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GENERAL NEW 8.
A fio tree at Micanopy, Fla., bears
fl it bushels of figs every year.
“Two-DontiAB Bluff” is the name given
to a village recently located on Indian
river, Fla.
Wife-beaters are given a job on the
chaingang in Georgia—one year for each
chastisement.
Tin: Illinois Central railroad shops at
Water Valley, Miss., are turning out
four twenty-ton coal ears every twenty
four hours.
It is reported from Kan Francisco
that in the last ten years $6,000,000
Worth of opium has been smuggled into
that port.
Forty-three cities and towns in Tex¬
es assumed separate control of their
schools and will conduct them independ¬
ent of State system.
Tun rice crop of Jefferson parish, La.,
is being harvested and w ill be very large.
Prospects are that the yield of sugar will
be the largest since the war.
Tiie German carp sent to Florida by
the Fish Comnussiwn docs not thrive in
the everglades. The Alligators scare
them to death and the turtles eat them.
A mining company have sunk a shaft
near Cold Springs, Greene county, Tcnn.
to the depth of Bix feet in a rock, and
have struck a large vein of silver that
pays ut that depth $.'14.71 per ton.
Tins Augusta (Gu.) Chronicle says
that it is an uncommon thing to find in
that city a negro who can not road and
•write, while there is much illiteracy
among the whites.
Over 250 dwellings have been erected
during the past year wituin the city lim¬
its of Havannah Ga., at an approximate
cost of $300,000, including $176,000
-worth of property improved upon within
the city boundaries.
The fruit growers of Florida are pre¬
paring to form an association for the
protection of their business. The asso¬
ciation will have charge of all goods
shipped from local points, arrange for
their sale and secure careful handling.
Warden Bah,by, a colored man of
Augusta, Ga., is creating quite a sen
antii n by his aquatic gyrations and div¬
ing (cats. He catches fish by diving for
them, and gives regular exhibitions,
which uc attendfvf by large numbers of
eit.. ns. )
Ci IMl
lane cl r After
unites iranshHcd
thi n new quarters (lie work of remodel¬
ing their old asylum began, and in which
the white lunatics will bo eared for,
lh &AHKi, (Teun.) Citizen: We have in
the Southern States in operation, or in
course of erection, 101 cotton factories.
This outnumbers by twenty-seven all
| the cotton factories in New England
outside of Massachusetts, and exceeds
liy sixteen tho number in that State.
Charleston, (S. C.) News and Cou¬
rier; The system of hiring out convicts
is a blot upon the civilization of the
South, whether the prisoners are pen¬
ned up in a coal mine, digging up
phate rock or in building railroads. It
is cruel, inhuman aud murderous. It
should be nlmliskcd, aud tlie sooner the
better.
Selma (Ala) Times: To narrow
gauge railroads this State must look for
tlie oompletest dev elope me uts of its ro
sources. We liavn’t got the capital to
build broad gauges for feeders for local
convenience, but we can and must send
narrow-gauges out into every section
where it will pay.
MAjor C. K. Dutton’s turpentine
farm, near Live Oak, embraces 18,000
acres of laud, upon which five stills are
oj*orated and work given to 250 hands,
42 mules, 6 horses, wagons, carts, etc,
Tlie annual production is estimated at
175,0)10 gains of turjientine and 14.000
barrels of rosin.
Ai'vlaciuoola (Fla.) Tribune: Mr. J
C. Bray ton owns a place a short distance
from tlie city, near Mr. IV. S. Tumor's
that alamnds in hickory trees. Some¬
time ago Mr. Brayton grafted the pecan
‘ into these trees. Tlie experiment thus
far has proven eutirely successful. The
trees at present are having a magnificent
foliage, and they premise to bear pecans
in large quantities.
Aiken iS. O. I Recorder: An alligator
measuring ten feet aud seven inches in
length and weighing 300 pounds, wue
1 u 11 .n 1 in Aiken county last week. The
existence of this saurian reptile in Glow
er’s jH'ii.l has 1 .ecu known for twenty
seven years, and many is tlie load of
buckshot that has l>eeu fired at him. but
it w as reserved for the good marksman¬
ship and long rang rifle of C'apt. George
to terminate his depredations. The rep¬
tile must not have l>een lees than fifty.
- aud not improbably seventy-five years
old.
The Times s*ys Selma has the
wonderful artesian well in the world.
Two separate streams of water flow from
this well of entirely different properties.
This effect is produced by the insertion
of a two inch pipe within a four inch
tube. The larger pipe descends 460
feet; the water has no mineral properties
and is very cold. The inner pipe de¬
scends 700 feet; the water strongly im¬
pregnated with sulphur and iron, and,
compared with the temperature of the
twin stream, is quite warm.
Jacksonville (Fla.j Times -Uni on; Sa¬
vannah is alarmed at tin: rapidity with
which Norfolk and other Virginia ports
are drawing the cotton business away
from Charleston. The News thinks that
much of the cotton which goes to Nor¬
folk is diverted from its natural outlet at
Savannah, and that this diversion is doe
mainly to the pooling system adopted by
the railways which transport the cotton
thither. It intimates that strong press¬
ure will be brought to bear upon the
railways to induce them to abandon it.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
For the six mouths ended August 15,
100 persons were killed and 401 injured
on railroads in the State of New York.
The failure of the Edmunds law to de
stroy the evil power of Mormonism in
Utah lias revived the promised plan of
governing that Territory by a Congress¬
ional commission. Gov. Murray is un¬
derstood to favor the plan as the one
most likely to weaken and eventually
kill the baleful system of wholesale pros¬
titution which is practiced there under
the cloak of a so-called religion.
The Egyptian plague, having number¬
ed about 35,000 persons among its vic¬
tims, is beginning to abate in the towns
first infected, but at Alexandria is in¬
creasing in violence. Medical men are
disposed to believe that the disease is
not Asiatic cholera, but the result of lo¬
cal causes, which belief Las occasioned
a sense of relief in Europe as well as in
this country. At tlie sume t me, clean¬
liness is as much a duty with every one
as though the plague hail reached our
shore s.
A Fraternity of Blind Men.
In Japan there is a romantic story of
loyalty and devotion told in connection
with a fraternity of blind men that has
its records from the primal days of the
Empire. The blind fraternity is composed en¬
tirely of persons, having heen
founded by Bommima, a younger son of
royal parents, who wept himself blind
because of the loss of his lady love, to
whom ho had given his heart’s affec¬
tions and was considered the most
beautiful woman in the land, This
fraternity is known as Bussats Sato, and
they support themselves principally orchestral by
their musical talents, forming the theatres,
hitfMfe), furnish y *- * *“■ “‘■-to
- hJ 3 M J j/m ur.”
SWBELJu (gratuities cm vHm me murafnae for
the they may receive from the
iSKTitable. The story is that, during
the intense commotion that convulsed
the empire, in the course of which tho
famous Yori-Eomo by bis prowess in
war obtained absolute oontrol of tlie
government, one of the few princes Feki, who
resisted to the last against him was
whose foroes were commanded by a
Doimio named Ka-KegikH. Yoritomo
the victor in a desperate battle in
which Prince Feki was killed and Ka
Kegiko taken prisoner. Yoritomo being
desirous to conciliate Ka-Kegiko and
make a friend of him because of his
celebrity as a military chieftain, loath’d
him with kindness aud offered him his
freedom. Ka Kegiko, firm in his love
for his dead chief, said to Yoritomo:
“You give me my liberty, you give I my
life, but I oau never love yon. owe
you gratitude, but you caused the death
of my prince, and 1 can never look upon
you ’without wishing to kill you. I
accept your gifts of life and liberty, but
1 must never see you presenting again,” whereupon them to
he tore out his eyes,
Yoritomo. Thus he reconciled himself
to live and yet be loyal to his dead chief.
He immediately joined the fraternity of
Bussats Bato.
Fighting Mormonism.
The New Western Education Conmiis
sion apjieals for help to fight Mormon
ism in Utah, which it declares is to l>e
eheeked and overthrown only by declared moral
influences and education. It is
that while the Mormon religion people, outlaws
its votaries and debases the “ it
vet breaks public law in but one point—
polvgamy is itsonlv offence.” To abolish
and prevent this sin it declares is a task
of difficulty. The crime is well pro
tooted. Through its various and active
instrumentalities, the central exposed organiza- point.
tion shields it at every itself,
Not peculiar onlv that, but the country by
its physical features, defends it.
Utah is a mountainous and arid country,
All the land must be irrigated; hoi.ee
the people must live alongside the
streams as they ran through canons or
aoeross depressed plains. The Mormon
Church owus all the irrigating ditches,
and hence can admit or exclude whom it
will The Commission has four acad
cmios and fifteen other schools, with over
sixteen hundred pupils, of whom seven
hundred are children of parents who are
or have heen Mormons. But no loyal
Mormon will for a moment think of si
lowing las children to go to a school os
tablisbed for the avowed purpose of over
throwing his religion. Brigham Young,
Jr., emphasised his hatred of three
pr^elvters lie “would bv saying rather in throw the tabernacle child of
that a
his into hell than send him to cue of
these Gentile schools.”
“B’oiKve I’ll try to mend some of my
bad habits,” said Jones in a fit of pen
itence. “I wouldn’t, dear,” replied his
superior fraction, sweetly, “your bad
habits are certainly in an excellent state
of repair.”
A WISE MAN'S FORTUNE.
Ton can’t surmise
My great surprise
The first time that I advertised.
Right after nine
They formed in line
Customers and old friends of mine.
All eager to buy,
For the reason why,
That I wan wise
To advertise.
I do suppose
We chall dispose
Of all the goods in store.
In this event I am bound to rent
My neighbor's house next door.
Ton may take the hint,
If you want a mint
Of money, be, as I was, wise,
And go to the press and advertise.
PERVERSITY OF PARTNERS.
BT WILTON BURTON.
"How you cornin' on deze days, Murse
Jimmie ?”
“Pretty well, Uncle Toby.” f
“Looks like you got a powerful sigh*
o’ stuff in dis yer sto’.”
“Well, yes; we have shall a large stock oi
goods—more than we ever sell, I'm
afraid.” ttt.
The speakers were a merchant is
former slave. The latter had wN/ So
the back part of the store, and, wi willed ie
air of one that feels himself a pri
character, had taken a seat unbidui • in
the best chair by the fire.
The appearance of the store justified
the comment. In island one comer, of by the
fireplae®, was an bacon.jwr
rounded by a miniature sea of brimg in
the other, a group of syrup-casks, billets one of
which rested horizontally on two of
wood, and shed its contents, drop by
drop, through a leaky faucet into a lin
can. Between the fireplace and lengthwise the ends
of the two counters, that ran
of the room, was a tangled maze of
flour-barrels, sugar hogsheads, narfow ignl
cracker-boxes, threaded by a
footpath that led to the door. ..The
counters were piled high with “domes¬
tics,” gayly-coiored calico and ready¬
made clothing, so that there was scarce¬
ly room for the two broken show- cases,
with their display of cigars, neckties,
pocket cutlery, and pinchbeck jewelry.
The shelves were filled to their utmost
capacity, and up above the cornice the
spidershad woven a net of cobwebs over
a long array of dusty crockery and “powerful wood¬
en ware. Truly, there was a
sight o’ stuff” in the store.
For some clay.pipe. time Uncle Presently Toby sat silently
smoking a and he fell nodfling. ■e
made him drowsy, to
This pastime might have continue^ in¬
definitely had not his pipe fallen |from
his lips to and the ho hearth. resumed the The {crash
aroused him, conver¬
sation :
“Seem like to me I ain’t never been
see no better fire to roas’a tat < > fi dan
what dis yer fire is, ef I d< IF! do
tater.” >
“There are some in that barrel -phelp
yourself.” “Thanky, sah." ’
,
A *1 Uncle Toby buried £>»£• d® in,
(ti 0 ashes and put two or !]<
‘ v
he said. .
" You ain’t got no pardner il pr, i
you, Marse Jimmie?”
“ Yes; Mr. Humphery owns a h
t crest.” disapprovingly,
The negro granted mighty clever
• < Mr. Bumph'B3 for hol’in’ his nan.
He gin me a quarter a-sayin’ nothin’ lorse him,
onct. I ain’t agin
an’ I’m hopes yon an’ him’ll git t^ll i long
harmonikle; but ef ever you year o’
me a-goin’ cahoot ’long of a yutberj kmt’n nig¬
ger agin, you can make a hen net'
my ole hat.”
“ Did yon ever have a partner, 1 hide
Toby “Yas, f sah, I had partner onct—a
a
crappin’ pardner—an’ me an’ him couldn't
’gree no ways we could fix it.”
“ That was bad.”
“ Hit was bad, bnt it couldn’t be nope
bekase pardners is naicherly worl’. de mefm es ■
folks in this newited But I ain’t
a ‘spntin’ but what Mr. Bumpless mighty
clever man,*’ Mr. Humphrey
“I suppose you think
may be an exception to the rale,”
“ To be sho’. ”
««I can’t vouch for that; but what did
ron and your partner disagree about.”
“ Well, sab, ef yon wants to know all
about dat, take a seat and set down in
dat cheer, bekase dat tater ’ll have plenty
time to roas’ ’fore I git done tellin’ you
bout Sandy Brooks.”
“ Was that your name
“ Dem was his entitlements, an’ he was
a biggity nigger, too. He use more
big£words dan what deze yere Methodis’
circus-riders use. He think hissef some
puukins bekase he could read an write,
He ’low he knowed it alL
“ I declar’ to gracious, Marse Jimmie,
dem cheese smells so good I don’t b'lieve
I kin tell you ’bout Sandy 'thought de o’ 1
has a slishe of ’em to toas’ on een’
die stick.
“Thanky, sah. Daze cheese is good,
sho'; but cheese looks sorter lonesome
’eep’n’ you has crackers to go ’long wid
Thanky, sah. I always knowed
you was de free-handest one o old
m ester's boys. Ax Marthy Ann ef I
didn’t tole her so.
“ Well, dat Sandy nigger he w ar sto
elase, an’ lie smoke seegyars ever time
he could pick up a ole stump on de
grouu’. dem days Mr. Waggintire ... use to
"In
keep a sto’ in dis yer same town.
“Yes, I remember, McIntyre and
Wagner.” fell
"Yes. sah: dem’s um, only dey
out. an’ Mr. Waggintire he tuck an’ tuck
the whole sto' to hissef.
“Well Mr. Waggintire he had a piece
o’ lan’, an’ he rent it to me an’ Sandy for
the fo’tli o’ what we could make on it.
Sandv had two big stroppin’ gals, named
Ritter and Base, which he ’low dey was
es good a fiel’ lion’s es Mr. Anybody,
He put hissef an’dem in. an’I put in
mvM. I was to git ile fo’th an’ Sandv wait
was to have three fo’ths. bakase he
b “’ 8 - Mr Waggintire ’vanee for
"*•
“ Twara’t long fore I seed Sandy w»e
gwine to git de eg wantage o' me. Ever
day he sen' to de sto’ after sump’n ner’er.
Marthy Ann 'low we better buy ever’-
thing we wonts, or Sandy ’d git it all.
Sandy keep his ’count in a little ole book;
but ever’ time I buy a dollar worth I
make a tolerable long mark on de chim
bly wid a fire coal. Ef it warn’t dat
much I make a sorter short mark, ’cord¬
in’ to de ’mount. I know my ’count was
de kereekes’.
“No sooner we start to pitch de de crap long
de fuss begin. I want to plant an’
slipe by de branch in cotton, Sandy
want to plant co’n dar; I want to plant
de chaneyberry fiel’ in co’n an’ taters an’
goobers, an’ Sandy swar by the pint o’
bis knife hit got to be plant in cotton.
Me an’ him ’spute an’ ’spate about dat
tell Mr. Waggintire had to come an’
’cide ’twix’ us. An’ he ’cide jes’ like
Sandy want it, too. Deze yer pardners
dey kin always git somebody to ’cide in
favor o’ dere 3ide.
“ Ever’ Sat'dy Sandy seerfi like he jes
’bleeged to take holiday.” holiday Sat¬
“ Didn’t you take every
urday, too?”
“Yas, sah; but don’t you see, ever’
time Sandy stop three ban’s stop; when
1 stop hit was jes’ layin’ me one. by de co’n de
“ When we was
sun was powerful hot. I was plowin’, follerin
an’ Sandy an’ his two Ever’ gals was few minutes
me wid de hoes.
Sandy gwine to de b ranch atter a drink
0 ’ water. Den his two gals tappin’ dey stop an’ de
listen at de peckerwood back, on
tloacl tree tell he come
< < After a while I says, says I, ‘ Sandy,
you must be got de de tarryfy branch fever f’om de
way you drinkin’ dry, ’
“He’low, ‘You ain’t got no lamin’,
nigger. Don’t you know water’s a good
Sude-er-ritter for to make you sweat an’
keep off de sunstroke ?’
“ 1 says, says I, ‘ Ef you talkin’ ’bout
Suse an’ Bitter, dey look mighty jack
an’-dipper, leanin’ on dey hoehan’is an’
de crab grass a dat growin’.’
" Well, sah, nigger like to bust
bissef laffin’. I was a great a mine to
make a rock zoon by his head, jes’ to let
him year how it soun’. But I hilt mysel
in dat time.
“ Atter dat Sandy kick up a rnmpu*
’bout sump’n nigh ever’ day. Dey
warn’t no livin’ in peace wid him. His
wife she had to have a han’ in de fuss.
She ’low my ole ’possum dog suck her
nigs. Marthy Ann tuck it up, an’ dey
had it. When womens gets mix ap in a
’spute hits bound to git wuss an' wuss.
My ole ’oman 'low I ougliter whip Sandy,
but I ain’t payin’ no ’tention to what
she sayin’, bekase I knows jes’ bow
womens is. Dey always anxious for dey
husbands to fight a ner’er man what dey
’spises, but dey don’t never tink ’bout
ter’er man fightin’ back.
“When we went to gether de co’n
Sandy have says, says he, ‘ Look yere, I wants
to ever’thing fa’r an’ squar now,
an’ I wants you to onderstand all ’bout
it.
“ I ’low, ‘ Dat’s all right,’
U t Well,’ says ’e, 'you know Mr. Wag¬
gintire gits one fo’th of ever’thing.’
“I says, says I, ‘I knows dat,’ says I,
‘an’ I gits a ner’er fo’th, an’ you gits de
ynther three fo’ths.’
“Sandy sorter smile to hissef.
<< 4 Well,’ says ’e, ‘de way for us to do
«. hen we hauls up de co’n is to put three
loads in one pile for me and you, an’ one
load in a ner’er pile for Mr. Waggin¬
tire.’
“I says, says I, ‘What de use o’ mixin’
jgkie WmeoKHo" an’yone? for nothim’ Dat jes’bemakin’doub- Let ’vide dis
"’I’ll VI^iTngh'U”’----* . me
'
“ ‘How yon gwine ’vide it?’ he says,
says ’e.
“ I says, says I, ‘Mr. Waggintire
gits a fo’th an’ I gits a ner’er fo’th.
Ever’ time we puts a load on his pile we
mus’ put a load on my pile. Den all de
balance ’ll be vone. ’
“He says, ‘Dat won’t do,’ says ’e,
‘bekase dat er way you’ll git more de ’n yo’
share. You got to pay part rent
same es me.’
“I says, says I, ‘I sees what yon up
to. You wants to take out Mr. Wag
gintire’s part, an’ den you ain’t a gwine
to give me but de third. But Ise gwine
te have my rights it.’ ef somebody nose have
to be mashed for
“He says, ‘Who nose gwine to be
mash ?’ says ’e.
“I ’low, ‘I speck you ’ll ha’ter fur¬
nish de nose.’
“We kep a’spntin’an’ ’sputin’. One
word brung on a ner’er, an’ after awhile
Marthy Ann jine in, an’ de fus’thing you
know me an’ Sandy hitched.”
“You fought, did you?”
“Yas, sah, we fit—but I speck it’s time
for me to be knockin’ ’long home. Dis
yer tater look like hit’s done. I wish
you mighty well, Marse Jimmie, an’ I’m
hopes y.on ar>’ Mr. Bumpless ’ll git along
harmonikle."
“But wait. You haven’t told me about
the fight, Who got the best of it?”
“Well, sah, Sandy hetnek an’eropeup
on me an’ knocked me down with a’ ax
fiel’, an’ den he kick me in de short ribs.
Dat was toler’ble bard to take, as you
know yo’sef, Marse Jimmie, but I ain’t
sayin’ nothin’ tell Marthy Ann ran up
like she gwine ter t’ar up all creation,
an' Sandv call Ler a old heifer. Dat
sorter ’xcite my riserbles.”
“What did you do then ?”
“I says, says I, ‘Go ’way f’om make* yer,
nigger, bekase you mought me
mad, an’ ef I gets mad somebody ’ll git
hurt.’
“When you nrgy wid Mr. Bumpless
an’ try to show him how de bes’ way to
manidge, he don’t knock you down wid
a ax ’ he!’, do he ?”
“No, bnt he’s as stubborn as a mule,
md keeps on buying more goods in
spite of my protest." always de with
“Well, dat contraries’ way folks I paru
)0rs ,-, Dey de ever
«e.
How did you came out dividing the
irop? de , leetle ,, » , de . horn , .
I come out en o
N _ o sooner I git np oft n de groun an
‘oreshmy cloze I wen. pnto^de toseelawye
bekase ever body wh.it dont know name o
l 'fl u a bones niau, no
different twixt cullud genpiema an a
hkel dmietoF . , *1 ^11 de whiles I
-
"as talkm he se ten dar scratehin , . , his
vew wid his petilnmdle Alter I thn
-ie low I eouidn gi
« batter out n dat case I ’low low I I was was
after con an cotton. Salt an batter
,ronMB “*“ £t me ‘
“When I got back home dar stand Mr.
Waggintire. Sandy sent atter him wliilst
I was gone. He took an’ ’vide de crap
ont jes' like Sandy want him to, an' what
's more ’u dat he tack all my share, be-
kase, he say, I done trade it all oat in de
sto’.
“Whenever you git a ner’er man to
come an’ settle ’twixt you an’ yo’ pard
ner de pardner sho’ to get it all. Bard
ners is mog’ too ’ceivin’ for my use.”
“You are about right,” said the white
man. “At any rate, if I live to see New
Year’s this store slrnll be all mine or all
Humphrey’s, and I don’t care which. I
tired of partners. ”
am
“Now you heerd me,” exclaimed the
negro. “You’s a talkin’ now, an’ you
ain’t a was’in no bref. Fur as I’m con¬
cern, pardners kin go ’long Liza Jane.
“Marse Jimmie, you ain’t got nar ole
pa’r shoes ’roun’ yer settin’ in de corn
der gapin’ for bones, is you ? ’Kase ef
dey’s too little for me dey’ll ’bout fit Mar
thy Ann. I ” believe there’s pair in the
back “Yes, have. ” a
room you can
As Toby passed out with the shoes he
?aid:
“I wish you mighty well, Marse Jim¬
mie, an’ I’m hones you an’ Mr. Bumpless
’ll git-”
But he saw that nobody was giving for Mr. any
iieed to what he was saying,
Humphrey had come in, and the two
partners were engaged in a heated dis¬
cussion of some matter of business upon
which it was evident they could not agree.
—The Continent.
Summer Dresses.
Printed mull dresses, Harper’s Bazar
tells us, are the novelty for watering
place toilettes. This is the sheerest
white mull, as silky looking as guaze or
as India muslin, and on this transparent
surface are flowers of most natural hue
and design, printed makes there them by look some fine if
process that as
painted by hand. The great rose pat¬
terns are liked by young ladies, while
tlieir mothers wear tlie scabieuse flower,
and purple flour de Us, or bunches of
pansies or lilacs. These thin tissues are
made up over white silk, a separate white
under-waist answering with several
dresses, but the silk skirt bus the ma¬
terial placed directly on in each breadth,
and sewed up with it in its seams.
Flounces of scantily gathered white
lace are the trimmings, and the skirt
when finished is of scarcely of the perceptible
weight. Seven flounces lace cross
the front and sides, but short only two full pass
around the skirt. The dra¬
pery crosses in front, has a lace frill on
the edge, and its longer back breadths
are looped to represent a great sash bow
with ends. Some of the waists are
basques shirred in surplice shape, and
others are baby waists full and belted,
with tlie neck cut square. The waist
lining of silk is also high in the back,
but is cut out in a point or square to
match the outside waist. Bose or olive
satin ribbons are made into loops for
these dresses, matching either the flower
or its foilage in color. Dark velvet or
pansy colored velvet ribbons are used
when the flowers are of these dark
colors.
The Oil Wells of Baku.
WONDERS OF THE NEW OIL CITY ON THE
SHORES OF TIIE CASPIAN SEA.
Some of the oil mines of Baku, on the
shores of the Caspian sea, can produce
enough of oil to light the whole of Asia,
and the Bussians are doing their utmost
-to heat-tti-'Altiericftns is the markets of
the Old World. Eaemimbe or boring
lias its wooden shed, with black, wooden,
pyramid-shaped fountain hole, chimney the over end the of which bore,
or upper
consists of an iron tube protruding to a
distance of about five feet above the level
of the ground. There are apparently
hundreds of these black pyramids scat¬
tered about the undulating surface of
Oleopolis, and they impart to the scene
an aspect of curious, discovers if dreary, the mono¬
tony. And now one use
ol the vast and numerous lines of iron
pipes which vein the upper surface of the
ground all the way from Baku to Sar
unchi, and which one would at first
take for gas or water pipes. They carry
the naphtha from the reservoirs at the
mines to the refining factories. And
now that I am on the subject of pipes I
may mention that a nice little contract
awaits some ironmaster in England or
Belgium. Tlie principal oilmaster in
Oleopolis permission—which is asking the Itussian lie nodoubt govern¬
ment for
will obtain—to lay down lines of pipes
all the way from Baku, on the Caspian,
to Batoum. on the Black Sea, a distance
of some 400 miles. There is a touchof
American grandeur in such an undertak¬
gentleman, ing. This particular is proprietor oilmaster, of about a Swiss forty
springs, which, as I was told on the spot,
yield 180,000 poods, each of thirty-eight
pounds, per diem. One fountain which
I passed—I do not know whether it was
that gentleman’s property—lias been
running five years at the rate of 25,000
poods per day. The total yield of Oleo¬
polis was calculated at 20,000,000 poods
in 1878. Now, I am told, it is about
100 , 000 , 000 .
Of Interest to Depositors.
J.W. T TXT Smith, Q ... a depositor s the -
Ivn judgment Savings for $1.0o0 Bank against recently that instetu- ^
tion most of which amount had been
panl to Ins brother who had presented
plamtiffs bank book. Appeal was t. ken
by defendant to the General Term of the
Brooklyn City Coiut. That tribunal re
versed the decision of the Conr
and granted the bank a new trial. The
General Term holds that all sums with
from a bank and properly ente ed
in the depositors book must be consul
ered valid returns from the bank to the
depositor, though care and disc eti n
must be exercised by the above authorities. the New
In commenting on the
York Herald says: “This is rather a
SSStoTVitaTEta eic^dipglT locse method.
coantenuKe.
on the part of these institutions in deal
ing with the money- intrusted to their
»» keeping. b. ,aJa h ;.Sl?he' , S^
cbe cite and toeretion. But ,bi> ,„li.
fieation amounts to little, if any person
by merely presenting a depositor's does belong book
can draw money which not
to him, and the defrauded depositor is
left without recourse against the bank. "
Over the left—the roof of the railway
station.
A Little Misunderstanding.
They were in a stage-coach—amission¬
ary and a miner. The missionary was
relating incidents of his life in Siam.
“The punishment of criminals,” he
said, “was exceedingly strange and is
worthy of description. His neck is
hared well down upon the shoulders, and
the executioner dips his finger in mud
and with it makes a mark upon the neck
of the doomed man. ”
“What kind of mud?” shouted the
miner in a voice like a thunder-clap,
while “A he sort glared of yellowish at the parson mud, savag^y. ’ replied
the' preacher, "evidently disturbed by
the miner’s look and manner. But he
continued: •
“The executioner then takes his heavy
sword and with one quick and decisive
blow severs the victim s head from his
body.” infern al lie, ” yelled the miner,
‘ ‘It’s an
in tones that might have occasionally been heard hang four
miles. “The boys do
a horse-thief there, and the town has a
pretty bad name, * but they never cut
people’s heads off. There ain t only one
sword in the whole place, and that be¬
longs to a militia captain and wouldn't
cut the head off a turnip.”
“But I was a missionary there for
five years,” meekly interposed the
minister.
“And I was a barber there for seven
years, and nevershaved you, neither.”
“My friend, that cannot be, for the
people never shave there. ”
“That’s another one of your infernal
yams, they’re as clean a shaven set of
people as tliar is in the West. You’re
a nice man to be giving the town a bad
name after you have left it. If it
weren’t kind of agin the fashion to hit a
parson I’d knock your head off of you
fur your lies,” cried the miner, getting
madder every minute.
“My dear friend,” said the minister
imploringly, and evidently much dis
urbed for his safety, “there certainly
must be some mistake. You do not
mean to say that you were a barber in
the Kingdom of Siam, where the people
never shave?”
“Oh! I thought you were talking
about Choyenne,” said the miner as he
tell back into bis chair disgusted.
Eggs Sent from Eurbpe.
NEW YORK DEALERS SUPPLYING THB
TRADE WITH STOCK FROM AS FAB
AWAY AS TURKEY.
“Perhaps yon think,” said a dealer in
New York city to a Sun reporter, “that
the eggs you have for breakfast are
batched at early dawn the same morn¬
ing on Long Island or in Jersey. But -
they may have come from Ohio, Indi¬
ana, or Iowa, and possibly from Den¬
mark, Germany, Italy, or Turkey.
This importation has been going firm on
about a year. Ours was the first to
import eggs. A dealer in Denmark who
had been accustomed to export them to
England found he had packed off Lis an excess hands
of eggs. So to get them
lie “Howdo shipped them they differ to us.” from ?”
our good, eggs if
“They are smaller, but as
not better, in quality. Coming from a
cooler country, and being transported
across the sea, where the temperature is
also cool, they keep better than the eggs
we get from the West,”
“How long will an oca |HH| >
“I have known ^Jpwiy
as eight months, but.we do not
keep them longer than a coupe of
months, unless they are limed in When lime
eggs are cheap they are put of the
’water. This closes the pores
shells and preserves the eggs until the
winter, when they are scarce, But you
can’t use them for boiling, because they
explode.” these imported be¬
“Do you sell eggs
cause the supply from this country is
too small ?”
“Eggs are so cheap in Denmark and
Germany that we can afford to undersell
home dealers in the scarce season, when
prices are high, At those times we run
out our imported eggs. We only import
them between autumn and early summer.
In summer the whether is too hot for
them to keep well; and, besides, prices
are low. Between last fall and the pres¬
ent month we imported two thousand
barrels, containing about importing eighty dozen
each. Other firms are at
about the same rate.”
“Do you get your eggs only from
Denmark and Germany ?”
“They come from the ports of those
countries, but the dealers in those ports
in turn collect quantities of eggs from
Turkey and Italy, and no doubt many
of tlie" eggs we import come from those
places. ”
Affection in Sheep.
At the sheep ranch where I stopped
the lambing season was just beginning
—the time of greatest anxiety and hard¬
est work for the sheep owner. His puz¬
zle is to make the ewes own their lambs.
I noticed in one place, where a flock of
sheep with young lambs were feeding,
that the old herder, with a very unpoeti
^ gtick no t at all resembling the tra
^ it ioual shepherd’s crook, was poking up
mtle lambs to make them follow
mammieSl lest these should wan
^ away and forget tbe)r offspMg . At
p j ace a corral, a herder wag
rubbing nose of a ew - e upoll a lamb
tbftt bad j lls t been bom, to make sure
that the mother should know the smell
^ be r own child. Two others had
c » b t and thrown down a big ewe, and
bolding n her while a enough couple of weak
| wre sucking £ to keep
hem {rQm starvatio Sometimes they
#bnt a j amb an j mo ther into a pen
days, and thus succeed in mak
latter own and nourish the
aud sometime s, if the lamb dies,
;*■ is “’ , d ed .^* 0 j o S“ e
. d,, ,.,1 can
; ^ trom 60 to 75 per cent, them! more,
^ sh leit to
*
Brutal.— Bandit Bernal lately cut ofi
the arms of an obdurate information man near Ligura,
Mexico, to elicit as to the
whereabouts of his cash. But even this
failed, and Bernal was so provoked that
i he cut off the man's head.
