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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, .JANUARY 12, W6.-TWELVE PAGES.
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hl* to H. C. Hasans, Mnnsyor.
In view of the fact that John A. Logan ia
looming up m a possible prs&identuti can
didate, hitf friends ongbt to send him to a
Washington night echo >1 this winter. An
ungrammatical valedictory, even though full
of pathos, ia not pleasing.
An exchange says: "Cure* of sciatica are
reported as having taken place in Paris after
a single application of Dr. Deboue’a method
of freezing the skiu above the painful part*
with a spray of chloride ol methyl. Tho
operation ia said to l»e applicable alar to
facial neuralgia."
Tuk Now York Harold, alluding to matters
in that city fifty years ago, says: “It is a
curious fact that in those days there were
fifteen hundred firemen, while less than n
thousand sorve our purpose now. Modern
invention but produced a revolution, and
at the electric signal train* d horses and
trained men are on the scene almost literal
ly in the twinkling ol an eye. Fire has lost
iU venom in these latter days.
PaoummoN strike* an occasional snag in
New Jersey. The Kov. Mr. Long, pnutor
of the Presbyterian church at Kennedy vilh*,
has been asked to resign. Tho trouble in
the church that caused tho request com
menced some two years ago, wlnu the tem
perance people of the congregation, headed
by the pastor, commenced n crusade against
William Carpenter, nn elder of the church,
and two of his sens, because they manu
factured peach cider. Carpenter's cose was
immediately taken np by oil the dissatisfied
members of tho church, and before long
they had succeeded in reducing the pastor's
salary from $600 a year to $300. Now
there is a genuine split in the church, and
it is probable that the Carpenter party, if
they do not succeed in coni|>elling Mr.
Long to resign, will leave the church them-
■elves, end form a new ono.
A connmpoNDBNT of the World in Wash
ington says: “There is talk in Washington
of otguniztng a new party which shall be
composed entirely of rovenue reformers.
One of tho leading and most influential of
the free-traders in this country, in a private
letter addressed to a gentleman in this city,
•ays: ‘There is a strong desire now mani
fest to conveno the National Free-Trade
committee at Washington in January, 1880.
Tbit possible meeting of the National Free-
Trade committee is proposed in ordc r that
a now political party may he organized oat
of tho two now exihtnnt, which shall at
tract all friends of commercial freedom from
each of them. My judgment honestly ex
pressed is tnat the Hepublican free traders
and Democratic tree trader* added together
would tnuko a larger number of voters than
would bo left in both ot the old parties
after the exodus. Juntas Garrison, Wen
dell Phillips and their adherents held the
power between the Whig and Democratic
parties, so now Wells, Hurd, Perry, Sum
ner, Morrison, Beecher and their disciples
can awing the majority to or from either
party now organized. And just os Garrison
•nd Phillip* won st last Kvanse their tight
was for human liberty, so wid the free
traders win, because they fight for liberty
to commerce, and ask, since freedom is
granted to man, to speech i.n«l the pre**.
that is to be also given to exchanges,"
Tub World's Washington correspondent
writes that “The public record* of the Gov
ernment are not kept in good and safe
places. During Kobesou'a time there were
two fires in the Navy Department which de
stroyed a large number of valuable records
of that department. It is now proposed to
have Congress appropriate money to build a
fire-proof building, to be used sold; for the
purpose of protecting the records of the ex
ecutive, tho jndicld and the legislative
branches of the governr ent. The amount
to l>e appropriated is f'JOO.tiuo. The build
ing is to lie called tlie Hall of Records, and
it is proposed to locate it near the War De
partment Most of the records of the de-
parnicnt* are packed uw*y in rooms, un
classified, and are practically valueless.
Several years ago Congress authorized
the classification of these records.
The gentleman who was charged with
this duty found that it was impossible for
him to complete his work on account of the
resistance to the object of his task by the
hauls of the departments. He obtained ac
cess to the reconi* of the treasnry only
after great trouble. He found the most
valuable records of the department piled up
in enormous bandies and in dnst-covered
heaps. He found under a mass of docu
mentary lumber tho original deed of Louisi
ana to the United States by Napoleon. In
the Bute Department he coaid obtain ac
cess h> the documents there only through
■teilth. The watchman in charge ia a very
eccentric old man who would not let him
g*> in the room even upon an order from
the ecretary. The officials there used to
let him Id when the watchman was away
a?id lock him in.
Drug cist's Mistakes.
It will be remembered that two or three
months since a terrible mistake was made
by one Amende, a Hoboken druggist, in
snbstituting morphia for quinia while com
pounding a prescription, and that two esti
mable young lodiet, the Misses Ho!;., lost
their Dies by the accident The tragic oc
currence attracted widespread attention.
The druggist hail spent seventeen years of
hig life in Uuboken a/td thirty in his pro
fession. He was a kind-hearted
herd working man greatly respected, not
only for Lis local labors, but as a man who
hod rendered valuable aid to surgery by in
ventions. One of the young ladies was
engaged to be married to a physician. He
it was who prescribed quinine for her and
unknowingly gave her, with his own hands,
the fatal opiate.
The disenahion of this tragedy, which was
followed by the druggist's attempt at self-
destruction, l*d to the passage of the Geor
gia law requiring red covoring for
battles containing poison. It is interest-
esting to note that the druggist had himself
guard'd Against accident by the same de
vice, and yet erred by his precautions. His
tnal brought him to the witness box where
he testillcd as follows under questioning.
Then the weeping druggist drlad his eye* and
clitubd up into the old-fashioned brown jury box
He said that be learned to be a druggist in Germany,
where he had nerved both an apprenticeahlp and
rlt-rknhip. He nad been In the drug bna’nes* In
Hoboken since l*w7. He made a specialty of inves
tigating druga sa to their purity, aud also worked
niii»ject* connected with the germ theory c*f dls-
ie*. He invented anti-oepHc-cotton, catgut prep
aration* and other articles* used la line of med
ical work.
‘At the time ot this terrible accident." he said,
engaged >n two such experiments for Dr.
tieit'in, ot New York, who wanted some catgut
preparation*,"
1 these years be took but a few weoks of va
cation. althovgh he was working both night and
day at hi" science. He felt the evil effect of bin
work and took phosphoric to brace np hie brain and
kept right »u with his labor*.
'Thh; was my holiday on at the stow," he con
tinual. "I remember that Dr. Ixtwenthal came tn
the morning and told me that Oretchen Hole—
that's Marguerite, you know—that she had on the
night before a temperature of 104. In the evening
ho came sgaln about ten o'clock. He said that Dr.
Courad had beeu there aud had ordered two scru
ple" of muriate of quinine and two ounces of
tincture of eucalyptus, •whatever that may be,'he
added. He was excited and said that 1 should
write a prefcripilon for him. I said that he hail
better write it himaelf. He a»ked me how much
two scruple* were in grams, as he was not fxens-
tnined to pres-rtbe in the old way. I aald forty
gram*. He aald not in grain",
how much in grammes. I could
not answer right off. He said he thought it
»a" three grammes. Just then I turned around to
‘peak to Mr. Han. my clerk. The quinine bottle bad
l»e« u changed to a new place on the ulielf a few
weeks ago. It was right in frout of me, while the
morphine bottle was twenty-four Inches to the left.
I reproach my self for jot noticing that change more
Mr. ltau got the eucalyptus. Then Dr. Lowenthal
resumed the conversation. He said that Dr. Conrad
•nffnued bis diagnosis of Orctchen’a case.
Then there was more talk about gralus and grams.
1 have a vague recollection of putting up a bottle on
the shelf and pushing U against the wall, but I don't
remember taking it down at all I bare also a very
vague recollection that when Mr. ltau came
with the eucalyptus I had the powder, whatever U
wm. In a mortar nibbing It up."
"Did Dr. Lowenthal give you the written pre
scription before or after yon made the powers!"
••After."
'•Did you have labels on the poisonous bottles!"
"Gh, yes, on all poison bottles. I have two ret!
Jsbels marked qtotson' In white. One label Is on
the neck and the other on the stopper."
• At the time you delivered those powders to Dr.
Lowenthal what did you auppose they contained!"
•NJnlntn.#, my flod. of course."
••When did you next see Dr. Lowenthal!"
"At about 3 or 3:30 o'clock In the morning. There
was a powder on the table and he asked me tf that
powder was morphine or quinine. He aaked me
which I had given him. 1 took down the quinine
tattle and took a taste. Then I tasted the powder
end said: *ThU quinine is bitterer than the other.'
1 was told about the poisoning and of course I was
terribly excited. I could hot help It. Nobody
could help it. 1 went upstairs with the doctor and
laid my bead against his iMwom. saying: *Ach,
or doctor! Arm« Orotcbenl "
"What does that mean!"
••Oh. poor doctor! I'oor Oretchen!"
"Well, go on.”
••We went downstairs together. Dr. Lowenths!
asked feratrophine, and Mr. Rati got It for him. He
asked me again if I could tell what It was 1 hail
given. 1 grumbled out some expression abont his
talking to me when 1 was making np a prescription.
1 don't slab to repeat it”
• How do you account f»r the mistake!"
"Ob. I don't know, 1 don't know. I tried the
whole morniug after It occurred to remember If I
had reached over the quinine bottle. They told
me that In my delirium" • • •
"Why did you grumble to Dr. Lowenthal about
his Ulklug to you vhile you were making up pre
scription"!*' asked the district attorney.
"Wall. 1 don't want to say anythlug that will hurt
him. but I had "I"'ken to him Mon on savers! <
casions about the same habit, ti lling him not
talk to me while I was compounding."
"Why did you keep the poison tattle within
twenty -elx inches of the other bottle!"
"because I considered tho labels sufficient pro
tection against mistakes."
This graphic description calls up a picture
familiar to everyone—the customer chatting
pleasantly with the druggist who is com
pounding his prescription, a most dangerous
custom. The terrible tragedy in Hoboken
shows that even the attention of an olil
druggist may 1>« so completely absorbed in
this wav that his hand could execute its
mission, as previously educated, his eye
denote the effect of the drug n|>on the
scales, and yet the red label produce no
more effect upon them than any other object
near at band. In other words, Amende'*
mistake proves that in apite of the laws of
Georgia, the customer who chata with the
druggist while the latter is filling a pre
scription, risks tho life of the person for
whoa it is intended. Careful people will
begin to note the custom of druggists in
this respect and bestow their patronage ac
cordingly.
A New Year's Poem,
Home friend, sweet be his repose, has for
warded to us a copy of the address put
forth by the Atlanta Constitution aud de
livered by the carriers on New Year's day.
A marginal note informs ns that the verses
were evolved from a brooding poet con
cealed in the innermost recesses of the Con
stitution's new building; in (act from the
Then they would cot i sanctum, xorctidirim sanctorum where
«•»;'.! for him until the watchman bad gone ! naught from the giddy, noisy world without
*’ a T ‘ uu) intrude to disturb tin delicate incu
bating process; and where the muse sits
upon tho coal box and rests her pretty toes
on the pine and sawdust cuspidor.
The address shows upon its title page a
fair maiden leaning over a balcony rail in
party dress cut decollete, ribboned and be-
slippered and surrounded by flowers. In
tho distance, on a black horse, and gallop
ing straight across the flower beds with the
careless indifference peculiar to New Year’s
callers, goes the old left-handed warrior
who generally stands in the Htate's coat of
arms. Or perhaps the picture represents
the new year bidding the old, good-by.
Anyway, ’tis % pleasing scene.
Bnt not until one opcm* up this happy
conceit and takes in the delicate fancies of
the verses spread to view, does he really
enter into the pleasure of the production.
In reading these, Lc forgets the galloping
cavalier on the flower beds; forgets even
the exposed condition of the fair and fragile
maiden hanging over the rail; these all fade
out together before the superior charms of
the poem itself.
The verses open up with an excerpt skill
fully snatched from the Bailor Boj’s Dream
Iu slur.bers of midnight, the carrier boy lay.
Unconsciously dreaming of tho pleasure* In sight.
When the icy form of January came creeping over
the way.
Anil stood upon the threshold, all clothed In
white.
She spoke not nnklndly of the future in store.
Nur suppressed her cold kisses from her lips of
delight,
Bnt unfolding her heart from the mantle of anow,
Hhe blest the young dreamer with all of her
might. t f
Nothing can exceed the quaint grace of
thft>e lines. The suggestion that the boy
was “unconsciously dreaming," is not
more striking than the form of January
standing on the threshold “speaking not
unkindly of the future in store.” There is
something startling in the action of Janua
ry laying her cold kisxes on the poor little
devil, shucking her heart out of a snowball,
and “blessing the young dreamer with all
of her might." The introduction of a she
January is an innovation that may at tint
shock some poetic ho tils, who remember Jan
uary chiefly as a frosty old mnn or as a
trick mule in tho circus, but upon reflection
they will agree that it is not imtKwsible that
this may have been Mrs. Janunry out look
ing for tho old man. No wonder she
“blessed" the hoy. Doubtless she blessed
the old man when she caught np with him.
But we tarry too long. Other delights
approach:
Sleep on young carrier boy, thy Joy" are all told.
Thy sorrows are many—thy miseries unmeasured,
More precious by far, than mountain.* of gold.
la thy fair youug heart, and the good thou hast
treasured.
The runty old clock, keeps the vigil by night.
As it ticks from the dusty old shelf on the wall.
Now the hands proclaim the hour -Ah! now they
atrike,
And the gong thunders forth Its ungodly noise.
The chief beauty of these lines lie in their
even flow and perfect rhyme, but enthusi
astic as wo aro, we must always regret that
to the Telegraph does not belong the honor
of first making “wall" rhyme with “noise.”
Somehow life seems very chocrless now that
this great honor has drifted out of r«ncff.
Borne doubt may arise in the minds of
certain readers m to what tho cloik's
hands struck, and we greatly fear
some captions critic may suggest thot even
a poet is transcending the bounds of pro
priety and violating his license when he
makes a clock clap its hands to wake up a
newsboy. “Tho ungodly noise of tho
gong" too is not altogether poetic, hut
these aro small defects. Perhaps the tuuse
nodded and fell into the cuspidor. This is a
not unnatural supposition, for the striking
of a clock doesn't often wake up the small
boy, and the next verse says:
Aroused from his slumber— he springs from his cot,
Ha hastens to the window anil there he peeps out.
But uudauuted by the pang of his unhappy lot.
He faces the utorm. old Jupiter's brought shout.
There is more of this, but the Tklkoiuph
does not feel authorized to bestow free of
coat a work of art which the newsboy sells
for a stipend. Not to satisfy even oar
oldest subscriber, can we afford to rob in
dustrious youth. Those who want it,
should send in their orders accompanied by
cash. A poem in which is blended all the
rhetoric, rythm and realism of “Marco
Bozitris," “Sailor Boy's Dream," “Run
Nigger Run" and “Who Laid the Hail,”
cuiinot be expected except upon a strictly
cosh basis.
Among the Halnt*.
Tbc Kdmunds bill has been in operation
in Utah for about one year, with the fol
lowing result: About 60 persons have been
convicted of unlawful cohabitation and 1
of i>olygamy, and *20 indictments arc now
awaiting trial. President Taylor and ex-
Delegate Cannon have been in hiding 11
months, and Smith, who ranks after the
two officers named, fled to tho Bandwich
Islands lost February. Lorenzo Bnow, one
of the apostles, has been convicted of un
lawful cohabitation, and will go to the pe n-
itentiAry next week. All the other apostles
but two aw either in hiding or hnve left the
country. Ono Carrington will be excom
municated by the church. Notwithstand
ing that so much has been done, the Mor
mons are more defiant than ever. Conspir
acies to implicate Federal officials andGen-
tiles in violation of the laws arft in active
operation. Good citizens are hoping that
the present Congress will pass more string
ent measures for the punishment of the
Mormons, and believe that a more vigorous
prosecution of the work will kill the snake,
which ia not more than scotched at present.
Senator Payne does not think highly of
the man Donavin who baa been writing him
an open letter, as may be seen from this:
“What!" exclaimed the Senator, “does the
Herald find room for such a foulmouthed
writer as Donavin? I feel sorry that such a
newspaper with its eminent fame should
pollute its columns by printing anything
Donavin utters. He is a worthless, low,
drunken wretch, not worthy to be treated
decently, and has been rolling about Wash
ington for the past two weeks, a disgrace to
the city."
Wired* tuid Patches*
President Cleveland baa written a letter
in which he asserts that newspaper lying
was Lever so general and so mean as at
present. This shows that Mr. Cleveland is
not familiar with the history of tho coun
try. Nearly every President has held the
same opinion.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
When the committees have been named it
will be seen how near the Speaker is to the
President.—Philadelphia Times.
President Cleveland has written Puck
that he thinks the newspapers lie too much.
May be they do. They get the most of their
news from office-holders and oflice-seekera.
—Washington Hatchet.
Miss Gladstone is to marry a clergyman.
Her futher has some throat disease, and she
thinks, perhaps, in this way she can curate.
- Pittsburg Chronicle.
Consul-General W. .Her has made himself
famous by introducing egg-nogg in London.
Who can say now that ocr foreign service
is useless ? - Baltimore Amesican.
The Rev. Mr. Down’s latest aphorism is
that “the iuopicut a tunu breoutes a Chris
tian he is exposed to tire," and they do
seem to he making it hot for Mr. Downs at
the Hub. - N. Y. World.
Prohibition doesn’t prohibit any better
in the United States Senate than anywhere
else.—Milwaukee* Journal.
The sage of Gramraercy, in his quiet,
riverside retreat is more of a louder than the
hardiest captain of the great Democratic
hosts.—Montgomery Dispatch.
Bt. Louis is about to establish a hydro-
2>hohia hospital on the Pasteur plan. The
first thing to do is to inoculate the various
HuaiMige i tills in the place. Exchange.
David Davis announces that he in out of
politics His retirement will necessitate
the deposit of 400 pounds of ballast in the
ho)d of tho ship of State.— Minneapolis
Tribune.
Senator Sherman was not, r.t one time, a
cold man. His heart was chilled by the
cold side of a trade dollar which he carried
in his vest duriu^ a severe winter.- Courier-
Journal.
It is suggested that the mayor should is
sue a proclamation closing all business
houses until the Louisville Baseball Club
shall have secured a first baseman.—Cour
ier-Journal.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Hour, de
votes a full column to “tho ethics of swear
ing off." The ethics of swearing off, as a
pretty general thing, aro foolishly forgotten
in the excitement of swearing on.--Phila
delphia Times.
Smythkid* is very superstitious. Ho
Miked what day the first of the year would
fall on this winier. “On Friday.” “That’s
too bad. Well," with a sigh of relief, “I
dou't care so long as it don't come on the
13th."—rittsburg Commercial.
More than 1,400 Kentuckians ha7o ap
plied for office since Mr. Cleveland was in
augurated. Of the two other male citizens
in the State, one is running the Louisville
Courier-Journal, while tno other is editing
a distillery in one of tho back counties.—
Philadelphia Press.
It i discovered that Shanghai shipped to
this country lost year uo less than half a
million ]>ound* of willow lnavos, disguised
and doctored as tea loaves. The Mikado-
mad United States has stood a surfeit of
“Tit-Willow," but when it comes to tea-
willow, a pronounced protest is in order.—
New York World.
X>rupfM*<I NIJtches*
The discovery of a cure for hydrophobia
has created a great sensation, but what
the world really needs is nn antidote for
dryphobia, a disease which afflicts all drink
ers.— Philadelphia Chronicle.
Thus far the principal events ot 188(1 in
this country are the arrival of a vessel from
Germany with a cargo of fabe hair and tho
opening of siz new factories for the nmnu
faciure of wire bustles.—Philadelphia
Chronicle.
The newspapers are full of prescriptions
for the care of hydrophobia. What we con
sider the best prescription of all has not yet
been published. It ia this: Cold lead, {
oz. Directions-Apply internally to the
dog’s head.—St. Louis Globe Democrat
A Virginia colonel blew into a gun the
othor day and found that it was loaded. It
isn't safe for men who don't know anything
•bout firearms to bother with them.—
Rochester Post-Express.
Farmers are pouring into Western Texas
so fast that runclimon havo just time to
move their cattle out and prevent their tails
being chopped off by the advancing hoe.
New Orleans Picayune.
Industry beats genius in everything but
making retd poerty.—New Orleans Piyayune.
Dr. Hammond said that at the Nineteenth
Century Club in New York the other day
that in another thousand years we will be
paid. Oh well: we shall not let bis dis
agreeable prediction worry us. Up to the
hour of going to press we have plenty of
hair, and we may be dead in less than
“another thousand yean."—Norristown
Herald.
In these days of hydrophobia it may be
well to remark that no person who has
paid for his newspapers in advance was
was ever known to be bitten by a mad dog.
Lynn Item.
A Buffalo man says he has one hundred
proofs that the earth ia flat. We have one
hundred and one that he is.—Burlington
Fre* Press.
A Prstly Opium-Smoker In Conrt.
A Chicago soecial says: A very pretty
and elegsntly-dreaoed young woman was
arrest'd to-day in a Chinese laundry in
DesDlainea street while enjoying an opium-
smoke. At the police atatioc she gave her
name aa May Heineman, amt Mid her
father was a police officer. Hhe told the
justice that a gentleman taught her to
smoke e few Weeks ago and that she
wanted to try it again. There was no
charge against her, and she was released.
Subsequently it was learned that the name
■he gave was a fictitious one, and that she
ia the daughter of a prominent and aristo
cratic fomt.y on the south side, the head of
which ia well known in church circle*.
She ia thought to be a confirmed user of
the drug.
PEBBONAL.
—Sir John Milloh has five unfinished pic
tures on his easel.
—Lieutenant Gr^ely, tho explorer, has
returned from Europe.
—King Milan has l>ought “a suit of pad
ding that will turn bullets.”
—P. T. Barnurn grows stoop-shouldered
with the weight of his years.
—Mr. Talmago shook hands with as
many as 2,000 callers on New Year’s day.
—Mp. Scott Biddons writes to n friend in
Chicago that she never wants to come back
to this country.
—Justin McCarthy and Mr*. Campbell
Prad jointly havo written a novel, “The
Right Honorable," a curiosity ia literary
collaboration.
—Dr. John Hall, of New York, makes the
prohibitionists open their eyes by boldly
asserting that wine is an excellent thing to
drink in moderation.
—Nellie Gould, the only daughter of Jay
Gould, joined the West Presbvterian church
iu New York of Sunday. Mr. Gould was
present at the service.
—Henry M. Stanley does pot Iwelieve that
Bishop Hunnington, the missionary seized
by the King of Mombasa, in Central Africa,
has beeu put to death.
-Miss Mary Anderson will contribute to
an curly utumber of Lippiucott's Magazine
a paper of reminiscence* of her receut trip
to England, giving her iiiinressions of Lon
don uudiences and of London society.
—The Secretary of Stato has received and
sent to Ericsson, the distinguished inveu-
tor, the Grand Cross of the Order of Naval
Merit, recently conferred on him by the
late King of Spain.
■-Mine. Pauline Lucca has arrived at
Vienna in a precarious condition. She
traveled from Russia in a special Pullman
car. Her physicians are unable to make a
diagnosis of her illness.
—Driving through Windsor recently the
Queen noticed a cab-horse thrown down
and injured by an accident, and forthwith
directed that the owner should have a new
horse given to him from tho royal stables.
—The late Governor Page, of Rutland,
had about 9lO,UOO insurance on his life in
the old companies, which he hud carried for
several years, and about twice as much in
co-operative companies, which he hod taken
in the last year or two.
more than ten times as much as it costs to
costume some of the Mikado companies
now prancing around the country.
—The talk in England now is of a mar
riage engagement between one of the
Queen's grandaughters and Prince Freder
ick Leopold, only son of the late “Red
Prince" of Pruusia, The young man is
esteemed n desirable “catch,” inheriting
his father's great wealth as well os much oi
his spirit and mind.
. — At Governor Lee’s inauguration, John
W. Daniel, United State* Senator-elect,
came iu aloue, walking down the central
aisle, and took n scat to the right of the
speaker. He walked down tho a>sle as
rapidly ns his lameness would let him, and
whs greeted with cheers, which did not sub
side until he had taken his seat
—The veuerable W. W. Corcoran, of
Washington, is now interested iu removing
the remains of Major 1'Enfant from the
farm where he was buried to one of the
public parks, with a view to putting n
proper monument over the samo, to mark
the memory of tho man who made the plan
on which tue capital city was laid out.
BLIND MEN 8 DREAMS.
Peculiar Visions ot the Sightless tn Their
Slumbers.
Philadelphia Record.
“Dreaming the happy hours away" is tho
refrain of a once popular song. There are
few people, nevertheless, who do not pro
fess to prefer the pleasures of tho waking
hours to those of slumber, howover bright
may be their visions. But to the blind who
have in other days looked out upon tho
hoantie of nature«uid met their fellows in
the fullness of sight, the happiest hours are
tboao which bring to them the oblivion of
sleep and the sweet consolation of dream
land. Bupenntendent Hall, of the Work
ing Homo for blind men in west Philadel
phia, said yesterday in u conversation upon
this subiect: “I have no greater pleasure
in life, that 1 havo lost my sight, than in
dreaming, for then and then only 1 catch
glimpses of the world about me. I am no
longer blind. The scales fill from my eyes
ami l see like other men; seo ns I did in
days gone by before the terrible nffiicti »n
canto on me and shut out the light of day.
I never dreeni that I am blind. In dream-
laud I never seem to 'have been blind. I
am at the 'Home' to be sore, but instead
of huving only my fingers and my ears to
guide me I can see tho inmates, and what is
stranger yet, although in reality I have
never set u one of them, in my dreams they
all ap|>ear familiar to me by sight aud not
by their voices."
This curious experience of Mr. Hall
seems to be that «*f all persons who have
become blind after the early years of life
hnve poised. The blind who have been so
afflicted front birth never dream of seeing
anything. The im| Tensions of their dreams
are regulated by the impressions made and
ideas obtained by the sense of touch, of
taste and smell. One of the most intelli
gent inmates of tho west Philadelphia
“Home," who came into the world blind,
aavs that, although he has read a great deal,
he never dreams of the things he has read
ttlsmt, and never dreams of any thiug or
person with which he hus not in some way
come in )>er*.)nal contact. He dreams of
music, ot the voices of persons he knows,
of such incidents as might happen at the
“Home" or some place in which ho has ac
tually been, but never ot incidents in other
places or in other binds. Of a landscape, a
picture, a tree or a human being he never
dreams. Even although he bus readdis-
criptions of localities, of natural beauties,
of the appearance of a street or a cit~ no
idea of what they look like is formed in his
mind, and none comes to him in the fan
cies of his sleep.
A blind man has been known to dream
of a ghost, and he thus tells the story: “I
heard a voice at the door,and I said: 'Bless
me, if that ain't John,' and I took him by
the sleeve; it was his shirt sleeve I felt, and
I was afraid of him. Then I dreamed that
he continued to frighten me, as 1 knew that
he was dead. I thought that I was losing
pushed by hit ghost Then I woke up, and
felt no more." Our blind friend at the
Home often dreams of being out on the
afreet or in the country, bnt he did not
dream that he saw the afreet or the scenery
in the country, but be felt the open sir of
the country and recognized the afreet be-
canse be was dreaming of one along which
he had frequently walked.
Curious and full of interest aa are the
dreams of the blind of every condition,
there is a class of blind people whose
sleeping impressions are of especial inter
est—that claaa of unfortunate people who
bacome blind when quite young, at aperiod
whsn external objects, ami the outward
world generally, nad jus* begun to make
an impression upon them. Huch blind people
sometimes, but not always, dream that they
can aee; bnt in their virion they see things
with the eyes of childhood and they never
draam of any seen* or object except those
which like a dim recollection have re
mained in the memory from what they
actually saw before they be
came blind. A blind man who
was stricken at the age of five years
and never visited the country dreams of
seeing city streets, city houses or city parks,
but never of country scenery, of a railroad,
or of a river, and so vice-versa. Aa often
as not this class of blind persons dream as
if they b:ul never been blind at all, snd at
other times as if all memory of blim Inesa
had pussed from them.
Making Firecrackers,
Firecrackers are produced by a Chinese
firm of Canton, China. They are made by
convicts hired by the manufacturers from
the government ot three cents a day, the
work being done inside of the prisons, which
consists of a reservation of 419! feet square,
staked off and surrounded by high bamboo
psilings. Tho paper uoed, which is made
of bamboo fibre, is no doubt the strongest
paper made. Each cracker ia tilled, rolled
and pasted by hand, and they are mode
with astonishing rapidity. The powder
used, though very fine, is equal in strength
to our best blasting charcoal powder. When
ready for market the crackers are sent to
Hong Kong, from whence they are distrib
uted all over tho world. In 1884 about
5(10,OIK) boxes of crackers were imported
into this country. Each box contains 40
packages, and each pack from 64 to 80
crackers.
Neln-AMba'M Kipping Hesnty.
Omaha Herald.
Minnie Disinter, the young lady of Co
lumbus, this State, whose protracted period
of coma has attracted the attention of the
entire country, is in the sixty-eighth day of
her lethargy. ’ Her condition is becoming
critical, owing to complications arising
from disease of tho throat, and medical men
entertaiu doubt of her recovery. It is truly
a remarkvhle case, and it is to be hoped
will not terminate futnlly, aa expected.
nn coughsscroup use
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