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—Mr. O. S. Bliss to'ls the New York
World that he believes tho use of air-
slaked lime will cheek any tendency to
rot in potatoes He has for several
years sprinkled a small quantity of such
lime upon his potatoes at time of storing
them in bins. Though he ventures no
positive assertion, yet he believes such
treatment lias resulted in checking any
tene'en ie3 to rot
—The most successful way of training
an animal is to begin at birth. Two
things should supplement a knowledge
of llie way to train: kindness and deci
sion; these are essentials Landing
1‘ejiuOlican.
Macon, Ga., has been made a signal
station.
Orange county, Virginia, shipped a
million hoop poles last year.
A Castor oil farm has been started at
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
A three hundred pound Porpoise lias
been caught near Wilmington, N, C.
The amount o$ naval stores produced
in North Carolina Is moro than doublo
the yield of all the other States com.
bined.
A New York firm will shortly estab
lish a regular lumber trade with Mobile,
and will at first send out a vessel once a
month.
There is about the usual average of
wheat sown in Tennessee, and farmers'
are expecting good crops.
A raft of 400 walnut logs for New
Orteanl, to be shipped to Boston, 1b
ready to leave Little Rock.
A, W. Scott, of Ilill county, Texas,
raised last season 030 bushels of sweet
polntoes ob one aero of ground.
llirds'eye maple, which sells for $150
per 1,000 feet in England, is used for
(Ire wood in North Carolina.
Eighteen Mormon eldors are in Chat,
tanoogn, on their way to different points
South, where they go proselyting.
Tho Railroad bill now pending in tlio
North Carolina Legislature provides for
ihree Railroad Commissioners nt a salary
of $3,000 a year each.
Over $30,000 worth of whale oil has
been shipped from Brunswick, Ga., this
year, and it promises to become an im
portant and flourishing business in that
locnlity.
Within the next twelve months be
tween 100 and 160 ncro3 of grape vines
will he set out in the neighborhood of
Gordonsville, Vn.
Forest fires extending eighty miles
above Chattauoogn, along tho Cincin
nati .Southern road, are causing great
destruction of timber.
The Hot Springs property, in Batli
county, Va., containing 1,196 acres of
land, hotels, cottages, baths end nume
rous buildings, have been sold for $100,
000. •
A State Military Academy will he
built at Savannah. Bonds to the
amount of $20,000 will be issued at five
per cent interest, to. run thirty years.
A committee has baen appointed to can
vas for subscriptions.
A block of marble was shipped a few
days ago from the Hawkins, Tennessee,
quarries. It contained 186 cubic feet,
weighed 34,300 pounds and sold for over
$4U0.
New Orleans Domocrat: “ What the
Atlanta cotton exposition did for the
South, and we arc now realizing the fact
that it brought millions of dollars here,
and that to it is due the investment of
$15,000,000 in southern cotton mills
alone.”
At Griffin, Ga., some one threw n
lump of poisened dough in Abel A.
Wright’s full pond, causing the death of
no less than 500 fine Carp.
The Georgia Wine Company lias 100
acres in vines now producing, and 80
acres for future use. They expect -to
make 20,000 gallons this year. They
get four gallons to the bushel, and gen
erally gather 150 to 250 bushels to the
acre.
Dr. Charles, the Forsythe county, Ga-
miner, writes an interesting letter to the
Clarion. He says tlio Franklin mine
makes from three to four pounds of
gold per week, and not running their
mills in full regular time. The expen
ses are about $1,000 per month, which is
$12,000 per year, and in this way money
is scattered over the country.
A curiosity is exciting the colored
people of Macon, Ga., says the Atlanta
Constitution. A negro boy, called “the
snake baby,” fourteen years old, came
from an adjacent county. His body i s
very diminutive, his arms and legs are
the size of a buggy wheel spoke. He
lies prone on his stomach all the time
with his feet drawn back. In the mid
dle of his back white spots are seen.
His tongue licks out of his meuth—
hence the name, “snake baby.” He
cin’t talk intelligently.
The English colony, at Rugby, Tenn ,
which has been in financial straits for
some time, has just received a loan of
$125,000 from a wealthy Englishman,
Henry Kimber by name and a solicitor
by profession. The lender receives, at
security, a first mortgage on the Rugby ;
tract of 25,0l)0 acres' anc*.' T the improve
menu belonging to the board. Mr.
Kimber is one of the original stockhold
ers in tlio enterprise.
The project of establishing a coaling
station nt Tort Royal bangs fire, owing
to the fnct thr.t no part of tho appro
priations voted last year for n Btore
bouse and dock could be used for the
purchase of land for tho site of tho sta
tion. Parry’s Island lias been ngreed
upan, and an amendment to tho Svndry
Civil Bill appropriates $5,000 for the
purchase of the laud required.
The plantors of Polk county, Gn.,
linvo prepnred for tlio next crop, and
have made more composU than they
have mndo in tho ten proceeding year
all put togother. They have generally
mail Furman’s formula, which has been
med in that vicinity with great success,
There is doubtless real wisdom in aban
doning liigh-priced cummoicinl fertili
ers, and, by saving nnd using domestic
manures, muck, leaves, scrapings from
fence corners, etc., they get a much
better fcrtllezer nt a smnll fraction of
the cost,
ricasnnt Life In Bengnl.
The daily life of tlio family is a scries
of piotures of Arcadian simplicity. At
daybreak, when the crows begin to caw,
the whole household is astir. Tlio two
elder brothers are oil to tho fields, while
Gnynvam is seeing after tho cows. Tho
women are busy fli tho lints nnd court
yard. Sometimes the men come home
to their mid-day meal, and sometimes it
is carried to them in tlio fields. At sun
set the labors of tlio day me brought to
a close. A mat in spread iu tho court
yard and the men sit, down cross-logged
and smoko their bubble-bubbles; nnd nl
such times it is tlio joy of Baden's life to
listen to tho childish prattle of his little
daughter Malnti. Occasionally I lie
brothers pay visits to their neighbors, oi
neighbors drop in and jilin in the smok
ing. Tlio conversation is nearly always
the Hame—tho wopther, the bullocks, the
crops, and tho cows; the plowing, har
vesting, sowing or irrigating. Blit
money is over the burden of tho talk
rupees, annas, nnd pice; the zemindar's
rent; the interest paid to tho money
lender; tlio cost, profit or loss of every
transaction connected with tho farm or
household. Tho whole family is relig
ious; indeed nil Hindus is religious.
They may ho everything that is good or
bad, hut they are nover wanting in feni
of the gods. They uro constantly utter
itig tho snerod names, and they oiler n
portion of every meal to tlio gods of the
earth, water, and sky. They see deity
in everything that exists, and omens ol
good or evil iu everything that moves.
If theymoota eow or n wedding tlioy re
joice over tlieir good fortune; if they see
n widow or a funeral they are down
hearted nt tlieir ill luck. They engago
in no business, or journey, or transac
tion of any sort or kind, without n pray
er to the goddess Laksliimi or an invoca
tion to the elephnnt-hended .Gniicsliu.
Every family or group of families has its
own Purohita, or domestic Brahman, who
performs endless eoremonies of propitia
tion, consoerntion or purification at births,
deaths, marriages, fenstH, festivals, re
ligions celebrations, and family incidents
of every kind. In return, tho Purohita
receives nil the offerings of rice, fruits,
nnd vegetables that are made to I In-
gods, with occasional presents of a like
character. Every year tho Gum, or re
ligious teacher of the sect or district,
makes his appearance to receive liis shil
ling fee from every household, and to
confirm younger neophytes by whisper
ing into tlieir respective ears the name
of tho god that each one is to worslii]
his own individual deity. This name is
known as the “seedprayer,” and is to be
uttered by tho worshiper one hundred
nnd eight times every day imjil the end
of iiis earthly career.—Macmillan's
Magazine,
Novel Use of Wood Shavings.
From wood shavings nnd paper Ilerr
Hcilemann makes plates, dishes, etc., as
follows: Selected plane shavings are
bound into bundles and steeped in a
bath of weak gelatine solution about
twenty-four hours, then dried and eui
into suitable lengths. Flutes are cut ol
strong paper or thin pasteboard of the
sizo of tho objects to be produced. These
are moistened with a liquid consisting oi
weak gelatino solution with sodium iva-
terglass, and pressed in heated metallic
molds. After drying, the pressed pnpei
objects are coated on both sides with an
adhesive material made of five parts Rus
sian gelatine and one part thick turpen
tine, tho shavings are applied to thorn,
and the whole is subject to pressure.
Wood shavings alone would, because oi
tlieir unequal thickness, present uneven
surfaces. Tho objects are now cut, il
necessary, dried and varnished.
Arabi Pabtia is said to ootnplnin that
he is not receiving nu adequate allow-
»ueo, as was ngreed by tho Khedive.
Tnp. fuuil for tho sufferers from the
Brnidvrood (III.) mine disaster amounts
to $28,000, which will keep those in need
for ono year.
A Mathematician interested iu tin
sugar trade has estimated tlmt tlio re
duction in the duty on sugar will amonn
to seventeen couia annual!) for ouch per
son iu tlio United States.
Cjiacncv Waiinku, of Cambridge, Vt.,
lias made arrangements to present tin
towu of St, Albans with a $60,0(H) houai
for use ns a iroo hospital. He will pro.
vide a $25,000 endowment fuuil, also.
Hkhvia is dependent on foreign conn-
tries for her suit supply, and to stimu-
Into explorations tlio government offers
a prize of $80,000 to tho disooverer of a
workable salt miuo in tho kingdom.
Tub Arkansas Legislature has passed
a law whioh prohibits for two yours the
selling of liquor within two miles of any
ohuroh or Bohool house, oxcept on peti
tion of a majority of tho adult inhabit-
unts. In Now England such a law
would give praotieal prohibition.
Hiiiie is a neat criticism by a mechanic:
“The tfbublo with young Amorioaus is,
that they are not taught to work, nnd to
work hard. Too ofton does tho fnthor
say: 'My boy must not work so hard as
[ linvo,’ scorning to forgot that his own
liurd work is tho cause of his suoooss.”
Ex-Gov. Bi'raoub’s bride is described
us having regular, pleasant features,
fair complexion, dark brown hair, and
dark blue eyes ; graceful iu movomont,
»f medium hoigbt nnd fluo figure. She
traveled in a dark blue walking-dress
with a crimson sash, and on lior lint
were red ostrich plumes.
A Lieutenant of tho English Rifle
Volunteers has received instruction from
tlio War Secretary to form an Army Tel-
“graph Corps to take tho field in fimo ol
War. Tho corpB will contain two hun
dred men, nnd will lie organized oil tlio
snmo basis ns tlio Army Postal Corps.
AH tho neoessary Hold equipments will
lie supplied, nud tlio men will bo drilled
in its use.
aocohdiro to tne census,
o! horses in tlio United Slaton in 10,838,-
111; mules 1,871,079; milch cows, 13,. j
125,085; other cattle, 28,040,077; sheep,
10,237,291; hogs, 43,270,080. The ag
gregate value of all those animals is
$2,338,197,008. The average valuo of
horses is $70.59; mules, $70.49; cows,
$30.21; other cattle, $21.80; stieop,
$2,58; hogs, $0.75. Tho liighost aver
age prico ol horsos ($102.14) is in Mas
snohnseUs, and tlio lowest ($37.08) is in
Toxns. Illinois has more horses than
any otlior Btnto, tlio number being
1,017,015. Now York is next highest,
with 022,027. .
Ma, Wyman, tho newly appointed
United States Treasurer, is of United
States parentage, though horn iu Oiuuuln.
Ho is somowliiit over middle ago, and a
very popular and compotont ollleer. Ho
wan appointed to n clerkship in tlio
Treasury Department in April, 1803;wan
A'Bistont Treasurer from 1875 until 1870,
whon he suceoetled to thoTroomirursliip,
holding that position until 1877, when
lie resigned beenuso of ill heultii. Hiuee
tho latter date, upon whioh the retiring
Treasurer was appointed, ho has beet,
assistant. Mr. Wyman brings io th>
office the oxporionoo ot many years, ami
will, doubtless, fill the place made vacant
liy Mr. Gilfillau’s resignation ably.
Ex-Gov. Crawford, a resident of
Washington, iigcut of the Htulo of Kan
sas, filed at tlio Interior Department re
cently, a brief in support of the position
taken by tho Htato authorities on sundry
long-ponding questions in regard to tlio
Atchison, Topokn A Santa f‘a Railroad
land grant, nnd the ease will probably
come boforo tlio Soorotnry for oral argu
ment at an oarlv day. Tho brief argues
Hint adjustment of the grant undor.tlie
Supreme Court decision of 1875 concern
ing it would givo the Slate title to about
800,000 ncrcs of land alleged to have
boon illegally certified to tlio railroad
company, nnd that, in any event, tho
State is entitled to some 800,000 acres
now held by .tho railroad.
—According to tho existing Russian
law apostasy frorti Hie State religion
entails severer penalties than theft or
murder. A Russian subject who aban
dons the orthodox faith for anv other
whatever is deprived of his children,
his estate is handed over to guardians
appointed by the state, and he himself
is liable to prosecution by the. Holy
Synod until he abjures. Tlio Golos re
marks that this severity defeats its own
object, and advises that this antiquated
legislation should be abolished in favor
of full religious tolerance nnd liberty
of conscience, after the example of
Western Europe.
Importers linvo been nonsuiting law
yers ns to the constitutionality ol the
now tariff bill. The only ground upon
which a supposition oven can ho based
is that it is u revenue bill, mid origin
ated in tho Heiiate. But nmoiig the
Senate and Hoiiso lawyers, including
those opposed to tho passage of tho bill,
tho point of its constitutionality was not
seriously called into question.
Tin-; provision in tlio laHt Army bill
excludiug from calculation an part of the
regular retired list prescribed by law,
not to exceed four hundred, all officers
retired under tho law of last year be
cause of having reached sixty-four years,
or having sorved forty years, relieves
tlio regular retired list to tho oxtont of
mailing thirteen vacancies, which will
bo filled at onco by tho retirement of
disabled officers.
The (State prisons of Now York have
paid tlieir way of late, but it is not
probablo that thej^ivill do so hereafter,
as a bill lias already been pussed prohib
iting hatmaking by convicts, and otlior
measures intended to take from such in
stitutions remunerative employments
are under consideration. This is done
to meet tlio approval of a class of labor
agitators who believo that prison pro
duction is an injury to outside labor.
The question whether a man should
he permited to marry his deceased wifo’s
sister iB of perennial interest in England.
Bills to givo this permission have re
peatedly passed tlio House ol Commons,
but have always been rejected by the
lords. The Bishops me generally op
posed to tho change, some of them re
garding it with horror, and delaring that
not even an act of Parliament would so
far satisfy tlieir consciences as to allow
them to sanction by the ceremonies of
tho church a union whioh they believe
to be immoral and expressly forbidden
by the laws of God.
Rev. Dn. Morgan Dix, of Washing
Ion, D. C., in a recent sermon, said that
there is a criminal laxity in the regard
for tho marriage tio among many womon
of fashion. Tlioy care for no real home,
he says; they wish to avoid the pains
and the cares and duties of matrimony.
The care of their children .they hand
over to servants. They have lax notions
about divorce; nnd there is a growing
indifference to this “chiof of all social
abominations.” Speaking generally,
Dr. Dix affirms that it is the faithlessness
of women to do her duty and mission
that emboldens the “conspirators against
her honor.”
There rccontly iliod near Lewiston,
Mo., a woman named Lniimor, who was
tlie most porsistent devourer of book*
and nowspaporB tlio world has over
known. But sho derived nr, benefit
thereform, for it was literally and not
figuratively that she devoured them. Him
developed n mania for this singular diet
vory early iu life; indued, sho herself
dutod it from that ovontfnl epoch of in
fancy known as tlio period of teething..
She would eat letter and wrapper paper
if sho could not get a book or a newspa
per, but printer’s ink was the saiioo
which guve her nn appetite. It is said
that she was an intelligent womau and
iudulged in no other freak, and, more
over, that sho inherited hor morbid taste,
which, strange to say, was not the causo
of her death.
The Washington correspondent of tlio
doHtou AUnnrtlier bns some interesting
rossip about tho ownership ' of tho
lingers-houso, near tho Whito-liimse,
Henry Clay used to nwu tho lot on
which it stands. Ho was especially de
puted to tliojAblilaud farm ami tho li ve
dock upon it. One day old Commodore
John Rogers came home from tlio Modi
terraiiuan with his naval vessel full jf
ivo stock which ho hurt picked up
Abroad. Tlio cargo included one fine
Andalusian jackass. Clay wauled it for
his farm. All liis offers were rejected,
until ono day tlia Commodore said, iu a
joke; “You can have him for your lot
opposite tlio White-house,” “Done,”
was Clay's reply, aud tlio animal was
shipped off to Kentucky. Tlio Commo
dore built the now historic houso, which
Secretary Howard o-ieupiod during tlio
war. Hero l’ayue endeavored to assas
sinate him on the night whon President
Lincoln was shot. The lot is uow valued
ot $40,000.
A Challenge Accepted.
About iiio o’clock I his morning a
young marine, named McManus, at
tached lo the Brooklyn naiy yard, was
passing tho corner of Fulton and Pearl
streets in tho belligerent condition
which cost Michael Cass o his place in
Othello's service, when ho caught sight
of a wooden imago of nn Indian warrior
menacing li in with raised tomahawk.
Not stopping to consider that lie him
self was unarmed, McManus immedi
ately accepted the challenge nnd at
tacked the Indian. They fell to tlie
ground in a mutual emb:aco anil in (ho
ensuing scuffle tho Indiun lost both
arms and hiH lie id. The marino \
still lunging lho body of his foe on tho
pavement when an officer appeared and
quel ed the disturba ico. The Indian
was perm Hod lo go on account of his
serious injuries and the navvy was
sent lo the island for one month.—Nl
Y. Mail.
“Yes, I am to be manned, my dear
friend. The young lady is pretty, and
very clever, yet she can not play the
piano-forte; that is her only failing.”
“Why, I should call that a blessing. It
is certainly no fault!” “ Hear me
through. She can not play tho piano
forte, and yet she always insists on play
ing.”
—Chailes Kee, the most intelligent
Chinaman in Chicago, denies that liis
people ever cat rats.
intends to ho vory severe in hi* con
templated book about America.
—The mother of Josh Billings h
n'noty-two yours old. “She has ovl.
dcn'tly resolved to live until her son
learns iiow lo spoil,’’ says tho Norris
town Herald.
—Of l.coit Gninhottn, nt tho ago ol
ninn years, ono of his achool-mastnn
wrote; "Loon Gninhottn is a dirty little
pig of a violent oharocter, but intelli
gent nnd witty."
—Tho Fncyolopodin Brltnnnlca, e
work of ;:0,000 pages, is to bo eclipsed
in size by tlio works of Samuel Arden
Smith, who is going to write a couploto
history of tho Smith family.
—Whon the now Colorado Senator
Bowon was in onmmnnd nt Fort Smith,
Arkansas, during tho war, ho raptured
onu of tlio rebels thorn nnd still hold*
tho prlsonor. This was ono of the
beautiful girls of the South, nnd when
sho siurandorod, sho did so uncondi
tionally and Inis stayed, surrendered oV-
or s lieu—a lovely, dovoted wife.—De
troit 1‘ost.
—Bussell Slurgos was a poor Boston
boy, and baenme a ton-millionaire In
London through Ills connection with
tlio famous banklng-hotiso of Haring
Rro'.lmrs. Ho always attributed his sue-
russ iu lifo to tho fnct that ho got on
tlie wrong steninor by mistnko, and was
thus led to mnko the acquaintance of
tho linn in which ho mndo Ills money.
—Mr. Thomas Itnlny and wlfo. of
Trenton, N. colcbrntod n few days
ago tlie seventieth anniversary of their
wadding. When thoy were married ho
was twenty-two and sho eighteen years
of nno. They linvo had twolvo children,
and ten of 'them are now living with
Inrgc families of their own, there bo-
ing about one hundred and twenty
gruiidch'ldreii.—N. Y. Timet.
—Womloll Phillips, in Ills old age,
likes lo talk about the fiery years of
tlio struggle against slavery. To Mr.
Fori min, colored, tho editor of tho New
York Hlobe, lie related the other day
how ho went to a New York hotel In
1862 to pass tlio night. Tho proprietor
handed ifim his snehol buck, saying:
"We have no vacant rooms." “Do
you moan that or do you tnuan you do
not tlusiro to neuonimodnto Wendell
Phillips?" asked Mr. Phillips. “I
mean I do not care to noeenimodate
you, sir." Mr. Phillips walked away
more iu pity than in disgust.
Maglnn’i llnmor.
William Mngiun met Blackwood in
this amusing way. Hu had already con
tributed to tho magazine, but was un
known to tlie editor. Wishing to have
nn interview with Blackwood; Ma
set out for Edinburgh from Oort, •
lie arrived on a Sundays
enrlcy Monday morning present
self lu tho funions shop in Prinoo’* ill
It will bu recalled that the papers con
tributed by Mngiun were spidy and
stinging, nnd that Blackwood had re
ceived sevornl furious letters from Ire
land demanding tho name of the authoi
of such obnoxious artinles, a foot whioh
Maginn had heard of. Blnokwood now '
mistook Maginn, who was a thorough
Irishman iu appenranoe, for one of his
angry correspondents come to seek s
reckoning, eo tho following colloquy
took place:
“ You are Mr. Blackwood, I presume?''
“ I air..”
“ I have rather an nnplensant business
with yon, thou, respecting some things
which appear in your magazine. They
are (so and so). Would you be kind
enough to givo me the name of the
author?"
“ That requires consideration, snd I
musiljjjht'bo satisfied of your purposes.”
“YanF contributor resides in Gork.
does bit hot? Yon need not mske any
mystery about that.”
si decline at present giving any in
formation on that hood before I know
moro of your business and who you are.”
“You are vory shy, sir. I though!
you corresponded with Mr. Scott. in
Cork” (the assumed name under whioh
Maginn had contributed his papers).
“ I beg to decline any information on
that matter.”
“ If you do not know him, then, per
haps yon could know yonr own hand
writing” (drawing from hia pocket a
bundle of letters). “Yon need not deny
yonr correspondence with that person
with these proofs in my possession.”
“ How, in heaven's name, did you pro
cure tlioso letters?”
“ I am the gentleman himself.”
A hearty langh, a warm handshake
and a wee drtp of auld usquebaugh
mode all tilings right, and resulted in a
pleasant evening and a cordial acquaint
ance between tlio cautious editor and
humorous author of the Odoherty
papers.
Thu Chinese army ia variously esti,
mated, some placing it as low as 30,000
meu. wliilo otlior accounts raise it to 200,-
000 men already in the field. Borne crit
ics, who profess to speak from personal
knowledge, praise highly the efficiency
of tlie celestial battalions, which, with
vory few exceptions, have for field offic
ers military experts who learned the troda
of war in the armies of England or France,
tho system of organization and tactics bo-
ing that existing in the armies of the re
public.
“ 1 will not leara a trade 1” exclaimed
the Chicago lad to his father. But this
business of learning a trade ia only a
matter of time, for withjn a year that
young man was studying harness-mak
ing in State prison.