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V) Out of 2,000,000 people who in habit New York city only 18,000 own homes. Brazil and Mexico have adopted the American locomotive on their rail ways, and many other countries are following' their example. 0. r President Ilippolyte’s fifteen predecessors in Hayti, only one served out his term. All the others fled, were exiled, or wore killed. As most people know. Schultz is t very common name among Germans A striking illustration of that fact it found in the city directory of Berlin, which has nearly 200 pages of citizent bearing that name. And in certair departments of the city government ! there are numerous sub-departments. ; each having a difierent set of clerks,t< 1 take care of special divisions of th« Schultz family. The right to vote at the age of 18 ia one of th« especial privileges of the young men in Venezuela. Another is the fact that the girls are allowed to marry at 15. Japan started the fashion in the East of Europeanizing her institutions. This has been followed in Siam by the founding of a university with a German professor iu the chair of phys ic*. The perils of the sea do not seem to be s » very terrible when it is shown that out of 500,000,000 passengers carried last year on American waters and from American ports only 65 lives were lost. Some idea of the magnitude of the steam and electric plant proposed foi the Chicago world’s fair may be gath. ered from the statement that 24,000 horse power is to be provided foi driving the machinery. The power al | the Centennial Exposition in Philadel- I phia, was about 2500 horse power, and at Paris 6000 horse power was found sufficient. It is evident there fore that if all the power provided is used at the world’s fair exposition there will be aa enormous exhibit oi machinerv. Achievement. Trust In thine own untried capacity As thou wonldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from tho whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and nnfathomed as the grandest sea. Thy silent mind o’er diamond c.ives may roll, Go seek them—but let pilot will control Those passions which thy favoring winds can be. No man shall place a limit on thy strength; Such triumphs as no mortal ever gained May yet be thine if thou wilt but believe In thy Creator and thyself. At length Some feet will tread all heights now unat tained— ^Vhy not thine own? Press on; achieve! achieve! * —[Ella Wheeler Wilcox. There are 40,000 women studying in the various colleges in America. And yet, marvels the New' York Com mercial Advertiser, it is only 25 years since the first college in the land was opened to women. Fruit-growing on irrigated lands in Victoria, Australia, is having marked enecess. From 16 acres of vines 22 tons of raisins were made last season, and the effect of irrigation on fruit trees which are just coming to matu rity is highly satisfactory. The New York Witness muses: Cali fornia has just acquired a new lake where an arid desert used to be. Florida has lost a lake, Alachua, fif teen miles iu length, in which alligat ors have swarmed for fifteen years. Both changes are attributed t» subter ranean drainage, but neither could have been anticipated, and neither could have been brought about by hu. man agency without an immense ex penditure of time. These occutrences are only slight reminders of the truth that the earth's crust, which seems so solid, is scarcely thicker in proportion than an eg x shell, and not nearly so tough, so that a very slight commo tion of tho liquid interior might at any time upset all our calculations. The Salvation Army have purchased and equipped a fine buck-wagon with full tent, and a span of 18 oxen, and have dispatched an expedition com prising six “army” officers into Mashonul iud, South Africa, to look at the prospects for tho agricultural and pastoral development of that region. Recently publi hed statistics show the enormous wealth and power of the foreign steamship companies which do business out of the port of New' York and maintain offices in that city. There are about 50 foreign lines in all. with an aggregate tonnage of 2,855,249. They include 80 British lines, with 1,973,851 tons; five German lines,with 345,599 tons; five French companies, with 278,521 tons; otie Italian com pany, with 162,278 tons; three Dutch companies, with 79,593 tons; one Danish company, with 11,938 tons, and one Belgian company, with 2879 tons. The magnitude of the figures con cerning the operations of the railways of the United States presented in Poor’s Manual is indeed wonderful. When it is remembered that the total revenue of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1891, was 392$ millions the vastness of the earnings of the railroads, 1086 millions, may perhaps be better appreciated. The net earnings of the roads, 341 millions, almost equals the gross receipts of the United States. And then as to traffic, it is hard for the mind grasp the figures. About one and a half mil lion passengers a day, and every day in the year, almost two million tons of freight per day and an average of revenue train mileage of over five millions per day. cot vo The greatest deficiency in the Rns- .aia,u ^ far mare important,declares the Boston Cultivator, than the shortage on wheat. A good deal of wheat is usually ex ported, probably about half the crop. The rye is almost wholly used at home, as it is the staple food of the mass of people. The deficiency in rye is es- timated at 60 per cent., and the full crop is 600,000,000 bushels. Culling it 50 per cent., and here is 300,000,000 bushels to be supplied from some source. It will bo impossible for Rus sia to export any of its wheat crop, unless its people are to be allowed to starve. The usual wheat crop is 200,. 000,000 bushels. This year it will be only 150,000,000. An innovation in railway travelling, so far us the Continent is concerned, is to be tried in Switzerland. In tho Jura theie is a large village, or small town of 6000 inhabitants, called Sl Croix, which is situated at an altitude of about 2300 feet above the plain. St. Croix has for some time been anxious to have a line of railway which would connect it with the Jura-Simplan sys tem at Yverdon, situated on the plain. Several plans were prepared, but be fore anything definite had been set tled a wealthy philanthropist, named William Barbcy, ottered to make the line at bis own expense upon the one condition that for a period of twenty- five years traffic should be entirely suspended on Sundays—that is to say, between midnight Saturday and mid night Sunday. The proposal was accepted. The anti-vaccinators have been worsted badly in Switzerland, where the subject of late has been the cause of some professional and much politi cal agitation. So much feeling on both sides was exhibited in Berne that the cantonal authorities requested the Chinirgica! Society to discuss the question and give an official opinion upon it. Accordingly, at the regular annual meeting of the society at Macolin, attended by many of the most distinguished medical men of the country, there was a prolonged debate, which ended in the adoption of a reso lution that in vaccination we have the best and safest prophylactic yet known against the disease of smallpox, and that the principle of compulsory vac cination should have a place in the new law for the regulation of public health. Ou the other hand, with re spect to state compulsion of vaccina tion, dim precaution must be taken, lu the public interest, that the practice be carried out under every possible guarantee of sound vaccine matter and of professional skill. The report was agreed to almost unanimously. Reports of the progress of the sci entific expedition sent to the North by Bowdoin College are given in the respondence of some of the to Maiue newspapers. . Tigolette, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, tells of a vioit to Esquimau village on Fox Island, whose population were found in much better circumstances as regards enlightenment and comforts than the visitors’ prepossessions led them to expect. Their ac:ual condi tion is tlius described : “We had ex pected to find the people ignorant and uncouth, but to our amazement found them living in much better houses than do tho people of Red Bay or Henley’s Harbor. We learned that some of the younger members of the different families could both read and write. As for personal appearance, while they had the Esquimau broad shoulders, narrow foreheads, and straight hair, yet they were decidedly bettor looking than Newfoundland fishermen, whom we found along the coast. We found here, as at the other places, that the people have no medi cine to give the sick, nor nourishment to give the convalescent The New foundland government, it is true, sends a physician on each mail steam er to visit these poor people, but his visits are few and very brief, in other words, are simply a farce.” The ves sel of the expedition in running through a group of icebergs knocked a corner off one, and the whole lofty mass, its equilibrium being destroyed, toppled over into the sea. The mem bers of the expedition give concerts made up of college songs with banjo accompaniment, to conciliate or terri fy, the natives at points which they touch. I’amlles from a Tree. “Japan wax,” as it is called, is ob tained from a tree, the rims succeda- uea, which grows in Japan, China, md the East Indies. The Japanese rail it liaje or haze. The tree com mences to bear fruit when five or six rears old. and increases its product •very year, till at the age of 90 years i single tree will produce from 350 to 100 pounds of berries, from which 70 :o 80 pounds of wax can be obtained. Che wax is formed in the middle of he berry, between the skin and the ;eed, like the pulp of a grape. It is extracted by boiling the berries t water and allowing it to cool, when :he wax separates from the skin and teed, sinking to the bottom of the ves sel in a solid cake. The specific gravi- :y of this wax is 0.970, and its melt ing point 131 degrees Fahrenheit It is largely used, either alone or mixed with tallow, by the Chinese in the ■n tutifactu: e of candles. This tree ! -lioitld not he confounded with the ; ••i.iliow tree” of China, which has a I i di of solid tallow iu all trees fully | *. tured.—fclan Francisco Chronicle. | TALE OF A "PHONO.” The little village of M—, situated at an cqui-distance ou the north, south, cast and west from several manufac turing towns, was unique in its isola tion. Its people were staid, slow-go ing and conservative. The only com munication with the outside world was had through a weekly mail coach —a “ramshaokly” affair drawn by a pair of equines that had ’seen their best days long before they were util ized as the motive power of the stage. The inhabitants of the town and sur rounding country were perfectly con tented and happy. Indeed, progres sive citizens of the larger towns, de siring to awaken their somnolent neighbors and enter the rich agricul tural region lying contiguous, had ou repeated occasions, surveyed routes for railroads through M—; but the townspeople and country folk arose en masse in their opposition to this invasion of their pastoral peaceful ness, invariably defeating the benevo lent schemes of the railroad mag nates. Such a thing as a sensation in the sleepy old town had been unheard of since the last attempt to locate a rail road though it failed. However, one Thursday, when the swge, at a snail’s pace, drew up at the door of the vil lage postoffice and general notion store, and a passenger alighted, an utter stranger, his appearance in the village created something akin to a sensation. Rumor and conjecture as to who was and what he was were rife, wheu it was learned that he ws habit an old two-story frame the outskirts of the town been vacant for some ye people were in a fertn and inquisitiveness, gontlen ad li \V ve. ■as ibitj incorporated into the every-day rou tine of their town, and the interest aroused by his first appearance among them was forgotten. Although nothing certain could be learned of his reasons for settling in M , it became a generally accepted fact that Mr. Dison had chosen this retired place to conduct a series of experiments, which he had in hand, the result of which it was very de sirable and important should be kept secret Of the specific nature of these experimeuts uothiug could be learned. No one was ever admitted to the in side of his house, and how this rumor could have become circulated and ac cepted as the truth was a mystery. Nevertheless it wa» a satisfying ex planation to the simple villagers. Mr. Dison, outside of his home, mingled with the people on a footing of equal ity, his affable manner and genial t«*in- perameut causing him to be liked and esteemed by r the whole town. Occa sionally', however, some one more bold than the others would interro gate him as to the experiments he was engaged in, but this attempted inva sion of his secret would promptly be repulsed. "Wheu ho had resided in the town some five or six month*, no one was rash enough to ask the old gentle man the result of his inve ligation*. In the year 1876, when Mr. D son had lived in M three years, his goings and comings were as unob served and created as little interest as those of tho older inhabitants. One Thursday morning, when the usual crowd was gathered around the postoffice awaiting the arrival of the stage coach, Mr. Dison was found to be missing, contrary to his wont, from the assemblage. “I haven’t seen him for three days past,” said Sam Hall, the postmaster. “Nor I, nor I,” half a dozen in the crowd observed. A silence fell over them, and several shook their heads ominously, though why it would be hard to tell. “If ho don't put in an appearance by tho time the mail comes in, boys. I move that we make a visit to his house and see if there’s anything the matter,” continued the postmaster. In a few minutes more the stage pulled tip. the mail was thrown out and distributed. “A letter for Mr. Thomas E. Dison,” called out Hall. “Has he come yet?” He was answered in the negative, and then said: “Well, come on, gentlemen, weTl go to his house.” The postmaster in the lead, with the crowd following, proceeded t# let. Traversing the one long street, in the bright mojruing sunlight, they arrived at Dison’s home at the extreme end. As the hoi ise came within view, some what obi cured from the street by large locu st trees in the front yard, it presented[ as the villagers afterward said, a weird and uncanny aspect. The witi(|ows and doors were closed— not a sign of life was visible. Knock ing and rjeceiviug no answer,they scat tered and went to work investigating and seardliing the grounds. Aback door was fouiid open, through which they' entered.fading themselves in the room evidently used as the kitcheu. Dirty dishes hud cooking utensil* were strewn kround just as they had been left—from their appearance—three or four daws before. The rest of the furniture ou the first floor was iu its proper jjflace and undisturbed. Pass ing frotii the down stairs to the second story, the self-constituted investigators found tliicmseves at the entrance of a room opening off a hall. The door was ti inly locked, and, seemingly, the only- one in use ou that floor. It was m.anifestly the workroom in which pisou couducted his experi ments. ! “How shall we get in, fellows?” said Tom Jones, a big, strapping countryman. “Break iu the door?’ “Ilo'ld on, Tom,” Hal said, as Jones put his shoulder to the door, prepara tory to carrying out his suggestion; “maybe some of the boys have a key that will fit the lock.” Several men stepped forward with bunchks of key's, and among them one was fdmnd which opened the door. Sam Hall, the postmaster, was the first fo cross the threshold. As he made a step or two ho uttered a loud exclamation and pointed to the middle of th^j room. Lying under a large table was the body of Dison. Upon investigation it was discovered that a long knife wound in the breast was the cause of death, although probably not immediately. The apartment was torn up and everything in confusion, as if a desperate struggle for life had corner of open, and the akert place. A safe in the the K>om was blown conclusion was naturally drawn that lime had been committed for the ise of robbery. Ou the table above the dead man was leuliar looking machine. The |ers had seen nothing like fore. When the excitement by the discovery of the murder tomewhat subsided, an exatnina- Kis made of the machine. The btus consisted of a tube having pen mouthpiece at one end, and tg a the other end a thin dia- tn of metal or other substance, ft sharp point or stylus affixed to Tnher 'apparatus consislled of a cylin der about four incites" in diameter, having on its periphery a V-shaped groove cut spirally from end to end. Over this grooved cylinder a sheet of wax was placed and advanced till the point of the stylus lightly touched the wax oveL_tUe opening oT the V- shaped cut. The cube yvith the mouihpiece was within the cylinder, which had a handle for turning it. The instrument caused a great deal of speculation as to what is was, but nothing could be made of it, although it had the appearance of being used. ***** The result of the inquest i.nd a full account of the murder were published in the county paper, but no one ap peared to identify the dead ijian. No clue to the perpetrator of the crime could be gleaned, the town a d county authorities doing all in their power to ferret out the guilty person. The deed remained a mystery. The owner of the house in which Dison had lived took possession of the murdered man’s effects, stowing away in the garret the instrument found in his workroom, where it was forgotten. In time the story of the only crime of its kin i ever committed iu the village became a tradition—and more. nograph, and incidentally explaining the working of the invention, stopped at M . After the entertainment, one of the townsmen, J. C. Nettleton, approached Laurens and claimed that lie once knew a gentleman who had invented the phonograph prior to Thomas A. Edison. This claim natur ally aroused the curiosity of tho ex hibitor, and be asked for proof to substantiate it. Nettleton took Laur ens to his home, and from a garret lit tered with rubbish resurrected a ‘re ceiver’ identical with Mr. Edison’s. Laurens, on examining it, perceived a series of indentations on the wax, in dicating that it contained a message. Mr. Laurens, learning the circum stances under wnich Nettleton had be come possessed of the ‘receiver’ was eager to use it in his phonograph. When the cylinder crank was turned this is what it revealed: “‘I, TohmasE. Dison, have been murdered by Sam Hall, the postmas- :er of this town, for the purpose of robbery. Hall knew that I received large sums of money through the mail. 1 have no strength to say more, but if this wonderful instru ment, which is the fruition of long years of study, becomes known, what I have spoken into the “receiver” will tell who my assassin is. May God have mercy on my soul, and for—.’ “Such is the story of tho detection and conviction of Hall. If Laurens had not giveu his exhibition in M , probably the guilty perpetrator of the horrible crime would have remained unknown for years to come, as the people iu the staid little burg had never—up to the time of Laurens’ arrival in the town—heard of Edison’s invention for the transmission of sound. What makes it more remark able is the effrontery and subtility dis played by Hall. He it was,when Dison had not been seen for several days, who suggested that a search bo made for the missing man. No one sus pected that Hall was tho principal in such a terrible crime, and his arrest stirred M from centre to circum ference.”— [Atlanta Constitution. TIE 1ST me LM Watches, An Obedient Egg. “This is a queer egg you have given me, mother,” said Woodruff’ at tho breakfast table; “see how it stands on its smaller end!” Every one at the table ;ooked up in astonishment. Sure enough there the egg stood as Wood ruff" had said, and what was more wonderful still, in perfect balance on the brim of a bowl. The boy took it down, and lo! it as sumed a slanting position on the edge of the table, seemingly in the act of falling down and yet not falling. All the girls »lmost screamed in their tre of Jts outer surface. Au-^ amazement. ' ' - * 10 k Next Woodruff took the egg and put it iu a difierent position again on its broad end, and finally clapped it, as it were, slanting on the head of a bottle of mineral water. The positions which an obedient egg may be made -4o-asiUTtie “are not all told here. It may be placed in any other position at tho will of the person who handles it It can stand on end, sideways, inclined to the right or to the left, half reclin ing, etc. The preparation or “fixing” to ob tain such an obedient egg is very sim ple. Let an egg be emptied through a small hole aud then thoroughly dried. Put into it about two thimble fuls of tine, dry sand, and plug the hole with white wax. Tho sand in side will act as ballast, and by slightly shaking the egg thus “fixed,” you can change at will the centre of gravity and make your shell assume any po sition you like to the amazement of beholders. nothing .Another mail day, three years af terward, and frem the appearance of the town of M one would suppose the inhabitants of the whole place were collected around the-postoffice. Such, indeed, was the fact. A stu pendous event had taken place iu their quiet little habitat. Grelit interest was depicted on the faces If the as semblage. They were wfiitiug for their weekly papers. I At last the mail coach whs seen in the distance, coming up 1 the main street, the horses in a br^sk trot—a pace, it is safe to say, tbes|y had not struck for years. As it |rolled up in front of the store and tha mail was carried in, the crowd bee time wildly impatient. “Read the news out lonff!” shouted the people. One of tljie number mounted a barrel, paper iu hand. Quiet prevailing, he read: “Sam Hall, formerly and postmaster at M A Man of Nerre. A pretty exhibition was given by the students of Springfield Medical College under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association. It was the resuscitation of a man who had been smothered by smoke. In a large hall had been erected a wooden struct ure, which was filled with Roman candles, firecrackers aud other com bustibles. Iu the midst of all these the unfortunate had been placed for suffocation and the building fired. Shortly afterwards the victim of the experiment was taken from the house of smoke in a thoroughly unconscious condition. lie was put through a process of pumping aud rubbing and in the course of thirty minutes was again walking around the hall. This Mr. Taylor thinks the quickest process he has ever seen for bringing to life a person who had been smothered or one who w'as suffocated from smoke. storekeeper is convicted and sentenced to be hung. The story of the crime is one of the most sensational on record. Three Dison, a w'ell- murdered in No clue to the crime was dis- years ago, Thomas E. known inventor, was M covered at the time and j died out. Some mouths! ever, William Laurens, t^rhile travel ing through the small towns of the state giving exhibitions wjith the pho- the matter ago, how- >Y!iat the Waiter said. A witness was testifying that he met the defendant at breakfast, aud that the latter called the waiter and said: “One moment,” exclaimed the coun sel for the defence. “I object to what he said.” Then followed a legal argument of about an hour and a half ou the ob jection, which wa* overruled, and the court decided that witness might state what was said “Well, go on and state what was said to the waiter,” remarked the winning counsel, flushed with hia legal victory.” “Well,” replied the witness, “he said: ‘Bring me a beefsteak and fried potatoes.’”—[Boston Globe. Clock Silver Ware, Plate X War Souvenir Spoons and Jewelry WESSELS BROS., Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C. ' \ A FULL LINE OF OPTICAL GOODS Always on Hand. / Tests To All. FALL OPENING, 1891. J. 0. RIVES KB:, We Are Now Ready. Oor Stock is Complete. Thanking the public for their patronage in the past and soliciting i,t in the future, we are now ready and willing to show the public our bargains. 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