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THE DARLINGTON HERALD
VOL. I.
DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1891.
NO. 44.
CHURCHES.
Pbbsbyterian Church.—Rev. J. G.
Law, Pastor; Preaching every Sabbath
at Hi ■- 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 S
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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
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Sunday afternoon at S o’clock.
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Sabbath Schcol at 3:30 p.m., Prayer
Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30
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Prorate Judge.—T. H. Spain.
Coroner.—R. G. Parnell.
School Commissioner.—W. H. Evans.
County Commissioners.—C. B.King,
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A SUMMER SONO.
Ah! whither, sweet one, art thou flei—
• My heart ot Mayt
In vain pursuing I am lei
A weary way.
The brook is dry; its silver throet
Rills song no more,
And not a linnet lifts a note
Along the shore.
Will thou return?—I ask the night,
I ask the morn.
The doubt that wounds the old delight
, Is like a thorn.
Ob, come! I lean my eager ear
For laughter’s ring;
Briug back the love-light cool and clear—
Bring back my Spring!
—Clinton Scollard, in th» Century.
How She Wore His Ring.
BY MANY KYLE DALLAS.
“What is the matter with you, Frank!"
said I; “I never saw you look so sulky
before.”
“Sulky!” Frank repeated, “I’m in
trouble, and you have no sympathy for
me. So much for friendship.”
“Good heavens, Frank!” I cried, div
ing into my pocket and producing a
well-tilled pocket-book. “I had no
idea—tell me how much you’ll have. If
there’s not enough here I’ll draw a check.
The idea of keeping it from me, when
you know that if I had only a dollar in
the world I’d share it with the friend
who saved my life—and an ungrateful
wretch I’d be, too, not to do it.”
“Ob, put up your pocket-book, Jack,”
said Frank. “Can’t you thiuk of any
other trouble in life but want of money!
Y’our ancestors have rolled in gold so
long that I suppose you think the rest of
us beggars. There, I know you’re a
k'nd-hearted fellow and my friend, but
I’m not out of cash,” he laughed.
But in a minute more his face was as
gloomy as ever.
“Tell me what it is?” I said.
We were sitting on the bank of the
river fishing. Frank had come out to
our place to visit me. We had been at
school together, and just as we were
about to graduate, Frank saved my life.
I sha’n't tell you how, that would be
another story, and I want to talk about
this affair just now, but he saved my life
at the risk of his own; was laid up for
six months, and always limped a little
afterward, and I vowed eternal gratitude,
so did my parents. We all adored him,
and we had been very intimate ever
since.
He was twenty-five by this time, and
an artist. I was twenty-four, and as
Frank often said, “disgustingly rich.”
He was usually the merriest fellow
alive. I don’t want to convey the idea
that Frank was a sickly cripple.
He was a very unusually handsome
3 oung man, and his little limp only made
him what the ladies call interesting.
It was quite in his favor with them,
and I noticed that when he was intent on
making a conquest, he limped more than
usual. But as gracefully as possible,
you may be sure.
He made a great many conquests. For
my part, my weakness was not the teu-
“Why, Jack, old fellow, all the wo
men like you,” said I. “You're suro to
get her if you try hard enough. They're
often like that, I'm told—coquette with
a fellow till the last moment.”
“Oh, she didn’t,” said Frank. “Shs
accepted me at once—yes, at once. It
was love at first sight with us. I mot
her at a dinner. I took her and her
mother, or maiden aunt, or somebody
in a cap and eye-glasses, to the opera.
I met ter by accident, and walked with
her. I asked her if she could love me,
and she said, ‘Oh, yes.’ We were en
gaged. I almost ruined myself to buy
a cluster diamond ring, and we bad
der passion, and I rather laughed at his
affairs of the heart.
“I suppose it is a girl,” I said, after a
pause. He looked up at me with his
loug-lashed, gray eyes, for I sat on a rock
some distance above him. .
“Jack, I don’t believe you have ever
been in love, or ever will be,” he said.
“Oh, I like the girls well enough,” I
said, “and no doubt when I am older I
shall marry; but I don't think there's
any of the ‘Amanda Rosamanda, the
world would be a desert void without
thee' sort of thing about me.”
“I don’t believe there U,” said he, in
a tone that did not make the remark
sound li ,- o a compliment. “But, Jack,
that sort of >Lijg, laugh at it as you may,
is solid fact after all, aud hearts can
break, and lives be shattered,and fellows
go to the dogs because a woman ”
He broke down.
My arm was around his shoulder in a
moment.
the happiest winter that ever mortals
lived through. Our wedding-day was
fixed for October. Her father promised
all sorts of amiable things, and I was
font enough to kiss another girl. She
rather dared me to do it—you know
the way some girls have—and by the
most dreadful ill luck Jenuie saw ms;
and, look here.”
He took something from his pocket
and held it out to me. It was a ring—
a cluster diamond.
“She sent that back last week," he
said, ‘ ‘and I’ve wanted to die ever since."
And he rolled over on the grass and hid
his face.
“Oh, go and make up with her,
Frank," said I.
“I’ve tried," said Frank; “she won't (
speak to me—she won’t look at me.
She sends my letters back unopened.
No; it's over, and I shall never be
good for anything again.”
He seemed to mean it.
“She's gone to Washington,” said he;
“and they say an old Senator is miking
love to her. She'll marry him; I know
it is out of apite, but she'll do it.”
“Go after her,and cut him out,” aaid I.
“I start to-morrow for Mexico—a
business engagement, signed and con
tracted for. I’m to do the sketches for
i work on a certain part of the country,
•>il I hope I’ll never come back,” said
Frank.
I never saw any one look so desperate.
“Frank. ” 1 said, “if you really are at
mad about the cirl as vou say you are.
I’ll promise you to go after her myself,
force her to be reasonable, and coax her
to make up with you.”
“It’s impossible to do anything of the
sort,” he replied; “but if you could—
my God! if you could, I would lie down
at you feet and worship you!”
“As I'm not a Japanese idol, or any
thing of the sort, I sha'u’t ask you to do
that,” said I. “I owe you a little debt
of gratitude, remember. I’ll go to
morrow, and you can depend oa hearing
good news.”
He shook bis head.
"Y’ou’re a dear, good fellow,” he said.
“I don’t believe any other fellow living
would do so much for a friend; I don’t
indeed. And, Jack, look here, I shall
be down in Mexico soon, you know.
Write to me, but don’t mention her un
less you should perform a miracle. Then
—then—oh, good heavens! telegraph to
me; send me those words, ‘She wears
it,’ and I’ll fly through fire and water,
or, blood, to her side!’’
“Wears what, Jack?” I asked.
“Oh,” said he, “I felt as though you
could rqgd my thoughts. This ring;
take it with you. If she ever says, ‘I’ll
forgive him,’ say, ‘then put this ring on
sgain.’ And when she does—’’
“All right,” said I.
And he kissed the diamond, and put
it in a little box and transferred it to
me.
“And now her name and aldress?”
“You don’t even know what?” he
cried.
I did not tell him that he was desper-
itely in love with another girl when we
last met. He was in real trouble and I
did not think it right to joke with him,
snd he wrote the lady's name; “Jean
nette Donald,” and the hotel where her
people were stopping on a card, and
said again:
“No use, Jack, no use, she said she
would never trust me again. Shcmeait
it.”
A week from that time I was ic
Washington, and Frank on his way to
Mexico, aud I had called on Mr. Donald
on a business matter, concocted by my
father to help me out.
Dear old dad was as deeply interested
as I, and I had thus been regularly in
troduced to Miss Jeannette.
She was a beautiful blonde, with
golden hair and violet eyes, and the
sweetest smile, and a little, pmsive way
that made me fancy that she regretted
Jack.
But I was very artful. I laughed and
danced with her, and walked with her,
and talked with her, and made her ac
quaintance very thoroughly before I ever
mentioned Fraqk. At last one day 1
said'
“You know Frank Ludwig, do you
nol, Miss Donald? I've heard him speak
of you.”
“I was once slightly acquainted with
Mr. Ludwig," she replied.
Her tone prevented me from saying
any more just then; but as time went on,
I was more and more determined to do
what I had.promised.
The old senator had been in the field
when I arrived, and I had been obliged
to—well, to appear to be very much ir
love myself, in order to drive him away,
and he had said some very biter things
about “young puppies” before ho van
ished. But now he was paying his ad
dresses to a young widow, who appeared
on public occasions dressed principally
in bugles, and leaning on his arm in the
tenderest fashion.
In fact I worked hard for Frank’s sake
to keep other fellows awsy from Miss
Donald, and to make her like me, and
feel that I was a friend, and I had just
got myself firmly into her good graces,
when with a horror which I»have no
words to express, I suddenly discoveref
that I had fallen in love with her myself.
Yes—in love, and in what I had once
laughed at as the “Amanda Rosamanda
style.” It was not a joke, but a serious
truth that I felt that “the world would
be a desert void” without Jeannette
Donald. You see it was the first time I
had been so much alons with a beautiful
girl, and she had been so sweet to me,
snd she was the realization of my ideal
of womanly beauty, with her golden
hair and heavenly eyei, and —a thousand
other things. However, I was not a
false rascal. All that made no differencr,
I had come to Washingtou to work for
Frank, and I would do my best for him.
Conscious as I was of my own feelings, I
dared delay no longer, and that very
evening I took my way ta Mr. Dosald's
house, determined to plead for Frank as
though he wore myself. She was alone
at the piano, playing softly when I
entered their private parlor.
§he hqlci out her hand to me, I took
it, and could not help holding it a little
longer than I ought.
“Miss Jeannette,” I said, “I have a
confession to make. My acquaintance
with you seemed to come about almost
accidentally; but the truth is, that I
came from New York on purpose to
know you.”
“Is it possible?”said she, blushing like
a rose.
“Yes, indeed, Miss Donald,” I said.
“I asked you once if you knew my friend,
Frank Ludwig. He who used to talk
so much about you. Oh, Miss Donald,
you are so sweet, so fair, you look so
gentle. How can you be so cruel!”
“I cruel! I do not know what you
mean, Mr. Leslie,” Jeannette cried.
“When a woman has won a man’s
heart, is it right to cost him away—to
doom him to despair,” I said. “My pur
pose in seeking you out was, from the
first, to ask you to put this ring oa your
finger.”
I was about to say "once more," when
a hearty slap upon my shoulder startled
me.
“Come,come,” said Mr. Donald—he
was a man with a loud voice and a
Scotch accent—“come, come! You've
been very sly, young folk, but I was the
same myself in my time, and I’m not sure
ra object.”
“ We've not been sly, papa, said
Jeannette. “Jack has never said a
word to me before.”
*• rut It on, lad,’’ said the old gentle-
man; “put it on her finger, and my
blessing on ye both,”
What could I do ? I put the Hug on
Jeanette's finger.
Nothing else was possible. The old
gentleman left us together, her head
sunk on my shoulder. I have often
wondered since what she thought of me,
for I never uttered another word the
whole evening.
As soon as I decently could I got
away. I adored her; I knew that I
should be miserable without her, but I
could not play the part of a rascal.
Having stolen Frank’s diamond ring
and given it away might have been
rather bad, from a detective’s point of
view, but I did not think of that. It
would seem to him that I had been false,
cowardly, treacherous, and had won his
Jennie after promising to make all right
between them.
I could never tell Jennie the troth
after all she said to me that night,
things that would have made me the
happiest of men, if I had dared to be,
aud as walked homeward I decided to
shoot myself and end it all. I could
write a letter of adieu, explaining all to
Frank, telling Jennie how I loved her,
telling my parents that without honor
life was valueless. I had a pistol in my
valise at the hotel. Well, the sooner it
was over the better.
I was in an undescribable state of
mind, for I loved life, and I saw it
bright and glowing before me—but for
my lost honor.
As I entered the hotel, I turned and
gave a last look at the long, beautifnl
street. Before morning my eyes would
clrse on the world forever.
“There’s a message tor you,” said the
clerk as I passed his office. I turned and
took it. It was from the city of Mexico,
from Frank, of course. I tore it open,
these were the contents. “Don’t go
further with that matter; I’m married.”
So I was when he next heard from me.
—Family Story Paper.
How the Forty-niners Lent ■ Hind.
Men pocketed their pride in Califor
nia in those days. I met in the mines
lawyers and physicians, of good stand
ing at home, who were acting as bar
keepers, waiters, hostlers and teamsters.
An ex-judge of oyer and terminer was
driving an ox-team from Coioma to Sac
rnmento. One man who had been a
State Senator and Secretary of State in
one of our Western commonwealths was
doing a profitable business at manufac
turing “cradles,” while an ex-Governor
of one of our Southwestern States played
the fiddle in a gambling saloon. These
idlings were hardly remarked. Every
one went to the Slope with the deter
mination to make money; and if the
mines did not afford it, the next inquiry
was what pursuit or business would the
sooner accomplish the desired end.
Thousands who ha I not the necessary
stamina for the vicissitudes of a miner’s
lilc, nor yet the means of going into any
of the various channels of trade, were
for a time compelled to serve in capaci
ties far beueath their deserts, until time
and means should justify time in choos
ing for themselves. — Century.
Som; Odd Comparisons.
A railway train, at a continuous speed
”1 foity miles an hour, would pass from
the earth to the moon in a little more
than eight months; to the planet Venus,
io seventy-one and a half years; aud
would reach the suu in two hundred and
sixty odd years. A ray of light will
pass from the moon to the earth in s
trifle over a single second; from Venn!
to the earth in a little more than two
minutes, and from the sun to this little
sphere of ours in about eight minutes.
If this same comparison were applied to
ihe fixed stars it would be still mort
startling.—St. Louie Republic.
A very handsome spoon seen recently
wss of gold with a handle deei^ned jo
open work.
THE TELEGRAPH.
HOYY A GREAT INVENTION HAS
GROWN.
Morse's Systeu Has Been Developed
to a Marvelous Degree—The Unit
ed States Leads the World
in the Extent of Lines.
Noah Webster defines the telegraph as
“an apparatus or a process for commu
nicating intelligence rapidly between
distant points especially by means ot
preconcerted visible signals representing
words or signs transmitted by electro
magnetism.” The apparatus for per
forming the requirements of this defini
tion was invented in 1833 by Professor
Samuel Finely Bresee Morse, an his
torical painters.
The first telegraph line constructed in
the United States was from Washington,
D. C., to Baltimore, Md., a distance of
forty miles. This line was completed
and opened for business May 27, 1840,
Professor Morse himself transmitting the
first telegram. There was little or noth
ing done toward promoting the advance
ment of this new art until in 1854, when
it was taken up by several capitalists,
and lines were pushed rapidly forward,
the line of wire reaching out to San
Francisco. “The overland route” was
subsidized by the Government by the act
approved hy Congress June 16, 1860, to
the extent of $400,000, or, $40,000 pei
year for ten years. The line was built
hy Hiram Sibley, on his own account,
though he was at that time President of
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
The line was completed during the win
ter of 1861-2, juft at a time when its
use was indispensable to the Govern
ment.
In 1848 it was discovered that the
dots aud dashes of the alphabet could
he readily distinguished one from another
by the peculiar tap of the embossing pen
of the register upon the paper band,
thus enabling the receiving operator to
perforin his duties with greater celerity
aud exactitude than by the old method,
which was promptly discontinued. Sev
eral telegraphers, among whom is ex-
Governor A. B. Cornell, of New York,
now a director of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, claim the honor of
having been the first to receive a dispatch
by sound, and from this fact it would
appear that four or five operators made
the discovery at about the same time.
Up to 1872 but oue telegram at a time
could be sent on a single wire. In that
year, however, the duplex system for
sending simultaneously two messages,
one in each direction, on a single wire
was improved and reduced to practice
by Joseph B. Stearns,of Boston. Stearns’s
improvement on the duplex made pos
sible the quadruple for sending four tele
grams, two each way, at the same time
on a single wire. In 1887 Thomas A.
Edison introduced his phonoplex sys
tem for using an independently induced
current as a circuit. To-day, by combin-
ing the quadruplex and phonoplex sys
tems, five telegrams, two one way and
three the other, can be sent on a single
wire at the same instant.
The modern electro-magnetic telegraph
is based upon the very same principles as
the original. It is applied, however, in
a more convenient manner. Instead of
the clumsy register and unwieldy circuit
breaker of 1844, which weighed in the
neighborhood of 200 pounds, we have at
present the neat little office outfit which
might be carried without inconvenience
in one’s coat pocket. The growth and
dcvelopcment of the telegraph during
the last three decades has been marvelous.
The following figures will serve to give
one a general idea of this development
and of the tremendous volume of business
handled hy the largest companies: In
1866 the whole length of telegraph line
in the United States was less than 40,000
miles, with a mileage of wire not exceed
ing 80,000, and there were less than
2400 offices. In 1890 there were 800,-
WO miles of wire and over 34,000 offices,
the Western Union Company operating
650,000 miles of wire, working 19,000
offices and handling over 60,000,000
telegrams a year. The Postal Telegraph
Company owns 55,000 miles of wire, has
1600 offices and transmits annuity 6,000,-
000 telegrams. About fiity smaller com
panies have a total of 8000 miles of wire
aud carry annually about two hundred
thousand messages. One-third of all the
telegraph lines, one-half of all the tele-
graph wire and one-quarter of all the tele
graph stations in the world arc within the
United States. No better example of the
devclopement of the telegraph than the
Chicago office of Western Union can be
mentioned. In 1866 seven operators
found it rather difficult to keep them
selves busy. A toy switchboard with
fifteen strips accommodated all the wires
running into the office and 200 cells of
gravity battery were sufficient to supply
every circuit. To-day 550 telegraphers
are required to work like Trojans; ten
fifty wire switchboards are necessary for
the mam line wires alone, and nineteen
electric dynamos,driven by three motors,
two of fifteen and one of ten horse
power, furnish the electric currents.
The length of tbs submarine cable
systems of the world is 120,070 nautical
miles, and the oldest cables now in opera
tion between Europe and America are
those of the Anglo-American Telegraph
Company, founded in 1854 hy Cyrus
Field, The story of the several attempts
to lay a cable in 1857 and iso a is too
well known to bear repetition. Yet it
may he stated that the first cable between
Valencia and Newfoundland was com-
lilcted August 5, 1858, hut ceased to
work September 1 following. This
calamity, coupled with the losses caused
by laying the cable of 1865, wrecked
the Atlantic Company and resulted in
its amalgamation with the Anglo-Ameri
can, then organizing. The first cable
for the new company was successfully
dropped from the Great Eastern in 1860.
The Atlantic Telegraph aud Cable Com
pany (Western Union) has two cables
from New Y’ork to Laud’s End via C'anso,
Nova Scotia. The total length of those
cables is 6789 miles. The Commercial
Keeping a Razor Sharp.
Men who shave thcmsoivcs often com
plain of the difficulty that they experi-
*f ce in keeping their razors sharp, says
i , barber. If they would adopt the
methods of the professional barber in
one or two respects they would find the
task of keeping the razor in a proper
condition by no means a difficult, one.
If you watch an amateur stropping his
razor you will notice that when he turns
it the edge is frequently next the leather
—in other words, he turns it on the
edge. This should not be done, ai the
fine edge is likely to touch the strop and
be turned. A barber always turns his
hand so that the back of the blade is
next the leather and the edge in the air.
Again, a man should never use a strop
made of leather glued to wood. A great
many arc sold, but all are destructive to
razors. There is always more or le 3 s of
a shock wnen the thin blade is brought
against any unyielding substance, and
the entire edge is frequently turned up
ward along its whole length. The worst
cuts are inflicted by such a razor. Tho
strop should be of leather, with no
backing whatever. Another point that
is little understood is the efficiency of
hot water in keeping a razor blade sharp.
YVhy this is I do not know, but the ef
fect is unquestionable. Let a man who
shaves himself frequently dip his raz >r
into very hot water and be will flu I that
the operation is much easier, and that
the blade requires far less stropping tli-m
when this is omitted.—G&Jz-XfeTDsmf.
Cable Company (Postal) owns two caoies,
one from New York via Wa‘yville,
Ireland, to Havre, the other frox. Boston
via Waterville to a point in England
near Bristol, a total length of 673-1
nautical miles. The total length of the
ten European-North American cables is
about 23,009 miles, aud over 10,000
messages daily pass between the two con
tinents.—Chicago Herald.
The Sparrow.,
For the common house-sparrow,
distinguished from the so-calldd hedge-
sparrow and the tree-sparrow, nothing
can be urged in its favor. Destroy them
utterly, is my advice. Experience lias
shown that their ill-advised importation
into Australia and North America has
wrought incalculable harm to cultivated
vegetation.*The bird is a grain and
vegetable feeder for at least three-fourths
of the year, seeking insects only when
leaf buds and cereals are not available
for food. Sparrow clubs should be en
couraged in every village, in order to
check the undue increase of tho species,
which, by the way, breeds at least three
times in the year. In connection with
these sparrow clubs, it is somewhat
curious to note that the authorities iu
some English country parishes have from
time immemorial paid the lads at the
rate of four a penny for killing these
birds, and have, moreover, purchased
eggs. And some kind of sparrow seems
to have been considered destructive io
Syria in ancient days for we are expressly
told that “two sparrows were sold for n
farthing.”—Macmillan'$ Magatine.
Boston’s Famous Ginkgo Tree.
No tree scarcely except the Washing
tou elm at Cambridge is more famous
than the ginkgo tree near the Joy street
gate on Boston Common. Dr. Holmes
celebrates it and others have often men
tioned it, but its name is often mis
spelled “jingo.” It has never shown
signs of fruiting, but Carden and Forest
says that the Japanese ginkgo tree docs
sometimes bear fruit; that a tree planted
in the grounds of the Military Academy
of Kentucky produced fruit several years
ago, and that one of the trees In Central
Park, in New York, is now fruitful. A
iree in the garden of Charles J. Wiitar.
at Geunantown, Penn., now about forty
years old, bore a few fruits last year for
the first time. The fruit of the ginkgo is
somewhat similar to an olive, with a 1
large, hard nut surrounded by thick oily
flesh which soon becomes rancid aud is
very disagreeable. The kernel of the
nut, however, has a delicate almond-like
flavor much liked by tho Japanese, who
use great quantities of these seeds as des
sert fruit.
Au experiment was made the other
day on a railroad train ruuniog from
Rome to Frascati with a new combustible
prepared from lignite, rich deposits of
which have beoa found in Italy. Tar
combustible was invented by Signor Si-
pori of Siena. Of tho new fusl 337 ki’.-
ograms were used, doing tho work of
300 killograms of coal. The discovery
is expected to prove a valuable one, as
it will do away with the necessity of the
importation of coal. The new f uel makes
a light smoke. In addition to the fuel,
lignite also yields a brilliant gas.
CURIOUS FACTS,
Electric light illuminates Jerusalem.
A Ukiah (Penn.) man incubates 24,000
eggs at a time.
Oroville, Ala., has a “boneless boy,’
who is unable to stand.
Hebrew women, on an average, are
said to live longer than those of any
other race.
The highest railroad bridge in tho
United States is the Kinzua viaduct on
the Erie Road—305 feet high.
The oldest known journal of tho
weather was- kept by one Walter Merle,
a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford,
England, during A. D. 1337-44.
The Michigan penitentiary has a class
of fifteen in telegraphy, originated by
one of the prisoners. Each convict pur
chased his own instrument by working
overtime.
Joshua Atkins of Deadwood Hill,
Penn., has a curiosity in the shape of a
pig. It has eight legs, four ears, and
two tails, lacking only auother head to
constitute two pigs grown together. It
is the intention of the owner to place
the little wonder on exhibition.
Russian journals report that since their
marriage the Grand Due Michel Mekal-
lovitch and his wife, the Countess de
Merenburg, have taken the names of
Count and Countess of Love. This ro
mantic appellation is the literal transla
tion of the name of the Romanoffs.
The ways of the auctioneer in differ
ent parts of the world vary greatly. la
England and America the seller bears the
expense of the sale, but iu France tho
purchaser bears the cost, five per cent,
being added to his purchase. In Holland
it is still worse, the buyer being required
to pay ten per cent, additional for tho
expenses of the sale.
One of the most frequent complaints
among canaries is asthma. This disease
is easily cured if taken hold of at once.
The bird-dealers sell a powder that is
mixed in the water the birds
are given to drink, and there
is also a bird tonic which is good
for all the ills that bird flesh is heir to.
When a bird has the asthma the symp
toms are a heaviness of breathing at
night. Canaries with this complaint
have been known to breathe like human
beings.
Recently a workman, while excavating
for a levee near Skelton, Ind., unearthed
a mammoth foot, supposed to be of tho
ostrich species. The leg was disconnec
ted at the knee joint. The leg from the
knee down was intact. This relic was
found about eight feet below the surface
of the ground. The entire length of tho
limb from the joint to the end of the
middle toe is six feet nine inches; the
length of the toes is respectively nine,
seven and CJ inches each. It is thor
oughly petrified and heavy as rock.
The first firearms used in Europe were
cauuon. Gunpowder artillery was used
in China in 85, B. C., but the arquebus
to he carried by a soldier was not in
vented until 1480, A. D. Inventor not
known. Charles V used tho musket in
1540. These used matches or match
locks. The wheel-lock was invented in
1517, the Hint-lock about 1692, the per
cussion principle by the Rev. M. For
sythe in 1807. Speaking generally, the
early hand guns were breech-loaders.
First patent in the United States for a
breech-loading fire-arm was to Thornton
and Hall of North Yarmouth, Mass.,
May, 21, 1811.
Great Men ve. Change of Nam e.
Henry Wilson, Vice-President under
Grant, was christened as Henry Colbath,
and was known by that name
until after the end of his nineteenth
year.
By a curious coincidence U. S. Grant,
who was President at the time Wilson
was Vice, as above mentioned, was also
a hero with a changed name. Prior to
young Grant’s eighteenth birthday “U.
S. Grant" was a term unknown even iu
the embryo General’s family. “H. U.
Grant” would sound odd if written on
the pages of history, but, in fact, would
be perfectly proper. The great General
was christened Hiram Ulysses Grant,
and by the name of Hiram or “Hi” was
known to all his school-fellows. Hon.
T. L. Harmer, an ex-member of Con
gress, is responsible for “U. 8.” Grant
being thrust upon the world. It came
about in this way • YVhen the name of
the aspiring young man was sent in as
candidate to West Point, by some over-
siglit on the part of Mr. Harmer it was
sent as “U. 8.” in place of “H. U.”
Grant. “U. 8.” Grant was appointed.
When he graduated in 1848, his com
mission and diploma were both made
out to “U. 8.” Grant, therefore
he was forced to accept the inevit-
nbie.
Jules Grevy, so well-known as the late
President of the French Republic, is
neither “Jules” nor “Grevy," but Ju
dith Francoir, Paul Grcviot.
Frank Leslie was plain Henry Carter
until after he was twenty-seven years
old, adopting the new name on his ar
rival in America.—St. Louie Republic.
During 1890 there were built in tho
United States 8500 churches; ministers
to the number of 4900 were ordained,
and a membership, in all denominations,
o' 1,090,000 added,
Gettysburg and Waterloo Compared.
At Gettysburg, writes Theodore Roose
velt iu the Century, there were present
in action 80,000 «o 85,000 Union troops,
snd of the Confederates some 65,000,
At Waterloo there were 120,000 soldiers
of the Allies under Wellington and
Blucher, and 72,000 French under Na
poleon; or, there were about 150,000
combatants at Gettysburg aud about
190,000 at Waterloo. In each case the
weaker army made the attack and was
defeated. Lee did not have to face such
heavy odds as Napoleon; but, whereas
Napoleon’s defeat was a rout in which
he lost all his gnus and saw his soldiers
become a disorganized rabble, Lee drew
off his army in good order, his cannon
uncapturcd, and the morale of his for
midable soldiers unshaken. The de
feated Confederates lost in killed and
wounded 15,530, aud in captured 7467,
some of whom were likewise wounded,
or 23,000 in all; the defeated French
lost from 25,000 to 30,000—probably
nearer the latter number. The Con
federates thus lost in killed and wounded
at least twenty-five per cent, of their
force, and yet they preserved their artil
lery and their organization; while the
French suffered an even heavier pro
portional loss and were turned into a flee
ing mob.
At Gettysburg the Northerners lost
17,555 killed and wounded and 5135
missing; in other words, they suffered
au actually gffater loss than the much
larger army of Wellington and Blucher;
relatively, it was half as great again,
being something like twenty-two per
cent, in killed aud wounded alone. This
gives some idea of the comparative ob
stinacy of the lighting.
Iu making any comparison between the
two battles, it must of coarse be remen-
bered that oue occupied but a single dav
and the other very nearly three; and it
is hard to compare the severity of the
strain of a long aud very bloody, with
that caused hy a shert, and only less
bloody, battle.
Gettysburg consisted of a series of
more or less completely isolated con
flicts; but, owing to the loose way in
which the armies marched into action,
many of the troops that did the heaviest
fighting were engaged for but a portion
of the tune. The Second and Thirl
Corps were probably not heavily en
gaged for a very much longer period
than the British regiments at Waterloo.
Both were soldiers’ rather than gen
erals’ hatlies. Both were waged wit’i
extraordmiry courage and obstinacy and
at a fearful cost of Lie. Waterloo war
settled by a single desperate aud ex
hausting struggle; Gettysburg took
longer, was less decisive, and was rela
tively much more bloody. According
to Wellington the chief feature of Water
loo was the “hard pounding”; and at
Gettysburg the pounding—or, as Grant
called it, the “hammeriug”—was even
harder.
Washington and “the Old Army.”
The following is from Gcueral Sher
man’s last speech," printed in the Ctn.
lury:
The toast assigned me is “The Old
Army.” Yes, that army is “old,” older
than the present Government. It began
to take form the moment the colonists
made a lodgment on the cost of Massa
chusetts and Virginia; grew in propor
tion up to the French war of 1756, and
still larger during the Revolutionary
War, 1770-1783.
Iu 1783 the armies of the Revolvtion
were all disbanded, except “eighty
privates and a due proportion of officers,
none to exceed the rank of captain,” to
garrison West Point and Fort Pitt.
In June, 1781, the Congress of the
thirteen States provided for two com
panies of artillery and eight of infantry,
not to exceed thirty-seven officers and
700 enlisted men. In 1786 it increased
the number to forty-six officers and 840
men. At that date these troops garrisoned
the frontier posts, viz.: Fort Harmer, now
Marietta, Ohio, Vincennes, Indiana, and
Venango, New Y irk, iu addition to
West Point, Fort Pitt and Springfield,
Massachusetts. Theu came 1789, with
its new Constitution, and Washington
became its first chief executive. He was
the father of this nation. His efforts re
sulted in the formation of the present
army of the United St iles.
Cultivating the Rubber Tree.
The threatened dearth in the world's
supply of rubber has .ed to the formation
of a syndicate which proposes to culti
vate the rubber tree on a large scale. In
Ceylon steps have already been taken to
carry out the same idea by sewing the
seed of the Cetra in patches of jungle,
and the supply of rubber from that island
promises to be iu a few years, double
what it is at present. Encouraged by
the apparent success of this experiment,
the syndicate proposes to carry on the
rubber cultivation on several large es
tates iu the southern part of Mexico, not
far from the gulf, where the climate will
ho most favorable for their operations.
The rubber tree grows with great rapid
ity, and a tree of average size will yield
about twenty gallons of milk, which is
equal to forty pounds of dried rubber.
From the testimony of exports, it is
found that this yield will give a hand
some return on the capital tc be invested.
—Aeio York Commercial Adeertieer.