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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1889)
' PAY of ROYALTY. What Europe’s Sovereigns Get from Their Subjects. Enormous Sums Required For Them Every Year. The people of the United States have, g* nerally speaking, but a vaguo idea of ffbat it annually costs the people of Europe to maintain their respective sov ereigns. The German Emperor heads the list with a yeany stipend of $8,400 >■ ■000 which means, in other words, that ■every man, woman and child of the 47, 000,000 of Germans who inhabit the Fatherland n--;st pay an annual tribute of about 18 cents to sustain the dignity of the imperial crown. The czar of Russia comes next, with a civil list of $7 320,000, or a head taxation of nearly nine cents for each one of his 87,000, 000 of subjects. The Emperor of Austria, who rules over 41,900, 000 of people, occupies the third place, with an annual income of $4,600,000 raised by means of an in dividual personal taxation of 57 cents, for which every inhabitant of the Austro-Hungarian empire is bound to pay to assure the personal comfort of the Emperor and the well-being of the imperial family. Queen Victoria receives from the 37, >000,000 of people which comprise the population of the United Kingdom a royal tribute of $3,600,000, that is to say, that every member of the English, Scotch and Irish families must con tribute to the support of Her Majesty and to that of her offspring to the amount of 10 cents per head. With a population of 29,000,000 Italy favors King Umberto with a civil list which was raised last year to $3,000,000, or a little more than ten cents for each individual. Spain, whose population is about 16,000,000, pays her baby king $1,800,000 a year, or an average of over 11 conts per head. Considering that in all these coun tries, monarchy is more or less heredi tary, such facts and figures speak vol umes and cannot fail to bring home to the mind of the reader a forcible com parison between the republican and monarchial forms of government. Barring out Queen Victoria, who is 70 years of age, the majority of the crowned heads of Europe are compara tively young, and may be expected to enjoy for many years to come the gener ous support provided for them by their subjects. Wilhelm H., the present Em peror of Germany, is only 29 years old, but promises to be a spendthrift, as in less than half a year he has gone through a large amount of his yearly income. Alexander HI., the Czar of Russia, is 44 years old, aud ascended tho throne seven years ago, after the murder of Alexander II., his father. He lives be yond his income. Franz Josef, the Emperor of Austria, is 58 years old, and during the forty years in which he has worn the impe rial crown has doubled his private debt. King Umberto of Italy is 47 years °W. He has occupied the throne for fourteen years, and, at this hour, is "-aic to he in debc to the amount of twenty five million francs. Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of Turkey, is 46 years old. He was called to power twelve years ago. As to his revenues an d expenditures, they can only be sur ged, but are known to be enormous. Louis I. of Portugal is 50 years of age, and during the twenty years which he has reigned in the little kingdom he fit! never ceased plaguing the bankers of both Lisbon and Paris for more funds. King Oscar of Sweden and Norway is in his 60th year, and although ho has been a king for over seventeen years he is not known to have contracted ftny debts. The same may be said of King George of Greece, who is now 48 years °ld and has reigned for over twenty-five years. ■Alexander Obrenovik, son of cx-King Milan and present Kiug of Servia, who is only 14, a nd the little Alfonso Spain, who is not yet 4 years of age, arc, in the order of things, the last on list of European sovereigns whose costly Maintenance seems an anomaly at the en d of the nineteenth century.— Mail an d Express. The soprano gently laid her head on basso’s shoulder and went to sleep and was immediately put out for nap piug on Becond busa. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. Old Hyiu–A Complaint is some imes made that some of the hymns and Gospel songs of today lack the spirituality and deep re ligious sentiment that should character ize songs of worship, and that did mark many of the old hymns written by Doctor Watts and others. While it is true that some of the most tender ar.l beautiful hymns in all our hymnody were written by these old writers, others are subject to the objections made to many of our modern songs. A contributor to the Christian Union, writing on this subject, quotes some of the quaint old hymns which, to the present generation at all events, are not calculated to arouse religious feelings. Among them is ono beginning, “Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker’s praises shout; Up from the sands, ye codlings, peej% And wag your tails about 1” It would be difficult for a congrega tion of today to sing this without smil ing, and the one that follows is almost as amusing: “The race is not forever got* By him who fastest runs, Nor the battle by the people, Who shoot the longest guns." A Northern clergyman, during the civil War, used to say that never until then had he found occasion or justifica tion for his personal employment of David’s imprecatory psalms; a sentiment which whs no doubt reciprocated on the other side. The fathers, however, sang without demur: “Why dost Thou hold Thine hand aback, And hide it in Thy lap? O pluck it out, and be not slack To give Thy foes a rap!” There seemed to be little provocative to devoutness, even though in form Scriptural, in the paraphrase of the One hundred-and-thirty-third Psalm: “’Tis like the precious ointment Down Aaron’s beard did go; Down Aaron’s beard it downward His garment skirts unto.” But who is there who has not at some time had his heart touched and been thrilled by such old hymns as “When I can Read my Title Clear,” “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?” “Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove,” or “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross?”— Youth's Compan ion. The Most Famous of Evangelists. Almost every noon the crowd of young and old men who hurry into Kinsley’s for a rapid lunch is joined by a short, stout man with a stubbly beard, short little nose and small twinkling eyes. He invariably wears a soft felt hat pushed well forward over his eyes, and he has the general appearance of a shrewd and prosperous salesman in some wholesale jobbing house. He used to be this, and was in the boot and shoe line until he became converted. Now he is known far and wide as Dwight L. Moody, the Evangelist. No one who did not know the man would suspect him of being an evangelist on seeing him about town. It is on the to strum where his force, fire and magnetism crop out. But he always appears dread fully in earnest, whether ordering a plate of corned-beef or appealing to sinners for repentance. His earnestness is his success. The other clay he stood in the hallw'ay aud chatted earnestly for some time with a well-known business man. A day or two later it was an nounced that Moody had purchased the site for a school, and the well-known business man’s name was mentioned among those who contributed the neccs sary funds. Moody did it with his little earnestness. — Chicago Herald. Economy of “Old Ilnteli.” It is said that the day ‘ ‘Old Hutch” of Chicago made $1,000,000 on wheat lie entered a Chicago barber shop and asked for a shave, This was a few hours before he made the $1,000,000. Before tho barber administered the lather, “Hutch” asked what tho tax w r as to be. The harbor replied that the price was 15 cents, ( t Hutch” said 15 cents was too much, but that ho would give 10. The barber refused to be knocked down, 60 “Hutch” went across the street and got shaved for a dime. Thus encouraged, he went abroad in the marketplace and shaved wheat until he made $1,000,000. He is the king of financial razors. —Boston Globe. Fixed on Higher Things. “Wife, you are too vain about that dress, You should fix your mind on something higher.” “I have dear—on a fifty dollar bon« net I saw in a window today.” A CHINESE PLAY. Queer Performance of a Celestial Company in Chicago. Outlandish Music, Odd Stage Settings, Sing Sing Actors. A. cold collation of delirium tremens, acute mania, late-dinner nightmare, and insomnia was served at the Madison 8treet theater last night, says a recent issuo of the Chicago News. A Chinese dramatic company was on the boards, Chinese playing is like Chinese pictures on Chinese fans. Nothing is like it on the earth or above it and bad peoplo hope it cannot be produced under tho earth. The company is from Portland, Ore gon, and many of the costumes arc elaborately elaborate and doubtless very expensive. The stage settings were a queer mixture of costly fabrics and empty mackerel kegs. No scene-shift iug occurs. The stage carpenter brings in or removes the settings in full view of the audience. The orchestra occu pie* tho rear part of the narrow stage and the players enter or retire on either vide. Tho entrance and exit are the width of an ordinary door and are closed by portieres of heavy silk, ex quisitely embroidered in gold, rich bright colors, and spangles. The fig ures are of the fanciful, acute-delirium style. Nearly all the players enter by the left stage door and retire by the right. In the center of the stage and in front of the orchestra are three chairs covered with rich-colored fabrics and half a dozen clumsy pine chairs whose backs are as straight as a yard-stick and at right angles to the seats. The orchestra consists of about a doz en instruments. A white-faced celestial pounds alternately on a frying-pan stretched over an empty fish-barrel, which stands on a candle-box, and a round brass concern fastened to a pine post. Neither instrument has a particle of resonance—the one making a noise more nearly like a cracked cow-bell than anything else, and the other re sembling the rattle of half a dozen pairs of boQjss. Tim operator pounded on his instruments with pine sticks the size of drumsticks and half as long. Next the white-faced son of Pandemonium was Pandemonium himself. He pounded with something like a base drumstick ^ a brass gong the size of a wash tub. The gong was suspended by a string, and its resonance was deafening, The operator sat cross-legged and with out shoes on a stiff-backed chair and welted tho gong for all he was worth. The next musician played a squeaky vio lin ora pair of cymbals as big as a wagon wheel. Two other players operated on a long-necked, high-pitchad mandolin and a banjo the size of a dis’npan. When the gong man and the cymbal executor let looec the noise was diabolical, but fortunately it alternated with the saw filing of the fiddles. Some melody was perceptible, but it was repeated over and over. The musicians also paid some attention to time. The orchestra never ceassd itg strains; neither did the audience. Much of the speaking of the actors was in a sing-song tone, evidently a stagger at opera, and all the recitation was in a high key and in unnatural, rusty-hinge tones, the orchestra chipping in a ceaseless accom paniment low and soft or loud and fiendish as the spirit moved it. Two plays or fragments were put on the stage—one a comedy and the other a historical drama. Mr. Lee Kee of Port land attemptod to explain tho plays, but his grasp on the dictionary was light and some holes stuck out of his narrative. He said that the comedy was “The Old Turned Young,” or “Age Renewing Its Youth.” The action was slow, and largely in pantomime. The score or two of Americans laughed and applau ded, but the 200 Chinese sat it through with scarce a smile. Ilip Lung, the merchant prince, and Moy Tung, with his wife, her sister and mother, occu pied the best box. Win Chung Iling and two Americans had the box above. La La, the Chinese doctor, with a little black mustache, was present and went behind the scenes occasionally. Moy Kee, with his Chinese wife, and Quong Lung Iling and family were present. A Place for Everything. Rejected Suitor: “Arabella, I am going to blow my brains out-” Arabella: “Reginald, please blow them out on the stoop; our car pat is hffl nd ww.” r~Epoch. Preparing Beets for Sugar-Making* The washing of the beet is a very im portant operation in the manufacture ol the sugar, for the roots are thus freed from mould, small stones, and other kinds of dirt attaching to them, which not only saves the machinery employed in the actual preparation of the beets from injury, but keeps the sugar ulti mately obtained free from impurity. With the mere washing of the beets the sugar manufacturer is not content; they are therefore freed from those parts which are poor in saccharine, damaged or otherwise undesirable, by a machine called a carousal. "Whoa cleaned, the beets are thrown from tho waslx-barrel into a hopper, from which they pass into an endless elevator which carries them to the top floor, where they are discharged into a large hopper. They then pass into a cage which will hold 1000 pounds of beets and, when this weight is indicated, the cage empties its load into the cutter or slicer. The cage and the indicator enable tho factory people to closely esti mate the amount of raw material used each day. It is also a check on every de partment. It will show any error that may arise in the receiving or shipping departments. The slicer is a round iron shaft, rotating hoiizontallv, and fitted with steel knives capable of slicing 400 tons of beets in 24 hours. The rotating knives, which descend upon the beets, cut them into thin slices, thus exposing the sugar-cells, which is an important factor in the diffusion system. The lower end of the cutter opens into a wooden trough about two feet square, on the bottom of which is an endless belt. As the sliced beets fall from the cutter, the belt carries them along to the diffusion tanks .—Popular Science Monthly. Cheap Railway Traveling. The Hungarian minister of commerce is about to put into practice a new sys tem of conducting the state railways by which fares are to be reduced to a point unheard of in any other country. The experiment is to be tried first on tho state line in Transylvania, which is 933 kilometers in length, or over 500 miles. The fare for the entire distance is now forty-one florins, or about $20, but it is intended to reduce this to $3. This great reduction hai been made from conclusions Lased upon the tariff on let ters and packages, and the rate chargel for human packages is to be graded in the same manner. It is confidently ex pected that the scheme will result in an immense augmentation of traffic and that under it one will be able to take a journe/ from one end of the Austrian empire to the other for no more than the ordinary cost of an afternoon drive. The City of Humanity. One of the most intere- /lug features of the Paris exhibition is Ifte City of Hu manity. It is a sort of history of human habitation, with illustrations, and re minds one of one’s juvenile days, when solemn facts of history were given to us embodied in a pretty little story. Here there is a goodly choice of every sort of house, if a very primitive cave and a roughly-made hut may be included in that term, together with a Phoenician house of 1000 years back and the villas of today. The refreshiug, though ex ceedingly modern, intelligence that beer may be had in the Phoenician house strikes one as a curious solecism. But the City of Humanity is exceedingly hu man in the way that it endeavors to cater for the needs of the inner man. Time is happily no longer separated; 809 and 1809 are brought equally close together by the coffee cup or the beer glass, the roll and butter or tehe biscuit. Building Nests on the Elevated Road Notwithstanding the continuous thun der on the elevated railroads in New York, the bold sparrows are busy build ing their nests between its crossbeams and roadway, right under the reverber ating trains. In that part of tho Ele vated Railroad nearest the Thirteenth Precinct Station, those birds are build ing by the hundred. When weary from work they come down to the fountain in front of the station, take a drink and – bath, and flock back to their labors re freshed. Safety Assured. Mr. Winks (solemnly) — “A noted physician says that deadly bacteria lurk in bank notes, and many diseases, espe ically small-pr>'., are spread this way.” Mrs. Winks—“Mercy on us! Give us all you have, right off. I’ve been vaccina od, you know .”—York Weekly. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. There is an increasing demand for th* standardizing of all electric light fit tings. Sweden and Norway are said to lead in progress made in telephonic commun ication. Comparisons between glass and mica show that even at high temperatures the latter is the better insulator. The French ship Davoust, 3027 tons, is intended to develop a speed of twent; knots, with 9000 horse power. Dr. Siemens vigorously opposes th* opinions lately expressed as to the inw perfect durability of cables laid in lea4 pipes armed with iron. In France they have lately succeeded, in duplicating Edison's experiments ifc repeating by a phonograph the word# emitted by the aid of a telephone. It has been suggested to abandon th# term candle power as being already meaningless and to substitute a standard affording us an expression for the lum inosity of radiation. One Dr. Thenius of Vienna has in vented a process by which he declares that good heavy sole leather can be made from the wood of old red beech trees, lie has applied for patents. It is claimed that where the eucalyptus tree is grown in large quantities entire immunity is obtained from mosquitoes, although the air may be thick with the insects at a comparatively short distance. The installation of the electric motor as a means of stationary power is becom ing more noticeable each year, and esti mates carefully made rate the number of those in use at the present time for driv ing machinery in the United States at between 6500 and 7000. It is alleged that almost all the tur quoises that have been sold during the past ten years have been cheap imita tions. They are said to have been man ufactured by a Persian syndicate, which has flooded the Nijni-Novgorod fairs with 100,000 of tho fraudulent stone3. According to a French astrouomer, the cooling of the terrestrial crust apparently goes on more rapidly under the sea than with a land surface. From this he argues that the crust must thicken under oceans at a much more rnpid rate, so as to give rise to a swell ing up and distortion of tho thinner portions of the crust that is forming mountain chains. Opium is got by cutting the capsule of the poppy flower with a notched iron instrument at sunrise, und by tho next morning a drop or two of juice has oozed out. This is scraped off and saved by the grower, and, after ho has a vessel full of it, it is strained and dried. It fakes a great many poppies to make a pound of opium, and it goes through a number of processes before it is ready for the market. In all cases rain is produced by tho cooling of tho air, stated Mr. II. F. Blanford in a recent lecture, and in nearly all, if not all, this cooling is produced by the expansion of the air in ascending from lower to higher levels in the atmosphere, by what is termed dynamic cooling. This last fact, which is now emphasized as it should be in some popular text-books, was originally suggested by Espy some forty years ago, but is only now generally recognized. Tin Coffee Pots Healthful. “Tin coffee pots are as healthful to use as silver, and they will last just as long,” said a workman in tin recently to a reporter for the New York Mail and Express. “How are these tin pota made?” asked th; reporter. “They put the tin on Russia iron. The way it is done is to take a sheet of Russia iron and dip it into red-hot tin. Upon this molten tin is a lot of tallow, which cleans the tin and gives it lustre. If it were not for this tallow the tin would be all full of little bunches. Very often wc find tho tin sheets very greasy when we get them. This comes from the tallow, Russia iron is the same material as is used for the body of a stove. This is usually triple-coated, sometimes more. The best tin is im ported. For some reason or other it cannot be made in this country. The Yankee tin made here is what we call cooked tin, and cheap articles are usu ally made with it, such as fivo-cent goods. Tin tea or coffee pots must be well dried after using, and kept very clean, and they will then be good for a number of years.
