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W. B. MINCEY, Editor.
VOL. II.
sho in New '
In the largest jewelry P 3
York, where $5000 worth of gold is used
in a day, the gold is not weighed out to
the workmen, and nothing but the hon¬
esty of the employes prevents loss. But
while the gold is allowed to be exposed,
states the Atlanta Constitution , tobacco
has to be locked up because it has been
found that the man who would not
steal a gr&in of his employer’s gold,
would not hesitate to appropriate his
neighbor’s tobacco.
An unknown expert has caused con¬
siderable alarm in New York by the pro¬
duction of a cheap alloy so much like
gold that it cannot be distinguished from
the genuine article. Several jewelers
and refiners have been deceived after
making the severest tests. “If the dis¬
coverer of this new method of making
gold works his secret for all it is worth”
declares the Atlanta Constitution , “the
effect will be far-reaching. People will
no longer buy solid gold jewlery, and
governments will no longer issue gold
coin. The discovery of new gold fields
will excite no interest. Why dig for
gold when an expert chemist can make
it?”
Says a cigarette drummer to a reporter
for the New York Tribune: “The con¬
sumption of cigarettes has fallen off
greatly during the last year. The house
I used to represent used to have a large
trade in all the popular brands of
cigarettes. It still sells large quantities
of them, but not more than sixty per
cent, of as many packages as a year ago.
A great many persons who used to smoke
cigarettes have quit doing so and are
now smoking cigars. The result is that
while the cigarette trade has decreased
the cigar trade has increased. I don’t
know how to account for this state of
facts, unless it is due to the onslaught
made during the last two years by the
press and pulpit upon the cigarette
habit.”
The approach of a new census always
stimulates the counting and adding ma¬
chine inventors. Some genius has just
made a most elaborate affair in this line,
which is described at length in the
Washington Capital.' It is specially de¬
signed to facilitate the tallying of tabu¬
lated statistics. The method is thus
described: This method consists essen¬
tially in first recording the date relating
to each person by punching holes in the
sheets or strips of electrically non-con¬
ducting material (paper), and then count¬
ing or tailing these data, either sepa¬
rately or in combination, by means of
mechanical counters operated by electro
magnets, the circuits through which are
controled by the perforated cards or
strips. The method is already success¬
fully in use at the Surgeon-General’s of¬
fice for the handling of medical returns
from the army posts.
That the United States produce tht
best pork in the world, asserts the
Prairie Farmer, none wlv> are familial
with the product the world over will
question. It is encouraging, therefore,
to know that our Government will at¬
tempt to allay the prejudice that exists
against it in certain parts of Europe by
having the product exhibited at the
foreign expositions, and the exhibits in
charge of men capable of imparting to
visitors correct information respecting
it. We can raise pork for the world, and
with proper effort on the part of our
Government to stimulate the demand, its
exportation may be doubled in a short
time. In no other of our exports is the
competition so slight or the possibilities
of development so great. We should
spare no effort in working for increased
foreign trade in pork. Every farmer in
, the country would be benefited by it.
The Paris correspondent of the Phila¬
delphia Press of recent date says:
Frenchmen are now killing themselves
between nine and ninety in a constantly
increasing progression. The figures are
immensely higher, as a rule, in the North
than in the South and in towns than in
the country. The returns published by
the Alinister of Justice show thatov^gj
JASPER, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 2;!, 1880.
where the battle is fought
A fig for your honors and honored scars
Won finely on land or sea.
Though you storm the sky, aud scale the stars,
Seek your soul for victory.
— Lippincott.
MISS GARDINER.
BY JAMES C. PUUDY.
Miss Gardiner, while looking through
the advertising columns of her favorite
newspaper, the Morning Meteor, found
the following lines, whi h she eagerly
scanned:
“Wanted.—A young woman of refine¬
ment (employed during the day), who can
sing well and play the piano, can have, free
of charge, during the summer, a pleasant family
home in the country. Private
(mother and daughter). Best of references
required. A personal interview by Address, appoint¬
ment through office.’’ correspondence.
J. B., Meteor
It pleased Miss Gardiner to become
an inmate of this pleasant country home;
and she accomplished her purpose, with
results delightlul of ail parties concerned
Airs. Malcolm, the advertiser, and her
daughter were e very pleasant, lovable,
loving women, with plenty of money,
plenty of servants and plenty of kindly room.
The advertisement had been a
device of Mrs. Malcolm’s, to relieve the
loneliness of their handsome country
home, and at the same time afford a
happy opportunity to some poor girl of
refinement.
When the device brought them companion- Grace
Gardiner, they gained the handsome
ship °f a young unusually
SSLS^SSSSKSISS O-uZxS.
SnSMSSSS? aifairs: °.ud list g.utl..
culm's business
mau was enthusiastic m his praise
firm of Enderby & Sons. So, for the
rest of the summer, Mrs. Malcolm s car-
nage brought Grace Gammer from the
railroad station every afternoon, and
took her o the rain every mormng
But after a time a cloud of troubled
mystery rose upon the summer sky of
Scotland Lodge. One afternoon the car-
nage returned from the station without
Miss Gardiner. She had sent a note,
saying that she was detained over night,
but would be home as usual the next
day. It was a lonely evening without
her; and she was greatly missed at the
breakfast table the next mormng. But
in a short time her absence was almost
forgotten in the presence of a great ex-
household. citement which ingulfed 6 the entire
While the ladies were still at break-
faM et the Ob'"SStaStSS servants brought them startlin-
neighborhood had been entered by burg-
lars during the night. The inmates of
the house, it was supposed, had been
stupefied with chloroform ; for they had
known nothing of the invasion until
morning. Every nook and recess of the
house had been ransacked and rifled,
Everything of value, even to wearing
apparel, had been seized upon; and a
wagon-load of booty had been secured,
All this was very interesting, but the
conclusion of the story was strangely had
perplexing. All the stolen property
been compactly bestowed in bags and
bundles, ready for removal, and then
the burglars had gone away without the
bags and bundles. Not the smallest
article had been taken out of the house.
Everything was found in the morning on
the floor of the hall, close to the front
door, which was standing partly fright- open,
The thieves had evidently been
ened away at the last moment; but in
that retired neighborhood, Here v hat had
frightened them away ? was a fine
field for speculation.
When Miss Gardiner came home in
the afternoon she talked vivaciously
about the burgiary, and on one or two
obscure points made singularly apt and
lucid suggestions. But she soon left the
subject; and during the evening she
saDg as she had never sung for them be-
fore. It was noticed, however, that she
was pale, and looked wearied from over-
work. As they were separating Malcolm, for with the
night, she said embarrassment: to Mrs.
some apparent Airs. Malcolm,
“You ought place, to know, and unsettled
I have left my am
now . although I still have to be in the
city during the day.”
“Oh, you poor child!” Mrs. Malcolm
exclaimed, kissing her. “Of course I
ought to know it, so that Mr. Fletcher
and I can get you another situation at
once.”
But to the good Fletcher lady’s surprise and
indignation, enthusiast! Air. did not
spond ally when she spoke
to him about the matter the next day.
“We need hardly trouble ourselves,”
he said. “I think Miss Gardiner has
plan--of her own. It will be best to say
nothing further to her on the subject.”
A few mornings later, as Mrs. Alalcolm
she encountered
••• The girl
Bl ,
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“WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HONEST LABOR."
to in the city to-day; and, indeed, I am
quite able to go.” breakfast-room
Miss Jessie was in the
before them, and seemed in a somewhat
grim aud unsatfactory humor. The
morning greetings had hardly startled been ex- by
changed news°of when the ladies were
another burglary. The houso
nearest their own had been entered, and
evidently by the same parties who had
committed the previous outrage. As be-
fore the people had been chloroformed,
the house hail been thoroughly ransacked,
and everything of value had been bundled
up ready for removal; and as before,
the property had all been left in the hall,
by the open frontdqor The thieves had
been frightened away the second time.
This new aflair caused genuine dis-
may in the Malcolm household, and Mrs.
Malcolm spoke about getting special night,
guards to stay in the house at
Grace tried to reassure her.
“I really don’t think we have much to
fear,” she said, “with so many strong oh
men-servants as are known to sleep they
the premises. Burglars know what
are undeitaken before they begin opera-
tions." should
“I cannot imagine why they all the
finish their operations by leaving then,” said
stolen property in the hall
Jessie, shortly. laughed, and went her
Grace way.
A little later Mrs. Malcolm, sitting Jessie in
her own room, was startled to see
enter abruptly and lock the door. Hav-
inn* d*ahter rvn o tVnci lmiKiiiil mother’s^and tlllDEr t.Tip
staiS anrcruniDkd olaced in the a
paper ft
‘ ‘Wc Jafd mav “Reid a wel face mother dear ”
’ ’
she that ”
Mrs Malcolm smoothed out the paper
andread; “Ellwood will be at Mont-
E?* - 2 —
my dear, what doe. this mean?”
“ ,d “"' * "“th«t ™“obbkl jut
y h 0
ht But who itl the world is Ell-
P Pt ?
E1 lwood is t he robber,I excited suppose,” Fi tb she re-
P Jeg3ie ,I s0 at
h] ± This is Thursday / mo rning, her
}, know> Ag t0 tbe / pap ‘ r „ mot
d h allffer anytbin J ° tb an have it to
y but Gra ce Q rdiner drop Zt- p e d
^ J \ between here aad Mr . M
y s after 2 0 , clock this mor ning.” g
.. Gr ce Gardiner , You , re cl azy
‘
•^°> niother, I am not; , and , T I am as
fond of Grace as you are. Between Jand
3 o’clock this morning I heard a slight
“ 0,s ®- 1 opened the d do ^ of “y room
for I don t intend anybody shah chloro-
form me unless I know who it is and 1
saw that there was a .ight i Grace
Gardiner’s room. 1 was about t
her, thinking she was sick, when she
came softly „«aL«d. out into the hall. She was
»nd re r or..«.t e , F obfc.o^
and a thick veil, bhe hurried down-
sta:rs, and I heard . her go out , through ,. ,
the side door. Then, from my window,
I sa ) T her run across the lawn in the di--
rection of Mr. .Montgomery s house. Of
course there was no moresleep forme. I
watched, and about an hour later she
came in, as softly as she went out, and
moving as if she were tired,
“My dear, saia Mrs. Malcolm, with
conviction, ‘ you dreamed it all.
were nervous and upset on account of
that first burglary, you know. ’
“I thought that, too. But, after day-
hght I vvent out, and there were her
tracks in the dew, making a straight
P atb across the lawn. I wa.ked all about
so as to hide the tracks, and then I
t° un< t this paper where Grace had
dropped it. I could make nothing of it
then, of ccurse; still I thought some
other woman might have gone into
Grace’s room and out again, so I went
there while you weie doing up her hand,
and her closet I found her water proof
cioak and a & old dress . a11 we t and dra S:
gled around the bottom, and a pair of
ber s b°es, soaked and muddy. Mother,
that hand was hurt at Mr. Montgomery I s
house in the course of that robbery
am perfectly sure of servant it. announced,
At this moment a
through the closed door, that Mr.
1 letcher was in the parlor to see the
ladies. Mrs. Malcolm hastily dried her
tears of grievous distress,
“Not a word to him of all this about
Grace Gardiner,’ she said,as she hastened
awa Y to receive ner guest. Jessie took
some time to steady herself before she
followed.
Mr. Fletcher explained that he had
come out with just enough of a busi-
ness errand to serve as an excuse,
Really, he was off for a well-earned
holiday, and would stay all day if they
coaxed him, and all night, too, it there
was a room at his disposal. He could
not have done a kinder thing, after the
recent disturbing events, and he knew
; it. Of course these events were cx-
haustively discussed by all.
“It is a very mysterious business alto-
getlier,” said Mr. Fletcher. “Every
night, of late, there has been a burglary
somewhere, and the same enterprising The
artist excutes all the various job3.
detectives are sure of that, because as
you know, ‘dime are schools of burglary,
■ are :ehoois of painting, aud
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‘rai es-ness.
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PU jfcterprise. "'.art whfea His the
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a. in' \ And who is
i^nnt asked.
Bk \Ah, you
A c i r:-.
I see. As to your other question, his
history all came out at the time of his
trial, two years ago. Ho was arrested
after a series of just such convicted, burglaries and as
these; was tried, imprisonment. I
sentenced to a long
was prosecuting attorney at the time,and
much of the evidence wa8 furnished by
my son, who is my partner, you know,
He is a very neat amateur detective, and
I wish he would take as much interest in
the matter now, but he don’t. Well,
about a Week ago this escaped gray-lmired from man
of genius, Ell wood, prison,
and forty-eight hours later there was a
magnificent burglary of his since, peculiar and
type. He has been at it ever
the police can’t get near him.”
Burglary is a fascinating topic of con-
versation,but after a time other subjects
supplanted it, even in that interested
gioup. Toward tea time Mr. Fletcher
remembered that ho had writing to do,
and must go at once to his room.
“I won’t come down again,” he said,
“if Miss Jessie will kindly bring—not
send—some supper to me. And it will
be as well not to mention to anybody
that I am here for the night.” said Jessie,after
“The plot thickens,”
hehadgone. “Just think of it: so long
as Ellwood was in prison Grace Gardiner
worked quietly at honest employment; than she
but. no sooner docs he escape
gives up her situation, and associates
herself with him in the most mysterious
fashion. It is terrible!”
M M alco * j « , ’ 0,dy i an8wer w “ to .
™L m S
. tw ‘S* ^ hands , to « e *\ r and cry 8oft ' y ’
‘ ? ry ™ ysclf , Je8Sle ? ent
’ hfc
bU * 1 bave to SaVe my eyeS f ? r n ft
kor 1 T vo ^> ab „ the sleeping I do
, orTllwood
hou Se bas betrrobbed 7 lias
Jg* hour,
iuJ'bXl””iuT duw'cjTmmS the^mornTng
twoo’clock: in she
^“ i door ^ This door opened ^to a
C Soor ™ ssa tndTtefrwav Xe dfninfroom and also by 7 an inner
with
m/ Malcolm homed noiselesslv to
Fletcher s *?he“ room and softlv instance tapped
“ d 00r was an keep'nir
3 P° S °: T ^ lawver a X had been iullf
vigil also, and d stood d before uerore her Iuuy
dressed and ready for prompt action. whispered
‘Ellwood is down stairs,
Jessie.
q thought he would come to-night,
be ause he would suppose nobody ex-
pp ted b im here after last night’s and per-
fo Tiance u said Mr. Fletcher; with-
, f ur ther loss of time the two went
Gown stair tu wricoms
P J
£ Ui been left diml,
bu , rning) a8 usu 1; and & by it3 ligbt r,i they
L°“b.“ r zst, ™ r g
the foot of the stairs, they saw that the
side passage also was empty. With
great care Mr. Fletcher opened, intending the main
door of the dining-room, of to
enter there, set the side door the room
ajar, and through the narrow opening
watch for the entrance of the burglar
into the passage. Then, by means of a
bell-rope which ran through pretty he would near-
ly every room of the house,
arouse the men-servants, and, as was ^
hoped, trap the intruder.
As * the door moved ™ on Us binges,
Jessie seized her companion’s arm m
alarmed amazement. A dim light was
burning in the dining room, where there
should be utter darkness. Another look
showed , , that the room was already , ,, oc-
gether close by the side door; f I one ot i
them was a woman, and that woman
Was Grace Gardmer. feo, s bci had ex-
ected . the visit of her a comphce^ and
had already admitted him! It was a
blessed^ thing; that Mrs. Malcolm was
spared this sight thought Mrs Mah olms
daughter. As the thought took form,
Mr Malcolm stole silently up beside the
wat cber3 - Sbe had heard their footsteps
fowed iZ a in them 1 Y When Se °. slwGrae 8 ^ she
f a8 P edher hand3 , and , ralSed her eye3 ln ■
® r P ltlful f to see -
But that was no gray-haired ... old man
LbrfS,™ • w“io*.h W ‘Tl d
«
seemed greatly agitated and in need of
p“eS BXf Gardiner Sr
the young man beside Grace
was George Fletcher; and she had
brought his father to see this dreadful
revelation! 8he dared not look at the
father, and the father made no sign.
No need for sign or words. They could
all see now why this degenerate son took
no interest in the capture of Ellwood.
While Ellwood was free and at work,
this young criminal could do his own
guilty work unsuspected.
These recognitions had not occupied
a moment of time, and now there was a
further development. The side door of
the dining-room had been placed slightly pushed
ajar, and it was very cautiously
open. It swung inward, and as it opened,
Grace and young Fletcher were behind
it. A man’s head was thrust through
the opening, and then the man himself
stepped into the room. The dim light
showed them that he was tall and well-
formed, and had the bearing of a gentle-
man. in spite of the business he was in.
His hair was white, and his face was
handsome. Yes; this was undoubtedly
Ellwood. So there were three confed-
erates.
As Elwood appeared in the room,
Grace stepped quickly forward and
stood in front of him, straight, fearless
and. silent. All at once Jessie knew
that this girl was not an accomplice,
but an accuser, and a pang of remorse
smote her heart. The man started
slightly, but seemed less surprised than
might have been expected. would let alone
“I thought what I you lad night,” me he
after gave you
$1.00 Per Annum, In Advance.
said, in a low voice, pointing to her !n-
jured “How hand. I let alone? I have
can you
given you two chances within the week
to escape without adding to your guilt;
why did you not take them, and go
where you could be an honest man?"
“Because,” ho replied, with a slight
laugh, “I want to get something to be
honest with. Now, you know, Grace,
I’m too fond of you to hurt you if I can
help it; but I’ve given up two jobs to
please you, and I’m going to finish this
one.”
“You will not finish it,” said Grace,
still in the same low tones, but, at the
same time, with terrible intensity,
“You know how I have watched over
y. ou llni * guarded made you lrotn arrest 1 ever
since you your escape. gave up
m 5 work, and sacrificed the first real
peace I have known since I first learned
what you were, that I might try to keep
y° u tr°ru fresh crimes. But I tolu you
hist night that if you came here—to the
house of my friends—I would send you
back to prison; and unless you leave
here this instant aud promise never to ra¬
tur “- 111 ke ?P m y ™ ord *
wdl? said the man, putting
bis hand behind him. 1 ve had
enough of this. Now — -
Before he could speak Ihe next word,
or withdraw his hand, a blow from
George I letchers fist had sent LG wood
headlong to the floor, and the young
man s hand, on his throat, was holding
Ill 10. (ioW^Ils At i/ilC 8&IUC lUStBiIlt) tllC
cider Mr. Fletcher, witli the bound of
an athlete, was beside the Ids prostrate burg-
lar, a cocked revolver in hand. Mrs.
Malcolm and Jessie ran after him, scream-
icg> and Graco thre w herself upon her
knees at Ellwood’s side, and put her
ult.t •**.«... could I
» m J heart; but
“Doo't distress yourself, noV, m, deutglrl.
1>11 have to be honest you know,”
on their knees beside Grace ' their arms
around her, their tears and kisses on her
face > and their words of love and re P ent '
ance in her ears. Mr. Fletcher and
«eor g egot the three women upon their
feet at la8t ’ and tho clder g^tleman,
takin S Grace ’ 8 hand in his > said: “ My
dear ladies ’ ifc is my 8 P ecial P ride that
this brave S irl ,s my friend ’ and my sti11
greater pride that she is to be my son’s
w jf e _ And I know that you are still her
f r ; eildg n
jj 0 answer wag need « d but Mrs Mat¬
co]m managed to exclaim, with tearful
emphasis: “Friend! She is my second
dau"hter -‘Well’ and my home is hers, always.”
not exactly always, Mrs. Mal-
coim, co lm ” said saia Georce ueorge Fletcher r leicner.
^.Aft^^omcntiti was discovered that
Ellwood had utterly vanished He was
E'm'
*
The Psalmist’s injunction to the lazy
man to go to the ant for an example Danbury of
industry has lost its force for a
(Conn.) farmer, who points to the
squirrel as affording an instance of
quickness and hard work. l ast
f a W be stored several bushels of butter-
uuts in the second story of his corn
house, and recently he noticed that they
were disappearing much faster than the
legitimate demands for his family supply
warranted. He discovered soon after-
ward that a squirrel, ^ a small red one, ’.
whWh tbe far ers - boys ca under u .. cbip the
’ , had found a hole
« avC3 of f thc , b j,ldl .,j- °f’, „ and j wa8 _ 00 8to ckln 8 „
ber ^^eliouse , with the nuts t the f farmer
had , gathered. \ As an experiment to
learn ow . idl th(; S( uirrel bad
worked, ; he removed all but twenty of
^ nut aud sct a watcb upon ' them.
Kix hours afterwar(] evcry f nnt wasgon e.
The distance from tbe c( rn bouse t0 tbc
squ irrel had its nest was
f rh y rod g ■ ” for a nut and
eturn g with 5t t 0 s Stance rig])t l y little
5 ad to travel a of Kit
rodg Compntation sbowed tbat the
the twenty J nuts required just
!fin miJes of tnu , flL Bu t this did not in-
clude alL Several tirae3 do -' s lightened
tile squirrel, and it had to turn back,
and twice the family cat got after it, re
quiring fe it to take a circuitous route to
reacb tbe storebouse . The nest was
examined soon afterward, and a big, fat,
J G k.'ss ,% =r£?
to supply him
Vanderbilt and the Old Engineer.
a good story is told in the Bangor
(Me.) Commercial about one of the Maine
Central engineers. Last summer, when
j, bo Vanderbilt car was at Bar Harbor,
the manager of tho Maine Central sent
an engine down there to take the car to
Portland. The run was made in very
ou jck time, and at Brunswick the train
stopped to take on water. While there
Mr. Vanderbilt got out and said to the
engineer that he didn’t want him to
drive so fast. The engineer, the veteran
Simpson, looked at him a quarter of a
minute, and then said: “lam running
the engine under orders from Payson
Tucker to be in Portland at 1:07. If
you want to stop here, all right. If you
want to go to Portland, get in.” He
got in.
Doss His Work While Asleep,
Joseph Robinson, twelve years of age,
living with his father four miles south of
st. Joseph, Mo.,is afflicted withneurosis.
o D i y two cases of the kind have been
known to medical science. The boy
sleeps while standing and walks in his
sleep. While in a hypnotic state he
performs the daily routine of work to
which he has been accustomed, and is
perfectly under the influence of the per-
son talking to him. While being
operated on a needle was stuck in his
arm, but he did not give the least evi-
dence of having experienced thought pain. the
Physicians in consultation
case incurable.— Chicago Herald-
NO. 31.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Tarpon fishing is growing in popu
larity.
Thirty years ago bald heads were a
curiosity.
The greatest height ever attained by an
aeronaut is 37,000 feet.
Ann Arbor, Mich., has suppressed the
sale of Sunday newspapers in its borders.
German cavalry officers hereafter will
have to include steeplcchasing in their
studies.
The rarest and costliest of precious
metals is gallium. It is valued at $3250
an ounce.
H. Monk, of Lewiston, Me., has in¬
vented a machine that will starch eight
shirts a minute.
Sponges belong to the animal king¬
dom, although they were formerly
thought to be vegetable.
and Squashes the price are is now constantly $85 a ton advancing. in Boston,
In former years the price has been about
$25 a ton.
South George Chicago, Swift, a boy wasiefuseil of nine, living cookie at
Ill., a
by his mother and lie went out and flung
himself uncier a train of cars.
At a Floridian fair a pretty Chinese
pagoda booth was one of the sensations.
It was entirely covered with oranges,
more than 5000 boing used upon the
roof alone.
Blackbird oil is almost as expensive usually a
for product $80 as gallon, attar of roses. about It $5 sells pound.
a or a
A. great deal of it is manufactured in
Connecticut.
Buckwheat buche, is beech-wheat, a corruption of called boc,
German so
because it is triangular, like the beech¬
nut. The botanical name is fago-pyrum
(beech-wheat).
The “wine of years” is wine which is
reputed to have been made in the years
in which comets have been seen in the
heavens. The wines of 1811, ’26,’39, ’45,
’52, ’58, ’61, ’81 are thus known.
At a political, patriotic, or social
gathering, composed York, Americans of men only, usually any¬
where in New
come in singly, Irishmen five together. two at a time,
and Germans four or
There is superstition rich among diggings miners will
that every ten years
be discovered somewhere. The record
so far is California, 1849; Pike’s Peak,
1859; Nevada, 1869; Leadville, 1879.
At an extensive factory in Detroit,
Mich., machinery cuts from a log of
steamed wood a thin sheet large enough
for a full-sized barrel. This new method
of cooperago is called the “veneering
process.”
The great canal of China connecting
Canton with Pelcih is 1000 rnGes long
and is tbe longest in the world. The
Erie, 363 miles, comes next. The Albe-
marlo and Chesapeake is -between eight
and nine miles long.
At Bombay, India, a young worshipei
of the sun has recently confessed to the
murder of three persons simply foi
robbery. The crimes were atrociously
committed and without any accomplices. sadness
The young Parsee stated with
that he had only realized about thirty
cents from the threefold atrocity.
Caro of the Eyes.
Shades on lamp or gas burners should
be of “milk” or ground glass; never ol
colored glass.
Never sleep opposite a window which
will throw a Rood of strong light on
your eyes when you wake in the morn¬
ing. bathing the do
When face not open
the eye under water, as this is apt to be
injurious to the epithelial covering ol
the eye.
children, In all institutions, particularly required foi
where the eyes are to
do close work, the proportion of the
square surface of the windows to the
square surface of the floor should never
fall below one to four.
The short-sighted eye is essentially
a diseased eye, and should be treated as
such. It effects by preference those who
use their eyes constantly for fine or neat
work, and is almost unknown among
the uncivilized nations.
When children work they by light which bend
falls in their faces are apt to
the body forward so as to shade the eyes
by the head, or else twist it around so
that the light shall fall ou the page.
Both of these positions are pernicious.
There is great danger of the chest be¬
coming narrow aud contracted and of
the spine becoming curved.
To bathe of the eyes properly, bend the take head a
large basin cold water,
close over it, and with both hands throw
the water with some force on the gently
closed lids. This shower-bath, has something and of has the
same effect as a a
toning-up influence which water applied
in any other way has not.
A Unique Plant.
The gradual extinction phenomenon, of a species In is
not an uncommon
most cases many individuals of the van¬
ishing species are known to exist. One
plant, however, seems to be perfectly
alone in the world—the last of its race.
This unique specimen is on the island of
St. Helena. It is a tree about twenty
feet high. Formerly this species island, seems
to have been common on the
forming large groves, but the wood¬
man’s ax and the ravages of goats have
left only this single specimen. and of It is
unique in another respect for bears flowers great
botanical interest, it
like those of the aster, being, in fact,
the only known tree of the composite, a
family which, with this exception, com¬
prises only herbaceous plants. It is to
be hoped that an attempt will be made
to propagate the species from the seed
of this plant.
for Boston the ventilation spent something of school-houses like $42,000
last
year, and is preparing to spend a still
larger sum the present year.