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' v J ''"''''11' vV 1 '' f I 1 . I ' I I I I II I I I . I . FEARLESSLY THE EIGHT DEFEND IMPARTIALLY OSE WRONG CONDEMN. VOLUME I. POLKTOjS", iAXSOjN CO., N. a, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1874. UMBER 13. And Tarantulas in Colorado. I 1 The " Rocky Mountain Miner and Me chanic," published at Denver, under jthe head of M Cyclopa?Jia Colorado," devotes a ' column or two to describing some of ? the natural products ofhat wonderful region. In the last number the editor speaks of rat tlcnakw as vcnomouJ serpents, to be found in all parts of Colorado. He pays : : : It is popularly 'supposed that the age of the snake can be estimated by the number of rattles; but this is a mistake, for though these may increase with oge, their fragility is such that many may be lost by accident ; and, mqreovcr, more than one may be added annual! v, owing to the vigor, food, state . of aptmty, etc., of the reptile twenty are not unfrcqucntly seen in large specimens, but it would be incorrect to conclude from, these that the 6nake was neither more nor less than twenty years old. As the bite of these - reptiles is speedily fatal to small animals, it has oeen generally believed that the use of tae rattles is to warn animals and man of its vicinity ; but it is more'likely that its . use is to startle the creatures upon which it preys from their retreat, and., bring them within the reach of its spring, or some other purpose for Its own welfare rather than the s-ifetjrof man. Dangerous as they are, they rarelv attack man unless-provoked, and are fortunately sluggish in their . movements, unable to spring except from a coil, and are disabled by slight blows. They are vivipa rous", the eggs being retained until hatched, and the young expelled alive. In winter they retire to holes in the ground, and there remain torpid, several interlaced with 'each other. They arc unable to climb treefl in pursuit of their prey, and do' not follow a retreating animal that has escaped 1 their spring The most common' of the rattle snake tribe found in Colorado, the prairie rattlesnake, is a little over two feet long ; it is cinereous above, with a triple series of dark brown spots, and a dduble series of dusky spots below ; it is fond of, hiding in the holes of the prairie dog."j J j j " . From the same source and under the same heading we learn something of the tarantula, or tarentula, "which," the writer says,5 "is a terrestrial hunting or wolf spider, belonging to the genus lycosa. It is the largest of ppiders, measuring one and a half to two 1 in-new in tnc.iengxn 01 the body ; the color is ashy brown above, marked with gray on the thorax, and with triangular spots and curved streaks of black bordered with white on the abdomen; below saffron colored. with a transverse black band.' It received its popular name from being common in the vicinity of . Tarrants, in South Italy. It makes no v. eb, wandering for prey, which it runs down with great swiftness, and hiding in holes in the ground and crevices lined with its silk ; there is onb spiracle on each side, one pulmonary sac, and eight eyes ; it ii very active and fierce, and the females de fend their young and egg3 with self-sacrificing bravery Its bite is supposed to be highly prisonous. The 1. Carolinensis (Rose) is called tarantula in the Southern States ; it attains a length of two inches,-with an ex tent of legs of four; it is mouse-colored above, with white sides and, whitish dots and lines on the abdomen ; below, blackish ; l?gs whitish tipied with black. It makes deep excavations in the ground, which it lines with silk ; the females carry their young on the back, giving them a hideous appearance, as if covered with warts ; the young run off in all directions if the mother be disturbed. Its poison is active. Both kinds are found in Colorado, but the. latter are the most numerous, A favorite haunt is the hole of the prairie dogj where the rat tlesnake, the tarantula, and the dog "may Rattlesnakes generally be found sociably living together. An Optical Delusion; There is a tendency in the eye to' enlarge the upper part of any object on which it . looks an illusion which we find admirably illustrated in a paragraph in an exchange. Here is a row of ordinary capital letters and figures : : i SSvSSSSSSXXXXXXX333333338SSS8S They are such as' are made up of wo parts of equal shapes. Look carefull at these, and you will perceive that the tipper , halves of the characters are a very little, - smaller than the lower halves so little that anordinaryeyewilldeclare them to.be of equal size. Now turn the page upside down, and, without any careful looking, you will see that this difference in size is very much exaggerated ; that the real top half of the letter is very much smaller than the bottom ' haU'- ' !- i f , T"- f 4 Horse Thieves, ! There are well-organized gangs of horse thieves in "Wisconsin, Illinois Indiana, and Michigan who run horses into Canada, and the Grangers . are purposing to drive them out of the country by what they hope will prove effective co-operation. To this end they, have adopted a plan by which five ' riders , start from each Grange within a given circuit. H a trace of the rascals is obtained the chase is to be continued wjth the utmost vigor. "When the horses break down withhard riding others may be secured of members, even when at a great distance, and feed and meals and lodging are supplied. The Fire in the Coal Fields' Martin Coryell, C.I, of WilkesbarrePa., briefly recited before the Civil Engineers Convention the particulars of the conflagra tion now existing in the coal at the Kidder Slope, illustrating the same by means of map. He explained the progress of the fire, and stated that wheh it was first dis covered the miner) employed locomotives in various places to pump water into the mines, and for a time the fire was checked. They also cut holes into the mines in order to force the water through them, but the rush of air was so great that the fire appeared to burn wiht more savage fierceness. Even the sandstone rock was actually melted.- This work was kept up for a month, and it was thought that the fire had been put out. In fact it was extinguished in the greater por tion of the mine, and every person was of the belief that the conflagration was con quered. The work, however, was very ex hausting to the men, who were also- dread ing what is known as " a fall," and were watching intently for it. "When . a fall oc curs, said Mr. Coryell, a current of air and foul gases is forced through all parts of the mine, and, the situation of the miners be comes actually dangerous. The fall came, and the concussion was so great . that the men became frightened and quitted- their work. The air again rushed into the mine, fanned the flame, and the fire extended over a greater area than before. ' After a while anew plan was adopted.. Steam boilers were erected at various points, and the work of forcing steam into' the tnines was begun. This appears to be working with great suc cess. At one time during the height of the fire the thermometer at the mouth of . the air-shaft registered 212 degrees. "When 50 pound of steam pressure were forced into the mine the thermometer fell to 120, and when 70 pounds pressure was introbped the thermometer fell to 100. The men are now at work boring a nine-inch hole with a dia mond drill, so as to be able to put in at a different point another stream of steam to aid the others. The work "is ' apparently go ing on successfully. ' The steam has evi dently created a great amount of carbonic acid gas ; but as yet there have been no means ot ascertaining tne quantity tnus created, or whether it was aiding the steam Ir xLmriar the. wort .of extinguishing the fire. The miriqs are at least 600 feet below the surtace, and therelore very dimcult reach. J. Dalton Steele said that he knew ot a number of mines which having taken fire, were still burning for want of some good ap pliance for extinguishing the flames. Some of these mines had been burning for twenty vears. and manv for over five years. Gas rf , . - has been tried to extinguish the flames, but it failed. The application of steam seemed to be more practical. The former plan used to be that, when a mine took fire, it was as economical to let it burn itself out as to at tempt to extinguish it. Ashbel Welch said that during the excur sion of members of the Convention to Pennsylvania, it was proposed to visit a mine that had been burning fifteen years. The surface of the ground was burned, and greatlyresembled the crater of a volcano. Rochefort's Personal Appearance. M. Rochefort is a man who w;ould vbe recognized at first sight as a remarkable character. 'He stands abou six feet high, and a pair of broad, massive shoulders are surmounted by 1 a head of unusual size. Every feature is clearly and distinctly cut. HS nose is large and long. His lips are somewhat thick, but not enough so to ren der them unusually prominent. His eyes are the most wonderful part of the ifse. They are blue not that liquid, mel 4Tg blue which one is accustomed to . see every day, but a color peculiar to itself, lhey are never still. They roam restlessly about and rest upon every object within reach, al most at every moment. The head 01 Koche- fort is covered with a thick casing of half curling hair, which he wears cut very close. Originally it was brown, but trouble and care have sown silver threads in the tresses, which give to it not a gray but a dappled complexion. On his lip grows a very thin and very slight mustache, silvered like his hair, and from his chin depends the mere shadow of a goatee. The cheek bones are very prominent and very high, and the face, taken aliogether, is what an Englishman would call intellectual, a Frenchman spirit- uelle. So says a reporter who saw and con versed with him. i A Patriotio Boy It is a good thing to love one's country and to be proud of its history. An Ohio boy carried " it, perhaps, to a little excess. Parsfcn Thomas, of Dayton, Ohio, a D.D. of good repute and fine qualities, had a son of sprightly parts and progressive ideas. This son had been visiting at the house of a fe male relative, where he took some primary lessons in the history of the'American Revo lution, and how the Americans whipped the Britishers. The lad returned home full of his new subject, and at the tea-table said to his father, M Pa, be you a Britisher ?" " Yes, my son, I was born in England." u Well, we whipped you 1" retorted the youngster. On the Mississippi. As soon as you have your berth on a' Mis sissippi River, steamer you are looked upon as' one of the family and may consider your- self at homev You can retire to the sanctity of your berth whenever you desire. When ever the gong raises its fiendish racket you can march boldly forward and take a seat at the cabin table. And generally you will receive excellent tare. Un well omcereu and properly manned boats great attention is paid to the comfort of passengers. No a reputation for incompetent management and bad treatment in the presence of a-com- peting rival, for it would soon lose its cus tom. Men are not in the habit of patroni- zing places wnere tney are treatea oaaiy, and the companies know this. Where the strife has waxed warm between two of those companies, they sometimes will carry pas sengers for merely nominal rates, rather than permit their adversary to obtain them. Bands of music are frequently hired to play on the boa.ts while they lie at the wharf in order to attract the crowd; If two boats of rival companies start about . the same time in the same direction a race is almost sure to happen. Then all caution is lost in the mad thirst to be ahead. 'It 'pervades the whole crew, from the captain to the dirtiest roustabout, .carrels 01 oacon ana rosin are flung into (he furnaces and a darky swings on the safety-valve to prevent a jet of steam frbm escaping, while the gauge . cocks indi cate a pressure that may deal death and de struction at any moment. JThe passengers crowd to tlier hurricane deck, and are as much excited .as the crew, and do all in their power to induce the engineer to put on more steam. . There is no thought of an ex plosion then. . The all pervading idea is to beat. And when such terrible disasters do occur, the public and the press pounce upon the crew and officers for doing just what they are urged to do. - An amusing .story is told of an old lady who had never been on a steamboat, and who had a horror of races. But at last she had occasion to ship a few barrels of lard ; and to insure their safe delivery she went along. Immediately on going on board she hunted up the captain nd with many. en- treaties begged hi not to engagein-arace. The good-are1 caPtain17eTMHi'unfunate people were rendered the rluest- lut soon a rival boat was-dis- turned astern, but rapidly overhauling them, Pitch and turpentine were fed to the hungry fires, and black volumes of - smoke rolled out of the chimnies, but still she gained. The old lady was in a frenzy of excitement. " Oh, captain !" she screamed, " do you think we will be beat?" " She is gaining on us,", replied the cap tain. I " But, captain, can nothing be done ?" continued the old dame. ; - - " "We might increase our speed if we had a few barrels of lard," answered the captain,! with a sly wink at the mate. " Tiion r?lt in minp rnrtflin iiiIa it in !" a'n... x . was her frantic ejaculation. ' ' A Novel Exhibition. It is stated that a party of army officers. who have been engaged in mounting , guns and otherwise putting the Gulf forts in serviceable condition, while sailing through Mississippi Sound, since the recent flood, encountered a remarkable scene. For miles were seen logs, driftwood, and patches -of turf and soil floating out into the gulf, filled with live animals, who clung to their frail barks with4the tenacity of shipwrecked mari ners. Among the animals were seen rats, raccoons, 'possums, rabbits, alligators and moccasin snakes in uncounted numbers,; all brought down from the swamps and marshes, perhaps from fifty to one -hundred miles in land. The novel exhibition had a scientific interest, as it suggested the manner in which, during past geological periods, ani mals were transported from regions far in land to the mouth of estuaries, and their bones being entombed in the silt and soft mud, furnished the organic remains which are preserved for ages in the ! hardened strata. It was, doubtless, by similar means that the fossils now found in the solid lime stones were engulfed and preserved ; and also that animal life has been distributed over portions of the globe. Central Asia. Central Asia may be broadly described as an enormous square, over a great part of its surface composed of barren wilds, of diffi cult mountains, and of more fruitful tracts ; three sides of it being, in different degrees, subject to the influence and the sway of Russia, and the fourth approaching, in some places, the northern verge of England's In dian possessions. The features of the ex- terior parts of the mighty square are well known, but it yet remains to penetrate the immense interior. This ; region, which, in j the days when Rome was sovereign on the J Orontes as well as on the Tiberr contained the highways by, which commerce toiled Painfully from the far east to the west, com- I . -I prises part of Russian Turkestan and the J two Khanates of Bokhara and Khiva, once the seats of a power which at different times menaced India to the banks of the Ganges, j and Europe to the stream, of the Vistula, j but now virtually Russian dependencies. 1 ' . Pnttingr Ont a Fire in Paris -The Parisians had quite an American sensation yesterday, says a letter to an American exchange, in the shape of I .tremendous fire. Usually,owing to the practice or dividing houses into flats, by which each floor is kept entirely separate, and the thick ness of the walls as well, a conflagration can be speedily extinguished without destroying more than two or, three rooms ; but the fire last night, which took place in the Rue Croizatier, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, first caught in a paint shop, afterwards spread to a wood-yard, and ended by ' de- strong a whole ' block of buildings occu pied by working people of the very poorest class, who are thus left in a state of total destitution. Several lives were lost, and &iongst them one poor fellow was killed by "being struck on the head by a small bed stead which some frantic person pitched wildly from one of the upper windows of a burning house. A policeman, in trying to rescue a woman, was also killed by the f all- rcg of a ceiling. The remarkable features about the affair, to an American, was. tie I extreme inefficiency of the fire brigade, the tardiness with which it arrived, and the difficulty experienced in summoning it. At J firet a few firemen madeieir appearance on the . scene, but without any engine; next the convalescents of the Hospital St. Antoine, which was close at hand, volunteered their assistance, and attempted to extinguish the flames by the primitive method of forming a chain and passing up buckets of water. But even water was wanting, as the water- plugs were locked up and the: keys were in the hands of a paternal government, and were hidden the Lord knows where. Two gentlemen, who happened to ber passing by oh , horseback, volunteered to go for assis tance, and in less than an hour from the J time they started," as the papers proudly assort, five . steam, fire engines were on the ground and doing emcient. service in pre- venting the fire from making further head- way. Juess tnan an noun jancy a nre m New York or Philadelphia that would be sunererea to Durn uncnecKea, save Dy a few thimblesful of water, for two hours j for when the gentlemen set off the fire had been under way for an hour or more. Ten large houses were destroyed, and multitudes. lqCandJ& were burned. Inis morning' some I aid has been accorded by the chief of police J and the mayor of the quarter to the princi pal sufferers, and Mne. de MacMahon has visited the scene and authorized the imme diate establishment of a free soup kitchen. Statistics of Catholicism. A quarter oi a century ago mere were sixty-six conventual schools or educational establishments conducted by nuns or Sisters of Charity of the Catholic Church in the United States. Now there are under the charge of the same Church about four hun dred academies and two hundred and forty select schools, or an average of about four to each diocese. - In these schools over 350,000 children are beings educated," and the foundling and other asylums, distinct from .the schools, number three hundred. 'The Protestant communi ties and State and local appropriations go far towards the maintenance of these asylums. The first oinvent established, within the present limits of the United States ii we except some perhaps that might have ex: sted long years since in Iew Mexico and Cali fornia was that of the Ursulines, opined at New Orleans in 1727, when that city was a portion of French territory. The Carmel ite nunnery, erected in 1790 near Port lo bacco, Md., was the next conventvestablished, four . nuns having been brought from Europe. The " Sisters of Charity " order was founded in the United States i by Mrs. E. A. Seatbn, the daughter of Protestant parents in New York. Her husband dying in De cember, 1802, was buried in Italy, and she returned to America. The moment that it was known that she had become a convert to Catholicism every friend and relative, the companions of her youth' and the sharers of her blood, deserted her. All forsook her except her children. In 1809, she, with four Others, organized the Sisters of St. Joseph, soon afterwards called "and now known: as Sisters ff Charity. j The Sisters of Mercy, another Catholic order, was introduced into the United States by the late Bishop O'Connor, of Pittsburgh, about thirty years ago. So says a. Catholic paper. v . -:. Education of Children. In Vera Cruz, Mexico, they have a'very compulsory system of education. When- ever a child of either sex .between the pre- scribed ages is seen upon the streets during school hours, a policeman conducts it to the nearest police station, whence, after name, age, residence, and names of " parents have been recorded, it . is sent to school. Vera ' . ' - - , -. ' Cruz has also a public wash-house, occupy- ing two sides of a square. Through the middle are two large marble troughs, with fifty subdivisions on each side. An abun- dance of clear water is provided, and the accommodations are free to alL & rib American Railroad Statistic. A Batch of I&terestiBff Statistics. ine loiiowmg is an extract irom tne in traduction to Poor's Manual of the Rail roads of the United States, for 1874-75." . The tabular statements on the preceding pages present full abstracts of the share capital, indebtedness, earnings, expenses, dividends, etc., etc;, of the railroads of the United Utates for 1873 The total length of line of which operations are given is 66,- 096 miles, against 57,323 miles for 172, and 44,614 for 1871. The aggregate jcost of the several roads at the end of theear was $3,761,973,322, against $3,159,423,057 for 1872J and $2,664,627,645 for f&71. The in crease of cost for 1873 over 1872, was $602. 550,265 ; over 1871f,097,345,677. Of the total cost $1,940,638,584 was made up of share capital, and $1,821,334,738 of various forms of -indebtedness, chiefly of bonds maturing at , a distant day. The propor tion of share capital to debt was 51.7 to 48.3. The average cost per mile of all the roads was $56,918, against $55,116 for 1872, and $59,726 for 1871. The total gross earn ings for the year were $527,291,323, against $468,241,055'for 1872, and $403,329,203 for 1871. The increase of earnings for 1873 was $59,050,268 ; for 1872, $64,911,857 ; the total for the two years being $123,962,115. The percentage of increase for" 1873 over 1872 was 11.4 ; for 182 over 1871, 14 per; cent. The percentage of increase jn the two: years was 30 per cent. Of the total earnings4 for the year, $387,542,789 were received for the transportation of freight and mails, and $139,748,534 for the transportation" of pas- sengers tne proportion 01 - tne iormer to the latter being as 73 to 27. The . current operating expenses . were $344,437,528K or 65.2 per cent, of the gross earnings. - The net earnings .were $182,853,765, or 34.7 per cenK of the gross. The latter equaled 14." 33 per cent, of the cost of the roads the net 4.96 per cent. The amount paid in divi-' dends was $59,566,316, or 3.07 per cent, on the aggregate amount of the share capital. The gross earnings per head of popular tion equaled $12.80 against $ll.3for 1872, and $9.80 for 1871. The ratio of total mileage to inhabitants in 1873 was one mile Ho every 582 inhabitants, against pi gross earnings - on .the. total roads was 14.33 against 15.14 for 1871. The rate is 0.67 c-maii mat xur iow, u.ox less man mat for 1871. The percentage of net earnings upon the cost of . the roads for 1873 was 4.96 against 5.20 for 1872 and 5.32 for 1871. The increase of mileage in the two years for which- returns are given has been - 21,482 miles. The increase of the cost drahe roads ! in the same time has been i $1,097,305,677. It was hardly possible that the j learnings should increase , in ratio to such an enor mous" expenditure, as two or three years often elapse after its opening before a rail road is in position to do much business, for want of adequate equipments, or.from the. unfinished condition of its tracks, or front :the want of suitable connection, or from pe cuniary embarrassments.' On the other hand, the earnings of these, works, per head of population, in 1873 was $12.80, against l$11.63 for 187-2 and $10.22 for 1871. This is a mostencouraging feature in connection with these works, as it shows that under or dinary conditions their earnings must fin crease, for an indefinite period, in a very rapid ratio, more clearly . settled the in crease per head in the Eastern "States being as great as in' the .Western and more sparsely settled States. At the rate of the past three years the earnings of our railroads will double themselves in the next six years without the construction of an additional milefof linei- The population is increasing at the' rate of one million annually.' By 1880, the earnings of the roads now in ope ration will probably! exceed $1,000,000,000: The percentage of their annual earnings tJ their cost will come fully up to 20 per cent. a -rate which, with good management, is sufficient to render the , whole investment reasonably remunerative. ;. In fact, there seems to be no limit to the increase pf earn ings, even with a stationary population, provided such population be intelligent, and provided with all the aids to industry whieh science and art can supply, - . , Some Temperance Figures A correspondent of the u CongregationaV ist" says : " There are 140,000 saloons m the country against 128,000 schools, and only 54,000 churches. Manufacturers and sell ers of strong drink, 650,000 twelve times the number of clergymen, four tiines the teach ers, nearly double all the . lawyers, physi cians, teachers, and ministers combined. In these saloons there are 5,600,000 daily cus tomers, one in seven of the whole, popula tion ! Of these, 100,000 are annually im prisoned for crime, at an expense; of $90,- 000,000, leaving 200,000 beggared orphans. Grasp these figures : An army . ol topers, five abreast, 100 miles in length. A rank of beggared widows stretching across the State of Massachusetts. A file of men to miles in length, marching steadily down to the grave, three every minute through jthe year, n v 1 ' A Veritahle lore Story. -He was ycung, he was farj and he parted his hair, like the average byauin the mid dle; he wa$ proud, he was- Iwld, but the truth must be told, he pi ay till, like a fiend on the fiddle. Juut aside Irom this vice he was everything nice, and h$ heart' was . so loving and j tender that he (always turned pale when he ttod on the tail6f the cat, ly ing down bjj the fenderj Ie clerked in the store, and the way that hjltore off calico, jeans, and brown sheetir would have tickled a calf and made! thl brute laugh in the face of a quarterly meeting, lie cut quite a dfthMwih aj dajrjing mustache, which he learneil to adore ind to cherish ; . for one girl had said, while; she dropped her proud head! that 'twould 1ti.U her to see the thing perish. On a Sunday j he d search the straight road to churchi unheeding the church! voice of the scjorner ; and jdcmurcly ho sat, like a young tabby cat, $th his ; saints in irk the far amen corner. 4IIe sang like a J! bird, and hts sweet voice as heard fairly tugging away iat long meter;- and we evcak tugging away (at long rpeak but the truth when we say that this youth could butsing a hungry mokjuiter. She was! young, she wajsj fair, and she scrambled ier hair like thfe average belle of r . . - - ! II ' E 1 the city ; she was proud, but not the truth must be told tH the way. she i il l ' 'I M I . chewed wax as a pity. If But aside from this vice sije a everythijnff nice, and the world much applaude her bustle ; and the Fayetteviliie boys, being cTiarmed by the noise, walkedlmiles juBttd (hear the thing rustle.". Sh cut quite a swell, did the wax chewing belle, and jthe men flocked in armies to. jheet her; but she gave them the shirk, for she loved the young clerk, who sung like 4 hungry mosqujter. She hem med and she; I hawed, and ; she sighed and chawed until! her heart and, jaws ;were both broken ; then, 6he walked iliy his store, while he stood a the door awaiting some amative ' token. She raised up hek eyes with a p ret- ty surprise, and tried to fen act the probd scorner ; butto tell the plain truth, she just grinned atthe youth who. loved the devout amen corner! :- . : -mi . :"' :!! "" f r- . ' ' j i Short Horns During a recent discission at a meeting of English breeders on the management of Short-Horn Rattle, the chairman said : " Dno . ! fni0r S " been f and . too little to milk. He had been grieved to see a Short-Horn heifer unable to bring up her calf and to require ah" j inferior animal to be used, j Mr. Thomals ' Bates and other breeders usqd to boast jabout thd milk as well as th bcef-prodijcint qualities of their animals, but this was not5so now. The ob ject of the early breeders of Short-Horns was not tpj hiave fashionable herds but ani mals in the best conditiol. f The miners and . well paid, artisans woujd not buy those great lumps of fat, but afprime mutton and beef as could 'be had; "What the farmer now wanted was the class of stock fit to bring into the market as early at possible, and which would bring the greatest profit. ;Vhat wa wanted was to1, produce two-ycar- Old DullocjKS as prime asny loruuny at four years.". Our owni breeders would lo well to gitelheed to mc bove obscrrattons-; . for too many of therai1 especially at the -West, havej latterly greatly neglected the milking qualities of the hort-Horns, pay ing almost exclusive attention to them for beef. lf have repeatedjly seen the first two prizes at our cattle shows awarded to cows; that'liad but two or three serviceable teat, and to others whose udders and teats wcro so.smaH they could not ('produce half milk enough id bring up a calf. It was not thus with the early Short-Ityrns they were al most universally great milkers. ' Trouble iai Pork. The recent distressing cases of trichina'" spiralis at Flint an!l $juth JIavcn, Mich., 1 which reiMted so fatally, have been mad ' subject oi patient and 'proionged invesiiga- ' tion by the Medical Society of Katamizoo. Post mortem examinations of the bodies of. the victims were madeland these' loathsome parasites were found iilj great numbers in the bodies. The pork !and ham were also examinekjind found to be alive .with them. It was furthermore ascertained in rich case that ham had been eaten raw. As there are numerous Pothers liable io eat ham in this condition, ire commend them the following extract from the medical report : " Eat no uncooked or half cooked hog's flesh. . The raw flesh of the hog, whatever its shape or condition, whether hani, "bacon, or pork, salt or freshj smoked or unsmpked, U liable to y, contain this parasite, full of a life and ac tivity that may soon work a remediless miaT .chief in the human body. Bologna sausage, if pork, be in it uncooked, is as dangerous as anyprtber form of this meat. iThe heat . that c4M metL, utf destroys the life and mischievous power of these vermin, and no" one need fear any harm if this fact is ob served, Ml . E ; ::rj I . A lamented ci of : Montana, whoso . passion for horses ledj iiin out to the end of a conyenieni uuug " views of life were taken through a tlip- 1 vhAIA 11 IimilB uno. declared it to be his conviction (which Tit tftU world is all a this world it a hemptie fchow. L tizerj Mm
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