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IDEVOIED TO POLITIUF, MORALI1Y EDUCATION AND TO TME VBNERIL INTURET OF THE CQUVThY, y D. F. BRADLEY & OO, PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 188q. VOL. X NO. 48. NEWS GLEANINGS. Gull eggs sell at fifteen cents a dozen at Tampa, Fla. Atlanta, Ga., capitalists talk of tart mng a large shoe factory.' Georgia has turned the tables, and is shipping oats to the West. The hemp crop in the blue grass region of Kentucky will be short. Texas has nearly $1,000,000 cash bal anbe in the State Treasury. A cotton seed -oil mill has been con tracted for in Greenville, Ala. The cotton crop of Florida will be about the same as that of last year. New corn is being contracted for at twenty-five cents a bushel in Texas. From Key'Largo, Fla., 860,000 pine . apples have been shipped this searon. The fine quarries of marble in Pick ens county, Ga., are to be developed. Americus, Ga., according to recent surveys, is just 320 feet above sea level. Rich deposits of phosphate rock have been discovered in Chatham county, Ga. Preserving fias Is an important indus try at St. Augustine and Jacksonville, Fla. An Atlanta druggist says there are 2,000 confirmed opium-eaters in that city. North Carolina now leads the South ern States in the number of her cotton mills. * St. Augustine, Fla., is manufacturing and shipping large quantitees of orange wine. Virginia has 681 prisoners in the pen. itentiary and 291 hired out on railroad work. Three hund red Swedish families will rettle along the line of the Florida Cen t ral Railroad. A Jewish synagogue, fashioned afte an ancient Palistine palace, is to b built in Athens, Ga. A large factory will be erected near Norfolk, Va., for the preservation of lumber by the creosote process. For the first time in the history of .efferson county, Ga., no intoxicating hiquor. enn be p~urch~asedl within its bor, diers. In the p~ast ten years Georgia has in creased the number of her farms ninety eight per cent., and now has ai total of 138,626. . 3rs. Wmn. Bcearding, who died recently in Perry county, Ala., was 107 years * ~ old. Her husband, who survives her, is 109 years old. The greait iron viaduct for the track of the 'Frisco railway south of the flos ton mountain tunel, in Arkanisas, is 321 feet high and 890 feet long. Of the 1,231 convicts in the Georgia penitentiary, 1,114 are negroes. Only thirty women are among the number, and but one of them is white. -4 The United States troops stationedl at Tampa arc to be moved to Mount Ver non, Ala., andl the Tampa p~ost will probably be abandoned altogether. Since the spring of 1880 Memphis has paved eight and a half miles of streets and put dlown -forty miles of sewers and forty miles of s'>soil pipes. The cost was $500,000.. Savannah parties are endeavoring to establish a semi-monthly line of steam Sers b'etween that place and London, Eng land, for the purpose of bringi'ng immi.. grants Lo this country. Many parties in the South are now experimenting in the manufacture of sugar from watermelons. A bright, clear syrup is made to the proportion of one gallon to eleven gallons of juice. The editor of the Key West (Fla.) Democrat, Gen. Songer, is twenty years /old, weighs thirty-five pounds, and is just forty inches high. He wvas born in San Domingo and was raised in Florida. The best grit for the mar ufacture of millstones to be found in the world is quarried in Moore county, N. C. It is a natural composition of flint rock and cement, which sharpens rather than * dulls by use. There are about one thousand acres of land on Matecombie key, Monroe coun ty, Florida, and it has recently been purchased by three Key Westers, who mtend to convert it into one big cocoa nut grove. The Southern car works at Knoxville, Tenn., turn out $400. 000 worth of rail & road cars and $175,000 worth of wheels every year. Three furniture factorie do an annual business of $300,000; a * barrel factory, 150,000; a handle facto ry, $120,000, and an iron company, $260,. 000. There are besides, two founideries doidg a business of $100,000, and six flouring mills, all doing wecll. Petea Griffin, colored, lives near Au gusta, Ga , and owns a farm of over 800 *acres, all of which is uinder cultivationi He has 100 acres in corn, and will make fifty bales of cotton this year. He has twenty acres in oats, and raises on his place everything that he needs. There are six plo ws under his direction, and he has a home that is fitted up with .every convenience andl comfort. East Tennessee letter: Ancient mum Smies are found in East Tennessee caves, with sandals petrified to their feet. Timns ber in our forests disclose wounds in., flicted near the heart, wlii sharp-edged tools, long before Columibua quit wear ing petticoats. Trlangle-sahaped coin., of unknown alloy, of the date of 1215, are plowed up in our fields. Fossil re mains of animals, long since extinct, are TOPICS OF THE DAY. iLOW fei is ureating considerable excitement in portions of Texas. GEoRGE WILLIAM CURTIS is fighting the administration without gloves. SOUTHERN New Jersey and the Dela ware Peninsula are suffering from drought. THE Creek Indians are on the war path. This time they are fighting among themselves. THE hop crop is 25 per cent. short this year as compared with last. In this case the pressure is on the brewer. THE nomination and election for a third term of Governor St. John, of Kansas, is said to be assured. IT Is proposed to build an under ground railroad in Paris. The cost of its construction is put at $30,000,000. "THE President now drives out with a four-in-hand." While this might mean almost anything, we presume it meatns four horses. THE London Timsc expresses the opinion that the Sultan will send his troops to Egypt expressly to thwart the purposes of England. CRoP reports from England say that wheat will not nearly amount to a fair average crop ; barley rather less than an average crop; oats good. SIx THOUSAND acres of walnut trees have been planted in Kansas. They propose that future generations shall have all the walnuts they want to eat. IN is stated, as common rumor, that although the President vetoed the River and Harbor bill, he secretly worked, through his friends, for its passage over his veto. THERE are symptoms that the fight in Egypt will not be confined exclusively to the English and Moslems. The pro portions of a general war are indicated by late dispatches. THERE is a class of people who, on their arrival at a seaside resort, register their names at a first-rate hotel, the fact is announced in the newspaper, and then they go to a cheap cottage. AN ACTREss in a London theater is a sixteen-year-old Bohemian girl, eight feet two inches high, and still growing. She believes the time has come for women to occupy a higher level. THE Cincinnati Commerciae argues that a drunk honest man is preferable to a sober thief. That is owing somewhat to the size of the drunk as well as th~a size of the steal. Let us have the 'spei, ifications. WHEAT and corn, at some points, bring the same per bushel, a state of com merce that does not often occur. The abundant crop of wheat is now on the market, whereas, corn will be scarce for some time yet. As A rule, New York merchants were loud in their praise of the President's act of vetoing the River and Harbor bill. The improvement of Western channels is a matter of little interest to Eastern merchants. TENNEssEE has nine daily papers, of which four are for Bates, the repudiat ing Democratic candidate for Governor ; four for Fussell, the State credit Demo eratic candidate, and only one for Haw kins, the Republican nominee. THE Arkansas Traveller gives the foi. lowing bit of good sanitary advice: It's ebe ry nigger' s duty ter be baptised. Even If he ain t got the faith, do water'll do hi m good. This same advice will apply to white men. SIMON RniHRDtr, his wife, two sons, and two daughters, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, weigh together 1,522 pounds, and claim to be the heaviest family of six in Pennsylvania. Their several separate weights are represented to be 245, 235, 220, 222, 200, and 400 pounds. i . THE Supreme ourt of Iowa rules that a police officer is guilty of manslaughter if he strikes a prisoner a fatal blow with a club to defeat an attempt to escape, unless the officer has reason to believe thatt lhe is in danger of great bodily harm or loss of life. IRROOKLYN shows a total church mem ber ship of 269,462, against 138,705 in 1862, of which there are Catholics 200, 000, 110,000 in 1862. The greatest per enutage has, however, been for the Uni versalists, next the Baptists, then the Congregationalists. H. T. WHiTE, who is the author of the Chicago Tr-ibune's humorous novelettes, which have captu~red more than national notice, is a graduato of a theological seminary, and was at one time sporting reporter. He is grave and calm in his speech, and is rather bashful. ENGLAND sensib~ly objects to the land ing of Turkish soldiers in Egypt with out first knowing who they are going to fight for when they get there. She dlemands that the Porte denounce Arabi Bey a rebel. It will give a clearer un, derstanding of wvhat the Sultan proposel to dowi a orfai, A SCANDAL prevails at Loveland, Ohio, concerning the boy evangelist Harrison. The Camp-meeting Association erected a cottage at a cost of $175, fumished it in elegant style, and set it aside for Harrison's exclusive occupancy, o use. When the cainp-meeting closed, the other day, Mr. Harrison offered to dis, pose of the cottage, furniture and grounds, all in a lump, for $200. He was notified by several members of the Association that it was not his to dis pose of, but on his vacating it, revel-ted to the Association. Mr. Harrison was non-plussed, and went away dissatisfied, and now there is considerable talk and scandal about the matter. The ladies all think Mr. Harrison ought to have the cottage, but not so with the hard hearted men, WHAT Arabi's rebeljion is already cost ing Egypt may be judged froin the Alexandria dispatch to the Manchester JKr(lminer. Her cotton crop averages two hundred millions of pounds an nually, and that is altogether lost for this year. Her exportation of Wheat ought to )e atboit twenty-fivo millions of pounl(ds, but there will be not enough garnered in this season for the Support of thE native population. England has recentlv been paying her ten millions of dollars annually for cotton seed that is coinpressed into oil cake, and now that item of revenue is sacrificed. The Lon don Shipping and Merchant Gazette de clares that it is almost impossible to compute the monetary disaster to Egypt. The deficiency in the cotton and wheat deliveries to England must, however, be supplied by American ex portation, and if the war is inevitable, our shippers may conscientiously eon sent to make all the money they can out of it. Burn'is. Extensivc buns,. are apt to be fatal, even when death does not follow from the shock caused by the accident. Why they are fatal has been it cause of sur p rise in cases where no Internal organ has )eefn harmed. Recent examinations of persons who have died from this cause have shown that the blood was thick and viscid. Much of the blood water (liquor sanynin is) had been drained from the blood, rendering it unfit for its functional purposes. The loss wats undoul)tedly due to rapid exu dation from the intamed surfaces. To what an extent exudation takes place has been shown by the large drops of fluid that have been pressed from the burned skin of a rabbit. When the animal was p laced in a hot room, the fur over the burn . d part remained moist, although it q1uick ly dried wvhen moistened oni othier parts 0f the body. In cholera there is a somewvhat simi-. lar loss, but there are also great thirst and shrinkage of the muscles, which is not the ease in burns. It is, however, enly the serum -blood-water without the fibrin-instead~ of the water of the blood-proper, which a 2"ained off. As this chang-es the densty of the latter, the b)loo(t-veSsels, accordling to ai well known law, tendl to driaw a1 suply to meet the lack from the muscular tissues, causing their gre at shrinkage. lIn the case of burns, howvever, there is simply a diminution of the quantity of the blood-water, and no0 change in its decnsity; hence no absorption from the muscular tissues takes place. lhurns in which the scarf-skin is not (destroy ed do not so seriously affecct the system. The aim in the treatment of burns should be to arrest the exudation of the water on the surface. Soda not only removes the pain of. burns, but it will saive life even when the burns cover surface enough to cause death. Its re markable curative power' probably lies in the fact that it renders the surface div.-Yo1ulh's Gomipunion. IBats on Ships. Rats greatly infest ships, and are by them conveyed to every part of the world. So indIustriously (10 they make homes for themselves in the numerous crannies and corners in the hull of a ship, that it is impossible to get rid of them. Ships take out rats as wvell as passengers and cargo, every voyage; whether the former remain in the ship at port is best known to themselves. When the East Indlia Company had ships of their own they emp~loyed .a rat catcher, who sometimes captured 500 rats in one ship just returned from Cal cutta. The ship rat is often the black species. Sometimes black and brown inhabit the same vessel, and unless they carry on perpetual hostilities, one party will keep in the head of the vessel and the other to the stern. The ship rat is very anxious that his supply of fresh water shall not fail ; he will come on deck when'it rains, and climb up to the wet sails to snuck them. Sometimes he mistakes a spirit cask for a water cask, and he gets drunk. A captain on an American ship is credited (or discred ited) with an ingenious bit of sharp practice as a means of clearing his ship from rats. Having discharged a cargo at a port in Holland, he found his ship in juxtaposition to another which had just taken in a cargo of D~utch cheese. Hie laid a plank at night from one vessel to the other ; the rats, toempted by the odor, trooped along the plank and( be0 gan the feast. He took care that the plank should not be there to serve them as a pathway back again, andl so the cheese laden ship had a cruel addition to its outward cargo.-N. Y S1cient i/ic .~.-Here is how a visit to CoeT1ln affected a New York reporter; "Pres ently the torch of the Sabbath was in verted ; the glory died from the heavens land was lost in the flowing tide ; a white star blossomed in the infinite meadows ; the riotous wind ceased its rush and was still, and the curving billows chanted a more solena Antlem."--Sqaton Trow I arin 1'O'PAr, AzVNII fTA TIWM. Oh, l:a Wyn a Tkowery loot- blitk b1i, Aittl hl years they ntinlertd nitio; Iimi-h itI l u11polisilod w:s lie, albuit .lie constantly afined to slhite. As its a kii dt il bdx he sat, b=1taching alltI apple Pedi While the boys 1o his set ioked wviIfuhy Aid "Givo us a bite!" they sald. But the boot-binok siliot it lorily smile; "No fro bites here !" lie ceril. Then the boys they sadiv walked away, Slve onUe who stdod at hi. side. " ili, givb eit tie core." 114 wilipdreld low. That boot-blitck suiilled OCO 1ore, And a mischievous diniple grow in his cheek "There aint goin' to be ito core!" -MarU D. irine, in Harper's Magazine The Glories of the Starlit Heavens. If the eye could gain gradually in light-gathering power, until it attained somethinig like the rango of the great gauging telestopes o he lierscliels, how utterly would what we see now soeni lost in the inconceivable glories thus gradually unfolded. Even the revela tions of the telescope, save as they ap peal to the mind's eyej Would be as nothing to the splendid sdone reVealed, when within the spaces which now show black between the familiar stars of our constellations, thousands of brilliant orbs would be revealed. The milky luminosity of the Galaxy would be seen aglow with millions of suns, its richer portions blazing so resplendently that no eye could bear to (aze lnr upon the wondrous display. ut with' every in crease of poWe' more and miore Myti. laids of stars would break into vieW, until at last the scene would he unbeat able in its splendor. The eye would seek for darkness as for test. The thind would ask for a scene less oppressive in the nagnilleence of its inner meaning; for even as seen, wonderful though t e display would be, the glorious 0sene would s'sarce express the millionth part of its real nature, as recognized by a mind conscious that each point, of light was a sun like ours, each sun the cen ter of a scheme of worlds such as that globe on which we "live and move and have our being." Who shall pretend to picture a scene so glorious? It the electric light could be applied to illumine fifty million lam ps over the surface of a black domed vault, and those lamps were here gathered in rich clustering groups, there strewn more sparsely, after the way in which the stars are spread over the vatilt of heaven, something like the grandeur of the scene which we have imagined would be realized-but no human hands could every produce such an exhibition of celestial imagery. As for maps, it is obviously impossible by any maps which could be drawn, no matter what their scale or plan, to present anything even approaching to a correct picture of the heavenly host. There is no way even of showing their numerical wealth in a single picture. It is not till we have learned to look on all that the telescope reveals as in its turn nothing, compared with the real universe, that We have rightly learned the lessons which the heavens teach, so far, at least, as it P.es within our feeble powers to study the awful 'teaching of the stars. The range of the puny in Btruments man can fashion is no meas tire, we nuby be well assured, of the uni verse as it is. The domain of telescop ically visible apace, compared with which the whole range of the visible universe of stars seems but a point, can be in turn but as a point compared with those infinite realms of star-strewn spae which lie on every side of our universe, beyond the range-millions of times further than the extremest scope-of the instruments by which man has extended the powers of visions given to him by the Almighty. The finite-for after all, infinite though it seems to us, the region of space through which we can extend our survey is but finite-can never bear any proportion to the infinite save that of infinite disproportion. All that we can see is as nothing compared with that which is; all we can know is as noth ing ; though our knowledge "grow from more to more," seemingly without limit. In fine, we may say (as our gradually widening vision shows us the nothing ness of what we have seen, of what we see, of what we can ever see), not, as Laplace said : " The Known is Little," but "Tue KNOwN 18 NOTHING ;" not " The Unknown is Immense," but "TiH E IWKNOwN 1s INFINIT."--Prof. Proc lor, in Knowledge. Killed the Wrong Hiens. An irascib~le sea-Ca pt aini set tledl down to Portland life by the side of at w~ell temnperedl man, and1( thme two got along very well until thle hen q1uestion camei up. Said tihe Captain: "Ilike you as a neighbor, but I dot' like your lhens, andl if they trouble T any more i'll shoot them."' T'he mild-m-mnnered neighbor01 stude, over' the matter some, b~ut knowing the Captain's reputation well by report, he replied: " Well, if we can't get along any othier way, shoot the lhens, but Pll take it as a favor if you wvill thr'ow them when (lead over into our yard ana yell to my wife. "All right,'' said the Captain. TUhe next (day the Captain's gun was heard, and a (lead lhen fell in the qilet man's yardl. The next (lay another hoGf was thrown over, the next two, amn. the next after three. " Say," saidl the quiet man, " couldn't you scatter them along a lit tle? We really can't dlispose of the number you are killing." "(ive 'em to your p)oor relations," replhied the Captain, graftly. And the quiet man (lid. He kept his neighbors well supplied with chickens for some weeks. One day the Captain said to the quiet man: " I have half a dozen nice hens I'm going to give you if you'll keep quiet about this affair." " How is that," said the quiet man. " Are you sorry because you killed my hens?' " Your hens!" said the Captain. "Why, sir, thoso hens beloed~ to my wvife! I didn't know she h arny until I fed you and your neighbors all sum mer out of her tio.'--o#~ (Mv-) T'raneantpC bread Uaking In tondodc A London bakehouse is almost Inv ably situated in a dellat. Generally a 0ellar that might do well bndug h the. reception of lumber, but is uttt dnfit for any other purpose, and, of purposes to *hich it might possibly put, for the manufacture of bread. ' Writer spent a night in such a plac short tinie ago. 'he Walls were bulgi oobwebby and old; the ovens Were der the pavottent of the street; 'efuse of the bakehouse was deposi hear the ovens; the four or ilve cc partments rito which thb dellar i divided were stuall and close, and w] the gas was lighted at midnight co roaches were swarming over walls i ceilings, chasing each other about sacks of flourand holding assemblic. the bins. Th'is, however was rathe superior bakehouse. ;he dirty i dismal caverns in whith most of bread is made are hInaccessible. If baket does iot regard cleantiiess it tnoral obligation, he is, at iny ri fully aware that the cellars in which practices his mystery are not quite si ahow places as they ought to be. 'J bireutnstande that tlicy are unde rgrou And thpt th oveins arti so placed as draw the air which feeds ttletU-of frori the blose proximity of the drain over the troughs in which the doug] kneaded, is in itself sufliciently app; ing. Bread readily absorbs the air t surrounds it, and ought never to made or to be kept in confined pla< iu London, however, it is habitu: made in dens so confined and nause that the baker's trade is one of the m unhealthy in existence. The condition of the bakehouse! One of the least evils aotinected v the existing system of bread-niaki Bread is made now after much the si fashion as was in vogue, probably, the Cities of the Plain. The baker 4 tises his naked arms In the process knoading. qThi "sponge" is laid in 14 wooden troughs. Over these the j( neyman baker, often working in a ti perature oi ninety degrees, bends half an hour or so while he kneads dough. Of course he perspires. occupation is as laborious almost as t of the blacksmith and produces sim 3utward effects. however much he i be disposed to cleanliness, he can pursue his occupation except ur Conditions that to any one not ac tomed to the process are slckenin behold. After belaboring the do much as a housewife belabors a feat bed, he "rubs his arms out1'-that he clears them of the paste with w] they .re encrusted by dipping his hi in dry flour and rubbing them dowr arms. The dough comes off in I rolls, which are returned to the trc ane kneaded in with the bread. Th not the case only in bakehouses w are doing a "cutting" business. the process common in all bakehor The dough which adheres to the at saturated as it must be with impu would otherwise be so much waste, in a bakehouse nothing is wasted. Such things are not pleasant to d upon; but bread is the chief food of people, and it is as wvell that we sh<4 know how it is manufactured, lie being made up into loaves and put the oven it goes through a tires< amount of handling. After bc kneaded in the troughs it is pulled in pieces and rolled vigorously c bench. Now and then a, knife is ta up and the bench is scraped, and scrapings are returnedl to the troi The old proverb about eating a pec dirt has a more literal aPpplication t is generally supposed. We takeag deal of our allowance in our bread~ is a remarkable fact that there is ni popular ignorance on the subject of than on anything else which is nc ry to our daily life. In nothing, mn over, do we take so much on trust the article of bread. If, by some dent, the public could watch our bal at work for a few hours there woul a general and immediate resort to he made bread.-Pall Mfall Gazette. A Story With a Moral. The following bit of history is9 the Cleveland IHeraldl: "'Once uip< time-this havs nothing to (to witl Cincinnati, llamilton & D)ayton, member - there was a corporai The stock of the company atmontl 10,000), shares and wa':s equailly 0' by John .Jones and Sam SmithI. profits yicelded a reguilar annual dend of ten per cent. on the ca st ock of $1, 000,000, wh ich was~ $1 00, This was equally dlivided betwveen two owners of theo stock. Now, .Jones was thrifty. While hie hat eye to buisiniess, lhe also hadl ano eyeO to Johni Jones. Samn Smiith was so thrifty, but was a good follow. (lay Jiohn .Jones4 saiid to Sam Sn "Sam, let's inlcrease the stock 53 shares. You said thme other dlay wanted to use $1o 000. If you lils will take the odd( thlous5anid shares pay you cash for it." Sam nmgree( that, as he was a goodl fellow. But or a time the Company met and ha< elect ion. Theni it was that .John J< madle substanthial USe of hiis odd( thous~ shares of stock. it gave him a ma fty, and he votedI himself President Treasurer of the Company. lie li the salary of Presidhent at $50,000, that uised U pthe $l100,000) which formerly been called a dividiend. Smith got left, all on account of .J Jlones owning a little more than a jority of the stock." Land In England. Behind the land question in Engi is the question of habits. The Ian held in these great tracts, not for joyment but from pride. The br of men are so equal, under modern fa ities of education, that hereditary scent would be inconsequential if it not have hereditary estate to advei the fact ; and consequently every pa nu in the nobility rushes to buy lan< a ridiculous price, so that he can apl on the landscape of the country aix the sons of Normans. For the gre part of the year an English estate is fit to live on, on account of the olin and there is plenty of land to be had less than $1 per acre on thie steppe the Booky mountains more agreeabl hunting, for residence, and for e The Hydrogett Locomotive. arl' The following is a description of the it Is locomotive whieh recently ran upon the for Jersey Central Railroad, the fuel being liry hydrogen gas, which was constantly re produced by Its own heat from water by be means of naphtha, as explained by the 'he Inventor: The new locontative is fucled 1 a *ith hydrogen gas, which is constantly ng, reproduced by its own heat from water im- through the mediation of a small pro the portion of crude naplitha. 1o0 oil is ted burnod Iti this process In the ordinary im- or proper sdnse of eombustion. It i-, was used exclusively withii rdtorts without air ien as a deiomposing agent for steanl. The ock, present w w locomotive, commenced at Lnd the Grant' Wotks in Paterson in the sun the mer of 1881, was origirnmu!y designed I il with considerable modifications ip r a posed to be favorable to the utilization Uid of gaseous fuel. The boiler as then con our structed was tried in October, 1881, and, the is the result, the more extensive and 8 t eostly changes were rejected and the Lte, simple ordinary pattern of boiler, with lie certain adaptations only in the fire-box ich and vent-pipe (no longer a "smoke l'he stack, as there is no smoke), was sub nd, stituted last winter. The gas-making to retorts are four in number, of massive ten 'rought-iron, semi-cylindrical or donie S- shaped, the size and shape being nearly I 19 that of half a peek niasure with the 11- convex side up. They are set on short hat Iron posts in a row across the fk'e-boKq be near the floor and near the door. The CA- interior of each retort is a single undi 1ly vided chamber, into which cnt eirs from Wus the top an oil-pipe, extending to vithin ost one iich from the bottom, and also pipes from the steam-space and' water is ce in the boiler, all opened and rith osed by finely-fitted and gauge(d ng-. valves. An outlet pipe also passes me from the top of eaeh retort to in a "manifold" joint, in which these till four pipes unite and so connect with a of massive cast-iron gas "main" runnine ng centrally through the flre-box fore and >ur- aft (longth eight feet, diameter three 31- inches), at level of about three inches for below the bottom of the retorts. This the main is divided into three seet ions by His cut-off valves, enabling the ejgicer to ,hat supply or withhold gas to any section lar of the burners at pleasure. From each nay side of the main horizontal branch not pIves of one-inch caliber and three or Ador Yoir inehes apart extend at right an 3us' gles across the ire-box, to the number 4 to of sixty-two. Each of these p1pes (ex ugh cept th eltremes) is pierced on its her- upper side with two rovs of minute . i, burner holes, alternating in position and ih obliquely pitched in such a nitiner that Mds the gas-jdts from the right side of thei his one pipe and those from the left or ittlO nearer side of the next pipe converge 'ugh and meet in pairs, each pair uniting at is Is an angle of, say, forty-five degrees di hick rectly over a one and one-fourth-inch [t is air-hole in the iron floor of the fire IS0. box. The total number of jei thus -Mgt placed is 548. The air-holes are opened iLy, and closed wholly or partly at will by, and under-slides control led by lev'ers from th'e engineer's cab. Undler the whole is well constructed an air-chest, open forwvard, the to secure a pressure of air into the air >uld holes during rapid motion, and1 also to fore warm the d "aft and thus save the great. m heat radiated downuward from the Ii re. .mfO The retorts of a locomuotive ini serueo uing wvill seldom be cooledI ; but for initial inig out the process ini cold iron a small lprini n a ing oil-pipe runs undler the four re ken torts, touching each of them with six the jets wvhich are turned on and lighted tonm igh-). porarily until the retorts iare hot kWof enough to vap~orize oil in their interiors. han -N.~Y. Times. reat It ood Onie argu11i1i.t: :i w .:I :im ii .iH ]) i hOSs.illy 11i:',y (0I))iii e::14 41ther s in (li~('S(ase to the lpersoni vaceiatd. A be thoght he' luul4 seen t wo (as. of th li~ itd, givte the folh1\ini: C4)lIelsirc facts: r. \h ar-to)i~. :ti l u gi II, l1lys4iel:un wl1had11 lerfotihedlin<>r' than hft <11thon-. [rom san~d vacc inat ins, had( inever seeni an )n a in nsan ce (f any~ otlher dli e:t ee th11It ern-g te 111! n 'at'41. Siinilt 1(c-i111011v was ~( o D . W etiller, Who hadl~ ste t hirt en vned1 thounsauni slk under14 his e.n4. 11:0I no 'Jle reason4I t o biehor'e. or 4' sen to su,' pe1t (ii that, in :tny e:n-e dLee h:141 be( 1n c4n1.. p~itail nuin ted bv Viu-('inlion 01. i )r. m~(s ~00 hiud trealtedl a still hirg:r nuornb4r t he twenty--six t hons:tnd tvithI a l ike ex I an Aga4i 130t the iwo ~ a'eS reerred to ther above, t lhe writei- in l he /.' p/,'V r ment not ti ons' th enI e of1 a1 :Lwomant who de( One nonnoeed a phtyjein its csingm. lher uthi: ehibl's dea:t b -I lhe chi bI inn inr- de.. ,000 velop~ed serofuha not. long' ater4 itsiaer. you natioli. Illt siihcsi<|tlentl sihe Io.st ai :C. [ ct her chii1 by scrofhI , tho4ugh shte bru and( refused to have thiis child1~;4w variated1. I to D-. AMartin, of Boston, of forty yeairs aft- pro fessional expeirience, sa ys: ''1 hare I an never had a patient die in any way that mes0 c'oul d lie diiretly or indhir'ectlv attribuuited a.nd to vaccinlation. I have'iev'r luul( the 9.01~ slightest reason to suspect, int a single and instaince, that. vacciniation hbol mtinl an xed1 way impair~ed ltiuiau ai'g~htv u a vo andI 8Q'-n yerral eases in which, besides pie ,hdvenItinig smailI-pox, it wa:s tilei ie.m of (uiryin!! off cer-tain I rivialI :ailmnts ai ohun of jiving~'i the getieral hiealtht of the nia - put ictit."-- Iouth's Con(a0inniiQn. Not Thait Kind of a Donkey. aind A coolness hias arison between Mr. (1~and Mrs. Fit znoodle, one of tho most n- respectable families in Austin. One day ~~5last week a Mexican donkey was run icil- over in the outakirts (if Austin, and killed by a freight train on the Interna .is' tional Railroad. Next morning, just as tieMr. Fitznoodle was about to start d'iwn rve- town, his wife threw her arms around i at his neck and said: pear " Dear Alonzo, promiso me not to go Long near the railroad track. How can the atr engineer distinguish between you and a donkey, in time to stop the train?" I for is of * for -It is estimated that every year there very are from 1.200 to l,500 railroad em 4 i(pl yes glled and from 5,000 to 1,000 n~Jrad in this country. --The electri colors of cloths, ' the same way ut n - light.-N. . Hrl. -The cottonwood is s Kansas, where it grows j the Forestry law of tht 6,000 acres have been planted walnut.-Denver Tribun. -The sorrowful tree-so name be cause it flourishes only at night-gorg upon the Island of Goa, near Bombay o flowers, which have a fragrang odor, appear soon after sunset the year round, and close up or fall off as the sua rises. -Black birch, which is coming in favor as a substitute for black waln Is a close-grained and handsome woo( It can readily be stained to resemble" walnut, is just as easy to work, and is suitable for many of the purposes to which black walnut is applied.-N. .Y. Post. -A report recently issued by the American Silk Association shows that it was the best year American factories have ever had, - and also that it was the largest year of importation over seen in the trade. It is estimated that the American people spent over $105,000,000 for silks in the fiscal year ending July 1, one-third of this largo sum going to our nativo manufacturers. - Chdcago Journal. -One of the latest notions is to have a light on the forehead of the horse. We are assured that it gives perfect safety against accident when driving after dark. No fire, no liquids, no lamp, yet a never-failing bright signal light at a great distance, It is made of metal and covered with a combination of lumi nous compounds; is easily attached and detached; is made in different designs, and therefore, very attractive if it should be carried in daytime.-Court Journal. ---They do some things In Sweden that can not be done in this country. A new development of the timber in dustries has recently been made near the town of Narkoding, in middle Sweden. It consists in manuf acturing thread for crochet and sewing pur pose- from pine timber. The process is not rmade public, bit the products -ire said to be tine in gnuality, and the >rico low. The thread is wound on ialls by machinery and packed in boxes for exoort. The new business, it is said, is likely to be a successful one, for the orders from all parLs of the country are so numerous that the new factory is unable to fill them.--Chb'aao 'Limcs. An Irish Hlighiwaymuan. Brennan, the famous Irish highway man, wvas a little Bonaparte in his way. Hie once robbed three oflicers in a post chaise, and left them telling thoem he wvould rep~ort them to the JDnke of York as unworthy to serveo the King, for al lowing themselv'es to be robbed by a single man, le wore a leather girdle round his middle, stuck with pistols. There was an attempt made by two( po liee o0iemrs in the town of Tipperary to arreot him, early in the morning, in bed ; but he jumped through the win dow and his wife threw a pair of pis tols out to him. They pursued him to a by-flield,whet e they came upon him in his shirt; but he kept one of them at hay with one pistol ~while with the other he stood over the secondl policeman till he made himi strip off his clothes, which he put on himself, thus making him return to town as he (Brennan) had left, it, namely-in his shirt;. It is to lirennan belongs the story mecorrectlyv credlitedl to CIartoiiche. Breni nan, in companl~iy withl to other "'gen tlemi:mn," robbed a mail coach and took a good rquantit~y of blooty-making the passengers lie down in the mudd(y road andl rifling them at leiure. "Ti's money will be but very little among t bree," whispered Brennan to his neihblOr, as the three conquerors were making merry over their gains; '"if you were to pull tlie trigger of your pistol in the nleighb)orhoodl of your com rade's ear, perhaps it, might go off, and1( then there would be but, two of us to share.'" Strangely enough, as Brennan said, the pistol did go off and No. 3 per ished. "Give him another ball," said Bren nan, and another was firedI into him. lint, no sooner had his comrade dis charged both his pistols than Brennan, himself, seiz.ed with a furious indigna tioii, dre'w his. ''Learn, monster,'' cried he, ''not to be so greedly of gold, and perish, the victim of thy disloyait y and avariee!"' And he sent him to join his victim and tiIled both the corpses at his leisure. The Kentucky Evangelist. Rev. E. O. Barnes, the Kentucky evangelist, who has had such remarkai ble sui(cess of late, i.s not illiterate or a backwoodsman, a'i his methodis might lea:d one to suppose If lie uses the dia leet of the Kenitucky muounitaineers, or the homely phirases of the negroes, it is from choice. Al though born in Ken incky, he is a graduate' of P'rinceton (Cohllege, andit served( fifteen y'ears~ as a missionary in Inudia, after wvnheblhe hiad a pastorat e in (Chica~g ,. All this time lhe was a P'resbyzerian, hat~ on taking up lhe work as a revivalid, six years ago, he wi thd rew fromn that dlenomin ationi. II is p'ower over t he people of the Ken tuckly mou11nt aini region pro~vedI phienom enal, and they firmly believe in him as a worker of mlira:cle4. lie founds his auithority for anointiiing.hesick and( p)en.. itenut on this verse from the Epistle of St,. .James: "Is aniy sic:k among youP Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and~ the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; andl if he have conuitted sins they shall be forgiven hiim."' Thle G reat Iiive(' of thle W1orld. Th'le Rtiver Amazonf ei thle greatest vol tume of water fiowvin t hrough.~'l anyV (oun1 ry of thue world: but t is hatt :;,u9 ils long. Thet Missi~sppi from La e I t aska, to its junction with the Mli-souri is 2,(616 miles long; fromi that pboint to the ( uuf is 1, 2XG miles, ai totalh of 8,9H)2 mniles- the Missouri run1s 2,0S miles to join the Mississippi, and, haiving 1luid given to it the length to I he sea, is -1,191 miles long-. To thle -aered iver, thle Nile, must be giveni the creiN of riluning through the gretest st iret h it e) nnulit ry. Thue " A mr irani icyeloj oedia of I87~>,'" fromwhich the prev'iouslyV qutoted ligures are taken, says: "'It is navigable, as far as the dlitrict of Fazogle, about 1,500 miles from t lie Mediterranean. approxi