The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, November 05, 1895, Image 3
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HEBE AND hrUERE.
If the Atlantic o jetln could have a
layer of water 6,000 felet deep removed
from its sarfaco it wornld only reduce
the width of that body of water one-
half. T
In 1881 the papes mills of the
United States had a djaily capacity of
1,390,050 pound", in 1886 it was 6,-
849,38) pound", and no|w it is 14,102,-
580 pounds per diem.
A race was recently : rowed at Deal,
Eng., between four fonr-oared crews
of boatmen over 60 years of age. The
winning oarsmen averoged 70 years,
while their coxswain wys 85.
A chapel in honor of St. Paul gave
a new name to the Minnesota city. It
wrs originally called Pig’s Eye, from
a nickname given to a one-eyed
Frenchman, who kept a drinking
shanty at the place.
At the Santa Catorina cathedral,
Genoa, may be seen a ereecent made
of an emerald, which is eight inches
between the points. Tradition says
that it was a present from Solomon to
the Queen of Sheba.
The recent disturbances at Jeddah,
the port of Mecca, are said to have
been connected with a plot in Con-
stantiuople to dethrone Saltan Hamid
and replace him with his cousin, Mu
rad, the sou of Abdul Afciz.
Denver, Col., was named after James
W. Denver, au ex-governor of Kansas.
Denver is situated on the sites of tw'o
towns, St. Charles and Aurora, which
were consolidated in 1860, and the new
name adopted.
Great Britain lias been increasing
theforcoof men in her fleet year after
year, by thousands at a time, until the
total now reaches, we believe, 83,400.
Yet her estimate for the homing year
adds 5,450 to that number.
More than 100 canning factories have
been started in North Carolina this
year, and hereafter there will probably
be great increase in the number of fac
tories with each recurring fruit season
throughout the whole south.
It is said that the largest diamond iu
the world was found a short time ago in
'limres Peraagus, Bra-
f~ zil. The gem is reportd to weigh
3,100 carats, which is 2i29 carats
heavier than the largest eisting dia
mond.
The first invention of th organ has
been ascribed to Clesibinsif Alexan
dria, who lived B. C. 170. hit the pe
riod when this instrument was intro
duced into the churches if western
Europe is rather uncertain. Pope Vi-
taliau is supposed to have iI liin the first
to adopt it auout the year 6'0.
A IJia; It or u fii- Army
Tlic lio-it of this M>rt s the army
iif invnlals wbo-e bowels, livers aid stomachs
have been ro.'Ulated by Ilo-teUcihs Stoma h
Hiitprs. A regular habit of body is broucht
about through using the Bitti-r-, lot bv vio
lently a.'itatimc ami vripinfc the intestine-,
but by re nforcisiR their en’-rsjy anl causimr a
now of ilie bile into its proper channel. Ma
laria, la grippe, dyspepsia, amt a tin deucy to
inactivity of the kidneys, are conquered by
the Bitters.
. Character is its own preacher and can make
impressions upon others after it ceasi s in life.
When Nature
Needs assistance it may be bast to rendj
promptly, but one should.:
A HEAP OF RUINS.
PRESENT ASPECT OF THE FAIR
GROUNDS AT CHICAGO.
Tons of Giant Iron Trusses Taken
Out and Sold for Structural
Purposes Elsewhere—Site
of a New Park.
f
it be, in reality, a fitting cemetery of j
what was one of the world’s greatest
achievements.—New York World,
J ’ ACKSON PARK, Chicago, where
’ the World’s Fair once stood,
has become the home of the
Water-rat, the snake and the
creeping things of the earth. At the
extreme north end stands the Field
Colombian Museum, once the Art In
stitute, a forlorn reminiscence of the
onfe-time grandeur of the White City.
To the southward the ruin and desola
tion is complete. The footprints of a
thousand years could hardly have
marked it deeper. AU of the splendid
thoroughfares are obliterated and rag
weed and sorrel grow rank iu the
sand furrows of the courts. In place
of the palaces rise huge piles of
burned and twisted iron arches, and
the squares arc littered with fallen
statuary, broken glass and jungles of
wire. From the grand basin in the
Court of Honor the Statue of Liberty
still holds her gilded symbol to the
sun. The golden sheen of her gar
ments was blistered off by the fire and
the .white garments are streaked and
weather-worn. Sparrows have nested
in the curve of her huge arm. In the
midst of the flattened ruins she looms
up unseemingly large and out of
place.
LakewarJ from where she stands
rise the gray walls of Lt Rabida Con
vent in the midst of a weedy, wind
swept knoll, around tho rocky bar
riers of which the lake mumbles. Its
distance from the other buildings pro
tected it from the firei, an l the wreck
ers have not yet seen fit to remove it.
Wind and weather have disoolored the
walls and torn away part of the plas
ter, adding age and grimuess which
the builders sought in vain to conn- j
torfeit.
Around tho Art Building and Ger- j
many’s Building, which will be per
manently retained, all that section of
the grounds as far south as the Mid
way Plaisance, the landscape gardener
has atoned for the rack of time. He
has wiped out the Midway with a great
boulevard 6J0 feet wide. Gradually
he is encroaching to the south, and
when its great scheme shall have been
fulfilled Jackson Park will be a fitting
monument to the city which grew and
perished in a day.
On that memorable night in July,
1894, when fire swept the city, the
Columbian Exposition Salvage Com
pany was loser to the extent of .$225,-
000. It is now working at the tangled
masses of steel and iron to savo as
much of the wreck as may be. It is
clipping beams and girders and
trusses into short lengths for the
furnaces of rolling mills. Eighty-five
thousand dollars was paid by this
company for the salvage of the rgni
buildings. Of these t
fire tho Governj,
Woman’s Bi
CONKRGTH
1LUE LAWS.
Diamonds Worth 3Iillious.
When a diamond is found weighing
more than 100 carats the news is usu
ally heralded with much ado. It is
not to bo wondered at, therefore, if
the finding of the Excelsior created
considerable excitement. It weighed
in the rough 971 carats, and was found
near Jager’s fountain, in tho Orange
Free State. When examined it was
found to be a white stone of the first
water, but had a small llaw in the cen
ter. The inspector of the mine, a
Swede, named Jorgeson, Was tho lucky
finder. The proprietors of tho mine,
Breitmayer & Bernheimer, had the
stone tested and valued by experts,
who agreed that the value was $5,000,-
000. It is a fact that offers of
83,000,000 and $I,000,003and$2,500,«
000 respectively have been refused by
the proprietors. Upon its transfer to
the coast great precautions were taken
for its protection. A squadron of
cavalry escorted it to the railway sta
tion. In Capetown it was placed
aboard the British gunboat H. M. S.
Antelope, which brought tho precious
gem to London, where it now rests in
the fire and burglar-proof vaults of tho
Bank of England.
The «ext largest diamond in the
world is tho one owned by the Rajah
of Matan, on the island of Borneo.
This one weighs 3G7 carats. The
handsomest of all the largest diamonds
known is, however, tho one in the
French collection of crown jewels,
known ns the “Regent,” which weighs
136} carats. Louis XV. paid 3,000,-
000 francs for it, but now it is valued
at 10,000.000 francs, or $2,000,000.
How much the “Excelsior” will lose
in cutting can only be decided by
most eminent experts. As a rule, the
larger diamonds lose fully one-hilf of
their weight iu this operation. Nat
urally the catting, which is done with
a view to having as few large pieces as
possible outside tho main gem, must
be carried on with the greatest care.
In Amsterdam there are at present
five large concerns of diamond cutters,
with 872 diamond mills or cutting
wheels and 3000 hands, besides a large
number of less important concerns.—
Philadelphia Record.
Curiosities From the Koreans.
Frank G. Carpenter, writing about
the peculiarities ot Korea, 'Says’, nmona
other things:
“One of our ponies had to be shod,
and another time we put shoes on the
bull which carried the baggage. The
pony was first thrown to the ground,
and his four legs were tied together
so that he couldn’t possibly kick.
“Then the blacksmith pounded
hoop-iron shoes on his feet with a
rude iron hammer. It was the same
with the bull, though one man had to
sit on his head while he was being
shod. The iron seemed to be very
good, and the mines in
the noii^M^H^^^^^^^nntry. The
of it,
n-
n» That ,Envi>
cestors.
called Connecti
on in a history
ten by the Rev.
stor of a church
Soma of the Restrl
roned Our
The story of the 8<
cut “Blue Laws” is
of colonial times wri
Samuel Peters, once
in Hartford in rtvoluviionary days.
Here are some of Peters’ bluest laws,
all of which are identical, in a vital
sense, with old colonihl enactments:
No. 1—“The governor and magis
trates convened ard in general assem
bly are the supreme wower nnder God
of this independent upminion.”
No. 2—From the determination of
the assembly no appea l shall be made. ”
No. 10—“No one shall be a freeman
or give a vote unless he is converted
and a member in fu 1 communion of
one of the churches allowed in this
dominion.”
No. 12—“Each freeman shall swear
by tho blessed God tjo bear true alle
giance to this dominion and that Jesus
is the only king.” >
No. 13—“No Quaker or dissenter
from the established < worship of this
dominion shall be allowed to give a
vote for tho election of magistrates or
any other officer.” \
No. 14. — “No food or lading shall
bo afforded to a Quaker, Adamite or
other heretic.”
No. 15. — “If any person turns Qua
ker he shall be banished, and not suf
fered to return, under pain of death. ”
No. 16. — “No priest shall abide in
this dominion ; be shall be banished
and suffer death on his return. Priests
may be seized by anyone without a
warrant.”
No. 18. — “No one shall ride on the
Sabbath day or walk in his garden or
elsewhere, except reverently to and
from meeting.”
No; 19.—“No one shall travel, cook
victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut
hair or shave on the Sabbath day.”
No. 20. — “No woman shall kiss her
child on the Sabbath day or fast day. ”
No. 21. — “The Subbath day begins
at sunset on Saturday.” Mr. Newton,
commenting said: “The twenty-first
blue law, making the Sabbath begin at
sunset was, of course, the law of the
New’ Haven Colony, and tho law of
our forefathers down to a compara
tively recent period. Under the Mo-
sino law Sabbath begins at sunset, and
such has been the law of the Sabbath
since the evening and the morning of
tho first day.”
No. 22.—“To pick an ear of corn
growing iu a neighbor’s garden shall
bo deemed a theft.”
No. 27. — “Whosoever publishes a
lie to the prejudice of his neighbor
shall sit in the stocks, or be whipped
fifteen stripes.”
TO GAIN WEIGHT.
PALE, THIX PEOPLE USUALLY ARE
DISEASED.
The First Thine Keceiisary to Gain Flesh
is Uealth, Then Proper Food for
Uoth Body ami Xer?es.
From the Journal, Kirksvillc, Mo.
Henry Gehrke is a thrifty and prosperous
German farmer living four miles south of
[ullion, In this (Adair) bounty, Mo. Mr.
Ihrke has a valuable farm and he has been a
Jdent of tho county for^BiBL He is very
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov*t Report
Powder
Absolutely pure
CURIOUS FACTS.
History Repeats Itself.
and
has
8be
By the census of 1891 Ireland had
4,704,750 inhabitants, a decrease of
9.08 per cent in ten years.
The population of London, taking
the city at its greatest extent, amount
ed in 1891 to 4,766,661.
It has been noticed that workmen
attending pans in salt works do not
have cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever
or influenza.
France has 7,842,053 houses, of
which more than half have but one
story, 221,799 have three stories
96,487 only four stories or more.
The largest sailing ship afloat
just been completed at Bremen,
is called the Potosi, is a five-master,
394 feet long, 50 feet broad, with a
draught of 25 feet and a carrying ca
pacity of 6,150 tons.
It is said that there are in the state
of Kansas twenty well-built towns with
out a single inhabitant, and that Sara
toga, in that state, now absolutely un
inhabited, has among other buildings
a 830,000 theatre.
According to M. Gambler Bolton,
lions fetch $1,500 each, lion cubs $500
each, tiger cubs $400, a Malayan tapir
$500, a young hippopotamus $2,500,
giraffes up to $5,000 a piece, while
African elephants cannot be purchased
in -Europe at any price.
Mare’s milk is in use among the
Tartars, as it was in the days of Hero
dotus among the Schythians, and as
asses’ milk is in Abyssinia. The ass
and the mule have been in some coun
tries the royal animals on which only
kings and princes were allowed to
ride.
The Dear Creature.
Mrs. Yerger was dressed to go to i
the ball. She had on her new dress.
“You look stunning in that new
dress, but, Great Caesar! what a lot of
money it costs these hard times,” re
marked Col. Yerger.
“Lor, Charles, what do I care for
money when it comes to making you
happy,” replied Mrs. Yerger, with a
beaming smile.—Texas Siftings.
Gaswell—What picture is that?
Dukane—That is “Venus Rising
from the Sea.”
“Some society woman, I suppose. ?”
“Society woman,nothing ! Have you
never heard of the deity of the ancient
Greeks?”
“Yes; why?”
Just this: A great deal of fuss is
made about tho smallness of the mod
ern bathing suit, and it is some satis
faction to know that they were just as
email many years ago as they are now. ”
— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Found Them Useful.
Watts—Do you think it does any
good to belong to so many lodges?
Potts—Well, when I went over to
Europe I used to add the initials of
all of them to my name when I regis
tered at a hotel, and got all sorts of
deference from the clerks and waiters.
—Indianapolis Journal.
If
You
Happen
To forget the name,
just ask for the best
Self-Raising B u c k -
wheat.
YOU
WILL GET
Of course.
i*
Assurance From One Side.
“Paw,” said Tommy Tucker, “am
I descended from the monkeys ?”
“Not on my side of the house,” re
plied Mr. Tucker, with much positive
ness.—Chicago Daily Tribune.
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