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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