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FOREST AND STREAM. 



The Capital of Arizona.— Prescott, the 

 capital of Arizona, our latest El Dorado, is 

 situated in a small valley or basin, sur- 

 rounded on all sides by mountains, and has a 

 picturesque location. At the first glance it 

 strikes the tourists as being an extremely 

 home-like place, recalling many of the fea- 

 tures of a New England or Western New 

 York village. The population is now about 

 4,000 and is increasing with wonderful rapid- 

 ity, as the fertile valleys adjacent and the 

 rich mining districts round about are filling 

 up. Most of the houses are of brick and 

 wood, two or three stories in height, solidly 

 constructed, and exhibiting good architectural 

 taste. There are few Mexicans and Indians, 

 and in consequence adobe structures are a 

 novelty. The city is 155 miles east of the 

 Colorado river, 250 miles northeast of Yuma, 

 and about the same distance northwest of 

 Tucson, the second city in the Territory. 

 The center of the city is a large plaza, now 

 square, which is to be occupied by substantial 

 public buildings. All the churches in Ariz- 

 ona are in Prescott, and, besides the Catho- 

 lics, there are three Protestant ministers 

 there. The largest of the seventeen public- 

 school houses in the Territory, a twostory 

 brick, costing 820,000, is in the city limits. 

 Yavapai county, of which Prescott is the 

 county seat, is not only the largest in area 

 but the best populated of the five into which 

 Arizona is divided. Within its borders are 

 some of tho finest settlements as well as the 

 most notable evidences of prehistoric life. 



Ducks Caught with Salt.— We have more 

 than once beard of the wonderful properties 

 of the waters of Deep Spring Valley Lake, 

 but, until the present, not with sufficiency of 

 detail to give the story full credence Lieu- 

 tenant Wotherspoon," Company D, Twelfth 

 TJ. S. Infantry, in command of the relief party 

 for Captain Joe's Indians, passed several days 

 last week in the valley, and bears witness to 

 the literal truth of the remarkable phenomena. 

 These are, that at certain times the ducks, 

 which visit the lake in great numbers, be- 

 come so loaded down with crystallization of 

 borax, salt, or some similar substance, that 

 they are unable to fly, and while in this con- 

 dition become an easy prey to the Indians, 

 who wade into the water and pick them up 

 in their hands. In fact this substance often 

 collects vipon the birds' bills in such weight as 

 to actually drag their heads under water and 

 drown them. As asserted by Mr. Beasly and 

 family, who have lived near the lake for 

 years, the ducks are often loaded with several 

 pounds weight of this substance ; not less than 

 ten pounds in some instances. During the 

 first stages the crystals are quite evenly dis- 

 posed over all the birds' feathers above water, 

 sticking them together as firmly as if glued. 

 The n it accumulates in bunches or strings, 

 forming drags or rafts with which the bird 

 can Bwini but slowly, if at all, and if formed 

 from the bill or head soon causes its death by 

 drowning.— Inyo (Cal.) Independent. 



New and Stalk Bbbad.— The nature of 

 the difference between new and stale bread is 

 far from being known. It is only lately that 

 the celebrated French chemist, Boussingault, 

 instituted an inquiry into it, from'which it re- 

 sults, that the difference is not the conse- 

 quence of desiccation, but solely of the cool- 

 ing of the bread. If we take fresh bread into 

 the cellar or into any place where it cannot 

 dry the inner part of the loaf, it, is true, is 

 found to be crumby, but the crust has be- 

 come soft and is no longer brittle. If stale 

 bread is taken back into the oven again it as- 

 sumes all the qualities of fresh baked bread, 

 although in the hot oven it must undoubt- 

 edly have lost part of its moisture. M. Bous- 

 singault has made a fresh loaf of bread the 

 subject of minute investigation, and the re- 

 sults are anything but uninteresting. New 

 bread, in its smallest parts, is so soft, clammy, 

 flexible and glutinous (in consequence of the 

 starch during the process of fermenting and 

 baking being changed into mucilaginous dex- 

 trine), that by mastication it is with greater 

 difficulty separated and reduced to small 

 pieces, and iu its smallest parts is less under 

 the influence of the saliva and digestive 

 juices. It consequently forms itself 

 into hard balls by careless and hasty masti- 

 cation and deglutition, becomes coated over 

 by saliva and slime, and in this state enters 

 the stomach. The gastric juice being unable 

 to penetrate such hard masses, and being 

 scarcely able even to act upon the surface of 

 them, tbey frequently remain in the stomach 

 unchanged, and, like foreign bodies, irritate 

 and incommode it, inducing every species of 

 suffering— oppresion of the stomach, pain in 

 * the chest, disturbed circulation of the blood, 

 congestions and pains in the head, irritation 

 of the brain and inflammation, apoplectic at- 

 tacks, cramp and delirium.— The Miller. 



Severe on the Boston Waiter Girls.— 

 There is no more striking likeness of chaos 

 than a table set by a girl in most Boston pub- 

 lic dining room. The cream pitcher is at one 

 end of the festive board, the sugar bowl at 

 the other ; the napkin lies half in, half out of 

 the meat dish, and soaks up the gravy ; the 

 butter is a yard away from the would-be 

 diner, and tlu bread plate occupies the place 

 that should be held by the dinner plate. As 

 for the castor, knife and fork, potatoes and 

 salt, thev are dropped in anywhere, " promis- 

 cuous like," and it is not easy to refrain from 



rising and deliberately setting 'the table over 

 again. Even if all the girls be duchesses in 

 adversity and do have to submit to a great 

 deal of impertiness frcm rude women, there 

 is no reason why, having undertaking to bo 

 waiters, they should not do their work as 

 well as men. They can best show that they 

 are ladies by surpassing those who merely 

 claim to be good servants. — Boston Trans- 

 cript. 



A Well-Pbeserved Old Gentleman. — 

 The English papers republish the story of 

 how Bob, the dresser of McUullough, the 

 American actor, once asked his master to give 

 him a holiday. " Where are you going ?" in- 

 quired McCullough as a preliminary. " Go- 

 ing out with my girl, sir." " H'm!" quoted 

 genial John, "going out with your girl, eh? 

 I thought so. Where are you going with 

 your girl ? " "Going to see her grandfather, 

 sir," said Bob, readily enomgh. "She goes 

 to see her grandfather every Sunday." 

 "Where does the old fellow live?" inquired 

 McCullough, absently. " He doesn't live any- 

 where, sir," rejoined Bob. " He's a skeleton 

 in Wood's Museum at Bellevue Hospital." 



The Route or a Telegram. — A cable des- 

 patch recently sent from Hartford, Conn., to 

 Australia, consisted of thirty-three words, and 

 cost $6498.— The course of the message was 

 as follows : From Hartford to New York , to 

 Heart's Content, N. F.; to Valencia ; to Lon- 

 don ; through Germany, Bussia, Siberia, to 

 Yladiwoodstock, a point on the coast of Mant- 

 chooria ; thence through the Japan Sea to 

 Nagaski, on one of the Japan Islands; through 

 the Yellow Sea to Shanghai, China ; thence 

 down the coast to China, through the China 

 Sea to Saigon, Siam ; to Singapore, Malay ; 

 thence to Batavia, on the coast of Java ; 

 thence to St. Darwin, on the northern coast 

 of Australia, and to Sydney. 



—The man whose lame back prevents him 

 from spliting a stick of wood or building a 

 fire is the one who leads an attack on a pile 

 of ten cords of wood to help uncover and kill 

 a frightened rabbit.— Detroit Free Press. 



Admirers of Artistic 

 Pottery and Glass are 

 invited to inspect some 

 choice examples select- 

 ed by Messrs. TIFFANY 

 & CO. during the Paris 

 Exposition, including : 



New Plaques by Minton, decorated by Mus- 

 sill with novel marine designs. 



Salviati's latest reproductions of the Vene- 

 tian Glass of the Sixteenth century. 



Fac-similes of the Trojan iridescent bronze 

 glass exhumed by Dr. Schliemann. 



New Plaques by Copeland, decorated with 

 strongly drawn heads by Hewitt. 



Reproductions, by Doulton, of old Flemish 

 stone ware. 



Reproductions of the Scinde Pottery made 

 by the Bombay Art Society. 



Recent examples of Ginori's reproductions 

 of old Italian majolica. 



Specimens of Capo di Monti ware, Austrian 

 iridescent and enameled Glass and Limoges 

 Faience of new colors. 



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These beantlful organs 

 are remarkable alike for 

 purity of tone and perfect 

 mechanism. Their eases 

 are all richly tlniahed iu 

 Solid Black Walnut. We 

 sell a better instrument at 

 a lower price than any 

 other house in the United 

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EASTERN AGENCY, 599 BROADWAY. 



Class X Draws December 24. 



One prize of $15,1)00, one of $8,000, and one of $5,000. 



1894 PRIZES DISTRIBUTING $0T,926. 



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Extraordinary Drawing. 



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 and the amount drawn will bo ■ > 



Smallest Trlze, $1,000. 



1 Prize of $500,000 



I " - 100,(100 



1 " 50,000 



1 " SB, 



10 " $10,000 100.000 



M " 5,ooo eo,iino 



486 " 1,000 439.100 



9 Approximations of $2,000 each, for the 9 

 remaining units ol nil LUber drawing tke 

 $800,000 prize 18,000 



9 Approximations of $1,000 each for the 9 

 reniainin:,' units of number drawing the 

 $100,000 prize 9 000 



!! Approximations of {1,000 euoii for the 

 numbers preceding and following the 

 one drawing the $60,000 prize 2,000 



632 Prizes amt'g to Spanish Doll 1,353,000 



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 which It has since added a reserve fnnd of $350,000. 

 ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS 

 Will take place monthly. It never scale* or postpones. 

 Lookattue following distribution : 



capita: 

 100.co0 tickets at twri dollars bach. 



HALF TICKETS, ONE UuLLAlt. 

 LIST OF PRIZES. 



l Capital Prize of $:io,ooo $30,000 



1 Capital Prize of 10-000 10,000 



1 Capital Prize of 5,000 6,000 



SPrizesof sr.SUil 5,000 



1,000 S.000 



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100 " 100... 10,000 



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Approximation Prizes of $300 2,700 



9 Approximation Prizes of 200 l,SO0 



I) Approximation Prizes of 100 900 



1857 Prizes amouiuin? to — $110,400 



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