Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ ifc-v* LONG ACO. I once knew ail the birds that came And nested in our orchard trees. For every flower I had a name? My friends were woodchucks, toads and bees; I knew where thrived in yonder glen What plants would sooth a stone bruised toe? Oh, I was very learned then. But that was very long ago. I knew the spot upon the hiil "Where checkerberries could ba found, m I knew the rushes near the mill "Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound! *au>:n mr n wu?vuo v Ci > tiro Where lived the poaching, saucy crow, And all the woods and crows knew me? But that was very long ago. And pilling for the joys of youth, I tread the old familiar spot Only to learn this sol9mn truth: I have forgotten, am forgot. Yet here's this youngster at my knee Knows all the things I used to know; To think I once was wis? as h-'? But that was very long ago. I know it's folly to complain Of whatso'er the fates decree, Yet, wore not wishes all in vain, I tell you what my wish should bo: I'd wish to be a boy again. Back -with the friends I used to know. I For I was, oh, so happy then? But that was very long ago! ?E\rjene Field, in the Chicigo Xews. a burglary! ; : urs. a. weiss. I "Betty!" called Mrs. Lane, in a quick, ] shaip voice. And the kitchen girl, hastily wiping ] her hands on her apron, hastened to obey s the summons. j "Where is the new rubber door mat?" s inquired her mistress. "Did you take it' t in? 1 don't see it anywhere." "I left it here on the porch,mem, juit | t .1 i_ yy t> 11 _ mtii i inree minutes ago, repueu JM-'tty. "iu i i have tuck it in then, only I thought I ' smelt the tea biscuits burning. Wherever | can it be, I wonder?" "What brought you to the door three j minutes ago?'' "It was a boy, mum?leastways a lad J ?with a basket of paper and pencils, . and such like trash. I told him as we , didn't want anything, an' so shut the j door and left him standin' there." j "And of course he slid the mat off the , porch floor, aud then picked it up and carried it off in the dusk. Run. Betty? around the corner and see if he's anywhere in si<?ht." t Betty obeyed; aud just then Mrs. | (. Coleman, who lived next door, chanced J j to pass by; and,stepping as usual to ex- I j. change a word with her neighbor, was > j. inlcrmed of the latter's loss. j r "It's top bad!"' said Mrs. Coleman, i J sympathetically. "And it was only yesterday that some thief stole a lot of linen ^ from Mrs. Smith's back yard, where it had been left a little late on the clothes j f line. And did you hear of the burglary , j at Captain Dyers? And the attempt to t break in through Mr. Carter's back windows? Mrs. Dyer had her gold watch ^ and all her silver spoons carried off." "I read about it in this morning's s papers. The editor said there is no doubt ( ^ of a gang of burglars in the city, and cautioned people to be on their guard. _ So, as Mr. Lane is away, I set to work to-day and hid everything of value j wlinf/j T'm onpo nn fKiof n*AiiVl ntrop fliinl' I . x -""v *?""* 11) of looking for it. As to the door mat? \ f( a beautiful one that I bought only this j, morning?it is owing to Betty's careless- a ness that it is lost." ^ "Well, I keep my valuables for the a present in my bedroom, tucked in be- n tween the mattresses, as the safest placc ^ * I know of."' "The safest place!" said Mrs. Lane, ^ laughing. "Why, my dear, that isal- j, ways the first place, after the bureau ! drawers, that a burglar thinks of going ' jj to. Now," lowering her voice, "I'll tell ; g you what I've done with my things. The ' ^ silver I've wrapped in an old pair of | r black trousers, and placed in a coal-' c scuttle, covered over with cinders, at the ' a head of the kitchen stairs, as if ready to ! v be emptied. My watch and jewelry, and , t) a roll of bank not 9, I've hid away in a j, mantla vase in the parlor, filled with dried ' grasses. Of course they're perfectly safe 0 ?for you know uo thief would ever 0 dream of looking in such places for a valuables." ^ JL'How clever!" said Mrs. Coleman. 1?' And just then Betty appeared, return- ' ^ ing from her errand. | ^ "Sure, mem, I don't see a sign of that j ^ lad nowheres. Whoever stole the door : mat tuck good care to get out o' the ! p neighborhood as quick as he could. And i there's the tea to make and the kittle j v b'iling over, I'm thinking." j u And Betty hurried away to the' ^ kitchen. ; "I wish Mr. Lane wero at home!" . jj Mrs. Lane said, wistfully; "but we ex-! v pect hiui to-morrow by the seven o'clock a train, in time for breakfast." ! v "If you feel uneasy, why not get oac ; 0 of your nephews to stay with you to- ! v night?" suggested her friend. I s "Oh, it isn't necessary!" she answered, ' ^ laughing. "I expect young; Minor to be i in the parlor untii eleven or twelve, per- J haps, and after that Maude and I must look out for ourselves." | "But I thought her papa objected to , ( the young man's visits?" said Mrs. Cole- j1 man wlin hnvirxr hecn n. school-crirl : = (tiond of Mrs. Laue, the two often ex- | J changed family confidences. "Well, yes, he has taken a prejudice ( to him on account of what be calls his dudishness, though Maude insists that it i3 only gentlemanly refinement, and I i agree with her. At any rate, I make a ' point of not interfering with them when ' Mr. Lane's away; and Maude insists that ' if only she could make her father better 1 acquainted with Mr. .Minor, he would 1 learn to appreciate him. But whenever ; Mr. Lane comes in and finds him in the !! parlor, he's as gruff as a bear, and Maude | ' is, or course, extremely worried." djr^say jt will all come right : in the eu dTMrs. 'Coleman said, cheerily. ! And with a few more words the friends j parted. Pretty Miss Maude enjoyed her lover s j society that eveuiug untroubled by the 1 : Vint Kop ulna mirrht !lt ai)V appruucusiisu kuuv e>?- - moment walk into the room and heartlessly snub the unoffending visitor. She often wished that her father were at least more considerate; for had he not , once cruelly lacerated her feelings by observing that when he sa~v a young man parting his hair in the middle, he re- j garded it as a sure siga that there was a lack of brains underneath. As she knew how clever and sensible | Charlie really was; aud had he not, this j very evening, on learniug of their fear of burglars, been self-sacrificing enough to sit up with them until past midnight, when he could have been peacefully sleeping at home? When he had gone, Mrs. Lane laid herself down iu her dressing-gown, l ready for any emergency; but the night I passed without any disturbance of any kind. Early on the following morning Mr. Lane arrived from his late business trip, and at eigh1: o'clock the family repaired to the breakfast-room, where, with one exception, the table was nicely laid. "Why, Betty!" said her mistress; "where is the silver?" The girl stared. "Sure, ma'am, I thought you'd tuck cm out o tnc coal scuttle. 1 weat to get 'em, and they weren't there." "Not there? Why, I haven't been near the scuttle; neither has Maude nor Mr. Lane." All hastened to examine the improvised plate safe. It stood where it had been left, at the head of the kitchen stairs, but the ciuders which it had contained were scattered ou the floor, and of the silver coacealcd beneath, there was r.ot a sign. Appalled at the discovery, Mrs. Lane proceeded to look alter her other hidden valuables. The mantle-vase appeared all right, until the plumy pampas and crystallized glasses were removed, disclosing within an utter vacuum. The gold watch, the money and the jewelry had all disappeared. "What could it mean? No possible ;xplanati)n offered, and while they all stood staring blankly,the door bell rang, ind Betty, who answered it, hastened ?ack to say that Mr. Miuor wished to see Vlr. Lane on particular business. "Particular business, indeed!" growled Hiiudc's papa, savagely. "Hadn't he iensc enough to choose a more reasonable lour? But stay! I'll see him; for thj ooner the business is settled the b(ter." The two ladies anxiously listened to he murmur of voices froai the parlor, ["he interview was brief, for presently tfr. Lane came hurriedly back and pro:eeded to put on his bat and overcoat. "I think we've got a clue to the rob>ery, Emeline," he observed, as he strug- j fled into the latter garment. "That I roung Minor tells me that as he was >assing here last night, he observed a >oy hanging around the house, and hinking his manner suspicious, he spoke o him, though the fellow walked off vithout answering. However, he thinks ic recognized him as Joe Finnerty, a >oy who peddles about the offices down own. Minor says, that feeling uneasy, ic came around thus early this morning o inquire after the family, and on being j nformcd by Bettie at the door, of what lad happened, instantly suspected Joe of 1 laving had a hand in it. We are now 1 joing round to the police office, so as to osc ro time." Maude peeped from the window, and lespite her trouble at the loss of her 1 ewels, smiled radiantly a3 she saw her 1 ather and her lover proceeding down I ne street togcuier, lu an uppeuruuit; uu he most amicable terms. 1 Whea Mr. Lane returned to dinner, 1 ie seemed in a very complacent mood. < "The matter is all cleared up," he 1 aid. "Joe Finucrty was the thief and 1 iurglar, just as I conjectured." 1 "As Mr. Minor conjectured, you mean, apa," said Maude, with emphasis. ' "Well, well, let him wear his laurels. 1 confess that he's a rather more seusi- < le young fellow than I gave him credit I ar though he does wear his hair parted i i the middle aui has a complexion like 1 girl's. But as to Fiunerty, he broke < own and confessed as soon as he was ] rrested. It was he who stole the door lat, and, with the assistance of another ( ? & u..?~in,.? >? \ uy, uuiauiiti^u iuc uuijjmij. "But how on earth did he know just i ,*here to fiud the things?" Mrs. Lane < aquired. i "That 13 easily explained. You gave 1 im instructions. It seems that after 1 lyly dragging the mat of! the porch, ho < id it under the steps until he could car- 1 y it off in the darkness, and there di3- 1 overed an unsecured cellar window, ? nd at the same time overheard your con- i ersation with Mrs. Coleman, Oh, it t ikes a woman to manage things cleveryt" 1 "And it took Charlie to find it all i ut," said Maude, triumphantly. "You i ught to be very grateful to him, papa, s he acted so kindly to us while you ; rere away and saved us our property." I "He will be around this evening/' i er father replied, as calmly as though J is inviting Charlie to tea was an every- i ?y occurrence. } Auq Maude instantly commenced pee- i iaring for her father his favorite salad. i "But that poor boy," said Mrs. Lane, rith a remorseful conciousness of having < ieen the cause of his temptation?1 "-will 1 - 4.^ : an , ic go tu pusuui ? "I think not. More probably he will 5 ?e sent to the new House of Reformation, fhere he may learn to become a good < nd honest citizen. In any event this trill be a profitable lesson for him?as it i iught to be with you, Emelinc. Only a. ' voman would think of standing on the i trcet aad telling important secrets to. ter neighbors.''?Saturday Niijht. I ] Frozen Siberia. At Yakutsk, Siberia, a man started to lig a well in 1828. fie worked on it ,hrce years and gave it up, finding the jround still frozen at a depth of thirty eet. The Russian Academy of Science ;ook up the work and suuk the well to a Jepth of SS2 feet without getting ;hrough the frosen ground. By taking the emperaturc at different points the scien:ists have concluded that the ground is frozen to a depth of 6000 feet. After Souring on the subject for over a quarter A a century, geologists have come to the conclusion that the great frozen valley of the Lena River was deposited, frozen just as it is to-day, during the great grinding-up era of the glacial epoch. Eight hundred and eighty-two feet of the frozen soil might well stagger the scientific investigator, for it violates all the preconceived ideas of the condition and temperature of the ifttorior of the earth.?Francisco Examiner. Another Jumbo. The steamship Golconda, from Calcutta to Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar with an immense Indian elephant, presented by (.Juccu Victoria to the Sultan of Morocco, which was lauded by means of the dockyard crauc. The animal had at one time belonged to the Viceroy of India, and had beeu trainod for tiger hunting. Its tusks are tipped with bras* and his forehead painted atd edged with red spots, denoting his high caste. The elephaut's name ia Jumbo. ?New York Prena. IIIIIIHIIIIIII THE BANANA TRAD] IT HAS MADE GREAT STRIDI IN RECENT YEARS. Origin of the Industry?Where tl Fruit Comes From?How It is Grown and Transported to This Country. The only strictly American importir industry, and one which cannot well 1 taken away from the United States 1 any foreign country, is the trade bananas. It is one of the best kuow trades to everybody in America, and the same time a3 little is known abo where the fruit comes from and how is shipped as if the fruit belonged to tl strangest varieties which reach this ma ket. Probably no trade has receivc such strict attention or has shown sue rapid strides in the pa3t few years a3 th one. Strange as it may seem, whii bananas are shipped lo no other couuti but America, with the exception of tt TVTnil lin?? nf sfpnmshins -- w ? not aa American vessel in the trade. During the last year, from January 1: to December 31st 12,532,550 bunches c bananas reached the United States. A it is estimated that each bunch average one hundred bananas, more than one bi lion were distributed throughout th country last year, or sufficient to alio1 every man, woman and child in Anieric to have had about twenty bananas to ea( Placed end to end they would have ex tended a distance of more thau thre times around the globe. No fruit ever gained such widespreai popularity in so short a time. Fiftee; years ago it was comparatively unknowi except in the large cities and even ther it wa? only supplied in comparativel; small quantities to the largest hotels an< among the wealthier class of people. The trade dates back in its incipienc; to about thirty-five years ago. The firs bananas that reached the United State were from Baracoa. At that time th< natives of Baracoa and its neighborhooc rrni-o roiaara of f r\rinr?ir?a 11 tr \Tr>c " ViV taii9Vl? w* WVVWVVV AJAV/t? of the tobacco growers, howeaer, raise* a few bar anii on their plantations fo their own use. They were not sucl yellow ones as are now shipped to thL country, however. They were of thi red variety, with a few small yellows which were then known as "Porgie' bananas. Among the men who were interested in growing tobacco at Baracoa was i Spaniard of the name of Gomez. II< was not only interested in more than one tobacco plantation, but kept a genera 3tore at Baracoa and made a business oJ bartering provisions for tobacco. Occa sionally a farmer would bring in fron bis plantation t6n or a dozen bunches ol bananas. These 3Ir. Gomez vtould giv( to the captain of a vessel bound for New Vork or New Orleans with instructions to trade off for whatever he could get foi them?a pair of shoes, clothing or the [ike. The idea of shipping them to sell was not thought of. The only vessel* from Baracoa at that time were schooners, and the voyage to New York usually occupied lrom twelve to fifteen days. At the end of such a veyage it wa3 usuall) found that fully fifty per ceut of the bananas had decayed. After several years of such shipments the fruit began to be known among certain classes of fruit dealers, and small n-orn rotnrno:? hp fhp PAnfcuina f>l "uwo " v 1 w ?v???"j ?: :he Baracoa schooners, and the trade ic i small way was established. The Government, with its eyes wide open foi iutiable goods, placed a tariff of twenty per cent ad valorem on the fruit. The orders from New York and New Orleans became so numerous at Baracoa :hat it taxed the farmers in the surrounding country to supply them. Senoi Somez, realizing that there wa3 a ready narket for the fruit, set out to make a feature of growing it. It was at this :ime that the first schooner laden with a ;argo exclusively of bananas left Baracoa for New York. Although more than ifty per cent of the fruit was unfit to lell after reaching its destination, the emainder found a ready sale and yielded i fair profit. The trade was established. When the trade of New York reached ;wo thousand bunches of bananas a week t was thought to- be at its zenith, but ,t proved to have only just begun. It was discovered at the time that the pellow plantin bananas,, such as reach ;hc market now,, matured at least six nontns sooner than did, the red ones, ind that in order to supply the demand it would be more profitable- to grow the yellow variety- ii was- found to be just is marketable as its red. brother, although it not quite as high a' price. The season of the fruit, is from the 1st >f March to the last of June,, and the farmers planted the trees- at such a time xs would cause the fruit to mature fo? shipment d'iring these months." Fruit sut before or after these three months jannot command as high prices. So rapidly did. the trade grow that the raisers realized that unless some means were- devised, whereby the fmiit could teach its destination more quickly and without such terrible' decay that the demand would overrench the supply no matter how extensively it was raisedIt was th*n,. about tea years ago, that the idea occurred to. charter steamships to transport the fruit- It proved successful beyond the expectations of the most sanguine- It was discovered that not more thaa five per cent, of the fruil shipped perished oo fast voyages. The Government was. then induced to lift tht duty off the frui:. From that time on the trade grew even faster than at first and the demand always kept ahead ol the supply. Seeing the rapidly growing and 3uc< cessful business in the the fruit at Bar o<v\a oamtalists started groves in Jama ?i w ica, Aspinwail, Honduras, Blucfields Limon, and kept clearing th< wooded country about their places anc putting iu banana trees. At first American steamers were chs^ tered for the trade, but they soon begii to put up their charges for trauspo;rta tion, and then Norwegian and Enylisl ?crowded oni thi *u v. American ships. There .ire at present about fort; steamers in the trade that are, comin; and going all the time. These* steamer are built for uo other purposa and carr; from 10,000 to 12,01)0 bunches each. J, banana steamer is a shell. There is bu one compartment, and in this compsrt ment the bananas are stood on eiyd i layers from the bottom of the ship to th deck. It is a peculiar fact that but one bunc of bananas grows on a tree. "After tt fruit has been cut the, tree is then a down to the ground, ^nd from tho stum [another tree sprouts, which bearaauoth< ^ bunch the following year. The greate J* trouble of fanners is to keep the fari clear of sprouts. They shoot up fro 2g the roots of the tree for a radius of t< feet and grow like weeds. As the fruit is cut from the trees it placed on the backs of little pack doi e keys and transported in this way to tl coast. One donkey can carry lrom thri to six bunches, according to the size i the bunche3 and the distance from tl coa3t. In the sea3on at Baracoa the: are more than three thousand donke; 1,6 that stretch along in a line for mill plodding toward the coast with the ln loads of bananas. The fruit from Jamaica is considere at by dealeis to be the largest, best an most salable. This is said to be owin lv to the fact that the fruit is allowed tor< ie main longer on the tree3 and is n:or r" fully matured than from any other sec j tiou. . One firm has just planted a grove c fs 1,300,000 trees at Gibara, Sama, neu DnvnnAn tttIII Kn Knonnr* frtl if 1 uaittbi/a) nuivu vrxn us* liuiw a y another year. l.e The cost to the farmer of raising th 13 fruit is estimated nt twenty-fivo cents tree, and he calculates on realizing tc per cent, profit. The fruit is sold in th market at from seventy-five cents to $ a bunch wholesale. The principal markets for bananas ar New York, New Orleans, Philadelphii c Baltimore, Savannah, Galveston an< N Tampa, Fla, From these points the fru a is circulated over the country.?Ne " York Herald. c Anthracite Coal for Centuries. Thirty years ago fears were entertaine * by men engaged in the mining c 11 anthracite coal that the supply would b Q exhausted in this region around abou e Pittston, Penn., before the close of th y present century. The northern boundar * of the coal field was fixed a short dii tauce above Carbondale, and the sc J called experts were confident that cos would not be found in paying quantitie 3 outside of this line. When it wa e rumored that coal had been found i I Susequehanna County, these old-timer f- * * -a -?? 1- J i-L- T * laugnea at me reports sou iue ucu ww * bought and held for years land now con r sidered valuuble were classed among th 1 visionary speculators of the age. Tim 3 has proven that the men who outlinei 3 the coal measures in the Lackawann ? Valley made great errors in calculating courscs and distances. Instead of ex hau3ting the supply in thirty years, th< I men now in the field have brought t( 1 sight, in the upper end of the valley J more anthracite coal than has been minec ! since the first opening was made. Recent ^ developments at Forest City have sur prised the coalmen of the region and no^ * it is known that the work of mining hai 1 only begun in that region. The immensi ^ tracts that the Elk Hill Coal Company ii 5 now making preparations to develop wer< f "? *--* ... i.ui passed Qy lor years ua wuituicaa. v/iuat 1 upon the news that operations were to be commenced by the Elk Hill Coal Company 1 comes the announcement that the North^ west Coal Company, which owns larg( ' tracts in upper Lackawanna, has mel " with unexpected good fortune in prospecting. Underlying the veins whicfc ' the company is now working a new veic ' has been discovered which is authenti1 cally reported as being fourteen feet ii thickness.?Philadelphia Ledger. I ? _ A Knowing Mule. ; A farmer of Williamsbridge, on th< northern outskirts of New York City, 1 plows his land with a horse and a mul< | harnessed together. The mule has ? hairless, stubbed tail, a drooping ear, a Ti..i ?i.~i. ana a aeaa eye. r>ui wum- uc iolao'u personal appearance he richly makes up in sagacity. The other morning, shortlj ' after4dawn, the farmer found that botl horse and mule had been stolen out oJ the stable during the night. After breakfast time the mule limped home, travel 1 ing lor the mo3t part on three legs. One 1 of the rear fetlocks wa3-badly sprained, ' and his lip3 were flecked with blood as ' though he had been trying to chew something too tough for ordidary masticating powers. Almost at the same hour 6 sorry-looking man with a $20 bill in his pocket, was arrested as -a suspicious person by the Carmansville police. He ama mvpreri with cats and bruises, which I he accounted for by saying that he had ' been knocked down by a runaway horse, crushed by the wheels of the wagon behind it, and mangled by a dog that was pursuing the turnout. The farmer suspects that the man was in contact witb both ends of his mule, and that th? twenty dollars is the result of., a . cheap horse sale.?Chicago Times. Vitality of Seeds. Whether seeds can or cannot preserve their vitality for lengthened periods dc. pends as much or mere on external than . inherent conditions; and it is more and more a tendency cf scientific belief, that -. Jii.: A .,1,1 unaer some CUUUIHUU3 a auuui nuu,u nuuiu lose its vital power in a year or two, may, under other conditions, continue vital foi . I au indefinite period.. It is still a mooted ! question whether the "mummy seeds" j which people who travel in Egypt bring ' home with them, have really been in ex, istence for a couplc of thousand yeare, or are the skillful work, of impostors which abound io the classic land as well as in our own. It:ia- said, that so skills fully is the imposition > practiced that the , mummy wheat caabe nwdoto roll out of muiiimy wrappings even .be-fore your eyes, . But undoubted, facta, are Accumulating., ( showing long life- iui unexpected in.i , stances. Undw ice 3h*ets, planters l well as seeds,.will.livfi,.for years. A,re: . murkable instanceocour&, in connection f with a species,of cypres, a native of California. Coulter,-, a, collator in California* . had his herbarium in; *ihe Glasnevir?G)it:. dens, near Dublin,. aj?l twenty-on^.yaacs . after a seed. wa&.tak.<w> from a driediapecis aien whicb^ produced the living ? i New York. Ijideperuint. ; i Quec* Bit oI Literary History. There-is a rlcti man in Newv York with i quew bit of Uiorory history.. Years age - he w:as very pe*?*1. He wrot^j stories and i no publisher would take thpnu Finally e he r-eccivoci * Icgacy of $3C1\ He had t cvippled sister to support, iud he incor y grated her with himself lata a publish J ing company. Then h* printed his re > jected storios. They paid expenses, an( T he wrote ft story of -jewsboy life ftsu X published it, aud siuce then has writtei it and published eighty books. They ar - common stories, cheaply printed, bu n they sell by thousands. He owns a blocl e, of houses in Brooklyn and supports hi invalid sister in luxury, ftc has worke< h hard, but be has achieved success, am ie what pleasoa him most is the fact that h it has shown other publishers how badl ip mistaken they were iu their judgment ? ir hi^ tjQQka.?Q'onititution. J 'J . ^ gt popular scienceUS ?? m In Denmark the life-saving statu008 aT ga all supplied with oil for stilling the *,'av* in storms. is Palladium is replacing platinum foi a- electropating the balance and othei 10 a\J UiUVCUiCUW Ul WttlV/UCS. e? The action of roasted coffe as a germi cide is held to be due not to the caf 10 feine, but to the products of the roasting ro process. ^ A French mechanician has recently in vented an electric lamp for examining the interior of metal-tubes and projectilei !(j for guns. 1(j A French scientist calculates that th( ,g action of rivers and waves will wash 8. the entire land service of the globe 0 into the ocean in about 4,500,00c years. Oil-hardened steel, while improving >f the quality of the metal, is said by exir perts to increase the danger of rupn ture in cases in which the least flaw exists. c The late 11. Cahours, a wealthy mem& ber of the Academie des Sciences, Paris, a France, has bequeathed $20,000 to that e body in order that it may apply the 1 annual interest to smoothing the path of poor and deserving youths e who aspire to lead a scientific life. A very difficult calling is that of mi ? crometer making. For mathematica it i.1 L i L purposes luuae lastrumeuus must ue mau< w bo fine as to measure the 34-1000 of at inch. Oa such a scale the hair of the head is as large as a horse car. To dc j this demands education, technical skill, . mechanical and mathematical knowledge e and unfailing eyes and tands. it Great improvements have recently e been made in the manufacture of glass y for optical instruments by means of the i- addition to the ordinary materials of >- phosphorous and chlorine, which in some il yet unexplained way cause the glass to s be very much more transparent and en3 able it to receive a much higher degree q of polish than any optical glass hitherto s manufactured. & From the results obtained by the chemical analysis of numerous specimens e of mud dredged up on the Challanger 6 expedition and on the we3t coast of ^ Scotland, Mr. Buchanan has come to the a conclusion that marine animals perform ? the same vrork in the comminution of " the mineral matter found at the bottom 5 of the sea that earthworms do in the re> newal of terrestial soil. Dr. Joseph Leidy, who has recently examined some fossil remains from Morehead phosphate beds from Reace Creek, Florida, decides one to be from a Hippor therium hitherto uudescribed, which he 3 ! names H. princeps. He concludes that 3 this animal must have been fully as large J as the best specimens of our modern 5 j domestic horse, to which it is related. * I A number of specie3 of Rhinoceros i al90 existed there in those days. The j remains of one hitherto undescribed were I also found in the- phoaphate bed, which ! the professor names R, loogipes. In a paper on the humble-bee in New Zealand, Mr. Thomson says that, wishing to find how far these insects are adapting themselves to new flowers in the colony, he has for a considerable- time kept a record of the flowers they visit and of those they leave alone-. He has noticed them on mauy species of introduced plants, which they never, appear to visit | in- Europe. They seldom approach ' i white flowers, and, with two exceptions, ! hs-has never heard of their visiting the J flowers of indigenous- plants* The exceptions are Fuschiaexcorticata and the Ngaio. The object of certain experiments described by W. Sharp,, in. the British Ai; sociation, was to' answer the question, | What i3 - the action of the substances J called drugs upon, the living body of 1 man? The conclusions- arrived at were! the results of experiments- made upon ! men in sound health,, with different J quantities of the same drugs. In the| case of fourteen drugs? that were used it. | was found. that the. smallest doses- ad| ministered have power to act upon theliving human body; that the commonly ! received opinion that the- actions- of ! j drugs are simply increased in.degree,, and1 I I not altered in character, by increasing, the dose, is-erroneous; and that .the actions of drugs are sufficiently distinct to.admit L of classification. Vtinr TTcn Piinow | 4W1I ?J ?JV- ?V*. VUV : Ia-the-.-West Indiesoae of. the charao i. teristics of an intelligent cook is the carewith which he or.- she will see to> it that a pa paw tree is growing within, a. short distance of the kitchen door. The {rait of the papaw,.if large and well-grown, is not to .be despised as> a. breakfast dish, and its riohj. golden flesh, is to many much moro; palatable than that o? the popular mcloni. But the.- attractiveness of the. papaw for the cook consists in its leaves, which posses* the remarkable property o? rendering, meal; tender* The toughest beefsteak or the moat.hopeless old roBitor- can be made soft; and comparatively-juicy by being wrapped for au hour or-two in thc.lasge,, iaxk. green papawvlca.vas. Djv. Mortimer Granville, who Has-been for some time studying; the prop?:tL(? of the- juice whAoh: works suchi woodons, states that.hehao discovers*!, ia it a remedy for cancer;, w.ben used *?ith some , otber preparatjou&v The orgnnizodi ferment of the pppaw- is believefL to> be a "j bacillus; buUDx.:. ttranville says- h?.- ha3 . satisfied himself, ot the therapeutic value af the juice,-.or ctyrtain of ita alesnenta, lis a solvent,of. tha morbificaiiyimiurated ' tissues in cancer, when administered ia combination;wlfcit certaiu specified acU " juncts.?J^iUidiary Dispatch. 4 ~ The *fbra& on Brooklyn Bridge. Thoitfacids of people ccoea the Brooklyn bridge ?very day, b?t comparatively e-? - 1.MA(?r n?n/>k qKaiif* fKn xi?icaa. lew KMJ IfUMTHU IVUUVY muv.w avvui/ n*kV^ that 3c? tfiined across, the big structure., i Thej are there ia gr?t numbers and ) alrr.pst endless varyjty. Their resting 1 pLipe is on.the girders. Through fckena r countless messages', telephonic anc^telei gsapbic, are transmitted at all hoajs. of - &tyOay and nigliC. jt Some of them resemble rope?, bat they * I Are not, for each contains 500 telephone J wires. Of these there are fiv?>. Besides 1 them are many other blackv snakelike J strands, which are other means of comu municaticn with Brooklyn and poiuts t beyond. Of course nearly everybody U ? aware that the land ends of the Atlantic s cables of the Commercial Company *lso 1 cross the bridge, but their location, is 3 generally misunderstood. They are see eurely fa&eued to the under aide of the y promenade flooring, in ph'.iu view of \t passengers oa the traiaa.or.flfcjf York ?feraZ?, REV. DR. TALMAGE ? > . : ;?* * 9 THE BROOKLYN ^DIVINE'S SI L... DAY SERMON. r Subject: "The Borden Bearer." "Cast thy burden upon the Lo and He shh*.' sustain thee."?Psalm lv. 22 f David was fit./0 ^.ki?8 his own medici If anybody bad ? haivy weights, Da had them, and yet Ovlt of ?ls own experiei he advises you and m\as'f. "?e best way ; getting rid of burdens. * . ? 13 a world 5 burden bearing. Coming vnfco y10 houii nraver there mav be no ?" sidnesi sorrow, but where is theman wu^.has nol > conflict? Where is the soul that <*? no! struggle? And there is not a day ot*?'l t year when my text is not gloriously aj)^ 1 priate, and there is never an audience a I sembled on the planet where the text do not fit the occasion: "Cast thy burden upi the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." In tl ' far east wells of water are so infrequent th when a man owns a well he has a property very great value, and sometimes battles ha been fought for the possession of one wall water; but there is one well that every rai owns?a deep well, a perennial well, a wi of tears. If a man has not a burden on tl shoulder, he has a burden, on the other shot der. ; The day I left home to' look after myss , and for myseif, in the wagon my father s: driving, and he said that day somethij ! which has kept with me all my life: "I I "Witt, it is always safe to trust God. I hai many a time come to a crisis-of difficult You may know that, having been sick t fifteen years, it was no easy thing for me ,1 support a family; but always-God came > the rescue. I remember the time," hesai "when I didn't know what to do; and I sa 1 a man on horseback riding up the farm lan 5 and be announced to me that" I had b? j nominated for the most lucrative office i the gift of the people of the county, and t 1 that office I was elected, and God in? thj I way met all my wants, and I tell you it always safe to trust Him. Oh, my friends, what we-want is-a pract cal religion! The religion people have is< s high up you cannot reach it. In the Strail of Magellan, I have been told, there is a plac where whichever way a captain puts his shi be finds the wind against him, and there ai men who all their lives have been running i the teeth of wind, and which way to tur they do not know. Some of them may t here this morning, and I address them fac to face, not perfunctorily, but as one brothe talks to another brother, "Cast thy hurde upon the Lord, and He sball sustain thee." First?There are a great many men wh have business burdens. When we see a ma harried and perplexed and annoyed in busi ness life we are apt to say: "He ought nc to have attempted to carry so much." Al that man may not be to blame at all! Whe a man plants a business he does not knoi what will be its outgrowths, what will be il roots, what will be its branches. There j many a man with keen foresight and larg business faculty who has been flung into th dust by unforeseen circumstances spnngin upon him from ambush. When to buj when to sell, when to trust and to wha amount of credit, what will be the effect c this new invention of machinery, what wi be the effect of that loss of crop and a thoi sand other questions perplex ousiness me until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkle are plowed in the cheek, and the stocks g up by the mountains and go down by th valleys, and they are at their wits' ends an Btagger like drunken men. There never has been a time when ther have been such rivalries in business as now It is hardware against hardware, booh against books, chandlery against chandlery imported article against imported article A thousand stores in combat with anothe thousand stores Never such an advantag of light, never such a variety of assortment never so much splendor of show window never so much adroitness of salesmen, neve so much acuteness of advertising, and amii all the severities of rivalry in business hov many men break down! Oh, the burden oi the shoulder! Oh, the burden on the heart You hear that it is avarice which drive these men of business through the street and that is the commonly accepted idea. do not believe a word o? it. Ah! my friend, do you say that God doe not care anything about your worldly busi ness? I tell you God knows more about i than you do. He knows all your perplex ties; He knows what mortgagee is about t foreclose; He knows what note you canno Eay; He knows what unsalable goods yo ave on your shelves; He knows all you trials, from the day you took hold of the firs yardstick down to the sale of the last yar of ribbon, and the God who hilped David t be king, and who helped Daniel to be prim sinister, and who helped Havelock to be soldier, will help you to discharga all you duties. He is gom^ to see you througt When loss comes, ana you find, your prof srtv going, just take this Book and put i down by your ledger, and read of the eterna possessions that will come to you througl our Lord Jesus Christ. And when you business partner betrays youy and you frionds turn against you, just take the it suiting letter, put it down on the table, pu your Bible beside the insulting letter, an then read of the friendship of Him wh "sticketh closer than a brother." A young accoutant in New York City gc Mis accounts entangled. He knew he ws j honest, and yet he could not. make bis at I aouats come out right, and ho toiled at thee I day and night until he was nearly frenzied It seemed by those books .that somethin I 'dad been misappropriated, and he knew tx | tor a God he was honest. The.last day cam* He knew if he could not that day make hi accounts come out right he would go int disgrace and go into banishment from th business establishment. He. went over ther very early, before there was anybody in th i place, and he knelt down at-the desk an :: said; "Oh, Lord, Thou kno.naet I have trie ! to b ?honeat, but I cannot .make these thing i some out right! Help me to-day?help m Shis morning!" I. The yonng man arose and hardly knowinj | why he did so opened a book, that lay on thi , desk, and there was a leaf.containing a lin< ; figures which explained everything. Ii other words, he cast his ,burden upon th j; Lord and the Lord sustained hira.* Younj ; man, do you bear that? Oh, yes; God has i j sympathy with anybody .that is in any kini J; of toil! He knows how heavy is the hod o I; bricks that the workman carries up the lad |! tier of the wall; He hears the pickax of thi ; miner dowu the coal shaft; He.-knows how strong the tempest strikes.thesailor at mast | head; He sea* the factory girl among tha spindles and knows how ber afjgos ache; H( sees the sewing woman in tk$ fourth star.1 and knows bow few pence she, *jets for rnaii in; a garment; and louder tli?V3c ail th9 die and roar of the city comes.,the voice of 8 sympathetic God, "Cast th>,-burden upor i tne Lord, and He shall sustain thee." Second ?There are a great piany who havt a weig'^W of persecution ,a*d abuse upoi them. Sometimes society.- gots a grudg< against.^ man. AU .his.motives are mis interprd$ed, and his good d$?ed3 are depreci ated. With more virt-\.*? .than some of th( hoaor-?l and applauded,: h??uns only again* raillc^- and sharp criticism. When a mai i? ifnwn >ic..haa.T?tiL onlv thi forji of r^uraf gravitation but-a hundred hai.t^ to Lfclp him in the-precipitation. Man ar< pe>#eeuted for their vir*u<M and their ju? crtsue. Gerraanicus. said he had jus!*. an^uay bitter antAgonlsja as he had ajorn r^ats. The character ^Miietimes is ?4>lus ^pous that the v^eak eyed of envy ani jeal c^usy cannot bcAT-tolock at it. It waiutbjeii integrity that;: put J.oseoh in the anc Daniel in the .den, and Shadrach in tfte fire '/ and sent Jc&p. tho- Evangelist to iesolafr Patmos, anii.CaJvin to the castle of persacu tion, and Jehn. Huss to th9 stake, md KoraJ after Moses, and Saul after Bayid, am Herod after-Christ Be sure if. you ha* anything to do for church or Steele. and attempt.it 'with *11 your soul, tt#. lightiua. vill stride you. The wrld altrays had had across betTrjei two tt#.eve& for the one who eomes. to savi j it. E^izh and holy enterprise has a I way j beerxfoliowod byabusa. The. most snblimi j tragady oi self sacrifice has.come io bur I lesque. me graceiui pu <j< ? ways followed by grimace and travesty I Xbe sweetest strain ^>f ptetary evor writtej I ias cccae to ridiculous pa?ody, and as Ion; as thore are virtue and righteousness in th | world, there will be viuethiag for lNiquit; | togr'nat. All aloc^-tho liue of the agoi iml in all lauds, the cry has been: '\Nofe thi ! man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was : ! robber." And what makes the persecutions o?' 1JJ worse is that ^iey coma from people Tyfcor vou have helped, from those to wh^m yo have loaned money or have started *1q bus: Des3; ok 'whom you rescued in some grea crisis, I think |t baa been the history of a our llYe8-*t{je jQQat acrin>foi0U9 f bfli com? from thoea whom we have , flted, whom we have helped, and that makaf, it all the harder to bear. AmaojslndUf gerof becomingcynical, ' T . ??23ffi?2S> Tv w A cleffiyjnaiLgL the JJniVeraaust church > wSnfEto a^rSggnporhoiyii {or the establishment of*a chu^'Ot^Tsgeaomin^ion, and J he was anxious to flnulf&me*oHeof that d?? ) nomination, and he was pointed to a certain house and went there. He jaid to the man o?the House, "I understand you~ar3 a Uaird, verealist; I want you to help me in th? en). terpHse." iiWW," said the man, "I am a ne. Universalist/But I hare a peculiar kind of Tjd Umversalism." "Well," replied the other, icq "I have been out in the world, and have ol been cEealed and s-'andered and outraged of and abused until I believe in universal damof nation P " xtiird?There are others who carry grs&t burdens<Jf physical ailments. When sud" ' i,? | den sickness has come, and fierce choleras and Vn J rtxlignant fevers take the castles of life by ? stOfta, we appeal to God; biftin thesecforonlo aJlmtfJits which wear out th? strengthN4ay ^ . after day, and week after wecfc, and year" afteK. yeafr, how little resorting to God fo^4 i~ solaceS T?b? people depend upon their tonics and their piasters and their cordial rath? j than upoii h^venly stimulants; Oh^vhoW few p9oplev4;her{rafe completely wellf Soma l of you, by dint et perseverance and cacrdo have kept living lathis time; but how" yo% ,, have had to war nteiinst physical ailnuShK AnfA^ilnviano twJKi?>h4[ AA11A?A M j infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplies their years by hundreds;, but he who haV ,jj gone through the gaa tint of disease in owt t time, and has come to seventy years of aga, is a hero worthy of a nalm. i| The world seem? to be1 a great hospital, * ? and you run against rheumatisms ana con? sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias and J' scores of old diseases baptiJfed by new ikV r; menclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sicknessisl It takes the color out Off the sW, "7 and the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweetness out of the fruit and Cbe 1-astre out of the night. When the limbs- ache, when *>; the respiration is painful, when- tbe mouth , , is hot, when the ear roars with1 unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to* be patient *1 and cheerful and assiduous I "Cast thy bur. den. upon the Lord." Does your: head ache? 181 His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? Hi* were crushed of the spikes. Is your ado painful? His was struck by the spear. Do |? you feal like giving way under the-bucdenf , His weakness gave way under a cross. A. pronziaens merchant of New York said P' to-a.member of my family, "Mv'inotiwi' re wants-her case mentioned to Mr. Talcnage." a; This was-the case. He said: "My motacr 11 had a dreadful abscess, from which she-hod >0 suffered uncold agoniei, and all surgery had :a b82n exhausted upon her, and worsv and !P worse she grew until we called in a-few a- Christian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to Q^. 0- and the abscess began immediately tO'be> f* cured.. She is entirely well now, and wtth1 out knife and without any surgery." So that' >t - case has-come-to m?f and there are a score of i. other cases coming to our ears from all partsa of the earth. Oh, ye who are sick, goto * Christ! Oh, ye who are worn out with I3 agonie3 of body. "Cast thy burden upon tke? is T &r<\ fl-nrl Hb shall sustain thee!'' 0 Another burden, some have to cany lath* 0 burden of bereavement. Ah! these are th?? S troubles that wear us out. If we lose our r? property, by additional Industry perhaps J may bring back the estrange i fortune; if [J lose our good name, perhaps by reformation! '* of morals we may achieve again reputation l* for integrity;.but who-will bring back the a dear departed?- Alas-me! for these empty * cradles and these trunks of childish toys that 0 will never be used'again. Alas me! for the* ematy chair nud-the silence in the halls that d will never echo again ten those familiar footsteps. Alas! for the cry of widowhood and a orphanage. r* what bitter Marahs in the wilderness; ' * 8 , what cities of the dead, what long black '? shadow from the wing of death, what eye?' sunken with grief, what hands tremulous r with bereavement,, what instruments of 0 mu^.c shut now because there are no flngera '< to play on them I Isthera no relief for such > souls? Aye, let the-aoul ride into the harbor of my text. The soul that on Jesus-hat b leased for repose, 7 I will not. I will not desert to Its foes; 3 That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to shake, ;! I'll never, no never, no novo* forsake. 19 There are many who cirry the burden of f sin. Ah, we all carry-it. ant il in the appoint 1 ed way that burden is- lifted. We need no fi Bible to prove that the whole race is rained. H ;3 What a spectacle it would be if we could I f" tear off the mask of human defilement; or H beat a drum that would bring up the woole g l" army of the world's transgressions?the de- M ? ceptwn, the fraud, and the rapine, and the H 'c murder, and the crime of all these centuries! HH u Aye, if I could sound the- trumpet of resur- H J reetion in the soul of tha best men in this M |C audience, and all the dead sins of the past jf? d should come up,. we coxld not endure tha ju 0 sight Sin. grim and dire, has put its clutch H 6 upon > the Immortal souL, and that clutch. H a will. never relax :unless it be under the heel r of Him who came to deafcroy the works of H ' the. devil. KM Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the soull H ' Is there no way to have the burden moved? * jS 'l Oh, yes. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." H| " The, sinless One oame.- to talce the cons?r quences of our sin L And 1 know He is in DB r earnest. How do I knonrit? By the stream- - jfl L* ing temples and the streaming hands as Ha SB ? says, "Come unto Me-, all ye who are wearr flj d and heavy laden,.and I.will give you rest." MB 0 Why will prodigals live on swinesf IJHI husks, when the robe, ami the ring, and the Father's welcome are ready? Why go wan- CB 13 derin? over the graatlSahara desert of your ' siu when you ape -inyitsd to the gardens or .Q God? the tree3 of life asd the fountains ot Ml living water? Why be; houseless and horns- - J|B 5 lessiorever whan yoa.raay bacomo the son* i ? and daughters of the Lord God Almighty? M is the Dutch,: botcg;a slow-going peo? g plev do not marry.-ia haste, though, ol4 e course, it would; be quite consistent i KB ? with their temperament to repent at* d leisure. ThI?-foD6w.ieg notice appeared t s the other day via an Amsterdam new*. H9 e paper: "We,-thja-underaigned, receatljr ; betrothed,i.am .annoancement of whasA- EH 9 marriage appeared1 on Sunday, have* IB q nevertheless 4htiugit it better to think; HI e the matte* ores- very seriously,, and J EQ 5 have-determined; rather to change, ouf I mioda-than to .make a mistake forr all J EH f our lives. To'this end we have decided; J' A-.UkA* i? 4-T-? a maffft* MM to prOOetKii X1(J' iiULHUOt ai vuo \ but to.putrtbe> wedding off for- a fe*v - daysr or to broak it off altogether. Wa? 3 take-itia-meaCiS of making oar resoi?e? ^ j known to> ouc friends, kindi^ request- HH ing.them to< spare us any father coar Efl f ggatujationgw* 9B 1 Dcring ike war a soldier was brought H i to the- hospital paralyzed and unable* Hfl 1 to talk; Ho was thoroughly examined! |M \ by all tho surgeons, wh<> could not.find! AH a wound; o<r scratch upxi the m&$,.yefc IH > he persisted that he wr?s wounded AI t; last a? 3-argeon opened the man's raouth , and, aiade a thorou; ? examination! of > the offerer's throat and mov^hi He. gd I' wsa. amply rewards, for he. found! a. Hfl wtxiad in the back.af the th?aat; Xk? fl? lie probed, and firstly extracted' Utbol- KB " which had parilyzed th^> voi 3ol chords. Th* man recover eca, anq l- abated that he -jras in tb^. chorjje at KH ^ Chickamanga, And the la^t tiat he HNj recollected w-^ hallooivg. ap<t jelling ^B9 ^ as the charge, was mad^e. 9H8 * In order to see w't&thec or not a neighboring ship will 3olli<do with that on which \ou are sajjStfgj, stand amid* J ships and observe if. the bows of th& 3 , comiDg vessel gain vw loaa on you. If ^ they appear to b? stationary with r*r ^ spect t^ yoa the two ships will coll>ie? . for eifth is proceeding along the two^BS jj I side^, of a triangle, having youj- line^HJ \ ' of sight as a base, at such ve-'Bjfl y i locities that they must inevitablyHBH \ j meet. If, however, the angle which ^H| j I vour line of sight makos "with the two^nK ' c>urse.i of the ships becomes more^HHj e 1 acute or obtuse, the ships will clear^H| " ' one another. HH >* A rkmabkably large polar bear^^^H 11 with bright pink fur, has been captured^^H It ; in Siberia and will be sent as a : to the Czar,