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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1876,
VOL.’ III. NO. 26.
CONDENSATIONS^ NEWS.
General Hampton'* reside!
mile* from Columbia, 8. C. was
Friday last, during the night,
burn siinultaneouiily from all pn
building, and the Rtneral’a two
two younser aona had only time
with their Uvea. The literary woi
tides of virt
when H.unpt
ed from the Ore of 1865,
hnm
i own rilrer and cloth*
The ladiea escaped,
King gowns; and Gen-
>t n single article of
he had on. The only
t of General Hampton
s general lodged in
iug, were all hi
haring only tli
end Hampton
clothing, excel
thing saved wn
of the rcvnlnth
• he city that ni
•f an inoendiary. There *as no insnrancc.
The Littlo Hock Gazette wya not over
halU crop of ettton was raised in Arkansas
• hia year, and many of the planters arc very
much axubarramsd pecuniarily.
Jamestown correspondence of the
Knoxville Chronicle: Mr. Davis, who ia an
Englishman, has been cutting n road through
'•lid rock foi
oh of e
thr
oldo.
OlltllS
which, I am told by th<
lodged in a cave at least one l
fifty feet high for eighty years
has spent hnudreda of dollars,
within about four feet of the be
Too lumber trade of Texti
mid is
of that ,
Pennsylvania, and the Inquire
■ay* that the initnd effort nlret
the Philadelphia and Heading
pany in it* projected establishment of n lin
to BnutiL needs but be vigorously folium
up to Insure the most valuable results.
A Victoria dispatch says that fift
rounds of ammunition have been issued t
the militia in anticipation of n Fenian raid
Torpedoes are being prepared nt the dock
yard to repel invaders.
»increas
ing very considerably, and it is now thought
will yield millions to thoro engaged therein.
Destruction by fire of hundreds of cot
ton gins continue to be reported by southern
exchanges; the cause generally being incen
diarism. •
There ate as yet only one hundred and
twenty-seven applicants for the position of
messenger to the “electoral college," to ear
ly tiiu vote of Georgia to Washington.
There are nt present one thousand tml
thirty prisoner* in (ho Tennessee state peni
tentiary. About three hundred are confined
within the walls, three hundred are nt work
on railroads In the state, and the rest in the
Buwanee, Hattie Cfeclc and Vuirau coal
mine*. Guruer, the oldest man in the poni
ed foi
of I
fire ye
prison.
el about a game of marbles.
A suit is to be bogur
Tweed to compel him to
certain property held In
•onnty. When Tweed w
public works, nud there
Croton water, he advised the L
against Wm. M.
sntthehendof the
inga scarcity of
I of alder-
unty, which would git
iter privileges arising
load and Muhupac. J
>nt«y in the city ti
read offered t
o right to certain
of lakes Carmel,
o being but little
HOW T1IK MO$EY HAS KEEN SPENT
flic annual renort of (leu. A. ...
nni'hroys, chi^f of engint era, bna Wn
npleted. It prose ut.< a detailed atatr-
nt of the various operations of the
engineers’ do pi rt incut during the Use;
year ended Jmm i*», 1870/ * It giv.
sketches of those which arc now in pn
res*, and makes numerous recoinmenda
ion* for tho future. The numbi
dicer* holding commission* in tho i
of engineers of the I’nited State* nrmv
at the end of tho Usual year was on.
hundred and seven to the active list an.
n the retired list. The latter, how
under the law of January 3b 1870
ow available for duties. In the
b devolving ujxrn the corps by lav
the employment of a mi Alter of ‘scum
1 assistant eugincor* bna boo
careful study of the
subject of •
SKA .’OAST
by the corps of ongi
light afforded bv tin
actual conflict betwe
fensca and the new n
system to gov
of tho army and (lie
and since tlien has be
Honed by the act
The main feature*
'em. and with tli
’Xpcrienbo of the
tho rca coast do-
naval ariuamcnts, the
pvorn the futuro consl
work* was elaborated in i
1 the approval of the general
repeatedly in
ongrewi,
.f till*
are the use of heavy earthen
barbette batteries, with parados and
traverses of heavy mortar batteries, and
of tho obstruction* in the channel* main*
\y electrical torpedoes. To hold vessels
from running past the batteries reaching
the cities or depots beyond them, works
or this character have been steadily pro
gressing since ISfiO. and in many of our
harbors are well advanced toward com
pletion, but in none of tho hm hors are
these alterations finished, while in gome
important harbor* along the gull
orb
od.
nity fo
c. put up the roon.
m condition that he wr
u city, with interest the;
*n to mnke the transfer,
allow the water to be
lakes.
Twenty-four building*
buildings amounted to i
million dollars.
The assessment of i
xnble property i
it),4.1.1,000, ngniii.il $1,-
ngo. The decrease in
Of the loss I’”,410,000
••state. The large portion of
$01,351,000 is in the large
fulls on si* pe.- cent., Springfi
let the law take i
land), date ! the 0th,
the Black sen have
Kerteh and Otchakoff, on
rived to 1‘iireet the'servl
At the same time the con
has just been applied.”
Edwin Booth has l>een defeated in hi;
suit to restrain Jarretj A Palmer from furthe
using th© name of Theatre,”
to recover ten thousand dollars damages fo
the use of the name since Edwin Booth’s re
tiremeht from the management.
The captain of a whaler recently on
countered an Esquimaux who informed bin
that a tribe of Esquimaux living far north
ward of Climb rlaad gulf, many vr-ars dg .
id Capt. Cr
, the mm
nkiin cxpeditic
.refused to sut
lition.
Johnsi
id five
other whites w
guns and amm
Chief justice Johnson, of the Ui
States circuit conrt has rendered an opinion
in the great suit of the United State* vs. II.
B. L'lnffin ii Co., for the recovery of $1,500,-
030; the penalty of alleged smuggled goods,
in which the judgment of the lower court
for the defendants is affirmed.
There are indication? that the export
cord tr.ade will be soon one of the most active
auxiliaries in the establishment of the com
mercial supremacy of the United States.
I'iiiladvlpbia enjovs uuusual facilities for the
Regarding the pres.
the completion of work* in advu
hostilities, Qon. Humphrey* urge* the
preparation* of our hnrlxir* for Buccoa*
nil resistance aguinat incursions of th©
powerful iron clad* of the present day.
Among estimate* for appropriation*
Humphrey* earne*lly recommend* are
the following: For the completion of
defensive works at Fort Jackson, Mis-
I sisaippi river. $25,000; Fort Phillips
do., $25,000. On Ihc subject <»l river
aim liarlK.r appropriation* lor the cur
rent fiscal year, Humphrey* says: " Ol
the amount* appropriated for public
work* on river* and barters by tlic net
approved August II, 1870, certain al
lot men In have been made in compliance
with instructions ol the hccrotary oi war
ol September I, limiting expenditure*
under the act to $2,000,000. and direct
ing that no new work of improvement
shall be begun. The following state
ment exhibits the allotment* in detail:
For improvement ol the mouth ol the
Mississippi river, $1)0,000; surveys at
south pas? of the Mississippi, $10,000 ;
(inlvrston, $52,800 ; Mbwisslppi,Missouri
and Arkansas rivors snaggingoperation*,
$50,000; Mississippi river, between the
mouth* of the Ohio and lilinoi* river*,
$121,000; Mi**i**ippi river chan
nel <ipiK)nito St. Louis, $25,000;
He* Moines rajii.ls, $115,000;
Hock Island rapids, #10,000; upper
Mississippi river, $10,000; fall* ol St.
Anthony, $71,000; annual exjieriHe* ol
gauging the waters of the Mississippi and
tributaries, $5,000; removing the raft in
Hed river an i closing the tone* of Bayou
Uuisiunn, $85,000; improvement of the
Ohio river, $120,000; improvement ol
Tennessee river, $180,000; Great ICana-
wha river, $15,000; Illinois river, #10,-
000; Fox and Wisconsin rivers, $120,000;
Green bay, Wisconsin, $3,000; Milwau
kee harbor, $5,000; Chicago harbor,
#1,000; haibor of Hefugo, Lake Huron,
$75,000; Saginaw river,>11,000; Toledo
barter, $22,500; Cleveland barter,$105,-
000; Erie harbor, $15 000 ; Duluth bar
bor, Minnesota, $0,000; entrance to Su
perior bay, Wisconsin, $500 . < Intonngon
harbor, Michigan, $1,000; Marquette
Michigan, $1,000 ; Ahlat.ee, Wisconsin
$1,000; Two Rivers harbor, Wisconsin
$1,000; Manitowoc harbor, Wisconsin,
#8,000; .Sheboygan harbor, Wisconsin,
$8,000; Calumet barter. Illinois, $1,000;
White river harbor, Michigan, $1,000 ;
Grand Haven harbor, Michigan .#15,000;
Stugata harbor, Michigan, #1,000; South
Haven harbor, Michigan, $0,500; St.
Joseph barter, Michigan, #8,000; San
dusky harbor, Ohio, $12,500 ; Vermillion
harbor, Michigan, $1,000 ; Fairport, bar-
l>or. Ohio, #5,000 ; pier* at the mouth of
Black river, Ohio, $0 000; Michigan
City harbor, Indiana, $6,000.
In determining
to each work named, reference has
been made to balance* on hand of pre-
vious appropriations for works specified.
All these improvements, for the contin
uance of which part* of the appropria
tions that have teen allotted, are in mv
judgment, c!
r, improvetm
onsequenc©,
o protect tha
The officers
its ol Iehse
isa.ify nt.
of the Mississippi river, $150,000; for
tha upper Mississippi river, $91,500 ; for
tho improvement of tho Dos Moines
rapids, $185,000; for the Hock Island
rapid*, $50,000; for the Illinois river
$80,000; for the Ohio river, $050,000,
'or the Wabash rivet; $H5,000; lor tho
ICunnwhn river. #100^000; for removing
snags and wreck* from the Mississippi,
Missouri and Arkansas wero $555,000;
for the improvement of the Clcve’nnd
Imrteir, $200,000; for tho itrfprc v.m
of Sandusky harbor, $55,700; fo
improvement* at l’ort Clinton, (l
#20,000; for Toledo ligrbor, $140,Ho;
Monroe harbor, Michigan, $11,000; She*
bovgnn. Michigan, harbor, $85,000 ; Sue-
inaw river, Michigan, - $52,000 ; Detroit
river, $20,000; Harbor of Hefugo, lake
Huron, $200,000; tft.-Mary's fall*canal,
$800,000; Chicago harbor, #150,000
Michigan City harbor, $08,000.
In transmitting these statement* of
amount*, which hi* subordinate ofiiocr*
say cun bo profitably expended during
the fiscal year, tho chiff of enpincorc
makrtf' no roeomihertdhtloh 5HiU MWn
concerning thcim
The Hiissinn Soldiery.
Tho army which Husain can pi
the field in opposition to tho foi
Turkoy numbers, in it* land and
strength, not loss than 2,000,000 of men.
Thi* gigantic array of urmed human
being* would constitute tho most in
teresting martial force of tho globe. Tb
Kus8inn soldier, whether a* an infantry
man. a Cossack or a marine, is a study,
and now muck more a *tudy would be
the contemplation of 2,000,000 of such
soldiers in one armed body!
Since the prospect* threaten that the
army of Russia will noon be pu*bed Into
a test of its metal bv conflict with tho
Hoini-harlmroiiH horde* of Turkey, it will
not he uninteresting to consider the char
acter of the oomjHmontM which would go
to make up its column*. In tho first
place, every nblc-liodicd man in the Rus-
ian empire is compelled to servo for a
ertnin length of time iu thoczar’Harmy.
Ivory Russian i*, therefore, a trained
ddier, who must stand ready for march-
ig order* whenover national omergenev
shall demand hi* service. It is tld*
Mtringont military re(|uiroment of Russia
1 ! mi caused the immigration of tho
combatant Mcunoniic* of that coun-
o our own country within u few
s. But beside* tho enforced tem-
ry service of citizens, tho Russian
rnmeiit sustain* a regular hlanding
army—probably the largest in the world
and it will Is- this aggregation of mili
tary strength which will he turned upon
Turkish soil, iu ease tho pending war-
I of eastern Europe develop* into
Inal declaration of hostilities be-
i the
»I»v
■gular soldier of Hiimia i* a crea-
uro hardly meriting the honor of being
ailed human, lie i* a machine—a sav :
aro automaton which steps when told to
top ; cuts when told in eat. form* in lino
when told so to do, and in tun same
er loads his gun, charge* t he enemy
lies—all under orders, severally
and mechanically obeyed. The
m Infantryman or (loiwnck doe* all
i “to order;" but this will not bold
and drink* whisky ul all
.rtunitic
rlth
, for he
nient op-
ked by checking
only be <
s breath.
The Russian office
oru the common soldier* probably lban j
c the military official* of any other I
ilion. They aro imperious a
ting even to brutality. The s
light to regard shoulder-strap*
thing to bow down to, and wo be it to
lie (
en fro
emg
i offle.
ot hi* bead,
afar Ixi
Hilary salute,
until tho glittering uniform ha* p.- d
•y! The cause of thi* prohihitioi. »f
uniliarity of amiy officer* with the ns n
mderthom is readily explained when it
- known that the Russian officers are
elected from th© nobility, and are ex
acted to hold the soldier* to a point of
cverence which will preclude oven tho
possibilit y of diuobedicnce to an order on
he field of battle—a place where the
Hirers are empowered to push their
halanxes into bloody contest even at
the point of the sword. Huch is Kussian
I ilar
eipl
Russian army has
een entirely reorganized. The old sys-
•m of placing the men miscellaneously
igother, regardless of the di*trict« from
•hicli they <;ame, ha* been done away
■ith, and, a* a rule, those born in the
ime localities aro now placed in the
ime companies and battalions. It is be-
eved that thi* arrangement fostcis
.itriotism and makes better soldierH.
In the field force*of Russia there are
iifud infantry, artillery and cavalry, as
i other urinic*, but tho armamentdifi'iT*
i that some- oi the division* Htill use
long spears and shield*, ns in olden times,
‘n buttle these ancient implements are
*t effective, since (he men who
arry them become alino-t demoniacal in
heir savage fury when pressed against
the toe by their heartless commander*.
With an army of the character described
desperate struggle* with such
it will have to encounter in the
march against the follower* of Mohnm-
1, what tale* of bloody horror would
up from the battle• ground* (—
Chit
,o Jov.
J The report epitomized, detailed the
] accounts given by the various officers of
j river and harbor improvement, etc.,
, now in progress under their re*pective
; management*, with *n statement of the
I amount* which these officers estimate,
I can be profitably expended during the
J next fiscal year. Among these estimate*
' are the following:
; For the improvement of th© Mia-Usipr-i
j river between tho mouths of the- Ill!:.
sbippUi oj :uc producta of dun ot 1 pr4 Ohio riven, #500,000; fonberoouih
IHeldau* at College.
This i» a sample of the “hazing" for
hich a number of silly young fellow*
ave just been expelled from the naval
aide my at Annapolis: “ A third-da**
idct, backed by Heveral of hi* mate*,
ould enter the room of a ‘pleb’ and
1 dress him thus: 'Inman ugly fcl-
.w; don’t you think ho?’ Of course
ic [deb would declare that he thought
iin a verv handsome fellow. ‘ Then,’
ill ! clamman, ‘you n ci n to
.11 me a liar.’ The trembling l*-,v
^ ill cl liumblv asKert he meant no.'- >>•/
' t'l.at kind, but tho fellow would gra'i
ini by the neck and heeda, declaring he
culd throw him out of the third-*tory
indow. Dragging him to the window,
r would thrust the frightened pleb just
r enough out to mnke him believe that
nt would prccipi-
. nt below. Aftc
l)cdng hauled
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The people of llio south nogleet the
carrot a* a crop, and yet 1* one among tho
best crop* that could bo grown.. It*uc-
coeds well in our idimato and flourlshc*
iu any noil that will bring good;turnips,
A popular writer say* it is the most val
uable esculent in tho entire range of
practical husbandry on account of it*
superior properties us a general article
of food for several descriptions of a
ihal* u-uiully kept on a farm. Win
one© introduced it will over remain pop
ular a* a valuable article of food for
horse*, pig* and poultry of all description.
Butter of tho most agreeable apiwaramY
and exnuislto flavor may bo obtained for
tho tamo by feeding milch cows ou car
rot*, and ifHtorod for thorn during winter
there will ho no diminution iu quantity
or deterioration in tho quality of'their
produce.
In establishments for trotting
ing horses, carrots are especially honnfl
clal. Toward spring, .wumw tliu borne*
havo been fed for many mourns K ''** ‘ , -’
food—oats, corn and liay—they
troniely serviceable, indeed necessary
Among horsemen they have gained tho
ah a motor of being good for tb© wind
but we suspect tho only merit they ciu.
in this respect 1h that tlioy keep
the body cool and open, by which they
conduce greatly to health and condition,
and coiiHequently to elounicM of wind.
About .the same thing may be said of
their claims t« producing a fine a
wlmtover conduces to health does
consequently carrots do. To any
who Jins been In a racing stable, nr
stable wlioro’carrots aro fed. it may si
scions to say that they should bo
sliced In very long slices. It is danger-
to give teem cut crossways, as horse*
extremely fond of them, and, If at all
gmedy, would be apt to bo\t pieces of
them whole, which would he quite like
ly to cause some of them to stick in the
throat, t’arrots, il kept in a dry place,
in sand, will keep a 1 ng time; or, in
1, they will keep out of doors, if cov-
1 sufficiently with *trn\v ami then
lmnkcd up with earth.—MobiU lirgitUr,
n«lil Bfolcn.
>f nil persons the farmer should study
hi* profession. By *tudy 1 do not mean
simply such things as are learned in
'looks; hut ho should study at tho plow-
landlo and iu the field, among his flocks,
in his orchard, and .particularly In hi*
barn-yard.
one sense the fanner is also a niun-
uror. He changes his grass and
corn into beef, jmrk, wool, butter, chocs
and a variety of products. In anotlie
sense he i* a cliemiat j ho so compound*
manure with hi* soil as to make both
available plant fond. Ilo should bean
artist of arlis.tH, so as Pi bo able to pro
duce the beautiful groves, orchards and
lawns, for tho inferior artist* to paint,
sketch and engrave. And ijbovo all, he
should be a brain worker. V'Aikfl yet bow
many tli«r© lire who tliirfk unv.'simpleton
mm lie a farmer! Whitt i* Iho trouble
with nine-tenths of tho farm* in the
land? I will venture an answer: Want
of brain power, properly managed.
A*k .the average western fanner wliat
i* bis system of rotation ol crops, and, if
ho be honest, lie will tell you bo Iiiih
none. You need not ask what
plan* for making and saving manure—
a glance al bis farm will show you that
he has none. Hueh a man may ho sue-
cohsIiiI in raising a few crops of corn and
wheat on new land, but what will he do
when IiIh land will not produce paying
crops? I’rohahly he will take Greek'y’*
advice, sell out and' "go west.” A* a
practical, life-long farmer, this year com
pleting my first half century,and twenty-
seven years’ oxpcriencoof farming in the
west, I am moro than ever impressed
that it is a life-long work to make a good
firm. A farmer need not always work
like a hlavo—in fact, never like a slave,
hilt like a free man. lie should have
an educated, active Inain; he should
have books and agricultural paper* ns a
jiart of l.i* stock in trade, as well as his
line stock and improved farming imple
ment*, and,*above all, he should remem
ber that riohcH may “ take to thein*elve*
wings and fly awnv,” hut tho accumula
tions of brain and heart nr© imperishable.
T)ieliogi*nn animal of groat importance
this country, and is everyday bccom-
lorc so. Almost every family out-
of large cities, and oven in the
Huburlw of tlic*c can keep one or more
pigs. I’ork can be grown cheaper than
any other kind of meat, and wliat is of
much importance, a small outlay of cap
ital bring* a quick return; if kept in
good condition, the pig may he slaught
ered at any age after one month old.
Tho next important question is, what
variety i* the most profitable to keep?
Where the Ghcstcr White is known, no
other breed can compote with it. It i*
perfection ns a hog, tl
L bee
It* outlin
9 beau
tiful, it* disposition gentl
quiet and contented, not disposed to
roam and fret, so that the food it, con
sumes goes to the formation of fle*h and
is not spent in roaming after mischief.
It is not a gross feeder, but, like all other
animals, requires it* food nt regular in
tervals; this care and attention is never
lost on it. There is no other breed that
enjoys better health. I f kept till twelve
or fifteen months old, and properly cared
for. it will yield from five to seven hun
dred fsninds of net pork. What other
animal will yield so much in so short a
time, from so small a beginning, with
such a small outlay of capital ?
The bog, like other animals, should be
kept clean or rather, it should have an
opportunity of keeping itself clean. Jta
house should have a good roof to turn
the rain ; it* floor should be sufficiently
elevated to lx* kept dry and no hollow
place for puddles of water to stand in.
It will do well on pasture in summer,
with very little slop or grain. Clover is
tho very best pasture for it.
The economy of selecting the best
breed of hogs for stocking farms is just
beginning to lx> appreciated, the long-
legged will havo to knock under, they
have had thrir day. Agricultural peri
odicals aro disseminating light and truth
in every corner of our land, and with
LVi-inf-nt IM.I/.W An,- that light and truth will go the better
he i» placed between I l,rml " of ‘‘ 11 kill,lli of farm » t,,ck -
the other kind. Thoro is no farmer's boy
who eat* a greasy lump of shoe leather
tried in a pan and called a beefsteak, who
would not prefer a well boiled porter
house from the baud of a good cook.
Here, then, dear inadatnc, is a point of
dennrtmont. Well cooked food is not
only more toothsome, but it is more nu
trition?). Your grandmother would have
scorned a fried steak. Pork fried iu its
own juice is another thing. Yet the
American beefsteak, tho national dish for
breakfast, is generally fried. Ills often
of a pule, measly complexion. Iia dry
and hard surfaco is vainly irrigated with
lukewarm grease, in which lumps of soft
nutter float-pardon mndnme, tho un
savory details which Imperious truth
possess. Is that proper food for a human
being? Yet the average American hu
man being is subjected to it in tho groat
multitude ol honest homes. Gnu you do
nothing about it?
Then pie*. Even that dismayed Freni
man could not deny that wo have
many pics ns religions, and ho would he
n bold FVonohirmn also-if lie asserted that
us fond of our religions hh of our
pies. Pies, indeed, there must be. They
aro as ancient as thanksgiving, and tho
pie on the table of that gioat day was as
constituent a part of it, as the minister iu
pulpit. Nay, what is festival itself but
a humble and pious offering of thanks
for the copious harvest of pie—in it *
original material? Indeed, tho nun
metaphysical inquirin’ might justly ask,
as he survey* tho autumn fields gorgeotiH
with massive pumpkins, what is it there
for except to make pio? It is ninmia
fallen upon the earth. It is a celestial
hint of pie. There is a time iu the life
of tho contemplative American when ho
s in himsolf nascent doubts of
pie. 1 lo may oven go ho far as to protest
that heavy white dough, “shortened"
ith heaven and the lard not know whnb
not wholesome food. But what said
the learned and elegant Rufus Choate,
when his mouth fairly watered at tho
luxury of the foreastlo and gulley of a
half-starved coasting Binnck ? “On Mon
day, gentleman, the wholesome and tooth
ful stuff; on Tuesday tho nutritious and
deliciousdumlytunic;" and in tin
his rapt eye behold in virion the very
transfigured material of pie, although lie
idled it by a kindred name, when he ox-
ilaimcd, "and on Wednesday, gentleman,
with hia own hand, with his own parte
mil hand, the captain dealt out to tliei
•quash ; not, the cold shriveled vegetable
>f our northern clinic, but tho gorgeous,
the luxuriant, the exuberant squash of
tho tropics.”
Think, madame, that you deal with thin
eulent squash or pumpkin it is all tho
me ; concede that tho Gorman i
nder his sauerkraut, the .Scotch
oatmeal "paralth,” tho Irishman his po
tato, the Italian his maccaroni, the
Frenchman his frog, a* soon as the Amer
ican his pie; yet are you not morally
hound to consider the nature of' crust,
you, us a friend of truth, assert
tho wlijte, foggy Blab of "duff.” that un
derlies your pie is either wholoBomo or
toothsomo? Tho question that conic*
homo to you 1h, can't you brown it? Can’t
mako it dry and crip without loo
ill reference to tho lard pot? When
It is apple with which you are concerned,
the responsibility i* greater, for, so to
speak, your apple pio wears a full auit;
‘l has a coat and Dowsers, an upper and
a lower garment; nud, dear madame.
sinee "It 1h not always May,” why should
‘lie innocent fruitbenlwayselad in white?
* , nindnmo, brown it!—JTarpere,
Science Notes.
It has been affirmed that not less thnn
four nercont. of all the eo/il-ladcn vessels
that have left Erglish ports during tho
last five years for destination
the equator have suffered either total or
partial loss hy the spontaneous ignition
)f their cargoes.
At one point on tho margin of Lake
’angnnyika (Central Africa) Capt. Cnm-
ron saw large masses of coal. In the
liHtriet adjoining Mauynemu iron i*
plontiiul. The people manufacture largo
quantities of iron, and many of the ar
ticles they make aro beautifully furn
ished.
Mr. Magnus condemns the use of blue
glass as a protection for tho eyes, and
prefers the gray and smoky glasses used
in England. Hi; considers blue glass,
especially, irritating to the eye, amt says
that many birds, roptiles, and amphibians,
have yellow or reddish oil-drops in tho
eye.
I u
ork
tho " Vo
i Indian war-dance
..ul upon the upper one, the whole JCveryboby, except cannibals and the
'"eluding with a done of writing j Ashantee consumers of steak* from the - *. ; ....... ,v 6 .—
| living kiao, prefer* welhprep&rvd food to dom iu three uwothi,
of Ani
mals,” hy Laudois, additional evidence
ted of the universality of vocal
wrong the lower animals, includ
ing the Molluscs. The anther considers
.o he indisputable that ants possess a
:ul speech. I»y which they arc enabled
•xercise those higher mental faculties
which they owe their high social or
ganization.
Prof. Maurice Pchni/F, of Florence,
s demonstrated that tho non-edible
mush-rooms, "toad-stools,” contain a
common poison, miucurinr., and that its
ficcts are counteracted by either atro
pine or daturine. Italian apothecaries
drugs in rural district*,
where the consumption of non-edible
fungi i* apt to occur. The hint is worthy
of attention everywhere.
Prof. Clark Maxwell explainnhow an
nec* of air, in a dosed and fragile jar,
sustain* the outside pressure of the'at
mosphere amounting to several tons;
' ' he does by the theory that the
3 of air is made up of molecules
hicli have so rapid a motion among
themselves that they collide on the in
side of the jar with hh great a force as
that of the atmospheric pressure exter
nally.
In a balloon voyage made from Cher-
boug, in August, two French aeronauts,
Moie.t and Durnof, observed with sur
prise, at the height 1,700 motors, that the
riottom of the sea was visible in detail,
though that part of tho British channel
must have a depth of sixty to eighty
meters. Tho rocks and submarine cur
rents appeared with great distinctness.
It is suggested that the fact might be
utilized, a means being afforded of giving
accurate representations of tho bottom
for tho -benefit of navigators.
The registrar-general of Great Britian
and Ireland, in bis quarterly return*,
states that the births of 290,350 childie
1870. Tho recorded natural Increase of
population was thus 125,208. Reg!*-
tercel number of person* married in the
quarter ending March 81*t, 1870, wn*
117,700. Tho rosideti) population of tho
united kingdom in the iniddlo of 1870 is
estimated at 83,093,430; that of Eng
land and Wales at 24,244 ; of Scotland
at 8,527,811; and of Ireland at 5,821.018,
At a recent meeting of the British un
social ion Mr. Garnor stated that ho had
found th© nieasurtMiieiit of bruiii capacity,
and from ousts of the intorior ot skulls
that tho *izo of tho brain of the dog docs
not corroBimnd vory closely with tho size
of tho animal. No dog hnH so largo a
brain as a wolf, nor one so small as the
jackal. Tho brain of a Newfoundland
dog is vory Httlo larger thnn that of a
terrier. Professor Macalistor, of Dublin,
gave an account of tho brain of tho cel
ebrated grey bound " Master Mncgrnth.”
Ho bad weighed tho brains of many
dog*, but Master Macgruth’s was tho
heaviest of all, mid tno convolution*
Tho geographical variation among
North American ninimnals, particularly
In rcBpoct to tho size, is treutoilofhy
Mr. J. A. Allen, in tho bullotln of tho
geological and geographical survey of
frlio territories. IIo ha* ascertained that
most northern nud arctic animals aro
smallor tho furtlior southward they live
while tho revoruo of this is the rule n*
to tho southern animals. Mr. Allen
formorly thought that tho American
sablo and common black benr or thia
country could not bo diBtingululled from
European form, but bo 1ms now coino to
tho conclusion that they aro a distinct
spocicB. IIo thinks, however, that tho
grizzly bear of AnToriea is wliat lie terms
UHub species of tho brown bear of Europe,
and our rod fox is also regarded as n Hiib-
species of the European rod fox.
Tho formation of nickel oroB
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, i* pronounced
by the American manufacturer to bo tho
heaviest »o far discovered in any part of
tho glob©. Tho oro 1h exceedingly rich
of a grayish tint, vory heavy, and is sc
hard and closely united to tho surrounding
substance* that it has to ho got out by
blasting. As soon ns tho ore ifl mined it
ia crushed into *mnll pieces, and then
transferred to kiln* of a capacity of from
eighty to ninety ton* each. It in then
subjected to heat obtained nt first by
burning wood, and which is continued
by tho conversion of tho evaporating
fumes. The manipulation is concluded
by tho fused metal being placed in a
smelting furnace and undergoing u p;
cess similar to that adopted in tno trei
inont ofiron-oro.
Of all the forms of energy, gravity is
tho ono forco whoso relations with the
otliors it is most difficult to imagine.
Other forces affect each other most pal
pably; magnetism forsakes a mugnot
when it is made whitehot; chemical
nlfinily is most sensitive to variations of
temperature, and even iu somo cases
to nieclmnlcal tremor; tho tiansmis-
sion of electricity is favored by tho cool
ing of a conductor, and so on. Otlirr-
wiso ia It with gravity: a given mass of
matter, however mnchnnicnllv moved,
eloclrifird, magnetized, houtuu or sub
jected to chemical changes, at tho snmo
point of the earth’* surface, always
weighs the sumo. The only force with
which gravity has any analogy i* mag
netism; and wero magnetism ulwnys at
tractive, Instoad of polar, with equal
opposite manifestatlon* of attraction and
repulsion, tho analogy would bo n strong
Tho danger attending tho use of porco-
lain lined cooking uteiiHilH was pointed
out at a meeting of tho British society
of public analyst* by Mr. Tallock. He
Htated that tho milk-white porcolnln en-
1 with which cast-iron cooking ves-
aro now ho commonly coated is In
the highest degree objectionable, on ac
count of tho easy action on it ol acid
fruit*, common salt and other BubHlnnce*
by means of which led and even arsenic
aro dissolved out iu large qunntitlr*
during the process of cooking. It wn*
shown that it is not so much on account
of the presence of largo proport ions of lead
and arsenic that these enamels are dan
gerous, but Ix’onuso they are so highlv
basic in their character and nro so read
ily acted on hy fiibby-acid nolutinns.
He thought that no enamel should bo
admitted to use unless it was totally un
affected by boiling with a ono per cent,
solution of citric acid, which was a very
moderate test. Furtlior, lie gave it as
opinion that either the use of *uch
poisonous Ingredient* ns lead and aisenic
in large quantities should bo entirely
di*continiied, or that tho composition
otherwise should bo of such a character
to insuro that nono of tho poisonous
substances could lie dissolved out under
ordinary circumstance*.”
Higher Aims In .loiirnnliHin.
No one known better than the editors
I propriotor* of respectable newspa
pers the injurious effect upon journalism
which reckless and sensational edition
havo recently wrought. Thoro In a cer
tain classof newspapers which live by this
tylcof defamatory writing. Theyare ut
terly reckless in their statement*, have
io regard :or private character, no ven-
ration-for > ood and holy things, and no
rewpeet for exalted virtue* and pure lives.
Whatever will .produce a sensation and
soil miner* they are rendy and anxious to
publish. But the journal* of this char-
actor are few. Asa rule, the newspapers
of to-day seek to lie lair and honest', aro
conscientiously conducted by men of
high character and pood standing in so
ciety, whose mission is to fairly and
honestly chronicle the current news of
tho day, and to intelligently comment
thereon. Unfortunately, for respectable
journalism, .the public svmpathizc* with
and demands the reckless and sensational
style. Journal* which make it a hu»i*
nc*s from day today to assail and traduce
private character; to conspicuously
parade, with exaggerated head-lines, all
the criminal acts of the depraved classes;
to gloat over murderers and assassina
tion*; to depict in seductiro language
rapes, Indecent assaults uml outrages of
all kinds, are tho journals which circu
late with the greatest freedom among the
.rml,,. I
No niuiillxa <if thnpa
Vlio wlsflty nln«
(mm wings,
ml l.titrnyn
IW doluj-s,
III glint Biirprifto.
i Inti-Hi nlKiit, when
Tho traveler "Us,
An limply Host
bough"will nisko him sigh,
That ran bird slug I 1 '* T ‘
Ilul while ho hIiiU". romembnlnu
Hoiv swcot tho boiik,
Tho III Ilo bird on tlrvlon wing
In ollinr M'rl'niHl’otli.r moil
Wllh weary tent.
On other nmd«, tin* Muitdo Mrnlii
Ar«*tlndiiiK hwooI,
Tho birds must know. Who wlso si
Will ring ns they;
Tho common sir ^norons wing.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
appears that a bulging brow is not
men the sign of n great man tut a
threatening breadth of mouth.
Till', best tempcranco lecture is a good
salt mackerel. If the man that eats ono
don’t tuko water then ho is a hoplclcss
A very preclso person, remarking un-
Hhakspeare’s lino " Tho good men uo
is oft interred with their nones,” care
fully observes that this interment can
generally take placo without crowding
the bones.
A HTtJDKNT in Pari*, alter passing threo
years in the Latin quarters, wrote to his
father ns follows; " I hnv*> made tm my»
mind to Bet to work, dear father; there
fore I should like to know whether it
law or tnedicino that I enmo lo
study?”
Whf.uk did this baby come from?”
asked a little three-venr-old girl of tho
nurse who was washing tho squalling
littlo stranger. " Why, from heaven, of
course,” replied tho nurm*. " Woll, if It
screamed luce that there I don’t wondor
they sent it off,” was the stunning re
joinder.
Wiiokvkr has wound a clock for any
length of time will readily comprohcnd
the situation described in the billowing
lines of an unknown bnrd :
Churn whs n inun who liu.l n flock—
Ills mi me whs Miittliow M'-nrs —
Ho wound II rngulnr every night
t hud his procluus tin
An clght-diiy dock e
Georok FrancisTuAiNsnys: "I ama
livh'K “hell gate charged with moro^
than twenty-one tons ol explosives, and*
ncreaslng tho dynanllto every day—n
grand mysterious lorco in nature, with
out any dcsiro of utilizing it, and yet it
can bo touched off any day by any littlo
three-year-old Mary Newton who trundle*
her hoop and jumps hor rope through
Madison park, when I oIioho to make the
magnetic connection with tho entire
universe.”
The editor of the 8t. Joseph (Mo)
Herald is about right in this: " A girl
who goes to a sensible school carrier, a
slate, arithmetic, spelling hook, geog
raphy and a lunch in a paper. Tho
modern city girl goes along with a big
titter, a bustlo, striped hose, huuip
backed, carrying thirty-one different
books, three slates, four copy books, bot-
tlo of ink, pocketful of ncncil* and pens,
even dollars worth or pinchbnck jew-
■Iry, a mouthful of chewing pum, and
thlrtcon red streamers danglmg after
hor,"
It was a Frenchman—tho famous Car-
lino who, contentedly laying his head
upon a largo stone jar for a pillow, re
plied to ono who inquired if it was not
rather hard : " Not at nil, for I havo
stuffed it with hay.” It was an Ameri
can lecturer who solemnly said one even
ing : " Parents, you may have children;
if not, your daughters may have.”
vns n German orator who, warming
with his subject, exclaimed : " There is
no man, woman or child in the house
who ha* arrived nt tho age of fifty year*
hut what has felt tho truth thundering
through their minds for centuries.”
Georok Eliot, ns cvoryboily knows,
m [the iwm <fo phnnr of Miss Evans,
who commenced her career as an author
in Blackwood’s Magazine. During hor
early life she made tho acquaintance of a
heavy, critical philosopher, Mr. Ixiwis, a
riter in The Saturday Fortnightly Ite-
.iew, and other high-elans periodicals.
They discovered a plaronic affection for
each other, and after a time were mar
ried. Ever since this partnership, Mr.
Lewis has guided morn or less, tho pen
which wrote " Adam Redo,” and his
thoughts wero easily discernible in "Mid-
dleniarch.” On tho eve of tho publica
tion of that notable work he reviewed it
in The Saturday Night and Fortnightly
(anonymously, of course), and pro
nounced it to ho a splendid effort of
genius. In literary society ho now pro
claims himself the joint author of " Dan
iel Doronda.” Ho wrote every lino of
tho chapter which describes the discuB-
nion at the club to which Mordecai in
troduced Daniel.—Now York Tima Lon
don letter.
Sharpening Tools hy a Rath.
A razor recovers its edge if left for
Saif an hour in water which contains
sulphuric or muriatic acid in the propor
tion of one part by weight of acid to
nineteen of water. Tho razor is care
fully wiped on being taken out of the
nciuulated bath, and passed over an oil
stone. The acid bath is said not to hurt
the blades ; on the contrary, the quality
of the motal iu some cases improves by
the immersion. Ho with scythes and
- ... ; o ----- sickles. The time lost in tho harvest
masses. I he public crave sensations, and | fi e | ( j j„ t j lc <l)ir |y morning in sharpening
'i grentl/ to the credit of the very , „ cyt |,e B would hr upared by laying tho
the credit of the ■
large number of rcapeetahlo journala that! hindus for half an hour'in a bath'prc-
they prenorve their dignity and decency, parc( i M n bovn dmcribed. An anon
in tho face of tho temptation of Bure pe-; taken out oi tho bath they bIiouUI
be
and the dentils ot 171,082 nernooB or both cnnlury rewards which await them by w j pa( | „, K ] „ soft mudstone bone paused
registered in the united king- adorning thi; ,<?tber warn.—Minnapotii Linutr would leaven good and uniform
i, ending June 80tb, 1 irlmnt. I «dg#Wtad '