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Cjjt WSa?tbm w? SontJWIL ? WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6,1895. | ITEMS. Augusta Chronicle: Wheo a elegy man makes the remarkable statement that "forty barrels of rum are seat to ?frica to every missionary,1' we are moved to inquire what be wants with so mach ? A description of Rbodar Broughton is given io a certain Oxford letter, in which the writer speaks of the novelist as "the snippy lady with the girlish figure who was drinking tea upstairs." Every city of the United States in wbioh there is a large number of Jews, excepting Sao Francisco, has at least ooo Jewish hospital. There are 18, 000 Jews in San Francisco, and the sum of {30,000 has been raised among them for a hospital. The Winter quarters of Prof. Wil? liam Gentry's equine and canine show was destroyed by fire at Bloomington, lil. Eleven trained ponies, thirty five dogs and a monkey were burned. Loss $18,000. "The Jew," says the Jewish Re view, "has little io common with the temperance movement, be it for the reason that, io his ceremonies, be be? comes accustomed to look upon the wine wheo it is red, or because bis average mental capacities enable bim to resist the insidious temptations of tbe flowing bowl. The Jew cannot bea total abstainer; the forms and cere? monies of bis ritual have forbidden it for ages." Rev. Edward Davis, of Oakland, Cal., recently illustrated a sermon on *'Eternal Judgment" by assuming the character of Richard III, and quoting r"> ? dramatic manner the famous soliloquy in the first scene and also in j the fifth act of th<? play The preacher's acting was realistic. There was a big audience. The Philadelphia Record says that i Philadelphia Sunday school teacher who has a class of bright boys, undertook last Sunday to teach them thc names of the apostles, beginning with Matthew, 1 the publican. One little fellow started the mischief by asking if all the other ' apostles were democrats, and a second chimed io with: "Say, was Quay 1 camed after him ?" A third suggest- 1 ed that the original Matthew must have 1 been in the combine, for he was well fixed for boodle. The yoong teacher breathed a sigh of relief when the bell : announced the close of the lesson. ' Dr. Arnold tells an amusiog story of ! a Jew who had forsaken his religion, but wbo always, when there was tbun- 1 der and lightning, placed an open I Bible io his window says the New York i Sun. Upon one occasioB, when he was 1 greatly alarmed, he made a mistake by i seising the first book which be saw, and putting it at the window. The < book was a copy of the * 'Arabian i Knights Eotertainmsut." Y etthe ] lightning did not strike him. < Mr. Bunch, of the State Lunatic Asy- ?* rum, has a herd of about eighty cattle 1 that he thinks it will be bard to beat as * far as results are concerned. He hsgT' been having experiments made^-atra^ac- j! tual results observed.^Xt?e cow that ! * heads the list last^Cr netted $155.76. j < -This is figurejfr'out in this way: The ? Cow gavey084 1-2 gallons of milk at i act'JjLweight, which at a fraction over ( 8 cents a gallon. the market value, 1 less the cost of keep. ?95, would net ' $156.76. Mr. Bunch figures out the < cost of feed at 26 ceo ts per day io this 1 way, 50 pounds of ensilage 12 cents ; 10 * pounds of bran 10 cents and 4 pounds ? of cotton seed meal at 4 cents. The * attention is put down at 4 cents per day : 1 aod this is counterbalanced by the j * manures. The cows is tbe Asylum j i herd go from this down, and of course, some of them have to be kept at a loss ( Tbe exigencies of the situation in ! ' which we are placed calls for the exer- j < eise of the wisest statemaoship aod the ! 1 most conservative leadership. Ail ! '* factional lines, for the time being at j ] least, should be obliterated, aod all ( differences healed. There should be no ! 1 longer any rubbing of old sores or say- ; 1 ing or doing anything to keep alive the 1 passions and prejudices of the people. ! Men should be selected as delegates ; 1 to that convention not because they are j Reformers or Conservatives, but be- ( cause their judgment can be trusted j 1 and their patriotism unquestioned. If I this be adopted much of the evil which ; ' we fear will be the outcome of a parti- ? ! san convention will be prevented and ; a wholesome aod ju constitution | ? adopted.-Lexington Dispatch. ' AD illustration of the marvelous ac- ' curacy characterizing tools or iostru- 1 men's of measurement now employed as compared with those of former times is given by a writer in the American Machinist, Damely, that, whereas, for? merly 001 inch marked ou a drawing I ! would bave been objected to oo the ground that it was difficult or impossi? ble to work so closely to measures as that, at the present time 0005 inch is measured in every fine workship, and dimensions gi^en in hundredths or even thousandths of an inch frequently ap- ; i pear on drawings without objection on the part of the workmen. The instru? ments of measurement are now made yith such a degree of refioed accuracy tu\at even the warmth of the hand may expand a rod twelve inches loDg so that the amount of expansion can be meas? ured/ It has thus become important in fine measurements to be careful that the temperature of the piece to be meas? ured or gauged should have the same temperature as that of the instrument by which its size is determined By first handling a rod of the length named and measuring it, particularly if the ? rod be of bras? or copper, and t after allowiog the rod to oool, b Hog the guage until the latter expa it is found that a discrepancy of l 0.007 iDch to 0.01 inch may be s< times made apparent, due entirely the differences of temperature. Romer, Preschel and Irinyi are i ously named as inventors of p phorous matches. From the testis of a still-living college friend it app that the real inventor is the Hui nan, Janos Irinyi. It was in ll when the Utter, then 19 years old a studeot at the polytechnic school. Vienna, attended Prof. Meissn leotures on chemistry. He bec greatly impressed by a demonstra of the reaction produced on rubi together peroxide of lead and sui pl It struck h u at once that the reac might be greatly intensified when t stituting phosphorous for 6ulpi Irinyi was not to be seen at the coll for the next few days. His frie wishing to see bim, called a bis roo but found the door locked. On join his friend, Irinyi had his pockets ful matches, which be struck on the wa all of them taking fire. He prepa them by melting phosphorous in a c centrated solultion of glue and shak until the mass became cold, and all phosphorous assumed a finely divii state. The emulsion was mixed w brown peroxide of lead, and sti previously dipped in molten sulp! were impressed in the mixture sold bis invention, it is recorded, t merchant named Romer for about $ 500. As an instance of the difference i tween the old slavery days farming a farming by the employment of mi modern methods and improved mach erv ia the South, the following iliust rion is given : C. T. Douglass, a you farmer of Mecklenburg County, ?. < in 1898, planted thirte?n acres of la in cotton and harvested six bales by t old method of farming. Last year planted three acres of the same land cotton with the purpose of cultivatii it "intensely" as an experiment. E suit : On three of the thirteen acf< which yielded him but six bales of cc ten the year before, he harvested fo bales of cotton. Difference : Und the old system of cultivation bis iai raised less than one-half a bale of cc ton to the acre ; under the improve methods it raised ooe and ooe-thii bales. This practice of "intens? farming is rapidly spreading, and tl tendency is decidely towards small md better cultivated farms. The S-incb parrot gun, known as tl "Swamp Angel" will be recalled h ihose who were old enough to read an understand the skirmishes and raids an battles during the civil war. The st( ry of its construction is about as foilowi The colonel of a regiment of New Ycjr ?ngineers was ordered by Gen. GjJ'mor in 1863 to mount the gur^utffiVlorri [sland, South Carolina, fife place bein designated as about a^ftile out in tb swamp, and to tuafce requisition for a! needed apjajiirt?ces. The colonel made ?ur^?y of the place designated, viewmj it fn>m the nearest Und, and tbei :ent in a requisition for "200 men 3( eet high to work in a swamp 20 fee Jeep Gen. Gilmore, not appr?ci?t og tiiis bit of humor from bis subordi late, placed him under arrest, and tbi )fficer found it a hard task to get re ieved. The gun was subsequently nounted by the colonel, and it was iubbed the " rwainp Angel," after as onishing both federal aud confederate? >y sending a shell from Morris Island, 21,000 feet, into the streets of Charles on. It fired thirty-six rounds, and hen burst near the breech It is now ?aid to be in Trenton, N. J., where il s used as a drinking fountain. The peculiar and characteristic odors )f flowers, leaves, fruits, seeds, roots, Darks and woods are due to the presence )f essential oils. Without the latter lhere would be no liquors or perfumery, md spices would be uoknowu. In some plants the oil is found only in the flow ;rs, as the rose and violet; in others in ;be fruit, as the nutmeg; in others in he unexpanded buds, as the clove; in Hoers in the bark, as certain laurels ; ind in still others in the outer rind of :be fruit, as the orange and lemon. Italy supplies the world with orange and lern? en oils, and the Italians are up to all the tricks of mixing and adulterating. The United States consul general to Ita? ly reports that practically all of the or? ange and lemon oils which reach the United States are sophisticated " to a great extent. Bergamor, the most costly, is adulterated with oil of sweet orange, turpentine, mineral oil, an^ essence of peppermint. Pitch is em? ployed for coloring, and stearin is added to increase bulk and weight. The most, important adulterant is tur? pentine, which is so nearly related chemically to the oil of lemon - both being terpenes-that its presence as an ingredient can hardly be detected by analysis. The comparative money value of brains is strikingly illustrated in a New York World cartoon. For the purpose of comparison heavy-weight, middle? weight and light-weight (avoirdupois) statesman and horse jockeys are selected. Under the first head aro set. Post? master General Bisselland Jockey Taral Mr. Bl9Sell is paid ?8,000 a year and Taral is paid ?25,000 a year. Under the second hi.-ad are set Senator John Sherman and Jockey .Simms ('eul? orel). Thc .senator gets ?5,000 a year and the jockey $.25.000. Under tho third head aro Chief Justice Fuller au 1 Jocky Griffin. The chief justice's sala? ry is $10,500 a year; Griffin's is ?-:j0? 000. A possible explanation of the ' diffi??ce in earnings i- rwev-n these tw . I classes of public tuen is that this coun I try is long on statesmen aod short on jockeys. Io JaDuary. 1835, Lovina Isher? wood, then a girl of fourteen, swallow? ed a "?edle, says a Bath, N. Y , dis? patch. Ever since then the needle has been journeying to and fro through her body. When she was 16 years old she felt it pricking io her toe. Two years afterward it made itself felt under her left knee, and came so near the surface that every one thought it. would work 'its way out, but it did not. It turned aod started on a new trip. Several years passed before it was felt again. In the meantime the girl had become Mrs. Durham. 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