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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The murder record of the Apaches is
still good.
(rt iieau was never known to use s
profane word.
The Illustrated London News is con
ducted by a widow,
Hartmans proposes to convert ths
American idea to his idea.
Baltimore girls are .the belles at ths
watering places this year.
♦
Ire grape yield in Ohio will bo about
one-third of a crop.
A strange cattle disease, resulting in
blindness, has appeared in Illinois.
Yellow fever has created a vacancy
in the American Consulship nt Vera
Cruz,
Ex-United States Treasurer Spin
living quietly at his home in
T lorida.
♦
France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Den
mark, Hungary and Bulgaria all hold
general elections this year.
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A conventionof the short-hand writers
of the United States and Canada is to be
held at Chicago during September.
1 EOPLE who tnlk a good deal occasion
ally get misrepresented by the press, and
that seems to be the fate of Dr. Bliss.
The Northwest is a groat country.
The Minnesota wheat crop is in excess
of that of 1880 more than 10,000,000
bushels.
Kansas farmers have agreed to sus
pend the cultivation of wheat for a
time, in order to eradicate the chinch
bug pest.
Nineteen preachers and one editor
departed on a steamer for Europe the
other day. The thing was pretty evenly
balanced.
There have been twenty-two murders
in Chicago since New Year’s Day. How
ever, it. is thought that the business will
look up a little this fall.
Dan Rice’s third wife, a bride of
three weeks, is suing for a divorce.
There is evidently something wrong
with the old showman.
Sitting Bull has two wives, J{,> says
that thus he is enabled show more I
children on the ground nt the payment :
of annuities and can draw mon- inom v. I
—
Cincinnati is looking forward to her
'Exposition with considerable pride. The
demands for space nre greater than the
Board of Commissioners will be able to
meet.
——
Southland, New Zealand, rep its
eighty bushels of oats and wheat t • the I
acre, ami in on district, one hunre 1 an J '
seventeen bushels to the acre. Report ,
we say.
Great numbers of draught horses, i
English ami Norman breed . have b n
imported into this country. The breed
ing of these animals has become an
important industry in Illinois.
The Indiauopolis ll< raid holds that :
the word “ mean” can be most appro- i
priately applied to the temperature of |
the past month. It can. The mean tern- :
perature was contemptible.
A horse-cab driver of Toronto was
once a Jesuit priest well-known in Eng- I
land and Ireland, and he says that a late j
conductor was a Dominican friar and in :
sacred orders. Thus do we ascend the ,
ladder of fame.
Although guilty of one hundred and I
thirty seductions, Spotted Tail was re- ,
garded as a pretty good sort of an In
dian. From this the reader can draw bis
own conclusion as to what would con- :
stitute a bad Indian.
The Czar is provoked lieyond endur
ance. He has lately received models of i
different weapons and engines of assass- j
ination, accompanied by a polite request
to select the one he chooses to be used
upon his own person.
Among the pyrotechnic dilutions at I
the Yorktown Centennial will be >
representation of the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis, forty feet square. Eight
set pieces will be displayed from rafts or
canal boats in the river.
♦
The Dallas Gazette asks this easy one;
“Can a man, with his hide full of bad
whisky, make a correct report of ths i
happenings in the city of Dallas for a
newspaper ?’’ Well, we should say not.
Good whisky is bad enough. That or
nothing.
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
—
It is estimated that the loss to the
: corn crop of Ohio for 1881, on account
I of bad seed, will not be less than 40,-
000,000 bushels, and in Illinois, 60,000-
i 000. If would seem from such alarming
, totals that in future it would pay well
I to make more careful selections of seed.
i Adelina Patti, the prhna donna of
the lyric stage, in her American tour,
wifi not visit Cincinnati. Why, does
I not appear. This fact is rather aston-
■ ishing when wo consider that Cincinnati
i people claim to bo peculiarly of a mu-
■ sical disposition, and possessed of an
! exquisite musical taste.
A Baltu-tot: ■ millionaire named David
, CaiToll l<‘ft a sensible will. In it he set
I aside §IOO,OOO with which to defend the
I will against possible litigation. In ease
there is no litigation, the §IOO.OOO is to
be divided equally among the heirs. It
may bn depended upon, there will bo no
litigation under the oirennistanoes.
There is a man in New York who sig
nifies a desire to become Guiteau's
bondsman, provided that when ho is
released he will bo set perfectly free,
undisguised and not protected by guards
or the military. Wo do not. think that
any one will object to tills. It is a pretty
good scheme.
What a blessing it is that wo can al
ways grumble at the weather, and yet,
not without reason. It is too hot, too
cold, too wet or too changeable. It
never is just right, and it never will be.
But we have a right to grumble, and as
long as it don’t cost anything, wo are
going to do it.
Tue electric lights attracted so many
flies to the hotels in St. Louis that
they had to be discontinued. Now
th 'ii yon can figure out what we mean,
whether it was the flies; hotels, or lights
that were discontinued ; and just about
half the paragrapliers in the country put
things in this ambiguous shape.
The “ Melleuninm Springs,” in Ar
kansas, makes those who drink of its
waters, hug, and kiss and frisk about.
It also makes them drunk. People have
been doing these things too much since
the time of Adam and we can nut fortiie
Life of us sec what goo.l can come of the
discovery. We shall all be a pack of I
fools some day.
We are shocked at the Cincinnati
Gazette. It says: “It is a sorrowful
fact that the barrooms are more honest
with their lemons than the temperance
i picnics.” This is a sad commentary.
■ We know that the church bad had a
i similar charge set over against it, but we
never thought it would go any further.
According to a paper read by Dr. J.
S. Billings, of Washington, at the In
: ternational Medical Conference in Lon
i don, there are 180,0011 physicians in the
; world, of whom 11,600 are producers of
I medical literature or contributors to it.
j In ei ntific medical literature Germany
! 'ends; in practical medical literatum
| France is foremost.
The mystery surrounding the death of
Tennie Cram r, at N w Haven, Ct., is
attracting considerable attention. The
Mallery brothers, the sons of a rich mer
chant, one of whom wa Jennie's suitor
and seducer, and Miss Clements atlas
| Blanche Douglass, a fast woman from
I New Y’ork, suspicion strongly points to
ias her murderers. Miss Cramer was
the belle of New Haven.
I Work on De Lessep’s canal is not
j progressing satisfactorily. Four em-
I ployes have died, M. Etienne, sub-con
j tractor, at Aspinwall, of softening of
; the brain ; Mr. Bertrand, his Secretary,
I of malaria, and Messrs. Barrier and Di
' lembowski, from overwork. The cli
mate is malarious, the rolling stock anfi
i quoted, and the engineering poor with
i work unsystematized, Americana will
i have to do that job yet.
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The -alt Lake H raid tells a remark- ■
; able story. Among the many pros 1
I peetors in Utah a year ago were four j
young men, who were rewarded by the .
iiscov-ry of a valuable mine n -ar Hailey. |
One of the young men had a lady friend, :
find it was decided to name the mine
after her, and to so fix the title that, in
' ease of their death, it should be hers,
i Last winter, while working upon their I
' claim, the whole party was buried be- ,
i neath a snow-slide ; and now the young t
lady is planning what good she wdl do
with the §65,000 that has been offered
her for her neat little legacy.
The hip pocket is having things all
its own way in Chicago. They don’t !
consider it much of a day now when
i there isn't at least one murder in that
, citv. and ia most of the cases they never
seem to find the fellow. When now and
th- n some one declines to make his
■ escape, and is locked up in jail, the
ladies in Chicago overwhelm him with
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA.. AUGUST 25. 1-81.
• bouquets and go on so about him that
; the average Chicago man goes around
with a well-loaded hip pocket for no
other purpose in the world, seemingly,
than to improve the first opportunity
to make himself a pet of the ladies
who, in Chicago, jnst dote on murder
, ers. Up to date no law has been made
to prevent people making fools of them
selves.
The miscellaneous collection of articles
at the White House, consisting of beds,
medicines and nearly everything else
under the sun, sent from all over the
country for the benefit of the President
and his family, is a most ridiculous one,
including «s it does two white puce, a
stuffed humming bird, “to relieve the
monotony of the sick-room,” and the
blood of a black cat. But it would be
unkind to laugh at it, as, notwithstand
ing the absurd character of many con
tributions, it represents the outpouring
of the national heart. Doubtless the
lady who sent the stuffed bird did what
she thought was the best thing she could
do. Just exactly what the cat’s blood
was sent for is not clear, but there are
many people in this country who behove
in the working of charms, and as it was
doubtless intended to promote some
good to the patient, we should give the
sender credit for carrying out the dicta
tions of an honest opinion. As to the
white mice, they may amuse the chil
dren.
The days of miracles, magio waters,
etc., are returning. Hot Springs County,
Arkansas, reports the existence, fifteen
miles northeast of Witherspoon, of a
spring that promises to bring about the
millennium almost before wo get ready
for it. John R. Yentts, a Baptist minis
ter of some celebrity, who has visited
the spring, says the spring flows
from a mountain about four hundred feet
high, comes out. of the ground about
one hundred feet from the top of tho
mountain on flic north side, and flows at
the rate of about forty gallons per min
ute, and tastes just like, apple brandy,
and has the same effect. Those under
the influence of the water aro perfectly
ecstatic, and hugging and loving every
thing they meet. He says: “ I never
saw the like, children and boys ami girls
hugging and kisußg teV'Cry w they
: meet. Old men h«ml old women, young
I men and young ladies, embracing each
other by hugging and kissing, x met
an old, white-haired man and woman—l.
suppose about eighty years old—and '
they were hopping and skipping like
lambs. I saw hundreds lying around
the spring so drunk that they could not
stand up, and they were lying and laugh
ing and trying to slap their hands. Tho
people call them the * Millenium
Springs.’ ” All we ask of John is, just
to please send us a barrel.
♦
What Wives Are Worth.
The value of wives varies in different I
countries. In America they aro often :
expensive companions, but in the higher ;
regions of the River Amar, mid on the i
Ussuri, in Siberia, Recording to informa- j
tion furnished to the British Scientific I
Association by the Rev. Henry Lansdel), j
the price of a wife is eight or ten dogs i
a sledge, or two cases of brandy. In |
anot her part of the world, according to j
evidence furnished to the same associa- !
tion by Wilfred Powell, in New Britain I
and the neighboring islands of the South !
Pacific, on the east coast of Guinea, the j
wives are the absolute property of their j
husbands, and aro bought, sold and eat
en by their better halves. There was
one New Britain young woman who re
belled at her matrimonial relations,
whereupon her husband said he could
put her to better use, and straightway
killed and ate her. Unfortunately, ae- ■
cording to the same authority, the eat- |
ing in New Britain is not confined to
wives. The natives are fond of mission
ary meat, and think the English are un- I
ntterably stupid because they are un
willing to feast on such a delicacy as the
human thigh, prepared with coc.oannt
milk and dressed with banana leaves.
Mr. Powell does not advise women te
emigrate to New Britain.
Writing for the Public.
There is no work done in the world
which expends vitality so fast as writing
for the public. It ia a work which is
i never done. It accompanies a man
i upon his walks, goes with him to the
I theater, gets into bed with him, and
| possesses him in his dreams. If he
stoops to kiss the baby, before he has
readied the requisite angle a point oc
curs to him, and he hangs in mid-air,
with vacant face and mind distraught,
“ What’s the matter?” says Mrs. Emer-
I son, in the middle of the night, hearing
i her husband groping about the room.
1 “Nothing, my dear, only an idea!”
—.lames Purton, in Nerrth American
Iteview.
' Never give way to rneloncholy; noth
ing encroaches more ; I fight against it
vigorously. One great remedy is to
take short views of life. Are you hap
py now ! Are you likely to you remain so
till evening, or next week or next
month, or next year? Then why des
troy present happiness by a distant
mi: cry which may never come at all, or
you may m ver live to see it? For
cv.-f v ‘ubstuntial grief has twenty shad-
, and most of them shadows of
your now making. Sidney Smith,
I ■ Lunatics at Washington.
I I Recent events at Washington cannot
> have failod to call general attention to
tho vast number of queer lards that
habitually roost about tho Capital City,
AU the mstorted mental action of this
country appears to gravitate to Wash
ington. Light-witted characters seem
1 : to be naturally thrown into that city on
the top of a wave, like so many corks,
and landed there. No one who has spent
| any time at the Capital can have failed
' to "note them.
They appear at every turn. Tho
stranger who takes in the city “during
the season” will seo varieties of human
1 nature enough to astonish him. Ho will
• wish there were not so many varie
ties. Perhaps ho drops in at a
me<: ;■ of Indies, to hear tho woman
sullhigists plead their cause. Nothing,
apparently, could be more conducive to
repose nnd quiet than that. But it will
not be surprising at any moment to be
{ startled from his somnolency by tho ap
' paritiou of a female fury flourishing a
I pistol in tho face of the fair speoeh
; makers, and declaring that she is a Com
l mnnist, and means to kill somebody, so
i she could get her rights. Such a cir
cumstance happened not many winters
ago. The Washington lunatic with a
pistol is not confined to the masculine
sex alone.
Quack doctors, women in pantaloons,
long-haired phrenologists, spiritualist
lecturers, bewildei - the visitorat every ho
tel and street corner, till ho begins to
cast an anxious eye towards Cougrcss
i men, and to wonder privately whether
they are not going crazy too.
t Tha man who attempted to assassinate
President Jackson, in 1835, was an nn
! doubted lunatic. Many of them pester
I the Patent Office. They come with tales
of miraculousinventions they have made.
i Men with wild eyes, and slimy hair and
I clothing go about fancying they are the
■ President of the United States. Insome
cases they go to tho Executive Mansion
: itself, and demand that its occupant be
turned out, and that they be given their
| rightful place.
| Tumbled-up looking women, with wild
| hair standing out like quills upon the
I fretful porcupine, nnd crazy bonnets,
j haunt tho departmi nts with messages
from the spirits to the Treasurer, or
President, or General of the Aimy.
They are usually controlled by thospirit
of George Washington, and ho is anxi
ous to show us through them how to
boss this country. Newspaper corre
spondents have often alluded to this
strange horde of Junes about Washing
ton. They have been allowed to come
- sudtfin-everywhere, us they pleased, be
ing merely laughed at and pitied. It has
never been thought neo ssary heretofore
to shut them up, not oven as far as their
tongues uro concerned. But there ought
to boa change in that respect now.
i There is always a presstire of excitement
at tlm Capital. Bonn times it brciiksout
in scandals, sometimes in craziness. In
a city where there is always more or less
mental strain of the kind that is felt
there, nobody can tell when a harmless
lunatio may develop into a dangerous
one. In fact, entirely harmless lunatics
aro very rare. Hereafter, it will un
doubtedly bo tho part, of wisdom to
thrust behind the bars persons with a
kink in their brains. Individuals with a
mission and a roll of manuscript should
i bo strictly watched.
In one respect the pulpy-brained
i idiots who drift to the Capital unani
mously agree. They all have bound-
I lessly exalted ideas of their own import
ance. It is tho leading characteristic of
: lunatics the world over. Perhaps, in
i deed, one may safely conclude that per
, sons who think great things of their
i own abilities and merit, are always more
j or Less cracked.— Cincinnati Commcr
i e;lal.
Cigar Stumps in Paris.
I The market for cigar stumps, which I
i looked in upon in the Place Maubert
yesterday, is a veritable Parisian curios
ity. The place is full of life and activ
ity from 8 until 11 o’clock in tho fore
noon. A kilogram of stumps is worth 1
franc 50 cenitmes to 2 fr. 50 c., accord
ing to tho length of the stump. Cheap
j er cigar stumps bring lower prices.
' There are four or five wholesale dealers
in cigar stumps who have their heod
i quarters in the nine saloons in the vicin
ity of the market, and there deal with
' the old men and women, and ragged lit
tle boys and girls, who go about tho
streets picking up those stumps. Much
■ of the tobacco thus scraped together is
I sold to exporters, who make it up in fine
: cigarettes. There was once an old follow
who bought cigar stumps for a living,
who died worth 15,000 francs a year.
These pickers-up of ends and half
smoked cigarettes are quite a nuisance to
those people who frequent the boulevard
I cases. They are forever getting in one’s
way, burrowing about one’s legs, hunt
ing for the coveted stump. From tho
heights of the Rue Mouffi-tard and the
Rue Montmartre swarms of those laza
roni swoop down upon Paris and make ,
us miserable with their intolerable pros- j
ence.— Paris Letter.
Immense Power.
“Do you know,” said the Captain,
“that a fathom of steel-wire rope, little
thicker than your cane, and weighing
half a pound a foot, will pull as much as
a hemp rope half a foot thick and weigh
ing a pound and a half a foot?”
“ 1 have known a piece of wire, Cap,”
said I, “no thicker than a straw, to
draw a man weighing 200 pounds the
whole length of Broadway.”
“ Oh, come, now 1” exclaimed the ob
tuse Briton.
“ Yes, sir; it was a hair-pin,”
Holman Hunt says: “I have always
found that pc-, pie who delayed doing
their work till after a certain period did
nothing at all. ”
M). 34.
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Something About Kissing.
This subject has recently attracted
more attention than has usually been ac
corded to it. It may be that a dearth
of spring poetry has left tho editorial
repertory without a suitable supply of
sentimental material, and it may be the
weather had something to do with it, but
whatever the cause, tho fact remains
that tho subject of kissing has been given
unusual prominence by both tho pro
vincial and metropolitan press. It may
not have been a wise thing to do, for
several very apparent reasons, chiefest
of which has been the tendency to lower
one’s estimate of the real value of the
transaction by having - too much said
about it, and thereby bringing it into
general use. One can readily understand
how' a pastime, sufficiently pleasant with
seasonable iudulgeiigij, may lose half its
sweetness by being allowed too mudii'
freedom of expression.
We object to being told that “kissing
does not require an apt of Congress to
make it legal.” So long as we can fool
that some restraining power is neces
sary, that the inclination does require,
if not congressional enactmc it, at least
some prohibitory measures, kissing will
bo kept up to tho standard of genuine
enjoyment. Nothing enhances tho pleas
ures of some things more than a feeling
that their indulgence is prohibted, or at
least opposed by objections sufficiently
strong to impart just a little flavor of
naughtiness to the proceeding. Ever
since tho transaction in the garden of
Eilon forbidden pleasure have always
been sweetest to tho daughters and sons
of mon, and the great majority of peo
ple would prefer some jurisdiction on the
subject that would insure a continuance
of the pleasurable emotions experienced
by a kiss.
Wo offer a few quotations to show how
much pleasure some people derive from
this source and deprecate any! liing which
has a tendency to detract from such ex
quisite enjoyment.
“You kissed me! My soul, hi a bliss so divine,
Reeled and swooned, like a drunken m.in foolish
with wine;
Anil I thought ’twere delicious to die there, if death
Should come while my lips were yet moist with your
breath 1
And these are the questions 1 ask day and night:
Must u*y lips taste but once the exquisite delight
Which thrlllod by whole soul with rupture and
bliss
As your lips clung to mine In that passionate kiss
Would you care if your breast were my shelter, as
tlien,
And if you were here would you kiss mo again?”
YVe aro inclined to think we would,
even while not recommending just this
stylo for general uso, as the reaction
from such exhilaration would not be de
sirable. YVe think it would have a tend
ency to shorten life, aa our lives are
measured iry henrt beat*, not by yearm.
and anything that so stirs the blood and
maddens tho pulse should bo held in
reasonable subjection. Once or twice in
a life-time would be all that ordinary
mortals might hope te endure.
Tennyson seems to have an apprecia
tion of what u kiss should bo when he
makes one of his heroines say:
“0 Love, O fire! Onoo ho drew
With on« long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight arlnkuth dew.”
And Byron, also must have had some
Buch experience in view when ho wrote:
“Orieremna •( of Paradise still Ison earth,
For Eden r< vives in tho sweet ki.ss of love.”
Perhaps Joaquin Miner more fully
understands tho inspiration lorn of a
kiss when ho gives utterance to tho fol
lowing:
“Lot rd lips lift, proud curl- d to kiss
In love too passionate for speech,
Too full of blessedness and bli-s
For anything but this, and this.”
And again:
“ Since man must die for some dark sin,
Let my death-uiimc be one deep kiss.”
But poets are not the only ones who
understand and appreciate tho pleasure
of a kiss. It is one of tho luxuries of
life which all well-organized people have
more or loss inclination, and people
usually follow their inclinations. Tin y
may not bo able to express their senti
ments and experiences either in poetry
or prose, but this is not at all necessary
for absolute and perfect enjoyment.
Temperament, surrounding circum
stances, time and place, have, probably,
more te do with it than poetry; though
we do not pretend te deny that there is
a great deal of poetry in a kiss.— Kansas
City Times.
How it Feels to Drown.
It is not often that you hear of an
editoi with a curiosity. Most of them
accept < nrthquakes, tornadoes, murders,
fires ami floods as every day occurrences,
and even a nitroglycerine explosion next
door would not interrupt tho routine
work of the. sanctum very long. But a
French editor, and tho editor 'if a Lyons
paper nt that, had a curio-ity to know
how a person feels when drowning. IL'
tlieri fore put up a job on him.' elf. He
arranged to come within a hair’s breath
of drowning, but was to bo pulleel out in
the nick of time, rolleel on a barrel,
hauled over the sands, thumped on the
stomach and otherwise resuscitated. All
went we ll during the first act. He leapeul
into the water, refused to struggle nnd
i gradually sank from sight. At the prope r
i moment he was hauled up by a ropo
and act seeiond commenced. This was
an occasion where an editor was too
smart. They rolleel him according to
programme, and seven or eight me n tired
themselves emt with rubbing him and
hanging up head downwards, but he was
a dead man. He may know how it feels
| to drown, but he’ll never trouble Ihe
I public with a description of his fee lings.
Died with His Hat On.
; William Weller, a prominent citizen
I of Hiukletown, died suddenly on Thurs
day morning, about 10 o’clock, of con-
I sumption. He arose in the morning,
i but immediately fell over and expired.
He was 42, unmarried, and eccentric.
I He would never take off his hat to eat,
: and died with it on. Lancaster (Pa.)
Intelligencer.
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SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
The deepest known worked mine is In
Australia— a shaft liaviug been sunk
8,200 feet.
A member of the French Academy of
, Sciences has discovered well marked
sexmd differences in eels.
Specimens of fossil woods and lignite
are reported to have been brought to the
surface from tho depth of 191 feet while
boring an artesian well at Galveston,
Texas.
Experiments ut Woolwich have dem
onstrated that the transmission of deto
nation from one mass of gun cotton to
another not in contact is so rapid that a
row of gun cotton reaching from London
to Edinburg could be fired in two
minutes.
. Biipltisd to the onestion wh>'thqr or
not our ancestors were acquainted with
tho peculiar physical condition known to
us as somnambulism, Dr. Reynard, of
Paris, said in a recent lecture that one
of the most accurate descriptions of
somnambulism in existence was the
sleep-walking scene of Macbeth.
Foub Jourdan glycerine barometers
nre now in uso in or near Loudon. One
is at Kew, in the- museum of practical
geology, one at South Kensington, and
one in the office of the London Times.
Tho enormous scale of tho barometer
enables changes scarcely visible in the
mercurial instrument to be detected with
ease.
Rossetti has found that the tempera
ture of the positive carlion of the elect
ric aro is between 2,400 degrees and
3,000 degrees centrigrado, and that of
the negative carbon between 2,500 de
grees and 3,900 degrees, making, there
fore, tho temperatures of tho extreme
points of the electrodes not below 2,500
degrees and 3,900 degrees.
Experiments have been made on ani
mals with pure hydrocianio acid by M.
Brama. The bodies of those killed with
it remained unaffected by decomposition
for about a month. During that time
the- acid remained in the tissues, and
especially in the stomach. It could be
easily settled to distillation, but much
more readily from the tissues of herbiv
orous than of caraiverous animals.
In a communication to the St. Peters
burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein
recommends tho uso of sulphate or
alumnia as the best practical disinfec
tant. Ho states that tho best method
of making the salt for disinfecting pur
poses is to mix red olay with four per
cent, of sulphuric acid and to add to the
mixture some carbolic acid for destroy
ing the smell of the matter to be disin
fected.
A scientist in tho Magazine of Phar
macy asserts that tho usual physico
chemical methods for determining the
potable nature of water have proved
themselves to bo quite insufficient, and
he says that “ recourse must bo had to
tho microscope and to the culture-glasses
used by physiologists in their inocula
tion experiments, before any really sound
and valuable knowledge can be gained
by tho examination of waters” as to their
purity or impurity.
Alarm with indignation has arisen
Halle regarding tarletans rendered pois
onous by the introduction of copper
arsenite in their production. Dr. Rei
man has attempted to allay the general
outcry by stating that copper arsenite is
not a splendid green color, and as for
such goods as tarletans, Guignet’s green,
which contains no arsonic, has quite dis
placed the poisonous Schweinfurt green.
The authority for the statement that
after tlic extraction of the niter from
gunpowder the residue cannot be dried
at 200 degrees, without a slight loss o
the sulphur, is Fresenius. Herr A.
Wagner, on the contrary, rises from hia
experiments with tho conviction that no
such loss has ever been observed at or
below tho temperature given. Above
that temperature the residue suffers a
notable diminution, in weight.
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Was Booth Insane?
Probably the only history which gives
color to tho theory that Booth was insane
is that by J. S. Blackburn, principal of
• my at Alexandria, Va., and W.
N. McDonald, principal of a male high
school at Louisville, Ky. In their his
tory, which is being extensively used in
Southern schools, they say: “Booth
committed the act under the fanatical
idea that tho war would terminate and
the South gain her freedom if Lincoln
' were killed.” This same history ad
vances, among the causes of tho failure
’ of the rebels, tho following: “The
primary cause of the failure of the Con
federacy was that the people of tho South
were not unanimous in their efforts to
gain their liberty. In the history of the
world a united people, struggling for
liberty, have never been subjugated.”
The italics are the work of Messrs.
Blackburn and McDonald. Booth was
1 shot in a barn at Garrett’s farm, near
Bowling Green, nnd died soon after.
That was April 26, 1865.— Chicago In
’ ter-Ocean.
i
> Evangeline.
’ Longfellow said “Evangeline” was
1 sii''gcnted to him by a gentleman with
! whom ho and Hawthorne were dining,
• and who urged the novelist to write a
1 novel on the theme of the exiled young
’ Acadian girl who spent the remainder of
h< r life searching for her lover. “I
I caught the thought at once,” the poet
said, “ that it would make a striking
1 picture if put in verse, and said, ‘ Haw
thorne, give it to me for a poem, and
’ promise me you will not write about it
• until I have, written the poem.’ Haw-
• thorne readily assented to my request,
and it wa- agreed that I should use his
> friend’s story for verse whenever I had
> [the time anil inclination to write it,”—
Philadelphia Press.