About The Fayetteville news. (Fayetteville, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1889)
A. writer in the Jforum estimates the total wealth of this country at about $00,000,000,003, and moro -than one- half of this amount is sai l to be in the hands of less than 25,000 persons. The Osago tribo of Indians is said to be the richest nation in the world. They havo in the United Statos Treasury $7,- 758,694, drawing 5 per cent, interest, and bcsidoi this they hold 1,470,000 acres of land, which is equal to 1000 acres apiece. Rich Indian is estimated to bo worth $15, 171. Once more it. is reported from China that the celestial authorities intend to expel all Americans now employed within Chineso territory, and that this will be dono in retaliation for our immi gration laws. No moro importanco is attached to this intelligence now than at nay other time, and the Commercial Adveit'ser considers it highly improba ble that China will ever act in tho way indicated. The Americans in China are, «3 a rule, a distinct benefit to that country, but the case is the reverse with the Chinese in the United States. It is announced that a contract has just been lot to a contractor of Kansas City for building a cans', at a cost of $4,000,000, from Bear Lake, in Idaho, • southward 150 miles, to Ogden. It is to be ten feet deep and forty wide, and its flow will be 17,530 gnllons a second. In its course it will irrigate half a mil. lion acres. Besides this it will supply the water-works for Ogdon and all tho smaller towns in its coil se. Bear Lake is thirty miles long by seven wide, and is so fed by tho snows and springs of the mountains that it i3 practically in. exhaustible. The population of Mexico is roughly estimated at 2 000,000 Indians semi- civ. lized, 3,000,0000 civilized Indians, 5,000.000 Mestizoes or mixed breeds, and 51)0,000 Spaniards or Creoles. All the latter are not full Caucasians, and there is a good element ot Aztec blood even among those who c aim puro Castilian ancestry. But aside from this r majority of tho people are a mixed race, Mestizoes, who are rapidly swal lowing up both Indian and Castilian. They already constitute a majority of tho population, and tho New Orleans Times-Democrat. concludes that in another century tho people of Mexico will be a homogeneous race of mixed tilohd, part Indian, part whi'e. The brave Helvetians, tho only exist ing people who havo made a succo33 of Republican institutions in Europo, were not going to stand any nonsense from a country like Prance, which, says Frank Leslies, is never quite sure what kind of government it will have to-morrow morning. So they have built an Eiffel Tower of their own, and, as it Is sixty- three metres higher abovo the level of the sea than the one in the Champ de Mars, Madame Paris is left very much behind. It is true that the Swiss tower, which is on tho Eschenberg, a small elevation in the neighborhood of Win terthur, is only 109 feet high, sinco the Eschenberg is ilsalf 595 metres abovo tho sea level. That is where these mountainous countries have the pull over the flat ones. Children, says an English medical journal, should not,if it can bo avoid ed, be given spco.lacle3 to wear. These do not always sit straight on the re trousse nose of youth. The patient looks over them or under them, or through one glass only, ull of which things tend to aggravate rather than re lieve disoaso of tho «ye. Where it is possible at all, alts nlion should be giv en first to resting and then to strength ening the sight. A certificate of visual defect should bo enough to give any Child the right to escape from any task involving special strain on tho eyes, and in 8ucli casos school-books printed in •extra largo type might be provided. rBimultancously with these preventive Mneasprcs attention should be giveu to '.Wrengtiicniug tho sight by training tho child to look at and observe things at a distance. The proverbially long sight of sailers is due to their constant excr- ciso ot the utmost powers of vision. A i.liildless old lady of Stoddardsvillc, 'Penn., years ago set apart a small room for spiders to make their webs in, and no broom lias ever disturbed it. The spiders dwell together in harmony, as a rule, although the lady says they some times have regular cat-and-dog tights. TUk Dominion Oovernmont has decided to subsidize a lino of steamships between Hali fax or St. John and the West Indies. The Emperor of China has had a court astrologer beheaded for making a false prediction. Tho Emperor is very progressive. It has been remarked by all travelers in foroiga pnrts that moro English is spoken on tho European continent this year than over before. Tho language that carries a bagful of dollars behind it is the one that overcomes all others in the long run. A Cincinnati doctor seems to have traced the cause of rheumatism to microbes, and the source of these lie declares to be vegetation, or such parts of it as are decaying. There is always about such plants as aro usually kept in houses, he says, ample decaying mutter to support these microbes, and in his own case, lie being along sufferer from rheumatism, ho says the disease ceased to trouble him as soon ns he removed the flowers from bis house. Tho Sin Frau Cisco Chronicle, in a re cent issue, devotes several pages to an exhaustive article on tho subject of irri gation, taking for a text the work now being done by tho arid-lauds committee of the United States Senate. The Chronicle claims to have demonstrated that “it is entirely practicable for the government to make millions of acres of land cultivable which are now only barreu wastes.” The recent rush to Oklahoma aud the possible repetition of grab methods when the great Sioux lauds are thrown open for settlement in the near future are, in the opinion of the Chicago Fetes, “reminders that the areas of really agricultural lands in the United Slates have their limits. Tho Senate arid-lands committee, in becom ing familiar with the cost and expe li- eucy of artificial irrigation in the West, is not a single step in advance of tho nation. There is much to be learned as to the cheapest and best methods of re deeming arid lands, but when the neces sity becomes more pressing than it is to day the very highest scientific talent will be thought to bear upon it.” The Commercial Conference held at San Fiancisco called upon the Fifty- first Congress to establish additional navy yaids <n the North Pacific coast, to put tho Mare Island yard in full working order, and to erect adequate defences on Puget Sound, Columbia River, Coos and Yaquiina Bays, and Humboldt, Sin Francisco, San Pedro find San Diego harbors. The New York .Hun considers that “this proper demand is likely to be satisfied. Indeed, pro visions for a part of tho programme are already made. A board of ofiicors has already recommended a site on Puget Sound.for a navy yard, in accordance with an act passed by the last Congress, and its recommendation is almost sure to be followed. The Marc Island ynrd has received an outfit of ship-building appliances, costing about $100,000, and will, no doubt, soon have an order for extensive work, possibly including the 7500-ton armored cruiier. Finally, the Pacific ports will presumably have their full share of the big 10-inch nnd 12- inch guus, the forgings for which havo already been contracted for, while dy namite guns will bo in position at San Francisco next spring.” A dispatch from Rome states that tho military authorities there have b®eu ex perimenting very successful y with smokeless powder. This, according to tho Washington Star, is not the first test of the kind made by European governments. Tho inventor of the pow der was a French general named Lcbel, and his government very promptly took it up, but kept the secret of its manu facture closely gua rded. A country chemist in Austria, one Falkenstein, made a journey to Paris on purpose to find out how the powder was made. He could not get a specimen, but hap pening to possess himself of a few ex ploded cartridges, found enough there to make u basis of experiment, and finally turned out a quantity of the ma terial, which he carried to the minister of war at Viennu. The minister sneered at tho whole idea, on no better ground then that ho “could not picture to him self a battlefield without smoke.” Falk enstein then went to Berlin with his de vice, which Count von Moltke positive ly snapped at. It is estimated that the slaughter wrought by this powder on tho field will be four hundred per cent greater than heretofore. If it is adopt ed by France, Italy and Germany, the next genoral European war will have the clearest and cleanest battlefields known to history.. CHINESE TAILORS. A Visit to a Mongolian Clothing House in New York. Suits that Cost frotVi Ten Dol lars to Two Hundred Each. There are many Chineso tailor shops in New York. Mott street is filled with them. They arc in cellars, where pig tailed Mongolians sit and watch on three-legged stools, and a password or a detective is needed to pass a stranger from tho street. They arc in the rear of first-floor shops and some are in up per stories, through long, winding halls that smell of dried fish and frying pig’s tails. The clothes aro kept on dingy shelves and in boxes under dark count ers, and only form part of the general stock, liko nails in a hardware shop. But there is only one sw.ell Chinese tailor in Now York city, nnd he is known to the business public as Mei Lee Wn and Co., and is familiarly called Mr. Mei by those who havo tho honor of his personal acquaintance. His place of business is in the Bowery, where he occupies tho first floor nnd tho basement of one of the largest buildings. The tailor shop looks as little liko the customary clothing store as a Chinese laundry does liko a fashionable drawing room. It is a largo room fillo l with tables piled high with goods, and cloth ing seems to be about the only thing that is not offered for sale. At the door, behind a small counter, generally .sit two men. One is short, stout, shrcwd-eyel and smiling. Ha wears American clothes, with Ills pigtail care fully coiled out of sight under a fashion able straw hat. He is the head sales man, and a capablo one, too, if appearances count for anything. The other is slender and melancholy. He affects the sombre in attire, and wears a black felt hat of tho prevailing under taker style. He spends his time finger - iug a kindergarten counting machine aud making up accounts with a piece of India ink or a paint brush on the long pages of a brown paper note book. He is the bookkeeper, and is said to be one ol the most expert hieroglyphic makers in tlie Chinese quarter. The under salesman is aldermanio in form and drosses very much ns an Amer ican docs in hot yyeathur, with lii^ coat off and the sleeves of his whito shirt rolled up to tho clbow3. His knowledge of English is confined by strictly com mercial limits, but his winning smile is broad enough to cover any linguistic deficiencies he may possoss. A casual caller might fancy at the door that Mr. Mei kept a tea store. Before he had gone twenty feet he would credit him with keeping a crock ery store. Another half dozen paces would change his opinion again, with another change in the appearanco of the store. On the first row of tables are kept Chinese wares of all styles anl at all prices, from common crockery sots worth $5 each to a superb red vase worth $1000. On tho next row are glassware and square boxes holding teas aud spicei herbs. Behind glass casos, against the wall, are knick-knacks in ivory and gilt, worth a week’s wages for every square inch of surface. Far ther back in the store arc laundry goods and the various utensils used by the frugal Mongoliaus for their housekeep ing. Against the rear wall, which con-^ coals from tho barbarian world tho liv ing apartments of Mr. Mei and pretty Mrs. Mei, is kept tho clothing. It is all made in China and imported in bulk. Here are clothes enough to deck out the 8000 Chinsmen of New York in holiday attire and keep them in their Sunday clothes for a year. A Chinaman's every day outfit is beautiful in its simplicity. It consists of a pair of short loose trousers, an undershirt, a short coat that is callod Chan Sa Tien, or something that sounds •ike that, and an overcoat known to tho initiated as a Foo Soi Sam. The boots, called Tien San Hi, together with the hat and hosiery, complete the ward robe. The undershirt does not differ ma terially from that worn by native New Yorkers, and is usually mado of pongee silk. Chineso dude3 when not working m their laundries wear finer .grades of silk. The long coat is only worn on festal occasions by tho common classes of Chinese. The workingmen usually content themselves with tho short coat. The long garinont costs from $10 to a — $15, depending upon the wealth and Brain Buttons in the Regular Army, rank of the wearer. The lowest prloed article is mode of coarse silk and is usually blue or black in color. The The present brass bnttons are by no means the same as those that have been , , . .. , Annn , , always worn in the United States army short coat sometimes cost $200, but the or t tf e other branches of tho service, variety usually seen on tho streets can ! Up to 1777 the army buttons were of bo bought for from $5 to $8. It is made of silk and is often given a water proof glos3 and does double service as coat, and umbrella. Tho sandal-shaped boots aro made of cloth nnd havo solos an inch thick. These soles arc fashionel of layers oi cotton pressed together, and are as im pervious to moisture as sole leather. The tops of tho shoes aro embroidered and they sell at from $1.50 to $50 a pair. As none of tho coats have sleeves the selection of a suit of Chinese clothes is both simple and satisfactory. The cus. torner simply fits the garment around his neck and takes care to select one that is not too long for him and the task is dono. Mr. Mui’s clerks fbllow an adinirablo system in selling their clothing by tho wholesale. They have a number of lit tle wooden manikins, whifch are dressed in the various costumes offered for sale. These are the samples and from them the choice is made. The higher grades of clothing arc not offered for salo in-‘ discriminntely. They are tho marks of rank and can only he worn by those en- titled to the honor. While there arc a number of Chinese clothing stores in New York there is no Chinese tailor. All clothing is ready made. Thanks to the Celes:ial style of coals,every one from a giant toa hunch backed dwarf can he fitted with equal ease, nnd, as to trousers, all that is ever seen of them by the public is the bot toms, which to be in stylo must flap against the ankles at every step.—Mail and Express. Chinese Floating Gardens. In a recent number of the China Re white metal, but in the ast mentioned i year Washington ordered that the regu- j ration costume was to comist of “a dark i blue or b aek coat reaching to the knee, j unci full trimmed, tho lapels fastened i back, with ten open-worked buttnn-liole3 ; in ye low silk on tho breast of eabh lapeT and ten large regimental yellow buttons at equal distances on eaoli side, three lnrge yellow regimental buttons on each cuff, nnd alike number <n each pocket flap. Tho navy officers were also or dered to wear yellow buttons, • the ofli- ceis’ uniforms, with these buttons, blue ooats with red facings, red waistcoats and blue breeches, being a very gay aud attractive affair. On the other hand, the marine officers wore a green coat with white facings, whito breeches edged with green, white vests, silver epau’ets, black gaiters and white but tons. j In 1779 tho uniform of the army was I changed again. The coat was ordered to be blue, the facings whito, buff ox red, while the cavalry had white bnt tons. In 1782 tho infantry also were put into white buttons, the rest of the uniform being of blue ground with red faoings and whito liniugs. In 1796 the infantry still wore white buttons, with dark blue coats reaching to the knee, and full trimmed, scarlet hipols, cuffs and standing capes, white trimmings, whi'e underdress, b’aelc stocks and cocked hats with white binding. A number < f changes in tho uniform of | the army was made in 1810, by one of | which officers of the general staff wore cooked hats without feathers, vests aud breeches or pantaloons, white or buff, higlim litary boots and gi t spurs, and singlebreasted blue coats with ten gilt buttons. When the civil war broke out I in 1881, some of the volunteer troops 1 were dressed in gray with white but tons, but as tho confedeiates adopted tho same color for their regulars, the United States troops were c ad in blue with yellow buttons in much tho same fashion as they wear them to-day. The regu ations concerning the arrange ment or grouping of buttons as indica tions of rank are, however, of much more ro eut date. — [San Francisco Chronicle. view Dr. Macgowan describes the man ner in which floating fields and gardens are formed in Cuius. In the month of April a bamboo raft 10 feet to 12 feet long and ahout half as broad, is pre pared. The po’.C3 are lashed together with interstices of an inch between each. Over this a layer of straw an inch thick is spread, and then a coating two inches thick of adhesive mud, taken from the bottom of a canal or pond, which receives tho seed. The raft is Physiology. A young student of physiology stated in course of nn examination, that “whet food is swallowed it passes through the wind pipe;” and ■ that the “the chyb flows up the middle'of the backbone ana ri aches the heart, where it meets the oxygen nnd is purified.” Another de clared, “The work of the heart is to re pair the different organs in about half s minute.” A third observer, “YVe have an upper and a lower skin; the lower suin moves at its will, and the upper skin moves when we do.” / moored to the bank in still water, and requires no further attention. The straw soon gives way and tho soil also, the roots drawing support from the water alone. In about twenty days the raft becomes covered with the creeper, and its stems and roots aro gathered for cooking. In autumn its small white petals and yellow stamens, nestling among tho round leaves, present a very pretty ‘ appearance. In some places marshy land is profitably cultivated in this manner. Besides these floacing vegetable gardens there are also flouting rice fields. Upon rafts constructed as above weeds and adherent mud were placed as a flooring, and when the rice shoots were ready for transplanting they were placed in the floating soil, which being adhesive and held in place by weed roots, the plants were main tained in position throughout the sea son. The rico thus planted ripened in from 60 to 70 in place of 100 days. The rafts arc cabled to the shore, float ing on lakes, pools, or sluggish streams. These floating fields served to avert famines, whether by drought or flood. When other fields were submerged and their crops sodden or rotten these floated and flourished, and when a drought prevailed they subsided with the falling water, and while the soil around was arid advanced to maturity. Agricultural treatises contain plates rep resenting rows of extensive rice fields moored to sturdy trees on the banks of rivers or lakes which existed formerly in tho lacustrine regions of the Lower Yang-tsze and Yellow River. Subsisting on Dried Coca Leaves. The dried leaves of tho coea plant, which is cultivated on the slopes of tho Andes, form an important article of in ternal trndo among the various native tribes. It is estimated that not les3 than 3,000,000 pounds are consumed annually. Alter tho morning meal men aud women alike tako a mouthful of the leaves mixed with a little lime: fresh leaves are added throughout the day, and without any additional food tho consumer is enabled to do a hard day’s work. 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