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The Oglethorpe Echo
LEXINGTON, GA.
Published l'rlday Ufontlttg:
FA CIS FOB THE CURIOUS.
In Sicily brides are compcHcd by their
husbands to shave off tbeir eyebrows.
The bee can draw 20 times the weight
of its body. A species of beetle can
draw 42 times its weight.
A life insurance man has made a calcu¬
lation which shows that in 1933 there
will be living 1,233 survivors of the war
t>f the rebellion.
Floating sawmills are common on the
lower Mississippi. They pick up the
drift logs, turn them into lumber, and
sell the product to planters aloDg the
shore.
An express train of eight cars is valued
»t $66,700. The engine and tender at
$10,500, the baggage car at $1,000, the
postal car at $2,000, the smoker at $2,200,
the two common passenger cars at $3,000
each and three palace cars at $15,000
each.
Seventy-five years ago the first toma¬
toes grown in this country were culti¬
vated as a strange and showy horticul¬
tural curiosity in a garden in Salem,
Mass Forty-five years ago or a Title
more they began to be used os a vegeta¬
ble in the season.
The books printed in the South during
the war are now in demand among col¬
lectors. One of these was a spelling
book on common wall paper. Another,
more ambitious, was illustrated with tho
©Id trade cuts found in newspaper offices,
producing a comical effect. Upon the
title-page is the legend: “l’rinted in
tho fourth year of the Avar of independ.
•ncc.”
The twenty-four o’clock system, which
went into use in Greenwich Observatory
and amongst Bailors and moat railroads
throughout the world on January 1, is
sot an entirely new thing. It lias been
ssed in Southern Italy for several years,
and an Italian mentions physician, having writing had friend in tho
year 1052, a
call on him at twenty-two o’clock, “an
hour when both 1 aud ho should bo in
bed,”
The antiquity of trade-marks bus been
traced to be almost coeval with the in¬
dustry of the human race, It has been
found that ancient Babylon hod property
symbols, and tho Chinese declare that
they had trademarks Guttenberg, 1,000 tho years inventor licforo of
Christ.
printing, won a lawsuit about a trade
mark, and the recognized use of by a distinguishing the English
stamp was
parliament ia 1300.
The Porcelain Tower was a celebrated
edifice in the city of Nankin, China. It
was built the ninth century before Christ
by King A-yon, was rebuilt in tho fourth
century of the Christian era, and, having
been again destroyed, was rebuilt for tho
last time which in 1418 by tho Hoang-li-Tai. splendid The of
edifice, waB most
its kind iu China, was octagonal in shape
and 281 feet high. It was made of white
brick, and the cost of the edifice is said
to have been between $35,000,000
$40,000,000. This superb tower was de¬
frayed during tho Tue Ping occupation of
the city in 1853.
How Cholera Travels.
The disease is best known in Europe
tinder the names of cholera, cholora mor¬
bus, Asiatic cholera, since the epidemic
of 1817 to 1819, in which the English
army, under tho command of the Mar¬
quis of Hastings, during a war against
the natives, was rendered unfit lor light¬
ing and almost, annihilated. Hut cholera
bad never visited Europe until the proa
ent century, when in 1830 it appeared
in Hussia and spread to Poland, where
war was prevailing. longer and Since sometimes that time,
sometimes at at
•honor .intervals, cholera lias appeared
in Kurojie. The question why cholera
remained a thousand years in India
before it first liegan to migrate is one of
great interest, but one which cannot be
satisfactorily answered. The principal be (hat
consideration appears to me to
the event happened at the timo when in¬
tercommunication in all directions, both
by water and Iqpd, had become more
rapid. Indian The first steamship the beginning appeared of in
the waters at
the decade of the present century. By
land also intercourse was greatly ac
©derated. The Russians possibly
took cholera from iudia, Arabia,
Afghanistan or Persia, through cour¬
iers and stage-coaches. It soon bocamo
clear that cholera, the specific cholera
germ, was in some way or other propa¬
gated along and if the also paths became of evident human inter¬ that
course,
unless the genus found a suitable soil
within a certain time they did not flour¬
ish. Observers soon discovered that
cholera was more prone to appear in cer¬
tain regions and t» affect certain locali¬
ties. while it shunned other districts;
and, again, that other of regions were only It is
visited at intervals many years.
•Iso a fact that Asiatic cholera never yet
appeared at • place which hud not pre¬
viously been in communication with a
region where cholera prevailed; and,
further, that the disease from an in¬
fected locality never yet passed on to
another place if the journey lasted a cer¬
tain time intercourse" without btvween interruption, India The and
large particularly England, by
Furore more
a>ean«.» which sailed around the
Ftpe of Good Hope, had never suc¬
ceeded in carrying cholera from Indir, to
Sngland. — I’cpular Science Monthly.
Porcelain and Earthenware.
The smooth polish on the above
named substances is a coating of com¬
mon glass, and b made' by covering the
earthen ware after the first baking with a
composition containing an alkali, and
heating once more. The silica in the
clay unites with the alkali, forming s
fusible glass, which gives to the finished
ware the hard, smooth polish. The ex¬
act composition of these glazes, as they
•re called, is kept a secret by the letters
and varies in different cases. For coarse
earthenware the glaze is produced by
putting common salt into the furnace,
which is volatilized by the heat, sad
condensed upon the surface of the ware
where the glaze is formed.
Brave Tard Poetry.
Genius, eccentricity or an ambition tc
be heard frost after death puts some sin
gular inscriptions cbarch upon yard the grave the atones land
in almost every of
la New Jersey the following is old found
upon the headstone of scrubbed mm
who did not care very much tor man
hind when he was living:
Header, pass ou—don’t waste your time,
On bad biography and bitter rhi me:
For what I am, tbt* crumblra r day insures.
And what 1 was is no afiair of yours:
A St. Louis man has discovered that
codfish skin, when properly tanned,
makes elegant leather. tough. It is of * pearl
gray color end verc ,
NEVER GROW OLD TO ME.
I looked in the tell-tale mirror,
And saw the mark of care,
The crow’s feet and the wrinkles,
And the Kray in the dark-brown hair;
My wife looked over my shoulder—
Most beautiful was she—
“Thou wilt never grow old, my love,” she
said.
“Never grow old to me.
“For age is tho chilling of heart,
And thine, as mine can tell,
Is as young and warm as when first we
heard;
The sound of our bridal bell 1”
I turned and kissed her ripe red lips,
‘4Let timo do his work on me,
If in my soul, my iove, my faith,
I never seem old to thee!”
LANETTE.
CHArTKK I.
Captain John Ilablett, in whose truth¬
fulness the wc following all have implicit confidence,
relates story:
One night, several years ago, I was a
passenger on a Missouri railway train
that was mercilessly robbed by a party
of jeering young wretches who not only
deprived us of our valuables, but who,
during the outrage, subjected us to their
low flung raillery, 1 was not burden
somely encumbered with money, and
gave up, without a pang, the small
amount which I had, but when one of
the rascals told me to take off my watch,
I filed my motion for an appeal, The
watch, aside from being a gold time¬
keeper of finest make, had been pre
sented me by a dear friend.
“Look here," said I, “can't you let
me keep this watch. I suppose you have
often heard such a request—not at all
strange in your lino of business—but
which by granting would exhibit your
remaining dregs of grace, and which 1
might say. might in time prove to be the
fruit meats of repentance."
I was a young member of tho bar at
that time, rather liked to hear the sound
of my own voice, and thought that this
with little speech, emphasis, so applicable should and delivered
such at once gain
my caso, but tho villain, graceful of form
as well as graceless of morals, bowed
profoundly, “My dear and sir, 1 replied: like to hoar talk,
you
and under ordinary circumstances would
listen to you with only a modcrato deg rco
of impatienco, but on this occasion f am
really pressed for timo. While I am ac¬
commodating, and willing to grant a
hearing to any one dissatisfied with the
manner In which I conduct my affairs,
yet i must insist that you pay more at
iention to prompt delivery and less to
oratory. Ah," taking my watch, a “jew
eled checker-off of time's hurrying mo¬
ments. So long, sir. I wish you a safo
journoy."
CHAPTER II.
About two robbers, years after my experience
with tbe I went on a summer
vacation to Wisconsin. One day, whilo
threshing a little trout stream, I met a
young gentleman to whom—as ho was
engaged in the same pastime, and as he
had caught nothing 1 became attracted.
He was a tall, graceful young inan,
quick-witted, aui d with a face imprcfl
sively handsome. We sat in the mossy
ghude aud ate lunoli together. We talked
for an hour, ami then, like Amcric n citi¬
zens, introduced ourselves. This is an
American characteristic. An English
man must know your name before he
will exhibit the slightest interest in you,
but an American must becomo acquaint¬
ed with you before he cures to know
* vourname 7.; .
he ‘Wlamknow'nMWMdBob w Sen Th^d* • d eh ti vc V, red 1 mycognomeif n _ *1don't
know* whv*for'no'ono ever sees mo in"a
h nlekfe" rrv “ Here's somo vorv * fmr f cabbaizc g
“Oll lull you vou Wild Wim Bob 1 J°U because Decause you vou are are
mombers’ t’Sldwator 0 ^ ^ Lrln'Arksn don’l aw
call ^m^mbTr ™ John hve tl ounh l
an^marked now that I ever shown
nny innrkut nred pmblection ection for for cold cold watm water.
..sTj iilblett I live about three miles
...... 1
particularly.” “1 have anything particu
mean you
l * r ’y odo,
o
“Well, snnpow you go home with me.
You will find the folks to be very agree
able |U» no boardinghouse, under
* ,aiul ‘
As tho boarding-house which I had
seenred was hnrdly up to the standard of
appetite, to soy nothing ol association, 1
agreed to accompany Mr. Gosman.
•
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CHaptkk hi.
Tho Go,mans lived iu a large brick
house, surrounded by tall trees. The cool
yard, Jtfrcat the spring near the house, and even
the barn from which issued the
sharp filing notes of a score of Guinea
Gosman—old bens—all to me were through inviting. Old man
man courtesy, for
ho was not so very old, was quiet and un
demonstrative, but I could see that I was
not,,,, “unwelcome guest, a guest unbid. ”
Mrs. Gosman was ono of those women
who remind me of a piece of silk,
Smooth never showing a ruffle, smiling
nearly always, but so quiet of manner,
and so soft of voice that sometime*,
when hearing an indistinct sound in
the room I would look un ianette thinkimr
that she had spoken Mini Uov
man— hut how shall 1 sneak of her ; The
•hine in tlu-ir voices? It is a’ fact.
whetber or not vou have noticed it 1
know that Lanette's voice was full
sunshine, for everything was brighter
when she spoke, ller beauty, when she
entered the room, bounded upon mv
’
vision like * glad surprise
“Oh, yes, you must remain awhile
with us,” she remarked the next evening
after my arrival when Bob had renewed
his invitation “It is very lonesome
here at times When father' is not at
work he walks around with his bauds
behind him. There'.- nothin** that makes
me more lonesome than io see a man
walkin'- around ‘hat xxav It always
seems to me that he is in trouble; and
mother she is so quiet and easv—xvell.
mother reminds me of a piece of china,
Bob, I’ll declare she does,” turning to
her brother and growing found brighter in the
light would of her new know that comparison. she “No the
one ever is on
Place hardlv.” can’t turning to me
“We sav as much for vou,” re
plied Bub. “Everybody xo'u in the neigh
borliood knows when arc at home.”
“Am I such a romp/Mr. Habletti”
“No m’re ” I reptte l. “I—never saw ivnv
one ladv like ”
“There u XV, Mr. Smartv,” ' shaking
her head at Bob.
“Oh he savs that because he can’t get
’
around it ” sa d Rob.
“No, you don’t, do vou ?” appealing
to me with aa sir so bewitching that 1
actually felt like getting up and dancing
the “Essence of Old Virginia.”
“I mean it, Miss Lanette. You are
lady-like.”
“There now again, Mr. Smart .Tackety. told
But Mr. Ilablett, you haven’t me
yet.” you?”
“Haven’t told
“No, haven’t told me that you can
remain with us awhile.”
“Well, I am on a vacation and I much
prefer this to any other saying—“prefer place—in the
world, I came in one of
it to any other place I have found.”
“Thank you,” she said.
As I sat there, contemplating wondered if she her could en¬
trancing beauty, I
really be a flirt. Then this crushing with¬
thought fell upon rather than arose
in me. “Of course she is. A girl so
frank, so easily delighted, could lie car¬
ried off by any clod hopper.” I had
never heard it intimated that I was hand¬
some, and my feet, with a pronounced
affinity for No. 9’s, now seemed to be en¬
cased in twelves. Oh, yes, I loved her—
loved her until I was actually sick. After
supper, I went out alone and told my¬
self that I was a fool. I heard Lanette
singing, and addressing myself, I said:
“ilablett. you are the biggest fool I
ever saw. Why don't you pick up a few
grains of sense as you go along. Don't
you know the girl the is house, laughing and at you?”
I returned to going to
my trunk—which had just been brought
from my boarding house—I took out
Blackstone and decided to rub up my
knowledge of common law, but incor¬
poral hereditaments, freeholds and the
like, were powerless to divert my mind
from the engulfing channel into which
it was determined to flounder. I put
down the book, and as I sat musing, or
rather agonizing, I heard a woman in the
hallway ask: whar Wild Bob ketch
“Miss Lanette,
up wid dat cuis lookin’ white man?”
CHAPTER IV.
Three weeks had elapsed and yet I re
mained a guest at the Gusman farm house.
Bol> and 1 spent much of our time in
fishing, but I didn’t want to lisb. Fish,
tho mischief 1 Talk about fishing drop- to a
man a ho is almost on the verge of
pine on the ground and kicking in the
agonies of fatal love! The girl’s attem- it, I
turns had not abated, but, increased. hang
could not see that they had I
couldn’t fool along this way. I was de
termined to bring tho ease to a trial.
Late one afternoon while “moping” m
tho woods near tho house, I met Lanette,
who, with a handful of wild flowers, was
returning home from a neighborhood
visit. On my part, I don’t think that
the meeting was altogether accidental.
“1 saw some beautiful flowers over
hero the other day,” said 1. “Come with
me and we will get them.
Oh, what a liar. I had seen no flow
era. She. joined me and we proceeded seemed
a'ong a path so narrow that it
impossible for me to get more than one
foot in it at a time.
“Ilow far are they?” she asked.
“Not far. Let me see. Just over
there, I believe."
“Are you quite sure that you saw
any?” yes."
“Oh,
“When?”
“Yesterday mor—Lanette, I expect
you think that—
“Think what?” she asked, stopping.
“Think that I am—well, let’s go to
tho house. No, I’m going to tell you. I
love you. Hold on! Oli, it's a fact.”
"1 didn’t dispute it.” she said.
“Of course not, but—” I had caught
her in my arms. I had seen tears in her
eyes. much.” she breathed
“I love you so in
my Ah, car. lightning, ; it is a wonder you
h^n’t settled me right there Such hap
P ines » mu8t 1,0 a mhtako She would
" ll,n T " ,n! °/eat Osar! 1 looked
»ro»nd to sec if any one were about to
“boot at me, but saw nothing but a cow
flatly grazing. I wondered if I were
not . duty bound to wasafoot-but run against a tree
->,^1. myself. ! ! was
» deucedly happy. -
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CHAitbr r.
^ engagement was not kept secret.
The p^s-iasriS old gentleman readily gave his con
!r.2»JSj2srw, “ iu ’ eal<1 ,hat 8,10 hftd ° b -> CCt, P Lc ° n t0
timcwofnteY VZ two weeks Zrria^M from the
d*
cided ,; ‘ to so U over omV and catch a few trout
b b v a 8 ath and as the distance
^mb'dtog.i aacttc to wa]k 1 con .
alone
“ Vou must be back bv * four o’clock,”
, . ,
‘ iij,.
.. iiow ‘ tm I to know? I have 110
, , »
“Couldn’t you take the clock under
your arm?”
"
“Wait/ “Hardly.”
Bob has a watch up stairs.
He never wears it, but 1 don’t suppose
ho would care if you were to take it.
Just wait a minute, and I’ll wind it up
and set it.”
A few moments later she returned with
the watch. I could scarcely engraved repress an
exclamation; “J. L. II.” on
the case. I said nothing, but after leav
ing the house 1 examined the watch. It
was mine, unmistakably. Could it be
possible that Bob was one of the train
rofibersi 1 was so disturbed that, taking
no interest in fishing. I soon returned to
the house. As I neared the I saw
that Hob had returned. Seeing me, he
came ‘ forward aed said
-Lanette tells me that she let you take
mv “VS watch ”
hero it is.”
^ ta io "'
“But what i” I asked.
“Oh, nothing.”
‘‘Seems to be an excellent time keeper,
Bob. Where did vou get it?”
“Oh, by the way of a chance.” he
replied, but 1 could see that he was
confused. “Ah.” thougnt 1, that night
as 1 lay in bed, “ hat is doubtless one
reason whv vou deserve the name of
’
Wil l Bob Many the sister of an out
awl 1 shuddered, les, 1 would marry
lier, even though she were an outlaw
herself. It was mv duty though to
have Bob arrested. What a thought’,
It would alums: kill his parents. •* j
will \xait until a ter xxe are married,” l
mused, “but I must discharge my duty.”
The nexx/pxper, verv next morning, upon taking
up a 1 saw that one of the
Miaaouri train robbers bul been cap
tunal. “He had in bis possession,”
continued the account, “a number of
xale.able watches. When asked whv he
had not disp sed of them, he rep ied
he was afraid that such a step might
lead to his detection, aud that it had
been his intention to leave the countrv
a id sell them. The chief of police, iost of
St. Louis, requests that those who
watches during the late train robbery in
thi* State, will pleas* furnish him with
descrintioo of peopertv.” satisfied that Bob had
Although I w*s
mv watch, yet 1 wrote to the St. Louis
chief of police, and to my infinite watch, sur
prise received a few days later my
Now I could see a difference, watch though
very slight, between my and
Bob’s, but I could not account for the
same initials. This thought puz ed me.
Why should he have shown such embar
rassment when I asked him whece he got
the watch: I was determined o find
out, so, accompanying Bob to his room,
I related the circumstances of the train
robbery and then showed him my
watch.
.a
is strange, surely. that I don under
“ So strange, Bob,
stand it. Jell me where you go your
watch. Of course it is no business of
mine, but I would like to know.
“I g>>t it from a friend.
“ Tes, Bob, but why were you embar
rassed when I asked you concerning it?”
For a few moments he remained silent.
A cloud crossed his face. I assing his
Hand over the face, as though he would
rub the cloud away, he said:
“One of the best friends I ever had
was James L Harmon. This watch once
belonged to him. One night he took it
off and gave it to me in payment of a
gambling debt. I took it jokingly, im
tending to return it, but the firs thing I
saw upon taking up the corning paper
next day, was that James had been killed
while in a saloon. The horrible affair
occurred a short time after he left me.”
“Bob you will never know what relief
you give me.”
“How so?”
I related my suspicions. He laughed
in genuine appreciation and said: “You
don’t know me, John. I haven’t the
courage to rob a bee hive, much less a
railway train, but really I am robber glad that
you no longer regard me a and
that you do not necessarilly believe your
property to be in danger of stealthy re¬
moval when I am around.”
“I know one thing. Bob."
“What’s that?”
“You are the best fellow I ever met.”
" " T ’. '
Lanette and I marriesdb , , good ,
were ya
ol 'l pa'-son who talked through his nose.
Everybody seemed to tie happy, although
the old gendeman walked with his ham s
behind him. The old lady weptsmoothly
and without a flaw but still looked like
a piece of china. Arkamaio Traveler.
Arsenic in Domestic Fabrics.
With regard to arsenic there are oppor
tunities of observing what may be classed
ug experimental proofs, such as could not
possibly occur in illness arising from
g CWer „ ag . This further proof consists
j n t/h e frequent alternate recurrence of
i)lness and rcc0 vcrv-illness on exposure
t0 aud recover y on removal from, arsen-
8Urroun dings, followed by final re
covcry on substitution of a non -arsenical
fabric in place of that containing poi
gon (ihano’e of air is iri all probability
0 f t cn credited with the benefits arising
j rom reraoVid f rom 30mc unsanitary con
d j tlon u f res idence 0 flice, or workshop. hanging
The effect on men employed in
or removing f arsenical wall papers is an
ot])Cr proo 0 f their injurious quality—
men bavc frequently to leave their work
, in f, n j sbe <| beinrr too ill to continue under
the poisonous influence. Arsenic in do
mestic fabrics is so easily dispensed with
that there is no valid reason for the con
,j nllcd use 0 f these poisonous colors,
Several paper stainors have for years
conscientiously excluded all arsenica l™!■
org {ro(n t) ieir works yet have still
maintained their position in the open
market tl us deeidin" the question both
as to cost and quality of non-arsenical
wa u paners. ‘ It is an interesting ones
f} tSaUhese mon an( i /.homists how
h is minute quun.iries of ar
with'other • f combination of arsenic
ingrediments, when breathed,
^antities h » so i n i ur j 0 n a -vvhen larger
' can be taken into the stem
a ch as medicine with advantage. The
( t'o UCSlion , however, is of no consequence
t he patient. found His course is simple
enougb having of and out the thankful cause ol it
1H ness, get rid it, be
Wifi's rftri he rid of nt so small a cost oi
a Uo fonnd in the dust
rooms papered with arsenical of arsenic papers,
thus proving the presence in
the atmosphere.-- Chamber'* Journal.
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Odd Facts from Mexico,
-i-s:■swssrs - « T < w
your cook may be a shoemaker or a
hackman, or a saloon keeper, but when
where ins mile is living, sip seeps
there, , and takes Ins meals at your table;
* nd tho same ru ,; a !T llcs to eh ‘ ldltn ;
You may hire a chambermaid, . and board
Itor husband and eleven children. There
is no alternative; no evasions of the cus
toraH of lhe c 0111 '! 1 ?- I his system is not
so expensive as it seems, however, for a
whole family will sleep in a s >"g'e room
an 1 he> ’ d ° U needmUch but COrn bread
and leans ” 1,1 ,
j[ ho l™ 18 “ j £ “ . ex J£ . ..
’
'*’ i e They
obedient perfec ly honest
andVeldom^ tfie ChineJ rev leaTbV^ than^lesson’ atton
fw d "f n WVay * samftWn- more ttly over and over in
8 until are told to stop.
The Mexican sta^e toehold coach always has
. "°Xr .irivois__one vvhipbin*. the rein’s and
to do the The lat
carries a bas 8 of stones to throw at
h
Tbo ‘ , 0 stal system is very primitive,
Aftcr th e arrival ol e verv mail a clerk
. , { versons for
whom i . there there are are letters iittir oti 0,1 a a hi«hcet di snoci,
J”* wuutONN. " P °u it ^aves t°he"postmaster^^ tm postmaswr from uoui
q uestions. A ew ler* ^n.
> 'P a,fes -
„.. >\ ntmg from , the 8anta Elena Mines,
iu the interior of the state of Bolixar, a
correspondent the says: months have
“During past two we
' >eon exposed to horrible tempests, which
in some paces have swept down entire
forests. One day in the midst of a
sex ere storm, xve experienced a heaxx
earthquake, and a fortnight thereafter
we were 'isitcdbv a breeze which was so
pestilential the 8th. as to daylight bealmost number insupportable, of
at a peo
were dancing at the Taebo mine.
when they were horrified to sec that one
of ihe tallest trees in the neighborhood
suddenly hex aim charged with electricity.
and that sparks flew front it to the
ground, increasing whole rapidly in number
until the fo mge appeared to be ; >n
a At the same time a remarkably
clear light shone from the tree, from
"hich balls of colored fires seemed to fly
uialld rections. Gradually the brilliancy
of ttus light disappeared, and two hours
afterward the tree wore its usual appear
ance, without boughs or leaves having
suffered the least injury. The dancing
on °c suspended, and the people,
terrified in the extreme, threw them
es on the ground, aud prayed
divine mercy-’
~-— ---
Austral!* has ninety-three species
-nr.kca, fifty-eight venomous and thirty
’
:ivc harmlc-s.
TIMELY TOPICS.
^ locomotive E1 Gobernado, built at
tbe railroad works at Sacramento, ’ has
been sent down to the Tchachipi )ass .
Thig ig he ' the
jd. Its , largegt ] OC omotive in
than wor weight ° and is considerably it J more
100 ton has ten )arge
dr j V ers, five on a side. It was named
after Governor Sanford.
jt£srs&,f^L thing at novel and useful, has , ss. made
once
a collection of suspenders. lie has filled
a ] arge room m b ; g fi ouge with these in¬
teresting notable conveniences. They variety present in a
most and instructive
texture, color, and style. The best pair
; a $ioo! The collection is insured
° inst lo8s b J fire .
Victoriano Nievez lives at Carmen, in
Mexico a; - d is a millionaire. The other
day he and his wife celebrated their
g 0 j den wedding anniversary. He gave
a banquet and scattered dollars right
and [ e j b b i v . e hundred thousand dol
j ars in one lump were sent to the poor in
th(j locust . eaten districts, and $10,000
werc given to the republic to help pay
off tbe Amorican ds bt.
Why should an ice house burn? Ice,
surely, is not inflammable; the houses
are usually built in some retired locality,
and save when alongside a railroad track,
their surroundings are not dangerous.
Yet ice houses, and particularly those in
New England and on the Hudson river,
are reckoned among the special hazards.
Many insurance companies will have
nothing to do with them, and the num¬
ber of companies who thus pass ice
houses by on the other side is yearly in¬
creasing.
The Indian industrial school at Genoa,
Nebraska, now numbers 107 pupils. eight Of
these twenty-four are Winnebagos,
Poncas, one Omaha, and the remainder
gj oux f rom tbc Yankton, Pine Ridge
and j{ 03eblld agencies. Seven boys are
tau „ bt car j )C nter work, and a regular de
tail of boys work the farm of 320 acres.
iphe gj rlg are taught sewing and laundry
work, beside keeping the dining-room,
kitchen, dormitories and halls in order,
The products of the farm last year were
100 bushels of oats and 5,000 bushels of
corn,
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The electric . light is being used to
light baiters ovens. A great dim
culty has always existed among bakers
to get a light into their dark ovens, so
that the progress of baking might be
observed. 1 wo incandescent lamps,
driven by a Victoria-Brush machine, are
P^ced inside an oven where the temper
at '> re ranges from 400 to 600 degrees
Fahrenheit, The oven door contains a
sheet of plate glass, through which the
’"'hole of the oven is distinctly visible,
Tip; baker now never need burn his
bread <> r pastry.
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An Illinois railroad company recently ,
sold some lan< l to a f armer , reserving
tbe right to remove such amounts of
gravel as it might need. When the corn
pany attempted to remove the gravel the
farmer served notice on it that it must
remove the gravel and nothing else—no
sand, for gravel soil, only dust or decayed, written in vegetation, the bond.
was
The company brought the case before
the supreme court of the State, which
decided that in tho right to remove
gravel was implied the right to remove
necessarily went with it. the
supreme court evidently has little re
spect for the precedent furnished by
Portia’s celebrated decision in the bhy
case.
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One of the strongest arguments against
the admission of the Chinese to equal
status with Americans is the wide prevft
lence among them of the opium habit in
some form Of this there can be no
question ; the validity of the argument
ia riot here considered. If one turns to
India or Turkey he will find that opium
or one of its cone atives is the national
atimulant. It will have been observed
moreover, that the civilization to which
the consumers of these powerful nervines
belong have passed their zenith; that up
h s
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l )03es cJIete '-
gome idea of the secondary costs or the
‘‘consequential damages” resulting from
destruc tion of forests may be gained from
tUe roma rks made by Professor B. G.
Northrup at the annual meeting in Men
den of the State board of agriculture of
c onnec ticut. freshets Professor of 1883 ^Northrop Ohio $60,- said
tba t the cost
000,000, and the only reason the loss was
not so great in the floods of last spring
uas because there was less property left
to destroy. He saw 400 houses floating
off down tbe river at one view. The
a P 0 “S7 materia! on the surface of wood
is sometimes a foot or two deep,
a “T "dl retmn a vast quantity of water
cut off the trees let m the sun and
V"' YJ ° f vY
melting snow slide immediately
0 the river valleys causing the disas
trous spring freshets.
While experimenting . and , studying , , . the
“ larc b of ihe French sildier.,-fr.Marcy
bas demonstrated that low heels have a
pereo^ D the"r^thm W of' C a
P walks ‘n iirortant and that ^influence tlie
st s te 1 a ha s J«nportant innuence on on me the
s P eed - T h e rythm was studied by means
of an electric bell, actuated by a pendu-
1 um of ?’ ariabIe lea ? th to e nablc 9,lb ‘
Ject { . tQ kee p exac t time, and - the distance
ravelc d was recorded on the odograph
found that the length of the step in
creases until sixty five steps per minute
are taken; it then increases until seventy
five, and afterward decreases as a higher
rythm is reached. The speed of travel
increases with the acceleration of the
rythm up to eighty-five higher stops per minute,
and decreases at rythms.
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The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:
“England has sixty-five square miles of
colony to the square mile of her own
area; Holland fifty four; Portugal, 20;
Denmark, 6.30; France, 1.90, Spain,
0.86 square miles. The area of the
British colonies is nearly 8,000,000 of
square miles—rather less than the area of
the Russian empires including Siberia
and Central As a: but if the area of the
native feudatory states m India, amount
mg to 509,284 square miles, be added
over which England does exercises much as great the
control as Russia over of
territory under its sxx ay. together with
that of the united kingdom itself,120,757
miles, then the area of the British cm
pire exceeds that of the Russian empire
by about 200,000 square miles, and
it covers tvithia a fraction of one sixth of
the whole land area of the globe.” ■
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“The American Exhibition, London.
1886," is the designation under which
STS exhibition is announced to open in
ndon in May, 1386. It is intended to
so arranged that a visitor on enterin-z
will be reminded of the approach to this
country through New York Harbor, and
thence taken in imagination by succes¬
sive stages to the moat prominent objects
usually sought by sightseers, including
a “trip across the continent,” the whole
being so arranged as to exhibit the arts,
manufactures, products, and resources
of the United States, of every kind, from
the broker’s office in Wall street to the
camp fires of Nevada. Applications are
said to have been already made for con¬
siderable Bpace in this unique exhibition
from prominent American manufacturers
and patentees. John R. Whitley is the
director general, and Charles B. Norton,
secretary, 7 Poultry lane, London, E. C.
A German paper gives some interest¬
ing statistics relative to ear disease,
which have been collected from different
aural surgeons. From these we gather
that males are more subject to ear dis¬
ease than females. Out of every three
middle-aged persons, there is found one
who does not hear so well with one ear
as the other. The liability to disease
increases from birth to the age of forty,
after which it decreases as old age
is reached. Of six thousand children
examined, tweDty-three per cent, show
symptons of ear disease, and thirty-two
per cent. a deficiency of hearing
power. With regard to tho results of
surgical treatment, we learn that of the
total number of cases of all kinds, fifty
three per cent, are cured and thirty per
cent are benefited. We fancy that
these figures are rather more favorable
than surgeons in this country can show,
it being well known that aural cases are
among the most uncertain and unsatis¬
factory to deal with.
The highest prize by a very long way
ever offered for a literary performance successful
will be awarded in 1925 to the
author of a simple biograpl^y. Fifty
years ago, according to a weekly con¬
temporary, General Arantschejeff, the
friend and confidential advisor of the
Emperor Alexander I, deposited in the
imperial bank of Russia the sum of
50,000 rubles, which is to be allowed to
accumulate at interest until December 1,
1925, when the entire amount, principal the
and interest, is to be handed over to
author of the best work on tho life and
reign of Alexander I. The St. Peters¬
burg Academy ol Sciences will decide on
the merit of the different performances which will
sent in, and award the price,
by that time amount to the enormous sura
of 1,918,000 rubles—about £309,000.
A fifth of the amount will be deducted
for the cost of printing the work, Tho
remainder will go to the fortunate
author, and so for once there will be a
literary man millionaire.
Garfield s Inaugural Tnn , lw . Rn Ball. „
The ball given in 1881 in honor ol
President Garfield excelled all its prede
cessors in point of attendance, The
National Museum building was then ap
proaching completion, and the interior
was converted for the occasion into a
ballroom, which for spaciousness and
elegance has seldom been equaled. The
roomy rotunds, naves and halls and rows
of arches and columns afforded fine op
portunities for decoration. A plaster
s f a tue of liberty was erected in the ro
tunda holding aloft an electric light,
On the piers about the rotunda were de*
vices i n bassre'iief, representing industry,
science, painting, sculpture, architecture,
agriculture, commerce and navigation,
1'he design, xvhich was followed success
fully, was to make the temporary dec
orations harmonize with the permanent
architectural ornaments of the building,
Rows of gas jets ran from column to col
u mn> The President and ex-President
and their families, General Hancock,
General Sheridan, members of the diplo
ma tic corps and a number of high officials
were admitted by the northwesten
f ran ce. Adjoining this entrance were
retiring rooms and a handsomely fitted
U p parlor for ihe President, tbe ex-Presi
dent and their parties The order of the
Yhe procossion to the main hail was as follows:
President, with J W Thompson of
an d Hon. George Bancroft, chairman
the executive and reception committees.
Ex-President Hayes, with Judge Shell
abarger and Dr. Welling; members of
the committee; Mrs Garfield, with
as? ^ sss^rus-J^si 2
K
backs to the vvestern door. There was a
low barricade in front of the party.
Here, with certain gentiemen of the com
mit tees, stood the ex-President, the
president, Havis Major Swaim, Mrs. Garfieid,
Mrs. and Mrs. Hazen. Thcpre
seutations to the President were made by
[ )r Welling. SeveralmembcrsofPres
ident Hayes’ cabinent with ladies stood
back of this party during the reception,
which concluded at 11 a. m. It is esti
mated tbat about 5> g 0 0 people attended
the reception and ball. Peoole began to
arriv e before 9 o’clock. There were so
many carriages that the line ex¬
tended outside of the Smithsoman
grounds and fav down the street The
grounds werc lighted with calcium lights
and the facilities for getting in and out
0 f the building vv-ere looked after with
carc Opposite the hall where the Presi
dent held his reception a band of sixty
musicians was stationed in the galleries.
qhe dancing music was furnished by
anot her band of one hundred musicians.
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Something About Earthquakes.
In Science fresh , interest . is . given to tbe
* uh \ ect of earthquakes which have
latelv a'statement caused , alarm in both hemispheres,
by of the number of notice
No less than 364 earthquakes are record
ed as occurring in Canada and the U nited
States, not including Alaska, within the
above period. Ol these the Pacific slope
had 151, the Atlantic coast 147, and the
Mississippi valley 66. Thus it appears
that an earthquake occurs about once in
every twelve days somewhere in the
United States and Canada, and about
0 nce a month on the Atlantic coast,
These are exclusive of the lighter tremors
which do not make an impression on ob
servers, but which would be recorded by
a properlv constructed seismometer, an
instrument des gned to detect the slighter
shocks,
Judging Br Appearances,
hammin „ bird „ hutterflv and
l hi«^in^s heautvof Lde
1*^“*J Q f nd-hio°’
' f r ; P I l .',
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1 °‘ u ’ ul( ;/ c P i T -
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as you once spurned , me and , called me
a arawnng aott.
impossibre. escta.mea tnenum
min . ft bird. I always had the li ghest
res P^ :t * or suc ^ ^autuul creatures as
T0U ‘
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‘ , T°" , have now. said the
other - but when you insulted me. I
was a caterpillar, adx bo let megive the h*imu.e. you a
pieceo. leg* never ia»u.
M 'hey may some day become your
supenors.
CAPITAL HANGERS-ON.
Broken-Down llten at Wasliington
and Their Characteristics.
It is wonderful how many respectable
deadbeats one meets in Washington, says
a correspondent of the Cleveland Leader
The leading liveryman of the city told
me the other day that he had been asked
for twenty-five cents to buy a drink by
the son of a former President not long
ago, and every day I see about tho ho¬
tels here great men’s sons, whose fathers
are adventurers. dead, leading the lives of five-cent
One had a father who long
stood at the head of the bar of the coun¬
try, and another's father was in the Sen¬
ate and held a place in Zach Taylor’s
cabinet. That little old man there, who
goes about with his shoulders stooping
and his small form clad in the mustiest
of threadbare clothes, was at the begin
xing of the war one of the beaux of
Washington, and he had been the second
in duels in which Senators fought Sena¬
tors. Once fortunate and wealthy, he
was a necessity at any big social gather¬
ing; now he is glad to take a drink
with a messenger, and like Beau Hick¬
man, lives by his wits. There, on the
opposite seat in the hotel lobby, is a
well dressed man who has the title of
judge, and xx'ho once held an important
office in our diplomatic service. He has
hobnobbed with statesmen and Presi¬
dents, but he will borrow a dollar and
of you, if you will let him,
is far from adverse to drinking without
asking the pedigree of the man how who he
treats. Last night I asked him
liked the climate of the country in which
he was located as minister. I was sitting
on the sofa beside him. and though I
was not much acquainted with him we
dropped into he conversation. with In reply to
the above, said the most win¬
ning smile imaginable: “Ah, the cli¬
mate? It was delightful. I am I not very live
particular climate. about the I climate. live in can
in any can any coun¬
try, and I always enjoy myself. There
are many pleasant things everywhere. I
always find them. I enjoy life. I can
do anything, in fact—” and here ho
looked me straight in the eye—“lean
take a drink!”
I received his gaze without flinching, and
and my eye did not give a response,
after full thirty seconds he said, in a sad
tone: “Ah! But yon don’t drink?”
“No,” I replied; “it does not agree
with me.” There was an awkward
pause, and then the talk went on as
though nothing had happened. White
The same judge was at the
House one day during the Hayes admin¬
istration, and he was besieging the mes¬
senger for admittance to the President.
The messenger said: 1 ‘But the President
is engaged, judge, and he has given or¬
ders that he will see no one.”
“Yes, he will,” was the judge’s reply.
“Tell him that Judge Blank wants to
“The President said, ‘ No one,’ ” was
the reply.
“I know he will see me,” continued
the judge. “In fact I have an appoint¬
ment with him. “Tellhim that Judge
B-of L--is at the door. ”
In this way he finally tired the mes¬
senger out, and he consented to an¬
nounce him. In a moment he returned
and said he had not seen the President,
but he had seen the President’s private had
secretary, and the Judge private B--he secretary could
told hiip to tell
go to the deuce.
The same judge xvas once appointed He
as consul to an African island.
cruised about for a long time through
the Indian ocean, and then came back to
the state department saving “he could
not find the confounded place.”
He is, however, only one of -a type.
There arc numbers of them, some better
and some worse than he. Some of them
pretend to be lobbyists, some have big
cotton claims, and all are millionaires in
prospectu. I knoxv of men who have
claims hundreds against the of thousands government of dollars, aggre¬
gating board where meals
who at restaurants
cost twenty-five cents apiece, and I see
every day a white-whiskered old man
wearing a coat which a street-car driver
would be asliamed to put on,and I knoxv
he is trying to collect from Uncle Sam
half a million which was taken from him
during the war. On the other hand, I
have seen standing by this man’s side one
who has groxvn wealthy in the govern¬
ment service, and is now worth his tens
of thousands, but xvhom the star-route
jury failed to convict. Truly, fortune
is blind!
In a Mexican Holel.
It is always to-morrow in Mexico, says
a correspondent. They have an adage
that “Juan is sitting under the manana
tree.” It means that he is very lazy.
The “dispacho,” or office of the hotels,
not the Iiurbide alone, but they are all
alike, is usually located in some far-off
corner where you can find it by nosing
around. It is the billiard room, the
bar, or the restaurant that occupy the
conspicuous places. When you arrive
you find no porter to greet you, but you
lug your own baggage around until you
find the office, and cause, by whatever
means most convenient to your command,
tlie clerk to understand that you want a
room. If he is there—for tbe office is
empty more than half the time—he stares
at you as if you were some sort of ani¬
mal entirely new to his vision, and turns
indifferently to what he was doing when
interrupted. He is ordinarily making
figures on a slate, and takes no more no¬
tice of you than he does of the xvall be¬
hind him. He evidently desires to act
as if he didn’t know what you want. He
assumes tbat amanxvith two satchels, an
umbrella, a cane, an overcoat and a dus¬
ter, xvith a hackman chattering after
him. comes into a hotel purely out of
curiosity. When you have fu ly con¬
vinced him that you want a room be
takes seven or eight or ten keys off a
board and starts up stairs. You follow
him, carrying your own luggage. He
opens one room, then another, then a
third, until he shows you all the vacant
apartments in the house, permitting you
to select for yourself. You lug your
satchels around after him, and finally,
tired completely out, you select the last
room he shows you and the xvorst of the
lot. He goes of and leaves you to your
oxvn meditation.
WoH Rock Lighthouse.
Close to the Lizard Point, on the Eng¬
lish coast, the waxe-lashed rocks take a
great many peculiar shapes, and bear,
The consequently. rock is very of strange them. Upon names. its
Wolf one
summit there stands a lighthouse, hard the
keepers of which often have a
time of it. One Christmas, not long ago,
the weather was so stormy that three
men xverc shut up inside tbe house an 1
imprisoned for three months. The vio¬
lence of the sea is such that when the
house was built only thirty working days
of ten hours each could be obtained in
a period of five years, Later on some
ingenious person suggested that a big
iron wolf be moored there to warn
passing ships of danger, This was
effected by the action of the waves beat¬
ing into the hollow body oi the animal,
and so driving the a:r out ol its mouth
with a loud sound — Cardiff M ’