| Show EDITORIAL NOTES hotes there are locomotive engines in the world passenger cars freight cars care losses by the late lato london fire alre are bald eald to amount to the enormous aggregate of during the last ten years cattle in new hooth booth wales Walea have increased very little but sheep have m mul mui i ul tippled from sixteen millions to thirty three millions shenew the new postal telegraph company will have its line in operation between chicago and new now york city some time in february next and wll will inaugurate cheap messages brighton in Rn JSn england giand gland had its unwholesomeness so thoroughly shown up by the london lancet that the visitors for pleasure or health last season numbered twenty thousand less than usual heavy rains have done a great deal of damage in oregon but california is drying dry mog tog up for want of some somo of the surplus moisture nature is very unequal in her gifts to mortals on this earth the new ironclad iron clad belbon in course of construction for the britis heavy will be a turn screw steel armor plated barbante bar batte ship have engines of horse power and will cost upwards of A howl how goes up from the british aristocracy because lady gertrude douglas has married a baker whether the bauerla bakery kin ate equally dia satisfied does not yet appear ad vices per cable are anxiously awaited in russia russin people use the thermometer of leslie an in G germany amany that of Be Re reaumer aumer aurner a frenchman in france that of be celsius a swede and jn in england JSn gland giand and america that of fahrenheit a german in the cage case of mccarthy vs Loupe the supreme court of california has decided that a real estate owner cannot recover for services ser vices ren rendered derid of property unless his bis employment is evidenced by a written contract judge carleton of the utah commission has been interviewed in washington by a republican reporter and as he did not utter any radical sentiments about the saints he will incur the hatred of our liberal delamere defamers def deo amere amers little johnny nell of idaho has haa made his biennial anti mormon squeak in response reb ree to the howlings how bow lings of his hia liberal associates in utah he was effectual effectually Jy sat down upon by the legislature last session cession and should be told again to mind his own A reno preacher has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer he had one othia horses stolen and ho he went to hia hla study and prayed that a quickened conscience might induce the thief to return it that night the fellow returned and stole the other canada proposes to meet new now york halfway half way and abolish the tolls on the canals to make them able to compete with the erie newyork Jew York paper papers are already talking of the necessity of enlarging thearle the benno benne canal to accommodate the anticipated increase of bus business iness ineRs in the list of references to tov arlous committees committee s of the different sections of president arthues arthurs message thle the paragraph about utah is not noticed at all there is no need of any committee on a question that is not st present a subject for fon congressional action dr virchow has shown at the berlin anthropological society ame a me ancient skulls found in the caucasian district they are believed to afford proof of the existence odthe of the race called bakro kep lill described by hippocrates ane heads are large and extremely long or high in form an effect believed to be due to bandaging in early infancy the last official signature of governor of Oe georgia executed about ten minutes before the inauguration gu ration of governor stephens will bring of foreign capital into that state it was attached to the certification of a deed transferring a tract of four hundred acres of mining land in northern georgia to an english syndicate for a consideration of sterling I 1 IA family of madison ohio nineteen teen years ago purchased a paper of pins when a pin was needed it was taken from the paper and after it had bad served its purpose was replaced if a pin was lost general search was made until it was found in this way the one paper of pins has kept the family supplied for nineteen years that is the story stor y they tell teil telly but no married man need be obliged to believe it in ruling upon the respective liabilities bili ties of landlord and tenant for the negligent construction or bad condition of a building chief justice brigham Brig ham bam of boston says that the landlord alone la is ropon responsible bible elble for the bad construction but the tenant may be made to pay any damages caused by the negligent use of it for instance the landlord is liable for injuries caused by a defective trap door but the tenant is liable for injuries caused by a trap door left opan prof crudelli of rome borne points out in the practitioner that the keeping of plants in ill ventilated rooms roams may cause mai mal arlous arious infection even in regions where malaria ia ii unknown prof eichwald Elch wald cf of bt st petersburg reports the cam case of a lady who was attacked by true intermittent fever while living in a room containing plants yet after the removal of the flower apts a cure without a relapse was effected the unwholesome influence is said eaid to be due not to the plants but to the damp earth in which they grow the benworth afe are ate amerl american ican says a new insect has ap appeared eared 1 in the town of cherryfield Cherry field it it resembles a large snail has the power of elongation and when extended to its full length is three or four inches long it is supposed to have bean been brought from europe in a bundle of shrubbery its only motive power is crawling which is fi no faster than a snail yet in a few years it hits has invaded a number of farms on both bides aides the biver river farmers have begun to dread it more than the potato bug A A Canad lal medical journal contains an account ofa ora of a number of cases ses of acute rheumatism being cured by fasting from four to eight days in that time baya says dr wood professor of chemistry in bishops shops El college montreal the patients were ere allowed to drink freely of cold water or lemonade in moderate quantities no medicine was given and the physicians who observed the cases were strongly inclined to believe that rheumatism is after all only a phase of indigestion to be cured by giving complete and continued rest to ati all the viscera the growing popularity of female physicians and the increasing disposition of women to regard the pro of medicine as a legitimate field for their best endeavor is one of the most gratifying features of womans comans worm worn ans advancing cause it has been a great mistake to suppose or to maintain that the gentler sex are not fitted to become physicians on the contrary there are certain branches of medical practice which ought long ago to have been relegated to women alone and which are sure to command their services just as fast as they show capability and inclination to enter the probes slon alon dr siemens one of the most noted experts on the subject ofeleo trio light and power says electricity must win the day at the light of luxury but gw gas will find an ever increasing application for the more humble purposes of light the estimated cost of lighting the whole of london by electricity he places at including the plant and internal fittings in extending the bame same to the towns of great britain and ireland the cost is placed at the relative cost of electricity as to gas he gives as 29 to 22 secretary teller has decided that lands within the limits of railroad at to which preemption pre emption or ad claims wera were capable of ina p fed eed ted fed or had attached at homes bomes ant took efflo effla effect ct are ing log torre fotre oad grant grants grantland sand band and rh meb the is heumel he heU time nt of ucb uch euch ra excluded clouded from abandon mu iret re to 0 otha the the isei pon in 1 i the cial clai M s t e ads do company b t are reb res d if RA alic domain accepted by the railroad companies claiming lund iund grants settles a point which has heretofore been debatable and will relieve many sett settlers ieng leng of apprehension of trouble in procuring title to their lands philadelphia has obtained unenviable notoriety es as the abode of the bogus medical diploma sellers the city of brotherly love is now rejoicing that it has no monopoly of the nefarious business from the fact that the dean of a boston in medical edical college has been detected in selling a a degree to a person in the wel wes west ta under cover ot of selling tickets of admission to medical lecture and is to be prosecuted for making an ille gal us use of the mails malls the american says in relation to it if we did allow this bad business to grow up among us we also alao showed other communities the effective way to supple suppress sm it the philadelphia american referring to the tha advice of the utah commission in regard to a marriage law for this territory bays says the only objection to this Is that it would acco accomplish nap rap ish very little it would lay upon those who indulge in plural marriage and upon the offspring of such marriages no heavier penalties than at present and it would be very likely to prove a dead letter in the face of united resistance it is strange that there is so much fuss end pother over we the marital relations of afew a few members of the mormon church while thousands upon thousands of people all over the union sustain social relations that are indefensible fen sible and not a word ia Is said about it by our national lawmakers A recent telegram stated that gfa A few days day ago sago the president nominated wm win C connell of ohio to be indian agent at umatilla agency while the offices in Territories the are ara open to persons from any state it is unusual to fill positions in the states with individuals residing in other states representative george called at the tha interior department to learn why an au ohio man had been given an office in oregon and the excuse of the appointing power was that I 1 it t was thought the umatilla agency was situated in one of the territories connells cannells Con nells no nomination was with W I 1 th drawn and george is waiting to hear licar from home before recommending an oregon man for the place 11 the quest question lon arnes arlies why offices in any more than in the should be filled by strangers and persons who have haye ha vo no stake or interest in tho the locality the same pia pla that demands residents for offices in states calls for residents or offices in the territories THE TEE SLOUCH MACHINIST BY ily THE AlUME COR OP OF THE FOSSIL ENGINEER 11 1 1 there area arga good many of him he is widely scattered he knows the local names of shims and dutchmen meal in many districts and talks of flan an eighth beant scant or a plump six tenth in all the rich and varied flan an eighth beant scant or a plump six tenth in all the rich and varied local dialects of the united states and other tongues he is a man of ga grature gaa ture sture full fall in expletive pl etive ep positive in conviction convictions mand kand and set in ways I 1 ahey hey may not betrue be rrue true ways nor straight waya nor smooth and easy ways nor ways that produce work that is true round or dead clat flat or sharp equale but they are his ways and ce he is theire they have guided him through shambling years of slouching hand handiwork and when he dies there will be many more of his raze rase to perpetuate that kind bad kind though it be he has haa a shop either up three crooked flights of dark and broken stairs or down clown a damp basement under a grocery commis commie commission slon sion warehouse where the emeli emell of bacon or the trickling of molasses mola sees hogsheads hog penetrate and get lost and stay forever and mul mui multiply aply occasionally he drives hisatake at a country crossroads cross roads and haa has an illicit connection with an alleged wheelwright a commerce from which are born lame and sickly jobs that fil lithe mechanical hospitals forever fathe last time I 1 baw saw him he was up a dark and narrow cobbled street night unto the haunts of printers espi dally daily of daily journals and his hla specialty was breakdown break down job because his works love not the light and he likes to get got behind and under and inside ajob a job with a flickering fl inch of rotten tallow candle and stay there at 60 cents an hour until the next job az com cornea the floor of his hia shop is a rich rolling country a springy splintery hemlock floor pock marked with bolt holes and oil grimed to saturation the ceiling is held up by shores to keep the blacking box maker upstairs up stairs from dropping through hi hie maln main shaft would take a railroad pen to draw it being baing neither stra straight nor true but a crost between a curly zigzag zig alg zag and a skew askew twist the engine one of the kind tries to get back the bame game week it started is run backwards on generous principles inci inel ples pies especially ally as regards the e flywheel fly wheel and ana the pump eccentric the governor one of the kind that measures out steam like a powder flask valve has for its ita prime recommendation that it throttles down to the verge of dryness the very wet web steam that it admits full etrone the main belt Is drawn up so tight that it booms like a double bass drum if you tap it and the main shaft bearing runs in the caps thus getting an elastic suspension bearing in which rolling friction is substituted for all bil dingas the main driving pulley just rolls round in the fold of the main belt the plainer screeches a warning against being entrusted with any more work and holds one hind leg tremblingly in air as though a splinter from the floor had ad got in it A redheaded red headed apprentice is plowing with his tool when he la Is not rc re lacing with a piece of bus eue pend pender erthe the t greasy belt the big I 1 athe lathe seems to be used when not doing duty as a drill press or milling flutes as a common dumping ground for tools and hands handy sized scraps part of the ways near the headd head have been chipped out to take in bigger worl work than the tool was built for and boother part near the middle has a dutchman detchman let in because the piece knocked out when the countershaft ter shaft fell on it was too long for the carriage to bridge on this lathe another boy is brightening th the 0 screw of a book bin derd press getting lots iota of emery on the ways the drill press is a museum also a musical box and an awful warning the platen a t en bears sample holes the alza of 1 every v ery drill that has ever been used on it the socket will take a round or a square a straight or a taper shank with or without a setscrew and this press ia 13 warranted to drill a three cornered hoie holo with a flat drill 1769 times out of 1770 the time it wont drill any until the combination is reset because i every 1770 turns the broken tooth in irk the driving pinion comes cornea opposite the two broken ones in the driven bevel wheel and makes a 11 geneva stop attachment while you are in the shop the set sel screw on the eccentric slips eo go aa as to give about lead to the D valve set sel screw on the eccentric slips eo go aa as to give about lead to the D valve much excitement in the shop the vise hands assist in looking at the engineer search starch for the 21 24 inch monkey wrench Itis it is found where last used on the wall plate of the leanto lean to where stokes was tightening the leg screws that held up the ha hauger hanger ger gen of the fan counter shaft it la Is a wonderful monkey wrench its laws jaws have cross croes play so BO that it can take in e hex nut that is not its laws jaws have cross croes play so BO that it can take in e hex nut that is not a true hex and its |
