Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893, March 09, 1883, Image 2
Wall-Makers in the Black Country. About 24,000 people are engaged in this dismal part of Great Britain in making nails and rivets. It would not be so much a matter the for surprise, even they for the lowness of wages that earn, if they were al! men and youths who are engaged in paid the industry— one of of the very worst in any part the country. But it degradation so happens—and here arises the social of the traffic- -that there are at least 10,000 females engaged day after dav in the ySpcupation. '-women either; They daughters are not work all mature by the side of mothers—daughters ought who, in their tender years, to be either at home, if they have any home, or in bed, instead shaping, of working still their weary arms in in the small hours ©f the morning, molten iron into the form of nails for the benefit of what are called the “foggers.” Here is a picture ©f what may be seen any night in this district—except, the middle perhaps, shed Saturday nights, adjoins In squalid-looking of house, a a shed there which is a a whole family at work in the pro¬ duction of those nails; father, mother, aons and daughters—daughters, in but with the too, sad look very V<T young years, look of of premature premature age age which is always to to be be noticed noticed in in the the faces fa of child- work ers. The gayety of youth, its freshness and its gentleness seemed to be crushed oiit of them In the centre of the sned w.th its raftered cc.lmg-a bleak am wretched building, wind readily t rough finds the walls of which the its way— thstre is a “hearth,” ted by “gl des ’ or cirl,*widTa her Vounn'cst daughter -it flaxen-haired sweet and winsome face— was certainly not more than twelve vonrs of was"’what age. Bv i!s the side of the hearth there “Olivor” barreWtke technically called the a construction, on the too of which h fixed the sfamo of the mki particular paiLicuiar pattern pauun and ana si/c sue of oi the mo “l!,T.i r w.,S»omr 'irti woodon treadlo—an industrial tie id -^toSnrnar&iosloTrn TO U] it ought more strictly to be called which they are fixed. They have pro viouslv hammered the top of the incan descent metal, with masculine firmness, m as to form the head of the nail. The women and the girls seem to work with indcod, more vigor than the men--very oft« n, their fathers, they support their husband? and who have fallen into drunken habits; in other cases, I his nail the making is the means of supplementing husband’s wages. But what do I lie nail-makers earn a week, may naturally be askedP The small. remuneration It they receive is inoredibly is no unusual thing-on the Contrary, it is rather the usual custom for a family of three or four persons, after ■tel:, working something like fourteen ■KfeJup day, to earn Tl in a week. But ■iMI.for money there has to be de carriage to convoy ” as they are Hi^mLliere ^j is al il |. |l , 'MW v menom! to work every morning at milf p*st seven wdrked or eight o’clock, and who day, have with on substantial through food, all tlio weary no uutil late <U fit night. Who is it that reaps the beno of all this terribly hard workP Certainly well-known not fast the that laborers; for it is a from week’s end they rarely taste meat oue to the other. In the expressive but simple language *if th® > oor workman, this is how they fare: “When the bread comes hot from the bakehouse oven on Saturday we eat it like ravening wolves.” The lives “logger*,” of < r “Tommy-shop” profit, and men live contentment, rest at the expense of the poor nail-workers. The “logger” is an intermediate agent between the worker of nails and the buyer. Out of the bone and sinew of these living—and poor people does he makes work. a very fine he not H e has a huckster’s simp attached to his dwell¬ ing; he supplies, at the beginning of the week, the nail-workers with their sixty-pound bundles of iron, and when they return the bundles of iron in the arketabie sliane of nails—out of which lie makes at least twenty per cent, profit -if they do not buy bis high pric. *d previsions, These they get no more work tom lutn. are the men who, by nutting down the workmen’s wages to starvation |>oint, are at the root of the evil .—London Standard. A (enfrsslen of IHftldence. The memorial sketch o' the late Rev. „'i u2 , cSSSit‘oiJr’rh*!i d. w....,« .li.uicnt making such a confess! n he once -aid that when he was a boy his mother wsed often to send him about the neigh- ! borhood to invite her friends t„ tea i aml that when he reached a house , where uu invitation was to be left he 1 mover could look anybody in the face, but with eves upon the l'o.,r he would ; •x'peat these words. \vh oh he had sa d j ovrr and oxer on his wav there “Mother sends her compliments nd j she hopes \ou will take tea with her : this evening.” He went on to say that wfter he beg:ui to preach he could never ; catch the eves of liis audience till after hc had listened to the sound ol lus own 1 voice for a while, and that at such j times there same words were Mire day,” to j j come into his mind •* And some said he. "1 shall s]>eak them out, and you will he very much astonished *o near me remark, at the oiren ug of n tsermon. and • Mother sends vvll tier eompli meets, she hopes you take tea with her this evening. ’’—A’ew Lomlon (Conk. ) Telegram. Wh at part of the eye is like the rain bow ? Tlie iris. What part is like tlie wckocl-bov? The pupiL What part is like the globe* The 1«1L What part » like the tern of the chest? The lid. What part is like the piece af a whip? T':< lash. Wi» *i part is like the sum writ ctf a hill? The brow. farm Morals—Borrowing and Lending. In every occupation, the character and unity of the occupants has great in fluonce to determine b ith the respect ability and the success of the oecupa lion, in localities, and more or less gen erally. Farmers must live upon farms, generally have farmers for world ne'gh hors. Very few men in the can with any strict propriety be called in¬ dependent men. i he best condition of human society is doubtless a o mddioa of fully realized mutual dependence. To make or keep the most desirable condition of intelligent society ideas am>ng right farmer neighbors, proper of and wrong must be understood^ and acted upon. We would modestly and humbly present some judgment, suggestions, l>or- as the matter strikes our on rowing and lending. There must be limits to the right of borrowing, and consequently obligation there lend, must bc limits to the to Karo implements, perhaps costly,which, though indispensable at ought times, are but be rarely borrowed. wanted Suoh in use, implements, not to when wanted for use by others than their owners, should always be hired, and the p r j C( , 0 f |,j be ro fairand agreed equal upon all and parties, paid, ghat will to y () rrowing would be sponging, ” n and not equal No person ' should borrow any article f ‘ „ who holds it only as a hon ,, w( (i urlicle . No one has any belong right J(;nd what doos not unjust prop<jr)y lb tohim It is very £i the owner, arid u not a raor right. Such privi T ! " " e ” fi c ^ ,,,ou bh i- h.ul Peen .stolen, foi it will . be lost, to him. If a borrower may a l,,,r f” we d "'ensij or article,.'o® ° ecom , , h 'iiowei may do the .samc, and "hinVf'the L.le 'r artiole ’^The'ifnrrowerTf an Ll i. ..n ^ nsil hn haj rw shadow of a ’''Sht in - the article which he can trans f er to a third party, lie loo who borrows knows have of.ny only o„ borrowed, whom to it as • of tre against good w a «P as ® n0totera , , '? 0Mh ™ - U 5 9 Noth '»'«t perhaps, is . more necessary , t0 « l ood especially neighborhood among farmers, » n ‘ among farmers who own »®* 11 farm? as farm homes than a f understanding lmlli and iu borrowing consideration ? ,l ’ e s r ^ h '< and And . there should be no priv ' the W obligations persons, which as exempt are from any to of good neighborhood. If necessary father bur a r0Wf ' wf his son, or a son borrows from Ws father, or a brother from his brother, it is ft business transaction; and none °* « tkem , can cia m any exemption from lae lftw •‘ , and rulra which should govorn atl ' era 1,1 a society of harmony a ™ Peace. Where relatives take special ;; llb f. rtl,!S ,n 8,,oh »i»'ters, it were ettor '? r «httodoit. bye among strangers It should They bo regarded, have no as 11 fcn, v ls * !l tres|JOS8, an immorality. *'*'ich of the miploaeantness so often seen aim mg relatives, springs from an 'laWi presumption ht supposi- ..-s-i ••4horn>“<*nu--wtUcy ght to .are rela¬ heart, tives. Many in a man Itas had it in Ms when* such cireumstaoces, to pray to be delivered from' his friends. I should no* be faithful 1 to the subject I am treatings wore I to silently ignore another form of presumption of special rights, which £ have often observed and looked upon with profound regret. People elevation are often of seen rank, to which act as they tfaringh had any constituted license to take a nnnsualliberties; financial, whether tiuvtelevation were or social, or religious. So young ladies often,when they step np the rank of mere scholars to that school teachers, will take liberties- in of proper rules of politeness, they others, never did before. Audi farmers when they rise up to a m> fession of piety and to church -merahar are often foolish in the same tiling, substance, andi practically claim which they, ought net- to think taking. In lending articles or uten¬ none have tried my patience and more severely,, than by taking liberties, have some people. It is certainly all Christian an immorality. To make become true ca« never any a bad citizen or a bad neighbor. higher onr rank the right more strictly we seek to be as neigh* No man’s goodness is sufficient make wrong right.—.4. G. Comings, New England Farmer. Development of Forest Trees. ^ a aiveraity among » "*«U» £ gsrz, trz we huve main 1 <vi ' ' .’ and some of the most nse ul and . l .roU £Me tna's are of this iharaiter. Ir. Wanlncar, of Ohip, m a paper on l or •f'D- ^ locust be harvv . u ' may twenty to thirty after it has grown from years, The oatsdpo the ,, same specioaa in period will make good croes-bes and fence posts. attains a useful The ailantus very soon size, and for certain purposes lias been highly commended both ui this country and ui Europe. Professor u. S. Sar gent is advising ita extensive plantation, and some years ago it was spoken of as the mi«t premising tree for the and plains of the Southwest The forest of Scotch pine in reach Germany then are allowed sixty years to useful size tor fuel and for timbers, Tlie birch there reaches ita maturity in about half a century, needed The willow used tor charcoal in the manufacture of gunpowder may be cut after growing twenty years or even less, Chestnut, in its second growth, is most profitably cut every twenty or twenty¬ five year*. ■■■■ The beautiful wood of the wild cherry soon reaches a profitable size for many purposes, tliough fear saw logs and lum ber the tree should be larger. For Onr Stoi Madame de Dura* oijrrymp- T nngly said that a knowledge #i stein fa* use fnl would in making almost sweetmeat?, if a>i’ rorough so it seem as esfijptial a knowledge of physics was in sele- ting a dinner, as if cooks ought caterers to be graduates first class from cherhisirej®^ thej§g«d;cal dor seboo's. After listening to potoolies. reading volumes upon what to ” at ar| d what not to eat, after having ? ur cher¬ ished mince-pie wrested from alter sacrificing our toasted ehcesej^r ^e loved doughnut, our savory Yntte -, to the enlightened plum-pudding spirit of the ! e a ®o'd ‘^r giving shoulder our in for indigos we " chills, return aivl banishing eakc from tfc® test ve board, according to the dictal" °f t"® dietary police—we begin, prfaap®' t° suspect that wc have been den; P*bo mg o eat ir selve - for naught, since vhose what is set before them, asking®® ques tions for conscience sake-’® r the hostess —paying little heed to j' ie ™a terial are quite s »long as well as' it off pleases in the th^-palate, ilpttcr of digestion as we who have ff'™, our whole minds to it. But com-ci*® let on©**. that these he careless folks 1 eeoroe has a stomach, belief and the we heroic experil/ eet. ce a re- In laj sc into in l kely tfiv!>e t buf the meantime we are ; feted by every wind of doclr fe, after devoting ourselves to oaten*-*' ^osolyte, ’vith h c “H’uwasm of a ,akm , . S 'ho Utter with t.J sweet ™ he a theory 'f «"d<lenly lha con oatmet^-y; froafi wth too ‘ , LT- u g v C more Bg upon ht it is too water” is swallowed a 1 o ir ewn risk; a ff er doing v'olen e fo our pre udiees ami taking of beef underdone Aomebody r j s< ; 9 to say that it is the «houi:5bc wept thing thor wl!tonW ,l0 ’ as meat cooked , in order , to '£> whole some ; after converting om ves to a ta brain to for fish, with a oonfmHK view ^jereased 1 * by the power, we are jd theory ... ,„«p food; which recommends fish for ,in after resigning our hard boileH e gg like a niarh the progress of sure-us that fluids must be lomerted into solids before digesting; tor eoax mg our convalescence W. some lea ned Asculapius l^“ »as had by wine more jeily convalescing than by daeasflF pa^ts «®nee- kiiled forth keeping the culinary becomes depart a bug- met\|ofhouse- the simplest preparation may turd out . to be yenst-powdeis a dangerous compound; betrayed usf liav<- .fend n0t our mwy we not be shortening the ot daytB* " iends cipes r—JJarpet ^ s s m Bazar. r^ r -8 I lusliliiTt. .. Everyone is familiar with 'he word j ftmh, as applied to the criiriHonJd cheeks, in when visible, the become minute suddenly capillaries, gd[R®d ^'eUre with blood. The sudden full in A f’ w i s the leading idea. plied The to word the has cleaimiaea^ for a longj* ^OSS. ll l>- a coni one Amount t:» nnn conteitie and bears thcmbi'l'k' it in ita rush. f \ This method of cleanaag he} sink and soil-pipes of onr dwellings uijkjoyed. ould be systematically An ordinary stream and thorcfcglily wfl flow e tiie over sediment, and allow it accm malate so as, in time, to fiQ, and alyays t* bo send¬ ing back its odor to the nmse. 'The dif¬ ficulty is increased in oif- sink- pipes by the eareiossnoss of servants in allowing peelings, paiingay and bite gei - «dlv, t<> enter tlie wlueh pipe, and by tlii many greasy particles constantly jniss ifown. It is well, once or twice a welt, to re¬ move the straiiwar, and has ing: tilled a bucket with boiling water, to mm- the latter into the sink at once, at die same, time opening the faucet to the tester, and allowing tlia whole to ran two or three minutes. This will dissolve tl«- ■ greasy particles, the mil carry clean everything and off, and render jape sweet. The wool, of late, has b >en happily opening applied to the the door proper and airing the windows, pi a aoom in the by front and rear, so as to secure, vs. far as possible, a fftll rush of the air 4trough. This is the more necessary, «oee tlie most dangerous impurity—tlie ufflnvimn from the skin—is not, like tin' gases, subject to tife tow of diffusion, tends to settle upon, the floor, fumiitUBe and bedelothingi opening of window*, however A mere a long, amount* to but little beyond cool¬ ing the rcenx. Popular Ideas of the dimes. In the West of England formed there is of a tra¬ the dition that the cross was mistletoe,, which before that went uses! to be a line forest tree, br # lias since been doomed to le;ul believe a panvritical that it exist enoe. The gypsies ash Tho nails used was made oi’- the tree. at the erueifietion, said to have been found! by Helena, are reported to have worked* many miracles. Oue of them w. i thrown by her into the Adriatic during a storm, and produced a perfect helm, cal .a. of Another placed in found the crown in or mutilated Constantine, was a Croce. The state in the Church of Santa third is said to be in the possession of Duomo of Milan, white that of Txeves claims the fourth. Ia the time of Char¬ lemagne a new relie was discovered in the shape of a spouge soaked to the blood of Christ. In Cheshire tho Amm maculatum is culled “Gefchsesaane,” because it is said to have been growing at the foot of the cross, and to have re oeived some drops of blood on the its orueifio- petals. The dirpe of Mam re died at tiou! "Christ’s thorn" is a very com¬ mon plant in Palestine, In Scotland it was formerly believed that the dwarf birch is stunted in growth because the rods with which Christ was scourged were made from it These are the popu¬ lar ideas of the material of the cross, some of which will, perhaps, neve* be entirely obliterated until tlie last great dav, when “all things shall he made plain-"— AU the Fear Round. A xroro teamster in N ashvdte declares that he must either gire up driving mutes or withdraw from the elmroh; tn.> tvs^ positions inoompatjb}*, FOREIGN GOSSIP. in —Two-story Berlin. street-cars are a success —Several electro-motors have been introduced into the French collieries where they colliers have given satisfaction to all the except the mules. The muies kicked. —A prize type setting contest took place winning recently compositor iu Berlin, 9,415 where letters the in set the course of three hours, an average of about fifty-three letters per minute, in ordinary newspaper type. —By the will of the late Mr. Trotman, a wealthy planter of Demarara, half of his large fortune is bequeathed as the nucleus ol an institution to be estab¬ lished for the benefit of distressed plant¬ ers and their wives and children. Two provisos in the rather remarkable docu¬ ment are that no confirmed drunkard and no black man shall profit by the bequest. —A Paris paper tells a story of an ec¬ centric man who put a clause in his will that the funeral should take place at six o’clock in the morning and that his property, an old mattress, should be left to those who followed the hearse to the graveyard. As there was nothing in the will to attract many mourners, the fun¬ eral procession was limited to the driver of the hearse and a young neighbor of the deceased. He got the mattress and found in it $40,000. —A discovery which has been hailed as a modern Pompeii in the center of France, has been made in the neighbor¬ hood of Poitiers, A buried Gallo-Roman town has been found, with the ruins of yards a temple broad, 114 baths, yards long by streets seventy and theater, houses. Sculpture in good preserva¬ articles tion, iron, bronze and earthen date are found. The town is thought to from the second century. —Ages of living Empresses: Augusta, of Germany, 71; Queen oi Denmark, 65; of England, 63; Empress of Brazil, 60; Queen Olga, of Wnrtemburg, (30; ! Queen of Saxony, 49; Empress of Aus¬ tria, 45; of the Belgians, 46; of Sweden, 46; of Italy, 52; Empress of Russia, 35; Queen of Portugal, 34; Queens of Spain and the Netherlands, 24 each; of Ser via, 23. —Captain White, of Ireland, belong¬ ing to the Eleventh Hussars, who has been in receipt of $10,000 a year from his estates, but who has been financially embarrassed lately by the loss of in¬ come caused by the troublous times in that happy awhile land, walked out on meeting a lonely moor ago, and on a laboring Chain saying mar gave had him further his watch and for he no use them, and then cut his throat. —The seventeen-year old bride of a Siamese Prince died not long ago,whose funeral ceremonies were on a scale of magnificence seldom made if ever equaled. logs The funeral pyre was of of the fragrant sandalwood, costing $10, 000, and a million dollars’ worth of gokf and jewels were strewed upon with his it. The Prince applied the torch own j hand, and when all was consumed the ashes were hich collected stands in in a magnificent the sacred CTn> w now temple at Benares, —The shop assistant? population of London is estimated at about 320,000— larger than all Dublin—and there are ciyy"* - 1 “ yoA»y ; ng about one-third of this population, who work from twelve to fourteen hours a day without relaxation. A century ago early closing was general, day, including .and for cen¬ turies twelve hours a two for meals aad relaxation, was the regular period: tension of of work hours for employes. in with The and ex¬ came (in the gas largest steam; big houses 1800 shop in London employed and keener only competi¬ sixteen on the Thousands premises) of employed tion. persons in London shops die. break dowr every year and go-home-to Jonathan Edwards*, It is-impossible that people-of ordin ary sensibilities should have listened to his torturing discourses without becoin ing atilast siok of hearing ot infinite horrors and endless agonies. . It came very-hard to>ki®d-hearted persona to be lieva that the least sin exposed a creat ure God had made to such exorbitant penalties. Edwards’ whole uystesn had too much of the character of file 1 savage people by whom the wilden-fjes-had so recently beemtenanted. Tie re was re venge—“ revenging it—insatiable, just:*?* " was what he railed ex haunting its-higenuitv in confeaLving the most exquisite torments; there was the hereditary hatred glaring on',h* babe in its. cradle; there were th* suffering v retch and, the pleased aadi shouting 1-jokers-on. Every natural grace of dis position ; ail that had one .©harmed in he sweet ingenuousness of south, in the laughing aayety of childhood, in the winning heititessiiess of irkuwv ; every virtue that:Piato had dreamed of, every character that Plutarch had drawn—all , were branded with the l ot iron, which left the blackened inscription upon them, signifying that tbev,-were accursed i of God—the damning wood nature. There is no sufficient season for at* tacking the motives of j, man so saint'/ in life, sc holy in aspirettans, so met-i, so laborious, so thoroughly Ini in earnest giv ji the work to wMch life was ■». But, after long smothering in the snl phurous atmosphere of his thought, one eannot help asking. Was this or my thing Ske this— is this or anything.«like this—the accepted belief of any coasid erabte part of Protestantism ? if so, we must say with B&eon : “ It wem bet ter to have "no opinion of God at ail than such an opinion as. is unworthy of Him.” A “natural man”'is better tham an un natural theologian. It is a less, violence to onr nature to deify protoplasm than it is to diabolizo the"Deity —i>r O. B . Holmes, in International Review. There is at Brussels a cartons case of chronic drowsiness. A mae about forty-. five years cl age, apparently in perfects health has lately been attacked by an irresistible tendency to sleep. As scon as he stops walking or seats himself even to eat befalls into a deep slumber. All the remedies prescribed failed bv the leading Belgian physicians have to said produce be anv effect upon him. This is to the first case of the kind in Europe. el though snob eases aie bv Ooioea no means l\a among the negroes r rare htavarC cMl them French and American Fire Laws. Nine out of tea of the churches, hos pitals, warehouses other cities—not and dwellings, etc., of this and omitting libraries, city buildings, and school- the ; j houses—are complete examples combustible of work of the masters of ' ' building and architecture. They are aeed on the outside with a stone, brick, or iron sham, in the design of which 1 what, is miscalled art has been at- j tempted. In the first burned eleven within months the! of \ 1882 there were limits of the United .States: 362 hotels, j 99 churches, 7 hospitals, school-house.?, 14 asylums, college 6 j almshouses, 62 13 J buildings, 20 court-houses, 2 custom- i 1 houses; total, 585. These special combustible _ speci mens of the work of the builders and arebi'.ects of our land formed a pait of the ash heap of 1832, valued at $90,000,000. It would be quite safe to affirm that an additional cost, ranging from one to two per cent, upon the construction of these 585 speci mens of the incendiary art of the com bustible architect which are recited above, would have saved at least two thirds of the loss of property, and might save a much larger proportion of the loss of life which is now apt to occur when any ot the buildings named m this list take fire. In every case of serious ™d q SS > £e.^“?»neS tenants, architects, builders, and un dor writers published, and the faults of construction distinctly stated: tie in other words, let the principle of only in French law be trial applied by here, not It has court, lately but in newspaper. meV been stated to a French under writer, as follows: In France all per sons having fires on their premises are looked upon as pseudo-criminals, lying the onus of proof of their innocence with them. You will observe that we burn more than one hotel week, per day, and more than two churches per more than two hospitals, asylums, or alms¬ houses per month in this country, which yet prides itself on its common’schools, and which claims especial merit for “gumption,” mechanical aptitude, and versatility of fires, talent. But of we fire waste depart¬ in the costs of cost ment, and cost aside of sustaining from losses, our system of insurance, some¬ where between $120,000,000 and $140, 000,000 per year—a sum which is more than $1 in every hundred of the gross product of the whole nation; which is more than ten per cent, upon the an¬ nual savings or net incomes of the peo¬ ple in a year of greatest prosperity, and which is in great measure a useless, be¬ cause perfectly avoidable, tax, which adds eighteen to twenty per cent, to the $700,000,000 of national, State, and municipal taxes which are now collected and paid unde? our laws.— Boston Ad¬ vertiser. Habits af the Pig. “When the pig" wallows in mire,” says Dr. Ballard, “he merely follows an instinct implanted in him, in common with some other of pachydermatous which creat¬ ures, the object is cutaneous cleansing. The mud stands to him in the relation of soap to a : human being, but instead of washing it off with water, he allows it to cake and- dry upon the skin, and then rubs it all off, miud and cutaneous debris together,- upon Loose some hair sufficiently rough scurf^jjrithte surface.- him, and and cutaneous SjfWup--*tffitermg'dris W skin from them. Cleanse his skin for him and he will rest in contentment, without offending the eyes of Ms super¬ cilious betters, often less scrupulous in this matter than he is, by his wallow ing-Vserata-hings been and scrubbings. that pig “It has long known a thus-cleansed with soap and'water not only becomes less objectionable, but grows fat more speedily than if left Sim¬ to cleanse himself in his own way. ilarly as respects his food. Garbage is not the food that the pig selects by 'reference. In fact, a pig which has been fed for any time upon sweet food will turn away from sour and disgust ing food. If left to pick up his own liv ing. where be- can find it, he-will eat anything he can find eatable,-but even then will eat acorns, fallen fruit, or roats in preference to garbage-; and human beings in similar straits will act .qr -eisely in the same way. It may be economical,, and perhaps even desirable, convert into pork matters which can in no other way, or in no way aiore con venient, be made subservient to the sub sistence of mankind, and the this- pig bs pos , My properly utilized in manner, Onr only desire is to vindicate*-his char «ter as a cleanly feeder, if only he has the chance of cleanly feeding vouch A Remedy for Adversity. Tbe ___ ^ *® l “ t ou ghhtx>be i taken that is taken of the eouffitam of health nvesnmatmg ^‘ e causes ofsuccess or fMfire in lde. The habit af> &ihn 0 is formadin some families, and,seems to be transmitted by mhentanoe;. the same is tbe e^se xxitb constitutional peculiaritie.jud often wlt -h certain morbid coaonaons. j j would be an interesting and. profitable ■tody to apamne how far what is ca ed ill-luck bad fortune is reduced.by such peculiarities. Accepting mi& view, so far from rts being stamge,fffiat failure o« success shoald run nifmnibw, it would: ^ inexplicable, contrary to every n&fc nral la wand precedent, character, if be strength did not io of so - The force ol will 1 dearness of mental vision, ~*d qualities of vigor, patie^e, and perse ,er ance, wMch constitute the secrets of sac oess m. life, are the several properti.s of the physical organising eomponndea.as it 13 ot oody and mm.'u A new <mce is suggested then, the health cure, a® remedy first personal, for advorsi^-, them hereditary which in would its mm, e aspects, worthy the and attenSoa baring. of medical The aiiqect men is social phil osophers. _ _i n the old records of the-Post-office Department aa entry has been found by which T. O. Howe; the present Post master-GenerM. was appointed Postmas ter at Readtield, E ennebec County, Maine, on June 12, 1841. He was re moved by President Tyler.—B ashing.on Star. ___ Raff f wax has just presented to the Zoological Garden of Moscow a hair less horse of Central Asia The animal belongs to the hybrid "rarity; species and is con gktewM «. great it is well formed, but its skin is red and without the slight trace of hair, and in ctfid Moscow it baa to be oovered with blanieti SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Germany „ . —-. to $25,000 ... ... for . is give scientific . exploration in Africa and other countries during taeiinaueial year 18ho 4. —Dr. Gatling, of Hartford, Conn., lias patented an arrangement by which he is enabled to fire his gun at any ele vation. This is considered one of the most remarkable achievements of gun nery.— N. Y. Post. —Albemarle County,Va, yearly ships a supply of Albemarle pippins to Queen Victoria. This famous apple can not be produced elsewhere distinctive than in Albemarle flavor county, in losing other its soil, if grown any —The rice paper of commerce is not paper grown from rice, as its name WO uld imply, but is the pith of a certain plant cut spirally with a very sharp hnife, opened out into sheets, and pressed flat, when it is ready for the market .—Chicago News. •• _ D i 9 patches from Calcutta report ^ bat t j ie Attock br i<jge across the Indus j n p un j a b j s nearly completed, and ^afc trains are likely This to will run give over India it by ^ gfc Q f ]^ a y # an u .-[broken line of railwav from Calcutta p er shawur, a distance of some 1,600 ilp a -Into*™! sha « |'^ no. e™lo„ 1 J° to sleeve s j lms of buttons certam and the hke-these,when }- l ? r £ ew fb *{’ “ r dried, and polished, almost equal ug the the choicest fossil stones, coral pontes. and greatly The resembnfj vertelM °* the shark aie always filled in demand for canes. The opening with mar row during life is for this purpose fnted w^li a steel or iron rod, the side open, mgs are filled with mother-of-pearl,and, i.eeided when polished, the cane is or namental. N. Y. bun. —Frank Kittredge, model of for Danville, Vb., has constructed a a new steam engine, whose chief distinction is that it does away entirely Kittredge’s with engine the piston movement. Mr. con¬ sists of a deep rimmed wheel, with movable floats therein, something on the plan of a turbine water-wheel, and the closed steam is discharged which he claims against will the furn¬ in¬ wheel, ish a steady and continuous power, and more of it than can be procured from the piston movement. —Among the various uses to which electricity may be put there is one of a very practical nature, which promises to effect a very great saving of property and life. It consists of an arrangement for the immediate stopping of an engine, by merely pressing a button similar to those by which electric bells and fire alarms are sounded. This button may be placed ait any distance from the en gine upon which it acts, and the invent¬ or proposes that a number of such but¬ tons should be placed throughout the fac¬ tory or elsewhere where the apparatus is in use. The principle of the contrivance depends upon the action of an electro magnet upon the 3top valve of the en¬ gine.— Chicago Tribune. —In an article published journals in one of effect the German scientific on the of- the color of glass- bottles on the liquids contained in them, some inter¬ esting facts are stated. It appears from this that liquors contained in colorless bottles, when exposed for some time to the light, acquire a disagreeable taste, notwithstanding the fact that they may kewirFt.ss-wWtiprsT'v.w treated; liquors quhUiy contained before-bfepi in ing so bottles, however .remain brown, or green unchanged direct sunlight. in quality, Since, even then, if exposed the to re¬ sults in question are due to the chemical action of light, it follows that red, orange, yellow, green or opaque bottles are essential colorless, to the preservation blue and violet of liquors, while ones are to be discarded. Men’s Brains. The human brain is absolutely of bigger an d heavier than that any animal except the elephant and the larger whales, but in no other animal is there so great variation in brain weights of different individuals as in man, and it is perhaps a curious fact that the higher the civilization the wider the variation, That i»to say,.the brain weight in-savage enlightened’nations. race:: is more nearly While uniform-than in m of ^-general way greater the_average in civilized weight it the doe? brain not at is races, of all follow the degree- that? the of brain intelligence. is. an indication The average weight of the adult European mate brain is forty-nine to fifty, ounces, That of the female is forty-four-to forty ounces,, the Statistics difference for being America fully tea* per cent; vosy nearly ooincide of with this-result. There are examples men ot-remarka intellectual attainments whose brains hAye largely exeee ded the average, as Quvier, sixty-four and a half'ounces, apd Dr. Abarorombie.sixty-tkiaeounces. had large Daniel Webster also a very brain. That of Agassiz,- weighed fifty-three and a half ounee?, not very much above the average, Jn the other band, higlhbrain weights have also been f oun d where there was no. evidence of sn p er i or intellectual capaaity. In an £ n gu s b the insane asylum examined- nearly skewed ten per cen t. of eases a braia wa igMi of over fifsy-five indicates ounces, excessively small brain feeble intel!ecti and an abnormally i ar g e on8 may indicate the same. Be-, tweer[ phe extremes there is a wida. rat wr e , in which it is evident that intelf i ec ^ us y. power is more dependent oBs q Ua ]:^ than quantity of brain matter., j}ut it is estimated by several compe tent authorities that ia, an adult male, of anything approaching average size, » bri i n less than thirty-seven ounces, is usaa j|y associated with imbecility. In ot ' fler Vords, a brain ol less than, that weight will not sonfer the reasoning faculty in the civilized Caucasian.fchough ki uncivilized maa, a rnde inteUigeuce mav spring from a brain o| thirty ounces. -St. Unis Republican^ —A valuable cow in Kentucky broke into that a she corn-field and gorged die, when herself so was about to a sur geon made an incision to her side and “ took out over six I ushels of core, epm-stalks th t i; the and cow grass. had been It hungry is thought she would have eaten out the entire corn¬ j 6* kl ' including seven.een panels of Pp 5 ' and rail-fence and four white oak Mumps. -Aom*few» Uerakl,