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Special oomepondence Southern World.
BALTIMORE.
Nome of HerPnlille Institutions nnd
Manufactories.
Through the kindness ot Messrs. G. Mor
ris Bond and Jno. B. Tidy, Jr., both promi
nent yonng lawyers of this city, I had the
pleasure of an introduction to Mr. Joseph
Merrefield and Hon. Francis T. King, the
former treasurer and the latter President
of the Johns Hopkins’ fund.
Said Mr. King “there is probably no city
in the union that has been the recipient of
more or larger bequests than Baltimore. For
instance there is the Moses Shepherd Insane
Asylum, 1800,000 ; McDonough Institute for
the education of boys, 8600,000 ; Peabody
Institute and Library $2,000,000; Samuel
Ready Orphan Asylum $500,000; Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Nurses Home, Colored Or
phan Asylum, $3,300,000; Johns Hopkins
University $4,000,000 j Enoch Pratt Free Li
brary $1,250,000 ; Thomas Wilson's Sanita
rium for sick children of the Poor, $500,000;
and about six smaller bequests of $100,000
each.”
The Johns Hopkins Hospital which is
just now nearing completion is the bequest
of a wealthy deceased citizen after whom it
is named. It is mainly intended for the bene
fit of the indigent sick ot Baltimore and its
environs. The endowment fund amounts
to about three and one third millions of
dollars, yielding an annual income of $190,-
000. Out of this income have been, or are
being erected the hospital building proper,
an establishment for convalescent patients,
and a home for colored orphan children.
After these buildings are completed this an
nual income will be devoted to their sup
port, the principal remaining permanently.
This hospital moreover is intended to furn
ish a desirable aid to the medical students of
the Johns Hopkins University. The hospit
al buildings are as follows : One three story
Administration building, flanked by a two
story pay ward on either side,the north wing
for males, the south for females. To the
east of these are twenty other buildings,
comprising common wards, an octagon
ward, nurses home, apothecaries bnildings,
kitchen, Ac., each of which are isolated
though connected with covered corridors.
The hospital wards contain room-for 300
beds, and the intention is to admit any and
every case needing medical or surgical treat
ment (except those of an infectious or con
tagious disease.) The ground upon which
these buildings are erected is 115 feet above
tide-water. One of the most important feat
ures connected with the hospital is the
“School for training Nurses.”
The Enoch Pratt gift is of recent date, and
being given conditionally has not yet been
accepted by the city, though it doubtless
will be. That condition is that in consider
ation of the conveyance of a library build
ing and premises and the payment of $833,-
333, by Mr. Pratt, the city of Baltimore
shall grant and create an annuity of $50,-
000 to be paid unto the Board of Trustees of
the corporate body, to be applied by them to
the purposes and maintenance of the libra
ry. I notice in this morning’s papers an or
dinance accepting the above on the part of
the Mayor and city council. This ordinance
will be submitted to the legal voters of Bal
timore, and will no doubt be sustained.
I think I can now go to the hotel table and
use the butter placed before me without
asking "Oleomargarine ?" for I have witness
ed its manufacture, and found to my agree
able surprise the reports concerning it are
entirely false. Instead of being made from
the refuse of the butchers’ stall it is manu
factured from the purest fats. The first
room we enter contains immense tanks in
which this fat is washed, “scoured” as the
shipping clerk said. It passes through three
of these tanks, is thoroughly cleansed and
carried to the third floor where it is cut in
to fine pieces by an instrument resemblinga
sausage grinder. It is then placed in boil
ers, melted at a temperature of 120°, empt
ied into pi pea which carry it to vats on the
second floor where having remained an hour
it is drawn off into large boxes. It is left
in these boxes for seven days, the room con
taining them being at a uniform tempera
ture of 85° F. After it has thus become
crystallized, it is placed under hydraulic
pressure, the pure olein passing into pipes
that empty in tanks on the first floor, and
stearine remaining being packed into boxes
and afterwards made into candles. This
pure oil thus extracted is pumped up into
large churns on the third floor where it is
mixed with sweet milk and “some other
things to give it the right flavor,” and is
thoroughly churned. It is drawn off from
these churns into boxes, mixtd with broken
THE ^)UTHERN WORLD, FEBRUARY 1, 1883., _
ice, and carried through the same process as
in separating butter from milk. It is now
ready to be salted, boxed, and labelled "Ole
omargarine.” Is there any thing so “awful
ly bad” in it after all I
This factory, during the busy seasons, em
ploys 45 hands, and makes 12,000 pounds of
Oleomargarine per day. Last year they ship
ped two and one half million pounds, two
thirds of it to the South, Atlanta buying a very
large quantity. If we are going to use Oleo
margarine, why do not some of our energet
ic Georgians establish a factory, and supply
our markets?*
During my stay here I have met a Mr.
Reynolds law-partner of a lineal descendant
of Bonaparte, Mr. Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
The latter gentleman is a grandson of Je
rome Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napo
leon, who was at one time King of West-pha-
lia, and who when a young man during a vis
it to the United States married a Miss Pat
terson, by whom he became the father of
one child Jerome Napoleon. Jerome Napo
leon Bonaparte lived and died in Baltimore
leaving two sons, Jerome Napoleon, and
Charles Joseph the subject of the present
notice. The former, the eldest, entered the
French army, and distinguished himself in
Crimean and Italian battles, and was after-
put that much money into other peoples
pockets. Our soil can produce most any veg
etable and of as good quality as can Mary
land ; we ought therefore to raise then veg
etables, establish our own canneries, and
pocket our own money.
In the neighborhood of Baltimore ate some
very extensive and old farms, that are
yielding large incomes to theirowners. Some
statistics concerning their remarkable suc
cess will furnish data for another article.
Baltimore, ifd. W. P. Woolley.
'Iam gratified to know thatAtlantabasone.
Resurrection of n Prehistoric Race.
About ten miles from Cincinnati, along the
Little Miami River, is a locality which has
long been known to the country peo
ple as the “Pottery-Field." The ground
was strewed with fragments of pottery,bones,
arrow-points, and other remains of like char
acter, and the place was generally consid
ered to be the site of an ancient work-shop.
The primitive forest stilt occupies the local
ity, and is made up of oak, beech, elm, ma
ple, walnut, etc. All around are found nu
merous mounds or tumuli, most of them
small. A few of these were opened by Mr.
Florian Gianque, in 1876, and some interest
climate have much to do with the matter
for, in a dry and equable climate, bones may
resist for a long time the influences which
would cause their decay, while in a moist
climate, and with sudden and extreme
changes of temperature, such as we have
here, any bone unless buried in peat, or
subject constantly to heavy pressure, so as
to become partially fossilized, is liable Jb
soon decay.—From “A Prehistoric Ccmetety’^M*
by Joseph F' James,in Popular Science Mog^t-JJ
SILVER SPUING. FLA.
The Land of Flowers is noted for its grand
and magnificent springs. We give on ttys
page a handsome view of one of the greatSjf
natural curiosities in the world—Silver
Spring, situated in Marion county, 46 miles
from Waldo,and on the Peninsular Railroad.
The spring is 75 feet deep and 600 feet in
diameter. The water is beautifully trans
parent, and the minutest objects are plainly
seen. No more charming or romantic spot
can be found. Its source is a mystery.
Gold in Ancient Times.
Gold was in excess in ancient times, and
mostly taken from the rivers in Asia. The
fables of Pactolus, of the golden fleece of
the Argonauts, of the gold from Ophir, the
history of the King of Midas, etc., all point
to an Eastern origin of this metal. Accord
ing to Pliny, Cyrus returned with 34,000
Roman pounds of gold (about $10,000,000).
The treasures exacted from Persia by Alex-
ander the Great amounted to 351,000 talents
or $400,006,000. Gold also came from Arabia,
and upon the Nile from the interior of Africa.
Pliny calls Asturias the country in which
the most gold is found. A tablet bearing
the following inscription was fonnd in Idan-
ha Vilha, Portugal "Claudius Rufus re
turns his thanks to Jupiter for having per
mitted him to find one hundred and thirty
pounds of gold.”
These sources of wealth have ceased to
flow, and the endeavor of several English
men to re-open them have been unsuccess
ful. Bohemia. Maliren, Silesia, and Tyrol,
all have produced gold, and the receding of
the glaciers has caused old mines to be un
covered. while upon the Italian side, at
Monte Rosa, Val Sesina, and Val Ansaca,
goldmines arertill-woriud tWdnj»»dhbom)fa» *
with indifferent success. The only works
of any note are those of Kremnitz, Hungary.
It may, be safely asserted that Europe is
completely exhausted in this respect.—From
‘‘The Decrease of Gold," by F. Von Briesen,
Popular Science Monthly.
Etrccts of Teaching; Kindness to Ani
mals.
SILVER STRING.
wards Captain ot the Empress’ Body Guard.
He was captured at Sedan, resigned, and re
turned to this country and married a grand
daughter of Daniel Webster. Charles Jo
seph Bonaparte is about 30 years of age,
married, and a lawyer of great promise and
brilliant talents. Although possessed of a
large and independent fortune, he devoted
himself to the practice of* his beloved pro
fession, and is one of the most diligent work
ers at the bar.
A Georgian may well feel proud when he
hears so many praises of his progressive state
from prominent men. "She is way ahead
of every State, south of Maryland” is what
every one here says. Yet with all her pro
gress she is far behind. For instance in the
simple business of canned goods, what ne
cessity is there to send North, when we can
produce all forourown markets? Near Balti
more there are immense vegetable farms,
tomatoes mainly. These farms are plant
ed and the crops sold in advance to the can-
ners, the latter taking the chances of a good
or bad crop. These canned tomatoes are sold
every day in the groceries of Atlanta. We
ing things found. But in 1878, Dr. Charles
Metz and other gentlemen interested in
arcliteology, commenced a systematic explo
ration of the country thereabout, and so
much has been found that we are enabled to
form some idea of the habits, and get a
glimpse into the life, of the people who once
lived in the immediate vicinity of the city
of Cincinnati.
During the four years that the excavation
has been carried on, between six hundred
and fifty and seven hundred skeletons have
been brought to light. Many of them are
in an advanced state of decay, and crumble
on the slightest toudh, while others, again,
are in a very good state of preservation. It
can, therefore, hardly be inferred that, be
cause some of the skeletons are much decay
cd, they are necessarily very old for, though
we have well-preserved remains of bones
from Babylon, Nineveh, and Egypt, which
are certainly twenty-five hundred or three
thousand years old, still the cases are eX'
ceptlonal in which they are found in good
Different kinds of soil
If besides our poor relations' rights and
the appeal of our own nobility, we need an
other ground on which to urge humanity to
animals, we find in philanthropy, the love of-** j
i- S’*
man himself; for as the circle widens to ad
mit these humbler members of the Father’s |
house, all the human members also will rise
into kinder regard. Kindness grows by ex
ercise ; callousness and cruelty also grow by
exercise. Every effort to increase humanity
toward dumb creatures blesses not only them
but speaking creatures also. We stand to all
beings in gentler attitude, and run with
quicker hands to help, after trying to help
the lowest These societies to protect dumb
animals are really protecting every prisoner
in his cell, every wild boy in the reform
school, every pauper in the almshouses,
every poor seamstress in her garret, every
orphan in the streets; yes, and every pris
oner in the wars. If ever again the great
woe comes to us, picket shooting will be \
scarcer, Andersonvilles will be less likely, "
your wounded brother or son will be more
likely to come back to you, and the war it- '
self will be put off the longer and end the
sooner, because in time ot peace these socle-
ties for dumb animals’ protection have been
active in the land.—Rev. IF. C. Gannett. .,
Mercy nml Poverty.
A kind gentleman and his wife invited a
number of people to dine. The company
arrived and were soon seated at a table boun
teously covered with good things to eat. It
so happened that a preacher, an editor and a
judge sat alongside of each other and the edi
tor was in the middle. After the meal was
over and the company had retired the wife
sent for the editor and said:
“ Sir, I saw that you did not eat much and
sent for you to come again to the table.”
The grateful editor replied: “Madam,
when Poverty sits midway between Justice
and Divinity represented by Humanity,
there Ms but little chance fok U/ When
condition after the lapse of many years., Mercy takes Poverty by th'eahundgnd leads.
so of many years., .Mercy takes Poverty by the^uindfSr
and diffc^nj^hj/1, afl is w^ll." Ai^ffue edlhKite his
fill,