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L !T arawse * I tiij ♦ EUiVILLE POBLIStIJG SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬ INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALMANCB MEN—RAri,- JtOAO CASUALTIES—TUit COTTON CHOP ^.FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CHOP RETURNS. ALABAMA. James Ware, a well known contractor and former circuit court clerk, of Bir- mingham, was thrown down stairs by a man named Place, and was fatally injured his skull being crushed in on the right aide. Place keeps a boarding house, and at night Ware came to the house very drunk. Place met him at the head oi the ►fairs and ordered him away. Ware began cursing pushed and refused. After 8nme words, Place him down thest airs. The Talladega fifty A Coosa Vu'ley road Will build more miles of railroad, and will also widen their track to the standard gauge. The road at present operates between Talladega and Pell city. The extension will be from Tal a- dega through Clay county to connect with the East Alabama and Cincinnati, which is a part of the Central of Georgia. The road has been in operation between Talladega and Pell City four years. FLORIDA. On Wednesday, there were 36 new ca es of fever, nvilh (8 white and 30 colored; nt Jacks - , and 8 deaths. Huf-reon General tl at in H»mi his t pinion tt wit fed th- from Washing¬ -tiiugen ton i mo-t tne sit res should he adopt'd to keep reu- g es away until after a thorough disitif. c lion. LOUISIANA. Thomas D. Mdler, a member of th' tot ton exchange, a we l(hy su ar planter and w id ly known in commercial and so¬ cial circle-, died on Tuesday, at New Or¬ leans, aged 05. NORTH CAROLINA. At Mt. Zion cluu ch. in Surry countv, as Rev. F. AlcNanghan, who had been i vited t<> preacb, \va- in the pu'p ; t and in the very act of opening the service, he fell (lead without the least struggle. He was 72 y ars old. At Reidsvnle, and J. R. Webster, of Web¬ ster's Weekly, .-pealc-r of the Huu-e of C Hintons, and E. M. Redd, a too un¬ nent tobacconist of lieid-vide, hail a person ii encounter, during which Reid receive d severe cuts. Thenffiirwns the result of a quarrel about politics. Mrs. Adolphus Fuller, of Durham, while in her home, and wc. ring a bu tie of goodly fire-plate, proportions, parsed'near the open when the bustle, bo ding the -kirt of her dms far out behind it, reached over the bl zing fire, Before she w r :is aware she was all aflame, and is fatally burned. I wo while men, William Venters and William A. Branch, set upon Calvin Cox, at a p ffitieul meeting in Ca ico, and tim¬ ing planks Irorn a fence, beat h m ou die h ad until they h ,d driven into Ids skull the n ils which | r jected from t. e planks. Cox was a prominent man sonic years ago, and was grand icctur r of the g'aad lodge oi M isous of Not h Caro¬ lina. He was a man of genius and su inventor. Th s fatal affray w as not dti toaiiy quarrei about politics, but was the result of a long standing feud. A woman’s screams, ns if in mortal a .'"iiv. were h aril, mid tliri led hundreds will never be » at Giteiisbufi', W|V' v, ; as a rtisit, and the . 0 * tto woman was round lying V.tD wt y in the duor of a store. ILr thioat was cut from ear to ear, and she lay in a po 1 of blood, 'lhe Wound ■was so dieadful as marly to cut off her bead. Her name was Laura II>atr, and she wa* a young mulutio. She had left her home but a little distance away, only a few tnoments beloie, as the door of her house wits open and her baby, aged ten months, was assigned lying in the bed. No reason can be lor the crime. NOUTH CAROLINA. A fire broke out in the j.vl in Green- vtlle, being set by Fletcher McDavid, a lunatic negro. As soon as the fire was noticed. Jailer Powell rushed to the. cell of the insane negro, but was unable to unlock the door, as the lock was he .ted •o such a degree that hi- hand could not bear it. The key would nut turn. The negro was left to his iate. David E. Durand and his wife left home in Bishopvillc to sp nd the dav, leaving fora, their little daughters, Eva and with their brother-in-law. Late in the evening, while the children were playing, Carnes was informed that Cora had fallen from a bed in the room in which they had been playing. Carues hmried in where she was and picked her up, but she died in a very few seconds, her neck having been broken by the fall. The ne xt morning Eva died from the shock caused by her little sister’s death. Their ages were seven and thir¬ teen respectively. While TENNESSEE. which playing around a cane mil), was in operation near Midway years, on Wednesday, had John Carroll, aged the 11 his head caught betwi en ever and frame, and was instantly killed. His head was crushed almost to u jelly. ('oinnels Dtincnn P. Cooper, Sparrel rha-ed Hi'l, nnt1 John W. Childress have pur- the Daily American new-papi r, of Nashville. Col. Cooper will be the edi- tor-ia-c ief. The pa er will be Deiuu- eia i but the VVutti r onian idea will prevail in thi treatment of the tariff ques- ituD. The American h s hitherto been ® P r< >tection journal. Col. Cotyar, who has been editor-in-chief, will retire, as well as the former stockholders. The grand lodge of the TenDCfsec Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in ses-sion at Chattanooga, elected the fol¬ Nolan, lowing officers: Grand masfi r, John L. h Peter of Nashville; Jr/, d-nuty grand Nashville; mas grand - r, Ncrns, of Chut- tnnooga; w&rden, Phillip Eichorn, of ^ grand secretary, J. H- Harwell, a8 i lv iH < 'i grand treason r, J. L. W " enkloy, of Nashville; grand represent¬ ative to the sovereign grand lodge, A. 1 • Davis, of Memptm. The next meet- [ Columbia. n g of the graud lodge will be held at !**■ he . A1 “™!i™Hir4 , r i ' e,>er * n -' co2l? Ua sags ! y ,sssr of Fulon r fn« dwa L betw «t n toll budge nd I dn Wedne^ay, Land Davis. „ g#(i nbo , lt fa ail. I VH’-m* The killing U occurred ,e,r ' bl0 at de Reid’s ‘ h ou .he mZ,°f t Tenne stn- lU m’ 1 ® 1 * s '« Road, sixteen miles from Macon. The train w.s com- ri U ?| Jt ' r f W d way and Davis tried to ems.he track , in front of the engine. Geo tried Rogers, who teas Manriin- near hv. to deter him saying the min w ; 8 too close at h md, but the lad w, uld not heed and he w,. s mashed to death by the ponderous engine J ALABAMA ROMANCE. A remarkable and long legal contc i t of a will has just been ended iu a mo t unexpected maimer in Winston county, Ala. Twelve years ago, Cnarlcs II. B.tk- er was known as the richest man in Win- stun. He owned several large pUnta- tions nnd a More, from which ho sup- piiod the f-mall farmers f< r miles around Baker «us then living wrth his sec nd wife and two children,-also three sons by a former wife. In the Sum,mr of 1878 Baker went to Memphis, Term., where he always sold Ids Ct.tton and did his banking When the yellow fever broke K '■>“ a the family heard that he was dead. Then hts widow fl ed for probate a will which left her and her chtldreu the principal part of Baker’s fo,tune, and made her administrator without bond. Baker’s -ons bv his first marriage contested the will, and ten yiars of bittef an t expen- sive litigati m followed, the final result being that the widow and her children seemed the bulk of what p op rtv the lawyers had left them. The three sons immediate'} - secured an injunction re- straining Mrs. Baker tram taking cha'ge of the property, claiming th t tney had secured evidence 01 a later will. Tne day alter the injunction was served Charles H. Bakerhim-elf, now a very old man, appeared at the old home-t. ad and claimed bis fortune. It seems be did not die of yellow fever, but after he recov ered, after several weeks, his reason was gone,and had drttted the past here wa- and n blank to him. He thire as a com¬ mon tramp, finally turning tip in Buenos Ayres, South America, where ho was taken to a hospital, and under the cate of a Spani-h physician, recovered his reason. He then worked his way to New Orleans as a common sailor, and after many hardships, reached his home. He confirms the claims ol his sous that he had made a later will, in which lie ma le an equal divis’on of his property among his wife and five children. FEVER ABATES. Surgeon General Hamilton is incorrcs- p tvienfe with Dr. Potter with reference to the ays etna io liisiulection of Jackson¬ ville, Florida, at the close of the epidem¬ ic. It is estimated that about 18,000 people, re8 ; dents of Jacksonville, me at present awaiting permission of their to return. This wholesale entrance houses in their sb ei ce is fraught with deep meaning.to them, and the system to he adopted is looked for with much anxiety. Official bulletin for Thursday: New case*, 29; death* one, Eiwood B. Holli¬ day; total cases to date, 3,692; to al deaths, 322. The following telegram W. was received in New York City Fernandina by D. O. Duree, secretary of the relief committee: “New cases 10; whites 2. J. W. Bailey and Annie Perry. No deaths. This low rating nm-t not deceive you ns executive comm’ttee of colored aux¬ iliary committee somewhat mixed it and made nu increase of neatly 50 per cent, The on the same ba-is of returns, weather is very warm. There arc seve- ral critical cases. The city is quiet. It. S. Schuyler, Secretary Howard Associa- tion.” Two moro new ca-es of yeJiow fever have developed in Gainesville, Fla., and the fever has been de- chued epidemic. Surgeon Ross tele¬ graphs from Feinandira, Fla., that one of hi s men ha* teen taken sick and requists authority to employ a other in his place, Mr. Rubbled and I. For l, a promi- Ala., nentcontractor, died nt Decatur, on Thursday; and four new cases: II. O. Jones, Jr., president of b ard of relf f; Mrs. Renis'-n, 8. E. Skinner and \\ il s 'Vise, (colored). D aths fiom yel.ow lover to date, 24. The executive c m- mittee of the Missjs-ippi State Board < t Health, on Thursday, withdraw all its quarantine officer*, and travel to and Imm the state will not any longer be tn- fi rfe-cd with, unless by loed quarantines, which are now very few in number, hungarians killed. A wreck occurred on the Pott-viHe division of the Lehigh Vabey Rai road, near Tamar nd, Pa., between a Lehigh gta.ei train and a Pennsylvania fast fit mht. The flagman did n t get back far enough to signal the freight, which struck the caboose of tho gravel train, the ] ttercontaining » batch cf Hungarian lai orcra, six of whom were instn tly killed. Twenty-six were inju'ed, twn ot them dyiug while being conveyed to the ho? pit al. Ti e gravel train was backing on sating when the fnight train, wiiieh n idled at running on orders, appro a w as and ent crash mg lii'dt rate of speed The w ki led and in¬ into the cars nhe id. jured men were all on the gravel train, with the exception of one brakeman <>n the Pennsylvania train, who was k lied on his own train. 8 > far as is knew n, tne responsibility rests upon the shoulders the flagman, who failed t" flag the freight train in time to tirsveat the • evident. EMPIRE PREDICTED. The German newspapers speak dis- truttwgly ot -the situiti i<m in France. The JVoflh 'German Gazette, quoting the Temps' ironical comments on Premier FicqueVs revision Ml, indorses the pre- diction of the Temps that tin empire is at hand. The Tagblatt thinks that some- thing unexpected will happen in France, and that the doom of the moderate re- publican party is sealed. EJMVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25,1888. HIE WORLD OVER. ^TURESTING ITEMS BOILED ws * EE4D r LE •»*“ the FIELD OF LA 110It— SKKTntNG caul- hnoN OF EUHOPEAN t-NTlUGUK— FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC. — NOTED DEAD. M-s. Cynthia Leonard Is running as a candidate fo mayor of Now York, on a woman's suffrage ticket - T , te grip cars of Chicago, Ill. nre to be n. the after run b T new men, nearly all new haudi bciug supplied from Kan- ,lJ ? (l1 ' 1 j* 0, * ^ 1U P°i ,ce li ‘Vo thuii iiuiidb f ul ihe ‘ ifuaraiiig new nieu. Railway traffic throughout Greece is impelled by hi ary converted floo s. Toe Mega- riau plitin h is been into a take* and railroads on botli so es of the Mega- ra have beeu distioyed lor a distant e of tweive miles. The circulation of the newspapers Afs bffet, l>uy», Jntransegeunt , Putric , Teh- grupheaml France, Voltaire , all published in h.sbeeu prohibited in Allace- Loraine, and circul tion of other French p ipers has been ixstrictsd by the German authorities. From a report made at the fourteenth annual convention o. the Mutual Benefit Associn ion of tne mail c erks of the Untied Sta es, now in session at Cine n nati, O. io, it nppe ,rs that the ns-ocinti n ™““"'Tid on Brigs’ | v s ,,ffeie r ?t is* s-uHo have^ten Lsory plan to notcs°und ior-e n.mes of patrons lo prou net the bank bank to to di-connt ‘ th. m ‘ '' ben " ist Shore t train . which ...... left a V eehawk ^ 1- N- J- t 'caehed a point in " est Point tunnel where the roof is bei[ • S re P “ l a rge mass ot rock and earth came down -on the baggage and eX|jms ca rs ' cn,shin K lhcmHud suddenly ^ 0 Pl’'“g , train. Nobody wa* injured. 1,,e d!imi '" e U ' ,lie tU!U ' el is « ri ' at- Hod. John Wentworth, better known as “Long John,” a man as well known as any iu the West, tiled on Tuesday, Mr. Wentworth was one of Chicago’s ol(icst residents, and in his day was mayor ol that city, cougre-sm n and editor ol the 73 principal daily paper there. of He wealth, year-of age, an t a man his estate being worth at least At a meeting of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Taylor, Pa., N,, Commander H. of th« W. U. 8. general manager Nicar agua Canal Construction oy, read a paper describing the route ol the proposi d NicaraugUa could canal. finished H« stated that the canal be in six yt ars, allowing f r ail poss bie lays. The cost of the work is estimated lit $8 >,(>00,000 but Commander • Tuy lot tlinks a company with a capital oi $100,000,000 should be organized to cany on the construction. * The fo'ce of an explosion of petroleum dt on board the French steamer Vil e Calais, which anived at Calais, France, horn Philadelphia, Pa., tore off the deck and partly away her side*. Only the ward portion of ihe ve-sel sank, and the fire raging fiercely in that portion above the water. Othu - shipping lying in the vi inity of the steamer was nruen aged by the exjrlo-ion and the loss ol Tile is great. Portions of a dozen bodies legs wetc found lying on the quays, about arms, iu and heads being scattered shocking confusion. Two passenger trains on the Cumber- land Valley Railroad collided on Thurs- day near SbippfBsburtr, Pa., engines wh le run* ring at high speed. The were telescoped, the boiler of one being driven five het into the boiler of the other, and the express ear on each train tele- b oped the baggage car killed bihind it. both One lwggage master v»as and conductors seiiousjy injured. dange Many passengers were hurt, but not ouslv. The mail cars caught fire a -a most of the mail was destroyed. DESTITUTE DAKOTA, M. J. Horpmann, of Minneapolis, Minn, of has been iuvi s irating the condition farmers iu llamsey county, Dak., who were reported to hive been starving to death, says the real condition of the peo¬ ple is bey uid description. Men, women and chi.dren are in rags and luve not a cent f money in the world. Their crops weie tota ly destroyed • ml their laud, stock and farm implements mortgaged— ab-o.ute distres- prevailed ev> rywnce. A minister was living iu one room wi h his wife and two small cluldrt n, oa of the latter wrapped up in the cv b iu Older to keep warm, and the other blue Hnd shiv¬ er i.g with cold and emaciated with hun- g r. There was no fuel, with the excep¬ tion of a little dry manure, which is all that any of the families have to burn, and the only thing they had to cat was a dry trust <ff bread. A PARSON’S QUANDARY. “Shut up, old m in, you are iff yout base, I’m a preacher to day.” Tiffs Rad- lau- guacc w us nd r s-ed to Rev. J T. cbff. a Baptist minister in 8helby coun ty, Ala., as he announced his text, The speaker was David Harrellson. a meinl er of the church, who had -uddeii !y be¬ come cr zed on the subject of teligion. With a knife in one hand and a lSifile in the other, Ilarrcdson tiien marched up nd down tlte Aisle lciiff and 'preached a the sermon. house Parson Ka tried to have and Hanellson spr. ng upon him and beat him severely. While the tight was going o i, the 'congregation escaped wandered from the thnrah. ILirrelison then ar um! throu.h the m i-hborhood with his knife in one brad and his Bible in the other, preaching to eviry one he met and defying arre-t. He was captured and wa- taken to the inlsne asylum at Tuscaloosa. __ • COTTON. jp e rP porfc for the week shows that, the ratal vi-ible supply of cotto i for the w ,, r j t | i S) 1.206,797 bales, of which 959 ^97 are American, aga-nst 1,046,049 nn( i 1,408.149 respectively last year, Receipts at all interior towns, 174,094: rece ipts at plantations, 292,101; crop in giafit. 913.627. WASHINGTON NEWS. Doiugi of Congress and thti United States Officials. CONG RKtiMIONAIi. Mr. Browu offered a resolution in the Scm to on Thursday, for the final adjournment of the rcs-ioti atone o’clock ou S.iturdav, and It was pn-Si d. Ah - . ott *? d « resolution instruct,uji thu ^.nmitioc on Indian affairs to m- quire as to tho truth of the report that tne secretary of the interior 1ms pur- phased a large number of wagons for the Indian service that were man,if .ctu.ed Wllh la h or in the state of Tenues- 8ee> jj e rau je some r< marks on theRub- in imntwtf that the complaint was of really against the late commissioner Iudlau affairs. A discussion then en- sit d on the tar,if bill ...Mr. Cox, of New York, was in (he chair when the House mit Farquliar, After prayer by Y the cliap- lain, Mr. of New rk, rose and called the chair's atbutioil toTtile 1, of the House, which directs the S|*ake* to cause the journal to he read on the appea an e of a quorum. He was tui¬ wilting that certain u.ambers should ab- ® ei1 ^ themselves, v\hile otheis, like him- self, had remained si tee December, He / eh ,kU i t «“• ' ,0 ? !*'? “ di *f^' b , »t an affront;-o f the mtebfg.M ee o O. t.d- fl- gress to have two mstgu'hcnut v ,aO ments c 1 , ' , ’ dl of f "“’.““K ^ * ‘h ' SC “lion ' ‘IV ’ 11,1 «»«• «*>« •» ..... ... w ere the 1 he ^aker laid before the •• - Hou ®- tvvelve m Vl, ° meh81 * , - c * President Cleveland, 1 and 1 tney were refen(jd t0 the commltte e on invalid pensions. Mr.Cox,ufN'-wYork,am- j U g t0 a question of privilege, sent to the clerk’s desk and lu.d read an extract f, om ttKJ New York Tribune, entitled ..g, 8 . Cox’s Tostul Fraud,” charging hilu w j t t semiing unftank .ble matter through the mails under ids frank. Mr. Qox said he had seen the alleged frank »P -n which the Tribune's euito.ial was based, and it was a forgery. H<-had set on foot an inve-tigation as to where the forgery olig na ed. gossip. A. M. Speer, of Georgia, has been np- point d a $1)00 clerk in the post ttice department and assign d to the first as- gjsta t postmaster-general’s office. Superintendent Horan, of the National Mu-eum, left on Mo day tor Augus a, Ga., to superintend the placing of the govemmeut exhibits from that bureau at the Exposition, which opens in that city on the 8th of November Maj. Charles 8. Hid, commissioner of the government exhibits, will also leave for Augu-tain a few days, and n. pes to have the govtun¬ merit exhibit historical and illustrative of the functions of the bureau of the dif- ferent, departments, in readiness by tne time the Exposition op ns. Dr. Ham lion, surgeon-general, of the Marine Hospital service, received the following telegram on uonday from the Board of Health at G iino-ville, Fla. : “We have two new cases to-day in d s tant parts of the city, 'the outlook is not good.” Dr. Hamilton also received the following report from Su’geon Hut- ton, at Camp Perry: “Five deaths, eleven employes, forty new refugees ar- rived. Discharged 32, remaining 113; yellow fever camp 6, all convalescent; no new cases in eight days. ” The case of the. North Carolina special tnx bond case was called in the supreme court of the United States on Tuesday, After counsclon b th side's had an noun* ced their readiness to proceed, the justices held an informal consultation The chief justice then announced that the coutt deserved a full bench to hear this case, as it involved a const tutiona! qnes- tion. As Justice Matthews was ill, the court would adjourn the hearing for \he present. r lhe case of Bernarii P. Hans '8. the State of Lout-tana, involving a similar question was di-posed of in like manner. BOUNCED. The most important action taken by the pi-iseut general executive board of the Knights of Libor was at Philadel¬ phia, Pa., oa Wednesday, when Thomas B. Barry, a former member of the board, was formal y txpeled by the order. Barry was accused of abuses and vituper¬ ation, nud was suspended from tltry Inst August. A mout i after be forwarded his r. signation, but this was not acted upon until later, when the board refuse I to accept it, nud thr atoned to expel him. In the Journal of United Labor , too General M su r Workman, Powdirly, i ver his own sianuture, ventilates every¬ thing which has a bearing on B rry’e rases. He 'charge* him wii.fi having violated every p edge he made when he entered the order, nud ex- ing himself for not noticing the attacks ot Barry upon himself, declared that the quarrel b tween them alwavs tiad been one-sided, and that now that he is Com¬ pelled to hit buck, he piououuces I horn- as Barry one of the most despicable scoundrels living. engineers’ brotherhood. The 25th annual convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Lngiuwrs was commenced in Rn hmond, Va , on W’edniMlnv. An a idress of welcome w as made by Mayor Ellison, nls -speeches Jiufi.rd f ont Governor Lee, Col. A. S. and Judge 8. B. Witt, aud ilie reading of the anfliml addn ss by Chief Arthur. In the comae of hi- adurera Mr. Arthur said that 32 new divis ons were estah- 11shed in the post year, and there are 394 divisions located at different point-, jioin Manitoba to Mexico, and fiom Nova Sc tin to California, giviugagrand tutal of 25.000. ___ SPANISH TROUBLES. Gen. O'Rvan, minister of war, has de¬ clared his intention to resign frran the Spani-h cabinet. Premier Sagasfa is trying to pacify his radical supporters who reproach him for always deferring to the reactionary influence of tl e mili¬ tary and consirvative parties. Members of the cabinet are divided on the ques- t j oa 0 f army reform, A ministerial crisis is, therefore, threatened. TERRA DEL FUEGtt Information About tho Country and its Inhabitants. Geological Formation as Deter¬ mined by Recent Surveys. Terra del Fuego has hitherto at¬ tracts l but little attention, and the busy world lias been content to let it alone. Of h tr, however,circumstances buvo arisen Which givo the country in¬ terest and supply information about it. Within tho last live years it has bcin tho su j.ct of moro thorough and scien¬ tific investigation than has ever been previously attemptod. Lieutenant 15 ive oi tho French Navy has, by pormia ion of the Argentine Government, and partly under it* patronage, made an expedition to tho southeast portion ol Terra del Fuogo; and h.n labora havo resulted in a valuable report on the fauna, fl >rn and general characteristic* of the ecu , try and tho condition and language ol tho people. Another even moro valuable contri¬ bution to our knowledgo on tho subject has been made by R v. Thomas Brydges, a Chu ch of England missionary, who has lived in tho southeastern part ol Terra del Fuogo for or r 23 year'*, and ha- duri tg that long residence accumu¬ lated aa important amount of iof'irma- tion about tho eounDy and ita inhabit¬ ant*. Mr. Ju ius Popper, a man ol scientific antecedent*, but also on be¬ half of a mining company, recently made an expedition right across the country from Umloss B y on tho wiit to Ban 3 bastian oa tho east and thonce along the c>ust. Lastly, Don llamon Li ta, a well-known explorer and a member of tho Geographical society ol Buonos Ayres, ha* ju-t returned from a scientific and geographical expedition to tho east and southeast coast, under¬ taken at the instance of tho Argentine governm - nt. These com ined sources of information havo’servo 1 to correct many errors hitherto current about the country, and to aid to our knowledge in many important respects. The group of island ■ which form the archipelago of Terra del Fuego havo an area of about eighty thousand square miles, nearly the st.mo size as Engiaud and Scotland. Darwin descriocs the country ns a mountaintu* land partly submerged Tit the sea so that deep inlets ai d bays occury tho pheu whero the valleys shou d exi t. To fl id an acre ol level land in any wart of the country is most rare. Don Ramon Listn, however, who had greater and more recent oppor- tudtiea, thiaks this investigation a mi-taken one. He describes Argentine Terra del Fuego as presenting two as¬ pects. In the north there are valleys moro or less extensive, covered with epieedid proves and irrigated by large rivers, some of which are nevigaule, this region enjoying an agreeable tem¬ perature, with very little snow during tho wintor. 8 *uth of this he reports that tho ap¬ pearance of the country changes, and ex endod forests appear, where the gras* is not go abundant or the rivers so large. Tho face of the land ia in this part something like Bwitz rland, with small lakes, elevutcu mountain* and valuable timber forests. Ha seems to think tho country capable ot great de¬ velopment, for he adds: “Oa the plaius there will yet be ph.nted a great pas¬ toral industry, while I believe the mountains will bo found to contain val¬ uable mineral deposits.” The geologic d formation of Terra del Fuego corresponds with that of Pata¬ gonia; its mountains aro tho continua¬ tion and southern extremity of tho Andes, while tho plains and uplands correspond to tho Patagonian steppes. In some parts the‘formation is decidely volcanic, ptvnico stono is found in large quantities, and grariito and quartz aro abuadmt. Oa the other haud, lime¬ stone, iron and coal seem to be wanting. Gold hug been louad in considerable quantities in the north, and for a num¬ ber of y ars tho enterprid tg Chillians have been wa lling it at th • loot ol the (h ii t hills which form tne coasts of the U e I ess an 1 Futuro buys. Tne climato is cartai ly not the best in tho world, hut its disadvantage* seem to h.vo been a good deul ex- aguerutod by casual visitor’s, who h ive, pevhip', been unfortunate as to times snd loci itiis. Mr. B yJges tells u- tb it in tho humi 1 regions of the west lro-.ts are almost unknown; while iu the central and eastern parts, where the sky is nearly always cloudless, there is intense cold (luring tha four months from June to September. Hj i d L that tho want of sufficient heat ia summer is the great drawuack to tho climate, and is a greater iicon- venienco than tho cold in winter, width has never been known to bo lower than 12 degrees Fihronheit, while tho high¬ est summer temp raiuro is only 75 de- groes. If it wore not for tho raw, damp winds ths climate of Terra del Fuogo would bo much better than thnt ol Can- ads. While thero »ra prubably lew streams in the country which are of sufficient size ever to be utilizod for navigation, there is a largo number ot small rivers and watsreourees, which carry off tho rains and incited mow from the mountains, and thus asaitt to irrigate tho lowo# plains.-IChambor*’ JouruaL The Chemistry of Vinegar. When the juice of applon or of grapes in allowed to remain at rest at a moier- ato temperature* any 00 degrees to 80 degree* Fahrenheit, a chemical change take* place which is called ferment*, lion, and the resulting product* of IbU change aro tho formation of carbonic »cil gag, which escapes, and alcohol, which remains ia tho liquid. Thia process is called viuotli faimoutation. I. now this vinous ia rmor.tutaoB U al- lowed to continue in the npplo or grnp# juice till no mora alcohol can bo found, and tho liquid ia still allowed to re¬ main at rest ot about tin sumo temper¬ ature, another chemical change will commonco, and tho liquid, which was sweet to tho tasta before, will now bo- gin to turn aour, and continue to bo- como more ond more sour as loug a* this aecond change continues. This second change is called tho acetic fer¬ mentation, and tho alcohol that was lormed during the first fermentation is coav<rted i ito acetic acid, aid the wina or cider i< converted into vinegar. Tho liqui I which romains is racked or drawn off, and Is ih' D known as wine orcilrr vinegar, according as it wa» formed from grape or apple juice. There is no olhor way cf making wineorciJer vine¬ gar, and there !■> no otner product than th it mHdo from ftrapo or aople juice by feime tation to -which the name wino nr cidor vinegar ah mid be applied. Thiacid principle ia each of ihe<a kin Is of vine rar is the sane, viz., acetic acid, but the other organic con¬ stituents of each juice give a flavor which is sufficiontly. characteristic to enable the vinegar to be recognized by tasto and odor. These, however, were the vinegars of our gran 1 fathers, and with a little searching »omo genuine lots can even yet bo found; but not over one-teeth of all tho vl iegar used in the whole U.iitcd States is either wine or cider vinegar. —[ B iltimoro 6ua. The Chinese Almanac. Recently tho Chinosu milenta at Lhasra, in Thibet, implored th* imu- rorto c*u*o arrangement* to bo made which wi ulel enable them to rcccivo tho copie* of their almanac at the earliest possiblo dite in each year. This anxie¬ ty would seem very curiouj, woro it not tho fact, a* we are informed by a writer in the Chinese R cordor, that tho al¬ manac is tho most important book to the Chinose. Its space i* far too impor tant to bo occupied with the matter which fi is western almanac*. It con¬ tains astronomical information which i* useful, but its great miision i* to give lull and accurate information for select¬ ing lucky places lor poricrmiug all the nets, great and small, of tlicir everyday life. And os every act of life in Chinn, however trivi il, depends for it* success on tho time in which and tba direction (i. e., the point of tho corapau toward which it is done) is of (he utmost im¬ portance to the Chinese that every one should have correct iaformatin avail¬ able at all times to so ordor bit life aa to avoid bad luck and calamity and *<curo good luck and prosperity. Consequent¬ ly, tho almanac is, perhaps, tho most universally circu ,ted book in Chino. Giving Away Japanese Children. But tho queerest cu-tom ia Japan, any* the Omaha Bee, nud one that is not generally known i* tho interchange of boys. Mr. Kawakurs has a boy and to show his appreciation of his hiend’ kindness gives him this child. The coy is formally adopted in his new lami.y and asumes all the right snd title belonging to it. Ho becomes to¬ tally alienated from his real parents snd is diiowned by them. Now, M . I way a, who has two sons, bears of K wakurs’s generosity und, not to uooutdone, sends him one of his boys. Kiwakura accepts this present with thanks and young Iw«ya bears that name no longer, but enter* at once as the heir to Kiwakura’s namo and prop¬ erty. This struuga procredi ig is carried on among all classes. The ubiVj i,aaol in-tance in which the name* are not changed came under the w iter’s obier- vution. But another hi;h < ffi ial, Mr. Mut-u Nuo, once sail that nedil not tutu it that his youngest son, a child of eight year*, wn of much account, hot .cj he had given him to a jtimkiffta coolie. A roliceman Crusliod There was a jam of peoplo at the cor¬ ner oi King and Yonge streets, and the crossings were blocked t.y street cars. A policeman who lud not taken carclul st> c c of tlxo situation lifts J. up his voice and shouto I, “Aluvo oa P' A cjtizm with a better knowUdqa of the po-ition suggested that the officer should order the horse* to move on. “And what would wo do with jack¬ asses!” queried the cop. “You could make policemen of them,” replied the citizen. Tho crowd laugh d loudly, ths ctp looked surprised and a little grieved, and dropped bis head to think and did not come out of hi* meditation until ths cars and tbo crowd had moved on of their own accord. —[Toronto Globe, VOL. IV. NO. 5. Mndy of nn Old (Janie*. Bubble t ko th" hollyhocks liuiHed, burst, and flaunted wide, Gypey beauty from their stocks; Morning glories, bubble dyed, Kvrung iu honey hearted fl )*Us. Towny tiger lilies flung Doublet, sloshed with crimson «•< Graceful girl *lnv*s. fair an 1 yonng. Like Circa,»lM?« in the sun Alabaster lilies swung. Ah, the dr. nlng of the Ism I n 1 is dusty pantaloons, Tumbling in the fleurs de Ik; In the drowsy afternoons Dreaming in tho pink sweet pea. Ah. the moaning wild wood dove. With ita throat of amethyst Rofll -.1 like a hhiniug «>ve Wnich a wind to pearl hath hirstH, Moaning, moaning of its love. And the insects' gossip thin. From the summer hotne-skld, In the leafy shadows erevn; Then at eve the kalyd d, With i s hard, unvaried din. Often from the whisperin'? hi’ls, Lorn within the gold, n dusk— Gold with gold of daffodil*— Thrilled into the gard e’s musk The wild wad of whippoorwills. From tho purple tangled tree*, Like the wbi.e, full heart of night, Solemn with majestic peace, Swum the big moon, veined wi h light. Like some gorgeous g< Men fleece. -IM .disun Car vela. UUMURUUH Brothrea of the cloth—tailor*. Tho block head i* of a woodon lram« of miad. Clothes do not mike the man, but hi* wife’s often break hitn. The ru ing passion ia said to be very strong in tho Czar of Russia. It isn’t so much a man's constitution as his bile laws that arc iairinged by malaria. Lemon juice i* cordially recommended for ono kind of felon, the penitentiary for tho other. A Cincinnati hoy gnv* tho following description of hiving a tO'.tlt | ulled: “Just before it killed me tho tooth enmo out.” Foggs: Just look at that absnrd hat! Why it’s as tall as a steople! Bigg*: Whit’s odd about that? Isn’t there a belle under it? Other thing* havo been aettloi by scientific research, but no ono yet ha* ever been able accurately to determine wiicthor or not a big man suffer* more th tn a small man when ho ha* tho rheu- metis tn. ___“Ilush I” he wispored, with a warn- ing gesturo. “Isa’t that tho night watchman’s raltlo?’’ “No, Mr. Satnp- son, rcplied the girl, suppressing a yawn, “that is th* cook griuding tho coffra for breakfast.” Mias Ethel—Did you havo a pleasant time at the Wabash party last niffit, C ara? Miss Clara—Not very, Ethol; l —asn’t feeling at all like my u-ual lelf. I dancod but fourtimos, and only went into supper once.” Hunting With Dogs. AH hounds, save the greyhoutd, ran entirely by sernt. When they coma upon tho faint scent of a track they will work along it until it grows fresher, and then Login to bay or “givu tongue.’’ There is always a correspondence be¬ tween tho baying and tho trail. An ex¬ perienced hunter can tell by the baying not only where the dog is, but, by tho frequency and confiJcnco of tho sound, how Irohli the trail is- that is, how close upon his gomo the dog is. All hunted animals have a way of doubling, or rtianiag in circle'. Hance, if a hunter observe* by tho baying that his dog ia going away from hint, he waits patient¬ ly, sometimes for n.irates, sometimes for hours, until tho circle i* made aud ho hears tho dog approaching. The i he is on the alert lor a shot lor tho game is probab y not mauy rods in adyauea ef tba dog. A bound is seldom lost Ili* nos# is his compass, Whenever bo please*, ha can take up bis master’s track and find him, or ho can retrace his own steps homeward. Dogs do not socrato enjoy those odors that please u*. A dog will tur i aw y disappointed and iadifforort lrom th* Baeat of perfume*. Except the scent ot those things waich howou'.d lik'to cat I havj never found nuytbi g that seemed to delight a (log's buns* of smell.—[St. Nicholas. Singular Coincidence. Tho day the disastrous conflagration occurred, E. J. 8 vier, one of tho had¬ ing insurance agents in the city, rtedved a letter from quo oL his companies in, which they suggostod that he was carry- ing perhaps too n uch imnrauca in the G iffi -Caldwell block. That night ho answered tho letter, and wrote that ho considered it one ot tha safest ri*k» in the city ; that the building was *o con¬ structed that even if a fire started id any oao section it could notspros i. Ho tralcd tho letter, and, just tub* hied ad it to his brother to mail, the fire ahem sounded. IIo ran out and saw ths block in flames at tho very point ha-had £5 writtsu about.—[Chattanooga (Te Times,