The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, June 29, 1892, Image 1
THE i DARLINGTON HERALD.
IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.”
VOL. II.
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A V««ir W*MI Wh« SIwsLIke
KatareS Saanslfrs.
It is straight-front the throat that
Miss Mabel Stephenson lets loose that
wonderful flood of rippling, twitter
ing bird melody.
It is really very remarkable what
this modest and gentle faced young
girl does. She is such a very quiet
and unobtrusive young person attirst
sight that the surprise when she gives
you the iirst imitation of her gifts is
all the greater. , .
When in her very ittleas way she
begins her little recitation about
birds, and thtfii suddenly breaks into
it, and frotri that moment goes weav
ing and winding all through it, that
marvelous linked chain of all the
liquid bird melody of an entire for
est and meadow bird orchestra, the
effect is quite startling.
Shut your eyes, and you are no
longer in the frowzy atmosphere of a
theater. It is an early morning in
.Inne, and yon are out in the woods
somewhere. There are no electric
lights and gas jets. It is blazing
summer sunlight. It is the odor of
the forest, not of the footlights, that
conies to you. ■ Certainly it is a very
astonishing thing to be done just by
tfie loosening and contending of
chords, with the valuable aid
nchiaT tubes and a thorax.
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1892.
NO. 43.
you have only to watch fer as she
gives imitations to be convinced that
this is all rubbish. She simply has
a marvelous development of the
vocal chords, which has been devel
oped by years of practice that begun
when she w as a mere child and when
the throat muscles and vocal chords
were pliant and flexible. The sounds
come straight from the throat, as
was remarked at the beginning of
this article, and as you can see very
plainly yourself if you are near by
when the imitations are given. You
A (alraUtian as It How Lrag Be*
f«rr It Will Ctat.
There is a distinct limit to man’s
existence on the earth, dictated by
the ultimate exhaustion of the sun.
It is, of course, a question of much
interest for us to sneculatc on the
probable duration of the sun’s beams
in sufficient abundance for the con
tinued maintenance of life. Perhaps
the most reliable determinations are
those which have been made by Prof,
l-angley. They are based on his own
, experiments upon the intensity of
will then very distinctly observe the w | Hr radiation, conducted under
throat flatter, as docs that of a canary
when he is soaring up in the high
notes of some of his dizziest trills.
Speaking of trills, Miss Stephenson
says these, curiosly enough, arc the
easiest and least tiresome of the bird
songs to imitate. It is the short,
sharp twitters and the long, wailing
cries which are the most trying.—
New York World.
Lrsiwiii f*r a Young Man’s Life.
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of
A KKMAKKAHI.G ntPT.
Miss Stephenson says, and after
hearing her you are quite prepared
to believe it, that she can imitate
any bird that wears wings and feath
ers, and as wings and feathers arc
part of the anatomical equipment of
all birds, it amounts to saying that
she can imitate them all. She can
give the judicious and nonfrivolous
“quack, quack” of the conservative
and serious minded duck us accur
ately as sl|c can imitate the giddy,
soaring song of the vanishing sky
lark. It was a very early acquisition
with her. She took to talking bird
lingo almost as scam as she took to
talking the sound commercial En
glish of Michigan, where she was
born.
She is a true American girl, Miss
Steplfcnscu, and she has mingled in
the very lies! American bjyd society.
Her repertoire is almost eyclusively
that of our own sweet singing Amer
ican birds. Nile was in England re
cently, and picked up the songs of
the thrush, nightingale and skylark
just to show these stars <»f English
bird opera that their songs were easy ! the excess of what is radically bail
In the “Young Man,” Prof. John
Stuart Blacie gives these rules of
conduct which have guided him
through life:
Never indulge the notion that you
have any absolute right to choose the
sphere or the circumstances in
which you are to put forth your
powers, of social action, bnt let
your daily wisdom or life be in
in making a good use of the oppor
tunities given you.
We live in a real and a solid
and a truthful world. In such
a world only truth, in the long run,
can hope to prosper. Therefore avoid
lies, mere show and sham, and hollow
superficiality of all kinds, which
is, at the best, a painted lie. lad,
whatever you arc and whatever you
do, grow out of a Arm root of truth
and a strong soil of reality.
The nobility of life is works. We
live in a working world. Tlie lazy
and idle man does not count in the
plan of campaign. “My Father
worketh hither to, and I work.” lad
that text be enough.
4 Never forget Nt Paul’s sentence,
“Ixive is the fulfilling of the law.”
This is The steam of the social
chine. '
5 Bnt the steam requires regula
tion. It is regulated by intelligence
and moderation. Healthy action is
always n balanccof forces, and all ex
tremes are dangerous, the excess of a
good thing being often more danger
ous in its social consequences than
ina-
TBE END §1' THE WORLD.
enough, and tha* anybody who had
had a course in an American bird
music conservatory could do them.
But it is the whippoorwill, the yellow
breast,.the ehicadee, the red bird, the
catbird, the meadow lark, the swal
low, the bobolink and, of c nirse, the
robin with the red waistcoat—these
are the birds, good Americans all,
whose songs she loves best to sing.
Then she can give to perfection
the wHrd, melancholy cry of the
loon and «an pipe so like the quail
that you baveonlvto shnt your eyes
and fancy that you are out in the
brown stubble of the fields. Neither
the domestic goose nor the grave and
reverend owl can be classed exactly
among the merry warbling songsters
of the feathered kind, but they each
have a method />f expressing disap
proval.
now SHK I.KAKKED.
It was simply for her own amuse
ment that she first developed her re
markable gifts of imitation, until
now she has found that she can turn
it to a source of protit, and this she
is doing.
Her bird language education was
only just liegun in the country out
in Michigan. When she was a very
little girl she came to New York to
jive, and since then she lias had to
dc}ieml iijkiii bird stores and tipun
such birds as sljc and her friends
possess fur tuition.
6 Do one tiling well. “Be a whole
man,” us Chancellor Thurlow said,
“Do one thing at one time.” Make
clean work and leave no tags. Allow
no delays when you are at a thing; do
it tiud lie done with it.
7 Amid miscellaneous reading,
read nothing that you do not care to
remeniWr, and remember nothing
yon do not mean to use.
8 Never desire to appear clever and
make a show of your talents before
men. Be honest, loving, kindly and
sympathetic in all you say and do.
Cleverness will flow from yon natur
ally if you have it, and applause will
come to you unsought from those
who know what to applaud but the
applause of fools is to be shunned.
circumstances that give .them special
value. I shall endeavor to give a sum
mary of the interesting results at
which he has arrived.
The utmost amount of heat that it
would ever have been possible for the
son to have contained would supply
its radiation for 18,000,000 years at
the present rate. Of course, this does
not assert that the snn, as a radiant
body, may not be much older then
the jieriod named. We have already
seen that the rate at which the sun
beams are jHiured forth lias gradual
ly increased as the sun rose in tem
perature. In the early times the
quantity of sunbeams dispensed was
much less per annum than at
present, and it is therefore quite
possible that the figures may be so
enlarged as to meet the requirements
of any reasonable geological demand
with regard to past duration of life
on the earth.
It seems that the sun has already
dissipated aboht fonr-fifths of the
energy with which it may have
oiiginally been endowed. At all
events, it seems that, radiating
energy at its present rate, the sun
may hold out for 4,000,000 years or
for 5,000,000 years, but not for
10,000,000 years. Here, then, we
discern in the remote future a limit
to the duration of life on this globe.
We hare seen that it does not seem
possible for any other source of heat
to be available for replenishing the
waning stores of the luminary. It
may lie that the hea’ was originally
imparted to the snn as the result of
some great collision between two
bodies which were both dark before
the collison took place, so that, in
fai t, the two dark masses coalesced
into a vast nebula from which the
whole of onr system has lieen envol-
ved. Of course it is always conceiva
ble that the sun may be reinvigorated
br a repetition of a similar starting
process. It is, however, hardly ne
cessary to observe that so teirifle a
convulsion would be fatal to life in
the solar system. Neither from the
heavens above, nor from the earth
beneath, does it seem missilde to dis
cover any rescue for the human rare
from the inevitable end. The race is
ns mortal as the individual, and so
far as we know, its span cannot
under any circumstances be run out
beyond a nunilier of millions of years
which can certainly be told on the
Angers of both hands, and probably
on the fingers of one.
Delliflneat Taxes
Comptroller General Ellerbe has
issued the follow ing circular letter
to the various county treasurers call
ing their attention to the matter of
collecting delinquent taxes:
Dear Sin—You have been pre
sented blanks upon which to report
to this office the date that executions
against delinquent tax-payers were
placed in the hands of the Sheriff.
In some cases these blanks have not
been filled up and returned. If such
is the case with yon please attend to
it immediately. The sheriffs are re
quested by law to collect these exe
cutions and to make returns to you
within ninety (90) days after the date
of issue thereof, and you arc in
structed at the projier time to de
mand of the sheriff a return of all
tax executions placed in hie hands,
and immediately report the result to
this office.
. Further, 1 beg to call your atten
tion to the fact that it is a violation
of law for county treasurers to retain
money collected for .State purposes
longer than fifteen (15) days.
Respectfully,
W. II. Em.krhk,
Comptroller Gen. S. C.
M ho is a EfitleMaiT
A gentleman is a person not
merely acquainted with certain
forms slid etiquette of life, easy and
self-possessed in society, able to to
speak and act and move in the world
without awkwardness, and free from
habits which arc vulgar and in bad
taste. A gentleman is something
beyond this—that which lies at
the root of every Christian virtue.
It is the thoughtful desire of doing
in every instance what others should
do unto him. He is constantly think
ing, not indeed how he may give
pleasure to others for the mere sake
of pleasing, but how he may avoid
hurting their feelings. When lie is in
society he scriipnlously ascertains the
[msition and relations of every one
with whom he comes in contact,
that he may give to each his due
position
('•vpaiianshlp is HealthfHl.
There is u wise old German say
ing that “Only a god or a brute can
dwell in solitude.” Men and women
need congenial companionship, both
for the sake of health and happiness.
Just as your lungs, after using up
all the oxygen in a close room, need
to be tilleil with fresh, out-of-door
air, so your mind needs contact with
other minds to get new ideas. There
is such a tiling as mental as well as
physical hunger. Herders on the
large cattle ranches of the West fre
quently become mad from the isola
tion they are forced to endure. Wo-
Now, come back to the pliysiologi- men on lonely farms and in small
cal feature of the matter, there a tillages g ov morbid and mildly
good many people who will tell you : insane, and people do not guess the
just exactly how Miss Stephenson j cause is want of companionship.
Frff
Krhalarsblps in Nasbvillr
Narnal Ullrge.
A competitive examination for
seven scholarships in the Nashville
Normal College will lie held in Col
umbia on the 20th day of July,
proximo, at 10 o’clock a. m. These
scolurships are good for two years
and pay *100. jier year and expenses
to ami from Nashville. The appli
cant must not be less than 17 nor
more than 30 3 ears of age and may
be either mule or female. He or she
must be of good'moral character, read
fluently; sjiell correctly; write a fine
hand; express thoughts in gramma
tical English; solve problems of
moderate difficulty under all the or-
honor, his* proper
studies how he may avoid touching
in conversation on any subject which
may abstain from allusions which
may call up a disagreeable or offensive
association. A gentleman never
alludes 10, never even appears to be
conscious of any defect, bodily de
formity, inferiority of talent, of rank,
of reputation in the person in whose
society he is placed.
He never assumes any superiority
to himself, never ridicules, never
sneers, never I (oasts, never makes a
display of his own power or rank or
advantages, such as is implied in
habits or tricks or inclinations
which may be offensive to others.—
Christian Endeavor.
ErrrybaA) Likes Her.
A FAMOUS CHOIR.
The
Exqaislte Yaral Music
Heard In SI. Peter's,
Rome.
lobe
^‘Undoubtedly the finest choir in
the world is that of the St. Peter's in
Home, known as the Pope’s choir,”
•aid Frank Terre, of Baltimore, at tin
Southern. “There is not a female
voice in it, and yet the most difficult
oratorios and sacred music written
are tendered in such a maimer as t>
make one think that Adelina Patti's
high soprano is leading. The cltoit
ie composed of sixty boys. They ar<
trained fur the wnlk from I tie timv
they get control of the vocal chords,
sad some of t he best singers are not
over nine yeats old. At the age ol
seventeen they are dropped from tin
choir. *
“Tossy that, at the Pope’s service
one hears the grandest church music
that the world has ever known sounds
common place, so ftr short dees it
fall of a|it description. lam some
thing of a connoisseur, have been a
profound student of music all my lif.
and have heard every gn at opera
produced by the most famous orguui
zilnni", but until a tew months aoo,
when I heard the Pope’s choir, I had
no idea that the Imniaii voice was
capable of such performances. I
don’t see why the big operatic or
ganizations don’t learn a lesson from
St. Peter’s and have a vhorotis ot
boys exclusively. U Would not. sin
1 lie haldheads, but it would please
the genuine lov< rs ol music.—Si.
Louts Glolie Deniocia'.
Great BWies sf Fresh Water.
Geographers claim that there are
twenty five rivers on the globe which
have a total length each of over 1,000
miles. Of these, two (the MisGssip
pi from the source of the Missouri in
the Rocky Mountains to the Eads
jetties, and the Amazon from the
source ot the Ben : lit the Isle ol
Marajo) are over 4,000 miles in
length. To t>e ex ict, the former is
4,300 and the latti r 4,020 miles front
tlie ; source to the place where (heir
wutcis ate unnglcd with those of the
He ‘ffeean. Four claim a total length ot
over 3,000 and under 4,000 They
are the Yenisei in Asia, length, 3,-
580; the Kiautr, Asia, length, 3,900;
the Nile, Africa, 3,240, and the
Hoang ho, Asia, which is 2,040 miles.
.Seven streams on the globe ate 1111 |
der- 3,000 and over 2,000 miles in j
length, the Volga in Russia one urle |
In-low the surface is one ton 1
Tbe Great Fieri.
grea
passed away in the South t he follow
ing estimate is made of the losses oc
casioned by the high water, a loss un
precedented in the history of flood:
Missouri—Wheat and corn destroy
ed (500,000 acres) $10,000,000; homes
ruined, $1,000,000; cattle drowned,
$50,000; railroad property destroyed,
$150,000* Total, $11,000,000.
Tennessee—Cotton loss, $600,000;
wheat loss, $1,200,000; homes and
cattles, $100,000. Total, $1,900,-
000.
Kentucky’s loss, $200,000.
Arkansas—Farms inundated, 9,-
338; loss as follows: Corn, $2,500,-
000; cotton, $5,000,000; other pro
ducts, $2,500,000. Total, $10,000,-
000.
Mississippi's loss, $1,000,000.
Louisiana's loss, $5,000,000.
Total loss, $28,000,000.
This cst'matc does not include
stagnation ir. business among the
merchants and transportation lines.
A conservative estimatp of the
amount of damage Caused by the loss
from the high waters from Kansas
City to New Orleans will reach the
enormous figure of $50,000,000.
The above figures show very plain
ly the appalling losses occasioned by
the floods in the Western rivers. The
lands inundated arc the richest in
the country, and when free' from
floods province abu idantly. Of
course these allevial lands arc far
more fertile than the soil in this
State, but then we are not subject to
such severe losses, and probably in
the long run our farmers make as
much money as those of this recent
ly flooded section. Nearly all the
rivers that caused the damage were
as high us they have jever been
known.
A Year Without a Summer.
In the year 1816, according to the
best records, January and Febuary
were warm and spring-like. March
was cold and stormy. Vegetation
had gotten well along in April when
real winter set in. Sleet and snow
fell on seventeen different days in
May. In June there was either
frost or snow every night but three.
The snow was five inches deep for
serveral days in succession in the in
terior of New York State and from
ten inches to three feet in Vermont
and Maine. July was cold and
frosty, ice formed as thick as win
dow panes in every one of the New
i England Suites. August was still
worse; ice formal nearly an inch in
in thickness and killed nearly every
1 | l( . i green thing in the United States and
WHAT IS PLUCK!
A Batrh of Dtliltiaus Seat
British Paper.
t« a
This is the one that won:
Fighting with the scabbord when
the sword is broken.
The following are some of the best
definitions sent in:
Moral backbone.
The power a man has to say “no”
when he knows his wife wants him to
say “yes.”
Fearlessness free from foolhardi
ness.
The chivalry of nature's knight
hood.
That‘-which enables one, when
lighting against adverse circum
stances and knocked down, to rise
and try another round.
The heart of a lion in the body of
man.
The best remedy for despair.
The force which converts an ordi
nary man into a hero.
Honest daring without caring.
The absence of fear in the presence
of danger.
The courage to do the right thing
at the right moment.
1 rrepressible stoutheartedness.
That which keeps a man up when
he it down.
The offspring oof enrage and the
mother of success.
Moral grit.
A Timely Warning.
Do the pople ever stop to think
where and how they are being
carried? Our judges were elected
before partisan strife began among
us and were chosen from the soundt st
lawyers, the purest men, the most
faithful democrats that could be
found. Now there is a general war
against them. If Governor
Tillman’s speeches mean anything
they mean that with legislature to
suit him he will turn all these men
out and have judges to suit him—
judges elected as reward for partisan
service.
Do the people want that? Do they
want one man to control their laws
and the ex]K)sition of their laws, their
liberties and rights, the power of
taxation and life and death?
If any man wants to lie a slave, if
any South Carolinian wishes to throw
away the rights for which South
Carolinians gave their blood a hun
dred years ago and for which South
Carolinians have stood sturdily
through war, desolation and prose
cution, let him vote for B. R. Till
man.—Greenville News.
There is a type of a girl that
everybody likes. Nobody can tell
exactly why, but after you have met
hor you turn away to some other
woman and say: “Don’t 3011 like
Miss Grosvenor?” Now, the reason
you like her is a subtle one; without
knowing all about her you feel just
the sort of a girl she is.
She is the girl who appreciates the
fact that site cannot always have the
dinary rules of arithmetic; solve Iirst choice of everything in the
equation of two unknown quantities;
parse the words of/u ordinary Eng
lish sentence; locate the principal
towns, cities, rivers and mountains of
the world and describe the leading
events in the history of the United
States.
Any candidate who has any chronic
disease, such as weak lungs or weak
eyes will be rejected.
The use of tobacco in any foym is
a disqualification for a scholarship.
If it should appear that a candidate
intends to use his scholarship chiefly
as a means for securing an education
or of preparing
sion other than
world.
She is the girl who is not aggies
sivc and does not find joy in inciting
aggressive people.
She is the girl who has tact enough
not to say the very thing that will
cause the skeleton in her friend’s
closet to rattle his house.
She is the girl who, whether it is
square inch. Storm waves soiu. iiinej- i» Europe. In the spring of 1817,
travel at. a speed of fin y miles an hour,, corn which had been kept over from
and the distance bet w. en tin* t w o | the crop of 1815, sold for from $5 to
crests of a wave is fifti en times 1 he $19 a bushel, the buyers purchasing
•■eight—a fiv. -f-ot wave, then for.-,
being seventy five feet long. The
force of I be s*‘a at some |Hiinls is said
to be equal to seventeen tons to tlie
square rod.—Herald ofGospcI Lib
erty.
Ilia Time Had (tar.
Is
for seed. On May 10,1835, snow fell
to a depth of a foot in Jamestown,
Va., and piled up in huge drifts in
most of the Northern States. There
was snow in many parts of Iowa and
Illinois on May U, 1878, and again
as -late as May 23, 1882.—Globe
I lemocrat.
there a man in all this andi
ence,” fiercely exclaimed a female
lecturer, “that lias ever done any
thing to lighten the burden resting
on his wile’s shouldet? What do
you know of woman's work?”
“Is there a man here,” iln eonlin
tied, lolding her arms, and looking
over her audience with superb scorn,
‘'that lias ever got up in the tiioru
ing, le wing his poor, worn-oul wife
to enjoy her slnnibi rs, gone down
stairs, made the fire, cooked his own
breakfisl, sewed the missing hut tons
|•ll'•lllc children’s clothes, darned the
family stocking-, scoured the pots
and kt-llliH, cleaned and tilled the
lamps, swept the kitchen, and done
all this, if necessary, day after day,
uucimiplaiiiingly? It there is such a
man in l ids audience, let him rise up.
Water rarllraliaa.
Professor
draw ing attention
warm or cold, clear of stormv, finds * should like to see him!”
no fault with the weather.
She is the girl who, when you in
vite her to any place, compliments
you by looking Iter I test.
Site is the girl who makes this
himself for a profes- wot Id a pleasant place Itccaitse she is
teaching he should so pleasant herself.
And in the rear of the hall, a mild
looking man in spectacles, in obedi
enee 10 iln* siiininims, timidly arose.
He was the Itushiud of the t-loquetil
speakt r. It. was the first time he hail
ever had the t lianee to assert him
self.
I’etterkofer has lieen
to the inqsirtant
place occupied by the plant life of
our rivers in purifying the water.
His view is that the organic matter
w hich floats on our streams is remov
ed by the various forms of plant life
growing in the water, and that the
water bacteria also take their jiart in
neutralizing the effect of the harm
fnl organisms arising from the pre
sence of sewage and like noxious
material discharged into rivers. If,
however, the sewage he discharged in
a crude state, or the water becomes
impregnated with acid or |ioisonotis
waste products from industrial estab
lishments, there is resulting diminu-
: lion of plant life and consequent loss
of the purifying power which that
life exerts.— Bell’s Messenger.
A lily in Twe Hrmixphem.
In one respect at least Quito, the
capital of Ecuador, is the most uni
que city in the world - it is situated
in both the Northern ami Southern
hemispheres, a distinction claimed by
no other place of importance on the
globe. At Quito the sun rises and
seis at f* o’clock the year around.
You may forget to wind your watch
while you are visiting the Ecuadorean
capital, hut you need not hunt up a
regulator—set it when the sun rises
or sets and you wd| In* sure to be
right. Old Sol makes no mistakes.
In one part of the city, tlie summer
season does battle with old winter,
who is just across the street. The
seasons, as far as names arc concern
ed, change almost instantly; but, as
the temperature is remarkably even,
these curious points are seldom
thought of or commented on by the
60,000 people who make Quito their
home.
F«p«lar Seifice.
A corresdondent tells this interest-
dor- thesi* wonderful imitations. It
is nothing more than whistling pure
and simple, many of them will say.
The very keen ami knowing ones
sneer even at whistling. Nobody
could whistle in that way, they say,
with just the whistling apparatus
It is for this reason that a woman's
work at homo is always more trying w | ljtc vo „„
tl>*"» 'l»*" »f I"'' - husband, who goes; Smith randii.a.
to his office, sees new faces, and has ! .«• ——_
the friction that is produced by moot-' AIhjvc all things, avoid tault-lind-
ittg other jieople. Even the fanner ' ,, 8 ‘""I a habit of criticism. Ia*t
lias more intercourse with his neigh- )' ,mr n| 1c '» reference to your social
not Ik* allowed to compete. The ; And, by and by, when you come to
object of t his college is to train teach-: think of it. Isn’t site the girl who
ers for the profession of teaching. ^ makes you feel she likes you, and
This examination is open to every ! therefore you like her? -Boston
and woman in Globe.
ing snake story: “A few days ago I
sent two boys to tire spring after water,
and in a moment one of them came, ' lin, l M ' vcre being lit,
m naming back in great fright, saying j ,m to ‘ s 'l * n a " 1 ‘"'
An angry Georgia Alliance man that he saw a stinging rattlesnake legislator was tired and
has iot a cat out of a bag, which it is ' vi,l ‘ rattlers on his bead and a horn
said threatens to destroy the whole! 0,1 ^'s tail, and one-half of the snake
“There was a negro down in one
of the counties of my district,” said
Congressman John M. Allen, of
Mississippi “who was elected to the
legislature during the reconstruction
times and served one term. He was
uneducated, but knew enough to
vote with his party every time, and
besides picked up a vague smattering
of parliamentary law. the winter
afte** that he was drawn on the jury
of the court. The docket was crowd
ed and the court held until a late
hour. It was his first service on a
jury. Oik* afternoon lute, just as
he was called
The ex-
did not
relish (Ik* prospect of being kept
away from his supper. No after the
required twelve had been accepted
and counsel for the plaintiff was
In all artificial light the waste is
over ninety per cent.
•Seventy-three per cent, of the rail
road passenger cars of Massachusetts
are heated by steam.
There are 413 species of trees
found within the limits of the Uni
ted States and Territories.
The banana yields a larger supply
of food for man than any other plant
on a similar extent of ground.
It has been scientitieally demon
strated that the eurth’saxisonceeverv
437 days undergoes a distinct oscilla
tion.
The microscopists say that a mos
quito has twenty-two “teeth” in the
end of its bill—eleven above and the
same below.
The corporation of Glasgow,
Scotland, is about to erect a
generating station large enough to
supply 40,000 incandescent electric
lamps.
In testing the conditions of the
atmosphere inside a petroleum tank,
if the air at the bottom is found not
inflammable or explosive the air
above is sure not to be so.
A new cure for hydrophobia was
successfully tried in the I’asteur In
stitute at Milan, Italy. It consisted
of a subcutaneous injection of tlie
virus in the “fixed form.”
An English paper proposes* a new
spraying machine that will deliver
the spray under cover *> that the
wind will not disturb it. and also
one that will raise tip lb.* .im- ainl
thus pc’mit the spray to reach all
sides.
A further great reduction in the
cost of aluminum has been hoped for
by M. Fattre, whose process consists
in obtaining cheap alttmiiitmi chlo
ride and decomposing it electrically.
The chlorine would be a valuable bye
product. The commercial success of
the plan, however, is not yet as
sured.
It has been found t hat by passing
mixed hydrogen and carbonic oxide
over nickel and cobalt they can be
separated. Then by apply ing the
hydrogen to strips of platinum, a
powerful primary battery is formed
which will yield, it is stated, fifty per
cent, of the total energy in the hydro
gen absorbed.
An installation of c!i*etrie light is
being laid down in the Batignolles
Tunnel near Paris, France, in which
the incandescent lamp* are placed at
a height of about fifteen feet above
the rails. The light is received by
plates of bttrnisted tin covered with
glass, whieh reflect a soft and agree
able light into the carriages.
Long distance photography is
rendered quite sncpe-sftil by a new
camera with a telescope objective,
which consists of a concave lens of
short focus and a convex lens of con
siderable length of focus. These
are put at a certain distance
apart, depending on the difference
of the two foci. By the laws of
optics this arrangement projects an
inverted image of an object at a long
distance from the lenses.
A photograph by Dr. Gill, present
ed to the Paris Academy, shows
from 30,000 to 40,000 stars, besides
two nebula?, in an area of four square
degrees. The exposure was over three
hours, instend of one hour, as ar
ranged for plates of the international
chart of the heavens and if such ex
posure were possible for the entire
man, it is thought that 300,000,000
stars w ould record their existence, in
stead of 30,000,000.
Dr. Gricsbach of the Geological
Survey of India, who has returned
to Rangoon from a tour of exploration
to the north of the Bhumo, reports
that near Myitkina,in a district ab
solutely uninhabited, he 1ms dis
covered most remarkable alluvial gold
deposits, stretching for a great dis
tance up the course of streams and
less than fifteen miles in width. A
ton of alluvial deposit produced
twenty-five grains of gold. Lead also
has been found in abundance.
furnished by nature. Miss Stephen- Ixtrs at the market, or at the village; sentiments Ik* simply this: Pray for
sou, they will toll you, has some in- grocery than his wife, who may not the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the
getiious little niechantcal device for see anyone outside of her ow n family gnod, and reverence Imth the great
uinking the sounds, whieh she con- for weeks. It is a great mistake fori ,,,K ' s iiialI, us playing each his part
ceals in her mouth. ; young married people to isolate them- aptly in the divise symphony of the
All this msk s the gifted bird selves. Even if their tastes lead them universe,
soloist laugh. She could not whistle to a quiet life, they should make it a „ ; s world’s
a note if she tried, she says, and as [point to cultivate a few agreeable' | H ,palatum is iiierea.sjiio at the yttte
fqr carrying something in her mouth j friend#
! y f peui ly ti.uou a yew,
An exchange says that the first
comet has uppeaml in the Northern
hemisphere since 1882 can now
seen bv those who get up early
enough in the morning. Hisclearly
visible tiefore dawn, and will not
disap|•car until the latter part of
June. Its length is about twenty
organization. He says that at the was black, and t he other half spotted,
meeting of the State Alliance last 1 went there to see the monster, and
year an inside ring was organized when we got there a Mack snake about J
ttiidtr tlie native of “Gideon’s Band,” - . ..
. |k . and that In* was appointed organizer tosnake about 2J feet long. The rat- j >') rising to Ins feet and exclaiming
K for his county. Gideon's I land coo- »hr was rattling with alt bis might
sists of a select uiimlicr for each tlll “ whnvd brother was swallowing
about to state his case, the negro
swallowim' a ^t- 1 slatesiiian-jnror us ton i lied everybody
county, not to exceed thirty, and isj with all his power. We left them,
intended to direct and govern the unit went back in about an hour and
policy of the order. It alone d«- both were dead.”-Great Divide,
cides who shall or shall not offer for
degrees, and it has eight well dcvel- public office. The band is oath- In Turkey, the disappearance of
I tails. It shines like a star of the 1 I he other members of the n,,. sl|1| al u :jri,t accounted for by
•• 1 order are not allotted even to know 1
op
fourth nitignitMde, and can bo found'oFTtsTxisteV'crTresidei'i't laving- j t,H ' l* ri,Hlical retire,ne "t of
jnst West of the constellation Be-1 ston, when asked about the baud, rc-| P* ull ° luminary for prayer
that
and
££cti»Md.
■ fused to talk about it.
I religious reflection.
in a loud voice:
“May it please de coht, I moves
yo’, sab, dut dis coht do now adju’n
ontil toinorrer maianin’.’
The judge was amazed at the
unseemly interruption and informed
the sable juror courts never adjourn-
, | ed except oil their own motion.
‘“Dat’sall right,’ resjamded Un
parliamentary juror, “but sab, yo
kiiint deny dat a motion to adju’n is
j alius in ohdah!’
Florence Dhtriet Appointments.
JOHN M. WlldMIN, P. E.
Choniw station Ium» in. If*
Chentw circuit, Mt. Olivet fuw l**\ H*
llartavillo, DHiniwctts June 24
Hyde, Union Juno 25, 26
Durliinrtmi circuit, Wesley Uha|>el July 2, 3
TIininoiiNville, Pine Grove July H
Uartersville, St. Paul July li, 10
Lunar, Lunar July 1*1, IT
Scranton, Uoncord July 23, 24
KrtinKliAni, Oak Grove...
iMkeUity, lleliron
JohiiMonvillc, Muddy Greek Auiruftt Ul.44
Klnindroo, Ellin August 20,21
Georgetown circuit, St. PauPrt August 27, 2H
Salters, Harmony August 2H, 2f»
Georgetown Mtation Sept. 3, 4
East Effingham, Hethlehem Sept. 10, II
Mars Bluff, Fricndihip Sept. 17,18
The Order of the Garter is the
most coveted of all the European
orders. It is also the oldest; excepting
the Dauuebrog of Drnmark.
July HO. HI
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