The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, December 07, 1886, Image 2
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The Canadian PaciGc Company
building five miles of snow shods in tl
Rocky mountains, at an estimated coi
of $1,500,000. a fact which suggests oc
item of the expense of operating railway
over the snowy ranges of the great cont
ncntal divide.
The Rev. Dr. A. II. Lewis writes in tl
popular Science Monthly on the origin an
?-r a 1 ? l?ii;?
lUdUitn Vi QUiiUdjr tu^ioiuviuu. ma
tcntioa is that the day was first institute
by pagan sun-worshipers, and that it hi
only been possible to maintain its stati
in Christian nations by the constant e
ereiso of the authority of the ?tate.
Few persons on visiting a museu
consider that such objects as skeletoi
require a certain fitting for exhibitio
Yet the preparation of skeletons for tl
market constitutes a distinct industry,
which a large manufactory in the suburl
of Paris is devoted. Corpse*' are su
plied from dissecting-rooms and liosi
tals. On its delivery the raw material
boiled for days in a cauldron, and tl
grease which rises to the surface
Bkimmed off and sold. The bones a
carefully assorted and converted into a
tificial skeletons. The preparation
frogs, lizards and various reptiles occ
pies a separate department.
A man who ha9 studied the varioi
puases of the matrimonial market h
come to the conclusion that every worm
has some chance to marry; it may 1
one to fifty or it may ten to one she wil
Representing a woman's entile chance i
100. he has mnrie out the followincr tab
j - ?o
to show the chance at ccrtain points <
time.
Between 15 aud 20 years.... 14>? per coi
Between 20 and 25 years.... 5 J per cei
Between 25 and 30 years.... IS per cei
Between HO aud 35 years 1 -i}4 per cei
Between 35 aud 4 > years.... j>er cei
Between 40 aud 45 years.... 2>? per cei
Between 45 and 50 years.... ,^of I per cet
Between 50 and 5 > years \ of I per cei
After CO it is onL'-tenth of one p<
cent., or one chance in 1,000.
The final estimates for the giganti
iron tower which is to be a feature <
the French exhibition of 1889 are no1
ready. The state will contribute 1,500
000 francs, and the remainining sum <
6,000,000 francs will be furnished by tl:
contractors, who will acquire possessio
of the tower for twenty years. There
still some dispute about its height. Tl
difficulty will shortly be solved in th
way: A captive balloon will be let u
to the proper height, and four cable
reaching down to the ground, will rej
resent to the eye the four edges; of tl
tower. At intervals flags will be hun
to mark out the positions of the sever
torics.
Charles L. "Webster, senior member <
A1 iS 1.1 A. _ 11? 1! n /I a
cue unu iiiHL ia puuusmng ucn. uruni
boek, said recently that he had ju
handed to Mrs. Grant the firm's chec
for $150,000, the second installment dv
her under the General's contract. 1I<
seventy per cent, of the profits on tl
?ale of the book will continue during tl
twenty-eight years of copyright prote>
tion secured to the work, so that she wi
doubtless receive anywhere from $000
000 to $700,000. Mr. Webster also sai
that his firm contemplated publishing r
edition de luxe of the book, each coj
containing portions of Gen. Grant's 01
ginal manuscript The edition wi
probably be limited to 500 or 1,0<
copies, and will be sold for $100 each.
An association of Alabama, Gcorgi
Virginia, New York and Philadelpli
capitalists, callcd the North Birmingha
Land Company, has been formed at Bi
mingham, Ala., with a capital of $70C
000. The Coalburg coal mining proj:e
ty, with n daily output of 500 tons,
included in the purchase made by tl
company from the Richmond tfc Danvil
extension. Its mining capacity will 1
increased and a larga iron furnace wi
numerous coke ovens will be erected
once. The site of the plant is on Villa;
Creek, not quite two miles no:th of Bi
mincham. The company owns 12.5i
acres of coal and farm lands, and pr
poses building a suburban town and c
gaging in extensive manufacturing.
After nearly three yeais of study ai
deliberation, the manner of lighting tl
Bartholdi statue of "Liberty Enlighte
ing the World" has been definitely d
cided upon. The plan adopted is o
which is in conformity with the genei
design of the statuo itself, and whi<
adds to its beauty in a marked degrc
The torch of the statue contains eig
lamps of 0,000 candle power, the lig
from which is thrown directly up in
tho clouds. This powerful beam, 1
gethcr with the cloud illumination, cc
stitutes a beacon visible probably a hu
drcd miles out to sea, and i3 thus, af
off, symbolic of the light and liberty
be enjoyed by the visitor to our shon
At the foot of the statue four or eig
liffhtsof 0,000 candle power each are d
tributed. Their light is r. fl-jcted up
the statue and illuminates it bright]
All these arc lamps are invisible the:
selves, so that the objections raised
$he river pilots against the blinding <
fects of the light arc entirely remove
Besides the arc lights all around t
statue, the diadem upon the head of t
figure of Liberty contains incandescc
lamps, to give the effect of jewel*. T
whole plan is undoubtedly an excclle
one, and cannot fail to make the stnt
even more i posing at night than in t
dav-tiroo
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i9 LEND A HAND.
10 Look up and not down; look out and not
.i. in; look forward and not back: and lend a
n hand.
,e I.#ook bruvely up, door soul, tha gleaming
*8 stars
i- Shine grandly out beyond the darkest night.
Tlio solemn, sobbing anthem's s I vor bars.
Swop down to us from Heaven's far.
nameless height:
10 Tliey sky is upward; the tre?s and
flowers
a- IIoll up to God each dainty loaf and cup;
ill The boas an I birds tly forth to greet th?
18 hours;
All earth is g'a 1, dear brother, look thou
up!
x~ Look outward! Here the dreamy suubeams
she ?.
Within the rock-encircled, sheltered shore:
m There on the wide, wild soa dark teini?ests
as 8weo;?,
n And wre ks go down in darkness evermore.
Set thou a light upon the treacherous sand;
Trim thou thy little lamp to pierce the
*? gloom,
"8 And guide the sailor to his fatherland,
p- The weary wandorer to the gates of Home. !
?i- Look upward! outward! forward! in the race
j8 Which God doth give thee, thou mayst
surely win;
Toil for the nobler lifo ami higher place,
13 Work thou for God and man! Look out,
re not in!
,r- Send thou a helping hand to those who err??
0f To all who ueud thy aid tj stronger stand;
u_ Wholoveth man is God's b.'st worshiper.
Forgot thyself, my brother?loud a baud!
? K. Alice Ki'incy, in Detroit Free Ixreis.
? THAT GRAHAM GIRL.
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BY MAKY K. HKl"SII.
, Well, it's all over, anil I'm ?lad of it.
I never want to camp out again as long
^ as I live! .Nor docs Caia Muiray. To
le think what a lovely time we had anticijf
pated, with Tracy l.oring. the greatest
catch of the year, along, and only dear,
fat, stupid Airs, linrtlett for our chaperon!
There's no knowledge what mignt
^ have happened had it not been lor that,
at Graham girl.
nt ?he was governess to Mrs. Bartlett's
two children, Tom and Tiny (the worst
young ones that ever bieathed!) and .Mrs.
3r Bartlctt said that she couldn't possibly
think of trusting herself and precious
little ones into the wilderness unless her
dear, faithful Helen went along. So, of
1C course, Helen Graham wmt, and so did
)f T.aoy Loriug, Cara Murray, the two
Avery girls, and their collegian cousins,
Max and Will Collins.
It was jolly fun at first, for during the
j journey on tlic cars G'ara and I managed
10 to tecure Tracy ourselves. Then we went
in by stage ten miles to a loneh* farmhouse
ig ?a ''jumping oil place," as Tracy called
it?where we were to get the guide and
boat which were to t .ke us up Lake
1S Moosctic?dear me, I ca 1 neser rememip
ber those horrid Indian nimes! Hut
gt never mind. Tracy said that he didn't
just like the looks of our guide, but Cara
and I thought him real romantic. His
ie name was Francisco, and he was kind of
g brigandish-looking, you know, with
id Hashing, black eyes, swarthy complexion
and long black hair. And he wore a
sort of pictures jue Indian costume. He
3f talked a good d:.-al to us girls, and rolled
. | his eyes, and made up jingling bits of
1 poetry that didn't sound bad. Tom
| Hartlett said that he smcllcd of onions
k and poor whisky, but Tom was always
ie making horrid speeches. However, this
time he wasn't so far out of the way, for,
if you'll believe it, we hadn't b:cn campie
ing o .t a week before that rascally guide
ie went oil and left us in the midst of a
r?- howlinn- wilflf?rni>qa fifti-nri milnj
11 any living soul. Took our boat, too! i
And we had to make our own fiiej, and
?' cook our own meals, and all that.?
id ' things which we had paid him to do.
in Mrs. Baitlett is over fort}', but she
)Y ' doesn't know a thing about housekeeping,
for h-.T husband's s-ist r, who lives
,l~ with her, sees to everything. As for the
M Avery girls, they never ent -r a kitchen.
JO nor do Cara and I. Tracy Loring knew
more than we did, for he eould make delicious
collce as well as broil fish. It
a was late iu the afternoon, with a cold
.' rain and wind-storm coming on, so that
,a it wouldn't have been prudent for th'j
m gentlemen to undertake the long tramp
ir. through the woods back to the Giles
I _ farm-house. Cara and I felt wretchedly.
' In the first place, we we e conscious of
looking drabbled and shabby?there's
is nothing like that to lower a woman's
n cnirifo Vnn cao ?? '
au lull DU6, ?U Ullll IIU JUCil U1 '
le what a wild, era y place the woods were, |
oc and so we had worn dainty, flimsy suits, |
whose ruffles and puffs had soor. became |
t*1 crushed and crumpled. The Averyh
at were in the samj fix. As for that Graham j
;ro girl, she wore a plain navy blue flannel j
[r- Sown> with short s\irt and blouse waist.
We had all mado fun of her behind her !
00 back, but after a day or two we were i
o- forced to acknowledge that she lnoked |
n- far more dainty and tidy than ourselves.
Anyhow, T.acy Loring s crned to think
her attractive, for, from tho very first,'
j he treated her as an equal with Cara and
1 me. and she laughed and talked as
'ie freely as he did. f-hj never teamed to
n- mind the least hint, not even when one
[e. day Cara throw out something about |
u working-j eople knowing their place. At
first, though, she drew heiself up rather j
"al stately (as she has a line figure!) and
looked ( ara straight in the eyes as if to
se. find out what she meant, then a smile
ht began dimpling t ho c orners of her mouth,
kf. and she sang out mischievously:
. w nen Adam ueivoii unci Kve span,
ll? V\ ho then was the gentleman*'
?* But to go back to tho time the guide
>n- left us. Wo hal to have supper, of
n. cour e, but what and how?
"I've got some fish," sa d Trary; "and
I see that Max has pi ked some fine
to blackberries. I can make the collce, but
5*. the rest of the culinay alTairs I'll have
ht leave inlhe hands of you ladies."
jg_ "Oh, my goodn-ss gracious!" groaned
Mrs. L'artlett, ''I never cooked a ineal in
on all my life 1"
ly- \\ e all echoed her words, ercept lie'en
m- Graham, who jumped up briskly, sayby
ing: "I'll try to fix something, though it
. won't bo very elaborato. for I fear our
3*" resources are limited. Pray, Mr. Loring,
l(*. what does our larder contain?"
he "Humph! Mostly cannoi goods, I behe
lieve. Thero arc somo loaves of bread,
. but," with a 3nifT, "they look kind of
queer, A. i-s Graham?th y have.a pa'c,
whity-grcen fur/, on the cru*t! It's very
nt a?6thetic-looking, to bo sure?but it
uo doesn't smell good !"
"Heat and moi ture ha e made it
mould. Bread mould* easily in August
V' .. , y ^ v
weather, and this is over a week old. 1
But I can cut o:t the crust and toast the a
inside." u
"That'll be famous! Iam so hungry f
I could eat my boots almost! It re.oices C
my soul to see a genuinely capable woman r
?one with a 'knack'! And now. Madam Ji
Cook, I'm at your service"?with a low v
bow. That Graham girl didu't fe m a
i bit impressed?she only giirgled, and s
said, coolly: "You may clean the fish, 1
if you want to," and Tracy I oring, the c
he.r of one of the richest and most aria- c
locrunc lamiues, (lonnea a lug towel lor c
an apron, and went out to obey her com- mauds.
L
Then how she llew aionnd! I rather n
liked to watch her. She had such a deft, g
handy way of doing things. Both Cara ! ^
and I wished that ?.ur mothers had taught t
us something beiides fancy things.
She made a rousing fire in the fireplace *
?you see, we had taken up our quarters
in a log-cabin that, years before, had
been occupied by an old hermit trapper, v
It was a rough nffair, but just thvn we t
were very thankt'ul for it, considering h
the rain outside. it had turned oil so j t
| chilly, too,that the tire felt very comfort- j ii
able, and what with the light, warmth i s
and good supper, we had a very pleasant j 11
time. The supper was especially nice, j v
llelen had opened a couple of cans if f
chicken; this she warmed 111 the sauce- j c
pan, and poured it over the toast, gravy , a
and all. Then she wrapped potatoes in | a
lead's and roa&ted them in the hot ashes; h
and these, with the fish, coffee and other r
things, made a meal fit for anybody. The 1
gentlemen praised it up, at any rate, and C
they paid that Graham girl so many '.om- t
pliments that she actually blushed. It t
inaue ncr iook pretty, too, ana tlie lire- i
light falling on her brown hair gave it a d
golden sheen that we women couldn't
help envying. o
' Now, what's to be donee" said young ii
Max Collins, after supper. "fc>ouie of s?
us have got to tramp back to Giles's '
farmhouse and get another boat." fi
' You and I will go,Max," said Tracy, tl
"Will c an stay here and guard the la- p
dies. We'd better start to-morrow morn- o
ing if it's clear." ti
Tho weather was fine next morning, it
and after an early breakfast (that Gra- c;
ham girl made splendid corn pones), c,
Tracy and Max left us. Poor Mm. Bart- n
lett actually whimpered when they went ^
off. ' ? 1*
' It seemed so awful to be left alone? J*
shipwrecked in the howling wilderness,"
she said.
'That'srather a mixed metaphorPcxclaimed
Will; "and not at all compli- r<
mentary to my bravery ! You know, my
dear madaine, that 1 will defend \ on . t(
as long a9 I have a drop of bio d left?if , P;
these warlike mosquitoes leave me any , SI
to begin with." i Sl
Will is a real nice fellow (lovely to i ai
lead the German with!) but he isn't cut
out for a woodsman, and about the first | cj
uiiiig uu uia, aiti r 1 racy ana iwax Had w.'
goai', was to tumble down a rocky place f1
? he was getting some rare ferns for J*
Saidie Avery?and break hit leg! Well, "
I don't kuow what we would have done w
had it not been for that Graham girl I K'
We were all about ready to go into hys- "j
terics, but sho spoke out sharp and com- P'
manding, and told us that we must help *
her. We somehow got AV i 11 into the ~
house?it must have looked ridiculous [c
to have *een us all pulling and tug- *1!
ging at him?and on a cot, and then
Helen went to Mrs. Bartlett's medicinechest,
which she had brought along on
account of the children, and got him c'
something that would keep him quiet
and prevent fever. Then there was |
nothing else to do but wait urtilTiacy ,
returned; and oh, it seemed ages. j 111
In the meantime, something still more
startling took place. We were all resting
a bit after our exertions, when suddenly
in rushed Tom an 1 Tiny, saying in
scared whispers, for Will was d>iing, J
and we motioned them to be quiet:
'Oh, thnt Francisco has come back!
lie is coming up from the beach, and he
acts awful queer! l!e twore at us, he ^
did!" h
' What! the guide!" said Mrs. Hart- 11
lett. ''Girls, he must be drunk or crazy I n
What shall we do* Oh! what shall we 11
do? Poor Will can't protcct us!" ^
"And he musu't be disturbed, eithe.*," : ^
said Helen Graham, decidedly. "We'll ,
have to settle with Francisco ourselves. >
He does look c:azy or drunk," going to
the door and looking out at the rolling, j
swaggering ii^ure coming up the pebbly }
path. * " ; ?
It was quite evident that he was drunk j c
?unfortunately not enough to make him 1 n
clumsy and helpless, but enough to be j ^
ugly ami reckless, llis boldness showed ! ^
that he know we were without a de- g
fender. _
Helen Grahim stepped outside the '
door, one hand hanging down in the f(
folds of her gown. Her face was whit:-, j,
but ot erwise she fl?emud calm. n
''What do yo:i want, Francisco;" she jj
called out, in steady tones. r
He swore like a pirate as he answered:
"Now. look here, girl, you needn't put
on any airs! There ain't no one but that ?
cripp ed dandy in there! I've come to j,
have my ju-a <lue.-\ The boss, Loring, j,
wouldn't allow we any whisky, and s:> 8
I went off mid helped myself. Now, I've 0
come back to settle up! You women n
have g(.t to fork over what money and
valuables you've gotl'' and with that the ^
ugly brute drew a step nearer. (]
I never knew Helen Graham's eyes ^
roilld ?n 'St-inrl l\anlr olwi n
?. t
She raised her right hands from the folds ^
of her gown, and I caught a steely gloam. c
It was Will's r volver! ^
1- rancisco didn't relish that little shin- t
in<j weapon being pointed at him, aud ?
he cringed down like a whipped cur. j,
j "Now," continued Helen, "you go and ?
| sit down und r that tree!" ^
j ''Oh. I'll have now?I won't trouble
you an / more,'' he mumbled.
"Do a? 1 tell.vo i?sit down!" said she,
sharp and stc:n. and s.t down he did;
I and then >he mounted guard over him, ^
; the pistol still in her hand. We begged *
lier to lot him go. y
i 44Xo." said she; "I can't trust him out 1
of our sight ! lie's mean enough to do '
! almost anything! lie's got to slay c
liiirn nnt.'l tlif? innn pnmn un/1 lm non l?? fl
| placet! under th arm of the law." c
So watch him she did all that long af- *
ternoon. It was drca y waiting. Not '
until Iho silver sheen of the lake grew *
purple with the lo.ur mountain shadows c
did help come. Then, far down the |
lake, came a cheery "Yo? o?del!" and *
: two boats swept aroiml the curve. E
; Tracy, Max. Fnnurr ?.> ilo-* and a trusty c
! guide xi'fvff \r. iln-rn .* > ! ? ! ?'! * hvl 8
; all our v.k ?t i! - v.: ;? i<? i?*i* -u. ?
when. * !>* i-i v >i ; ut \Jra- *
. s . ,'V >, />- ' i ' f '\ . '' ' ''
' V ;U -k : . '. > . '"
lam girl fainted away as white and limj
^ any ordinary woman! There was 8
rood deal in the expression of Tracy's
uee us ho caught her in his arms, and
Jara aud I felt that our chancer wcr<
mall?a inan never looks like that unlesj
10 is holding the woman he wants for his
vife! ;
Well, to return to the prose part: we
onu'iiow goi ? ick to civili ation again. |
*<;or Will was pi.iced in the doctor's I
are. and the poetical but erratic Fran- |
isco was handed over to the tender mer- '
ies of the constable. As for ourselves :
?dear mo! what with stones, mud, i
iri rs and underbrush, worms, snakes
nd mosquitoes, to s?y nothing of tipsy (
[uides and plucky governesses?we,
Jara and I, as I siid before, never want
o camp out again!?Frank Leslie'*.
'emmicaii, the Food of Arctic Trav- !
clers.
The meat, cut in long Hakes from the
rarm carcass of the butfalo and dried in
he sun, is afterwards beaten into shreds
iy flails upon a floor of bulTalo-hide on
he open prairie. The hide is then sewed
nto a bag, the meat jammed in, the top
ewed up all but one corner, into -which
nore meat is crowded, and then the fat,
chilli has meanwhile been tried, is
toured in scaliling hot, tilling every I
revice. A species of cranberry is often
dded with the meat. The whole forms
bolster-shaped bag, as solid and aa
leavy as stone, and in this condition it
emains, perhaps for years, until eaten,
^ach bag weighs from 100 to 120 pounds.
)nc who has tried it will not wonder
hat it was onco used in the turmoils of
he contests between the Northwest and
ludson May Companies to form a re
oudc, armed with two swivel guns.
There are two ways of preparing this,
no called "rub-a-boo," when it is boiled
a a great deal of water, and makes a .
Dup; the other more favorite dish is
'rousseau," when it is thrown into a
rying pan, fried in its own fat, with
lie addition, perhaps, of a little salt
ork, and mixed with a small amount
f flour or broken biscuit. Hut someinies,
when philosophers are hard put to
;, and forccd to take their meal in tho
:inoe, the pemmican i.s eaten raw;
hopped out of the bug with a hatchet,
nd accompanied simply by the biscuit,
diich has received the sobriquet qf "Bed
iiver granite." These wonderful ob:cts,
as large as sea-biscuit, aro at le.ist
iree-quartern of an inch in thickness,
ad against them the natura'ist'# geo)gical
..hammer is always brought into
,-quisition.
But tho "infidel fish,'' as rousseau is
;rraed, isb>- comparison with the others
alatable, though it Jh even then impusble
to ho disguise it as to avoid the
iggestion of tallow candlcs; and this
id the leathery, or india-rubber, strucxre
of the meat are its chief disqualifiitions.
But even rousseau may lose its
tiarms when taken as a steady diet three
men a day for weeks, especially when
is sjrved in a frying pan, and, breakist
or dinner over, one a es the remnants
ith the beef or pork all hustled tout
h?r in the boiling kettle; the biscuit,
roken bannocks and unwashed cups
laced in the bread-bag; tho pates,
nives and forks tossed into the meatish;
and all, combined in the ample
>lds of an old bit of gunny cloth, which
served daily at once as dishcloth and
iblecloth, thrown into the cauoe to rest
atil tho next meal, when at last Billy
nds time to wash the dishes? the tableoth
never.
Why Men Become Bald.
"Did you ever notice what classes ot
icn arc most commonly baldf" asked an
cpert hair-dresser the other day. "That
irow.s a good deal of light on the causes
f baldness. People give all kinds of
cplanations for it?dissipation, cutting
le hair too fchott, letting it grow too
>ng, smoking, drinking strong colfee,
poiry, wearing high hats, wearing low
ats. wearing vour hat indoors, not
rearing it outdoors, lute hours and a
unclred other things. Now you will
otice that there are no classes of men
lore frequently bald than retail saleslen,
bookkeepers and otfice clerks in
ertain lines of business. Why should
alducss affect them more than others?
iecause they habitually stand or sit
early every evening under gaslights,
look keepers always ha. c a stro: g light
iiiht over their heads or ju*t in front of
hem. So do clerks who have to work
t night. Ketail salesmen sell goods at
ight directly under two powerful burnrs,
and most of the time their heads are
nt. mnrn t.linn f.ivn nr tonf tVin
ame. The artificial heat dries out the
iair, makes it brittle and unhealthy and
nally kills it at the root. If you will
lass your hand through your hair after
ou have been standing under a gaslight
or a few moments you will see at. once
ow it is. Although you may not have
oticed the heat on your head, your hair,
f you've got any, will be hot to the
oots. You'll be surprised to observe,
00, at what a distance from the light
he hair will absorb the heat. Now there
i nothing so bad for the hair ns gettiug
t dry. That is why the use of water on
t i-t so injurious?becau.se it evaporates
o readily and takes with it the natural
il of the hair. Your hair should be
loist all the time and with the oil. tlr.*t
3 secretcd by the little cells at the roots.
Vhen the oil is continually and rapidly
Iricd out, as it is when the head is kept
icated by gaslight, the cell dr c* up and
he hair fal s out People who sit under
he gaslight should wear some kind of a
001, non-conducting headgear to proect
themselves. I have an idea, too,
hat after the electric light has been in
iniversal use for a generation or two,
kuuiu'SS will be a*scarce as it wue before
;as!ight? and night-work got common
ogether.- New York Mail and Exprctt.
Hindoo Head:).
A llindoo writes to the Phrenological
\Ta'jazin-i as to the relative size of the
leads of his countrymen as compared
vith those of Europeans. lie says: "All
he Ilindoj heads 1 have had the opporunity
of measuring by tape measure
omo mar to or about twenty-two inchcs,
nd in some cases more, in circumfer*
nee." The writer goes on to give hie
iew of the difference between thij Engish
and the Hindoo, and the reason of
he hitter's sub ection. The native, he
onsiders, has less of those qualities that
five energy, force, resistance, enterprise,
lopefuluesi and caution, while li<? has
ttorc of thoso that li'ad to passive ohedince,
reverence, respect fur authority, I
ubnission to what appears to be thdwill j
>f heaven, and in general to reLigicniiIn- I
liunco.e, than his conqueror. J I
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A watchmaker says that the multitudo j
>( telegraph, telephone, and electric I
light wires in largo cities has much to do
with tho variations aud stopping of
watches that hitherto have been good J
timekeepers, and that manufacturers are j
trying to invent means to provide against j
the magnetizing of watehes.
By a curious coincidence, two persons j
with bullet wounds in the head were re- '
ceived sit the London hospital on the j
same day recently. More remarkable is .
the fact that, though in eacli case the '
bullet was driven into the brain too j
deeply for extraction, both patients have
been discharged convalescent. These
marvelous recoveries from what, a fe?v ,
years ago, would have meant certain j
death, illustrate the efFccts of superior !
surgical skill and the modern antiseptic :
method of treating wounds
The Montreal Churr.h (juurtlimi says ,
that "the Pennsylvania Railroad lias !
beon quiety making some experiments I
to ascertain whether it would pay for a !
big railroad eompany to remember the {
Lord's Day. A good many excursion
trams ana some regular passenger Irani"! |
have been discontinued. All the fi eight
trains except those carrying live stock |
and petishablc goods have been ordered
oil from 8 o'clock on Saturday night until j
midnight on Sunday, and all repairing '
on Sunday 1ms been stopped. The re- I
suits have proved so satisfactory that the !
directors arc now arranging to make !
these experimental changes permanent |
and to extend them. That a large corporation
should have been willing to try
the experiment of Sunday observance
after years of violation of that day, is a
most hopeful sign of the development
in moral tone. That after trying the experiment
it hft9 found the result so satisfactory
that the change is to be extended ,
and made permanent, was not unlookcd 1
for by those who had examined this sub- j
ject in its physical and social as well as !
its mo al bearings. Such a fact as this ie j
one of those practical arguments thatare j
wholly unanswerable."
The human family living to-day on
earth consists of about 1,450,000,000 individuals;
not less, probably more.
These are distributed over the earth's sur- j
face, so t' at now there is no consider- j
able part where man is not found. In
Asia, where lie was lirst planted, there
are now approximately about 800,000,
densely crowded; on an average 120 to
the square mile. In Europe there are
JV, 0,000,000, averaging 100 to the square
mile, not so crowded, but everywhere
dense at all points over populated In
Africa there are 210,000,000. In America,
North and South, there arc 110,000,000,
relatively thinly scattered and recent.
In the islands, large and small,
probably 10,00 ',000. The extremes ol
the white and black arc as five to throa;
the remaining 700,000,000 intermediate
brown and tawny. Of the ra'*c 500,000,000
are well clothed, that is wear garments
of some kind to cover their nakedness;
700,000,000 are semi clothed, covering
inferior parts of the bjdy; 250,
000,000 are practically naked. Of the
race, SOD,000,000 live in houses partly
furnished with the appointments of civilization
; 700,000,000 in huts or caves
with no furnishing; 200,000,000 have
nothing that can be called a home, are
barbarous and savage. Tha range is
iro:n uie lopinoat romm?tlie Anglo
Saxon civilization, which is tli? highest
known?down to naked savagery. The
portion of the race lying below the line
of human condition is at the very least
three-fifths of the whole, or ;)u0,000,00j.
A strangj story has been developed in
the County Register oflicc at Heading,
Penn. Jud th Pauley, a lady seventy
years old,sets f n th by petition that after
forty years had elapsed she discovered at !
last that her husband, whom she had '
mourned in dead during all that time. I
was not dead, but that he had b-^en liv- |
ing within fifty miles of her all the time
entirely unknown to her. Samuel WPauley
and his wife, the above named
Judith, resided at Allentown forty years
ago. They had several children. When
tlio Mexican war broke out Pauley en1
'of <>/! An/1 T1TAO O lvrAWA
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one must have maliciously written to'
him whilj he was absent that hi* wife
and babes hail died, and when the Mexican
campaign was over Pauley, dreading
to go back to his old home to find
only the grave? of his dear ones, located
at Womelsdorf, a small town fifty miles
away, where he lived until he died.
His wife continued living at Allentown,
and with her children concluded
that husband and father had perished in
Mexico. I!enee it was that for forty
years they lived within fifty miles of
each other, ea.h thinking the other
dead. Pauley, believing himself a
widower, married again and raised a
family of children. llectntly he died,
aged seventy year*, and his estate was
worth over $5,00.). Letter* of administration
were granted to Joseph IIolsinger,
who manicd a daughter by the
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second raarua^e. iu mo new-npora uie
original Mrs. Pauley, who liad never
married again, read of the old ]VIoxican j
soldier's doath, nud her curiosity was I
aroused, ?he sent a man to Womelsdorf
to inquire into the matter, and to
her great surprise learned tliat it was her
own husband who had just d!e3. She
now claims to bo the legd widow, and
wants what is hers of her long absent
husband's estate.
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WORDS OF WISD03L
Fortune fears the strong; but crushes
cowards.
It is better to exceed expectation than
disappoint.
It is better to be nobly remembered
(hail nobly born.
Karnestnc^s in a good cause annot
stop short of fame.
Yietory is foreshadowed by the eltort
put lorili to tiring it about.
It is a great shame to ft man to have a
poor heart'and 11 rich purse.
Great merit is of!en concealed under
th'- most unpromising appearance.
Folly may bo corrected, but crossgrained
wit cannot be straightened.
It is better to be eternally forgotten
tha i to be remembered only for evil.
Five enemies are there to our peace:
Pride, anger, envy, ambition, and
avarice.
Man is a violin; it is not until his last
string is broken that lie becomes a piece
of wood.
Do the duty that lies near st to thee;
thy second duty will already have become
clearer.
A Tale of Matrimonial Advertising.
Any one brought up in a country newspaper
office knows there's about as much
tun and incident there to the square inch
as it ii possible to crowd into it. Scores
of queer things transpired at the office
in question which would lit; entertaining
to relato. I have just time hurriedly to- *4
refer to one. A young man in tlu place
answered an advertisement for a wife
published in a New York daily. A reply
quickly came, and the a.lvertiser
proved to be a wealthy druggist, a
Cuban by birth, and earnest in his intentions.
Letters were rapidly exnVianncrl
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creased in tenderness. I*liotograph?
were e changed, the young man sending
that of the prettiest g.rl in the town.
Next came from New York by express &
handsome set of jewelry, worth at least
$?.">. The pretended lady exhibited the
letters and the jewelry, and the matter
became the talk of the town; but with
the talk came a day of retribution.
One morning thi young mau walked
into the editor s ofhee looking very woebegone.
"Do you know that I am in an
awful t ght place.'" he said, with justifiable
svmptoms of alarm. "That Cuban
is coming to town on Wednesday! Why,
1*11 be pointed out to him the minute he
steps otf the train. I don't want to run
away and I don't want to be killed I
You know how liery these Cubans are."
The young editor smiled, debated a minute,
and then said: "l'"or *r> I will get
you out of the scrape." "Five dollars I v
I'll give you *25." The editor wrote as
follows: "It is with great sorrow that
we record the sudden de.ith, yesterday
morning, of our talented young contributor,
Miss Jennie Jardine, of Willow
Crook Farm, etc., etc." The names
looked real, and were the ones the young
man had U6ed. "Well, what then," heasked.
"I'll tell you," said the ed'tor.
"The regular edition of the p iper has
been printed; the forms are still on the
press; I'll have this set up, remove a local
item of the same size, put this in
place of it and print one copy. Get your
sisti'r to mark it and mail it at once to
the hone6t fellow you have been deceiving."
It was so mann<red nnd neeom
plished its purpose. The broken-hearted
lover never visited the place; he wrote a
touching letter of condolence to the pretended
sister, and the incident was forgotten.?
IJh ladelphia Cull.
Noted Book Peddlers.
Mark Twain and Hrete llartchad their
first association with literature as humblecanvassers.
Jame G. Blaine began life as a book
agent in Washington, 1'enn.. selling a
' Life of Henry Clay."
The poet Longfellow was a book agent
before his verses began to attract the attention
of the public.
Jay Gould made his first money peddling
books in the rural districts of
Central New York when a mere boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes footed it all over
Southern Ohio when a mere lad getting
subscriptions for Baxter's "Saints' Best."
Daniel Webster paid his second year's
tuition at Dartmouth by acting as local
agent in Merrima? conntj-, N. II., for I)e
Tocqucville's "America."
When Napoleon Bonnp irte was ?
Lieutenant in the army, and unemployed
at Paris, he canvassed a suburban
Parisian arrondissement for a work entitled
"f/IIist >irc de la Revolution."
General Grant, after his resignation,
from the army and before his ventures on
the Dent farm, took part of the territory
of a general agent of Putnam's to dispose T
n f Truinnr'a i i'nl n mlina
" ""O - "
George AVnsliington, whiie surveying
Fairfax county in his youth, canvassed
for Bydell's "American Savoys: How he
May bo Tamed by the Weapons of ( ivili/ation,"
and sold over 200 copies in.
Alexandria. Va.
Bismarck, when at Heidelburg during
the winter vacation, having his allowance
cut short by his father, the Bar;>n, canvassed
for Biumenbach's ' Aufgeschichtft
die Wes;elgung in dor Spiegeleisen."'?
j\eiD j one urapme.
Clocks of the lilack Forest.
Consul Callow, of Kehl, Germany, has
been looking up the curious subject of
the clock industry of the black Forest.
The 4,cuck!>o?clocks" of that region, he
finds, are widely so d through a:i thfr
civilized world. This country imports
them to the extent of $>0,000 a year.
In the Black Forest ther.i are ninety-two
communities engaged in this industryr
with 1,420 independent clockmakers,
giving employment to 7,5*30 operatives.
I? 17:10 these workshops turn d out
75,000 c ocks; in 1808, 2.0,000; and in
1880 the total production was 1,800,00 >
clocks. In the city of Furtwaniren were
manufactured over 400,000 of these. It
would appear that this crop of timepiece*
, is more remarkable for quantity than,
! quality, for Consul Ball;w writes:" ''One
; cannot bo too particular when purchnsI
in# one of these c1ock<, for when tho|
cuckoo w 11 not coo any more, and the
I trumpeter will not blow another blast,
then is thiir value as curiosities gone, .
and when, after a few months, they become
valueless as time keepers, then ara
they very poor stock indeed."
Thore are 81,1300 Scandinavians iiv
Neb ask a.
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