Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Mule raising i? "till a profitable bn?lneas. There is at least $30 profit in ^ - $45 ween ting end about $45 profit to $60 one, the ancestral value ranging from $10 to $16. A mule's father may he worth anywhere from $200 to $2000 ox - more. ' The rumors that the Eropi ess Frederick and her son, the Oertnan Kaiser, do not get on well together are quite without foundation. In (act, in Germany, the accepted idea is that the country is in reality ruled hy Hci Majesty, and that Kaiser Wilhelm takes uo step without first consulting bis mother. It will surprise many people, the Boi* ton Cultivator is convinced,to kuow that on the average as many people freeze to death in Massachusetts as arc killed by lightning. For the ten years to the end ; , of 1888, the number that perished from either cause was the same?thirty-two, or an average of only a little more than three persons a year. % , ? ======= L f The number of schoolhouses in tho United States is 216,330. The estimated value of all public school property is $323,565,532. The total revenues of tho public schools are: From permanent endowments, $9,825,127; from taxe3, State, $25,177,067; local, $38,328,385?tll3,505,412; from other sources, $3,794,431. Total revenue, , $135,125,010. : H - fAn electrio railroad to run 100 mile) an hour between Chicago and St. Louie ie projected. "This sounds big," oorn^ meats the Now York Tribune, "but the range of electrical possibilities has by no means been reached. The sucoessful ' ? I operation of such a road would doubtless point to importaut changes in our methods of transportation. A speed ot <100 miles an hour, however, will require an almost perfectly straight traok, an I on the groat majority of the railroa la of tho East It would be entirely out of the question. One most excellent thiug about tho proposed new roal is that it will hsfc uo grade crossings." One good result which tho Illustrated American thiuks is likely to follow Eugtao stoppage " of the "coutract labor^1 - \ business. The supply of labor for tho coffee plantations in Moxieo is small, dear and utirelinbla. The planters, therefore, tnruo I to the uativos of the South 9oa Islands to obtain tho workmen neoded. Two yoars ago a cargo of 30) Gilbert Islanders was landed. Tho natives were under contract to work on tho codec plantations for threo years at from ?7 to $1) a month. At the expiration of that period they were to be returuo 1 iitaiii Ka ?\na ariMtohindiiKY f.hn contracts the laboreis wore virtually slaves, llo.v mauy will ever reach ho no agiiu remain* to l>o sesn. In ai article urging the construction of better roa<ls in the Uuitod States the Now York Sun remarks: Much of the - ? -it'/uiUIo luitlt A ino?'' ** ? ? ? - J " V"' ; wagon wheels, a relic of the days of high-nriced iron. TUc narrow rim is very hard on the average road when - ' heavy loads arc carried. Hut accepting this peculiarity of the tires, u fundamental rule in road c instruction should bo to keep the substances which form the bed firmly in place. This ueed isshowu by the shearing straiu on a road floored with gravei. In cities blocks of stoue or asphalt can bo laid, but not in country districts, on account of the cost, aud the best ordinary substitute for the I country is angular bits of stone, so driven together, on the macadam principle, that they will not be moved by the pressure of wheels. President D. W. Fisher, of Ilanovor L rirtll?nfn Iml rri vaa f.ltn Vmu V.\i?Lr fn.lA . -f """"S"! ..v... ? .v .???pen lent information which throws somo light on the possible origin of Anorican races, lie says: One of the recont grad. nates of llam?wer College, VV. 1'. Lopp, for tiie past two years has boon in charge of the Mission School for the Eskimos, at Port Clarence, Alaska, on the Amer* icau sido of Bering Strait. A letter //'> under date of August .'list, 1893, to myoolf, says of Inst winter: "No thaws during the winter, and ice blocke I in the Strait. This has always been doubtc 1 iby whalers. Etkiraos hnvo told thein that they sometimes crosse I the strait on ice, but they have never believed them. List February and Marc'i our Eskimos lmd a tobacco famine. Two parties (rtvo men) went with dog sleds to East Capo, __ on the Siberian coast, and traded some v s "-Mayer, otter and marten skins for Itussian . -o, and returned safely. It is only during an occasional winter that they can do this. But every summer they make several trips in their big wolves sk'n boats?forty feet long. These observations may tnrow some light j*' upon the origin of the Prehistoric line js of America." Mr. Lopp io in every way n reliable man, and it would seem to bo a pitv not to give to the public the important fact which he has narrate I above. - / il fefct t I ? - , . DIXIEJfEWS. ii The Sunny South Gleaned and Epito F mized. G a U the News sad Occurences Printed P Hers is Condensed From. u P Charleston, B.C., has 285 barrooms. The oil mill at Barnwell Countho use, a 8. C., was destroyed Tuesday morning ai by an iocendiarv fire. Loss $20,000; insurance $15,000. jj Prince MomoLuluof Nashville, Tcnn., a, who became King of the Vey nation Africa, by his father's death some time ^ ago, dm leit to taKc nis seat, ou me . throoe. The North Cnroliu* Mcthodi t Protes- * taut Coufcrencc near Greensboro last c| week. . g At Barnwell CDurt House, R C , T. W. n> Ezzard a Georgia real estate ageut was f, convicted of breach of trust. el A new $1,000,000 Coosaw river mining compnny has been formed. 0 $150,000 worth of property was burned in Lynchburg, Va , Thursday. ^ George Farrington, of Ashe couuty and Elizabeth Itoyall, of Wilkes couuty, ^ N. C., were inariied last Sunday?the q groom 62, the bride 16 ^ Ex-Lieutenant Governor Antoinc, col- h ored, of Louisiana, has beeu convicted of ia embezzlement. tl The monument to the memory of Geu. si A. P. Hill was unveiled at Petersburg, tl Va., on Tuesday. tl The General Assembly of South Carolina is in cession at Columbia. ^ J. W. .T. Morgan (white,) convicted at w Greenville, S. C.,of the murder of L. W. ^ Hipp, his father-in-law, was sentenced Q to be hanged on Friday, January 20.1803. tj President-elect Cleveland will spend a several months before March 4 at the foot of the mountaius in North Caroliua, p probably at Newton. rj The North Alabama Methodist Conference, which adjourned at Lafayette on p Tuesday, decided to < stablish a college tl in north Alabama, coutaining, b sides a classical department, depaitmeuts of mcdiciue, law, theology nud dentistry. The lady managers of the North Caro e liua build ng at the Chicago World's ^ Fair, officially announce that the ), plans for.thc building have fullen through, > and that there will be no North Caroline building at Chicago. The reason is that ' sufficient funds cou d not be raised. ^ The Episcopal Council for the new Southern Diocese of Virginia ruet in 8t Paul's church, Lynchburg, last week for * organization. Gov. McKiuney, of Virginia, is attend * | fl^J. T T TTT ' | ]| there ure of great interest to the South. j There colored men in the Ashcville e city prison for minor offenses broke out a Wednesday night and made good their cscApe. It is rumored at Charleston, S. C., on pretty good authority, that there will be ^ a general advance of freight rates on all railroads with in the territory of the Southern Railway and Steamship Assoc c iation. 1' The wheelmen of Charleston, S. C , " celebrated Thanksgiving Day bv a race j" to Suminerville. It was a handicap. The wheelmen ale Tha-ksgiving dinner at ? Suminerville. Vj Speaker Crisp was received with great applause when he'appcarcd on jthe floor , of the Georgia Legislature at Atlanta. The LexingtoD, Va , bar has endorsed | Ilou. John Randolph Tucker for the i place of Attorney General iin Mr. Cleve ( laud's cabinet. c thiTci&it/tfie dumb and the blind, shows a t'aat there is an increase attendance at ? the State's home. A large cotton bu.er at Athens, Ga , c made $12,000 on the rise of the staple o last Tuesday. u Alabama proposes a curious remedy for nes/ro suffrage. It is to lvliova t>v l?vu ri 0 O ?- -- " * ? "J . evcrv negro not voting fiora the pay men t " of taxes. 8 Another big fsro at Winston! The J' Hotel Zinzendorf burned Thanksgiving day. It was just completed a few month* ago at a cost ol 12o,0.?0; insurance was 1 $ 100,000. It will be rebuilt Kcidsville, N. C., has again come for- | wards as a winter resort. Quite a party of 1 (dies and gcntl men arrived there from Can ad i to spend the v. inter months. postm istress (Jatchell of Wasnington, w Qa., has been arrested on a charge af as- ii sault, she having, it is alleged, thrown a; vitr.ol mver a nurse in a lit of anger. ii A 5 cent postoge stamp issued in .\ I P abama d\iring the Confederacy was sold in New York Tuesday for $78t>. 'I be l'' Scott Stamp and Printing Company * were the pu*chasers. )> Ex-Govcrnor Fitzhugli |,ee, of Vir ginia, says that he expects no cabinet appointment, ami has no inte tion of _ again running for Governor; but is silent as to bis candidacy for the I'nited States Senator-hip In the United States Com t at ( bailed- w ton, S. G\, Judge Simonton the South ^ Carolina railroa I to l> sold for the benefit of its creditors, at the suit of Kroner- ' ick W. Bound, Henry I homns Coghlan and others Judge Simonton holds that the road cannot he sold in parcels, hut n must be sold as nu entirety. Daniel II. Chamberlain is appointed special ina^t r to make sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the United States ol custom-house, in Chnrl< stou.at 11 o'clock, ? on the o \ing of April llthnext. The apecial ir? tcr cannot receive any bid for w less sum t.niu one million dollars The i'1 Louisville and Nashville people will re probably bid for the pro, erty. tii f nc University 01 Virginia?i rinuy " College, North Carolina, foot ball game ar at Atlantn, Oa , on Thanksgiving Day resulted: Univers ty of Virginia. 40-,Trir. ity College, <>f North Carolina, 4. The second of the Southern championship games of foot ball was played at Bris- 1,1 brim- Pork by the University of North " Carolina and the Auburns of Alabama. ' and ii was a clean sweep for the North Caro ina boys. The score was 60 to nothing The Southern Canners' Association has m been organized at Savannah,Ga., with A. w [. Kohn, of Prosperity, 8. C.# as nrealeat; J. W. Emmeison, of Lakeland, 'la., first vice-president, and Thomas ] lainble, of Savannah, secretary. The ssociation proposes to devote itself to romoting the interests of Southern can ] era, and a ill hold a meeting next March, \ robably in Atlanta. to perfect n per- , lanent organization. The canning inustry is spreading rapidly in the South, < d the uccessity of such an organization , 9 this has been felt for some time. An , Uimatc ol the number ot cans packeu t ist scasou in the Southern States is givco ' b 35,000,000. < The South Carolina conference of the | lethodist Episcopal Church, 8outb, met 1 ) their one huudred and seventh sessions 1 t Trinity church Charleston, 8. C. Bishop ' [endrix. of Missouri, opened the conferoce with the communion of the Lord's ' upper. Twenty-two npplicauts foi lembcrship were admitted to the con- , ?rcnce, and a number of deacons were . lected, and wore ordained on Sunday. harleston and Vickaburg Poatofflces. ' Washington, D. <2.?There arc only ^ to positions, as postmasters, now vacant ( i large cities, viz: Charleston, 8. C., and icksburg, Miss. In the former office J . H. Mowry, appointed during the j levcland administration, is postmaster. , fc was appointed in March, 1887, and is commission expired in December ist. Dr. Crum, a colored man, was f len nominated, but the nomination was ; lbscqueully withdrawn. It is probable , lat no appointment will be made and ^ lat the Piesideut will permit Mr. Mowry ^ > remain. > The Vicksuurg postoffice is in the ands of the sureties of Mr. Hill, ersthile postmaster, and is being well concucted. There arc several applications n file for the position and it Is believed lat the office will shortly be filled by npointmcnt. Cabinet talk is still heard among the oliticians. They say that W. F. Harty is booked for the Postmaster Gcnra'ship, and that Don M Dickinson will robnbly be made Secretary of State, alliough n t anxious for the office. Officers of the Knighta of I<&bor. St. Louis, Mo?The Knights of Laboi lected th se officers: General Master Vorkman, T. V. Powderly; Secretary nd Treasurer, J. W. Hays, General Vorthy Foreman, Hugh Cavanaugh. The executive board chosen consists of i, V. Powderly, John Davis, T. B. Mcluire, and A. W. Wright. Previous to adjournment, the conveniou adopted a resolution on the Hometead strike, reciting that it was the ense of the Knights of Labor that the utcoinc of the recent struggle was dc 2' 1 ic a f *^ccoiio~m rc~~question s. 'the esolutions ordered that the general excutive board be instructed to issue on ppeal for aid for needy strikers. "OUT OF WORK? L Despondent South Carolinian Commits Suicide in Georgia. Hawkinsvili.e, Ga.?It. C. Chestnut ommitted suicide in u room at the Punska House at uoon, having taken three ainces of chloral since last night. He !aimcd Marion, 8. C., as his home. Ho lad been here only ten days, a perfect tranger, uud was looking for w ork. He lad been very despondent for several lays. He had $13.30 on his person. A letcr from his mother, received last night rom Gallivant's Ferry, was urging him o settle nil accouut he owed there, as li party did uot think he had been lealt right with. No work evidently mused the act minneapoIjIs, Minn.?The discovery as just beou made that the wheat crop f Minnesota and the Dakota, is millions f bushels nbovc nil estimates. The receipts yesterday at Minneapolis were v. r 1.100 cars, the heaviest day's busi84 of the seas in, but on tuuny other ays during the past mouth receipts have mi up to nearly 1,000 cars. Grain men ave been estimating the crop from 3.000,000 to 105,000,000 bushels for the luce big wheat States, but they are all ('ginning to hedge now. Th- se who lit. fifriirnQ fit 100 OOO OOO liuvo or). rd from 10,000,000 to 20,000,0 )0 more, ml those who figured higher than that riginallv have gone up as high n 00,000,000. A Soldiers1 Home Proposed. Columbia, 8 C. ? In the Senate a bill as introduced by Senator Abbott look ig to the establishment of a home for ged and d^-abled Confederate soldiers i this city at a cost of $10,000 and $150 or year for each inmate. A bill will also be introduced to am nd South Carolina's general election law nown a? the eight box law, the idea ring to retain some of its features and ' i orporate some of the features of the ustralian ballot sjstem. iepew's Outline on the Republican Party. i New York. ?The World prints an in ?i view with Chntincy M. Depew in hich he outlines his views regarding lie future nolicv of the Ronublicnn nrty. lie says there will be no recon1 ruction, ami it will continue to be the arty of progress. The firet plank in th. lepublican platform for 1896 will be a " rotectivc traifT. ' Wis will to oe uarrieu uut, New Yoiik. The trustees of the estate , ' the late Samuel J. Tilden report that j setilcment between them and ijic relaxes contesting the dead c' ^ | In J ill has been reached and thn'* inl idea of establishing a litrrfiry and sding room in this city for the educaon of young men, to be known as the < Tild u Trust," is now actually in sight , id needs only official endorsement I To Tlscort General Stevenson. I lti.novinoton Ii,i? , ? A spccialt train of J us has been secure 1 by the Democrats i this vicinity lor the purpose of escortig General Stevenson to Washington on ic occasion of his inauguration as Viceresident. The train will go over the lloni nd Pennsylvania lines via Chicago. ' Governor elect Pctei Turney, of Ten- | 'ssec. is reporte t < Imm h better and . ill soon be out again. ( A COTTOft 'CALAMITY. 8 H. K. HtU'a E?ijm?U of tho drop <3 Shows an Alfrming Short*!** New Orleans, La.,?Henry X. Noil aas just issued bis circular on ths condh tion of the cottou .crop.' He lowers his b estimate to 6,500,000 bales, and says: c< "During the last two week we have re- n :cive<l careful and complete reports from r( ilmost the entiro cotton area and the ' unanimous opinion is that the shortage is ^ >o great as to amount to a real calamity. T rhese reports do not come from planters * :>nly, but also from people who are look- n ing for cotton for the purpose of buying 01 it and whose interest it is to exaggerate b the prospect ot supply, not to unaeresti- b mate it. We have uow reached the per ? tod When the receipts are *iv?aya found b to be governed principally by the sxc of w the crop, as the time has passed when a< the lateness of maturity has any effect, rhe weather generally has becu favora- b ble for transportation and the facilities, n: which are. of course, greater every year, tl ind the prices hive advanced far beyond b what planters would have expected or p >ecn satisfied'with had they had good tl ;:rops; there is, therefore, uo possible ex- p planation of a light movement but the w ane that the crop is very short. Per- tl haps the planters nrc holding back some- p what, they must be doing so or the crop g :ould not be even 6,500,000; but does 01 my ono suppose that at these prices ai planters could hold back if their crops 1< were large? and yet port receipts to No- tl vember 10th inclusive, are just equal to E thoso of 1886-'87, a 0,500,000 crop, 500- ol 300 bales behind those of 1887 '88, a p ?,000,000 crop. c< it As Seen From Iforsobaok. s . ? "If you waut to experience* novel it sousation," said a gentleman sports a Colonel's uniform as member ox a Gov- f( ernor's staff whenever said Governoi o turns out on parade, "just get on horse- tl tack and take part in some groat pro* a1 cession like thoso which marked th< o Columbian festivities. "It is the most curious feeling that you ever experienced, I will wagerahat. It boats hasheesh or opium smoking all n to pieces. It is unlike auy other thing li that you ever saw or heard or felt. v "At first you are all right, and you ? hear the bands and see the great furrowi c of humanity on cithei side of the way at ? distinctly as. you ever saw anything in * your life.' But after a while things begin to grow blurred to your seuses. The music dies away and there is nothing but a dull roar in your ears, while the crowd ] becomes merely a dull aud indistinct \ vtnoo wlfKmif fArm t\meoninnr in VAiir i lucaoo svavtwvau IUI.U V* ? ;v?. , fijfflrea.?ihur u.iugiiiy uuy^uu uives 01 i high buildings, boys perchofl en chimneys or sigu boards or in soiije hazard dus place. You watch one or tbeui witb fascinated eyc3, expecting every minute t to see him fall aud be dashed to piccci \ on the pavement. You are constantly i filled with an overwhelming feeling that ? you arc to be witness to souie dreadful accident, but for the lite of you you cannot turn your eyes away from it. After a while you cease to be a human being at all and become a mere Automaton. You are uot controlled by human emotions, but by the maguetism of the crowd. It is some such sort of hypnotic state, I apprehend, which men get iutc during a battle and which makes them bo unlike themselves."?New York Herald. A Cow in a Hear Pit. A comic scene took place time rrtnirt/atVrmQnd\ngcn was driving a cow into the capital, aud had' arrived at the Muristalden wheu the animal bolted, aud, jumping the rails round the wellknown bear pit, arrived at the bottom without injury. The proprietor thought that his cow was iost, but he waa mistaken. She attacked the bears bravely, who, utterly routed, retired into their den, into which she would have followed them had she not been prevented by the keeper of the animals, who let down the trap door. Then the cow went to the slaughter house and fulfilled her destiny.?New York Times. Wliitc-Tie Races. Race meetings in India generally include soiuo comic features, and tho latest novelty is a "white-tie race," introduced at Kirkee. The competitors ride a certain distance, dismount, and kneel before a lady while she ties a white tie rouud their neck in a neat bow, then they remount aud start for the winning post. Much depends ou the ladjr's deltncss.?Chicago Times. xito vuuiujr vvui t xiu UBU cite x vr&viiiv Burned. Columbia, S. C.?At Yorkville Monday inon iug, the dry goods store of Hunter & Dates, the second floor of which contained the opera house, together with the county court house, aud two small wooden buildings used as law offices, were burned. Total loss about $34,000; insurance $?,r)00 Marriage of it Methodist Minister. i Finetx Six, S. ?Rev. A J. Cauth ;n, Jr., of Monticcllo Station, Fairfield county, and Miss Mattie Anderson, a laughter of I)r. and Mrs. W. L. Ander- i ?on, who live about five mile9 above here, were united in marriage by the father of the groom, Hev. A. J. Cauthen, Sr., of Beaufort. Both father and son are mem^Conference. An Awful Little OrimfCy1^. Duhant, Mk ii ? Herman Greusel, the jight-year- old son of a prosperous farner near here, confessed to an attempt n poison his parents hy putting paris green into I he wi ll heeause his father bad hastbed him. His parents and two 'una hands a?e si riousiy ill and cohsid rrtble stock has di< d Resignation of Bishop dowe. Charleston, S. ? Rt. Rev. W. B. Howe, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese f South Carolina, h is sent in nis resiginitio i to Bishop William', the presiding j fficer cf the house of l> shops, on ac- * ceunt of ill health. > ? c If I OUTH OAROUNA LEGISLATURE ?v. Tillman Bays in Hia Mnugi that the School System is a Humbug. Columbia, 8. C.?TbeGeueral Asscm ly of South CsroUus conveued and will Dntinue iu scasiou thirty one days. The take up of the two houses show that >tation in office has taken hole! of the ters in South ?Carolina in earnest, [uch of tho "driftwood"' of which Gov. illman cotnplaiucd lias been set nlloat nd newer timber selected. Out of 125 ictubers In the House of Representatives, ly thirty-six of tho old members have een returned. The former officers of oth houses were reelected. Tho speaker f the House is Ira B. Jones of Lancas?r. In tho Senate the caucus system os inaugurated by the Tillmauiles, who rranged the officers beforehand. Oov. TillmuuN message was transmit;d to tho Legislature and read Tho icssagc treats entirely of State issues lcre being no refereucc to Federal rnatjre. The Governor pronounces the resent school system a humbug, says iat the slight iucrcaso of the assessed roperty during the sixteen years the hite people have had control indicates baf we are a very improvident and uonrogressive people," or that there is a reat deal of tax dodgiug. He calls upn the reformers "to keep their pledges od support the South Carolina C'ol;ge, not abolish it, as recommended by 10 State Superintendent of Education, [e declared that the adherents of the Id regime have largely withdrawn their atronago from the college because tbey cruld not have their way in controlling and the county of Charleston, which as always supported the college zealusly has at this time no student wbithin a walls." The Governor pitches into the Judges }r according what he terms "special onsidcration" to banks, annd accuses hem of having overridden their power nd interfered with the Executive branch f Government. The National Farmer*' Congress. Lincoln, Neh.?The National Farmers' Cougress held its final scssiou. The ixity of the inter-States commerce law ras condemned. A resolution was pas- ! ed expressing sympathy for the Farmrs* Alliance and kindred organizations, iavannah, Ga , was selected as the place or the next meeting in December, 1893. Death of a Prominent Carolinan. CHAIlLhBTON, 8. C.?Col. W. 11. Svaus died at Darlington, 8. C.,of paral (-b;6. He was a graduate of the South Carolina College and served iu the Legis Dangers of Too Much Jubilation. Jackson, Miss.?At a Democratic dein lU'trntioii, Lee Daniel, a well-known foung man, had his arm blown olT and lis face badly burned by the premature iischnrgc of a cannon. Iuvoiitions of t ie H >nr. A machine for imbedding wire netting in glass. A tailor's measuring squire with a plumb bob attachment. A printing press operated by an electro-magnetic mechanism. A pneumatic cushiou to be placed on the ends of telephone receivers. A process for makiug nrtiticial mica sheets for electrical insulation. A paper knife that is especially adapted to cutting tbo wrappers on rolled pipflrii ^ ?.?? .. .uuvwi minus, 80 that they may be arranged at any desirod angle. An electric branding stamp, the type being kopt red hot bv means of an olec* trical resistance. An electrical light hanger that is adjustable to any angle by means of a universal joint. A door lock so constructed that when the key is turned it switches on the lights in the room. A mat formed of sections, each section having a loop of rigid material with riogs of rope surrouuding it, the sections being clamped together. A gravity motor for pumping purposes, tho weight being lifted to the top of a derrick, whence, by a clockwork system, it operates a pump as it slowly descends. An automatic medicine stand for the hoinoepathically inclined, consisting of two cups, two spoons and an index that automatically marks the next cup iroiu which medicine is to be taken. The Shark's furious Ear. Sharks have lately been affording contributions to science. The biologists have been vivisecting them for the purpose of finding out about the function* of the ear, which in tishes is made tc some extent on the same pattern as iu man. The fact has beeu known lot some time that the ear is uot merely an organ of hearing. It has to do with the sense of equilibrium. Light has been thrown on this matter by removing portions of the auditory apparatus of sharks, which are thus rendered unable to maintain uieir uaiance m tne water. The part on which this faculty seems to deprnd is the "labyrinth," aud the wrae effect is produced by cutting th< nerves communicating with it. Drank the Whiskey and Died. Knox vim,k, Tknn.? Sam Lancaster, no r fellow, misju Ige I his abilities. I!? liad been drinking a good deal for ; month or so. He walke I into a saloon and bet with the crowd there that lio could drink six small beer glasses full of whiskey?the bet being against the price of the w liskcy. His wager was taken, nnd he drank the six glasses of whiskey. Me fell to the floor aftei drinking the last, and in a few minutes w.isdca I Alcoholic poisoning was the vc diet I'e was twenty six years old and a fi email on the E. T. V. <fc O. rnn '. xne nomosteaa strike ott. Pittsbuho, I'a. ? At a meeting of the | Amalgamated Associntl . ?* Humestead, he ^r?at strike at Carnegie's works was >fficia'.ly declared off. THE REALM OF FASHION. WHAT TO WBAR AND HOW THEY MAKE IT. A Visittnr Cestum*. * Fall Psllsss, and a Skatinr Cesium*. /AP ti/?/# NOVEMBER caller vk: lf(r*//"N ^Y/'8 8^own 'n Oio sketch Her frock is of pekin woolen ninj^r^lliuv^^^ w'('< of ffoyj IllyX^jWUue. The bodice on '^tfSSflly colues ^oxru ?? far the \s rtial and is **" fastened in the center. The back breadths have no seams, the middle thereof being indicated by a s(rii?o and care must be taken to make the stripes perlcetly correspond. Ti e jabot is made *cparaiely in embroidered batiste, silk muslin or China crc|K>. The bodice is ornamented by two ribbons that form a corselet. The bailoon sleeve on tight-fitting lining are trimmed with a fall of lace. The skirt is cut bins as usual, and lined with sateen or silk. The bottom flounce is made of the same stall" as the jabot and edged with a small ruching of the same. s. 'SUIfe^)r //y > UXe I i^vC _ A VI81TINO COSTUMR. The garment sketched full length in the picture is a pelisse luudc of poplin, or broadribbed bengline, and trimmed with sable. The bins at the bottom, the cape and yoke are all made of maroon or brown velvet. '.rimmo l with fur. The yoko of velvet is adorned in front with ornaments of pnssementrie and at the back with a band of fur. J?| n? 'j |\y i i -J* ~M? A r \ M TKI If^K. At the bottom the trimming is double. This pelisse ran he made in eloth or any other adaptable materia'. Tlie picture givis a p omenade mxtuine capable of serving as a skating dress. As drawn here it is an armoured serge of a grayish green shade, trimmed with velvet of the same color, and with gray feathered trimming 01 fur Theskirt is cut as usual on the bias but is trimmed with a Idas of velvet <dged by a narrow hand of feathered trimming fhi.s Idas is lined with mushn. hemstitched out" the skirt and scnrtl on 4^: l A TROMPNAnK COSTPMB OR PRATING DREoo. together with tlic feather trimming Th? up|>er part of tlie skirt has the darts necea sary to make it set well on tho h<ps. Thesr parts are vo-v carefully sewed and nrcssed and in order 10 make llicm invisible. A1 the bark the dross falls in folds, Th? ] bodice, which is joined to the cape, decends some inches below the waist, and the front breadths of it are lined. The yoke is ol velvet edged with fenthoi trimming to which is adapted the fold that crosses the yoke. This fold can he made either in silk, the same shade as the dress, or in different shade. It gridtuillY diminishes as far as j the hack, where it entirely disappear? nu<U-ii n?et!s iii?- \!p.\ Tl.o vest is perfectly | straight i- fashi > ic I on muslin lining, wi'houc darts and line<l with silk In cutting the cape, m it is tomewliut difficult, it _____ . . _ _ ^ wn.tld h? T>etter to try it in any worthless \ , material tlrst, ao that there will be no (tanker of spoiling the good fabric. It is cut out of a single piece. The pleated sleeves are sewed on to the ariuholes of the waist and trimmed with a band of velvet. The capo may be wadded and lined with ailk. AN AFTKB-PINNBB BXPBBIMBBT. Foiictuli s Pendulum Baa 11 y Imitated With an Oranae and Thraad. At dessert, it is possible, by means of an apple or an orange, <o repeat the Koucalt |H>nduium ext>eriiiicnt, which waa executed under the dome of the Pantheon in 1**!, says the ?\\hutU An\ Pass a match through an orange and ullow the ends to protrude on each side, and to one of these ends attach a thread. Attach the other extremity of the thread to the head of a pin inserted in a cork aud support the latter by means of throe forks, the handles of which rest upon the edge of a plate. Now cause the pendulum to.awing uftor so regulating the length of the thread that the lower l?oint of the match shall coure very near the bottom of the plate and mark its passage in two small circular pi ion of powdered sugar, designed to represent the circle of sand that Foucuult arranged upon the ground all around his pendulum. The plate represents the earth. As long as it remains stationary, the match, at every oscillation, will pass exactly through the furrow that it has made in the two piles of sugar. If, in order to represent the rotary motion of the earth, we gently revolve the pla?e, ' and consequently (he forks and cork, we tind (hat that . h?? ?><> inflnann?m?au. t>?a ? ? /\f lltia in coni is rr tKo tTlfitr*K 11 nvnrv oscillation make a small furrow distinct from the preceding. We can thus demonstrate in o simple and practical manner the principal of the inv rinbility of the plane of oscillation of the |?endulum. upon which was based the ce'ebra- < ted experiment of the French sciential. Strati fo Ej os oi Boos. The direotuess of tho bee's flight is proverbial. The shortest distauoo between any two given points is called a bco llnc. Many observers think that tho immense cyos with which the insect is furuishod groatly assist,if they do not entirely account for, tho arrowy stiaightnosa of its passage through tho air. Every bco baa two kiuds of eyes, tho two largo compouud ones, looking liko hemispheres, ou either side, anil the three sitnplo onoa which crown tho top of the head. Eaoh compound oyo is oomposod of 8500 facets?that is to nay, u uujvjt-tr reflected 8000 times on Its surface. Evory one of those faoots is the base of a hexagonal pyramid, whose apex is fitted to the head. Each pyramid may be tcrmod au eye, for eaoh has its own iris and ontlc nerve. How theae insects manage this marvclou8 uumber of eyea is not known. They ire immovable, but mobility is unnecessary because tho rauge of vision afforded by the position and the number of the facets. They have no lids, but are protected from dust and injury by rows of hairs growing along the lines at the junction of the facets. The simple eyes are suppose to have been given tho bee to enable it to sec above its held when intent upon gathering honey from the cups of flowers. u,,? A I UUUUIJ Villi IlldJ l/U UlIU I U.t IV/ U | auv it is likely there are other uses for thorn not yet ascertained. A hoc Mies much in the aauie way ai a pigeon?that is to say, it iirsc takes au upward spiral (light into the air, and then darts straight for the object in view. Now an exporlmeutcr on insect nature covered- a boo< simple eye with paint and scut it iut'c the air; instead of darting straight oil after rising, it continued to ascend. Apparently, then, these eyes arc use I in some measure to direct the flight. ? Comsou's tVeckly. ' Compressed Tea." A novelty for travelers who enjoy the cup thst cheers is "compressed tea." This is put up by certain Kussian firms resident in China. It is made of the fine dust of tea-leaves, but is none the less expensive for all that, for it is compressed by the powerful force of steam machinery into compact tablets which take up about one-sixth the space winch the same amount of loose tea-leaves would occupy. Tnese tablets aro in turn enclosed in union, men in isuoy paper wrapper.), and finally packed in metal lined cases. Put up in this way. ttic tea is considerably easier to carry, and the tine dust of the tea which is usually sold at a low price is made use of to good profit. Tucse tablets of tea i have been extensively used for some time in Russia, for every Russian enjoys Ins cup of tea and knows but little about co:Icc, though the Turk, who is at bis very doors, makes the very best coffee in the world. Thus far these tablets of tea have not been imported to any extent into our country. ?New York Tribuue. Professor Raruji, the only Parisee In this country, arrive 1 in Hodou a few days ago and inteuds to cuter tu? Harvard Medical School.