The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, June 15, 1882, Image 1
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D 'OLITJW, Z0KRALITY, UVOUC~tlON AN'D' TO THlE 081f I iL INTrET OF TABE OOU ~1Y
y D. BRADLEY & 0- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15t 1882 VOL
f 6t1 Qolina the
to the acre.
O-Cannot: pay her
6ompysly has shut
"d I Sto kes county, N. 0.,
told for $65 per hun
e county, N. 0., has two Oot
Z ries in operation and five in
r onstructon. -
te of Florida peaches sold in
9rk at seventy-five cents apiece.
' 1, 'undred tea plants set out by
.-Oner L Duo at Enterprise,
5. ar doing finely.
%Flrtida will experiment in the gaow
* fichona trees, from the bark of
'V.hichquinine Is made.
t drying establishment on a
ge seale is to be started at Greensbor o
South-Carolina.
Vicksburg girls have organized a
bid of "sweet sweepers." This is the
st Southern craze.
ligator hides have become in such
deulaid that many alligator farms are
being started'in Louisiana and Florida.
'The peo [e of Aberdeen, Miss., are
largely e4perimenting in silk culture.
The wormrs are fed oi osage orange leave.
The wheat crop vow being harvested
n West Tennessoc and North Alabama
is the largest ever known.
The Nashville American says: All
the crops in Tennessce are in magnifi
centcondi.-ion except cotton, which will
average from sixty to eighty per cent.
Greater preparations than ever will be
made this year to develop the gold and
copper mines of hiecklenberg county.
North Carolina.
3Many fine walnut trees In South Car
olia sell for $40 apiece, the nurcha,,
ers reserving the right to remove them
when they choose.
The Richmond, Va., alms-house con
tains reven men who a few years ago
were worth from half a million to a
,s millioji doilar8 each.- .
Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its
first con~viction under the new law pro
hibiting the intermarriage ef whites and
blacks. The culprit was fined $50.
Plenty of illegal votes are cast in
Clairke county, Ga. The grand jury of
that county has just returned indic t
ments against 121. persons for that of
fense.
Several Alabama farmers report sone
damage to cotton'by cut-worms, a means
of damage heretofore unknown ; 'and
they report that it has had a very soe.
rious effect on some fields.
The Petersburg. Ga., Index-Appeal
says the best and largest fruit crop ever
grown in Georgia will be ready for the
market in a few weeks.
In the seven counties around Griffin,
Ga., 150 distilleries will be running this
summer. The peach cr9p in the same
sec tion will be immense.
A boy-genius of Charlotte, N. C., has
made a small fire engine,'three feet high
and complete in every way. It raises
-steam in a minute and throws a tiny
-stream of water nerly twenty feet.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an im
portant indust~y in Florida. They grow
to perfection, and promise to add great
ly to the wealth of the State.
A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered
that his stock will feed as readily on
Blermuda grass as on hay, as is preparing
to harvest a big crop of the long de,
spised herbage.
The' outlook fcr a peanut crop in vari
'.oue parts of Virginia and North Caroli
bha, Is very discouraging. Cotton and
corn have suffered severely from the
cold.
The Rome, Ga., Courier says the best
evidence that the South presents
the best field for cotton manufacture is
In the fact that Southern mills run
profitably on full time while Northern
mills have to curtail their production.
Reports from the overflowed territory
In Louisiana differ widely. In some
places benefits are reported andecrops are
* doing wvell. From others the repoits are
ust -the reverse. The cut-worms in
1' sonie parts is doiug extensive damage.
The increase in cotton spinning in the
South Is indicated by the statistics of
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missis
alsppi, Louisiana, North Carolina and
4 outh Carollna, which shows an increase
$800600 bpitidles during 1881 and 1882
ehi t9presents an investnient of $9;768,
in achinery, and a consumption
,Obalea of cotton a year.
at.e~al's ferry, on the
I,., ~ $vet Tn, found a box
~ *~t ~hio~m contafined
t rowfl
ha fo
in Berlin, La., recently. It is bronze
medal two And three-foitrth inches in di
ameter, and weighing five and a half
ounces. It was struck to comniemorate
the evacuation of Boston by the British d
on the 17th day of March, 1776, and was
voted to General Washington by Con, U
grces. The medal Is much rusted, but i
the figure of Washington, finely execu
ted on both sides, is very plain. 14
Near Hixburg, Va., three brothers t(
named Banton were at work in a fieid
when a black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped one of them, lick- ti
ing the boy's face until he was uncon
scious. When discovered by the other
brothers the snake was -foaming at the a
mouth, and maintained his hold until cut ti
to pieces. The boy was so frightened t(
that he became speechless, and it was
several days before he could regain the
use of his tongue.'
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How to Manage a Kitchen.
"A clean kitcben makes a clean house,"
is a saying which has a great deal of i
truth in it. As all the food of the fami
y has to be prepared in the kitchen, and t
as most working people have to take h
their meals and sit in the kitchen-in
deed, as the one da -room has to be
parlor, kitchen, and all to many honest Si
families-it ought to be clean and neat, to
or it will not be comfortable and healthy,
First of all, the window and the. fire
place must be clean and brigA.' No
room is cheerful with a dirty, fie-place.
Every morning the room npitA be care
fully swept, and any heartU-rug,,gnat, or
piece of carpet must be taken out of u
oors and beat daily. The hearth must
be cleaned every day, and the stove
brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a tr
leather once a week at least, the grate fr
must be black-headed, and the fender .
and irons thoroughly polished, and all Si
well scoured down twice a week. Cup
boards want great care to keep them free
from dust, cool and neat. Supposing sc
there are two cupboarda, one on each c
side of the fire-place, it is well to keep ,
one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one
for crockery. Everything should be
clean that is put in the cupboards, and
there should be a place for every differ- .
ent thing, so that if you wanted anything,
even in the dark, you could lay your A
hand upon it. Be sure, whether you ti
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the c<
inside of every pan or pot used in cook
ing so clean at it is perfectly dry and
sweet. If you neglect his you may be the ni
cause of poisonmg yourself and your IV
household. Many families have been
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty f
pans. Besides, even if food is not made
poisonous, it is spoiledbynot being clean
ly cooked. Be very particular about
this. Itisa good plan to have a jar of a'
soda in some handy place, where you i
can, whenever you wash up, take a bit al
and put in the water. It is very cleans- si
mig, and both crockery and tins washed
in hot water, with a bit of soda in, will
be sure to shine and be sweet. All tins
should be polished once a week. Kitch
en towels require good management. It S
is a very nasty habit to be careless about C
towels. Tea things and glass should be u
wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for
that~ purpose. If you have a plate-rack
over the sink, plates should be washed in te
hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to 'y
draikiin the rack: but if you have no
rack you must wipe the plates; keep a ri
good dish-cloth to wash them with, andr
a good coarse towel to dry them with,
and use your dish-cloth and your dish
towel for nothing else,.
II
"Breeding-off" Horns, il
The~ question of "breeding-off" the
horns <>f native cattle is receiving at
tentiona, and there are many who claim
that it " can be done." Horns on neat ti
cattle are a relic of barbarism, so to 3T
speak, They are not only a useless ap- vi
pendage, but positively objectionable.
Not only do cattle do one another injury
in a yard or stable, but they have many ka
a time, by their horns, caused the death
of, or disabled, other animals. Timid '
people are mortally afraid of cattle with tI
horns, but pass by the "mules" with- al
out fear. In their wild state cattle had
undoubted need of their horns, but
domesticated, there are no ferocious ani- wv
mals to attackc them. Nature appears to oi
be doing gradually and unaided that ~
which a little artificial help would accel-s
erate, as comnparison between the spread- u
ing and long horns of the Texas steer, 0
and the short ones of the blooded cow
indicates. It is suggested that horns
may be bred-off by searing them when
the calves are young. Everybody knows 0]
that dogs and cats have been bred with- S
out tails, yet analogy might signify te
nothing, as sheep, whose tails are out E
close when they are lambs, continue,
after many generations, to raise lambs
whose tails, in turn, would be long, if.
they were not cut. But a family of
Ayreshire cattle bred in Scotland,
originally had their ears clipped fromA d
year to ya to donate ownership. In p
time the calves began to be born with n
the end of the ear wanting, and now the
peculiarity is fixed.
The Belle of El Paso. c
Almost every other house was a drink- d
ing saloon, and the whole place had an
air of dissipation which was rather more
suggestive than alluring. The worst
class of Americans come over from the
other side, preying upon the vices of the ~
Mexicans to their own profit, and mak
ing what money they can out of their ti
propensi ies for gambling, drinking, n
and dancing. "Le yin, le /oeu, Zes belie., ri
voila nao. seules plaisir, 'seemed itly
to describe their lives and occupation at
all events during Christmas week. Etfy
fellow- asenger back in the hack was 0
iuA arci" belle," who had been up ti
t0s4jh "boys," as she called them, h
! h d visited in prison, who were jb
~t~; and during the inter
soldier had taken ad
'moikent to rob
*I.adkerchief,e
Sheropinions*
.oouohed in 1
hrtUI '2
TOPIJO OF THE DAY.
Wrrww the year the mines of Arisona
erritory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in
vidends.
DENNis KE&rEY pops up sgiD, but
At as a politician. He has drawn $8,000
t a lottery.
A KAN who buys a glasso of beer in
)wa on Sunday renders himself liable
> a fine of from $1 to $5.
LmvERy stable men in the East say
10 extension of the telephone from vil
ge to village is injuring their business.
WENDELL PHIInras has declined, and
overmor Long has accepted the invita
on to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos
on.
A MONUMENT costing $40,000, and a
iuntain $15,000, are to be erected to the
emory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park,
hicago.
AcconDING to a local paper a man died
L Minnesota from what was "prononced
i he leprosy by physicians, of the most
deous appearance."
CHTAns REmADE is writing a series of
Lort stories which will appear simul
neously in England, the United States,
anada, and Australia.
THE Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
is issued a proclamation warning drug
sts to desist from the practice of sell
g liquor " by the drink."
THE Toledo Blade says that the
ouble with Mrs. Christianoy arose
Dm the fact that she wanted to be a
3ter to too many nice young men.
Pniczs at the prominent summer re
'rts will be from twenty-five to fifty per
nt. higher than they were last year.
coud grade people will have to stay at
>me.
THE Arizona Star declares that by the
d of artesian wells the desert lands of
rizona can be made the most produo
re wheat growing districts in. the
>untry.
To sHow their respect for Darwin, a
imber of students belonging to the
[oscow University have resolved to
ear a band of crape around their arm
>r twelve months.
THE Czar of Russia thinks that by in
igurating reforms that he can get
tings in shape for his coronation in
3out a year. In what abject terror
ich a ruler must live.
IT Is thought that cork trees can be
1ccessfully raised in' every Southern
Late. Of some specimens planted in
reorgia many are now thick enough for
se.
A NAPrHA locomotive is about to be
stod on the New York, Lake Frie and
Festern Railroad. It is an immense
~ving in fuel, provided it works all
ght. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
AN ENGLISH surgeon says the time is
>ming when a. man's stomach can be
paired and replaced without difficulty.
will simply keep him home part of
Le Lime.
THEs Sultan has refused to permit
ebrew exiles from Russia to make set
ament in Palestine. Two hundred
swish families are on the verge of star
ition in Constantinople.
HENRY YILLAnD, the millionaire Pres
ent of the Northern Pacifie Railroad,
as once Washington correspondent of
te Chicago Tribune,but late1, degener
ed and fell in with monied people.
GUITEAU starts on his trip to the next
orld just four days before the Fourth
July and.862 days after the comnmis
on of the crime that placed thie Nation
ader a cloud of gloom the last Fourth
July. _______
NINE million acres of the best farming
nd in Dakota have just been thrown
>en to settlement by a decision of the
3cretary of the Interior. Here is a bet
r field for enterprise and industry than
I Dorado.
THrE hundreds of saloons that closed
i Ohio in consequence of the Pond
quor tax bill, now that the bill has been
eclared unconstitutional by the Su
rome Court, will probably resume busi
ess again.
THE Syracuse Herald is in favor of
ibstituting steam whistles for church
ells. " They can be heard further,
reate more disturbance, and it is han
ier to drop in and murder the man who
ulls the rope."
Tuxn contest over the South Carolina
>ntested case was terminated in the
rnited States House by the adoption of
1e resolutian seating Mackey. The re
taining contested seats will now be
apidly disposed of.
NmrssoN's reason for resuming her
wn name is that she is indignant that'
ie property which she accumulated by
er exertions should pass to her hus
and's relatives on his death. The
'hole thing is an outrage.
Tin penitentiaries are full of murder,
rs who will agree to be "good OIUSMet"
the Governoss will pardon ,them a
'his is mrtreg suggested by the
ous j4z tm the Got
Puog4Jms,
OA*PIAra HOWGATS is still in seclusion
had everything seems to be all right.
Wlether the authorities at Washington I
Lre saxious to capture him does not ap. t
pa, but perhaps they are not or we
should hear more about it than we do.
Tun period of three years required by
law before # statue can be erected in a
publio place in -honor of a deceased per
son is nearing its end in the case of I
William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park,
New York, will soon have a new monu
ment.
lAhrums Hva died in New York of
apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few
lays ago. He was well knwn BB os
ton, Washington, and Ne York as the
anacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federal
offices.
Ta London World say s: " It is an
pen secret in the Irish party that Par
aell dare not go to Ireland, and that t
in London, when not in the House, he f
is in virtual hiding." Mr. Parnell's i
rime is that he favors a peaceful settle
nent of the troubles in Ireland.
Wann a lady called upon Mrs. Secre- .
ary Kirkwood the other day she found b
that lady iron;ng. Hence, whole columns I
Df praise and flattery. Had it been I
some woman whose husband had a sal
ary of $25 per week, she would have t
received the cold out forever after.
IT sEMsx that Walt Whitman has t
written a book-" Leaves of Grass "
bhai is'too dirty to be published. We
knew that Walt was old, and thought t
also that he was clean, but after all it
lon't do to have too good an opinion of M
a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu
man.
eI
Ta. Texas Legislature has showereat
a public blessing on the morality of that (
State by taxing all persons selling the i
Police Gazette, Police News and simi
lar illustrated journals $500 per annum,
in each county where such papers are
sold. That is simply equal to prohibit
ing their sale.
BPAKIG Of the vast strides made in
io railway world, the Railway Age 4
gives the following interesting statistics:
We believe it is safO to say that there are at
ter.st three hundred and fifty lines, covering, at
i moderate estimate, a total of twenty-filve
thousind miles, upon which work is now in
progress or is proposed to be commenced ,dur
ing the present year.
MIssoUn1 is in a truly pitiable condi
tion. Rather than hunt Frank James
:lown and punish him according to law
for the crimes he has committed, a great
leal of red tape and an unconditional
pardon seem to be preferred. What
would be the moral of an unconditional
pardon to Frank James ?
Ta. home for working girls in London,
talled Garfield House, at the formal
>pe~ninlg at which a fortnight ago Min
ster Lowell presided, contains thirty
line bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting
~oom, and a library, and each occupant
will pay for her accommodation -from
ixty-five cents to one dollar a week.
THIS press generally is circulating the
eport that Chicago girls would rather
diss a pretty little dog than a man, and
me Chicago girl has taken the trouble
0 write a letter for publication acknowl
adging the soft impeachment. There
sertainly must be something wrong with
1he Chicago manif's breath else dogs'
2oses are a mighty sight cleaner there
han they are here.
GurrzA.u's act one year ago Interfered
w'ith the usual Fourth of July. celebra
~ion. His act this year, we are pleased
:o say, will have a tendency to add to
he hillarity of the occasion. We do
1ot make merry s.ver the prospective
wvent of the sasassin's untimely death
*ar from it-but it is a source of gratifi
,ation to know thE~t America is still dis
posed to put vicious dogs to death.
OCAnnus LocanRUN~an weighs about
100 pounds, his wife 800, and their rola
tive strength is fairly represented by
the same figures. He ostensibly keeps
a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is
its real boss, as he complains to a police
justice that three days in succession she
took him across her lap and spauked
him terribly. Being arrested she gave
canl to keep the peace, thougn at tone
same time she avowed her intention to
subject her husband $0 discipline when
ever and however she pleased.
Taz most serious labor strike of the
year began June 1. The proprietors of
the Pittsburg iron mills having refused
to sign the new scale of wages, a strike
was ordered. Some thirty-five or thirty
six mills in Pittaburg and vicinity shut
down, and more than eighteen thousand
workmen are thrown out of employment.
In Wheeling upwards of five thousand
men went out, and some seven hundred
or eight hundred quit work on the other
side of the river, in mills whose pro
prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at
least until it is aocepted by the Pittsburg
mill-owners. The strike Is likely -to
spread to all the Iron mills west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and will be long
and obstinate. It is Impossible to meas
nre the loss to the productive interests
of the .ountry whicha this strike will
at4s ce ta oompute the hardship and
g 1i 1 $nto the families of
~e rgred.
The Now York Reporter.
A reporter's life is not a happy one.
Ie is the slave of duty at all hours of
he day and night. To-day he is here,
o-morrow there. On Monday he may
)e among thieves and murderers, on
l'esday among politicians and states
nen, and on ednesday among ladies
6nd gentlemen. He may be even among
Al three on the same da. I remember
cold, raw morning in ebrary when I
iad to get up long before daylight and
nake a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch
xock's coffee and cakes and run for a
rain. That afternoon I found myself on
>oard of a large European steamer,
vhich had stranded hgh and on the
iew Jersey sands. shared the cap
nin's dinner while the waves came dash
ng against the vessel's side with a force
hat threatened to make us food for sea
vorms at any moment. I came back
vet and weary that night, but there was
to rest for me yet. T Delmonico's I
nust go, as muon as I could change my
lothing, and partake of a greatbanquet.
luch is the life of a newspaper reporter.
Ie knows not at any time where he will
ake his next meal. He often is sent
rom a wedding to a funeral, or from a
>all in the Academy to A murder at the
i'ive Points. Like an army on the march,
te must always have his baggage pre
>ared, for at five minutes' notice he may
>e sent several hundred miles where
kirt-oollars and handkerchiefs are un
nown. He may be sent to scour the
Pay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long
sland woods for mysteriously disappear
ng personages.
Not only must the reporter be able to
ell an interesting story, but he must
Iso, if he wants to earn his salt, have a
nowledge of the world and possess that
act and discretion which comes of such
nowledge. Young men fresh from some
niand college, who come to New York
tewspaper offices under the impression
hat reporting is something that they
an do if they cannot do anything else,
,re quickly undeceived. One half of the
kews which is printed in the local col
imns every morning is obtained from
eople who do not care to furnish it, and
vho have to be "run down" very often
vith as much skill as the most cunning
>f foxn. And for all this the reporter
E paid but is more than the average
nechanic. It may surprise some of you
o learn that he gets even that much,
)ut lie does if he is good for anything.
Lhat good ones get no more is mainly
lue to the fact that there are so many
>ad ones conpeting with them.
Yet with all the drawbacks of long
d irregular hours, inadequate rerun
3ration and "assignments" that are often
incongenial, there is a charm about a
reporter's life which all who have ever
been members of the profession must ac
knowledge. There is a romance cnn
aected with it which does not egtirely
lie out of even the older members who
aow keep to it because they have been
spoilt for anything else. The new genera
bion of metropolitan reporters, w.hich
lifer considerabl from the old, is kept
to its work probably more by this flavor
f the adventurous than any thing else.
rho Bohemian spirit of poetry and beer
ias almost died out and the ranks are
ecruited from a class which has less of
;ho literary and more of the "be up and
loing" spirit about it. They want an
Lctive life and they find it here. As they
grow older, however, they become more
straight in their desires and there are
onsequently constant droppings out.
Either they work their way into the edi
orial chairs or they go into some other
>rofession or business and their places
xe filled by new-comers, who, nowadays
Lre genera~l gaduates of the leading
olleges. Soten. here is
To tho truthful reporter
Who never prints but what he oughiter;
An examzplo sublime
Of the men of his time.
--Georae U. Clement.
The Modern Caucus.
An aged citizen who was one of the
~arly settlers, was seen coming out on to
~he sidewalk in front of a place where a
~aucus was being held, a few nights be
ore election, on his ear. He seemed to
e propelled by some unseen power,
md as he got up and picked up his hat
>ut of the gutter, brushed the mud off
his sleeve and wiped the blood off his
nose, a friend went up to him and
isked what was the matter. The old
aman said, "WVell, I hain't attendled a
caucus in thirty year, but my nephew
wanted me to go to-night, and when I
proposed that the meeting be opened
with prayer, I think the steve fell over
rn me. A fellow said, '0, give us a
rest,' and I don't know how I got out
hecre, but I did. Why, in '49 they used
to open political meetings 'with prauyer,
rand close 'em the same way. This can
ens opened with a knock down and I
s'pose it will close with a riot. Hello,
there is another man riding down stairs
without any saddle, and I s'pose hec pro
posed some old-fashioned custom. Say,
do you think my eye will be black ? I
told the old lady I was goin' to meetin'
and I wouldn't d ke to have her think I
had lost my temper and struck the sex
ton. WVell, that's the last politics for
me." The old man, however, got a
policeman to go with him while he voted
on election day.-Milwaukee Sun.
Wood Weaving.
This industry belongs strictly to the
town of EhMrenberg, on the Austrian
frontier. Sparterie work, or weaving of
wood, was introduced more than a cen
tury ago, hut has been confined until
within a short time to the manufacture
of cheap hats, glued together, and worn
by the lower clames. Lately, however,
owing to the interest taken by the Gov
ernment, Ehrenberg has been able to
send ont fashionable hats and various
fancy articles, all made of wood and sold
at very low rates. The aspen 18 tne only
tree whose fibers are toughi enough to
admit of weaving, and all the timber
having been used in the vicinity of the
town, the material is broughit from
Poland. The process requires the utmost
nicety in dividing the wood, and as the
dlivider must always follow the direction
of the fiber, it is necessary that the
threads should be prepared by hand.
The weaving itself is done on large
looms.
Tau most diffusive pesrefrom
public speaking is that inwhich the
speech oesses, and the suIao can
Carious History.
When George Washington, who,
though only twenty-five, had won re
noun by his gallantry under Braddock,
visited New York, he was the guest of
Beverly Bobinson, a young Virginian,
who had come hither a few years pre
viously and married an heiress. The
latter (Jane Phillipse) owned a manor
on the west side of the Hudson twenty
miles in extent. This, however, was but
half of the paternal estate. On the
east side of the river was a similar tract
belonging to the other sister-Mary
Phillipse. The last mentioned tract
contaned the Phillipse manor house
which is at present the City Hall of
Yonkers. Mary Phillipse was at the
time above mentioned, living with her
sister, and was rendered, by wealth and
personal attractions, one of the leading
toasts of the day. Report says that
Washington offered his hand to the
heiress, but was refused, as she did not
care to bury herself on a Virginia planta
tion. Another suitor, Capt. Morris, of
the British army, was more successful,
and having won an opuent bride, he
immediately construted a mansion suit_
able to his new position as lord of the
manor. Yonkers was too far from the
city, and hence he selected the present
site. Carpenters were brought from
England and the building was erected
in a slow and solid manner, its date of
completion being 1760. The Idrd of the
manor lived here in grand style until
the revolution, however, broke up their
establishment. When Washington was
expelled from New York he passed
several days in this vicinity, during
which the Morris Hose was headquar
ters. His old flame had taken refuge
with some Tory families in the vicinity
and her husband (now a Colonel) was in
the British army. After the war both
went to England, where Mary Morris
died in 1820 at the age of four score.
She always felt a deep interest in Wash
ington, and having lived to see her
former lover become the chief captain of
the age, she survived him twenty yFears,
but never mentioned his name without
admiration and almost emotion. Perhaps,
like Maud Muller, sbe sometimes said to
herself, "It might hav been."
After the revolution the entire manor
was confiscated and the Morris property
was sold. Before this took place, how
ever, Washington visited the place in
company with some of his Cabinet, and
a grand dinner was served by the tenant.
They were deeply interested in the as
sociations of that fearful scene where
one disaster after another awaited the
patriotic army. The Morris estate after
ward had several owners, and was ut last
purchased in 1810 by Stephen Jumel, a
retired French merchant, the price paid
being $10,000. He c.ied in a few yvai-,
lcaving his wife sFk, i d 'this
woman has given the place a notoriety
far greater than Its previous recor
Madame Jumel was fascinating and
beautiful in early lif a but in later years
she displayed many vagaries, and as her
years were prolonged to ninety they
were marked by many of the weakness
of old age. She andA her husband had
lived several years i'. Paris, where they
gathered many curiosities which still
adorn the ancient manision. Visiting the
place recently, I passed through an
ancient gate and fllowed the road
which leads from the turnpike, till I
reached the portico which, as has been
remarked, has a grand prospect. On
entrance one is struck with the breadth
and dignity of the hall, which is rich in
relies, both of furniture and art. Among
the latter is a fine portrait of Madame
Jumel with her family, and also a picture
of Aaron Burr, who became her second
husband. Other works of art adorn its
walls, combining the past and the present
in a very interesting manner. -.New York
Letter.
Staving Off a Run.
Iben times of severe panic people have
noen kown to refuse Bank of England
ntsand prefer local notes. In coun
try districts of Scotland the old one
Ipound notes were greatly preferred to
sovereigns. It is said that wh'~n there
was a run upon the Bank of England
in 1765 the device was resorted to of pay.
mng the country people in shillings and
sixpences. One acute Manchester firm
painted all their premises profusely, and
many dapper gentlemen were deterred
from approachmng the counter. A story
is told of Cunliffe Brook's Bank. When
there was an impetuous and unreasoning
rush for gold, Mr. Brook obtained a
number of sacks of meal, opened them
at the top, put a good thick layer of
cloth upon the contents, thea placed
them untied where the glittering coins
would be manfest to all observers. One
bank procured a number of ptLoplo as
confederates, to whom they paid gold,
then slipped round again to a back door
and refunded it, and thus the effect of a
stage army was produced. At another
bank the chief cashier himself examined
every note with the most searching scru
tiny, holding it up to the light, testing
the signature, and making believQ that,
on account of alarm as to forgery, there,
w~as need of the most scrupulous care.
When he had completed his pretended
examination he handed the note to one
of his subordinates very deliberately,
with, in slow and measured terms, "You
may pay it." Other plans were to pay
the money very languidly, counting it
Itwice over, so as to be sure the som~ was
right, and to give a sovereign sh'ort, so
that the customer should complain, and
the counting have to be done over again.
At one of the banks pe(ck measures in
Iverted were placed in thec windows facing
the street, a pile of gold upon the top,
after the manar of the fruit exposed for
sale at street corners in the summer
At another the coin was heated in ahoy
cia over the fire in the parlor behind and
Ihanded out as "new " at s temperature
of 8000 Fahrenheit. The clerk in
charge, accommodating his phaseology
to the occasion, cried out' loulevery
half hour, "Now, Jim, do be gettin' on
with them sovereigns ; folks Is waitin'
for their money." " Coming, sir, 0om
in " was the ready reply andth
"ilk" thought the sulppy Ihoundle.
It is always the simple-minded and the1
unimformed who constitute on such oc
casons the chief portion~ of the throng,
lust as the people who go to extremes ,are
the alfeducated one. .The afowds~
dif
roses,
If threlsfor
niver oud thrust.bad
Ye wats, wid hIm.
WuAT is called
help to many men
tained it, they can put
will do th Most good.
AN Indian chief 'in
to see theIdaOpr
Wi W. Whitnley gavea
note the chiefy mad:
aui outs
RET is ad to be the sodtion of
uzzing perplexities. It tWsht's
ike to solute a puzzlin le t
three hundred and pty" oey
year.-CurierJourna.
AN ImsH gentlem, hearing o
friend having a stone coffin made f*.1 A
himself, exclaimed: "Be me sowl, an
that's a good Idea! Shure, an' a sdem
coffin 'ud last a man his lIfetime.
A PENNsYLvAA boy recently swu
lowed a horge-sho. nail without
encing any ill, effects. If it had
in his throat it would have medima
little horse sure.-Norr*ttwn erol.
"Is Tms the front of the Capitol "
asked a newly-arrived stranger of an
Austin darkey. "No, sh; die heh ide
in front am de rear. Ef yer wants tw
see the front yer must go aroumd. da
behind on de udder side.".-w-bas 51.
"My soN," esked a olerioal parent o
his hungry boy who was just in the
starvation period "I wish you would
make a study of '7vtta on the Mind.'
"I will, pa, was the quick answer, "as
soon as I have studied what's on the
stomach."
CALouLATED to fill it: "I tell you,'
continued Pingrey, "Brown Isn't ut for
the place. In fact, I don't know of a
place that he is calculated to fill."
" Don't be intem perste in your remarks,
Pingrey," said Fogg; "you forget his
"YES,"' said the Injured party to thq
owner of the dog, "I know the dog was
only in play when he bit about half a
pound of flesh out of me. Certainl he
was only in play!i And I was onlyI
play when I took an ax and made ah
of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing~t
get mad about 1" . -1N
" TELL your mother I'm coming to wg
her," said a lady to -Mrs. Gibsn n and
love's little boy, who repliedij LQreen:
glad you are coming. Mamma will 1W
glad, too." " How do you know your
mother will be glad to see me ?" asked
thie. lady, . " Because I heard her tell
papa, yesterday, that nobody ever came
totehoneexce Lanen with )i
His exit: There had been a seeming
coolness between the lovers. One day
Emily's schoolmate ventured to refer to
the subject and asked her: " When did
you see Charlie last?" "Two weeks
ago to-night." " What was he doing?"
"Trying to get over the fence." Did
he a ppear to be much agitated?" "So
greatly," returned Emily~ " that it took
all the strength of papa s new bull-dog
to hcld him."
The Spee~d of Thought.
Helmnholtz showed that a wave of
thought would require about a minute
to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch
found that a touch on the face was roog
nized by the brain, and responded to by
a manual signal, in the seventh of a seo
ondl. He also found that the speed of'
senso differed for different organs, the
sense of hearing being responded t~In a
sixth of a second; while that of sih re
quired only one-fifth second to befelt
and signaled. In all these oases the dis
tances traversed was about the same, so
the inference is that images travel more
slowly than sounds or touch. It still re
mained, however, to show the portion of
this interval taken up by the action of
the brain. Professor Donders by vy
delicate apparatus has demonstrated ti
to be about seventy-five thousanths of a
second. Of the whole Interval fot
thousandths are occupied In the simapl
act of recognition, and thirty-five thous
atndths for the act of willing a repons.,
When two irritants were caused to oper
ate on the same sense one twenty-fith of .1'
a second was required for the person to
recognize which was the first; but a
slightly longer interval was required to
determine the priority in the case of the
other senses. Thiese results were ob
tained from a middle-aged man, but In
youths the mental operations are some
what quicker than In the adult. The
average of many experiments proved
that a simple thought occupies one
fortieth of a second,
Advice to Gifrle.
First of all, cultivate industrious hab
its ; be willing to wok and try to do
your work thoroughly. It Is not enuh
to be busy ; we must do our workwel
To be thorough in study to be thorough
m allwork, ought tobeEhe aimof every
girl and every boy. Our methods of
female education have encouraged
superficiality rather-thn th hness*
we have giveni our girls smatterng
many things, and mastery of few ins
After thoroughness, independence.
habit of relymg~ on your own ugni
a habit of thmnking for oref
caring for yo notacfsiut
a true womanly f on.--a hbotak.
ing responaibility and bearing it bzravly~ -~
-s one of the habits that wonmen as
well as men need to cultivate. Your
parents ought to give you n.omo ohsao6
to form this habit ; it is agreatuIt
to shield agirl from all care, and t~
by-and-by, when the helpers Oun
she has leaned fall by her side,tol~y
hrwith d gent untrainedan
life. A woman ho d- have
ance as well as a man.
Gov. Lrin'zz nrwn, of saai nd