About The Fayetteville news. (Fayetteville, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1889)
The proportion of tho populace ■who can neither read nor ■write is gradually decreasing in tho United States. Henry G orge, tho author of *(Pro- grcs3 and Poverty,” says that landlord ism is getting ns great a bugbear in America ns it is'in England. With an averngo of 18 suicides a month in tho German ar:r.y, remarks the Now York Graphic, Franco nmy count upon getting ia her rovengo if she only has tho patiouce to wait long enough. The Astorinn states that since tho passage of the exclusion act the Chinoso servants in Astoria, Oregon, havo be come wonderfully indopondont, and “won’t even think of working at tho former rate of wages.’’ Tho Suitjii o'. Turkey has experienced an attack of patriotism. Knowing that hi3 fleet ought to bo stronger, and knowing also that tho national excheq uer is empty, lie has resolved to build a new iron-clad and pay for it out of his own private'purse. Robert Turner of Ghent county, Ky., died a short timo ago. In 1850 ho bought two slaves at auction and rnado §1800 by tho transaction, and now liis will directs that that amount bo di vided from lm estate among tho four A rican churches in Ghent One of U.o features of the educational system of Mexico i< tho introduction of schools of mechanical training for women. Girls nro taught carpentry, weaving, and carving just as they aro instructed in drawing, painting, and mustc. Tho theory of agiiculturo is an Optional study. Shaw university (colored) of Raleigh, N. C\, is thorou’hiy self-supporting,has more than 400 pupils now enrolled, and is upon the point of enlarging its build ing and facilities for higher education. It has. been largely endowed by north ern philanthropist*, and is still domin ated by their ideas. Tho subject of changing the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) ,-to Sunday is agi tated. Tuo N.'W York Hebrew Stand- idv*?.-.;i■ h Tiding* favor clfti change. Thu latter paper says: “'Viewed in the proper light tho (question can receivo but oao decision— the change must come." English statesmen nil agree ia the Option that the French republic is in a bat! fix, and its downfall is imminent. These di cournging views all appear to be based upon tho fact that Boulanger is growing more popular every day. It is possible that “the little god of tho mude halls” will yet piny a Napoleonic part. Fiance has now a national league for the promotion of physical education, designed to lit her citizens to bo sol- dies. Tho programme which hns been ccinploted includes out-door games throughout tho land, for which tho local authorities will set apart a “green,” whereon the children shall regularly “P-ay. ’ _ According to tho Atlanta Constitu tion, f r fifty years our government paid 8800 a year for guarding tho “crypf” constructed for Washington’s remains in the national capitol. Tho fact that Washington lied been interred at Mount Vernon did not interfere with this little job until a provincial Con gressman objected and smashed it. Twenty-soVon miles an hour, with no heated journals nor break downs, is a good record for tho trial trip of any steamer, yet that is tho rate the now United States dynamite cruisor Vesu vius made ia a twenty-aino minutos trip recently. A fleet of such vessels, hard to hit on account of tho cclority with which they cm change their posi tion and of their comparatively small size, would bo a forinidablo defence for American harbors. Tho now Italian ponal codo provides that such an assertion as that the pope hns a right to Romo as lm seat of gov ernment is punishnblo as 4 crime. Almost ovary man of energy loads himsolf up, if ho has tho opportunity and moans, with more businoss and projects and attempts than his brains can hold. So that wo oithor aro fools or mako ourselves such. A thousand Indians, who have boon Christianized and civilized under tho labors of a layman, Dr. Duncan, for merly a missionary of tho Church Mis sionary Society of England, havo left Metla Kr.tlali and moved into Alaska uador American control. They are said to bo a very peaceful, industrious peo ple. Thoy loft British Columbia be- enuso of disagreements with tho peoplo of that province. A Philadelphia paper assorts that marrying for beauty is getting as popu lar in this country as it has long been among Englishmen. Within a few years the number of men of wealth and established position svho have married store girls, factory girls and others, poor in circumstances, but avilh boauty to rccominond them, has boon extraor dinary. Roccntiy a largo manufacturer in Nro Brunswick, N. J., died and loft a largo fortune to his widow, who a few days ago worked in his factory. Oao of the largest manufacturers of Philadelphia is similarly married to a girl taken from the loom. Though the. police of London do not shine in tho task that the Whitechapel fiend has been giving them, there aro several things that they do which are strango to Americans. They aro trained to servo tho people. They answer all questions civilly, citheu|jU))ect or tako strangers to wlyUffiffiffi ,WAft to go, wnke Up hciuscrtlfao rs along their'boats to catch early morning trains, tako chargo of houses or shops loft vacant for a few momonts, or actually live ia houses vacated for the summer or tho winter. All this seems part of a very paternal sort of government, but it has its advantages for tho public. ODD INDUSTRIES. Queer Wooden Products of the Forests of Maine. Making Toothpicks, Thread, Spools, Shoe Pegs, Etc. It i3 very ovidont that America is fast bos lining a nation of writers. From statistics iurnlshod by tho Po3t Oflico Department it is fi ;ured out that last yoar tho postal service carried thirty lottcrs for every man, woman and child in tho country, to say nothing of postal cards, newspapers and packages of va rious kinds. This is a showing that is truly remarkable, and greatly exceeds that of any other country. The Brooklyn E iglo recently de clared that its city had tho eighth won der of tho world in the person of an Irishman who has lived thero for twen ty years, and who refuses to register and vole, because, ho says, ho is a foreigner and has no right to interforo in American politics. Since then tho Eagle has received a letter from a man who signs himself “An English man in his eighty-eighth year,” and who says: “The writer of this has lived ia America fifty-six years, and has never voted, being of tho opinion that it would bo for the interest of foreign ers, a3 well as natives, if the voting was left entirely to the latjtcr.” Tho Army and Navy Journal is urg ing tho measures being put forward by Adjutant-General Drum for tho increaso of tho pay of non-commissioncd officers. They don’t average as good salaries as tho New York polico force, and their maintenance of a superior social stand ing is, as tho Adjutant-General urges, part of tho discipline of tho army. Talking of the army, tho Army Sword and Shield is urging tho establishment of nmmemont roomi at p-sts and tho prohibition of groggories on tho borders of military reservations and is calling upon tho religious press of tho country to help it press the point upon Con gress. According to tho Louisvillo Post General Harrison has two brothers liv ing. Oao, Captain Cartor B. Harrison, lives at Murfreesboro, Tone., oa a largo cotton plantation. His family consists of wife, two sons aad a daughter. One of tho sons is married, and is an em ploye of Armour Bros.’ banking-houso in Kansas City. The other brother, John Scott Harrison, is a prominent lawyer in Kansas Cily. lie married Sophia Lyttle of Murfroosboro, Tonn. and has throe sons and one daughter. Both he and William Harrison ol Chicago, as soon as they had voted, started for Indianapolis to pay thoir distinguished and successful relative a friendly visit. Fifty years ago tho United States was tho homo of a large number of peculiar wild animals. Unless a national pre serve comes to tho rescue very soon, another dccado will see them nearly all extinct. Tho grizzlies are disappearing from tho Rockies. A live buffalo is now worth from $500 to $1000, which throe yoars ago cost scarcely one-fifth that amount, and they aro found nl- most nowhero but in tho corner of Texas and Yollowstono Park. The caribou has boon hunted almost out of existouce. Tho mountain sheep, tho moose, tho beaver, tho nntolopo, are all disappearing. If wo aro to know any thing in tho futuro about our American wild animals, wo must arrange light speodily a “zoo.” Thero is an industry which gives em ployment to hundreds of people in this section of tho stato which owes its ori gin to a whittler, writes a Pittsburg Dispatch correspondent from Maine. This is tho making of wooden tooth picks. Thero is a factory in thi3 town which turns them out at tho rate of I know not how many thousand per day, and there are similar factories in a number of neighboring villages. Asido from tho men and boys directly em ployed in tho production of thoso use ful little articlos, many others aro ben efited by tho industry. Tao farmer who owns the trees, tho woodsman who chopi them down aad tho team ster who hnuls tho timber to tho fac tory, oach comes in for a share of the money paid out bj tho toothpick man ufacturers. Tho wood sells for $3 to $4.50 por cord at the fuctory, and as each fac tory takc3 from 600 to 1500 cords per year, quite a respectable amount is paid out for raw material alone. Tho wood used is whito birch aud poplar, and must bo straight-graiacd and without knots, so there is necessarily a good deal of waste. It is estimated that enough toothpicks aro nvido ia M tine each year to load a freight train of 50 cars. In round uumbors the tooth picks number 5,000,000,000, or about 77 picks for each man, woman and child ia tho United States. That would scarcely bo enough; but the toothpick consumers need not bo alarmed, for thero aro scverol factories devoted to this industry outsiio of Maine. The inventor of the wooden tooth pick is still living and still making toothpicks. He was in South America whon I10 raado the first box, and got the idea from the natives, who seem also to havo a penchant for whittling. "Well, ho employed his leisure timo in whittling out a box of picks, which he sent home to his wife. Sho gave a part of them a hotel kcepor, and his guests liked them so ’well that ho at once orderod a largo quantity. Tho man in South America smiled whon he got the letter, but at once ongagod a number of natives and set them to whittling. Next ho returned to his native town in Maine, and went to inventing. In duo time ho had a machine that would mako picks about 10,000 timas as fast as tho swiftest South American whit- tlor, and since 1860 he has been doing his best to supply tho world with tooth picks. Ho has so perfected his ma chine that ono operative can mako 15,- 000 picks a minute. His business rivals aro numerous, aud toothpicks are cheap, ia spite of tho fact that thero is said to be a sort of toothpick trust con trolling tho production. Another peculiar industry which flourishes in western Maine it tho mak ing of thread spools. Thoy are cut from smooth, whito birch timber, wood which works easily, by various kinds of improved machines. Thoro aro numerous mills throughout tho lumbering rogiou whore tho birch is sawod into strips about four foot long, and from ono to two inches width and thickness. Those strips then go to tho spool factories to be con verted into spools. Tho processes are numerous, but with one exception, not particularly interesting. The method of polishing the spools is novel and original. A barrel is filled nearly full of them, and then revolved by moans of machinery and belting, until the spools are worn smooth by rubbing one against another. Spool manufacturing is tho most important industry in several of the villagos of Oxford county, and will doubtless continue so until the supply of birch timber gives out. I can remember the timo when Yan kee shoemakers cut thoir pegs them- solvcs. They would saw off a white | birch log, louving it smooth and oven, | then plough littlo furrows across it in two directions, with an instrument ; which I believe they called a peg cut- j tor. Then enough of tho wood was 1 sawed off to mako tho pogs tho right j longth and the block was split up into 1 pegs by using a knife. I don’t suppose anybody makes pogs that way now. Thoy aro cut by machinery from whito birch and maplo and New England 1 supplies tho whole country. Pegs are worth from 35 to 05 cents a bushel' at the factories, j Up in Bangor thero is a firm styling I itself a “compress company,” and its business is—baling sawdust ! Sawdust, shavings, etc., are taken from the saw mills and pinning mills in tram cars to the compressing mill and there squeezed until converted into an nlmost improg- nablo mass. Largo quantities are mad by various manufacturers for different purposos. Pasteur’s Claims to Fame. It i3 not generally known in this country that Pasteur’s claim to fame rests upon a moro substantial founda tion than tho discovery of tho method of preventing hydrophobia by inocu lation. “If it had not been for Pas teur,” said a well-known physician who recently met Pasteur in his laboratory, “wo would not today be drinking tho sparkling wines of France, and tho wine-making industry would havo boon ruined. A blight had come upon the wine. Some insidious agent that could not bo detected wa.s at work ia tl.o wine, and affected it so Hint it would not keep. Tho exportod wine bccamo acid and bitter, and the domestic lost its flavor and value. Tho largo wine makers wore i:i despair, and know that if something was not dono their busi ness would corns to nn end, and this meant destitution ill thousands of hap py French homes that depended upon this industry for support. Pasteur at tacked tho evil. Ho found that tlio deteriorations in tho wiaos were cauiod by organic germs, which could bo de stroyed by a low degroo of heat, with- out affecting tho quality of the wine. Tho remedy was applied immediately on a largo scalo to all tho wines which had undergone acid fermentation, aud they were made sweet and pure. An other industry was al3o paralyzed. It wa? silk culluro. A plaguo called pobrino attacked tho silk-worms, ia- liictiag a loss of $30,000,000 in ono year. Myriads of worms wero de stroyed, and thoso that wero left only turned out a small quantity of silk. Pasteur traced tho disease to its origin and found it to be the work of a living organism or parasite. Tho germ was picked up by tho worm from tho loaf upon which it fed, and spoedily got iato tho sack which containd the mate rial from which tho worm spun its cocoon, and increased so rapidly that tho worm was killed, or its silk-pro ducing power was dostroyod. Pasteur discovered tho time which the poison ous) germ' could be ikillodc.- and the method of doing it. and again savd l the commercial prosperity of tho Fronch. This investigation took mauy ycurs, during which Pasteur was profoundly abused by mon of science, but thoy all wore silenced whon he finally killed the bugs.”—[Now York Tribune. Tho Tongno. "The boneless tongue, so small and weak, Can crush and kill,” declarod the Greek. “The tonguo destroys a greater horde,” Tho Turk asserts, "than does the sword." Tho Persian proverb wisely saith, “A lengthy tongue—nn early death.” Or sometimes tulles this form instead, “Don’t let your tongue cut oil your head.” "The tongue can speak a word whoso speed,” Bays tho Chinese, “outstrips the steed.” While Arab sages this impart, “Tho tongue’s great storehouse is tho heart” From Hobrew wit tho nmxim sprung, “Though feet should slip ne’er let the tongue.” Tho sacred writer crowns the whole.' “Who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul.” —[Ualveston News. HUMOROUS. Warranted to wash—A laundress. Tho fashionable hangings—Lambre quins. Takes tho will for tlio deed—The sur rogate. A full stop—Asleep oa tho sidewalk at 1 a. m. Tho dancing master should bo quick at figures. Usually soon on lm last logs—The kangaroo. Always turning over a new leaf— Librarians. Motto of real cstato men—“Deeds, not words.” Applicants for loans generally adopt a borrow-tone. Thero is nothing like a bolt for break ing a dead-lock. Tho wind now whistling through the corn-fields has a hu3ky tone. A hew and cry usually follow tho small boy’s acquisition of a pocket- knife. A rock salt bod has been found in Michigan, but most men prefer a liair mattress for real comfort. Goods in the hands of a merchant who doos not advertise aro like row boats. They have no salo. . The car stovo is back from its sum mer vacation and will soon bo heard from in railway accidonts. Nature is just with compensation for losses. Tho toothless man is not apt to bito off moro than hijJEaa cjicw. V , “I like Paris," said ^Irs. Mulfiomy, “them Two lures and Boys de Bologna and Champs Elizas is immense." Tho girl with a six-foot sweetheart said that sho wouldn’t tell a story, but sho couldn’t help but “draw a long beau." Sights in Copenhagen. Copenhagen is an old city too littlo visited by tho hurry-skurry class of tourists who tako Europs in ono ency clopaedic gulp aad think “one summer" quito sufficient for its digestion. It is a t:uo Votiico of tho Vikings—quaint, high -colored, channelled and cauallod by threads of glittering wator, full of an architecture all its own, and tingling with a life, provincial if you choose to call it so, but nono the less charming and individual on that account. The bright Danish faces, scoured like the surfaces of an old Dutch knocker, have a Fronch airiness; tho women aro de cidedly pretty, thero is an indefinable “stylo” in the midst of their very pro vincialism; and tho streets prosont a panorama of sights and sounds that doos not easily leave tho memory. Perhaps it is the water that glitters in the mind; tho perpetual,fresh,bustling, scampering Baltic; the playful canals full of tall-masted boats; the profiles of Swedish mountains looming across tho sea; tho showers mingled with shine that giva the climate of Denmark in summer its undine-liko charm. It is the land (paradoxically enough) of water—of water spritos, of nixie and mirage, of dissolving humidity and broken sunshino; in short, not so much the “lost turquoise” which Balzac found again in a lovely Savoyard lake as a pearl of groat price unknown as yet to travelers, waiting ready to be discov ered in its great Gothic mussel-shell on the edges of the Baltic. Crab Farms. The Mobile (Ala.) Register incites the people thereabout to set up crab farms efe a sourco of revenue, and shows that it is both possiblo and profitable by reference to tho animal’s history. Four timos in tho yoar does hashed his shell to grow a jigger one, and whilo th,o now ono is hardening ho is that finorsel for gourmets, tho soft shell. Tho plnn is to inclose reaches of sand beach with a tight fonco higher than high tide. They will put into this all crabs when caught, and market them whon just at tho light season. A Clergyman who marriod.n couple of deaf mutes in Brooklyn tho othor day made a bad break when ho wished them “unspeakable bliss.” Tho only thing that can down true genius and curb genuine inspiration is a pen that catches ia the paper and exe cutes a design in splatter-work at every third stroke. A wealthy young lawyer spent two days and a night over ono case, aad at tho end of that time could not tell which sido ho was on. It was a caso of champagne. First amateur Nimrod—“It is getting late, and we haven't killed anything yet.” Second Amateur Nimrod— l “Woll, lot us miss a couplo moro rab bits and thou go home.” A young redskin schoolboy was asked tho other day what is tho highest form of animal life. “Tho giraffe,” was the prompt roply of the lad, who had evi dently been taking in the circus of the pale face. A lady having remarked in company that she thought there should be a tax on the single state— “Yes, madam, ’’ re joined a most notable specimen of the uncompromising old bachelor who wu present, “as on other luxuries." Miss Floy Trappe (whoso mouth is undeniably large) —Nellie, Will Dew said last night that my mouth had a sweet expression. Do you suppose he meant that for sarcasm? Miss Prunella Prism—I am afraid so, doar; with an accent on tho chasm 1 Wife (at breakfast table)—George, dear, why do all tho defaulting bank cashiers from the far West go to Can ada? Husband (who is Emeritus pro fessor of geography)—Because, my dear, though thero is less longitudo thoro is moro latitude. “Gontlcmen,” said an indignant passenger on a South Sido cable car yesterday, “will none of you get up and givo this old lady a seat?” “I'll thank you sir,” snapped tho lady, “to attend to your own affairs. I am not as old as you aro by twenty years, if I’m any judge of a person's agou"
