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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1884. NO. 28. VOLUME XXVIII. v|l
THOUGHTS.
Thoughts of the past are fragrant flowers
that bend
Orw the graves of griefs, long laid at
rest;
Thoughts of the future, silver mists that
blend
With daylight on the far-off mountain
crest.
Dawning at last, to make our spirit blest.
Thoughts of the present oftentimes are
sweet,
Ay, far too sweet for tongue or pen to
tell;
A? when the wind-kissed jasmine's breath
doth greet
The mellow twilight, while some distant
bell
With hallowed melody tells, "All is well"
?Eleonora Tudor, in the Continent.
"A WITLESS THING."
"A document in madness: thoughts and
remembrances fitted."?Hamlet, act iv. sc. ">.
"Now, remember. Lord Grayton," said
the doctor, solemnly, "all I told you.
You are very welcome to come to our
ball, though, as a rule, we only ask a
certain set of v.ise men and maidens who
know our ways and their ways. Still,
you are pood - looking, humorous and
cheer}-, and if you arc sensible you can
enjoy yourself, and. maybe, do them a
world of good. I believe in electricity
as a curative agent?not the quack nouh
sense of belts and chains and musical
boxes, that only shake the nerve-centers,
but the real electricity of animal spirits,
the tonic of good health.''
"I shall do exactly as I am bid," said
Lord Grayton. a handsome, florid, muscular
young man. strong as a horse, buoyant
as a balloon, just back after a selfimposed
exile of five years in India
with the big game; '"but tell me of
all those cautions again. I did a lot
of dancing of various kinds years ago,
before I went after the tigers"?and he
laughed as mingled memories of May fair
and the Lotus club swam back to him?
"and I've tried both the Corroboree and
Salonga; but 'pon honor, I never danced
with a lunatic trirl vet.''
"Are you quite sure of that?" said the
doctor, grimly; "thcv arc to be met with
'outside Cops wood, I can tell you. However,
listen; the rule is simple. Be civil
and don't contradict. If old Crackton
asks you to play chess, play. He's a good
player, and will beat you fairly if he can:
if he can't he'll make a false move and
call 'checkmate.' and you must resign.
If poor Snoblv thinks you are the prince,
ana 'Sirs1 you nil over the place, and
throws out hints about being asked to
Sandringham; if you are asked to listen
to the chiming clock in Baker's interiors,
or to avoid some one else, because he's
glass and might break, you must do your
best to be courteous !o them all, and* on
no account laugh at their fancies."
" Bounds rather jumpy. And the
ladies?"
"I'll see to that, and introduce you to
the nicest, and tell you what to avoid
speaking about; the men will make the
talking for themselves, the women don't
talk much."
^ "Sign of insanity, I suppose. And
what am I to talk about?"
" Everything save one thing?the Empress
of Austria, or the stage, or white
roses, or Mr. Mallock, or black stockings.
I'll give you the cue?never fear;
omy it may happen that one of them
will ask you to dance, and then you
must steer as best you can?talk society
or art on chance. My own girls and
their friends get on famously with the
male patients, and you must do your
beat. Come, you are. going to be our
best tonic to-night, and you must be oft
and dress; 9, sharp, -mind, as they all
go to bed at midnight."
"Queer thing, this," soliloquized
Grayton, as he completed an elaborate
dressing, "beginning my first season
after five years by dancing with a lot of
lunatics. Hope they won't wear straw
in their hair; if they do, I shall bolt to
the Congletons' dance."
He had many strange adventures that
evening as he strolled about the pretty
ballroom at the Copswood private
a?ylum. He was duly defea!ed at chess
UJ 111C V CUC1 OU1C vtativiuu, "
ately slid back-a captured queen on the
board, and performed prodigies of valor
with her. He sympathized with the
F gentleman who had swallowed a croeoaile,
and be noticed the pale cadaverous
man who amused himself by counting
the lights on each side of the room and
ringing softly trt himself: " Sorry I can't
admit it, sorry I can't admit it!" He
had been an Acrostic editor once upon a
time. He noticed the fussy little man,
with a pale-blue shaven face, who
nanage the sixteen laniteoujlv
entreated the
ack over ull that again,
d get it crisper;"' and
ilist who wrote parat-cuffs,
and many other
passed by in the motley
led reasons.
Lear," whispered the
y foolish fond old man,
pward,' passed them.
Brighton A's'; "you
?" and he whispered a
i's ear that made that
softly.
t 1.
i^?wnose
BH should be as mortal as
QHue V " asked Grayton,
H^Lknew his Shakespeare
I^Ktor.
n^Keep their secrets. Now,
E^wnd the Doctor took
[^^Kcup of coiTee.
^B^bird sight altogether,
H^Ktched it, it reminded
SHB" Dance to Death,"
HBSnorbid as he thought
DHp life. He had once
fl^^iis heart to a woman
jMTioth idealized and idolJnrouth.
brains and position,
er he felt he could con<iuer
It was an old story: she
FK^HTbut to be as loveless as she was
|^Vr, and so he took to the timers. He
MS got over it all now, but he shuddered
Kb he remembered the fret of it all. and
thought how near madness he had been
driven when he heard of her ultimate
fate, and where her life had drifted to.
So there were Ophelias here! More like
Audreys, he thought, as he watched
some rather uncouth gamboling in a corner.
His eyes wandered around the
f room, and rested last on a face.
|l It was an exquisite oval face, somewhat
sad and wistful in expression, of
that rare delicate olive color one sees in
^ the South, with the skin of so fine u texture
that the red flush springs up through
the vein-tracery at a moment's excitement;
the large brown eyes were soft and
dreamy, the chiseled mouth was half
parted, and the dark-brown hair, looking
black at night, was worn Greek
fashion close to the head, sweeping in undulating
lines past the tiny rose-tipped
ears. She was seated on a low sofa, carelessly
clasping one knee with both hands.
She wore a simple white frock, just mysteriously
frilled round the little white
rxf a tV*Tv*uf onrl ft trvont lilfirk
rod rose nestled in her breast. One little
hieh-archcd foot, in peach-colored netted
silk, kept swinging to the music. No
one seemed to talk to her except the doctor,
who smiled pleasantly as he passed
and said something to which she answered
with a nod.
"Ophelia at last," said Gray ton to
himself; and in melancholy vein he
wished,he were Hamlet and could lie at
her feet and watch the play.
" 'Poor Ophelia! divided from herself
and her fair judgment!'" (the quotation
was irresistable). i'l wonder what sent
her here?some brute of a man, or a
soldier-lover killed at Knssassin. Gracious!
I hope this terrible Meg Merrilies
is not going to ask me to dance!"
and he moved away, as he saw a sadeyed
woman bearing down upon him, to
a seat somewhat nearer the* pale girl with
the black-red rose.
For a time he watched her: then he
tried to magnetize her. At last their eyes
met; he stared her full in the face. She
never shrank from his look, only a sort
of pitying light seemed to glow in the
v sorrowful eyes. A moment passed, and
then she rose quietly and with perfect
self-possessed grace warned mcr <.v mm
?to his intense astonishment sat down
quietly by his side, and said, in a soft, mu?cal
voice:
"You seem sad to-night; I am eorry."
For & moment he was tongue-tied;
then he recollected his instructions and
?ull*d himself together.
*
.
"Well, I think I was sad because yoi
were looking sad."
"Was I? I suppose I always do
then. Of course, being here natural!}
j makes one feel sad. " Do you care foi
i dancing 2 I'll dance with you, if yoi
ilike-"
" Dance I with you ?w
"Oh, yes, if you like; many of th<
1 others dance, you know."
"IIow calmly she seems to recogniz<
her sad state!''thought Grayton. as h<
| stood up and passed his arm round pool
(itiln.li'i'a clfinrlpr wnictv wondorinf' how
she would "jig and amlile." The}
were playing the " Dream-Faces," anc
! as they swung in undulating rhythm tc
! the pretty song he felt that few Blips ol
I sane seventeen rould come up to her.
"That's right." said the doctor, en
I couragingly; "set a good example.'
"Means I'm to be a tonic. I suppose,'
! thought Grayton; so he carried ofl
j Ophelia for an ice.
"You dance beautifully," she said,
j " No, you sit down and I'll get you the
ice; there, now, there's a spoon and n
! wafer; now you feel comfortable, don't
; you ? Isn't that a lovely waltz ?"
i "Yes, I'm fond of 'dream-faces:' the
people one meets in dreams are generally
I vastly nicer than the real folk. I have
I -i n
i inany uit'iiuwrieuus.
" Have you ?" she said, looking
amused: " tell me of them."
" Well, you know, I think I'm married
i to a dream-wife?just like Gilbert's Prinj
cess Toto, you know, with her dreamj
husband. And she comes to me somei
times and scolds me if I've done anything
in the day; and sometimes she's very
loving, and sometimes, she's cross and
doesn't come near me for weeks.''
He felt as if he was telling a fairy tale
: to a child.
" How charming! Do tell me more of
her. Is she beautiful ? What is she
| like ?"
The fanciful couceit seemed to amuse
her, so he went on drawing pretty pictures
of an ideal woman; then growing
I unconsciously eloquent, he burst out:
! "Ah, if one could only meet her alive,
! what a wife she would make! A very
i second self, aiding, sympathizing, help
ing, loving?at once the ohceriest of
j chums and the most idolized of idols."
j She had flushed a little as he spoke,
i but she went on, " What a pretty pic!
ture? "Where did you get your beautiful
' thoughts about marriage?" i
" i suppose my dream-girl taught me.**
" Is she pretty?"
Gray ton wondered if deliberate barej
faced compliment would be a good tonic
1 for a lunatic. "Yes, beautiful. She
has large brown eyes, wonderful hair, a
i low voice, an olive oval face, she dances
j superbly, and she wears a black-red rose
! in her white dress."
| Ophelia looked a little frightened.
"Forgive me, I didn't mean to be
rude, but she is?really; you are not an
grv with me?" an<l he laid his nand gen!
tly on hers.
"Oh, no;" then there was a pause.
! "Come, and let me show you some pictures;
I'm something of an artist my;
self;" and she led him into a long gal1
lory, and talked art so sensibly and symi
pathetically that here, at all events, he
! felt there was a very pleasant method in
| her madness.
"Talking art" is a recognized method
. of interchanging sympathies.
He was no bad judge of a picture; but
he preferred to affect ignorance, and
j asked the stupidest questions simply for
| the pleasure of hearing her talk. There
j was a kind of innocent dignity about her
J that fascinated him. She was more like
j a vestal virgin than a Bacchante. So the
| evening passed all too quickly, tillhesud!
denlv bethought himself that there was
I un important division in the Lords that
| night, and that he was bound to be a
| "not content" before the clock struck
j eleven, and after that he was due at Lady
i Congleton's dance.
' 'Must you go away ?" she said; ' 'why ?"
"Well, you see, I'm one of those mucli'
abused people that the radicals call he,
reditary legislators, and I am not abol!
ished yet; I must be in our house at
eleven.''
Of course she could not have under1
stood a word he said, for she murmured
to herself: "Poor fellow! so young, too!"'
He rose and held his hand out. "Good
| night; thank you for a very charming
evening."
"Good-night," said Ophelia, tenderly.
"I should like a little memory of this
; meeting; "will you give me that rose \
1 l'v/. lnnrpinrr fnr it nil tho nvonincr "
I I >C UV1U .... WW* ? .^?...&.
"Of course I will; why didn't you ask
j for it before?" and she took it from her
; dress and fastened it in his coat. "1
shall see you aeain, there will be another
dance here soon. How is it that I never
saw you before at one?"
"This is my lirst (knee," he said,
gravely.
Why it was that Ophelia's eyes sudj
denly filled with tears he couldn't understand,
but she left him with a quiet
j bow and went back to the dancingroom.
j "You've been enjoying yourself, 1
: see," said the doctor, as Grayton came to
; say good-bye, "though I must say it was
rather selfish of both of you."
j "Selfish! why, I did all I could for
j her, poor, dear girl!"
"Poor! why, my dear Lord Grayton,
: she hns six thousand a year of her own!"
"Dear me! and what 19 clone with at r
" She does what she likes with it; she
helps all the big charities, and she helps
me and Oopswood in particular, and she
; generally does a lot of good to our poor
| people?picks uj: some one she takes a
: fancy to, and cheers him up a bit. She's
I one of my best tonics, and this is the
I first time I have noticed that she ncvei
! danced once with a patient; that was
: your fault, you know."
j " Good gracious! then she?isn't?a
i ?a patient herself?"
The doctor laughed till the tears rolled
down his jolly face. " Bless ray heart,
no! That's Lady Mary Pettigrew, daugh1
ter of old Lord Polonius, and she's just
one of the cleverest and sweetest girls in
| the world. I thought you knew her."
"Not I! She came over and spoke tc
J me, aad?"
"I sec it all?took you for a patient!
: Oh, this is too lovely!" and the doctoi
1 was positively boisterous in his merri'
ment.
Grayton bolted to the house, and, hav,
ing duly recorded his vote against the
| bill sent up from the commons, for chloroforming
grouse instead of shooting
them, betook himself in a strange stati
of bewilderment to Lady Congleton's.
His hostess welcomed him warmly, like
t the returned prodigal that he was, and
insisted upon introducing him to somt
one in whom she seemed to have a special
interest.
I "Really a delightful girl, Lord Gravi
ton, quite alter your own heart?devoted
! to art and philanthropy, you know."
Grayton was too full of thought tc
) protest, so submitted meekly. Whal
, were girls to him just then? He wa;
J thinking over Copswood as his hostesj
, took his arm and they set out on a pil
gi image.
' .Yli, here she is! Lady Mary Petti
I trrew. Lord Grayton. I'm sure you twe
I will get along capitally;" and her lady
j ship was oif, leaving Grayton staring
. vaguely nt his fascinating lunatic.
| Ladv Mary could hardly suppress a
i scream as she turned her head and blushec
j as deep as the rose he still wore in hi;
j button hole.
"How?how did you get out?" sh<
asked, awkwardly.
4'I never was in, Lady Mary: the fac
is. I'm afraid there has been a little mis
take on both sides. I only found ou
from the doctor as I left that you weren't
a?
She put her feathery fan up with i
warning "Hush!" then said, "wha
; brought you there if"
"f'lirinoifw (111(1 VOtlV"
vu. ?vr?.v ,
1 "I often go there and try to do somi
! good. I cheer them up sometimes; bu
! to-night! Oh, how wroDg and stupid o
! me!"
{ There was a little pause as he lookei
at her with his frank, kindly eyes.
"Let forget and forgive, Lady Mary
after all, you were very good to poo
Hamlet."
' 'And you were very nice and kind t<
foolish Ophelia. Listen! there's th<
'Dream Faces' again; let us see if wi
can dance it in our right minds," shi
said, as she rose, with a nervous smili
quivering in the corners of her lips.
And it so happened that in a montl
they both same to their right minds, anc
i the doctor was at the wedding.?London !
World> _
? A Senator's Carious Faculty.
r "Talking about peculiarities of mcn'? .
1 minds, I lieard United States Senator .
Beck, of Kentucky, tell a queer story." j
said a gentleman to some friends, tho
i other night. " We were all discussing
] the same subject that is up now, when
J j Senator Beck remarked that he thought
J i a peculiarity of his brain had done him
r j a great deal of harm in. his life. 11 first |
r j noticed it,' said the Senator, ' when I
I . ? Km. in Sonflnnd
I ? U. U. UUJ iv C>V?VVI ...
I | I had a strict old preacher for a tutor, !
> and, with a number of other boys, went
f to the parsonage to be educated. One :
night I was very sleepy, and still had a
long Latin lesson to get off. I tried i
' hard to learn it: but almost before I
' was aware I would be dozing. 1
f At length I read the exercise j
i through in a half-dreaming condition, ,
I and with the Latin all a jumble in my j
*' head, I went to sleep. I awoke the next i
i morning with my brain thoroughly clear, I
;! and, strange to say, all the ambiguities j
{ of my difficult lesson were made plain, I
> j and I read the Latin without a balk. !
' | The same thing happened a second time,
j and I again found that when I went to
j sleep with a confused idea of my lesson,
; learning it while half dozing, I awoko
i with all the knotted points unraveled.
. It became my custom after that to read
| my task over just before going to bed,
: and I never failed to have them in the J
i morning. My strict old tutor saw that i
; I never studied, and thought one of the (
other boys was helping me. At length ;
he gave me a page of Livy to translate, !
and told me if I did not have it for ;
i him the next morning he would flog j
| me. Then he forbid any of the .
boys to come near me and
i watched my actions. I read the lines as ,
[ usual before going to sleep, and sure
, j enough the next day I had them pat as
you please. He never troubled me after i
i that. Well, the year passed by, and I j
! began to put too much faith in it, and
I depended almost entirely upon my mysI
terious helper. Some time ago a phrenoli
ogist came to examine my family's heads,
I and they all went wild over him. I paid
J no attention to their talk, though my
wife urged me to give the man a trial.
One day, however, he met me, and was
po persistent that I at length sat down to
; him. He said that he would examine my
I head for $3, and give me a chart for $5. I
told him $3 was all I would throw away,
j and he began to name my characteristics.
At length ne said: liYou have one faculty
that is fully developed. It is spirituality.
You have that faculty developed to a
marked degree. You would have made
a fine medium. Your mind is capable cf
working separate from your body?that
is, it can perform mental labor while the
? Jo of met on/1 Irnnwc rmtViinrr r>f it
| WVU., - ^
j You sometimes solve difficult problems
1 while you are asleep, and wake up in the
morning without knowing that you have
been at work." "Here is live dollars,"
said I; "a man who knows as much as
you do deserves it." "My strange facI
ulty," continued Senator Beck, "whether
! it is spirituality or not, is growing weaker.
! I can hardly explain the action of my
| mind during these abnormal spells. I
see the lines and words before my mind's
! eye, and, without knowing the process,
j or indeed, being aware of any process, I
\ work on the problem."?Courier-Journal.
Japanese Religious Festivals.
I TV,? To nnnooo oro omftnfr thf> finest, I
! floriculturists, and 110 habitation, how!
ever small, but has its bed of flowers, in
I some cases not two feet square. Their
, I religious beliefs are, and always have
'1 been, a source of constant mystery to
| foreigners, as the methods of worship of
' j their deities vary according to the whims
; I of the reigning governors. There is one
I festival, however, which they have al- j
j ways kept for ages out of mind, and is a !
j parade in honor of the god Sweva, or I
the patron of the province. This festi- ;
I val, which is the more brilliant from its
I chancing to coincide in point of time'
! with one of the annual religious festivals
I common to the whole realm, Ls of ten
days' duration, and begins by devotional
i' rites in the temple.
Everybody visits the temple in his j
;' robes of ceremony, prays there, and j
' makes the usual offering, which is on a j
, scale commensurate with their means, j
,1 and always includes a cup of saki, which
1 i> the national beverage, .something like
! ginger ale. The image of the god is
! then taken upon the shoulders of stout |
, men, and, with all his (the god's) pos- i
I sessions, such as offerings, etc., is placed '
! on a pedestal in the public sijuare, '
I where all can pay devotional visits. In
! the nrocession mav be seen all imaeina
I ble shapes and things; in the lead a:
j number of two-sworded gentry, who
! carry !i<rht poles, to the top of which ;
, are affixed large brass rings, and the j
I poles being struck upon the ground at j
' every pace, a most confused jangle is the i
i result. Next comes a giant-statured fel- j
. j low, whose flowing robes are covered |
' j with all kinds of emblematic devices, j
I such as birds or beasts that are
! favorites, some renowned man or |
,! celebrated woman, the instruments j
| of a particular trade, or some- ;
i thiug alluding to the prosperity of the I
, j country, or sometimes of a locality, or j
,! that recalls the fame or the simplicity of i
, I the early Japanese. Next come the mu- j
(j sicians, blowing horns and reed pipes, '
i and beating tom-toms, drums and gongs, j
[ | and in general creating a most deafening
I r.nrnnr ivlierpnt the lionullicc shout and i
, -X" ? 1 I" -i
11 dance for glee. The Ottona. or mayor, j
comes next, leading a train of children j
I in mimic representation of one of the
mikado's grand campaigns, and cach lit- i
j tie one is clad and armed in the exact j
: costume of the time of the battle, and i
j is an exact counterpart of the heroes of j
old. Next in order is a miniature repre- |
' | sentation of the Japanese court by chil- j
1 dren dressed to ape the manners of the j
sovereign and his courtiers, and the ,
truth to life which these children put j
into their parts is very amusing to their 1
( parents. There arc two religious fes- ;
tivals in all parts of the empire in every
month, the grandest of which, however, j
. is the festival of the New Year. This
festival is preceded by the payment of all
| debts contracted in the past year, and in j
! that feature is worthy of imitation among j
: more civilized people. No Japanese,
!! however poor, but will make sacrifices in j
| order to meet the New Year demand. '
'! One of the most touching ceremonies is
! ! the putting afloat upon the bay a myriad- j
j lighted and highly-colored lantern, which
! i represents the souls of the friends who
' 1 have departed this life, and the eagerness
' ! with which the career of cach individual
' j lamp is watched as it tosses upon the bil- j
! lows of the open bay, now lost to sight, j
' : again up brightly burning, while the
L! trustful heart watching it is strung to a
| fearful tension till it finally drifts beyond j
'; the aching vision, a sure proof that the
V?oo "hio rfwflwl in thp
}' Japanese heaven.
New York's Statues.
George Alfred Townsend writes about
j the public statuary of New York as fol>
lows: The public statuary of this city
; now includes an equestrian Washington,
'1 an heroic Washington, heroic statues of j
| Franklin, Webster and Seward, Lincoln,
| Lafayette, Farragut, Shakespeare, nearly
1 I colossal Burns and Sir Walter Scott, Fitz3
i Greene Halleck, Alexander Hamilton,
j Morse, Commodore Yanderbilt, and large
' | out-of-door busts of Mazzini, Bryant,
; Humboldt, Goethe, Schiller and "Tom"
t j Moore. There is a monument to the vol
i unteer soldiers, and fanciful statuary of
I | the Falconer, the Angel, the Indian
k j Hunter, Insurance, etc. Brooklyn has
i Lincoln, Fulton, busts of Irving and
i J Moore, and much cemetery statuary.
II Proper subjects for other statues in New
j York would be Columbus, Hudson, De
Witt Clinton and Cromwell. The New
* "* ' * ' ? -.1-r.n/li. fll ?1
i | iun^ianci cicmi'm huh uir-uu) u^iiuilu w?v,
t' hitter subject. There exists in all New
f j England only one statue of Cromwell,
i and that is the gift of a lady to the city
1 ; of Manchester. A magnificent monu1
mcnt to Washington is soon to be erected
: j in Philadelphia, a costly monument to
r j Garfield in Cincinnati, a statue of Garfield
in Washington and of General Rey>
j nolds in Philadelphia. The Bartholdi
? statue of Freedom for Bedloe's Island
s will be matched by few monuments in
2 the world, as by the Arch of the Star in
a Paris and the Prince Albert monument
in London. American portrait sculpture
i1 is not surpassed in gjace and expression
1 by any Northern nation.
I
MAKING ICE BY MACHINERY
HOW WATER CAN BE FROZEN EVEN
iN THE faOTTEST COUNTRIBB.
Fish and Bird** prcucrvci in the Con'
tcr of TrnnN|>nr?!iit ('nbcn of Icc?
Wonderful Icc Cavern*.
"The latest ice scheme,"said a man interested
in the ice business to a New
York <S?//i reporter, "is to build a railroad
from the top of some of the mountains
near the equator, such as the Andes,
load the cats with blocks and shoot them
down into the vnlleys below, By an arrangement
of break they could be sent
into any town or village within a reasonable
distance. I believe such a plan has
been tried in some countries, and it is
not impracticable. The ice machine,
however, is the best thing for southern
countries. You know the ice machine
is not entirely a modern invention, for
the wealthy Greeks, Romans and Indians
had their ice manufactured in some way.
But the late inventions have been an outgrowth
of the demand for cheap ice in
the south, and now nearly every tropical
city of any size has artifical ice even
under the blazing nun of the equator. It
can also be manufactured aboard ships,
or, in fact, anywhere, and it makes possible
the transportation of a thousand
articles that without it could not be carried
from one part of the world to another.
"The first practical attempt to make
ice in modern times ;vas by Gorric in
1849. This was followed by Kirk's machine
in 18G3, and Win lhausen'sin 1870,
and a host of others. One exhibited at
the late exhibition in Vienna made a ton
and a half of ice in an hour, at a cost of
thirty shillings. The two methods that
find most favor among practical men are
somewhat difficult to explain. One
method utilizes the lowering of temperature
that is the result of the rapid expansion
of a compressed gas, while the other
makes use of the similar thermal effect
resulting from the volatilization of some
liquid. In the first-mentioned machines
atmospheric air is compresscd to three or
four atmospheres, and kept cool by water
in circulation or by other means. It is
then allowed to expand, and the heat absorbed
during the expansion comes from
the water to be frozen, or from a solution
of brine which is not affected at the
freezing point of water, and which then
becomes, as it were, a vehicle for the
cokL
"Uncle's ice-making macnine, some
twenty-two of which were in operation
at the Dusscldorf exhibition of 1880, is
the latest form of ammonia machine.
The danger of explosion, one of the great
disadvantages of ammonia, is obviated
by carrying the liquefied gas through
narrow iron tubes, and by employing
only a small quantity of the substance at
one time. Blocks of icc are formed between
the spokes of a revolving drum,
which, being cooled internally by the
evaporating liquid, dips into a tank of
water, Metliylic ether is in some respects
better than ammonia, having a
higher boiling point, and requinng
smaller pressures, without the necessity
of heating. In Teller's machine, which
is specially intended for use in ships, the
methvlic ether evaporates in a closed metallic
vessel, the sides of which arc in immediate
contact with the water to be
frozen.
' Many of these machines will have
their greatest value in keeping articles
cool instead of actually making icc.
Such a machine will some time be made
that will keejt the rooms of a house cool
without injury to the occupants.
"1 visited an ice manuiactory in i\ew
Orleans some time ago, and it was an interesting
sight. Tlicy had some curious
samples on exhibition, blocks of ice a
foot square, as clear as crystal, and having
in the interior a bouquet of flowers, a
fish, a quail, or a woodcock, showing
how game can be sent and preserved indefinitely.
Other cakes were of ornamental
shape, and hollowed to hold
claret punch or lemonade.
"In many countres ice is obtained from
natural ice houses, wherein, while the
ordinary temperature outside ia eighty
degrees, ice is continually forming. Such
a ravine or cavern has been found in New
Jersey, and near Lincoln, Vermont, there
is a glen in which snow and ice lie all
the year round. One of the most remarkable
of these ice caverns ia that of Dobschan,
in Hungary. It is quite near the
town, and is approached through a narrow,
winding limestone valley, called
'Stracenaer Thai.' It is in the interior
of a mountain, having a general direction
east and west. The entrance is near the
top, and extremely narrow, and was only
discovered by accident. Once inside, a
remarkable scene is beheld, the ice, which
seems formed in manv lavers. havine as
6umcd peculiar shapes that characterize
the limestone caves of our own country.
The total rock and ice surface in the
cave is about 24, SCO square feet, the ice
alone occupying about 21,000 square feet.
"The cave is divided into two parts,
upper and lower. In the upper part
the roof is of limestone and the floor of
Bolid icc, and it "is divided into two
great halls of wondrous beauty. The
roof of the largest hall is supported by
three enormous pillars of clear ice, one
of which is hollow, and through which
flows a stream from above, producing
strange echoes and reverberations. All
about are fantastic forms of ice, resem
bling human beings, pulpits, monuments.
and so on, giving to the cave a
most grotesque appearance. In one end
the ice forms an exact representation of a
large cascade, as if a rushing stream
with its spray had suddenly been Irozen
solid. Descending to the lower room
the passage is GOO feet in length, and by
following down through the ice you come
to the natural omlet of the water.
" In all countries such caves have been
found. So extensive is the ice cavern on
the peak of Teneriffe that it affords a
permanent source of supply, and even
vessels arc loaded with its ice. This ice
is columnar in shape and does not melt
easily, and so can be transported without
great loss. Near the village of Stelitzc
in the Carpathian mountains, there is one
of the largest ice caverns in the world,
and, curiously enough, it freezes in the
summer and melts in the winter. For
instance, in midsummer the roof is entirely
covered with icicles, but in winter
they disappear, and by Christmas time
the cavern is dry and warm compared to
the outside world. Ice begins to form as
soon as spring opens. In some deep
mines ice forms at certain periods. This
is the ease in some of the salt mines of
the Ural Mountains. Great cavities are
formed in the gypsum, and in the winter
??" fill/./l witli j-lnnr u-jitpr lint in
the Rummer they are frozen solid.
" We have similar cases nearer home.
In this State are several icc wells, and an
ice cave has been found at Decorah,
Iowa."
Banana Plantations.
Jamaica contains numerous banana
plantations, varying in size from twentyfive
thousand to two hundred thousand
plants, for the most part cultivated by
the small settlers in the different parishes.
These holdings generally consist of three
or four acres of land. The culti%-ation is
very primitive. The land being cleared
by a big iron hoe, a hole is dug, and the
sucker is planted in it, in most cases
nature doiny all that is necessary; but,
in larger plantations, the bananas, the
| trunks of which reach a height of eight
or ten feet, are planted with some degree
: of system in the form of squares, and
trenches are dug for irrigation, the
banana thriving best in damp, stiff soil.
A Lake Full of Herrings.
In one of the Lofoden Islands, off the
1 roast of Norway, is a deep and tideless
| lake of considerable extent, connected
i with an inlet from the ocean by a short
- j ~i_.ii?Tk/.
ana nuhiiuw uiiuii. x iic iiii|fu?vui?v uiu
j c-ovcry has lately been made that this
; iakc, though it contains so little salt that
! the water is not unpleasant to the taste,
is stocked with herrings, which not only
j i hrive but breed there. They are so numerous
that thirty tons of them were
j netted in a few days this season. The
I story is that they multiply faster and
j llourish better than in the sea, for the
' reason that the lake contains none of
their natural enemies.
The total number of deaf mutes in tho
United States is H4,000, or one out of
every 1,500 people.
The constitution of Michigan prohibits
any form of religious service in either
'.ouse of her legislature.
.
farm, garden And household.
ITieat for Effcaj
Meat scraps and refuse at four or five
cents a pound, producing eggs which
sail for thirty or forty cents a dozen,
would seem to be a profitable business,
and so it is. If asked what is the secret
of making hens lay in winter, we should
reply?1st, a dry, warm, sunny house;
2d, meat: given both, artd your hens
niid pullets will turnout the flggs, depend
Upon it. Of course we don't mean
to say feed meat and nothing else. Oh,
no! But feed meat as a winter "extra."
1 > ? . ^
II it is tnc ngnt Kina 01 meat council,
lean, and chopped in small pieces, it
won't hurt your hens a bit, but it will
make them lay eggs. It is just what
they want and crave, but usually don't
get. Give it to them every day, a little
at a time, just as they'd get it for themselves
if it were summer, and grasshoppers
plenty. In feeding for eggs, give
shells, bone, lime, warm mush, warm
water, red pepper, and so on; but whatever
else you forget, don't miss the meat,
and mind we are recommending good,
wholesome lean meat, well cooked,
though it may be cheap livers, pluck,
scraps, etc., but not putrid fat, or wormy
bacon.?Poultry Bulletin.
Planting Potatoes.
It has long been the custom of many
large potato growers to discard the seed
*?nH nf flip nntritn in nlnnfinrr. The UCn
eral belief has thus been created that the
seed end is of no account. Professor
Sturtevant has, however, been experimenting
a little with this question, and
finds according to dame Nature that if
anything the seed end of the potato is
the best. The last season he planted on
the New York experiment farm onetwentieth
of an acre with single eyes in
drills, three and a half feet apart, and
the eyes a foot apart in the drills. The
total number of eyes planted was 582. Of
these, four from the seed end, five from
the center, and sixteen from the stem end
failed to grow. At harvest 100 hills of
each were dug and carefully weighed.
The total product of the hundred hills
was, for the butt eyes, 104 pounds; centre
eyes, 131 ponnds; seed end'eyes, 142
pounds. This gives a result to the acre,
allowing all the eyes to have grown, of
206 bushels for the butt eyes, 259
bushels for the center eyes, and 282 bushels
for the seed end eyes.
In commenting upon this result, Doc
lur oiuricvtuiL ??>?.
"While one experiment hardly affords
sufficient data for the purpose of generalization,
yet an experiment as carefully
conducted as this one, and with the
method of planting, should possess some
value as indicating the influence of
position upon the seed eves used. Yet
we must remember, however, that if we
had used more or less of the eyes in our
trial the result would not have figured,
in all probability, relatively the same.
We can, however, truthfully express the
fact that in this experiment we have
gained increase of crop from the eyes
taken from the seed-end portion of the
potato, and we may be justified in coming
to the general conclusion that until
further evidence is obtained the seedends,
hitherto rejected by many, may be
considered of equal value with that portion
of the potato usually selected for
planting. Indeed, the general summary
oi our experience wun me pouuo as ncntofore
represented, as well as the result
of the present experiment, goes to show
that the vitality of eyes used as seed improves
according to the position they occupy
upon the potato toward the terminal
position.
Tlic Ilckt Time to Fell Fore%t Tree*.
Farmers as a rule find it convenient to
fell timber, both for fuel and for rails,
during the winter months, after the harvest
is well over and before early spring
work begins. Every season the question
is agitated as to the desirability of this
custom, and the best season for, cutting
wood becomes the subject for discussion
at clubs and elsewhere. , " j
The question is certainly an important
one when the trees felled are to bo consumed
as fuel.
r\e .1 jVi.,1 Vnlf
i 1./j green wuuu ujil"*inn vi iv uuu'iiaii
| or more oi its weight is water, partly
| depending upon the time of cutting,
i Experience appears to prove that all
I kinds of wood cut in January contain
from fifteen to twenty-five per cent, less
water than after the sap is net in motion
in the spring. In Schuller's experiments
one hundred pounds of ash wood cut in
January was found to contain twentynine
pounds of water, while the same
amount cut in April contained thirtyeight
pounds of water; one hundred
pounds of sycamore cut in January contained
thirty-three pounds of water, and
forty cut in April. White pine cut in
January contained fifty-two pounds; cut
in April, sixty-one ppunds of water.
George 15. Emerson, in his work on
trees and shmbs, gives the result of circulars
sent out by him to different parts
of the State of Massachusetts, asking
' What season of the year is found best
for felling a forest?" To this question
the testimony was various, but all the
correspondents concurred in saying that
the tree should be felled when not in
leaf, the majority favoring the winter
months?any time between November
and April. Another enterprising Massachusetts
writer who has investigated this
subject says: "It is considered preferable
for the future growth to fell a forest
in April and May, but the wood is not so
good as when cut between Novemberand
Auril."
As wood naturally seasons 'in the air,
thereby losing much of its weight of
water, there is a large waste of strength
in hauling green wood. This fact accounts
for the custom in many sections
of felling trees in winter, but often not
working them up for some months.
Another important fact is the waste in
burning green wood for fuel. "While in
reality a cord of green wood produces
just as much heat as a cord' of the
same wood dry, the cord of green wood
will not supply for use one-half as much
heat as the dry cord. The explanation
is simple: The sap in green wood must
be expelled before its carbon comes into
play to produce heat.
This takes place gradually in the form
of vapor, which carries off a large amount
of heat that is not rendered available.
As wood seasons more rapidly when split
in small picccs, it is a wise provision to
have firewood cut in shape for winter
use as early as practicable.
In selecting wood for fuel it becomes
a matter of economy to take for firewood
such sorts as will do best service in range
and stove, leaving behind for rails, timber
and fence posts the varieties which,
while possessing little value as regards
their heating qualities, stand in the fore
most rank for durability under exposure
! to the weather.
Shellbark hiokorv represent among
forest trees the highest standard for fuel.
Calling hickory, 100, other trees will
compare with it for real value as fuel as
follows: Shellbark hickory, 100; pignut
hickory, M; white ash, fct?; white oak,
88; dogwood. 75; fern oak, 73; white
hazel, 72; apple tree, 70; red oak, 67;
white beech, (55; black birch, 03; yellow
oak, 60; hard maple, 5!l; white elm, 58;
red cedar. 5(5; wild cherry, 55; yellow
pine, 54; chestnut, 52; yellow poplar,
44; butternut and white birch, 4:5, and
white pine, 30. A number of these
woods which show a very low value for
fuel are highly estimated for fine cabinet
work and interior wood work.?New YorkWorld.
Fnrm and Cinrdon Note*.
One hundred bushels of shelled corn
will shrink to ninety in the bin.
By ensilage and partial soiling a fifty acre
farm can be made to keep fifty cows
and a team.
Keep steel bits in a warm place until
wanted for use. It is cruel to put a
frosty bit in a horse's mouth.
The effect of short manure unon licrht
soils and of long manures upon heavy
soils are to improve greatly the physical
character of each.
Remember that sheep are fond of succulent
food and will not thrive when
kept on dry food only. Like other animals,
they relish a variety of materials.
Professor Brown, of Ontario Agricultural
college, decides, after a number of
experiments,- that the best results are obtained
from superphosphates when used
in connection with barnyard manure.
. .i'iu
To a limited extent farmers can grow
tomatoes as a farm crop with advantage
uiid prolit. They will yield more bushels
per ncrc than potatoes and the crop
usually sells at fair priccs,
A trial wns mndc Inst seuson in Scotj
land to test the feeding value of an acre
! of Swedish turnips for fattening sheep,
| and it was found that the cabbages were
j worth very nearly $20 the most.
Give cattle as much as they will eat up
clean at each feed, and as much water
I and salt at all times as they will take.
| As soon as an animal begins to fret for
| food it begins to lose flesh, and the fat- tening
process is chcckcd.
! A little pruning should be done every I
year. If large limbs arc cut off the j
j wound heals over slowly or not at all. |
! With trees properly cared for it will j
! never be necessary to use any implement :
! larger than a jack knife. Pruning shears I
j are objectionable, as they injure the !
| bark, which prevents making a clean j
I cut.
Oat straw is generally preferred to any j
I other for feeding horses, though analysis
shows it less nutritive than wheat. Bariey
straw is objectional for most kinds
of stock, on account of its rough beards.
It is probable that the softer texture of
oat straw makes it practically superior
to that from wheat, as the softer texture
of the oat induces animals the more
j readily to cat it.
One of the noticeable facts which attracted
the attention of an intelligent
English farmer, in American farm practice,
was the width of the furrow. Anything
over a foot seemed extra wide in
his opinion. The English plan is to plow
i narrow furrows and turn them more on
I edge.. To get over the most ground is
I AAwmAn A rwnnoon l/l OH in "nloWITlfr.
as in everything else, and for this wide,
shallow furrows turned flat are best
adapted.
I
Household Illntw and Recipe*.
A spoonful of kerosene oil put into !
cold starch will prevent the iron from
sticking.
A good dressing for leather is made of
one quart of vinegar, two ounces of
spermaceti oil and six ounces each of
molasses and ivory black.
Often one has gravy left from a roast
of beef, and if you have no soup stock to j
which it may be added, use it to fry
sliccd cold boiled potatoes in for brcakj
fast. This makes an excellent dish.
To cook cabbage with milk, boil until
I tender in clear water, drain, then set
aside until perfectly cold. Chop fine
and add two beaten eggs, teaspoonful of
butter and a half cup of rich cream or
milk; mix well and bake in a deep butj
tered dish. This is a very palatable dish |
| and is a favorite with many who cannot
! fat cabbage cooked in the common way. |
I To make excellent soft gingerbread !
i take one cup of sugar, one cup of butter, !
one cup of New Orleans molasses, one
cup of sour milk, a pinch of cinnamon,
two eggs, and about five cups of Hour,
enough to make a thick batter. Mix the
molusses, sugar and butter to a cream j
and place on the fire until warm; beat the i
! eggs thoroughly, add the milk to the
warmed mixture, then the eggs, and 1
lastly the flour. Beat hard for ten min- j
,1 t -I
i utcs, ana men dukl* in u simuun uu.
An Army of Working Women.
Every night of this wintry season, under
| the darkness of 6 o'clock, you can see ,
J trudging through the streets of New j
j York, to their boarding houses or other i
j quarters, thousands and tens of thousands i
| of young working women. They have ;
i been toiling from early daylight at some 1
I one or other of the hundred industries '
j through which they find scanty means of ,
I livelihood. Thev arc now in the horse .
j cars and elevated trains; they crowd their j
way along Nassau street and City Hall .
park; thev swann through the Bowery;)
they march in long procession up Second i
and Third avenues, Sixth and Eighth 1
avenues, and other lines of busy travel and j
traffic on the East and West sides of the
island. They have been variously cm- I
j ployed through the day as:
j Dressmakers, Seamstresses,
j Paper 1k>jc niakers Lrico workers,
Artificial flower hands, Tailoresses,
Silk embroiderers, Collar makers, |
j Crochet work mm, Necktie n akers.
! Kid-glove makers, l a; er-hag niak. rs,
: Shoo fitters, Cigarette rollers,
Photograph colorers, Kea i workers,
I Fringe makers, Tobacco strippers, I
| Fcatner workers, Suspender ira cers, j
j J.aunJre^e.-*, Upholsterers.
| Mi liners, Bookfolders
i * tt t J.
j i5nse-Dau nanux, oiuan. munci...
Candy packers, Yarn spoolers,
| Type writers, Hat finishers,
Cashiers, Fur sewers,
Tor makers, Flap makers,
Umbrella makers, PocUetbook hand
Straw sewers, Fruit canners,
Hair workers, Errand girls,
China painters, Bookstitchers,
; Piano-action makers, (iovernes e.;,
i Nurses, . Canvasser.-",
! Housekeepers, Cash girls
j Corset mukers, Perfumery makers,
j Costumers, Labeler.i, l
Gold-leaf workers, Hoop-skirt makers,
| or in scores of other industries, where
their labor can be mado available.
They turn out an army 100,000 '
strong, for that is their number
ns near as can be ascertained
! from the imperfect statistics that have
been compiled. No accurate census has 1
! ever been made of these working women, i
| but the Protective Union, which keeps a
! free registry of those t seeking work
j through its agency, has thirty thousand \
names on its books, and as many more '
are on the rolls of the Women's Christian
association and other organizations. At
least as many more, it is estimated by i
those best informed, are seeking employ- j
merit and livelihood through their own ;
! individual efforts,ho that 100,000 is likuly j
j to be below rather than above the actual
number of women bread-winners in this !
city.?iJohn Sainton'1* Pujwr.
A Relniniscence of Guitcnu.
_ According to the Washington /W, (
j Colonel Crook, who signs land patents j
j for the President, was so struck with the j
j antics of Guiteau that he made a little ,
j sketch of his head in his note-book upon j
j the lJJth of May proceeding the assassij
nation. Colonel Crook says that Gui1
tcau came up to his desk 011 that day |
] and borrowed two or thtee sheets of j
' paper. He was very impudent and was
| very indignant because Colonel Crook 1
j gave him plain paper instead of the olli- ,
.cial paper. Colonel Crook said very ;
shortly: "You can take that or none." j
Then Guitcau said with a thump upon
his breast: "Perhaps you don't know j
who I am.'' Dashing down his card lit !
continued: "I am one of the men who i
made General Garfield President.'' The j
colonel was so struck with the appear- !
i * ; 1 * j
| a lire arm pretensions m um u?ni|> mm, ,
I he then and there made a little sketch of j
his face. lie wrote under the sketch, |
I "Charles Guiteau, of Illinois, one of the ,
I men who made General (Jartield PrcsiI
dent." By the side of this sketch he |
wrote: " This fellow put on more airs I
; than is usual for a man who is begging 1
I for office." When Garfield was shot, !
! Colonel Crook turned to his hook and
j found that the assassin and his impudent
j caller were the same.
Matches.
' That match you arc lighting your
cigar with is v very small thing, isn't it?''
said a passenger who had shared my seat
I for a few miles. "A small tiling, but you
wouldn't believe the American people
paid out $'27,000,000 for matches last
year, would you? It looks big, but it is
a fact. Now, take a pencil and figure it
out. Fifty millions of people in this
country: they use on an average five
matches each per day; that is 250,000.nnn
.i,?D ,?.' > r.00 00(1 Iidvos rif .
VW UliUUIiVO HIIIIJ, w.
100 matches in u box, every tiny. Last
year these boxes retailed at an average of
three cents each, making $70,000 a day
for matches, or $27,;$7.'>,000 a year. And
then to think that three-fourths of all these
matches were supplied by one company!
j If they didn't make SS,000,000 clear
| profit out of it they didn't make a cent."
I They own thousands of acres of timber
j land" in Michigan, anrl their lumber is
cut by their own men and shipped on
their own boats. And then they have
contracted for nearly all the world's supply
of phosphorus years ahead, and the
new manufacturers starting into the business
find themselves overmatched in
many ways by the old company, which
can still control the trade and make a
fair profit on its investments. They control
twenty-two factories and one of them
has a capacity of 72,000,000 of matches
daily.?Chicago Herald.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
M.me. Nilsson is an expert on the banjo.
A Boston paper states that Mr. Hemchel
and J'r. Howells are engaged in writing; a
comic opera.
IIenry Irving drew $lfi,0(i0 the first, and
17,'iiiO the second week of his I'iiiiadelpiiia
engagement.
Twenty men handle tlio scenery of " Tho
S'ranglers of Paris" and nearly e?;;hty people
play ia the ple.-e.
Miss Kate Vaughn receives $275 a week
salary at Drury I ane, as Cinderella in the
Christmas piece!
John McCaull. the New York theatre
ttrnm 5'Aimwfill .InnVcnne frnctor)
scout in th" lata war.
Gorhm' says that Mine, Nordica has paid
Colonel Man es >n $10,1/00 for the privilege of
singing with his opera company.
Salvisi the Italian tragedian, essays
Hamlet in the English language at tno
C'ovoat Harden theatre. London, in March.
Biornstkin B Johnson, the novelist, ha
just c jmpleted two dramas, one entitled "A
Glove." and the other, "Beyond his Powers.'
" Bon Fillibustro," an American comic
orera, the scenes of which are laid on the
Mexican frontier, will be proJuced in New
York soon.
Ristori's native town, finding that fun''a
ran short for the monument its people were
erecting to her, applied to her for ai l for it,
which the eminent Italian actress sent.
St. Louis is to have a great musc-hall,
after the same general plan as that in Cin
cinnati, and the contracts stinulate that i.
shall be completed before November 1,1-SSlf-,
B. C. Stevenson has adapted Wil'iam
Black's "Sunrise,"' having considerably
changed. with the author's permission, tho
plot of that curious story of revolutionary
nlnt.tincr.
It is said that the Duke of Edinburg wi!l
pose as a composer of opera in London next
May. The title of the piece will be "The Massacri
of Glencoe,"and Bret Harris the writer
of the book.
It is rumored among clubs of New York
that the money bas been subscribed to build
Henry Irving a theatre in New York which
he is to manage in connection with his London
Lyceum.
Prominent citizens of Galveston, Texas,
representing one hundred million dollars,
have invited Clara Morris to visit their city
and give a series of performances. Miss 11 orris
has accepte 1 the "invitation.
A blind Bostonian, Mr. E. B. Perry, ha?
been earning golden opinions from the Stuttgart
critics by his piano-playing, ile is especially
praised for his gra-efuland feeling
interpretation of Chopin's compositions.
Flobence says that only two actors have
ever held foreign appointments at the hands
of the United States government. Mr.
Cooper was appointed by President Tyler
and John Howard Payne was consul at
Tunis when he died.
Sir George Macfarrak's "King David"
is something ot a marvel in the way of a
musical composition, from the fact that the
composer wa< over seventy years of age, and
was compelled, by loss of eyesight, to dictate
the complote oratorio.
A recent important musical event was
the production of Ponctiinelli's opera. "L^
Gioconda,v at the Metropolitan opera-hou-e
in New "York, with Mauamo Nilsson in the
title role. The opera had never before been
4-Uir. /.A.mfnif
pi UUUl'D^l 1U bUiO UUUnui T
The eminent basso. Karl Formes, tells
American parents that they make a grave
mistake in sending tbeir children to Italy to
: tudy music wheri tliev can obtain mur.-h better
results at home, lie >ay* musical science
is at its lowest level in Italy, and the great
singers are not Italians.
Mary Anderson's success in London appears
to be social as well as professional. It
is said she recently received a telegram from
a parvenu millionaire, asking: "What will
vi.u charge for dining at my house.' You
will meet the Prince of "W'a'es and be treated
as a guest.'' The telegram remained unanswered.
The rulers of the Society of Friends in
England have just issued a revised edition of
the yuaker regulations to the members of
their body. Suc'i ''foolish and wicked pastimes''
us ' balls, gaming places, horseraces
and playhouses" are strongly denounced, but
"needful recreation'' is prescribed as a
"duty." Music is now permitted, but "musical
entertainments" are still forbidden.
Durino tho performance ol th? Molly Maguiro
s:-ene in the play of "Tho B.'ack Diamond"
at Leadville, Col., a crowd of miners,
among whom, it is reported, was Mike Costello,
a member of the legislature, throw rotten
eggs and stones at the actors and broke
up the play for a time. Eventually most of
the miners were arrested, and Miko Costello
among the number.
Ix the Chinese theatre, at Ran Francisco,
the members o? the orchestra sit in a row on
the stage, smoking their pipes and keeping up
a mat awful discord. Ihe "supe" sits ac
their bead like an "end man" in ? minstrel
band, in bis check shirt, and occasionally
get* up and pulls off or puts on
hjjjult suiiiu KUIIIC) III U13 VAVK V?MV.?* ? I
tho rifle from Griffin's hand and accidentally
shot himself dead.
The thirteen-year-old son of Joseph Burns,
of Chacon, Texas, while preparing for a hunt,
accidentally shot his sister Bessie, killing her
instantly. Her younger brother, wild with
grief, ran out of "the house and has not been
heard of since. Ho was last seen on the
prairie seven miles froin home.
A TALE OF HORROR
Appalling Siciios on a Steamship
Humeri in tlic> II ay of Hi sen}'.
Tho steamer (rrantully landed at Dover
England, one passenger, the chief engineer
and fifteen men, who were rescued with grea
difficulty from tho burning steamer St
Augustine in the Bay of Biscay on the previous
Sunday. A heavy sea was running at
the time, rendering futile all elt'orts to get
the b^a's alongside the vessel, and
tho rescue 1 men were huuled on
beard the Grantully with lines and
buoys. They were the last that left the ship.
The second "mate shot himself, and a sailor
stabbed himself during the fire thiough
fright.
The Blcamer John Williamson rescued six
more nun from tho Saint Augustine and
landed them on the Tyne. The men report
that the scenes on board tho Saint At gustine
during the tiro were perfecjly appalling.
Something fell from aloft, cutting oif
one of the captain's .'ois. At his own re
:-l
quest a wavy mi ill-, uivm... U.^
waist, Jin J lie was thrown into the sea.
Several of tlio sailors drowned themselves
ill (lcspa:r. The fire spread with such ra])iility
tint everybody 011 board be.ame
panicstricken. Tli Jo!in Williamson rescue t
six iren. including the second engineer, with
n lifeWmt, which was s i ashed by the sea lis
thev were drawn on board. Othor persons
were seen 011 the burning vessel, and several
ladies in the water.
QQEER SUICIDES,
Frank Avneh. of tircen River, Wyoming,
blew out his brains because he hud the rheumatism.
Cuaiu.es X. Mass-.y. n boll-ringer for auctions
in the town .-f Te-serv.llo, III., took arsenic
because he was suirering from a lame
leg.
William Ott. of Davenport, Iowa, first cut
his tonsils and then shot liimself through the
breast. He had been for thirty years a merchant
of Davenport.
A machink for drawing wire into smaller
M/cs was attended by (Jeorgi' Kellogg, a convict
in the 1II i ois State prison. lie nickel
tip one of the loops from the coil of wire that
he was feeding to the machine and t >ssed it
over his neck. Ho was drawn down to the
:i.i_ < 1 l.o,l I
bit ck instnnuy w.ui uti ihh- mm-, .m.i u..?
;> H* time to say " (tood-byeto tlio convict
standing next to him lief ore ho was killed.
Jti-t before committim.? the act he went 10 his
keeper nnd told him he wishe.l to see the warden,
nnd being told he was absent, he replied:
'Well, I wanted to make a confession to him.
I nm the manthat committedthedouble-mur:ler
at Atlanta. 111.'' In his cell he left a letter
addressed to Chaplain Rutlidge, saying:
'1 have been treated well in the prison. I
have no malice toward any one. 1 am innocent
of the robbery that'I am sent here for.
bir. it iss methin^olse that worries me. I
was ia:sed a Methcdist, but what am I nowt
I nm nothing. Mv God, forgive me and be
merclfnl to me. It is more than I have been
to myself." Kellogg wns about twenty years
old.
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JNEWS UF THJfi WiSM..
Eastern and Middle States.
Within two days sixteen horses wera 1
burned to de*th in three different fires in i
New York 1
George i). TVkstervelt and William Mc- ,
Norton, the former a prominent oil operator,
were killed by a boiler explosion at a wo'J
near A lien town, N. Y. >
A fire in Syracuse, N. Y.. destroyed the J
stables of a street railroad company and
suffocated twenty-four horses.
At the annual dinner of the New England
society, of Phi'adel[ bia. President Arthur
and Secretary Chandler wore among the i
speakers. 1
*-? - 1? mnffitiff
JMCjllT COnVl'.'lM, llIIUVl kuieuv?? ..~t?r,
from one to Ave years, arrived at Concord,
N. H., from Washington, being the first ins'ailment
of government prisoners received i
at the New Hampshire penitentiary under a
contract recently made ny the governor and
council for their labor. Six of the lsoners
were colored.
One of the heavioi: failures noted in soma
time Is that of Anios D. Smith & Co., the ?
Providence cotton goods manufacturers.
The firm havo run three concerns and five
mills, the Groton manufacturing company.
Ihe franklin manufacturing company and
the Frovidence Steam M?ll company, com|
rising the Durfee mill and the Steam r_ill
in Frovidence. the Groton mi lat Woonsocket,
and the Franklin and Merino mills in Johnston,
In all these manufactories run S7,00(]
spindles and furnish employment for from
10,0 0 to 12,00.) people. The amount of lia'
r - - ? 41 AAA _
bilities is variously estimated at irom ?i,vuv,- i
0.0 to #1,7.0,000.
The bark Mohawk, which sailed from New
York for Calcutta, had to stop near New
Haven, as eleven of her twenty men were
badly frostbitten. Nine of the crew were
tnken to New L'aven, all having their hands
and feet badly frozen. One of the crew?a
young Japanese?wa3 killed by falling from
aloft.
South and West.
A family named Gray, consisting of
husband, wife and child, and two middleaged
ladies, were moving from Illinois into
Arkansas when their covered wagon was
overturned in a creek and they were all
drowned.
A Cleveland (Ohio) dispatch says tnat
there is a stagnation in the iron trade; that a
number of mills have already shut down in
various localities, and that more will follow.
Ex-Governor Ralph P. Lows, of Iowa,
for the past eight years practising law ir.
Washington, died there a few days ago in his
soventy-ninth year.
Mrs. Olive Gc>teh, eighty years old,
her daughter and crand-daughter, residing
near Moncure, N. C., were murdered with
an or
While a cage containing twenty convict
laborers was descending a shaft in the Pratt
mines near Biimingham, Ala., the engine became
unmanageable for a moment, and the
cage fell to the bo .torn, a dis ance of 204
feet, and rebounded sixty feet. One of the
men was killed and thirteen others were injured
Two fires on the Bame night in 8t. Louis
resulted in the death of two firemen, injuries
to six others, and the destruction of property
worth about $500,000.
An avalanche of snow, descending from a
mountain near Ouray, CoL, struck a boarding
house in which were eleven miners, carrying
it away and burying the men under
fifteen or twenty feet of mow, rocks and
timbers. Six of the men were Instantly
killed and the other five were probably
fatally injured.
A train on the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicazo railroad ran into the Blue river, near
Salem, Ind., a bridge having been swept
away, and seven persons were killed.
Lampborn & Gray, bankers at Alliance.
Ohio, have failed. The losses are heavy, ana
| many poor people are among the creditors.
some piece or toggery icr an actor, or uw?n
a chair from < ne place to another, and then
resumes Lis pij e and hi* cross-legged position
qs end man.
A very reprehensible "joke" was perf.e
trated the other evening at one of the most
popular theatres in Paris. An individual
dropped a number of smn'l glass globe; filled
with a afutida in the foyer and passages.
The globes crushed noiselessly beneath the
feet of promenaders, and the result was a
smell so inconceivably nauseous that a large
proportion of the audience abruptly quitted
the theatre, which had to be thoroughly
fumigate 1 on the following day in order to
get rid of the sickening odors.
HUNTING ACCIDENTS,
Jonx Martin*, of Elkhart, while preparing
for a hunt shot himself dea<L
In letting dow.i a rail of a fence. vV. S.
Moore, of Freedom, ()., wa; killed by tho
discharge of his gun, the rail having hit the
hammer. ?
Jerry Dcnevant. of Christianburg, Ky ,
be came so excited when his dog treed a 'coon
that he fell from a chestnut tree and suffered
fatal injuries. %
As he fai cd to return home at night, search
was lr+de for the feventeen-vear-old son of
William Carroll, of Vandalia, 111., and he was
found in the wo ds with one side of his head
blown oil. C1 se by him lay his empty gun.
Henry Story, of FayetteviUe, Tenn., always
carried a whisky flask in his game bag.
He bet ame so e'ated while hunting at his unusual
good ii.c'c that he drained the flask, lost
his way, fell into a river, and was drowned.
In the Calumet Swamp, near Chicago,^
hun'.er shot a rtucK ana uurnea auer it. no
stopped into the mire and but for timely assistance
would have been suffocated. Tho
water was up to his chin when he was rescued.
Two boys of Marion county, AV. Va., Richard
Anderson and John Griffin, went out
hunting with but one rifle. When Anderson
? :_.i ;,, i,;e .lift o-rnhhprl
Charles Harvey, a worthless character,
murdered and robbed Henry Custel, Jr., a
young clerk of Petersburg, Ind. Harvey was
arrested, but a crowd of men took him from
jail and hanged him to a tree.
Three meu of bad character were taken
from a saloon at Mo Dade, Texas, by fifty
masked men and hanged. Six of their friends
came to town, and in a tight two of their
number and one of the citizens were killed.
A qvarrel between white men and
negroes, at Yazoo City, Miss., resulted in
three of the former being shot and killed from
an ambush. Two other white men were
wounded. John James, the leader of the
negroes in the difficulty, was shot dead while
I resisting arrest
I An outbreak of smallpox in the Wilmington
(Del.) jail caused much excitement.
Mrs. Martha Staves died suddenly in
her church pew at Moriah, N. Y., while the
congregation were singing.
I Tw enty branch associations from various
parts of the country were represented at the
three days' biennial session of the Socialist
Labor oougrew, held in Baltimore.
* Another Colorado snow-slide?this time at
the Mendota mine near Telluride? carried
away a house in which were fourteen miners, j
eight of whom were killed outright and two i
injured.
A man named Boss, his wife and their seven
children were all drowned during a freenet in
Hardis creak, Ind.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sommerfield, a widow,
and her two young children, who lived in a
lonely cabin near .Beverly, vr. va., were |
found brutally murdered and their hou-e a i
mass of ruins, the murderers having cut the J
bodies of their victims to pieces and set fire '
to the place in the hope of concealing all
evidence of the crime.
Washington
The centenary of General "Washington's j
surrender to Congress of his commission as |
commander-in-chief of the Continental army
was celebrated in the national capital by
the early closing of the/department# and the
exhibition at the State department of documents
and relics illustrating the progress of
Washington's military career.
Hon. George A. Post is the youngest member
of Congress. He is twenty-nine years
old. At tweuty-two he was mavor of Susquehanna,
Pa.
Speaker Carlisle has laid before the
I House a message from the President transI
mitting the report of the secretary of state,
and communications, documents and papers
! relating to the trial, conviction and execution
I of Patrick O'Dcunell.
j Sf.kc-.eant Mason, who shot at Gniteaa,
i -will settle in Washington as a shoemaker.
President Arthur received six gold- J
headed canes and six silk umbrellas with gold
and silver handles among his holiday pres- !
ents. I
Mr. blanify huiriuan of the House com- j
mitteo on coinage, weights and measures, j
favors recoining' the trade dollars into ,
standard dollars, and thinks that the present I
coinage of the latter should not bestoppel. Mr. I
Blnnd is of the opinion that a mint ought to j
be established in the Mississippi Valley, and, i
' becau>e of the advantages offered at St. j
Louis favors that city as the place to bo j
selected.
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Foreign,
Lisbon, Portugal, has been well shaken j
by a strong shock of earthquake.
Moody and Sankey, the American evan- I
gelists, are holding largely-attended meetings )
enKnrha nf T^inilAn.
Half of the Spanish seaport town of Mamole,
together with much of the shipping in
the harbor, has been destroyed by a pale.
M. Jourdan, the Portuguese consul-general
at Constantinople, committed suicide by stabbing.
A Panama disj atch says that the English
steamer Severn exploded her boiler at Cor- I
thagenu. killing seven men and doing con- j
sidernbie damage.
A married woman named Van der Linden
lias been arrested at Leyden, Holland,charged
with having murdered in the last few vears |
sixteen persons. Her victims were nearly all
membei-s of her own family. She insured
their lives first and received the insurance
money after their deaths. The woman has
confessed her guilt. It is supposed that she
poisoned five of her own children.
In a formidable riot l>etwecn Orangemen
and an opposing faction at Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, three men were instantly
I killed and several others mortally or severely
wounded. Several detachments of military
were sent bv steamer to quel] thu disturbance.
A Romh dispatch says that a now American I
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cardinal will lie cre&ieu ui .uaiu,
Xckman* Lockykk, a noted English scien- 1
tist, declares liis lx>lief that the recent remarkable
sunsets witnessed in Europe and j
America were caused by the Java earth- j
quakes. _______________
A TEXAS TKAGEDY. j
Five Men Stilled uml Two Tlortally
Wounded.
Particulars of the lynching and sanguinary i
street light at M' Dade, Texas are as follows: j
Tl e trouble Iwgan at 11 :-*i0 p. m., when ,
Henry l fiilfer, Wright AIcLemore, and I
Thad".VcI.eiuore were taken from a saloon I
in Mcl a le l>y fifty marked men and carrie 1 i
a mile into the" brush, where they were j
hanged t > a tree. Thad MeLemore ha 1 been |
arreste I early in the evening on a charge of
buig'nvy. The other two happened to l>e
I jii tsent when the lynchers arrived. Pfeiffer
\va under ii dictn.ent for horse theft.
I The next day six men, friends and relatives ;
I of tlu' niPii hangen, weni m mcueuk, juckeu |
I a ((\iairol with Tom Bi-hop and G'eorgt |
| Milloir, mid a fight with shotguns and revolvers
ensued. Jack L'ay ley and Asa Bayley !
were killed, rnd Hayward Bayley was badly j
wounded. The; ren aiirng three escatcd. j
"Willis tiridin. of Mcl'ale, while ns-isting j
Millom and Bishop to defend themselves, was j
shot through the head and mortally wcuudeii
by Hayward Bayley.
C. J. Kkux and Cornelius Lake found the
body of a man in the Kankakee marsh, Ind., j
leaning face downward across his gun. He
was in mud up to his waisr.
As Frederick .Armitage, of Orange, Mass.,
raise* his gun to lire at a fox that was pan- ;
ning toward him, th? w cation exploded prematurely,
ami Armitage was killed. j
LATEK JNJSW&
General Geant, while alighting froui his &
:oupe in front of his house in New York a -/
'ew days ago, slipped and fell on his side, bustabling
a gainful injury to his leg and compelling
bis removal to bed.
John A. Clark, was hanged in the Botenan
(Montana) jail for the murd.rof Thomas
Rogers.
For the first five months of the present fiscal
year the total internal revenue collections , *^
amounted to $ol,2?!?,438, being $11,943,971 V-_less
than during the corresponding period of -fy
ast vear.
The French government has decided again
to prohibit the importation of American
salted meats until the French chambers have :*
proncunced upon a now bill.
The dragoons stationed at a village in tha .
province of Volhyma, Russia, eu.ldcnly at- -1
tacked and plundered the Jews of the vi- ... :'-r
cinity. A rabbi and several of his confrere? ': '$k
died from injuries received. * -Sjjg
A banking house at Antwerp, Belgium,
has failed for $2,000.00).
Friends of C61onel Henry R. Ratbbone,
a prominent resident of Albany, N. Y., but
for some time past living in Hanover, Ger- ?j- ?
many, were shocked at receiving a cable dis- fjg
patch announcing that he had shot his
wife dead and then mortally wounded -'J*
himself. Mrs. RatLbone was a daughter
and Colonel Rathbono a stepson of the Utte .
United State j Senator Ha ris, of New York.
When Lincoln was Assassinated Col met
Bathbone and Miss Harris were the
only other occupants of the President's 'isg?
box at Ford's theatre, and Colonel Rathbone
tried to intercept Booth, and was stabbed in
the arm. Colonel Rati.boao was about forty- j?
eight years old, and five or six years ago ^
went abroad with his family. He was said 4
to bo subject to fits of violent tempar,
TIE PAST YEAR'S OEOPS. J
Estimates of the Agricultural B?>
paxtmcnt. iSj
Mr. J. R. Dodge, the statistician of the
agricultural department, has just completed ,'v|
preliminary estimates of the principal crops
of the country, for the year 1883. They show
tb&t potatoes.as well as all other root&and oats
have grown luxuriantly and yielded largely. .'
The average yieid of c >rn per acre for the
past year, Mr. Dodgo says, is nearly twen- 7:^
tv-three bushels, or more exactly uy pieuur ...
nary estimates, 22.7, which is twelve per c*?at
lesj tlian the average yield for a series of
years, or 1,551,060.885 bushels. This stands
for the quantity of the present crop! Th
quality, he >ays? is am tb.r consideration.
If soft corn is cribbed in masses. .
and after a few weeks of mild and moist 7"?
wiather is badly injured, or even spoiled, it . ' -jg
does not change the fact that the corn was . v
grown and harvested. II is doubt'esi true, :Zd
that the quality of corn north of the parallel '%
of forty degrees is worse than for many
years, increasing practically the amount of ' Jj
shortage indicated by the number of buahek. "f
The wheat crop, Mr. Dodge says, is slightly >
in excess of 400,UK),000 bushels, and the cotton
product, as shown by the December returns,
is about 6,0j0,010 bales. . rg
FASHION NOTES
Boniton lace is again in style.
Colored gems are much worn.
Little girls are carrying macreme cord /*
bags.
The ruby is being employed in engage- ' $$
menf rings.
Italian furniture of early Florentine &?
styles is coming into use.
Fur-lined garments are made in shapes
similar to those of sealskin.
It is said that curls are again to be
worn at the back of the head..
Jockey hats are not nearly so popular 'v;
as it was supposed they would be. - --&
Eider down flannel in evening shades Kj
makes a very pretty wrap for evening H|
Parisian women are powdering their J .;|
hair and arranging it a la Mary Stuart io
the evening.
Some of the now seal jackets are mad&jfe;
with high puffed shoulders. This 'nwnjp
them less aoaotonous. ^
Veils are worn short, bardjimc&i?|gM
below the, eyes, ?nd are omitted aUvrggfl
gether by' those whose complexions do I
not need protection. ^
Among the various kinds of beads, 1 ' ?
large ana small, which arc used to em- flNj
belish and add finish to the modern royal J ^
toilet, the large Roman pearls are just ^^1
now more fashionably worn for evening
decoration than beads of any other description.
;.-fr3a
The old-fashioned pointed girdles are
again in vogue, and the handsomest of xj
these are made of tinted satin for evening
wear, and nearly covered with gaycolored
embroideries of silk and chenille,
or with a richly colored and heavy beadwork,
made to resemble precious gems.
Elephants' heads, tigers' teetn, ana
other India designs are in vogue for
clasps, pins and many small trinkets and
are said to have been first worn by the
Princess of "Wales. The new pendants
to chatelaines are lizard-shaped scent bottles,
silver hunting-horns, a tiny mirror
set in the shell of a tortoise, and a pencil
shaped like a caterpillar.
Plush is seen in many of the new win- \
ter suits combined with O.toman silk. With
these costumes the suitable outside
garment is a tight-fitting jacket of the
plush} with fullness in the back like a
postillion basque. A broad revers collar
a fa. art wifVi nttnmnn silk, and the
revere may be, if desired, extended the ?_3fj
length of the jacket in the form of a '%
vest. . _ ' 'i
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. 1
According to Professor Newton it..-J
takes 100,000,000 years for meteors, J
though falling at the rate of 3,000,000,000
fragments a year, to increase the '
diameter of the earth one inch.
JIany cows in France arc fed upon
beet-pulp. An investigation into the A
physiological elTccts of this food show
that it causes the milk to increase in ?1
quantity but deteriorate in quality.
A new fiber for paper-making has been Ml
discovered by Mous. Reynaud in Algi-ria.
It exists in the dwarf palm, a
great enemy of the agriculturists. The
plant is full of fiber, and means have
been found for utilizing the whole of it
above the roots.
Concerning the ratio in weight between
grain and its straw, Netihaus-Selchow
lias lately made known the results of his
experiments. In wheat and rye the^^J
weight of grain is about one-third of
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'NIlCJlUj 111 UU? 1U V 11U1U wu^* iiiu iv
halt. The rest is straw and chaff
For several years past the Swco^Hflfl
government employed an entoinologi^^^B
to assist the farmers in distinguishing
and destroying insects that prove hurt- I
fill to the crops. The demand for his
services has been so very great, and the
work he has done has been so useful,
that the office of govemnlont entomolo- ^
gist is to be made a permanent one.
A simple and useful belt has been in- j
vented by Mr. Arnott, of the Lyceum
theatre (London), having for it's object
the fastening ot doors 01 ineiures auu
other public buildings, so that thev can
be opened by mere Jj rets J re against the
door from the inside, and not at all from
the outside, dispensing with all other ^
fastenings, which cause so many accidents
in case of panic. One advantage
is, that being once unfastened it cannot
be rebolted by accident.
The Albany Ecenintj Journal says: "A
large proportion of the molding sand
consumed in the foundries of the Uuitcd
States is dug out of the hills of Albany
county. It is said that everything insoluble
metal, from a Krupp gun to a heel
plate lor a lady's shoe, has been cast in
Albany sand. Quantities of it have besn
exported as ballast. The annual shipmeet
of sand obtained hereabouts from
this city is estimated at from To,000 to
100,000 tons, the price paid for it, delivered
on board the cars or boats, being
about $1.25 per ton.
A Mansfield (Ohio) company is said to
be manufacturing a roofing material from
a wood-pulp board, consisting of twotliirds
spruce and one-third poplar. It is
then prepared, under patents owned exclusively
by the company, in such a
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manner as to give sue greatest uuraouity.
and adapt it generally for roofing
purposes. It is claimed to be the b?st ?:
roofing in the world, all things considered.
It is not affected by heat or cold,
as metallic roofs are, nor can it corrode. j
It is practically fire-proof, though not t
absolutely non-combustible. J
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