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VOL. I. CAMDEN, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1874. NO. 4">.
Washing1 Cp and Washing Down.
Thus to a king, one day, who *11 the time wu
grumbling,
His subjects would uot mond (hinuelf mean
while uot humbling).
Said Las chief counsellor and fool when aaked .
by him,
What made him look to-day bo gloomy aod eo |
grim ;
J3*: 1 he. Tiie cause is thia : t bade the maid !
who washes
f*cnib down the palace steps with water and '
with ashes.
The stupid jade, iustead of doing aa I told her,
Washed up the step*, not down, for which Ihad '
to scold her.
For on the lower step, her sense might have
taught her,
Would run from those above a flood of dirty i
water,
Xr.d so I said to hor, Your labor is in vain :
You have to mop each step over and o'er
a?aiu!
I said it several times (my words wore vain as
air):
Beginning from below you'll never clean one
stair,
I say again, If thou wouldst make the steps all ,
shine,
Scour downward from the top : O King, begin
with thine'
DOWN IN THE MINES.
You see, said the old lady, fath er woh
what you might call unfortunate in liia
younger days. If 'twant in one way
twaa in another. Work hard an ever
he c6uld he could never git ahead. So
?when one of the children was down
?with the chills, and Mar.y A*an had her
hands full, and I was only twelve, and
Bea^y w?a just born, there came the
hardest stroke of all. Tbe mill stopped
work.
I'll never forgit the day father came
home with that awfu'l down-look on his
face. We knowed what it meant well
enough. We'd seen it afore, plenty o'
times. It meant bread without butter,
no sup^ar, and water instead o' tea.
Th'ire waB seven of us then. Polly
Ann., she was the oldest, Margy, our
b aauty, she oame next, then I, then the
wtiatwe'd a done without her. She
kept all our spirits up, and was always
humbling and laughing when to home.
One' day poor father came home look
ing lighter hearted than usual. It
seemed to me that meant work, and I
wasn't mistaken. 4.
" I lieerod thej^ wanted a hundred
hinds over the hill to Jessup's Cut,"
h? said, looking at Polly A.nn ; " so I
wmt this noon, and I got tbe situation.
Itn good wr?ges for us."
" I'm so glad," sighed mother.
M ithor was a delicate little woman,
wth a good deal of the lady in her,
por thing ! She used to worry so be
c*se her children couldn't be eddioa
'tdi; hut I don't see that they haven't
" aloncf as well as the generality o*
s. It was pretty to see her pale
, and how
?f:
w
?pr "
r>^n
ks flush up, and how she kisssd the
ite of r\ baby to hide hor tears !
?'What's the situation, pa?" asked
Polly Ann, putting an extra pinch ol
ten into the tea-pot.
" O, well, it's a paying one," said
father, rather evasivo like.
"Ain't no factory to JaSsup's Cut,"
says Polly, thinking ??I didn't know
there was anything put mining goin' on
over there," and then she stopped aod
looked rather r.aeer, and mother turned
her face rou'^d ao's to oatch father's
eve, but fa'.her'seye didn't seem tpcare
about be\n' canght.
it isn't going down there, is
it?" mother asked, all the oolor gone
oni of her cheeks.
" Nancy," said father, in a solemn
sort of voice, " we must livo."
" O, dear Tx>rd !" that was all wo
heard, and then I knew mother waa
crying, she was looking at the baby so
close.
ine's nothing happened* for
^Ather spoke up by-and-by ;
best mine in the oonnty.
jke*l th< ie Ml his life, and
hotilM. j?*t what
" he turnea ta jpother;
ttid i pa!
f Hght at the
?tspkand'
and the kittens e*n ,
Father always railed f
-.wS, *
settled, and mother wm
tin ua?d to Ihings. v>
r^th.uk there n?tw
roomed house. Why, I've sot there of
a moonlight evening, when the light !
streamed over the hills and down into
the black gorges, and made the top ot !
the trees seem as if they were swimming
in a melted silver?I've sot there at.d j
looked over miles and miles of rolling
country, all brightened with rivers and |
miners' home, and wonderful moun
tains, and jest lost myselt for hours I
together^ till I'd almost forgot I was a
mortal Greater. Mother enjoyed it. She
had an eye for the beautiful always,
und would talk of God and His works i
to us children.
For a long time mother was anxious
about father. She couldn't seem to |
help feeling that there'd be uu explosion
or something terrible happen from one
dav to another, but by-and-bye, seeing
futner always come home regular, eho
got over the fear more or less.
Our neighbors are mostly rou(?b
people, but they all got al.0*jg vrith
mother. I don't know w'QO couldn't
she was so gentle like. Tho a?ent he
lived not far off fror-, a6_a man t'hat
had raised himself nom a poor station
and was tolerably rich.
Well, two y ear8 pa88ed on and noth
ing humai^ ever did grow so sweet and
beautif*a[ as oar ftjargy. O, I couldn't
be?m to tell you what a lovely little
thing she was, with doves' eyes and
a voice like an angeL
The agent, he often come to our
house, for he likod father, and gave
him opportunities that made the other
men jealous sometimes. Margv was
his favorite, of course. She took to
learning so natural, that ho used to eet
^iei: .BUU18 *od give her leesona in
writing. Once he brought her a beau
tiful aooordeou, and what does the
girl do but play "Sweet Home" the
I very first thing, and she never had her
hands on one before.
One night, says he, " I'm goin' to
retire into private life, and give mj
nephew Bfn a ohance. He wants to go
in for hi jiself, and there's the making
of a irian in him. Ben's in Philadelphy
no*7 ; but he'<J coming on next week
*.nd I'll fetoh him over. There's a
something I've got on my mind," and
then ho kind o' chuckled, and we hoped
it was a promotion oocoing for father.
?"* * sure enough, over
be sure he was
but that wore off in
before we know it he
g lessons to Margv on tho
I teaching her shorthand and
of things.
The neighbors got pretty jealous of
us, and sometimes called -ub "Them
stuck-up Freebbraes." It was a fact
that we got all the improvements to our
house that we ever wanted, and that
the agent and his nephew were over
there a goodish part of tho time, but it
was all on account of my beautiful
sister.
I s pose they'll have tlio nicest
house there is here, sometime," we
heard that they said, but didn't sense
what they meant. For the agent's
house was the handsomest one, and
stood facing the most beautiful prospect
you ever looked upon, and had ten
rooms with marble mantles and all the
modern oonveniencea.
Well, we didn t think it had gone so
far, when mother told us that little
Margy was asked, and that his uncle
v'lu "'Id about it, he was so de
lighted. I suppose it di4 make us a
lrttlo proud, for I thought it over in
oboroh, and began to see that I was
lifted np a bit to think bo mncli of hay
in Ben for a .brother in-iaw. As for
Margy, she was as happy and as
beautiful as an angel. She a learned to
phiy lovely on the guitar ; boat Beu all
to piece*. The weddin'-dav was set ;
t ie weddin' was to take place in the
agent's house, lie was sot on that.
Don t you give yourself no trouble
about it," ho said to mother. " I'll
have everything up from Philadelphy,
and all you, #As if got to do is to
dress np ana cotuu over in a reasonable
time."
So as ho took* matters into his own
hands, we didn't worry^ Ho give the
loveliest white silk to Mai-gy, and a real
veil, and everything of.tho beet and
finest. Margy was so sweet and lovely,
not a bit set np at her good fortune,
but modest and quiet as ever.
Well, the time had all butoome; the
weddin' was to be at five in the after
noon, and all the men that cowfd be
spared were to have a half hof&day, and
there was to He a srrpper on ike green
after the weddin', for everybody. We
had just got Margy nicely dressed when
tbnre came a sound like a thousand
thunders, and all of a sudden the air
was quite black. Then we heard an
awful screening, and somebody oame
canning to the hotise, shouting out:
^ e*PJoaitfn. Ben
1 a time may I never
Qidtif faint, but she
' eyes staring and as
Not onoe did she
r? ?* though
mother got
? couldn't flnd4KW rfglhly about
?!**? ? nafonte, and
the^HHi
poor eraaturas that had
lost their all, and Margy sitting there
so still and white, and mother Bobbing,
and father on his knees in the back
room, and we all breaking our hearts
ovef the trouble.
I was just looking at the clock, which
was on the atroku of'five, .when sud
denly there was a louder voice than
ever, and Margv threw up her hands
and gave the strangest cry I ever heard
?u my life. Then she begun to sob like
a child.
" Where is she ? Tell her I'm safe
and 6onnd. I did go down, but I only
staid a moment ; don't hinder me, boys.
I took .Dandy and went over to Block
leys : thought I should be back sooner,
but Dandy went l^me. O Margy, Mar
gy ! my little girl | God be thanked.
He has spaced me," and -well yoti may
guess bmatters went on after that.
T-j gee the tears making great white
streaks down the black faoefl, to hear
the hurrahs that went up, even from 1
some poor fellows who had lost their |
own, was something that don't happen !
i but once in an ordinary lifetime.
Yes, the weddin' took place. Margy
said no ; but the agent would have it.
He was very solems, and so was every
! body; but you see he had given up
1 Ben. Before that he had b^Wl a rough
! sort of a man, fond of his joko and apt
| to say whatever came into his head in
the way of swearing, but you never
heard an oath out of his lips after that,
and ho seemed another person like.
Every Sunday he waa as regular to
church as the minister, and he was so
soft-spoken to his men, that they didn't
know at first how to take it.
It seems that Ben had found that
some little matter of business hadn't
been attended to in the press of mat
ters, and he hadn't a minute to sparo ; ]
so he told a boy to run over to the house j
and Bay he had gone ; but the boy de
layed, and the dreadful accident hap
pened?poor little Joe never camo up
out of the mine.
That's forty years ago. Margy and
Ben are both in heaven, I hope, long o'
father and mother, and there hasn't
been another explosion in that mine
since. And it always seemed to me a
sort o' mirftcle that Ben waa saved any-1
how.
beVotc ,
they engage in a light, go through a
systematic course of training. One of
them told a reporter what his traiuiog
consisted of. He Baid:
4< I rise every morning about half
past three o'clock and take a Hght
shower bath of strong brine, ahd am
then rubbed dry with Turkish towels,
finishing up with a good rubbing with
a horse brush until my skin glows like
a cherry. I then don my flannels, and
after drinking a glass of sherry with an
egg in it I start out on a ramble of four
or five miles over the hills, returning
about seven o'clock. I then eat my
breakfast, which usually consists of a
mutton chop, a oouole of soft boiled
eggs, bread a day ola, a oup of tea ; no
sugar or salt; in fact, I use no season
ing in any of my food.
" After my breakfast I take a light
pair oLdumb bells and saunter out for
my regul ?r constitutional or daily walk,
which usually consists of about fifteen
miles. I conre in on a dead run cm the
last few miles, and sweat runs from
every pore. I then enter a closed room
and am divested of every portion of my
wardrobe, and my trainers then rub me
as dry os a bone with Turkish towels.
When dry a oouple of bucketfuls of
biine are dashed over me to close my
pores and tone my skin, and I am then
again dried. As soon as I put on dry
clothes I tr.ke ? little exercise with the
dumb bells to bring out a gentle glow,
after which 1 stretch on a hammock
swung nrd?.r the trees and read the pa
per until umner is annonnoed. My
dinner is of roast beef, a little fish ouoe
in a while?in fact, whatever my appe
tite craves that reason tells me is not
injurious to the sjstem. After dinner
I lounge round a while to settle my
meal, ana then I go into my gymna
sium, where I practice with dumb bells,
swing t'^e Indian olubs, ezeroise on the
horizontal bar, dance and spar until
four o'clock, when, the nun being less
hot than in the middle of the aay, I
take another tramp aoross the hills, re
turning to supper about six o'clock.
For supper I generally eat a little
chicken, drv toast and tea, aqd then I
take a little more gymn&stio exercise,
after which I bathe my feet in brine for
fifteen minutes and go to bed about 9
o'clock."
lllnt* for the Yon nr.
Dio Lewis gives the following hints ;
" To prevent dyspepsia, have a right
good talk, with a funnv anecdote or
two, and half a dozen hearty laughs,
with earth meal. This eating alone at
a restaurant, and shoveling in the pro
vender in solemn silence, wonld give
dyspepsia to an ostrich."
"Strong people may eat mnumber*
in small quantities, but it i* a severe
trial to a weak stomach, and i* far from
a good thing for even the best stomach.
I ni^te agtpn with the celebrated Dr.
Ab>fnothy, who give* the following
directions for preparing s cucumber :
? Peel it, slioe it down into thift piece*,
8ut vinegar end pepper to It, sna then
tire*H swtff."
?? Difltor^iit. systems of religion all
have their use* and there I? good ill
all, Cad none all good. Therefore it is
very foolish lot fallible mortals to4ft in
lodgment upon any of them."
"The number .of little ones killed
annual 1] by overheatftd and unvent 1 Uted
rseries in thia country is frightful.
1 alone can number them. **
Mother*, never oaase your exhorta
tifc to Jonathan end Jeruaha Ann to
d, sit, and walk erect,"
I
Caralry and Artillery,
Too long ranges and rapid and tic- v(
curate firing of the Bmall-arms and field- |
guns of to day, says General Geo. B.
NlcClellan, have seriously affected the
usee and modes of employing the dif
ferent arms of service. The employ
ment of large masses of cavalry on the
field of battle will probably not again
occur, unless under some very excep
tional circumstanoes, for where the
ground is sufficiently open for them to
form a"hd act they will be fully exposed
to such a fire as will prevent their ad
vancing or oven retaining their posi
tion. The experience of the war of
1870-71, as far as it went, proved that
cavalry oould not attack good infantry
armed with breech-loaders without in- I
curring certain destruction. . Again, in
reference to the other duHes of the |
cavalry, suoh as escort and patrol duty,
it ib quite oertain that the breech loader
will enable very small parties of in
fantry to at least annoy cavalry parties
so much as to hamper them exceedingly
in their operations. The fact that
Bmall parties of the German cavalry
ranged so far and freel} in France, will
not serve as a rule for other cases. In
a moderately broken or wooded cowntry
two or three good men with breech
loaders oould, with entire safety to
themsel/ea, very soon put an end to the
movements of ordinary cavalry patrols.
It ia quite probable that the future
changes in the cavalry organization will
be in the direction of assimHating a
larp:o part of it to mounted iufautry.
While the cavalry has lost something
i of its impertance, the artillery, on the
other hand, has gained in power and
' independence. The breech-loading
I field-guns can bo so readily placed un
der cover and fired so rapidly that it is
possible to plaoe them in positions that
the old muzzle-loaders oould never have
held, and also to trust them to them
selves with slight infantry supports.
In 1870-71, especially is the latter part
of the war, the German artillery was
usually in advance of the infantry line,
and often really decided the battle
jrhen praotioally entirely without their
(infantry supports. The changes now
being made in Euror>e seem to be in
the direction of ^mall. calibros, ""h^vj
nbarge?\ !?ccomplisued fc}"Yneanp '
I* rw^aterial so light that it oan pass '
lover roi^h ground, and find positions
klmost anywhere. A oonsequenoe of
<dl this will probably be a large increase
olF the relative strength of the artillery.
In regatd to the mitrailleuse and aimi
lar inventions for the rapid nad concen
trated discharge of smalV*nn bullets,
opinions vary exceedingly. There is
reason to believd that the last war did
not impress the Germans with a very
high idea of the value of such weapons,
bat that they have reached the conclu
sion that in faoe of active and accnrate
and long-range artillery the mitrail
leuse can accomplish very little. There
seems good ground for believing, how
ever, that for the defense of works, of
defiles, or of a position of limited ex
tent, the mitrailleuse, or, still better,
the Gatlin gun, will prove a very re
liable adjunct.
The effeot of the modern improve
ments upon the infantry has been no
less marked than upon the other arms
of the service. If, on the one hand,
their new weapon has freed them from
all danger from the once-dreaded
cavalry, on the other hand the new ar
tillery is so formidable as to render a
resort, to new formations and new
methods of attack obligatory ; for the
dense oolumns and successive parallel
lines of former years cannot withstand
the distant, rapid, and accurate fire of
modern guns. Neither can these old
formations possibly snooeed in the at
tack of positions held by good infantry
itmed with breeoh-loaders. Destruc
tion af d wild disorder must be the re
buIi ot any suoh attempt.
Pine Wood In Iliitldingft.
An experienced engineer suggests
that the general nae of white pine in
buildings is one of thecauses of our ex-'
tensive conflagrations. He says that
doors, window casings, sashes and in
side work are of pine. This is more or
less saturated with oil And covered with
ftaint, so that dnring a dry season like
he present in'jAt'V.igo. which is the
largest pine lnmili. raarktl in the world,
and where haU iiTo buildings sre of
pine, it is a wonder how a fire onoe un- i
der good headway oan be stopped. He
thinkft h%rd woods should be uaed and
piaa rejeoted as mnoh as possible, at in
Europe, and that the insurance com
panies should oharge for extra risk
Wh?>rs pine is the principal wood in a
building. "When we purchase kind
ling wood," he wvHeef'? we want pine.
When we want seourity against fire
should we not rejeot pine ?"
k Carious Experiment.
A our ions and perhaps important ex- I
periment f^as juat been tried in Bir
mingham, .jEnRland%# which is of local
i interest evervwhero. It ifi the conver
sion of night soil and "sewerage into
fuel. The Matter li ottaralcaHy tested
and rendered- Soodortro*. It ia then
mixed with a?m*U quantity of ga*4ar,
and "compreepsd iutof*o.id block a of
any size to sait the oonvenienoc of ciur
tomcrs." , tn thisstft* it resembles
eorinpressAd small'coal, to which ft small
quantity of vegetable matter is added.
Wwftre told thftt it is "hird and coW>
pact, and only gbne forth a faint odferttt
a,as tar." The experiments were to show
that thift fuel if superior to engine
fof heating steam bAilera. These
tried Otf ft large Boiler 20 f< in lei
and ftt the beginning the pi age Sh<
a preaeore of steam of powria to the
square inoh.
Building a Railroad, .
A condensed sketch of the difficulties
and dangers attendant upon the con
struction of a siDgle line of railroad
will better illustrate the qualities which
go to make a successful railroad con
tractor, and the nature of his work, than
any general description. From Aspin
wall to Panama there runs a line of rail
road across the isthmus, which bears
the latter name. It is not a long line ;
i its length is Dut forty-seven miles and
a fraction. It is not of difficult grades;
its highest point is but 2G3 feet above
tide-water, and its maximum grade is
sixty feet to a mile. Yet this single,
| and in size comparatively insignificant
! railroad involved the construction of
I 134 minor water-ways and thirty-six
| bridges, the latter ranging from twelve
j to 625 feet in length. The construction
; of this road occupied five years and
, nine months. It eommencod at Aspin
wall in the heart of a swamp. The la
; borers had to clear their way through
the tangled underbrush of a tropical
forest, thigh-deep in water, subject at
! any moment to the attacks of alligators
| and other not less dangerous though
less formidable reptiles, and enveloped
I in a cloud of flies and mosquitoes.
| Every workman went to his labor
veiled. Residence on laud was impos
sible. An old brig anchored in the bay
| served the purpose of barracits. The
| coustant motion of their prison-ship
subjected the landsmen to continued
I nausea by night, which but illy fitted
i them for toil by day. The malarious
fevers of the country sonverted their
movable barracks into a hospital ship.
The two engineers in charge took turns^
in the fever with their men, the least
i disabled rising from the hospital bed to
1 give place to his companion. Natives
were lazy, and would not work. Im
! ported laborers from the North sick
l ened and died in such numbers that the
| work aotually stopped lor want of
\ han^s. The importation of Chinese
j coolies proved an unsuccessful experi
ment, for melanoholy and amcide
thinned out their ranks almost as fast
as malarious fever the ranks of their
braver oomrades. The house of the
| first engineer was built on the tops of
j stamps to keep it^^ovo $Jie water-level,
river, sometimes in a single might to a '
height of forty ieet above its ordinary
level, earried away nearly com
?leted bridge whioh wm to span it.
wioe the road was contracted for, and
twioe thrown back uron the company's
hands, before it was completed so far
as to enable a looomotive to pass over
it from ocean to ocesn.
Indian Women.
The life of an Indian maiden, Bays
Major Powell, is blithe and merry for
a few years, but when she becomes a
wife she is soon broken down with the
pains of motherhood and the heavy
labors which fall to her lot, and she
soon becomes wrinkled, garrulous,
cross, soolding, in fact an old hag. Of
course such hags are not pleasant com
pany in camp, and in the belief of the
Numa such old hags grow uglier and
meaner until they dry up and whirl
winds carry them away, when they are
transformed into witches ; and lest
such a fate should befall old women,
they are taught that it is their duty to
die when they are no longer needed,
and if they do not die by natural means
in reasonable time, they must commit
nuioido. This thoy soem very willing
to do rather than to meet that terrible
fate of being transformed into witches
being compelled to M-te in snake skins,
and wiggle about among the rooks,
their only delight being to repeat the
words of passers-by in mockery. I
once saw three old women thus volun
tarily starving themselves. I rode up to
what was almost a descried camp, the
three old women only remaining, sit
ting by the Are and intently gaoing into
the embers. They soemurl to heed not
my approach, bat sat there mumbling
and groaning until they rose, each
dragging no her weight with a staff,
and then fhey joined in a sidewlse,
shuffling, tottering, senfle dance around
the fire, pfooped np by their staff*, and
singing a doleful song ; having finished
wluob, they sat again.cm tkeir heals
and gazed into the lire, and I *ode away.
On ooming to the new ramp of the
tribe th* next day, and inquiring of
Gh?i at-an-rrta-peak, their chief, wby
the*e wometf wore left behind,, linn
what thoy wore doing, I was informed
chat they had .determined to oonomit
suicide, fearing lest they should be
transformed into witches.
' . .. ? T? - .?? ? jij l
"No a Dar ro? WpravMwV-*-1The
late Dr. Macadam need to tell of a tipsy
Hootchman making hia >uy home upon
a bright 8unday mornira when tba
good people were #endmg *helr way to
the kirk. A little pulled the flbbo"h
from the hfttaf a l?ly who Wi& lead
ing it, and as H ran inray from he*, she
appeeind to fcha Asa* peeeer>by, asking
him to her poodle.
"Wonaau,^ ho xttorte 1, with ? solem
nity of visage wmoh only a drunken
man can assume, " woman, this is no a ^
day for whistlin' P*
i iljl ll I 1 A
T/OKO Tail*. f* Comets oerry long
taila. The tail el-the oomet of 1680 was
90,000,000 miles long > that of theoomet
of l?ll;w*a 100.000.0W mile* in length;
the oomet t)f 1843 had a train of li50
OOO.OOO am} dBfltM ofDfartfi.
com*, nr l?tf, %i* abont ?o.ood,(>no
mi lei In Isagtfc "T|ia?dw*elopTn?nt af
the tail is often wonderfully rapid. In
the oomet of 186^pn An?n*t 29, the
lonflrth of Am tail wa*two dogreoe, or
1,700,00? miles. On OetoberlO it was
| sixty degrees, or *1,000,000 mil*.
A Fish In the Throat. ?
The vicious practice of putting pins
and small pieces of money in the
mouth has often been noticed as lead
ing to dangerous consequence. As
lew have heard of a similar or even
greater danger from trying to held a
live fish temporarily between the teeth,
we present the following acconnt of a
remarkable incident of this kind, given
by a medical practitioner in Madras, iu
a'letter to the Mcdieal 1'Hmcs an l Ga
zette. Speaking of a visit to the gen
eral hospital, under charge of Dr. Geo.
Smith and Dr. Psul, ho proceeds :
One morning, in the midst of the
visit, word was brought to Dr. Paul
that a man hud come to the hospital
with a live fish in his throat. Accord
ingly, there was a general move to the
veranda, where wo saw a coolie, aged
about twenty, walking in, supported by
a man on either side, breathing with
intense difficulty, and in great distress.
The story was soon told. He was that
morning employed in emptying a tank,
and in catching the fish that were left
floundering when the water was drawn
off. In his eagerness ho had one under
each foot, one in each hand, and to
make sure of a fifth, he tr^ed to secure
one by taking its head Detweeu his
front teeth ; bnt the fish was too quick
for him, and, wriggling itself free from
the teeth, made its way into the
i pharynx. A fish of the same sort and
size was produoed-; it was like a perqh,
about four inches long, with a most
formidable dorsal fiu, the spines of
whioh, when ereoted by being pushed
the wrong way, stood out at least an
inoh. A finger passed into the throat
easily felt the fish. Here was a very
pretty case I?but as the first point was
to enable the man to breathe, in less
time than it takes me to write it,?a bed
was brought out into the veranda, and
he was laid upon it and traoheotomined.
Then what was to be dono ? Pull the
fish out any one would say ; but although
it was easy to seize the tail, there were
the ereot spines of the fina, whioh
would have lacerated the parte past re
covery had the fruitless attempt been
made. Then it was suggested to pus**
the fish down into the stomach ; bn^
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Then, when this vras ascertained, it was^
hoped that the head might be turn:
tlpwards with a blunt hook, and bo bKv
dragged out. Bat the fish would not
move. So it was necessary to leave the
f>atient for'a few hours?he wrs breath
ng freely, and nourished with beel-tea
enema. - Next morning it was found
that the fish had beoome decomposed,
and was easflv broken up into a putrid
pulp, some of which made its way into
the trachea, whilst the spines offored
the greatest obstaole to any removal
by the mouth. In order to afford room
for clearing the throat, the wound made
in tracheotomy was enlarged upward
through the junotion of the aire of the
thyroid ; but the patient was very much
exhausted, and.died before relief could
be given.
Sardines In California.
A new branch of industry has bean
opened in San Francisco. The Hon.
Thomas Wand lias built a sardine
factory at the end of Tread well's
wharf, near Long hridpe. The head of
the sardines are first cut off, and the
fish are oleaned with the kuife," after
which they are cleaned by a stroam of
water. Tney are then salted, paoked
imperforated cans, and put into steam
chests on trays. The cooking is done
by a volume of dry steam, and occupies
about, an hour. The next stage of the
process is packing them into the regular
cans in whioh they are to be sent to
market, and the olive oil is poured in,
after which thoy are placed in the
steam chests. Here they are thoroughly
heated and a small hole is punched in
each box to allow the escape of heated
air. When this is done the hole ig
closed by the soldering iron, and tho
sardines arA ready for market. Theso
fish are very plentiful, abounding from
San Diego to PugotSouud. Mr. Wand
has been paying fifty oents per bushel
for them. The olive grows luxuriantly
in California, and the sardine trade will
open a good ma^et for the oil, the
most "of which Jln'ow imported from
Rn*t>pe. It*** year* $1,000,000 worth
of sardines were imported to thu United
States.
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Blsobeying Orders.
(leorge Waml>old, who resides in
Philadelphia, has nine performing dogs
artd two mohkeys. The largest monkey
is known as Jerry, and Is said to be
very vioious in his disposition. A few
days ago Mr. Walmbola went to Cauada,
and he Cautioned his wife not to take
the monkeys from the cage. One after
noon some visitors were at the house,
and they desired to see a performance.
Mrs. WsTlftbold got Jetry out rtf the
cage in order that he might SO through
some of hi(( amusing trioks. But Jerry
didn't to !>e iti a good humor,
and, instead of performing, he attacked
Mrs. Wambold. This created consider
able consternation. The women yelled,
and A Httle boy, Ife son of Wambold,
raMtot into the street. William Book
lej and two men who reaide in tbo
neighborhood entered the house, and
a#te? aeevere struggle, buttta* nearly
fifteen mdnafces. saooeeded in getting
the monkey into his cage. La the
meantHtie the dogs-Joined in the flght,
and theeman were bitten id thelegs.
Mrs. Walmbold hacL-l*? fingers and
bne ana severely lacerated. Buckley
was bitten by the monkey, and 'k Httle
boy who rtMhedU* to see tho Inn re
ceived a bite ore* the eye. 4L po1ioe
man wanted to shoot the monltey, bnt
wae n<4 permittee *> doe* ? ei