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BULLOCH TIMES.
STATESBORO. GA.
It is proposed to make the insnt*
iwaoo of cattle obligatory in Hungary.
They say that oil is destiimd to su¬
persede coal as fuel for ocean steam¬
ships. The New York Press thinks
everbodv will feel more comfortable
when travelling by sea t<> know that
there are no brother men shoveling
coal in the floating inferno down under
the engines.
It is -said that a large colony of
working men left Sydney, Australia,
the other day, to seek their fortunes
in Paraguay. All the members of the
colony are said to be robu.-t and ener¬
getic men. and the married ones are
accompanied by their families. Their
object in the move is not so much that
they 7 are not able to make a liymg
where they are, but thy ve no chance
to make more than, a bare living.
They suv that capitalists have taken so
entire possession of everything in Aus¬
tralia that there is not the remotest
possibility 7 for anybody who has no
capital bnt his hands and brains, to get
beyond the position of a hired em¬
ploye. In fact, money has crowded
them out of Australia.
The common hoop, once thought to be
the exclusive plaything of the frequent¬
ers of the nursery, has risen to a high¬
er sphere of usefulness, it is no un¬
common sight to see a portly man
chasing a hoop round and round the
ring at a gymnasium. It is 1 ho latest
prescription by doctors for those
clients who are suffering from too
much flesh and who want to reduce
their weight, Pugilists and other
gymnasts long ago robbed tlio play¬
room of the skipping-rope and found it a
most, excellent means of training and
k -oping oft" superfluous flesh, but chas¬
ing the hoop is less violent and muscles
are kept, in action at the same time,
and one can cover more ground with
less exertion than by simply running
.around a ring.
According to the official statistics
there are in "round numbers 110,000
Chinese in the United States. Of these
13,179 have complied with the provis¬
ions of the registration law, and 90,821
have refrained, The official returns
show forty-three registrations in Al¬
abama, thirteen in Arkansas, 4831 in
California, 1500 in Colorado, 140 in
Connecticut, forty-four in Florida,
sixty-five in Georgia, 1019 in Illinois,
59 in Indiana, sixty-two in Iowa, twen¬
ty in Kansas, twenty-eight in Ken¬
tucky, 215 in Louisaua, 187 in Mary¬
land, twenty in Massachusetts, 103 in
Michigan, fifty-nine in Minnesota, 400
in Montana, 333 in Missouri, ninety
one in Nebraska, forty-seven in New
Hampshire, forty-one in New York,
five iu North Carolina, 106 in Ohio,
1092 in Oregon, 712 in Pennsylvania,
thirtv-threo in South Carolina, nine in
Tennessee, 725 in Texas, twenty-seven
in Virginia, twenty-six in West Virgin¬
ia and 107 in Wisconsin.
With a maximum pressure of 46,800
pounds per square inch, the Brown
segmental wire-wound gun has pro
pelled a sixty-two-pound shot at the
surprising velocity of 2,065 feet a sec¬
ond. This is a great gain, boasts the
New York News, for England’s great¬
est guns, and those of Germany have
not reached any such velocity as that.
The highest initial lelocity recorded
with them in either country, or in
France is but a little more than 2,100
ferft a second, though even higher than
3,300 has been obtained by smaller
weapons. Now 7 , inasmuch as, other
things being equal, the penetrative
power of a shot depends upon its
velocity, the trial of the segmental gun
at Sandy Hook the other day, with
the result noted above, sustains the
view hitherto expressed that the gun
will win in the end against the iron
clad war ship, because the limit of
armor a ship can carry is less now
than the gun can pierce. The seg
mental gun just tried carries ten times
the weight of metal carried by
guns which iu France have given the
tremendous initial velocity spoken of;
and, of course, the power of the weap
on can be increased with its size until
rt will throw a shot or shell of the
weight deemed maHt most desirable in a
fight with an ironclad.
A TREASURE HOUSE.
THE UNITED STATES SUII
TREASURY IN NEW YORK.
Two-Thirds of the Financial Opera¬
tions of the Government Are
Transacted There—How
Its Business is Done.
WRITER in the
New York Herald
says: Uncle Sam’s
strong box is situ
v ated at Wall, Nas
sau and Pine streets
and is officially
p known as the New
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uiy. The average
^ ^ individual who
m ■/ passes it by on
*( either of the three
fiG thoroughfares is
* thoroughly
quainted with its
massive granite
walls, huge columns and severely
classic style of Grecian architecture.
Half w r ay up the long flight of stone
steps which communicates with the
mam entrance in Wall street stands a
bronze statue of Washington of heroic
size, keeping watch and ward, as it
were, over the vast treasure within
Upon the same site in 1789 arid for
a score of years later was Federal Hall,
standing upon the balcony of which
the Father of His Country took the
oath of office as the first President of
the United States, The building,
therefore, rests upon historic ground,
which lends to it a double charm and
connects the present with the past.
Washington no doubt had an abiding
faith in the destiny of his country, and
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believed that it would attain an impor
tant place among the nations of the
earth, but never, it is safe to assume,
did his mind picture the transforma
tions that have come to pass over the
site of the old colonial hall within the
brief space which separates his gener
ation from the present.
Tlien the country was emerging
front the effects of a devastating war
and was without a revenue or public
credit. Now its resources are bound
less, and its credit, unshaken by a
financial storm, stands pre-eminent
among the nations of the earth. On
the site where in 1789 the infant Re
public was launched forth upon an un
known and untraversed sea, without a
penny in its coffers, stands its treasure
house in which is stored wealth be
yond the dreams of avarice or the
combined fortunes of Croesus of old or
Monte Cristo of modern times.
Within the gray granite walls of the
New York Sub-Treasury are transacted
two-thirds of the entire financial oper
ations of the United States Govern
merit. In 1892 its receipts were $1,-
259,730,591.30 and its disbursements
were $1,279,579,904.24. This would
have shown a deficit but for the fact
that the Sub-Treasury had a small bal
auce of $138,072,240.63 left over from
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where the treasury notes are kept,
the rear before, and hence a year ago
last June,when Government the balance w& struck,
the found that it ha I
H ^ ore( j j n jf s New York treasure house
the neat sum of $118,222,977.09 to be
gin the work of the fiscal year of 1893.
It is difficult to conceive of one hun
dred and eighteen million and odd
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hundred thousands of dollars in coin
and bills, and yet at the Sub-Treasury
this is a trifling amount, and hundred has fre
quently been exceeded by a
or two millions more.
The building fairly groans under the
weight of gold and silver and heaps of
copper and nickel and huge stacks of
bills. Stored neatly in little steel
cubby holes, inside huge vaults, them
selves incased in metal and granite, or
scattered around on desks or counters,
undergoing the process of weighing
and counting, the building fairly reeks
with wealth. The very air seems im
pregnated with an odor of riches. In
one instance this amounts to an em
barrassment, for in the case of the sil
ver dollars, forty millions of which
are stored in a series of vaults in the
basement, the heavy iron lattice work
and huge steel bars are bulging out of
place under the enormous pressure of
1200 tons of silver, for $1,000,000 of
silver weighs thirty tons, and $40,
000,000 is the burden of the vault.
Under ordinary" circumstances the
Sub-Treasury handles very little coin,
The metal lays stored away in the
vaults in neat canvas bags, $t>000 in
each one containing gold and $1000 in
each bag of silver. At the present
time, however, all this is changed. The
Government has suspended the issue
of gold certificates against deposits of
that metal, the free silver dollars are
exhausted, and only those secured by 7
silver certificates remain in the vaults;
the Clearing House balances are settled
in actual coin, gold is coming in and
going out, is weighed and counted,
and the passer by in Nassau street at
the corner of Pine hears all day 7 long
the clink and clatter of metal.
At any time a visit to the Sub
Treasury is interesting, but it is
particularly so now. Walk up the
of stone from
Wail street to the main entrance of
the building any morning after 10
o’clock, pass by the guardian statue of
Washington and between the huge
granite columns which support the
projecting roof, and you enter a cool,
lofty counting room,
Standing at the main entrance be
tween two supporting granite columns
similar to those outside, the view is
unobstructed to the Pine street, or
rear, entrance of the building. Be
fore another step is taken the visitor
becomes at once aware of the over
powering strength and massiveness of
the structure. He has passed through
a doorway of solid granite blocks six
feet in depth, guarded, by an outer
door of huge iron bars, an inner door
of heavy steel plates and a frame door
the projecting rivets in the surface of
which bears testimony that it is metal
sheathed.
On either side of the entrance is a
room of comfortable proportions.
That on the left, or Nassau street side,
bears the words over the door, As
sistant. Treasurer/’ while to the right
are the quarters of the Cashier and
Acting Assistant Treasurer. Ihe one
is occupied by Conrad N. Jordan, the
other by Maurice L. Muhleman, one
of the most popular, painstaking and
efficient Government em¬
ployes in the country. The entire
executive work of the Sub-Treasury—
and it is vast and multitudinous in de
tail—is transacted within these two
j rooms. The interior arrangement of the
Sub-Treasury is peculiar to the date of
| its construction. The form ceiling of of dome the
main room rises in the a
to the extreme height of the building,
and is supported by granite columns,
: forming a rotunda. Four galleries
afford a means of communication be
tween the rooms situated at either
angle ox the building on the second
floor, from which can be obtained a
bird’s-eye view of the clerks at work in
| three departments on the floor below
—the cashier’s, receiving and paying.
These, situated on the main floor, are
separated by bank counters of wood
j and partitions of iron, pierced here
and there by the familiar pigeonholes
of a bank. In fact, the entire appear
ance of the main room of the Sub
Treasury suggests the arrangements of
a large bank as they existed two score
years ago. of the Sub-Treas
The departments receiving and
ury are the cashier’s,
paying, which is sub-divided into cash
paving and check paying; coin, divided
into paying and receiving; minor coin,
bond, coupon, authorities, accounting
and superintending. The names of these
in most instances amply describe in »
general way the nature of the work
performed. The duties of the authori
ties department, however, are pe
culiar. In it are kept the lists of cor
porations having business relations
with the Government and the names of
the officials of each who are authorized
to sign and receipt for checks. In the
accounting department are kept, in
addition to the general accounts of the
Sub-Treasury, the account of the Post
Office Department, always maintained
separately, and the accounts of the
disbursing officers of the United States
Army and Navy, etc. bal
At the present time the daily
ance in the Sub-Treasury averages
about $125,000,000, It runs, how
ever,- at times as high as $225,000,000,
a sum of money of which the ordinary
mind can form no conception. Nat
urally enough every' safeguard is taken
for the protection of this immense
treasure. The casual observer of the
Sub-Treasury building knows full well
its massive exterior. Its full strength,
however, is not apparent until after a
careful scrutiny of the interior, The
building itself was constructed for the
purposes of the Custom House in 1832
and used as such until 1862.
Strong as it was originally 7 it was, in
remodelling, made absolutely impreg
nable. A board of United States army
officers were intrusted with the work,
and as it stands to-day 7 it contains
many features of a fortress. The walls
in the basement are eight feet thick
and are built of solid granite blocks.
No part of the walls anywhere are less
than four feet through. All the par
titions between the rooms are of
masonry. The ceilings are concrete,
all the floors are of stone or metal and
the various doors are of steel plate.
The treasure is stored in five princi¬
pal vaults, three of which hold the
greater proportion. These are the
gold vault, the note vault and the
vault in which is stored the silver dol¬
lars. The first two are on the main or
rotunda floor, while the other is a huge
cavern in the cellar of the building.
The vaults on the main floor are
bombproof and burglar proof and
proof against everything else short of
a general cataclysm. That in the
cellar is equally so. The walls of the
building forming the sides of the
vaults are eight feet thick, and masonry
encases them on all sides,, saving
where the entrance doors pierce
through. The ceilings of the upper
vaults are about twelve feet in height
and the dimensions perhaps twelve by
fourteen feet.
An Autumn Bonnet.
A stylish little bonnet for autumn
is made of velvet w 7 ith just a touch
of gold lace about it. In shape it is
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Where the velvet touches the hair the
g 0 id i ace appears. Graceful loops of
Ye ]vet and wings decorate the
f rcm t; w ith a gold feathery aigrette in
the center. The tie strings are wider
than those worn last season. —New
York World._____
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“Aunt, have I a guardian angel?’’
“Certainly, my dear. I am your
guardian angel!”—Fliegende Blaetter.
There is _ a Japanese student, a bright
fellow of eighteen years, in the third
year at the Lmteu States Aaval
Academy,
A Hercules Beetle,
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes Her¬
cules), one of the largest species of the
Coleoptera or beetle family, is fre¬
quently seen in the cases of the en¬
tomologist, but it is seldom that one
is seen alive iu New York. Just ait
present William Bentenmuller, Fro
fessor of Entomology at the National
History Museum, lias one of the giant
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HERCULES BEETLE.
beetles alive, and the huge insect
seems to be doing uncommonly well,
as it has a capital appetite. It was
caught in the Island of Dominica and
brought here by a sailor. It is fully
six inches long from the tip of the
upper branch of its pincers to the end
of its body. The head is jet black,
and from it grows out a long black
horn, somewhat irregular in shape.
The lower surface of this horn is cov¬
ered with deep, gold-colored bristles,
which no doubt aid in holding what¬
ever the beetle seizes. Another bnt
shorter horn grows out from the
thorax, and the two form a powerful
pair of pincers, with the body for a
handle
The elytra, or wing covers, are of a
dirty dapple gray,, while the upper
part of the body is clack. There are
six powerful legs armed with claws,
which easily sink into-the human flesh,
while a nip from the pincers is a thing
to be remembered, even when the in¬
sect has only begun to pinch.—New
York Tribune.
Historic Church.
The honor of being the oldest Meth¬
odist Episcopal Church in China be¬
longs to Tien Ang Dong, or the
Church of the Peace of Heaven at Foo
Chow. It was built in 1850.
From that beginning great things
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china’s oldest m. e. church.
have come, Scores of Christian
churches may now 7 be found within
the bounds of the Foo-chow confer¬
ence with an aggregate attendance of
about 6000 members and probationers
at their regular Sunday services. From
Foo-Chow went out the men who
founded Central China and North
China M. E. Missions, and there are.
now connected with fhem over 2000
Chinese Christians. Tien Ang Dong
at Foo-Chow is the mother of all the
churches in which these thousands now
worship. Foo.-Chow is the chief cen¬
ter of Methodist work in South China.
They have there an Anglo-Chinese col¬
lege, theological school, boys’ board¬
ing school, girls’ boarding school,
womans’ school and womans’ hospital.
The numbers of Christians connected
with these institutions has increased so
that the Chinese edifice will not ac¬
commodate them. East year a gal¬
lery was added, but even now this is
too small. Efforts are now 7 being made
to raise a fund for rebuilding the Tien
Ang Dong edifice with twice the pres¬
ent capacity. —Mail and Express.
Fish or Sea Serpent?
The fishing schooner James B. Stet¬
son, Captain William Wolfe of Pro
vincetown, brought to T. wharf a fish
that comes nearer, probably, being,, a
sea serpent than anything yet captured.
The curiosity in question is about five
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AN odd fish.
feet long, and is nearly the same size
at the tail as at the head. It is slen¬
der, not being over seven inches in cir¬
cumference at the largest portion of its
body, resembling, save for its fin-tail,
a snake. There is a long fin some ten
inches high, running nearly the entire
length of its back.
It lias a head shaped very much like
that of a boa constrictor, and its teeth
are long and very sharp. One upoer
tooth is one and one-half inches in
length, about one-quarter or three
eighths of an inch wide, and as sharp
as a needle at the point. The jaws are
long and when open in an ordi¬
nary position easily reach eight inches
apart at the end of the nose.
The fish is of a bluish color. Tim
tall fins are large, and the two tins me
der its jaws are exceptionally large for
its size, measuring not less than eight
inches in length. The thing was cap¬
tured off La Have, Nova Scotia, in l3d
fathoms of water.—Boston Globe.