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VOLUME V.
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COr/ERS EXAMINER
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RAILROAD RESTAURANT.
’Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
Where all the delicacies of tho season
,;H be furnisqed in the best of style and
„ cheap as any establishment in the city
£2TMcalR furnished at allhours of the
toy. BALLARD & DURAND. unoi .20
notfE AND FARR.
-Prof. Sholton, of the Colorado Ag¬
ricultural College, sends East a stalk of
torn fully sixteen feet high, with the ear
boated tea feet from the root.
-Kitchen tables may he made as
white as snow if washed with hard soap
and wood ashes. Floors look best scrub¬
bed with cold water, soap and wood
ashes.
—It is cheaper, as well as more hu
sane i, says the Farm Journal , to pro
long with good care the lives and than ser
vices of the horses we have, to
wear them out and buy others.
-An fire English in sick lady, in where putting the coals
nn the a room pa¬
tient coals, is asleep, which has paper readily hags fall of
the are and noise¬
lessly handled,
-Reports death of como from many places of
(lie farm animuls caused by
eating flax straw. The lint forms a
compact mass in the stomach. Cattle
iften order oat large the qui antitie3 of the straw
in to get seed that remains in
if, ami find it difficult to digest it.— Chi -
e«,]o Times.
—The honey market is assuming
greater importance every year, Now
tat the foreign trade is clearly estab
listed tho demand is almost unlimited,
and no fears are entertained of glutting
the markets. At present the home mar¬
kets are fully supplied, but the foreign
demand will soon reduce them aud m
crease prices .—Chicago Tribune.
—The feet and legs of horse3 require
more care than the rest of the body.
They Sllh mast not be allowed to stand In
and moisture, and in grooming a
horse the feet and legs must be as thor¬
oughly brushed and cleaned as the coat.
A little oil cake mixed with the food
will givo a glossiness to the skin and
liavo a good effect on the health.— N. Y.
-Sets as well as large onions, according
to the American Garden , should be kept
ss being dry and cool as possible, without
sot injured actually frozen, although they are
ded they materially handled by while frost, provi¬
if ar8 not froaen.
spread on a tight barn floor and cov¬
ered thickly with chaff or cut straw,
they wifi keep till spring.
—Sweet Potatoe Pie: Boil the pota¬
toes till done, peel and strain through a
colander. Add milk till it is thin enough,
s.mt for every quart of the mixtu re add
three well beaten eggs, with sugar and
seasoning pie plates to taste. Line the bottom of
with paste, fill with the mix
hire and bake. These are a very good
substitute for squash and pumpkin pies.
—N F. Tribune.
—Few farmers stop to consider, writes
we editor of the Cultivator, how much
°f fertilizing matter is annually wasted
about the farm, nor the expense incur¬
red in purchasing the same materials in
other forms. Thus in the apparently
^significant matter of corn cobs is as
item worth saving. If the accumulation
m corn cob 3 were gathered up and
thrown into the hog pen, they would,
by the next spring, be reduced to ma
nare. It has been estimated in the oora
grown in this country last year
sere upwards of two hundred thousand
Pounds of potash.
CIilld^cll , • Ideas.
The natural philosophy of children it
* er J interesting; they invent just such
theories of the universe as the wild nai
hons liave, with a sweet unconsciousness
? jLafc freineiidous they are originally thunder myths. little During fel¬
low storm a
of four year old was overheard ex
P>aining just to another child that lightning of the
“red water that runs out
^ouds,” and the thunder “the ground.’ noise it 1
ho when it goes into the
lost his courage concerning thunder
J 11 one of the showers, and afterward had
*° comforted a little when one oo
ctrred. One evening, to calm hi* ap¬
prehensions, the lightening his father assured great him that
°“> he saw was a way he
and told him that if it were near,
c °a!d hear the thunder at once after the
Bash., hut this time he could notice that
was quite a while between the two,
the boy mused over this a little, and
then queried:
‘Tapa, | what makes the thundef speak
A A 0E Question Question g after it’s got through?” asked asked ol ol
which which might might be b*
ma ny a public speaker.
T !ie Possibilities ef American Wheat.
Speaking of onr gigantio gigantic Miller Miller crops crops remark* erf of
the American a remorse
‘ J>t few people, even en in in our onr own own country, country,
tealizehow inexhaustible inexhaustible our our resource* resources
‘Or wheat growing. The The total total aree area
"M*?da tonES?*** available for wheat culture than 4(0^- *1
10.000 statea “ not less d
acres. Our entire wheat crop
l'“t year wonld not supplv seed
-°ogh to row ro vast an area of land.
I"he Conyers Examiner.
“ A happy new year."
cl fair.
f belts
au surprise
We gave to them each a smile or sUrh,
>V 0 hav e only smiles to give the w hole.
ng’s
T From wRi. er8 which V I i e I hnp9 ' ,ike and » rayless night,
withdrawn. moon stars liavo been
But tho Hand that has held us hit herto
Is able to keep to the very end:
Though the way He leads us be strango and
justice and mercy together blend.
S< s ”' on ker J alt hi n the God we trust,
Let ua t
Till the scroll of the year* lias 6 rolled away.
—Clara B. Heath.
A NEW-YEAR’S GHOST.
The wind races wildly through the
wn, desolate making places a weird, moaning sound
near the coast, where
great, dark rooks cast their uncanny
shadow’s, and around the village gables.
The few stars which glimmer between
the heavy clouds look pal e and shiver
ing, with but the village windows are red
light, of and it is evident that an
event no small importance is at hand.
Lanterns gleam along the main street,
footsteps for there echo on the frozen ground,
is only the lightest sprinkling
of snow over the rough hubbies. But
lanterns and footsteps all wind toward
the village store just now, where every
evening squire, the the sailor and farmer, even e the
humbler portion aristocracy, i as w ell as the
of the town, congre
gat e to discuss the weather, the crops,
the news, and to relate thrilling stories
of adventures at sea.
brisk To-night and conversation is unusually
himself is there, interesting. condescends The parson
and to
joke a little with tho cozy group at the
hack of the glowing store, while wait¬
ing for his purchases to be weighed
and tied up in separate brown paper
parcels, and, in spite of himself, waits a
moment to hear the denouement of a
thrilling that ghost story, told with the as¬
surance it is a solemn fact, by a
brown old sailor, who shakes his gold
ear-rings with as deaf he pro of coeds in his recital,
“Now, a great this is nervous I energy. iu this
ez true as set
cheer, gentlemen,” he announces,
gravely, at the end of nearly every sen¬
tence.
And though he is not sitting at all,
but leaning his stalwart length doubt. over a
Hour barrel, no one seems to
The squire looks as gravely interested
as the boys. The parson smiles, but it
is noticeable that the smile affects lacking only
one s ide of his mouth, and is as
in amusement as is the open o mouth of
the man who is waiti ng for the forceps of
of the dentist in the advertisement
the toothache medicine which adorns
the smoky wall. The teller seems to be
as awe- stricken himself as his hearers.
The effect of the tale the is heightened the dim¬ by
the dead silence of place,
ness of the lamplight, the weird shad¬
ows in the corners, and meandering
wreaths of smoke which curl up toward
the dingy rafters overhead, amlcacircle
the head look of the of old enchanter story-teller, giving genii
him the an or a
of old working over the fire.
Outside there is the troubled voice of
the sea, the wailing of the wind. The
sto.y ended, a long-drawn breath goes
around the circle. The parson gives
utterance to a nervous little laugh.then,
suddenly becoming alive to his dignity folly
and his duty, speaks against the
of su stition, with which he declares
tho w hoi _e town to bo alive.
“Wall, .’t a’n’t no wonder, parson,
when ghosts is seen walkin' these here
streets on dark nights, ” spoke up anoth¬
er old fisherman. “I see John Norton s
ghost last night as plain as I see you
this blessed minute. I went daown to
my boat-baouso there to the landin
about eight o’clock, an’ a cornin’ back,
jest ez I waz against them tew tall pine
trees afore you git to my haouse, there
he was stan din’ ’n’ lookin’ mo in tne
face. The moon shone right onto his
features, V lor’! there wa'n’t no more
mistakin’ ’em than mistakin’ my broth¬
er’s. I didn’t say nothin’, I was so
kinder took aback, not believm m
ghosts afore, V he turned into the
woods road that leads to the old Nor¬
ton place. He moved spry ernuff, but
’ t wa’ n’t like walkin’. He kinder looked glided
off like a shadder, ’n’ his coat
sorter thin’n’white.” dashed:
“Wall, naow, if I ha’n’t ex¬
claimed a jolly-looking farmer, rubbing
his stubbly chin, excitedly. “My wife
’n’ her sister declared to Moses that
they’d seed the same feller last twilight, night,
walkin’ past the house ’bout X
but sence that the spiritualist village* they woman ve j been as
been here in things,
a seein’ V hearin’ all sorts o'
’a’ I didn’t make no account of their
ghost, no more ’n nothin’ at all.’
“Whowas John Norton? inquired
eight years ago, and as promising a
3 r oun 2 : man as we ever raised in
towuf” said the Squire Captain, slowly. and those was
his first voyage as that he stood by
who were saved say
the ship until t.he very death on the
He was found frozen to by a
wreck after the stonn was 1 over
vessel which was bound of this
John was known by the Captain body
vessel, and he brought the m
port with him, and it was sent on here
coming to fife jr SdrioUSn ess,
V 5 b ® d[)0 death.
.’ „ e r are ialsc reports "t their
, many sailors have come back to
mouth sale and sound, who hare
j” “ drowned?' 1
orte & I’ve been old ,
•• Never but one sence old
enol ^q J to remember,” herto been said silent. an man, That
h D d hit V he d 'a' do,
Luke Higgins, both a favor if fc
jfisself ’n' the taown
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GrA., FRIDAY JANUARY 5, 1883.
lietl a diet!. It’s thorn kind o’ chaps
what dew turn up, not starliu’ good
fell T* H^ 0 he wuz a dret
fid
“Oh, there’s no possibility of John’s
being alive,” said the Squire, nervous
y’’ “I saw him buried myself, poor
leHow. He was engaged to my daugh¬
ter Elsie, and she, poor girl, has done
nothing I but mourn for him all these
rears. hut before objected to tho match at first,
he went away on his last
voyage, I became fully alive to his good
qu.’.litics. He was a brave, manly fel
Enter Mrs. Blagg the wife of a fish¬
erman, quite out of breath, and look¬
ing very wild.
“What is it, Marv Jano? You look
as if you’d seed a ghost, too,” said her
husband, who was one of tho circle by
tho fire.
“So I have, Lemuel, true i ez yo u are
alive. I come right face to face with
John Norton coinin’ through the field
from our house to tho main road. I seo
him just as plain or. I sec yo u folks
neow, but I didn’t wait to sec him long,
I ken tell ye, but just scud by him like
liglitnin’, told V run intew the Squire’s, ’n’
Miss Elsie all about it. I wuz dretful
scart. but 1 thought she’d orter kneow
about it. so I kep up till I got there, ’n’
then I went oil' iniew a kinder fa: int.
Bein’ sorter weak after a fit er phthisic,
I couldn’t stan’ it.”
“Haow did he look?” inquired one
man under his breath.
“Dretful nateral, only kinder white
’n’ peaked, ’n’ he kinder halted ’n’
looked straight at me kinder w ild ’n’
s’prised. like Tney say ghosts don’t never
to be overtook, ’n’ I don’t s’pose ho
speoted field.” to meet nobody in that lone¬
some
“ But how could you see his face so
distinctly Squire, on so dark anight?” said the
Good seeming considerably disturbed.
“ throng ugh grashus, that you "there don’t field s’pose I
went without
no lantern? Still, after giving him one
good dropped look, 1 wuz so flustered that I
the lantern on the spot, ’n’ run
screechin’ along as fast as I could.
You'll hev to git that there lantern,
Lemuel, fur ’t wouldn’t dew to lose it,
no haow; wo can’t afford tew git a noo
one.”
“Well, good people,” said the
Squire, “we mustn’t New Year’s let ghosts inter¬
fere with our festivities. It
is time that all invited guests should be
at my house, and here any I, the host,
away from home.”
And the Squire hurried out of the
store, and a’ong the dusky wood until
he came, to a brilliantly-lighted old man¬
sion on the hill.
It it had liaa lone tong been his custom to give a
house-warming, as as he a called it, on New
Year's Etc- Noarly all all tho tho town were
hidden to these festivities, and they
enjoyed hugely by young and old,
r,cn and poor. Some of the old families
thought the squire somewhat democratic
in his way of giving entertainments, and
rather turned up their noses at tho
small sailor’s a nd fishermen’s families;
but neither the sailors nor tlio fisher¬
men took it to heart, and everything bell,
went merry as a marriage as a
general thing. entered the house, greeted
The squire who had already arrived,
a few guests
and then sought Elsie, his daughter,
who was standing bv the window at the
end of the long hall, looking pale and
distressed. Mary Jane
“Don’t be troubiod by
Blagg’s nonsense, dear,” he said, “sho
is a foolish woman, and is always things.” imag¬
ing all sorts of mysterious had such
“But, father, I’ve strange such
dreams of late. I don’t believe in
things, of courso, but they say several
other people have seen tho—appari¬
tion.” imagination.
“Nonsense! it is all
May be one of the Fort Nortons is about
here just now. There is a strong family
resemblance between them all, you
know. The mystery sure.” will be explained
in a few days, I am
Elsie cleared her brow, and entering
the parlor, greeted the cordiality. coming guests She
with her usual quiet girl of twenty
was a tall, handsome
sev en, w ith the brow of a madonna, aud
lari ge, dark eyes, which, even when she
smite lies, aro intensely sad, though filled
with il wan n, kind glow, which
cheered one lik e a fire on a frosty
11 ; ght. The large, rooms are soon
square fires leap the wide
filled. Heartsome on in tho
hearthstones. There is gossip the
corners, playing of games by young
people; there are quiet flirtations on tlio
stairs and in the halls, a nd after e upper
there is to bo a dance in the great t Uin
ing-room. looks paler ’n soberer , , n ever
“Elsie asks of tho
to-night, don’t she?” one
gossips in the corner of her crony
“Yes, she diiz. I a hopin that
she’d quit thinkin’or John Norton, n
give Tom Rollins, that ’s worn to a
shadder waitin’ fur her, some encour
agement. They did say, jest before
John went awav, that she was ruther
turnin’ the cold shoulder on him, n
favorin’ Tom; but, lor’, there warn tno
truth in it, fur I see she and though John part
the dav he went away, ’n’ they
was both quiet ernuff, there warn tno
coldness between ’em. I kin tell ye.
hear heoiv John > orton ^ s
“Did you raound here by
fo host bed been seen ?’ ’
ur or five diflerent persons says an
other gossip in a mysterious and she whisper. terribly
“Elsie’s heerd on it, s
out about it” no! W hen?
“For gracious sakes,
Who? Wall, I kneowed suthin’ wuz a
1=3 saaftaK
Lemuel Blao<t she was so took
.hack br seein’ or him, thet she went
intew a faint, V it took tew glasses or
su^h dofft savsofl 7 I never heerd tell
o’ a thing Where wuz she? V
n ~ l ! Hiit mL, he look*—like a corpse, dew?” or
fike live ez I heern some she
Wall, she was so flustered when
hi ™’MelUuVsT^w h an
— jest haow
u’' H rem^ Pratt he^ ’n’ him Mis’ Job
Tnhnson h her sister seen tew.
V tbey say he 'looks dretful nateral,
only died. some oldor ’n’ ho did when lio
Norton They’re in a settlin’ up the old
estate ft putty queer way,
them Norton wimmen over tew the
Port, ’n’ that's why his ghost is a lurkin’
around these parts, I s'pose.”
Riley, “Speakin’ old o’ ghosts,” says Captain
au sailor who had had more
strange experiences, known more
mysterious happenings, than any
other man in the town, and
that was saying a good deal; “I saw a
dretful strange apparition out tew sea
aboouttwenty “Do tell years ago.”
us about it. said several of
the : young people in the same breath,
leaving circlo their games fire, and joining the
around tho for Captain
Riley’s stories were famous in the
town.
“Wall, naow, I s’pose Pvo told tho
story a hundred times over at one time
’n’ another in this place, but if you are
anxious to hear it 1 can tell it again.”
Nearly all tho people in the room
wero anxious to hear it, and after tilt¬
ing to and fro in his chair several
times, and clearing his throat with a
great deal of vigor, he commenced to
relate the thrilling tale of aghost which
foreign appeared voyages—tho on shipboard during one of his
ghost of a sailor
who had been wronged by the former
master of the vessel, and was mysteri¬
ously murdered on shore after tlio ship
reached port.
Elsie, her largo, dark eyes dilating
with interest or emotion, joined the
listening either laughed circle, though frowned fr sho the usually Oap
or at
tain's weird recitals.
"Let us take the lamps out of the
room, the story will seem ever so much
girls, more who real,” enjoy says nothing one of the much laughing tho
so as
blood-curdling which the supernatural. arises from tho
contemplation So tho of removed, and the
glory the lamps scarlet aro flickering
of coals and
firelight only half illumine the largo
room, with its dark wainscotings and
deep window tho embrasures. lower As and the lower. tale
goes on firo grows
Shadows gather in tho corners and
creep in among the silent group of
listeners. The old man’s voice has a
strange, weird quality in it, like that of
the sea when it whispers to sands
where there are graves, or around
rooks where there have been wrecks s;
like that of the wind when it moans in
the chimneys of haunted houses, or in
ghostly woods where some murder has
been committed in years gone by.
Perfect silence reigns. But just as
the interest of the people tale is at clinging its height,
ami the young aro to
each other with awe-stricken looks, the
firo flashing into sudden life shines on
a face framed in one of the window
panes, tho face of ono who has b een
buried in the old grave-yard betilnd the
church nearly eight years, Tho eyes
are fixed upon Elsie with 1 an eager.
searchtn g glance for a moment, and
then the flame and it vanish together
into the darkness.
Elsie, who has met the glance wilh
her own eyes, utters a wild, scared cry,
and falls fainting into the arms of Iter
companions, Shrieks sound from dif
ferent po rtions of the room.
“John Norton, if ever I see him in
my life. Why, his face was as whispers plain as
daylight,” is side. he ard in awed
from every
Tho ’Squire, who lias been drawn to
the room by the screams of the women,
on learning the state of affairs, rushes
immediately to the front door, and there
upon the steps, with his hand upon the
knob of the door-bell, stands the ghost
—John Norton!
The ’Squire involuntarily takes a few
steps backward, and stands in speoeh
less amazement and fear.
“Happy Now Year, ’Squire! me,” You
don’t seem ghost* very in glad to hearty, seo como
from the a most un
ghostliko tone. “1 am afraid I fright¬
ened the ladies in the parlor. I should It was be so
dark that I didn’t think
seen.”
“Who Ir. tho world are you?” in¬
quired the ’Squire, looking somewhat
“Don’t you know John Norton? Havo
I changed beyond recognition in these
eight years?” but John Norton is dead,
“ But you— chilling
said the’Squire, with remem
brances of what lie had read about ma¬
terialistic spirits in his mind.
The ghost laughed merrily. profoundly ig¬
“ If 1 am dead, I am
norant of the fact,” said I10, “and l am
surely John Norton.”
Elsie, who had recovered from tier
fainting fit, at the sound of his voice
rushes into the hall, and is immediately
folded in his warm, strong arms. John,
“Ghost or man, you are my
* SeTeral ladie3 became hysterical at
this point, and the squire walked in a state
of the wildest excitement to
and fro. rubbing his hand across his
forehead in a dazed manner.
“What is the matter?” inquired embrace, John,
finally releasing Elsie from his
but still holding her closely reported by the
hand. “I know that I was
drowned, but how many sailors have
come back under the same circum
stances.” I
“But you are buried in this town.
went to Boston myself r.nd identified
your body. Have—haven’t you seen
your grave-stone Y"
John stared at the squire in blank
amazement
*• No. I can’t say that I have. A man
doesn’t often see such a tight. What do
you mean?”
"Why, a body was picked which up Captain from
the wreck of your ship,
gesar 'sjfxu&n
It had the same mark on the left
hand, and the hair, complexion, height
and size corresponded exactly with your
“it must have been poor Thompson,
Everybody took him to bo my brother
He was very much like mo certainly. I
was saved by a miracle and was taken
on board a ship bound for Australia.
'"“But, John, why said did Ris:e, you loosening not come
home before?” and regarding
her hand from his grasp, dignity.
him with reproaching
“Because I hoard that Elsio Newell
was married to Tom Rollins. I heard
it from his brother, whom I saw often
while in Melbourne. Tom has k nown
that I was living all tlio timo, tho
scoundiol! Ho left town as soon as ho
heard that I was on my way home. I
hoped to find him here, for 1 have an
account to settle with him."
“He is. indeed, a scoundrel,” says
Elsie; “but, John, this is New-Year's
Eve, aud we are so happy, let us for¬
give him. Let us forgive everything that
was painful in the past, now
we are to commence the New Year to
gether. Surely, it cannot fail to be a
happy one.”
“Amen!” exclaims John.
But the squire says after a moment’s
meditation: not, daughter,
“New-Year’s Eve or
I believe if that man doesn’t keep out
of my way, 1 shall throttle him.— Rat¬
io u's Magazine•.
Esquimaux Carpentry.
Tlio builder soloets snow of the proper
consistency by soifndiug a drift with a
cane made for tho purpose, of reindeer
ho rn, straightened by steaming, and
worked down to about half an inch in
di meter, with a ferule of walrus tusk or
the tooth of a hear on the bottom. By
thrusting this into the snow I10 can tell
whether the layers deposited by hands succes¬ of
sive winds are separated by the blocks
soft snow, which would cause
to break. When tho snow is selected ho
digs a pit to the depth of eighteen inches
or two feet, or about the length of the
snow block. He then steps the into tho pit
and proceeds to cut out blocks by
first cutting down at the ends of the pit
and then at the bottom afterward, cut¬
ting a little channel about an inch or two
deep, making the thickness of tho pro ■
iBed block.
Now comes the part that successfully. requires
practice to accomplish thrusts of his
Tho expert will, with a few
knife in just the right places, split off
the snow-block and lift it carefully out the
to await removal to its position on
wall. The tyro will almost inevitably
break the ldock into two or three pieces
utterly unfit for the uso of the builder.
When two men aro building an igloo,
one outs the blocks and the other erects
tho wall. When sufficient blocks have
been cut out to commence work with,
the builder murks with his eye or per¬
haps draws a lino witli his knife describ¬
ing the circumference of tho buildi HR,
usually a circlo about ton or twelve feet
in diameter, The first row of blocks is
then arrangod, the blocks placed against so a
to incline inward and resting
each other at the ends, thus affording
mutual support. When this row is com¬
pleted, the builder cuts away the first
and second blocks, slanting in from
the ground upward, so that tho second
tier, resting upon tho first row, can ho
continued on and around spirally, inward slant and
by gradually increasing constructed tho of such
a perfect dome is
strength that the builder can lie fiat
upon tho outside while chinking tho
interstices betweon the blocks. The
chinking is, however, usually the done building by
women and children as
progresses, secured from the winds in cold
very
weather by hanking up, with a large
wooden snow-shovel, the snow at tho base
often being piled to the depth of three
or four feet. This makes tlio igloo per¬
fectly impervious to tho wind in tlio
most tempestuous weather. When tho
house is completed the builders are
walled in. Then a small hole about two
feet square is cut in the wall on the
side away from where the entrance is to
be located and is used to pass in the
lamps and liodding. It is then walled
up and tho regular door cut about two
foot high and niched at the top. It
would bring had hick to carry tlio bed¬
ding into the igloo by tho same door it
would be taken out. Before tho door is
opened the bed is constructed of snow
blocks, and made from ono to three or
four feet high, and occupies Tho higher three
fourths of the entire space.
the lied and the lower tho door tho
warmer tho igloo will lie .—From an
Arctic Explorer's Reminiscences.
Muscle-Beating.
In Riga, Russia, there is a gymnasium cured by
at which many diseases arc
boating tho surface of the body with
the bauds, or instruments callod “nms
cle-beatcrs. ”
These instruments consist of three
elastic tubes fastened together at the
handle; the circumference of each tube
is about that of a finger, its length, as
also tho thickness ol the material of
which it is made, varies according to
the different purposes for which it is
made.
Dr. Kiemm, the manager of the insti¬
tution, holds that, as so much refuse
matter is constantly thrown off through
the skin, it is of the utmost importance
that this organ should tio kept in tho
best possible condition, and that tho
best method of doing this and promot¬
ing nerve-currents aud blood circulation,
is muscle-beati
He further hold s that the advantage
of this manipulation over all others, is
that it makes tho text ure of the skin
softer and more clastic, and that
its action spreads deeper and not only
promotes nutrition of muscle, but also
the activity of the blood-vessels of the
bones.
It i* especially beneficial in cases of
rheumatism and all chronic diseases r -
suiting from an impaired circulation of
the blood.
If Die surface of the body is cold
any point, it is an indication of an ob¬
structed circulation, and by
with the hands or beaters, till the
are wa rm, the equilibrium of the
lation is restored, and serious
quences to health are often avoided,
It is a ve ry old custom to treat
diseases of tho human body by
ehanical means, The most
neopies, the Egyptians and Indians,
in ufe many different manipulations and
cx< rcisea of the body for the purpose of
aiding the curative tendencies of nature.
I)r. Karell, physician to His Imperial
Majesty, the Emperor of Russia, says he
laid agives'coHipletefy in work with this the subject principles and
down a on
tbaf they axs based ou the natural
sciences.— B. M. P-, in You Ji’s Com¬
panion.
J. Verne’s Story.
CHAPTER FIRST.
Wo aro now in longitude latitude 130 degrees
three fifteen degrees minutes, thirty-tivo and minutes,” eighty* said
the doctor,
“Yes,” said the Captain. miles,
“Wo have yet 17,862 twenty of ice
yards, fifteen feet aud nine inches
to cross boforo wc reach our ship,” said
the doctor.
“Exactly,” “In that said the is timo Captain. oil,”
ease, it we wero
said Hatteras.
“We ha\o left from tlio explosion
2,000 pounds of roast turkey, fourteen
kegs of baked beans and eleven gallons
of apple-jack,” said the boatswain.
“rack ’em on tlio sledge at onco,”
*aid the Captain.
“And how long will our provisions
hold out?” asked the doctor.
“The apple-jack will American, probably last
until morning,” said the
“A nd after that ?”
“We shall have to si id to New Jcrsoy
for more.”
“But how?”
“Leave that to me,” said the Amori
can.
"How is the temperature?" askod tho
Captain. hui ndred and ten below zero."
“One
“Good, Hand mo my ear muffs. Are
wo "We ready?” are," said his companions.
“To the north!” cried tho Captain,
executing a song and dance, and kick¬
ing a Polar bear oil' an iceberg.
“To tho north!” shouted his compan¬
ions.
niArT ER secoxp.
“All is not yet t 1 lost,” said tho Cap¬
tain. “I have just taken an observa¬
tion. We have Shall yet a few thousand
miles to go. we push on, gcntle
“We shall,” cried his companions.
“We are down to our last drink,”
sighed the American. ‘ ‘ But I have lel
■phoned to Jcrsoy City for a fresh sup
ply. If it arrives in time we aro sa ved.
There is not stand cold enough against in Jersey tho Arctic
regions to up City
whisky.” “We
weeks,” have not said oaten the doctor. anything for
seven
“Butshall wo turn back for trifles?”
asked Hatteras. “Doctor, you must
have a plan. Has your science gone
back on you at this critical moment?”
“ Givo mo two weeks in which to
think over our situation,” said tho doc¬
tor, seating himself on a cake of ice ami
falling into a said brown study.
“Bears!" tho boatswain.
“Where?” asked tho Captain, ox
citodly. “They have been heels tho
at our for
last two months,” said tho boatswain.
“Moglliliooiltf” “Tho applejack,” .Klill said 1,0 the Cl upiaib- doctor.
I
“One sip and they are at our mercy,”
aaid tlio boatswain.
"baved!” said his
CHARTER THIRD.
“ Wc have now occupied this scooped
out iceberg for three years,” said tho
doctor.
“ And there has been a monotony
about our existence which does not
agr ce with my love of excitement," said
tlio American.
“You forget the whist,” said tho
Captain. “You know I always prefer pokor,”
said tho American.
“It is simply a national prejudico,”
said the Captain.
“Gentlemen, you will 200 below not quarrel zero,”
with the toinperatiuo
said the doctor. “ Remember we are
now but 3,000 miles from the Polo.
Save your breath for our final effort”
“Wo will," said tho Captain, and shak¬
ing the hand of the American set¬
ting up the blubber oil for tho crowd.
CIIAITKR FOURTH.
“We seem to he drifting tfito a sooth¬
ing whirlpool," keep said the this Captain. five
“Yes, if we on courso till
minutes longer tlio wo doctor. shall probably “Let take he
lost,” said us
an observation,” and ho went forward
witli his instrument while tlio frail boat
on which they wero sailing whirled
around at the rate of two thousand ro.v
olutions a minute, and then suddenly fired
shot out at right angles as though
from a hundred-ton gun.
“ A narrow escape,” » ” said st the doctor.
quietly, pocketing his gla s« and ventur
ing How alt. Ion is it since lost tho
■ ig wo
American OV erboard?” asked tho boat
swain.
“About four months,” fnjd tho doo
tor.
“We arc now close upon the Pole,”
said Hatteras.
‘ ‘ As near as I can make out that must
he it over there,” said tho doctor.
“You aro right," said the Captain.
“ To England shall belong the glory of
its discovery.”
“ But it has a strange look,” said the
doctor, gazing through his Polar glass. Hen “Per¬
haps it’s the fault of the at¬
mosphere.”
“It is covered with stripes,” cried
the Captain, pulling his hair anil leap¬
ing ashore as the boat grounded upon
Die beach.
“Can it bo that dastardly Yankee
has—’ ’
“Shave, gen'’emen,” asked tho Amer¬
ican, stepping out of his barber-shop at
the base of tlio North Pole.
“He has,” yelled the English delay Cap¬
tain, as I10 proceeded without to
go insane.— Brooklyn Eagle.
The art Mrs. Hayes possesses for is en¬
tertaining, says a correspondent, wor¬
thy of study. With a dozen guests on
her hands, and others constantly arriv¬
ing, sho is always mistress of the situa¬
tion. Although full of animation, yet
she is coo 1 and self-pos ■eased. Her
eyes do not wander while engaged in
conversation with a single individual,
yet she appears to know the mo vements
of every one in the room. She is very
ready in conversation—always contributing leading,
and very frequently than . :<
topics and comments any one
present. She entertains, and does not
exact entertainment from her guests.
—It was written: “Good for nervous¬
ness is a characteristic of celery;” but
the intelligent compv*itor rendered it,
“Good-for-nothingness is a characteristic
of the clergy .”—Christian at Work.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 49
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Mr. Parnell writes that his doctors
forbid him travelimr, and that he can
not address constituents until after tbs
session.
—The Roy. J. P. May, of Memphis,
refused communion to an excommuni¬
cated member of his church, and tho
latter attempted to whip him. The
dominie was equal to tho occasion, aud
the other is in the hospital.
—John Stoole, bettor known as “Coal
Oil Johnny,” tlio fame of whoso mag¬
nificent fortune and rookloss extrava¬
gance labor still lives, Williamsport, is now engaged Pa., and in man¬
ual at re¬
ceives $ 2.60 per day for his services.
—Tite new heir to tho Swedish croi vn.
son of the Crown Prince, will bo cello led
Prince Oscar Frederick Olaf (lustavus
Adolphus. Duke of Shoonen. Had he
been horn a week earlier his birthday
would have fallen on his namesake’s
260 th anniversary, which would have
been thought a happy omen. conferred
—Queen Victoria has Clarke a
baronetcy on Mr. William John
of the colony of Victoria. This gentle¬
man is probably a sou of tho man k 11 own
us Big Clarke, who made tho greatest
fortune on record in Australia. This is
fprobably the Australian. lirsthereditary honor con
orred on an
—Minister Hamlin was with impressed which
with the informal politeness Madrid.
he was received at the court of
At. his first presentation English, but, King Alplumso, fluent,iv
who speaks not so
ns the Queen, said to him: “Now, M
Hamlin, come into the next room, and
let me introduce you to ray wife,” not
calling her the Queen.
—The late Philip Turpin Johnson, of
Chesterfield County. Virginia, left all
his property, including Revolutionary “ tho country
t of the great orator
and Governor, Patrick Henry,” to l)r.
J. VV. Johnson, of Richmond, to whom
tho deceased was not related. Mr.
Johnson was a bachelor brother of the
late Major-General Edward Johnson, of
tho United States and Confederate
service,
—Charles Gordon Greene, Jr., son of
Colonel Greene, formerly editor of tho
Boston Post, whose doatii in Paris was
recently announced, had lived abroad
for nearly twenty-live years. Ho was
an energetic and successful man of
business, and strongly endowed with
the family taste aud talent for litera¬
ture. To tho leading magazines of Ec¬
rope ho contributed many papers, and
did, besides, sumo work as a oorre
spondout.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—A Florida youth has discovered that
strong, soft, lloxible rope can bo mi«lo
frm re tho fihor of t ho ooolrlotvnr
bus ush.
—Tlio deepest mino in tho world, ac¬
cording to Prof. II. Hoofer, is the Przi
bram silver mino in Bohomia. Tho
lowest depth 3,300 feet below th o sur
face.
—A progressive Atlanta (Ga.) man that
claims to have invented a milk pail when
is kept in motion by a spring, and
he gets through milking a cow tho milk
has beon churned into delicious bnttor.
—Salting, M. L. Fouriment asserts, is
not necessarily fatal to triohinio imbed¬
ded in meat. Those parasites may live
in salt provisions for fifteen months.
Salting, indeed, often sorvos to preserve
the vitality of triohinio, as it protects
them to some extent from tho destruc¬
tive influence of heat.
—A needle manufactory has beon es¬
tablished at Brooklyn, and is the only
ono in the country, all needles hitherto
having come from Europe. They wil 1 are bo
to bo made by machinery, which
tho first attempt of the kind, Tho
manufacture has been entirely by hand
and requires many operations; tlio con¬
version of the wire into rough needles
requires twonty; tho tempering and an
nealing nine; polishing five, which aro
repeated seven or eight timos, and sort¬
ing five. Tho Brooklyn enterprise will,
it is to bo hoped, provo a success.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
—Mr. Janies B. Smith, of Iiackots
town, N. J., has invented railroad and patented
an improved signal and for dangerous places, cross¬
ings, tunnels, be cheap, durable,
which is declared to
and incapable of disarrangement. A
bowed spring is placed near the rails,
so that tho wheels of tho passing train
operate upon it, and by moans of a levor
and wire attachment work a gong bolt
and signal which arc placed at the re¬
quired distance ahead on the track.
The signals remain exposed until the
trains have passed, and by means of
another spring aro restored to place.—
Christian Union.
_A new building material called
“fossil coral,” has been discovered in a
smalt island in the Bay of Suva, Fiji.
When it is first removed it is soft and
easily cut into square blocks or any oth¬
er desired shape, but when it is exposed
to the open air for some time it grows
very hard and assume! some of tho
characteristics of fire-brick. W hat tiio
act ual origin of this substance may havo
beon is uneertaia and will form an in
ter esting problem for geologists. At
any rate it has been found so useful for
building purposes that the Fijian Gov¬
ernment have given a large order for
cubes of it.
—Sheep should have airy, well-lit¬
tered sheds, with plenty of sunshine,
and protected from snow. Ono great
advantage of keeping sheep Hence is to much con¬
vert straw into manure. sheds,
litter is usually strewn in sheep unless
to the distress of the sheep, they
have hard places to fie upon, because
their feet and legs get so hot. A few
platforms, like old doors, which can be
shifted about every few enjoyed, days by turning will
over, wifi be greatly and
promote both health and comfort.— hx
r.ha nut.
—Spurgeon is sometimes more blunt
than polite. For instance, in his recent
answer to a neighbor who asked him to
supriort a certain candidate for election
ti the School Board on the Ribbon ground Army, of
his belonging to the Blue
he replied: “Do you think I am going
to support a donkey just because he has
a bit of blue ribbon tied to him?”