The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, June 25, 1884, Image 1
^ -J , WESTNSBORO, S.C., WEDNESDAY, JUKE 25, 1884.'
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|^/ Banished.
?ror the threshold of his pleasant home
Set in green clearings passed the exited
k Friend.
L* la simple trust, misdoubting not the end.
b ' "Desr heart of mliiol" he said, "the time ha?
CP*- come
To trust the Lord for shelter." One long
Lgazs
The good wife turned on each familiar
thing?
The Inline kire. tho orchard blossoming.
tte ojpcn floor that showed tbe hearth flro'3
And calmly answered, "Yea, Ko will pro*
gBp ' Silent and slow they crossed the homestead's
bound,
Lingering the longest by their child's gra70?
At' mound.
igp "Kavo 'oa, or ?tay and hang!" the Sheria
They left behind them moro than horae or
land. f.
And set sad faces to an alien strand.
Safer with wlnda and waves than human
wrath.
With ravening wolves than those vhfjsa
seal for God
.Was cnuitx to man. the arises trod
drear Isaar^es oi Xpiroft without gTilxle or
Or, laughing frail boats ca the unchartered
sea,
?ound storm-vexed capes, whose teeth, of
granite ground ' ?
The -waves of foam, their perilous way they
wound.
2nduring all things so their souls were free.
Oh, true confessors, sham lag- them who did
y, Asew the wron? their Pilgrim fathers bore'
For yon the Mayflower spread her sail onoo
ssose, ', * C" ' r
yreisrhtwd with souls, to all that duty bid
faithful as they who sought an unknown
land.
O'er wintry seas, from Holland's Hook of
Sand?
rAqu'dneck's tsie, Nantucket's lon^'r shores.
An Indian-bannted Narratracsct* ?aw
The wayworn travelers round their campfire
draw.
t>r heard the plashing of their weary oars.
And every place whereon they-rosted grey
Happier for pure and gracious womanhood,
Anrt m?n ?}>osr n?rr#?<; fnr stainless honor
W s / stood,
^ . rounders of 8taies and rulers wise and true.
<. Jbo 3?u*e of history jet shall make amends
To those who freedom, peace and justice
iL taught,
Bey one their dark age Jed the van of
~f -?? thought.
And loft unforfeitcd the name of Friends.
O mother State, how foiled was thy desipn!
. TJie gais was theirs, the loss alone was ibino.
?John Graealeaf Whittier, Harper i Weekly.
* LOVJG EXDS. THE THRALLDOM.
"Zaidee! You Zaidee!"
Mrs. Perkin'a voice ran 5? out hi?h
toned and thrill above the clatter"of
pot* and pans in the great old-fashioiv
cd kitchen, and Mrs. Parkins herself
appeared in the doorway. A tall anjVr
gi^c&mala of nncortaia age, "relict
> ?f the life Eben Perkins, with her
kirts tricked tip and aer sleeves rolled
back from a pair of decidedly bony
anas; her wisp of yellowish hair twisted
into a hard knot on the very top of her
head; her "greenish blue eyes, full of determination,
fixed upon a slim little
girl in a short blue "check cotton a de
9 dress, with a mass of raven black hair
plaited at the back of her shapely head,
" ? % - - 1*^1 . _71
ana Dreaxing out mso iicue carts au
round her low, broad brow; a thin,
dark face, with great, slumberous,
dusky ere#, and a red mouth, stera and
^ unsmiling.
4Td life to know," panted Mrs. Perking,
**vrh?t ob airth you mean by set\
tin* out on my front piazza till nine
o'clock last night, & talkin' to my
boarder, Mr. John Gilbert!" .
. And she paused with ?look of fierce
JF "Ever since I took you out o' the
poor house," continued" the irate wfd?
? fiornort ronv . flftTf:
^ CW| >VU uaivu U ' trtHUVU JV>u.
W What'with your studyin', and readin'
W airly and late,you've been more trouble
than profit, and I say "
"And I say, Mrs. Perkins," interrupted
the girt unable to longer remain
silent, "that if my work does not
r* suit you, I will return to the poor-6:
" . house. My life there "vras oertainly as
easy as it is here.'*
"Well, I never!"
Mrs. Perkins sank into an old fash
ioned rocker and clasped her hands,
with * withering look ?f despair.
"Arter all Ft? done feryou?you-on
grateful?ill-t?iiperod?owdacioii3?"
r, 4 Good morning;"Mrs. Perkins." ,
9 The widow ipraag to her feetx
A handsome, ma?iy face?dark-eyed
and Mnfling, with the most perfect of
jetty mustaches shading the short op-"
per lip?peered in through the clustering
honeysuckles around the kitchen
wtncow.
v "Oh, Mr. Gilbert," she simpered,
"bow you did frighten me! Why, Mr.,
Gilbert, what is thatF'
For the young man had tossed
od.siip of paper ihrongh the wxp^?w-"A
telegram," replied Jo**1 Gilbert
- concisely; -'"from my fsuner. He is
k coming down Iiere to Millviile to attend j
to some law Cosiness, he says, and will j
arrive somatimo to-day or to-morrow. J
The fact 2*, Mrs. Perkins, I have been j
Wtijw so load ia the praises of your comiorcj?p
Able homa, and? numerous attractions
Wr that my father thinks he would anjoy a
few days' r$st here wonderfully, if con'
venient to you."
"La, me!*' exclaimed the widow, del^htedJk,
4*o' course Til be glad to see
I* , him. "ton can jest telegraph back, Mr.
Jotm, and say that ho's more than wely
come."
"Thanks, I will go at once,'* returned
Mr. Gilbert, and he turned away;
feint not without bestowing a glance of
j. admiration upon the pale-faced girL
Bw- ' Zaidee Clarke, having placed the
Hi great kitchen in spotless order, tied on
m*x Via-r orMta ennhrmnet and nwnny a biz
||L basket on her ana.
Bl. 4Til run out and get the peas for
Hj|> dinner," she said to herself, as she
opened the outer door and tripped
B down the narrow path which led to
a large and nourishing vegetable garHH
den.
"Oh, dear!'* she sighed, "it is dreadful
to be poor and alone! No one knows
WBr any thing about me, for they fouad me
Mr lying on the poor house steps, a little
ft _ forsaken creature?nobody's child';
V * andrl staid at that dreadful place until
ft . Mrs. Perkins took me. Well, I ought
K to be thankful to her for letting axe go
lo school for a few months, and if I on*
* * - T~ wrtf
BHk . fv tx&a more UXn<a w aiuuy * nviuu iivv
]&? &3 so unhappy; but I am ail alone, and
k nobody in the world cares whether I
R The voice that spoke the name was
ML very soft and tender.
Little Zaidee turned, with a sudden
f$nR99B*&rt> to. see John Gilbert standing at
r side, ms hah(is6hW flJ'WJ
on her face.
"ZaidoeT he repeated* stealing ae^
''listen to me. I love you?I hare
g&d yon ever since I first saw you!
Brou remember the day? Yon were
Sb kitchen baking pies; yet eren
Ihroa looked cTggv'inch'a Iadv.
I aerar could caro for any
pan bat you."
|gd before him pale and tremwert,"
she faltered, "you are
Hbrbid! No, my darling, I
stSfiSSaL j r ^ _ -i.
anrannsmw!
|& I -taote all this to
vtold him all about you.
WBn*er to my lettermi
saying he is coming
1 E? it a lawyer, yot
Brcsel&.tA&r>-T> W>y?
Zaidee, ho has come?there he is now."
For a tall, upright old man,with iron
gray hair, was walking slowly towards
them, piloted by the angular Mrs. Perkins.
That lady turned her head, or!
namented by a huge sun-hat, and hor
j sharp eyes foil upon tho poor-house
"You lazy good for nothing," she
Iinstilv. forc-attin^ the sweet
temper which /she classed foremost
! amoDg her x'company manners.1'
i "What arc you idiiag away your time
| here for?"
i John Gilbert stepped forward and
confronted the widow'-Mrs.
Perkins," he said quietly,
"this young lady hero is my promised
wife." . *'
Mrs. Perkins paused, aghast, loo asj
tonisned to ultor a single word.
I The-elder gentleman turned a look of
! scrutiny on'the young girl; he started
j and his face turned pale.
I v/KzOodiHeavenT1 he exclaimed, "tk<?
' very pri"-?I am snre of it. Mrs/T|
kins, ' ho addo^i quickly, turning to ti*e
j scandalized widow, who was boiling
! orer with indignation at the turn nTj
fairs had taken, "this girl was onco an
J inruate of the poor-house at Millvillo,
; was she not?"
j Mrs. Perkins sniffed contemptuously.
"That she was, and a pretty match
i for your son, Mr. Gilbort?the miserable
little nobody!"
"Zaidee Clarke is heiress to half a
million," returned the old lawyer
j coolly.
"What?"
Mrs. Perkins sank down on the grass
at the feet of tbo trio, and crouched
there a helpless heap.
John looked his astonishment, which
was too deep for words.
. "Father! ho ejaculated at last,
"what?do you?mean?"
"I mean this," he replied?"that my
search is over for tho lost heiress of
i Daniel Clarke's estate. She was lost
when but a babe?supposed to have
been stolen by ner'^ jrsc, who oxpocted
to gain a roward by returning the
clmd; * but instead, the woman was
drowned, and the babe was left by
some unknown parties upon the steps
of the MillviHe poor-honse.
' Old Daniel Clarke is dead; lam the
! executor of his estate, and searching j
| for the solo heir to all his wealth, his !
! grandchild. I traced her to the poorj
house at Millvili?, and was informed
| that Mrs. Perkins had the girl in her
; umpioy. -<
J ' lTho srlrl is tlxe image of her father
j who died years ago. My dear," he
j added, turning to the astonished Zaidee,
"I congratulate yon."
j So John Gilbert married the poor!
house girl, whoso iove he had won
! while ignorant of thu truth concerning
! her, and they are the happiest raarriea
| pair in the round world.
New Styles in Revolvers.^
"This," said an expert fn firearms,
is the old-style of self-cocking rovolI
* _ xv . 11 ran ? a
f var, ana mis is me new. j.cj ursi,
] was a short, stout, olumsy affair of the
pepper-box style in vogue thirty years
ago or more. It wa3 loaded with powder,
and ball, sent home with a ramrod,
and the hammer, a^-* one, was in,view
intbe usnal places . Voosac it took per- >
TcuSsion caps, and wfcon the owner hap
peried to nave any to fit it, and the
| spring was strong enough to nsake that
! cap explode, the weapon was good for
! five shots with five pulls of the trigger.
; It was a clumsy and most unreliable
! weapon, it was nara to nit anyiaing
i smaller than a barn-door at ordinary
pistolrshot distance, and wben the object
was hit it was not damaged much.
. Here is one a little more modern ^and a
little more sure. The hammer is out of
sight and the trigger is ring-shaped.
This, too, was heavy, and so complicated
that it was Yery liable to get out I
of order. Then came the self-cocker 11
which used cartridges, but the tirs^Q^ f
oeriments were failures, and th^ * i ;
into disnse." O
"What was their wW* fotr&" a*fced j
the reporter. J- . J
"The spring. ? no' its
strength, anct""er a little nso the pis- j
j tol was apt^1X1183 firC; That naturally 1
drove it cc favor at once, and very '
proper** That weakness has been {
overjJme' aEd springs are now so ad- '
?*??d that the snot is sure every time. 3
[JTit dangerous? Woll, no, not more so '
than, any other kind of a.pistol; and in
cases, where a fraction .of a second
counts, one of these is worth- a bushel 1
of hand-cockers. They are a little more i
dangerous in the hands of a nervous '
man who does not intend to shoot^ I *
have known of several cases in which ]
persons have escaped' conviction for
murder on the ground that in their excitement
they pulled too hard on the
trigger, and the pistol went off by acci
dent. But any chid of pistol is unsafe
in such hands, and when we think of
* - .
i the advantages wfiica a quic&, reuawo i
weapon gives to a man in an emergency,
we are bound to admire the selfcocker.
; Five shots in three seconds is
pretty quick work, ^ but that's what it
will do, and do it every time. As a
pocket pistol it is as safe to carry as
any other kind.?Boston Globe.
Pensee?.
j Women have been too often comj
pared to flowers: thero will always be
' " u;~ Viofwoon t.liATO! when
| LUIS UiliUCUW wvanvvo
! the flower is beautiful it knows nothing I
of it
Nothiag is little or common that the
heart has touched. The heart is a king
who holds from God the privilege of
purifying us when he touches us.
The coldness of the public is like an
iced water when the feeble catch pleurisv.
but when the others strengthen
themselves.
A pardoned friend is more dangerous
than an enemy.
Love is the eternal problem that in
all'times people have nad mora happiness
in studying than in resolving.
It is a c*reat defect to not know haw
to make the most of our qualities; but
what a great quality to know how to
ma 3 the most of our defects!
We esteem good seme and we Iots
vanity; we do for the person wa love
more than for the person we esteem.
rriva kuia nooc'n^o ?ro tkrtca fchftjfc wfi
AJkbfeLO vavwwo - _
possess, and the groat ones those that
possess us.
Darkey Philosophy.
Men may dig fur months an' line dat
de gol' ain1 dar, but when de woodpecicor
digs a hole in de tree he alius
takes out a worm. * It ain1 alius the
silent man dat's the smartes1. De
sheep doan make ez much fuss 02 de
' * 1? *- ~V? o-r mnon
! O-Og, UUL xic vkLU v? .
sense. It takes one good pint in. a
man to show up anuder. "W idont do
aid o'.good feed define blood wouldn'
show nigh so plain in er hoss. De edy;
cated fool is wus den one what ain'
; edycated, fur de edycated one spiles a
good piece o' work, wharas de onodycated
one doan often un'ertake a thing
; what ho kain't &Q.?Ark<in$wo Trav*
i tier.
? ! ?M I
WOMAN OOSSIT.
Hot? the Different Characteristics of
the Fair Sex arc Revealed in
Washington Society.
j An Island Where Feminine liveliness
| Reigns Supreme?An Appeal i
j. * for Pockets.
WOMEN IN WASHINGTON.
; "What do you think of social life in
j Washington P" is a question so often
recurring that one might suppose it to
! be of paramount importance, writos a
1 correspondent of the Milwaukee Scntij
ncl. It is like any other social life?
i human nature at its best and at its
! worst It displays the greatest and
: loveliost traits of character, and it
j gives full scope for the ignoble elci
menis of potty vanity, display of dress,
I false complimonts, jealousy and envy,
! those inevitable accompaniments, *:ie
- " -* -?j 1?v..*.
worm over, ut uuuu>raupou uui attritions
features. Here you will find
women whose husbands Are high in official
position, and whose purses are
plethoric beyond care, who yot are
bound, hand and foot, by silly conventionalisms,
as firmly as arc those whose
sole support is the salary at the disposal
of a superior officer. The looker-on,
who is accustomed to think in currents
that underlie the crusts of life, wondora
how it can be that mortal womanhood
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can, year aiter year, nom wiv u?wu vi
youthjto tho setting of life's sun,in mists
of tearful eyes and clouds of pale, gray
hairs, dance attendance in the same unending
round of fashionablo gayoties,
content that their names are mentioned
in the papers as in attendance at all
fashionable dinners; that their dresses
are suitably describod, and that they
are spoken of as charming! Thinking
of life in its reality of what it ought to
bo and mean, then looking at this
phase of it, represented by a large type
| of American womanhood to-day, one'
! marvels that the world is so old to so
I little purpose. .
j Another class of women here, inevitably
an outgrowth of the former, are;.
I the society correspondents of tho.
newspapers. Women of ability, many?
of them, whose business year after
! year is describing dresses and enter|
tainmonts, so much alike from genera-.
| tion to generation that one wishes flor|
al decorations could be of something
I besides "smilax" and "tube roses,
J and that dresses need never be en train
or hair "pompadeur" a^ain; th3t Mr.
Jones would not lead Mrs. Recherchc
j to dinner, and that thore never was
anybody again to sit "at the right hand
of the host or hostess" until the king
dora of heaven shall come, when the*
whole human family cun sit down to
nectar and ambrosia, and no more fuss
about it.
Ladies who do "society writing'1 do
it because it "pays best" It is a commercial,
not an intellectual, enterprise,
and on business grounds is as justifiable
as the selling of pins, and just
about as interesting to those who do it.
Pine got monotonous, viewed individually
or ia larg? numbers. Considering
the difference in intensity in the
pomts of a thousand pins for a long
term of years would hardly calculate
an eclipse or ease a heart-ache; nor i
Jwould tne $tuuy 01 onman naiure irom
tinrtlcad levels Of conventional society. I
Here impulse is dead, enthusiasm ujWj
born, earnestness precluded. Th&ie- (
fort is to 4*shine1n and that in rfash; j
light. The sun has gone oyy
ion. - /women in (
Still another class>orking in the {
Washington are tights. A hopeless, j
government depicted, refined, well- (
weary task fo?as many of them are. I (
reared won^f V<> awav to the western
would J2"nci preempt a few acres of ,
P**}Pgood soil, and writh my own ^
,?2cis guide the plow and plant the ,
,eed, in the free air and sunlight of the *
)lue heaven, than take a position at ,
ine .of thosa monotonous' desks, to ,
unite, * write, write dreary copies of j
idttlless documents, until tho light j
fades out of the ftco, the warmth from :
:Se hertrt, and health ;-from body and
iouL Woman was never meant to
ao & machine. .tvery nerve ia aoj (
body protects against it. Every fiber
jf ho? tonl revolts against the murder ,
3f her own free will Automatic action
in society or independent Labor is her
loom and-death.
In a room adjoining this, where I
syrite, Ilea at thw moment, on a bed of
suffering, a gentle girl whose life for
sight years has been in the treasury
department here. And, by the way,
George W. Peek never wrote a better
thing than hi$ humorous but kind and
just defense of the women in the treasury
work- here. This young .woman is
"? finolrr /?nlterA(L trained in the at"
?? ? .
mosphere of books and music, in the
library oi a studious father, who, dying,
left a small competence that was
soon swept away by lack of management.
I^r eight years she has written
in that office, until her health has gone,
and she lives to-day in constant fear
lest her position shall be taken from
her and given to another whose vitality
is unimpaired. As she lies there now
her greatest dread ia lest she 3hal2 hear
to-morrow that there is no more work
v ? 4 ? %A?ki?no mtr
iOr D6F? CTU8B uio m
lady's carriage rolls to her door, and
she enters it in disquiet lest her neighbor's
is more magnificent. She does
not see the sunlight as she rolls along;
she does not know that the yallow jessamine
is in fra<;rant bloom on the
sunny side of the Soldiers' homev for it
is not fashionable to go thero until
later in the season. She doos not
know that my young friend is dying j
there from toil, yet tuffering because
even it may be denied her; out see aoes
know, and"it clonds her face and hardens
her heart, that a rival leader went
to the president's dinner last night,
while herself was uninvited.
Were one to make choice between
thsso two and take the place of ono of
them, I would take that of the poor,
frail girl. Better, even, the discipline
through which she has passed, if that
be necoasary to give birth to so sweet &
soul, thau theookU.destdarrogtaoe of
her whose birth of spirit must oo 11 another
life, if ever, since she has lived |
too long for a "chango of heart" here.
Beauty of character! How few are
striving to attain it! Fewer, even, than
they wno are asking for intellectual
development. Courage, high-mindedness,
guCelessness. true kindness 1
How rare they are!
j AN ISLAND OF PRETTY Yr'OSTEN.
The grass grows green and rank and
! fto -nflrfiiTne of the rose fills the air
even in the bleakest days of the bleak
autumn in this little sea-encircled paradise,
writes a correspondent from St
j Helier's, on the island of Jersey. There
j are hundreds of beautiful lanes wind
ing among the valleys and hillsides,
j -with trees on either sido growing so
{close together that no sunshine can
j ever penetrate through the interlacing
j bougii* to the hard, smooth, beaten
track benoatfc; mues 01 wniie, smngiy
beach, on which the sand is as fine as
sifted floor, and is left by the receding
tides as hard as cement; quaint little
farm-houses enboweyed west*
' smelling shrubbery and flowers, 'and
1 acres of moorland that is covered the
'i year round with heliotropes, petunias,
| and marguerites. A blue-gray sea
rises and falls around the island fortytwo
feet. "Sweet little Jersey;11 "Dear
old St. Heller's," is the affectionate
? - ? crvoolr nf
j W1U VV114v;II CUG ii\-i v L'^vmu Ui.
j their island home and its chief town of
S5.000 souls. St. Helier's is' a queer
! old place. Its streets are narrow and
j crowded. Massive earthworks and
| miles of masonry crown the hills about,
I and render the place apparently :m|
pregnable against the foe.
j Tne channel islands, and particularj
ly Jersey, possess much of interest to
j the stranger, but the crowning glory of
i Jersey is toe oeauty 01 ner women.
| For general comeliness they would
! readily be awarded a prize in any competition
of feminine grace. Rare,
creamy com pier5 on s that wortld put
the bloom on the peach to blush, ?gt
ures made graceful and sinewy by bodily
toil, with rather strongly cut features,
oyes like aloes, and lustrous
dark hair, tho girls met on the streets
of St. Holier's seem to the stranger the
i ?ftrK(miiit;ation of womanly inueoend
j ?nee, beauty, and maidenly reserve.
The soft white mists that wrap the. island
every night from sundown to sunrise
give them carnation cheeks. The
toil that brings with it the active,
healthy body is dne to the causes
which will enlist on tho side of these
women the sympathies of true manhood.
It is 'because of the woeful
dearth of men in Jersey that the women
do all the work. Where you mdet
one man in these tortuous streets of St.
nener s juh meet ivu wumtn.
Out among tho green farms this disproportion
of the sexes is even more
painfully apparent. The heavy, ungainly
carts on tho country roads aro
almost without exception driven by
women, and handsome women, too.
Groups of cherry-cheeked ^irls may be
seen in the wayside orchards, some
picking apples from the trees, others
straining at the rude cidor-prosses.
The lituo fields, with their luxuriant
growth of turnips, cabbages, and rutabagas,
are all tended by women, whilo
$r* KrtMCJA
VUC 1/lWJLLUUg UVTIV10 iU iiuv
yards show in their rich variety tho evidence
of woman's caro and attention.
None but women aro to be seen in the
big public market of St. Helier's?
women buying and women selling.
What men you see are either too
young or too old and decrepit?boys
who have not started out in life, or old
sea-captains who have come home to
end their days, smelling of salt cod
and full of reminiscences of stormy
voyages to Buenos Ayres, to Australia,
or through the China seas.
A VIRGINIA j
A Virginia roporter ^us describes I
the belle of a ball he recently attend- j
ed: Complexion np^er blonde nor
brunette, hoverinp^tween the dawn '
and the sunrise t> a summer's morn- I
iiig, eyes beside* 0^ arrowy glances
Cupid's keenes' Yart are ?^7 fit for
killing frogs * ' olams?eyes that drive
the veiy st-*3 heaven distracted :
with envy L?3hes more gloriously ;
silken tr*n ^er frpged the lids, of 1
Qxient^^^^^ft^-^r^r;'-? cs-.-^qr-f-c
thortTfine as gossamer threads, but j |
Laming a network which scores of
nasculine stragglers have found asfpow- s
jrful as the green withes that bound s
Delilah's Samson. Matchless in gracc. <t
Harvelously gifted in woman's grand i
jndowment?tongue. Tones soft as i
;he softest warblings of a flute on trop- '
c seas at twilight A polar star in ev- <
;ry throng toward whom all masculine 1
;ompasse3 point witJi constant finger. <
k magnet strong enough to turn a 1
ivhole battalion topsy-tr.rvy, and bring I
?e planets rushing from their fftr-off J
jpheres. Lovelier, more cnchanting.. '
jreaturea never flitted through the par- J
idise of rapte-st poet's dream. Do 1
scribc hqr? Were my pen a quia irom i
the pinion, of tlio loftiest seraph that 1
b$ms .iacgleaming glory, and dipped I
in the refulgent radiance of the rain- ;
bow's fountain, it would be impossible, <
Raphael's ghostr after three centuries ]
of celestial practice, would faint at the 3
task of trying to depict hor transcend- 1
ent loveliness. j
American Gems.
George F. Kuilz has contributed to 1
"The iffineral Resources of the United <
States/' published by the Government, <
an article on American gems and pre- cions
stones. He says systematic jnin- ]
ing for gem 8 and precious stones is j
carried on only at Paris, Me.,.and Sto- 1
ny Point, N. C., but they are gathered :
on the surface in many places, as sapphires
in Montana, moss agate in Colorado
and agate at Lake' Superior. '
Some thirty-eight different minerals oc- 1
cur in the United States, which have
been used as gems. Twelve of these
occur in the United States only. liiaraonds
are not mined in this country,
although they have occasionally been
found at a number of localities. A
large diamond was found at Manchester,
opposite Richmond, Va., by a laborer
employed in grading one of the
streets. It was an octahedron, and
'weighed, after it was cut, over ten car- '
ats. It was worth $5,000 before cutting.
The principal localities for sapphires
and rubies are in New Mexico,
Arizona and Southern Colorado, where
they occur in the sand, often on ant%
^ A- '?"? fUn oomn vAm
nuis. Lrarneis ucuur w mu ?~
fion, about $5,000 worth of cut stones
?ing annually produced. It is estimated
that the value of the tourmalines
taken from Mount Mica, Me., is between
$50,000 and $65,000. Tourmalines
and hiddcnite are being regularly
mined at Stony Point, N. C., some
$7,500 worth having already been sold.
Rock crystal i3 gathered and cut in
large quantities, the sales at different
localities probably amounting to $40,000
annually. Much of it is cut for
iewelry, as 'Lake George" or "Cape
May" '"diamonds." The clear crystal
for optical purpose* is almost entiroly
Brazilian, as tho good material found
here rarely reaches the proper channels.
Although agates are abundant
here, nearly all the polifhod specimens
sold in America have been polished in
Germany, having originallv come from
Brazil and Uruguay. Moss abates,
however, are colTccted here in large
quantities, although the cutting is done
abroad. The sunstone and moonstone
* * T>-' VJrmniQ oro rvf I
I irom reaab_yi v axiiu, o.u.kl ? uguuu -?.w
good quality, although as yet used but
little. The American turquoise is of
much interest, but is not much used by
jewelers. It is frequently blue when
found, but soon turns green on e^pos|
ure. Jet occurs in Colorado and Texi
as, and will probably soon be utilized
j in the arts. The bowenite of Rhode Is
land and. wuuamsne 01 rennsjivawt*
arc used as a substitute for jade.
At one of the fashionable New York
hotels a magnificently dressed and radiantly
healthy lady came down to the
first table with eleven of her children,
leaving -the remaining eight younger
ones to be brought to the second table
by three nurses. _ ^ * ' * '
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JK>R TELE FAR3IER.
JTV
A Visit tu>a Model Pennsylvania Stock
Farm.
The Value of Manure as a Fertilizer?
Iffiieat Farms m Dakota.
'A.&JONS' TEE JERSEYS.
! 'Gat-bp in the Cincinnati Eriquirer,
i j^ives thosfeJlovrin? account of his visit
! to the st&k farm of Joseph C. Sibley,
f near Fraiklin, Pa.
Franklki is surrounded by the der!
ricks of oil wells, looking like skeleton
i church g^jres to the number of scores
and huncreds, and most of these are
still pimping a small quantity of oil
per diem Orerlooking the tower on
the oppoito side of French Creek Is
the Preset Hill stock farm of Joseph
C. Sibley,perhaps the most complete
in all its? appointments now in this
; country- ;Connected with it in different
traotflj^about size hundred acres
of land,.;Hp has a race-course used
by the Kmty . Agricultural Society.
I jNear aaxao creamery,
j which- ^Kxi&c.tnre^:. two barrels of
cream iiSc fatter m, about forty-five
minute?ii*nd."'tbis* batter is seat all
over thVcountrv at fifty cents a pound.
On thepp of the hill-is a 'bajrfl, which
is of aBs^agonal or almost circular
patteriSSRcoritsihs the entire herd on
two. Aprs. From the cupola:of .the
barn, T*dch gives the ventilation, dcscends^pole,
around which is a winding
staf. connecting tho two floors. In
the cecQr.of each floor is a large open
Epnoe.Kadtbo circle of cattle faces this
in staiij&na too troughs at taeir Jcnees. j
Behincthis row of cattle is an open
c<}rrid? also circular, around which
the sednd ?reat circlo of cattle stand
at thei-stalls.
On >e upper floor a portion of this
seconicirele is devoted to the cows
,with <fljes or about to calve. The
,cows.it calf are generally kept drv
wherrtihis is possible, so that the ca?f
caagttheftal nourishment; but it is
exceaiagly difficult in some cases to
drv Se"Jersey cow. as the tenacitv
withvMch she makes milk is the great
seer3 of her. value. She is the most
wonc&fal butter-making animal known
to m?H?~Olher kinds of cattle run to
beef, jafcihe Jersey so assimilates her
food-tti^Jhe globules which might
make beti&v in her milk, and hence
the eztrflHLvry production of some
of their high prices in
a coatrr wuere the chcmist has been
of Tf?rlr ?tr T t: V? or>rl Vi?c <rftror? -nc
| **>?# ?T A rA4 VUVVVAl HIMU. MWU VM UU
I varms forms of wagon grease and
| coa-tar instead of the. Alderney produe.".
lie.importation of Jersey cattle into
theUnitcd States began about seven i
yeirs Before the war. It has gone on ;
wifc-ssch enthusiasm that we now have
abat 21,000 Jorseys, either imported i
or bra here, evory one of whicn i3 <
regstered in the Jersey herd-book, j
tha is now assuming the proportions j
of a library. The Jersey cattle?by
wheh general name is meant cattle of i
Jcsey; Sark and Alderney?improve j
in Jbis country over their conditioa In ;
their native Islands, and they make j
m<fre crcain and butter, and thrive i
RTOftdprfulIy. Thoy are distributed over j
&e%ntire countrv. Thev are generally i
7T ?* ? v* *.. u* ,. -Jrf- ?i.
jentle, and the brills vicious. 1
' I was m teres ted in two things in this ]
.table. ?n the f-rst place the cream a
icparator, which is run by a steam en- j
jine, revolve8 with enormous rapidity, <
md the cream flows out of one spigot <
md the skimmed milk out of another. - ]
rhen I observed the apparatus for j
cleaning cows, which are carefully j
cashed and brushed once or twice a 1
1 ? ?- ' nt hrn?W nr>r>r&te<I bv <
X&\ UJ UiCMUa N/A v.*
;he engine. The cow, calf or bull is 1
arougbt forward p.nd lied to a post, 1
ind. from above these brashes are ]
brought to her body, and carefully <
raise every hair. The cattle like it, :
but their tails have to be tied up in a. i
bag,.for not Ion? ago one of the brushes
core out a taiL ^The temperature in i
the barn is kept at fifty degrees the <
(rear round, regulated by the thennom
iter, and the barn is lighted with the
3rnsh light on every floor, and at mid- :
aight is as bright as day. A storage
battery is kept near the engine for this
ramose. -The light csed-is the ordina
rj gas bracket and small lamp.
At Prospect Hill farm the barn is 88
feet in diameter. There are thirty-two
2attle on the iimfcr rows and forty-six
;>n the rear rows. The engineer has
fifteen horse power. ?he food, given .
the animals is boiled and mixed; part- "
Ly oats and partly ensilage, or leaves
of corn plucked when the oar is full of
milk: The cattle like this food very
much, and it improves their butter.
The Jersey cow can be relied on to
make one pound of butter a day; many
of them make sixteen pounds a week.
and some ox tucir pen?rmsawi> cuv inmost
fabulous.
By the machinery used at Prospect
Hill it takes thirty-five minutes only to
separate the cream from the milk of
forty-five cows. The separator is a
Swedish patent In one hour from the
commencing of the milking the cream
is in the creamery and the skimmed
milk is being fed to the calves.
? Mr. Sibley.says that the keep of his
cattle in the winter is somewhere be
tween twenty ana tmrcy cents j. uaj,
but that for a portion of the year they
do not cost above eight cents a day.
There are about thirteen men employed
on the herd farm, and the cost of
running it is about $17 'J00 a year.
At Prospect Hill there are about 45
milch cows, producing not less than
one pound per diem of butter, while a
good deal of the milk without being
skimmed is given to the calves. There
are twectv cows in the stable that two
thousand ~ dollars apicce would not
buy. - / ^
BARN-YABD ECONOMY. V
A dark stream, often of golden color,
always of golden value, flows to waste
from many an American barn-yard.
This liquid fertility often enters the
side ditch of the farm lane, sometimes
oi the highway, and empties into a
brook, which removes it beyond the
retch of plant* that would greatly
profit by it. Mica may gnaw a hole
into the granary and daily abstract a
small Quantity of grain, or the skunks
may reduce the profits of the poultry
yards, but these leaks are small in
[ comparison with that from the poorlyconstructed
and ill-kept barn-yard,
f The most valuable part of manure i3
{that which is very soluble, and unless j
| it is retained by some absorbent, or
} kept from the drenching rains, it will
be quickly out of reach. Manure is a
! manufactured product, and the success
! of all farm operations in the older
states depends upon the Quantity and
quality of this prodcct Other things
being equal, the farmer who comes out
ir? snrnc with the largest amount
olTEfe best quality of manure, will be
the man who finds farming pays the
best A barn-yard, whether on a sidehill
or on a level, with all the rains free
to fall upon the manure heap, should
be so arranged as to lose none of the
drainage. Side-hill barn-yards are
common, becsusp ttje barns thus locafr
f
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t
ed furni?h a convenient cellar. A bar1
r'er of earth on the lower side of the
yard can be quickly thrown up with a
team and road scraper, which will catch
and hold the drenchings of the yard
above, and the coarse, newly-mado
manure will absorb the liquid and be
benefited by it. It would be better to
have the manure made and kept under
j cover, ^ always well protected from
1?OlTS9 ft Ti/? TV\ a! f * n Art!** AMn*. ?^
, auu. ixio.iwi.U?? ouvno, vu:v UJULUUgil
j inoistaro should be present to keep it
I from fermenting too rapidly. An old
farmer who let his manure take care of
; itself, onco kept some of his sheep un;
dcr cover, and was greatly surprised
j at the increased value of the manure
j thus made. In fact, it was so "strong*
that when scattered as thickly as the
leached dung of the yard, it made a
distinct belt of better grain in the iiold.
The testimony was so much in. favor of
the stall-made manure, that this farmex
is now keeping all his live stock un
aer cover, ana trie xarm is yielding
laig??v crops and growing richer year
by year, if it pays to stop a&y- leak
in the granary, itr^all theportant
to .look well to themanarc that
famishes the food, that feeds the
plants, that grow the grain, that fills
the-grain bin. At this season the living
mills are all grinding the hay and
grain, and yielding the by-prodncts of
the manure heap. Much may be saved
in spring work by letting this heap be
as small as out door yard feeding and
mo wiiias anu. rains can zna&e it, dus
such saving is like that of the economic
sportsman who went out with the
idea of using as'Kttlo powder and lead
as possible. In farming, grrow the
largest possible crops, oven though it
takes a week or more of steady hard
work to get the rich, heavy, well-prepared
manure npon the .fields. More
than this, enrich the land by throwing [_
every stream of fertility back upon thej'
acres which havo yielded it. Watch'
the manure heap as you would a-mine
of gold.?American Agriculturist. ^
TO EQUIP A WHEAT FARM IN DAKOTA.
The amount of machinery necessary
to plant and harvest the crops of the
northwest, according to the St. Paul
Pioneer Press, is enormous. Tho principal
crop of the northwest is wheat,
and as nearly all the labor required to
C^/a/3 on/) if ifl
evv\4 wuu u?i VVi7V AV iO ^/VIXV&XUUU ITXl'UiU
a few months, usually from the 1st of ;
May to the 1st of October?rarely six i
months?everything must be done with '
a rush. Farmers "who raise nothing
but wheat can not afford to employ help
all the year round, and this fact <
renders it very difficult to obtain the ]
necessary assistance when it is needed t
during the busy season. 0 Wages are i
high on account of this fact, and the ^
wheat-raiser finds himself compelled to l
depend upon mechanical help instead ?
of muscle. It is questionable" whether t
it is more profitable. To properly equip ]
a farm of even 160 acres with all the
maohinery necessary to plow the 1
ground, seed it, harvest and thrash the i
drain, reonires alafffG onfc]*vr>f mnnnv. s
the total outlay for wagons, plows, 1
iarrows, seeders, and harresters neces- ?
jary to work a farm of this size is about I
?700. This is an outlay that must be s
made before the farmer can realize, s
i'nia machinery. Tne larmer can ouy r
iis entire outfit on credit Mortgages s
ire often taken, but not as a rule. The ?
igents of reapers and harvesters rc- i
}uire no security beyond a simple note 1
rt hand. Early in the spring a perfect "v
array of "machine men," as the agents s
ire called, invade the northwest to t
take orders. A farmer can buy a bar- ?
pester or whatever he needs and have it I
delivered in his field, set up all ready t
to start, even to beife supplied with c
twine for the binder, by simply giving <
his note of hand, without security, and 3
irawing 7 per cent interest. These t
notes run from two to three years, and c
are often renewed if the interest is '
properly paid. Some idea of the great t
amount of machinery sold in the north- t
west every year may be gained from
the statement that during 1883 newly i
1,700 car-loads were received at Mm- 1
neapoHs alone, the total number re- 1
ceived at St Paul and Minneapolis <
reaching nearly 3,600. 1
It has been observed that there are *
quite notable differences in the color of j
the butter of different cows fed side by (
side on precisely the same rations, and ,
/?nn/>)neinn tt?s r>1*un .that
LU. A1IJLU UUU ~ . j
the color of the butter is not due so
much to the {odder as to the individuality
of the animal. Aromas and fla- (
vora are due-in general to what chem- 1
ists call essentia! oils; but no chemist ?
haa ever yet got out of %he butter its ,
flavoring, essence, and although he can
make to order the .flavor of the apple,
the pear, the strawberry and raspberry
from substances which have no connection
with' those fruits, yet he hasnever
prepared the smallest bottle of (
essence of butter. We are even not (
yet certain where to go for the primary ,
origin of the aroma and flavor, for, ,
while one party affirms that it exists in
the milk, another alarms xnat n is a .
product of the alteration of certain constituents
of the milk that takes place
during the time that elapses before the
cream is made into butter.?Dr. O. C.
CaLdw'elL ^ '
How to Tame a -Rat.
Police Capt Charles McDonnell was
walking through South Fifth avenue,
at midnight, when ho saw what appeared
to be a small white kitten playing
on the sidewalk in front of him.
Alter a short chase he secured the
animal, and by the light of a street
lamp discovered, to his momentary*
it. was a whito rat.
HUM. .V - ,
It appeared to bo perfectly tame and
at home with him.
He slid it into his overcoat pocket
and took it to the station house, where
. it was put on exhibition in a cigar box.
Its beauty surprised all who saw it It
was pure white, had pink-eyes and
claws, and a shapely, tapering tail
It made a peculiar noiee, like the purring
of a kitten* as it ate bread and
cheese from the Captain's hand, and it
held its tail ereot when it was stroked.
It remained in the station house
twenty-four hours before it was claim
ed. Then its owner, a storekeeper vu.
South Fifth avenue, arrived and exi
plained how rats are tamed.
'It's the easiest thing in the world,"
he said. ?'Take the most ferocious rat,
throw it into a pail of water, and leave
it there until it ceeomes exhausted and
is about to drown. Then take it out,
roll it in wadding and put it in a warm
place. When the rat comca to it will
evince the deepest gratitude. It will
lick your hands and follow you about
the house like a do?r, and can oe taught
a number of tricks."
The police of the Prince street station
are trying this experiment.?New
York Sun.
EVwWtr noVif a nrftpl* is all that it costft I
John W. Nissley, of Mount Carmel, Pa.,
who is sixty-live years- old and weighs
175 pounds, to live. His diet ia dry
bread and hot water, and has been so
for the last sevoa years
A DAY IN TA>'GXEBS.
The "Women in the Marketplace ant
in the Harems.
High above me I behold the buildingand
wails of Tangiers. The blu?
Mediterranean dashes its waves again si
a ruined mole and a temporary pier foi
! the accommodation of travelers. Everything
is different from European scenos.
Wila flowers grow in profusion on the
roofs and old walls. The bright blossoms
of the cactus glow in the sunlight.
Tho prickly pear attains th<,
size and height of tre^s, and. in many
places forms arches beneath which
ride Moors and others mounted on
mules or donkeys. The natives et?t
the fruit, cuttting each pear from; its
stem with twine.
| Jugt below the hotel and outside
the gate of the city is the sofco or market
place. .On Sundays.and Thurs!
days it is filled with a motley crowd,
1 whn Krin?r oromo- moot aims
Cth.Gr provision <Jjfibro thfl finrmnnHiTty
Gibraltar W
tains its s^^BBKlbe noise and din
in the mar^MflEce is infernal At
least 5,000 ton^K are at work. You
cin hardly force your way through the
(crowd. Once on the outskirts you are
lost in great herds of cattle and strings
of loaded donkeys from Barbary.
These creatures carry wonderful loads.
They look small by the side of the camels.
These animals, relieved of their
loads, are lying down in a circle with
their fore legs tied together. Near
thftm are numbers of cn&islon tents.
filthy in the extreme and only high
enough to sit under. The confusion is
terrible. Some of the men are banging
on drums, and others are playing
the khutah, which is infinitely worse
than the Moorish drum.
Women, whoso faces were covered
with tho exception of one eye, crouehed
on the ground near by, selling bread.
The magnificent Moor, in flowing white
robe ana spotless turban, strutted majestically
b}% not deigning to cast his
haughty glance at us. The streets
swarmed with children in various costumes.
The small shops were packed
with men sitting cross-legged. Above,
below, around and beneath there was
dirt of every description. Fortunately
for us, the viler snfblls had been tempered
with recent rains. In summer
the stench is said -to be almost unbearable.
Here you see the genuine Bedouin
Arab. Wild and dirty as he is, he is
;iean when compared with the horrid
looking men from the Riff coast, descendants
of the old pirates. They are
wild and untamed, and fiercer than
vild animals. They do not even cover
heir heads. Their heads are closely
;haved after leaving a lock by which
hey fervently believe Mohammed will
mil them up to Heaven.
A few years ago an English lady
narried a Moor holding a high position
n Tangiers. He promised that "she j
hould oe his only wife, but since then
te has .espoused four other womoa. ;
Jhe is allowed to walk out, but not un- j'
ess sha is <mardcd. If she loft V.im I
he could take nothing with her. if he
ent Jier awav*he would be entitled to
rout JU ??
hall accep^f*.Jfesterday we w-;re
quests in harems. The
umates gave us a very fino reception.
The gloomy appearance of the outer
rails contrasted strangely with the inide
of the house.' The halls were
iled. Marble pillars, bright colors
tad rugs gave the rooms a bright apjean-ncc.
Mattresses were laid on
he carpets in apartments facing the
sourtyard. They *vere the bedrooms
>f the wives. There were no windows.
2ach wife leaves her slippers at the en- i
xance of her bedroom. We saw no;
jhairs, and only an occasional cushion, i
rhe wives prefer to recline or sit on ]
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iUG liUUr. VUC UI -^Vk y oao vii ;
jkins.
In the firsts harem I saw a widow
with seven children, all" girls. Two
were playing imd two were sewing.
STone of the girls had ever 3ecn a man.
Dn Fridays only the widow is allowed
x> <*o to the Moslem Cemetery to weep
ma pray over her dead husband. Wo !
were offered coffee and cakes. Etiquette j
required that we should drink four cups ;
>f coffee and eat as many cakcs. Oar j
fisit was made very early in the j
morning.
The poor wives seemed glad to see j
is. They admired our dresses and j
jailed each other's attention to what j
- - - ? - n ;
iOOK ineiT iancy in uiv w-j ,
jChey were dressed gayly, but they had j
i slovenly look and an ungraceful walk.
?Morocco Cor., N. 0. Times-Democrat.
A California Court Scene.
The case of three Mongolians who
claimed a right to land came up in thecircuit
court before Judge Sebin yesterday
morning. Two of them claimed
to have resided here in times gone by,
and by producing satisfactory evidence
were discharged. The third one, Fong
Win, stated that he was an actor of
twenty years' standing. Win waddled
up to the witness-stand with a dignity
01 bearing that made an impression on(ind
flint ho intended
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to have gono to Victoria, but that he
had condescended to exhibit himself at
the Grand Chinese theater in this city
for $150 a month and found.
"Yon say you are an actor; give ns a
specimen of your ability," eaid Mr.
Hildron.
Win, after stating that his specialty
consists in personating the heavyweight
jud^e, proceeded to ^ratify the
court and the spectators, f'rawing in
a long respiration and assuming a- judicial,
frown?a novelty to our judges
?the coming star of the Grand Chinese
theater broke forth into a Celestial ti- j
rade, the sense of which was a judicial
authority's awfui condemnation of a
poor culprit to the land of headless
people. As he was beginning the seo- 4
ond edition in a still higher key, Judge
okAntaij trt thA irMrnrftters tatftll
iJCUIii cuvuvvw w |
the actor to stop and go forth, as there
was so doubt that ho i3, as ho claimed
to be, an actor.?San Francisco Chronicle.
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Recent examination of a large number
of wells used for drinking water in
different sections of New Hampshire
shows that 95 per cent of them are
contaminated.
Charles White, of Thorndike, Me.,
has three yokes of oxen whose united
weight is 12,210 pounds. Ono yoke
measures eight feet four inches, and
weighs 4,865 pounds.
The little Countess of Lowenhaupt is
one of the prettiest women in the*foreign
circle in Washington. She is a
typical Swedish beauty, with golden
hair, blue eyes, and fair white sEin.
The tendons of the tail of the kangaroo
can be easily split into threads two
feet in length, rivaling silk in strength,
softness, ttcness, oeauiy 01 coxor auu.
finish. Such tendons for ligatures and
sutures promise to supplant silk almost
entirely i$ surgery,
rm ax.vrr.imii -^T> r?- -ar.-.?- r tSiva.arx;
GLEAN^m--" i
I i Ccok stoves arc Worth $2-50 &p;ece at
j Cffiur d'Alener
j There* are 228 submarine telegraph
3 ; cablos now at work.
[ i "Miss Yny Hendns is local editor of a
1 ni'tlftr in T.oricirxr 7VT*"V>
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A do# n^ht was held m Cincinnati ^|p
for the benent of tiie poor. '
i A voter in the city oi Eosicn bears
the came of "Hioronyicua Papp.". '; #&?
A perfectly white pfie?ck,,tiie only
one in this countrv. is on exbibinca in
: Boston.
The N?w York Steam He&tini? Com
' j panv has steam laid through ?re n*ilci
: of streets.
Eighteen thousand homesteads hare
i been entered in Florida during the . ;?fgg
.j past year. .
j . Coacord, N. H., has been taken in to
..the; amount -of .#750.000. by mining
I PWUA 3Ulw*^/9>' * t
*Cg^$te.- l^iaenibtsrs pj . tho, Iowa
{ Bouse fifty say IHai they"btvc no rc- ? ?
; ligions preferencesi
Georgia' is to try the experiment cf
I Imiiding a new Capitol at an estimated - _ ^
I cost of $1,000,000. '03s
; A Vermont man has a parrot that lie
i has succeeded in teaching to recite
| nearly half the Twenty-third Psalm.
I Professor J. L. Smith's private col
i lection Of meteorites, the lare-est in
j world, has been bought by Harvard ' 'M
| College for $10,000.
A bill has passed the Rhode Island
! House of Representatives, forbidding
| the location of dram-shops within 400
; feet of school-houses.
j Peter Mitchell was long noted, at
I Charlestown, Ind., for keeping his ex- " :i
j penditures rigidly within 50 cents a
; day. He has left $40,000."
j The British Minister's daughter i9
said to be a great beauty. She inheri1
ted her lovely face, with its sad, dark
eyes, from a Spanish mother. . The
Supreme Court of Kansas docides
that the circulation of an offensive article
concerning a candidate for ofico
is "a privileged proceeding." .
There were 23,310 houses built In
London and the suburbs in 1382, forming
508 new streets and one new square, .
and covering a distance of seventy-fivo
fin a a
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A cow horn measuring four feet
eleven inches in lengthy and eighteen
inches around the base, is on exhibition
at Moaticello, Fia., and is supposed to
be the largest cow-hora in the world. . .
George Parsons Lathrop, the novelist.
is short, 3tout and erect. Ke has a
large head, curly black hair and black \ - - >^5
mustache and gcatee. liis manners
are agreeable and his conversation
sparkling.
M. Mace, the great French detective ~ \
and the terror of the Paris evil-doer, is
iuSt about five leet tall, if it hft nronpr
to use the term/tall as applied io~suc?
a. stature. Hs. has been thirty year3 ia
the service.
A society has been recently formed La
London., to advocate the improve- *y-.ro
tnent and. cheapening of the diet,, oae
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that city is the capital of the brass
manufacture ia America, makes the
sheet or bar or brass wire from the
Cleveland pis metal, and with a population
of 23,000 has about 8.000 operatives.
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Woodenpavesc-ntis ih marked dis
favor in i5eri:n. w nai is snowu ? .
Vienna Jiead pavemeftt is taking its - ^
place. The wooden article laid down
in tlie neighborhood of the Crown
Prince's palace has failed after a short
year of triaL
Eliza Howard Powers, of Paterson.
if. J., who spent a fortune during the
war in caring for thesick and wounded,
is now au invalid and in needy circumstances:
She has asked the "government
for $2,500, and'it is probablethat
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A New York concern makes a profit ..
of a million dollars" a year counterfeiting
the labels used on foreign champagne
bottles." It'is in this wsf that
Eure American wines a&ade in St
ouis and California roach the store* . - .
achs that compose Boston and .Ncvr I
York society.
.. A prominent doctor of Oakland, CaL, >
says that the generation oi gases is
generally the cause of corpses turning, ,,
over in their coffins, and adds that a., i
body has been known to*rise partly up,
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ward the middle of the body, from
these circumstances.
An educational journal advises that ?. ' '
there should be a regular physician,at ?
tached to every school of importance to
overlook the physical development ot
the pupils. The system has already ; ,
been adopted in Paris, the physician.. making
regular tours of inspection, -being
paid by the municipality.
There is a woman living in Detroit
who has not allowed berseit to De seen
by men for many years. She lives in
her hermitage all alone, goes to bed a$ 2
o'clock every afternoon, and gets up *
at midnight to go out and make: he?
purchases. Her name is Odell, and it
is said when a girl she was disappointed
in a love affair and made a vow that *
she would never again look on the face #
of a man or allow a man to look at /.
An attempt was recently made by a
householder in an Iowa town to get an
injunction restraining the reading of
WMfl <n thfl nnhlic schools of that
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I State, and also to prohibit the singing *"
I of hymns or repeating tho Lord's . ' V ?**
prayer. Li a decision rendered, however,
the court held that such selecI
tions were intended to inculcate mo*
I rality, purity and honesty, and were. :
[therefore, a part ,of the school system.
| He refused to grant the desired'order. ,
[ a' magpie has seriously^ ia^terferod .
rwith telegrcphfe communication', ho r*?n/4
TTvrioftnry in PrtTfth. *
Australia, not far from Adelaide. Fos
some time the line worked badly, and ^
| at last a telegraph operator was gent to
I examine the wires. After searching
i for a few miles the clerk found at the
! top of one of the telegraph -posts a' ;
magpie's nest most ingeniously conJ
stractcd. The bird had wrenched
i away with its beak the wire which
bound the lino to tho insulator, ?U<i
after twisting the wire in a suitable
position built its homo there.
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New Orleans World's ir'sir ne::t year is
the largest building in this country,
and next to the 'largest exposition ;. <?
building ever constructed. It is 1,600
feet long by 900 f?et deep. The horti- ..
J cultural hall, which is n?.\t to the largj
est structure ever built :or the purpose,
is 600= faet in length, and 190 feet aeen. "
The Mexican government, - which has '
shown keen interest in the ^exposition,
will exhibit a garden of tropica; slants,
covering 220,000 square feet. Tke fair
opens in December, and will close in