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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1892)
PRECIOUS STONES. Enormous Capital is Invested in Their Production. Little Mining for Gems in the United States. From tho customs import list, after deducting the approximate value of cut stones, other than diamonds, we find, says George F. Kunz in the En gineering and Mining Journal, that import duty was paid on about $120, 000,000 worth of cut diamonds in the last 24 years, of which $90,000,000 worth were imported during the last 12 years. In 18C8 $1,000,000 worth were imported and about $1,200,000 in 1867, but about $11,000,000 worth in 1888, and in 1889, about $13,000, 000, or 10 to 12 times as man? as 20 years previous, showing the increase of wealth anil the great popularity of tho diamond among Americans, the previous figures representing the im port prices, exclusive of mounting or dealers’ profits, and no account taken of those smug . led. Tho probable value of all the dia monds in tho world is estimated at over one billion dollars. The entire diamond trade is carried on by 8000 dealers, with a total stock of not far from $350,000,000. These stones are prepared for market by perhaps 4500 cutters and polishers, principally in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, the Jura Mountains and the United States. A limited amount of cutting is also done in England. About 200 men cut dia monds in tho United States. The diamond-cutting industry is develop ing rapidly in this country. In New York there are sixteen firms engaged in cutting anil recutting diamonds, and in Massachusetts there are three. Cutting lias also been carried on at times in Pennsylvania and Illinois, but has been discontinued. Forty million carats of diamonds, weighing over nine tons, have been found in South Africa. In the rough their aggregate value was $250,000, 000, which is more than tho entire diamond yield of the world during the past two centuries. Of the whole production perhaps 8 per cent, are of first water, 12 per cent, of the second, and 25 per cent, of the third, while the remaining 45 percent, is known as bort. Up to the present timo there has been very little mining for precious •tones in the United States, and this only at irregular intervals. It has been carried on during the past few years at Paris, Me.; near Los Cer rillos, N. M.; in Alexander county, N. C., from 1881 until 1888, and on the Missouri river, near Helena, Mont., since the beginning of 1890. True beryls and garnets have been found frequently as a by-product in the min ing of mica, especially iu Virginia and North Carolina. A very limited number of diamonds have been found in the United States. They aro met with in well-defined districts of California, North Carolina, Georgia, and recently in Wisconsin, but up to the present tirno the discoveries have been rare and purely accidental. As to sapphires, none of the fine blue color have been found. The same fac^ is true of rubies of fine red color. The only locality which has been at all prolific is the placer ground between Ruby and Eldorado bars, on the Mis souri river, 16 miles east of Helena, Mon. Here sapphires are found i n glacial auriforous gravels while sluic ing for gold, and until now have been considered only a by-product. The colors of the gems obtained, although beautiful and interesting, are not the standard bine or red shades popular with tho public. The emerald has been miued to some extent at Stony Point, in Alexender county, N. C., and has also been obtained at two other places in tho country. Tur quoise, which was worked by the Az tecs before tho advent of the Spaniards, and since then by the Pueblo Indians, and largely used by them for orna ment and as an article of exchange, is mow systematically mined near Los Ccrillos, N. M. Agitator— I tell you this eight-hour 3ay is going to do a lot of good to the mass of employed people. By tho way, Sarah, is supper ready? Agita tor’s Wife—No, my eight hours was up at 5.SO today. Shooting an Alligator. The oars were stopped, resting in the water; the skiff half turned, drift ing in the sluggish tide; the long beam of the lantern, with its oral disk of dim light resting far out on the surface, 6\vept slowly around oyer the waters looking for the two lost lights. Tea minutes or more thus passed, and suddenly the two lost sparks gleamed back in a new direction. A gentle, noiseless push on the port oar headed the skiff toward them again. “ Douceincnt!” whis pered Paul. Jlis associate, still more gently, guided the boat to the left, till only one light shone from the obscure object in the water. This showed that he had got on its side, as was desired, because a forward shot al ways glances. Cautiously tho silent oarsman again turned his craft to the right. Paul raised his long riflo ready to fire. The disk of the lantern on the water, contracting gradually, grew proportionately more brilliant. As it contracted the solitary light shining back on the water from its centre became larger and brighter, till at last the eye of the great saurian glittered as if he had the “Koh-i-noor” itself in his head. Slowly, silently, nearer the boat moved, till within ten yards of the reptile. The glow of the lantern Hashed along the barrel of the rifle f5r a few seconds; then came the ringing report. The light on the water instantly went out, and the glow of the lantern, now shining in a circle only a few feet in diameter over the place it disappeared, showed only a few foamy bubbles and little whirlpools. Thirty seconds passed in silence; then an immense dark form bounded from the depths below above the surface of the water, and,rolling over on its back, showed the broad, yellow-white body of an enor mous alligator. The shuddering reptile remained otherwise motionless for a few minutes; then spasmodically stretching and stiffening its ugly legs and feet, and leaping half its length in the air, fell back again, beating the water with its tail in blows sound ing as loud as the report of the weap on which had slain him. “Moi tue li,” mattered Paul in an accent of quiet triumph. His associate, after a few exclamations of more voluable admiration, rolled another cigarette, and quietly turned his boat off in search of other game. In a few hours of this hunting five alligators were shot. — [The Century. Rhymeless Mortis. There are in the English language a number of words which have always been the despair of would-be poets who desire to put their fanciful or romantic or pathetic ideas into rhyme. gy hen a poet writes .. with .. that . sublime ... disregard . of , rhyme , and , meter which , . , characterizes . 4 Walt ,, Wl Whitman .. he , is . not , troubled . with ... the ...... limitation of , making the end of one line resemble ., in . sound , .. the end . of , another, ,, , but . rhvme . , has about .... it something ... so attractive .. to . .. tho ordtnary ear, at .... least m English, -p ..... that . it .. will ... probably ... continue . to , be in use always. Among the Lath, poets of the classical . the .. age, on contrary, a rhyme was deemed a blemish, and we can imagine Horace or Virgil or Mar tial struggling as hard to avoid a rhyme as some of our poets have to do to find one. Some of the rhy melcss words ill Euglish will occur to any one at once. A word, for instance, like “cusp” carrics its own condemnation for ill)tiling uses, for the sound is an un usual one, and it is no wonder that it lias not been duplicated. “Culm is another obviously hopeless word, and “gull is still another. There are, in all, nineteen woids which have been declined unrhymablo by competent authority, no less a rhymester than Tom llocd, and the list is as follows: Bilge, chimney, coif, crimson, culm, cusp, fugue, gulf, have, microcosm, mouth, oblige, orange, rhomb, scarce, scarf, silver, widow and window. [San I rancisco Chronicle. A Remarkable Flower. A wonderful flower has been dis covered on the Isthmus of Tehuante pec which changes its colors at dificrent periods during the day. In the morning it is white, when the sun is at its zenith it is red and at night it i« blue. The red, white and blue flower grows on a tree about the size of a guava tree, and only at noon does it give out any perfume. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS Electric headlights of 2500 candle power are in use on the railroads*- in Indiana. One dollar a minute is the charge for using the telephone line from Lon don, England, to Faria, France. A packing paper impermeable to water cau be made as follows: Take unsized paper and coat it with an aqueous solution of dextrine. When dry apply a layer of siccative oil paint. A peculiar mineral has been found in Montaua. When taken from the ground it has much the appearance of iroii ore, but upon being exposed to the air it takes fire and consumes it self. Sheep have two teeth in the center of the jaw at one year, and add two each year until five years old, when they have a “ full mouth.” After that time the age cannot be told by the teeth. It is a remarkable fact in natural history that every race, whether of man or beast, and everything that has life which grows in or from the ground, is distinguished by its own peculiar and individual odor, A French scientist has invented a practical machine for adding columns of figures. It is expected to be a great boon to bookkeepers, for, ac cording to all accounts, it is simply constructed and can be easily used. Anew’ fire extinguisher is composed of a mixture of water and liquor car bonic acid gas, which upon being dis charged through pipes at high pressure, causes .he rapid expansion of the gas, converting the mixture into a spray more or less frozen. Blinders on horses are now made of a rubber moulded in imitation of the leather article, even the fine row of stitching appearing around the edge of the leather blinders being imitated. They are found to be much cheaper than the ordinary sewed-lcather blinders. It now requires but thirteen pounds of water converted into steam with a pressure of 175 to 200 pounds in the boiler to secur one horse-power with a triple expansion engine. By the use of one-third more coal the press ure in the boiler and the horse-power cau be doubled. In selecting strong lumber weight has very little consideration. Only a man with experience can cull tho good from the bad timber with almost an infallible judgment, and probably without the ability to tell why he make8 lhe 8election> Color ha8 littlo to do with it> weight B0Jtte thing, timber g niore Ti It is . computed ,,,,,, by leading physiolo- ... gists . that, , since one-third of „ second a suffices „ produce to an impression upon the , , brain, . of , ... 100 of a man years age must have , collected ,, , on or in ..... his brain matter „ 9,467,280,000 _______ impressions. Or, ’ ’ ‘ again, . take oil one-tlnrd , . of the , time .. for _ sleep, and . we still find 6,811,520,- ’ ’ 900. _ This . would , . „ 3,15o,760,000 give ° W * ki “ B i-P'™ 10 " 8 on the man who lives to the age of fifty J I ea13, 0nIy a Spool of Thread . «. To make a 8pool of thread,” says ft maim£a cturer, “is a complicated process.” Only the very best Sea Island cottou can be used for this pur p 0Se . The cotton is taken in the raw state and torn all to pieces by a ma chine called a “breaker.” It then goe3 through several other machines, by which it is carefully combed and f rce( j f ro m impurities. A machine rftlled a ,. c ] ipper » then takes it up and twists it out into soft, white yarn, j^is j 8 carefully combed again and it ; g then taken into another department, where several small strands of this y ft |- u aro twisted into one fine one. Three of these are then twisted to g e ther and you then have six-cord thread, which, after it is bleached, is ready for the market. Another in teresting thing is the numbering of Die thread. Every lady knows the size of thread that she requires for doing a certain piece of work, but very few of them know how it came to be so numbered. When cotton thread was first made 840 yards of it weighed one pound. This was called No. 1 and if a pound oontained just twice this number of yards, it wo called No. 2, and so on.— [New York Tribune SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Electric elevators increase. There’s an electric hammer. Recent experiments have shown thas liquid oxygen is magnetic. Steam locomotives are to be tried on the Chicago (Ill.) street lines. The best isinglass dissolves completely in hot water, leaving no visible residuum. The jeweler has drills so small that they can bore a hole only one-t housandth of an inch in diameter through a pre cious stone. The globular brass lantern, hitherto in use for military service purposes, is to be superceded by a folding lantern for use in tents. There is a new sanitarium in the Rivi era of Italy for the inhalation of ozone for the cure of most weaknesses,particu larly tuberculosis. The best material for hardening and tempering nialleab'e iron and steel goods is said to be leather cinders, made by burning waste leather. Children are not numerous in France. Out of 10,000,000 families in the Re public one-fifth have no children at ail and another fifth have one child each. The star Sirius, which is shown to be about double the size of our sun, emits from forty to sixty fold more light than the sun, owing to its matter being much more diffused. Recent explorations in the district of Sonora, Mexico, show that tfie coal de posits in the San Marcial Valley will amount to fully 60,000,000,000 tons and it is of excellent quality. Dr. Koch’s lymph, according to the results of the experiments communicated to the last meeting of the Berlin (Ger many) Society for Internal Medicme, seems to have proved untrustwoitv, even as a means of diagnosis for tuberculosis. A French inventor has attached a tiny incandescent lamp to an ordinary pencil for use by reporters and others having to take notes at night. Tiie light is not affected by rain or wind. Ttie battery is carried in the pocket, the wires pass ing down the sleeve. A novel method of testing the condition of a horse’s feet is to attach one termi nal of a light battery to the bit and the other to the shoe. If the foot is im properly penetrated by the nails the ani mal will squirm under the test, but will give no token if there is uo irritation. The natives of Madagascar formerly followed the moon in determining time, but since the influx of missionaries the Queen issued an edict that the Christian year should be followed. But in com mencing the year the first year the date of the first day was set some time iD October and November. The red color of the markings on Jupiter is believed by Mr. Barnard, the eminent astronomer, to be an indication of their age, the spots or markings (other than the white spots) being dark or black on first appearances, but afterward becoming red. The great red spot seems to be no exception to the rule. The success of the existing electric railway in London, England, has given an impetus to the movement lor loco motion of a similar kind. For considera tion during the forthcoming session of Parliament there aie no fewer than five bills which propose either the construc tion of new electric railways or the ex tension of lines already authorized. A Colorado man has devised an elec trical machine that successfully operates in placer deposits of gold that could not be profitably worked by the sluice methods. The method employed for saving the gold is that of collecting it by means of the electric current, so that it forms an amalgam from which the precious metal may be easily separated. An Ingenious Robber. Kuhn, the great German naturalist, informs that in the year 1799 some monks who kept bees observing that they made unusual noise lifted up the hive, when an animal flew out, which to their great surprise—for they at first took it to be a bat—proved to be a death’s head hawk moth, and he re nem hers that several, some years before, had been found dead in the bee houses. Huber also, in 1804, discovered that it made its way into his hives and those of his vicinity and robbed them of their honey. In Africa, we are told, it has the same propensity, which the Hottentots observ ing, in order to monopolize the honey of the wild bees, have induced the colonists to believe that it inflicts a mortal wouud. This moth has the faculty of emitting a remarkable sound, which Huber sup poses may produce an effect on the bee* somewhat similar to that produced by ths voice of their queen. As soon as ut tered, this strikes them motionless, and then the moth is enabled to commit with impunity much devastation in the midst of myriads of armed bands.—Cassel’s Magazine. Singular Capture of a Swan. John Jordan brought a large white swan to Pendleton the other day, and tells a queer story as to how he got it. While near his house, on East Birch Creek, he saw some eagles chasing the swan in the air above him. The unfor tunate bird, in its anxiety to escape, flew directly over the young man’s head, and with a quick spring he managed to seize and bring it down, the disappointed eagles flying away—Portland Or egoniau. n r j; m mm V 7j V/ * 'J rmm I P Mr. George W. Hammond of Root Post, G. A. R., of Syracuse, N. Y., Terribly Wounded at Gettysburg And an Intense Sufferer until Cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla “C. I. Hood A Co., Lowell, 51 ass.: “I was in the Army of the Potomac, and at Gettys burg was struck in the ankle by a minuie ball, which smashed the bone. My leg was amputated In the Held hospital, and after a long time It heated. I was discharged and went home. After 8 years My Wound Broke Open afresh. Dr. Pease amputated an Inch of the bone, and It healed. Four years later It once more opened, and for eight years HOW I SUFFERED ! 1 do not believe It possible for a human belug tosuffei worse agony. During this time I had to go on crutches, being unable to wear a wooden leg. Whenever possible 1 relieved my sufferings by tak ing opiate, but when I was obliged to go without It, 1 suffered fearfully and thought I SHOULD GO CRAZY. I tried every thing I could get with my limited means. Physicians said 1 would never b« any better. Finally my Blood Became Poisoned and it broke out all over my face and on some parti of my body so that my face is all covered with scars now. One day I read of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, bought a bottle and began taking it. A week or two later, my wife In dressing my leg, said it seemed to be improving, and after taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla a few months, thank God (and I say it reverently), the sores all over my body had healed, and now, four years later, have never shown tiny signs ol reappearing.” Geo. M. Hammond, 219 Magnolia Street, Syracuse, N. Y. Col. C. A. Weaver Commander of Root Post, G. A. R., himself a one armed veteran, fully confirms Mr. Hammond’s state ment, and J. L. Belden.the pharmacist, also endorsei It as perfectly true. Hood’s Pills cure Sick Headache. CHILD BIRTH • • • MADE EASY! “ Mothers’ Friend ” is a scientific ally prepared Liniment, every ingre dient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical pro fession. 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