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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 26, 1895.
THE WEEKLY LEDGER. | tor. M ke hoin< s moiv attractive in
the cou :ry, a d country will have
added < : .ar;ns, and bare fields will
ive place t"> lowing cattle, the fleecy
si: pie and largo burns.
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PERPLEXITIES IN CONGRESb.
TIi'* President’s message on tin-
subject of the Venezuelan boumlan
and Kngland’s refusal to submit the
locution of the true boundary line Ir -
tween her South American possessi-) 1 ,
and Venezuela to arbitration, stun k
a popular chord in the public heart
Even in Congress the tidal wave of
warlike feeling rose to the high water
murk, and staid senators were found
clapping their hands and otherwise
applauding the patriotic sentiments
of the President as expressed in hi-
message. President Cleveland is clear-
cut, concise and to the point in all of
his messages, hut in this one he ex
celled even himself.
We presume the President ex
hausted all legitimate methods of
bringing England to terms, and that
as the chief executive, representing
the nation and zealous that her honor
be preserved, he appealed to Congress.
And Congress ns readily respond
There is no doubt about this being
the most serious trouble that has
arisen to our government since the
“late unpleasantness.’’ Englan I
would be a formidable foe at any
time; she is better equipped than
any other nation on the “high seas.’’
and is always ready for war. We an
not ready except in feeling, and feel
ing is cheap. A sober second thought
would make us less noisy, less de
monstrative and more prudent. Our
dignity as a nation needs to be upheld
as much in preserving the nation’s
credit as in maintaining the “Monroe
doctrine.” If congress acts as a unit
in upholding the latter when its life
is threatened, let it with the same
unanimity and promptness act in
supporting the former. We will soon
see if patriotism rises above party.
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OUR BARE FIELDS.
Rapid changes are being made in
country and town. The towns ar
enlarging and they are growing at tin
expense (if the farms. Especially is
this the case in neighborhoods wher*
manufacturing industries have sprung
up and by their success hid for the
help that is needed. This help comes
almost entirely from the farms. As
long as men and women, boys ami
girls find tin 1 compensation received
in towns to be greater than that
earned on the farm, their thoughts
will he found following the satm
channel on the surface of which many
other thoughts have traveled, and
their feet will be found treading the
same paths that other feet have trod
to the cities. Many bare fields all
over the country give mute testi
mony to failing husbandry. The
question is often asked: “Does farm
ing pay?” Of course it pays when
common-sense, business-like meth s
ods are applieu to it. And it pay-
well. But it will not pay when these
are disregarded. Our lands are fer
tile. our farms are well watered; our
climate is healthy; our seasons are
nearly perfect. What more do we
need? Perhaps a little more well
divided energy; a little higher value j
placed on time; more thriftiness,
lest wastefulness.
Would we improve our homes,
beautify our surroundings, build
comfortable school-houses, make bet
ter and larger our churches, a change
would soon come over us for the bet-
CHRISTMAS.
Uhrb.tmas is here again. What ,
season is so full of joy as this? A j
gem ral holiday, a time for family re
unions. it is emphatically the fam
ily day of the year. Father, mother
and all the children must be at home
on Christmas day. And then Christ
mas morning! The bright eyes peep
ing into lengthy stockings, hung on
ton : - and shovels and chair backs and
bed posts. Well, the world never
gro r •• M as long as children are here
to pratll>\ and parents and friends
nerry lives. Soon the
year’s retreating foot-steps will
no i.niml Old .Man.
Yulia 1 ' i i.i.uzawa is tho Grand Old
Man ( ! .Jr. vi. although ho is about 20
year y< n ; ! than the inemhorsof that
more fainnus triumvirate—Gladstone,
Bismarck and Li Hung Chang. More
than any ( ‘ her man, says a correspond
ent. ho Iff brought Japan to that posi
tion which site now holds among the
civiliz. d nations of the world. Thirty-
five year.- ago he visited this country,
and on hi. return home introduced the
Well tor Dictionary to his countrymen, a
book that is considered the foundation
of danru’s intellcetual power. He also
inlri dtieeii English into all tho schools.
In d; -v. k n Japan was divided into
two parties—one for and the other
again t for gneis—lie advocated tho
opi mng of his country to the now world,
and his i k in behalf of western civili-
zalion which he wrote from his studies
andtraieis in America, had a cons id.
eiani i .cct in restoring to the throne
the dynasty of which the present em-
pen r is a member.
The Jiji Hiimpo (The Times newspa
per) is his organ, and although he does
net actively manage i. in.; sons are the
cd' ... and its inliuenee is widespread,
doubt le. ; because it is independent in
eve:y s< n.-o. Perhaps his greatest bone-
fa': on was tho founding of a school
kno'..n as tho Kewgijinku university,
which is so"!'iid only to the Imperial
un v ot Tokyo in point of uu ubers
ami leak of scholarship. Mr. Fukuzawu
rctui s from the common people and is
known as the “great commouei ” and
w! r •hovs above all the character of
the man is that he lias never allowed
hit (bt' to be carried away by his suc
cess and lias modestly refused to accept
decora:ions, honors or even the peerage
from tho mikado.—Detroit Free Press.
RACE BY DEER, PANTHER AND ENGINE.
An Epiaode of Railroad Travel In m Flor
ida Swamp.
C. C. Taylor, engineer of tho Pablo
railroad, has pulled a throttle for 36
years, and during that time has had
many novel experiences, but Sunday he
had one that has no parallel in his life’s
history.
It was during tho run from Pablo to
Jacksonville. About eight miles this
side of Pablo is Cedar swamp, a tangled
morass in whioh bear, wildcats, deer,
and even panthers have often been kill
ed. When about half way through tho
swamp, an immense buck, wild eyed
and lathered with sweat, made a clean
leap of 25 feet on to tho track, within
60 feet of the engine. An instant later
there was a crash of the underbrush, and
out of it came an immense panther,
running so fast that he seemed to bo
level with the ground. He was so eager
to catch the game ahead of him that he
had no eye for tho train.
Passengers in the five coaches did not
know of the exciting race going on ahead
of the cowcatcher, but they did notice
that there was a series of quick and suc
cessive jerks, and that tho train was
spinning along through the swamp at a
whizzing pace. It was at this time that
Engineer Taylor resolved to take a hand
in tho race himself. He pulled tho throt
tle wide open.
The deer was 100 yards ahead, and
the panther was 30 yards behind the
deer. The deer was barely holding his
own. Something seemed to bo the mat
ter with him, for he didn’t run as lie
should. The deer kept the track for half
a mile. Before he left the track, how
ever, tho engine crawled close upon the
panther. Ho heard the rumbling of the
wheels and the trembling of tho track,
and ho quickly got out of the way, hid
ing himself in the underbrush by a se
ries of successive and graceful leaps.
Tho deer did not qnit the track until
a quarter of a mile further on. He took
to the open pine woods on the opposite
side to that which the panther bad leap
ed, and the last seen of him he was still
running like chain lightning.
Conductor Rogero went ahead to see
what was up when the train was run
ning so fast, but only got there in time
to see the deer scudding through the
woods. Ho told a few of the passengers,
but none of them was fortunate enough
to catch a glimpse of tho buck.
Mr. Rogero says that deer have fre
quently jumped on tho track on tho
Pablo run, and before this have had a
race with the train, but this is the first
time he over heard of a panther getting
mixed up in any of the incidents.—
Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Uuion.
TO SEND MESSAGES THROUGH SPACE.
Tlio Wreck of the Jason on Capo Cod.
A half mile away tho prow of the
wreck Jason, with its white figurehead,
rose clean out of tlie water, standing
wbero she struck the night of the 5th of
Doecmber, nearly two years ago. The
iron • cbooner broke clean in two that
ni 'l ' with tho first shock, and the waves
rushed over her stern, which sank like
lead into the- sand. Twenty-seven men
'vent down with it, and next morning
2(i dead bodies lay upon the shore in
among the scattered bates of jute that
had formed flu: cargo. But the twenty-
seventh, reaching tho shore alive, man
aged to clutch hold of one of the hales
of the floating cargo and kept his foot
ing.
Ho was a young fellow, a prentice lad
our of an English rectory, and ho was
veryncarly exhausted with the struggle,
but ho staggered on along the sand
through the storm until ho met the
squad of tho life saving crew coming to
give help where there was only one
men h i; to need it, and catching at the
first man he cried out to know that he
was safe. When they told him that he
wa -. ho fell down in a faint, and was
carried to the station like a log. The
lei ter his father wrote in gratitude for
their can of him is kept among the rec
ords of the station, and it is one of tho
few pleasant things to remember about
the most terrible wreck that had ever
lam tm tho dangerous Truro coast.—
Letter in Boston Transcript.
Notes About Drink.
iiie amount of New’ England rum
sent from the port of Boston to Africa
has decreased in two years from 1,085,-
22(i gallons to 501,265.
Well Defined.
Poet—What did you think of my
verses tm ‘‘The Bologua Sausage?”
Friend—Excellent doggerel,sir. —Pick
Mo Uu.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured
In local applications as they cannot
!•':ieh t he diseased portion of the ear-
Tiiere is only one way to cure Deaf,
ness, and t lint is, by constitutional
tvini lies. Deafness is caused by an
inllaiiied condition of the mucous
fi'iing of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets inflamed you
have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it isentlely closed
Deaf;-,. is tIi», result, and unless
the inflammation cun be taken ou<
and this tube restored to its normal
eonditnm, hearing will 1h> destroyed
for- ver; nine eases out of ten are
' aused by catarrh, which is nothing
but an Intlamed condition of the
nine ms surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Da'lars
for nny ease of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot he cured by
Hull s Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
F. J. CHE S’EY A CO..
Toledo, O.
£0“Isold by Druggi at. 76c.
Experiments Which Prove Thmt This In
vention Is Practicable.
The continued success which has at
tended experiments in sending tele
graphic messages through space prom
ises to lead to remarkable developments.
An English electrician says it is diffi
cult to forecast the future of this new
telegraphy. So far signaling has been
carried on by this means in one direc
tion only, but, there is no reason why
messages should not be duplicated, or
even quadrupled. Further details arc
now at hand of the establishment of
communication between the- island of
Mull and the mainland near Oban a few
week ago, when the connecting cable
broke down. It will be remembered
that an insulated wire was laid along
the shore of the island, and messages
through it were sent to tho mainland,
across two miles of intervening space.
The official report states: “An ordi
nary Morse circuit could not have given
better results. The chief difficulty was
the incessant .screaming of the wild
fowl.” W. H. Preece, in commenting
on tho achievements, finds a very differ
ent explanation of this supposed
“screaming of the wild fowl. ” He says
that strange, wierd and mysterious
sounds are frequently heard on long
lines of telegraph in tho calm stillness
of the night, but whether they are due
to terrestrial or to cosmic causes re
mains to be discovered. Tho sun’s pho
tosphere, when disturbed by spots, may
be subject to violent electrical storms,
and the vast jets of incandescent hydro
gen that flame up with terrible velocity
may excite electrical oscillations through
ethereal space of :;r.eh a frequency as to
influence our terrestrial circuits. It
may thus become possible for ns to hear
on earth tho electric storms of the sun.
—Buffalo Express.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Sermou Topic* of Today.
It will not do for brethren of the pul
pit to be so afraid of a sensation that
they permit their hearers to doze off in
to a comfortable sleep. The preacher is
wisest who knows how to keep from go
ing too far, but at the sumo time who
knows how to get out of the ruts. A
late writer in The Homiletic Review in
sists that taking topics from tho news of
tho day was not an apostolic practice.
And yet Paul knew how to make tho
gladiator, tho wrestler, tho boxer and
the runner in athletic games texts for
his spiritual exhortation. It is, how
ever, in the training of the twelve by
tho great Master that wo find how each
event of current history was made to
convey a heavenly lecson. Husbandman
and fisherman, children playing in the
market place and housewives hunting
for the lost piece of the wedding dowry,
all were mirrored in his never to be for
gotten sermons. When the tewer of Si-
loain fell, he noted it in his discourse.
When Herod went to Rome “to receive
a kingdom,” he preached upon that
event and its results. The sermonizing
that illustrates all its lessons by refer
ence to Greece and Romo, not to say
Egypt and Assyria, will not be very
sensational, neither will it be produc
tive of great good. Men are more inter
ested in today than in yesterday.—Chi
cago Interior.
What Antiveuine May Do.
Professor Fraser of Edinburgh has at
tacked the problem of finding an anti
dote for snake bite, and there is every
reason to hope that his labors will not
be for naught. Starting with the com
monly accepted theory, which he finds
to be true, that a snake is itself immune
to snake poison, he argues that this im
munity must be duo to the absorption in
tho blood of the poisonous matter. Ho
next procured some venom, chiefly
cobra poison, and ascertained by direct
experiment the minimum lethai dose to
a small auimaL The dose was gradual
ly increased without any iucouveuieuce
to the animal Indeed it grew fat under
the treatment until it could receive by
subcutaueons injection enough poison to
kill 50 creatures its size.
The next step showed that the blood
serum from animals thas treated was
able, in varying conditions of adminis
tration, perfectly to prevent lethal doses
of tho venom of the most poisonous ser
pents from producing death in nonpro
tected animals. The new remedy is
named antiveuine, and its discovery
may be regarded as one of the most im
portant of the centpry. — Chambers’
Journal
Whitewashed the Coals.
According to a London paper, the ef
forts of the railroad employees charged
with a recent transportation of the Prin
cess of Wales and her daughters on u
short trip went to laughable lengths to
insure a spick and span appearance for
their train. The coals in the tender were
whitewashed, the top layer only, and
the fireman drew his supply from a trap
door at the bottom, preserving the snowy
appearance unbroken. It is of course too
late to suggest that this was not high
art. It would have beeu in better taste
to have polished each piece separately,
after carefully washing off all superflu
ous dust. A high degree of natural per
fection is preferable always to any ve
neer. But coal stokers probably do not
road Ruskin, *o their transgression of
the canons of taste was quite pardon
able.
Coat of Living In Paris.
An able statistician has been esti
mating the cost of living in Paris at tho
present time and has compared it with
that of 40 years ago. Ho shows that in
the fifties an average middle class fam
ily could do with a budget of 10,000f,
or £400, annually. That did not mean
luxury, but it was sufficient for comfort
and required uo economical engineering
for the purpose of making both ends
meet. Nowadays the case is different,
and an official with a wife and three
children dependent on 10,000f a year
has to work miracles of saving in order
to avoid getting into debt. Accordingly
in less than half a century the condi
tions of life in Paris have beeu com
pletely modified. It is no exaggeration,
in fact, to say that prices have doubled,
and with them has increased tho desire
for a more luxurious mode of living
than that led by the average Parisian of
the fifties. The statistician has revealed
nothing new, but his figures serve to
emphasize the fact that the French cap
ital is tho most expensive place of resi
dence in Europe.—Loudon Telegraph.
Eyelett* Fifth From a Well.
Workmen engaged in putting down
an eight inch artesian well on the ranch
of Bufford& Williams,near OraGranda,
San Juan valley, southern Colorado, had
au odd experience a few days since. The
well had been drilled to tho depth of
188 feet when all of a sudden the tools
appeared to penetrate a cavern filled
with water under high pressure. Drills,
rods, ropes and prJlcys were thrown
high in the air auu scattered in all di
rections by the torrent of water spouted
from the opening. Tlie excitement vrn»
intense for some minutes, but when
quiet was again restored it was found
that tho ground was literally covered
with small eyeless fish, white lizards
and clear colored bugs tbat had been
forced from 1 heir homes in the pent up
reservoir beneath. On careful examina
tion it was found that the water had a
temperature of 88 degrees and was
strongly impregnate!} with medicinal
salts.—St. Louis Republic.
Turkey’* Subjects and England.
Probably Turkish rule in Armenia is
not much worse thau in Macedonia, and
if the Armenians are to be pitied so are
the Macedonians, for the Turk is a
blighting curse to every subject race
within his dominions. If we are sincere
in our fervor for good government in
Turkey, we must renounce the idea of
sacrificing these races to our political
aim of niaintuiningTurkey as a bulwark
against Russia. This was tho doctrine
of Sir. Gladstone, and roundly has he
been abused for it. The contrary doc
trine 1ms been that of Lord Salisbury
and .Lord Rosebery. Mr. Gladstone rec
ognized the paramount obligation of
conscience. Lord Rosebery, Lord Salis
bury and many of their predecessors
subordinated conscience to what they
regarded us 1 he exigencies of policy.—
London Truth.
Dug Up a Jar Containing Old Coin.
Thomas Moore, Jr., and two other
workmen, while excavating for pipe
conmetiunsut Market square, in Ches
ter, Pa., on Thursday morning unearth
ed a small preserving jar, containing
gold and silver Spanish coin, estimated
to be worth at least $150. Some of the
coin boro the date of 1800, and other
pieces a later date. An old market
house, erected in the last century, stood
on the site where themouey was found,
and it was torn down in 1857. It is
thought tho money was buried by oue of
the marketmen.—Philadelphia Ledger.
HonaM at Wood Pnlp.
You can build n house out of sheets
of wood pulp now if you incorporate
sheet wire gauze in the material It cun
be made waterproof, fireproof, ooldproof
and stronger than plunking. Moreover,
the material cun be made to represent
almost any other material and can be
molded into almost any shape. Great is
wood pulp.—Paper Mill.
Tho Fool QoMtlon In tho Wart.
The race between corn and coal for
the honor of being the cheaper material
for fuel is interesting this year.—Chica
go Tribune.
Absolutely
FRENCH NERVOUSNESS.
locreaM of m Disease Known aa Neura*
thenio Anxiety.
French doctors say that the increase
)f the neurasthenic condition threatens
to become the great scourge of society,
and they are bound to admit that some
of tho phenomena arising from it are
such as science can throw but little light
upon. Moreover, it is often impossible
to say \v hero mere nervous disorder ends
and downright lunacy begins. The case
of Mile. Amelot, who shot the Abbe de
Broglie, is oue in point. She has been
pronounced insane by a committee of
medical men, but had she not commit
ted a criminal act they could not possi
bly have come to any such conclusion
from her conversation and general con
dnet. A doctor has made the consoline
statement that we brush shoulders will
such people almost every hour, but that
so long as they refrain from doing mis
chief their state of mind cannot bo char
acterized as dementia.
There is a later case, respecting whirl
tho Parisian mind is still much exercis
ed. It is that of tho youth of 20 win
indulged a propensity for stabbing
young women with a penknife as tin \
passed him in the street. In doing so he
used stmio prudence and reflection, foi
he stabb •(! them all in the same place-
one where such an injury was nut like
ly to be dangerous. After his arrest he
declared that he could not account for
tho impulse under which he hud acted
Dr. Gillrs de la Tonrette, who is taking
the position occupied by tho lato Dr
Charcot, plates this young man in the
Jack the Ripper category of modern
maniacs—those whoso ruling propensity
is to do mischief to women. He declares
that such desequifibres are by uo means
rare, hut that in a general way it is im
possible to treat them as maniacs. They
know quite well that they are evil do
ers, for when arrested they invariably
deny with much energy tho charge
brought against them until tho evidence
of their guilt becomes too strong. Dr
Gillos do la Tourette maintains that
they should be dealt with as criminals,
for there is nothing like the dread of
punishment to rescue them from the
“fascination of their vice. ” There is
some conflict cf ideas hero, for if such
people are truly maniacs they ought not
to bo punished to cure them of tho
“vice,” but in their case it is so diffi
cult to distinguish madness from had
ness that to spend compassion on them
would he probably to waste it.
The fact to be faced is that, whether
from causes of tho physical or the mor
al order, or of both, the bizarreries of
tho In:man mind are becoming more
perplexing every day in France and
they are beginning to interfere very se-
rionsly with the normal course of fife.
Wo hear of dragoons who aro seized
with an unaccountable terror when they
mount a horse, so that they fall from
sheer panic; of consulting doctors—yes.
oven doctors—who are ready to tear the
hair from their heads when tho patient
has gone for fear that they have made
sumo terrible blunder in tho prescrip
tion ; of railway employees who are trou
bled in a similar manner by an appall
ing dread of having done something
wrong; of preachers who dare not put
their foot on tho first step leading to
the pulpit; of persons who aro terror
stricken while crossing a bridge, al
though they may have perfect command
over their will in all other respects,
and of nervous couditious still more
distressing. Such a state is described us
one of “neurasthenic anxiety,” and ex
cessive concentration of tho mind on
certain points is generally supposed to
bo tho cause of it. But, whatever may
be tho explanation, the nerves of mod
ern society appear to be getting serious
ly cut of repair.—Paris Cor. St. James
Gazette.
Th« Yaliitt of Lord NclKon’s Regalia.
Tho government of England paid no
less than £2,500 to Lord Bridport for
tho medals and orders worn by Lord
Nelson on the fatal morning of Trafal
gar.
Tho medals and orders that have thus
become the property of tho nation aro:
Tho service gold medal of the victory
of St. Vincent.
Tho service gold medal of tho victory
of the N i le.
Tho jewel of the Order of the Bath.
The jewel of the Sardinian Order of
San Joachim.
Tho grand cross of the Order of San
Joachim.
The jewel of the Neapolitan Order of
San Ferdiuando.
The grand cross of the Order of San
Ferdiuando.
The gold star of the Turkish Order of
tho Crescent.
Two badges of the Turkish Order of
the Crescent.
And las; ly the gold medal struck to
commemorate the victory of Trafalgar,
which was presented to Nelson’s family
after that hero’s death.—Notes and
Queries.
When most needed it is not unusual
for your family physician to be away
from home. Such was the experience
of Mr. J. Y. Schenck, editor of tie*
Caddo. I ml. Ter., Banner, when his
little girl, two years of age was threat
ened with a severe attack of croup.
He says: “My wife insisted that I
go for t he doctor, but ns our family
physician was out of town I pur
chased a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy, which relieved her
immediately. I will not he without
it in the future.” 25 and 50 cent
bottlea for aala by W. B. DuPre.
Minlctci- Dapoy <le Lome In Tears.
I here w;is a remarkable scone in t-hfil
state deq ar; ■ ! -g ago. It was J
that of the ia liter from Spain, tl
proud Scnoi Dupviv do, Lome, in tet
in the pn -«•. i . lie ivrctaryof stat
Mr. do J. o v, , ut hither by h|
government ai • gua had ma
- no ion with a defl-
v. ’I hat object was to^
ity - f Spain’s paying
:a ok _
■ vt Mr. de Li' iie, withj
i; tact, his Ch;ca-i
sue< - in manage-1
v t, would bo abl€
, if in;t to defeat outright,^
of
such a it;
niio object in
avert the :a
the famom „\
govcriii,. in I
bis art ami t.ddn
go OXpcne ’
meat of d .
to *1)0.'11
again.;t t .
seen in the
is a bulldoi
payment ; t;, ■ cel eJ • m. But ho ran
f t >• f t ugest men ever.
< ;• : i inont. Mr. Olni.
a P nueity, a fighter when’
his blood is up.
All of Mr. d:) Lome's art was exer-i
cised in vain. IL .e ■ ; were his appeals]
for lime. Mr. (Jinoy told him in lanA
guago quite unmistakable, though very!
polite, that the claini had to he paid.
Tho dn : na ive which the minis
ter and bis government had to face was ,
thoappenran ' of Amrriean ships of war
in Ha «•;•.:!.i bur- , with their command
ers under orders to seize tho custom]
house after t o of a certain pork
of time. Tito haughty Spaniards had j
nothing to do l et yield, and thcydidl
this rather u
ly n alizt
Mini -ti r
When he final-,
,t was inevitablejl
I roko down.
tears cm
i - and ho cxclaimecl
to .See..
y: “This will mini
me, Mr. ;
I am beaten in the]
prim: ip:: 1 1
r which I was sent
hero, i: v. .
,.o mo the most unpop j '
ular mini
My career is at an
end.”—
Wellman in Chicago
Timcs-Hcrald.
ti
Tim vr I .shlisht.
Tho new i.:. d ut lately added tol
tho anpiiaii photography is a m»i
chine made of ) : - and nickel, which!
stands aboa d: foi l high; on the top(j
of tho a] i I an endless chain, to*
which a; e; . d 12 wooden cups COfi-j
taiuing l;' !!:: m to 20 grains of “Lux-^
ow” pi.we . .:d protruding from ont
sid' 1 of lii . mull caps are little piece
of iron v. n . .. i: half way down tbel
stand are t . . U points, similar tol
tho curb us in an 11< ino light, and at
tached to tho stand are two lines of
rubber pipe, one of which is connected'
with thoeamera. Li the center of the
pipe is a rubl r ball, like that of an
atomizer, a: . v hen the person wbc
photograph is to bo obtained has 1
focused, the br.:b is pressed with the
hand, causing tie* sinister on the camera
to be is lea.- il, and at tho same time
making an electrical connection whioh
lights a fuse in ’he little wooden box at
the top and i ; the powder to ignite,
thns making * xposure. Themacldj
is said to w>irk v< y quickly, anf
boon pi. ii' i n o d the most woil&erfnl
device w i 1 : ought forward in the pho
tographic ait.—.ae\v York Snn.
A Cnrcma Hail road Contract.
The < k' . Y>’( .. m railroad of Eng
land lues j 1 to pay §500,000 to
free it-elf lu.m the obligation to stop
every train a: tsv, indon station for ten
minutes. In 18-il, before the road had
caelu (1 Bri. tol, it made an agreement
for 99 years with a firm of builders to.
hold every train carrying passengers,'
“not being sent express or for special
purposes, for a reasonable period of
about ten minutes,” at Swindon, in
consideration of tho erection of suitable
refreshment rooms, for which a rent of
a penny a y< ar was to ho paid. The rail
road soon fo .'ud out tho inconvenience^
of the arrangement and tried
it. Tho courts in lb-id and in 1872
that “express” did not mean in the con
tract what i now meant by an express
train, but t . . price asked for the annul
ment of the < ncion was always more
than tho e ipany was willing to pay.
After a fight of over 50 years it has
been driven by tho competition of other
roads to buy out its opponents, and the
ten minute stop of fast expresses at
Swindon is now a thing of the past.—
New Haven Journal and Courier.
,Tbu Greatest Canal.
Tho lar gci,t canal in tho world is con-
teniplatudf Ly tho Russians. This is to
bo a continuous waterway of 1,000
miles, connecting tho Baltic with the
Black sea' and the cost would only be a
little item of £20,000,000. It would
start from the port of Riga, in thw Bal
tic, and ijse the rivers Dwinu, Beresina
and Dull per on its route, entering the
Black sc; at tho Ciimeuu port of Cher-
sju. It is a project by which a mer
chant el ip going at only six knots an
hour woi Id do tho whole journey in a
week, at/a tremendous saving of time
at 1 fuel 1 In a flat country like Russia
there sr( ms no real difficulty in the en
terprise, except (ho eternal want of ru
ths, frutui which the government suf
fers. j
v
Th<fc Discovery Saved His Life.
Mr. i < i.iiilouotte, Druggist,
Boifveripvillc. ill., says; “To Dr.
King’s!New d .•wvtvi I owe my life.
Was (Ski is v ;ih I .a Grippe and trie I
all tlm phy hm.wis lo” miles about,
hut otf no avail ;.i : ' : 's given up and
told If coil I,! is i live. Having Dp.
Kingjrt New >'■ >>u in tnv store I
senl Jt>r a I >11 'e * Levan it* uj} ( .
and Trow (lie first .bi-e began to get
belt Ur, and a'ter iwing three bottles
Wiisltlp awl nl.mit v ain. It is worth
its w'ei'.rh; i : ild. We won’t keep
stoije nr hoi - ■ wit Lout it.” Get a
freJ trial bottles at W. ii. DuPro’i
Dnjig Store,