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CPAWFORPV'I/LE - * OEOMOTA.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Newton, Ala., will build a cotton fac
tory. of Geor¬
The oat crop in some parts
gia averages 100 bushels to the acre.
Eastern capitalists will build a large
ootton-Mcd oil mill at Chester, 8. C.
Virginia contemplates making arrang
menls to eliip sweet potatoes to England.
I>agrange, Georgia, is to have a large
cotton factory.
The new custom-house at Nashville is
ready for occupancy. the
In some parts of South Carolina
barley yield fa forty bushels to the acre.
Little Rock, Ark., cannot pay her
gas bills, end the gas company has shut
off the light.
A package of Stokes county, N. C.,
tobacco recently fold for $65 per hun¬
dred pounds. cot¬
Alamance county, N. C., has two
ton factories in operation and five in
course of construction.
A crate of Florida peaches sold in
New York at seventy-five cents apiece.
The six hundred tea plants set oqt by
Commissioner J.c Due at Lntciprise,
Fla., are doing finely.
Florida will experiment in the grow¬
ing of cinchona trees, from the bark of
which quinine is made.
A fruit dry’ng establishment on a
large scale is to be started at Greensbor 0
South Carolina.
Vicksburg girls lmve organized a
band of “sweet sweepers.” 'I his is tho
latest Southern craze.
Alligator hides have become in such
demand that many alligator farms are
Icing ftarted in Louitiana and Florida.
Tho people of Aberdeen, Mbs., arc
largely experimenting in filk culture.
The worms arc 11 d on usage onmpe leave.
The wheat crop now being harvested
in West Tennessee and North Alabama
is tbe largest ever known.
The Nashville American says: All
the crops in Tcnneiweo nro in magnifi¬
cent condition except cotton, which will
average frun sixty to eighty permit.
theater preparations than ever will 1>e
made this 5ear to develop the roW and
copper mines of Meckknberg county.
* North Carolina.
Many fine walnut trees in South Gar
i**H joi the- £40 right apiece, t.ie uiuehas- ‘them
eis reserving to remove
when they choose.
The»Richmoj d, Vo., alma-houso con¬
tains seven men who a few years ago
were worth from half a million to a
million dollars t acli.
.lacksonvllle, Fla., lias just made its
first conviction under tbe new law pro¬
hibiting the intermarriage of whites ami
blacks. The culprit was fined $50.
Plenty of illegal votes are cast in
Clarke county, Ga. Tbe grand jury of
that*county has just returned indict
ments against l‘-’l persons for that of
lease.
Several Alabama farmers report none
damage to cotton by cut worms, a means
of damage heretofore unknown; and
they report that it lias had a very ses
rious effect on some fields.
The Petersburg. Ga., Index-Appeal
says the best and largest fruit crop ever
^rownin Georgia will be ready for the
market in a few weeks.
In 1 the seven counties around • Griffin,
will , be - .. tin. .
150 distilleries . . . . running
Ga., the
summer. The peach crop m same
section willin' immense.
A boy-genius of Charlotte, N.
I ivii'iH tin- cucine three Htftts feet high 1
steam in a minute and throws a tiny
stream of water ncrly twenty feet.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an int
jwrtant nidi , mv * ■> pi - ; i., ry-i, , v <r,w
-
to perfection, and promise to add great
ly to the wealth of tho State.
A Jackson, Ga., man ti n disooveretl
that ills stock will feed as readily on
Bermuda gra?- as on bay, as n* pn-panu 1
tii harvest a big crop of the long do
spited herbage.
Tie rhejpuUooKicrai outlook fer a peanut crop in v
,f \ ami , Ni v _. rth t
ous parts c irgmm .n,
na. is very di-i ur •ine. t otton and
corn have eufieri u i * “M-'O >,vi rcl v fr , - tin
cold.
The Rome Ga Courier miv, the host
evid nee lha’. the .",,,,, 1 ;
tbe best field fer cotton anufaeture i
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pr< 6 ,r.„>..«!„«
mill-; have lo curtail their produi tion.
Report? fron the over
in uiMana 1 <
pieces or
j doing well. F othc llie rep. a' .
ust the ivvti 1 ii rm<
jjjc parts is c ■z extensive dams
The increase in cotton spinning in the
Pouth is indicated by the statistics of
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missis¬
sippi, Ix>ufaiana, Norths Carolina and
South Carolina, which shows an increase
of 361,60b spindles during 1881 and 1882
This represents an investment of $9,768,-
200 in machinery, and a consumption
of 120,000 bales of cotton a year.
The ferryman at Neal’s ferry, on the
Chattahoochee river, Tenn., found a box
floating in the stream which contained
3 sweet little babe, alive and crowing.
An abundant stock of fine clothing for
the waif was in the box.
In Troup county, Ga., a field was
planted in wheat this year which for
nine proceeding years has been planted
in cotton. Htrange to relate a splendid
stand of clover came up with the wheat
though it is nine years since it was
planted in clover.
A rare and valuable relic was dug up
in Berlin, La., recently. It fa bronze
medal two and three-fourth inches in di¬
ameter, and weighing five and a half
ounces. It was struck to commemorate
the evacuation of Boston by tho British
on the 17th day of March, 1776, and was
voted to General Washington by Con¬
gress. Tho medal is much rusted, but
tho figuro of Washington, finely execu¬
ted on both sides, is very plain.
Near Ilixburg, Va., three brothers
mmeil Banton were at work in a fieid
when a black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped one of them, lick¬
ing the boy’s face until he was uncon¬
scious. When discovered by the other
brothers the snake was foaming at the
mouth, and maintained Lis hold until cut
to pieces. The boy was so frightened 1
that lie became speechless, and it was
several days before he could regain the
use of his tongue.
How to Manago a E Molten.
“A clean kitchen raakesa clean house,”
is a Having which has ft great dual of
(ruth in it. As all the food of tho fami-
1.) has to ho picparcd in the kitchen, and
hh most working people the have kitchen—m- to take
their meals and sit in
ded, as the ono day-room has to bo
pallor, latcueu, uiid till to iruvuy hon*
familii ij—it ought to 1)0 clean and neat,
orit wiU not bo ooinfortableaml h-nlthy.
lo-.tol all, tho window and the fire
plane must lm clean and bright. No
room is cheerful with a dirty fire-place,
fully Every swept, moriuug arul the room hearth-rug, must be care
any mar, or
jiioco of carpet must be taken out of
doors and beat daily. The hearth must
be cleaned every day, and tho stove
briwhed, tho fire-irons l
leather once a week at.least tlogr.io
mu.it bo > hliick-horidod, and tho fender
aml irons thoroughly polished and all
well soured down twice n week. C«l>
hi .inis want great c ,ro to keep 0»em free
fm m dust cool cui^oards, ml neat. Supposing each
are two one on
huJc o„U.r <J the li.v.p!..,-* it^m w.ll etc. to and keep
; nivs, aagrocenes one
foil crockery. E very thing should bo
dean that is put m the cupboards, and
l ImHhtt Sk t’mlff \ou
i fa fa cou lav voiu
i.'.'iili.iV.ViA. that 1 , 1 '..V is perfectly dry and
ing so clean neglect it lie tho
■week If you his you may
hoiisohotd. ,,,, d;~,n Un v Wo ,, r « tn - you, Ui
poisoned by food being cooked m
pups. Besides, even if £imh 1 is not mado
irsss plan
thfa. It is a gooil to hnvo a jar of
soda in some handy place, where you
can, whenever you wash up, take a bit
and put in the water. It is very cleans
ing. and both crockery and tins wasbi-d
n hot water, with a Lit of soda m will
bo siire to shine and be sweet, - i n*
fa a very imriy habit to be careless about
towels. Tea things and glass should lw
wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for
that purpose. If you b*ve a ^ia »-raek
drain in the rack; but if you have no
vack ymu must wipe the plates; keep a
gtKxl dwh-oloth to wash them with, with, and
tt glHH i coarse towel to dry tln-m
aud use your dfab-doth and your dish
towel for nothing ofae.
“Breedlng-off” Horns.
Tb0 qnegti on of “breeding-off” tho
horns of nalivo cattle is receiving claim at
te-ntion, and there arc many who
that it “ can be done. Horns on neat
cattle are a relic of barbarism, so to
muvik ,„, Ther are notoulv y a ust-lcas an
£ n( fage, * . biit positively I J obji«Uonable.
-mother injury
fa a yard or statde, but caused they have the death many
« time, by their horns,
of, or disabled, other animals. Timid
p opie are mortally afraid of cattle with
, by the nnilos; ” with
j horns, but pass “
! L.i.wtii "*• , Vh.r-i Vi^ihefa Uowb but
1 .I iunI ferocious ani
are no
mafa to attack them. Nature appears to
t* ^ d.dn C fua grailualiv .; and unaided that
u artir r. iia lu q p wou!J «co 1
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ing and long .on so s otum Urn Texas lexas hum r
iuiiicate “ ‘ s. Iredfibyatirirg ,1'^ \sti\l tint horns
I1H v l«) tlum when
that out divts l ^i; a ‘V^^mUt^ufT
wh.wo t Is, in turn, would be long, if
f i ill out lJi' But a fauifiy of
Avi ,-sh cr Scotland,
er g ally had theiv ears ehpp-d from
vein o war tc ,'te'ltt
tiu-.e the c Iv toU-bOTa with
of 1 > ear wanting and now the
peculiarity ns fixed.
TOPICS OF THE BAT.
Within the rear the mines of Arizona
Territory have'paid nearly $1,000,000 in
dividends
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. ut
il ennis Kearney pops up again,
not as a politician. He has drawn $8,000
in a lottery.
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A man who buys a glass of beer in
Iowa on Sunday renders himself liable
to a fine of from $1 to $5.
Divery stable men in the East say
the extension of the telephone from vil¬
lage to village is injuring their business.
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Wendell Phillips has declined, and
Governor Long lias accepted the invita¬
tion to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos¬
ton. k.---
A monument costing $40,000, and a
fountain $15,000, are to be erected to thfe
memory of Jin coin, in Lincoln Park,
Chicago.
in According Minnesota from to a local what paj^r was “ a prononced man djfad
to be ieproey by physicians, of the most
hideous appearanoe.”
Charles Readk is writings series of
short stories whioh-poh JUA *
taneously in England, theUnTS-J SUSSip
Canada, and Australia.
The Mayor of Milwaukee, WisconaiL,
lias issued a proclamation warning drug
gists to desist from the practice of sell
mg liquor “by the drink.”
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Thb Toledo Blade says that the
trouble with Mrs. Christiancy arose
from the fact that she wan&jd to be a
sister to too many nioe young men. — ■
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Prices at the prominent summer re
sorts willhe from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, higher than they were last year,
Second grado people will have to stay at
home.
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The Arizona Star declares that by f.e
aid of artesian wells the dosert lands of
Arizona can be made the most produc
tivo wheat growing districts in the
country. T
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number To show of < stude : “f?* nts he **..* ging ,
u .o
Moscow University have resolved to
v , ear a baud of crane around their arm
{oJ . twolye monthg>
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The Czar of K ugs i a thinks that by in
» (il ’ 3 reforn}8 that ho can get
l, . , I f 3iis coronation in
about a year. In what abject tcrroi ,
sueh a ruler must live.
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It is thought that cork trees can he
successfully raised in every Southern
gtato. Of some spvcimons planted in
Georgia ^ many j are now , thick enough for
“• Z. ;, mu **
.
. t ****** wtw „ t l i, ...... M |g§ hi
tested on tlu.N v,
saving Yyestern in Radiroa^^J^^i. fuel, VWMjHI works u.r.y Id
ng ht, f •
An Lvoi.isn ---------. the time
Burgeon BtJmaoh is
coming when a man’® witfout can bo
and replaced difficulty.
It will simply keep him home part 1 of
Suite h«» ntuea lo perrait
Hebrew exiles from Russia to make atet
tlemont in Palestine. Two hundred
Jowialilamilie8 8reontl,oye,geof star
TOlioninCoo.tonlmoplo.
Hbnby Villarp, the millionaire Pres
m*********
was onoe Washingtqn conespondent of
the Chicago Tribune ,but later, degener
ated and fell in with monied people.
Guitbad starts oa lus tn Pi to u the next 4
world jnBt four days before the Fourth
of July ofth. and 362 days after tho commis
»iou otimo that ploMd Gi.Hatiou
under a cloud of gloom the last Fourth
of July.
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„ million aerea of the best farmino
o^n . Dakota have just been thrown
te
Secretary .uqdir of the Interior. Here is a bet- ,
enterprise and industry than
T ,
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The hundreds of saloons that closed
in Ohio in consequence of the Pond
ii( l«°r tax bill, now that the bill has been
declared unconstitutional by Hie Su
prome Court, will probably resume busi
] • ness ag.un.__^_____
T Syracuse Herald is in favor of
, subsUtuting ... : steam , vui-riks , . tor ch J
j r c i
1 bells. ' Ihey can be heard furthei,
create more disturbance, and it is
dierto drop in and murder the man who
j )uUs the
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j Tun contest over the South Carolina
contested case was terminated in the
VM S t ate g House by the adoption of
resolutian seating Mackey. There
main ing contested seats will now he
. rapidly disposed of.
i „ . — for . ^ ,
8 r, ' asou re f nnuu f
own name is that she , is lndiauant that
the lie piojieuy pro.vriv which wu she sne .-.eeumulated ..nurnu .uei bv .
!or l ' Xcr 0:18 8 ' OUu pass 0 tr ' lS "
.
b f rt8 . relat ? ves on hlS deaUu Th °
The penitentiaries are full of murder
tions pending 1 between the Governor of
j WunandRankJamea^ • 1 r.nMK
, Cattaib Howoatb fa still in seclusion
* r ’ a everything sivrns to be an right
Whether the authorities at Washington
are anxious to capture him does not up-
pear, but perhaps they are not or we
should hear-more about it than we do.
Tub period of three years required by
law before a statue can be erected in a
public place in honor of a deceased per¬
goQ lfJ neAing R g end in the case of
Winiam Culien CiyM) t f so Central Park,
Kew York, will soon have a new monu¬
ment.
Charles Hunt died in New York of
apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few
days ago. He was well known in Bos
ton, Washington, and New York as the
unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federal
offices.
Tms London World says: “It is an
open secret in the Irish party that Par
nell ,, dare , not . go to , Ireland, T i j and that ,
in London, when not in the House, he :
is in virtual hiding.” Mr. Parnell’s
crime fa that he favors a peaceful settle
ment of the troubles in Ireland.
..pou
tary Kirkwood the other day she lOund
that lady ironing. Hence, whole columns
of praise and flattery. Had it been
some woman whose husband had a sal
of $25 per week, she would have
it cpived the cold cut forever after.
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that , Walt Whitman , has
1 seems
written a book—“Leaves of Grass”—
that is too dirty to be published. We
knew that Walt was old, and thought
also that he was clean, but after all it
don’t do to have too good an opinion of
a man . Walt has erred, and that is lm
man.
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The Texas Legislature has showered
a public blessing on the morality of that
State by taxing all persons selling the
Police Gazette, Police News and simi
far illustrated journals $500 per annum,
in each county where such papers are
sold. That is simply equal to prohibit
^ thdr
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Speaking of the vast stride# made in
the railway world, the Raiway Age
gives the following interesting statistics:
w* believo U Is safe to s»y teat Uu-ro sroat 1
lemt three bnndv«l and fifty lmee, coverum, at
IZZB&Xw p.-opoeed ?I tu bo coumieuced dnr- |
rol;ve ^ or lrt
i „ g ’ \he present ytsir. !
Missouri --- ——77,. truly pitiable condi- ,.
is in a
lion. Ilutlivr tlian bunt Xrauk James
3own an d punish him according to law
for ill the crimes he lias committed, a great
' of rod " tane 1 ami an ‘ unconditional
pardon seem to be preferred. r , What w) ,
would be the moral of an unconditional
pardon to Frank Janies ?
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The home for working gills m London,
ea p ed Garfield Hou. e, at the formal
opening at which 1 a fortnight ago Min
t T Low ov • 1 piiSiuea, r ided contains co..iams thirty- j (
<’-k h........dmiag-room, a sitting
ftU d a library, and c*h occupant I
, v f £ sccommoJation 3dolfarl from
! uxt I3V0 c ™_*-. „ Ilto OI)( week.
.
Thu “t uress generally is circulating the
J^Port that that Ohioan w « a o° girls b would mtK and
kiss a pretty litao dog 1 ‘ trouble
one Chicago girl has taken
to write a| letter for pubheat oi
noses t Lo CSios«o arc a mighty ino«'< teoatU sight cleaner duo there J*’
than they are here.
Goiruo’s ---, »ol one year ogo, inlorleted ,
with the usual Fourth of July edebra- 1
tion His act this year, we are pleased i
.aih.™ . t.«u»
the hihunty of the oooasion. We (lo
not make merry over the prospective
event of the assassin’s untimely death—
far from it-but it is a source of gratifi
ti to know that America is still dis
j k , t yicio[13 dog8 to death.
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M*. Ohrwtianct liaa <■„».,* lo be
published a letter purporting to have
been written by him to Mrs. Chris
tiancy’s father, in 1878, in which de
tail3 are g iven of numerous liasons al
^ t<* l-e been carried on by the
Joung and handsome wife all of which,
Mrs. Clmstiancy has stated to a reporter
are a mess of fabrications. 1 he alleged
liasons, she avers, were simply manifes
tations of friendship.
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Charles Lochbbcneb weighs about i
JOO / pounds, Ufa wife 300, and th.-ir rela
tiv 8tren?th fa fairly represented by j
the same figures. lie ostensibly k.cps
a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is
its r--al bos?, as he eouiphuns to a police
^ tbat tliree days in succession she
J ' ■
took bun across her . lap and _ spanked , j
him terribly Being arrested she gave ,
same ^ t0 time . fceep she Uie avowed peaC f’, her tC0 "f .nten.ion f “ >o )
.
subject her husband to discipline when- ;
ever and however she pleased.
The most serious labor strike of the
! year began June 1. T no proprietors of
the Pittsburg iron mills having refused
wasSer to sign the new scale of wages, a strike
M. Some thirtv-five ot thirty
MX m!lls ! u Prtt ^ ur « " 1CU “ ty slul
d own, and more than eighteen thousand
workmen are thrown out of employment,
; In Wheeling upwards of five thousand
, weight hundred quit work on the other
miU-ownenn The strike fa likely to
i | tprea l to all the iron mii.s west of Uie
Mo , ntains . and will be long
and obstinate. It is impossible to meas
nrethe loss to the productive interests
of the country which this strike will
entail, on to compute the hardship and
Buffering it will bring to the families ot
the workingmen. It can not be regarded
other than as a public calamity.
The New York Reporter.
A reporter’sTife is not a happy one.
lie is the slave of duty at all hours of
the day and night. To-day he is here,
to-morrow there. On Monday he may
be among thieves and murderers, on
Tuesday among politicians and states¬ ladies
men, and on Wednesday among
and gentlemen. He may be even among
all three on the same day. I remember
a cold, raw morning in February when I
had to get breakfast up long before daylight Oliver Hitch¬ and
mako a out of
cock’s coffee, and cakes and ran for a
train. That afternoon I found myself on
board of a largo European steamer,
which had stranded high and dry on the
New Jersev _ sands. , I T shared , , the
cap
Ws dirmor while the waves came dash
against the vessel’s side with a force
that threatened to make us food for sen
TOrms at moment. I cama back
wet and weary that night, but there was
no rest for me yet. To Delmonieo's I
Such gas is the Zfi&lS life of xas reporter,
a newspaper time where he will
H 0 knows not at any
kdro Lfa ne ^t meal. He often fa sent
JXn ilm Academy to“ftmiiX^Tthe
Five Points. Like an army on the march,
he must always have his baggage pre
pared, for at five minutes’ notice he may
j )e several hundred miles where
skirt-collars and handkerchiefs are un
known. He may be sent to scour the
bay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long
ior mystonously ^ appeltf '
'vJ.tV.r.K- ?,,,,!■*■ fl,o ^
tell an interesting story, but he must
also," if he wants to world earn his and salt, have that a
knowledge of the possess such
tact and discretion which comos of
knowledge. Young men fresh from some
inland college, who come to New York
newspaper offices under llie impression
4e -an doTth“v clnnoTdo ZrthhS etaf
quickly undeceived. One half of the
news which is printed Setoff in the local col
^LwWo have be not “rundown” often
who to very
with as much skill as the most cunning
of foxes. And for all this tlio reporter
P o'\ n pi‘ xi '■rtm"vscvv■-• k't'Vvpn mmof’vou
he'doesff f ? t | that ^4 iinicli
but good for
That good fact ones get no there more is mainly
due to the that are so many ‘
bad ones competing with them.
Yet with all tbe .faiuvbacks of long
and irregular hours, inadequate remiui
eration and “assignments” fa charm that are about often
uncongenial, there all a a
reporter’s life which who have ever
been members of the profession must ac
know!ed There is a romance con
n . cted with it which does not entirely
die out of even the older members who
now keep to it because they have been j
spoilt for anything else. The new genera
tion of metropolitan reporters, which
differ considerably from the old fa kept
to its work adventuron^Spi probat)l«toore by thing this flavor else,
fh e s^Pffpoctiy an v
^ ak the*’ranks and beer ;
^ almost died out are
recruit .1 from a class which has less of I ,
the him. ry and more unnnd
doing” spirit 1 about it.
’W vvivo !ho and they find tliey it h.- 4 - e . Auk;
older, however, become more
\‘-£: in tlieir desires and there ars
■ luenily constant their droppings into the out. edi
they woric way other
-rmi chairs or they go into some
COIJ ' |„ tt“!“hcreU ;
Ul , p lUl , f „, r p o r ter
wiionevi-r prints sutwiiat he oughter;
tiZZlWStL,.
-Ooonjo a ClcmaA
a -
The 8])ecd of Thought.
t ' £ sssj.’Kji
_ mi'eof nerve and Ilirsch
*• i that a touch on the face was recog
i,„ i ‘ rptmanded to bv
’ the seventh
a maml al 1 . ig!lftl ia of n see
oml He alsq found that the speed of
sense differed for different organs, the
sense of hearing being responded to in a
fa~
qmre 1 only oniihfth second to be felt
® 8 • . Z tb
,' me KO
.i. 0 ; n f ert , llct 18 tba t imanes travel more
s ra^e^o i ow i y than sounds or touch. It still re
show Ly the jmridou of
tIns nikrvd taken up the acti n ot
^monsteated tMs i
, “of « v . r.f a
Beoon d the whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in the simple
act of recognition, and thirty-five tlious
nudtlis for the act of willing a repon^
Mhen two irritants werecaused to oper
f^nJw^ roqTed for the perooi but to
reeo g n3Z0 which was the first; a
slightly longer interval was required to
determine the priority m the case of the
other senses. These results were ob
tained from a middlc-a^-ed man, but in
J the mental operations are some
{ k t , u in the adult . Tbe
average of many experiments proved
tbat a s i m ple thought occupies one
f Q1 tieth of a second.
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Wood Wearing.
This industry belongs strictly to the
town of Ehrenberg, on the Austrian
frontier. Spr.rteriejo rk, or weaving of
wood, was introduced more than.a cea
t^y ago, but has been confined until
witmn a short time to the manufacture
of cheap hats, glued together, aud worn
\>-y the lower classes. Lately, however,
owing to the interest taken by the Gov
eminent, Ehrenberg has been able to
,, >w wte8 . The aspen is the only
town.the.material » ^ught -.torn
Poland. The process requires woocL tneu m
mcety in-diving the
fibM.''h^fa necessary that hmd the
threads should be pr? pared by
The weaving itself is done on -urge
t looms.
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
Cah't a coffin shop properly be called
a bier saloon ?
By conteactino a disease vou help to
spread it. Queer, isn’t it?
“ I can’t account for it!” exclaimed
the defaulting bank cashier.— Phi'adel
phia Item.
Smoking and chewing are two evile,
and ye who select the former chews the
less .-Courier-Journal.
Fogg says he never finishes a cigar but
he thinks, “Another temptation removed
from the young men of America.”
It is bad luck for thirteen persons to
sit down together at a table, especially
if there i3 only dinner enough for ten.
The cat is the great American prima
donna. If bootjacks were bouquets,
her nine lives would be strewn with
roses.
“And phat wud ye want sich e man as
Patnrich for?” said Mrs. McGlone. *»Ye
uiver cud thrust him out yer sight, onliss
ye was wid him.” S
What is called respectability is a great
help to many men. Once they have at¬
tained it, they can put in a lie where it
will do the most good.
An Indian chief in Washington went
to see the Ideal Opera Company. When
M. W. Whitney gave a particularly him heap low
note the chief said: “Ugh!
dug out.”
Rest is said to be the solution of many
puzzling perplexities. If that’s so, we’d
like three to hundred solute a puzzling perplexity times about
and sixty-five ft.
year.—Courier-Journal.
An Irish gentleman, hearing of A
friend having a stone coffin made for
himself, exclaimed: “Be me sowl, an’
that’s a good idea! Share, an’ a stone
coffin ’ud last a man his lifetime.”
A Pennsylvania boy recently swal¬
lowed a horse-shoe nail without experi¬
encing any ill effects. H it had lodged
in his throat it would have made him a
little horse sure. —Norristown Herald
«j g THI8 the front of the Capi'tol?”
f k< £ “wiy-arrfa^d ganger of an
,,‘ fa^ronWmTa rc-an°’v^w^nts^ter
ee tbe j ront yer mnst around dar
“ oa dc “ dder ***•"-&**> W
,,k jufn^rV* „ boy^wlio , r - , vvas^justin . , . »
^ the
atarvation perwd, “I wish you would
make a study of ‘Watts on the Mind.”’
“I will, pa,” was the quick answer, “as
■?*.? “ **
stomacn. ”
Calculated to fill it: “I tell you,”
continued Pingrey, “Brown isn’t fit for
the place. In fact, calculated I don’t know of a
P^uce that he is lo fill,”
“Don’t be intemperate in yoar remarks,
Pingrey,” said Fogg; “you forget hi*
stomach.”
“Yes,” said the injured party to the
owner of the dog, “Idmow the dog was
only in play when he bit about half a
pound of flesh out of me. Certainly he
was only in play I And I was made only in
j lay when I took an ax and hash
of him. about!” Only in play, sir. Nothing to
get mad
•< Tell your mother I’m coming to ses
her-” ^ said a fad boy* v to Mm r.ilunn B : rre
Joy ifad 8 little who ° replied- “Em
K you t£ are «H^ cmnirn? Mamma l“ow will be
khtowill " be'“fad do s^e you S row
to f heAl^1^*5 meV
bapa. i«My. “Btcmisa
to vesterdav. that nobody ever came
.tlm house except men with bills to
collect ’’—Austin Riftin&e
C0 His SL exit- s tetween There th^fovero. had been a One seemine day
Emilv - S scliodmato ventured to refer to
“Two weeks
wto-ni«ht” "Win,two. ],«doing?" “Did
“Trying to get over the fence/
he appear to be much agitated. bo
rt'iSSA “ m”° P *
to nma mm.
-Og saloon, and the whole place had an
ah of dissipation which was rather more
suggestive than alluring. Tho from worst
«l“» of Americans come over the
o«>er side, preying upon the vices of the
Mexicans to their own profit, and mak
ing what money they can out oi their
JSffiS- “L £?&
^ plaigirs -„ Si , emed fitly
to describe their lives and occupation, week at
all events during Christmas hack My
fellow-passenger back m the was
^ '
whom j bad visi ted in prison, who were
fiends of hers; and during the inter
view a Mexican soldierliadtakenad
vantage of a touching moment to rob
her of $5 and her pocket-hanakercluef,
bo that I wa3 entertained by her opimoM
®J.ong 8 language! pleasure during of the her half-hour society.— I
Blood’s the
fdvice to Girls
i? J^ioi an, cultivate canivate?u- industrious hab
, ,
lta 7is not enough
your v<-il,tii01 on,,by. do - wmk . weffi
to bo busy ; we must our
To be thorough m study to be thorough
bi all work, ought to be the aimof every
ffud an< i e v er J p0 J- ed
fcotale education , on a „
super cm ly ra er ii, nm „rriinpss •
£anl tldiS* nSiy sm ittenn"8 of
and of few things. A
After thoroughness, independence. judgment.
hal>it of relying on your own
a habit of
,^ canng for youiwjlf, not selfiabm but m
j ? mg true responMDihty woim^y^on-ahabit J and bea.aig it bravely of^tj
one oi the habits that women as
well as men need to cultivate. Your
parents ought to give you icme chance
to ferm this habit; it fa a great misiato
Bbe has lemed fall by her side to leave
; ance m \ as /jsr. weU as a 5 s“
7 Assays of several hundred million dol
ViI worth of the native gold cf Cali
*^nn^motaf^Tke 0 °mtrsdia,
f A give# an average of 96(1
^ [ bousaudtbSi