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|; VOL. XXIII.?NEW SERIES. UNION . H.. SOUTH CAR^HEinAV or.TORi?H 7 iaa?> Mnuncn aM&
'**&& Wirt '
HfinMlBttpW of ii philanthropist at
MPL., Qa., should be imitated by other
|*i* wealthy gentlemen. He has built several
houses which he permits poor widows to
occupy free of rent."
Another royal personage has written a
"book. The King of Siam, after a trip
Around the Malay Peninsula, has given
to the world an account of his trip,
illustrated by the best map of the
peninsula that has ever been publisheJ.
t The postal telegraph system of Oreat
I Britain and Ireland is now the most
(gigantic and comploto organization for
(the transmission of messages in the
1 ?
'world, says the Now York Commercial
iAdvertiier. The staff numbers 3453;
the annual amount expended in salaries
and wages is $322,960, and the total
:numbcr of telograms passing through the
office per annum, 32,537,779.
"Very encouraging reports are being
(Toceived from tbo varioui dairy schools
k (held in different parts of Europe,'' an"
tnounces the American Dairyman. "The
.dairy districts that produced a poor
(quality of butter previous to the holding
.of these schools are now sending butter
Ito market mnell imnrAmil in mmlitiT O.
iwell as producing a much larger quantity
(from the same amount of milk. W?
should like to hear from some of our
ireaders in this country as to t' benefit*
t jderised from dairy schools or'^arm institutes
that bare been held throughout
|the dairy districts during the last two
lyearf."
flt Man's best friend among animals, the
dog, is to have his devotion put to
nnothcr test, states the Chicago Herald.
He has frequently died whilo fighting
for h:8 master; he will now be asked to
give up his life as the victim of disease.
Superstition has long attributed to the
dog the power of curing consumption,
and many people have eaten the animal's
meat with that end in view. Learned
doctors of this city now propose to have
healthy dogs live and sleep with consumptive
patients, believing thut the
germs of the malady will be absorbed by
the lower animal. It is claimed that the
experiment has been tried before, with
tm Jns?w, 'rf-w-w mav
driven to such despeiate measures will
only confirm the public impression that
consumption is a ruthless aud unmanage able
disease, and ouc that drives scicuce
in its u;ifoiwlu
The feat accomplished by the Pennsylvania
Railroa 1 Company some weeks
ago in running a train laden with grain
through from Chicago to Jersey City,
without breaking link or changing locomotives,
attracted great, interest at the
time, as nothing like it had ever boon
unde.-taken before in this country. The
transportation department of the company
has compiled the following facts
aud figures: 41A distance of 824 miles
was trarersed, during which time the
locomotive was not uncoupled from the
train. The total length of the train was
1 an<> U :-J o AAA
x aim ib uurriuu *yUtU)Ui/U
pounds of grain, an average of 60,000
pounds to each ear. The locomotive aud
cars were equipped throughout with
Westinghouse brakes. The locomotive
and tender weighed 88,500 pounds. The
forty thirty-four-foot box cars, with
loads, weighed 3,824,000 pounds, and
the caboose 18,000 pounds. The total
weight of the train was 4,030,00G
pounds."
No stronger evidence of the safety ol
electric lighting installations can bt
afforded than the fact that a great many
explosives factories aro now being lit by
electricity. It is obvious that a building
wherein the preparation of iutlanmable
or highly oxplosivo substances is
carrie i on very special care should bo
taken in order to avoid even tho sin sliest
risk, and powder manufactuiers now
flud that the electric light add* a considerable
percentage over gn to tho
chance? of safe operation. While cleetricity
increases the safety of this branch
of industry in one way it lessons it in
another. There is a groat deal of froa
electricity thrown off in various stages
of manufacture, and tho disposition of
this, so far as it can bo remove I out of
harm's way, is a serious question. The
charge of a powder cako press with
cbonito plates may practically be considered
as an electric pile, and a large
amount of friction or electric influonca
from outside may cause a sufficient electric
charge to give off sparks. Several
undisputed cases of this kin 1 have been
known. Another source of danger from
friction occurs during tho glaring,
rounding end sieving off gunpowder.
The powder is subjected to a constant
rubbing of its [.articles against each
other, and during tho glazing especially
there is danger of electricity accumulating.
Thercforo precaution? should be
taken in order to convoy away anj
charge that may aeon nutate in the gl i*
iui, biurets. I
THREE STATES' BRIEFS.
Telegraphic Dispatches From Many
Points of Interest
The Fields of Virgins, North and
South Carolina Carefully
Gleaned For News.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond has arranged for a big tournament
on October 17th.
Captain John J. (Jibbs, a promiuent
citizen of Norfolk, is dead.
Two floe deer were shot at Warm
Springs by a Richmond sportsman.
South Boston has completed and iu
operation a $30,000 roller flour mill.
Large crowds attended the Noithern
Neck Fair at Ileathsvillc October 4.
Peyton Cochran, superintendent of the
public schools of Charlottesville, died in
Staunton
A syudica'e of Boston capitalists have
purchased property in Rockingham
county, where onyx was recently dis
covered in abundaucc and of valuable
quality.
The Roanoke Iron Co put ils tolling
mill in operation on Monday morning
last, starting three furnaces. The plant
contains thir y-two furnaces in all, with
a capacity of forty-live tons per turn, and
the remainder of them will be started as
soon as workmen cau be obtained.
NOB.TH CAROLINA.
Winston has a lady iu the insurance
business.
The capacity of the new compress at
Hamlet is 75 bales per hour.
The town of Elkiu will open n big to
bacco warehouse for the sale of leaf on
October 20th.
Another cotton mill Is to be built at
Durham right away, and it will moke
four for that place.
The Asheville Street Railway Company
lias brought su?t against each individual
on the aldermanic and advisory boards,
as well as the city b r damages for the
railway on Ration avenue.
Rev. II D. Lcqucux, late pastor of the
B iptist church of Morg niton, who lias
counected himself within the past fewweeks
with the Presbyterian Church, has
accepted a call to the pastorate of Pop
lar Tent church, Cabarrus county.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
At Martins Piuckney Brown is estab
lishiug a plant for making rope and
plow Tines from cotton.
The Charleston brewery has rebuilt its
brewery, ice plant and bottling works
and resumed operations.
Rico and Cuminings have incorporated
the Southern Co-opc ativc Steam Laua
dry Co. with a capital stock of $10,000
at Columbia.
mittcd simndc Wednesday ^y cutting^\s
throat wi h a razor. His mind is said to
have been uubulunccd.
Some owners of land in Port Royal
have filed suits against the United States
which will amount to nearly a nuaitcr of
a million dollar j. It is claimed that the
Government has taken laud for the coal
ing station nnd dry dock which belongs
to the complainants.
While South Carolina does not now
figure among the iron-producing States
ot the South, it was once the scat of cousidcrnble
iron industry, nearly all traces
of wh'ch have now passed away. Forty
years ago there were eight blast furnaces
and three rolling mills in the Stale, the
last of which was abandoned about
twenty years ago. The decline and disappearance
of the ii.dustry is not d ic to
lack of tho nocessaiy natural conditions,
for an nbnudancc of iron ore of high
grade exists, and will doubtless some
dny form the basis of a new and important
iron making industry.
OTHER STATES.
The grand jury of Anderson countv,
Tenn., has found two indictments against
D. B. Monroe, the a'lcged leader of the
miners in the foal Creek insurrection.
Haiiiiiion Mission, in speaking of his
land in Florida, s.i^s during this year
they will raise 0,000 0'10 pounds of sugar
nnd draw a bounty olf $120,000. Besides
this they have 1,.'<00 acres in rice. Of
their original holding of 6.000.000 acres
they have disposed of about 20; 0000 and
still retain nearly 4.000.0 0.
DROWNED WHILE DUCK SHOOTING
The Recoil of a Gun Upset the Boat
and One of th-s Spoitsmen
Was Lost.
Lynch Bums, V.\.--.T. E. Ti nnyson,
who was until recently manager of the
Lynchburg opera house, accompanied 1m
K B. Emerson, Secured a sail boat yes
tcrday afternoon and went duck shooting
on the .Tames river. Mr. Tennyson shot
i.t a stump on the opposite side of tlx
hank, and his gun being h avily loaded,
the force of the discharge made bin
h>sc his balance, throwing him into th(
water and causing the boat to up-ct.
Mr. Kmcison being the better swim
mer, succeeded in getting Mr. Tenny
son on one end of the boat and tliei
st-rted for the shore, swimming nnc
pushing the boat at the same time. 1I<
had 011 y gone a short distance when h<
was horrified to hear Tennyson snv
"Good by, Ed," and of seeing him sink
The body was found. Mr. Tennysot
leaves a widow anil two cliildicn
Two Innocent Victims of a Feud.
UrNriNOTON, W. Va. ? On Fudg
Creek, this county, the eight and t i
year-old daughters of Charles Billup
were shot while sitting in the door o
their home and the older one is not ex
peeled to bvo. The shooting was don<
by Mrs. Jaincs Pike, an aunt of the chil
dren, and she was incited to commit t\u
deed by an attack inade on her hushanrl
last Suuday by Rillups There has beer
had blood between the Pikes and Hi I
Iiiis for several years and numerou1
shootings have occurred.
Three years ago Iiillups and Mrs
Pike's father-in-law had a teirihle en
counter with axc9 in the woods and Ril
lups killed his opponent and alleged
self-defense at the trial, where he wa<
acquitted. Mrs. Pike is now nndci
nnest, awaiting the lesultsof the wound1
inflicted on the gii!?.
WAYLAID AND KILLED.
A Cowardly Murdor in Ocala, Fin.,
That Kay bo Followed by a ' W
Lynching.
Ocala, Fla.?There ore fears of a
lynchiug here. Charles Shafcr, an old AU
and much respected resident, was shot
and killed by York Ballard.
Ballard and his younger brother lay in (
wait for Shafcr, and when ho came up in
his wagon Ballard sprang upon him and fur
killed him in a most cowaraly manner.
Several years ago Ballard and Bhafer's '
stepson loved the same girl. Bho favored ??J
young Shafer.
Ballard began writing scurrilous postal (.
cards to her. lie was discovered and nat
convicted. When the sentence, six scv
months in the county jail, was pro- era
nounced, lie said it was only a snort j
time to serve, and threatened to kill w|j
1 Shaf. r. 2 0
The Judge then gave him eighteen uf |
months in ?lie Columbus, Ohio, peniten^ wh
tiary. Ballard returned. He gavebTnP' Jffn
self up after the murder, but says that nj9|
when they met, Shnfcr attempted to cow- i'|,j
hide him and lie shot him in self-de- f,|2
fence, but the body of the dead man, <Bfl
found in the bed of bis wagon, contra t|,j.
dicta this assertion. Shafcr was about nur
fifty years of age. Ballard is only |,ut
twenty-live years old. oft
?tliii
Cotton Planters Despondent. ft}.
Siiukveport, La.?About Shrcvcport
the people who raise cottou are despon- ^
dent. All this Hcd liver valley was n
ov. rflowed late in the spring and the
replanted creps have not done well at all. \
I met Dr. Dixon, a large planter, who ^
lives about twenty miles uorth of Shrcvcport,
on the Hed river, and he 6ays that p
jn a scope < f country in which he lives jj(,a
there is ordinarily ninde about 15,000 n(j|,
bales of cotton. This year lie 6ays there
will not be 5,000 bales made on the same
laud. Coming up from New Orleans, I jj.xl
noticed that tho cotton plant was small (o t
and not well fruited It seemed dull in
New Orleans, but in 8hreyeport it is !f(0
worse. I am told that west of here in ^ (|
the black lands of Texas the crops aro (\0j(
8?od* _ - _ ity
Fighting the Tobacoo Trust.
(New Orleans Tides-Democrat.] for(
The Farmers and Shippers' Tobacco ccjv
Warehouse Company is a strong concern c,|
jint started In Cincinnati as a rival to gjIK
tlu tobacco "combine." The company |>CCi
has n capital of $1,000,0C0. The new ftnj
eompony owes its origiu to the disaflcc j
tion among tobacco men in Ohio and q
Kentucky with "the combine." It was xvor
understood by them that "the combine" Tal'
aimed nt controlling prices and other
matters connected with tho business, to jan
a degree that would be very troublesome ^|0,
and embarrassing. Hence the desire ton
and demand for competition, which hat dist
i\suited in the formation of the Farmers trie
and Shippers' Company. 1
Sumter, S. C.?Henby Smith, a'popu'ar
young man, was killed here Tnurs- **y
day night by a notorious colored criminal dec
named Pierson. The negro met little to i
Charlie Smith, brother of Henby, and
after some words with the child slapped
liiin. Later Henby met the negro and
accused him of imposing on his little brother.
when Picrsou drew a revolver and Joe
shot Smith through the bead and fled.
Diligent search is being made for the
imrdcicr. ,
m the
Deposed for Hugging the Organist. !us
Owosso, Mich.?1The Ilev. II. D.
Robinson, formerly of the Methodist coj(
Episcopal church at Clnrkslon, is u min- we|
istcr of the gospel no longer. The select
committee ef fifteen appointed at the j
first day's session of the Detroit confercucc
has found him guilty of immorality (M|
and has deposed him from the ministry ,
and the church. The specific charge ^
was that he bugged and kissed the or- U(
gauist. Mr. Robinson is about 75 yca-s , ^
of age, and is said to be dying of cou
sumption.
Wife and Mother Elonea. fac'
I ' scri
At Charlotte. N. C., Mrs. Mattie Wii- UO|
son, wife of Mr. Vann Wilson, eloped avc
with a man named Mcrvia Fergu- j, i,
son. All three worked at the Charlotte WCi
cotton mills. While Mr. Wilson was in or,,
the mills somebody brought him jju
news that his wife had gone, lie went
to his home in the brick row and found A^
that Mrs. Wilson had rtally eloped,
leaving their two sick children alone and
unattended at home.
A Boy Breaks the Bicycle Recor d.
Indkpkndknck, I a ?Accompanied by j_
two running horses as pace makers, John ,,,j
Johns n, the boy bicyclist, broke the yji
bicycle record for one mile this afternoon,
making the phenomenal time of 1.56 8-5,
' lie passed the foal nuarter in the
half mile in 58|, and the three quarter # '
[ post in 1.28$.
1 I-~~ t'is
tiayes uaiis on Harrison. VCI
1 Washington, I). (\ - Gen. Ituther,
ford B. Hayes, cx-president of (he Uuit- po
cd States; wealing his Grand Army un? !??'
iform, called at the White Mouse in the Wi
morning, and President Harrison, who is '?o1
( denying himself to visitors during the 1
I illness of Mrs. Harrison, made an cx en
, teption in fuvor of his predecessor, and s ;
received him. Gen. Hayes spent a short Lu
time with the President
Workingmen's Homes Burned.
Nkw Oui.kans, La.?Tuesday night
lire was discoverci among the working
men's cottages on St. Andrew's 6trecl ,
near Bousscau, and twenty-four of theni
were destroyed before the flames were fcc
an ducd. The loss wid aggregate |75,
^ 000, partly covered by insurance. A
^ strong wind and pxir water supply as .
sistccfthc blaze.
? ? ma
Made Very Rich Suddenlv. Dn
Cl-altkrvii i .??, Ten?. ? W. A. *'ice- l1
man, ft fnrmcr in very moderate circum'
stances, is in the city and lias received a
1 letter from Wm. Moore, a lawyer in
London, informing him that a suit had "r<
' been decided in his favor which wauld
uet him |2.000,000. Ea
Cigar Mftkor'ft Body Found tin
Richmond, Va?The body of Robert wr
. Melton, a cigar maker about 24 years of ne
r age, was found by Joe Edwards in the
. dock between 17th and 18th streets. He mf
wa? atldietcd to strong drink.
sdidatos, Conventions, Nomina Qood
tions, Elections.
I the New* of Political Movement* <
of the Four Pertiee, CM
3eo. D. Buwdcn was nominated at
rfilk by tho Republican convention, R?
Congress. sessic
Ubcrt 8. Berry, of Newport, was Fsrnt
ninatcd by the Democrats on ite 872d lowit
'ot at Warsaw, Ky.f as Congrasman. the J
leu. Joseph Wheeler has beep nomtcd
unanimously for Congress'for tho . n,
cuth time at Decatur by thq Demo- ? .
ts of the Eighth Alabama district.
>Ikw York City.?C. F. Hedsdon WMI
1 furnish the Board of Police with jfc
00 foldiug ballot booths for the rum con8l
|6.25 each, such booths to bo made H|
il Jfoith ^rt?lbif PiHa |i -a
vas" panels, and siifiilar f^W^Wur jnj, ^
lied by him for tho election of 1800 < by
is item of election expense will be' #|Mt<
1.5)0 this year. The ballot cages the r<
rer from the O'Brien Association in
?: The O'Briens woulil neither bend gtautl
break; the ballot cages don't bend, niore
they do break. About 0110 quarter than
hose u cd last year nre unfit for use Vanc<
?, and have to bo replaced at a cost of the a
35 each. cents
HKri'BI.ICANB UK SOCTI1 CAHOIi'NA . both
'om'MBTa, 8. C.?The State Rcpubli- tbust
convention which tuet here adopted a?1' '
latform in pait ns follows: whet
'tVc, the Union Republican party of
?th Carolina, in convention assembled, '
hereby rc-aftirm our allegiance to the cr *?
nciplea of the national Union Renub- cono
in party ns set (< rth ia the platform
ptc 1 at the Minneapolis convention; *":,t
inost hcaitily eu dorse nnd ratify the ? Pcl
ninees of that convention, Bcnj. 8|im'
rrison and Whitelaw Reid, and pledge ",c '
hem our unswerving fidelity and sup- jn* v
t, and wo hereby occlaro that with a Uibb
u ballot and a fair count' the 8tatc of
ith Carolina would be placed in the
imn of Republican States by a majorof
40,000 votes; the Democratic party foarj
'outh Carolina, by its infamouR action romj,
lefeating the will of the people by noa(]
c mid fraud, dcscrvi s ana must re- ever
e the condemnation of all just inind- cet|u
people; we hereby tender our most ,j,js (
e c sympathies to President Harrison (
ause of the illness of Mrs. Harrison des'tr
our hopes for her speedy restoration |
lealth " thc f
'he following presidential electors giraj
e choseu State 11 large, John it. j
bert, W. 1). Cruni; first district; BUj,s
ce II. Williams; second district, omjj
les Po.vcrs; third district, J. W. facc
rria; fourth district, Laweon W. Mel- m _1
; fifth district, W. E. lloykio; sixth ju jj
rict, M. W. Monxon; seventh dist,
Joseph W. Collins. m0V(
he committee reported a resolution p(
to'vot^^U^u^uSf'lvg^ratro^aQ^!
tion law9 it was deemed inexpedient ruiji}
tut forwurd a State ticket. ; liD^
in pn
KNOCKED OUT BY A NEGRO. ?
such
crnl
Ooddard, the Australian Pugilist breal
'Gets It- in the Neck." nven
(n11 adki.i'iiiPa.?Joe Goddard, j'11'1
Austra'ian champion pugilist, met .OWl
Watcrlho at t^c Ariel Athletic Club, S( *)U
he presence of 2,000 pers >ns, at the cs .
ids oi Joe Butler, a Philadelphia an.(..
nred lighter. Tho negro did not N%.'
gli 165 pouuds, while Goddard was ?. P*
least thirty pounds heavier. The : nc.
it began 10:45 o'clock, and Butler had
ags lis own way iu the first two ' CJ
nds, kuocking Goddard down cleanly ' lc
right swings on thc jaw in each OVLr
nd. In the third, when Goddard
j groggy, the mill was (topped, after 111
d ig lasted but half a minute. No de- L,lc,f
ion was rendered Godd trd'fl right .ot 1
was blackened and he was cut in the
e, while Butler was only slightly .IMU
itched in thc face. Qeddsrd made y
pretense \yha over of being able to ?.m
iid pu'iishincut, and made a sorry exitiou
for a champ'on. He was very .
ik after the first knock down The j
wd went wild uud lustily eh ered .,c.s
for. ,ft"
| wit!
I INJURED HUSBAND'S WRATH out
exc<
i Publicly Denounces His Enomy ^ j|
in a Circular as a Heartless to j
Villain. cter
Nakhvim.e, Tknn.?Nashville is great- put>
exorcised ovcrasesndal newly develop- Mill
The principals arc John P. William*, diff<
cc President of the Fourth National twe
ilk, and Mrs. V. Boorcn, wife of a a r"
anincnt citizen. Mr. Boorcn has is- T
?1 a circular, in wh ch he says: But dint
the pleading of the invalid mother it3
John P. Williams I would have blown nd"|
brains out long ago. He h is been Mite
-y intimate with my wife for the hist to a
months, and as the papers will not wrc
b'ish the facts, this is the only way I Roa
ve of putting the case to the public, for
illinim is a heartless villain and I niu
t afraid to say so."
It is rumored that Williams and Boarwill
fight a duel Mrs. Boorcn, who a S(
i beautiful woman, came here recently t t
"? Ben
NANCY HANKS IN 2:04.
wars tho Trotting Time by Three
Seconds.
rbhre IIautk, Ind.?The world's tj,e
or J for the li'rht harness horec, either (uri|
tting or pacing, was lowered when .
nry Hanks trotted the mile in 2:04. hroI
e ten thousand people who saw it sat
ntiilcss for a moment after the little
re passed under the wire, and even .
hie, always modest of speech, declared tu '
icq crrried to the judges' stand on tho "ea
nildera of tho crowd and called upon N?*
a speech, that he was hoarse and _
lancy Hanks went so fast it took my
Ndhaway." *rV
mm bru
the
tnte of the Late Oen. Anderson. ,|e|j
Wuiim nd, Va ?It uovv transpires nre
it the late Joseph It. Anderson had nre
itten out a full outline of a will, but the
ver signed it. The es'ate, it is now itA
:>ught will prove to be w*r?h much
ire than |300,000: something like ^
-,000. for
Ill II - ??
THE TALE OF A PET CROW.
OB MADS KIM81LV USBTUL ABOUT
THB FARM.
ilia Conremlloaml Abllltios Wore
Truly- Marvelous ? Uli Strange
Birch and Pathetic Death.
//T ~X~<TT~HKN I wm living at the
t \ /\ / foot of Pinxster Peak I
I \ ^ had a tame crow that
waa worth considerable
I to me," aaid a Loyalsock man to the
> 8c ran ton (Penn.) correspondent of the
New York Sun. "The waj I carao to
f get the crow was a little singular. One
of my boys was flying his kite early iu
j the summer, and when it had saile \ high
up over a piece of woods on iny place
the string broke and the kito lodged in
'' the top of a hemlock treo. Ttio boy
bawled about the loss of his kite, aud 1
bad to climb the tree and got it tor him.
p '& UVW'Baw o# het nssfc sssr ths 4f?<
the troe while I was climbing up, and
, when I reached tho nest I found ouoegg
I in it. Aftor I had unloosened tho kito
, and let it drop, I placed tho crow's egg
; in my mouth ami kept it thcro till I
i h?d backod down the troe, and thou I
I! ? II $1* 4 WTili ,
LLLIANCE COLUMN.
[ and Late Reading For the Or
der of Orders.
New Tork State Alliance Denouni
the Coal Trust and Declaring
for 0 Per Cent. Interest.
chbstkr, N. Y.?At the concluding
>uof the New York Stale Council
mis'Alliance this morning the fol
lg delegates were chosen to at tend
fatioual Convention in November
r iu Georgia or California: K F
le of Honcoye Falls and F. II. Purdj
utl Point, Yules county. The mom
lip of the State was leportcd as 15,
Among the lesolutio s n loj?te?
the following:
sofaed, That the strike made by thi
)lidatcd coal railroads against society
bitrarilv advancing the price of coal
ton to lUu consumer. >vhiie rcduc
the cost of production at the ifrcd
during the price of labor, demon
js a power of taxatiou stronger than
obbci barons of olden times, ami
dangerous to a free republic than
ling armies overawing the people;
threatening as to inevitable lesult*
war, pestilence, or famine. The ndi
of the price of coal f 1 | or ton and
dvance of the price of sugar to si*
a pound, notwithstanding thai
of these nitidis arc on the free list,
rate the daugerous power of tilists,
lemons! rate that the time has conn
i the people despair of relief from
ction in t;ii iIT alone, and it is deman
that the people should band togetli
r the extinction of tiusts ami kindred
cntrntions.
isolations were adopted declaring
thj legal rate of interest should In
ceut., and that real estate mortgage:
Id be assessed as real estate, so tlin
lolders of s-iid mortgages shall pay
slide the really lies. Edward F
Jo was elected President.
oool) ii oa us.
ic fiist question to be determined ii
construction is the proper kind o!
svny ami the depth of the material,
Is mado only of small stone, how
carefully laid ami compacted to
jr, are found no. to be so durable in
country as they are in Europe. Ii
country the power of iho frost is
uctivc every wint r, and the road
uccuuica so spongy earn spiing nl
rost thaws out, that a pavement o
I stones only lias li tic bond. Tin
I stones sink too readily into the sofi
oil under heavy loads, aud a conesp
nc rut is at onco made 011 the sur
The cohesive power of tho pave
L Icing onco broken, it yields undo
ler travel on the name principle tha
rch settles when the kcystoue is re
cd.
>r these reasons nil good roads of th
! ? 'I lrViV'h Mfr j M"' JlfJHlft'
6t laying a foundation orSnj rougl
le stones of cou*veuieut size for haud
aud plsciug liuiu carefully by banc
irallcl courses across tho road-bed a
, rough street pavement. Tho ncarei
stones can he In aught to the yen
form of paving stone by judicium
king, the better the work, block!
tging 0 inches in thickness by 1'
us in depth will make ttrong work
ever rough their gent rnl shape. The]
ild ho placed on edge, with the larg
edges down, and be set as closcl;
firmly together as their rough sliapi
permit. Where the jagged uppc
>s project too high for the cstaldishc<
kness of the layer, they should bi
en olT, and all low places should b
1 with suitable chips well packed int
e. The whole course should lie gon
, and all open spaces be filled b
ining stones of suitable sizes into al
istices with pounders or heavy ham
i. When the surface is level cnoug!
(lllitltr till' lii'ivi. '.t I'olli'i
ild bo used, and (lie tolling bo con
od until the whole foundation coins
rfertlv solid and oi iiio right simp
height to receive the Macadam course
is, the com so of sin ill stone. * *
common error in roid-mnkiug is t
! the pavement too slut low. It iiius
trong enough to withstand the honv
tiaflic to which it may be subj et
lout yielding when ihe frost thaw
in the spring. Where the subsoil i
optionally sandy or gravelly a dept
rom (i to U inches might answer fairl;
I, but under ordinary c mdii ions a I
fj-iuch depth is necessary for a ceni
y road subject to much travel, whil
lie highways should ordinarily li
thicker. Few arc awnieof tliegren
crence in power to suppoit a load be
en n tiim layer (? inches in depth an
impart nvi?? !K inches ueep. ' * *
he proper caie of the road under 01
iry wear and tear is as important i
thorough construction. 'Ihe ol
5c of the tinift v housewife, that '
:h in time saves nine." may he npplitr
Macadam road without any gren
ncli of metaphor. ?From A Talk o
d Making, in American Uardcuin
September.
Uronze fasting,
ccording to It. If. Park, of Florence,
culptor, the art of casting large
ics in one piece, as practiced by
venuto (Jellini in casting the Perseus,
ch has been a lost nrt, has been reovcred.
The process is callel ccrra
luce; it is a wax process. The clay
lei is made, and the plaster rcprotion
is taken from it. From this
matrix is made, and the matrix if
lished with a core. The matrix ied
with wax the thickness of the
ize. The mould is then heated an<
wax runs out of a hole in the bottom,
i the bronze is poured in. The re
i are superior, h\>t the cost i>? iu
sed by about $100U per statue.?
r York Observer.
"he bodies of the spiders of Ceyloi
very handsomely decorated, boinj
{lit gold or scarlet underneath, whil
upper part is covered with the inos
icate slate-colored fur. 80 stroni
the webs that birds the sizo of lark
frequently caught therein, and eve
small but powerful scaly lizard fall
victim.
^n automatic slot machine for matche
forgetful smokers is a late invention
ran to the barn and put tho ogg under n
I hou that had been sitting lor a day or
l so. The old hen offered uo objections,
I and several days belorosho catno off with
her chickens she hatched out tbolivuliost
. little crow I ever saw. Wo bogun to
* miso the baby crow in tho house; when
1 ho was big enough to ruu around on th j
floor Inatnod him Kite.
J "Ho learnod to say a good many
words by tho timo ho was a year old,
and ono morning that summer I hoard
' him yolling down un unused chimney at
^ a lot of swallows that were nosting in it.
( Tho swallows woro making a groat
rackot, and Kito was singing out, 'Hold
your tonguol' as loud as ho could yell.
Tho crow had heard that command in
tho family, aud ho used it on tho swallows
because their noiso anuoyod him.
At first the swallows paid uo attention
1 to tho crow, and Kito yolicd, 'Stop your
cussod noise I Stop your cussed noise!'
till tho swallows twittorod all tho harder.
Then Kito dived down tho chimuoy, and
tho swallows poured out in n stream aud
circled around it, squalling violently at
( tho crow wliou he flow up and perched
himself oil thn ton of tho cliimnnv. I
called him away, And tho swallow* soon
f quieted down. When they catno home
At night the crow snt on tho odgo of the
L chimney And yollod, 'Clear out I'at them
(or half an hour, nud ho inado it so uu
. pleasant for them inside of a fortnight
that they deserted tho chimuey.
i- "When Kito was two yours old a pni
t of eagles nested in an inaccessible clil!
on the side of Pinxstcr Peak. I hn<
forty young lambs iu a pasture, nud oni
c nice May morning one of tho eagle!
r ^^bta.l^ ol.llarntijii
1 back nud yollod: 'Purlbe lamb dosfn'
" Drop tho lamb, cuss you!' and a lot ol
other spiteful orders. I had run out
\ with a shot guu, but Kito hung to tlx
eagle's back, and I was afraid to shoot
for fear of kilting the crow. Kite relict
] and clawed at tho eaglo till he made i
> drop tho lamb, and then he peeked ui
the eagle's licud till tho big bird shook
y. him off away toward the clilf. Tho laml
was killed by tho fall, and tho crow llo.\
yr back, settle 1 down by the lamb, and wau
saying: 'Too bad I Too bad 1' when I
i' reached tho spot. When I picked up
1 the lamb I heard Kite say: 'I'll kill that
eagle some time.' Tho useful crow tool
~ it upon himself to protect the lamb
'> from the eagles, aud all day longhclle?
u from one part of the pasture to another,
y perched on trees and fences, and kept ai
' evo out for the voracious bird*. When
|? ever he saw au csglo souring in the sk
| ihe would fly to whero I was working
c isiug out: 'John, look out for the eagle!
0 kind then Bail hack to the pasture am
c [watch over the ianihs. lie wouhl caw
like evorytliiug us long as the eaglo wa
' in sight, and wheu it disappeared h
u would sit in silence on a liuih or btnki
it and gaze into tho sky. The presence o
the crow kept oil the eagles, and I di ln'l
, lose another lamb.
s "In tho fall I had a sow and litter o
s .young pigs running iu the roa I. On
h afternoon one of the eagles plunged aui
1 (Caught a pig just as the crow had alight
* ted on a post near tho mud puddle wher
"the pigs were wallowing. Tho eagl
(* struck iuto the pig so hard that it drov
the littlo fellow into tho mud, and wliil
the bird was trying to claw it out, Kit
|j yelled, 'Johu, come and shoot the eagle
I was iu a littlo :?iop near by, ami wlie
I ran out tho crow was pecking at t!i
,s eagle's head and tho old sow was doin
,1 her best to push oil tho eaglo. Tt
a other pigs were squealing and runnin
<t about in tho puddle, and Kite was yel
lt ing, 'Get off! get off! get off'' at th
i, top of his voice, and heating the eagl
g over the head with his wings. The ol
sow was snorting and grunting an
striking at the eagle as though her lit
tioa iif efalrn* t.yia 1 iff In mrr ivaq ufrir/
gling and squealing in tbo mud, am
when I got to the noisy crowd the uagl
tuml)led over on its side and began t
strike viciously at the crow and the boi
with its bill. Kite (lew around am
yelled, 'John, ring its neck!'nud who
I caught the eagle by one of its winj
and (lung it into the road I'saw that
i was gasping and dying. A pointe
i wire that I had put on the sow's nose t
i keep her froin rooting had pierce 1 th
eagle's lungs, and tho big bird died in
I minute or two. Kite alightc 1 on tl
, eagle as soon as he saw it was life'.es
flapped his wings, and sang out, 'Joh
we got nun this time.'
"Kite could tell the time of day b
tho clock, and when tho weathor wt
cloudy I used to send him to the hou*
1 from tho field to see what time it wa<
f Instead of asking my wife tho cro
0 would look at the clock without say in
1 a word to her, and thea sail back to th
^ lot and sing it out to me. When til
8 sky was clear I could toll by tho su
n within ten minutes what time it was, an
8 the crow got so that he could guess a
most a.s close as I could. Ouc sunshin
is forenoon I told Kite to fly to the how
and bring nae the time. The crow cockt
hit head to on* side, glanced up at th?
sun, aoid aald: 'It s five minute* U'*
eleven, John!' I told him il was latet ->
than that, and he flew to the house and
back and said: It's two minutes ti
eleven,' and he was right.
"The crow got feeble the winter after
he was five jeara old. He couldn't stand
the cold, and I kept him in a box halt
full of shavings behind the stove. Hs
lost his appetite soon after New Year's,
and one night, when I got ready to goto
1 bed ho called me to him and said:
'John, Kite'll be dead in the morning!
1 I fussed over him, and told him he wai
good for another year, but I couldn*?
1 make him believe it. My bed was neat
l > I- Ik. -l-Wl Ik.
'? ? nuu IU iUV IHO uyw
crawled out of his box and asked me t3
1 tako him in bod with inc. 'Kito's almost
gone!* ho whisporod, and when 1
awoke he lay dead on my breast."
. SBLKCyiPIlNQH.
Ono ostrich egg is n meal.
liirds will not eat flradio*.
There are 140,000 Chinose in the
tJnitcd States.
The royal standard of Persia Is i
blacksmith's nprou.
Borland has uot been engaged in wai
during I^ord Salisbury's administration.
The "monkey-wrench," so called,
was nnfncd after its inventor, Mr.
Muucky.
At the ago of forty n man usually attains
his highest weight; a woman at
fifty.
Men with gray or blue eyes aro usually
bettor marksmen than those with dark
eyes.
Paper from rags was raado in 1001]
l A. I)., the tirst liuen paper in 1810 and
paper from straw in 1800.
Tho shortest street in the world ii
Mansion JIouso atroot, Loudou, which ia
only a fow yards in length.
May aud April of this year wore tho
wettest months of their narnoa in tho his.
tory of Kauaas for twonty-Uvo years.
London's aiz prinoipal railway lines
carry annually over 200,000,000 people,
aud tho tramways about 160,000,000.
It is just 100 years siuco tho Cornish,
man, Willinui Murdock, discovered thai
coul gas might be uaod as an illumicant
Tlireo weeks after a tree near Jackson
i Miss., was used as a gallows it showei
l signs of decay, and a mouth later it wa
dead.
t Tho Urst book in which the won!
America appears was printed in tho little
r mountain mounutic town, St. Dio, io
r 1507.
French chomlsts claim they Are able to
1 produce the llnest gems by artificial pro.
cosses, and expect soon to havo them on
f U J Ik.ciij lo, <m
t dog* to drink out of.
j It is repjrtod that the first Chinaman
[ to die in Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison dur]
ing the entire forty yoars of that institu*
I tion's history died the ovbor day.
I Tho little town of Cumberland, in
l Rhode Island, boasts of a meeting house
? which was built in 1740. Tho late
r President Garfield's mother worshiped
i in it in lior youth.
1 During a recent storm at Hopkinton,
' N. if., an elm tree, under which Lafay*
etto and his party stood at a rccoption
1 given them in 1825, was Btruck bj
* lightning and demolished.
There aro now ovor 250,000 words in
' tho English language acknowledged bv
the best authorities, or about 76,00J
more than in the German, French,
ish and Italiau languages combined.
Tho famous Khajah tunnol of Indii
I pierces tho Khwaja Am ran Mountain*
, about sixty miles north of Inetta at an
g elevation of 6100 feet. It is 12,800 foot
c long and was constructed broad enough
( to carry a double line of rails,
f Justus Lipsius, an eminent man of th^
t Sixteenth Century, made bold to recite
Tacitus from beginning to en I with one
I of his nudieuco placed beforo him with
e a drawn dagger, with which he was to
I bo stabbed if lie missed one single word.
(. Wonders or Pliysioal Energy.
c Tho physical energy o( force somee
times exerted by the human body hai
c long been known to be of the most
c astounding nature, but no one, prior U
the tabulation* made by Dr. Buchdsier
n in 1890, over took tho trouble to pu
ic that exerted force before tho people ii
g figures tbat can bo understood. Th<
ie doctor "supposes" things in this way
g Supposing a mountaineer weighing 163
I pounds is making the ascent of a peat
e 7000 fcot high. To begin with, hi
e must expond an amount of physica
(, force equal to that found by multiplying
i] bis weight by the height to bo ascended
e In tho case assumed, a weight of 163
pounds, multiplied by a height of 7000
tl leet, equals 1,176,000 foot-pouuds; or
e In other words, 1,176,000 foot-poundi
<-, have to be lifted one foot. But thb
n is not all. The contractions of ttv
1 muscles of the heart havo to bi
a takei into account, which is rep
re3cnlcd by four foot-pounds of wori
it with each contraction, the pulsations a
i'i an adult heart being about seventy-twc
c per minute; in ascending heights it L
c much greater. But, assuming 100 beat
a of the pulse per raiuute, for simplicitj
n of calculation, this would give 400 foot
?, pounds per minute, or 21,000 foot
o pounds per hour, or 120,000 fuot-pounai
I for lli? Hita limir-t minnniAil to hA ret
ij quired for Ascending the 7000 feet
u For expansion and contraction of cliesl
ic and other muscles a farther item of 30
i. 000 foot-pounds roust be added. Thu
v wo find the total work performed durin)
^ five hours of mountain-climbing to bt
c equal to 1,326,000 foot (sounds, no
r counting other forces exerted, whicl
,t; Ilr. lJucheister says will run the grant
it total up to 1,330,000 foot-pounds.?3t
|. Louis l'?'?>?blie
1 *
5*. Doctors ?ay a healthy adult should eat
x at leust ten ounce, of meat eac'.i dixj,