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VOLUME XXI.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1886.
NUMBER 51
The Newrah Herald.
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or lives aro albums, written througn ' My‘present letter is from Eugene City,
>V ith good or ill, with false or true, i Ore., where my father settled down
JOAQUIN AS A STORY-TELLER. THE LATEST JOURNALISTIC IDEA.
DENTISTRY AND ITS SECRETS.
AN ACTRESS’ MAKE-UP.
Spain.
These cows had been brought up from
Mexico for the Missouris. Their long
—~ nearly forty years ago, and where I have
; done more work with the hand that pens
these lines than any man I know—
What Is Used to Beautify the Skin and wor ^ e< ^ like a man while Still a lad.
Blaeken the Eyelids. I Lord! those da 7 8 when m T brotl 9 '
“Nothing is so exaggerated or myste- aud 11196(1 to ™° with tbe sun and «°
rious to the outside world as the ‘make- 001 and m,lk the h * lf ' wlld Spanish
up’ process of actors,” said a prominent cows! What ba,tles we P°° r barefooted
member of the profession yesterday to a lade did haTe! The96 s P anisb cow3 were
reporter. J , terribly vicious brutes. They had long,
“Well, I suppose actresses adopt the eharp borns ‘ and would figbt ' like buU3 -
same process as fashionable women?” S In fact ’ 1 baTe 36611 ray P° or brother
“Not a bit of it. Actresses have to bave mucb more l >erilous fi K bte in the
follow simple and quick methods to corral witb tbe36 sleek ’ Ion ?- Ie <?K ed .
make up for a stare appearance The 3ha T- h °rned and vicious cows than ever
access who wishes to make a good ap- 1 saw in aI1 tbe bll,I ' fi " hts of 1Iexico or
pearance usually washes her face in
water and then in bay rum. Oriental
cream or whitish liquid is next applied - ,,
with a sponge. When the face is dry battles for tbelr youn =’ S <?neratl0n after
•“ is then powdered with the softest generation with wild beasts, had made
chamois skin. Then the background as them tnm - 1,mbed and sharp-horned as
it were, is ready, and ermine is deli- antelo P e ‘ almost. No wise or well-regu-
cately distributed with a tine velvet *»ted people ever attempted to milk them
sponge over the features. The lips next bef,,r6 nor after ’ But we W6r< \ isolated
receive attention by the homrepathic ap- ™>mgrants, and no one came by to tell
plication of a red liquid. All this is done i us be 1161- - Besides that, butter was $1
with incredible swiftness and without a P° und - ^ nd we .,^ ere v , ery P°° r - Y ™
any apparent effort to obtain artistic ef- 366 ' vc X 0 } tbe3e w,Id cattle fr °™ tbe old
feet. The particular part of the toilet Bettlera fo1 ; ta ™ ,n g them - We tamed
now begins—penciling the eyebrows. | them - bnt tbey bored a B ood , maay boI f 3
A small camel's hair brush, of the best. m “ 3 tiefore w f got them subdued. Kicx?
quality, is moistened with the finest In- ' 1 have ^ lio,lble<l U P ln ,. tbe fanc6 -
dia ink, and work on the eyebrows is corn6r for an hour at a tlme llke a J ack ‘
fairly inaugurated. A delicate line is knile! But 33 for ba “ er > y6u mi S ht as
also drawn under the lashes on the lower wel1 m,lk a stra P- Tbe , mllk was tbm -
lid. This is the way the actress prepares a " d watery > wbat llttle we 6 ot away
to make her appearance uopn the stage i W1 £, a t ,
when she is personating a character that ! ° b ‘, tb " se cows! 1 .J* Uyou ’ f and,dly ‘
does not require her to look older than a " old blu6 cow „' r,tb bl S wblt f 6y< ?
she really is. In that case, of co»se, ; whlch 1 bad *° nulk ’ 1136(1 to watcb wlth
slie uses cosmetics and paints to produce
wrinkles and the necessary aged appear
ance. Lead pencils No. 1 are frequently
used instead of India ink to pencil the
eyebrows.
“The enamelling process, which origi
nated in France, is very rarely resorted
to on account of its baneful effects. It
gives the face a ghost-like, waxy look,
and is far from being beautiful. It is a
perfect art, though, and, frequently,
her big eyes till I got the dipper full.
And then, just as I would let go of her
to go and pour the milk away in the
pail, she would hoist her right hind leg,
and—whack! On my honor, that whole
spring through, we three boys, were
none of us without a skinned nose,
a peeled shin, or a broken rib. But,
after all, the worst part of the whole
business was the hunting up of those
wild cattle twice a day and driving them
very old actresses can build' a new and int ° “le coreal. They would run for
. . . . . mime nm milpR avprv riav I hav wnillfl
miles and miles every day. They would
let their little caves starve and never
youthful face for the stage w ith enamel.
Used to a great extent it fills the pores of ..
j ,, , come near them. And run! They would
the skin, and poisons the muscular ... , - , , . J
glands, producing disease. Some of the ™ n 1,ke d66r ’ , ° aly de f , nm flom you ’
great and successful actresses, however, ™ ps6 wlld - bl e bb f adad . and ahar P-
^ «f; * *1 *. i e ■ .j homed cows would nm toward you.
have outfits that a harem of Oriental . , .. . . ., ,, .
... ^ . And this is the way we would get them
women might envy. To enumerate a .
, i • t i • • i .. home—run like whiteheads toward home,
few articles: glycerine, India ink, t>ow-
, -it i and the cows after us!
ders, carmine, lead pencils, sponges, ; . . . .. . . .. . ...
\ 4T • r • , ! And yet this was not really the ternble
powder puffs, crimpers, frizzers, chamois ; J /. .. .. J , ,
fi . /r i ll - • * I Dart of hunting them up. The whole
skin, puffs, braids, hairpins, piece of ; , ... ... . mi
. lf * . . , ’ K ‘ , md was alive with rattlesnakes. Hie
steel for short curls, tooth paste, bay i . .. . ... . .
j-,. . . . ’ r I / grass was tall and thick, and we poor
rum, Flonda water, arsenic, nail-brush, ° r
. e ... . . , boys were on foot, and barefooted. No
tweezers for pulling out gray hairs,card- J . , . . ,
, monev had our parents to buy either
amon seeds, dyes, aromatic pills for the . * . \ , , .
. .. . ! J . , shoes or horses. And such rattlesnakes!
breath, mvigorators, sheet of zinc for ... , 4 ,, ., . T
. . , , , Were 1 tell you that I have seen knots
curling the hair, two hand-glasses, be- . „ , .* . - , , .|
•, .. . m, „ . e i _ of rattlesnakes as big as a barrel roll
sides other articles. The effect of long . ..... _ oa
f f t • m down the little rocky hill known as
ears of painting a face is quite visible
and noticeable by the generally dead ap
pearance of the skin. I would advise
‘Rattlesnake Butte” you would hardly
care to believe me without the solemn
assurance that the fact is not a jest.
every actor and actress to pay a great Y ,s, the truth U, we used in spring to go
deal of attention to scrubbing their face. fa ■ Indians and ^ to M1
after the performance. They do wash ra £ 1( . sna k es . But now snakes, wild
the paint off, hut oftentimes being in a C0W3( mil grass, and all are no more,
hurry they do not wash hard enough. ^.j ie cows could never be tamed, and as
There is an art in ‘making u P ; as weU as ti|m , went by aU the old “Spanish” stock
in acting.”—New York Mail and Ex
press.
A Better Mental Dlge8tI(r\ve(Ied.
of cattle was driven to California and
butchered, and what was called “Amer
ican cattle” took their placa As for the
„ ... e ii • ... rattlesnakes, strange to tell, they began
If you will carefully mqune among * ,
J to disappear as soon as hogs were intro-
young men whose spare hours are spent Vote the county. A rattlesnake
on cards and loafing (I mean our c erhs, for hia life from a hog . 1 doub t
apprentices, and otherwise reputable fel- ; snake ^ , tnke at a h under
lows), you Will find that they- ^ circumstanceg , for I never saw one try
know how to get r,dot spare tone .a Bu t I have seen hogs
profitable manner They have no taste 8 and eat rattlesnake3
for reading formed, above that very ^ens of times.-Joaquin Mfiler in Chi-
readmg which encourages a waste of Times
leisure. The salvation of our boys and <= J
girls lies in awakening an interest in j The Worst Not Told,
some intellectual and manual study that ; There really are many things which
they can easily indulge when not held can not be portrayed in the public
by work. By manual study I mean one prints, and though there is a widespread
that occupies the hands as well as the howl about the evil effects of the publi-
brain. One of the best saved fellows I cation of the debasing “sensational ex-
know is this boy John. He is busy at a aggerations,” which are the leading
desk as accountant for ten hours a day. feature of some journals, they do not,
But when not there he is absorbed with appalling as they are, tell the whole
ornithology. He shoots his own speci- truth. 1 will confsss that there is much
mens; he has made himself master of that is untrue that finds its way into the
taxidermy; can sketch admirably; has newspapers of the present day, but there
his portable photographic apparatus, is much that must necessarily be sup-
His room is a museum. Damn that boy pressed from public view. Newspapers
you can not. His tastes aro up. His are not, as has often been asserted,
books aro associated with his work. YVe mirrors of the worst forms of life. They
must think how to have more Johns of may not be mirrors of the best, but they
this sort. We must, if possible, have certainly do not present it in its lowest
created a higher average capacity to aspect.
read—that is, a better mental digestion. 1 There is no question but that for a city
I have before me a pile of recent issues containing 1,000,000 of inhabitants
of novels, mostly in a cheap, popular Philadelphia is comparatively free from
form. I can not help thinking that, the order of crimes that never reach the
taking the pile as a whole, it cot ' not public ear; that is, there are fewer
improve the mental action of Tom - -.nes, hidden crimes in this city than others of
who is just now spending his highest in- large population—a fact due to its wide
tellectual efforts in getting a fat sow expanse of territory. Still, I am con-
with her litter ready for the county fair. v i nc ed that there has been many a foul
Tom talks pig with enthusiasm. 1 should deed committed within her boundaries
not like to see him give over his present tbat bas no t yet and never will become
tastes for the average culture of this kn own. You have little idea of the
stack of stuff.—Cor. Globe-Democrat. crime that occurs without detection. A
police official, who has been in service
Good for the Boy. f ur years, and who is a very close ob-
At one of the north-shore resorts thj gerver, told me that the world had but a
people in the town will tell you some f^ble conception of what was transpir-
very funny tales of the—to speak ^po- uig in it in this line.—Philadelphia CalL
litelr—piggishness of a family noted in —— —
paths of literature and wealth in the - Hi s hto, the Snow tan.
Society of this city. They tell, for in- On the northern slope of the Alps the
imnee—one of manv-that though their zone of perpetual snow reaches down to
nature lands are covered with berries about ?,000 feet above sea-level, and on
tot no one picks they put a sign up the smith side to abc 8,800 feet In
“No berries picked on these lands.” One the Pyrene^ the snow-line is at a h.gbt
dav some poor children of the town of about 8,950 feet: in the Caucasus
picked some berries, and in selUng them about 10 000 to 11.000 feet, on the south
went to the house on the estate where side of the Himalayas, 1_,9m> feet and
to Lrries were picked. The lady came on the north, 16,620; at the equator, m
£ to d£r <Sd being asked to buy re- the Andes. 15,980 feet; m Bolivia, 18 -
plied tartly "Give those berries to me. 520 feet m the western Cordillera^ and
Buv them; indeed ! They belong to us.” ' ^'920 m the eastern: m Mexico. 14. .60
She put out her hand to take them, but 2*et; m Chili, near Santiago. 12 .80feet.
f he w was too quick for her. He in Norvrey 5 OiX) feet m the middle por-
turned" the berries out iuto the dust, re- tion, and 2,3W feet m the north^m ex-
marking as he did so. “Pick them the-.; tremity; ^ Kamchatka, O.200 feet in
™did!"—Home Journal. j Alaska, 5,o00 feet.-Arkansaw Traveler.
Very TWn Sheet-Iron. 4 jr ew York Chinaman sells birds’
A piece of iron rolled in the new Fal- nest sou p at $2 a plate.
con mUls at Niles to other day is as
thin as a sheet Of ordinary paper. It The Cornfield, of the Country,
would take 150 sheets to constitute one Figuros, which proverbially can not
Inch in thickness. The mill made this ij e , show that the cornfields of the
sheet just to see how thin they could tjnited States cover a territory as large
roll —Boston Budget. as England, Scotland and Belgium
: ;—: , . _ united, while the grain fields surpass
“La Nature” claims that a mac m - > Spain territorial extent. The acreage
one-horse power would keep 7, , ^ our farm lands under cultivation is
watches running. equal in extent to all of the United
ITT „ Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Junes Parton says: None of to Belgium, Portugal, Germany
haw balk*
Patting Pictures In the Newspapers—
Difficulties To Be Overcome.
The latest modem idea is illustrated in
journalism. I was connected from the
start with the first illustrated daily in
the United States; and saw that the
difficulty in the way of success was the
effort to pour the old wine of politics
and the police court into the new picture
bottles. They could not stand it. It
took to pencil of Hogarth to make the
rum-shop interesting, and even he could
not make it so to-day. Dogs, prize
fights, police news, are bad enough in
type, but how much worse, spread over
whole pages in a coarse picture! Had
the editors set aside their traditions; had
they been trained to a knowledge of the
requirements of the new field; had they
cultivated the picturesque, the emotional,
the romantic, and the social in other;
words, presented the “inner” side or sub
jective transfer of life; made a bright,
beautiful family paper, that every man
would have wanted to carry home with
him, the story of to first ten years of
the first illustrated daffy paper would
have been different
The second great difficulty was of a
mechanical character. No good picture
can be produced upon the “turtle,” that
is the rounded press. If the lithographic
stone is ever rounded, so that pictures
can be printed directly from it instead
of the printing press, it will cause
A FruleMion in Which Big Incomes Are
Realised—Women Dentists.
One afternoon, not long ago, I met a
friend, a dentist, who, being in a confi
dential mood, consented to talk of the
profession of which he is a shining
ornament. He said:
“Dentistry is not what it is cracked up
to be, and, although it pays big profits
many bills for work done are not collect
able. For this reason honest men and
women are compelled to suffer for the
transgression of ‘dead beats.’ I have a
friend who recently sold a set of teeth for
$95 which cost him exactly $16.20. By
a set of teeth I mean upper and lower
sets. The teeth mentioned above were
set on aluminum. Teeth set on rubber
cost the patient $50 and the dentist $10.
The prices given are average ones. Some
dentists who serve the ‘best people’ ask
even higher rates. AU dentists claim -o
do their mechanical work on their prem
ises. This is not so. Less than one-half
of the dentists in Brooklyn do their own
work or employ mechanical men by the
week. A larger part of the work claimed
to be done by local dentists is performed
by a half dozen mechanical dentists who
make a specialty of that branch of the
business.”
“What are mechanical dentists paid
for their services?” I asked.
“Eight dollars per set, which includes
upper and lower. The dentist so con-
revolution in the newspaper. It would j tracting for the work is obliged to fum-
abolish the compositor, and bring to
artist and scribe into direct relations
with the reader. The London Graphic
and Illustrated News are a prophecy of
what our daily papers may be, if the
lithographic stone becomes a well-
rounded fact.
It is said that a process has been in
vented, and is now being developed, by
which pictures in color, as weU as in
black and white, can be printed without
the intervention of the stone. If this is
true, the day is not distant when we
shall have the beautiful and picturesque
journal, one that will arouse the sym
pathies, stimulate the imagination, and
satisfy the taste; as yet, they are little
more than sensation-mongers, or tails to
some ambitious politician’s kite. The
exceptional facts, that is, the crime and
the scandal, will be relegated to a corner
and put in small close type; the discov
ery, its relation to existing circumstances
and conditions, the noble act, the great
piece' of work will, it is to be hoped, be
put in colors and occupy the places of
honor.—Jennie June.
Causes of Typold- Fever.
The most important lesson to be
learned by the public in reference to ty
phoid fever is that it is a “filth disease”
—not sometimes, not generally, but al
ways. And perhaps the next in impor
tance is that while the production of the
disease probably requires that the mor
bific agent shall be brought into contact
with the alimentary mucous membrane,
as in food or drink, it is possible for the
salivary fluids in the mouth and threat
to absorb the poison from the atmosphere
and thus become the medium of its
transmission to the stomach. There is
also a third lesson of no less value to us,
viz.: That various articles of food, and
especially milk, water and other fluid
food, possess the same property of ab
sorbing the fever poison from the atmos
phere and thus becoming the vehicles of
its introduction into the system.
My own observations are fully in keep
ing with the view that the absorption of
the poisonous emanations by the sali
vary secretions, and by food stored in
pantries and kitchens, but especially the
latter, furnishes the explanation of
nearly all the so-called “sporadic” cases
of true typhoid fever occurring in this
city. In a large proportion of cases it
will be discovered on examination that
odorous emanations from kitchen drains,
but more frequently from privy vaults,
are easily perceptible to the senses in the
rooms where food is stored and where it
is being prepared for the table. In most
of the observations I have made on this
subject, it has appeared to be the privy
vault rather than the drain that has been
responsible for the evil.—Annals of Hy
giene.
“Animal Spirits."
The fox terrier is always readier for a
walk than his master, and generally en
joys himself more thoroughly on the
way. His natural gait is swifter than
man's, and all animals of whom that can
be said have a great advantage in the
amount of pleasure which they derive,
or ought to derive, from the use of their
limbs. The glory of rapid motion
which we can only begin to realize on
ish the teeth, which usually cost from
$4 to f6 per double set. Plain teeth are
worth 10 cents and gum teeth 15 cents
each. The best teeth are made in Phila
delphia and are sol* l at a branch of the
manufacturing firm in this city. Den
tists try to convince their patients that
teeth are very expensive, and that to
make an upper and lower set takes two
or three days. This is all humbug. A
mechanical dentist who is a good work
man can make three sets in twenty-four
hours. You can see by the foregoing
figures that patients pay good round
prices for a man's name or reputation.
Dentists who employ mechanical men
make a plaster paris cast of their pa
tient’s jaw so as to get the articulation,
or fitting of the teeth, correct.
These casts cost about 5 cents
each, and when made are sent to the
dental laboratories where the remainder
of the work is done. Until the middle
of September dentists might as well close
their offices and go in the country, as
little or no work is being done. The
months of August and September are
the dullest in the year for the dental
profession.
“Suavity of manner is the great draw
ing card of many’ dentists. Ladies pre
fer to patronize pleasant and agreeable
dentists to mei? who are surly and un
couth in manners. Dentists who are
personally popular have the largest in
comes. Women dentists? Oh, yes. To
my knowledge there is one in Brooklyn.
This lady attends almost exclusively to
women and children. Occasionally she
has a male patient, but not often.”
“Do women make a success of dent
istry?”
“Not alway’s. The feminine mind is
sometimes unable to grasp its intricacies.
Many women dentists practice their pro
fession in New York. They are usually
discouraged in their attempts to study
dentistry, as close association with male
students lias often unpleasant results.
The only* plan which I think would work
satisfactorily would be to separate the
sexes in dental colleges. This plan has
shown good results in medical schools.
More women dentists practice their pro
fession in Europe than in America.”
“How are $12 a set teeth, ‘made while
you wait,’ manufactured?”
“In almost the same manner that $50
sets are made. A mechanical dentist
would charge the same price ($8) for
making a $12 set of teeth as he would
for a higher priced set. Dentists, how
ever, who make teeth at the rate named
always do their own work. In cheap
upper and lower sets of teeth
the teeth cost $2, while in the
higher priced sets the teeth are worth
but $2 more. In cheap sets Xlie oniy
additional expense is for rubber and
plaster. The latter is worth, possibly, 5
cents and the rubber 25. The materials
used in dentistry cost but little. It is the
work and skill for which the patient is
obliged to pay.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
Care in Sponge Bathing.
Care should be taken, in all operations
of sponging, washing, and cleansing the
skin, not to - expose too great a surface of
the body at once, so as to check the per
spiration, which might retard recovery
from the disease, or renew the trouble
the box-seat of a coach, or in the move- j some other form. In several varieties
ment of skating, must be something | diarrhoea, dysentery, etc., when the
much more intense to the chamois or j *kin is hard and harsh, the relief to the
the white-headed eagle. Constantly, | sick person from washing with water
throughout the animal world, we notice ■ and using a good deal of soap, is almost
that delight in the use of muscle and ■ beyond calculation.
limb which in man scarcely survives his j other cases, sponging with tepid
majority, but which in them lasts far | wa ter and soap will be ordered, then
into maturity. We are accustomed un- j tepid water alone, and afterward prop-
consciously to recognize their preroga- j er ly drying the skin with a soft warm
tive in this respect when we apply the j toweL Sometimes when water alone is
phrase “animal spirits” to a boy who is ! to be used, a little vinegar added to it
full of life and engery, and who enjoys j makes the sponging more refreshing. Of
i nm over the hills on a breezy day. — ’ ’ ^
Nineteenth Century.
Saturated with Morphine.
Nothing exhilarates the mind and the
body like morphine. Liquor thickens
the utterance and stupefies the brain.
Morphine, on the contrary, frees the
tongue, and makes its accents as dis
tinct as the notes of a well played
banjo. It makes the brain bright but
insouciant. A veteran morphine taker is
proof against all other stimulants.
Whisky and brandy do not intoxicate
him. He defies all drunkenness except
the in toxication produced by the drug.
course no one would think of using vine
gar at the same time soap is used. Bay
rum is very acceptable, also, to the face,
neck, and hands of sick people, when
used after sponging or bathing. If not
convenient, some common spirits diluted
with water may be substituted.—Hall’s
Journal of Health
“Readers" for the Magazines.
Readers for magazines and storv papers
have an endless task. The “reader” em
ployed upon a leading American maga
zine, peruses on an average fifteen
original contribution a day, and on the
, > * | average rejects twelve of them. In
Hi, mv. cles gradually become filled with ‘ twelve montha a single New York pub .
p-,3on. Frequen y pms and house received the manuscripts
the
needles can be thrust into his flesh
without producing pain. When
thoroughly saturated with morphine the
victim either dies or attains an extra
ordinary size. No matter how thin he
may be, he begins to grow fat, and In
of a thousand novels. The late Henry
J. Raymond was perhaps one of the best
“readers” this country has ever pro
duced.
; All the large publishing houses employ
ux*> ucuc ^ ^w ^ xu a “reader”—a man or woman who p^-
some cases is said to die of suffocation. . , .
... ,, . _ . . t* ruses all manuscripts offered and either
The mute is v»mtUy shattered .n«l- te or reject / tijem . From to de-
vance of the body—Philadelphia Press. ; cisio £ of ^ monster there L , no
Society does not --ble souls. appeal. Ambitious authors complain
_ that it is unjust to be compelled to sub-
Sims of the Olden Time. j mit to the decision of one person. It is
The Romans sifted their flour through the writer’s desire to make an appeal to
two kinds of sieves, called respectively the public and not to one man. That
excussorta and pollenaria, the latter of can not be made without the types, and
which gave the finest flour, termed pol- the barren honors of the types can be
len. Sieves of horsehair were first mnd. had only by the judgment and decision
by the Gauls, those of linen by the Spaa* ; of the “reader,” who in most cases is ao
iards, and of papyrus by thg Egyptians; . curate and impartial—Will M. Clemens
—Boston Budget j to Detroit Free Press.
GENERAL NEWS-
Mark Twain’s mother says of him
“Ho was always a good boy” Sa -
uel was, though prone to be m!--
ehievous. He’s always t! «
same t<> ine, the best son a niotli- r
ever Lad.”
A dispatch from Winfield, low
asserts that tive distinct shocks
earthquake were felt at that place
at about It o’clock Septembei -3.
No special damage was done, but
considerable alarm was felt.
An engine specially construct! d
to use petroleum as fuel is success
fully drawing trains on the railway
between Alexandria and Cairo, it
is estimated that a yearly saving of
$250,000 in cost of fuel would be ef
fected by this railway by substitu
tion of petroleum for coal.
Some imaginative person writes
to the World to say that Gen. Booth
has come over to this country to
throw the votes of the Salvation
Army to Henry George in his con
test for the Maycrality. If Mr.
George has no greater dependence
than this his political salvation is
certainly a matter of grave doubt.
William E. Gould, the defaulting
cashier of the First National Bank,
of Portland, Me., was arrested Sep
tember 25th by the United States
Marshal and brought before United
States Commissioner F.>rd, who
committed him to the county jail
in default of $50,000 bond, to await
the action of the grand jury.
A distinguished party of Russians
arrived in Chicago, Sept. 23rd, from
San Francisco. The party included
the Russian Minister of Marine,
Vice Admiral-Sbe8tokoff and wi e,
his aide, Lieut. Eberhard; Prince
Povotinsky-Galitizine. and Capt
Res2n,aide on the staff of the Gov
ernor-General of Siberia. The par
ty left this evening for the East.'
As a strict constructionist the
President can find no authority to
issue invitations to distinguished
French citizens to take part in the
ceremonies attending the inaugura
tion of the Statue of Liberty nex b
month. The Committee will have
to attend to that, but the President
will lend his countenance, strictly
within the lines of the law.
Mrs. Mitre Hopkius is building a
$3,000,000 palace atGreat Barrington,
Mass., although she is nearly seven
ty years old, and has neither hu--
band nor child. Mark Hopkins
made his millions out of the Pacific
Railroad contract with the Govern!
ment. His mind weakened, and
when he saw his-own splendid
mansion building on Nob Hill,
San Francisco, he used to mumble,
■‘What fool is doing that?”
On the first of October nearly three
hundred mechanics will be dischar
ged trom the navy yard at Wash
ington as a result of a recently is
sued order of Secretary Whitney
turning over the yard to the Ordi
nance Bureau. Nearly all the
heavy plant now in ’ place will be
removed to other yards, and the
buildings vacated will be used to
accommodate improved machinery
for the fabrication of heavy ordi
nance.
The equinoctial storm set in at
Galveston, September 23rd, and
the wind blew a gale at points on the
lower coast. Galveston seems to
have been on the outer edge of the
storm circuit, as the highest, veinci-
ity here was tnirty-two miles at 3
o’clock this morning, while at Indi-
anola il recorded fifty miles. As the
morning advanced the wind de
creased. Torrents ot rain felt dur
ing the night, and is still falling.
The storm lias resulted in no dam
age here. Communication with In-
dianola was off this morning.
Henry Marshall (so-called on tie
passenger list of the Cunarder Pa-
vonia), but whose right name is
probably Henry Forshaw, and who
was connected with a silk house in
Paterson, N. J., committed suicide
by cutting his«throat in mid-ocean
Saturday, 18th ult. He was buried
at sea Sunday. We has a wife and
four children in Paterson and rela
tives in Pennsylvania and New
York. Five minutes before the sui
cide he was chatting pleasantly
with his fellow-passengers and
seemed to be perfectly happy.
Unusually heavy rains have fall
en in Galv.ston since 21st ult., but
no disastrous results are apprehend
ed, as low tides have prevailed.
Further down the gulf coast, how
ever, heavy storms seem to be ra -
ing, as indicated by the following
telegram to the iVeir* received late
last night:
“Victoria,Tex., Sept. 23.—Tele
grams from Indianola are to the ef
fect that a heavy storm is raging
there. The wind is reported to be
blowing at the rate of fifty miles a
hour. The streets are three feet
under water; Eftoris are being
made to remove the few inhabi
tants still there to higher ground.
The telegraph operator has remov
ed his office to a box car four miles
this side o f Indianola. No loss of
life is anticipated, and as bnt little
remain* there in the way of proper
ty, no serious damage is likely to
occur.”
Nine or ten mission.iries will s: ii
for Africa, Oct. 2. Thevjgo in ic-
sponse to the cad of Birtiiop V
liain Taylor, who is establislii’-g
“elf-supporting mi-sions on t!.e
Dark V mtinent. There have be ■ .
fifty five missionaries station I
there already. Oftlie.se three have
died,but the remainder are doi- g
well. Bishop Taylor t ports ■ f
Africa that it is a healthy place
ter acclimatization. Pome of the
missions are already self-sustaining.
The Bishop’s plan is to obtain
grants of land and to open farms
while establishing schools and
churches. He is now moving up the
Congo and is probably at Stanley
Pool. He took with him eleven
missionaries, one of whom died at
the head of navigation on the Congo.
The movement is considered a re
markably heroic and successful
enterprise.
The missionaries who answer the
Bishop’s call are expected in New
York by next Saturday', and a series
of services will take place in special
relation to their departure.
Very few people know of a re
markable enterprise that is being
undertaken in New Jersey in tie
shape of a female revision of the
Bible. The work is being carried
on in this manner: In a richly fur
nished drawing-room about a broad
table sit naif a dozen women with
intelligent faces and busy pen- 1 .
Each one has a cheap copy of the
Bible which she reads carefully and
occasionally clips out a verse and
pastes it at the top of a long shei t
of white pap2r. The others then
cut out the same vers* from their
Bibles and dispose of it in the setue
manner. With this belore them
they begin to discuss it in turn.
One of these commentators is an
excelled Greek and Hebrtw
scholar. Another is profoundly
learned in current Bible criticism,
while still another has gone through
with care and has at her fingeis’
ends, all the great commentaries i f
Henry, Scott, Dr. Adam Clark and
others. After each verse has been
thoroughly discussed, each woman
writes under it what she has to say,
and the sheets are then passed in
to a secretary, a recent graduate
from Vassar. She cuts out (his
mu< h-taiked-of verse from still
another Bible, puts it at the top of a
larger sheet of paper and then
appends under it the notes ot all the
learned lady commentators. When
asked what was the object of this
revision, one ot the ladies, who
inspires and carries on this tremen
dous labor, explained that they
were doing what might Do called a
feminine revision of the Scriptures.
“We found,” she said “in going over
the Old and New Testaments, that
about one-tenth of the Bible touch
es, in one way or another, upon
women. We wish to know whether
the male readings, translations and
interpretations have been strictly
fair to us, and in a spirit friendly to
our sex. We and a great may other
women have our doubts on the sub
ject, and so we propose issuing what
may be called “The Woman’s Bible,”
On our revising committee sit able
women from England and Ameri
ca.”
A well-known publisher has
agreed to issue the revision when it
is completed, and by next summi r
the “Woman’s Bible” will be given
he public.
Mr. Geo. C. Morgan, the hydrau
lic enginter, who has returned to
Chicago from inspecting the arte,
sian well at Belle Plains, Iowa, say-:
‘‘The reports sent out from the town
at first were greatly exaggerate'!.
The story about the stream from the
well hurling large rocks and bags
of sand high in the air is a fairy
tale. The stream simply bubbles up
about ten incites over the surface.
The flow has decreased from 9,000,
000 gallons the first twenty-four
hours, to about 0,000,000 at the pres
ent time- In the town and around
it, there are four artesian wells,
whose depth average about 230
feet, and of course, they have gone
out of the business of furnishing
water, temporarily. The obstrepe
rous well is 192 feet deep, and it
was ordered to be sunk by the
authorities of the city of Belle
Plains. The contractors were to
make it a three inch tube well, but
not having a bore of that size, they
utilized a two-inch auger, anticipa
ting that the wash of the water
would furnish the other inch, into
which they would then insert the
three-inch tube. The weii being on
a lower surface level, the pressure
became greater, arid the hole at the
top is now oval shape and about six
feet one way and three feet another.
tun is to be sunk
and sand and stones to be thrown
in, and if that does not stop the
flow, a .veil is to be built on a lower
plateau, and that will stop the flow
of troublesome water, and it can be
filled up with stones. The damage
uccuringis by iosing the water from
other wells.”
A di-patch from Belle Plains
says; Yesterday afternoon the big
cone wa3 loaded with sand and
lowered. It went down slowly n.nd
hard, having to be forced at times.
A« yet there is no perceptible dimi
nution in the flow, though the cone
is down sixty feet. 1
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