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A Swim for Life in a Canyon. A correspondent of the Pioche Record, writing from El Dorado Canyon, Nev., says: ** Another of our old-timers has been swallowed up by the treacherous Colorado. Barney Coleman and Ben jamin Gooch, accompanied by two In dians, started up the river last Friday morning in a skiff for the purpose of catching driftwood. After reaching a point between twelve and fifteen miles up the river the boat, becoming un manageable, was drawn into an eddy and disappeared in an instant. The skiff al the time was near a steep cliff of rocks, whose walls were two hun dred feet in height, and the Indians, observing that the eddy was about swal lowing the boat and crew, jumped out and clung to the •rocks, and Gooch en deavored to do the same thing after them. He secured a slight hold to the perpendicular side of the cliff, clung to it only for a moment, then fell into the water and was seen no more. < 'oleman sprang from the stern of the skiff out in to the river ami got beyond the eddy, where he watched for the appearance of the boat. He hail not long to wait, but it seemed to him ages, when ho caught sight of it, bottom upward, a few yards down the river, when he swam after it. overtaking and clinging to it. In this condition, for three miles, he went shooting past rocks, ploughing through breakers, and whirling a’-out in eddies, when he came face to fa to one of those roaring rapids amt lr< . i erous eddies so numc o:ts and so dread ful in the Colorado. There w*se * -.in*.* Io lose. Another chance be«* ’e anil death, ami that ehan - :- - i:>-, was the only one in a th -ad ihe resolution was form si t- a. -u r-. an 1 executed the next. » ts in the mid't <>f therapadfe.Maaatsagon<* another breaker and or s - -nt Vbis was an ind < r. v r mats whose s. |e r ».:••; - d hint, as he felt a priauam*cW hands of death; and tl-’ g'l Nil -.-arcely knewn his s:reng"h -e, n re w u a desperateoppor.ur r . st. and he says that he felt that he w <s a mere straw at the mercy of a wave one second and an eddy the next. Here was waged a fierce and pro tracted struggle for life between a pow erful man and skill.ul swimmer, weigh ing 225 pounds, ami fit st a whirlpool and then a rapid, whose force and size and danger can never be realized ex cept by the man whose life was trembling in the balance; but courage and human strength at last prevailed, and the brave man swam on over rapids and through whirlpools for the distance of three of as perilous miles as were probably ever won by man. Who can imagine his feelings as he reached in safety and crawled upon the river bank, where he lay for some time completely exhausted? As soon as he had regained sufficient strength Cole man set out for the canyon.and, shoele-s ami naked, after a tramp of six miles over the barren, rocky mountainsand through deep canyons of burning sands in the heat of a broiling sun. lie ar rived, his feel bleeding and fo.irfully lacerated by the sharp rocks. Sagliulicu Instead of Siberia. The Abt’oc Vrcnu/a, which is usually well informed in administrative matters, states in a leading article that the Rus sian Government is actively engag<‘d discussing a project for abolishing* exile to Siberia. This may seem an untrust worthy rumor to persons unacquainted with Russian progress, but it is, in ef fect, altogether in harmony with tho tendency tvoth of the Russian Govern ment and people to give over treating Siberia as a huge Botany Bay, and make use of it as a colonial adjunct, like Can ada or Australia. Os course a place must still be found for the tIO.OPO exiles who are deported from European Rus sia every year, and here the iecent an nexation of Saghal en comes in handy to play in the North Pacific the role that New Caledonia plays in behalf of the French in the South Pacific Ocean. Should the island become over-crowd ed, as it would very likely be in course of time, unless the stream of exiles di minished, a second penal settlement could formed in the inhospitable wilds of N’ovoe Zemlia, where a Russian geographer has recently demonstrated the winters to be not so bad as usual ly represented. Whether this be so or not, or whether Novoe Zemlia will ever succeed Saghalien, it seems to be t?’orably certain that before long the indiscriminate distribu tion of exiles overt he huigth and breadth of Siberia will undergo a thorough over hauling. At present, exiles are shot over the Urals into Asia in a most pro miscuous manner, scarcely a thin! re maining in the districts' assigned to them, and a large proportion wandering about the country like vagrants. In a word, in most essentials the deportation of non-pohtical convicts is simply a sort of enforced colonization, with a suffi cient grant from the State to keep the exiles from actual starvation. This in trusion of a needy criminal clement has always been a grievance to the regtdar Siberians, and has been unaniniousTv re garded by Russian statesmen as the principal cause of the stunted growth of the country during its .‘1(M) years’ exist ence under Russian rule. Now that the European railway system penetrates be yond the Urals, and the province of Tobolsk has been placed on the same home administrative footing as St. Petersburg or Moscow, the denortation of exiles, to Western Siberia ‘at least, has become an anomaly; and of the two they would be kept in hand better in the Island Saghalien than in the eastern sec tion of that great appanage of the Rus sian Empire.— London Globe. —An incident of the recent Scioto disaster on the Ohio, is told by a West ern paper. It appears that a young •fellow on board, just previous to the disaster, was boasting to his girl, to whom he was engaged to be married, and who accompanied him on the ex cursion on the fatal Fourth, that ho could swim ashore and carry her easily, but when the collision came he desert ed her and took care of himself. She was also saved, anil when he came to congratulate her upon being still alive, she refused to speak to him and handed back the engagement ring. —An exchange says that the move ment to sell potatoes in strawberry boxes is weakening. A Curious Snuff-Bex. Shortly after the breaking out of the French lievolution, its advocates de nounced our Premier as “an enemy to the human race;” that man. “so easy to live with," who sang the song about himself, called “Billy Pitt, the Tory.’ His Secretary one day* told him that a foreigner, who spoke English tolerably well, had twice or thrice asked to see him; but, not looking like a proper a|>- plicant, had been sent away, the great man’s time being too precious for him to admit every stranger who, on frivo lous pretexts, m ght seek to gratify an | Idle curiosity. This person, however, i had said ho should return in an hour: | the Secretary, therefore, thought it his _ duty to inform Mr. Pitt of such inten tion, and ask his fuither orders in the affair. “ Hate the goodness,” said the Min ister, “to open the toji left-hand drawer | in that cabinet, and bring me its con- j tents.” These were a pair of pistols, and a , morocco case; opening the latter he pro duced a snuff-box, in which was set a portrait. “Is that like our visitor?” asked | Pitt. ‘•lt is the man, sir,” answered the Secretary. “Ha. 1 have expected him for some dins' He is sent over to assassinate j me: so. when ho calls again, let him ba ! ■ shown fir-” ••Sir!' uxCl.-iimed the attached re- ; tuber. “ will you expose to danger your . life on which so much depends?” “ There will be no danger. I thank sou; but you may be within call, if you Ae.-vnlingly the Frenchman, on his ,r» turn, was 'ushered Into the room win re William Pitt sat alone—a loaded i pistol ia om- hand, th? tn mature in the other. •‘M nsictu; Mehce de la Touche,' 1 , said Pitt, calmly, “you see I am it. j every Way prepared tor you, thanks to 1 an agent employed by this Government, j Attempt my lite, and your own instant ily pays the forfeit. In any case, 1 shall > have you secured, and given over to the law.” The intended assassin stood paralyzed and dumb at this cool reception. “But,” continued Pitt, “there is an other alternative personal safety and high rewards are in your power. Sell your services to Great Britain: make your market of whatever secret infor mation you can procure, that may guard us against the machinations of your country; be, in fact, one of the necessa ry evils which policy forces us to use in desperate cases; do what no honorable man could do to save yourself from speedy death; your conscience is stained by purposed murder. Comply, perforce, with these conditions, and you shall be us liberally paid ns you must, by all par ties, be justly despised.” The Secretary used tpr<q>ent his illus trious blaster’s Words, which were, as nearly as possible, to the foregoing ef fect. ‘ The elever miscreant joyfully accepted these terms, and for many years earned the bribes of a spy in our behalf. No doubt a snuff-box was tho safest medium for the warning portrait, as fancy heads frequently adorned such a thing; while, had the miniature been set as a locket, whoever -aw it must have been sure that it depicted some real in dividual.— Loudon Society. Parasites of the Fly. A microscopical discovery, which may ■ prove highly importnn! in a sanitary point of view, has been made by I'hoiu as Taylor, M. D., microscopist of the . Department of Agriculture. About a I year ago, while dissecting out. the pro boscis of a common house fly. Dr. Tav lor discovered minute snake l:kc animals moving quickly from the proboscis. Continuing hi.« oxporlmohts from time to time since tin n. Im found that house i flies are very frequently inhabited bv these animals. He has found thorn geii erally in the proboscis of the tly, al though sometimes they are found in the abdomen, and he thinks that flies are carriers of these minute snake-like animals, they may in like manner be conveyers of contagious germs, much smaller bodies. These animals meas [ ure about eight one-hundredths to one ' tenth of an inch in length, and about I two one-thousandths of an inch in di j ameter. They are classed under rhe i Nematoidiv, genus Anguillula. They are much larger than trichina* or so called vinegar eels. Mr. Taylor has found as many as seven of these ani mals in the proboscis of one tly, and three more in the abdomen, ten in all. Svmetimeji none an* discovered, some times one only. but frequently four are seen. 1 heir presence is usually indi cated by a rolling movement in the an terion portion of the proboscis. When this is observed, if a drop of water bo placed upon it. the animals will readily leave tho proboscis and take to the water. They are frequently observed passing in and out of the proboscis, to and from the water, as if the proboscis was their natural home. A power of twenty-five diameters is sufficient to ob serve their general movements, but for examinations of their structure from 250 to 500 diameters is necessary. Thev are perceptible to the naked eye in cer tain light. Mr. Taylor proposes to make the experiment of feeding flies on tri chinosed meat to test the possibility of trichina* or the eggs of trichina* being I taken up by flies. Scientific Aniuican. “Gracious, Sybilhi. how Count Champignon sneezes; he is unaccus tomed to our climate: go and tell him to come away from that window.” The Count was a delicate looking little fel low with an enormous endowment of capillary decoration on his upper lip. whom her mother mentally re served as a sweet matrimonial boon for the Count, moved toward him at a ( hi cago canter, and archly attracting his attention by a sharp thrust in the" ribs, explained: '‘Count, I've got a message from ma to you.” “Ah. zat is so vera kind,” he murmured, with agaze of ad miration at Sybilla, who continued: “Yes; she says if you takeoff that mus tache an<i put it on your head you won't be so apt to catch cold. -Chicago Times. Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, an authority on culinary science, says that bad cook- i ing has made America a nation of dys peptics inebriates and criminals, From Death to Lite. A reporter for the Mail and Express I was walking in the vicinity of the Fulton Ferrv a few days ag», in'the company of one of the officers attached to the life saving service. There was a rush of people to the Fulton Market slip, and , the officer and the reporter joined the ■ crowd to see the excitement. “It was nothing,” one of the spectators said, turning to go aWaJ; “only a boy ■ drowned!” The life saving officer, how- j ever, seem< d to take a different view of . the drowning of a bojr, and he hurriedly elbowed his way through tho crowd till he was at the water's edge, with the re porter at his elbow. Three of the fish ing schooners were tied up nt this part of the pier -ide by side, and on the deck of the third lay a naked boy apparently , dead. Half a dozen market men and i fishermen stood by, saying that the boy I was dead and that that was all there was of it. The life-saving officer sprang aboard the nearest schooner, and was i I immediately stopped by a policeman who was oh guard—for the boy had been out of the water for some time. “ Stand back,” said the life-saver, “I I am a physician, 1 ' and, followed by the reporter, he was soon on the deck on ! which the drowned boy lay. The officer-physician felt the boy s skin, felt for his puke, drew up one of ■ his eyelids and looked at the pupil, and I asked the bystanders how long the boy I had been out of the water. j “ You can’t gel no job here unless you J are an undertaker,” said one of the , men. “He was stuck in the mud most ten minutes, and he's been layin’ here ten minutes more; so, if you fetches him to life, it’ll be a little resurrection, and don't you forget it.” The officer paid no attention to the man’s opinions, but devoted his whole time to the boy in away that seemed to indicate some hope of saving the life that was apparently gone. The boy could not have been colder or more ap parently lifeless if he had been dead for a week. The officer opened the boy’s mouth, an operation that required some force, and found it full of mud. Pulling the lower jaw down as far as possible,lie in troduced one of his fingers and care fully but quickly cleaned it out. There was enough mud in the mouth to choke the boy if he had not been in the water at all. The officer whisked off his coat, rolled it up into a pillow, and laid ;it on the deck. With the assistance of j two or three bystanders, he turned the • boy over on his face and laid him so | that the coat-pillow was directly under his stomach. Taking the boy’s two ankles in one of his hands and giving them to one of the men to hold up so that the patient’s feet were several feet higher than his head, the officer pressed carefully but firmly in the region of the small of his back, and immediately a stream of water gu-hed out of the boy’s mouth. It had been all this time in the lungs, wailing only tor proper treat ment to help it out. The boy was then, after a minute or two of this exercise, turned over on his back again, and the officer knelt over him. Putting one hand on the boy’s right side and the other on his left, just over what are known as “the short ribs,” the officer gave them a powerful compression, and then suddenly let go. The instant ho took off his hands the ribs sprang back to their natural position, and a draught of air rushed into the lungs. This was repeated a dozen times or more, but' still the boy was, to all appearance, a corpse. “Oh, give us a rest on that,” said another of the men. “The boy’s dead, and that settles it. Can't you let a , drowned boy alone!” | I'he assertion that the boy was dead ’ seemed to be only too true. He looked : like a piece of marble; ami the reporter | suggested that it was not worth while to make any further efforts. ■ “AV hy,” said the officer, “1 haven’t I begun yet. The boy may live and he | may not. But he's going to have a fair i chance for his-life, anyhow. Stand back a little, all of you, and give him a little more air.” Discontinuing for a moment the arti ficial breathing process, the officer took ' one of the boy’s hands between his own j and began to slap it vigorously, at the , same time setting three of the bystand | ers at work on the other hand and two feet. The reporter relieved the officer at tho slapping business, and the latter resumed the rib-squeezingproce->s, com pressing the noy’s frame till he must have cried for mercy if he had been conscious. With four men slapping his hands and feet, and an expert trying to start his breathing, the boy must have been unreasonable, indeed, had he been dissatisfied. But he still lay as dead as a stick, and, happily unconscious. i After about live minutes of this treat ment, very much to the surprise of the market men and the reporter, and greatly to the delight of the life saving officer, the boy gave a slight gasp for breath. Just at this moment of triumph the policeman on guard called across the decks: “Say, you’d better let that boy alone, lie's dead enough.” “ Never mind what they have to say, they don’t know what they're talkin ’- ab mt, ’ said the officer. “Get me a •_: 'ass of brandy.” He redoubled his artificial breathing It atment, and one of the ti-hing sailors went down into the cabin and soon re- i turned with a tumbler nearly full of not I very inviting-looking brandy. The boy I meanwhile gasped again; had twitched ■ a little in the legs; had rolled his head to one side, and at lengt h had drawn a I good sized breath. Ihe minute he breathed the officer picked up the glass of brandy and poured the liquid down the boy’s throat. ‘‘Now, get me two or three blankets, as quick as yon can,” said lie, and at the same time he unrolled his coat and laid it over the boy. The patient con tinued to show more signs id' life. He soon drew short but regular breaths,and raised one hand to his head. Under the influence of the warm brandy in his stomach and the fresh air in his i hmgs, he opened one of his eves. I “He is all right now,” said‘the officer, I getting up with difficulty and straight i cuing the “Kinks” out of ins back. I “H rap him no weli in these blankets i and put him in a berth. Be sure you make his hands and feet warm. If you *t ' * w 'i warm water, c-rk them and put ’hem against his feet. oi fifteen nrnrtes give him anotner of brandy. «?© will be able to talk to you inside oi an hour and tell you where he lives. But he will probably be too weak to walk home; some of vou will have to carry him. Come, old fellow (to the reporter), let us go. There is I nothing more for us to do. A. x. Mail and Express. Afghan and Biloch. In all resneets, particularly from a governing asjvect. the Biloch is infinite ly to be preferred to the Afghan. Though phvJically inferior in bulk and weight of body, he is the Afghan s e ptal in courage, and his superior in endurance and intelligence. One spe cially good trait in his character is that he never sulks or bears malice long, wiiereas the Afghan does both. Here are illustrations in point. I never re hwnlber having an Afghan whipped in jail without the fellow showing by his sullen looks and scowling face that he bore the striker, if not myself, a grudge for it. But here, in the Derah Ghazi Khan Jail, the puffishment over, the Biloch is as frank and pleasant afi he was before. One man. I remember, who was in as a bad character, would not Wdfß. H»< was warned that he would be whipped. He tHefely laughed, ami said: “That won't iliaku any difference, sahib. He was shoUti a man. being whipped; he only looked grave. Finally be was whipped him self. He was taken out of his cell, stripped naked, tied wrists and fittkles to the triangle, and given twenty or thirty—l forget the exact number strokes with a rattan. During the op ' eration he bit at the wood, bit almost i through his tongue, bitt never either groaned or winced, lhe punishment ! Over, he threw himself on the ground on his face, When the usual skin of cold I water was dashed over him, and then j the commiserating water-earner stood : upon the beaten parts to deaden the j pain. Still he would not work. 1 saw i nim a day or two after in his cell, look l ing happy and unconcerned, though he I must still have been very sore, and for days would not be able to sit down. He . was pleased to see me. He seemed to have an idea that not being in jail I for any specific and proved offense. !it was not right to give him hard labor, and so put him on ; the level of a convicted felon. 1 remon ; strated with him for his obstinacy, to no I effect. One day I observed his splendid curls shining with oil or ffhi ■. I asked | how he had got it. He had saved it i from his food, was the answer. J. cut ’ Ids ghcc; still no effect. At last, as his ' example was becoming infectious. 1 ’ warned him that if he would not work 1 should have him transferred to the Multan Jail, where 1 believe his Ab salom-like hair would be cut short. That threat frightened him—his ring lets being the glory of the Biloch: he said he would try to work. He made a pretense of trying, and failing, was sent off to Multan, where I have no doubt he is now, though prison-cropped, as smiling and light hearted ami do nothing as he was here. Now, it is not the Afghan nature to behave as that Biloch did, and that Biloch’s case is ■ typical of others. Similarly circum- I stanced. the Afghan would have sulked, j worked, fallen ill from fretting, and I some day- after his release, perhaps. ' killed the human instrument who had i beaten him.— Blackwood's' Magazine. Things Learned by Experience. Ts your coal tire is low throw on a ta blespoonful of salt, and it will help it very much. A little ginger put into I sauasage meat improves the flavor. In i.-itig cake dip the knife frequently in I coklwater. In boiling meats for soups ' use cold water to extract th- juice. If | the meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge i in boiling water at once. You can get a ■ bottle or barrel of oil oft' any carnet or j woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentifully and faithfully; never put water to such a grease spot or liquid of any kind. Broil steak without baiting; salt draws the juice in cooking; it is de- ■ sirable to keep these in if possible; cook I over a hot fire, turning frequently, sear ing on both sides; place on a platter, salt and pepper to taste. Beef having a i tendency to be tough can be made very palatable by stewing very gently for two hours, pepper and salt, taking out about a pint of liquid when done, and letting the rest boil into the meat. Brown the meat in the pot. After taking up make a gravy of the pint of liquid saved. A small piece of charcoal in the pot with boiling cabbage removes the smell. Clean oilcloth with milk and water ; a bniah and soap will ruin them. Tumblers that have had milk in them should never be put in hot water. A spoonful of stewed tomatoes in tho gravy of either roasted or fried meats is an improvement. The skin'of a boiled egg is the im st efficacious remedy that can 1 be applied to aboil. Peel it carefully, wet, ami apply it to the part affected’ It will draw off the matter and relieve the soremss in a few hours. Rich Find in a Trunk. A young fellow who was one of the “ reserve’ was ordered to Rouen last year to serve the usual fourteen days. He had no trunk. His funds were low. . He asked a maiden aunt to lend him a i trunk. She had nothing but an old fashioned portmanteau, which was so queer he refused to take it. He could, however, find no other, and, ashamed as he was to be seen in such company, there was no help for it, shoulder it 'he was obliged to do. Offered employment in uouen, he made it his home, the trunk Jay hidden and forgotten in a dark closet, until one day while rummaging he came upon it. He determined to send it back to his aunt. As he emptied it he found it had a double bottom ; he opened this double bottom; he found in it 110,000. .e carried them to the bank and found the money good. He capered for joy, nut only with his legs but with his tongue ; so news of the discovery reach' <1 j his aunt s ears, and she said the monev belonged to her, and she found the junk dealer who had sold her the trunk ; J e willingly became her witness to this fact, but added : “ Zat drunk ees my righds and zat monish ees mine.” So they have a i gone to law.— J',tris Corresponds nee Orleans Picayune, 11* . i u ii l TEZSTTST. . Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils. |sep3 6m | HERRON’S! Special Announcement for the Spring! We present to our patrons, and the public generally, this Season the most com plete assortment of Goods ever shown here. They were purchased for CASH, and we now offer them at INSIDE FIGURES IMEa,lx.e BTo Mistake S BUT SEE US AT ONCE, AS WE SELL AT BOTTOM PRICES FOR CASH. 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