The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 04, 1891, Image 6
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The Philadelphia Record avers that j In the United Kingdom of Great
“the Chine.se Restriction act has raised Britain the executions do not average
the wages pa d to Chinamen on the
Pacific coast almost double.”
Nearly twenty thonsand patents are
issued every year at Washington.
This is four times as many as are taken
'ut in England. In Prussia inventors
aspeur t; be rare birds, for the aver
age number of patents issued there
every year is only 100.
A few weeks ago an Italian brigand
chief, Domenico Nocchia, was released
from the Naples prison, after having
been shut up for sixty years. He is
now eighty-three. After an unusally
brilliant career of brigandage and
$7000 had been set upon his head, he
was condemned to prison for life in
1831.
15 yearly, while in India the average
exceeds 700.
Four years ago there were but six
factories in the village of Mariou, and
the value cf manutactured products of
the region now known as the Indiana
gas belt was said to be but $500,000.
Today there are factories in the
city of Marion, and the value of last
year’s gas-belt factory products was
more than $50,000,000.
Professor Koch should not have al
lowed his disappointment to carry him
so far as a resignation of his public offi
ces, thinks the Washington Star. A man
of his attainments should know that
the public never bears malice toward
a man who has dallied with its credu
lity. The public realizes with becom
ing grace that that is what it is here
for.
Interesting results have been dis
closed by the Massachusetts Labor
Bureau’s investigation of the ready-
made clothing industry in that state.
Statistics were furnished by 2'402 es
tablishments, of which 82G made re
turns of their net profits. The average
net profit shown by these returns is
33.05 per cent, a year on the amount
of capital invested.
A Geneva chemist claims that he
cau make pure chloroform by a new
process, in which one feature is the re
duction of the gas to 130 degrees be
low zero. As the greater part of
deaths from chloroform are due to im
purities, this, declares the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, will greatly lessen the
danger from using the drug and will
probably diminish the vogue of co-
•catne.
New York Truth
With commendable wisdom, ob
serves the New York Post, the man
agement cf the new University of
Chicago have decided to fix on a gen
eral plan for the buildings before be
ginning the construction of any of
them, making the structures to bo
erected from time to time conform to
this plan. This fall two large dormi
tories, each capable of accommodating
from 150 to 175 students, aud one
large recitation building, will be start-
?d. They will hn_i*unf»bUfld in-OctO-
year.
The San Francisco B illctin admits
that California, which is usually de
scribed by its newspapers as an earthly
paradise, complete in every detail, is
singularly deficient in song birds. The
English sparrow is charged with hav
ing driven away the linnet, which is
represented to have been abundant
in the coast countries a few years ago.
Associations have been formed for the
importation and naturalization of sing
ing birds^
It is a fact, not perhaps generally
kuo^vn, that the leading institution
for the education of the deaf, dumb
aud bliud iu the world is right here in
Washington, boasts the Star of that
city. The approaching visit of its
head, Dr. Gallaudet, to the Glasgow
congress in Great Britain to provide a
national system of education for these
unfortunates is in the line of his ef
forts to extend the benefits of educa
tion to one of the most interesting of
all classes of physically afflicted per
sons. -TliAt Great Britain, so forward
in many respect,?, to promote humane
objects, should have been so far be
hind her oldest daughter is quite re
markable. The national institute at
Kendall Green has been foremost of
all similar schools in stimulating the
education of mutes aud blind in for
eign lands, and it is a fact vastly to
the credit of this young country.
The system for keeping houses cool
about to be introduced in Kansas City
is the invention of Daniel O’Keefe of
that city, who has been at work on the
problem since 1868. He argued that
if heating houses by hot air could be
successful, there was no reason why
houses could not be refrigerated. Al
though he does not describe his sys
tem very lucidly in the Kansas City
papers, he says (hat “at the central
station there will be ammonia and air
compressers, brine and vacuum
pump^, briue and air-cooling tanks,
and receiving and discharging connec-
fions. The conduits first laid will be
twenty-two inches in diameter with
four separate chambers; the upper and
larger one will contain cold air, the
When Onr Ship Comes In.
We all have ships on the wide, wide sea
Of afterawhile; and we watch and wait;
And we wonder what their stories will be;
Or early or late.
Some see their ships in the morning gray,
When over the billows first breaks the
light;
While others, longing, wait till the day
Fades into the night.
Still others wait through the longalway,
And wait where the fortunate ones have
been,
For their absent ships. Alack-a-day,
They never come in.
— [W. J. Lampton, in Detroit Free Press.
“TO BE A LADY."
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
‘Tve brung her up to be a lady,”
Mrs. Saville disconsolately said.
“French lessons and music, and good
ness knows what all. I never wanted
no girl of mine to work as hard as i
have done. Aud this ’ere’s the end
on it!”
Mrs. Saville wrung her hands in
despair.
“I s’posc,” said Uncle Brom (the
local abbreviation for “Abraham”),
“she ain’t none too good to work.
We’ve all of us good Bible authority
for earning our bread iu the sweat of
our brows. There’s Lo-i-sy Hall,
she’s made a nice livin’ scllin’ eggs aud
spring-chickens to the boarders in
Jacksonville, and—”
“Lo-i-sy never had no boardiu’-
scbool education,” whimpered Mrs.
Saville.
“P’r’aps she ain’t none the wus for
it,” said Uncle Brom, closing his snuff
box with a significant click. “Aud Eb-
cnezer Laight’s darters earn twelve
dollars a month doin’ housework at
the Beckwith Hotel.”
“Alice ain’t no hired gal.”
“Hump! Where is she now?”
“Upstairs a-wrixin’. She’s read in
papers how them New York editors
pays big prices for poems and stories,
and she’s a mind to try her luck at the
business.”
“Oh!” L'ncle Brom said. “Postage
is cheap, lucky for you. But 1 guess
Alice won’t make her fortune outen
no such work as that. Call her down.
I want to speak to her.” #
So Alice Saville was called, and
came down-stairs—a pale, pretty girl
with wistful brown eyes, sunny imir*
and red sensitive lips. The bright hair
was rumpled over her forehead; there
was a troubled expression in the brown
eyes, and the pretty middle finger of
her left hand was steeped to the bone
in ink. Evidently, literature did uot
agree with her.
“Pretty hard work?” said Uncle
Brom, with a chuckle.
Alice laughed and nodded.
elect Com the
District, who
brougli his daughters to Jacksonville
to accelerate
of
the slow con-
Fanny, the youngest,
just up from scarlet fever,
rladys is always discovering
treasures. I wouldn’t like to
number of times that her
have been transformed back
se before her very eyes; eh,
Alice is really a gem, papa,”
Fanny, siding audaciously
sister.
ch is Alice? The little girl
t|i6 curly hair?” asked Colonel
iu ordc
valesce^ce
who w
“But
hidden
count tpe
swans
into g(
Fan ?”
“Bu
declare l
with iu
“Wi
with
Ayraul
“Ye papa. Do be kind to ber;
won’t jou? She is some relation of
Mrs. I idgitt’s, and she’s certainly a
lady by manner and education.”
“I t r to be kind to everybody;
don’t I, Fan?” archly asked the colonel.
“Yes papa; but Alice is so sensi
tive.” |
“I’m sorry for her, then,” said Col
onel A] ranlt. “If she has her own
way to nake in the world, a sensitive
nature s a sorrry endowment. And
now G1 Jys, get your peu aud ink. I
want y< i to write some business let
ters for
Rath
down h|
her de
Alice
towels
the sol
i to write some
me.”
unwillingly, Gladys laid
novel and wont to look for
In the bedroom beyond,
ic was just hanging clean
the rack and replenishing
old ewers with fresh water.
“Oh J Alice,” said she, “can't you
spare .4 few minutes, to write some
letters for papa? You write such a
beautifA', clear hand, aud—”
Alict Colored a little, but answered
“Ccrta nly,” with all due promptness,
and Git lys brought her triumphantly
into the fitting room.
There was a mischievous twinkle
uuder the grave eyelashes of the mem
ber of Congress, as he answered:
“Give me a little more time, and
I’ll see if I can’t oblige you.”
“Papa,” gasped Gladys, “is it
really—’’
“It is really Alice,” said Colonel
Ayrault. “Where is the child? Go
and capture her and bring her here to
hear her seuteuce of step-motherdom
pronounced.”
Gladys clapped her hands. Fanny,
who was solemnly listening clo e by,
brightened into radiant happiness, and
in another moment Alice Saville was
brought into the presence of the na
tional law-giver and forced to plead
guilty to the soft impeachment.
After that the secret was a secret no
longer. Everybody in Jacksouvi.Ie
knew that the wealthy widower. Col
onel Ayrault, was about to contract a
second marriage, and that his young
daughters were delighted at the idea.
Alice was very, very happy. The
member of Congress, in his grave,
quiet way, was not less satisfied; and
Mrs. Saville said, contentedly:
“It’s just as it orter be. I’ve always
brung my darter up to be a lady, and
a lady she’s goin’ to be.”—[The Led
ger.
PEARLS V* THOCOnT.
Carnivorous Parrots.
The kea, or mountain-parrot,
of
•Her
t's an amanuensis, papa,” said
she, “t at will bring you a deal more
credit t lau I can ever do.”
It wa Alice Saville’s first lesson in
writing from dictation, but she ac
quitted* herself nobly, and Colonel
Ayrault\expressed himself as entirely
satisfied.! But when the work was
fiuished/and she had blushingly with
drawn, ihe member of Congress looked
laughingly across the table at Gladys.
“My daughter,” said he, “here is
the key jio the riddle.”
-“Whantkcy, papa?” said Gladys.
“Whdffyiddlo?”
“Don^ you remember,” said he,
“the ffiysterious manuscript?”
Fanny jumped up and clapped her
hands.
“What!/ cried she, “the stray
leaves aWut Sir Alexis and the beau
tiful Qgjaldine Aubrey that were
^ xrr rtojwTjp ^ orchard
“may I
im-
it
-j.
“And this handwriting is
same.”
|pa,” cried Gladys,
ite her on being able to
fcautiful a story—to turu
Lsquisite language?”
[id Colonel Ayrault. “Say
ill. Don’t you see how it
jarrass her?”
ie really must be a genius,
the opiuion of Gladys,
hero-aud-heroine worship,
laughed Fan. “How about
New Zealand, a greenish-brown bird,
formerly as harmless as others of his
class, has developed a carnivorous
habit as fastidious as that of epicures.
It used to feed on the berries that grew
luxuriantly on the hills, but it has
changed that simple diet since the
multiplication of sheep; perhaps fires,
too, made that natural food scarce. It
now takes a terrible revenge on its un
conscious enemy. Fastening itself on
the back of a poor sheep, perhaps stuck
iu a snow-drift, and savagely tearing
away wool, skin and flesh, it plunges
its powerful beak into the kidney fat,
which it devours, and then, leaving
one victim to die in agony, goes off in
search of another. Though it is as
difficult to feel individual affection for
sheep where they are slaughtered by
the millions as it would be to care for
hogs in Chicago, the most unsenti
mental shepherd cannot refr: in from
pitying one of his own flock that he
finds in such a condition, and from in
voking maledictions on the whole race
of keas. How they found out that
kidney fat was such a delicacy can
only be conjectured—perhaps in the
same indirect manner iu which Charles
Lamb’s Chinaman discovered that
young roast pig was good; a kea saw
a sheep devouring his regular supply
of food, and defending his property
hia
tongue came in contact accidentally
with kidney fat. From that moment
the satisfaction of appetite and the
^ratification of vendetta were united.
The value of time depends on the
man who uses it.
It is as easy to rest too much as it
is to work too much.
There are a good many men who
think they are religious when they are
only scared to death.
It won’t help your own crop any to
sit on the fence and count the weeds
in your neighbor’s field.
As long as a woman never marries
a man the is in ignorance of how lit
tle she can coax out of him by a smile.
When a man does his best he is sure
to succeed, but one of the hardest
things iu the world is for a man to do
his best.
One of the first indications that a
woman is in love is that she will deny
any suggestion tha she ever cared for
any one before.
Misfortunes never come singly, for
the reason that when a man has had
one he t:o often sits down iu despair
and invites another.
After you have fallen into a pit you
begin to hear from your friends of the
many paths you might have taken that
would have led you safely around it.
As they grow older a man’s nose
grows fatter and a woman’s grows
sharper and thinner—a good sign
that it is the woman whose nose
is kept to the grindstone.
wagon-
First Use of Horseshoes.
No date cau be fixed for the first
use of shoes on horses. Horses were
not shod in Egypt, Assyria or Pales
tine. Aristotle and Pliny give us to
understand that horses doing service
in stony places had their hoofs pro
tected from breakage aud wear, but
lav* now? Isn’t aho r e a »y jn“ thi8 Jon<! “ ” ot ,ta ed ’
ily a white swan? Whiter Suetonina refers to the dismounting
I of Vespasian’s muleteer to shoe his
this, Alice Saville was the
fompanion aud favorite of the
of Congress’s two daughters, by means of twisted straw.
lo the surprise and critical re
seal of
an iron
)f the other boarders.
|n’t a bit surprised,” said Uncle
“She was brought up to be a
id a lady she’ll be to the end of
lapter, uo matter if she was
in’ floors or scourin' tins.”
one day Gladys forgot her
words of caution and un
lly reveald to Alice Saville
and Fan had found the miss-
jes all blown about the orchard,
surprise Alice burst into tears,
fladys, iu her panic and uncer-
ran into the other room where
Lryault was writing as usual.
|pa!” she cried, “papa, do come
re and see if you can corn-
dice. ”
[girls’ tears were dried in an
But Colonel Ayrault rallied
[little after a playful fashion,
>wed her the very rain-stained
^that he had found.
>n have no cause to blush for
Miss Saville,” said he. “The
arc exquisite and clothed in
mules. The horses of Japan are, or
have been until quite recently, shod
The first
mention of shoes nailed to the hoof
is in the works of the Emperor
Leo, Ninth century; and the practice of
shoeing horses is said to have been in
troduced into England by William I.,
the practice having, of course, beeu in
use in his own country previously.
Much remains to be done before horse
shoeing generally is anything like
what it ought to be. Most of those
now engaged in this business are no
better than cobblers of the most or
dinary sort, the result of their service
being no end of horses with ruined
feet, that otherwise are sound aud all
right. — [Courier-Journal.
[appropriate
bis sketch I
words.
should
Had I writ
he proud of
E d then, cheered by bis words of
ragement, she told him aK her
and fears, the dreaming aspira-
and the blighting fulfillment,
[week afterward Gladys Ayrault
to her father with flushed cheeks
tear-sparkling eyes,
s it true, papa?” said she. “Arc
o have a—step-mother?”
ie member of Congress looked
ly up from the piles of manuals
records.
Ah!” said he. “Who has been
ing to you on this subject?
Everybody is talking 1” said Gladys,
ken Alice Saville knows about it ;
she is sorry for me, I know she
for she began to cry and hurried
wheu I told her about my
lubles. Oh, papa, papa, Fan says,
I think so, too, if you wanted to
I r anybody, why couldn’t you
married Alice?”
Hats and Heads.
It has been noticed by Henry Heath,
who sends hats all over the world from
Calcutta to Peru, that diflorent nation
alities possess heads of distinctive
sizes and shapes. For instance, Ger
mans have very round heads, a peculi
arity shared by our own royal family.
The average English head is what hat
ters call a good shape—that is, rather
long. The Scotch, one is not surprised
to learn, are very long-headed.
Canadians are distinguished by excep
tionally large heads, South Americans
by very small ones. Australians,
ao’ain, have rather small heads. The
subject is an interesting one and worth
pursuing further if space allowed.
The heads of individuals also vary a
good deal from time to time, shrink
ing during illness or mental worry,
and generally becoming smaller with
advancing years. As to shape, there
is such a thing as fashion, but it only
affects mashers; men stick to much
the same shape year after year. —[Pall
Mall Gazette.
A 5ew Farm Ballad.
When I start my plough a-runnin’ in the
black aud meller ground
And the land is growin’ smaller that my
horses tramps around;
When the white-oak buds are openin’ and
the grass a growin* green,
Makes a feller think of summer as he gazes
on the scene;
When the chipmunk runs and chatters, ’cause
the plough his den ’as torn.
An’ the crows are loudly scoldin’ ’bout the
plantin’ of the corn;
When the bluebird hollers out a rail and
starts to build a nest,
Then I think that that’s the time o’ year I
kind o’ lik? the best;
But it's mighty nice, I tell you, when the
summer time is here,
With the wheat a-growin* yeller and the har
vest drawin’ near;
With the timothy iu blossom an’ the hayin’
just at hand,
An’ the mother quail a-callin’ to her peepin’
little band.
Oh, I like to watch the woolly clouds a-floatr
in’ far away
As I’m riding on the mower or rakin' up the
hay.
Then I somehow seem acquainted with each
bird or bumblebee,
An’ I think the go'den summer Is the time
o’ year for me.
—[Ohio State Journal.
HUMOROUS.
The filail Dog.
The little daughter of a United
States mail inspector tells of a favor
ite dog, a fox tenier, that seems to
have been foreordained to travel in a
postal car and sit on piles of mail-bags.
His name is Ownie—probably because
nobody owns him—and his home is ou
the mail trains and in the postoffiecs
anywhere along the line of the Boston
& Albany and the New London North
ern Railroad.
He keeps watch of the mail-bags,
and at whichever of the great termini
of the roads he happens to be, he rides
with the boys from the cars to the
office and from the office to the cars.
This is his business; during his four
years of life lie has never done any
other. An idea of the kind of dog
Ownie is may be gathered from this
specimen incident:
One night, in Albany, after the un
loading of the mail car, he started to
ride, as usual, on the bags iu the
wagon, but when the postoffice was
reached he was not on board. This
was strange, for no temptation had
ever been strong enough to 1
from his post.
The sacks were deliv<
JLh*-****** ~«*hed the
found to be missing. The
driver hurried back to look along the
streets. After searching over a good
part of his route he caught sight of
Ownie iu the gutter, wagging his
stump of a tail and sn ezing iu his
queer way to be recognized. The lost
mail-bag was there, and he was sit
ting on it.
The treasury department
“Fidelity” is the picture of
safe and a watch-dog with his paw on
the key. Somewhere in the postoffice
department there ought to be a picture
of Ownie sitting on a mail-bag.—
[Youth’s Companion.
^ a . . - —^—
How a Spider Ruined a Nation.
When the French Quartermaster,
Disjonval, was confinrd iu prison by
the Dutch at Utrecht ho sought to be
guile the tedium of his prison life by
attentively studying the habits of the
spiders which frequented his cell;
and eight years of imprisonment gave
him leasure to be well versed in their
ways. In December of 1794 the
French Army, on whose victoy over
the Dutch depended Disjonval’s res
toration to liberty, were in Holland,
and the victory seemed certain if the
frost,which was then of unprecedented
severity, continued.
The Dutch envoys had failed to
negotiate a peace, and Holland was
dispairing when the frost suddenly
broke. The Dutch were now exult
ing and the French Generals prepared
to retreat; but the spiders of Disjou-
val’s cell forewarned him that the
thaw would be cf short duration, and
he knew that his little insect weather
monitor never deceived him. Accord
ingly he contrived to coir manicatc his
weather knowledge to tbe army of his
countrymen, and its Generals who
duly cs i mated his (Disjouval’s) char
acter, relied upon his assurance that
within a few days the waters would
a"-ain be frozen so as to be passable to
French troops. They delayed their
retreat; within twelve days a sharp
freeze set in, and the French Army
triumphed. Disjonval was released,
and a spider had brought ruin to the
Dutch nation. — [St. Louis Republic.
High tied—weddings of nobility.
How to got fat—Go to the butcher
and buy it.
Perspiration has the drop ou the
public at large.
If tastes didn’t differ restaurants
would have an easy time.
The assessors tax a man aud theu
the collector “nails” him.
The scholar who takes the first
prize in arithmetic is ouly a figure
head.
The more the girls pine for some
young man the more spruce they be
come.
A sailor is a lightning change man.
Iu a twiukliug ho cau turu into a
hammock.
Maud—Is it true that you are in love
with Mr. Bullion? Clara—Mercy, no!
Pm only engaged to him.
Quericus—What have you being do
ing up in the country? Citicus—Oh,
just fishin’ and lyiu’ around.
“Didn’t get no pwizc climbin’ de
greased pole, did ye, Eph?” “No, but
I got ’bout a poun’ o’ tol’able lard.
Out West they judge an expert
hangman as they do a ship—by the
number of kuots ho can make iu an
hour.
Mrs.
hours. JuTIgS^^B^, I’ll give 3
days.
“Gertrude refused Tom four times
before she married him,” said a girl
to her friends at the seaside. “Ah, I
see. It was a case of well shaken be
fore taken.”
She (fishing for a compliment)—Do
you think my voice needs cultivation?
He (anxious to pay her a compliment)
—Not at all, not at all. Cultivation
couldn’t improve a voice like yours.
“And you say you would die fot
me? I’m afraid you’re not as brave
as that.” “Am I not? Why, I show
my fearlessuess of death every time 1
come into your presence.” “How is
that?” “Because you always look so
killing.” That settled the business.
“Doctor,” said a grateful patient,
seizing the physician’s hand, “I shall
never forget that to you I owe my
life.” “You exaggerate,” returned
the doctor mildly; “you owe mo tot
only 15 visits. That is the point which
I hope you will not fail to remember.”
A Modest Request.
Condemned—Do you usually grant
the last requests of the condemned?
Executioner—Y es.
Condemned—Will you do some
thing for me?
Executioner—I’ll try old fellow.
Condemned—Change places with
me. _ . -
Royal Kitaes.
When the royal family of England
received their royal relatives, the Em
peror and Empress of Germany, they
kissed as affectionately as if they were
ordinary people. Kissing is a notice
able feature in the reign of Victoria
the Good. And the custom is marked
by a sad fact—the death of the Prin
cess Alice, daughter of the queen, who
could not deny the request of her
child dying of diphtheria aud kissed
him, inhaling the poison and dying
herself within a few days.—[Detroit
Free Press. —
Last of the Norridgeweeks.
For many years John Sabattus, the
last of the Norridgewock tribe of In
dians, lived at Vasselboro. There he
spent the latter portion of his days,
and acquired the high esteem of the
white men far and wide. He was a
tall man, over six feet in height, and
possessed of great strength and power
of endurance. W hen General Arnold
marched his army on his celebrated
expedition northward through the
woods of Maine, John Sabattus was
his guide. The services he thus ren
dered arc by no means slight.
When the expedition was over he
made Vasselboro las home, and here
is his grave. No stone marks hia
resting place, and it is only a few oi
the oldest people around that can
identify the spot. Had some James
Fennirnorc Cooper written of him aa
Cooper did of the “Last of the Mohi
cans,” doubtless an imposing monu
ment would have towered above hia
remains.—[Fairfield (Me.) Journal.
Speed in Tunnel Building.
The speed with which a tunnel can
be made now, when the conditions
are favorable, is remarkable. The
Vauxhall and Southwark Water Com
pany of London has just built a tun
nel, nine feet in diameter, beneath the
Thames at Kingston. There are two
! noteworthy points about this subway;
the first that the roof of it is only
three feet below the water in the rivet
bed, and the second that it was con
structed in nine weeks. The material
pierced was clay, and the system em
ployed wtts that of laying iron platea
behind a circular shield.—[Boston
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