The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 21, 1885, Image 1
: WINI&BORO, S. CM WEDN^i^J4&?4EY 21, 1885.
* zxsT?i Totg&n enr ore? . * '
,
. _ The
Descent of Winter.
With one strong foot upon the prone, dumb
'land.
Sowing: the snowflakes out his great, rough
hand,
. Loud-voiced, in tempests poured beneath the
W" skyIn
-whirling storm-gusts, doth he stand and
cry:
"Lo, I am come?King Winter!"
. Frozen becomes the bleak moor's shallow
The lank crane shivers in the frosty sedge;
Hf The little sparrows flit-with trembling wings
Over the dank reeds, and the plover sings:"
ngt "Ah, he is come?King Winter!"
The frowsy pipe-weeds on the gary marsh
B Stand^frozen, battling 'gainst the cold winds j
The homeless snowflakes, sinking, yet un- !
nnmra,
Down-dropping in the black-pools, sigh: "We
come.
. The ensigns of King Winter."
Bent are the Tftakes beneath the -whelming
b snows; v x~
The timid rabbit through .the marsh-grass
goes;
"Wet-winged the robin pipes beyond the fen,
At monrnfttftwilifrht answered by the wren:
"Night?night.' have pity Winter!"
Still mate and prostrate the grim landscape
Still fail' the flakes down from the pitiless
? skies
"u In swarms thro' the w?ae ousk, on ev?y'
thin?.
^ Sown from the Northland bythe Giant-King,
& Ruler of Rivers, Winter.
Ruddy the lamps within yon cottage glow.
And childhood s voice comes wafted to me
- low.
In merry laughter and incessant mirth.
When the thawed roof-snow slips into the
earth
Under the steps of Winter.
Shut fast thy door, my Soul, and bide within!
Heart-warmth hast thou, and .Love-to house
theein:
Let the snows fall; still shall our nights be
mirth.Quiet,
with laughter bythe, fireside hearth:
Pour down thy snows, O Winter!
WBKEEsafcStiH.
when without I hear the piteous call
r Of His lost robins in-the grayjiigbttall.
1 irisn, wbae screams me wine ran oiner
ccld, : --- -
} All things of His housed -.?arm within His
fold:
His birds!?have mercy, Winter.
"Where are His dewdrops now? His tender
,leayes?
His social crickets 'nong the noonday
shelves?
( Hath Earth no answer? Hark! 'Tis the heron
gray
Calling-, across the moor's edge far a?vay.
"Cold are thy feet, 0 Winter!'V
?Charles J. O'Malley, in The Current.
A MYSTERIOUS STORY.
When the fever peculiar to Brazil
seizes upon a new comer, said the friend
who told me this story, it deals hardly
with him. So is. was with me. I was
I'ust conscious that I was not likely to
w iye, yet not strong enough to think of
any of the many preparations I should
have made if "my hours were num'
ibered. I
I had sunk into a heavy feverish half
sleep, through which I heard some one
say, "He will go off like that," and was
beginning to dream without being .entirely
unconscious of my surroundings,
when the door of onr Ion?:, low, whitewashed
room opened and a lady entered-.
- She was a woman with dark eyes,
and golden hair, with a bit of blue
. about it somewhere. She carried "V;
L _ bowl in her hand.
fe. The bowl was of thin transparent
sapti n^inted with leaves
r_and buds of brilliant colors, and here
ami "there a gorgeous. sort of butterfly.
It was full of water, the purest and
clearest I ever saw.
"Are yon thirsty?" she asked, -to-- simply
as a mother might ask her
. child.
"Yes, madame," I. answered, "and
the doctor will not let me drink."
"But I will," she said.
She put the bowl to my lips; ere she
withdrew it it was empty.
"Good-night and pleasant dreams,"
she said, and smiled and left me.
( I slept then sweetly, dreamlessly, for
I knew not how many hours. When I
awoke the fever.'.was gone, and I rapidly
recovered strength. One morning I
said:
"I should like to thank that lady, for
she cured me with her petty bowl of
* watar."
Mr companions smiled.
"There's been no woman here fox t
months," one of them said. "That
was a dream. One of vour fever dreams;
- - ^ -t yj
quinine aiu me ousiues>s jlui j uu.
It was hard to convince me, but at
last they proved to me that at least
[ they had seen no woman; that no one
[ 4 - gave me anything to drink, to their
Knowledge; and I began to bejieve in
ministering angels. It was as certain
to me that I had seen this fair, tall,
.?dark-eyed lady, with her blue-veined
hands holding "that curious china bowl,
as it was certain that I had been ill.
However, many other matters engrossed
my thoughts. I ceased at last
to tell the story, since the regular
answer was that in a fever one fancies
everything; and ten years from that
time Lwas in Virginia.
I had been driving with a friend, 'and I
r* we were riding past a line old mansion,
" with a beautiful garden, when a lady
walked slowly down the path, and
paused to pick a rose.
Her figure was tall; her hair golden;
her eves dark. Her motions were
y %
gcacercu.
With a little exclamation of aslonish;>*
ment, I recognized the- lady of my
dream, if dream it were. She looked a
little older?nay, a good ten years older
?but otherwise was unaltered.
I know not in what words I communicated
this fact to my friend, but I
know I ended by saying:
"I must speak to her. She will re_
isember." : j1 . /; -
My friend uttered an imperative negative.
I "She would think you a madman,"
he said. '^Come'on. Yoa may get
yourself stot, for staring at another
man's wife. -They do those things
promptly in- the South. I will find out
who she is if yon like."
"T assented ea<rerlv. We rode on.
"Talk to me as much as you like,"
he said, "but never expose yourself to
L strangers. It is possible this lady was
in Brazil in 18?, and brought you someV
thing to drink when you "were left
P^' / alone. In that case "a doubt that
troubles you will be satisfied. You
ran, with all propriety, call on her and
thank her.".
But, though he spoke in this way, I
knew he did not imagine it could be" so.
That evening we smoked our cigars in
Colonel L.'s company, and my friend
diplomatically introduced, the subject.
: "That beautiful house with the large
garden," he said, ilis quite a feature of
the place.. Who owns it?"
"A lonely woman,widow of Mr. V.,"
said the colonel. "She was a belle in
her girlhood. She might still be one if
shechose."
"Perhaps we saw herin the garden,"
tRUU UJY U. 1CUU, <A iU UiUVV VA^~
scription.
"Exactly. It was 110 one else," said
the colonel.
My friend paused a moment, and
then said:
_ + "She reminds B. of some one he met
In Brazil. In fact he almost believed
her the'same person."
"2?o, no," said the colonel. "Mrs. I
.
.
V. has never left Virginia We have
known the family ever since she was
two years old. It is only the other day
that we spoke of that, and she lamented
that she had not traveled more.1'
I felt a pang of disappointment, but
found courage to say:
"I should greatly like to be introduced
to her.'
The old colonel instantly offered to
introduce me.
"But remember," said my friend as
we parted, "never tell her of your fan- j
cy. It would spoil your chance with ;
her, and I see it is a case of love at first i
si^ht."
Hp mc ritrlit.ftnd I wasverv fortunate
?very happy. I won this beautiful
woman's heart.
Her fortune I did not want, but it was
large. I had sufficient means, and
_ "Id not be suspected of mercenary
motives.
We were married after a long and
irdent wooing on my part
She loved me, but a second marriage
seemed wrong to her, ancl it was not
until she realized that she had irretrievably
given me her heart that she would
give me her hand.
Neither of us had ever visited "Europe.
We decided to cross the ocean during
our honeymoon. Before we went she
showed me her beautiful home, and
all her possessions. Amongst- them
was 3 store of old cnma.
Suddenly she turned to the shelves of
her cabinet and took down a china
bowl'?transparent, covered with flowers
and butterflies of quaint conventiona^.form.
As she held it towards me, I saw
again the long, low-hung, whitewashed
Brazilian room?the crowd of men
playing cards at an improvised table?
the figure of the woman advancing towards
meiC,fIt was her attitude that my
wife had=isinmed. I uttered a cry.
"Are you'thirsty?" she asked.
"It is true then!" I cricd. "You are
the woman who saved my life when I
lay perishing of fever in Brazil?"
She bo^an to tremble. Setting the
bowl aside, she threw herself into my
arms.
"Long ago," she panted?"ten years
ago?I thought I held that bowl in my
hand and asked you that. It was
night. I do not know whether I
dreamt, or whether I was mad. In the
dead of the night I thought a voice
called to me: 'Save the man whom
destiny has set apart for you J' ^Then I
arose and asked: 'How?'
"There is on our plantation a spring,
me water ?-u tvuitu ia magiv.tia au uj
power to cure fever's. I "dreamt or
thought that some unseen thin? led ?e
to this spring. I carried this bowl
in my hand. I filled it. Then I stood
in a strange room?long, low, white;
and you?you?you lay on a pallet, hot
with*fever" And I said: 'Are you
thirsty, and gave you to drink.
"The next morning I could have
thought that it ws all a dream, but
that the bowl, still wet, stood at my
bedside. Now I have told you this, do
vou think me mad or superstitious? I
Lave longed so often to tell you, but I
dared not."
But I also had my tale to tell?the
one I have told you.
We ask each other often: "What
was it? What did it mean? How is it
to be explained?" But no answer
comes to us.
Whatever it may have been, it
brojashtjos together... and I bless it
"from my souIT for we are happyas few"
lovers are, my darling wife and L And.
whatever it was, it came from Heaven.
"Colleges" in Ohio.
It is a fact perhaps not generally
known, that Ohio has more so-called
colleges than any other State in the
Union. While Illinois and New York
have 28 each, and Pennsylvania 26, no
other State having more than 19, Ohio
has 35. But it is only in the number
of these institutions that the State can
boast Their aggregate income from
productive funds is "but $202,510, and
from tuition fees but $125,882, while
the value of all grounds and buildings
is but $3,192,840, and the number of
volumes in their libraries but 161,302.
The number of students, however, in
the preparatory departments compares
favorably with the older States, New
York only surpassing Ohio. How
much better endowed the colleges of
Massachusetts are than those of Ohio,
may be seen at a glance. With but
seven colleges they have an income
from productive funds of $291,812, and
receipts from tuition of $166,538, and
803,126 volumes in their libraries, but
the value of buildings and grounds, is
only $1,310,000. The colleges of New
York and Pennsylvania are also much
better endowed than those of Ohio, and
are vastly richer in libraries and apparatus.
Michigan, with only one
college, shows up better than Ohio in
the provision made for their support
These figures, which might be tediously
multiplied, give rise to the suspicion
that many of our colleges are, in fact,
little better than academies, and are
colleges only in name, and this suspicion
is rather confirmed by the disproDortionate
number of scholars in the
t
preparatory departments arid in the
regular college course.?Cincinnati
Commercial- Gazette.
A Wonderful Cane.
Robert Yale, of Norwich, arrived in
town yesterday with his historical and
beautiful cane, which was greatly ad^
mired. The cane was shown to an Argus
reporter last evening. It contains
2,000 pieces, all inlaid, and required
years to complete it. The historical
relics are too numerous to enumerate,
but the principal representations are
the following: The nead is of wood
taken from the old tree at Crown Point
where Putnam was bound to be burned
alive. The main body of the cane is of
oak taken from ?the oldest house in
America, now used as a dwelling at
? -T xL ? .1J
Dedhatn, Mass. a piece 01 uie uxu
Plymouth Rock, a relic from the Mayflower,
hair from the bead of Rebecca
Bates, one of the sisters who drove the
British from Scituate Harbor, in Massachusetts,
during the revolutionary
war; a piece of oak from the charter
oak at Hartford, Conn.; a piece of
wood from John Hancock's old house
a'w Boston, a relic from the house where
Putnam was born, a piece of the old
elm on Boston Common, a relic representing
the house where witchcraft
originated, at Salem, Mass., a piece of
wood from the court-room where the
unfortunate inmates were tried, relics
from Commodore Perry's old flagship
of the Qf"-:'1812, a .piece of "John j
Rrnwn\s"setfei5.~ three" pictures of i
a.pieh^:o{.tjje xaaker,oif the. cane, Mr.
" Yal? " T^ach relic is a fac-simile of the
--object from, -which itrrcastaken: Many
of theinlaid pieces-""present birds, reptiles,
trees, etc.?Alo&fiy Argvs.
?. .wqppaen<>| ^ew.Tork
enjoy.XhemsdiesJ>est ^ heasittuig with j
tieir'feet in another chair, but thepoor |
things'are/obliged" to confine the "habit j
to their ownhouses. * " "
| FARM TOPICS.
j Hogs the Most Profitable Animal* for Far-,
mers to liaise?Ouick lie turn* aud
| Fair Profits.
j Ensilage in tlio British Isles?How to De- ?
tect Oleomargarine?Economy in the
Use of Wood.
THE STOCK FOR POOR FARMERS.
In the great majority of eases hogs
are the most profitable animals for
| farmers of small means to raise. They
J can get returns from them quicker than
; from horses, cattle, and sheep, and this
is a most important consideration.
Pigs dropped early in the spring can be
made to weigh two hundred pounds
each bv midwinter, when pork is in the
' greatest demand. Horses can not be
! sold to persons who desire them for
work till they aro about 4 years old.
Few farmers of small means can wait
j that length of time for pay *or their labor
and farm products. Calves of the
[ best breeds that have excellent shelter,
pastures yf tame grass and clover, and
plenty of grain, may be put in good
condition for the butcher ,when they
are SCjaionths old. Farmers of small
means, however, and especially tho.-c
who live in a si'cJion of the country
that is newly settled, have not the facilities
for fitting cattle for the market
at so early an age. They generally have
poor shelters for their stock or none at
all. They have nothing but wild grass
to furni-h pasturage or hay. Theycan
| not easily obtain animals of improved
I breeds to keep. They may keep sheep
j to better advantage, as they can obtain
! money for the sales' of their fleeces
when the lambs are 1 year old. They
can also sell some early lambs in the
fall. It requires considerable capital,
however, to get a good start with sheep.
The purchase of fifty ewes and one
I buck calls for more money than a poor
man who is paying for his place and
f supporting a family can raise. He can,
however, obtain half a dozen sows with
pigs, and from them raise sufficient
pork to meet his financial wants. Pigs
multiply so quickly that the expense of
getting'a large number is slight. The
uruuu cuu uo iui^tuvcu iu 4A> ouui v uuuu
and at a small cost.
It costs less to provide suitable shelter
for hogs than for any other animals
kept on farms. During the season of
quite cold weather they require to be
kept dry and warm, but shelters may
be built for them of very cheap materials.
It is not necessary to employ
mechanics to put up buildings to protect
hogs. The walls may be built of
logs, s one, or very cheap" lumber. The
roof may be covered with straw laid on
poles. If the drainage is good no floor
is needed. A larger number of farm
products may be utilized by feeding
them to hogs* than to other animals.
They will gain during the summer if
they have plentv of clover or tender
grass. They will eat and derive benefit
from all kinds of grain, regetables,
fruit and milk from which no use can
be made. Thev will eat nuts and wild
plants, and will devour vermin. Less
labor is required to harvest and prepare
food for hogs than for other animals.
They Will dig artichokes as they require
them for food. They will shell
corn from the cob and" eat the heads of
all the small grains. They are less
particular than other snim&ls_abp?fc th?
way their food is prepare^- 'I'he fcogj?
not a dainty animal.
is ?e?
occasion for spending0money for thrashing.
In sections where corn does well
it will be likely to be the leading crop
raised for fattening hogs. Only a plow
and cultivator are required for raising,
this crop. It can be harvested by the
u-e of hand tools and fed without being
shelled. The same tools are all
that are required for raising artichokes
or potatoes. ' The special machinery required
or. a farm chiefly devoted to the
production of wheat will cost more
than all the tools needed on a farm of
the same size that is devoted to the
raising of hogs, and the animals necessary
to stock it.
There is little trouble about marketing
hogs in any part of the west. There
are buyers in almost every town that
has a railway station or a. steamboat
landing. A farmer can change hogrs
into money quicker than he can wooL
Hogs can be slaughtered, packed, and
1--4. V.
neia ior a nse m me market iuuw
easier than beef or mutton. Beef and
mutton bring the highest price when
they ?,re in the fresh state, but pork
brings more after it is cared. Nearly
every farmer who desires and has the
means to do so can sell his hog products
at home directly to consumers
some time during the year. The practice
of selling nearly all the hogs in a
neighborhood alive *as soon as they are
fattened and of taking them to some
large city to bo slaughtered and packed,
has become so common that there
is rarely pork enough left in a hograising
district to supply the inhabitants.
Every spring and summer large
quantities not only of lard, hams, and
bacon, but pickled pork are sent from
this city to the districts from which the
hogs that produced them came. Many
farmers who have the means to wait
six months will in many cases be large
gainers by slaughtering their ho<s,
curing the meat, and trying out ..tee
lard and keeDinor them to supply the
local demand, which will be brisk in the
course of a few months after the time
hogs are ordinarily sold.?Chicago
Times.
INCREASE OF SILOS.
Silos, says the North British Agriculturist,
are now. to be found in almos#
every part of the British islands. They
are not only more numerous than in
any former year, but generally larger
in "size, most cf the old experimenters
having considerably extended their
operations. The results of the present
year will be awaited with interest, and
will go a long way in determining the
extent to which farmers may expect
benefit from the silo. Upon: ensilage
many people look as a medium through
which farmer' dependencies upon good
seasons will be lessened, their expenses
curtailed, and their profits increased, j
Tfc- mnnoc! will pffpnt a. savino* both of
labor and expense, by diminishing the
extent of land devoted to the cultivation
of turnips, while it would empower
fanners to turn to good account
much of their cereal crops which are
often, to some extent rendered useless
iui uutiung, milling, or grinding purposes,
by unseasonable weather during
harvest- Late seasons, too, will bi
less hurtful to farmers. Cereal crops
that are not likely to mature can be
turned into silo, wet or dry, and thus
be preserved in a green and nutritive
state for feeding purposes during the
following winter and spring. It has
already been abundantly proved that
fodder ensiled in a saturated condition
is equally as good when taken out as
that filled in a dry state. The fodder
pyiipflv nspri iri A/viflnnH thic rear iq
| tares, meadow and other grass, and the
; pressure supplied mainly by dead
! weights. In England some extensive
! tests are being made in the preserva:
..-i. v i ' . '
tion of maize. Mr. Wood, of Merton,
who has taken an active part in ensilage
pursuits, has tried maize two successive
years with satisfactory results;
the first year the maize when put into
the silo was wet and cold, and the second
year hot and dry.
DETECTION OF OLEOilAEGABIKE.
Dr. Thomas Taylor reports to the department
of agriculture that he has
made a series of experiments with oleomargarine
of different fats, using a variety
of acids to ascertain what permanent
change of color would take
place by oxidation, etc. Of the various
acids employed, sulphuric acid gave
the most satisfactory results. The test
is a very simple otie. If a few drops of
sulphuric acids .be combined with a
small quantity of pure butter, the butter
will assume, first, an opaque whjtixh-vellow
color, and. after the lapse of
about ten minutes, it will change to a
brick red. Oleomargarine made of
beef fat, when treated m the same manner,
changes at first to clear amber,
and, after.the lapse of about twenty
ainutes. to a deep crimson. That the
changes in color do not arise from the
action of the sulphuric acid on the artificial
coloring matter (annatto) is certain,
as I find that when. annatto is
combined with sulphuric acid a dark
>luish-green color is produced, entirely
unlike any of the changes mentioned.
Owing to the active properties of the
sulphuric acid, in making these te^ts,
a glass rod should be used in combining
^hese substances.
ECONOMY IN THE USE OF WOOD.
A correspondent of. the New York
World, describing^ how every foot of
soil is utilized in France, mentions the
method pursued to supply the country^
with fuel by the growth of Lombardy poplar.
The correspondent says: "Ingoing
from Paris to Geneva, via Dijon,'we
pass through the best portion of
France. For hundreds of miles evejry
inctx ol land is cuiavatecL ine aorupt
side hills an; in grapevines, and the flat
land in grain. Here we see the phenomenon
of double crops'?a crop of
grain and vegetables growing under .a
crop of trees. The Normandy poplar
trees are from an inch to three feet in
diameter. They are planted thickly, but
give no shade. They are trimmed
within sir feet of the top. The boughs,
which are cut off every year, make
fagots enough to warm France. We
often see men and women cradling
wheat or hoeing beets in ihejuiidst of a
wood giving no shade. When you look
across the country the tall, boughless
trunks look like black streaks painted
against the shy. They make the view
very picturesque. ^Wood is sold in
France for * cents a pound. It is worth
as much as corn in Kansas by the 1
pound. So when the Kansas man
burns corn, he is no jnore profligate
than the Frenchman who burns fagots." .
DKHXIXG AND SOEZXG WOOD.
The hand-drill or breast-drill, originally
intended for the hand-drilling of
metals, has taken its place among woodworking
tools. In many instances it
has displaced the bit-brace, or at least
has filled a requirement left unsatisfactorily
supplied by the bit-brace. The
breast-4ril| way he used for di^';fgimtet,-^
speed?on
forms?may be changed at w?H without
a change oTs^fiedttf -thefca&d,;- 'ifrfcas
its. rn nrn rwrU.^roi-r
motion of the hand?the vertical crank ,
movement instead of the horizontal '
crank motion. A drilled hole in wood, ,
for whatever purpose, is better than ja.
bored hole. The drill cuts a dean hole;
not merely finding its way between.the
fibers by displacing them, but removing
the material entire as it advances. The
gimlet form of wood-borer is crude at
best; a thread at the end is supposed to
enter the solid wood, and by spiral friction
pull the cutting portion after it.
This cutting portion is a twist like a
twist-drill or auger, supposed to deliver ,
the chips, which it never does, deliver. .
The pressure of the hand is necessary
to force the gimlet Into the wood, and
fVifi T\nll r\f tna To ronniro^ tATi*A
lease it and empty the chips. The drill
cuts a clean hole, and has none of the
objections of the gimlet. Unlike the
gimlet, it may be resharpened so long
as it lasts. Its speed in the breast-drifl
is very much greater than that of the
gimlet in the bit-brace.
A Cruel Caprice of Fashion.
I
' "The cruel fashion of 'bobbing',
horses' tails is being revived," said"
Henry Bergh to a Tribune reporter.
"It was a fashionable crazc about a
generation ago, and was not entirely
stopped until our society succeeded in
getting stringent laws enacted against,
cruelty to animals. The 'bobbing' is. .
<lAno Vitt tha wpaltliv n/>nnl(>. of
UJiaiLLlJ UUUU WJ VIX" J r--r?, ?
course. They have an idea that it
makes their horses look more stylish,
and to satisfy this caprice, God's noblest
animal is made to suffer the most
barbarous cruelty tha' devilish ingenuity
can devise. Of late, tLi officers of'
this society have noticed a great many
horses with 'bobbed' tails, and they
were nearly all of them in fashionable
turnouts.
"The men who perform these cruei
acts are blacksmiths or horse-doctors.
The animal is taken into a blacksmithshop
or out-of-the-way stable laito at
night, or early in the morning. While
one or two men stand guard outside^
the doors are barred and the horse is
securely tied by the legs so as to prevent
kicking. Its tail is then tied to...
the.loft or ceiling and a space of about
an inciTis shaved at a distance of about
seven inches from the horse's body. A
knife, is placed on this spot by the veterinary
surgeon, and another man I
c-t-fitrac- fVn Irnifn tTOft nr tJirpp hlnWS f
O '-JL bUV K?I v V*. w.w ... .
with a mallet, driving it through the"
flesh and bone until the tail is severed.
The suffering of the horse is excruciating,
its groans almost suggesting human
agony. An iron, heated to -white
heat, is passed over the severed enu so
as to stop theLfutuse flow of^blood, and
an iron ring, red hot, is used to cauterize
the flesn to the extent of half an
inch.from.the extremity of the! horse's
tail, for .the cauterized bone is crisp:!
and hard and might disease the flesh.
Disease and death often follow this
cruel treatment, because the men who
perpetrate it are quack veterinary surgeons
and blacksmiths who are as ignorant
of the anatomy of a horse as
they are cruel. These men work very
secretly, and though we have broken
up several places where they practised
their cruelty, we were unable to catch
the fiends at work.?New York Tribune.
The. bridge on the Baltimore and
Ohio Road scanning the Susquehanna
river will be one of the largest and
p.. .
most remarkable structures 02 its ciass
in the world. It will be 6,346 feet in
length, and built of steeL
In an address-just delivered Professor
Tyndall says- that a high German
authority told him that the cry of .German
soldiers in entering a battle during.
1870-71 was not "We must conquer, 1,
but "We must do our duty." \
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ScienUflc.^H3jBcelliny:
7 tfo Mnnow reaches
sea
-lcvcl?^accdrdiiigJ?-iLoijs. Y. I?a?io,:and
-the miller's'- thumb cue of 7,290 feet.
Tbeg^distbps at 6,500 ieet,- and no
others,p:ass^above 2,-600 .feet,. ? although
the "cai?,1encfi, rudd' and chub have
^>,"600feet? * - * - ? rifl i i:. *v.'.
* Vhe government^
India to winve5ti^ate""the cholera
a^estwa,-has ^satisfied. himself that
the^nmutedrpBisfiis; or-i&icwbes,"
.discovered.'!^' Dr. Koch are" not the
3atisevoi e&olet^;;^e.^JbaVsho\vn the
rsgaptgfch
- ^cr<^eS-^aa"d ho evil
100 of; ihe 'faring#}'OTe'^^^e^tter.^
Som<^'1ic^warrrace ~Tx?jS&i re-"51
porSed-oy several travelers as dwellers
.ia^ .Africa, jaosr.jit the
ol
4h% <aK^^^^oalv3cSr^|eetr:ancl% half
JSbfeijg3&:$^ to"6e> g^ant
:Ampag^ifee^j^opie^: o
A Frenctaoa&ffhiK'dsrosed a: pr-ecess
of giving t&z 4elt-.-a-slight coating of
jpltmhago or^net^vby whiph, th? appearance
"of -Tjurnlahedc steel> - copper,
"K/1 >r?*ifofor? ?. Tho
product is likely to prove very useful "
when, applied to stage properties, as
besides being inexpensive; it does not
materially increase the weight of articles
treated with it
The hair of a young girl, who died at
the age of fifteen in an insane asylum
of Hamburg, is reported to have shown
alterations of color coinciding with ;
periodical changes in the patient s mental
and physical condition. Besides
cpileptac fits, it was -noticed' that she :
experienced while in the asylum, quite
regular alternations of excitement and
calmness, each of about a week's duration;
and that the color of her hair was
red during each period of agitation,-while
it became blonde in her quiet intervals,
a complete change of tint tak ing
pteije in two or three days.
Mr. F. E. Beddard states that earthworms
two feet in length have been
found in the British Isles, and various
ppecies as large or larger are known to
exist in South America, Western Africa,
Australia and New Zealand. . The
largest species known, however, inhab
its South Africa. Forty years ago a
specimen was described which measured
six feet two inches in length, but
it seems to have been nearly forgotten
until the other day when a gigantic '
creature of the same species, nearly five '
feet long and half an inch in diameter, .
was sent to the London Zoological gardens
from Cape Colony.
One of the most remarkable of electrical
manifestations is that known as
o-lnhnlar or ball lie-htninfi', which is so
rare that physicists have "had little opportunity
of studying it A similar
plienbmenon, however, has been, produced
in the laboratory on a small' .
aecidently
piece of ^p^^^ d^r^ed ^on?o? ?
the discharges, Mons. Plan te, the wt""
known French electrician, has been 1qto
experiments in which a successful' j
imitation of ball lightning has evident- ,
ly been obtained. With a powerful !
current from secondary batteries he has J
produced in an' air condenser, formed
of two moistened pads of filter paper
placed near together, a small incandescent
globule, lasting some minutes,and
moving slowly in a most curious and
erratic path. When a condenser was ,
used iu which the insulating material
. was"ebonite a. sound was emitted like (
that of a toothed*wheel rapidly rotated 3
against a piece of card-board." j
Sfiapauiy u avaucu r ut.
Maybe a man feels happy and oroud i
and nattered and envied and blessed 3
among men when he sees a pretty girl 1
trying to raise a window of a railway <
car and jumps np and gets ahead of the <
other boys, and says, "Allow me?" oh! '
so courteously, and she says, "Oh! if 1
yon please; I would be so glad," and (
the other male passengers turn green 1
and he leans over on the back of th? j
seat and tackles the window in a know
ing way with one hand,if peradventure <
he may toss it airily with a simple turn '
of the wrist; but it kind of holds on, and '
he takes hold with both hands, but it <
sort of doesn't go to any alarming ex- 3
tent, and he pounds it with his fist, but J
it onty seems to settle "a leetle closer 1
into place, " ana tnen ne comes sruuuu i
and sho gets out of the seat to give Mm J
a fair chance, and lie grapples that 11
window and bow-; up his hack and tugs {
and pulls, and sweats and grunts, and <
strains and his hat falls off, and his 1
suspender buttons fetch loose, and his J
vest-buckle parts, and his face gets red, 1
and'his feet slip, and people laugh, and <
an irreverent young man in a rem6to j
seat grunts and groans every time ho *
lifts, and cries out: "Now then, alto- 1
gether!"as if in mockery, and he bursts 3
his collar-button, and the pretty young ]
lady, vexed at being made so conspicu-. 1
ous, says in her iciest manner: "Oh!"
never mind, thank you, it doesn't make
any difference, " and calmly goes and
sits down in another seat, and that
wearied man gathers himself together j
and reads a book- upside down?oh! 1
doesn't he feel just good. Maybe, but 1
don't be fool enough to extend any of <
4.1? -n-- j _?~i4.
your syxapaujjr. XLC uuvau t uccu. i*.? ;
Burlington Hawkeye.
The European "War Correspondent. ]
There is hardly a more formidable <
variety of the armed man than the En- ropean
war correspondent in his com- i
plete war-paint. He is girt with de- {
structive weapons, like a Montenegrin- ,
patriot or a 7-irate of the Bowery melo- drama.
A derringer hangs on his left
hip, a four-barreled "bulldog" balances j
at on his right, a .Winchester repeating- j
rifle .crosses his back, the strap of it 1
supporting a supplementary cartridge- ;
pouch, a traveling inkstand, ana a ,
housewife containing needles, thread, j
and other conveniences advisable in a ,
campaign where staff officers will have \
-to repair their own clothes. Add to
the paraphernalia a bowie-knife, a case- j
knife, a hunting-knife, and a sword, a (
.field-glass, a water-bottle, and a flask; 1
add a haversack by the side and a j
knapsack for the back; add a case for j
pens and pencils, also a little medicine- ]
chest, and you have the more salient 1
ttome nf nnfrfil,. A Field-Marshal 1
in all his glory is less suggestive of ,
havoc and the dogs of war than a scribe ;
thus, terribly caparisoned- .
Flats haw become fashionable in San
Francisco. .They were introduced only
two or three years ago. I
A DKY TIME.
When the Earth Drinks up Her Oceans.
Prof. Cookley, of New York, says:
Most of the 'planets have probably
cooled down by radiation to a solid,
under crust like the earth. -The sun,
owing to his greater mass, is still: a
fiery globe not yet cooled down so as
to have a solid crust But our moon,
beSng a body of small"mass only about
one-eightieth of the earth's mass, is
supposed to have had time to cool ,
down to a solid globe all the way from
its surface to its center. Its internalheat
is supposed to have been all radiated
away into the smj-ounding cold,
space. Now, the hot interior mass of .
the earth can, of course, contain-.no
water, and little or'none of the free- "
gases that constitute an atmosphere-; i
Xhey would be boiled off, expandwl \
anddriven to the surface where are
found now the great bulk of our oceans
and our atmosphere. But when ?he
earth shall have parted with all her Internal
heat, having- thrown it into the
surrounding cold space as the moon '
has. done^then the cold, solids bat porhigh
temperature, will begin to..;drink I
op the water and air, just as the parch-'
ed son after a summer's, drought drinks
up the rain, and the ground is dry in
a few minutes after the shower. But
you may well ask, could the solid porous
mass within the present .crust of
the earth thus drink up the whole of
the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific:
Oceans and cause all the waters of our
globe to disappear? Let us examine
this more closely.
While the interior of the earth remains
as hot as it is at present it is no:
mnrd nndsrhle-for the water and air- of
our globe to penetrate to theso fiery ,
regions than it is for a drop of. water'
to remain on a hot stone. But the
earth is losing its heat day by day and
year by year, radiating it out into the
surrounding cold- space. I know it has
been computed that the earth receives
from the sun annually just as. much
heat as it loses in a year by radiation
into the surrounding space. Grant
that it be so for the present and for
many thousands of years to come. But
the trouble is that the sun himself is
coolffig off, and, therefore, will not be
always able to send us as much heat
as he does at present. The time will,"
therefore,"surely come when we shall
lose more heat by radiation into space
than -the sun wHl be able to return to
us. Then it will be only .a question of
time for the earth gradually to cool
down, as the moon has already done,
from surface to center. . When that
time, comes, will not the dry but solid .
/wim ftf nni? fflnlw dr?nt rm
auu VV/AV Vi WUfcA. VM. u???
the oceans and atmosphere, .causing
them to disappear, not Into large cavernous
pockets, but "into the minute
pores*of its substance?
The proposition appears to be established
by strict calculation that the
interior of the earth when .cold will be
able to absorb more than four times,
possibly more than thirty times, the
amount of water now on its surface. ~
Now, it seems ccrtain that in the.man?
ner first explained the earth witt con*
tdhuff to lose both its- - superficial water
and ijs ^3B<?phere. ..The earths/the,
and even.:the sun -him
cholyiafce! some will -say. But^ why. r
complain of the genera?Jawof natrire? *
'veiythin?; in nature has its morning :
of life, its nigh meridian of glory ana
strength, its evening decline and "its
midnight of blackness and death. - Is
the case of a world?is that the list
term of a series? .
The Judge and the Conductor.
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A young lawyer,v once quite forgot
limself in some curt expression to the
;ourt, but the Judge was a 'sensible
-nan anr? in rvmsideration* of the im
maturity of the member of the barireated
the matter rather gently. He' '
made it clear, however, that _ the style
lad better not used again and re- 1
marked significantly: "This Court is
naturally quick tempered." A remark,
by the way, not inapplicable to the late
3hief-Justiee Eigelow, who on one occasion
was brought to his bearings in a
way as effective as it was amusing. He
was riding in a car that did not stop at
^uincy, where he resided, and, as it
was passing by, he pulled the rope.and
;he train was brought to a sudden stop,
rhe conductor rushed into the car and
lemanded: "Who rung that bell?"
"I did,': said the Chief-Justice. "Why?"
1 'Because I want to get off." At which
;he railroad official indulged in some
remarks wmcn were not complimentary
md hardly respectfaL The Judge af;erward
complained to the" President of
iie road, who promised to look into the
natter. But he found that, although
;he conductor mteht have used hot lan^uage,
the Chief-Justice was not without
fault, and said nothing about it.
fThen they next met, by chance, the
Latter demanded of the President
whether he had reprimanded the coniuctor.
"I spoke to him," was the reply.
"Well, what did he say?" "He
iaid that he was coming up some day
to adjourn your court" The irate
magistrate saw the point and did not
pursue the investigation.?Boston Every
Other Saturday.
Very Tame Shooting.
I ^ve yesterday through the immenH
mlk oifLord Abergavenny's estate.
It is poor, sandy land, but it has
been so much improved by well-laid
jut roads, trees, and long ranges of
rhododendron hedges as to seem very
beautiful. The large herds of deer,
the innumerable ducks and rabbits,
probably cover the expense of keeping
np the land/ There were also many
pheasants. This beautiful Indian bird,
very rarely seen in America, is now extremely
common in England Though
they ran^e freely about the estate, they can
hardly be called wild, since they
are regularly raised from eggs, and fed
with rather expensive food, spoiled or
inferior raisins being an important item
in their support The 1st of October is
the day when those who own them are
allowed by law to shoot them?in point
of fact there might with as much propriety
be a law to regulate the shooting
Df hens, ducks, and geese, for it & a
tame, fed fowl.
By the way, I observe that in the
statement that England is going to the
logs it is specified that half her land is
being turned into desolate moors. We
may add to this that sheep are sacri-.
Seed to grouse. The fact is that tne
moors reserved to grouse are dismal
tracts of desolate ground, such as would
make a crow shed tears if he had to fly
Dver it. And yet such prices are paid
for this land for grouse raising as would
amaze any American farmer.?Cor.
New Orleans Times-Dcmocrat.
One bushel of ashes represents about
two and a half tons of dry body wood.
Honesty Pays.
It must be confessed that the difficulties
of doing a gpod square business in
a good, thorough, square style are becoming
greater and harder than ever
to combat Honest and honorable competition
has given way largely to a
series of petty , shifts to" gain a mean
advantage, and the business man has
frequently to encounter bold and unscrupulous
lying among his rivals. If
young in business and needy, he must
solicit favors from men he despises,
and have transactions with others
whom otherwise he would scorn to associate
with; he will find that it is the
rule .for men to do much for policy and
Ettte for principle; that it is a matter
oi aimcuicy to ckj cis piain, nuuvn stoij
bat it seems as if he most- got the exchange
or into the business world, with
a set. of actions, ..pretenses,,and even expression
that does not belong to him,
but is assumed for that particular purpose,
and all too often the assumption
gradually absorbs other and better
guaiities of.miod and heart and bcs,
omes his .qkiI* character. - Is he disposed
to;scff pure and unadulterated
an inferior arricle
at a lower price, but affirmed to be its
equal in every particalar- iifote he do
Jus work faithfully and use the best,
materials, he finds himself uhderbid~by
a skillful competitor, who cunningly
works in inferior . material with careless
and cheap, labor, and, worst of all,
the borers wm give the cheap bidder,
even when the quality cf his goods and
workmanship are suspected, a readier
hearing. .
TfiAn what an immense advantage
the squarely dishonest man of to-daypossessed;
he who does not mean to
pay, who buys on credit without capital,
and contents himself with a mere
{Motional profit, or ho profit at all,
making a failure, and being considered
rather honorable .'because he pays 50
cents pntfce, dollar to his creditors;
creditors who allow him. to go on with
bis stockTSf goods in,direct competition
with the Ironorable men on the other
side of the street; selling the self-same
goods bought of them at the self-same
hrst price, which they expect the solvent
parfy to. pay in full for. Does he
originate a popular article, a method
in business, or iany invention that promises
a profit* let him-fce prepared for
imitators who boldly claim his ideas as
their own, and others who will dub a
worthless article with the title he has
originated,, and thereby bring the name
into disrepute.
We know that in this keen race to be
in thfi stTnccr]#* fcrr thft ad
vance-'ih the fight for success, it will be
said that_every man who enters; the
business field must, expcct the .above to
be the rule and not the exception, and
the amount of praise given to smart
rascals, snd the knowledge that the
world's first question is- not how a man
goi his money, but has he got it, would
seem to indorse this conclusion. But
in spite ol tfiis, men have proved fhat
it pays to combat all obstacles,
which are principaly efforts for a short,
road^to wealth, and stick to sterling,
sturdy, old-fashioned honesty in trade,
which tells in the - long run, notwithstanding
it may take a. . long run to:
m4ke. it tell. But thcre is a large class
that
knowledged, even asa business move,
that "honesty is the best policy."?
Boston Commercial Bulletin,
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Edwin Forrest.
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Mr. Jtorresc nas oeen ever noceu ior
forcible acting, and we are indebted: to
an admirer ior this illustration of it.
Mr. Forrest, being on a tour, complained
In warm language to the supers that
they had hot the night before attacked
him with the spirit and courage soldiers
would have shown in. classic times
?he, Forrest, being a Roman warrior.
Mr. Forrest stormed and threatened;
the papers - s ulked and consulted. At
length the captain of the supers inquired,
in his local slang: "Yer wants this
to be a bully fight, eh?,r, "I do," replied
Mr. Forrest. "All right," rejoined
the captain, and the rehearsal
quietly proceeded. In the evening the
little theatre was crowded, and Mr.
Forrest was enthusiastically." received.
When the fighting scene occurred, the
great tragedian took the center of the
stage, and the six minions entered rapidly
and deployed in skirmishingorder.
At the cue, "Seize fcim!" one minion
assumed a pugilistic attitude, and
A fkfl eliAnl. i
OW. uv;a. Or LUUVY dUida^Ul UUIU 4<U^ auvmder
upon the prominent nose of the Eoman
hero; another raised him aboa*
six iiiches for the stage by a well directed
kick, and the others made 'ready
to rush in for a decisive tussle. For a
moment Mr. Forrest stood astounded,
his broad chest heaving with rage, his
great eyes flashing fire, his sturdy legs
planted like columns upon the sta^e.
Then came the few minutes of powenul
actings at.the end of which .one super
was seen striking head foremost in the
base drum in the orchestra, four were
having their wounds dressed in the
green-room, and one, findin<?Oumseif in
the flies, rushed out upon ?,ue roof of
the theatre, and shouted "Fire!" at the
top of his voice; while Mr. Forrest^
called before the curtain, bowed his
thanks pantingly to the applauding audience.
who looked uDon the whole af
fair as a partof the piece, and "had
never seen Forrest aet so splendidly.'"
? Columbus Bohemian. Facilitating
Matrimony.
At a recent wedding reception in.
South Carolina a young lawyer begged
leave to, offer a new scheme of matrimony,
which he believed would be beneficial
He proposed that "one man in
the company should be selected, as
President; that' this" President should
be. sworn to keep entirely secret all
communications that should be forwarded
to him in his official department that
night, and that each unmarried gentle-'
man and lady shouKT write his or her
name on a piece of paper, and under it
the name of the person he wished to
mow tfaon "hflnH it. tn flip Prpsirfpnt
for inspection, and if any gentleman
and lady had reciprocally chosen eachother
the President was to inform each
of the resnlt, and the choice of those
not reciprocal was to "be kept entirely
secret" After the appointment of the
President communications were accordingly
handed up to the chair, and it
was found that twelye young ladies and
gentlemen had made reciprocal choices,
but whom they had chosen remained a
secret;, to all but themselves and the
President Eleven^of the twelve matches
were afterwards solemnized.
The school population of the United
States is 16,0(K),000.. Of this 10,000,000
are enrolled in the public schools. :.;The
public school system. 01 tne country
spends more than $91,000,000 a year,
and employs 290,000 teachers.
GLEAXTNGS.
Edinburg, Scotland, is to have a line v r
of streetcars propelteiby cable.
Carl Schurz can "sneeze without disturbing
his eye-glasses when they are
on his nose.
A Justice of the Peace in Harrison
County, Mississippi, presides with coat
and shoes off.
Laura Sanborn has taught a school
for forty-three years in Alexandria,' H".
H., and adjoining towns.
An English surgeon says that shaving
is a deadly practice, and if steadily indulged
in shortens life by several years.
The London Economist says that the
loss'of the British fanners in selling
wheat at the present prices is $10" an
acre, i
Idaho claims a population oi 88,000
and untold wealth*-and. she ifents^to
know if that isn't enough to entitle her
to Statehood.
In some parts of North Carolina^ ^
I candles and kerosene lamus are still
considered articles of'inxtny, while resinous
torches are to be had gratis."
Professor Tyndali. the scien^ts,
Smokesapipe *nd wears; a cafc-s3dn
lined nigbt-gown. jjjciojgce is* aJJL yeiy
well, b.nt comfort u ?e professor's .
weakness.
A Pennsylvania" village debating
ciety ' has decided- that single lif5^
ty of the debaters are.J^iieTe^'tohaTe
been married me?-;"T
Thefree .text .book experiment in
Massachusetts is said tobe.ar. success.
It' has resulted' in a larger. attendance
in the schools, and it is ~ more economical
than the old system; ~ v*:
Passengers on the Bed Sea steamers
; to India, were exposed, last summer to
a maximum heat of 105 degrees; the
winter temperature on these steamers
is never below 80 degrees.
A student of the university, of Geor- gia
was given this simple sum: If the
third of six be three* what would Ihe
fourth of twenty be? This bright student
after figuringfor half an hour,
gave it up. .
"Strauss has received hundreds of let*ters
from grateful young people who
have met their future" wives and husbands
at the Venice dancing parties,
the formation of whi<?hhas been stimulated
by his waltzes.-. The ungrateful
ones should now speak up.
In the old records of the town of
Clinton, Mass., a' certain little thoroughfare
was called "Cat alley." In
the present book of tax registration the
name is euphonized into "Pussy avenue,"
and it is "Supposed that the next
step will be Feline Iboulevard.
For several yeaxs the London street
cars,which run on more than 400 routes
and cany 75,000;000 of people a year,
have had texts of Scripture neatly posted
up in them; at an annual cost;. of
$2.50 each. This is the work of an association
formed for that purpose.
The signal officer on the summit of
RkeVPeak says the highest Velocity of
the wind ever recorded there was-119 - miles
per hour,, when the instnnneafcj
fcroke and cordwood began flying down
the mountain. The guide adds that
seventy-five miles per Sour would lift a
mnle-out of-the tr&iL
.One of the; Soutff American fruits
which^rcW&^K?d-4a- Southern Cali?
flMrapaMMSW: "**
"bears a fruit ?ke a rifled -cannoii sBftl, , :
'about four inches long by from two to
three inches in diameter.
.. ..
The greatest depth so .far discovered
in the ocean is 26,850, five miles, or
about 2,200 feet'less than the height of .
the world's loftiest mountain peak,
Mount Everest, one of the Himalaya ^
io ^/>nr?/? fA nnf. IMQ
vuaui) nutvu io .ivsuuv* w wv mv?
and apparently a little more, than 29,000
feet above the sea level.
Twenty-four years ago the United'
States had in them only 80,000,000 peo-.
000 people. Now we are grown to over
54,000,000. In I860 we only had 141
cities of over 8,000 inhabitants, now
there are overSOOsuch Cities. The total
population of this class of cities was
5,000,000, now it is over 14,000,000.
It is an e^ror to suppose that an ordinary,
mind is the best administrator of
small duties, for this impression is,
alas! too strongly contradicted by the
fact that the many daily grievances,
the myriad of petty cares'and details of
family arrangements prove quite too
much for' the generalship of feeble
There lives near Dahlonega a family
of people who have eves scareeiy larger
than a .pea* and so small is the opening
between the lids that a person "a few
feet off can't detect whether they are
open or closed. It is stated that they
can't see at all at night They are
Known zar ana near as. uxe xuAie-eyeu
Howards.?Atlanta Constitution.
...
Preparations are b.ing made at the
obseiyatory on "Mount Hamilton, fifty
miles" southeast of San Francisco, lor
the reception of the great Lick refrac-.
ting telescope. The refractor will have
a clear aperture of.three feet, the great
flint glass disc for the lens is 38.18 ;
inches across, and-eight tons of coal
were consnmed in casting the vast mass
of flawless crystal which cost $10,000.
A letter from Ascunscion, the capital
of Paraguay, gives the surprising information
that of the 800,000 population
of the Paraguayan Republic only80,000
?one in ten are men. The 570,000
women are the farmers, producers, and
laborers. They work slavishly and are
very poor. While the men.. sit at homo
and drink and smoke the; women Indefatigably
toil and support the families.
England is at the head of the mirrormanufactiiring
industry of the world,
producing 750,000 square yards annually.
France produces 530,000 square
yards and Germany 340,000 square
yards. In this country thS principal
mannfefltnrv at Lenox lurnace. Mass..
produces about 110,000 square yards a
year. There are other. smaller manu'
factories in Kentucky, Indiana, and
Missouri.
A recent cough will almost always
yield to the following-treatment within
two or three days: Mix in_. a bottle four
ounc. s of glycerine, two ounces of
alcohol, two ounces of water, two
grains of morphine. Shake welL Dose
reran adult, one or two teaspoonfuls
every two or three hours. Half this
quantity to children from 10 to 15
years. "It is not safe to give if to infants
or children under 10 years of age.
a ' m
The Mcdical Press states that the gjj
Commission appointed by the Government
of India to examine into the cholera
question has reported that Dr.
Koch's microbe is not the cansc of the
disease. Dr. Klein, director of the
Commission, is well known as a thoroug
and exact investigator in microscopy,
and so convinced ww he of the
harm!essness "of the coinme-bacillus
that he swallowed a number of them.
They procncad no noticeable effect on .
him.