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SANDERSVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1885.
NUMBER 17.
THE MERCURY.
Entered on ooooad-olaoo mlln ■» tat I
dororlUo Paetotacs, April to, IM
Sandenvilla, Washington Cetoity,
A. J. JERNIGAN,
■nboeriptlon.
MWnoiPAL,
Mayor.
Wm. Gam,* nan.
Aldermen.
Wm. Rawmnos,
A. M. Mato,
W. H. La woo*,
B. T. Walks,
Morris Happ.
Clerk and Treasurer.
O. W. H. Warranto
Marshall.
J. E. Wsddom.
TOWN Of tknnillk.
Intendant.
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Aldermen.
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J. DHPranklih.
J. M. Brown.
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Clerk.
8. H. B. Mabbbt.
Marshall,
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A. C. WRIBHT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
105 Bay St., Savannah, 6a.
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n. I. DAIlRIfl.
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Attorne.vN At Law,
HANDEJ18VILLE, GA.
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the comitlea snmmiiding Washington. Special
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JSUXrXCAXT.
FOOT-LIGHT FLASHES.
Orly ten tunes were known In New Eng
land in the llrat ninety years.
Miss Emma Thuhhuy is on the point of re
appearing in the concert room.
It id said that Adelina Patti may mako s
short professional visit to America the coming
winfc r.
M. Gayahrb,a Spaniard by birth, is about
to sing in French at tho Grand Opora*house
in Paris.
The number of theatre* in Vienna is on the
do 'lino. In 1881) there wore twelve, aud in
1881 only seven.
John T. Raymond has bought a piny from
Horn30 McVickor, entitled “Mona. Jacques.”
It is in four acts.
W. H. Power has a play entitled “Tho ivy
Loaf,” in which n live American eagle will
be given a prominent place.
Joe Murphy is said to bo the richest man
on the stage. He is worth a cool half million
Ho was a poor Irish boy, and started as a va
riety singer.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg and her
concert company have reached Winnipeg,
whence they intend toprocoedto Washington
Territory and British Columbia.
Victoria Hulskamp, neo Morosini, who
married her rich father’s coachman, has be -a
engaged by the management of the New
Casino theatre to sing in comic opera.
» . .b§, is very poor,
but absolutely refuses to give concerts to
make money. His only revenue is a small
pe i Ion from a German princess.
Muola db Giosa, an Italian composer,
WiuMe opera “Don Chocco” was produced in
1850 and has been very popular, (lied lately in
an insane asylum. Ho was sixty-tivo years
old.
W. G. Wills has written for Mary An
derson a poetic play, called “Ireuia;” it is
placed in tho first century of tho Christian
era. It will not bo produced till after Miss
An lerson’s American tour.
Mlle. Judio will inaugurate her Ameri
can tour at Wallack’s theatre, New York,
October 1. She is one of the great nov-
eltlos of the forthcoming season. No urtiste
in France has occupied a more popular posi
tion.
Edward Strauss has many mannerisms
when conducting an orchestral concert. A ;-
cording to a London journal he “twirls liis
violin in the air, dances to his own music and
rushes to and fro; ho menaces a musician to
tho right with hfs bow, to tho left w ith his
fiddle. He smile, hewoops; he is, particular
ly to the English mind, quite absurd.”
MIHHION ARIKH MANN ACRED.
Paris, August 10, 1885.—Thr Minister of
the Marino has received an official dispatch
from Tonquiri stating that the Black Flags
liud raided five missionary stations and com
pletely destroyed them, killing many Chris
tians. Eight thousand of the followers of JMie
missionaries have taken refuge with tho
French troops. General do Courcy telegraphs
from Hue as follows: “The leaders of the
Black Flags have vanished and their bands
have di-p8rsed. There are several cases of
cholera in the Haiphong Hospital. Tho
Bishop of Quiulion reports that five mission
aries and many Christians have been massa
cred in the provinces of Biendinh and Phyyen.
and that 8,000 Christians have sought refuge
In Quinhon, which is occupied by the French.
General Prudhomme has started for Quinhon.
The scandal caso in which Sir Chords
Dilke, the loading English tory, is invol . >d
has beenrevi veil, the injured huiband bavin j
returned the check for $135,000 which DUaO
hod given him os reparation.
Consul Heap, at Boyrout, Turkey, has
protested against the proposed expulsion of
some American citizens.
A MINING CASUALTY NEWS OF THE DAY.
A PITIFUL MCBNB IN A PENNSYLVANIA
MINB.
#l«n» Miner. NnflocnUri bV Vrtl.rt, M ,u»
Air—l,nWrt*i,, I*r, nil. or
tk* Artrtldenl.
A frightful mlno accident occurred at the
West Knd Coni company’s mino, at Mocana
qua, l'onn., tho otlier morning, by wliich at
least twelve live, were lost and (wonty-tive
chile!roil henderod fatherless. About 1)
b’cloek A. M. the onglneer in charge of the
fen which supplies air to the mine
discovered that tho Bhaft was bent,
and that the fan would not work as well as
usunl. In other words, it was running at too
low a rate of spend, and thus diminishing the
amount of air in the mine below, where over
100 men wore at work digging coal. The en
gineer, instead of giving the alarm nt once to
tho miners attempted to repair the broken fan,
but his efforts were without success. During
all this time the gas In the mine Was accu
mulating In large quantities, and when it
came pouring into the different galleries it
woe too iato for tho miners to escape. Tho
fire boss was tho first to give the alarm. He
was at the bottom of tile slope nearest tho
surface and hod a chance to make his estape
had ha so desired, but ho knew there were
ovor a hundred of his fallow-men In the mlno
and to leave them meant instant death for
all. (Juickly summoning a coUple of door-
tenders ho made Ids way through the dark
eubterranean passages of the mine, yelling at
the top of his voice.
“Men, there Is gas In tho mine. Hun for
your lives; quick!”
He was notable to reach every quarter of
the mine, which covers an area of two miles
under ground. When he had gono hnlf-way
through tile mino he was overcome l>y tile
n, —“ ••••••« MW "WO UTUIIUUID HY HIM
g*w a , m, 4 prostrated. Many of the miners
wlm ,,n ' , Ulm *“—*“ it alarm hastened
who had heard his words wi amnii imsieno<t
quickly to tho mouth of the mine and mndo
their oscApe, but others became exhausted
and had to succumb to the power of the poi-
s mous gas.
A n eye witness, a minor who worked In one
of tho chambers and who made his escape to
tho surface, thus dcscrilies tho scene in tho
mine when tho alarm was first given. “About
9 o clock 1 noticed that there was more or
less gas in the mine, hut thought nothing of
it at the time, as 1 thought tho ouginoer in
charge of the fan had slacked up a little to
make some repairs. This is somotimos the
case, but when the neieisary repairs are
made tho fan is given increased »peed
and it soon cleans out tho gas. About 40
minutes beforo 1 heard tho fire boss .give tho
alnrm I thought that the gas was increasing
and so stated to my latoror. I then for the
first time began to realize that something was
tho matter. 1 told my laborer we had better
make our way to tho top. Wo throw down
our tools and hastily took our dopnrture.
JVe had not gono one hundred yards baforo
I noticed a dozen rats running ahead of mo.
I know that whenever I saw rats
in the mine on tho run that then*
is something going to ruin. Aly In
borer turned white at the sight of them. He
said: ‘My God, John, do you see tho rats run
njngf We will all be killed.’ We ran for
nil wo wero worth through the dark nns-
sages. Wo were within five hundred yards
of the opening when I heart! the fire boss
irivn the nlnrtn Wn warts nmv _
give the alarm. Wo were now almost ex
hausted from the gas. In our progress through
tho mino wo could hear tho groans of
those who had succuml)od to the gas and
fallen to tho ground. Evory fow yards wo
wont wo would 8tiimh]e over sumo poor un
fortunate who, like ourselves, had attempt
ed to make Ids escape from tho doatli-
dealing vapor, but ha I fa’lon by the road
way. Homo of them wo tried !o put on their
feet, but they were ns stiff ns a log and could
not move. Hoeing wo could render no relief
we trudged on, now and then stumbling over
tho niostnito bodios of other miners. At last
my laborer gave «u . He foil. I triod to
drag him, but it was no use. Ho was dead in
a few minutes, and I know that if I remained
five minutes longer 1 too would Imj prostrated.
1 hastened on, and at last ►aw tho foot of the
si tpo, where some men w ero at work lifting
tl o unconscious to tho bucket so they could
be carried to tho oj>on air. This is all I re
number, for the next moment I foil from
sheer exhaustion. I was carried to tho top
by tho roliof party.”
As soon as the accident been mo known a
relief party was organized, with Buperin-
tendent John TensdulMnt tho head. They wont
V .. ..m.rail. Aiioy
down In the mine and roscued about eighty
of the
men who wero nearest to the mouth oi me
mi no. All of them were in an unconscious
cl ditlon, and when brought to the surface
we *e stretched out on t he earth and medical
assistance summoned. All the doctors for
twonty miles around wore pressed into ser
vice. The sceno was a most pitiful one. Tho
mot,hers, wives «nd sisters of the miners
gat hered an Mind the sjiot and mndo the air
echo with their cries and inmontations. They
wero of great nssisbince, however, and ten
derly cared for tho prostrate men. Home were
carried to log slmnties, and, with tho aid of
nature’s help and tho kind ministrations of
fri< mis, soon recovered. Others wore too
weak to recover and di d in a short time.
All attempts to got tho fan in running or-
•r Were fruitleRs mul nt. 4 n'nlnplr tlm cunxi.
....... vi .t w (,uv v,,u i.i.i in i illinium wi
der wore fruitless, aud at 4 o'clock tho rescu
ing unity wero coni|)o!led to give up the
seni’ch, the gns in the mino lieing too strong.
They rescued alwut 115, and about twelve
were known to bo dead.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
— A train, in full speed, plunged through a
partially opened swing bridge into the Wel
land Canal, at Merritton, Out. Engineer Cox
was instantly killed, and William Jennings
probably fatally injurod.
—Two men fell from tho tower of a Method
ist church at Grand Rapids, Mich., and wero
killed.
—A race between picnickers in wagons, near
JcfTerson, III., resulted in tho death of one
man and a child, and injuries to several other
persons.
—At Carrolltown, Mo., a man on ooming
out of church saw another in the act of assist
ing his divorced wife to mount her horse,>and,
stepping up to licr, placed his pistol at her
head and discharged it. killing her instantly.
He afterward oummitt* d suicide.
—The roof of the railway station at Hud
dersfield, Yorkshire, England, fell inwhi'e the
building was crowded with people and kil;od
two poisons instantly, beside injuring a largo
number of othorp. The catastrophe caused
the wildest confusion for a while, but no
casualties are reported to have occurred dur
ing the stampede.
—The Hultan of Zanzibar has applied to tho
English fleet for protection against the Ger
mans.
—Th • toilers of the steamer Paquite de los
Volo* exploded while she was on a voyage
ft om Coquimto to Valparaiso, killing five per
sons and dangerously wounding six others.
— 1 Tho steamship Zealaudia, having on
I oard detectives of Ht. Louis, Mo., who had in
custody Walter Hornce Lennox, alias Maxwell,
alias Theodore Cecil Daiignier, extradited as
tlie murderer, in bt. LouiB. of O. Arthur
Preller, arrived in Ban Francisco.
—A severe thunder storm passed over Rook
Rapids, Iowa. A farm house about twenty
miles south of the town was stmek by light
ing, and all the inmates—who were John
McGuire, his wife, and three children—were
killed.
—The New York Club beat the famous Chi-
ago Club by a score of 12 to 9.
—Ths head of a rotary rag boiler in the
Ivanhoe paper mill in Paterson, N. J., blew
out, seriously injuring a number of people.
—In the mine of the West End Coal Co., op*
orated by Conyngham, Teasdalo & Co., at
Mocana qua, Pa!, gas overcome a party of
miners, hilling a number of tho party.
—in New York city the new trial of Timothy
McCarty has bo n postponed, and he has been
pine d under #2,000 bail. Tim is the very
wealthy‘dive keeper who declared that he
wou d not go to prison, after he whs iru ',
oonvich d and sentenced. Judge Gildeislbcv«i
granted him a new trial.
—Advices from Tonquin say the Bishop of
Quinhon reports that over 10,000 Christiaus
have been massacred in the provinces of
Bkndii h and Phtiyen. Murders and incen-
• linry fires are of almost daily occurrence.
The vicariate has been annihilated.
—A terrible bull fight occurred at Nimes on
Sunday. r« suiting in the butcherv of horses
and bulls and the serious injury ol Frasoqelo,
the famous torreador.
rutter* ft** fttutftte
Fred Douolabri the colored orntoh made
ail addrfiss to the colored people of Rochester,
N. Y., oil ihe Oth—Emancipation Day.
New York City was never so crowded nml
filled with strangers os on tho three days of
General Grant’s funeral coromonias.
On the day of General Grant’s funeral in
New York impressive ceremonies of some
sort or another wore held in cities and towns
all ov«r the country. Thhmghoiit New York
State there was hardly a city or town in
which tho day was not observed by either a
procession, memorial services, the tolling of
bolls or the booming of cannon. At r*owell,
MiLKR . (Innnrnl Hah leniin 1«* lint ln>.
Mass., General Benjamin F. Butler pro
uouncrtd ths eulogy, anil nt tho memorial ser
vices in Augusta, Mo., that olllco was i>er
vices in Auguste, Me., tha
formed by James G. Blaine.
llBTtvi'.EN forty and firty thousand people
visited llenernl Urant’s tomb at Hivorslde
park un the day aftor his burial.
Tub $100,000 required to finish the podostnl
for Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty nt Now
York have lieen subscribed.
Many persons who lost relatives during the
recont typhoid fever epidemic ill Plymouth;
Penn., announce their Intention to sue the
water company of that placo for damages In
each case of death.
Hkv. W. H. Coovert, pastor of a l’ltls-
burg (Penn.) church, has come to Now York
to establish a claim to Harlem commons, a
tract of about 10,(XX) acres, Including tho
site of General Grant's tomb. Of the Coovert
family there Rro about a hundred, and If the
claim Is proved $6(10,000,(100 will lie divided
nmoiig then!
A hkcicnt law prohibiting tho employ
ment of hoys under the ago of fourteen yen re
Inside tho coal mines In Pennsylvania has
turnod 10,000 lads out of employment.
A HCROONKII line just arrived at Ban Fran
cisco from the Arctlo ocean with tho news
that tho bark Napoleon, of New Ue lford,
Imd been crushed by ice, and twenty (wo
lives lost,
C A DIME IIaRekeaP, a young Creek outlaw,
was executed nt Kufaula, Indian Territory,
in Iudlnii fashion, liejng shot to death while
sealed on his collln by tho Creek Light llorsi
guards. Cur pie was eighteen years old nail
hud murdered an entire family, and recently
murdered n preacher.
Dr. ArinOborn, of Marshfield, Ind., whilo
Insano fiercely attacked and mortally in
jured I)r. C. H. Doyor, a friend who was
taking care of him, and then killod himself.
Tins house at Appomattox Court Ilousn,
b, where Gonorals Lee and Grant signed
Va., Where Generals Lee and Urant signed
the terms of surrender, was dra|>edin mourn-
tho dead
commander.
A party of five persons, consisting of .Tor-
vis Snyder, wife and daughter, ngod live
years, William Haffnerand George Hansen,
wore swept under the rapids In the Columbia
river, Oregon, while In a sailboat, and all
drowned.
Fire haa destroyed the Montezuma hotel,
near Los Vegas, New Mexico. Tho hotel
was a largo structure, built by a railroad
™ . - - {gr
company. The loss amounts to #300,000.
Two men and a woman were killed nnd
two children of tho latter fatally Injured by
a railroad wreck near Cincinnati.
Judge Jamir Garland, probably tho
oldest judge In the world, and, It is behoved,
the oldest Mason In tho United States, died
at bis home at Lynchburg, Va., the other
day, aged ninety-five. Heserved In the war
of 1012, and was twice a member of Congress.
A Fargo (Dakota) dispatch says the whole
country has been flooded by tho most tre
mendous fall of rain ever witnessed in that
section, and that in consequence enormous
damage has been done to the crops. The
ground was covered with from six Inches to
a foot of water.
Joseph O. Howard (white), who killed E
C. Blackman, a farmer, aftor robbing him;
Tom Gee (colored), who cut to pieces with an
axe Mary Hughes, a white womnu, and Tom
McNeill (colored), who killed his brother, Hl-
mon McNeill, were hanged together In public
the other day. at Fayetteville, N. C. On the
same day Hichnrd Johnson (colored), suffered
a similar fate at Vidalia, La., for the mur
der of another colored man.
While General Grant was being conveyed
to Ills grave in New York there were demon
strations of sorrow In many Southern and
Western cities. At Chicago there waa an Im
mense procession, the most prominent feature
being a draped funeral car, drawn hy ten
horses, containing a black casket, nnd fol
lowed by a magnificent milk white stood with
an empty saddle. There were also large pa
rades at 8L Louis, Clevolaud aud other
places, and memorial exercises were hold In
Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans, Han
Francisco, Atlanta, and many other cities
and towns.
Maxwell, Ihe companion of Pivllor, the
wealthy young Englishman who was found
foully murdered in a prominent Ht. Louis
hotel some months ngo, nrrlvod in Han Fran
cisco a fow days since, from New Zealand,
in charge of officers. He was taken to Ht.
Dulls. He denies all knowledge of the crime.
Two brothers nnmed Fond were leading a
Holstein bull to their farm, near Hi. Paul,
Minn., when the anltnul became unmanagea
ble and attacked the men, killing both.
An association to raise funds to erect a
monument to General Grant in 8L Louis has
been forinod In that city.
VaAlaiteib
The department of state is In receipt of i
cablegram from Mr. Ia-o, secretary <>l lie
American legation nt Vienna, saving linn
the Austrian government Inis do. lined <o re
ceive Mr. Keiley as Unite 1 Htnto minister.
The authorities of Austria give no reason for
their action.
Further appointments by the President:
To becollectorsof the Internnl revenuo—John
IJowlin, for the twenty-second district, nnd
Frank Schlandecker, for tho nineteenth dis
trict of Pennsylvania. To tw surveyors of
customs—John T. Guthright, for the port
of Louisville, Ky., and Leon Trousonlo,
for the port of Nashville, Tenn.
Postmasters—William 8. Evans, Lagrange,
On,; IweBeal, Rich Hill, Mo.; hSwdericK A.
Vorlxirg, North Vernon. Ind.; Richard
Holmes, Natchez, Miss.; Michael Boland, Do
Kulb, Ind.; William M. Gay, Wilson, N. C.;
J. E Jones, Portage, Win: Willis B. Isbell,
Westville, Conn.; Jacob D. Allen, Butler,
Mo.; Clmuncey W. Freeman, Broadfinld, Mo.
Secretary Whitney has written a letter
to the nssigneesof Mr. John Roach in which
lie says the contracts with that gentleman
for tho constru ’.Ion of the n w cruisers (the
Boston, tho Atlanta and tho Chicago) have
been forfeited and that the government will
complete the work at the navy yards.
Colonel A. G. Sharpe, chief postofilco in
spector, hns resigned.
Apter attending General Grant’s funeral
in Now York President Cleveland pro
ceeded to Albany, and thence to tho Adi-
rondacks, for a vacation.
The White Housj is now closod to visitors
and will not he reopened until the President’s
return in September. In tho meantime the
building will Iw overhauled and made as
clean nnd comfortable as possible.
Chop returns to the department of agricul
turo show an improvement in tho condition
of cotton and corn; some damage to spring
wheat In the Northwest and an increase fr.
New England; a decline in the average foi
oats; continued improvement in rye; an
average barley crop; an increase ill tho buck
wheat area; a medium hay crop; a decrease
over lust month in potatoes, und a general
average of ninety-one in tobacco.
It is estimated that more than 10,000,000
acres of tho public domuin have Isim Il
legally fenced in by cattle owners nnd oth
ers. Honco tho Prasident’8 proclamation
ordering tho removal of those fonces.
Forelga.
The banking house of Drexel, Hayes &
Co., Paris, have been appointed European
treasurers of the Grant national monument
fund. They have beaded the list with a
subscription of $1,000.
The emperors of Germany and Austria
met tho other day at Gastein, the watering
place, and affectionately kissed each other.
Owing to the neglect of all sanitary regu
latious the death rate on the Isthmus of Pan
ama has become frightfully large. In Colon,
a city of 10,000 persons, the deaths are now
at the rate of 0,000 a year.
There are fears of another collision be
tween the Russian troops aud the Afghans in
Afghanistan.
LATEST NEWS.
iTInriirrln* the Christina*.
Further advices from Tonqnlti Hay that the
liishop of Quinhon reports that oFor 1(1(00 I
Christians have been massacred in the provin
ces of Biendiuh aud Plirycn. Murders and
lnoondiarv fires are of dally oeenrrenoc. ’ihe
vicariate has been annihilated.
A Fire Keeste the Ueeels of While Hnlpher
HfirlH#*.
The main building at Haywood White Sul
phur springs hotel, at Waynesville, N. 0,, took
fire from the kitchen, and was totally de
stroyed. Tho furniture was saved. There
wero about 200 gnosis at the hotel. They all
escaped and aaved everything.
Tna now bauk of Nownan, Ga., lias liedn
organized by tho election of tho following
directors: Henry O. Arnsll, W. Y. Atkinson,
W. H. Albright, N. B. Glover, J.H. Hollinshed,
J. T. Kirby. Jr.. O. C. Parrott, L. P. Thomas,
Jr. It is expected that tho bauk will bo ready
for bueitlcso on tho flrat of Heptetnber, with O.
C. Parrott as president, J. T. Rltby, Jf., as
cashier and J. ft. Hollinshed teller. The capi
tal stock is $60,000.
Florida will vote on the adoption of hor
new constitution In Novomlier. There is little
or uo opposition to the Instrument.
It is gtxvoly asserted, that tho Oonnel! bill
to tax bachelors df thirty years and ovor $160
a lair at
a year will become a law at tho present sosslou
of the Goorgia legislature.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Southern league la very lively end all
the clubs aro reported to be making money.
A SUErilKRD dog belonging to Mr. Bchalk,
«il$. J., plays ball.
of Monmioutb Junction, ...
He novor "muffs” no matter how the bell la
thrown.
Chicago won one game from Boston last
year on the Boston grounds Boston won one
game from Chicago thla year on the Boston
ground*
Tiikiik Is this difference between an ex
port swimmer and a base bixll player: The
first makee a a reputation by "striking out”
and the second loees it.
At Des Moines. Iowa, recently, the Rev.
Edwin 8 Carr, n Yale graduate end en ad
mirer of baseball, sustained a compound frao-
turo nr his arm above the elbow while trying
to throw a rising curve. Mr. Carr tee
preacher at Humboldt
A New York contemporary proposes a
•erics of games between the pennant winners
of the National, Eastern and Southern
leagues nnd the American association. At
lanta has already been heard from. She's
willing. Atlanta evidently regards herself
as a sure winner of the Southern pennant
CASH prize*, aggregating $350, ware put
up by Nashvlllo citizens for the home efub to
heat Atlanta three games out of four played
there recently. Nashville won the desired
three hy tho skin of their teeth and the player*
took the money, Howdera getting $76 for th*
beat hutting. In addition to tho cash oach
playor got a lino seersucker suit of clothoa.
The first game in Now York between the
N ew York league nine and tho Chicagos.on the
last tour of tho Western club this season,was
witnessed by 16,000 itoople, and was intensely
exciting, the homo club winning hy a score
of 7 to 6. Tho contest for championship
honors Is,tween those two elute hai been
very close tho whole soosou, all the otlier
clulis boing out of the race for first place.
SOMETHING ABOUT SWEEfS*
FtoOOBBBB OF UMI MAITUFAO-
VtftoS XV tuts OOVVVtoT.
Narcotic Plant).
In Vifk't Floral ilayatine we read of n
flower which creates linighlor. It grows
in Arabia; tho flowers are of a bright
S allow and tho aood resembles small
lack beaus. Thcso are dried by tho na
tives end pulverized, end it is aald that
■mall doses make a person bcliavo like a
cireu* clown or a madman, for he will
denoe, eing and laugh most boisterously,
and carry on in a ridiculous way for an
hour. The stnge of excitement ie fol
lowed by exhaustion and sleep.
This reminds us of on experiment we
made many yoars ago. We had seen Pro
fessor James It. Buchanan experimenting
with pulverized herbs by placing them
in the palms of the hands ol a class of
medical students. Whilo they sat in a
sort of expootant mood, waiting for
something to turn up and holding va
rioue powdered herbi in closod flats,
every now and then some of them would
tell of tho symptoms which wore boing
produced upon him. It wna to us then
a new and surprising revelation that
medicines could tans net without boing
taken into tho stomach, and we are not
yet fully satisfied as to the way they act
under such circumstances. But linving
seen Professor Buchunan’s experiments
we were led to try it ourselves on a cou
ple of boys about sevcutccn years of age.
Powdered Cannabis Indies from the sume
plant which gives lmshocsh, u narcotic
used by tho natives of India, was placed
in one band of eacli of the boys, while
they sat quiotly waiting to sea what
would turn up. One of them soon com
menced to titter and then to laugh bois
terously, and soon be became so hilarious
with excitement that we thought beet to
take the drug away from him. He soon
sobered down. During the period of ex
citement wo tried to get him to ray why
he was carrying on in such a way, but
he wna utterly unable to give any ox
planation for it other than he simply fell
that way. Thu other hoy quietly nodded
oS to aloop in his chair.
This experiment illustrates two im
portant things: first, that medicine cud
exert an action in this curious manner,
and second, that a medicine will
act differently on different persons,
icoording to temperament or idi
osyncracy, or susceptibility, what
ever you choose to call it. Furthermore,
it may be remarked that both the exhil
(rating and the atupifying results oh
served in these cases are known to be the
effects of hasheesh upon the human sys
tem when taken internally. —Health
Monthly.
Where the Scorpion Gets His Poison.
In a letter from the West Indies to the
New York Times, the writer says:
When he strikes you with the end of his
tail, like a wasp, he exudes a venomous
liquid, and a man had better hold a red-
hot iron in his hand than to get a tenth
part of a drop of this liquid into his
blood. It is not necessarily fatal, par
ticularly in the Bahamas; but it con
denses the heat of forty furnaces. In
some parte of South America scorpion
bitos are frequently fatal, but I have not
heard of any one having been killed by
them in Nassau. This is easily account
ed for. Tho scorpion likes to feed on
decayed wood. In South America, where
dyewoods and other poislonous woods
abound, the scorpion feeds upon them,
and thus work into themselves a good
sunply of outside poisou, which, taken
together with nis naturally poisonous
liquid, does its work for whoever is un
fortunate enough to be etung. But, in
Nnssau, euch poisonous woods are few,
and the scorpions have to fatten them
selves respectably on pine, cedar and
mahogany.
The only goose ranche—• farm de
voted to the breeding and care of geese—
in this country, is located on the eastern
shore of Virginia, and oovera nearly
8,000 acres Its flocks number in the
neighborhood of 6.000.
DSlicsriH flint ftrl «h« the Palates
of rdatti-Y$|Mt«M« tutor* rsk.
Inc the Place dt Plfleanone One**
Tho last thing a child inquires atfodt
is how tho sugar-plum it snaps up with
some avidity is made. Yet tho manu
facture of those delicacies—I had almost
said licticfbtirlos—of the nursery is a tiling
worth witncfiltlfl. I'htrtierly all thfl
higher cl ii ss came from Franco fifld Ger
many, where for ages they havo boon fa
mous for their delicacies. But sinco the
introduction of steam into iholr fabrica
tion thcso articles are now made on tho
largest scale In this country, uud are
vnstly elifiaponsil since the days wlion wo
used to spend Out last penny In taffy.
Tho rude stylo of old is alsci gdilfi. The
eye must now ho satisflod as well at
the palate, even in the choapost items.
Think of tho cne-cent swcots done
Up in a ruby-colored gelatine packet.
Tlioro Waa color, It is true, in some
of the more showy Sweets bf old, hut it
was metallio color, containing tho most
virulent poison. An analysis of this paint
ed confectionary, published in a medical
journal some years ago, exposed tho vil-
lninoua manner in which thla vividly
colored sweetmeat was mado attrsctlvn
to tho children by poisonous paint. Tho
brigtitor the hue tho more deadly the
sweet. Tho briliiadt green, for instance,
with which tho toy eoufectiodaty was
adorned, contained arsenic of copper.
Ono can quite understand the had namo
sweets acquired when thus made up.
There waa vermilion in the reds, of
course, and gamboge and chromate of
lead In tho yellows. No doubt many
young children were absolutely killed by
plentifully partaking of these artistically
poisoned comflts. The analysis of that
medical paper has delivered us from this
causo of Infantile trouble. Nothing but
harmless vegetable colors are now used,
wliich, if not so brilliant as metallio
ones, are quito safe.
A lurge New York establishment,
which ordinarily employs some ninety
persons, about the commencement of
December requires the services of almost
doublo that number, the maiorltv of
whom are engaged In making bonbons
by the million until tho turn of the now
year. Tho entire underground portion
of tho promises is devoted to the manu
facture of sweetmeats. On descending
the alone staircase one finds one’s self in
a stifling atmosphere, too heavily ladea
with the aroma of vanilla and other es
sences. Around are scores of workmen,
their feces lighted up by the red glare of
numerous furnaces, busily engaged
in plunging particular fruits into
largo caldrons filled with boiling syrups.
Mora in the shade are other stalwart
looking men, their countenance made
pallid hy the intensely heated atmo-
: sphere, piling up almonds, etc., on hugo
| copper vessels, and so constant is tho
sound of metal that tho visitor might
imagine himself in an minor smithy in
stead of n sweetmeat factory, among
workmen making bonbons for women
and children to crunch. On all sides
aro piles of sugar hurrels, gallons of
liquors, syrups and otsences—kirseh,
wine, aniseed, maraschino, curacao, pine
apple, apricot, strawberry, cherry, van
illa, chocolate, coffee and tea—witli sacks
of almonds und baskets of chestnuts,
pistachio nuts und Ulherts being emptied
into machines which bruise their husks,
flay them and blanch them ull ready to
receive their saccburiue coaling.
Most bonbons ure made by hand; only
those which ure lint on the bottom are
cast in molds. In the linnd made bon
bons tho sugar paste is rolled into shapo
by the aid of an instrument formed of ii
stout piceo of wire, onu end of which is
twisted uud the other lixeu into u wood
en handle. Witli this tho pusto is taken
out of the caldron aud worked into the
desired form hy a rapid slroko of tho
hand. For bonbons of a particular
form, such as those in imitation of fruits,
etc., models urocurved in wood. A cer
tain number of these, say from fifty to
sixty, tire flxed on a narrow strip of
wood, and tho confectioner takes
molds of them in starch, con
tained in a series of large, shal
low drawers. As boou ns the molds
bccomo dry they are tilled with liquid
sugar, ill ready colored and flavored, lifter
which tho drawer is put on one side for
twenty-four liourH, when the bonbons
are ready for sale. The delicuto sweets,
containing some essences, such ns pine
apple, etc., arc always cast in starch
molds. It puzzles older heads than those
of children to know how this drop of
delicious liquid guts into thn center of
the sweet. I.ike many other puzzling
matters, it is very easily explained. The
flavoring ossonco is mixed with the liquid
sugar, nnd when poured into the mold
the latter crystulizcs immediately over
the former. These essences, so nice to
the taste, are the most remarkable ex
amples of the power of chemistry to
transform very repugnant materials into
dolicacics. Fmci oil is the huso of tho
pear essence, and pineapple ossonco is ob
tained hy diluting ether with alcohol.
The chemist in his laboratory, with great
cunning, manufactures scores of these
essences, which are supposed to be the
veritable product of delicate fruits. Borne
of the pretty forms that are mado to
tnke tho fancy of the little ones arc simply
punched outof flattilmsof sugar rolled;
somo aro cast, some ure pressed into
shape when soft between eagrnved roll
ers. Tha drops and sweets that are quite
clear are boiled so long that the water
has evaporated out of them. Such
sweets must be immediately bottled up,
or preserved from the air, otherwise they
absorb water und Oecomo semi-liquid.
Barley sugar is an example in point.
If it is not hermetically sealed
down in tins, it doliquesces, and loses
all its crispness. It is as well to know
that this is the purest of all sweets—be
ing absolutely clarified sugar, and there
fore the most whoiosomo for children.
On the other hand, peppermint drops arc
the most open to sophistication. They
should be mudo of crushed white sugar,
mixed into a paste with gum. But the
tempation to adulterate is too gieat for
the dishonest dealer to resist; conse
quently, in order to supply tho market
one-half plaster paris is mixed with in
ferior sugar. One can quite understand
the sickness that overtakes children
sometimes after sucking those cemflts.
Tlie wonder is that such a mass of plas
ter does not interfere more signally with
their digestion. Jujubes, those flexible
lozenges which stick eo in the teeth,
contain a largo portion of gum. They
aro poured into tins to cool, standing for
several • hours, sliced into sheets, and
then cut by scissors into the well-known
diamond shapes.
The veritable sugar-plum, or ilmond-
drop, is made in a very interesting man
ner. A number of almonds, aftor being
coaled with a little guru to catch tho
■white sugar, aro thrown into a deep pan
surrounded with steam. This pan re
volves eidewayfi fit an angle of forty-fire
degrees. As it revolves, tho almonds, of
course, tumble over ono another, and
while they aro doing so tho workman
pours over them from time to
time liquid white sugar al
lowing a sufficient timo to elapso
between oach supply for tho sugar to
harden upon the comfit. In this way it
grows by the Imposition of layer upon
layer until it is the proper size. Uy this
simple motion the sugar Is deposited in
the smoothest and most regular manner.
Girls are largely employed in tho sugar
plum trade, Thoy aro quick and stick
well to their work, but thoy have a sweet
tooth afid help themselves to the lozcn-
gers pretty liberally, Ae is it is impossi
ble to stop potty pilfering they are given
liberty to cat as much as they like.
The manufacture of tho surpriso nuts
is done with the utmost speed by thoso
little workwomen. Tho nut is first
Opened by means of a roso cutter; the
kernel Is then cleared out with a pen
knife, tho JiolloW le filled with seed-
tweets, Bnd tho hole by which ibey have
been introduced, Is scaled with choco
late, It it great fun, of course, when
foil have cracked a nut to find your
mouth full at these small sugar seeds,
whether you expect the surprise or not.
In one pert of the establishment 1 came
upon the little artiste coloring the small
articles cast in sugar. It was sit vege
table color, of course, and quite harm
less. Thoro is no great artistic talent re
quired iu the coloring operations they
nave to perform end it is too cheaply
paid to ba very carefully done, but, how-
evor, poor they may be as works of art,
they are not unwholesome, whic h was far
from being the case a few years ngo, be
fore the board of health interfered In
New Yo.-k for the good of our little
oaet.—llrooklyn Eagle.
A-wooing you came with your duMsfi vetoes .
\ our manner so knightly and debonair;
Who would not proudly have bean year
choice.
When you wove her garland so rich ead
rare I
It was well enough in the courting time
When your tongue spoke only in
praise,
With love-words set to a silvern rhyma; j
It is other now in the working days.
Could evor sho dream, that gentle girl,
When you pledged her tha ttabrifi easw
for life,
That you brow would knit, and your Up
would curl,
When she, poor child, waa your wadded
wifel
Would ths pretty maid have boon swift to
yield,
Caught in the tolls of your winning ways,
Had a rift in the future’s veil revealed
The gloom that should shadow tho week-
ing days!
SELECT BIIT1 NUB.
The turkey was unknown in England
until the reign of Henry VIII.
Making artificial tail* for horses is re
ported to be a successful industry in
Connecticut.
Tho first wedding in America wns that
of Edward Wilson and Susannuh White
nt Plymouth in 1021.
Fort St. Mark, in St. Augustino, Fla.,
was finished in 175(1, nnd ia said to have
been 100 years in building.
A botanical phenomenon waiwitnoesod
last season on the shore of Todos, Santos
Bay, Lower California, where an npple
tree blossomed and bore large, perfect
fruit on its trunk an inch from tha
ground.
The Japanese form of administering
an oath is to dip a finger in ink. In
London a Japanese witness was sworn in
that way the other day, and after the
formality he remarked that it was use
less, as he knew nothing about the caso
in question.
A correspondent of tho Los Angelos
(Cal.) Timet, reports that along tho
southern of Mexico the peoplo have a
habit of inoculating themselves with the
virus of tho rattlesuako or addor, which
rondora them ubsoliitoly safe forever af
terward from tho bite or sting of tho
deadliest reptiles.
A Lewiston (Mo.) physician’s father,
when quite young, was bitten hy a vic
ious horso—tho horse’s tooth closing ovor
his cnrlobo and taking out a small piece
of tho upper part. Tho mark of the
wounded ear skipped ono generation
nnd hue appeared in tho Lewiston physi
cian^ son, there being on the little fol
low’s ear the plain marking of the ear
that showed, years ago, upon his grand
father.
A reputable scientific authority quotos
tho slatoment thut, hy careful estimate,
n spider nto four times its weight for
iuenklust, nearly nino times its weight
for dinner, thirteen times its weight for
suppor, finishing up an ounce, nnd at
8 i'. m., when ho was roloasod, ran off
in search of food. At this rate a man of
ItiO pounds would require the whole ol
n fat steer for breakfast, another with
a half-dozen good sheep for dinner, nnd
two bullocks, eight sheep and four hogs
for supper, with about four barrels of
frusli fi-li as a lunch before going to his
club banquet.
WORKING DATS,
Tia easy to carry the hardest load
When two who share it in mind are oiw;
Tit pleasant to clamber the roughest road
With a friend who is cheory from SHU t
sun,
But crushes the burden with aching weight
If only the wonker that burden raise.
And bleak the path In the froet of fate
When jars the music of working daysi •
Oh, holiday suitor, so bravo and trim,
Bo gay of mien and so soft of speech,
Prey what is your ring hot a fetter grim
To the wife who is learning what tyrant*
teach!
Would It cost you much her home to blsm
With tha love you promised, the love the*
stay#—
A strength end a sweetness through all thw
stress
And aU the strain of life’s working days!
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Suspended animation—Two healthy
cats dangling from a clothes-line.
The woman question; "Now, len'fi
this a pretty time of night for you to get
ttnmtal')
Wliat Coral Is.
This singlo coral animal (quito unlike
un insect, und it is quito timo for honks
to omit tlmt designation —coral insect)
is like the sea anemones, Actinias, or sea-
flowers, soma species of which wo sec on
Ihe rocks of onr northern co st. it is a
small tube of flesh, with a stomach, nnd
tentacles surrounding it, which move
about in scach of food and conduct it to
Ihe mouth. Tho nervous system nnd
blood system are of the most simple
kind. Of course, in a creature so low in
the scaio of life, there is no head, nor
aro there special organa of sense, sucii ns
for seeing and hearing. They aro popu
larly called animal flowers. This little
creature soon develops a hard covering
or shell, secreting from its exterior u
shell from the lime which is held in so
lution by the sea-water, just as the clam
or any shell-fish secretes the lime wliich
makes their abolls. And these lime cov
erings are analogous to tlie skeletons of
higher animals, though in ons case the
i lime skeleton is inside, in the other out-
j side. Aftor a little the soft young coral,
having settled itself upou a solid footing
on the bottom of the sea, like myriuds of
others around it, exhibits a white cal
careous coating on portions of it, and in
a short timo has deposited from its soft
exterior and partitions of its interior a
solid lime tube with dividing walls.
This is a coral "pure and simple.” A
great block muny foot in diameter is no
more than simply a congregation of many
of these. When the little single coral is
perfect in its lime tube, it buds, and in
creases itself thereby, adding constantly
cither in this way or by the omission of
eggs.—New York Evening Post.
home!
The hoarder is certain that life is a sham,
And holds lees of pleasure than pain,
When he puto oa hte glasses to look fsr the
clam
That the chowder’s supposed to contain.
—Boston Courier.
Bartholdi modeled hia statue after hie
mother, lie mado her the stie she used
to seem to him io his boyhood days whee
ho was caught going In swimming with
out permission. — Graphic.
"Now, then, John,” said the restau
rant keeper to his boy, "bring out thoeo
sandwiches we put up last winter.
Hera’s a big order come m to supply th*
Sunday-school picnic.”— Boeton Couritr.-
It is said that much suffering is caused
an animal by defective shoeing. This
will be readily understood by noticing
n woman shoo a hen. The poor bird doe#
not know which way to go.—Boston Pod.
You might as well undertake to var
nish a rainbow or try to stampede hun
ger with a dimo with a hole in it, at ex
pect to prevail on a man to own up to
his wife that he haa been in the wrong.
Chicago ledger.
Now the hammock swingeth,
Swlngeth in the broom,
Like a filmy cob-web,
'Twix the trass.
Ha! the thing collapaotb,
Collapeeth with a enap, .
And the one within it
Takes a drap.
-Merchant-Traveler.
An oxchange says: “It your spoonn
aro stained from eggs, rub them with a
little common Balt.”’ If the spoonn re
ferred to aro thoso that come and guah
round our sistor Kit several times a week,
salt won’t hurt them at any time, whether
they’ve been eating eggs or not.—df.
Paul Herald.
"Have you an extra umbrella I could
borrow?” asked a man in a friend's offioe.
“I havo an umbrella,” replied the friend,
pointing to a weather beaten, rook-
ribbed piece of rusty calico in the corner,
"hut I don’t think you will find it any
thing extra.” He spoke tho truth, hut
the umbrella nover came back all tho
same.—Merchant- Traveler.
Employment and Education.
"A good education, says Dr. McCogh,
"qualifies a man to do a dozen different
things, where au ignorant man could do
only one. Education also enables a man
to rise in any sphere ol labor in which he
is employed.” The truth of this is espe
cially valuable in these days of change in
vocations. Science is specializing every
employment; mechanism is taking the
place of rannnual labor, and in this
approaching readjustment of vocations,
will prove tlie only individual safeguard.
What industrial future is there for tho
man who can use bis hands only when a
machine is invented that takeB the place
of a thousand pair of hands? Obviously,
the practical need of intellectual qualifi
cation is far greater in this age, and will
continue to increase with the progress of
humanity. It is the tendency of every
trade to become an art, and of every arti
san to become an artist in his specialty.
And in thiu lies the true seoret of the
great need of industrial education.—
Lilian Whiting.
"Yes,” said Mrs. Catchem, "those are
my daughters over there on the sofa;
they havo Half a million between them. ”
It was not until after thoy were married
to those daughters, that the two young
men men who overheard the above re
mark found out that Mrs. Catchem re
ferred to the rich old codger who sat on
the sofa between the girls. Mrs. Catchem
couldn't tell a fib, but she knew how to
speak the truth advantageously.—Boston
Transcript.
Persian Hone Dealers.
One of the exports of Persia is horses.
The Persian dealer travels over the
country, having agents in every largo
town. He buys for the Indian market.
His destination, when he has got to
gether a likely lot of animals, is usually
Bombay or Bangalore; a few dealers try
Kurrachee. As a rule the Pereian horse
dealer buys nothing under fourteen
hands. The Persian horses exported to
India are sold either as riding horses and
chargers at aa average minimum price
of 000 rupees, or as artillery horses at a |
standard price of 400 rupees, while the,
animals that remain unbought for those,
purposes are eagerly snapped up as car-;
riage horses. The Persian horse dealer*, j
even when most respectable, resorts toj
bishoping, which dictionaries define aei
"to use arts to make old horses look like'
young ones," the arts used consisting In!
cutting the upper surface of the incisor,
teeth into a depression, and then with •{
chemical preparation blackening the
cavity so as to imitate the ' ’marks” of
young horse. The operation is alwaya
performed daring tho voyage to India
from the Persian Gulf, the instrument
used being a dentist’s rosehead hand
drill.
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The Effect of Wind on Salt Crystal*
Coarse salt is made in the West In
dies by tho solar evaporation of sea water.
The places chos-m for i ts production are
selected on account of the extraordinary
saline strength of the water there. The
water ia allowed to run into shallow
ponds direct from the ocean, and when
a proper depth has been obtained, gen-;
erally two or three feet, the entrance to
the pond is closed and the water ia evap
orated by tue sun and winds, and a d#-'
posit of salt is loft. It requires about
four months to evaporate thtae feet of
water. The salt is then gathered into
piles ready for delivery. Its qual
ity depends almost entirely upon to*
caprices of nature. A dry and windy
season will produce large and ttid
crystals, the most desirable characteri*-,
tics of coarse salt, while if litUe win'd,
blows the salt is fine-grained end pout]
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