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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIME
BV ELLEN J- DORTCH VOL, VI.N0. 33
Legal Notices
administrator s sale.
Agreeable to an order from
court of Frauklm eounty will be sold
at auction before the court house
door of said county on the first Tues¬
day it November next within the
legal hours of sale the folowing
property to~wit:“
One tract of land containing 160
acres more or less, lying adjoining on the
waters of Middle river,
lauds of Joe Henson, widow Frank
Aderhold, Thos. -Dickson and others
laid laud, lying seven miles north
west of Carnesville, there is on said
Wace a good two horse farm open,
[uciudiug balance about ten of said acres land of bottom in pine
land the only
tad LeU original forests, tolerably
improved, and sole! as the pro¬
perty of Lewis Aderhold, deed,
rermsone half cash the remaining
naif tc become due on the first day
pf November 188S with note and
purity bearing 8 percent interest
trom day of sale, purchaser to re¬
ceive bond for title. B This Adernold, Sept., 26th
887. John
Administrator*
ADMINISTRATOR’S SaLE.
Agreeably to an order of the court
f HU Ordinary be sold before of Franklin the court county. house
oor in Carnesville on the first Tuea
ay in November 1887, within the
;gal hours ot sale the following
roperty to-wit: One tract of land
i Franklin county on the waters o)
forth Broad River con taining one
undied and fifty acres more or less,
lining lands of L W Starr, John
f Osborn and D F Cape. Sold as
le property of Janies A C Wade
bceased, late of said county sold for
to purpose of paying the debts ot
[id Iter deceased. the Titles will’ the be purchase made
jonty. which payment ot of the
is now one
bbts due for said land,
prms khnin’r cash John W Osborn.
of James A C Wade, dec
lORfllA Franklin County.
To all whom it may concern; A J
icWhirter hat in due form applied
1 the undersigned for permanent
Iters of admi*istrntion on the es
te of John W Me Whir ter late of
[id bon county said application deceased, and I the will pass tint
on
londay in Nov., next 1887,
Given under my hand and Oflicia
[nature This t)ct. ? 3rd 1887.
L N Tribble Ordinary 4t
’PLICATION FOR LEAVE TO
sell
! *rgi« Franklin County.
After the publication of this not
:• once a week for four weeks ap
c»tion will bo made to the Ordiu
r of said eenntv for leave i# aeil
t wild land* belonging to the es
« of E W May held deed,, at pri*
t*sale This Oct 3rd •±1
Jno M Freeman, Ex’r
ȣ
citations.
Minni AlliGIA 1 I ,, rankliu 1 r Coun rs > ,y.
To all whom it may concern ; A J
MeWhirter, applied undersigned deed., nas for m leave due
m to
Mil the lands belonging to the
>te of saicl deceased and said ap*
Nation will be heard on the fust
[“day 7. in Nov., next. This, Out, 3
L N Tribble Ord. 4t
SOltGIA, Fnmdlin «rey.
a all whom it may cocern ; A J
W lnrter administrator of John IV
Whirtsr, deed; has tu tlue form 1
‘lied te undersigned .T .** 0 for w leave to
1 .1 ibe . landli belonging to the : estate
*‘‘l decease ;
and said application,
a. a-*-** “
•it j l|k Oct; J1H07
J( N T riltbie 0 ? d:
sossvtouwd,
m «$*!» tirujmml negottit# .
to
• w li«ttJ Hctat# at ! jwr wat tir
mmmtoukm.
i, ii, I*ABM,
THE WILD RIDE.
I hear in my heart, I hear In its ominous pulses,
All day, the commotion of sinewy, mane tossing
horses;
All night, from their cells, the imiJortunoto
trampiDg and neighing!
Cowards and laggards fall back; but alert to tho
saddle,
Straight, grim, and abreast, vault the weather
With worn, galloping legion,
a stirrup cup each to the one gracious
tvomau that loves him.
The road is thro 1 dolor and dread, over crags and
morasses:
There are shapes by the way, there are things
that appall or entice us:
What odds? We are knights; and our souls arc
but bent on the riding.
I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses,
All day, the commotion of sinewy, mane tossing
horses;
All night, from their cells, the importunate
tramping and neighing!
We spur to a land of no name, out racing the
storm wind;
We leap to the infinite dark, like the sparks from
the anvil:
Thou leadcst, O God! All's well with thy troopers
that follow.
—Louise Imogen CHiiney in The Century.
WHEN ‘‘OLE MARSTER” DIES.
“Young Mnrster” in Possession of Mis
I-ilierltancc.
Then day “ole marster” dies,
and the n *-s, one by one, young and
old, file i.*>:. the darkened parlor to taka
a last look at Lis quiet face. He had his
furious temper, “ole marster” had, and
his sins—which God forgive! Today he
will be buried, and to-morrow “young
marster” will inherit his saddle horse
and ride out into the fields.
Thus he has come into possession of
iiis negroes. Among them are a few
whose working days are over. These aro
to be kindly cared for, decently buried.
Next are the active laborers, and, last,
the generation of children. He knows
them all by name, capacity, and disposi¬
tion; is bound to them by lifelong associ¬
ations; hears their communications and
complaints. When ho goes to town, ho
is charged with commissions, makes pur¬
chases with their own money. Contin¬
uing the course of his father, lie sets
about doing for them what is best under
the circumstances—making them capa¬
ble, contented workmen. There shall be
special training for special aptitude. One
shall be made a blacksmith, a second a
earpexiter, a third a cobbler of shoes. In
all the general industries of the farm,
education shall not be lacking. It is
claimed that a Kentucky negro invented
the hemp brake. As a result of this
effective management, tho southern
planter, looking northward, will pay him
a handsome premium for the blue grass
slave. He will have no white overseer.
He does not like the type of man. Be¬
sides, one is not needed. Uncle Tom
served his father in this capacity; let
him be.
Suppose, now, that among his negroes
he finds a bad one. What shall he do
with him? Keep him? Keeping him
makes him worse, and moreover lie cor¬
rupts the others. Set him free? That is
to put a reward upon evil. Sell him to
his neighbors? They don’t want him.
If they did, he wouldn’t sell him to them.
Ho sells him into the south. This is a
statement, not an apology. Hero, for a
moment, one touches the terrible subject
of the internal slave trade. Negroes were
sold from Kentucky into the southern
market because, as lias just been said,
they were bad, or by reason of the law of
partible inheritance, or, as was the case
with Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom, under
constraint of debt. Of course, in many
cases, they were sold wantonly and
cruelly; but these, however many, were
not enough to make the internal slave
trade more than an incidental and subor¬
dinate feature of the system. The be¬
lief that negroes in Kentucky were regu¬
larly bred and reared for the southern
market is a- mistaken one.—James Lane
Allen in The Century.
The Inventor of Shorthand.
There has been held in London during
tho week an international shorthand con¬
gress, which assembled to celebrate the
jubilee of Isaac Pitman’s system of plio
nography ami the tercentenary of the
stenographic method of reporting, which
originated with Dr. Timothy Bright.
Bright’s “Characterie, ” published earliest in
1587, seems to have been the
English manual of shorthand, and it had
numerous successors, none of which ever
became popular, however, till Pittman
hit on the phonetic principle as the basis
of stenography, It has recently been
ascertained that the credit of inventing
tbe first system of shorthand writing by
sound belongs to the Rev. Pluneas Bailey,
9ett j B g f ortb b j s system in 1819
Tbia was eighteen years before Mr. Pit
man’s “Stenographic Soundhand” saw
the light, but to the latter is nevertheless
accorded the credit of tangthe father of
moderishorthand.-Thc Epoch.
“Gath” on .Journalism ami Literature,
r SSffi. rSS
w attret^reality ffiy
^.,„ u‘ ira to<l. tho Literature profession can of in the this man country of
only For tho hardworking■ and aspir
leisure. whoso capital is hi*
Imr vounit |! man.
bl ratur e means hardly a oonspe*
tencc, while tho press means in comnnr
afira will command greater jwi« «
to a ixtix-r a
and be wktor read. When rawe engaged of
hi writing f«r tin’ |*rere, even men great
talent (Mdont leave that ocvujsiUon f 10
those of literature, ~-tau» Franctocu t%ii
twW v tow. .
Met omudl A lire itaitia tltoir 1 mmi *
inf lira atirettwly 1«W {!*»»*•• * 1
CARNESYILL3, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26 1887.
Arrow Xlwowlnte lit Yorkshire.
A “Yorkshiremaira' sends tho follow
ng description of ike game of arrow
throwing: Tho Yorkshire arrow throwing
consists in throwing «• ar row the great¬
est distance, and not in aiming at a mark,
the ground from Che standpoint being
measured out into paces, each twenty
yards apart, radiating from the center or
standpoint, and which are generally
marked by small branches or twigs stuck
into the ground and called “scores;” tho
one throwing the most “scares” winning
the match, say, out of about thirty or forty
throws. The arrow is not a javelin or
assegai, but very similar to the arrow
used in modern archery, though without
any feathers at the baso or metal at the
point. It is generally made of light soft
wood, varying in length from two to
three feet, according to the fancy of tho
thrower. It is rather thicker at the point
than the base, and sometimes is made of
two different kinds of wood, box being
used for the point and willow for tho
base,
The method of throwing is as follows:
The thrower takes a stout piece of whip¬
cord about a yard and a half in length, a
knot being tied at one end so as to form
a “button,” round which the cord is
“hitched” after having been passed
round the base end of the arrow and a
few inches from that end; the cord is
then brought down to the point, which
tho thrower holds in his hand, the cord
being perfectly tight and parallel to tho
arrow to prevent it slipping from the
“button,” or knot, at the base until it is
released in tho act of throwing. The
thrower then passes tiro remainder of the
cord round his hand in order to insure a
better grip, and taking a ran of several
yards, as a bowler does at cricket, throws
the arrow with a jerk overhand, as one
would throw a ball or stone, the cord
slipping knot from the the arrow and impetus over the is
as soon as necessary
given, A really expert thrower will gen¬
erally throw in a match at least from
nine to eleven “score”—i. e., 180 to 230
yards—every throw, his best efforts reach¬
ing as high as thirteen or fourteen
“score.”—St. James Gazette.
Purification of Drinking Water.
X j ie use 0 p a [ um t 0 c j e ar muddy water
haa ]ollg beon known, but Professor
L ee( ] s> j n u 10 course of an investigation
1 on an outbreak of typhoid fever at Mount
Holly, N. J., discovered another value in
its use which may Lis very important.
He found that the water which was sup¬
plied to the inhabitants of' Mount Holly
was swarming with bacteria, about fifteen
drops being capable of forming 8,100 col¬
onies of these microscopic germs when
spread upon a suitable surface. Ho tried
the experiment of alum of this adding writer in a the minute
amount to .pro¬
portion of only half a grain to a gallon,
and found that not only was tho dirt and
coloring matter precipitated, but that in¬
stead of the same quantity of water con¬
taining 8,100 colonies of bacteria, it con¬
tained only 80, and these were all of a
large form. On filtering the water
through two thicknesses of filtering pa¬
per lie found that the filtered water con¬
tained no bacteria, but was “as sterile as
if it had been subject to prolonged boil¬
ing.” This amount of alum is too small
to be evident to the taste, and is not
harmful to the health. If his observa¬
tions shall remain imrefuted, they may
form a valuable method of purifying pol¬
luted drinking water.—New York Post.
How to Taste.
Strictly speaking with the tip of the
townie one can’t really taste at all. If
vou put a small drop of honey or oil of
bitter almonds on that part of the mouth
you will find, no doubt to your great sur
ra sort-’you ise that it produces no effect of any
only taste it when it begins
slowly to diffuse itself and readies the
true tasting region in the middle distance,
But if you put a little cayenne or mus
taicl on the same part you will find that
it bites vou immediately—the experiment
should be tried sparingly—while mouth if you
put it down lower in the you will
swallow it almost without noticing the
pungency Enthat of the stimulant. The reason
the tip of tho tongue issuppfied
only with tho nerves which ore really
nerves of touch, not nerves of taste
proper—they belong to a totally different
r.iainbrancli, and they go to a different
center in the brain, together with the
very similar threads which supply the
nerve of smell for mustard and pepper,
That is why the smell and taste of these
pungent substances are so much alike, as
everybody must have noticed a good sniff f
at a mustard pot producing almost the
same irritating effects ae an incautious
mouthful.-Boston Journal.
Humor at an Inquest.
There is a talc of s ciebody who re¬
fused to enter the water until he could
swim, and this personage is generally
cited as an example of the muddled head.
No one could suppose for an instant that
twelve householders of Merry England
could possibly be victims of tliat com
bsr s ssraEfra rtsrJ 1 A4
boatman to tot a boat on lure to inex
j enenced pen-raw. ’* The unfortunate
man w to pul h applicant under ex
<u ti tiro hiniftolf that lie
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r< dMngufabGi be*
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fit# Cat ill \« Id | |J tilts to iiotltf*
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MASTER OF THE HOUNDS.
Qualifications cl the AucceMful
mnti-TnntalixIng the PaeWBlood."
If a hunter is sufficient^ versed in
craft and has the physical Strength,
well as devotion to fhe cause, to
through the fatigue—and It is very
sidcrablc-of drawing coverts (hy far
most wearisome part of 1 m smut*
ness), halloaing his hounds tnrng (OgieR *>
fox, cheering them in mM,
always being dlose to them fftrrtn#*
he will do well to hunt them
but it is a task of all things that
endurance, patience, keenness, in
degree, and above all, in order to be
cessful, an intuitive, inborn knowledge
hunting. Ho must, moreover, or at
he ought to, spend a great deal of
time in his kennels, often draw out
hounds to feed, walk them out in
ailing meadow, and in every way
familiarize himself with thorn that
will care for no one but him, will fly
his halloa, turning to his voice er
hand, and, in their own way,
talk to him.
It is not, however, every man who,
fond as he may be of hounds and
of hunting them, cares to or can
so much time and attwoMlMi to them
home—added to which Mm kennels
often several miles from MP house; but,
even without (he performance of all
domestic details, lie will have them
much under command and as ready
work for him as he can wish if his
ing of them is good enough and if
get that confidence in his appreciation
them, and in his power to guide or
them, which is indispensable to sport,
Above all, if he is as anxious to kill as
th ey are themselves, and if, when he has
his fox in hand, more especially at
end of a hard run or a long day, ho
breaks him up in style, making the very
most of the obsequies, and tantalizing
them with the expected worry till they
are almost frantic.
To see a master or huntsman holding
his front fox of high him, in air, a big dog pack in
every hound mad with ex
pectation and baying with that savage,
angry note only heard when they are
about to eat him, and then with a last
“Wliarp, tellyo, tellyol” dash the fox
into their faces, to be tor* in an instant
into a “hundred tatters of brown”—this
sight is enough to stir even a limpid
spirit, and make it feel there is something
in fox hunting. There is a great deal of
moonsliine talked about‘“blood," but
hounds ran just as fast whether they kill
or not. It is there instinct to chase—to
drive their hardest on the scent, accord
ing as it serves them—and it makes no
difference to them whether they have
broken up a brace of foxes in the fiiom
ing or not, as to how they The primary -wiMt -settle busi- to
their afternoon fox.
ness of the huntsman is said to be to kill
the fox; our own opinion is, that it is
much more to show sport; and if we were
master of any hunt servants who used
unfair means, such as heading him back
into their mouths at the end of a covert,
they would not do it a second time and
stay with us.
“Blood” is a mania with many good
men, but most of all is it carried to ex
cess in the cubbing season. From the be
ginning of September, often a fortnight
earlier, for several weeks, the practice is
to take out about thirty couples of hounds,
the majority being old, or “working”
ones, at daylight, throw them into some
small spinnery or other place where there
is known to be a litter, and literally
“mop up” a brace or leash of the unso
phisticated youngsters before they have
ever heard the sound of horn or hound,
What young hounds want to learn first
and foremost is to put their nose# down
and hunt a line by scent; and they are
certainly not likely to do this by beta;
turned loose in some inclosure where the
are for the greater part of the time pei
forming natural feats of valor after hart .
and rabbits. Thereal secretof this slaugh
ter of the innocents is to aggrandize the
total of masks at the end of the seasor
A crack pack that goes out four and flv .
days a week will, in a good open seasor
bring to hand from seventy to a hundred
brace of foxes. But liow many of tli«
have been killed before even Oct. 1—be
fore 9 o’clock in the monung-and no
before more than a dozen people—win
nearly half of them.—Outing.
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Lorenxo Dow-* CUek.
At tho New London county fair lai
week John Ireland, of this city, exhih
jted the clock that ticked for Lorenzo
^ ln hig gambre f i roofed house at Oxo
^ ^ ix nules west of this city
Eider Dow brought the clock from Eng
Und . It is more than 100 years old. 1,
fa a quaint and striking timepiece. Ther
is simply a rim dial plate, around which
two long crooked fingers creep, wit.:
open air works behind it, nocase, an 1
two or three brass .th/ weights on cord
dangle six feet below face It wn -
S dralTf attention it,*ai»4rtderly cl
people stopped before me
had many stones to teU of itsfamou
owner, Elder Dow’s name being a house
hold word in this part of the state.
"’Tain’t what you’d call a prett
piece,” said one of the visitors, a sta
wart old farmer, who remembered th,
eccentric preacher, “tait then Lorenz,
wam’t a handsome critter, an’ It loot i
summut like Jdm, tew. It’s got h,.
voice, sure's yerbom."—N<fw Yo»4r 8ur
_——
^ x>t«fig«ruiif Gatt*
A wi,ira .i! i. one which nrcxlue.
3S5 dimlnutkiu *jK£2?bs of Tht* furlmii nn
unprepared SwSrsr for such S 1 *
eattvw tmt wiwiiiiietillf (orals U j*ror«i »Im sailor < f
the nwHd*nger.a« i* Um Iom *
0 stotanc«. A I4«rlt
jaugeroue, as H is -torli ueuallr ew«4* pree»|a4 Mtd fey
mi ut to at* !
(W Niqstnto.| hy h»+tf rain. Time (Into '
Qtlw/t gtvrat to Hvm, trim sails and »*» •»*t| paril.-*'
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A DELINQUENT ELEPHANT.
4 at the PnIneB of Mandalky-Aa
Beast In Disgrace.
Many were the sights I witnessed but in
and out of the palace of Mandalay,
nothing struck my attention ao much as
tho number of trained elephants, latoly
belonging to the deposed monarch, and
the splendid quarters in which they were
located, and my surprise was st ill more
increased when I was introduced to and
entered into conversation with the gen
tlemnn who presided over this extensive
establishment. He turned out to be a
real native of the Isle of Wight. The
white or mouse colored elephant was
there of course, but “how ore the mighty
fallen.” Ho was no longer in a magnifi
cent pavilion, alono in his grandeur, of king; sur
rounded by many servitors the
on the contrary, he was in a stall like tho
rest of the beasts, and, if anything, less
noticed than many of his finer brethren.
One more anoedote about this wonder
ful beast, and I have dono with elephants,
Shortly before our arrival one of these
animals had greatly disgraced himself by
refusing to carry a certain weight of
goods which had been piled weight, on his and back,
There is the regulation tho
beasts know to an ounce what they ought
to carry, and if any one of tho mahouts
attempt to put a surplus amount on his
or their backs it is immediately shot onto
the ground. The animal in question had
been duly laden with a weight which was
under the regulation scale; but although
it had been twice weighed, as Mrs. Gamp still
would say, before his own eyes, ho
refused to carry it. This was too much
for even his indulgent driver, so he no¬
cordingly reported, and just ns we arrived
he was about to be tried for his extraor
dinary and obstinate conduct,
Severn! elephants were led out Into a
large courtyard forming a kind of circle
round the delinquent, who seemed al
ready to feel his position acutely, for he
glanced anxiously from time to time at
his mahout, who was visibly affected and
who stood at his head. A karen presided
over the court martial and read aloud the
indictment against tho offender, the ele
pliant* which constituted the jury ap
parently listening with great attention,
After the statement was finished and the
mahout examined, who, by the way,
gave his evidence with great reluctance,
the karen decided that tho case had been
distinctly proved and the culprit was ad
judged the punishment of twenty strokes, verdict
Upon the marched announcement in of solemn the
the jury a most man
ner to a distant part of the yard and re
turned with a switch about as large as a
fair sized scaffold pole. In tho mean
time the mahout had been addressing the
offender, who was now weoptagf «op Imm
ly, large drops of tears falling shrill from his
eyes, and occasionally a and pe
culiar sound issued from his capacious
throat.
The executioners of tho law were at
hand and stood about twelve to fourteen
feet apart, each balancing with peculiar
nicety in his trunk tho aforesaid switch,
The culprit was led up to the place, and
as he passed number one there was a
sound heard wMeh resembled somewhat
a sharp clap of thunder ; it was tho first
blow delivered by the dread myrmidons
of tho law. The blow was followed by a
sharp, shrill scream, although there was
evidently an attempt on the jxirt of tho
culprit to suppress any exhibition of pain,
This punishment continued until the
whole of the scntenco had been carried
out. Although I felt considerable sym
pathy with the unfortunate delinquent, I
was at the same time intensely amused
with the thorough business like air with
which these ministers of justice carried
offt the sentence. There were no light
blows delivered; but, as a matter of fact,
each elephant determined to administer a
heavier amount of punishment twinkle than his
neighbor, and the sly in the eye
as the How was delivered was a sight t®
see.-Primrose Magazine.
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Cleopatra’* Needle*.
x)l0 1>air ! of obelisks-ono in London
an j t ] lf O thov in New York city—were
erected bv temple Thothmes HI, in Heliopolis,lx;
fore t i )0 of the Sim—alxrut laffT lOCii,
B.U They were three centuries
removed from Heliopolis by Ramoses II,
and set up in front of (insure temple,
where they obtained the well known name
of “Cleopatra* Needles.” When his wars
were ended, Ramoses II caused his name
and titles to be inscribed upon the obelisk
on each side ot the inscriptions,of his r<>
nowned ancestor, Thothmes, III. One of
these obelisks wa„ removed to London in
1878, and tho other was brought to the
United Htates. and er.cted on its pedestal
in Central Park in January, 1881. Its
height, including its I wise on which it .
stands, weighty ft et. and its weight, with
pedestal and foundations, 712,000po«nds
H is re-1 granite from the quarries of
«.venc^“U P. O.” mMagazmeof Amer
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««« ,» * Theatre
I could never understand why jxsjple
choose boxes in » theatre. Their object
U certainly not to see nnd enjoy the pUy, |
U-couse one does lira need to go Into a
box a second time to arriveat tlmcraich.
xi„n that that i» iuqxissibta. There art
defects «n the stage, hits ofthem, nnd
a ,«rsOH lwrched in a box cannot
.void seeing them, mid marking them,
too; Hint is, unless lie is admiring the an
dience, or, in ease the spectaUir Is a
won win, wantw to if tlw «
ia ad n* irin H lier ’ I tlwro are defects
thflUhere l»
SSaRStfe from In front to not perfect
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y*rtM«itu» #» Hu *a Knit,
Ttwre is « msgidfiorait frametioi* of
reel* salt m-N* t!«» tow 11 J Htm QuonUu,
i*,d , fwarmon tnitos totm fey three m !•«■» j
(1.00 PER ANNUM
TREASURES FROM THE BAHAMAS*
Interesting Experiences of a Helen
t, ®° I ’* rty * rom Pe “"»Jlvnnl«.
Tho little party of biologists sent out by
tb® University of Pennsylvania In June
Jo make investigations and researches
“ avG returned with abundance of glory
* nd «>veral boxes, tubs and tanks fuU of
curious specimens. The primary purpose
*" J a un ^ was *° K lTC th® party an
opportunity . to determine tho Ba
upon
hamas as the sit® ot a biological marine
Jtation that the university desires to estab
“ sh > and ho]** to hav « ln existence within
^ fund u 'oo for years. that It purpose, already has a considerable
The residence of the party during their
stay was a * * comfortable house three
nines from Nassau, almost upon the
water’s edge. They lived in community,
f a<dl member taking charge of the men
*5 turn. The cost was extremely modest,
The men went to work at once, taking
advantage of such assistance as the people
roundabout could afford. A young boat
man and diver named Brawn was found
to be of great use, having already served
three distinguished naturalists.
All the party were good swimmers,
mid soon learned to do their own diving.
Each provided himself with a crowbar
and a water box, a small box with a plate
glass bottom. The glass, quieting the rip¬
ples 011 the surface of the sea, enabled
them to see far down into the depths,
many times to the very bottom. When
any one saw a bit of rock bearing corals,
anemones, sponges, or other objects that
he wished to secure he teased the glass
asido, dived down and pried the desired
specimen it loose with the crowbar and car¬
ried up under his arm. Practice en¬
ables tlkmi all te stay a long time under
water. Mr. Marshall frequently remained
two minutes submerged. Dr. Dulley says
that any man can remain under water a
considerable rime if he will simply make
up his mind tC do so. There to an intense
feeling of oppression at first, but Dr.
Dolley says it is simply nervousness, and
soon passes away.
The men could work in pairs, and
though the salt water dimmed the sight,
they managed to see sufficiently well un
der water. They had no water spectacles
them. The water round the coral
teefn is full of tiny animalcules, which
sting the skin, and the naturalists were
obliged to cover their bodies as thor
oughly as possible. As it was, their
bands, which they kept bare, were stung
into a condition of intense redness. The
P al 'ty made such investigations as they
could find time lor into tho habits of the
sponge, and besides made a four days’
cruise in a schooner,
-Altogether specimens were obtained o£
every variety of coral known to exist in
the region, a number of new anemones
and sponges were discovered, nnd the col
lection of crustaceans and echinoderms is
complete. The moths and butterflies are
well represented, as ara the reptiles, liss
aids, snakes and turtles. Besides the
animals secured, a fine collection of na
five woods, some seventy varieties, was
added, and a large number of tropical
plants were potted and brought alive for
tho new conservatory of the biological de
partition!. Among them arc specimens
pf nearly all the orchids found on the
islands,
Several medicinal plants were secured,
and experiments will be made ns to their
therapeutic value. Among them is a
curious I lean that animals ora very fond
of eating. At first tho animals grow
beautifully fat and sleek. But In about
two weeks their tails nnd manes drop off,
m another week thar hoofs and horns, if
the/have horns, go. Then they grow
w* a *er and weaker, and finally die of
fatty d ®generntio% But even to the end
they eat tho beans with infinite relish,
There arc other plants in the collection
that aro used by the natives in the treat
merit of rheumatism and dysentery with
apparent success. The doctors are “bush
who have learned the medicinal
ot aiK ' , ‘ K)t8 and trees by
B<lllad to the Island oL Alaco one day P “? and y i
£ 8,1 f ^ ove v their nerts, a i
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r erv stroke and'when
fire, they
ou t Kvered upou their boat their myriadT bodies 1
to «JTks Tb^“*wk« wH 1 " of
of course
V ere myriads of cooenods tlir- little S clow
^ «
^ k „ f tho c? tiupMand Luvcavans 8 ’ the
inhabitants tfiv who
“^ will n ware
t v l y Colu bus wera
te<l 10 Ac.yiemy of Natnral Sci- j
,rt8 ' ir, ,
Sfi’bo . ^ !a J
department at the univereity.-Fhila-
1 Times.
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v»iii«* «n<i Tame* in t»« s«ntii.
The asw-raxl valuatira. of twelve couth
ril K tafs is now >1,004.800,41:), as
*3,ltt4 I 7«,TOa i» 1871MW. an in
in seven .cars of $1)00,000,000,
rale of taxation is now) lira on the
as against r> il-.’i seven years ago.
is highest in Texas, Alntwinn,
K^ntuuky f&itcl C*aroiftia
fl#m 3 U 4 l<> 7 1-2-mid NorUiCtirf^rm— loweat In
tlitorgiu mul
lit «n!ti*r Blitter (hi
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11 «ttot
Ifltf hvi»hi* toiit|4»A in
but siiows lira ffTtadwt uwrmyo during
liwi w%i*u yt’Ufw, for iu IHJ0 lit r itn*
i | tttitjiiti';!* vtduatiist Wild | $'M)4,WiO,LKa), Tlw
hirgi-rt to that <4 Ken
twky, $4t»il,aWMKW. ami lies (bird to
Virginia, wiUi a total of
the taster ftit-Ibeuss
4 l«*a »• M »*l*l*st*#'» H»ir.
h wramm In Itolttm, U$>, «I mm*t<
Haw Sftlmatt U C*ta*d, J
In preparing dressed salmon fins, head for canning ti e
at flshjare the rate of of 1,500 to 2,000 and entrails day by
a
each man. They go through three wash¬
ings and cleanings, and are cut by a ma¬
chine into lengths just the height of a
can. These several pieces pieces. are each The sliced length¬
wise into men who
do the filling, press the pieces as com¬
pactly Into the can* as possible; a Chi¬
nese wil fill 1,000 cans in a day. Tho
filled caw are then taken to the washing
machine* where they are rapidly re¬
volved under a spray of warm water and
are rubbed with a sponge at the same
time, after which they are wiped dry
with pieces crimper of netting. the edge the
In the of cover is
crimped and the cans then roll across a
brick soldering furnace, the ends passing
through a trough of melted solder. This
machine and furnace will dispose of
20,000 cans a day and over. The com¬
pleteness of the operation is tested by ex¬
amination and immersion in hot water,
and, if no further sold<#ing is necessary,
the cans are immersed again for an hour
and twenty minutes in a caldron of boil¬
ing water, after which they are again
tested by Wing tapped on the top by a
small wooden mallet, imperfections being
Indicated by the sound. Hie good ones
are punctured immediately to let sealed the hot air again. escape
and are up
The cans are now rolled on a track into
an iron retort and cooked by steam for an
hour and fifteen minutes. They are next
plunged into a vat of hot lye, to remove
•very particle of grease, and are im¬
mersed in a tank of cold water until they
are perfectly cool. The both final testing is
made by twe men who their tap each can
with a large steel nail, trained ears
detecting any wrong sound. Food canned
with all this care is in no way unfit for
eating.—Good Housekeeping.
Dinner In a Chin*** Ynnmen.
A turn in the little ornamental garden
of the yoamen, all grottoes and summer
house and minute landscape effects, pre¬
pared ns to return to the women’s quar¬
ter, and then followed the dinner, supremo
effort of the yaamen’s chef. It began
and ended with tea, and the little plates
of bois d’oeuvres, watermelon seeds,
pickled almonds nnd mysteries remained
by us to tho close. A preliminary bowl
of sharkfln soup, with egg curd fish,
tested my courage, and then was dis¬
played her with skill, acquired sticks, by serious
friend practice duck chop os shreds of
were set before me. There
followed a pigeon egg stew, from tho
depths of which my chop sticks brought
up pieces of the thin mountain mush¬
room!, that are really delicacies. Then
we had bacon fritters, as far as a hasty
analysis could determine, another kind of
ragout with mushrooms, fried chicken,
an almond cream custard with steamed
sponge cake, a stew of Japan shell fish,
fresh fish, the famous bird's nest stew,
sweet olives, rice, another kind of soup,
a fish combination, a deadly pastry, then
innumerable sweets and fruits, and tho
final cup of tea.
The warm champagne was served with
all the courses, and the visiting Chinese
lady having set us the example we joined
her in lifting glasses to our hostess, and
saying ‘ ‘Chin ching Huong ta ta, ” Huang.” equiva¬
lent to “Here’s to you, Mrs.
Tills reckless toasting followed each
course, wo only touching the edge of the
wine; but the Chinese ladies took genu¬
ine swallows of it, and only lietrayrel an
effect by a heightening of the color ju t
below the rouge spots on their cheek¬
bones. Towels wrung out of hot water
were passed us at intervals of tho feast in
the place of flnger bowls.—“Ruhamah's”
Letter.
Bone* of a DfMtodou.
The bones of another mastodon have
just been unearthed in Nebraska. Only
fifteen years ago scientific men were sug
gosling that the famous elephant mound
of Wisconsin was good evidence that tho
maldo,lon and tbe mound builders were
contoinfionines. It was discovered latei
sand , hill l -n piled up ® /T,* by the wind, ' v - as , “A" and tho
“ d "//"fures - m books*>hav,
!” K t with elephants. It
m:< P ft * 40 ABMrican * arehaBotegy,
h '-' vm ' c r - *° P rov ? that m ? n “ ,past / w
«»d a# the 1 uiMtodon, for in this country
ISent'than l< ""Vnml h!?* H^se %ne more
of man masto-
12 <lm, unearthed wuS bl in S Missouri was UuntZ undoubt- nld
Z»L of So bonoxPof weilnf uLJ were fo^d
among among the the bones of the the victim. victim Now Now
York 8un.
ot Exr<wtSftn«, f r.pI.er,. „
/ bttv ‘L 1 ^ 801,18 »««>tion to the speed
/ stenographers, and tiunk tba
^. ISXnS iL-evor, Sb?mi
u Xo he must drop
r/n 3 ee Z fifty two ^1 nT„lU wonll n 200 TN
pbystad , , strato n will not qllow tto tta speed nwe- to ,
ill™ ii.i.mh bysliJlitm wlitch
fabrauaht wfif itonluv fm-lv
rhnrartara IreTn
[ rZiin/LMvr^tm^-aWie-Dem- W U1
rwtored.-Otooe-ixin
Th* Atitlqnn I’lgtntl.
A curious evidence of Uic antkjuity and
l«rnmnene*i of a Chinese fashion to tho
jirerenc# of it newly discovered Ilittiw
seal, fraiinl nr*nr Tarsus, of figures wi ft
that qimsi-Slongoiuui *p|iei«i«gc, tho j.* *•
tali, raw of tlwre is’ing a|.j«re«tly ««
Migin iwndtd deity. Tlw same api- odic a
i« to >« n«n cm sram 11 [}#• ifUHlWt-*
wllicit ilk* IIrftiwil »»*•*: ' I (Udn*4 If- —
tim reputed site of t »u ti.idi; 4tsi * 1
Khita wotrirav or# A teefe-d
adorned outlie l^.i|>n,iit|,i nlo,gil A.
Him!*’!, it appear* tin* i*igiall was in
i«M«j mi (liiiiw by ftw (fanchus,--itout
*Toa fTnaa*
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