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r THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, .JANUARY 12, W6.-TWELVE PAGES. THE TELEGRAPH, luuma iTtiT day r* r<i tub iid vun. »T TUX felfigrtph trd Mtssengsr Publishing Co. t r Mulberry Htm-t. Macon, Ga. TUTJilb U daily* red by cirri era !n the city or five to eubecnbarw, for 91 p«r monvb, 12. r for three month*. $b for *lz month*. Or JlGayeir. T«tf Vzaynv »j mailed to snbecrltor*, poetage free, at $1.25 a •;»«■ and 7% cent* f»<r six month*. Tnu eient ad*, srtlaeraanta will be taken for the Dally at |1 par aquaro of 10 lioe* or leu* for the ini insertion, and 60 c» nta fot ovb subsequent in* ■enlon.and fut the Weekly at fl for each in ertion. Notice* of ftcsthz, funerals, marr'ages and births, 91. Rejr-t. 4 eommnr Nation* will not be retained. Correspondent** rz-ntalnlng »Jiiportar.‘ r*»we and dlacni-.lone ot lirin. topics la solicited, but moat be brief afab written upon bnt one side of the paper to ha?* a*.tent km Romittarce* ah on Id be trade by cr press, posts 1 aotu. money order or registered letter. Atlanta Bureau 275* Peachtree street. AU communications sbou d ta addressed to THE THLEORAPH. Macon. Ga. Vonej orders, checks, etc., should be trade paya- 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. 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