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VOL. X.
THE IDEAL SHAKERS.
A PILGRIMAGE TO A COMMUNITY
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
* How the Sisters Dress—The Three i'aml.
lies of the Society lnterior of a
Shaker House-Schools, Music
and Worijiip.
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It was early in the month of October
that my fri.-nd Hermia ami I made our
loiaj : pilgrimage to the Uanter
imry '•T ake’s. We did not arrive at the
Sellltni- in till after dark and our rap at
the cT’at door of what is called the
“teti- ” whera strangers are received,
w?.s rither a timid one ft was opened
Imspita • y wide, however, by a woman
" " <fe kimllv welcome and con
«f"*t aS’ n* tbcr Stall tojjf cozy sit '
JtS.,p”uu A-heh: she bade’wi •‘make our (
A »£k<<-nt Aiome. % *■«.
it wa to this sister’s special care that
w. >< r. l ounuittod during mu'.'stay. (T'thy
Ci.:.' her bister El i a both'. • fdiie was
dr< sc.l like all the others, in a gray
pen.;." gown, but with a plain round
waist loosely tilting the figure,-on which
;ti|f tu skirt .was plaiied -hrsmall uuv
form kill'plafts. A large’whfte kerchief
v.us I d :._d about her neci. and across her ,
bo. some marvelous way that we
h .o I in vain to imitate, A little dose
I iq . like the mill.m VLunnol frame,
i o'. I, : >.- > rather blonde hair, which was
cm ' might back from the forehead
ai; t 1 in a flat knot behind.
’!» ' ~ thou-h u li in itself, makes ■
n . :: a Woman a w under of quaint
lovi I! .• - It was s, with Sister Eliza- [
b< h it - lited her quiet eyes, het gently ,
m y ... mouth und culm upo-si of manner,
d'O. th. s< me what -i taiij but graceful
. Hu' 4>' I, "’slender fig?sij<- ; They wear a
• ’ Iff r . otn* cuntrit at ”* which 'extends '
tic st;- t with a straight and gradual slope I
from w. to hem and gives a stately look
'll” . cty at ( anterbury, N 11., con ,
si-l- ul three familie who live and are :
g0y,:..0'l parately, but worship together
in Jin r an- church. except in winter,
when .-a matter of convert
i: ce ;i y occupy halls in their
. ow , . ■ buildmp '1 he family with
, ' v).. .. < visited was the first or church
fam. I livre are various buildings be
Jo.. ir.r ■■ • homes, a school house, Work I
simps ... for the in< n. one for the I
wotm u i another for the children—a
priuiim. oilice, an infirmary, where an
eld. sislei presides over a full equipment
of drug and medicine', to winch arc ad
dr Illi- ' wn [>ecuiiar remedies—Shaker
bittet etc.
Ui'uui'e their main support ami in
come L ,bi farm, which is large and un
<!• i ; ■ 'ate of cultivation. Il is well
st- ■ ..i i: . . cattle and horses, but they
do 1 i' t •■ , iiher Pigs they have none,
and poi ■> H interdicted as an article of
i 1.1 lu -se in which w.u.were euurujmed
w-i ami square, " tth w ide huilkuud
Two HotsAoirtrftwnwrr and
for they were on opposite sides of
the fi-'U-e bnt so confusing that we felt in
<k- mlf the time from blundering up
th. tai ■> or into the wrong rooms The
floors » io of dark wood, tained and pol
isb ’ 1 I II they wen slippery ns glass, and
th' and casings were everwhere
sta pe< itllar asthetic vbllow, which,
with lie quaint surroundings, was very
..ell i uti re, e
• N-> ng anywhere lit poQr or. mean,
Wi all i- severely simple, u.ur room.
W> ’ .. picture—the yellow stained doors
ana shutters, the polished floor, over
which scattered bilge, handsome;
rues’of . baker manufacture, these are
woven o: ->ti wool, and closely resemble
Snr •’■■■ r- s. the two white beds in
Opl •- re rueis, Hie little cast-iron stove,
perfectly plain ami smooth, and about as
oig as i good sized loaf of bread, in which
abn ct: ■ kled cheerfully. THeke stoveil
are in every room alike; no larger in
office or dining-room. How dotheykeep
warm in winter there?
The>s outnumbei the brethren as
five to (me in every family, and this
advai.iu: • clone would perhaps keep the
men- rm the background: but 1 am
strongly inclined to the opinion - that
while the Alim’s and a few others kre not
. I.irtur: lly intelligent and well educated, I
••: the ii.u <.-r y are-th all fespects inferior I
I tire women. As Sistei Elizabeth re I
mstkod with a twinkle in her eye, “it is I
Woman-day here.”
. 'ihilr chools must Ire exc< llent, for !
th. ch.mi: m arp wey .utvanced in every j
3:. r n.'.thems and byinns for church
us .'ii - itten entirely bv Shakers? and
ar. f course, peculiar. .Most of the lat i
ter al', cm -r ils. which tli/jy sing with great I
spirit. Th' }’ .-it and -sing, they inarch ami
•im. .neel and ■ g .endless verses,
ai il’d.i . noth is a- loud and ch fir as j
,- ' 'tin- t'. lest iif their bj nrn< have a ring ,
: oi fc i ] .r.d-ficiofy .itiO'it tlijm, fiimg j ‘
• ■' cctimgly wWt aM’tArdhr. '
No o:. who bears the sh kers can doubt
tl. . in singing is, indeed, wor-
Wi , < did their regular church serv
ices. A.,m.- from the singing it consisted
of a ah' Scripture reading a short ser
num. : r-ss by the minister, ” Eide)
I ■■ tiled him. and remarks by
• • ■ sitid mimibeWi
'fl ■ women left their bonnets outside
tUO mai . • d in with heads uncovered, ex
ec, for : lace caps before referred to.
Al r -. standin., through the first
part . ■ lie •ervioe, ami they made a very
striKn*.. appearance After the sermon
the) . ire!., d about in a sort of figure,
siti.:’ r snaking their bands, with
p in-- ard. Tfih “shaking” was udt
nt „ . .1 expected to see. There is in
'ail th r servfte nothing ludicrous
or ;,u ... I'fied. Their server seems like
tru: '■: tmi'iti of spit i: -not at all rant or
exi it in nt .nd seems to find full ex
p:. , i. in their singing and in their
a- .. which are, especially those of the
women, spiritual in the extreme
l>*r-ted the Head cf the Family.
[Lewiston Journal.j
A I.< wis’ n family recently received a
vi ifi a well-known clergyman. In
the t h.- is an active little girl.of 3
yi c- be listened very attentively while
gr: - v. •» being said, and at its conclu
-.sicn she looked up in the clergyman's face
a. 5..: . Tain’t pretty to talk su at the
table -dy*papa don’t. ”
After the Election,
[Lime-Liln Club ]
* De long night am c ber, an’ daylight has
broken. Li t us forgive an forgit. Dekentry
am . . i-’-:-h yit, an sich of us as hev sur
vive.: iggle mus’purge our hearts
of.rat. ■ an' liank up de house agin cold
weathci. ”
Free Text Books.
The ueu text book experiment in Mas
. sac biii. ,s is said to be a success. It has
stinted ,iu a larger atten&Hjce in the
> -4’ ’Jfe a> d it is more ecopornicat thhu
I Ithjb og sysieia' JUZ -a. ■' ?
Wto fIBHHB ®mw£
STORED AWAY.
THE MYSTERIES OF A CATERER'S
PRIVATE CHAMBER.
Haw Some of the Delfoactes of the Table
Are Prepared for the Palate and
Preserved for Future Special
OouwtoM.
[St. Paul Pioneer Press. I
“ You’ve u«ver seen my ice box, have
you?” said the popular steward of
a city hotel, as he led the way
[>ast rooms filled with clanking laundry
machinery ai.d neatly dressed laundry
maids; througj the great central room in
the basement, with its multitude of pipes,
and wealth of machinery, and smell and
sound of escaping steam. The air was hot
and fetid as the stew aid opened the outer
tjrtWr of the darkened refrigerator room
into the passage way between the
scores of ice boxes; it was like a
sudden transition from summer heat lo
winter's cold. The door closed punctili
ously after the custodian of the edibles of
the hotel and the reporter. A half dozen
different doors were unlocked, each apart
ment containing its complement of pro
I visions of a particular kind. There was
'be milk and butter room, the large rooms
in which were hung whole carcasses of
1 sheep, lambs, and quarters of nice looking
beef. In still another were stored grapes
and fruit, and the assurance was given
’ that long after grapes shall have disap
. peared from the market the guests it the
. iiotel will find them on the bill of faro.
The steward picked from a clump ot
' green, dimly discernible in the im[>eiT'cct
j light, a bunch of lettuce. He handled it
■ with an affectionate pride in his faeffitios
; and his own skill, and remarked: “It'sas
fresh as the day it came into this room
crisp, nice, and with all its origiual
■ qualities. Ft’s been in here six weeks now.
. and some of this lot will be here until far
into the winter. I sprinkle it generally
i with water myself- and we keep it as
j fresh as you see it, ” Smaller compiu t
: menta were crowded with game ducks
I and geese by the hundred, and one whole
box with pheasants. There was mor,
thin 500 in the lot, and they were
’frozen to the consistency of a rock.
Another cqmpartment was packi ■
with even a larger number of quail, am.
the information was vouchsafed that a:
I a recent party 710 quail were eaten
I Nearly all the quail and pheasant, theca
terer explained, comes from Missouri,
I where they are captured in nets, shipped
in quantity by express and stored in the
refrigerator, w here they can be hept with
out deterioration for mouths The same
holds true of meats.
There was an infinite variety of
rare sea fish carefully stored in
another compartment. An ingeni
ous arrangement of ice supplied
sufficiently cold water at which a thousand
of Blue Point oysters, six days from the
sea, wet their parched lipa and washed
down the steady diet of oatmeal, slightly
salted, on which the non committal bi
valves feed during the brief period they
remain waiting consumption.
To all appearance an oyster, even in the
shell, 1,500 miles from sen. is dead. But
it is part of the art of the caterer, not for
gotten, to preserve life and spirits, and
even prevent possible fits of homesickness
upon the part of Sir Oyster by feeding and
watering him well. The suddenness and
vigor with which a shell will close if dis
turbed in the process of feeding is pretty
satisfactory evidence of the health and
vigor that may be maintained with proper
wire. But the main wing of the menag
erie was found elsewhere. Inoue of the
. rooms of the basement of the hotel—the
room directly under the Indies’ reception
room, a pen has been built, a foot and a
half high. On the stone floor no less than
seventy five terrapin were found wad
dling about, climbing over each other, or
drawing in their heads and legs when ap
proached.
“There will be fifty more here to mor
row, ” said the steward as he picked one
up and studied its shell; “and they will
stay here and play their games and feed
upon such green stuff as I may give
lhem. They don’t require a great deal,
and are light eaters at best. Some day
uol very far distant they will go into soup,
which will be the genuine article.
I l lie chef, whose particular bobby is
soups, won’t fail to make that
I whole happy family of turtles into some
j thing fit for the gods. For the present
I tin y are my pets. A pretty family, aren't
they?”
| Origin of “Fainting the Town lied.”
[Harrisburg Telegraph.]
I “How is politics in Harrisburg?” asked
' Billy Welsh, the minstrel manager, of a
i Telegraph reporter.
“Red hot,” answered the reporter;
! “both parties have painted the town red?”
j Mr. Welsh remarked: “That’s an old
I iexpression—painting the town red—do
1 you know where it originated? Well, I’ll
1 ell you. On my last tour through the
country with Callender’s ministrels —a
year ago or more —I had as advance agent
a man named Campbell. He was a
i genius at advertising and never per
: milted a rival to get ahead of him.
, ’ )ne day in Buffalo I said: ’< 'amp
: bell, I hear that Barlow and Wilson
•.re covering my bills with their paper; 1
, want that stopped.' I told him that h-
I would strike them at Adrian, Mich., and
’ when next I saw him he had huge bun
i dies of bills ready for shipment to Adrian.
All were printed in bright red, ‘What
i are you going to do?' I asked. 'I am
going up to Adrian to paste these bilL
o er Barlow and Wilson’s and on every
dead wall in that place. lam going to
' paint the town red,' and he left. When
we got to A driau it looked as if was on
tire, so thoroughly had Campbell done his
work. That’expression, ‘painting the
town red,’ was so comic that the colored
minstrels caught on to it, and whenever
there was any excitement or anybody got
particularly loud, they always said some
b(xly was' 'painting the town red.’ Os
I course it spread and is now in use by
everybody. ”
Vncleau Calcutta.
[Exchange.}
Calcutta, “the home of cholera, ”is to
be put into a good sanitary condition. The
British Medical Journal thinks this can
not be done a day too soon, and cites the
condition of Jonnabagan, one of the wards
of the city. “The ward contains 148 peo
ple to the acre; ” in many places “ no drains
exist;” where found are “mostly out of
order;” “40 per cent, are choked with
sewage,” and some are “merely chains of
cess - pool s. ” The soil is “saturated with
excrement;” in many places “sewage runs
down the sides of the houses in large and
widening streams. ”
Chicago Herald: It takes 35,000 people
packed as in a political meeting to fill an
sere. It takes a dentist an hour.
Parisians regard red flannels as a pre
ventative against cholera, and are buying
i in great qnaatteies.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1884.
THE TRAIN FEVER.
An Elinlish Humor Lit DUctUsi’. •
liar IHsease.
[Londou Globo.]
Among the dtaeases of modern life, and
one which Dr. Richardson has hitherto
paid hardly any attention, is the train
fever, an insidious malady which, if it is
not altogether undermining the British
constitution, helps largely to make life
more miserable to many. Some people
escape this disease altogether, but they are
the select few. The majority suffer from
it in one way or another, frequently with
out their knowledge. This fever seizes
some people every day as soon as their
eyes are opened. They have to be at the
station at 9:59, say, ami life is a zymotic
ferment till they get there. F.very move
ment is checked off by the watch, if the
victim is rather late in shaving, he has to
ui ike up iir. over his hair-dressing; mid
should then- be a debit balance at the
hour of breakfast, it has to ba liquidated
over the coffee.
Then comes the race for ths t rain; there
are so many minutes allowed, calculated
to such a nicely that if the patient hears
lli<’ w histle of the approaching train be
for< he gets to the grocer’s shop, or the
elm tree in the lane, or some other noted
mark on his chart, he knows he must run
for it. And very often he has to run, for
sometimes it is a wet morning, and he can
not lay bis hand on his umbrella; or his
wife has some very important commis
sions to give him, and can not remember
them “if she is hurried so, ” but will not
let him go till she does; or perhaps he
must go back ever so many yards to kiss
the baby, who will cry all day if it. is done
out of this mark of respect. So by the
time he has reached the station the fever
ha- done its fell work for the day, has up
set his nerves and his digestion, and set
him gasping and panting all the way up
to town To be sure, he catches his train.
Os course he might have caught his train
quite easily if he had got up in good time
ami thought nothing about it, but the
fever will not allow a man to do that.
It is astonishing how men will go on
day after day year after year, repeating
this sad experience. They can no more
shake off the fever by taking time by the
forelock than they can fly. 11 would be
amusing, were it not grievous, to stand
outside a suburban station and watch the
race in for the morning train. I p come
the fever stricken, with anxious counte
nances, some running outright; some,
whose dignity will not allow them to run,
walking double puee with set teeth and
firmly clenched umbrellas and l>ags;all
hurrying and all falling back half ex
hausted when they reach their carriage
The fever, as it affects of some ladies, is
really too awful to dwell upon. Many la
dies to whom railroad traveling was a
youthful wonder, cannot even now trust
Bradshaw, but are impelled to goto the
station to make‘personal inquiries as to
the times of starting. The day before the
intended journey is generally dedicated to
this preliminary satisfaction of lhe fever.
But there is no pence either to th'- patients
or to their households for hours before the
the time fixed. Thejeve.r always impela
them lo the station a full half hour before
it is necessary, and sometimes act
uates them to hook their um
brcllas into porters’ neckclothes. 01
to seize guards as emotionally as if they
were recognizing in them long lost sons.
I pon other ladies, however, the train fever
has an opposite effect. It fills them with
a dull despair. They know that they
have always missed the train they have
fixed upon, and always will. If the train
they want to go by starts at 9 and the
next at 10:30, still pursued by the relent
less demon, they will start for the 9, and,
of course, miss it, and will sit in the wait
ing room for the next hour and a half with
lack-luster eye and wan countenance It
is their fate, they know, and it is useless
to struggle against fate.
“Alwnto,” the UnlverHal language.
(New York Letter,]
Stephen Pearl Andrews is a man whom
his enemies call a fool, whom his friends
call a prophet and pantarch, ami whom a
great body of the unclassified allude to by
the generic name of “crank. ” He is un
conventional. He calls himself reformer
and revolutionist, I dropped in on him
the other day at his study on Thirty-fourth
street. A woman, pen in hand, was sitting
down on either side of him, writing down
Ids thoughts as uttered. I knew it was
“Alwato, the universal language.” I in
quired about its progress.
“ We are making a dictionary, ” he said.
“The new language will be much shorter
than any existing tongue—about twice as
short, I should say. It is founded on my
discovery that every vocal sound meant
something—not arbitrarily, but intrinsic
ally Every vowel and consonant has its
analogue in nature. Existent languages
are a clumsy and unscientific effort to get
at this. Show me a thing and I will give
you a natural name for it—so of a thought,
feeling, or what not. Vocal sounds have
a natural meaning in speech, just as they
have in music. ”
“How many words will the new lan
guage have in it?”
“Millions. That is, there will be cer
tain fundamental bases of speech ex
plained, and from these every speaker will
make whatever new words he needs, and
these will be at once understood by all
hearers. Every word will be only a com
pound of well known, meanings. Do you
understand ? ”
Round the World.
[Tiie Current.]
There has returned to St. Paul an hon
ored citizen, Judge Flandrau, who has
been round the world; and in his recital
to The Pioneer Press he has said more in
half a column than most authors have
Izeen able to squeeze into a whole volume
of travels. Canton surprised him; it lias
1,000,000 people. He saw Col. Mosby,
the ex-Canfederate, at Hong Kong, and
Arabi Bey at Colombo, Ceylon. Cairo
is the most cosmopolitan city In the world;
the mosque of Mehemet Alt is the finest
building the judge ever looked upon. He
saw an ostrich ranch with several thou
sand birds; the eggs are hatched by steam.
All Egypt is in the hands of the British,
just as much as India. Rome is having a
great building boom; it reminds the judge
of a western town; money could lie made
there by a western real-estate speculator.
Vienna is as handsome as Chicago, and as
full of life. Blarney castle is the finest
ruin the judge saw. He was gone just six
months, the exact length of time he de
sired to spend, and his opinion of the
earth has not been lessened because he
could so easily girdle it with railroad and
steamship tickets.
Prussian Letter-Boxes.
[San Francisco Chronicle.]
A newly patented method for emptying
letter-boxes has been adopted by the Prus
sian postmaster general, Dr. Stephan.
The letters and packages are taken from
the boxes in such away as to render it
absolutely impossible for the official to
handle tlie postal matter. This invention
will not only do away with letters being
tampered with, but will also control the
carrier both as t? time and the thorough
emptying of the box.
Kno •‘The Human Monkey.”
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Through the courtesy of the manager
| we had a private interview with the curi
ous little waif that is on exhibition at the
museum, and for which is claimed the
distinction of being the long sought-for
missing link between man arid the
anthropoid apes. Krao certainly presents
some abnormal peculiarities; but they
are scarcely of sufficiently pro
nounced type to justify the claims. She
is, in tact, a distinctly human child,
apparently about eight years old, endowed
with an average share of intelligence, and
| possessing the faculty of articulate speech.
She has acquired many English words,
l which she uses, not merely parrot fashion,
; but intelligently. Thus, ala watch being
I suddenly produced at the interview, she
was attracted by the glitter, and cried out
“C'ockl c'ockl’ That is, clock! clock!
This evinces considerable powers ol gen
eralization, accompanied by )>, somewhat
defective, articulation, and it ap|>ears that
her phonetic system does not yet embrace
the liquids 1 and r. But in this and other
j respects her education is progressing fa
■ vorably, and she has already so fur
adapted herself to civilized ways that the
mere threat to be sent back to her own
people is always sufficient to suppress any
symptoms of unruly conduct.
I’hysieally Krao presents several pe
culiar features. The head and low fore
head are covered down to the bushy eye
brows with the deep black, lank and lus
terless hair characteristic of the Mongo
loid races. The whole body is also over
grown with a far less dense coating of
soft black hair, about a quarter of an inch
long, but nowhere close enough to con
ceal the color of her skin. The nose is
extremely short and low, with excessively
broad nostrils, merging into the full,
pouched cheeks, into which she appears
to have the habit of stuffing her food,
monkey-fashion. Like those of the an
thropoids her feet are also prehensile,
and the hands so flexible that they bend
quite biu k over the wrists. The thumb
also doubles completely back, and of the
four fingers all the top joints bend at
pleasure independently inward. Her
beautiful round black eyes are very large
and perfectly horizontal; hence the ex
pression, on the whole, is far from un
pleasing.
Havana and Ameiioan Citcais Compared.
(“Gath’s Letter.]
The cultivation of tobacco in the
northern states is carried on artificially by
stimulants of the fieldsand by the use of
fire in the drying bouse. The thriftiest
farmers on the globe are thus substituting
tobacco for grain, seeing the difficulty of
competing with the great western grain
fields It is one of the pleasures of civili
zatiou that men's wants increase and
vary, and labor is called to supply them
and thus some old region rises into a new
activity and the monotony and competi
tion of one or two crops ceases
I saw Governor Warmoth the other
day, who had been in France looking at
the beet cultivation, to see if anything
could be done, especially in the beet-root
sugar machinery for the help of Louisiana
ami her sugar growth. A few days after
1 heard a canard, I suppose from a French
newspaper, that Warmoth uml other per
sons were going to buy Cuba from Spain,
so as to get hold of the tobacco of Hint
island, and annex the island to the United
States. No tobacco for cigar purposes lias
ever been found like that of Cuba. None
of the adjacent islands approach it in to
bacco culture. A Havana cigar is a lux
ury wherever wealth and power live.
The next tobacco in quality to that of
Cuba is said to be from the Lnitad States.
The East Indies produce tobacco good
enough to make smoke come and lull the
head, but 1 have found, who have been
smoking more or less for the past twenty
seven years, that I can do better with
American cigars, if they are made pure,
than with Havana cigars One good Ha
vana cigar after dinner or with a full
stomach is a delight; but riding over the
country a man can pull half a day on our
own milder tobacco and not lose his nerv
ous system.
These little tobacco factories are start
ing up in all villages. You can ride
through Pennsylvania and Maiyland, and
at every little place of from three to fimr
inhabitants you will see a cigar factory.
Two cigars for 5 cents is the common
price, and a man who smokes a 5-cent
cigar is a little of an aristocrat, yet the
making of these cigars by girls and boys
keeps change afloat, and nurses the germs
of taste and art.
Before and After.
[R< >ck kind Courier-Gazette.]
“I notice that they are going to tax
bachelors in France,” murmured Dora,
reading from the paper David had just
laid down.
“That isn’t right,” frowned David,
biting nervously at his after-supper cigar;
“their lot is hard and unhappy enough as
it is.”
I )ora got up and kissed David at this
suggestive remark. They bad been mar
ried only a few months.
Time swept on in that calm and relent
less fashion for which time is celebrated,
and Dora is the mother of a (i-weeks-old
baby. At intervals, also, David is re
minded that he is joint proprietor in this
family acquisition, which has a studied
ambition for sitting up nights in company
with his father.
“I was thinking," mused Dora softly
from her easy chair, “I was thinking
about that item we were reading last
winter. 1 wonder if they really do tax
the bachelors in France. ”
“I don’t know, ” returned David, who
was warming some sort of a mixture in a
little tin dish over a spirit lamp; “but, ”
he added malevolently, as he tipped the
mixture over just as it got warm, “they
I ought to make them pay something for
| the luxury. ”
I And Dora sighed as she asked if it
wasn’t about time to mix the food.
I
New York’s Per Capita Production.
[Exchange.]
New York raises annually five bushels
' of Indian corn for each of her inhabi
tants, six and a half bushels of potatoes,
over two bushels of wheat, a half bushel
of rye, seven and a half bushels of oats
and a ton of hay. She supplies each per
son with nearly two pounds of cheese
and twenty two pounds of butter an
nually, and a pint of milk every day in
the year from her dairy herds.
Cure for Stammering.
A Bostonian writes. “I cured myself
of an annoying habit of stammering by
inhaling a deep breath between every few
words, and by never allowing myself to
speak unless the lungs were fully inflated.
A little careful attention soon made ths
practice a habit, and now I never stam
mer unless much excited. ”
Mew Use tor the Klectrle Ught.
[Exchange.]
The fruit growers of California havs
discovered a new application for the elec
tric light Many bushels of night-fiying
insects are killed in their orchards near
the cities whoa the electric light is em
ployed.
NEVER AGAIN.
[Paul Hennas.)
Never will your eyelids lift
Their icy vail from your hate! eyes,
Though I madly bog one glauco, and swift
From my breaking heart the hot tears risa
Never again, though I lay my cheek
Close down to yours and listen, dear,
Will your frozen lips one loved word speak
That 'twero sweeter than angel’s song to
hear.
Never again, though your heart I nress
As mine you pressed in childhood’s days,
Shall I feel it beat and know you bless,
Though never a word your still mouth
says.
The Beanties of Pekin’s Streets.
I London Times.]
The streets of Pekin are less safe for
travel than an ordinary open roadless
country. As landscape the broken sur
face would be picturesque, the effect not
spoiled by the rows of houses on either
side. The vast cesspools—it would be au
unpardonable euphemism to call them
quagmires—of unknown depth through
which your wheels, if you have the
temerity to trust yourself to the cart of
the country, must go, are dangerous after
rain until evaporation reduces the fluid
filth to its dry-weather level. Cart mules
and even passengers are sometimes
drowned in these metropolitan streets; I
heard of two quite recent instances. In
some of these wide expanses, too. you eu
counter irregular rocky ledges or skerries,
formed of the titanic blocks which in
former reigns were used to cover the
drains, and now tumbled up as if by au
earthquake, and which would tax the
agility of a chamois to traverse securely.
I say nothing of the square pits with their
correlative heaps which have been dug
into the stagnant sewers, as the dull ol
factories of a I’ekin mule may be trusted
to keep him clear of that danger even in
the darkest night.
The streets are the special care of one
of the great boards which make up the
imperial government of China, the board
of works. A St Pancras vestryman
might learn from the ministers of that
board, for they have distanced jobbery.
The only “work” they do is to excavate
the sewers during the hot weather, not in
discriminately, but choosing the front of
some well-to-do shop to make their
trench. The shop-master resents the at
tention- his cats fall into the hole and are
poisoned, and his customers are unable
to approach the door. “Why not,” he
says, “dig your hole somewhere else?”
“Why not, indeed?” replies the inspector
as he pockets his 20 pound sterling note
and proceeds to repeat the experiment on
some other victim. By this means a large
revenue is raised, which, with the gov
ernment allotment, is distributed among
the members and servants of the board,
not a farthing being expended on any
public work whatever.
Cures Attributed to Quackery.
[Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.)
I will indicate a few of the ways by
which an explanation may be given of
most of the cures attributed to quacks, ad
mitting al, the same time that they may at
times do good by accident, and also that
many cures ascribed to the regular doctors
might fairly be attributed to the causes
here pointed out. First, the regulation of
diet, the omission of excessive drinking or
smoking, or the correction of some other
bad habit may have done all the good.
Second, the natural powers may have
effected a cure in many cases Indepen
dently of or in spite of other means em
ployed at the same time. Third, the im
provement may be a part of the natural
course of the disease. Fourth, faith, the
confident expectation of benefit cures
many. This is especially seen in nervous
diseases.
Many years ago two prominent surgeons
in Philadelphia were engaged in experi
menting upon the effects of .breathing va
rious gases. One of them wished to ob
serve the effect of the respiration of some
gas upon a patient suffering from palsy.
Before using the gas he noted the temper
ature of the patient’s body, and for the
purpose he inserted the bulb of a small
thermometer under the tougue. Thejman
imagined this little preliminary proceed
ing to be the means of cure,
and immediately declared himself cured.
Innumerable examples might be
culled from the records of science. Fifth,
there are some diseases which regular
practitioners have little or nd power to
cure, but which ordinarily cease after ti
time of themselves. Such is the suffering
produced by the passing of gall-stones. A
patient may have been treated for months
by surgeons without benefit, and lhe sur
geon or quack is then consulted. The
disease ceases sooner or later spontane
ously, and the last comer takes the credit,
which is due to neither, but solely to na
ture. These facts might be increased, if
necessary, to auy reasonable amount
What the Cholera Cott Europe.
,(Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News.]
It would be a nice problem for the sta
tisticians presently to determine what the
latest visitation of cholera in Europe has
cost A week or two ago if was calcu
lated that the quarantine had already re
sulted in a loss of .$8,000,000 to the Ital
ian revenue, and now the Spaniards have
begun counting their bill of cost.
The falling off in customs since
quarantine was established had amounted
by the end of August tc close upon
)j>1,250, 000, while the value of the exports
and imports during the same period had
shown a decrease of $3,1175,000. No
wonder that the corporations of Madrid
and Barcelona have petitioned the govern
ment to take these facts into consideration.
The minister of finance, finding that the
equilibrium of his budget was being
seriously disturbed, has persuaded hie
colleagues that it is time to have done with
the quarantine craze, and with the begin
ning of the present month the regulations
have according been relaxed.
Paganism in Siberia.
[Foreign Letter.]
The territory of Russian Siberia, one
and a half times as large as the United
States, has belonged to Russia three cen
turies, yet of the 4,000,000 inhabitants
nearly one half are still pagans. Pagan
ism is fostered by the home government.
The pagzn priests are allowed to collect
and burn the copies of the Bible with
which the missionaries supply the con
verts, and no missionary may baptize
without the authority of the pagau civil
authorities, who are allowed to do almost
anything to drive Christianity from the
country.
Calllornl* Olive OIL
Olive oil is becoming one of the great
products of California Elwood Cooper,
of Santa Barbara, is the pioneer, and hta
oil brings more money in the market than
the Italian because of its absolute purity.
The Caban and Cigarette.
If you give a Cuban a ready-rolled cig
irette, he will unroll it to see what It
Is made of and if it is rolled properly, and
will then roll it up again to ace that it it
tone ju»t right
PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS.
n»e Dltl’ereut. Agents Which Are Slowly
Destroying; Our .Structures
[Dr. R. Ogden Doremus’ Lecture.]
In every case the architect must kneal
.at the shrine of chemistry. The chemist
has been called upon by the architect to
I make an ink that will fade after twenty
! four hours; and on the other hand, an ink
that will not become visible till after the
lapse of twenty-four or forty-eight
hours. The architect finds his work
continual!) crumbling away. Water
is the great solvent, especially with the
addition of the acids always found in the
atmosphere—carbonic, sulphuric, sulphur
ous, and nitric; besides ammonia and
often ozone. The coal burned in London
alone disengages into the atmosphere 300,
000 tons of sulphurous acid annually.
These agents eat away brick and stone.
Also w ater getting in and freezing is the
great disintegrator in this climate. How
to check this constant crumbling has been
the great desideratum.
The lecturer demonstrated the porosity
of sandstone by passing through a jet of
illuminating gas a solid block of
fine grained sandstone coated with about
fifty coats of varnish, and covered on its
sides with iron plates, leaving only a small
area on each side unprotected, to which
were applied pi) es for the entrance and
escape of the gas which was burned after
passing through; and of tine Philadelphia
brick similarly armed, j»y blowing through
two thicknesses of it with force enough to
extinguish the flume of a caudle. He
stated that gas will pass through stone not
only without pressure, but even, as dem
onstrated by Prof. Chandler, against a
pressure of ten to twenty atmospheres.
A result of porosity is that buildings
after absorbing water effloresce, or be
come covered with a coating of salts, es
pecially brick buildings laid in mortar
made from sea sand. This means the de
composition of the material, besides a very
disagreeable appearance. In I hiladel
phia, alter a rain, the houses are generally
thus whitened. T his efflorescence cannot
be prevented by ordinary [taint nor oil.
Another dangerous result of porosity is
that buildings absorb malaria. Hospitals
thus become poisoned with a poison so
deadly that he remarked he would sooner
give his child the most deadly poison in
the laboratory, and trust to tlie antidote,
than expose him to such contagion.
He mentioned many well known build
ings that were crumbling away, such as
Girard college, the College of New York,
Trinity church, New York. He had dined
with Gorringe soon after the obelisk was
set up in ( entral park, and the subject of
the weathering of lhe obelisk was sug
gested. Gorringe said that it had stood
4,000 years, and would stand 4,000 years
more. But, in fact, the obelisk is crum
bling away. He showed several vials full
of clippings collected at the foot of it,
also specimens of stone found peeled off
from inside the new capital during the
visit of the institute to it in the afternoon.
Old-Faahionnd “ Hog-Killing.”
[M. Quad’s Letter.]
Yea, I've been therel lodged, “hog
killing time” is a matter to be remem
bered for a life time. We boys were up
at daylight, filling the big kettles with
water, bringing up wood, and making
everything ready. After breakfast the
ox-sled was drawn up and covered with
boards, the fires lighted, and th butcher
kidves sharpened for work. The fat
porkers in the pen, unconscious of their
impending fate, growled and complained
over the absence of the morning meal,
and it wasn’t so very soft hr tried in us
to express pity for the animals we had
fed from little pigs.
When the killers were ready the long
fastened pig-pen door was loosened and
one of the men entered, caught a porker
by the leg and drew him out, and amidst
his shrieks and struggles the knife was
thrust into his throat. The carcass was
then lifted upon the sled and two or three
soused it. into a slanting barrel of hot
waler and hauled it out again. Then we
all fell to work with chips and bands and
knives to remove the bristles, and after
the rinsing the porker was hung upto lie
dissected and left to freeze.
Things may have greatly changed in
twenty-five years, but in the days 1 write
of I lie first hog was no sooner dressed
than we were sent off with fresh meat for
the Tylers and Terrills and Warners and
Greenes, and all enjoyed it for dinner and
returned the compliment within a fort
night. There was a great muss around
the yard fur two or three days, a bigger
muss in tire house for a full week, and
when the last hog was loaded for market
or in the barrel it was considered a dis
agreeable job well over with.
I’ari si an Ism.
[A. F. Gulbal in St. Janies Gazette.]
Paris is the ruin of France, because
Paris is essentially frivolous and is France,
Great centers like Bordeaux or Lyons may
lie focuses of rebellion, but on the score of
national influence they stand as nil. From
Faris there radiates over lhe land an all
prevading spirit of Parisianism—the more
fatal because it is boulevardier, self con
ceited, scandal-mongering, unsubstantial.
The Parisian reads, but thinks not: he
states a thing, not because he knows ft to
be a fact, but because, having read it or
heard of it, he at once assumes it to be a
fact. He does not discuss, he boasts or
blames; he does not search for the truth,
but for something to say. Hence tlie
man will be uppermost in his opinion who
will give him something to tell, to brag
about, or to criticise.
Unfortunately, criticism will never be
Impartial, while praising will ever be re
flective. To talk in order to show off—
“serendre interessant, ” “fairel'interessant”
—is essentially French. Two Frenchmen
traveling from Versailles to Paris, or ’buss
ing it from Paris to Belleville, will vie
with one another to gain the admiration
of their companions. The Englishman
will whisper to his friend the good things
he does know, satisfied with the fact that
he has something new; the Frenchman
will say it aloud, to show all about him
that he has something to say.
In Great Favor.
[Scientific American.]
Luminous key hole trimmings and door
knobs are said to lie in great favor with
| the bibulous inclined person, and con-
I venient for others. They are made of
; glass, and the back is covered with lumin
ous paint, giving forth a light which may
1 be seen considerable of a distance, on the
darkest nights.
She Was Too BrleL
[Texas Siftings.]
“Do you understand howto fix up my
hair? ” asked a lady of her newly hirwl
colored servant.
“Yes, ma’am, I kin fix it up in ten min
utes. ”
I “You will never do for me. What
would 1 do with myself all the rest of the
"
Pine Needle Pillows.
Pine needle pillows are are the lastwhim
of nervous invalid*. They are said to be
i quietiaf and pwdlMdive et altNb
NO. 290
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which sb a tonic, »lteriiative and household
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