Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH. Ji The South. i ^ The Virginia Democrats held a rati* fication meeting at Richmond. Twenty-three stores hove been buru- t ed iu Arlington, Ga. t Tho Nashvillo & Ivnoxville Railway 11 will ask subscription from the citj- of fc Nashvillo. f( Kentucky's tobacco crop lias been cut short by frost from 20 to 510 per cent. J Mrs. A. W. Fitts, of Lexington, N. r G., has been appointed matron of Elizabeth College, Charlotte, N. C. c Fire iu Augusta, Ga., damaged the 11 Commercial Club building ?10,000; J" fully insured. V . 1L C. Benthall has been appointed j, postmaster at Murfreesboro, N. C., a fourth-class office. t( Edward Hawkins, who killed Dr. t< ....... i> :n- *T- -- V.? 1IVUI J'UUIlllV, t U. , 18 lO Ut! **; Imaged on Nov. Mil. ? Dr. W\ U. Brooks is to build ft privato hospital iudreeusboro with all the B( modern Equipments. e At Key West, Fla., Sylvanius Johnsou whs hanged for rape. Thehaugman I bungled the execution. Bancroft, the well-knowu magician, f4 died of typhoid at the Riverside luliriu- B] nry, Cliarleston, S. C. B. A. 1'. (Iraco, of Stfttesville, the court s| stenographer, has disappeared, ami all H efforts to find him have been vain. 6 An Atlanta, da., liquor linn has v brought notion before Judge Newman ^ to compel the Southern Railway to no- ?j cept its shipments of whiskey for South ?,! Carolina. ol Hon. Walter E. Faisou, ex-Solicitor b of I10 State Department at Washington, o! died at tlio house of his brother-in-law, w Dr. .J. E. Matthews, Wilmington, N. P C., age 4'J years. d The business portion of Collego Station, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala , .. has been wiped out by lire. The loss will exceed ?20,000, which is almost covered by insurauce. j, With the exception of tho Btoro of Jop- tl 1 i 11 ?V Co., tho entire business portion !i of Wilmcn. lvv., has boon destroyed by I' tire. Tho total loss is estimated at over I' ? >0.000; insurance abont half. C( An Illinois Central passenger train ( ran down a wagon on a crossing near n] Dversburg, Teun.. killing two negro boys instantly and fatally injuring a negro man. These were the only occupants. United States Senator John W. Daniel opened tho State campaign at \ Chatham, tho county scat of I'ittsylvan ia, with a two hours' speech to an immense crowd. The Senator discussed tanIV, currency and Stato atl'airs, but pi made no illusion to tho recent lively correspondent between himself and Gov. O'Uerroll. -I- Pi The North. F Seth how declines to withdraw from hi the race for mayor of Greater New w York. rc There are 7,000 children in New York City for whom thoro is no room in the 1 public schools. y\ 81 Cattle lire dving in some Southern in Indians coiiuti** for want of sufficient 01 water. A damaging frost is reported in I> Southern (>hio, Indiana and Northern Kentucky. U Architects are soon to submit drawings at Newark, N. .1., for a Catholic Cathedral to cost $1,000,000. jp 1 nit go Foster declares the Kansas in Live Stock Association an illegal cor- tl) poratiou. ,, I > The New York police will enforce the 1U law against the sales of drinks in con- . certs and music halls. . In The drain on the Now York banks ?1 for crop money has brought seven of H them below the So per cent, reservo re- 1> qnircmcnt. ol Tho lenders of the Kepulican party in New York have asked benjamin n Tracy to become their candidate for mayor. Comptroller of the Currency Eckels, ..\ in a speech at Denver, Col., predicts prosperity for the East, West. North nnd South. ^ About forty inmates of the work- I ,, 1i/\iiua ni Tul m1r\ t I aim ill I of a malignant typo, bordering on 1' typhoid, n Ohio's Democratic campaign was 1* opened at Columbus;about :t,(too people attended, and speeches wore delivered ti by many prominent leaders. ? After a two months' shut down, and 0 an expensive strike of $.">00,000, the furnaces of the steel plant and plate mill of the I'ellairo Stool Company at nellaii'o, o., have started up, giving employment to ">00 men. ">! Iseellaneous. dudgo Walter Q. (Irosliam's estate, F left to his wife, netted $18,002. < Friends of Ian MacLaren will urge k him for the post of moderator of the p next Synod of tho L'resbytorian Church in Kngland. . u F Washington's wool clip for In;)? v amounts to 0,000,000 pounds. n Foreign. (treat liritain has refused to take part in tho sealing conference in Washing- u ton. # w o In Madrid tho price of all kinds of food is rising steadily, owing to the J ^ iui IIMI ui ninri uuu ui ^ l?nj>cr currency. I A private dispatch from Homo navs t that about forty persona were killed and c many others injured by an cartlislideut j the sulphur mines near (lirgeuti, Italy. Turkistan and Switzerland liavo been visited by severe earth<piko shocks. A million dollars in gold lias been i withdrawn from the Hank of Kugland, , presumably for shipment to the I nited i States. ,i 'I he fact that ten batteries of horse and field artillery aro ordered to proceed to India from Knglnnd causes tho ' public to think that there is something on lu.nd much more serious than the out!-! 'uk of the natives. There are | rumors of discovery of secret plots be- i ' tweeii I'.ussia and Afgbaustan against the i'litish in the east. ' IUSINRSS SERIOUSLY AFFKCTEE Vholesalo Interests Practically at ? Standstill in the <?nlf states. Bradstreet's commercial report foi be past, week says: There is a check tc be inward Bweep of demand in staple iues noticonble throughout the couury for the puBt six woeks. The yellow ever quarantine which extends from 'exas to Georgia has brought wholealo business to n practical standstill broughout the greater portion of the egion embraced by tlio Gulf Htates. A1 enters of distribution, in Eastern, liddlo and central Western States, the econt activity in dry goods, hatb and ardware, has fallen oil', but at the iorthwest and on tlio Pacitic coast buytig bv interior merchants end the free istl'ibution of niPl-eliniwlinA <>oiitiim<i j be features. The demand for heavy extilc fabrics has been stimulated by older veuther, and St. Louis merhunts say the yellow fever scare will ave no etfect upon trade at that city,at outlieru merchants had supplied themelves there before the quarantine wat nforced. The outlook for business in parts ol 'exas, Arkansas, Tennessee and (leoria is for a much duller season than ad been expected. The favorable matures of the week are found in liarp advances in prices of iron and teel, heavy sales of Jiossemor pig iron, teel billets and railH, and a prospect iat that tho iron and steel prices will o higher in the near future. Exports of wheat (Hour included as heat) from both coasts of tho United tates and from Montreal amount to 198 bushels, compared with <?, 1JK9, IK bushols last week; K,n:;i),UlO bushIs iu the week a year auo; 8.M1.000 ushels two years ago, 2, (if>2,000 bushIs three years uyo, and an compared ith <1,400,000 bushels iu the conesoudini^ week of ISO". Exports of luian coru actuated -1,022, Mii iu the 'oek a year a^o; 1, <0)0,000 bushels vo 3'ears a^o; 10-1,000 bushels throe ears niro. and as contrasted with sb), JO bushels in tho like week of 180;). There are 'Jil? business failures 10orted throughout the United Elates lis week, compared with ?s last week, 21 in the third week i i Eepteinher, "'.Mi, I OS in 1S05, :204 in tin- like week in 304, and ns contrasted with 02 in the >rrespondiiitf period in is., ;. There are 22> business failures reoited throughout the Canadian l?olinion this week, against :>(! last week; I in tho week a year ajjo, and .') > iu the nrespon ling week of 180~?. AN IIiLINOl.8 .11 INIC llOltltOlt. Do/.en or More Miners Killed l>y n ( its Cxploslon. A special to the St. T.ouis l'ost-lMiitcli from .Marion, I'., says: An cxlosion terrible in its elteets occurred i tho Williamson County Coal cominy's mine, four miles north of hero, ifteon wounded miners, two of whom ?ve since died, have been rescued, liilo one was found dead when the icuintr party went down the shaft, sveral of the wounded are so severely uslied and otherwise hurt that they ill die. There are said to be five or x miners still imprisoned iu thu burni?r mine, but ttioy cannot be ?-??<??.?? ? i uccutuii *>f Uio oiuoikG and lire. OI/IIIjK lIANfilNti DKFERRKD. spite on Account of h Confession Made, The execution oft irmly Roy nobis and ml Brooks, murderers of M. C. Hunt, i .luekson county, Ccorgia, did not iko place. The (ioveruor respited rooks for four weeks on a confession ado by Reynolds that lie single[indcd, liad committed the murder, ut thut Brooks planned the crime and wired in the division of the money, oynolds was di es-e l for the gallows, ut on a request made by the brothers f the murdered man that both shall ang together, the execution of Keyolds was accordingly deferred. NKKD MKDICINK. n Appeal For tlic Cuban Army? Malarial Fever Prevails. Advices from President Cisnoros, ol 10 Cuban llepnblic, to Col. Aguierre. uban agent in this country, says tin atriot arm}' need medicines and qui ine as'a result of the prevailing ma wial fever in tho island. An agent as issued a call requesting contribu mis of Ihis character from the "peoph f this country. The contribution? my be sent to any authorized agent f tho Cuban Republic in this country aMTT- ? ? SHOT AM) KILLKI) II.. 1 V i j. I I iiaiI .> ! In.Tc.H.... 4. Take a l>rink. A dispatch to tlio Birmingham Ago leraht from Tuscaloosa, Ala., Pays: ,f r. l.olhuido was shot and instant!; illed by A. Stonekiug, a railroad con factor. Stonelving iuvitod LeDandet ako a drink. Tho latter refused, say ntr lie only drank with gentlemen 'hereupon Stonekiug drew a revolve nd shot l.ellando in the abdomen. Norton lias No Opposition. The general election for Congress uan in the Sixth Congressional dhtrie if South Carolina, to till the vnenne, nusod by the resignation of Sennto ilcl.anrin, is to be hold October I Jtli to far no lieptiblicnn - uiididate ha icen announced against dames Norton he I >emoeratie nominee. dr. Norton >nly danger will be a failure of the pec do to go to the polls on election day. Wheelmen < inning South. Tho majority of the profession! vheelmon who have heeu engaged dm ni' tin? i nst season in nenrlv everv eit ?< , .uininenee on tlin circuit in tli 'nitod States started South Monday t'c i series of bicycling contests. The Icsiination is the ('ity of Mexioc \Tearly all of tho leading professional invo sillied to ro on the trip. To Sin cccil .It'*; ice f<*iclil. It is stated by exec! out nuthoiit that i'oIhi ! ittle, ( !' enin, ()., wi succeed .iustice i i? id ? :> the i uilc States Sui reme vJourt bench. HON KIIH1I Bin.i I It is Grown by Thomas A- Jackson, Near Atlanta, Ga. . SENSATION AMONG GROWERS. ' Many Bolls and Squares to a Stalk, j 1 And They tirow to Be Fourteen I Feet High. <..? [ The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says j > tlio famous Jackson limbless cotton j has assumed a national importanco and ! , recently tho United States Secretary of Agriculture telegraphed to Weather and Crop Official Marbury, at this | place, to go out to tho Jackson farm una make a thorough ana exhaustive examination of the plant and then report to the government official at Washington. Mr. Marbury at once went out to the farm near the barrncka, where the wonderful cotton is growing, and through the kindness of Mr. .lacksou was enabled to go through the six acres r~ fw I <3 vb r J vx, v, |}J| ; ft? FAC-SIMII.IE OF COTTON STALKS A8 BEEN IN FIELD. y*.kTm1 over nil the tiold. After making his examination he wps allowed to bring somo of the cotton to town with him to include with his report. Mr. Mai-bury was enthusiastic over the limbless cotton. Ho said that it was the linest crop of cotton he had ever seen. He said that aonie of the cotton was so tall that it could hardly be reached with an umbrella. Tho plant ia thickly studded all the way up with large bolls, and the lowest estimate is that the six acres will yield four bales to the acre. The weather official will make a very full report on tho condition and tho prospects of tho cotton, and will enter into its probable commercial value. Mo will give us full and complete a report on the subject as could bo desired, and when the report is tiled tho government will then be in a 1 osition to act as it may consider proper. That the government officials aro evincing considerable interest in tho remarkable cotton is not a surprise. It is an entirely new variety of cotton,and is the best species that has been grown f in this country. The government will probably buy up large quantities of tho seed anil distribute them among tho ag riculturul classes, so as to insure a wide distribution and a spread of the new va. riety. ^ i tie seed retail at ?200 per bushel, and the present owners of the six acres " at .iackson's farm have been offered t ?2."i,000 for the product of the field. The cotton does not havo a limb on tho stalk, and lias many advantages not possessed by other varieties. Mr. Marbury will file his report in u few days, and the government will probably take early action in order to !> secure tho seed that '? now being grown. Yellow Kcver in Atlanta. A ease of 3-ellow fevor liaa developed V in a family of refugees in Atlanta, (la. - The situation in New Orleans is manifestlv worse; thero were eight new cases and four deaths on tho 22d. The city conned has give the board of health ' ?12\(K)0 and holds alike sum in reserve. 1 In Mobilo, Ala., thirty-eight cases have been reported; ono death and two new cases. At Kdwards, Miss., there have boon 100 cases; sixteen now cases tie >- vcloped on the litfd, atul there have t been four deaths. One death has oc eurred in St. IiOins, Mo., and there are other cases, r . ? The Wilsons Ousted. s <!overnor Russell, of North Carolina, '? lias ousted the two Wilsons, railroad commissioners, and appointed in their stead Ij. C. Caldwell, of Iredell, and John 11. Pearson, of Rurke. Roth the Wilsons, it is thought, will fight the tl caso in the Cuited States Supreme r. Court. y Wllnt" Kited Hi n '.j. "1 don't think von otigh: jr bitter against tin* ptvsidct t >> >. Riisstupp bunk." said ti e p.i- ; Is member, brother, that lie !e <>i own money, as well as some <>;' n "That is jist what riles -i ; lirotiier vvitli the lo? r tip X the mouth that looked as ,'i I made with an nx. " I < ::r I my money to a blame f-? . . oils Journal. BILLIONS OF STAMPS, UNCLE SAM PRINTS AN ENORMOUS NUMBER EACH YEAR. ? AllJKinda and Oolors.'From the Pink Two* Center to the Lordly One HundredUolUr Stamp?Ho w They Are Turned Oat by the WaihlnKton ltureau. TJnoIe Sam makes ami issues iu tho coarse of a year postage and other stamps to the number of more thuu four billions. The exact number for the last year of which record is obtainable, says the New York World, was 4,243,289,261. It is hard for tho human mind to realize the magnitude of a sum as tfront as four billions. A better idea, probably, can bo obtained of the size of the stamp output for a year by the statement that if they were pasted together, end for end, tho strip thus obtained would encircle the earth seven times around at tho equator. There were all sorts and conditions of stamps in this aggregato of four billions. There were postage stamps, from the humble little one-center ami the familiar pink two-center that every one sees to Jtlie lordly one hundreddollar stamp that lives an exclusive life and never shows itself to the vulgar herd. The latter is called a periodical stamn. It is sold to tho publishers of periodicals, who present it to the postmaster with so ninny pounds of mail matter, and tho stamp is then cancelled and kept in a book. Over ten thousand of these were pointed lust year. There were about one hundred million of tho long green beer stamps used in tho iuternal revenue service, that you see the barkeeper remove from tho lmnghole when he taps a fresh kog. There were about four hundred mil. lion of the little green stumps that seal the end of a cigarette box. There were more than half a billion of tobacco strip stamps, with countless millions of other kinds. The everyday two-cent stamp, with its cheerful pink color and mucilaginous back, was printed to the number of a little more than two billions. If the magnitudo of this number is difficult to grasp, it is easy enough to measure a two-cent stamp and figure for one's self how many thousand miles those ntlNTIXG INTERNA! 1 " i two billions would strctcli if pasted end , to end. All of the stamps used by the United ! States are printed at Washington in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the same institution that turns out the paper money of the Government. Formerly they were made by the bank note companies in New York, but in 18'.);$ Uncle Sa i concluded that as ho was going into the printing business very extensively at his capital he might as well save the profits on the stamp making. The Bureau makes the plates from which the stamps are printed, does the press work and manufactures the mucilage. Only the paper and the ink are purchased in ! open market. This preparation of the mucilage is an art in itself, and is conducted upon purely hygienic principles, for the benefit of the several billions of people who annually liek postage stamps. ll liiif ii I "caSSi! I ^ A STAMP ENORAVKIt. The operation of tln? manufacture ot postage stamps through the several ! branches is an exceedingly interesting : one to follow. A small army of men ami yon 11 >5 women, skilletl artisans, are employed in the work, ami the great roil brick building on the bank ; of the Potomac under the shadow of the Washington monument is a busy bee liive for eight hours in the day. | The first step in the manufacture of j postage and revenue stamps is the making of the plates from which they are to he printed. The plate for the : ordinary two-cent stamp of everyday use is a sheet, of steel twenty-one inches by about thirteen inches. The engraver uses a sheet of soft steel upon which he engraves the design of four hundre 1 stamps. The custody of these plates, together rvIHt nMt.ipfl 1Q <* ki.tiilt* 1 to /.tin Erory ntternoou the plates must ln? accounted for and looked in a vault, j Until the last pi Ate is in no employe \ of the division is allowed to leave the building. i The plate now being flnishod, it is i TRERSINO THE STAMP SHEETS. ^ sent to the pressroom. Somo of the I stumps nre printed upon lmnd presses I and others upon revolving steam s presses. The day I visited the Bureau v the hand pressmen were working upon f beer stamps. Thore wore twenty of these upon a sheet, and the printer and * his assistant were enabled to turn out f from 700 to 800 sheets a day. The f pressman's assistant is always a young c girl, as a woman's deft touch is re- c quired to handle the thin sheets of 1 paper and place them accurately under t the press. i The paper upon which the stamps n are printed is made especially for this \ purpose, and every sheet of it is c counted. In fact, from the time the c paper enters the press until it emerges 1 a sheet of stamps in the storage rooms t it passes through fourteen divisions, t every one of which registers the sheet, t and these must tally as to totals at the i close of the day before an employe is >111111:', \><?1UCU. A I i 1 ~ a | ?| '11 I I'll u> a simple pieee of work, l?ut it requires eloso attention to feed the machine, so j that the perforating wheels run straight down the spaces between the stamps. Even with tlio utmost enre slips occur, and a row of stamps is perforated down the middle. Every spoiled sheet is preserved, however, to he a<* united for, and if so imielt as a eorner of a stamp is torn oil' it must be permitted to leave the building. Every time the pressman runs a plate through his nmchino he removes 1 it and reinks it. Upon this largely depends the perfection of the impression. After inking the plate he rubs the surplus ink from the surface with , a brush. Then ho passes his hands j ^ ' ' " ^ , REVENUE STAMrs. . r ( over a eako of chalk and rubs the plate i briskly with his bare palms. This } cleans the exposed parts of the plate 1 thoroughly and leaves the ink in the > lines which are to convey the iinpres- i sion to the paper. The printer soon becomes a mass of ink from his hands to his elbows, and sooner or later communicates it to his face, as well as I daubing it over his apron. A carmine < colored ink is used in printing the two- i cent stamps, and the pressroom has a 1 decidedly sanguinary appearance. The ' young lady assistants average about 1 :?l. -!."? a day, while the pressmen run i from S-i to ?0 a day in earning capacity. Where the steam presses are used four steel plates, each one printing 100 stamps, work upon an endless chain passing in front of thepressmnn. In this operation his duties are confined to cleaning the plates with his hands, as described above, the machinery doing the inking and pressing. He can press about seven sheets every sixty seconds, and has two young women to assist him, one to feed the press and the other to remove the sheets. The sheets of stamps are now ready to he gummed, perforated and divided. After the ink has been dried and the sheets pressed Hat they are sent to another room, where another gang handle them. The gumming machine | is a simple apparatus which distributes an even llow of mucilage upon the reverse side of the stamp. It is done automatically, so that there is no waste and no surplus of mucilage upon ' any part of the sheet. The mucilage J is composed of glucose and dexterine, 1 mixed in stipulated quantities aud ab! solutely harmless. When the sheets are coated with mucilago they pass upon an endless chain through a steam chest about sixty feet long, where they are subjected to a temperature of about 135 degrees, coming out after several minutes thoroughly dried. Then they go , to a hydraulic press to he pressed flat, having become warped in the steam client. The sheets are are laid between stiiV cardboards and a stack of them put into the machine, where they are subjected to a pressure of 5001) pounds , to the square inch. There are no wrinkles left when they emerge from 1 tliis gentle squeezing. , Their next journey is to the perforating machines, operated by skillful >atohed on again, so as to present a vhole sheet to the next eheoker. One of the most interesting places u the building is the room whero the damps are examined and counted. This is an immense apartment, tilled with long tables, at which several scores of jroung women are working. Piled upon the tables in front of them are riaoks of ten dollar, fifty dollar or one iiundred dollar bills, government bonds and sheets of stamps. A mailing sound like the whisper of <1>* vind through a thousand trees tills the oom, as the counters rapidly turn the rills and sheets, keeping a mental tab ipuu HIU II14 111 WCI , W 111149 411411 rained to the utmost vigilance, seek >ut imperfections in the printing. I saw one young wouian ?t work counting and examining the stamps vhose record was from ten thousand o twelve thousand Hheets a day. Her ingers seemed to fairly fly as she iftod the sheets, and although it was mt a fraction of a second during vhieh the stamps passed under her ;a/.e, her quick eye would detect the east imperfection, passing over two mndred stamps in that time. I'or this ikillful and exacting work these young vomen are paid from 81.50 to per lay. When the perfect sheets are thus aslortod and counted, they pass to the itorago vault, a fireproof and airtight itructure. The Bureau keeps a stock >f about six hundred million stamps ui hand constantly. They are furlishcd to the Postolllce Department at ' he rate of about twelve millions a day, ipon requisition by the Third Assistmt Postmaster General. A steel ragon, with padlocked doors and uelompanied by a guard of armed men, onveys the stamps to the Postofliee Jepartment. This wagon is also used o transport currency and bank notes o the Treasury Department, and goes rundling along the street with millons of money inside of it. KLONDIKE PALACE CARS. rlr*t Kflort to l'nt Itrlmlcpr to t'so In Aiiii'rli'a. The rush to the Klondike has been ho moans of establishing a novel ranaportntion lino at Circle City, Uaska. Twenty sturdy bucks have >ecn selected from the United States Government reindeer herd at Teller's station and aro now on their way to he mining districts. This is the first (ffort to press the reindeer into the Alili ABOARD FOR THE KLONDIKE. , ? commercial service of, the no dog IiWIiwul: heretofore theKskiions through the Kloudilve^et?J?.??5vrhat the reindeer possesses trememl>us advantages over tho Eskimo 1r>g s illustrated in the matter of their respective food. That of tho dog must )c carried, while tho reindeer paws tho mow from the roots on which he subsists.?New York World. IIOMHI'H Without Cllllllllt-'J'H. It is curious, though true, that of all tho houses, dwellings, stores, hoiels Did other buildings that dot the island of Key West, Flo., from one shoro to tho other, not one of them has a chimney or anything that will answer the purpose of a chimney. Handsome residences and lowly hovels are alike in t) is respect, and from an eminence gazing out over acres of roofs on all sides one is struck with the want of something to complete the symmetry of the picture. Wood nnd coal or fuel of any kind are unknown quantities, as the tropica) atmosphere furnishes all the heat required, and for cooking purposes sticks of carbon are used, which are sold by peddlers, who hawk their wares about the streets.?Atlanta Constitution. PRINCE OF PIGEONS. lie Few IOOO Mile* In Sevenl y-ll ve Hour* iiml IIoIiIh tin- Worlil'it Itccoril, Pedro, the great homing pigeon which broke the world's record for 1000 miles in his swift journey in the air from New Orleans to Mishawnku, Ind., is the pride of the Mishawaku Homing Club. Pedro's superb race was made in seventy-five hours total, or less than fifty hours of actual flying. Carrier pigeons never work after rEDKO, PRINCE OF CARRIERS, dark. Pedro is a pretty red pigeon . it .... II ....!* I 1 . is mrco years <iIni is owneu nj Secretary 'fallens, of the elub. 1'edn ! is n brother of Lulu, the winner o the 500-mile race in Mississippi. Hot! are imported birds. When 1'edro nr rived at Mishawaka lie llew straight t< his loft, seeming none the worse foi the journey. During tho year 1 S0fi dead dogs t< the number of 10,002 were taken on ( of Chicago. A HICH WATER TOWER. I? loa Feet lllith and Bm a Cspadtjr of ?4| ?000 Oaliens. S The '"wns of the plain districts are -.jj forced to rescr?* to various expedients fttl to obtain a suitable pressure (or the distribution of their water supply. At 9^ Warren, 111., the water supply is distributed according to tlio Engineering "" News, from a water tower of masonry 102 feet high from the water table to j the bottom of the tank. The masonry' is founded on solid took about twelve or thirteen feet below the water table. At the level of the water table the walls are four feet thick, and from this they decrease with a uniform taper to a thickness of two feet at the top. The masonry is of limestone laid in cement mortar. Tho tank is made of red Louisiana cypress and is twenty-four I W-. 3 Ws'-- "H s? I jllEB#. In 0 I '"I' fillla P-DLli WAHIIEX (lI.Tj.) WATF.lt TOW Kit. feet high and twenty-one feet in diameter, with a capacity of 2000 gallons. , The standpipe which supplies the I water to the mains is ten inches in diameter and is connected with tho bottom of the tank with an expansion joint and a balance float valve. This valve automatically shuts off tho water j when the tank is full. Water is pumped to the tower from 1 a deep well located in the brick powerhouse about sixty feet away. This well is about 800 feet deep. Tho water is lifted from the well to the top of the tower without rehaudling. Eventually the water will be discharged into a reservoir, where it will bo handled by another pump for fire service, but in the meantime a very fair pressure is had direct from tho tank, which is elevated some forty or llfty feet above the larger part of tho town. A COUNTESS CREATES A STIR. , Slic Declares That Dancing Has Dcgcn* i crated Into a Graceless Koinp. 1 Tho Countess of Ancaster, who has J created a great stir in tho fashionable world of Loudon by her declaration I that dancing has degenerated into a Aveland. The CJouiites ^ Evelyn ^ ^ COUNTF.SS OK ANCASTKli. jor-General Sir Henry Ewavt, the (lueen's equerry. This fact nntl the very high social position of the Countess herself, give more than ordinary , importance to her opinions upon mutters concerning society, and dancing is certainly one of these. "Out of Sorts." Many common expressions are of i legitimate parentage, although most people believe that they spring up like i Topsy. The printing craft, for in stance, originated several very popu' lar sayings. Take the case of a man ! who is "out of sorts." In a liaud composition printing office the word i "sorts" applies to the letters and ^ I murks which should I ? 111 the tvpo case, but which are frequently miss' ing. A man who, in the days before | the coming of linotype machines, found his "e" box barren or his comna box desolate and bankrupt was , - iid to be out of those particular sorts. ;>y his profanity the calamity was made known, and by his impatient remarks to this day is the man who is out of sorts known, whether he is a I banker or a policeman.?Chicago Rec- _ ! ord. flintti'l Shivery In Mlnsotirl. \ According to an old law in St. Louis, , a man may bo sold at auction to the , highest bidder for a term of six ,.il. ..I . * ? 1 -.1 v 1 . # , mi>iu us service ior deserung nis who i\nd failing to support her. The law , is to be applied in the case of a eour firmed loafer, and an announcement of nis sale is posted on the "front door of the City Court House.?CMicago Jour('rude petroleum is an excellent -J3 remedy for rheumatism.