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Newspaper Page TextANDERSON & W ALLIS, Proprietors TEE glory of the year. CHANT ROYAL. ram I Spring came softly breathing o’er the I land, With warmer sunshine and sweet April lying shower; the silken willow leaves expand; I Calling to hill and meadow, bee and |-.,|,t flower, with new life and beauty; on .light Ijuging wing the birds again to love and sing; I I And"waking in the heart its joy amain, With old fond hopes and memories in its train; lilJi-hly glad ’mid universal cheer, I How oft we sang the half forgotten strain; |y 0l „ we behold the glory of the year!" Ilien Summer by her gentle breezes fanned, I -\y;th footstep free and proud in restless power, ■lth plump, round cheek to ruddy beauty tanned, I Lr In blooming loveliness came to her bower, golden tresses loosely wandering I wild luxuriance—then pretty Spring [ I Seemed hut a loved playful the sister, passionate pettish, Sum¬ vain. How well we mer’s reign 1 low day by day our empress grew more dear! I “Bayond,” w* asked, ‘‘what fairer can remain ? |ow we beheld the glory of the year!” lit when grave Autumn’s ever bounteous hand I Poured round our feet the riches of her ke dower; pulpy fruit, the nut’s sweet ripened gland, The largess free to gleaner and to plower, Ind all the Summer sought in vain to bring; then stood the hills in glorious garmenting, I Shadowed by low-hung skies of sober grain, No more could our enobled thoughts sus¬ tain Ipgretful memory of Summer sere— j " What of the past!” we cried in quick disdain; I Now we behold the glory of the year!” [hen Wo before mighty defenceless Winter, Autumn stern and grand. saw' shivering, cower, Ihunged to Duessa by his potent wand, Shorn of her loveliness, in Fortune’s lower faked for Winter’s scourge to smite and sting. low godlike came the world’s new sceptered King! He fettered fast her torrents with his chain, Bound with his manacles the moaning j main, (on, wrought his will with all things far and near. f “ At last,” wa said, “ what more can Time attain! sow we behold the glory of the year!” Feglected Spring, despised, insulted, banned! Poor weakling! came again one April hour. iTie tyrant struck his tent at her command; She laughed—down tumbling fell his frosty tower; kt one light finger-touch his captives fling their - :acklesoff, an 1 make the valleys ring " i:h praises to the conqueror of pain. All the lost lives that languishing hare lain, Leaves, grasses, buds, and birds again appear. “0 now!” wo cried again and yet again, " jVo we behold the glory of the year!” KNVOY. rime, while Spring sports with sunbeam, flower, and rain— while waiiti Summer riots on the plain— Neath Autumn’s calm, or Winter’s frown severe, ’haage uly clearer chants the old refrain, Now we behold the glory of the year!” Ernest Whitney, in the Century. DOWN IN the well. by f.t,wood burke. “I tell ye what, Kunnel Nehemiah ! Ft<m, big man as ye think ye’se’f, ye’re pEht M ith ail small riches, potatoes in my opinion. eral yer ye ought to be a lib man, charitable, to yer pore fellow neat ures, but Lord bless me, yer heart ain’t no bigger nor a cider apple, an’ It s barder’n flint. ^ 8elHsh [Eroud-s, t • ° i , vunne but yer pride 11 b: ’ ’ ” f thCSe day8 ’ mark my ELS* ^ iU ” bte “ Mrs. Hannah Eldridge tossed her head with a scornful sniff as she stopped •peaking and resumed her ironing. The subject of her tirade. Colonel Nehenuah Barton—he was the com ® !,nder of a regiment of militia dropped the paper he was reading with 1 11 gasp of astonishment, and stared over his spectacle* at his housekeeper and j ® a id-of-all-work in speechless wonder I k t her audacity. Finally he found speech, enunciating fcis words with slow and ponderous dis finctiveness. Hannah Eldridge,” he said, “how dare ye, a miserbul sinner, an’ er non¬ professer, set in jedgment ergen me who ls a deacon uv tbe church, and Chairman Uv the Board uv Selectmen?” Pooh!” retorted Hannah, suspending ker hot iron in mid-air, “er man thet Kfowls ez much ez you do whenever I happen ter give er poor beggar a piece “f meat or er slice of bread needn’t brag hout his religion. Ef ye wuz twenty times er deacon in ther church, hit wouldn’t make ye ez charitable toward for unfortunit fellow-creeturs ez ye orter be.” Tramps is mostly er lazy, shiftless **L an’sted of putten’ vittals inter ther ^dv her to it,” interrupted Hannah, and *fore the colonel could formulate a •uitable reply continued: “You knew an’ yet ye let her go tew ther work d,Ii c Coimuston u Star. protestLfv “But Hanner> ’ k S&n V ^ COl , ° nel - ” „ •T * he 8ha, 'P re ‘ to,t tort. I T- ve been here in this house goin’ on seventeen years, and doorin’ all thet «T.™."erf"”“‘- ° , '’'' r< '° erk “ 0r J Tti» 1 .it ! d ? ^ ° f ‘ age 8tan , h , ° Spia m “ ° S rC t0 ’ 8nd hiS feet “It’s no use argifyin’ with er woman 1” he cried savagely, and seizing his hat he jammed it down on his ears and strode from the room. Hannah Eldridge laughed scornfully, and continued her ironing. She had nearly finished when the kitchen door opened softly, and a girl with the irate colonel’s features repro¬ duced and softened in her round face, sparkling with life and color, stole into the room, and slipping up behind the unconscious Hannah pressed her little brown hands over the woman’s eyes. “Guess?” cried the girl, and her merry laugh rippled out and filled the room. “Oh, it’s you, torment!” said Hannah, removing the warm hands and drawing the girl around in front of her. “Where j hev ye ben?” “Down in the orchard.” She said this very demurely, but her face flushed, and she dropped her eyes. Hannah's sharp eyes detected the girl’s illy-concealed embarrassment and nodded her head knowingly. “Elsie Barton,” she said, “ye needn’t try ter deceive mo. What wuz ye doin’ in . ther orchard ?” j “Hunting summer liarvies.” Anybody help ye, eh? ’ “Willie Spence happened to be going along the road and he very kindly vol unteered to shake the big tree for me. You know, Hannah, that I’m not strong enough to—” explained Elsie. “Ye needn’t say no more,” said Han¬ nah. interrupting her; “I know.” “Know what, Hannah?” “That Willie Spencer loves you, and that you love him. I spoke ter yer father ’bout it this mornin’.’’ “Oh, Hannah!” cried the girl. “How could you?” “I did it for the best, pet lamb. I’ve seed hit agoin’ on for some time, so I sorter hinted around to him this morn iu’ rer see how he’d take it.” “And what did he say?” interrupted the girl eagerly. “He blustered orful, an’ I know he'll never consent. He’s plumb sot on mar ryin’ ye ter Squire Dave Peter*, an’—” “The old miser!” cried Elsie, passion ately. ‘‘I’d die before I would be his wife! Why. he’s old enough to be my grandfather!” “That’s what I told ver father,” con tinned Hannah, “but he wouldn’t listen to no reason." “Oh, dear!” moaned the girl despair ingly. “What shall I do? I’ve a mind to do as Willie wants me to-run away nnS and morrv marry in m spite unite of lat.ier. father After Alter the me knot is tied he can t put us apart. “Don't never do nothin’so foolish,” cautioned without a Hann pennj, . an le though d cut ^ T Willie p off Spencer er likely enough boy, he b got nothin tew start life with. “We cAuld work together, and some di, y „ “That’d take too long,”cried • j Hannah, tt v sententiously “Your father has er plentv i and by ri tits it'll all come ter •’ day, , l»« he . , l-o« erful . . stub- h u you some » born when he makes up his mind tew be, and ye d better not anger him. bU ' e Jq an ’ 9,6 “Leave l .. « hi me. !> , i a mb Ff anymortidsoffikmti m imHom _ b. , stu i orn wa> ’ * res !, ca9y that 111 d ° the f 1 ■"■.«. ,„., k , cried «e impulsively. “You are always good tome.” She threw her arms around the faith ful woman’s neck and kissed the thin lips. moistened, and sbe Hannah's eyes passed her hand softly over the girls brown curls. “I couldn’t love ye better, pet if ye wus my own,” she said. ve be “ er motlier tew ye, an’ 111 so continuer, Many ye tew the old squire? Not much thev shan’t!” • She returned Elsie’s kiss, and then, turning away, began preparations for dinner. The meal was finally ready, and the table was - laid, She went out on the porch and blew several lead blasts from the big tin horn which hung from the rafters. This was a signal for Colonel . e e miah, but fifteen minutes passe an e did not put in an appearance. Hannah sounded a second alarm, ana stood on the porch, shading her eyes with her hand and looking out «"• i the “far field,” where the eolone wfts supposed to be She could not see and aL b , a iu . raised the horn to her ips. shield it from the sun. and passing through the truck garden at tha «w of the houw, bent her steps toward tbe field.” COVINGTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 1885. , »»“■« ■« ol th. co,.™,, b ° Ut returnin S! to the house when she beard 1 faint cry which seemed to come from the bowels of the earth. She bent b « h * ad and listened. The cry was repeated. “Help!” """ , *" d0 " «“»'* well,- cried Hannah, and turning sharply to the risht ’ 8he ran towa,d a httle clump of tre8s in ° De corner of the r,eld - In the centre of this miniature grove was an old well which had been dug to water stock. It was loosely covered with boards, but they were old and rotton, and when Hannah drew nearer, she saw that the covering was broken and displaced. “Hullo, lvunnel!" she cried, bending over the well. “Ilauner!” was the colonel’s faint an swer - “Throw me er rope. Git er ladder. Run f ° r bel P- rm drownin’ 1” “Ain’t water enuff for that, Kunnel. Row d ‘ d ve Hi?” “Walkin’ ; across—plank broke. Help me 0ut> ” “Hez it cooled ye off eny, Kunnel?” “Yes. Git me out. I’m near chilled tew ther bone.” “Look here, Kunnel!” cried Hannah, and she smiled triumphantly, “I’ve got ye right where I’ve been wantin’ ter git ye. Nobody knows that yer here, an’ unless ye promise ter let Elsie marry Willie Spencer an’ set ’em up with ther Oak farm, ye air likely ter stay here. If ye don’t I’ll kiver ther well again, an’ let > e stay thar.’ Tbe »mpn.oned man, up to his neck . water, stormed, raved, threatened, m ’ ’ | , begged , and prayed. _ Hannah v remained . , obdurate. Finally she began to lay the broken planks back across the well. The fright ened colonel begged her to desist, “Git me out, Hannerl” he said, “an’ I’ll promise.” “Promise now!” “Yes!” “Ye’ll let Elsie and Willie Spencer marry an’ giv’ ’em ther Oak Farm?” “Yes!” “I never knowed ye ter break a promise, kunnel, an’ now I’ll help ye out. “I’llbe back in er jiffy.” She ran toward the house, but meet ing Elsie and one of the farm hands come in search of her half way, she hur* riedly acquainted them with the acci j dent which had befallen the colonel,and the man 1 procured a ladder which was lowered to the , submerged , deacon. , “Ye took an oufair edvantage uv me, Hanner,” he said, as he clambered out, ‘but I’ll stand by my promise. Elsie, ye can marry Willie Spencer, an’ I’ll giv ye a deed ov ther Oak Farm ther day yer married.” “Thank you, father!” cried the de- . lighted girl. “You have made me very happy!” thank ” grumbled tie col “Don t me onel, returning her kiss. “If it hadn t been for that pesky well an’Hanner. I’d never co nsented V'-Chmvjo J.e, lg«r. ----~ “ * Two Royal Cranks. . g f ran<T e wS destinv that of the royal tamily oi vvitteisoacn, me he u*- ances ^ of which won the crown of Bavaria _ ^ ^ ^ ^ courage tie field . 0 f the two broth h represeat the elder line one plays with . . his . crown and , sceptie as thou<rii tn they f were mere baubles. The » other is undoubtedly . ,, a madman . At .. pies ent the “ adne8S 0 Pnn ? e °‘ t0 baS sumed the form of fancying himself to ^ ^ fay gome magic spell int0 a iion and t0 suppose that he is shut up in an iron cage like a wild beast. He roars, be sp r i n !? s about his room, bites and 8Cratc hes his keepers. When King Louis feds need of a lit t,e excitement to stir him up from his torpor and ennui he locks bi^lf up With bis brother and for f-A ™ ^ on'all Z Z fours, jumping over table, upsetting ncT and smashing the furniture a filling the chateau with ^ ^ rcgenlble rather the roaring ! a n d howling of wild beasts than sounds , lUered by human throats. You might hapS faocv that there were a pair o/ kin .^ of beasts behind tbe doors 0 f tbe ri!0ini but you would never guess that slicb s0 ,mds were being made by a royal j wbo were born t 0 be kings of men. _ pldladdphia Times. -- — a Dog's Peace Offering. Walking along Post street, pretty we out of the business portion oi the city, I chanC ed to notice a little child some | tbree years of age at play with an im mense Newfoundland dog on the lawn in front of an elegant resn ence. “ rough "“ d tU “' ' child hurt i is « I’ te g0 that he ’ snappe ra “ r a he jnfant> A - - lady, who s o S ^ ^ ^ ’ cned out. -Nero, * q yourself to trig en ’ p ^ - you bad dog. - he whining florin suddenly da g rosebush, bit o,T t ,ie Iraorant blossoms, and n n.vaeant capers laid it at 1 - id aud tben . ... . b ; Cork cutt i ngg are now used in making an> ^ to be uninjured ^ ^ gnd moisture. ARTIFICIAL LEGS AND ARMS. How They Are Uadp.and Their P ecn | liaritles of mechanism. u t Cork’ limbs, did you say mv friend,” replied a Denver dealer in these lovely subtitutes for nature’s original gift, in reply to a Trihune-Itepublican re¬ porter inquiry for information. “It is ‘CDrk’ now only by courtesy, in a ‘trans icried sense,’ as the classical graunnari anstell us. Artificially legs and arms were originally made of cork to secure lightness, but both the material and the models were clumsy beyond endurance when compared wfth the perfected model and material of to-day?’ “What material is used now?" “Willow and maple, because of their rightly proportioned weight, durability, This strength, and just sufficient elasticity’ was found out after much labor and expense in experimenting, and has re suited of late in such perfect substitutes for the natural article that the cliildreu may be said to cry for them. Take be low-the-knee amputations; in a short lime the patient can walk just as well as anybody else. Why, a mau can skate or run with these things on, though it seems at first like a stretcher. But when above the knee it is quite different. A man who loses his knee-joint is in had shape, though the present substitutes are so excellent that only a slight limp is no¬ ticeable.” “Do you make to order or are supplies kept in stock to suit the purchaser like clothing and foot-wear?” “Invariably to order, as it would be Impossible to keep sufficiently large stock on hand to suit all comers. We measure for the necessary limb, and in two weeks it is ready for the cripple. Measurements are taken thus,” said the doctor, spreading out a large sheet of manila on the floor, on which was drawn a right arm and hand, while a stump ap¬ peared along side in pencil. “See, here is the way we do. The man wants an arm or a leg. He lays out the whole and the amputated member side by side on paper where I make, a drawing of both. This is sent with specifications as to style and cost of goods to the manufac turer, who can tell from the drawing just what is wanted every time.” “What if the limb doesn't fit?” “Then the manufacturer is out two express charges and the cost of making things all right. Some eastern makers in'fitting a limb, if they find a false thigh too long they saw it ia two, ’ slice oft _ , half ,, an inch . , or so glue , the parts to- , gether again, and refit till satisfactory If too short, a piece is set in, but of course such work as this below the knee is impossible, because of the ligaments or tendons by which the lower leg is worked. With thigh amputations the ‘ upper leg is kept in place cm the stump . by suspenders, the stump being protected from gaffing byasilk or worstedsackl know a man with but six inches of thigh, yet he gets around without a cane, though, of course, he has to throw his leg and cuts an ungainly figure, but it’s a deal sight better than flinging 8e aroulu A on cnl ,, 0 les - -iputation at the knee and below, a laced , connecting bearing of leather is WO rn on the thigh, ° with the " belo w by iron side-straps which m 0Te backward and forward on screw axis axis jomisai iointg at the me knee snee. It ic ig is in m this mis ] ea t be r setting that the thigh shank rests, and which sustains tbe direc weight of the body. Here is the knec joint mechanism. A short rod trom the thigb * part ends of tbe knee center-point in ^ endg of the axis turni iu lrunion , supp orts reaching from the ideg of the lower leg. “That ma k e s the knee joint, and by a spring attachment the log is thrown into posi tjon 0 ne model has a steel pin for the knee to work on, bull don’t think much of it beside thi , Now. here arc tendons [“,”7 ^ZZ7ti jo call aad L£ r fafse fe* But the best thing in the wa v of feet is the India rubber " {oot See bow tbe toes and heel work exact i y like the natural foot. It has a ' block ofwood for the core, to give it olidity and mak e a suitable base for calf cousmlc(km Ko tendons, no foot ina ^ of kind; they are finding a market ” one thing more than another causes c tbe loss d'accidents of legs and arms?” ' roa as far^tas Ieo S are ^ ( and ey come to us in all I • ^ rm3 are lost mostly explosion's amom- the ^ premature or ^ ^ flying from blast . ^ coutrjb „ tetheir share “A false arm put on above the elbow is of precious little use except for show. But with a good elbow-joint a great deal cau be accomplished. Sec this false arm how freely and naturally the wrist joint moves, while as for the fingers, they will gtay in any position you place them, so that one can write, drive a horse, work in the fields, and do lots of things. Some people have a hook inserted in the palm, to have a firmer hold. It often comes in very handily. A laced leather gauntlet the e lbow connection has a universal s0 th at the arm can be placed ^ an , position desired.” “Are there many people in Denver with false limbs?” “All of fifty men have false limbs, ! '***' “ d W ° men baVe fa ' 86 ! ,e ” 9 ' IIad ° ne rai “ Cr fr ° m Montana for two new hands not long since. There ! was a man in town named Tinsdale, with both eyes about gone and both J i hands wanting, but he lias left without getting new hands, and he'll be sorry for | it. Littleton has a cowboy with both legs gone below the knee from freezing, i He was fitted out here, and now rides his mustang just as well as ever. It is surprising to see how quickly a man will learn to walk, even where there is an amputation aboveboth knees. “In New York or Chicago a Denver man will pay $ 150 to $200 for a leg, while here in town their cost is $100; ° n , ' y ’ the ^ 18 th ° ^ whether th& Ie * is > f abo J e ° r '’«low the knec An ' ab ° Ve the elb ° W C ° StS $ ‘ 5: * ° W ’ $-10. The cost to the manufacturer is, for a leg, not over $2o; for an arm,about ‘ * 15 ‘ jou see there is - a tremendous , pr0fit) juSt lik<; the p00r dru ^ ists who buy acelic acid in i arge lots for two cents pe ‘' P ° UUd “ nd 8e “ he,e { ° T fift0eB cents an ounce -” Periodicity as a Disease. A certain publishing establishment in Chicago has a peculiar class of employes, iu that, with the exception of a young lady cashier and the office boy, they are all “periodical drinkers.” The “peri¬ odical” is the drinker who abstains en¬ tirely for a time and then goes to a frightful extreme in a debauch lasting a week or two. These men are usually able and skilled men sober, and the ones employed by this publisher are brilliant writers and capable of earning good salaries in steady positions if it were not for their occasional lapse into dissipation. They are naid barely one-third the salaries their talents entitle them to, but he has to take all risk of their failure to show up when most wanted. One of these half-paid, struggling writers is a gentleman of classical education and great natural ability, who has held high positions in educational work, and who recently wrote a poem as brilliant as any ^.ng , . m the , , language, 1 alwayS men about m *’ 8ald tbe P ubllsber ’ b “ 4 1 mor never mng ’TtVu if } sbal1 nTT flnd f em C* here 1 8y ' pat f L e ™ th ^ a " 4 MTer " fus f « t0 employ a P e _™d.cal ,f he canbe of an, U8e t0 me ! su PP 08e was that my place got to be a sort of head ^ ^ Jm ^ ^ painful to no . ^ q{ briUiant men who ftre with thi8 di9ease . They come and * , ike driftwood i„ the currents. ^ ^ we , u t a man ^ fee again8t dri nk’s ; temutations. . We think . , , he never was a drinker „ d in no danger of ever becom . { ^ Suddenly j some morning he is g lfm , t cn in for ten d(U , Qr two weekB> ’ when he comes in, wrecked , - AsT am)earance disease’ and be * „, t0 be taken back ’. or 1 ircd ’ j think P iod icity is entitled to careful consideration . J by scientific men, as it, is certainly be f We h#ve fewer i drinkers . than , , had , steady , we years ago, but many m0rc me “ wh ° occa81ona11 ? ^om respectability to the gutter at one swoop and stay there a week or two ^ a time perfectly * - helpless.— I Chicago jr.- .i] Sympathetic Bruises. At the last meeting of the French Academy of Medicine, Dr. Brown-Se quard related , a very remarkable instance of the power of sympathy which came within his recent observation. A little b'* 1 ! was looking out o a win ow in a house in the Satignolles a few day* ago. The lower sash was raised and he child iai P acec Rr arma 1 ' ‘ u< ^enly the support on which , the sash 'SfJSLX. arms, indicting a severe bruise, Her mother, who was in the room at the time, happened to look toward the win dow at the moment of the accident, and wltnessed ll - Mie fainted with fright, and remained insensible for a minute or l ' v0 ' 'Mien she recovered sbe was con scions of a severe pain in both arms; and on ” aminin S the seat of U sbe amazed to find on each arm a bruise cor responding in position to that left by the accident on the child's, though more extensive. Coming from a less accred ited so ’ 1, ' ce 9Uch a st ° ry W °" ld °“ ly pr °‘ voke a ® mi,c of * ncrcdld ‘ t v ' but I1r ‘ - B>own-Sequard s position iu the world of 8oieuce doe8 not permit of this s,lm mary mode of disposing of a statement for which he vouches.-At. James's Ga _____ __ Creditable to the Manufacturer. Landlady, handing bill to boarder: *<This is tlie forty seventh time, Mr. JoneSj T have presented this bill.” Boarder, taking it from her hands and examinin g it critically: “Is that so, qr rg g wee t? Well, it don’t show the _ we ar and tear at all. Have you any idea w ho manufactures this paper?”-C.nem ha1i jferehnd- Traveler. ------ -- oned by overdo-es of chloral or morphia, and “over thirty were known to use spirito to excese.” TOPICS OF THE DAY, The sale of horse flesh la Paris is a recognized industry, 8,000 animals be¬ ing the number credited as annually slaughtered for sale In that city. Prom 4 to 20 cents per pound is stated to be the range in price, accord¬ ing to the quality of the cuts. Very old horses are said to be ground up into sausage of the Lorraine variety. Tha olive tree begins to bear in four years from cuttings, and both oil and pickles of the first quality oan be pro¬ duced in California. The olive-orop of Southern Europe is estimated to be worth 475,000,000 franos; and, since it has been demonstrated that Cali¬ fornia soil and climate are well ■n!apted to its culture, olive-planting is receiving much attention. A writer in the New England Medical Monthly says that unreason¬ able apprehension of possible calamity depresses the vitality, and thus indi¬ rectly increases the power of disease, lie cites the case of a man so panic stricken about cholera that he rushed immediately out of his town, leaving his family to follow. He died in a few days, not of cholera, but of fright. All students in Russian universities are now compelled to wear, on cere¬ monious occasions, a uniform consist¬ ing of a blue cap, grey coat, and green trousers, all plentifully embellished with gold lace. The suit will be so costly that poor boys can hardly buy it, and the belief Is that the require¬ ment is intended to hinder the im¬ poverished masses in educating their sons. A Western man who has lived among tornadoes all his life, who was raised with them, as it were, says that it is easy to distinguish a tor¬ nado from an ordinary blow. A cy lone or tornado north of the equator always comes from the southwest. Its first appearance is that of a local cloud. It always comes when the barometer is low. It is nothing more than an electric storm. The earth re¬ fuses to receive the electricity that Is constantly being generated, and it ac¬ cumulates in a mass. When the cloud extends from one side of the horizon o the other, there is no danger of a cyclone. The postmaster-general has ap proved a design for the ten cent special delivery stamp authorized by Congress .it its last session. The stamp will be about twice the size of the ordinary postage stamp, and the shape of a dol lar note. On the left of the stamp (here is a pretty vignette of a messen ger boy in uniform. Across the top are the words: “United States Special Postal Delivery,” and along the hot tom the price of the stamp, ten (10) cents, is expressed in figures and let ti-rs. Conspicuous on the body of the stamp are the words: “Secures imrae diate delivery at special delivery office.” The whole design is very pretty and effectiva Mr. Elkins says that wealth has been increased both in Europe and America three times faster than popu iation. While Great Britain lias got three times the wealth of fifty years the United States has six-fold ^ wealth Europe and America increase 11,000 human beings every y day i and crfeate $11,000,000 pro Je United state8 nowhas $ti J 000 ^ 000 J J more Litry property than Eng U- -Z* Mr. Elkins - ago, that “the United States had the most illustrious success of all modem nations,” and Gladstone said that we were the wealthiest of all nations. Dr. Kleiber, of , c St. I TJ etersburg, . has just published the results of investi gallons by himself and Dr. KeUar on the amount by which the earth’s mass ( 8 increased each hour by the meteors falling upon the globe from space. On an average, It is said that a single ob ser ver will see about ten meteors an hour - A single observer, however, does not command tbe whole of the sky above his horizon, actually only about twenty-three per cent, of it. Rut> combining a serie s of separate \ deduetions> it woui(J appear that about 450,000 meteors fall upon the surface of the whole earth each hour. The average weight of a meteor, it is shown, may be taken at five grammes; whence it follows that the earth re ce ives hourly not less than 4950 pounds 0 f foreign material. _ Cold water bathing may prove bene Mal or la j uri0 us. Much depends upon the method, and still more upon the nprson wbo oractices it A recent jurenwtMd of invigorate The re^ est test of benefit u the glow of free VOL. XI, NO, 48. surface circulation, or, at least, tha absence of any decided chill after Im¬ mersion. Those who take to it should begin in summer, not winter, and so become gradually accustomed to its lowest temperature. No one should linger over it; three or four minutes are ample. After Immersion the body should be quickly and well dried and rubbed before dressing. Light gym¬ nastic or dumb-bell or club exeroise may occupy the next few minutes, the clothes being partly on if the weather be cold, and breakfast, or a cup of warm tea or coffee, should shortly fol¬ low, to prevent ohllling. The Yaquls, that tribe of Indians that is giving the Mexican govern¬ ment so mpeh trouble, are not fighting for their original right of domain, but place their claim upon a title from the King of Spain. They do not recog¬ nize the Republic of Mexico. No taxes are levied on them, or if levied they have not been collected. They are a hardy agricultural race, living on small patches of fertile soil on the Yaqui River. They steal stock when an opportunity offers, but have rarely in the last few years committed any murders. Cajemo, their chief, is of fair education for Mexico, and i3 a stern ruler. He has absolute control over them. The nations combined number over fifteen thousand, of which at least five thousand are adult males. Their principal arms are bows, arrows, Bpears, ana a three-cornered bludgeon made of ironwood. Some of the arrows are poisonous. They also carry a powdered stone in small sacks, used by them to throw in the eyes of their adversaries. A Chinese Printing Office. Tn a San Francisco Chinese printing office the manner of putting a news¬ paper on the press and printing is very primitive. The editor takes American newspapers to friends, from whom he gets a translation of the matter he needs, and after getting it written in Chinese in a manner satis factory to him he carefully writes it upon paper chemically prepared. Upon the bed of the press, which is of the style that went out of use with the last century, is a lithograph stone. j Upon this the paper is laid until the Impression of the characters is left there. A large roller is inked and passed over the stone after it has been dampened with a wet sponge, and nothing remains but to take the im pression upon the newspaper to be. The Chinese pressman prints three papers every five minutes, five paper in the same time less than Benjamin Franklin had a record for. The life of a Chinese journalist is a happy one. lie is free from care and thought, and allows all the work of the establishment to be done by the pressman. The Chinese compositor has not arrived. The Chinese editor, like the rest of his countrymen, is Imitative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American newspapers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The news paper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room is connected by a ladder with bunks on the loft above, where the managing editor sleeps, and next to it is, invari ably, a room where an opium bunk and a layout reside. Evidences ol domestic life are about the place, pots, kettles, and dishes taking up about as no disposition is'shown to elevate the pos.t.on of the “printer above h. surroundings. If an editor finds that journalism does not pay, he gets a job '' as 18 108 ' ‘° P P ' ng '' ° 0< ’ a ° - he does not think he has descended far, either._____. Torpedo and Spring Chicken. A Whitehead Torpedo met a Chicago ^prmg Chicken th„f t at ad just w taff le t tha the frying-pan, and said; \ ou miserable little animal, get out of my way or 111 put a head ou you! H I should collide with you there would not be enough of you left to grease a gimlet!" The Spring Chicken replied: “I am not afraid of a harmless little sea-terrapin like you. Do you take me for a flat-boat or the Dolphin? \oa must be sea-sick. Get off the side walk, or I’ll scatter your personal fragments!" The Torpedo then sprang upon the Spring Chicken with a wild explosion that broke the glass in the neighbor ing buildings; butthe next moment the Torpedowaslyinginthegutterutter ly disabled, while the Chicken was sauntering down the pavement whist Be,Vo ” M “' y “ lb0 w sag glitter.