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A FLOW EH lit ft,.
There wns n mni<le n nobly bom.
Her name was Lily, beauteous she,
Airi phlox of bouqurtmv her to woo?
And <Mts.r hand with bcu<ll knee/
Swr t William wns her choice, anrl when
ll‘ sucu, she? fluid, her eves arrow dirn^
“ I can’t rvfuchsfa, William, dear/ *
And with a smUax oepted him.
I!ut true love’s course ihV ,>t did v„ n amnnth
And IK-r net man fordMd the bans Braooth
And William w*t to fern lands.
And after ni*r,y d™, wrote:
<' v,!. *‘ Wl '' ‘bodintr, till I rot,
*r-y mem ry evergreen.
J y ,lu ’iinjf! <S >vecL! forget-me-not /**
ll'J jfAX ndcry ’thus the father cries,
ft wee t William’s kouo, and you’re ms
choice.” J
Then bcunder men to seek the maid,
Ai;d thus he lifted up his vo.ee:
“My TtHy-of-the-vaMb j/, sweet,
I ve mold and land, and wealth untold:” ♦
•‘‘-rn-m-um! what a look she mave.
And sail: “ I wilt not mar iuokt."
“ I?ut - sweet unid you Ynaple-Jmf my word
• "eel \\ iliiatn s tlead, passed in his ehins
-i.in i the mmeu-Bucli-le troin those lips.”
“)on Wic Jnieifer,” she said:
He dead! .Inst hear that dandelion;
lj er now he comes on yon swift steed—
,V * in!no I ’’ l * ir * Cos weleonte, bweethoarl
Tulips and hearts were fondly pressed
ll- r sire stood by, and saw the lun,
iadded and trave them his consent,
And a Ja.ik~.n-the-pulpit made them one.
J; ? ~ A „ S to*? o, fi f Tsred from the portals of
hi! J- ! 1 lifi* 11 jme nsion a hull's slipper was
tin own after t ,iem. as usual.—The Jiulje,
DSTItKII PLUMES AND TIPS.
The fortunate lady whose new Pali
li:ii dazzles the eye with its rich mass
ol nodding ostrich plumes probably has
iilfie or no idea of the laborious process
i y which her much prized plumes arc
developed from the Still* feathered quills
plucked irom (be long-legged bird of
1 ,l"* . desert. Could those votaries of
htdiiou whoso taste and money have
caused Iht: trade in ostrich feathers to
increase, in the New York market
n ‘ or ‘ (> , timing the last five or six years,
b\>nt about *00,>,000 to nearly $5,000-
bi)o per annum, sec the raw feathers as
they are brought to the factories, they
would certainly be surprised and per
haps disgusted. In their natural stale
the feathers of an ostrich look very
much like good sized quills pulled from
tlio wing of a goose or a hen, and some
oi them have a grayish cr dirty white
♦color which is anything but agreeable.
H requires patient and skillful work to
give ostrich plumes and ostrich tips the
much admired fluffiness and rich
ness ol color that they display
in the milliner’s show cases. This
woik is growing into an import
ant industry in New' York, it already
gives employment to more than 5,000
men, women and girls, and the business
is spreading with wonderful rapidity.
Several importers and manufacturers
of ostrich feathers are clustered within
the territory lying just west oi* Broad
way between Houston and Canal streets.
?*■ those, the largest importer of
ostrich leathers in this country, in
forated a Timex reporter that he ex
pected his importation of ostrich feath
ers for 1882 alone would amount to
about $2,000,000. “There has been a
Wonderful increase in the demand
ior tins class of goods during the
VVjl few years, 1 ’ lie remarked,
“lho ladies are wearing more
feathers on their bonnets and hats
than formerly. Two or three years ago
a single ostrich feather was thought to
be sufficient for one hat, but now fash
ion domands at least a double plume,
juul in some eases as many as six or
seven feathers lor each hat. This ex
traordinary demand has not only had
the otleet of increasing the price of os
trich leathers, but it has induced the
ostrich farmers of South Africa to pluck
their birds prematurely, thereby put
ting on the market an inferior quality
*>f leathers. We seldom get large feath
ers now, and in order to make a good
sized plume we are obliged to sew two
or more feathers together.”
The ostrich feathers that come to the
New York market are purchased in
London. The farmers in South Africa
tvho make a business of raising ostrich
es for their feathers carry or send their
products to Fort Elizabeth, where they
are consigned to commission merchants
who sell them at auction at stated pe
riods. The buyers, as a rule, subse
quently dispose of them in the, princi
pal European markets. Under the
stimulus of a brisk demand the ostrich
raisers have mostly gotten into the hab
it of breeding by artificial incubators.
With rare exceptions all of the feathers
sold in this country are the feathers of
domesticated ostriches. There are but
few wild ostriches left in what is known
ns the ostrich raising country. A few
years an idea prevailed that the
“bird of the desert” could be raised in
this country, and some elaborate exper
iments were tried in the State of Texas.
Those experiments, however, were not
practically successful, and their failure
has been attributed to various causes.
By some it has been claimed that the
climate was unfavorable, while others
have asserted that the ostrichers were
Pot supplied with su h food as was
needful. However that raav be, the
New York dealers in ostrich feathers
say that they will continue to look to
the African products for their purposes.
After the raw feathers arrive at the
factory thev are taken out of the pack
ages in which they are sent from Lon
don, and “strung.” That means that
the feathers are firmly attached
to strings a yard or two long, in
order that thev may be handled more
readily and quickly. Of plumes about
fifty are usually strung together, and of
tips there are seventy-five and eighty,
and sometimes one hundred and fifty,
according to size. These feathers
repre>ent varied values. The lowest
priced are worth from S2O to S4O per
iPftbQf dddddddddfeorgia §^gtj&.
pound, while the choicest occasionally
command from $350 to S4OO per pound
hen properly “strung” the feathers
Aic ready for wash ng, ahd they are
p'en into the hands Of men or stout
boys who mb them vigorously on ordi
nary wash-boards placed in tubs of wa
ter m which there is some solution of
*<da A fine quality of white soap is
also used in this washing process. After
being thoroughly washed tha feathers
are dried in starch in a room bavin"" a
temperature of 140“ Fahrenheit Next
they are beaten out on smooth-top ta
b'cs, the intinitesimal particles of starch
clothing the beaters in white and filling
the room with a dense cloud of dusT
that renders breathing somewhat dif
, u 1 to J-ho-so not used to such atmos-
I it is said, not
only rah the feathers of the starch, but
it brings out the “Hue,” and in the
hands of skillful beaters none of the
leathers are ever injured. The strings
ol feathers are taken from the beating
room to the dyeing-room, where they
are colored to suit.' White and black
have become staple colors, and the
former of these, like other hues, is pro
duced by dyes. The fashionable
taney shades this year are terracotta,
bronze, cardinal and garnet.
“We dye fearners now-a-davs to
match the newest shades of imported
silks, 1 said a busy manufacturer in
West Houston street.
A f ter be in or dyed the feathers are
iaken into a large work-room where
young girls scrape the quills with glass
to make Uiem pliable. Next the stems
are papered and wound, and the
feathers are held over steam pots to
liiiil' them out. After that they are
combed and curled by hand. The
curling process is done with a small,
fiat knife, and to the uninitiated it ap
-1 oarsto be very delicate and laborious
work. Curlers are paid so much per
'dozen, and thev earn from sls to SSO
per week. The utmost skill and care
are also required on the part of the
girls who sew together the various
pieces of which the long and beautiful
plumes are made. The scarcity in the
market of the genuiue long ostrich
feathers, such as are obtained at’the
piopcr time of the year from the full
grown wild ostrich, imposes upon
m. nufacturers the task of making their
plumes by piecing. Sometimes a plume
will be composed of five or six pieces,
and sometimes it will consist of two
fair-sized feathers sewed together.
\\ hen the leathers are entirely
fnished they are looked over by a
( ompetent judge and laid out in difiev
<nt grades. Plumes are rated at from
*■> to $96 per dozen, and tips from $3
to SIOB per dozen. The tips are bunched
iu dozens and half dozens, ami are neat
ly sewed in boxes for the wholesale
tra e. while plumes are lad loosely in
their boxes, each box containing from
three to seven, according to size.
“ More ostrich feathers have been sold
in New York in the last two years,”
said a well-informed dealer, “than were
sold in the previous eight years. West
ern dealers are now sending in some
very large orders. I know from ex
perience that the demand has been
greater than the supple. Orders have
come from St. Louis. Chicago and Cin
cinnati this fall for thirty, forty and live
thousand dollar lots of ostrich feathers.
The prices have slightly advanced in
consequence of the scarcity of tlie
goods.”
“ What has caused the milliners to
trim bonnets and hats so much mote
trofuselv with feathers this season than
erctofore?”
“Paris sets the fashions. Ostrich
feathers have been an article of Court
dress in Europe for a great many years,
ami the middle claves of people over
there may now be said to have an os
trich feather craze. That craze has now
found its way into the United States,
and is spreading very rapidly. Ladies
nowadays think that in order to be in
fashion they must have their hats com
pletely covered with tips and plumes.
Several new shades are noticeable in
the ostrich plumes this year—partic
ularly the cadet blue, crushed straw
berry. and mahogany. Accompanying
the ostrich feather furor there is also a
great demand for other bright colored
feathers and very large birds. The
fashionable milliners are putting birds
as large as pigeons on some of their
most stylish winter hats.”
“Did the war in Egypt affect the pro
duction or price of ostrich feathers?”
“Not to any appreciable extent.
There was a slight advance in prices
on everything in London, and some of
the New York importers of feathers
had to pay from ten to twenty per cent,
more for their goods this year than
last. The trouble in Egypt, however,
did not extend down into the ostrich
growing eountry, and it did not last
Ion"’ enough to affect the business. 1
Nl\ Times
—The Augu-ta (Me.) Journal thinks
that Dr. William E. Gorham, Jr., of
Wind-or, in that State, deserves a little
notoriety. He is about thirty years of
age, unmarried, and a vegetarian. He
has not tasted meat for twelve years,
nor pork for eighteen years; enjoys ex
cellent health, and is a pedestrian of
considerable note. On the day of a re
cent political mass-meeting, Dr. Gor
ham walked from his home to the meet
ing, listened to all the addresses, and
then walked back —a distance of forty
miles. He had three horses in his
stable, but preferred to accomplish tb*
distance on foot.
Teaciikb —“ Who was the first man?"
First boy —* * George Washington. ”
Teacher “Next” Second boy
“Adam.” First boy (indignantly)—“l
didn't know you meant foreigners.”
Devoted to Industrial Interest, the Diffusion of Truth, the Establishment of Justin and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
A Sorrowful Romance.
A merchant of Allegheny has in his
possession the following note:
. April 12.
It will not be possible for me to keep the
appointment for this afternoon. I regret it
much, but business interferes. J. W*. B.
The note was written by John Wilkes
Booth in 1865, two days before Lincoln
wa3 assassinated. In April, 1865, the
Allegheny merchant w’ent to Baltimore
to endeavor to find some traces of his
brother, who had gone from Pittsburgh
as a soldier in the early part of the war.
“The second day after my arrival in
Baltimore,” said the merchant, “I called
at the house of Mrs. . The family
consisted of Mrs. , her daughter Es
telle, and Robert, a boy about twelve
years old. Miss Estelle was between
eighteen and'twenty years old, and was
rat her, pretty. She was tall and slender,
and talked with great spirit. She was
very graceful and quick witted, and
sang well. When I had told Mrs,
what my errand was in Baltimore she
expressed a great deal of sympathy for
my mother, and insisted upon my occu
pying the room which belonged to her
son who was in the army.
“ Mrs. told me that her daughter
had formed a fancy for a man who did
not care for her, and who was an actor.
She said that nothing had ever come out
of the matter, and she did not think
there was anything to fear, but she did
not like the man’s profession, although
she took pains to assure me that he was
a gentleman; had alwavs acted in the
most honorable wav, and never seemed
to notice that Estelle cared for him, ,but
talked to her about music and the stage,
and took an interest in her musical
studies.
“One morning Miss Estelle and I
were at the breakfast table, Mrs.
having excused herself, as she had some
household duties to attend to. The
young lady’s attention was evidently
preoccupied about something, for she
talked at random and seemed to be
thinking. At last she said, with a rather
odd exrpession of face:
“ ‘I expect a friend to call on me this
afternoon. I think you will like him.
He is very fond of music.’
“I asked who he was, and she looked
rather disturbed at my question, but
replied:
“ ‘He is my best friend. He is an
ro.or, and is coming over from Wash
ington.’
“I remembered what her mother had
told me, and I changed the topic of
conversation. In the afternoon, about
four o'clock, I was sitting in the parlor
with Estelle, when her brother Bob
came in with a letter for her. She
blushed when she saw the handwriting
on the envelope, and tore it open has
tily. Then her expression changed, and
she showed that she had been disap
pointed. She read the letter two or
three times and then exclaimed:
“ ‘lt's too bad. He isn’t coming. 1
think he might have written more than
that, don’t vou? 1
“She tossed the letter to me, and
turning around to the piano, began
playing. I absently folded and refolded
her note until I had it in a crumpled
little roll*, and when she started to go
up-tairs to dress for supper, the note
con’d not b i found. She was a little
vexed at my earlessness at first, but soon
recovered her temper and did not allude
to it again. Three days after that I
was to go home. I got up early to make
arrangements and went out on the
street, where 1 heard of the assassina
tion of Lincoln. When I returned, Mrs.
and Estelle were awaiting my ap
pearance to sit down to breakfast. I
wat greatly excited, and exclaimed as I
.entered:
“ ‘President Lincoln was murdered in
Washington la-t night!’
“ Both ladies screamed and looked
frightened, and Mrs. cried out:
‘Oh, they will kill all of us who are
friends of the South. Who did it?’
“*A scoundrelly actor named Booth
—John Wilkes Booth.’ The words were
scarcely out of my mouth before Estelle
gave a scream and fell forward upon the
table, and from there to the floor, drag
ging the breakfast things about her
with a crash. The mother seemed to be
almost as much affected as her daugh
ter, but she loosened Estelle’s dress and
lifted her up, while I bathed her head
with water. I was terribly ctnfused, but
I suggested that I should go for a doc
tor. Mrs. at the mere suggestion
almost screamed.
“‘No! no! No one must know it! ’
‘“Know what?’ I asked.
•“Why, don’t you know? Don’t
you know that John Booth was the mau
I told you about—the man she is in love
with?’
** Then I remembered the note, and
the fact that it was signed *J. W. B.’
Estelle had not mentioned the name,
and that was why I did not understand
it. Mrs. was wild with terror, and
feared that her daughter might be sus
pected of having some connection with
the plot of Booth and his companions.
Estelle was ill, and did not leave her
room, and I never saw her after that
awful morning, poor girl!
“On my way home I found Booth’s
note in my pocket, where I must have
put it without knowing it after I had
rolled it up in a ball. I kept it then as a
memento. The business Booth refers to
was evidently that of the plot.
“I don’t know whether .Estelle is
living or not. She was when I was in
Baltimore two years ago. Her mother
was dead, and Estelle was living with
some relatives near Bowling Green, Va.,
and not far from Garrett farm, where
the man she loved was shot in a barn
twelve days after he had murdered the
President of the United States."—Pitts
burgh Telegraph.
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Raising Children.
When very young they should be kept
quiet, not too much exposed to the
light. It is usual to engage some old
ahd experienced expert to attend to
this, and the direction in which the
“twig is inclined” at this stage is gen
erally the ruin of the parents’ peace of
mind for two years.
Milk is said to be good for babes, but
there are so many “patent foods” now
sold at the drug store that milk may as
well be done away with. Give the
child something that you don’t know
anything about and it will thrive—pos
sibly.
Don’t cross the child when it is small
It will take so kindly to having its own
way that it is really cruel to insist on
parental rights in the matter.
Leaifn the little coots to “crow” as
early as possible. Take them in your
hands and toss them up as high as you
can and jounce their digestive organs all
nut of place. This is a genuine “raise”
of children.
As soon as possible put the green ba
by into a baby carnage and push it along
the sidewalk, running into everybody
with it and gathering admiring crowds
at the crossings to worship it. This
will give the little one some idea of the
way of getting on in the world in later
years.
It is a good plan to hurry up a child
in the matter of walking. The sooner
a child walks, the more bow-legged and
irrepressible he will be when he grows
up. ,
Just the moment the child lets go its
mother’s apron strings plant it in the
neighbor’s front yard. This will save
your own lawn, while the little fellow
digs up the turf and carries away the
lawn of the neighbor in his little pet
wheelbarrow.
Train the child to “ appear” in com
pany. Urge him forward. There is
nothing like it. Visitors so much ad
mire to have children climb and crawl
all over them in their gentle, prankish
way.
A good share of dirt makes a child
grow. Soap and water is useful, how
ever, -emee a week, to enable parents to
recognize their own children when they
call them in to dinner.
Let them have their own sweet way
always. They will retaliate in the fu
ture by not letting you have yours; but
what matters that?
Never allow neighbors’ children on
your premises. The hateful things will
influence your own children for bad.
Allowing your children to play with the
neighbor’s children on their premises,
however, has a salutary effect on those
benighted little frauds, and it is your
Christian duty to see that your children
mingle in this manner as much as pos
sible.
The best dressing for children is the
sole of a slipper. It should be gently
swayed in the air above them and ap
plied vigorously —once in a while.
Good clothes, pretty clothes, are an
elaborate necessity for little ones. If
you are an eighteen-dollar-business-suit
man, you can afford to dress a child on
a thirty dollar silk velvet, brass button
basis.
When children get big enough to go
to school—well, you will be astonished
at the remarkable unanimity of the
school teachers and Board of Educa
tion in relieving you of all rights, priv
ilege and authority. You won’t have
anything more to do but sit with your
hands folded, and see these “servants
of the public' ’ make precious little prigs
of your darlings. —New Haven Register.
The Military Forces of Turkey.
The Politische Correspondent pub
lishes an account, “from a very well-in
formed military source,” of the
present military forces of Turkey. Ac
cording to official statements, says the
writer, the largest number of troops
which Turkey had at any time in the
field during the war of 1877-78 was
490,000 and it took her three years to
obtain that number, as her levies were
raised very gradually in Bulgaria and
Asia Minor, first for action aga n-t the
small Slavonic States, and then against
Rus .a. The military reorganization
law of 1880 provides that the army of
Turkey is to be raised to 1.200,00 > men,
without exceeding the limits of age
fixed during the Russo-Turkish war.
How this can be done it is difficult
to understand, seeing that durkey
has lost 2,000,00") subjects by the
cessions of territory made under
the Berlin Treaty, and that
her Mohammedan population, both in
Europe and Asa, is only 9,000,000.
The question of admitting Christians to
the army is only just beginning to be
considered, and is not likely to be
settled for another five years to come;
and even if < hristians were employed
on non-combatant duties, such as the
commissariat, transport, etc., they
would certainly not increase the army
to anything like 1,200,0)70 men. To do
this a holy war would be necessary, sup
ported by all the power of Islamite
fanaticism.
Some: weeks ago we read an attempt at
suicide iu Paris by a man who had driven
a small dagger to the depth of nearly
four inches tnrough the top of the skull
into the brain. Powerful machinery had
to be brought into use to remove it.
The man tuen walked some distanie to
a hospital, where he remained a*few
days, though suffering neither from pain
nor fever, and finally resumed his regu
lar occupation. The story read like a
s nsahonal report, and we didn’t care to
publish it as it seemed hard to believe.
We now find it in the London Lancet ,
and can not doubt its authenticity.
Hie Codfish.
This trop tal bird very seldom wings
vis way so far west as Wyoming. He
oves the sea breezes and humid atmos
phere of the Atlantic Ocean, and when
solated in this mountain clime, pines for
ais native home.
The codfish can not sing, but is prized
tor Lis beautiful plumage and seductive
xlor.
The codfish of commerce is devoid of
digestive apparatus and is more or less
permeated with salt.
Codfi'h on toast is not as expensive as
quail ou toast.
The codfish ball is made of the shat
tered "remains of the adult codfish mixed
with the tropical Irish potato of com
merce.
The codfish Ims a great wealth of glad,
unfettered smile. When he laughs at
anything lie has that same ♦vide waste of
mirth and ha k teeth that Mr. Talmadge
has. The "Wyoming codfish is generally
and ad. D ath in most cases is the result
>f exposure and loss of appetite. No
me can look at the codfish of commerce
and not shed a tear. Far from home
with his system fi led with salt, while
his internal economy is gone, there is an
! air of sadness and homesickness and
briny hopelessness about him that no
I one can see unmoved.
It is in our home life, how ever, that the
codfish makes himself felt and remem
b red. When he enters our household,
we leel his all providing presence, like
the perfume of wood violets or the seduc
tive odor of a dead mouse in the piano.
Friends may visit us and go away to
be forgotten with the advent of a new 7
face, but the cold, calm, silent corpse of
the codfish can not be forgotten. Its
chastened influence permeates the entire
ranch. It steals into the parlor like an
unbidden guest and flavors the costly
mrtains and the high-priced lambre
quins. It enters the dark closet and dal
lies lovingly with our swallow-tail coat.
It goes iuto your sleeping apartment and
makes its home in your glove box and
your handkerchief case.
That is why we say that it is a solemn
thing to take the life of a codfish. We
vould not do it. We would pass him by
a thousand times, no matter bow fero
cious he might be, rather than take his
life and have our once happy home
haunted forever by his unholy presence.
— Nye's Boomerang.
Rapid Eating.
To boast of special skill—as some do
—in the matter of eating “with dis
patch,” is to claim a relationship to the
swine, hyena, and scavengers in general,
supposed to be the most rapid eaters
among the brutes. Such eating nob
only requires no special intellect, no
superior physical ability, but is decided
ly prejudicial to health, not to say un
refined.
When food is thus eaten, especially
the more solid and tough, it is utterly
impossible to chew it sufficient]} 7 , while
it can not be properly combined with
the saliva, a solvent prepared to an ex
tent to indicate its use and importance
from three and a half pounds to six in
twenty-four hours. The primary ob
ject of chewing- is to so divide the food
that this juice may be mixed with every
part, the fineness presenting an in
creased surface, the act of chewing act
ing on the salivary glands, in a kind of
miking process, which, in addition to
the excitement of the food, causes it
to ooze out, thus affording all the
liquids needed, without any artificial
drinks. By this mouth-digestion, so to
speak, reducing all to a moist and fine
pulp, and only by such processes, can
food be properly fitted for the stomach.
If not well prepared for the stomach, in
the mouth, the labor of that organ must
be iucreased, doing its own, with a part
pertaining to the mouth. It is proper
to add that even the liquid foods cannot
be so prepared unless they are retained
in the mouth long enough to allow the
saliva to be incorporated with them. It
is also true that such masses of food as
are thrown into the stomach by rapid
eaters, cannot be well combined with
the stomach juice (gastric,) from which
fact the stomach digestion must be im
perfect. The outer surface only being
dissolved by the gastric juice, a part of
the solid mass is likely to pass into the
bowels, in an unprepared state, of course
deranging them, and increasing their
labors.
To say the least, rapid eating is but a
preparation for our national disease—
dyspepsia—as we may be the most rapid
eaters of the civilized world.— Golden
Rule.
Here are two illustrations of matri
monial felicity: In Leicester, England, a
man went with another woman to a place
of emusemort the evening of the day
his wife died, and just before the funeral
the woman having come to take charge
of the house, the dead wife’s mother
turned her out of doors, a large crowd
pelted her with flour and black lead and
hooted the husband on the way to the
church.
Another man eloped with his wife’s
sister from Rochester, New York, taking
with him §9OO of his wife’s money. He
was taken with the smallpox, when his
paramour deserted him. His former
wife heard of his sickness and came od
at once, but too late. He died before she
reached him.
—A Venn? man m a Western Illinois
town advertised for awi e. His own
sister answered the *‘ad,” discovered
the identity of the advertiser, and, with
out betraving her own identity, led the
enamored young man along till he pro
posed marriage. The joke was too
good to keep and now' there s another
young man who hates women with a
cruel, bitter hatred.— C icaao Herald.
SUBSCRIPTION—SI.SO.
YOL. X. NO. 10.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.'
—Greek and French have been added
as optional studies to the course of the
Indianapolis high school.
—The English Church has established
a Christian mission at Bara, a town
which reaches further back than the
call of Abraham.— N. Y. Examiner.
—The Philadelphia Board of Educa
tion estimates its expenses for the next
year at $1,715,999.05. Of this sum
$1,136,025 will go far teacher's 1 salaries.
—The net numerical growth of the
United Presbyterian Church lastvear
wsfS, to the very unit, double that ol the
year before, viz.: 1,636 to 818.— The In
terior.
—The census of the world, according
to its religions, has been figured out by
some Scotch statisticians. Its results
are: Protestants, 120,000,000; Oriental
Christians, 80,000,000; Roman Catho
lics, 200,000,000; Jews, 10,000,000; Mo
hammedans, 175,000,000; Pagans, 80,-
000,000. — Chicago Inter Ocean
—Mr. Flod, a German missionary
and captive in Abyssinia, writes: King
John lias taken advantage of the
troubles in Egypt to regain his lost prov
inces, and he has subdued and baptized
the Galla tribes as far as Gurogue. He
also states that the slave trade nourish
es along the Blue Nile, and will contin
ue to do so as long as the country is in
the hands of Mohammedans.
—The Detroit Post and Tribune says
there are nine Presbyterian churches in
Detroit, with a membership of 2,872,
paying $20,000 in pastors 1 salaries, and
owning property worth $496,000, en
tirely out of debt, except some SIO,OOO
or $15,000 still owing by the Fort
Street Church on its rebuilding alter the
fire, and which its members can wipe
out in any twenty-four hours that they
will set about it.
—The w'ell-known condition left on
Girard College by its founder, exclud
ing ministers from its doors and forbid
ding all sectarian religious teaching, is
said to have been violated for many
years. “The officers of the Girard es
tate,” it is explained, “have always
felt that while sectarianism was to be
excluded from the college, religion as a
principle of life was to be inculcated in
the minds of the youth who received
the benefit of the institution.”— N. Y.
Sun.
—That American parents are educat
ing their children to be idlers is the
complaint of the Boston Herald. “Not
long ago,” it says, “it was shown that
the drift of representative schools in
Boston and Quincy was in the direction
of occupations which are beyond the
rank of the common laborer, beyond
the limits of common industries. None
of the boys, none of the girls, expected
to really work for a living. They were
to do what was nice and genteel, but
not to soil their hands, not to wear
overalls or scrub floors; not, in short,
to do anything that did not belong to a
superior race.
PITH AND POINT.
—People learn wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
—The Agricultural Bureau reports ft
short broom-corn crop this year, but the
supply of mop-handles is unprecedent
ed. No occasion to be alarmed.— De*
troit Free-Press.
—A Vermont man found a pooketbook
with S6O in it just before the war, and
recently his conscience compelled him
to restore the funds. Conscience is
pretty thick down East. — Burlington
Ilaivkeye.
—ln a Paris shop devoted to feminine
wearing apparel: “You ought to take
this pair of stays, madame. They can
not be worn out. None of my customers
to whom I have sold a pair have ever
wanted another.”
—“Pa, are we going to have any girl
vanized iron on our new house?” “Any
wh-a-tP” “Any girlvanized it on?”
“Galvanized you mean, don’t you?”
“Yes, pa; but teacher says we mustn’t
say gal; it’s girl! ” — Chicago Journal.
—You can put “ten millioivoysters,
when they are only two days old, into a
four-quart pail filled with water.” We
believe this because we saw it in a news
paper, and we suppose if you took out
about a pint of water you could get in
about thirty million more oysters. —New
Haven Register.
—“ls dis heah letter all right, boss?”
asked an Austin darky, handing the
clerk a letter he wanted to send off in
the mail. • The clerk weighed the letter
and returned it, saying: “You want to
put another stc,mp on it. It weighs too
much.” “Ef I puts another stamp on
de letter dat won’t make it no lighter.
Dat’s gwine ter make it weigh more.”—
Texas Siftings.
—“My wife,” says Wiggles worth,
abstractedly lifting a handful of prunes
from the box, “is one of the most eco
nomical women I ever saw. V/f nnever
I smoke a cigar in the house she make#
me blow the smoke on her plants to kill
the bugs, and stands ready to catch the
ashes for tooth powder, while the stub
that is left she soaks in water and treats
the flower-pots to a Turkish bath with it.”
—New Haven Register.
—Enthusiastic Teetotaler “Dear
Miss Madge, 1 am so delighted to find
you have such an admiration for our
cause.” young lady—“No,
I’ve an admiration for Sif Wilfrid, that’s
all. When you see in print such epithets
applied to him as ‘peregrinating pump
handle,’ ‘peripatetic agitator,’ ‘driveler
of dreary drossiness,’ it makes *one
really feel that he has done something
to advance the poetry of literature in
this country.”