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J. L. DENNIS, Publisher,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Knoxville, Tenn., has raised $250,000
toward building a cotton factory.
A hog owned by a man living near
Petersburg, Va., weighs 1,300 pounds.
Louisiana proposes to enter extensive¬
ly in the raising and manufacture of
jute. N. C., vein of
At Henrys, a meer¬
schaum of extremely fine quality lias
been discovered.
Vicksburg’s new cotton compress,with
a storage capacity of 50,000 bales, is
ready for business.
At a sale af public lands at Austin,
Tex., CO,000 acres were sold at fifty
cents, a man named Forsyth taking it
all.
The State Land Office at Tallahassee
has now eight clerks employed. Three
did the work before the boom reached
ib« Kutp ’
A . man near v . 1 *» >,nH been
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working an alleged gold mine forty .
years and has never made a cent. He
is atili confided fb.t “tb«.. m.ll™»
m it.’
rattle snake recently billed ,
The huge
in Sumter county,': Fla., has been for
warded to the Smithsonian Institute,
The snake . measured , eight . . . feet . . and two
inches in length.
Raleieh News and Observer; North
( ,, arolina i. 1 of minerals ‘ ’
25 more than any other State can show
uj). There are 112 varities of woods,
are in the lead.
T It is . intended . , . i organizing • • the t i , “Ben non
Hill Monumental Asaociation in Oeor
gia, the object of the awociation being
to collect funds to erect a monument at
Atlanta in memory of Hon. B.H. Hill,
An old silver watch, once the prperty
of Aaron Burr, and an autograph of
Thomas r Tefi'erson ‘ ‘ ’ were nurchased in
Richmond, • recently, . '. i*y
v a., -
ernor Randolph for the New Jersey
Historical Society.
Tho Piiternrisimr Texan ' who started
ranch® . lay I , lias , •
a goose near or given
m,, his project. I he geese, 400 ... all
died, failing to find sustenance enough
. in the .. grans on wl nlrnh . i it * fhmitrbt ^
they would thrive.
The chestnut tree recently felled at
Sahsburg, vn N. C., measures „ li ne feet in
diameter, and a lady and gentleman can
dole wa Ik Zther through it without getting near so
as they do at a lawn par
tv ly The The r.ngson rines on the thetree tree indicate that
it is 490 years old.
■ "Fa, what is ft pessimist, and what is
nnm an oj tmist?” (must l “A A jH-ssimist, ne-i,nisi nn mv son son
is one who’takes the surplus kitteiis,
just after they are born, and ebioro
forms them. The optimist is one who
w. .won™, ptow to live, ,
wretched, starving life; to lie tortured
continually bv boys and other thought
leas animals 'tj. and to be finally killed
.1,1, -.1 briektaU i ti »nd «.nt loft l, ft to t,, rot rot on on tho tho
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Great _ war ships are costly even in
England, where ship building is less ex
pensive than in tliis country. The Brit
ish ironclad Inflexible cost $4,000,000,
. but sue .... is the most . formidable , ., ,, war ves
eel ever constructed. She has a tonnage
of 11,406 tons, 8,060 horse power en
pines, and an armor ran., ng f frnm m .I. ix
teen to twenty-four inches in thickness
Fhe carries four eighty-one ton guns,
ro " ml * ta, * 4h -
At the . recent r borestry Convention . at .
Mrnttea! it was shown that u. Canada
the annual production of pine lumber
M • 2,000,000,000 »> aaa oiv> aao ( feet, t requiring the trees .
ot 1,000,000 acres, and -hat at tins ,a c
pin.-.ill h« 1 outi.voT
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, n -u.t waste in cutting continues and
fires are allowed to ravage the pine re
gion. Dr. Lering. our Commissioner of
Agriculture, made an address to the
convention, showing that the pine for
................ i-tale. witul.l in TV,
.. Uf5l»u>lnl in !!0(l year.: Florida,
thirty years ; Alabama, so veiny years :
Mississippi, 150 years; Minnesota ten
years ; Michigan, seven years ; Wiscon
sin, twentv years; North Carolina, fiftv
years; Ixniisinna, MO years; Georgia,
reventv-five years; IVmi-v,vania, five
years; Arkansas, 820 rears ; California.
*»vei„.|,S„„, ( V, r
Mull... flftfon Thobnlk
of the pine lumber supplv is in the
Southern States, mud from Dr. Loring’s
statement it is very evident that it is a
great public duty to prevent the present
rtcklees waste of timber, and to rehabil
jtate wasted areas hv forest planting.
—Five firms are engaged in Pitts¬
burgh. Pa., in the sand and cobb'e-stona
business, with an invested capita! of
over $109,0 0, employing upwa ds of
one hundred men. From tiie beds of
the rivers between 800,000 amt 800,000
bushels of sand and gravel secured are yearly about
taken. Cobble-'tenos are
Liver. seventy-five miles up the Allegheny
TOPICS OP THE DAT.
Ita.lt has postponed specie payment
till next April,
Coredekate bonds are beginning
look up again.
Texas cotton is promising, Irat
ty-five days late.
News from across tho big pond says
Sarah Bernhardt is serionsly ill.
It wab James Gordon Bennett him¬
self who interviewed the Sultan for tlio
New York Herald.
The Czar ia afraid of his crown. The
coronation, wo are now informed, will
not occur until next May.
It is eatimated that there has been no
less than 50,000 watermelons shipped
nortli daily from Atlanta, Ga.
It is a fact that while at Saratoga
Oscar Wilde registered “oscar wilde,
london.” Small potatoes, that.
Portland, Oregon, is reputed to be
the wealthiest city in the United States
in proportion Pg0p0rn0 to t0 Af^? her population iaa y > !l
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Guitbau’s skeleton is now in the Na
tional Army Medical Museum, Wash
ington, but uot on public exhibition.
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The progress of Dakota is indicated bv
the fact that she now lias more daily
than ' on0 of tho Southern
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While General Swaim is still of opm- .
ion that the confinement of Sergeant
Mason is illegal, the confinement goes
on, ’ and in time the sentence will be
served out.
1 aul Botnton, the swimmer, . figures
that he has saved seventy-two persons
from drowning in his day, and the largest
rewar< j 0 ff ered b i m W1W) a silver
P watch waten wiwth worth nVinnt about »1.
Decrease of the public debt for
August $16,000,000. During tho next
two months the Government will dis
burso $41,500,000 in payment of called
bonds interest on the public debt and
pensions^_ ( m t ______
Henry Ward Beecher ‘ \ aavs that if lie
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waa a newspapev. ri ,. vul ,. ru _ man he wouldn ,, ,. t .
lievo in anything or anybody that had
an ax to grind. Yea, Henry, and there
aro lots of things that newspaper men
don’t tako much stock in '
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It mat be creditable to tue Washing-
1 that mOT0 iaBtaDCes of in8U i ts
woxnou aroaoiecu? detected ^ tncre there than than in m any anv
other city of equal size in the country,
but at tho Hama time it doos uot speak
very well for our statesmen.
Ths Jewish Messenger rebukes tho
Hobrows for leaving their religion in .‘he
city when they go to the summer resorts,
end says: “We have yet to learn of a
single instance of public worship on the
Jowiah Babbath at any J country place.”
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p „ uck z cre d re ltB Anna a Dickinson tx with this •
statement: “ Well, yes, I was something
of a free trader, but if that horrid
creature Langtry is coming over here,
I am going in for protection. Oh, I
wish we women had the making of the
tariff.”
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Six inches of rftiu fell all over North
Tra „ , taring tho reerat h
storm Storm, and ana it it is is estimate,! estimated that that 2K 25,000 non
ahaep, besides horses, cattle, mules, and
sixty to seventy-five persons were swept
sway. About fifty houses arc gone in
Laredo.
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Rkv Georgk a MlliS is preaoliing '
ftt W atkins Glen, where he will soon
b avo an nn opportunity opportunity of ot meetimr meeting lieibeit
„ Spencer,the man whose writings,he
says,
first led him to disblieve iu the Church j
and finally to renounce the Christian
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The cook at the White House during
tbo oincss of President Garfield, wants
(o kuow wbv her name has been omitted
from . the ., list . of . employes , who , are to . re
ee ive extra compensation. This is a re
markablo oversight, Ll' perhaps due to the
„„ t . s0
I often cross the street to avoid
meeting .man.” says Mr. Beecher “not
hxmause I have anything agmnst him,
hut simply I do not feel like speaking to
huu - I suppose all men are this way.”
«.* 1.^1.. ■!»■ ,«» I. u l.b. igy qo »Uo»i., m«mes. »U.i,U..
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The wearing of jewelry is going out of
fa-lnou iu England. It is regarded as
vulgar to ho seen with a display ot
jewels, unless it be on great occasions.
«"'» throat, are the rule in
f-lamia ole society■. the wearing of ban
* los - br * eoU ^’ a «^hams being left to
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\ A .^gSST.wSSiMntljLto- OT recw,. gi .
How does it happenrthat the British_in
«« all right and
getting on in the j>apers ef next morning?
‘‘‘^dtsunctiTCm the Briifah^V‘»hS
line do they get their news?
Those who have access to both mom
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fined a boy $1 for swearing. This fur
dishes a basis for calculation to a brother
of CoL Sellers, who hves in Camden, He
reckons that in Camden County there
are 70,000 people, half of whom swear,
That would be 335,000 for an oath apiece.
Each fellow swears fifty times a day.
That makes 81,759,000 daily income,
$12,250,000 per week, and, countiig
twenty-sir good working days to the
month, $318,500,000 each month.
The Khedive has prescribed a treat
ment of officers who come back to him
from Aral.i which is calculated to wash
out their treason, but not to encourage
others to return; it to , have , them ,, . kee .
is m -
hauifd by the frigate beauda. Keel
hauling is to pass a line under the ship,
hitch the victim to one end, let him
down on one side, haul liim under IU«
ship and up on the other side, is’intended making
no haste in the hauling. It
to fetch the keelhauled to the next to
fha tne laaf last gasp._____
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T»wht * 1 A \ 4
Snerman, not many years since, visited
the scene of the present hostilities in
Egypt, is perfectly operations, familiar and during with the
theater of our
civil war had a great deal of experience
in flank movements. He said that
Wolselev showed great nerve in taking
the sacred bull by the horns.so to sneak.
without waiting for the result of nego
tiations at Constantinople. “Ah, he is
a great soldier, that Wolseley,” said the
General. “A great soldier. The English
people will pay Inm well and he knows
it. The General was evidently thinking
of the difference between the pay of a
General in the army of the United
States and a successful General in the
English army, with his titles and their
substantial £100,000 attachments. He
..J. Wols.l.j's mi mM «
Ismailia was equal to anything of ,a aim
ilar character undertaken by the first
Napoleon._
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A A Concert ^oncertu. in India.
Wo were once misguided enough to
inquire of some native officials iu India
what instruments of music their town
possessed, and were waited all the upon music- next
day, of in consequence, place. First by
ians the came a group
oI nine women who sang some wild and
plaintive strains in unison in a minor
key; one of them kept time by
occasionally snapping her fingers, while
another performed a rude accompani
“ ent c ’ n a smal! barrel1-shaped drnm
^in* °ThI headXTof 'some ol
these singers was peculiar, aud consisted
° l folds of calico over the head and
.round tho throat, rather like the diap
ery of Borne orders qt nuns, and similar
to that given by painters to St. Anna,
and other holy women of the Bible. The
P ron P‘ 11 g these people, ns they sat
close together on the ground, was ex
tremely picturesque; ami listening to
tLo sweetness of their strains one
, ! ^ IZifance^and appeal once and "S the melody melod^ol of the the
daughters V ot Jerusalem ns thej l.i
merited by the waters of Babylon. i
j The singing ended, a man was seen to !
: ■ nso . in the background, lifting uii enor
mons brazen trumpet nearly as long as
: himself, on which he blew two most ter
rifle blasts, excruciating in English ears. and
; These sounds were prolonged, throng
seemed to sink down a ong
"'whiig discoid ine: -lress > y 1 •
lstw » ‘ ( \ n ’ fc
,.n\!rt Idowinf tL^tnnm. P.miab i
! , Tho i “ e of 01 K 1 't is
; cnusnlerablo, J . and we were glad to make
this an excuse for with hearing no more ot it,
and submitted the best grace we
, c ® u | performance of tom-tom,
l tt
j l,,,™ m !,ii horrid wl Jfu.STC Httte * trumpets of' a
di*
missed we had a kind of duet all on one
note from two men, one of whom beat a
small drum open at one end like a very
tamboiuine, while another j It yi
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b 1 p t ! “i
meu t was mauo . of a gourd, , and , two ot
the strings were passed through bine
glass IhuuLs, while the other two were
raised by cowries of different sizes ; the
banjo was further adorned bv the green
and-gold label from some English cot- the
ton-reel or piece of calico, stuck on
st T Perhaps V y this - of concert or,mment was - an unusual , j
amonn t «f native music for English poo
pl e to hear at once, but no one can be
long in of India .—Temple without liar. mooting with ;
some it
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quentlv To domesticate attempted, the partridge but rarely has roe- j j
been
eomplishod. The eggs have been placed
under the ordinary lien for mcub ition,
thi kino The^^littlemlnrid^hicks . bv association with the ne.st
m ales domestief would
become but instinct wonUl in
»huf«rH'Vrli "T-T II■ I
’ di Tta ce from ^ hU
iu lhe ^ hh1iU grains ws of of his food heart would it. scat- Last, j
ter a few for
spring, while at work £,^2^! clearing the j
|1( , sl iM .peoios. anil, alter it short,
time, by feeding and kind attention,
«;|^pe! ^ bird'to
1>k>k/ , the appear, much
tbe anm^ment <>t the neighbors. Mr.
Thomasoned.vt >ok the bird to his home.
eIon hop ing to Inducei him to, remain ^
U> his lii,x tbo
raioir * l[o2\7u>'^Siio'h'him." J ! r2i -
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_ WiU ie, son of John Paddleford,
twelve, and ai:other b.iy, were
’ ' few^vs^w^tvhfle working baBo
• T \i r Paddleford who was
lu V beard the cries for help, and
’ *i inf fhar i<kno
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mui both drowned before his eye=,
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Ht’imt.nr is to make a right estimate of
one’s self. It is iio humility for a man to
flunk less of LimseJ than he ought,
Curious Corea.
missioner yesterdav as he watched the
ebb and flow at the Union Depot, Upon
inquiry it was learned that the warlike
gentleman was Commodore E. W. Schu
feldt, of the United States Navy, who
was en route to his home in the East.
Commodore Schufeldt was sent to China
and Corea by the Government on an lm
portant and diplomatic ^ nussion, days
thfa co ntry but a few
g j oce) having accomplished the service
be was detailed to perform. Corea is a
mountainous kingdom of Eastern Asia,
The King is a vassal of the Chinese
pire, yet within his own country he is an
absolute monarch. His name is so holy
that no one is pennitted to and
ls * J1 o“ Reason t-j tourn “is
body with any weapon of iron. Tieng
tsong-tai-vang permitted himself to die
an abscess in the year 18^0 rather
than permit his doctor to use a lance on
him. Every horseman that passes the
palace of the King is compelled to dis
mount, and those who cuter Ins presence
must needs prostrate themselves before
rJ"™ ne ‘ nrm ,; n(VM itl the
xr b , rr .i (im -ird each is Presided over bv
a Governor. The Corean language is
Turanian in its nature, but the educated
classes have discarded it for Chinese.
Buddhism is the official religion, and
Xrcd to theS upon
tbo least tolerated, provocation. but harems Plurality of in wives high
ifJ uot are
fashion, and one of those arrangements
is attached to the palace of the King.
Children fare well among the people,
and strong affection for their off
epnnR is one of the redeeming rarts of
mannSS
iu the country, but trade there is entire
]vundeveloped. In 1807 several Ameri
can vessels were burned by the natives,
and Commodore Sclmfeldt was sent by
the Government to remonstrate with the
Corean authorities, but he failed and
returned. Admiral Corea, Rodger? in also 1870 failed, en
Jeavored to enter and
and the country still remains a sealed
mystery to the civilized world. The
j ap9 have got so far, however, as to be
allowed to station a permanent Minister
a t theCorean capital, Japanese while three of the
ports are open to trade, but
further they dare not go.
Commodore Sclmfeldt’s second mis-
3 ion to Corea was to open that country
to the world, and ho was nccessful in
sources of Corea are paid to be great,
g 0 ] d) silver, copper, iron ore aud coal I
being reported to be among its hidden
treasures. The Corea women arenot eon
gideredofmuch importance by the males,
, U1( J among the upper classes the mar
riage of a widow is considered disgrace
ful, and the production looked of the union, if
there bo any, is upon as being
illegitimate. Widowers are, of course,
^®f. inclined. to Tt?, There TJ is another A ,T custom ^ TT which
Americans will have to remedy when
they move over, and that is the cultiva
tion of snakes. The average Corean
d otes on profound reptiks and views them with !
the most respect and awe.
Cleveland Leader. ,
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The First Casting of Iron.
Cast iron was not in commercial use j
the year 1700, when Abraham
Garl.y, an intelligent mechanic, who
had brought ”a some Dutch workmen to
esUlbli * h brass fonndvr n, Bristol,
’ ( . on ceived the idea tint iron nr "Tit
b 0 substituted for brass. This his work
ln( . n ,|id not succeed prejudiced in effecting, being favor
probably too much f *h'“iK.SS in
W
" * Thomas imd IU tie
bl ^ received some
f ..it by
Abra 1;im L i arb y into his workshop
the recommendation of a distant re la
* ta - " l.llo looking on dnri,,- tho «•
periments of the Dutch workmen, he
* Ahr-iham Darliv that lie
- , . saw
Vvhoro thev had missed try:' it. He beared °xind
to } t . allowed to so he
Abraham Darbv remained alone in the
worksllop M night struggling with
,, .-ofractorv metal and imperfect
Illol(K The hours passed on and day
light appeared, but neither would leave
b ; s t . lsb: ail< i j„ st ns morning dawned
thev 5 succeeded j -pj in castinf ,” an iron pot
j . , 0 . cn rj .d i nto an
.,o T ceineiit with Abraham Darby to
serve h'm and keep the secret. He was
tui: and from 1709 to 1822 tl.o family of
Thomas were conl.d.-nt.al am much
Amafi.im agente Darby, to tho i <>, more ui.n ^ no ^
hundred vears a'lcr the night in which
Thomas and bi< master snceeed.xd in
making an iron casting in u mold ot ;
STiSS Si £* &'***'* m J2Z:‘£?gZ CrtrtBisW
with nlu kevhoios and burr -d loors.
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Boston Bar Examinations.
JiZSSeZSS easvTask to be admitted
conduclej whorenaui-s l.y ^canMly i le ^ s - Mk^K^boiril, Jolin
D^j^Xbert h Jr’., C
M. Mono. .and K. D.
Smith—vouch at once for the thorough
ness of their work, cover ^dTdate^anl neatly a . de
and unusually diligent who can pass
IcUA Tl.o q.Mliom searching chi.llj
practical; thev are all very
and aro sometimes too much for old
%*'?'>?* ° f the*partners ^^recentlv
G f 0 ne of in re
P^rd to the meaning of the maxim tfe
mchonbns damnis. saying that it had
appeared on a recent exannnation pa
per, and that it could not l>e found in
ZSMJSS? hi?
mitlee ,; f lhe Coun ty, and reply
“You have struck an old question
0 f-’s: he hail some doubt abmt it
himrelf. I think it means so and so.”
Boston Advertiser,
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
‘ 13 pi«»P°*ed build an under
ground railroad in Pans The cost of
tte construction is put at *30,000,(XXL
i —The recent dinner given by the city
j of London to the Prince of Waxes cost
$133,800. The saying that •‘money
| makes the mayor go” seems to have
J been twisted about here.
! —I wo hundred refugees were saved
during the bombardment of Alexandria
1 in the Catholic chapel by the ingenuity
1 of the Arab doorkeeper, who told the
j soldiers that the place was empty, would and
there was nothing to steal or he
have taken it himself,
—.Japan is promised a constitutional
form of government at the end of eight
years. By way of preparation for that
event) the Japanese Minister at Berlin
} ia ^ been instructed to m ike a careful
study of the Prussian likely system of govern- chosen
m ent, which is to be the one
as a model.
—The ouests at Baroness Burdett
Coutts’ first garden party were treated
0 f the smallest pony in the
world—Lady .Jumbo. The tiny crea
ture ’, which looks like a tnoroug.ibred
of^n^nera^ass "K Rve veart stends thfrteen metes
bigli ana is tive years old old.
-Another of the Duke of Argyll’s
Glyn lately, Vicar the of Kensington, bridegroom *being where Mr" the
Da £, e 1 J ves £ hen ^ London. Only one
of his daughters has made a great match
—Lady Percy, Northumberiand. w ose husband wi 1 be
Duke of
^ “* d died VS^ three h ji years l S, r ^and^hoTe ago, and whose
™ patted as at ..S, and *
fourteen had his Holland “baptism of fire” with
his regiment in in a bloody en
slept atter _ it toi 0! . thir‘v tmrey-one one nour». hour lie He
lived to past ninety.
—In Germany, where there are no
restrictions upon the sale of intoxicating
beverages on the Sabbath day, thirty
two per cent, of murders and crimes of
violence are committed on Sundays, and
fifty-eight per cent, on Saturday and
Sunday, the Scotland idle days of the working- Maeken
man. In the Forbes
zie act has been followed by a consider
able diminution in those offenses.
—More than one thousand deaths are
reported as having resulted last year
K^om ofo Jat BritSn^IrelaS
The average of such deaths during the
last eight years is one to every 404
employed. Fall of rock from the roofs,
but more particularly from the sides of
workings, continues to be the most
fruitfulsource of these disasters; and
there seem3 good reason to believe
that a large proportion might be pre
vented by a sufficient provision of lim
ber supports.
- A > oan ? male stall in African the elephant-house elc P hant now
occupies the pri u the rmiph-Kmpntpd
^jnnibo V Q 0qt “Tin^o v
” ,, is the name which
tbis re cent addition to the Zoological
Society’s collection bears. He is young
„„d small S in stature lieT^ht heincr onlv
tenr feet and inches in and
weirriiimr about 700 nonnds As lie is
^1^“^ without blemish or defect geutfe, of anv if i kind
aiid not
unlikely popularity that of his he predecessor, may soon enjoy “.ifngo” the
was captured by Arabs in Upper and Nubta
about eighteen months ago, is he
lieved to be about three or four years
of a<r " e '
Straw in the Manger.
It is not at all difficult to rot down a
straw pile, and by sodoiug weed to seeds germinate
and kill most of the con¬
tained therein; by making the stack
very flat, so as to catch much water,
it rots rapidly and so soon as it gets
once thoroughly wetted, by re piling, stack it
soon heats aud decat s. But the
or pile of straw at best contains car. on
and silica in quantities, .rnd these are
the most common and least valuaileof
all the elements of plant food. Ihe
quant itv of potash, nitrogen and phos- and
"boric acid is very small indeed,
there is no method by which changed this pile ot
straw can m any way be into
manure containing any more of these
valuable elements than were in the
stack originally. If we tread this pile
down it \v>ll only be a pile of wet straw,
yotted sti.iw, .in ,. ,u be-d. it!,< tatPr
tnai. so mach v«.«..j uiuck.
and ns a food for
ta ten ■ ng an,nn • ■ um ......... N . r w u ilh ,ui it it
much r cn t-.od. .::ch a< eon,, bran, ml
m;-mUx n seen me d, | t ; ^n ^ly
SS155S 1
la-K-k I™™™ 0.-. ct crop, th w here u«d.
W e must no: exp ,t we can raise
S'fseu'Thc | ” [,^ straV^to
the manure
that shall kee > up the fertility of tho
soil; if we manure only with stfaw, we
Jj- ""J,, “. *7 S.T bT
(lth be so situaled
that he ennot afford to raise stock to
eat up and tread down 'he straw and
With'-mv
* ‘ h the
i«id c , mus't, ^oner”or now ave
later, become ex
bauste-1 and cease to yield profit ab’e
c ops it we fa-I to return to the soil the
_Theyta.e»n A,tronomiial Balloon
Society in London. The members go
up bl balloons to study the stars. The
^ tL^ tons'of */ ip T^Awo^ U * knocking^ t ? D in!£
houses down
chimneys, and scattering the AstroEom
j^d Society all over the west end of
London. Many brilliant galaxies of new
fc tars were discovered.— Texas Sift-ngs.
The ancient custom of sending a pres¬
ent of fine cloth to certain high officers
of State and gentlemen of her Majesty's
household has lately been observed by of a
committee of the Court of Aldermen
London. The custom seems to have
originated in a desire to encourage com
petition in the manufacture of line goods,
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Dean Stanley said: “The best rem¬
edy for a’l evils is to look forward.”
—It takes a clever man to conceal
from others what he doesn’t know.
—Said a young miss the other shedding day as
she examined a cat that was “
its feathers,” moth “ eaten.” I really believe this cat
has been
—A girl who sets out to look grace¬
ful in a hammock has as much work on
hand as the man who tries to be down languid hill.
with a saw-log following him
—Detroit Free Press.
—Said little Edith to her doll:
“ There, don’t answer me back. You
rnusn'i be saucy, no matter how hateful
1 am. You must remember 1 am your
mother!” Strange, what curious ideas
children get into their heads sometimes.
— Uvr Continent.
—A New York paper says “the ice
pitcher is more fnijii ihan alcohoL”
j That depends. An ice pitcher is a
harmless thing in itself; but if a man
were to swallow one lie would no doubt
wish he had taken a pint of alcohol in
stead. — Xorristoum herald.
I should like to have a coin dated
the year of my birth.” said a maiden
f nnc0 *ft n ^ c '° a nla,e “T
‘luamtauce. “ Do you think , you could
get one lor me? “ I am afraid not,
; he replied “These very old coins are
ttens.”° 56 ° U “ l “ Viil,a5e CO ®°*
_ She was an up-town ladv of culture,
ghe slocul watching a boat'loaded with
j ce “ Wlnit is that boat loaded with?”
«. j ce ,” was the reply. “Oh. my!” she
exclaimed, in surprise; “ if the horrid
Sh ??, ld water would sink
the boat! -A. J. &m».
Si reallv overP One would think
they had been built in vour parlor or
study, and were waiting to be launched.
—Holmes. We think there is a typo
Ee! , . , prrni . : n the Inst word of the
It was probably a lunch, aivai’t.ino- and
nnt „ l.oinoh thev were
There ^ here ave .ue such such peopie people —Texas uxas Siftings flings.
A Jersey man went to Mauch Chunk,
Pa., to spend his vacation, and during
nis first night tnree oiunens.wnicnliaa
g or ‘ u tor ’ ost on a tr »? outside his bed
loom window, were disturbed by a cat,
a,ul 11ew mto the apartment The
Jersevman awakeneti and slasnet a pi^
around until tney^ touuii^tneir w-ay
'
j 10s t t])at j ie .shouEl coine there every
h”* tat mosquitoes. nua
((■-l> u" ± cu*.
—An official in the Water Board of a
Western city having departed esteemed this life,
the city Government, who
liim as a faithful employe, sent his sal¬
ary for the remainder of the year with a
letter of condolence to the widow. A
friend of the latter in speaking of her
loss remarked that the action of the city
had been very considerate, etc. “Yes,”
said the bereaved one, “but seems ’if
they might have shut oft’ the water for
half a day at least, as a mark of respect
for John.”— Boston Commercial Duller
tin.
Weight of a Million Dollars.
Mr. E. B. Elliott, the Govermcnt
Actuary, has computed the weight of a
million follows: dollars in gold and silver coin,
as
The standard gold dollar of the Unit ed
States contains of gold of nine-tenths
fineness, 25.8 grains, and the standard
silver dollar contains of silver of nine
tenths of fineness, 412.5 grains. One
million standard gold dollars, conse¬
quently, weigh 25,800,10) grains, pounds or
53,750 ounces troy, or 4,479 1-6
troy, of avoirdupois 5,760 grains each, or 3,685.71
pounds “short” of 7,000 grains each,
or 1 843-1,000 tons of 2,000
pounds “long” avoirdupois 2,240 each, pounds or 1 645-1,000 avoirdu¬
tons of
pois each. One million standard silver
dollars 859,375 weigh 412,500,000 71,614.58 grains, pounds or
ounces troy, pounds or avoirdupois,
troy, or 58,928.57
or 29 464-1,000 “short” tons of 2,000
pounds avoirdupois each, pounds or 26 807-1,000 avoirdu¬
“long” each. tons In of round 2,240 numbers the fol
pois weight of
lowiug table represents the a
million dollars in the coins named:
Description of Coin. Tons.
Standard gold coin........... 1 -i
Standard silver coin.......... 25 2C>M
Subsidiary Minor silver five-oentnickel.. coin........ 100
com, mcrican. ...
—Scientific A
Arctic Coal.
The existence of coal in the Arctic re¬
gion, and the nature of its composition,
constitute one of the most remarkable
discoveries in modern geolog \. This
coal seam, it appears, is found in the
side of a narrow mountain gorge, ihe
prevailing rock of the surrounding dis¬
trict being a shingly claystone of nly very
irregular arrangement, but ma dip¬
cCT.Tuned, ping to the westward, and, so tar as as
devoid of fossils, though the '
vegetation presents no less than sixty
sue ies of plants, lhe coal has a bright, of
shiny appearance, is somewhat a
pitchy ehara -ter, and very brittle. On
analysis, it cannot be exeeedinggoedqua’- distinguished from
b.tuuiinous coal of
ity, and is found to belong to the true
carboniferous period. of c-oke: It eontams and those some
sixty-five per cent, nted with the various »
who are acqua
coal fields of England trace -a strong re¬
sent.ran -e between the Arctic and the
English.—-V. Y. Sun.
—Two children, lAmed George and
Harriet Grindley. ased eight at.d nine
years, reached Philadelphia the other
day, having traveled alone from Man
Chester, England. Their mother is a
widow, living in Philadelphia and has
been in this countrv three yea- s. When
she left old England the children were
placed in the Cin-rterfield Industrial
School, at Manchester, where they re¬
mained until sent for by their mother.
Tags were sewed to their clothing stat¬
ing that they were to be forwarded by
the National Steamship line from Man¬
chester, and giving the destination of
the little travelers. They were intrusted
to the care of the steamship officers,
their passage being paid for on thi- side,
lhe children arrived by the steamer
Spain sound and bright.— Phiiadel^/iict
Hecord.