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FORT FISHER.
An Await by a Combine! Federal
Force of the Army and Xary—
The Fort takr*n After a Dea-
derate Resistance.
Too capture of Fort Fisher, the Con
federate stronghold, commanding one
entrance to Cape Fear Hirer, is described
by a writer in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The combined assault by the Federal
army and navy force took place January
14,1805, and was witnessed by the writer
from one of the attacking vessels. Jlc
says:
The 14th of .Tnnuaiy broke char, and
with a smooth bca"h and li"bt westerly
wind. The ironclads went in closer than
ever, so that their k* c!s were close to the
>and—impossible except with perfectly
smooth water—and tnc bombardment
commenced in quite a business-like way.
Boms rc inforceracnts were observed to
be thrown into the fort by a river steamer
which had come down the Cape Fear
River from Washington, a ad to-day the
combatants were girding the'r loins for
the final strugg e which every one felt to
be near. By 11 in the morning the troops
were all landed and intrenched among
some scrubby woods about a mile and a
half to the northward of tire fort. South
of this, toward the huge earthwork, there
. was on op;n space of sand and sedge for
\ near a mije. At this time a storming
j party of ijulors and marines pulled on
' shore from the fleet, and were soon
landed; about 2:30 the naval column
was r.ady to advance ulong the beach,
and at a given signal the fire of the fleet
suddenly ceased, tlic quiet after such
continuous uproar sc raring quite un- 1
natural.
The naval column moved close along
the beach by the left flank, with the in
tention of nssaultingthe face of the angle
or main work, which was about forty
feet high and abo.it like a railway em
bankment. In addition to these difficul
ties there was a very strong stockade,
bolted and battened and strapped to
gether. Well, it was not a very pleas
ant job, but the sailors and marines
matched down to try it.
As the fire from the fleet ceased, the
garrison came out of their bomb-proofs
and manned the parapet of the sea-face
of the fort, shooting at the sailors and
marines from the ‘ coign of vantage” as
if the seafaring people were a covey of
partridges. Ton 1 okcr-on the people
who manned the parapet appeared only
to fire the loaded pieces which were
handed them by the people in the rear;
and the fire was not only rapid but ac
curate. The beach was soon full of dead
and wounded, for there was no protec
tion from the fire. Some of those
wounded when very close to the water
staggered into the s'ight surf, and had
to be assisted out. So heavy and fatal
wasthif small-arm fir-* that few of the
assaulting force tvtually reached the
Toot of tho mCuuu wTrich formed the
noithcostcrn angle of ihe fort. They
could go no farther, and having reached
guish friends from foes by our glasses.
Fearfully anxious, yet confident, wj
waited on the de~k, listening to the
varying sounds as the two pa: ties fought
at close quarters, guided in their fire by
the fiube? of their oppo tents* muskets.
At hut, aliout 10 o'clock at night, there
was tremendous cheering, and the tide
cf battle suddenly swept aaay dawn
toward Federal Point, where the rem
nant of. the gasrbou. about 2,090 m
number, laid down their arm*. The
Mirnnder was imtratly telegraphed
by means of signal lanterns, and every
ship sent up r.mrnl after round of h .-arty
c'occr*; not ouly for joy at the achieve
ment, but because there was a.» end, at
Inst, cf the weary biocka le, _ on that
dangerous coast, of a meat important
point—so important, indeed, that Gen
eral Lee had telegraphed not long before,
that it must be lie!d at aav cost, other-
•isc he must evacuate Hic hmand.” The
Confederacy was bv this capture com
pletely isolated, and no more miliiay
supplies could go in, or cotton go out—
and cotton meant gold, the smews of
war.
Fort Fisher had been pronounced im
pregnable both by friend and foe, and
was said to be much stronger than the
celebrated Malakoff, at SebastojKil, by
officers who had seen both placi 8 All
the other forts about the Cape Fear were
of the most approved and careful con
struction, and contained, among them,
about one hundred and seventy heavy
eun% with lines of piles and t irpedoes t>
be fired by electricity.
An officefof high rank very pertinently
remarked that the engineer who built
such works, at the cxptn eof so much
time and labor, must have had an abiding
fate in the Confederacy. Fort Fisher
had been nearly four years in process ol
Construction.
Early in the morning after the capture
we came on deck to find a lovely day,and
the morning sun shining on the stars and
stripes hoisted on the works. About 1
lock, while still surveying the scene,
were startled by a terrible explorioc
within the fort, which threw great masse*
of earth and timber and bodies of mer
high up into tho air, and then a dense
balloon-shaped cloud of powder smoke
and dust hung about the spot in the cleat
air for many minutes. The magazine had
blown up. How it happened no one will
ever know, for those wno could tell aboul
if were a'l killed. Some persons sus
pected trains laid by the garrison for th<
purpose, but that wa* soon seen to be im
probable in high degree; and there wai
more show of reason in the supposition
that carcles* drunken soldiers or contra
bands h d been exploring with open
lights, and had fired some of the powdei
clways found about on the floors of suck
ilaccs after a prolonged engagement.
k>me of the officers and seamen of the
fleet, who had been on shore from the
day before, were ncverTieard from, and
there is no doubt they had been l;d by
curiosity to enter the fort,and were blown
up. J? they had been killed in the as
sault their bodies would have b'ca found.
Tl e President at Ilome. .
Preside it Cleveland has hi- coachman
and footman, an l he keeps them in lively,
says the Washington Hatchet. His two
turnout*, the Vi to ia and the landau,
co t l>s than $2,000, and tho harness,
made of black rubber and trimmed with
silver, has only the simple ornament of
G. C. in monogram on the rosette cf the
Lridle. Buchanan, the last Deir.o.Tatic
President, had a harness which alone ccst
$800, and Jefferson paid $1,600 for his
couch horses which he dr >vc wh'le he
was President. Gtorgc Wiuhlngton drove
about while he was President behind four
and six-horse team*. Hi-* coacht
footman were w Lite, and liis chariot of
state wa* a while hemisphere on wheels,
ornamented with ihe paintings of one o!
the famous artiste of the t : mc.
The afternoon receptions occur in the
East Room on the afternoons of Monday,
'We-incsdiy mid Friday of each week,
and Cleveland says they are the pleasant
est part of h's daily li»c. During them
he gets away from his work and tho
office-seekers, and there is enough va-
;:y in them to make them interest!:
FACTS FOB THE CUEIOCJ.
Big Gold Nttjstb.
Nuggets arc the delight of a miner's
heart. Some pretty big fellows have been
found now and then, and there is no
good reason why gold picked up in
chunks weighing" one and even two
pounds should not some day turn up in
lumps and huge bowlders of fifty pounds
or moje. Thu largest gold nugget ever
found in the world was discovered in
185S in the Ballarct diggings. Victoria,
Australia, and wc ghed 2,166 ounces
troy. It wa; very pare gold, and sold
for $43,580. This pnmmuth nugget was
called the “Welcome,’! and for many
years was reckoned oue of the modern
seven wonders of the world.
Since the finding of the “Welcome”
many big nuggets have b cn p'cked up
in various parts of the world, l.ut none
equal to the great wonder of Ball artt.
Two have bein found worth $21,000, one
$10,000, two $8,000, on- $6,500, four
$5,000, twelve wartli from $3,000 to
$4,COO, and cig.teea from $1,090 to
$2,000. California must be credited with
the greatest number of nuggets, the a»*
nals of gold-miniug in that State during
th: last thirty years showing numberless
others, besides some of the large ones
above mentioned, worth from $109 to
$500. One nugget was found ia Snow-
shoe Gulch, in Montana, in 1865, which
weighed 178 ounces, and was sold for
$1,250. Another large lump of simon-
pure gold was picked up in the summer
of 1865, iu Nelson Gulch, worth $2,073.
An Indian boy found another shining fel
low in Scratch Gravel bottom in 1875,
wh'ch brought him about one-third its
value—viz., $500.
The first piece of.gold found in Ca’i-
fornii was worth fifty cents and the sec
ond five dollars. This first treasure is
no larger than a pea, but it is perhaps
the most remarkable piece of metal in
the world's history. It is the identical
glittering particle that first caught the
eye of J ames Marshall in Sutler’s mill-
race, in California, thirty-nine years ago.
IlMtmy.sliUsnn- mrtlcjj has adds}. ° TW h' a ';. c ben.
l0 7° T 1 / ““i' 13 ' * 6,U ,' 0n i» Now York with!
and a half. This historical nugget is
now among the collection of gems in the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
The total production of gold in the
world during the four years ending with
1885. was 10.366 tons, enuni in value to
1 support the weight
Prc*»-
UalLi
js of lever and «sue can be
cored by taking Ayer's Agne Core.
While Prof. Wise, the aeronaut, was
passing over a settlement in his balloon
in Virginia, a colored woman, wild with
fear, rudied out of her house shouting:
“Come yer, chilhm, right out in de mid
dle ob de road; something gwinc to hap
pen. Yonder cjmcs ray blessed Jesus
walking in de clouds.”
There is a Police Judge in Peoria j
whose characteristic name is Lawless.
We dropped into his court the other day
and found that he knew no more law
than his name implied.— Chicago Ledger.
ton for a day or two, and the
crowd that comes is of all classes There
are not a few women with babies in their
arms, and it is funny to s-c liow the
PrcsiJent shies off and straightens him
self op when one of these approach*. He
docs not kiss babies very often, but when
he does it you can heir th; smack of his
lips at the farthest c Or ter of the East
Room.
President Cleveland is a good hand
shaker. He stands straight on his feet
at all of his rec»ptioi:s, and his Prince
Albert coat is kept buttoned tightly about
his fat frame. Ce seizures your hand
firmly and grasps it tightly while he
looks straight into your eye and says:
“How do you do, Mr. Blank.” He
always mentions your name and never
fails to look at you. If you go to
tlese receptions you will perhaps have
to wait a short time in E^st Poom.
You may sit down on the furniture and
walk about the room if you please. The
President comes in with Colonel Dins-
more beside him, and he st rads near the
door while the crowd forms in line and
in single file comes up to be presented.
Colonel Dinsmore takes your name and
introduces you to the President, raying:
“Mr. President, this is Mr. Blank.” The
President grasps your hand an l gives
you a shake. Before you know it you
arc out cf the White Hou c. President
Cleveland can shake hands at these re
ceptions at the rate of one every two
seconds. He has got the mi ttcr down
to a science, and he allows none to talk
to him or bother him about office at such
times. He is verv kind to children, and
1 think he like* to meet bojs nnd girl, me ne „ „ oml openeu
A V? vast treasure-vaults and a'constant
ETi’SS ■SivT.^e, 1 - T™ V ZTl'^Z ™ ,orth
woman at one of these receptions the " h,th has n0t ccilsed r ct -
other day, who passed thioagh with a I Lord Bjron on America.
A discussion having arisen between
two friends, the other evening, as to
whether Lord Byron had ever written
Abraham Lincoln was tho fi
dent of the United States to wear full
whiskers. All lus predecessors had
partly shaven feces.
There is a family in Glascock County.,
Go., consisting of a man. Ms wife and
three children, whose aggregate weight
is less than 200 pounds.
Dr. P. Andries finds that the danger of
a house being stuck by lightning has in
creased three to five fold in Germany
within the last fifty years, and supposes
this to be due to the*impurities from the
ever-increasing cumber of chimneys.
Major-General E. F. Burton has de
scribed certain large, yellow hornets of
India which dispose themselves imegu-
lar circles upon their nest, with their
heads to the centre. They thus appear
like the spokes of a yellow wheel, and a
nest of them is somctimcs.mistakeu fora
sunflower.
If it is desirable to set up an anvil so
that its U£C will make the least possible
noise, set the anvil on a block of lead, cover?.'
or mike a nut tv lederc around the anvil ! ingredients known to medical science for glv-
1 T ,P. j. “Li *“»« „t, | ing health and strength to ihe system through
upon the woodea b.ock, one-half inch ■ the medium of the liver and blood,
clear all round, one inch high. Raise
the anvil clear of the block one-half inch | theta,
by any means available, pour in the lead
■CONSUMPTION Oil.
I Every ta**«dIcRt *• VegetaMe
predacts that crew la sJ*ht ef «r»«ry eafferer.
IT ha»ao£cr:!^OrtonorinJsroasDrnga
Every dim
place of partial shelter at the foot of
the sea-face of the fort, inside the stock
ade, they were obliged to stay there
til the approaching darkness, and the
hard fighting on the northern fnc; of the
fort, drew the garrison off, to the last man,
and enabled the navy ]>cople to get away.
In this foolhardy attempt twenty-one
officers of the navy were killed and
wounded, and the lo; s among the
was proi>ortionato. As far as the assault
went it was a perfect failure; but the
lives lo‘*t were not entirely thrown away,
os the naval attack created a diversion,
drawing the girrisou off tho sea-face, 1 fuilV, brighter^ radiant with‘Hopes; and
distracting their attention, and allowing by chance or necessity the work bring*
the preparations for the real assault to fcD nc th:ng to think about other th n the
go on unmolested.
Turning a Penny.
A very valuable nervous tome .rn the
multitudinous cases of nervous d.bility
which are to le found among our young
people is that affordel by th? excitement
and pleasure of eirning a little money.
The occupation which leads to the re
ceipt of payment is, in the fin-t pine?,
healthful, by Inking the mind off the
especial form of suffering, in whatever
small measure; and tho delight of receiv
ing the yay reacts at once on the nerves
as invigorating!}' as mountain air does on
th; lungs. The invalids suddenly find
themselves of me in the world, not mere
cumberers of the ground; they at once
turn to repeated efforts; they % find life
Any butchc
come from hi:
aptly term it!
who derives a large in- j
sausage machine might j
s “ Revenue Cutter.” I
Where Are Yea Going?
If yon have pa’n in the back, pale and sallow ,
»—•— *-•* ' kheadache.eruptions I
complexion, bilious
oa tho skin, coated tongue, siuggi;—
tion, or a hacking cough, you are going into
your grave if you do not take steps to cure
yourselr. If you are wise you will do this by
Throat, Bronchal Tubes. Air-cells
uug Tissues, causing Cough.
What Diseases Invade the Lungs?
Scrofula, Catarrh-poisons, Micro-orgun-
uns. Humors, and Blood Impurities.
What arc the Primary Canm
Colds, Chronic Cough, Bronchitis. Cf _
tion, Tntkunmation, Catarrh or Hav-Foyer,
Asthma, Pneumonia, Malai
Whooping Cough and Croup.
iplexion, bilious or sick headache, eruptions I " noopmg vougu v
he skin, coated tongue, sluggish circular ; BELIEVES QriCKLY-CCKESPEUKANEXTLT
_ It will stop that Ooughing^Tlck:
Throat, Dry-hacking and
the medium of the liver and blood.
Beauty arrests the eye, but chastity wins
f* l
until it rises above the bottom of the anvil, j spirits, general debility'intheir various forms.
. ., also as a preventive against fever and ague and
or S€y th? anvil on a good bed of „and I other intermittentfevers.the“Ferro-Phf ~~
Jsf&atter) n
PkUam Tuberlntlar Jfuco-pttrulentt
It prevents Decline, Night-Sweats, Hec
tic-Fever, and Death from Consumption.
25c, 50c, $1.00—6 bottles $5.00.
T ^,^^u I SSSr/£S^S!i m -
BOLD BY ALL DRECOISTB.
1885, was 10,366 tons, equal in
$7,411,797,850. _ Valuing gold at $18.69
per ounce, a cubic inch of gold is worth
$210, a cubic foot $362,885, and a cubic
yard $9,797,762. A cubic foot of gold
weighs 1,200 pounds avoirdupois, and
$1,000,000 would, therefore, be a little
less than a tube of three feet. At the
commencement of th; Christian era there
was iu the world only $427,000,000 in
gold. At the time America was dis
covered this had diminished to $59,000,-
! 000. Then the new world opened up
About the t'me that it was evident that
the naval attack was not t> succeed,
there emerged from the scrubby wood
north of the fort the troops destined to
assault the place. These were veterans
from the Army of the James. Rough
looking, with frowsy clothing and di-
shcvclcd hair and beards, after their long
and hard experience in the transports,
thes; soldiers had their arms clean and
bright, and cartridge-boxes filled with
forty rounds, while they aligned and
dressed in I n; of Imttle as coolly and
precisely as if on ordinary parade. Prob
ably there was not a man among them
who had not been “in” a dozen times be
fore. There was little fuss about it, and
no noise of cither bugling or verbal com
mand. Then suddenly, at a “right
shoulder shift*’ an l a “double-quick,”
tho line swept across the sandy plain
which extended from the place of start
ing to the base of the hu^o mamclon*
which, running frt»:n scar to river, formed
the northern side of the fort.
Some patches of tushes and dried salt
gras* were dotted here and there over
the plain, but there was nothing else to
obstruct the view from the Ironsides.
Nearly all the guns upon the northern
face had been di-mounted or disabled by
the severe bombardment; but when the
assaulting line came near enough the gar
rison opened on it with musketry and a
howitzer, which was run out from a
sally-port, cut gr.-at gaps in the ad
vancing line with grape and canister.
Two field-pieces at the northwestern
angle also legan to fire, but were very
quickly silenced by shell from the iron
clads; but the oue at the sally-port,
which was drawn into a covered way to
load, could not be hit, and continued to
■do execution. The assaulting force did
not return a shot, and the onWsrd sweep
never t eamed,although it swayed at times
when the gap* were ent in it. On such
occasions we could see the officers sprin-
to the front, and then the line wool
' straighten out aga'n, leaving many
poor fellow behind with the salt sand
drinking in his heart’s blood.
Such a charge soon earned them to
the palisade at the foot of the gi
earthwork*, and the pioneers’ axes br i
to gleam in tho western sun, as tl „
choppe 1 away at the palings, already
shattered in some pVes by the bombard
ment. The fire cf small arms now be-
cu r e inres*aut, as the assailants began
to respond.
After what teemed a long delay
saw the lice pa-a through the ob»truc-
. tion, and, jn another moment, they and
their colors wc.-c se;a on one of the
we *! era .raamclons sharply defined
against the sky. Then there
sharp musketry fight, and men, killed
or wounded, rolled down the steep in
cline; yells of defiance ar.d shouts of
command grew louder and louder, and
then there came a rush, a pell-mell strug
gle. and we saw the colors slowly rise,
and then established on the top of the
next mound. Then more fighting, another
rush, and the next mound was taken,
after the most determined resistance.
Scetng this, General Terry signaled the
Ironsides to fire into the easterly traverses
and clear them out, which was done with
wonderful precision, until the advancing
fight rendered the shelling as dangerous
to our own troops as to the enemy..
The Confederate •. fought like tig<
and the sun went down and night closed
while this desperate infantry fi ght was
daily disab'lity and despair, something
in which self is lost; and plans are made
and castles built, aud often health of
body and mind is restore 1 by means of
the little income, wh’ch has value thus
not only as a revenue but as a medicating
force, and is the cleanest money ever
spent. No drug in all the pharmacies is
so good a n;rvine as this self-help. Any
one whb can place before such nervous
invalids as are not the children of luxury
and wealth the chance to earn this first
small sum, with promise of more, is doing
work as truly useful as that which calls
itself philanthropy on a larger and more
ostentatious rcale. Meanwhile, perhaps,
the gift of such opportunities is able to
a;t quite as strongly with tonic proper
ties for the children of luxury and
wealth, who cannot be stimulated by the
chance to earn n penny, but may b*e by
the bestowal of the ch:.i
their pjwer.—Bazar.
> often i
History of the Standard Silver Dollar.
The coinage of the standard silver dol-
r was fiist authorized by act of April 2,
1762. Its weight was to be 416 grains
standard silver; fineness, 892.4; which
was equivalent to 3711-4 grains of fine
silver, \vtth 44 3-4 grains of pure copper
alloy. This weight was changed by act
of Januiry 17, 1837, ta 4121-2 grains,
and fineness changed to 900, thus pre
serving the same amount of pure silver
* fore. By act of February 12, 1873,
olnage was discontinued.* The total
number of silver dollars coined from
1792 to 1873 was 8,045,838. The act of
1873 provided for the coinage of the
“trade dollar,” of weight 420 grains, and
an act passed in June, 1874, ordered that
all silver coins should only be “legal ten
der at their nominal value for amounts
not exceeding $5.” The effect of these
acts was the ‘-demonetization” of silver,
of which so much has been said. Febru
ary 28, 1878, the coinage of the standard
dollar of 4121-2 grains was revived by
)f Congress, $2,000,000 per month
ordered coined, and the coins were
made legal tender for all debts, public
and private. From February, 1878. to
November 1, 1885, 213.257,594 of the
standard dollars were coined under the
above act.—luter- Ocean.
basket of eggs upon her ar
Constantinople's Suburbs.
Some of your readers may not be ap* anything eulogistic on America, search
prised of tho fact lhat Constantinople was m ade, aud the following eloquent
has several suburbs, writes Hon S. S. : tribute, says the Argonaut, was duco£.
Cox to the New York £jin. Each suburb , £££^.1? the “Ode to Venice,” written m
is a city in it elf. The ciTv proper Is the year lcl9:
generally known as Stamboul.* Stnmboul | The name of Commonwealth is past and gone
is still a walled city, and nearly triangu- j °* er t* 3 . threo fractions of the groaning
Ufinfom;. Us bcautirul northern on- j Vrai -fbOTahed, nnd KoHmnd deign, to own
"le, called Seraglio Point, looks north A sceptre, and ondnres the purple robe;
into the winding Bosporus. The south- If the fre; Switzer yet bestrides alone
ern is the land side of the triangle. The ! His chainlet mountains, ’tis but for a time,
SoreJof 0 ^ 63 arc bo,,n,M > 7*i r -! aa'^sir&n
the sea of Marmora on one side and the The sparkles of our ashes. Cne great clime,
Golden Horn on the other. Oppo ite | Whose vigorous offspring bv dividing ocean
Stamboul is a point called Galat-i. It is 1 Are kept apart and nursed in the devotion
the largest suburb. It is the port for . ot Fre--d<"n, which their fathers fought for,
commerce. There is a summit above it ; BoqueMheh-a heritage of heart and hand,
called Peru. Pern is the headquarters of , And proud distinction from each other land,
diplomacy and the residence of the drag-! Whoso sons must bow them a‘ a monarch’s
omans. It is inhabited bv Greeks, Ital- I . .,™ ot ' :on ». . .
MS; G T'^r d SHSSS-
called Franks. It . numbers some 200,- : btill one great clime, in full and fr.n* defiance,
000, and has a municipality of its own. i Yet rears her crest, unconquored and sub'.ime,
Blacquc Bev, the first Ottoman Minister • Above the far Atlantic!—Hue ha* taught
to the United States, is its Mavor or Pi e- ! Her Esau brethren ihrt the haughty Sag,
_. . • , . * The Coating fence of Albion’s feebler crag,
feet, and Ins rule is rn happy contrast May to those who£e red right hands
with the rule of other cities which are i have bought
blessed with Aldermen. There is a popu- j Rights cheaply earned with blood.. Still,
lation in Peru which requires much vigi- : „ _ “till, forever ....... „
laut policing. On the northeast outskirts , Bett er^_thonghea.h mans life-blood were a
of Pern are artillery barracks, “fields of ' That it should flow, and overflow, than creep
Mars,” and cemeteries. These furnish a ! Through thousand lazy channels in our veins,
favorite resort for the people of the van- i Cammed like the dull canal, with locks and
ous suburb* on or near the Pera prowon-! . , chains, .
tory. Here arc restaurants, dancing T hreepaves%nd then faltering. Eetter be
cafes, singing, and story telling; and at Where the extinguished Spartan* still are
tho Easter season much’ firing of pistols ■ free,
and a general saturnalia of the Christian th oir proud charnel of Thermopylap,
population. So great has been the tur- j P
moil growing oat of this religious obscrv- | o^ e spirit to th* souls our fathers had,
nnce that the authorities stopped the . One freeman more, America, to thee!
usual grand processions of the Greek re- i
ligionists. j A Euio for Runaway Horses.
A Galilean Flsli. ! President Beekms n, of the New York
The fish known to naturalists by the : Park Commissioners*, said to a Sun rc-
long name of Ophioccphalus, one species j porter: “One rule for persons behind
of which is found in the Sea of Galilee, j runaway horses would be of great value
is a singular creature. At the approach if they could only remember , and adopt
of the breeding season it seeks a favorable it. That is to stay in the vehicle as long
place to build—generally in shallow as possible. That, like every other rule,
water. There pericarps an old sunken of cours?, has it* .exceptions.. No rensi-
root is found, or a projecting ledge of j bleperson will stsy.in a vehicle that is
held in a box.
A jeweler at Salem, Oregon, has con
structed a curiosity in the shape of a
steam-engine inside the wreath on a $1
gold piece. Its weight is two penny
weight* and six grains, and the length
of the stroke is 15-100ths of an inch.
The length cf the valve stroke is 3-100ths
of an inch, and the machine when run
by steam is capable of 5,000 revolutions
per minute. It is now’ run by compressed
air. The cylinder and bright work is
gold-plated.
of fire
New’ York within the last few months.
One woman let a roast get on fire in the
oven and the blaziug fat ran all over the
kitchen floor. The tire in a smoke house
got so hot that the hams and the sides of
the bacon blazed up, aud the flames
poured out of the doors t nd threatened
to burn tho whole building. Slaking
lime fired one building. In twenty-Beven
cases the flames burst spontaneously
from piles of rags or rubbisn, fifteen of
the piles being only rags. In two cases
some men carelessly exposed some phos
phorus to the air so that it blazed. Sul
phur wes fired in another cate while
work nen were handling it. The friction
of michinery fired two different sho[ s. I
The records of locust plagues in the ;
warm countries of the East, in modern as 1
well as in ancient times, almost surpass !
belief. Kirby and Spence mention an j
army of locusts which ravaged the Mah- i
ratta country, ext;nding in a column 500 i
miles long, and so compact that it ob- j
soured the sun like an eclipse. Near the |
close of the last century so many per- j
ished in the sea on part of the African |
coast that a bank three or four feet high, ;
and about fifty miles long, was formed on I
the shore by their dead bodies, and the ;
stench of them was carried 150 miles by ;
the wind. In another part of Africa, I
early in the Christian era, one plague of j
locusts is said to have caused the death j
of 800,COO persons, and in 591 nearly as j
bad & plague recurred in Italy. Again, i
in 1478, more than 30,009 persons per- J
ished in the Venet an territories from j
famine caused by losusts.
ated Elixir of Calis&ya/'raadebyCasweUjHaz-
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is the best tonic: and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it has no equal.
Stop that Cough, that tickling in the throat!
Stop that Consumptive Condition!
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i excuse forcriticis
Life seems hardly worth the living to-day to j
many a tired, unhappy, discouraged woman |
i for all the
which the weaker sex is
■ to Dr. Pierce's “Favorite
has been able
lief. But there is a certain
painful complaints
liable. We refer l_
Prescription,” to the virtues of which thou
sands or women can testify. As a tonic and
nervine It is unsurpassed. All druggists.
Whex you get your boots and shoes straight-
c ned use Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners; they will save
yon money, give you comfort and keep them
straight.
Politeness will succeed where money alone
w ill get worsted.
the taut harmful of all th«Sktu preparations.’* CaabottM
■ill last at* montha, uMng tt eeery day. AUo TouclreSub
tile remove* wperfluousnalr wttuout injury to the akha.
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Sick and bilious headache, and all derange
ments of stomach and bowels, cared by Dr.
Pierce’s “Pellets”—or antl-bilioas granules.
25 ents a vial. No cheap boxes to allow waste
of virtues. By druggists.
The beet j ublic school Superintendent In
\'crt Virginia is a blind man.
Another Life. Saved.
l Harriet Cummin, a of Cincinnati.Ohto.wrttss:
rly last winter my daughter was attacked with
e coM, which settled oa her lungs.
.. -* — * get
• and finally
blood from her lungs. We
railed in a family physician, but he failed te de her
any good. At this time a friend, who had been cured
by Da. Wa Hall's Balsam for mi Luxes, advised
a entirely cured.
A Sinful River.
In coming down from Benares to Cal
cutta we passed the picturesque, but ill-
omened, River Kurrumnatsa. from the
water of which no high-caste native,
though ever so thirsty, will drink. It*
name is ia Sanskrit K'lrinanatha. the
1 “de-drover of deeds,’’ and its legend is a
curious ’ins! ance of the superstitions yet
I surviving in Indio. The Kurrumnassa
enters the Ganges at Chausa, flowing by
Mirzapore from the hills; but tho ortho
dox say it came into existence by reason
of the sin of Raja Trisang Kni. He had
killed a cow, murdered a Brahman and
married his stepmother—offenses beyond
all forgiveness. Had not his repentance
been so earnest that the gods, in pity at
last of so contnte a sinner, took water
from all the rivers of the world, and
making Kirrumnassa with them bade the
Raja w ash away his guilt in its waves.
The threefold crime was thus purged,
but the stream is supposed still to bear
iu its contaminated current the evil of
such heinous deeds, and not a lotu of
-.ray Braham Keshatyra woman is ever
dipped into it.—London Telegraph, .
terial into an oval shape. The threads
of grass arc wound in and out, entangled
with one another in variou* vays, and
the interstices filled with mud. During
the construction one or more orifices arc
left leading into the nest or entirely
through it; the grasses arc wound around
the old root, and finally a compact oval
nest is seen suspended and swinging on
the tide—a veritable cradle for the baby
fishes.
The eggs are deposited in the interior,
and attach thcmselve* to the gross and
the sides of the nest. In due rime a
swarm of tiny fishes fill this curious
•bode, end show a decided inclination
to stray away. They are, however,
watched and guarded by the parents,
which drive thc.-u bacx when they
wander too far from home.
Thi* ncst-bufiding fish of the Sea of
Galilee displays, however, a still mote
curious metned of protection, for in time
of danger the young arc frequently taken
into the capacious mouth of the male
parent-fish, and thus guarded from harm.
This habit is esmmou to quite a number
of fishes.—St. Xl hda*.
every case I can
recall of fatal runaway accidents in
the Park, the persons would have saved
their lives, end probably have escaped
Kentucky Mountaineers.
When the railroad was first opened
through this region a young man estab
lished a fruit store at one of the stations,
nnd as part of his stock laid in a bunch
of bananas. One day a native moun
taineer entered. Arrangements generally
struck him with surprise, but everything
clso was soon forgotten in an adhesive
contemplation of the mighty aggregation
of fruit. Finally he turned away with this
note: “Blame me if them ain’t the queer
est beans I ever seen!”
While here we had occasion to extend
our acquaintance with native types. Two
young men came to the hotel, bringing
a bag of small, hard peaches to sell.
Slim, slab-sided, stomachless and serene,
mild and melancholy, they might have
been lot03-eaters, only the suggestion of
poetry was wanting, and they had prob
ably never tasted any satisfying plant
whatsoever. Their unutterable content
came not from opiates, but from their
souls. If they could sell the peaches
they would be happy; if not. they would
b; happy. What they could not sell,
they could as well cat; and since no bar
gain was made on this cccasion,they took
chairs on the hotel veranda, opened the
bag and fell to. One of us tried to catch
the mental attitude of the Benjamin of
his tribe, while the other st jdied his
bodily pose.
“Is that a goad ’coon dog?”
“A mighty good ’coon dog. I hain’t
never seen him whipped by a varmint
yet.” •
“Are there many ’coons in this conn-
tryl”
“Several ’coons.”
“Is this a good year for ’coons?”
‘A inighty good year for ’coons. Tho
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Remedies for *11 Horse Disease*. Plates showing
how to Tell the Ags or Horses. Eont postpaid for
25 cents in stamps.
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It Can be Dsn?.
Judge Chewsj, Chsimian of the Com
mittee" on Economic Problems, begged
leave to submit a report. His committee
had been asked to investigate the in
quiry: “Can an average family live on
$2 worth of provisions per week?” Sev
eral weeks had been spent in patient
investigation, and the committee found
that it could be done, as follows: -
Cabbage .'..60 cents
Soup bones 50cents
.Bread -. 90 cents
The committee hadn’t found anybody
who had become rolling fat on the above
diet, bnt that was not their fault
Trustee Pullback moved that the re
port be accepted and the committee dis
charged from further con>ideraticn of
the subject, autl the motion prevailed.—
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any serious injury, had they refrained
from jumping out. The sad accident by
which Mrs. Pendleton lost her life is a
case in point. In this, as in other in-
stanc s, the runaway horses were stopped
within a minute after the fatal leap was
mads, and without even injury to the
vehicle to which they were attached.
Above all things, then, I would recom
mend to persons behind runaway horses
—don’t jump. Unfortunately, however,
people seem to lose their heads in the ex
citement of the moment,' and appear to
think only of pairing company with the
team.”
The Bishop’s Question. 1
Mode-ty is an attribute of true great
ness, and* nun of real le irning are never
pompons. Any freckled and saturnine
school-toy can ask questions that it
would puzzle a ten volume encyclopaedia
to answer; and confusion i* apt to over
take the pretentious individ al who tr es
to impress h’s hearers wit i the fabe idea
that he “knows everything
b.ioks.”
A story is told of a certain bishop who
addressed a large assembly of Sunday-
school children and wound up by asking,
in a very paternal and condescending
way: “And now, is there a-a-n-y little
boy or a-a-n y little girl who would like
to ask me a question?”
After a pause he, repeated the question:
“Is there a-a-n-y little boy or a a-n-y lit-*
tie girl who would .like to a-k me a
question?” * i
A little shrill voice called out: “Please,
sir, why did the angels walk up and
down Jacob’s ladder when they had
wings?” ?
“Oh, ah, ves, I see,” said the bishop.'
“And now, is there a-a-n-y little boy or
a-a-n-y little girl that would like to an-i
swer little Mary’s question?”—Youth's
woods is full o’ varmints.
“Do ’coons eat corn?”
“’Coons is bad as hogs on corn, when
they git tuk to it.”
“Are there many wild turkeys in this
country?”
“Several wild turkeys.”
“Have you ever caught many’coons?”
“I’ve cotched high as five ’ccons out
o’ one tree.”
‘.‘Are there many foxes in this coun
try?”
“Several foxes.”
“What’s the best way to cook a
’coon?”
“Ketch him and parbile h'm, and then
pnt him in cold water and ioak him, and
then but him in and bake him.”
“Are there many hounds in this coun
try?”
“Several hounds.”
Here, among other discoveries, was a
linguistic one—the use of “several” in
the scn«e of a great many, probably an
innumerable multitude, as in the case of
the ’coons.
It appears that in part they arc spriin;
all the f rcm *'k e early hunters who
mountni
tort
.• into the
_ abundant,
living cheap. Among
them now are still-hunters who know
the haunts of bear and deer, needing no
dogs. They even now prefer wild meat
—even “’possum” and “’coon” and
ground-hog—to any v othcr. In Bell
County I spent the day in the house of aa
aged woman—eighty years old, in fact—
who was a lingering representative of a
nearly extinct type. - She had never been
out of the neighborhood of her birth,
knew the mountains like a garden, had
whipped men in single-handed encoun
ter, brought down many a deer and wild
turkey with her own rifle, and now, in
firm, had hut to sit in her cabin-door
and send her trained dog3 into the depths
of the forest to discover the .wished-for
game; a fiercer woman I never looked
on.—Hamer's Mauazine.
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