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Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 6, 1888.
Freezing to Death.
Lambt'l
How Pies are Made.
A great revolulion has gon« on in the
manufacture and compounding of pie.
No more the housewife carefully meas- j ' vas
ures out “a cup of milk, a spoonful of
saleratus. a lump of butter, pinch of salt,
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, four sliced
apples and a little pui*e lard." Today
tire dough is kneaded by steam and the
ovens are vast and hot breathed caverns.
In the great kitchen of the modern pie
factory are numbers of immense copper
kettles surmount ing brick ovens, and fat
male cooks stir the sa vory masses within.
On little tables around the room are
dozens of wooden tubs holding the linings
for thousands of pies. Then the busy
bakers bake the dough, and lx'fore the
oven door with deft and rapid touches
press it into the shape of the embryo pie,
into a pan and a line of pies is soon pass
ing into the oven's mouth with wonder
ful celerity. The ordinary ovens used
will bold about 300 smail pies and the
temperature required is graduated with
remarkable skill.
New York, of course, produces and eats j
more pies than any city in the world, ‘
although its per capita consumption is
eclipsed by Chicago. Boston and Piiiladel- j
phia. There are eight or ten large fac- \
lories dealing excltn ivcly in pies, and be- j
tween 500 and 000 bakers also make j
them. The largest factory is on Sullivan j
street, and its output of pie is something J
awful to contemplate, and when one j
thinks of the number of • churches and j
schools the money spent for pie would j
build, it is a question if the people should j
not stop and ask. ••Whither is this awful j
habit carrying us?" In a year or two the j
pie habit may rank with the curse of j
drink and evils of tobacco as a never ;
failing fountain from which debating so- J
cicties and lyceums can draw topics to ]
argue on.
One of the foremen in the factory on
.Sullivan street said:
“In cur establishment we turn out
every kind of pie so far discovered, but*
there are certain kinds that are staple.
These are apple, mince, lemon, grape,
raisin, plum, gooseberry, whortleberry,
A Wight's Experience Is the
Keetons of Maine.
“In tebraarv, 1840,’’ said Cant. R. L-
Zeby. of Uniontown, “I had an interest
in some lumber way up in the Piscata
quis region, and I had to go up there and
see how things were getting along. It
long journey', but the sleighing
was like glass, and I had one of the best
horses that ever stood inside the thills.
On my second day out the thermometer
stood at 20 degs. below, and was inclined
to go lower. I knew I would reach one
of those queer little villages common to
the Maine backwoods early in the even
ing. There I intended to stay all night,
and drive on next morning to the house
of the agent of the lumber property,
twelve miles further along. I reached
the village and found that there was no
tavern- there.
“This, of course, upset my plans. So
I ate supper in the village and started on,
intending to proceed to the agent's the
same night. It was a starlight night,
but the air was filled with that peculiar
frozen mist frequently noticeable on very
cold nights. As we neared the river this
haze became denser, until finally it was
with difficulty J could see anything ahead
of me. It w,os like passing through a
storm of scaly ice. Suddenly, as 1 was
thinking that we must be almost on the
margin of the river, there came a crack
ling sound, a loud splash of water, and
the next second my horse was flounder
ing about in water, which also covered
the sleigh, the robes and myself up to
my waist.
“The water splashed
drenched the rest of me,
time than 1 can tell it I was coated with
a rapidly thickening armor of ice. I
guess mv noble beast must have floim-
In the French Cemeteries.
that Favorite Emblem, tke Everlasting
Flower, Superseded by the Glass Beat).
The everlasting flower, which used to
be the favorite emblem of mourning in
the French cemeteries, has now been
almost superseded by the glass head. At
the recent festival of the dead, to every
person who carried a wreath of innnor-
telles to the cemetery a hundred carried
wreaths of beads. Those who along the
shores of the Mediterranean gather the
everlasting flowers to be sent to Paris
must lie sorely tried fly this change of
j custom. There is a little town called
i Ollioules, near Toulon, whose inhabitants,
| about 3.500 in number, have for'many
years earned their living by collecting the
j everlasting flowers on the sun scorched
j hills and preparing them for commerce.
! Care must be taken to pick them in the
| hud, for if the inflorescence is advanced
the seeds will ripen afterwards, and the
so called flower, which botanists describe
1 very differently, will fall to pieces. There
is still a certain demand for immortelles
in Paris, for there are workshops in the
i Roquetto quarter, where women are con
stantly employed in making them into
I wreaths, crosses, etc. This is usually
| done by fastening the heads of the flowers
! upon a foundation of tightly packed
i straw.
But, as I have already stated, it is the
i bead wreath that is now a la mode. The
change is not one for the better. The
I immortelle, although it is one of nature's
sham flowers, is, like the amaranth, a
| poetic emblem of eternity. That it de-
: cays, those who went to the cemeteries
about soon 0,1 A]l Saints ’ or All Souls’ had ample
and in less j liVI,;!ence - but it will last a few years
without looking very shabby. It. there
fore. imposes no great tax or expense
| upon mourners to put afresh wreath over
Wi
Queer Notion* of the Saxon*.
Our Saxon ancestors appear to have de
voted considerable attention to the sub
ject of their hair. Though ignorant of
macassar oil, they discovered that dead
bees burned to ashes and seethed in oil
with leaves of willow would stop hair
from falling off. hut should the hair ho
too tliick, then must a swallow be burned
to ashes under a tile and the ashes be
sprinkled on the head. But in order
altogether to prevent the growth of hair acquainted, Under t lie caption
emmet's eggs rubbed on the place are
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which his secretaries
lie knew exactly what had happened.
When the situation did come to him he
became quiet, threw his fore feet up, and
lodged them both in the ice with a con
certed blow like a trip hammer. The ice
was thick, but beneath that blow an im
mense cake was broken off and was car
ried down in under the edge of the ice
below. The horse swam onward, drag
ging the sleigh with it through the rap
idly freezing slush. Once more he
pounded the ice ahead of him with his
strawberry, peach, raspberry, pineapple, ( powerful fore feet, and again the ice
pumpkin and custard. Apple, mince,
lemon, pumpkin and custard are the fa
vorites. All our material is the finest in
the market, and we buy it in large quan
tities, always keeping our orders ahead.”
•TTow much material do you use
daily?” asked the reporter.
“In a single day we use about 100
dozen eggs, 850 pounds of lard, 12 bar
rels of flour, GOO quarts of milk, 2,500
quarts of fruit, and turn out about 7,000
pies, or about 50,000 a week and 2,600.-
000 a year. The output from llie large
concerns in the city will amount to 35,-
000 pies daily, and the bakers will turn
out about 40,000 more, or 75.000 a day,
525.000 a week and 27.300.000 per
year, an average of about sixteen pies per
capita. These pies cut into quarters the
usual sizes outside of boarding houses
would make 100.200,000 pieces. At an
average of live cents—as some of the
cheap restaurants charge only .three
cents, and tonier ones ten cents—this
would make New York’s annual pie hill
$5,460,000, or more than we pay for
public schools, or the lire and police de
partments, or send to the heathen. New
York produces about one-thirtietli of the
pie crop of the United States.”
This last remark aroused a statistical
vein in the reporter, and he figured until
his brain was dizzy, and these are some
of the results: In the United States there <
are eaten every '’ay 2,250,'000 pies; each |
week, 10,750,000; each year, 810,000.- :
000, at a cost of $163,800,000, an amount .
greater than the internal revenue, and j
more than enough to pay the interest on
the national debt and pensions. If the j
pies eaten daily were heaped one on top ! served,
of another they would form a pie tower
103,000 feet, or nearly thirty-seven miles
high; if laid out in line they would reach
from New York to Boston. With the
pie products of a year a tower 13,468
miles high could be erected, and stretched
out they would cover a line 80.180 miles
long, or sufficient to girdle the earth
three times and let a Chinaman in Pekin
chew at the last pie. These pies before
eaten would weigh in a year 803.000
tons. Pie is a great institution, as these'
figures show.—New York Journal.
oil at least a minute in that hole before | 1 ' 1 e one us T * ie kdter wears out. The
bead wreath is without beauty and with
out any of tliar association of jtoetie and
religious idea which gives an emblematic
value. It is simply an economical expe
dient: glass beads do not wear out, and
when they are strung upon wire that does
not rust they remain where thev are
placed year after year, quite unchanged
by wind and weather.
The French are practical people, and
they appear to have come to the conclu
sion that the best emblem of immortality
to put upon a tomb is made of glass and
wire. The reasoning may be sound, hut
the taste is detestable. The bead wreath
is a lamentable invention, on a par with
that of the metallic flower which is to be i
seen in a pot on many a grave in the
Paris cemeteries. The French are un
doubtedly a nation of highly cultivated i
taste; but their decorative sense has an !
inherent tendency to break out into vul- I
garity and tawdriness. We see this in
their rococo buildings, like the Grand j
, s a out safely on the other I °if 1 ra hous ?’ " here unity of design and j
he didn't tarr'v when he got 1 nobl . e e nes ? of Portion have been utterly
darted off at'the top of Ids '"f cn,iced , t0 the flashy adornment that j
i the crowd mistakes lor art. And vet
| there is no country in the world that j
j contains so many superb examples of
| pure architectural taste as France.— i
Paris Cor. Boston Transcript.
found an effectual depilatory—“never
will any hair come there.” Excellent
also as a cure for deafness is the juice of
emmet's eggs crushed, or else the gall of
a goat. or. in extreme cases, Ixiar's gall,
bull's gall and buck's gall mixed in equal
parts with honey and dropped into the
ear, sometimes with the addition of very
pasty ingredients. But if earwigs had
entered hk then the sufferer is bidden to
“take rfce mickle great windlestraw with
two edges, which waxes in highways,
chew it into the ear; he, the earwig, will
soon be off.”
Even this poor insect was turned to
account.. One prescription desires that
“the" bowels of ail earwig be pounded
with the smede of wheaten meal and the
netlierward (i. e. root) of marclie, and
mingled with honey.” For a hard tumor
or swelling, goat's flesh burned to ashes
and smudged on with water is found to
be efficacious, as are also shavings off the
horn of a hart to disperse ill humors and
gatherings. Wood ashes seethed in resin
or goat's horn burned and mingled with
water, or its dung dried and grated and
mingled with lard, were all good reme
dies for swellings. For erysipelas the
prescriptions are numerous. A plaster
of earthworms, or of bullock's dung still
warm, is recommended; but better still,
••for that ilk, take a swallow's nest,
break it away altogether, and burn it,
with its dung and all; rub it to dust,
mingle with vinegar, and ‘smear there
with.” For pain of jowl, burn a swal
low to dust, and mingle him with field
bee's honey. Give the man that to eat
frequently.—Nineteenth Century.
ITH the November, 1587, issue
Century commences its thirt
volume wfth a regular circulation of j
almost 250,000. The War Papers and the I.ife j
• >f Lincoln increased monthly edition by 100,-4
000 The latter history having recounted ttie !
events of Lincoln’s early years, and given the Harper’s Magazine is an organ of pro-
necessarv survey of the political condition of gressiY'e thought ami movement- in every de-
tiie eountrv, reaches a new period, with partinent of life. Besides other attractions,
* ■ • ‘ —’ ere most intimately j jt will contain, during the coming year, im
portant articles, superbly illustrated, on the
Great West: articles on American and for
eign industry; beautifully illustrated papers
on Scotland. Norway, Switzerland. Algiers,
the writers now enter on the more important and the West Indies; new novels by VY il-
liirt of their narrative, viz : the early years of mam Black and W. I>. Howells; novel?
:l,e War and President Lincoln’s part therein. | ejn-s., Hear£? an«
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LINC0LN IN THE WAR,
SUPPLEMENTARY WAR PAPERS,
' A Safety Lump Needed.
Three thousand dollars is offered by
Mr. Ellis Lever of England as a prize to
the inventor of a miner’s safety lamp,
and it has set to work the wits of the in
genious. Sir Frederick Abel will lecture
on the subject- during the present month
in England, and probably will exhibit
specimens of lamps which the Swan &
Edison company are manufacturing for
a large colliery in England. Electricity,
it is said, is most likely to solve the ques
tion and take the money prize first and
lots of profit after. —New York Sun.
A Peculiar Locomotive.
A peculiar Jocomotive has just been
manufactured in Boston, and will he
tested on the Boston,and Lowell railroad.
l,r has hut one driving wheel on each side,
and these, instead of being perfectly
round, liave q periphery composed of a
series of plain facets connected with each
other by very obtuse angles. It is claimed
that the flat surfaces will give greater ad
hesion to the track and make the engine
more powerful than any heretofore con
structed.—New York Press.
A Misleading Premonition.
A negro woman of Pulaski. Tenn.. told
her friends that she would surely die at 7
o'clock on a certain evening. So about
fifty of them gathered around her lied
and shouted and prayed and sung in an
ecstasy of religious fervor as the hour
drew near for the soul to take its flight.
But it didn’t do it. On the contrary, the
woman went into an apparent trance,
from which she arouses occasionally to
eat a square meal.—New York Sun.
yielded.
“During all this time I was shouting
for lie!]). I might, at the first break,
have turned and leaped back to shore, hut
had not collected myself in time. It was
now too late, and even if it had not been
1 was so stiffened by the casing of ice that
I couldn’t have moved to save myself
from death. The horse kept on, and,
strange as the story seems, broke a chan
nel for fifty feet across that river, and
drew t lie sk
side. An
there, but started ott at the toj
speed toward our destination. He soon
struck the road and away we went. I
knew that although one danger was es
caped. a greater was 'before us, and I
urged the horse on with my voice. My
robes and clothing had frozen so solid
that if I had been encased in iron I could
not have been more motionless. My
horse was a jet black, but his icy coating
made him stand out, even in that frozen
mist, like a specter horse. I could not
move even my hands. We were not yet
half way to the agent’s house when I
found myself growing drowsy. I could
no longer use my voice. The clatter of
the horses’ hoofs and the creaking of the
runners on the ice sounded to me like
thunder claps and weird, hideous cries.
I know that I was freezing, hut I labored
hard to rouse ray will and fight with it
against my fate. Tiie stars looked like
great coals of fire, although before they
could be seen but dimly through the
peculiar haze. The trees, with their
branches covered with snow, took on the
shapes of gigantic ghosts. Still I pre-
all my powers of reasoning.
Finally I felt myself growing deliciously
warn^ A languor, such as De Quincy
might have described, with attending
visions of loveliness, took possession of
me. 1 heard the most delightful music.
Still I made one mental effort to shake
off this fatal spell, and that was all.
“I don’t know how far I was from the
agent's house when I froze to death, but
tlu* next thing I remembered I was suf
fering such tortures as a victim of the
rack might feel. He never felt worse.
Suddenly, at my feet. t*ie pricking of a
million needles assaulted nay flesh. Tor
turing me at that spot a moment, until I
writhed in agony, it dashed quickly up
my leg. stopped an instant, as if gloating
in my misery, and then crawled with
that awful pain slowly upward, until it
seemed that tiny jets of the fiercest flame
were being blown into my body, heart
and brain. The intensity of this agony
was not constant. If it had Iieen I would
have died again in a short time. It came
in waves, so to speak. Each wave was
a little less furious than its predecessor,
until at last the storm was passed, and I
found myself a weak, speechless, limp
and helpless mortal, lying on a robe be
fore the fireplace of my friend, the agent.
He had brought me back to life.
••When I was strong enough to hear it.
lie told me that he was awakened in the
night by the peculiar and loud neighing
of a 1 torse. He looked out of the window
and saw a sight that startled him—a
ghostly horse and sleigh and driver in the
road 1 lefore his door. He recovered him
self and went down. Then he discovered
that the driver was dead. He quickly
carried the driver into the house, laid
him on the floor lie fore the fireplace, and
recognized me. Knowing that even if I
was not beyond all aid. nothing could ’oe
done for me until the robe and clothing
were thawed, he made the lire blaze and
hurried to the rescue of the faithful and
intelligent horse that had reasoned with
itself that it must stop at the first house
The Wet Umbrella Joke.
The old practical joke of a half dozen
young fellows raising dripping wet um
brellas in the main doorway of a public
hall at the close of an entertainment ’oe-
fore a crowded house on a starlight night,
following the “battle series’’by distinguish -
,-d generals, will describe interesting matures
of army life, tunneling from Libby Prison,
narratives of personal adventure, etc. Gener
al Sherman will write on “The Grand Strate
gy of the War.”
KENNAN ON SIBERIA.
Except the Life of Lincoln and the War Ar
ticles. no more imp irtant series has ever
iieen undertaken by riiK Century than this
of Mr Kennan’s. With the previous prepar
ations of four years’ travel and study in Hus
sia and Siberia, the author undertook a .jour
ney of 15,000 miles for the special investiga
tion here required. An introduction from the
Kussian Minister of the Interior admitted
him to the principal mines and prisons, where
lie became acquainted with some three hun
dred State exiles,—Liberals, Nihilists, and
others,—and the series will he a startling as
well as accurate revelation of the exile sys
tem. The many illustrations by the artist
and photographer, Mr. George A. Frost, who
accompanied the author, will add greatly to
the value of the articles.
A NOVEL BY EGGLESTON
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Shorter novels will follow by Cable and
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by Mrs. van Rensselaer, with ill strations by
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Dreams, Spiritualism, and Clairvoyance; es
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poems; cartoon; etc.
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pretty how to do, had been discovered,
and then came unbounded hilarity and a
resolve on the part of the weatherbound
boys to try it on somewhere themselves.
—New York Times.
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The tracks of the Russian railroads have
a width differing from those of the Prus
sian roads.. The cars of Prussian lines
cannot, therefore, inn through to Russian
lines, and vice versa. That is why every
traveler must change cars at the frontier.
Whenever the imperial family of Russia
passes that point in winter a viaduct is
built leading from the Prussian carriage
to the imperial waiting rooms at Wir-
ballen. the Russian frontier depot. Such
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carpets and curtains, lest the sensitive
skins of their majesties and their off
spring. just risen from the measles,
should feel a draught and catch a cold on
their run from the Prussian to the Rus
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Although boys are often rather hard in j
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it came to on that terrible night, and that periodicals, she would never under any
lifc and death depended on it. By the circumstances consent to a beginning of
There is no place where the ups and
downs of lire occur more rapidly than in
Washington, and as a result the pawn
brokers of the capital are all wealthy.
The south is drawing largely from
northern capital. It is said over $160,-
000,000 of capital has gone south within
the last year. _..
time the horse was cared for I tvas in
shape to be resuscitated in case any such
thing could be done. I was stripped and
rubbed briskly with snow and snow water
for more than an hour before I gave any
evidence that I might be called back.
Then another hour was spent in the same
treatment, when a spoonful 'of brandy
Yvas poured down my throat. After that
the circulation was started, and my agony
began. That suffering lasted for an hour,
and—well, I can say this: Freeze to death
if you want. You’ll like it. But don’t
let anybody fetch you to again.”—New
York Sun.
publication before the work Yvas entirely
out of her hand. and. what is very sigu-
lar. she is said during the whole course
of her forty years' labors never to have
begun writing anything which she did
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