The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, February 22, 1883, Image 1
S lir I)EYOTED TO POLITIs, MOI;AITY EDUCATION ANI) TO!fE GENERAL INTEREN-9 OF? THE COUNT__
By D. . B-ADLEY & CO. IICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1883, VOL. XII. NO. 22.
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
There are 60,000 colored Baptists in
T neesee, with 150 churches.
West Virginia contains 52,00 persons
o er ten years of age who cannot read.
.Acording to the official statistics
there 9ere in Arkansae on June 80,
1882, 1,415 school-houses.
The new city hall at Rome, Ga.; has
just been completed at a cost of $16,000.
The street car companies of New Or
- . le.gns/altogether collect about 70,000
fares daily..
Ex-Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has
been in Maine buying machinery for a
beet- root factory on his plantation.
Two years ago Werson, Miss., was on
'ly a pine.forest. It has now a cotton
mill empldying 1,000 hands, and nearly
8,00 inhabitants.
The Texas cattle drive for the coining
spring is estimated at 220,000 head. Of
these not moie than 120,000 will reach
the open market. The rest will be re
servid for rebch purpoves.
Convict labor is being utilized upon
plAntations in Arkansas. One hundred
are now employed upon the plantation
of Mr. Neil, below Little Rock. They
profess to like working there better than
staying in prison.
The question of .a canning factory is
beginning to be agitated in Greenville,
S.C. Practical men are figuring on the
subject, and have demonstrated that
such a factory will pay large profits on
the small capital required.
Northernnanufacturers are ex ploring
the Virginia mineral lands. Recently a
purchase of 13,000 acres was made by a
Peinsylvania company. A superior
quality of ore has been found, and it
will be shipped to Pennsylvania fur
naces.
In the seven months of this fiscal year
the public debt has been reduced a tri
fle over ninety five millions. This gives
promise of a total reduction in a yegr of
fully 150 millions. We still owe nearly
1,600 millione, about one half of which
arieunt is now redeemable, but one half
of the redeemable debt does not bear
h trest.
Memphis Avalanche : The Atlanta
Constitution states that the Marietta
and North Georgia road is the great
route for quail hunters. The other day
there was $2,000 worth of dogs (cash
valuation) in the baggage car on that
road, attended by $6,000 worth of ie
groes (old valuation.) On the return
trip they had $5.80 worth of birds, which
they counted while eating $20 worth of
lunch.
Jim Chang, a Chinese merchant who
Burke county, Ga., was visitedl by a
party of men who proceeded to break up
his show e:ares and otherwise abuse hi
property. They then ordered him to
abut up his store and leave at once,
which he did. The indignation seems
due to the fact that a Burke county
white girl had sometime before married
a Chinaman, and indiscriminate ven
gence was 'considered in order.
There are 40,0(0 square mile3 of al
most unbroken forests in North Caroli
na, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma
ple, beach and hickory timber in their
finest growth. It is estimated that in
ten years the timber:alone in North Car
oli,na will exceed in value the present
total valuation of'all the property in the
State, including land. The State grows
nineteen varieties of oak, and its pine
Sforests are of the heaviest. T1ho build
ing of new railroads will rapidly open1
this region to the Northern and Eastern
lumber m'narkets.
An inebriated citizen of Butts county,
* Ga., got In. front of an approaching
train on the new roadl not long since, andi
by wildly waving the tatteredl remains
of a sanguinary-looking kerchief suc
ceeded in stopping it. The conductor
alighted and inquired the object of the
danger signal, when the inebriated citi
zen solemnly drew a bottle from the
depths of his inner pocket and remarked
that he merely wanted to "set 'emf uip.''
It Is recorded of the ungrateful official
that he acknowledged the kind invita
tion by the vigorous application of a
box-toed-number 10.
There was a new dleparture a few
nights since at McMinnville, Tlenn., to
raise mohey to buy a church organ. The
plan devised was a sale of the young la
di'es to the highest bidder. The young
men were out en masse, and one by one
the fair ladies were knocked down by
he auctioneer to the highest bidder.
Mfany of the belles brought fabulous
prices, one ecstatic bachelor bidding
"heaven and earth" for the girl of his
choice. As barter was not taken, he wsM
required to make his bid in dotllars and
cents, which he did in a handsome price
and got his prize. The sale resulted in
plenty of money and lots of fun.
,Or.~aguannd Is a word of recent
origin, from the French oleine, Latin
o(eum,-oil, the thin, oily par of fat, and
from niar-gariM-, a pearly-like substlance,
extredfrond vegetables, oils an animal
fats. Te butter flavor comes from mix
ing milk, eream and unsalable butter
with colored tallow and other unctuous
Ingredients. The lard may come from
ear-loads of fead hop, or suet from cat
tle that may hav ed in overcrowded
cars, oranimala that dieti of disease or
even 'pequestionable souroes, iike
some ~6 'the : oil extracted from soap.
~ from the city, exported
itheWest, whence comes the ladle,
peeked butter._______
" a are ou doing out there, my
duhe,tin e night dew?" said the
kiil l ~teman on the piazza
ae j~j~.gT4eing," was the awee
reply~ she loued over the pickets til
har fle was dread4fully close o Wil
TUriU UF TH1E DAY.
Tux French army is reported not to t
like the expulsion bill adopted by the t
cabinet, and an intimation to that effect c
has been carried to President Grevy. e
Tms United States Government pays
foreign steamers an average of two cents R
per letter for postage. During the past I
forty years the mails have cost $30,204,.
467.
GEN. CHARLES P. STONE, who has for
years been an officer in high command
in the Khedive's army, has left Egypt,
and will return to live in the United
States.
C
WALcorr, the thirty-day quail eater, r
finished his task, said lie never felt bet
ter in his life, and pocketed the $500,
besides winning any number of bets
from silly people.
MONTGOMtERY BLAIR is reported to be
seriously ill ut his country place, Silver
Spring, a few miles from Washington.
Mr. Herndon, the Alabama Congress
man, is now on the road to full recovery.
TIE scandal about the failure of Mr.
Julian Hawthorne to finish "Foiune's
Fool," is increased by the announce
ment that he had received pay in full in
advance. Mr. Hawthorne is thus far si
lent on the subject.
WILLAM GALLOWAY, the ~oldest loco- i
motive engineer in this country, recent- r
ly guided a train at the speed of a mile Y
a minute ovei a portion of the Baltimore <
and Ohio railroad. Mr. Galloway is z
seventy-four years old. t
Mu. W. C. CARRINGTON, a Richmond
(Va.) attorney, has received from Lon
don the certificate of marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. Pigeon (Labourchere). It was I
intended to be used in the divorce suit 1
of Mrs. Pigeon v.i. Mr. Pigeon.
A NEW protes3ion, that of accompany.
lag young girls to and from bells, is re
ported to hero boon recently started.
Hairdressers advertise that they will
dress the hair of ladies and then escort
them to their place of destination.
Ix some parts of Germiany the police
have lately had the new duty instructed
to them of prohibiting boys under six
teen from smoking in the streets or
from entering alone establishments
where intoxicating liquors are sold.
Ma. HOLMAN HUNT spent five ye9rs in
the Holy Land in painting "The Flight
into Egypt," and, when he had finished
it, found that the Syria!i canvas, which
he had used, was too rotten to bear the i
strain of travel. The picture fell to I
pieces and was patched, but is now an
irretrievable ruin.
C.rT. R. B. Fonnxs, of Boston, makes
the sensible suggestion that there is al
together too much signaling in naviga
tion rules, which leads to confusion. He
says "on the ocean it is enough to indi
cate northerly, southerly, easterly and l
westerly. In narrow waters where many
steamers are apt to congregate the less
tooting the better."
Tlcs Emperor of Austro-Hungary has
decorated Hon. CharLi. Gibson, of St.
Louis, his counsel in the. case against
Baron Von Beehtolsheim, late Austro
Hungary consul at St. Louis, who em
bezzled funds of his office, as Knight
Commander of the Order of Franz
Joseph. The order itself is as high as
any in the empire or in Europe.
Tax practicability of photographing
landscapes from the windows of trains
running at a rate of forty miles an hour,
has been recently proved by Dr. Can
dize, who uses what he calls a gyrograph
for the purpose. An exposure of only
one one-hundredth of a second was
needed, and after a little practice won
derfully distinct views were obtained.
Ross, the shotgun messenger of Wells,
Farg & Co.'s Express, who saved the
treasure when the recent effort was made
to rob the east-bound express of the
Central Pacific, in California, stands six
feet four in his stockings, and began
life as a gambler. This is the fourth
time that ho has beaten off the road
age4e~.
EDWIN FORREKs;' costum'js ard~ silver
ware, left by him to t>e Forest Home,
Philadelphia, are soon to be sold at p)ub
lio auction. Among the costumes are
those worn by the characters of Coriola
nus, Lear, Tell and Spartacusa, and the
silverware includes fifteen pieces besides
a dozen knives, four dozen forks, and
four dozen spoons.
.WHAT Is claimed to be the largest pen
sion pai4 to one person in the Uniited
States nias been acdtled in St. Louis.
The pensioner was honorably discharged
irom the army in 1864 on account of
injuries, and in four days thereafter he
became totally blind, and has so rma
ed ever since. His ease has been perad
lng for sixteen years. The aggregate
sum accruing to date, and which he re
ceived, was $9,063.A7. IHe will hereafter
reoeive duming his life $72 per month.
Tu Metropolitan Horse Car Comn
pany, of Boston, has recently introduced
the registering clock for recording fares.
The other day an elderly lady desired to
get off the eat. She rose energetically
and pulled the strap which rang in the
er desist she had not only been carried
couple of blocks beyond her destina
ion, but had registered not less than
wenty fares, for which, according to the
ompany's rules, the conductor was re
ponsible.
Tun robust health of the English in
enoral is said to be due to their diet,
hay are good and substantial eaters.
'hey like plain, solid food, well cooked,
nd do not, as a rule, demand variety.
feat, vegetables, and puddings are
heir staple dishes, and thin soups and
oreign kickshaws find no favor in their
yes. They despise alike French dishes
s rich and unwholesome, and German
ookery as coarse and unpalatable. The
oast beef of Old England is their staff
>f life, and ham and eggs come next in
heir good graces. Ice. water is a rarity
mong the mass of the population, who
ook on it almost as poison.
EVIDENCE of the extent of the busi
tess done by Fleming and Meriam and
>ther professional grain brokers at Chi
!ago, the delivery of money letters to
vhom was stopped by the Postal De
>artment a few days ago, accumulates
rom day to day. It appears they not
wly received money from farms, towns
nd villages all over the country, but
Jlso from Canada, and even from some
>oints in England and Scotland. The
ums transmitted to them, for invest
sent in grain futures, are estimated to
each into the millions, and it is inti
nated that certain respected and highly
onneoted persons joined hands with the
ecognized gambling element in working
he scheme.
PrnTTAT)EmI nAlawyers have a question
vhich stumps them at last. The Con
rollership of that city became vacant
>y resignation. The Common Council
lected a now man. The person left in
thargo by the resigning Controller ro
uses to give up the oflice, and the Court
mstains him. Lawyers are divided upon
he point whether the otlico is a county
>r a city one, to be filled by the State
3overnor or city goverment in case of
vacancy. The most serious Teature of
the whole trouble is that all the police
non, school teachers, departmen+ clerks
md laborers are kept out of their pay,
because no bills can be cashed before
they are approved by the Controller,
md there is no recognized Controller to
lo it.
JOHN W. BARON, Treasurer of the
Dexter (Me.) Savings Bank, was found
n the vault of the bank on February 22,
.878, dying from wounds whrich ho re
teived during the night. Many will
ecall the thrill of admiration that swept
>ver the country when the news was
mblished of Barron's heroic death in
lefense of the treasure in his keeping,
md the painful reaction when the
tharge was made that the wounds were
elf-inflicted to hido a defalcation. suit
>rought by the bank against Barron's
statc led to an examinl tion. For four
rears the trial has been postponed, and
a now about to ho resumed. New ovi
ience is said to have been found to
prove fhat Cashier Barron was really
nurder-ed at his post of duty. It is
wvorthi much to have this almost solitary
instanco of fidelity in a wide waste of
b)anking treachery and criminality.
~SEcRFTARY 1FOriol':R has sent alettcr to
Zlongress recomnmending the con soh
lation of customs districts in many in
itances, in order to efi'et a saving in the
malaries of oflicers at ports where the
I>usiness is very small anid does not in
3rease from year to year. The Scre
ar.y'a recommendations would in effect
aot lessen the number of collection dis
bricts, but in some cu.es reduce the
unumber of officers at the port which,
ifter thme reorgan i zation, would comp lrise
all the consolidated p)orts, andl reduce the
aggregate cost for salaries $491,295. The
Western ports which would bo0 affected
by the proposed consolidations are thme
following: It is proposed to consolidate
with the district of Chicago, the (districts
of Galena, Omaha, D)ubuque, andl Bur
lington; to increase the number of officers
land emaployes from seventy-six t o ninety
one, and the ecost for salaries from $94,
418 to $111,880. It is prop)osed to con
solidate with the Minnesota District,
at St. Paul, the districts of Duluth,
Montana andl Idaho, to increase the
number of officers and employes
from twenty-five to thirty-two, and
the cost for salaries from 132.302 to
E38,800. The greatest reduction of
officers and employes will take place at
the chief eastern ports.
NO'r a few of the thlrnkinf; farmers of
IIlinois anid the States ad jo4in ng, express
thme convict ion that lie whoS wold ( raiso
cattlen in the futuroe withioit p;rsitive loss,
imust raise those which will at anm ear-ly
age dev'elopo inito ripe, hE av~y a'imals
of good style and izi everv 'a v s'zite~d to
the neceds of the best amini ost exacting
markets, there anid abroad.
Tnn following process is rcC'imo tmnde
for cleaning white Shetland shawls. Puit
the- soiled article inlto a lamrge bo'(wl;
throw over it half a teacupful of flour,
"dry," rub thoroughly, as if wvasing,
then thoroughly shake out the flour. If
the article ms not clean repeat time 1pro
geain clears flour. Articles cle'aned by
this p'rocess will retin a now lookc as
long an there is a thread left
Tn's mnn who ate his dinner with the
fork of a river ha~s b,ecn trv'ing to aini a
FAIR BU'1' co.
Her cheek's a sentry in advance,
A moon that makes the darknoes day;
Her stature is like any lance
And like a waving reed doth sway.
Her eyes are ever wide awake
Though dreamy as a fawnts to see.
The moon is blurred for her sweet sake
The branch Is drooping on the tree.
The fawn before her flies for shame
Toward the desert far and wide;
No peer has she, and none can claini
OiT, be regarded by her side.
The fawn that in the glade doth stray
The idol of the fano is she !
Thou who didst bid me hope. I pray
That I may ne'er despair of thee I
To me, thou art so coy and cold;
To others, ever kind and near.
Our quarrel tike the wars of old
Doth linger on from year to year.
Ai I that is why thy young cheek glows
With yonler ruddy hue so fair,
As though it were a distant roso
Thou takost for a veil to wear.
Zaandam Windmills.
Zaandam Is rather anl important
)laco. Many ships and boats are built
here, many windmills thresh the air
vith their white arms. And grind every
ort of thing that can be ground, and
vhen they ion'I. do that they saw wood
mnd pump water. Its inhabitants are
carfully ricl}t at every jaunty villa we
-ano to our guide stop)ped us to inlpress
>in u1s som notion of 'k owner's
vealth. ''I/l these rich peope are wind
nillers:" he could spea - tolerable I'n
;lish, so we were spared the wild panto
nime which, when expressive of four
iun(lrod windmills, takes some consid
srable room in a village street. We
vori ferried over the watery avenuo
vhich seems to be really the n'main thor
1 ghfare of the town. There were iho
IIi s, suro enough, miles of them --som10
'our, I think--on each side of the way,
i^s far into the dil distanceo a3 the evo
ould reach. It looked like a lesson in
lerspectivo to try for the exact vanish
ng point.
* * . .
If any one desires to see ITolland from
is willllilly side, let that person by all
nealns come to Zaanlal, and he yur
feited forever after. ''hev all socled
to e thriviing amd flourisliig, too; and
when a wNin(Imilly totvn does flourish, it
is (from a flourishing point of view) a
thing to reuember. it. seens to lack
reposefulness, if one cares for it, but for
one of an active teiperament it. is high
ly stimulating. It is 11o. the place for a
moony or absent-minded person, as
there is always a t"haneo of heinIg brainiml
by the merry wind -sail, unless one is
somewhat alert. There seems to )e an
unfathomable variety of individual tasto
in the matter of 'adorning and dec
orating some of these mills. 'Tey were
nearly all as bright its pa lit or wash
of every known hue could make them.
None of the w-sthetic. faded-leaf tones
here eitlher, but good, riototis, roaring
reds, greens and blues, that seemed to
sit at once on any mild talk of 'broken
tints" or "m'elting comnbinations."
Somehow they seemed to get the right
tone 1ulder that delicious gray-blue haze
that hangs so often over the landscalpe
in IIollaud. Many m11is had their lit tle
tlower-gardens running down to the
river's edge, and the little summer
house overlIanging the Water, with its
inevitable little miotto ex pressiv of the
owner's sweet, con;ent, like "Lust in
Hust," which at first si ght looks like
bad and improper English. It only
means IG..3tic felicity. Hero sit Van
Dunk ant friends in the shades of even
ing, smoking their pipes, sipping their
beverages, and listeling to the frogs.
Oeoryc 1. Boughton, in lIarper's
Mhaazine.
ArctIc lee.
Th'le uluhhcky prisonler in the immense115
field ice dlurinig thlt imuposinig, unbroken
lonIeliniess of the long Arctic nxight, whmen
the wind is calmn, cani hear the crackle
of the snow undIter the stealthy tread of
the p)olar bear at an astonishing distance,
and( hear what a mani, sipeak ing loud,
says at 1,000 meltresM distanice. It can,
therefore, he0 well u1ndersto)od htow~ the
sound of ice-p)res.sures must travel to
hiis ear fr om enormous distances.
"Sometimes," thle author writes, "' tIhe
1n0ise of tihe ice movements wa'is searcely'
to be heard--a mere murmur-and came
to our ears as8 does the pay of thle waves
on1 a steep) coast from th11 far tdistalnce.
SomefltimUes it hmnmed anId roatred closter
to) us, as if a whole column of he(avily
laden wagons were b eing drai n over the
unlevenl ice surface." In thec sounId wats
cominled all mnanner of nloises caulsetd
by' crackling, grinding, falling o)f blocks,
crnshing and( many other phlenlomenila of
ice life. "'It is astonmishing how far and
hoWv clearly every noise is coinducted ini
the ice. '.lho noise at the v'ery margin
of the field Onl whlich we were seemal to
ocur immediately at our feet. It we
phiced our ears to the ice, thle sounId was~
h eardl s0 loudly that we might hlave ex
petetd the ice too pen under our feet th,
next. mlomenCt. The whlole dry ice-cov'
uring was a vast tJounding--hmoard
Whenever, at i lay downa to sleep,
I tcedi my ear against tile dry, woolei
slip's side, I heard at humminlg anld buzx
zo1g whlich was noting else but lii
sum11 of all the noises whlichi occurred ii
tho ice at at great distance~ fromi tli
ship1."'
The surface of an) expanseR of younl'
salt-water ice on wich 1no siuo,, Juity
fallen is soft, so thlat tIle footstep is im
pIressed 1upon1 its white covering as ii
mielting snow. Thlis is to 1b0 obseirve
evein at a tempLeratuire of 40 dleg. C
'ThIe unlfrozeni fhud is not water, but
conJcenltrated1 solution of salt thrown ti
by the freezing of the ico beneath.
When summer b)egins the thaowinp
that occurs is v'ery local andt une<qnal.
Any13 dark. body, such nas a heap of :oes,
or the dlroppiing of hlears, eats its wayt'
into the snotw, ab)sorb)ing the rays ofl
hieat which aire reflec'ted off agnin 1by
the general white surface. '[he 1hear
droppings eat their way init> thie snow,
and theni into tile ice, !r.nd the " ionil
11o1( thtus formed tIlls itself vt ithi wiater.
It may at last eat its way right through
tihe ice0 whlere not very thick. Thulis art
formed the greater part of those holes
in drift-ice which are usallyl ascribe)d
to seals, The author never saw asel
hole in winter.
Wav is pap.r money more valuable
than gold? ~Vhen yout pult it inl y'tom
jlocket you doule it, anid when y'ou tatkt
i utvo fnditsil inres,
Money by Telephone.
"Say, miss," said a rather haid-look
ing customer to the young lady in charge sui
of the central toloplhono oflice, one day E.
last week, "say, miss, I'd like to talk er
with Mr. Joseph Snooks a moment." an
The lady called Snooks and turned the
instrument over to the guest.. bc
"Hello, hello! Mr. Snooks!" n
Snooks answered, and in the ensuing i
colloquy the lady could of course only li
hear the hard-looking customer. St
''Snooks, old boy, I can't come up for st
that money to-day; I'm too busy." cI
"EhI?" it
"No, can't get away."
"I know, but I'm sorry; I've got to I
meet Brace about your atla ir." fr
"But I'd jeopardize all our interests. lil
I postively can't come. Can you send at
the money down?"
''Down here." w
"I don't believe she'll do it, \ill she?" gt
"No, I don't know her. She's a hand- m
some girl with blue eyes and light hair. je
Know her?"
"I'll ask her about it. Wait, keep mo
your ear there [miss, Mr. Snooks wants
to pay me four dollars, and says for youl bx
to let me have the money. I'll ask again tr
to make sure.] Snooks, did you mean sli
for this flie young lady to pay me and Cr
charge it to you?" a
"Don't hear you.'' br
"Yes, yes, all right. [Ile says, miss,
for you to take my receipts and iet, i ti
have the cash. You are to put it in his t
telephone bill.] All right, Snoolis, go)d- s1
by, see ,you to-morrow," and he hung the mi
mouthpiece on the hook. in
'Fine fellow, Snooks," ho continued, bi
looking pleasantly at the mallnagress. "1
never heard of sending money by tele- m
phono before, did you?" 1I
"No," responded the lady. bi
"4Perhaps you haven't the change iI
handy?" t
I.s," said she.
"You'll trust Snooks, I persume," he p
went on in a faltering mraanner. v
''Certainly,'' she replied, ''if he says to 4
let you have it." a
"You don't think the telephone would d
lie, (10 you?" g
"Assuredly not.. I'll just ask Mr.
Snooks." g
''No, no. He's a sensitive man; he 11
wouldn't like to have so much fuss over g
a small amount. Make it two dollars a
and I will give him a receipt on ae- c
count." 0
"I'll pay anything Mr. Snooks iays. g
I'll call him." t<
"Rather than bother him again, I'll n
make it a dollar. Gii e me a dollar-" 1
"But I perfer to call him." to
"Miss,'' said the man, ''don't go near"
the wire now. There's a eloud c'oamnin} L
up. You're going to be struck by light -I
unmg. Rather than that, I'd take fifty f
centa, a luarter." I
"Oh! I'm not afraid," and she ap- V
preached the instrument.
"Keep away from that wire!" he 1
howled, "don't call Snooks. IIe might
be struck. If you don't care for yoturself, a
have some mercy on his fatily. You n
needn't pay the amount at all. l'iouldn't u
risk Snooks for all the money in Brook- v
lyn." t
"I shall either call Snooks or a police- t
man," said the girl firmly.
''Make it a pltiieeman and I'll go fot d
him myself," shoutted the tramp, as he t
jumped over the rail. t
And then she called Snooks, who had a
been swearing at his end of the wire in s
the hope of making some one hear him, 'l
and told him it was all right, she hadn't t
quite paid the money.
t
liow Site Won film.
I have ju1-t heard the most romarka
1)1 story of t he evenness of the fe male I
tempier'. It is a beautiful lit tie fairy
story, and may appropriate!y lbe callel
"'Ilow She Won lim.'' It. happ ented
here in P'hilad elph ia, and is on( thli.
wvise:
There was a beautiful d inner given
"'many years ago,'' and shte sat oppolt
a wine-colored1 silk withi a square neck,
and1( otherwise :rra veil as never* werie
tihe lilies In any valty of this poor
earthI.
W~ell the wvaiter in hianing the soap
upr,et the enitire contetts of a pl ate in
her hnip. ,Jutst tin k ojf it, girls! 'he
whole' front. breadth ui ttterl y ruine d, and
it eoul not be match d!
W'ell, whlat (1id slht dto? D)id she faint?I
D)id she say: "Y oui thorri a' >id i
she scream? Noat at all: she 1passed ;ho
thing 00l in some w itt y remmark abotut
fiery haptism, and (cabuitly re'uuedi he'r
dinuner.
Hie, of course, was dielighuted, thbought
her a most remarkable woman, and, in
(deed, she wvas; became at tenttive to lher,
and tinatlly mairried her. One eveninug,
long after the event, they were siti tng
hefore the fire, thle chiliren having gaito
to bed, and were t alkintg about ohi
times, wvhen he saId:
"My dear, i.-never faold you, i thinuk,
how I lirst thlought I woul like Ito nuar
ry you, did I?"
"Why, grationsgoodnuoes' no never!'
"Well,' h sid ' (10 you remt mn
her that dinnier at alrs. Simpikinsl',
where your driess was5 spoilt by thle
soup?"'
"Indteed 1 do(!'' shoel)ied. 'I shall
never forget it as long as I lire-'
50 well abou t it that I t houight yon a
porfect. jewel."
" Yes,'' sihe answered, "'I retmemobor
behaving very wall about it at the timiie;
bitt, good land, you shouldi hav~e seen a
the miarks of m ' teeth on thei betd-post<
that night:''-- /,fhldlphia Qui
-Medicine was administered to a sic'k
olergyman on Long Island by several (of
his kindly dispiosed parishiloners. In
stead of giving him pills and plasters,
they gave him somo wood antd coal, whtich
they put in the cellar. I'To this they
addled some money, which they pleas
anttly plaed( ini hiis hand as they shook
hands at his bedside. It was agrteed by
all concerned that these romedhies were
the best that coutld have been admtinis-j
tered to the suffering pastor. Hie is nov:
oouvalescent-N. Y. S'un._
Tun oinly cooi tapig which b,as been
seen in town for the paot weelk ia the fol.
low who comes into the office, smokes
some other fellow's pipe, uses some other
fellowv'n desk, and then asks if you are
niot go)ing to say beer before he has to go.
...aQe(on CQinhe
The Sick Room.
From an ir.teresting paper on this
bject in the (hristian Union, by Miss
R. Soovil, of tho Massachusetta Gen
il Hospital, we cull the following hints
d recipes: *
The puro juico may be extracted from
of in two ways: First, by cutting the
oat in small pieces, putting them in a
fhltly corked bottle, inniersing it in
>t water, and boiling for several hours.
scond, by taking a thick pie'se of juicy
mnk, broiling it on a gridiron over a
L'ar fire for a few muomenity, then cutting
iml strips and pressing it in a lenon
iteezer. 'ThIto juice ltis obtained may
> given either cold or hot. It miay be
ozen, broken into hlups, and given
(e cr"aacked ice. A little salt should bo
Ided before ising it.
An iiivaalid who is tired of hot beef tea
ill soetimes drink it cold or iced with
-eat relish. Enough isinglass or gelaitio
ay hto added to the jiice to iiake a
lly, which can be flavored with sherry,
sence of celery, or anything the patient
ay fancyt
Raw meat is very nutritious, and may
3 li'pdrt d by shredding the beef ex
eniely fine, removing every particle of
in or fat, and mixing it with cracker
inlbs. A little salt and lepper may lie
bded, and the mixture rolled into tiny
ills.
In convalescence after typhoid fever
e greatest care is uecessiry with regard
the food, and no new article of diet
10111d le given without tho express per
ission of the doctor. Even so sli ht an
i)rudeince as eating a raw apple has
It'll known to cause death.
While roast, boiled atid 1roiled chiicken,
uttoi chop and beef steak have long
-Id a roecognized position in the ilvalid's
11 of fare, the imerits of a veal sweet
ncal have been sadly overlooked.
hen properly cooked it is r, delicious
"h, and may tempt a capricious ill.
-tito that has grown wear of othe.
ands. A sweethreid sholtlai ho piar
,iled for a short. tiine tuntil quite sit,
id then fried in ia little butter to a
Alieato brown. It may be served r"ith
ravy or white sauce.
Port wine jelly may soime'tinies be
ivetn where the wine itself would excite
isgust. Dissolve half an ouneo of
elatino in three talilespoonfuils of water;
Lid a little white sugar, and nutmeg or
iniiainon if the taste is liked; let it mielt
ver iL very gentle heat, put in five wine
lassfulte of port, and stir constintly for
n mine tes. Strain it into a inold
moist-''\., with cold water. A piece a1s
irge a1s an egg should be eaten two or
Liree times a day.
Delicious oatmeal gruel may be made
y stirring a cupful of oatmeal into a
owl of water, allowing it to stand for a
w minutes until the coarsest hmrticles
ave fallen to the bottoiml, pouiring of the
"ater, and'releating this oice or twice.
he water imust tIn be 1)>iled, stirring
t constantly until it, is suitlicietat cooked.
Fow p er ;ons u'iderstand plrop1ey 1irly the
rt of making 1 noinulo. The lenon
hould first be roll d between the 1aum(ls
ntil it is <iuite 9 oft, the skin removed
itlh a slnp kt.ife, anl everv pip ex
raeted, the lemon being held over a
imbler that no jitice lumly be lost in the
*j)erat ion. '1he pulp sliould then be
livided into sniill pieces, and the sugar
i>rottghl,y mixed witi it. Last. of all
he reitisita anlmomtit of wiater shoihl be
dded. Orangcile nilty be 11111de in the
amnie way as lonii,iade, ysing less sugar.
hev shouh(1 lie icedl. imp1 erial drink is
nade iy alilng a snla(11 tiasp )onfiul of
relamt of tairtar ilissolvel in boiling waler
o eaeh pilt of lem,aioiamle.
In stle d(iseaises it, is iip ssil ie to
;ivo anything colttitiiig auid, ald then
he iigemtity of the nurse is te:.ted to
>rovido vi+ som bevorage lt, ice coolinig
md( illahtab1 lt. iceed tell and1 ci tl'ee are0
xceIlient when'i the,y ore likedi, andl miay
10 tak~en either with or withouiit milk.
hirley water is niinlo Iby bilinig two
mn:lees of pear~ il baiirley, priev tisy wiellI
vashod, for twenlty mliinteis itn aL pint andi(
- half of wtater. It is t hell st rauiied and
latvored withI Jl(mon petel anl d sulgarl to
aIstO. Th'lis miay lie ailterinatedl with
liaxseed teln. Steep hatlf anx ouiieo of tun
iruised flaxseed ini at pint of bosjIilig walter.
act it suil inl a ciovered jiar near ia tire foir
bree or four hours; thien strinl and1( flnver.
The~ Salt of the Ocean.
Even the prinit ive sea must have been
lighily elmlrgedl withl saline matters of all
siiiils. Whien the 'airth1 was still intense
y loated, the whole oif the water iniw onl
,ts surface mnust hiave bieen pre'(senlt as
gas5 in its aitmsl w 5 i ire, at first no) diuti
I issitsso ciated, 1but afteirward an a< joe
ous1 vapor ~. Since, if thle si'i-b ottom1 and
formu leve'l, flh' s'a wotild still stfithie te
cover' lie entire' i'arith to a idepith of ovier
1,0001 fathioms, acpn'ouIs vapomr eriul to
a liver of watieir of ftatiikness must
haivi' *x istedi in thle atmo sphiere andlt hiavo
pirodiu'ed a pre'issur' cif imore tlhn a ton
onl theii squareili inelh at the earthl's surifaoce.
Ti, this pre'issure' muIst hiavit beieni flld
thiit pri'iliced bty all the othear vapiorE
wi Iithwhich: the pr iivow atmiosphe tre
miiust have b een IiIled. As the earth
.~soold thie wiater condioniied' on the cool
"at spts from time to timie, boiled, and
-'I as( 11vapllor againl. Mr. Mallet cion.
entulres that the first water formed on
lie eaIrthi's surfalco may have been eoei
is hot as( mol(deni east iron. At last per.
nanen('ht seafS were estab lishied. The x
.ate'rs of these hieat.ed to ani intenisely
uigh temlIperatui'e uindeir great, pr'essuri,
inust have dissolved salts ini abundtanhce
'rioim tIhe freshly consolidated eai'th's
-ruist, andl being coiistantly inl a state of
uolition. as thme pressure diminuishied at
lie surface with the growvth of the seias,
ir t he tempileratulro of tholeiarthi's suir
riace varied ini differeint places, must have
itkien til vast quantitities oif rock mlatteir
i 5 isuspenionct, aind becomoe thickly
Ilharged with violeanio miudt. JItenIsely.
hiot raini must haivo fallen on the land
riid have washed down more salts aind
nmid inito the siea. Tho11 whole oceani
nuist have conlsistedl of a vast mass of
seething mud. it must have required a
protracted period (or theC ocean to become
clear, and for its deposit, which was per
hapai somewhat like the present deep sea
red maud, to settle, and possibly the
deeper water kong remained unialud>iita
lo, beig overchar'ge'd with various
gasea an~d salta and susp)ene'd mud.
- There is ani enrollmient of I1%,574
In thte MIinnesota schools, the State hav.
ing schooil popultion 01 uJ5,1J8.
HUMOROUS.
--"Selection." Brown (as he .wa.
leaving our art convereazione, after a
rattling scramble In the cloak room)
"Confound Itl Got my own hat after
alll"--London Punch. -
-An obscure, but yet not wholly un
Intelligible joke in regard to the mule
Is that 'though he cares very little for
precious stones in general, yet he gen
erally affects topaz. '--N. Y. Graphic.
Canal mules do soP-"-Boston Post.
-Judge Tourgee Is delivering a leet
tire on "A Family of Fools." We
haven't heard it, but presume he rotors
to the girl who kindled a fire with
kerosene, the boy who "didn't inow it
was loaded," and the man who asks:
"Is It cold enough for youP"-N. Y.
Advertiser.
-High clausic-" Can you compre
hend meP" "I am, perhaps, a little
obtuse, but you may be sure that I
shall get at your meaning presently."
Low classic-" Can you catch on?"
"Well, perhaps I don't drop as sid
denly as some, but you bet 1l tumble
as quick as the average."-The Judge.
-A magazine writer has recently
published a long article about " women's
noses." The best thing we know about
a woman's nose is a mustache. The
best kind is a pale brown, and waxed at
the ends. For sample, and instruction
in best method of application, apply at
this olice, after business hour.-Bur
liny!on Iawkece.
-So you have got twins at your
house?" said Mrs. Be uinbo to little
Toniny Samuelson. " Yes, ina'am, two
of 'em." "' What. are you going .to call
them" " Thunder and Lightning."
"Why, those are stran ro names to call
children." "Well, ti tl's what pa
called them as soon as he heard they
were in the house."-Tczas A'$iings.
-" Justico,your Honor!"exclaimed a
legal comet in one of his eccentric por
orations, "is not like the fabulated
liriarious of old, whose eyes wore as
miultiplical as the sands of the sea, nor
yet like the famed Cyclops whose vision
p'erforated only the arena of the coming
luturity, but like the sportive demon
st ration of 'blind man's hull'' She
pursues her way unseeing and unseen,
holding the steelyards that weigh w ith
coeval vicissitude the carats of gold
and the carrots of horticulture, and
knowing no North,no South, no East,no
Weost !"I-Rlome ( N. 1. ) 'Sentincl.
-A report comes from London that
there is a change in the fashion in
dogs. Young ladies who have been
wet ring English pugs to match their
coniplexion, trimmed with plastrons
and things, or the Italian greyhound or
King Charles spaniol, cut entrain with
ja' ot aul poionaise. will regret to learn
that they have gone out of 1ashion, and
they might as well ho givoi to the poor
er sold to the old rag-nn:(:. The new style
of (log is the Ilutly white P'omcranian,
wit h( ia nose in point applique and shir
red ears; or the Malteso terrier, with a
silk jacket" and velvet lingerio-orsome
thintr that way.-Aorristown Hferald
FACTS A'D FIGURES.
--Alabania has 1,919 miles of railroad,
anti the railroads furnish: cloven per
cent. of all the taxable property in tho
State.
- -lirovard County, Fla., is t.he largest
of thoe 2, 559 counties in the United
States. It hlas an area of over 5,000
sqjuamr miles.
* Th'le tirst apponran~ce of cotton as
an art j,l' of commerce was a shipment
of Se'von bales fromllCha:rlestowni inl 1757.
.In 1880-81 tile crop) wias (i,(00,000 bales.
-According to a comp lrehiensivo sta
tiNtlcal ietuirn lately publdish1 ed ill Ger
many, t here are ill lI-:uopo ninety-two
cities withl more~ than12 100,000 inhlabit
ants, out of which:l four cap)itals show
each over' a million polalltionl, as fol
lows: I .olndon, 8,832,44t0; P'aris, 2,225,
910; itorlin, 1.122,500: Vienna, 1,10:1,110.
Out of thle ninet y-two cities and( towns
referred to, Englanid lams 2t, G ermnany
1t, It aul v 11, i ranee t2111(an llussia 8.
TIhe othr a11Szre dlividedl among thle
smaller St ates. TIhere weore ill the Unit-.
Cdl States in 1850 twenlty cites hiaviner
eachi 10', l0t inhabitants~and upwartd
Th''le first. annuaIll rep)ort of tile State
('ommissioner of Hailr'oadi Taxationl in
New ,J ersey contauiins the following par11
agraph: '" ow ,Jersey has1 In all some
1, 800 miles oft road,. standling seconld in
the list of States in the matter of rail
way facilities. Theb only State whlich
clain;s5 to havo mor01 mliles of road1( than
our own is Massachuisetts. Newv Jrsey
has necarly a mi1le of track for every four
s<quare miles of area, wvhich is considIered
tile miaximlum. Thei total cap)itall in
vested in railroad property in thnis State
is $214t,0@M,349. TIhe cost of railroads
an d1 tiheir e qui pment s has boen $1G;8,6 18,
-I 'e industrial ceonsuis of Phiiladecl
ph.ia, as taken by tihe Police D)epartment
undter tile direction of I.orin BlUodgett.
is sublstalntiallly comp111letfi, antd the roe
turns are so fully compliledI as to showl
a largem inecase as5 com111pred withi tilt
consuls of 1880. F"rom the figures il
ready comnpilod over 10,000 establish
mon0211 aro shiown, withI 222, 152 opera
tivos, showing :in increaso of 2,000
estab,lishen1ts and1( of 510,0t0 0 persgons
onmployedl, and1( it is bielieved that the
en211ire comnplot ion of tihe revisionl will
shiow 12,01)0 ost ablishlnnts, wvith 240O,
000 pesn em p)layOd. - Philatilphsia
Press.
- Vrious02 signs of the unsatisfactory
state of ltussian tinances a1re consta:ntly
at)i carint.r in tile St. l'etersbuir, pr'ess.
A~1though the generial ta\es col4ected in
1881 exceeded those of tile presenlt year
by 8,871 ,4tt8 rubles, nevertheless tile
general [amlounIt of airreaIrs ill 1881 was
very largrely increased. For 1881 they
were calcul 1at oil at. 81, 2C6,(i29 rubles, and
for the year 1882 these figures rose
to 85,547,707 rubles, or ,284,078 rubles
more, ind1eendentl y of 1,6f73, 321 ruhles
of arroars excludo4 from the general
sum11 On acun1t of irreguularities, and1( of
the hiopeile'ssnless of any ait-temp1t at get,
CHIAnasJ PF.RnAU /r a French writ9r
wasn tile aiuthor of "Cinderella's Slip~per -
story. At the accession of Francis II.
h lusbIand of Mary Queen of Scots),
'aris was inlvelVd in1 continued broils
b)y the struggles for precedency between
tile conlfraternlities of the drapers, thle
mercers and the fulrriers, in which the
furriers finally triuimphed. Two cent..
uries ago furs were so rare, and there
fore so h ighly valued, that thle wearing
of thlem w'fas restricted by several sumpt
uary laws to Kings and Princes. Bable,
in thos80 laws called vair, was the subject
of countless regulations. The exact
qumalityv pormittedk o be worn by persons
Iof dineont grades, and the artieles of
Idress to which it might be applied, were
Idenined imost strictly. Perrault's tale of
Cinderella originally marked the dig
nity conferred on het by the fairy, by
her wearing a alirner of vair, a privilege
thncned to, the highest rank of .
Priceses.An error of thle press, now
bocomo inveterate, changed vair into
verre, and the slper of sable was su4
denly aavata inf g)ala alir,