NiviE Q ER Ld p A LANDSLIDE, WHAT CAUSES THE SUDDEN MOV E- MENT OF ROCK AND EARTH. lTeavy Ralns Loosen the Soll Along the Surface of Steep Hills Terrible Slides, Some T isa question which of the two, the avalanche or the landslide the more terrible engine of de- & struction. The avalanche far the more awful, and would be in- definitely more destructive were it not confined to countries frequented by few but venturesome travelers, Landslides, the contrary, oocur in any place where below steep hills, not be predicted. Without warning, in the twinkling of an eye, the moun tain's skin rock and earth moves from its resting place, cr: at first down the st n gathering momentum plunges valle Arryil death struc io with its dl The cause of the landslide is ne always the same. tries the soil is only a ing for the solid rocks tain’s core. It lies upon rather more than twelve thick, often clinging to its chiefly by its own In seasons and long cot soaks the bricates th with ooze an be ste the is on may vislle AL of | ] LWIS SIOWIY lope and th ep ] y below, and arly the or fifteen feet lined 1 slopes i ino rocky weight. when there are inned rains the 0 the Ration, 3 and sur and iounasiion Viol oC ky 1 mud, Pp enong SKin of hit oft follows is by | lie | ; dius foot of the Their coming may | | yy | killed, into the | de- | In all rocky coun- | our th susand persons in the ortho ad. vial ay, ible pulp wills erash oceurred ed th falls. Many and eart! first the 1 and rock area ol in thelr ly do ¥n d wn Sl ” farms, the h did not stop un [ territory had been When all had settled and opportunity to study th this appalling landslide it was seen that a new map wonld have to be ma ie of the towaship. Theres was left as it had been before, were gone completely, had found a new channel three miles sway. Tracts of woodland a quarter mile or more square had been moved four or five hundred yards, the trees remaining standing. Other large th -_— rn results nothing The falls Below the falls was a | waa | sud the river | { | been on exhibition recently in a Ken tracts had been literally plowed up, | ad the timber ground to atoms, In place of the groat pool at the foot of the falls was now found a field Beyond it the former channel of the river was filled with huge mastios of rock. No one onun as it had been conld po saith ly l Inve found asingle familiar foaturethiouch out a space of six square i Many acres of woodland disappeared alte gether, The damage ful. Tha town escaped, but farm houses, with their stables sad buildings, were wiped out of existence, and a number of mills of disappeared also, About a dozen persons wero killed, fn spite of the three hours’ warning. CGront herds of cattle were buriod, Thousands of domestic animals float. ing down the river and into the St Lawrence, brought the first news of the disaster to the cities below, Booms Knowing the len, « of course, was fright. weig! J71 1 seven | | ton, YArious sorts | | foot of Furman street. | the { walls, and spring rains, sistency, resulted in the loosening of a | With- | suds of tons of | the slope, | two | | out any warning | rock and and wharves were carried away where the river joins the St. caused a loss there of £75,000, damage to the lumbering interests centring around St. Albans was nearly | 81,000,000, There was a fatal slide Brooklyn, on the morning of April 1854. Itwas on the heights, at a0 bluffs overlooking the ns now, bay not, large portion of the heights, gz, thous dirt started down and buried almost out of sight a story brick building that stood at the hill, Two wer and several wounded. Perhaps the greatest landslide irthern Europe ocourred at Vaorda- Norway, in May, 1803. A north of Trondhjom wuntain rises precipitat y the Lovanger Valley, then a fertile plan, | vd with prosperous 8, sur ling a lake. persons n iy miles fu a SIFTINGS, country and sent to a Brazilian rail- road. The Brazilians have named it Pots ih Ut July. { for pen- India rabber, used erasing t) ’ ju ap] and ha VAs 15854, lv ever sin the fow re that are Dick ’ g ma Of Wf Lo ith 3 naries vicissitudes portrait of himself which Henry Jlay pronounced the is to be found in a patchwork quilt which has best tacky county fair. It ornaments the ventral square of the quilt and is valued at 81000, Tho largest the Excelsior, was dis 1804, in the mines ape Coloay, diamond in the world, wavered on June of Jagersion FAdward Jor + stone of the £5.000,000, It tein, C ausen, In first peector It is water, vaine arats, Frauk Wyom- 1 nn the champion f the world, He shearing 100 sheop in ven min- ofl one sheep ove ry Heowitl, of Laramie, rd of rs and tites, or at tho rate winuto sud a fraction I'he will of fwenty-s the late Jeremiah Mars N. IL, gives 8560 to th to buy ropes for Hampton the Mothodist C) its bell. his grave i in the old cemetery, “Marstous died in 1600. 1790 and 1800," with the date of the death of a first Marston in Hampton, the de- cenved’'s grandfather and his consin, | General Gillan Marston, of Exeter, Lawrence, and | The | in | the | At that time | were | retained by great stone | of anusual per- | fow | large | It also ordors placed upon | where | | bis futerment is tho first 1n sixty yoars, | & bowlder from his grounds inseribed : | with his dog snd herd ; SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, The starfish has five oy Phonograph cylinders of hard BO/N. od. are now made The telephone is about to be intro- duced into China, Experiments in weaving by tricity are being tried in Germany. Bailey, the astronomer, the woight of the earth at 000,000,000 tons. Sapless cedar blocks from reg swept by forest fires are used ing Detroit (Mich.) stroets The largest cometa are that they never harm planets lites by colliding with them. Banctorius, an Italian phy estimates that five-eighths solid and liquid food haled by the An many natural ¢ oth ir or sat all skin, examination 1 {} animais has Lhe of the tho sh spo smbers of of D f anl Ol RE . pounds Aniean, Shatin | 1 . }1. The nearly 8 not rer arge spots, number of wonderin Petr coal on on rroup of sun spots now visible ),000 mi ith. 1 kall . y 1 DArKaDie or any unua but rather the 1 n ia 40 bo nst om locomotive ) he Rig Railway, in RB l built f 1 ussia, r thi { wpab e of { tively 1,000,000 pood A Bordeaux phy two ¢ f viole dis on than girls can tell the difference shades better than boys ATO Iris, ia — eet Water Your Horses Often. A Goose Plant in Full Bloom. The * plant Washington Park Conservatory is now at its best, says the Chicago Inter-Ocecan One of the biggest wg yurd long, and broad in proportion The plant is one of the most unique, rare and valuable known to scientists, The correct name is aristolochia Rigas Sturtevantii, and it was at the World's Fair, When there it bora osly one or two flowers, owing $0 its being too young to bear more. It is a native of South America, and even there iscon- sidered a marvelous production. In one of the green houses next to the “goose” house at Washington Park is a collection of caladiams of the most varied shapes and colors. Mr, Kanst, the oad gardener, says the collection has no daplieate, Many of the plants have leaves as delicately traced ns the finest Valenciennes laces. A per may be read if covered of these transparent leaves, ors are all shades of re % roon, erimson and yellow, ‘goose”’ in 088 18 Over a newspa with on« The eol pink, ma- EE — Some Remarkable Cases, Here are some romarkable eases: The other day a wagon maker, who had been damb for yoars, picked up a hub and spoke; and a blind earpen- ter ronchod out for h » plane and saw ; and a deaf sheep ranchman went ont and a nose- loss fisherman caught a barrel of her- ring and smelt; and a forty-ton ele- phant inserted ‘his trunk into a grate aod flue. — Vietoria (British Columbia) Je Journal alos fioures ont | 6,049,850,~ ions 10 puyve- iologist, the taken are ex- of id 18 } t ually great smaller ones and fo ow f iY and that COLMOT I —— ——— FR En satin i is the ao — 7 an vil { Al il IES Black tulle of the favorite nent, The Queen of England sleeps with her bedroom wide open. over black toilettes of moe nlways windows | Jamel's hair wool and mohair is the | entrancing | material of which patterns are made, many The fashionable women of are not as ns F rench and Amer: CAN women are. Miss Kipling, who is cles for various BAguI 8, of Rudpard Kip Fler ming. The BROBBOSE writing arti- is a sister ow Mrs, 2} HY Baroness Burdett-Con the finest and the 1 fully preserved copy of the of Shakespeare, 1623, Tho zabelines, cheviots plaids are more pleasing than are in rougher than usu Mrs. Amelia Bloon the famous bl lives with her Blufls, Iowa. garment that boars her while editing a te: at Senocea Falls, N, Y, Agra-linens popular covorir that are in durable, shed great variety o ouly terial forty Ww Lat or call goin Profeot has oan to some well ¢autioning and the same 1 Ri. Aro Ae inl soventy ty 14+ a Every urt, G Lon ia, Wo) ne the drawing to be built at hor final appr a doclded orna splendid hb thoroughfares, Mme. Demont Bret jon, a painter was recently enrolled in he . sa a The new member of the Legion is th ughter of the Ald French a: fond of mn Olga Frano Superintend: and Dee woman, educ vent. The proo miter and the well as the gol ) of the furniture Fair, and now i were made under h yratin Xquis te que « shown at the G app oidery W. irld’s vald's house, F sapervision, Celia Thaxter was gifted by with delieate poetic percept Iyrio power, and blessed by vironment strongthening to A partly isolated existence at the Isles of Shoals could not have been refreshing and stimulating to all young poets as it was to her. But the sir of the islands was literally breath of life to her talent ; Mrs. Belinda IL. bury, Mass ys A Adams, of Ri volutionary has presented to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts achina punchbowl and salver once the property of the Lafayette, and by him Adams, y the + George natare mm and Al on- her gift Raudall, of Rox fame, arms of Lafayette upon it, de signed nocording to the ideas of the | Chineso artist, pal Miss Lillio J. Martin, vice prinei; of a girls’ high school in San Fran cisco, has resigned her place there to enter Gottingen Unive raity ns a stu dent. Oaly three or four women have hitherto been admitted to this Ger man university's privileges, Miss Mar- tin is a graduate of Vassar Colle ge, and relinquishes a salary of 82000 » year to continue her studies in Ger many, which will be in the line of ex. perimental psychology. one | i i London enthusiastic over bieyling | | These ¢ Legion of woman so honored is Rosa Bonheur. the | 3 ' descendent of Samnel | Marquis d4 | present 1 to | It was made in China and has | | ABSOLUTELY PUR E B. W. Wilson h 108 o retire d | office of County Clerk of County, Oregon, which he uninterruptedly for thirty There is not her pul t Oregon whose ter: ryice bis - - rn R—— M. 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