HUNTING THE SEA OTTER ARE CAPTURED WHEN THEY CO FOR A HOLIDAY. Pacific Shooting Towers—Heed ns T.onlcont Stations Front Which the Eapor Klfle tnan sights Ills I'rcv Five Hundred Dollars Darned ity One Shot. The most beautiful stretch of ocean ibeach to bo found anywhere on the Pacific coast of the United States is the wide expanse of spotless and glit tering sand which lies between Gray's Harbor and the Quinniault River. There may be seen an unbroken area of twenty miles in length, and at low tide from three to five miles in width, which would make a moonlight play ing ground for the houris. There are many tower-like structures at regular distances of perhaps a mile each which excite the curiosity of the people on tiie many coast line steam ers plying between Snu Pranciseo and northern ports. These are the towers or shooting boxes of sea otter hunters. They are built of tall, slender poles, generally four in number, sunk to a great depth and fixed securely in the sand and surrounded by a small box covered with a roof to protect its oc cupants from the burning sun. Cleats securely fastened to the poles from bottom to top afford the hunter means of ingress and egress. The hot sun which blazes fiercely on this wide expanse of white sand dur ing the months of July and August heats it almost to a burning point, and the waters of the incoming tide, roll ing and curling over this hot sand, be come dcliciously warm. This is the playing ground of the sea otter, the place where tliey come to spend their holidays. They leave their homes In the far off rocky islands, where there are no sand beaches, and tho green waters are cold and deep, and come here like people to a watering place, to spend the summer months in rolling and tumbling about in this warm water in a perfect ecstaey of delight. Tbey leap and play about in the foaming breakers and polish their beautiful skills by hugging the sandy bottom anil allowing the ocean swells to drive and throw them about as they will. Although sea otters have the timid ity which is natural to all wild ani mals, they are better able to protect themselves than any of the other ani mals which have their homes in the sea. The swiftness of their move ments makes it possible for them easily (o catch any kind of small fish, and thus they can appease their hun ger with the daintiest food. No shark can catch them; they could be twenty feet away while Mr. Shark was turning 011 his back, and if the shark were directly beneath them tlicy could throw themselves five feet in the air like a kaleidoscopic ball while the ugly monster was snapping ■llls jaws. The hunter is in ills box, the tide is coming in. and with a pow erful field glass to assist his practiced eye, lie eagerly scans each coming roll er. He has been here every day for a week, and his rifie has lain untouched by his side. To-day something may happen. f*"All nt once lie starts and mutters a little ejaculation; lie sees something. He will soon know what it is for the swells are coming swiftly and the dis tance between himself and the object lie lins seen will be quickly lessened. Yes, there It Is again; there Is no mis take. It Is an otter, not more than ■COO yards away. The hunter lays down his glass, and there Is SSOO or IJOOO worth of beautiful, shining fur plainly visible to the naked eye. The man in the tower picks up his Sharp's rille, Inserts a 120-grain cart ridge in the chamber, and there is a •wicked, wistful gleam in the keen eye of the hunter as he raises his weapon for tiie first shot. There is a flash, a l'ccoll and a report, which is scarcely distinguishable in the roaring of the breakers 10 the man who holds the gun. Ammunition Is no object, and. with lightning rapidity be loads and fires Ills piece. That otter will not be more than ten feet away from where he was when the hunter pulled the trigger when he gets there, and that hunter can lilt a bounding deer at 300 yards twice out of five shots. The ot ter is enjoying himself In the danger ous company of murderous bullets, which are doing their best to fiml him. Another huge breaker brings him within 200 yards of the blazing rifle. A quick recoil of the heavy gun turns the hunter half round; there is an un natural splash which tells the man .something has happened. He strains his eyes; no need of his glass to see there is blood in the water, and this tells him that there is a big hole some v m;o in that SSOO. No need to shoot again; no otter •could bleed like that and not be washed ashore. The hunter lays down his heated gun; there will be no more ot ters in sight to-day. He sees his game almost opposite Ills tower; it is drift ing helplessly toward the shore. That skin Is his, and its possession means that he will have everything he wants for another year If he does not fire a eingle shot. The fierce gleam of desire has left his dirty face and has been replaced by one of possession. He is wild with joy. llow be wishes that he could get down from that tower and be at the spot where the otter will be thrown up upon the sand, but he must wait until the tide falls a little. One of his half-breed hoys, who Is ten or eleven years old, is moping lazily along the beach; his quick eye detects some thing. Like u frightened wolf he leap 3 over the sand and is soon beside the dead otter. Willi a yell of delight he files toward the shanty on the b'uEf to tell his mother and the half dozen or so of - other' little half-breeds what has hap pened, and they all come trooping down the beach as fast as their legs can carry them. The tide Js going out now and the blood of the otter stains the sand which has lured blm to destruction, and the ebbing ripples tenderly caress for the last time the pretty animal which has been their playmate all its life, and the sea will moan for the free-born thing which lias always had a homo in its bosom. Some way or another the news spreads quickly and other hunters and crowds of Slwashes come trooping to ward the dead otter from all direc tions.—Morning Oregonian. THE LUCK OF FIRST-BORN. But Youutjer Brothers Make m Good Showing. The law is by no means alone In fa voring the first born of a family and comparatively neglecting later comers, for a careful examination of the bio graphies of our most eminent men will prove that quite a preponderating number of tiiem owe their fame large ly to the fact that they made their en try into the world in advance of their brothers and sisters. To such an extent does this appear to be the case that, if a dozen names of distinguished men are taken at ran dom, it would be quite safe to assert that four of them (or possibly five) nro first sons; of the remainder three are second sons, while younger sons, Tanging from number three down ward, must be content with dividing the small amount of celebrity among them. Occasionally a very late comer ac quires fame, but the odds are all against him. Thus, Benjamin Frank lin, the great natural philosopher and politician, had no fewer than thirteen brothers and sisters in front of him. Sir Illehard Arkwrlght, the famous in ventor, was the thirteenth child of his parents, and Sir Joshua Reynolds was number seven in his family. But by far the majority of the world's distinctions are shared be tween first and second sons, the lion's share going to the first born. Fame In the world of letters lias gone in quite undue proportions to the oldest born. If we may take Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare and Milton ns the four greatest names in the history of the world s literature we shall find that all four, with the exception of Shakespeare—the greatest, it is true, of them all—were eldest sons. This privilege of the first born is claimed for Shelley and Byron and Heine, and In- modern times, to men tion names without regard to relative merit, by Ruskin, Max Muller, Lccky, Professor Jebb, Sir Lewis Morris, Frederick Harrison, Sir John Lubbock, Sir George Trevelyan, Mr. rinero and others far too numerous to mention. Confucius and Mohammed, Talley rnud, Rossini, Charlemagne, Luther and Raphael were all eldest sons; as also nro such eminent statesmen of to-day as Mr. A. .T. Balfour, Mr. Cham berlain, Mr. Brodriek, I,ords Rosebery and Goschen and Mr. John Morley. Among great soldiers we have Lord Wolseley and Lord Kitchener; among lawyers Sir Francis Jeune and Sir Edward Clarke; in the church, the late Bishop of London, and on the stage Sir Henry Irving. Of famous second sons the list is distinguished if comparatively short, for we fiud such giants of the past ns Michael Angelo und Beethoven; the Pope, Garibaldi and Pascal; Wallace and Sheridan; John Wesley and Mon taigne. Of famous statesmen of our own time We have Sir William Hai court and Mr. Asquitb, as well as Lord Salisbury, to mention only three names. The list of second sons contains a great soldier in Sir Redvers Bulier, an eminent judge in Lord Alverstone, still better known as Sir Richard Webster; a clever actor in Mr. Beer bohiu Tree; an artist in Mr. Phil May, and men of letters in Grant Allen and Sir Edwin Arnold. Nor are the third sons by any means to be despised in point of quality, al though the uuruher is relatively very small. They include the greatest soldier of modern times, the Duke of Welliug ton; the greatest author of any time, Shakespeare, and the most fa mous fiction writer of the last cen tury, Sir Walter Scott. Voltaire was a third son, and so were C. J. Fox, the famous statesmen and orator, Lord Lytton and Sir Rob ert Walpole, while Lord Halsbury lias proved that a third son can fill with distinction the highest place in the law, and the late Sir Walter Bosant that he can win laurels In the field of letters.—Tit-Bits. How to Fell a Chimney. A tall chimney sometimes becomes useless, aud it is desirable to take it down. To erect scaffolding and take it down by removing the bricks or stones one by one is a long and la borious task. A man in Manchester, England, pursues a simpler aud more expeditious plan, by which he fells a chimney even L.lO feet In height in a very short time. He removes the bricks or stones of about two-thirds of tho base of the chimney up to a height of five or six feet. Then he underpins this part with wood. When the work is properly done, the chim ney leans slightly towards the side where the underpinning is inserted, and when a crack appears in the ma sonry on the opposite side, he applies fire to tho underpinning, and when that gets fairly to going down comes the chimney. It has been found tlmt in nearly every case, the chimney partly telescopes as it falls, owing, doubtless, to the shock produced by dropping into tho void left by the burnt timbers. This ingenious un builder has felled 100 tail chimneys without accident One Cent For Profit, A flustered young •woman, out of breath as though from walking fast, rushed up the steps of the mint and asked to be directed to tlio bureau of Information. "There isn't any," re plied the uniformed messenger, a very fat man. "Perhaps I can tell you what you want to know." "Perhaps you can," said the young woman, producing a copy of a frivolous week ly paper. "I want to know if this is true." She pointed to a paragraph which read: "Among the curiosities of collecting is the fact that 1001 cents now bring about §lO in the coin market." The fat messenger adjusted bis glasses and scrutinized the para graph. While he was thus engaged the young woman explained that she had four 1001 cents, and wanted to know what made them so valuable, and where she could realize on them. Thou the fat messenger grew purple In the face from suppressed laughter, which finally exploded, and seemed In momentary danger of having an apoplectic fit He called the attention of the other messengers to the para graph, and then followed combined roars of merriment. In the meantime the young woman with the four 1001 cents wondered if she had strayed by mistake into a Innatie asylum. Finally the fat messenger regained his breath sufficiently to gasp: "It's a Joke. Don't you see?—l'll give you §lO for 1001 pennies, and I'll be a cent ahead of the game. See?" A great light seemed to drawn In the mind of the young woman. "I dare say it's very funny," she said, "but I don't think such things ought to be printed." And she made her exit sorrowfully.—Phil adelphia Record. Acid In Vnluablo Mail. It has come to lie generally believed that dishonest postollice employes se lect letters containing hills by smell ing them through the envelopes. A New York druggist who has n great many transactions with customers out of town tells the Times this is true from his own experience. His confidence In the malls as a safe way to send money was established a few years ago when he sent more than §2OO In bills to his wife, who was trav eling. The precious envelope missed her at one place and was forwarded and reforwarded before it finally reached her hands. By that time the envelope was torn and the money was sticking out In plain sight—in fact, held in the envelope only by a rubber hand which some country postmaster had slipped around the whole parcel. Nevertheless, the druggist afterward met with several §1 and §2 losses un til a year or two ago, when he con ceived the idea of putting a single drop of diluted carbolic acid into every envelope in which he inclosed a bill. Since then he hasn't met with a single loss. "They can't smell the money In those envelopes," he says, "and be- Bides, maybe they think there Is some thing unwholesome about them. Any way, they always let them go through. It is safer on the whole than register lug, I think." Three Trails of a Hoy. There are three thiugs that a child may do with the world that surrounds him. He may appropriate it; he may run away from It; he may fight it. These three types of action sum up the efforts of a man's life, from the cradle to the grave. They spring from three emotions, the most fundamen tal and the most difficult to control. These are sympathty, fear and anger. What a child sympathizes with, what he fears, what he gets mad at—this will determine very largely what he shall become. The training of these emotions should, therefore, bo the primary aim of every parent and teacher. This fact has not boon gen erally recognized. And because it lias not, the world Is l'uil of men and women who sympathize unwisely, fear unwisely, light unwisely and live mis erably.— Hetroit Free Press. To Stop Rooster Crovrlntf. A Brockton (Mass.) man has Invent ed an appliance to keep roosters from crowing In the early morning and Is said to work like a charm. It Is called the Brockton "Antl-crower." The de vice is fastened to the bill of the roos ter at niglit by a simple clasp, which docs not Interfere in any wuy with respiration. When the chanticleer rises before dawn, throws back bis head and attempts to wake himself aud everybody else by uttering a clarion note, the device restrains his ambitious plans and not until his own er sees fit to remove the clasp will his vocal organs give utterance to his feelings. The inventor hopes to raise a race of non-crowing fowl by means of thia device. Women Hermits in Russia. Among the villagers on the Volga In the Province of Samara a curious sect of women has made Us appear ance. It was originated by an elderly peasant woman in Sor.uova, called the "Blessed Mother." These women have fled from the villages around Into a remote district, where they live singly in holes dug out of the face of the bill. They lead a life of tasting and prayer, and believe them selves called from the world, which they think is shortly about to perish in a general conflagration. The "Blessed Mother" has "ten wise vir gins" ao a sort of bodyguard, and the sect believes that these eleven women ere possessed of miraculous pjwero.— London Clobc. JllSt. II Is only n jti3t fate, nflct- all ;f en Intellectual girl is fallen in love with by a toan who kisses her on the fore head.—New York Hcrulu. elSlii Sample lllaliwnyn lSullt. ¥AItTIN DODGK, Dir< ctor of Public Road Inquiries Office, writes as follows in Municipal Journal and En- gineer: The reflex influence of tlie bicycle and the automobile has finally created a public sentiment that is crystalliz ing into betterment of the public highway's to an extent that Is most gratifying to the good roads enthusi ast. Many States which have failed to make any appropriation for the im provement of roads in the past year yielded to the public demand and made for them liberal appropria tions. The good example of Massa chusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and other States is bearing fruit. In the aggregate, including the small appropriation made by the Gov ernment, millions of dollars have been set aside for tho betterment of tho country roads during this year. Canada is by no means a laggard, but rather well in the lead, when all things are considered, for she has ap propriated $1,000,000 to be expended upon tlie improvement of the high ways during the season. The good roads train which has been touring the South during tho last three months, was made up at Chi cago through the co-operation of tlie National Association of Good Roads, tlie Illinois Central Railroad and sev eral manufacturers of road-making machinery. Tlie train started from Chicago on April 20, equipped with eight carloads of the best and most important roadmnking machinery, ex pert operators, roadmakers and en gineers, arriving in New Orleans on April 22. The following week an object les son road, about two miles in length, was built in the suburbs of New Or leans, over a low plain, formerly sub ject to overflow. It was desirable to raise the roadbed higher than usual to get above tlie action of the water, which softens the surface of the road so rapidly; therefore, earth handling machinery was used to advantage. The New Era grader, propelled by twelve animals, was first put upon the work, and earth was transferred from the sides to the centre, at the rate of four cubic yards per minute. IVitliin the short space of two days the undisturbed earth was trans formed into a smoothly finished road way, over which automobiles could pass with perfect ease. During the week a State convention assembled for two days in pursuance of a proclamation issued by the Gov ernor of Louisiana. Every parish of the State was well represented, there being about one thousand delegates In attendance. As a result of this convention a permanent State organ ization was formed, which will oper ate in co-operation with the national association, to carry on the work al ready so well begun. On the first of May the train left New Orleans for Natchez, Miss., where It remained a week building another object lesson road and hold ing a district convention for two days, at the close of which a permanent or ganization was formed for carrying on the work in that vicinity, and for the purpose of co-operating with the State association, afterward formed at Jaekson, Miss., aud the national as sociation, formed last November at Chicago. We had here the hearty co-operation of tho city and the county authorities, the object lesson road be ing built partly within and partly without tlio city of Natchez. Our next stand was at Greenville, Miss., where we arrived on May 10. This is in tlie midst of the famous Y'azoo Delta. Tho soil is an alluvial deposit, subject to overflow and in undation. A portion of this soil is known as "buckshot land," and is ex ceedingly difficult to handle and more difficult to retain in tlie form of a smooth roadbed. It was doubted whether the earth-handling machinery so successful in other soils, would be able to handle this peculiar buckshot formation, but our efforts were crowned with success, and we left them an object lesson of great value, iu the form of smooth, well rounded roadbeds, raised well above the water level. We also had a very successful two-day convention, which termin ated with the organization of a per manent association for tlio improve ment of highways. I left the train temporarily at this point, and tlie next stand was made at Granada and another at McCouib City, and from McComb they went to Cambridge, after which the great con vention was held at Jackson, Miss., where an object lesson road was built, as at each of tlie other places. The Slate convention Was probably the largest and most successful of any road convention ever assembled In America and resulted Iu a permaueut organization for the entire Slate. From Jackson, Miss., tlie train went to Jackson, Tenu., where a similar program was carried out. The next great stand was at Loul3villo, Ky„ where I again joined tlie train on June 27. The Governor of Kentucky had issued his proclamation for tlie State convention to bo held here at tliis time, and continue two days. This was well attended by eminent men from all parts of tlie State, and was one of the beet conventions ever held in the interest of good roads. Governor Beckham was present and delivered I nn address full of encouragement for the cause and urging the people to in dustrial activity. A fine object lesson road was produced here just outside the city limits, and a permanent or ganization formed for the purpose of carrying on the work in connection with the national association. The train went from Louisville to Hopklnsvllle and repeated there sub stantially the same work that had been done in the other places. Owons boro, Ivy., was reached July 14, and a most enthusiastic convention was held on the fair grounds in that city. From here we crossed the Ohio River into Southern Illinois, and made a final stand at Effingham. It was ex pected that the train would move from here to Mattoon, but owing to a disastrous fire in that city, the en gagement was cancelled, and the great tour of the good roads train was closed. HOW A STEAMSHIP WENT DOWN. Graphic Description of the Plunge of th. Kincora. This account of the recent collision between the steamships Oceanic aud Kincora was written by a passenger on tlie Oceanic: "I was reading in my hunk last niglit and the foghorn began to blow, and at about 12.30 I felt a shock, as If a great wave had struck our vessel and we liad gone through it. Some thing fell on the deck (I am three decks down,) and after a time I be came conscious of an excitement up above. Up I went. Then I saw our vessel had struck another steamer about one-third from its stern, and the two were lying apparently fixed, with the steamer's hows pointing at an an gle with our vessel toward our stern. It was u very misty night, and above the junction of tlio two ships there was a light which radiated through the mist without giving much illumin ation. "By degrees I became aware that the steamer was lying with its nose up and its stein above the water. The bows rose higher and higher, the masts were seen at an increasingly extraordinary angle with the deck of our steamer. The masthead light of tlie steamer came down and down, when a contrary motion seized tlie steamer, and she slipped down, stern foremost, with appalling speed, and, when half Immersed, and apparently upright, fell over on lier deck aud disappeared without a sound. "It was as if she covered her face and fell forward on the death that threatened her—but tlie speed with which she went down, and her last motion before disappearing, were very striking. The contrast between our lighted decks (for before the end eyery !': "t ]..■• d ' ?en turned on) and her hull, dam . black except where lier masthead light flickered, and where some light came out ol' the engine room, made a great picture. "Our boats were out at once, but no one came up after tlie steamer went down. I was on deck at 1.10 and by 1.17 tlie tragedy was finished." WORDS OF WISDOM. Calamity is man's true touchstone.— Beaumont. Education is the chief defense of na tions.—Burke. In belief lies tlie secret of all valua ble exertion.—Bulwer. He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.—Porteus. ,Tho best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men—Fowler. Books are lighthouses erected in tho great sea of time.—E. P. Whipple. Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues.—Home. The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.—Gay. He who would he a great soul in fu ture must lie a great soul now. —Em- erson. Have something to say; say it, and stop when you're done.—Tryou Ed wards. There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man hav ing nothing to say.—Swift. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.—Rich ter. "As the duty of every day requires." That Is a simple rule. Let it be pon dered well. Resolve when you awake that it shall bo to some faithful pur pose, and that your renovated powers should be obedient to Him who has re newed them. Let not the opportunity that is so fleeting and yet so full pass neglected away.—Frothiugham. Rutland's Taciturn Judge* Sir F. Bacon, ill a well-known pass age, says that "an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal." It is obvi ous that Sir F. Bacon has at least one disciple lit tlie courts to-day. In twen ty-two reported cases in which one of his Majesty's Judges took part, lie gave a judgment in one case occupy ing some nine lines of print. Ills judgments in the remaining twenty one eases were as follows. In one case, "I am of the same opinion, for the same reasons;" in yet one other, "I entirely agree;" in four, "I con cur;" iu five, "1 am of the same opin ion," and in ten, "I agree." To adapt Mr. I'uff's celebrated observation, "When they do agree on the bench, tlielr unanimity is wonderful."—Lon don Law Journal. Arizona's High Honor. Arizona has a heavy lino of news papers, considering its population. It has a paper for each 2000 people more, according to tlie percentage of population, than any other State or Territory in the United States. THE PRESIDENT ABROAD. The Idea That Ho i'annftt Visit rcreljr* Soil a More Superßtitlon. There is a popular superstition that the President of the United States U Inhibited from leaving this country during his term of office, but it is su perstition only. The article of the Constitution "which relates to the Pres ident contains no provision of the sort, and therefore the President is quite free to do precisely as he chooses in this matter. The reason why no President has ever visited foreign countries until af ter his retirement has probably been due to the fact that in the early years of the republic, before the invention of the telegraph and before the laying of the Atlantic cable, and also before the development of steamships of great speed, absence from the country would have meant so protracted sev erance of communication between the executive and the subordinate officers of the Government as to constitute what would have been practically au "inability to discharge the powers and duties" of his office. When it required a month to make the voyage to Europe and when letters and orders could be transmitted only by sailing packets, or, afterward by steamship, It would, of course, have been impossible for the President to visit England with out practically abdicating his office and installing the Vice-President in his place. But now, when the time re quired to pass from New York to Queenstown is hut little more than five days, and when immediately upon his landing he would be in telegraphic communication every moment with his Cabinet, there exists no satisfac tory reason why he should not feel entirely free to perform a striking act in International courtesy. It is not, indeed, true, that no Presi dent lias ever gone beyond the boun daries of his country. President Ar thur, during his term of office, went to Florida by sea, and although he did so on a vessel of the navy, and was there fore technically still upon American soil he was, as a matter of fact, shut off from communication with the ad ministrative departments for several days; and President Cleveland also on one occasion, while shooting in the Adirondaeks, crossed the Canadian border, and for several hours was, without knowing it, actually upon British territory. If, indeed, the President of the Uni ted States were now to visit Egypt he need never be so remote from Wash ington in point of facility of commu nication as was President Monroe when, during the era of good feeling, he loft the seat of Government and traveled by canal and coast and car riage to the city of Boston.—The Book man. Bruins Saved by Machines. A macnine which does the work of six clerks without making their m.is takes has been introduced into several Chicago banks. It weighs, counts ami sorts gold coins, delicately separating the worn ones—which lose four cents in value for every grain rubbed off— from the pieces of standard weight. Adding and change-making machines have already been long in use in banks and commercial houses. Cash-regis ters are familiar savers of time and figuring. In many markets there bre patent scales which indicate weights and calculate prices at the same time. It is worthy of notice that what these pieces of mechanism relieve is not the hand but the brain of man. They serve to spare the arduous exer cise of certain mental faculties, just as books of ready reference make enormous strains on the memory un necessary. As inventions multiply which lighten men's brains of a mass of clogging de tail more room is left for other things in the human mind and a greater free dom of mental processes is afforded. Those brain-saving devices, then, must be ranked high among the instru ments of progress, overcoming handi caps for the intellects that must go racing oil.—New York World. Needed a Shave. A man who has been on a lecture tour through the South tells this story 011 himself: He was late in arriving in one of the cities in which lie was booked, and had but half an hour to reach the liall where lie was to give his entertainment He needed a shave almost as much as he did his dinner, hut he decided to cut out the latter. The former ho was obliged to have. Going to his room, he rang for a bar ber. A bright-looking boy came in and announced that he was the bar ber. Mr. Bingham sat down oil a chair and told him to go ahead. "I beg your pardon, sir, but would you mind lying down on the couchV" "Why?" asked the astonished lecturer. "Well, sir, you see, I am generally sent to shave the corpses and I can shave a man better when lie is lying down."—New Orleans Times-Demo crat. Preserving Fruits. The Agricultural Department of Vic toria has recently made experiments with reference to the preservation of fresh fruits. Pears aud peaches packed in the ordinary boxes for shipment were subjected to the vapors of hy drocyanic gas. The fruits were then taken out of the boxes and separately wrapped in tissue paper. Some of them were again treated with the gas, aud the whole lot was placed in a dry room at a temperature of forty de grees Fahrenheit, and kept there for seven weeks. While the fruits were taken out they were in an excellent state of preservation, especially those that had been treated with the gas a second time. Not only the pears, hut the peaches, felt hard to the touch, re tained their fresh appearance and showed no decayed spots, as the germs hud all been killed by the gau.
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