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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1886. VOLUME XXX. NO. 52. M
HE IS DISENCHANTED.
A HOOSIER'S OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING
FLORIDA'S MALARIA.
Waterscapes That Are Odd and Callous,
but ltather Monotonous?Much That Is
Gorgeous, Tropical and Novel to a
Northerner?Up the St Johns.
There is a deal of humbug in this Florida J
business?a good deal more than I venture j
to set forth, lest I lay myself liable for
slander. And yet there is really a good
deal in tho state worth seeing, and some few
things worth owning. But the things
ofteuest mentioned and most highly pri/.ed j
" ' ? ! ?1,?* volnu Til l !
sippeur lu iiiu ui lanuci tuo ivmv vimuv. ? ? ?
crystal lakes and pellucid streams appear,
when you stir them up, about the color of
tan yard ooze. The land is one-third under j
water, and another third just above it,
while the really dry part is piney woods.
When I lirst looked across the St John's I
said it was clear water, clear as Lake Michigan.
lut tnat is merely an illusion, produced
by tbo reflection of a bright sky.
Once on the river, I perceive it is of a light
purple hue, and as the steamer's wheels
churn it up there is no phosphorescent
sparkle, as on the lake; it boils up like a
weak solution of liquid manure. As to the
scenery, it is simply odd; the pretense of
grandeur is laughabla Of the really romantic,
the whole state does not show as much
as may be seen on the Wabash between
the Delphi and Lafayette. How can there
l>e romance or grnndeur where there are no
bluffs, no hills the eye can take cognizance
of, no cataracts, ana no bold rocky or sandy
shores; where all the streams have a barely
perceptible current along the middle of
lorrnnnc hnivlnrnri hv HnnareiltlV end
less wastes of dark green aquatic plants and
stagnant water* Odd aud curious it is to be
sure, but rather montonous. Where's the
romance in a mud puddle.'
Mow as to health?of course I can onlyknow
ot winter by report, for I came when
settled warm weather did. I have been in
the state eleven days, and have caught cold
every dey in the evening, within ten
minutes after the sun went down. Natural
consequences follow. I write this with a
plaster on my chest and nine grains of
quinine in me?a three grain pill before
each meal to day. The residents complacently
remark: "It isn't the fault of tho
state?it is in you " Of course it is in ma
I did not expect the state to take cold because
I came into it And, to bo sure, how
can it be healthful when you can't travel
two miles in any direction without crossing
a slough in which the slimy vegetation rots
and sours, and sours and rots, and then
grows over with a yellow-green fungus
which conceals the worst features till late in
May, then rots and slimes an l siiaies ana
rots for five months more, under a tropical
sun? Does not common sense teach that if
such a district proved healthful it would
make nature & liar in all the rest of the
world/
TOLERABLY HEALTHFUL PLACES.
And yet I doubt not there are many tolerably
healthful places in Florida. If a
man will get half a mile of high pino woods
and dry white sand between him and the
nearest siough, and not work hard in the
beat of the day, or go out alter sundown,
and take a little quinine till his system harmonizes
with the environment, I doubt not
he can live here many years in good health,
lor l meet nunureus wno nave aoae iu Ann
then there are some people who enjoy the
happy faculty of the negro?ot sweating out
malaria as last as it enters them. iiut for
one such there are three who could not sit
outdoors, or even on an open porch, here
lor half an hour after sundown without
feeling ill-eltects. Very many of those who
have enjoyed good health here for years
tell me they have to take precautions
against the night air. No matter how
how warm and dry the day may have
been, the moment the sun disappears the
suspended damp seems to descend upon the
?arth in a groat sheet The climate is indeed
seductive, and to the glorious nights
And balmy air of early morning I probably
owe the exposure which has so allected me;
but it' a man must lie by lor live hours in
the middle of the day and keep in his room
after sundown, how is he to got the good
of the climate.' I would prefer less climate
and more liberty.
And yet there is a great deal to seo in
Florida, and it is gorgeous, tropical and
novel to a northerner. Take the scene before
Vne. The setting sun casts a red and
yellow light upon the lake (merely an enJargement
of the St Johns), which stretches
nearly live miles broad fiom the front of
t.liA town! all around are the curious grasses.
palms, and pines, while the cabbago palmottoes
stand forty or fifty feet high along the
shore, bare trunks up to the circular tufts
on their tops. Above and below town a
shallow bayou runs inland, thickset with
spring growth till it gradually changes to
low hammock, while toward the south the
ground rises gently for a mile to a sand
ridge, now covered with a continuous orango
grove?100 acres of orchard, not a tree injur*
i by the noted frost, and all thick set
with the young oranges lor this j'ear's crop.
STEAMED AND FERMENTED.
The main streets of the town are as dry
as an ash heap -as dry as white sand ever
gets under a Lot sun. But tlie bayous above
.and below send oil shallow tranches which
make a wet meadow back of town, and
from there one can walk either way, following
what little current there is, till be
finds himself again near the lake front,
among matted palms aud spiky gras<,
where this year's crop is aggressively strong
while last year's crop lies rotting 011 the
ground. All day that matted mass has
breamed and fermented under a hot sun,
aud in half an hour lrom this time the even
ing air win wait tnereirom an mvisioie |
something which will compel many a sus- |
cepiible man to keep indoors Tain about j
such a place being healthful! but talk it
to the marines and don't preach it to "your
Uncle Fuller."
The trip up the St John's is a novelty
well worth taking in. The river itself is a
curiosity. Its most southern head is only |
ten miles or so lrcm the Atlantic; yet, from i
there it runs oil north sonu -400 miles by
iour>e and moro than -00 in a direct line,
and its Iliad is no more than ten teet higher
than its mouth. Westward from this head
the numerous lakes which feed the stream
rise, and Lake Apopka is twenty-two feet J
above sea level, while not far west and north
of that are elevations nearly .100 leet high,
though the eye can not perceivc the rise. -No !
matter how high a lake may be, however, |
ihe outlet therefrom h;* but a sluggish cur- j
iK)nt; and in this vicinity, where many
ditches have been dug, I perceive that the :
increased current ttius gained has scion !
brought in light white sand suliicient to
check the stream, and 1 fancy that this
tendency to choke the outlets will Le a con- j
stant diiilculty in drainage. Nevertheless,
the 1-lorida Lruinage company has takou a
big contract, and confidently promises to
redeem some -J,0i4),000 acres of wet hammock
in a few years.?"Farko's" Letter in j
Chicago Times.
A Tlilrf "Who I-ore* Flowers.
A pansy thief is a Brooklyn produclion. |
He goes from Louse to bouse during tha
tarty hours and steals from each accessible j
bed or vase of pauai t a plant or (wo. j
FINISHING THE PARSON'S WOODSHED j
Ml Nye Tells How the Necessary Fumls j
Were liaised?Too Mnch Zeal. fi
My Dear Sox?I ought to of answered
I your last letter before this, but, to tell the
I truth we have had another of them pesky 1
1 hoodooi at our house for the purpo*e of /
I finishing o.f the woodshed of the parsonage,
| and I've been mighty busy. For two days
I I was choring around the kitchen, carrying
[ wood and water, and borrying dishes of the
| neighbors till you can't rest fcince the ruction
was over I've been mostly engaged in
thinking about it. a
Our home paper gave us a good notice E
and said it was a success; also that every j1
one present enjoyed it highly. It alluded ! 8
to mo as a genial cuss, or words to that | v
offect, and said your mother was the lifo of j n
the party. She was. I ^
Your mother believe3 that scads become j a
purified as quick as they light in the plate, | 0
no matter where they come from. I ain j ^
more conservative. I hesitate to knock a j a
man down with a doughnut and then go K
through bis domes. 1 aim to oe a tuns- , ->
tiun, Henry, but not strongly sectarian in j11
views. e
So it hurt my feelings a little to see your ^
mother rare around through the crowd IE
Tuesday night and peddle bokays of these j ^
here little blamed geranium blows that i *
f?lls oil as soon as you pin tLem onto your
coat and laugh onct or twict 1
Somehow it made me nervous, and th3 8
goose fL-sh stood out all over me a foot high. *
It ain't like your mother to go around at her ^
time of lite, with a boy "?0 year3 old and a i F
real camel's hair mustache, and learning ; ?
more blamed foreign stuff than you could ! j
shake a stick at. I say it ain't like her and j *
I know slie wouldn't do it if it wasn't for 0
her "zeal," as she calls it Zeal is embittering ; F
my declining years, Henry. Zeal and skin ,11
games and raltles and tee hee bee and -3 j e
cents please, and the whole confidence game I c
has made me prematurely sour. j 8
I am no man to complain, but, Henry, if ;
you go into any church in this country to- j
day you will tind three quarters of the con- 1 ^
gregation is women; they are noble women, j 1
too. God bless a eood woman, Henry, is I u
what I say. We like to have our mothers ; 1
and our wives and our sisters christians, I '
ev*n if we are inclined to be liberal in our I t
own views; but the kind of zeal that tills up i *churches
with overworked women, while the J s
sulky husband and father is at homo trying r
to digest a large three-cornered fragment of | f
sorrel cake that was loft over from last 1
week's debauch and benelit, is a mistake. *
We have voted cradle quilts to the hand- *
somest baby, plated bracelets to the most 8
popular young lady, and a gold-headed cane *
to the man who wanted to be sheriff, and, '
all that, but when they vote a brass-inounte.l J
two-year-old swamp-elm club to the mad- ^
dost man in the United States, Henry, I c
wish you would come homo and do a little i 1
work for me. I am a candidate.?Bill Nye j 1
iu Chicago News. a
i
Nobility of the Commercial Traveler. o
Now I ha von reason for th9 faith which 11
is in m 3 concerning the drummer. Asa 1
clas3 the commercial travelers of this
country are representative rnea But even
the large class have am.;ng them as noble i 4
representatives of true man'uuoi as were! B
ever heraldod by the trumpet of fame from J
the tent, the bivouac or the battle field. I '
have seen the drummer in a railway acci- 6
dent, cool, clear-headed, tender with the 11
wounded and sympathetic with the j s
anguished searcher for dead or dying. 11 c
have seen him in a terrible hotel fire, saving 1
lives at the risk of bis own. 1 have seen h im . 6
on shipboard, when one could feol the deck F
of th sti amer falling away from his feet F
down into the awiui depths of a subterranean L
grave. 0
I tiavo seen him stand by the captain c
while the frail boats were being hurriedly e
loaded and oifor to shoot the top oil' froui a
the first man's head who dared refuse pre- '
eedence to a womnn or child in the over-1
crowded yawls. And next to tho captain I 1
ho was tho last man to loave tho ship. I I c
have seen hiui arrange his coat and wraps *
ia a sleeping car, go lor ward into another ?
coach, bring in a tick child and carefully *
compose it for rest while ho paid the con- ?
ductor for the privilege of its mother to e
hold her weary virgii by its side through- 1
out tho night, and >uke himself oil into tue I
cbeoso and Leer laden atmosphere of tho *
emigrant car. ?Sam Hill in Merchant '
Travoler.
Joe Howard's Journalistic Ueglnnint*. f
I think that a man who is really cut out '
for a newspaper writer will get on the '
press even if he ia born and reared in x
I ' tr 1. AT. ....... !
Lireouianu or iu x<u?v iunu nu punoi wu
earth will keep him from getting 011.
While, on tho other band, if nuturo intended
him to bo a carpenter or a lawyer or
an office-seeker ho would not keep his place
on a paper even if ho were put in the best
placo tho journal had to oiler. Joe Howard,
the veteran Newspaper writer, is said
to make $."j0,0;U a year. I don't believe be
does, but for tho take of illustration let us ;
admit that ho has to get along with the j
miserable pittance of OJU a year. He ,
didn't know he was cut out for a newspaper |
man, but ho evidently was. He found it |
out Ly being in a position to give a paper a .
great piece of news and to "si-oop-1 out of >
all creation tho other papers. He tele- (
graphed to the Xew York 'limes?I think i
it was 'J ho Times?asking if they want. d it. j
They enswered, "Send aiong two columns." I
He sent it and bo has been a newspaper j
man ever since.?Cor. Detroit Freo IT ess. j
( n the Inland of Kodonrin. j
One of tho strangest communities in tbo
.J ?; ; .1 1 ..(I |? . Kinh
WOl'iU 11VU5 UU 1>UU Idmnu V'L .1 icuiruuu, nmwu
is ono of tho British West indies, between 1
Nervis and Moutserrat It is very rocky i 1
and barren, and contains no vegetation, but '
has extensive mines ot' phosphate of alumina ' '
and iron. About fifty men work in tbes3 \ 1
mines, they being tbo only persons on tho j 1
island with tbo exception of tho foreman's I ?
wife, 'iboir provisions have to Le brought [ {
from Nervis and Hontserrat in small boats, j '
The men li\e in small, wooden hut> built for 1
the purpose. Tho climate ot' Kedonda is fc
beautiful and healthful, and tho working- '
men enjoy pi-rfect health. The harbor is ;
excellent and well protected, the highest
point on the island being 1,U0J feet above j
the level of the sea?Foreign Lett.-r. I (
Tlio Italance Wiis Duly Kntorcil, | <
Tke sixth auditor received a funny letter 1
from a man in southern Missouri, who had *
been on a postmaster's boml tiiore. The
books of the treasury showed that this postmaster
owed tho government 1 cent. Tho ?
Londsman inclosed tho 1 cent and roguest.-d
that ho bo relieved lioru tho bon.J. Tho >
balance was entered and tue bondsman relieved?
Chicago Times. '
The 'Witness' Koputation for Veracity, i
Lawyer?"i'o you know tho witness who *
has just stepped down, Mr. Ko..inson:,: '
Witness?Yes, sir. '"Do you think ho would 1
ever toll an untruth.'" ''Tell an unt>.uth!
Why, that man would swear to a New York
paper's circulation ailicJavit.''?Pittsburg
Chro.iicle. i
n ?m#tt Hunting for tho Season.
JIav?!i- It's a good house for a dancc, ;
Emi.y. Emily?The rooms aro rathe?
small, aren't ttieyf Mamusa (who knowa
how matches aro made)?Yes, but what !
capital staircase!?Punch. | i
V
LOYE FOR FLOWERS.
i PLEASANT CHARACTERISTIC OF
THE PEOPLE OF PARIS.
L Passion Which A fleets the KIch and tho
Poor ? Flower Sales Beginning at 3
O'Clock in tho Morniug?Description ol
the Flower Market.
An English writer once mentioned flowers
s "thaf smiles of God." Jules Claretie,
aanager of tho theatre Francais, speaks of
hem as "the pootry of Paris." If there is
nother city in tho world where flowers and
erdure are so loved as they ai e here, I do
lot know it In the salon of tho fashionale
lady, whosa carriage door is coroneted,
nd who nurses poodles and pugs, instead
f pretty little infants, cut rosos in great
mnches stand In real Sevres vases, and
nd green plants and bloomiug flowers are
rowing in pow? liupornju lruui uapu, uy
ouder by Moat mar tre, where the poor sewog
girl sleeps in the little attic under the
aves, there are 2 sous worth of violets in a
iroiien tumbler, while by the window is a
;eranium, now almost leafless and slowly
ying, in an earthen pot that a poor man
brew away.
If the love of flowers is instinctive in huoanity,
then it is certain that in this repect,
at least, tho people of this town have
luman hearts which beat at fever heat
.'he Parisian Has a passion for politics, a
lassion for pictures, a passion for betting, a
lassion for vice, but ho has a passion tor
lowers, and that is a good deal in his favor,
.'he flowering plants, bushes in pots, pansies
,nd crocuses in thick bunches, giroiles,
inks, roses?all the flora of the smiling
nonth of April?are to be found now in
very corner of Paris, filling the air of the
itv with the puriuined breath of a long
pring.
WHERE THE FLOWERS GO.
Wo have use for flowers over hero every
lay of our money-spending lives. We send
hem to the iady who has honored us with
n invitation to dinner. We send them to
he lady whom we should be pleased to
lave invite us to dinner. Wo send them to
be parson's wife, and see to it that our
ankers' daughters are not neglected. We
ee that they are carried to this or that actess,
to this or that laliet dancer, to this or
hat grand danw who is of groat assistance
u making acquaintances in society. Life
s, so to speak, begun and ended with the
ragrant gilts. They are placed in the celts
,nd on the brows of blushing brides, and
ridesmaids carry them as they go about
bo church collecting money for the poor,
hen, when the young mother or the baby
tios, flowers are the offerings which wo
ast into the earth where she is laid away
intil the mystery is solved at last. The
raue in Cowers amounts to several millions
.nnually, and their cultivation, transportaion
and sale give prolitable employment to
. great many per.-ons. The wholesale busiless
is all done ut tae llalle> Central or pubic
market house, yonder by tha Church of
>t Eustache.
At mignight the wagons tin I carts from
he environs of Paris begin to arrive. '.Puey
,ro unloaded bv market men, eacu nasKet
iein^ placed in rows along iho pavement
>et\veen tho batchers' pavilion and that
;iven over to vegetables. These baskets aro
ill pretty much alike and are placed side by
ide ono after the other. Lach i.ower nierhant
must take bis or her stand back of
he baskets, never in front ot' tnem, and
ach ilealtr is compelled to put up> with tho
>lace which happens to fall to him on that
articular morning. At ;J o'clock the sa.es
tegiu in tho midst of an indescribable din
,nd a contusion which is sometimes quelled
inly by calling the police, liy o'clock
verything is sold, the customers are goua
ind the empty baskets aro being reloaded
n the carts and wagons. Many of theso
lortieulturist-; are rich, and some own wliolo
ields of llowers in the neighborhood of Vin ennes
or Versailles. There are rises and
alls in tho prices, and when the day throatiiis
to be rainy and dreary bouquets can ba
lad for tho asking almost (Jnly cut down's
are sold in this flower exchange. Flow>rs
in pots aro never carried to Central
market The principle trade in an poitei
slants and iiowars is on the quays, or river
Kinks, at the Madeline, and in the Place du
Jliateau d'?au, or that of St. iSuli)ica
THE FLO It A L MAltKKT.
Formerly the only place in Paris where
lowers were sold at retail was a sort of market
held on the <,)uai de Ja Fermille, now
Juai de )a Megisserio. In ISO-! this market
vas moved across the river to the island
;nown as the Cite, where it is stiil held on
he ljuai aux Pleura That part of the Cite
>o\v occupied by the prefecture of police,
,he Hotel Dien and the Quai aux Fleurs was
n the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a
letwork of short, narrow streets, some of
vhich were still in existence when I lirst
:ame to Paris. In thoso other days these
larrow streets were the abode of the ansocracy,
ami shabby as was the outward appearance
of tboir mansions, there were vast
;ardons planted with trees, shrubbery and
? l;_.i ?i u?.
lowers OODinu llicm. nuaua iuuju
iad a great reputation, ami tho gardeners
md servants hail tho privilege of selling
,bem to the tlower shops iu tho neighbor1001I.
'i ho most famous of theso was at the corner
)f tho Hue des Trois Cancttes, and was kept
)y a handsome girl named isabolle. who was
iuch a coipiotte that quarrels on her ao:ount
was of daily occurrence letwoen the
roung nobleman and oitiiors of t.ie guard
[t is only within the last ton years that roail
liower markets lmvo become tiuito numerous.
For a long time there were, besides
;uo ono on tho l^uui aux Fleurs, only tbo-w
it tho Madeleine, in tho 1'laco du Chateau
l'Kau, and on tho s-juaro of St. Sulpi a
Ihej-o lour markets yielded the city a
i rovenuo of (KJ a year, but iu 1.S7he
chargo for stalls was doubled
ind than other markets wore
ipened in various parts of Parte The
jrico of flowers at all theso markets varies
i great deal, not only according to tho sea
UU UUU IUU WKlj'Ui utu. wuw Mvvwi.....0
;otbe caprice of the vendors.?J. JUL liaynio.
An KntUusiiistic Trover of Nature.
Native (to tourist who is standing rant in
:onU*uipittlion of an enormous rocly?I sea,
sir, you are charmcd by Sunset liockj and I
loii't wonder. It is considered one of the
no.st pii turesque objects in this part of the
:ountry.
Tourist?It is glorious?glorious!
Native?What point do you particularly
tdmire?
Tourist?1Tho face of the l ock. It awos
no with its grnivleur.
.Native?It would mako a good picture.
2ould j'oa paint it'
Tourist?1 was just thinking of r'lat It
s just tin kind of a surface <m wtiti'b to inicribo
"Boxe's liullion Bitters?.0 cents a
xttle." I never saw anything uttering a
.otter opportunity!?llamhler.
Prices Taifl for i:u;liH>i Orchids.
Kir Trovor Lawrence, the English orchid
Mllector, says that si,'SM is t!ie most iiti
?vor paid for a single plant. Ho thinks thai
soiuo of tlio lvent prices paid are absurd.-Detroit
Freo l'resn
Russell Safe's fortuno is now estimated at
;4;',();)0,00j, yet ho lives iu a village board
Lut-house, paying $12 per wtik.
*
PRAYER CURE FOR INEBRIETY.
A Koformecl Drunkard'* Strange Stor^-?
At the Point of Dfiit'li?TT.o Sisters.
I was possessed by the demon of drta*
and no persuasion of friends or reflection*
of my own had any effect in reforming mrs
Une day I wont to New York bent upon &
tremendous carouse, and I bad it. In four
days I spent 0 for liquors of various
kinds, and at the expiration of thfit period
my besotment may ba better imagined than
described .Suddenly, on the lifth day,
while stiil la boring under madness caused
by alcohol, I experienced the strangest sen*
J sation of remorse, and a spirit wt.s borno
| in me to lead a different life. As if super|
naturally inspired, I io=e trembling and
yet determine !, from my bed, seized upon
the cut-glass decanters and bottles containing
the iiery lluid and smashed thenu
Amid that uncanny wreck, 1 raised my
band and eyes to heaven swearing that, by
(iod's grace, I would never touch another
drop ot any intoxicating lluid, though my
life depended upou ir.
I grow so ill that a doctor called upon me
and prescribed brandy. I would not take
it lie said 1 would dia I answered that
at least my death shouH Ix a sober one.
After him, in a providential way, a Californian
entored my chamber and, divining
tho situation, took instant steps to remedy
it. He bad lue put ia a Turkish bath, aud
then gave me to oat soma dried herb of hia
region tbnt filled me with extraordinary
warmth aud worked internally like electric
shocks. I rapidly regained my health and
right senses, and, af tor testing mo severely,
this mysterious friend threw in my way
several considerable sums of money. I have
not taken a drop of liquor from that hour,
and though at this momont I am in pecuniary
dilhcultii'8, 1 would not touch it if
any one were to oiler me all this property
I round about, which is valued at millions of
dollars.
Now, I learned afterward, that my relatives,
having exhausted ail known human
means for my conversion, had recourse to
divine aid. Three of my family were Sis|
ters of Mercy. Appeal wa3 made to their
; prayers. They oll'ered up for me what i9
j known in tho Catholic church as a 'Noveiia,'
| that is, an act of devotion lasting niuodays.
I It was ou the ninth day, at the very ruoj
mont the last petition was presented beseechingly
to the Almighty by those holy
j women, that, hundreds of miles distant, in
; the very midst of my rovel, I was, by some
I supernal power, led to ttio destruction of my
{ idols and pormanenl; sobriety, which, with
; heaven's help, will never be violated. When
j I see other men drinking or when temptaj
tion is set before ras, 1 behold the pale, ani
gelic faces of three religious women, clad in
the black and white habiliments of their order,
with one liand on their rosaries and the
other raised in gentle admonition. Some
j people call this superstition, but what a saving
superstition it was for mo:"?Augusta
(Uu.) Cor. iNew York Times.
j 'Woman Walking the Frot!-Lunch ltoiite.
I know a woman in Washington who occupied
a smali, dark insidj room 011 the lifth
| iloor of a tolerably frwuonaole hotel. Slw,
| to us? a theatrical expression, faked out her
J meals. That is, she arose at 10 or 1~, bought
; a secondhand nawspapor for 1 cent and
i wended bar way to a small saloon on
I Pennsylvania avenue, wuose propriotui- uus
grown ricd by making a speciuity of delij
cious coifeo and Ylenuu rolls and fine butler,
i He charges 10 confer; for this little lunch.
The Madame Itinerant would breakfast on
j her cup of coilce and roils. Then she went
I up to congress, invariably riding in the
j !i cent car. There is a, bou-tail car running
up to the canitol, the laiv in which is only
j o cents, ami some folks are so aristocratic
j they are asliaimd to bo caught riding in it.
Madame would visit a few of tho members,
j loil for awhile in tho gallery of the house
i and sit just long enough in tho sena te gallery
to secure recognition tiy a smile or Low from
i such of her senatorial triends as happened
I to be on the i:oor ami aft.-r picking up a
few i hoicti items of gossipy news, the conversational
coin with which she paves and
pays her social way, my Madame Itinerant
gets back by - o'clock to her dingy insiJo
I loom. .ii t > sno wmes oui< rt\->pii.\.iuuiiii iu u
I nonpareil velvet dress and, curd-case in
j hand, starts out or. tlio round of calls. She
goes l'rom house to house aud daintily aui
! deliberately eats hor lunch at each piecj. In
the course of ton visits lnaJame has more
than satisfied tho ? ravines of lu-r stomach
and Las dined and supped lor the day.?
Washington Lor. New Orleans i'icayune.
()r;ill) of the JIi'iimspIs Sochi.li?ts.
Tlio I'.elgian Lo Pen pie is oao of the most
astonishing journalistic productions of modern
times, it is tuo organ of the Brussels
Socialists, and is muDaged on purely commioii&t.
nrirtfinliML Tho editor. the manager
and the reporters who constitute t.ho stair of
tho littlo journal receive exactly the same
pay as tho compositors. All persons con'
cerned, v/hctjer workmen or journalists,
are paid at too rate of Sl.CKj a day. The
paper is sold for the fabulously iow sum of ~
centimes, live copies for - cenls. At lirst
; the circulation ui.l not exceed P.'.OJU, and
' this occasioned a loss; but sinie the riots
| the sales have risen to MU.UOOconies, and this
! i means a daily net prolit at' 'ihe roparI
titiou oi tho profit's is equally cliaracterI
istic. Half is put aside to iorm a reserve
I fund, a ipiarier is to bo spent in socialistic
propaganda, and only the remain in ; cjuar;
tor is added to capital. With this the capj
ital advanced is to to reimburse:!, and this
I small sum is al o to supply tho interest;
j but, according to the rules of tho associa(
tion. such interoM; shall never exceed :> per
I cent. Politically this lir.tlu paper will
i doubtless exercise great inilueiue, jiarticuj
liiily if it can promulgate a constructive
j polity to meet the economical crisis.?Chicago
limes.
<ien. I'orost :is a Let iff Writer.
I I "Yes, " s.iia i ol. lucuuro, nppuuiunuui,
! clerk of t'.'.u postotllce department, to a ro'
j porter, "Gen. F irost <>f tho Coniedorato
1! unity, though a bora cavalry general, was
' one of tue mo.-t illiterate men that ever
lived, ho and orthography, etymology,
sy.ila:: and prosody were mortal loes. i
have frequently s en letters l'rom hiia
They would have made Josh Killings and
l'e'.roleum W Aa>l>y as jealous as a young
i girl is oi her first sweetheart. As many
I battles as he was in lie never could spoil an
i engagement as l ein^ other than a'lite., I
II saw one letter from him in which ho said he
i had bten in the war a long time and had
come to the conclusion tLac 10 ho successful
it was necessary 4lo git thar tho fustest with
tlio inoatest liiwi.'"? Washington Lr:Li .
; ( Improvements JIailo in Slaughter- Houses.
Tho Ladies' Health Frototive association
i lias induced tho owners of s!a;i;liU'r-liour,es
! to make tlio improvements recommended t y
I I tho ladios. These consist o:.' putting in
! asphalt iioors, having tlio freshly slaughtered
, meat kept away from tho edge of the sidei
i walk, keeping liio uvennu clear of trucks,
i and keeping tho houses shut tip so that the
children in the neighborhood can not *ve
! the cattle slaughtered.?Dinnorost'is Monthly.
As :i Safi'Xti.'ivd from l-'yi'liiiifii.
A rave large enough to accoinmodntn el]
the citi. ens of tho own is to ho dug a?
Clifton, j'. T. .it j.> designed as u safe*
! guard from cyclone*.
The I .est wjiy lo iiouk ut a friend's faultn
i is to shut vour eyeu
l I
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IN ALL-NIGHT SESSION.
HOW CONGRESSIONAL BUSINESS K
RUSHED AT THE CLOSE.
In Continuous Session for Twenty-Flv<
IIouvs?Turning Hack the Clock?Ge
lienna Broken Loose?An Inclcscribi?bl<
.Scone?The Speaker's Valedictory.
Once during every congress there is ai
all-night session, which is a double rippera
roarer, so to speak. Tbi3 is on the las
night of the last session, between the morn
ing of the 6d of March and noon on the 4ti
of March, when that congress expires bj
law. The house sits continuously for abou
K li? _
twenty-nve nours. iu is uaiuuij tanou u
11 o'clock oa the morning of March 3 am
lasts all day and all night until noon of th
next day. About fifteen minutes befor
noon, when the house is wild with excite
ment, haste, and anxiety, and business i
being rushed like a lightning express on i
down-grade, one of tue doorkeepers come
in and walks up to the big clock directl;
over tho main entrance, that fares th
speaker's chair. Tho speaker deliberately
turns away his head for livo minutes wbil
the doorkeeper turns the clock bacic as ta
as he dare. Then Gehenna breaks loosa
Meanwhile, the senate, at the other en
of the capitol, has even laid aside its dig
nity and quicKened its solemn march to
lively trot; the president of ttie Unite
fc5tate9, who, according to custom, has ai
rived at the capital about midn.ght, ha
worked continuously all through the lon|
night hours at tho big table in the prosi
dent's room signing bills brought to him b;
panting messengers. The speaker of th
house has probably not ioit the chair fo
more than fifteen minutes at a time (lurinj
the twenty-four hours. At those times h
has gone into the nearest cloak room t
snatch something to eat; he most lively ha
not thought of sleep, and during all th
pandemonium bas b.en saving himself ic
that last terrible hour or so when the fat
of measures involving minions 01 moiiej
involving lived und characters?have go
to be decided.
an indescribable scene.
An Englishman once, seeing a pensio
bill appropriating sjw^uuo.iijo mshe
through in this way, exclaimed: "Urea
God! What a country!" As ine hands o
the clock approach 1- o'clock the scene b?
comes indescribable. The galleries are lu
and obstreperous; sometimes the order i
given to clear them immediately. Early i
the evening there was much chatf an
hilarity on the tioor; now there is nothin
but anxiety, and always somo bad blooJ
The speaker, if he be a spoaker like Mi
Carlisle or Mr. Randall, sits unmoved ami
the uproar, holding tho gavel in one han
and his watch in the other. Cries resound
interrupted every moment by a stentoria
voice shouting: "A message from tho senat
of the United States!" Instead of the forme
bow customary on entering the presence c
tho house tho messenger merely ducks hi
head to the speaker and comes lunging dow
the aisle on a dead run. Men are on thei
I feet, gesticulating, shouting: "Mr. Speakei
j I bsk but for one moment!" "For Lrod1
sake let me introduce this bill!" "Membei
I will understand that I am not to be drive
| from tho tioor of this house!" "Vote! Vote!
.Suddenly in the midst of tins wuanes
come two sbarp raps of the speaker's gave
Every sound is instantly hushed?those tw
raps are like the crack of doom?no us
shouting or appealing now. The speaker
voice is heard doliveriug his valedictory usually
short. In ten minutes all is ovei
Tbat congress is dead to live no more. Th
speaker is no longer speaker. The represei
tatives and senators, haggard and won
throw themselves on the sofas to sleep c
else into carriages to be driven home. Tt
president and the ex-speaker come out c
j tb.i capitol into the broad light of noondaj
I looking as if they had been on a week
carouse. There is nothing more like it ui
' til that day two years.?Washington Coi
Chicago Isows.
Taking Water on th<? "Limited Express
Just above Derry wo tako water on th
fly. A tank about three by fifteon inchei
iilied witu water, is laid betwoen the rail
for oUO or 400 feet A scoop on the tendej
operated by the fireman by means of
lever, dips into this tank and the speed c
the train forces the water through a "goos
neck" pipe into the tender, Usually pasaei
cor trains "slow up" for ta king water, bi
to day we have no timo for that. The fin
man takes his position, firmly grasping tb
lever, and at a signal lrom the enginee
quickly jerks the scoop down into placi
Great streams of water lly from under eitbe
| side oi? the tank, spattering every objec
| witbia lilteen teet.
Suddenly the lid covering the manhole c
111j tank nies back and a stream of wuter a
tbick as a man's wrist spurts even to tb
top of the first cur. The tank is evidentl,
lull, and the iireman pulls the lever bac
securely fastening it iu place. (Jno Liii
terly cold night last winter a tramp se
creted himself between the tender and bag
; ga^e car. The train made no stops and b
was not noticed until Aiioona was reucbed
when the inspectors fouud him fro/en stil
I and tight to the platform of tho car. Th
! terrible drenchings he had received lia
! wotted hini thoroughly, and, oneo under th
! fatal spell of cold, ha was borne swiftly t
his last sleep.?Philadelphia Press.
An American liuylnjj a ltazor.
"Within the last year there has certainl;
beuu a groat inureasa in the number of per
sous who shave thomsolves, if the sale o
; ra/.ors to individuals who are not barber
is any indication of such a fact English
men, as a rule, attend to their own tonsoria
wants, und Americans are fast acquirin;
the fame habit. There is a great deal o
: diuerciico experienced by a salesman in at
1 tempting to dispose of a razor to an Ainer
: ican and when trying to sell one to an Eng
lishman. The latter simply inquires for i
j certain make and takes the iirst one he lay
> bis hands on if satislied that the inauu
j l'acturer's name ongravod upon tho blad
i-i genuine. The American when ho pur
; chases a razor, he requires at least a dozei
: from which to make his choice, believini
| that only one good one is to be found ii
[ twelve. This is only a superstition tha
! prevails among Americans, who must bav
roceived it from barbers to whose interest i
is to impress their customers with the ide?
that vast sums of money must bo spent ho
fore ii good razor can be outained.?A. U
i "W'egmau in Globe-Democrat.
Tlii) English I'eoplu A^o Slowly.
Ago sits much moro lightly 011 mon am
women in England than ill America. Th
average Englishman is at his Lost at mi
irom this he glides very slowly down gradi
to i;i), stops to take breath till TO and the:
goes out suddenly like the snu I' of a cam IK
with a combination of bronchitis am
asthma, the natural products of the di
mate. As for English women they ar
never worth looking at till they have pns.so'
i their :i' tli year and then they s.arecli
-hango a feature till they are 10.?Co;'
Baltimore Herald.
I'.oscoe Conkliug's fee in the Broad w;ij
CJise was $:>0,(H?0.
! Five million baso balls have Ueu made tbl
| season.
Sfeg .. , . .....
THE ISLANDS OF ST. VINCENT.
The Mystery of Navigation?A Barrel
) Lump of Lava?A Cottage.
After Lisbon came an illustration of tta
wonders of modern life. Our steamer witt
out fear or hesitation shot out into th
s i darkness and storm and sea to hit a narroi
pass between the islands of St. Vincenl
B 1,1100 mika away. On we went night an
j day, sun and fog, on and on, rocking, ewaj
ing, putting, rattling, till we passed the pea
j j of TeneriiTe, standing up in the clouds 12 00
_! feet high. A cloud wrapped about th
t ] mountain half-way up gave U3 a nakec
_ | sharp peak towering above the clouds for
j I full mile into the clear sky. It seemed a bi
' o( enchanted mockery to have the land s
j. ; long desired appear in the sky, above th
j clouds, beyond our reach.
l\ So we pushed by, and steamed on an
0 on, till by and by an officer -said in a Ie<
e I moments we shall see the islands and tt
h passage between them to St Vincent Sui
g enough, soon his word came true In boj
a hood I wondered who guided the birds (
passage as they went on over plain and foi
est, over lake and river; so now I came t
0 wonder at the Cotopaxi shooting across th
sea as if she had a divine instinct in he
s prow. How a man can direct bis cours
r i through so many storms and nights ove
I such wide, trackless wastes by the worlc
^ [ above, and then refuse to direct his life b;
the light from the skies, is hard to undei
stand. Great is the mystery of navigatioi
^ St Vincent gave us the test oranges m
had. Florida and southern California d
s something in this way, but nothing aft*
_ one has eaten from the trees of these trop
^ cal islands. We also received bananas (e:
_ cellent), straw hats (moderate), and coa
Q dust (abundant). This tropical fruit grov
r on the island of St Anthony, which lies jui
across the narrow strait and bay from 8
1 Vincent, not ten miles away. Strang
0 enough, St Vincent is a barren lump <
s lava, where it never rains, or, if at all, n<
0 more than once a year. While on S
r Anthony the rains are fall and frequen
. Above bt Vincenton the side of the cinde
1 some European connected with the coalin
business Las built a cottage as a summer r
sort Ha has painted it white, and bt
painted the lava back of and around b
Q home a strong green to represent trees an
j ; a lawn. To this summer resort be retires <
* j night to be refreshed by fresh water brougl
j, from the pools of St. Anthony.?Bishc
1" owler in Chicago Nowi
^ The Law Business Not Profitable*
n "There are several reasons why the la
4 business is not so prodtable as it used to be,
g said an old attorney from an interior tow
L the other day. "One is that the mercanti
and collecting agencies have almost mnnoj
^ olizad the collecting business, which used I
j be a very large factor in the lawyer's r
I ceipta These claims worked in well wit
q j his other business, and, without taking ver
;e much of his time, made a handsome add
tion to his income during the course of
.? rear. Hut now the large reporting ar
?! * - ? _ __
ij, collecting agenciei have their represent
n tives ah over the country, and mercanti
r collectiona are nearly all made throuj:
f them.
'y "The abstract offices have also taken awa
3 a large amount of business that used to 1
? done by tbe lawyers. Some years ago ti
i? tracing of titles and making of abstrac
i3 was entirely the work of attorneys, but
^ I has now passed wholly out of their hani
o > into the hands of men who make it a di
,e tinct business of its own. Years are spei
>s in abstracting all the land records ar
_ judgment dockets of the county and mal
r< ing a complete abridgement of them in tl
o books of the abstractor's office, and af&
j. tbat the entries are kept up from day 1
j day. This entails a large expenditure <
time and labor, to begin witb, but the bool
ie of such an o;lice in time become extreme!
)f valuable and the business highly pront
ble.
8 "A third reason for the decline," he co;
i. tinued." is that thero is uoc as muca caui
r. for litigation in an old as in a now con
try. Titles to property become secure)
settled in the course of time, but while tl
" country is new conflicting claims are ofu
a asserted which can only be determined t
5, an appeal to thd courts. I think, too," 1
Is added, there is less disposition to litiga
r, in old communities than in new ones."'
a Chicago Journal Interview.
>r
13 The National Cemetery at Antietam.
l- It is proposed to convert the Nation
it cemetery at Autietain Into a national par
j- to be adorned with thj siatues of thd repr
e tentative warriors who lore the blue or tl
ir gray. It is known that 4/>J7 union soldie
\ rest there, and appropriations have be<
ir made by fourteen states, amounting to $0;
*. >*i 'I'hn remains of the Confederates wl
fell there have been removed to Rose Hi
>f cemetery near Hagerstown, Maryland- TJ
is plan of the cemetery is that of a semi-ellips
e divided into segments of circles, sectioi
y and parallelograms of varying si/.e, accor
k ing to the number of the dead troiu differei
t- states. Every division is martced by a lette
>- and the graves are numbered in reguh
order. A main carriage drive extern
e through the ground*, irom which run j
1, every direction subordinate roads ar
If walks. The grounds are beautifully kep
e | and near the entrance stands a lodge, whii
d | is occupied by the keeper, and is also us<
o for the comfort of visitors. In tho centi
0 of the cemetery stands the colossal grani
statue of an American soldier, twenty-oi
feet and six inches high, standing at parac
rest, with the capo of his overcoat throw
y back from his left shoulder. The who
| structure stands forty-four feet and sovt
'' : inches, and is entirely of granite.?"r'erley1;
s Washington Letter,
i
1 Thn lllcrcv?t lHazo iii America.
? ! Professor B iu lin-Lissalle holds that tl
' ! grandest iirework ever witnessed on th
planet must have blazed aloft on the Pacit
' slopj of our United States. The most aeci\
volcanos of the present age, Mount Jitr
11 . and Mount Sangay, have surrounded then
3 selves with la\a-tields varying from t.n t
" I lilty feot in thickness and extending o.e
0 j an area of half a hundred square mile
j Hut tUo pr^mstoric voicano umu acouis ?
11 j have had its crater somewhere on the wes
? j era slope of tho Cascade range, Oregon, h?
1 j covered a district of -OO.lHw s quare mile
" j with a continuous bed of lava of an averaj
a ; thickness of feet. All the vast tabli
| lands irom tho valley of tho Klamath riv<
1 ; in northern California to tho Okanago
" j range iu British Columbia must have bee
* deluged by a fire-stream equal in volume 1
! tho conteiiis of tho five great Canadia
! lakes and tho river system of the Misaissipj
. combined. Niagara falls, pouring dow
molten lava day and night, would have I
* l!ow on for half a century to equal t;ie r
' suits of tho monstrous eruption or series ?
? eruptions. ?I>r. Felix L. Uswald.
1 ! JCntorprlse of tlin Small Iloodluin.
When the enterprising small lioodlui
says: "Give me a Hower," ami is reward*
j by tho benevolent passer-by with a frngrai
blossom, he does not carefnlly preserve h
^ gift with an appreciation of its refining i
iiuenco in his humble home. Ho runs to tl
i the next street, holds up hi? trophy, ar
I calls on to the ne?;t passar-by: "Want
liower? Cue cent"
s | In Oregon mary deer are being killod ft
their nides, no ilio whatever buiiig niada
| the venison.
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HAVANA'S SHOPS AND CAFES.
1 Rlclinea* and Taste ill Display?Dreu ol .
the Salesmen?Cleanllnerm.
? In America it is the effort of .merchants ,
i- to get goods of every earthly descriptiou
0 under one roof. Here the shops are more.
? characteristic and individualized, as,a role. .
;, One will deal in silks and trimmings; Ur,:
d other only in velvets and velveteens: anr
other may show superb lines of linen;
k gloves, fans, parasols and umbrellas may be
0 found at another; again a shop will sell .
? wnolpna exclusivelv: another prints and . .
I, cottons; and rarely will you And the noa
tion stora So, too, outside of the textll?
it fabrics tbeso divisions in trade are rigc^r- . ||
o ously observed. A photographer is not &&
.e artist: bronze goods do not include pottery; /
the jeweler sel s jewelry, not clocks and .
d watches; the woodenware, ironware, and
w basket-ware merchants ar? not each all the
le others; and wine merchants do not sell soap.,
e In all these shops there is a richness and ,
r- taste, but not obstmsivenesa, in display; ,
>f and from one end of the city to another tbo? :?2
neatness, brightness, lightness, and airiness
a of the shop form much of Havana's attract .
ie tivenesa All this, too, is in despite of.,ad
>r | architecture that would preclude delicate
le arrangement among a more stolid people.
ir But the Spaniard and Cuban both possess just' .
Is enough effeminacy to make a dainty ne*D
j out of au old ruin anywhere. Again tbe
r- : dress of merchants, salesmen, and tbe most
l | menial keeper* adds to the pleasing effect of
'e ; the shop Nearly all are attired in linen,
io I pure white or in daiutv stripes. The white .
>r | uecktie is universal, and it is refreshing ,
i- It is a clean thing, too. They are only pret
tentious or slovenly who relegate it to full- , ,
,1- dress use anywheres ' 'Jr&is
rs Many salesmen are clad only in patentst
leather gaiters and linen pantaloons and <t
shirts, but these are spotless. Indeed, the
Cubans are the cleanest people regarding ^
jf | their dress I ever'knew. A stevedore will
>t load molasses on a vessel a whole week and
t, you will hardly tind a spot upon his whit* ^
t linen suit when Saturday night.' cotota, f
r, Somehow your sense of propriety is not *
ig fended when you see cash boyb, erraad- bore ,
& and keepers of all sorts In skin-tight, loosely- { - ^
is woven cotton 6hirts, as airy breeches and . '
is slippers. Oiten, too, for a change, here will
id staud three or lour negroes, packers or box
it ers, or something of the sort, with bare feet, ' >
it spotless pantaloons held by a gay saah, and .
ip with naked, gleaming waists, arms, awl
shoulder*?Edgar L. Wakeman's Cuba Letw
Stagnation at the Stock Exchange. . ' '
? The want of something reliable to ?peca- ,* . - - Jn
'n late in has hung a pall of gloom over Wall. *
le street. Even last summer business wai not ^ v
- so completely and hopelessly dead there as , '
M : it now appears to le. The curbston*.
q. brokers are all out at elbows, and thoa* b
who have offices spend most of their tin? >
y trading cigars and stories. A base ball. . '
game or a horse race is a perfect blessing, . ? ^
a tor it givei them an excuse to stop idling . j|
ltl in their protitless hauats, and go off and en- ** '.M
inv t.hnmsalvfls. If the stagnation continue!".
le tho stock exchange will be a quiet retreat ' y :<>,
.jj this summer, and exchange place as solitary ' .J
as a sea beach at bigh noon. The 5-cenl |
y : buiiets aro driving Lelmonico out of busi- ?
)a uess, and lager be^r has comp etely sup- . v i
10 1 planted champagne as a bevuraga. The
ts strtet venders wear a hungry look, and the
it ! dogs and cats and birds they offer lor sale
k 1 are lean and starving creatures, in keeping
; with the depressed circumstances that sur1C
round them.
l(j I Curiously enough, at a time when money * fe
1j. ; is almost as scarco as piety at a French
19 ball, a perfect mania is raging among the is
Jr brokers to buy works of art. The Morgan jj
Iq I and other art sales have made pictures
0f fashionable and shown, as well, that it is a
C3 good deal safer to put money in them for
ly | investment than in most of the stocks on
a. | the list. Such of the connoisseurs of the'
street us deal in pictures as well as securin.
ties are doing quite a brisk trade and getJ3
ting much more protit out of it than oufc
n. of their legitimate busineaa I suggested to
[y one ot them the other day that it would be * *I
^ a Kood idea to start an art exchange on the
)a street, and kno k the Nassau street au>
,y i tioueers out He has the sug/estion under
iQ advisement, I believe, and no one need be
surprised to hear of tbe incorporation of
_ the Great American Arc Dealing company,
I unlimited.?New York News -Bablo."
!
; Jlengerness of Sunday-School Librarian.
aj ! A voice of complaint is heard from all
^ over the laud about tue rueagerness of the
Sunday-school libraries. More weak stuff
! finds in way into Sunday-school library
1<g books than into any other class of literature.
Neither minister nor Sunday-school
; | leachers have time to read the boois before
^ putting them into tbe library. The worlc
ijj ! is sometimes put into the hands of a comj
mittee. Tho persons who compose the comI
mittee are either too busy to read the books
^ or elso they are not bookish, and are afraid
j to take the responsibility of saying which
j ; books are good and which are not The
' j upshoD of the matter is generally that the
J. | selection is left to the bookseller, who is told .
. j to send so many dollars' worth of books in
. * hindiiiirs of auwopriate colors. A society
' j bus been formed in Elizabeth, N. J., the
t ellorts of which will bo devoted to the im^
proving of Sunday-school libraries, and the
exchange of suggestions as to how to select .
ro j the bouks which compose them.? San Frao|
cisco Chronicle.
10 : The Kestorntlon of Faded Ink.
I A valuable discovery baa been made, ' <
n , whereby tbe faded ink on old parchments
'? may be so restored as to render the writing
? perfectly lt-gibla The process consists in
' | moistening the paper with water, and thea
passing over tbe lines in writing a brush
which has been wet in a solution of sulphide
of ammonia. The writing will immediately
10 appear quite dark in coior; and this color,
Ill tue ta>0 OI purcum .-ub, m mu .v.
'c 1 On paper, however, tbe color gradually
0 fades again, but it may be restored at
ia pleasure by tbe application of the sulphide.
: The explanation o? the action of this aubM
stance is very simple. The iron which
H" enters into the composition of tbe ink Lt
4 ' transformed by the reactiou into the black
:o sulphide.?Loston Budget
13 The Sidney of the American Xnrj.
' The widow of Commander T. A. M.
Craven is petitioning congress for an in*
&* | create of pension. Commander Craven has '.?<
sr been called the "Sidney" of the American
n ! navy. When the Tecumseh went down,
n while lead.ng Farragut'a fleet at Mobile in
?o lb?>4, sunk by the explosion of a torpedo,
n Commander Craven went down with her.
| At the time of tbe explosion the pilot and
n | he instinctively made for the same opening
-O | leading below. Craven drew back. "After
0- j you, pilot," hj said. There was no "after"
<f for him. The pilot was saved, but Craven
went to the bottom with his ship.?Chicago
Times.
Pnrpolin-CsttcliliiR in North Carolina.
>d ' Porpoise-catching is developing as an in*
it: dustry in North Carolina Steamers have
is been purchased an 1 everything made ready
:> | for a largo haul this summer. The oil is exit}
; trhotel from them and the meat is used aa
iJ a fertilizer. The tins are made into gelau
tine and the hide is turned into an excellent
] leather. ?Chicago Times,
9' | The Pennsylvania railroad company will
oi i not employ men who ore over 45 years vt
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