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r v ••• •' /;■: •■:'--f,-"- ■ ■■ • ; ■■■■••-■j"- ■ ■ .. ' "■ ■ 1 r:; ' ; . Jm$w?ra8s ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1892, _ . ‘ vV\ jv£*V k, SAVANNAH SHAKEN. Will' M9IPKON lei CALLED “SOCK. I. VMS.” 'THU M., F. A W. KAII.WAV SHOPS BLOWS DOWN. A Storp From no OHlclnl Source no To KVon- Ilo Sccuroil tho Monbriquot. Olrslorionn XExploxion of Iho BlR Bln* llounrr Engine. ' 1 There was a frightful explosion in Savannah at about 8 o’clock on Mon day morning. The stationary engine In the Savan nah, Florida and Western railroad shops exploded, wrecking Its own house and ndjacent buildings nnd killing the engineer and Ills flru- man nnd mortally wounding the port er, the only persons Who were in the vicinity of the disaster. The killed are John C. Murphy, engineer and Jim Ohatt (colored), the fireman; Jesse White (colored) Is tho porter, who is also wounded. The force of the explosion was felt all over the city, nnd many people who felt the jar sprang, from their beds under the Impression tlmt an earthquake had visited the city. Had the explosion occurred an hour later terrible loss of life would have resulted. The master mechanic’s office, where a great number of people worked, was literally torn to pieces. All adjacent property was more or less damnged. The building in which the explosion occurred is a two story brick and is a complete wreck. There appears to be no satisfactory explanation of the cause of the dis aster. The wounded negro is too bad ly hurt to give an account of the ex plosion. There is but little hope of his recovery. Work has commenced on the debris and it Is being cleared away with all possible rapidity. Humors that other bodies would be found in the wreok are without foun dation. Chlcnpit MttjU. “There are thousands of persons ;vho wonder why I am called ‘Sock less’ Simpson,” said thnt representa tive of the State of Kansas to an ac quaintance yesterday. “But there are very few who know the real reason. I was a young fellow with a considera ble fondness for the society of young ladles, and I was very proud of my feet.” The Congressman stretuhed out his neatly cased pedal extremities for the inspection of his friends, nnd glanced at them with pride. “We all used to wear tight boots,” he contin ued, “sometimes so tight ns to be very uncomfortable. There was a fellow who had a foot just a trifle smaller than mine. He could wear boots a size smaller time. I, and a mutual ac quaintance, who, by the way, wns n young lady, spoke about it to me one evening. I was In the habit of wear ing heavy woolen socks, and I knew thnt if I should take them off I could wear smaller boots. To my great joy, I found, on trying, that I could wear a size smaller than my rival, and I nt once purchased a pair. I went to call that evening as usual, and found him there, proud In the possession of feet which were really smaller than mine. The, subject came up—I believe I started it—about the size of our boots, nnd he eagerly accepted my challenge to a measurement. Of course, I won, nnd he seemed to feel as badly over it ns if he had lost a horse race. But the bootmaker who wns in possession of my secret gave me away nnd tho boys all got on to the story.. Do I wear socks nowf I should say that I do.” THINKS WORTH KNOWINU. A GOOD WASHING FLUID. Dissolve one pound of sal-soda and half a pound of lime In five quarts of water, and boll for a few minutes, stir, ring occasionally. Remove from the fire, and nllow it to settle; pour off the clear liquid Into a stone jar, and cook for use. Half a teacupful of this fluid added to n half boiler of boiling water on wash days will save a great deal of labor. HOW TO PACK SILVER, When puttIpg. away, ,pil ver 1 that Is not to be used for a considerable time, place it In an air-tight oase, with n good-sized pleco of camphor. TAKING DOWN THE STOVE > In taking down,’the stove, if any soot should fall upon the carpet or rug, cover qulokly with dry snlt before sweeping, nnd not a mark will be left. HOW TO RELIEVE NIGHT-SWEATS. .Night-sweats may be arrested by sponging the body at night with very hof water, It is n great help also to ward toning up the skin to rub the body Jiriskly in the morning with a bathing towel wrung out of salt water; the salt enters the pores and stimu; lates the skin to healthy action. A TONIC FOR THE HAIR. A good tonic for the hair is salt water, a teaspoonful of salt to'' a half pint of water, applied to the h'nir two or three times a week. Tho effect nt the end of atnonth will be surprising. 1 TO MAKE A MUSTARD PLASTKR.' For young children : Mix one ten- spoonful of mustard nnd three of wheat flour with water to the consistency of a stiff batter, and apply between soft . muslin cloths. For adults: One’part • of mustard and two of flour. TO TIGHTEN CANE-SKAT CHAIRS. Turn up the chair-bottom and wash the cane-work thorouglUy with soapy water and a soft cloth. Let It dry lu the air, and It will be firm as when new, provided the cane has not been broken. REMEDY FOR CHAPPED HANDS. When doing housework, if your hands become chapped or red, mix corn meal and vinegar into a stiff paste and apply to the hands two or three times a day, after washing them in hot water; then let them dry with out wiping and rub with glycerine. At night use cold cream gloves. OEORUIA LAtVVEBS. Chief Justice I,. E. Bleckley's Is Posterity. AN f . ,1 S / ■' ■ ’ enCHAnYeo 1 fouml her deep In the forest. The beeches and elms between, - A delleate amber plane tree *Mld maMUH of Immxu nnd green* A eorrqwfnl, spellbound Princess Awaiting her lover thore. She said, "Ho will know me, surely. By the veil of my yellow hair. **He eeeka me I lie wide world ovir, •' He seeks jne the wholo year through. To loosen the churm that binds mo— My Prince and my lovor true?” She shivered beneath her foliage, " And sighed in the twilight chiiL ■ **Ay inol wilt thou find mo never, Thy love that thou sookest still?”’ ”1 saw him,” n.lrruped a hlnckhird,,, • ”Ho passed by this vory spot; He Is come and gono, O Princess! . >•> He passed and he know you noil” The cold wind rustled her branches Till the yellow leaves fell slow— ”!le is dead and gono, O Princess, Many a year agol” '-Mrs. Graham Thomson. and wear Kriln of Bad Chirograph)-. The trouble of deciphering the mys terious Latin phrases of city* physi cians as to the causd of death, Inserted in death certificates in their usual wretched chirography, is a work at the health office that makes a repor ter’s life a burden to him, says the St. Louis Republican. This, is especially true of the German scribes. The resuit of their efforts is frequently not only amusing but ludicrous, and* Permit Clerk Jacks and liis assistants have . treasured up a number of them for the edification of visitors when business is dull. .One reporter is said to have struggled with the term “strangular hernia” till at last he made the lucid translation,“man hung himself.” An other was bewildered by “milral regu- ralion,” but, undaunted wrote “died of military regulations.” Recently the disease, “cirrhosis of liver,” was a cor ker to a German stfiibe till the happy idea struck him that disease was “a circus rider, diec^ of injuries to his liver." ) , , From the Now York Tribune. Tile Green Bag for February la largely occupied with the sayings and doings of one of the most picturesque figures In judleial life. Chief Justice E. Bleckley, of Georgln, contributes to the magazine an autoblogaaphlonl “Letter to Posterity," and a portrait of Judge Bleckley is prefixed to the. article. Walter B. Hill, of Macon, In the second article on the supreme court of Georgia, in the JsameJnumber, also devotes several pages to the wise and witty sayings of Chief Justice Bleckley. Judge Bleokley’s portrait Blibwi him to-be. a broad-shouldered and vigorous elderly gentleman with a long white' beard, and equally long dark hair resting on his shoulders. Over deep-set eyes nre shaggy eye brows and a high expanse of forehead. He is sixty-flvd years old, and hm held the office of supreme court justice. After serving from 1875. to 1880 ns a justice of the supreme court he resign ed andiremalned in prWate life until January 1887, when lie was chosen chief justice. The most interesting fact about judge Bleckley is that lie en deavors to relieve his opinions from the ordinary dullness by witty ex pressions, curious phrases and oe'ohs- slonnl poetic quotations. He has a theorv tlmt judicial opinions might, well be terse, crisp, graceful, animated anil entertaining'; nnd many of his opinions show tlmt he carries out his theory in practice . When he resign ed his ofllce of justice of the Supreme Court iq l 880 he rend from the bench ns his last act a short poem entitled, “In the Matter of Rest.” The last stnnza beginning, “Pence and rest, Are they best For mortals here below?” is a model of terse nnd thoughtful poetic expression. * . Judge Bleckley, in his “Letter to Posterity,” regrets he will never meet those whom he addresses, nnd while claiming no right to the notice of pos terity, proceeds to inform future gen erations as to certain of his beliefs and facts of his history. Home of his state ments concerning the duty of a judge are decidedly entertaining. He says: “To administer law, it is desirable al though not always necessary, to know it. In its effect upon the deciding fac ulty, the apprehension of ignorance counts for as much ns ignorance itself. My mind is slow to embrace a firm faith in its supposed knowledge. However ignorant a judge may be, whenever he thoroughly believes he understands the law of his case, he is ready to decide it—no less ready than if he had the knowledge which he thinks he has. And he will often de cide correctly, for the law may be as he supposes, whether he knows! it or not. * • * But iny faith in the ul timate efficiency of work is unbound ed. Tile law is too often unknown, but is never unknowable. 1 finally settled down, painful deliberation ceases, and I doubt no more, until I am engaged in writing out the opinion of the court, when I discover, perhaps, Sl» and Strength uf the Outf Stream. Even those who navigate the wa tors of the Gulf stream do not fully realize the strength of its current. Two or three years ago a government vessel was anchored in the stream observing the current The wind was very light when a sailing vessel wns sighted ahead, drifting to the north ward. As she came nearer and nearer it became evident that there would be a collision unless steps were taken to prevent it The crew of the sailing vessel trimmed their Bails tu the gentle air. but it was useless, for ouwnrd she went carried by the irresistible force of the current di rectly toward the bow of tho steamer. As the vessels approached each other, by a skillful use of the rudder on txiard the steamer she was moved to one side, and tho sailing vessel drifted past a few feet distant The cuptnin of the latter was as aston ished ns he was thankful that his vessel was not lost. All that he could cry out in broken English os he flashed by was, “I could not help it; the water bring me here."—John E. Pillsbury in Century. Sciven Thousand Miles of Wheels. If nil the locomotives in the United States were coupled together they would make a train of solid iron anil steel over 300 miles long. Add the passenger cars nnd we would have 800 miles more of wood and iron; this would give us a gigantic pas senger train (100 miles ip length, counting both engines and cars. Should we want a huge “mixed" traiu we might add the “box,” "flat" and every other kind of freight car. anil our train would, then haven total length of over 7,000 miles I The passenger cars in this gigantic train would be capable of sentingi 1,600,000 people, and upon the freight cars could he loaded the weight of all the pyramids of Egypt anil all the state capitol buildings in the United States besides. Verily, great is the railroad system of America.—St. Louis Republic. A Georgia Negro Farmer. " There is u negro In Meriwether, county, Ga., who has fifteen children living. The family, it Is said, ent h bushel of potatoes daily. They run a three-horse farm and make., yjl their provisions and thirty balqs cotton .besides, They' rp^se sui— cane and make their own sji sugar.,, They qveh raise rice, economize' in' every w&fo their o\Vn plowstocks, for instani doing their own blackSmithing, el Every ; e<ige is mode to cut. An evi dence of the negro’s good mnna^ti- inont is hhown in the'fact; that lie bus lived on the place twenty yeads. -Philadelphia Ledger. ft . — x—r . a An Anlntla Alphabet. . ^ that colleagues, suRation; flffe i decide it tne c satisfied not on ( other.” great learnti Mr. Hill in man great, that he sistentljj question m <\ ..- '■( >. :i:...’ilii.il:', Sffe all wrong. My again to the coll ider the case, and 'way. Then I am I know the law is t. must be on the kley disclaims any Her lay or legal, but liat his attainments s of learning are defect seems to be minutely and con- i easier for him to t than to decide. Silas B. Beach has discovered ijn Asiatic alphabet which has boeh wholly taken from the vari< changes which tho moon undergi during the month. This curie,-., moon alphabet had twenty-eight let ters, every one of which resembled the moon in some of its phases. t Her First query. ' ft “My dear.” said Mr. Cubbage to his wife, who was dangerously ill; “Mrs. Kickshaw is down stall's apd wants to see you." 1 "What has she got on?” asked tjie dying woman foobly. -New Yoj'k Epoch A Villen f.iku a Crowd of Itoy«. The laughing jackass, when warn ing his feathered mates that day break is at hand, utters a cry re sembling a troop of boys shouting, whooping and laughing in a wild chorus. — Brooklyn Eagle. Hurled Coin. Some workmen digging up the roots of an old tree in 11 forest had their labors rewarded by a find of 150 gold and silver coins. This dis cover}' was made in 1773, and the coins, although of tho reign of Henry I, were in a good state of preserva tion. Sometimes the pulling down of n house will bring a treasure to light. On one such occasion a mason and his laborer found a considerable sum under d floor, but as they quar reled about dividing the spoil, the owner ’of the house heard of the find and demanded the booty. Tho coins, which were of gold and silver, were of tho reigns of Edwards II and EH, and looked as fresh as if just issued out of the mint.—London Tit-Bits. Undressed kid gloves may be cleansed- by washing them in naph tha. Wash on the hands and hong them out in the air to dry.—New York Journal. HIBtOftV- ’OF' A BlNa T Romance of a Jewel Owned bj the Bole of Wellln|£^*’e Brother'! Bride.' A gentleman well known ini busi ness circles os a bold speculator is one of the regular customers of a well known money lender in this city, and his usual pledge is a ring, which th$-proprietor offered to show to the reporter. The lhnmtger took the newspaper man to the outer room and, opening a mammoth safe, pulled out drawer after dratver full of jewelry, watches, chains, oitmugs and the thousand and one varieties of the jeweler's art, each with a tug attached and a aumlier corresponding with the num ber opposite the name of the owner in the big Isiok kept for that purpose. After selecting a little box the man ager resumed his seat und said: “This nng has a history and a ro mantic one. It has been pledged numberless times, and the owner would not sell it for any price on ac count of its history, which he has re lated to me minutely several times, and which I know to lie authentic in every |mrtieular. I can give names, except in later generations, just us he has told me. 'Charles CuitoII, of Canullton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, had two beautiful daughters, who went to England in 1784. One married the Duke of Leeds and the other Richurd Wellesley, nfterwurd the Duke of Wellington. At the marriage of the latter, which Psik plow in the Castle of Dublin, the bride received this ring from Sir Arthur Wellesley. “You will see the two figures iminted liy Nomnr, a celebrated min iature painter of that date, are lieau- tiful m design and execution, nnd the iimuuer of the setting of the pearl* and rubies to the eye of the connois seui prove if to lie genuine without doubt. Thr* ring was won nt Bins sols the night before the battle of Waterloo lit the party described In the well known poem of Byron, lie ginning • i’lutro wtu*» mo 11 ml of revelry by night. To make a long story short, the ring descended, generally by will, through di. eront members of the Carroll family until it came Into the present owner’s hands by gift from Letitin, the last of the Carrolls, now mother superior of a convent in Bid tiuiora. Think of the bright eyes which have gaZed upon this beautiful ring. “All the |ieopleHnng at the time this' ring was given to the lieau- tiful. bride in Dublin castle are no more. All the great armies of Weld -liugtou null .till these mighty hosts which followed the war drums of bis foe.:the great Napoleon, buve gone itq the great beyond, while tho ban- ■ihlOs Justus bright,- the colors of -the paintings just its clear ns ever, now reposes in, the safe of a Boston money lender.., From the Duke of Welling ton to a pawnshop does this not furnish food for thought!”-Boston Herald- ./ .t T|i« Drill Sergimnt. • . jAp army officer ut Forf Schuyler, N. Y., sends the fallowing story of nu Ifjsh d.ril.1 sergeant in,the English amnjj., A squad of newly enlisted men ’life jipiiiW’’.fiir'^his inspcotiqii and a .prelimipary drill. His little yisorless forage d{ip is canted to,one side Os Up iiffri down the Und,' fap- Ping his’ leg gently with the iuevlia- tile cane or switch. At lust he htdfs in trout of an undersized, round shouldered victim, steps buck a pUce, places’ his arum ukuulxi and solilo quizes: "Well, what kind-of a man wud it lie that ’ud go uud 'list-a kun gariKi for the army with a booinp on his back like a dog scraping a poti Shtipput bore. Wud ye know yor facings? Right face I All, there , ye go to the left,, curse yer ■ sow!; don’t .yez know yez right hand from the left? Which hand do ye bless.yerso.lf wid? Ye don't bless yersolf, at all, eh? So ye are a heretic? Git back to the ranks!" -Sun Francisco Argo naut. Homo Fornlgii Coin* ,Tbe franc wns fonnefly called livre (pound), though the connection with any Hjieciul weight is not evident. The name of the German coin, mark, meaning a weight of eight ounces, was formerly in general use in En rol*. The name of the Italian coin that cori , es|)onds with the franc (lira) also means pound. The coins in pi-ci^ ent use in Spain have their names from other souives. Tile live peseta piece, which cone spomls with the American dollar, is called escudo (shield). "Peseta.” the name of the sinuli coin representing the monetary standard, means sim ply "little piece.”'' "Ruble" is from the word meaning “to cut," and wns so culled because originally the coin was made with an. ornamental edge. Chicago Tribune. A CuiioiiM 0(1(1. Among- the most extraordinary pieces of symbolism known to have been used by the early Asiatics .was a figure of a donkey’s bead used aa a representative of the deity. There Is no doubt whatever thnt the same emblem was once used among the Hittites. the Egyptians and one or two other nations ns a symbol of their Red God But. Tho supersti' of the yellow donkey of India; story of the swift ass of eastern-^ and the ass of Dionysius, and man; other marvelous ass stories, are HEATING A HOUSE. Con>um|ikton of Fitol U Not tho Only Conuldorutlou In Hooping. Warm. , I-Iow best to keep a house warm is a question that every, cold and biting “wave” .forces upon the attention of many a bousokeeper, 'Poopio gener ally, imagine tliutwith thoso to whom economy in fuel is no great object the problem is simple enough and is only a question of using more or less coal. As a matter of fact, however, the consumption of fuel is not the only chief factor: the exclusion of cold and understanding how fully to utilize the heat obtained by tho vari ous fires is quite ns important The importance of the former aids to warmth in a house is well exempli fied in those northern countries where necessity is the law of existence and where we read of the Greenlander's hut with an inside temperature of 00 degs., tho only fire being from a piece of walrus fat, while outside it may be 40 degs. below zero. We would find, however, but few advocates of this degree of exclusion of fresh air and ventilntlon, and the fewer the hotter, no doubt Whole some ventilation is of vast impor tance, but it should enter our houses through the channels provided for it nnd not under the doors and through the window joints. People who reside in town and are protected by their neighbors an either side, with only the front and rear, ex posed, have hut a simple problem to encounter. But to those who live in the country in frame houses, whose defenseless walls are exposed in ev ery direction to tho cutting wintry blasts, the subject is a very seriouH one. Its the west it is a common custom to bank earth around the house to the depth of several feet, and a single foot of manure placed in this way adds greatly to the warmth besides affording protection to the vines and plants. In old houses whose win dow casings and door lintols have be come loose and shrunken tiny strips of felt put on with long, slender "brads" will be found very effica cious. and if cut extremely narrow are quite unnoticeable and can be put in many places where it would not be possible to insert weather strips. In heating, furnaces ore of course tho chief factors. Of these there are many kinds, and we are told succes sively that each ope,, is the best. People, themselves, toil, differ great ly ns to what is the best method of heating a house, some preferring the hot air furnace, which seems, on the whole, to bo more popular that! any other contrivance, and others finding steam or hot water more satisfactory. Thero is this al ways to be remembered, however— no hot nlr fnrnflce will carry heat sot- isfnctorily through- a pipe running any distance in a lateral direction. For a rambling house, therefore, where there is but one furnace, hot water or steam will given more dif fused boat. The somewhat primitive but most effective base burning stove will lie found a capital supplement to the hot air furnace, and if arranged with a “drum” and a register in the floor nbovn will he nearly as effica cious as a second furnace. 1 Modorn science' has also managed to utilize tho waste heat from down stairs open, fireplaces in the rooms' above In the most admirable fashion, making every fire heat a second room ns well as the one in which it is laid: and when one considers the amount of precious warmth, not to say actual money, that goes up, the chimney, in smolio. it would seem thnt there is'a groat Hold for further im provement still in practically utiliz ing escaping heat—New York Trib une. flow Hloltfli Holla Are Mude. “The making of sleigh bells is quite mi art." says an iron founder. “Tho little iron ball is too big to he put in through the holes in tho bell, and yet it is inside. How did ft get there? The little iron hall is called ‘the jinglet.’ When you shake the sleigh boll it jingles. In making the bell the jinglet is put inside a little ball of mud, just tho shape of the in side of the boll. Then a mold is mode, just the shape of the outside of the bell. This mud ball with the jinglet inside is placed in the mold of Hie outside, and the metal is poured in, which fills up the space between the ball and the mold. “When the mold is taken off you see a sleigh bell, but it will not ring, as it is full of dirt.. The hot metal that tho boll is made of,dries the dirt so that it can be shaken out. After the dirt is all shaken out of tho holes in the bell tho little iron jinglet will still bo in the beU and will ring. It took a goixl many years to think out how to make a sleigh bell.”—Lewis ton Journal. Siiliimllioyi; KligllHh. lu a recent examination some boys were asked .to define certain words and to givu u nenteiico illustrating the mooning. Uere ■ are a few: Frantic means .wild: I picked some flowers. Akimbo, with a erooi a dog with an akimbo in his! letio, strong:. vinegarwaa^o to use. Tandem, one behind the. boys sit tandem at school And then some sjnjde w< fumiily explained: Dust is: the wet squeezed out; firi| 1 wings; monkey, a small boy with a tail; stars are the moon’s eggs; eir. ctmiference is distance aroi J. w. JEWELER. Wamiuxitov st„ OrrnsiTK Commkiiciai. Dak ... v • •vs,, Watches, Diamonds, Sil verware, Musical Instruments | and Table and Pocket cutler Fancy Goods, etc. Reliabli Goods, Fair Dealing, Bottor Prices. Fine Watch Repairing—20 years experience—all work guaranteed. Spectacles and Eyeglasses accurately fitted at moderate charges. OUR STOC -OF- ■ Are arriving daily and we c interest the Ladies who look to their interest in: Wii See our Dri mings and 1 salesman, we can supplj you Want. Crepons, in all of the latest shades to $t.ooperj Silk Lustre’ latest shades 20c., worth 50c other firm South duplicate these goods 'mentioned. We 1 large quantities; bi Mr. Reich at a forced also bought l Case of Eml and the prices on them v vince 'the closest buyers tin are great bargains. .... In some fine Swiss Cambric Hamburgs. Examine you will juvest in the: stock of fine Imported Bit for Ladies, Misses and I are here for inspection, no firm in this or any othe can show better goods and prices on these goods Will be 1 ard. We will say, in buying t you get the value of your mo Other goods arriving which we will make'mention 1 Feb. 20,1802. the ] ilotic other; are id with fishes' ■ survivaisof that curious form of re ligious worship- the adoration of the middle of tho outs ass’ head.—St Louis Republic. Bits. —— indstinct print REICH IGEK l D- HOPE Hove established a steam SMLU CM] Near Oakfleld, eighteenj Albany, on the A. road, and pared - - Our timber tinod, and till all be flrst-cli We soli buildei Wri"