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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 4,1888--TWELVE PAGTO3.
BITS FOR THE PALATE.
The Queer Dishes That Some
People Bat.
A CHAT WITH A'NOTED FRENCH CHEF
Id Xen York on the Cookinrj an<l Eating of
Queer Kdtbles—Iloaated Monkey Said
to Ue a Delicacy—Snakes and
Lizards as Dishes.
Special Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
New York, Not. 22.—“What would
make a good Thanksgiving dinner? Well,
jou know, caling is only a matter of taste.
What would you eav to a dish of eater-
pillars to begin with?”
“Do people eat caterpillars?”
“Certainly sir; and they thank God for
them, too, as well aB for other blessings.
In the West Indies they are considered a
great luxury.” ....
The speaker was John Noth, the famous
elief of a great New York hotel, who was
making up a grand Thanksgiving menu.
He has studied carefully odd dishes that
are liked by epicures all over the world,
andean furnish a dinner for a native of
Kamtsclialka as easily as he can boil a
AS EARTH-EATING NATIVE DISCOVERED.
potato. He was chatting about some of
these old dishes recently, and told what
was eaten all over the world. Some of
the dishes were odd indeed, and would be
despised in this country. Everything
possessed of life seems to be eaten in some
part of the world as well as many inani
mate things. It seems to be all a matter
ol climate and association as to what shall
be chosen from tho vast store. In South
America everything is eaten, even ser-
r ents and lizards. Children .are said to
ave been spen taking large centipedes
out of their holes in trees and crunching
them up with great relish. At Emerald!
the rarest dish is ro’st monkey. All the
larger animals are eaten. Arabians, who
are said to love their horses so much
think horses’ flesh a great luxury. In In
dia. where the elephant alive is so useful
for locomotion, when dead it furnishes the
natives a rare dish. In Egypt the camel
alive is valurd by all, and his filth is
much sought after for food when lie i«
dead. The Chinaman hns a variety of
tastes. He fancies small animals. He
thinks the greatest delicacies are cats,
dogs, rath and serpents, and bears’ paws
• nrt Ijirdi* vsnor ova yjri Tkn Jliri" ilS of
Ilindostan have*odd tastes. They contend
with the. dog', vultures and kites for pu
trid carrion. The inhabitants of Cochin
China have a taste almost as remarkable.
In this coun'ry the boarding house mis
tress gets into trouble if the eggs arc not
fresh. In Cochin China she gets into
trouble if they are. The natives of Terra-
cena furnish their guests with land or
water eels. They are considered as fine as
terrspin. West Indians have one of the
most expensive dishes ever made. It will
aamuch as $75 to furnish, and is
nothing more than the nests of the Java
sparrow.
Earth if eaten by the natives ol many
countries of the torrid zone, and also in
Sweden and Finland. In the latter named
countries hundreds of cart loads of earth
containing iopesoria are annually con
sumed. This earth is usually mixed with
bread. The women on the Magdelens
rivor seem to relish clay as much as
Fifth Avenuo belle likes candy. They
have frequently been observed while shap
ing clay on the potter’s wheel to put lumps
into their months. This probably takes
the place of chewing gum. In this same
place children aro very fond of tunning
out of their houses to cat the earth
immediately after a fall of rain. The
Ototuac tribe of earth-eating Indians
knead the earth into balls of five or six
inches in diameter, which they roast by a
weak fire until tho outside is hard. They
-jemoisten them when they arc required ss
Icod, and, according to a missionary who
lived among them for twelve years, one
tif them would eat from three-guar* - ,
‘S' M uad a quarter oUhis
.peculiar fo~* M a day . T ‘, e nalive8 of
Peru, Guinea, Jamaica, New Caledonia,
Siam, Siberia and Kamtschatka, sre also
very fond of earth.
BOASTS.
Saddle of mutton. Boast Beef.
SIDE DISHES.
Fowl, roast and boiled. Smoked Tongue.
Ham.
A little later attempts were made at
fancy di-lies, but they did not become
general favorites. One of several favor
ites seems to have been the boiled potato.
It api>eared with the first dish, and ap
peared with every one until the dinner
wps ended and until the sweets appeared.
One great difficulty then seems to have
been placing o ■ your fork and finally in
your mouth some half dozen different
eatables which occupied your plate at the
same time. For example, your plate
would contain say a slice of turkey, dress
ing, a sausage, pickles, a slice cf tongue,
cauliflower and potatoes. It wsb the cus
tom then to make a collection from each
article in liis bazar and place it in the
month. In fact, they used to compound
cookery between their jaws. At one of
the most fashionable hotels in 1 ondon a
stranger was always assured that there
was no vacant seat. The choice of vege
tables there rarely exceeded the usual
joints, boiled fish and fried soles. The
English seein to have followed the exam
ple set by the French in cooking-. In this
country we have dishes peculiarly onr
own. And then we have French, Spanish,
German, Italian, English and the cooking
of all nations under the sun.
The poor classes in this country have
much better cooking than those of Eng
land, or in fact of other countries. One
reason for this in England is because of
tlie high price of the staple article of food.
In London a clergyman could not induce
butchers to lower the price of meat, and
he started as a butcher himself. His shop
has been transformed into a limited lia
bility company, where the price of meat is
such that all can buy it. The difierence
between the English and French cooking
is that the French housewife is content
with small snacks of meat not only because
as a rule she cannot afiord lprge ones but
because she knows how to make the most
of them by simple culinary de
vices. The ' English artisan’s wife
will only have a joint to boil or
roast one day in the week, because she is
ignorant of any other way of cooking
meat, or because she will not take the
trouble necessary to cook the same weight
of meat in smaller quantities. This will
show how simple palatable dinner helps
are either neglected or unknown in Eng
land. The common stinging nettle makes
a very gjood dish. Jt boils very soft and
is a capital substitute for cabbage.. It is
used very largely by the poorer people in
Europe and in Ireland, and to a certain
extent in this country. In London the
poor eat turnip tops, and where the nettles
are eaten turnip tops are allowed to rot in
the fields.
“Do you try many of these odd dishes
yourself?”
“Indeed, I do. Any new dish I hear of
I try to make, and then try it. A little
while ago I had a a nice young dog, some
how or other the dog brone its leg, and eo
I killed it. It was so nice and fat that I
thought I would try and see how it would
taste cooked, so I prepared the dog like
anyone would a joint of pork, roasted it
and served it with the same sort of dress
ing. We wouid put it wiih pork, and to a
stranger the joint had ail the appearance
of pork, and it tasted delicious. It was
new, sweet and tender.”
“How do the regular dishes in this
country compare with the French dishes?”
“In this country there aro many more
varieties of dishes that! iu France, ami we
can make a much more varied menu here.
In France green turtle is a very expensive
luxury, and terrapin is very seldom heard
of. Many of the fish eaten over here are
never seen there, and tho game is more
plentiful here. They have only one kind
of wild duck, and.have not the canvas-
back of maiiisrd at a!!. Partridges and
quail are much smaller there than here."
“How are snails cooked?”
“The best way I know is to first let them
soak in salt water for a couple of days so
that all the gluo and slime about them is
removed. Then take them., out of their
shells and clean them and remove their
head. Yon then plant (ben In It rtd
claret or burgundy, with rome aromatic
herbs to fiavor them, and boil the whole.
W’hen they have become cold take some
shallots, garlic, sbedwell, cloves
chopped fine and mix the snails in
This fish is sometimes caught iff the
Long Island coast, but abounds noro in
the Chesapeake Bay. It is a ‘.mailsilvery
flat fi-h. and the meat is very sweet and
delici'>u(. It is cooked in a variety of
ways, and often appears on the nenus of
6ome of the best dinners given in the
country. The poorer people ol North
Carolina and some of the Southern Stairs
eat a fish called the Barracouta. 'illis is a
long slender fish with dark colored skin
on its back and white underneath. It i»
a very savage fish and lives ofl theotbere
It has often attacked men. The flesh is
coarse and not at all pleasant, pome of
the lower tribes that live on the shores of
the Mediterranean sea are very find of
shark flesh. In fact, whenever the shark
is caught it is eaten. Sailors at ses. when
they manage to land a shark, me very
fond of a shark steak. The inhabitants of
the Polar regions think one of the
greatest delicacies that they can procure
is the flesh of the whale. They feast on
it raw when the fish has first been caught,
and afterwards cut it into strips and dry
it. The dog fish, which is caught in, all
places where fish abound, is eaten occasion
ally by fishermen. The dog fish is very
savage, and tho flesh is very coarse. The
rabbit fish is another of this class. It
lives on fish, and is called the rabbit fish
on account of the shape of its head. The
meat is a pink color, and is occasionally
eaten. Sun fish steak ia sometimes eaten,
but only a few like it. 'ihe sword fish
make a very good dish. The flesh is cut
up into steaks. The meat is of a pinki h
color, but is coarse. In the tropical re
gions the natives very often eat the octo
pus or devil fish. Their taste is a strange
one, and civilized persons who have tasted
this meat don’t relish it at all.
- David VVechsleb-
MlSh RIVES KXI'l.AINS.
S’EASTING ON CENTH'EDW.
At the beginning of the century the menu
of a good dinner was like this:
SheJTells of„Uer Motive in Writing "the
| IQuick or the Dead.'*
“In a preface to anew edition of “The
Quick or the Dead?” which is soon to ap
pear. says the New York Herald, Miss
Rives explains her motives in producing
the’novt 1, and administers a clever and
caustic yet .none the less good-natured,
rebuke to her critics. She insists that the
latter have done her a great though un-
concious honor iu assuming that she in
tended Barbara as a portrait of herself,
for in doing eo they have attributed to
her an absolute honesty and absence of
vanity such as few mortals have ever been
credited with. Barbara is beautiful in
face and form, to be sure, but all her
idiosyncracics are such as no woman would
care to accuse herself of. She never was
meant for a noble character. "I tried to
describe as truthfully as 1 could a type of
woman of whose existence I feel convinced
—a creature morbid, hysterical, sensitive,
introspective, an egotist to her finger ends,
although an unconscious one; a sophist,
and a self-dtceiver." Barbara feels,
wrongly enough that she is being disloyal
to her dead husband in loving a living
man. But it was her husband’s eyes—
hissoul—thatsho loved. Otherwise she
would.lmvo married Dering without ques
tion, since, physically, lie was almost
tho exact reproduction of her husband.
Miss Rives acknowledges that there arc
faults of crudeness and bad taste here and
there in “The Quick or the Dead?” the
result of too rapid writing and publication.
But she insists it was well meant and wi it-
ten from a clean heart. And she dis
misses her critics with this very clever
comparison:
“When I think of the misconstruction
which has followed its appearanok I am
reminded of a purported tact wlnvh was
once mentioned to me. The statement
may ho utterly untrue, but the simile re
mains apposite. Some one told me that
milk and rattlesnake’s poison are identi
cal in the quality and quantitv of their
in n rsdisiili on<i *»>•» theeni? is*hich
scientists explain the harmlcssness of the
one and the virulence of the other is by
supposing some subtle difference in the
juxtaposition of tho molecules in each
ll .id. Now, it seems to me that some
critics, when they shake the milk of my
human kindness about in their own minds,
disturb its atoms and force them tempor
arily into a poisonous relativcness,”
The preface concludes with these
words:
“How blessed a thing itVouhl be if peo
ple would only understand that while
spades are spades, still one need not al
ways picture them as standing in mud I
They may be used more effectually than
any other tool for improving the soil
about the roots of the Tree of Life so that
it will bear more abundantly and better
fruit. It seems to me tbat books, well
meant, strongly written, and from a clean
heart resemble mirrors, wherein everyone
who reads sees bis own reflection - The
pure will see purity, the foul-minded foul
ness."
Early Days of the Drummers.
From tbs Et. Louts Republic,
“It amuses me," said the white-haired
head of a large St. Louis iron house, in a
conversation yesterday, ’’to hear traveling
m?n nowadays complain of the hardships
of the road, the taking ol late trains,
traveling in Icabooses and such like incon
veniences. Lord bless you they should
have seeh the 'drummers’ of old days and
heard their experiences, and then they
would have known something about the
v~*-s of the travel ing man. Thirty years
1”“I was young, ambitions, full of energy,
V?- went on the road for a St Louis iron
»»- -»>'!■■ -H 1 ' w "irKS
through a certain portion of our trade—
stage coaches and horseback were n y only
means of travel. Many a cold and weary
winter’s day have I passed in the saddle,
starting out early in the morning,
going through snow and^rain, ford
ing creeka, and half frozen ali ihe time,
until I could hardly dismount when my
day's journey was over. And then there
«*r« nrt Kanlra nr ivtllpn inn a<rf>ncipp
through the country to facilitate the col
lection of debts, and the ‘drummers’ had
all of that work to do. YY'c traveled with
old-fashioned valises which could be used
as saddle-bags when we had to ride horse
back, rnd these were the recepticles for
what money we collected. It was som»-
times pretty ticklish work stopping at
lonely conntry taverns with saddle-bags
filled with good hard money,Mexican five-
franc pieces, worth then aoout 95 cents,
and gold and silver coin, but it had to be
done. I slept on the floor in a little tav
ern office one winter’s night, with my
valise under my head for a pillow, con
taining over $1,500 cash. It was a hard
pillow, but I felt safer will* it there, and
slept quite soundlv. The drummer* of to
day don’t know what hard traveling is
They should have frrzen or half drowned
or starved with us of the old school back
in the ’50s.”
Salmon-
•OOP.
Mulligatawny,
nss.
Turtle.
TlD-lllTS TO BE SERVED
with butter and red wine. Then place
the snail bsck into its shell, pat some but
ter 6n it and bake. Alter they are cooked
serve up with some bread crumbs and
melted butter. They aro verv fine. You
know English people are fond of 6alt
water snails, which they call periwinkles.
[They simply boil these and eat with
vinegar and pepper.”
“Did vou ever cook snakes?”
“I never did, bat I have met .persons
who have told me that some kinds of
snakes are very good, and why should
they not be? Eels are only snakes, you
know, and they are eaten in all sorts of
styles.”
“Rats are spoken well of by some peo
ple. Did you ever cook them 7"
“Rats are very nice when they are
young. During the Franco-German war
ol 1870, while the Germans .were surround
ing Paris, thev were eaten in large quanti
ties by the besieged. A very good way to
prepare them is to skin them and clean
thrm, then cut them up and put into wine
with aromatic herbs, and then make a
fricassee of them just as you would a
chicken. Horse flesh is now very popular
in France, and there are regular horse
butchers in Paris. Horse flesh is a little
coane and strongly flavored. It is cooked
in the same way that a joint of beef is. I
believe there is’ a law in this country pro
hibiting the sale of horse flesh. People
used to be disgusted at the idea of eating
frogs, but now frogs’ legs are considered a
great delicacy, and are in great demand
everywhere.”
Every known kind of fish is eaten in
some form or other, but not always by
civilized persons. There are several kina*
of fish that are really very nice, but some
how or other are not very popular with
Turbot, with smelts everybody. One of these is the Bombano.
OUR CltOWDKD DOCKETS.
Sir. Wlmbiah Oil Lawyers, Litigation nml
tlie Court*.
Editor TELEORArn: Your editorial of
recent date touching upon the above sub-
ject,and|Mr.Bartletl’s bill before the Senate
providing for an increase in the salaries cf
onr judgii. gives rise in my mind to some
thoughts which may he worthy of publica
tion. I voted lor an increase in the num
ber of supreme court judges, and would
vote today for five judges of tho supreme
bench, and make their pay correspond
with tho responsibility [ and dignity of
tlie office and commen'urato with the
amouut of work to be performed. 1 would
not think $5,000 per annum too much.
At tlie present rate of increase of cases be
fore the supremo court the business of
that court will become eo immense it will
be impossible in a few years to get a hear
ing before the court. An increase in the
number of judges will facilitate business,
provid'd :!:•• o..i.rt is s., arrang.-.l a* hi
hear more than one case at a time. The
situation at present and the prospect im
mediately belore us call loudly for some
provisions in our lawb to lessen the num
ber of causes appealed. The spirit of liti
gation is rife in the land and constantly on
the increase. Our lawyers seem to encour
age this spirit in the people. It should
be discouraged. The people should be
taught rather to suffer or bear the
ills they have than fly to those they know
not of. The spirit of emulation may be
laudable under certain circumstances, but
I find now that competition leads to strife;
strife leads to litigation; litigation leads
to hatred; hatred leads to bloodshed. All
right-thinking men should do all in their
power to discourage this spirit of strife
and contention. The causes, too, of law
suits aro often very trivial. A man in
carelessly walking along the street btumps
liis toe and falls down, and hurts himself.
He gets up, brushes the dust from his
clothes and begins suit at once against the
city, or some of its citizens, for damages.
In order that the business of our courts
should be lessened, there should bo
a court established whoso decision in
certain classes of cases, both civil and
criminal, should bo final. Such was in
tended to be the nature of our citv court,
but many cares brought before said court
are appealed. It is absolutely impossible
to bring all the petty cases of a civil na
ture coming up before our lower courts
before the supreme court of the state.
Then, why have any other court? If
every case, no matter how_ trifling, must
ultimately come up befo’re the highest
court in the state, it would seem to me
superfluous to have any other court. The
thoughtful mind finds here much food for
reflection; and ihe subject grows yearly
more serious. Our country is continually
increasing in population, and new enter
prises are constantly springing up. The net
work of railroads is ramifying into every
nook and corner of our great state. Every
body thinks it a Christian duty to sue
railroads for everything they can think of.
1 be 1 itiir.ition j - >n 'u -unt of railroad-. •
consumes much of the time of our courts.
This class of cases will increase vastly in
the next decade. I am in favor of rail
roads and everything else calculated to
advance tho general prosperity of our state
and tho individual interests of her citizens.
Looking into the near iulure from my
standpoint, I se> many things which
should causo our legislators to de
vote their best talent to framing
such laws as will meet tho demands
and requirements of our people. The
government of our state is assuming colos
sal proportions in every branch of its vast
machinery. Let us see to it that the
wheels of progress are kept moving on
ward.
Let no falso economy hamper the ad
ministration of the laws. The 1 salary of
the governor of Georgia ought to be raised
to $6,000. The next census will doubtless
give Georgia nearly 2.000,000 cf inhabi
tants. Should such a vast multitude of
peopio demand the services of a governor
at the salary now paid to him? The peo
ple of the state of Georgia love to hear
their great commonwealtL called the Em
pire State of the South. Lot their pride
in her bo tho great incentive of every free
citizen to promote her welfare, sustain her
honor, and advance her every interest,
that sue may, through ail coming time, bo
worthy of the title of Empire State of tho
South. Truly yours, J.S. Wimdisu.
Macon, November 25.
A Singular Treatment tor Pneumonia,
From the New York Tribune.
Attention has lately been directed to the
benefit derivable, in cases of pneumonia,
where there is great embarrassment of
breathing from accumulated secretion in
the bronchial tube - , by inverting the pa
tient, and having him cough violently
while in such position. It is easily accom
plished by a strong assistant standing on
the I atient’s bed, seizing tho sick man’s
ankles, turning him face downward, and
then lifting hia feet four or five feet above
the level of the mattress. If thd patient,
with his face over the edges of tho bed and
liis legs thus held aloft, will cough vigor
ously two or three times, he will get rid of
much expectoration tbat exhaustivo efforts
at coughing failed to dislodge when not
thus aided. Lifo has been saved by re
peated performance^ of this maneuver in
pneumonia accompanied with great cya
nosis, due to inundation of the bronchial
tubes with mucous secretion. It, of couise,
will have no effect on the exudate - in. the
vesicles. In a similar way, gravity is of
value in emptying the lungs of mucus
during etherization.
GEN. HARRISON'S MENAGERIE,
Some or tlie Queer Presents Given to Him
by Crank*.
From the New York Tribune.
Although lie will not move into the
White House for some months yet, the
President-elect already is having his apti
tude for practical administration subjected
to a crucial test. A dispatch from Indian
apolis states that among the presents that
were deposit'd in Gen. Harrison’s front
yard on Thursday by the efficient local «.
press were:
(a) A live eagle.
tb) A buffalo calf.
(c) A black bear.
It is further stated that a few days pre
vious two concrete manifestations of de
light at the general’s election readied
him, and that these were:
(d) A iscnvcr.
(e) A jack rabbit.
It remains to be seen what disposition
the coming official head of the nation will
make of these interesting offerings of the
star-eyed goddess of friendship. He is too
polite a id kind-hearted to look a gift me-
.nagsrie in the mouth. But what will he
do with it? The situation is a most ha
rassing one, and we believe that the whole
country, without regard to party lines,
will feel for Mr. Harrison as they reflect
upon th“ monkey-and-parrot time’ that lies
ahead of him.
The left hind leg of a jack rabbit is
popular’y understood to brinjj great luck
to the man who steadily carries it in his
right hand side vest pocket. But obvi
ously the I’resident-elect could not thus
utilize a portion 61 this presentation rabbit
without recurring the hostility of the In
dianapolis Society for tho Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. As for tlie beaver,
plainly it is no use to him in the absence
of its dam. If the beaver had a dam, by
observing the dam’s thickness the general
could prognosticate tho weather of tlie 4th
of next March. But an undamed beaver
—however, he might accidentally feed the
beaver to tho bear. And what is to be
done with bruin? It is understood that
Mrs. Harrison lias gently hut firmly de
clined to have him in the house, and that
he has shown a disposition to fight the
eagle to the finish, and make life a joyless
thing for the buffalo calf. The hoarse
scream of the proud bird of liberty [ap
plause] is sure to disturb the sleep of the
general’s baby grandson; and we ask any
fair man how a President elect of a colos
sal republic is to attend to his voluminous
correspondence if he is confronted with
the duty of bringing up a buffalo calf by
hand? Of course, if he was a fierce, cruel
man, it might occur to the general
to train the eagle to pick out the eyes of
office-seckeis, who are now cordially in
viting themselves to Indianapolis; and
doubtless after the bear had got accus
tomed to the taste of human gore, he would
enjoy a game dinner composed of the
strangers who call to advise Gen. Harri
son in regard to the policy of his adminis
tration.
That’s what’s the matter with Harrison
at this writing. He’s all right, but the
chances are that be’s puzzled, that bis brow
is a good deal corrugated. If Mr. P. T.
Barnnm is the patriot we think him to be,
ho will hasten to place his services at the
fliBnasnl of the President-elect,
The West Point Terminal.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
A special correspondent of the News and
Courier has talked with President Scott,
of tlie Richmond and Danville railroad,
President Thomas, of the East Tennessee,
Virginia ami Georgia railroad. Judge
Chisholm, of the Central railroad of
Georgia, and Mr. James Swann and Coi.
Calvin 8. Brice, who have large interests
in tlie West Point Terminal Company.
These gentlemen say, with little varia
tion, that the unification of the railways
composing the Terminal system has been
effected ci* buei'ie’** virinctnlvs, tlmL it in
sures more efficient service, and that, be
sides this, the men who are in control ol
tho Terminal have large investments in
tho South, aside from their railroad inter
ests, and could ill afford to adopt any
policy that would injure this part of the
country. Col. Brice says, for instance,
that tho men in control of the Termimi
own more than half the capital stock of
the roads in the system, or over fifty mill
ion dollars. Yet their interest in tho Ter
minal Company is not as large as their in
terest in the diversified industries through
out the South.
This personal argument is strong, and
will have weight. Nevertheless, tlie peo
ple of the states which depend outhe Ter
minal system for transportation for
freight and passengers will continue to be
uneasy, It will be noticed, too, that the
magnates whom the correspondent men
tions say nothing about the increased
nominal cost of the railways, consequent
upon their consolidation. The public is
at the bottom, and is expected to carry
the whole load.
-■1.
*,000 Cords Oak Wood Hi
Will contract for abOTO amount delivered on
railroad right-of-way within next six's dsys.
Address Ivey Bros., Macoa, Os dtt&wat.
The Wggaac Passenger Engine Yet.
From the Elccttc Magazine.
There is a locomotive now nearly com
pleted by the Hinckley Locomotive Works
In Albany street, which is intended to far
surpass anything and everything in the
railroad line in the United States, if not in
the world. This wonderful engine was de
signed byG. S. Strong, of the Strong Lo
comotive Company of New York and
is expected to make the lightning speed
of eighty miles an hour with two passen
ger cars on an ordinary road. It is the
largest passenger engine ever built, and
will run on the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fo road, between Chicago and Fort
Madison. . . . The first thing that
would strike the observer is the singular
position of the engineer’s cab. It is
perched on top of the boiler about tlie
center, and is occupied by the engineer
alone, as another cab is built behind the
boiler for the fireman. The engine alone
will weigh fifty-five tons,. and with the
tender, which is built to ride like a pas
senger coach, will weigh eighty-five tons.
How WanntuaWer Mad© Hit Fortune.
From the Boiton Herald.
1 Mr. John Wanarnaker, dry poods mer-
chant of Philadelphia, is said to be the
biggest advertiser in. the country. Ife
owes his success in business he says, to hia
exiens.ve use of the advertising columns
of the newspapers. Just at present he is
getting a great deal of advertising free-
gi..tis-fur-uO‘.hing. Shrewd man, Wani
n' al er.
A ttomantlo Episode.
From American Notes sod Queries.
YVho was Florena Budwin? At Florence,
8. C., from a small lieadstono of marble
that stands in the cemetery of federal
soldiers I copied the following inscription
in my note book: *
2,430.
Florena Budwin.
Tho name suggested a woman and a
possible hisiurr. I hunted up the records
of the case and found, in fact, that Florena
Budwin of Philadelphia died at Florence,
8. C., Jan. 23,1865, age 20, and that the
was ihe wife of one Capt. Budwin, who was
killed at Andersonville, Ga. Nothing
more. These meagre details only whetted
my appetite for more information. From
local tradition I learned that she was a
prisoner of war at the time of her death in
child birth. Disguised in the. uniform of
a private soldier she had enlisted and fol
lowed her husband, had been captured by
the confederates, and her sex was never
suspected until she wasconfined of achiid.
8o romatic an episode deserves a historian.
Can any cf year reader* throw «ny further
light on the subject.
Tragedians Kntfrely Unlike.
From tho New York World.
Edwii Booth and Lawrence Barrett
have been walking together on Broadway
several times ol late. Two men more un
like in person and in temperament it would
not be easy to pick out ou the Metropoli
tan promenades. Barrett is getting fat
of late, whereas Booth shows no particular
increa-o in weight. Booth has the sombre
eje of genius full ol smouldering fire ready
to break out on provocation; the delicate,
finely tapering hands of a dilletante, the
fingers ol ail artist, the footof an aristo
crat. Barrett has a double chin, an en
larging neck, the cold eye of a dispassion
ate devotee of business, stubby fingers and
a square foot. Booth dresses unnoticenbly
in dark materials. Barrett wears light
frock suits of perfect fit and striking neat-
iims. Booth walks as if uno-nsious. of
himself and of the world nronnd him.
Birrett as if he were constantly
peeling to meet somebodv that knew him. support
a olean;bill.
No New Case, ami No Deaths at
vtlle Yesterday—Ollur Point,.
Jacksonville Fla., N07. 27 —tv.
port of the board of health tonight ler 1
first time in 130 days shows a clean h 't
no new cases and no deaths for the twin,
four hours ending at 6 p. m. There an
more than twenty cases at present innirLo*
city limits and these are nearly all r n
cent and all past the danger pSint Th.’e^
look is very hopeful. At a conf “reare tS 11
between members of the board of
committee of the auxiliary associations
Dr. l’orter, a resolution waY ™ M
recommending that the board of K'?
remove the present restrictions upon tUiS
“to the city at the earliest possible mn™ 61
consistent with public safety, at least
as disinfection shall have h».nY,L I* 4 * 6
The board of health, 1*7,sown WS
row afternoon*. u * >on t * 1 ' s
way issued 1 the following today'^BeSaff 1
with this date jNorelber e8,D 2 n 7 i “ b «
the Savannah, Florida and WtSi
Company will inanfmrate th«
freight schedule to Se Wes*
west via Albany and Montgomery,
movement of oranges from Florida that hi
ever been offered to shippers. Tlie lim. •
from Jacksonville to Chicago 71 v * ’’
Callahan to Chicago, 73 Lornf-’ 0,1.^
to Chicago, 77 honfs.’ ThU s”h'edMe wR
pnt in operation six days in the week. '
DKATH OF BURGEON SIMON
.. N r,. Y r. K ’ N0V ’ 27 - Sn 'P'°n Simon of
the United Slates steamer Boston, died u
9:30 o’clock yesterday evening. He showed
signs of dissolution at 6 o’clock, and P a. !e 4
peacefully away at the hour aimve »utH
The two other patients are steadily imp ro .
in^good heahhl ° th# * W P’* «
Simon was taken to the same place, where it
wnl be placed in a metallic coffin and held
subject to his family’s orders.
INDICATIONS OF ANOTHER FROST.
Washington, Nov. 28.-The Marine Boj.
pital Bureau is informed that there was \
heavy frost, with ice, at Gainesville, Fix,
last night, with indications of another frost
tonight.
SAVANNAH’S QUARANTINE RAISED.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 27.-Saraim»h
raised quarantine against Florida to-day
The heavy frosts throngbout Florida, the
sanitary authorities believe, have removed
all danger. The railroads will resame travel
to-morrow without restriction.
ONE NEW CASE AT GAINE8VH.LR, I
Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 27.—8urgeoa
Martin reports one new ease of yellow foyer
white.
A rOfULAR ERROR.
SomelnterestluE Faeis ADo.it the Hank o!
England.
From the Financier.
There are few errors which are more
widely spread than is thai which is in
volved in the idea that the Bank of Eng
land is, in some sort at least, a state insti
tution. It has been for so long a period
the reprisiutative and agent ol ihe gov
ernment in almost every financial opera
tion that it has come to be looked upon as
endowed with the responsibility of the
state. The bank is a corporation of stock
holders, just as in any other joint stock
bank, and, although no single bank has s
constitution cxsctly alike in ail points,
every point of difference is to be found re
peated in the constitution of some one or
other of existing bank. The bank is In
corporated by royal charter inrtead of
being registered under tlie companies'
acta, and so likewise are the bmks
of Ireland, three of the Scotch banks, and
many, if not most, of the Indian and Colo-
nial’banks. Apart from any_ particular
privilege thnt may bo contained in any
fnilivlihial charter, there is no SuTanUcr
to banks eo constituted over those regis
tered under tlio limited liability act. Un
der a charter the liability of the itock-
holder is limited to the amount ol bis
subscription,
The real effect is, therefore, that the
stock of the chartered bank is always folly
paid np, while that of a registered bank
may be fully paid up, or partly psid np,ai
convenience may BUggest. One advantage
possessed by the bank is tlie right of note
issje, and this is, of course, the po**7
which is generally referred to by those
who speak of the privileges and monopoly
of tho bank. But this is a right which is
possessed in common wilh_ many other
joint stock banks, which retain the right of
issuing circulation they had out
time of the passing ol the act of I8H
Moreover, inis they do withsut the deposil
of securities of any kind, while the Bznz
of England can issue, ouly against deposit
of government securities, an amount con
siderably less than which they formerly
issued. All notes above the stipulated
amount can bo issued against deposit o
coin or bullion, and such an issue can, o
course, for any source of profit, but, on in
contrary, is a causo of very considerable
expense. It is well, therefore, to bear m
mind that tho only privilege conferred
upon the hank by its charter is the eol
right of issue of circulation within m i
five miles of tho metropolis, &n . !?*
only source ot profit in this
profit attaching to the issue of notest
extent of.£14,000,000.
Not Malta lor Drudgery.
From the New York Telegram.
It is tho opinion of Chief Graves o
national Bureau of Engraving and 1 nn
ing that the American woman cs ^
work, that she cannot stand the cont
toil which would he considered hg .j
pleasant by women of other c 00 " 1 ^ ': cin
he would only accompany some Americm
woman with a well-filled purse °"
her shopping to tire it w° nlJ <0 .
change his opinion of the Amer
man’s power of endurance. ntute
It h apparent, however, that nature
never intended the American w (
work outside the sacred precincts
where she should be at once tne
and tho center of all its joys a^d
liaising Frelglit Hates.
Atlanta, Nov. 27.—[Specra ]"
merchaniB here are complaining l»M ^
are already feeling the effects virvisia
cent lease of the East Tennessee,
and Georgia railroad to the i.r
Danvillc company, by which t ere >
lion between these two corpora
stroyed. Previoua to the deal tt- r •„;»
tobacco from Danville and other »
points was 72 cents per hundred, »
rate has now been increased to . ^ abo0 .
itUC iiao uurv j j nr
advance of 7 cents per hundred, or . ^
10 percent over the rate in
to the consolidation ot there t
A 6a«l Fact
From the Boston Herald*
It is sad to see that Pree
land, ihere is reason t0 . ,e " IiiVnf‘
may secure for the new admin
suiiport of the London 1 bora.
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risoV’s” pHvaL^cre.ary