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McDonouoh, Ga.
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-on or addressing me through in noli
Perms cash, unless special ait one ’■ im
are otherwise made.
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KKVA> A DICK US,
’ v attorneys at law,
McDonoich, Ga.
Will practice in the counties omposiny
he-Flint .ludicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court aprtf-lv
j \H. 11. TI KAUK,
.. ATTORNEY at law,
McDonoiuh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing |
t,b« Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ot
Georgia, and the United States District !
Court. marl 6-1 y
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McUosornu, (# a .
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all t lie Courts
af Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Wkukiv office.
j I’. WAMa
|P , -T ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ssh 'McDokouoh, Ga .
Will fh-actieein the oounties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Oouri sof Georgia. Prompt attention
given to dSAections. octn- <9
V*7 A. BBOH H.
’ ATTORNEY at law,
... ■ McDonouoh, Ga.
* WtU practice in ad the counties compos
in'* the Fffitf SfrVtiit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. fon'Ry
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HaMI'TON, U a.
Will practice in all the 'unities composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Geftrgla slid the District Court oi the
United States. Special and - prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct H, ISNS
Jno. D. Stewart. j U. I. I’aniei.
STUWAKT At E>
ATTORN ICY S AT LAW,
GrisEin, Ga.
J. Ainoi.D.
.Hampton. Ga.
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal's night and
dav.
LA W CARD.
1 nave opened a law office in Atlanta, but
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. V\ ill tie in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room 2(>, Gate City Bank Build
in", Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L TYE.
January Ist. ISBS.
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Notts and accounts of D. KNOTT k CO.,
must lie settled now. Please call ou l.if at
tl e old stand and find out vonr in fitted
ness. We need the money and know tliaf
vou cannot censure us for gi'.TKg this, our
last warning. M. . 1.0" L,
tin police—*econ<t Bound.
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»'• ' SOLOMON KING, T. 0.
L?„'il !• i\ lul XiffiY
AND
Machine Works.
Jflksfe announce to tiie Public that we are
prepared to .ciim.'aetmi' Engine ffnil-
H|; will take orders for a!! k'nds of Boil-
We are prepar' d to do all kinds of
on Kagines, Boilers and Machin
generally. We keep in stock Brass
W' ,r« of all kinds : also Inspirators, Tn
. Safety Valves, Steam Ganges.
Ad iind Pine Fittings Iron and Bras?
of everv 'Ye script ion.
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ANGLO INDIAN HOUSEKEEPERS.
Trial* Pul Upon the Meimaliib by Her
HmiMtful of Peculinr Xallve >ervanti*.
The niemsahib's housekeeping re
solves itself much into a close scrutiny
of accounts and watching of supplies.
This is easy, since she uties not feed
her numberless servants, and orders
her substance only through one. He
is the khansainah, the head butler,
usually a )>erson of great pomposity
find spotless raiment, with a dignified
capacity for robbing you of annus and
pice which would qualify him any
where to represent a municipal ward.
Especially when a visitor arrives does
tlte heart of the khansainah rejoice
within him, for then is his glorious op
portunitv. Limes every clay for the
visitor's Lath) hut the visiting tnemsa
hib has ordered it. according to the
khansainah, and you cannot very well
ask her. The towels, even the sheets of
the visitor's bed, disappear the day of
her departure! The khansainah looks
sorrowful and deprecating, but thinks
the visitor's ayah must have been an
extremely dishonest person. And the
unhappy visitor has probably had one
lime for her bath during the entire
length of her stay; and the towels
have brought two annas apiece at the
bazar, which goes into the secret
wallet of the khansainah.
Next iu rank comes the kitmutgar,
who brings the dishes from the
kitchen, helps to wait at tables, but is
an inferior person. A favorite term
of obloquy among Anglo Indians is
“He looks like a kitmutgar,” which is
much worse than being compared to a
khansainah. The baburchi is the
cook, and he has a menial in the mus
galehi, who washes the dishes. “Bear
er” is a more or less general term, but
when you call the bearer among your
household staff you mean the man
who trims the lamps and dusts. He
will not f weep—not lie!—you must
have a rnat.er to sweep, who is of very
low cdste indeed.
The ayah is the niemsahib’s maid,
and she cannot get on without one.
The durwan is the gate keeper, who
sits all day long beside the door to at
tend to callers and messengers, and
does nothing else. Beside these the
sahib must have a syce—groom —for
each horse. No syce will take doublo
pay and attend to two horses—that is
not the Aryan way. And if there is a
garden there must be a malice to take
care of it, and for the most menial
work of the house there is a beestic or
water carrier, whose name is admira
bly approbriate, and who skulks about
his business under the opprobrium of
all the rest.
The dhoby is the washerman, whose
peccadilloes are interestingly “naife.”
He has been known, for instance, to
dismember certain garments of the sa
hib and send them in separate legs, in
order to show the proper number ou
his list and yet retain a shirt or a
handkerchief. There is the dhurrie,
too, who is a joy in India, and who
comes and sits and sews all day on
your veranda for fourpence! Very
imitative, indeed, is the dhurzie, not
to be trusted with anything, even to
bodices and skirts, for which he has a
pattern.
Anglo-India tempers arc short, and
the khansainah knows their brevity
better than anybody in the world. A
favorite expression of abuse in con
nection V, itii undergone mutton per
haps, is in exciting Hindustanee
“Son of a pig! which hurts tiie gen
tle Hindoo’s feelings as much
as anything. But tiie gentle Hin
doo usually replies conciliatory y
in some term of deep respect and
admiration ; and certainly the uncon
scious khansainah got the best of it,
who replied to this expression on the
lips of his irate sahib, “Sir. you are
my father and ray Mother!” —Garth
Grafton in Montreal Star.
To li e«'p Up with the Dance.
Time was when a lady or gentleman
who, after a term or two at a dancing
school, could waltz fairly well, could
polka or schottisehe a little and walk
through a quadrille without a blunder,
considered his or her terpsichorean
education complete. Not so nowadays.
No longer is the graduate “called out”
for the guidance of the dancer. The
cotillon, with the military and ancient
minuet features Of tiie early part of
the century has been revived, and
new dances arc brought out every
season. Many of tl.cm are quite intri
cate. They are know n only by* their
names. No word of direction is
spoken. The person who desires to he
up to the usages of polite society as ex
emplified in the bull room, must, there
fore, bo they ever so graceful or expe
rienced dancers, take a few lessons at
the outset of tiie social season or run
the risk of being surprised some even
ing in, may I call it, the meshes of a
new cotillon, to his or her deep cha
grin and mortification and the un
mistakable annoyance of the others
who are so unfortunate as to have
their pleasure marred by a blunderer,
for one person ignorant of the figures
is cnougii to disconcert the remaining
seven uancers. —Dancing Master in
Globe-Democrat.
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Title Pa;™.
A magazine has just begun to write
"The History of a Title Page.” It rnay
=oem u snialf subject, but it isan inter
esting one. It has also a very marked
bearing on the history of literature. In
volved in it we find the questions of
titles, new. borrowed or imitated; of
authorship, real or assumed; of dates
accurate, inaccurate, or absent alto
getier. In the mere arrangement of
type or the title page, not much vari
ety i* to be looked for. Home origin
ality in that respect is show n now and
then bv publishers with taste and
fancy, tut it is obvious that not much
novelty is feasible. Every now and
then we have the name of the author
at the top of tho page, instead of in the
middle, after the French fashion; the
effect is quaint, and pleases. Now and
again, the title of the book spirts at
the left hand top corner, and is run
on like a sentence till finished, iusl cl
of being divided and sjnead out ovef
the page, in orthodox style. But when
all d no that can be done in
tins and other directions, the present
dav publisher soon discovers that the
variations are by no means endless.
Tbe only device which has not of
late been greutly f exploited is that of
the illustrated title pa_.:. with its
broad margin of artistic design in
closing the smallest possible amount
McDOXOUGII, GA., FIUr>AY\ DKCEMB 211, (>, 1881).
or type, nils used to tie Very popular,
hut has now fallen into alr.u■ i entire
disuse. The preference now is for
title pages of simplicity in design and
brevity in wording. In tho latter re
"sjiect wo go, perhaps, to uu extreme,
reserving all our explanations of the
volume's scope for the preface, and
ilius giving tremble to the casual in
s i tors of books. Ou one point one
might almost ask for legislative enact
ment—on the point -of including on
every title page the date of the year
in which the work is published. There
aro publishers who systematically
evade this duty, and tho result is that
one cannot tell whether their publi
cations aro old or new, without mak
ing inquiries which cost time, and
which should not bo forced upon tiie
weary student. —London Globe.
“AFTER DINNER WALK A MILE.”
Tin* Time When We K»t, However, Mako*
Suiiic Difl^retirr.
“After dinner sit awhile, after sup
per walk a mile.'' That was suitable
advice for the ‘ good old times when
dinner was taker, at noon." “Tiie wise
man changes his mind.” We moderns
tiave changed GUl's and our habits, too.
The couplet may be changed to suit
the new circumstances. “After lunch
eon sit awhile, after dinner walk a
mile.” This advice is by no means
universally followed. It may he
doubted whether it is universally
given or believed in. One thing, how
ever, says The Hospital, is certain:
the mile, and much more, ought to be
walked some time during the twenty
fourliours. Nay, it must be walked if
health is to tie maintained. Indoor air
cannot be breathed all day long with
out serious injury, nor can a sufficient
measure of physical exercise bo dis
pensed with.
Nature is stronger than all the doc
tors and drugs iu the world, and she
will not let a man lie well who per
sistently disobeys her. Site has made
our limbs for movement and our lungs
for pure air. If we do not use the
limbs sufficiently and breathe enough
of perfectly pure air, she insists upon
storing up quantities of poisonous
waste in the system, and makes the
arms and legs as limp asajedv fish.
Men of business and professional men
seem to have no time for walking and
taking the-air except in the evening.
But how can a man walk after a
heavy dinner? Most true; and there
fore a man should not eat a heavy
dinner habitually. Whether he walks
or not the heavy dinner will do him
nothing but harm, and all the more
harm it he does not walk. Most men
eat a good meat lunch. Many take
both meat and pudding; in fact, to
all intents and purposes they dine.
They do not then need a heavy meal in
the evening. After a substantial lunch
eon at 1, a moderate dinner at 6 or 7 is
all that is required. If such a meal be
taken, followed about 8 o’clock- by a
cup of hot coffee, the man who has
not been overworked during tho day
i should feel perfectly fresh for a walk
i at 8:30. If lie then goes out and walks
i until 9:30, he will soon begin to find
I his walk a great pleasure, and the nd
! vantage to his health will be marked,
indeed. Does he fear tho night air?
That is nonsense. Night air is as go id
as any other air, except that it is a lit
tle colder. He can provide against
that by wrapping up a little more.
For getting ltd of the cares of the
day, for producing a pleasant sense of
relaxation, for purifying the L >od,
for raising tho spirits, for encouraging
sound and refresning sleep, there is
nothing better than an evening walk
after a moderate dinner. To those who
have not practiced the habit, the first
few walks may prove fatiguing and dis
appointing; but let thorn give it a fair
trial. Perseverance will amply justify
what some may consider rather novel
advice. —London Globe.
SEWING FOR THE DEAD.
(ilrl* Who IVliiko Gooil Wage* and Ar«
Contented in an Undertaker'* Shop.
“Isn’t it lovely?" asked a young
sewing girl, holding up for inspection
something of white satin and lace.
•‘We are crowded with work JflHt
now, so I brought this home to finish
it to-night.”
“You have a trousseau on hand,
then? I suppose that fancy garment,
whatever it rnay be, is fora bride.”
Tiie sewing girl opened wide her
ey*es. “We don't make no trousseau,”
said she. “Did you think I worked at
a dressmaker’s?’'
“Yes? Aren’t you with Mine. X. ?”
“Not much! 1 left there a month
ago. The madurne gave me too much
sass and too little pay. I’m in Y ’s
undertaking establishliient and am
earning half as much again as I did
at Mnie. X ’s, who is the most
awful screw in this city*. The season
is longer too, though of course there
ain't half the number of girls employ
ed where I am now that there were at
uiadame’s. When I worked there i
was laid off regffUr three months in
the year, while four weeks is the long
est "that the girls at the undertaker’s
are idle. When there is a full supply
of robes in stock they are put to mak
ing coffin linings, which most of ’em
like because ft isn’t fussy work,
though, for that matter, none of their
work is half so fussy as what 1 had to
bother with when 1 sewed for live
people. Miss B (she is our fore
woman) used to have the same place
at a dressmaker's, and she says she
Iris -grown, ten year; younger since
she went into the i >bo making busi
ness, because she fcas so much less
worry of mind. H’a ■ sometimes used
to have to keep l| r girls up till 12
o'clock Saturday night to finish a
dress for some rich customer, and early
Monday morning here would come
tho dress hack again -to be altered, and
a sassy message along with it about its
want of fit. Now, there ain’t any par
ticular fit about a burial robe, as you
can sea by this; it is made only to go
over the corpse. Miss B says it is
a great comfort to her to know that
lu tu ai wears’em don’t make no com
p'aint, and in tiie main they are be
coming, which can’t be said of live
dresses —I mean the dresses live pao
pie wear.
“To see them in their coffins you
would think they were completely
dressed, but really all their finery is
on top. Even the men’s solid looking
black c sits and smooth shirt fronts
cau go on and off without removing
tiie corpse. What iam making is for
a young gar! who died vesterdav. and
will be biuieiTtomo ’renv. Sue was to
have boon married iiwrt month, and
her trousseau was ,vgun at Mine.
X ’s before 1 lei i there. She will
■ look just as sweet in this robe lam
making for her as she would have
done in her wedding dress,
“Afraid of the coffins') Not after
the lirst day. it w, aid be a pity if
wo were, as our sewing room is at the
end of the loft where piles upon piles
of them are stowed away. Wo talk,
and laugh, and sing, just as we did at
Mute. X Valid Jiiss 13 is uu
awful lot nicer tliaa the forewoman
wo hud there, because, as 1 have id
ready said, she isn't being constantly
worried out of her life by fussy ladies;
and, as it is piecework, she never has
scold tho girls for loafing. She
says that what she can’t get used to
is to have to go downstairs and take
orders for robes for folks that still
have breath in their bodies. Some
(xiople seem to be in an awful hurry
to get their dead put under ground
When Miss B jwas downstairs to
day at noontime, mid tho rest of us
were eating lunch one of the girls
had her chair break' down under her.
and as there was ut> other to be had,
what did she tio Jett go out and drag
ina coffin t'i s 'L-Ji! When we had
finished our lu .cE wo took and lain
her out in it and covered her with a
robe; and then we began to cry, and
talk about tho virtues of the deceased,
and were having a real jolly wake,
considering their Jrtras no candles,
when in come the boss. We didn’t
know but we'd all !>o tired out formed
dling with the coffins, but all he said
was that it would bo money in his
iiocknt if wo lazy loafers were all of
us in our coffins, as cur custom would
pay him better than our work. The
girl in the coffin —she’s awfully
cheeky jumped up and told him it
was play time, as it was not yet half
(.last 12, and then he said what was
tun to us would lie considered death
by most folks, and with that he went
out. One of the girls aid he was in a
good humor because there was tulk of
tiie yellow fever coming hero this
summer, but that wasn’t so. Under
takers ain't no more heartless than
other men, and when it comes to pay
ing their girls they ain’t half such
skins as some women.” —New York
Tribune.
Kay* 110 Choked a Hear to Death.
A man named Robert Brown, who
resides near Fox Hollow, is credited
with having killed tt bear about five
miles from Edgevtlle, a Cats kill
mountain hamlet. The animal was
no larger than a Newfoundland dog,
but it was fat and plum)). Brown
killed tho bear, but he says he used
neither firearm nor missile of an y
kind. He choked it to death with his
brawny right fist.
Tho animal was'feeding on tome
berries when Brown first espied it.
Taking off his coat, the hunter crept
stealthily up to withip “throwing”
distance, when ho covered the brute’s
head and face with the'gannent. Be
fore bruin could free Himself from the
unweleotpo covering, Bfowu had got
ten close eupngh to the shr.ggy brute
to get* his .ihiofcro nrertfid" fwjthivsyt.
Ho squeezed mightily, and the bear
slowly but surely succumbed to tho
killing pressure :uid feil dead at the
hunter’s feet. The carcass weighed
110 pounds. Bear steaks were dis
tributed around, and “home folks”
and a score or more of early* Catskill
mountain guests ate bear meat for the
first time in their lives. •
Brown says ho chokud a wildcat to
death last winter. Tltere are people
who doubt this Samso iian story, but,
be that as it may*, the, steaks were a
retiuty.—Kingston Freeman.
Aborting a 3elon.
Ho who discovers j sure means of
aborting a felon will make his name
immortal. None need be told that it
is a most painful alSpetion, and one
not wholly devoid oi danger to life.
New methods of treat! jont to cut them
short aro constantly (lieing devised,
and as far as the writir knows, none
absolutely certain in ill cases has us
yet been found.
The trouble is that all felons are
not near alike. In soup deeper tissues
are involved than in j others, and a
remedy which might act well in one
case would prove absolutely useless in
another. The latest Additions to the
list of abortive metiods is recom
mended by u physkym of Algiers,
lie says it is sufficient to moisten
■slightly around it wijli some water,
and to pass over this surface a stick of
nitrate of silver. A few hours after
ward the skin becomes black, all pain
disappears and the inflammation is ar
rested. The blackened epidermis re
ceives no dressing, util in six days the
black color disappear^.
The author was induced to try this
remedy in a case of a fit of gout. The
patient had his great too swollen at its
base; it was painful to the touch, a
little red, and the seat of lansinating
pains, which hindered the rest of the
patient. The painful articulation was
moistened and rubbed over with a
stick of the nitrate of silver; the next
day the joint was diminished in size,
and was covered over with a black
skin. The pain completely disappeared
a quarter of an hour after tho paint
ing, and the patient got up to follow
Ids occupations. The victim of a felon
can safely try this treatment; it can
do no harm. Too much confidence
must not, however, bo put in it.—Bos
ton Herald.
Tho Crisis at Waterloo,
All at once, camo the tragedy. To
tho left of tho English and on our
right, the head of the column of cui
rassiers reared with a fearful clamor.
Arrived on the ridgo, wild, furious
and running to tho annihilation of
tho squares and cannon, the cuiras
siers saw between them and the Eng
lish a ditch —a grave. It was tho
sunken road of Obain. It was a fright
ful moment. There was the ravine,
un looked for, gaping, before their
very horses’ feet two fathoms deep be
tween its banks. The second rank
pushed in the first and tho third push
ed in the second. The horses reared,
fell backward, struggled with their
feet in the air. heaping up aud over
turning their riders. There was no
.power to retreat; the whole column
was but a projectile; the momentum
gathered to crush the English, crush
ed the Fvench. The pitiless ravine
still gaped till it was filled. Riders,
liarw..collet Together pell jrelL
«'••>£ r .< ■ > WhV »’ ‘king com
n oil fii « in this golf; mid when the
i£y *ti ■ full of living i fiir re.*
rod.-on over them and p:t> alon. Al
most a third of Dubois' brigade piling
Oil into this abyss. -- World of Advcn
tu ro.
tviUtHl by a BoccMln'i* Hit#'.
About a month ago Curtis Melhtr
rows, an B.year oltl child of Wii'-atn
Ale Burrows, colored, grab'ied with his
left hand at a fish in a pool which he
and ot : .<n» had muddied, uear Haw
kiusvuhv As ho did so u water moc
casin, which had been unseen, struck
its fangs into tho fleshy part of his
hand, between the thumb and loro
finger. The child grubbed the snake
with his right hand mid tore it loose,
hut the snake instantly coiled around
the loft anil and intlicted several lutes
ou it. The child’s arm was treated by
his parents, who applied to it such
remedies as they could think of, hut it
steadily grew worse. They brought
him to Hawkinsvillo to Dr. Taylor.
The arm was dreadfully swollen, and
tlte whole body seemed to be poisoned.
Amputation was decided to be neoes
sary, and the arm was taken off at the
shoulder by Dr. Gun Taylor. Tiie child
rallied after tbe operation and'bode
fair to get well; but inflammation of
the bowels set in, and he died.—rllaw-
Irinsvfllo Dispatch.
THE RAG PICKER’S INDUSTRY.
Nothing Caw 110 Thrown Away That I*
Not of Use to the Italian*.
Rag picking is daily becoming more
and more of an industry among a cer
tain class of Italians in Boston. At
daylight every morning 200 or more
persons of both sexes, who dwell at
tho North end, set out from their mis
erable quarters witlflargo gunny bags
slung across their shoulders to over
haul such ash barrels and rubbish
boxes as may bo found on street side
walks and alleys. Tho majority of
them have their regular routes, and
they make vigorous protests when any
encroachment is made upon their ter
ritory. Tho men generally overhaul
the rubbish, and impose upon the wo
men tho task of liiggi.tfc the bags,
which are often as largo, When filled,
as cotton bales. Having a load as
large as can ho cm cit'd, they tnako
their w;iy to the shop of some favorite
junk dealer in the neighborhood of
either Causeway, Charlestown or En
dicott streets. Having reached a junk
store, both men and women dump
tho contents of their bags into tho
gutter ami ussort the articles. Bot
tles, boots, rags, bones, junk and tin
ner stock aro carefully inspected. Tho
Italians having received their money
for their goods, start off on another
trip. Their daily earnings rurely ex
ceed fifty cents. If they make a dol
lar it is considered unusual luck.
Liquor bottles of ordinary uso aro a
drug in Boston junk shops., and com
mand only u quarter or half a cent
apiece. There was a time when saloon
keepers paid tho junk men two or three
cents apiece for them, and afterward
sold them to customers who purchased
linuor Tor five and ten cents. Now,
saloon keepers never think of charg
ing u tiuctomcr for n bottle. Izigor
hqer bottles are the most acceptable to
the junk dealers, as they can get a
good price for thorn, especially in the
summer time, from wholesale beer
bottlers. A junk dealer pays, perhaps,
two or three cents for such a bottle,
and the wholesaler gives him live or
six cents for it. The latter charges his
customers ten cents for each bottle
when delivering lager beer by the
case, and refunds the money if none
of the bottles are missing when the
case is returned. Empty alo and por
tor bottles «nd champagne bottles are
always readily sold to tonic beer
bottlers. Medicine bottles aro of little
vuluo.
Old shoes and boots aro carefully
examined by tho Italians, and if any
are thought fit to be repaired, they are
taken to some second hand dealer,
who touches them up, and sells them
whenever an opportunity presents.
YVomout slioes are purchased by tho
junk dealers for a trille, and are sold
in large quantities to customers, who
grind them up and make shoddy
“pancake" leather out of them. This
shoddy business lias grown rapidly of
late, and there is a good demand for
old tops and uppers from the manu
facturers. Old rubbers aro also ground
up, and tho material made over into
new rubber.
After rags have been purchased, ton
or a dozen of tiie junk man’s em
ployes, men and women, make a sec
ond assortment of them. They are
separated by color, texture, cleanli
ness and condition of material. The
first quality of white linen and cotton
rags is packed tightlv in bales bv
hand machinery, and sold to kucb_
paper manufacturers as may have a
demand for them. They are then put
through certain processes and made
into paper. The colored rags are also
pressed into bales, and are disposed of
to manufacturers of shoddy cloth.
The larger quantities of white paper
picked up from ash barrels and gutters
are made over into new paper, Brown
paper is made into paper board stock.
The soap grease man or the fertilizer
manufacturer buys the bones, while
the major part of the old iron, mainly
horseshoes, is taken by the various
forge works and foundries in and
about Boston.
The industry of tlio Italian rag pick
ers has given an impetus to the junk
business in Boston. Nothing that any
body throws away or casts tiff escapes
their eyes or hands. They live very
cheaply, and sleep together in separate
gangs. The women are as active,
strong and vigorous as tho men.-
Bostotr Ilerald.
So mo Paroons Dandle*.
Such men as Aristotle, Marcus An
tonius, Sir Humphrey Davy, Lord
Palmerston, Byron, Thackeray and
our own George Washington were
regular dandies in their (lay, while
even in our own times men like Conk
ling, Hill and Tiiden were exquisites
in their dro s. Of the present New
York bar, Chaunocy Depew, one of
the leading spirits, is also one of the
best dressed men of that city, with
Dan Dougherty, late of the Philadel
phia bar and now of national fame, a
close secon d. Of the Philadelphia bar,
Brewster.attorney general under Presi
dent Arthur, was, during his life, one
of the best dressed men, being sur
passed in this respect only bv Richard
\ i\ an .fin- K aicr ot tliOßumo bar.
i’tiere in ii gi’Mi deni cf difference lie
f\Ax a a ilandy and a dude, for while
,i dandy dresses only when lie lias
n. th" i:. to do, a dude does nothing
else but dress. But a man may dress
elegantly without being either, and
tin -, t:- tho happy medium to bo nought.
•—Nashville Ainerioan.
Darla!* 1n f*te S<*u.
The td'origines < f tho Chatham
i.lands bury their a. ad in tho sou.
When u fisherman rues they put a
hatted rod in his hand, aud, alter lash
ing him fust in a bout, send him adrift.
Among the Norsemou the great chiefs,
when dead, wore placed with much
pomp and ceremony on their war
ships and sent out to sea; and sitni-r
lurty among the Sea Dyuks, ft dead
chief, with uis favorite weapons and
the lirst part of his property, Is placed
in his canoe and cast adrift. It is the
custom of some tribes of modern
Guinea, on tiie western const of iutor
tropical Africa, to throw their dead
into tho sea. By doing so they think
they have got rid of cornso and ghost
together.—New York Telegram.
BOGUS DIAMONDS.
It I* « flitrtl Matter Now to Tell Them
I'm in tlio Uiiil Article.
Of Into years jewelry, and female
jewelry, in particular, as it were, has lie
come very numerousund ostentatious,
so to speak. Formerly tho possession
of a pair of diamond earrings envelop
ed tho happy female in a hallow of
alllueneo that caused her to bo regard
oil as a modified female Count DeMon
to Cristo. *
A minstrel troit|io, whoso perforin
unco we attended not long since, made
a pointed allusion at tho increased
cheapness of getus. Tho interlocutor
in conversation with tho genial etui
man, congratulated that dusky huino
rist because ho had been seen on the
streets accompanied by a beautiful
young Italy. The happy end man in
quires if the interlocutor lmd observed
ttio elegant sealskin cloak worn bj
tho lady. The interlocutor had no
ticed it," With reversed thumb the
end man intimates that ho hud ho
stowed it on tho attractive female.
“It must have cost you quite a large
sum of money," replies the interloou
tor, who for ftotne inexplicable reason
ignores the negro dialect.
“Yes, salt, SSOO, aud did you see
detn nr torches?”
• “Those what?”
“Detn torches, I mean denis lamps,
hanging in her ycuhs.”
“Oh, you mean t.lioso largo solitaire
earrings. Yes, I saw them. Ttiey
must have cost you at least $1,BOO.”
“Thirty cents,” replies the end man,
reaching down for Ins bones, or rather
the bones with which he makes discord.
Tho shabbily dressed, poorly paid
shop girl wears gems that Hash in n
dozen different colors, while the young
boy, who gets a week in a button
factory, carries on his soiled hand n
diamond ring that might tie a prince’s
ransom in olden times—if it were real.
Y.et jewelry, which was formerly
suppose d to bo expensive, is now worn
so generally as to create a suspicion
thin t! 'o cord rtepeoM* are being *mh
joc uM fo an olamiiug <jrm*r.
None very body knpws that it takes
an experienced jeweler to depict the
real from the bogus diamond, rienTw i#
frequently happens that grown up
persons undergo a similar experience
to that of the little girl who complain
ed to her grandmother:
“Ma told mo it was a diamond, but I
have found out that it was nothing
but a grindstone.”
A member of the famous “poker
legislature" of Texas once said that
the most expensive diamonds were
those that staid in the pack when lie
had four of them in his own hand.—
Texas Siftings.
Danger, ut Ullllu^agufte.
It is pleasing to learn from one of
Mr. Lawrence Hamilton’s recent let
ters that, in addition to its old famil
iar shortcomings, Billingsgate is po
culinrly favorable to the development
of bacteria, microbes, and all the ole
inonts of putrefaction in which dead
lisii are specially rich. Tho walls,
floors and stalls of a fish market ought,
by rights, to bo faced with some hard,
smooth, non-absorlient material, such
as marble or glazed tiles, which will
afford no harbor for these microscopic
abominations. It scorns, however,
that at Billingsgate tho stalls are
mostly of rough wood, tho walls of
plain brick, and the iloors of porouß
stone, and all are worn, honeycombed
and rugged with ago. The whole
place is consequently impregnated
with putrefying tilth, with not merely
its peculiarly ancient aud fish like
smell, but also with tho most objec
tionable results to such wholesome
fish as are brought into it. For oil
this we have to thank Gog und Ma
gog, who not only keep up this out
rage on civilization, hut cliaxgo rents
ranging from 6d. totld. per square foot
, for such accommodation as is to be
found there. —London Truth.
Wliat la the Hwm?
But when wo look at the moon with
our telescopes, do wo see any traces of
water? There are, no doubt, many
large districts which at fy first glance
seem like oceans, and were indeed
termed “seas” by the old astronomers,
a name which they still absurdly re
tain. Closer inspection shows that the
so culled lunar seas are deserts, often
marked over with small craters and
with rocks. Tho telescope reveals no
seas and no oceans, no lakes and no
rivers. Nor is tho grandeur of tho
moon’s scenery ever impaired by
clouds over her surfaco. Whenever
the moon is above the horizon and
terrestrial clouds arc out of tho way,
wo can see the features of her surface
with distinctness. There are no clouds
in the moon; there are not even the
mists or tho vapors which invariably
arise wherever water is present. And
therefore astronomers nave been led
to the conclusion that our satellite is
a sterile and a waterless desert—Btory
of the Heavens.
Generating Steam.
It is said that a new method of gen
erating steam has met with remark
able success in England. The inven
tion is adaptable to any ordinary Cor
nish, Lancashire or marine boiler.
The apparatus for perfecting the com
bustion coj lsistd.of an air tube placed
t>ii Mu' BOOToi tun rurn&ce, j*.TiorA..eci
ou each wide, iu communjMiym at the
outer end with a mam air condtiit,
and at the inner end with a hotair
receiver, or air diffusing pipes, where
tho air become* highly heated, and
delivered by a large number of iet*
into tho escaping gases from the fuel
chamber. The air is obtained by
means of u fan driven by a small en
gine.—New York Telegram.
As an example of tho spirit which
animates the German army, and which
doubles in force, Prince Kraft Hohen
lohe tells a iino story. At the battle
of Cliateaudun a battery found itself
without ammunition under a heavy
tire. What was to be donei The offi
cer commanding ordered the gunnera
to take their places on the limbers and
sing tho “Wacht am Rhein ’’‘ in or
der,’’ as Prince Kraft says, '‘that they
might pass the tit e agreeably while
waiting for fresh cartridges.”
Molhi'i* IbtrnstMl Iu Th#*tr Daughter*.
1 was in a b<x>l{ store the other day
when a lady came in and asked for a
line of juvenile literature. After she
had gone out, the salesman said: “If
the daughters of Chicago do not
amount to anything it will not bo the
fault of their mothers. There is a course
of lectures being delivered in a quiet
way iu various part* of the city which
are for tho benefit of these cnildren.
Their mothers support the movement.
When u lecture is delivered, the mo
thers attend with their daughters.
Sometimes these lectures are given at
the homes. The children do not know
their mot hem are interested in tho
movement. If they did, they wouldn’t
want to go, in all probability. It seems
to be a part of a child's nature not to
appreciate what tho mother does for
it. In this ago of the world, when
croakers are going up and down pre
dicting that the next generation won't
know enough to get iu out of the rain,
it is some consolation to know that
tjiere are a few women who are striv
ing industriously to cultivate the
nupds of their little ones.’’—Chicago
Tribune.
To Ouru Profanity.
Atlanta, Ga., la raid to havo a queer
way of punishing profanity in the
public schools. Tho boys oaught at
using bail language nro mado to wash
their mouths out with water infused
with quassia. The bitter stuff is con
sidered a cure; at least it is not so
easily forgotten as a licking ora scold
ing. Is it not an invention worth
more general use? Our family disci
pline is a poverty stricken affair—
mostly made up of jawing and thrash
ing; although some New Euglanders
still pray with their offending off
spring. Why not have a family quas
sia cup, with say another containing
salts, and a third with ricinua com
munis, that is to say castor oilf—
Louis Globe-Democrat.
One of tho reasons for the stronghold
tlie chrysanthemum has upon popu
lar regard lies iu the fact that it is an
old fashioned (lower. It has a claim
upon tho affections of many people
through early associations and chud
hood remembrances thAt tho later
trjqjyplig of the florist's art can never
a*ttam. t
i ' A.
Turk lull Behoof Children.
► TWkish boys and girls are of tie
race which has given tho alphabet iftid
tho sciences of numbers, jjatrigatiqp
and astronomy to tho world; InSthOy
study only one W*>k now and learn
only one science. They study the Ko
ran, from which thev learn to read,
and tho science of MiJiomot’s religion,
os soon us tliov can commit sentences
to memory, either by having it read
to them or by rending it to themselves.
/They study aloud ns hard as eter they
’can, each beginning with a different
sentence, rocking to and fro, “weav
ing trouble” meantime. If they falter
in their shrill repetitions the master's
duty is first to admonish, and. if this
is unheeded, to spare not the rod.
There is a lull when the “muezzin’s”
call is heard at noon from tho mosque
minaret near by, and then tho master
and pupils, with faces turned toward
Mecca, drop to their knees and say a
prayer.
When the priest’s call ceases and
the prayers are over, the voice of tho
artful candy man is often op|>ortunelv
hoard near the school, for candy is
peddled uliout on trays there, and not
sold at shops as with us. Tho new
scholar is permitted to “treat all
round” on tho first day, and there are
no better sweets than “Turkish do- ’
lights”—pasty, creamy, crackly things
made up from rose leaves, violets uud ‘
poppies, nuts, dates, grapes and pontj}-.'
granules, delicately mixed with honer.
sugar, sirup and spice. I’ure coil ,
water after sweets is known by ad
Turks, young and old, to bo the most.*
delicious of luxuries, nnd this the
school children often enjoy, for the
waterman is cunning enough to fol
low closely in the wake of the candy
vendor, anxious to lighten his burden
and draw a profit, as well as spring
water, from tho tanned skin of a pig,
which he carries strapped to his shoul
ders like a bagpipe —the Turkish water
bucket.—Cor. Wide Awake.
Mohammedan Sciioolships.
Tho greatest Mussulman educational
center m northern Africa is tho uni- ,
versity ut Gareuin. in Morocco. The]
students number unout 700 and there ]
are forty professors. Work begins at |
half past 2 and 5 in the morning, Itip-,l tip - ,
cording to the season. The first in
struction consists of comments on the
Koran. At sunrise the second batch
of professors—about a dozen or so—
discourse on law and dogma. In the
afternoon grammar and rhetoric are
taught, and later, logic, astronomy,
arithmetic, geography, history, Mus
sulman literature and the science of
telismanic numbers or the determina
tion by calculation of the influence of -1
angels, spirits and stars on future
events.
The fore-determination of the con
queror and conquered in a coming
war or battle seems to be a special
branch. There is the greatest diffi
culty in obtaining a professor intimate t
with the principles of the science
its entirety. There are no examinafl
tions. Every professor is supposed hfl
k'i,nv tiio.se among ins hearers who
worthy of diplomas. The
rue very highly valued, and give
holders great prestige in the
world. —Loudon Globe.
NO. 32.