anaheim-gazette 1883-11-17

ANAHEIM VOL. XIV. HANNA & KEITH, REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. Great Clearance Sale OF FURNITURE AND CARPETS, AT BARKER & ALLEN'S, We offer our immense stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, in order to make room for our Fall importations. Call and get prices and see that we mean business. Nos. 322, 324 & 326 North Main Street, (Next to Pico House), LOS ANGELES, CAL. DR. JAMES ELLIS. PLANTERS' HOTEL BARKER & ALLEN'S, We offer our immense stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, in order to make room for our Fall importations. Call and get prices and see that we mean business. Nos. 322, 324 & 326 North Main Street, (Next to Pico House), LOS ANGELES, CAL. DR. JAMES ELLIS. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Garner office. Homeopathic Medicine wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. and at 2 P.M. DR. E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metall building, Los Angeles street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he has speak with confidence of his work. His sale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC. GENERAL OFFICE. H. C. KELLOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES WILL PLEASE LEAVE THEIR ORDER WITH Mr. John Hannah, Anaheim. W. H. WIGHTMAN, Civil Engineer AND SURVEYOR. Office over Commercial Bank, Santa Ana, Cal. Correspondence by mail promptly attended to now-in. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory. Aroger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY. Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Miles in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law Rooms 86 and 87 Tamarack Block, LOS ANGELES. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adelaide and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. PLANTERS' HOTEL ANAHEIM, Los Angeles County, Cal. The only First-class House South of Los Angeles. Offers Superior Accommodations to Tourists, Families and the General Public. Suites of Rooms for Families. HENRY S. KNAPP, Proprietor. ALBRECHT BROS.. Manufacturers of Family Fruit Dryers. An Assortment Always on Hand. Will take contract for Erecting Buildings, Tanks, Frames, etc. Agents for the BACHELDER WINDMILL. Shop on Center Street, near Railroad Depot. F. & J. BACKS. Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc. UNDERTAKERS, Agents for the Howe, Eldridge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street.: Anaheim. Anaheim Carriage and Wagon Factory. JACOB YAEGER, Proprietor. WOODWORK of all kinds, Bodies, Wheels and FREE COACH from all The table will be supplied with the market, and the kitchen will beIONAL supervision. Respectfully, FRANK E. DEALER IS Glassware, Candies, Tobasgars, Notions, Etc. Adjoining Planters' Hotel, Anaheim THE CHEAPEST STORE IN WASHINGTON Meat Mark CENTRE STREET, ANAHEIM C.F LEONARD, Pr THE PATRONAGE OF THE PEOPLE heim and vicinity is respectfully QUICK TIME AND CHEAP To Eastern and European Via the Great Transcontinental All CENTRAL PACIFIC OR SOUTHERN PACIFIC Daily Express and Emigrant Trains connections with the several railways the East. CONNECTING AT New York and New with the several Steamer Lines ALL EUROPEAN PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPER attached to Overland Express THIRD-CLASS SLEEPING are run daily with Overland Emu No additional charges for Berths in The other information given upon application by your offices, where passengers calling secure choice of routes are RAILROAD LANDS IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA AND For sale on reasonable terms Apply to, or address W. H. MILLS, JEROME M. Land Agent, C.P.R.R.Co., San Francisco, Or H.B. ANDREWS, Land Commissioner, G.H.& S.A.Rytonio, Texas. A.N.T.OWNE, General Manager, Gen.Paul aug4-6m San Francisco, Cal. PEARSON'S DINING P NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT A WITH EVERYTHING THAT T M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law Rooms 86 and 87 Temple Block, LOS ANGELES. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, 300T AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES WILLE. COOPERAGE. Ploss, Barrels and Taps on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honest Barrels for sale cheap P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry don promptly and warranted. Sole Agent for the Johnston Optical Co.'s Improved Spectacles and Eye-Glasses (interchangeable). Improved Eye Tester to perfect vision. B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 48 Broadway New York. UNDERTAKERS, Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street.: Anaheim. Anaheim Carriage and Waqon Factory. JACOB YAEGER, Proprietor. WOODWORK of all kinds, Bodies, Wheels and Gearing put up on short notice. BLACKSMITHING of all kinds. Horse-Shoeing a specialty. Sign and Carriage Painting Done in first-class style by S. A DENNIS. All work of the above description will be guaranteed and we pledge our lives to give satisfaction. We are here to stay and will spare no palms to please our patrons. Our wood shop and blacksmith shop is on Center Street, west of Mitchell's stable, and our paint shop is directly opposite. We are sole agents for the STUDEBAKER WAGONS And for all kinds of Farming Machinery. nov10 Eureka! Eureka! The long desired TEA Free from all poisonous mixtures, that makes a healthy drink, of delicious flavor, can now be had at the Store near the Depot. Call for the "Mayflower" brand and test its merits. Also when there sample the various COFFEES that have been provided for his customers by M. H. CHEESEMAN. PEARSON'S DINING P NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT A WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE affords. No. 269 North Main St., Los Angeles je30-3m PACIFIC WAGON CO. J. R McMANIS, 303 North Main Street, Lo D. W. HUDSON. D. W. HUDSON & Real Estate Brokers and Land Agents At Anaheim Los Angeles County, Ca Office:—Center Street, CITY PROPERTY BOUGHT AND SOLO Groves, vineyards, farms and uninfor sale. Abstracts of Titles FuLoans Negociated, Paid and Rents Collected for Ndents. Those desirous of making profitable INVESTMENTS cannot do better than to call on us at oCorrespondence Solicimar17 WEEKLY IM GAZ ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1883. NAHEIM HOTEL, Center Street, Anaheim. HN DIETZEL, - Lessee and Manager AVING LEASED THE ABOVE-NAMED HOtel and being determined to remain here, I will every endeavor to make the house a popular uping place. I understand the hotel business roughly, and will spare no trouble to accommomise my patrons. respectfully solicit the patronage of the public Bar in which the Cholest of Liquors are kept is attached to the House. FREE COACH from all Trains. The table will be supplied with the very best in market, and the kitchen will be under my percal supervision. Respectfully, JOHN DIETZEL. FRANK EY, assware, Candies, Tobaccos, Cigars, Notions, Etc. OUR RICH MEN. We hear bitter complaints of rich men. They are denounced as monopolists and monsters, who rob the poor, and sit down hard upon laboring men. There are several ways by which we may rid ourselves of a rich man. One plan is to kill him. This simple remedy has not been generally advocated. If, through "a popular uprising," we could adopt this treatment, it would be wise as a precautionary measure to keep an eye on the youngsters, and when we find one with a large brain and keen eye, kill him. A standing committee to watch the schools for such boys would be a good, practical measure. If you let them live, they are almost sure to achieve some provoking success." A still wiser measure would be a monster petition to the Creator praying that all such big-brained, keen-eyed, ingenious, plucky chaps be prevented altogether. If they are allowed to appear among us, they are almost sure to make trouble. Some of them will turn out Vanderbilt and Goulds. "An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure." Then there are several legislative schemes much discussed. One is to forbid rich men leaving their wealth by will to their children. A volume has been devoted to the advocacy of this law. It would break-up large estates; but such a law would inevitably fail before the courts; and besides, a rich man uries of life the table occupies a very prominent place. When Mr. Gould reaches home, and his rubber has spent an hour in trying to rub life and appetite into him, he goes to the table. Just as he begins to pick a little, and sip a little, all at once the skeleton of some wretched stock speculation darts before him, and even that little appetite is gone. And yet his gardener who enjoys with keenest relish every mouthful of plain food, mourns that he cannot take Mr. Gould's place; not to secure food, for he has enough of that, not to secure clothing and bed, for he has these; but to be envied by his neighbors, and sweeter than all else, to have the street point at him with the exclamation, "That's him! That's him!" If this silly gardener knows what he is wishing for, and still goes on wishing, he is a fit subject for an insane asylum. If Mr. Astor could wear a thousand coats at once, with as many breeches, a pyramid of hats reaching the sky, and unnumbered boots, if he could be accompanied by a procession of express wagons crammed and fluttering with richest handkerchiefs loaded with choicest perfumes, if he could wear shirt collars of finest Irish linen so wide that they would turn over and drag on the very ground, or, if he could wear gold garments covered with diamonds, then his great fortune would be gorgeous. But Mr. Astor probably wears but one suit of clothes at a time. He may indulge in silk underwear, but it is not as good as the workingman's flannel; he may wear fine boots, but the skin was probably taken from the back of an untitled calf, and if examined, would be found very like that worn by the janitor of one of his twelve hundred houses. If Mr. Mackay could get out of one regal FREE COACH from all Trains. FRANK EY, Classware, Candies, Tobaccos, Cigars, Notions, Etc. Joining Planters' Hotel, Anselm The CHEAPEST STORE IN TOWN. WASHINGTON Meat Market! Centre Street, Anaheim F. Leonard, Proprietor. UICK TIME AND CHEAP FARES To Eastern and European Cities Central Pacific R. R. Or Southern Pacific R. R. Express and Emigrant Trains make prompt connections with the several railway lines in the East. Connect at New York and New Orleans with the several Steamer Lines to All European Ports. BULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS attached to Overland Express Trains; Third-Class Sleeping Car Berths secured, and information given up in application at the company's offices, where passengers calling in person can choose of routes etc. RAILROAD LANDS In Nevada, California and Texas, For sale on reasonable terms. Apply to, or address H. MILLS, Jerome Madden, Land Agent, R.R. Co., San Francisco, S.P.R. Co., San Francisco Or H.B. ANDREWS, General Manager, G.H. & S.A. Ry. Co., San Antonio, Texas. T. TOWNE, T. H. GOODMAN, General Manager, Gen. Pass. & Tk. Agt 46m San Francisco, Cal. PEARSON'S DINING PALACE. CE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. With Everything That The Market Attaches. petition to the Creator praying that all such big-brained, keen-eyed, ingenious, plucky chaps be prevented altogether. If they are allowed to appear among us, they are almost sure to make trouble. Some of them will turn out Vanderbilts and Goulds. "An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure." Then there are several legislative schemes much discussed. One is to forbid rich men leaving their wealth by will to their children. A volume has been devoted to the advocacy of this law. It would break up large estates; but such a law would inevitably fail before the courts; and besides, a rich man could give his property to his children before his death, or give deeds and other papers to take effect at his death. A legislative scheme, much liked, is to tax large estates down to reasonable proportions. If an estate of $100,000 were taxed two per cent. $1,000,000 ten per cent. and as fortunes rose, 20, 40, 60 per cent., we could keep these rich men within bounds. Suppose we should make a law taxing fortunes of $50,000,000 fifty per cent., those of $100,000,000 seventy-five per cent., $200,000,000 (which is the popular estimate of Mr. Vanderbilts' fortune), say ninety per cent. By the simplest arithmetic any one could see that we should soon have Mr. Vanderbilt where we could manage him. During the late war, graduated taxation was instituted as a war measure, and patriotically borne for a brief time; but no same man believes that such legislation in time of peace could possibly pass the courts. If such laws were admissible, then clearly we can take all fortunes and distribute them at pleasure. Through no trick of legislation we vote money out of the pockets of rich men into our own pockets. If they have obtained their wealth through illegal methods, we can punish fraud; but if through legal methods, it is simply impossible to legislate their fortunes away from them. If one needs to argue such a proposition, the discussion of the subject is hopeless. It is easy to cover such law with a multitude of words and imagine that we can glimpse of a great principle in this verbal witness; but bring it out to the light of day, and we have only a naked absurdity. Many people seem to think that in a country where the majority rules, we can make laws to compass any desired end. Law is a science, and can no more be made than the science of chemistry. When a man gets a million dollars through legal methods, the money is his. He may violate moral laws; he may, in the course of his money-getting, foreclose mortgages on the homes of the poor; but the money he thus obtains is legally his; and, until we resolve to throw all laws overboard, we must respect and defend his legal rights. A wretched blunder it would be to burn the house to get rid of this rat. But how can we bear an existence, which measured by Vanderbilt's, is a pitiful failure? Are you sure, my friend, that his life is such a magnificent success? If a man books it, if he could be accompanied by a procession of express wagons crammed and fluttering with richest handkerchiefs loaded with choicest perfumes, if he could wear shirt collars of finest Irish linen so wide that they would turn over and drag on the very ground, or if he could wear gold garments covered with diamonds, then his great fortune would be gorgeous. But Mr. Astor probably wears but one suit of clothes at a time. He may indulge in silk underwear, but it is not as good as the workingman's clamper; he may wear fine boots, but the skin was probably taken from the back of an untitled calf, and if examined, would be found very like that worn by the janitor of one of his twelve hundred houses. If Mr. Mackay could get out of one regal bed and into another more regal every 30 seconds all night long, his enormous wealth would tell. But he occupies a single bed after the poor man's fashion, and his snoring is probably quite as barbarous as it was when he was working in the mines at four dollars a day. I have watched the faces of rich men when they were entering church on a pleasant Sabbath morning, and again as they left, and have thought that unless these people are consumate actors, assuming an expression of discontent and dissatisfaction, they are not happy people. I have talked with some of these rich men asking them frankly if their money made them happy? Their answers confirm the testimony of their faces. Their load of care and endless round of social dissipations bear heavily upon them. I have known a great many workingmen, such as carpenters and blacksmiths. They are generally interested in their little homes, well acquainted with their wives, watch with loving interest the progress of their little ones in our free schools, earn an honest living; are envied by no one; are free from vexing cares, enjoy good health, and with it all the sweet and natural blessings of life. I have studied their faces, and have talked with them, and unless they also are consumate actors and hypocrites, they are live-fold happier, and therefore five-fold better off than the rich.-Dio Lewis's Monthly. Financial Views. New York, Nov. 9th.-The Commercial prints the answers of eight leading bankers of New York and seven in Philadelphia in answer to five questions, as follows: First—Do you believe in the extinction of the national debt? Second—What, in your judgment, is protection of the National Bank circulation? Third—Do you believe in the three per cent bond, redeemable in fifty years or thereafter at the option of the Government? Fourth—Your views on the standard silver dollar should the law be repealed? Fifth—Do you believe we ought to have a national bankrupt law? The commercial says: The gentlemen who have been good enough to furnish their opinions on these subjects, aside from all party or partisan feeling, agree with one accord upon the importance of a national bankrupt law With one or two modified exceptions, a unanimous opinion prevails that the standard silver dollar law, or as one President vigorously expresses it,"the standard silver dollar swindle," should be repealed; the sooner the better. On this head Jenkins President of the Bank of America in this city reviews the proposition to pay those who voted for the bill in silver dollars for seed and acre. In oceans so lax excellent produced in sixty to one worth usually is grown extra to 125 bushels 50 to 75 cents to do well; and they run takes the place stead of oats are largely raid feed. Those pounds are cows This county also in raising and size per here last fall them at each large enough pig to hide if found in successful river watermelons here since abounding growing larger saw many pounds and weeks till they ing down tha Sweet potato excellent in o price of D as profitable put alalfa on or grass some books a little is straighter very rich and pasture for me keep a cow fowler while growing may be cut fowls and will yield tons per acres as hay from its season,and in good pasture frequently yields Some will ree The Deep The McGee which can lift Wheeling his vicinity now making it was sunken gaseous resis Just three t wall well was sunken in the world is still going 3,000 feet wide were left three was deserted hold of it,a PEARSON'S DINING PALACE. CE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE MARKET affords. 269 North Main St., Los Angeles (Rose Block). ACIFIC WAGON COMPANY. R McMANIS, - Manager. 3 North Main Street, Los Angeles. sept 13m. W. HUDSON. L. W. BENTZ. D. W. HUDSON & CO. Real Estate Brokers and General Land Agents At Anaheim, Los Angeles County, California. Office:—Center Street, CITY PROPERTY BOUGHT AND SOLD, ORANGE Groves, vineyards, farms and unimproved lands. Abstracts of Titles Furnished, Loans Negociated, Taxes Paid and Ents Collected for Non-Residents. Moss desirous of making profitable INVESTMENTS not do better than to call on us at our office. Correspondence Solicited. HIS PAPER may be found on site at Gen. Jerome Madden, Land Agent, R.R.C., San Francisco, S.P.R.K. Co., San Francisco. Or H.B. ANDREWS, Commissioner, G.H. & S.A. Ry. Co., San Annolo, Texas. N. TOWNE, General Manager, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt T. H. GOODMAN, General Manager, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt San Francisco, Cal. When a man gets a million dollars through legal methods, the money is his. He may violate moral laws; he may, in the course of his money-getting, foreclose mortgages on the homes of the poor; but the money he thus obtains is legally his; and, until we resolve to throw all laws overboard, we must respect and defend his legal rights. A wretched blunder it would be to burn the house to get rid of this rat. But how can we bear an existence, which, measured by Vanderbilt's, is a pitiful failure? Are you sure, my friend, that his life is such a magnificent success? If a man were happy in proportion to his possessions, which is really the popular notion, then indeed money would be the great good. Here is a gardener worth a hundred dollars. He sings while about his work, enjoys and digests his dinner, watches his children as they play among the flowers, and seems contented. Suppose Mr. Vanderbilt with his $200,000,000 were as happy in proportion to his wealth? He would climb to the top of Trinity steeple, face Wall street, yell and shriek his tumultuous emotions, and in the madness of his joy leap into eternity. Study his face even when driving Maud S. and see if you think him very happy. He retires from business at sixty, because his back is sore from the heavy burden. The strain has nearly crazed him. People envy him Maud S. Poor fellow, I wish he had a mare that could go in twenty seconds; but even then he could not get away from the ghost of the "West Shore." May there not be some mistake about the power of a large fortune to make a man happy? May it not be true that carrying $200,000,000 or even $5,000,000 for board and clothes is doing a great deal of hard work for very small pay? If a man's eating could keep pace with his wealth, if Mr. Vanderbilt could swallow a cord of tenderloin and a ton of slapjacks for breakfast, a gross of turkeys and an ocean of champagne for dinner, then his great wealth would amount to something; but he does not enjoy his rich dinner half as much as one of his humblest workingmen enjoys a crust. Mr. Vanderbilt probably consumes with indifference four inches of sausage, followed by heartburn and a balloon full of gas, while his poorest railroad digger surrounds with eager joy sixteen inches of sausage, and secretly wishes sausage were cheaper. The digger eats four times the length and enjoys it ten times as much. Multiply four by ten and you have forty. This poor digger is forty times as well off at the table as the richest man in the world. And in the lux- mercial says: The gentlemen who have been good enough to furnish their opinions on these subjects, aside from all party or partisan feeling, agree with one accord upon the importance of a national bankrupt law. With one or two modified exceptions, a unanimous opinion prevails that the standard silver dollar law, or, as one President vigorously expresses it, "the standard silver dollar swindle," should be repealed; the sooner the better. On this head, Jenkins. President of the Bank of America in this city, reviews the proposition to pay those who voted for the bill in silver dollars, forgetful of the fact, no doubt, that very few of the voters will sit in the next House. Many of the Presidents favor a 3 per cent. fifty year bond, although they admit that such a bond is impracticable with a revenue running so high as it does at present; so they draw the radical conclusion to abolish the internal revenue. On this head we find instances of Republicans and Democrats standing side by side. Others again argue that a 2½ or even 2 per cent. bond minus a 1 per cent tax on circulation, will prove profitable both to the banks and the Government. The argument in favor of special bonds issued by the Government finds warm support, and is unquestionably the easiest solution of the whole matter if placed in practical shape. Germans as Investigators. At the recent Congress of Natural Historians, in London, German science scored a great triumph in Professor Lankester's address, who, as the Chairman of the biological section, admitted "that the rough work of research and investigation in every department of science was almost exclusively done by Germans." In zoology, botany, physiology and anthropology, German contributions form the only source of new information. In the German laboratories alone discoveries of eminent results are made almost daily, in which respect England cannot possibly compare with Germany." A Michigan girl told her young man that she would never marry him until he was worth $100,000. So he started out with a brave heart to make it. "How are you getting on George?" she asked at the expiration of a couple of months. "Well," George said hopefully, "I have saved up $22." The girl dropped her eyelashes and blushingly remarked: "I reckon that's near enough, George." WHAT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRODUCES. Correspondence Davenport (Iowa) Gazette. The fame of Southern California oranges, apricots and raisin grapes, as well as wine, has gone so far that some people seem to think there is little else here. On the contrary, by far the greater part of the land in these valleys is not the best for all kinds of fruit. The best fruit lands are generally among the foothills along near the mountains. On these lands deciduous fruits do very well—pears, peaches, wine grapes, etc. but the chief productions are barley and wheat (not much of the latter, as it is a little too near the humid atmosphere of the sea). But barley is a very sure crop generally, as from 40 to 60 bushels to the acre are raised, worth 50 cents per bushel, and costs for seed and plowing from $1 to $1.25 per acre. In certain of the lighter and sandy soils, excellent Irrigation and sweet potatoes are produced in very great abundance, of from sixty to one hundred bushels to the acre, worth usually from 75 cents to $1. Corn is grown extensively, and produces from 75 to 125 bushels per acre, and is worth from 50 to 75 cents per bushel. Oats do not seem to do well; the land seems to be too strong and they run to straw. Barley, chiefly, takes the place for cattle and horse feed, instead of oats or corn. Beets, that beat all, are largely raised also for cattle and hog SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Pork worms are not quickly destroyed by salt. In experiments by Mona. Coblin the trichine in the superficial parts of hams, etc., survived in brine for fifteen days, while in a heavy ham the parasites were not all killed until the meat had been immersed in bride for two months. Prof. Julius Weissner, a German experimenter, finds that the effect of rain, dew, and artificial watering upon the leaves of plants is to promote transpiration and accelerate the movement of the sap. This process may be injurious at times when the soil does not contain an abundance of moisture. The number of eggs varies greatly in different animals, as it is in proportion to the risks during development. Thus, the eggs of aquatic tribes, being unprotected by the parent, and being largely consumed by many animals, are multiplied to prevent extinction. The spawn of a single cod contains millions of eggs; that of the oyster 6,000,000. A queen bee, during the five years of her existence, lays about 1,000,000 eggs. The use of chemicals as an antidote to fire is urged more strongly, and seems to meet with more favor every day. The latest application of the principle comes in the form of a recommendation by a Mr. Schlumberger, that a bottle of ammonia be placed in for seed and plowing from $1 to $1.25 per acre. In certain of the lighter and sandy soils, excellent Iso and sweet potatoes are produced in very great abundance, of from sixty to one hundred bushels to the acre, worth usually from 75 cents to $1. Corn is grown extensively, and produces from 75 to 125 bushels per acre, and is worth from 50 to 75 cents per bushel. Outs do not seem to do well; the land seems to be too strong and they run to straw. Barley, chiefly, takes the place for cattle and horse feed, instead of oats or corn. Beets, that beat all, are largely raised also for cattle and hog feed. Those that will weigh forty to fifty pounds are common. This country can probably beat the world also in raising pumpkins—more in number and size per acre. We saw them so thick here last fall that one could almost step on them at each step in crossing an acre, and large enough, many of them, for a good sized pig to hide in. This is the only place we have found in the West where there are successful rivals to Muscatine Island (Iowa) watermelons. They have been in market here since about July last, and seem to be growing larger every day, and to day we saw many that pulled down forty to fifty pounds, and are told to just wait a few weeks till the regular supply comes in, pulling down fifty to seventy five pounds. Sweet potatoes grow wonderfully large and excellent in quality, and bring about double the price of Irish tubers. But perhaps about as profitable a use of this land as any is to put alfalfa on it. This is a kind of clover or grass, sometimes called white clover. It looks a little like red clover, only the stem is straighter and the leaf smaller, but it is very rich and juicy. It is most excellent pasture for milch cows, and a half-acre will keep a cow fat the year round. Swine live and fatten on it, and it is all they need while growing. When desired for hay it may be cut from six to nine times a year, and will yield from one and a half to two tons per acre at each cutting. It is worth as hay from $8 to $12 per ton, according to season, and is therefore very profitable. A good pasture, with a fine stand of this, frequently yields from $75 to $100 per acre. Some will rent for $80 per acre per annum. The McGuigan gas well, the light from which can be plainly seen from the top of Wheeling Hill, is the pioneer gas well in this vicinity. It led to all of the others now making such a turmoil in this valley. It was sunk for oil, not gas, and the great gaseous reservoir was tapped unawares. Just three miles near us the Buchanan well was sunk, and is now the deepest well in the world, having reached 4,300 feet, and is still going down. When a depth of about 3,000 feet was reached the tools broke and were left there, and for some time the well was deserted. Then a new concern took hold of it, and is now vigorously drilling for aquatic tribes, being unprotected by the parent, and being largely consumed by many animals, are multiplied to prevent extinction. The spawn of a single cod contains millions of eggs; that of the oyster 6,000,000. A queen bee, during the five years of her existence, lays about 1,000,000 eggs. The use of chemicals as an antidote to fire is urged more strongly, and seems to meet with more favor every day. The latest application of the principle comes in the form of a recommendation by a Mr. Schlumberger, that a bottle of ammonia be placed in every barrel of petroleum. On ignition, from any cause, the bottle would break, and the ammoniacal vapors would at once extinguish the fire. An Italian savant, M. Petro Sauto, proposes to apply the same method to collieries habile to fire damp. Tanks filled with ammonia and set in convenient places would, it is claimed, stop the combustion, which could not subsist in an ammoniacal atmosphere. A very successful trial of an electric car was lately made on the street rooftop of Paris. The power was formed Faure storage batteries, weighing 5,000 pounds, which were fixed into seats of the car and connected men's machine under the floor. Chine made 1200 revolutions per minute (through a system of pulleys) six revolutions to the wheels of car. The speed of the car was nine and a third miles on a level ground, and five and a half miles on an ascent. The expense of running was estimated at one-half the cost of horse-power. E. B. Taylor, in Nature, says that the microscopic examination of the cross section of a single human hair is sufficient to determine to which one of the race divisions the wearer belongs. If examined microscopically by Pruner's method, it shows circular or oval or remiform; its tollicle curvature may be estimated by the average diameter of the caris; as proposed by Mosley; its coloring matter may be estimated by Sorby's method. There has been even a systematic classification of man published by Dr. W. Muller, of Navara expedition, which is primarily arranged according to hair in straight-haired races, curly-haired races, etc., with a secondary division according to language. Prohibition in Iowa. New York, Nov. 10th. — The Times says: Constitutional prohibition appears to have encountered a serious set-back even in the State of Iowa. A careful canvas among the newly elected members of the Legislature shows that few of them are prepared to sustain the decision of the Supreme Court on the ratification of the old amendments, and a decided majority is opposed to resubmission even. Prohibition by statute has lost ground to an amazing extent and it is doubtful if it can be carried in the new Legislation... Prohibition in Iowa. New York, Nov. 10th. — The Times says: Constitutional prohibition appears to have encountered a serious set-back even in the State of Iowa. A careful canvas among the newly elected members of the Legislature shows that few of them are prepared to sustain the decision of the Supreme Court on the ratification of the old amendments, and a decided majority is opposed to resubmission even. Prohibition by statute has lost ground to an amazing extent and it is doubtful if it can be carried in the new Legislature. This shows the drift of public opinion in that State, which has revealed to many Republicans that there is no safety in binding the party to this issue. If they were to persist in doing so it would not be long before the ascendancy of the party would be lost even in that State. The result of this inquiry is calculated to check the movement everywhere in favor of prohibition by constitutional amendment and even to give a new aspect to the whole project of temperance legislation. A Hindoo Reformer. Chicago, Nov. 10th. — Babu Protab Chunder Mozcomandar, a distinguished Hindoo reformer, who has been in the United States for six weeks, arrived here yesterday. He is the guest of Rev. David Utter, pastor of the Unitarian Church of the Messiah. In his youth he was a Brahmin, but in his early manhood Protab embraced the faith of Brahma Samajor, the Church of God. This church was founded by Rammohun Roy, and is entirely theistic in its belief. With idolatry and polytheism it has nothing to do. The church is steadily growing. Protab's motive in visiting this country is to learn our institutions and civilization that may tell of them to his own people. Amazed beyond measure. He sailed Francisco for Japan on the 20th thence to Calcutta. When he reached he will have been around the world. Rev. Dr. John Hall of New York Protestantism can hardly be a failure it started with nobody in 1500 and populations to the extent of 408,000,000 day. Albany, Or., Feb. 4th, 1882. — Ammon's Cough Syrup has given general satisfaction, and we believe it is a good thing. Forbray & Masson, druggists.