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THE INVENTOR OF SACCHARINE. An Accident Leat*% to an Impoxrtant isiscoery A Substance Which Out-Su;ar-, St;ar. Dr. Constantine Fahlberg, tho in ventor or discoverer of saccharine, the new coal tar sugar, is a tall, well-built, handsome German-American, of about thirty-eight years of age. He speaks the modern languages fluently, and despite the celebrity that has so suddenly fallen upon him, is quite diffident and re served. To an inquiring reporter, who had called upon him for the express pur pose of conversing with him on tho new sweetening agent, he said: "How did I discover sacechariue? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time upon the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar, and had made a number of scientific discoveries that are. so far as I know, of no commercial value. One evening I was so interested in my laboratory that I forgot about supper until quite late, and then rushed off for a meal without stopping to wash my hands. I sat down, broke a piece of bread, and put it to my lips. It tasted unspeakably sweet. I did not ask why it was so, probably because I thought it was some cake or sweetmeat. I rim ed my mouth with water, and dried n'y moustache with my napkin, when, to my suprise, the napkin tasted sweeter than the bread. Then I was puzzled. I again raised my goblet and, as fortune would have it, applied my mouth where my fingers had touched it before. The water seemed syrup. It flashed upon me that I was the cause of the universal sweetness, and I accordingly tasted the end of my thumb, and found that it sur passed any confectionery I had ever eaten. I saw the whole thing at a glance. I had discovered or made some coal tar substance which out-sugared sugar. I dropped my dinner, and ran back to the laboratory. There, in my excitement, I tasted the contents of every beaker and evaporatirg dish on the table. Luckily for me, none contained any corrosive or poisonous liquid. "One of them contained an impure solution of saccharine. On this I workea then for weeks and months until I had determined its chemical composition, its characteristics and reactions, and the best modes of making it scientitically and commercially. When I first pub lished my researches, some people laughed as if it were a scientific joke: others, of a more skeptical turn, doubted the discovery and the discoverer, and still others proclaimed the work as being of no practical value. When the public first saw saccharine, however, everything changed. The entire press, European and American, described me and my sugar in a way that may have been edify mg, but was simply amusing to me. And then came letters. My mail has run as high as sixty a day. People wanting samples of saccharine, my auto graph, o- my opinion on chemical problems, desiring to become my part ner, to buy my discovery, to be my aent, to enter my laboratory and the A wO-NDERFrL SUCCESS. -What 1-ye I done? I have started a company in Germany to manufacture saccharine, with a capital of 2,000,000 marks. They are already at work, and are now producing the 'new sugar. It costs, or rather we sell it, between $10 and $12 per pound, but will reduce these figures considerably before a year has gone past I would rather have started in this country, which is my home, but the high price of skilled labor, and the high'tariff on the crude materials (line chemicals) of which saccharine is made, deterred me and my friends from so doing. I will say, however, that if ap plied chemistry continues progressing as it has done in the past decade, we shall open branch works here within the next five years." Saccharine is proving a wonderful suc cess. It is used already in many ways. It is employed by the maakers of glucose and beet sugar. These are inferior in sweetness to cane sugar, but superior in digestibility and healthfulness. The ad dition of a trifling fraction of saccharine makes them the equals of the finest cane sugar in the market. Saccharine is so sweet that a teaspoonful converts a bar rel of water into syrup. A small wafer of it converts the bitteres't quinine solu tion or acid drink into a regular molas ses. It will, therefore, .be invaluable in disguising and destroying all the bit ter and sour tastes in medicine without changing the character or action of the drugs. Saccharine does not decay, mould or firment; .nieither is it attacked by bacteria. It has no injurious effect upon the human system. What effect has been noticed is rather beneficial than otherwise. This immunity from decay will render it of great utility. Where sugar is used as a flavor and not as a food, it is bound to be replaced by sac charine; where as a food and flavor com bined, it will not be. In the future the new sugar will be used by druggists, physicians, bakers, confectioners, candy makers, bottlers, preserve and pickle makers, liquor distillers, wine makers and dealers in bottlers' supplies. THE FOlEIATION OF sAcCHu.GE .-The new coal tar product, saccharine, Mbieh is expected to prove very useful onaccount of its sweetening power-in respect to which it stands to cane sugar in the ratio of 220 to 1, and with which .considerable antiseptic properties are 46'uiied-was mentioned at length by Sir Sydney Roscoe in a recent discourse at the Royal Institution. This new sub stance was described by the lecturer as the most remarkable of all the marvel ous preducts of the coal tar industry. It is not a sugar, but contains carbon, hydrogen, sulphur, oxygen and nitrogen; and its chemical name is benzoyl sul phuric imide. It is neither a nutrient nor a-poison. It is derived from the toluene of coal tar, by a process com prising at least seven distinct steps; the whole contributing a triumph of svn thetical chemistry. Toluene is first heat ed with sulphuric acid of 168;~ degrees Twaddell, but not above 100 degrees C. After all the original toluene has disap peared, the mixture is run into wooden tanks partly filled with cold water, where it is stirred up with chalk. The mass thus nentralized is filtered through a! press; and the calcium salts are treated with. sodium carbonate, with another filtration following. The solution of the sodium salts thus obtained is evaporated and the solid residue dried byv steam beat. This material is then mixed with phosphorus trichloride, and treated with a current of chlorine. Certain residuals are then driven off, and the apparatus contains two suiphonic chlorides-one solid and the other liquid. Only the latter is capable of yielding saccharine. This is now separated, mixed with solid ammonium carborate, and steamed. After some fnrther mechainical treat 'ment, the liquid is oxidized by potas-i m permanganate, and, finally, th - ur saccharine is precipitated by dilr "in eral acids. It has a far sweeter -.t than sugar, and a faint, delicate flavor of bitter almonds. 'his is the season of the year w hpn :- I man get wat yon do not wamt renl i e:n THEi KNIGHTS OF LABOR. C(ardinaa Gibnon-s Declarem that the Order i, :ot nder the ~Han or the (hurch. J6!.: oitE, Atig.iut 19.-The -l'i'n'u w~ pr illio-morow al intnviw witi Cardia:1 Gibons, ho says: Card~al aschrea' conelmnatio~n of the~ ii'-rbts of Ib*r should not be t:ken as :i~ enti~ent f ih: hyh (nrm n<:t ,.unil, t w w the lbor or--ainzions ml Qut irCe. i i e::n tt thll e .1 C rdial's .o !I:,- . h 'at 'e i h not ihUrud p nind' their ex r.* rli aLndno sa'dia : i im ce yetI in ravor of the il n o b T e::n 1e n Vo rn- in I reanzio I i t. ba i n!I I r res , olied. -:nU a rc liiuc Inly''I whe tC tis tune does the. Ci:urch raise her oceI ha'vc n( knowl ede of inhe '(Czcti.otin . WiltheIr or no', sel1ret pie;es areetn the K n of Jwabor tis a W. i. on ~llh mreliht .houki b thr(own" !IY Chc1o asstureld mn". hat i he::rI i:ileim bhn~~~~~e( t 1 F he 1re of oxo.ud e!w :m- oter treaiz iiont wh h theChur ch ha awtsanaonze.A dtinct ion" iLt be made as1 to the re .'fra 0 ecret plerd.is. We hoti- that if a rnoins a so8tic iy :t1 sweai neve '0o rv:dS)1 ::ny tfit. wngs,-ami. dto obe tihe dicatv of its oAifr bll, he ,u:rrenders ipenl liberty. On the othe rhad f amnther jpin swea~in tO kpsce its( ~s-*--'' o~rig i thle pr''ovs 1:,nohin slrl boe contrary to the lwsi of the ind. we holde his Per fear;i iuC sti'bfe. The who neor ae p:and on which lof these otil te memberms 0:'. I the latter. ad in 7ord-Mee With 3r. Pwri' ae:w:.then thec Clr 1"1,h says" tI 't I K night of I .:b6or:-I ped( you. Ifl owever. the aso lu-,e blind pleges i.4 taken, no mnatter how h1abe1 o bject of the, :0ceety. the Chrn er: 0neve licea nc11he it, and will ('; O 1r cildren01 to wiltraw undoer panin of exco-1.mmunication. Iso everything un.dnds on thie proviso. in eir Sweret Uv and v. The opinion is expresse-d by many lead-_ inl- journals of thle coiuntry tha1:t wej are on rt eve of alively reviv l of general pros prerity. This pp-r has pulihed on se_ eal ocasion recns c aricl e s contning the!-e views :md giving good rea .sons as- the bai of their arguients. This feains of ofes eappears to enrally prevail in cotumercia circles. The N tew York Aeri Cri ior. which is conservative and well informed, in .ts curren-t mmimber says: (AT-cche ti bewthut c os'e as "The reve many signsat thantu tion hias ag.dn c Ugh up n% itl productLiOn, and th:o weare ,w on the eve of another p, r of ood time:d. lilr.a:l bin: ias beg-n to iceast ala:: our smel rai' are not ctonsl the deand for ral - )a rters nre a-an!el :n. o bo mcet in Euproper: otal faeur a!buies isl immovinr, as is shown I the improved demand for money from all sec~ions oif :lhe country. whichl has drawn down,-i the su;,,rpNns of ihe_ New Y1ork lunks over the lalreserve from sixty millions lAgt year to exiht millions this arstocs of* mnutactured oods are gendFraly emale i) rces so low that an eSikMemust i-c for an avoC: m -Idv Iems i) th rocl r !lioaeti h.m a tCn . upi ard, soit loo ks ns iL' We not ("n.1 were likeiy v) see- a ieu l % -le. ut a Hvi ant gher ,m Iwas ci vg.oi he ti. ievitab lde ier dev: lcae. for'th earmknd ell of iclc ing olnidionis ure to catei u!P w-itil ovr, prai:ui~oThc Siroad acule of wApp; shows that since the census of 1 o0 our population-h-s Increa.se'd .0 C00, or nearl 20 p., et. :n. thaton Jui. 1. itLmontedx to~. i3r.sid0. ofh the Toipazti for Ite next'ou Cer o a.ertana t year and te sir-e raeo n~ud icase in yorpopaztoial woul brin:" liti, up to a6s0.0 an 1C90. atr about 1ier0. in ten yheatlvr Wiuch a tre Tl ho is encuging andour pepe hiv cau(e ltok11 rejeleove Mhe fc hildere eCially havuses andi a un fcneal byisue. T eispLife Terliy Hpe of the yer canbe t averdb EWJaNKsl amount' Co a and IA littd cotaby the oier ueo'EnixsTrs CxerTOPAZ Cm>1.t.o~CRILC. IterspDarnr , DsntC, ChoS.l era Norbu andh lie mpain. K Srier hould be. withou 1a-h bortle, a no1 doub te grie fr t he chaoU - ngeo useri. Thexn Imost .11ist vau ble medicine i the8 wld,ll a ' cota1 l" the bestfplIC and moht Vceur'aieropete of al I! .nl oher ToiIIs,' Bites et. etc. being 1the Agent in ext. 'istence. For~ liltlara ach, erou Cedhe, Chronic Rhemnatism, et. etc. iti' is trl 'ircla Remdy IIive nw if C. IntES'ox, S.'' I. et 1.0 1885 Fac4 er Intre-4 Gathered froin Various Quaiet has~- beenl retore 1 in Belf:st. Tin wirckers ane oaint iwork in Chi The rep r of lie :iirriage .f Mnic. Nil.>.n is dni. The nw i i ar n1t tu be iu beforeC NvemiLer 1. Mintains for Id su e wion. D1- ':ores.. Zoata. wiAnvo.te aou m:d f titu'u he.ding its f. it h: of .'i'me: O *iil inhy f bl''d hi ife .2., ~ ~ ~ ~ hi ,vifrc. d. al*a :n01 mONThrnaw, Inl Cmbroige 'da.-., Lock Linmley mnurdered Th*:n.::, . on roe :md is .un' Allen, het Suudty. In the Ah Wryknie & th Ies; Pons- of .1::drv, Cal. Wn-,e i ' mfactuer in'i ay w::re:~ eer t aioe a au C!itnz - ir ' I w rige was struck Iy 1 ink Izk rd wilh his fls. aud cd in two mlinut.-s. 1r-:k S oue, of :avanai,. anre 1ri on the heni liI fil fon a carWhuks dla 1110113 and broke his we trirne. 1r TulreI CAl.lav, w:i:d h tutrd broiv s into ary 1:eth. :s's ., I*50I,0 in Ch1tica 3ioud a D. forL.row ide wf c ud. bhy Fan Parcks wit1. Parnkil S ofir svnn bre r e raed an the C calgo Convention: Oeacal Ti se Auu. ot eri-e if e ccre:;e to:T-es lchihzan IDneocratsr i er cov-n the plcice of the A Tlreaasrtr:tioaW. Condpulsrv ntlerclileC by tuetb oil r nligious sbnviner fis hoet aleisied i thrvard Universito. aolnu B, d Shot tVhIe. ri. iJof mout. a prmiemlt citizen of Iock Yad. ich., tli:oC-t-h the heait Saturday. A double (clo eliet ofetarredhat A nondordl N. I.. urvice ts brrid lised eil ing with two nared wories. prWith her talk of war. Georgia ich. , miliia force of ' all told, white and eolored. infaitry, artillery and cavalry. Central Issia. n I esiecially the, Ms cow district. has hcen devastated by torna dos and water spouts. An unknown tranlp was lvnch-d i inl dignant -citizens of Jndiana fOr saing, to eath Davis, the statin agent at Huron. P. iI. McC:rrn-, a. barb ih Providence. U. h, cut the throat of J. Crosy., Wedies xay, while shaving iml]. Death ensued at Because- of sundry perfunctorv conven tion resolutions,. the Prcsidmt is satistied Orh: the South is a unit for his cvi scrvice reieori. It is su gete that if the c(ating ill ocean steamiler rates (ont inues, : eaet rpey wi cost a good Iald le. than.taving at h- mei. Fred. Dou;.;ass remotved tc he ::t fethr from he aridentid nel's 1at!t vhen. in a pubic speec. called 'dr. Clev-ad "Grover." Mrs. Georce Deakerhort and her caild died at l::kerat-wn. Pa.. Thursda, fOm eatinig toadcaools, whj~i they. t.: .i were muishrCooas. It is reportcd in Londoz n h ther~e is a Chlie-e airmy.C el) 40.00 men quar'ered on the Sungllari river,1 in 3(nh0ria near the Al~il!t dx:::poli... ...t..e.k.ii..:htn t>e wife: the other.X two ' escaigu.ut The Irish: delIf-:.;at t o Ohe C(ie n~o irilh Nationial Le-i::uc (Convenin--31ee'-rs. O'Brien, Dea'ey *i::d lied- -ond-~irrived in New York Mondar.Y Six thonsa'.nd eigar maker1Ws went (ut onl a strike for higher wages at Iiavanai, Men dayv. The mnanfaturers havi'e united to resit the dtemiad. By adv.ice of the C'>] Service (Cimtnis 5102n, the Presidenat has mn~emided theC rles so as to prevent :e p.,imil2ainth!cers fromi knowing the polities of :ppliiants. A heavy wind and rain storm ocenemre in Aberdeen, Dakota, Monday, and( swelt over a 50 miles radius. Four persons wer-e killed outright. The father of the tw o T'aylor brother>, inl Tennessee, is neither1 Democrat nor lle publican. He is atn ar'de-n Prohiitionist. Hie can tatke the fene between Alf. and Bob. Ci-f amerest in the ( iC)a Convenion: cnters in the fact thna the Ir:ish deletrate-s h:tve rad;.utel e thir faces not enir adu-:t dyvn:um.te, but. a.i-ns vi ILnec ini aoy shape. The IUot .iim oI~r says: "GIearui-: mnen are burni::-' wit a' Nr toL 11whin Mexico. Wh:.t they ceally~ w:ma:. ; erhap s, is to iret intol a country where there isno probieiti.. The "old soldier" rac'ke-t had :o forCe iln Teu !se ob Ta:vlor, who was t o younii to go) to war easaly defeanted Gen. ibb reli, the hecro. of a hundred battles, andl a statesm!an1 of a: hi::h ordieC. Tihe maghitrat:-s of 13 Ihtt are in1 a nuan ar sto holw to pr0ceedl in view of the verdmict of willful muarder foundi a;:iinst nine policemen, coI'mdtedl duri the re cent riots. The report is coniirmed that Kruipp his secured a contract to supply 1.5%l tenls of steel rails for the construction of railromis. to be used in the development of mfh1ii industries in Tientsin, China. The Convention of the I..i Nniionial Leanue at Chiccago endorsed i/arnell and his party de!spite the posmn ei r merlyv md his followers. GIadstone20 elforts ill beluai of Ireland were appri'oved. Tihe brother of Miss 13e.lle Cia-ton. lighter of a wealthy merchant at Mlnad Lre.-I, Tenn., has heen :arrsted Ifor ur n:alive thei ilitimiate child of his sister. MXi~s C..lvtoni has' ted from ar!: Thr ii a n-er: aors:vn b.-tingr m1:1 li.ne 1o.). tr. :n I :in whlich the peives- of the hirge whl'esale c1lthinl. Ilnufaictur2' ~in hoCe :.r prepar-ing to (On Satrdi a'i reu .al ri:h urise va. nYd 'in-l ~ thei l'-, oe.-eek 21 nm i Nair : X. ho . -.1 .. Iii t is life i n ake \2. en in n en 1 .lcd ,or-N: e e' --:h.e :;en.-.l" 0et a IrelLen aio\> a-j1i1. G Ai i t l trge. Dr. Frn . 1Im1tn oeo h rn i.:X- Ira ine of Pr--iden Ga-r-ichi's physi Y esterd-'s cholera. retur- fo Ii* taily ar . rF-lns-.. In- ''i <e -me rC' .<.: 4: delaths: Venice. 19 new Cases, 8 deaths; Treviso. 45 new cases, 16 deaths: Ruvo, 24 neW CaseS. - (!eths: elsewhere, 62 new The Englisih gtovernment intends to intro due' at the next session of Parliament a mesu.'re inloc:d government to Ireland on tihe b::-si" e : pian prepared by Lord 'atdo~lph Ciltld;. The iartington party Will suppo.rt ibe scemne. Suind. .emin:: thLere was considerabl excitemfn' in Macon. Ga.. over the finding f a hall of Waste, carefully wrapped, sat uirte d wvith kerosene and supposed to con ti1 dynamite concealed in a growth of simmediately in the rear of the Brown Ab(ut 4 people were poisoned at the o,: (on Cra:ige on Brighton avenue, Long Brimh, :turdav night. from drinking v e :ilk. They will all recover. Dr. a S. Huit, Secretary of the State Board of IHea, has been sent for to make an e analysis of the milk, -heri; A. S. Armstrong was shot by P. C. Thompson and he died in ten min ute. Armstrong, on meeting Thompson after a political meeting held in Tuskegee, At cAled him a scoundrel, whereupon til I latter drew a revolver and fired twice, both ta1kin" effect. A special from El Paso states that the Cut:In- case is in .ttettz go. Envoy Sedg wick has no' arrived. Medina, the person who had (utting incarcerated, has pub l'sh.d a card anuouncing that he will not proceed against Cutting in a civil suit for danages. as he is privileged to do. Gray, the defaulting treasurer of the Atlantic and Indian Orchard mills, com iritcd suicide. His body was found yes terday morning at Blue Hills with a bullet through his heart. Gray's defalcation has caused the failure Samuel R. Payson, one of the leading business men of Boston. As the President of the Republic was en tering the theatre at Montevideo Tuesday ight, sonic miscreant fired a revolver at lis i- a. the ball entering the President's cheei. inflicting a slight wound. An infu rinted crowd attacked the would-beassassin and maltreated him so terribly that he died. In fBrvan county, Ga., a negro cut off n piece of a Miss Lizzie Bacon's tongue to prevent her from informing on him for crim:in:al assatilt. A posse captured the scundrel. but he fired on his captors and .ucce'Ld in getting away. Another posse is in pursuit, bent upon lynching him. Dr. Carver, the champion rifle shot, seems to be in misfortune. An auctioneer lat week sold his personal effects by order of the court. A handsome watch given him by the Prince of Wales sold for $400, a diamond pin, said to have been presented to him by the Emperor of Germany, sold for $500, and 13 line guns sold for $1.100. Mr. 0. L. Tilton, of Savannah, was ac cidentally shot Tuesday by his five-year oil son. le had been gunning, and when he came in the house he laid the gun on the bed, and while attending to something else tIe child approached the bed and was play in- with the triggers, which caused it go ofr, striking Mr. T. in the back. Officers are looking for Dr. C. C. Beers, supposed to be implicated with Mrs. Sarah .J. Robinson. the alleged Somerville pois )::er. District Attorney Stevens has graurt ed permission to exhume the bodies of all Of Mrs. Robinson's supposed victims, but probably not more than one or two will be taken co. The Italian cholera reports for Morday are: Barletta, 60 new eases and 30 deaths; IRi"'o di Puglia, 21 new 'iqes and 7 deaths; B-logna, 1:3 new cases and 5 deaths: Tre Vi). i.s new cases and 10 deaths: Verona, ; new cases and 2 deaths; Legagno, 12 new cases and :" deaths; Venice, 7 new cas a:d 2 deaths: Bisceglia, 13 new cases and 2 deaths: Acouiviva 14 new cases and 3 deaths. The Treasury De)partment is prepared to carry out the provisions of :he recent Act '.f Congress authorizing the Secretary of th~e Treasury to deliver to the rightful own er' certaini articles of jewelry, &c., cap tured by the U. S. army during the civil w:: r and (deposited in the Treasury Depart. :mnat. One box contained a lot of articles ca ltureii by.Gen. Shermn'ns troops in Cam dut. S. C., in the early part of 1865. They conlsist of family plate, jewelry, &c., which had been deposited in a bank at Camden by Mr. MIctae and other wealthy residents of tat seection. Reass.emblin:g of the EngIlish Parliament. Lo"xnox. August 19.-Parliament reas semibled r.today. The Queen's speech was as" follows: -lr Lords a.nd Gentlemen: I have sum moe ou to meet at this unusual season for the transaction of indispensable busi ness. The session of the last Parliament was interrupted before the ordinary work of the yecar had been completed, in order that the~ sense of my peop~le might be taken on certain important proposals with regard to the government of Ireland. The result ot tihe appeal has been to contirm the con elusion to which the late Parliament had coime. Tihe provisional nature of the ar ran gement made by the last Parliament for the public charge of the year rendered it inexpedienlt to p~ostp~one any further con sideration of necessary financial legishation. Gentlemen of the House of Commons: The estimates which were submitted to the hist Parliament and only partially voted will be liid before you. My Lords and Gentlemen: At thle period of the year usually assigned for a recess, antd after the prolonged and exceptional labors to which many of you have bteen subj~ected, I abstain from recommending atow for your consideration any measures except those wvhih are essential to the c~oudiuet of the public service during the remaining p~ortion of the financial year. I am conident that they will receive your priompt and careful attention. A meeting of the Parnell members was held in the Ihouse of Commons before the meeting of that body. Parnell presided. M1embers whlo were ptresent at the meeting decdled to discuss Irish affairs, especially the Belfast riots, during the debate in thle I lou~se of Commons on the reply to the Queen's speech, and also to endeavor to learn tihe intentions of the government in regard to Ireland. Base Ball in the Parlor. The hands on the clock were reaching tround towaird 12. She had vawnedl re nentedly. butt to no avail. He was immov ible. At length she said: "I understand you are quite a base ball :Y-a-as," he replied. "I play a gweat Xeal. Do youiadmiah the sporty" "Yes, inideed." "What do you like the best about it'?" "I thinik I like to see a home run occas nally, as well as anything." "Y-a-s." h returned, "I vewy warely 'Bu yo amst be a capital short stop," xas tei reinder, acecomipaiedC~ by a sp Ie' - tmi ed for a few minutes and then e(*hed i" r~ his hat. Ca:hr by an Octopuin. Ai divr~c who was trying to find pearls if te Alaska coas t found none, but cund himnself, all of a sudden, in the rasp of an ugly octopus with arms wenty-sevenl feet long. Such an ex lerience is rare; but there are thousands >f people who are caught by dysptepsia, vhich-l is quite bad. An octopus hates o let go. So does dyspepsia. Brown's ron Bitters settles dyspepsia. and makes t loose its cruel grip.* 'All things come to him who waits.' it the samelt time it is well to tip the waiter iceTasionta!!y. The thiings will come mic-kerr BR IC-A-BRAC. The past week has been the hottest of the season. A suit of armor was the old-fashioned Knight dress. In a few more weeks the fall business will open up lively, Old Sol is hand and glove these days with the resort proprietors. Umbrellas have a widespread popularity. The man who borrows trouble is never able to pay it back. Remember this. The fool and his money are soon parted but this is not true of the fool aud his hair. The school boys of the olden time usd to know something about the "switchmans strike." Halifax is to have a steel ralilwar.--Tr nrl. There are several steal railways in this country. Love is that golden latch key which hangs on the outside, and lets in happiness to every heart. By actual count it has been ascertaincd that a man can shoe a horse quicker tha. a woman can shoo a lien. Sixty thousand cards are used in the Brooklyn Library. -Er. A new pack for every game, we suppose. "It's a wife's duty to be pleasent, says an exchange. Yes, and its the husbands duty to make her duty easy. Hotel Turtle is the name of a Dakota hotel, and we presume the people who stop there find the motto to be, "Shell out." Actors are too much given to quarreling, considering that it is a part of their busi ness to kiss and "make up." A Buffalo girl never has her weddinz dress made in that city, for fear some o;ne will say she was married in a buffalo robe. "We want a circus, and we want it bad"' exclaims a Western edi'.or. We should think he would want a good one while he was wanting. A lady whose husbaunl indulges m!ore or less at the club, says hie is a kind but in dulging husband. There is a place in Pennsylvania called Economy. It is not, a summer resort. New England ice cream must be made for export to CanAda. It kills at shorter range than Jeiey lightning. Cincinnati has discharged two policemen for inability to read and write- They should be ellgible for jury duty. "I know what the nights of lbor arc. said the mother of six boy s as sha at down to repair the pile of trousers and jackets. It is one of the easiest things in the world to make a blmder, but how hard it is sometimes to repair one. Gath sententiously says that though the great reformer died the great purloiner still perpetuates himself. Who drank the first. julep:' Why, Neb uchadnezzar. le w.s the first man who ever mixed grass with, his liquor. Only four months -before Congress will assemble again, but the 49th can only last till March 4th, whii h is some consolhition. There is nothing a certain class of men will not forgive, if. you will accept their views; andi noti.ng they will forgive, if you do not. Some one rermarks that "lace is what ruf fles the men no-va-days." But he is wrong. Lace ruffles the women as usual. It is pay ing for it that runies the men. "Wome drink liquor," says a writer. "and yet they never swe snakes." Guess you haven't posted yourself far enough back. Did you ever hear of Ever "Home again! Not (lead nor injured! You even smile' Is it-can it be true: Thus spoke the umpire's wife. To be con tinued. A Connecticut editor called the hord court the Lime Kiln Club. and was prom'ipt ly fined $5.57. About six jokes pe-r week at that rate would bankrupt most Connecti cut edlitors. Elizatbeth Rose Clevehnd says: "An acorn in the mind is worth a forest on the end of the tongue." But, dear Elizabeth. neither is the object of such tender catre as acorn on a pet toe. The man who invented the "chestnut alarm-a little bell to carry concealed, and tb ring when a stale joke is told-must have had Tennvson's line in mind: "Ringr Out the old, ring in th'e new." They were speaking of a young lady who sings beautifully, and one of the p:arty asked: "Is she a mezzo sopreono?" "No, I guess not: I think she is a 8wede," was the innocent re-ply of a high school gir-l. "lens Sana In Corpore &ii0, DMlIA HOOL Establihed In i792. THlE 93D YEARLY TEmR begins Septem ber 8th, 1886. For Catalogue, giving fuil particulars, address. Maj. R. BINGH AM, Supt., Bingham School P. O,, Orange Co., N. C.. 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