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HP?-- ^wq&r _ WSnUmSf v^ VWF wwinri irsSKrt iSTfim #im^^B I a ?*>** **, fiMikH ? ?SSfi^^ 4J J?1> vijL ' a li . "r " ' = <i I^MhF i ly===j"^ij||^B^B^B ** .. XXIII.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAR%?Hig?^^HHWHMM^|Mte^^Mif^HMaiflBnHHHBBBB ?- .-. - H?E^fc ..?*.ww^-.. > Three patents on electric locomotives (and electric railway systems, appliesI tions for which hare been filed since I June 3d, 1830, have just been issued to I Thomas A. Edison. There are four times as many words in .our language as there are in the French and, yet, a philologist estimates that the j coinage of new words in our tongue 'goes on at the rate of one hundred annually. The rapid growth of tho habit of sobriety and toinperauce is, in the estimation of the Chicago Herald, ono of tho characteristics of tho American railway service, tho uso of intoxicants becoming more and raare the exception, altho ugh ^ it if said to be the rule in the English servica. . It was a subject forcomtuent ^^^"flnSHSnglish twttofy publication recent!_ iL-a tL- K AAa i-1 tj Hist sue u jou isomers empioyoi in changing the grade of the Great Western Railroad were not allowed to refresh themselves during working hours with Jl anything stronger than j?atrao;.l water. The New York courts have just rendered a decision which, the Detroit Freo Press believes, will be of inestimable value if it shall bo accepted as a precedent in other States or even regarded popularly in the light of a warning. The Women's Memorial Association having decided to erect a statue at the World's Fair to the late Sirs. Hamilton Schuyler as "a typical philanthropist," the family . begged the association to desist from its fell design. The association persisting, the family took the matter ioto court nnd the association ha* h**en s?oWr\fdn, from carrying out its scheme. ~ino ground of the decisiou is that family sensitiveness is entitled to consideration and that nobo ly has the right, against the fa.uily protest, to even do honor, or what is intended as suc'a, to a deceased member ot the family. The Washington Star maintains that the great problem of the centuries has heea transportation. From the dawn of history man has struggled to get himself and what he needs across rivers, deserts, seas and oceans. It is a question of burdeu uud, more than that, a question of ekill. Without means of transportation in in would never have ? been civilize I. As tho older civilizitions used the shoulders of tne people and the cruder forms of invention to transport materials for temples and palaces, and the backs of beasts of burden for articles of commerce, so more modern civiliz itious with their increasing and higher wants have eventually, after a painful evolution, developed the steamer and the railway. This very generation itself has seen the beginnings of the railroad as something more than a local feeder for local ports, and the last saw the tirst locomotive draw the first train of cars. Much of this almost incredible, progress has been witnessed in the United States. Accordiug to Poor's Manual there vas at the Close of last year 170,GUI miles of track or -13.6 per cent, ol the world's total with ouly one-sixth of Europe's population. Tho value of the assets in 189J was $10,590,603,000. j\rtiiiiiiu<-> i iiiiMiuuu me mini lir.iusiry 01 the United States, the first and second being agriculture and manufactures. These are facts that show the wonderful development of the latter part of th< nineteenth centun*. A Washington correspondent says: The mints will have plenty of work during the coming year, without any ne.v legislation to compel additional coinage. The demand for the minor coins?the bronze one ceut pieces and the nickel fives?coutinue to keep the Philadelphia mint busy, notwithstanding the coinago of about tt >,()U0,0J0 of these pieces annually for the past four years. Orders for thein continue to come in from the various sub-treasuries, and the mint at Philadelphia is unable to catch up with the o .|,lcrs. The constant expansion of the l> hiness of the country makes the the drained a growing one for this and nil other forms of money, and will ptobably soon require a more extensive coinage at the other mints. The mints at New Orleans and 8.10 Francisco, as well as that of Pniindclphia, are working earnestly to recoin the worn subsidiary silver which is carried on the treasury books, into quarters and di nes. Thero i a n/t flnm mil fnr ilin K * 1 ( /Inllar ni*noa ami there arc plenty of in the Treasury, besides the 10,000,000 ot them which it is proposod to issuo for the World's Fair. The coinage of silver dollars has not entirely ceased, notwithstanding the suspension of compulsory coinage by the silver act of 1890 and tho decision of Sccictnry Foster not to continue tho coinage of $2,00'),003 per month without necessity. There is a demand for a certain quantity of silver each year when the crops are moved, and a certain margin is also require 1 at the sub-treasuries to meet oceaMOn ?l dcmauds and settle balances. POLITICAL WORLI)" 1 Candidates, Conventions, Nomina- ' lions. Elections. i 11 the News of Politics! Movements of the Tour Forties. Full return* from Vermont give Fuller (Rep.) for Governor 89,190; Smalley, (Dem ) 19,526; Allen (Pro ) 1,630. I Judge Geo. T. Weils was nominated s for Gove nor by the New Jersey Demo- 1 cratic conventioa last Wednesday, in spite of his letter saying be would not fi accept it. His friends have induced him I to yield. n The Massachusetts Republican 8tate * convention nt Boston nominated by ncclam ation forGoverooi, Lieut Gov. Haile. I The Democrats of the Second Virgiuia I district at Norfolk nominated for Congress D. Gardner Tyler, of Charles City county. The nominee is a son of ex- * Fresidetft Tyler, and -was bom in the * White House. b The Democratic Congressional Con veutiou.of the Ninth dis riot at Ilirming- o ham, Ala., nominated Lewis YV. Turpin V on the first ballot n ,al.. adlai e. btevkn30k. ?'v.i c c c 'nun. Adlai E. Stcveunou spoke to 0 large audiences last week at Ashevi lie, j, Raleigh, Charlotte and WinRton. e'( COLUMBIA CANAL IN A TANGLE fi The State'* Sale oi the Canal and the v Probable Results. Columbia, S. C.?The Stufe of South " Carolina speut years of time and thousands of money < uild ug a canal arouud the full? HtColumbia. 11 The primary object was, we believe, 11 to improve and extend navigation. Subsequently plaus were changed, aud since the war the purpose has been to \; develop a water power and couduce to the development of manufactures. Sevoral years ago the ttute grew tired of the undertaking and sold out to the city tf 111 Columbia. About year ago the city said Dili IU HUB M CUISTKWU U11U assocmi: S. of New 1 nglaud, the entire cannl, Iran- ' ? chises, privileges and immunities. But when Flood and his associates had ;r purchased the cnnal and settled for it, they soon fouud that all available mill tl sites were ownod by local parties. (' Amongst the responsibilities of (lie owners of tho canal was a statute compelling ;(1 its extension to Granby. Those leer.! partus who own the land bttween the j, present terminus of canal and its pio- \ posed lower terminus have been threatening to briug suit to compel the owners to extend the canal through their laud to ( | Granby as required by law. But sud- j? denly it is found out that the State for meily owned all the land from the head |r of the canal to Granby; that the State nevtr sold these lauds but simply soli a usufruct iuterest in |them till needed for cannl purposes. The preseut ow ners aver V their readiness to complc e tlw' canal to t( Granby, but demoud that they now need d the land, the title in fee simple for which nl comes to them with their purchase of the canal with "all rights, privileges, irn m inunities, etcv" A A week agi >be local land company v felt that they- ^ the canal owuers bot | " 1 tied un. At itiuir the canal own- I eis have the whl ^utndlc, if their allegations are trnejrdfcd the prospect \i jr big lawsuit is sdHRituted for Columb^HK(( iiuinedia'c prospWl of one or more larg cotton factories. . 1 A DESPERADO KILLED. J; In Resisting Arrest He Is ShotDown. j', si Expire* a* the Sheriff is in the ,| ct of Handcuffing Him. ,, Nonroi.k, Va. ?8attirday night Dep- I' uty Sheriff T. J. Jackson, of Norfolk w county, was called upon to raid the gambling house on Western Branch. C( One of the parties made his escape, but " was recognized on the road the following morning by Jackson and placed under arrest, but resisted and s'ruck the officer I a powerful blow on the left cheek, stuu- n ning him for the instant The negr , 11 who was a desperate man, ran awav, and H as soon as Jackson recovered he tired at " the escaping man three times. The ue "< gro ran about seventy-five yards and hid r< behind a stack of fodder, where he wi s si overhauled by Jackson. He claimed to c have been shot, but the officer not be- G lieling him put a pair of handcuffs on A him, who almost immediately fell to the b g:ound and expired. Jackson notified E the authorities A coroner's jury heard Sl the evidence $nd brought in a verdict in ^ accordance with the facts stated. It is I ? ik. 4*1 A a -- -1 '.re - f?i jc|>ui iru uini iuu ut'jjui) sueriu will DC arrested. C ?S( North Carolina Schools. ^ Ralkioh, N. C. ?The annual report " of tho State Superintendent of Public Instruction was made public. The re- C ceipta wr? f??5,4W; the expenditures $761,000. Of the latter, $800,000 were for wlvte tuition and $50 001 for the school houses ; $191,000 for the colored ? tuition and $21,000 for the school houses. ( The receipts arc the Impost on record, bc'ng $61 000 greater than last year. r The reports show that there are 380,COO I white and 212,000 roloied <-hil iron of c school age; total, 508.000 '] he value of i school properly is $70',000, and 0.080 f schools were in opeiatio >. t The World's Fair has already cost j I nearly nine millions. j i oriiraw 'elegraphic Dispatches From Haiy Points of Interest. the Fields of Virfinft, North and South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News. VIRGINIA. A rat flooded the office of the People's lank at Charioticsvillcjind drowned itelf by gnawing a hole in a lead water npc. Thirteen Syrian immigrants, holding irst class tickets for Suffolk, Va.t Via Norfolk, were stopped ".t Cape Charles nd turned back to New York whence he}- came. A carload of Norton's Virginia and ves wine, nearly 3,00 J gallons, was ship>cd last week from Churlottesville to New fork l?y (he Jtoottccl o Wine Company. Dr. Taylor, who was sentenced in Vise county lo death f Jjf murdering the lullins family, has been taken to Lynchurg to avoid lynching. A rule has been granted by the Court f Appeals against the town council of Vest Po.nt, to show cause why they aro ot in contempt in refusing to assess roperty of the Ilichmond & Danville tailroad Company a', that polut.. Bees arc reported to be dying in CharJttc county lor want of blossoms, result ig from the severe drought. A B. Clay, of Cheitcrfield county, has a 1)14 laiin a stalk of corn tifteen feet luce inches high lie is going to send l to the State Exposition. It is the 11 list stalk of ccra cvei isiscd in that oun y. NOBTH CAROLINA. Hon. Donald MacRac, of Wilmington, icd Thursday at Leuoir. Ho was a ircctor of the North Carolina and Wilngton and Wcldon railroads. Winston's fifth tobacco warehouse was pencd. Revenue officers have seized big govrnment distillery in Yadkin, county, wned by A. E. bhore. It was for avlorion of the law. The plant is announcd to be sold. Gov. Holt was absent from Raleigh uring the Stevenson reception, attend-' ig the burial at Reidaville of Mrs Williamson, his wife's sister. Raleigh ladies gave a fistival last ' ck to aid the Confederate monument, r.d raised $600. Mrs. Virginia Madison has been jailed i Tnrboro on ihe charge of killing the evv-born child of her daughter, Rosa. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston has quarantined against lew Yoik Two terrific cyclones passed through owbcrrv county 1 ist week, destroying inch proucrtvTii? > D. .Jorvoy, a veteran merchant id juoiniucnt man, of Charleston, died si week. The flrgs of the city wcr wc-reci to half mast as a mark of mourn >g. In the second Democratic primary of ic Second Congressional district Talbert, flliiincc) defeated Tillmau. Attorney General McLaurin is proceed ig agniust several phosphate companies >i selling fertilizers, analysis of which r 4 |\A vl )( n C llAU'A/l 4 A l\n AHA Knlf f % aw 1 v iiiv v. vu.v. cuw u v.m i w uu wuVflJUIl rtiiUM Sumtor compauy is the first on the list The Creosote Lumber & Construction 0 . of Fcrnandia, Fla., iscngaged on an rdcr forcrcosoting 000,000 feet of ycl >w pine and 60,00) feet of onk, to b( scd iu the construction of the govern tent dry dock at Port Royal, 8. C. OTHER STATES. M?ntqombity, Ala.?Thomas H. i'atls, cxGovernor of Alabama, and At mic.y General in the Confederate cabinet ied here at 3 o'clock Friday morning fter foveral weeks illness. HE CLYDE FACTION IN CONTROL. ho Richmond ana ,V. st Point Termiual's Status Fixed. l iciiMOND, Va.?W.P. Clydeand those 1 sympathy with him are now in full jutrol of the Hichmoud and West Point eiraiual Railroad and Warehouse Cjmftny. At the general meeting of the stockolders the ticket proposed by what is iiQ\vn as the "Calhoun faction" was delated as were also resolutions which Mr. 'at Calhoun tri.d to hive pnssed. Ever nice the meeting held here was called icrc h..?e been two committees at work jceiving proxies. The oac headed by E Strong represented the Clyde eople and that of which Alex E. Oir as chairman represented the "Calhoun ic ion' To day the supporters ( Clyde Dutrolled 40d, 122 shares of stock, while ic other side had only about 17S,00J iiarcs to vote. The mectinir was called to order in the 'iuies Building at noon by W. G. Oakum, receiver of the company, and imicdiiUcly adjourned to the Exchange lotcl. W. 1*. Clyde was made chairi;ui. The inspectors of the election sported the following gentlemen had xeived the vote of 4llO, 122 eharcs of lock voted and they were declared lected directors: AYin. E. Strong, leo. F. Stone, Wm. P. Clyde, J. C. IcBeao, Alex S. VnnNest, Thomai F. lyan. Geo. Blagden, C. A Law, R. G. Irwin, W. II. Goadly, Jno. N. Hutchinon, Jos Bryan, Edward Packard, Jno. i. Rutherfurd, R. S. Hayes, G. J. Gold, 'hos. Manson, Jr., and Ohas. McGhcc. This was the ticket put up by the 'lydo faction. The names of the j crons on the Calhoun ticket were not iven out They received the voter of bou". 175,000 shares. The meeting adjourned to the 26th of )c!obcr. Build Canning Factories. While the past season has not been nl ogcther favorable for the farmers and tinners in Botetourt county, Va., the utter have found a stronger demand and eadicr sale for their output than waa exacted. Altogether over 50,000 caws of anncd corn, tomatoes and okra will be na?lc in the county by some forurteen tinners. This indurstry seems to have nken a rrood hold w heTcver tried md lionld heeoino more general, it is a lenetlt to the funnel ami to tho town 11 which it is located. i flwfffiCTBWTOMR'rMliBy w 3E? \ State Alliftfcee EtoctioB* East aad Th< West. N?wi of the Order From Various a i Points. The Alabama 8(ate Alliance met in convention at Cullman. The following officers were elected: B. W. Grace, prelident; Merrill, of Randolph, vice proa- f idcnt; 8. M. Adams, State lecturer; T. thu J. Carl ale, of Pike, aaaietant lecturer; W. J*?*1 I. Brock, secretary aad treaeurer; Rider the. Black well, of Madison, chaplain; C. C. Lee, of Barbour, doorkeeper; G. W. Jones, assistant doorkeeper; King, of Butler, sergeant at arms. IT II 8or The Maryland 8tate Alliance elected Mil af* ftfflonra 4r\? unA..!..? ?V ~ J-?4 *? " viuvvia tui viwviU^ \Jt%l M. O. Ellzey, of Howard couoty; vice' ? president, J. W. Kerr, of Caroline county; Jng secretary and treasurer, T. Caoflcl i Jen- (j^ kins, of Charles QounUt; State lecturer, dise Frank fl< Jssea, -ot^Caroline ^county, by i Execu tive committee:Hugh MitchslI, of deli Charles county; N. A. Dunning, of Prince cho George's county; Charles Gum, of Wor- j, coster county. Committee on the good of post the Order: E. 8 Heffron, of Caroline * lim county; E. J. C. Parsons, of Worcester Xnt couoty; J. H. Downing, of Wicomico ]ive county. F. H. Jones and M. G. Kllcey hjn wore elected delegates to the National Qf t Alliance. the * * abq Alonzo Warded writes: I attended ^ the 8tate meeting of Missouri Industrial and Labor Union at Moberlv, Mo., August 23 23. Had a good meeting. The old Hall difficulty has practically disappear- *? ? ed and so has he, so far as the Alliance is T concerned. The Ocala demands were anol fully ind irscd. The national bid degree Mar was adopted, aud the officers were ie- 092 Justed to proceed at once to introduce it, the oscph Miller, of G angor, Hotlsnd at tl couuty, was elected president aud J. peel ' Wellcr Long, Warrensburg, secretary; Aye Larkiu Wise, lecture, and brothers not Wollnrd, Aid rich an.d Leonard were *> ?*- was ed delegates (o the tuprome council. Nio< Mitsouri is in good condition and cod be The depended on for a big vote for Weaver Bhe and the Ocala demands The new offle- Feb era are able, energetic and reliable, and will push matters. General Weaver aoaae -,ut them a grand speech the evening ef the in MOO. Liv ,5 Coming Crisis (Colorado) reduces the national bnnkiug problem to one paragraph, and hits it ricrht: Have you got a "Tbauk'- note in you Y pocket? Then know that somebody had wh< to borrow it out of bank at the current N. rate of interest?10 or 12 per cent. I'hen abs< know that your govcrntiieilt made this the bastard money especially for the porr tha bankers aud loaned it to them at 1 per hig cent, per unuunijl] And yet these bunkers tire stick up their nose and toll you thAt the grei government umiuot nw- tnc |ibu^h muutj?ffoe at 2 per cent 1 leu ****** 6 CUBAN TOBACCO IN -SOUTH CAROLINA. f"1 ter If reports be true there will soon be ing even stronger reasons for Cuban cigar wif< manufacturers to move to thii couutry ?-itl than the high taxes imposed upon them m<u by the Spanish government. It is said tec that on the Willcox & O'Neill phautatian whi at Kstill, S. C., sixty miles from Savun- 0J < nnh, Mr. W. P. Willcox has sucpc:ded 4. in raising some remaikahle tine Havana firrr tobacco from Uvelto Abajo seeds, whjch > is one of the best varieties grown in Cuba. pnr Fifteen acres were planted, but through trip insufficient knowledge of the proper ing methods of cu'tivation aud trouble with j)nr insects the crop was small. Even with tia< these drawbacks, however, the result havo pnr nettel nearly $100 per acre. With the <jav experience gained by this trial Mr. Will- yci cox thinks he can more than double his 8tCi returns next year, and will give about nnd seventy-five acres to it. The leaf has 8jg! been exainmed by experts, who pro the' I11C nounce it equal to any tobacco grown in Cuba. crc1l ii may take some years to acquire a full ^ ^ knowledge of the methods most sutisfuc- w tory for growing such a crop, and the j '' variety may cnangc unacr tne new conai j ^ tio;.s of soil and climate, but the expert' .J . mentis well worth trying, and even 1,1 though later crops shou'd not be of as high a vrade as this first'one, they will Hinmorj then pay the expense of cultivation. A careful study of what is needed , coup led wi h the judicious use of su table fertilizers, should at least aid in prevent- \ ing any material change in quality or ^ value of the leaf. _ era Goaded School Boy Avenges Himself. 1 A Vienua cablegram savs: At Tarnpol,in ^ Austrian Qallicin,a school boy named Schwedt, exas])ei\;^d beyond endurance wh by the harshness with which he had beea ' treated by a I'rof. Glowacki,sh >t the pro- ho| feasor dead as he was leaving the cl ss nja room. Glowacki w as noted for his severe trea meut of the children under his charge. Schwedt then shot liimself through tlie P? hcud, dying ins nutly. "Guilty, But Drunk." *? He NAsnviLLB, Tbnn.?Tho case of Jo- ge| eeph Sniit'o and J. H. Lockhart, sheriff and deputy sheriff of Warren county ^ Ala , ch'Tced with the larceny of $2,00J worth of diamonds from a New York PUI drummer, while in Nashville were "noil- *ac ed" n the ciimiual court. The defend- oui ents admitted their guilt, but said the wh robbery was commute I while they were the in a drunken frcnzv. ^mm' wil A Freight Train Kills Them Both. of Lykchburo, Va.?Frank Martm, of Lynchburg, and Joseph VanClevcs, of oni Lexington, Va , both in the employ of ecc Win. Sncad St Co., contractors of this ant rlty; were struck r.iid lusiaciiy Killed by dia a freight train near Green way, a station on the C. St O.' railroad. The remains re]' of the unfortunate men were brought here. c}| Director Leech, of Washington, has or dercd from the Philadelphia Mint, in addition to largo orders of sma'l coins, ? 800,000 new half dollars for circulation P? in Washington during the veterans' en- 118 campmc t. Treasurer Nebecker is also prepared with large orders of small notes. Chicago brewers have formed a #0,- rcc 000,000 combine to purchase local of saloons. .1 ) Dreaded Disease Within The Citadel " fumb?rOMd and More Stricken. Precautionary Meaauree . .? Taken. f?w York City.?Five deaths in icitj from Asiatic cholera were *uineed by the Board of Health. This ie -| list of those known to hare died of I atic cholera: | ti1k nkad. Naur. Aob. Died. f , krles McAvoy 35 Sept. 6 lliam Wiegrnan 52 Bept. 10 f >hia Wiegman A3 Sept. 11 inle Lcvinget 14 , Bcpt. U trlotte Beck 81 Sept. 13 Inch has been roportcd by tho attend- in physician as suspicious, but no no- J1* v?a? jjitsu out udiii ino ntutrc 01 tno ?? isse had boon definitely determined it i bacteriological examination, which Tic lyed announcement of the presence of the left. unl i but one cane is thoso a cluo to the 1 libio origin of tha disease Four ?ee igarian immigrant* who arrived from mj) ryc.rp on the Fricslaud on Aug. 20 rau d for several days in the house where tur nie Lcvinger died on Sunday. None j ho Fricsland's passenger* wero ill, but (i ts?el was disinfected and detained ut forty hours. J! he city authorities express confidence tl0 ; they will be able to keep tho disease 8< n spreading, and the announcement r?8 t* presenco in tho city does not seem iave creatod public alarm. teo ho health inspectors havo reported J*}, ther case of cholera. Tho victim, ' y Connoly, 10 years old, residing nt 'J" Second avnue, has been removed to 8t. John's Guild Floating Hospital bo foot of East lGth street. Two sns- 3 ed cases wcto found in Orooklyn. ?cii tung German girl, whoso namo could *pai bo learned, residing at 58 State street, pre thTatreet Williamsburg, the other, dis German girl died in a few hours, cati had been in this country sinoe last pro ruary. wh ? mil 5 NAVY CLAIMS HIGH HONORS. pei ntenant Peary Discovers Indepen- l?c lence-He Travels 1, 300 Kile* Inland Dose of Mr. J" Verb off. ,? IfAsn'NOTON D. C.?Lieutensnt Peary, ha ) with his party arrived at St. Johns, ??c F., frofn the Arctic regions, after an ence of 12 months, has tejegrnphed ch Navy Department from St. Johns cj, t the*United States Navy claims the best discoveries on the e st coast of jjr (enland?Independence Bay, 82 de wj w n. latitude, 84 degrees W. longitr,niscovere<Tj:nny 4, j*?2. GrouoUujd Cape ends south of Victoria Inlet. t. John, N. F 'The steamer Kite vod here from McCormock harbor af to 12 months in I he Arctic regions bring- wt with her Lieutenant Peary, with his ani Band pnrtv. All arc safe and wel', esl h one exception. Licute isnt Peary lea stage journey with dogs of thir- of i hundred miles over the interior ice, fee ch he found avail.ible. He was out tbi lays and returned all right, August of lie made import a t discoveries, con- foi ling his theory. ref Ir. VerholT, tho metcorlogist of the pjj ty, went on a two days' geological jjr mo a neighboring settlement Fail- wj to retuin at the end of that time, the ^ ty started after him, but found no jv ic of him. For six days, the eutirc . ty seirehed for him. On the sixth they found some minerals placed by hoff oa a rock and traces of his foot- . >s to a larjre. wicked looking glacier, I* I here all signs of him were lost. No is of the missing man were found and I'8 v were forced to believe that he had en his fntc in one of the nuine.-ous cii masses. pr 'lie expedition was a great success as ong Lieutenant Peary's dis. overi< h, an ; one of a great bay, latitude, 81.37, a ifitmlc 41, opening out cas and north- ti< which lie named Independence Hay. lonor of the day, July 4, and the te lit glacier flowing north into it Acad- r# y Glacier. et ' st WISE WORD'S. b< ol Vomcn's jars make men's wars. p] V woman's tears are a fountain of D ft. rhe cunning wife makes her husban 1 ot apron. Women laugh when they can and weep en they please. to) Fruth travels in slow boats whlls nrB ie and fear run m slippers of light- ea, g* EOI [n maturity reason sometimes builds s rel ace out'of the ruins which the passions w)i youth have left. bu V little depression is more favorable ve' : ? . ir.... ...be< iuj|uuvcujuliw timu iii'jv^.i liwii^mavguv/j. i Iter pass through life dropping witb ,s 1 f-distrust than trip along elated witb lobule of gas iu the brain. "ir ['rejudico i9 intellectual and moral im- *n' rity disturbing tho balance of our ulties with a personal bias. It mixer r ignorant error and wilful desire witb ^ iat should be kept clean and free foi ! truth. Pisagreeable duties arc bettor donr me bh quick resolve by a generous impulse devotion than ~ith careful delibera- as n by a dogged perseverance. Wber ami a has to take ou emetic it in a great j >nomy to swallow it at one heroic gulp or < I not dlribble it down in succcisivi aho gusts;' die Rectitude is the normal condition foi wh igious peace; certitude the normal clo idition for intcllectna! contentment. c?' ctitude is the regulation of personal lduct by the standard of universal l od. Certitude is the complacent re- ffe is of the mind in conscious uniou witt an< object. dei rhe coal mine* of Flenu-lea?Mons, In Igium, nru of great dsptb, and a *n ?>nt survey hits shown that r.cli veins a.c coal exist at u depth of 1200 metres, c,r '"h aie to be w9Jk?djij futuje. IMP S ORIGIN, MKTHOD8 OP PRBVFNTION AND TICHATMENT. >w Cholera Germs Mav De Extirpated? Importance ot the Diet and ot Cleanliness In and Abont the House. [ TMIOM a pamphlet upon Asiatic, cholera, issued for free circula^ tion by Dr. L. II. Harris, of J" Pittsburg, Penu., we rnako tho lowing extracts concerning the diste, Its prevention and proper methods treatment: *h 'Wood's Practice of Medicine, 55," we read that although long knowu India, the cholera first began to atct the attention of the medical prosion generally in the year 1817, when broke out as an epidemic with great lcnce In Bengal and then commenced i fearful march which did not cease til it had encircled tho globe. When Dr. Wood wrote, in 1854, there med to be a groat uncertainty in the ads of the medical profession and ch diversity of opinion as to tho nac of the specific cause of the disease. Even iX that early dato the "germ iory," though not understood as uow, s vaguely hinted at by moro than one. this question Dr. Wood writes, im A It A VIS l?nnn ilis.m-e.l 4^ ' ?^ "? ' V WVVU IU IUIt'1 I?I1U ulU to invisiblo animalcules" ami i|e admitting that many circumstances id to show that such a theory is withthe bounds of a reasonable probnity, adds, "still it must bo confessed it the opinion is without pruof; ns ise animalcules havo never beau detod." It has been reserved for medical sntists of our own day and within the it ten or twelve years to develop and >ve the to-called germ theory, acd it i *?? i? ? ? - eases referred to by Dr. Wood, arrh and influenza, are also diseases pagatod entirely by distinctive germs, ich have been isolated and very lutely described. Professor Koch, tho inent bacteriologist of Berlin, by bis -sonal experience and experiments in lia, in Egypt and elsewhere during i epidemic of 1883 and 1884, has esdished beyond serious question the :t that cholera in its malignant form also a bacterial or germ disease, ving isolated and identitled the :omma bacillus" as the poculiar germ vave existing in every cose of genuino olera and never found under other cuuistances. These oholera germs may exist to a nited extent in tho air during periods len the disease is epidemic, but more uerally And their way into tho system tW drinking Of impure water, nud I e of tho best precautionary methods is I I14A no Vfltnr for drinlrimr lliul. I -? f"> ~l'~ ...... lich has been boiled. Spring water J that from shallow wells should bo >ecially avoided. The development of the germ theory this disease enables the medical prosion to control it to a greater extent in formerly and suggests many means prevention entirely unknown during rmer epidemics. This cholera germ is idily propagated and rapidly inultiied in the alimentary canal, and its st existence is shown by a diarrlnei, lich should be cheeked at ouce, and if >sslble by remedies which at the sumo ne destroy the germs of the disease; e delay of a single hour in such cases hazardous, since it is only in the earlier iges of the disease that it is likely to eld to medical treatment, and hence e great necessity for having some retble remedy always at hand for such aergeucy uutil the services of a phyaiin can be secured. Hence alsn the opriety of usiug preventive medicines, well as a strict attention to tho diet id ordinary sanitary regulations duriug period when cholera and other infec )us diseases are prevalent. The gerin theory having been admit d, it follows that tho best preveutativr medy will he one which by expertice ha$ proved most effective in de roying those germs and one which inaj a used with the utmost safety. N< ther preventative remedies should b< laced in the hands of tho general pub c. The popular bolief that brandy anc her nlcohouc r.v.tnulunts arc u safe- | lard against the dreaded disease should discountenanced, since it is a wellown fact that those who are accusned to the use of such stimulants are long the first to succurnh to the dis>e. Brandy or whisky or gin may in ne cases be used to give temporary ief in tho earlier stages of the disease ion other remedies are not available t should in no caso be taken as a preitive. While it is ndmittcd that tho it medication is preventive, yet thero "ooai for choice iu this matter aud allo'ic beverages should be avoided as as possible during the heated term 1 more especially during a cholera demic. It should also be borne in nd that it is of tub utmost importCB that a physician should bb u,kl> at the bahlikrt possible most. Household remedies, while consent and indeed important to use imdiately on the appearance of the first optoms, should be considered simply a temporary expedient until profesaal skill can be secured, ill garbage should be burned, no filth decaying vegetable or unjm.i matter uld be permitted to remain unburnt, inf ~~ suld be freely applied icnever needed, but moit of all should oets, drains, outhouses and cellars bo efully looked after. The eeilara even the bettor class of dwellings are litful sources of disease, they are qucntly damp and poorly ventilate 1, i domestic! aro too apt to throw a paying vegetable into sotno out of tho y corner. Every cellar should be jroughly cleaned and white-washed :1 if not freely ventilated immediate ps should bo takcl foi the fullest dilation of pure air through every rt; quick-lime, copperas, cboloride of 16 Of *OU>a nro'varatiAo of aorhnhc ftCld p crevice and corner and liuees insisted upoo. The importance of the santary condition of the oeller eon* not be overestimated. The stable and carriage hones la another fruitful source of disease and should " ^ ivw?? "ivre iorq oniUMTjr IKWliOB. The grades around the house should also be looked after that there be no jwols of stagnant water and If there ere shallow wells on the premises they ehould bo closed and hermeUoally sealed. In high localities the disease does not prevail to the same extent as on the lows* levels. Impure water, lowness of sites and the emanations arising from the decomposition of animal refuse, are sthted as the local causes whloh favor the propagation and development of the disease. Personal cleanliness is of such obvious * iraportanco that it would asem scarooly worth calling attontion te but for the faot that many very rsspedtabla-people are so partloulsr about the condition of the stomach and liver, kidneys and other organs that they almost entirely ignore the important functions performed by the skin. With a healthy skin, well cured for, one would have less occasion to consider internal organs. It is not eo much the matter of bathing as it is a necessity for exposing the entire surfaoe of the body to the atmosphere. The entire body should be sponfted off with water twico a day. A bath room is not a necessity, a basin of watsr, a sponge and a towel aro all that is reaily required, but tho ontiro body should be exposed to tho air during this ablution night and morning. The diet should be oarefully guarded though not necessarily restricted to any great extent. It should be suoh as to maintain the digostive organs and the gcnoral system in the best poesible condition without stimulation or rtnprs?|pu gdifrnM gpa?iat,qA,fe>tk jnynil M* * as those which ore overripe, should b? avoided. Vegetables wbioh are not frosb nnH tlmsn A# mawnaam. ?i?wow V? I LI V M I ? Vt U?^mvivu UiV f piV|fv crly bo dispensed with and moats whioh havo bocD kept for any length of tim* should not be used. Attention to the diet is of the moat importance if there ie a general tendency to looseness of the bowels. In such cases eesesco of beef, beef tea, chicken soup with rice, broiled chicken, broiled beof steak,mutton o? lamb chops broiled,boiled rice,tea and toast and similar articles of food should be given the profcrence. Qum Arabic water with loaf sugar may bo used freely as a drink. Salt meats, fish whether frosh or salted, oysters, clams, vegetables, fruits and all greasy food should be avoided, end the pationt should be kept as quiet as possible, perfect rust being desirable. Excessive labor both of brain and body, worrimonts, anxieties, sudden changes of temperature and everything which tends to debilitate, enervate or depress the system should be avoided. Tiio necessity for pure drinking water has already been dwelt upon but this is a matter of such vital importance that it may well ho referred to again. A small quanity of citric acid or lemon juice i? added to tho water will be found both agreeable and beneficial and may be used as freely as desired. Cholera although infectious, spread by some liiddcu or diffusive power, is not a contagious disease. It in not conveyed by personal contact as is smnll-pox and some other diseases. It is important that this fact should be eraphasixsd so there need bo no hesitancy in caring for those afflicted with the disease. Apricot FsiU. Apricot paste, known as Kamar ?T Dine, is, together with dried spricoU, one of the principal oxports from Daraatcus. The fruit, when gathered, ie crushed iu a kind of large iron wire sieve, nwl the thick juice which result* from this operation is collected in earth* en vats, and then spread on planks covered with a layer of ojl, where it U allowed to rouiaiu two days exposed to the air. At the expiration of this time the paste is removed and turned.. On the fourth day the paste is again removed, and it then has the appearance of a hand of leather, very thin, and of a reddish-brown color, about a yard and a half long and half a yard wide. This is the finest quality of paste. The same operation is repeated once or twice to obtain a second and third quality, each time a little water being added to the residuum of the former operation. The bands of paste are then folded so as to form bundles of about live pounds weight, which are sold according to quality.? Bcientitic American. Vanderbllt's Way. A writer in the Figaro throws an in*' teres ting light upou Mr. Vanderbilt'si method of buying pictures. The mil-1 liouaire, it seems; went once to Meisaon-] icr and asked him which of his works' was, in bis own opinion, bis chef d'ouvre. Meissonier answered; 'The Chess Players." "Whom doeo it belong to!" was Mr. Vanderbilt's next question. "Td Ilerr Meyer, of Dresden," was the answer. That very night Mr. Vanderbilt dispatched a secretary to Dresden, who went straight to Herr Meyer and demanded to know his price. "$10,000," replied the owner, thinking that lie had effectually frightened his interrogator. "I take it," naid the secretary to the. gicat tvolcMiisuiueat oi ilerr Meyery audi , S take it he did.?Pall Mail Dasette. Flimsy Structures and Earthquakes. Caieful studies made of the results of the big earthquake of last April la Sacnmento Valley of Califoroia demonstrate clearly that the buildings whioh unit uccp ?ui ukiu luuuumiviw wvrv uainjured while those adjoining which had hallow foundations were totally wrecked. Bricks taken from scores of shattered houses showed that they were laid dry with mortar that contained a J, very small percentage ot cement tosaad. / , ?New York Tribune.