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FORSYTH, OA.
Official Oboar of Cotnrrr.
BY McGINTY <fc CABANISS.
Peter O. Matthew a full-bloode<'
Digger Indian, recently officiated a
chaplain for the Iowa legislature. Ht
served iu the Iowa infantry during the
late war, and afterward as Indian scout
in the regular array. Later he went
through an Iowa college, became a
minister and now tenches an Indian
school.
Dairy management has attracted much
attenrton lately in Denmark, where State
butter show, are now being organized oi
nn extensive scale. The American Consu
at Copenhagen reports that a continuous
butter show is to be held at the cxptsnst
of the State during several months ir
each year. Fresh samples of butter art
to be received every fourteen days.
A chemist has lately performed a fea
of no common order. The explosion ami
fire at Antwerp, Belgium, reduced to i
charred mass a bundle of 1000 florii
Austrian obligations. Without preseuta
tion in some identifiable form there coulc
be no payment. The imperiled obliga¬
tions were, given to a chemist and hi
succeeded in separating the whole ol
them and rinding out the numbers, am
ifpon his report the money has been paid.
There has arrived from Alexandria,
Egypt, at Liverpool, a consignment ol
nearly twenty tons of cats, numbering
some 180,000, taken out of ancient sub¬
terranean cats’ cemetery discovered about
100 miles from Cairo by an Egyptian fel¬
lah, who accidently fell into this cats
cemetery, which lie found completely
tilled with cats, every one of which had
been separately embalmed and dressed in
cloth after the manner of the mummies,
and all laid out in rows.
The London Times asserts that there
are in the library of the old university
at Upsala, Sweden, certain ancient map?
of Africa, 200 years or more of age,
upon which are shown many of the geo¬
graphical features which are popularly
supposed to have been the discoveries ol
modern travelers. The hikes now called
the 'Victoria and Albert Nyunza arc
shown on these old maps, as well as other
features which are chained as the work
of the last, half of the nineteenth century.
According to a doctor, expert in treat¬
ment of lunatics, “the physical meaus of
recuperating the worn and wasted sys¬
tems of the insane are boat, milk and
rest, and the greatest of these is rest.”
Trial of the same simple system is com¬
mended persons physically below the
oar: aud the course of a successful
Spanish merchant is quoted in sugges¬
tive confirmation. He “used To ; High at
yve’-feorKCd people who went to the
n out tains or to watering-places; wheu
he had a little leisure he stayed in bed
about three days.”
At a recent dinner in London Lord
Randolph Churchill, the English politi¬
cian, made the astounding confessiou
that he had never crossed London bridge,
had never visited the tower, and did not
even know where Furnivall’s inn was.
A canvass of the other Englishmen pres¬
ent showed that not one had ever beeu
inside the tower of London, the first
point of interest the American visits
there A ct. according to the Chicago
\rws, the average Englishman has the
utmost contempt for the American who
lias not -ecu Niagara Falls.
Not many things in the earth, tha
water and the air are out of the reach of
photography. A flash of lightning has
frequently been photographed. Not long
ago a French scientist with a camera and
au electric battery got a good picture ot
the bottom of the .Mediterranean Sea. And
some time since a photographer in Penn¬
sylvania obtained a negative of the bot¬
tom of an oil well iu which had been ex¬
ploded a glycerine torpedo. The instru¬
ment was lowered 1700 feet and illumi¬
nated with an electric flash light, the re
-ult being a distinct picture of a curious
cavity in the earth fourteen feet long and
seven feet deep, lo view of the valuable
scientific uses of photography, the Chi
ago Herald thinks we may almost over¬
look the fact that it has produced the
amateur photographer.
The New York News declares that
“the idiot who puts bogus advertisements
in the newspapers for the purpose of
causing trouble aud annoyauce to inno¬
cent persons deserves severe punishment.
One ot them put an advertisement in a
New Aork paper the other day to the
effect that a ceitaiu broker desired two
women typewriters. Dozens of girls took
the time and trouble and spent car fare
to answer this advertisement, only to find
that they were the victims of some eon
temptible wretch who thought that he
was doing something funny. About the
-ame time a bogus advertisement was in¬
serted iu a Washington paper uuuouueing
the marriage of a reputable young gentle¬
man and a wcll-kuowa young woman, to
whom he was not even engaged, thus
ausing them great annoyance and -em¬
barrassment If there is no law that
will reath. these practical rakers, one
should
Ax epiawoiie £ wuicii X pears i • ba sitniiaT
to or identical with influenza ha - app-are 1
Bccxbav India, and is ra’-ejling ractily
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH, APRIL 1,1800—EIGHT PAGES-
The new State of Washington ha=
been in a great state of mind over a bill
to establish and regulate the practice ol
medicine with n medical hoard of nine
regular physician*.
From statistics just published, Minue
iota stands first in the country as a wheat
growing State,haviug produced last yea:
45,000,000 bushels. California comes
next with 43,000,000 bushels. The Da¬
kotas produced 42,000,000 bushels,
ranking third. Minnesota has 3,100,000
icre« in wheat: California, 3.200,009
the Dakotas. 4,400,090.
New Y’ork receives more than one
third of the merchandise exported fron
Bahia, Brazil, but in return it furnisher
only a million and a halt out of a total
importation of thirteen and a half mill
ion*-. England. Franco and German}
supply the rest. From this country fiour.
keroeene, lard, and blue drillings art
shipped: from Europe everything else is
shipped, even to Christmas trees.
An English military captain, recenth
asked to resign on nccount of his age udc
to make room for a younger man. re¬
plied to the authorities that if they
would send on a dozen of their strongest
young men he would walk them for forty
miles, and then lead them to the top ol
the highest and steepest hill in the neigh
borhood. The authorities declined tht
challenge, and did not press for the re¬
signation ._
8ir Rutherford Alcock, Chairman oi
the British North Borneo Company, re¬
ports that in that country land is being
taken up rapidly by tobacco plantations.
Six hundred thousand acres are laid dowr
with tobacco, and the crop now being
cut will yield 500 tons. “A free grant
of from 1000 to 1500 acres of land is
offered to any one who will bring it iuto
cultivation and keep it in that state fot
coffee, sugar, sago, hemp, indigo, or
pepper.”
The latest reported discovery in con
nection with the cotton seed comes fron:
Germany, where, it is said, a process has
been discovered for extracting sugar from
cotton-seed meal. The sugar is of a very
superior grade, but cannot be sold in
competition with the ordinary article.
Il is said to be inclined to ferment oi
soul', and hence better for use in pre¬
serving fruits, It is said lo be fifteen
times sweeter than cane sugar, and
twenty times more so than sugar made
from beets.
The two engineers who have made es¬
timates on the work and coin needed to
omplete the Panama canal, deal in
large figures. They differ radically in
heir plans, but they agree that at least
?<100,000,000 in hard cash will be needed
to finish the work that De Lesseps has
begun. There is a large amount of
money in England and on the continent
seeking investment, but the San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle considers it! doubtful
wh fithefe this’ sun, can be obtained.
* ~ v~~* ^
The course of true love seems to rut
turbulently in Biddeford, Me. The lo
cal papers report an engagement, broker
by a stern parent who bribed his (laugh
ter to give up a young man of whom h<
did not approve, and also the case of r
youth -who called at the police statior
there the other night and wanted the of¬
ficers to release his sweetheart, who had
been locked iu a room by her brother,
the fraternal guardian declaring that she
(twenty-two years of age) was not old
enough to marry.
The.preparatory work on the Nicaragua
Canal is making progress. The force at
work numbers some 500 persons, and
machinery, lumber, materials and supplies
of all kinds are constantly arriving. In
th? eastern division there are twenty
eight camp- along the first thirty-one
miles of the projected route of the canal,
all occupied by engineers, artisans and
laborers. In addition to these there are
eight working parties sent, out from the
camps along the route wlio are employed
ou the proposed Hue of railroad, the line
of telegraph, telephone, etc.
The National Zeitung of Berlin, in re¬
ferring to the proposed World's Fair in
the United states, eulogizes the uni¬
versality of American genius, which, it
asserts, has wrought the most prodigious
achievements iu every field of human ef¬
fort: “The youug Republic's unexam¬
pled prosperity has enabled it to present
to the world the rare spectacle of a rapid
liquidation of the greatest State debt on
record. While European treasuries are
chronically empty, American reserves
and American power may. within the
next decade, seriously threaten Europe's
peace, thouugh America's evident mission
is one of civilization.”
The American people know little about
China and her people. The population
of China is almost beyond estimate.
There are eighteen States and four
tories in the country, not more than one
sixth of which have ever been seen by
Caucasians. The whole of Canton alone
ha- seventy-two counties, containing
population of 150,000,000 of people,
reckoning the women and children
-ixteen year- of age. From Canton
the Chinese emigrant to this country.
There are only five men trorn the
of Foo Chow in the United States. There
are estimated to be 300,000 Chinamen in
this country, all from the poorer classes
of Canton, excepting a
small number of the better class of Chinese
merchants who have come over here and
invested small capital to see it grow into
rtuq.es __
'THE REST IN SILENCE.”
When the loved voice is heard no more,
Whose failing tones were doubly dear,
There falls upon the listening ear,
A silence never felt before.
It is not that the senses strain
To catch a sound they may not hear;
It is the grieving spirit’s ear
That longs and listens still in vain.
And lo! this silence, sudden grown.
Threads every cry of joy or fear;
All wonted sounds that greet the ear
Break with a wailing undertone
—Joseph. R. Gilder, in Harper's Magazine.
A a rr Terrible _ Ten nr* Minutes.
--
It happened ore afternoon last year,
during the month of November, that
I received a telegram calling for my
presence in London, early the next
morning, on an important business
raattcr. To such a summon-there was
but one answer possible: so with just
such a regretful thought for a card party
I should have to Devon? forego, I wired this re
ply: -Mr. .1. Anderton's Hotel,
London. Shall leave Burtown by the
twelve to-night, and will call on you to
morrow at V15. Knightly.” Having
dispatched my message. I finished on the
day’s work with all speed, and then re
turned to my lodgings to make p re para
lions for my journey. These, as the
masculine reader needs not he told, con
sisted principally of cramming a soft cap
and a spirit flask, together with a few
other necessaries, into a carpet bag; after
which followed the discussion of a sub
stantial meal aud the delivery of an ex
hortation to my landlady to feed ray fox
terrier. Grip, at his usual hours.
The remainder of the evening was
spent in skimming over the morning’s
paper, wherein I found little to interest
me. In disgust I flung the thing on the
floor. It alighted at a graceful angle, on
whose apex appeared the heading, con
spicuous as leaded type could make it:
“Shocking wife murder Jn Burtown_
arrest of the murderer.” With a mental
apology to the publishers of the Chroni
ele for the injustice I had done them as
caterers to the public craving for horrors,
I picked up the paper and proceeded to
digest the "harrowing details.” The gist
of the news was as follows: An abac
doued ruffian. Chippy Watson byname
after the fashion of his class, hud beaten
in his wife’s skull with a mallet, in con
sequence of some domestic disagreement.
Having committed the de^d, he coollv
put on his coat and hat, and was pro
ceeding to depart, when the neighbors
and police, attracted by the screams of
the uufortuuate victim, rushed in and
secured him This was all, or nearly all
the paragraph contained, except for" the
usual information that the “prisoner
will be brought up before the magistrates
this morning, and charged with causing
the willful murder of his wife.
It was now past 11—time for me to
make my way down to the station;
rather more than time, iu fact, since that
imposing structure was distant from my
lodgings by fully two miles. Fortunately
my bag was light, and I shared in its
pleasing characteristic of not being
burdened by superfluous weight. None
the less, on reaching my destination,
there was only one minute left me where
in to take my ticket aud secure a seat,
The latter operation, thanks to toe slow
ness of the booking clerk in handing me
my change, had to be accomplished by
running the gauntlet of .gu ards ai?- 4 ,
porters •*-rrsy''otT7?!^KL«?w?he as t he trai; n>r^p|ifrifaTnpYc.' compart
meht in which I was ensconced w r as a
young lady, and one, moreover, of no
small beauty. Now, I am a shy man as
far as the fair sex is concerned. Among
men, I have self-possession enough and
to spare; but. in the presence of ladies,
that self-possession vanishes with most
uncalled for rapidity. In the presence
of ladies, yes, but here there was but
one,- who was bound* to keep me com
pauy for a whole hour, until the train
should make its first stop. So it hap
pened that as 1 contemplated my vis-a
vis from behind the evening paper,
which I had found time to buy on my
flight to the statiou. a measure of my
courage returned, and in the inspiring
words of Mr. Gilbert, said I to myself :
“I II take heart aud make a start; faint
heart never won fair lady.
"1 trust you were not alarmed by my
unceremonious entry?” I remarked,with
some inward misgivings, but much out
ward assurance.
For answer, a quiet stare and a slight
eontraction of the pretty mouth of my
companion—indicating her opinion that,
us a stranger and unintroduced I had no
right to speak to her.
This, to an ordinary male animal, was
the moment for strategic attack upon the
fair one’s scruples; for me il was the
exact opposite—the moment for flight
had flight been possible. I buried my
face behind my newspaper—and in a few
moments heard, to my relief, a corre
spending rustle from the opposite side of
the carriage as my pretty prude followed
suit. The sense of defeat and disgrace
fairly overwhelmed me for awhile:^ and
my eyes wandered over a paper I
held in my hand, seeing but un
derstauding not what they saw.
At length they lighted upon a familiar
name “Chippy Watson,” and their owner
recovered his sense and almost forgot
his grief as he read the following lines:
“The Burtown murder—Escape of the
Prisoner.” After detailing the incidents
of the hearing before the magistrates and
the remand of the prisoner, pending the
inquest, the paragraph went on as fcl
lows "On leaving the court. Watson
was conducted between four officers to
the van. Just as he was stepping in.
and wheu the policemen were endeavor
ing to keep back the crowd that pressed
round, the prisoner suddenly snapped his
handcuffs, in some inexplicable manner,
broke through the bystanders and fled
down the street. He was -een to
dodge down a back alley, known as
Shut Lane, and followed by the crowd
uf several hundreds. At the end
>i Shut Lane he disappeared round
a corner, and, strange no say, has not
been seen aguin. There can be no doubt
that he will be recaptured: but hi
present escape and disappearance are
most inysteriou A reward of one bun
ired pound- has been offered for his re
apprehension. Watson is about five feet
nine inches iu height. -:roug!y built, and
snd when he escaped was dressed iu a
gray fustian suit, with a red scarf and
-oft hat. He may further be distin
guished by a 4 ^ar across his chin, and by
having an arrow tattooed on the back of
nis left hand
This was about the extent of the in
formation contained in the paragraph.
rad mv readers will agree ' ith me that
!-» S uSc«=t!r exdttej « oc
tvEJ 2k 7 Thc'jghts to the cvsiflets -i-
elusion ofr the unpleasant experience I
had just passed through. As I lay back
in my seat to tnuse upon what 1
had read, my thoughts began after a
while to wander and my head to nod,
according to their wont at midnight.and
before long I fell asleep. How long I
slept I cannot tell—probably for a few
minutes only—but in those few minutes
I underwent a most discomforting dream.
I dreamt thst (.hippy Matson stood over
me, mallet in hand, aud that my travel
iug companion was holding his arm to
avert the threatened blow. She struggled
in vain, and the mallet fell, yet with a
strangely light touch upon my arm.
M’.th a start I awoke, and then saw the
gi rl of “- T dream bending toward me
with . a scrap of paper in her hand. But
llfcl fac *> how terribly was it changed!
ns ^ eac * *^ ie dainty pink flush 1 had
! ast seen cheeks, ’ there was and a ghastly her whiteness
‘ n ' ur eyes seemed
from ^ er hea, \ witil terror.
< up one finger as if to command
sile n: t '' slie passed me the piper, on
^ . ica , written the following
w wtre words:
>ome ( ’ ue is underneath the seat and
' ias me.”
^ dream which ^ filled me with
* . that this idle
ne >;> Wf was no alarm?
T cannuk Wll: but this much 1 know, that
U1 au jty?^ ant t * lere flashed across my
. overwhelming
iam< force the
tuou ^ it (> f this escaped witc-murderer.
^ c j UM1 * !1 e ray companion’s silence
. h
'‘» nai w ‘ r a gesture of acquiescence, I
vv r °t e upon the paper: “It is probably
0 H t *°S’* ®hall I look under the seat?”
-
* answer was short and to the point:
* ’ < 0 not ^°°h- R was a hand.
„ re t hen. was a sufficient dilemma;
’
mt , **- v comparison with what had passed
l>efore between my fellow-passenger and
^ was a dH emma that I felt al
: | nost disposed t° welcome. The male sex
person was about to resume its
yinHtf»lta)sition '! id-be independent of protector to its weaker,
wol) companion,
^ we ' jt sHS my revenge; and yet there
ven o e scarcely promised to be wholly
pleasurable.
My first action was to remove any sus
l“ c * on that there might be iu the mind of
r ! ie hiysrerioua third occupant of our car
iaa ? e > through the presumably accidental
actl ‘ jn of having touched the lady’sdress.
^ V!r 'S veu t to an audible yawn, although
* * ia( |Ust awakened from sleep, I re
•
marked, in a tone of cool impertinence:
ou really must excuse me for address
* n F you again, madam; but will you per
me ^ smoke to enliven this tedious
i ourne y - As I spoke I accompanied my
' vorc * s a meaning glance, and was
* Jewish avore ? it; I the cannot reply: “Certainly,
Thereupon, prevent you.”
I produced my pipe and
tobacco ^ ^ pouch aud I thought proceeded out slowly the plan to
ie onner > as
°* saw ac ^ . on the ‘ traui re tcrence would sto to my in watch another I
P
Jf iniltes . Cleariy, the only thing
n “ ; to
do to wait till we leached Llackeley
aud tll f. re S c ‘ assistanc c to find out Wl *°
our unknown traveling companion . might
K ' '
* * le longer I pondered over the prob
^ em the more curious for its solution
I become, and then, heedless of the
w arning' I had received, T struck a
match and intentionally dropped it.
Stooping down with a muttered male
diction to pick it up, I cast a
g'lance underneath the opposite seat, and
then mjfa blood ran cold as the
gleam tbenpro’sVfagd^with opkhe taper revealed the back
the mark of the
gfayjjj^' > cd was w r,j^p38B5i»«»rit. t companion—a 4'hippy doomed Watson,
vnei.. ar
desperate man!
bv a mighty effort I controled my voice
■ sufficient to say “Excuse me
' across you, madam, but that was my
j match, out. ’ and I could not afford to let it
The girl, into whose white cheeks the
color showed no trace of returning’, mur
mured some unintelligible reply, and
a f ew moments we satin silence. Again
I looked at my watch. Thank heaven!
tu five minutes we should be in
and the awful ride would be at an end.
Scarcely had the thought formulated it
self when the girl opposite me sprang up,
j trembling like a leaf, and shrieked eve
could stop her: “Oh. that hand
i touc hed my loot again.
j The moment the words left her lips I
I heard a sudden movement under
j seat, aud quicker than thought a
i appeared upon the floor. In that
! men! I flung myself upon the ruffian and
clutched his throat with the energy
despair, knowing that should he once
gain his feet it was all over with me, the
lighter and weaker man. Can I ever for
get the horror of that five minutes’ ride?
The whole compartment seemed to
j falling upon me. Teeth, nails, feet,
i were attacking me at once; but
I I kept my grip upon the
throat, and though I streamed with
■
1 blood and almost lost consciousness still
! held on, while the girl’s screams
I dimly through my ears. Suddenly
! train stopped, the struggle ceased and I
: hdnted across the body of my captive.
When I recovered consciousness at
length I found myself lying upon a table
m tlie Blackeley station
with a sympathetic crowd around me,
and. best of all, I saw a face
tenderly over me—the face of the girl
m y dream and my discomfiture.
making two or three efforts I managed
to as k : “Where is Watson?”
"^cry nigh dead,” replied a ruddy
faced farmer who stood beside me.
i ‘‘You three-quarters strangled the life
\ out °f body; he was black iu
f - G f ac<? w h eQ they lifted you off him.”
"Do you know that he is an escaped
wife-murderer?” I inquired feebly.
“A es, we know, ’ responded my honest
| friend. "TheBurtown police telegraphed
after the train to have it searched, be
cause a man answering his description
! been seen in the station before it left,
The police have got him safe, my lad.
ri“ s time, and no mistake. Yv'hy. I saw
him handcuffed and bis arms pinioned be
hind him. and he a-laying half dead the
while, after the throttling as you gave
: him.
Do my readers want to hear the rest
of my sto.ry, now that the catastrophe
i- told? I will inform them that Watson,
On breaking loose from the police, aftei
turning the corner of Shut Lane—
where, it will be remembered, he disap
peared—contrived ible effort to scale by high au almost wall, incred- and
a so
gain the shelter of a railroad embank
meat. Along this he crept until he
reachtd the midtown tunnel, where he
had lurked ail day. until late in the even
ing he crept into the station and con
trived to secrete himself in a carriage of
the midnight mail, with the result before
mentioned
There is one more incident in close
connection with that journey to be told:
it is this that there -iU be a atatr-ge
esrly this ipifag. Tbs name of the brid^
groom will be Knightly, the name of the
bride does not matter. She was nevet
formally introduced to her future lord
and master, and therefore it is unneces
• sary to tell the name she will soon cease
to bear to a passing acquaintance like the
reader.—• Chambers's Journal,
The Lobster and the Lobster Pot.
A lobster pot is a simple enough trap.
It looks like an immense turd cage, made
of wooden slats. Both ends are covered
with loose, strong netting, made from
! tarred rope. There is a hole in the mid¬
j die of each net. The trap is with sunk to the
, bottom by being weighted stones,
and lies on the bottom in a horizontal
position. Its location is indicated by a
; buoy attached to it by ropes. A cod’s
head, or other temping bait, is placed in
side the pot. made stationary by being
fastened on hooks. This soon attracts
; the lobster, and he reconnoitres about
; the pot to see how he may get at the ag
gravating morsel. In his skirmishing he
I discovers the opening in the netting at
j the end of the trap, and he turns and
backs himself through it. According to
all observant lobster fishermen, the lob
ster no sooner gets inside than he be
comes aware that he is in trouble, He
loses all desire to sample the bait that
tempted him to get in the scrape which
he somehow or other has suddenly re¬
j alized the that lie is in. He moves about in
| trap in an agitated manner looking
! for a way to get out, just as eagerly as he
j a few minutes before sought for an opeu
ing to get in. So agitated is lie that lit
forgets that his best pedestrian work is
accomplished backward, and he does not
try to back out of the hole as he came in,
but exerts himself to his utmost, to get
out head first, a feat his enormous claws
makes impossible. But, as lobstermeu
say, let this crazed lobster be released
from the pot, he will no sooner be out
than the bait inside tempts him again,
and he once more seeks for a way to get
in and seize it, finds the way as before,
backs in, is immediately panic stricken
again, and renews his frantic endeavrfts
to escape again. No matter how many
times the lobster might be let out, ho
would just as often set to work to become
a prisoner again. That lobsters are seized
with panic as soon as they find themsolves
in a trap is evident from the fact thatal
though as many as twenty may be found
in a pot when it is taken up, the bait
will seldom, if ever, show any sign of
having been touched by any of them. One
of these pots would be no obstacle to the
lobster’s freedom if it only knew its
power, for half a dozen lobsters could
smash a pot to pieces in a twinkling, or
one sweep of a single lobster’s claws
would tear the tarred rope netting from
the trap as if it had been gauze .—Nett
York Sun.
;
| Two Hundred Female Slaves Shot,
j | from The Paris lteove F ’ rancaise has a lettei
j Zanzibar which says that over a
year ago a caravan of 300 Arabs left the
east coast to go into the interior to trade,
They have now returned, and one of the
chiefs relates their adventures. Arriving
at Kavirondo, on the northeast shores of
Victoria Nyanza, the Arabs saw that: the
natives had a good deal of ivory and that
they had no guns. They attacked the
tribe, and before the shooting had gone
on long the natives were willing to do
anything to make peace.
After a long palaver with the chiefs
the Arabs agreed to leave the country
upon the payment to them of 200 tusks
of ivory and tw r o hundred young women,
The natives were glad to get ride of the
enemy even on these hard conditions,
As soon as they received the ivory aud
the women the Arabs started for the
coast. They had a terrible time in the
Masai country. There was a drought,
and they almost perished of thirst. Then
provisions became scarcer and scarcer,
and the whole party was in danger of
starvation. Finally the Arab chiefs de
cided that in order to save themselves
and their ivory it would be necessary to
sacrifice theft female slaves, who were
very weak from their deprivations and
could march no further.
That night all of these 200 young Wit
men were shot to death, and thcii bodies
were left in the camp for beasts of prey,
The victims happily had not a moment's:
warning of their impending fate. Each
murderer selected his victim, and the
j horrible crime was accomplished so
speedily that few of the women made any
outerv. With their force thus summarily
reduced, the Arabs were able to pull
j j through the desert region, obtaining lit -
tie more food than barely enough to sus
' tain life,
The chief who related these facts in
Zanzibar showed no cqpipqnctions whnt
ever for the terrible crime in which he
had assisted, but menfioned this massa
f ere only to give an idea of the great loss
they had sustained by the necessary sacri
fice of their 200 slaves. It is a curious
i fact that some of the murderers were
greatly troubled iu mind because their
necessities had compelled them to eat
rats and other unclean food, which is
prohibited to Mohammedans on the
march,
The Lobster Fisheries.
The incessant fishing for lobsters ofl
the New England coast has had its effect
not in lessening the number of lobsterj
that are sent to market, but in lessening
the size of those that are marketed,
Only the largest lobsters, says a New
York dealer in the Sun, are shipped from
the fisheries, the smaller ones being sold
to the canning establishments. It is not
so many years ago that the length of the
average lobster that came to New York
from Maine was twenty inches without
claws. The biggest average now is ten
and a half inches. There used to be
twelve-pound lobsters, and I have heard
of them weighing eighteen. A lobster
would have to be at least thirty years old
to weigh that much. This shellfish grows
very slowly, and isn’t much bigger than
a crawfish when it is three years old. The
fishermen say that a lobster is never fit
for market until it is five years old.
As to the canning establishments on
the Maine coast and at other places along
; the -h<Jre, the way they have been for
years making inroads on the lobster beds
it is a wonder that there are any lobster
left in those grounds. Beside- the thou
ands and thousands of undersized fish
the miscellaneous army of lobstermen
furnish them, some ol these factoriei
have fishermen of their own that are con
’ stantly trapping foi them, several that I
know having as many as 150 men en
gaged. They don't care anything about
size, age, or condition of the lobsters
j they take. The fishermen are simply in
structed^to teem. Big and get little, lobsters, good, and bad, they and get in
different, all go in together. The people
j of this country evidently like lobsters,
j for they eat eve- 50,000.^ c ; ^ ,
i year
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A New York genius has devised a
phonetic alphabet fof the blind.
Dr. Hanau, of Zurich, has successfully
propagated cancer in rats by inoculation.
The latest flying machine is in the
shape of a big “jeroplane” or kite, which
is intended to skim through air the like a
seagull. Moes
A French army officer, Colonel
sard, has invented a camera by which B
panoramic view of an angular breadth of
170 degrees can be taken.
The Russian physician, Dr. Bapehiuski
announces that he has discovered a cure
for diphtheria. He says the disease is
easily cured by iuoeulation of erysipelas.
It is proposed that plates and dishes
used on board ship be fitted with iron
bottoms, so that by means of electro¬
magnets placed beneath the table they
may be kept in place during the rolling
of the vessel.
Wind-mills have been utilized in Eu
rope for producing electric light, One
has been in successful operation for some
time at the northernmost lighthouse at
Cape de la Hogue, where it drives two
dynamos supplying acculators.
Warts have their bacillus. It has just
been found in the prickle layer by Dr.
Kuhnemaun, and it is in the form of ex¬
ceedingly delicate, slender rods, most
plentiful when the wart is recent, and
seldom entering the surrounding skin.
Astronomers now' suspect that Brooks’s
comet, discovered at Geneva. N. Y., on
July 7, 18S9, is identical with Lexell’s
comet of 1770. It is believed that the
orbit, of Lexell’s comet was changed by
the influence of Jupiter in 1880, as well
as in 1779.
Professor Vogel, the German astron¬
omer, has demonstrated, with the aid of
the spec.trosope and photography, that
the variable 9tar Algol has a dark satel¬
lite revolving around it, whose interposi¬
tion is the cause of Algol’s periodical loss
of brilliancy.
According to the Anthropometric Com¬
mittee of the British Association, the
English professional class leads the list in
res pect to stature jjpoug European races,
wuth a height of 5 feet 9.14 inches. The
French working class is shortest, with 5
feet 5.24 inches.
A doctor iu an institution with many
children declares that nothing irritates a
cough more than to cough. He bribed
the children in one of the hospital wards
to hold their breath when tempted to
cough, and was himself astonished at the
speedy relief of some of them.
The first submarine telephone line—
running between Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres—is thirty-two miles long, the en¬
tire length with the overland line being
180 miles. There are five intermediate
stations all of which can telephone and
telegraph simultaneously with the other
stations.
H. O. Forbes, is discovery reported Lo have
made au important in the
neighborhood of Christchurch, New* Zea¬
land. It is the discovery in a cave of a
great many valuable relies of men, birds
and beasts. Not the least, interesting por¬
tion of the find consists of the bones of
an extinct species of swan.
Potato paint is a novelty which is said
to adhere w'ell to wood and plaster, aud
to be very cheap. To make it, boil one
pound of peeled potatoes, mash, dilute
with water and pass through a sieve;
then add two pounds ot Spanish white iu
four pounds of wrater. Different colors
can be had by the use of the ordinary
mineral powders.
Suffered From His Politeness.
Ex-Governor and Representative AIc
Creary, of Kentucky, is noted for his
politeness. On one occasion he was the
guest of a friend in the country. When
he sat down to 3upper the lady of the
house asked him whether he wished coffee
or tea. The Governor replied:
“Coffee, if you please, madam.”
His fondness for hot coffee is known
to his friends, who can well imagine his
feelings when the hostess informed him
that the cook had neglected to warm the
coffee for supper, and that it was cold.
Even this information of the cook’s
neglect did not affect the Governor’s
politeness, and with a smile he replied:
“How fortunate, madam. Do you
know, madam, that I am so eccentric as
to prefer cold coffee and do not care for
it. in any other way. Your cook’s neglect
is good news to me.”
The relief of the housekeeper can be
understood as she handed Governor
McCreary the coffee which he sipped
with well-feigned pleasure.
The weather the next day was cold and
bracing. It was just such a day as to
make the heart of a coffee-drinker long
for his favorite drink. Governor
McCreary had forgotten the incident of
the night before when he sat down to
breakfast. But if it had escaped his
memory it had not that of his hostess.
“I have the coffee cold for you this
morning, Governor,” she said sweetly;
“you see I remember that you said you
never liked it in any other way.”
The smile on Governor McCreary’s
face was hardly as angelic as it was the
night before, but he drank the cold
soffee without a murmur. It was w ith
difficulty, however, that the other guests
restrained their daughter over the unfor¬
tunate predicament in which the Governor
aad placed himself by bis politeness.—
New York Tribune.
The Horse in Battle.
An officer of experience, writing or
the behavior of horses in battle, says:
“ When it come* to battle, a horse seems
to know everything that is going on;
but he does his duty nobly and seems to
be in his element. He enters iuto the
spirit of the battle like a human being.
He shows no fear of death, and it is
singular that if his mate is shot down he
will turn to look at him and seem pleased.
\ horse in my battery was once struck
w jp n a piece* of steel which split his
so that one side was loose. The
driver turned him loose, but he walked
U; , to the side of the gun and watched
t he firing, and when a shot was fired
wou ld look away iu the direction of the
enemv as if to see the effect of the shot,
When a -hell would burst near by he
would calmy turn and look at it. When
ije saw his own team back* going back for
ammunition he ran to his own
\ pj ace and galloped back to the caisson
1 ? -jth the rest. When the Lieutenant
* j pushed ^ him aside, to put in another
orse . he looked at the other one sorrow
j | when fully while he seemed he was being realize harnessed that up, and
to there was
\ nQ further us* Lieu^tVtroi^eSa for him h* lav down and
j died The
^ died of a broken bean-”
THE RAIN-BEAT ONTHEWINOq^
The rain beat* on the window,
And the gust against the pane,
And the flight it sobbeth bitter
Like a heart that knoweth pair*
Oh, the rain-beat on the window! '
And the night against the pane!
The rain beats oft the window,
And the gust against the pane,
And my heart drives in the darkness
Like a ship out on the main.
When the storm beats on the window
And the night against the pane.
For the rain-beat on the window
And the gust against the pane
Bring the ghosts of dead years vanished 1
That will never come again.
Oh, the rain-beat on the window i
And the gust against the panel
-William W. Campbell, in Independent.
PITH AND POINT.
Mauy a youngster keeps shady to pre¬
vent getting tinned.
The coat does not always make the
man but it frequently breaks him.
People speak of young corn, but there
is no young corn. It is always found
full of y-ears.— Neu> York News.
Lady of the House—“Can you saw
wood?” Tramp—‘ ‘No ma’am; but I can
see it.” (Exit tramp). — Time.
Nature has wisely arranged matters so
that a man can neither pat his own back
nor kick himself .—Lawrence American, j :
When a humorist, takes off a shiny coat
we suppose it would be proper to say that
he just got off a bright thing.— States¬
man.
The plumber and the coal dealer be¬
lieve that this has been the coldest win¬
ter they ever experienced .—New Yarl
News.
A young man, whose wnfe’s father was
very kind to him, said that he was Pu
excellence as a father-in-law *.—Merchant
Traveler.
In n meeting of vegetables, no made matter
what sort, of a proposition is the
onion can always give a scent.— Norris¬
town Herald.
Gentleman in Museum (looking at
talking machine)—“Quite an luven- for
tion!” Keeper—“Yes, it speaks it¬
self. ”— Munsey's Weekly.
Because a thing is small ot size think
not that you may scorn it. Some insects
have a larger w’aist but lift less than the
hornet .—Chicago Journal.
In five minutes a woman can clean up
a man’s room in such a way that it will
take him five weeks to find out where she
put things .—Atchison Globe.
“I cannot sing the old songs,”
Bawled forth the tuneless youth;
And every word he uttered showed
He spoke the awful truth.
— Washington Post. ;
With a womau it. is a struggle to pro¬
vide something for the inner man, and
with a man it is an effort to provide
something for the outer woman.— Atchi¬
son Globe.
“M-ra-y d-d-dear, I 1-1-love you!
W-w-will you be—” began Air. AI. Pedi¬
ment. “That, will do,” replied the proud
beauty. “I do not care to be wooed on
the installment, plan.”— Bazar.
Servant—“Y r is, surr, Mrs. Jones is in. 1
What’s yer name, sorr?” Visitor— “Pro
t’essor Vnndersplinkenheimer.” a Servant
—“Och! Sure ye’d better go right in,
Mid take it wid ve.”-— Munsey’s Weekly.
A young woman began a song, “Ten
Thousand Leaves Are Falling.” She
pitched it too high, screeched and
stopped. “Start her at five thousand,’;
cried an auctioneer .—British American.
Oli, for the good old pie of yore,
Oh, for the old-time dumpling stew,
Oli. for the Indian pudding baked,
Oh, for the steak that’s tender and true.
—Kearney Enterprise. |
AInmma (looking up from her novel)—
“Jane, what ails Freddy now'?” Jane—
“He’s crying for the moon, mamma.”
Mamma (absorbed in her reading)—“O
well, let the dear have it.”— Munsey's
Weekly.
“Now, Susan, haven’t i told you time
and time again to eat your bread with
your meat ?” “True, mamma; but haven’t
you also told me over and over again
that I must never try to do two tilings at
once?”— Judge.
Manager of Band (to applicant for po¬
rtion)—“Well, what instrument do you
plav? What do you know about music?”
Applicant—“T don’t know anything
about music. Its the position of drum
major that 1 I want:.”— Yenoioine's News.
A Rotating Jail.
The Dover (N. H.j jail is the only one
of the kind in New England. It is con¬
structed under a patent, and is believed
to be absolutely unbreakable; that is, it
is practically an impossibility for pris nn
ers to escape. No one confined in cells
like these has ever yet. succeeded in get¬
ting away. The cells, of which there are
fifty, are built on a circular piece wd^.i
revolves within a cirgle. There i
one exit from each tier of cells, and these
are above each ether, opening to the
guard-room. Between the cells and
liberty are two massive doors, both of
heavy iron. When a prisoner is to enter
or leave one of the iron-grated apart¬
ments the turnkey puts the whole place
of confinement in motion, stopping it
when the door of the cell he desires to
reach is in front of the guard-room door.
The cells can also be reached, without
moving the tiers, by way of stationary
corridors built close to the walls. If a
prisoner desires to escape, he can only
io so by sawdng through these heavy
loors, and the space in which the mov
ible apartments are built is so con¬
structed that almost any sound can be
aeard with ease in the guard-room.—•
Boston Herald.
As Like as Two Peas.
In former years Remus and Rufus
Jones were well known iu Atlanta, Ga.
They were twin brothers, and none but
their intimate friends could tell them
apart. The two Dromios in Shake¬
speare’s “Comedy of Errors” were never
worse mixed or more confounded than
the two Jones brothers, Remus and
Rufus. Both were excellent carpenters,
followed the same trade, dressed alike,
and contracted similar habits. Both
grew up together and married, Some¬
thing over a year ago Remus took a large
dose of morphine and ended his x?
seems that Rufus is even like his brother
in bis desire to kill himself, as he took
a big dose of morphine with suicidal in¬
tent on Wednesday night .—Savannah
News.
The land of Central Park, New York,
TjO, which is originally valued cost $100,000,000. the city 86,000.’
now at If
posts to keep it up $400,000 a year.