66 THE WEST AMEKICAN SCIENTIST. 



[Written for the West American Scientist.] 



ALGAE. 



O, these delicate ocean gifts, 



These children of the sea, 

 That sleep among the dash ng waves. 



As beau iful and free. 



When cast upon the sandy beach, 



We gather them with care, 

 Admire their beiuty and their grace, 



And hidden glories rare. 



B'lt their own secrets long they kept. 



Of Nature's wondrous ways; 

 Th . ir fruit unknown 'till science came. 



With microscopic gaze. 



Algae, breath of the bounding sea. 



Refreshment find we here. 

 To charm the heart and please the eye. 



Enlarging beauty's sphere. 



Nor blooms a spray on sea or land, 



With glowing life and fair, 

 But gives a hint that we may trust 



Its Author's loving care. 



San riego, California. E. E. 



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INDIAN ARROW POINTS OF OREGON. 



Mr. H. C. Stevens, of Oregon City, Oregon, since 1878, has personally handled 

 35,000 fine arrow points, peculiar to Oregon, and fully 50,000 in all have been found 

 by different persons. Before 1878 perhaps an equal number were found. Fully 

 $3,000 have been realized on these in cash since 1878. At present few are found, 

 except after a heavy freshet and overflow of the river banks, where the greater num- 

 ber have been found. These points at times represent the highest examples of sav- 

 age stone c lipping, and are really so often g3m materials that the demand for them 

 as articles of jewelry is not surprising. The prices range from $1 to nf2.50 each for 

 the fiaer ones, which are usually made of rock crystal, flesh colored, red, yellow, 

 brown or mottled jasper, obsidian, or various colors of chalcedony. They are prin- 

 cipally sold in the east, scarcely any being sold in Oregon for jewelry. They are not 

 mide by the present Indians of Oregon. — [Geo. F. Kunz in ' Mineral resources of the 

 United States.' 



The editor of the ' Southern Geologist ' haa been obliged to suspend its publica. 

 tion owing to other business requiring his whole attention. 



