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VOL XI.
The anarchists of Prance boast of a
force of about forty thousand and the
socialists number about one million.
In the interior of Cuba railroad trains
never run at night, and conductors arc
obliging in the matter of waiting at sta¬
tions to enable a passenger to get his
dinner.
Some genius iu Georgia is forming
“before-breakfast clubs” among the far¬
mers. The object is for each member to
set aside a piece of ground which he
Agrees to plant and work before break¬
fast, giving the entire proceeds to his
wife for her use.
“Jenny Lmd is truly but a memory
in America!” soliloquizes the Chicago
Herald. “Iu London the volumes of
‘Memoirs. 1 of the great songstress have
gone through three editions, while in
this country barely fifty copies have been
told. And yet what a name aud fame
were hers ”
Now that students-of the art of living
are crying out for new' meat to relieve
the inevitable recourse to beef aud mut¬
ton, veal and lamb, it is remembered, by -
scholars that Maecenas, the rich Roman
patron of the poet Horace, delighted in
the flesh of the donkey and served wild
*ss from Africa as a far greater delicacy
than venison.
The genius of Yankeelaud is irrepres¬
sible, boasts the Chicago Herald. “Ger¬
many has at last opened her arras to re
ccive American corn. as an article oi
food, and corn dodgers and johnny gate
will soon become familiar articles 'upon
the tables of the Teutonic empire. This
is a erratic stride toward tho unification
of the human race. These articles, in
conjunction with ‘hog and hominy,’
will tend to strengthen the friendly ties
between Germany and the United States
and promote that harmony which shall
result in hastening the advent of that
period when the sword shall be beaten
into a plowshare and the spear into a
pruning hook, and nations shall not
learn war any more, but devote their
time to the cultivation of the ethics of
mush and hoe cake.”
A crop statistician in Kansas calcu¬
lates our wheat crop for 1891 at 600,-
000,000 bujhels, of which 255,000,000
will be available for export. To this
exportable surplus Canada may add 15,-
000,000 bushels, and he estimates the
surplus of other wheat-exporting coun¬
ties at an amount sufficient to raise the
aggregate to 377,000,000 bushels. On
the other hand he figures the require¬
ments of countries that have to import
wheat in excess of their own production
at 455,000,000 bushels, leaving a de
ficiency 78,000,000 bushels. This, in
the opinion of the Epoch, is more cheer in¬
to our farmers thau to the populations ol
wheat-importing countries, But the
prospect in the shortage of rye, so largely
used for food in European countries, is
far more serious. This statistician calcu¬
lates the requirements of importing coun¬
tries, including Russia, at 335,000,000
bushels, while the surplus of other
countries for export is only 30,000,000
bushels. This must open the way to a
largely increased consumption of Indian
com.
One of the most interesting experi¬
ences of the United States troopers is
patrol duty in the Yosemitc reservation.
Captain A. E. Wood, of the Fourth,Cav.
airy, who recently returned to Sah Fran¬
cisco from a tour of this attractive
region, says that he had a very lively
• time of it keeping thq reservation’Clear
of cattle. UntiL the Government inter¬
fered, the herders took iff . as 'many a3
' 2000 cattle and 90,000' sheep every sum¬
mer for pasture. This has all been
(topped. It is the duty of the soldiers to
keep on the trot in every part of the re¬
servation, turn the herds back and warn
owners not to trespass. But, in spite
of this vigilance, cattle slip in. The
herders are promptly arrested and es-
. corted to the other side of the reserva¬
tion, a' jourhey which takes five days.
Meanwhile thpir flocks are unprotected,
and bears and wolves attack the animals
and kill them. By. jthe time the herdei
secures a permit, gets his flock together
and leads them out of the reservation, he
is taught a salutary, if a severe, lesson.
Another duty of the troopers is to lay
out trails. Captain Wood had the au¬
thority to hire a guide, but he found no
one who was familiar with the wild
country, and explored it himself. Dur¬
ing the summer the soldiers laid out
twenty-five miles of trail passable to
mounted men, often over mountains that
had bain deck,red inaccessible.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. JANUARY 14, 1892.
WINTER LILACS.
A bunch Of lilacs th. ty the door,
These and no moral
Delicate, lily-white, like the new snow
Falling bek
A friend saw the flowers and drought them
to me.
As one who should see
A rifle, a glove, just dropped and returned
While a loving thought burned.
Dark all day was that room of mine
Till those flowers divine
Into my darkness brought their own light,
And back to the sight.
Of my spirit the fairest days of June
And the brooklet’s tune;
Where the garden-door was left open wide,
While by my side
One sat, who, raising bis eyes from the look
With the old fond look,'
Asked if I loved not indeed that page
And the words of the sage.
And as we spoke the cool blue sky.
The robin nigh, . . ,
The dropping blossoms of locust-trees
Humming with bees, '
The budding garden, the season’s calm,
Dropt their own balm.
All these, my friend, were brought back to
me, •
Like a tide of the sea,
lichen out of winter and into my room
Came summer’s bloora;
The flowers reopened those Ihiuing gates
W here the soul waits
Many and many a day in vain,
While in the rain
We stand, and, doubting the future, at last
Forget the past!
So you will believe what a posy may do,
When friends are true,
For the sick at heart in the wintry days,
When nothing allays
Tho restless hunger, the tears that start,
. . The weary smart,
Bu^ the old, old love and the summer hush,
4p,i the lilac bush.
— Annie Fields, On Scribner.
THE WRECK 0FTHE SALLY.
BY IT DODGE.
I am the captain of the fine canal boat
“Sally—No. 452,” my wife is first mate
and our baby is the crew. The “crew”
isn’t big enough to steer the mules yet
or throw stones at tfleui when they stop
’ to dine on the bushes along the tow
path, but he cau do his share of yelling,
and, as tho mules think the yells are for
their benefit aud start up a little when
they hear the disturbance, the “crew”
earns liis salt.
The cargoes we carry are of coal from
the mines, and our trips often extend to
the seaboard, where we see the ocean
blue in the distance, while the Sally lies
moored to’ the dock.
Sometimes, in late fall, while anchored
that way in salt water, the canal will
freeze over so we cannot get back, and
we are then forced to spend the winter in
or on the edge of- the city, for we, of
'Coin.se, live aboard our boat, as we own
it.
My first mate enjoys this hugely, as
she has been told it is quite fa-hionable
to spend the cold weather iu town. It
also gives her an opportunity to go a-
shopping, hear the opera, and attend
scieutic lectures—same as city women do.
I take much pride in sailing our mule
yacht, and many a race I've run and
won with her by sneaking past the boats
ahead of us while they were heaved to
for the night.
Folks think a canal boat sailor is
something to make fun of, and they
always like to get off their little jokes
about getting wrecked in a storm on
the raging canal. They take delight in
speaking of the larboard mule and the
starboard mule, and like to ask if we
have had a spanker-boom on deck when¬
ever they see the baby.
They like to call out “Breakers ahead”
when the mules stop to kick at a fly,
and “Low bridge” and “All hands to
the pumps,” and “Let go the main
sheet,” and “Weigh anchor,’’ and other
ridiculous things.
It makes my first mate mad when
The Sally is treated with disrespectful
levity, and sometimes I lose my patience,
toe, but the baby don’t mind it, so
after all, what difference does it do.
If the small boys catching cattish out
of the canal think it is smart to display
their ignorance of seamanship in those
ways, or if the grown up people attempt
to 3how off their nautical knowledge in
such silly manners, they cap. But if
they knew that The Sally had really
been to sea in a raging storm and prop¬
erly wrecked and that those aboard only
saved their lives by a thorough under¬
standing of what is required in such
emergencies, the laugh would be on
them and not on the captain, first mate
and crew of a mule yaeht.
Two years ago we were spending the
winter on The Sally moored alongside
one of the great coal docks of Jersey
City opposite New York.
Our small cabin was handsomely deco¬
rated by my wife and in it we were as
cosy and comfortable as possible. The
baby was then about,ten months old,
and in his hammock enjoyed life im¬
mensely. The mules were snugly
stabled in the forecas’l after the coal had
been taken out and extra planks laid on
the floor to prevent their kicking a hloe
in the bottom, and everything looked
favorable to all hands leading a serene
and happy existence aboard till spring.
But “Man proposes and God dis¬
poses,” as the the middle saying of is. January terrific
About a
wind storm set in, blowing great guns
“ TELL THE TRUTH.”
from the northwest and every nay get¬
ting worse.
The cold was intense, the mercury
going to fifteen and twenty degrees be¬
low zero.
Forty degrees below iu the Western
States was hot along side of it, for tho
damp, chilling air of the coast eats right
into the vitals and freezes the very rnar-
row in the bones.
Keeping warm was out of the ques-*
tion. If we could keep alive was enough
to be th&ukful for.
The ever increasing tind colder grow-
1!1 S gales had raged for a week without
a lull, and the fearfully angry waves in
the bay were leaping mountains high
and causing destruction and wreck all
around.
Old sailors who had lived at sea for
years said thoy never saw the ocean any
worse. Shins were dragging their au-
chorsand dashing ashore by dozens and
many lives were nightly lost in V 1,11
efforts to save the vessels."
I had stout and extra lines from our
fresh water boat to its dock, but in spite
of them our frail and unworthy craft
was wreuched aud tossed till I begau to
feel we had no business to risk staying
aboard while the stoiyn lasted.
My wife wouldn't listen to our leav¬
ing the only home we had, aud vowed if
I talked of deserting The Sally again she
would head a mutiny to prevent it. So
both of us, being only lrcsk water sail-
orb and knowing but little of the force
of a salt water storm, settled down to
j remain aboard in spite of the warnings
given us by men ou the dock.
It was on the fifth night of the awful
and almost unprecedented gale and the
chilling cold was at its lowest point. By
stuffing all tho crevices of our little cabin
room and keeping tho stove red hot we
made ouwtq be comparatively comfort-
! able. Baby was sleeping soundly in the
j middle of a big feather bed on the floor
i and in his warm nest was happily ob-
| ture livious outside. to-the tempest and arctic tempera¬
By and by without undressing at all
and in fact putting on overcoats and
wraps wife and I laid-down and tried to
sleep and forget how the gale was shriek¬
ing in the black night witnout and how
our boat was creaking and straining and
tossing on the rough waters.
The wind and the rocking of our craft
after a while made us sleepy and soon
baby. we were slumbering as soundly as the
I was dreaming of shipwrecks and
drowning when suddenly { awoke.
It seemed as if our boat was pitching
harder tbah ever and being battered and
knocked about frightfully.
The noise of the hitting against the
wharf and the creaking of ropes I missed.
I got on my feet and managed to get to
the little window and peer through the
frosted glass.
The city lights had vanished and noth¬
ing but intense blackness met my gaze.
Something was wrong I knew. Mount¬
ing the ladder stairs and opening our
little hatchway door I looked out. IVe
had broken loose from the dock and
were flying before the shrieking gale and
the huge waves to almost Certain death.
Where we were—what to do I.knew
not. I quickly roused my wife aud told
her of our danger. How brave and how
calm she looked. Her courage made
mine.
Lcaving her to bu ndle tilings on the
baby and prepare for whit was to liap-
pen. I stuck my head outside again to
try and discover a ayay to safety if there
was one. "
Wo were drifting rapidly across the
bay, and so far, luckily, had not struck
an anchored vessel.* -
Behind vis I could see the distant and
dissappearing lights Of New York Citv.
In front the light-house’ou Bobbin’s
Reef, and beyond that'the, lighfe on Staten
Island. ' ■ ■
If we were not carried out on the
ocean through the Narrows—if we
not collide with a ship or strike the reef,
we probably would bring up against
some dock on Staten Island-providing
our frail and clumsy craft lived to get
there.
As soon as we struck anything, I
realized too surely that in a momen t’s
time after the crash we must founder and
die.
Our only chance, then, was to be
ready to leap, if possible on the object
we should dash against, and trust Provi¬
dence for the rest.
The/ Sally hud whirled around, and
was rushing stem foremost through the
thundering billows, and I hoped when
we struck that end on which we were
would hit first. If it didn’t, no use leap¬
ing, for wc never could all of us make
our way over the icy, slippery two foot
wide deck on the boat’s side to its other
end.
Passing a large ship so close that
I thought our end had come, barely
missing the light-house reef, we were
fast approaching Staten Island—and the
Narrows.
For a time it looked certain that we
would be swept seaward and surely per¬
ish—then we switched around and went
before the wind straight for the island
docks. Five minutes I calculated
and our fate for life or death would be
sealed.
Getting a rope I placed our darling
baby, laughing and crowing at the ex¬
citement, ou its feather bed, rolled the
soft bed entirely around it, trusting it
wouldn’t smother for awhile, and bound
the precious bundle firmly with the rope.
Taking it in my arms, bidding my brave
and auiet wife to hold me and follow I
gained the stern,over the aiippery boat’*
decl
Thank heaven, we were still stern
foremost—dashing straight on a dock.
One more moment of suspense and
horrible dread—then with a crash that
smashed the boat under us like an egg-
shell, we hit the wharf.
At the same instant, before the wreck
could rebound, I fluug bed and baby ou
the dock, seized my dear, wife’s hand
and leaped for life.
We landed safety alongside our chiid
—then down under the raging waters
plunged crAp our good boat, drowning the
awful of the poor mules lelt on
board. |
Cuttia ,the ropes to give air to our
babe, bl lu along by the blasts behind
us, we jI -bed land and a house and,
soon irisl s, found shelter and a warm
welcome)
Wc all found The 8aflv after the
storm w® over, raised and mended her,
aud nowxhe is as good as ever for fresh¬
water for saffibg, which she means to stick
to the balance of her days.
Aud this is why I am provoked when
land lubbers try to ridicule her, or her
captain, mate and crew.— Chicago Sun,
A Remarkable Career.
Robert Harvey, of England, is quite a
remarkable man. One of thirteen chil¬
dren of an assistant overseer of Truro,
he started life iu au engineering firm at
thirty-five cents a week, and when he
came of age was earning $2. A little time
after, his lirni built some machinery foi
South America, and young Harvey took
so much interest in its construction that
he attracted the attention of the owners,
who took him out to superintend the
fitting-up,under a three-years’ agreement,
at one hundred and fifty dollars a month
salary. At the end of this term he picked
up his traps and made lor Peru, where
he east about for a job, and got one at
two hundred dollars a month, Thon
came the “discovery” of the nitrate
fields, aud young Harvey showed his
spirit by seeking aud obtaining the posi¬
tion of inspector-general of the nitrate
fields for the Government of Peru, at s
salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year.
Then came the war. He was taken pris¬
oner, put on board one of the Chilian
ironclads, and condemned to death—no
one know., what for. This did not prove
a verjygreat obstacle to Robert, for he
argued the Chilian Government into be¬
lieving him invaluable in the working ol
tl, 3 “fields,” and they straightway par¬
doned him aud installed him iu his
former position, mjffer the new Govern¬
ment, at air increased’salary of twenty-
five thousand dollars a year. ' Enter
Colonel North, sent over by Fowler, of
Leeds, to fit up engines. North and
Harvey join forces, discover othornitrate
fields unknown to the Peruvians and un-
eaptured by the Chilians, start large ni¬
trate and iodine works, aud prosper. Re¬
turn to England, float their companies
for the procuring and working, etc., ol-
the Chilian properties, become million¬
aires, and, in Robert Harvey’s case, pur¬
chase a sumptuous mansion- at, Palace
Gate, and “Dundridge,” in South Devon,
become a Justice‘of the Peace for thi
County, a Deputy-Lieutenant for the City
of London, and an aspirant for political
fame. Robert Harvey, in all his cora-
mercial transactions, is as “3tiaight” as
the rivets he handled as a lad. He
honors ali men, fears none,’ • has an ae-
coraplished and charming' wife, aud no
children. — Yankee Blade.
People on Wheels.
| It is interesting to observe how the
habit of moving about increases with
j the facilities for gratifying it. Wnen
street railways were first introduced they
were intended to accommodate the lim-
tted number of business uign who lived
a half mile or mile from the counting-
rooms aud women who lived such dis¬
tance from the retail Stores, and a slow-
going horse-car wa3 fully equal to the
easy task of dragging the Limited number
of persons about. But- the insignificant
enterprise has grown into proportions
that its projectors were not able to con¬
ceive at tlie beginning. The horse-car
roads alone of New York City carried
last year 162,000,000 passengers. This
is 30,000,000 more than they carried in
the year 18J6. when the first elevated
railroad was built, so that the elevated
roads which, it was thought, would de¬
stroy the business of the horse-cars have
not had any such effect. It might bo
thought that, with 162,000,000 passen¬
gers carried on the surface roads, there
would be none left for the elevated ways,
and their cars would run empty. And
yet the elevated roads have had all they
could do also. They carried last year
201,000,000 passengers, making a total
of 363,000,000 for both systems. This
is 240 times the population of the rue*
tropolis. So that there were 240 trips
for every inhabitant. The per capita
number of trips in 1880 was 175. At
this rate it will be only a few years be¬
fore tho-city will exhibit the phenomena
of a population on wheels.— St. Louis
A New Fever-House.
Tropical countries have been advisoa
to establish . cold greenhouses as hos¬
pitals. This idea has resulted from the
remarkable success of a Cuban physician,
who has been treating yellow fever by
keeping the patients in artificially cooled
rooms. It is proposed that each town in
districts liable to epidemics of this dis¬
ease shall build a great glass house foi
the fe*er victims. Then houses would
be artificially cooled, and plants of cold
and temperate regions would be grows
in them.4— Trenton (N. J.) American.
SI.OO a Year in Advance
NO LONGER IN DARKNESS
THE REMARKABLE CASE OF A
LITTLE GIBL.
She Had Been Deaf, Dumb and Blind
-Sow »hc Child Can Talk: and
Read—A Pathetic Sight.
X little girl six years and five months
old, deaf, duifib aiiij blind, was ad¬
mitted on December.' 20, 1890, to the
kindergarten school at Jamaica Plains,
near Boston. This school is a branch of
the famous Perkins Institute for the
Blind, located at South Boston, and is
the only kindergarten of the kind in the
world. The child was named Willie
Elizabeth Robin. Her father, a S rede,
has a small sheep ranch in Texas,situated
about twenty miles distant from any
la.ilioad. ■ Her mother was a native of
the mountainous region of Tennessee.
Tiie child was born with all the senses
perfect, and without any physical de¬
formity whatever, and this continued
until she was sixteen months old, whoa
she was attacked with spinal meningitis.
She survived, but when she had fully
recovered, her sight and hearing and
power of speech were gone. The medical
opinion is advanced that the affliction is
the direct result, not of the disease itself,
but of an indiscriminate use of quinine,
producing paralysis of the auditory and
optic- nerves. There were other two
children boro of the same parents, and
these are healthy and vigorous.
The child lived on in good health and
excellent spirit, but there was developed
in her an uncontrollable temper. Though
an object of sympathetic care and of
affection to the mother, there were times
when the wild nature of the child could
only be year'the subdued by the whip.
Last wife of a neighboring
ranchman read m a periodical the won-
derfui results of the attempted education
at the Perkins Institute Kindergarten of
Helen Keller, of Tuscumlna, Ala. Taking
tbs paper with her, she drove ten miles
to the Ribin ranch. Correspondence was
opened at once with Superintendent Aa-
agnos, instructor of the blind at the Per¬
kins Institute. Though the school is
wholly a State institution, Mr. Anagnos
was touched by the appeal of the parents,
and resolved, ou his osva responsibility,
to assume the eare and instruction of the
child. The father was willing, as far as
he was alle,to contribute to the support
of the little one, aud Mr. Auaguos be¬
lieved that kind hearts would be found
to assist him.
When Willie arriyed at the school she
Thayer, was placed in charge of Miss E fi 3 J.
one of the teachers, Bug the 1
child seemed possessed of all the in¬
stincts of a wild animal. She was fierce
and resentful, plunged her hands into
the food and repelled all who approaejied
or attempted to control her. Tue duly
signs she could make were to put her
hands upon' her breast when she wanted
water and to put her fingers in her mouth
when she wanted food.
Miss Taaver became intereited in her
charge. She exercised patience, but
was firm in her methods. Sue would
sometimes spend hours in compelling
the refractory child to ooey a single
command. Once comprehending chat
yielding her will was always rewarded
by kindness, the child beearne tractable
and manifested an interest in and fond¬
ness for her teacher. Then the work of
education began. By adopting deaf and
dumb signs to a language that could be
understood by the touch, Miss Taayer,
by pressing her lingers in the palm of her
pupil’s baud was soon able to teach the
child the alphabet. Her natural intelli¬
gence once quickened, the child learned
rapidly, and as a result,after only eleven
months, Willie i3 now able to converse
with her teacher by the use of a vocab¬
ulary of over 500 words, which have been
taught her within that time,and she can
readily construct sentences of from
thirteen to fifteen words.
The child is now.les3 than seven and a
half years old,is slender but well formed,
with fair complexion, and has long flax¬
en hair. She has a pretty, oval face,the
features being regular and delicately
moulded. The lips are sensitive, slightly
pouting, and the curves of the mouth
indicate the existence of a proud and
independent spirit. Tile sightless eyes
■are of a light blue color, and although
expressionless they do n >t, except on
close inspection, suggest blindness.
Now and then the lips drop, but for the
most part they are raised naturally. The
child is of an active temperament, and
she is constantly seeking employment for
her hands. In tjie school the pupils are
taught to weave, sew and to model in
clay, and Willie is remarkably apt in the
accomplishment of all her tasks. Oae
of her favorite occupations when other
work is not possible is stringing beads:
It is a pathetic sight to look upon the
mute little creature sitting in a chair,
her box of beads in her lap and needle
and thread in her hands, nimbly pursu¬
ing her pastime with a sweet smile on
her pretty face. Once in a while she
draws a deep sigh, but dt does not ap¬
pear to be taken in any sense of unbap-
ness. She is now beginning to read
from raised letters, and in this she
manifests much interest.
The child is affectionate to those
arouod her, and by passing her hand
over the face quickly distinguishes one
from another. It is related of her that
ft negro child was brought to the institu¬
tion, Willie advanced" and passed her
hand over the child’s face. Touching
the crisp, woolly hair of the negro she
b topped, felt her own soft flaxen hair,
then placing her hand again on the black
NO. 45.
child's head, groped her way to a bench,,
sat down, stroked her own long hair
again and remained some time in ap¬
parent meditation. Then she rose,
sought the negro, passed her hand once
more over the woolly head, then putting
her arm around the child’s neck, kissed
her. Willie is likely to prove an object
of psychological study. It is part of the
traiiiingof children thus afflicted to leave
the religious nature of the individual
to develop without theological instruc¬
tion. Innocence being conceded, as in
this case, a theory exists that the instinct
will, through the development of the in¬
tellect, in some way manifest an inherent
recognition of supreme power. This
child is permitted to attend church,
though she cau neither hear, speak nor
see; but when the organ begins to play
and the congregation to sing else seems
to comprehend the nature of . he exer¬
cises for she murmurs an aecompani-
meat. In this connection it should be
added that since July last a vocal ability
has beed developed. Tho child laughs
heartily and naturally at times, and
crows m a peculiar way as if attempting
to sing. This has encouraged Miss
Thayer in an effort to develop the power
of speech, and the child has been taught
to syllables— utter imperfectly about twenty mono¬
New York Tribune.
Martin Van Karen.
Martin Van Burcn, our eighth Presi¬
dent, was born at Kiaderhook. Colum¬
bia County, N. Y. His family were
among the early Dutch settlers, but not
among tho most fortunate, feu both Mar¬
tin s father and grandfather were small
farmers in very humble circumstances.
He obtained some education at the vil¬
lage school, aud at the age of fourteen
began the study of law, aucf when only
eighteen ho represented the Republicans
}u the Congressional convention of his
district. He begun the practice of law
-in his twenty-first year, and married
Miss Hannah Hoes in his twenty-third,
f wo years after he had his first party re¬
ward from the Republicans, and was
made Surrogate of Columbia County in
1808. In 1815 he was Attorney-Gen¬
eral of tne State. He took up his resi¬
dence in Albany, and went into partner¬
ship with his pupil, Benjamin F. Butler.
In the great question of the time, the
admission of Wisconsin into the Union,
Mr. Van Buren was one of the promi¬
nent men who insisted most warmly on
the prohibition of slavery. Iu 1821 he
was elected to the United States Senate,
and re-elected in 1827. The following
year he was made Governor of New
\ ork, and the very next year he was
called by Andre v Jackson to be Secre¬
tary of State, When Jackson retired,
Van Buren succeeded him in the Presi¬
dential chair. This Presidency began
March 4, .1837. In the elections of 1840
and 1844 he was defeated as the candi¬
date for his party. In 1848 he appeared
again as the candidate of the Free Soil
party, but did not receive tho electoral
vote of a'single State, After this his
life was spent in travel and retirement.
•He died on the 24th of July, 1863. Iiis
cuaracter was remarkable for its serenity.
The masses accepted him as a leader, but
never he worshiped him as a hero; nor did
drew ever inspire the enthusiasm than An¬
Jackson did. As you saw him
once he was always seen—polite, self-
possessed, dressing well, living well, and
having a fondness for the society of lit¬
erary men.— Detroit Free Frees.
Au Emperor’s Interest iu Electricity.
It is stated that the German. Emperor
contemplates the application of elec¬
tricity in many ways in his palace at
Berlin. While on his recent visit to
England he paid a visit to Lord Salis¬
bury’s country seat, Hatfield. Lord Sal¬
isbury has a decided mechanical and
scientific turn, beside being an excellent
electrician, and has personally superin¬
tended some notable improvements ou
tis property. Among these is the gen¬
eration of electricity by turbines, the
river Lea being utilized for the purpose;
motors for driving pumps, making ice
and-working ting air propellers for ventila¬
sheave? purposes; the raising hay and corn
to top of the stacks by elec-
tricity, and by the same means thrashing,
cutting rough grass for ensilage, grind¬
ing corn, making fodder, driving piles,
constructing coffer dams, dredging and
pumping sewage for irrigation. The
German Emperor is said to have exam¬
ined into, the workmanship of every
piece of machinery at Hatfield with the
greatest interest and admiration, and to
have become so convinced of the economy
and efficiency of electrical appliances as
to decide on utilizing them to the great¬
possible extent on his own proper¬
Chicago Hews.
A New Way to Swallow Pills.
An Englishman has invented a device
to facilitate the operation of taking pills.
He attaches to a glass a small framework
on which rests the pill, and when the
glass is tilted forward the liquid washes
down the pill. Just why this operation
is any easier than the old fashioned way
of first putting the pill in the mouth and
then taking a swallow of water the inven¬
tor does not think it necessary to state,
but I suppose he goes on the same prin¬
ciple the ingenious Frenchman did when
he “discovered” a new insect powder.
His modus operandi was to first catch his
flea and then to administer to each a dose
of his powder, which was warranted to
kill without loss of time__ New York
Journal.
Two pounds of beet are consumed to
one of mutton in England