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GRIM WOOD’S NOTE BOOK.
•Orim Jokes in 3fid-Air Rescued from the Grave
The inquest was held Tuesday after*
noon, near Montague, Mich., on the
body of N. S. Grimwood, the reporter
of the Chicago Journal, who ascended
in a balloon with Donaldson, and a ver
dict of accidental drowning rendered.
The identification of the body was per
fect. In Grim wood’s note book was
found written the following, evidently
the introduction to his aocount of the
ascension broken off at the moment the
two occupants oi the baiioon were over-
taken by the calamity which precipi
tated them into the lake. The account
is headed “ Up in a Balloon,” and con
tinues : .
“From the earliest dawn of child
hood I have always had a presentiment
that at some time, sooner or later, I
was destined to rise. There are some
people who make sport of presenti
ments, but, after all, presentiments are
a handy thing to have around. Where
would I be to-day if I had not had a
presentiment? I have risen, as it were
to a point of order. Like a great many
politicians, I arose by means of gas. I
regret the faot that there are only two
of us, Fref. Donaldson and myself, as I
would like to belong
TO THE UPPER TEN.
“ Prof. Donaldson seems to be a very
pleasant gentleman, although a philos
opher and an aeronaut. Although it is
soarcely an hour since I struggled into
eminence, the restraint of my position
is already beginning to be irksome to
me and wear upon my spirits. I cannot
help reflecting that if we fall we
FALL LIKE LUCIFER
out of the heavens, and that upon our
arrival upon earth, or rather upon
water—as we are now over the middle
of Lake Michigan—we would be liter
ally dead,”
Chinamen in California.
The Chinamen in California number
20,000, of whom three-fourths are
adults. They are not only a power, but
a great and important power. They fill
nearly all the departments of trade,
from the highest to the lowest. They
have introduced American manufactures
into China, and brought baok in other
things oheaper goods than can be made
at home. They regulate the labor
market in California. They know Con-
fucions by heart, and are omtent with
the maxims of that ancient sage rather
than the teachings of the modem mis
sionary.
Every month about 2,500 Mongolians
are added to the Pacific coast labor and
in household >. They monopolize wash
ing and.peddling; control rigar-mahing,
boots and shoes, underwear, etc..; are
tinsmiths, watchmakers, carf enters,
broommakers, fishermen and gardeners,
and experts in woolen fabrics ; they are
excellent cooks and chamber servants,
and expert money counters in banks;
in faot they are industrious, expert at
bargains,' and economical. As house
servants they are cleanly, but strike for
higher wages and quit without notice.
Dishonesty is frequent, but the notions
of European domestics are exorbitant,
and housekeeping would be impractica
ble without Chinamen, for Chinawomen
never hire out. Their numbers are
small, few marry, and the most are pub
lic. Nine-tenths of the Chinamen
are single and show no disposition to
settle nor to regard politics. They
gradually adopt eur clothing, except
the Christian coat and stockings. Men,
women and children wear pig-tails
reaching to the heels, and this orna
ment is worshiped. They 6tick to the
wide-sleeved blouse,mostly blue muslin.
Opium is their favorite smoke^ and rice
their chief diet, combined with pork.
Fish and Vegetables are largely con
sumed and eggs are largely imported
from China coated with mud, and dried
clams and oysters are also imported.
No one ever saw a chinaman tipsy, but
they gamble uni vet sally. They live in
crowded dens and with no comfort. A
shilling goes further than a dollar with
Americans ; quick to strike for wages,
they work for whatever offers rather
than be idle. Every man can read and
write. They have several temples for
worship, and within images are rudely
bedizened, tapers ever burning, incense,
gongs, etc., but no seats. Gilded texts
from their scriptures appear on the
walls. There are no books, no pulpit,
no preaching, no praying, nor is there
a day set for worship. . Every day
Chinamen pass in front of the images,
hats on, make a low obeisance, and pass
out; time, five minutes.
Americana can sea .at a glaneetbe
importance in many senses, of a popu
lation like this. Though in the country,
hey are not of it, for all of them mean
to return home some day or other.—
AT.,, Y. Express. \
Mules and Horses.
Whatever may be said of the hone as
an agricultural laborer above the mule
at the north, certain it is that the posi
tion of the Arkansas correspondent of
the Amerloan Farm Journal, favoring
the mule in Southern agriculture; is
well taken i
Mules on an average are more valua
ble than horses, are not so subject to
disease, and are not likely to run away
in wagoning and plowing, are longer
lived, will do more work, and require
less feed and attention; they are
stronger, will draw heavier loads, and
stand a great deal more hardship, and
are in every way preferable to the horse
for general farm use. Mules come in
earner, being ready for light work when
three years old. They will then do
enough work on the farm to pay for
their feed, and after having attained the
age of four years, they are ready for any
kind of service. But the horse (colt)
must be kept until he is four years old
before he is worked at all, and when he
is four he must be a first-rate colt to
bring as much as the mule will at two
years old. But assume the animals are
both required for farm work, see what
a difference there is in favor of the
mule. The working life of a mule can
be safely estimated at thirty years, and
that of a horse at ten years. So while
a mule is working its life out, three
horses are required to do equal service.
But these are not the only items. The
saving of feed is at least one fourth, or
not less than 647 bushels of corn and
427 tons of hay. These amounts,
added to the original saving in purchase
of animals, show an advantage in favor
of the use of the mule over the horse of
over $1,000 during the ordinary life of
the animal. The mule is less dainty
about food, unground grain and dry
feed being just the thing for him. There
are still other advantages in favor of
the mule too numerous to mention.
The Family of Donaldson the Aero
naut.
The children of Donaldson, the aero
naut, are said to be in very destitute
circumstances in Bochester, New York.
A proposition for a collection for their
benefit has not met with success, and
they are being supported by a few be
nevolent and charitably inclined indi
viduals of that city. Donaldson was a
widower, and engaged to be married at
au early date to Miss Taylor, an eques
trian of Barnum’s Hippodrome, who
won professional renown in “the ladies’
flat race,” the “Congress of Nations”
in the “ Saltan’s Harem," and the
“ hurdle races.” Miss Taylor stated to
a reporter of the St. Louis press that
before his last ascension, Mr. Donald
son was unusually depressed in spirits,
and gave into her charge all his porta
ble effects, without telling her what
disposition to make of them in case he
was lost. She was undecided what to do
with them, but, as his ohildrdh are a
charge upon benevolent people of
Rochester, her duty is certainly plain
enough, since they should be appropri
ated for their use.
Miss Taylor was injured by a fall
from a horse in St. Louis, and when
able to travel she went to Peoria, Illi
nois, where she is at present, the guest
of a sister. When interviewed a few
davs since, she stated to a reporter that
she bad not yet given up all hope of
Donaldson’s safety, although it was
daily growing more faint. Should he
return, she said, their marriage will
speedily take place.—Toledo Blade.
Specimen French Convicts.
A shipload ol convicts of the worst
class leaves France Jhis week for New
Cileuuiiia, Mors than a year ago the
terrible institution of the galleys at
Toulon was abolished, and transporta
tion substituted as a punishment in
stead. More humane Certainly, and
possibly more efficacious, as it gives
the criminal a chance for reformation,
and of thriving by honest industry.
Among the gang of murders and forgers
who are to be sent off in a day or two,
there is one who confidently expeots to
become the tenor singer of the theatre
of Neumeo, while another congratulates
himself by being a baker by trade, and
therefore likely to get on well in bis
new sphere. The crimes of which these
wtetches have been guilty are mainly of
the most atrocious enaraoter, nearly all
of them being murderers, One of them,
a respeotable-looking man named Brest,
was found guilty of having put his own
little daughter to death by holding her
down on a red-hot stove until she was
literally roasted. There seema^to be
law when the miserable Communists
were put to death by hundreds, while
the life of such an atrocious fiend as
that oould be judiciously spared. A
shipload of women, selected from the
diucraut reformatory institutions of the
government, is shortly to be sent out to
New Caledonia also. This will be thq
second lot that lias been sent there, the
first having done very well, all those
who composed it haring either been
married soon after their arrival, or else
well-established as household servants.
—Paris Letter,
Why Language Should he Studied.
The study of philology, or of language
by itself, is undoubtedly of great value;
bnt it is rather a study for the spec
ialist than for the average student. It
is, certainly, a true science; only, lack
ing precision in its methods, and be
ing deficient in praotical applicability
to the general affairs of life, it must be
left ont of aoconnt for the present. In
a general course of study a language
should be taught because of its value m
opening up other departments of knowl
edge. It should reveal to us the
thoughts of other peoples, and enable
ns to avail ourselves of their experience.
For most men these purposes are best
fulfilled by a study of the modern
tongues. Latin and Greek are avail
able no donbt, only they are less indis
pensable than French and German.
These newer languages are not only of
praotical value, being spoken or written
by millions of our fellow-beings to-day,
but they have also many direct bear
ings upon all modern life. The sciences
can not be well studied without them;
they open up the widest fields of recent
thought; they bring ns into closer har
mony with the spirit of our own times.
We can get along better without a
knowledge of antiquity than without a
knowledge of the days in which we
live. The history of the siege of Troy
has less interest for ns than the history
of the great sooial and eoonomio prob
lems whioh are being worked ont in
suoh deadly earnest in onr own coun
try and in Europe to-day. The ancient
languages have their uses, unquestion
ably ; so also have the Russian and the
Chinese; bnt are those uses of sufficient
importance to warrant universal study ?
Remembering the aims of education,
we must also remember that every stu
dent has but a limited number of years
to spend at oollege. In those few years
he mnst require that learning whioh
will best fit him to go forth and grapple
with aotive duties. If he has both the
taste and the leisure, then he can learn
the dead languages after graduation.
It iB nothing to urge that Latin and
Greek facilitate the acquisition of
French and German, since the latter
can be studied directly as the former;
Few people can afford the time to study
four languages in order to use but two.
—Popular Science Monthly.
Why Cattle Require Salt.
We know why the animal craves salt,
and why it ultimately falls into disease,
if salt is for a time withheld. Upwards
of half the saline matter of the blood,
(57 per cent.), consists of ’common salt;
and as this is partly discharged every
day through the skin and kidneys, the
necessity of oontinned supplies of it to
the body beoomes sufficiently obvious.
The bile also contains soda as a speoial
and indispensable constituent, and so
do all the cartilages of the body.
Therefore, if the supply of salt be
stinted, neither will the bile be able
properly to assist the digestion, nor the
cartilages be built up again as they
And when ws consider it to be a fact,
that without salt man would miserably
perish; as among horrible punishments
entailing certain death, that of feeding
oulprits on saltless food is said to have
prevailed in barbarous times, we may
become partially convinced at least, of
the necessity of feeding salt to our
stock—that it is one of the necessaries
as well as one of the luxuries of life for
man and beast; and it should be pro
fusely provided at short intervals, in
proper places, if it cannot be kept by
them oontinually, so that each and evexy
animal may satisfy the demands of his
nature. Then it shall not be said of us,
that while our padding is well Masoned
and salted, our stock are allowed to
suffer for want of (he same
whioh is as truly dooms ary fc
as for oxun.—ProJ. Johnson.
An Affecting Case.
■hows nothing stranger than instant!^
neoas blindness or deafness, or their
immediate eure. Bnt oases of the kind
are well authenticated. The following
is told in a Nashville paper: We re
cently heard a remarkable and touching
story of a little boy, the son of a gentle
man in an adjoining county. His age
is twelve or thirteen. He is an inter
esting and promising lad. One day
during the past winter he failed to rise
in the morning as early as usual. At
length his father went into the room
where he lay, and asked him why he
did not get up. He said it seemed
dark yet, and he was waiting for day
light His father retired, bnt the boy
not making his appearanoe for some
time, he returned, and said a seoond
time—
“ My son, why don’t you get up f”
“ Father, is it daylight ?’°he asked.
“ Yes, long ago.
V Then, fattier,” the little fellow said,
“I am blind.”
And so it was. His sight was gone.
In a short time his fattier took him to
Nashville, to get the benefit of the med
ical profession there, but none of the
physicians oould do anything for him,
and happily made no experiment on his
eyes. Some ladies in a family of his
father’s acquaintance sought to oheer
him in his amiotion, and one night pro
posed to take him to (he opera, that he
might hear the music and singing. He
went and was delightad.
In the course of the performance, all
at once he leaped np, threw his arms
aronnd his father’s neck, and screamed
with eostaoys
“ O father I I cm see I ”
His sight had instantly returned.
And since then he has retained it in full
vigor, except that under exoitement
there iB sometimes a dimness of vision.
The case is one of a remarkable and
singular character.
Yellow Jack at Pensacola.
The fever this season has displayed
all the qualitie iof a good general
maneuvering before an enemy. It first
appeared at quarantine immediately in
front of the city, bnt finding it impossi
ble to make an attack across (he water
(being able to fight only at short range)
it made a determined flank movement,
effected a lodgment at Barrancas, tod
succeeded in demolishing nearly one-
half the force stationed there. Thence
it made another flank movement, fell
upon and drove in onr pioket-line, and
at last entered the mty triumphant,
despite almost superhuman efforts to
prevent it. All that humanity oould do
was done to keep Pensacola free from
the fever. The first ease developed
itself this morning upon a Mr. Fields,
who had knowingly and willfully en
tered the oity, being fully aware that he
really bad the fever (at least it is so
said.) As soon as the case was reported,
Col. J. P. Jones, our mayor, sent two
physioius to examine and report. As
soon os their mission was heard of
orowds began to oolleot on the street
oorners, anxiously awaiting their re
turn. The various orowds began to
concentrate at one point as soon as the
medical men were seen returning.
Their report was laoonio, bnt to the
point. It was “yellow fever, sir.” In
less than half an hour, many were
making preparations to leave. Unless
the lever is checked at once, the injury
to commerce will be almost incalcu
lable. The business men of the city are
disheartened, and say it seems like
straggling against fate to attempt to
build up a business here.—Letter to
Atlanta Herald.
Flizb.—I hate a fli, A fit has got no
maunora* Ho ain’t no gentleman* 5c
is an irttmoder: don't seuu in u<> k»i4,
nor ax an introduokshnn, nor don’t
knock at the front door, and never
thinx of taking off his hat. Fast you
kno he is in bed with yon tod up your
nose—tho wat they want there is a mis-
try; and he invites hisself to breakfast
and sits down in your butter thout
brushing his pants, i hate a fli. Damn
fli.—Josh Billings.
—Tennessee has given her ooantry
three presidents—Jaekaon, Polk ana
Johnson—and it is anasMr still that
they were all born in Carolina.