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W. F, SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME IX.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
In I' lorida 3,000 pine apples can be
raided on an acre of ground.
1 >ne thousand men are employed in
the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala.
The only drawback to cocoanut rais
in." in Florida is that it takes ten years
for the trees to bear.
Fifteen hundred executions for delin
quent poll taxes have been issued in
Union county, S. O.
An old man on Oaney Fork, in Mid
dle Tennessee, caught $6,000 worth of
saw log< during the last rise.
Tennessee has a State Jaw which im
poses a fine of S6OO for lailnre to report
small pox to the State Board of
Health.
At Louisville, Miss., John D. M.
Thrasher had been sent to the jeniten
tiary for life for the murder of W. I)
Triplett.
The Georgia Supreme court has de
cided that the cities of that State must
stop their debts at 7 per cent of their
taxable property.
Six hundred partiidgcs in boxes,
shipped from Danville, Va., arrived in
Wilmington, Del., last week for the
Delaware Game Association, which is
trying to restock that State.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been
expended <n the North Georgia agri 1
culturel college at Dahlonega. It will
take $6,000 to complete it.
Col. Benj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county,
Miss,, the second largest planter in the
South, employs 1,000 men, and made
-,<>oo b ties of cotton last year,
r I lie acreage of wheat sown over Bast
Tennessee is unusually large, and the
prosnect for an excellent crop was never
more encouraging for the time of year.
Within the last three years over $2,-
000,000 have been invested in manufac
taring enterprises in Georgia, and nearly
$10,000,000 have been invested and con
tracted for in railroads in our State.
Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in
Fauquier county, Va., last week, in the
one hundred and fifteenth year of her
nge, ihe oldest citizen probably in the
Old Dominion. When Lord Cornwallis
passed through Eastern Virginia in the
summer of 1781 she said she “ was a good
smart gal, big cm ugh to get married.”
The Nashville Banner, in some race
recountings, say* : At another race over
the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson
entered liis famous horse Truxton, and
was backing him quite heavily. Gov.
Cannon was on hand, but had no money,
so lie bet a wagon load of negroes with
the General. Truxtcn won tho race
and the General took in the negroes.
Uold is being wadied from alluvial
lands within tho limits of Gainesville,
<a., which pays 50 cents to the pan.
Ihe city covers a deposit of gold-bear
ing material which should be utilized,
and no doubt will be as soon as the ca
nal Atlanta so much needs passes
through that section. The bed of that
canal for a distance of forty miles will
he cut through veins and deposits of
gold bearing ere.
lhere are three great land companies
now interested in Florida. The Pisston
company holds 2,000,000 acres of the
4,000,000 acres it bought from the State.
A third company (headed by Pisston
also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee
chobee region and reclaim the swamp
lands. The area of reclaimation is as
large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela
ware and Rhode Island, and the Pisston
company will get half of it, the State
retaining the balance of it. Two enor
mous dredging boats are already at
work at this, and the work will be pushed
to completion.
Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes:
Light years ago there was only $120,000
invested in steamers on the St. Johns.
Now there are twenty eight steamers
plying that river, one of which cost
$-40,000. and to this fleet there are con
stant additions. The Indian river and
Bouth Florida lakes and inlets are now
dotted with pail boats, carrying freight
<" and fro. In a very short time these
will be supplemented by steamers, and
then the quesaion will be settled, anew
region opened, the fertility, and beauty
of which cannot be put in words.
A contemporary asks : “ How shall
women carry their purses to frustrate tho
Why, carry them empty.
- J n , ug frustrates a thief more than to
•snatch a woman s purse, after following
wr half a nule, nnd then find that it con
- * la . uotlnng but a recipe for spiced
>• ae ies aud a faded photograph of her
giaadmother.
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to Industrial Inter st, the Ihffu ion ol Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Cincinnati reports 188 cases of small
pox under treatment.
Denver will hold a National Mining
Exposition in August.
This is the season of the year to make
predictions about spring.
The persecution of Jews in Russia is
exciting general attention.
The New York bar will give Judge
Porter a complimentary dinner.
A woman in Graves County, Kentucky,
is undergoing a forty days’ fast.
Vanderbilt pays over two hundred
thousand dollars annually in iaxes.
Strawberries from Florida are selling
in New York at $4 and $5 per quart.
This is t he year that the Mohammedans
expect the coming of their Messiah.
Of the 601 convicts in the Arkansas
State Prison more than 100 are murderers.
Canada is considering the feasibility
of abolishing the duties on tea and
coffee.
De Long has been traced to a definite
locality. The next thing now will be to
find him.
A St. Lons man lias started a fund
for the Guiteau jury by contributing $1
towards it.
We find that the more the editors say
against the Gainsborough hats the higher
they loom up.
Cincinnati will probably try the ex
periment of propelling street cars by tile
cable system.
The Cleveland fund for the Garfield
monument is not quite SIOO,OOO and
there it sticks.
Ridgeway is under the impression he
can freeze Guiteau’s body so that it won’t
stink. It may be that he can.
February 27 is the day upon which
Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy on
President Garfield in Congress.
The reporters of Chicago have ruled
women out of their press club. Men
want to get to themselves occasionally.
There is one thing Guiteau may rest
assured of : He will be cut up, or froze
up—exhibited in the flesh or as a skele
ton.
Female teachers in Boston who Lave
been in service ten years want SI,OOO a
year. If they can't get married they
ought to have it.
The Spanish pilgrims to Rome are
Carl is t soldiers or well known friends of
Don Carlos, who urges the movement in
letters to his partisans.
Tug Russian Government claims that
the persecution of the*Jews m that
country was originated and-is kept up by
revolutionary agents.
The work of tunneling the St. Law
ence River is to -be completed in four
years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon
treal has the contract
Wilde’s face is so long that it is said
to have the appearance of being reflected
from a convex mirror. Grief over be
fading lily produced it.
Under the law District Attorney Cork
hill will get S2O for prosecuting tho
assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill
a pointer on making out bills.
Oso a.r Wix.de think?; Walt Whitman
is the gieatest of living poets—not even
excepting Longfel .ow, Mr. Wliitman
will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some.
The Grant phalanx, known as the
Three-Hundred-and-Six, are to be pre
sented with bronze medals as mementos
for their unswerving fidelity in the hour
of sore trial.
If Babnum could secure the body ol
Guiteau, and then engage Oscar Wilde
as lecturer, he might double his fortune
of $3,000,000. The scheme is worth
looking into.
We reckon Oscar Wilde don’t like
America excessively. Shafts of sarcasm
are hurled at him from every conceiva
ble quarter. He must think we Ameri
cans are awful reckless.
Tobacco is a foul weed, but it seems to
yield an enormous revenue wherever it
is raised. The tobacco monopoly ol
France last year yielded a net profit to
the State of about $60,000,000.
Since Liszt went to Rome his health
nas greatly improved. But he still de
votes hours to the fatiguing work of
composition, and forgets sleep, food and
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
everything else except the work before
him.
The St. Petersburg police have issued
an order forbidding the appearance of
any actors or dancers on the stage of the
theaters of tlie Capital whose dresses
have not been previously rendered in
combustible by means of chlorate of
lime. The same rule has been in force
in Berlin for five years.
An official report on the condition of
the eyes of school children in Philadel
phia says: “Hypermetropic eyes a?-*
more numerous than both myopic and
emmetropic ; that next to myopic astig
matism, distinct lesions are most preva
lent to the eyes with bypermetic astig
cnatism ” This will be startling news to
most people.
In its continual use in the Guiteau
trial many people have asked, what does
‘court in banc” mean? ‘ Banc,’
brought into legal language from the
French, means “bench,” and comes to
us from English law. “ Banc Regis ”
was the title of the Kings Bench, which
w'as above all other courts, and appeal
to which was final. The “Court in
banc” therefore means tlie Supreme
Court of the District in full bench.
Sixty Harvard students, wearing knee
breeches and black silk stockings and
bearing lilies in their hands, went in a
body to one of Oscar Wilde’s lectures
in Boston. Oscar, strange to say was
not pleased. To see himself as others
see him so disconcerted him that he
failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap
plause that occasionally greeted him
Perhaps this sort of monkey business, if
pursued long enough, will teach the dis
ciple of aestheticism a wholesome lesson.
Editor Ramsdfll. of the Washington
Republican, recently offered $5 for the
best written letter accepting an offer of
marriage, and lieie is the letter, by Ger
trude Nelson, which won the prize :
“My Dear Donald— Fresh with the
breath of the morning came your loving
missive. I have turned over every leaf
of my heart during the clay, and on each
pago I find the same written, namely,
gratitude for the love of a nobleman, hu
mility in finding myself its object, and
ambition to reader myself worthy of that
which you offer, I juviii try Yours
henceforth.”
George Q. Cannon, one of- the con
testants for the seat of Delegate in Con
gress from Utah, speaking of the re
pressive measures respecting polygamy,
says: “Our people will be obliged to
submit with the spirit of martyrs, as
they have heretofore submitted when
oppressive laws have been enacted
against them, or when they have been
expelled or mobbed from their various
homes, before polygamy became one of
their tenets. They actually rejoice in
persecution, as it intensifies their ad
hesion to the doctrines of their church,
and confirms them in their belief in its
divine origin.”
A cotemporary tells the following
story: A man named Harsens who
keeps a saloon and a parrot in New York
went out a few minutes the other even
ing aud on his return missed seven silver
watches lie had there. A few nights
after William Cox, who was the only
person in the sa’.oon during Harsens’
absence, came in with some friends; and
while he was drinking at the bar, the
parrot startled him by saying gravely,
“Billy Cox stole those watches.” He
hurried out to sue the owner, of the par
rot for defaming liis character, when he
was arrested for stealing another watch
which was found in his possession.
According to the New York Herald,
now engaged in examining the Clerk’s ac
count of the disbursements of the House
of Representatives, the most shameful
recklessness prevails in the manner of
spending the public fuuds. We quote
from the list: “Two perfumery cases,
bought for a member, s*2o, three fans
bought for a member, $16.63; six tooth
picks, bought for member, $28.17; two
fourteen carat charm magic pencils,
bought for a member. $30.60; seven
knives, bought for a member, $lO9 67;
three card cases, bought for a member.
$10.33; one fine opera glass, bought for
a member S4O; cne shaving case, bought
for a member. sl3. These are only
a few of the long list given. The
Herald, commenting, says: “Sorely Mr.
Adams, the late Clerk of the House of
Representatives, who furnished these
extraordinary articles to ‘a member’ at
the public expense, on the pretense that
they were needful for the discharge of his
legislative duties, does great injustice in
withholding the ‘member's’ name from
the curious taxpayers. He must have
been engaged in very dirty work to need
so much perfumery.”
One old Irish dame asked another
touching some person recently deceased’
the following question : “Eh," dear Judy
alannah, iv what did he die?” “ Aveh
dear,” replied Judy, “he died iy a
Tuesday, I’m tould.”
Spoopendyke in the Role of a Sports
man.
“Say, my dear,” said Mr. Spoopen
dyke, as he drew a gun from the case
and eyed it critically, “I want you to
wake me up arly in the morning. I’m
going shooting.”
“Isn't that too sweet!” ejaculated
Mrs. Spoopendyke. “I'll wear my dress
and my Saratoga waves. Where do we
go?”
“I’m going down to the island, and
you’il go as far as the front door,”
grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Women
don’t go shooting. It’s only men. All
you’.ye got to do is to wake me up and
get breakfast. When I come home we’ll
have some birds. ”
“ Won’t that be nice !” chimed Mrs.
Spoopendyke. “Can you catch birds
with that thing?” and Mrs. Spoopendyke
fluttered -around, the improved breech
loading shot gun, firmly impressed with
the idea that it was some kind of a trap.
“I can kill ’em with this,” exclaimed
Mr. Spoopendyke. “This is a gun, my
dear ; it isn’t a nest with three speckled
eggs in it-, nor is it a barn with a hole in
the roof. You stick the cartridge in here
and pull this finger-piece, and down
comes your bird every time.”
“Isn’t that the greatest thing ! I sup
pose if you don’t want a partridge you
can stick a duck or a turkey in that end,
too, or a fish or a lobster, and bring it
down just as quick.”
“Yes, (*r you can stick a house or a
cornfield, or a dod gasted female idiot
in there, too, if you want to !” snorted
Mr. Spoopendyke. “Who said anything
about a partridge ? It’s a cartridge that
goes in there.”
“Oh !” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke,
rather crestfallen. “I see now. Where
does the bird go?”
“It goes to night school, if lie hasn’t
got any more sense than you have,”
snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Look here,
now, and I’ll show you how it works,”
and Mr. Spoopendyke, whose ideas of a
gun were about as vague as those of liis
wife, inserted the cartridge half way in
the muzzle end, and cautiously cocked
the weapon.
“And when the bird sees that he
comes and pecks it! Isn’t that the fun
niest !” and Mrs. Spoopendyke clapped
her hands in the enjoyment of her dis
covery. ‘ ‘ Then you put out your hand
and catch him !”
“You’ve struck it!” howled Mr.
Spoopendyke, who liad the hammer on
the half cock and wag vainly pulling at
the trigger to get it down. ‘ ‘ That's the
idea ! All you need is four feathers and
a gas bill to be a martingale ! With
your notions you only want anew stock
and steam trip hammer to be a needle
gun! Don’t you know the dod gas ted
tiling has to go off before you get a bird !
You shoot the birds; you don't wait for
’em to shoot you !”
“At home we used always to chop
their heads off with an ax,” faltered Mrs.
Spoopendyke.
“So would I if I wa3 going after
measly old hens,” retorted Mr. Spoopen
dyke, who had mauaged to uncock* the
contrivance, “ but when I go for yellow
birds and sparrows I go bke a spoits
man. While I’m waiting for a bird,’
continued Mr. Spoopendyke, adjusting
the cartridge at the breech, “I put the
load in here for safety, and when I see a
flock I aim and lire. ”
Bang ! went the gun, knocking the
tall feathers out of an eight-day clock
and plowing a foot furrow in the wall,
perforating the closet door and culminat
ing in Mr. Spoopendyke’s plug hat.
“ Goodness, gracious !” squeaked Mrs.
Spoopendyke, “ Oil, my !”
Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself up
and contemplated the damage.
“ Why couldn’t ye keep still!” he
shrieked. “ What’d ye want to disturb
my aim for and make me let it off?
Think I can hold back a charge of pow-
a pound of shot while a measly
woman is scaring it through a gun bar
rel V”
“If it had been a bird how nicely you
would have shot it!” suggested Mrs.
Spoopendyke, soothingly. “If you
should ever aim at a bird you’d catch
him sure.”
The Crater of ropocatanetl.
In a letter to the Philadelphia Record ,
Mr. Nathan E. Perkins describes at
great length the ascent of the Mexican
volcano Popocatapetl, having reached
the crater after a toilsome clin b, and de
scended as far as he could without a
rope. From this position a good view
was obtained of the crater-walls. The
bottom was hidden by ascending smoke
and steam. The lower walls were hung
with large masses of sulphur interspersed
with icicles hundreds of feet long.
“The crater is-about one mile across,
and has the appearance of a large funnel
whose sides are but little inclined, and
the bottom is not visible. There seem
to be three distinct rings, which divide
it into four zones, the largest being that
nearest the mouth. From the summit
the City of Mexico, although over 100
miles away, was plainly visible, and,
surrounded by lakes as it is, seemed like
a magnificent gem set around with
pearls. The whole great valley of Mex
ico can be seen at a glance. At our feet
lay Arneca, over thirty miles distant,
with its luxurious growth of tropical
plants, orange groves and banana plan
tations, and on the right Pueblo and the
old cities of Chilulo and Tascalla, with
. their 365 chm*ches and spires. The dis
tant mountain of Orizaba, nearly 200
miles away, the snowy peaks of Melen
cka, the White Ldv and several others
in the distance, stood arrayed before me.
I felt fully repaid for my toil in having
climbed the highest mountain in North
America, whose summit is about 18,000
feet above the sea-level.”
Consult the lip3 for opinions, the con
duct for convictions.
A POLICE INNOVATION.
Ttoe (hloMe Officer on the Dearer Foiee.
Concerning Denver’s naturalized Chi
nese policeman, Louis Johnson, alia*
Kan Yun Yu, the fact that Johnson is
the first Mongolian who ever wore the
star of a polieemman in America, was
early developed in the conversation, and
is worthy of note. Johnson is married,
and more important, his wife is an
American, a lady in all senses of the
term.
“I married her,” said Johnson, “in
Louisville, Ky., in 1873. She was a
Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-first
street. A good family. Oh, yes. First
class. She is of German descent, and
was a working girl, but I assure you in
every way an excellent woman—oh,
yes!”
“Keeps you pretty straight, doesn’t
she ?”
“You bet. She objects to my going
among the Chinese, and makes mo do
just as Americans do—just the same.”
“ How do you like that ?”
“ Oh,. I don’t object. You see I con
sider myself civilized, and my country
men are not. Many of them are had
people. They are envious and under
handed. When they see that a China
man has a good thing, they try to get it
away from him by under bidding him.”
“Are they immoral? ’
“ Most of them are bad. So my wife
doesn’t want me to associate with my
countrymen here.”
“ What do Chinamen pay for the Chi
nese women !”
“They are bought first in China.
Young girls- are preferred. They are
stolen on the streets in Chinese cities
and sold to slave dealers there, who
again sell them to men who ship them
to America. They are bought there for
from $250 to S3OO by wholesale, and re
tailed in San Francisco for from S3OO to
sßoo—-young girls bring the best prices.
They then belong to the men who buy
them, who keep them till they get old
and then sell them to Chinamen, with
whom they live as their wives. Their
owners collect all the money the women
receive, except what they steal, and feed
and clothe the women.”
“ How many Chinese women are tliero
in this country ?”
“Well, I should say there are about
10,000. They are scattered pretty thick
ly over the Pacific coast.”
“Why do no more decent China
women come to America ?/
“In China everything is different
from America. The women are kept
very close. Hence the women don’t get
out much, and they don’t come to this
country.”
“Do all the Chinese smoke opium?”
“Most of them.”
“Do you?”
“Oh, I hit the pipe occasionally when
I have a headache.”
“ Does your wife ?”
“ Not much.”
“How many Chinese are there in Den
ver?”
“About 500.”
Johnson says it i.s his determination
to live the life of a respectable American
citizen. He is a member of the Meth
odist Church, while his wife belongs to
the Christian denomination. He has de
voted most of his life to the tea bus
iness. He was naturalized in Evans
ville.
Speaking of bis courtship, be says he
met bis wife through her brother, who
was a friend of his. He courted her for
about a year, and vhen they decided
that they each loved the other more than
they loved any one else they were mar
ried by a Christian minister. —Denver
New a.
A Battle Between Birds.
A gentleman from Stone Comity gives
the particulars cf a remarkable incident
which he witnessed while crossing White
River on the ferry just above the month
of Sycamore Creek. When nearly hall
way across the stream an enormous eagle
swooped down on a flock of geese, which
were swimming in the river some eighty
roue below* the boat. The fowls, upon
observing the eagle approaching, in
stinctively dived under the water just as
the bird struck the wave. Baffled in the
first assault the eagle flew slowly up
ward, and when the geese came to the sur
face, darted downward again, and bury
ing its talons in one of them, attempted
to bear it sway. The goose struggled
violently, while its companions swam
around uttering shrill cries and the per
sons on the ferry boat watched the
strange scene with keen interest. Once
the eagle lifted its prey clear out of the
water and seemed on the point of convey
ing it to the mountain cliff that rose
grandly in the air on the other side of
the stream, but the struggles of the goose
forced the captor downward. When
water was again reached the goose made
a supreme effort and plunged below the
surface, dragging the eagle after it and
causing the latter to loosen its hold and
rise upward with a fierce stream.
The eagle next attacked another goose,
but with the same result, being com
pelled to relinquish its hf>ld when its in
tended victipi plußged beneath the
waves. This strange contest lasted fully
thirty minutes, at the end of which time
the eagle gave up the fight, and, rising,
soared away to the mountains westward,
while the flock of geese swam further
down the stream. None of the flock
were killed, but the water in the vicinity
was dyed with blood, and the surface of
the stream was covered with feathers for
a considerable distamo. —Little Rock
Letter to Atlanta Constitution.
One of the greatest pleasures of
childhood is found in the mysteries
which it hides from the skepticism of
tL*(' elders, and works up into small my
thologies of its own.
SUBSCRIPTION*'SI.SV.
NUMBER *25
USEFUL HINTS.
Never lean the back upon anything
that is cold.
Never begin a journey until breakfast
has been eaten.
Sfirits of ammonia diluted with
water, if applied with a sponge or flannel
to discolored spots on the carpet or gar
ments, will often restore the color.
Skim-milk and water, w ith a little bit
cf glue iu it, made scalding hot, will
restore old rusty black crape. If slapped
and pressed dry, like muslin, it will look
as good as new.
A paste made of whiting and benzoin
will clean marble, and one made of
whiting and chloride of soda, spread and
left to dry (in tlie sun if possible) on the
marble w r ill remove spots.
Celery boiled in milk and eaten with
the milk served as a beverage is said to
be a cure for rheumatism, gout and a
specitie in eases of small-pox. Nervous
people find comfort in celery.
Never stand still in cold weather,
especially alter having taken a slight
degree of exercise ; and always avoid
standing upon the ice or snow, or where
the person is exposed to a cold wind.
A flannel cloth dipped into warm
soap suds and then into whiting and
applied to paint will instantly remove
all grease and dirt. Wash with clean
water and dry. The most delicate tint
will not be injured, and will look like
new.
To remove grease from white goods,
wash with soap or alkaline lyes. Col
ored cottons, wash with lukewarm soap
yes. Colored woolens, the same, or
ammonia. Silks, absorb with French
chalk or fuller’s earth, and dissolve away
with benzine or ether.
For salt-rising bread, stir up quite
thick in the usual way, using cold water,
and place upon the sitting-room coal
stove over night; it will be light enough
to sponge the bread by morning, and is
quite a help when the days are so short
for raising the emptyings ; my family
prefer this rising. When one has not a
warm-enough place to set their milk put
hot water in to raise the temperature.
To make a light wheat loaf, take the
thick buttermilk from the bottom of your
buttermilk dish; stir just as you can,
allowing one heaping teaspooniul of so
da to a pint basin of buttermilk. Pot
pie is nice made in the same way, only
put about one third sour cream. A pud
ding made in the same way with dried
cherries and steamed in the cake dish
with a hole in the center is nice. The
advantage of the hole in the center is
that the steam passes through the center
of the pudding into the steamer. Eat
this pudding with sugar and cream;
nice tart apples will answer very well
for fruit.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
For several years it has been observed
that the European glaciers are steadily
retreating.
The molecules of hydrogen, at a tem
perature of 60° Fahrenheit, move at the
average of 6,225 feet in a second. -
Flammarian says that the tail of a
comet must sweep through sjaace with
the velocity of 16,000 leagues per second.
Mr. Stone, her Majesty’s astronomer
at the Cape of Good Hope, has just com
pleted- his great catalogue of Southern
stars, the result of ten years’ labor at the
cape.
The algae known as protococcacese
have one peculiarity—they do not live
in the water but in other plants, some in
dead, some in dying and others in living
parts.
Some people have come to ’believe
that salting or smoking will kill trichinae,
but a temperature of 212° Fahrenheit,
or at least 160° should be reached in
every part of the meat to bring about
this result.
The colors which distinguish our sum
mer aud autumn flora—reds, pinks, blues
and yellows—are caused by the presence
of substances which require a strong
light and high temperature for their
production.
It was at one time supposed that
among twining plants each had its own
direction, some twining toward the sun
and others against it; but, though the
theory is true in the main, there are
found exceptions to the rule.
The amount of nervous action may be
measured by the quantity of blood con
sumed in its performance. The plethys
mograph, measuring the volume of an
organ, when the arm is brought in con
tact w ith its records the amount of blood
drawn from the body to the brain, and
thus indicates exactly the effort in men
tal action.
Experiments have recently been made
to show that.the presence of ozone pro
duces luminosity in phosphorus. In
pure oxygen, at a temperature of 15° C.,
and under atmospheric pressure, phos
phorous is not luminous in the dark,
and a bubble of ozone introduced under
the bell glass produces momentary phos
phorescence.
The practical value of the Faure ac
cumulator for the storing of electricity
is yet to be proved. It is said that sev
eral such batteries stationed in a house
and charged with electricity during the
day will be sufficient to light up the
rooms at night and perform such light
operations as turning a coffee-mill or
sew'ing-machine.
“ Parting is such sweet sorrow,” re
marked a bald old bachelor to a pretty
girl, as lie told her good-night. “I
should smile,” she replied, glancing
upon his hairlessness and wondering how
he ever did it
Fiutz has named his doe Non Sequit
ur, because it does not follow.