Daily Colonist (1888-02-05) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1888-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

KOOTENAY DISTRICT.

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Sai ineatliiii ami

There are bath ftuialic-think thtit Ui'r w iihoitl :.; iliilv de.-iiabie form oi'

■rubbing. .\ ho i.' .iiorantly l.idei-inis is life -\i,.toi!co. The

A kind of peat mosn belonging to tho spliagni, which in indigenous in many parts of Russia and aibcria, is successfully used n«( n deodorizer.

Side sadiHes an^ slowing going out of fashion in Eiigliuid, and the man fashion way of riding is being wloptod by mimy of tho ladies, ^ide saddles have been in use sinOe 1S88.

The Souk the Shirt. An ingenious Yankee has Invented a machine which, according to tho way In whicli it is used, niiiy prove a blessing or a curse. It consists of u connecting wheel and bolt for hitching one of the cheap reed organs that play tunes, by means of sheets of punctured iiapor, to tho fly wheel of a sowing machine. Thus a poor seanisl ross can do her work and play the organ at t lie same time. She can lit tho timo to llio stylo of Kowliig sho wishes to do. If it requires caro and must bo done slowly, chm^cli music is oa-tlrely snilable. When see lias plain, coarse se\.'iiig she can work with such tunes OS "Di.\io" and "Yankee Doodlo." Selections from "Pinafore" and "Tho Mikado" would not bo out of place. Fancy what It would ho to go into a largo dress making establishment and fliul thirty or forty girls at their sowing machines, each with a reed organ, playing a different tiino. Yet it may soon ooow.— dmrltrJocroea,

raiilnresot .sapoiiilioalioii and i,f .-crub-biiigare all very well iis ;i lu.xury, though llu' inmiclions of tho Roman thermm were better, because the oil used after the bath sii])plied some protection to Ib.e abrtidcd hkm. liut Ibo fury of tubbing is only for tbe strong, and even the strong, if (hey prticlice Iheir riles in a nial.iriiuis coiiii-lr,\-, Inive 111 on observed to -iok' H ,-ooner Ihtiii those who have conieiited tliem-selves with cloansiiig, tmd luivo not gone on to I'.xcoi i,ii ion.—Dr. Titus Munson Conn in 1 larper's.

I''()iM)d at I'ninpeil. Till! e.v ■aviilioiis Ibal an- being carried forward at Pomi)eii are giving most in--li ri stiiig resiillM. In the beginning of the monlli ;i wooden en.",' wits dug up, con-laniin.g a coiiiplete set of surgii : I instrii-meiils. many of wbicb are siiiiiliu^ to iliose used ill ibe present da.v. A few ilays later four beaiilifnl silver urns of eonsideniblo height were found, togelliei with four smaller cups, eight open vtises. lour dishes ornamented with foliage and llie figures of animals, ;ind a betiiilifiil slatiie of .liiiiiter seated on lii.s throne, liesides these silver ob.jeets several gob ornameiils were also foinid. such as ear-rings tiinl rings. The excavations aro Ix;-ing rapidly jmshed forward.—liome Cor, London News.

llabils of It Oull.

Jlr. Williani'Brewster notes some in-

I cresting features in tho habitsof ii'ypung lliiii'.vtda' gull of tile .St. Lawrorico. He

111 ought homo a young one, its mtite liav -i'.ig iboil of thirst, the nilior one surviving biroiiLji tlio aceideiiial di e.

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