Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Telocity of Light. Light travels with uniform motion in any homogeneous medium1 so long as its density and temperature remain constant, but its velocity differs for different media. Michelson found that the velocity of light in the atmosphere is 186,300 miles per second, which corresponds to a velocity of 186,373 miles per second in the ethereal me dium. The velocity of light in crown glass is 122,614 miles, and in flint glass about 113,600 miles per second. A Klondike Swell. Klondike Kid-Say, what sort of cuff-buttons is them? Dawson Dave-The real thing, my boy. They are carved from genuine corned beef.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Can Oar Coast be Effectually Blockaded? It confidence can be felt In the opinion of military and naval officers in high places at the seat of gnvernmen t. such is the vast extent of our sea coast to Uookade lt effectual Iv, even if our navy and sea coast defenses could offer noadequato resistance, seems to be im possible. V? hen a blockade of the bowels exists, relieve constipation with Hostettcr's stomach Bitters, which conquers dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism and kidney trouble. The houses of parliament are ' partlv lighted by forty thousand olectric lamps, which number is being con-tautly Increased. Fifty experienced electricians are employed . to keep the system in order. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Qr.inine Tablets." All Druggists ref und money if It fails to cure. 35c. At its present rate of oombustion it is thoncht the sun will last from 7.030.000 to 15,000,000 years before burning itself out. Beauty Ia Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascareis. Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im Grities from the body. Begin to-day to nish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cabarets,-beauty for ten cents. All dnrg . gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c Money talks, but tho silver dollar means only about half what it savs. J. S. Tarbor. Fredonia. X. Y.. says: "Shall JDot call on you for the S100 reward, for 1 be lieve Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure any case of catarrh. Was very bad." Write him for par ticulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Scrofula Swellings Health Wae Very Poor But Hood's Sarsaparilla Has Cured Her. "My daughter had scrofula swellings on her nock and her health wus very poor. Sho did not obtain lasting benefit from medicines until she began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Three bottlos ot this medi cine ontirnly cured her and she has never been troubled with scrofula since I have great faith in Hood's Sarsaparilla." Mrs. L. D. Effner. Ruth, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. 31; dx for 35. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. 25cents. The Oddest Robby In the World. Probably the strangest hobby in the world is that ot Henry Woolridge, of Mayfield. Ky., who devotes all his mon ey and time to developing his plot in the local cemetery in a way which is as grotesque as it is, happily, original. His first modest and laudable effort was to erect a plain monument to mark the family resting place. Not satisfied ^writh this, however, he added to lt a white marble shaft, bearing on its face a relief presentment of himself on horseback. . Having thus strrck the personal note, "Uncle Henry," as he is familiar ly called, had a life-sized statue of him self erected at a cost of ?200. He then Introduced statues of his mother and eldest brother, to be followed shortly by similar statues In Indiana limestone of .a favorite niece and of a young girl -~wno bad Drougttr'blin-flowers duri ag en illness. His next ambition waa to see himself on horseback, and the family gathering was augmented by a life-size statue of "Uncle Henry" on his favorite horse. ' Then followed presentments in sterne of his favorite desrhound, "Tow Head." chaiing a deer; another of a fox pur sued by his foxhound, "Bob," and a marble sarcophagus with a carved rep resentation of his favorite gun. The latest additions have been stat ues of three of his brothers In the stiff est of poses and the most prosaic of dress. As "Uncle Henry," although 75 " years old, is still hale and more en thusiastic than ever, it is certain that this strange menagerie will receive many more additions before he 6leep* in the oddest environment with which eccentricity ever surrounded a dead man.-Tid-Bits. "? DO MY OWN W0KK." Bo Says Mrs. Mary Roohiette of Linden, New Jersey, in this Letter to Mrs. Pinkham. I was bothered with a flow which would be quite annoying at times, and at others would almost stop. " I used prescriptions given me by my physician, but the same state of affairs continued. " After a time I was j taken with f a flooding, that I wasj|[ obliged to keep my bed. Finally, ' in despair, I gave up my doc tor, and began taking your medi cine, and have certainly been greatly benefited by its use. "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has indeed been a friend to mc. " 1 am now able to do my own work, thanks to your wonderful medicine. I was as near death I believe as I could be, so weak that my pulse scarcely beat and my heart had almost given out. I could not have stood it one week more, I ara sure. I never thought I would be so grateful to any medicine. " I shall use my influence with any one suffering as I did, to have them use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Every woman that is puzzled about her condition should secure the sympa thetic advice of a woman who under stands. C Write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and tell her your ills. "3 have been troubled a great deal with a torpid liver, which produces constipa tion. I found CASCARET3 to be all you claim for them, and secured such relief the first trial, that I purchased another supply and waa com pletely cured. I shaU only bc too glad to rec ommend Ciscares whenever the opportunity ls presented." J. A. SMITH. 2920 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. CANDY ^ CATHARTIC TRADE MAHN RJOISTSITID Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Goo?. Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 25c. SOc. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Slrrllsr IttBrd; Conpiuy, Chicago, Montreal. New York. KO S?I-T0-SAQ fegl^^Sfiii Daughter o?a Japanese Noble. One of the students of the College of Music in Cincinnati, known as Katherine Agnes Gulick, is said to be in reality Suma Matsu Honjo, the daughter of a Japaueso noble, -who married an American, Miss Emma Ty ler, a relative of the president of that name. Handsome Women Nurses Not Wanted. The St. Lonis Republic says that all handsome women who wish to serve their country in the presont crisis will have to do it as spies, as commanding officers invariably prefer plain and middle-aged women as nurses. In a circular distributed by the superintendent of nurses in 1861 women under 30 were informed that they need not apply. Idaho Is Gallant. It would seem to be unnecessary for women to go to the Klondike to find husbands when women are so much in demand in Idaho. It is said to be hard to keep a school teacher single ont there. An instance of this fact is found in the three Misses Busch, who went, one at a time, to Givensville to teach, and when a sec ond term expirod all three were mar ried.-New York Tribune. How to Tress Embroidery Properly. In all cases of embroidery on linen tho work should be carefully pressed when fiuished, and it is important for every embroiderer to know IIOAV this may be done in tho simplest and saf est manner. The proper way to press the finished work is to lay the em broidery face down on a clean cloth spread over an irouing blanket or two or throe thicknesses of flaunel. Place a thin, dampened cloth on the back of the article to be pressed and then uso a hot iron deftly on tho wet sur face until it is perfectly-dry. A steam ing process is thus engendered where by the embroidered linen is rendered smooth, and the effectiveness of the work much enhanced. Women Jurors Try a Woman. A case in which a woman was tried by a woman jury was heard in Weiser, Idaho, a few days ago. Mrs. George L. Smith had done some sewing for Mrs. Abshire and was to receive some jars in payment. When she went for them she was told they had been given away, whereupon she helped herself to some other property in lieu. Mrs. Abshire protested and was slapped by Mes. Smith, for which she had the latter arrested. It was de termined that a woman jury should try tho case, and the towu became greatly excited over the matter. Six of the foremost ladies were impan elled. After being out three hours, they returned with p. verdict of ac quittal at 10 o'clock at night.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Now Colors. There are ten new colors this sea son, each of which is produced in a variety of materials. Sevres is a new blue which is much lighter than navy blue and not so in tense as delft. It is a creamy blue with a touch of gray in it. Another new color is old blue, "vieux blue, " as it is styled on the placards. This blue has less gray in it and is almost as deep as purple in shaded lights. A very pretty sea green is volga, which al3o partakes of gray. Arti choke green is a brighter., happier green of spring that will be very popu lar. Argent is, as the name implies, a rich gold. Sultan comes in two colors-sultan yellow and sultan red-both showy shades. A popular color for either house or street is panne, which is violet, bor dering on the blue. Iodine is a red between cardinal and crimson, and is used a great deal for trimmings. Women Investors Sought. As investors women are usually characterized either by extreme cau tion or a certain seeming recklessness often most profitable in final results. It is this latter characteristic which is frequently appealed to by the organ izers of business enterprises in Chi cago and elsewhere promising excep tionally large returns-with the ac companying risk of no returns at all. There is a man in Philadelphia, a promoter, who makes it his business to deal with women investors only. All his schemes aro presented to them, and he has had considerable success in floating stocks and bonds which a capitalist of the male persuasion could not be induced to notice. Numerous undertakings of importance have been started by women, to be afterward taken up and carried to a safe and profitable completion by men who hesitated to assume the initiative. Among the subscribers to Klondike schemes are widows by the score. Their judgment of an enterprise is in stinctive and intuitive. They have faitL\ and, once believers, their cour age sticks to the last. New York has a hundred rich widows who are as in dependent as Semiramis, the beaute ous and wise queen of Assyria. The number of this class of investors" here is also much more numerous than is generally supposed. Perils of the Lace Veil. The New York World's illustrations of the "deadly lace veil" might be cut out and pasted in every woman's hat, to her eyesight's advantage. But will foolish women ever abandon their spotted, meshed lace veils for so tri cing a cause as the preservation of vision? What is blindness to one a la mode? The oculist bugaboo hus failed to frighten fashion, and so every woman says her eyes are not affected by a veil. Some other woman's may be, but hera are stroug, and, besides, how she looks without this coquettish screen, which also serves to keep in place the big, flower-laden hat. One of these days a pricking in the eyes annoys her. There is pain and dis comfort when trying to read print,aud lots of other signs that the optic nerve ?3 kicking ut the treatment it receives several hours in the day. Oculist and optician profit by these "becoming" lace veils, but though their bills ave large the hardest pay ment is made to vanity when eye* #la*??3< uml even spectacle bWm* the only saviours of the sight. On the whole it seems worse to be spec tacled than to go without the becom ing veil. But where is the girl who can believe what her elders tell her? Experience is the penalty she paya for ignorauce, and if it is unpleasant experience it is the dearest thing in her possession.-Boston Herald. Very Bright Kid Gloves. Gloves are no longer itnobtrusive. The hands r.i-e well out in the fore ground of color, and all the subdued colored gloves are pu font in stacks on the commonplace counters, where people to whom a glove is a glove, so it will be well fitting, may make their choice contentedly. The exclusive, tho high-priced, and the most sought after gloves are of unmistakable tints and stitchings, showing out in down right blues and greens and canary colors, which might be termed glaring but for the fine tone and finish of the skin. Gloves in glossy kid of a bright, unhesitating blue, a cross be tween the sky blue and indigo blue, have ornate stitchings of cream silk to distinguish them and bindings of the same tint about the tops. Cadet blue gloves are stitched and finished with salmon pink. A pair of metallic green gloves have black furbishiugs, and a purplish plum colored pair are elab orated with just a hint of green. Light pearl gray gloves and those of a darker tone of gray as well, have embroidery stitching on the back and wrist bindings of brickdust. red. Vivid canary colored gloves have staring black stitchings, and so on all through the calendar of contrasts and colors. However much popular opinion may have discountenanced bright kid gloves in the past, and notwithstand ing the disfavor that the first advance guard of these brilliant hand cover ings met with in the winter when they were first foisted on the public, they have edged themselves in now to stay. In a store that has to do with setting the styles for a great majority of discriminating shoppers, the .dis play . f colors, when the high-priced walking gloves are opened out ou the counter, can only be duplicated in the tulip beds and parterres of gay spring blossoms in a flourishing garden. De veloped in ordinary common kid, these heyday hues would be unbearable, but they come only in the best selected skins, as the saleswomen will tell you, skins of which a two-clasp glove sells for $2.10, and the soft lustre recon ciles von to the brilliant hue.-New York Sun. Fashion Notes. The fashionable garter harmonizes with other lingerie. Purple is one of the colors most fre quently 6een in the new gowns. Artificial flowers sewed on narrow ribbons made an e fie ct i ve trimming for evening gowns. Chatelaines continue to grow in popularity, and they aro to be de rigour before long. Gauze haircloth is now being used to give tho stability necessary in ? fashionable garment. One of the uew dress fabrics has a poplin ground with a jacquard figure. It closely resembles crepon but is less expensive. Costumes with jacket bodices will be more in favor than ever this sea son. The blouse will still be worn and the bolero will probably be popu lar. Bibbons are in changeable colors, gray shot with red, etc., stripes aud plaids, some of them entirely of gauze and others combined with silk and satin. Velvet ribbons are also in use. Striped velvets are coming in, the stripes being small, dark colored "-sl vet, alternating with light colored silk. Printed velvet is also seen, ^ud is employed in trimming woolen gowns and in making entire waists. Lace gowns will be much worn this season, and lace will be in great de mand in all departments of dress. Lace accessories will be much used. In lace and net dresses an interlining of silk will be introduced '*etween the principal material and the silk foun dation. The ruffled skirts which Paris adopted to a limited extent last year will be a boon when one has an old or rather shabby skirt Be its color what it may, it need only be ruffled from hem to waistline with ruffles of black net, edged with narrow satin or vel vet ribbon. Violets, velvet and Venetian lace trimmings are so fashionable on bon nets and toques worn in PanV. .md sent to this country, that notwith standing that these flowers decorate seven-tenths of the headgear worn here, they are likely to be elected by a large portion of our best dressed women as garnitures for their spring hats and bonnets. Braiding in vermicelli, French arabesque, Greek key, trefoil, clover, floral and purely conventional devices, appears on many of the very stylish imported garments, redingotes, jack ets and small pelerines just brought to view; and the new effects produced by this graceful form of decoration arouse quite as great a degree of ad miration as if this were the initial season of its vogife. L.ove-1-etter Torture. There is a very amiable lady who uses her love-letters to score oft' her husbaud when opportunity occurs. It is her custom when her husband says anything disparaging to her to fetch out one of these relics of court ship days and reel off the glowing tribute to her virtues which is therein contained. These letters originally numbered somewhere about 200, but owing to sundry successful raids which the poor, persecuted husband has made upon them,the number has been considerably reduced. When he penned the tender missives, little did he imagine what instruments of tor ture they would in later years become. War Into Africa. "Your wife is somewhat strong minded, isn't she, Littlejohn?" .'Strong-minded? A furniture polish peddler came here yesterday and in five minutes' talk she sold him some polish Rho had made hersolfi "-Detroit heo Press, THE ENCHANTED MESA. TRACES OF HABITATION FOUND ON THE TOP OF KATZIMO. Mr. Hodge round A Few Shafts and Stone Weapon.-, but the Rocky Mesa top Has Been Swept Bare by Many Storms-Once the Home of Indians. Mr. F. W. Hodge of the ethnologi cal bureau writes for the Cjntury a? account of his "Ascent of tho En chanted Mesa," made last September. Mr. Hodge says: The rocky floor of the" mesa-top ha<? been swept and carved and swept again by the storm-demons of cen turies since the "ancients" of the fleeting forms we saw on tbe roofs in the moonlight of the night before had descended the ladder-trail in the early morn of that fateful day, Although the afternoon wtis still young, I at once saw that the remain ing boura of daylight would not suffice for a thorough examination of the summit. Directing tbs two Lagunas below to gather together our blankets and a sufficient supply of provisions for a couple of ?neals.a recon?oissance ?was begun, and in a few moments a fragment of greatly weather-worn an cient pottery was picked npt Tho storm of the previous day, which drove the Indians frOm their religious ceremonies, and gave birth to the glittering little pools in the verdaut valley below, afforded facili ties for observation on the summit that otherwise would not have been possible. Here and there in the rocky floor "pot-holes" had been eroded by wind and rain, and were now filled with water; but nowhere else on the entire summit had the rain found a resting-place. Over the brink it had poured in scores of catar acts, carrying with it stones and such oar tb as it managed to gather from the scanty store yet remaining, The mesa-top was ones covered with a fairly rich vegetation, pinons and cedars predominating; but most of these now stand gaunt and bare, or lie prone and decaying on the bleak surface, their means of subsistence having been long washed away. A few dozen more storms, and the othors must inevitably perish. But the examination of the surface of Katzimo was not essential to a deter mination of the fact that it was for merly mantled with a thick Btratum of earth; tbe talus had 'already told the story that nu the very site of their village the inhabitants of Katzimo had au abundance of material with which to make the balls of adobe mud de? scribed by one of the Spanish chron iclers of the sixteenth century. The last remnants of their houses,together with the fragments of their household utensils, save such as we found, passed over tho brink generations ago; but one may still find an abundance of the latter scattered through the detritus which in places is piled half way up the mesa's sides. We built a huge fire around one of the gauut specter* that stood about us with outstretched arms; soou there was a mighty blaze, and a shout of approval reached us from the two Lagunas bolow. The next morning, while aiding Major Pradt in making a survey of the inesa-top, I was not a little sur 'prised to find three Acoma Indiaus among us. They were by-no means friendly at first, for, having seen our fire the night before, they had come to the top by moans of our ladders to learn the cause of this unusual burst of flame from their ancestral home site, and to oust the intruders from the height. The leader, who was the war chief of the tribe, and a medicine man, asked our business. We told him. The natives became interested, and said that their people had feared wo were after their land. Being assured wo had no desire to make our future home on their dry sand-dunes or drier mesas, but. that we wore merely looking for pottery fragments, the chief expressed serious doubt that any relics could be found, inasmuch as many ages had passed since his people lived on the great table, and ho believed all evidences of former occupancy had been swept or washed away. The interest of the three In dians was quito apparent when I showed them the fragment of pottery picked up by Major Pradt the even ing before, and they manifested no unwillingness to search for other pot sherds when I made the suggestion. They were engaged in this quest only a short while wben-they returned with Ecveral fmg.nents of oxtremely an dent, greatly worn earthenware, a large projectile-point, a portion of a shell bracelet.aud parts of two grooved stone axes,all lichen-flecked with age, and still moist from contact with the ground. Thoroughly satisfied with the outcome, I decided to bring the' work to a close as soon as the survey, the photographic work and the ex amination of thc general features of the mesa's summit were concluded. Curious Treatment of Gunshot Wounds. A correspondent of the Bombay (In dia) Gazette, writing from Marnani of recent British operations against the Afridis, say3 : * "One poor Yorkshireman who fell into the enemy's hands was brought back to us after two days. It appears that ho was shot through the chest near tho heart and was well cared for by the Afridis, who spoke highly of his pluck. Their mode of treatment of wounds is curious, and this soldier came to hospital with half a breast of a chicken on each wound. As soon as possible they kill a fowl, and while the flesh is hot apply it to the wound, and from Avhat our wounded 'Tommy' told me it is grateful and comforting. "One of thc Drabis who Avas cap tured on Dec. 13, and who was kept by the Afridis to help to dig graves, tells mo all their wounded after the fight on the 13th were treated with rsw flesh freshly killed, some with chickens, others with goat or bullock flesh. This same Drabis says he alone dug sixty graves, and that the Afridis lost heavily on the 13th, and had a very large number of wouuded as well as killed. After all the dead were buried the Drabis was thanked for his trouble by a sound thrashing and told to 'leg it,' which he gladly did.". Dlrindvmitu?e of Wealth. 'The possession of great wealth has been demoralizing to the Osage In dians," said Mr. O. M. Bass of Okla homa. "Every year they are getting more worthless aud more unwilling to. ex ert themselves in auy useful way. There are only 2000 of them, but they own over 1,000,000 acres of fertile land, have 30,000 000 in trust with the government, - inch allows them five per cent, iuterest, and have lands lensed to cattlemen and farmers that bring them in a handsome revenue. Each family of the tribe owns over 5000 acres and about $30,000 in money. The Indian isn't by nature much of a worker, and when he has snell a 'so! snap' as these Osages, have, it ia lio wonder that ho degeu? orates into A olpoaio loftier.'' Civil VETERAN'S REMINISCENCES. ?Var Experiences "With Teuts lirions Kinds and With None. . "Wien we started out," said a civ toar iteran, "our regiment had tents furnhhed by the state, just as many other! equipments besides were in thosedays at the outset to volunteer regiments, and as ? suppose they wi be ncc. Those tents were made to hold fen men each. We had five them ? each side of the compon street They had a ridge pole sup portee by a centre pole, forming sort o great T. The tent was draw I over t ie ridge pole from which i slopec down all around to the ground I where it was pegged down. The gui were j tacked around the centre pole In the ie tents the men nlept, lyin like toe spokes of a wheel, with their feet toward the centre, though in cold ?Weather they would often lie closer to gether spoon fashion, to keep warm Witi ten men in a tent there was no room-o spare. They were made to hold t lat number and no more) but thefe ^?s likely to be sdmebody out on gui rd duty or awny for one reason and ni other, and so these tents were " not alu'ays crowded. There was some times "a little spare space. It was a mighty little) but as compared with ilotliirif! it was room. This spare space when it did exist was variously utilized, ?n the tent that I was in with one Or two men out, we used the space for & stove which we built of bricks and some jueces of iron that we ?ot fr?m a clismnntled building near where our camp was located, with a chimney of tomato cans, which for some reason we couldn't get to draw; "When those first big tents Avere Worn-out, ne they were in a fen- months, they I?rere not renewed. From the time of. leaving the state we had ceased to draw supplies from the state. We had become actually ? part of the army anet we drew army supplies* When we needed tents we drew from the quartermaster's department the regulation A tents, wedge-shaped,and about seven feet square at the base, and made to hold four men, or five on a pinch? I remember very well the first camp we had with our new tents. Wo made a new camp ground at a lit tle distance from the old, and pitched tne tents there. They were brand new, of a uniform whiteness, and they certainly did look slick and handsome and businesslike. "We liked these tents better than the old ones. With four men in a tent, in a settled camp, it was possible to build raised bunks for two men each, a bunk on each side of the tent, with a little gangway between; where you could stand, or put your feet if you were sitting on the edge of the bunk. Sometimes with four in a tent the men build separate bunks, one on each side, and two bunks one above the other in the middle. Then there were*twp narrow gangways and each man had h separate bed. The bods were harrow, of course, but any sort of bed was a great thing, aud an A tent was as good as a house. "There were times whon all we had were shelter tents, half of a shelter tent being a piece of cotton cloth about six feet In length by three or four feet in width. Two pieces fastened together made a tent, or rather a shel ter for two men. Sometimes a man preferred to sleep alone under his owu single piece, rigged up the best way he could fix it, so that he could crawl under it. H? had to lie straight and quiet to keep under it, And then there wex? times when men had no tents at all,or no chance topitch them, and when they just simply, lay down without Bhelter aud were glad ai the chance, but whatever a nan might have or be without, he always hung on to hi? rub ber blanket?"-New York Sun. Trill ts of Clirtractcr. There is a great prevalence of leffc handedness in Chicago. This is par ticularly-noticeable iii the way tho citi eens of that metropolis enter a build ing. If a niau approaches a building whero the entrance consists of two Bwinging doors, he will invariably reach out with his left hand,pull open the loft hand door and make a wild dash to get inside, running the risk of collision with anybody who remem bers that to go to the right is thc first law of navigation on land. The lazlestand dirtiest people in the world have recently been discovered in tho Caucasus. They are the Svau tians, who live in an inaccessible) mountain range between tho Black sea and the Carian sea, and as they were 2500 years ago, EO they are to day. It is their invariable rule to make four days a week holidays, with saints' days as extras. The Petit Journal of Paris,snys that nothing is so curious and instructivo as to observe the Englishman when traveling as compared with tho Frenchman. Tho former is Cul in, punctual, precise and with only tho necessary quantity of baggage. He will journoy through China with mere ly a valise. He loves travel; it is to lum an inclination and a felt want. On the other hand, the Frenchman .when journeying is restless, nervous, impatient, bored; the entire time ho spenels looking furtively at his watch, or consulting the railway time-table. He is always crowdod up with parcels in aeldition to his portmanteaux. He is, as a rulo, encumbered with many useless articles. In fact, he dislikes travel, which he finds an ennui and a fatigue. -1 Victim of Thirteen. The lato Woolf Joel, the many times millionaire, who was murdered re cently at Johannesburg, was noted for his abstinence from anything in the shape of "blue verbiage" in his speech. He rather prided himself, says a Lon don correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, on never using au oath except in serious temper, aud he was very seldom, if ever, out of humor. A curious fact has transpired concerning him, which will interest the Thirteen club. He arranged for a party of fourteen by way of a fare well dinner just before he sailed from England. One of his guests was un able to attend. Mr. Joel remarked on the common superstition, and added that as it was generally supposed that he who rose first from the table would be tho first to die he would take the risk upou himself and take precedence in moving from his seat. He did, and you know the rest. Native Shrewdness. In the recent Abyssinian campaign an Italian captain who wore a glass eye was accustomed to remove the counterfeit optio every evening and put in his purse before retiring for the night. Seeing this the natives de clared that he took out one of his eyes and left it to look after his money and prevent anybody from stealing it. Sacrifice Which Paid. "So that absconding cashier got away by sacrificing his beard, did he?" asked the reporter. "Yes," said the detective, "I missed him by a ojona ~haYe,"r-.TndianapQli JOUHial, BREAD OP NATIONS. [lew the Staff of Life Is Made Among the Various Peoples; It is a curious and interesting study to compare the Tarions materials w^ich serve the different nations of the world as the basis of their bread. In this country, where good bread, made from spring and fall wheat flour, is within reach of all, rarely a thought ls given to the fact thatt after all, the inhabi tants of only a small portion of the earth's surface enjoy such a food. In the remoter part of Sweden the poor make and bake their rye bread twice a year, and store the loaves away, so that eventually they are as hard as bricks. Further north still bread ie made from barley and oats. In Lap land oats, with the inner bark of the pine, are used. The two together, well ground and mixed, are made Into large flat cakes, cooked in a pan over a fire. In dreary Kamchatka pine or birch bark by itself, weil macerated, pound ed and baked, frequently constitutes the whole of the native bread food. The Icelander scrapes the "Iceland moss" off the rocks and grinds it into fine flour, which serves both for bread and puddings. In some parts of Siberia, China and other eastern countries a fairly palatable bread is made from buckwheat. In parts of Italy chest nuts are cooked, ground into meal and used for making bread. Durra, a varie ty of the millet, ls much used in the countries of India, Egypt, Arabia and Asia Minor for making bread. Rice bread is the staple food of the Chinese, japanese and a large portion of the inhabitant' of India. In Persia the bread is made from rice flour and milk; it is calldd '"lawash." The Persian oven is built in the ground, about the siz? of a barrel. The sides are smooth mason Work. The fire is built at the bottom and kept burning until the Walls or sides Of the oven are thor oughly heated. Enough dough to form a sheet about one foot wide and about two feet long is thrown on the bench and rolled until about as thin as sole l?ather? then it is taken up and tossed ?nd roiled from one arm to the other ?nd flung on the board and slapped on the side of the oven. It takes only a few moments to bake, and when baked it is spread out to cool. This bread is cheap (one cent a sheet); it is sweet and nourishing. A specimen of the "hunger bread" from Armenia is made of cloverseed, flax or linseed meal, :inixed with edible grass. In the Mo lucca Islands the starchy pifh of the sago palm furnishes a white, floury meal. This is made up into flat, ob long loaves, Which are baked in curi ous little Ovens, each being divided Into oblong cells to receive the loaves. Bread ls also made o? roots in some parts of Africa and South America. It is made from manico tubers. These roots are ? deadly poison if eaten in the raw state, but make a good food if properly prepared. To prepare it for bread the roots are soaked for sev eral days in water, thus washing out the poison; the fibers are picked out, dried and ground into flour. This ls mixed with milk, if obtainable; if not, Water ls Used. The dough ls formed into little round loaves and baked in hot ashes or dried in the sum Encouraged. 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