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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TIT^JAY JANUARY 12, 1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
IBGHANKML, BLECTItIGAL, CHEM1
CAL 4ND OTIIEB MATTEBS
Of flrn.r,t Inter*,! to Wide-Awake peo
ple—Thing* Accompli,tied and Oth
er Thing, Projected — Tele
phone Experiment,.
AdBintlfman the other day called tho at-
te'Jpi/if the writer to a subject which, nt
tiilVSMIku of tho year, may he of general
nitcrQeuj houacholdera, viz., the iusulution
of watefl^jni h, ho iih to prevent freezing,
lip said SB ho had learned from Professor
ja.M. OraTiy, late of the MasiarhuKccta
HMiito of Technology, that, cotto." hatting
heat non-conductor to ,-u t a water
PV* with, and thought he woui-i test it for
fiimaelt. Accordingly, daring the last cold
spell he took two piece, of water pipo, which
he tilled with water, and expos, d to the
weather, with the thermometer at
tweuty-two degree-,. One of these he
ooAired with cotton hatting--the glazed
kind being the beat—ami the other he
did not protect. At the end of two hours
the water in tho unprotected pipe woa
frozen, while after an exposure of six houra
lift wuter in the protected pipe waa atill
llijuid. This batting is easily applied, and
ai.uuld be put on to the ihiduina of troni
ono to three inches, according to exposure.
It can he held to the pipo by being wound
l-,o„.|y with twine,but should Pot Cewound
tight.
In iis medical review of ltMtS, the Boston
, M'dicsl and Surgical Journal has something
to say of the new treatment of cholera and
h> drophobia. Daring tho paat summer, it
soys. Dr. Ferran has innoculatrd widely
in cities in Spain, what he o'aitns to
havo boon a culturo-ilnid, containing
tho microbes of cholera. The only
demonstrable results havo been a
moderate local inflammation, sometimes
amounting to abcess on the arms of the pa
tients, and a largo influx of gold to the
pockets of the operator. A committee of
tho French Academy, appointed perhaps on
the strength of Ferrous professed devotion
to l’astenr, and laudation of the latter's dis-
coveries, visited Spain, hut wero given no
information ns to the character or mode of
preparation of the mystetieus fluid inocu
lated, and saw no evidence that the process
gave any immunity against tho scouigo, n
conclusion which was merely confirmatory
of the a priori objection that, as having the
disease once was no protection against a
second attack, so, also, inoculation with the
bacilli of cholera could confer no immunity
-Meantime however, I be illustriona chora
ls:. whom Ferran professed ns his master,
has been demonstrating what he claims to
lie a preventive inoculation of a more terri-
We disease—hydrophobia. The announce-
meat of successful inoculation for this purl
pose Wits made to tho international congie is
of ISfti, but experimental proof, were for
some time not forthcoming, and there are
*t II skeptics who are not satisfied that the
disease produced in the inoculated rabbits
And dogs was hydrophobia at all. Finally,
in the tail, Pasteur communicated to the
Academy two owes, iu which hydrophobia
whs to have been oxpreted, And in one of
which, after repeated inoculations, it has
not appeared in 100 doys. The uncertain
and always long incubative period of
ibis disease makes necessary a pro
longed period of time for the completion
of snch observations. In the inter
val. however, rauny persons, bitten
by rabid dogs, lmvo subjected themselves
to Pasteur’s inoculations. Just at the pres
ent time this is the popular craze, and nu
merous persons on this sido the water, who
have been bitten, seem ut once to Lave be
come rabid on the subject of Pasteur.
What may possibly bo made by fate a “con
trol experiment," Is now going on with six
children from Newark, N. J„ who were bit-
ten by a dog, alleged, on somewhat leas
bsise evidence than usual, to be tuad. In
f.atr oases the patieuts decided to try inoc
ulation, and in the othor two they refused.
The four children, sent abroad through the
generosity of Mr. Carnegie of Pittsburg,
have arrived and been operated upon, the
details being given with considerable full
ness in the daily press, end even calling
foith the imaginative powers of the “ape-
mat artist." If the four escape while the
two die, Pasteurization will have a further
liooni; if ail escape, or if the two escape and
the four die, it will he time enough to do-
cido what wa shall then think.
It is well known that Mr. W. H. I’recce
ramie some very interesting experiments
with a telephone receiver, consisting of a
tine wire stretched, and having one end at
tached to the centre of a diaphragm. When
the current from a microphone transmitter
was sent through the wire the diaphragm
reproduced the sounds. Some further ex-
I H-iimeuU in this direction havo been mode
>}' Mr. 0. It. Cross at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The heaviest
wire used was U.00U5 inch in diameter, and
its material was platinum. With a length
of 6 inches tbs maximum effect obtained by
Mr. l’reeee waa obserreri. On using a
Wire O.OfKi inch in diameter, and a current
rtiitflcient to raise it to a dull redness,
very remarkable results were obtained
from a leugth of A inches to 7 inches.
Not only oould the most unfamiliar
conversation be understood, b n t the
words oould Ire heard when the ear was
placed at a distance of from two inches to
ten inches from the diaphragm of the re
ceiver, the obaraeter and loudness of the
sound being similar to that given by the
Runnings transmitter with an ordinary
magneto raceirer. When a still shorter
wire at the same temperature was used, a
decidedly better quality of sound was pro
duced, but tfae loudness was materially di-
auinislied. Lowering the temperature rap
idly diminished the loudness of tbe sound.
Herman silver gives good ettects, but is not
so susceptible to temperature os platinum.
Hopper and iron gave unsatisfactory results.
The battery used was of tbe type known as
(irciiet, and from one to ten cells were
•tied. The best effects were obtained trom
the wire O.lkM inch in diameter, and the re
markable point is tint the raising of its
temperature to red heat greatly enhanced
the ioudneaa.
In the experiments on tbe production of
wery low temperatures by K. Olszewski, the
gas which is tbe subject of experiment is
inclosed in the innermost of three concen
tric tubes, tbe two outer spaces being
filled with liquid oxygen and the whole
surrounded by liquid ethylene. Very low
temperatures can thus be obtained, and
the aatbor has solidified nitrogen, carbonic
Slide, methane and nitrogen, under a
pressure of 4 mm., a temperature as
low iu 425 degrees was obtained. Liquid
ethylene being under a pressure of I im.
baa a temperature of —It,4 degrees, and re
mains perfectly Irons arent. Liquid air
boning under u pleasure of 30 mm. has the
temperature —440 degrees and even under
a pressure of 4 mm. shows no signs of so
il oitl cation. A liquefied mixture of air and
nitrogen in equal volumes has the temiwra-
ture —440 degree* under s pressure of 13
turn., and remains liquid ana transparent
under a pressure of 4 mm. Hydrogen shows
no meniscus, even *t~44U degrees, trader a
pressure of Ml atmospheres. A mixture of
tmo Tvituiuft bydrogsn and one volome o*y-
gen was cooled to 213 dtgtem under a high
prefigure. The liquid obtained was perfect*
ly colorless, and boiled rapidly when the
preP8uro won released, losing the greater
part of its hydrogen, after which it remain
ed liquid for some time under atmospheric
pressure. The Journal of the Chemical
Society says the author maintains the accu
racy of the hydrogen thermometer at very
low temperatures.
At a meeting of tho French Academy of
Medicine, held Sept 22, Mr. Itrandol read a
paper on the introduction of certain medi
cines into the system by means of electric
ity. If the electric currents is inado to pass
through « soltitioj of a salt, the salt is de
composed, tho metallic base parsing to the
negative pole, uod the acid, or metalloid,
to the positive polo. Tho iodides are easily
decomposed by electricity. In order to in
troduce iodine into the system, a rubber
plate moistened with a solution of iodide of
potassium, is placed upon the surface of
tbe body. Over this plate tho negative polo
of a battery is applied, while the
positive polo is placed upon a part of tho
body toward which it is desired that the
iodine travel. The iodine separates from
the ;potadam, which remains et the nega
tive pole, and pnsses with great rapidity
through the tissue toward the positive pole.
This may be demonstrated, says, Le Progres
Medical, by testing with a suirched paper,
which becomes blue. A great number of
substances can thus be made to traverse
the tissues, and tlfo applications of this
discovery are numerous and important. M.
Broudel has in this way cured uterine
fibroids, a case of perimetritis, rheumatic
ovarian neuralgia and several cases of
chronic rheumatism.
A new form of wheel for street-cars, de
signed with the object of overcoming the
severe friction of the ordinary rigid wheels
in passing round short curves, has been un
der trial at Northampton, England. Tho
wheel has a loose steel tiro working on bull
rollers around an inner wheel, which is
fixed to the allot in the ordinary way. This
loose tiro cun revolvo faster or slower than
the inner wheel, thus giving freedom to the
wheel which has to travel the outer or
longer sweep of the curve. Several
f entlemen recently accompanied Mr.
illiott, the manager of the Tramways
Company, to witness the experiment, and
all agreed in approving the marked differ
ence felt in the movement of the car round
corves, and noticed with pleasure the ease
with which the horses took corners that
have hitherto been a great strain upon them.
The wheels were tested ns to the brake
power that could ho applied. Three men
pushed a car out of the company’s depot
round tue awkward curves, while with the
old wheels six men are required for (he pur
pose. A prtat saving is anticipated from
the fact that onlv the steel tires will require
renewing, and that these can he attached in
five minutes.
Tho American Linen Company have a
new device for picking cotton waste. It
consists of two cylinders placed in n small
iron frame. Two shafts, 24 inches in
length and turning 1.9<io times per minute,
run on the inside of the cylinders. Into
these shafts are sunk heater arms, placed
from ©nt* and a half to two inches apart
The wiutte is fed into a small trumpet of
tbe cylinder, and is thoroughly picked to
pieoes b|r th« beaters of both shafts. A
1 -j-inch pelt pordaces 2,000 revolutions per
minute. By the old method of hand-pick
ing, a woman could pick hut t wevle pounds
of wasto per day, worth 48 cents in labor.
With a machine, COO pounds can ho picked
hi h day. and a boy can attend to it for 30
or 10 cents.
It is predicted that in the course of the
next five Venn, the steel nidi will have us
completely supplants tho iron nail as the
steel rail has its iron predecessor. Already,
one-half of the nail* manufactured in
Wheeling are made of steel, and the ma
chinery and plant necessary for their man
ufacture are being set up iu every nail cen
tre and at nearly every nail foundry. It is
said that, under present conditions, steel
nails can be made ten cents per keg cheaper
than those made of iron, even when the
manufacturer bns iu purchase his ingots.
Mr. Nordenfelt, of gun fame, has in
vented a safe process for manufacturing
gunpowder. Instead of grinding sulphur,
charcoal and saltpetre together iu their solid
state, sulphur is put iu solution os sulphate
of carbon. This is mixed with cotton or
cellulose fiber, ground to un impolpaple
powder. A saturated solution of saltpetro
is added to this mixture. Then it is evapo
rated under disturbed crysallization. Al
most a liquid guupowder is thus obtained.
M. Fayol bos ascertained that the ab
sorption of atmospheric oxygen by coal dust
usually produces the rise in temperature to
which spontaneous combustion is due. Lig
nite is ignited at the low temperature of
300 degrees, anthracite at 575 degrees, and
other varieties of coal, in a powdered state,
at inb mediate temperatures.
TELLS OP HIS O WyltOMANCE.
A North Carolina editor Wears a Mask for
Several Years.
The last issue of the Wadesboro Intel
ligencer contains a three column account
of the life of its editor, who has heretofore
been known as S. W. Henley, but whose
real name is given an 8. W. Ilearn. His
story condensed, is that he is a native of
Tappahannock, Va., and begun life in tbAt
town as a compositor in the office of the
Essex Qazette. He tell in love with a school
girl and after paying her attention for some
time, he was snubbed by the girl, who be
stowed her favors upon a rival in the per
son of a Northerner. Hearn made an at
tempt at suicide, which was frustrated by
friends, and after vainly seeking to draw
his rival into a duel, he decided to go away
from his native town and people. He
slipoed away fiom Tappahannock, assumed
the name of S. W. Houle’, and after wan
dering about for several years, finally
drifted to Wadesboro, where he 'established
the Intelligencer, and had worn his mask
sucee idly until he revealed his romance
last week. Tho people of his native town
hod believed him to he dead tor a long time
past. This revolution was partly brought
about by a controversy which has been
waged for some time between the Times
and the Intelligencer and was published to
forestall a pnbik’uiit.n in the Times. Mr.
Hc&ru has evidently endeavored to make a
clean breast and gives the names of many
Yirg nian* wh > 'i.'s be referred to by the
incredulous, diving thrown off his mssk
and revealed lib whereabouts, Mr. Hearn
announces his intentinn of shortlv pa) ing
a visit to bfa old friends in Tappahannock.
The Vises* at Marietta.
MaaiKTTa, O*.., January 11.-Many per
sons are in destitute circumstances here to
day. Relief committees are going around
doing all that is possible for the needy. Pss-
eetigers on trains say that the Chattahoo
chee river Is frozen over from bank to bank.
About 8 o'clock to-day when the thermome
ter was stout six degrees below xero, and a
■til! breeze blowing, some cotton on Winder
»t Legg’s warehouse platform caught fire
from a spark from a locomotive, but it was
discovered before mneh damage was done.
Tbs firs companies responded promptly and
did all that wa* posribU. Twenty four bales
were damaged. Loss** small; all covered by
insurance. This is ths second time cotton
has caught fir* at tbe same place and trom
Her r?iot««,'iuphi’
Quite caretewljr and r llh
Khe handed me her photr*gr*j«h
With, “II la horried—bnt--if you
InaUt don't criticise it. too,"
Of course I knew the didn't mean
A word nbe seid. With ptauturn keen,
hhe coulda’t hide, she watched me while
I gazed in wonders! her style.
There, like a queen. shO «u arrayed;
Her sealskin ssequo wss well dUplsjred
O’er satin dress with royal train
And earnings, pin end watch end chain.
My admiration unconcealed
At so much elegance revealed
Gave her the most exuuiaite Joy,
Until rushed in her awful bey.
“Ob. me! Pe says you make him laugh,
k abowing folks your photograph—
That ssequo end dress end watch, you, know.
You borrowed just to make a show."
STRANGE VISIONS OF GIRLS.
A correspondent of the London Times,
writing from SAn Salvador, says: A remark
able outbreak of religious hallucination oc
curred on this island this year. About Jan
uary lost report was out that a young girl
had seen visions, and waa under some in
fluence not belonging to this world. Her
excitement soon communicated itself to
others, and in the course of a few weeks
some twenty young girls were affected.
They then organized religious meetings,
and much excit. went was caused.
After twenty minutes of this they would
fall down with a shriek. The struggles,
cries and foaming at tho month were dread
ful to see, ax.d in many cases it took four
or five men to hold them still. Afte. the
fit was over they would lio exhausted for
about one hour: then, when they came to,
they gave very detailed accounts of the
visions they had seen. A great deal of
these visians was, of course, nonsense, but
one thing was remarkable—they spoke of
people doing things many miles away from
the place. Upon inquiry it waa found in
some cases that what they had seen corres
ponded exactly with the events.
One most remarkable featuro in the out
break was that it was not confined to one
spot. Almost simultaneously in every set
tlement on tho island—tbe island is forty-
five miles long and twelve broad in places
—similar outbreaks occurred. Girls living
at distances of five or ten miles from tbe
sccco of the “shouting meetings,” as they
were called, would be Heized, Being seized
with a kind of frenzy, the would run, as if
by inspiration, to the spot where tbe rest
were assembled, no matter how far.
Very glowing accounts were given of tho
various punishments and tortures reserved
for tho wicked in hell, and they wero most
liberal in dispensing these punishments
among their friends.
Up and down tbt island about 400 or 500
people were seized, and it was at first
thought it was a kind of epidemic of hys
teria. In a few cases girls of highly re
spec tab] o character were seized, and, al
though they did not aee visions, yet for
weeks they would have fits daily, and such
was their superhuman strength that I have
seen a young girl of sixteen straggle ont of
tho grasp of four strong men. The out
break lasted from January to July, and at
one time it was faared that it would lead to
serious consequonces, for all tho people
who gave credence to the visions neglect'd
work and abandoned themselves to holding
meetlhgs day and night tot sing&m, Unout
ing, barking, and listening to accounts of
the visions seen.
In the daytime, and especially on Sun
days, they bad processions with banners.
This led to some bad feeling, ami in a few
cases tbe law hud to be appealed to in the
interests of peace. It was a singular thing
that, although they organized themselves
into a sect, and all who disbelieved in tbe
visions were ••heretics,” vet they showed
the utmost courtesy and good will toward
tbe Church, but toward their own particu
lar denomination and the various other
sects they displayed great animosity. Tbe
excitement has died out now, and they
havo ceased to exist os a sect."
SECRETS THAT MUST HE KEPT.
A Trenton special says: Chancellor Run
yon decided a case to-day which is of un
usual interest on account of tho peculiar
relief sought from the court. The court is
asked to restrain a man from divulging a
secret. The complainant, Rudolph G.
Solomon, of Newark, claims to have dis
covered valuable secrets in connection with
the manufacture of cordovan leather, and
for coloring kangaroo, alligator, and snake
skint. He has been engaged in the busi
ness about eight years, and employed his
bookkeeper and superintendent, Hertz and
Adolpbi, with the understanding that they
wore not to divulge the secrets of the busi
ness. Hertz and Adolpbi, after learning
his methods, mnde arrangements with two
strangers to go into business in Newark and
compete with Solomon.
“’That the facts set up in the bill entitle
tbe complainant to relief admits of no
question, says the Chancellor. 4 *A discov
erer of a secret proceag of manufacture,
whether patentable or not. has property
therein. The case is simply upon tho bill
and answer, and although the defendants
deny the facts sot up in the bill, if the in
junction be dissolved tbe secrets would be
come known, and an irreparable injury
done to the complainant." The defend
ants also agreed not to divulge where Solo
mon buys his material and where he sells
his leather. This agreement the chancellor
regards as binding only during the term of
employment, and no injunction in regard
to that will issue. The defendants are,
however, restrained from using the secret
process of which the complainant is the
discoverer.
RISKED 1118 LIKE
In Order to Gather up til. Gold—Extraor
dinary Keen, at a Flrr.
A London special rays: A dispatch from
West Bromwich, a town near Birmingham,
give* the particulars of an extraordinary
scene which woe enacted there a couple of
night* ago. A fire broke out in the house
of sn old man of miserly habits named
Tomblinson, and ha awoke from sleep to
find his bed-room in flames and the firemen
at the windows calling him to come to the
ladder. He jumped from the bed and made
a dash at the bed-curtains, and was pulling
them frantically when a fireman jumped
into the room, seised him by the hair and
dragged him to the life escape.
Scarcely had he reached the aill, however,
when the man broke from hta wonld-be
preserver, again daahed into the room and
began shaking the bed curtain*. In another
moment n «« of golden sovereign! fell
from the upper pole and the bag being
partly burned the gold scattered over the
floor. With frantic eagerness the miser
dropped on hi* knes* and commenced to
rake together hi* scattered hoard.
By this time the fire in the room wa* un
der control and the chief eonitoble gained
access to tbe apartment Thinking that
the old man wss a thief he dragged him
into the open air despits hisprenestetiona
that the money was hi* own. Finally when
tbs fire hod been extinguished he w*e al
lowed to return, and a policeman who
helped him to get together hit scatteaed
treasure, says he counted one thnnmid
sovereign*, or over *5.UW). Yet the miser
had for jean been living on the charity
of his neighbor*.
A WIO THAT DID NOT FIT.
An Exhibit In Conrt That Wm Convincing,
Though the Suit Wo* Lout.
Now York Time*.
Among the most prominent French
speaking lawyers of the city are Ovide
Dupre and Lo’da Mathot. Both are bald,
and it was according to tho eternal fitness
of things that they should be pitted yester
day one against tbe other before Civil
Justice Gedncy, in the Eighth District
Court, in a fiercely contested suit ubcut a
wig.
Early in 1884 M. Mathot called on M.
Trepler, an artist in hair, and ordered a wig.
Money was no object; the urticie was to be
the finest and best, in material* and work
manship, that human skill could produce.
The shade of hair—a dark brown, with an
occasional deceptive flock of grav—was,
after due deliberation, determined upon,
and the measurements of tbe denudod
cranium were carefully taken. But M.
Trepler was very busy, and subcontracted
tbe job to another artist in hair, M. Greville.
The two expel In jointly agreed as to the
block upon which the groat work should
be constructed, and M. Trepler fur
nished 75 cents' worth ot hair as a
sample, M. Greville subsequently procur
ing tbe remaining $2.75 worth necessary to
complete the task. Greville offered to do
the work for $18, but Trepler insisted that
$25 was the lowest honorarium that ho
could conscientiously condescend to pay
for such an effort of genius and skill. When
nt last finished the wig unluckily proved to
be a palpable and undeniable misfit, and
two attempts to make it satisfactory ended
only in failure. M. Mathot refused to ac
cept it, but was willing, as a present, to
give $15 for the wasted hair and labor.
Trepler had already paid $10 on account,
and it was to recover $25, still alleged to be
due for making and altering, that the pres
et suit was brought.
After the plnintiff had given his testimony
M. Mathot rose vo cross-examine him, a suf
fused Mush of indignation mantling his
glowy scalp.
‘Did! * t tell you,” said lie, “when I
tried on t'.u wig that I could not wear it,
aul that it I did I would look like a monkey
in it?”
Greville admitted that this was so and
further that the wig was indeed an utter
and hopeless botch. But the fault lav in
jhe false and improper measurements given
to him. M. Trepler’s figures called for a
high, dome-like brain cast*, whereas M. Ma.
that really had a low, fiat head.
4 'Belongs to that tribe possibly,” sug
gested Justice Gedney.
To emphasize the badness of the wig, M.
Mat hot here insisted upon trying it on iu
r n court The effect was magical. What
Dupre culled the “contour or the con
formation” of the skull was indeed lost to
view, but M. Mathot became in appearance
ten years younger at the very leust. But
the compliments i aid him by the surround
ing members of tho bar failed to convince
biin.
“Look, your honor!” cried he. “Dare I
venture into a court of justice with u thing
like that? Wouldn’t the jury declare against
me on the spot'?”
Of course M. Trepler insisted that bis
measurements were accurate, bnt his main
defense was that ho and tho plaintiff had
agreed upon a settlement, and as he was
corroborated by two witnesses judgment
fwaa rendered in his favor.
FAMOUS MINT EMPLOYES.
A Mute Girl Who Matte Person* Faint by
HutKlenly Speaking.
Philadelphia Tituoo.
“Anna Dickinson was the greatest tnlk-
er ever employed in tho mint of late years,”
said an old employe of that institution yes
terday to a reporter. “But," he continued,
“there was a dumb girl here before the war
who could out-bdk with tho fingers any
wo man's tongue on the face of the earth/'
The old employe was in a reminiscent
mood. He said: “The name of the dumb
girl was Rebecca Davis. Hhe was a really
beautiful woman awl was conscious of it,
tut moat pretty women are. Hhe was em
ployed in tbe mint in 1854, ’55 and ’50.
•Becky,* as everybody spoke of her, was
liked by all. Her sister, u Mrs. Tompkins,
kept n well-known confectionery in those
days on Chestnut street, to! ween Eleventh
and Twelfth, where Birch’s store
is now located. ‘Becky,’ whilo en
tirely dumb, was not deaf. You could
talk to her and she talked back with her
beautifully expressive eyes, her bead or her
fingers. Hhe was about twenty-five years
of age when she was first employed, of fine
figure, graceful in every movement, full of
life and always good-natured. Hhe was at
work in the adjusting room. One day in
the winter of 18515 she created a consterna
tion in the mint that almost amounted to a
panic. While at work at her seat, engaged
in manipulating the bright gold eagles, she
turned her pretty face around to tho girl
next to her and exclaimed loudly, ‘Oh. I
believe lean speak!’ Her companion to
whom she spoke fainted outright, and ho
did tho young lmly to her left. The other
women in the room left their places and
ran to the assistance of the two prostrated
girls. ‘Becky’ began to chatter like a mag
pie and almost fainted herself. Her speecn
had come to her so sudden that she could
not realize it any more than her a-tounded
room-mates, to whom she hod been making
signs for years. Hhe remained in tbe mint
some years after that and her case attract
ed the attention of the greatest medical
scientists of that day. Rebecca was a Ro
man Catholic in religion and in 185# she
entered a convent near this city. I do not
know whether she is living yet or not, but
she certainly scared the girls on that day.’
Ifolillng a Oood Thing,
Chicago Herald.
‘Ye*," said a conductor on the Illinois
Central, “I’m nisrricd,boys, and urn mighty
glad of it But the strangest part of the
story ie how I came to meet my wife. It
wa* about a year ago. One day we atopped
at one of the station* down the line wnere
the track ta doubled, when there waa a
freight train approaching on tho track went
of the station. The freight train niowad op
*etkat|pasaengen would hare time to cross,
then pnt on Rtcam, and came along after
I had given the signal to my engineer to
etart. lint I atood on the ground looking
ont for passengem who might jump off and
get hurt, as I always do
nnder similar circumstance*. On tbi* oc
casion it waa well that I did, because a
young woman came running out of one of
the coaches of my train and excitedly made
a jump to get off. She landed right” in my
arm*, and if I hadn't been there ahe'd have
fallen before the freight engine and been
crashed to death. Well, boy*, I jost held
on to her until those two train* had
passed, and they weren't very short trains
either. She waa so excited I didn't dare
pnt her down, and I felt quite comfortable
the way 1 was, anyhow, with her heart
beating against mine. Well, in that minnte
and a half I lost my heart, and we were
married a week before Christmas. She nays
she always did like a man who had sense
enough to hold fast to a good thing when
he had s chance."
A Volcanic Eruption,
Cm or Msxico, January 11—A current
of lava from tho volcano of Colima, baa
mad* it* way two and a quarter mile* down
tb* aid* of the mountain, and latest reports
state that it is stilt advancing.
NEW YORK PENNY 11ROCERIE8.
Their Number Increasing In this City—How
tfae Poor Live,
Within the last six months a number of
Italians and Germans have started penny
groceries in the parts of the city populated
by the poor, says the New York Mail and
Express, and these places all seem to be
prosperous and thriving. Ten cents is
thought by these grocers to be a big bill,
and the investor of a quarter is inevitably
regarded os a millionaire. In conversation
with u Mail and Express reporter, a leading
ret ill grocer Rani :
“There is no doubt that those penny gro
ceries are on the increase. They Are an
evil, aud the penny grocer is really tho
poor man’s enemy instead of his friend.
In the penny grocery the poor man pavs
twice as much fo* his provisions in the
long run and doesn't get as good quality os
if he bought them iu moderate ipiantities
from larger stores. Tho penny groceries
are stocked with what the poor man is like
ly to buy. The quality of the provision is not
good; the coffee and tea are especially poor,
and the vegetables invariably stale. Many
of tho pennv grocers sell ba 1 whisky to their
customers, nut few allow it to be drank on
their premises ”
An Italian who keeps a penny grocery in
South Fifth avenue, near Bleeker street,
gives the following list as on illustration of
what can be done in a penny grocery with
a silver quarter:
Three ounce* of coffee l cent
One ounce ot tea 1 cent
Th. • ounce* of rice 1 cent
Kmall Io*f of etalo bread 1 cent
Six stick* of kindling wood l cent
Three onion* l cent
Four potatoes (old) 1 cent
Three ounce* of barley l cent
Three ounce* of brown sugar 1 i cnt
Four ounce* of etarrh 1 ettit
Thin slice bar *o*p 1 cunt
Knough relrin* for rice pudding 1 cent
Small teacup of black tnol*a*i-e 1 cent
Lampful of oil 1 cent
Quarter of * yard of lampwick 1 cent
Quarter of * pound of oleomargarine 4 cents
Bcuttio of coal (mixed) 4 cent*
Three ounce* or lanl 1 cent
Two pickle* 1 cent
Total 25 cent*
A small family can live for a day on these
purchases The coffee will be sufficient for
a big potfut, and the tea is enough for two
drawings. The rice and raisins make a
small pudding. Tho stale bread will serve
lor a meal and there is enough sugar to
sweeten tho tea and coffee. Tbe onions,
potatoes and barley, with tho addition of a
beef bone or piece of meat and a penny
bunch of potherbs, will make a stew or
soup. There is enough soap to wosh the
dishes and scrub the children's faces, enough
oil and wiek to Inst all night, a scuttle of
coal nod wood to kindle the fire in the
morning. Then there are lard, molasses
and the next thing to butter, oleomargarine,
and the two good-sized pickles lor a relish.
A NhWNOSE.
Au Interesting Surgical Operation at the
Providence Uo*pita)#
Washington Star.
John Sheehan hail a new noso pnt on
him Sunday. Shtebnn has been rather
well known about town on account of the
disfigurement of his face by the ioss of his
nose, which was eaten off by small-pox
twelve years ago. Ho really had no nose at
oil, nothing but a flat ulcerated place on
his face. The bones were there, but the
sdptuu and cartilage were gone. There
were two openings in his face for nostrils.
When Mr. Shehan had cold in tho head,
which frequently occurred, his faco pre
sented any thing but nn attractive appear
ance. Shehan, after struggling twelve years
against the disadvantages incident to bin
condition, yesterday voluntarily submitted
himself at the Providence hospital to the
operation of bnilding np a new nose.
What ia known as the Indian operation
was performed by Dr. Hamilton, surgeon
general of the Marine hospital service, who
was assisted by Drs. Hartigan and Hick-
ling. The operation consisted of taking a
flap from the forehead, twisting it around
and forming a nose of it. A triangular
section, with one point ot the triangle be
tween tho eyes, was cut in tne forehead.
The skin and flesh wus out down to the
hone, the flap being attached to the flesh
between the eye*. The flap was twisted
around until it bung over the proposed site
of tho new nose. The skin about Ibe old
nose was then cut and the flap was sewed
in. A septum wss made, and altogether
tbe nose, when completed, looked very
well. To-<l*y when a Star reporter called
at the hospital, Mr. Sheehan's face was
swathed ia bandages. His hands were
secured in a mnffler, so that he conld not,
in bis sleep, scratch his new noso off before
nature hail secured it iu its place The
new nose will be ot tb* Orecian type, and
the surgeons think Mr. Sheehsn will be
able to blow it and use it for all the pur
poses that notes are used for.
8LEEPINO ON A WHALB-
A Shipwrecked Itost’a Crew Drought la
Safety to New York.
A New York special says the steamship
Advance arrived this morning from Brazil
with six shipwrecked sailors, who had been
found drifting about in an open boat t>y the
British ship County Clare and transferred
to the Advance. 'They were part of the
crew of the whaling schooner Mary E. Sim
mons, which sailed from New Bedford,
Massachusetts, for the whaling grounds of
South America, A school of whales was
sighted November 29 off Pernambuco, aud
the boat in which these men wero struck a
big “spouter," which “fluked" and threw
their boat high into the air. That waa its
dying effort and it floated around a harm
less mass of blubber, while the tailors
righted their boat, which was stored and
waterlogged.
Their schooner waa nowhere to be seen
and they found themselves adrift for the
night. They took turns in catching an
hoar’s sleep by •tretebingthemselve* upon
the dead whale's back. 'They conld see the
schooner psasing out of sight in the morn
ing, but were unable to attract her atten
tion. They drifted aronnd without food or
water for four days, during which one at
their nnmber becumo delirious, and had to
be held down to prevent him from jnmping
overboard. On the morning ot December
3, however, the ship County Clare was
sighted a few miles off and picked them up.
A Town Going Crazy,
A Honesdale, Pa, special says: Includ
ing the lunatic Howell, who murdered hia
four children a few week* ago, there are
now four lunatics in the Wayne county
asylum. Last night a man named Ward, a
toll gate keeper living near this place, came
to the keeper ot the prison saying he conld
not sleep et night, that a mania bad seized
him to kill some one, and fearing he might
do so he thought the safest place for him
waa behind prison ban. Hie request to be
locked up was granted. About ten o'clock
this morning a young man by the name of
Qrovee, in the employ of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company here, rushed into
the county treasurer's office screaming that
he was crazy and wanted to go to jail. The
sheriff waa called, who at once took him to
jail. After being placed in the cell be be
came very violent
—Senator Everts hod a family reunion
recently at which nine grandchildren tried
to ride nle knee* to “Banbury Crose" all at
THE IMAGINATION.
The Eloquent Ingeraolt Studies Rinuey
and Defines the World,
North American Review.
The man of imagination- that is t„ w ,
of semns—having seen a leaf one. .> drop J
water, can construct tho forests, the rit«
aud the seas. In hia presenco all the cat*
racts full and foam, the mist’s rise, ft,
clouds form and float.
To really know one fact ia to know ii
kindred and its neighbors. Shakespair.
looking at a coat of mail, instantly i:nj»
ined tho society, tho conditions, tnat m
duced it, and what it produced. He w
the castle, the moat, the drawbridge, ft
lady in the tower and the knightly ion
spurring over the plain. Se saw the oj
bnron and the rude retainer, the tramnli
serf, and all the glory and the grief of feul
The man of imagination has lived the li
of nil people, of olf races. He was a cilia
of Athens in the days of Periciea; listen,
to the eager eloquence of the great omte
and sat upon the cliff, and with tho truj
poet hoard “the multitudinous laughtem
tho sea." lie saw Socrates thrust the spa
of question through the shield and heart
falsehood; was present when the great m.
drank hemlock and met the night of dest
tranquil as a star meets morning. He Iu
followed the peripatetic philosophers, at
has been puzzled by the sophist*. lie
watched Phidias ns he chiseled shapela
stone to forms of love and awo. ,
Ho has lived by the slow Nilo amid l!
vast and monstrous. He knows tbe v«
thought that wrought the form and featm,
of the Sphinx. He bus heard great Met
tnon’s morning song- him Iain down wit
toe embalmed and waiting dead, and fi
within their dnst tho expectation of snot
cr life mingled with cold and snffncntii
donbts—the children born of long dolay.
He has walked the ways of mighty Jim
hns seen great Ctenor w ith his legions in
field; has stood with vast and mod:
throngs and watched the trinmpha given
victorious men, followed by nncrov
kings, the captured hosts, and ail tho si
of ruthless war. He has beard the
that shook the cnlisaeum’B roofless
when from tbe reeling gladiator’s hand
short sword fell, while from his
gushed tbe stream of wasted life.
Ho has lived the life of savage men,
trod the forest's silent depths, and in
desperate gome of life or death has matcl
his thought against the instinct of
beast.
Ho knows all crimes and all regrets,
virtues and their rich rewards. He h{
been victim and victor, pursuer and p:
sued, outcast and king—hns heard the
plause and enrses of tlm world, and on
heart have fallen nil the nights and mi
of failure and success.
He knows the unspoken thoughts,
dumb desire, the wants and way* of be:
He has felt the crouching tiger'a thrill,
terror of the ambushed prey, and with
eagles he has shared the ecstasy of F
and poise and swoop, and he baa lain
sluggish serpents nn the barren rocks
coiling slowly in tho heat of noon.
He has SAt beneath tho bo tree's eonl
plative shnde, rapt in Buddhn’s mi,
thought, aud ho luis dreamed ail dm
that Light, the alchemist, had wronghtfi
from dnst and dow and stored within
sinmbrons poppy,* subtle blood.
He has knelt with awe and dread
overy shrine, has offered every sacrifice
every prayer, has felt the consolation
tho shuddering fear, has seen all de<
has mocked and worshipped all tho goil
enjoyed all hoavens and felt the pangs
every hell
He hs* lived all lives, and through
blond and brain have crept the shadow
chill of every dentil, and Lis soul, Mazq
like, has been lashed naked to the
horso of every fear and love ana hate.
The imagination hath n stage within
brain, whereon ho acts all scenes that
between tho morn of laughter and tbe n
of tears, and where his players body l
the false and true, tho joys nnd griefs,
careless shallows and the '
every life.
ho tragio deeps I
FORGOT ALL ABOUT HIS BON
Louis Itntiry t'nvvltt ingly Ignites the |
ceptaele of tits Hidden Treasure.
A Chicago special ssys; Louis Rohrvl
tends to present a petition to the Coni’if
Council which contains a rather novel I
quest. Ho wants tho city to reimbnrso I
for the loss of a five hundred dollar iJ
which won destroyed. Over a year ago I
Robey owned two one hundred dollar "
eminent bonds, one fiva hundred t
municipal bond, $30 in gold, and
jeweliy. Wishing to keep his wealth i
secure places,lie deposited it in an old l
ter can, and this in turn, ho put into a
used stove in an ont of the way room,
the articles remained until bouso-clm
time last April, when Mr. llobey winhrj
fix up the room. A: a preliminary d
ho lighted a fire in the atove, never til
ing of his money and bonds. Bnt hoi
after the fire bad got to burning bru
To say he was oxcited bnt mildly expri
his state of mind. He rushed to the iL
door, raked out the fire and cxamine<l|
treasure. AU that remained of the
was a lot of charred paper. The ml
was all right, hut the jeweliy waa meltJ
He now wants the city to givo him I
other $500 bond in place of that whicl
burned up.
DIET AND DRUNKENNESS. |
Authorities Maintaining That ltad 1
Breeds the Depraved Appetite.
The Cook,
Professor Williams says that ha
doubt that overwork and icsnty,
food are the primary source of the
for strong drink that so largely preil
with such deplorable results, amongj
class that is most exposed to such privi
“I do not say,” he continues, “that t
the only source of each depraved app
It may also be engendered by the opri
extreme of excessive luxurious paml
to general sensuality. The practice'
ference suggested by the experien
these observation* IS that speech-m
and pledge-singing, and bine-ribbon I
•ions can only effect temporary rra
unless supplemented by satisfying
natural appetite ot hungry ■'
supplies of food that ore Hot
nutritions, bnt savory and varied,
food need to be no more expensive I
that which ie commonly eaten by the 1
eat of Englishmen, hut it must he fall
ter coqked. I find that the raw mateif
the dietary of tbe French and Italians!
ferior to that of tbe English, bnt a I
ter resnlt is obtained by better eo
He add* that he never saw a drunken l
daring a year of prosperity in Italy*
that at a subsequent period, when f
had the three plnguee— the potato
the silk worm fuugne and the gra
case-he fonnd a very different state <
bin among the poor. There wjt nol
where formerly the potation had b*
ghua of thin bnt pure wine; “potato I
and coarse beer had taken its place.'!
note non* polenta, a sort of paste oil
ridge mads trom Indian corn meal to J
they gave tbe contemptuous nam* of r
able, waa then the genera. 1 , (owl, and I
drunkenness wa* the natural oooi
—Dr. Edward Warren write* from ]
to the Baltimore Hun that II.
treat oil bitten Americans without