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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
VOL. XV.
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Gw", W. Baras j VV.T. Dicks*.
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attorneys AT LAW.
J! cDomii oil. ■ *
Will practice in the enuntics composing
the Flint .ludioini Gircuii.i'.*' Supreme Court
c f Georgia niul tl*e United Slates District
Court. aprii-iy
I IK. tt. Tl
ATTORNEY A'l’ LAW,
Me Dong Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court <>t
Georgia, and the United States District
co urt. marl 6-ly
j 7 «KA«AW.
ATTORNEY A'l’ LAW.
McDonocoh, Ga.
Will pructice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial ami
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Tim Weekly office.
| «\ W VIJi,
attorney "at law,
McDokoi-gh, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing t he
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givvn to collections. octs-’79
yj A. llltOH N.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all tlfie counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ol
Georgia and the United states District
Court. janl-ly
lj A. I» KEPLER,
1 ‘ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hasicton, 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, Get 8, 1888
Jko. D. Stewart. | R.T. Daniel.
ITKWAKT & l»A\li;i.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Gnu sin, Ga.
j|K. BK. J. AKMOf.IK
Hami’TO*. Ga
I hereby tender ray professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all calls night and
day.
JOSSA I*. 'I’VE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Rank Building,
. Atlanta. Ga,
Practices in fhe State and Federal Courts,
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
IV'e announce to tlm Public that we are
\ V prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers ; will take orders for all k'uds of Boil
ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers, and Machin
ery, generally. \V e kerp in stock Brass
fittings of all kinds ; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Ripe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
A IVAU'OTT,
130 TOK TEXAS!
Here is the oppo;(unity of a lifetime. A
splendid farm and pasture about one mile
and a half from Henderson, Texas, most
under fence. The land lies well. Here von
use no guano and make more cotton per
acre Ilian they do in the south with guanos.
The lands are mostly under fence and well
timbered where not in cultivation. $4.50
per acre. Terms easy. Apply to,
Get. 24. J. Hauvky Tuunkr
Henderson, Tex.
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MEMORY.
Out through the trees you rodo that day,
To keep the tryst that our hearts had made;
Or was it a chance that I went that way.
And met you there in the shade?
Along the lane with no break of sky,
Together we measured our horses* pace,
And the shadows came through the branches
high
Over your downcast face.
Was It true what you told me then, sweetheart.
In the golden glow of the days that passed,
Was it false what you said when twas time to
part
From a drem too sweet to last,?
♦knight you sit in the candle’s glare
And greet the man that they say you'll wed;
is there uo thought of tho summer there,
Or the old, old love long dead?
Tho violin's playing that old love tune
Makes me think of the past again.
The tender words in my fancy croon
And I see you now—as then.
When out through the trees you rode that day.
To keep the tryst that our hearts had made;
Or was it a I went that way,
Anri uiot ya'vO in tho shade?
Y Masterson in Texas gift Inga
A * underfill Shoe Shaped Violin.
Tho Paris Figaro announces the sale
of ono of the most curious violins known
to the music fanciers of the world. It is
now on exhibition in Paris, where the
American tourist can take a peep at it
for a few ceutimes. It formerly be
longed to Paganini, the great violinist,
and at first sight merely presents the
appearance of a misshapen wooden shoe.
Its history is curious. During the win
ter of 1838 Paganini was living in a
fhaison de sante called Les Neothermes,
48 Rue de la Victoria. One day a large
box was brought here by the Normandy
diligence, oh opening which he found
inclosed two inner boxes, and, wrapped
carefully in several folds of tissue paper,
a wooden shoe and a letter stating that
the writer, having heard much of the
wonderful genius of the violinist,
begged, as a proof of his devotion to
music, that Paganini would play in pub
lic on the oddly constructed instrument
inclosed.
At first Paganini felt this to he an im
pertinent satire, and mentioned the
facts, with some show of temper, to his
friend, the Chevalier de Baride. The
latter took the shoo to a violinmaker,
who converted it into a remarkably
sweet toned instrument. Paganini was
pressed to try the shoe violin in public.
He not only did so, but performed upon
it some of his most difficult fantasias,
which facts, in the handwriting of the
violinist, are now to be seen on the curi
ous violin.
A Kmart Yonth.
One enterprising yonth made the phe
nomenal record of “knocking down” $25
a day while in charge of a construction
train, which, it need hardly be said, is
never supposed to carry passengers.
Under the rigid rules of tho average
auditing department it is doubtful
whether money turned in from such a
source would be accepted by the presid
ing Solonsi
But the carrying of passengers fell
under the eye of tho construction de
partment and a dismissal followed. Dis
charged for this violation of rules, our
promising financier re-entered the ser
vice on another division of the road,
where his industry and patience were
rewarded in time with a passenger
train. It would appear that he stood
better in the confidence of his superiors
than in that of his fellow conductors,
the more cynical of whom expressed
doubts about tho company’s ever getting
tiie train back after he had left town
with it.—Frank H. Spearman in Har
per’s Weekly.
A Storm Wav©.
A great storm wave is peculiar to cy
clones. At the center of the disturbance
the mercury in a good barometer may
be lower by three inches than that in a
similar instrument on the verge of the
cyclone. This is owing to the diminution
of atmospheric pressure consequent on
the rotation of the air wheel; and as
naturo abhors a vacuum, tho sea in the
vortex risc3 abovo its usual level until
equilibrium is restored. This 6torm
wave advances with the hurricane, and
I rolls in npon the low land like a solid
wall. In the Backergunge cyclone of
1876 the storm wave covered the land at
the eastern end of the Ganges delta at
heights varying from ten to forty-five
feet, as measured by marks on the trees.
One hundred thousand lives were lost on
this occasion.—Chambers’ Journal.
Queer Tiling* in tho Dead Letter Office.
A bootblack’s outfit, a wood saw, a
hat box, a gold headed cane, snuff boxes,
gold, silver and bronze medals, coins of
all kinds, countries and ages are among
the curiosities collected. The metal ba
sis for a set of false teeth is in ono of
tho cases. It was unclaimed, and came
to tho dead letter office several years
ago. A short time since an old gentle
man who visited the museum recog
nized the remains of his former set of
falso teeth. Ho had sent them to a den
tist, he said, for repairs, but lost sight
of them entirely. As he had bought a
new pair he said he had no use for the
old ones, so they remain in the dead let
ter office.—Washington Cor. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
To© Loud.
Tailor’s Boy Does Mr. Highstyle
board here?
Woman—Yes, little boy.
Tailor’s Boy—Well, here’s a new pair
of pants for him.
Woman—You can’t leave those here,
little boy. There’s a very sick woman
in the house, and we’ve got to be abso
lutely quiet.—Munsey’s Weekly.
All Right.
“See heah, Cadley, did you call me a
common ass?”
“No, Snobbutton, I said you was an
uncommon ass.”
“Aw, that’s different. I cawn’t stand
having anybody call me common, 38
know.”—-Epoch.
In 1755 a wave sixty feet high drowned
GO,OOO people at Lisbon, and in Scotland
a boat on Loch Lomond was carried
forty yards inland by a wave which was
suddenly formed on the surface of the
loch by the same cause.
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES.
McDonough, ga.. Friday. January, 2:1, isoi.
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A PYGMY CAMP.
now the Dwarfi of the fireat African F«r-
Mt Ruild anil Live.
Their villages, situated under the im
pervious foliage of the largest clump of
trees to be found near tho locality where
they propose camping, struck us as being
comfortable, snug and neat. I have seen
ninety-two huts in oue of these villages,
arranged in a circle of abont fifty yards
in diameter. The pygmy camps are gen
erally found at the crossways, where two
or more paths intersect, and are from two
to throe miles distant from agricultural
settlements. Our anxieties always less- ,
ened on meeting them, for the more
paths we found the more we were as- .
sured of food and the roads improved.
Sometimes these forest villages were
planted midway between parallel lines i
of settlements. A short walk from our
camp through the woods, north or south,
would take us to plantations largo enough
to supply a regiment with food. One
time we came to a group of dwarf vil
lages whence a broad path six feet wide
communicated with another group throe
miles distant. This road was a revela
tion. It informed us that the tribe was
more than usually powerful; that it was
well established; that the chief possessed
power, and was permitted to exercise it. j
Outside of the great kingdom of Uganda
we had not seen in Africa a cut road
longer than half a mile.
The hnts in every pygmy camp were
of a tortoise back figure. The doorways
were not more than three feet high, and
were placed at the ends, one being for
daily use, and the other, which fronted
tho bush, for escape. Those for constant
convenience looked out on the circular
common and pointed to the center, where
stood the tribal chiefs hnt., as though the
duty of every household was to watch
over the safety of him who ruled the
community.
We rarely found a hut higher than
four feet six inches. In length they va
ried from seven to ton feet, while the
width would bo from four and a half feet
to seven. In what appeared to be old es
tablished camps wo found rough cots
constructed, which were raised a few
inches above the ground, after the style
of our own forest couches. Several lay
ers of phrynium loaves make a luxurious
bed.—Henry M. Stanley in Scribner's.
Th© Author and llli Work*
That tho author is easily led to betray
excessive interest in himself is a fact duo
in a great measure to tho peculiar eondi
tions upon which his artistic success de- |
pends. Every pioce of his work is the
product of a mind that should be, from
first to last, completely absorbed in its
creation. He cannot, like the painter or
the sculptor, summon and dismiss his
model at will, with the certainty of re
covering at a moment’s notice the desired
pose.
His models are continually on the
move; each one, to be convincing, must
not only shine with the light of varied
circumstance, but must also show cause
for existence by effect, upon the others;
sinco the interest of a story flags tho in
stant its characters are at a standstill.
As a natural consequence their creator
carries them always with him, really
most alert in their behalf when he seems
to be most inactive.
At home and abroad he is ever playing
his game of chess “whereof the pawns
are men,” with no board to guide him
but that mysterious one traced upon tho
table of his brain. All ho sees and hears
contributes its mite to the source of sng- j
gestiou from which ho draws, and by his ;
skill in the drawing bis power is deter
mined. Intricate problems force them
selves upon him, to be solved with the
nicest discrimination out of his own ex
perience. With him eternal vigilance is
the price of victory.—Point of View in
Scribner’s.
A Costly K»n Without an Ovmr.
One of the prettiest tilings in the mu
seum of the dead letter office is a lady's
fan made of stork feathers, the plumes
being rarer and richer than the finest
ostrich plumes. It is most magnificent
in appearance, and doubtless graced the
costume of some court lieauty in tho Old
World. It came to this country from
Europe many years ago, but no clow to
its owner or origin was ever obtained.
In one of the cases there is a box of wed
ding cako, which came to tho dead letter
office six years ago as unclaimed. It is
getting a little old and discolored, but
by this time would probably be pretty
dry eating. Considering its present
characteristics it might be excellent
“wedding cake to dream on.” It cer
tainly has all the elements necessary to
produce a fai.oiful nightmare. Rosaries
are quite common in the cabinet and
crucifixes are also plentiful.—Washing
ton Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Spelling Comes by Nature.
An F street attorney relates that be
received an application for a pension
from a country lawyer in Michigan re
cently, in which the claimant signed his
name as “Daniel O. Connell.” In subse
quent papers filed he wrote it “Daniel
O’Connell." The attorney wrote tc? the
lawyer to report whether the name was
O’Connell or Connell. The provincial
Blackstone retorted in what be evidently
considered a very sarcastic letter, wind
ing up with this bit of bucolic wit,
“The name is O’Counell, as any fool
might know; but what difference does it
make, anyhow, whether yon say, ‘Mc-
Carthy, come ont of the house, or come
outyof the house, McCarthy?’ ”—Wash
ington Post.
Miss Adelina Patti Baird, a goddaugh
ter of the diva and daughter of a rich
English iron founder, lias a string of
pearls collected from the days of her
babyhood. Oue of her first gifts was a
number of fine unstrung pearls, and to
these have been added others f»om time
to time by parents and relatives until
she now has u matchless necklace.
Until lato years the salutation of
“Merry Christmas!” was almost un
known in many southern homes. Aftet
the fashion of the “waits,” in man)
places negro men and boys some time bo
foi-e Christmas go in the evenings front
do< >r to door singing, in the hope of re
ceiving gifts of money or eatables.
An Invention for Ocean Propeller*.
A Bridgeport (Conn.) mechanic has
Invented a new method of adjusting
propellers tor ocean steamers. It con
sists of tlu-oe great horizontal shafts
lying parallel to each other, and ex
tendmg outward from the stem of the
vosseL To each shaft a three-blade
screw propeller is attached, the central
or middle ono being, in area, just twice
that of the other two propellers. With
in the vessel the three shafts are joined
transversely with strong rods, and have
clamps attached so that one or ail can
be instantly detached if necessary. A
triple expansion engino of great [lower
is to run each, shaft. Tho inventor
claims his system will give a more uni
form motion, and*with tho same horso
power exerted by the engines will give
far greater results.
Another Important point with tho in
vention is tho many resources it pos
sesses in the case of a breakdown.
When at sea tho breaking of a shaft or
part of an engine is often a serious mat
ter. In this device there are ninocom
binations which can bo made to run
the ship. This may be better under
stood by saying that the three engines
and the three shafts must each be brok
en or disabled to put tho ship In a help
less condition. If one or even two shafts
should break tho combined horse pow
er of the tliree engines can be thrown
upon or applied to the remaining shaft,
and the speed be not greatly diminish
ed. Should ono or two engines break
down the remaining engine can still
run ono, two or three propellers.—Bos
ton Transcript.
A Cliild’s Theology,
The things that are* told children and
the old wife stories with which they are
put off are among tho most eontempti
blo of all the wrongs that are heaped
upon the children under tho pretext of
befriending them. The little folk know
well enough that they arc being im
posed upon, but they do not know how
to protest; and yet now and then one
of them with tho bold frankness of
childhood docs say out boldly just what
it thinks.
It was one of these naively born chil
dren who was being talked to about
going to bed in the dark. She had per
haps been taught to be afraid by being
told that she must not fear, that being
the approved method of instructing the
little folk in this branch of their educa
tion, but in any case, whatever the
method, she had learned her lesson, and
she was very satisfactorily afraid.
“But, my dear,” her mother said to
her one night when the child was more
than usually dismayed by the prospect
of being alone in the dark in bed, “why
should you be afraid in tho dark ? God
is there. ”
Her little daughter regarded her with
troubled eyes.
“But, mamma," she stud, “what if
bo is; what difference does that mako?"
—Boston Courier.
Brazilian Pebble and Glass.
What is called Brazilian pebblo is
often nothing but a fine quality of
glass. The real Brazilian jiebble is a
kind of rock crystal found in many
parts of tiie world, but in great pro
fusion in Brazil, and hence tho name.
There Is a pet superstition that tho
Brazilian pebble glasses preserve the
sight, but no solid foundation for it ex
ists. Fine glass is every whit as good,
and costs far loss on account of the
labor and care required to grind the
crystal to the proper shape. Tho only
real advantage the crystal lenses have
over those of glass is in the hardness of
the materia!, which rendors them much
less liable to become scratched and so
dimmed, but otherwise tho glass is ns
good.
There are several tests by which to
distinguish the genuine pebble from the
glass imitation, but the one most easily
applied is that of touch. The real pob
ble will feel far colder to the finger or
tongue than tho glass, so much so that
after touching a glass lens and then one
of crystal, any one will be able to de
tect the difference.—lnterview in St.
Ixmils Globe-Democrat.
Koine Yarns About Queer People.
John Ashton in his book on zoology
says that the gentleman with one eye
is the Cyclops that Pliny tells about.
It is hinted that tho Cyclopses were
miners whose lamps on their hats were
mistaken for eyes. A good many of
the whoppers of antiquity arose from
the reporter giving only one look before
bo came back to the office and wrote
up his stuff. But the anthropophagi
tliat had only one foot, and that so big
that they could lie on their backs and
use their feet for umbrellas are clear,
pure inventions, the same as the stories
about Chicago girls’ feet. The public
ought to be and tiie same is hereby
warned against any and all such decep
tions.
A gentleman named Megasthcnes told
the people of his day tliat there were
folks in India that live only by smell
ing apples and died immediately some
body ate an onion and breathed on
them. This is also probably a cam
paign document.—Chicago Tribune.
Not in Arabic.
The Arabs have no ''hello I” in their
language. The nearest they come to
it is to throw a stone and hit a man in
the back, and then ask him as ho turns
around, “Does it please heaven to give
you good health (his morning?”—De
troit Free Press.
A Suainroek Factory.
O'Callahan—Bedad ’ I want a sham
rock fer a badge. Where’ll I get won?
O’Bryan (scenic artist) —Come wid
me. I’m makin’ sham rocks every week
of mo loife, —Pittsburg Bulletin.
TEMPTING THE ALLIGATORS.
Pnxw'rblal Oftrrles.n.** of Foreigner* In
tho Southern Mitrmhe*.
You have perhaps journeyed between
Now Orleans and Mobile, and remem
ber the vast expanse of marsh with
waterways eutting through it. In the
midst of this desolation is a clubhouse
and a railway station called English
Lookout. It is still good fishing ami
shooting ground, but the alligator has
become so scarce that the sight of one
is a novelty. Ten or twelve years ago
they crawled across the railroad tracks,
and passengers had but to look out of
the window to see them swimming.
One day during my week’s stay at
the club several boats were going out,
and one of thorn was occupied by a
French army officer, who was also a
guest. He bad on a frock coat, and
when seated in the stem of the skiff
the tails almost touched UlO water.
“Bettor take off tliat coat or pin the
tails up," said one of the punters, as
his attention was directed.
“Why?”
"Because an alligator may pull you
overboard. ”
The Frenchman laughed and shrugged
his shoulders and led the way down
channel. Four boats of us anchored
about 100 feet apart, and tho craft 1
was in was next to the officer's. Tho
llsli were biting hot and heavy, and for
an hour no one paid any attention to
anybody else. I tangled my line in
pulling in a fish, and while working at
the knots happened to glance toward
the Frenchman. Just as I did so 1
saw tho still waters broken behind him,
caught sight of a black objoct thrust
above the surface, and next instant,
uttering a scream which was 11 card
half a mi lo away, the man was pulled
out of the Ixiat uml under water.
We hurried to the spot, but nothing
whatever marked tho site of tho trage
dy. Even his hat had gone. Wo
rowed up and down and lieat the
banks, but it was useless.
“Told him so,” said tho puuter as wo
gave up tho search. "Them foreigners
don’t seem to know al>out ’gators. Wo
had a Prussian here last month, and
what did ho do but hang his legs in
tho water, and he was pulled off tho
boat with me only four feet away.”—
Detroit Free Press.
Turning the Conversation.
A writer in The Nineteenth Century
tells several stories of the fate of pom
pous men who wont to Cardinal New
man to talk to him ns one great contro
versialist to another.
One specimen of the clans comes with
notes and boohs and points for dis
cussion on problems of education, but
finds the cardinal so absorbed with
news about tbo “barley crop” in Nor
folk that no other snbjoct soerns to in
terest him.
Another presses him for a refutation
of one of Mr. Gladstone's arguments
against the Vatican decrees, but only
succeeds in eliciting tho reply that Mr.
Gladstone is an old Oxford acquaint
ance, and has been very kind to him.
Or if tho subject iH insisted on the con
versation suddenly passos—tiis visitor
knows not how —to the oaks of Hawar
den, and tho exerciso of cutting down
trees.
A third visitor finds himself engaged
at tiie outset in a discussion as to tho
number of stoppages in the 1:30 train
os contrasted with tho 3:40, and has
unexpectedly to employ his conversa
tional talent in explaining his cross
country Vouto and tiie lines by which
ho came.
And then there is the Oxford story
of Newman’s guest who introduces the
“origin of evil” at dinner, and at once
produeos a dissertation—full of exact
knowledge, and apparently delivered
witli earnest interest—os to the different
ways of treating hot house grapes and
tho history of the particular grapes on
the table before him.
Seasick ueftH.
A French scientific man has a new
theory of the cause of seasickness,
which is briefly stated below. Periiaps
if ono were to give himself up wholly
to an attempt to understand tbo the
ory ho might forget to bo sick.
Tho propounder of this theory, M.
Rochet, points out the enormous ca
pacity of the reservoir formed by the
muscular and periumscular venous sys
tem, and the considerable role of to
nicity and voluntary or reflex muscu
lar contractions in the action of empty
ing it; also the predominance of reflex
muscular actions over voluntary in
keeping one’s balance and in most
movements.
In the movements of a vessel tho re
laxation of muscular tonicity and sup
pression of reflex movements result in
a considerable increase of tho periph
eric reservoir, and as a consequence in
cerebml aniemia.—Youth’s Companion.
Prices of Fancy Woods.
Of the woods that are chiefly used in
fancy cabinet work ebony comes most
ly from Ceylon and Madagascar, and is
sold by importers at eight cents per
pound. Satin wood is grown on the
island of San Domingo and In Porto
Ilioo. It is one of the beautiful woods
and is described as a “canary yellow.”
In tiie log it sells at seventy five cents
par foot Tulip wood is but little used,
it is imported more for turning and in
laying than anything else. It is found
in Central America, and when brought
to New York sells for eight cents per
pound.—Boston Transcript
The First Nam© Best.
Jim—Where will you sit to tight?
Jack —In a chatter —I mean a private
lx»x.
Jim—Never mind. Chatterbox goes.
—Pittsburg Bulletin.
Canadian* a* Soldier*.
Speaking of the Canadians, Maj. Ed
mond Malet remarked that they mako
tiie best Soldiers physically that ho over
saw. In his company, tho Eighty-first
Now York Volunteer infantry, in tho
late war, ho said ho ha 1 forty-five of
them, and no hardships could dampen
their fray' spirits nor toil exhaust tlieir
hardy frames. In those terrible forced
marches of the Army of the Potomac 1
In the Peninsula, with tho thermometer 1
far tip In the nineties and the dust a
foot deep, who.) thousands of men fell i
out by the roadside, many of them ;
never to march again, these Canadians
trudged along cheerily, lioguiling tho
weary wav with Joke and song.
The careful, economical bent of
mind that they had inherit**! from their
French ancestors was also a prominent
trait of their character. They could
j not understand the wastefulness of
1 their American comrades, who would
hurl aside overcoats, blankets and other
j impediments on a hard march without
| a thought, so they would carefully
gather them up, add them to their own
load and bring them into camp. "Ono
evening, 1 remember, “said tho major,
“a Canadian soldier oameinto bivouac,
after a fearful march from early dawn,
with twelvo overcoats piled on Ills
knapsack, which ho had carried nearly
all day. lie sold thorn back to their
original owners for n dollar each.” —
Washington Post.
Yulue of Jmlcment.
“In writing for a living,” said n man
whoso bank account depends entirely
upon his [ten, “a man who follows fho
class of matter used in different classes
of publications always stands tho best
chance. You rimy send a very good
tiling to ono publication and havo it
promptly rejected, while another editor
may jump at it. It is only a waste of
tinio in most coses to send out things
promiscuously. Yon inay say that this
is all known to every writer, but it
isn’t by any means. It is surprising to
see what little Judgment is used by
many authors In putting their works
on tho market
“Young writers, or a man with his
first article, are pretty sure to send tlieir
articles, not where this particular lino
of work is most in demand, but to the
publication which they see most fre
quently or which they like best.
Shaking of the ‘knack 1 of knowing
what certain editors want, I know of
ono man who says tliat a [tcriodical for
which 110 does a good deal of work
nover refuses a joke or a lino or versos
with which* Delmonico’s is connected.
The reason for this of course is that tho
readers of this sheet are supposed to bo
more or less familiar with Delraonioo’a. ”
—Now York Tribune.
III? Fl.li.
In John Ashton’s “Curious Creatures
in Zoology” occurs this description of
whales:
Whales in tlioso days had ‘‘square
heads all set with prickles and sharp
and long horns round about, like a
tree rooted up by tho roots; tlioy are
10 cir 12 cubits long, very black, and
with huge eyes, tiie compass whereof
is Bor 10 cubits. Tho apple of tho eyo
is one ciiliit and is re*l and fiery color
ed, which ip the dark night appears to
fishermen afar off us a burning fire,
having hairs liko goose feathers, thick
and long like a beard banging down.”
TliLs is from Olans Magnus, a compe
tent and able falsifier 110 describes
the event of the picture, and says tliat
men tako a sleeping whale for an
island, and all goes well until the sail
ors get tlieir fire started and the kettle
to boiling. This makes tiie whale hot,
and lie goes for tiie ship and era win up
on it and sinks it, or else ho dives
under it und drowns everybody.
High Price*! Metals.
Compared witli sotno at tiie metals
gold is « cheap commodity. It is worth
$240 a pound, troy; platinum is wortli
$l3O and silver about sl2. Nickel is
quoted at sixty cents per pound, and
aluminium at SO. If some of the abovo
figures seem high what will we say
when told that barium is quoted at
$375 pt;r trey pound and calcium at
$1,800? But cerium is more costly
still, being seldom sold for less than
S2OO per ounce. Chromium brings tho
same and didymiuin but a fraction less,
being worth $1,300 per pound in any
market in the world.
It is said that the combined wealth
of tho Vanderbilts would buy 328 tons
of pure gold, but that enormous amount
would only pureliaso a wagon load of
gallium, that rare metal being worth
$3,250 per ounce!—St. Louis Republic.
When Buffalo Wan Plenty.
In Kansas we liad buffalo meat most
of tho time, and that was a great
change for us. Tho rump steak is
juicy and requires little basting, while
buffalo tongues, which were such a
rare treat in the markets of the eastern
cities, were then to be had in abundance
with us.
It Is remarkable how luxuries that
are unheeded in tho midst of plenty
will impress themselves in our minds
for years and years if they come to us
in the midst of deprivations. Wo
rarely had small game, except the few
ducks tliat came to the pools formed
by heavy rains on the prairie in tiie
autumn; but I remember thoee, and
tho prairie chickens of Kansas, and the
plover of Dakota, as if I had nover
tasted birds before or since. Mrs. Cus
ter’s Book.
The Catastrophe Account**! For.
Policeman (helping injured driver of
ruined dogcart to his feet) —What in-*
sane idea induced you to turn out to
tho left instead of to tho right ?
Injured Anglomaniac—lt’s English,
you know.—Kate Field’s Washington.
THE EARLIEST AMERICAN COINAGE.
Tho Famous I log Money Succeeds Wam
pum, Musket Balls and Tohacco.
The earliest coinage for America was
that made in 1612 for tbo Virginia com
pany at the Somers islands, now called
Bermudas. Tho coin was of brass,
with tho legend, “Somers Inland 1 /’ and
a “hoggo on one side, In memory ftf
tho abundance of hogges wliich were
found on their first landing." Thi3
was tho famous “hog money.”
Tho earliest colonial coinage was in
Massachusetts in 1652, a “mint howso”
being established at Boston, and the
“quoinos" being a shilling, sixpence
and threepenny pieces. Before this
the currency of the colonists was a very
mixed one. Musket balls passed for
change at a birthing attieco, and were
logal tender for sums under a shilling.
Tobacco and tobacco receipts were
logal tender; corn and beans and cod
fish were also employed. Wampum,
j however, was tho commonest currency
!of aIL It was tho shell bead money of
tho Indians, and was soon accepted by
the colonists ns a convenient token.
There wore two kinds of wampum—
wampumcag, which was wiiito and
made from tho conch of the periwinkle;
and suakanhock, which was dark pur
i pie and made from tho hardshell clam.
Tho purple was worth twice as much as
tho white. Tho shell was broken in
pieces, rubbed smooth on a stono till
about the thickness of a pipestem, then
pierced with a drill and strung into
necklaces, bracelets and belts.
The English, French and Dutch set
tlers all used wampum, the value be
ing tlxod in 1640 at six beads for a
penny. Tho strings were called fathoms,
and varied in value from five to ten
shillings. Shell money has played quite
an important part in the world’s com
merce. Tho small, hard shell known
ns the cowry is still used in India, tho
Indian islands and Africa in tho place
of subsidiary coin.
In 185 i more than 1,000 tons of these
shells wore brought from India to Liver
pool, to be exported to the coast of
Africa In exchange for palm oil. In
Bengal they are worth 32,000 to the
rupoe (forty-six cents), or about seventy
to tho cent. The cowry is a gastero
pod mollusk, is beautifully marked,
nnd is strung on a tough grass string
for convenience of transportation.
The British Columbia Indians still
use a variety of wainpum made of ha
iqua shells. These they string up and
use as an ornamental border to dresses,
their currency value being one string
for a beaver’s skin.
Looking bock to tho pre-wampum
days, it is learned that of the aboriginal
money of tho American continent, tho
mounds in and adjoining the valley of
tho Mississippi have produced speci
mens of lignite, coal, bone, te-rra cotta,
mica, pearl, Canadian, chalcedony,
agate, jasper, gold, silver, copper, lead
and iron, which were fashioned into
forms evincing considerable skill and
art. According to Prescott, the money
of tho Aztecs and tho nations in kin
consisted of quills filled with gold dust
and hags of chocolate grains. Choco
late Is still used in tho interior of South
America for the same purpose, os are
cocoanuts and eggs.—Ban Francisco
Chronicle.
The Moon’s Freak.
Mariners aro noted for their supersti
tions and the queer tales they toll of
phantoms of the sea, tlio land and the
sky. Marblehead, Mass., according to
the records of that ancient village, lias
been a spot rich in the superstitions of
its fisher inhabitants. Among other
remarkable stories they tell of a fisher
man who once wont out at night to look
over liis right shoulder at the new moon
for luck, when instead he saw a dark,
angry looking cloud that soon changed
to the perfect form of a soldier standing
with legs wide apart and his pike rest
ing on his breast. The knapsack and
gun strapped to tho soldier’s back were
plainly to bo seen, as were tho pike and
tho general outlines of tho figure.
Presently the figure seemed to grow
In size, and to have a hat or cap in its
right hand. This was more than the
old mariner could stand. He called his
wife and children to view tho appari
tion. All now began to fade except
the object in tho figure's hand, which
soon assumed monstrous proportions,
| presenting the spectacle of a full rigged
ship, the figure of the soldier having
faded entirely from sight in tho inean
-1 time. For fully an hour tho white
sails of tho phantom vessel were visi
ble, clearly outlined in strange contrast
to tho black hull of the vessel itself.
“This queer sight,” says tho old ac
count, “was viewed by divers others of
yo same towne.”—St. Louis Republic.
Telegraph Offices and Messages.
i There are two telegraph offices to
every 10,000 of the population in Great
Britain; in Tasmania there are eleven
telegraph offices to each 10,000 of the
population. In Great Britain there are
251 miles of wire to every 1,000 square
miles of area; in Denmark there are
GC2 miles of wire to each 1,000 square
| miles of area In Great, Britain there
are 143 messages per head per year of
the people; in West Australia there aro
i 7.6 messages per head. — New York Tel
egram.
A Western Romance.
Titled Foreigner (en route toward the
setting sun) —Me boy, shall we never
get past that paling fence? It’s a boah,
i you know; this thing of traveling along
a fence aii day.
American Traveling Companion—
Paling fence! That’s nothing of the
kind. Those are the telegraph poles.
Sometimes the trains go so fast that
they look like a comb.
T. F. Fawney!—Pittsburg Bulletin.
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