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DALTON, OA. 3 THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1890.
TERMS,
MILLIONS -OF WEALTH.
FIGURES taken from the books
F of THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A Steady Increase in the Taxable Property
0 f the Southern States—An ■Unsur
passed Story of Prosperity—Railroad
Mileage.
The Chattanooga Tradesman has
reports from various state auditors
g n d governors throughout the south
relative to increasing taxable wealth
aad other material interests in the
past decade.
* The reports are from the best
eources procurable, and the officials
inform The Tradesman that they will
vary slightly from the official reports
of the United States census.
The reports show the following:
The assessed valuation from the au
ditors’ books 12 southern states to-day
is $8,706,906,168, against $2,164,792,-
685 in 1880, an increase in 10 years of
717-10 per cent.
The actual wealth of the south to
day is estimated by the officials at
§10,158,700,000 against $5,844,000,000
in 1880. This shows, based upon the
semi-official census report up to the
year 1890, a per capita wealth, as
assessed of $195.38 against $147.88 in
1880, and an actual wealth per capita
to-day of $652,11 against $385.62.
The state indebtedness of the twelve
{southern States is to-day, according
to the reports of the officials, $89,185,-
475 against $124,066,897 in 1880, and
the total indebtedness, including the
state, county and municipal, of the
entire south is to-day $182,426,575
against $217,593,585 in 1880.
The average rate gf taxation
throughout the Southern States is>to-
day 403 mills, against 4.60 in 1880.
The state revenue of the twelve
Southern States is to-day, $20,312,739,
against $13,249,866 in 1880, an in
crease of 53 3-10 per cent.
The total banking capital in the
twelve states of the south ineluding
state, national and private banks, ac
cording to very careful inquiry from
all sources, is placed to-day at $152,-
425,000, against $92,575,000 in 1880, an
| increase of 64f per cent, in ten years.
I Eailroad mileage in the sputh, accord
ing to official reports, is to day 37,518,
against 17,080 miles in 1880, an in
crease of 126 9-10 per cent, in ten
wears.
The scholastic popnlatipn of the
outh is to-day, according
foS'-xtypc, in 1880—
snitfcreaseof 35per cent.
The number of pupils enrolled in
f he schools of the south to-day is
8,242,286, against 2,018,640 in 1880, an
increase of 61 1-10 per pent, in ten
years, and the number of pupils now
|n attendance at the schools in the
south is to-day 2,141,274,against 1,391-
743 in 1880,' an increase of 53 8-10
: per cent, in ten years,
ISLAND OF SANTA CRUZ.
: The Puzzle of Scientists 9.9 to How They
Were Peopled.
I ^ rom the Youths’ Companion.
It has puzzled naturalists who have
Undertaken to account for the peo
pling of those islands in the Pacific
Tyhich he so many hundreds of miles
I nom the continents or from other
I islands to explain how the first set-
|| ers made their way across such an
(expanse of > a ters. - The author of
underings South and East” gives
| some observations bearing directly
ppon this point:
The natives'of Santa Cruz- not
I es i ate to make cruiges- ffar ’ out of
I ^ ^ an d, theirjknowledge of _the
I be ingvery;eonsiderable.U I have
yr Ced:the:eWer the three boys
L, 0 * We subsequently brougbt;away
L ll . s ^ rorn here teaching the names
I Var '° us stars to his younger com -
_ amo DS) anc j was surprised at the
pumber he knew by name.
^foreover, at any time of night or
\<yCrH 3n wha ^oever direction we
iven n ^ a PP e o to be steering, the boys }
>f in . youn 8 est °f the three, a lad
lie ^ w °uld be able to point to
e * 6 1 bome la y; this'lhayg found
il Q B ^ s do many hundreds of
to^the south of the group.
KvjtfAT A BOY QID,
|roui the Cincinnati Grange Bulletin.
In the report of the poultry com-
littee on'lhe Massachusetts board of
jriculture we find an account of a
foijtb who two or three years ago “took
jt into his head” to keep fowls for prof
it, and this is what he did: With his
^vn hands he built a moderate sized
leaner^, which improved his mechan
ical ability, purphaspd a spialj npip-
3er of fowls and took care of them
yshile attending)school>nd doing his
proportion of the “chores.” In about
?ne year and a;ihalf he cleared, after
lying for everything that his fowls
lsumed, $140, and yetjhe spent no
lore time with his fowls than most
if his schoolmates did in their amuse-
THE BLIND CHAPLAIN.
History of Mr. Milburn, Re-Elected by
Support of Botb Parties.
Prom the San Antonio Express.
For the .first time in our history the
caucus nominee of the majority for a
position in the gift of congress has
been defeated. Mr. Milburn has for
the fifth time been elected chaplain
of the house. At the age of 5 years a
playfellow struck out one of the eyes
of Mr. Milburn, and the accident im
paired the sight of the other, despite
the heroic treatment of those days,
which confined him for two years in
a dark room. When he came from
his imprisonment he spent twenty
years in pursuit of his studies, with
his eyesight gradually fading. He
utilized every moment of daylight
and every ray of sunshine in antici
pation of the night of blindness. In
1843 he became a minister of the
Methodist church and partially blind)
traveled a circuit, on which it was his
duty to travel 200 miles and preach
from thirty to forty sermons a month
at a salary of $100 a year. In 1845,
when about 22 years of age, he was
elected chaplain of the Twenty-ninth
Congress. In that case he was an in
dependent candidate, as he was at
the last election. It is said that his
first election was due to Western con
gressmen, who | heard him preach a
sermon on an Qfeio steamboat, in
which he denounced legislators for
profanity,, intemperance and gam
bling. In 1853 he was elected chap
lain of the Thirty-third Congress.
At the outbreak of the war he united
with the Protestant Episcopal church
because he could not affiliate with the
Northern Methodist church, but re
turned to the Methodists in ij.874. In
1885 and again in 1887 he was elected
chaplain of the house. . Both parties
have united to reinstate and continue
him in his office. By the force of his
personal character ancl good
ness he has broken the record of cau
cus nomination.
CHRONICLES OP GEORGIA.
GLEANINGS AND W1NNOWINGS FROM
THE STATE PAPERS.
SOUTHERN ORE LEADS THEM ALL
A Higb Endorsement {«.n$ Recognition; 0 f
tbe Value of Southern Ore atbe
Wonderful Progress made in ll s ht«„,
ufacture.
From the London (Eng.) Ironmonger,
An English syndicate huxs . pur
chased the vast ear-wheel worlds and
boiler and locomotive plants^,owned
by Mr. John Bass at Fort YwYyne, St.
Louis, and Chicago. .-'"Mr. Aasa has
-years practically done all
the wheel and boiler work for several
western railroads.. and has become
yery wealthy. His extensive foundry
and engine shops at Fort Wayne ate
annually visited by hundreds of
tourists, and in this way, probably,
English capital has been tempted to
secure the business. The p^ice to be
paid is said to be about $3,500,000.
The purchase will include all Mr
Bass’s iron and goal mines in Ala
bama, which are worth a large sum.
At the time he made his investments
in the south he was jeered at by. the:
pig iron gjasiersof Pennsylvania and
the Scotch iron agents, who were con
fident that he could not get along
without their products. He soon,
however, demonstrated that southern
ore was frilly equal to all the tests he
demanded, and in two ygars he wits
independent of Pennsylvania and.
Scotland for iron, and flow find 8 all
the material he requires in Alabama-
The carwheel foundry at Fort Wayne
is believed to be the largest of its
kind in the world.
A HAUNTED §HANTV-
The Eccentric Old Man who Lived in it and
Why Superstitious People will not Pass
it After Dark.
A year ago James Fletcher, an old
and inoffensive resident of Bridge-
ville, New York, died. Luring his
life he had been eccentric in his
habits. He lived in a little shanty by
himself and cared but little for the
things of this world- At times he
exhibited strange religions freaks.
On occasions hefhas been known to
walk through the mountains a dis-
tancejof _ a .dozen miles or more to at
tend a Sunday morning service in
chureh, and then would not be seen
inside the portals of a church for
months. WhenTasked regarding his
religions views he would say: “I be
lieve in God, man and the devil.’’
The little shanty that he called his
home is yet standing, and some peo
ple declare it haunted by the old
man’s spirit- Many persons will not
pass it after dark. It is stated that
unearthly yells are heard within its
walls at certain hours of the night,
and that loud cries, as of a person in
distress, are distinctly heard. Some
perspna living " in ‘the neighborhood
are in fayor of razing it to the
ground. _
THE NEW DISCOVERY.
You have heard yourlfriends and
neighbors talking about it. You may
yourself be one of the many'who know
from personal experience just how
good a thing it is. If you have ever
tried it. you are one of its st;
A Monster Wild Cat—Fresh. Watermelons
in December—A Big Suit—Cruel Treat
ment-of a Widow and Her Children.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
One of the most stirring instances
of wanton oppression occurred in the
fourth district of Coweta county a few
days ago. A widow, named Mrs.
Susan C. McCurry, with six children,
was moving from Cherokee county^
Alabama, to a farm she had rented in
Coweta county. She had three mulesj
two cows, one wagon, household and
kitchen furniture. When near Handy
postoffice, in that county, and within
eight miles of her home, she was de
tained on the public highway by the
bailiff for an hour or more. H mer
chant named W. H. Burnett, of Center,
Ala., swore out attachment papers,
and levied on all the property she had
for a debt due Stewart, Burnett & Co.,
by a man by the name of F. H. Hardi-
gree. She protested ' against such
proceedings, and said the property
was her’8, and that it could not fee de
tained or leyied on for another par :
ty’s debt, but the officer took charge
of it all and put her in an old, dilapi
dated blacksmith shop, which had iio
shutters tg tfep fieoys, nor roof to
protect her from the chilly night air.
In that place she was forced to stay
all night, her children lying on pal
lets oh the ground under § type, while
$be widowed mother, with her little
ten-year-old girl, sat in the shop
guarding their property. Being in a
strange country and among strangers,
she was unable fe) gjve 3 $200 bond
for the forthcoming of the property,
which the plaintiff in attachment re
quired under the law governing such
summary proceedings, and she vyas
compelled to st$y there until the next
term of the court, to which the at
tachment was made returnable, which
was on the 20th ult. From tfeg e?-
posure te the old shop she is threat
ened with phnenmonia, and has con
tracted a
youngest child, which lay out on the
ground under a tree, is also threatened
with mgmbyaqeous croup, to which
it is subject, !8ome of the people in
the community kindly took the widow
and fatherless children into their
homes, and took care of tfeeig until
til the trial. - j - ,
. A WILD CAT KILLS A DEEE ^
From the Savannah News.; • b \
24r,Hamher and one or two other
gentlemen were in the woods on Ty
Ty creek, in Colquitt county, a few
days ago, and saw 3 yesylffiff deer
running in the direction’of the swamp.
While watching the deer they saw a
large wild cat spring upon it, tiger-
like, and bring it to the ground. £he
deer mafie but a few leaps before the
cat brought it down and killed it. The
party not having their guns witfe
them, went and gqt their guns and
dogs and gave chase to the cat. The
cat being full from his mess of veni
son, did not run far fenfore he climbed
a tree. A well-aimed rifle balL from
the gun of one of the party brought
the cat down, wfeicfe measured six feet
from the end of his tail to the end of
his nose.
CARWORKS EOR MACON.
Macon Correspondent Atlanta Constitution.
There is considerable interest in
Macon at present on the subject of or
ganizing 3 company with a capital
stock of not less than $250,000, to erect
a car factory. Several prominent gen
tlemen, discussing the matter to-day,
said they believed that a quarter of a
million dollars can be easily raised
in Macan for the plant. Two gentle
men haye already signified their wil
lingness to subscribe $10,000 each, and
a third said he thought he could in
fluence $20,000 from among certain of
his friends. It is generally conceded
that a car factory would succeed here
splendidly.
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abigsui*.
There was a very interesting case
on trial last week in the United States
court at MacOn. Mr. John fi. Wim
berly, of Houston eouniy, sued Messrs.
A. B. & A. H. Small, wholesale gro
cery merchants, of that city, for $25,-
000 damages. Some time ago the
Messrs, Small had Mr. Wimberly ar
rested, charging him with cheating
and swindling, olaiming that a piece
of land which he had mortgaged to
them was mortgaged to other parties.
Wimberly denies tfeis 4 anfi claims that
everything was regular, and thinks
he has been damaged to the extent of
the above amount.
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A WATERMELON STORY.
From tlie Atlanta Journal.
Several gentlemen were discussing
the fine weather at Atlanta recently,
when Steve Postell said: “There is
a man in Savannah who has a water-
A GOLD LAMP WORTH S70.000.
The Grand Cathedral In the City of Mexico
and Its Riches.
The interior of the grand cathedral
in the City of Mexico is, even at the
present day, after having been succes
sively plundered, most magnificent*
It contains five naves, six altars and
fourteen chapels, which contain the
bones of some of the viceroys and
departed great men of Mexico.
The Glory of the Cupola, Yirgin
and revered saints were painted, says
the New York Journal, by celebrated
artists. A balustrade surrounds the
choir, of a metal so'rich that an offer
to replace it with one of equal weight
in solid silver was refused. This
weighs twenty-six tons, and came
from China in the old days of Spanish
dominion, when the richly-freighted
galleons of Spain sent their cargoes
overland from Acapulco to Vera Cruz
on the way to the mother country.
The high altar was formerly the
richest in the world, and yet retains
much of its original glory. It con
tained candlesticks of gold so heavy
that a single one was more than a
man could lift, crusts afad pyxes of
gold encrusted with precious metal,
studded with emeralds^ amethystSj
rabies and sapphires.
The statue of the Assumption (now
missing) was of gold, ornamented with
diamonds, is said to have cost $1,0Q0,-
000,writes a correspondent. There was
a golden lamp, valued at $70,000, which
it eosi at one time $1,000 to clean, but
according to a French writer—and
the joke is his—the liberal troops
cleaned it for UQtfeing, and it has not
been seen since.
BILL ARP’S BRIEF STORY.
From a Constitution Letter.-
“Papa, what did Mr. Davis do that
makes everybody talk about him so?”
“My boy, I will tell you in a few
words. The north and the south had
been quarreling for fifty years about
the negroes and the tariff and the
rights of the states. At last they con
eluded to fight it out* and Jefferson
Davis was chosen as our leader. He
G1C1 nub S6BK bOL XuT
modest man; but we made him take
it. He believed that the states were
greater than the government at Wash
ington, for the states created that
government as their agent. But the
government at Washington soon be
came very bold and powerful and
began to control the states, It was
a question wAilhfer the dog should
wag the tail oythe'tail wag the dog.
Mr. Calhoun"and Mr. Davis and most
all of us Jown south were for the
rights of the but the people up
nortfe thought the government at
Washington was a bigger thing and
ought to control and so the quarreling
went on for years and years and at
last it broke out In a war. We left
left the union and wanted to go back
where we were beforg we went into
the union, but they whipped us and
so we are the union still. It was
much like little children who gather
together to play and some of them get
mad and say, ‘Pin going to take my
things and go bOrneryou don’t play
fair and I shan’t play with you any
more.’ Then the others get mad, toOj
and say. ‘We dg play fair and you
shan’t go home,’ and so they take hold
of them and keep them and make
them stay whether they wish to or
not. And so the states had to give it
up and now the tail is wagging the
dog. n
A NOBLE ACT,
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The man who captured Jefferson
Davis in 1865 is truly a citizen Of the
restored and reunited union. He
laid down his arms when the war
closed and has not taken them up
again.
Col. Wilson, the federal officer
into whose hands the ex-President of
the Confedracy fell twenty-four years
ago, has subscribed $100 to the Davis
land fund for the support of the
widow and daughters of Jefferson
Davis. It was a voluntary testimonial
from a brave man who wore the blue
to the leader of those who wore the
gray. It was a noble act—this sub
scription of Col. Wilson, the federal
captor, to the hero of the Lost Cause.
Such evidences of a restoration of
good feeling between the sections are
happily not a few. If we except the
narrow and purblind partisans whose
vision extends only to Mason’s and
Dixon’s line, there are few traces
north or sputh of the fierce and bitter
warfare indulged in only a quarter of
a century ago,
Lord Tennyson is very hospitable
in his old age, and likes to entertain
young people. Mary Anderson is a
great; favorite with him, and he .pre
fers a handsome woman as a guest to
one who has no claims to beauty. In
fact he is very sensitive to beauty In
man or woman; and ima & poet’s love
for ^ymmeiry of form and feature.
A MAN BROILED TO DEATH j NEW YEARS AMONG THE GREEKS
Interesting- Ceremonies We Are Not Gen
eraly Familiar With.
Christmas is a purely religious holi
day among the Greeks, with none of
fLnr tV. ~~ ! j
BARE WIRES KILL
THE ROOF OF
PAINTER ON l
CAR-SHED.
He Probably Strode tbe Deatb Dealers in
Slipping:—His "Wet Clothing- an Inviting
Conductor for the Fatal Current.
Recently at Toledo, Ohio, R. S.
Dalton, a painter employed by the
Lake shore railroad, lost his life in
the following shocking manner: He
went to the top of a train shed to
measure a skylight for repairs. He
was missed a couple of hours after
ward, and tbe foreman climbed to the
roof to investigate. He was horrified
at seeing the body of Dalton lying on
his back across two electric light
wires, and smoke curling up from bis
burning clothing and flesh. The odor
fairly sickened him, and seeing that
Dalton was dead, he at once descended
to the freight office and telephoned
to have the current shut off, so that
the body could be removed. It pre
sented a horrible spectacle. His face
was black, and from his month
great flakes of foam had fallen over
his fad4 and onto the roof. His left
arm, which was fearfully burned
above the elbow, was drawn up close
to his side, the elbow bent, and across
his breast were two burnt strips about
three inches wide. It is surmised
that in walking on the roof he slipped,
and in trying to catch himself backed
up against one of the wires, over
which he fell, his shoulders striking
on the other wire, while his back,
just at the base of the spine, rested
over the wire where he first fell.
His clothing was wet from rain, and
made an excellent conductor, and
receiving, as he did, the combined
force of the current from two wires,
his death must have been, instanta
neous. Dalton waaa sober, indus
trious man, aged 40, living in Elkhart,
Ind., where he had a wife and chil
dren.
MILLIONS OF DEVILS.
One Hundred Imps to Every Person, Ac
cording to Mormon JJfoctrine.
believe the
rdren'of TJtah^ruff, the
teaching’s of AYiIlk-. : Wo
successor of Br iarham Yot
favora
^_;sing it
John Taylor in the presidency
Mormon Church, life must present a
gloomy outlook to their youthful eyes,
with small hope of salvation at the
end; for it is the deliberate calculation
of this aged teacher that each person
now nport the earth is individually
beset by 100 devils, whose mission it
is to betray him into torment. It is
a matter of simple arithmetic: 100,
000,000,000 devils fell to the earth
with Lucifer; ihere are 1,000,000,000
people qg the earth, which gives 100
imps to every man woman and child.
“Now, I want all our boys and girls,”
said president Woodruff recently to
the Mormon children, “to reflect upon
this and to see what danger they are
in and the warfare they have to pass
through.”
President Woodruff has an abiding
belief that these agents of satan have
an actual form and can appear in the
body before the eyes of men, for he
has seen them and battled with them
more than once during his eventful
career. When in Liverpool in 1840 y
engaged in mission work for the Mor
mon church, he was called upon to
labor over a woman who was in a ter
rible rage, tearing her clothes and
requiring the strength of three men
to hold her in bed. He laid hands
upon her and commanded the devil
to depart, which it did, and the wo
man fell into a sleep and awoke re
stored. But the devil who had lost
his lodging remained about the neigh
borhood and soon took up his quarters
in the body of a little child. The
missionary was again appealed to.
‘I found it,” he relates, ‘fin great
distress, writhing in its mother’s arms,
laid hands upon it and cast the devil
out of it, and the evil spirits had no
power over the household afterward.”
that mirth and jollity observed, among
most Christians. There is no giving
of presents and no toys or special
pleasure for the children on that day.
It is regarded with' sentiments of
solemn and holy awe, and is kept
with fasting and church going, and
there is no visiting or any other so
cial meeting permitted, not only
among the native born Greeks and
those born in Constantinople, but
also the Russians and Bulgarians,
who are all Greek in religion:
Epiphany is also a sq^mn religious
feast, or rather cerghony, which in
that church, represents the day of the
baptism of Chjpt, and on this occa
sion a hogshead ot tne holy water is
blessed andpr 30 * 1 family takes a can
or bottle fige home tor future need.
The servic»k ee P s up until midnight,
when a pJyerful light ia reflected in
the churcf to represent tho descent of
the SpirB* Then the worshippers
light thei; tapers and; put them into
lani op aid hasten home, whe$They
find their tables laden' with feried
fruits and Tats—nothing else. Be
fore any one pan eat a .little holy
water is put into each mouth and a'
lamp is lighted ani placed before the
picture or statuette'll the Blessed
Virgin, which is foundmevery ortho
dox Greek house, and this is kept
burning seven days and nights.
The morning after Epiphany all
the Greeks, Russians and Bulgarians,
who can get so far, go to a part of the
Bosphorus where the shores are the
nearest together, at the entrance to the
Black sea, to witness the blessing of
the waters. The current here is very
swift and strong and is indeed called
the Devil’s current, and into tbe midst
of this current full of floating ice the
priest, after some ceremony, throws a
silver Crucifix. Instantly
more strong swimmex^- efq ? d f d '
for it is agreat ho- fj°^gj e ^ e ne ta f nd
^ 68 ^y people are generally long- jived. Ac-
^.feexercise of brain and muscle, provided it
bo not excessive, is the life of life. )
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Patti wil
American
bleached
Hog chol|
districts in
of swine u<m
scourge.
The inert
Southern ci
range somt
000 and $lf
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be negotiat
750,000 acr<
Alabama and
acre.
The three i
—tariff refoi]
and ballot re!
everyday,
plete triumpl
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fiendish wayl
sault and tl
rested and pi
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roine of the
had a little Is
in Somerviild
aged eighty-^
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United State
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A SOUND LEGAL OPINION.
E. Bainbridge Monday, Esq., Coun
ty Atty., Clay Co, Tex. says: “Have
used Electric Bitters with the most
happy results My brother also was
very low with Malarial Fever and
Jaundice, but was cured by timely
use of this medicine. Am satisfied
Electric Bitters saved his life.”
Mr. D. L Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky., adds a like iestimony, saying: He
positively would have died, had it
not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off as
well as cure all Malarial Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver, and Stomach
Disorders stands unequalled. Price
50c. and $1 at S. J. McKnight’s.
The Atlanta Constitution aptly
says: “It is misrepresenting the facts
of history to say that the typical gen
tlemen of the old South despised hon
est labor and did not know the value
of money. In every Southern com
monwealth, from the colonial era
down to the civil war, educated gen
tlemen never shirked work in their
to.
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mas .
ful si gl
mora whiten
parting craft the*<
But New Year’s day among them is
observed as jveydo Christmas; the chil
dren receive^ presents, toys, candies
and fruits; the wives receive jewels
from their husbands, and invariably
a purse) of money. The giving of
money/to his wife and each and every
servantiin a house is obligatory upon
the master, and he also is obliged to
give t/D the postman and every other
person who serves him in any capaci
ty. Besides this, custom demands of
him that he pay ceremonious visits to
all his lady friends, and to none of
these can fee go empty handed. When
he is ready tg leave he finds the ser
vants all dra^vn up in line and to each
of them he j must give money. The
only consolation he can find is in the
fact that his friends have to visit his
wife also and bear her presents.
At this all-day reception the lady
or ladies of a house are dressed in
their best, and they offer coffee and
sweetmeats to every guest. There is
no wine or strong drink used.
At night the ceremonious visiting
ceases and families unite, and the
young folks, and old ones, too, join
in and play games and have a royal
good time. Then a great cake, called
Vasilopeta, is brought in and cut into
as many pieces as there are guests.
In this cake two pieces of money are
baSed* and the young man and girl
who get them are king and queen of
the year’s feasts, and they receive
artificial flower crowns.
The night before New Year’s is kept
as watch night, much after our fashion,
and booths are erected in every direc .
tion for the sale of candies, figs, dates,
raisins and cheap toys. Expensive
mechanical toys, such as our children
require, are unknown there, and pa
rents give their children money ac
cording to their means, which is care
fully kept until the child is grown, so
that there is usually quite a snug little
sum.
The women make presents of arti
cles of their own handiwork, such as
silk purses and tobacco pouches,
but rarely anything expensive. New
Year’s takes the place of our Christ
mas, and is a dayjfor the women and
children
THE EARTH'S FOFULATIOX.
From the New York Press.
The human family to-day consists
or about 1,450,000,000 individuals. In
Asia, where man was first planted,
there are now about S00,000,000, on
an average 120 to the square
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30,000 pupils;
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translated into
lects.
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was drawn, by a j
a few days ago.
ern Pacific railrd
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was put on to
lawyer’s fee.
A new Englis
capital of $160,C
ized for the pi
this country. T|
most to buy anj
has any promis^
interest on their
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startling stateme
of the New Yorl
man does not
these days until]
and he believes
two hundred st
The idea that al
rights has bees ]|
diet of a Mi cl
demned a state
$1,400 for brutal i
oner. This is
other states aad j
method
Three young <
England, who
years ago, started I
ng socks and sto|
buttons, repi
other things wine
too busy to attenc
employ fifty bant
a handsome income