ti. 1 had never known before that the twisted tree is contorted objects and queer architecture painted oil Cbincso punch bowls and platters are not droll caricatures, hut the Chinese represeuta .tions of Chinese art ideas in the actual vry day scenes of Chines.; lif The grotesque figures which they paint on fans, or screens, are all well known historical characters; heroes of fiction, or deified saints and philosophers, ai:d each one carries to the Chinese mind its peculiar traditional or romantic as sociation. Ticre is very little picturesque seen-r-ui China, and the few hills, streams and valleys which lovers of natural beauty have discovered, have done duty in decoration for hundreds, pcrhnp Thousands, of years. But thescoulliucs. made familiar by repetition, have a 'liilerent meaning when the fact is ex--jtlained that the skillful Chinese land scape gardeners have made innum erable miniature copies of these few bits of scenery in the court yards which are inclosed by the inner walls of all the houses of the better sort. Thee courts, a few feet in extent, oblong or square, are laid out in little mountain ranges, showing caverns and lakes, trails and ravines, on every side. Wide Aicakc. Feathers in Flat Cars. I heard a good story the other clay pertaining to one of the best known railroad men in the Northwest. It seems when he first started out in tho Lusiuess lie was made station agent, operator, etc., at a point a few miles -distant from Cincinnati. He was vouiig. verdant and exceedingly fresh for a von'h of his immature years. It -was also the general opinion that his knowledge of the science of railroad ln was somewhat limited. So one baTnty spring afternoon it was deter mined to make the test Accordingly one of the heaviest shippers of the town -walked into the office and solemnly in quired the tariff on loose fethers shipped m flat cars. A careful perusal of the tariff sheets was made in vain; but be in" auxious to oblige the shipper he promptly wired to the general freight wnt of the road askiag the rate. And -it was not until the emphatic, not to ...... nn.te. answer of the gcueral freight agent was received that the .absurditv of the thing dawnoa upon juind. Bnt it taught him a lesson he lias never forgotten to this day. i- xcapolis Tribune FIRES IN JAPAN. Feeallarltle Which Make Thm a Koarre of Amaaement to Fnreicaere. A Japanese fire is one of the sights to see. and beside the sorrow, the misery, suffering and tears that one sees, there are humors that renders such situa tions incomparable. When the tire bell clangs every one rushes to the scene, friends helping friends to save their household effects, and thieve making most of the opportunity. Ex citement reigns blocks away from the fire, agitated people gathering tip their mats, screens, bedding, clothing a-id cooking utensils and hurrying away from the neighliorhood. The sim plicity of Jara icse life is best shown then. There is no clumsy furniture to Ikj rolled out and broken, no tables, chairs or clumsy beds to be more than ruined in the saving. One small hand cart holds the roll of wadded comforters and gowns that are the bedding of the family, and their clothing, and the few other effects go with it. The sliding paper screens are slipped from their grooves, the thick straw mats are taken from the floor, and the family decamp, leaving nothing but the roof, corner posts and rough floor of the house be hind them. Processions of these refugees are met streaming away from the fire, tearful women and wailing children conveying to one a sense oi what their sorrows are. It is always the wonder how these poor people live with so little, and when that little is swept away all one's sympathy is with them. At three o'clock the other morning there was a great fire in Japanese Town. The reflection in the sky pene trated thick blinds, and wakened resi dents in the foreign settlement, to whom lire is as much a haunting terror as to the natives. A fresh wind was blowing up the bay and against the steely blue wa'cr the white ships and men-of-war glowed like crimson ships in the fire's reflection. By nine o'clock in the morning more than a thousand houses had been burned, and the flames were not subdued. An hour later we went to view the scene. At one end of the leveled space streams of water were being played on smouldering ruins, hand-pumps were being worked with a shouting chorus, and lines of buckets were being passed up from the creek. A few fire-proof godomes. built of thick mud and tiles, with all the chink stopped with mud, stood with cracked and blistered walls as sole monuments in the area of ruins. At the other end of the burned region a plank fence h:id already been built around the space, and carpenters were building new houses on the smoking ground and stepping gingerly to escape hot stones and tiles. The amazing quickness with which Japanese houses rise from their ashes defies comparison. The Phojnix and Chicago are nothing for parallels. By the same afternoon the new houses were advanced enough for the little shopkeepers to set up their wares, and by lamplight the workmen were creep ing over the roofs and nailing on the tiles. One has to follow quickly upon the first alarm to see the fire, and often times coming upon a section of new houses with their fresh unpaintcd walls, is the first intimation that one has of hero having ln-en a lire nlnugthe street th:lt ne most commonlv frequents. Fire is so common and so frequent that there is not a Japanese who has not been burned out a gain ami again, and looks upon future experiences with cool phil osophy. He might even preface his stories by the accustomed "I always do so and so when 1113 house burns down." Yokohama Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. THE OLDEST ROCKS. Formation Larerly Developed in Northern America and Kurope. OMest of all the formations known to geologists, and representing perhaps the earliest rocks produced after our earth had ceased to be a molten mass, are the hard, crystalline and much-contorted rocks named by the late Sir W. E. Loj-an Laurentian, and which are largely developed iu t lie northern parts of North America and Europe, ami iu many other region. So numerous and extensive, indeed, are the exjiosures of thoe rocks, that wo have good reaou to believe that they underlie all the other formations of our continents, and arc eveiT world-wide in their distribu tion. In the lower part of this great system of rocks, which, iu some places at least, is thirty thousand feet iu thickness, we find no traces of the ex istence of any living thing on the earth. But, in the middle portion of the Laurentian. rocks are found which in dicate that there were already laud and water, a.ul that the waters and possibly the land were already tenanted by liv ing beings. The great beds of lime stone which exist in this part of the system furnish one indication of this. In the later geological formations the limestones are mostly organic that is, they consist of accumulated remains of shells, corals and other hard parts of marine animals, which are conqiosed of calcium carbonate, which the animals obtain directly from their food, and in directly from the calcareous matter dissolved in the sea-water. Iu like manner great beds of iron ore exist in the Laurentian; but in later formations the determining cause of the accumula tion of such beds is the partial deoxida tion and solution of the peroxide of iron by the agency of organic matter. Besides this, certain forms known as Eozoon Canadenxc have been recog nized in the Laurentian limestones, which indicate the presence at least of one of the lower types of marine ani mals.. Where animal life is, we may fairly infer the existence of vegetable life as well, since the plant is the only producer of food for the animal. Sir William Dawson, in Popular Science feUtUtf. STARTING A FASHIO... How Coant U'Or- llwlnaeed a Tailor TrnatilMnino Hill. One day. being caught in his private dressing-room by a tailor, who rag"d and said he would not leave till he had been paid his bill, Connt D'Orsay listened thoughtfully for a time, fixing his eyes upon a package that the irate tailor had deposited upon a chair. This package w:is enveloped in a coarse sort of canvas. Have you much of that stuff i:i your shop?" said Count D'Orsay. "What kind that ugly canvas? If 1 wanted it I could to-morrow haw enough to wrap up all the mcrchaudis.: iti the Loudon docks." "London docks!" said the Conn; "don't talk nonsense. Come to me to morrow at four o'clock and take my measure for a pair of trousers cut frotu this canvas." Iu vain the tailor endeavored to dis suade the Count, stating that the canvas was not suitable for a garment, and iu a short time Count D'Orsay was sup plied with the canvas trousers. At five o'clock tne afternoo 1 he climbed the vast staircase of Crock ford's, then one of tin fashionable elun of Loudon, and the first person he met was Lord Chesterfield. "Upon my word." said the noble Lord, "you have a singular garrn-nt there something rare, with-ut doub:. Alwavs the sama original au.l ehur.n ing D'Orsay!" The Count received the compliment with some confusion. It is pel haps not exactly elega-.r." he said, "but it is very handy and fresh, especially suited to ridinj on horseback." In a few moments a group of dandle had surrounded the clever Frenchman. Lord Chesterfield iu the mam parbo was expatiating on th originality of D'Orsay's taste, and a few days after ward the tailor found himself overrun with orders for the canvas trousers L ml Chesterfield himself ordered :: dozen pair-. Count D'Orsay had ac complished his purpose, and th: de lighted tailor came 110 more with his troublesome bill. Illustrated Weskly. FASHION'S FANCIES. Combination Costume for snmmsr Cr. nameatMl Hook anil Kye. Combinations of woolen and "i:k re main as popular as ever, and ut:umcs of this class are po-sibly a trifle more dresy than the all-wool or all-sil!; dresses, which are naturally more quiet in effect. Polonaise effects are notice aide, aiut many of the street and yacht ing costumes intended to be worn "without a wrap, have a polonaise front and basque back, with the drapery made so tiiat it can be attached with hooks and loops to the basque, com pleting the effect. Plaids are generally used in combi nations with self-coiors. but the usual fashion of taking one of the colors ot the plaids into consideration is not fol lowed in using the beautiful multi colored plaids, which are must artistic if properly arranged. The immense chocks of solid color, such as Gobelin blue and white, or black and gold, are also exempt from necessarily employ ing one of their colors in combination: blue-aud-whitecheck may be used with gray or black, and black-and-gold with gray or Gobelin blue. Many costumes, especially those ol striped camels' hair, are made up in one material throughout, and the stripe often play an important part iu their effectiveness. The basque seams can be so arranged by the cutting and fit ting of the striped goods that a much greater effect of slenderness can be given to the figure. The same eflect is sometimes produced by the use of fold of material or braid put on to simulate stripes. Small ornamental hooks-and-eyes. covered silk buttons with loops of silk folds, or lacings of cord run through worked eyelet-holes in the edges of the goods, are used to hold opposite edge of the drapery together at the side, foi about half the distance down the skirt. where something of thi sort is not used, a cluster of riblion loops is fre quently placed at one side. Dcmoresd Monthly. m m RICH, BUT CO I MESS. Keadjr Money Not Infrequently Atxenl from a Capitalist Pocket. "It would lie a pleasure to accommo date you. but tiie simple truth is 1 haven't .300 in cash iu thu world," said a Buffalo Cneus to the financial man of the firm, who was seeking a pur chaser for a gilt-edged $1,200 six per cent, real estate mortgage. Noticing an expression of incredulity upon the face of his caller. Crojsus hastened to add: "It is a common mistake of those having small means to suppose that a millionaire always has $50,000 or more at instant command. It is only on rare occasions that most of us see $25,000 in currency at one time, and for two years I have never ouce had 10, 00 J of my own on hand. "The men of great wealth, are. as a rule, men of large business interests. We own blocks, elevators, ships, tele graph, telephone and railroad stock. suburban tracts, and many other kind of property, but none of these can Ik converted into cash at an hour s notice. Then, again, most of our real estate is mortgaged, because we are able to use ready money in such a manner as to realize more than six er cent- You would be astonished could you learn how large a load of debt some very wealthy Buffalo men are carrying. It is usually the second generation of wealth that buys mortgages, govern ment bonds, and' other securities which yield a moderate income and require no looking after. Bujfalo Express. m m Alsike clover originally came from Alsikc. Sweden, and' hi said to be a cross betweeathe white and red clovers. CUSTOMS Or CAPRI. Pictare(ue Seen On the Inland Made ITamou by Oaribaldl. They have a strange way in this little place. I found, of betrothing the girls to the young men before the latter leave the town. As very few of them are able to either read or write, long years pass by without a word from the lover or "spoza" rea...ing the patient girl at home. It is not a rare thing to meet here young couples who were engaged for ten, twelve or even fifteen years before fortune was sufficiently favorable to allow them to marry. One can not soon g.t rich on thirty cents a dav. and tint is the wages of a man in Capri. This is perhaps the reason why so many men leave the island, leaving the women at home to taste care of the vineyards and olive groves. It is a very picturesque scene, those women, with their gay costumes, rich complexions, bright, flashing eyes, at work in the fields, or leading their flocks of goats up the mountain side to pasture. Their feet are aiways bare. and become so hard that it is simply ! wonderful wnat thev cai endure. They will walk over the roads covered with sharp, flinty stone, climb the rugged mountain sides, and be quite as com fortable as if walking on the softest carpet. In fact, for hardness their feet rescmblo those of the Wenern girl, who. when told by her mother that there was a red-hot coal under her foot. drawled 'Which out. without moving an inch: foot is it under, mammy l-5" Yet the feet of these women are bv no means misshapen, but, on the contrary, are perfect, molds for an artist. During mv stay on the island I en joyed the rare treat of witnessing the grand festival of San Antonio, this be ing the great feast day of the year. One of the most attractive features to mentis the procession of white-robed maidens, wending their way through the narrow streets, lined with white walied houses. From the top of these walls, friends and lovers showered down the sweet-smelling, golden Sau Antonio fiori upon the procession be low. The jjirls were wreathed with flowers, and carried in their hands either caudles or little wooden images, and chanted as they walked, surround ed by clouds of smoke from swinging censors. Through the town and up the wind ing stone stairs cut in the mountain side, they passed to the chapel, where the religious services were held. After that came the feasting, and the danc ing, and the music, over which they became greatly excited. The numlierless movements of their favorite dance, the "Tarantata." and the easy graceful forms of the dancers as they swayed backward and forward wa indeed a pleasing an I exhiliarating sight. The "Tarantata" is dance I bv three couples only, the men dancing aronnd ttie women and then kneeling as suppliants at their feet, The women raise them, and with airy movements dance around the men. Then they separate into pairs, advancing and re treating anil again dancing together. The figures of the dance are but a small part of its beauties: there is an inde scribable fascination in the free and graceful movements of the arms, head, and, in fact, of the whole body. Bea trice, Presswuod Kinj, in Woman. BANKING IN CHINA How Pictatled Teller Handle Srrap at Mlvrr and Cluumy Itank Note. A curious place that t looked into on our way across the city of Canton was a Chinese bank, whrte the counter part of the brisk young cashiers, tellers and accountants of our home banks were sitting in pigtails, and the long blue blouses of gentlemen and scholars, shoveling silver Mexicans from basket to basket, and letting them fall on the stone floor with a deafening ring and clatter. A Chinanmn can do nothing quietly, and uoisu is his necessary ac companiment to every action. Every one of the pewtcry-looking dollars is weighed and stamped by the bank, rang ou stone slabs and fully tested, anil there are baskets full of fragments, halves and chips of silver dollars that pass as smaller coins. Thoe scrap and bits of silver pass current by their weight and their purity is tested by the ring. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation issue pajn-r notes of different values that save one from carrying loads of these clumsy Mexican dollars about with one. but the bank notes are as clumsy in proportion. They are all over six inches long and four inches wide, of a tough, fibrous paper, as thick as blotting paper, and as flabby as so much dirty calico, which they chiefly resemble. Those diploma-sized notes of the Bank of England are small and compact by comparison, and every common-sense traveler cries for Mit kiewicz and his syndicate to come with the great bank and do away with the ugly Mexican and the clumsy English notes. A great proportion of Chinese talent must be employed in counter feiting Chinese dollars, to judge from the numbers about and the wariness with which every one accepts one of the coins. A most clever counterfeit passed off on me was one that was plainly pure silver and newly minted. An expert rapped it sharply with his pen-knife, and the top fell off like the lid of a box. and disclosed an interior of pure pewter tilling in the thin shell of silver. At the American schedule of wages, two dollars of a silversmith's time had been used to plane off in a thin shaving the top of the dollar, dig out the solid part and fill up the cavity with lead, and bring the deceptive seventy-cent dollar down to a silver value at ten cents or less. Car. SL Louis Qbbe-DemocraL SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. New silk mills are springing up everywhere, and the immigration of foreign weavers has almost stopped. Cavendish in 1766 discovered ln-dro-gen: and between 1774 and 1779 Priest ley discovered oxygen, azote and nitrous gas. A new attachment to the micro scope has been devised, the object of which is to observe tiie melting points of minerals while under the process of examination. It is estimated that the sum spent on new buildings in this country last year was $2.60).0Q0.030. and that the transfers of real estate amounted to $io.o.ooo.ooa Careful experiments have shown that waste silk is the most effective of all nnu-condiicting coverings for steam pipes, and the demand for this purpose is great in spite of the cost. The values of the exports of min eral oils from the United States for the year ended Deccmlier 31. 18-37. showed a decrease of $2.5.34.077 from the values of the corresponding period of 18-Si). The process of manufacturing gas from water at Lo Angelas. Cil.. is a magnificent success. Its bright, steady light has been pronounced a decided improvement over electricity. A simple formula for the prepara tion of hektograph ink is given by a competent authority. Take one part of aniline, of the color desired, dissolve in about seven parts of water, and add one part of glycerine. Meteorites sometimes attain a ve locity ot 180.000 fe.'t jwr second. When passing through the air at this rate the friction is so great that the air is heated up to a temperature of 10.800 degrees Fahrenheit. The French national printing office employ. girls as type-founders, print ers. Iiook-sewers, liook-binders. etc.. the wages ranging from fifty cents to one dollar per day. After thirty years' service both men and wo:u'n are re tired upon a pen-ion. Civilization is preading rapidly beyond a doubt. African rubber is now systematically adulterated with saw dust, bark dust. etc.. and after purify ing does not contain more than thirty three to fifty-five percent, of pure gum. The natives add this substance to over come the stickiness. As a wood preservative naphtha line is now largely used in Scotland, its action being to destroy all albuminoid compounds in the wood, leaving it dry ana clean to hauUle. and witti only a faint, aromatic smell. The naphtha lino is melted in a vessel capable of be ing tightly sealed, aud in this the wood is saturated. Extensive use is now being made in France of the unique article known as wood wool, consisting of extremely thin and slender. shavings of wood, that are comparable to paper cut for pack ing. It weighs some forty or fifty per cent. less than the materials generally used for such a purpose, and its beau fill appearance, fineness, and exceeding cleanness have brought it into great favor. A recent chemical examination of several prominent brands of family lard" showed them to lie variously constituted ot different ingredients, and in one case not a trace of real lard could be found in the sample analyzed. A prominent lard manufacturer tes tified before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, at Washington, that so far as he knew the lard thus manufact ured is more popular with the people than the genuine article is. m m STRANGE RESEMBLANCE. Twia Brother Who Kiguarure Proved a fazzle to Patent uBlrUI. I heard a good story the other day." said one of the orators, "ou a couple of Lcwiston men. They are twin brothers and the most remarkable in some re spects that ever existed. Both are of scientific, artistic turn of mind and re markably capable in many ways. Tiie most curious thing to me. however, is the fact thatt their great resemblance extends evento their handwriting and has been a great puzzle to bank officials aud every body else. These brothers are inventive and have lately patented an important device. The story, as I heard it. is that after the specification aud affidavits, etc.. etc.. were made, it was required that both should make oath and sign documents. They did so and the f apers were sent to the Patent Office. "Not long after their attorneys re lation of irregularities in ccived not 1 tic proceedings aid soon the specified state ment was maie, from the United States Patent Office that the law required that both ptrsons should sign the papers, while in this case, it was very evident that,' one person had signed both papers. The lawyer smiled. Here was a direct statement. The United States Patent Office experts didn't say that they thought' that the names had been signed by the same person, bat they deliberately stated, in so manyjwords, that one person had signed boti names. He had to make a personal explanation to the Patent Office andjrelate how wonderful is the wondrous tffinity of birth." Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Partial Judgment. It is difjcult to avoid making an ex ception of ourselves, when we are re flecting upon the errors and frailties of mankind; Said a Quaker, one day. to his wife; "All the world is queer, excepting thee anil me. and thee is a little queer." ) Another candid and self-righteous in dividual in a moment of confidence, gave vest to the opinion: "There's but two honest men ia this town. (Brother B and myself; aad sometities I have my doubts of Brother B -!J TouM Cemjwawrt. MISCELLANEOUS. It I3 not every great man's experi ence that his palmiest days were when he was in the hands of his friends. Yonkers Gazette. The late Barghash Bin Saed. Sultan of Zanzibar, leaves twenty-seven wid ows and 232 children. Enough has Bin Sad. A. Y. World. A Philadelphia firm of soap manu facturers have a kettle that holds 471. 000 pounds of liquids ami six kettles that hold 150.000 pounds each. Dried shark fins are sold in every Chinese provision store in Now York. and are esteemed such a delicacy that they bring nearly four dollars per pound. Never in one season was there such a demand for oak to go into house finishing and furniture as the present. Bed and white oaks are particularly wanted. A lady of Greensboro. Ga.. in one night killed eighty-nine snails which had crawled into her kitchen. It wasn't a good night for snails at least not for those that she found. "I hear that General Lightfoot is going to run for Governor." said the Judge. "Glad he's going to run for something." said the Major, with feel ing, "he run from everything all through the war.' Bunlette. A St. Louis man says that he once had a chance to buy the patent for the Nicholson pavement for $1,000. A year after he decliued the offer the holder of the patent collected $100,000 in royalties from the city of St. Louis. The Bank of New York has a cheek yellowed by fire which was drawn by Aaron Burr. August 14, 1734. and alo another check drawn by Talleyrand and Gulian Verplanck. It is now near lv 101 years since the bank was estab lished. An English justice discharged a housemaid who pleaded guilty to steal ing a cloak, a muff, a fur boa and a handkerchief belonging to her mistress. The judge said that she was only wearing" the clothes, and that was "a thing that servants did every day." A novel way to move a house was adopted at the railroad depot at Or lando. Fla.. the other day. The house was slipped upon the railroad track, an engine was backed up and hitched on, and the house pulled along, sliding ou the tracks. A profound scientist of tho nine, tcenth century living in Boston had a smoking chimney in his house. After he had spent $100 for various devices to cure it a ragged tramp came along and suggested that he build it six inches higher which was done and the evil eradicated. Detroit Free Pre3. Considerable numbers of colored people are emigrating to Californii from the Southern States. One party of twenty-four men and women lately arrived at San Francisco en route to join a colored colony in Shasta County. Another party of 110 laborers, mostly men. have gone to Fresno to work in the raisin vineyards, and 150 more are to follow. Song birds being very scarce in Oregon, a number of German citizens of Portland propose to import from the fatherland a number of nightingales, skylarks, bulfinches. chaffinches, gold finches, greenfinches, black and gray thrushes, linnets, starlings, and other singing birds, in all between 600 and 700. which will be turned loose on their arrival. A fund of over $1,000 h:is been raised to further the project. , A GIRL'S INVENTION. Hew a Veteran' Daaghter U rilling m Depleted Family Treasury. In a remote but decent part of Bos ton has lived for about fifteen years an English family of rather unique inter est. The father served in the war of the rebellion, and, being a partial in valid in consequence, receives a small pension, which does not go far toward supporting the family, and he can do little besides draw his pension and suffer his constant pain. The mother Is a small woman, with large brown eves and pale cheeks. She has had a toilsome life, indeed, and has done all sorts of work to try and eke out the family support. Two daughters, the elder somewhat noted in her neighborhood as a beauty, and a small boy make up the balance of the household. Although desperately poor, tiie family have been as proud as Lucifer and seemed bound to acceTit no more charity than was ab solutely unavoidable, though there are plenty of well-to-do people around them who would gladly have contrib uted in their aid. as every memlier of the family commanded respect. They have come to be known even outside their narrow circle from their constant effort to better themselves, trying now this thing and now that. Every thing failed until a short time ago; but at last the family have struck something that will give them ease and comfort it not comparative wealth. The hand some daughter is credited with the discover-, which is simply a new method of treating photographs in reproduction. Her name has been given to it. and her work is getting more and more circu lation every day with of course an in creased inflow of dollars to the family treasury. She has secured a patent on her process. All the photographers are puzzled by the work and would like to have it for use in their business, as they see that this girl is getting as many or ders as she can fill at the good price of three dollars for each cabinet repro duction. The pictures are the same size as the cabinet photographs, but softer and more pleasing in tone, and are mounted under thick plate-glass with beveled edges. How she makes her copies nobody has been able to find out as yet, but in the slang of the day her work fcoes." 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