Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f* ■«.-?*£ Thx Jkcl SCriKCK VAR MURE WONDER. VUD THAN THE MAGIC «V THE BAST. }Tfc» Rcawrkakla Expcrleace PmI Master W«aA«aa, al faaama, Me.— . Far Tea Vears a Crlapte-Ta-Dar A Well aad Hearty Man. best known men In Bate* and Tenon conn* Inupectofo^Hn^ttfeWoOeoni^r this city. The people ot Rich HID. where he formerly resided, and ot his present home, remember well the bent form* misshapen almost from the semblance of inaiAMllioh has painfully bowed its head half ttr edfth and labored snail-like across the walks season after season, and when one day last month It straightened to its fall height, threw away the heavy tmtt'Of cane which for yean had been Its only support from total helplessness, and walked erect, firmly, unhesitatingly abont the two cities, people looked aEd wondered. The story of the re markable case has become the marvel of the two counties. Hxaotly as Ur. Woodson told tt to a rim«» reporter, it Is here published . “For,ten yean I have suffered the tor ments of the damned and have been a use less Invalid i to-day I am a well and hearty man, free from almost every touch ot pain. 1 don\ tlilnX;man ever suffered more acute and constant agony than I have since 1881. It was enty.taget abont on cratches for live years, the ailment having settled In.the joint. Despite constant treatment of the most Etnfttent physicians the rheumatism and for the last four years I ttOUSBHOU) AFFAIRS. -1 {* 1 fj 4 V ■ V ' TO RAKE MUSTARD. Four Leaping teaspoonfuls of mn» tard, a teaspoonful of sugar and a half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix these in* gradients together thoroughly and add boiling water, a little at a time, till it is smooth and thick. Then add a scant teaspoonfnl of vinegar.—Detroit jlMPresn. grew worse, have been, eo toward the gi compelled to go about bent halt aground. Intho winter of 1880- 81, after the rheumatism had settled Into its most ohronio form, I went to Kansas City upon advice of my brother, and for six weeks I was treated In oneot the largest and best known dispensaries of that city, but without th*. Jllghtest improvement. Before I came ho me I received s strong gal vanic battery, tots I used ter months with the same reealt. In August, 1888, I went to BL Louis, and there conferred with the widely known Dr. Muddot hospital'prac tice fame, aad Dr. Kale of the ohy hospital. None of them would take my case with any hope of affording me more than temporary relief, and so I came home, weak, doubled with pain, helpless and despondent. “About this time my attention was called to the account ot a remarkable care by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pals People ot locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and p;ira‘- ysis. I ordered some ot the pills as an experiment When I began to take them, therhMmatismhad developed Into a phase of paralysis; my leg from the thigh down Was opld all the time rad could not be kept Metmi-' In aaDodl time the pills were gone, and so was the esne. I was able to attend to the duties ot my office, to get about ns a well and strong man. I was free from pstn and I could enjoy a sound end restful night’s sleep, something I bad not known for ten years. To-day am practically, and, I firmly believe, permanently cured o( terrible and agonizing ailment. No 7 i ■ my gteian ot the Par East ever wrought the miracle with his wand that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did for me." To verify the story beyond all question oi doubt Mr. Woodson made the following affidavit .* State or Missouri, I Couktt or Batis, ) | I, M. M. Woodron, being duly sworn on my oath, stats that the following statements are true and correct as I verily believe. M. M. Woodson. f Subscribed and sworn to before me this id day at March, 1881. Joan D. Moons, Notary Puotiv. • Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Oompany, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only In boxes bearing tha Arm’s trade mark and wrapper, at SO cents a box or six boxes for $2.50. Bear In mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are never sold In balk or by the dozen or hun dred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills may be bad of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Monument to a Cat. | In an did oafe in Venice there lived » magnificent cat, the pet of all tho guests. This oat lately died peaceful ly, and when the news got about, some neighbors made a collection of two hundred francs for the purpose of erecting some sort of monument. The work was confided to two artists, who modeled the statue of tho oat in clay, und took a plaster cast, painted like bronze. The other evening this little monument was inaugurate ! at the cafe, and so great was the crowd that the doors had to be shut. The cere mony was conducted in serio-comic style; speeches were made, poetry was recited, the monument was placed in position, and finally the muter of the cafe was presented with an album con taining prose and verse, and a number «f pretended letters of condolence signed with the names of high person- ages. As the sculptors refused any remuneration, the sum collected was distributed among the poor.—London s.' «. Priest, Druggist, Hall's Catarrh “ A. M says: ' satisfaction. Can „ as It cures every one eel! it, ;<ic. Shelbyvllle. Ind., Cure gives the best of get plenty of testimonials, >s who takes It." Druggist* Poztcoal asks Englard’s good offlnes In Bringing about a reconciliation with Bisztl. 1s sold on a „ sumption; If Is the Shlleh'e Care niee. It com Incipient Con st Cough Cure; Sc., Me., 81 ' T«a London Econc >tb»l|siptafrigirai Economist reports a revival —'-d. «« I Could Not Walk Hood ' sore on my ankle r r ^ - «»I Toflo anything. After the J s Sarsa parilla first bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla I felt a great d<*al bolter, and — now after taking I am ; Well ,The nor* h a healed, an 1 I am able to , walk several miles without feel Ian tired." Mae. Bantu, Box 88, WilUfcoro, nTy. C ures KALsojcnana. Kalsomining, or wall coloring in distemper, is best done w^eu walls •re not too cold or too hot It may be done any time during the winter, so that the walls do not freeze. Thera are a good many preparations put up ,<pr this purpose and called by various names. However, if yon are where yon cannot procure this, it may be prepared in the following manner: White—To ten pounds of best whiting use I j pounds ot white glue, half a pound fftum and a little ultramarine blue. Put the glue in cold water, set it on the fire and stir until dissolved. Put a half a gallon of hot water over the whiting, and when dissolved add the glue, the blue and the alum, which must also be dissolved in hot water. Stir*the mixture well and run through a sieve. For first coating this may be used while hot, but the other coats must bo cold. If your color works too stifll, a little soip will help. All colors and shades are m ids .by adding tho dry colors. Before kalsomining, the cracks and nail holes should be filled with plaster of parts. Mix this with paste, and it will not dry so quickly. If you have a goo l brush and work as quickly as possible to avoid laps, you will have agOod jdb of kalsomining. A nice stencil border run around the top of the wall makes a neat finish. SAbAtH IN SSAS0.V. Beef Salad, With Tomatoes—Scallop or trim in slices some cold boiled or braised beef; pars tha pigees round shaped, and season with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar; also very finely out up chervil and chives; lay all on a plate or salad bowl, .giving it a dome shape, and garnish around the salad with peeled and quartered tomatoes. Asparagus Salad—Out the tender parts ot osparagm into pieces of equal length and tie them in bunches; then cook them in salted water and leave them to get cold. A few minutes be fore serving mix them in a bowl with a third of their quantity ot pared erawdsh tails; season with salt and pepper; rub through a sieve the yolks of six hard boiled eggs, dilute thii with oil and vinegar, au l pour over this sauee the asparagus and crawfish; then arrange tha salad symmetrically iu a salad bowl and add the seasoning to it. Herring Salad With Potatoes—Wash four salted herrings, soak them in milk for several hours, then drain and dry them; remove the fillets and out them into half inch squares; out into three-eighths inch squares, eight ounces of cooked potatoes; add a four ounce apple, peeled and cored, then mince very fine half a pound of roasted veal, cut in quarter inch squares, a tour ounce ptekled beetroot, out in three-sixteenth inch squares and four onnoes of salt cucumbers, out equally into quarter inch squares. Put into • salad bowl the potatoes, herrings, apples and veal; season with oil and vinegar, a little hot water and broth, salt, pepper, mustard, and soma chopped chivss, all well mixed; smooth the surface with a knife, and decorate it with anchovy fillets, pickled led encumbers, beets, capers, pickled cherries, and the yolks and whites of hard bailed eggs, chopped up very fine; also sons chopped parsley. Chicken Salad, American Style — Cook a four pound chicken in some stack; the time allowed for this varies considerably according to the age of the chicken, but the usual length of time is about two hours. When the chicken is done put it into a vessel; pour its own broth over it aad let it cool therein; remove it aul begin by lifting off all the skin and white parte from the breasta; out the meat into dice from five to six eighths of an inch, and lay them in a bowl, eeasoutug with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Chicken salad may be prepare 1 either with lettuce or celery, the latter being generally preferrel Choose fine white celery, wash it well, drain and cut it across in one-eighth of an ineh thick pieces or eleo in Julienne; dry them in a cloth to absorb all of the water remaining in them. Put at the bottom of a salad bowl intended for the table some salt, pepper, oil and vinegar; mustard can be added, if desired; mix tho seasoning in with the celery. Lay the pieces of ohioken on top and cover the whole with a layer of mayonnaise sauce; decorate the surface with quartered hard boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, capers and beets; place some lettuce leaves aronnd and a fine lettnee heart in the oenter. Japanese Salad—Cook some peeled potatoes in broth, out two pounds of them in slices while atill warm and season them with salt, pepper, olive oil, 7ioegar, chevil chives, tarragon, shallot, parsley and bnrnet, all finely and separately chopped up. Cook some mussels with minoed onions, branches of celery, mignonette, but no salt, adding a little vinegar and water; set them on a good fire, toss them frequently and when done so that they open, take them from the shells and out away their foot or black ap pendage. Pat the potatoes in a bowl, with one pound of the mussels, or else very small clams may be substituted; stir them up lightly and dresa in a salad bowl. Het the salad iu a cold place for one hoar, and when serving mix in the truffles. —New York Herald. IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY TMXXR ARE NEARLY 7000 F KHALI clerks nr Washington. HootTf Pllli cars all liver 14s. *3c. A Thirsty Stone. A new kind of white hydrophone has been found in Colorado, which is ramarkabla for its power of abaorbing liquids. When water is dropped slowly upon it, it becomes chalky and then, by degrees, perfectly transpar ent. It has been named the “magic stone,” and is coming into nse by jew elers for lockets, to conceal photo graphs or other objects which the wearer may wish only to reveal at pleasure.—New York Press. The island of Ceylou is tho most re markable gem deposit in the world. They Are Scattered All Through the iMpartutents—The Varied Work They Do—Cupid Also at Work. I WANT to say a word abont the women clerks of Washington, writes Frank O. Carpenter in the Detroit Free Press. They are the brightest and ablest people in the serviee.' They do their work con soientionsly, and soma of the most ef ficient of Uncle Sam’s employes are of the gentler sex. If I had my way I would give the women the preference ns to all classes of work which they can possibly do, reserving only the harder places for the men. As it is, however, there are two men to everj woman in the -departments, and th< number of women all told amounts tc less than 7000. These women are oi all ages, from eighteen to eighty, and there is, by the way, one woman in the Treasury Department . who has now reached ninety years. There are many women over sixty and hnndreds of sweet yonng maidens of twenty- five. These women do all sorts ol work. Starting in as counters in the Treasury abont a generation ago, they have extended their work to all sorts of clerkships, and they now pass upon questions of law, examine patents, translate foreign langniges, and do everything under the sun. Some of the most expert counters of the Gov ernment are women, and several of the very best bookkeepers of the Treasury wear petticoats. Women are fast making their way as typewriters and stenographers, and the chief trouble to the outside employer Of labor at Washington is that as soon as he trains a woman thoroughly into his work as typewriter or stenographer she makes an application to Uncle Sam and gets a place at a higher salary in one of the departments. I have ha 1 this experience happen to me a half dozen times, and I have come to look npon my oftue here as a kind ol training school for the Government service. In the dead letter o!fiee the most expert translators of bad writing are women, and it wonld surprise yon to know that the Treasury Depart ment has a woman lawyer who pre pares the briefs for internal revenue m liters and who coaid probably make more outside of the department by practicing law than she gets by acting as a law clerk within it. There are a number of women editors in the ser vice at Washington. The official rec ords of the Civil War are to a certain extent gotten up by women, and in the Navy Depa.-tment yon find women who are making maps and tracing charts for onr ships in different parts of the world, and in the Government printing office there are women type setters, women stitchers, press feeders and compositors. . Everyone has heard of the pretty girls of the Treasury, but yon find beantifnl maidens In all of these Gov ernment departments. Hoke Smith directs the handiwork of 1500 girls, and Secretary Lamont has a company of 111 in his department of war. Post master-General Bissell has hnndreds of maidens nnder him, and in the Gov ernment printing office there are more than 1000 women. Many of these come of the best families of the coun try. Not a few are the daughters of noted Generals, Governors of States, Senators and Representatives, and now and then yon fin 1 a relative of a Presi dent or a Cabinet Minister. The ma jority of them are women of good edu cation, and with bnt few exceptions they are educated and refined ladies. They receive salaries ranging from $720 to $1800 a year, and a large num ber of tham support families. Many of them are widows, not a few are old maids, and thousands are sweet mar- llageable yonng women, who have too m ich sense to change a sure living un der Uncle Sam to a prospective one in oompany with some good-for-nothing man. The beet of them are, however, open to engagements, and not a few of the most notable marriages of Wash ington in the past have been in con nection with Goverruent clerks. At torney-General Brewster got his wife, whose features were Venus-like in their beauty, in a Government department here. She was the daughter of Bobert J. Walker, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and as she sat at her desk one day in the Treasury department the future Attorney-General walked throngh the room. She made some remark abont his homeliness. I do not know whether Brewster overheard it or not, but he saw her, and with him it was a cut,a of lore at first sight. He sought an introduction and shortly af terward offered her his hand and his wealth, and his name for herself and her children. It is said that he pro posed tp her in w >rds something like this: “My dear, you are beantifnl and I am hideous, but if you will marry me it will not be the first instance of the mating of beanty and the beast, and I assure you you will never regret marrying me.” His proposition was accepted, and the next time Mrs. Brew ster came to Washington it was as the wife of the Attorney-General of the United States. Stephen A. Douglas got his wife in one of the departments of Washington. It is a wonder to me that there ara not more marriages among clerks. Young men and young womeu of mar riageable age work side by side in the departments. They come in cou tact with each other hourly and sometimes fall iu love with one another, but not often. In the bureau cf engraviug aul printiug, where the money is made, there is one man and one wo man at every printing press, and therv is no separation of tho sexes. There are, I believe, more platonic friend ships here among young men and young womeu than yon will tiud any where else iu the country, and cases have been known where couples have married and kept their marriages a se cret for years in order to avoid the rale that a husband and wife shall not be employed at the same time iu the civil service at Washington. Many sueh cases have been found out, an l the recent investigation of the Con gressional Committee will probably lead to some changes iu this respect. According to its report there wore last fall twenty-four hu-bauds aud wives drawing salaries from Unole Sam, which the husbands and wives who are out of work and have no job at all think is decidedly unfair. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN: Fencing and golfing are tha coiain; ‘•fevers.” Nearly six per cent, of all Womfi never marry. Women can now be notaries pr.blk in New Jersey. “ There are over 6000 postmistrosMi in the United States. The Dnehess of Fife has a fancy foi going abont incognito. The Prinoess Stephanie, of Austria, has completed a novel. Tho best complexion rouge is tc live regularly, eat regularly, sleeg regularly. A Washington woman snpports her self by shopping for other women oc commission. Miss Emma C. Whitney is Record ing Clerk in the Ohio Honsc of Bepre sentatives. Mrs. Culbertson has been Librarian of the New Orleans City Library foi eighteen years. There are 2SS cities in Kansas ii which women have municipal suffrage on equal terms with men. Working girls are said to earn bet ter wages in Sau Francisco, Cal., than in any other American city. . In Germany there are 13,750 womeu teachers and 98,282 men, or nearl} eight times as many men as women. Miss Harraden, the author ol “Ships That Pass iit the Night,” is an enthusiastic advocate of the suffrage for women. The Friday Morning Clnb of Los Angeles, Cal., numbers abont 20) members, including some exceedingly able womeu. Mrs. Emma C. Laugeuour has just been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Yolo County (Cal.) Savings Bank. Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, widow of General Custer, is paid to be a very brilliant billiard player. Her husband taught her to handle the cue. The women of Liverpool, England, have formed an association, the object being to insist upon shopkeepers pro viding seats for their employes. Miss Harriet Monroe, who wrote the “World’s Fair Ode,” is delivering a course of lectures on the English poets, at tho Newberry Library, Chi cago. The Duchess of Hamilton keeps her favorite cows iu a fine stable and milks some of them every day. She also makes all the batter used on her table. Miss Bose O'Halloran is the only woman member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.' She was nom inated to that honor by Professor Holden. Mary Antoinette's laoe shawl, whioh she gave on the scaffold to her father confessor, the Abbe de TOrme, is still in existence at the church at Neuendorf. Veils of thick white lace and those of black tulle powdered with spots as big as a tcn-cent piece are equally af fected for the moment by the modish French women. In Kentnoky there is only one wo man who has authority to officiate at a wedding in a elerieal capacity. Her name is Munns, and she is a licensed Baptist preacher. Miss Eidc, of Kristiania, who is the first woman to receive a diploma as candidate of pharmacy in Norway, stood at the head of her class in all branches bnt one. A Swedish woman has hit npon a new field for woman’s work. She has started in business as an analytical chemist in a town whioh is the center of a mining district. The French Society for the Amelio ration of the Position of Women re solved to grant an annuity to girls of slender means desiring to qnalify for the career of druggist. Women who are interested in gar dening, professionally, will receive encouragement from the acoonntgiven in Meehan's Monthly of the snoeess of Miss Wilkinson, the London landscape gardener. . “Why not a woman?” Lady Henry Somerset rises to ask. She wants to know why women are never remem bered in the distribntinn of decora tions, peerages and so on. All of the atndents of the violineello at present at the Royal Academy of Music in England are womeu. Women violin players have increased greatly in numbers in Europe of late years. Summer or “June velvet,” as it is called, is a new handsome textile woven in Lyons. It is a very light weight material finely repped, and looks like an etherealized Irish poplin, with a velvet woof. Australia is sending another gifted •inger to England. She is Miss Ada Orossley, a native of Gippslaad, Vic toria. She is yonng, vigorous in physique, and has a magnificent con tralto voice. Silk ginghams are very mneh in de mand for one’s summer wardrobe. They are pretty gowns, these silk ging hams, bnt require very elaborate trim mings, and are not pretty made np in any simple fashion. One of the current window exhibi tions on West Fourteenth street. New York City, where the shopping crowds are. is the interesting performance of a young woman who clems ribbons by a steaming process. The Mikado of Japan has recently issued a decree allowing a Japanese woman to lead, if she chooses, a single life. Hitherto, if found unmarried after a certain age, a husbau 1 was se lected ior her by law. The Chicago Woman’s Club has the credit, and deservedly, of influencing all the laws for tho improvement of the conditions surrounding the work ing women and children of> Illinois lince its organization. A corps of women militia is the latest step iu the emancipation of England. Tho ladies expect to fulfil all the War Office conditions of ef ficiency aud promise to be ready to take the Held should war break out. A simple drcsL suitable for half mourning is made of gray and white striped silk. Open work jet insertion bunds the seams in the skirt, outlines the yoke and forms the belt. Black jetted lace falls from the yoke below the waist, which is a becoming style tor slim figures. AMERICAN ORANGE TRADE, Phenomenal growth 6f A do; JCESTlC INDUSTRY; Driving the Foreign Fruit From Our Market—Immense Yields of Flor ida and California Trade. r HE growth of the American I orange trade has been phe- T : nomenal.and its history is fall of interest. Thirty years ago the oranges consumed in this country were obtained mainly from the Medi terranean countries, the tart Sicilian orange, however, being supplemented by the “sweet Havanas,” which latter have since been so completely sur passed by the even more Inscious Floridas, the finest oranges in the world, that they now practically exist only in memory. Only three decades ago the entire orange trade of this country was controlled by a few ex tensive importers. Business was then done entirely on orders, the importers sending their orders abroad every fall, at. whioh season sailing vessels, whioh have since been entirely supplanted by steamships, were chartered to trans port the frnit from Sicilian and other Mediterranean ports to this country ; in fact, September was the mouth in which business arrangements were an nually made six mouths iu advance of their fulfillment. This method of conducting business existed for many years, but in 1863, the growers of Sicilian oranges, who had previously sold their crops en tirely on orders, began to ship them to this country on consignment. The old importers then gradually aban doned their original methods aud be gan to receive fruit as cousignses, in stead of importing it. New firms en tered the field and strong competition sprang up in the business, which was then profitable, as may be seen by the fact that a single New York firm, in one season, realized a clear profit of over $30,00) on its Sicilian consign ments alone. Abont fifteen years later the Amer- iciu frnit firms were largely super seded by Italians, the fruit growers of Sicily and the native shippers of Pal ermo and other Mediterranean ports sending their sons aud relatives to this country to establish firms, till now only three or four distinctly Ameri- lean firms of prominence remain in the business. During the last ten years, however, the importation of oranges from the Mediterranean has steadily decreased, and, while large quantities contiuue to come from Sic ily, the imports from Spain have dwindled into utter insignificance. The decline of importation was brought abont by the rapid growth of the do mestic orange industry, which has been most remarkably developed. For eign growers at first ridiculed the idea that they could ever be deprived of the American market, in whioh they had long been accustomed to reap bountiful harvests annually, but then ridicule was soon turned to regret. About that time, only a single decade ago, the Florida orange industry sprang into prominence as if by magic, and the product of tho Florida groves has since swiftly and steadily in creased, till now the annual crop is estimated at fully 6,000,000 boxes, and it is yearly augmented. California has since come into great prominence as an orange-producing State, and last year supplied 2,500,- 000 boxes, which were distributed mainly through the West and North west, only a limited quantity reaching the Atlantic seaboard, on account of the high rates of freight, it costing 87) cents a box to transport oranges from the Pacific Slope to New York by rail, while those from Florida, coming by steamship, are transported for fifty cents a box, giving the Flor ida growers an advantage of S7J cents a box. About twenty years ago Florida or anges began to arrive in this city. There were few of them, and they were received mainly by firms whioh were not exclusively in the fruit trade. Ten years ago there, were probably no less than 15) firms receiving the delicious Florida oranges directly from the fragrant groves, and, in fact, it was said that a well-worded circular and a brass stencil-plate were the only prerequisites for procuring abundant consignments from the confiding grow ers. The number of receivers iu this city, however, has rapidly decreased, and there are now not more than ten or twelve firms of noteworthy prom inence in the trade here. When there was such a large number of firms in the trade there were many whoso busi ness methods were open to criticism, aud who duped the oiauge-growers and the public, but they have happily been driven out of the trade, whioh is now conducted by reputable firms aud on strictly business principles. The rapid growth of the Florida orange trade has seriously interfere l with the importers, as is strikingly shown by the fact that, while there were 1,798,000 boxes of Sicilian oranges imported in 1836-87, there were only 682,000 boxes imported in 1891-92. Despite Use difficulties with whioh tho growers have to contend almost every season, the crop continues stead ily to increase. Most of the trees in the orange groves of Florida are now over four years old and will soon bo in full bearing, when, it is estimated, the cron will be at least 10,000,000 boxes. There were over 9)0,000 bjxes oi Florida oranges received in this city alone last year, while less than 5009 boxes were received from California, whose last crop was 2,500,000 boxes. The California crop is also rapidly increasing, there having been 2,500,- 000 boxes grown last year against 2,- 000,000 the previous year. Oranges are also being successfully grown in Arizona and Louisiana. The crops here are yet small, but are increasing, aud with the immense and growing yields in Florida and California, the \ \ V not far distant when only Amer- granges will be found in American W v V'vi. — New York Tribune. Flex is largely grown iu several States of tho Union. Illiuok, Indi ana, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas aul Wiscon sin arc among the heavy producers. There is very little American linen produced; nearly all tho flax grown nere goes toward tho manufacture of linseed oil; the residue, oilcake, is ex tensively used for feeding and fatten ing cattle T HOSE who could not eat cake, hot biscuit, bread and pastry because of indigestion have found that by rais ing them with Royal Baking Powder they are enabled to eat them with per- ■* feet comfort. Royal Baking Powder is composed of chemically pure cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda, and is an actual preventive of dyspepsia. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. Culture ol Cocoa. There is some considerable confu sion in regard to the origin of cocoa on account of the similarity of tho names of the three products which go by this name as it is pronounced. The cocoa tree is really tho palm which yields the large unts called cocoa nuts, and is known botauically as Cocos nu- cifera, or the nut-bearing cocos. It grows only in tropical or sub-tropical climates, and begius to bear when the tree is seven years old. The cacao tree —botsnically the obroraa cacao—is not a palm, but has a leaf much like that of a peach ; tho fruit is a large pod, baviug seven to ten seeds much like almonds, aud having an oily ker nel of a dark brown color. These ker nels are ground after having been fer mented in heaps for two or three days, and the coarso grain is the common cocoa nibs sold iu the grocers' shops. These are shipped from the parts of Central America where the trees are grown, and nro ground to a paste in mills, or sometimes to a dry powder, sold as the common breakfast cocoa; the paste is pressed into cakes, and is the chocolate of commerce. The pods iu which the seeds are contained are seven to ten inches in length and three to 4; inches in thickness. The tree is a native of Mexico, hut is cultivated in every one of the Cen tral American States. It begins to bear when five years old, aud yields full crops when eight jeers old, cou- timiing in bearing for many years. Another tree which prodiicesthe cocoa leaves is tho Erythoxylou coca, much similar in appearance and growth to the common blackthorn. It is a native of Peru, and the leaves contain a stim ulating principle of similar character to that of tea aud coffee, Inn much stronger. An extract of the leaves is known as cocaine, end is used iu sur gery as a means of paralyzing the nerves so as to wh< ily prevent pain in the most serious operations. It is a local ansesthetie, aud when applied to the skin renders it insensible. The native name of this plant is cucu. — New York Times. Oldest Coal Mine in America. When wo consider the fact that the whole Eastern range of mountains, those natural barriers that were first encountered by the European ex plorers iu America, are regularly stratified with several seams af coal, both anthracite and bituminous, we cannot help expressing surprise when the historian informs us that the first Ameiican coal mine was discovered in what is now tho State of Illinois. In Henncpiu’s account of his explorations in the West in tho years 1673-74, he tells of an outcrop of coal on the Illi nois Biver, not far from Ottawa, “the shelly fragments of which burned with a bright light, and gave forth much heat. ” Hernedon says that this is the first historical mention of coal being j found in what ii now the United Stater.—“i. Lotus Republic. Bethany Sunday-school in Phila delphia, of which John Wanamaker is Superintendent, has a membership ol more than 5000, and Mr. Wanawaker's class numbers over 1200. Double or Blnarj Stars. All stars appear single to the naked eye, but the use of the telescope has proven that many consist of two or more distinct orbs. When the astron omer, Herschel, first began to make a special obsr rvatiou of double stars, only four we.'e known. He increase ! the number to 500, aud now about 7000 are catalogued by astronomers. Some have argucl that these atari only appear to be double because they are on the same line of vision, but Herschel, after many years of investi gation, was convinced that in hun dreds of cases they actually revolve around each other, thus proving be yond a doubt that there is an actual relationship betweeu such pairs of orbs.—St. Louis Republic. One ol the Strangest ol Minerals, One of the xtrtuigpKt of mineral sub stances, bj- the way, is asbestos. It is a form of hornblende rock. Towels are made Of it nowadays. They are quite economical, for when they are dirty it is only necessary to throw them into the fire, aud on being with drawn from the flames a few minutes later they are os good as new and quite clean.—New York Press. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and lends m personal enjoyment whan lightly uaeo. 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