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/~~4 010I1 ~ MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C-, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 1& OSEPH F. RHA.ME, ATTORXEY AT LAW MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING. S. C. I CSURANCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. ATTORNEY AT LAW MANNING. S. C. p Notary Public with seal. WM. H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. M CLITON GALUCHAT, " PRACTICES IN cOURTS OF CHARLESTON and CLARENDOX. Address Communications in care of Man ning Tnrs. JOS. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTOREYAT LAW Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. p. Collections.a specialty. )R. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DENTIST. - OFFICES - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -Oricz Dis Kingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. --OFFIC HoURns 9A.M. to1P.M. and2to4P.M. J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offersfor sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo -ealities. Terms Reasonable. Max G. Bryant, JAs. M. LEIAND, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PaoPRIEToBs. Columbia, South Carolina. 'The grand Central is the largest and best kepthotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT ?USLNESS CENTER OF THE CITY, -where all Street Car Lines pass the dcor, .and its M.EUis not excelled by any in the South. Manning Sbaving Parlor= g&& CUTTIG ARTISTICALLY EXECUTED. and Shaving done with best Razors. Spec ial attention paid to shampooing ladies heads. - I have had considerable experience in several large cities, and guarantee satisfac tion to my customers. Parlor next door to MamaxG TIMEs. E. D. HAMILTON. EW WAVERLY HOUSE, IN the Bend of King Street, Charleston. The Waverly, having been thoroughly renovated the past summer and newly fur - nished throughout, makes its accommoda tions unsurpassed. Incandescent Electric Lights and Electric Bells are used in all rooms and hallways. Rates $2.00 and $2.50. .G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. *FiirM Class in all its Appointments, Su lidd with all Modern Improvements celnCuismne, Large Airy Rooms, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elec .tric Bells -and Lights, Heat ed Rotunda. -RATES, $2.00, $250 AND $3.00. *Rooms Reserved b~iy 3fail or Telegraph THE BEULAH ACADEMY, Bethlehem, S. 0. ;B. B. THOMPSON, Principal. FailSession Begins Monday, Oct. 29. .-0 Tnstrction thorough, government mild 'andiecisive, appealing generally to the .studdit's sense of honor and judgment in the important matter of panctuality, de .portznent, diligence, &c. Moral and social ifuences good. LOC A T ION F INE. Tuition from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Board in good families $7.00 per month. Board from Monday to Friday per month 33.00 toS$i.00... pr For further particulars, address th Principal. .T. G. DINKINS, M. D. R. B~. LORTEA. JG. Dinkins & Co., ---DDT.E~s IN PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AM) TOBACCO. Full stock of Puv .s . (ei. * axm'sm~s and Wum: L':x., PAmh' and Wmnwasu BI3Hs. An elegant stock of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. -No charge made for fitting the eye. Physicians Prescriptions carefully ~compounded, day or night. J.63 Dinkins & Ca., Sign of the Golden Mortar, ALNNENG, S. C. TYPE-SETTING MACHINE. The Ingenious [nvention of a Well-Known American Stenographer. James E. Munson, a stenographer, gave an exhibition not long ago of an automatic type-setting machine. Mr. Munson's apparatus is a complete novelty, inasmuch as it runs the type into the galleys fully justified and corrected, some thing never before accomplished by a type-setting ma chine. The primary principles of Mr. Munson's invention are speed and the possibility of justifying and correcting the type before it goes into the galleys. In order to accomplish the justifying and correcting Mr. Munson has per feeted a key-board, which, made like that of an ordinary type-writer, perforates a strip of paper of about the width used in the Wheatstone tele graph system. The perforations con sists of various combinations of letters based upon an alphabetical principle invented by Mr. Munson. Although only 173 combinations are needed, 1,013 can be made upon the key-board if necessary. When the paper leaves the perforating machine the letters arg so far apart that a strip 131 inches long represents one line in a column of printed matter. The operator of the machine goes over this strip with a fine rule and sees that the divisions of words and spaces come to the end of the line correctly. If they do not he has a perforating hand tool with which he "spaces out" the characters so that they justify on the paper strip. When he has finished justifying the strip it is run through another machine at a high rate of speed and the perfo rated characters are brought so close together that four inches of paper represent one line in a printed column. This strip is then put into the type setting machine proper. This is an electric motor, with a sharp-pointed armature connected with magnets rep resenting the characters on the paper. As the armature passes through the perforations in the paper connection is made with rods over the magnets, which in their consequent action drop a type into a groove upon a rapidly revolving platform, by which it is carried instantly to pick-ups, which in. turn put it upon a supporting rail. It is then carried automatically to the galley and dumped fully justified and corrected. In the exhibition Mr. Munson used the Thorne type-setter and distributer in connection with his automatic apparatus, which can be ap plied, he says, to any type-setting machine now in use. It is capable of setting from 8,000 to 13,000 ems per hour. The machine is not yet perfect, but Mr. Munson believes it soon will be in practical operation. An important feature in connection with the invention is that verbatim re ports can be made upon any number of perforated slips at a time, and a slip supplied to each, newspaper having one of the machines. Furthermore, the slips can be run through an auto matic telegraph machine in Washing ton and fac-similes forwarded to any point in the country directly to the newspapers, thus saving delay in handling matter by the ordinary Morse telegraph anld in composition. Mr. Munson hopes to be able to use com pressed air as a motive power and to have the machine on the market with-' In ashort time.-N. . Times. A CHEAP INCUBATOR: One Whose General Description Indicates That It Is a Good T":g. I notice the request for a cheap in cukator. The following I have used: successfully, and as I never saw one like it I conclude there is no patent. To make an incubator to hold about' one hundred eggs, the egg-drawer should be about two feet by three feet. To make the heater, take two boards three feet 10cag, and two boards two' feet and ten inches long and seven inches wide; nail these together so as: to make a box without bottom or cover. Now cover the top with fioor ing and bottom with a sheet of zinc, well nailed on. Bore eight half-inch holes in the top, about eight inches from either side and same distance apart, so there will be two rows of four holes each. Now make a hole in one side, about midway, four inches in diameter. Over this hole nail a piece of tin with a hole two inches across. This is for the pipe running from the lamp, and finishes the .heater. Now make the egg drawer the 'same size as the heater, but only four inches deep. This drawer has no cover and; the bottom is to be made of strips one inch square and nailed crosswise on the bottom one inch apar~t. On the in-; side of this tack an old co~ee sack! stretched tight. Next take two pieces half an inch thi-k and one inch wide and two feet aaa five inches long, and two pieces of the same material one foot and ten inches loug. Nail these together so that in laying it in the egg drawer the frame will only bc half an inch deep. Over this frame stretch a piece of good, new bleached muslin, very tight. -The eggs will lie in this mus lin. Now bore holes in the sides of: the egg draw.er just above this framne two inches .apart and half an inch in diameter, and put pices~ r~Iross the drawer, to i:y the eggs hetween. Ey moving this canvas backward and forward, the eggs can be turced. This finishes the egg-drawer. Now make another box the same size as the heater, eight inches deep, with a tight bottom. In this bottom bore holes same as in the top of the heater for ventilation. This box is to be placed under the egg drawer and filed to within an inch of the top with sawdust. Now place the last box mentioned on pieces two inches wide runnng crossway's and extending wern Inches on alha id. being eareful not to cover any of the holes in the bottom of the sawdust box. On this box place the egg drawer and on the egg drawer the heater with the zinc side down. Piace a shaving between the egg drawer and the heater to give the egg drawer room to slide out and in easily. Now take two boards ten inches wide and nail to each side on both the sawdust box and the heater, and also a board on the back end. Now we have the incubator but it must be surrounded with eight inches of sawdust. To do this lay down two boards on the bottom cross pieces; these boards should be eight inches wide and three feet and eight inches long. Across the back end place another board in the same manner and build sides and end up eight inches above the top of heater, then fill with sawdust. Now go to the tinshop and get eight half-inch tubes, 16 inches long and eight 7 inches long; also an elbow, 2 inches in diameter, one end 8 and the other 12 inches long. Put the short tubes in the lower sawdust box and the long ones in the holes in the top of the heater, so that the lower end will come down to within an inch of the zinc bottom. Put the long end of the elbow through the hole in the outside box, which must be directly opposite the one in the side of the heater and covered with tin in the same manner. In order to save heat you can build a small box over the portion of the elbow outside the incubator and fill it with dirt. Put dirt around the elbow where it runs through the sawdust. Place a lamp under the end of the el bow and shove the chimney as far up as it will go. Do not put the eggs in until you can keep a uniform heat of 100 degrees to 104 degrees. Keep your thermometer in the egg drawer and sprinkle your eggs every day with tepid water. Turn the eggs twice each day. I have sometimes made a door to cover front, but an old piece of car pet hung over the front will do. I hatch about 80 per cent. of my eggs. Walter A. Rutledge, in Toledo Blade. HATS IN THE COMMONS. The Important Part They Play in the Legislative Life of Enaland. A strict etiquette governs the wear ing of hats in the Commons. A n honorable member, who, ignorant cv forgetful of the forms of the Hou-,-, attempted to walk to fi seat when covered, would be met with loud cries of "order," and although an absett i nded member sometimes aoes so he has nn-r been known to repeat it. He must only wear his hat when seated. Directly he rises he must doff it, though he may only wish to speak to a member behind him or to get a paper from the table. If any bill or resolu tion for which he is responsible is mentioned by the Speaker a member raises his hat nd does not rise, and the same is done when another mem ber alludes to him in the course of a speech or answers a question which he has put. If he is not wearing his hat at the time, he immediately puts it on and then raises it in acknowledgment. This practice has given rise to some funny contietemps, as when an honor able member who was remarkable for avery small head unconsciously picked up the hat of the member next to him in mistake for his own. This member happened to be chiefly remarkable for a very large head, and his hat was like an extinguisher when put on his fellow member and had a very ludicrous effect. Of course, a member never speaks in his hat, except on one occasion, which we shall notice presently. He gener ally places it carefully on the seat he has just vacated. If he is going to make a long speech and his thioat requires lubrication, his hat is the receptacle for a glass of water, which is replenished from time to time by an attentive friend. Members are generally col lected enough to remember, when they sit down, to be careful to remove their hats from the bench. This is not invariably the case, how ever, for an honorable memnber a short time ago acquired a universal noto riety in the House as "the member who sat on his hat." He had just fin ished a maiden speech of some length, and in the excitement ot the moment entirely forgot that a shiny and well brushed "tile" occupied his seat. lHe sat down suddenly, rather more sud denly, perhaps, than he had foreseen -for maiden speeches are famous for uncertainties-and he sat, un fortu nately, on his hat. We are no: aware that there was a glass of water in it., but there might have been, and the example should be borne in mind by rising, or perhaps we should say sink ing, orators. We have intimated that there is one occasion on which a member can, or rather, according to the rules must, adress tihe House with his hat on. This happl;ens w~hen the I-ouse has been cleared for a division, and when a mecmb~r desires to raiise a point of bate ha' bo n closed andi the interrup ion is parciy ineidenita!, the member must speak sitting, and with his hat on. In addition to the uses of bats in the House to which we have referred, there is another and a very common one. No member being allowed to claim as a right the possession of any seat (the tenure by which they are held being priority of occupation) ex cept in certain cases allowed as a man ter of courtesy, the practice has arisen of members leaving their hats on the seats they desire to occupy during the aing--Wasiangton Star. TRADE IN DOG-SKINS. An Important Item in the Export Business of China. Mr. Edgar, the Commissioner of Customs at Newchwang, in Mantchuria, in the last Chinese Customs Yellow book, referring to the trade from that port in robes and mats made of the skins of dogs and goats, says it is gen erally supposed that dogs are picked up promiscuously wherever they may be found straying, destroyed, and their skins sold to dealers. This, .however, is not the case, for, although the busi ness may have had its origin in this way, it is now as systematically carried on as sheep-farming. There are thou sands of small dog and. goat-farms dotted over Mantchuria and the eastern borders of Mongolia, where from a score to some hundreds of dogs are annually reared on each farm, and where they constitute a regular source of wealth. A bride, for in stance, will receive as dowry a num ber of dogs proportionate to the means of her father. It is probable, says Mr. Edgar, that in no other part of the world are there to be found such splendid dogskins for size, length of hair, and quality, the extreme cold of these latitudes, where the thermome ter registers 30 degrees Fahrenheit be low zero, developing a magnificent coat. It is difficult to understand how Lie dog-farmer can afford with profit to rear the animals when the price of the robe is taken into consideration. For one full-sized robe, say 80 inches by 86 inches, at least eight animals are required. Putting the price real ized at $3.60 for a robe, this would only allow about 45 cents per skin, including the selection, for the skins must match in color and length of hair, and cost of sewing. The animals are generally strangled in mid-winter, but not before they are eight months old, and then the skins taken in a frozen condition principally to Mukden and Chinchow, where they are cured, assorted, and made into robes, mats, etc. Last year the robes are said to have been decid edly inferior in quality. The reason given is that orders went forward too late, and the farmers, waiting till they had news of some demand, kept the animals alive until their winter coats began to fall off. The value of the trade from Newchang last year was about ?40,000, against nearly ?60,000 the previous year. The decline was due to depreciation in value and a de creased demand from the United Sta'tes.-London Times. STEAM VERSUS MUSCLE. The Immense Gains in Force of the Men of the Present Time. What science and invention is doing for the human race was tersely and plainly presented. Note the following illustration: Compare a galley, a vessel propeled by oars, with the modern Atlantic liner, and first let us assume that prime movers are non-existent and that the vessel is to be propeled galley fashion. Take her length as some 600 feet, and assume that place be found for as many as 400 oars on each side, each oar work ed by three men, or 2.400 men; and al low that six men under these condi tions could develop work equal to one horse power; we should have 400 horse power. Double the number of men and we should have 800-horse power, with 4,800 men at work, and at least the same number in reserve, if the journey is to be carried on continuously. Con trast the puny result thus obtained with the 19,503 horse-power given forth by a large prime mover of the present day, such a power requiring, on the above mode of calculation, 117, 000 men at work and117,00men inre serve; and these to be carried in a ves sel less than C03 feet in length. Even if it were possible to carry this num ber of men in such a vessel, by no con ceivable means could their power be utilized so as to impart to it a speed of twenty knots an hour, vweighing as it would some 10,500 tons gross. Prime motors can do what human muscle can never accompl-ish. Take a railway locomotive-500 horse-power developed in a wagon which does not ocenpy fifty square yards of space, and that flies at the rate of sixty miles an hour with its heavy train! .How weak and puny human muscle toward at taining such results!-Sir .Fred:Bram bull to the British Association. A Spider That Was a Spider. A correspondent of the Calcutta En gishman sends a description of an enormous spider which was killed in a house. The creature was found cling ing to a door curtain, and when alarmed emitted a grating sound, but whether with its mandibles or with its feet could not be ascertained. It showed no disposition to run away, or even to move from the spot where it was till it was thrown down, when it was killed with a blow of a stick. It is qute two inches in length and half an inch in breadth, and the two segments of the body are equal in size. It is dis tinctly short legged for a spiac'r but hc eight legs ::ro ver-y m-ong and heavy. The body, too, is covered with fine short hair, and is all of a dark skirt. Put this over your head, draw all the fullness in front, andJ form of this a large liait; put round your waist to hold it a cord with a rich tassel de pending, or a gay silk sash. Then put on a dressing jacket of fine lawn, trim med with lace; loosen your hair and let it fall down your back; slip your stockingless feet into Indian-looking pantoffies, with gilt or silver embroid ery. Take now a fan in your hand and promenade before your mnirror.-Eftx perences in the Eastern Archipelago b.y Mrs. Forbes. A C::ptive fo- ..iirteen Y ear . Miss Jessi" Laconber. who is making a short visit to this city, says The San Francisco ('al. has a romantic history. She is the stepdaughter of Gen. Lagreato, a .-ctired Mexican olicer, who heeimue a citizein of the United States many years Miss Josie was stolen from her parents in 1671 by the fla!:itto tribe of ians of northerin Idaho. For thirteen years iier parents were unaware of her where abouts. :and niany times had given her up for dead. The matter was brought to the attention of the United States gov crnient and a search begun. Gen. Sheridan was the man selected to look up the case, and after a protracted in vestigation. in which the department at Washin;.;ton expended many thou::ands of dollars, and during which many lives were lost. she was rescued Aug. 7, 18S4. The guide whoni Gen. Sheridan emi !ioved during his search was the famous i).si Kensington, a great Indian scout and irur.tiersms~an. Mi.,s Laconiber is a woman perhaps 20 years of a;;e. and although giving no evi dence of eareful education. is (jUite futel ligeit, and is not in any wie rcticent abot:t rla iang th history of l'er 'nip tivit. W'hen she arrived at the age cf 13 one of the chiefsof the I;hnittos decided that he would make her hiL wife. She iia nantly refused. declaring that she wished to go bach to her parents. In order to force her to marry the copper colored captain tue Indians re sorted to easy methods of torture, but. tinding it impossible. gradually increased the dose. As evidence of the ordeal which she sumiered Miss Lacom.ber now exhibits sixteen wounds. the result of knife Sgashe, on her person. ['inding they could nut, prevail upon her toconiply", the barbarians forsook their brutal methods, and for the remainder of her stay con tented thensuelves with keeping a strict watch upon her movements. After being rescued Miss Lacomber went to her home only to find that her father had been killed by Mexicans along the ItioGrande for participating in clear ing some renegades from Texas. American Song Writers. The most successful of all living popu lar song writers-that is. those who have made tihe greatest number of pronounced his-are unquestionably Will S. .Hays and Dave Brahanu. The former is a journalist, having been the river editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal for several years past. He has probably written a greater nuiher of songs which have become unliversally popular than I any other composer, except Stephen C. Foster. He first became generally known through his "Write Me a Letter From Home." which was sung from one end of the United States to the other. This he followed up in rapid succession with "We Parted by the River Side," "Beautiful Dreamer," "Nora O'Neil," A"ollie Darling" and "Driven From hiome." Of every one of these songs more than 100,000 copies were- sold, while "Mollie Darling" had a sale of more than 300,000, na ing a fortune for it.; publisher, J. L. Peters. Of minor successes, any one of which would have been a glorious triumph for a less for tunate composer, Mr. Hays has made a host. Prominent among these are "I'll Remember You, Love, in My Praycrs," "The Moon Is Out To-night, Love," and "Genevieve." The last named must not be confounded with "Sweet Genevieve," an entirely different song, written by S. C. Tuckeri.-G. W. Christine in Chicago Journal. Divorced Women. What becomes of divorced women? A vast field of unexplored territory is opened by the question. Just as mules are supposed to seek for their death' some spot where no eye can behold them, so divorced women, once divorced, are believed to withdraw to some myste rious limbo in which the rest-of their lives is spent unobserved. But The Tribune has been at the pains of collect ing statistics about them, and it finds that they can accurately be divided into the four following classes: Remarried within a year, 75 per cent.; waiting for an offer, 10 per cent.; fallen into evil ways. 10 per cent.; devoted to celibacy, 5 per cent. These figures have been compiled from a comparison of the divorce lists with the marriage registers; from the state ments of judges, justices of the peace, clergymen, lawyers and court officials, and from personal inquiry among those who have ben divorced. They can be accepted as fairly and substantially cor rect.--Chicago Tribune. Too Much for the Indin. These military anecdotes remind me of a story I heard Gen. Sheridan tell once. and which I do not remember having seen in print before. The general at the time was in command of some western troops fighting the Indians. A band of the latter had made a sudden attack on a detachment of his men, but fortunately they- had a mountain howitzer mounted on a mule. Not having time to take it of f and put it in position, they backed tip and blazed away at the Indias. The load was so heavy that the mule and all went tumbling down the hill toward the savages, who, not understanding that kind of fighting, took to their heels. Afterward one of them was captured, and when asked by Sheridan why he ran, renlied: Me big Injun, not afraid of little or big gunis, but when white man fires wioe jackass at Injun, he don't know wha t to do."-New York Tribune. A French Bil Sykes. A most dangerous species of Bill Sykes ha beeoan arested, together with a fero cl-smstiff wvhich lie owned, by the rspolice. The malefactor was the - r f the Ternes district, and hi.s ::l-v in crime was to prowl around ui'lhborhmod atnight ndsethi at then throats of helated wayfarers. wliff only knew and obeyed his -r,..:.d at a vwordl from that wvorthy - !v at the throat of a passer by rlrdx is hold um:I~ the porkets -:el Id L-n compirk-'t!y rihAd. T - :t ti was a government em 1p -;' o has almost succourbed to the irs wich lie received from thiedog. : i ',wh as known by the appropri .-..:::.of "The B~utchner," has been c.:el Iodged in the depot, and his enor mesdog wvill be shot after the condem : ti its master.-Paris Cor. London Get Married The mar:-ied are longer lived than the sins'. and, above a'l, those who observe a so:r-r :nl industrious condtuct. Tall ien live ionger than short ones. Wo - men have mnore chances of life in their favor previous to 50 years of age than men have, but fewer afterward.-Phila Adnihia CaLl The Topoe.': -hic::! Intinct. A deep thinking Scotch skinppir, seei a whale pk>wing its soiitar t.outhi for hours. nd not dei'in:: n point from his couxr:-:', ::h"A n !.. will "1ften leave *:::- a ! .t :a :. :lim- in search of v::r:er s: t *ne s temS to have dite. \at ;rui .:. thema? A\ h! n,\ you block me. id. h!t not onII\v whales, C Cel seals see:n posi ti l t' i: y eco:: p:tsh in ih:. rins." Man v e i 1!:'h : : t tI rs po ., s:,:." wvhich'en"1ales th:" to findc the.ir v::. unerringiy over sea )r land, where th:-re exists, so far 1, we can s-c-, ningi ' to Uguide them. logs. (::ts, ! n birds have found their way b:ck fr u great dI(st-'an'es to tir hom e s. :'h o.:; they h::ve been conveed: from it in wyto de iprive th:-'T; l ~isac fro'n the u:rgans of sit .h" c t- ar pcigo. for insta ne. ' car ried h:::av reds o' ili:: fro i. It ha- travelc ed that di:-nmeeIn a bask"''t iinh I the :it of a r: ir'.:1 ear: b:t when itis I blrownl up. it Circie. a::): fr:! t e :in' t"s.::m!1 tlt: !w : de ides un ho..i tatingly on the exact line of fli w bri:. it tc .t, l:ft. thougi it 11ay ncer hI::: --:h,,.e:: ll (instt i!::t i:(f( ::e.~w t o::t .l -b :" l . :: i :e to t heh rti :i~e :w r o-i-n-I: i .i '.t. ndmie way: e t ;! e' i : h batter: the . \vriter i;: i.: i ce ' 11:ur : th:,:t a co!!! puu. mon riibs ld.wsbrn fr t~omgirau-y t . \beri. by-. ri ad !'l'1ra(ma. The puppy: ran away:1 frt::: anie rC :::o..I 1:un .it lr : ': in : h rwi:h cnier ''tre::m. to -rdt ,:. i~;.c r h .... The writeor c ith t se byl wohi h :nmasare Y!uidedl l:! finingT thir way\.i th! t o a al':t , i::Et- I:-h iO s l a na'ne, but not anlxl nton-o:-' Companion. Incon~grt:ities in 17air. " ies," said tho ire r t s shie pomiade'd and ba'ndo.:;neda tr'hi. -we have somc cu~riotus f.eat::r es in or bus"iness. For example, thew's "thle v-idiow\'s lock." "Is that a style of hair indigenous to "It is sepposed to pred+ict r: id:vshooad. It is a lock that grows(out sir:h ait Ie parting of the hair and i;1; t:at growL " long enough to be on.:1 w.i:5 tI he other hair. Then tiei s h cwliel." "Is that another indcepe cdt 10: ' "Yes; it grows straight n) rm the forehe.-ad like a .ft of grass, s if a cow had licked it up-and it is so :>uern that ladies afflieted with them often Tart their hair on the side to avoid them:. They are a great trouble and no one knows why they have them." The hairdresser took a roll of hair pins and put a dozen or so in her mouth. "E-v'r h-e-a-r of 1-ove lc ksI" "No; that hairpin went right into my brain-what are they*" "Love locks? Oh, they are not in fash ion now. They were made by enttin- a1 lock of the hair by the ear annd letting it fall straight against the cheek for about an inch. Ever see white locks? I've seen a lock of hair as white as snow growing in the black hair of a young head; antd it was asugly and contrary sin."-Ietroit Free Press. The Dummy Spoke. "I was coming up from Albany a few days ago." said a drummer to a iarty of friends as they sat in the lobby of tile Globe hotel smoking their cigars. "In the seat just in front of mue. were two well dre,sed gentlemen, who werC carry ing on an earnest but very quiet conver sation with their fingers. When the train reached Utica a couple of stylish looking girls care in and took the seat in front of the two men, which happened to be turne.d facing themn. The girls very soon noticed the finger conversation, and coolly praeceded to comment upon r15 personal appearance of the gentlernen in a very audible tone of voice. -Thle fel low with the blonde mustache is pretty good lolking,' said one. 'It's a pity he can't talk. I wonder if they're marieJo.' and so they went on for a few minutes. Pretty soon the conductor camne through the car, and, much to the surprise of thle passenger;. who had been wvatching the litle scene, the gentlemaan with the bonide must-achie stopped him and as:ked what time the train got to Sy r'cuse. It w.as as good as a show to) wr tehi the faces of those girls. The strain was too muct~h for them, and as soon as the train stopped h ey moved into another car."-Syracuse Hlerald. .________ Weaikening Our Eyes. I wish I could miore out to Dakota, twenty ileCs from the nearest school house. and bring the children up my:self. Thev would know a hawk from a hern shrfv as far as any one. See those hoys wii big. handsome eyes going from school. Half can't sight a target or a dutck in a marsh or a ship down the bay. If the country should have another war the goverinmtelt wVould have to find regi ments in spectacles. Nine hours a dlay do those public school children pore over school hooks with the yilest print that ruins eves. Between the poor print of school books and the newspapers, and in cessant reading, we are iosing eyes as fast as possible. The big, handsome eyed women have to use atropine to see at all. and the clever women all have cton tracted. sunken eyes fro:n reading too much. They begin at 5 years old an~d keep tasking the eyes till the amaurosis sets in. Do voui know there isn't one personi in 500 vith really good eyes, and fewer chiirdetu-Sh irley Dare. AConuvict Cemetery'. A half miile east of tihe prison, upon aV v.oody knoll, the convict burying ground is cituated. ft is an inelosure of about tvo vee's, a'nd the only resemblance the spt a to a "City of the Dead" is in the long rows of mtounds that c::tend can0 adJ west. decnting the resting place f the unhonored dead.' No stately mnu mexls here, no marble :hafts or broken enllttumns ~cate'd bI y lo h:mids in inemfliy of the depanrted; n-o hbeautiftcl lowcrs or grasy.\ Lmvwns, not even a re s'petnble ituari:lc slab oi' anys lhi:: to 12 all the meo-ry of tie mnalefactors. . i identity is lost.~ When the de-ad is buried here the grave is marked by a smai pine board, on which is pri::ted tie pc.an nmber, nanme, a:eand date of decath; the elemtents~ sooni erase these, and i'm a short timec no one can tell the occupla:/7s >f these narrow homnes.-Joliet (cor. a Louis Post-Lispatchi. Only a Tritc. Recent calculations go to sho0w that. the menan di.;tamce of the earth from the sn was wrongtly ethbated lby i:0.c20 Eglish m.iles aboue t went yer :.o Bt nobody minds a litle thin like. that. t view of' the fact that th:e distance is now figre to ho 02,5 000 miles Dr. G. M. Sternberg, who was com missioncld by the College of Physicians of Phiil:deiphia to investigate the methods of protective inoculation as practiced in l'razil (by Dr. Domin gas Frcire) and in Mexico (by Dr. Cargona y Vaile), reported that facts concerning the endemic and epidemic prevalence of the fever justify the belief that its cause isanmicro-organism, which can, under suitable conditions, be propa g:.ted outside the body, as well as be capable of transport to a distance; also that, a3 a single attack of yellow fever, however mild. mostly protects from future attacks, there is reason to hope that such protection might be gained by inreulationn. The yellow fever germ probably gains 'ntrance into the body by the respir atory or alimentary tracts, or through the surface of the body, or it is p that it multiplies in insanitary lOclities and develops a volatile poison which contaniinates the air. The former hypo the.is, that it enters the body and mul tij)ics within it. is, he thinks, the more p:obable. hitherto the germ has not i:en four.d in the blood and tissues of te, attacked, for Dr. Sternberg. does niot coniirm the alleged discovery made Dr. Domingos Freire. Nor is there, ' r. Stern berg's opinion, any satisfac tor- evidence that the method of inoc u l:.: on practiced by Dr. Domingos Freire as any prophylactic value, and the =::m applies to the claims put forward Iy Dr. Carmona y Valle, of Mexico. lamcet. ruby lines, Burma. One of the finest sanitariums in India i that of Bernard-Myo, on the broad c:i:g nlains of Enjouk, on the north crn .lolies of the hills bounding the ruby :nn district of Monok, Burma. Ber I.rlio is over 6.&0 feet above. sea ravel. The ruby mining district may !have a population of over 6,000 people iclonging to many different tribes. The nincs are of three kinds-the working of '.sure veins, washing in a somewhd izi:nilar manner to the hydraulic ning in California, and what may be r144 placer diggings. The third class of mines is at present the most important. At depths varying from ten to thirty feet, in the flatter lands of the valleys, There occurs a layer of corundum from a rtew inches to a few feet in thickness. When this corundum is brought to the surace myriads of small rubies glitter in the bun. Almost all the -stones are water worn or of irregular shapes, and it is rarely that a flawless ruby is found. So rare is a ruby of the finest water, that one of three carats is worth ten times the value of a diamond the same e. The district of Mogok is situated betwcen Mandalay 'and Bhamo, and is ncarer to the former place.-Scientifle American. Damping Grain. One of the largest millers in the United States, C. A. Pillsbury,' is credited - :: th asserting that American millers do pat (dfampen their wheat before grin it. This is correct of some millers, not of all, and the reason is not attri i ;xtabh to differences in millers, but to diiTerences in wheat. Most of the Cali fo:nia wheat ground in this state is moistened, because it is found necessary to do so. On the other hand, Oregon v!:cat will not stand dampening, as it contains- enough water without this, treatment. On this account local millers prefer California wheat, as they can add the necessary water for nothing, which they have to pay for in the Oregon article., When shipped abroad or stored for months at tidewater, there. is less differ cne, as wheat which is not moist will become so when in a damp atmosphere" California wheat when afloat gains 2to v pcr cent. from absorption of moisture. A c-.rtain percentage of water in wheat is essentia! to rcnder it fit for grinding, and the moisture has to be either found i:: the grain or applied artificially thereto. --San Francisco Grocer. Popo Leo's Abstemious Life. Like Nanoleon, Leo XmI does a great deal of work and takes very little sleep. Hie risces at 5 in summer and 6 in winter. His toikct occupies a half hour, after whiich he passes an hour in prayer and mc'ditation as a preparation for mas, which he says every day in one of the rnriva te ch1apl;s of the Vatican. He aniiciates at the altar with exemplary de votio;n, and there is an exceeding grace i -ll Ii movements, whether in the. s-'uctua-ry. in his garden, in his library or when' holing a public audience. At 8o'clock the pope takes his cafe au lait an a rol. Leo XUIlis one of the most abstemious. of men, and the entire ex penses. of his~ table do not average more than .t a a the whole year round. It m.~ be rcenbered that the pope al tay t:s his meals alone.-E~ittsburg Leprosy !s Contagious. That leprosy really is a contagious ds ': co: toe pretty well proved by th -dcmnts which the Rev. II. IP. righat commuicates to The Times. A aaiin c'onvict who was oondemnned to dat hadi h" is life spared on condition .1hat he; shoul be inoculated wiith lefnrcsY .(Ia o expierime-nt. The inoeufation 16! piu- three ycrs ago, and the un Iortunate mam. who wouLld Eurely have d:eette tgo to the scafitld, is now S beuarleper. The experiment wa per .0l3 h ri ncessary. The fact that Dah Da"iein has become a leper since he vwent to reside in a settlement of I prs m' surely~ proof enough that the dis cae!:cnaicas. Now. however, there is .o longr reoom for any doubt which vn have 1:cen felt upon the matter at one~ tirr"-Pal i -lall Gazette. Er !'tm's Pride. Si::aing how pride sometimes .m nh'' es a man. "I neas passing though Jermn. treet late oneerenuing." vnea al historian Bunn, "and :::.: Kenuney swihging about n rt of manner, I inquired be e hisbeing there at such an ito the St. James theatre," . a - A do you know I really iau h:tm was a much prouder ma hah n him to be." I wasithe green~room, and hearing Brah.n 7,:. as lhe entered, -I'm really prou ofm~ypit to-night,' I went in and om n'tcd it. There we're seventeen spec ttrsin it!"--Detroit Free Press. A freight train on the Sou~thern Pacisc railroavl ran intoaherdof catde, striking a yearling calf, which jumnped at one bound on the riilet of the locomotive. It lav down quietly and rode for nine niiles. As the train approached Tucson the signal whistle aroused it, and it jumped from the pilot and scampered