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Twilight Tales.
Woods, fields and hill are clothed In gray.
The twilight mists arise—
A sim.de golden-pointed ray
Eights up the western skies,
And hienlh the shadow of the hill,
Where spreads the forest, dark and still,
A fairy-kingdom lies.
The shadows hold for me a spelt
A perfect witchery—
The echo of the vesper troll
Still sounds from tree to free,
And voices that are low and sweet
From every darkened nook rejieat
A tale of love to me.
Some voices tell the tale in rhyme,
And o’er it reeiiu to fall
The echo id tin vesper cliimes
Bometlmcs a word is all.
A single nano a whisper low
Tell* ail the story, and I know
Alone to me they call.
I dare not penetrate the shade.
Hut stand within the plain—
While comes from that enchanted made.
The musics! refrain.
The voices vanish at Ihe day,
Hot when the mists rise cold and gray,
The tales are told again.
— [Klavel Scott Mines, in the hedger.
IN THE JAWS OF DEATHi
“Were you ever in Hie jaws of
death ?”
Inspector McLaughlin of the Brook¬
lyn police stared at Ihe speaker in sur¬
prise, and then the smile on Ids feature*
broadened into a positive grin as he
answered, “I was once almost in the
jaws of a shark, and they were beyond
• doubt ‘jaws of death’ for any living
thing that passed their portals.”
“Will you please detail the eireum
•tnnee* of your escape?”
“Certainty. Outlie !tth day of De¬
cember, 1362, orders were received
for the One Hundred and Seventy
third New York Infantry, in which I
vm second lieutenant, to start for the
seat of war. We embarked in the
transport steamer Continental, and was
soon oil our way out to sea. The
weather was cold and blustery. Our
ing (lie night of the 12th inst. there
was a heavy rain storm, and as I was
pacing the dock in the morning 1 bap
pened to notice, m the steamer rose
and fell in the trough of the sea. water
gleaming in the bottom of one of the
lifeboats, as it swung to and fro on
the davits just above tho steamer’s
gunwale.
“The thought flashed across my
mind that it was rain water, and I ini
mediately made preparation to indulge
in the luxury of a soft-water butli, in
which I was already enjoying myself
in anticipation I mourned the gun
Wafc st' j mncr. j|» 40k
w*«; hands and prepared to i
wash inv face, I leaned further for
tvd wit.i my breast against the* life¬
boat. The steamer lurched suddenly
and the lifeboat swung outward, and
I, going with it, was thrown off my
feet nml fell headlong into (tic sea.
“The s'enmer being without a car¬
go was very high out of the water*
•nd I falling from a considerable
height plunged deeply into the sea.
This, however, proved mv salvation,
•a otherwise 1 should have infallibly
been drawn into the propeller ami cut
to pieces. \s 1 rose toward the sur¬
face. which I thought 1 would never
Teach, 1 e mill hear the roar of tin*
waters churned into foam bv the
action of the propeller. When 1 fin¬
ally arrived at tho surface the steamer
was about two hundred yards ahead
of me. and dashing along at tho rate
of twelve knots an hour. Flie crow i
threw overboard a heterogeneous mass
of objects, of which I managed to
grasp a soap-box.
•* *Mau overboard!'cried the watch,
■nd instantly all on board ship was
turmoil and confusion. Of course* I
every one on board thought the
captain would instantly order the
ship to be put about and the boats
lowered ; but no. There was. lie said.
■ storm brewing, and to attempt such
a tuaioeuvrr in the fa<v of it would In¬
to expose the steamer to aim »( certain
destruction.
“M\ captain, Holbrook, demanded
that the ship In* turned back, aud at
the same moment a private named
O'Connor, in company with somo of
the o.hcr men. stepped up to the pilot,
pre-i'iUed a loaded nin-ket at his head,
sap lug : 'Stfij'! her headway or 1 will
blow your brains out,’ and the pilot
allowed himself to be persuaded, l
sometimes think, however, that that
musket had something to do with the
pilot'- piiesoenee. It was impossi¬
ble on account of the sea then running
to put the ship 1110111. When her
headway w-s finally stopped, she be¬
ing then st lea-t two miles ahead of
me, *h« an to back water.
"W ion they had arrived at the snot
where they thought 1 Mss. they began
to lower s boat, and tin* *iu>u in their
e*gorn**-s, clumsily lowered one end
of the bout more quickly than the
other. The*consequence was that lie
boat began to fill, a id catuc near sink.
iog. This necessitated another dc.a>
to b*i] cot. ■an'fl-tn Ihe meantime 1 was
ill E DEMOCRAT, CE AW FORD VALLE, GEORGIA.
"STJlz
the marrow of my bones. My heavy
uniform was water-soaked, and seemed
to drag mo down.
‘•I had on heavy military boots, but
had endeavored to divest myself of
them, and had managed to get one
half off. This filled with water, and
rendered my position still more critical
by keeling me over on one side, I
was fast wearing out and tried to rest
myself by bearing on the box, which,
of course, sank and floated some yards
out of my reach, I dipping beneath
the wave*. I secured possession of
the box again with some difficulty.
The incident was repeated several
times.
“Suddenly, when almost overcome
! with 1 heard a sharp, whizzing
coma,
noise in the water, and to my horror
I perceived a shark greedily eyeing me.
lie swam nearer and nearer, swimming
| leisurely around me in ever-decreasing
circles, sure of his prey, and unwilling
to jeopardize himself with an undue
participation. I bail read in my child.
hood tlmt those vultures of the sea
could be kept off by noise; so every
time lie got too close I splashed with
desperate vigor, and he sheered off a
little.
“I wa* becoming exhausted, and,
being paralyzed with cold, was
about to surrender, thinking it
was only a matter of time when 1
made u meal for him, when I heard a
far-off bail from over the water. I
turned to answer it, but was too weak
and the husky murmur of my voice
was swallowed up in the roar of the
waters. Afar off* I saw the lifeboat,
m the how of which was tho before
mentioned and ever-beloved O’Connor.
Suddenly ho shrieked out something
and the men rowed eagerly in the di¬
rection in which he was pointing.
Suddenly he bent over and picked up
iny hat, which a wavo had washed
froin my head.
"As 1 saw this 1 groaned in an igo
ny of despair, thinking they would
naturally come to the conclusion that I
was drowned. O’Connor, soldier and
sailor, was made of bettor stulI, how
ever, and again he scanned the sea
anxiously, ll uli/.ing that it was my
lust chance I waved my hands and
shouted desperately. He saw me and
instantly tho boat, was headed in my
direction, This gave me new hope
and with it came new streng.h to fight
oil the hark, which was now in very
dangerous pro^mity.
.. . . ___,
turn over >n In* back preparatory to
making tin) fatal rush. 11c seemingly
could not make up his iniml until the
boat came alongside, and then lie was
the sixteenth of a second too late, and
as he leaned out of the water his steel
jaws snapped In bullied rage as 1 wag
drawn unconscious almost out, of his
mouth. The boat’s crew say he fol¬
lowed the boat in its course toward the.
ship and one of Ihe men had to fight
him off with an oar. As it was, he
very nearly capsized tho boat."—[New
York World.
Where Big Boulders Came From.
Wherever the glaciers melted, they
left an immense amount of “drift,”—
thut is, gaud, gravel, and stones of ull
sorts, which had been frozen in the ice
when the glaciers were forming.
The stones of the drift are of all
sizes. Some are as small as pebbles,
others as large ns small houses. There
is one at Bradford, Massachusetts,
which measures thirty feet each way,
and weighs four and a half million
pounds. There is another oil a ledge
in Vermont which is even larger than
that, and which must have been car¬
ried Gy the ice across a valley lying
live hundred feet below where the
stone now is, showing the ice was five
hundred feet thick.
Great boulders of trap-rock extend
through Connecticut on a line running
to Long Island Sound; and as some of
the same kind arc found in Long
Island, the glacier is believed to have
crossed the Sound, carrying these
rocks with it. An immense s'at no of
Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg,
stands on one of these glacier boulders
of solid granite, which weighs three
million pounds. One of the largest
boulders in America is in the Indian
village of Mohegmi, near Montville,
Connecticut. The Indians cali the
rock “Sliohegan.” Its top, which is
fiat and as large as the floor of a good
sized room, is reached by a ladder.
Sometime* these bouUlers are found
perched upon hare ledges of rock, so
nicely balanced that, though of great
weight they may be rocked by tie
hand. They are called “rocking
stones. - ’ Near the little Connecticut
village of Noauk, on Long Island
Sound, there is an immense boulder,
called hv the people there "Jemimy's
Pulpit.” It was formerly a rocking
etone, but the rock has worn away be
p,w p and it l 8 u uo longer Im? moved,
—’St Nicholas.
“blind knowledge. ”
^
The Remarkable Powers of Four
Sightless People.
They Tell Color by Touch and
Easily Describe Strangers.
A remarkable story of “blind
knowledge” was told to a Pittsburg
correspondent of the New York Son
by an oil man who is operating in the
U en Virginia petroleum fields.
“Between Pone Town arid Statler’s ^
live ! {un four I>ostoflk,: blind ’ in persons—George, Monongalia county, Ma
linda, Elizabeth and Beulah Tennant
who can do sonic of the m Jst wonder¬
ful things 1 ever heard of. George
can toll the color and breed of a horse
or cow by feeling its hair; can
thenze and complexion of a man
af.er he has talked to him a few min
»" s, describe his features quite area
rafely and tell his age. This man was
born blind, but he works on hi* farm
inueij the same a* il he could see, ’ m i
even drives , to mill with . his grain,
h 9
distance of about a mile.
“1 r|M he gn-ls , are less remarkable
no
J hey are known, either personally
by reputation to everybody in Mm,on
galia and Marion counties as ‘the
... blind , girls.’ . , , They „„ live in . modest
a
two-story brick farm house, where
their parents lived before (hem. They
go about their household duties much
as other women do, sewing, cooking
washing dishes, gpinning-for tie .Id
fashioned wheel has not yet altogether
disappeared from West Virginia—am*
baking. Infant, they do everything
necessary for their own comfort, and
help some in the hilly fields of the
homestead farm which was willed to
them by their father.
“George is married and lives with
his wife and three bright-eyed
dren, who can see as well as yotVcan,
on one end of the farm. One. sister,
who is not blind, stays most of the
time with the three blie” girls. Their
father was .a weli-to-do farmer and
stock drover, considered wealthy by
his simple neighbors, and lie sent them
blind children away to school. They
can and do read and write quite ree li
ly, which is more than many of their
neighbors with good eyes can do. Al
together Noah Tennant and his wifu
had ten children, half of whom wcj
born blind. George was the first,
. xt on • could see. Maiinda, ihe oldp
-c-s-qZ i t*- blind gin-' was Born '"next,
and the next was i»»y with good eyes,
and so on—-every oilier clrld was born
blind. One blind boy, Edward, died \
when lie was a young man.
“Naturally I was very skeptical
about the stories I heard of 'the blind
girls’ and their brother George, and
so wore my fellow oil men. However,
they were vouched for by the most
responsible people at Maiinington and
Fairview, and one day five of us rode
out onto Jake’s Hun to gee them our
selves. We knew they had already
leased their lands to Charley Ford, and
the leases were held liy the South Penn
Oil Company, but we thought an effort
to buy their royalty would bo excuse
enough to introduce us, and possibly
we might get the royalty, too, which
by recent developments about l air
view, looks valuable. I was riding a
tine Kentucky saddle horse, sorrel,
which, though a fine saddler, was a
•kicker’ in harness. One of my com¬
panions bestrode a bay Hambletonian.
The others were riding livery horses
of mongrel breed, one a gray, one
chestnut brown, and one a sorrel. "We
stopped first at George’s house, and he
came out to the road to talk to us.
We talked business for some time, |
and then approached the subject of his j
blindness, He didn't consider it
very great misfortune, ns he was still ;
able to work and enjoy life,
‘•Some one suggested he could not
have the pleasure of knowing how
things looked, but he said he had a
mental vision and could tell colors hy
touch, lie first passed his hand over
the flank of mv horse and a little wav 1
down his leg. then went to his head i
and rubbed his nose, ‘d'his horse’!
said lie. *is a Kenlnekv sorrel, and is a 1
little vicious, He kicks sometimes.' j
We were stupefied. He happened next 1
to get hold of the other sorrel, and at
once toid its color, but said it was no ,
particular breed. We ail felt the two
animals as he did. and could all detect
a difference in the breed, but none of
us could detect any similarity to indi
j i cite the color. lie pronounced cor
rectiy on ail of our horses, and then
I turned his attention to ourselves, tell
} ing us low wc looked, He was so
accurate that we looked all around for
j a confederate, but there was none,
! He explained that his parents ha 1 de
j scribed people to Iiim and his blind
i -isters and they came to detect differ
! cnees in tone, and breathing, and so
on¬
“We then went to the brick house,
* when the three blind women lived,
and, as it was near dinner time, we
begged to stay for dinner. I tell you
it was astonishing to see those blind
women getting dinner, setting the
table, and all that. They were a lit¬
tle slow in their movements, and had a
kind of gliding motion, keeping their
j feet close to the floor and evidently on
I the lookout for chance obstructions.
They got us a very good dinner, and
L we were greatly edified and enter
Fy ned while disp08ing of it. They
kjuamtances , li(1 they could easilv recogllize a c
by the sound of their
voices, even though they had not met
several yea „ at a time, and could
their intimates by touch. It
; the most remarkable family I ever
! ieard of. I have heard of the acute¬
i ness of the senses of touch, hearing,
! md smell of blind persons before, but
neyer would havc be j ie ved they
the color of ail animal if I
^ ^ udonc>
„ vv> heard manv olliel remarkable
about G Tennant’s powers,
,;. M , d tud if his wife wag ev ei.
j* vM,tly \ ill ... t by her . breathing, , . . though ,, .
o-, bought so ,. little 4a , of - .. it herself , ir to .
I complaint. . . TT He could . , also , de- ,
i ,v- no
t ai , y gHght lllaem of his sisters or
; „ds the same way. He could tell
o£ hfa ( . hil(]ren from the other8 by
rely touching . . . a finger .. s to ... the rosy
e> k. You can verify these etate
tfentg by reference to any resident of
> place in that section.”
Furious Hens’ Nests.
That tho hen ha8 a tastc for the
^ n i qao in nest hunting is evidenced
h y the many curious places she finds
which to depo8 it eggs, Certain
f of 0(ll . s wotlId always come into
hou8( , to ]a) . f ag if they feared they
nId l!lld profeetion nowhere else so
vdl . There ig often wisdom in the
, oice> or why does the hen go t0 tho
a<h . hcap in tl ,e corner of an out-kitclr
•H. and after scratching herself a nice
little hollow, leave her eggs there?—
ty>r the same reason that, troubled
\ti v h verm!u, she destroys the parasites
il?; wallowing in ashes. How wise,
t|’en, to hatch her little ones, sweet
X :jVI clean, and free from such added
res t
, hirken8 pe ttc d love the house,
;i . , ta ,. ( advantage of every open
p, Once a large, long-legged
I poster brought a timid pullet to the
......... t0 !ay hei . lirgt egg . n 0 coaxed
ilc into the kitchen, step by step,
’
1fclsJkj s f i- with- beak
olid laws made a cosey’ nest among a
pile of shavings, then, jumping out,
“clnt, clnt, chitted,” as if he was urg¬
ing her to test the softness of the nest,
an 1 then, while she was trying it, he
8t ,,. od j,er to the end, aud was as
p ,., ud a8 8 | 1C was over the new-laid
egg. the lien seeks
{generally, however, her
he own nest without help from
liege lord, and he seems content to let
havc her own way; so it is reason
.ib; to suppose that our aforesaid timid
pullet 1ms expressed tier fears to the
rooster, her nat ural protector, and that
he responded gallantly. AVe had a hen
that, laid in the oven of an old tin¬
plate stove, as if she sought warmth
for the birdies to come.
Another nested in a cast-oil dinner
pot; another in baby's cradle; another
in ihe folds of a man’s coat; and,
most comical of all was the lieu who
us. d to go each day into a bedroom
and,leave an egg on the soft, pluuip.
newly’ made bed. When she got
reatly to sit her mistress made her a
Hi. f) straw nest in a box under the bed*
1 very egg hatched, as if in reward
tor’ll * kindness. Frequently among
th< humble people our lowly friends
are made almost companions of; and
they love back, and thrive according
It always pays to treat with kind
ness the dependent creatures around
as —.[New York Tribune.
Southern Phosphate Beds.
At is well known, phosphates are
veryy’xtensively used in this country
and Europe in the manufacture of
Hundreds of thousands of
on * i are l: ‘ ed au,,niU1 -V* and the de
,u# b* * s >«>' casing. The most valu¬
able deposits in this country have
Keen the beds in South Caroliana, but
the talnietro state has found a new
eoniji titor in Florida, where the vast
deposits are richer and extend from
Tal u ,0 ,>eare Ulver ’ about fift y
miles south of Tampa, a distance of
over hrce hundred miles, and with a
so far as developed, of from
fitly miles. [Chicago Herald,
Care of Shoes.
Th.re will be few persous who will
ever ike t ie trouble, as they ought,
to ire* out their shoes when not in
n«e, po matter how costly they are.
The text best thing, which also costs
a h it* trouble is to button up a fine
shoe Wien putting it aside in order to
1 e upper from getting out of
i. ,She*, and Leather Reporter.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Sulphate of copper is recommended
for keeping posts and timber from de¬
cay.
As an instance of the wonderful fe¬
cundity of vegetable life, it is stated
that a si gle tobacco plant will pro¬
duce 360,000 seeds.
No doubt exists as to the fact that
many deep-sea animals do emit light,
though the precise nature of the
mechanism for its emission is not al¬
ways certain.
Spraying fruit trees for destruction
of insects, and of the fungus growths
which produce mildew and rot, is to
be more generally practiced another
season than ever before.
The Academic dcs Sciences has sub¬
mitted a new system of musical nota¬
tion in which 27 characters replace
the 203 symbols now employed to
represent the seven notes of the gamut
: n the seven keys.
The largest river of each of the con¬
tinents, including Australia, is: Eu¬
rope, the Volga: Asia, the Yetteisy;
Africa, the Nile: North America, the
Mississippi (including the Missouri),
and South America, the Amazon and
Beni.
According to Weismann, every char¬
acter possessed by every animal is clue
to the preservation in the struggle for
life of minute accidental variations in
the molecular structure of germplasm,
which alone has adapted every being
to its environment.
The danger of infection from im¬
pure water is said to be only slightly
reduced by filtration through sand,
bacteria passing through at ail times,
but in larger numbers just after the
filter has becu cleaned and again aftst
it has been used for some lima.
Popular Science Monthly alludes to
the belief of somo that as man in the
savage stale has, for Hie most part,
been largely, if not wholly, carnivor¬
ous, he will, with the progress ol
civilization,become entirely vegetarian
or use only tho products of animals,
as eggs and milk, with vegetable food.
Bones are necessarily more or less
heavy structures, but liic bones of
most birds, while their solid substance
is exceedingly strong, are wonderful¬
ly lightened by the details of their ar¬
rangement, and still more by the fact
that most of them contain not marrow
but warm (and therefore light) air.
S\j ii.Fi f r i- tv,, packing -TiT
birds that the parts that grind the food
and act as teeth are placed, not in the
jaws, but in the center of the body—
in the gizzard. These parts consist of
small stones, which most birds swal¬
low for this purpose—all those, that
is, which feed on grain and other sub¬
stances that require grinding.
The most complex e animal
tissues is the brain. The fibres of one
single optic nerve have been counted
under a microscope to the number of
about 3o0,000. The number in the
brain must therefore be immense. So
with regard to cells; they are count¬
less. No method of science has been
able to count the cells in a single square
quarter of an inch of the outside cov¬
ering of the brain.
Auituias and His Deaf Father.
Dnn‘1 was the biggest liar in town
and Dan’l always appealed to his
father to verify his fearful yarns.
DariTs father was old, a little deaf,
and belonged to the Methodist Church.
It was not'to be supposed that the old
gentleman would indorse lies, aud
thus the neighbors concluded. But
here is how Dan’l got around his poor
old dad. ‘-Went down ter t’ brook
yesterday,” Dan’l would relate.
“Caught tew hundred and four pk-k
’ril. say, didn’t 1 dad?’’ And the old
man. benignant! t listening, would
hear “four” and meekly reply, “Yes,
Dan’l.” Then the able liar would
edge around “back to” his father, and
with the edge of his baud measure ofl
the length of his arm before tiie eyes
of his astonished guest. “Caught one
pick Til, a whopper, longen that, say,
warn’t lie, dad?” The old man would
gaze upon the six inches of scrawny
wrist and forearm as wily Dan’l
whirled and measured tor his benefit,
and humbly but firmly assert, “Yis,
my son, sU'd say as how he was sum
mat longer."—[Lewiston (Me.) Jour¬
nal.
First Settler*. < f Virginia.
Dr. Stephen B. Weeks of Johns
Hopkins University. Baitimo e, has
made a special study of the eaily Vir¬
ginia settlements under Sir Walter
Raleigh. He maintains that it can be
shown by legendary and historical evi¬
dence that the car.ie-r Ehiglisli settlers
in the New World were not massacred,
as is generally supposed, but were ab¬
sorbed by the tribes of Croatau In¬
dians. and that their descendants are
stiff to be found in Nor;h Carolina.
—[Boston Cultivator.
Cutting a Bottle in Two with Twine.
The other night, while sitting with
gome friends in the clubhouse, 1 no¬
ticed a young man at a table near its,
apparently tired of waiting for the
waiter, strike the neck of the wine
bottle a sharp, quick stroke will; Ins
knife in such a manner that the bottle
was broken squarely off just below tho
cork as neatly and cleanly as it it bad
been cut oft' with a diamond.
“That was very well done,’’remark¬
ed one of my friends, ‘-but did you
ever see a method some sailors have
for opening a bottle of wine? Several
years ago, when the Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia was here, in com
maud 6f a small fleet, I was invited
over to visit the flagship—the Svet¬
lana—by one of the officers with whom
I had become acquainted. While we
were on the ship our host sent for
some wine, and, learning that we
never had witnessed the sailor’s
method of opening it, he called ihree
lusty fellows into the cabin to perform
the operation.
“One man held the ends of the bot¬
tle in his hands, while the second
wound a piece of stout twine around
it and pulled the ends violently and
swiftly backward and forward, thus
heating the glass by the friction. The
third man then dashed some cold
water upon the bottle, and the glass
cracked with a snap. The man who
held the two ends lifted them upright
so quickly and dexterously that scarce¬
ly a drop was spilled. The bottle was
converted, practically, into two glasses
—one not unlike an ordinary tumbler
and the other having the cork in the
bottom of it.”—[New York Star.
Celebrating the Elderberry.
When the hitter principle in elder¬
berries is neutralized, which is very
easily done, there i3 a piquancy and
zest in the cooked fruit that everybody
enjoys, and those who know how to
proceed use the berries more and
more, and even give the bush a corner
in the home grounds, in order to have
the fruit riper and plumper and more
assured and convenient than if de¬
pendence is placed upon the wild
product of the wastes, although the
latter often yield enough for every¬
body, for there is no fruit that gives
surer or better crop year after year.
Good soil and clean increases size,
and wo may expect to hear of varie¬
ties of superior quality when more at¬
tention is given to the fruit. As to
-tAe- ktHeritcs^r-i^w*^ efeHDtttffffiT'lho
perfected flavor, just as in the case of
the finest cherries, which are bitter
till fully ripe, when it is found that
the bitterest then become tho most ex¬
quisite titillators of the palate nerves,
after they have attained full ripeness
—which cherries are seldom left to at¬
tain.
Slow cooking of imperfectly ripe
fruit advances the (fitter into enjoy¬
able briskness, and the method noted
by Mr. Pierce of cooking partially in
sugar, allowing to stand a few days,
and then completing the cooking, is no
doubt a very good one. But ripe
elderberries cooked at ouce, with a lit¬
tle good vinegar or lemon acid and.
sufficient sugar added, make a sauce
or pie-filling that hardly any fruit ex¬
cels, if there is any that does.—[New
York Tribune.
The Shamrock of Erin.
The Shamrock is, and has long been,
the emblem of Ireland. The fact of
its having been thus chosen is account¬
ed for as follows: St. Patrick, tute¬
lary saint of the Irish, was preaching
to the rude islanders about the year
432. Somo of these had adopted the
Christian faith, but the good apostle
found it very difficult to render some
of the dogmas of Christianity iniellig -
ble to their untutored hands. This
was especially true with the doctrines
of the Trinity, of tin tri-une God. St.
Patrick was preaching in a field, and.
looking down, he spied a three-leaved
Shamrock at his feet. Ho took the
leaf, and holding it up to the view of
iiis audience, exclaimed: “Behold a
Trinity in Unity!” The islanders
caught the idea, and henceforth
the Shamrock was known a« the
"Trinity flower.”—[Courier-Journal.
Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Beds.
By actual survey’ there are in the
anthracite regions of Pennsylvania 472
square miles of coal. The amount of
coal mined to the acre is about 60,006'
tons, but the wastage is to great that
well-informed owners and scientific
miners assert that with careful meth¬
ods of mining, ihe product :o the acre
could be increased one-half—that is
to 90,000 tons. On the basi= of 75,
000 tons to the acre, an easy calcular
tion will show that an annual average
of 84,000,0““ tons, about the amount
mined in I8t5, anl making allowance
for what In- already been taken oat in
the past fifty years, the coal of this
anthracite legion will last 616 years—
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