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TOPICS OF THE BAY.
X
The annual income of Vanderbilt is
about ten tons of solid gold. That of
the average laboring man is about two
pounds, out of which he has to live
and support his family.
The interest factor is one of the
most potent features in all business
transactions. Money will double it
self at ten per cent, in about seven
years, at nine per cent, in eight years,
at eight per cent, in nine years, at sev
en per cent, in ten and a half years,
at six per cent, in twelve years, at five
per cent, in fourteen years, at four
and a half per cent, in sixteen years,
and at four per cent in eighteen
years.
The National Museum at Washing
ton lias received some relics of the
first iron furnace in America. This
was at Falling Creek, in Chesterfield
County,. Virginia, a f“W miles below
Richmond, but on the opposite side of
the James. The works were begun in
1619, but in 1622 were destroyed in an
Indian massacre. They were never
renewed, and the next attempt to
manufacture iron was made by Gov.
Spottswoo 1, near the present site of
Fredericksburg, about 1726. To this
the plantation of George Washington’s
father. Augustine, contributed much
ore.
The interchange of commodities be
lli een nations has many apparent ec
centricities. Russia sends flour to the
United .States, and competes success
fully with our own millers; America
sends cutlery to Sheffield and manu
factured cottons to Manchester; France
buys wine in Ohio and California and
cotton seed oil in St. Louis, returning
the former to New York as claret or
Burgundy and the latter as pure olive
oil, and so on the peculiarities of com
mercial exchange continue through a
long series of articles of both luxury
and necessity. With the present cheap
systems of expeditious transportation,
constantly being improved in every
direction, it would seem that the time
is approaching when it will be impos
sible to be sure where any article we
eat, drink, wear or otherwise use had
its origin. The only thing certain is
that the people who show the most en
ergy, ingenuity and business capacity
will certainly lay the rest of the world
under tribute. In such a conflict as
this implies the future prosperity of
the United States is assured.
The casual reader of the newspapers
forms no adequate idea of the annual
loss of life and property in this coun
try by violent w ind storms. The year
1881 was remarkable in this respect.
The records of the Signal Service de
partment show recorded during that
year 178 tornadoes in the United
States, .38 occurring in Georgia, 22 in
South Carolina, 18 in Alabama, 12 in
North Carolina, and 10 each in lowa
and Wisconsin. Lightning occurred
in 28 of the tornadoes. Their average
width was 1,037 feet, and their aver
age length was 36.10 miles. Their
velocity averaged 42 miles per hour.
The tornadoes averaged 45 seconds in
passing a given point. The tem
perature before the tornadoes was
generally warm, and generally they
were succeeded by cooler weather.
Their greatest frequency was between
4 and 5.30 p. m. The largest number
of tornadoes occurred in July. Over
1.000 buildings were destroyed by tor
nadoes during the year. The most
extensive tornado was in Minnesota,
September 9, the estimated losses by
which were $4,000,000. Contrary to
the general opinion, it will be observed
that more than half of the tornadoes
occurred in the Southern States.
Grant’s Autographs.
While at ML McGregor it did not
escape the general’s attention that
everything he wrote was carefully
preserved by those to whom he ad
dressed his slips. One night he show
ed that this amused him by a pleasant
allusion to it in a note to Dr. Douglas.
“I notice,” he wrote, ‘’that when any
one gets a slip it is carefully folded up
and saved. No one throws one away.
I think I shall have to stop writing,
or some day I will be hauled over the
coals for my English.”
‘•Whatever may be the criticisms on
what you have written, General,” Dr.
Douglas promptly replied, “no one
can assail your English.”
The general smiled, and his output
of slips was not thereafter stinted.
Every one, of course, wanted one. Dr.
Douglas was the envy of people at the
hotel, as he went about with a memo
randum book thick with slips, and he
was besieged with applications by
mail for specimens; but he rarely
parted with one.— Neic York Times.
A Reason for Selling.
Indignant purchaser—See here, sir;
I don’t want this horse you sold me.
He balks. 1 can’t get him over the
bridge.
Jockey—That’s the reason I sold
him. Why did you come tj me for the
“I saw your advertisement in the
paper.”
“I thought so. I gave you my rea
sons for selling him.”
_ “Yes. 'To be sold,’you stated, ‘for
nootlier reason than that the owner
' wants to go out of town.' ”
“Well, if you can go out of sown
with him it will be more than I can
do.” — Philadelphia Call.
(JPiyette.
VOL. XII. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 28. 1885. NO. 41.
EMMONS McKEE & CO.,
87 BROAD STREET, EEOTATE, Q-A..,
Are Acknowledged Headquarters in North Georgia For
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS AND MENS FINE SHOES.
® have made exten-ive preparations for a rousing business during the coming season, and wo have taken every precaution to fortify ourselves against disap- 1 -gpj
•, ' ’ pointment. Our new stock is all that canid be de-ired in style, quality and price, and, if extra inducements are a consideration, our store will be the most >
( attractive place in this country for those who want the best for the least money. J
FALL TRADE IS WHAT AVE WAN T I
And no stone has been left Unturned, no opportunity has been Neglected, no pains and
expense has been Spared to Secure
Sttfkctive stodk of
REMEMBER: Wo fell only goods worn by the MA I.E SEX - Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, and Men’s Fine Shoes—wo can fit you out from head to feet, and hope every reader of this paper will
. give us a call. We are always glad to show goods, and think our attractive display cannot fail to please you.
EMMONS McKEE St CO., Men’s and Boys’ Outfitters,
Rebuked.
Once, on a summer day,
Fur from the beaten way,
Some fairy bade me stray—
Cupid, mayhap.
Under ft leafy tie?,
Whom should [ chance to sec,
Whom, but my Kos Hie,
Taking a nap?
There, in a lovely nc
Screened from intruder’s look,
Near her neglected book,
tlutnb’ring she lay
What could ft fellow do?
Tull me, sir, wouldn’t you
Kneel and take one or two
Kisses away ?
nh, but I broke the spell!
Opened her eyes, an I —well,
Could 1 do else than tell
How it was broke?
Humbly for grace I plead,
Sternly she shook her head;
“Couldn’t you wait,” she said,
“ Till I awoke ?”
THE MAIL ROBBER.
It was a dismal, stormy evening in
the year 16—, that a rough-looking ,
traveler passed over the bridge and ,
through the gate of the el l English |
city of Berwick. Approaching the
sentinel, who was patiently walking
his lonely beat, he sat down, took a
crust of bread out of his pocket and
commenced eating with an apparent
relish. To the guard he seemed to bo
a young artisan, although he could
not see the man’s features, they being
entirely overshadowed by the broad
brim of his hat.
The rain commenced coming down
in torrents and the wind to blow furi
ously, while the black clouds gathered
as if prepared for a regular tempest;
it was just the kind of a night brig
ands would select for the execution of
their dark deeds.
“Heaven guide you, if you are going
to travel on such a night as this!” said
the sentinel, as the man arose from
the settee to continue his journey.
“Thank you!” was the stranger’s
only answer, and, taking his heavy
cane, ho was soon on the desolate
heath which stretches out for miles
along the Tweed. Having worked his
way through the mud and mire for
on hour or so, he stopped, and after
looking around as if to select a place,
he hid himself in the bushes along the
road. After having spent an hour
under his rather insufficient shelter,
he heard the sound of a horse's hoofs
approaching, at which sound he slight
ly raised himself, as if preparing for
an attack. The horseman was bent
over the steed's neck to break the
force of the wind, and was speeding
along as fast as the condition of the
road would permit.
Suddenly, however, he felt some
one seize the reins and stop his horse.
Raising himself, his hands were held
and a pistol pointed at his head, while
a calm and rather mild voice told him
to “Come down!” Although still with ]
cold and frightened through surprise,
he made an attempt to take out his
weapons, but as soon as he did so be
was unceremoniously thrown from his
horse, and before he recovered himself
from the shock, his horse and the mail
bag had disappeared with his assailant.
The day following the robbing of
the mail for the north of the British
kingdom was the day set apart for the
execution of one of King James’ oppo
nents, Sir John Cochrane, who was
awaiting his death in a dark prison
cell at Berwick.
Sir John had identified himself with
the party which opposed James IL,
and, being one of the leaders, lit had
been taken by force and sentenced to
death. He had taken leave of all his
friends and relatives except his oldest
daughter, who for some unknown rea
son had thus far refrained from mak
ing use of the privilege of visiting him.
As Sir John was speculating in his
mind on the probable reason of his
daughter’s motives the door of his cell
opened and the jailer, accompanied by
a handsome young woman, entered.
• I
“Sir John,” said the jailer, “the
mail-bag which contained the King’s
warrant was stolen from the postman
last night, and in consequence your
execution will be postponed.”
“Thank you,” said Sir John, hardly
knowing what to say for joy of seeing
his daughter, to whom he turned, say
ing:
“My dear Gertrude, my darling
daughter!”
“My dear father,” said Gertrude,
when they were alone, “take courage;
you shall not die.”
“We have no reason for expecting
pardon, my daughter. My life may
have been prolonged a few days, but
the King will sign another warrant."
“A few days, lather? Why, there is
hope as long as there is life. Is not
grandfather a friend of Father Peters,
the King’s confessor and counsellor?'’
“Alas, yes; but that will not save
my life. Do not beguile your heart
with a false hope. It is the Lord’s
ivilL”
“Amen!" answered Gertrude. “Nev
i ertheless, father, you shall not die.”
I The jailer opened the door, saying
i that the time allowed for her visit had
I expired, and Sir John was again alone.
Two weeks had passed since the
robbing of the mail, and again it is
night. It is brilliant night, however,
and the moon is throwing fantastic
shadows. The mail carrier is again
crossing the heath of the Tweed, ap
proaching Berwick with alert eyes,
and his right hand on his pistol.
Just as heturned around a bush in
a bend in the road a pistol shot breaks
the silence of the night, and he f< els
the ball grazing his hair. He grasps
his own weapon, but his trembling
hold of it made it go off without aim.
The sudden noise of the shots in
such rapid succession frightens the
horse, who throws his rider off and
starts torun; but it is checked by the
hand of the same mysterious stranger
of a fortnight ago.
“Your weapons or your life!" says
the same mild voice; continuing, after
. having received the pistol: “Leave, me
j your horse and bag. and do not stir
I until I am out of sight if you value
your life.”
The bandit jumped into the saddle,
nd disappeared as if on wings.
For the second time were all the
preparations necessary for Sir John
Cochrane’s execution made, ami it
only awaited the arrival of the mail,
w) en again the robber was announced,
and consequently Sir John’s life once
more prolonged.
At the daily visit of his daughter
that morning, Sir John said:
“Surely, God’s hand is visible in
this.”
“Yes, father,” answered Gertrude, ,
weeping, “I told you that my father :
should not die.”
As soon as the news of the second
robbery of the mail reached London
the father of Sir John, the Duke of !
Dundonald, again interposed for the .
life of his son, and with the help of
Father Peters, who pointed out to the ,
King tiie failure of the previously
signed warrants to reach their destina
tion, tiie King was prevailed upon to
pardon Sir John Cochrane.
The Duke of Dundonald hastened
to Berwick with tiie joyful tidings,
and two weeks after the second mail
robbery the prison door opened far Sir
John, who, accompanied by his father,
hastened to his home, where all his
family was soon gathered around him.
No! not all. Gertrude was not there.
Where could she be? No one knew.
But there came a stranger at tiie
door who desired an interview with
Sir John. Being ordered in. the mys
terious stranger, whom we saw four
weeks ago on the heath of tiie Tweed,
entered and approaching Sir John,
hands him two documents, saying:
“After the perusal of these papers,
commit them to the lire.”
Sir John opened the papers, recog
nizing the two death warrants signed
Ly the King. Turning pale, he says:
“You saved my life; how shall I
thank you?” and turning to the aston
ished spectators hocontinued: “Father,
children, here is the man who saved
my life. Thank him!”
The old duke took the stranger by
the hand, and the children drew nearer,
but the stranger could not control
himself, but tin-owing his broad
brimmed hat on the floor, disclosed the
tear-stained but happy face of Ger
trude Cochrane.
Rural Scenes in Japan.
A gentleman who journeyed from
Tokio to the imperial horse-pasture of
the Japanese Government—an im
mense establishment occupying a
space seventy miles long and fifty
miles wide, and surrounded by a wall
of eartli twelve feet high—describes
in's journey in tiie Sacramento (Cal.)
Record-Union as follows:
Upon that occasion we left Tokio,
the capital, in company with the min
ister of the interior, and a large
retinue of other officials, early on a
beautiful spring morning. We trav
eled in jinickshas, the ordinary con
veyances of that country. These are
exaggerated two-wheeled babywagons,
; well built, fancifully painted, and
i nicely upholstered. We had two men
i to each carriage, and we traveled at a
5 rate tiiat would have troubled some
i California teams to have equaled.
Tiie distance was 47.1 miles, and we
made it in nine hours, Including one
hour’s stop for dinner. Our road was
aiound tiie bay of Yeddo, and is
known as tiie Narrita Kaido. It is a
wide, military highway, and has im
mense rows of trees on both sides sev
eral hundred years old, forming a
magnificent avenue. It is used by the
| streams of pilgrims that visit the great
' temples and shrines at Narrita. I
: was told that hundreds of thousands
' annually go to these shrines to wor
l ship. Judging from the numbrs we
1 saw traveling both ways, I could easi-
Ily believe it. Whole villages travel
i together on foot, or, if able, in these
; man-carriages. This stream of travel
j Jias given ri e to an immense hotel
business all along the road.
In some little villages thirty and
! forty hotels can lie counted, and some
of them are immense affairs, accom
modating from five hundred to six
hundred people each. We crossed
two large rivers, the Sumida-gawa and
Tokugawa, both navigable to the foot
of themountains, and filled with boats
and junks engaged in carrying the
produce of the country. For forty
miles there is a succession of villages
that occupy nearly, if not quite, one
half Hie distance. On either side
were fields, stretching on tiie one side
| to tiie shore line of the bay, and on
I tiie oilier to the mountain range and
far up its sides. The cultivation was
done by tiie spade or mattock, and was
tiie perfection of gardening. We met
i long lines of pack-horses loaded with
I all tiie products of the fields, or with
! wood or coal, going down to tiie head
lof navigation on tiie bay. On their
return these farmers carry loads of
discomposed seaweed ornon-edible fish,
or lime made from seashells, rich in
phosphates, to be used as fertilizers
for the soi).
We crossed one road tiiat leads from
a rich district, on which we were told
that the average number of 1,400 head
of pack-horses daily traveled. Not a
wheeled vehicle is used for carrying |
freight. In that part of the empire
everything is carried to the sea, river,
or canal on the back of horses and
men. Crowds of residents and pil
grims lined the road to see the high
officials and tiie foreigner. Arriving
at the pasture we were quartered in
the large house of a gentleman whose
ancestors had been officials at this es
tablishment for hundreds of years.
There are 11,000,000 cotton spindles
running in Russia, which country
buys most of its cotton machinery in
England. _
Lincoln’s Second Inauguration Bull. |
The ball on the evening of Mr. Lin
coln's reinauguration, writes Ben.
Perley Poore in the B iston Budget,
was held in a large hall of the depart
ment of the interior, which had jusi
been completed. It was brilliantly
lighted and dressed with lings. Mr.
Lincoln and Speaker Colfax entered
together, followed by Mrs. Lincoln on
tiie arm of Charles Sumner. Mr. Lin
coln wore a full black suit, with white
kid gloves, and Mrs. Lincoln was at
tired in white silk, witli a splendid
overdress of rich lace, point lace bertha
and puffs of silk, white fan, and
gloves. Iler hair was brushed back
smoothly, falling in curls upon the
neck, while a wreath of jasmines and
violets encircled her head. Her orna
ments were of pearl.
Having promenaded the entire
length of tiie room, they mounted the
few steps leading to the scat placed
for them upon tiie dais, while tiie
crowd gathered densely in front oi
them.
The army and navy were well rep
resented, adding great ly to the beauty
of the scene in the bright uniforms
that everywhere Hashed before the
eyes. Admiral Farragut, Gen. Banks,
and Gen. Hooker shone conspicuously,
as did also Gen. Halleck, who stood,
smiling and happy, to receive greet
ing from ids friends. The members
of the cabinet assumed tiie seats upon
tiie dais reserve I for them, and up to
12 o’clock the crowd continued topour
into the room.
At 12 o’clock tiie, door was opened
for supper, and the crowd which had
been gathered about it for half an
hour rushed forward. Such a crush
and scramble as there was! Little
screams, broken exclamations, and
hurried protestations against the rush
were heard upon all sides, but no one
heeded or cared for anything but to
find a place at tiie table, at one end of
which stood tiie president, Airs. Lin
coln, and their suite.
That supper scene was one never to
be forgotten. Aside from luxury and
splendor, there was so much that was
ridiculously laughable connected with
it one naturally looks back upon it in
keen amusement. Tiie tables having
been instantly filled up, all the spaces
between tiie glass cases containing
the office property wore soon crowded
to their utmost capacity. Many a fair
creature dropped upon Die benches
with exclamations of delight, while
their attendants sought to supply
them from tiie table, to which they
had to fight their way. Those who
could not get seats stood around in
groups, or sank down upon the floor
in utter abandonment from fatigue.
It was curious to sit and watch the
crowd; to hear the gay laugh, the busy
hum of conversation, and the jingle of
plates, spoons, and glasses; to see
hands uplifted, bearing aloft huge
dishes of salads and creams, loaves of
cake, and stores of candies, not infre
quently losing plentiful portions on
i the way. Many an elegant dress re
ceived its donation of cream, many a
tiny slipper bore away crushed sweets
and meats, and lay among fragments
of glass and plates upon the floor.
Seeing Stars.
They were young and romantic, and
although the minute hand was point
| ing to 12 o'clock, they stood upon the
I porch gazing at the stars.
“That’s Jupiter, dear, isn’t it?” she
murmured.
“Yes, pet, and that is Sirius,” lie
replied, pointing to another star.
“Are you Sirius?” he cooed.
He kissed her several times. Then
lie pointed upward and said:
“That’s Mars, dove.”
“And that's pa's,” she whispered,
as a foot itep sounded inside, and if
tiie young man hadn’t scooted he
would have teen m- re stars than he
had ever dreamed of. Iler pa wears
a 12| with a brass toe.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
According to the traditions of the
Jewish rabbis there was no physical ill
ness among men before the flood.
A Wisconsin girl has horns growing
on the sides of her head. She conceals
them by a careful arrangement of her
hair.
It was formerly customary in various
parts of England to have a garland of
flowers or sweet herbs carried before a !
maiden’s coffin, and afterward to suspend
it in the church.
It is asserted tiiat crows have twenty
seven distinct cries, calls or utterances,
each readily distinguishable from the
other, mid each having an unmistakable
connection witli a certain class of action.
Salamanders fell from the clouds dur
ing a heavy storm of raiu and hail a
Velasco, Mexico, recently. A curious
fact in connection with the case is that no
lizards of the kind are to be found in the
lakes round about.
Mr. Carlos says that at Piiyong Yang,
in Corea, the hats worn by the poor
women are baskets 3J feet long, 21 wide
and 2J deep. The men wear a similar
basket, but smaller. It requires both
hands to keep it in place. Women of
the better class wear a white cloak over
their heads.
A foreign paper says tiiat a French
physician, at the time of the pestilence
at Marseilles, wore, on his round of
visits, an armor consisting of a short mo- '
rocco gown, a helmet of the same mate- 1
rial, and a nose stuffed with aromatics,
in order that the air whicli carries infec
tious germs might be kept from him.
A health society in London finds by
experiment that currents of air in a room
have direction and angles definite as those
of billiards. An illness of the Duchess
of Connaught was caught on a sofa ex
posed to a draught of foul air from the
basement, which would not reach her
bed. Speaking tubes, pipes and hoists
are all conductors of dangerous air from
the lower regions of a house.
A Georgia paper says that before the
war there was a bird in tiie South that fed
exclusively on cockle burrs. At certain
seasons of the year these birds would
sweep down upon the fields and when
they departed not a burr remained. The
smell of burnt and burning powder for
four years seems to have been too much
for the burr-eaters, since now not a bird
of the kind is to be found in the bush.
The rope that binds a murderer is util
ized by those who know the superstitions
of negroes. After an execution in
Georgia a colored coachman got a piece
of the rope and went among the negroes
and sold the bits to them for charms.
He had no trouble in finding buyers, tiie
negroes all believing tiie little pieces of
white rope to possess hidden and pow
erful chirms for both evil and good. He
said that he got from twenty-five to i
seventy-five cents for each bit of the I
“ch irm rope,” realizing a handsome sum I
from his trade.
A Lost Mine.
The Boston Journal has the following: |
The legend of a lost mine has given to j
Bald mountain, in Placer county, Colo- I
rado, a fascinating interest for prospect
ors. The tradition is that early io the I
50s three men disappeared from an ini ,
migrant party coming over tiie old Gap ’
trail. Search for them was without j
avail and they were reported dead, I
Where or how they hibernated no one
knows, but the following spring, ragged,
shoeless and totally demoralized, they
filed into Michigan Bluff. Their blankets [
had been converted into sacks, and with |
them they brought dust to the amount of 1
SIO,OOO or $15,000. Spending but a ;
single night within the confines of civili
zation, and giving no information as to
the location of their large claim, they .
were followed on their return trip, and |
a few weeks later their murdered bodies
were found in one of the dreary canyons
that scar tiie face of tiie desolate peak.
Since then many r man has sought this
lost mine, but apparently its immunity
is as certain as tiiat of the treasure of j
Captain Kidd.
Rebuked.
A few years ago, as a stranger rose in .
one of our c.ty pulpits to begin the ser- I
vice, se/eral of the congregation began i
to leave the hurch. He was a lame .
man, and the pulpit was near tiie doors. !
“Wait a moment, n.y friends,” said
the preacher, till I get my hat, and I’ll ]
go with you.”
Down he came, limping, hat in hand, I
and left the church. Tins abrupt closing .
of the services taught tiie people that
there was at least one minister who would
not be treated with contempt.
On a certain oc asion, the eloquent Dr.
E. 11. Chapin, being sick, was compelled
jto a-k a friend to preach for him. As
l the stranger rose to announce the open
i in.' hymn, a score of persons rose to go
out. This clergyman also was equal to
. such an emergency.
“All,” he said “who come here to
i worship Dr. Chapin will please leave
now; but tho'e who came to worship
[ God will sing the forty-third hymn,”
That stopped the exodus.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The highest point ever reached by
man was by balloon—27,ooo feet.
In Ecuador breakfast rolls are used
for making change, as there are no
small coins.
Wheat, now the most important
cereal crop cultivated in all parts of
the world and one of the principal ar
ticles of human food, was derived from
a wild form of grass, and can only be
improved and maintained by careful
culture.
It is said tiiat along the Southern
coast of Mexico people have a habit of
inoculating themselves with the virus
of the rattle-snake or adder, which
novel vaccination renders them abso
lutely safe for ever afterwards from
the bite or sting of the deadliest rep
tile.
A paper piano has been manufac
tured at Paris. The material for the
case was compressed and took a per
fect polish, and the tone of the instru
ment, though not loud, was very sweet
—a soft, full, quasi-continuous sound,
resembling somewhat that of the or
gan.
The Romans used earthen pipes
where economy was an object. They
preferred lead. Tiie earthen pipes had
a thickness of at least two inches, and
the ends were respectively contracted
and enlarged to fit into and to receive
the adjacent pipes. The joints of the
pipes were luted with quicklime and
oil.
The average weight of milk is five
and five-eighths pounds per gallon of
four quarts. Richness slightly varies
it—the more cream the lighter the
product. This is, however, the stand
ard as usually accepted in this coun
try and Europe. In ordinary calcula
tions we reckon two pounds to a
quart.
Every year the judges of assize in
England send to Queen Victoria the
j written names of three men in each
county from whom to choose High
Sheriffs. She indicates her selection
by sticking a pin through the names.
But this is an empty ceremony, for the
choices are really made beforehand by
the Prime Minister.
Tiie earliest account of any aque
duct for conveying water is probably
that which is given by Herodotus, who
was born 484 B. C. He describes the
mode in which an ancient aqueduct
was made by Eupaliinus, an architect
of Megara, to supply the city of Sa
mos witli water. In the course of the
aqueduct a tunnel, nearly a mile in
length, was pierced through a hill, and
a channel three feet wide made to con
vey tiie water.
In regard to the operation for divid
i ing certain fibrous bands in the little
| (Inger so as to give pianists more free
dom in the use of it, a medical journal
says that in tiie fourteen eases of Dr.
Forbes, of Philadelphia, good func
tional results have been obtained, but
it suggests tiiat “the effort necessary to
stretch any ’fibrous band existing be
tween the fingers is itself useful, as
tending to stretch all the muscles at
tached to them.”
Artificial Ice.
“I guess it is a fact,” said an ice
machine manufacturer in response to
a Herald inquiry, “that we make the
most expensive machines turned out
iin Chicago. Our fifty ton ice machines
! cost $35,000 each. In several brewer
j tes we have put in a pair of these ma
chines. Yes, ice can be successfully
! made for the trade. Our business is
increasing every year, and, of course,
the bulk of our output goes into brew
eries for cooling beer, but ice machines
can be worked profitably, even in the
North. A fifteen ton machine is run
ning nt Cairo and doing well. I know
whereof I speak when I say a man
| could set up one of our machines
down on the lake front and freeze ice
, artificially every day cheaper than lie
I can cut, store and bring into the city
j the natural crop. It takes a large
force of men and teams, considerable
apparatus, and big storehouses, both
in country and city, to take care of a
i crop of natural ice. Freight from the
lakes to tiie city is a big item. With
j one of our machines set up on the
lake front, where the water would be
: inexpensive, a man could beat natural
ice out of the market. And as for
i purity, no ice would be purer than
that made by machinery. More than
; once have I tested a block twenty
eight inches through by placing it
upon newspaper and then reading the
| fine print of tiie paper through the ice
just as if it were a piece of glass. We
have ice machines m iking all the way
from one ton in twenty-four hours to
thirty-live tons. Thesize of the blocks
'of ice varies from Bxllxß inches to
111x22x28 inches, the latter weighing
; 200 lbs.”— Chicago Herald.
Seeing Stars.
They were young and romantic, and
i although the minute hand was point
■ ing to 12 o’clock, they stood upon the
j porch gazing at the stars.
“That’s Jupiter, dear, isn’t it?” she
' murmured.
“Y'es, pet, and that is Sirius,” lie
replied, pointing to another star.
; “Are you Sirius?” he cooed.
He kissed her several times. Then
• he pointed upward and said:
“That’s Alars, dove.”
I
/‘And that’s pa’s, she whispered,
as a footstep sounded inside, and if
the young man hadn’t scooted he
would have seen mere stars than he
had ever dreamed of. Her pa wears
i a 12| with a brass toe.