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- ITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 25 1895. ESTABLISHED 1 d ti is 1< h 0 a ti ti "G -day, deacon! ow do you h ind yourself this fine morniqg?" h "Only middling. It's all I can do to shin about. I've crawled out to d this 'ere stun, which serves as a hoss- t1 block, while Sally washes the floor. It b riles her temper to have me in the way it when she's doing that job." i "This rock makes a good horse. block." I "Yes. See the letters painted on it? ' A woman did it, who had L hankering t( for daubing paint everywhere. She p would have painted the sides of the stove if I had let her. But she did do l< up the teapot in great style. Thar's t( things on it that never growed in the I ground or on top of it. She painted a b big spider on the kiver, and I've never drank a drop of tea sence, onless I s looked first to see if the old woman had not poured the spider into the cup. The critter looked mighty nateral, I can tell ye." "That's bad, deacon. But how does it happen that you are not as well as usual?" "'Cause I was fool enough to go to a party, the other night, and thought I could kick round as well as ever I could See this 'ere paw, will ye? It s swelled as big as two hands. I shouldn't have gone if it hadn't been for the old d woman. I tell ye thar's a mighty sight of difference atween sixteen and sixty, and a feller don't want to take *oo many chances." a "No doubt but what you're right, n deacon. But n~ho has been giving a t party in these regions?" "Patience Pottue."d "What! the old maid?.' "Yes. Nobody else would have been y such a fool, except those that went. but she won't want to give another a -very soon." "Wasn't it a success?" "No; and Patience was disappointed, too, as well as the rest." "Tell us about it, deacon." "Wal, I will. Set down on this 'ere stun. You can have the eighteen hun died side. The paint is dry now. Ab- t< ram Ailen was the first one to sit down h in it. It was the next day after it was h paiuted. When he got up and started for the Corner everybody and his wife stared and giggled arter him. Every Lody thought be had turned Millerite, P and had got the day set printed on him, t so all could see when the world was e comsipg to an end. When he found it c nut he was madder with me than a March hare." "I don't blame the man; but about ?1 'he party, deacon." "I'm coming to that. One day I was down to the pest ottice, and the t postmatser give me a letter. It was a U mighty tine looking cne, with sonie let- -g ters in the corner which I couldn't make out, and it smelt as sweet as a posy. I didn't open it until Igot hum, U rad then 1 showed it to the old woman. '9 "'It's a love letter, Deacon Cobb,' V she said. 'Ain't you ashamed, a man at your age, and who has been married e ~or nigh about forty years, to have much an epistle as that?' " 'Fiddlestickse, old woman,' said I. IMore likely it is a dunn from the doc- s or. I owe himi half a dollar for some iniment I got a spell ago for miy 'umaticks.' "I tore it open, and made out to ead what it said arter a spell. "'I, Miss Patience Potter, will give s L party Tuesday ninzht. You and MIrs. D~eacon is invited. Come at airiy can- a lie light.'" "'Good Lord!' said my old woman. i: What on airth will happen next? The v, >ld fool giving a party at her time of a, ife!'t "'I guess she has a right to, Sally t Jobb, as well as anybody else,' said I. What's to hinder her? She was a e naster good-looking girt long ago. 1 t ort of hankered arter her myself.' I "'I wish you had got her, deacon? s inapped the old lady. 'A pretty life she would have led you.'' p "'It couldn't have been much worse, E >ld lady. But you set to work crimp-t ng yer hair, so you can look as line as e fiddle. I know you ain't got much n that line, as you're nigh about ball. s But yer false front will cover it ";P t Youcan work on it until you get it d ixed to yer mind.' "'I wouldn't say anything ahcut ~ seing bald,' retorted the old lacy. You ain't got any more hair on yer t iead than a crooked-tLecked squash. But how do you expect me to go to the jy >arty when I've got nothing that is lit , o be seen that I can wear?' "'That is always the way, old woman. r kou've got that bran-new bomnbaz'ne I >ought you last Thanksgiving Th:'t's y, good enough to wear to anybody's - ,arty, I guess.' "'If Patience was dead, it wvould'Ii ook well enough to wear it to thet uneral, Deacon Cobb. But I won't go!e in inch unlesss I can have things toj 'ear like other folks!'t "I didn't say nothing more, but t hat arternoon I went down to the Cornert md bought the gayest thing I eeuld t ind. It was white, with he're and there t re as bnig as a sunflower. "Savly was tickled nigh about to eath with it, and the next day she had ie dressmaker at work on it. "The day before the party it was fin hed. and when she got it on she iked for all the world like a holly ock that growed up agin the garden all. "The next day she could hardly wait >r night to come. She was dying to low that dress, so that she might make ie wimin-folks jellus of her. -'She got a standing-up collar onto ie that came near cutting my ears off. there is one thing I hate it's one of iem ere things. I'd as soon have an K-bow round my neck as anything of lat sort. "As soon as it come dark I and the Id woman set sail. Patience had said rly candlelight, and we me'nt to be iere on the dot. She was jest lighting er candies and setting 'em about the ouse when we rapped at the door. "'Walk rite in, Sally-and you, too eacon! You're first to come, but iar'll be more in a minute. I can ear Betsy Jones' gal now. She's com ig up over the hill, and her tongue is Inning like all possessed.' "'She is a master talker, Miss Pottle. never seed a body whose tongue ould run any faster,' said Sally as sne ok off her bunnit and passed it to atience. "'La, sake, Mrs. Cobb, how fine you >ok! That ere dress is jest becoming >ye. But I must go to the door, for etsy and her man has arriv', and I can ear more of 'em a-coming.' "And they did come, like a flock of ieep over a stun wall. Everybody ho had been invited was thar. All anted to see what sort of a shindy Pa ence would get pp. "Then too, Sally had hinted that Pa ence was arter the new minister, who ad been a widower for three months, nd was now searching for another help iate. "He had made more calls upon her ian he had upon the rest of the Knimmiv-folks, and this they didn't ke, married or single. But they id'nt see any way they could help emselves. "Wal, arter a time, they all got thar, nd we set ranged round the room as iff as a row of tombstones. Every ian was twiddling his thumbs, and ie wimmin-folks kept smoothing own their dresses. For awhile it was e most solemn-looking crowd that ou ever seed. "But arter awhile Major Hall woke ,m up. He was the liveliest one thar, nd wan't afraid of nobody. All at nee he sprung to his feet and grabbed liza Tasker, and went swinging her )und the room as tiough he was go ig to dance a hornpipe. "Get up here, you men-folks, and I go to Rome!' he shouted. "Going to Rome was for every man > kiss the woman he wanted to, and e gave Eliza a smack that could be eard out to the barn. "This woke the rest of the men-folks p, and it wan't long afore they was laying plays and hugging and kissipg ie wimen-folks like all possessed. The [der was as lively as any of 'em, and ist sheep's eyes at all the unmarried imen, as though he was making up is mind which to take. "Patience (lone her best to get him itched on, and it wJs plain to see that e was agreeable. We kept an eye on ieir man' uvers, and it wan't long fore there was a pile of whispering >ing on by everybody in the room. "Arter supper was over, and the ien-folks had helped Patience clear p the dishes, we went at it ag'mn, and ere rite in the middle of a jolly time, hen the Widder Stillings staid to me: "'D.eacon, where do you s'pose the der and Patience is?" "'Here, of course!' said I. "'No, they ain't,' said she. "I cast my eyes round the room, and re enough they were both missing. " 'Where can they be?' said I. "'Courting,'' said she. " 'Where?"' said I. "'Thar's no teing,' said she. S'I'll find 'em and bring 'em back,' tid I. "And I stole out of doors when there an't nobody a-looking to see which 'av I went. The lower part of the ose was lighted up, so I felt sure they 'an't inside. They were taking a walk wst like, and I determined to get on eir trail and see what they were up "I looked round to see that thar an't nobody a-folllowing me, and aen I went out into the road and >oked up andl down. Thar wa'nt a ul to be seen. "But as5 I stood thiar I thought I ard voices coming from behind the arn. Thar's where they must be, 3 inks I to myself; so I tiptoed to the arner of it and peeked around. 'Away to the further end I could se a couple of figgers that looked like vo black ghosts, and I hadn't a bit of oubt but what they were the elder and atience. I was bound to make sure f it and what they were saying, so got down on all-fours and crept ward 'em. 'I bad gone about half-way, and ad got so near that I heard Patience "Don't, elder! This is kinder onex ected like.' "And then thar come a smack that ou could hear half-way to the house. "I had kinder riz up and wanted to oller at the top of my voice, but I held and brought my forepaws down to ie airth ag'in. As tdiid so I heard a arp click, and the next minute the rws of a trap had caught me round ie wrist and held me like a vise. "I couldn't help giving a yell, and b couple give a jump into the air as iough they had been shot, or had seen ae Evil One himself. "'lder. ome and L-et me oui of this 'ere scrape, and I will never gi eaves-dropoing ag'in!' I cried. "'Goodness gracious, it is Deacon. Cobb!' cried Patience. 'I do believe he' has got into the trap I got Isaac Stan ton to set for me to catch a weasel that's sackiug my eggs and killing my hickens.' "'And it has served him right too,' said the elder, as he came up to where I was shaking the trap like all pos 5essed. 'Deacon Cobb, ain't you %shamed to be caught in such a scrape is .this?' "'Yes, elder, but do get me loose as 3oon as you can. The jaws of this trap ire cutting into the bone.' "I had to promise not to say any thing to the folks in the house, and! then he had me out in a jiffy and I wneaked back into the house, where, as good luck would have it, they hadn't missed me. "Arter awhile the party broke up, and going home I had to tell the old woman what the matter was with me, and all the comfort I got was that I was servdd right." SKY PAINTINGS ARE COMMON, The Region Around Lake Ontario Often Treated to a Mirage. The region about Bufiiao and for a good many miles east of that city seems to be a favorable one for seeing the more distinct and remarkable ef fects of that optical illusion known as the mirage, says the 1fartford Times. A surprisingly distlact one was seen between 9 and 10 o'clock !ne morning recently by the people of Buffalo. Like a previous one, seen - by the passengers in a New York Cen tral train a dozen miles or more east of Buffalo some years ago, the spec tacle was at the north. The one seen from the cars showed Lake Ontario, with alt Its capes and other shore fer tures, Including the trees, with re markable distinctness in.the sky, al though the real lake at its nearest shore was thirty or forty miles away and wholly invisible The one seen at Buffalo was the entire city of Toronto, in Canada, on the lake, some sixty miles away. Its steeples, locks and other features were seen, at great dis tance, with wonderful distinctness of detail. Even the steamers on the lake and a yacht were distinctly shown the former pouring out the trailing smoke from their smoke-stacks, and the latter, showing exactly the posi tion of the sails, could be seen careen ng* before the west wind. The lake itself was largely visible. It must have been a very surprising and impressive' xhibition. Seen in the sky by the caravan trav elers on the desert, the mnrago pre. seuts an appearance of objects reflect, ed in a surface of water; cool lakes, with shady palm trees, mock the hot and thirst-stricken travelers. The beated earth rarefies the lower air - faster than it can ascend and escape. The air is denser overhead-contrary to the customary experience; and the flatness of the desert contributes to the duration of the attractive but de ceptive apparition. There must be some real lake, in some cases, as a basis for these reported exhibitions. The mirage is caused by the excessive refraton, or bending of light r-ays in po-etrating adjacent layers of air of greater differing densities, not far abov-e the surface of the earth. This excessive refraction presents, when the lower stratum of air is heated by a very hot sun, an uplifted, distorted or inverted image of some actual ob ject or scene. Along certain portions of the Italian coast it sometimes pro duces the exhibition of an inverted ship, up in the air-the real ship beina distant and invisible and, of course, r-ight side up. These aerial and ma rie reflections, often strange and com plicated, and known as mirage, "loom ing" and the Italian, "fata morgana," according to the characteristics the present, are all allied to a general law. The school books have explained the general phenomenon. It is out of the usual course of things for the lower stratum of air to be rarer than the one above it, but It sometimes happens. Suppose the light rays are coming from a distant (and invisible) object, sItuated in the denser stratum, which in these wonderful exhibitions lies over instead of being beneath the rarefied stratum-as a hill, a little above the earth's surface-the rays -oe in a direction nearly parallel to the surface, and meet the lower, rarer medium at a very obtuse angle. stead of passing into that warmer air, the rays are reflected back to the leser stratum above-the common su-face of the two strata icting ns :i mirror Let the spectator ne looking, fram some eminence, at an object thus situated, like himself, in the denser air, and he will see it by dir-ectly trans mnitted rays; but rays from it also will be reflected-f''om the upper surface of the lower, more heated aIr--present ing the image inverted and in a lower position. In the reproduction of dis tant and invisible objects-as in the ease of the city of Toronto, seen s'j plainly ini the sky, sixty miles south, at Buffalo-the phenomenon belong~s. ap)parenty, to the class known to sail ors as "looming." Using Cameras to Check Cruelty. At a meeting of the Directors of the Massachusetts Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, President Angell exhibited pictures taken with kodaks. He proposes to use the ko daks to show not only high check reins and horses mutilated by docking, to gether with owners who drive and ride them, but also all kinds of cruelty that can be found on cattle cars, in cattle yards, slaughter houses, markets, horse-racing, polo games and othex IS A CITY OF BEANS, rand Rapids and One of Its Princ pal Industries. In the matter of ordinary every d ,ulture Grand Rapids, Mich., may n, ank with some others, but one co: ern there handles more beans In ;ingle year than any other firm In tl :nIted States or in the world. TI ompany has an elevator for beans, at brough this elevator between 700 at )00 car loads of beans pass annually. ar load means from 520 to 540 bushel Lnd those who are mathematically I lined may figure out how many bushe r how many bakings this total repr ;ents. Most of the beaus handled a: Uichigan grown, but often it Is nece ary to send to Canade and to Eurol or supplies. Last year $3,000,000 wor f beans were imported from Austr tnd other European countries, -and t] ear before the Imports were also larg Al these beans (lid not, of course go xrand Rapids, but about 100,000 bus ?ls of the total were taken there to 1 ;orted, sized. and cleaned. This yei :nany carloads of beans are comit from Canada, and as for Europe, I stead of exporting, she is calling up( merica for beans, and several lari :onsignments will be sent over. Aside from the thrashing-out proce performed by the farmers who gro :hem, beans pass through several oper tions before they are ready for the ma ket They are first poured down 2hute into the cellar of the elevatc then hoisted to the upper floor, whe they pass through a machize whi< grades them according to size at leans them. Then they go through s kutomatic weighing machine and th: takes them to the cellar again;7-To hoi them back upstairs Is the net oper tion, and then they are fed outsupon wide revolving belt which cairles the past half a dozen girls who pick out s the defective and discolored beans: that none but the best are offered buyers. The girls are paid by the nur ber of bad beans they pick out, and the busy season in February and Mar( between eighty and 100 girls, are co: tantly employed. They can easily tal :are of 2,000 bushels a day. From t1 rls the beans pass into a bg funnl it the bottom of which stands a ms o bag or barrel them for shipment. A iverage of three carloads are shipp( tway daily eleven months in -the yea while in August there is very little rnything done in the bean line. New Orleans is one of the great ben onsuming centers of the Tnited state rhat town takes about 200 carloac s a :ually, and the demand Is steadily 1: reasing. Pittsburg'takes many beal or the miners,.while Minn".poi.s, 3 Paul, Duluth. and other towns bt :hem by the carload for the lumbe nen. Mobile, Ala., calls for about twe: :y carloads annually, and Pensacol Nashville, and Louisville have all a uired a fondness for beans, and bt hem by the carload. Comparative ew beans are shipped from this cil urther east than Buffalo, for Ne Frk State is almost as good a bea ountry as Michigan, and the freigh )lay an important part in the busines Fr the same reason few beans can t ;hipped further west than Fargo< Lopeka, because beyond those poin :he California crop conmes Into comp :ition with a big difference in tI reight rates.' Carload shipments Vermont and Maine are not infrequen md occasionally Boston puts In rgent demand which Michigan Is a ways pleased to supply. Beans are the same the world ove wheter grown in Miehigan or Austr! [t takes a little longer, perhaps, for tI Eropean beans to cook than the frea ,cked American beans. but after tI atter have become six months old tI nost experienced bean eater canni :ell the difference. What constitut, ~uaity in beans Is not their flavor, f< this respect they are all the sam ut the uniformity of size and tI arightness of the color, and it is upc :hese points that the Michigan bear rceL The European beans come a izes, and this necessitates two or thri ortings, whereas the entire product 1 Michigan county will be almost e: rtly the same size. The matter< size Is Important, for if they are difYe nt there will be a lack of uniformi1 n the cooking which will be disastroi to the dish when it is brought to tI able. The Canadian bean is almo a good as the Michigan, and the Ne York bean also ranks hUgh. Beans are quoted in Grand Rapids: p1.75 a bushel, an advance of 3(0 or'a :ents in the last thirty da~ys. They wi gow on any land that wm proam wheat, and the yield is from twelve thirty bushels to the aere. In growlr them considerable skili and knowled; >f bean habits are necessary, and takes an experienced hand to make uccess of it. The crop Is about tl maine as wheat, and the returns wil wheat at 48 or 50 cents are about thr< tmes better. Some of the old bes isers down In LIvingston County ha' grown rich out of the crop, while the ieighbors who have devoted themseiv to wheat have little to show for the It Was Properly Labeled. "Why don't you ever write any pc ry, Scribe?' "I did write a poem once-an 'Ode Oblivion.' " "Indeed, what became of it?"' It reached its destination."-Ne York World. An All-Around Present. Giles-What did Cora give you i pour birthday? Merritt-That's a mystery I've trn< In vain to solve. As she made It h( self I don't know whether it's a pi ushion or a tobacco pouch, but at pr< ANDREW FREEDMAN, TI a ie d A 5d A S, Ls e ce Atteeret-e--. o umru >e :h le e. to >e r Lg r, c1e Ad At the earnest request of numeroui porters and innumerable baseball era It Andrew Freedman, the virtual owne st tEhe New York club, has consented t< E for a photograph, and it will be i a from the above reproduction of it that new magnate is a very handsome m ,11 The biography of Mr. Freedman is at 1 He is about 35 years old, was bori to New York city, attended the Thirte4 li- street grammar school and then the t h naMnummWUNUImmIU O M UIManNU mI - TRIALS OF A GENIUS. e come Amusing Stories of Inventor ison's Younger Days. M A man may have genius and yet z what the world calls "green" as to e d mon matters of every day. In fact, r very possession of genius implie if measure of abstraction, and puts a. often at a disadvantage. Some at B Ing illustrations of this fact are foi s. in "The Life and Inventions of I . I on." a. While employed in a telegraph 01 s in New York young Edison had m .t. several inventions, to which the c y pany thought it advisable to obtain r- right. The inventor himself, as he 1 a. us, had thought the matter over, ,, concluded that $5,000 would be per e- a fair price; but when the commi y asked him what he wanted, he ans1 y )d diplomatically: -y "I don't know what they are wo w Make me an offer." n "Well," said the spokesman, " ts would $40,000 strike you?" S. It struck him so hard that, as he >e *lares, he might have been knoc down with the traditional feather. taccepted the offer, signed the contr e received a check for the amount, e set out instantly for the bank. "I oIcluded there must be some Wall St ttrick about the thing," he says, n believed that if I ever got a cer j hould be lucky." He had never never been into a b3 before, and stood back for a whili see the methods of procedure. Thel took his place in the row before :h paying teller's window. LO In due time his turn came, and e passed in his check. The teller "ye tout a lot of jargon," Edison says, wi sthe customer's deafness prevented r ro understanding. The "fargon" e, repeated, and the check was han Sback. SEdison, surer than ever that he sthe victim of some trick, went out and sat down on the steps-to think esituation over. .Tust then, he deca "Any one might have bought that el f rom me for $50." However, he went back to the i rgraph office, and told one of the c14 .what had happened. "Oh, well," said the clerk, "the te s wanted you to be identified. Come W ith that the clerk went with hiE t the bank, identified him, and the te promptly handed him the $40,0 "greatly to my astonishment," Ed declares. He invested the money in a sho] his own, in Newark. and soon his 1 e was full of inventions of all sorts. 0 especially of the quadruplex telegra g Suddenly he was notified that his ti t were overdue. If they were not itthe next day, he would have to pay a ver cent extra e The next day, accordingly, he rem h ed to the city hall, and with his b: e still busy with the quadruplex 1 ngraph, took his place in the line. eline was long, and the business day ir already closing when he reached scollector's window. It was the last m ent of grace. "Now then, young man, look sba said the tired functionary, as the sentminded inventor stood before]i *"look sharp. What is your name?' The inventor's composure was t completely, and in "blank perplexi to use his own words, he stammere "I-I don't know." No doubt the collector thought he an idiot to deal with. He waved aside, another stepped into his pl or the day closed, and Edison had to he extra 12 per cent. ad His Big Mouth. r- "L'enfant terrible" has furnis na merriment and discomfiture for co o5 less generations, and doubtless als -2 I wnLl Recently I witnesd n inati lE NEW BASE-BALI. MAGNATM re- lege of the City of New York, and begam ks, his commercial life at the age of 15. whice r of could not have given him much tine it sit college, taking to the dry goods business After ten years of silks, satins and no leen tions, he wznt into the real estate brok the erage line and is reported to have farc ian- immensely well. He has had a hand ir ort- many of the largest real estate deahi in ever consummated in the city. Hie i: th counted a shrewd business man and re Col- puted to be very wealthy. =131miuism===iumma..wulU~ nimusI1uuumul-l that was a little unusual in the sang, Ed froid displayed by the child's victim. I was crossing Indiana In a Baltimore be and Ohio sleeper with a friend o: Dm. Scotah-Irish descent, In whose features the the Milestan traits are prominent, es. i a pecially the mouth, whose size is re Dan vealed to the utmost by a smooth . shaven face. nd To while away the time we got up i . game of whist, inviting for partneri two commercial travelers, who occu lie pied the opposite section. The section. ade In front of us was occupied by a styl Dr- Ishly dressed lady, with a little girl of the tbout five years. ells As the game prcgressed we notlee and that the child was-kiieeling on the cat aps seat, gazing steadily at my friend, ee never taking her eyes from his face er- for a moment When the rubber was finished the drummers stepped across to their section and my friend and I lose to stretch our legs. The action seemed to break the spell 'Upon the child, and she cried shrilly: de. "Oh, mamma! See what a big moutj ked that man has!" He The young mother blushed a furious1 ared and caught hold of the child, say and 'mg :on- "Hush! Hush!" eet "But he has, mamma:" persisted the and child, climbing to her knees, and fix Lt I ing her gaze on my friend's capacious mouth, which was fust beginning tC an expand into an all-embracing smile. to "Oh, look, mamma. It's getting blgs She ter all the time!" te At this the whole car became up roarious and the mother pulled the he child down, with a look of exquisite Ilele 'orture on her face. ich "Madam," said my friend, leaning bim torward, "don't reprove the child. She was is quite right. My mouth is large ded tnd I am not at all annoyed by it." On returning from the next eating mva station we found the section v'acant, side and learned from the porter that the te mother moved her embarrassinginfant res, la to the other sleeper.-New York Hecr ek ud.I She Made One Mistake. ele- She was a blonde of Juno-like forn. ~rks And carriage, and would have attracted attention anywhere, even if she were ller not costumed in a man-made gown ,nD-? with immense sleeves, which looked the l to more gigantic because of the tiny hat Iler eurmounting her clustering curls. Every seat in the Blroadwvay cable car was son occupied as she entered. She had not taken the second stride, however. be )or fore half the seats were vacnted. asnd ai cd score of men were bcckouing to her but to accept their places. Shie stolpp'd in 1Tph front of a handsomely-attired young xsman who had risen to his feet. )id "Do not rise," she said, in a musica' 12% voice which would have pleased even Lady Henry Somerset. "I prefer that *ai you keep your seat." Nineteen dis rn momnflted gallants resented themselves, :ele- but the young man persisted in stand. The ug. was "I Insist on your keeping your sent," the said the blonde, with much decision mo prefer to stand." "You can stand If you want to." re IT.luied the young man. "but I wantt to aim tet out here. Won' t3you, please, let mue tn, More Diflicult. Bax--Is your newv poem dafter the French? had Tagley Longtress-No, it's after a him publisher just now.-New York World ace, Stocked. pay Affable Stranger-I am a dealer hse plumbers' supplies and I have called to see if we couldn't do some businesi lhed to-day? unt- The Polite Plumber-I'm afraid no~ rays ir. I have all the billbeads I can use -nc for somne time to come.-Life. News in Brief. Constantinople's ancient walls are to be restored. -The reading of the romance is for bidden by the Koran. -A scientist claims to have disoov ered the microbe of old aze. -The raspberry was introduced Into England from Virginia in 1696. -It took 20,000 men twenty-two 7ears to build the Taj Mahal in dia. -The latest thing in (in and on) wheels in England is so called hansom sycle. -With a preparationof sodiumtung state cloth can be madi practically Ireproof. -A woman who is in good health at the age of forty-five is likely to outlive Sman of the same age. - The line of perpetual snow varies both in latitude and in altitude above he sea all over the globe. - Babies do not hear well. because the bones of the ear are too soft to con vey the sensation of sound. -Fonr hundred and thirteen differ ent species of trees grow in the var .ous States and Territories. - In 1893 for the first time in foui years, there was a slight excess 0 births over deaths in France. -No scientific sharp can tell pre aisely why butter is yellow instead o' -vinte like the milk it comes from. -The period- during which the people have the most trouble with their 'eyes is between twenty and thirty. -The peasants of Lower Austrit consume arsenic to give plumpness td the figure and softness to the skin. -A Swiss military man namedeblet has invented a new bullet, which Y said to be the deadliest thing known. -The largest coppersmeltng propert4 in the world is at Anaconda, at which alont 4:00 tons of ore are treated daily at the smelters. -During all the wire cutting in. duldeI in by sympathizers with the Brooklyn trolley strikers not a sing1* -nan was shocked. -A Columbia County (Pennsylvaniafl farmer has succeeded in grafting chest nuts on scrub oak, and expects to feed the nuts to his pigs. -A pasture field in Texas, owned by Mr. Warsham, contains fifty thqusand acres, and has one line of fence twen ty-three miles long. Seventy five horses are used in the anti diphtheritic laboratory in Berlin, and the supply of the remedy wXil be about 100 quarts a month. - Mr. and Mrs. Hurst, ot Cleveland, Oklahoma, have named a baby "Ot 1t;" short for "Uklahoma Territoryr ind "Indian Territory." -A combined candlestick and match box with a projecting spur permitting its ready attachment to the wait wher iesired has been invented. -Between the year 1849, the date of the discovery of gold in CaliforaM. and the year 1894, this country pro -uced $1,939,300,000 of gold. -A woman with several children re cently passed through Southwest City, M1e., the mother pushings the baby in a wagon through the snow. - -A "chaser" that is shiot from a rocke-t, and shoots around the heavens for fually ten minutes, has beeninventedi by anmanim Victoria, Australia. -A rural South Carolina paper telk of an icicle thirty teetlongandayard wide that formed on a windmill ix York County during the cold spell. -No less than a dozenri Tmnnae men are at work on flying machines One of them hopes to be able to give e trial trip at the Atlanta Exposition. -The theory that the stature 'of tha present day man is smaller than that of his ancestors has no foundation 1n' fact according to a french scientist. -A stranger who was shown round Peterborough Cathedral, England, the other day gave the Dean cheek of S2',000 toward the fund for a new ors gan. -The only knowledge we. have of the air currents from 100 miles above the earth's surface is what has been gained from watching luminous trains left by metors. -New Zealand has set apart two Isl ands for the preser' ation of its re markable wild birds and other anaimas. T1her on all hunting and trapping are for bidden. Of the 12,000 Canadian Indians on the Pacific coast, 8000 have been bap tized or atte::d Christian worship. The Gospels l'ave been printed for them in' four languages. -Cases of infection have been fre.. quently traced to cats that have been aowed to spend hours in a siek room and then go to another so where they n.ave been petted. -A gigantic camelia is-growing near the royal castle, at Pillnitz, near Dresden, Germany. The tree istwenty foair feet high and producesannually at least 50,000 blossoms. -An electric furnace for heating Iron strips used in making horseshoe nails has been recently installed in Montreal, Canada. Five feet of strip are heated every minute. -A German has invented a sma!. house capable of holding four or five persons to be used in diving and work ing in surken ships or vaiaable wreckage of other character. -Any human being who will have the presence of mind tc clasp the hands be'.ind the back, and turn the face toward the zenith, may float at ease, nd in perfect safety, in tolerably still water. - -At one time. the .foreigner was incapable of owningiiereditar'y prop erty in Scotland, but the restriction, was removed. An alien, however cannot .become ean elector until he obtains rnaturahiaation.