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GENERAL NEWS.
Charlotte, N. C., pays four dollars
per thousand feet for its gas,
A goose farm with 500 birds has been
established in Talladega, county, Ala.
“ A Baltimore capitalist intends estab
fishing a vegetable canning factory in
Vicksburg.
One mile from Monroe, Ga., stands a
log cabin that was once the home of
Gov. Lumpkin.
Three hundred dollars an acre was
paid for fifteen acres of land in Volusia
county, Fla., the other day.
A 115,000 stock of goods is the prize
of a shooting match at Meridian, Mias.,
the chances being held at $100 a shot.
The Board of Health of Cedar Keys,
Fla., has prohibited the sale of oysters
from now until the cIohc of the warm
season.
There are said to be 2,200 convicts in
the Texas jienitontiary. Of this num¬
ber three-fifths are negroes and Mex¬
icans.
Since the railroad has been completed
to Anniston, efforts are being made to
develop the gold and copper mines of
Cleburne county, Ala.
An arrangement is on foot in Augus¬
ts, Ca., to have cooking taught in the
public schools. Much trouble is experi
enced with the domestic servants.
A new enterprise, the “South Geor¬
gia Real Estate Guide,” is now pub¬
lished at A mericus, Ga. 11 is published
by W. J. Dibble, who is trying to in¬
duce immigration.
Many of the Northern tourists on
their way home from Florida carry with
them pet alligators. A t the Charleston
Hotel a waiter is detailed especially to
feed and water the aligators.
As English company have purchased
90,000 acres iron lands in East Tennes
we. They supply a capita) of $1,000,«
000, and will erect furnaces at once,
giving employment to 800 men.
Hie past season in Jacksonville, Fla.,
though rather short, lias ^een the most
prosperous in the city’s history. A
■-MMjJut in^tifiipft vihi'StT’wT^Rv^ltiring tion show s that 44,167
tourists have the
past winter.
Gen. Levi Lawlor, of Mobile, and
others are forming a company with
$200,000 capital, to establish at an early
day a pig iron furnace of CO tons daily
capacity, at Alpine, on the Selma, Rome
<k Dalton railroad.
Truck farmers of South Georgia are
said to be snipping cabbage and real¬
izing from five to seven cents a pound,
they make from $75 to $100 per acre on
them. The seed wero sown last sum¬
mer and the plants set out in the fall.
The killing of sheep by dogs is distres¬
singly on the increase throughout Ten¬
nessee, where dogs are protected hy law
and the bloodthirsty sheep are permitted
to roam at pleasure. Tennessee will
presently be contesting with Georgia
for the prize mad-dog.
Albany, ((5a.) special: Several Tex¬
ans have been buying up cattle in the
wire-grass region around here for several
week t for shipment to Fort Worth, Tex.
it is said they have thus far procured
about 4,000 head at an average of $7.60
per head. The rates of shipping will bo
$80 per car load.
The Star Business.
The nearest of the fixed stars is twenty
trillions (20,000.000.000,000) of miles dis
taut from us. The next in distance is
four time* farther removed. If we at
tempt to fix an average distance for the
surrounding group of fixed stare nearest
our system, we could not trillions safely of give miles. it a
radius of lees than 400
Yet what does this involve? Light,
which reaches ns from the sun iu eight
and a half minutes, would take seventy
years in it* journey the across volume this vast
domain of space. If of space
included within our solar syst< iu were oc¬
cupied wit h one huge sphere such of 5,600,000,
(XtO miles diameter, even flouting feather a mighty in
nia*'> would he but a* »
the marvelous spread of empty space
siimiu tiding. This spots' trillions would con tan
twenty-*eren huudred of such
sphere*, and would contain the ma¬
terial coo tout* erf onr solar system
a na&tor of trim* uwhewted by tlie figure
6 vriflh twwutv-tww erpliert- auotard.
Tterted Alive in a Tmtuel.
rR* Atlanta fWAMwacmi-Aa
ebl main Hamad SUiphen hbvll, living m
Gamp x ll IVuntv Uvinnir impressed wuii
isted ** j 00 on * hre to* iJ.w a na * 8o 2* siro iglv of . *S“ did this , r >
unpreeMou wire bun that lie became a
imtyNrm ac on the subject. Ixitolv,
* V ™ ra search of the
preevuis uff. and had delved some
fifteen or twent wanls under a lull, w hen
a larce rock fell and effbettufiy attempting ekwed dig his
passage. After vainly precarious to
wh.isclt out of liis position.
his family, who leal become anxious on
account of lus him, prolonged and, discovering absence, went his
in search of
condition, fiv great exertion extricated
turn. Tl idswt iias had Hie effect of
enri: e is 1 LU 11 urination.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
At a rftcent stenographic , . exhibition ...... m .
, '» rls a P°" tal car<1 waa exhibited whlch
bore 41,000 words.
The green three cent stamp will have
been in use thirteen years, when the new
rate goes into effect next October.
A mtibderkji, who was hanged by a
mob at Jacksonville, III., some time
ago, turns out to have been a son of
Quantrell, the Missouri guerrilla.
A Rroi'.Y comes from Canton, China,of
a woman who, to punish a female slavo
who had stolen some food, cut a slice
from the girl’s thigh and made her cook
and cat it.
Under a law making vaccination com¬
pulsory, MasHachusiM^k^pr there has been very little small¬
pox in 1 this and
other reasons the does not
find it expedient to
A Mississippi man has discovered
that an excellent quality of sugar can
lie made from sweet potatoes. If this
proves true a new use has been found
for one of the tost and most prolific of
American products.
11At Reading, Pa., a disease similar to
the piuk-eye among horses lias broken
out among the people. It temporarily
destroys the eye-sight, and the trouble
lasts about ton days. No permanent in¬
jury follows the attack.
In every tobaooo factory at Key West
there is a “reader.” Cubans can not
talk without gesticulation, anil in or¬
der to keep them from talking a per¬
son is employed to read aloud to the
“hands” during working hours.
A Washington, D. C., man named
King, has invented a suicide pellet.
They are the size of a capsule, and are
flavored to suit sny taste. When swal¬
lowed by the victim the moisture of the
stomach causes them to explode, and
the inau is blown to atoms.
(Statistics of crime in seven of the
largest cities of the United States, and
based upon population, show that San
Francisco leads iu the number of homi¬
cides, followed iu tbe order of mention
by Cincinnati, Baltimore, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago anil Boston.
James Lick left $150,000 to establish
and maintain fret baths in San Francis¬
co. One of the trustees, Dr. Stillman,
now proposes to increase the fund by
popular subscription to $250,000, and to
erect salt water baths large enough for
(A -PiVj
.
A movement is on foot in Now York
autl elsewhere to raise a fund for the
erection of a monument over the grave
of Charlotte Cushman, the actress, at
Mount Auburn, Boston. The grave is
in a lot selected and paid for by Miss
Cushman only a few months beforo her
death.
The greatest quantity of stamps ever
sent from Washington at one time wero
shipped on the 23d of April by the Inter¬
nal Revenue Bureau. They were the
rebate tobacco stamps lor use after May
1. They wrighod fifteen tons, and rep
represented a great many huudred
thousands of dollars is value.
An undertaker in Philadelphia re¬
cently advertised for a full bearded man
of middle age and of good address, and
explained that he wauled him to visit
families which death had eutered to
take instructions regarding the funeral,
etc., and that there u semetkiug about a
bearded man that inspires respect and
confidence.
A PrrrfiiioBGH olergyman thinks that
Shakspeare was a grsat man but over¬
rated. He contends teat tn* principal
characters of “Maobeth” are to be found
iu the Book of Rings iu the-Bible, and
remarks that Dr. Hektar. in his foot ure
on “Shakspearo” at Princeton College,
stated that Sliakspeare’s regular prao
tioe was to study the Bible seven hours
a day.
Ool. Ihx’KWKiit. is engaged in the task
of editing and compiling the speeches
delivered by Gen, Garfield during the
last year or so of his life, including his
utterances at the Chicago Convention,
his responses to the numerous delega¬
tions that visited him at Mentor, and
others delivered at the Williams College
Alumni meeting at Cincinnati, and on
other occasions after his inauguration.
Mrs. Jn.u WhTrham Leigh, who died
m New York City a few days ago. was
once a notable woman. She was the
widow of Benjamin Watkins Loigb, who
was a Domvl Slates booster from Vir¬
ginia from DW te 1M1, ami who died
in IM9. Hie was also tbe daughter of
John kbaiu. one of the counsel fc r
^ <Met.se j B fibs trial of Aaron Burr
far bi*h tuMfin m Brit, and who tor
la , U]T stood at th* head of the Vir
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Kwvwaj, Sack, the fameu« dealer in
* ^ ^ OI1 ^ New York Stock
,, r ,^K'd v< the most .* phe
“’-'“a** ,,___,, 1 th * »•««* ha8 prpr had—
natural, almost womanly, with mind
averse to violence or sinister things, aud
<, feeling also prevails that he has »
ojassic *i education, which he doss not
° , * ,m . <or . , hlul ^ lf - He ln Congress „
thirty years ago, was the Treasurer of
Troy City ami County mauy years, and
losaessed popularity then as now.
a company is terming in the IState of
Ohio, known as the “Time Telegraph
Com pan v,” the object of which is to ; mi
, J(lslness , iwl dwelling houses d< v
run and regulated by electricity. It
branch of a company in New York,
idea is that a subscriber may bave pi. ■ .
iu bis house, for the sum of $3 per year,
a clock that will need no winding or
other attention, but will be coninefed
hy wire with a central office, from which
every pendulum in tiie graud svst- u of
clocks will be made to swing with’one
common impulse.
Abbxandep. F. Villers, who d. - ) at
Philadelphia a few days ago, left this
odd will, which was drawn up in July
last: “My last will and testament: I
leave my body to the University of
Pennsylvania for dissecting purposes,
and wish to be cremated at the es 9 in
stitutiou. In case I should haj Jany
money or property at the time! ™y
death, I Lave the whole to the doj Ir fd, at
tending me. In case I am cremi I
wish my ashes to bo thrown sw [fid
not given to or vie j iyhod t
had been acquainted with mB.'tys
among some ol the efisadvam of
royalty is the lack of privacy ace d to
it, arid the royal personages are fHwefett t
ly in the habit of securing this p icy
when on a journey, by traveling tku| r-og
nito. The King and Queen of itfi
erlonds are now passing through Ei 'id
n this way, auil are said to be efi 'g
themselves like two children let! of
school. Though it is perfect® con| -ell
known who they arc, by a Rent
fiction this knowledge is not uj iized,
and evon Queen Victoria has gtrm no
official recognition oi their visit fo her
dominions. %
Soon after the Cnmesu legation was
esbablished in its presmt qq-artera at
Washington sioual business. a beggar To his ivailed amazement on _j>rofcs- he
was ushered with elaborate bows arid
gestures into a luxurious room, where
an attache kindly asked how he might
serve him. A collection was than taken
up for his benefit among the members
of the embassy, and he was invited to
refresh himself with a hutch of delicate
coafisotioas. As a matter of ctwti his
singular experience was known to every
bsggar in town witlun twenty-four-Kours,
and the legation has been besieged ever
sinco hy unprepossessing vieityrs^
A correspondent of The Boston Post,
writing about the remnants of Indian
tribes surviving in Massachu) , says:
“It is believed by those who : an op
portunity to know, that of
pure aboriginal commonwealth, blood, is the JJn r lideut from
in the
Vr.ift- t *#««(*» ,!|fP c6
whites and those of Afriel nfc.
Counting all those who laito Indian
blood in their veins in the S$ite, in the
vestiges of tribes remaining, there are
to-day not far from 1,000 persons, em
braced in 225 families, and it must be
borne in mind that tbe numbers con¬
tained in tiiese tribes liavq been in¬
creased for over 200 years. Itls a very
significant fact that no tribe now exist¬
ing is increasing numeric ally iu the com¬
mon wealth.”
The Old Chart.
A good story is told of Capt. Witham
Poor, who took out the Midas, prgpeller,
to China early in the eighteen hundred
and forties. All who knew Poor were
sure of his good seamanship, his pluck,
and his good intentions. After dis¬
posing of the Midas he was appointed to
the command of the ship Great Britain,
belonging to myself and others. That
ship was chartered to Admiral Rigault
de Grenouily to take home the crews of
the Magicienne and the Capriceuse,
frigates, shoal which the had coast been of China? lostyon Going some
near
down the China Sea, the anxious Admiral
asked Capt. Poor by what chart he was
navigating. pulled Poor opened chart his Arrow- chart
locker and out a of
smith’s dated 1798. The Admiral was
astonished and exclaimed, “ l>e Mein wrecked; Got,
Captain, we shall all again
I have one late chart showing sail all by.” the
dangers, answered, and I give “That it to is you just to the worst
Poor
chart I could sail by; I should never get
any rest if I sailed through all these new
shoals; whereas by my old chart there is
nothing to prevent my getting ray natural
rest, for it is all plain sail:eg.”
A Pirate Schooner
News recently arrived that a British
schooner called the Gazelle, belonging
to the Sovehelle Islands, and supposed
to l>e a pirate, had been captuked at Jo
liana by her Majesty's shi > Harrier.
There are several British schooners
hearing Hie name Gazelle, but none
registered as belonging to tin *e islands
in the far Indian Ocean whioS i tins par¬
ticular pirate claimed to hail 1 rom, other¬
wise it would be interesting t o see what
the tonnage of the buccaneer mg craft is,
and l>y that means guess at he number
of bands she w*ukl probably carry. It
is certainly very strange to trend of an
English pirate in the year lf|83 i, and too, aj>
parently a pirate of the old !>at ttern,
what used to be called a “hdv little
<oboou*r ” choosing “ much siich a lonely
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tory excursion asthepicaro, usif M tighty
vear# vt ago 8 would have loved to use.
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(Stkxa Basblkt, Vaasar *81. has just
been relating some astoiuidi ug astronom
ical facts and figures. 1 A. Dnllston
Rioemun (“never went in f< r that sort of
thing, *££, you know )—“I see how one can
fiud w largl , aml how far away the'
B tars are, but—by Jove! Id m't quite see
Row they ever fonud out ti eir names.—
Columbia Sp' < tnlor,
MAKING A REPUTATION.
A Mcene In a Western Town and W'iiat Came
ol It.
A Weston paper tolls of a scene that
took place in a Texas frontier town, ca
follows lahaa’s Retreat, As Dusenbery the habitues walked into Gal
saw at a
glance that something was about to hap
pen, and something did happen ; for in
about half a minute there entered four of
the most ferocious-looking ruffians who
had ever been seen in Fort Worth. They
came with clanking spurs and fierce
1 (Cards, two revolvers to each man and a
large bowie knife for lagniappe, called for and whisky they
sat down to a table and
all around. A tremor ran through the
assembly. Fort Worth’s best citizens
were for a moment staggered. But
Dusenbery never quailed. On the coa
tra»y he almost snorted with joy as lie
saw his opport unity to make a reputation
for courage. These men were strangers,
he was backed by a large number of Fort
Worth’s sharpshooters; yea, he would
pick a fuss with them, and henceforth be
known as a terror. He had not long to
w it. The strangers emptied their glasses,
called for more, and then, launched glancing rna^
lignautly around, they
TririoiisV.'yWsu oMFexas and Texans,
language being garnished with that pro”
fusion and ornamentation ot profanity
peculiar to the guileless cattle-drover,
As they ceased, Dusenbery, having taken and
in the situation at a glance, arose The
advanced toward the strangers.
Fort Worth men put up their pistols and
sank back in breathless amazement as
Dusenbcry marched up to the table at
which the strangers sat. His flashing
eyes, his heaving breast, bis five feet of
towering form reduced the spectators to
speechlessness. Even the strangers
paused and seemed impressed.
“Gentlemen,” said Dusenbcry, bringing diving
into bis trousers and up an
ancient silver watch, “youhave wounded in
the finest feelings of my nature vour
remarks about Texas, and you must re
tract them, or—hut never mind. I give
you five minutes to retract it. Five min
iites to secure your safe return to home
and friends. Five minutes to avoid a
grave upon the lonesome plains. Five
minutes!”
An awful silence fell upon the crowd,
The blood curdled in the vein of every
Fort Wortliian present. What! had they
been treating this fire-eating Terror with
scarcely veiled contempt ? Had they
been absolutely courting death for years?
But just then one of the strangers re
covered his power of speech feel and said :
“Why, stranger, if you that way
about it, of course we’ll cut it short. We
didn’t mean it for you or any of your
friends, but was just talking on loose
like.”
And with that they all four got up and
slunk out, their six-shooters flopping
feebly against their hips, and their spurs
looking drooped and weedy as they went.
With the closing of the door, The Dusenbery s
eye reeled in its socket. excitement
which had thus far held him up gave
way, and he collapsed, a flabby little
heap upon tbe floor. The assembled
citizens crowded round him, eager to
um hcio t>f % e hour,
and at last he was rehabilitated sTtmiffv
ently to admit, of his being sent home friend, in
charge of a special and confidential
“Why, Doozey, my boy, you took us
all by surprise." We never thought you
were “Didn’t n fighter.” you?”
“No. Why, don’t you know those are
four of the worst men in the cattle busi
ness? And we expected every minute to
see them go to shooting. Were you
armed?”
“Well, I had a pistol for show, but f
don’t believe it was loaded, and I couldn’t
have fired it, anyhow.” they had
“Goat heavens, man, suppose earth would
refused to retract, what on
you have done ?”
Dusenbery stopped, looked all around
to see if any one wore passing, his pulled lips, and bis
friend’s ear close down to
whispered: “I’d have extended the time .”—Xew
Orleans Times.
Silver-Gray Foxes.
A communication in the Rutland (Vt.)
Herald says: “In a recent issue I notice
on item referring to a silver-gray in vicin¬ fox
that has lately been killed this
ity. It is a general belief that this fox
is* a distinct species from the red fox, but
this belief is wrong. The silver-gray or
black fox belongs to the simply ordinary freak red fox of
family, anil its color is a
nature, which, however, occurs more
frequently in wooded districts than iu
the settled portions of the country. I
have often been informed liv Northern
trappers that where the dam or she-fox
was silver-grey or black her offspring
was invariably red in color, and I have
known but one instance where more
than one silver-gray fox has been found
among a litter of young foxes. One of
them was presented to me by the trnp^
who found it. I sent this fox to a
relative of mine in Sheldon, where he
remained until two years of age anil was
one of the most beautiful animals I ever
saw. He was afterward purchased by an
an agent of Lord Eglington and if alive is
now in that nobleman’s park in Scotland.
Where the ends of the majority tipped of with the
long hairs of this fox are
white it is calk'd silver-gray, but if the
hairs are tipped with black it is then
known as a black fox. I once saw a lot
of several doaen of these skins that were
of all shades from nearly white to jet
black. Mr. E. W. Geer, of Sheldon,
some years ago killed a very fine colored
black fox, which was purchased by a
Hudson Elay agent. The more inferior
grades of these colored foxes ar» knows
as bastard, and the next grade above,
cross foxes.”
JsmsRsoN said: “I would rather live
in a country with newspapers and no
government, than in a country with a
government and no newspaper*. ' This
kindly criticism was probably the result
of some rural newspaper saying that Jef¬
ferson left the largest squash of daughter the sea
son at the office, and that his
was the finest waltzer at the Branch, and
that he was such an honest politician all
that he ought to be the candidate of
the parties.— Puck.
In New York one set of thieves
plnnder the harbor, and another harbor
the plunder.
SPOTTING THE SPOTTERS.
The Secret Means by Which Railroad Be*
tectives are Found Out.
“The present system of spotting is a
pretty clever wav of heading off dishon
estv,” said the reporter to a sleeping car
porter who was brushing him. “I pre¬
6 ume it works like a charm ?”
“Oh, certainly it works like a charm,
That is, it costs the company thousands
G f dollars were it saves the company
thousands of cents. We just sit still
and let these fellows get on to us—we
do,” RDd the sleek mulatto chuckled
audibly as be agan applied the brush to
the reportorial overcoat. “Every spot¬
ter is known to us the moment he sets
his foot upon the platform, and it is sel¬
dom one of the bloodhounds has an op¬
portunity to do any spotting. and if We steal¬ tum
blo to him in a minute, any
ing took place ordinarily, it would cer¬
tainly stop short while the spotter was
in sight.”
“Do the porters stand in with the con
ductors ?”
“The porter is the dishonest conduo
tori^best biwer. If it were not for us
system would be, to some ex
JPrhy, do you help the conductor ?”
we sjx>t the spotters, so to
speak. We have a way of marking
every mother’s son of them, and that is
jj 0W j know that that man I pointed out
^ YOU j s a detective. I shined his boots
awhile ago and discovered who he was.
i> ve go t bis boots iu here now, and if
yon w (i] come j n i’ll show you one of
them and you can easily guess how ]
know him to be a spotter.”
The porter led the way to one of the
apartments of the car, and picking up
one 0 f the boots held the sole upper
most, showing three X’s cut on the heel
0 f the boot,
“That’s the way we size ’em up,” said
the porter with a triumphant smile. “It
- va8 a c i ase call, a.nd if I hadn’t shined
),i 3 boots he might have gone through
unobserved. Of course everything
would have been all right, anyway, for
my conductor is a square man, but I
]j]i e to be on to these fellows who pry
j u to our business. It’s n cold day when
they get ahead of the conductors and
porters, I can tell you.” X’s
“What do these three cut on the
beel of the boot mean ?”
“ Why, that’s just the point. It is a
private mark by which I recognized the
mau a8 a spotter. He and was he probably has been
marked some time ago,
wearing these boots around just the
same, never dreaming that howas giving
himself away right along. It could not
be plainer if he wore a star bearing tlio
wor( i ‘spotter. » >>
“How do you find out these men to
start w bb ?”
“That’s easy enough. Do you think
we bave no friends at all to tell us about
t b es e things? Well, we have, in the
company and outside, too. For instance,
a spotter gets on at St. Louis, or Chi
cago> or Kansas City, conductor or New York,
Homebody goes to the anil
Ba y 8 ‘You’ve got a spotter on board to
night, watch out for him.’ A deserip
tion Gfumiyhcd and I go in, and in
blaeking liia iiooflt mark*one ofrike soles
witll my three X’s. That ends his use
fulness as a detective until he buys a new
„ a j r boots or shoes. That is one way
{ 0 ge ( on them, hut there are others,
A conductor sometimes receives a note
something like this: ‘A spotter will go
ont Y ,. it h you to-night. He is a tall
man , with sandy moustache and well
Pressed. Yours, J-.’ The writer is
sometimes an employee of the This company,
and stands in with the men. is not
often the case, but, at any rate, we dou’t
have much trouble in tumbling to the
detectives .”—Kansas City Times.
A Blockade Story.
Late in the fall of 1862, says M. Quad
in his stories of blockade running, tlio
British schooner Francis loaded at
Nassau and made for the coast of Florida.
Just as she had sighted the coast a fish
boat gave her the information that a
Federal gun-boat was cruising in her those
waters. The schooner kept on becalmed. way
until night fell, and was then
Presently a curious incident occurred.
The gun-boat had been looking into
some of the inlets and lia-1 not seen the
schooner. Two hours after dark she
steamed slowly out to within a quarter
of a mile of the schooner and then shut
/iff steam and extinguished her lights.
Those on the schooner could at first
make her out with a night-glass, but
presently a fog arose and shut out the
view. The night was still and the sea
perfectly smooth, and those on the
schooner could only wait and hope that
a breeze would spring up during the
night and enable ber to creep away.
Tn a calm one vessel is a magnet to
draw another. They will slowly drift
toward each other in every case, instead
of separating. In this instance those
on the schooner soou discovered that the
crafts were drawing together, but midnight they
were powerless to prevent. At
they could hear the talk of the men on
the gun-boat, though the fog was too
thick to see anything. At one o’eloek
the vessels softly rubbed each other, and
remained broadside on, as if
together. The Federals had simply to
clamber over the rail to capture the
schooner, and the chagrin of her crew
aan be imagined, but not described. In
half an hour after h,er capture a breea*
sprang up which would have carried her
thirty miles before daybreak.
Its I/e«ssH.
A minister was questioning nis Sun¬
day-school concerning the stoiy of
Eutyehus—the young man who, listen
ing to the preaehiug of the Apostle taken
fell asleep, and. falling down, was
up dead. “What,” he said, “do we
learn from this solemn event ? ”
very little girl
when the reply from a came
pat and prompt: “ Phare sir, ministers
should learn not to prtsik tec long ser¬
mons.”
PrNisHED Him. —St. Louis society is
agitated bv the fact that a beau got into
a carriage with a belle to escort her home
from a ball, at which time his face was
smooth and fair, but when he emerged
his 6V6 tv a s blackened, as though by the
blow'from a fish and the girl walked up
the steps of her home alone.
FOR THE SCRAP BOOK.
The First Appearance o( the Notable Id
ventious ol the Country.
Envelopes were first used in 1839.
Anesthesia was discovered in 1844.
The first steel pen was made in 1830.
The first air pump was made in 1354.
The first lucifer match was made in
1798.
Mohammed was born at Mecca about
570
The first iron steamship was built in
1830.
The first balloon ascent was made in
179S.
Coaches were first used in England in
1569.
The first steel plate was discovered in
1830.
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-27.
The Franciscans arrived in England in
1224.
The first steamboat plied the Hudson
in 1807.
The entire Hebrew Eible was printer!
in 1488.
Ships were first “copper bottomed ” in
1783.
Gold was first discovered in California
in 1848.
The first telescope was used iu England
in 1608.
Christianity was introduced into Japan
in 1549.
The first watches were made at Nuren
burg in 1477.
First saw maker’s anvil brought to
America in 1819.
First almanac printed by Geo. Yon
Furbach in 1460.
The first newspaper advertisement ap¬
peared in 1652.
Percussion arms were used in the U.
S. Army in 1830.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1829.
Omnibuses wero first introduced in
New York in 1830.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1826.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1687.
The first glass factory in the United
States was built iu 1780.
The first printing press in the United
States was worked in 1620.
Glass windows were first introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The first steam engine on this conti¬
nent was brought from England in 1753.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846.
The first Society for the Promotion of
Christian Knowledge was organized in
1698.
The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country was made soon after the
war of 1812.
The first prayer hook of Edward VL
came into use by authority of Parliament
on Whit Sunday, 1549.
The first temperance society iu this
country was organized in Saratoga County,
New York, in March, 1808.
The first coach in Scotland was brought
thither in 1561, when Queen Mary came
from France. It belonged to Alexander
Lord Seaton.
The first daily newspaper appeared in
1702. The first newspaper printed iu the
United States was published " in Boston “*> on
Sept. 25, 1790. porcelain
The manufacture of was in¬
troduced into the province of Hezin,
Japan, from China in 1513, and Hezin
ware still bears Chinese marks.
The first society for the exclusive pur¬
pose of circulating the Bible was organ¬
ized in 1805, under the name of the
British and telegraphic Foreign Bible instrument Society.
The first was
successfully operated by S. F. its B. Morse,
the inventor, in 1835, though utility
was not demonstrated to the world until
1842.
The first Union flag was unfurled on
the 1st of January, 1776, over the camp at
Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of
white and red, and retained the English
cross in one corner.
When Capt. Cook first visited Tahiti,
the natives were using nails of wood,
bone, she]], and stone. When they saw
iron nails they fancied them to be shoots
of some very hard wood, and desirous of
securing such a valuable commodity,
they planted them in their gardens.
A Parson’s Text.
The Rev. Brooke Hereford, of Boston,
doesn’t like to be interrupted when ho
is busy writing a sermon, and so the
other day, finding himself somewhat
behindhand with his preparation for the
coming Sunday, he retired to his study,
giving implicit orders that he was not to
be disturbed by visitors, no matter who
might call. Pretty soon came along the
autograph fie—, that is, a lady who was
collecting autographs and charitable favorite texts ob¬
of Boston preachers, for a
ject. She was so importunate that Mrs.
Hereford at last went to the study door
and tapped. “ Brooke ?” “Yes?”
“There's a lady down stairs, and--”
“But, my dear-” “I know, Brooke,
but she only wishes your autograph
and favorite text, for dear charity’s
sake.” Hereford yielded, the and dashed
down his name and reference, 1st
Timothy, v., 13, on a sheet of paper.
There was a grim smile on his face as
he handed it to his wife. She took it
down to the visitor, and she, in turn,
went away rejoicing. But when, in re¬
viewing her treasure, she looked up Mr.
Hereford’s text, she read : “And withal
they learn to be idle, wandering about idle,
from house to house; and not only
but tattlers also, and busybodies, ought speak¬
ing things which they not,”
A marriage ceremony came to an ab¬
rupt and ludicrous termination the other
day in Atlanta, Ga. A prominent elergy
man of that city, having consented to
unite a colored couple, had just asked
the solemn question, “Wilt thou take
this woman?” etc., when an old flame of
the bridegroom poked her head into the
room and said: “Henry, I jess dar you
to say yes. ” Henry sank into the nearest
f-Unir without a word, and the company
thoughtfully withdrew.
An exchange contains an article en¬
titled “Curious Facts About Precious.
Stones.” One of tbe most curious facts
about them is their elusivenoss—their
!..trd-to-fp-t-aWeness, so to speak,—Nw
ffcarUi.
