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A VALUABLE WEED.
TK* Teasel That Is Used to Raise
Nap on Cloth.
Our readers who never saw a
(spelled also teazel and teazle
even tassel) can imagine a fir cone
"swamp cattail,” set ail over with
tle stiff hooks. It is the bUr (or
sel ok flower head or thistle top)
the plant dipsacus, and so identified
it with cloth dressing that this use
it gave it its botanical name,
fullonum, or fuller’s teasel.
However familiar to people who
in lands where the teasel is
ly grown the fact may be that
prickly heads of that plant are
sally used to raise the nap on cloth,
multitude of persons in bis
probably never heard of it and will
astonished to learn in what
quantities the plant is raised.
In France alone several
acres of land are exclusively devoted
to the cultivation of the teasel.
manufacturers use many thousand
lars’ worth of the prickly heads and
export thousands of tons of them, val¬
ued at perhaps millions of dollars.
Hundreds of tons are produced in Aus¬
tria, England, Belgium, Poland and
the Crimea.
The prickles of the teasel have a
small knob at the end, and this, mount¬
ed on an elastic stem and set with
great precision on the central spindle,
affords a little brush, such, it is said,
as the utmost mechanical skill has
never been able to rival, at all events
at the same price.—New York Herald.
A Slight Difforenca.
Uncle Bob, who lived in Washington
and worked at the war department,
was at the old home for a few days.
Little Ted was a devout worshiper and
tagged about after his uncle all day
long, listening to him and asking ques¬
tions. Finally he delivered himself of
an Important matter.
“Uncle Bob,” he said, "do you ever
see the president In Washington?”
“Oh, yes; often. I see him nearly
every day.”
“Uncle Bob.” asked Ted solemnly,
after careful thought, “does the presi¬
dent see you ?’’—Woman’s H ome Com
Her Retort.
It Is always gratifying to meet a
person who is contented with his lot
For that reason it would be delightful
to make the acquaintance of the
an who had the last word In a suffra
gist controversy. The writer of a
fragist communication in a
wrote sadly that “woman is
but a female relative of man; the
Is the noun, the woman is the
tion.” “Well, what do I care?”
the triumphant retort. “The
tion governs the noun.”
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A LOST MINE.
The Tragic Legend That Is Associated
With Bald Mountain.
The legend of a lost mine has given
to Bald mountain, in Placer county,
Colo., a fascinating interest for pros¬
pectors. Tradition is that early in the
fifties of the last century three men
disappeared from au immigrant party
going over the old Gap trail. Search
for them was without avail, and they
were finally reported dead by the
searchers.
Where or how they wintered no one
knows, but the following spring, rag¬
ged, shoeless and demoralized, they
filed into Michigan Bluff. Their blan¬
kets were converted into sacks, and
with them they brought gold dust to
the amount of $10,000 or $15,000.
Spending but a single night within
the confines of civilization and giving
no information as to tlie location of
their large claim, they were followed
on their return trip, and a few weeks
later their murdered bodies were found
in one of the dreary canyons that scar
the face of the desolate peak.
Since then many a man lias sought
this lost mine, but apparently its im¬
munity is as certain as that of the
treasure of Captain Kidd.—Philadel¬
phia North American.
Pensive Butlers.
The fashion of building houses with
the entrance- doors practically on a
level with the street gives the observ¬
ing stroller on Fifth avenue some hu¬
morous glimpses of butlers on duty.
In the house of one of the most fash¬
ionable families In town the butler can
be seen standing behind the bronze
grill and glass doors staring disconso¬
lately out at the passing throng for
most of the afternoon, while across
the street from this bouse the same
kind of an entranceway often dis¬
closes a glimpse of a functionary of
the same class seated in a poetical at¬
titude by a circular marble table, his
head supported by his hand. Outside
of a hospital they are probably the
saddest looking fnen in New Y'ork.—
New York Press.
Atchison’s Most Generous Man.
They tell of an Atchison man who
was going down street with a giri.
She was one of the kind who believes
In the power of the gentle hint, and as
they passed a candy store she said:
“Doesn’t that candy smell good?”
“Yes,” the man replied, ’’let’s stop
here and smell it awhile!”—Atchison
Globe.
Better a boy in the schoolroom than
two in a poolroom.—Chicago News.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
THE GREEN MORAY.
A Savage and Voracious- Eel Found In
Bermudian Waters.
The experienced sea fisherman takes
care to kill every large conger eel as
soon as It is brought into the boat. The
conger has not only extraordinary jaw
power—it can triturate shellfish, shells
and all—but is also so abominably ac¬
tive that the fisherman’s opinion of it
coincides with that Held of the Indian
by the western plainsman, “No good
conger except dead conger.”
Ugly and savage brute as the conger
Is, it is a lamb compared with its rela¬
tive, the green moray of Bermudian
waters. This great eel is of an un¬
naturally brilliant green and has an
eye which is the very epitome of in¬
tense and malignant ferocity. It is
voracious and savage beyond words.
The negro boatmen have such a holy
horror of it that they absolutely re¬
fuse to allow a morny into the boat.
An acquaintance of the writer, a ma¬
rine officer, fishing in a small boat off
Bermuda, hooked one of these fish, but
as soon as his boatman saw tlie hid¬
eous head above the water be whipped
out his knife and made to cut the line.
The officer shouted to him to stop, but
had to threaten to throw- the man
overboard before he w-ould put up his
knife. When the great eel w-as pulled
over the side the negro went absolute¬
ly ashy with fright. As for the moray,
no sooner was it in the boat than it
doubled upon itself, and its jaws met
with a clash in its own side, cutting
out a chunk of white flesh as neatly
as a scoop w-ould cut cheese. That
w-as enough for the officer. He picked
up a boathook and forked the uncamiy
creature overboard—Chambers’ Jour¬
nal.
A MANUFACTURED CLIMATE.
Methods of the Paris Market Garden¬
ers In Forcing Nature.
The gardeners of Paris get their
products on the market weeks before
the regular season for them. This
forcing of nature is described by Er¬
nest Poole in Success Magazine.
The secret is simply this: The French
maraiehers have manufactured a cli¬
mate to suit them. As one observer
has said, “They have moved the cli¬
mate of Monte Carlo Tip to the suburbs
of Paris.”
Some new prodigy of modern sci¬
ence. this? Not at all. Only enor¬
mous expense in money and in time.
The gardens, whenever possible, are
placed on land with a slope to the
south and are well protected by walls
on tlie north and east, walls built to
reflect light as well as to give protec¬
tion from the northeast winds.
The ground is practically covered
with glass, not as in a greenhouse, but
by glass frames in the opeu, “three
light” frames of uniform size, 12 by
4y 2 feet, and also by glass bells. These,
too, are of a uniform size, about the
shape of a chapel bell, a little less
than seventeen inches in diameter and
from fourteen to fifteen inches high.
The French call them cloches. You
may often see over a thousand frames
and over 10,000 glass bells in one two
acre plot In the suburbs of Paris.
A more recent innovation is the em¬
ployment of hot water pipes run under
the soil, making of the earth a verita¬
ble steam heated hotel, with this es¬
sential difference, that the hotel keep¬
er here is desperately eager, not to
keep his guests, hut to persuade them
to leave ou the earliest possible day.
A Memorable Wreck.
The most memorable wreck in the
history of the American surf was that
of the bark Mexico, stranded on Hemp¬
stead beach, Long Island, early in the
morning of Jan. 3, 1837. She carried
104 passengers and a crew of twelve
men. Four passengers and four of the
crew were saved by a surfboat from
the beach under the command of Ray¬
nor Rock Smith. All others were
frozen to death, though the wreck was
so close to the shore that their cries
and even some of their words were
plainly heard on the beach. It w-as
the story of this wreck, as published
throughout the nation, that led to the
establishment of the United States
life saving service.—Scrap Book.
The Bayonet.
The bayonet was due to the fortu¬
nate inspiration of a Basque soldier,
who, w-hen he and his regiment, having
expended their ammunition, were driv¬
en to bay on a mountain ridge near
Bayonne, suggested that they should
fix the long knives with which they
w-ere armed into the musket barrel's
and charge the enemy. This advice,
which was followed with complete
success, was the means of introducing
the weapon to the notice of military
Europe.
Wltat He Lacked.
It is related of a South American
general, who was extremely well
pleased with himself, that once when
about to sally forth to a grand dance
he surveyed himself contentedly in the
mirror and then soliloquized thus:
“Ah! Thou hast all—bravery, wealth,
position, good looks. Ah, what dost
thou lack?”
Whereupon his orderly, who, un¬
known to the general, was close at
hand, remarked:
“Sense, general, sense!”
The Difference.
Little Lester Livermore— Papa, what
is the difference between a vision and
a sight? This book says— Mr. Liver¬
more—The difference between a girl
before and a girl after she is married.
—Puck.
Very Plain.
Restaurant Patron—That isn’t a very
good looking piece of meat. Walter
Well, you ordered a plain steak.— Ex¬
change.
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C. A. HARWELL
Leader In
Furniture and Undertaking
Covington, Ga.