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WIND.
Interesting Talk With an Old Signal
Service Officer.
{From the Chicago Times.l
entitled If there is talk a man about living wind pre-eminently it is Sorgeant
to
William Line, of the Signal Service Sta¬
tion in Milwaukee; the officer who, for
five long years, held the post of honor
and danger at the summit of Mount
Washington—the this hemisphere; very home-stretch where of
the winds of one
hundred miles per hour is a zephyr, and
where the inconceivable velocity of two
hundred miles per hour is not unusual;
where the cups of the anemometer, after
standing the test of one hundred and
ninety-six miles per hour, become twisted
and torn, and fail to testify further of
the tornado’s wrath.
“I have seen it blow some, in my
time,” remarked Mr. Line, “but for
something definite about my experience
on Mount Washington I prefer to refer
you to the official records.” So the rec¬
ords were brought out and the corre¬
spondent examined them.
Under, date of December 16, 1876, is
tbe following entry—rather modest and
business-like under the circumstances;
it being borne in mind the locality was
Mount Washington, and the elevation
6,286 feet:
Temperature below zero), fell to —40 degrees (forty de¬
grees and the mean temperature
for the day was 22.5 degrees, with the wind at
80 miles at 7 a. m.; 120 miles at 12:22 p.m.;
160 miles at 4:57 p. m.; 100 miles at 9 p. in.;
and 180 miles at midnight. The force of the
wind was terrible, aud at times masses of ice
would be blown loose from the rocks.
December 17th—Hurricane still continues;
lowest temperature forty-five degrees below
zero. The wind’s velocity was greatest from
1:15 to 1:30 a. m., when it must have reached
200 miles per hour, and continued until long
after daylight.
On one occasion Sergeant Lime expe¬
rienced a change of 42 degrees in tem¬
than perature two hours. (falling thermometer) in less
For months he lived in
of a constant gale, with the attending cold
mountain-top in winter. Upon several
occasions Sergeant Line estimated (the
wind anemometer blew failing to register) that the
at the rate of considerably
over two hundred miles per hour on the
summit of Mount Washington. “ But,”
said the officer, “it will be necessary
tor you to explain that the pressure of
the wind at an elevation of over six thou¬
sand feet is much less, relative to its
speed, than it is at the sea level. Just
what the proportionate difference is I
will not undertake to state, yet it is con¬
siderable. In our official calculations
we estimate everything on the basis of
the sea level; so that, for instance, when
we give the pressure at this (Milwaukee)
station we really approximate, and do
not give the exact pressure.
Some calculations may be of interest:
A velocity of a little more than 14 miles
per hour gives a pressure of one pound
to the square foot; a velocity of 28 miles
per hour gives a pressure of 4 pounds;
50 miles per hour gives a pressure of
only velocity-of 12j pounds per square foot; yet ■
100 miles per hour strikes
hard at 50 pounds to the square foot.
There isn’t much need of estimating fur¬
ther than that, and so we stop right
there. However, the actual force of wind
depends greatly on attending circum¬
stances of rain, snow, hail, &c. &e.; and,
as I said before, we only approximate
the real pressure during any gale.
There are some things about winds that
would seem very strange to the average
person,” continued Sergeant Line, “and
they are the subject of constant study
and experiment. Now there is no in¬
stance on record of a hurricane having
crossed the equator, nor of having been
encountered on the equator. A cyclone,
or ward hurricane, has not only a general for¬
forty miles movement—avering horn—but from ten to
per also has a
that gyratory motion about the storm center
will give a velocity to the wind of
a hundred or more miles per hour. As 1
said before, a hurricane never crosses the
equator; but a cyclone north of the line
will have its gyratory motion from right
to left, while south of the equator the
motion is invariably directly opposite, or
from left to right.
Cariosities of the Voice.
Dr. Delaunay, in a paper read before
the French Academy of Medicine, gives
some details on the history and limits of
the human voice, which he obtained
after much patient research. inhabitants According
to the doctor, the primitive their descend¬
of Europe were all tenors;
ants of the present day are baritones,
and their grandsons will have semi-bass
voices. Looking at different races, he
calls attention to the fact that inferior
races, such as the negroes, etc., have
higher voices than white men. The
voice has also a tendency to deepen with
age—the tenor of sixteen becoming the
baritone at twenty-five, and bass at
thirty-five. have" Fair complexioned the dark people skin¬
higher voices than
ned, the former being contraltos usually sopranos basses.
or tenors, the latter or
“Tenors,” says the doctor, “are slen¬
derly built and thin; basses are stouliy be
made and corpulent.” This may the
rule, but one is inclined to think there
are more exceptions to it than are neces¬
sary to prove the rule. The same re¬
mark applies to thp assertion that
thoughtful, intelligent men have always
frivolous a deep-toned voice; whereas weak triflers voices. and
The persons have soft,
higher, tones he of the voice are perceptibly
points out, before than after
dine a meal, which is the reason why tenors
early, in order that their voices
may not suffer. Prudent singers eschewed
strong drinks and spirituous liquors,
especially and tenors, but the basses can eat
drink generally with impunity.
“The South,” says the doctor, “furnishes
the tenors and the North the basses;” in
proof of which he adds that the majority
of French tenors come from the South of
the France, whilst the basses belong to the
northern department.
The competition for the proposed
monument to Victor Emmanuel has
been thrown open to sculptors of all na¬
tions. The cost, when completed, is not
to exceed $1,800,000. Three prizes of
$ 10 , 000 , $ 6,000 and $ 1,000 are to be
given respectively models, to these the authors models of the
three best to re¬
main the property of the State.
The Eastern publishers volumes have contrib¬
uted nearly 4,000 for s public
library at the new settlement at Rugoy,
Teun.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
TRUSTING.
BY CARRIE V. SHAW.
I sm thinking of yon, darling,
As I watch tho dying day,
While the twilight dews are falling
And the light fades slow away.
I shall think of you forever I
When the autumn leaves are red
I shall feel you once more near me,
I shall hear the words you said.
When the winter snows are dropping;
When the buds are born again,
And the April skies are weeping,
As in pity, for my pain,
I sha'I think of you, and ever.
Till the closo of life’i bright day,
When the dews of death are falling
And the light fades slow away.
The Pilot’s Story.
We had grown up together, as it were,
Mollie and I, our parents being near
neighbors, and—which does not always
follow—firm friends as well. They were
poor, and I suspect that fact had much
to do with their friendship, for oppor¬
tunities were always turning up for nelp
ing one another; and I have often
noticed that, when near neighbors are
well off and have no need for mutual
help there is very seldom any friend¬
be ship jealousy between and them competition. ; there is more apt to
it Our parents resulted being such good friends,
followed naturally their that Mollie We and I
school example. went played to
together together, read together,
; and, somehow, when Mollie
was 18 and I 20, we agreed to travel to¬
gether all our lives, and were very happy
in that arrangement; in fact, no other
would have seemed right or natural,
either to us or our parents.
From the earliest days of my boyhood
I had a fondness for the water, haunting
the palatial steamboats that floated ou
the great Mississippi river, on whose
banks nestled the city in which we dwelt,
and, at the period to which I am about
to refer, 1 had just secured a position as
pilot on a small freight steamer.
It was not much of a position, to be
sure, nor was there much of a salary at¬
tached to it; but, small as it was, Mollie
and I decided that we could make it an¬
swer for two people, neitner of them ex¬
which, travagant or unreasonable; beside
I bad hopes of better times to
come, as I had received words of com¬
mendation from my employers, and
promises of speedy promotion.
So, early one bright morning, having
obtained a day’s leave of absence, Mol
lio and I were married, and, stepping
into a carriage I had hired for the occa¬
sion, we started off, having decided on a
day’s excursion to a celebrated cave
near by, this being all the wedding trip
we could allow ourselves ; not that we
eared in the least, however; we were too
happy to be disturbed by any shortcom¬
ings of sum or purse.
We had scarcely driven beyond our
own street, when we were brought to a
halt. A messenger, whom I recognized
as bailed belonging to our steamboat company,
me.
“Here is a note for you from the
Superintendent. ”
Thus it ran:
Am sorry to have to recall your leave for to¬
the day, Mobilia, but you which must is immediately ’ go on board
river. The is ready iff to start, up the
and appointed pilot too to attend to duty,
you are to take his place for the
present. There
“ goes our wedding trip all to
smash ! ” said I, as Mollie read the or
der.
“ Why so? ” she asked.
“Yon see I must go into the pilot¬
house of the Mobilia.”
just “ Very well,” she replied. “ We will
go up the river instead of to the
cave. Drive on, Rob ; let us go down to
the wharf in state.”
“ But you can’t go in the pilot-house
with me, little goose.”
“ Of course not; but I can sit on the
deck outside,” laughed Mollie, “and
other.” we can cast languishing glances at each
And so it came to pass that I took
possession of the Mobilia’s pilot-house,
my with heart glowing there, with just love and pride ;
love, for below me, on
the little forward deck, sat my sweet
bride ; with pride, finest because the beautiful Mobilia
was one of the of the
floating palaces of the had Mississippi, been and
to pilot such a one for years
the height of my ambition.
The steamer was fitted up with a
double cabin, one above the other—the
reaching upper one opening toward upon the bow, a small deck,
out near the
center of which, on a raised platform,
was placed the pilot-house. This deck
was always occupied by passengers, and
this morning it was particularly crowd¬
ed, for the i>oat was heavily laden with
people taking advantage of the beauti¬
ful weather to make an excursion up the
river.
Home rough fellows jostled against
Mollie’s chair after a while, and she rose
and passed down into the lower cabin,
“to get a drink of water," she whis¬
pered to me as she passed ; but I sus¬
pect it was really to prevent the burst¬
ing of the thunder-cloud she saw gath¬
ering on my brow.
I saw that the insolent fellows made
no attempt to follow my dear one, so I
gave myself up looking to my own the happy
thoughts, and, out on far
distent, peaceful shores of the great
river, over wnose placid bosom from we were
mevmg so swiftly, there rose my
heart a glad, silent hymn of rejoicing.
But suddenly a cry broke forth from
the cabin behind me that thoughts effectually
changed the current of my Wrible :
“Fire! fire! fire !” A cry at
all times, but most horrible of all when
it rings forth in the midst of gay, unsus
picious hundreds floating in fancied se
ourity in the midst of the waters.
An instant’s awe-struck silence sue
needed that awful erv and then three
hundred voices, of men, women, and
children, united in fearful, heart-rend
ing shrieks for help.
fire I* __________
“iFire ! fire!
Aye ! there was no mistake about it,
nor false alarm. No one could tell how
it hail commenced, but of there the it
creeping along the roof
cabin, with the deadly flames
lapping up every scrap of awning and
curtain they could find upon their way,
ever and anon darting long clasp tongues of
flame down to the floor to the
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 28,18S0.
chairs and tables and settees in their fiery
embrace.
As well seek with a sieve to scoop up
the waters of the great river on which
the Mobilia floated, as to try to subdue
the roaring, devouring enemy that had
seized upon the ill-fated steamer.
The people darted down from the
blazing upper cabin to the forward deck
below, where as yet the foe had Wave made
but little headway, and there our
Captain—who was that rara avis “the
right man in the right place —SHC
ceeded in partially quelling the panic.
quiet, “Keep quiet!” he ordered—“keep
and stay just where you are, or I
will not answer for the lives of any of
you ! The steward will provide every
one of you with life-preservers; but
there is no reason for any person to go
overboard ; not yet awhile, at any rate,
unless suicide is desired. Keep quiet, I
say! half Pilot, head her straight for the
land, a mile ahead.” (We were at
least twice that distance from the main
land on either shore.) “Engineer, put
on all steam—crowd her on ! We will
run a race with the foul fiend who has
boarded the Mobilia.”
There was an instant’s pause, and
then, with a groan and a surge, with
the timbers creaking and straining, and
the windows rattling as though in mortal
terror, the Mobilia gathered herself up
to run her last race.
Each passing moment the fl ames crept
on and on and on, never pausing in their
terrible march. Fortunately , they leaped
upward rather yet than but little downward, danger so to that the
there was as
panic-stricken But the pilot-house crowd on the lower deck.
track of the flames, was and directly already in the
their
advance guard was beginning to sur¬
round me, singeing my hair and eye¬
brows.
Suddenly there was a murmur among
the people below, and the next instant a
light form flew up the ladder leading to
the little deck by the pilot-house, and,
before I could say a word, my precious
Mollie had thrown open the door, and,
closing “Mollie, it again, stood at my side.
Mollie 1 ” I cried.
heaven’s sake go back, go back! Don’t
you see how the flames are creeping to
ward us here ? Go, go, my dearest, my
own trne wife ! Don’t unman me by
making me fear for you. Go down
where I can feel that you have a chance
of safety.”
“Rob Thome!” she exclaimed, with
her mine, eyes looking bravely straight into
“am I your wife ? ”
“Surely, surely, thank God!” I ut
tered “But go, go!”
“My is,” post she is answered, here, just firmly. as much “ I will as
yours
stay here, Rob, and if you die, I will die,
too. We will make our wedding trip
together, my dear husband, even if it be
into the next world. Keep to your duty,
Mid never mind me, Rob. There is hope
for us yet, and, if it comes to the worst,
why”—and a brave, sweet smile crept
round her lips—“we are still together,
dear i love! ” her
saw it was of no use to urge any
more, and, besides, something swelled
in my throat so tb»* I could not utter a
word, so I just gripped the wheel hard,
and looked right ahead, though every
thing looked very dim just then, and my
devoted darling stood calmly at my side,
watching the flames that were creeping
closer and closer upon us, leaping
around the pilot-house like hungry de
mons impatient for their prey.
“Thorne,” shouted the Captain,
"comedown. the Lower We’U her and yourself You
over rail. catch you.
cannot stay there any longer. We are
very near the shore now, and the rest
we’ll take our chances for.”
It was an awful temptation. I knew
that, did I follow the Captain’s advice,
both Mollie and I would be safe, for I
was a good Bwimmer, and, should the
boat not reach the shore, I could save
her and myself; but then, if I did this,
would I not deliberately expose every
one of the 300 souls on board to destruc
tion ? True, the boat might keep remaining to her
course during merely the short space the rapid im
to be passed, from
petus of her approach ; but, again, she
might not—and then ?
1 looked at my dear wife Rob inquiringly. 1” she said.
“ Stick to your post,
“ No, sir !” I shouted hack; “I shall
stick to my post; I shall stay here till I
run her clear on the shore, or die first.”
“ My brave Rob—my noble Rob 1”
murmured Mollie.
But alas for my devoted Mollie ! alas
forme! Not the pilot-house only, but
the entire deck around it was now sur
rounded by flames. It was too late to
lower ourselves to the deck below I The
railing was all ablaze.
My arms, released wheel, from clasped their guardi- Mollie
anship over the but and
close to my heart; my eyes
brain were busy seeking for seemed some mode
of escape from death that each
instant more certain.
All at once my eyes rested en the
paddle-box. It had not taken fire yet;
the flying daih spray had saved it. I had
only to across the flame-swept
deck, and fling afforded open ready a little door in the ite
side, which access to
wheels, to lower my precious charge to
the water beneath in safety. No sooner
thought of than done,
Take my hand, Mollie, I said,
‘ and H 111
aftorall. Wrap yonrshawl across your
montn. .« o w, n ow—run .
, U*? d T^ Gl,!,? 1 * 0 Bped * J l
hashed "pen the httle do<w, and, j push- -
lr 'K Molhe mnde, Pa*****. and
f
^ter and crept out from
* at *•
Our appearance was hailed with . a
Bl ? on t of delight and relief, for all had
! 8 teen lven but , ns for theheaven-inspired “* J 0 ® 1 * wf ! Ban8t thought nave
: Now that, the danger
] was over, poor
i little Mollie fainted; and no wonder,
But she soon came out all right; and, as
' the people began to find out that the
“brave little bride girl,” of as only they few called hours, her,
was really that a wedding a trip,
md we were on our
there was a regular ovation, followed up
by nine deafening cheers,
' island which the Mobilia
The upon
had been beached was low, sandy
and uninhabited, altogether not an in-
viting place lor 300 people, without a
particle of shelter, this to pass half a day
upon, yet even in plight there were
few grumblers in our midst.
There was no room in our hearts for
any feeling but that of thankfulness for
our preservation from a fearful death,
and, after the peril of the last
hour or two. it seemed a small matter
to wait patiently for the commg of the
relief boats that we knew were sure to
arrive before many hours were past.
Though some miles tlio from any largo
city, wo know that burning steamer
must have been seen from tho farm¬
houses scattered sparsely alon^ the river
bonk, and that from these notices of tho
disaster would be sent to the nearest
town. And so it was. Before nightfall
several small steamboats arrived, and,
after that, but a few hours elapsed be¬
fore we found ourselves safely at home,
and our adventurous wedding trip at an
end. But its results were not ended, by
any means. The terrible nervous strain
I had endured, combined with the se¬
vere burns on my face and bauds, threw
me prostrate on a bed of sickness.
When I was able to report for duty
again, two weeks later, I learned that n
noble gift from the Mobilia’s grateful
passengers—no less a sum than $2,000
—lay Not only in the this, bank awaiting my order.
but the steamboat com¬
pany had voted me a gold medal and tho
appointment line. of pilot of the finest steamer
on their
Years have gone by since my brave
wife and I had so nearly journeyed out
of the world on our wedding trip. From
pilot I have come to be Captain and
part owner of one of those beautiful
floating palaces that used so to excite
my envy; but never do I pass without a
sickening the Mobilia shudder the the little stakes island in the where last
won
race-—a race of fire against steam, of life
against death.
Fish for Food.
During the last twenty years chemists
and nutritious physiologists value have of various been studying foods,
the
They have advanced so far as to corn
pu te the relative values of the common
articles of diet. These have been so ar
ranged in tablos that the bread-winner of
the household may see at a glance what
food will give the most nourishment to
his family. subject
A prominent of these studies
has been the common food fishes. At
the recent meeting of the Ameican Asso
ciation of Science, Professor Atwater, a
chemist, gave some of the results of
these experimental hundred pounds studies,
i n one of the flesh of
fresh cod and there only are eighty-three pounds
0 f water, seventeen pounds of
solids. In the same weight of salmon
there are sixty-six thirty-three and one-half pounds
of water, and and one-half
pounds of solids. The meaning of these
figures is that a family eating one hun
dred pounds of cod would be nourished
by only one-sixth of it, while if they
f ee d on the same weight of salmon, they
would find one-third nutritious,
Next in nutritive value to salmon come
fat halibut, shad, and whitefish. Then
follow mackerel, bluesfih, lean halibut,
striped bass, flounder, und lako trout,
The order in which value they are placed indi¬
ca tes their relative as food. Lean
beef is less nutritious than salmon, as it
contains seventy-five per cent, of water
and twenty-five per highly cent, of Bolids.
While fish is nutritious and
healthy, there is a somewhat exag
gerated notion that it is particu
larly valuable for brain food on ao
count of the large amount of phos
phorus which it contains. The notion
owes some of its popularity to a remark
alleged to have been made by the late
Professor Agassiz. “When I wish to bo
very brilliant,” he is reported assaying,
“I eat fish for dinner. But Professor
Atwater says that the notion is not
founded upon fact. While fish is excel
lent there i® evidence to prove that
the flesh of fish is richer m phosphorus
than are other meats. Youth s (Jorapan
ton.
Feeding on One’s Self.
When tho human practically body suffers from a
lack of food it feeds upon it
self and absorbs its own substance as
food. Every one exhibit knows that certain ani
mals normally themselves this under process certain of
feeding conditions upon The humps of the camel
or
those of the Indian cattle visibly de
« rea8e . aud ma y ^Plf* altogether, if
the animals are starved. A superfluous
»tore of fat, in other words, is made use
? f nnder the exigency of hunger. Bo it
18 \ 4 lH bears and other animals
which hibernate . cold. The or bear, sleep through the
'wmter s which in an-
4nmn retires to winter quarters in a well
favored condition, ,**“ comes forth in spring
kan and fat « have been
absorbed m his nutrition, and the suc
f new stores 8UMme of / staple ^ food to foundation be utilized
during the next winter. With man, wo
repeat, the phenomena of starvation are
esaent.ally fated* similar In the starving man
the the body are the firstsub
stances weight to the disappear. of The fate lose
to extent 93 per cent.;
next in order the blood suffers; then the
internal organs, such as liver and spleen,
suffer; the muscles, bones, and nervoUs
gVHt ,. m tfje laKt low . weiK ht. In
due time, also, the heat of that the body de
creases in to such of an starvation extent is ultimately really"
death a case Wfion ■
cyMe o{ death from loss of heat.
the temperature falls to about 30 deg.
Fahrenheit death ensues. This decrease
arises from the want of bodily fuel or
food; ’ but the immediate cause of the
fata , endi ng of such a case is decrease
of temperature. It is likewise a curious
fact, that the application effectual of in reviving external
wa nnth is oven more
animals dying of starvation than a sup
ply of food. In exhausting diseases in
laa “> the phenomena indeed, are strik
mgly like, and, those of starvation, thoroughly the
analogous to observed.— Chamber*'
h« w ,: facte are
Journal.
An the English curate happened and to preach
on wages of sin, to make some
uncomplimentary prodigal A references to the
the son, young the scapegrace in
congregation fancied sermon was
aimed at himself. He borsewhip|ied the
curato the next day.
SOUTHERN NEWS,
Good tobacco grows in White county,
Ark.
At Little Rock the telephone has 170
subscribers.
Land is selling in Sumter county, Ga.,
at $15 per acre.
Land in Louisana can be bought at $2
to $25 per acre.
The total bonded debt of the city of
New Orleans is $15,929,638.
There has been 140 rainy days in Jack¬
sonville, Fla., this year.
At Galveston an estimate puts the
cotton crop at 5,567,000 bales.
The receipts of cotton at Savannah net
over half a million bales.
At Bay St. Louis, Miss., Conrad Hoff¬
man picked 5,000 oranges from one tree.
Morgan City, Louisiana, shipped I SO,
000 oysters to New Orleans in one week.
Cleveland county, N. C., will consume
1,000 Tennessee hogB next year.
Many citizens of Biloxi, Miss., have
not yet gathered their oranges.
There are seventy-five inmates in the
deaf and dumb asylum at Austin, Tex.
Ten thousand children attended school
in Hinds county, Miss., during the past
year.
Receipts of cotton at Wilmington, N.
C\, during November, 30,430 bales,
against 18,471 bales in November, 1879.
The debt of Columbus, Ga., is $540,-
800. Only $26,000 of old bonds remains
to be exehaged for five per cents.
Adams county, Mississippi, contains
22,906 inhabitants, of which 18,059 are
colored.
There were 4,255 letters mailed at
Birmingham, Ala., in the first seven days
of this month.
Tobacco outlook has increased the val¬
ue of timbered land in Buncombe coun¬
ty, North Carolina, fifty per cent in three
years. land
Arkansas has 8,635,000 acres of to
give to actual settlers. The State Land
office receipts are $10,000 in excess of ex¬
penses. Joseph Sewell, fifteen of Geor¬
on acres
gia upland that had been in cultivation
fifty years, made eleven bales of cotton
averaging over 500 pounds apiece.
The bulk of the Louisiana cane crop
is uninjured, and it is thought that the
crop will lie the largest made in nearly
twenty years, reaching 225,000 1 ogs
heads.
Darien, Ga., timber merchants intend
doing a larger business this year than
they have done since the war.
Official returns of the census from all
the counties of Georgia, except three,
show a net increase in the last decade of
527,657.
Counties in Georgia having the largest
population: Fulton, 49,515 ;• Chatham,
46,110; Richmond, 84,569; Bibb, 27,140;
Burke, 27,127 ; Floyd, 24,418; Houston,
22,412.
One of the most valuable features of
the Memphis sewerage: system is the en¬
tire abolition of privy vaults, death deal¬
ing nuisances in large cities.
R. Y. McAden, a Charlotte banker, is
erecting a cotton factory in Gaston coun¬
ty, N. C., to have 7,000 spindles. The
seventh cotton factory in that county.
A yellow brocade silk dress, 127 years
old. is shown in the industrial exhibition
at Charleston. The silk was spun in
South Carolina and woven in England
for Mrs. Pinckney, wife of the Chief Jus¬
tice of the Province of South Carolina.
About 19,000 cattle have been receive;!
in Farquier county, Va., in the last
three months. They are brought from
Tennessee and southwest Virginia and
fattened for the Baltimore arid Washing¬
ton markets.
At the rate of $24 per month the 30
convicts now on hand will bring a reve¬
nue to Greene county, Ala,, of $8,640.
It is said that the convicts will tie well
clothed and kindly treated, but will be
required to do good work.
The report of the State Auditor of
North Carolina shows that the valuation
of land lias increased in eight years $13,-
550,000, or twenty per cent. The in¬
creased value of town lots is $6,000,000,
or fifty j*r cent.
Texas is entitled to the banner which
she gave to Georgia four years ago for
polling the largest Democratic majority
in a presidential election. Tilden had
over 80,000 majority in Georgia and
about 40,000 in Texas. Hancock lias
6 ’,000 in Texas and about 35,00ft in
Georgia. It said to from the tax books,
is appear,
that the value of property in eleven
counties of Georgia (Columbia, Harris,
Thomas, Walker, Elliert, Randolph,
Chatham, Cherokee, Hancock, Houston,
and Monroe) in ’74 was $46,673,679, and
in 188 , $36,188,380. This is thought to
show the correctness of Hon. A. 11.
.Stephens’ statement that (he people of
Georgia have been growing poorer.
This Pail Mall Ocutelte says England
can no longer furnish her own butter,
because of the the dairy maid, Fanners’wives with her pail, is
a daughters thing past. think dairy work degra- nud
now a
dation. Dairv farming in France is a
great of and profitable dairy farmer industry, often receiving the daugb
ter a n
dower of #20,000 on her wedding day.
labor, Much of it is the product of her own
NUMBER 48 .
How to Make Coffee.
Select with critical discrimination tho
best of genuine Mocha; or. in default of
this, it Old Government Java. Never buy
as roasted and ground in our stores,
In these processes and in the keeping
some of the finest of the aronyi must
necessarily coffee and be lost. Itoast your own
self. Boast grind your own coffee your
it in an iron or other stew
pan, which is thoroughly cleaned and
scoured after each using. It will serve
groatly to retain the aroma to throw in a
piece of tho sweetest of butter, about the
size of a chestnut. When this is melted
it will throw around each particle of
i often a thin, buttery film, which will do
much to prevent the escape of the deli
cate coffee bouquet. Keep stirring con-
1 / Allow to romaui until the coffee
•
. Browns 1 to nc any i blackness. . J )r<,wn > but Grmu not to until small it
grounds, but do not make tho very com
mon mistake ot grinding to a powder,
, east ai , tl porcelain-lined, grounds in an earthen, or at
bowl. Cover with
boiling water. Set on a warm place on
tno stovo, but not hot enough to make it
boil, Now and allow to infuse for half an hour.
strain. Wo have now an exquisite
coffee flavoring
A very delicate coffee flavoring may
be obtained by another process, as fob
lows: Roast and grind your coffee as di
rected in a previous recipe. Now reduce
to grounds, and throw these grounds
directly the fire. into the cream before it is set
on is heated Now, l»y the time the cream
up to tho boiling point, tho
whole mass will bo pervaded by a very
delicate coffee bouquet. Of course the
cream must be carefully strained before
•you proceed to freeze.
It will strike tho housewife at first
reading as simply incredible that the full
aroma of tho coffee berry can bo extract
ed without any application whatever of
tiro. The experiment will delight as
well as surprise ull Indies of intelligence
nnd taste who once put this to the tost,
Tim cold process was first, devised aim
ply with a view of preventing, as fur as
possible, coffee the escape of tho aroma of the
berry, which is as volatile as it is
delicate, less uud all ordinary processes more
or sacrifice. Take five ounces of
best Mocha or Old Government Java,
roast and grind to a coarse powder in a
way laid down in the previous recipe,
pour tho grounds into a glass bottle or
decanter; of cold pour on a sufficient quantity
water to cover the coffee, stop
tho bottle or decanter close, set in u
wunu situation for thirty thirty hours ;
now filter tho infusion by passing it
through placed some fine lawn or blotting
P“Per on a glass funnel or strain
through This muslin.
process has been tried with hot
water us well ns with cold, and, while it
contradicts all prevailing impressions to
say so, this still remains the fact, that
the cold water produces the best result,
Let each housekeeper try both the hot
and cold water process, and decide for
herself which result gratifies her tho
most.
It will be observed that tho delicate
anil highly aromatic infusions obtained
by any of tho foregoing processes will
bo fully available for hot breakfast cof
fee, for ice-cold coffee, for ooffee-ioe, or
for coffee ice-cream.— Philadelphia
Timen.
ir,™ How «« to Write u . im w,.n Well.
We believe that the whole of this
method is a mistake ; that there is no
single system of meeanique for writing,
and that a child belonging to the edu
fated bettor classes and more would easily ho if, taught after much being
once enabled to make and recognize
written letters, it were let alone, and
praised or chidden, not for its method,
but its result. Let the boy hold hie pen
as he likes, and make his strokes as ho
likes, and write at the paeo he likes—
hurry, but of course, being discouraged
insist strenuously and persist
ently Me, that his copy shall be legi
shall boolean, and shall ap
proacli the good copy sot before him,
namely, rubbishy a well-written letter, line, not writ- a
ten text on a single
as did nobody will but a the writing-master world’s end.
ever or write to
Ho will make a muddle at first, but he
will soon make a passable imitation of bis
copy, octeristio and and ultimately hand, develop which a char- he
bad good, strong but will be may either
meaningless, or not
This Will undecided, or illegible.
hand alter, at course, very
greatly as ho grows older. It may alter
at 11, because it is at that age that
the range of the eye is fixed, and short
sight betrays itself; and it will alter
at ] 7, because then the system of tak
ing notes at lecture, which ruins most
hands, will have cramped and tern
porarLly spoiled the writing; but the
character will form itself again, ftn ,i
will never be deficient in clearness or
decision. The idea that it is to be
clear will will have stumped itself, destroyed and con- by
fidence not have lieen
worrying little rules about attitude
irritation and angle and shape which the very
of the pupils a5re, ought to con
vince the teachers from some per
Honal will peculiarity, ho'does inapplicable. anvthim? The lad
will write, write as as no uoch anytning else else that tzint
he cares to do, as well as he can, and
mS ever rTettS C heSte 1 iuFSJ; tom
assistance, j and the master’s
somo re
monstrances on his illegibility will tie
attended to like any other caution given
in the curriculum. — “ Learning to
Write" in Papular Afe fence Monthly.
»
Bv too much courtesy men may be
come civility discourteous, and by excess of
uncivil. A gentleman of infinite
complaisance was about to take leave of
another of like disposition. The latter
iiiHiHted on HCK*in# nim to tho door of liiw
houKc. Tho former retimed, and after
many hin host graciuua word* looked the door on
and ran down the Ateircaac.
Jfut tho host, opening hia window, light
ly leaped into the street #nd was ready
to hand his guest into his carriage.
“ You might have broken your neck,”
; said the entertained. “True,” replied
the entertainer, "but bettor so than
break tho canons of politeness.”
! -.....
“Bnat.li we dance t" ask* the Syracuse
Standard. If you step on a carpet tack,
! or chair, run your shin bone against the a rocking
when in search of soothing
1 'syrup, you will dance without stopping
to ask any questions.
mt minamlle gulunnre.
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i.uieitAX, rmunm for jioss spaok
facts for the curious.
lT . >d that rhymes exist in tha
18 » n no
English language for the words silver,
orange, month, kiln, bilge and gulf.
It has been said that man is the only
animal that makes use of tools, but the
statement has been controverted, ob
servation having shown that other ani
mala do occasionally employ tools. This
i» especially the case with monkeys,
which in confinement have been ob
served to use stones to crack nuts, and
sticks or leather straps to draw toward
them objects which lay beyond their
reach.
Shakspeare uses more different words
than any other writer in the English
language. Writers on the statistics of
words inform us that lie uses about
15,000 different words in his plays and
sonnets, while there is no other writer
who uses so many as 10,000. Some few
writers use os many as 12,000 words, but
tho great majority of writers do not em
p l oy „ )0 ro than 8,000. In conversation
but from 3,000 to 5,000 different words
ar ^ U80 j %
# families, JA r „ the ,, averaging .. ofDul ’ five in thoro members, , ftre 2d ., who .°, ... 0d
in * room Tho
“; r " . ate eqU1 ofth !‘i lent .° to 18 P* *** ^ M 0 “ ?.
* he tenement-house districts. These
^ 0 fac tH - the enormous number of farm-
8 t > lv »'K . m a single room, and the high
death-rate prove that the horrors and
"} "“** ,h * tr ? 8 h ‘ iva b J itm
^Berated 8,n,t u ' ( oft f h m Those a wngle families room of depend five
f ° r W&W 00 wft B 08 ,){ from 10 to W
English shillings a week.
Tm? ease with which the Esqni
maux of St. Lawrence island can see to
in ? great w, distance, and the marvelous way
»oh news is transmitted from the
moHt distant points, is really wonderful,
^ native will describe tho dress and ap
pearance of a man who is approaching at
11 sharp-eyed (Treat distance. A white man, even a
that it sailor, can just make out
is a human figure. So if anything
occurs on the coast, if a piece of “wreck
be comes ashore, tho full particulars will
known in a short time 1,000 miles
from tho place where it occurred. It is
a wonderful system of telegraphy—one
native rushing off to pass the news to
another, and thus speeding intelligence
over hundreds of miles in a single day.
From the examination of a book com
piled certained, 2,000 years B. 0. it has been as
what has long been supposed,
that Olialdon was the parent land of
compilation astronomy; for it is found, from this
and from other bricks, that
tho Babylonians catalogued tho stMra
and distinguished and named tho com
stollations. They observed the seventh tie
day ns one of rest. They invented
sun-dial to mark tho movements of tho
heavenly bodies, the water-clock t#
measure work time, and they speak in this
of the spots on the sun, a fact they
could only have known by tho aid of
telescopes, iiossessed, which observations it is supposed they
from that they
have noted down of the rising of Venus
and the fact that Layard found a crystal
lens in tho ruins of Nineveh, These
“bricks” contain an account of tho del
rative uge, substantially in Bible. the same as the nar
tho They disclose that
houses and lands wore then sold, leased
uml ruort K a K<’d, that money was loaned
ut interest, and that the market gardon
ers, to use an American phrase, “worked
0 tag u shares;” with that the farmer, when plow
his oxen, beguiled his laboi
with homely songs, two of which have
been found, and connect this very re¬
mote civilization with tho usages of
to-day.
A Diver’s Training.
Before a man becomes an expert diver
lie , must ... undergo a course of , se vere phys
leal training. I lie atmospheric pressure
on the surface w fifteen pound* for every
square inch of the body .and on the av
f tmt ra B” the outside b>jsomethinglike and inside fifteen beiM tons,
effnal, this pressure unnoticed,
thirty-four immense feet weight descent m
At every of under
WRter «■ Insure is increased one at
mospliere, IfMenpouml. , or the tlio additional inch, pressure of
to square and as
»t is absolutely necessary to have the air
SF®? that 8 of '? la “ 10 armor fully equal be to
the water, some idesjean had
what the diver must withstand, even
*tthe moderatodepth oftlurty-four feet
though the mhabng relieves of this tl.e compressed unpleasant
air m u measure
nation. When the distance is in¬
creased to a l hundred or a hundred and
tmendurable-the fifty feet, he sensation blood becomes almost
starts from to.
eyes, ears mouth, and even from the
P° rcs the skin, and on returning to
the emface extreme exhaustion is the re¬
? ul4 ‘ Me 80 constituted phvs
^7 that they cannot remain under
water at all. I Fie greatest depth teat is
? ve r att ““« d “ «“• hundr ed and fift Y
diver . Md th «? experienced
can remain at this point but five or
minutes without serious injury.
?\ tides ver8 of great to ^ value, ^ ^ remaining long
c 'tough to attach a chain or rope. At a
hJd u f t old diver can remain
, |
J J“ our *- ’according to the strength
01 tbe * ver '
How They Build Sewers In Paris.
“I watched them building sewers, near
the Seine, in Paris,” said a Chicago cap
‘falist dld *ork. to a local But reporter. let me toll “It yon was it splen- costs
mom-y. The sewer I saw constructed
cost $50 per lineal foot.”
“What was the process ?
first place, the trench waa
deep and eight or ten feet
ftewera are made five feet in
dimeter. 4 When the trench l* dog they
I* 11 *' m wooden pattern—something like
^ 7 0U warn to go to work and start with
“ ““BfpWHC and build a barrel around it.
Ar °und this wooden pattern they pack
"tones ami fill iu with cement. Nothing
w,,r °. the Anyltody can do this. Theyeui
Ptoy commonest kind of unskilled
: labor. The stone that is used is itself a
°f cement, and when packed with
cement it makea a solid rock foundation,
When completed the wooden pattern is
taken out, and what is left is a five-foot
hole through a solid rock, that will out
l**t time hmU.”