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Newspaper Page TextTHE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. VOL. XIV. rig* &4KIH 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of pifril v, strength and wliok*s«»nu*wvsa. More economical than the ordinary klrwts, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Koval Bakino Bowokr Co., 10(i Wall street, New York. novl3-lv GRIFFIN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. We announce to the Puf>l:c that we are prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take orders for all kinds ot Boil ers. We are prepared to do all kinds ot repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valveg, Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron aud Brass Castings of every Description. ON noun A WALCOTT, rmit ESHIONAL CAIt l)M. j|K. I*. PIMPHIXIo DENTIST. McDonol'oii Ga. Any one desiring work done can )»c ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made'. Gao W. Bryan j W.T. Dm kkn, URYAIK A IHCKKH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MoDokouoh, Ga. Will practice in the counting composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court ei Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-)v JAW. 11. i l K^m ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDoNOnr.ii, Will practice in the counties nposinp the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District C ourt. marlti - | y attorney at-law. McDonohob, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention.given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. J i\ wai.i., ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonouoh, Ga . Will practice in the counties composing* lie Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. octs- 79 A. lIROWN. ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonouoh, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of (♦eorgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly {j A. IMIUPI.KS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ham ETON, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court of the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oat 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel. HTKWAKT A ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Gbipein, Ga. JjR. R. .1. A ItYOM). Hampton. Ga. I hereby tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all calls night and day. | OH A I.- Ti 11. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, Atlanta. Ga. Practices in the State and Federal Courts. For Sale or Kent. T4 T K have a splendid farm of 160 acres »Y lying 4 miles troin Stockbridge, Ga., near Flat Rock, known as the Nancy E. Crumbley place, tor sale or rent. Will’ sell for $i,200, one tenth cash, and the Imlano in ten equal annual installments, 8% inter est on deferred payments, payaMe annually: or will rent for third and fourth to good parties. Apply at once to C. M. Srnr-s, McDonough ,Ga. .WIUKTO ItlllM OR si. All persons indebted to Dr. J C. Tcrnip seed, late deceased, will take notice that all the notes and accounts due him are placed in our hands for collection, and unless set tlement" aie made at once, we will lie com pelled to institute legal proceeding* far col lection. BRYAN 4 DICKEN. POLYGLOT THEATRES. Pluy houites In New York Where They &|M««tk No LHUgiittge. Among the heterogeneous popula tion of Now York city there is none so distinct and individual as its Slav* element. It is composed mainly of Hebrews, who have their own butch ers, their grocers, and, last and great est, their own theatres. It seems won- j derful that while the Germans of this , city are barely able to sustain one the atre, and while the French, Spanish and Italiun residents have none at all, the Russian and Polish Jews should have four playhouses of their own. Three of these are situated in the Bowery; the fourth is at the house formeAy known as Poole’s theatre on Eighth street, near Fourth avenue. In these three theatres the plays are given in Hebrew, or at least in a jargon of Hebrew, German and Russian, which purports to be Hebrew. The •‘dramas’' bear such titles as "The Fall of Jeru salem,” “The Flood of Johnstown/' “King Solomon,” “King David,” “Lord Montefiorw” and others, the bill boards bearing these names being print ed in Hebrew and English. Tiie classes which frequent aud sup port tliene theatres arc the poorest, be mg composed of the Jews to be found in the so called “New Jerusalem,” in the district between Division street and Canal. Their dwellings are the most übject tenements, where a family of six which has a whole room to itself is considered in affluence. They earn their living—if such it can be culled-*-, hv stitching shirts and coats for “sweaters”—men who take contracts for clothing and who emplby these Jews to do the work for such prices as six cvuits for a shirt and twenty-seven cents for a coat neatly stiehed and finished. Yet, notwithstanding their* destitution, these people always man uge to lav aside -a little money for their amusement. Admission to their theatres costs from ten to fifty cents, and most of tlie houses do a thriving business. Tlie one in tjie Bowery Below Canal street,. aRd which is building formerly occupied by thcTbalia theatre, is espe cially prosperous. The actors in most of these theatres are of u very poor, order, but educated Hebrews have stated that the troupe which until re cently was at Poole’s theatre, under the auspices of what was known its the Harp of Duvkl society, was an uncom monly good one. The audiences are partial to relig ious plays, and their fervor knows no bounds when the glory ot Solomon is portrayed. As a rule, they are quiet and peaceful people, who, although they are addicted to the wearing of loud combinations of colors and to the eating of peanuts and cakes and the driukmg of soda wuter during the per formances at their theatres, commit no graver offense against the laws and customs of the country.—New York Commercial Advertiser. The Smelt of Hoolch. One of tlie assistants at the British museum tells me that visitors to that institution frequently have a hard time getting “acclimated” to the place. An hour spent in the rooms invariably gives the visitor (for the first time) a headache. Some times it is only after repeated visits that one is able to in dulge his researches without carrying away a headache with hitn. Women seem to be particularly sensitive to this curious tnaladv, which is said to arise from the peculiar odor created by the storage of so munv books. You can get some idea of what this odor is by going to your book cuse. that lias been closed for twenty-four hours, and open ing one of the doors; immediately your olfactories will be greeted by the mustiest fragrance imaginable.--Eu gene FieliTs London Letter. • . Teeth. A dentist at Rockville, Me., has suc cessfully replanted four teeth In a boy’s mouth. The boy was taken to the den tist about eight hours after an accident, when the hemorrhage had ceased. The latter replaced the fractured labial por tion of the process, syringed the sock ets with a solution of phcnul sodique and replaced tlie teeth in their natural position. He then braided them all together with heavy linen thread. Three weeks after he removed the sup port and found the teeth as firmly im planted us if they hud never been Knocked out. —Chicago Herald. A Collection of Clover*. James L. Pennypacker, of Philadel phia, has a curious collection of clov ers from different states. The clovers are mounted upon a card so as to rep resent a four leaved clover. One leaf is mode up of eleven four leaved clo vers, another of nine five leaved clo vers,another of nine six leaved clovers, and the fourth of six nine leaved clo vers. The stem is represented by a se ries of clovers containing cup or fun nel leaves, and at the very end is one clover having nine leaves and a cup and another clover having thirteen leaves.—Chicago Times. . To “Cat hj»<l Eun. H 'The phrase to “cut and run” origi nated from a peculiar custom of the ancient Egyptian embalmers. A low caste official was employed to make the first incision in the corpse, a pro cess viewed with much superstition and hatred by the people, who held all mutilators of the dead as being ac cursed. As soon as the incisor made his “cut” he took to his heels, pursued by sticks, stones and curses. For his living the poor wretch “cut,” and to save his life ho had to "run.”—St Louis Republic. At Naples a marble statue of the pa triot Mario Pagano,executed by Achilla d’Orsf for the commune of Brienza, was standing ready in tlie workshop, packed to be sent to Brienza, when some boys in the shop kindled some wood to make a fire to warm them selves. They left the workshop with out extinguishing the fire, and tlie flames spread to the sawdust laid for the statue to slide on when removed, and in a short time the figure, all but the head, was burned ana reduced to chalk. The statue weighed five tons, and was valued at 13,000 francs. McDOXOTJGH, GA., FlllDm, MAY'KL 1890. 44* ■t- 1 f i jr at.. CHAOS IN THE ORCHESTRA. A Little Devil with the Face of a Saiut Was the Cauaa of It All. The pretties; girl in a whole nest of beauties that sat in a box at tho comic opera the other night was one of those irrepressible creatures that fam ine or death could not control. Site looked gentle and good. Beside the roseate flush that beamod over Iter cheeks there was a deviltry of manner about her that could not have been ttb solutely innate. It so chanced that the stout and bald gentleman playing upon the base viol stood immediately beneath the box wherein the pretty girl was sitting, so close to her, in fact, that the long handle of his viol extended upward almost to her perfect nose. For some moments after the opera began the girl gazed Interestedly at the instrument without apparently listening to tlie musk- that progressnil on the stage. Then, while no one but herself was watching, site leaned forwurd and, extending, a gloved hand,’ twirled one, of IBe keys out of place. There was, a moment luter a severe discord that caused tlie leader of the orchestra to glance sharply round, and uic>t the prima donna wiu thrown out of tune by the false notes that continued to conic from the big fiddle. The fnt player reochod excitedly up to the keys of his instrument and placed it into tune again, hut no sooner had he done so than the wicked girl in the box reached forward and unscrewed several of the keys at once. It was an important point during a solo, while the viol was being Utilized as the principal accompaniment, and the horrible discords that poured forth were the audience could bear. The prima donna stopped short ill her song, tlie orchestra conductor banged his baton modi v against liis music rock, aud every player in tlie band lost bis bead, the result being ohaos of tlie himl. And while this insanity reigned the cause of It all. the pretty girl its the box, sat calmly back is her chair, making faces of sorrow at the misfortune that prevailed ai-oundher. When the player of the bass viol got his lustra- OK-nt back into condition again and tlie ojiera was progressing smoothly tlie mischievous beauty looked fully as innooertt us the best scholar in a con vent school, and no one but she and I was conscious that she was a little devil with the face of a saint.—Now York Letter. i • SeitMbtlomil NewHpa|M«rs. It is usually assumed that tlie sole responsibility for the sensationalism and vulgarity of a portion of the Amer ican press rests upon its publishers and conductors. Now, it is a truism to say that there would be less criti cism of the actions of others if every one felt a due responsibility for his own actions. Tlie purveyor of scan dal and sensational nows does not merely offer to satisfy an existing de mand, but lie stimulates and creates an appetite by which he profits. lie is not indeed resjionsible for the taste of tlie world, but he is responsible for any action of his that mukeait worse. This desire for publicity bus been cul tivated by the newspapers, but did the/ create iti Would the newspa pers continue jLo minister to it if the public did not sustain themi We are enraged at. the jeurnals for daily vio lations of privacy that sliould be *e cred, but who buys the journal*! Whatever the newspapers are, is it not about time the public begau to con sider its rcs|K>nsibility in tlie easel The fuir conclusion of tlie whole matter seems to be that the American people huve the sort of newspapers they prefer. An increasing numlier, no doubt, prefer u clean and trust worthy newspuper. Butin this coun try we an; estimated by majorities.— Cliarles Dudley Warner in Forum. A Turn* Leopard. Rev. J. G. Wood, the myAirulist, in his new book on aniuulsi says: “An other fact almost as astonishing as this is that wild animals arc complete ly fascinated and can be tamed by per fumes. There was a Mrs. Lee in India who had a faille leopard that played in the house with her children, lie was very inquisitive, as ail of the cat tribe are, and loved to stand on bis liind legs und with his Tore paws on the window sill look out at the passers by. When the children want ed the place for themselves thev would all lake hold of his tail and pull him down by that. “He was generally very amiable, but sometimes, bis claws being very :huip, the children were scratched. Bo Mrs. Ijn taught Hal to keep his claws sheathed by giving him when he did so a little paper tray on which lavender water Lad been dropped. This would throw him into transports of delight. He would tear the into bits aud roll over with them on tlie floor.” Mr. Wood says that with nothing but a bottle of lavender water he himself lias become the best of friends with a leopard, a tigress and a lioness in the menagerie. A Curious Custoas. The curious custom at Queeu’s col lege, Oxford, of presentlug p needle and thread to each of the guests at a banquet is a pious memorial of the founder. Robert Eaglesfield, on whose name “Mguille et fils," forms a kind of rebus. Jhe story goes that Henry IV (whose son, afterwards Henry V, was a somewhat riotous member of the in stitution), complained to the authori ties of the expense aud wastefulness of the college, whereupon the youthful prince made his next appearance be fore his royal father with needles hanging from the eyelet holes of his doublet, in order to l>ear testimony to his newly resolved thrift.—Montreal .Star. Costly liuMcta. Dr. L. B. Clifton, the well known naturalist, has succeeded in hatching out a rare species of math, known to entomologists as A Uic.uk luna. For a specimen of this moth Dr. Ciifton was paid |IOO two years ago by the Earl of Rose berry, who is quite an enthusiast in that line. The present specimen is valued at >SO. New York Telegram. ORIGIN OF TELEGRAPHY. A Zjr.n-ui That Was iJajVegiM Uvfaus th» ChrlsUau Krw Sttt6j Lights. There was a system of telegraphy between the site of Chicago and that of the city of Mexico before (he days of Morse; lief ore Franklin's discovery; 1 before the discovery of America £y Columbus -perhaps before the days < j Christ. Hucti are tha'Tuiaertious of a Chicago Tribune Correspondent who asks consideration of statement bn the following basis: Chicago was certainfj* terminus of a telegraph luft whose other end was in Mexico, at so remote a period of the world 1 * history that the very name of the race that built it m buried in oblivion. It wua not tlie In dians. The ancestors o? Tecumsoh and Hiawatha ure moderns compared with the earlier race. The first teiegrapidbfl -c.twn wu employed some cetawfifoa -ago by that . curious race o' people that built the huge uiouiuL of earth that are mot w ith every where m the Mississippi valley aha down to the Atlantic coast. We call the people of that age amply Mound Builders for waut of a better mune. The race is dead. Tlie last man ef them hod passer! to his eternal rest loug before this land became the home of tlie modern redmen. Bift the mighty wudtsof those simple’ ifeople live after them. We look upon their great earth works, mid like Vtthiey among his ruins, can only feer t&ai to them is due our veneration. * *fV>r them we must entertain at least* feeling of re spect. being, as they am, the Just re maining vestiges of a race most re markable and most, interesting pf all the men on earth, smiisging uiystteri ously into existence; living for cen turies and dually disappearing as eom- Sletelv from tlie face of the earth a* jough they never had been born. Buttig wholly unkifewn to Other peoples of their times, qpe have uo data on which to base a lejiuhic history of Huh race of fa il. Our anti quarians tell ns that - they built »ub stantiul cities: that they were tillers of the soil; that they knew tlte princi ples of art; that they? had a written language and a religio*.; that they had a commercial system, and that they oould send a message ijgross the coun try with the velocity if light. A telegraph in prehistoric times, as we look back upon it, serums certainly • myth, yet it is aftep all the simplest thing imaginable, , did not claim for it tlie cleclftJY'Aneiple of the Morse telegraphs 'ifsHleetricity which Franklin found hHMt-lf able to control would have •ret) totally un available in the haifs* of primitive people. Tiie Mound Builder* telegraphic sys tem consisted of svWuiiaiu. of large moumls, starting at Ttliicago, hence bearing across the eouutiy to lVairie du Chinn, Wis., thence down tlie Mis sissippi to Arkansas and onward in a more or less straight line to the ter minus at the City of Mexico, then the capital of the Aztec empire. -These mounds were built in the most suitable locations, so that a fire liglged at one point oould be seen distinctly at the next, aud thus a signal light could be hastily transmitted from one station to another over the thousands of miles which separate the two terminal points of the line. The signal stations are located often at a distance of many miles, perhaps a half dozen spanning a hundred miles; thus, as may readily be seen, a danger signal coulu be sent across a state with the speed of light. Around these sig nal mounds are usually grouped thou sands of a lesser size, atia sometimes a fortification or other earthwork, indi cating that a city of a large size had originally existed on the spot. Thus at Toolesboro, la., in addition to one of the most remarkable iuclos ure earthworks of the continent, there ate mounds of all shapes and sizes, the number running up into the thou sands. No better selection of a signal station could have been secured than this. On the very brow of a great bluff overlooking the Mississippi are located the eight huge conical mounds of eurth ui>on which the signal tires were lighted, away back in nnother age of the world’s history, telling a hue of danger or festivity. A light at this point would be instantly observed at Muscatine, the next station, twenty miles to the north, or Flint Hills, now Burlington, away in the hazy distance, thirty miles to the south, and thence could be transmitted from mound to mound, from station to station, ban dreds of miles in either direction. Tins telegraphic system employed by tlie Mound Builders is the greatest wonder of the western world. Nor is it a myth, as so frequently originates in the fertile imagination of the news paper writer, but the mounds and earthworks are there to show for them selves, and their purjioseisself evident. Now forests have grown up, so that between many of the stationh the line of observation is cut off; hence the line is out of repair; but students of archaeology assert and believe that the thousands of mounds in the long line from Chicago to Mexico City were, be yond a doubt, signal stations in the first and original telegraph system. Mu mm tad Crocodile*. British enterprise having been de lighted with Egypliuit cats, is now turning its attention to the crocodile pets ut Maabeteh, where there is a rick mine of nitrates of immense extent. The crocodiles are laid like sardines in a box, with palm leaves between them, the interstices being (filled up with myriads of eggs. The crocodiles are done up in bundles, covered with cloth. Uis believed that beyond these are \ auiu containing mummied croco diles, aud in which vast treasures are stored. Chicago Herald. Gulog Hound the Isttk. The time reauired for a journey around the eartn, by a man walking day and night, without resting, would be42B days; an express tram, 40days; sou nil, at a medium temperature, 32! hours; a cannon ball, 21f hours; light, a little over one-tenth of a sec ond; and electricity, passing over a copper wire, a little under one-tenth Of a second. -Exchange. SI.OO CASH, $1.50 ON SPACER ANgWCmTWffv OF GUACHARO. j A HulibKiMui, Ms*ll la South Auteriiw 1 That Mu Mol llauu l%Uy Ksptorrd. Among tlie many sahtorruticau fe •dasses which are met wU in different 'parts of tlie world few are more re markable, and few less known gener ally, than tiie cave of Gmichuro, in the republic of yonesuelu, In South America. Indeed, until mimholdt published bis UuiSterly delineation iff this quarter of Umi globe European* were ignorant of its existence, *i thodgh it had been long known to the Spanish missionaries, and was for gen drations a place of uwe and. terror to the unlives. It is situated near the picturesque and delightful valley of Cariue, which lies to live went of the Gulf of Duria, in about It) drurs of north latitude. In a country where * love of the uirrylous h * flrymineyt feature of the menial character a euvern w liwue unexplored recesses give birth to a river, and which is iiUiubited by my riads of nocturnal birds, whose terri ble enee awaken all tb« echoes of the dreary subterranean, is, of course, a never failing subject of conversation, and tlie attention of Humboldt was very arum drawn to it. Tlie cavern continues to wind in the same direction, to lie of the same breadth and to retain its original height of about 70 feet for adistance of 1,460 feel, beyond which it begins to con tract in it* dimensions. Throughout Its length flows a stream of water, in some places SO feet in breadth and 2 feet in depth, but from wliat source thiwsuhterrAneau river comes no on# a* yet has been able to tell, as the roughnemi of the cavern and various impediments prevent the progress of explorers beyond a certain point. On taming from tlie mouth of the cave, and running a few leagues, the stream joins the ttiver Hanta Maria, whoae waters ultimately full into the Gulf of Puriu. Humboldt was astonished to find the eavcrn abounding in vegetation con siderably beyond the distance which tlie sun’s light penetrated. Tt appears that seeds which ure carried Into the cave by the old birds to feed their young spring up wherever tiiey can tlx themselves in the mold that covers the calcun-ousincrustations. Blanched stalks, with some half formed leaves, were found to have attained the height of two feet. "t )i It is well known that when light u excluded from plants they become pals and disfigured, of which an instance 6n a grand scale wus here afforded. In advancing, the vault gradually began ti> contract in height, and, in propor tion a* it became lower, the crie* of tiie guachuroes sounded more shrill and piercing. 'The Indians at last re fused to proceed any further, and Hum boldt was compelled to retract# his steps to the free air and the light of day. He found thgt abishop had |ienKrated much furtileF than he, having meas ured nearly 2,500 fee t from tlie mouth tothes[)ot where he stopped, although the cavern, to all appearance, extend ed a great deal deeper.—New York ledger. Stage Flight. Talking of stage fright and of a young orator’s nervousness while ad dressing his first works to a public au dience, a popular speaker said; * ‘There is no moral or medical method that 1 know of for overcoming that awful thumping of the heart which eouics suddenly upon an untried and even many a practiced speaker. It ruins the dinner—until tho ordeal is over - of many a great man down on the bills for a speech, and at times is so violent that only a strong physical effort will enable a man to retain even an appear ance of calmness. It is said there is a preparation which, if sniffed before speaking time comes, will retard the action of the heart. But I know of nothing effectual.”—lnterview in Chi cago Herald. Tbs lhuil.il Bisasarok. Herr I P. 8. Estrupp, the prime minister of Denmark, whom King Christian persists in maintaining in office in defiance of the protests or an overwhelming majority of tiie na tional legislature, is a consumptive, weary looking little man of unprepos sessing appearance. His small frame is, however, filled with ail immense amount of energy. During the fifteen years that he has held the premiership lie has ruled the country with an iron liand, and fearless to the anger which he excites. He is often described us the Danish Bismarck.—New York Telegram. Italia Ware lnwM Is 400. The invention of bells is attributed to Paulinus, bishop of Nola, in Cam pania, about 400. Tiiey were first used in churches us a defense against thun der and lightning. They were first hung in England, at Cruyluud abbey, in 945. in tiie Eleventh century anil later it was the custom to baptize them in churches before they were used. The curfew bell was established in 1068 and discontinued in 1100. Bell men were appointed in Loudon in 1530 to ring the bells at night and cry, “Take care of your fire and caudle, be charitable to the poor and pray for the dead.” Ailliw of Klcotrloltr on tb« Hudf. An electrician, writing on the ac -1 tion of electricity on tiie human body, Hays that just wliat takes place in the human organism to produce deuth from an electric current seems to be , an unsolved problem. One of tbe the ories sometimes advanced concerning it is that wlien a being suffers death from electric shock it is a pure ease of internal rupture or explosion from the feneration of ga» or vapor.—New ‘ork Commercial Advertiser. A Doctor's Mistake. A traveling doctor in Tennessee thought he had discovered a way to prevent a person from taking cold, and he sold a quart of the preventive to a farmer for $lO. Two (bates of it killed the man stone dead, and tiie doc tor is notv trying to convince the peo ple that he meant well, but simply made a uiir>luke, as even the best phy sicians are prone to. —Detroit Free Press. DUNCAN.SC/18P, * GROCERS, ' 17 WHITEHALL AMD 88 BROAD STS* ATLIhTA, CA. ** •i* v » ■MU-,,- . _ T > *> * ?U?J» *-Hk.tCV ■*• • . *s«-■; - > r«-.. ,*.7T. ,* v •’ ; i f' . .*'**: , f}- , *"/ Flour, Meat, Lard, Sugars, Coffees, To baccos, Cigars, Etc. Hay, Bran, Oats, Corn and Feed Stuffs a Specialty. (We desire to call attention to our numerous Ilenrycoun ty friends and patrons, that wo are handling, the following celebrated brands of flour : OCEAN SPRAY, POINT LACE ■AND PRINCESS. We have handled these goods for a long time and offer them tp the trade with perfect confidence, and with a strict guarantee. .. t , We are ol&ring SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS in .ft • Syrups and Tobaccos. We buy from tirst hands'and in large quantities. Send us orders and we guarantee lowest prices and perfect satisfaction y We desire also to thank the people of Henry County lor the very liberal patronage they have given us in the past and to solicit their future orders. Write to usjor quotations. DUNCAN 5- CAMP, ASPHALT COMES FROM TRINIDAD. A Pitch Lako That Appro! h to Ha loss houallblo In lla Supply. The island of Trinidad is about sixty miles long by fifty wide, and lies off the mainland from Venezuela, within sight <tf the coast. The inland has es pecial interest to New Yorkers, because it is from a pitch lake in its interior that the asphalt is secured with which our streets are being paved. The lake bus an area of uliout 185 acres. Al though its surface bus been cut down for twenty years to secure pitch, its level lias not been lowered, showing that the supply is practically inex haustible. It is like trying to empty a well with a teaspoon. The princi pal business of tiie island is sugar piaking. cocoa making and cocoanut raising. In 1889 about 83,000 tons of asphult were shipped away, 85,000 tons of sugar, and an amount of cocoa equal to one fourth the entire supply of Eurojie, where the Trinidad cocoa is all sold. Ixibor on the island is very cheup, coolies be*ug brought by the government from India, on three and five year labor contracts to work for 15 and 20 cbnts per day. There is a railroad on the island, the longest line of which is thirty-four miles from Port of Spam to 8«n Fer nando. It was built and is operated by tbe government. When it was first laid construction trains were run over it before ballasting and the rails are consequently war|>ed and bent and twisted, until it is impossible to run the fastest train over it at more than fifteen miles an hour. It takes two hours and a half to go from Port of Spain to Bau Fernando. Matthew Tay lor. who is a well known uspliult pave ineut contractor of this city, once offered to build all the railroads the government wanted If they would give him each alternate square mile of land alongtim road, but Lis offer was refused. Money is made in Trinidad sugar plantations and cocoanut forests. The cliiaf justice of the colony lias been retired on a pension. He was sent out from England about twelve years ago. Eight years ago a notable sugar plan tation wus offered for sale for CMJO. He hud a little money and considera ble credit, and bought the place. When he retired from oft* bench, iu 1880, he had paid for tne plantation and improved it to stndi an extent that it is considered worth $270,000. Hitters are made in Trinidad by a wealthy wan who has a large family, fully thirty persons being dependent upon him. He has a fine place Iqnown as “Tlie Convent" on account of the walls around it, and tiie moat marvel ous stories ure told of the eating ca pacity of his family, said to be conse quent on their free use of tiie (titters. His daughters, when they marry, get a marriage portion of 5,000 rases of bitters. Tiie bitters are made of island rum and a concoction of bark found only in that latitude. The manufac ture of the bitters was formerly a great industry in the vicinity of the Orinoco river in Mouth America, but the harks there have been exhausted. —Inter- view in New York Press. UTILIZING WASTE. MtaoiioniUittu Wut«rlMl« Which OtlifirvlM Wmild U« Thrown Away. It is ijuite llio fashion to speak of the French jx-oplc us being the most eco nomieul of any in the world, us they allow nothing- to Ik; wasted which can in any way lx- utilised. But it appears to us tlmt the .people of this country are not far behind in the matter of economizing materials that would otherwise be wasted. Ih> we not ust; beefs blood for d<x»r knobsf Arc wo not putting doors and blinds into our houses made of wikml pulp? We also use paper doors, blinds, etc., to say nothing of paper ear wheels, paper lx juts, pajxir nails and other utensils too numerous to mention. i'«|x;r, as we know, is ‘made of materials which would ordinarily be wasted if not thus used. Hawduxt bus become un iin|x>r tnnt article of commerce, as it is large ly used in plaster. Coal dust is now used in many ways as a fuel, yielding an intense heat, and very useful in some kinds of manufacturing. The very dirt beneath our feet is transformed by the arts of various craftsmen into ouildiiig materials, hav ing fireproof qualities, or it is trans muted into the finest pottery, or the most delicate porcelain for crystal. Also from clay we ex triad a metal, which, by reason of new processes, bids fair to rival iron in usefulness in building. We refer to aluminum, which, while not a new metal, has heretofore been too expensive to come into general use. By a new invention, however, which tenders its manufac ture much easier and cheaper, it is likely to become the metal of the future for special uses in place of iron. It is a beautiful mctai, resembling the brighU-st silver, and is very tough und durable. AJuminu, as is well known, when found in its pure state crystal lised, is that royal gem, the sapphire, next in hardness to the diamond. From the slug of the blast furnace the skillful manipulator product's a fine, soft wool which is perfectly non eombustible, and, if properly applied, will render our houses practically fire proof. We might go on ad.intlnitum, Lut we wiU close the subject by men tioning one of the latest triumphs in the art of utilizing waste materials that of manufacturing a composition which csn lie molded into any orna mental shape required out of the chips of granite from the stone cutter’s yard. It is said that line decorative stone work can thus be produced at about one-tenth the cost of cut stone orna mental work, and yet yield a good profit to the manufacturer. Also that tins material may be vitrified so that it will take on a permanent polish as fine as that of polished granite.-Ar chitectural Era. Mean men of every kind are apt to im agine that people do not know of their failings because they do not mention them. When a man puts liis foot dowu, he puts it down all at once, hut when his wife hits it up. she mu it up a toe at a time. ,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Henry County weekly. (Hampton, Ga.) 1876-1891, May 16, 1890, Image 1