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IN OCEAN’S DEPTHS.
STRANGE CREATURES OF THE DEEP
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
Animal Life That Falls to Pieces When the
Pressure of the Water No Longer Holds
It Together—The Uottom of the Sea.
What It le Like.
The new submarine world now ex
plored and mapped out presents a very
different picture from that painted for
ns by the poets. Dnt a short time has
•lapsed 4 nee the bottom of the ocean
was supposed to he the counterpart of
the face of the earth above water—with
bills and valleys, with predipitousmonn-
tains lifting toward the surface and pro
found gorges sinking to unfathomable
depths. The ocean floor Is far loss di
versified than the land.
Mere end there, to be sure, islands in
midocean are the summits of enormous
mountains, rising more or lees abruptly
from a generally level surface, and th<
sea lying over a narrow, depressed re
gion in the northwestern Pacific reaches
its greatest depth. But this is excep
tional. In its general character the
ocean bottom consists of vast flat or
slightly undulating plains. An extraor
dinary circumstance that has Iwen no
ticed with interest and that always cre
ates surprise when first learned is the
entire absence of foreign matter in the
deeper part of the ocean’s floor.
Of all the vessels lost in midocean; of
all the human beings that have been
drowne,d; of all the marine uniinaU that
have perished; of all the day, sand and
gravel let Jail by dissolving icebergs; of
all the various substances drifted from
every shore by shifting currents, not a
trace remains, but in their place water
from 1,000 to 9,500 fathoms in’ depth
covers the nmform deposit of thick, bln-
ish, tenacious slime culled globigerinu
ooze. A bit of this under a powerful
lens is a revelation of bennty not readily
forgotten. The ooze is composed Almost
entirely of the daintiest, most delicately
beautifnl shells imaginable.
At depths greater than 2,500 fathoms
the bottom of the sea consists mainly of
products arising from- exposure, for al
most incalculable periods, to the chem
ical action of sea water, of pumice and
other volcanic matters. This finally re
sults in the formation of the red clay de
posits that are considered characteristic
of the profoundest depths of the ocean.
Carbonate of lime, which in the form of
the shells of fdraminifera, makes up so
large a part cf the globigurina ooze, is
here almost entirely absent.
Sea water is very nearly a universal
solvent, and before any shell, large or
small, reaches the bottom of these tre
mendous abysms It is chemically eaten
up, literally dissolved—a result which
the enormous pressure of the water must
materially hasten. At 1,000 fathoms the
weight of the water pressing on all sides
of an object immersed to that depth is
very nearly one toi. to the sqnoro inch,
or more than 100 times that snstained at
the sen level, and pt the greatest depths
the pressure is so increased that it would
seem nothing could withstand it. in
fact, heavy metal cylinders let down With
the sounding apparatus are sometimes,
being drawn np again to the surface,
found bent and collapsed; strongly made
glass vessels which the metal enclosed
are shattered into fragments.
in the profonndest abysms of the sea
are strange forms of life that never, save
when bronghtnp by the trawl, see the up
per light. The work carried on by means
of the United States fish commission ves
sel, the Albatross, bus established the
fact that forms of sea life inhabiting up
per waters may descend to about 1,200
feet from the surface, but that below
this, to a depth of 800 or 800 fathoms, a
barren zone intervenes where marine
life seems absent. But still deeper,
strange to say, has been discovered as
abundant and varied fauna, new to sci
ence, living under conditions of tremen
dous pressure and pancity of the life
sustaining element of oxygen that in
duced an eminent zoologist to any quite
recently, “What we know of tile great-
oat ocean depths forbids us to expect to
find them inhabited by living organ
isms.” Here indeed survive forms of
life the like of which no Inhabitant of
the upper world, not even tho snn him
self, has looked npon before the dredges
of the Challenger, the Albatross, the 1
Blake and similarly equipped vessels
dragged up marine creatures from con
genial cold and dark.
it might reasonably be supposed that
these denizens of great sea depths wonM
be built more firmly and strongly than
surface animals to resist the pressure of
the element in which they live, but it is
just the contrary. The most universal
characteristic of these creatqrcs is the
looseness and flabbiness of texture they
exhibit Indeed they seem to neod the
excessive pressure of the water abont
them to keep their parts together, for
when they are brought to the surface
they are ready to fall to pieces. It is a
problem, so strangely are some of them
formed, how they can move from place
to place. Were they not entirely below
the disturbing element of wave action,
they would, to all appearances, be help
less.
Inhabiting these abysemal spaces, as
completely cut off from communication
with the upper waters as we are from
the inhabitant! of ot’itg planets, we can
only vaguely speculate on their habits
and jndge their manners of life from
their somewhat remote analogies to the
surface species nearest akin to them.
Plant life is entirely absent from their
place of abode, and although they doubt
less prey npon each other some original
sources of food supply must of course be
conjectured to exist.—Cosmopolitan.
The Irlv* Gr«‘at OrcaiiA.
' The following are the Istest estimates
of the five great oceans: Pacifiu, ? 1.000.•
000 square miles; Atlantic, 85.000,000
square miles; Indian, 28,000,000 square
miles; Antarctic, 8,500,000 square miles;
1,500,000 square miles
Charaetcrtsttes of Crtmlaala.
The measure aronnd the shall of the
criminal, taken horizontally, is always
less than that around the sknll of the
upright man, and his brain is found to
be lighter, hit constitution feebler, too,
and his heart is weak. Bnt even among
culprits themselves there are great dif
ferences—thus ti e highway robber is
naturally found to be taller than the
pickpocket, and the boneeof his skeleton
are stronger. Ho and the murderer,
when they write at all, write a large
ronud hand with many flourishes. Tiie
thief writes with effeminacy, a small
hand.
These people are apt to give the stu
dent surprises. He finds, for instance,
that they are not habitually cruel. Wan
ton murderers will be kind to a pet.
Whore they are cruel it is the women
who are most so, and who discover the
most shocking forms of cruelty, and al
though a few have talent they are all
wanting in the ability to nse their talent
to advantage, but most of them have
great stupidity.
They are flighty and faithless always,
clinging long to nothing. And with it
all they are extraordinarily superstitious
The one satisfactory thing that comes
out of all this investigation is the estab
lishment of the fact that education di
minishes the tendency to crime, and that
as by slow degrees the day aball come
when a whole generation is educated
the children of that generation will be
born with less and less tendency to crime
or to crime made easy.—Harper’s Bazar.
Mr. .farrett'a Experience u a Forty-niner.
“The first time 1 was in Portland,"
saiil Theatrical Manager Henry C. Jar-
rett, “was In 1619. I came aronnd the
Horn from New York as snpercargo of
three ships bound for San Francisco.
After we had d icharged our cargoes I
had some little leisure on my hands,
and I conclnded to come to this country
and take a look : t it. I took passage on
the Sea Gull, one of the very first
steamers that ever came np the Colum
bia river. The I lowing of the whistle
caused considei able fright among the
Indians along th > banka I brought np
from San Francisco a hogshead of sugar
on speculation. When we landed in
Portland the h gshead fell overboard,
bnt was soon fished out. The sugar was
about 150 pounds heavier after the acci
dent, but I sold it, v. ater and ail, for 82
cents a pound. The sugar cost me 16
a pound.
“I bought a large lot of potatoes here
by the bushel at a very low price, and
gold them in San Francisco at f 1 a pound.
I also took bock with me four turkeys
and told a sailor if he would hitch them
np with strings and drive them through
the streets of f an Francisco and sell
them he could have 25 per cent of the
procecdst He sold the turkeys for |50
apiece to a couple of restaurant keepers,
who wanted the birds as an advertise
ment. Tliis was just before Christmas,
1849.’’—Portland Oregonian,
An Old Truth Proved Once More*
A pneumatic tired safety bicycle that
rested against the curb in Eighth avenue
opposite the Grand Opera Honse on Fri
day night had a crowd abont it for an
honr. It bore a huge placard with the
inscription, "For Sale, Price |12."
The placard hod been placed there by
the owner, who bad made a wager that
he would display the bicycle for two
hours, and that no one would venture to
buy it.
There was a lot of lively talk among
the crowd that stared at the bicycle, but
nobody went icio the cigar store where
the man who had bet that a pnrchasei
would appear was anxiously waiting for
some one with $12 to materialize.
A stout Englishman neatly dressed
came along ana studied the placard with
a frown.
“I hate these practical jokes," he cried.
*1 ride a bicycle myself, and 1 only wish
I had $12 in cash, and I'd get that wheel.
That reminds me of the story of the man
who stood on London bridge and offered
to sell gennine gold sovereigns for a pen
ny apiece and stood there an hoar with
out selling any.”
The bicycle owner won his bet finally,
to the chagrin of the man who felt sure
that a bargain would be snapped up.
The fun of it was that the owner would
have been forced to part with it under
the terms of the wager.—New York Sun.
RUtorl'x Dual Nxtnra,
I have never met with a more passion
ate, fiery actress than Ristori, with one
possessed to the same degree by the
demon of tragedy. Yet when she came
to Paris for the first time she was nurs
ing her last child. Well, on the days
she was acting the bronght her baby
with her to the theater, pat it to sleep
and went to g ve it the breast daring
the Intervals of "Myrrhs,’’ which is sim
ply the most n. mstronsly passionate of
all dramatis works. Did the part of
nnree detract from the partof the tragic
actress? By no means. Did the part of
the tragic actress detract from the part
of the nurse? No more than in the oth
er case. I am. no doubt, quoting an ex
ceptional fact, which may be solely ac
counted for by the strength of organiaa-
tion possessed by Mme. Ristori, but La
Malibran also showed us numberless
contrasts of fe .ling altogether unlocked
for.—“Recollections of Sixty Years.••
Th* Chmiaplsa Cantaloup* Farm.
Back Anthony, colored, of Early coun
ty, Ga., is said to be the best cantaloupe
raiser in the state. His methods are thna
described: "He fertilizes them with moc
casins, adders, coachwhips and tnch
other snakes as he can conveniently
catch In the spring, which imparts to
them the finest flavor imaginable. He
also raises the moat delicious rattlesnake
watermelons."
Thay War* Net Votlaf.
Foreign Visitor—Ah, yon have a b
tiful country and a noble system of
ernment—every man a freeman am
equal. What is that great crowd ai
that hotel? Are they voting for
against some new law?
American Citizen—N-o—ahem—a {
ceasis stopping there.—New York W
iy- _
Purehitaing Safety.
Mr. Oldtimer—I think tho pay of 1
latora nowaday s is outrageously hig
Mr. Nowadays—Nonsense, man!
don’t know when you are well of
Wish they were paid more.
"Merer
“Certainly. Pay 'em enough to s
steam yachts and race horse*. 1
they won't be so eternally anxious t<
at their desks and spoil our laws,”—]
York Weekly.
It is said that a pinch erf salt place
the tongne and allowed to dissolve si
ly is helpful in sick headache.
WHV BOOKS ARE CHEAP.
A Machine That Prints and Folds Three
Thousand F.very Hoar*
There are various rumors and tale*
floating about town among those in the
business concerning some wonderful ma
chinery over on the west side of the city
in a certain monstroue bookmaking es
tablishment.
The “novel machine” is a large web |
press similar to the kind newspapers are
printed on, hut arranged to take curved
electrotypes of each page of a book in
stead of a single large metal cylinder
casting. There are two cylinder*, on
each of which 144 pages may he screwed,
and as the long strip of* paper goes
through, first one side is printed and then
the other, making it possible to print 288
pages at every revolution. The strip of
paper, after being carried over rollers
which dry the ink, is ent, folded and
bronght together in the shape of a small
volume, with the edges all trimmed. Ev
ery time the great cylinder goes round a
novel is printed, folded and trimmed, and
5,000 of these are turned out every hour,
while, If it were necessary, 7,000 or 8,000
might be the qnota.
From the printing press these books
are carried to a little machine that looks
like a sewing machine, and two wire
stitchee are taken in the back of each.
The stitched volumes are thbn carried to
the covering machine, where they are pat
aide to side in a long feeding trough. At
the end of this is a little compartment
large enough to take a book, carried on
an endless chain running over wheels at
each end. Indeed, there are a series of
little compartments on this chain, and
as the chain moves along each one re
ceives a book. As the book proceeds a
wheel running in a gluepot presses
against its back, smearing it with glne.
A little further along there is a pile of
covers that comes np at just the right
moment, leaving a cover sticking to the
glney hack of tho book.
In this way 50 hooks can bo covered
every minute. Two hundred and fifty
thousand of these paper covered novels
are thus turned out every two weeks, and
extra editions of 50,000 or so are often
worked in besides.—Now York Commer
cial Advertiser.
The Last English Rabbit.
The game of the world is decreasing,
and as new lands are opened to civiliza
tion so it will get less and less. In the
straggle for existence, there will be no
room for the sportsman. His require
ments will grow more modest as time
advances, bnt they will not bo satisfied.
The last British wolf was killed in Suth-
erlandshire abont the year 1700 by a man
named Poison. Who will be handed
down to posterity as the slayer of the last
British rabbit? What a pathetic picture
might be drawn of the last cock pheas
ant! Perhaps some Macaulay of the far
distant future may astonish his readers
by his account of what went on in the
rural districts of Great Britain in the
nineteenth century.
He would relate how, owing to the
scantiness of the population, men used to
shoot partridges and pheasants by the
thonsand on ground then and for gener
ations past the sites of immense towns;
telling how the great garden of England,
then mapped ont into small teuements,
each laboriously and minutely culti
vated, with no waste of wood or hedge
row, used in those far away years to be
furiously ridden over by hundreds of
horsemen in pursnit of an animal long
since extinct in the land and only known
to the curious in old books of natural
history.—Macmillan's Magazine.
French Servants and Wealthy Shopkeepers.
The one extravagance of dress of the
French servant girl lies in having her
best gown made by a dressmaker instead
of making it herself. Hence her corsages
always fit her well, and her plain stuff
costume has a degree of style about it
which she is fully capable of appreciat
ing. The ladies of the so called bour
geois set—the wives and daughters of
rich shopkeepers and manufacturers—
very rarely indulge in rich fashionable
toilets. Mme. Boucicant, the foundress
of the Bon Marche, was worth millions
upon millions. Always arrayed in black
silk or satin of excellent quality, bnt
made in the plainest possible style, she
looked to the last hour of her life just
what she was—the greatest and richest
shopkeeper in Parts possibly, bnt still a
shopkeeper, and one that never tried to
look like anything different. When the
daughter of one of these wealthy trades
people marries, her trousseau is usually
very superb, but tho famous masters of
the art of dress are seldom or never
called upon to exert their inventive tal
ents in her behalf.—Lucy -Harper in
Home Journal.
How Air Raalata a Locomotlra.
Experiments made by the scientists
appointed for that purpose by the French
government show that the resistance of
the atmosphere to the motion of a high
speed train often amounts to half the to
tal resistance which the locomotive most
overcome. Two engines, of which the
resistance was measured repeatedly and
fonnd to be 19 pounds per ton at 87 milee
per hour, were coupled together and
again tried. In the second trial the re
sistance fell to 14 pounds per ton, the
second engine being shielded from at
mospheric resistance by the first It
strikes me that there is an idea for some
inventor half unmasked in this item.—
St Louis Republic.
A Sign of Good Brooding.
, One of the most convincing signs of
good breeding is respect for other people's
rights. We all sobscribe to that state
ment in theory. Yet how many of ns
always remember in any pnblic place,
in the street car or at a hotel table not
to introduce the two subjects that are
inevitably certain to hurt some one pres
ent—religion or politics? Women are
not exempt from dabbling in politics,
though generally professedly ignorantof
pnblic affairs. Sometimes their speeches
apropos of one’s favorite politician re-
mied one of the hint conveyed in the as
sertion that the wasp can sting as well
without its head aa with it.—Chicago
Mail.
A Slam*** Statu* of Buddha.
The reclining statne of Bnddha in the
Temple of the Sleeping Idol at Bangkok
is 180 feet long, made of brick and cov
ered with gold. The soles of the feet are
16 feet long and are inlaid with mother
of pearl in designs representing flowers
and fruits.—Philadelphia Press.
A Wl*« Lad.
"If fishes knew enough to live In the
gronnd instead of water," remarked
Frank, “they could, get all the worms
they wanted without hooks in them.”—
Harper’s Yonng People.
WHNTEDI
Our customers and friends throughout the county to know
that we have just opened the
Largest Stock of Goods
We have ever had the pleasure of offering to the public, and
that these goods were bought with a view to the present hard
times, which means that in order to sell this large stock, we pro
pose
TO Y/ORK ON SMALLER PROFITS.
We ask the people of Darlington and adjoining counties to
sustain us by giving us their patronage and we will not disap
point them.
Remember, our stock embraces everything in the way of
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Shoes, Hats, Hardware,
And Groceries.
Respectfully,
BRUNSON, LUNN & CO.
THE “CALIGRAPH.”
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Thirteen years since the
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GENERAL AGENTS,
6 BROAD STREET, • • CHARLESTON, S. C.
E/tablifhed 1858.
Re Established 1889.
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J.D. BHIRD
“The Furniture Man”
Will advertise something new in
his line
NEXT WEEK.
Jan 4—
IS NOW
A complete line of every thing usual to a first-class Hardware
Store. Also a full line of
IgriciU bgiluts, Eigtars’ Sie;11ss, Miner?, ta
JNJNUD TINWAHE.
And will sell at the very lowest prices for cash.
Tinning, Roofing & Plumbing
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What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Intents
and Children. It contains neither Opitun, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a hnrmia^e
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria is the Children’s Panacea
—the Mother’s Friend.
Castoria.
“Caatartalaso wen adapted to cMUrae that
I reoommaod it aaauparlor toanypraacriptiea
known to me." n. A. Amcnxn, X. D„
111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
" The u» ot ‘Caxtorl*’ a to onhanal and
It* merit* so well known that It aeema a work
of wp< .-errv^utlno to endorse It. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Outoria
with.n assy reach."
Ccxin* FUbtyx, D. D„
New York Oty.
Castoria.
Caatoiia cure. OoUc, CoMOpation,
Sour Stomach, Uarrhcm, Eructation,
KiUx Worm*, give* alaep, and promote* dt-
geation.
Without i.ijuriou* medication.
“For several year. I have rtirninmidail
yo’ir • Ctotorta,' and shall always roatlaue to
do so as it has lavarlably produced haa^mal
ramits."
Zbwm T. Ptanaa, M. t>.,
MOth Street and 7th Av*„ New York (JtJ.
Tax Cawraom Oowi tt. 77 Xraaar Snuurr. Nxw Tom An
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Satisfaction Guaranteed. Represents Twelve First-
class Companies,
September 11,1890
Darlington Lodge
No. 7, Knights of Pythi
as, meets on 1st and 8rd
Tuksday Evenings in
each month, at Castle
Hall, Florence street,
opposite Broad. Visit
ing brothers fraternally
invfted.
LAW CARO*.
a. W. BOYD. OBO. W. BROWN
BOYD A BROWN-
Attorneys and OobbssIoys at Law
Office in brick building south of
the Bank of Darlington.
DARLINGTON G. B., & O.
PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
ALL BUSINESS.
SCWS PROM OUR NEW SERIAL
O. W. DAROAN. H. T. THOMPSON.
DAROAN & THOMPSON,
Attorns ji at Law,
Office in Darlington Guards’
Armory building, lower floor.
Darlington. S. C-
a. O WOODS. T. H. SPAIN
WOODS & SPA IN,
(Successors to Ward ft Woods,)
Attorneys & Counsellors at Lav.
Offices formerly occupied by
Ward & Woods, over Bank of
Darlington.
Practise in State and Federal
Courts. Prompt personal atten
tion to all business.
fltaflpft. deOQ&iPOas DSBodjj
A Story of Love #
# and Adventure
ON THE PLAINS OF ARIZONA
DR] ¥000© IMPEffi
To Our Customers of the Pee
Dee Section:
We have decided here
after to conduct our
business in your terri
tory direct with buyers.
We can thus better as
sure you of prompt at
tention, low prices, and
clear agreements not
liable to misunderstand-
v ing and confusion as in
past under a different
system.
To responsible and
honorable buyers we
will make it an object
to correspond with us,
and we want to deal
with no other class.
Write us for prices on
any make or kind of
machinery you want,
and we will make an
honest effort to serve
your best interests.
W. H. GIBBES, JR., * CO.,
COLUMBIA, 8. C.
Dec28—ly
Mitw’s Notice.
Auditor’s Officr.
Darlington, 8. C., Dec. 1,1898
T HIS office will be open for
purpose of listing ail real ,
personal property aad poll taxes
the fiscal year commencing Hot
1898, and ending Oct. 81, 1894, fr
January 1, to Febraarv 80, indusi
excepting days required in filling
jury box and days named below.
1 will attend in
nts
In pereon or by.
‘Philadelphia, Monday, Jen. 8
Lamar, Tuesday and Weduead
Jan. I and 10.
Uypreea, Thursday, Jan 11.
Ashland, Friday, Jan. 18.
Stokes Bridge, Saturday, Jan. 1
Lydia, Monday, Jan. IS.
Hart evil la, Tuesday and Wedi
day, Jan 16 and 17.
Antioch, Thwraday, Jan. 18
Leavenerworth, Friday. Tan. 19.
SocietytHUI, Thursday and Frid
Jan. 18 and II, by deputy.
Jasper, Saturday, Jan. 80, by d
iigh Hill, Monday, Jan. 29, by d
jfechanicsville, Tuesday, Jan,
existing would cease. The
fund would be increased if all taxi
K ile could be entered. Male |>er
tween the ages of 81 and 60
are deemed taxable polls except tl
incapable of earning a suiiport
_ W. H. LAWRENOl
Dec 7—It Auditor D