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CURE EV T PA ll A (!K A P as. Three Russian officers" inspected a powder mill near Portland, Me., last January, and endeavored to purchase improved machinery like that which was there in use. This they were unable to do, but they made contracts for the man ufacture and shipment of a large quan tity of powder worth §250,000. Japan has a wouderful postoflice de partment, for a 'jew country. During 1876, postal-letters, communications and other articles transported through the mails, numbered 30,862,614; the total amount of transportation was 13,406,- 115 milesand the total cost of the de partment was only §713,244, owing to small r claries and cheap labor. A gentleman is a rarer thing than tome of us think for. Which of us can (point out many such in his circle; men whose aims are generous, whose truth is ■constant and elevated, who can look the world honestly in the face, with equal manly sympathy for the great and the small ? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made and a score who have excellent manners, but of gentle men, how many ? Let us take a little j scrap of paper, and each make his list, j The Sultan will proclaim a “holy war.” Russia has proclaimed also a “holy war.” England’s possible war must, of course, be “ holy.” Every one of the combatants, bible or koran in one hand and sword in the other, will bellig erently exclaim to each other, “lam holier than thou. Our torpedoes are holier than your torpedoes; and our bombs, bayonets and bullets are the only holy bombs, bayonets and bullets in the world.” That wild, untamed American po tentate Don Pedro shocked Emperor William the other day by wearing a black cravat at the emperor’s reception. Besides he was out when the Kaiser called on him at his hotel. The brazen emperor from Brazil in point of eti quette seems a regular bull in a china shop and his eccentricities justify the probability of next hearing of him at some court with his pants tucked in his boots and his shirt outside his panta loons, the custom of the country in Brazil. — Graphic. The moistening of coal witli a view to increase its heating effect is frequently practiced. A calculation in a Ger man journal, based upon a careful con sideration of the products formed and the heat generated in their combustion, together with the specific heat of the products of combustion and of the air required, as well as of the heat rendered latent in the steam, demonstrates not only that heat is obtained from the coal, but that the temperature produced is lower than with dry coal, and that there is consequently a waste of fuel. It is admitted that in exceptional cases of dusty coal it may be advisable to moisten it to render it more compact, and pro mote the access of the air in burning. It is the general impression in Italy that bread made from Indian corn is un wholsome, frequently producing sporadic diseases, which often terminate fatally. The facta appear te be well established, and the result to depend upon a condi tion of mouldiness which is very apt to supervene in consequence of the method of preparing bread in that country. Quite recently some chemists have suc ceeded in separating from mouldy Indian meal an alkaloid substance, which is white, easily alterable, non-crystalline, insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and ether, which acts poisonously on man and animals. It is especially noteworthy that the sulphuric acid solution, when oxidizing agents are added, has a bltie color, strikingly similar to that of the corresponding reaction of strychnine. Miss Adelaide Neilson says of the women of Shakspeare: “It would take a volume to classify them: Each and every one is a different creation,and their characters illustrate peculiar compari sons of mind and force. In the character of Desdemona we see a powerful illustra tion of conjugal devotion, and the strong est sympathy is excited for her sorrowful fate. In Isabella’s is displayed a high- : souled principle; in Juliet’s,an enthusi astic love; in Constance is seen the highest forms of maternal agony; in Margaret of Anjou, the sternest energies of our sex; in Katharine, the complete ness of resignation; in Rosalind, wit and romance; in Cleopatra, the beginning and end of coquetry ; in Imogen, an af fection that is deathless; in Ophelia, the fate of a broken heart and a maddened brain; in Cordelia’s character we have the beautiful lesson of filial obedience; in Miranda’s, innocence; sweetness in that of Anne Page, and a playful freedom in that of Jessica. In all, Shakspcare shows a true appreciation of female ex cellence, and he makes them talk and act like true women ” The Norwich Bulletin man remarks; • A North Carolina paper speaks of a biby which was born black and subse quently turned white. In the latitude a baby is usually born white and turns to a lively yeller.” (Ll)c Jcettji Sentinel. VOL. I. sritiKd ha is iy bcriangton. Dowu where (he wake-robin springs from itsslmu bers, Opening its cardinal eye to the sun ; Come the dull echoes of far away thunders Heavy and fast as the shots of a gun. Up on the hill where the wind flowers nestle, Like new falltn stars on the green mossy strand ; '1 here come the dead notes of the house cleaning pestle— The found of the carpet is heard in the land. Up ! tor the song birds their matins arc singing ; Up, for the morinng is tinting the skies ; Up. lor the good wife the switches is bringing, Out to the line where the hall carpet flies. Up ana away for the carpet is dusty ! Fly, for the house cleaning days have beguu ! Run, for the womanly temper is crusty ; Up and be doing, lest ye be undone ! Late, late, too late. Just one moment of snoring, He wakes to the sound of the tumult below. O’er the beating of carpets he hears a voice roaring, “ Breakfast was over three hours ago! ” See, be is plunged in the front of the battle, Where dust is the thickest they teil him to stand ; Where suds, mops and scrub brushes spatter and rattle, And the sound of the carpet is heard in the land. —Burlington Ihurkege. DARK DA TS OF CA LIT OR NIA. ltieh Men Impoverished—Thousands of People Suffering for the very Xeccssi ties of Life—The Bur sling of the Big Bonanza . I find things in a frightful condition here. East of the Rocky mountains, you have no idea of the terrible depres sion upon this coast. We are suffering ! from a complication of disorders. The great mining bubble has bursted and has ruined every one. I mean this literally, for not only have the rich or the middle class suffered, but the mania for specula tion has spread down to the very ser vants, and they are all to-day out of pocket and in debt. Men who but three or four months since supposed they were rich, are to-day begging for employment; and probably three persons out of every four are now making their first acquain tance with extreme poverty. The whole community seems to be beggared, and to add to our affliction we have just passed through a great drought; our cattle are dying by the hundreds of thousands. Their carcaseses cannot be sold for any sum however small; and the ruin of the cattle dealers will inevitably bring a great deal of the land now held in massesfinto the market to be sold for a song. People east, who have money, could not do better than to come out here in order to take advantage of the reckless way in which all kinds of property are sold. Valuable farms and ranches can now be had for one-twentieth of their value, and city property is for sale at prices which would have seemed ridicu lous a few years back. The depression is so great that it cannot last much longer in this way. But the suffering is intoler able, and bad as times have been in the east, they are as naught compared with the disaster which has overtaken the residents of the Pacific coast. Thousands are going to Arizona, where there is said to be gold for the digging; and the agricultural population will be increased, although at present agriculture is the most depressed industry we have. Word has been sent to John McCullough, in New York, that there is no use in his returning to the Pacific coast, and that his theatre will have to be closed. This is the second year of drought since the settlement of California. Southern California is described as an “ash heap/’ while the Sonoma, Sacra mento and Sonora valleys are burnt to a crisp. On one ranch alone 25,000 sheep were killed because they could net be fed. The costly exchanges here, far superior to any you have in New York, are vacant, andhaveproved to be California’s greatest folly. Lookout for trouble among the representative millionaires of the Pacific coast. —Correspondent of the Graphic. tVA TEH AS AS liISVJSRA OR. No one can exist without consuming a certain quantity of water, which is the essential basis of all drinks. It has been calculated that the body of a man weigh ineeleven stone contains sixty-six pounds of solid matters and eighty-eight pounds of water, and that he loses in various ways about six pounds of water in twen. ty-four hours, and this loss of water must be supplied in his food and drink. In the ordinary physiological processes noth ing passes in the blood, and nothing passes out of it, without the invterven tion, in some way or another, of water as a solvent. It will thus be seen that water plays a most important part in re lation to animal life and nutrition. It is also the agent by which the body is cleansed inwardly as well as outwardly, and is a necessary, though not quite so obvious, that the interior of our bodies should be washed and made clean as the exterior. In the processes of nutrition— in the physical and chemical changes upon which life dej>ends— effete waste JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 1577. products are constantly being discharged I into the blood from the tissues of the I body, and these have to be got rid ol; for if they are permitted to accumulate in the blood the body becomes poisoned by them, and life is destroyed as certainly as if a large dose of prussic acid or opium were introduced from without. Men do indeed frequently die, poisoned by toxic agents which they manufacture within their own organisms. One of the uses of water, taken into the body as a bever age, is to dissolve these effete products of the work of the organism, and so to convey them out of the body through the action of the secreting organs. Water is readily absorbed into the blood and is rapidly discharged from it. In its rapid course through the body it washes, so to speak, the circulating fluid, and carries away, through the channels of exertion, substances, the reten tion of which in the blood would prove in the highest degree harmful. It may readily be imagined that pure, un adulterated water performs that lunction better than anv modification of it which we may drink as a beverage. It is, how ever, true that some slightly mineralized waters pass through the organism with even greater rapidity than pure water, on account of the stimulating action the most of them exercise on certain of the excretory organs. Mild alkaline waters may also, under certain circumstances, prove more cleansing than pure water, on account of their greater solvent action on some substances. The quantity of water we need in the form of beverage depends greatly on the nature of the other substances we consume as food. With a dietary composed largely of suc culent vegetables and fruit, very little of any kind of beverage is required. Much also depends on the manner in which our solid food is cooked—whether, in the case of animal food, the natural juices of the flesh are retained in it or not; much, too, will depend on those atmospheric and other conditions which determine the amount of fluid lost by evaporation from the surface of the Indy. The sensa tion of thirst is the natural warning that the blood wants water. I may here remark, incidentally, that it is not a wise custom to take excessive quantities of any fluid, even simple water, with our food, for by so doing we dilute too much the digestive juices, and so retard their solvent action on the solid food we have consumed. A draught of fluid, how ever, towards the end of digestion is often useful in promoting the solution and absorption of the residuum of this pro cess, or in aiding its propulsion along the digestive tube. Hence the custom of taking tea a few hours after dinner, or seltzer or soda water a little before bed time. STRENGTH OF GIB It A LTAII. Gibraltar, for more than one hundred and seventy years, las been in a condi tion to defy any quarter, it is amass of solid gray marble, connected with the southern extremity of Spanish Anda lusia by a narrow peninsula, which is entirely commanded by the fortress. The rock, at its highest point 1,439 feet above the level of the sea, is completely honeycombed with batteries, bomb-proof and every species of defensive contriv ance. Cannon of the largest calibre frown along its face, steep escarps bar all paths up the almost perpendicular as cent, immense cisterns and magazines furnish abundant supplies of water and ammunition, and there is always a sufli cienV stock of provisions to last three years. The ordinary gariison consists of about 5,000 infantry, 1,000 artillery and a picked corps of engineers; and in case of emergency there are accommodations for double this force. The last and most ntemorable siege Gibraltar endured begun in June, 1779, and ended in Feb ruary, 1783. The combines armies and fleets of France and Spain pounded the impregnable walls in vain for the three and eight months, and then gave up the hopeless task. The British lost 333 killed, 536 from disease, 4t from deser tion, and the wounded numbered 1,008. The casualties on the other side are not known. Since then there has been no attempt to rob England of her priceless possession; a possession, by the way, of which she robbed Spain. The present strengthening of Gibraltar means that England does not intend to be “caught napping,” and that the government does not know lufw soon this matchless citadel may be needed as a base of operations in the Mediterranean and the further east. Ixjuis XIV. threatened to turn the tide less sea into “a French lake;” Alex ander, if he had the opportunity, would gladly make it a Russian lake; but as long as England holds Gibraltar; the key of the western door; the Mediter | ranean is, to all intents and purposes, an ! English lake. —Nashville American. lilW XING THE PUSS I,IS IS.I I TERIKS. Hobart Pasha’s Sarcessfu t Ban Through the Blockade at Halatz. The account of Hobart Pasha’s defi ance of the Russians on the Danube makes a thrilling story. It is stated that while his vessel was lying near Rustchuk the Turkish authorities re ceived intelligence of the arrival of the Russians at Galatz, and that they were placing, torpedoes in the river. Hybart I’asi.v. was advised to leave his ,steamer in tlk t<rnule and return to GVnatanli nopljTby Varna, but disdaining all such counsel he declared that he would rather blot' up his ship than desert her. Night he made everything ready for miming into the Black sea in opposi tion to all Russian hostile intentions, getting clear fires under the boilers of liis in order to avoid smoke from her funnel, and making other arrange ments. The Rethymo, be it said, is a very fast boat, capable of steaming at the rate of fifteen Knots an hour. When Hobart Pasha started on his daring ex pedition the I)aube current was run ning swiftly, being estimated at fully five knots an hour. Upon nearing Galatz he found that heavily armed Russian batteries commanded the river, looking capable of sinking anything afloat, be sides the torpedoes reported to be hidden beneath the waters. Immediately it was dark the word was passed “lights out,” and the steamer sped rapidly along. The batteries were soon reached, and the Russian lanterns, the heavy guns, and soldiers in great number were visible to those who manned the saucy Rethymo, when suddenly a rocket was sent up from the Roumanian shore to apprise the Muscovite gunners of Hobart Pasha's coming. Other rockets followed in quick succession. Then the hoarse word of command was distinctly heard; bugles sounded, and the drums beat merrily, summoning the Russians to their posts- Hobart Pashaexpected every moment to be blown out of the water by the fire of thi'Heavy guflS'he waft treating so cava lierly, but being determined to mate ef forts in some degree proportionate to the great risk lie was facing, he ran his ves sel close to shore—not forty metres from the batteries lhemselves--indeed, so near that the Russian gunneis were unable to compress their piece* 'ffieuntly fast to get a good aim. His boat went quickly by at twenty knots an hour, and soon all danger was over. When satisfied he had nothing to fear from his enemies, Hobart Pasha ordered the crew of the Rothymo, which carries one 40-pound Armstrong gun, to throw one shell into the center of the Russian camp, an order which was quickly obeyed, the missile bursting in the midst of the Muscovite tents. Its effects were of course unknown, but it was the first cannon shot fired upon the Danube in the Russio Turkish war. Hobart Pasha subsequently proceeded to < 'onstantinople, where he received a hearty 'welcome and enthusiastic con gratulations. Hobart Pasha reports the Russians in great force close to Galatz, making pre parations apparently to cross the Dan ube, and enter the Dobrudscha, to move upon Varna. He also found that twelve Russian gunboats bad been brought by rail [across Roumania. and were ready for launching in the river. He has formed an opinion that the depth of wa ter is insufficient to enable gunboat ope rations against Galatz to be successfully carried out, but believes if he were al lowed to act he could prevent any cross ing of the Russians. The Muscovites fired shot and shell in considerable quan tities, but the daring of Hobart Pasha carried him into the Black sea, past all danger, with flying colors.—A T . Y. Than. IMMORTALITY. The wife of W. S. Robinson (“ War rington,” the well-known newspaper cor respondent;, in her biography of him says: “A few weeks before his death he sat one day, sis was his wont, before his ojien fire, in a meditative posture, with his hands at rest. His wife spoke to him, and he looked up, with the bright smile so well remembered by all who knew him, and said: “It is curious how the immortality of the soul grows upon you. As I have been sitting here day after | day it has come to me, arid I am sure of !of it—as sure of it, arid of living again, |as I am that I am here—more sure, for I don’t know half the time whether I !am here in the body or not. It is ju-t like going into another room into that j room (pointing to the open parlor door s near him). ‘Why, this world and the ! next ere joined as closely as my two hands.’ o|>ening them and placing them I together, one above the oilier, with palms NO. 31). i , reserved; * there they are—no break, no break lx tween, no gulf to paß. i feel •very day like one who walks by a hedge, and is looking for a gate, a gap to go through, to *walk on the other side.’ After that the subject was one of com mon talk, and was spoken of in the midst of every-day a flairs. Frequently, when he was spoken to he would look up, smile and place his hands as I have described, saying, ‘No break, no break.’ G°d was good to him, He had tried to lead tbijtpeeple-td truth and right in this life; was it not given, him, in part, to lead them still farther—to a belienn the life beyond, toward the great Center of Truth and Right itself.” RUSSIA 9 SRULE OR RUIN ' POLICY. Views of the Eitylish Admiral Who Com mands the Turkish Nary. So at last the farce is played out; diplomacy retires on its laurels, and Russia, forsooth, is to have the task of teaching the Turks how to rule their peoples. Cleverly has Europe been hood winked, cleverly has her persistent enemy played her game. Now we shall see what an oppressed nation of 15,000,000 can do against a powerful (if a somewhat divided) nation of 80,000,000, when it has to do battle for its very existence ; now we shall see Poles, Circassians, Geor gians, and the brave Hungarians setting aside all questions of religious differences and rallying round the Turk, thinking only of revenge for past injuries inflicted on them by this would-be instructor in the art of governing; and we shall pro bably see enough blood flow to satisfy even the most rabid humanitarian. Let us have no more ravings about fanaticism and Turkish misrule. The war now so imminent (if not actually declared while 1 write) will he a war waged on one side for aggression and spoilation, based on Catherine's dream and Peter the Great’s will; on the other, by a nation which is not actuated by fanatical reasons, but which will fight—aye, and fight hard— for the hearths and homes of its people and its honor as a nation. It is a grand sight to see an array and navy such as the Turkish, without pay for months— aye, you might say for years—sacrificing all for their country; no tobacco, often short rations, hut happy as children anil brave aslions. However, thank govdnessl they are well armed and clothed and ready for anything in the way of hard work. Sir, I have been accused of espous ing tiie cause of the l urks with too great warmth. No man has more oj>enly con demned or more deeply regretted the sad events in Bulgaria. No one has cen sured the bad system of government ex isting heretofore more than myself. Hut I find in history many parallel cases during civil wars, and, as I know that there is so much real good in the Turks, I have always urged that they should have a chance given to them, in which case I foresee happy times anti a great future for this country. The lessons they have received have not been thrown away; but I phrophecy fearful results if this war (supposing it to have been de clared while I write) is allowed to go on. The Turks ask, with reason, “ What does Russia want? Is it guarantees of re form ?” “ Gan we, ” they say, “ begin a strict regime of government by accept, ing at the outset humiliation in the eyes of those we are to govern? The only guarantee we can offer is immediate action, and this we cannot put into prac- tice till we are free not only from war> i intrigue. ” I fear that no ! guarantee weuld satisfy Russia. Let j Eurojie guess what she wants and look | to her own interests while she (Europe) ! stands gravely by and sees a brave nation dismembered. But we have not come to I that yet. Turkey will prove a hard, a very hard nut to crack. One hears (re ports are al ways magnified) of the dis turbances here and there even now in the provinces. How can you expect anything else while every subject of Turkey has to give almost his last farth ing in support of the army and navy? Your obedient servant, Hobart Pasha. .Silislra, lianubc, April 26. l/Iter to the London Times. A tramp, with last fall’s fracture still shining in his simple apparel, hid it yesterday by sitting down on the curb stone opposite the hippodrome, and he softly sighed; “I wish I wuz a little daug! ’f I wuz a little daug I could set in a silver bird-cage, with a gold collar on, and hev the ladies feed me with cookies, an’ poke me with ther parasols, and call me splendid, instead of settin’ ’round here dry ez codfish ’cause my ’ristocratic blood rebels against heatin’ carpits.’ aRA VE A Nl> CA Y. . The pay of a Russian colonel is said to be ouly .*4OO a year. In Sweden beggars are arrested and made to work. . A rich man can he as big an idiot as a poor man, Imt people won’t tell him so half so quick. There is a newspaper which might have contained an account of the cruci fixion of the Savior had there been cor respondents at the time of that great event. The Gazette of Pekin, China, j was started 713 years before the birth of [ Christ, and is still a journal in good standing. , .. A Nicaragua journal gives an account of an electric magnet plant, which, ac cording to the writer, Mr. Levy, is an extremely remarkable species, and has been named by him Phycolata rlerlrica. He maintains that this plant possesses strong electro magnetic properties—so much so that, on breaking off a branch, the hand feels a decided shock, as if from a Ruhmkorf battery. 11 also affected the magnetic needle at a distance -ol ft ven o. paces, and more and more violently with a hearer approach. No traoe was seen in the surrounding soil of iron or other magnetic metal, and the writer fit % believes that the electric condition fefcides in the plant itself. He states thatthe Strength of the phenomena varies with the time of day, it being al most zero at night, and attaining its maximum power about two o’clock in the afternoon. It is also increased in stormy weather, hut intermitted during rain. No insects nor birds were ever seen near the plants. AN ENERGETIC CRIRCI.E. The enterprise of a recent employe of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad cannot bo too much praised. While taking a trunk out of a baggage car from Boston in the Springfield depot some time ago, he was thrown down and hurt. He suffered terribly and crawled around on crutches until the Boston and Albany and the New Haven roads united and gave him $6,000, when be was in stantaneously and completely cured. Shortly afterward a man on the Boston and Albany road was killed, and the company gave the widow $3,000. The former Cripple who had scored $6,000 al ready, Boon married her and thus counted $9,000. He recovered his health so com pletely that he was able to work again on the railroad, hut finally, not being hurt again within a reasonable time, he retired to a farm, which he had bought with a part of the proceeds of his former calamities, and where he is living in peace and quietness and under the con solations of the reflection that virtue is its own reward. A nibKOVS PROTECTION. A pleasant story is told by Sir John Lubbock, quoting from Weissmann, illustrative of the means of protection which some insects possess. The cater pillar of the sphinx moth is quite as good food lor birds as any other insect; but it is perfectly protected by its ugliness. Its face is its fortune, having two groat s)K>ts on it which look like eyes when the caterpillar wriggles. In general the insect is suggestive of a small snake, especially when it is frightened wo that it draws back its heail and shows its false eyes to advantuge. M. Weissmann put one of these caterpillars into a seed tray where he usually fed sparrows and other small birds. The first bird that alighted on the edge of the tray, perceiving the insect, became half paralyzed with fear. Eight or ten birds joined the first one, but all stood on the edge of the tray, afraid to go in. One bird flew into the tray at first, but on seeing the caterpillar hastily scrambled out and joined the company on the edge that were bobbing their heads up and down, and looking into the tray as if half terrified. After the caterpillar was removed the birds went into the tray for seeds as usual. UK. KVARTS’* ASRCDOIE. Mr. Evarts, in the course of his argu ment, the other day before the court of appeals told a story which caused those who listened to him, including part of the bench, to smile broadly if not audi bly. He wished to illustrate the ex treme complacency with which the coun sel who appeared on behalf of the New York elevated railways viewed the vast damage to property owners which was involved in building such roads. He said it reminded him of the Irish land lord who, while travelling on the conti nent, received a letter from his balifl'. The haliff wrote that the tenants insisted that the rents they were called upon to i nay were too high, and that they went so far as to threaten to shoot him if he did not obtain a reduction from the princi pal. The landlord promptly wrote back to the plaintiff: “Say to the tenants that I will not come down a penny, and assure them that the threat they make shall not influence me in the slightest decree.” — Albany Journal. 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