The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, October 23, 1879, Image 2
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m A camphor tree is flourishing in Taiuf
pa. Flu.
w Norfolk is to have a steamship line to
* LiverjKtol.
- Grass is growing in the street- and alleys
f Memphis
Charleston is to have a velocipede
ouraamcut.
The cotton mills in the South are run
night ami il:ty.
Hon. S. .MeLin, ex-Secretary of State
of Florida, i< dead.
Nashville has sent one hundred barrels
of flour to Memphis.
The bell-punch law is shutting up
many saloons in Dallas.
Game was never so plentiful as now in
Mississippi river counties.
Edison's agent is hunting for mineral
platinum in North Carolina.
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There is $4,5UU,UUU in casn ami mums
in the Suite treasury of Texas.
Montgomery, Ala., has over one hundred
new buildings going up.
The Indians of Western Texas use cof
ton-wood leaf tea for snake bites.
Quite a number of Texas farmers have
put in their second crop of corn.
The Norfolk peanut dealers have agreed
to sell peanuts hereafter by the pound. "
Nashville thinks she is the best situated
city in the South for iron manufacturing.
There are seven hundred and thirty
uiilcs of railroad under Construction in Texas.
In Tttskegee, Ala. there is a negro boy
as black as the ace of spades who lias blue
eyes.
A son of Gen. Bee. of Texas, has received
the appointment to a West Point eadct?hip.
Corpus Christi, Texas, shipped this i
- ason 2,547,482 pounds of wool ot the spring j
enp.
The only woolen mill in Texas is at
Now Rruunfels. Last venr the profits were
>81,000
In Mobile pickpockets are so numerous
tliat it is becoming dangerous for ladies to
walk the streets.
Jefferson parish, La., does a large
milk business, selling 100,000 gallons, worth
>400,000 a year.
Students who take the benefit of the
Texas State normal school arc required to
teach five years.
Baton Rouge has appointed a committee
t? raise >00 for the repairing of the
old State-house.
The cotton factors at New Orleans believe
there will he 250,000 more hales received
there this season than last.
A party of ninety emigrants from England
and Scotland, bound for interior Texas,
has just landed at Galveston.
There is a bill before the Georgia Leg.
islature to divide the State funds and estao
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The planters of Point Coupe, La., are
discussing whether or not they should bring
abor from lleorgia to improve their lands.
The exodus fever has died a natural
death in East Feliciana Parish, La., and
everybody, black and white, is picking cotton."
The New Orleans Board of Health pro
poses that hereafter no man'shall stable a
cow within twenty feet of the lot of an adja^eut
neighbor,
* In order to rob the residehce of^Ir.
Theo. Soniat, in Jefferson parish, La., the
burglars chloroformed the entire family, consisting
of eight persons.
Among the colored refugees in Kansas
is an entire Baptist church ot three hundred
and nine persons from Delta, Louisiana, led
by their pastor and deacons.
A negro at Murfreesboro, Tenn., aged
one hundred and three, has just married his
seventh wife, who is thirty-two. The old
man has twenty-seven children.
The widow of Alexander Campbell, the
founder of the Cainpbellite or Christian
church, is living with her son-in-law, Col.
Barely, near Hillsboro, in Alabama.
In the Hustings Court, Richmond, the
other day, a prisoner was both prosecuted
and defended by negro attorneys. This is
probably the first case of the sort on record.
A negro woman in the employ of Dr.
Riggs, ot Callerene, Ala., poisoned the whole
family by mixing morphine with the coffee.
None" have died, but several are seriously 111
danger.
Natchez, Miss., has built a cotton fac..........
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owned by her own citizens, and which is
yielding the very handsome return of nearly
twenty per cent, on the investment.
A witness in a case before Judge
Quarles, of Nashville, declared that he did
not believe in God, heaven or hell, whereupon
the Judge ruled his testimonv out of
court.
For months this year there has not
beeu a drop of water iu the Rio Grande for
a distance of about five hundred miles. There,
is great suffering of the people of that distriet
in eonsequeuce.
A member of a leading cigar firm in
Jacksonville savs that it is susceptible of
proof that Middle Florida eau raise as good
tobacco for cigars as Cuba, butthut the farmers
do not understand curing it.
Memphis Appeal: We are getting to
he u yelfowrcyeu race of people in Memphis.
It is the fever poison that has been absorbed
into the system during the epidemic that produces
yeilow eyes; at least so say the dis
* ciptes of (lalen.
Tiie last Alabama Legislature appropriated
$10,000 for the benefit of the maimed
Confederate soldiers in the State, Three
hundred and thirty-two applications were
made, and the pro rata share of each one was
fixed at $30 12.
Memphis Avalanche: A sluggish filthy
stream is Wolf river. In tact, if is nothing
more than an extremely dirty bayou full of
* vegetable poisons. Yet we are not only
compelled to drink A\'?!f river water, hut
when there is high water in the Missisaipp
river, our drink is diluted with the wash from
one thousand five hundred privy vaults.
Houston Telegram : Two more gentlemen?innocent,
of course?are to stretch
hemp in Northern Texa??the Brown brothers,
at Denton. This is one of the results of
the health, anti-criminal views of the class of
immigration from the old States now drifting
into the northwestern counties, and who
doii t rulisli the assassination business.
Harrison (Va.) Valley: A man niuned
Win. Dean, living on top'of tiio Blue Ridge,
above Roadside, is the father of twenty-one
children, all of one mother. His mountain
home overlooks the beautiful valley at his
feet, and he and his family rejoice in good
health. His fields can be readily discerned
in the valley for miles away.
The Mexican citizens of San Antonio
celebrated the anniversary of Mexican independence
on the loth instant. They had a
brass band and a procession to S in* Pedro,
springs, where an oration was delivered,
L ^w^Mexieo uttered, songs suns, niezeal
L farank ahdhreaser enthusiasm indulged in
vail libitum. L
Corinth (ZVfis<.) Record: Jack Hnrrell,in
digging a well on his place in Prentiss
county, exhumed the skeleton of a man at
the depth of forty-three feet below the surface
of tlie earth." He also obtained several
gold e* ::i^ of the Fifteenth century, bearing
the siip.o - -notion and coat of amis of Ferdinand
ami IsnV-Uu.
Tuni-ai-.iifiifo t Fin J Pun and Press
iliv v_
asks; ' Will some medical man explain why
or how it is that the negro is never known to
sneeze? Ask any old planter, who owned
scores of servants, and he will tell you he
never heard one of his servants sneeze. It
may appear a very singular fact, but it is
none the less true fund we allude to it just to
show how unobservant most neople are."
Prof. Bibikov, of Columbia, S. C., went
over to Georgia, and at a place about sixteen
miles from Augusta, on the Georgia railroad,
j he came to a wall of lignite in the side of a
bill, about twelve feet thick, which proved to
be a first-class brown coal. He estimates that
the quantity of this deposit is so large that if
it were on the market at this time its value
would not be less than two millions of dollars.
Wilmington (X. C.) Star: James B.
Young, Postmaster, and W. J. Young, Dcpu
tv Postmaster, at Cameron, Moore countywere
arrested at that place, by Special Agent
George B. Chnmbcrlin, for robbing or rifling
and detaining registered mail. The accused
parties were taken before a magistrate on the
same day and bound over for their appearance
at the next term of the United States
Court at Italeigh.
Houston Telegram: It is a curious fact
that a city of 25,000 inhabitants, with a taxable
assessment of ?">,.'51.'?,000 atone per cent.,
amounting to $53,130, can not collect sufficient
money to cover expenses and prevent
the wholesale issuance of taxpayiug scrip,
which is now offering at any price that can
I"1 ^KtoJno/l fr?r if hv *!??? <??!!nlnVPS tllft
city, anil which can not be sold in Houston
to-day for over thirtv cents 011 the dollar.
Memphis Avalanche: As an incident
of the present epidemic, showing the almost
complete depopulation of the city, the Jewish
Xew Year, which was ushered in last
night and celebrated by divine worship at the
temple, corner of Main and Exchange streets,
special permission for which was granted by
lion. John Johnson, the congregation numbered
only twenty-six. Under ordinary circumstances
the building would have been
crowded to excess.
Charlotte (X. C.) Observer: A curi- {
ositv is presented by a citizen of Davidson]
College. He sends a box of grapes, which
are similiar in appearance and taste to the
ordinary winter grapes that grow abundantly
in the woods, throughout this section of North
Carolina, but they ditier very widely from
them in that they are entirely without seed.
A grape without seed is surely a novelty in
these parts. They are growing on the plantation
of Capt. A. J. Gray, near Mooresville,
and the vine has been known for eight years,
and never has there been found a seed in any
of the fruit produced thereon.
Savannah (Ga.) News: The rice planters
felt considerably relieved 011 Wednesday
when the time for the usual gale had passed
bv. The water threatened to be very high,
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as it was uie mgnesi spring uuc ui uic ?cui,
and the moon was in perigee, something not
often occurring in this season, hence there
was a general anxietv felt as to the result.
With a blow from the northeast, the water
would have swept over the banks of the rice
fields and occasioned great damage. Instead,
however, of the dreaded wind, there were
only pleasant breezes from the south and
southeast, and the danger greatly diminished,
hence the satisfaction of the rice planters.
Col. Brewer, Auditor of Alabama, said
in a recent declaration, in alluding to the
result of a general negro exodus: "White
labor would uo longer come in competition
with the black labor; there would be no vast
hordes of unskilled laborers to butcher the
lands and wreck the homestead, there would
be no squalor, and but little idleness; fewer
crimos and more intelligence. White cottages <
would begin to fleck the landscape as the
torrent of immigration came pouring in; tillage
would be more thorough and its implements
more perfect: schools and churches
would be sustained as the population thick
ened, and our children educated at home as
the standard of education was advanced, and
the marshes were drained.
New Orleans Democrat: M. DeLesseps,
the celebrated French engineer, has by
letter informed the Chamber of Commerce of
this eitv that during his visit to this country,
which fie intends making in a short time, he
intends to take in New Orleans, and he expresses
a desire to addressthe chamber while
in this city 011 the subject of the isthmus
canal. The date of his arrival in New Orleans
is not fixed by him, and as the Chamber of
Commerce has 110 knowledge of his programme,
they can not name the probable
time, However, when he does come there
can be no doubt but that he will meet with
a reception befitting his reputation and his
standing among the great engineers of the
world.
The Ways of Trade.
When young Hyson, who is a commission
merchant and an importer,
came nome to dinner one evening last
week, lie found Mrs. Hyson just parting
with a caller and describing some
"lovely" Chinese lanterns she had
bought at Veneer's, on Washington
street.
Hyson's face grew dark as the narrative
proceeded, and when the door
closed upon the visitor he turned to
Mrs. H. with lowering brow and asked,
" What have you been fooling money
away on at Veneer's? "
" Don't be such a bear, Harry," 6aid
Mrs. H., " I only bought a dozen of
these lovely lanterns, nice for ornaments
and pretty to use in the country next
summer, and they were only $1 each;
did you ever see anything like them
before?"
" See 'em!" groaned Hyson; " they
sent me 4,000 of 'em in the Mandarin,
and I have only sold one lot, and that
was 100 to Veneer for $15." Tears and
tableau.?Boston Commercial Bulle
tin.
Chinese Schools.
The remarkable example of the eccentricity
of the Chinese turn of mind
is noticeable in their schools, where, instead
of silence being inculcated, as
might naturally be considered so essential,
every child is expected to bawl out
the lesson that he is committing to
memory at the top of his voice; and the
babel which is the result may be more
easily imagined than described. When
a Chinese boy goes up to repeat his
lesson, he does not stand facing his tutor,
but turns his back upon him, and
hence repeating a lesson goes by the
familiar name of "backing" it. This
method of recitation has an excellent
effect in keeping the boy on the qui
vive to avoid mistakes, for no sooner
does he commit one than he is called to
recollection by a smart tap on the closei
ly-shavcn pate, from the metal of a long
tobacco-pipe which every pedagogue
carries about liim.
Charles Wing, a Chinese cigarmaker
and member of the Episcopalian
Church, was naturalized in New York
city. His witness was Wong Zee, who
has already be ?n naturalized.
THE CEDAR TREE.
Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes:
" Water-p-ass, you know not what I do;
Know not of juy stonus, nor of my hushes,
And?I know not you."
Qnoth reeds anil rushes: "Wind! Oh. waken I
Breathe, Oh wind, and set our answer tree;
For we have no voice, of you forsaken,
For the cedar tree."
Qn?th the earth at midnight So the ocean:
" Wilderness of water, lost to view,
Naught you are to me but sounds of notion;
I am naught to you."
Quoth the ocean: "DawnI Oh fairest, clearest,
Touch me witli thy golden dngers bland;
For I have no smile till thou ippearest
For the lovel., land."
Quoth the hero dying, whelmed in glory;
" Many blame me, few have understood;
Ah! my folk 1 to you I leave a storyMake
its meaning good."
Quoth the folk; " Sing, poet! teach us, provo on
Surely we shall iearn the meaning then;
Wound us with a pain divine; Oh. move us
For this man of men."
?Jean Ingeloto.
A FRENCH CHARLEY ROSS CASE,
How the Paris Police Solved It.
On the Boulevard Malesherbes a
young couple somewhat new to Paris
had just token the place of concierge
and butler respectively. One afternoon
as their little boy of 4 was playing in
the passage on a level with the street,
by which all houses here are entered, a
coupe stopped in front of the house
and a well-dressed lady descended. The
infant was attracted by the noise and
ran out. The woman stooped and
fondled it and carried it to the carriage
and drove off. The mother, in the narrow
ground-floor allotted to the concierge,
saw nothing of this. A neighbor's
servant had seen it, but supposed
it was all right.
Had this happened in America it
would have been x Charley Boss affair.
"They manage these things better in
France," as Lawrence Sterne was fond
of saying. The mother nursed her infant
in due time. She went up and
down the street in no great uneasiness,
but, finding no sign, she grew alarmed.
Her alarm became terror as the lights
of the wide street becran to bum in the
early winter evening. By chance the
servant who had seen the cab was encountered.
She told the story. The
police were called in, and assured the
terrified mother that she should soon
have her infant, One day passed, and
no infant; two days, then two'weeks,
and the mother was summoned to the
station of the distiict. She was shown
iD to a private room, and there was her
small boy in the arms of a strange lady.
The mother made for the lad, tat the
lady pushed her away.
"What," said the dismayed mother,
"am I not to have xiy child?"
The policeman spoke up: "Madame
la Comptesse claims the child as her
own."
"It is false," said the mother; "it is
my own. Come to me, Paul."
The child made an effort, but was restrained,
and burst into sobs. The po
liceman interfered. He saw a much
more practical way of deciding the
maternity than Solomon in all his wisdom.
He commanded the childto be left
free to choose. The little boy ran with
a gurgle of delight to ita^nother. "Madame
la Comptes8e:wili>4?nsJte||y^'self
under arrest (en surveillance) until
further orders, and will hot attempt to
lea 7e the country."
How had the infant been found?
First every hack in the district was ex-j
amined as to its work on that particular
afternoon, and in time this reduced
the problem to which of a dozen or
more ladies hod driven with children
thc.t day. Then the problem came
do'vn to a lady living in a modest quarter
of the city who had returned home
with an infant and had immediately left
the plaoe, mid had not been seen since.
Then the history of this personage was
looked up. She was the Countess
Lomenin, an English woman, who had
separated from her husband. Then the
departures rrom rans unru truceu, ?m*
bo surely that within three days the
train she had. taken was known; in another
the point she had gotten off?Calaif
and crossed to Dover; then in England
the work was slow and promised
to be hopeless, when lo! the bird realighted
in the same bush, though not
in the same cage. She had returned to
Paris and taken quarters elsewhere.
She was visited by tlio police and vowed
that the child was her own and vows
still that it is, and the ease'is to be tried
in the courts. Th e developments meanwhile
about the Countess illustrate not
ao*aJ/-vtio rrc\ f\4 "f Vi n
Uill.y I/IIU ]JUi ICUtU'lJ V4 WX*W?
police on every man, woman and child
in the capital, but reveal some extraordinary
phases of Paris life. The woman,
it seems, has. a mania for seizing children
and putting them in asylums for
infants, to be reared to certain creeds.
?Paris letter to Chicago Times.
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Lincoln, day ana Greyer.
"Whom do you regard as the greatest
men of your time?" "Well, that
would be difficult to tell. All ?uek
things are comparati ve. I could name
a great many men who have served
their country and their time with eruiuent
ability. But a man's public usefulness
depends largely on circuin?L
TIT"? T inofortna lio/1
tSUilllCL'S* iur, JUliiUUlU) lUi iutjiuuv/Uj uuu
a, great opportunity, and lie was equal
to it. If circumstances had not found
him; if he had not been the right man,
at die right time, in the right place, he
would have remained in obscurity all
his life. I regard Henry Clay as foremost
among the men laboring all their
lives to elevate themselves, and who
labored always for the object by promoting
the welfare of the country, and
the interests of the people. Horace
Greeley labored witMfcequally pure
motives, as I think, ^ to the point
where he allowed liis amMoa to rule
him. I knew him intimately for years.
A truer, more useful arid more devoted
practical philosopher I never knew.
He labored with a single eye and a
single heart and both hands for the public
good, till he thoiight he (ould be still
more useful in office. He was a frank,
honest man, with nothing tricky about
him. The very moment hfr found his
aspirations in conflict with Mr. Seward,
he wrote that well-known letter dissolving
the political partnership which had
existed between us."?Int&view with
Thurlow Weed.
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Flowers and Plants.
Violets are plentiful and do not coa>
much.
Double variegated nzulias are moat ui
demand.
The Scotch heather has appeared in
the windows of florists' shops.
Hardy Daphne, a charming pink,
out-of-door blossom, is now in bloom.
Oxalis, with its clover-like leaf, and
Bower tiiat closes m tee anernoon, is an
extremely pretty plant for in-door cultivation.
Round and symmetrical azalia trees
cost more than the unshapely ones,
though the latter may be larger and
more vigorous. .. ?
Azalias or acacias will lasS in blossom
for a month in a moderately cool room, ;
and are, therefore, very desirable for
parlor ornamentation.
The "George Bauyard" is a gorgeous j
new coleus.
The "Cornelia Cook" ranks among
the "tea," roses.
The new va:: egatedivy senecio macia <
glosus is exquisite for hanging-baskets. 1
Florists set the lilies and roses out ]
on the sidewalk durinc a recent warm i
rain. i
The pruning knife has been fleshing <
in the sun all around the city for a week 1
past. (
Hanging-baskets of solid begonia e
(rubra) in blossom are very rich and <
ornamental. 1
Polypodium (subaoca lartum) is one 1
of the finest ferns for planting in bas- t
kets, as it trails out frondes six feet i
long. "i
The "American banner rose," the 1
marvelous noveltv of the season, should i
now be sought by those who grow rare i
plants. t
Liverwort, a dog-tooth violet, and *
the anemone as well, will soon be ont on t
the north banks- of the streams and in
sunny hollows. . t
"Encaustic tile bc*esw?window plant t
holders of rare beamy, ave bound to be t
popular. These> are painted 'n choice t
effects and should ornament the window <j
of every elegant drawing-room. c
Arbutus will be coming along in a few i
days, if the sun doesn't take a notion to c
slide back. The little pink can be found e
under dead leaves, and even by the side ]
of used-up ?now-patchei> along the t
Brandywine, Chester creea, Wissa- 1
hickon and the SchuylkilL?PMladeJ- 1
phia paper. j
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flow Sugar Barrels Are Hade. a
An intervieweir hailing from the Jer- \
eyCity Journal, of inquiring mind, c
paid a flying visit to the top floor of 1
Weil ODonnell's cooperage, and was ^
shown some of the mysteries connected J
with the manufacture of sugar barrels. J
In the first stage, the< Irishman's recipe *
for makincr a cannon -will do for a sncur c
barrel, slightly altered: First, make a ?
hole and put your staves around) it. The *
operative does this by holding a stout
wooden hoop in one hand, and placing I
the staves in position with the other? "
very quickly, too, as the work is done *
by the piece. The embryo barrel is ?
next caught in the bight of aetout rope, I
made fast on one end to a chat, and the r
other running over an iron- pulley and t
attached to a treadle. By pressing the t
. treadle with the weight of' the opera- i'
five, the line is ^rawn taut, aad the ?
strong purchase thus effected compresses i
'the staves to the requisite degree of t
tightness. The barrel is now placed in t
;a huge fire-place which resembles a a
[ blast furnace, and is baked' for a few i
| minutes, when it is removed, the tops z
i and bottoms are tdaned. the iBside a
| edges beveled for the, "heads," which c
| are quickly "put on," a few finishing i
touches given to Ihe hoops and the bar- a
rel is made. A good workman can 1
make forty barrels a day, and in brisk 1
seasons about 6,000 receptacles for that f
ssocharine substance composed of bone- t
dust, sand and sugar are turned out. c
The staves are shipped to the cooper- 1
age from Michigan, whose they are fl
made into the required shape from elm '
logs by a machine.?Jersey City Journal
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Petroleum as Fuel Growing In Favor. 1
Petroleum fuel is beginning to be c
used in California quite extensively. (
The manufacturers of Los Angeles '
unite in declaring it to be fully as cheap
as wood and .coal in its first cost, with c.
the following important ad^ autages: 3t
OUVCO CApCUOU UA XAriUlUAJUg, ACCUlXJ^, LIUX
ing. slagging, aud ashing, and, by not
having to open the fire-doors, admitting
cold air to the boilers, steam is economized.
Thus, in effect, it is far cheaper
than other fuel. The mode of firing is
thus: Into the tank containing crude
oil as it comes from the well a jet of
steam is sent, which carries with it a
charge of oil, which, through a pipe, is
distributed iu lino spray ovei the firechamber.
The heat is intense, and there
is no refuse. One man at the stop-cock
is the sole attendant. What is wanted
to make this fuel a priceless boon to
that coast is a process by which iron and
other metallic ores can bo smelted.
Tiiey abound throughout with lime for
fluxing and firestone for hearths.?New
Yoi k lhilletm.
Dangeroas Houasg.
Houses that have been empty may
become fever-breeders when they come
to be reoccupied. jLn English sanitary
officer alleges that he has observed
typhoid, diphtheria, or their' zymotic
affectioop to arise under these circumstanres.
The cause is supposed to be 3
in the disuse of cisterns, pipes, and j
Umlmo (-Via nr/woao/iii nf rm+rofnp+inn crn- '
UAftiUOj UUU ^/AVVvwwvw w*
ing on in the impure air in them, the 1
unobstructed access of this air to the '
house, while-the closure of windows and 1
doors effectually shuts out fresh air.
Persons moving from the city to their
country homes for the' summer should 1
see that the drains and pipes are in perfect
order, that the cellar and closets are 1
cleared of rubbish, and the whole house *
thoroughly aired before occupying.
Carbolic acid used freely in the cellar is
a good and cheap disinfectant.?Scientific
American.
Yeen>*a has more fine coflee houses
than any other city in Europe; the
latest statistics put. the total number at i
400. It was the first city in Christendom I
that started the institution; the coffee I
was captured in bags fmm the Turks in ?
their second siege of fne city, in 1683, ]
and in that year the tfirst cafe was ]
started. , ?
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Taking Cold.?Upon this snbject /i
high authority says: "When a person
begins to shiver, the blood is receding
from the surface; congestion, to a greater
or less extent, has taken place, and;
fcvla mfl'nni una aa. / '
m*w |yuiuwuff ano oucauj luucu uuivij uv/
be followed by fever, inflammation of
the lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, eta
All these evils can be avoided and the
cold expelled by walking, or in some
exercise that will produce a prompt and
decided reaction in the system. The
exercise should be suflicient to produce
perspiration. If you are so situated
that you can get a glass of hot water to
drink, it will materially aid the perspiration,
and in every way assist nature in
her efforts to remove the cold. This ,
course followed, your cold is at an end,
and whatever disease i?t would ultimate
in is avoided; your sufferings are prevented,
and' your doctor's bills saved."
Sick-Room Roles.?From an ex- >
change we clip a few ""hints" to those i
visiting the sick: Enter and leave the <
room quietly. Carry a cheerful face, j
md speak cheerful wordi. If the sickness
is serious, do not faff into gay and
careless talk in the attempt to l>e cheer- i
:nl. Don't ask questions, and thus
)blige the invalid to talk. Talk about
lometking outside, and not about the i
lisease of the patient Tell the news,
cut not the list of the sick and dvinar.
[f possible, cany something to please i
ihe eye and relieve the monotony of the
tick-room?a flower, or even a picture ]
vhich you can loan for a few days.
Sighly perfumed flowers, however, *
ihonld never be carried into- the sick- i
-oom. Some little delicacy to tempt j
he appetite may be well bestowed, j
Jtay only a few minutes at the longest, <
mless you can be of some help.
Guabd the Childben.?Little chil- i
Iren must be carefully guarded- during 1
his season, if parents expect to keep 5
hem from sickness. We do not mean
hat they should be confined withinloors,
even in cold weather. On the
tontrary, they are much more likely to .
ceep well if they are exercising in the 1
>pen air during the middle portion of r
ivery day not absolutely inclement. 8
?rom 10 in the morning: to 8 in the af- ?
ernoon is the best time for young cliilLren
to be ont-doors at this season. c
Coward night the air becomes too chilly. c
Jut they should always be warmly 1
lothed, the feet being well protected, ?
?nd the soft under-flannels never omited.
Half of the illnesses of little ohil- 8
Lren, and much of thair fretfuhiess, ?
night be prevented by keeping them
mm, not only out of doors, but in the c
louse. This should not be done by J
laving hot rooms, but by putting on *
hem light, warm, woolen.garments. If
hildren have cold feet or cold arms, of ^
ourse they feel cross, and they don't
mow what is the matter with them.
Cube bob Diphtheria.?A Dublin i
>aper gives this remedy for diphtheria:
'Put a teaspoonful of sulphur into a ?
tine-glass of water, and stir it with the f
Lnger instead of a spoon, as the sul- j
>hur does not readily amalgamate with j.
rater. When the sulphur is well mixed c
hen it is to be given to the patient ,
o gargle, and, after gorghng, to swallow ?
t, and the patient will be out of dan- ^
;er in ten minutes. When the fungus* ^
s too nearly closing to allow gargling, v
he sulphur in that case should be blown t
hrough a quill into the throat, and, *
,fter the fungus has shrunk to allow of ?
t, then the gargling. If a patient can- r
tot gargle, take a five coal, put it on a v
hovel, and sprinkle a spoonful of flour 8
>f brimstone upon it; let the sufferer ^
nhale it by holding the head over it,
md the fungus will die. Brimstone
ills every species of fungus in man,
>east, and plant in a few minutes. A
ew days ago, at Princess Mary's Cot- f
age Homes, London, an outbreak of j
Bphtheria attacked fifty of the inaates,
but one of the nurses cured them
II by causing the patients to gargle t
rith sulphur and swallow the gargle."
A Hojeexy Cube *or Dyspepsia.?
Sere is rather a carious remedy, says ]
7as8el'8 Family Magazine, but in ^
nany cases a very certain one, for the (
nf lnrliofKrHrin. It in fiirrmlv the
sultivation of a habit of chewing, while (
>ut of doors, different kinds of green
eaves, and swallowing the juice. One ^
mn always cull a leaf from a hedge or
rash as one passes. Almost all are ,
food that are not nauseous, such as the
vy, or poisonous, as the laural leaf.
Dne of the latter, however, is- a capital
liing where tlatere is slight irritation of
ihe stomach. The chewing of leaves
:ures dyspepsia, principally, I believe,
ay increasing the flow of the salivary
juice, and partly by the tonic or stimuating
action of the leaf chewed. The
leaves that occur to me at present as
most likely to be beneficial are those of
;he pine trees, spruce or Scotch fir,
jlackthorn, currant and rose bushes,
mint, the petals of many flowers, the
stalks of mountain daisies, the white
portions of rushes, the bark of many
roung trees, and the tender parts of the
stalks of green wheat, oats, or almost
any of the larger grasses; but your
own taste must m a great measure
guide you, if you elect to take trial of
my remedy. I should say, however, that
the chewing is better to take place before
or between meals than immediately
after. ______________
Roman Catholic Figures.
"Sadler's Catholic Directory" re
ports for the United States, 1 Cardinal,
11 Archbishops, 52 Bishops, 5,750 priests,
3,589 churches, 78 colleges, 577 academies,
nearly 2.000 parochial schools, 345
jharitable institutions, and a Catholic
* n or?- nnn t? icno
population OI O.OID.UUU. J-U iouo mcio
were only 80 churches; in 1830 there
(vere 230; in 1810, 451; in 1830,1.073;
in 1860, 2,385; in 1S70, 3,905. The
Tablet says more churches were admitted
in 1878 than there were in the whole
country in 1815, when there were 675.
That paper also remarks of the statistics
that they " are not always as clear '
is might be desired. In some dioceses i
chapels are counted with churches; in :
others with stations, which seems a iess '
wnT in Rnwift eases where a
theological seminary and college are i
combined, as at EmfTtsbrirg, the insti- 1
tution will be returned as a college, and
aot as a seminary also; in some returns <
?holasticates Mad houses of study of re- i
Sgous orders ?ffl included under semi- <
SStles, while others do not reckon them i
!er this head." * %
ife&ji fMPbit or the Zoln War.
"'The moat extraordinary incident connected
with the massacre was the narrow
escape of Commandant Lonsdale,
wlio notified Lord Chelmsford. Commandant"
Lonsdale was quietly returning
to camp?he had been ill?was
tired, and was slowly jogging along with
the sort of lazy perseverance characteristic
of a tired traveler. He had crossed
the small waterwash to the south of the
camp, when his attention was attracted
by a bullet passing rather near to hiln, *
and on^lookixig up he saw a black man. R
who haicl'iayidently jnst fired. The real m
truth was, of course, far from his mind, J
and he merely thought it was one of 4R..H
his otu contingent carelessly firing ^9
off hio rifle, and pursued his way. To |
some extent the incident seems fortu- V 1
nately to hare woke him up, and, al- ^
though he saw what seemed to be our 9
redcoats sitting in groups in and around 9|
the tents, he kept his eyes open, and, 9
when absolutely within ten yards of 9
the tents, he saw a great black Zola 9
come out of one with a bloody assegai 9
ixv his- hand. This made him look about 9
him more cloeely, aud he saw that black A
man and black men only were the wearers
of red coats. The truth flashed upon
him; he could read the scowl of ASA
hatred upon every face, but his self-pos- Hn
session does not seem to have failed ^9^
him, lor, quietly turning his pony round,
he galloped off before the enemy were H
aware of his intention. A hundred and H
fifty shots are said to have been fired at 9
him as he did so, but by the mercy of Hj
Providence he escaped, and was thus A
enabled to warn the General and so JE
save his Me and the lives of those with
aim. Undoubtedly had not such warning
been given, Lord Chelmsford, accompanied
by his staff and the troops
with him, would have walked without '
suspicion into the skillful trap thus
Laid, and in such circumstances few
would have escaped.
c Women In Cyprns.
At 9 or 10 the girls are lovely, havng
eyes like antelopes, and softly
ounded cheeks, lrntiug at Hebe bymd-by;
But in after years, when
comeliness is needed most, much of this
>eauty fades. Fine eyes remain; but (
contour, color, bloom, expression, all
tepart. The Moslem females seem to
mderstand their fate. If their sisters !
>f the Orthodox rite were knowing,
hey too would glide about the courts (
;nd market places veiled. A Christian '
poman bares her neck and face; a Kosem
woman shows- no more than a pair
tf sparkling eyes. No man looks twice
,t the retreating; figure of a Greek,
hough she is habited in pink and am>er.
Every one turns and gazes at the (
gliding mystery of'a girl in white whose
ace is shrouded from his view.
Jersey Mosquitoes. <
"Was ye iver in Jersey in the sum
aer sason?" saia an Ansnman 10 a m
riend. " 'Pon me soul, I was onct, an' fl
thought I wud be davoured. It was a 1
lot night, an' I raised m? winder to 1
atch a whiff of braze, an', instead, I . J
ras attacked by a million of murderin' jd
livils wid prongs in 'em. It
lere an' a kick there an' a scratcl^BflBH^^B
rhere. When oomplately
rid 'em, I giv' up me body forT^Hf
he cannibals, wbin, bed luck to thy*
he murderin'imps commenced sinfel.
n me ear, ' We won't go home txT
nornin'.' An' well they kept th^
rord, bad lnck to thim I' hez I to
el', as I carried me skeleton out
touse in the marnin'." VwHe
Chinese Doctrine.
Moy Jin Kee, a Chinaman, adchessed
i Methodist Sunday-school meeting in
3arlem, N. Y., the other Sunday.
Vmong his remarks was a comparison flp
)i the religion oi his nation and that of RQ
he children before him. "We worship,"
>aid he, "one Great Spirit and many V
Tosses; you a Great Spirit and His Son. R
But the Americans could learn some- |l
;hing of my people. Confucius 6aid
hat drink v.-^s worse than a rattlesnake
?rattlesnakes don't abuse their own
;hild:en. The Chinese think drinking
eery bad; but they do something very
bad, too?they smoke opium. But the
man who smokes opium doesn't abuse
his children?he only hurts himself "
Lincoln's Heal Life.
Capt. Mark Mason, editor of the
Cleveland Leader, says that CoL John
Hay has finished the first volume of the
life of Abraham Lincoln, from the only
original correspondence and executors'
papers, and is advancing with the second
volume. Col. Hay wrote the whole
of - the text. Mr. Nicolay prepared the
whole matter for Hay to etudy progressively.
Nicolay's work was one of the
mrvot wjnmrlfflhlp nieces of literarv sift
ing and codifying ever known. He
used, the envelope system, and into ^
each envelope, as the unit of an index, V
placed all the clippings and memoranda. |
applying to that head. The united en- ]
velopes would fill several wagons,?
" Gath" in New York Graphic.
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Btrrruu j. %
John 0. (ySullivan, a member of the jJ
Common Conncil of Harrison, N. J. M
has just been convicted, in the Hudson
County Court of general sessions of jH
barratry. His was the first indictment
ever found in New Jersey for that J
offense, and he is the third person convicted
of it in the United States. The
crime is defined to be "the stirring up,
moving, promoting, exciting, or procoring
suits and proceedings at law ?r the Vjfl
spreading of false and malicious rumors
vexatiously, and to the disturbance of
the public peace and quiet."
A DLscoxery oi Importance.
Dr. Waclismuth, of Berlin, seems to
have made a discovery of the utmost m I
,/ fiia <vrriArimAnta do not '
mislead. He lias found that the addi- ]
tion of one part of reetified oil of fcurpentine
to five of chloroform, in
ministration of thatWmsthetic, apJJRBHfi
to exert a stimulating or life-gbri
feet on the lungs, and protect*
organs from passing into the
state which seems to be producedflRR^H
chloroform narcosis, and thus the
ger of accidents from its use
believes, be entirely avoided.V jm I