Georgia Historic Newspapers

    the CONYERS WEEKLY
volume X.
b etaster said, long ago:
Apo tremendous water powei
d what a its edge;
b wasted o'er all the world with
Bern an might supply
flour, legj^
fith a single prtvi _
iSX — than tvvo_Pe
Ration L is Jess is
of physicians more
increase percent, It is
la fire » nd one-half thousand
jjtot there are nearly two
physicians in the State of Illinois
ore No wonder many of
L,re necessary. other call ings.
L b c d rifting into
Ljey"‘onfire called the out other some day. of
.Baltimore firemen
reached the house one of
,Jtowa ' five" big pistol and, the standing chimney, be
{re d shots up
.tally the soot and fire dropped
m aa d the fire was extinguished,
concussi ion loosened the accumula¬
e and firemen of
soot. te police practice with
it city say it is an old
an and has never failed.
Dr. T. D. Crotbers is working hard to
that inebriety is contagious under
we has just
jtain circumstances. He
jilted a paper entitled: “Ccr ain
military and Psychical Phenomena m
Kbriety,” to illustrate his doctrine that
ideation may be imparted by eonta
j on when hereditary defects predispose
(system to such influences, That is
nay, a perfectly sober man brought
,contact with drunken men, may bo¬
nne drunk himself to all practical in
jt!,or an equally sober person whose
lienti, one or both, are hard drinkers,
Kj when exposed to some mental
lock, t
apparently become fully intoxi
led.
I Montana cattlemen are greatly alarmed
It the future, owing to the overstocking
■tie ranges. Last year witness- d a
Ljinflux of cattle brought there to,
inter, large herds were brought over
kieparched trail from the Rio Grande,
Win their famished condition placed
lirages already so fully stocked that
■hphenomenally mild winter could
pent heavy losses. To make matters
ferse the calf crop was unusally large.
|pto Ibleand Christmas the weather was favor
all was well, but since then,
le temperature ranging as low as forty
Wow and blinding storms,before which
Ittlo drift in spite of the cowboys’ef
*, reduce the cattle in flesh and so
lnten them an to make heavy loss; s
Writable if the cold weather continues.
I John T. Norris, of Springfield, Ohio,
peof West, the most famous detectives of
pe and the jails are full of men he
p brought to justice. He is not at all
pe sort of man, however, that we find
Wag the hero in detective literature,
fe is very singular in appearance and is
[ain and loquacious to a remarkable de
jfte. porris Says is the peeuiiar St. Louis species Globe-Democrat:
of the genus
etective. His methods of conducting
is business are essentially different from
tae of every other member of the fra
Mityknown to fame. .When he strikes
two he generally proceeds to let every-
3 jin it know who he is and why he
^present. He assumes other name
IW > Norris, His personal r appearance ■
iso easily described that it would
seem
^possible for any crook whom he pur-
8001 ‘o know it. A stiff leg makes
7successful disguise impossible. lie
assistants so far as known, and
has had success in catching and
"cting criminals, which has made
terror to the crooked people in the
® nt »ry in which he works.
®ce Piene Krapotkine, the Nihilist,
se brother recently commited suicide
n-einSiberia, has just concluded a
' « has been sent the
toatrliefl to printers,
“I n French and Russian
^ ra P°tkine has seen the in
ie f the prisons of both
for his countries,
escape from the fortress
and St. Paul, he would
i^beat > a or else work dead. now iu the mines
, , The story of
ythelatter !° ld by him is t0 Stepniak
twne >ro ’ ver y romantic.
L ^tedto “ ’ w had been dangerously
Whence be very weak during his
an d, therefore, was allowed
ia th e yard of tbe Nicholas
under guard of a single soldier
Wends planned hi
Rateable s escape, and, as
to corr mmnicate with him,
0n * . Wr . P*
kept in ans - A fast horse
Ulfch W .* ltio & on the next corner
0ne Nihilist hired a
'Baa a „j *f g tIle Hospital yard and
s clear \ s ’8 nid wben the coast
tfe ^®apital violin tJ ! acertain Vi Dlin began tune played
! yinj door just as
^afvo'id Krapotkine opened to admit
hi, Prwfl and knocked
escaped.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11. 1887.
A DAY.
Talk not of fad November, wh-n a day
Of warm, glad sunshine fills the sky
noon,
And a wind, borrowed from some morn
Juue,
Stirs the brown grasses aud the
spray.
On tho unfrosted pool the pillared pines
Lay their long shafts of shadow; the
rill,
Singing a pleasant song of summer still.
Aline of silver, down tho hill-slope shines.
Hushed the bird-voices and the hum of bees,
In the thin grass tho crickets pipe no
more;
But still the squirrel hoards his winter
store,
And drops Ins nut-shells from the shag-bark
trees.
Softly the dark green hemlocks whisper:
high
Above, the spires of yellowing larches
show,
Where tho woodpecker and home-loving
crow
And jay and nut-hatch winter’s threat defy.
O gracious beauty, ever new and old!
O sights aud sounds of nature, doubly dear
When the low sunshine warns the closing
year
Of snow-blown fields and waves of Arctic
cold!
Close to my heart I fold each lovely thing
The sweet day yields; and, not disconso¬
late,
With the calm patience of the woods I
wait
For leaf and blossom when God gives us
Spring!
G. Whittier, in Atlantic Monthly.
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A SWAMP MYSTERY.
by william o. STODDAKD.
The summer of the year 1862 was par
ticulaily olina. hot on the coast of North Gar
It even did something to coun
teract the more destructive heat of the
civil war.
General Burnside had captured a lono
reach of the seaboard, and had estate
lished his headquarters at Newberne
No battles followed very soon nor any
storms to speak of. but the army aud the
weather were fast getting into a high
state of preparation for either kind of
event.
There were Union troops at Fort Macon
and Morehead City, not many miles up
the coast from Newberne, and much pay
was due them.
The money came down from the North
in July, and a couple of paymasters re
ceived orders to go at once and deal it
out to the men.
Before the war a railway had been con
strueted from Newberne to Morehead I
its City. Its rails were still there, but all
r hand-car olling stock, with the exception of
one had gone into the interior
the State. The viaduct was only just
wide enough to carry the rails,and much
of its course was through a swamp whose
dense bushes were now luxuriatlv reach¬
track ing out as if they meant to capture the
before the end of the season.
The Quartermaster placed his one
hand-car at the disposal of the paymas¬
ters. He did so with the pleasant infor¬
mation that at the previous evening the
busy Confederates had made a raid and
had swept away all the pickets posted
along the line of the railway. New pick¬
ets had been posted, he told them, and
their proposed trip would be reasonably
safe.
“That is,” he said, “I guess you're
safe from any Confeds; but if you don’t
get be through before dark I'd advise you
to pretty WM prompt about answering A.ki any
tail. an to wide
this time. They won’t be slow about
taking Not care of themselves in the dark.
a man of ’em wants to go to Wil
mmgton just now, nor to Andersonville
C,ther '
That warning made the Paymaster
shake his head and grew in importance
before the hand-car set out, for it was
plain enough trip that it would be dark be
tor. ,h, could to half mode. Pro. i
ciselj how dork it would be or why was
not as yet imagined by anybody.
There were niue men huddled on that
hand-car when it went. A sergeant and
; four soldiers were its motive power,
guard and garrison. Tbe writer of this
story was Two~pa there altogether mastersj ________ as an adven
turer. with the rank
of major, ^blackbox and' one containing clerk were in ‘ charge
of over 180,000in
greenbacks, to be scattered among the
voiunteers on the morrow.
The air grew more and more close and
sultry, and just before night a sort bori- of
haze began to rise over the eastern j
zon.
“That’s it, Major, ” said the Sergeant
to one of the paymasters. “We're going
to hear from Cape Hatteras.”
“rtorm ‘Right coming?” ’Twont take it long
1 along.
o come.”
He was correct as to the time required
by Cape Hatteras, or whatever was man
aging that storm. The sky rapidly grew with
black as ink and darkness came
but moderate reference to the departing
sun.
Just before entering tbe denser thick
ets of the swamp, a picket was reached
and the officer iu charge repeated the
warning of the Quartermaster:
“Be ready to answer right away. It’ll
be pitch dark and some of tlje boys are
nervous, after last night’s work. They’ll j
Sh ThU 1U
PuIiSLtTwho w«to tho S^Sr Servant ■ but it wasa
“Well, now, Captain, we didn’t say
so, but we thought the trip ^° uld b ®,
safer bv night g than by day. The men
have got to have the money ”
“Hope the Confeds won t get it then
Put her through, sergeant, but look
sharp. The storm’s most got here.” He
also was correct about the weather. In
ten minutes more such a storm had ar¬
rived as was a credit to Cape Hatteras
and the whole seacoast of North Caro¬
lina. On roiled the handcar, its crouch¬
ing passengers drenched with rain that
fell in streams rather than drops. The
lightning flashed almost incessantly, and
the thunder seemed to be rolling around
all over the swamp. Except where a
streak of lightning cleft it, the darkness
was like a solid wall, and there was
neither headlight nor hand lantern pro¬
vided for that handcar.
“Worst storm I ever saw,” remarked
the Sergeant, and one of the brace of
men grunted who were acting as motive power
back at him. ‘It’s the worst
kind of a storm, but you can’t see it.”
It was a just correction of the state¬
ment made by the Sergeant, but at that
moment a hoarse, deep, all but sepulchral
voice from among the bushes and black¬
ness at the right of the track com¬
manded:
“Halt!”
the “Stop her! Quick, boys!” exclaimed
instantly Sergeant, and as the meu changed
from motive power into brakes,
he sprang from the car into water above
his knees and waded forward to answer
the hail and give the countersign.
It was all in vain. Down came a
double deluge of rain and thicker dark¬
ness. Then a vividness ot blue elec¬
tricity bushes danced through the dripping fol¬
and a great roar of thunder
lowed it as if in search of the hidden
“picket.” Neither rain, nor lightning,
nor thunder, nor the anxious question¬
ings of the Sergeant discovered him.
There he was, or must have been, dead
or alive, for he had said “halt,” buttha
was apparently all he had to say.
The Sergeant splashed his way back
to t0 the tnc hand-car, hand-car, using using very very strong strong lan- lan
guage, and it was decided to go forward.
clerk, “and they'd hit some of agreed us, sure!” with
Both of the paymasters
and one expressed his satisfaction
the box containing the greenbacks
was “That’s waterproof, than am,” said of
more I one
soldier8 - “This ’er rain’s got through
roof - 1 can feel at trickle down in
of me.”
The hand-ear was not propelled lightning rapid- and
Y after that ’ but the
worked harder than ever. Per
P 3 balf a mile llad been gained, when and
voice < 011 tbe left this time
80 near - bllt equally hoarse and per
shouted:
“Halt!”
Other words which seemed to follow
swallowed „ , up , by a wide-mouthed ., ,,,
l ft P °T thunder, and so was the feer
prompt response, but in ax iu
b< ? was alnon g tbe bushes,
Th ® flrst J e beard frora h ’ m was Y.
‘ B °y s > s U P t0 walst and S ethn S
“ Go on > Sergeant!’ shouted , one of the
“ They’ll be shooting at us
they don’t get an answer!” Burnside!"
“Hurrah for General
the Paymaster’s clerk, in a
effort to let any supposed but picket
which side he was on, a severe
from the further end bade him:
“Shut up! Halt! Come along!”
“I’m coming!” shouted the Sergeant.
Paymaster!”
threatening voice beyond tan.
For a full quarter or an hour the Ser
groped and floundered among
bushes. Again he used strong
very strong, indeedl;; but not a
came to meet him nor did another
reply to his repeated requests that
picket should advise him as to what
he should take.
The party on the hand-car cowered
sbeet8 aad torre “ ts and ^ hol e
llb P° nds of fa ' h “- water ’ and h .°P« a .
there might . be a cessa ion of e
.tot“J
' lle m ‘’n would be less a e o . ot
.
I g ; e « •, U P’ „ ^He id th voice of th
; was only J. three
the ca but he was isible ,
“The boys know who we are,” said
of of the the soldiers, soldiers, ‘ ‘ and we can go on:
it’s an »<«i awful mean joke jototo to play in
h a a rain ram as as this.” this. ”
trap of some kind. We’ll never get to
, , City, , „
r™ 1 _ “There’s as much danger s? be
as there is before.”
“ ‘I’m T, ~ glad I T hurrahed for Burnside,”
the Paymaster’s clerk.
On went the hand-car into the water¬
darkness, and another mile or
was rolled over before tbe wayside
was sonorously repeated
“Quick, now, Sergeant! said the
Paymaster.
That ba t ""’feibwT’awa^TAto fellows away into tne the swamp swamp.
s got under cover I couldn t even
him. Risk it. Boys, risk it Run
1 hey can t nit us 11 tney qo
‘Halt! came warningly out of the
as the hand-car dashed for
and with it came thunder that
like a rattle of musketry.
“They didn’t work their joke this
Major,” said the Sergeant. that in it,” said
“There’s more than
Major. “Pm glad we’re past that
but I’m afraid we’re running into
They may have surprised More
City and the fort. ’
“Reckon not, Major. Run her your
best, boys. We won’t halt again
anybody.” brave talk, ... but less than ,
That was in
“Hoid on Xpherfo/yourlives^’ * ThTJcket is right
They did so,as an ominous and menac
®J “Halt! br ,°t t ^^"Ind Halt, anairom from the tne rear rear, at at
same moment, other voices seemed
say:
Got em. vroi em nows groaned the ,
“I’m afraid they have,”
Major, ‘money and all, and we’re on our
■way to Wilmington.” Burnside this
“No use to hurrah for
time,” squeaked the Paymaster's clerk.
The Sergeant ran ahead along the track
until he missed his footing in the dark
and went off into a grimy depth of water
and black mud, just as somebody said :
“Who’s there?” and he was trying to
respond: countersign.”
“Friend, with the
His mouth has too much in it for suc¬
cess, and once more he used strong and
very volcanic expressions as soon as his
vocal organs were at work again. Then
we heard him say:
“Come along, boys. There isn't any¬
body here, and the water’s six inches
deep over the Irack.” the
It was a doleful mystery, and
chance of being fired into grew grislcy urged
enough’ as the car was dubiously
forward.
The fierceness of the storm diminished,
and thus, with a great gust of wind from
Cape Hatteras, it ceased. More wind
came and swept away the clouds, The
moon came out gloriously, and at that
very moment the Paymaster's clerk ex¬
claimed:
“Quick, Sergeant! They could see
to shoot now!”
“Halt! Come along! Got’em! Got
’em! Bully! Better mount! Better
mount!”
That was what it sounded like, but
the Sergeant exclaimed:
“Abraham Lincoln! If it doesn’t make
five times that we’ve been halted by those
Confederate frogs!”
In half an hour more we were all safe
in Morehead City, leaving the frogs to
play jokes on somebody else .—Chicago
Inter- Ocean.
The Sea.
The temperature of the sea is the same,
varying only a trifle from the ice of the
pole to the burning sun of the equator.
A mile down the water has a pressure of
over a ton to the square inch, if a box six
feet deep were filled with sea water, and
allowed to evaporate under the sun, there
would be two inches of salt left on the
bottom. Taking the average depth would of
the ocean to be three miles, there
be a layer of pure salt 210 feet thick on
the bed of the Atlanti •. The water is
colder at the bottom than at the surface.
In the many bays on the coast of Nor¬
way the water often freezes at the bot¬
tom before it does above. Waves are very
deceptive. To look at them in a storm
one would think the water traveled. The
water stays in the same place, but the
motion goes on. Sometimes in storms
these wayes are forty feet high, and
travel fifty miles an hour, more
than twice as fast as the swiftest
steamer. The distance from valley to
valley is generally fifteen times the
height, hence a wave five feet high will
extend over seventy-five feet of water.
Evaporation is a wonderful power in
drawing the water from the sea Every
year a layer of the entire sea, fourteen
feet thick, is taken up into the clouds.
The wind bears their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in ra n
upon the fields to flow back at last
through rivers. The depth of the If the sea
presents an interesting problem. feet, the
Atlantic were lowered 6,56-1
distance from shore to shore would be
f ^ t tbere would be a road of dry land
Newfoundland to Ireland. This is
f on wMch t ho Great Atlantic
cabl( s were laid . The Mediterranean is
c £ rative ly f shallow. A drying up of
Q t WOH d leave tbree distinct seas,
d Africa would be J joined with Italy,
^ British chatmel is niore like a
P , wHch accounts for itg choppy
Among the Gas-Wells,
group of burning to?pleated wells north of
grand , md beaut }f u i n j g ht scenes,
Though several miles apart, they appear
a * a d > 8 ‘ aa *> be close together, aud
their light interming^ On a dark
with all of them burning they
™ a ke a great show. These wells in
tbe rigbt a » d on tbe * ef ‘- , witl1 *{“ b, ;? ad
..d with those „t Murroj.villo, Pa.,
thirty miles to the northeast—make a
£“iS'i ; c.z u up»rih 1 .'
existence of such thiugs as burning gas of
wells. It would only need columns
fiery lava to convince him that the whole
region was full of volcanoes. And his
ward unless he was made aware of the
real came nf ftli> phanmBnnn , w hen he
wou j d remain to admire what a moment
before had filled him with alarm. The
e : P!anation of the sadden burst of flame
JS tbat lg necegS ary often to “blow
ollt ” the wells and the pipes leading to
the regulator, to keep them from being
c ] 0 cr<Ted fro^n by the salt which gathers in the
the pipS The the flow salt-water of the thrown^up stopped by
gas. gas is
fora moment; and when again released,
the gas drives everything before it into
the open air. The escaping gas is burned
at the regulator. The effect of the sud
den increased pressure is to shoot a
tongue of flame, hissing and roaring,
high in the air. On a misty diffused night,
when the light is broken up and
__the snow covered hills sometimes
adding their reflection,—the whole sky
j s brilliantly illuminated, and the scene
is grand and beautiful.— St. Nicholas.
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Surprising Ignorance.
“Young man,” he said in solemn tones,
“don’t you know that if you persist ahead of in
drinking yoq, will never get
“Won’t get * ahead?” repeated sir the
,‘Whv mv dear your
g a head
0 n me to-morrow morning ° as big as a
. barrel. . » —New 1 ork Sun.
remarkable phenomena.
A Huge Block of Ice Projected from ■
jLake in Maine.
Strange phenomena are reported from
Blue Hill, Maine, by persons of unques¬
tionable integrity. As Reuben Gray was
crossing Third pond, a large body of
water something less than two miles in
diameter, his attention was attracted by
a loud rumbling, resembling the sound
of distant thunder, or the passage of a
heavy team over a bridge. The rever¬
berating waves seemed to old approach which him
from the direction of an mine,
is located near the southern end of the
pond, and a little more than a mile from
the place occupied by Mr. Gray at the
time. As the mutterings grew more and
more distinct Mr. Gray paused in won¬
derment. The ice under his feet sud¬
denly rose to the height of four feet, as
though propelled by some mighty again, power
from beneath. Then it fell, rose
and continued its wavy, undulatory mo¬
tion in a sort of tidal wave, which
rolled swiftly along until the head of
pond was reached, when suddenly, with
a noise that awoke the echoes of the old
Blue hills, there arose from the pond an
immense sheet of ice, which fell some
distance from the opening. examined this
Mr. Gray critically tre¬
mendous sheet of ice, and then hurried¬
ly returned home to report the facts
his neighbor, E. E. Chase, who was
Blue Hill’s representative in the Maine
legislature of 1885. Mr. Chase pond repaired
to the locality, examined the
found that Mr. Gray’s story had not
exaggerated in the slightest degree.
The usually quiet pond bore evidence
having undergone a severe internal
gle With a carpenter’s rule Mr.
found the ice block to be seven feet
and 12 29-32 inches thick, and he
mated its weight at ten tons.
piece was triangular in shape and
right side up, with the base toward
base of the opening. The distance
tween the two bases was, in round
bers, twenty-nine feet. One of the
singular circumstances connected
this unheaval is the fact that,
the water at the place where the ice
blown out was something less than
feet m depth, mud was found on
bottom of the cake, which corresponded
exactly with that found on the
of the pond, thus proving that the dis¬
turbance commenced at the bottom. Mr.
Chase examined the track of the dis¬
turbance and found the ice cracked
broken throughout its entire length
Many theories are advanced as to
cause of the phenomena. By some it
hinted that a shaft of the Blue Hill cop¬
per mine may have undermined the
waters of Third pool, and that the vac¬
uum caused by the sudden rush of water
produced the detonation and upheaval.—
Boston Herald.
A Swell Affair.
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YTTX.
— Judge.
Hon. M. A. Foran, of Ohio, member of
of Representatives, writes that St. Jacobs
relieved him of acute bodily pains.
A precocious child walking with his
onedfiy saw a cast-off hen’s feather lying
the street. He stopped abruptly, and
gazing at it for some minutes, then
toward it innocently inquired: "Angeli’—
turkey ?'*
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| A bottle ot Retr Star Cough Cure made
thorough and permanent cure of a cald
severe that I could not talk, says Mr. J.
Roach, assistant, superintendent New
Centra! Sleeping Car Company.
At the University ot Texas: Professor
with dignified mein—How are nin’t the
divided? Bright student—'They
at. all. Professor. You swallows’em
after sprinkling them with a little lemon
and pepper sauce.
i dress World’s iiisnensary Medical Associa
■ tion.m M am street, Biffa‘°, N, Y.
if no money was spent foolishly, half
world would be out of work.
those wl o are trying to break up the bane
ful habit of intemperance will
^at benefit from the use of Prickly Ash Ri t
Butlws r me'evn^esrdfs'a
Ash wiR remedy d
restore the brain, stomach and liver to h'-althy
!
tem and remove every taint of disease. If is
purely a medicine, and while pleasant to the
S properties^ eveias;e r, ' aMln
0 f iu cathartic
A Formnc for * ou -
S i ar i e q\rfe. W ’Bofh sexe”^alleges. Wherever
voa live you should at once write to Hallett *
bo PorUand
an( j ljvp Rl home,'earning daily, from thereby the from first start $5 to
$25 and upwards
j (.h^|, e n j ^ov 0 < ' people. Now
r g R vg r ( 1 n h 5 working
' is the time—delay not.
rni! Lost of ianoraate.
me‘tm?i .. ind;Ke'tion“irapSre
n we»kn't^i,’ n blood
u^salt-Rheumfch™mcw2^irases^Jen^t jf ^ ftave tumor (OT t symptoms)
oSb or other will complaiuts-Dr. correct and Kilmer’s!*
-ale Remept cure.
If a cou rh disturbs your steep, t ike Piso*8
Cnre for Consumption and re*t well.
NUMBER 2.
the tide will turn.
skipper stood on the windy pier,
“O, mate,” he said, ‘‘set every sail;
love is sweet if true and dear,
But bitter is love if love must fail." \
hurry, skipper, to put to sea; •t:
The wind is foul and the water low;
the tide will turn if you wait a wee.
And you’ll get ‘Yes’ where you got ‘Not
skipper turned again with a smile,
And he found his love in a better mood;
For she had had time to think the while;
“I shall find ten worse for one as good.”
So the tide has turned and he got “Yes.”
The sails were filled and the wind W
fair.
Don’t limit the pleasant words I pray;
They are for everyone everywhere.
The tide will turn if you wait a wee,
And good’s not lostif but deferred;
Supposing your plans have gone a-gley,
Don’t flee away like a frightened bird.
Say that you’ve asked a favor in vain,
To-morrow may be a better day,
The tide of fortune may turn again,
And you’ll get “Yes” where you got
“Nay.”
The tide will turn if the thing you mind
Is worth the waiting and woil* thecost;
If you seek and seek until you find',
Then your labor will never be lost.
For waiting is often working, you see,
And though the water may now be la
The tide will turn if you bide a wee,
And you’ll get “Yes” where you got “No."
—Harper's Weekly.
PITH AND POINT.
The fishery question—Who’ll take the
eel off ?— Pack.
The world may owe us a living, but
the most of us have to scratch around
pretty lively to get it.— Siftings.
The chick now through the eggshell breaks,
Which many weeks has hid it;
Cries, as its weak existence wakes,
“My little hatch it did it.”
—Siftings.
Tobogganing might be defined as an
instantaneous sensation followed by a
long walk up hill .—New 1 ork World.
An astronomer says that there are ca¬
nals on the planet Mars. We guess he
means Saturn, lor it is Saturn that has
the rings .—Bostin Courier.
“All flesh is grass,” an ancient truth,
By which it will be seen
That in the spring-time of our youth
We are so “jolly green.” —Texas Siftings.
A boy can walk four miles to go skat¬
ing, and drag some other boy’s sis¬
ter on his sled all the way, but when bis
mother wants him to bring a bag of crack¬
ers from the grocery, he tells her that his
kidneys are so weak that he don’t dare
do it. — Inter- Ocean.
“Well, that’s just like the cheek of
these foreign artists, ” observed Mrs.
Snaggs. “What is?” asked her hus
band. “Why, that man Munkacsy is
coming here next summer he’ll to paint just
Niagara Falls, and I believe
spoil them, so I do ."—Pittsburg Chroni
cle.
The PreBCott (Arizona) Miner haB the
following: “Is this reservoir water
healthy?” asked a newcomer of an old
Hassayamper. “Do you see that mule,
stranger?” “Yes,sir.” “Well, ten months
ago that mule was a jack rabbit, and
drinking this water has made him what
he is to-day."
SURE ENOUGH.
T kissed her hand. She slapped my cheek,
The blow came sharp and quick, speak,
Her eyes flashed fire. She did not
My blood boiled hot and thick.
“What do you mean?" I asked, enraged,
“We’re all alone here, and
Yon know quite well that we’re ?” engaged,
Then why not kiss your hand
“I do detest a man," finger-tips, she snapped,
“Who’ll kiss my
In love’s ways one should be more apt—
Else what's the use of lips ?” Journal.
—Somerville
Boring for Gas.
Boring for gas is exactly like boring
for oil, in all its workings; but the after¬
operations of pumping and packing, the
in the case of some oil-wells to raise
oil, are not necessary in gas-wells. If
the gas is there, it will come up of its
own free will and accord, and come with
a rush, blowing tools and everything else
out of the well before it, Indeed, gas
men would often be as glad to keep their
treasure down as oil men are to get theirs
up. The great pressure at which it is
confined in the earth, and tbe correspond¬ the
ing force with which it escapes from
well, make it somewhat hard to mange
or control. This pressure is enormous—
as high as five hundred pounds to the
square inch in some cases where it has
not been gauged, the pressure is esti¬
mated to have reached eight hundred
pounds to the square inch. Any attempt
to confine the gas in this well for the
purpose of measuring it would doubtless
have resulted in sending iron casing
flying from the well, or in and producing costly
other effects more startling Indeed,
than satisfactory or agreeable. had been devised
until recently, no plan well
by which the flow of gas from a
could be stopped or reduced. The quan¬
tity of gas that escapes from some wells
is enormous, but probaby no correct esti¬
mate of it has yet bean 'made. Where
the gas is “piped” away to mills and
houses, all that comes from the well may
be used; but if it is not all used, the re¬
mainder must be allowed to escape into
the air. This is done at the regulator,
where it is burned. The regulator is an
arrangement of pipes and the valves, placed
between with the gas-well and It allows town only sup¬ just
plied much the gas. is being burned in the
as gas as
town to go on through the pipes, and so
reduces to a proper" high and safe of the point the
it dangerously rushing along pressure from the gas well. as
comes
The temperature of the gas as it comes
from the wells is about forty-five de¬
grees, Fahrenheit. —St. Nicholas*