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ATLANTA, Q A.
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in the best ff style and
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Haunted Iff Palrlea.
I surprising,” Raid Police Supt.
p]|, of Brooklyn, “how many
Bio pore are in active life who,
^^Boce.'sful ■toiwrently sound in their in own general, business, have
• ' IBpg^ry vernation, which, whon raises uppermost serious in
a
■bout their mental condition. I
■number of such visitors, and I
^B'ommtslcmS of Cli" riSSst'bS
undertake to care for cranks it
■mid hike an asylum ten tunes as big
Eft; ■itbijp have got. An intelligent man
address called upon me some
iMpGne ■HB about as long as possible,
was annoved almost to death, i
fS ■my r&it
JB house, and the roof is just
sleeping room. Now, every
I^HiB 1 ' ,ulk ' ■)’ solt of mis_
e
‘“tpal ? 1 said I.
w *nries t ’ he mid; ffniriat.
I Mid, ‘I never saw one.’ He
■$wri surprised, and when [ asked
■pm tidi'serili!' them lie said they were
■ftttfSB tg fyjg 0 feet ]^ 0 tall, dressed ' ,oxes > about two
in fantastic
and with funny faces.
MM"' do they do?’’I asked.
“•(li, they chatter and dance and
|B |B' ; ’d me, run to and I he window and make
leep run night °i
it up all the and
■ret any sleep, and I’m not go
»n ■ ftn now formlS" andfi hit
my health.’ Seeing that the
m earnest, and that the best
■ s '"u: *‘; This ni W 5 S the most serious
MB nan outrage and
^^■'1 stopped. the That’s what Pm here
fairies must get out or I
Wf "Bai'n. ' gi ,^ ovv bedTntoht * 1’H iaves-
1 You to
f* ee P f . . an, l you’ll hear "no
and th Three months
- an o the man and his story had
B passed out of my mind, when
he came into my office
■toe I am again!’ ' ’ sav
fhat fairies,’said 3 the matter now?’ lasted
ho, q.ho same old
t Sa '^’ ^ diought
■ ui' • ) hf^Tf ° f ,! aine8 *’ we had
Well, If Aft ,
B ;uno uut 'J 1 ; v<t night, whon
B BptoaUed attend to them’ ^ mUSt as * J
U a thanking him Si a would and’as and
B. h wa . v me, I
B'e i«™o™ tire ' f [° m b'- m since I
x hCd UM
ss(im
■known : S a "° a 8 en deman who u
IveGu I V tii',, 1 ' ,V !- u . j si 1 " ? css ln Kew Heights, York,
I**™* upon MnoycJ’hv • d
I 1 ? -Png boy sfoUw°
I 'th.' “Cat! cat! cat!’
to f : W lle passed from his
Ptterinf him thl'’-.^ tJS, , , . MVas Pursued by
on I
, Til
business.
frit, \vip IU wh ' u ila we! ff inside
i b ^to!fn ^ n n h . e l .. Came U hlf a at noon
k. r Vanr ? n t as where l st e,7ped out !
f'nhise^ the ( " he took his
it! cat! cat!’ again
K or cross (v. Ie Oou{ d not get in a
Nvinre * kiit that tl„ St! "' - e ’ or ° f 9te At P ou ! ' ; at!
reae k his °
nnored*' ears
i° U su Ppose that you are
|' n Ppose j t j '' ‘Oh,’ he said,
n ? a!! tjjg cca,u ' e ^ believe in
[teetVti * j 1 aever ^see a?atV\van't
hry p Ve suppose |° when a cat’s
G’rtainUp 'hose’who ami'o’v it, haven’t I?’
Can y ° U
‘ '^’i lb at ' the wors”‘of vou?’
t. ‘ s it,’he
»*! if [ never seen them,
belp of ftnybo mysel/ i See tll ^ ° m 1 wou ldn’t
*rong s would, redress
m ^tSnt to fr0DQ ^ble e ^rsoTs!
iav
I called \ k' r ’
r e ca Ptain of the police
bf5 8 m V vi 'bor lived, told
^ , story - » ^l ve instv
tot a ston t ’- JC -
V '"^H he cries of ‘Cat' cat'
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Gull eggs Bell at fifteen cents a dozen
at Tampa, Fla.
Atlanta, Ga., capit £L -tarl
ing a large shoe factor V
Georgia has turned the tables, and is
shipping oats to the West,
1 he hemp crop in the blue grass reeion
of Kentucky will be short,
Texas nearly $ 1 000,000 cash bal
,
ance
con
trackd for in Greenville, Ala.
a,JOut ; rh r ( r t,on same crop aa that of of F,orWa last year. wHibe
New corn is being contracted for at
twenty-five cents a bushel in Texas.
From Key Largo, Fla., 360,000 pine¬
apples have been shipped this season.
The fine quarries of marble in Pick¬
ens county, Ga., are to be developed.
Americus, Ga., according to recent
surveys, is just 320 feet above sea level.
Rich deposits of phosphate rock have
been discovered in Chatham county, Ga.
Preserving fisrs is an important indus¬
try at St. Augustine and Jacksonville,
Fla.
An Atlanta druggist says Ihere are
2,000 confirmed opium-eaters in that
city.
North Carolina now leads the South¬
ern States in the number of her cotton
mills.
St. Augustine. Fla., is manufacturing
and shipping large quantities of orange
wine.
Virginia has 681 prisoners in the pen¬
itentiary and 29.1 hired out on railroad
work.
Three hunoied Swedish families will
8ettle aloD S the linn ° f tlje Florida Cen
^ Jewish synagogue, s fashioned afte
. ^ . Palistme palace, , b
an ancien is to
built in A thens, Ga.
Norfolk, v \'r^^ \ a., for the be presen 8rected , 'ation — of
lumber by the creosote process.
«r in thc hia ! ory .° f
^fterson county, Ga., no intoxicating
liquor can be purchased within its bor»
In the past ten years Georgia has in¬
creased the number of her farms ninety
eight per cent., and now has a total of
133 620.
^ rd - Win. Bearding, who died recently
in Perry county, Ala., was 107 years
old Her husband, who survives her,
is 109 years old.
The great iron viaduct for the track
of the ’Frisco railway south of the Bos
ton mountain tunel, in Arkansas, is 821
feet high and 800 feet long.
° f the J ’ 23J conv5cts in tlie Georgia
penitentiary, 1,114 are negroes. Only
thirty women are among the number,
and but cne of them is white.
Tlie United States troops stationed at
Tampa are to he moved to Mount Ver»
non, Ala., and the Tampa post will
P rol)abl N be abandoned altogether.
Since the spring of 1880 Memphis has
paved eight % and a half miles of streets
and . put . down f forty milea of f sewers a »d
fort y mi Ies of subsoil pipes. The cost
was $500,000.
&avannab it- P arties are endeavoring , to
establish a semi-monthly line of steam
ers between that place and London, Eng
land, for the purpose of bringing iinmi
'
«»» -,n,,v.
There ar? about one thousand acres of
on Matecombie key, Monroe coun
^.Florida, and it has recently been
purchased by three Key Westers, who
intend to convert it into one big cocoa
n,terOTe -
The Soutliern car worksat Knoxville,
Tenn., turn out $400,000 worth of rail
roa( | C ars and $175,000 worth of wheels
7™. Thw furniture fnctorie
an annua l business of $300,000; a
barrel factory, 150,000; a handle facto
ry, $120,000, and an iron company, $250,
000. There are besides, two foumleries
doidg a business of $ 100 , 000 , and six
flouring mills, all doing well.
Peter Griffin, colored, lives near An
KUsta ’ Ga ’ * nd °' vns fl farm of over 300
R creP ’ a11 of l1 »der cultivation
He has 100 acres in corn, and will make
fifty bales of cotton this year. He has
twenty acres in oats, and raises on his
P lace everything that he needs. There
arp six P Iowa under Ilis direction, and
be has a home that is fitted up with
every convenience and comfort.
East Tennessee letter: Ancient mum
miea are found in East Tennessee caves,
with sandals petrified to their feet. Tim
ber in our forests disclose wounds in
AKted near the heart, with sharp-edged
tools, tong before. Columbus quit wear
ing petticoats. Triangle-shaped coins,
> 0 { unknown alloy, of the date of 1215,
are plowed up in our fields. Fossil re
mains of animals, long since extinct, are
found petrified on oui hillsides. Dried
brick, prepared of clay and cut straw,
are unearthed many feet below the sur
i “»« { * sear ' h ' wbe re ,hey “ reS f
P 05ed have remained , far f many centu.
ries.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH !S LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS. GA., FRIDAY AUGUST 18 , 1882 .
TOPICS OP TIIE DAT.
Yrllow fever is creating considerable
excitement in portions of Texas.
G EORGE JXiLIAM CURTIS is figlltillg
the administration without gloves.
Southern New Jersey and the Dela¬
ware Peninsula are suffering from
drought.
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The Creek Indians are on the war
path. This time they are fighting
among themselves.
The hop crop is 25 per cent, short this
year as compared with last. In this case
the pressure is on the brewer.
The nomination and election for a
third term of Governor St. John, of
Kansas, is said to be assured.
It is proposed to build an nuder
ground railroad in Paris. Tlie cost of
its construction is put at $30,000,000.
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“ The President now drives out with
a four-in-liand. ” While this might mean
almost anything, we presume it means
four horses.
The London Times expresses the
opinion that the Sultan will send Iris
troops to Egypt expressly to thwart the
purposes of England.
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Crop reports from England say that
wheat will not nearly amount to a fair
average crop ; barley rather less than
an average crop ; oats good.
Six thousand acres of walnut trees
have been planted in Kansas. They
propose that future generations shall
have all tire walnuts they want to eat.
In is stated, as common rumor, that
although the President vetoed the River
and Harbor bill, he secretly worked,
through his friends, for its passage over
his veto.
There are symptoms that the fight in
Egypt will not be confined exclusively
to the English and Moslems. The pro¬
portions of a general war are indicated
by late dispatches.
There is a class of people who, on
their arrival at a seaside resort, register
their names at a first-rate hotel, the fact
is announced in the newspaper, and then
they go to a cheap cottage.
An actress in a London theater is a
sixteen-year-old Bohemian girl, eight
i'eet two inches high, and still growing.
She believes the time has como for
women to occupy a higher level.
The Cincinnati Commercial argues
that a drunk honest man is preferable to
a sober thief. That is owing somewhat
to the size of the drunk as well as the
size of the steal. Let us have the [spec¬
ifications.
Wheat and corn, at some points, bring
the same per bushel, a state of com
merce that does not often occur. The
abundant crop of wheat is now 011 the
market, whereas, corn will be scarce for
some time yet.
As a rale, New York merchants were
loud iu tlieir praise of the President’s
act of vetoing the River and Harbor
bill. The improvement of Western
channels is a matter of little interest to
Eastern merchants.
Tennessee has nine daily papers, of
which four are for Bates, the repudiat¬
ing Democratic candidate for Governor ;
four for Eussell, the State credit Demo¬
cratic candidate, and only one for Haw¬
kins, the Republican nominee.
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The Arkansas Traveller gives the fol¬
lowing bit of good sanitary advice:
Even It’s ebery nigger’s duty ter be baptised.
if he ain’t got the faith, de water’ll
do him good.
This same advice will apply to white
men.
Simon Reichard, his wife, two sons.
and two daughters, of Mauch Chunk,
Pennsylvania, weigh together 1,522
pounds, and claim to bo the heaviest
family of six in Pennsylvania. Their
several separate weights are represented
to be 245, 235, 220, 222, 200^ and 400
pounds.
The Supreme Court of Iowa rules that
1 police officer is guilty of manslaughter
f he strikes a prisoner a fatal blow with
a club to defeat an attempt to escape,
unless the officer has reason to believe
that lie is in danger of great bodily harm
or loss of life.
Brooklyn shows a total church mem¬
bership of 269,462, agsinst 138,705 in
1802, of which there .are Catholics 209,
• >00, 110.000 in 18)62. The greatest per¬
centage has, however, been for the Uni
versalists, next the Baptists, then the
Cong< egationalists.
IT T Wwtttt who’s *[' ih*» author ", of the
'
Chicago J, tounc , a , ..uxnorous novelettes ..1 ^
-.VLiich have captureu move taan national
uotice, is a graduate of a theological
seminary, and was at one time sporting
reporter. He is grave and calm in his
speech, and is rather bashful
England sensibly objects to the land
ing of Turkish soldiers in E'ivpt with
out on first hrst know knowm in" wlio who they thev are are going nointr to to
light for when they get there, bne
demands that the Porte denounce Arabi
Bey a rebel. It will give a clearer on
derstanding of what tho Sultan proposes
to do in » crisis.
A scandal prevails at Loveland, Ohio,
concerning the boy evangelist Harrison.
The Camp meeting Association erected
a cottage at a cost of $175, furnished it
in elegant style, and set it aside for
Harrison’s exclusive occupancy, or use.
When the camp-meeting closed, the
other day, Mr. Harrison offered to dis¬
pose of the cottage, furniture and
grounds, all in a lump, for $200. He
was notified by several members of the
Association that it was not his to dis¬
pose of, but on his vacating it, reverted
to the Association. Mr. Harrison was
nou-plussed, and went away dissatisfied,
and now there is considerable talk and
scandal about the matter. The ladies
all think Mr. Harrison ought to have
the cottage, but not so with the hard
hearted men.
What Arabi’s rebellion is already cost¬
ing Egypt may be judged from the
Alexandria dispatch to the Manchester
Examiner. Her cotton crop averages
two hundred millions of pounds an¬
nually, and that is altogether lost for
this year. Her exportation of wheat
ought to be about twenty-five millions
of pounds, but there will be not enough
garnered in this season for the support
of the native population. England has
recently been paying her ten millions of
dollars annually for cotton seed that is
compressed into oil cake, and now that
item of revenue is sacrificed. The Lon¬
don Shipping and Merchant Gazette de¬
clares that it is almost impossible to
compute the monetary disaster to
Egypt. The deficiency in the cotton
and wheat deliveries to England must,
however, be supplied by American ex¬
portation, and if the war is inevitable,
our shippers may conscientiously con¬
sent to make all the money they can out
of it..
Burns.
Extensive burns are apt to be fatal,
even when death does not follow' from
the shock caused by the accident. Why
they are fatal has been a cause of sur¬
prise in ca-:es where no internal organ
has been harmed. Recent examinations
of persons who have died from this
cause have shown that the blood was
thick and viscid. Much of the blood
water (liquor sanguinis) had been
drained from the blood, rendering it
unfit for its functional purposes. The
dation loss w r as undoubtedly the due to rapid exu¬
from infiamed surfaces.
To what an extent exudation takes
drops place has been shown by the large
of fluid that have been pressed
from the burned skin of a rabbit. When
the animal was placed in a hot room,
the fur over the burnt d part remained
moist, although it quickly dried when
moistened on other parts of the body.
In cholera there is a somewhat simi¬
lar loss, but there are also great, thirst
and shrinkage of the muscles, which is
not the case in burns. It is, however,
only the serum—blood-water without
the fibrin—instead of the water of the
blood-proper, changes which W drained off. As
this the density 01 the latter,
tho blood-Yessels, according to a well
known law, tend to draw a supply to
meet the lack from the muscular tissues,
causing In the their great shrinkage.
case of burns, however, there
is simply a diminution of the quantity
of the blood-water, and no change in its
density; hence no absorption from
muscular tissues takes place.
Burns in which the scarf-skin is not
destroyed do not so seriously affect the
system.
The aim in the treatment of burns
should be to arrest the exudation of the
water on the surface, Soda not only
removes the pain of burns, but it will
save life oven when tho burns, cover
surface enough to cause death. Its re¬
markable curative power probably lies
in the fact that it renders the surface
d ry. — Youth's Companion.
Rats on Ships.
thfm J . . .
c^nve/c^ 1 n?rt T 7
to ° h
.j tin indiKtrim they mak6
shfn t^t fH^renn - n ft! rr r r
fhlm th S ,ihU gt "{} ° f r
qhin vova^
passengers and cargo, every l
whether the former remain i the ship
F^ k fn°dl? emsel r^
^• h -f JlLJn i l Si rnm C T pa ? y liad
ships a of their own they employed a rat
catcher, who sometimes captured 500
°Thi‘cSn Sbf!S?p e d f 0m F a
f f „ fL t G b i aCk
species. Sometimes black t and o a brown K
inhabit the same vessel, and unless they
carry on perpetual hostilities, one party
wdi keep in the head of the vessel and
leot ierto c s ern. The ship rat is
very anxious that toe supply of fresh
water shall not fail; he will come on
ueek when it rams, and climb up to the
wet sails to suck them Sometimes he
mistakes a spirit cask for a water cask,
and he gets drank. A captain on an
Amencanstop with is credited (or discred
ited) an ingenious bit of sharp
practice as a Having means of discharged clearing his ship
iron. ra's. a cargo
at a port in Holland, he found his ship
in juxtaposition taken in to another which had
just a cargo of Dutch cheese,
He laid a plank at night from one vessel
to the other; the rats, tempted by the
°dor, trooped along the plank and be
gan the feast. He took care that the
plank should not be there to serve them
as a pathway back again, and so
cheese laden ship had a cruel addition
to its outward cargo.— N. Y Scientific
--
Bere . how visit to Coney Island
* is a
a ent l Ytll a . tor e ^ v of X ork the reporter Sabbath ; “Pres- in
® 1 was
ted . the glory , dled f roiC the heavens
and was lost in the flowing tide ; a white
star blossomed in the infinite meadows;
the riotous wind ceased its rush and was
and the curving billows chanted a
JJ“® S0 - enm as them.’ —Boston Trcpu
t
TO TAL A SKIIllLA TION.
Oil. he was a Bowery hoot-black bold,
Anti liis years they numbered nine;
Ituigh an:l unpolished was he. albeit
He constantly aimed to shine.
As proucl as a king on h1s box he sat,
Munching an apple red. looked wistfully
While the boys of his set
on.
And “ Give us a bile I” they said.
But the boot black smiled a lordly smile;
criecL '
“ No free bites liere!” he
Then the boys they sadlv walked away,
Save one who stood at his side.
“ Bill, prive us the core.” smiled he whispered low.
That boot-black once more.
And a mischievous dimple grew in bis
cheek—
“There aiat goin' to bs no cere."’
—Mary D. Brine, in Harper's Magazine.
The Glories of the Starlit Heavens.
If the eye could gain gradually in
light-gathering power, until it attained
something like the range of Herschels, the great
gauging how telescopes would of the
utterly what we see now seem
lost in the inconceivable glories thu 9
gradually unfolded. Even the revela¬
tions of the telescope, save as they ap¬
peal to the mind’s eye, would be as
nothing to the splendid scene revealed,
when within the spaces which now show
black between the familiar stars of our
constellations, thousands of brilliant
orbs would be revealed. The milky
luminosity of the Galaxy would be seen
portions aglow with blazing millions of suns, its richer
could so resplendently that
no eye bear to gaze long upon the
wondrous display. But with every in¬
crease of power more and more myr¬
iads of stars would break into view,
until at last the scene would bo unbear¬
able in its splendor. The eye would seek
for darkness as for rest. -The mind
would ask for a scene less oppressive in
the magnificence of its inner meaning;
for even as seen, wonderful though tho
display would be, tho glorious scene
would scarce express the millionth part
of its real nature, as recognized by a
mind conscious that each point of light
was a sun like ours, each sun the cen¬
ter of a scheme of worlds such as that
globe on which we “live and move and
have our being.”
Who shall pretend to picture a scene
be so glorious? applied illumine If the electric light could
the to black fifty million lamps
over surface of a domed vault,
and those lamps were here gathered in
rich clustering groups, there strewn
the more sparsely, after the way in which
heaven, stars are spread over the vault of
the something which like the grandeur of
scene we have imagined would
be realized—but no human hands could
every produce such an exhibition of
celestial imagery. As for maps, it is
obviously impossible by any maps whioh
could be drawn, no matter what their
scale or plan, to present anything even
approaching heavenly host. to a correct picture of the
There is no way even
of single showing picture. their numerical wealth in a
It is not till we have learned to look
on all that the telescope reveals as in its
turn nothing , compared with the real
universe, that we have rightly learned
the lessons which the heavens teach, so
far, at least, as it Res within our feeble
powers the to study the awful teaching of
stars. The range of the puny in¬
struments man can fashion is no meas¬
ure, we may be well assured, of the uni'
verse as it is. The domain of telesoop
ically visible space, compared with whioh
the whole range of the visible universe
of stars ?eems but a point, can be in
turn but as a point oompared with those
infinite realms of star-strewn space
which lie on every side of our universe,
beyond tlie range—millions of times
further than the extremest scope—of the
instruments by which man has extended
the powers of visions given to him by
the Almighty. The finite—for after all,
infinite though it seems to us, the region
of space through which we oan extend
our survey is but finite—can never bear
any proportion to the infinite save that
of infinite disproportion. All that wo
can see is as nothing compared with that
which is; all we can know is as noth
ing; though our knowledge “grow from
moi e to more, ’ seemingly without limit.
In fine, we may say (as our gradually
widening vision shows us the nothing
ness of what we have seen, of what we
feGOj of what W 6 can ever sgg)* not* a3
W la ® e saa ? : “The Known is Little ,»
Bie Known is Nothing;” not
\\ lke Unknown is Immense ” but “Tiie
NKN 0 I N », I"™™ C'-Prcf. Proc
"* m Knowl ^
Kill( ‘ d tUe Wron S Hens ‘
An irascible life sea^ptain settled down
^ the side of a well
tempered man, and the two got along
very well until the hen question came
up. Said the Captain:
1 llke y° u as a neighbor, but I dor'
llke n y°« r hens and if they trouble •?
any more 1 11 shoot them.
The mild-mannered neighbor studio
over the matter some, but knowing the
Captain’s reputation well by report, ho
replied: “Well,
if we cant get along any
other way, shoot the hens, but I’ll take
n as a .ai or it you will throw them
when dead over into our yard ana yell
to my wife.
“All right,’ said the Captain.
The next day the Captain s gun was
heard, and a dead hen fell in the quiet
man’s yard. The next day another hon
was thrown over, the next tw o, and tho
next after three.
“Say,” said the quie\ man, Tit'
“ couldn’t you scatter them along a
tie? We really can’t dispose of the
number you are killing.”
“Give’em to your poor relations,”
replied And the Captain, gruffly.
the quiet man did. He kept his
for neighbors weil supplied with chickens
some weeks.
One day the Captain said to the quiet
man:
going to give } ou it \ouIIkeep quiet ^
about this affair.’
“ How is that,’ said the quiet man.
“ Are you sorry because you killed my
hens 3 ’
“ Your hens!” said the Captain,
“11 by. sir, those hens belonged to mv
wife! I didn't know she had anv until
I fed you and your neighbors ail sum
meroutof her Hock," ^grUgnd (d/e.) j
Bread Baking in London.
f London bakehouse is almost invari
ably situated in a cellar. Generally it is
a cellar that, might do well enough for
the reception of lumber, but is utterly
unfit for any other purpose, and, of alt
purposes to which it might possibiv be
put, for the manufacture of bread ‘The
short writer time spent ago. a night The in walls such a piace a
cobwebby and old; the were butoin°\
der the ovens were un¬
pavement of the street; the
refuse of the bakehouse was deposited
near the ovens; the four or five com¬
partments into which the cellar was
divided were small and close, and when
the was lighted at midnight cock¬
roaches were swarming over walls and
ceilings, sacks flowr,and chasing each other about the
of holding assemblies in
the bins. I his, however, was rather a
superior bakehouse. The dirty and
dismal caverns in which most of our
bread is made are inaccessible. If the
baker does not regard cleanliness as a
fully moral obligation, he is, at any rate,
aware that the cellars in which ho
practices his mystery are not qaite such
show places as they ought to be. The
circumstance that they are underground,
and that the ovens are so placed as to
draw the air which feeds them—often
from the close proximity of the drains—
over the troughs in which the dough is
kneaded, ing. Bread is in readily itself absorbs sufficiently appall¬
the air that
surrounds it, and ought never to be
rnacie or to be kept in confined places.
In London, however, it is habitually
made in dens so confined and nauseous
that the baker's trade is one of the most
unhealthy in existence.
The condition of the bakohouses is
ope of the least evils connected with
the existing system of bread-making.
Bread is made now after much the same
fashion as was in vogue, probably, in
tho Cities of the Plain. The baker still
uses his naked arms in the process of
kneading. wooden The “sponge” is laid in long
troughs. Over these the jour¬
neyman baker, often working in a tern
perature half hour of ninety while degrees, bends for
an or so ho kneads the
dough. Of course he perspires. His
occupation is as laborious almost as that
of the blacksmith, and produces similar
outward effects. However much he may
be disposed to cleanliness, he can not
pursue his occupation except under
conditions that to any one not accus
tomed to the process are sickening to
behold. After belaboring the dough
much as a housewife belabors a feather
bed, he “rubs his arms out”—that is,
he clears them of the paste with wliioh
they are encrusted by dipping his hands
in dry flour and rubbing them down his
arms. The dough comes off in little
rolls, which are returned to the trough
ane kneaded in with the bread. This is
not doing the case only in bakehouses which
are the a “cutting” business. It is
process common in all bakehouses.
saturated The dough which adheres to the arms,
as it must be with impurity,
would otherwise be so much waste, and
in a bakehouse nothing is wasted.
Sueh things are not pleasant" to dwell
upon; but bread is the chief food of the
people, and it is as well that we should
know how it is manufactured. Before
being the made up into loaves and put in
oven it goes through a tiresome
amount kneaded of handling. After pulled being
in the troughs it is out
in pieces and rolled vigorously on a
bench. Now and then a knife is taken
up and the bench is scraped, and the
scrapings are returned to the trough.
The old proverb about eating a peck of
dirt has a more literal application than
is generally supposed. We take a great
deal of our allowance in our bread. It
is a remarkable fact that there is more
popular ignorance on the subject of food
than on anything else which is necessa
ry to our daily life. In nothing, more
over, do we take so much on trust as in
the article of bread. If, by some aoci
dent, the publio could watch our bakers
at work for a few hours there would be
a general and immediate resort to homo
made bread .—Pali Mall Gazette.
A . Nt-ory , . w nit .,, a a , Moral. r ,
The following bit of history is from
the Cleveland Herald: “Once upon a
time—this has nothin^ to do with the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, re
nicmhcr_there was a corDOration.
The stock of the company amounted to
10 , 000 . shares and was equally owned
by John Jones and Sam Smith. The
Send profits yielded a regular annual divi
of ten ner cent, on the capital
of $ 1 , 000 , 000 , which was $ 100 , 000 .
was equally divided between the
Jones eyeS was"thrift "usineS\e While he°*h’ad°an
also had another
eve to John Jones. Sam Smith was not
go thriftv but Jon^ was saif a good follow. Smith! One
day John let's the to Sam stock 5,000
m, increase
shares. You said the other day you
wanted to use 9100 1.00 If vou like I
w m take the odd thousand shares and
thaV pay you cash for it.” fellow. Sam agreed *But to
as he was a good and had a:t
er clcction a time the Then Company it that met John Jones an
. was
made substantial use of his odd thousand
shares of stock. It gave him a major
ltj , and he voted himself President and
Treasurer of the Company. He fixed
the salary £ of President at $50,000, and
that me u the $i 00 ,000 which had
formerly Smirh been called a dividend. f T Sam
Cns fwbno .„ ffc l aH on „ roonnt 0 ohn
litth, i-t,e more morn thar tha . a a m. ma
• f
l ° lltvo1 10 3toc *
Land in England.
Behind the land question in England
is the question of habits. The land is
held in these great tracts, not for en
jovment- but from pride. The brains
of men are so equal, under modem facil
ities of education, that hereditary de
scent would be inconsequential if it did
not the have hereditary estate to advertise
fact; and consequently every parve
nU ? nohUi ^ rus ^ 8 t ? bu Y la;id at
a ridiculous price, so that , he can appear
OI1 fbe landscape of the For country among
the sons of Normans. the greater
part of the year an account English estate is not
tit to live on, on of the climate,
and there is plenty of land to be had for
less than $1 per acre on the steppes of
the Rocky mountains more agreeable for
hunting, for residence, and for ever } 7
o therjmj oymeBt, ttopi the best toad in
$ 1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
--The electric light will affect the
colors a# cloths, as well as paintings, in
the sain* way but not so quieklv as sun
light.— N. Y. Herald.
—The oottonwood is abundant in
Kansas, where it grows rapidly. Under
the Forestry law of that State about
6,000 acres have been planted iu black
walnut .—Denver Tribune.
—T&& sorrowful tree—so named be¬
cause it flourishes only at night—grows
upon the island of Goa, near Bo in bey.
The flowers, which have a fragrant
odor, appear soon after sunset the yea’
round, and olosa uy or fall off as the sun
rises.
—Black bir*% t which is coming in
favor as a substitute for Mack walnut,
is a close-grained and handsome wood.
It can readily b<t> stained to resemble
walnut, is just as ussy to work, and is
suitable for many of the purposes to
which black walnut 1* applied.— N. Y.
Post.
—A report recently issued by the
American Silk Association shows that
was the best year American factories
have ever had, and also Shat it was tho
largest the trade. year of importation ever seen in
It is estimated that tho
American people spent over $105,000,000
for silks in the fiscal year ending July
1 , one-third of this large sum going to
our native manufacturers. — Chicago
Journal.
—One of the latest notions is to have
alight on the forehead of the horse.
We arc assured that it gives perfect
safety against accident when driving
after dark. No fire, no liquids, no lamp,
yet a never-failing distance. It bright signal light at
a and great is made of metal
covered with a combination of lumi¬
detached; nous compounds; is easily attached and
is made in different designs,
and therefore, very attractive if it
should be carried in daytime .—Court
Journal.
that —They do some things in Sweden
can not be done in this country,
A new development of the timber in
dustries has recently been made near
the town of Narkoding, in middle
Sweden. It consists in manufacturing
thread for crochet and sewing pur
poses from pine timber. The process
is not made public, but tho products
are said to be fine in quality, and tho
price low. The thread is wound on
balls by machineiy and packed in boxes
for export. Tho new business, it is
said, is likely to be a successful one, for
the orders from all parts of the country
are so numerous that the new factory
is unable to fill them .—Cldeaoo 'Times.
An Irish Highwayman.
Brennan, the famous Irish hi^hway
™ an » was a little Bonaparte in. his way.
? nce robbed three officers in a post
c " ai * 8 e, and left them telling them he
wou ‘ ( * report them to the Duke of York
as unworthy to serve the King, for al
lowing le themselves to be l robbed ther girdle by a
sm % : ™ an - wore a ea
™ un< * ^ IS . stuc,i w bh pistols,
ere v y as ai } attempt made by two po
“ cc °fli°e r8 111 the town of Tipperary to
f rr e3 ^ bmi, early in the morning, in
, but be jumped through the win
>
dow and his wife threw a pair of pis
s out to him. They pursued him to
a by-held,where , they came upon him in
his shirt; but he kept one of them at
Y with one pistol while with the other
b® , stood ov er the second policeman
he made him strip off Ins clothes,
wffich , j ie put on himself, thus making
Kim return to town as he (Brennan) had
llj , namely in his shirt,
“ 1S Brennan belongs the story
incorrectly . credited to Cartouche. Bren
nan » m company with to other “gen
tleman, ’ robbed a mail eoach and took
a g°°d quantity of booty the making the
passengers lie down in muddy road
and them at leisure,
“I his money will be but very little
among three,” whispered Brennan to
his neighbor, as the three conquerors
were making merry over their gains;
“if you were to pull the trigger of your
pistol rade’s in the neighborhood of your off, com¬ and
then there ear, perhaps it might go of
would be but two us to
share.”
Strangely enough, as Brennan said,
the pistol did go off and No. 3 per¬
ished.
“Give him another ball,” said Bren¬
nan, and another was fired into him.
But no sooner had his comrade dis¬
charged both his pistols than Brennan,
himself, seized with a furious indigna¬
tion, drew his.
“Learn, monstei',” cried he, “not to
be so greedy of gold, and and perish, the
victim of thy disloyalty avarice!”
And he sent him to join his victim and
rifled both the corpses at his leisuro.
The Kentucky Evangelist.
Rev. E. O. Barnes? the Kentucky
evangelist, who has had eucti remarka¬
ble success of late, is not illiterate or a
backwoodsman, as his methods the mi^ht dia¬
lead one to suppose. Tf he uses
lect of the Kentucky mountaineers, or
the homely phrases of the negroes, it is
from choice. Although born in Ken¬
tucky, he is a graduate of Princeton
College, and served after fifteen which years he as had a
missionary in India, AU this time
a pastorate in Chicago.
he was a Presbyterian, but on taking up
the work as a revivalist, six years ago,
he withdrew from that denomination.
His power over the people of the Ken¬
tucky mountain region proved phenom¬ him
enal, and they firmly "believe in as
a worker of miracles. He founds his
authority for anointing the sick and pen¬
itent on this verse from the Epistle you? of
St. James: “Is any sick among
Let him call for the elders of the church;
and let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the Lord;
and the prayer of faith shall save the
sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ;
and if he havfe committed sins they shall
be forgiven him.”
There are those who have nothing
chaste but their ears and nothing virtu¬
ous but tlieir tonrrues. — Fmod.
Congressman have a way of utilizing
the mails to tlieir own profit®. TUat
frank.