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OfiKEKAL. NEWS.
North Carolina lias 117 tobasco fac
tone a making buscuits
Is Florida they are
\ pastry from peanut flour.
m Virginia this
ThE peanut crop of year
jg a fail' re,
Richmond, Va., is to have a new city
kail, to cost $300,000.
Thb cotton seed oil mill at Tuscaloosa
,1,1 soon be in operation.
The Texas university has 167 students,
40 0 f whom are women.
The new woolen mills at Richmond,
y a co ver half an acre of ground.
j
The sugar cane crop of Alabama is
almost an ent jre failure around Eufaula,
Ala.
The increase in the taxable property
of Georgia last year was nearly $20,000,
000 .
Cities in the south are growing so fast
that they must be supplied with street
railways.
The demand for public land in Missis
gippi for the last few months has been
unprecedented.
Land is now selling in Montclair, Fla .,
for $300 per acre, which only cost $5 an
acre one year ago.
More dwelling houses have been erec¬
ted in Richmond, Ya., this year than any
like period of her history.
The Georgia Senate has selected Mrs.
J. R. Gregory, of Atlanta, to paint a por¬
trait of Alex. H. Stephens.
At the Tracy, Tenn., coal mines, on
Cumberland mountain, 930 hands are
employed, and 404 coke ovens in use.
Jaaanese persimmons are produced
in Florida to measure nine inches in cir¬
cumference and weigh eight ounces.
The southern states have pine timber
enough to last tbe whole country, at the
present rate of consumption, 250 years
Twenty establishments in Richmond,
Va., manufacture agricultural implements
and other machinery, employing 3,500
lands.
On some plantations near Montgomery,
Ala., water for drinking purposes is
hauled a distance of three miles. Some
parties haul it from the city.
Oranges in Florida are bursting and
dropping from the trees. This is sup¬
posed to be the result of so much wet
Heather following a severe drouth.
Mr. Blaidsdell, a Congregational
minister from Vermont, has settled at
Tavares, Fla., with 500 colonies of bees.
His purpose is to breed bees for expor¬
tation.
A persimmon grown on the place of
Mrs. Hoover, near Jacksonville, Fla,,
measures three and a half inches in di¬
ameter and seven inches in circumfer¬
ence.
The experiment of making glass from
natural glass, has been successfully tried
at Wellsburg, W. Ya. The new process
is • saul . - to , , be much i. cheaper , and , to . make
better and clearer glass.
AtB . „ ebee, , Ark., . . a nursery . has . been
established on a colossal scale to grow
shade and ornamental park trees. Re
centiy Atlanta’s authorities have pureba
Bed _ a 5,000 p aaa young plants , . of c the ,, umbrella , „
palm variety to plant in their streets for
shade.
A * correspondent tells how they sell i,
“moonstnne” whiskey in North CaroHna:
“On the roadside a big horn is hung to
a tree. You blow a blast and a girl steps
out and tells you to put your hand into
her pocket. You comply. You drop
Some money into the pocket and take
out your bottle and go. Flirting is at
peril, fora , six-foot , , moonshiner , . -
_ your is
in point-blank range with his hand on
the trigger of his persuader.
T Information , has been , received . , at . the .,
office of the National Cotton Planters’
Association that if a competitive trial of
jute decorticators can be had at the
coming P outers Convention, to be held
in Vicksburg on the 21st of November,
that Hon. George West, member of Co.i
gress from New York, ’ and the jute man
Hi ae hirers of the North ,, will , be present ,
irith at least $10,000 in premiums to the
•Uccessful machine. The Northern man
ofacturers will be willing to pay twice
tms sum for the patent . .... right on such , a
machine.
The rice planters of the Cape Fear
liver have been very much encouraged
of late years, and the interest in the bus
iuess has gradually increased from about
, 3,000 bushels in 1870 to about 65,COO in
1882, with a prospect of a still larger in
erease In 1883 ; but the late storm and
Consequent high tides, with the heavy
tains since, have damaged the crop verv
heavily, by which , at xi least xx twenty-five I c
Per cent of the entire crop, it is estima
ted, was destroyed. But for the storm
«* crop ™ld have yielded 80,000 boah
sis.
New Orleans is seriously considering
the propriety of the general cremation
°fits dead. Its peculiar situation, the
learn ees of the water to the surface of
the ground, and the danger of yellow fe¬
ver, are making the expediency of the
Quick combustion of bodies by fire, in
•teadof thbir slower disintegration by
teygen in the ground, a question of the
r H H WEEKLY
VOLUME VI.
near future. The recent demonstration
that the soil of yellow fever cemeteries is
impregnated with germs of the disease
has deeply impressed public opinion in
the Crescent City.
In the Dentist’s Chair.
“No, sir,” said the dentist, “I never
tell women anything but the truth. If
I tell a man an operation will be painful
he is apt to find some excuse for delay¬
ing it or even dodging it altogether.
But a woman would deliberately walk
to the chair if she thought her head
was to be yanked off. Give me a woman
for cool pluck every time. ”
“But children ?”
“It is wrong and foolish to deceive a
child about such things. If he is told
he is not to be hurt and then is hurt he
will never take your word again, and will
hate you and resort to almost any means
to keep away from a dental office after¬
ward. I always tell a child the opera¬
tion will hurt a little, but that I will be
careful. I can usually play on a child’s
pride and make him very brave. H he
is handled properly he will train his
pluck for the most painful operation,
aud the usually when he is dismissed from
chair he is surprised that the pain
has been no more severe. You know
the extent of pain, or, indeed, of every¬
thing is apt to be measured by one’s ex¬
pectation of what is to be done.”
“You have to deceive men, do you?”
“Yes, generally. They are consum¬
mate cowards. Yesterday I made one
of my friends pull his own tooth.”
“How?”
“He wished Hie to look at his teeth
and tell him what they required, and
was very careful to instruct me to do
nothing more than to look at them. I
found one that could not be saved and
should be extracted at once. I knew if
I told him he would not let me take it
out, so I slipped some forceps in my
pocket when he was not looking, and
went on fumbling about his face, occa¬
sionally putting a finger into his eye,
until he concluded it was safer to keep
his peepers closed. By quick and pre¬
cise work I laid hold on the tooth with
the forceps before he knew what was np,
but as soon as he felt the pain he grabbed
my hand and pushed it away so frantically
as to throw forceps, tooth and all through
the window in front of him. Of course
when it was all over he was glad it was
done, but he won’t be likely to close his
eyes in my chair again. ”—New London
Day.
THEY MUST STEAL.
Carious Oapcm of Kleptomaniacs Who
Can’t Help Stealing.
“And so you thought kleptomania an
elegant synonym for plain stealing?”
said a well known retail dry goods mer¬
chant to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch re¬
porter, who had expressed some doubts
on the subject. “Oh, no; there are in
St. Louis dozens of ladies, ’ the wives or
daughterg of wealthy citi eilg) who are
addicted to kleptomania. Every prom
inent dry ? goods % store has several such
cuatome g nd when kuowu they are
followed from the time they enter the
store until they leave it, and by careful
watching, every little article they ab
stract is noted down and included m
their bill9> wtl ich are always paid with
oub demur.
“One young lady kleptomaniac mani
feats her disordered mind in stealing
batton8; everything elge ig gacre d, but
gbe invariably edges up to the button
counter and slyly slips a card with a
dozen or so of buttons into her reticule.
^^ kind satisfies with! her;
^ her reach. Any
still her bill for buttons during the year
j* something that would surprise you.
As her family are good K customers we
offered to back the b „ tt ona. But
n0) t h e y ga jd they would rather consider
anything she took out of the store in
the light * of a purchase. Now the young
]ady ques tion is a model of probity in
ab other respects, and seems to be per
fectly unconscious of any transgression
bf the moral law.
pftgk)r ig B confirmed kleptomaniac,
mnck to the sorrow of the good allowed man,
her husband. She is never to
8° oat shopping without being accom
pamed £ bv some one, and a messenger is
mployed to retu rn the purloined value. arti
c ] eg( which are usually of trifling
A venerable old lady, a devout member
the Presbyterian Church; and a real
motherly J old soul, is a victim to the
habit< She is a widow and the mother
G f a young lady, the announcement of
whose prospective marriage to one of our
oteer day^^The old^y is wealthy in and
no t addicted to extravagance any
thing. She will steal regardless of the
value of the article, and if nothing else
time she w^TdetecTed m our
s t ore the salesman brought her to my
private office, and complained that she
stolen some cotton hose. I thought
it an ordinary ^ case of theft, and gave
her gevere 2 ture on the ffiora ] wrong
0 j pilfering, interlarded with threats of
condign punishment on a repetition of
*j£>T£, oontrol
claimed that she was unable to
this horrible habit. She gave me her
name and address, and when I verified
them I put the case down as one of
kleptomania, and subsequent events
proved that I was right.”
The Army. —About seventy-five Army per
cent, of the soldiers in the Union
during the war were natives of the
United States ; nine p«r cent Gorman,
and seven per oent. Irish.
CONYERS, GA.. OCTOBER 19. 18S3.
THE GRAB-BAG.
THE BAD BOY AT A SOCIABLE OUT
WEST.
His Via Appointed a Committee to Get up n
Grnb-ilatt—He and His Chum Fix it and
Cause a Commotion at the Sociable.
[From the Milwaukee Suu.]
“You see, ma was appointed a com¬
mittee to fix up a grab-bag,” said the
bad boy to the grocery man. “Me aud
my chum were digging bait that morn
said, ing to ‘Hennery go fishing, when pa came out and
I don’t believe anything
but hard work will reform you. I want
you to spade up the ground under the
currant bushes.’ I asked him if he
wanted a hump-backed, disfigured boy,
made so by hard work. Pa said ho
would risk the hump, and told me to
pitch in, and then went down town.
My chum said he would help me, and
me and him got the job done before two
o’clock. When we got done I came in
and found ma had finished the grab-bag,
and had it all loaded, with the top
fastened with a puckering string, and
hung on the back of a ciiair. Ma was
up-stairs getting her Sunday clothes on,
to go to the sociable, so it didn’t take
me and my chum long to empty the bag
and get first choice. Then i got our
mouse trap and took it to the barn, and
cauglit two nice big fat mice and
put ’em in a collar-box with holes cut in
it to give ’em Then air, and dropped that in
the bag. my chum remembered
a big snapping turtle he had in the swill
barrel, and me and him got that and
wiped it as dry as we could, and tied
it all up but its head and put that in
just as the deacon’s hired man came to
take the bag over to the sociable. Me
and my chum went down to his house
and waited till the people got over tc
the sociable and then wo went over and
got up in a tree where we could see
through an open window, and hear all
that was going on. Pa, he stood over
by the bag and shouted, ‘Ten cents a
grab; don’t let any body be backward
in a good cause.’ Three or four had
put up their ten cents and made a grab
when an old maid from Oshkosh, who
had been to the springs for hysterics,
got in her work on the collar-box,
When she got the cover off, one of the
mice that knew his business, jumped on
her shoulder and crawled down her
neck, and the other dropped down on
the floor and started around to meet the
other one. You’d a dide to seen her flop
And scream. The deacon’s folks thought
it was another attack of hysteria, and pa
and the deacon got her on the sofa and
held her while they poured paregoric
and cayenne pepper down her. When
slie got loose she screamed all the harder.
Then one of the other women see the
mouse and got up in a chair and shook
her skirts. Just then the bottom of the
chair broke and let her fall over on ma
and tore her bangs all down. Ma called
her a ‘hateful thing’ and told her she
ought to be ashamed of herself. Finally
they got things in order, but no one
wanted to tackle the bag, and as here
was where the profits came in, pa braced
up and said he’d like to know why every¬
body acted so ’spicious, he’d like to see
a grab-bag that would give him the hys¬
terics, and said ‘women are always get
tin’ scared at nothin’.’ He then put
down ten cents and jammed his hand
way down in the bottom of the bag, but
he didn’t keep it there long. He gave
a jump and yanked his hand out, yell¬
ing ‘tlmnder 1’ Then ho swung it over
his head to shake it off, and brought it
down on the deacon’s head, and smashed
his specs. Then he swung it the other
way, and struck the woman president and of
the sewing society in the stomach
knocked her down in the deacon’s lap.
After pa had hollered himself hoarse,
and thumped half the people in the
room, the turtle let go, and pa said ha
‘could lick the man that put that steel
trap in the grab-bag.' Then pa and ma
got mad, Und everybody begun to jaw,
and they all went home. I gness pa
won’t have a hump-backed boy, but I’ll
get even with him, you just see if I
don't.”
Aud the boy went out and took a sign,
“Warranted Fresh,” from the fruit
stand, and hung it on a blind horse that
was hitched to a garbage wagon in front
of the store.
Land, Labor and Capital.
Professor Sumner of Yale College has
just published a little volume entitled
“What Social Classes Owe to Each
Other,” in which occurs the following
apt illustration of the relations of land,
labor and capital to production: of
“The Arabs have a story a man
who desired to test which of his three
sons loved him most. He sent them
out to see which of the three would
bring him the most valuable present.
The three sons met in a distant city,
and compared the gifts they had found.
The first had a carpet on which he
could transport himself and others
withersoever he would. The second
had a medicine that would cure any dis
ease. The third had a glass in which
he could see what was going on at home;
he saw his father ill in bed. The first
transported all three to their home on
the carpet. The second administered
the medicine and saved the father’s
life. The perplexity of the father when
he had to decide which son’s gift had
the most value to him s illus¬
been of
trates very fairly the difficulty of saying
whether land, labor or capital is most
essential to production. No production
is possible without the co-operation of
all three.
Praise never gives us mnch opinion, pleasure
unless it concur with our own
and extol us for those qualities in which
we chiefly excel.
A CLEVER CAPTURE.
How a Shrewd Swindler Obtained Soae
Jewelry aud was Arrested.
The Birmingham police have succeed¬
ed iu arresting a man giving the name
of George Brain, of Holloway, London,
who is supposed to have been engaged in
an extensive attempt to swindle Bir¬
mingham jewelers. A telegram was re¬
ceived by Messrs. Goode & Son, gold
chain manufacturers, Birmingham, from
their customers, Messrs. Lawson, Son &
Ward, jewelers, Hatton Garden, Lon¬
don, askiug them to send an assortment
of gold chains to their traveler, Mr.
Donohoe, at the Royal Hotel, Bath.
They accordingly dispatched a parcel of
gold chains to the value of £75. Tele¬
grams to the same effect were received
by other Birmingham jewelers. Messrs.
Goode & Son also wrote to their house
in London announcing the dispatch of
the goods. Next day they received a
telegram from Messrs. Lawson, Son &
Ward to the effect that their traveler
had not ordered any goods and that he
was not in Bath at all. Thereupon a
communication was sent to the Birming¬
ham Detective Department, the result
being that the officers in charge of the
case wired to the Bath police to delivery go to
the hotel at Bath and stop the
of the goods and arrest the sham traveler.,
It happened, however, that before the
arrival of the telegram the prisoner had
tnken liis departure for Bristol, then
booked again for Bath, and afterward
prooeeded by the Flying Dutchman to
London. Tbe Bath police telegraphed
that the missing man was in the London
train. The Birmingham police tele¬
graphed to London, but the train had
then reached its destination, and for a
time the man wanted was lost. The
next information received by the Bir¬
mingham police was that the prisoner
had left instructions at the Royal Hotel,
Bath, for all parcels addressed to him
to be redirected to him at the Chalk
Farm Railway Station, London. Thi
parcel of jewelry had then arrived at
Bath. The Birmingham police tele¬
graphed to the Bath polioe to take the
jewelry out of the parcel and make a
dummy one and forward it to Chalk Farm
Station. This was done without any
delay, and Sergeant Ore was dispatched
from Birmingham to Chalk Farm to
keep watch at the station for any one who
came to claim the package directed to
Mr. Donohoe. The prisoner went to
Chalk Farm Station aud inquired if any
parcel had been sent to Mr. Donohoe,
and Sergeant Ore at once arrested him.
On being searched a number of valuable
stones and pledge tickets for with jewelry
were found upon him, together the
letter from Birmingham, dispatched announcing
that the jewelry would be by
train to him at Bath.
The Leopard and the Dog.
The leopard is a dangerous antago¬
nist, but, as a rule, it does not aspire to
larger victims than sheep and goats, the
smaller varieties of deer and antelope,
calves, and, above all, dogs. Now, the
poets, as Broome and Somerville, seems
to think the leopard looks upon the dog
as its natural master and conqueror,
whereas the fact is that the leopard looks
upon the dog as its natural food, The
leopard’s taste for dogs is oertainly one
of the most extraordinary phenomena in
natural flsh and history. that monkeys We say that fond cats of like
are nuts,
but these are mere passing whims, ca¬
prices for the moment, compared to the
sonstant passion of leopards delight for dogs.
It is a very Chinaman for its in
puppy, lor it will follow a man for milee
like his shadow if a dog be at his heels,
and it will be a very extraordinary dog
indeed if it does not at last give the
leopard its chanoe. The best of dogs
sometimes commit the indiscretion of
loitering behind its master or running
out of sight ronnd a comer in front of
him, and if he does this with a leopard
on his track, nothing more is ever seen
of the dog, and nothing more heard of
him but his last squeal as he is swiftly
snatched up off the path and carried with
a sudden rustle of foliage, down the
hillside. At night leopards will prowl
round the tent, sniffing under the can¬
vas for the dog that they can smell
within, or, in the hill stations, will
boldly come down among the houses and
carry off the pet of the establishment,
though servants may be moving about.
It is on record that in the station of
Gumsoor not a single dog escaped, and
nearly every resident of India who has
ever camped out in the jungle where
leopards are, or has lived in “the hills,”
has had some tragic experience of this
mania of the leopard for dogs. In about
the same degree, but obviously for very
different reasons, the monkey takes the
most profound interest in the leopard,
and when one is afoot the fourhanded
folk follow him as closely as they dare,
shaking the branches in their absurd
rage, making chattering furiously him. at thier Sometimes, enemy,
and faces at
however, the leopard stops abruptly and
glares at them, and the wretched
monkeys, their gathering overhead, that get so ex ¬
cited in demonstrations very
often one of their number is pretty sure
to lose its balance and tumble conven¬
iently into the leopard's month. A tra¬
dition was once widely current that the
panther was sweetly scented—says Dry
den : “The panther’s breath was ever
lamed for sweet”—and that this fragrance
was so fascinating to some small animals
that it entioed them to their death in
the jaws of the aromatic beast. It is a
fact, however, that the panther itself ie
peculiarly sensible to perfumes, and
among other instanoes is one of undeni¬
able authenticity of a panther being
tamed w»*h lavender water.— Belgravia.
NUMBER 30.
What Is a First-Class Driver.
The Springfield Itepublioan says :—
John Splan, who began his career on
the turf 17 years ago, when he was 17
years old, aud has handled many of the
best horses in the country, including
the famous Rarus, is as ready and slick
a talker as he is a driver. “Yes, sir, a
good driver is as essential as a good
horse. I don’t know as a good man
could do much with a stick of a horse,
but I have seen many a horse defeated
that would have won if its driver had
known his business. Just what makes
a good driver you can’t tell.
“You see, a driver has got to do
more than sit behind a horse. He must
look out for the shoeing, must get the
horse’s head just right, must study his
horse, know how he ought to be fed and
harnessed, and all that. There are
a hundred things besides the mere driv¬
ing that he must have his eye on and be
studying. Horses are just as different
as people. Some are time, nervous, and fretting
and stewing all the others are
so cold that a cyclone wouldn’t make ’em
jump. Now, yon see if a man who was
used to driving one of the nervous kind
took hold of a lazy horse he’d like as not
break him all up.
“There’s one thing a driver must have,
and that’s a cool head. He musn’t be all
down when he don’t win, or way up when
he does, bnt just take it as it comes and
go it again. I’ve seen men on the track
with money upon their horses who were
as worked up about it as an old lady that
had got to have her tooth pulled out.
That won’t do. I don’t take any stock
in cordials to give a man the neoessary
courage. A good night’s sleep is the
best thing that any man can take before
a race. Of course we bet on the races.
That’s what we are interested in; it is
part of our business. I don’t think
horsemen gamble muoh outside. They
put in their money on a horse just os a
man buys a barrel of flour and expects
to get more than ho gave for it. The
public think there’s a good deal more
crooked work than there really is. I
don’t know a driver, and I’ve slept with
most of ’em, who would pull his em¬
ployer’s horse to win money himself.
It wouldn’t pay. Driving is a profes¬
sion now, and a man who has paid $5,
000 or $10,000 for a piece of property
hunts till he finds a good man to take
care of it, and then pays him handsomely.
Most owners have all the money they
want and are anxious only that their
horses win. ”
Floating in Arctic Seas.
BODY SUPPOSED TO BE MASTER PUTNAM’S
—MEMENTOS recovered BY THE
NATIVES.
The following letter has been received
at the Navy Department from Mr. Henry
D. Wolfe, dated San Francisco, Cal.,
August 26:—
“I have the honor to enclose a button
(United States Navy) and a coin which
were handed to me in September, 1882,
by a Cape Prince of Wales the (Alaska)
native while I was residing at head
of Northern Bay. The man reported to
me that when the ice broke up in July
or August, 1882, a body clothed in deer¬
skins was washed ashore at the village
of Kingegan, near the Cape. At the
same time the hull of a whaler (I pre¬
sume the Sappho, lost in the spring of
1882) came on shore, and the natives’
attention was directed to the stripping
of the wreck. Being thus engaged the
'oody passed almost unheeded, but I
gathered from the men that a portion of
the clothing was afterward found on
the beach to which brass buttons were
attached, one of which and the coin en¬
closed my informant handed me. The
morning after the wreck came on shore
a gale sprung up, both ship and body
disappearing. visiting the
“In January, 1883, while
Selawig River, in the Arctic Circle, I was
told that the body of a white man had
been seen off Point Hope by the natives
of the village there, Tiglac. Some of
the people went off and tried to get it
on shore, but when it was touched with
their spears it immediately sank. It is
described as having had Chuckchie
clothing on, and as a big man, but cloth¬
ing all torn. I am led to premise under
the circumstances that this was Master
Putnam’s (Rodgers) body, and forward
these mementos that they may be per¬
haps recognized. ” enclosed eagle
The mementos are an
cent coined in 1858, with a hole through
it, and a small brass button of naval de¬
vice. The relics were objects of con¬
siderable interest at the Navy Depart¬
ment. The button is smaller than any
now used in the service. Past Assist
ant Engineer A. V. Zane, who was a
shipmate with Master Putnam on the
the Rogers, was positive that it did not
belong to Putnam as he was dressed en¬
tirely in deer-skins and wore no brass
buttons. The description of the body
corresponds with that of Master Putnam,
as he would be considered a very large
roan when compared with the natives.
The body did not belong to the Sappho,
as no lives were lost in that wredk
Spotted. —A letter was received a few
days ago at the office of a Boston horse
railroad eompany from a man in Eng
land who wrote that his conscience
troubled him and he wanted to confess.
He said he about eight or ten years ’
was, had
ago, a conductor ou that road, and
stolen sums aggregating between $200
and $300. He had no money to make
restitution, but he thought that confes¬
sion would be good tor his souL Refer¬
ence to the books of the company showed
that he had been “spotted” and dis¬
charged for stealing.
A BEAL NICE GIRL.
One of a Claaa .Seldom Seen and Never For
aouen.
The Washington Capital gives us
the following as its ideal of a real nice
girlI saw a girl come into the street
car the other day, though who had, I
was ready to bet, made her own dress,
and how nice she did look. She was
one of those clean, trim girls you see now
and then. She was about 18 years old,
and to begin with, looked well-fed,
though healthy and strong. She looked as
she had a good sensible mother
at home. Her face and neck and ears
and her hair were clean—absolutely
clean. How seldom you see that. There
was no powder, no paint on the smooth,
rounded cheek or firm, dimpled chin ;
none on the moist red lips; none on the
shell-tinted, but not too small ears; none
on the handsomely set neck—rather
broad behind, perhaps, but running
corded mighty prettily up into the tightly
hair. And the hair 1 It was of
a light chestnut brown and glistened
with specks of gold as the sun shone on
it, and there was not a smear of oil or
pomatum on it, and not a pin to be seen
in it.
As the girl came in and took her seat
she cast an easy, unembarrassed glance
around the car from a well-opened gray
eye, bright with the inimitable light of
“good condition,” such as you see in
some handsome young athletes who are
“ in training.” There were no tags and
ends, fringes, furbelows or fluttering
ribbons about her closely fitting but
easy suit of tweed, and, as she drew off
one glove to look in her purse for a
small coin for fare, I noticed that the
gloves were not new, but neither were
they old; they were simply well kept,
like the owner and their owner’s hand,
which was a solid hand; with plenty of
muscles between the tendons and with
strong but supple fingers. It would
have looked equally pretty fashioning a
pie in a home kitchen or folding a band¬
age in a hospital. It was a hand that
suggested at the same time womanliness
and work, and I was sorry when it found
a five-cent piece and had been regloved.
One foot was thrust out a little upon the
slats of the car floor—a foot in a good
walking boot that might have plashed
through a rainstorm without the fear of
damp stockings—and an eminently sen¬
sible boot on a two and one-half foot
with a high instep, a small round heel
and a pretty broad thread.
The girl was a picture from head to
foot as she sat erect, disdaining the sup¬
port of the back of the seat, but devoid
of the all whole appearance outfit to of be stiffness. from Perhaps hat
seen to
boots, did not cost $40; but I have seen
plenty of outfits costing more than ten
times or even twenty times that, which
did not look one-tenth or even ODe
twentieth as well.
His First Start.
Jay Gould when before the Senate
Committee said: “I was born in Rox
bury, Delaware connty, New York, on
May 37, 1836. My parents had a small
farm aud kept twenty cows which I as¬
sisted in tending. I attended school
about fifteen miles distant, and when I
was about fourteen years old obtained a
situation in a store in a neighboring vil¬
lage. I was much interested in mathe¬
matics, and used to get up at three
o’clock in the morning and study till
six, when the store was opened. I re¬
mained in the store for two years when
I made the acquaintance of a surveyor
who was making a survey of Ulster
county. He took me into his service at
a salary of twenty dollars per month. I
learned that my employer’s credit was
not very good, work and I was to obtain no
money for my until the map was
completed, so that I made sun-dials for
the farmers at one dollar apiece to pay
my expenses. I made surveys after¬
ward of Delaware and Albany counties,
and made in these contracts about five
thousand dollars. I then went into the
tannery business with a Mr. Pratt, of
Prattaville, and finally entered into part¬
nership with Charles M. Leupp, who
committed suicide.
“The first railroad with which I had
any connection was what is now a por¬
tion of the Rensselaer and Saratoga, of
which I was superintendent. During
the panic of '59 the stock went down,
very low, and I was able to buy in a.
large amount of stock which afterward
rose in value, and made a handiomo
profit.”
A Type-Setting Machine.
I saw the inventor of a new type-set¬
ting machine recently, says a newspaper his
correspondent. I did not see ma¬
chine, but if what he claims for it i*
true the day of the printer is drawing to
a close. It is one of the marvels of the
time. It will further help the cheapen¬
ing of the price of newspapers. His
machine hasa capacity of setting 40,00®
ems a day. It works with iron-clad ac¬
curacy, and avoids the fault of the pres¬
ent type-setting machine in that it can
“justify” the hand lines as method. a compositor No type can is
now with the
necessary with this machine, beyond a
few alphabets of the various kinds and
sizes required in the make-up of a news¬
paper; There is a key-board to These the
machine like that of a piano.
keys represent letters and punctuation
marks.
Playing on them impresses these forms
into a paper matrix similar to that now
employed in moulding the metal forms
employed upon the bullock press. In¬
stead of setting up type by the old
method and taking a matrix from the
locked-up form as a whole, the impression
is made direct from the machine one
letter at a time, so that when the type¬
setting machine is through the matrix is
instantly ready for the moulding of the
cylindrical forms employed upon this the
modern press. The value of one
feature in the mere saving of time is
B™**, because the gain of one minute
« the stereotyping of the farms. of *
office w of much value These machmes
«e be mg experimented with in the office
ot a Philadelphia newspaper. The m
Tentotsays thejoiachine can be furnished
ftt a C08 t of $ 70 0 each.
The eagle feels the best at a height of
12,000 feet above the earth, while tbe
minute yon get a man outlie roof of a
horse-block his knees begin word to weaken
and he can’t remember a beyond.
•‘Fellow-Citizens. ”