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claimed that Virginia is not
It is visitations.
liable to cyclone
ling the working age to bo from
Assuni sixty years, and counting
twenty J to in this
e workers, 440 persons
only m live the labor of every 100
country on
workers.
Alnminum is to be used wherever
ticahlc in the accoutrements, arms
equipffl eftts of the German army.
and the weight carried . by in- .
{antrysoldie rs w ill be a trifle over fifty
awls, where now it is slightly
more tbfflCW pounds.
_
Japanese gardens are the most fairy
like of places. You see in them tiny
trees an i flowering plants, ponds,
fridges, 8U mIU er-honses, lanterns—here
dwarf pines six or eight inches high,
Imt 125 years old; 500 there old. others In one the
foot high, but years
-arden of Yeijugin-within the temple
oroiinds— there are many plants, most
|y old, but one is 100 years old, and is
jght feet high—quite a tree.
e
Professor Koenig, the Chief of the
Michigan Mining School, says that the
United States have a deposit of marble
which is finer than the best product of
Carara or Paros. This marvelous de
posit underlies the stone quarries at
Avondale, Penn., from which some
specimens were taken recently with a
diamond pointed drill and submitted
to him for examination. He studied
them carefully and submitted them to
the most rigorous tests for fineness
md durability, and reports that he
has never seen better marble and
doubts if there is any better in the
world.
Of all the races with which the Eng¬
lish have come in close contact the
Afghans are the most uncivilized in
nature and grain. They are fierce,
bloodthirsty, fanatical and treacher¬
ous; their good qualities are of the
elementary, domestic kind, and their
highest virtue is courage, which they
possess in a conspicuous degree. They
are uncivilized in the sense that they
are without any National cohesion or
responsibility. Each man is independ¬
ent of his fellows and rejects the
authority of even tribal chiefs. No
doubt there are in every clan or tribe
men of prominence for their wealth
or prowess or cunning, who command
a certain following. But their influ¬
ence is personal and temporary, and
vanishes as quickly as it has sprung up.
A new enterprise of some account is
looming up, notes the Argonaut. It
is the fanning out of railroad damage
suits. Three years ago the officers of
one of the trunk lines asked a firm of
lawyers what sum they would take to
defend the road in all suits arising
from death, accident, and destruction
of property, and pay the damage in
case of loss. The lawyers named a
figure, and have since relieved the
officers of all anxiety and, virtually, of
responsibility. Their undertaking,
like insurance, i?.somewhat
hut they have killed so many suits in
the courts and have compromised on
such advantageous terms in other cases
that they have made a large profit.
Other roads have followed suit within
a year or so, and now several firms of
lawyers are devoting themselves to
this work. A road that hardly includes
three hundred miles of track is under¬
stood to pay sixty-five thousand dollars
8 year as an insurance against damage
suits.
London T„«h: Won. « not
p rtion of o Lorraine, a general
disarmament would by this time have
taken place in Europe; for the burden
of the present huge armament is ruin
mg all the great continental powers.
bord Salisbui-V tisbuiy eucnnraaed encouraged the thetorma forma
hon of the Triple Alliance as a means
•1 a. £»„,».»
Hut this alliance has been met by a
« ■”»»« between Frs.c. -
»-«, ,.d Europe now is divided
into two great camps, armed to the
'7 sole i remedy -*■,»> for this state »>■•»*«’' of things «• is
that the provinces wrested from France
fiiould be restored to her. If the
Queen of the Netherlands dies, then
uermany should incorporate Holland
lnto the German Empire as a quid pro
quo for giving up these provinces. If
ske lives, she should marry some
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> Hr] J L. L~J L -if
CON YERS. GA„ WEDNESDAY. AEOEST ».
TELEGRAPHIC GLEAHINGS.
Tie News of tie World Condensed Into
Ply and Pointed Paragrails.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from
London states that there have been
GOO deaths from cholera in Mecca and
2,312 in Jedda since the present epi¬
demic broke out.
Thirteen members of the populist
party caucused at the capital Satur¬
day night. They decided to vote as a
unit to maintain the present ratio of
silver to gold—sixteen to one. No
ticket for officers of the house was
nominated.
A New York dispatch of Sunday says:
The secretary general of the eleventh
international modical congress, which
was to have been held in Rome on
September 26th, cables from Genoa
that the congress has been postponed
to April, 1894.
Attorney General Ellis, of Michi¬
gan, has given an opinion to the effect
that the insurance law passed by the
last legislature is unconstitutional,
owing to section 5, which permits un¬
authorized companies to do business
n the Btate.
At the regular weekly meeting in
London, Thursday, of the directors of
the Bank of England it was decided to
advance the rate of discount to 3 per
cent. The advance, whiefi was unex¬
pected, is attributed to the further
large withdrawal of gold for shipment.
The town Of Birsk, in the govern¬
ment of Orengburg, Russia, has been
visited by a most disastrious conflagra¬
tion^ One hundred and, eighty houses
were burned, seven persons killed and
a large number injured. Among the
buildings destroyed were the city hall
and Catholic church.
The international socialist congress
opened in Zurich Sunday. Delegates
were present from sixteen coun
tries. The visitors were wel¬
comed by M. Burkley, of Zurich, in
a speech which was delivered alter¬
nately in German, English and French,
and which dwelt chiefly upon the
progress of the labor movement in the
last thirty years.
Judge Tuley at Chicago, Saturday
morning overruled a demurrer filed by
the whisky trust. The issue was
whether the court should allow pro¬
ceedings brought in the name of the
people by Attorney General Maloney,
of Illinois, and intended to dissolve
the alleged trust to be continued. By
overruling the demurrer the court
will allow the suit to continue.
A Chicago special of Saturday says:
Florida has been ousted from the hor¬
ticultural building at Jackson park.
The state commissioners have shown
no disposition to maintain a creditable
exhibit and Chief Samuels, after giv¬
ing them. several warnings, decided
Thursday to take away Florida’s space
and divide it among other states
which are anxious to make a good dis¬
play.
A terrible wreck occurred Sunday
night shortly after 10 o’clock at Lind¬
say, a small village of about 500 in¬
habitants, eight miles west of Fre¬
mont, Ohio, on the Lake Shore and
Southern railway. An engine and
three sleepers were badly demolished
and three people killed outright,while
fully twenty-five were more or less
badly injured. The wreck was caused
by a collision.
A Chicago special of Thursday says:
Tho opinion is unanimous among
lawyers that the gates of the World’s
fair will be.opened .every day in the
week from now until A is finally closed
next October. The appelate court will
not bo in session until after the mu -
summer vacation which ends m hep
ternber, and the appeal prayed for on
Wednesday cannot, therefore, be
passed on until October.
The plant of the Valley Falls com
pany at Woonsocket, R. 1.,engaged in
the manufacture of colored cotton
j* JSS
*»•»“■ n jt e period >T owing ** rsT to the lack r of HZ mar
] ce t for their goods. The same com
pany’s mills at Valley Falls running
d empl oyi^ng 600 hands,
of , the ,, t, Ionian , t
The great reservoir
WatEr Compmiy, at Portland, Me.,
burst Sunday morning, letting loose
its twenty millioB gallon, ot w.toti.
the short space of nltcen minutes me
^the fio Michael ! i»„s., Lappin openpted and by Den- the
families of
“■
crushed and lour of the inmat o
^ J<ir 1 ' c "'
Tb ® i Snnrlav^but of
^e°tiirnsiiU'S the nates
failed tdclick as merrily
a8 on former Sundays. People who
did attend thefajr ^oSedmt were ^elt i.-i• paL s ran- I
^ z&tszj&ttsz: ^^Shades te o P f the
were hidden beneath stretches oi can¬
vas. B
At the republican caucus at "Wash
ington Saturday night, ex-Spealter
der of the ticket nominated was as
follows: Clerk, Ed McPherson, Penn
sylvania; sergeat-at-arms,A. J. Holmes.
Iowa; doorkeeper, J. L. Hathaway,
Montana; chaplain, Rev. Horace
Green, of New York; these Vicing with
the exception of the chaplain, the offi¬
cers of the fifty-first congress.
News is received from Washington
that the abstract of the national bunks
of Georgia to the close of business Ju¬
ly 12th, make a fairly good showing
in comparison with the banks of other
centers, and a very good showing in¬
deed when the requirements of the na¬
tional banking law arc taken into con¬
sideration. The Georgia banks hold
a reserve fund oi twenty-five and fifty
two one hundredth per cent, while the
requirement of the law is only fifteen
per cent.
A report reached that New York steamship City
Thursday night the arrived
Karmania, from Naples, had
at quarantine with cholera on board.
Three deaths among the passengers
occurred during the voyage. Dr.
Jenkins boarded the vessel, at quar¬
antine and soon after hurried to the
city with, the intention, ; it is said,
holding a conference with the .health
board authorities. The latter so far
refuse to enlighten the public on the
matter.
Evidence of a startling nature .con¬
cerning the cold storage warehouse fire
was taken by the grand jury at Chi¬
cago Thursday. The witness who gave,
tho' startling testimony was John Jos¬
eph Duggan, formerly a Stony Island
avenue saloon keeper, and the man
who first told of the looting of the
cold storage warehouse and its firing
by a gang of robbers. He was flushed
and excited with the inquisition lie
had undergone, but said he had made
a clean breast of it all.
A disastrous explqsion occurred
Thursday on board the: German armor
clad steamer, Baden, at-Keil,, Germa¬
ny. Lieutenants Oelsner and Zb im
bach and seven seaman were killed
and seventeen persons wounded. It
appears that Some of the men juht're
moved from tho magazine a grenade
measuring 26 centimeters in diameter.
Througli some cause not - yet explain¬
ed the grenade exploded, killing 'or
wounding nearly every person in the
immediate vicinity.
A Pittsburg, Pa.,dispatch of'Tlmrs
daysays: The New York and Cleve¬
land Gas and Coal company, one of
the largest concerns in tho Pittsburg
district, whose mineB are located on
the lino of the Pennsylvania railroad
are unable to pay their miners in full.
The proposition has been made to 800
employes to pay them one half tlveir
wages for six months and the balance
with interest at the end of that time.
The officials state unless this propo¬
sition is accepted the mines will close.
A special of Saturday from Guth¬
rie, O. T., says: The Osage Indians
have refused to treat with the govern¬
ment commission for the cession of
their reservation of nearly, two mill¬
ion acres, and which lies across the
eastern end of the Cherokee strip, to
the government, and the .commission
will return to Washington in a few
days. These Indians are worth $15,
000 in cash and over one thousand
acres of land for every man, woman
and child in the tribe, and do not oare
to be crowded by white people.
CRISP AGAIN NOMINATED.
pj le Democratic Caucus lte-NOmiiiales
Him for Speaker of the House,
a Washington special says: At the
( i emocrat j c eflT i CU8 Saturday, Hon.
char i es F Crisp,of Georgia, speaker’ was unan- of
j moug ]y re-nominated for
^ j louge 0 f representatives *of the 5
flft £ third congreBS . Judge Crisp was
esc rted t0 the hall of the hollB(3 from
^e speaker’s room by Messrs. Match,
Wilson and Springer, After being in-.
troduced to the caucus, which received
jjj m -with cheers, Speaker desk,and Crisp,climb- said:
ed to t he speaker’s
ssasrsaawtet wise respouBible tberefor. Now
we are i n no > I
for the first time in more than thirty years, w*
Tlie“opk have entrust
should be revised and reformed. The strict
egt aconomy in public expenditures should
b e observed, and taxation should bo equalized
and greatly reduced To these purposes wc
Let u „ i ay aside every otlier corisideration tiiart
SlffiSS^«Ryy«S» EiSS'ofaSS.MSS.
“
“Sincerely grateful tor your confidence and
assigned fctsawst all the energy and
tjon JOU bave me
ability I posa
An Old Cannon Found.
Eight miles north of Greenville, O. ,
John ^ o , on a uri ay a -an
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dians during OrLiville the retreat from
Fort Recovery to in 1791.
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CONGRESS IN SESSION.
t* * m m
BllOflV EilltOllllZBll. ,• * •
doth Houses Organized and Read) for
Business.
The fifty-third congress, democratic
in both branches, met and; organized
Monday morning.
THE SENATE.
The senate was called to order at’'
noon, and the opening prayer made by
the outgoing chaplain, Mr. Butler.
After the president’s proclamation'was'
read, the path of office administered to.
Senators Quay, of Pennsylvania,, and
Pasco, of Florida, a communication was
lead from Beckwith, of Wyoming, 'an¬
nouncing that, owing to a combination
of circumstances, he had placed his res
ignationtts senator in tlie hands of the
governor. Tho communication was
placed on tile. Tho secretary-elect fiadthe of
senate, Cox, of North Carolina, 1
oath administered to him, and .took
possession of tho office. The usual
resolutions to notify the Iftmsfe’and
president were adopted, and. then, at
12:30, the-death of late Senator Stan¬
ford, of California, was annAnifcoil by
Senator. White, of tlnjt state,’and as.- at
mark of respect, the senate .. adjourned
until Tuesday. ' 1 '
as ,
TIIE HOUSE. t
As early as 10':30 the house,gnllerfes
devoted to -public use were .tilled to
repletion. At 11 o’clock the’fescfved
galleries opened, and in one minute
seats even there were at a premium. o'rilc'r'aT
Tho ’house was called to
noon, tho president’s message
road, and . the call of names
of membera-elect begun. Three’
hundred and thirty-six member^,; rev
spoudeil to their names and tfie house
proceeded to vote for speaker,‘the' chh
aidates being Crisp, Reed and. Simp¬
ceiving-214 son. Crisp Was votes,'against eWcted speaker, 122 votes re¬
for Reed and 7 votes for Simpson-.
There was hearty haiulclapping .from
members and generous applause from
the galleries when the announced in
' Auction into office of Charles.F. , Crisp
for speaker the second time. He was
escorted by Reed, Ilolmhn' fthd Jerry
Simpson. Speaker Crisp briefly...
k'ndwleJged thanks. Jerry Simpson
received soVdh vote# for spealfer,
full party vote., ' '-The
office .
took the oath , of . and
the drawing for seats then'-occurred.
After tho drawing of seats and an;
agreement for an hour's debate on each
side on the Michigan case Tuesday the 1
house adjourned. ..-,
t
.Tfi* New senators;
The state of California lias two hew
men in the senate, to look after ijs in
terest—Mr. ‘White to Speceed Mr.
Hearst, and Mr. Perkiils, who has just
been appointed bj; the governor to HIT
. the place of Mr. Stanford. Kansas
has joined to her populist senator,
Mr. Puffer, .Mr. Mgrtin, another pan
appointed from the populist ranks,
Kentucky has a ’ now senbtor—Mr.
Kennedy, elected to fill the vacancy
made.by Mr. Carlisle’s Mr. resignation.
Louisiana has one in Caffery, who
took, last January, the'sent made va¬
cant by she .death of Mr. Gfbson.
Massachusetts has one in Mr. Cabot
Lodge, who succeeded Mr. Dawes on
the 4th of March last. Nebraska has
one in Mr. Allen, elected in place-of
Mr. Paddock., New Jersey qj)e..in Mr.
Smith, ejected in place of Mr. Blod¬
gett. New York-one iu Mr. Murjyhy,' Hiscdoj^.;.
elected in place, of Mr. ;
North Dakota, Mr. pne in Sir. Roach,’
against'wbolu executive Hbar session. made such West 1 a
deadset at the
Virginia one in Mr. Camden, who,
however, served a.former term in the
senate from 1881 to 1887. Wisconsin
one iii Mr. Mitchell, Who Has had two,
terms’ experience in the house of rep-
resentatives. ■ . o, ■.
FRANCE DEMANDS SECURITY
WB Siam that the Terms of the
matuin Will be Carried Out.
Thn IM, onrjoyond.n, o', n news
. STXiTb
mands as security Rp^nritv Irom from Siam »iam that tnat the t e
o/t/the temporary custody gullfof of Siam; Chan
taboon a town near the
also that Siam shall establish no mili
*r tary stations at certain named places
the frontier of Cambodia or with
, . digtanoe of t ^ e Mekong “
After the Lyncher*.
that the lynching of Lee Walker, the T.
arts* J 2s ■tsras?
yl( . wed ith great i nd ig no tion in that
and Sheriff McLendon is seve-re
ly criticised for his criminal lack of
ScmggtTus
nded the gher iff, pending an inves
tigation, and the coroner was placed
in charge of his office. The gran,
^
TRADE REPORT.
A more Healthy Tone Pervades, the
Markets in all Sections.
Br&dstreet’s review ci;op.pTo:ipo<Rs of trade for past
'•weak'says: Good south
tend, to produce a more hoj.'fjfnt- feel¬
ing at'Nashville, Atlanta,.‘New Orleans,
Little'Rock, Houston a'ud Galveston.
No currency scarce isulenofed at Char¬
leston or Mobile- Banks at MfiihphisJ
'Charfeston,’’New Orleans, Birmingham regard the
and Ricmond appear
national bank currency issue as a
relief. 'Currency Ts’-scatce
at Birmingham, but confidence, since
failure its returning. . At
Louisville, were recent Bank embar¬
rassments disturbed trade, ' coafitTehce
is being Restored, though the- Volume
of business is small.
Ttfe Cathegie and some other iron
workB. have almost ceased producing, further
and yet the demand brings no
''stimulant;' though prices in, this line
are, low that most^, makers prefer to'
stop than to take lower. Failures:
during the week number 48<f' faptfeo
TJnited States, against ldG last year
and thirty-four in Canada against
twenty-four last year. ’ The west;eoh
tributed most 1 largely to'tho number
of tliat failures, 237 being, reported from \Vefo
section. Iu the ■ Vast there
153 and in the south:-forty-six. Tlwacp
wore: three failures, of. hi million or
'Ydrk more, city!' two at Chicago’’ and j 'one'itcNcw
■ t ' '
WHAT DPJf .SAW,
R. G. Dpn’s review of tho ‘ state- O
trade shlys: DemoralizStiqnin followed by specul i
tive markets'has been a more
healthy tone ami heavy! imports of
gold in tho hope that' monetary trou¬
bles may < abate. Bank-failures have
been almost as numerous thepast week
as lor the two proececliiig weeks, but
fewer have been of moro than local
importance. Tho western states show
greater distrust of weakness than other
section^ Out of one hundred #ud
sixty-nine banks that eastern have fk'iled since
' in hthtos/ferty
March, five were
in southern and 115 in' western states
Failures of national .
fifty-eight, state banks seventy-nine,'
private’banks sixty-Beven.
T3- o
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jRxclteihent In Chicago - MUlhniftire
(Jmlaliy jf Kails.
1 Tuesday.was tjArinostdis
ono bftfib
asti-ous in the history board- a
trade in Chicago: , 'Wealthy ; indjviii
uals and firms wero bowled over lik<
; pihB find the prices'' of’'ho‘gs-wiVfl '
tumbling like an myalanchq.. Pqalor:
on to’Vitnessirig the Gfiioago board are acebstpmoi
sceno’s and kfilHidoKBOpi'
changes,, in prices, but ’ tlfis. mayfie
seems to be u; storm center where liotl
The'. hpwawl‘ ipid worhi’s downward 1 ‘ptlfeh - ifi
plthte in tfie food productf
js most severely felt ; but. old mem
’berk of fii(- board who 'h&d * bhe:
.through the-whirl ahd'clattey.in many
collapsing corners in both grain and
provisions;,.actually stood' aghast at
tfie rapidity iforlt with which the price of
moss 1 Went down, A sheer three' drop
() f-$8.25 gel- barrel inside of
quarters ofan hour Humber .was pnebf tho day’s
occurrences. A of failures
oecureil, among them- Jphn Cudahy,
,1(he,great pimker.fnid v danng -operator
in provisions, a man whose-vyealth wgs
Was recently estiinatecVat no less than
18,QOO;0C>(). No one attemps tt< esti
mate liis losses. -, <
QUARANTINE PRECAUTIONS
Takeii at New York'Against Vessels
from South America.'
A .-New York .dispatch of Tuesday
says: Health Officer Jenkins has de¬
clared a five days’- quarfintine on all
vessels arriving from Houth American
ports where yellow fever prevails.
This actioii has been • rendered neces¬
sary, .by the danger, qf.infectioif froffi
vessels in tho South Ampricgu : .tilde
wlifeti have reached - port ' in tho past
fortnight with yellow,fever bh board.
Tho bark Alice Reed arrjvod -
drfy'’from' Santos 'fifid’ was quar¬
antined for five days,’ tho
mate having died of yelfe.w,; being fever
on July 3d, and 'three" sailors
still confined■ with it.’ This is'thtf third
fdrXd vessel writhin' arriving from South which American
ten days has, re¬
ported deaths from yellow jack.' The
port of SautoB, Brazil, is a . seething
hotbed of yellow fovOr; and a
received at the -maritime' exchange
states that at tho present time-,the- dis¬
ease is making terrible ravages, hun¬
dreds of people being stricken every
day.
VIRGINIA POPULISTS.
Assemble In State Convention In Lynch¬
burg.
' The Virginia third party state eon
vention assembled Colonel jn Lynchburg Beverly
Thursday morning. A
was made' permanent' chairman.
large crowd was in attendance. Jerry
Simpson, of Kansas, and Congressman
Pence, of Colorado, addressed the con¬
vention.
A telegram from the silver conven¬
tion was received announcing that tho
silver men of the west would work
with 'the third party and predicting
victory next year. The convention is
composed largely of farmers, and near¬
ly every county is represented.
NO. 28
A CHARACTER.
5rave, yet serene, ho moves alone,
Nor heeds the strife that round him sway3;
Alone amid the crowd ho stands,
And service true fills out his days
“So noble that he cannot see
Ho stands in alight above the rest,"
But wears his greatness carelessly,
And bears a lily as bis crest.
Clear, searching eyes that see through all,
xV smile imprisoned in their wells,
Which ever and anon breaks forth.
Like sudden gleams from hidden della.
Atenderness of thought and/act \
A brow of intellect power
A bearing that makes men rdkpoet.
■ A.nd,all things evil shrink^«fn l f-o’Tor.
A patience rare and aiisoUit^V
Ah utter love of what Is-tfho :
A glfthee that sweeps the faintest stars 1n>heaven,
,i Yet notes a flower's hue.
—Agatha M. Tiegol, in Buff and Blue.
l‘ITJl AND I’OINT.
. A; sea gull—Tho laud lubber.
JThe nick of time—A yjrmklo;
' ••On tho doad quiet—Jokes on Phila¬
delphia. —World’s Fair Puck.
It is'generally \fhoq hi^ is sick abed
that a'l'nun loOks-up to'Ins wife.
A man hits'tobb-n'crept back success be¬
fore ho can he a imntber.— Truth,
Art is long; but- it js not always
tong eribiigli to make both '* ends meet.
—Puck. • -
“Yes, wo sent Archie unit West to
grow up with the country.” “And did
he?” “No ; he went, up with it. ”—i
Kate Field’s Washington.
The hammock doesn't look unlike a
fishing-net. Honed its) suitability, in
a way, flounder.—Philadelphia for a nice perch »iud an Times. occa¬
sional
An, amateur is a man who would
make a greater success than any pro¬
fessional who ever lived, if he knew
as ifiuch as fie thinks he knows.—Puck.
' I
you found any way that .
can fthfi a bite to cat? Second Tramp
to ‘offered *«*. 7? us .-«» work. -Chreago 1 " ls ^ 1 “J* Infer
Oeqan. >
Upstreet-»-“Hullo! • I 'didn't know
you wero a bicyclist. How long huvo
yoiilieeii riding*?” B., Ginner—“ oil. —Buffalo ’Bout
two weeks,- off and ”
Courier.
>* “Now, mark my words !” exclaimed
themjm who had written the article
wh ?‘ * mt « lld *?.*!• d
Transer m,ul lpt. . " lth lho bltt0 B^orl.-Boston
There are lots of people who mix
their religion with business, hut Urt
get to stir it up well. As a result t««
business invariably risotr to the top.
Texas Sittings.
Hungry Higgins —“If you had to
work—just had to—wot sort o’ jo >
would you like best?” Weary W»#
kins—“Well, I think driviu’a load would «’
hay over a’ new asphalt —Iudiauai>olfh street
suit me middlin’ well.’ l
Journal.
/«£ wish I had your talent and
could ■ do the work you do.” “Yes;
jf we could all flo all the good
things wo can do, iiud all tie
good things all the-cither fellows wo
know,can do, what bright chaps we’d
be, wouldn’t we ?”—Fuck.
Itcll Foiiudimf.
The art of bell founding is undoubt¬
edly of great antiquity. The Saxons
are known to have used bells in their
churches, although probujily but small
onesi for the Venerable‘Bode, writing
at the end of tho Seventh Century,
alludes to them in terms which Seem
to show that they wero hot unfamiliar
things. The towers of-, the Saxon
period have belfries of considerable
dimensions iu most cases, ami at Crow
land Abboy, South Lincolnshire, tliero
wqs a famous peal, of seven bells jauiy
years before the Norman conquost.
The monks at that timo'and for long
after were tho chief practitioners of
tho art of bell founding—which indeed
is one of tho many things those well
abused men have handed down to UH.
Their bolls were rarely without in¬
scriptions, often in- vpry bad Latin,
containing, perhaps, some obscure
jokes, the point of which is now lost.
More often they were of a religious
nature, sometimes probably superstition, not un
inixed with a dash of as
when the bell deelarefcbthat its sound
drives awaytho' deniouq.-of the air who
caused pestilence and famine, lightning
ami thunderstorms. As a rule, unfor¬
tunately,, thpjr put u° dates on their
pells, a defect which has been in somo
’measure -overcome by the researches
.of many enthusiastic campanologists, early
but-which is likely to keep the
history of hells shrouded in darkness
for a long time to come.—Gentleman’s
Magazine.
Imitation J’earls.
Imitation pearls are now made pret
tier th'oii the genuine. The scales of
•a little fish that swims the Mediter¬
ranean' are 'pulverized to dust, and tho
most luminous portion of the powder
saved. This sparkling dust is then
spread on the innuer surface of little
glass spheres, and your pearl is made.
At first the scale dust was spread over
the outer surface of the “pearls,” by this but
it rubbed off. The pearls made
process aro really prettier than the
product of the oyster, ^but then, they
aren’t pearls, you know.—New York
Nows. . . , J,