The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, December 30, 1880, Image 1

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'I.1 *. .,, -7-7- - s TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSB OROS. C., DECEMBER 30, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 157. KY (JASTLJB. Domes and minarets and towers Turrets which can kiss the sky, Grottos cool, and leafy bowers Clad in buds that never die, These and beauties twice as fair, Dcok my castles in the air. Flecks of clouds all bright and golden Hover round their shadowy walls; Strains and voices, sweet and oldent, Echo through these spectral halls, Many an angel lingers where Floats my castles in the ear. But when I approach them nearer And their beatities fair would clasp, Neither more distinct or clearer, Ever they elude my grasp, And I turn in sad despair From my oastles in the air. Love on the High Seas. "Now," said the Captain, "we shan't see any more land for a week, and you young ladies'll have nothmg to do but let sonic of these young fellows fall in love with you." "Fall in love," cried Hetty, her tip-tilted nose, curling .with incredulity and disgust. "Who could fall in love at sea, I'd like to know?" "Who could?" asked the Captain, in in nocent surprise. "Why everybody does. Why noW?" Hetty smiled in evident unbelief, but glanced furitively across the deck toward the handsome young officer where he leans on the rail blowing rings of snoko Into the deep blue sky. Mischievous Deb and the quick-sighted Captain detect both, and laugh unmercl fully. Hetty blushes, and the first officer uncompromisingly turns his back and a deaf car to the Captain's guffaws. It is evening on shipboard, dinner is over, the day's work Is done, and all are assembled on deck. The sun, which has hung upon a brass ceiling, is now mercifully disappearing. The mountains of Lower California shine in his fast-fading rays, like "the golden hills of heaven," while one little hammock of an Island, long, high and narrow, rises out of the sea like the grave mound of some ocean god. For once, the water is smooth; nothing breaks its stillness but the steamer's trail, and the sea gulls now and then brushing its surface. Far, far, away-far as the eye can reachi-inothing but the same ex panse ot deep, blue waters, broken only by those yellow hills, now fast vanishing Into distance andi night. Overhead, only another and wider ex - panse still "deeply, darkly, beautifully blue," and behind a cloud the now moon just beginning to look forth upon the bois terous world below. Prigsby, from London, explains to a gap ing audience, how the scenery now before them uf esrs from. comp&son with that of the Rhino. Sam Roland, of San Francis co, carelessly replies to an inquirer that he is going prospecting for gold in Guatema la, acknowledges it to be a "pretty risky business," admits the country to be full of road agents and bushwhackers, "reckons he'll pull through." Meantime Betty and Deb, scehig the captain had a story in reserve, settled themselves to hear it. "Didn't I tell you how my first oflicer got married? NoT Well, nobody could a been sicker'n his wife was when he court -ed her. 1'11 jest tell you all about it, If you like." "Well, you see, I haven't always been cafptain of a first-class steamer-no, sireel I ran away to sea when I was twelve years old, and I've worked my way from the bottom of the ladder. Wdl, when I was thirty, I was captain of a large sailing ves sel that was In the South Amiericaan trade. "I sailed -from the port of Callao, Ban Francisco being my destination. My sec ond' officer was ani Englishiman, but nr.y first 'was sn Ameriean, only two or three years younger than 1-as good looking a lellow as ever 1 saw; tell and straight and handsome, with eyes like blue China. Bie was a right goiod fellow, too; brave and -honiest, but frisky as a ki',en and up to all sorts of larks. "Well, we crep~t up the coast, stopping at every inith door, as our orders obliged us to do, taking in all sorts of things, all .booked for San Francisco. Finally we caie o BnJs de Gutml-htlies ninety nules inland-and there wehove to, and waited for a chance to go ashore. "Did you ever hear of the surf on that coast, ladies? No? Well, it often rolls fifteen or twenty feet high, and a good part .of the time no boar can~r m1gtJA it. * . corry wo'ieai nuoing to stop this tr'p or you might, see it. You see, there's really no hiarboi--nothing but an open roadetead -and, except in the 13ay of Fundy, this p~lace shows the highest aiid lowest tide in the world. Th'le people here tried to buildl a breakwater out beyond the surf, but it breaks over It half the time, and when it doesn't it knocks It to pieces. Sometimes vessels have to ride at anchor for a week, before they can put a beat ashore. "We'd only jufst hove-to, when I noticed that a ship at anchor, not far off, was making signals of distress, and that a boat *was' putting oil in our directioni. Of course, we. were far out beyond the s'urf, andt It was coiiparatively easy for the boat to reach us, and it was soon alongside aiid one of the nen camec up the ship's sie and told me what was wanted. *"It appears that the ship was a cofie. 2hiip from Ban Franc~sco to San Jose for Its cargo. It, was only hgif loaded when one of the boats capsized In Ihie surf drowning the captain aiid first'officer. TJhe second <flcer was very low with a fever, and they had nobody to navigate the ves sel: so they'd had to wvait in port till some oilier ship caine along aiid coula lend 'em an cificer or ecn.eLody who nnderstood navigation. "Well, I called up my first officer and pub hinm altoard the etifree ship, and i a diay or twto we bothi sailed. We wexe go ing over just thme San~e ground-or sea,, rathem-and as Ihie two vessels wore equal ly fast, itc kept each oilher In sight most of the linie. We'd been out about ten days, andt we're In American waters agamn, alien all of a sudden tihe ship hove 1o, andl sIgnalled us to stop. We ran as close to thum as we could, and. then we hove to, and presently through the glass I saw a boat being howtered and there was' a womi an In it. "I was enrprised as you can imagine, for I did riot know there weie any pas. ?engers eq the coffco ship, though there were half a dozen on my own. In a few minutes up the side came my first ofilcer, more than half-carrying the prettiest little Spanish girl I ever saw. Oh, ladies! she was a beauty! Eyes like the stars in the flag, and the sweetest little face-kisses just sticking out all over it! hut wasn't she the sickest little mortal that ever set foot on deck? I tell you she was all green End 3 ellow, and looked half starved. I do not believe she'd kept down a quarter of a dinner for a month past. "'Hello, Jack!" said I, "what's the matter?' And I gave the lady a seat on the lounge in my cabin. The poor little thing couldn't sit up straight, so I just hoisted her feet tip and made her com fortable-among the pillows. e "'Captain,' said he, '1 want you to marry me to this young lady.' "'Marry you,' said I. 'What do you mean? She's too sick to be married, man! She can't stand up. If you and she want to be married, why dcn't you wait until you get ashore?" "You see, ladies, we talked out free be fore her, for she couldn't understand a word of English! " 'If we wait tili then,' said he, 'you and I'll be going to her funeral instead of her wedding. We've got to be married, and right away, and you have got to mar ry is.' "You see. again, ladies, we were great friends outside ship, and when we were alone together, we dropped all ceremony. " 'What in thunder are you -in such a hurry for?' said 1. 'Why can t you wait till you're ashore?" Where are the lady's friends?' " 'Her stepfather's aboard my ship,' he said. "'I thought so," said I; 'and I won't have anything to do with it.' " 'le just turned and winked at me 'out of the tail of his eye,' and then I re membered, in a moment of misplaced con fidence, I had told hi of some little cir cumstances in regard to my own marriage. "'Hem!' said tic, grinning like a mon key, '1 think they're sometimes justifiable. Now just look here, Cap; listen, and I'll tell you all about it. That l ittle girl has no relations, nothing but a step-father, and she's dependent on him for support. Well, the old coot's a doctor, and crazy at that; or if he isn't, lie's the meanest cuss on earth. lie's taken Into his addled old head to discover a sure cure for sea sickness, and because just the name of a ship sets poor little Dolores to casting up accoupts, he's been taking her on all sorts of long voyages, and trying his various de coctions on her. So I want to marry her to get her out of his way. Of course I'm in love with her and all that,' said he, looking kind of foolish, 'but if that wan all, I'd wait till we got ashore. Of course I can't make him let her alone unless she's my wife, and if lie has control of her much longer, she'll never see port again." "'Do you mean to say,' said I, staring at him in surprise, "that he tries experi ments on hcr-gives her things that ain't inedicine?". "'I do,' said he, 'and I mean to say that the last thing he gave her was a bottle of bed-bug poison, and it most killed her." "''By the Flying Dutchman,' said I, 'I ihould think it would! Where's the old soot now?" "'In irons. I told him I wouldn't have mny such doing aboard my ship and lie 5lapped my face. So I put him in irons and came off to you." "Well, ladies, I just went over to the sofa, where the little girl was rolling her big, back eyes at us, and wondering what in thunder we were saying. "'Ilow old are you, my dear,' I asked in Spanish. "You see, I'd been mairried more'n two years, and I thought I'd a sorter right to be paternal. "Eighteen, Senor Captain,' said she in the softest voice in the world. "Said I: 'Do you love this young man, andl want to marry hinm* You needn't if you don't, because I'll see to it tnat your step-father don't bother you any more. "I didn't dare to look around at Jack, for I knew he'd be looking blacker'n thun der at me just then. And, indeed he look a step towards us; but I made him keep off till she should have answered for her self. "Well, she blushed very prettily, and hesitated for a second, then answered very sweetly that If the Senor Captain didn't minid the t:ouible, she should marry the Senor First Ofmcer. That the Senor First Officer hand been her only friend; that although she had taken many voyages and seen many people, she had never before found any. hv Ackn' "orgd.'9. S'arI904'. I U 'ner behalf, that sihe felt very grateful to the Senor First Officer, and now became attached to him, and wIth the Senor Cap tain's permission would gladly become lisa wife. "As site said this Jack got out of sight, behind the door, put his thumb to his nose and twirled his fingers at me in the most diespectfulh manner. I had a great mind to put him In irons for mutiny-but no matter. "Of cotirse there was nothing to be done except marry theni; shte was over eighteen, and at sea thme captain's as good as the par son, you know. "So 1 called up the passengers and tha oflicers; and the ladies dressed her up in their own finery, and we had a wedding in very short order. After that the ship's surgeon prescribed an antidote for the bed bug poison. "TIhe second officer wvent over and took command of the coffee ship in Jack's place and sent back Dolores' trunk and clothing. At first 1 thought we couldn't get along without hhn, for Jack was so deeply in love, with lis little sea-sick girl I thought he'd be of no manner of use. But we had good weather most of the tIme, and Jack did his duty like a man. "lBnt it was real touching to see him go to lisa wife's cabin every (lay and bring her on deck and fbit er comforta'bly on a bed the steward made for her uniher an awning. And then he'd nurse her and care for her just as if he'd been a Sister of Charity. You might have seen then, Miss lietty, how a sailor can love a woman! "Well, she soon got better and stronger. Jack and the doctor fixed her up between them, and a healthier, livelier and hap pier little woman never let foot mn San Francisco. Jack took htem right to his manr1i(d sister, and there she stayed be tween voyages till she had a lot of chil dren, and htem husband bought her a house of her own. "What about the coffee ship? Oh that made port a day before us, and the old doctor hand usal nu nen the me....o wei touched land. So we were buled up in court, and Jack had' it out with his step father-in-law. "I think that the court was rather againstus first; but the bed-bug poison and the slap in the face did the business, an nounced everything in our favor. He was atterwards decided to be a lunatic, and turned over to his brother's keeping. "What's becomee of Jacki Why he sailed with me for several years as first officer; now he's captain of the companion steamer to this. That good looking young follow that's been making eyes at you, Miss Hetty, is his son; ard I dare say that he agrees with his father that sea sickness makes precious little difference when a man's in love." The moon is quite up now, flooding the sea with silver. Between us and the shining mirror interposes the head of young Jack, showing in fine, clear out all houtte. What wonder that Hetty has to put severe restraint upon her eyes that they shall not wander in that direction. The captain saunters away to be agreea ble to other passengers, while Deb strays down to the deck to listen at a little closer quarters, to the tinkle of a guitar, and to a soft voice humming a Spanish love song As she strolls back, she finds a musculine form usurping her place, and peeping under Hetty's downcast lids are a pair of earnest sailor eyes, whose dawning love and hope Lio sea can fright or quell. Railroad Travel Now aidoi III the Palit. Two additional fast express trains have recently been added to the Pennsylvania Iailroad Company passenger service be ween Philadelphia and New York, both running through In two hours-the time Inade by several other fast trains already Dn the passenger schedule. When the old Camden and Amboy:Line was opened to travel, forty years or so ago, the Improve nent upon the stage coaches which covered he distance in a long day-and this only inder favorable circumstances--was very great; but it was not so great as the im provement upon the primitive railroading vhich the Pennsylvania k.allroad Company as effected within the past ton years. ome of us remember with feelings of nisery the six or eight hours in the wretched ittle cars and in a slow going boat that the ourney between these great cities involved, nd yet we marveled not a little at what ve then regarded as the greatest wonder ,f the age-a locomotive engine moving at he rate of twelve or fifteen miles an hour. ''he contrast is no greater between the tage coaches and thesu old time railway rains, than that between the Camden and Amboy service and the service of the New Vork Division of the Pennsylvania Rlail. :oad of.to-day. From the roadbed up, a Iomplete revolution has been effected. E~ngines running at the rate of from forty. iVe-to sixty miles an hour; cars in which verything is provided for the comfort of ;he traveler; a system of telegraphic sig. ealing that secures as absolute a degree of afetyiaa human inteHligence can devise md a passenger service of some forty traln Sday-these are the main changes whict) forty years have effected and the practical results are actually greater than those which marked the abandonment of horse power and the introduction of steam. As raveling facilities have increased travel ias increased proportionately. These forty rains which ply between the two cities 3very day carry backwards and forwards 3ight thousand or more passengers-more 1han in old times made the samn iourney a a whole year. An Inducement to Membership. During last winter a revival was in pro ,reus in one of the country churches near ian Francisco. Among the regular at cndants of the meeting was a beautiful md estimable but rather unsophisticated roung lady, whosefriends were very anx ous to have her united with the church. ahe seemed, however, reluctant to do so, mnd the minister in question was requested 0 "talk to her." This he did several imes, on one occasion saying, in a jocular nanner, "Miss M., if you will join the 3hurch I'll marry you," meaning he would perform the ceremony. The girl seemed pleased with the proposition, and few even ngs after walked up to the altar and united with the church. Some weeks after this the minister ?reached at the church, and after the sur iices met the young lady. "B3rother----.." sid she, "you know you promised to narry me if I'd join the church. -Are you going to do so? .L don't want to wait any QonlgC " -- - -. The minister saw his dilemnma ia at. tempted to exp~lainl. "I meant' I would perform the ceremony," lie said, "that'i all. 1 can't marry you myself, for I ans already married, and love my wife toc much to desire to swap her off for anoth or." The young lady became indignant, do. ciarmg'that she "never did have muclh faith in these town preachers." Our min. istorial friend declares that he will nevei again use any other than plain 8criptural argument to induce a young lady to johs the church. Narcotism from Nutmcg. The fact that nutmegs have strong niar. cotie properties has long been kilown: but they are in so common use as a favorit< condiment usedl in smail quantities thai their dangerous nature, when taken i: large quantity, is apt to be overlooked and forgotten, even by those who are aware ol their tendeney. A physician reports a cast where a lady patient- duripg his absenc< was induce I by her old nurse to take nut meg tea. .One and a half nutmegs werE used m making the tea, and the patieni drank the whole of the decoetion during the day. About ten o'clock at night ahe began to be dIroway, and by four o'clocli the next morning was An a profound stupor. At ten o'clock in the morning the narcotic effects of the nutmeg began to pass off, and by four o'clock P. M. she had pretty wel] recovered. 'The symptoms were about the same as those produced by opium, and the remedies -given for them were about the same. Nutmeg, in the quantity of two ot three drachmns, has been know~n to producc both stupor and delirium, and dangerous auc fatal consequences are said to have followet its free use in India. Mace which is the outside covering of the nutmeg, possosen essentially the same properties. --Fenmnsylvania now produces ovei 10,000,000 nonnds a atpbamQ Viow iLe is Made in Georgia, A correspondent writes we have visitei theestablishment of the GeorgIa Ice comp any, where the manufacture of ice. wai certainly as interesting as Anything we havy seen. On the ground floor is a boiler,fift; feet long and four and one-half feet in dii meter, containing 150 feet- of three ani one-half inch pipe. The boiler is kept filleI with aqua ammonia, which-is separated b: the steam heat into ammoniagas and water The gas, leaving the wataL in the boiler forces its way through a xlu-ich pipe out side the building to the roof, four storie up,where it passes into 15,000 feet of coilec pipes, in which it is converted into liqu by cold water thrown over it It fountain jets. This liquid passes into 15, 000 feet of three-quarter inch pipe, arrangei in verticle sections thirty feet high and three fet apart, and its sudden liberation into these pipes turns the liquid pure am monia into vaporand the sudden expansion makes the- pipes intensely cold. Now above these hundreds of vertical pipes are innumberable little fountain jets throwing spray all over the pipes, the spray freezinj gradually, forming an immense icicle o pure ice around each pipe. The gas nex goes into 10,000feet of absorbing pipe, and being cooled bywater running on the pipes, it is met by water forced into.the pipes,ant converted back into aqua ammonia,whicli goes into the big boiler, and is used ovel again-there is no waste, the same ammo iiia being used and reabsorbed any num bei of times. The water used for the spray is drawn from a well seventy-five feet deep on the promises, and the large blocks of ici (which are loosened from the pipes by a little hot steam, and chopped off by nogroce who stand on a pulley staging with thel feet wrapped up in thick swabs of cottor sacking for warmth) came out pure and clear, and entirely free from any odor oi objectionable taste. After -the pipe have been stripped, about five weeks are re quired for a new lot of the requisite thick ness to form. But of course the pipes ar never all stripped at the same time, the ice being in all stages of formation. The fact ory has a capacity of thirty-five tons poi day, but twenty tons keep pace with the demand, and it isn't stored, but cut every day as it is delivered, and sells at from $1( to $12 per ton. As we picked our way among the gleaming and uneven pillars with the water dripping and splashing dowE upon us, and the only light coming in through the smallest of windows at the top it seemed as if we were . in some under ground ice-cave. The whole building and its apparatus would cause strangers to won der what in the world it was designed for. Waxindustry in China. Talking of bees makes one think of wax, The whitewax industry of Szechuen,China however, does not depend on bees. It is a peculiar and growing industry. Baror ltichthofen, estimates the value of tne an nual cropon the average, at about $3,250, 000. In 1879 upward of $405,000 wort: of this curious ontoniologica. secretion was exported from the one port of Hankow alone. White wax is the mere exudation of an insect in a state of disease,aggravated probably by the operation of an uncongenial climate, and favored by the presence of a tree for which the creature has an affinity. In the Keenchang district an evergreen, known as the Ligustrum, thrives in abun dance, and on its twigs, in the spring o the year,countless fies swarm like a brown film. The branches soon become covered with a white, soapy incrustation that in creases in volume until the commencemeni of the fall of the vear.when the sprays are cut off and immersed in water which is kept boiling. The viscid substance rises tc the surface,and Ia skimmed offmelted, and allowed to cool in deep pans. It was acci dentally discovered that, by transporting the insects from their native district to th< more vigorous one of KeatingFu. in the nort1i of the province, their capability of dis. charging wax was largely augmented-i preperty which was promptly and exten sively availed of by the Sze-chuen traders, The period between evening and morning ii chosen for conveyance,because nmany houri of sunlight would precipitate the hatching. This should take place only after the femalei have been attached to the trees. Arrived at their destination, six or moure of the mothers-which are enormousley prolidlc are tied, wrapped in a palm leaf, to a mem ber of the ligustrum.. A few days later th< young flies are swarming on the twigs, where they fulll their imission by themonti1 of August. Tnl they perish in the caul drons, wnere the results of their brief exis tence are collectedi. It is said that thu peculiar industry requires the exercise 01 rgeat care, foehuh ad ggg Steam for Cooking. Mr. Prall, thus explained to a class I: New York his system of heat for cookin p~urposes. Hie said "our system of cookini is not by the use of steam, but by super heated water. Everything you see upo the table here was cooked in our ranig Some of the companies which have bee compelled to abandom1 the plan, as it ha been found impracticable. Our plan in few words is this -:We send out from ou stations through pipes about three or fou inches in diameter, a constant stream c water heated to the temperature of fou hundred and thirty-five degreecs. Thi het water is conducted by smnaller pipe into the house. Hlee it branches, and on Pipe leads to a converter, where the hc water is converted into steamn and distribut to the radiators and heaters in the buildin making about five hundred times its 'vol nume in steam. Another pipe leads directi: to the range. At the side of the range Is valve with an aperture the size of a heedh through which the hot water passes into pipe having an inside diameter of about quarter of an Inch. This pipe Is colic around the top, l'ottom and two sides o the oveni. A casting of Iron is placed bet inside and outside of this coil of pipe. Upo the top of the oven are stationary pots,an meats and vegetables can be cooked eithe in tbese or in ordinary pole. At the baa] of the even a coil of pipe is arranged fc boiling. All that ia necessary when th oven is needed is to tuirn the valve, and I; five milnutes the oven will be0 ready. Wit a wood or coal fire the greater part of th heat passes up the chimney, but with thi system we keep all the heat about the over and the water, after doing its work there passes with no diminution in hecat to boiler or tank and then~o t9 all parts c the house where it may be needed fc washing purposes. When the range is n< needed the valve can be shut, and ti, water passes directly to the atnk throng another nmn. - Adukteration of Soaps. Consumers of soap, should not negelect to inform themselves of the real value of I the wares they buy, and to prove the ab sence of intentional adulterations. A very old trick is to increase the weight of soap - with water, but as ordinary soap soon I loses this by evaporation in the air, this I 4eception will not succeed unless the soap is sold off quickly. There are two other methods of overweighting. One consists in putting in chemicals that are adapted to hold this excess of water in the soap, so that it loses little or nothing in weight by I lying. Another way is to add some min eral substances, soluble or insoluble to in k creaae the weight and diminish proportion. ally the value of the soap. Artificially in I creasing the amount of water and adultera tion with worthless chemicals pay well, and they do a fine business by duping their customers. It is no wonder that a house keeper does not have her toilet soap and family soap analyzed, because she uses comparatively little of it, and is satisfied if it looks good and makes a good suds. When large consumers, however, neglect to submit their soap to an examination they may suffer considerable loss. If soap I was tested oftener than it is more frequent complaints would be made public, and bet ter wares would result. There is a soap in the market that contains seventy-five per cent water, and externally cannot be dia tiguished from soap that contains only twelve per cent. It is easy to see how great a difference there may be in the value of two specimens of the same price. By simply increasing the amount of water doors and gates are-open for deception in soap making, so that many manufacturers make a prolit of a hundred per cent by selling water instead of soap. Gelatinous substances are most frequently used to re tain the water in soap, and are at the same time an excellent filling. Alumina in the hydrated form performs this service best. The author detected this substance in six samples of soap, which had over 60 per cent water, and were sold by their manufacturers at the same price as another manufacturer sold soap with 24 per cent. Other gelatinous substances, like silica and organic substances, are used. They are easily detected by chipping up the soap and dissolving it in alcohol, in which they are insoluble, while pure soap is perfectly soluble. The undissolved residue may be filter3d out and more carefully examined. dlot water will dissolve the gelatinous sub. stances if they are organic, like gelatine or glue, leavlug- alumna, silica, etc., uli affected. By evaporating the aqueous so lution and weighing the residue the quan. tity of gelatine can be quantitatively de termined. The silica and alumina can be .dried, then ignited in a platinum or por celain crucible, and weighed. Waterglass Is frequently added to soap, and, although it is not an injurious ingredient, such soap can be made cheaper, and should be sold as waterglass soap. Vhildren at echool. Dr. Jaeobi has made this a special study from the standpoint of physiology. ills conclusiom is that, as a rule, a child shpuld not be sent to bchool before he is 8 years old. Not till this age is its brain substance suffielently developed. An in fant's brain is soft. It contains a large percentage of water. It is deficient in fat and phosphorus, on which, to a large ex tent, intellectual activity depends. The convulsions are fewer. The different parts of the brain do not grow in size and weight alike-the normal proportion of the front, back and lateral portions not being reached before the age of 10. So, too, the proportion of the chest to the lower pottions of the body is not attained until the 8th year, wixile that part of the back, (the lumbar) on which the sitting posture dopends, is even then only moder ately developed. About the 5th and 6th years the base of the brain grows rapidly, the frontal bones extend forward and up ward, and the anterior p~ortion grows con siderablv. Still the white substance-the gray is the basis of intelligence-and the large ganglia predominate. It is not till about the 8th year that the due proportion of parts is reached, and a certain consoli dation, both of the brains and the organs of the body generally. Before this period nmemory alone can be safely trained. Froebel, the founder of the kindergarten system, reached the samne result, by ob servation. Mean while, Jacobi recoim .mends that the children be entertained and gradually dleveilped in the kindergarten. "Here' he says, "their activity Is regu ulatedl. their attention exceisedl, and their muscles invigoratedl. Both imagination [Jjnemory arc taxed to a alight degree only. N*''icreasing years, the grag substance becominfind more devel oped, their thinking powera~e~ilj evolved. The secret of a thorough edu. cation lies in the uniform 'development, of - all powers. To develop one at thme ex. ' pense of the others is to cripple all." II r Recently a gentleman of Leadville wai r standing at a restaurant corner fumblin~ fin his vest pocket for change. when he re r marked to the clerk behind the counter: S "Say would you like to see my iet?" 5 "Wouldn't mind,"o respondecd the restau 3 rantor, and immediately leaped back int( tconsternation when the questioner drew Es small live snake out of his pocket, and placed it on the glass before him. - "What do you think of that?" he asked, "Great heavens!" was the reply, "yeu Idon't carry that thing around with you, dc you?" 40"ertainly I do, why not?" S At this juncture a man who was a wit ness to the scene, ventured to ask: "You don't have that, thing for a pet, i do you?"~ I "Yes, I do," was the response; "other I people have dogs and cats andl birds. Now r this little fellow, If you will only look al C him, is prettier tihan any of them. Set r how his skin ghmitens, just like diamonds.' 0 "But, it's cold and clammy, and then I snake--why the idea's horrIble." I "R may be to you," said the reptihi 0 fancier, "but it ainet to me," and takinj 5 up the wriggling pet In lis hand replacet ,It, carefully Ia his pocket. "There Is nothing more repulsive," hie a continued, "properly thinking, about f snake than any other animal. They art r cleaner than a dog or cat, and thIs litti t fellow couldn't bite If he would. Thiel1 e habits are very Interesting to watch; thcj lb don't cost anything to keep. Oh! I tel you, at snake's ust. the nu,.e.t pet ou." "Out Ye 0o." Somewhere between Leadville and Gun nison City, Uolorado, wanders a Detroiter who is penniless, ragged, hungry and dis. couraged. Four weeks ago be met a Mci gan man out there and senthis love toell in quiring friends at home, and also explained why he was in that hard-up condition. Ile was too honest and too particular for that country. He reached Gunnison City without a dollar in his pocket, but with lots of ambition in his soul, and soon met a man who explained: "1 can give you the softest kind of a snap at four dollars a day. I want you to, run on' 'ny faro tables," 't know the game." say, stranger. You must have ha or bringing up. Out here and you u.,. know farol Passon-no time to bother with youl" The second man applied to for a situa tion squinted his eyes and took a long look at the Detroiter and quietly asked: "Whar' from?" "Detroit." "No use-that's too far East. My pard ran off with the company funds last night, and I calkerlatud on payin' somebody about a hundred dollars to overtake him and bring me back his skulp. You'd look sweet takin' his trail, you would You'd better inquire on the next corner.'" The next corner was the site of a saloon about to be opened. The proprietor was a six -footer with a revolver on each hip, and in response to the inquiry lie said: "I s'pose yon know how to pour whisky and weigh dust?" "Yes." "Suppose that one of the tuff ones comes in after his nipand refuses to hand over?" "I'll call the police." "Police be hanged! Every man's his own policeman out here? You must open on him with a shooter and keep pulling the trigger until he fallsl The sit's open at $3 a day and found." "1-1 guess I won't take itt" " lien git! No p.Ilace for milksops around herel Might a-knowed you hadn't any narve by lookin' at yel" The Detroiter made one more effort. This time it was a man who explained: "Glad to see ye-sit down a bit. Ye see, there's bad blood between ine au' a ful ler called Sandy Tom. We've agreed to drop each other on sight, and we mean bus inass. I want you to git the bulge on him, and beln' you're a stranger you can help me. Put this Derringer in your pocket and go an( shoot Sandy Ton and I've got $200 for ye!" "Why, that would be murderi" "What of it! Do you expect to hang out around here over a day without doiu'g any shootin't Whar was ye raised?" "In Detroit!" "Giti You haven't any spinal colunini You'd better run home to your ma, you had Out ye go-so longl" A River Monster, The Natchez Democrat, says: a few weeks ago we published the particulars of a sea monster, as related by a tow-boat captain. The captain of the towboat de scribed the monster as resembling an im mense snake with a bull-dog head and a pelican bill about ten feet long. It lashed the water into foai with its tail, and spout ed oblique streams of water forty feet high. The monster attacked the barges which the towboat had in tow. After it disappeared the captain examined the barge, and found a splinter from its bill embedded in the timber, which lie said resembled ivory. At the time of publishing the above we felt a little inclined to doubt the monster story, but now, after having ourselves interview. ed two gentleman who have seen it, we really think there le a big sea monster in the Mississippi river. The gentlemen whom we interviewed say that on the night of the 9th inst., while floating down the Mis sissippi river on Capt. Ed. Baker's produce boat, when near Island No. 95, they were startled by a very loud splash in the water, and as they had heard of the great mon ster, they were much frightened. Thiey saw a dark object not more than eighty yards from the boat, and for the first time saw the huge monster, It was swimming at ai pretty fast rate towards the boat, and it made as much noise as the steamer R. E. Lee. 1t caine on, and as it neared the boat it sudldenly turned to the right, strik ing the stern oar and knocking it overboard. John Caughilin and Dud Kelley alone re mained on the roof, the balance of the crew taking refuge in'the cabin. The monster came near enough to enable these tivo gen tlemen to get a full view of him. They judged him to be about sixty-five feet in length. Ills bodiy was shaped like a snake, his tail forked like a fish, and had a b'ill like that of a pelican. He had a long flowing' lggiggq..uv ike a horse. When lie swam his head was eig Ne1W ilN l I, was a grand sight to see him move down the river. Messrs. Caughlin and Kelly tell us that it was impossible to induce the crew to come out that night. The pilot, Mr. McCunt George, was finally led out by his wife, she assuring him that the great monster had departed. JR Liardly Fays. A New Jersey merchant met an ac quaintance on a street car on the Elevated Road, in New -York, recently, and after some geheral remarks the latter said: "I saw a newspaper notice that you had failed." "Yes, I went by the board." "Very bad?" "Yes, pretty bad." "Outside speculation, I suppose?" "Partly." "Creditors willing to give you a chance to recovpr?" "Yes." "Glad of it; 1 suppose you'll soon be all right?". "Yes, I tell you what, it was a very disa greeable business. I had to plead family extravagance, and my wife who hadn't had a new dress for six months, was as mad as hop. I had proved that I had given too much to the church and thme minister call ed and raked me over the coals; I had a clerk abscond with a lot of cash, and the crceditors made me own up that ho was my brother. I supposed that I had lost $500 by a fire, but they figured that I was a hun dred ahead. I figured on having enough to pay thirty cents on the dollar, but some ahow they got hold of ninety-eight, and put all the costs on me. I lost four weeks of trade on the top ot thia, and I'm feeling awful blue, It hardly pays to fail--unless Iyou've got a partner to help you to bluff credlitors. BRIEFS. -Doer hunters are very successful in Sullivan county, Pennsylvania. -Brazil' supplies the United States with 800,000 bags of coffee annually. -Chicago to to have a sugar refin ing company, with a capital of $750, 000. -Switzerland gave 70 per cent. of its total immigration to this country in 1879. -An elephant tusk, 14 feet in length, has been unearthed near Palouse, Wy Olhing. -Six hundred and one Masonic lodges in Illinois have a membership of 36,570. -James Gordon Bennett is to have a new steam yacht built for him at a cost of $100,000. -Over $2,000,000 worth of dried yeast was imported by Great Britain in the year 1879. -The em press Eugenie has sold her house at iliarritz for $700,000 to a Spanish company. -There are six cotton factories In Potershurg, Virginia, giving emploj meut to 700 operatives. Is estimated that the amount of batter made in Ohio creamerles Is 50. 000,000 pounds per annum. -Sarony pays Sara Bernhardt $1,500 for the exclusive privilege of taking her photographs in this country. -The Government Light-house Board ask for $50 000 to test the elec tric light for light-house purposes. -Miss Calhoun, a grandniece of J, C. Calhoun, made a suocessful debut on the San Francisco stage recently. -The diameter of the earth bears the same relation to its distance from the sun as the breadth ot a hair to 125 feet. -The wheat crop of this country In 1880 is over 455,000,000 bushels, and is worth an average price of a dollar a busnel. -The Italian emigrants landed in the United States during 1980 number 12,327, of whom 8,506 were men and 3,761 women. -The total number of immigrants who linded in the United States dur ing the month of September 1889 was nearly 55,000. -Only about 7,000,000 of Gaorgia's 37,120,000 acres are under cultivation, which leaves four-fifths of the state unproductive. -In 1879, 36,500,000 pounds of tea were exported from [ndia, and in 1890 it is believed that the yield will be 70, 000,000 pounds. -The Methodist spent $279,622 last year on foreign missions, and some thing less than that sum, or $254,904 on home missions. -The smallest sized sewing silk manufactured measueres about 2,200 yards, or over one and one-fourth miles to the ounce. -The total value of iron and steel and hardware Imports thus far in 1880 is $62,544,272 against $12,573,939 for the same period in 1879. -Trhe Bank of France holds $140 - 800,000 in gold. The Bank of England has $128,312,650. The United States Treasury has $135,214,839, Mrs. Seguin-Wallace, the singer, has purchased a lot in Woodruff Place Indianapolis, and will erect a house there for her summer home. -From 1744 to 1880 the dekths in London exceeded the births by 267, 000, while from 1801 to 183() the births exceeded the deaths by 102,975. -Of 14,500,000 quintals ot grain Im ported into France during the first eight months of the present-year 9,000, 000 quintals came from America. -Patti bought during October six teen thousand dollars worth of art ob joots in Paris. She has of late developed a taste for painting and sculpture. -Queen Victoria hag assigned to the widow of Lord Mountmnorres a suite of apartments in Hampton Ucurt Palace vacated by the death of Lady Gore. -Baroness Burdett Coutte, in ameli.. orating the condition of the poor and deserving fishermen- of the United Kingdom, has spent more than $500, -The fish hatchery at Spirit Lake, Utah, is finished, and is ready for the reception of eggs. The building is a good one and has a capacity of 2,000,000 eggs. -1t is said that the heirs 4"orn planter," the famous Indian oh ' pros pose testing their claim to -o rtain' tracts of lands embraced in the iimitq of Oil City, Pa. -Twvo hundred millions of dolars are spent annually in the consumption of liquors in the United States, and sixty-Aive thousand persons die year by .--. year victims of -drink. y~gg ea 1881 there will be four eclipes-to ut and twro of the moon. A partial ecl~ti l un -May 27,and a total eclipse of the moo June 11-12, wvill be visible In North America. -The great German General Von Moltke reached bia 81st birthday on the 26th of October. He received on the occasion a most magnanimous congra tulatory telegram from the E~mperor of Austria. -The United States uses In the arts and in manufacturing shout $10,000, 000 1 orth of gcid and about $5,000,000 worth of silver annually, or aboutoneo fourth of the entire amount of both metals so used. -A promninen't miller of Minneapolis states that th6, iiillis ot that city wili grind 16,000,000 to 18,000,000 bushels of wheat during this cereal year, and Minnesota mills outsi de of that city will grind as much rnore. -There are 3,752 man ufactories in Chicago, giving employment to 113, 507 operatives, and representing a capi tal of over $80,000,000. Th e value of the output annually is $240,000,000; vadue 01 material used, $175,000,000; wages paid, $37,000,000, -A Russian Journal of education shows that if all Russian people are to be educated, there will 4e 1,000 hbew, schools wanted in the St. Petersburg distrfQt, 2,600 in that of Novgorod, and, not to meontion other instances, as many as 5,000 in that of Charkow. -The South Carolina census includes the following townships: Giddy Swamp, Due West, Lon Cae 'Taber nacle, L~irk Corner, Alliator, Ebene zer, Sammy Swamp, 'o~ Dee, Pocota ligo, Soul letown, J'rlvateer, Swim ming Pos. Pumpkintown and ' e.