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THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 181)1. NO. 41. CHURCHES. Presbyterian Church Rey. J. G. Law, Pastor; Preaching every Babbatb at Hi a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m., Prayer Meeting every Wednesday afterno on at 5 o'clock. Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice, Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at Hi a. m. and 8 p. m., Sabbath School at 5 p. m., Prayer Meeting every Thursday at 8 p. m. Baptist Church.—Rev. G. B. Moore, Paster; Preaching every Sunday at Hi a. m and 8:30 p. m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Episcopal Chapel.—Rev. W. A. Guerry, Rector; H. T. Thompson, Lay Reader. Preaching 3rd Sunday at 8:30 p. m., Lay Reading every Sunday morn, ing at H o'clock, Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Macedonia Baptist Church.—Rev I. P. Breckington, Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at H a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Sabbath School at 8:80 p.m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff.—W. P. Cole. Clerk of Court.—W. A. Parro.t Treasurer.—J. E. Bass. Auditor.—W. II. Lawrence. Probate Judge.—T. H. Spain. Coroner.—H. G. Parnell. School Commissioner.—W. II. Evans. County Commissioners.—C. B. King, W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy. jprofcssioual lEnrba. w. F. DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Darlington, C. II., S. C. Office over Blackwell Brothers' store. E. KEITH DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Darlington, S. C. N ETTLES & NETTLES, ATTORNEY'S AT LAYV, Darlington, C. H., S. C. Will practice in all State and Federal Courts. Careful attention will be given to all business entrusted to us. BISHOP PARROTT, STENOGRAPH Eli AND t y p e-writer, legal and other copying solicited. Tiatimony leported in short hand, and type-written transcript of same fur nished at reasonable rates. Good spelling, correct punctuation and neat work guaranteed. Office with Nettles & Nettles. Q P DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND TRIAL JUSTICE, Darlington, S. C. Practices in the United States Court and in the 4th and 5th circuits. Prompt sttentios to all business entrusted to me. Office, Ward's Lane, next to the Dar lington Herald office. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE WOBKS. —ALL KINDS OF— MARBLE MONUMENTS, MARBLE MONUMENTS, Tablets and Grave Stones furnished a Short Notice, and as Cheap as can be Purchased Else where. fSF” Designs and Prices Furnished on Application. Hr All Work Delivered Free on Line . of C. <fe D. R. R. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DAKLINGTON MARBLE YVORKS, DARLINGTON, S. C. FIRE! FIRE! I Represent Twelve of the most Reliable Fire Insuiance Compa nies in the World—Among them, the Liverpool and Lon don and Globe, of England, the Largest Fire Campany in the World; and the /Etna, of Hart ford, the Largest of all Ameri can Fire Companies. W Prompt Attention to Business and Sitisfaction Guaranteed. F. E. NORMENT DARLINGTON, S C. Office between Edward*, Norment & Co., and Joy & Sanders’ SCYTHE SONG. Mowers, weary ami brown and blythe, What is the word methinks ye know, Endless over word that the scythe Sings to the blades of the grass below! Scythes that swing in the grass and clover, Something still they say as they pass; What’s the word that over and over Sings the scythe to the flowers and grass? Hush, ah. hush! the scythes are saying, Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep, Hush, they say the grasses swaying; Hush, they sing to the plover deep. Hush, ’tis the lullaby time is sing ng; Hush, and heed not, for all things pass* Hush, ah hush! the scythes are swinging Over the clover, over the grass! —Andrew Lang* ANNIE 0’BBIEN. A TRUE TALE. The Connaught Castle had arrived in New Y'ork. The cabin passengers had gone ashore. The steerage people were being carried away by their friends or by the boarding house keepers who always lie in wait for them. Those yet uncalled for sat about the decks. Wist ful eyes turned shoreward anxious to sec a familiar fare and form among all those steerage ones. Pat Nolan had come aboard in all his bravery—a new blue coat flung open that it might nut conceal the shining watch-chain dangling from his vest pocket, his hat tipped to ^ne side in true Connaught fashion, with a mighty show of white collar and cuffs and blue neck tie, and his boots for once polished by an “Eyetalian. - ’ Rethrew his shoulders back and looked his best, for “lidn’t he come aboard to bring his sweetheart, Annie O’Brien, home, and wasn’t she the puniest girl in ten countries and hadn’t she crossed the ocean for his sake? - ’ Pat felt as though every one that saw him must know his business there. Standing still he looked about him, expecting to see his little Annie some where not far. “Sure, an’ wouldn’t she be as anxious to mate him as he would bo to mate her’” He was a little late, for there bad been a delay of a train in which became down from the place where he was working ar coac’nmau and garduer. But surelj Annie would never have gone ashore without him. He walked about for full ten minutes, looking everywhere, but still missing the face he wanted. Every now and then a gay ribbon or a bright coil of hair would make his heart dance, but it was never Annie’s hair or Annie's bonnet. At last he nude up his mind that she had gone ashore; but in that case she bad left word for him, of course—word where she had betaken herself. “I beg pardon, sir,” he said, step ping up to a mao who wore a gold band upon his cap, and was presumably an officer; “I beg pardon, sir, but I'm Pat Nolan. Is there a bit of a message left for me, do you know, sir?” “Not that I am aware,” the officer re. plied. “It was Annie O'Brien,” said Pat. “She came over on this steamer; she expected me to mate her. We'r.j to lie married, you know, sir, and she'd lave word where sho is gone—Annie O’Brien.” The officer turned a curious, startled gaze upo;; him. “Annie O'Brien,” he repeated. “A steerage passenger?" “In coorse, sir,” said Pat. “She'i cornin' ovci to marry me, and she’s t work in’ girl. We’re naylher iv us rich.” The officer looked at him again. “1 know the name," he said. “You couldn't help noticing the girl,” said Pat. “She’s a purty eravtlier, is Annie, wid eyes like the sky and gold en hair and a waist yc could span wid ycr two hands—hairin’ she wouldn't permit ye to do it—and a foot light as r' bird's upon the floor. A little jewel is my Annie. You'd not fail to notice her.” m “Sit down a moment, Mr. Nolan,' said the officer, “I will make some in quiries. Wait here for me.” “A mighty polite gentleman, though he’s as solemn as a funeral," said Pat t< himself. “I hope he’ll not delay long. Em wild to see Annie. I wonder is she cryin’ her eyes out for not sccin’ me? It ■was what she had a right to expect—the first oncahoord.” The officer was returning. He looked more serious than ever. “Mr. Nolan, he said, gravely, “the captain would like to speak to you. 1 will take you to him. YVc have had t very stormy voyage, as winter voyagei often are.” “But you come into port on as pleas ant a day as there is in the calendar,” Pat said, cheerfully. “A Chiistmai couldn't be brighter.” “But we have had a very unpleasan t voyage,” said the officer gravely. He opened the door of the captain’ cabin. Pat entered with his hat in his hand. The captain—a grave, bronzed man with iron-gray hair-sat at a table before an open hook, on which his hand lay. “Sit down,” he said. “Thank you, sir. It’s as easy stand- lug,” saiil Pat, with a bow. “Y'ou had better sit down,” said the captain. “I may have to talk to you for some minutes. I have romething very very particular to say if your arc the light man. Your name is “Pat Nolan,” said Pat, beginning tc feel astonished; but then perhaps the captain knowing that he was to be mar ried that evening, wanted to cougratu- ate him, or perhaps it was the waj of the captains of ocean steamers to he slow and solemn, not Blinking how he kept people from their sweethearts. So Pat sat down, put his hat on the floor, and, not knowing just what to do, craekcct all his Knuckles one after the other as he waited. “Y'our name is Patrick Nolan,” said the captain again, “and you came on hoard to lind a young woman—a friend of yours?" “My sweetheart promise) tome. We are to be married to-aay,” said Pat. “If God wills it,” said the captain. “Ay, sir; we can do nothing widout that, I well know,” said Pat. “The good Lord above and Father Dunn will help me; but I’ll do the best I can to furder it myself." The captain looked down upon the pages of the book before him. “And the name of the young girl you arc asking for?” he said. “Annie O’Brien," said Pat, beginning to think the captain very stupid— “Annie O'Brien. She's the Widdy O’Brien's daughter—a decent woman is the widoy, and well respected. They are neighbors at home in the ould couu- thry.” The captain ran his fingers down a long column of names, and stopped at last and looked at Pat again. “We had a very unpleasant voyage,” he said slowly—“a very, very unpleas ant voyage.” ‘ ‘The other gentleman was telling me that, sir,” said Pat, wishing that this old gcntlfeman would stop talking about tlie weather and tell him something about Annie. “Bad weather must be a threat on the say," he said, in order to be polite. “And wid all tliiin passengers to be watebin’ and carin' for—worse than a stableful of bastes!” “Yes,” said the captain, “we try to care for our passengers; but the steerage is a little crowded. They are often very sick.” “Y'es, sir. I was that sick myself I thought I be dyin’,” said Pat. “Some arc severely 111,” said the cap tain. This time Pat made no answer, but stared at him with a hot flush rising to his face. “Sometimes they are so very ill that they die,” the Captain went on. “Del icate women, you know—little children and delicate women.” Pat still looked at him in silence. “When I said that we had a very un pleasant voyage I meant that”—said tho Captain—“that we hail serious illness— that wc had death on board. Two steerage passengers died. One was William O’Rourke, an old man coming over to live with his son.” “God rest his soul!” said Pat. “The other, who was very ill, was a woman," said the Captain—“a young woman, and very pretty. Mr. Nolan, we have to prepare for storms in this life —wc have to brace up and bear them as well as we can. They are very hard to hear. I have had a great many myself. At ray age that goes without saying, but you are young and full of hope. I am very sorry to say that I am afraid you are about to suffer a terrible shock. It is a painful task to tell you. Brace up, my lad. The other passenger was a young woman, and her name, as we have it written here, was Annie O'Brien.” All the color had gone out of Put's face by this time. I*. was white—lips and all. He dropped bis arms on the table ami hid his face ou them, and great sobs shook bis frame. The captain wiped the tears from his own eyes. “Talk does no good,” he said. “Time only can comlort you.” “It seems as if I could not believe it, captain,” Pat cried, lifting his tear- swollen face. “Annie my little Annie! Arc you sure it was Annie?” “There was but one Annie O'Brien on our list,” said the captain. “8he gave her name just before she breathed her last. The only steerage passenger of tho name of O'Brien died on the voyage of a fever. The doctor cared for her as well us he knew how. Tho women nursed her kindly. We buried her at sea, anil the burial service was said by a Catholic clergyman who was on board. Y’ou might like to know that, so I tell you.” “My Annie—my Annie at the bottom of the soy!” moaned poor Nolan. “Ah' I’ll niver see her again; niver kiss hei red lips; niver feel her two arms about me neck! Ah, Annie, I won't live after you —I wou’t live after you! Life is too hard to bear wid that to think of. It’s turned me to a woman, sir, I’m Blinkin'; but it's the worst blow L iver had in me loifr.” There was a knock at the door just then. Pat hid his tear-stained face again. “No admittance just now,” cried the captain. “ I didn’t mane to come in, plasc sir,” said a sweet voice; “but I’d like to spake to ye, captain, af ye’ll let me. I’m waitin’ this long time till in# friud comes aboord lo bring me home, end I’m gettin’ anxious, fearin’ something has happened him. What will I do, sir? 1 know no one in Amcricay. Perhaps he might he on boon) and me nut know it. ^ He'd be askin' for Annie D'tirien and he’d be Pat Nolan, that Pm promised to. Would ye ” But the captain had flung wide the door; and Pat was on his feet, and with a roar like that of a buffalo had flung his arms about her. “Glory be to God aud all the saints I*' he cried. “Y’ou're not dead at all! Y'ou're alive! I've got you safe and sound! They've been telling me you were dead. God help the man that put the thrick on me, for I’ll lave but the bones ay him!” “Quiet, there!” shouted the captain. “Down with your fists or I’ll put you in irons!” What dial you mean by asking for Annie O’Brien, a steerage passenger, when you wanted Annie Bailey, a first cabin passenger? That is the girl that stands there. That is the name she gave us—Annie Bailey.” “Captain dear,” cried Annie, clutch ing her Pat by the coat tail, “captain dsrliu', Pat niver knew—he did not. Since wriliu’ him, my mother—a widdy —married again wid Mr. Peter Bailey, that ka|ys a foine tavern in our town. So lonj as I wig! a goin’ from her, and lie a prnp8siu*tdifc*r, why wouldn't she? Ann lie havin'money to spare, said 1 should come like a lady, and paid me passage in the fdincst place; aud out iv compliment to him—being my mother’s husband and so generous to me—I sailed as Annie Bailey. That is the way it was, captain ; and indadc all the trouble arose from it—for I wanted Pat to find me seated in the illigant saloon, and re mained there waitin’ for liim.” “Y'ou’ll excuse me, sir," said Pat bow ing low, “cn account of what, I’ve been through.” “All right,” my man,” the captain answered; and then Pat threw his arms about his Annie aud led her away, the happiest man alive.—Neit Orleans Delta. Proof of the Earth's Motion. Take a good sized bowl, fill it nearly fall of water, and place it upon the floor of the room which is not exposed to shaking or jarring from the street. Sprinkle over the surface of the water a coating of lycopodium powder—a white substance which is sometimes used by la dies in making their toilet, and which can be purchased of any druggist. Next, upon the surface of this coating of white powder make, with powdered charcoal, a straight black Hue, say an_. inch or two in length. Having made this little black mark on the surface of the contents of the bowl, laydown upon the floor, close to the bowl, a stick or some other straight object, so that it will He exactly parallel with the charcoal mark. Jf the line happens to be paral lel with a crack in the floor, or with any stationary object in the room, this will serve as wc!l. Leave the bowl undis turbed for a few hours and then observe the position of the black mark with ref- encc to the object it was parallel with. It will be found to have moved about, and to have shifted its position from cast to west—that is to say, in that di rection opposite to that of the movement of the earth upon its axis. The earth, in simply revolving, has carried the wa- ter and everything else in the bowl around w ith it, hut the powder upon the surface has been left behind a little. The line will always |, c found to have moved from east to west, which is perfectly good proof that cverthing else .con tained in the bowl has moved the other way. Conquered His Giant Sans. An actor told a story recently about a fencing master in London who had two sous. Both of them, like the father, were physical giants. Who was the strongest and best fighter was a disputed question until a burglar got into the house one night. One of the sons, open ing the front door with a latch key late at night, found a robber in Bio hall. They immediately clinched. The other brother, healing the noise, rushed down- stairs and not being able in the dark to distinguish a bur glnr from a worthy and honest citizen of London, proceeded to pound both men whom he ran against. Meanwhile brother No. 1, thinking there were two burglars m the bouse, turned half of bis attention to the new enemy and the tight became desperate. The father, awakened by the uproar, rushed down stairs with a heavy walking stick. Then the light was something to admire, but to avoid. When it was all over and the gas was lighted by the aged fencing master, it was discovered that lie. hail whipped not only tlie burglar but his two sons.- - Times-Democrat. Each Race Hat Its Oder. AH Indians greatly dislike what they :all the white man's smell, and can de tect it with perfect ease. “I have,” lays a Westerm man, “entered tepees of .he Utes fillcl with Indians who had not lathed for a year, and whose aroma rose o heaven, and every one of them would mmplaiu of the odor that I biought in with me. The same feeling is uauifusted >y the Chinese, who themselves have a very marked odor that is intensely dis agreeable to whites. As a matter of fact, each race has its peculiar odor, which is not perceptible by people ol similar origtu, but which is plainly no ticeablc by those of different blood.”— Acfo IV! Tribune. In England when a member of Pirlin ment becomes bankrupt he resigns his seat. THE "RATTLER.” FACTS ABOUT A SLUGGISH BUI DANGEROUS HEI’TIIjE. It Cannot Clmi-m Other Creatures- Ue-crlptlon of Its Battles—The I’eeullar Mechanism ot Its Mouth. Of rattlesnakes there are at least a dozen, probably fifteen, different species, though there arc a good many varieties, a fact which makes them difficult to de fine. The kind most common oast ol the Mississippi is, I believe, popularly known as the “banded rattlesnake” and ranges at least from Maine to Texas. At one time it was very common in east ern Massachusetts, where it is now, happily, very rare indeed, and only com mon in thinly inhabitated districts of more Southern and Western States. It varies a good deal in color, and may be mainly brownish, yellowish, or blackish, while a scries of dark spots, frequently 'dgod with yellow and of very variable shape, run along the back and sides. The head is very large, much flattened and triangular in shape, tlie exterior angle being rounded. One very notice able feature is a deep pit which is placed between the eye and the nostrils an cither side of the head. The use of this structure remains unknown. The snake often attains a large size, that is, five feet in length. It feeds on rabbits, squirrels, rats, etc., and is for the most part slow aud sluggish, waiting quietly until some suitable prey approaches it. The notion formerly entertained that Bio rattlesnake can charm or fascinate the creatures is a mere superstition, now quite exploded. But its sluggishness makes it dangerous, as it may be unknow ingly stepped upon. Yet it never attacks spontaneously, or pursues a re- treatiug enemy. The structure from which the animal takes its name—the “rattle”--consists mainly of three or more solid horny rings placed at the end of the tail. These rings themselves are mere modifications of the general skin of the body, but the “rattle" has a more serious and solid loundatiou. From three to eight of its terminal segments (or vertebra;) become united together into one solid whole, »nd also become enlarged in size and specially modified tu forinu' 'being swollen at the hinder end. This bony structure is covered with a special devel opment of the soft deeper skin from from which all the outer skin ami scales of the body are formed, the soft struc ture being so subdivided by grooves as to form three segments, which diminish in size from the nape backward. These Bircc segments coat themselves with three corresponding dense layers of outer skin, or, as it is technically called, “epi dermis,” thus forming three horny rings. These constitute all the rattle there is in young snakes which have not yet shed Ihcir skin. Snakes aud men shed their skin differently. In us the outer skin is thrown off in very minute separate por tions, so Biat it is not ordinarily notiedd. In snakes all the skin is shed at once as one continuous whole—even the skin of the eyeballs being shed with the rest, and thus snakes get a little blind during the process of its detachment. When the first moult in rattlesnakes draws near fresh skin is formed beneath the old covering of the hinder end of the tail, and when the moult actually takes place the old covering of the tail end is not cast off (being held by the swollen end of the bone before noted), but remains as a loose appendage, leaving the first fotmed hiiut of the future perfect rattle. The rattle, in fact, grous perfect by the ac cumulation of rings in this manner, one Buis being made loose and yet retained, at each succeeding moult, while more than one moult takts place in each year. Thus the rattle ultimately consists of a number of dry, bard, more or less loose, horny rings. The older of the-c wear away in time anil are lost, but I have my self nevertheless seen a snake w ith as many as twenty-one rattling rings. It is the shaking of these rings by a violent and rapid wagging of the end of the tail that produces the n itc 1 sound — a sound which may be compared to the rattling of peas in a paper bag by very quick shaking. But this habit of slink ing rapidly the end of the tail is by no means peculiar to the rattlesnake. It occurs in many other species of serpents, but venomous and harmless ones. It is probably a natural aud spontaueous re sult of emotional excitement, like the wagging of a dog's tail. Any nervous excitement tends to produce some bodily movement, and naturally results in the motion of any part most easily moved — as the end of the tail whenever a due supply of muscle exists to produce it. The meaning or use of the rattle is a problem still awaiting solution. It has been supposed to be useful as paralyzing to animals, through terror exciteil by the sound; or to excite the curiosity of oilier animals and so bring them within its reach; or to serve ns a means for en abling tho sexes to find each other; or to save it from attack when its power of offence temporarily has been exhausted. But no sufficient evidence known to u< lends adequate support to any of these ingenious speculations. The deadly bite of the rattlesnake is effected by means of n veiy ingenious and simple mechanism. I need hardly, I Blink, guard any of my readers against the popular error that the rapidly vi brating cleft tongue of the creature, so often protruding from the front of its muzzle, is its “sting;” the rattlesnake poisons by biting, and the only practical sting it possesses consists of a pair of pe- ■ culiarly modified teeth. The lower jaw is furnished on either side with a series of small, simple-pointed teeth, and two series of small, simple-pointed teeth tra verse the palate from before backward. The outer margin of the upper jaw, how ever, has nothing of the kind, but is furnished instead on either side with one large, powerful curved and very pointed tootli, which is Bie “poison fang.” This poison fang is very deeply grooved in front. It is, indeed, grooved so deeply that tlie two margins of tho groove quite join in front, save at its upper and lower end; the groove is practrcally converted into a canal, which transverses the sub stance of the tooth. Into the upper un closed end of tho groove a small tube passes, and this conveys the poison from the gland which secretes it into the cavity of the tooth. It then passes down Bie canat a»d escapes from the small un closed cud of the groove which opens near the point of the tooth. The poison gland is placed on either side of the upper jaw (extending backward beyond tho eye), am' the poison itself is but a form of saliva. Its deadly effect almost every one knows. Even if an adult man es capes with his life it is to suffer from prolonged illness and often front the loss of a limb. When the rattlesnake is at rest, the poison fangs He back against the roof of the mouth, but witen excited, as be opens his mouth the fangs Irecome erected by a peculiar mechanism which cannot be here described, as its descrip tion would involve so many technical anatomical details. Hutliee it to say Brat when, being erected, the snake strikes,his poison fangs bury themselves In the Best! of his victim, while simultaneously tho poison is ejected down the canat which traverses each of them. The feeling of anger also doubtless sets the poison glands secreting just as the sight of good food will make a hungry man's mouth water, i. e., will set similar glands se creting in the man's mouth. The rattle snake strikes its prey to kill it, and, having struck, waits quietly till it dies. Thcu it begins to devour it as leisure, not again using its fangs, but oniy tho small teeth before mentioned. It always devours its prey eulire, and cau swallow an animal much thicker than its own body.—A'tw Turk Sun. The Dominant Race in Siberia. It was a bad day for eastern Siberia when the Y’akouts were crowded up to the Lena by the victorious Tungusi, foi they in turn dispossessed the weaker tribe; which they found in possession of the country, aud established themselves ns far eastward as the Kolyma River, on the frontier of Tchuktohi, the most cast cm trike of Asia, whose ultimate bound ary is Bie Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea. The Yakouts, or Jakuts have always pos sessed a higher civilization than is feund elsewhere in the same latitude, except in Iceland, Finland, and Norway, and by their superior intelligence and force ot character they have stamped their im press upon all with whom they have come in contact. Tiieir’s is the dominant lan guage from tin' basin of the Lena to the extreme eastern coast of Siberia. All the Tungusi speak Jakut. Russian is scarcely known iu two-thirds of its Asi atic possessions. Fur centuries the Jakuts have been the common carriers for all the peoples with whom they have had com mercial intercourse. “Without the Jakut and his horse,” says Middendorft, the eminent naturalist aud Siberian explorer, “tlie Russians would never have been able to penetrate to the Sea of Ochotsk, and from Bicnee to the Aleutian chain; but for him they never would have set tled on Bie Ivilyma, nor have opened commercial intercourse witti the Tehukt chi and the eastern Esquimaux. Before the possession of the .Ymoor hud opened a new road to conini' iee (I klO] thousands of pack horses used annually to go Ochotsk."—AYir Kii'ihinil Magazine. Degrees ot Misery. Travelers who have visited the deserts af Kaffir-land or the colder latitudes of South America might easily come to the conclusion that some tribes of savages are more wretched than the most miser able slum-tenants of civilization. But it is a curious fact those pitied barbarians are themselves by no means conscious of their misery. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, will have no difficulty in getting thousands of colonists for his Redemption town, and the paupers of Italy emigrate in spite of Government ap peals to their patriotism; but the house less natives of Tierra del Fuego cannot be persuaded to leave their dreary birth land. Callir orphans desert from tlicir civilized foster parents and rejoin their kinsmen iu the baboon-haunted wilder ness; expatriated Laplanders pine away with homesickness. The fact sccnf! to he that an ubundaucc of savage freedom will reconcile human beings to hardships which, in conjunction with the restraints of civilization, would seem wholly iutol crable.—AYic Yur'i Voice. The uniforms of officers and men of the Germany navy have been altered so as tocouform with the styles of the Eng lish service. The offic er's coat, cut after the fashiou of a dress coat, has been dis- cared, and tlie sword licit, formerly mi ller the coat, is now worn over it. NESTS OF CRIME. inspector bybnes ON cheap LODGING HOUSES. Many of Them the Haunts of Now Yorks Criminal Classes—Cases Where Criminals Have Been Caught in Them. Inspector Byrnes has decided views on the subject of chaap lodging-houses iu j New Y’ork City. He views with alarm i the increase of crime in the rising goner- j ation and very naturally set upon a Sour : of investigation to ascertain, beyond a doubt, the nests which breed crime and j reek with immorality. The figures re vealed by the Health Department in spectors presented tho startling fact that | there are in this city now about Biree J hundred and fifty cheap lodging-houses j which in one year furnished 4.til9,tit'«t> I lodgings, a grand total of sleepers equal to three times the Federal allowance of a census for the metropolis. These cheap room and bunk bouses differ in grade and carefulness according tc location, from the one cent floor- space in the Mulberry and Mott street Italian quarters to the ten and twenty cent establishments in all sections of the city. No questions are asked conceiii- ing respectability or previous condition and surroundings by the clerk on duty, Ills sole duty being to exact and receive money in advance or turn the penniless j victim over to the tender mercies of tlie , able-bodied “bouncer,” who poses as | porter or night watchman. Many a hapless fellow lias been found on the sidewalk in front of a Bowery o'- Chatham street lodging bouse with a broken limb or split skull, thrown down stairs or pushed toward the gutter by a cruel employee of a cheap lodging- house. A night in a typical Bowery lodging- house reveals a terrible picture of the dark side of human life in a big city. Clustered about tables beueaUi a dim and Dickering light, scores of young fel lows arc reading or playing games, gen erally cards, or arc engaged in an earnest but quiet conversation. Many, perhaps the most, of the inmates of the long room have retired for the night. And what a place to court sleep. In a big and cheerless loft, packed closely together on cots, with not only a sparsity | of covers, but these look as if water had not touched them for a long time. A fouler atmosphere can scarcely be imag ined, impregnated as it is with the vile fumes of drunkards’ breaths while Bieii ravings and snorings drive sleep from other cots. Unable lo sleep, men in couples and trios dress and seek the hard benches of the parks, whereat least there is a pure atmosphere, aud more than likely a pocket to be picked or a watch to be stolen. “Cheap lodging-houses,” sayslnspcctor Byrnes, “are a rendezvous of crime, aud they exert an u.iwholesome moral in fluencc over every person of previous good reputation who, from motives of economy, is forced to seek shelter there. In nine cases out of ten the man who makes these places his home becomes a thief or a burglar—if, indeed, he d.ic. not sooner or later develop into a uiur derer. Hundredsof such instances occur each year in Bie cheap lodging-houses of New York City. The cheapest pla?cs are the resort of drunkards aud people of the lowest type, aud all of them are infested with thieves, idlers and loafers. Mure than one man has been madc.HBiicf in these places to my certain knowedge. “Foreign thieves, of whom wc have no record, reach here by the way of the steerage, generally with an assumed name. They seek cheap lodgings and fall in with native criminals who hatch crimes, select the locations tor robbery, and start the newly arrived stranger to do the job. Recently I arrested a young man who had been engaged in the rob bery of private houses uptown. In tell ing the story of his life—for you know these people have a way of confiding in me— he told me that he was sent to this country after being detected in thieving operations ‘on the other side.' His pas sage was paid, trut his pockets were empty, and when he left Castle Garden he had only a few shillings. ’“He sought a house which the strict cst economy born of dire necessity rug gested, and brought up in a cheap lo lg ing housc. He fell in with a crowd ol men of low instincts, most of whom were thieves. They invited him on a trip to see tlie eity, measured him up, and finally set him to stealing from up town fiats, and he became a regular Biiei' dividing tlie spoils with Bie men who planned Bie jobs. This is not an isolate 1 ! case by any means. Visit one of these establishments at night and from an ob scure cornel make a careful observation of Bie surroundings, and you will In startled at the sight, for any quick eye limy detect n thief and his newly arrived victim, who is trained to commit the overt act, with the really guilty one in the background.” The remedy for this evil in this city, suggested by Inspector Byrnes, is ttic enactment of a strong law to govern lodging-houses. He would have them placed under police control, compel re cords and books to lie kept, open at all times to the inspection of the police au- thorites. Another law he suggests is Binl uulv a neisou of goo l moral charac ter should be permitted to own or con trol a lodging-house, and he should giv< bonds for a faithful discharge of hi; duties. In Biis way these nests of crime ms instituted at present under tax laws, would lie placed under the constant sur veillance of the police, and scores, if not hundreds, of young men who arc forced to live cheaply might bo rescued from a life of crime. .Yew Font World. rood ot Moles. It is stated in the “Eneyclopredia Bri- tannica" that moles are entirely carniv orous, arc exceedingly rapacious, and will die if left longer Bum eight or ten hours without food. Bays a correspond ent of the Scientific American: “I re cently kept a living mole for a time to study its habits. I shut it in a venti lated wooden box, giving it a tin iid full of water and some grains of corn. It drank tlie water, refused tho corn, and, while kept strictly in the dark, was quiet. After twelve hours captivity I offered it boiled rice, which it refused. After sixteen hours fasting, it ate bread aud milk, though not freely. When I had had it twenty hours, I gave it cracked oats, soaked well in milk, but utunoked. This it ate ravenously. I tlieu released it in the room, and it trav eled about, seeking a place to burrow, and made itself troublesome, tearing at the carpet and upholstery. I threw dowu a large, thick woolen mitten, which it speedily found and entered, thrusting its head into Bic thumb. If undisturbed, it would hide in this way for hours, the light and warmth of the room seeming greatly to annoy it. It lived iu the mitten for three days, com ing out to eat oats soaked in milk, but refusing cooked oats. It was given one -mull meal of raw meat. At Bie end of .'our days it was kilted, being apparently in a healthy condition, and not having lost any flesh.” The Making of Watch Glasses. In the manufacture of watch glasses the workmau gathers with the blowing tube several kilograms of glass. Soften ing this by holding it to the door of tlie furnace, he puts the end of the tube into commuuication with a reservoir of com . pressed air, and a big sphere is blown. It is, of course, necessary to net the ex- act proportion of material at the corn- mcncefnent of the operation, accompa nied by u peculiar twist of the baud and an amazing skillfulncss. The sphere ought to be produced w-ithoiit rents, and in such dimensions that it is of tlie requisite thickness. Out of these balls the wcrkiugiueu cut con vex discs of the required size. This is a delicate operation. A “touruette, a kind of compass furnished with a dia mond in one of its branches, is used. The diamond having traced the circle, the glass is struck on the interior and exterior sides with a stick and the piece is detached. The discs, which are after ward traced, arc obtained very easily. They arc seized by the thumb, passed through the aperture already made aud detached by tlie pressure of two fingers. An able workman will cut out OUOl) glasses a day.—Ditldmiy Dispatch. Frag ami Fish Showers. ,. A writer m Nature's Healm says that fishes may lie hatched in the clouds. What hi' says about it is so interesting that his whole letter is herewith given: “I observe a reference made in the American Angler touching upon showers of fishes, in which it states that science has not yet fully explained the phe nomena. This is perhaps slightly in correct. Several causes have been sug gested. Might it not very probably bo that fish and frogs which full apparently from the skies are really bred there? Water fowl, it is known, very frequently carry eggs ol tisli to great distances, hav ing swallowed them, aud in their flight disgorging the same unbanned wherr they cau and do fructify and mature in water over which these birds pass. The eggs of many old fish arc very glut! nous, and readily adhere to substances brought in contact with thorn during particular times of Bieir incubation. It is not very probable that not only do these birds convoy ova upon their wing; as well as in their crops, and when fly ing at great heights the ova, becoming detached from their wings, may remain suspended in Bic moist atmosphere, which is quite possible under certain conditions of atmosperical pressure, and Biut when under development they be come too heavy and naturally fall to the earth, as frequently witnessed?" Blood Changes Cannot be Stained. “Blood oranges” have been investi gated by order of the health officer of Washington. The story that they are “fixed ’ with a syringe and a little ani line dye has been going the rounds ol Bie newspapers. It was seen by Dr. Townsend, and as the supply of “blood oranges" in the Washington Market seemed to tic abundant lie directed an inquiry with a view of condemning tho fruit if it had been tampered with. The chemist to whom the matter was referred says iu his report: “Tho oranges arn naturally stained, no artificial coloring of any kind having been used. Tht small spot ou the side is a fungus spot and not a puneture. If is impossible to stain an cringe by injoeting any artificial staining fluid ml i the fruit either before or after plucking from the tree.”—St. Louis llloh lh mocrut.