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PhosphorSsHeht Infection.—The
National Democrat:
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discovery has been made that the j The annual report of the First
phosphorescence frequently exhib- > Assistant Postmaster General,
the crustacea is infectious. J. S. Cl'cykson, shows that 2)770
A. French naturalist, M. Giard,
lately traced the pbosporescent
light on talitrus and other crusta
cea to bacteria in the muscles,
which Showed signs of disease. On
inoculating healthy individuals,
the Same luminous appearance was
produced. The. disease runs a reg-
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ular course^. and the crustacea died
in three or four days, the phospho
rescence lasting a little after death.
Electricity Direct from Work.—
The accomplishment of a hitherto
apparently impossible feat—that
o? transforming mechanical work
directly into electricity—is claim
ed by Prof. Braun, of Lubiugen.
He winds nickel wires into spirals,
and as each spired is elongated or
compressed a current of considera
ble strength is generated. This is
increased by putting-a number of
spirals in circuit. Such positive
results have been obtained that
the experimenter is hopeful
of conitinoting a useful generator
on this principle.
Theory of Hypnotism.—Dr.
Pinel, of Paris, has found that
hypnotic patients obey the phono
graph as readily as the living
speaker. He therefore discards
the theory of animal magnetism,
and believes that the real cause of
the phenomena manifested in the
few “sensitives” is a disordered
mental state.
Indestructible Literature.—Fire
proof and time-proof, books/1 with
leaves and. covers.of sheens of as
bestos, Ihd’pHtitih^ in gold or sil
ver letters, have been suggested.
A Remarkable Trade.—The
abundance of remains of the mam
moth is almost incredible. Mid-
dendorfif reckoned that at least 100
pairs of tusks had been put upon
the market yearly, during the last
two centuries, and from personal
observation Nordenskjold is in
clined to regard the estimate as too
small. . It ±hus ; appears that in the
recent mbtlerii trade the |tusks of
more than 20,000* of these animals
of past ages Have jjbeeh collected.
A Military fNovelty.—A vgeta-
ble cartridge shell, which is en
tirely consumed in firing, has been
brought out in France. The cart
ridge has scarcely half the weight
of .one with a metal shell, the cost
s considerably less,; and the in
convenience of removing the shell
af ler each shot is avoided.
Electric Power.—The utilization
and distribution of electric power
are stated by Mr. F. S. Pope to
have reached by faT the greatest
development in Switzerland and
the United States. In the former
country electricity is transmitted
to considerable distance? for large
motors. At Solothnrn a manufac
tory of machine screws is driven
by an electric motor of 50-horse
power) which derives* its energy
from a turbine wheel more than
five miles away on a mountain
stream. At Derendingen; ,a de
laine mill of 36/000 spindles is
driven by a pair of electric motors
of 280-horse power; operated by a
turbine wheel twelve miles distant.
At Lucerne 120-hprse power is sim
ilarly carried half H mile/ and 250
horse power a quartet of a mile.
In the United States no electric
motor of more than 60-horse pow
is known to Mr. Po£e, but there
are as many as 6#(J0 small motors
in use, a favorite size being 10-
horse pofor. It is predicted that
in cities electric motors will” soon
practically supplant the steam en
gines of less than 50-horse power.
fourth-class postoffices were estate
lished during the last fiscal year,
against 3,364 for the previous year.
There ware 1,147 postoffices dis
continued dqring the same time)
making the total number of post-
offices in operation on July 1,
1889, 58,599,. of - which, number
2,683 were Presidential offices.
The increase in the whole number
of postofficgs iri operation at the
end of the fiscal year was 1,623 in
excess of ihe previous year. The
whole number of appointments of
postmasters for the year is shown
to have been 20,030, of which
8,854 were on resignations and
commissions expired, 7,853 on re
movals, 553 on deaths of postmas-
ersj 2,770 on establishment of post-
offices. By the annual adjustment
of the salaries of postmasters,which
took effect July |$ 1889) 46 offices
of the third class were reduced to
At the annual Meeting of the
Carriage Builders’ National Asso
ciation held at Syracuse, N. Y., the
most important report made was
that on the timber supply. In the
report of the ‘committee atten
tion was called to the second
growth in white ash, the scarcest
of all the woods used in the con
struction of carriages and wagons,
The supply was being heavily
drawn upon in other ^industries,
and the outlook|with regard to
was very discouraging. As to the
old-growth'ash the situationjl-was
but little better, although it was
the fourth class, and 15 offices of
the fourth class were raised to the
third class, leaving 2,652 presiden
tial offices in operation on July 1,
1889. The number of money or
der offices in operation at the close
of the fiscal year was 3,683, an in
crease of 472 for the year. The
number of money order stations in
operation J uly 1, 1889, was 144, an*
increase of 14 over the previous
year. The number of postal note
offices in operation at the end of
the year was 557.
The report shows that on June
20, 1889, there were 401 free deliv :
ery postoffices in operation, an in
crease of 43 for the year. In 45
other officesjthe free delivery ser
vice hits been established" since
June 30, i889. The number of
It is stated that a Chicago wo
man of uncertain age has embark
ed on an Atlantic linei bound for
the Island of Jersey to make an'
offer of marriage to Gen. Boulan
ger.. &he is wealthy and eccentric*,
and the friends of the general are
a little worried over the peril then-
leader is shortly to be placed in.
the previous year. This large in
crease, it is said, is mainly due to
the enactment of the law limiting
the labor of carriers to eight hours
a day. The number of pieees of
mail matter ^handled by carriers
during the year was 3,085,805,540,
an increase of nearly 455,000,000
pieces. The amount received for
local postage was over $9,500,000,
aD increase for the year of nearly
$2,000,000. The excess of postage
on local mattes' over the total cost
of the service $2,57S,979, an in
crease over the previous year of
$279,647. From the date of the
establishment of the .free delivery
system, July 1) 1863, until June
30,1874, tbe cost of service is
shown to have exceeded the re
ceipts from local postage. Since
the latter date the balance on the
credit side Has steadily increaeed
ffom year to year. Col. J. F.
Bates, the superintendent of the
free delivery system, has recom
mended to General Clarkson the
extension of thle service to the
places which have a population of
5,000, the postoffice of which pro
duced a gross revenue for the pre
vious fiscal year of at least $8,000,
the separation as .far as possible,
of the delivery a~d collection ser
vice, and that a class to be known
as “collectors” be created tci. per
forin collection service only; that
carriers who have become disabled
in the Hne of duty, bg paid the le
gal salary for a stated period after
the incurrence of their disability,
out of the regular appropriation
for the service.
The gross receipts of th ? e 2,683
presidential, offices for the year
was $41,754^000, which, is an in
crease of 8.5per eent. for the year.
The aggregate of T the\. salaries of
presidential postmasters for the
year was $4429,100, representing
to last for mahy generations were
it not for the fact that it was so
extensively used for the inferior
finish of houses and for cabinet
work. The large old-growth
oaks of th.e South would m ake . an
excellent Substitute fori ash,‘addin
some respects would prove superi
or to it. The supply of whitewood
was very abundant dt tiie; present
time, But like the old-growth ash,
it was being cut up at a tremen
dous rate for house-finishing pur
poses. Basswood was found in
nearly all the timber States of the
Union, and, should necessity re
quire, it would make a good sub
stitute^ for whitewood.in the manu
facture of carriages. For hickory,
on the other hand, the most im
portant of all 1/Carriage timbers,
there was no good substitute in all
the world. It grew only in a few
of the States and a small part of
Canada. White oak, important in
the manufacture of j .Wagons, was
one of the most abundant of all
the tfipbereused. Like old-growth
ash and whitewood, it was being
extensively employed in carpentry
and for a thousandjolher purposes,
bat the supply was so great. that
there was no occasion for alarm in
that fact,; . *
As to thejwaste';iof timber the
committee report: “It seems in
credible that there should be any
place in this country where good
timber was considered a nuisance,
and the land worth more with it
off than with it on. Yet such is the
case ail through -the Bouth, in the
heavily, wooded districts. Unclear
ed land is worth only frpm $1 to
$4 per acre, while cleared of its
timber it sells from $10 to $15 per
acre. This leads' to a destruction
of the trees by .a method palled
‘deadening,’ by Shopping into the
trees trees all round, thus killing
structive policy! The extent to
whichjthis is done is surprising.
Thousand of acres j Of limber are
thus sacrificed evry year, not in
the South only, for in the State of
Ohio we hayp seen as fine hickories
as ever grew thus destroyed.”
Wliy it Should be Used.
Mr. W. L. Peek, of Conyers, Ga.,
writing on this subject and assign
ing reasons why farmers should
use cotton bagging, says:
Now, as long as jute bagging only
cost ns $5,000,000 a year we used
it, but when a combine of a few
millionaires deterniine'd to make
$3,000,000 more out o! our neces
sities, we determined to make our
own white robe. .
Let us see if it pays, or will
continue to pay. It .will take about
125,000 bales to make the covering
for a 7,000,000 bale crop, three-
fourths of a pound to the yard. In
discussing the question with cot
ton brokers and manufacturers
they agree that a diversion of that
amount from former uses makes a
shortage of 125,GOO bales, and
that it makes up the price from
one-eighth to one-half cent One
eighth of a cent op a,.crop of 7,-
000,000 bales, 500 pounds each, is
$4375,000 advance; one-fourth of
a cent is $8,750,000; a half-cent
advance is $17,500/000: and in the
face of over a 7,250,000 bale crop,
cotton has averaged about.one cent
higher than last year, which is $35,-
000,000 advance on a crop of 7,
000,000 bales.
Now, for sake of argument, let
us put the advance by the use of
cotton.bagging at one-fourth of a
cent only, adding the amdunt . we
have been paying forJjate, qnd we
have a saving of $19,750,000 in the
pockets of jthe farmers byjfhe use
of cotton bagging. To Georgia it
is a saving of about $1,760,000.
One cent a pound advancefon Geor
gia’s crop ts $4,500,000 which is
more clear money than we farmers
have had any time in the past fif
teen years. This has been brought
about by the Alliance lousiness
move, and cannot^be attributed to
any other cad.36—street strain or
any one else.
We also pay $3,000,000 a year
for burlaps (jute) to Stick our fer
tilizers, .grain, bran, flour, etc.,
when coStoii bags are much better.
One year ago we asked the bag fac
tory for cotton bags for guano,
they would not do it. Now they
affirm that these are just the thing.
We are for cotton bagging because
it creates a new demand and ad
vances the price of cptton, leaves
the money at home, gives employ
ment to our poor, and' makes the
South independent. We are for
cotton bags for fertilizers, etc., be
cause they will create a still great
er demand for cdfeten, -and are bet
ter for all purposes when fufi or
empty. We are opposed to wood,
wire, cloth or cotton stalk bagging;
because neither creates any de
mand for option, But ..lessens the
consumption and reduces the
price.
Reporters in New York city on
a recefit Sunday took a census of
the worshipers who attended ser
vice in the various churches, and
the result showed-a total of 164-
526 persons, ofjwfiom 97,277 were
women .and., 67,249 pien. The
weather was unpleasant.
A one-legged man whom the
Seattle, Wash., police were after
the'other day, took refuge in a cel
lar, barred the door and defied the
whole force. The fire department
was called out and the Cellar
pumped full of water. When it
got up to the man’s chin fie sun
rendered. | Since then he has es
caped three times from jail.
With a team composed of a black
and and a roan,, and top buggy, P.
Moyett, a resident • of San Fran
cisco, left that, city last September
an. increase of 5.4-per Cent. The : eri route for New York. One h un-
aggregate of the estimates for com- dred and twenty days of steady
pensafi^dh of .postmasters, clerksrin
Jibstoffices, rents, fights, fuel, etc.,
fpr presidential offices, is $22,957*-
500; an Increase, pf $4237*420'. as
compared with the" previous fear
Eighteen tons
daily on the
London and Nor;
through wear
Six feet of earth
I on e size.
makes us
all
travel, at an. average of thirty
milesa day, brought him. to St.
.liouis. • From that place he went
on slower, taking moro< time at
saeh stopping place* . Mr. Moyett
trill winter in Poughkeepsie, and
go to New York early next spring.
The Rochester Herald (Repub
lican) finds, in . the report of a
United States consul in Germany,
that “nearly all the chairs used
in the* postdffices. of that Country
are of American manufacture, the.
German government having bought
them of a New York firm at prices
less than they could be produced.'
for in Germany.” The Buffalq
Courier (Democratic) thinks that
if this statement is correct, “it af
fords one more illustration of the
truth that high-priced labor turns
out cheaper goods than low-priiCed
labor.”
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To fit a boy three years old, or the largest
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Meals at Hit HStffil;
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Day and Night.
Sleeping 1 Accommodations in Con
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Elegant Barber Shops Attached.
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Where only the best Liquors will be
sold. Come to see me when in Macon.
Will fill jugs promptly, and at low fig
ures for cash. My_ liquors- aare guaran
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Eespectfully,
WILL WAOTOtf.
673 Forth Street, Corner of Pine,
MACON* GA.
A southern industrial journal
was asked the other day^ to suggest
ari industry for the south that
would not necessitate a large out
lay of capital' It suggested soap*
making*
f steel disappear,
System Oi. the Neodin*. a tonic, or children that want building
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western railway j Baow^imoxaiTTEHs.
;rtia-pleasaintjo take, cures Malaria. Infiigea-
Sen. ard BlllcUroess. All dealer*keep *t.
Editor Stone, of the New York
Journal of Commerce has not taken
a day’s rest from routine work for
thirty years.
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