Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mule raising is still a profitable bnslqom. There is it lean $30 profit ia n |45 wMniinn ?t;H "bout $45 profit ia a $60 one, the ancestral value ranging from $10 to $15. A. mule's father may be worth anywhere from $200 to $2000 or more. _ The rumors that the Empress Frederick and her son, the German 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 by IIci Majesty, aad that Kaiser Wilhelm takes uo step without first consulting his mother. It will surprise many people, the Boston Cultivator is convinced,to know thai on the average as many people freeze to * * . death in Massachusetts as aro killed by lightning. For the ten years to the end ' _# 4 ono *? * * - oi xooo, cue number that perished from either cause was the same?thirty-two, or ao arorage of only a little ruore than three persons a year. % , ? \ ?\ f The number of schoolhouses in the United States is 216,330. The estimated value of all public school property is $323,565,632. The total revenues of tho public schools are: From permanent endowments, $9,825,12?; from taxej, 8tate, $25,177,037; looal, $38,328,385?*113,505,412; from other sources, $3,794,431, Total revenue, $135,125,010. \ = \ An eleotrlo railroad to run 100 miles an hour between Ohicago and St. Louis Is projected. This sounds big," corn^ moots the Now York Tribune, "but tho range of electrical possibilities has by no meaus been reached. The successful operation of such a road would doubtless point to important 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 railroals of tbo East It would bo entirely out of tho question. One moat excellent thing about tho proposed new road is that it will havo uo grade crossings." Oao good result which tho Illustrated Auioricau thiuks is likely to follow Eng. |JP^o\toi>pugo Ct tlie 'oouliaJl^fa&W''' business. The supply of labor for the ooffee plantations in Mexioo is small, dear and unreliable. The planters, therefore, turned to the nativos of tho South Sea Islands to obtain the workman needed. Two yoars ago a cargo of 30 J Oilbert Islanders was landed. Tho natives were uuier contract to work on tho coilee plantations for three years at from 97 to $LJ a month. At the expiration of that period they wore to be returnod to their ko.ues. Notwithstanding- the contracts the laborets wero virtually slaves, tlo.v many win cvor reac t uo ua aj liu remain* to be seen. In an article urging the constructio of better roads in the United States th Mow York Sun remarks: Much of th L . tsmihln with k mn?it 1 ' m**"1' P I wagon wheels, a relic of the days o , * ....?high-nrined ?The ntfrow rim b cry hard on the average road whei heavy loads are carried. But accepting this peculiarity of the tires, a fuuda nen tal rule in road construction should bi to keep the substances which form th< Ibed firmly in place. This need isshowi by the shearing straiu on a road floore* , with gravol. In cities blocks of atom or asphalt can be laid, but not in coun try districts, on account of the Cost, and 'the best ordinary substitute for th country is angular bits of stone, s driven together, on the macadam prin | ciple, that they will not bo moved b | the pressure of wheels. ? I President D. W. Fisher, of Hanorei College, Tnd., gives the Now York Inde IB** pendent information which throws somi light on the possible origin of America* & , races. He says: Oue of the recant grad uatcs of Hanover College, W. T. Lopp for the past two years has been in Chargi of the Mission Sohool for the Eskimos it at Port Clarence, Alaska, on the Amer lean aide o( Bering Strait. A lettei jflBk under dale of August 31st, 1892, to my alj eelf, says of last winter: "No thawc W% daring the winter, and ice blocked ir . the Strait. This has always been double 1 & >. whalers. Eikimos hare told then y?. that they sometimes crossed the strait oc Ice, bat they hare nerer believed them p Lsst February and March our Bikimo |flp had a tobacco famine. Two parties (An tn^y^eot with dog sleds to Bast Oape the^iberian coast, and traded som jgr ^bearer, ot\. and marten skins for RusR WK^Joliacco, and. act :wad. safely. I l> nnlrh.i#lV?tr an AAAulnnil < )? ft.* K tbey can do this. But every sumtnoi K thej make several tripe la their bi{ K wolves skin boots?forty feet long. K | ^ These obser rations may throw soma light upon the origin of the Prehistoric Rao K of America." Mr. Lopp ia in every wa H a reliable man, and It would seom to b B a pity not to give to the public tho ira R; portam fact which he has narrated abort DmE_NEWS. The Sunny South Gleaned and Epitomized. All the News and Occurences Printed Here is Condensed From. Charleston, 8. C., has 285 barrooms. The oil mill at Barnwell Couutho use, 8. C., was destroyed Tuesday mor ning by an iocondiarv fire. Loss $20,000; insurance $15,000. Prince MomoLuluof Nashville, Tcnn., who became King of the Vey nation Africa, by his father's death some time ago, has left to take his seat on the throne. The North Carolina Mcthodi t Protestant Conference near Greensboro last ; week. At Barnwell C:>urt House, 8 C , T. W. Ezznrd. a Georgia real estate agent was convicted of breach of trust. ^ A new $1,000,000 Coosnw river mini ing company has been formed. $160,000 worth of property was burned in Lynchburg, Va , Thursday. George Farrington, of Ashe county and Elizabeth Hoyall, of Wilkes couuty, N. C., were mariied last Sunday?the 1 groom 62, the bride 16 Ex-Lieutenant Governor Antoine, colored, of Louisiana, has been convicted of embezzlement. The monument to the memory of Gcu. A. P. Hill was unveiled at Petersburg, Va., on Tuesday. The General Assembly of South Carolina is in cession at Columbia. J. W. J. Morgan (white,) convicted at Greenville, 8. C.,of the murder of L. W. Hipp, his father-in-law, was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, January 20.1893. President-elect Cleveland will 6pcnd several months before March 4 nt tin foot of the mountains in Norlh Caroliua, probably at Newton. The North Alabama Methodist Conference, which adjourned at Lafayette on Tuesday, decided to < stablish a college A i-i i-i..:? - J jii uurtu A.itiumuu, cuuimiuiiil;, u sku's .1 classical department, departments of mcdiciue, law, theology and dent'stry. The lady managers of the North Carolina build ng at the Chicago World's Fair, officially announce that tlx plans for.the building have fallen 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 Dioceso of Virginia met in 8t Paul's church, Lynchburg, last week for organization. Gov. McKinnev ?f Virginia, is attend !? MmdthwjiM'%' ? q?u?<luuu UllUg UlSlllBSl'U there are of great interest to the South. Tljtre colored men in the Asheville city prison for minor offenses broke out Wednesday night and made good their cscapo. 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 ?f tjie Southern Railway and Steamship Association. The wheelmen of Charleston, S. C., celebrated Thanksgiving Day by a race to Suramerville. It was a haudicap. The wheelmen ate Thanksgiving dinner at Summerville. Speaker Crisp was received with great 1 applause when he'appeared on ',the floor of the ?icorgia Legislature at Atlanta. The Lexington, Va , bar has endorsed :? Hou. John Kaudolpli Tucker for tho o place of Attorney General im Mr. Clove Q land's cabinet. tnXj^l^he dumb and the blind, shows f thai there is an increase attendance at , the State's home. a A large cotton bu.er at Athens, Gn , made $12,000 on the rise of the staple > last Tuesday. Alabama proposes a curious remedy foi 0 negro suffrage. It is to relievo by law B every negro not voting ftora the paymeut of taxes. Another big flro at Winston! The 1 Hotel Ziuzenaorf burned Thanksgiving a day. It was just completed a few months ago at a cost ol $ 125,0.10; insurance was I $100,000. It will be rebuilt Reidsville, N. C., has again come fore wards as a winter resort. Quite u party ? oflidiesand gentl muu arrived there from Canad i to speud the winter months. Y Post i istress Gntchell of Wasuiugtou, Ga., has been arrested on a charge af assault, she having, it is alleged, thrown vitriol r?vcr a nurse in a lit of anger. A 5 cent postoge stamp issued in Alabama during tho Confederacy was sold 3 in New York Tuesday for $780. The i Scott Stamp and Printing Company wero the pu'chnscis. , Ex-Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Vir ginia, says that he expects no cabinet appointment, and has no inte tion of again running for Governor; but is silent as to his candidacy for the United States . Senatonhip In the United States Couit at Charles ton, 8. C., Judgo Siuionton I he South Carolina railroad to b j sold for the benefit of its creditors, ut the suit of Frederick W. Bound, Henry 'I homns Coghlan and others. Judge Simonton holds that the road cannot be sold in parcels, but must be sold as an entirety. Daniel H. Chamberlain is appointed special uiast r to make sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the United States custom-house. inCbarl*stou,atll o'clock, on the morning of April 11th next. The special master cannot receive any bid for less sum than one million dollars The Louisville and Nashvillo people will probably bid for the pro, erty. roe University 01 Virginia? irinuy College, North Carolina, foot ball game at Atlanta, Ga , on Thanksgiving Day resulted: Univers'ty of Virginia, 40 ;Trinitv Colletre. of North Carolina. 4. The , second of the Southern championship esmes of foot- ball was played at Brhrino Pork by the University of North f Carolina and the Auhurns of Alabama, 0 and It was a clean sweep for the North Caro ioa boys. The score was 60 to '* nothing ' The Southern Canners' Association hna p bean organised at Savannah,Ga., with . ... K uidIL ? lfchi?v ':v> i1 *..?f: II. Kohu, of Prosperity, 8. C., as prcsideal; J. W. Emnierson, of Lakeland, Fla., first vice-president, and Thomas Gamble, of Savannah, secretary. The association proposos to devote itself to promoting the iutcrcsts of Southern can nets, and will hold a meeting next March, probably in Atlanta, to perfect a per mancnt organization. The cauning in dustry is spreading rapidly in tho South, aud the necessity of such an organizatiot as this has been felt for some time. At estimate ot the number ol cans packet last season in the Southern States is givct as 35,000,000. The South Carolina conference of th< Methodist Episcopal Church, 8outh, met in their one huudred and seventh session! at Trinity church Charleston, 8. C.Bishof Hcndrix, of Missouri, opened the conference with the communion of the Lord's Supper. Twenty-two applicants foi membership were admitted to the conC ^ 1 # J lcruuutr, iiiiu a nuuiuur 01 aencons were elected, and were ordained on Sunday. Charleston and Vicksburg Postoffices. Washington, D.t3.?There are only two positions, as postmasters, now vacant in large cities, viz: Charleston, S. C., aud Vicksburg, Miss. In the former office A. II. Mowry, appointed during the Cleveland administration, is postmaster. He was appointed in March, 1887, and his commission expired in December last. Dr. Cruin, n colored man, wat then nominated, but the nomination was subsequently withdrawn. It is probabU that no appointment will be made and that the Piesideut will permit Mr. Mowrj to remain. The Vicksburg postofike is in th< hands of the sureties of Mr. Hill, erst while postmaster, and is being well condcucted. There are several application! on file for the position and it is believed that the nfHee will shnrtlv lm h? appointment. Cabinet talk is still heard among th< politicians. They say that W. F. Har rity is booked for the Postmaster Gen era'ship, and thnt Don M Dickinson wil probably be made Secretary of State, al though n t anxious for the office. Officers of the Knights of Labor. St. Louis, Mo ?The Kuightsof Laboi elected th so officers: General Mastei Workman, T. V. Powderly; Secrctar] and Treasurer, J. W. Hays, Genera Worthy Foreman, Hugh Cavanaugh. The executive board chosen consists o L. V. Powderly. John Davis, T. li. Mc Guire, and A. W. Wright. Previous to udjouriiiuent, the conven tion adopted a resolution on the Home stead strike neilimr tint it wn? thi sense of the Knights cf Labor that thi outcome of the recent struggle was dc - Ve-Vs^'grcat* economic questions.' Th. resolutions ordered that the general ex ecutivc board be instructed to issue ai appeal for aid for needy strikers. "out of" workT A Despondent South Carolinian Com t / mits Suicide in Georgia. Hawkinbville, Ga.?R. c. Chestnu committed suicide in a room at the Pu laska House at noon, having tuken three ounces of chloral siuce last night. H claimed Marion, S. C\, as his home. H< had been here only ten days, a perfee stranger, and was looking for work. H had been very despondent for sevcrt days. lie had ?13.30 on his person. A lei tcr from his mother, received last nigli from Gallivant's Ferry, was urging hit to settlo an account he owed there, t th^ party did not think he had bee dealt right with. No work evidentl caused tho act 1 ~BlTknBAPOLis, Ahnn!?The discover, has just been made that the wheat cro] of Minnesota and the Dakota, is million of bushels above all estimates. The re ceipts yesterday nt Minneapolis wer ov> r 1,100 cars, the heaviest day's busi n ss df the seas >n, but on many othe days during the past month receipts hav ruu up to nearly 1,000 cars. Grain met have been estimating the crop fror 85,000,000 to 105,000,000 bushels for th three big wheat States, but they are al beginning to hedge now. Th- so wh put their figures at 100,000,000 have ad dtd from 10,000,000 to 30,000,0 )0 more and those who figured higher than thn originally have gone up as high 130,000,000. A Soldiers' Home Proposed. Columbia, 8. C.?In the Senate a bi was introduced by Senator Abbott look ing to the establishment of a home fc aged ana disabled Contederate soldier in this city at a cost of $10,000 and $15 per year for each inmate. A hill will also be introduced to arc i. ud South Carolina's general election lai known as the eight box law, the idc being to letain some of its features an< incorporate some of the features of th Australian ballot gjstem. Depew's Outline on the Republica Party. New York. ?The World prints an ii toivicw with Chauncy M. Depew i which he outlines his views regardin the future policy of the Republica party. He says there will be no recor struction, and it will continue to be th party of progress. The fir.t plank in th Republican platform for 1896 will bo protective Iraiff. Mis will to oe uarneu out. Niw YonK. - The trustees of the estat of the late Samuel J. Tilden report tha a settlement between them and t?e rela tives contesting the deafl y | will has been reached and J. innl idea of eslablishing a ItTnUry am reading room in this city tor the educa tion of young men, to be known as th "Tild n Trust," is now actually in sigh and needs only official endorsement To Escort Osueral Stevenson. Uloomington III.,?A specialt train < car* has been secure 1 by the Democrat in this vicinity for the purpose of escort ing General Stevenson to Washington 01 the occasion of his inauguration aa Vice President. The train will go over th< Alton tnd Pennsylvania lines via Chicagc Governor-elect Peter Turney, of Ten nesaee. is reporte I o be much better am will soon be out again. t r ? A COTTOJJOALAMITY. S< i H. M. Neil's Estimate of the Crop O i Shows an Allrming Shortage. ' Nbw Orleans, La.,?Henry h. Neil has just issued his circular on the condi* i tion of the cotton.crop. 116 lowers his hi ' estimate to 6,500,000 bales, and says: c< "Duriug the last two week we have re- m ceivcd careful and complete reports from rc 1 almost the cntiro cott6n area and the v< 1 unanimous opinion is that the shortage is M i so great as to amount to a real calamity. T i These reports do not come from planters al only, but also from people who are look- m j ing for cotton for the purpose of buying *>i it and whose interest it is to exaggerate b< , the prospect ot supply, not to unacrcsti- bi , mate it. Wo have now reached the per ol iod when the receipts nro.*\wnys found t? to be governed principally by the s'r.c of w the crop, ns the time has passed when at the lateucss of maturity has any effect. The weather generally has been favora- te ble for transportation and the facilities, m which arc. of course, greater every year, til and the prices have advanced far beyond tc what planters would have expected or pi i ? j 1?rza i--j ii. - i . ? *l ukcu ouiisutu wiiu unu wiry naa gooa w crops; there is, therefore, no possible ex- pi plauntion of a light movement but the w one that the crop is very short. Per- tl haps the planters arc holding back some- pi what, they must be doing so or the crop gi could not bo even 6,500,000; but does 01 ( any ono suppose that at these prices at t planters could hold back if their crops le ( were large? and yet port receipts to No- tl , vember 10th inclusive, are just equal to H thoso of 1880-'87, a 8,500,000 crop, 500- ol 000 bales behind those of 1887 '88, a pi , 7,000,000 crop. c< mm it As Seen From Iforsobaolt. % 111 oi * 44If you want to experieneiri -v. novel ^ ' sensation," satd a gontlciqau v cpeports a Colonel's uniform as member of a Gov- fc ernor's staff whenever said Governoi cc ' turns out on parade, "just get on horse- tl Lack and take part in some great pro* at I cession like those which marked the ol Columbian festivities. 4'It is the most curious feeling thai you ever experienced, I will wager a hat. It boats hasheesh or opium smoking all ni r to pieces. It is unlike any other thing la r that you ever saw or heard or felt. w j 44At first you are all right, and you i near cue nanus una see uie great iurrowj Ll of humanity on citliei aide of the way at S i distinctly as you ever saw anything in * your life. But after a while things begin to grow blurred to vour sens-is. The ' music diss away and there U nothing but " a dull roar iu your ears, while the crowd ? 3 becomes merely a dull and indistinct y, 3 mass without form or meauiog in youi c - 6)fflfC3. Hica liaugmg tl high buildings, boys perchei ?i? vehlmj neys or sign boards or in soiik hazardous place. You watch one o[ them witb fascinated eye3, expecting evfcry minute 0, to see him fall aud bn dusliel to piocci y? on the pavement. You ar?l constantly hi .. filled with au overwhelming leoling that ?.| you arc to be wituess to some dreadful t accident, but for the lite o( you you cannot turn your eyes away from it. > After a while you cease to be a human j e being at all and become a mere automa3 ton. You are uot controlled by human :t emotions, but by the magnetism of the ' e crowd. It is some such sort of hypnotic , state, I apprehend, which men get inte during a battle and which makes them so unlike themselves."?New York lt Herald. n ??- .. ? is n A Cow In a Hear Pil? y A comic scene took pUce,ftjd*'|Je,tlma . rrtrnrtralhrmun(ftngcn was driving a cow y into the capita), and bad arrived- at the P Muristalden when the animal bolted, 3 aud, jumping the rails round the well* " known bcur pit, nrrived at the bottom c without injury. The proprietor thought " that his cow was lost, but he was mis taKeu. one auacaeu uie uears uraveiy, c who, utterly routed, retired into their I den, into which she would hare fol lowed them hud she not been prevented II by the keeper of the animals, who let 0 down the trap door. Then the cow |. went to the slaughter house and fulfilled her destiny.?New York Times. ft White-Tie Races. Race meetings in India generally include some comic features, And the latest novelty is a "white-tie race," introduced at Kirkee. Tiio competitors ride a certain distance, dismount, .and ^ kneel before a lady while she ties a q white tie round their ueck in a. neat bow, then they remount and start for the wiuning post. Much defends on M the lady's deftness.?Chicago Times. a " d The County Court House at Yorkville e Burned. Coi.ummia, S. C\?At Yorkville Mopday mon ing, the dry goods store of d Hunter & Oates, the second floor of which contained the opera house, together with , the county court house, and two small n wooden buildings used as law offices, p were burned. Total loss about $84,000; n insurance $7,500. j Marriage of ti Methodist Minister. I? Fihbtx-Six, S. C.?Rev. A. J. Cauth 8 en, Jr., of MonticelIn station, Fairfield county, and Miss Mattie Anderson, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Anderson, who lire about five m'lcs above here, were united in marriage by the father of the groom, Rev. A. J. Cauthen, Sr., of Beaufort. Both father and son are mem* rt An Awful ^ I ? Durant, Micir -harm... nS&kG* eight-,ear-' old son of mer near here, confessed ^ ?T*??Pt to poison his pareuu b, DJJJi ^^jaria 'he well becaUhi?f8fLjfha<l >! him. His parent! two a ftr , h"nd? ?'? seriously u?1'* ?<*fcslderable stock has died 0nd Resignation of Btehoo towe0 Chari.bhton, 8. c r? W. B. ' >. Mows, bishop of the fnh' rB1 Bioce?c h?K^rv ,?iB 1 /i?" wp Wil,la'n , \e?idinK officer cf the house of b \ on * c" i ( ceunt of ill health \ A. OUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. ov. Tillman Says in His Message that the School System is a Humbug. Columbia, 8. 0'.?The General A ?bc inly of South Cumliua couvcucil nud will mtioue iu session thirty oue days. The ake up of the two houses show that itation in offire him taken hold of tin ?ters iu South - Carolina iu earnest. !uch of tho "driftwood" of which Gov. illmau complained lias been set atloat id newer timber selected. Out of 125 iciubcrs lu the House of Representatives, ily thirty-six of tho old members have jen returned. The former officers of ith houses were reelected. The speaker ' the House is Ira B. Jones of Laueast. In the Senate the caucus system as inaugurated by the Tillmanites, who ranged the officers beforehand. Gov. Tilhuau's message was transmitid to the Legislature and read. The cssage treats entirely of State issues icre being uo refercuce to Federal matrs. The Governor pronounces the resent school system a lmmbug, says tat the. slight iuercase of the assessed roperty during tho sixteen years the hite people have had coutrol indicates lat we are a very improvident and uourogressive people," or that there is a reat deal of tax dodging. He culls upi the reformers "to keep their pledges id support the South Carolina Colge, not abolish it, us recommended by le State Superiuteudeut of Education, e declared that the adherents of the d regime have largely withdrawn their itronage from the college because they >uld not have their way in controlling , and the county of Charleston, which is always supported the college zealisly has at this time no student whithin s walls." The Governor pitches into the Judges >r according what he terms "special msidcration" to banks, annd accuses lem of havinsr overridden their nower id interfered with the Executive branch i Government. The National Farmers' Congress. Lincoln, Neil?The National Farters' Congress held its final scssiou. The ixity of tne inter-States commerce law as coudemued. A resolution was pasid expressing sympathy for the Pamirs' Alliance and kindred organizations, avauuah, Ga , was selected as the place >r the next meeting in December, 1803. Death of a Prominent Carolinan. ClIAIU.hSTON, 8. C.?Col. W. II. Ivans died at Darlington, S.C.,of panda's. He was a graduate cf the tfouih arolina College and served iu the Lcgispenny. " Dangers of Too Much Jubilation. Jackson,Miss.?At a Democratic dema< tuition, Lee Daniel, a well-known aung man, had liis arm blown otT and is face badly burned by the premature ischarge of a caunon. lavontinns of the H ?nr. A machine for imbedding wire nettiug in glass. A tailor's measuring squire with a plumb bob attachment. A printing press operated by an electro-magnetic mechanism. A pneumatic cushion to be placed on the ends of telephone receivers. A process for inakiug artificial mica sheets for electrical insulation. A paper knife that is especially adapted to cutting tbo wrappers on rolled nanfira. e-r 4 . .uuiavi minus, SO that they may be arraaged at any desirod angle. An eleotrlo branding stamp, the type being kept red hot bv moans of an oloctrlcal resistance. An electrical light hanger that is adjustable to any angle by means of n universal joint. A door lock so constructed that when the key is turned it switches ou the lights in the room. A mat formed of sections, each section having a loop of rigid material with rings of rope surrounding it, the sections being clamped together. A gravity motor for pumping purposes, the weight being lifted to the top of a derrick, whence, by a clock wor\ system, it operates a pump as it slowly descends. An automatic medicine stand for the hoinoapathically inclined, consisting of two cups, two spoous and nn index that automatically marks the next cup from which medicine is to be taken. The Shark's Curl oil? Ear. Sharks have lately been atTordiug contributions to scieuce. The biologists have been vivisecting them for the purpose of finding out about the functions of tho oar, which in tishes is made tc some extent on the same pattern as iu man. The fact has beeu known foi some time that the ear is not 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 their balance in the water. The Dart on which thin facultv icnnn tn depand is tbe "labyrinth," and the fame effect is produced by cutting thi nerves communicating with it. Drank the Whiskey and Died. KtvnxviM.k, Tbnn.?Sam Lancaster, no r fellow, misju tge i his abilities. II? Jjftd-brfcVn drinking a good deal for t month or so. He walke I into a salooi and bet with the crowd there that In could drink six small beer glasses fill of whiskey ?the bet being against th? price of the w tiskcy. His wager wai taken, and he drank the six glasses o whiskey. He fell to the floor afte drir.king the last, and in a few minute; was deal. Alcoholic poisoning was th< ve diet He was twenty six years oh and a fi email on tli" E. T. V. & O. roa ' xne Homestead struts otr. Pittsburo, 1'a. ? At a meeting of the Amalgamated Assoeiati *i? nt Homestead, the gnat strike at Carnegie's works wai officially declared off. THE REALM OF FASHION. WHAT TO WEAR AND HOW THEY MAKE IT. A Visiting Cottuni?, a Fall Pelisse, and a Skating Costume. November caiicr ^ ^!'8 Rkown in the V- sketch. Her frock is V'^woo|cn ma" tfTMiJiVwjs luce. The b(Hiice on- I ^^SSSjly comes down us far the waist unci is fastened in ilie ceilier. The buck breadths have no seattis, the niddle thereof buiny indicated by a stripe and care must be taken to make the stripes perfectly correspond. TI.e jabot is niado icparntelv in embroidered batiste, silk mns lin or t'binu rrope. The bodice is ornamented by two ribbons that form a corselet. The bill Icon sleeve ?>n tight-lilt ing lining aro triuune<l with a fall of lace. The skirt is .'ut bins as visual, ami lined with sateen or silk. The bottom flounce is niudc of the same stall" as the jabot and edged with a small ruching of the same. A VI8ITINC. COaTlt.MK. Tlie garment sketched full length in the picture is a pelisse made of poplin, or broadribbed bcnglino. and trimmed with sable. The bias at the bottom, the capo and yoke are all made of maroon or brown velvet. | RfJiAvJ ...I'V-'-.o-r-v!- r^t'-sftiivignr-cAfa'r'-iB '.rimme I with fur. The yoke of velvet is adorned in front with ornaments of passementrie and at the back with a band ol fur. ^=M TTT. ' i ^11 \y 4lv:# " ?2SS#? A FAt.l rKI.ISSK. At the bottom the trimming is double. This pelisse mo be made in cloth or any other adaptable materia'. The picture givts a p onu-iindo costume 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. Tbeskirt is cut as usual on I lie bi;e", but is trimmed with a Idas of velvet idgcd by a narrow band of feathered trimming Ibis bias is lined with muslin. hemstitched onto the skirl and sewed on A rROMFNADK costl'me or sk ati no pr kmc together with the feather trimming. Th? upper part of the skirt has the dart's neeew 1 sary to make it set weil on tho hips. Thest 1 parts are very carefully sewed and pressed I and in order to make them invisible. At p the hack the dress falls in folds, Th? , bodice, which is joined to the cape, decendj [ some inches below the waist, and the front i breadths of it are lined, Tho yoke is oi \ velvetedged with feather trimming to which ^ is adapted the fold that crosses tho yoke. I This fold can bo made other in silk, the same shade ns the dross, or in different shade It gradually diminishes as far at the hack, where it entirely disappears under' math the capo. The cost, is perfectly straight is fashi-mel on muslin lining, 1 without darts and lined with silk. In cut ting the cape, ae it is somewhat difficult, it wn>!s<s )<n oetler t>.? try it in any worthies? material first, so that there will be no danger of spoiling the good fabric. It is cut out of a single piece. The pleated sleeves are sewed on to the nriuholes of the waist and trimmed with a band of velvet. The cape may bo wadded and lined with silk AN AFTER DINNER EXPERIMENT. Foucaulfa Pendulum Easily Imitated With an Orauxe and Thread. At dessert, it is possible, by means of an apple or an orange, to repeat the Koucalt pendulum experiment, which was executed under the dome of the Pantheon in 1*151, says the K'cctrl-nl Ay. Pass a match through an orange ami allow the ends to protrude on each side, and to one of these ends attach a tliread. Attach the other extremity of the thread to the head of ? pin inserted in a cork and support tho latter by means of three forks, the handles of which rest upon the edge of a nlate. N'ow cause the pendulum to.swing alter fo regulating the length of the thread that the lower point of the mateh shall come very near the bottom ol'the plate and mark its passage in mu Biuiiii circular pucs 01 powuereu sugar, designed to represent ttie circle of sand that Foucault 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 pa-s exac tly 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 plate, and consequently the forks and cork, we I find that that has 110 in/lucune uivni.i1** proof of this in seeing tlie match at every oscillation make a small furrow distinct from the preceding. We can thus demonstrate in n simple and practical manner the principal of the inv ri ability of the plane of oscillation ot the i^m dnluiu. upon which was based the ce'ehrated experiment of the French scientist. Strati to Ejosi ol Bees. The dircotuess of tho bee's flight is proverbial. The shortest distance betweou any two given points is called a I bco line. Many observers think that the immense eyes with which the insect is I furnished trroatlv assist.lf thev do not en tlrcly account for, tho arrowy straightnoss of its passage through the air. Every bco has two kinds of eyes, the two large compound onos, looking like hemispheres, on either side, and the three simple ones which crown the top of the head. Eaoh compound eye is composed of 3500 facets?that is to say, u oujc^i. la reflected StJOO times on Its surface. Every one of these facets is the base of a hexagonal pyramid, whose apex is fitted to the head. Each pyramid may be termed au eye, for eaoh has its own iris and optic nerve. Ilow these insects manage this marvelous number of eyes is not known. They nrc 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 tho line* at the juuetion of the facets. The simple eyes are suppose to have been giveu the bee to enable it to sec above its held when intent upou gathering honey from the cups of flowers. Probably this may be one re.isou, but it is likely there arc other uses for thoni not yet ascertained. A hoc flics much in the same way as a pigeon?that is to say, it first takes au upward spiral flight into the air, and thou darts straight tor the objtet in view. Now nn experimenter on insect nature covered- a i?co< simple eve with paint and sent it iut'c the nil-; instead of darting straight oil after rising, it cont.iuuc) to ascend. Apparently, then, these eyes are U9e I in some measure Indirect the fligul.?L'oai* sou's >\ eckly. "Compressed Tea." A novelty for travelers who enjoy the cup that cheers is "compressed tea." Tnis is put up by certain Kussian firms resident in Chiua. It is made of the fine dust of tcadeaves, but is none the less expensive for nil that, for it is compressed by the powerful force of steam machinery into compact tablets which take up about one-aixth the space wuich the same amount of loose toa-ieavas would occupy. These tablets are in turn enclosed in tinfoil, then in fancy paper wrapper.), and finally packed in metal lined cases. Put up in this way, the tea is considerably easier to carry, and the fine dust of the tea which is usually sold at a low price is made use of to good profit. Tacse tablets of tea i have been extensively used for some time in Uussia, for every Russian enjoys his cup of tea and knows but little about co'Teo, though the Turk, who is at his very doors, makes the very best coffee in the world. Thus far these tablets of tea 1 have not been imported to any extent into our country.?New York Tribune. Professor Baruji, tho only Parisee In tins country, arrive 1 in Bo don a few days ago and intends to enter tua Liar* I yard Medical School.