Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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scientific Aren industrial. REV. DR. TALMAGE Leather railway brakes are coming. Laundry irons arc heated by elec tricity. Cannon projectiles have been photo graphed. San Francisco has 3000 miles of tele phone wires that are to be replaced by cables in underground conduits. a new metallic crosstio has been in vented by a railroad man who was for- mely an employe of the Pennsylvania road. One dollar a minute is the charge for using the new London-Paris telephone line. This is about double the rate charged for a similar distance in this country. A Limoges (France) firm of porcelain makers have substituted petroleum for wood in firing their wares, and not only find that it produces better results but cheapens the cost. The Mexican Government has been ex perimenting with a machine aud process for degummingand cleaning ramie fibre, the capacity of the machine being tons of fibre per day, at a cost of about 1 7-10 cents per pound. The harbor authorities of Southamp ton, England, the great mail port, have decided to adopt elastic cranes for the unloading of vessels, on account of the greater rapidity with which they will en able work to be performed. A new applianco weighing only a few pounds enables cloth dealers and others to measure fabrics while rolling or block ing them. The cloth passes over and under a set of four rollers, the last of which actuates a counter, which tells the number of yards paid out. It has been concluded that for any constant volume the specific heat, whether at constant volume or at con stant pressure, decreases to a limiting value with rise of temperature and sub sequent!}' increases, and that the smallei the volume the more rapid the change oi • temperature. An eight-inch well, which is being stink near Wheeling, W. Va., in a search for oil or gas, has reached, after several months of boring, a depth of 4100 feet. Both oil and gas have been struck throughout in paying quantities. Veins of gold aud layers of good quartz, iron and numerous other minerals have been passed through. The Lower House of the Prussian Diet has voted $40,000 for the establish ment of the Koch Institute. Professor Virchow opposed the grant. He strongly denounced the treatment of consumptives with Koch’s lymph. He declared it had proved a failure. He warned the doctors that they ran great risk in persisting to treat patients with Doctor Koch’i lymph. The consumption of sawdust and shavings in sawmills ejects n great econ omy in fuel. While sawdust is easily handled, the larger chips from planers are not so readily disposed of, and are often so bulky that if manipulated in the ordinary way much labor is entailed. An ingenious mode of overcoming this difficulty has been introduced, consist ing of a system of ventilation and boiler firing that removes all the chips aud dust from the machines, transports them to a special building and thence carries a supply to the boilers. The whole sys tem is entirely automatic, aud is under eimnle and perfect control. The Best Hallies of the War. John C. Ropes in an article on “The War as We Siee It Now,' 1 printed in Scribner's, is responsible foi the follow ing; The national instinct on this subject is perfectly correct. It was at Gettys burg and Chickamauga that our Ameri can armies were at their best and did their best. Never were they—either be fore or after those memorable engage ments—so strong, so well officered, fierce, so determined to win, so resolved not to yield. They were then, we re peat, at their best—containing none but seasoned troops, under veteran officers, inured to war, both armies confident of Victory, and pretty nearly, taking ali things together, equally matched. And no one can read the story of those great battle without being proud of his coun try and his race, for never was there more resolute and obstinate and gallant fighting done, nor ever were severe losses more unshrinkingly borne. Nor can it be truly said of either of these battles that the beaten army did not fight as hard and as long as its more successful antagonist. There is glory enough for all. Hence it is fitting that both fields —Gettysburg and Chickamauga—should be dedicated to the perpetual remem brance of the great battles so worthily fought there. A Good Appetite There la nothing for which we recommen*! Hood*# Sarsaparilla with greater confidence than for loss o* appetite, Indigestion, sick headache and other tron ties of dyspeptlo nature. In the most natural way this medicine gently tones the stomach, and maker one feel ‘Teal hungry.” t l<adie* In Delicate Health, or very dainty and particular at meals, after taking Hood's Sara* parllla a few days, find themselves longing for an«l eating the plainest food with unexpected relish an* satisfaction. Try It. Hood’s Sarsaparilla The Brookl yn Divine's Sunday Seisocn Tkxt: ‘i will arise and goto my father: 1 —Luke xr., Itf. There is notuing like hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen, nor hand, nor foot. There has been many an army defeated, not so much for lack of ammunition as for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out any man’s life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A traveler tells us that iu Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit looking very much like the long bean of our time. It is called the carab. Once iu a while the people reduced to des titution would eat these carabs, but gener ally the carabs, the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine, and they crunched them with great avidity. But this young man of my text could not even get them without stealing them. So one day amid the swine troughs he begins to soliloquize. He says: “These are no clothes for a rich man’s son to wear; this Is no kind of business for a Jew to be engaged iu—feeding swine; I’ll go home. I’ll go home; I will arise and go to my father/’ I know there are a great many people who try to throw a fascination, a romance, a halo about sin; but notwithstanding all that Lord Byron and George Sand have said in regard to it, it is a mean, low, contempti ble business, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of antiquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is a very poor business for men and women in tended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this young man re solved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do. and the only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises large wages if we will serve him, but he clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches them with hunger, and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the bloodhounds of perdition. Batan comes to us to-day and he promises all luxuries, all emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pitl “The wages of sin is death.” Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolution, “I will arise and go to my father.” In the time of Mary the Persecutor, a per secutor came to a Christian woman who nad j hidden in her house for the Lord’s sake one of Christ’s servants, and the persecutor said, “Where is that heretic?” The Christian woman said, “You open that trunk and you will see the heretic.” The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the irunk he saw a glass. He said, ‘‘There is no ; heretic here.” “Ah,” she said, “youloofcin the glass and you will see the heretic.” As; I take up the mirror of God’s word to-day: would that instead of seeing the prodigal; son of the text we might see ourselvee—our i want, our wandering, our sin, our lost con-1 dition—so that we might be- as wise as this young man was, and say, “I^will arise and* go to my father.” Thv resolution of this text was^ formed ini disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man had been by his employer set to ! culturing flowers or training vines over an- arbor or keeping account of the pork market or overseeing other laborers he would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say, “I have a thousand dollars now of my own; what’s the use of my going back to my fathers house? do you.think I am going back to apologize to the old man? why ho would put me on the limits; he would not have go ing on around the old place such-conduct as 1 have engaged in; I won’t go home; there is no reason why I should go home; I have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant sur roundings, why should 1 go home?” Ah! it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He had to go home. Some man comes and says to me: ‘Why do you talk at»out the ruined state of the human soul* Why don’t you speak about the progress of the Nineteenth century, and talk of something more exhilarating ^'’ It is for this reason. A man never wants the Gospel until he realizes he is in a famine struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your home aud you are in good, sound, robust health, aud I should begin to talk aljout medicines, and about how much better this medicine is than that, and some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician. After a while you get tired, and you would say: “I don’t want to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians? 1 never nave a doctor.” But suppose I come into your house and l find you severely sick, and I know the medi cines that will cure, and I know the physi cian who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: “Bring on that medicine; bring on that physician. I am terribly sick, mid I want help.” If I came to you and you feel you are all right in body,and all right in mind, aud all right in soul you have need of nothing; but suppose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness; oh, then you say “Bring mo that balm of the Gospel; bring me that di vine medicament; bring me Jesus Christ.” But says some one in the audience, “How do you prove that we are in a ruined condi tion by sin?” Well, I can prove it in two ways, and you may have your choice. I can prove it by the statements of men or by the statement of God. Which shall it be? You all say, “Let us have the state* ment of God.’’ Well, He says in one place. “Hie heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” He says in another place, “What is man that ne should be •‘lean? and he which is born of a woman, that ho should be righteous?” He says in another place, “There is none that doeth good, no, not one.” He says in another place, “As by one man sin entereth into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” “Well ” you say, “1 am willing to acknowl edge that, but why should I take the partic ular rescue that you propose?” This is the reason, “Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” This is the reason, “There is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may be saved.” Then there are a thousand voices herereadv to say, “Well, 1 am ready to ac cept this help of the Gospel; I would like to have this divine cure, how shall I go to work?” Let me say that a mere whim, an undefined longing amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, tremendous resolu tion like this voung man of the text when he said, “I will arise and go to my father.” “Oh!” says some man, ‘mow do 1 know my father wants me? How do I know, if I go back, I would be received f’ “OhP’ says some man, “you don’t know where I have been-you don’t know how far I have wan dered; you wouldn’t talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have commit ted?” What is that nutter among the angels of God? It is news, it is newsl Christ nas found the lost. fold by all druggists. $1; nix for $5. Prepared jiiy tj C. 1. HOOD a CO., l/)\veu. Maw. IOO Doses One Dollar PATENTS 40»page book Mil * M L L 5 “ ILIM -HOXVIIXK HBNTINKL, 50a; wmUt 1 /Mr, $1 dally 1 ] #a triple# SICK Om. Dr.. w*«,l “‘ 1 wWL HeaUh H » 7MT. 8u.pl. Pr. J. H. D YK. Bdltor. BqlT»lo. N Y. “August Flower” This is the query per- What Is petually on your little boy’s lips. And he Is It For? no worse than the big ger, older, balder-head ed boys. Life is an interrogation point. “ What is it for?” we con tinually cry from the cradle to the grawe. So with this little introduc tory sermon we turn and ask: “What is August Flower for ?” As easily answered as asked : It is for Dys pepsia. It is a special remedy for the Stomach and Liver. Nothing more than this; but this brimful. We believe August Flower cures Dyspepsia. We know it will. We have reasons for knowing it. Twenty years ago it started in a small country town. To-day it has an honored place in every city and country store, possesses one of the largest manu facturing plants in the country and sells every where. Why is this? The reason is as simple as a child’s thought, It is honest, does one thing, and does it right along—it cures Dyspepsia. • 0.0. GREEN, Sole Mao'fr,Woodbury,NJ. Nor angela can their Joy contain, but kindlo with new Art; The (Inner lost. Is found, they elng, . And strike the sounding lyre. When Napoieon talked of going into Italy. chey said: “You can’t get there. If you knew what the Alps were you wouldn’t talk about it or think of it. You can’t get your animunition wagons over the Alps.” Then Napoleon rose in his stirrups and waving his hand toward the mountains, heaaid, ''There .hall be no Alps.” That wonderful pan was laid out which has been the wonderment of all the years since—the wonderment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such i mountains of sin net ween your soul and God,' there is no mercy. Then I see Christ way-- ing His hand toward the mountains. I hear Him say, ‘‘I will come over the monntainsof thy sin and the hills of thy iniquity.” There shall be no Pyrenses; there shall be no Alps. Again, T notice that this resolution of the young man of the text was founded in sor row at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that be had no maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything fora chila to have that child be ungrateful. How sharper than a eerpenl'a tooth, It la, To have a tbankteaa child. That is Bhakespeare. “A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” That Is the Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father' 8o lov ing, so kind. If He had been a stranger, if He had forsaken us, if He had flagellated us, if He hadpounderl us and turned us out of doors on the commons, it would not have been so wonderful—our treatment of Him; hut He is a Father so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wanderings have never apologized. We apologize for wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us perhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark still farther that this resolution of the text was founded In a feeling of home sickness. I don’t know how long this young man, how many months, how many years he had been away from his father’s house; hut there is something in the reading of my text that makes me think lie was homesick. Borne of you know wlmt that feeling is. Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant— plenty of friends—you have said, 'T would give tho world to he home to-nigbt.” Well, this young man was homesick for his father's house. I have no doubt when he thought of hia father’s house he said, ‘ Now, perhap-, father may not be living.” We read nothing in tbii etory—this par tible founded on everyday life—we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing 'about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her here. But he is homesick for his father’s house. He thought he would just like to go and walk around the old place. He thonght he would just like to go and see If .things were os they used to be. Many a man after having been off a long while has gone home and knocked at the door, and a stran ger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door. He flnds out father is gone and mother is gone, and brothers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to himself, “Per haps father may bo dead. ” Btill he starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any here to-day homesick for God, homesick for heaven? A sailor, after having been long on the sea, returned to his father's house, and his mother tried to persuade him not to go away again. She said: “Now you had better stay at home. Don’t go away; we don’t want you to go. You will have it a great deal better here.” But it made him angry. The night before he went again to sea he heard his mother praying in the next room, and that made him more angry. He went far out on the sea, and a storm came up, aud he was ordered to very perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines, and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that he had heard in the next room. He tried to whistle it off, he tried to rally his courage, but he could not silence that voice he had heard in the next room * and there in the storm and tho darkness he said: “OLord’ what a wretch I have been: what a wretch I am. Help me just now. Lord God." And I thought in this assemblage to-day there may be some who may have the memory of a father's petition or a mother’s prayer pressing mightily upon the soul, and that this hour they may makethesame resolution 1 And in my text, saying, ’Twill arise and go to my father.” A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe, went out into the sea, went out too far,got beyond liis depth and he floated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on hoard. Sailors are generally very gener ous fellows, and one gave him a cap and another gave him a jacket, and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the Tad’s clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourn ing for the sad event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the garments arrived. He knocked at the door, and the father was overjoyed, and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh, my friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down into sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back; w ill you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed in the Saviour’s righteous ness? 1 believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He is waiting for you. Go home! But I remark concerning this resolution, it was immediately put into execution. The context says, “lie arose and came to his father.” The trouble in nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for same distant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next year,that amounts to nothing at all. Iff resolve to become a Christian to-morrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at the service to-night to become a Christian, thatamounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go home to-day to yield my heart to God. that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of resolution that amounts to anything is the resolution that is immediately put into exe cution. There is a man who.had the typhoid fever. He said; “Oh I if I could get over this ter rible distress I If this fever should depart, if I could be restored to health, I would all the rest of my life serve God.” The fever departed. He got well enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to go over to New York and attend to business. He is well to-day—as well as heaver was. Where is the broken vow? There is a man who said long ago, “If I could live to the yea/1891, by that time I will have my busi ness matters arranged, and I will have time to attend to religion, and I will be a good, thorough, consecrated Christian.” The year 1891 has come. January, Febru ary, March, April, May, June—almost half of the year gone. Where is your broken vows. “Oh,” says-some man, “I’ll attend to that when I can get my character fixed up. When I can get over my evil habits. I am now given to strong drink,” or, says the man, ’ T am given to uncleanness,” or,says the man, “I am given to dishonesty. When I get over my present habits, then I’ll be a thor ough Christian.” My brother, you will get wofge and worse, until Christ takes you in hand. “Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call.” Oh I but you sav, “I agree with you on ai. that, but I must put it off a little longer.” Do you know there were many who came as near as you are to the kingdom of God and never entered it. 1 was at East Hampton and I went into the cemetery to look around, and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by side—the graves of sailors. This crew, some years ago, in a ship went into the breakers at Amagansett, about three miles away. My brother, then preaching at East Hampton, had been at the burial. These men of the crew came very near being saved. The people from Amagansett saw the ves sel and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the boat, and they pulled mightily lor the shore, but just batorethey got to the shore the rope snapped and the boat capsized and they were lost, their bodies afterward washed up on the beach. Oh, whato solemn day it was- l have tMM-n told it by my brother—when these twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit anti he rend over them the funeral service! They came very near shore —within shouting distance of the shore—yet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men who come almost to the shore of God’s mercy, hut not quite, not quite. To he only almost saved is not to ho saved at all. I will tell you of two prodigals the one t hat got back and tho other that did not get back. In Virginia there is a very prosper ous and beautiful home in many respects. A young man wandered off from that home. He wandered very far into sin. They heard of him often, but ho was always on the wrong track. He would not go home. At the door of that beauttful home one night there was a great outcry. The young man of the house ran down and opened tho door to see what was the matter. It was mid night. The rest of the family were asleep. There were the wife and the children of this prodigal young man. The fact was he had come nomeand driven them out. He said* “Outof this house. Away with these chil dren, 1 will dash their brains out. Out into the storm I” The mother gathered them up.and fled. The next morning tho brother, the young man who had staid at home, went out to And this prodigal brother and son, and he came where he was, and saw the young man wandering up and down in front of the place where he had lieen staying, and th# young man who had kept his integrity said to the older brother: 'Here, what does all this mean' What's tho matter with you? Why do you get in this way?" The piofiigal looked at him and said; “Who am 1? Who do you take me to lie’” He said, “ You are my brother” “No, lam not; I am a brute. Haveyoti seen anything of my wife and oliildren’ Are they dead I drove them out last night in the storm. 1 am a brute. John, do you think there is any help forme? Do you think I will ever get over this life of dissipation?” He said, “Brother, there is just one thing that will stop this." 'I’Le prodigal ran Ins linger across his throat and said: "That will stop it, and I’ll stop it before night. Oh I my brain: lean stand it no longer.” That prodigal never got home, lint I will tell you of a prodigal that did get home. In England two young men started from their father's house and went down to Ports mouth. The father could not pursue his children; for some reason he .ajuld not leave home, and so he wrote a letter down to Mr. Oriflin, saying. “Mr. Grifltn, 1 wish you would go and see my two sous. They have arrlvea in Portsmouth, and they are going to take ship and going away from home. I wish you would persuade them back.” Mr. Gi iflln went, and he tried to persuade them hack. Ho persuaded one to go. He went with very easy per.-iiusion, because he was very homesick already. The other young man said: "I will not go. I have had enough of home. I’ll never go home.” “Well,” said Mr. Gritfln, “then if you won't go tiome, I’ll get you a respectable position mi a respect able ship.” “No you won’t," said tho prodi gal; “No you won’t. 1 am going as a (Sim -non sailor; that will plague my father most, and what will do most to tiintalizcand worry him will please me licit .” Years passed on,itud Mr. Grillin was seated in his study one day when a message came to him that there was a young man in irons on a ship at the dock a young man con demned to death—who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. Grillin went down to the dock and went on shipboard. The young inun said to him, “You don’t know me, do you.” “No,” he said; “I don't know you.” “Why, don't you remember that young man you tried to persuade to go home, anil he wouldn’t go?" “Ob, yes,” said Mr. Griffin. “Are you that man?” “Yes, I am that i man," said the other. “1 would like to have you pray for me. I have committed mur- (1 si', iyi'11 must die, hut I don't want to go ouU or this world until some one praym-tbr me. You are my father’s friend iandt £ would like to have you pray for me."' ^ Mr. Griffin went from judicial authority to judicial authority to get the young man s pardon. He slept not night nor day. He went from influential person to influential person until some way he got that young man’s pardon. He came down on the dock, and as he arrived on the dock with the par don the father came. He had heard that his son, under a disguised name, had been com mitting crime and was going to be put to death. So Mr. Griffin and the father went on the ship’s deck, end at the very moment Mr. Griffin offered the pardon to the young man, the old father threw his arms around the son’s neck and the son said- “Father, I have done very wrong and I am very sorry. I wish I had never broken your heart. I am very sorry.” “Oh!” said the father, “don't mention it; it don't make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you, my son,” and he kissed him and kissed him and kissed him. To-day 1 offer you tho pardon of the Gospel full pardon, free pardon. I do not care what your sin has been. Though you say you have committed a crime against God, against your own soul, against your fellow- man, against your family, against the day of judgment, against the cross of Christ— whatever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pai-don, and the very moment that you take that pardon your heavenly Father throws His arms around about you aud says- ‘ My sou, I forgive you. It is all right. You areas much in My favor now as if you had never sinned.” O! there is joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who will take the Father’s embrace? There was a gentleman in a rail car who saw in that same car three passengers of very different circumstances. The first was a maniac. He was carefully guarded by his attendants. His mind, like a ship dismasted, was beating against a dark, desolate coast, from which no help could come. The train stopped, and the man was taken out into the asylum to waste away, perhaps, through years of gloom. 'Thesecond passenger was a culprit. The outraged law had seized on him. As the cars jolted the chains rattled. On his face were crime, depravity and despair. The train halted and he was taken out to the penitentiary, to which he had been condemned. There was the third passenger, under far different circumstances. Bne was a bride. Every hour was gay as a marriage bell. Life glittered and beckoned Her companion was taking her to his father’s house. The train halted The old man was there to welcome her to lioi new home, and his white locks snowed down upon her as he sealed his word with a father s kiss. Quickly we fly toward eternity. We will soon be there. Smio leave this life con demned. Ob, may it be with us, that, leav ing this fleeting life for the next, we may find our Father ready lo greet »is to our new home with Him fnie-.ei. That will he a marriage banquet 1 Father’s welcome! Father's boeotn Father's kies! Heaveni Heaven! SELECT SIFTINGS. Teeth are pulled by electricity. A Belgian coal mine is 3700’feet deep. Ontario, Canada, has an agricultural text-book in her common schools. Teachers’ salaries in the United States annually amount to more than $60,000,• 000. According to the last census there were twenty-six fifteen-year-old married women in Paris. The average cost of constructing a mile of railroad in the United States at the present time is about $30,000. A Baltimore man had earache contin ually for eleven years. Finally he recov ered and delight drove him insane. A cut of tea made from the roots of freshly dug dandelions will work won ders for the nerves. Take three times a day. A grain of fine sand will cover one of the minute scales of the human skin, yet each one of these scales covers from 300 to 500 pores. A bill sticking machine, which sticks without ladder or paste pot, has made its appearance in the streets of Paris, and does its work well. The roots of timothy grass have been traced to a depth of feet, and clover I 1-16 feet, in a hard clay soil suitable or making bricks. In the text of the “Encyclopedia Brit mica,” there arc 10,000 words which ivc never been formally entered and de- ued in any dictionary. The people of Starlight, Grundy Conn ty, Mo., complain that the man who car ries the mail to that town puts young pigs, etc., in the pouch along with the love letters, etc. A magistrate in Georgia recently re ceived four silver dimes as a marriage fee. The groom, a boy of eighteen, said it was all he could afford. The bride was a widow of forty. A tramp stole a razor and opened up a shop in a box car near the fire-brick works.at Mexico, Mo. He shaved twenty- five men in half a day, pocketed $2.50 and again took to the road. Reindeer flesh, which is said to be tender, delicious, and nutritious, is regu larly exported froa tho arctic tones to Hamburg, where it meets eager demand at about thirteen cents a pound. Two years ago the remains of William Innes were buried at Coruuna, lud. When exhumed the other day, they were found petrified, and had increased in weight from 175 to over 500 pounds. A benevolent Atchison (Kan.) woman keeps a bar of soap on a board near a creek that runs through the town, for the ise of tramps, and a number of them iay be seen at that place every day wash- .ig themselves. It pays to feed crops bountifully. The extra yield from the extra supply of plant food is largely clear profit. A con siderable part of this extra supply of plant food can be obtained by frequent and thorough cultivation. Baron Hirscb, in an interview, said, not Uruguay, but the Argentine Repub lic would be the site of the proposed Hebrew colony. The baron intends to buy 5,000,000 acres for this purpose. Baron Hirsch may afterward buy land in Canada, but be says that the initial ex periment must be made in a milder cli mate. ’ Evidence From the Grave. By the opening of a gtave at New llnven, Conn., evidence of an unpaid note was found, involving a prominent person who had denied its existence. The person in question was the guard ian of two children, and became in debted to the mother for $250, for which he gave his note. The woman died sev enteen years ago, and he thereupon claimed that the note had been can celled. Recently a relative remembered that the note had been sewed in the lin ing of the dress in which tho woman was buried. The grave was opened and fhe note was found. It was very mix?? faded, but in good enough condition to answer as evidence.—St. Louis Jtepublic. A Wonderful Bronze Pagoda. A missionary who has settled in the province of Sz-Chuan, Central China, and who has visited the great Buddhist peak, Mount Omel,describes the temples around the base as still showing many wonderful works of art. Near the foot of tho mountain there atill stands a pagoda of bronze fifteen stories high,be lieved to be upward of a thousand years old. From the ground to tho polished ivory tip this immense structure is liter ally covered with delicate figures of men, beasts, birds and reptilea. Of fig- tires of Buddha there are no less than 4700 »ithin tho province, most of them in the immediate vicinity of the sacred peak. The male of the silkworm moth tray- ala at the rate of 100 miles a day. THE LABOR WORLD, Girls are railway clerks in Ireland. New York has K. of L. letter-carriers. New England weavers average f 1.43 a day. ♦ New York housesmiths lost the strike for eight hours, Tanners formed a National Union in Mil waukee, Wis. Brooklyn, N. Y., has a workmen's fire insurance company. California viueyardists are substituting white for Chinese labor. JSan Francisco stevedore engineers get |5.50 for ten hours work. In Dublin alone 0000 persons have joined the Irish Industrial League. Seattle (Washington) Chines 3 laundry- meii were fined f 10 for working after ten P. M. Thousands of Italians are straggling through the Southern States in search of work. A committee from the British House of Commons will regulate the hours of railway bauds. In British India the railroad companies maintain schools for the children of em ployes. Forty-three Welsh tin-plate works will shut down for u mouth, depriving 20,000 men of work. Typesittinq is the latest trade branch which has been added to the public schools in France. The Pacific Coast Laborers’ Union warns intending immigrants that tho market is overcrowded already. The hours in the cabinetmaking trade in England have, since 1850, fallen from sixty and seventy a week to fifty-six. The Order of Railway Conductors recent ly in session at ?St. Louis, Mo., decided to join tho Federation of Railway Employes. Tow boys, as the lads who taki charge of the extra horses which are hooked on to help street-cars up hills in Brooklyn are called, get & a week. The average earnings of the mine workers in Pennsylvania in were ninety-three cents i>er day. Theyliw, as a rule, in houses owned by tin? company. They buy their groceries, provisions and dry-goods at the company's store. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Electrician Edison is worth 13,000,000. General Hancock’s grave is unmarked. Gladstone has recovered his usual state of health. Major-General .Schofield’s salary is $13,000 a year. The Duke of Fife is one of the richest peers of England. President Wagstaff, of the Brooklyn Bridge, is six feet six. P T. Barnum’s estate has been appraised and the value is set at $4,279,532. Ex-Senator Evart’s fee for saying “yes' 1 in a recent cas? was $250,000. The Duke of Portland pays out $8000 a year in subscriptions to newspapers. The new Canadian Premier is seventy years of age and has spent half of his life in public work. • Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, has un dertaken to erect a statue to Wagner out of his own purse. Rudyard Kipling’s real name is John Trader, and his father wasa regimental con tractor and sutler in India. The Czar has presented Senator Leland Stanford with a collection of Russian and Siberian minerals worth $35,000. Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, at the recent State encampment, proved him self to be a great shot with the rifle. The total costs to Sir William Gordon- Cummingof his baccarat suit against Mr and Mrs. Arthur Wilson and others amount to $12,500. Nina Van Zandt, who married, by proxy, August Spies, the Chicago Anarchist, is go ing to wed .Salvator Stefano Mala to, an Italian newspaper man. The marriage of Miss Elaino Goodale to Dr. Eastman, tho well-known Sioux Indian who was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887 and the Boston University School of Medicine, recently took Diace in New York City. Alexander H. McGuffey, the author of the famous spelling book that has brought knowledge and woe to millions of children, is yet living, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and declares that the work brought him but $500 when published fifty-four years ago. The O'Gorman Mahon, Member of Parlia ment, is dead. Ho was born in 1803, and was known as “the Grand Old Man” of the Irish party. He entered tho British Parliament m 1830, and was a follower of Daniel O’Con nell. liis full name was Captain James Patrick Mahon. The congregation «»f the Temple Adas Is rap), Louisville, Ky., decided to add $1000 to the salary of the Rabbi Moses. Ho declined to accept it upon the plea that he could sup port his family upon tho salary ho was re ceiving. They then sent him $500 to pay the expens.s of n trip abroad. It was returned with a courteous note of thanks. NEWSY GLEAN IMS. FoBTT’GAI. nwe* tSuyjKJi’.OOO. Ohio has 95,1 KM Alliance voters. America has 100.000 telephones. Farmers' unions arc spreading. France’s large cities are growing. Ice in Maine is selling at a dollar a ton. The Southern utelon crop will bo a big one. ?5kw York City demands n new post- oflice. Sheep raising i* on the increase in Cali fornia. The World's Fair will have no brewers’ exhibit. The Czar is relenting toward Siberian convicts. The flow of lava from Mount Vesuvius has stopped. Canada will appropriate 4160.000 to fos ter her fisheries. The Salvation Army is building factories and homes in London. There are at present over 5000 unemployed actors iu New York City. Italian immigration to this country shows u large falling off. A serious drought iu Louisiana has vis ibly affectod the cauclields. Much smuggling is being carried on across the Canadian border. Chilian rebels uro mortgaging nitrate betls to raise money in Europe. Drouuht still continues in Hawaii. No rain bas fallen for seven mouths. In Germany meetings are being hold pro testing against the high price of food. It is reported that a coal-field has been discovered in the Argentine Republic. The Vermont farmers ntfi slow in coming forward to claim their maple-sugar bounty. The exports of Great Britain decreased 416.000,000 in May, as compared with May, 181*'. The i'ulance sheet of the liquidators of the Baring Brothers shows liabilities of 47,000,- 000 and assets of 48,750,000. A DOO census bas been taken by the au thorities in Brooklyn, N. Y. There are 19,- 358 canines in the city limits. President Palmer gives it as his opinion that the World’s Fair will be opened at least on Sunday afternoons. M. de Lesskps, his son, and two other di rectors of tin* Panama Canal Company will bo prosecuted on a charge of misleading in vestors. The Chinese Emperor's edict orders tho prompt beheading of all persons implicated in the recent riots and massacre of Christiau missionaries. The first shipment of block tin, consisting of seven tons from Temescal tin mines m San Bernardino County, Cal., bas been re ceived at San Francisco. A Fain mis Cakemaker. Mrs. Myra Miller, a colored woman who has just died in Atlanta, Ga., at the age of eighty was the most celebrated cakemaker in the city. She was born in Virginia, and in her childhood belonged io the Raudu'phs, Hamptons and John- sou*. For the last twenty years she hat lived in Atlanta. She was so proficient iu her trade and so much liked that hei illness was a source of public concern. Telegrams inquiring after her health came in from different parts of the State, and at the funeral many ladies sent floral tributes.—Boston Transcript. At a recent art sale, in F'lorence, Italy, the so-called throne of Ginliano de Med ici (a sort of sofa, with n high back sup ported by eolums), carved by Baccio d’Aguolo in the sixteenth century, was sol.l to on Englishman for $7000. The number of passengers carried hy all the railroads in tho world averages 6,800,000 a day. SCIEJfTIFIO AND INDUSTRIAL. England has an electrical launch. Wool Is made from wood tree fibre. * Vermont claims the first electric motor. Detroit undertakers must wear rub ber coats when they handle diphtheria corpses. The manufacture of starch from ar row-root is a new and thriving industry \n Florida. At least one person in three between the ages of ten and forty years is subject to partial deafness. Tho most elaborate dental apparatus known belongs to the sea-urchin, whose jaws are composed of forty pieces, moved by forty separate muscles. Certain peculiarities in the spectrum of the sun are thought to indicate that much of its matter is still in ele mentary forms owing to its intense heat. The steel works at Iljerde, Germany, have introduced a new process for de sulphurizing pig iron, aud it is said that many of the large works are applying for licenses to use the process. A new mineral has been discovered to which tho name Sanguinito has been given. It is bronze red in color by feflected light, and upon analysis is found to contain silver, arsenic aud tulphur. It has been discovered that platinum at a white heat will consume tobacco smoke aud keep the atmosphere of a smoking-room perfectly clear. Lamps with a little ring of platinum over the flame are used for this purpose. Some English manufacturers are bleaching paper, without impairing its strength, by an electrical process. A solution of magnesium chloride is used, which is decomposed by a powerful cur rent, with the evolution of chlorine and oxygen. Inquiry into the subject of explosions in mines being caused by dry coal dust has led to some very valuable experi ments and plans for clearing the galleries of foul air. One of these consists in moving open water butts tbrrough the affected localities. The coal smut col lects in the water, and the air's thereby cleared before tho danger limit L reached. A new apparatus for water has ap peared in the form of a still, which is de scribed as consisting of “a series of large flat disks of metal, placed upright and kept in position by pipes running hori zontally on the top and bottom. Watt' is boiled in a vessel and the steam is con ducted from the same to the dish througl a pipe. The steam radiating from th' water is condensed in the disks by a cur rent of air and^tbe water is collected i' the bottom pipe.” The size of still de signed for family use has eight disks an is said to distil a gallon of water in a: hour. Professor B. A. F. Penrose, Jr., of th Texas Geological Survey, says the fines of clays auitable for the manufacture c fire brick, earthenware, and even tin china w#re, are to be found abundant I in East Texas. Two companies are no engaged making pottery at Athens i Henderson County. The articles mane factored are fine brick, tiles, sewer pipe jugs, etc. The clay at this point is of ; light gray color, becoming almost whit when dry. Equally fine clays aboun near Jefferson, in Marion County, an near Rusk, in Cherokee County. It i thought good openings are offered ovei there for manufacturing the finest ol wares. WISE WORDS. Motherhood is woman’s throne. No woman is really beautiful until shi is old. Most wonen are ambitious; they want to be men. Sweethearts and wives are entireb different women. Anger is like rain, it breaks itself upoi that on which it falls. A woman is seldom prosaic until she Is some man’s mother-in-law. To keep your own secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly. If only women fought battles there would be only wars of extermination. Modesty is to merit as shades to figures in a picture,giving it strength and beauty. He that calls a man ungrateful, sumi up all tho evil that a man can be guilty of. Some women are born fools; som« achieve it and some have it thrust upon them. Fruitless is sorrow for having dom amiss if it issues not in a resolution tc do so no more. Families are a good deal like clocks— too much regulation may easily mak< themgo wrong. There is a difference between happi ness and wisdom, that he that think! himself the happiest man is really so, but be that thinks himself the wisest h generally the greatest fool. It may be remarked for the comfort o honest poverty, that avarice reigns mos 1 in those who have but few good quali ties to recommend them. This is a weec that will grow only in barren soil. There are peculiar ways in men, which discover what they are through the most subtle feints and clever disguises. A block-head cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a mar of sense. Know that flatterers are tho worse kmc of traitors; for they will strengthen the imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shall never, by thine will, discern good from evil, or vice from virtue. The Breathing of a Locomotive. Tbe “breathing” of a locomotive— that is to say, the number of puffs given by a railway engine during its journey —depends upon the circumference of its driving wheels and their speed. No mat ter what the rate of speed may be, for every one round of the driving wheels a locomotive will give four puffs—two out of each cylinder, the cylinders being double. The sizes of driving wheels vary, some being eighteen, nineteen, twenty and even twenty-two feet in circumfer ence, although they are generally mads of about twenty feet. The express speed varies from fifty-four to fifty-eight miles an hour. Taking the average circumfer ence of the driving wheel to be twenty feet, and the speed per hour fifty miles, a locomotive will give, going at express speed, 880 puffs per minute, or 52,800 puffs per hour, the wheel revolving 13,- 200 times in sixty minutes, giving 1056 puffs per mile. Therefore, an express going from London to Liverpool, a dis tance of 201J miles, will throw out 213,048 puffs before arriving nt its des tination. During the tourist season o( 1888 the journey from London to Edin burgh was accomplished in less than eight hours, the distance being 401 miles, giving a speed throughout of titty miles an hour. A locomotive of an express train from London to Edinburgh, sub ject to tho above conditions, will give 423,456 pufft.—Iron. The Frontier Cavalryman. Our frontier cavalryman is the beau ideal of an irregular. The irregular horseman of all ages was recruited from among roving, unintelligent classes, and had, except in his own peculiar province, ns plentiful a lack of good as he had a superabundance of bad qualities. Our trooper is intelligent, and trained in the hardest of schools. Few civilians, who find it so easy to criticise the operations of the army in the West, would make much of a success in hunting a band of a few hundred Indians in n pathless wild erness or a waterless desert bigger than New York and New England combined. And yet, thus handicapped, what splen did work our cavalry has done 1 While ne civil department of the Government has for years been busy sowing the seeds of strife and furnishing the red man arms of precision, the best of catridges and plenty of them, how ably our hand ful of bluecoats, under orders of another, have managed to quell the Indian upris ings! A force of fifty thousand men constantly on foot would have been none too great to do justice to our Indian problem since the war; the actual force has been less than a third of this num ber. Let whoso is tempted to criticise the army make himself familiar with some of the deeds of heroism of tho past twenty years by our soldiers on the Plains. Criticism blenches before their recital. But the so idler is no boaster. You must seek his story from other lips than his.—Harper's Magazine. The Smith’s Prosperity. Financially, the Southern States an glowing with health and promise and rejoicing iu the consciousness of their essential greatness. No furor has been created by sensational advertising, but the world has been astonished by th< latest statistics of wonderful growth ar shown iu the national census of 1890. The sum of all is in the fact that the as sessed value of property in nine States ii estimated by the census officials to hav< grown from $3,000,000,000 in 1880 ti to $6,000,000,000 in 1890. The reports of the census everywhere tell of enlarged and enlarging areas of cultivation, of new mines of coat and iron, excellent in quality and inexhausti ble in quantity, of new manufactories in every department of human industry. AH the bases of wealth and of sound and satisfactory finances arc here; and in my opinion Southern enterprise? are ani mated, sustained, and fortified by as sincere and high a regard for commer cial credit and personal honor, and by a? profound a conviction of the necessity of fair dealing, as are to bo found any where. —The Forum. The Trade in Mammoths’ Tusks. 1 he abundanc: of tho remains of the mammoth is almost incredible. Midden- dorf reckoned that at h'ast 100 pairs of these tusks had been put on the market yearly during the past two centuries] and from personal oh:cr vation Nordensk- jold isiucliucd to regard the estimate as too small. It thus appears that in the recent modern trade the tusks of more than 20,000 of these animals of past ages have been collected.—St. Louis lie public. Ladies needing a tonic, or children who want building up, should take Brown’s Iron iJiUers. It Is pleasant to take, euros Malaria, Indigestion,Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes the Blood rich and pure. An Omaha man, seven feet seveninene high, has just married a six footer. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s UREAS Nerve Kestuher. No ilte after lirst day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and trial bottl* free. Dr. Kline, 1‘31 Ar< h St.. I’hila., i’a. In the tffiiti of diseases that follow a tor pid liver and impure bloody nothing can take the place' of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery. Nothing will, after you have seen what it does. It prevents and cures' by removing the cause. It invigorates the liver, purifies and enriches the blood, sharp ens the appetite, improves di;* gestion, and builds up both- strength and flesh, when re duced below the standard of health. For Dyspepwa.,- “ Liver Complaint,” Scrofula', or any blood-taint it's a posi tive remedy. It acts as no other medicine does. For that reason, it’s sold as no other medicine is. It’s guaranteed to benefit or cine, or the money is refunded. P UNSTOlViEi Otis- all SOf.ftfERSt 1 1 disabk’d yj ti e f'-i- iiht* u“'\ years ex- perionce. Writ" for l :nc«. A.W. McCormick Hons, Washing to-*, I*. •' A: 1 'i vein nati. O. nil uc * ii. ( ii-•««* M11 JlJkJCure nil forms of pil?i and CatarrSal ^ affect'ons of the Pr adder. No soil*ng of,linen,Eaif i> introduced. Give Instant relief. sold by PiugRlAta, or bo nt post paid for r* 1 ) cents . cent stamp* * ..ken. a,i,iic. Eastern JIedictnkL'o., Heading,ra. 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