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GENERAL NEWS.
Charlette, N. C., pays four dollars
per thousand feet for its gas,
A Baltimore capitalist intends estab
lishing a vegetable canning factory in
Vicksburg.
One mile from Monroe, Ga., stands a
leg cabin that was once the home of
Gov. Lumpkin.
A goose farm with 500 birds has been
established in Talladega, county, Ala.
“ Three hundred dollars an acre was
paid for fifteen acres of land in Volusia
county, Fla., the other day. | a
A 115,000 stock of goods is the prize
of a shooting match at Meridian, Miss.,
the chances being held at (100 a shot.
The Board of Health of Cedar Keys,
Fla., has prohibited the sale of oysters
from now until the close of the warm
season.
There are said to be 2,200 convicts in
the Texas penitentiary. Of this num
ber thre-fifthe are negroes aqd Mex
icans. /
Since rfte railroad has been completed
to Anniston, efforts are being /made to
develop the gold and copper mines of
Cleburne county, Ala.
An arrangement is on foot in Augus
ta, Ga., to have cooking taught in the
public schools. Much trouble is experi
enced with the domestic servants.
Anew enterprise, the “ South Geor
gia Real Estate Guide,” is now pub
lished at Americtis, Ua. It is published
by W. J. Dibble, who is trying to in
duce immigration.
Many of the Northern tourists on
their way home from Florida carry with
them pet alligators. At the Charleston
Hotel a waiter is detailed especially to
feed and water the aligators.
An English company have purchased
bO.OOO acres iron lands in East Tennes
see. They supply a capital of $l,OOO,
000, and will erect furnaces at once,
giving employment to 300 men.
The past season in Jacksonville, Fla.,
though rather short, has been the most
prosperous in the city’s history. A
careful investigation shows that -14,167
tourists have visited the city during the
past winter.
Gen. I<evi I.awlor, of Mobile, and
others are forming a company with
$200,000 capital, to establish at an early
day a pig iron furnace of CO tons daily
capacity, at Alpine, on the .Selma, Homo
& Dalton railroad.
Truck.farmers of South Georgia are
said to be snipping cabbage and real
izing from five to seven cents a pound,
they make from $76 to SIOO per acre on
them. The seed were sown last sum
mer and the plants set out in the fall.
The killing of slitep by dogs is distres
singly on the increase throughout Ten
nessee, where dogs are protected by law
and the bloodthirsty sheep nre permitted
to roam at pleasure. Tennessee will
presently be contesting with Georgia
for the prize mud-dog.
Albany, (Ga.) speeial: Several Tex
ans have been buying up cattlo in tho
wire-grass region around hero for several
week) for shipment to Fort Worth, Tex.
It is said they have thus far procured
about 4,000 head at an averago of $7.60
per head. The rates of shipping will be
SBO per car load.
Tlic Drinks of all Nations.
“brinks of All Nations” was tho sul>-
ject of President Cotton’s lecture before a
Boston temperance meeting. “Britons,”
he said, “ spend annually .£140,000,000
in drink, an average of sl9 each. This
does not include tho sum paid for im
ported French wines. I have learned
that America is now exporting largo
quantities of whisky to England. If
so, God help England. In Russia t-lie
common people drink enormous quan
tities of strong beer. The nobility con
sume a great amount of brandy. Tho
Government haa recently appointed a
commission to devise a scheme of nation
al reformation. But one dram shop is
to lie allowed in each village, and w here
two villages are in close proximity one
shop must do for both. At present
8,000,000 gallons of wine and brandy are
anuually consumed in Russia. Holland
ers drink giu mid beer. Germans use
beer and wine as beverages. In 1878
official reports show that there were
11,8(H) breweries in tho German speak
ing countries, turning out 84(1,0(X),000
imperial gallons of beer. In Copen
hagen the authorities have decided to
reduce the 1,350 beer sliojw to eight. No
pretty barmaids are to lie allowed to
serve liquor, and the drunken man must
be carried home in a cab at the expense
of the last man who sold him beer. Tho
Turks are the only temperate race of all
civilized nations. No good Mohamme
dan touches distilled or molt liquors.”
The Old ( hart.
A good story is told of Capt. Withani
Poor, who took out tlie Midas, propeller,
to China early in the eighteen hundred
and forties. All who knew Poor we.e
sure of his good seamanship, his pluck,
and liis good intentions. After dis
posing of the Midas ho was appointed to
the command of the ship Great Britain,
lielonging to myself and others. That
ship was chartered to Admiral Bigault
de Grenouily to take home the crews of
tlie Magicienne and the’vCoprioeuso,
frigates, which Inal been lost_on some
shoal near the coast of China"? Going
down the Chinn Sea, the anxious Admiral
asked (’.apt. Poor by what chart he was
navigating. Poor opened his chart
locker and pulled out a chart of Arrow
smith’s dated 1798. The Aumind was
astonished and exclaimed, “ Mein Got,
Captain, we shall all again lie wrecked;
I have one late chart showing all the
dangers, and I give it to yon to sail by.”
Poor answered, “That is" just tho worst
chart I could sail by; I should never get
any rest if I sailed through all these new
shoals; whereas hv my old chart there is
nothing to prevent my’getting my natural
nest, for it is all plain sailing.”
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
At a recent stenographic exhibition in
Paris a postal card was exhibited which
bore 41,000 words.
The green three cent stamp will have
been in use thirteen years, when the new
rate goes into effect next October.
A vranma, who was hanged by a
mob at Jacksonville, 111., some time
ago, turns out to have been a son of
Qoantrell, the Missouri guerrilla.
A story comes from Canton, China,of
a woman who, to punish a female slave
who had sfarien some food, cut a slice
from the girl’s thigh and made her cook
and eat it.
Under a law making vaccination com
pulsory, there has l>een very little small
pox in Massachusetts. For this and
other reasons the Legislature does not
find it expedient to repeal the law.
'A Mississippi man has discovered
that an excellent quality of sugar can
be made from sweet potatoes. If this
proves true anew use has l>een fonod
for one of the best and most prolific of
American products.
11At Reading, Pa., a disease similar to
the pink-eye among horses has broken
out among the people. 14 ' temporarily
destroys the eye-sight,’and the trouble
last* a|ront ten days. No permanent in
jury follows the attack.
In every tobacco faotory at Key West
there is a “reader.” Cubans can not
talk without gesticulation, and in or
der to keep thorn from talking a per
son is employed to read aloud to the
“hands” during working hours.
A Washington, D. G., man named
King, has invented a suicide pellot.
They are the size of a capsule, aud are
flavored to suit any taste. When swal
lowed by the victim the moisture of the
stomach causes them to explode, aud
the man is blown to atoms.
(Statistics of crime in coven of the
largest cities of the United States, aud
bused upon population, show that San
Francisco loads iu the number of homi
cides, followed in the order of mention
by Cincinnati, Baltimore, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston.
James Liok left (150,000 to establish
and maintain free baths in Han Fraucis
co. One of the tens tee*, Dr. Btillinari,
now proposes to. increase tho fund by
Jiopular subscription to (250,000, aud to
erect salt water bath* large enough tor
the accommodation of the whole city.
A movement is on foot in New York
and elsewhere to raise a fund for tho
erection of a monument over tho grave
of Churtette Cushman, tho actress, at
Mount. Auburn, Boston. The gravo is
in a lot seksoted and [laid for by Miss
Guslimau only a few montlm before her
death,
Tbr groatiest quantity of stamps ever
sent from 'Washington at ono time wore
shipped on the 23d of April by the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau. They wore tlie
rebate tobacco stamps for iiso after May
1. They weighed fifteen tons, and rep
represented a great muny hundred
thousands of dollars in value.
An undertaker in Philadelphia re
coutly advertised for a full bearded man
of rniddio age and of good address, aud
explained that he wanted him .to visit
, families whieli death had entered to
take instructions regarding the funeral,
eto., and that there is something about n
bearded man that inspires respect and
confidence.
A Pittsburgh olergyman thinks that
Bhakspesre wan, a great man but over
rated. He contend* that the principal
characters of “Macbeth” arAb be found
iu the Book of Kings in tbe Bible, and
remarks that Dr. Halsey, iu hia lecture
on “Shakspeare” at Princeton College,
stated that Bhakspearo’s regular prao
lieo was to study the Bible seven Lours
a day.
Col. Rockwell is engaged iu the task
of editing and compiling the speeches
delivered by Gen. Garfield during the
last year or so of his lifo, including his
utterances at the Chioago Convention,
Ids responses to the numerous delega
tions that visited him at Mentor, and
others delivered at the Williams College
Alumni meeting at Cincinnati, and on
other occasions after his inauguration.
Mrs. Julia Wickham Leigh, who died
in New York City a few days ago, was
once a notable woman. She was the
widow of Benjamin Watkins Leigh, who
was a United States Senator from Vir
ginia from 1835 to 1811, and who died
iu 1849. She was also the daughter of
John Wickham, ono of tho counsel for
tlie defense in the trial of Aaron Burr
for high treason in 1804, and who for
many years stood at tho head of the Vir
ginia bar.
Russell Sage, tbe famous dealer in
“puts and calls” ou the New York Stock
Exchange, is regarded as the most phe
nomenal leader the street lias ever had—
natural, almost womanly, with mind
averse to violeuoe or sinister things; and
a feeling also prevails that he has a
classical education, which lie does not
claim for himself. He was in Congress
thirty years ago, was the Treasurer of
Troy City and County many years, aud
possessed popularity then as now.
a company is tormiug in tho State of
Ohio, known as the “Time Telegraph
Company,” the object of which is to put
iu business aud dwelling houses ■ clocks
run and regulated by electricity. It is a
branch of a company in New York. The
idea is that a subscriber may have placed
iu his house, for the sum of (3 per year,
a clock that will need no windiug or
other attention, but will be connected
by wire with a central office, from which
every pendulum in the graud system of
clocks will be made to swing with one
common impulse. _
Alexander K. Villers, who died at
Philadelphia a few days ago, left this
odd will, which was drawn up iu July
last: “My last will and testament: I
leave my body to the University of
Pennsylvania for dissecting purposes,
and wish to be cremated at the same in
stitution. In case I should have any
money or property at the time of my
death, I leave the whole to the doctor at
tending me. In case lam cremated, I
wish my ashes to be thrown away and
not given to or viewed by anybody that
had been acquainted with me.”
jymono some of the this advantages of
royalty is the Jack of privacy accorded to
it, and the royal personages are frequent
ly in the habit of securing this privacy,
when on a journey, by traveling incog
nito. The King and Queen of the Neth
erlands are now passing through England
: n this way, and are said to be enjoying
themselves like two children let out of
school. Though it is perfectly well
known who they are, by a convenient
fiction this knowledge is not utilized,
and even Queen Victoria has given no
official recognition of their visit to her
dominions.
Boon after the Chinese was
established in its present quarters at
Washington a beggar called on profes
sional business. To his amazement he
was ushered with elaborate bows and
gestures into a luxurious room, where
an attache kituNy Low mnigia
serve him. A collection was then taken
up for his benefit among the members
of the embassy, and he was invited to
refresh himself with a lunch of dotieale
confections. Asa matter of course his
singular experience was known te every
beggar in town within
and the legation has been besieged ever
since by unprepossessing visitors.
A correspondent of The Boston Pott,
writing about tue remnants of Indian
tribes surviving in Massachusetts, says:
“It is believed by those who have an op
portunity to know, that no Indian of
pure aboriginal blood, is now a resident
iu the commonwealth, they having from
time to time intermarried with the
whites and those of African descent.
Counting all those who have Indian
blood in their veins in the State, in the
vestiges of tribes remaining, tbero are
to-day not far from 1,000 persons, cm
braced in 225 families, and it must be
borne in mind that the numbers con
tained in these tribes have been in
creased for over 200 years. It is a very
significant fact that no tribe now exist
ing is increasing numerically iu the com
monwealth.”
How He Was Laid.
It was in a smoking-car on the Hudson
river road. A New Yorker was exhibit
ing an invention to several gentlemen,
when ail old funner, with a settled look
of sadness on his face, heaved a sigh and
said:
“I never see such a thing without
wanting to weep.”
“ Nothing about this invention to
weep over, that I can see,” replied tho
inventor.
“ Wall, it sort o’ calls up old recollec
tions. Twenty years ago this fall I
thought. I had a fortune in my grnep.
Yes sir, I believed I had struck the big
gest thing since steam wbn brought into
use."
“Wlmt was it?”
“Ono day when tho old woman was
flat down with her lame leg I had to
cook my own dinner. After l’il got the
pancake-butter all fixed up I couldn’t
11 ud the greased rag the eld woman list'd
to rub over the spider. Sort o’ absent
minded like I picked up a piece of raw tur
nip from the table and used it instead.
It w orked to a charm; no smell, no
smoke, no stick.”
He paused here to wipe away a tear,
and then continued.
“ There was tlio fortune. I figured
that 9,000,000 greased rags were used in
this country five months in the year.
Fifty thousand barrel* of grease were
used up greasing spider. Over (100,000
wasted and gone. One turnip would
tnnko six greasers; 1,000 bushels would
make enough to supply the country.
AH that was needed was "to cut them up
into fancy style, affix a handle, and go
to supply the demand at 10 cents each.”
“There was money in it.”
“No, there wasn’t, I bought 100
bushels of turnips, (56 worth of wire,
and hired two men to go to work, ami
then I took a greaser and went over into
Vermont to see how it, would take; they
would not have it. They had something
more simple and much cheaper.”
“ What could it liavo been?”
“ They split on tho spider 1” replied
the old man, as a tear made a break
down his nose and was swallowed up in
the dust on the floor.— Wall Street
News.
Jay Gould.
Jay Gould is forty-five years of age,
but looks younger. There is a slight
tinge of gray upon his black beard, and
his high, full forehead and sharp, dark
eyes, attract notice. His friends say that
within a year or two he lias changed his
method of doing business, when he used
to manipulate stocks altogether. They
sayhe is now exclusively engaged in the
establishment and management of great
telegraph and railway onterpirises. But
it w on’t do to rely wholly upion the ap
parent stillness of the man who holds
the stock market by the throat, and can
choke shackles out of it whenever he hap
p>ens to lie iu the mood. Some twenty
years ago Mr. Gould married a Mass
Miller, whose father was of the firm of
Pater & Cos., grocers. They have six
children. Mr. Gould is eminently a man
of habits. At the close of busiuess he
rides home, takes dinner with the family,
and passes tlie evening in his study, in
this room are his telegraphic operator
and private secretary. Private wires ena
ble him to communicate with liis broker
and aids at all hours of the day and
night. No man works harder than lie.
Wine and tobacco are forbidden gnests.
Reading and looking at his magnificent
pictures are his only recreation. He is
a generous, open-hearted large-minded,
unostentatious mail. To his family Mr.
Gould is devotedly attached. He rarely
travels either for business or pleasure,
unless accompanied by some of his chil
dren. They have anything and every
thing they want, aud do just as they
please. Mr. Gould is at all times the
plainest of men.
Rich. —Fora quarter of a eenturv Mrs.
Lydia Maria Child and her husband lived
without a servant, in their humble and
pleasant home iu Wayland, Mass. Once,
relates Zion's Herald, when he said to
her. “I wish for your sake, dear, I was
as rich as Croesus,” she responded, “You
are Croesus, for you are king of Lydia,”
MAKING A REPUTATION.
A Srrne In m Western Town and What Cams
• of It.
A Western paper tells of a scene that
took place in a Texas frontier town, as
follows:—As Dnsenbery walked into Cal
lahan’s Retreat, the habitues saw at a
glance that something was about to hap
pen, and something did happen ; for in
about half a minute there entered four ol
the most ferocious-looking ruffians who
had ever been seen in Fort Worth. They
came with clanking spurs and fierce
towards, two revolvers to each man and a
large bowie knife for lagniappe, and they
sat down to-a table and called for whisky
all around. A tremor ran through the
assembly. Fort Worth’s best citizens
were for a moment staggered. But
Dusenbery never quailed. On the con
trary ho almost snorted with joy as he
saw his opportunity to make a reputation
for courage. These men were strangers,
he was backed by a large number of Fort
Worth’s sharpshooters; yea, he would
pick a fuss with them, and henceforth lie
known as a ten-or. He had not long to
wait. The strangers emptied their glasses,
called for more, and then, glancing ma
lignantly around, they launched forth in
furious abuse of Texas and Texans, then
language lieing garnished with that pro
fusion and proamentation of profanity
peculiar to the guileless cattle-drover.
As they ceased, Dusenbery, having taken
in the situation at a glance, arose aud
advanced toward the strangers. The
Fort Worth men put up their pistols and
sank bScTTttKrenthlesß amazement as
Dusenjjoy, parched up to the table at
wbicli i>¥p* n B'' rs Bat
eyes, liiivbreast, bis five feet of
towering form it need the spectators to
speechlessne-ss. Even the strangers
paused and *to and impressed.
“GentleauM,’’ said Dusenbery, diving
into his -trot&ers and bringing up an
ancient silver watch, “you have wounded
the finest feelings of my nature in your
remarks about Texas, and you must re
tract them, or—but never mind. I give
you five minutes to retract it. Five min
utes to secure vour safe return to home
and friends. Five minutes to avoid a
grave upon tlie lonesome plains. Five
minutes l”
An awful silence fell upon the crowd.
The blood curdled in the vein of every
Fort Worthian present. What! had tln-y
been treating this fire-eating Terror with
scarcely veiled contempt ? Hod they
been absolutely courting death for years"?
But just then one of the strangers re
covered his power of speech and said :
“Why, stranger, if you feel that way
about it, of course well cut it short. We
didn’t mean it for you or any of your
friends, but was just talking on loose
like.”
And with tlint they all four got up and
slunk out, their six-shooters flopping
feebly against their hips, and their spurt
looking drooped ami weedy ns they went.
With the closing of the door. Dusenbery’s
eye reeled iu its socket. The excitement
which had tiiiis far held hirn up gave
way, and he j collapsed, a flabby little
heap upon the floor. The assembled
citizens crowded round him, eager to
offer attention to the hero of the hour,
and at last lie was rehabilitated' suffici
ently to admit of his being sent home in
charge of a special and confidential friend.
“Why, Dooßiy, my boy, you took us
all by surprise. We never thought you
were a fighter.”
“Didn’t you#’
“No. Why "don't you know those aro
four of the worst men in the cattle busi
ness? And we expected every minute to
seo them go to .-(hooting. Wire you
armed?”
“Well. Iliad for show, but £
don’t believe it -fas leaded, and I couldn’t
have fired it, anyhow.”
“Gout suppose they had
refused to Yftr.iol, what ou earth would
you have done ?”
Dusenbery stepped, looked all around
to seo if any one were passing, pulled his
friend’s ear close down to his lips, and
whispered :
“I’d have extended the time.” —New
Orleans JKmes.
Silver-Gray Foxes.
A communication in the Rutland (Vt.)
Herald says: “Iu a recent issue I notice
an item referring to a silver-gray fox
that has lately been killed iu this vicin
ity. It is a general belief that this fox
is a distinct species from the red fox, but
thi* belief is wrong. The silver-gray or
black fox belongs to the ordinary red fox
family, anil its color is simpily a freak of
nature, which, however, occurs more
frequently in wooded districts than in
tho settled portions of the country. I
have often been informed by Northern
trappers that where the dam or she-fox
was silver-grav or black her offspring
was invariably red in color, and I have
known lint one instance where more
tlinu one silver-gray fox has been found
among a litter of young foxes. One of
them was presented to mo by the trap
pier who found it, I sent this fox to a
relative of mine in Sheldon, where he
remained until two years of age and was
one of tlie most beautiful animals T ever
saw. He was afterward purchased by ail
an agent of Lord Eglington anil if alive is
now in that nobleman’s piark in Scotland.
Where the ends of the majority of the
long hairs of this fox are tipipied with
white it is called silver-gray, but if tho
hairs are tipipied with black it is then
known ns a black f ix. I once saw a lot
of several dozen of these skins that were
of all shades from nearly white to jet
black. Mr. E. W. Geer, of Sheldon,
some years ago killed a very fine colored
black fox, which was purchased by a
Hudson Bay agent. The more inferior
grades of these colored foxes are known
as bastard, and tie next grade above,
cross foxes. ”
Charged wttli Crime.
Nothing can be more shocking than
the knowledge that a human being has
been hanged for a crime of which he was
guiltless. Murderers frequently protest
their innocence with their last breath,
and little attention is paid to their asser
tions; but when it subsequently turns
out, as has just happened in New Hamp
shire, that the supposed criminal was
really not guilty of tlie crime imputed
to him, liis dying protestations appear in
new light, Iu the New Hampshire
ease, however, it appicars that the man
who was hanged, one Joseph Buswell, al
though he was convicted on false testi
mony, was not altogether guiltless. He
hired an assassin to murder a girl, but
afterward repented, -and attempted to
pirevent the crime, but did not reach the
place where the mmvler occurred until
after the bloody work hail been done.
The assassin confessed, and swore that
his principal was present when the mur
der was committed, and on this testimony
Buswell was hanged, and the assassin
was sent to State prison. The latter has
just died, and on his deathbed confessed
liis perjury. Although Buswell was not
entirely innocent at least of criminal in
tent, yet, it appears, he was unjustly
hanged, and his case furnishes another
warning of the necessity of the exercise
of extreme care in proceedings which in
volve the question of depriving a man ol
his life,— New York Sun.
SPOTTING THE SPOTTERS.
The Weans by Which Railroad Os
tectives are Found Out.
“The present system of spotting is •
pretty clever way of heading off dishon
esty,” said the reporter to a sleeping car
porter who was brushing him. “I pre
sume it works like a charm ?”
“Oh, certainly it works like a charm.
That is, it costs the company thousands
of dollars were it saves the company
thousands of cents. We just sit still
and let these fellows get on to us —we
do,” and the sleek mulatto chuckled
audibly as he agan applied the brush to
the reportorial overcoat. “Every spot
ter is known to us the moment he sets
his foot upon the platform, and it is sel
dom one of the bloodhounds has an op
portunity to do eny spotting. We tum
ble to him in a minute, and if any steal
ing took place ordinarily, it would cer
tainly stop short while the spotter was
in sight.”
“Do the porters stand in with the con
ductors ?”
“The porter is the dishonest conduc
tor’s best bower. If it were not for us
the spotter system would be, to some ex
tent, a success.”
“How do you help the conductor?”
“Why, we spot the spotters, so te
speak. We have a way of marking
every mother’s son of them, and that is
how I know that that man I pointed out
to vou is a detective. I shined his boots
awliile ago end discovered who lie was.
I’ve got-4ti§-beete iu here now, aud if
you will come in I’ll show you one of
them and you can easily guess how J
know him to be a spotter.”
The porter led the way to one of the
apartments of the car, and picking up
one of the boots held the sole upper
most, showing three X’s cut on the heel
of the boot.
“That’s the way we size ’em up,” said
the porter with a triumphant smile. “It
was a close call, and if I hadn’t shined
his boots he might have gone through
unobserved. Of course everything
would have been all right, anyway, foi
my conductor is a square man, but I
like to bo on to these fellows who pry
into our business. It’s a cold day when
they get ahead of the conductors and
porters, I can tell you.”
“What do these three X’s cut on the
heel of the boot mean ?”
• “ Why, that’s just the point. It is a
private mark by which I recognized the
man as a spotter. He was probably
marked some time ago, and he has been
wearing these boots around just the
same, never dreaming that he was giving
himself away right along. It could not
bo plainer if he wore a star bearing the
word ‘spotter. ’ ”
“How do you find out these men to
start with ?”
“'flint’s easy enough. Do yon think
we have no friends at all to tell us about
these things? Well, wo have, iu the
company and outside, too. For instance,
a spotter gets on at St. Louis, or Chi
cago, or Kansas City, or New York,
Somebody goes to the conductor and
says ‘You’ve got a spotter on board to
night, watch out for him.’ A descrip
tion is furnished and I go in, and in
blacking bis boots mark one of tlie soles
with my throe X’s. That ends his use
fulness as a detective until he buys anew
pair of boots or shoes. That is one way
to get on to them, but there are others.
A conductor sometimes receives a note
something like this: ‘A spotter will go
out with you to-night. He is a tall
man, with sandy moustache and will
dressed. Yours, J .’ The writer is
sometimes nn employee of the company,
and stands in with the men. This is not
often the ease, but, at any rate, we don’t
have much trouble in tumbling to the
detectives.”— Kansas City Times.
DRINK OR FIGHT.
An Anurrfote nbout Ole null.
Going down the Mississippi, Ole Bull
met on*tlie steamboat a party of half
savage men, colonists from the far West.
While reading his newspaper he was ac
costed by one of the men, who had been
sent os a spxikesman by his companions,
with the request that the fiddler would
take a drink with them, offering him a
whisky flask at the same time,
“I thank you,” said Ole Bull, “hut I
never drink whisky.”
With a curse tlie fellow asked him if
he was a tee-trttaler.
“No, but whisky is like poison to me.”
“If you can’t drink, come and fight
then.”
The man’s comrades had gathered
round him meantime, and they nil cried:
“If vou won’t drink, you must fight.
You look darn strong; show us what you
aro good tor.”
“A Norseman can fight ns well as any
body when his blood is up. but I can't
fight when my blood is cold, and why
should I?”
“You look like a strong fellow, and
darn it, you shall fight.”
Seeing no way of esenpie. Ole Bull
quietly said: “Since you insiston testing
my strength, and there is no reason for
fighting, I will tell yon what I will do.
Let any one of you take hold of me in
any way he likes, and I’ll wager that in
half a minute he shall he on his back at
my feet.”
A big fellow was chosen, who steppied
forward and grasped the violinist round
the waist, but was instantly thrown over
his head by a sudden wrench, and lay
senseless on the deck. Ole Bull now
felt himself in a very uncomfortable
position, for he saw one of the man’s
comrades draw a bowie knife, hut was re
lieved when it was used only to open a
flask. A good dose of its contents
poured down his throat soon revived the
fainting man, and his question :
"How the deuce was I thrown down
here ?” was answered by a ehout of
laughter from his companions in which
he himself joined. He sprang to his
feet, and after vainly trying to piersuade
Ole Bull to show him how he had thrown
him, he said:
“Take this knife home with you; you
tight darn well; you are as quick as light
ning !”
The artist heard of the same fellow
later as having gone to an editor to call
him to an account for an adverse criti
cism on his playing, ready to fight for
for “the strongest fiddler" he had ever
seen, anyhow.”
Buried Alltc in a Tunnel.
Tlie Atlanta Constitution savs:—An
old man named Stephen Shell, living in
Campbell County, became impressed with
the idea that a rich depiosit of gold ex
isted on his place. So strongly did this
impiression seize him that he became a
monomaniac ou the subject Lately,
as he was digging in search of tLe
precious stuff, and had delved some
fifteen or twenty yards under a hill, when
a large rock foil and effectually closed his
passage. After vainly attempting to dig
himself out of his precarious position,
his family, who had become anxious on
account of his prolonged absence, went
in search of him, and, discovering his
condition, by great exertion extricated
him. The accident has had the effect of
curing his hallucination,
FOR THE SCRAP BOOK.
The First Appearance ml the Notable la
vention* of the C'oiatrj.
Envelopes were first used in 1839.
Anaesthesia was discovered in 1844.
The first steel pen was made in 1830.
The first air pump was made in 1C54.
The first lucifer match was made in
1798.
Mohammed was bom at Mecca about
570
The first iron steamship was built in
1830.
The first balloon ascent was made in
1798.
Coaches were first used in England in
1509.
The first steel plate was discovered in
1830.
The .first horse railroad was built in
1826-27.
The Franciscans arrived in England in
1224.
The first steamboat plied the Hudson
in 1807.
The entire Hebrew Hible was printed
in 1488.
Ships were first “ copper bottomed ” in
1783.
Gold was first discovered in California
in 1848.
Tbe first telescope was nsed in England
in 1608.
Christianity was introduced into Japan
in 1549. •
The first watches were made at Nuren-
Imrg in 1477.
First saw maker’s anvil brought to
America in 1819.
First almanac printed by Geo. Von
Furbach in 1400.
The first newspaper advertisement ap
peared in 1652.
Percussion arms were used in the U.
S. Army in 1830.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was iu 1829.
Omnibuses were first introduced in
New York in 1830.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1826.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1687.
The first glass factory in the United
States was built in 1780.
The first printing press in the United
-hates was worked iu 1620.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The first steam engine on this conti
nent was brought from England in 1753.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846.
The first Society for the Promotion of
Christian Knowledge was organized iu
1698.
The first attempt to manufacture pius
in this country was made soon after the
war of 1812.
The first prayer book of Edward VL
came iuto use by authority of Parliament
on Whit Sunday, 1549.
The first temperance society iu this
•nun try was organized in Saratoga County,
Now York, in March, 1808.
The first coach i Scotland was brought
thither in 1561, when Queen Mary came
from France. It belonged to Alexander
Lord S -aton.
The first daily newspaper appeared in
1702. The first newspaper printed in the
United States was published in Boston cm
Sept. 25, 1790.
The manufacture of porcelain was in
troduc'd into the province of Hezin,
Japan, from China m 1513, and Hezin
ware still bears Chinese marks.
The first society for the exclusive pur
pose of circulating the Bible was organ
ized in 1805, under the name of the
British and Foreign Bible Society.
Tlie first telegraphic instrument was
successfully operated by S. F. B. Morse,
the iuppn tor, in 1835, tliough its utility
was i demonstrated to the world until
1842. i
The first Union flag was unfurled on
the Ist of January, 1776, over the campat
Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of
white anil red, and retained tlie English
cross in one corner.
When Capt. Cook first visited Tahiti,
tho natives were using nails of wood,
bone, shell, and stone. When they saw
iron nails tliev fancied them to lie shoots
of 3ome very bard wood, and desirous -if
securing such a valuable commodity,
they planted them in their gardens.
How Some Women Sleep.
“How do you sleep ?” asked the doc
tor of my friend.
“Splendidly,” she replied; “nine or
ten hours without a dream; lint when I
awake I have a dreadful headache.”
“What is your bedroom like?”
I iiail seen this prettiest of imaginable
nests, and I chipped in with a descrip
tion of it. Nothing could be wrong
about tho ventilation, I declared, for the
wiudows were high and broad, anil were
left open over night. The bedstead was
carved all over in soliil rosewood; the
mattress was filled with freshly-curled
hair ami rested ou springs; the linen
was of the whitest and finest; the blank
ets were a gift from California, where
the softest and warmest are made. The
recollection of tho down pillows threw
me iuto rapturous praise of the undressed
silk of which their coverings were made,
and their elaborate embroidery.
“Hold ou 1” interrupted the doctor;
“you are not writing a fashionable letter
just now. Have you ever seen Laura
asleep iu this wonderfully beautiful
bed?”
“Yob, only yesterday morning.”
“.Where was her nose ?”
“Let me see. Ob, yes; it was under
the blankets.”
“I always sleep that way,” said Lanra.
“I cover my head when i" get into bed,
and it stays so all night.”
“Probably that causes all your
trouble,” said the doctor. “You manage
to ventilate your room properly, and
then manage to breathe vitiated air for
eight or ten hours every night Stop it.
Sleep with your head uncovered for a
week, aqd then let me know how vou
feel.” .
She followed his advice, and at the end
of the week felt first-rate.
An Ingenious Explanation.
Very few people know why the room
in which a newspaper is made up is
called the “composing room.” The fol
lowing explains it : After the paper goes
to press a copy is bronght to the editor,
who discovers that four or five typo
graphical errors in his leading article not
only make him say exactly what he didn't
intend to say, but arouses a suspicion in
the minds of his readers that he must
have been under the influence of liquor
when he wrote it. He rushes forth with
blood iu bis eye and murder in his heart,
and denounces everybody, from the fore
man down to the “devil.” It is to the
composed man*er in which his revilings
are received by the Intelligent Printer
that the term “composing "room” is at
tributed.—Rochester Express,
m
“No, sir,” said the practical man, “nc
bric-a-brac on the mantel for me. It’s a
nuisance. Where's a man to put his
feet?”
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
Concerning the cause of London fogs,
it is now suggested that they are largely
due to the burning of suipimr, 200 ton#
of this substance being daily burned in
London. •
It has been found necessary to begin
the formation of anew entrance to the=
Monnt Cenis Tunnel on the French side.
The former entrance allowed dangerous
signs of sinking.
M. Boccbct has found that the juice
of the fig tree contains a powerful fer
ment, ea;table of digesting albuminoid
matters as they are digested by tlie juices
of the stomach.
The inquiries of Professor Cohn, of
Breslau, indicate that short-sightedness
is rarely or never born with those sub
ject to it, and that it is almost always the
result of strains sustained by tLe eye
during study in early youth.
The force exerted by the discharge
of heavy guns is something tremendous.
In some experiments at Woolwich it was
estimated that tlie pressure upon the
base of the gun at the moment of tho
explosion was more thau sixty tons per
square inch.
M. Dohbn is stated to have introduced
the telephone in connection with his sci
entific explorations of the bed of the Bay
of Naples. By this means the diver and
the boatmen overhead are able to com
municate with each other As quickly and
intelligently as can lie wished.
Another scare is to follow that in re
gard to color blindness. Statistics have
been published by a learned Heidelberg
professor to prove that engineers on
railways are peculiarly subject to affec
tions of the air, which might compro
mise the safety of passengers.
It is asserted that if a person exposes
iiimself to the electric light for some
time in a close inspection of the same,
his hands aud cheeks will show—if he be
of fair complexion—all the simptoms of
“sunburn,” even in midwinter, and he
will develop freckles on his countenance
as quickly as when he goes about unpro
tected by a sun umbrella iu midsum
mer.
Lost Babies.
A reporter in a New York paper thus
sketches one of his encounters with the
little burden-bearing children who go
wandering in the streets of tlie great
cities. The incident occurred last Sep
tember, but if September incidents of
the sorrows of poverty out of doors are
sad enough, winter time adds anguish to
the tragedy:
At the foot of tlie lamp-post at the
junction of Park Row and Broadway sat
a wan, despondent group. A pale little
girl, not more than seven, held iu her
ragged lap a baby on whose pallid brow
the seal of death seemed sefc Just as the
reporter reached them a policeman came
along, and looking sharply at the group,
exclaimed:
“Git out o’ that 1”
“Hold on, little one. Officer, you can
‘git’ yourself. Who aro you, little girl?”
“Mi: name's Mary Koppinger, and I
live in Jay street, sir.”
“Brooklyn?”
“Yes, sir. Me mudiler’s sick, and I
come over with the baby and I’ve lost
mo way. ”
“How did you cross the ferry ?”
“I dodged ’em, sir.”
Hero the baby, ragged, dirty, began
to cry. The little girl cuddled it to her
breast and chirp'd awhile.
“Baliy seems sick.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Can you llud the way home?”
“No, sir.”
Now, no stage-driver xfftnld stop for
the “likes of them,” and it was rather
embarrassing. To call a coupe was ab
surd; so, taking the little child by the
shoulder—both her 'arms were full of
baby—the repoiter took her to the cor
ner of Beckman street and put her in a
bobtail ear.
With two peaches in her pocket and a
quarter in her grip the little matron
almost smiled as she said “godfi-by,”
hut her sick and feeble charge cuddled
closer as she slept, and off they went
toward the City of Churches.
Of the million left, many, very many,
are Mary Koppingers. Sick and in trou
ble, penniless aud lost, they roam the
streets, hungry and tiled, "until- -well,
what ?
The Grain Crops of 1882..
By the latest figuring of tlie Agrieul*
(oral Bureau at AVashinpton it is re
ported the corn crop of 1882 is placed
at 1,635,000,000 bushels, and the yield
of wheat at 510,000,000 bushels. These
estimates may he accepted as probably
not far from the amounts which will be
shown by the official and final returns,
and the results are highly encouraging.
Considering the fears which were freely."
expressed for the com crop iu the early
part of last summer it appears from the
Agricultural Bureau's data to have been
exceptionally good. Up to 1879 the
maximum yield of Indian com in this
country (which occurred in that year) ,
was 1,547,901,000 bushels. Last year’s
crop by the above estimate, exceeds that
of 1879 by 87,000,000 bushels, and falls
only about 207,000,000 under the crop of
1880. It fully justifies the prediction
which the Herald made as early as-
August 2 that the estimates then made
of the probable yield of the crop would
have “to be revised and enlarged.” The
latest official estimate of that year’s
wheat crop places it at about 80,000,000
bushels more than that of 1878,6*1,000,000 1
more than that of 1879 and 50,000,000
more than that of 1880. The past year
will, therefore, be memorable in the
agricultural annals of the country as one
of fruitful seasons, filling not only our
own land but others with food and glad
ness. While the present winter began
with some severe weather in tlie North
west tbe recent conditons have been com
paratively mild over the country -
generally, so that there is now no un
mistakable menace of a hard winter, such
as that of 1880-81 (in which on Decem
ber 29 the terrible cold of fifty-nine
degrees below zero was registered in-
Montana) to mar the crop prospects of
tho new year.— New York Herald.
A Troubled Family.
At a meeting of the Philadelphiai
County Medical Society a man was ex
hibited who has not and never has had
teeth, hair, taste or smell. Moreover,
the microscope declares that his skin is
absolutely without jiores, an omission on
the part of Nature which has hitherto
been considered fatal. But Mr. Peter
Wendling has lived to be forty-eight
years old, has enjoyed uniform "health,
and suffers from die lack of pores only
in hot weather, when he finds it neces
sary to keep his clothing soaking wet to
reduce the temperature of his body.
He lives in the little -village of Bismarck,
near Lebanon, and is the father of eight
children, all of whom are free from his.
physical peculiarities, barring the fact
that there isn't a full set of teeth in the
family.