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titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDono 'iui, G a .
Will practice in the counties cemposlag
ihe Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Courl
of Georgia and (he United States District
Court. api-27-ly
JAN. 11. TIIIIAUR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
Ihe Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl 6-1 v
.1. IMMtO.A,
ATT’ORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, (J a.
Will practice in all the » >urta ot Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
•othercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
’The Weekly office.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composingttie
glint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octs- 79
A. IIKOIO,
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDoxot cm, Ga.
Will practice in a’l (lie counties compos
in" the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
T| A. PRKPI.KS
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamiton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and (lie District Court of Iho
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. I). Stkwaut. | R.T. Daniei..
NI’I.WART a Itt.HIKI.,
ATTORNEYS at law,
Gkikpin, Ga.
j | «*. It. .1. AU\OM>.
Hamiton. Ga.
I hc rc.,\ tender inr professional service to
■the people of Hampton and surrounding
•country. Will attend all cal's night and
slav.
LA It CARD.
(1 nave opened a law office ill Atlanta, licit
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Couris reguiar’v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Mill lie in Mc-
Donough on ali politic (Lvs.
Office—Room 26, Gate City Hank Build
in’, Alal'amn street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L TYE.
January Ist. 188.7.
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McMullen’s, Wednesday ** f>
Bersheha. Thursday ** 7
Saiidy Hidge, Friday •* H
Locust Grove, Saturday “ It
Lowes’, Mondays “ 1 I
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OMKOUA * WAUDrr.
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
SUCCESS.
Afi wo gaze up Ufe's slope, os we g&zn
In the morn, ere the dew drojjs :iru dry
Wlnit a splendor hangs over those ways.
What a glory gleams there in tho sky l
What pleasure seems waiting ns high
On the peak of that beautiful slope.
What rainbow hued colors ot dap*.
A b we ga
As we climb up tho hill, as wo climb.
Our lieurta, our iDuslons, are rent;
For Fat<*, who is spouse* of ohl Time,
Is jeoiouH of youth and content,
With brows that are brooding and bent
She shadows our sunlight of gt4d,
And the way grows lonely and cold.
An we climb
As w*» toll on through ti outdo and i*ain,
There aiohunds that will shelter and feed;
But otu d l«?t as dare to attain.
They will bruiso our t*uo hearts till we
bleed.
"Tin the worst of all crimes to succeed—
Xuow th»s as we fast on a crust,
Know this in the darkness and dust.
Ye who climb!
As we stand on the heights of success,
ho! success seems as lutnl os defeat,
Tn rough the lives we may succor oikl bleaa
Alone may it* bitter tnru sweet;
And the world, lying there at our feet.
With its caviling praise and its sneer.
We must pity, condone and not hear.
Where w e stand
As w e live ou tboMe heights, wo must live
With the courage tun 1 pride of u god;
For tlie world, It has to give
But thorcoiirgc of the Llsli und the rod.
Our thoughts must be noble and brood.
Our must cltallengo men's g:ize,
While wo seek not their blame nor their
praise.
As we li v«.
Lila Wlieoler Wilcox.
A Fortune Just Mfoituri.
Quincy Roljison related an incident
of tiic early history of the oil regions
recently which inav give the children
of tho present generation n vague idea
of the magnitude of the transactions
which took place when oil was $S and
$9 a barrel, and poor people gained a
competency bv scooping it oil' the
surface of creeks or gathered it front
pools around the tanks which had
overflowed. The story, as told by Mr.
Robison, was as follows:
“Within a month after Col. Drake
had struck the first petroleum ever
brought to the surface in America by
means of drilling, my father and the
father of my relatives here bought a
tract of land, comprising 1,280 acres,
adjoining the farm on which the
Drake well was located, for £350,000.
Not long afterward I was sitting in
their othce one clay—l remember it
as distinctly as though it happened
only yesteiday-—when an agent for
an eastern syndicate walked in and
offered 1500,000 for the 1,280 acres.
The owners looked at him rather in
credulously for a moment, but before
they could speak he had counted out
on the table $500,000 in casli and
drafts, which he offered for a deed of
the tract. I was appalled by the sight
of the pile, but my father and the
father of these gentlemen retired for
consultation, anil decided that if the
property was worth $500,000 it was
worth $1,000,000, and the offer was
refused. Their heirs still own the
land, and now it is valued at about
$20,000. Where they could have got
dollars we could scarcely get nickels.
Thus you can see what seemingly
fairy stories could be told of those
days. They are almost- incomprehen
sible to tho present generation, but
they were red hot facts.” And a igh
of regret that the offer had not been
accepted went around the circle.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
King: Sham lUtigni.
This is an era of shams, and shams
in dress, about which so much is said
and written, are particularly notice
able. It no longer pays to purchase
“good things,” because good things
go out of date os fast as poor things,
and their extra cost is dead loss, hence
expedients of all sorts mark the ap
parel, the furniture, the houses even,
of this now almost defunct Nineteenth
century. A very expensive cheapness
has been substituted for enduring in
vestments. There are some few old
fogies yet remaining who demujid sub
stanco rather than style, and who
trust they are getting an A 1 article by
paying an A 1 price for it. Let ’em
still hope! Do not disturb their cre
dulity in advance. But. it is none tho
less true that sham ri king, precisely
as shoddy ruled Lite world in post hel
ium duys. Tho source of this condition
of affairs is not far to seek; the in
creasing populations, the greed for
money, tlie struggle to live, ail com
bine to father sjiams and nurture pre
tense. Make believes are the order of
the day. Uoslon Herald.
Army Life Im Not un Fit*»y One.
The suj)|«jsition that army life is ati
easy one is a civilian's delusion. No
occujiation on earth is more exacting.
The reveille is sounded at daylight, and
the soldier must be up and ready. Be
tween reveille in tne morning and
“taps,” at 9:30 at night, he lms to at
tend the majority of thirty three bu
gle calls, unu lie is on bis feet most of
the time till “retreat" at sunset. The
officers are busy at nearly ail times
over new military problems. They
arc called to mount and manage new
artillery that would have struck dire
dismay into armies like those of (Ae
sar, Ilaunibal or Alexander. Today
war is a science, requiring all the
skill of the best navigators, the most
able engineers and tlte finest electri
cians. All tlie known means of defense
and destruction arc availed of, even
down to the last electric triumph, the
telephone.—Baltimore American.
English Opinion of Tuj>jM*r.
As a poet Mr. Tapper enjoyed more
favor with the general public than
with the critics. His peculiar verse
has been a frequent theme for the sa
tirists. aud yet tlie attacks upon him
only seemed to confirm bis hold over
the masses. He lacked genius and in
spiration, but there v. as a kind of orac
ular air about his utterances which
greatly impressed those who did not
examine beneath Lie surface. As a
moral essayist be tt- et ved praise, and
occasionally be reamed a |s* licstrain
when animated by the fervor of pa
triotism. That lit- enjoyed a strange
and unique position in literature is be
yond question. This Ls a tribute to tlie
British heart rather lluin to its intel
lect. Personally, Mr. Tapper was a
genial, warm hearted titan, a close
friend, and a good I later of cant and
superstition, as well ns of the enemies
of Britain. —London Hines.
McDonough, ga.. Friday. January, 24,1800.
Ilia Uist Concort,
One of the most pathetic of sights
was that s- en in the Boston music hall
at the last concert given by Mario, the
once famous tenor, lie was poor, and
the hall was tilled with persons who
had been ardent udmirens of /his won
derful art, and now that he had lost
his art were willing to put money in
his purse.
The tenor tried oue of his great
songs, but his decayed voice refused
to sing the notes. Again he tried, and
again he failed. Then, with a sad
smile, and a slow-, mournful move
ment of his head, he suffered tho or
chestra to play through the air, and
retired from the stage amid the silence
of the pitying audience.
Another pathetic story is told of
Bottesini, a famous violinist, concern
ing his last concert at Parma:
It was a rainy evening and the man
agers had forgotten to send a carriage
for the veteran, who set out on foot,
and had gone some distance before a
passing friend jx-reeived him and mudo
him enter his carriage.
Arrived tit the concv'rt room. Hot-’
tesini tutted his instrument and began
to rub his bow with rosin. The rosin
crumbled in bis hands, and, turning
to his friends witii a sad half smile,
he said, “Son, it is so that Bottesini,
too, will break up."
Then lie grasped his loved instru
ment and drew -the bow across the
strings, hut instantly slopped with a
wondering look, for lie fel't something
strange in the tone; his touch was an
swered less readily and certainly than
of old.
Once more he tried, and once more
stilt)pod, this time with a simile, saying
only, “It answers no more.” llis au
dienco perceived nothing unusual itt
the performance, which they applaud
ed us warmly its ever, hut Bottesini
seemed to feel the shadow of death.
On the following day lie was stricken
with illness, and soon alter the won
derful hand was stilled forever. —
Youth’s Companion.
How Gold Are Made.
Gold rings are made from bars nine
to fifteen inches long. One of these
bars, fifteen inches long, two inches
wide and 3-16 of an inch thick, is
worth SI,OOO, and will make -100 four
pennyweight rings. A dozen processes
and twenty minutes’ time are required
to convert this bar into merchantable
rings. First a pair of shears cuts tho
bar into strips. Then by the turn of a
wheel ;i guillotine like blade attached
to tho machine cuts the bar into slices,
one, two or three sixteenths of tut inch
wide. A rolling machine next presses
out the slices and makes thorn either
flat or groovod. Each strip is then
put under a blow pipe and annealed.
The oxide of copper comes to tho sur
face and is put into a pickle of sul
phuric ticid, after which the gold is
stamped “11 k,” “16 k” or “18 k,” ac
cording to quality. Next it is put
through a machine which bends it
into the shape of a ring of the size re
quired. The ends are then soldered
with an alloy of inferior fineness to
the quality of the ring. Many jteople
think that rings are molded because
they can’t see where they are soldered.
The ring spins through the turning
lathe, is rounded, pared and polished,
first with steel filings, then with tripoli
and rouge.—Rehoboth Herald.
How Sl»« Foiled tho Tlilof. *
Some years ago one of the present
congressman from New York state and
his brother were examining the stock
of a pawnshop in London with the
hope of picking up some curiosities.
They came across a necklace of green
glass beads, which the New York man
purchased for $2.50, intending to bring
it home to his little daughter. The bro
ther was surprised to find in the shop
a counterpart of this necklace, which
he brought homo to his little girl
Two months later the latter showed
her gift to a jeweler, who pronounced
tho glass beads to be emeralds, and
who sold them afterwards for several
thousand dollats. The member of con
gress, upon hearing this, took liis
necklace to the same dealer, who pro
nounced it to he composed of glass
beads. The London pawn dealer bad
purchased them of a thief, who had
stolen them from a wealthy woman.
The latter kept the emeralds in a safe,
und wore their glass counterparts. Of
course no one could tell the difference
when the necklace encircled bel
li i rout. Ex change.
Kricßgoii’n Three I‘ur|»«HK*A.
Setting iiside minor inventions,
three distinct purposes arc apparent in
Hricssoh’s labors; first, to improve UK
steam engine and scope of its applica
tion; next, to discover some more eco
nominal and efficient method for
changing the mode of motion we call
Heat into the mode of motion wo call
Bower; third, to enforce the great
maritime nations into calling the ocean
neutral ground, by making naval war
fare too destructive a pastime to be in
dulged in, and equalizing the struggle
between the greater mid lesser states.
On the accomplishment of this last
purpose depended, in Ericsson V
judgment, the future of hi< native
Sweden. Too weak to hold her own
in a contest with any great power, un
der existing conditions, her only sure
hope of defense is in neutralizing the
dominating factors of numbers und
wealth by the efforts of genius stim
ulated by patriotism.
Love of country was with Ericsson
a supreme passion. In this control
ling sentiment, in the traits of char
acter derived from hi» -turdy Norse
ancestry, and in the training and expe
rience received in the twenty-three
years spent in his Scandinavian home,
we lind the secret of that exceptional
development of specialized faculties
which has placed hint itt the very
front rank of constructive engineers.
—“John Ericsson the Engineer,” by
Col. W. C. Church in Scribtier.
A Very Valuable Flogging.
A Hogging which Jolm James
Mayo, the Guatemalan millionaire, re
ceived some years ago laid the foun
dation for Ins fortune. He was a col
lector of insects and also acted as Brit
ish vice consul at Han Juan, where
the local commandant one day gave
him 100 lashes for some fancied
slight. Ihe British government took
up the matter and Mayo was paid $50,-
COO for the indignity. Judicious in
vestment* have since swelled this sum
to $5.000,009. Harper’s Weekly,
A TRENCH DUDE FISHING.
Tlie Gallic I«toa of Sport TjplOco In a
I'lirliiiili IMsootor.
I shall never forget a fellow I saw
one day last summer, just outside of
Baris, itshing in the Seine.
To prelude, the laws are very strict
over there itt regard to fishing and
shooting. The seasons open und shut
like a jack knife with a snap, and
woe to the transgressor. On.a certain
day in July, I think, the season opens,
and long 'before daylight of the day
the banks of the river all along the
Bois de Boulogne are lined with fisher
men sitting side by side, almost elbow
to ellxiw. 1 strolled down to the river
one day and witnessed the sport. Tak
ing out a cigar I paid a woman two
sous for a chair, ami sat down to get a
wrinkle in French fishing. For half
an hour nil sat in silence with not a
movement. Bresently one fellow had
a nibble. Immediately every eye was
turned on the little rial lloaj oil his
line. Tiie Hunt moved jjjpf’f'eptibly.
"Hie -1111111.' with every nerve strainM
and eyes riveted on the flout, breath
less with excitement, watched. The
float dipped again. The man pulled,
and the cork came to the surface, but
no fish. All along the line of fisher
men there was tin ejaculation of
“Ah!” The disappointed fisherman
put on afresh piece of bait and waited.
Bresently the fislt took hold again;
and this time he luul him. Carefully
he worked him itt to the bank, and an
attendant slipped a delicate landing
net under the fish and carried him up
the bank. There was a cry ali along
the line of fifty or more fishermen of
“Bon, bon, trosjoii."Several laid down
their rods and gathered around the
basket, lined with leaves, in which the
fish was carefully placed. He was a
monster, nearly six inches long, and
must have weighed about tout-ounces.
Then all went at it again with renewed
hope and courage.
Bresently a cab drove up and there
descended from it a dude in an elabo
rate sporting costume eyeglasses und
a broad brimmed bat. Walking leis- i
urely to the bank, a man who had ev
idently been sent ahead to secure a [«>-
sition vacated. A servant brought
from the cab a folding stisil und
placed it on the bank; returning to the
cab lie produced a delicate rod and
satchel. The rial was put together;
the satchel was opened and a small sil
ver bait box, it towel, a piece of soap
• and a bowl were placed ou another |
stool alongside.
The servant opened an umbrella and
held it over the fisherman’s head to
screen hint from the sun and the fish
ing began. It was a long wait for a
bite. Finally there was a nibble and
miss; several more nibbles and misses,
and presently there was a fish, sure
enough. The excitement all along
the bank was intense. With the aid
of the landing net the fish was se
cured. The servant essayed to take it
off the hook, but the fisherman an
ticipated hint and held it up in tri
umph. But this operation wet the
dude’s gloves, and he took them off
and threw them away.
Things wete getting interesting and
exciting, and blank the expense.
Presently another fish, which, being i
secured, the servant dimied up water" l
from the river and handed the dude
the soap and towel; and he washed his
hands. This was repeated every time
he caught a fish. All this time a gen
darme had been walking up and
down, and approaching the lucky fish
erttian there followed tin animated
conversation with much gesticulating,
seemingly a protest against such indis
criminate slaughter.
The dude waxed indignant and quit.
The servant unjointed the rod, gath
ered up the stools, umbrella and fish
busket and placed them in the cab,
which had been wailing. The dude
entered and was driven off with his
catch, numbering about six, the ag
gregate weight of which might have
been two pounds—an immense suc
cess. I have no doubt this great catch
made an item in next morning’s ]ia|ier,
with the usual lie about the weight of
the string and the big one that was
lost.
1 hail learned how the French do it.
Evidently a little fishing goes a long
way with a Frenchman. No doubt
my little man went home, took a rose
water bath and lay down for a rest
after such a fatiguing and exciting
episode. I though to myself how 1
would (ike to get that chap out in the
Rockies on a thorn bush ert-ek, of allot
day, ami make him wade the stream,
w it h an occasional stumble over a slip
pery bowlder and a s<mse under.
What a power of good it would do:
him, and what f'mj f<*r mol- -Forest
and Stream.
Early Wise.
“ ‘Ho made a feeble and impotent
gesture,read tlie father of the fam
ily from his newspaper; and then, see
ing that liiscliildn n were listening, ho
added, “Kitty, what is an ‘impotent
gesture’ V'
“I guess it’s when you snap your
fingers in somebody’s face,” returned
Kitty, wisely.
Truly,'an excellent illustration of an
impudent gesture.
It is the same Kitty who is constant
Iv asked by her younger brothel's to
define hard words because she is never
at a loss for an answer, and can al
ways find reasons, sometimes more in
genious than true.
“What is it to have versatility!"
asked Teddy one day.
“It’s to lie a poet,” returned Kitty,
without hesitation. "To make verses,
you know.”—Youth's Companion.
I)ofttli of the Dinner Hell.
The dinner la-11 has long since suf
fered a decadence, and it is rarely now
that it sends its merry tinkle through
the corridors of aristocratic houses. It
has been the custom to have meals an
nounced by the butler, or by neat
aproned and capped “Phyllises.” But
the latest is the Japanese gong. It is
a succession of three bronze hemis
pheres. graduated sizes, connected by
chains. The gong is suspended usu
ally in a convenient turveof the stair
way; and. when dinner is served, the
family is musically summoned to the
banquet hall by strokes ii(k>o the gong
with a small hammer. One artistic
wife I know of has succeeded in teach
ing her maid the notes of the sister s
call from “Die Walkure,” and three
times daily do the Wagnerian tones
fcho through the house. —Table Talk.
A Uit liter Shot at for a Scat.
Oao day last week films. Wolf, of
Bath, was down tho Kennebec in his
flout after ducks or shelldrako, and,
having spied one of tlie lutlei- birds in
the water near Lee’s island, started for
a shot. He luul sculled almost within
shot, and was anticipating securing tho
game when ping I came a rifle bullet
and struck the ice cakes on tho bow of
the lloat, the ico being used to deceive
the birds, llad Mr. Wolf had a com
panion with him in the bow, the bullet
would have struck his gun barrel ns it
layover tlte front of the lloat. Tho
hunter was somewhat disturbed by
tlie shot, which ho presumed was, of
course, accidental, but continued scul
ling toward the pbelldrako. In a lum
ping! came a second shot, this time di
rectly over his bead, and Wolf, glanc
ing in thodiroction of the shot, discov
ered a man with a rifle on tlie Bhips
but'g shore. The rifleman was shoot-
ing purposely at the float.
Immediately Wolf stood up in his
boat, ami waved his hand at tho shoot
er. at flic same time, of course,
frightening the shelldrako and losing
the bird. The man on shore, who hails
from Barker’s head, was visiting
friends in Phipsburg, aud had brought
his rifle along with which to ; hoot
seals. Seeing Wolf's lloat, which,
covered with ice, looked like an ice
floe, and, noticing Wolf lying on
the stern, he inferred that the
sportsman was a seal taking u
sail on the ice and so blazed away.
When, however, Wolf stood uji the
rifleman discovered his mistake, and
feared that he had wounded Ins hu
man game. Running to the shore, he
jumped into a (mat anil rowed out to
the float, and was greatly rejoiced to
find his supjMssed victim uninjured,
but naturally annoyed toloso his bird.
—Portland Argus.
1 mlcxliiK IbxLniortlluary.
A work on tlte “Origin of tho Hu
man Reason,” by St. George Mivart,
has been subjected to some very ab
surd indexing. Tho London Daily
News gives a sample as follows:
Mr. Mivart had referred on page
130 of his book to some articulate ut
terances of a certain parrot which
sounded remarkably like replies to
questions. This anecdote gives the in
dexer his great opportunity. He in
dexes this twice under A, and tliereaf- j
ter under twelve other letters with va
riation* of perfectly fascinating ingc-1
unity thus;
Absurd tale about a cockatoo, 136.
Anecdote, absurd one, about acock
al< m. 136
Bathiis and u cockatoo, 136.
Cockatoo, absurd tale concerning
one. 136.
Discourse held with a cockatoo, 136.
Incredibly absurd tale of a cockatoo,
136.
Invalid cockatoo, absurd fide about.
136.
Mr. Ii and tale about a cockatoo,
136.
Brejjosterous tale about a cockatoo,
130.
Questions answered by a cockatoo,
136.
R—, Mi 1 ., and talc about a cocka
too, 136.
Rational cockatoo as asserted, 136.
Tale about a rational cockatoo, as as
serted, 136.
Very absurd fide ulxiut u cockatoo, ;
136.
Wonderfully foolish talc about a
cockatoo, 136.
This is all the more astonishing as !
the book is a very dull one.
Milk ami Liumry.
•
The public analyst of Halifax, York
shire, Mr. Ackroyd, thinks that men
tal aberrution may sometimes l>o ns
cribed to tlie use of weak milk. In
The Brovincial Medical Journal, undet
the title of “The Miik Supply and Lu
ttttcy,” he draws attention to some sfit
tistics of admissions to lunatic estab
lishments in Scotland. While thf
average monthly number of adniis
sions for the eight years is 1,699, in
the months of May, June and July
the number is 628 above the average,
and 462 lie low it for the. months of Oc
tober, November, December and Jan
uary. Moreover, the rise and fall arc ’
gradual; the number going up in Feb
ruary, March and April, and down ini
July, August and (September. Such
variations, Mr. Ackroyd believes, have i
been correlated with a number of
other phenomena, and lie desires tr
add one more to the list, viz., the sou
sonal variation in the quality of milk.
He has been at the pains to plot a
curve for the years 1886 86, based on
over 33,000 samples of milk analyzed
for the Aylesbury Dairy compauy, and
tho result of his investigations goes to
show tliut there is a curious corre
spondence between the rate of admis
sions to lunatic asylums and the qual
ity of milk, the former rising as the
percentage of solids in milk is ob
served to fall.
A Sort «f Joint l'roponat*
A short time since, ut a wedding in
South Carolina, u lawyer moved that
one man should Is- elected as presi
dent; that this president should lx;
duly sworn to keep seeret all the com
munications that should be forwarded
to him in bis official capacity that
night; that each unmarried gentle
man or lady should write bis or her
name on a piece of paper, and under
it place the name of the jx;rson they
wished to marry, then hand it to the
president for inspection, and if any
lady anti gentleman had reciprocally
chosen each other, tlte president was
to infoi-m each of the result, and the
names of (nose who had not been re
ciproeal in their choice were to lx kept
entirely secret. After the appoint
ment of the president, communica
tions were accordingly handed up to
the chair. It was found that twelve
young ladies and gentlemen had
iiutdu reciprocal choices, and eleven
of the twelve matches were solem
uized.
lii tl»« Ptnoiiage.
“Henry," cried Mrs. Bmitheil,
“thera ar<- burglars in the house! Get
right up, and go downstairs.”
“No, my dear,” returned the rever
end gentleman “I hear them in the
study now. Bct-haps they will get
away with a few of those dressing
gowusand pieces of knitted brie-ti-brac
we have received. 1 don't know what
else to do with them.”—Harper's lit
zur.
HE* AJ E THE HASH.
▲ West Tcnnciirutn TeisuadMi a V)u<Le
* Drummer to Fat Supper.
“Speaking of Hash,” sajd tho drum
mer, helping himself Ixutnlifully and !
hitching his napkin above his ample
vest, •■reminds me of an incident 1 saw I
in West Tennessee. I have made u good i
many trips in those j it-ts and always i
have some rich experiences.
. “The first time 1 went to N the j
train slowed tip at t'-6 station just ;
about dark, and I was hungry as a
ljun ter. I its iked out m bioufdy on the 1
two or three dim lights twinkling
among the trees on either side tlie |
t rack.
‘Looks like a po’ shoin’ fur a nun
grv titan out there,’ said the i«>rter, as
1 handed him bis quarter.
“ ‘Tlist s what,' said I, as I stepped
down ami the train pulled out.
“/Hotel, boss'd said n voice on the
platform beaule mo.
“ ‘Yes, since,’ 1 answered as a negro
boy held out lint hand for
want \ good -un, and 1 want it quick.’
“ jj.-ss di" l sir,’ stud the
negro.
“1 stumbled on after tho boy,’ stump
ing my toes over every root und stump
in tlie road, and finally camo to a lit
' tie, new, whitewashed house inside a
yard, whose gateway was empty.
“ ‘One gen’ltnan,' said the negro to
the man who came out on the little
porch ns we stepped up.
“‘Hungry (’ said two man giving u
jerk to his suspenders and jamming
his bands in bis breeches pockets.
“ ‘As the mischief I’ 1 answered.
“ 'Well, jess keep er walkin' an’
ycr'll strike the dinin’ room.'
“Supper was on the table and smok
ing hot. I think 1 ute about a quart
of hash and it peek of bu. i-uits. The
old man eyed me pretty closely. He
was a goisl eater, but 1 phased him. I
He got through, leant hia coat less el
bo; , upon the table aud watched me.
“ ‘Blague take the <1 rummer,'he said
after uwltile, ‘1 b lievo he'll eat up all
tho butter. Joe, move the plate.’
“1 calmly helped myself to Ihe last !
quarter of a pound of butter and j
shoved the empty plntu across to the I
grinning negro, who was both porter
and waiter.
“After that visit the old fellow and 1 ;
wore side partners. With a little sub
stantial urging i used to induce him to j
kill game for me. Ho was u famous
hunter, and told me wonderful talcs
about bis exploits with 'ole meat in
tho-pot,’ as he called his gun, which j
hung tiixm two pegs over the fireplace ]
m the dining room.
“As I got off the train one night a
young fellow got out of another coach
and came up to me ou the platform,
lie was a little hit of a fellow, diked
out in a suit, wearing a crush
hat and a pair of eyeglasses, und car
rying a brand new grip. 1 sized his
pile ut once. He was a dude, a green
horn drummer, ou his first trip out.
“ ‘Bay, can you tell a mutt where to
find a hotel in this God forsaken
! place?’ lte said.
“‘Just keep your eye on me and
follow our nose,’ I answered.
“The old man was expecting me,
und had a stowed squirrel rctuiy for
my supper. The dtitlc wutchod me as
1 helped myself to some.
" ‘Buid ex try for it,” said the old
man, eying him. “Ile’p yerse'f ter
the hash; that's public property.’
“ ‘Thanks, awfully, ’ said the (hide;
hut I never eat li.e-.lia.way from home.
One wants to know the prehistoric ex
istence of hash,’ he added, with a
laugh.
“ ‘Don’t eat hush, eh?’said the old
man, straightening himself up.
“ ‘Not much,’ Haiti the dude. ‘I sttp
txise you’ve heard lhat you can take u
horse to water, but you cannot make
him drink.’
“ ‘Don’t cat hash? Gimme olctneat
in-tbe-pot, Joe, an’ we’ll flavor tho
hash to his taste.’
"The fellow turned white around
the gills as the old man took the gun
and cocked it.
“He looked at mo helplessly, but I
only helped myself to the last morsel
of squirrel aud said nothing.
“ ‘He’)) yerse’f to the hash, stranger ’
said tlie old man, pushing the dish
across the table with the rifle.
“Nuf said; ho ate hash.”—Bhiladel
phia Tithes.
ITia neat G!rl*s K«w>* In Gold.
A new industry has made its ap
pearance in the hotel corridors which,
fmm the satisfied expression of tho
proprietor's face, scents to pay hand
some profits. The man does not con
fine himself to any one locality, but is
now found in one familiar corridor,
now in another. His business* has a
certain amount of sentiment in it, for
but of thin sheet gold he manufactures
pretty lace pins, tlte design of which
is the signature of tiny fair one to
whom lit-, customer desires to present
his offering. The signature, which,
singularly enough, is almost without
exception tile first name of the maiden,
is clipixsl front the end of a letter aud
handed to the artist. After looking at
it closely through a magnifying glass
he get i a thorough idea of tlie propor
tion of i‘ , .shading anil all of its char
acteristics. Then with the thin sheet
of gold in iiis lingers und u delicate
pair of finely tcuqx-red scissors and u
hair file he ri produces the signature
in the precious metal itt an incredibly |
short time. The w ork of soldering a
pin to the signature and packing it in
a box tilled with tinted and perfumed
cotton i; a matter of a few moments.
It is said that bridegrooms are this
man’s chief patrons. New York
Times.
Minor* und Jury I>uty.
One day this week I made the as
tounding discovery that in order to bo
eligible to jury duty it is not accessary
that tlie party summoned on a panel
should be 21 years of age. The name
of ray son, who is not 20 years of age,
was given in a list of young men, in
the house where ho is employed, sup
posed to lie eligible for jury duty,
when I went to see Judge Withrow
on tho boy’s behalf, I stated the fact
of his minority, but the judge said
tliat made no difference; that if he
was but if y ears of age and possessed of
the requisite intelligence he would be
obliged to serve, and that failure to
appear would lay him liable to attach
ment aud fine. Ttiis was news to me.
It seems under tlie law that a man
may be too old for jury service, but
not too young.—lnterviewioSt. l»qis
Globe-liemocrat.
~><tnUlew #f tlie Tlm« of Clmrlen L
When Villiers, James Is and
diaries Ts favorite, went on his mis
sion to Paris iu lGiki he had no fewer
than sevon qpd-tweuty suits of clothes
made, the richest that embroidery,
lace, silk, velvet, gold and g«mii could
contribute, one of which was a white
uncut velvet, “set all over, both suit
and cloak, with diamonds valued at
four score thousand rounds, besides a
great feather, stuck nil over with dia
monds." “It was common with him,”
says a contemporary, “at an ordinary
dancing to have his clothes trimmed
with ureal diamond button, and to
have diamond hat bands, cockades
and oarrilies; to be yoked with great
and manifold ro] mm and knots of pearl:
ill short, to be manacled, fettered and
imprisoned in jewels.”
To the (n-ovniliug extravagance in
dress the satirists again allude in the
severest terms. "1 have much won
dered," says lleiity Penchant, “why
our English, above other nations,
should so much dole u|ioii new fttsh
! ions, but more 1 wonder at our wuut
! of wit that we cannot invent them
j ourselves, but, when one is grown
stale, send presently over into Franco
1 to seek a new, making that noble ami
flourishing kingdom the magazine of
our fooleries, and for this purpose many
of our tailors lie legor (i. e. reside)
there, and ladies jest over their gen
tlemen ushers, to accouter them and
themselves as you sec. Hence came
your slashed doublets (as if the wear
ers were cut out to be carbonadoed
upon the coals) and your half shirts,
piecadillies (now out of request), your
long breeches, narrow toward the
knees like a jiair of smith’s bellows,
tlio spangled garters pendant to the
shoe, your perfumed perukes or peri
wigs, to show us that lost hair may be
had again for money with a thousand
such fooleries unknown to our manly
forefathers."
The reader may find it a pleasant
change to turn to the rhyming moral
ists. Here to the fore comes John
Taylor, the so called water poet,
launching his shafts- not too sharply'
pointed -at the excess of those who
wear:
A form in nhot*ntrln;'M ed with gold.
And HpaiigWxi guririd worth a copyhold;
A ho«te and doublet with a lordship cotit,
A gundy eJ«iuk (thru* manor’s pri« o uliuout,)
A iwav<*r band ami feather for the head,
lYi/ed nt the churbli'u tithe, the [«x>r mati't
bread.
—Ot'ntlomun’B Magazine.
An Unknown l.nnd.
Washington Ims her great unknown
laud, like the interior of Africa, says
The Seattle Press. Tho eountry shut
in by the Olympic mountains, which
includes an area of about a,500 miles
square, bus never, to the positive
knowledge of old residents of the ter
ritory, been trodden by the foot of
man, white or Indian. These moun
tains rise from tho level country,
within ten or lificen miles of the
Straits of San Juuu de Fuca in the
north, the Pacific ocean in the west,
Hood’s canal in the east, and the basin
of the lake in the south, ami,
rising to the height of 11,000 to 8,001)
feet, shut in a vast unexplored area.
Tho Indians have never penetrated
it, for their traditions say it is iiiliqb
ited by a very tierce tribe, which none
of the coast tribes dated molest.
Though it is improbable that such u
tribe could have existed in this moun
tain country without I heir presence be
coming known to (he white men, tni
man has ever ascertained that it did
notexist. White men, too, have only
vaguo accounts of any white man buy
ing ever passed through this country,
for investigation of all the claims of
travelers has invariubly proved that
they have only traversed its outer
edges.
The most generally accept/si theory
in re parti to this country is that it con
sisted of great valleys, stretching from
the inward slopes of the mountains to
a great central basin. This theory is
supported by the fact that, although
the eountry uround bus abundant nun
and clouds constantly hang over the
mountain tops, ull the streams Mowing
toward the four points of tho compass
are insignificant and rise only on the
outward siojies of the range, none ojr
pearing to drain the great lukes shut
iu by the mountains. This fuel appears
to support the theory that streams
flowing from the inner slopes of the
mountains feed a great interior lake,
but what drains this lake? It must
have ail outlet somewhere, and, as ail
the streams pouring from the moun
tains rise on their outward slopes, it
must have a subterranean outlet to the
ocean, the straits or the sound. There
are great discoveries in store for
some of Washington’s explorers.—Ex
change.
A Nnmeroii* Family.
There are some good sized families
in Maine today, but probably none so
large u?t one mentioned in the histories
of old colonial days. It is told on the
authority of Cotton Mather that the
llrst royal governor of Boston was one
of a fftiniiv of twenty six children, and
was born in the woods of Maine near
the mouth of the Kennebec in 165 L
His mother was left a widow when he
was n child, and is said to have had all
she could do to provide for the wants
of her family. It is hoped that when
the governor got SIOO,OOO, a knight
hood and a goblet valued at $5,000 as
a reward for finding a Spanish treas
ure ship that had gone to the bottom
half a century before, he remembered
iiis mother and made her last days eas
ier than her earlier ones had been.—
Exchange.
Two Remarkable Inventions.
Some of the monasteries of Italy
and France sent curious inventions to
the Paris exposition. One from a friar
in Florence was a watch but the fourth
of an inch in diameter, having three
hands, minute hour and second, be
sides an indicator which points out
the day of the week, mouth and year.
A monastery in Brittany, France, con
tributed a plain looking mahogany
table, with an iulaid chess board on its
surface. The inventor, or any one who
desires, sets the pieces for a game and
sits alone on one side of the board. He
plays cautiously, and the opposite
pieces move automatically anu quite
frequently come out the victor, no
odds how scientifically the player
plays. There is no mechanism appar
ent" beneath the table top, which seems
to be a solid mahogany board. —tit.
Louis Republic.
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