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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Whenever the German Kaiser appears
in public, the loyalty of the Berliners
takes very demonstrative expression.
The number of births every year in
France app/ ars to be actually diminish-
ing g even with a slowly increasing popu-
lation.
The salmon canneries in Alaska do not
amount to more than a dozen, and are
located from fifty to one hundred , , , miles
apart, and near t de water.
A A school school of of forestry forestry has has been t een opened opened
at Akhalt/.ik, in the Caucasian provinces,
to instruct officials charged with check-
ing the destruction of Russian forests.
A colored National Convention to be
held in Washington City is talked of.
The New York Pres* thinks it will mark
a new era of nrosneritv 1 1 J for the colored
men of the South.
A man wlio steals one or two sheep is
suppo'cd to be a low-down chap, but
the the Texan Texan recently recently on on trial trial for tor stealing a.ing
If ),000 in a drove at oneswoop is ranked
along with a General.
The popular vote last election shows
an increase of about 2 , 100,000 on that of
18 or 28 per cent. If the population
of the country has increased at the same
ratio, it is now about 01,500,000.
Italy has just abolished capital punish¬
ment, although the murder rate is
higher in that kingdom than anywhere
in Europe, Will the rate be still
further incrca cd or be lowered by this
change? _
Manttfactured vinegar has succeeded
in displacing the real to such an extent
that thousands of bushels of cider apples
have been allowed to freeze in the
orchards of New England the past
season.
AVrecks on the coast in higher lati¬
tudes, ships driving before howling gales
and western-bound steamers battling
against immense air pressures to keep on
theircourse to their American ports is the
marine history of to-day.
The State l aw of Louisiana stopped all
fruit selling in the streets of New Or¬
leans. Five or six doctors certified that
the bananas handled overby the lazaroni
were medicine, and the Mayor has taken
it upon himself to annul the law.
There are manj evidences, asserts the
New A'ork Mail and Express, that Bou¬
langer his it in his head to imitate the
role of the first Napoleon. His wife
furnishes fresh evidence of the same
kind. She says he wants to make her a
Josephine.
It is the opinion of wagon wheel
manufacturers that the day of the wooden
wheel will before many years draw to a
close, and that steel wheels wbll take its
place. This opinion appearsaitogtether
reasonable, 'i he uses of steel and iron
are multiplying constantly.
New A'ork City is said to support
about, six thousand lawyers, and it is
claimed that the immense amount of liti-
gatiou done there through the courts of
private offices of counsel attracts ami
keeps there the highest legal talent of
the State, if not the country.
nort time since aesthetic folks were
discussing our lack of a national flower,
and now the- Boston Musical Herald la¬
ments that America is unprovided with
a national aur worihy of so great a coun¬
try. Such airs are born of occasion and
enthusiasm and are not to be produced
by cold study.
The Florida orange crop is estimated
at 8 , 000,0 H) boxes, which is more than
double the product of any previous year.
Each box holds, on an average, 150
oranges, which will be ten for every per¬
son in the United 8 tates. But these
450,000,000 Floridas will not ba ont>
half the oranges sold in our markets.
“It would seem to be about time,” in¬
sists the Chicago “for gentlemen
with European names to find out that the
manufacture of dynamite bombs is not a
thrifty trade in this singularly law-abid¬
ing city of Chicago. The Anarchist
Hronek played in great luck that he
got twelve years in prison instead of
twelve minutes on the gallows.”
Southbridge, Mass., has the largest
spectacle factory in the world, and the
largest Young Men’s C hristian Associa¬
tion in the world in proportion to its
size. More than three-fourths of the
gold spectacles and eye glasses made in
•bis country are made in Southbridge,
one company alone in that town having
turned out 1,500,003 pairs last year.
A Canadian judge fined a museum fat
woman $4 for refusing to pay her cab¬
man, who apparently wanted to charge
her in proportion to her weight. The
fair, fat, and ten-times-forty-pound wo¬
man refused to pay the fine and the
officials were ordered to take her to jail.
They found to their dismay that not a
cell door was large enough to let the fat
woman pass through.
The St. Louis Republican asserts that
“spiritualism is all the rage among cer-
tain kinds of people in Washington, and
k is growing. Several Congressmen—
indeed one Senator from the Pacific
slope—are regular patrons of the seances
whi(Si are held in various parts of the
town. It has set some of the department
clerks almost wild, and those who have
caught the mania talk of nothing else.”
THE GOLD COAST.
ODD THINGS SEEN ON THE WEST
COAST OF AFRICA.
The Natives and Their Houses—Pe¬
culiar Burial Customs—Jour¬
neying in Hammocks—The
Oil-Palm Industry.
Although the Gold Coast of Africa is
not favorable for the prolongation of
of white men, the natives are strong
an d healthy enough. The children are
particularly sprightly it and fat. They are
marrageable an early age. commencing
the cares of we ded life at ten. The
infants are carried by their mothers in a
peculiar position. A piece of light wood
about ten inches long by four or five
broad is COV ered with cotton and tied
around the woman, so as to rest upon
the lower part of her back. Upon {his
the infant is placed, straddling J face to
|he mother , g back and sec „ r d b a
fold of her cotton cloth. The woman is
lbus f ree t0 W ork.
I saw some very old persons h$re, says
a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle.
One day on going down the road toward
the castle, I saw a venerable-looking
headed negro sitting in a wicker-chair, bare-
and fully exposed to the fierce
ra y s °f the sun. It was about noon,
when the sun is very powerful, and the
old fellow’s skull was devoid of wool,
bare and shiny. I stopped to speak to
him, placing my hand on top of his
head and finding the heat excessive,
He spoke j in tremulous tones, te ii iD g
me h< wa8 nearl ne hundred year9 of
age, and that his blood was cold ; so he
had his chair placed in the sun so that
his system could be warmed thoroughly.
The houses are made of sun-baked
br “k, or adobe which material is all ;
right during the dry portion of the
year, but has an inconvenient habit of
tumbling during about your devoted person
a continuance of rain. The
walls of the houses are thick, to keep
the great heat out, and the roofs are
thatched with dried grass.
The burials of the Gold Coast are
very peculiar. Most of the people own ;
their houses, and the family have per¬
haps lived in them for generations.
The custom doubtless arose from con¬
siderations of security, for fear the
graves might be rifled. They always
bury their dead within the walls of the
deceased's residence. The house where
we were lodged was separated from the
ad oining one by a narrow alley, The
window of our upper room looked into
the lower story of tne other house, as a
door was just opposite us. We were
thus enabled to view the whole pro¬
ceedings. The wife of the owner, a
young woman of about twenty years of
age, had died of fever and was laid out
on a trestle covered with black cloth,
attired as in life. In the center of the
room a trench was dug, the depth of
which we could not exactly determine.
The body was literally covered with gold
ornaments. Gold beads round her
neck in a double row, gold-bead girdle,
earrings, rings, pins, bracelets—all of
massive form and chased, but not very
finely. The workmanship is not of the
highest order. A rich mulatto lady,
widow of a white merchant and a nifece
of the ruling King of Ashantee, was
among the mourners. She Had a vial
filled with gold dust in her hand, which
she emptied into the mouth of the de-
ceased woman, scattering the overplus
on the face. Some women then took
the body and wrapped it carefully in a
white sheet; they then lowered it with
cords into the grave. A bra ier was
burning in the apartment, which was
large, and usually the parlor. Onto the
hot coals Hey then threw some odori-
ferous stuff, which gave out an intense
smoke. This had the effect, doubtless,
of might driving have away any evil spirits that
been loafing around seeking
something to devour. Under cover of
this smoke, which was too dense for us
to see through, fo?when the earth must have been
tilled in; we could discern ob-
jects again the floor was even and
stamped down, looking as before. I saw
no men informed present during that the interment.
difficulty I was during a little
between the French and a
native King, men were lauded from a
war inhabitants, ship, who, after driving away the
had Kroo-boys to dig up the
interiors of the chief houses, and se-
cured a fair amount of the precious
metal as bootv
The kingdom of Ashantee adioins J the
Fantee country inland. The people of
this kingdom are not so tall or athletic
a race, but are lithe and clean limbed,
active and intelligent. 1 preferred them
to their neighbors, the Fantees. I went
up as far as the 1 rah, a pleasant enough
trip of several days. As there are no
horses, nor mules, nor even the humble i
Jerusa'em ponv, we were carried in
hammocks, a bad imitation of the Indian I
palkce. These contrivances are made
of canvass and slung to a pole, which |
latter is carried on men’s shoulders fore i
and aft. It is very jumpy, jolting I
method of locomotion. "
The | !
this o 1-palm grows in dense forests on
coast although the short-sighted
natives destroy this are lucrative doing'all in their power to
trade. To get at
the palm nuts, or kernels, they cut the
Ite oo7" °o f
f
ail these trees will have been cleared out,
and I have not heard that they are plant-
ing anew. Whenever trees are cut
down the African marigold springs up,
growing height. luxuriantly to five and six feet
in The palm-a-christi also is
indigenous here, the seeds of which, by
expression, furnish castor oil. Of late
years have trees been furnishing an excellent rubber
found in large quantities,
about $75,000 worth having been ex¬
ported last year.
Monkey Detectors of Spnrious Coin.
The Siamese ape is said to be in great
request among Siamese merchants as a
cash er in their counting houses. \*ast
quantities and of base the coin obtain circulation
in Siam, ' acuity of discrimina-
tion between good money and bad would
appear to be possessed by these gifted
monkeys in such an extraordinary de-
gree of development that trained, no human be-
ing, however carefully can com-
pete with them. 1 he cashier ape medi-
tatively puts into his mouth each coin
presented to him in business payments,
and tests it with great deliberation. His
method of testing is regarded in com-
mercial circles as infallible; and, as a
matter of fact, his decision is uniformly
accepted by all parties interested in the
transaction.
--“
The Phonograph a Proxy Lover.
Lovers will soon carry on correspond¬
ence by phonograph, and which, little with a
gross of wax cylinders boxes
for mailing them, will become a con-
ventional but useful accompaniment to
the engagement ring. “My darling,”
when written, I am told, does not
adequately express the lover’s fervor,
But when reproduced with the phono-
should graph's be mathematical exactness, there
very index passionate of the words, or, at
any rate, an warmth of the
speakers passion.— Worcester (Mass.)
spy-
A Cultured and Gifted Monareb.
A correspondent writing from Stock¬
holm gives an interesting description of
King Oscar II. of Sweden aDd Norway.
Being probably the third son, says the writer, he
never dreamed that he one day
would wear the crown of Sweden and
Norway. In the year 1872, however, he
succeeded his oldest brother, the beloved
Charles XV. The second brother, Gus-
tav, had already been dead for many
years. On his accession to the throne
° s <: ar was a ^eady forty-three years old,
and was tben popu:ar. The
“other u«ed to say of her two remaining
?? ns ’ P oll ‘ e » considerate I rince and
V e ratber ^ reckless king Charles: “Oscar
doea everything in hw power to gain
Popularity; Charles does all he can to
09e V’ and neither seems to succeed.
. Jodg.ng from the interest shown of
e ,^ car lb, both at home and
ab, ! oad ’ lfc would seem that the King had
^ obtained , what the Prince so long
P urs ued “ *®w, at the age of
nearl , y fift r y, and after a reign of sixteen
years, he has become r&ther popular, es-
P?® 18 ’ 1 ? “Sweden, though less so m
Norway, and is widely praised through¬
out Europe as an accomplished gentle¬
man, a cultivated student and an abl«
orator.
Everybody who has ever heard the
King speak compliments his voice, style
and matter. His “speech from the
throne” resembles in no respect similar
efforts a . mother • European capitals. When
arra / ed In fow-white ermine, a red and
S old manb . ;! ° per ] x,s shoulders, a golden
erown on his l head and a sceptre, glisten-
with jewels, m his hand, Oscar ap-
Pearsbefore bothhousesoftheLegisla-
ture to deliver his address his
magnificent - fi voice fills, without an: effort,
lar S? throne Ha 1 and bis be ? rers
ba «g debghted upon his - words. I have
not had th ® P Icasare ° f bein S
on one of , thoie occasions, but I am
assured that the King is no ordinary
orator.
King Oscar is more than a gifted
speaker. He is also a poet, as was his
brother who preceded him on the throne.
When, in 1882, he and his Queen cele¬
brated their silver wedding, it was re¬
marked that His Majesty had also been
faithful to the Mu-es for twenty-five
years. For it was in 1817 that the
Swedish Academy awarded its annual
prize for poetry to a collection of verse
which, when the sealed envelope con-
taining the author’s name was broken,
was found to have come from a royal
pen. Among his poetical production?
are translations of Goethe’s “Tasso”
and Herder’s “Cid.” The best known
of all his poems is a collection of manly
and euphonious songs about the Swedish
navy. They have gone through four
Swedish editions, two German and one
Danish. All the poems of “Oscai
Frederic”—bis name in literature—have
been published in Germany as well as in
Sweden. King Oscar is furthermore a
musician. His talents in this depart¬
praised ment of art were recently very highly
by the renowne l German critic,
Hanslick. The rapid growth of th«
Swedish Academy of Music is in a large
measure due to his activity when Crown
Prince. He was then President of the
Academy for several years.
Squid-Eating Extending.
t>i ® ack i * fo rd * a- * bink8 , says a bulletin . „ ,
f the United , States l ’. ish Commission,
°
Hmt the influence of the Ichthyophagous
C1 .' lb Ne w A ork has had much to do
with the introduction of squ.d for food,
and says that about three or four years
a S° the cl, lb hr8t ventured to cook and
serve s '> u ld . at of the ir an £ ual dm '
»««• It is . a well-known face, f however
that squid are highly valued for food
m Gnental cou J ltn( j s » and that an nn-
P° r tant ^rfiery for them is carried on in
£ h ?? . a - Ifc is also probable that the
Itabans 2 are tba consumers of this
P roducfc ln *. ew \<? rk ’ learD ed ea1
s H l ! ld “ tb f r nativ ? country f before f
emigrating to Ameiica. A ih. Atkm
Hughes of North Truro, Mass who is
en S a S cdln .* be Hap hs lery at t lat place,
“ ak £ s tbe demand following ( squid: statement in regard
the for “ When in
New A ork the three or four years past I
was told that the Italians used squid for
food > but that tbe G uaatl ty smalt
and the P nce lo w * ^ er y 1 J t tle ea j
couragement Repast was given . me to ship . until
season (1 m?/), •when a fish dea.er
Lulton Market said to me, about
? barrels ctol ? fcr of J : squid \ f J occasionally, on can sk {P 1 think . a f ew T I
can se ^H them at a low price. lhesqu.d
season was nearly over then, but in look-
“g over my books I find that we shipped
to dealers in New A ork about fifty bar¬
rels in 1887, which sold from two to
five cents per pound, netting about $8
per barrel.” Under date of December
2 , 1887, he says: “The squid season is
about over. ! 8 ome days we have a few
bushels in our weirs, but they have be¬
come such an article of food among the
Italians of New A’brk that we can o tain
, better ^ prices . , by shipping . . . them . there , than ,,
^ foregoing selling it them would for appear bait. that l with rom the the
^crease and ? of population knowledge m this of the country food
WI a batter
val !“ of certain species of marine animals
which have heretofore not come into
f en ? ral U9e * 13 supposable that the
J ood SU W ] * Horn our ccean fisheries can
be ver * considerably increase d.
A New Device of the Trade.
A doorben of a Michigan b o u ,™d
r * 81 den ®t pUl ed by \Y°?? an clad
a11 . 8llk and aealsk - h diamonds
™ / “ s > ™
fla6hm f f r ? m ber ear3 a nd two or three
dash , “S out + through artistically
bolea m v ber undressed kid gloves
The handmaiden who opened the portal
? ook he T a j a glance and unhesitat-
l n § ly admitted her to the luxuriously
^rnished Mrs -> parlor the lady when of the she house. asked When to see
'
the lady entered the parlor the woman in
silks and sealskins bowed politely and
said: “Excuse me, Mrs. -,but I took
clothes you would be willing to dispose
0 f. We pay the highest cash price.”
When the lady of the house had suf-
fieiently recovered herself to make an-
S wer she said she had nothing in that
line presented to dispose card—the of. The woman then
her number indi¬
eating a second-hand emporium in the
heart of the cut-rate clothing district¬
and politely took her departure. There
are quite forth a few of her day about through town now, resi-
who go every the
dence district attired in a manner which
i 8 certain to save them from rebuff at
the hands of servant girls who answer
their ring. If they succeed in making a
purchase, thev send a young man for the
goods. They are merely the genteel ad-
vance agents of the places where you
can buy clothes at second hand .—Chicago
Herald.
The First Coat of Tar and Feathers.
The application of a coat of tar and
feathers to offensive persons is said to
have been first resorted to by Richard
Corur de Lion. One of his statutes
enacted that any robber found voyaging
with the Crusaders “shall be first shaved.
then boiling tar feathers poured over his head,
and a cushion of shook over it.”
The culprit was put ashore the first time
the vessel touched. The earliest record
of such punishment is 1189.— Detroit
Fret Press.
WINTER FISHING.
HOW IT IS CARRIED ON IN
FROZEN LAKES AND RIVERS
The Outfit Required and the Way
of Catchintr the Hsh Described
— The Indian Way — Cut-
ting Holes in the Ice.
The winter weather that seals up lake
and creek so that the coy troufiand sport¬
ive bass are safe from the wiles of fisher¬
men, provides another form of sport,
8 a 3 s David W echsler, in the Brooklyn
Citizen. Although the deceptive fly
cannot be cast upon the water and the
gilded spoon can no longer be trolled
beneath its surface to lure the credulous
fish to its doom, yet fishing through the
ice remains.
Many small lakes in different sections
of the country are well stoc ked with
pickerel, and these gamey fish afford ex-
cehent sport. They are a hungry fish,
alnays ready to bite, and once hooked,
man.e a stubborn fight before they sur-
render. 1 he method of their capture is
not difficult. Learned originally from
tne primitive dweller by the lake shores
tbe f ‘ us ky Indian—it has been im-
proved upon by the arts of civilization
and is now a popular sport through the
Eastern and Middle States. It has also
many followers in tfie West. The few
Indiana remaining in Wisconsin and
Michigan still fish in their own way, and
earn a good living from the sale of their
captures to white men who ship them to
Milwaukee and Chicago markets. 1 hey
cut a hole of about eighteen inches in
diameter in the ice, and build a rough
house of boughs over the spot. The
house is intended to make it dark at, the
°P ami ?^ in e 1 9 e ’ ^ be ^ ud * an P r0 ‘
\ides hunselt ,, with . a rough iron
it*? “'6 minnow attached to string, spear
a
He then lies bat on the ice. The min-
noi\ attracts the larger fish, but before
the\ can close their jaws on it, the spear
escends and the fish is captured. The
Indians get only two and three cents a
pound tor the fash, but they frequently
make a dollar a day.
lhe paraphernalia of a summer angler
rods, re cls, leaders, flies and nets—is
not requned for the winter sport. The ex-
pen>-e oi an elaborate outfit is accordingly
sa\ed, and as the finesse of the angler’s
art—the casting of the fly is not ern
p 0 }ed, those who are not experts, can
en oy the sport. The apparatus ncces-
sary consists of about forty short liue 3
®t hooks, ,
P tached r °Lj* to a W1 reel , made ron te out of piece and at- of
a
v.ood. then a tip-up is required for
every line that is to be set. This is the
contrivance that signals the fisherman
w hen a fish is caught.
There are dozens of ways of making
tip ups. Every old fisherman thinks he
knows a little more about th«m than
else, . and , will.take
anyone great pains to
inform every novice just how the tie ups
should be made. One of the oldest and
most popular methods is to place a round
stick flat on the ice and so that it reaches
across the hole. Then cut a stick with
a crotch in it,. One limb of the crotch
s iou d be six inches long and the other
twelve inches long. Attach the line to
e °ne, and place the shorter so
that , it . will fit the cross-stick
over with
its butt resting on the ice and having a
lei rag tied to it to serve as a flag. When
.r® re ? s a blte tbe S oes U P aBd n0 *
tifios the fisherman.
lne . -^ notb(; pine: r board. device A is piece made eighteen out of a inches half-
°ng and tapering irom three inches
w, eat one end to one inch wide at the
o er is cut out. A three-quarter inch
ho!e is bored m the piece of wood about
t inenes f>°ui the small end, a small
s ic v is passed through the opening as it
is placed across the hole in the ice. The
ai is then attached to the snm 1 end.
i e ips up the larger end, which may
e painted red, so that it will the
more leadi y attract the eye of the fish-
eimau. A good wav to tell when the
minnow is on the hook and alive, is to
?x ? 1 cork or a ® ma P iec ® wood
* o he v line where it . enters , the water.
e minnow will keep this bobbing
around the water as long as he is all
PS 1 ^ ^ a hungry pickerel carries
him off the cork . will not move.
1]n S parties are made up in nearly
all of the towns and smaller cities that
are in the vicinity of any lakes in which
pickerel distance or rock bass abound, If tho
from the lake is more than a few
miles, the party starts one day iu ad¬
vance and puts up at some convenient
untfi’ice fluv o^fi’vT inches’" thick‘"has
formed, as an involuntary bath on a cold
day is not included in the sport. A still
day, whether it is clear or cloudy, is
preferable to a windy one.
Operations at the lake are commenced
at daylight. The party are warmly clad,
Strong leather boots, a heavy suit of
wool goods, a fur cap and a pea jacket
make and a good rig. A fire of dead branches
old rails is built at a convenient
place on the shore, and one of the party
left in charge. The others take axes
and proceed to the ice. Cutting the
holes is no easy task, especially if the ice
is very thick. —
Unless some member of the party is
familiar with the haunts of the fish in
the lake selected, a local fisherman is
employed to act as a guide. The best
yards places from usually lie from fiftv to a hundred
.-hore, and where the depth
of the water ranges from ten to twenty
feet. The mouths of small coves and
positions opposite the outlets of creeks
are good fishing grounds.
The holes in the ice are cut in a
straight the line parallel with the shore if
shore is regular, or a ross the bays
and coves, if the shore is irregular A
long three row shorter of holes in a side single li?e, or two
or according rows by side are cut
to the locality, and to the
gradual or rapid increase in depth of the
water. The holes are square, and from
ten inches to one foot across The dis-
tance apart should not be less than fif-
teen feet and twentv feet is better One
man can attend to from thirty to fortv
holes, unless the fish are verv numerous
and hungry-then he will need a helper
to bait the hooks while he tikes off the
captures
The bait used are minnows from three
to four inches in length. They are
caught the'lakes by the thousands in the fall be-
fore’ and streams freeze and
kept in tanks in the cellar until they
are wanted for the ice fishing. Some of
the more enthusiastic fishermen have
elaborate arrangements for keeping the
bait and have a supply on hand at all
times of the year. The lines are about
fifteen feet in length and each one is
wound on a rough reel made of a piece
of cigar box wood. The hook is passed
through the minnow just forward of the
tail, being careful not to strike the back-
bone, or it is fastened in the minnow’s
mouth. A bungler will maim the bait
so they will not swim naturally in the
water, but after a few frantic struggles
they become exhausted and die without
attracting the game. When properly
put on the hook the minnow will live a
couple of hours unless he is gobbled up
by a hungry pickerel.
The size of the fish caught varies from
the small ones weighing three-quarters
♦f a pound each, to those of good size
weighing three pounds each. Occasion¬
ally a big fellow five or even six pounds
in weight is captured. The large ones
are very likely to get away either by
breaking the hook or tearing it out of
their jaws, unless the attendant is near
by and handles the line carefully when
he takes hold of it. A good day s catch
for a party is from fifty to one hundred
pounds. Of course they cook a fish
dinner over the camp fire, and by sun¬
down are ready to start for home.
America’s Finest Aqueducts.
aqueduct Up to the present time the finest
in use in America is the Croton;
but th s will be surpassed bv the new
aqueduct now in course of construction
0 n lines parallel with it. The Croton
aqueduct was begun in 1837and finished
j n 1842, at a cost, including the means
D f distribution, of $10,37 ,000. The
length of the conduit from the impound-
j 0 g to the receiving reservoirs in the
Central Park is 38i miles, for 33 of
which the conduit is built of stone, brick
and cement, arched above and below, is
y feet and 5 inches high, OF f ee L wide at
the bottom and .^atthetop. The water
crosses Harlem Kiver in two cast-iron
pipes 3 feet iu diameter, and one wrought
non p'pe 7 feet G inches in diameter laid
upon High Bridge in niaguiiic ent granite
arcades 14G0 feet long and 114 high,
High Bridge comprises fifteen arches,
gey, n of which have fifty-feet 9 pan and
eight of those over the river eighty feet
span. The greatest capacity ot tho
aqueduct is 115,030,000 gallons per day,
but for the first six years alter its
j completion the water used was
only I 8 , 000 ,u 00 gallons per day.
Twelve yeai ‘3 ago the daily sup-
ply had risen to 88 , 000,000 gallons and
at the present time it is between 95 . 000 ,-
000 and 100,000,000 gallons. It has
long, however, been inadequate to tho
demands of the city, with its ever grow-
ing population, and about four years
ago work was commenced on the new
aqueduct, which is now nearly com-
pleted. The trouble up to the present
time has been not so much with the
Croton aqueduct as with the supply of
-water. The supply is drawn from Pro¬
ton Kiver. a stream that flows into the
Hudson a short distance above 8 iug
Sing. The river was arrested by a dam
forty feet high, and made to form what
has since been called Croton i ake. lor
the purpose of the new aqueduct it has
been decided to collect the entire water
supply of the Croton water-shed, and for
this purpose three more dams are builii-
ing across the Croton and subsidiary
valleys. The length of the new auue-
duct from the impounding reservoirs to
the receiving reservoirs is thirty-three
and one-eighth miles, and the water, in-
stead of being carried over the Harlem
River by a bridge, as in the case ot the
0 ld aqueduct, is carried under the river
by a siphon. At its lowest point the con-
duit is over 300 feet below the surface of
the earth. The conduit has an inside
area in equal to that of a circle fourteen
f ee t diameter and its capacity will be
250,000,000 gallons per day. This will
g i ve( with the old aqueduct, a total
water d supply of over 350,000,000 gallons
p er a y > The actual cost of the new
aqueduct, up to May 1 , 1888, wa 3 $17,-
I 6 q 000 , and it is expected that an ex¬
penditure of $1,500,000 more will be
required to complete it. This is exclu-
s j ve 0 f the cost of the dam yet to be
bui i t . The aqueduct proper is finished,
an( j on ]y the finishing touches remain to
be put on. It will be opened for use
next summer.
other notable aqueducts in this coun-
try are the Washington aqueduct and the
Cochituate of Boston. The former sup-
: plies the cities of Washington and
Georgetown with water from the
Po tomac. Its capacity is 10,0)0,000
gallons £ per clay. Jt was constructed bv
be United States Government at a cost
‘ of $ 000 and has
3 , 000 , , several fine ar
ca des, of which the most notable is the
one across Cabin John Creek, which is a
single oofi granite arch 100 feet high aud
f eet ]ong. The cities of C hicago
aud Milwaukee obtain their water sup-
p i y from the lake. The water of I ake
Michigan U brought into each city by a
! tunnel from a su ficient distance off shore
i nsure its being pure, and is then
pumped up into surface reservoirs,
-whence it is distributed in the usual
J manner. The Chicago tunnel is three
m q e3 long, that of Milwaukee is shorter,
Arrangements have recently been mado
to increase the water supply of Chicago.
—San Francisco Chronicle.
Legend Concerning a Chiuese Holiday.
Tho Chinese inhabitants of San
j Francisco ^ ben tbe y have parade a holiday the streets in the late in fall, gala
a ire ’ and bow l n g to e ‘\ ch
° :ber as tbe y I ,ass ' Some ot the w ealth y
Chinamen dress most gorgeously, , in
b, ;j gbt ’ bl S b 7 colored
silk quilted blouses and sandals, white,
with black stripes
Gie cause of all this festivity is . the
two-thousandth , anniversary of tbe ex-
traordinary performance of the death of
buD S Han > tbe god of fire - who died two
tradltlon °[ years the ago, according to the
i \ on g Society,
J hose members consider themselves tho
descendants of the tribe for whom he
d ^ ed ‘
A great . war , had , , been raging . ' and ,
among tb e combatants were the brave
men of a fcrlbe who werc ra pidly being
overcome b y the enemy, and found
themselves at last cornered, with noth-
lng but extermination and death before
them i f they attempted to leave their
^ or f’ a ? d dea .th by starvation if they re-
ma ' n ed within.
, After of subsistence had
ever y means
beea exhausted, Lung Han cut off his
r gbt band > and P Ia P. ing his 8 ?° T d ?
bade U cut U P the balance of hl9 . bod y
ai ? d give ifc to tbese P oor starving so1 '
^ e rs *
Accordingly, . each man was provided « ,
some flesh which, when once
eaten gave to the eater wonderfully en-
lar S ed P ower3 > and tbus buoyed up they
salh ? d fortb and beat back ! heil ‘
a^ailants, and retook the land from
which they had been driven
Eacb y ea J a ^tival is held for one of
the . gods the god f water, the god of
o
air and tbe S od of fire i but to the las *
the greatest honors are given.
The Chinese the parade the which streets in car-
. from top of
m ges, are sus-
pended gong-shaped instruments, upon
which they beat uninviting music to
which they chant mournful dirges.—
1 ^ or ‘ c Observer.
An Underground Lake.
The lake which was discovered in tht
Huachuca Mountains was discovered by
Messrs. RobbinB and Bunch, of Ash Can-
yon which Spring, while been discovered following up a ledge
had by them,
The roof of the cave was entirely dry
and the water of the purest quality and
as clear as crystal. A number of human
bones were found, also some relics of an-
cient pottery. The cave was explored
for 300 feet in length, but no estimate of
its extent could be arrived at. The fac
that it had not been discovered before ia
due to the entire absence of any opening
had existing,until picked the discoverers of the iedge
! away some loose rock at
a
point on the ledge where work had evi-
j dently been done many years a go.—
Tombstone (Arizona) Prospector*
The Wonderful Forage Plant of Calf-
fornla.
Many people, whose only acquaintance
with alfalfa is through the medium of
the newspapers, are a little skeptical as
to many of the claims made for that
wonderful forage plant. They do not
understand how it can go on, year after
year, producing such immense crops
without fertilization, or, at least with
no other addition to the soil than is
furnished by the water used in irriga-
tion. But if they understood the mar-
velous root development of the a ‘ 4a “ a
plant some of their skepticism would be
removed, and part of the mystery, at ail
events, would be explained. The ac¬
companying illustration will serve tc
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explain to some extent the relation which
the roots of the alfalfa sustain to the
plant above ground. The proportion is
certainly remarkable, but, after all, it is
rather under ban over the truth. 'The
roots of alfalfa have betn known in this
State to go forty feet in search of water.
The writer has personal knowledge of at
least one such case, and has no doubt
but they are quite common With such
a power of draining sustenance from the
depths of the soil, there is little wonder,
then, that crops should be produced
which are far in excess of anything
grown by a more shallow-rooted plant.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
The anniversary of the late Emperor
Frederick’s birthday suggests tho curious
circumstance that, although this vcai
has seen three German emperors, not
one of them lias celebrated his birthday
as helm emperor died during 1888. Kaiser Wil¬
twel.e days before his 91sl
birthday, the late monarch within some
four months of the completion of ^iis 57 tb
year, while Emperor William I f. cele¬
brated his 29th birthday on Jan. 27,
when he was yet Prince William at
Prussia.
_ _
PmnAREiiPiiTA people are claiming n
tract of ovi r twenty thousand acres of
land near Berryville, this state, and have
recorded a deed conveying title to the
property. The land is occupied by farm¬
ers and is worth about .$250,000. Great
excitement prevails in the neighborhood.
Xofieti 10 Givi^\ r
THAT-
JONN E. REDMOND
WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
'Do Youf Own ‘Pctiritiijg,
In any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty four.
-o-
Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
He gives Agents an article with which they can make more money than they
Ever made in all their live 9 . With these goods Agents can make from $5 to $8 a
day. This is no Northern humbug. Inclose a two-cent stamp for postage, and
vou will receive by return mail free Gilded samples and Emblems full particulars and Graining of the business. Cimbs,
I also furnish Gold and letters,
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Banner Signs, and make a
specialty of Post Boards for the country. Address
JOHN E. REDMOND,
PICKEN8, S. O.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
v.
jiim 11
t
i •ft
Of,
\merica’s Most Powerful Trade Union,
-
rp be cb j e j organizer of the best man-
aged and most powerful national trade
uu j on j n the t'nited States, Mr. Peter
j. McGuire, of the Brotherhood of Car-
penters, came to town from bis head-
: q Uar t ers i n Philadelphia a few days ago.
I : jj e an old time New Yorker, though
^ |j j n ^ be ear iy pri me of his busy life,
■ 0 w } ia t Sidney Smith once said
| mother breeches,” man and was, is a unsurpassed “steam engine in
j in the
, labor ranks as a public speaker of
\ ?arne8 tness and power. He spends his
time traveling over the States, forming
brauohes of the Brotherhood, of which
he is Secretary, and which, largely
through his efforts, has now 55,000 en-
roled members in 500 local unions.
The Brotherhood is a benevolent as well
*8 a protective organization, and has
several benefit features, for which it
raises and disburses large revenues. It
ilso seeks to encourage a higher stand-
nil of skill in the trade, to enforce an
ipprentice hours system, to advance wages,
reduce the of labor, and secure
4 ,ho protection of its members through
mutual assistance. A'et, says Air. Mc-
3 uire, very few strikes have occurred in
ts ranks, and very little of its money lias
jeen spent on strikes. Every membor
>f the Brotherhood stands ready to tell
low largely its marvelous success has
jeen the work of its masterly organizer,
Brother McGuire.—A r . Y. Sun.
It is calculated that there are over
200,000 legers in British India, the ma¬
jority of whom have places in aims-
Siouses and a«ylurus, the others roaming
o'er the country and subsisting on
charity.
ROBERTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA-,
MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop,
Mrs. Roberts als > has ch -rgeof th<
Railroad Eating House at Bowcrsville,
Ga. Good accoinm *ations. good board,
at usual rates in firs: class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTOFNEY AT T.AW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
AVill practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial attention.
RIAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont It gion, Georgia. Also
Or'ngc Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. ftcLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
j Don’t Fail to Call On
W. A. MTBESON,
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS GOODS
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon an l Buggy Ma¬
terial, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges,
Locks, Bolts, Doors ami Sash.
-EVERYTHING IN THB-
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE i
--ALSO-
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. GA.
Of All Kinds and Styles from the
plainest and lowest prices, up to the
most elaborate and costly. All work
delivered, set up and satisfaction guar¬
anteed. Call at my yard, examine
samples and learn prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere. Address,
L. P. COOK,
TOCCOA, CA.