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1 Whj the World Progresses.
I p was a favorite theory with Buckle
Hurt the world’s progress is not made by
(ho eminent goodness of men or the
listing-lushed Ether he meanness believed that of men. goodness In
words, civilization, but that the
idid pforces not create
of civilization” caused goodness
and all of tho world’s progress. He
Hover become weary in elaborating this
opinion. It is the rock on which he sets
out to build his “History “mighty of Civiliza¬
tion.” All through that frag¬
ment” in every chapter of that great un¬
finished book we meet tho idea. But no
where is it more eloquently and forcibly
stated than when he wrote: “The
gigantio crimes of Alexander or Napoleon
became, after a time, void of effect, and
itho affairs of the world return to their
former level. This is the ebb and flow
lot Iby history, tho perpetual flux to which
the laws of our nature we are subject.
[Above ■“movement; all this, and there tho is tide a far rolls higher
as on,
fcow advancing, now receding, there is,
•mid its endless fluctuations, one thing,
fi/ul one tilone, which endures forever.
po actions of bad men produce only
[temporary [only temporary evil, good; the action'of and eventually good m< d
■good and tho the
evil altogether subside, are
! naturalized by subsequent generations,
absorbed by the incessant movement of
future ages. But the discoveries of
great men never leave us; they are im¬
mortal; they contain those eternal truths
which survive the shock of empires, out¬
live tho struggles of rival creeds, and
" itness the decay of successive religions.
All these have their different measures
their different standards; one set of
. for
opinions one age, another set for an
<» hey 01 . lhoy pass away like a dream;
leaves are as the fabric of a vision, which
not a rack behind. The discoveries
of gemus alone remuks; it is to them
woonoali that we now have; thev are
hr a 1 ag e 8 flnd fop all times;
H ld „ ever
?/ heir never owu life; old, they they flow hear in the
'sseSl . on a
aUl ' n ! dvin £ stream; they are
h tl CUmuli ! hve ’ and utving birth
e d fL rf 1 ° nS Vhlc1 1 tho y subsequently
distint’ receive *D\ iu thus influence - - the
cent r^’ and most,
Crl after the lapse of
tt«ptm ablT XtUT a' 0 ® “° re ntt effect he tha * they
Owned to His Record.
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ment tw i Ue 1Ud . re *j raction ^^Med of the orphan state
out of an
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bear "kTvT mi e »
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thatathousL^ win. 0 1 have atoned for
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bitterly 1 w* \ °&' re r °h pented in Kentucky, of folly. and
slew' a ° ^offensive , my
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cause cheat I ,( v ,° it <I .T Oh, pot, simpl be
tluU xc e could but
in ff s nj.f^h of ou ld the be men happy. I have placed But it
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lack of to m 7 high temper and
bare ,V tram h>g- I know that I
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that, y it’s mean for all
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just for-j ' Wlt h an old army
half XbeTe vrJJ as terror was down stairs
editor Lt r0Und tbe conier, while
twist 001 fresh chew of
quietly !>o UU ^ d b * B Peaceful
Take Tribw iw ‘ ab ^ bn g ciUzen
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l e ? r or by expressive
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a a , e ^ injurious
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into society,
NEWS GLEANINGS,
The Texas Legislature lias created a
railroad commission.
The Buckingham gold mine in Vir¬
ginia is valued at two million dollars.
Wellsburg, W. Va., claims to have
the biggest gas well in the United States.
The Dunn’s mountain gold mine, in
North Carolina, is paying handsomely.
Five Kentucky hoys graduated at
West Point this year.
Sessions of Police Court are held on
Sunday at Lynchburg. Va.
One hundred and twenty-five papers
are published in North Carolina.
The wheat crop in East Tennessee
promises to be as good as that of last
year.
The Texas Legisature has levied
$500 tax on all dealers in such literature
as the Police News, Gazette, etc.
An effort is being made in Alabama to
establish a number of societies for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
Five thousand sheep are said to be the
number in one Hillsboro, Fla., county
flock. «.
The new cotton mill at Charleston,
South Carolina, will hare a capacity of
25,000 spindles, and will cost $500,000.
Rev. Horatio Thompson, for more
than forty years a trustee of Washing-:
ton and Lee University, died Saturday
at Lexirigton, Va.
Vv. C. Bond, a merchant of Wynn ton.
near Columbus, Ga., committed suicide
Wednesday by stabbing himself to death
while drunk.
Arkansas has 123 newspapers and pe¬
riodicals, consisting of 110 weeklies, 8
dailies, 3 semi-monthlies and 2 month¬
lies. —4.
Orlando‘Jackson has brought suit
gainst the Louisiana Lottery Company
or $178,000, allq^yjg fpUfe he has spent $89,
00 within the four years in the
purchase of tickets.
On the outskirts of Little Rock they
have a trenuine case of leprosy. The
victim is a negro named Elijah Turner.
is skin is turning from black to murky
white, and his flesh is dropping off in
spots from his body.
To prove that manufacturing in the
South is profitable, the LaGrange (Ga.)
Reporter says the Troup Cotton Mill, of
that place, has just closed its first year
with a profit of twenty-four per cent, on
the capital invested.
The recent overflow in the Mississip¬
pi, as a counter-blessing to the disaster
attendant on it, has left a heavy de¬
posit of silt mud that planters admit has
imparted new and rich fertility to the
land, and will fully compensate them
for their loss.
In digging a sewer in Norfolk, Va,,
an old vault was unearthed, which con
tained several coffins filled with bones
and rubbish. In one of the c?skets was
ound a pair of tough leather slippers of
>eculiar make, and very much resem¬
bling the sandals of olden times.
The Queen’s Household.
The Clerk of the Kitchen has a salary
of £700 a year and his board, and to aid
him in his work he has four clerks, who
all the acoounts, check weights and
and issue orders to the trades¬
people ; he has also a messenger and a
“necessary woman.” Besides these of¬
ficials chief, of her Majesty’s kitchen, there is
the with a salary of £700 a year,
and four master cooks at about £350 per
annum each—who have the privilege ol
taking four apprentices at premiums of
from £150 to £200 eaoh—two yeomen of
the kitchen, two assistant cooks, two
roasting cooks, four scourers, three
kitchen maids, a store-keeper, two
“ Green Office ” men, and two steam ap¬
paratus men. Aud in the confectionery
department there salaries are a first and second
yeomen, with of £300 and £250,
respectively; an apprentice, three fe¬
male assistants, and an errand man;
and, in addition to these, there are also
a pastry cook and two female assistants,
a baker and his assistant, and three
coffee-room women. The ewer depart¬
ment, which has charge of all the linen,
consists of a yeoman and two female as¬
sistants only. The gentleman of the
wine and beer cellars—or. properly
speaking, her Majesty’s chief butler—
lias a salary of £500 a year. He has to
select and purchase wines for the royal
establishment, to superintend the de¬
canting and send them up to table.
Next to him are the principal table
deckers, with £200 a year each; the sec
oud table-decker, with £150; the third,
with £90, and an assistant, with £52—
their duties being to superintend the
laying out of the Queen’s table before
dinner is served. The plate pantry is
under the care of three yeomen—with
salaries of £160, £150, and $120, re¬
spectively, board besides lodging-money and
— a groom, and six assistants.
These offices are of great trust and o re
not overpaid, seeing that at a rough
guess the gold and silver plate at
Windsor Castle alone is probablv worth
about £3,000,000 and includes some
very precious The getting specimens in of of her art workman¬
ship. coal important Majesty’s
must be an and arduous
task, as no fewer than thirteen persona
are employed all the year round on this
duty alone.— Chamb er's Jour nal.
A pine tree uprooted Finland, by a recent in¬
undation in Oulais, was found
to have 1,029 annual rings. We saw a
lady in the horse car with about the
same number of rings; but she was prob
ably not nearly so old as the tree.—
Boston Transcript,
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1882.
'TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Rufus Hatch is predicting a disas¬
trous panic.
Pbof. Huxley is to act as one of the
biographers of Mr. Darwin.
. ____
Five of the nominees on the Pemisyl
Tania State; ticket are lawyers.
THR .Qftrfield M&mprial Churgh .edi¬
fice at Washington will cost $33, 500,
Queen Victoria, the dear old soul,
has just turned her sixty-fourth year.
'
We shall confidently expect at least
a light frost about the Fourth of July.
The egg product erf France last year
amounted to $300,000,000, so says a re¬
port.
The saloons of New York City placed
side by side would reach a distance for
forty-five miles.
President Arthur’s mail averages 000
letters a day, and of these not one in
twenty ever reaches him.
A statement by the Kansas Board oi
Agriculture places the winter wheat
acreage at one million and a half acres.
Cincinnati Commercial: “ Mark
Twain served three months in the Con¬
federate army, under General Stirling
Price.”
The Boston Post facetiously remarks
that every farmer should be able to boast
of having a cold a spring ou his farm
this year.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de¬
cided that the appropriation of $2,000,
000 for the new Capitol is to be expanded
on the building alone.
The English and French Governments
disavow interference in Egyptian affairs.
They only send their fleets to Egyptian
waters to influence the Khedive to re¬
store order.
It will be observed that since the
President’s assassin has been sentenced
to death, there has been a dearth of
cranks with a mission from heaven to
kill somebody.
The late J ames Vick, Rochester seeds¬
man, gave away $ 10,000 a year, After
the grasshopper invasion in Kansas, he
gave $25,000 worth of seeds to the suffer¬
ers of that State.
At the Delaware Greenback Labor
State Convention there were but five del¬
egates present, all from one county.
The greenback .cause is evidently lan¬
guishing in the peach State.
The State Street Cable Car Line in
Chicago has managed to kiil five persons
and maim seven more during the last
twelve months, and there is some talk of
holding somebody responsible.
The American people are looking for
\Vard to June 30 with considerable in¬
terest. That is the day set apart for the
hanging of the President’s assassin, and
we are pleased to remark that it is pretty
close at hand.
President Barrios, of Guatemala,
who will soon visit this country, is re¬
puted to be worth about $8,000,000.
He has been President since 1874, and
is said to be a very wise, business-like,
and popular magistrate.
Two cases of arsenical poisoning by
sleeping in a newly-papered room in Cam
bridgeport, Mass., are said to have oc¬
curred last week. The manufacturers of
the paper warmly dispute the correct¬
ness of the explanation of the illness.
The Texas Supreme Court has given
a decision in the long-pending suit of
the Grigsby heirs, to recover about three
thousand acres of land in and near Dal¬
las. The decision is in favor of the heirs,
and gives them property valued at nearly
12 , 000 , 000 .
Captain Eads is going to Europe.
Meantime if the Government refuses to
shell out some $50,000,000 for him to try
his hand constructing a ship railway, he
will bring some “bloated Englishmen”
here to do it for us, and then we shall
feel awful bad.
A man at Rochester, N. Y., who went
aboufc the news stands tearing up the
flash newspapers offered for sale, has at
last got into jail from tearing down the
picture of a nude woman in an art gal
lery. Some people are ashamed of the
works of Nature.
A CONTEMPORARY says Jennie Cramer
should have minded her mother and she
w ould not have met with a violent death.
Yes and the Malley’* should have been
gentlemen instead of murderous pimps
surrounded by riches and the influence
of uood societv
The list of wedding presents to the
Duke of Albany and his bride fills two
columns . of , the , T London _ Post. _ . Strange
that this wedding present business can
not be adjusted so that they will go to
the poor instead of to those who have
no need of them,
Kate Claxton, _ the ,, actress, , , had ,
a
lady visitor at a Cleveland hotel, and the
head waiter, mistaking her for a maid,
placed her at a servant’s table. After an
explanation had failed to rectify the
error, the waiter was thrashed by Kate
| Claxton’s husband, who was fined $5 in
j a police court.
A sax> young man, after taking a meal
at a New York coffee house, after much
searching in his pockets, produced a $2
greenback from his watch fob, and with
sa * d: ‘‘ xIere slie goes.” After
his departure the note was examined,
^nd on the back appeared, written in a
fi ne hand: “Save your salary; don't
gamble ; never play at a faro-bank.
The last of a fortune of $10,000."
The poet Longfellow once wrote t.o a
youthful poet as follows : “ No man, I
think, should devote himselt to poetry
as a means of making a living. True
poetry is the offspring of our best hours.
If you make a trade of it you may be
sure that it will degenerate into mere
verse making. Therefore, follow some
calling or profession for a liveli¬
hood, and keep the gift of song sacred
and for itself alone.”
Rev. Eobebt Collier spoke in New
York Sunday night upon “Emerson.”
When he rose to begin his lecture he
said: “I seeP. T. Barnum sitting in a
back row of this church, and I invite
him to come forward and take a seat in
my family pew. Mr. Barnum alway 8
gives me a good seat in his circus and I
want to givo him a good on© in my
church.” Mr. Barnum took the seat
amid the smiles of the congregation.
Mr. Collyer then began his lecture.
Sensational stories are cheap articles.
The information has been telegraphed.
over the county to the effect that upon
the return of Governor Crittenden to
Missouri from New York he will con
elude negotiations for the surrender of
Frank James, and possibly other mem¬
bers of the James gang, and thus put an
end to the organization of brigands in
Missouri. Frank James is now said to
bo in Jackson County, and instead of
meditating more mischief, is represented
as being anxious to make the best terms
possible for himself.
A circus is a decidedly important in¬
stitution—to take money out of a com
munity. Says the Newark (N. J.) Call:
The visit of a circus to a manufactur¬
ing city like Newark is both costly and
demoralizing. The actual money loss to
the community by the visit of Barnum’s
show, last week, approximates $50,000.”
That amount of money devoted to some
needed local public institution would be
a lasting benefit, but given up to a circus,
it goes as a “fleeting show.” Circuses
are decidedly expensive American insti¬
tutions.
Wot the Duke and Duchess of
Albany left Windsor, while they were
still within the private grounds, the
bridegroom’s three brothers and Prin¬
cess Louise and Princess Beatrice ran
across a part of the lawn inclosed within
a bend of the drive each armed with a
number of old shoes, with which they
pelted the “happy pair.” The Duke of
AUiany returned the fire from the car¬
riage with the ammunition supplied him
by his friendly assailants, causing the
heartiest laughter by a well-directed
shot at thp-Duke of Edinburgh.
James Gorden .Bennett — through
whose Arctic Expedition project DeLoug
and companions met their death — in
reply to articles in the New York Tribune
and Sun on the subject of caring for the
widows nnd orphans of the victims of
the fated Jeannette, says editorially in
the Herald:
The Sun and Tribune may rest satisfied that,
with or without the action of Congress or of
the public, care will be taken of the widow and
orphans of DeLong, and not of them alone,
but of every widow and every orphan of the
men who sailed with the Jeannette and have per¬
ished. We request the Sun ana Tribune to
in accept our acknowledgement of their kindness
affording a suitable opportunity to make this
statement without being liable to the reproach
of intruding it.
The New York Herald says editorially
of that which has been proven in the
Cramer case:
Jennie Cramer, after a night’s carousal in
the Malley house, on her return home, was
virtually thrust out by her mother; second,
that she passed the evening of Friday, two days
after her experience of Malley hospitality, at
Savin Rock, riding a “flying-horse,” aud be¬
having, with her party, so boisterously as to
attract particular general attention, and so annoy one
Hartford matron that she requested
her husband to tako her home; third, that Jen¬
nie Cramer was found in the shallow water,
dead, at an early hour, on Saturday morning;
and, fourth, that she died of the effects of
arsenic in solution.
The theory of the defense is that Jen
nie Cramer killed herself on account of
the treatment she received from her
mother,
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher the other
day, in Plymouth Chureh, said :
“ I have never asked a collection here, except
" hen it has been ordered by the Official Board.
But to-day I want you to give a collection for
me ; not for my personal use, but for my sake,
When I was about twenty-three years of age—
gjjg tho Sed her“heS
Earn, knowing little of life, preacher. and having I much to
1 went forth as a went across j
tae ^hio to Covington, to a little Presbyterian
Church, for I was a Presbyterian then and am
still, all but their confession of faith.
Martha Sawyer—that isn’t her name now, so
uo know-came for me to go to Law
renceburg, Indiana, about twenty miles from
Cincinnati, a town which has sent out more
whisky than any other in the United States,
t*ra and oae man among tiiem. They rawed
£“ &
it forever, I had t400 salary. There I began to
itarn to be a preacher Indianapolis and learned for eight two years,
and then went to for years
^S woffid silt one hm-TdrS persols, and
where, if I wanted to hold a communion, i had
to send to the next town and borrow a.deacon,
I was sexton as well as pastor. I used to sweep,
Hu£S" t Th£'
till now, aud now they hope to build a larger
one. I want will you to help me to help them. The
collection now be taken to rebuild the
Presbyter; an Church in Lawrence burg, Indiana,
where I began my ministry.”
During the marriage ceremony (that
of the Duke of Albany) says the London
Truth, the Queen happened to look up
at the knight’s banners, and, to her
amazement and indignation, she discov¬
ered half a dozen opera glasses peering
from behind them, all pointed straight at
her own face. An inquiry was speedily
made, when it turned out that a promi¬
nent official at Windsor, at the last mo¬
ment, had secretly constructed a small
private gallery up behind the carving at
the top of the knight’s stalls, from
which, after reaching it by the aid of a
perpendicular ladder, his friends had an
excellent view, perched up like owls in
an ivy bush. The Lord Chamberlain
and the Lord Steward, supported by a
posse of their subordinates, summoned
the erring official before them, and not
content with administering the question,
ordinary and extraordinary, ordered him
to come up for sentence at the London
office of the Board of Works. But be¬
fore being again racked, he is under¬
stood to have gone down on his knees to
John Brown to induce him to “repre¬
sent the thing properly.” So he got off
with a tremendous wigging.
The vineyards of Russian Turkistan
are being destroyed by a parasitic fungus
known as erysiple.
The House of Romanoff.
The Romanoffs rather pride themselves
on the antiquity of their family-tree,
claiming that it is known to have been
planted by a Lithuanian prince in the
fourth century. It is certain, however,
that the family did not make their ap¬
pearance in Russia until the fourteenth
century. Kobyla In the year 1341, Andrew
emigrated from Prussia to Mos¬
cow, and entered the service of the
Grand Duke Simeon the Fierce. The
descendants of Kobyla held high posi¬
tions, and the fifth in direct descent
from him was Roman Jurievitch, who
died in 1543, leaving a son, Nikita
Romanovitch Jurief, who by his mar¬
riage with tho Princess of Susdal (a
direct descendant from a brother of St.
Alexander Nevskoi), who was allied to
the royal race of Rurik; and a daughter
who became Czarina by her marriage
with Ivan the Terrible. Nikita was one
of the regency during the minority of
Feodor I.; and his eldest son, Feodor,
under the name of Philarete, was
elevated to the rank of Archimandrite
and Metropolitan during the reign of
the false Dimitri. The Romanoffs sup¬
ported the party that tendered the Rus¬
sian crown to the Polish prince, and
Philarete had gone with that view to
Poland, when tho opposition became so
violent as to change entirely the state of
affairs, and the Poles imprisoned
Philarete. The national party then pro¬
ceeded to the election of a native sover¬
eign, who should be as closely allied as
possible by blood to the race of Rurik,
and after much hesitation and many re¬
jections, they selected Michael Feodoro
vitch Romanoff, the son of Philarete,
and the representative, through his
grandmother, Rurik. of the royal house of
The following is a list of the
Czars and Emperors of Russia from that
time to the present. Czar Peter I. was
the first ruler who adopted, in the year
1721, the title of Emperor:
House of Bomanoff, Ivan III. 1740
male line: Elizabeth 1741
Michael 1613 House of Romanoff
Alexei, 1G45 Holstein:
Feodor. 1676 Peter III... 1762
Ivan and Peter I... 1682 Catharine II......1762
Peter I.......;.. ..16S9 PauL........ 1792
Catharine I 1721 Alexander I.. 1861
Peter II...........1727 Nicholas..... 1825
Female lino. Alexander II. 1855
Anne 1780 Alexander III...., 1881
Keep Those Discharge Paper*.
No soldier should allow any person,
however specious his reasoning
or smooth his tongue, to ob¬
tain a copy of his discharge papers.
It can bo for no proper purpose that any
person less wants copies of such papers, un¬
such person be the authorized agent
of the ex-soldier and be engaged in se¬
curing for him a tract of land under
the homestead act; and, even then, the
ex-soldier can act for himself. This case
can have but one of two meanings: It
must be the intention of parties buying
up such copies of soldiers’ discharges
as they can obtain, thereby to locate
land; if that be the < ? ase auc *
tne = . so>aiers claims . remain J 111111 !
paired, the government is to be defraud
vi° ^ mGan ® these copies
ol tae discharge are to be used in some
wav so as to invalidate the claims ot the
soldiers who rightfully deserve recogm
tion, and have the privilege of the home
stead act. Soldiers snould remember
-—and dishonest men need not be told
that 111 maxing final proof on a horce
stead entry under the Soldiers ami Sail
ers Homestead Act the parw will be
required to present to the proper district
and officers a certified copy of his dis
charge from the United States Army
during tne war of the rebellion, or in
the absence thereof, satisfactory eyi
deuce of service, which may consist
of the party s affidavit of the facts, cor
roborated by tne testimony of two dis
interested witnesses, will be accepted.
The intelligent soldiers of the State of
Iowa and the Northwest will at once
see the ive reasons why parties want soldiers
8 " p the 7 papers £or ? c ? ns j,' i f. ra :
tlou Jjet t sucii persons understand that
*
such practices will be investigated, and
that they may hear further on the sub
jeefc, and their schemes will be dropped.
-n all™. p * ■ t H 15 , ... .
^ He says- “Happy» F A
more miserable, , , soulless, non-intellectual _ . 7 . ,
people never existed. We live in ball
^ tSTen’. th 6 ! *
3tE on t en t the sa^e in S meditation foimd ’
a quiet life, are denied us.” Life is
somewhat feverish, going on under the
pre ssure of steam and with the speed of
electricity-but it is not the dhmal thing
&***> paints it>o be. The difference oe- j
tween now and then is this: Then they
stood by and looked at the flowers, and
™ ses of content ‘i“ as m; we n °'rf'S°Utev run and enjoy
i them as keenly as those who, in times
past, leisurely lingered over them.
THE WORKSHOP.
Fob tempering small pieces of steel
petroleum is the is recommended. by The method
same as other processes. The
pieces retain their polish and are not
fcamisued. Care must be taken not to
approach the petroleum to the tire. Af¬
ter thepieces Lave been treated they can
be covered with soap, being first slightly
heated.
It is no easy matter to plug up a di a
mond drill .hole from which there is a
strong flow of water, frequently under
great pressure. When a hole ’ itt to be
plugged there are forced into .c small
bags of beans and flaxseed. The plug,
made of dry pine, from ‘wn to fifteen
feet in length, is drive’ in after these
bags hole; and forces them forward in the drill
also, a hole is sometimes bored
into the end of the plug, which hole is
filled with flaxseed. The flaxseed and
beans are caused to swell to Buch an ex¬
tent by the hot water that the hole is as
compactly filled as though closed with
molten lead.
Boileu owners should place their boil¬
ers under the care of competent men,
and should not grudge the time necessary
for frequent and thorough cleaning out.
Boilers should not be blown out and
emptied while steam pressure is in them
and the 'surrounding dmckwork hot.
This is commonly done, but is an in¬
jurious practice, and the cause of much
of the hard scale in boilers. If they
they were allowed to stand till quite
cold, much of the deposit could be
washed out, but when the boiler is emp¬
tied while all is still hot, the mud be¬
comes baked into a hard crust not easily
removed.
Few realize what an enormous amount
of power is stored up in coal, and how
little we really utilize it. Prof. Rogers
has put it Beatly thus : The dynamic
value of one pound of good seam coal
is equivalent to the work of a man a day,
and three tons are equivalent to twenty
years’ hard work of 300 days to the"
year. The usual estimate of a four-foot
seam is that it will yield one ton of good
coal for every square yard, or about
5,000 tons for each square acre. Each
square mile will then contain 3,200,000
tons, which, in their total capacity for
the production of power, are equal to
the labor of over 1,000,000 able-bodied
men for twenty years.
If belts are allowed to become cov¬
ered with grease, dirt, and resin, or to
grow dry and hard, they can not work
air-tight on the pulleys. Very often no
available more than twenty-five per cent, of the
power is obtained because of
these neglects. Many persons think
they obtain more driving the power by plac¬
ing a tightener against belt; but this
gain is only the equivalent of the extra
surface with which the belt is brought in
contact by the tightener, and in the case
of a horizontal belt this will be nearly
lost by friction, though on an upright
belt the tigntener may be useful. There
is economy in working with slack belts,
keeping them clean and flexible. Hard¬
ened belts are best softened by a wash o
lukewarm soda water and a thorough
scraping and oiling.
She Was Kissed Too Much.
It isn’t often that a girl is kissed too
much, and less frequently does a boy
suffer from to© much of that sort of
thing. It is different from washing and
ironing and cooking and sweeping down
the stairs, that girls have been known to
seek kissing rather than those things,
and often much to the neglect of them.
It lias never been supposed that any
great danger lurked in kissing, even
though a great deal of it be done, and if
it has sometimes fatigued the very ardent
—for sometimes the very best things
will fatigue one—it has usually been a
fatigue which all were willing to accept.
It appears, however, that there is a
great deal of danger in kissing which is
not sensibly and decently done. A story
comes through the English papers of an
extraordinary young German couple who
wagered to kiss each other ten thousand
times in the course of ten hours. That
seems easy enough, and probably there
are thousands of young lovers who pre¬
sume they have time and again done
some thousands better than that. The
wager was the result of a discussion
about how many kisses could be crowded
into a given time. The enterprise was
undertaken with great vigor, the only
drawback being the presence hour of spec¬
tators. ’Within the first two thou¬
sand kisses were exchanged, and the
outlook was propitious. The record,
however, did not keep up, only one
thousand being added in the second
p our _ From this time on the business
jagged^ and at the end of tho third hour
p G [v 1 h ro ke down. The young woman
f a ; n ted in the midst of too much of a
g 00( j thing, and the young man’s lips
were cran] ped out of their usefulness
aJ ,^ paralvzed.
it isn’t worth while expressing an
opinion about an extraordinary couple
like that. They have their own punish¬
men ^ ; n tp e f au t that the matrimonial
en g a g em ent between them was broken
0 q conse quence of the strange per
formance . Probably there isn’t any
-warning in this for American girls. They
make a public exhibition of their
kissing, % and they are never known to
faint the encl of t]ie tbird hour . They
are the kind of girls a i so who do no t
paralyze the young men’s lips, and the
young man whose lips don’t paralyze
must be a pretty poor young man if he
gives a girl time to faint between kisses.
But don’t do it in public—it isn’t worth
much that way .—Philadelphia Times.
What He Died af.
An old lady from this city who was
» vi ^ description ting in Bo8ton of a h f late ard patient a f 0 ^ s 1 ' illness
_ d asked what disease he had died
*
'“Euthanasia,” professsionai answered the Boston
doctor, with accuracy,
rich name in the" my ioggraphy!”
“Oh!” said doctor ’and politely “it
meacs the mental physical
force3 ha ve succumbed to tho invasion
c | years and tli© vital fires burned out
£ rom i ac ^ G f f ue i —exhausted themselves,
were »
“ Humph,” .aid iiomvsHfled visitor,
short l y> “ we should call it ‘Old Age in
Detroit. Detroit Post and Tribune.
$1.50 FER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 23,
USEFUL HINTS.
Use fresh water. Water which has
stood .
m an open dish over night should
not be used for cooking or drinkkm
as it will have, absorbed many foul gases!
Mix a little carbonate of soda with the
wa+er in which flowers are.immersed
and it will preterve them for a fortnight’
Common saltpeter is also, a Very good
preservative.
Common soda is excellent for scouring
tin, as it will not scratch the tin, and
will make it look like new. Apply With
a piece of moistened newspaper and
polish with a dry piece. Wood Ashes
arc a good substitute.
Take a new flower' pot, wash it clean,
wrap ill lieep m a it wet cloth, and set over butter Milk!
w as hard as if on ice.
if put into an earthen can, or even a tin
one, will keep sweet for a long time, if
well wrapped in a wet cloth.
Strong Lavender Water.—T ake of
English oil of lavender, two drams; es¬
sence of bergamot, one dram and a half;
essence of ambergris and mfllefleur, of
©aeh one dram; grain musk, three
grains ; rectified spirits of wine, half a
pint. Mix.
To Destroy Ants.— Take carbolic
acid diluted with water—take one part
acid to ten parts water—and with a
syringe throw this liquid into all tho
cracks and holes where they nest, and
ants will soon vanish. Cockroaches are
also driven away by it.
Perfumed Powder for Boxes AND
Drawers.— Coriander powder, Floren
’ tine Orris powder, powdered rose-leaves,
powdered sweet-scented flag-root,' of
each two ounces ; lavender flowers pow¬
dered, powder' four ounces ; musk, one scruple;
of sandalwood, one drachm.
Mix ail together.
Curling Fluid for the Hair.—G um
tragacantli, oue ounce ; rose water, 0110
pint; let the gum soak in the rose water
for forty-eight hours, then squeeze the
whole through .is fit muslin or a coarse cloth,
and it for use. It should be ap¬
plied to the ringlets with a soft curl¬
brush, and, as it dries, the property of
the fluid will become apparent.
To Remove Oil-Stains from Books.
—If the stains are extensive, roll up each
leaf and insert it into a wide-mouthed
bottle half full of sulphuric ether, and
shake it gently up and down for a min¬
ute. On its removal, the stains will be
found to have disappeared. The ether
rapidly evaporates from thfe paper, and a
single washing in cold water is all that is
afterward required.
To Clean Mirrors.—T ake a news¬
paper. or part of one, according to the
size of the glass. Fold it small and dip
it into a basin of clean cold water; when
thoroughly wet would squeeze it out in your
hand as you a sponge, and then
rub it hard all over the face of the glass,
taking care that it is not so wet as to run
down in streams. In fact, the paper must
only be all completely moistened or damp¬
ened through. After tho glass has
been well rubbed with wet paper, let it
rest for a few minutes, and then go over
it Avith a fresh dry newspaper (folded
small in your hand) till it looks clear and
bright, Avhich it will almost immediately
and with no further trouble. This meth¬
od, simple as it, is the best and most
expeditious for cleaning mirrors, and it
will be found so on trial—-giving a clean¬
ness and polish, that can be produced by
no other pr ocess.
_
Russia as a Military Power.
Railroads lead from subject but hostile
Poland to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
These cities, therefore, are not more in¬
accessible than several other European
capitals. Moreover, tho Crimean war
proved that Russia can be exhausted and
defeated on her frontier.
The Russian Government is based on
force. The theory is simple; but it
renders a large standing army essential.
Without this coercive element the gov¬
ernment could not exist a day. Where
the consent of the governed is regarded *
as something wholly irrelevant, Under a power¬ such
ful substitute is required.
conditions an empire that includes a
seventh part of the habitable globe, peo¬
pled by nearly 90,000,000 of inhabitants,
of many different races, speaking succesfully many
languages, can only bo military force. pa- As
troled by an immense
this patrol must be kept up in time of
war even more rigorously than in time of
peace, it is always difficult for the gov¬
ernment to bring a large force into the
field without weakening, to a dangerous
extent, the foundations upon which the
empire rests. invaded Russia with
In 1812 Napoleon
a force of 450,000 men; but the aggre¬
gate of the Russian strength The was some¬
what less than 200,000. difficulties govern¬ of the
ment situation coped with unaccustomed the in
with energy
the late war with Turkey. The avowed
intention was to make the contest short,
sharp and decisive. In November, 187 6,
the Russian army on the Danube was
composed of 180,000 men. Another
army of 59,000 men marched against
Kars, in Asiatic Turkey. In the follow¬
ing April the principal 246,000 army had been in¬
swelled in numbers to Roumanian men,
cluding 40,000 Servian and
auxiliaries, and 6,000 of the Bulgarian
militia. The army in Asia had also been
increased to 79,000. Renewed and con¬
tinual efforts were made to augment the
number of the troops ; but the greatest
number brought into the field at any one
time was 544,000, including both armies
of attack, with 73,411 men scattered
along the shores of the Black Sea.
This seems to be rather an impotent
reuult when we consider that in I ebru
ary, 1871, Prussia, with so much smaller
population, invaded France with a force
1.350.000 men . ___
Getting Rid of Them.
“Do yon really write out in the woods,
Mr. Dactyl?” “Indeed I do, miss.
“And what do you do when one of those
horrid ten-footed bugs drops on IJ your
face and begins to tickle. Oh .
wait until he gets through tickling, and
then I shout ‘Bug-on! and at once
there s a bug off. ’
In baying anything you must cut
away all things that do not belong to it.
They may be pretty and good, but un¬
less They help they hinder The orator
who lacks this self-denial fada, Ihere
is no trick in saying the truth , but be¬
hind it there must be conviction.