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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISi V
BY ELLEN J. DORTCH
DOLLS' WIGS OF REAL HAIR.
A New Industry to Meet tho Demands of
Children of Means.
A new industry lias sprung up on Fifth
avenue. It is the manufacture of real
wigs for dolls out of real hair, made bet¬
ter than many real wigs and sold at
prices that proclaim them to be genuine.
The place takes up the whole first floor of
a big house. The dolls’ wigs are only rn
incident to the business. The first dolls’
wigs were made this year. The, head of
the firm told about the way lie happened
to start making them:
“For several years I have had calls for
dolls’ wigs from ladies whose children
had tom the hair from dolls they were
much attached to. This season I began
to make them, and I have received far
more orders than I had expected. Here
ia a doll that has been sent over to Phila¬
delphia for its second wig.”
The proprietor took the reporter to a
counter where lay a beautiful doll about
two feet high, %ith ball and socket joints
and a pink complexion except where the
paint had worn off. On its head was a
real wig of light blonde hair with a fluffy
bang ' ont and French twist curls 'behind.
The hair seemed to be glued to the head,
yet the wig came right off. It was as
neat a job and fitted as well as if the wig
maker had manufactured it for a human
head. It cost only $12.
“It is becoming quite common, ” con¬
tinued the mistress of the store, “for a
doll to have two or three wigs. They are
got up in all styles, like the wigs of a
fashionable actress, only smaller. They
are just as well made and just as valua¬
ble in proportion. * The hair is dressed by
the little girl that owns the doll, and it
gives her knowledge and experience that
will be useful. Two or three wigs in
different styles give the little girl a chance
to develop her own ingenuity in arrang¬
ing hair. By the old way dolls’ hair was
made of Angora wool and was glued to
their heads. It was not liko real hair
and it could not be dressed. It tore off
and that was the end of it.
“Dolls’ wigs cost from $7 to $25. The
$7 wigs are for child dolls and have short
curls like a little child’s. The most costly
wigs are light shades of hair. light
shades of blonde hair cost three times as
much as brown hair. Some dolls have
light and dark wigs, which can be changed
to match the doll’s dress. A doll that
had a wig made for it last week had just
got $150 worth of winter clothing. You
can get a shade of wig to match any
dress.
“So far I have had orders for no red or
gray wigs. They will probably come in
time. The latest tiling in dolls is boy
dolls. We have made several boy wigs.
A little girl out for a walk takes her big
boy doll with her. Or she may take a
girl doll and put a boy’s wig and clothes
on and take it out. There is getting to
be a rivalry among families to see who
has the best and most fully dressed dolls.
It is becoming proper for a little girl to
be escorted by her doll when she goes out
to take a walk, and of course the doll
must be dressed in harmony with her
dress. I don’t know what this fashion
for doll will end in, but the trade in
dolls’ wigs is rapidly increasing. So far,
I believe, I am the only manufacturer.
It takes a workman two days to make a
doll’s wig, and a brisk trade in dolls’
wigs will make work.”—New York Sim.
» Meissonier'* Range of Vision.
Apropos of pictures I am reminded of
what Alexander Dumas, “fils, ” recently
said of the way in which Meissonier
paints by way of accounting for his use
of such circumscribed canvases,
“Meissonier is not exactly near sight
ed ” says Dumas, “but his range of
Tision is limited. By a curious idiosyn
cracy of his visional organs he is unable
to take in more than a very limited ex
tent of space at a single glance. Thus,
where other wonderful people see by the square only
‘metre,’ this artist can
see by the square ‘centimetre. ’ His can
vases must therefore be made on a scale
that will enable him to see them in their
entirety and the proper proportions of hri
work thus should be preserved. •
“If he attempt to paint a can
vas say eight feet by six, it would bo
quite impossible for him to form a true
idea of the mathematical relations borne
by the edges of the picture to the center,
seeirig that he could not take in the whole
at one ‘coup d’oeil.’
“Thus he recently painted my portrait
about half the size of life. This was a
prodigious effort, a real‘tour de force,
in which he was compelled to take in
gigantic proportions, to as draw if an tae ordinary Colossus
artist should attempt
of Rhodes at fud length. N c w \ orl:
Graphic.
Poet Payne’s Return.
When Payne, the author of “Home,
Sweet Home,” returned to Boston after
a long absence in Europe, he called upon
a lady, an old schoolmate, who said:
“Mr. Payne, don’t you find Boston much
changed?” “Yes, madamc,” he an¬
swered, “very much—I recei many in¬
vitations to attend church, and very few
to dinner. ’ ’ When the poor poet went to
assume his office at Tunis his lugga ge was had
at once pathetic and amusing; he
several trunks filled with books, and
hardly any clothes.—Boston Budget.
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CARNESVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 18 1887.
A Hath la Salt Lake.
A reporter had a chat the other day
with a business man of this city who
spent a day in Salt Lake City not long
ago. He reports that women and men
there have a depressed, melancholy look,
and give the impression they are peiue
cuted. The physical appearance of tho
women is good. An old man, a stono
setter, wa3 asked by one of the ladies of
the party how many wives ho had. His
reply was: know, madam, only al¬
“You we are
lowed to have one.”
This old man tried to find out what
the visitor thought of the Edmunds bill.
It was noticed that the reading desk of
the Tabernacle was hung in black. The
visitor asked if any one were dead. Tho
reply was that it was done in memory of
the elders in prison. Tho gentleman
took a bath in Salt lake. The water, ho
says, is much more salt than that of tho
ocean, so much so that tho attendants
warn visitors not to swallow it, as it
burns tho tissues of the throat. It was
very easy to keep afloat in the water, but
very hard to get into an upright position,
A trip on tho steamer on the lake was
taken, and tho captain said he could
make but *hrce knots an hour because cf
the great resistance of tho water. It
was reported that there were no fish in tho
lake, but the visitor filled a bottle with tho
water and found two little fish in it.
Very beautiful and bright crystal forma¬
tions were found along the edge of tho
lake looking like pure rock candy. Some
of tho sage bushes, upon which the water
flowed, were covered with this crystal
formation.—New York Mail and Ex¬
press.
How Charcoal Is Made.
“Charcoal is duly appreciated by lazy
women,” said a dealer in that commodity
to a reporter. “With it one can build a
fire in five minutes. It is cheap. I sell
charcoal at $3 per chaldron, but peddlers bushel.
deal it out at thirty-five cents per coal,
Yes, charcoal is a little dearer than
but then the latter .doesn’t go so far or
last so long. The best charcoal used by
tin roofers or plumbers is made in the
Catskills or in the woods of New Jersey.
It is made in tills way: A cord of wood
is placed in a cleared piece of ground, with
the sticks standing upright. In the mid¬
dle a stake is driven. The fine and
coarse woods are mixed close together so
as to make a firm pile. The whole is
covered with sods and earth. A fire is
lighted in the center of the pile and on
the top of which a hole is cut so as to
allow the smoke to escape. The fire is
permitted to smolder for twelve or
fifteen days, when the sod is _ taken off.
A cord of wood will turn out from
twenty to thirty Bushels of charcoal. In
former years much more charcoal ped¬
dling was done than now. The trade
has pretty well petered out, however,
owing to the many hard coal peddlers.”
—Brooklyn Eagle.
How* Horses Rest Themselves.
“Horses can get some rest standing,”
said an old trainer recently, “provided
the position be reasonably easy, but no
full rest except recumbent. It is known
of some horses that they never lie down
in the stall, though if kept in pasture they
take their rest habitually in a recumbent
position. It is well to consider whether
the habit has not been forced upon the
horse by some circumstance connected
with the stall he was made to occupy, in
that it had a muddy earth floor, or one
m£U j 0 0 f dilapidated plank, uncomfortable
an( j offensive to the horse that had been
acc ustomed to select his own bed and pas
tmv . jf the horse can have the privilege
0 f selecting his own position for resting
on bis feet, ho can sleep standing; but
w jjile bis muscles may be to a certain
degree relaxed and get rest in that posi
pon, what can be said of the bearings a;
the joints? Without relief through the
recun ibent position, the joint surfaces are
f orce d continuously to bear a weight
va iying from 1,000 to 1,800 pounds. This
mus t act unfavorably, especially upon tho
com pli C ated structures within the hoofs
w bich na ture intended should have,
periods of rest each day.”—New York
and Express.
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-An Experiment with Milk.
dairymen who do not believe in
the ^ wer 0 f m iik rapidly to absorb and
become contaminated by surrounding
noxious sme u s w m do well to try the fol
j ow pjq, pimple test, the results of which
w jn doubtless, immediately convince the
mo£t skeptical; Take a wide bowl or
g0 ppp^ to the cow stable when you
< ^ m jp c . pour into it a pint of fresh
mjlk it on the floor or „+ t p 0
j & m j 2 k stool, so as to expose it fully to
tfae ^ of thc stabl0j behind and close to
! c ows. If the day is close and heavy
and the milk is cold and the stable not
cleaned out and aired the result will be
surprising. Take it to the house or any
v.-hcre away from the stable and try to
drink it.—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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Cost of the Chinese Wall.
OOOcuUiTfoet An engineer in fev.-ard's
fag labor ai ; the
; Y„- or
Good for the Workingman.
i Ten cente’ worth of sponge and a bucket
! of water, a fwe cent Look on homecalis
; fWric a a good daflv newspaper, the
‘ boote, embracing everything worth read
i ^ minted in tho various “libraries,”
^ and torkfagman a French coffee thrall pot ere worth more
thc free baths,
and rcr.dfag ream,
a ml coffee houses in thc world. -Chicago
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A TIP IN WALL STREET. „
Warning from a Friendly Broker—An
Idiot Flaying with Lightning.
Five years ago I had a tip on Memphis
and Charleston. It came from the exper¬
ienced financial editor of a daily news¬
paper. Wo had worked and chummed
together from boyhood. Brothers conM
not have thought more of each other.
One afternoon I received a letter from
him urging mo to raise $1,000 and buy
Memphis and Charleston railroad stock
for a rise. Tho money was to servo as a
margin. Ho assured mo that ho had in¬
vested nearly all that he was worth in it.
“I am on tho inside,” ho wrote, “and I
will stake my life on the result.” Know*
ing the man so well, I borrowed $1,000.
On my way to a broker I dropped into
my friend’s office on Wall street. Ho
reassured me of tho certainty of the in¬
vestment.
“English capitalists are going to lease
the road for ninety-nine years, ’ ’ ho said.
The stock is now selling at 42. When
the new3 about tho Englishmen crops out
it will go up among the 80’s. It’s tho
only sure chance I ever had in my life.
It’s just liko picking up money. ’ ’
On tho suggestion that it was barely
possible that ho might be mistaken with
regard to the Englishmen, he continued:
“Ah! but I saw the check on the
purchase money. It was drawn for
$3,000,000, and it will bo cashed to¬
morrow. I had the check right here on
this hand,” ho said, clapping his right
palm with his left. No man could be
more sure of an event. Tho check had
been shown him, ho assured me, out of
good will and gratitude by a man who
was indebted to him for many a news¬
paper favor. Influenced by his confi¬
dence, I hesitated no longer. I went to
a broker who was a warm personal friend.
He had never seen me dabbling in Wall
street before. “What brings you here
now?” he asked. Ho was a member of
my lodge, and a worthy member. He
heard tlao whole story and shook his
head.
“I’ll not buy tho stock for you,” he
said. “My knowledge and my judgment
forbid. It’s quoted at 42 to-day. That’s
the highest it will over go, in my opinion.
The British syndicate is a ghost story— and
taffy for fiats. Go back to your desk
keep reporting dog fights and murder
trials, for you’re out of place in Wall
street. You are worse than an idiot
playing with electricity.” market
The $1,000 was returned. The
was watched by me as closely as a cat
watches a ground bird. Tho broker’s
prediction was fulfilled. The 3tock went
down like a corkscrew. Within two
days my margin would havo been wiped
out. Within five days the stock M lost
touched 31. The financial editor
$5,000—money sadly missed by his widow
and children two years afterwards. More
than one man in this city, by tho relation
of similar incidents, might shod a lurid
light on tho crop of tips now ready for
the sickle. The warm air from tho min¬
ing and stock boards has ripened them
like cotton balls. Those worth picking
are few and far between. Even these
are rarely picked, however.—New York
Cor. Pioneer Press.
Importance of the Paraffine Business.
Said a practical refiner of oil while re¬
ferring to the importance the paraffine
business has reached: “Every person
who sinks his or her teeth into chewing
gum nowadays chews paraffine. Every sold
delicate caramel or other confection
in the candy stores contains the wax,
and the paper it is wrapped inis saturated
with it. For the insulation of electric
wire 3 paraffine wax has taken the place
of everything else, and as the electric
lighting system increases in extent the
demand for this wax must necessarily
become proportionately greater. It is
the only wax that will defy the notion of
sulphuric and other acids, and it cannot
bo adulterated for that reason. It has
displaced all other wax in the manufact¬
ure of candles. The paper manufactur¬
ers have found it an indispensable .article
in their business, and all waxed papers
are now coated with refined paraffine.
Fine cutlery and hardware cannot rust
when wrapped in paper waxed with par¬
affine. Brewers find it invaluable for
the coating of tho inside of barrels, keep¬
ing them absolutely sweet and clean. It
has taken the place of French wax in
the manufacture of wax flowers. It is a
perfectly pure hydro-carbon, without
taste Or smell, notwithstanding that it is
made from tho worst smelling tar imag¬
inable. It defies the strongest dissolv
ants of all kinds, and is yielding more
profit to those who handl e it in all
branches than any other substance of
American trade. ”—New York Sun.
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I hare a great , , behef ,., m . ,.ff, r nrv “ of
fire engmes agaa^t a mob. Vet c.ctl«
cold and wet; and this “LTSo fact is so wS weu
known that a certain French piliti an
PWHppe was replacing Napoleon’s statue !
S-Sm 2
is considerable. No man can stand
against it. Besides, on afford tho_pnaeip.el.iat human be
the mishaps of others
fags a certain amount of satisfaction, L»
niombera of a crowd are sureto laugh and at
seeing their companions wetted, a
crowd which begins to laugh ceases to.be
dangerous. I would therefore suggest
that whenevffi- a serious Astmbance is
anticipated afew fire engmre should fco
gaDid «t 4410 pobet—
noise Life to the Country.
Too many of our farmers’ homes are
merely so in narno. They are not homes
—only places to stay. Do not think wo
are insinuating that you must rush right
off and spend $1,000 in buying new fund
turc, carpets and an organ. Not at all.
One of tho “homeyest” places we ever
saw was one that was entirely innocent
of any extravagance in that line. Three
hundred dollars would have covered tho
cost of all the furniture in the house; but
it was a place wo always enjoyed visit¬
ing. The head of tho family was always
jolly and ready to take a hand in a
and his nine children, always hearty and
full of fun, and did not care to bo out in
the evenings.
The girls did sowing and knitting as
they grew old enough, and tho boys were
often found “making something”; but
no evening passed that some one did not
have something to read to tho others—
an anecdote or a story—something either
to amuso or instruct. Cut tho main
secret of tlioir happiness, if it was a secret,
lay in the fact that worrying and fretting
were banished. One growler or fretter
will spoil a whole family. Fathers,
mothers, don’t allow a fault finding spirit
to spoil tho pleasure of your family circle.
Don’t indulge in it yourselves. Have
ns cozy and comfortable a homo as you
can afford, but don’t mourn over what
you havo not. Rather rejoice in what
you havo and bo thankful.—National
Stockman.
The Man of Luck.
A king once said to his minister, “do
you believo in luck?”
“I do,” said tho minister.
“Can you provo it?” said tho king.
“Yes, lean.”
So ono night he tied up to tho ceiling
of a room a bag containing peas mixed
with diamonds, and let in two man, eno ;
of whom believed in luck, mid the other
in human effort alone. The ono who be
lioved in luck quietly laid himself down
on tho ground; tho other after a time
found tho bag, and, feeling in tho dark
tho peas and stones, ate the peas and
threw tho diamonds to his companion,
saying, “There are tho stones for your
idleness.”
The man below received them in his
blanket.
In the morning the king and tho min¬
ister came and told each man to keep
what ho had found. Tlio man who be¬
lieved in trying, got tho peas which ho
had eaten, the other got the diamonds.
The minister then said, “Sire, thero
may be luck, but it is ao rare as peas
mixed with diamonds; so let none hope
to livo by luck.”—Chatterbox.
One of the World’s Mean Men.
There are some very mean men in this
world. That everybody knows. But
perhaps the meanest of them all is an in¬
dividual who has been operating in real
estate and building. His favorite method
is to buy a lot in a block where the fronts
of adjoining houses arc eight or ten feet
or more from the sidewalk. He starts
his house with the front wall flush with
tho sidewalk. Of course his neighbors
remonstrate, Natural !y they do not
want their light and view cut off. But
he doesn’t see how ho can alter his plans.
He has been to much expense, and to
change things now would cause him no
end of loss. If, however, the property
owners directly interested will consent to
help him out of the difficulty to the ex¬
tent of $200 to $300 apiece he will have
the front wall set back in lino with his
neighbors’ houses. Otherwise ho will bo
oompelled to go ahead. This mean little
game, ’tri said, has been repeatedly and
profitably played by the same man.—
Chicago Herald.
A Difference In Peanuts.
There is a vast difference in peanuts.
Some largo nuts look very fine, but are
really tasteless. No matter how well
roasted and prepared they may be they
still lack tho features of a good nut. A
good roaster, like a good cook, must be
bom with certain qualifications that can¬
not be reached by trying to educate him
to it. Some dealers roast the nut too lit¬
tle and others too much. Roast 1 hem
too much and the oil is taken from them,
and if the oil is not properly brought out
the nut has a disagreeable taste. Soma
people like peanuts hot, but then they
aro very bad for tho teeth. Dyspeptics
should eat very few. I find from my
own experience that it would be better
if they did not eat any. The average
peanut eater cats ono every minute,
which is entirely too fast.—Peanut Ven¬
der in Globe-Democrat.
Taking His Precautions,
Louis XIV was one day conversing
about the authority which kings have
over their subjects. Count de Guiche
ventured to remark that this power had
ite liraits > ,3ut the kin; '> w!l ° would not
hear of it, passionately replied: “If I
comnaan ,j €< [ you to throw yourself into
thc £Ca ou * fct ’ with^t hesitation, to
^ head foremost.” , The count
not a word, but turned on lus heels
InrTT’iirb aT4h°
, re£lsurIuR the Fewer of Light.
Hsls Intensity of the two ligirta
directly proportional to shaded: the squares of
the i. e„
mwrm t)lc u^ ht to be tested is three
d5st ^, w , the candle, ite il
|umiriatil ^ , r i!3 nin „ t im«K as great—
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THE POISON OF MALARIA.
Tho Researches of Tommoai-Cruilolt and
Others—On tho Roman Cnmpngna.
When wo talk of the Roman climate
we can not disassociate tho themo from its
distinctive characteristic—tho malarial
poison. W hat ia this poison? Till tho re¬
searches of Tommasi-Crudoli and Kiebs,
published in 1879, the most plausiblo who
answer was that of Dr. Leon Colin,
defines it as an “intoxication tellurique,”
an earth poison generated by the surplus
vegetative energy of an abnormally fer¬
tile soil, whoso fecundity was very sprinkling par¬
tially absorbed by the scanty
of herbage that overspread its surface.
Cultivate this soil, render to this vegeta¬
tive energy its appropriate pabulum, and
you provide tho antidote to malaria.
Such, stated with extreme brevity, was
the theory of Leon Colin, embodied in a
work of great ability, which, appearing
as it did, at tho outbreak of the Frnnco
Gennan war, encountered a public too
preoccupied to give it tho study it de¬
served.
Toinmasi-Crudcli combats this thoory.
denies that the Roman Camphgna fe¬
possesses anything liko the oxuberant
cundity with which it has been credited.
Ita really fertile tracts are few and far
between, rarely compensating tho agri¬
culturist for his labor—as, Indeed, was
well known to ancient husbandmen.
Then, again, if the poison implies, were tho gaseous, mal¬
as Leon Colin’s theory bo
aria surcharged atmosphero ought to the
at its maximum at noonday, when
exhalation from the soil in greatest; but
on the contrary, the localities in which
malaria is most pronounced reach their
maximum of danger in the morning and
evening—those periods of tho day when
tho difference of temperature between
earth and atmosphere renders tho ascend¬
ing aerial ourrente most powerful and
most apt to transport the material of the
poison. That material, according to
Tommasi-Crudeli. is a living ferment,
encountered equally on the mountain and
plain, in dry soils and in humid. Its ex¬
istence was suspected and unscientifically
described as long ago as the decline of
tho Roman republic by the agriculturist
Varro, and its nature and form are de¬
fined by Tommasi-Crudeli as a “Schizo
metes bacillaris.”
For its development it requires a tem¬
perature not lower than twenty degrees
C. (a moderate degree of humidity) and
tho immediate contact of the
with tho soil it infects. As tho absence of
a singlo ono of these conditions prevents
the development of the malaria, so cer¬
tain localities exhibit at times a natural
suspension of the poison. In winter, for
example, tho fall of tho temperature be¬
low the required twenty degrees causes a
tbermid suspension; tho loss of Che neces¬
sary humidity under prolonged drought
causes a hydraulic suspension; and tho
interposition of sheets of water or of a
thick matting of turf on the lying down
of a pavement, by preventing tho imme¬
diate contact of the atmosphero with the
infected soil, produces an atmospheric
suspension of the malaria.—London Lan
cot.
“ro-jr Carlotta’s” Insanity,
The insanity of “poor Cariotta,” ex¬
empress of Mexico, has lately been mani¬
festing itself in an acute form. She ap¬
pears to be always searching for some¬
thing on tho ground, and shows groat
satisfaction if she can furtively pick up
some trifle unseen. Her attendants are
careful to scatter small objects about her
path. She will not allow any ono to
accompany her in her walks through tho
parks of her castlo of Bourchot, and if
through tho gate3 or railings sho sees a
passing peasant she flies and hides her¬
self, with all tho symptoms of abject
fear. Tho king of the Belgians has de¬
ckled to rebuild for her occupation the
castlo of Pervuerin, which was destroyed
by fire. It is situated in thc middle of
splendid forests, and will insure ll }0 af¬
flicted empress every privacy.—Gficago
Tribune.
Life Lengthened hy Laughter.
Perhaps thero is not the remotest cor
ner or iittlo inlet of tlio minute blood
vessels of the body that does not feel
aomo wavelet from tho great convulsion
produced by hearty laughter shaking tho
central man. Tlio blood moves moro
lively; probably its chemical, electric or
vital conditions aro distinctly modified.
It convoys a different impression to all
the organs of the body, as it visits them
on that particular mystic journey, when
thc man is laughing, from what it does
at other times. And thus it is that a
good laugh lengthens a man’s life by
conveying a distinct and additional stim¬
ulus to tho vital forces. — Scientific
American.
The Negro and HI* Coon Dog.
When Judge Kelly spoke at Anniston that
he said among other good things
Alabama would bo better off if she had a
6heep for every dog she now has. The
Judge evidently doesn’t know the da 2 -
key’s love for his coon dog. Whether we
ever have any sheep or not the sports¬
man wants his setter and pointer. The
darkey is not classed as a sportsman, but
he loves a ’possum dog too well to give
him up except at the command of the
law. And wan poverty would havo to
Bit mighty close to anegro’a hearth-to
make him vote for any candidate for the
legislature who favore a dog law.—Bir¬
mingham (Ala.) Age.
mmzsm vibrations second.
hear has thirty-two shrillest per lias about
The highest and the
70.000. Man’s voice can scarcely go
Mow a eound that gives 104 vibratmns
per second, nor woman’s voice higher
than 2,088 vibrations per second. Chii
dma go much higher than that iri the
shrill cries they sometimes Utter—Burton
Budget.:, , , .
OL X . NO. 3 .
SUGAR MADE FROM COAL TAR.
Possible Results of a Discovery Made la
Germany—Various Adulterations.
Tho scientific world is just now inter¬
ested inr a recent discovery, by which coal
tar is made into jnigar. Tho enterprise
originated in Germany, but is attracting
general attention in this country. Dr. T.
C. Minor, who keeps posted on everything, coal
was called upon to give some facts on
tar sugar. sugar,”
“Tho now substitute for re¬
marked Dr. Minor, “is called saccharine,
and is really a product of coal tar. It
will add an additional value to tho refuse
of gas works. It8 discoverer was Folil
borg, who formerly lived in tho east, but
resides at tho present time, I think, in
Hamburg.” substance been intro¬
“Has tho new
duced to commerce?” its
“Not to any largo extent, owing pound. to
cost, for it is worth about $12 will per
Yet one pound of saccharine sweeten
10,000 pounds of water.”
“How is it prepared for tho sugar mar¬
ket?”
“Tho preparation used in Europe is an
admixture of glucose and dextrin. One
pound of sacciiarine will convert 2,000
pounds of glucose into tho very best grade
of ordinary table sugar; that is, it will re¬
semble table sugar as regards qualities sweetness, of the real
without the nutritious
“You don’t mean to say that there is
no nutrition in saccharine, doctor?’ ’
* ‘Yes; it has little or no nutritious prop¬
erty, and is merely an adulterant. ’ ’
“Is it likely that it will tie ever used on
a large scale as an adulterant in the
United States?”
“Of course,” replied Dr. Minor, “when
the process of making the saccharine is
cheapened. I would be willing to pre¬
dict that every large gas works in the
country will bo selling sacciiarine as a
refuse principle in tho next twenty years,
and that there will be enough profit in tho
business to make illuminating gas for
nothing; in other words, tlio manufacturing present gas
works will bo a saccharine
establishment, while the refuse will be il¬
luminating gas. Aniline colors and am¬
monia salts will be made under tho same
roof as tho coal tar from which tho sac¬
charine is devolved.”
“What is the process of making sac¬
charine, doctor?”
“That question can be answered better
by a chemist,” said Dr. Minor. “It is
usual, however, to tako wliat is called the
toluene in coal tar and treat this sub¬
stance with phosphorus pentachloride; article that it
is the cost of this other ren¬
ders tiie manufacture of saccharine so ex¬
pensive Yet, oven as expensive as it is,
a quhb of sugar can now lie manufac
^turod oven cheaper than New Orleans
cano sugar.” betiio result of this
“What will new
adulterant?’ ’
“It will cheapen the cost of sweetening
materials in groceries and candies and
will enhance the value of real cane sugar,
just as tho price of pure 1 Hitter has been
increased by the vile adulteration, oleo¬
margarine. Tho working people, who
now pay tax on every pound of sugar
they consume, can enjoy glucose, the
product of coni, adulterated with saccha¬
rine, which has no nutritious qualities. milk
Pure butter, pure sugar and pure
will always cost a large prico and only
be wdliin reach of the wealthy. Why,
even modem Chicago lard is now said to
bo largely mode from cotton seed oil.
This in the ago of adulteration, and about
the only pure article left to tho mass of
humanity are plaiii brwul and water.”
“How about coffee and tea, doctor?”
“Coffee in the berry, unbrowned and
unground, can not be imitated, but three
fourtiis of the ground coffees on the mar¬
ket are adulterated, As for tea, Ceylco
is now the great producing country for
cheap tens, which are palmed off in
Europe for fine Chinese goods. Ceylon
teas lack much of the tJieine or active
principle of tea that is found in the genu¬
ine Hong Kong chops.’’—Cincinnati En¬
quirer. _
Site* for Turin Houses.
The farmer's home is, much of tho
time, in tho field and out about the
premises or off to the'market place, and
hence he suffers from no confinement
under bad conditions. Even if Ids nights
under tho roof are not exactly of the
best, owing to being confined in close
quarters or from bad air arising from un¬
der or within tho house, his day outdoors
dissipates much of evil that comes to him
in the night time and he may riot be ma¬
terially harmed. But with the wife the
case ia quite different. The house is her
field, and she cannot, if she would, escape
from any damaging influences that exist
under tho roof. Tlio plan for such farm
buildings as are to lie erected the coming
year should be very carefully considered
during tho winter, and not only the plans,
but thd location, as to drainage and dis¬
tance from any point or ]joints upon the
farm whence malaria may arise. As ia
well known, the prevailing winds aro
from the west and southwest; and, per¬
haps, the most unusual of all are from
the northeast. Hence, the question of
location is important, if thero is any
especially damaging spot on or near the
farm, and should be considered and acted
upon. Careful researches by Bowditch, Petens
kofer and others have quite closely con¬ and
nected the prevalence of consumption
certain low forms of fever with the ap¬
proach of tho water line or its nearness
to the surface: Standing water at a less
distance than six to seven feet should
warn against building upon such a ate.
At any rate this should not be done un¬
less thorough drainage could bo practiced
upon the deep soil. living close upon be it
the borders of a body necessarily of water, preju¬
stream or l;ike, ia not
dicial particularly to health, dtnnRgynfg- yet there in the is something influence
exerted by confined moisture beneath a
dwelling or in the mil- upon which a
building is placed. Therefore, the con¬
ditions here briefly pointed oat cannot be
safety overlooked. —Live’ Block Journal.