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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1893)
Schley County News. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. Subscription, $1.00 a Year, in Advance. J. C. TIlfCE, Editor. AH waste paper in tho Department of State at Washington which is* of a private or diplomatic nature is burned in the open fireplace in Secretary Gresham’s own room. “a. Last year seventeen sunken rocks, hitherto uncharted, were discovered in various parts of the globo in the most convincing manner possible—by ships running on them. The German and Swiss governments have entered into an agreement for the improvement of the navigation of the upper Iuiiue, commencing from the Luke Constunce. The completion of the work as planned will take four teen years, and the outlay is estimated at $3,312,000. It is said that one in every six ot Hie women in India is a widow. There are in India 21,000,000 of wid ows, 78,976 of whom are child widows under 9 years of age, and 207,388 from 10 to 14 years of age. There are hun dreds of associations in the cities and towns of tho United States to aid in combating the evil of child marriage in Indi° Traveiers by rail in Russia art divided into three classes, civil, mili tary and convict, with tho further sub division of paving and non-paying. The total number of travelers, ac cording to the last annual report, was 43,000,000, Of these 92 per cent, were civil or ordinary passengers, seven per cent, were military, and more than one per cent, were convict. The paying passengers were 95 per cent, of the total number, and five per cent, were non-paying. The new English battle ship Magni ficent, the construction of which has begun at tbe Iloyal dockyards, will have a length of 396 feet and an ex treme breadth of 75 feet. It wili be the largest and most effectively armed vessel in tbe British navy. The arma ment will consist of four forty-six-tou breeoh-loading rifled cannon, forty quick-firing guns of various calibres and seven torpedo tubes. The engines, of 13,003 horse power, are expected to develop a speed of 18 knots. The majority of traveling men sleej head foremost ou a well-ballasted road and feet foremost on a road where the cars sometimes run on the track aud sometimes on the ties. It is much pleasanter to sleep head first, a* it were, because it prevents the swell-head feeling which results from too much blood being forced in the direction of the brain. Butin case of an accident it is very much pleasanter to sleep the other way. Nature did not provide the human neck with as many joints a9 that of a giraffe or ostrich, and whou a train suddenly comes to a standstill and the whole force of the collision comes on the top of the skull, the feeling is unpleasant. Ou tho other hand the knees have a tendency to “give” on the occasion of the collision, and hence, if a man is sleeping feet first he is less liable to accident if tho train stops suddenly. AH the cooking at a club-house in a Western city is done by electricity. The meats broiled by the process are jo quickly cooked, relates the New York Post, that there is little chance for them to lose either juice or flavor and for that reason they arc nearly perfect. All sorts of utensils and ap paratus are now manufactured for convenience in electric cooking, as the visitor to the Electric Building at tho World’s Fair will discover whon she sees the tea-kettles, coflee-pots, sauce pans, broilers and chafing dishes. The electric oven is an admirable in vention, fitted with a glass door that it | is unnecessary to open while the cook ing is in progress, and a thermometer that shows the exact degree of heat in use. The ovens do not heat the place where they are used, as they are of Russian iron lined with wood and ashes, thus preventing radiation. They are lighted by incandescent lamps, Electric flat-irons that one may iron with all day are also to bo had. Behring sea and Cook’s inlet are con sidered to be the futuro field for the salmon Industry. Twelve years ago one sailor in every 106 who wont <o sea lost his life; now only one in 256 is lost. The day of the diamond is always, but the opal is evidently about to have a little rim of its own. The stone once thought unlucky is now very fashionable, and perfect speci mens are advancing in price. The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin which shows that there arc forty-seven Chincso temples in the United iStctes, valued at $62,000, ! claiming 100,000 worshippers. Forty of these temples are in California, four in New York, two in Idaho and one in Oregon. It is announced that pearl fishing lias been carried on, successfully in Wisconsin, where pearls weighing over fifty grains each and varying in value from $500 to more than $1000 have been found. The fisheries are along tbe Peeotonica and Apple rivers and their tributary creeks. An enterprising individual who lives in Downing street, back of tho residence of Mr. Gladstone, says that it is the joy of bis life to see Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone at tea together, lie avers that they are as sociable as two lovers, but he assorts in unqualified terms that Mr. Gladstone appears to be the home ruler. Thoro have been heavy inroads on tbe United S ates public domain of lato, but the Government still owns nearly a billion acres—966,116,383, to be exact. Of this, however, 369,529, 600 acres arc in Alaska, and not like ly’ to be ever brought into use, certain ly not for many years to come, leav ing 576,587,783 available in tbe other States and Territories. The per capita of money in the United States, according to the statis tics of the Director of the Mint, is $25.17. The debt, less the sinking fund, is $12.12 per head. In Great Britain the per capita of money Is $18.60 and of national debt $87.79. These accounts vary from month to month and year to year, but the ratio continues about the same. It is proposed to redeem the pino barrens of Michigan, from which the timber has been removed, by sowing two plants, spurry and tho fiat pea. The first makes good feed for cattle and sheep, and its roots bind the earth and help to form a firm soil. It is thought that millions of acres in the Peninsula State, now utterly worth less, may thus be made to serve the uses of man. An English rain-maker, now oper ating in India, has an apparatus con sisting of a rocket capable of rising to the height of a mile, containing a res ervoir of ether. Iu its descent it opens a parachute, which causes it to come down slowly. Tho eiher is thrown out iu a fine spray, and its absorption of heat is said to lower the temperature about it sufficiently to condense the vapor aud produce a lim ited shower. An experiment in “telepathy” which is extremely interesting, and would furnish a great deal of atnusc meut at an evening enter tain men t, may easily be tried by a number of persons. One of the party is blind folded, and the others form a circle around him, in which ail stand with their hands joined. A card is se lected from a pack and placed where it may plainly be seeu by all but the person blindfolded. He is expected to maintain a perfectly passive state, while the attention of the others is fixed exclusively on the card. Aftc r a time the image of the object on tho card is “suggested to the mind” and named. In ono iustanco where this experiment was tried, tho ten of diamonds was on the curd selected, and the blindfolded person, being ignorant of the object decided upon, described ten real diamonds that be saw arranged as they wouid be upon the card. In bliudfolding the light may be entirely shut out from tbe eyes by folding kid gloves into pads to lay over them, and then binding with a handkerchief. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. Elder Blossoms. The attar of roses Is quaint and is rare, It pleases all noses, or ruddy, or fair; It Is the most regal of scents. But talk as you will. I’ll hold to it still, Tho you deem my perception is dense, There’s nothing so sweet as The wild elder blossoms That bloom by the old rail fence. The odor of musk is a scent of old time, A whiff in the dusk is a theme for a rhyme; ’Tig the perfume of all most intense. But a tig for the smell that nothing can quell! You’d wish it a mile or two hence If once you had scented The wild elder blossoms That bloom by the old rail fence. A violet scent is a scent that is neat, To use in one’s twenties an odor most meet A fragrance quite free from pretense. But leave it for maids to bind in their braids. And give me the rarest of scents, The breath of tbe blossoms The wild elder blossoms That bloom by the old rail fence. Their fragile white grace is like point de Venise; They drape the wood places with fragarnce and peace; A virgins charm they dispense. Like a lass of sixteen that no lover has seen, They spell you with bright innocence. In childhood they won me, The wild elder blossoms That bloom by the old rail fence. —[.Samuel M. Peck, In New York Indepeud" ent. WILL’S TRIUMPH. THE ST OH Y OK AN ENGAGEMENT. They met in the station, it was only by tbe careful disarray of their locks and their sketch-books that one could have told that they were art students. The tall, thin, dark girl—she was probably called willowy by her fel lows, and believed herself like one of Burne Jones’s women—greeted the one with masses of red—now called Titian gold—hair with effusion. “You dear thing,” she cried, “it was so lovely of you to ask me to go up to that quaint old place with you, and so awfully good of you to say you’d tell me all about your engage ment on the way ! It was such a sur pt'ise ! \ou always said, you know, that you and he were just thoroughly good friends! But I am just as glad— and he’s lovely! But do tell me how in tlie W0lld evcr Opened to [happen!” The girl with Titian red hair smiled : demurely and fastened a slippery hair pin more securely as they boarded the train. “Yes, I know,” she admitted. “I always diet say we were just friends, and I meant it. He was just like one the girls, only more useful iu the wa y carrying things and scaring off tramps and cows and paying fares, ^ ut people began to talk. Ion know how they always do. 3 he girls smiled whenever they saw us, and the gossips used to ask me when it would be out. It made me awfully mad. People are so unjust!” “I know it,” chimed in the willowy girl, with a tinge of personal suffer ing in her voice, “There was Dick Jones, and you know how they talked until they drove the poor fellow Well, goon!” i * Yes, dear,” hastily began the hero ine, with evident desire not to be made a listener, “And you tell me about Dick afterwards. It was this way. Will asked me to go down to a place ou Long Island sketching the other afternoon. I said I would. Well, mamma began in the morning and asked mo if 1 knew what I was doing. And 1 told her that things bad changed since she was a girl, and that women thought of other things than eirfier flirting or matrimony, and that they could have beautiful, idyllic friendships with men without any nonsense. “Then she Bnid that if things had changed men hadn’t, and that W ill was certainly iu lovo with mo, and that if 1 didn’t want him to be 1 bad better stop going around with him. I got awfully cross and was in a per foct rage by the time W ill came. Any one wquld have been.” “Of course,” murmured the Burne Jones girl, sympathetically. “Well, 1 didn’t have any pocket, so when we got down there I asked 1\ ill, as usual, to carry my belongings—my purse and gloves. 1 was so annoyed that l couldn’t work, and 1 began to g e t terribly worried when I saw W ill looking at me with a strange sort of !ook. I began to tremble, It would ho so ignominious to have to ero home and own to my mother that men hadu’b changed I 1 felt X would hate him if ho proved me wrong.” “I should think so ’ r said her com r panion emphatically. “Well, Luella, that’s just what lie did! lie went and proposed! And I was so angry—I didn’t feol sorry the way you usually do, and I didn’t say a word about sisterly feeling. 1 didn't care a snap about his blighted life. I only know that ho was horrid, and I delivered a regular harangue on the mean way men led ono to believe them friends and then spoiled every thing by revealing their innate selfish ness. “Will is fairly quick-tempered. So he said he would leave me at once, that I might devote myself to art, un hampered. I told him to go if he wished to. And he went. “Luella, I sat there and drew at that ridiculous old deserted house and looked at the blue sea and felt how you couldn’t put your trust in any one for an hour. Then I tore up my drawing, shook myself out and pre pared for a tramp across the dusty, empty road to the little station. I had neither a watch nor a time-table, and the uncertainty was vexing. Then I suddenly remembered that Will had my purse. “My dear, I tore, I rnced along over that hot road. I got to the sta tion. The ticket-seller's window was closed! I consulted the framed time tables on the wall. Will had caught the train an hour and twenty minutes before. There was another one to wards the city in two hours and thirteen minutes. Meantime not even a place to send a C. O. D. telegram to my family. Think of it!” “You poor thing I” “I sat down and cried. I said if only Will would come back I would do anything be wanted. I bated my self. I think that it was after an hour of that sort of enlivening thing that a train from the city crawled along. The ticket-master bustled In. And a man got out and was flying past me on the platform—a man with his face horrified and his hair wet and a girl’s pocket-book and gloves in his hand. And somehow, Luella, when I flung myself at him, laughing and crying all together—well, the only thing to do was to get engaged, wasn’t it?” And Lueua agreed that that was the only thing to do.— [New York World. The Cat Motor. “I had a large cork and bung fac tory in Grand avenue, and I needed power to run my machinery. You know, of course, that there is an im mense amount of stored-up electricity in a cat The jM-oblem for invoutors has been to invent a way to extract it profitably. Iu the rear of my factory I constructed a one-story circular building, sotno sixty feet in diameter. On the floor of this I coiled a glass pipe six inches in diameter. The first coil ran around tbe outside of tbe room, tbe coiis gradually growing smaller, till the last, in tbe centre,was no larger than this table. It gave me something like a mile of pipe. The top and sides of this pipe were lined with rather stiff hair brushes, the bristles being a Little more than an inch in length. “At that time Milwaukee was over run with cats. It was impossible to sleop nights. 1 put a notice in the paper that I would pay 10 ccu(9 a dozen for prime cats, delivered at my factory. I got sixty dozen the first day, and stored them in the basement of the power-house. The motor oper ated thus: Placing in the outer end of the glass pipe an imitation rat, mado of rubber and propelled by a small interior storage battery, I would thou adjust a cat immediately behind it. The rubber rat would start off at a ter rific rate—it was made to go through the mile of tubing in from two to three minutes—and the cat, of course, followed furiously, thinking to catch the supposed animal throughout the entire distance. Gentlemen, it was exciting to watch a healthy, active cat whip about those spirals, with tho me chanical rat about a foot ahead, and going like a cannon-ball. The cat’s bacK and sides rubbed against the brushes, and her electricity was thus extracted. With a storage battery and by sending a cat through every live minutes, I generated enough elec tricity to operate my entire plant, light my factory, and sell power to run neighboring passenger elevators unci small' machinery.. It aleo book the yowl out of the cats,. and grad ually the city beoamo quiet. At the eml of a week u cat could be (taught and used again.”'—[Harper’s Weekly. A Sermon Heard For Eighty Miles. Tho Rev. George N. Howard, L). ])., of Lowell, whom I met lo this city the other evening, had an unique ex perience two years ago, when he was a delegate from this State to the Na tional Convention of the Sons of Vet erans. New England sent a large delegation to Minneapolis. The dele gates traveled in two special cars and made a very jplly party.. Sunday found tho purty on the road,, and. it was suggested by some one tliat it would bo a proper thing to hold some kind of a religious service.. The mat ter was brought to Mr. Howard’s no tice, and he immediately approved of it. An- extemporaneous choir was or ganized, and one of the musicians of the party took his situation at the piuuo in one of the cars. The occu pants of the other car were notified of what was about to take place, and by the time that everything was in readi ness the car that had been chosen as a chapel was filled to the doors. The train hands and even the poriers took their places among the rest. The service was an interesting one, and Mr. Howard preached an eloquent ser mon. From the time he began to speak till the time he had finished the train had made a run of over eighty miles. From that day to tho present Mr. Howard bus claimed to be the only living clergyman who h»9 preached a sermon that was heard for eighty miles, and his friends are fond of referring to him as the ‘‘champion long-distance preacher of America.”— [Boston Globe. A Feat In Carving. In all branches of sport beating the previous record is a performance of almost every day occurrence, and no matter how excellent the achievement, it is not likely to remain long unchal lenged and unconquered. The estab lishment of a new kind ot record, al though not strictly within the realms of actual sport, cannot therefore fail to interest that large class of specu lators who are ever ready to discover something new on which to stake their spare cash. A wealthy young Cubau recently made a bet with the carver of one of the leading night restaurants on the Boulevard—the wager being for 200 francs that the latter would not cut and make 2000 completo sand wiches in twenty-four hours. The carver won the bet easily, accomplish ing the feat in nineteen hours and forty minutes, demolishing twenty two hams in the operation. This huge mas3 of sandwiches was divided among principal hospitals of Paris and the environs, among whose inmates the unexpecied advent of such tasty morsels created unfeigned delight. Paris Letter. Has Invented an Electric Clock. E. T. Evans, a jeweler iu Golden, Col., after nine years’ hard work and constant study, has invented a clock which has electricity for its motive power. It is the only actual electric clock that lias ever been produced with electricity for a motive power. This clock in question has neither weight nor spring, but consists only of three wheels, a pendulum, two electric magnets and a battery. Unlike any other clock the motive power is not transmitted to the train blit to the pendulum and only enough power is required to overcome the lost motion of the pendulum. Tho two electro magnets are arranged similar to ■ motor. In starting the pendulum connection is formed on ono side and at a certain angle is automatically cut off ngain, the pendulum swinging back of its own gravity, and as it passes tho centre of gravity it makes connec tion again on tho other 6ide, and when it reaches tbe same angle the current is cut off. The line of contact at each swiug of the pendulum is just long enough to give sufficient force to over come the lost motion, One tooth marks the revolution every minute and by a very simple device this wheel is connected with the dial wheels. Tho advantages of this clock are that it never needs winding but will run as long as tbe battery lasts, which is from twelve to twenty-four mouths —fChicago Times.
