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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. MARCH 7, 1878
A NORWEGIAN WHALERY,
On ft mall island opposite to the
town of Wu.lso, In tho extreme north
of Norway, there exists an establish
ment tho ilke of which Is probably not
to be met with in any part of the
world. Its most appropriate designa
tion would be, perhaps, a slaugh
ter-yard, for whales; and Mr.
Fbyn, its proprietor, conducts tho
business of capturing and cutting up
the monsters In a manner peculiarly
his own. Instead of fitting out the
usual-sized vessels intended to make
long voyages, and bring home only t he
most useful parts of tho animal, Mr.
Foyn employs small one hundred and
fltfyto one hundred and eighty tons—
screw steamers, shoots his fish with a
cannon, aud has them towed back, one
by one as they are captured, to the
shambles at Wadso. As the fishing
grounds are within easy reach of the
latter, the steamers, as a rulq, secure
and return with a prize within twelve
hours’ time. With respect to the can
non employed, it is a gun having a
chamber about four feet long . this Is
mounted on the forecastle of the ves
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anced, can bo easily moved to allow
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jectile in use consists of a long iron
bolt, having at its extreme end four
harpoons, bound round with a line so
as to lie flat, and close to tho har
poons asto 6 pounder shell. A3 soon
ns the steamer has approached suffl
ciently near to the fish and whales
oIT that part of the const are not over
shy, allowing a vessel to come with
in shot the bolt is fired off, and, if
well directed, penetrates deeply Into
the flesh aud blubber of the animal.
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at a furious pace, thinking thus to
elude his pursuers. Unfortunately for
him, however, no step could be more
suicidal, for the effect of his rapid
movement is to make the bolt ! p
back a little, thus setting free tno
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means of a mechanical arrangement
causing the shell to explode. This
generally proves the coup dc grace,
killing the fish outright; but occaslon
cally the animal is not sufficiently
hard Id and its capture in ti at. case Is
not so easily ali.-cii and an it dashes
away at: a tremendous speed dragging
tho steamer after it.
CHINESE ARMAMENTS.
It is thought by many, that should
an European war occur, England
may, perhaps, find herself with an
Asiatic war on her hands too. The
letters sent to the Times from month
to month by correspondents in China,
show that there are always plenty of
disputes going on between English
subjects and Chinese officials, anyone
of which might be made the excuse for
serious quarrel. The Chinese have
been preparing for war steadily for
for some years. Thirty-five years ago
we ridiculed the Chinese armaments;
and no doubt soldiers armed v\i h
bows and arrows were not very formid
able. But twenty y< ars later they
had learrft the use of urliil ry, ns
our experience at the Tuku forts
tan glit us.
Enice the war of 1800 the Cole dials
have been reorg.im..ing their forces,
both by land and sea. They have
had the help of English and American
officers. They have replaced their
junks with ironclads; they have
armed these and their land defences
with rifled guns of the heaviest metal.
They have an army of u million
of men, a considerable portion
of them provided with breecli-load
ing rifles. Above all, the Chinese
troops are now disciplined as they
never were before. Now, against
whom are all these preparations di
rected? Anglo-Indians have no diffi
culty in answering the question, they
say, “Against. England,” against th<J
“foreign devils,” as the Chinese cull
us. They thoroughly detest us bo
cause we have already beaten them,
and fined them heavily more than'
once because we ..rs ever vexing
them by our endeavors to open tip
their country.
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1.1 vs : ban fifteen years ago the city
-f Pithole, i’a., was a sheep pasture,
and a mighty poor one at that, in
. iiree yea or less it grew into a city
fiat el,•firm i 10,000 inhabitants. It
bad its daily paper, it.T> Mayor’s court,
boasted of hotels that ranked with the
b-.-et in the laud, and before its.d dine
and fall sent and received mails hy
raiiroud. Now tnere is barely a house
standing. Its daily paper sought
fresh fields and pastures new; its
Mayor’s court and its lawyers arid
clients scattered to tho four quarters
of the globe; its hotels have been torn
down and taken away, while the vote
cast within ire line at the last Cou
gresoional election only reached the
number of twelvo.
This story is told Ivy a Southern paper:
—A pond of water on the Deshler place,
in North Alabama, embracing ten acres,
suddenly disappeared early one morning
recently with a loud ruin filing sound. A
large hole, down wifi, h the, water
poured, is ail that remains to mat h the
snot.
TUB CARTENTER.
Becently a dry goods man in Pitts
burg deemed it good that he should
have a partition put up in the back
part of his store, and so he sent for
old Chips, the carpenter, to como and
see about it, In tho fulness of time
Chips put in an appearance with a
lot of sawdust in his hair and a two
foot rule in his pocket, and he sounded
tho plastor with his knuckles and
measured tho length and height of the
prospective partition and talked tech
nically regarding atuduingand braces.
“Well, whut’U it cost?” demanded
tho Market street man.
Chilis said it was that, kind of work
that you could hardly tell, and then
ho took fiff his hat, got down on his
hands and knees and squinted along
the floor to see if it was level. Then
he said it would bo an ugly job, and
told the man to have every tiling moved
out of the way aud be would send two
men down iu tho morning. The Mar
ket street man, being In a hurry on ac
count of the >prlng trade, put all his
clerks to work that evening and had
the goods moved to one side ; but In
the morning the men didn’t come, and
the clerks bad to hustle tho goods
back again, while the man cursed old
Chips, uml swore that if he over had
another job ho would give it to Jobbs.
Next morning thetwo men dawdled
Into tho store with two boxes of tools.
One was a big inan, with a dirty face,
and the other a little man, with hands
like a nutmeg grater and akult jacket.
They sat down on a trestle and cut
chews off u plug of navy with a chisel,
while the clerks again wrestled with
the goods, and a this was going on
the big man spit some tobacco juice on
the stove. Whereupon tho little man
swung his log* slowly and remarked
that it looked like some of John’s
wurk,and he would bet them supports,
you know, wasn’t, perpendicular—they
leaned too much toward Market,street.
The big man didn’t think so. He
would bet the drinks they loaned to
wurd Wood street. Then the big man
got a plumb-bob, and the little man
procured a spirit level,and they fought
and wrangled over the point at issue
until the appearance of the owner of
the store, when tney hitched up their
pantaloons and began to work.
LIVELY FREIGHT.
Among the freight landed at. -the
wharf recently by the steamer Kalo
ratna, says the Ban Buenaventura
(Cal.) Free Press, were twenty-nine
hives of bees. While handling these
hives one of them some way or oilier
got open, and the air was soon filled
with hundreds of bees, which mani
fested their dislike for their long con
finement and lough handling by
stinging the persons congregated on
the wharf and giving the sailors
particular fits. The sailors on the
ship were running to and fro beating
their arms wil liy about their heads
endeavoring to avoid the business
ends of the maddened insects while
the captain whs standing on the wharf
fighting the bees with both hands and
c 'nnianding the terrified crew to get
the br(<l:i'a hive on the deck. “First
they would and tii a they wouldn’t”
take ho; 1of• he hive. One or two of
the men would tube hold of the stand
and to .up, 10 ; ji into the sling,
when a : v fir, would quietly come
in contact ■ i “i tlrolr hands or faces
a i ti'.; wot:; i dfo.it, again. Occa
sionally s Bailor might be seen fish
ing one of tires:' iiise • s out of his hair
or shirt front. Then someoneon the
wharf would cry out, “Don’t light
them; you will only make them
worse.” Evnrytlme the officers were
stung they bciw.io madder and mad
der, ml s'.v <r at the men for not
getting flic hive ashore. To add to
their disco ufort, many of those on
tin wharf found a safe place and
laip; .cd as if they would die. At <1
di.i'.ii'nv all was laughter and tnerh ‘
merit, while around the ship the bat
tle raged with terrible fury. The
sailors uttered impric&iiorjs long and
loud against tin* man who shipped the
bees and the vessel trial, would carry
them, in a few minutes a piece of
canvas tvaz procured and wrapped
around the hive, when it was safsly
lauded,
Epito ;ttc. A horse with the epi
zootic should be carefully blanketed,
kept out, of all drafts of winds, be fed
lightly wi.'b good hay and carrots, or
other vegetaldes, given no cold water,
but all he will drink of water with tho
chill taken off, or tepid water. A fire
shovel full of hot ashes from the stove
Is good to throw into the water once a
day; in effect it loosens the phlegm
and false membrane, which accumu
lates in the throat, lungs, .and stom
ach. A handfull of scalded bran is
also good to add to each bucketful of
water the horse drinks. No other
medicine is advised, if the bowels can
be kept regular with bran mashes and
vegetable or green feed. Rest to a
homo in this condition Is requisite to
a speedy cure. A little gentle exer
cise is all that, should bo allowed, and
by no means should fast driving or
hard pulling be allowed, even for a
short time.
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EErnosY.
The Lancet Is reminded by “the
gorgAms displays, tho festivities, and
other manifestations of rejoicing In
the East with which the JLTinco of
AVidcs has been welcomed,” of th#
sad condition of the lepers in Bombay, j
What leprosy is no one who has not
seen It can well Imagine, and it Is
unnecessary to describe it. But in
tho Jumsetjee Jojoebhoy Dhurrum
snla, a refuge for the destitute and
sick in Bombay, the Lancet, on the
authority of tho Times of India, says
that there are some hundred and •
twenty lepers lodged at the present
time, sharing its scanty accommoda
tion with an approximately equal
number of the poor, aged, and our ip
pled. The lepers live in wliut are
called chawls or colls, some six feet
long by live feet wide, and the insti
tution is so full that often two lepers
are crowded into one of them. They
are without furniture or even cooking
utensils, but each of them is allowed
two pounds of rice and three pico with
which to pay for fuel to dress their
food. They oonsis' of men, women,
and children,the children being the off
spring of tho men and women, wome
of them being born in the Dhurrum
sala Itself, for no separation of the
sexes is attempted or, it seems, even
thought of. Unfortunate creatures
with tliclr limbs wasted till only tho
outline of the bones remain, or else
swollen out of all form of limbs,, sit
or lie about as they choose, wit hout
supervision or medical care, except
from one charitable physician whose
mime is withheld, at, his own request
seemingly. They are visited by no
friends and by no minister of any re
ligion. “They are abandoned,” says
the Times of India, “of God and man,
and were it not that the Dhurrnmsala
gives them the half of a six-foot cell
in which to lie, and a haudl'ul of rice
with which to sustain life, they would
die in their sores along our streets
and iu our compounds.” Only those
who arc very much afflicted arc ad
mitted into the refuge. Those who
are not in so advanced a state of dis
ease are sent away to beg in the public
highways and byways until they are
sick enough to bo taken in the Dhur
rumsala.
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THK TROVBLICS OF KILVK't OH.INOW,
The Ht. Louis licpubUccn mentions
some of tho troubles that will follow the
new money:
When a man walks muck, the inside of
his legs will be chafed raw. When less
than a dollar is to go hy mail it, will
have to be converted first into pontage
stamps. When you run for a street car
money will fly out of your pockets at
every jump. Wien 3'ou tt 11 your wife
that you have no money, she will say
that, you lie, for she heard it jingle. It
will be difficult to psy a man a quarter
by mistake for a half. When you are in
a hurry, the storekeeper will have to
weigh the coin in his hand and sound it
twenty-live times on tho counter before
he can determine whether it is good.
The baby will swallow a dime day. A
boy with a quarter will lose it in a crack
in two minutes, from which no amount
of dialing with forks and chips can re
cover it. Sleepy men will put buttons
and lozenges into contribution bcies, as
of yore.
TEMPERATE Xtß OF TUB TOE All BS
CIO.VS.
According to the accounts of Artie
voyagers, sudden eloviit iofis of tem
perature in the polar regions are not
uncommon, even In localities where
the ice is moot abundant. These
changes, and the occurrence of open
polar seas, are usually ascribed to the
influence of the Gulf Stream. Profes
sor Wildldon suggests an opposing
view, which is, that open wafer, melt
ing ice, rain after snow, and other
phenomena of like character observed
in the polar regi me, are due to a cir
culation of air hi which warm winds
descend from upper atmospheres, be
ing a oiivulatlou by which winds boat
ed ot the equator reach the poles.
vviiira rorn
The cultivation of tho white x>oppy '
for tho production of opium, Is said to
bo meeting with marked success lri
Tennessee. A small quantity of the
imported seed was planted last year
by Dr. Pitta, and the seed obtained
from this was exclusively employed
for pluuting tills year. The plants are
larger and more vigorous, and the
capsules from two to ten tiroes as
large as those from the imported seed.
The opium obtained from these plants
has the ehanioieilstle narcotic odor ;
and bititsr to-ito of the. ordinary drug, .
and presents a smooth,tenacious mass
of a dark brown color.
Stumbling into his room he eat \
down on idle edge of flm bed ml sire i
liloquised thus: “Pact u<u. th.‘ t I
boots, a sore on one l:i ;: 1 ’ a f, j
on t’otner,and no ho-, •;< to *'t. m .. !
Pings got to be dif'rejn-. ETicu f mo* I
g t married, else get a bootjack, I
wiskall X do?” *
NUMBER 10.
ONE-SIDED MEN
A writer in the Popular Science Monthly
says: l was once sitting in k cool under
ground saloon at Leipsio, while without
people were ready to die from the heat, when
anew guest otitered und took a seat opposito
to me. The sweat rolled in great drops from
his face, and ho was kept busy with his hand
kerchief, till at last he found relief in the
exclamation, -‘Fearfully hot!” I watched
him attentively as lie called for a cool drink,
for I expected every moment that he would
fall from his chair in a fit of apoplexy. The
man must have noticed thH I was observing
him, for he turned toward mo suddenly, say
ing :
“I am a curious sort of person, am I not 7”
“Why?” I asked.
“Because l perspire only on the right
sido.”
Ami so it was; the right cheek and the
right half of his forehead were as hot as fire,
while the left side of his face bore not a trace
of perspiration. Iliad never seen the like,
and, in my astonishment, was about to enter
into conversation with regarding his physio
logical curiosity, when his neighbor on the
left broke iri with the remark ;
“Then we are the opposites and counter
parts for each other ; lor I perspire only on
the left side.”
This, too, was the fact. So the pair took
seals opposite to each other, and shook
hands like two men who hadjust found each
his other half.
THE CAPTAIN’S GEESE.
An old whaling captain, who hod spent
the whole prime of bis life on the ocean with
but indifferent success, havescraped together
a low thousand dollars, retired from theses,
iu nved into the country with his family, and
bought a small farm. One of his neighbors
raid to him alter ho settled on the farm;
‘ (’apt. IC., you’ve got a nice pond on your
place, and you ought to have a good large
flock of geese, ft's a grand place to keep
’em, and they’ll ho profitable to you.” “Yes,
1 think they will," said the captain, "Eve
got some nice ones to sell ye,” continued the
hind neighbor. “You come over and pick
’em out yourself.” So the captain selected
n suitable number, making his choice as he
would among a school of wbalcs when
“brought to,” or as a bov would from a
Basket of apples. ' In the Spring following
he happened to he visiting at the farm of
another neighbor, and among other things
inspected the geese, making comparison in
his mind highly favorable to his own judg
ment. “Don’t think your birds are so hand
some as mine.” he remarked. “Do you
have any eggs yet?” “Oh, yes; they have
been laying freely for thi< month or more.”'
“ Well, 1 don’t know how ’tis,” said Capt K
“l've got the handsomest flock that I've seen
anywhere this season—picked ’em out one
by one from my neighbor June’s flock, and
1 feed ’in high, too. But not an egg have they
laid yet. 1 Only wish you would come over
and see ’em. Perhaps you can give an idea
how to tonnage 'em.” liisfrienddid “come
over und see ’em” the next diiy.and, as soon
as he could speak for laughter, he enlight
ened the ancient mariner as to the cause of
the non-productiveness by informing him
that they were—all ganders!
A RAT IN THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
A telegraph insi >ector in England
recently pressed into his service a rat
under tho following peculiar circum
stances : It was necessary to over
haul a cable of wires Inclosed in iron
tubes. A certain length of the cable
had to be taken out of the tube,
And tho men commence haul
ing at one end without having tajten
the precaution to attach to the other
a wire by which it might be drawn
back into the tube after insi>ectlon and
repairs. The question arose how the
oable was to bo restored to its proper
place; and here' the ingenuity of the
inspector, was manifested. He in
voked the nid of a rat-catcher, and,
provided with a large rat, a ferret, and
a ball of string wound on a More pa
per drum, he repaired to the opening
in the tube. The ‘‘flush-boxes” were
opened and the rat, with one end of
the jitiing attached to his body, was
put into the pipe. He scampered
away at a riming pace, dragging the
twine with him qritli he reached the
middle of the length of the pipe, and
there stopped. The ferret was then pul
in, and off went the rat again until it
sprang clear out of the next flush-box.
One length of the cable was thus safe,
and the same operation was oommeno
ed; with the other; but the rat stop
ped short a few yards in the' pipe and
boldly awaited the approach of the fer
ret A sharp combat here commonoed
aud It was feared that one or both of
the animals would die in the pipe. But
after sundry violent jerks had been
given to tho string, the combatants
separated; the ferret returned to his
master, and the rnt, making for the
other extremity of the pipe, carried
the string right through, and so re
lieved the inspector from his anxiety.
—Popular Sciivve Vrathly.