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^^i:omas Appointed State Historian
To Succeed Farley,
DISPENSARY HOURS CHANGED, j
Gaftney's Court House -- Dispenser
Short in His Accounts -- Pardon j
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Granted ? Other Items.
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A special to the State from Barnwell
-- ? \fita Rfnttn Vifts started hie
5 Wi. ^UiAv XT4 V M
cylindrical press and gin plant, taming
out roand bales weighing as high
as 558 pounds. This is the first plant
of the kind in South Carolina and will
revolutionize the cotton -business. He
is paying 5f to (ty f. o. b. Barnwell for
round bales and has engaged space with
C. H. Betts, of the Johnston steamship
line via Charleston for the first shipment
of 100 bales, which goes direct to
Liverpool. He charges $1.50 for ginning,
compressing and covering. "No
tare, all ootton." Seed cotton takeD
from the wagons by suction pipe with
the Winship improved system and delivered
from the press ready for export.
The farmers of this section are all
, pleased with this new enterprise, and
are waiting and crowding the plant to
be served. It takes ten minutes to unload
seed from the wagon, gin and pack
a bale complete. Barnwell is pionder
than ever of her broad-minded and en
ergeticson, Col. Mike Brown.
'The Kegister ears Col. John P.
Thomas called on t^e Governor last
week and presented to the State a very
valuable collection of daily papers
published daring the period of reconstruction.
These were files of The
Phoenix and the Sonth Carolinian
which covered events of the greatest
interest to Carolinians as well as to the
students of political affairs. The Governor
accepted them with delight and
presented them to the State library as
they wul prove a most accurate and
faithful presentation of the trying
scenes of those tronblons times.
A rather carious accident occurred in
Charleston at the Sonth Carolina and
Georgia railroad coin pant's yards in
which two colored men were nearly
t'.f- dmwnad A lurcfl wooden tank used
by the road, suddenly burst into a hundred
pieces, submerging two colored
men, James Smalls and John Benson.
The two men were seated beneath the
tank when the crash came and in an
* instant they were thrown to the ground
by a deluge of water and splintered
timber,
JL P. Merrit, a fireman on the South
, Carolina and Georgia road, has been
i arrested and committed to iail at Charleston
without bail, charged with committing
a criminal assault on his
daughter. He says the charges are
ialae ia every particular and that Mrs.
Jfiiy Johnson, a deserted wife, is the
cnse of the whole trouble. "She
hatched up the whole thing and by hur
eaflridg artifices induced my daughter
touring thOa against me."
' fha Register says the Governor's
at a recent meeting received
aaoaasspteda portrait of Uncle William
Itoee, the oolored veteran of three
wam, presented to them by himself,
u jh The eumpany gladly received the pora
mitaMa minlnHnni
ei.pt ewlie of their appreciation. The
"portrait vu hong among the portraits
of other distinguished military men
which aow adorn the walls of the
tChiag#^arxnory.
||i* A riNi personal friend of the Hon.
W. A Tnlbert, and one who said he
W asthoritj to Bpeak in the matter,
Mft that there was no truth in the alleged
(gubernatorial candidacy of Mr.
Tfiberl Mr. Talbert, this friend
etfted, wonld not oppose Governor ?1*
Mfbe, bat would trv to succeed himself
in Congress, ?Tim Register.
Dispenser Williamson, of the Florenoe
dispensary, has been found short
is his account to the State to the
fLi amount of $480, according to the State
? v. Board of Control. The matter has been
referred to the Attorney General with
k]. instructions to bring suit for the collection
of the shortage and to take any
other action he may think best.
K&"'- Gov. Eilerbe has granted a full pardon
to Norton Marion, who was convicted
during fbe last month in Oconee
county of the violation of the dispensary
law and sentenced to sixty days on
the county ohaingasg. The pardon
8, waa granted upon the presentation of
* '" strong petitions.
:y ' It is very probable that among the
strong attractions at the State fair this
year will be Pain's new and brilliant
'battle of Bunker Hill," or the "Spirit
of 1778," and that three exhibitions of
," this justly celebrated spectacular performance
will be given during the
: (V week, followed each night by Pain's
gju* thousand dollar fireworks display.
; In view of the sharp competition of
nwicnnol nooVoaa Q4?4a
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Board of Control has decided to change
dispensary hoars from 8 a. m. to 6 p.
bl, to the fall constitutional limit?
from the rising of the sun to the setting
qf the same.
The Secretary of State has issued a
commission to A. W. Love, G B.
White, I. X. Cross, S. M. Jones and
A. M. Aiken as corporators of the
Chester Telephone company of Chester.
The capital stock is to be $2,00!), divided
into shares of $10 each.
The South Carolina Synod will be
held in the Presbyterian church at
Darlington commencing on the 2bth of
October.
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The Secretary of State has issued
commissions to ""The Carolina Loan
and Trust Company," of Greenville,
and "The Mutual Manufacturing and
Cold Storage Company," of CharlesGovernor
Ellerbe has appointed Col.
John P. Thomas State historian, to succeed
the late lamented Gen. Hugh L.
Farley.
Gaftney has presented her magnificent
$12,000 city hall and its handsome
| grounds to Cheroke county for a court
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"O. P." tiOODS.
Some Legislators Want to Retaliate
on the Railroads.
It is understood that the wholesale
liquor dealers who have opened original
package stores in the State are going to
pack the different bottles in wooden
boxes and thus give the railroads no
excuse for refusing to accept shipments.
According to the Savannah Morning
News the dealers in that city have been
paying a great deal of attention to this
matter aud have been scheming and
J devising to evolve some scheme to ship
ii4UVio iu awvvi uauvv ??*?? v..
I of the railroads, and do so at the least
: possible extra exi<ense.
A legislator who was in the citj* r.
day or two ago referring to this matter
' said that he expected under the circumstances
to see all railroads hauling
1 original packages again. Being a firm
friend of the dispensary he was inclined
: to make threats about what would be
done by the Legislature, although no
legislation ought to be for revenge.
This law-maker said, however, that
: the "Jim Crow" car bill would be again
I introduced in the Legislature and that
j it would be pushed much more actively
, than it had ever been and that |he believed
all friends of the dispensary
would vote for it and that the prospect
of its passage, in his opinion, was
good.
The railroads have always opposed
the institution of the "Jim Crow" car,
h?r>anfia it wniilrt rpfiiiir? th?m to Renar
; ate white and colored passengers and
give each equal accommodations and
coveniences. They have held that such
a law would put them to extra and unnecessary
expense.
The same legislator intimated that
there would be a great deal of railroad
legislation next session, the idea being
evidently that if the railroads are to
haul original packages, the Legislature
will retaliate.
The question arises whether there
will be enough votes in that body to
carry out these retaliatory schemes?-The
Register,
SOUTH CAROLINA AT PARIS.
This State Urged to Prepare for the
Big Kxposltlon.
Governor Ellerbe is in receipt of a
letter from Federal Secretary of State
Sherman urging him to take immediate
steps towards securing representation
for this State in the Paris Exposition.
In his letter Secretary Sherman says:
In this aspect of the matter, and with
special reference to that provision of
the law which requests the Governors
of the several States and Territories to
make a proper representation of the
productions of ouf industries and natural
resources of the country and to take
such further measures as may be necesary
in order to secure to their respective
States and Territories the advantages
to be derived from this beneficent undertaking.
I desire to respectfully urge
the propriety as well as the necessity,
of immediately taking steps to secure
representations of the natural and industrial
resources of your State, to the
end that an exhibit on behalf of the
government of the United States befitting
in material and industrial im;X>rtance
may be assured.
The Teport of Itfajor Handy, when
laid before Congress, will upon its pub'
lication by that body, be sent to you,
? "J ?a Kaliavo/1 4-Viof r?nrrA?t
I ailU 111 io WVI*W ? vu ? <? wv-- ?
j pondence with him apon the subject
cannot fail to prodnce beneficial results.
I bespeak your earnest and hetfrty cooperation
in this matter in whatever way
you may think the object can best be
accomplished.
Respectfully yours,
John Sherman.
WILL FIGHT THE TAX.
Greenville Original Dealers up in
Arms.
A special to the Register from Greenyille,
says that the publication of the
tax ordinance aimed at original package
houses has stirred up the dealers, and
it is probable that a judicial fight will
result The proprietors of the original
package houses were visited to ascertain
their views nf the nrdin&noe. It
was the general opinion of each that a
tax should be paid the city, but that
under the rulings of Judge Simontoa
the city could not euforco the ordinance.
They considered the tax unreasonable
and entirel}' out of proportion to*the
business done.
The original package men are not
definant or aggressive, but from what
they say it is certain that they \\:.l
make fight against the city. One of
them said that there woulu be a meeting
of all engaged in the business, aud
that this meeting would decide what
' steps would be take a.
The city authorities are firm and pro
pose to test the right of foreign establishments
to locate in tfre city and do
business without paying for the
privilege. The contention of the city
is that there is no license, but simply
a special tax on business done.
AfTCK FUUKl'BKa ICAKS
A Deserted Wife Finds Her Keereant
Husband Married Again.
A special to the Register from Manning
says a Charleston woman created
a sensation on the courthouse square,
when she was seen sitting on the steps
of the courthouse expostulating on her
rights as the wife of J. M. Their, of
this town. Their has been living here
about ten years and was married to a
Miss Andrews. The first Mrs. Their
had her marriage certificate with her
and her j-oungest child, a boy now 15
I years old. Their left her suddenly
| fourteen years ago with tbi* boy au |
! infant iu her arms. She also has two i
1 other children, a bov of 20 and a girl
i of 17.
She accidentally learned of Thier's !
whereabouts by an application filed in
Charleston by him to get his pension
money, he having been a Yankee soldier.
She immediately boarded the
train and came to Manning, and has
pat in her claim for her pro rata of this
pension money. She denounces Tuier
and does not want him, but wants the
money. She sent for 'lhier, who reluctantly
came. She was determined to
revenge herself ,by prosecuting him for
bigamy, but on an assurance from
Tliier "that if she would stay the proceedings
he would give her a share of
his pension she acquiesced. She returned
to Charleston with her son. '
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Commissioner Vance Reports a Big
Drop Off
NO MORE BEER PRIVILEGES.
"Original Package" Agencies Hurt*
lag the Dispensary Instead of Helping
it, as Predicted.
The best evidence as to the extent to
which the O. P. shops throughout the
State have cut into the sales of the dispensaries
is furnished in Commissioner
Vance's report to the State Board of
Control last week. The Commissioner
shows a falling off in total sales for
September, 18517, of $37,855.90, as compared
with the same month of the previous
year. According- to his report,
the sales of September, 1896, were
6123,676.02, while for the month just
ended thev amounted to only $80,120.12.
Commissioner Vance also found out
that he didn't need half of that big
quantity of liquor ordered at the last
meeting of the board. Of about 1,200
barrels ordered then, 786 barrels remained
on hand and in transit. The
barrels left on hand were: XX rye, 200
barrels; X rye, 125 barrels; XX eom,
265 barrels; X corn, 146 barrels.
In view of the large amount on hand
the commissioner asked for only 400
barrels of rye and 50 barrels of corn for
the next month.
Dispensary Inspector Hill submitted
the following report for September:
To the Honorable State Board of Control,
Columbia, S. C.:
Gentlemen: I have the honor herewith
to submit my report with itemized
statement of expense for the month of
September. I have visited and checked
up the following dispensaries: Newberry,
Laurens, Abbeville, Anderson.
Pendleton, Seneca, Walhalla, Pickens.
Greenville (2), Spartanburg (2), Gaff
ney, Blacksburar, Tirzar, Lancaster,
Kershaw. Camden and Chester.
I found all of them all right except J.
T. McWhite, at Greenville, whose
books showed a shortage of $65. Mr.
McWhite promised to pay this at an
early day.
I found Mr. J. J. Bell, at Camden,
short $158.27. This shortage wan paid
immediately to me and has been paid
into the dispensary fund for which I
hold the receipt of Capt. Webb, clerk
of the board.
I found Mr. J. M. McDaniel. at Ches
ter, ohort in his accounts, exclusive of
amount now in suit, ?118.00. This
amount was paid in immediately to me
and has been paid into the dispensary
fund for which I hold the receipt of
Capt. Webb, clerk of the board.
1 will also state to your honorable
board that I find the dispensaries generally
neatly kept, and the liquors in
good condition.
The board of control rescinded their
action authorizing dispensers to buy
bottles insofar as their action applied
to Charleston and Columbia, and
adopted and put the parliamentary
clincher uj~on a resolution refusing to
E'ant any more beer privileges till the
egislature meets
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
A Mother and Child Drowned Near
Georgetown.
A shocking acc'dent occurred on the
bar of North Inltt, near Georgetown,
the details of which are indeed pathetic:
A young fisherman by the name
ofS. T. Leonard with' his family, consisting
of his wife and young child,
were going into the inlet when their
small sailboat struck a shoal and
capsized. The mother, holding on
to her baby, was recovered by
the husband and both had hopes of
escaping a watery grave. A second
wave, however, released their hold on
the regained boat and for the second
time the mother with her child was
washed away. Weak from struggling
with the waves, but nothing daunted
in the work of saving those dearest
to him, the anxious husband and father
once again rescued his wife and child.
But fate had ordained it otherwise and
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lucuiuiuci o auougiu uuuipimuij
her, 6he kissed her little treasure and
surrendered it to the next terrible
wave that engulfed them. Her husband
reaching her again for the fourth time,
she clasped him around the neck, kissed
him and sank into unconsciousness
as the next black swell of the sea separated
her from him and carried her into
its depths and eternity.
Mr. Leonard reached the beach in an
exhausted state and was picked up and
carried to the opposite shore and thence
to his home to which the small family
bad been making. .The body of the infant
only was recovered.
WHISKEY BY WAGON.
New Kind of Original Package Store
in Chester.
A two-horne wagon load of whiskey
in bottles peeked in sawdust has arrived
in Chester. The agent, Mr. 1).
S. McCarter, rented a vacant store
room on Wa 1 street, and opened h:s
establishment as agent for A. C. MeCarter,
manufacturer and distiller, of
Kings Mouitain, N. C. There a-e
several more wagon loads on the roud,
which will a rive in a day or so. .._uch
speculation is indulged in as to the
outcome of these original package
stores?whether they are protected i>y
Judge Simonton's injunction or not.
Converse College has begun its eighth
year of work with an enrollment of 402
students, which is the largest opening
in its history and the work in all of th*
departments is moving on smoothly.
Each member of the 1 irge faculty is
present, refreshed by summer study
and travel, for the vinter's work.
Twelve States are represented in the
student bod}% and with the correspondence
in hand an enrollment of 500 students
is expected duripg the year.
Arch B. Calvert has been re-elected
Mayor of Spartanburg by a majority of
65 votes. Mr. Calyart received 48?
votes aud Mr. Floyd 872.
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Armstrong, a Member of the Legislature.
Dies at a Fire.
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NEW CHARTERS GRANTED ;
Pardons Granted?Wlnthrop's Opening?Dispensing
Back Profits?Other
Palmetto Happenings.
The Winthrop College at Book Hill,
opened with, prospects for a bright
j year. To make room for more pupils
{ in the dormitories, many of the teachers
are boarding in the vioinity this
term. In that way room has been
made for about fort}* more dormitory
students than last year. These quarters
being fully taken up, brings the
number to about 280 or more living
there, while under the supervision of
the teachers who board out, many more
are being accommodated. Although the
college has only beenopen forafew days
everything is running along as smooth
as clock work tinder President Johnson's
able supervision.
Fire was disc9rered in the ginnery of
, the Hon. \V. J. Armstrong, a wealthy
farmer residing near .bethel postomce,
York county, and about eight miles
from Y'orkville. The ginnery was oom!
pletelv destroyed. In the excitemeut
! attending the fire Mr. Armstrong be|
came overheated and very much excit;
ed. He was a sufferer from heart dis,
ease and the undue exertion andexcito|
ment resulted in his death. Mr. ArmI
strong was a member of the legislature
from York county. He was a prosperous
farmer, a man of undoubted integrity
and perhaps the best known man
in Northeastern York. He leaves a
wife and hosts of friends.
Gov.
Ellerbe has granted a full pardon
to Chas. Sims, who was convicted
in November, 1891, in Y'ork county, of
rape and sentenced by Judge Fraser to
life imprisonment in the State penitentiary.
He has also granted a full pardon
lx> Israel Brown, who was convicted
in January last in Union county of
receiving stolen goods and was sentenced
by Judge Watts to fifteen
months in the penitentiary.
A meeting of the Western Carolina
Game Protective Association was held
at Greenville at the office of the president,
C. F. Dill. Action was taken
along the line of enforcing the game
laws, especially the shooting of quail
before the season opens on Nov. 1. It
is said that gunners are already hunting
birds and the association will investigate
the matter.
A meeting of road commissioners will
be one feature of the State fair and different
towns in the State are already
electing delegates. The subject of
good roads will be thoroughly talked
over and some plan will be decided
upon that will enable all the counties
to have roads that will be a dream to the
people who travel them.
The following charters have been
San ted by the Secretary of State:
leraw Agricultural Fair association,
of Cheruw; the Charleston Fire Department
Aid association; the Georgetown
Grocery Company. The capital
stock of the latter is to be $50,000
divided into shares at $100 each.
The State dispensary authorities have
at last paid into the State Treasury the
entire amount of $188,500.40 due the
State on the general fund, and it ia
now considered that the State has been
relieved from the necessity of borrowingunoney
to meet the current expenses
of the government.
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Gov. Ellerbe has offered a reward of
$150 for the apprehension with proof to
convict of the party or parties who recently
fired upon \V. N. Hasel from
ambush in Saluda county. This was
the second attempt to take Mr. Hasel's
life in this manner, he having been
badly wounded several months ago.
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In turning a carve a third of a mile
beyond Hilton, Lexington county, the
down train from Laurens, oyer the
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad,
Btruck and instantip killed John
Henry Haltiwanger, 65 years of age,
who was slowly walking on the traok.
A crowd of negToes were in the woods
gambling, near Kel'ton and they had a
qnariel over the cards. One of them
named Bird, shot and killed another
named Henderson. Bird walked off
and has not been arrested.
Rabt. A. Van "RTyck, Tammany's
candidate for mayor of New York, is remembered
by old settlers in Greenville.
He was born near Pendleton, his
mother being Miss Maverick, of Anderson
county.
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Wm. Lyttle, a citizen of Spartanburg,
has been arrested there for
counterfeiting. He waved a preliminary
investigation and gave bond for
35,(X)0 for his appearance at the United
States court at Greenville.
The new county seat^ of Saluda,
through the enterprise ox .uessrs. o. a.
Attawar and Alvin Ethridge, has
placed herself in touch with the outside
world by building a telephone line from
Saluda to Johnson.
The laying of the cornerstone of the
new court house, on October 20th,
will attract a large crowd to Anderson.
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j Wyatt Aiken is urged as a candidate
( for Congress from Abbeville.
f Harris' Nickel 1'late Shows retusea
to give their performance in I3ennettsville
because the county tax had to be
paid in advance.
l)r. S. M. Davega's sanitarium, at
Chester is to be enlarged by the addition
of twelve rooms to accommodate
new patients.
Senator McLaurin pledges himself to
support the repeal of the prohibitive
Federal tai. on State banks and the
creation of u State bank currency.
*Mr. V. F. "Martin, of Oconee, is J
mentioned for Comptroller General.
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CURIOl'5 FACTS.
The firm of Black & Green, paint
dealers of Sandusky, Ohio, has been
dissolved.
There is a colt in the English Derby
of 1899 named "Neurasthenipponskelesterizo."
The Red Lion, an inn at Ardmore,
Penn., has been a licensed public
house for 100 years.
Mrs. J. P. Miller, of Chicago, has
in her possession the sword which
Lord Byron carried in the war for
Grecian independence.
Blondel, the harper, did not discover
the prison of King Richard. Richard
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paiu nis ransom, anu iue receipt iui i?
is among the Austrian archives.
Horatius never defended the bridge.
The story was mtyiufactured by the
same gifted author who gave the world
the account of Scaevola's heroism.
Mrs. Nancy Baker, a cripple seventy-five
years old, of Valley View, Ky.,
put her hand in a hen's nest in which
she had placed twelve small chickens,
and found a five-foot snake which had
swallowed six of them. Her son killed
the snake.
H. J. Jones, of Cincinnati, bought
a violin a few years ago for S75 and
gave it to his daughter. "While it was
beingrepairedrecently he accidentally
discovered that it \;as an instrument
he himself had made in 1848 as an experiment
and sold it for $5.
At Trier tiie remains ui a mryw
Roman bouse have been excavated. It
faced on the main street of the old
Roman city. A richly-colored mosaio
floor and the first window discovered
in a Roman building are the most interesting
things brought to light.
A West Auburn (Me.) man agreed
to share the blueberries in his pasture
with a neighbor and to placard the
pasture to keep others out. After the
placards were put up his neighbor
picked half the blueberries and told
the owner that his were on the bushes
ready to be picked.
A Caribou (Me.) farmer grubs
stumps by building a fence around
them, poking some wheat under them
in holes made with a crowbar, and then
turning two hungry hogs loose in the
in closure. The hogs root for the wheat
and break up the dirt so that the
stumps may be dragged out easily.
In view of the computed seven thousand
earthquakes within historic times,
twenty-nine of which destroyed nearly
one and a half millions of lives, it
is some relief to know that the shock?
are proof that the earth is alive. When
its eeas and air shall have been ab
sorbed, it will be a quiescent dead
globe like the moon.
Mary Cryan, of New York, was
young and pretty, but she had an eye
to the future, and was fearful of becoming
too fat to conform to the usual
standard of beauty. This fear preyed
on her mind so much that she finally
became insane, and while crossing the
river on a ferryboat jumped oft' the
deck and was drowned.
The Conquest of Diphtheria.
In a treatise on diphtheria and its
treatment by serotherapy, shortly to
be published, I}r. Charles Richet, who
was the first to apply the serum injections
made famous by the work of Dr.
Roux at the rasteur mstnuie, jrana,
gives some interesting statistics on the
practical resnlts attained since the discovery
and application of the method.
He goes back thirty years for statistics
relative to the mortality caused by
diphtheria.
Ig 1867, when the population of
Paris was just half what it is now,
there wer? 696 deaths from the
scourge. Fron} that year they increase'd
gradually until 1872, when
they attained the number of 1135, and
did not fall again below 1000 until
after the discovery of serotherapy. In
1876 diphtheria caused 1500 deaths,
and in 1877, 2390. For three consecutive
years then the average was over
2000. It fell a little afterward, but up
to 1891 the annual average ranged between
1100 and 2000.
In September, 1894, the Roux
tncthod was applied, and at once became
widely used. For the year 1894
(only four months of which should be
connted) the deaths fell to 980. In
1895 there were but 440, and last year
only 423. It would seem, then, that
serotherapy has reduced the mortality
in diphtheria to an average of less than
one-third of that which was maintained
for a quarter c4 a century.
If the statistics be examined, not
year by year, but by periods of two
weeks, the improvement is even more
marked, not only in true diphtheria,
but also in diphtheratic affections. In
the years up to 1894, for instance,
there were never less than forty deaths
from croup in any fortnight; but since
that year there have never been more
than six for a like period. In short,
since the introduction of serotherapy,
even in the most unfavorable weeks,
the mortality has been invariably less
than half the average for the years
1867-94, and many times only one
tenth as great.?New York Sun.
Child Sent bv Post.
A novel parcel for delivery by express
post was recently handed in at
a Birmingham (England) Postoffice.
A workingman, who had been out of
1 town with his three-year-old child, arrived
at Birmingham in time to reach
his place of business, but not in sufficient
time to take his child home. He,
therefore walked into the nearest postoffice
and tendered the youngster as
an express parcel. The authorities,
under the rule regulating the delivery
of live animals, accepted the child and
delivered it at a charge of nine pence.
?St. James's Gazette.
Property In Three Cities.
The value of the house property of
London is $3,365,000,000 that of Paris
$1,430,000,000, that of New York $1,355,000,000.
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POPULAR SCIENCE. j
The habits of ants are more like aM j
those of a man than are the habits of
any other of the lower animals.
The Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company
successfully cast the tube for the
first sixteen-inch gun to be constructed ,
in this country. More than 100 gross > 5^
tons of metal were used. The casting <
is nineteen teet six incues long ana
seventj-four inches in diameter.
The biggest brain in existence is
that of the elephant, though not in
proportion to the size of the animal. "
But the matter of proportion does not
seem to be of absolute importance as an ft
index of mentality. There is a little ~jJH
South American monkey, which,
though not particularly intelligent, has
a brain bigger than a man's relatively
to size.
That insects have an acute sense of $ I
taste is assumed from the way in
which they pick out the sort of food I
they want to eat. Sir John Lubbock I
made many experiments, from which I
he drew the conclusion that ants have ]
an excellent sense of smell. The |
same authority states that insects are lag
able to hear sounds which are entirely > ,
beyond our range of perception.
There are 110 mountains in Colorado
whose peaks are over 12,000 feet
above the ocean level. Forty of these
are higher than 14,000 feet, and more
than half of that number ore so re- V^|?H
mote and rugged that no one has
dared to attempt to climb them. Some
of them are massed with snow, others
have glaciers over their approaches,
and others are merely masses of jagged <
The needle of a compass does not
point directly to the north. In the
lirst place, the north magnetic pole ;.-j
does not coincide with the north pole,
and then east or west of a zigzag line ? ' ^8
which moves east and west the needle
of a compass points west or east of the
north magnetic pole. A ship's compasses
have to be corrected and the .
variation determined once or twice a
year, at all events. i
Within a few years the question has
been raised whether sun spots are
really depressions, or holes, in the
sun's surface, as they have generally
been considered to be by astronomers.
Professor Ricco, of Catania, concludes
as the result of a long series of observations,
not only that the spots are
cavities in the sun, but that their
depth can be approximately luetuuccu.
He states that the average depth of
twenty-three sun spots measured by '
him woe about 640 miles.
The pigment in the human skin has
been a recent subject of investigation Jti
by M. Bruel, who finds the coloring \x|8
matter to be distributed in patches in
the interior of the epithelial cells, the
tissue between the cells being color- 'M
less even in black races. The pigment ,:.M
itself may be quite black, or of any shade
up to a light yellow. The dif- ;.^j|
ference in the color of races depends
upon this difference in the shade of
the pigment, the distribution of tlie 13
coloring matter being the same in all
races, and the actual amount probably
the same.
Cannes of Gray Hairs.
Gray hairs are honorable, no doubt,
but their advent is not usually hailed
with any exuberant joy by men, and I
certainly not by women, and it is curi- Ja
ons to note in going through life at " 1
What varying ages people commence
to show the passage of years by the
change in the color of the hair. An?
yet the whitening of the hair does hot
always portend the approach of age, .
for the hair of some individuals labor- <
Ing under certain passiens has bey
kuoWll to become gray in a single ,jj
night. Many reasons have been suggested
for gray hair; some assert that
I the cause is a contraction of tne sfcin
I about the roots of it, and from this
cause suppose that Polar animals be- JyJ
1 come white, the cold operating as the ,
contracting power; but this theory is
untenable, or we might all turn gray
if we happened to be exposed to par|
ticularly hard frosts. As a matter of
j fact, there are fewer gray people in
i Russia than in sunny Italy or Arabia.
| The more likely reason is that the vi- ;
tal power is lessened in the ettreme
ramifications of those almost impercep- .JgN
tible vessels destined to supply the
hair with coloring fluid. The vessels ,
which secrete the fluid cease to act, or
else the absorbent vessels take it away ~ **
faster than it is furnished. This cer- ,
tainly appears to be feasible, for grief,
debility, fright, fever and age all have
the effect of lessening the power of the , ija
extreme vessels. Against this theory t\-4
it may be urged that if the body be
again invigorated, the vessels ought,
according to our reasoning, to again
! secrete the coloring fluid, but to this jS
j it may be replied that the vessels which y
j secrete this fluid are so veiy minute
upon tbeir ceasing meir mucuuus mcj - - '-cgi
become obliterated and nothing can
j ever restore them.?New York Ledger.
I A Dog's Useful Penchant.
A resident of the Hotel Berkeley is ^r|g
the owner of a fine St. Bernard dog
! which deserves a gold medal. The
dog has developed a strange penchant
for stopping runaway horses, and the
I last time the stop was accomplished
| just in time to save a party of ladies j
from serious injury and perhaps worse.
His master was driving down Portland
tvenue last Saturday when he was *
j startled by a cry of "Lookout!" He
i turned and was just in time to wheel
his horse out of the way of a runaway
which was tearing down the avenue. ->31
Just ahead was a party of ladies in
danger of what seemed certain death
to some of them when the dog, who IhB
had been following, and who seemed ;;m|
by instinct to comprehend the situa- .
tion, gave a leap and caught the lines
of the runaway between his teeth, his ,
great weight bringing the frightened
animal to his haunches just as he was
abont to strike one of the ladies, who
seemed too terrified to move.?Minneapolia
Times. , Vj