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THE KRUPP WORKS.
THE GREATEST IKOX MANUFAC¬
TORY IN THE WORLD.
An Immense Establishment, where
Nearly 20,000 Hands are Em¬
ployed—Origin and Capacity
of the Works.
Moncure D. Conway contributes to
Harper's Magazine an interesting account
of the great Krupp iron works at Essen,
Germany. Mr. Conway says:
In the beginning of this century only a
town of 3,480 souls stood where now
dwell nearly 70,000. The surrounding
district has also been made populous,
chiefly by Essen. A wonderful and im¬
pressive scene! Around the many-stor¬
ied edifices with their high chimneys
that make the iron-works—there must be
at least a hundred such—the vast plain is
dotted as far as the eye can reach with
buildings of the innumerable iron and
coai mines, with chimneys floating
white banners of smoke. The land¬
scape is variegated with pretty hamlets,
glimpses of rivers, endless poplar ave
lines along white highways, of' and every¬
where moving lines shining cloud
where trains of the three great railways
that encompass Essen speed perpetually
and in all directions. Frederick Krupp,
belonging to an old Essen family, started
his works in 1810, but he suffered by a
teu years’ lawsuit, which, though won,
burdened him with debt. After his
death, in 1826, his widow barely man¬
aged to secure for her Alfred a good edu¬
cation, and when he was called to the
works, in 1848, he found, to use his own
words, “three workmen and more debts
than fortune.” It is he. now a hale and
hearty gentleman of seventy-three years,
who his built up the Krupp works to
their present immensity. The firm name
is still “Frederick Krupp,” but the
works do not belong to a com¬
pany, nor yet, as some suppose, to the
government, but to this one man, Alfred
Krupp, who thus owns probably the
largest business in the world dependent
on an individual. The works within the
town cover more than 500 acres, half of
which are under cover. According to a
census taken in September, 1881, the
number of hands employed by Mr. Krupp
was 19,005, the members of their fami¬
lies 45,776, making 05,381 persons sup
ported by his works. Of the laborers,
11,311 were engaged upon the works in
Essen, the rest being employed in the
surrounding Neuweid mines, the and branch works in at
and Sayn. the mines
Spain (Bilbao), from which, though brought. less
extensive, the finest ores are
Mr. Krupp owns 547 iron mines
in Germany. He owns four sea
steamers, and there are connected with
bis Essen works forty-two miles of rail¬
way. employing twenty-eight locomo
tives'and 833 cars, sixty-nine horses with
191 wagons, and forty miles of telegraph
wires with thirty-five stations and fifty
five Morse apparatuses. The establish¬
ment possessses a grand chemical labora¬
tory a photographic printing-office and with lithographic
atelier, a three steam
and six band presses, and a book-binding
room. The establishment even runs a
hotel—an excellent one. as I have good
reason to kuow—in Essen; and three
years ago, for the advantage of the pop¬
ulation he has central gathered, supply Mr. Knipp
erected a large store, con¬
necting with it many branches, extending
its benefits to all parts of the town and
to the colonies he lias built for his work¬
men in the neighborhood.
To the general world the name
“Krupp” has almost ceased to be per¬
sonal; it signifies Two-thirds a particular implement
of destruction. of the work
here are devoted to things belonging to
flic arts of peace—all' the parts of steam
engines, locomotives, iron axles, bridges,
rails, wheels, tires, switches, rudders, springs,
shafts for steamers, mint dies,
and parts of all varieties of iron machin¬
ery. are prepared here for manufacturers.
That is, they are not combined here; all
the iron parts of a locomotive may be ob¬
tained here, but not a locomotive, al¬
though nearly all of the locomotives and
engines used in the works are made in
them.
Krupp is king. Iron is master of the
situation. When an ancient king dis¬
played his gold. a. sage said, “But if
another comes with more iron than you,
he will be master of all the gold.” modern The in¬
late Franco-German war is a
stance. It has just been discovered that
although M. Thiers declared proudly to
tlie victorious Germans, “You may have
all our money, but not a foot of our
territory nor a stone of our fortresses,”
privately he had advised differently:
“Better surrender our provinces back than
our money, for our money can buy
our provinces.” H e bad to part with both,
and Berlin ha« grown magnificent with
French milliards. The French also find
that money can not always buy iron.
For no amount can they purchase Krupp
guns.
In the Essen works there are 1,553 big
ovens, 439 .steam-boilers, together 450 steam- 18,500
engines (representing machine tools, 82
horse-power), 1.622
steam-hammers, 21 rolling trains—m
volving a daily consumption of 3,100
tons of coal and coke by the 1.648 fur
naees, whose draught is through china
ueys of which one is 280 feet high with
a diameter of 30 feet at t*e bottom,
The daily consumption of water—
brought from tlie Ruhr by an aqueduct—
is 24.700 cubic meters. There are 1,778
steel lamps, and 7 1-4 cubic meters of
Sf; Lave been used annually, though
thr quantity had just been diminished
by the introduction of electr Sunday • and lights.
The work ceases only on on
two or three holidays. The production is
enormo is. When the Emperor 11 ilham
vi.-it'd the place in 18,7 Mr. Krupp
caused to be placed beiore him the pro
ductions of a single day: 1,800 rails, 160
wneei tires 120 axles, 160 railway
wheris. 430 railway wedges, 1 000 bomb
sneils. The daily capacity of the works
is much more: 2,700 rails (two and a
half miles,. 3o0 tires, loO axles, 180
wheels, 1,000 wedges 1,500 bomb-
250
firrnn a.SS-incl, co.no,. eight 11-inth
cannon one 14-inch gun-tha weight of
cLf "o'," 2S1S?
Taking fhe Oath.
“Do von,” -aid Fanny, t'other day,
‘In earn rat love me as you say?
Or are those tender words applied
Alike to fifty giris beside?”
For Up timse eves—'those lips^-I I swJar— "
St. stopped me as the oath took,
ABl rjl-' " Y ” U Ve SWOra - n ° ,r th#
—Boston Globe
WOMAN’S WOULD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Diamonds in Her Teeth.
While waiting in a dentist's ante
room for my turn to be tortured, I
couldn’t help overhearing the converse
turn between a girl in the operating chair
and the man who was improving her
mouth. The talk indicated that dia
monds were somehow being used; and of
course my curiosity was aroused. Pretty
soon she came out.' While standing in
front of a mirror, putting on her hat and
cloak, she smiled inspectivelv at herself,
in a manner critical of her teeth, and the
flash of something inside her red lips
caught my eyes. It was not the gleam
of the pearl into which the poet has so
long transformed beauty’s tooth, but a
brighter glint, like that of a diamond.
She was a “hifalutin” creature in dress
and manners and clearly capable of any j
freak of embellishment; but I was never
theless astonished when the dentist said:
“Yes, it was a diamond that you saw. I
have set four m her teeth the gold tailing
serving as the metal with which to im¬
bed the gems in the cavities. No, I
never heard of such a thing before. It
was her own original device What for? j
To advertise herself. She is a prosperous
adventuress, already ill-known, and de
sirous of greater notoriety. She brought j
the diamonds, and they are probably ;
worth $300 or $400 together, as very big :
ones could not be used. I suppose the ,
diamond-mouthed woman will become
famous in her wav, and so the investment
will prove satisfactory. ”—Pittsburg Post.
How Sealskin Sacqucs arc Made.
Tke process of manufacture is interest¬
ing. The raw skin goes to London>
where it is dyed and dressed. This la
Good dyeing is performed with a comb
and brush, and requires great patience. | :
Women are the best workers at this, as
their touch is more delicate than a man’s. !
An entire day is necessary to properly the
dye a skin. The process of dipping the ;
skin into the dye works harm to
hairs and materially injures the skin.
Only about 700 of every 1,000 skins
can be used for dressing. When the
dressed skin arrives the mann
facturerers stretches it and nails
it to a board, with the fur
inward, and a search for imperfections is
made. These can only be discovered on
the skin side, nnd it takes a keen and ex¬
perienced eye to find most of the blem¬
ishes. They are generally shown in mi¬
nute inperceptib'.e discolorings of the
skin, which, if not immediately cut out,
will extend and rot the fur above them
until the hairs drop out. When discov¬
ered these spots are cut out and skillful
hands are set to work to sew up the in¬
cision. Often a cut six inches long has
to be made to get rid of a spot not much
larger than a nail’s head. To bring the
pieces together again, without patching
and without visible seam, requires the
utmost delicacy. After this is done a
paper pattern is placed on tlie skin and
it is cut accordingly. Then the skin is
finished and lined, and the garment is
ready .—New York Star.
Awkwardness of Men “In Society.”
It is very curious how very few of the
men in “society” know what to do with
their hands. To nine men out of ten the
present custom of leaving both hat and
walking-stick in the hall while making and a
call is a matter of positive misery,
makes it decidedly a case of “abandon
hope, all ye who enter here.” AY hat a
difference between men and women in
this respect! Watch a man enter a draw¬
ing-room when making an afternoon call
without his hat. After shaking hands
with his hostess and exchanging being a few
cursory remaks, and maybe instinc¬ pre¬
sented to some people, his hands
tively seek his pockets nnd stay there
until he is absolutely obliged boredom to take and
them out, while a look of
helplessness comes over his face. Mark
the same man enter the room with his hat
in his hand; it is only an inanimate
object—a thing of card-board and silk;
but it makes a world of difference to its
owner’s comfort and presence of mind at
that unhappy moment: it is something
to handle, something to rely on, and
if conversation fails him he
can anyhow smooth it and have
something to occupy his hands. At a
musicale he can look inside, and for the
thousandth time read the maker's name
and feel happy, as it saves him from gaz¬
ing at the chandelier, while his aricular
sense is being assailed by what he does
not understand.
A woman, on the contrary, will enter a
room without even a muff, chat with her
hostess, and eventually sit dowu with an
at-home air, which at all events gives the
on-looker the impression of perfect ease. of
Then, at a ball, not one man out a
thousand can walk across the room when
the floor is empty, and walk naturally and
unconsciously. Into his pockets his
hands go before half the distance has
been traversed, and the man is happy
O uoe again and drops the attempt at
“swagger” which he had assumed. Lntil
lately fashion allowed men a sheet-an
c hor at balls, by permitting them to carry
crush hats, the moral support of which
allowed them to be at all events natural
and seem at ease Why cannot they
carry them now? It gave them a d.s
tingue air, which at present is sadly lack
ing. Women have lheir fans and can toy
with them. Why not a.low the male sex
a small something to relieve their feel
ings —New York Hour.
-
He Was a Geutleman.
The ot her day as a young lady and
„ ent i eraan were walking down the ave
nutN says the Washington llerald they
met a young man who politely raised his
hat in recognition of the gentleman as he
wa i ki ng with a lady. The lady
; ! turn i n rr to her escort asked rather ex
° -Why, do know that man?”
citedl you gentle
| ,. whVi certainly: he is a young
man o{ an excellent family here His
name is Mr. Blank.” “Well.” said she,
-j am glad to learn he is a gentleman, for
' i, ICet Why,
, h o. It by .
§ 0 vou kn0 w. he followed me the other
"LKS'7»,i ,”V,“ “i
didn r, Z LZ
he looked at me with with an expression session a, i
much as to say, ‘I know you ‘1
but I’m for finding out where you live if
it takes ail day.’ 'Well, it was a bracing
dav. and I started on a health-walk up
one street and down another, but bed
I th' ^Tittle ^ns-fish^nu^ r - a + n - V - docScs * follow F d
; s^ietv hLe t
I walked him
around for two or three miles, when
finally I happened to meet a friend, who
joined me. and then, of course, he went
off in another direction. If ever there i;
a go-as-you-please should like walking match him got fits! tec
up here I to enter as
choice. I'm sure he'd win; he seems tc
have such hard endurance. But I'm sc
glad he is a ‘gentleman. ’ ” Her escort
! tries to make her understand that per
haps it was her remarkable beauty ol
form and features that made him for the
time being forget himself, but she did
not feel inclined to excuse him on that
j account. She said she might forgive
him. as he was “a gentleman of a first
family.” The young lady in question
was considered the prettiest woman displayed at
Cape May last summer, and she
great artistic taste in the selection of her
bathing costume. She was written up
by several enthusiastic correspondents as
“The Beautiful Nymph of the Sea, ’
“Queen of the Wave,” etc.
Fashion Notes.
Mikado sateen is iu all colors with Jap
anesque designs.
Sateens have foulard patterns, stripes,
prisms and spots.
C repe l de chine, iderJd. in evening colors, is
riclllv embl . 0
Ginffhams with tufted spots are shown
111 . ®H leading colors,
Fenora nets, with floral designs, have
flouncing to correspond,
Wool canvas has colored embroidery in
floral and conventional designs,
Persian embroidery is cut out and is
w app]ied » on w00 i e n costumes,
C hmtz . renaissance . , has lace . designs , ■ , re
sembung , Turkish embroidery,
Large cheeks for skirts and boys kilts
have solid colored bodices and waists.
Cashmere laces, with tinsel effects are
used for fronts, flounces and draperies.
Zephyrs with dainty broken checks
and small plaids art designed for chil
grounds have threads "»* of -*«*r all colors ruu
n\pg through them.
Leghorn and Tuscan are both to be
worn, but the Alary btuart shape has
superseded the Olivia,
French percales are shown in beautiful
designs and colorings. They are in plain
and coral stripes and set figures.
American ginghams and zeyphrs are
reproductions of foreign styles, the tar¬
tan colors being admirably copied.
Cloth of gold or silver on colored
ground, the “samite” of “ages long gone
by,” is made up in evening mantles.
Ginghams in blue, tan, brown ecru and
cream, richly embroidered, form entire
dresses with vest, collar and culls of vel¬
vet.
Mountain cheviots, soft and heavy, are
excellent for mountain and seaside wear.
They are in stripes and checks and chev¬
iot effects.
TJie newest feature this coming spring
will be robing* and panels of tapestry
beading, in which the colors melt into
each other.
Bonuets will have either no strings, or
short ones studded with fancy pins, some
with flat coin heads, some with small
bullet heads.
French nainsooks have stripes of open is
work with design of blue coral. This
used for the skirts of dresses, the bodices
aud draperies being of plain stripes.
An ivy-green velvet bonnet has a full
crown. It is simply trimtned with a bow
of salmon-colored velvet ribbon, The
strings are of pearl-edged faille francaise
ribbon of the same color as the bonnet.
A bonnet with a soft Cap crown is of
plum gray velvet, studded with lead
beads. The buim is of plain of velvet vel¬
puffed. It is trimmed with loops
vet, surmounted hv a heron’s aigrette aud
has a bridle and bow of bias velvet.
Scotch zephyrs of soft finish and deli¬
cate coloring have Roman stripes, plaids
and cheeks. Tlie plaids, by reason of
the repeated stripes, are in made brighter alone col¬
ors. The large plaids bodicesof are plain up color.
or as skirts with
The moles of hairdressing are suffi¬
ciently varied to suit every style. The
coiffure may be high or low.according to
fancy. Basket plaits arranged like the
old-time heavy chatelaine braids and
light curls and well-arranged favor. puffs all In
come in for a general share of
spite of this latitude it is astonishing that
women whose hiir grows very badly will
draw it up to the top of the head. The
view of the back is anything but edify¬
ing.
A costume of deep brown velvet has
two panels of brocade on the left side,
between which are three full plaits of
velvet. The skirt is gathered full at the
back, falling in heavy folds. The bodice
has a plastron of the brocade and the
sleeves are trimmed with it. The visite
is of velvet, cut short in the back and
with long, square fronts. It is bordered
with sable and is fringed with sable
tails. The bonnet is of golden with brown velvet
suede leather and is trimmed
and sable.
Sour Milk.
p eop]e wonder why milk gets sour,
They ,. annot ac , ;0 unt for it. It has been
determined by scientific men that it is
0vvil)O . to fbc presence of foreign sub
stanceg "spoils These are the reasons why
cream so quickly: Milk would
j^ ee p swce t and cream also, if the milk
. d , absolutely protected from the
alr in which float the germs which spoil and
Some of these are vegetable the
som( . an ; ma l. The last start sour
. " or acidity, and then decay begins, as
it d oes with the development of the
fnnner The mites arc known as Of the
genns bacillus. These bacilli are not
active in a cold atmosphere or killed when by it
is heated, and they may be
heating the milk up to 158 degrees,
This will not prevent more getting into
the. milk, nor will it destroy the spores
Milk should be kept, to obtain the best
conditions, in a separate room and with
everything as clean as possible. enemies Dirt. of
sourness and smells breed the
milk and butter.
BorDC0 .
^^BruTus"rituatedon^rivtrwith . . t
~
Si ^ L •' J.5.1 Th ultan ™ia “tofc L ?Z
take possession ! of the rebellious districts,
Hore thau tvve ntv British subjects of
Sarawak were recently killed l,y
the rebels on the Trusan' river not far
Rruni
There is an association in Paris whose
object is to help drunkards home at
night. If the patient is too far gone to
give his address, the dub cares for him
till he can.
A CATTLE RANCH.
LIFE OF THE COWBOYS WHO
GUARD THE HERDS.
The Process of Rounding Up the
Cattle—A Night Stampede
of Cattle During a
Blizzard.
Theodore Roosevelt, who has a cattle
ranch near Medora, on the Northern Pa¬
cific railroad says:
“The cowboy is not sympathetic, I am
sorry to say. If a man cannot ride a
horse, he gets little comfort when thrown
to the ground. The, cowboy divides hu¬
manity into t wo classes, the sheep and the
goats, those who can ride bucking horses
and those who can’t. He doesn’t care
much during for the hard goats. At the round-ups
and periods of work the cow¬
boy is generous, full of good-fellowship,
and brimming over with courage.
“The great round-ups usually occur in
the spring. All the cattle in a certain
section are gathered together, separated
and branded. This is where the hardest
work conies in for the cowboys. My
round-up extends along the Little Mis¬
souri river for about ISOpiilcsandis about
twenty-five miles wide. Each ranch
owner has a wagon and relays of horses
for his c owboys. In prosecuting the ar¬
duous work some sixty or a hundred cow¬
boys are in the great drive and each has
seven or eight horses. The wagons with
the loose horses move down the river some
six or seven miles and establish a camp
there for the day and night. Then these
hundred or so cowboys stretch across the
cattle region and drive toward the camp.
The line usually converges to a given
point, driving all the cattle into the se¬
cured section. The bunch of cattle gath¬
ered are then watched or held together
during the night by a few cowboys. The
rest go to bed after eating dried pork
and beans. The bed to which they retire
is very primitive in construction and is
frequently the morning bare ground. About 3
o’cloc k in the the voice of the
cook can be heard: 'Time for breakfast,
boys; turn out.’ Then there is bustle
until the mount is made for the day’s
drive. Sometimes one cowboy will use
four or five horses in one day. He not
only has to gallop nearly all the time, but
frequently put liis horse at full speed.
“What they all dread is the blizzard
at night, which frequently causes the
cattle to stampede. 1 remember the last
round-up. We had all turned in for a
good night’s rest. About midnight the
alarm was sounded for us all to turn out
and mount. The fierce blizzard was
sweeping wind. There dow n upon about us; 2,000 rain, hail head and of
were
cattle in the bunch. It was a wierd
sight. The boys, with waterproofs on
and hats drawn down, were seated like
specters a few feet apart, just in front of
the herd, with their backs to it % The
dark bunch of cattle were as close as they
could get to each other, their long horns
striking together like wiud. castanets and their
tails pointed to the The bunch
was fan-shaped. spread
“In front the cowboys out
far enough to overlay either flank of the
bunch. When the cattle would get too
restless the cowboys would turn their
horses and try to drive them into the
bunch. The blizzard increased in fury.
There was a mad bleat from the tenor
stricken animals. The cowboys effort whooped
and made one desperate to keep the
hunch the together. dashing It was like keep rushing them
against waves to and
back. Roaring, with tails erect nos¬
trils distended, they broke through the
cordon and rushed on in every direction
with the fury of the wind and the storm.
Each man was for liimself then. With
spur and w hip, over rough ground, in of
the darkness, lit up by great sheets
lightning, we dashed and after, each cowboy it
selecting a bunch following until
day. The bunch I followed carried me
seven or eight miles from the camp.
When I drove it back the next day I hud
to saddle'a horse and start again. I was
thirty-six hours in the saddle. Just that
experience cenvinced me that the cow¬
boy’s life was not a path strewn with
roses. It might be supposed stampedes that many and
accidents take place in
cutting our cattle from bunches. 1 only
remember one that was fatal. The cows
and calves have to be cut out every even¬
ing from the main bunch and put in a
corral, where the calves are branded.
Cutting out is hard work. A cowboy
rides in the herd and slowly drives the
cow out. When lie gets her separated,
then he dashes at her and drives her away
as rapidly as possible. and rushes Frequently back. the If
cow suddenly turns
the cowboy is on a trained horse, it turns,
too, without guiding, and heads off the
cow. One of the cowboys speed. was cutting
out a wild cow riding at full Cow,
rider and horse went against a of steer, the
rolled over, and, well, the neck
cowboy was broken. I rode up and
looked at him, as did the other cowboys.
‘He was a good’un;’ ‘Never Hunkered;’
‘Dead shot;’ ‘Dead honest,’ and ‘Horry
he is gone,’ were tha eulogies good passed deal bv of
the cowboys. They see a
this thing, and of course cannot give
much time to bewailing the many and calves fatal
ties that occur. When cows
are put in the corals the branding be¬
gins.”
Horrible Treatment of Children.
a ™” c horribl( h 'ought'To , disclosures iust made at
(l t n , SS?haWt remind
t ho whoarein of bestowhm
ch-tritv j 1 on child l.-r.rars in the streets
• thev in point of
[ Zin^uev frequently are
a ct to and encoura-in- rize'’the
i„f a „ a)U , characters who martA
helpless L children in their power," Chalons The at
, ^ f the , mli< . ( , ,, f
Intelv j uttra ted bv fi little
i w th ' on( . ftrm a „d another child,
c riDolc ’ wheeling himself about
in a sr "p WO ode,i box. Both children
appcare ' j d »o utterly miserable and pain
8t r ( . k ,. n th;lt thevwere taken to thesta
lionb(mH( , ’ where they told a sad a^o" story of
Zn,mred • Au out ijiree win/ years it
the boys, are cousins,
respectively eight and ten, years,
were living with th-ir parents in Batcelo
vVhTle returnin'' from ehoal
togethml.ev were aecorted by a mat. and
“ "‘.t Ch.'ffL’oSe
of the Ik, vs was mad - one armed, the
«w.».**>»•» ■«
-asses
w* x w
wound round them; in short, for upward
of two months the little martyrs wer
operated upon daily, and success having
attended the horrible process they were
sent out to beg in the streets of the van
ous French towns .—Brooklyn Eagle.
• One of Uncle Sam’s mail bags at Grass
( y > al w \ Cal., was destroyed whi/h bv thegnaw
I 0 wme rata . had a strong
^nt for wedding cake.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A butterfly—a creature supposed to
live at most only two or three days—was
last year kept alive in a glass cage in Eng¬
land for 121 days, its age at confinement
being unknown.
A well-known writer tells of seeing
thousands of small fish migrating across
land from one lagoon to another, in tropi¬
cal America, lie says they' moved ;l s
deliberately and as unconcerned iv as
though they had been accustomed to the
overland route all their lives.
Experience on French railways has
shown that the double poppy is the best
plant the at present known for consolidating,
by interlacing of its roots, the loose
soil of an embankment, The usual
grasses and clovers develop slowly, but
the double poppy grows enough in two
weeks to give some protection to the
slope, and within three or four months
its roots, ten or twelve inches long, retain
the earth far more firmly than those of any
grass or grain.
With a lens made of rock salt it may
be possible Photographic to photograph News in the dark!
The states that Abney
has succeeded in preparing plates which
are sensitive to the rays lying beyond the
red end of the spectrum—the such used dark heat
rays—and with should plates be with a
rock salt lens there a possibility
of photographing bodies although which that possess a
high temperature, be below needed tempera¬
ture may far that to
render them self-luminous.
There can be little doubt thr t the pike
is decidedly an exception to the rule that
fish have little or no intelligence. Even
the size of his brain is worthy of respect.
Its proportionate size, as compared to the
rest of the body, is as 1 to 1,300; in the
shark, whose intelligence lias so often
been vaunted, it is only as 1 to 2,500;
while in the tunny it is but ns 1 to 3,700.
The only thing that dulls the pike’s intel¬
ligence is his greed; hut even this mav
perhaps only be caused by an over¬
weening confidence in his voracious own gastric
juices. Like many other ani¬
mals, to swallow seems to be his only
joy; palate he has little or none.
A new American process for rapidly
drying timber, hides, wool, grain, and
other substances surcharged with mois¬
ture, has been attracting considerable at¬
tention in England. It is called the cool
dry air process, and consists in passing
ture-laden through thechamber containing continuous the mois¬
material a current
of furnace-dried r.it having a temperature
between renheit. eighty moisture and ninety degrees Fah¬
air The is absorbed by
the in so remarkable a manner that
oak logs are reported to have been fin¬
ished in nine days, although natural dry¬
ing would have required three or four
years. The temperature is so moderate
that delicate fibres, fabrics and chemicals
are not injured.
A curious feature of the National mus¬
eum, in Washington, is the zoological
section, or the department devoted to
birds’ eggs. It has about 42,000 birds’
eggs, packed away in little trays placed
in cases along the walls of the building.
The eggs in the collection vary in size
from that of the tiniest hummingbird to
that of the giant bird, whose remains are
found in Madagascar. There is a little
egg of a tiny humming bird lying in u
diminutive nest. The humming bird
that made the nest and laid the eggs is
the smallest bird in the world. The lit¬
tle egg has a length or long diameter of
three-tenths of an inch, and a short di
ameter of three-hundredths of an inch.
The nest is one-twentieth of an inch
across, huudredths one the way, other. nnd ninety-two oue
Fifty Years Ago.
A stray copy of the Christian Adromte.
and Journal and Zion's Herald gives u
strange glimpse of the world in 1833 It
is dated August 10. Cholera raged in
New York, and carried off one hundred
persons a day. A subscriber in Edin¬
burgh, Scotland, complains detained of his the postal
authorities, who so papers
that which seven copies came charged to him at once, lOd.
for he was £1 11s.
postage. A little colony had daringly
departed gon,” by for of “the Vera remote and river Acapulco. of Ore¬
way Cruz
The report or a fight ill Texas Intelligence.” stands un¬
der the heading “Foreign allusions “the
Tie paper has several to
cnle frise of modern times;” and con¬
dense* a report recently published by
Congress “on the use of steam-carriages vehicle
on common roads.” A new is
described, in the use of which accidents
from explosion are impossible; and the
report closes with the statement that
“railroads, except in very peculiar the situa¬ “de¬
tions, are behind the age,” and
cided opinios” constructing that “those them who will he embark
capital losers.” in But the changes indicated great
are
not all secular. The contributions re¬
ceived by the treasurer of the missionary
society during the preceding week were
$53.27(1), and among other articles pr ■
pared for the edification of the devout is
one entitled “To Pious Dealers in Ardent
Spirits.”— Christian Advocate.
Origin of Social Games.
The city of Salem, Mass., is celebrated
for her witches, and their persecutors,
and her East Indian commerce in the
past; and for the Indian museum ami
•‘oldest church” at the present day, and
to these we may add the honor of pub¬
lishing the first modern social games th it
achieved any considerable popularity in
this country. In 1843 Miss Annie W.
Abbott, of Beverly, a clergyman's
daughter, offered tor publication to Mr.
8. B. Ives, of Salem, a new game of cards
which sheealled “Dr. Bushy.” Although
the recognized price asked demand was very low, such there merchan¬ was
no for
dise and the manuscript was declined,
but, later Mr. Ives decided to undertake
its publication,which proved an immense
and unexpected success. This game will
be remembered by many of the parents
of the present day as among the earliest
ever learned and po sibly reprimand played should at first
on the sly, fearful of a
the report reach headquarters that they
were “playing cards .”—Good Housekeep¬
ing.
_
A Strange Disease in China.
A form of hysterical disease or mania
am&>i;'adult males at Chang (’how is ob¬
served. The patient acquires the im
pression that his abdomen is inhabited by
some animal, often a rat, whose excur¬
sions cause violent pain. Unheard of
efforts are made to expel the intruder,
and often the savings of a whole family
for a lifetime arc wasted on bou/f S, s-or
cerers. doctors and other quacks in hope
o: obtaining relief for the sufferer. It is
r ported that in many cases sleuth results
from suffocation iu the course of a vio¬
lent convulsive paroxysm. The patient of
h-asis a double life, marked by the use
two voces of different timbres. Asa
rub; his disposition alters in correspond¬ Moral¬
ence with the change of voice.
ly and mentally he is a different being in
the two states. Whatever occurs during
the period betokened by the unnatural
voice is totally forgotten during the nor¬
mal ..tried .—San Francisco Bulletin.
fc.R. C. LATIMER. W. A. LATIMER.
LATIMER BROS.,
GENERAL STORE,
AT MASONIC BUILDING,
LEXINGTON, m GEORGIA.
LATIMER BROS.
lC«op S. Regulator, S. S., H. H. Female P., Brown’s Iron Bitters, Warner's Kidney Cure, Simmons'* fAymt
Regulator, and all Drugs usually kept In a first-class store.
LATIMER BROS.
Have a good Hr© Tobacco of Dry Goods, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Notions, Stationery, Hardware, Gro*
caries, and Cigars. Goods warranted to be as represented. Will Bell
an cheap a3 the cheapest. Give them a call and they
will do you good.
LATIMER BROS ■J
MASONIC HALL.
WHY YOU SHOULD BUY YOUR
WA 60 NS ANO BUGGIES
FROM THE
Broad River Wagon Co.,
POINT PETER, GA.
Because only the best of material is used in
theii - manufacture.
33ecause only the best of workmen are em¬
ployed to build them.
Because they are priced but little higher
than Shoddy "Western work.
Because one of them will outlast two cheap
'Western vehicles.
Because everything is guaranteed to be O. K.
or made so.
And many other reasons wo deem unnecessary to mention. Give us a trial and ba con
viuced. All kinds of repairing done. Call on or address
TILLER BROS. & IRBY,
Jt'OUV'T PETER, GA.
Builders’ Supply Store!
SHORT BROTHERS,
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA.
BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS,
Will keep on band, and In transit, a full supply of Yellow Pino Lumber,
rough and (treason.
Doors, Sash and Blinds a Specialty.
Moulding, Brockets and Balusters. The liost lot of sawed at -heart pine
CHAS. STERN & GO. ;
7
HUNNICUTT BLOCK,
ATHEN S, GA.
LU CO 0UNDR v n I JACHiNF IA jORKS:
^ IRON & BRASS MINfNG&MILL SMITHING,
CASTINGS, ( MACHINERY, SAWMILLS. I \ repairing; PAT N W 0 RK.
MILLGEARING, ”
j j
j ! STEAM ENGINES AND CIRCDLAR SAW MILLS.
"SKffTt?,?,' xr/wi southern elrtuatSt Fan Mills Excel Thresher*, Athenian anrt Bill Arp Bor*e~Powers, Bark MiUs*
i Power and lavra, a„.l Brook,' m voivln* Cotton Crew, Iron Feneijng^te.
Cane Aeents for Portable Htra... l.„ra,ra, 'lurtnue Water Wbesras. Cook’* ivapon,
aSSSSia M?Hnelif’l’Uncock Infeeder - “ *“ ; Kortlng -—— Universal Injector*, Stewa
For descriptive Circular* aud J rice Lints, address
fHOS, BAILEY, Agent.
H. M’WHORTER,
Attorney at- Law
LEXINGTON, GA.
Office In old bank bniltKnz, next to hotel. W
practice to civil and criminal court*.
Notice to Passengers.
riOMMENCING February 1st, t881, and until
'.o further notice, the Passenger Fare over thr
Gooriria Railroad, Main Line and Branches, wilt
be as follow*:
Agent’s Hate..........Three (3) cent* per mile.
Train Hate............Four (4) cents per mile
Children between 5 and 12 yrs. half above rates.
Minimum rate, iorwuiy hereby distance, five (5) cents.
Passengers are notified that if they fail
to purchase Tickets from the Station Agents,
they will tie charged Train rate*.
Conductors are ttot ticket oeller*, and are not
allowed to accept less than Train Kates of foui
cents per mile. reduced Therefore, to secure the advan¬
tage of the rates, purchase your ticket*
before entering th® train.
The Company reserve the riglg to change, o>,
entirely abrogate these rattn, at pleasure anc
without notice. E. II. DORSEY.
General Passenger Agent
W. M. HOWARD,
Attorney at Law
LEXINGTON, GA.
Office In the new Arnold bnilding, next to po*6
oBice. Will attend all Coens.
THE ECHO JOB OFFICE
IS AS WELL PREPARED TO DO
BOOK i JOB PRINTING
AS ANY CITY OFFICE.
Prices as Low, fori as Good.
DON’T SEJ D OFE TO GET TO UK
BILLHEADS, CIRCULARS,
LETTERHEADS, ENVELOPES,
NOTEHEADS, PAMPHLETS
STATEMENTS, DODGERS,
POSTERS, CARDS,
Or any other Job Printing done, when you
can get it done as satisfactorily at home by
addressing Ca.
THE ECHO, Laxlngton,