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VOL.X.
JABOUT CANCERS.
THEY ARE PRONOUNCED INCURABLE
EXCEPT BY CUTTING.
Two Great Ciaaaea, the Benign and the
Malignant Cancer Cells Fibers
and Fluids -Not Contagious
But Often Hereditary.
'lndianapolis Journal Interview ]
“I* cancer of the tongue very fatal?”
■lnquired the reporter of a medical friend.
“Yea. since seeing the article on Gen.
■Grant s sad condition in runday's paper,
1 looked up the statistics in the new edi
tion of '..gnews Surgery.’ Os seventy
‘two < nets of cancer cf the tongue ana
lyzed by Dr. Agnew, forty were mule*
and thirty-two females. Must ol the cases
occur between 40 and bU, and most die
within a year. "
“i o many esses of cancer recover?"
“That depends on the kind of cancer,
its degree of malignity, and the time of
operati- n, if removal be resorted to.
llost tongue ancers are of the epithelial
form, and gem ai. are primary. There
is no agreem.i I in the c aasiticatiou of
cancers. All tumors and morbid or ab
normal growths are best regarded as forms
of strucliftal degeneration, or vitiated nu
trition, Ail such growths are referred
Io me or the other of two great classes
There are the benign, or harmless, and
the mal guant laity fibroin. and bony
tumors are examp.es of the benign
tumors. I.y malignant tumors we
mean such as arc prone to uu
limited grow;h in i.e. '1 hey are dis
astrous in effect or result, and di ! cult or
impossible of arrest or cure. I atholog.c
ally, ail malig ant growths are essent ally
cancerous—their subdivisions are merely
clinical or surgical. Can er is an Anglo
>axou word which means to eat away or
corrode i auk er and chancre are other
forms of it lienign tumors attach them
go one kmd of l.S'Ue—they ate
simple accumulations of tame, lit. or
muscle, and do not include the adjacent
tia.uea, ueriev and blood vessels. • ancer
ous growth are’ a.ways rich in connective
tissue fibers ami enormous production
of cells variously shaped, but of the
ipilbelial type .hey involve and de
stroy all tin- tissue, ii the way of their
growth the r. d y lend to molecular
death, often inc- ing bloody, gangren
ous, and putrid they are more likely than
not to return after remo ai 1 suppose
from what mis lei u wii-tin about Gen.
Grant • . ase .1 <--nie.s under Waideyer s
terse de! mtu.n eta earner—-an at pical
epiti.elial ueop.as li. cy have a good
deal ot Laid i brutiatis m- in them little of
the s<» called *eai c r juice,’ ami but few
cv-l.s, they are c.i * d cii rrbus.’or hard
cancers, it oraue * ■ * iiy ike, 'colloid
if of a net wm k<4 l«r- nd with agreat
variety of cel * cy ure called
brain like cancers, ’eu* epsihi./id, or medul
lary.
“May n cancer lie known by its micro
•Copic app< arnuce?"
“ Yes. at d no. The microscope con
firms rather than d ti.-.mines thediagom-is.
Pathologists ami m urologists no longer
believe in a di.stin< i: > cancer cell.’ The
.cells, fibers, ano l.uui- of cancer are va
jriou* and abnormx : In- cells arc of va
jrious shapes and si/<s, averaging the
1,0.0ih of an ircii a: uii.nerer. I‘lie cells
.are like the ceils of g.audular structures
generally, but the. an- longer. Hie. are
lawless in their growth, and do not norm
ally belong to the part where they grow.
• They are not foreign implantations, but
rather distortions ot the natural elements
T of the bouy. "
“What makes them so painful?"
“They are not always so; the physician
•ometimra recognizes uterine or other
cancer before the patient is aware of its
presence by pain or discomfort Th.
pain comes when the ..ancer extends to a
Ihwue well endowed w.th nerves. They
bleed, or not. according as they have or
have not intuited vuacular parts. "
•What causes them Are they conta
fiou* or hereditary?"
“They are not contagious; they are
ffen hereditary, There e ists in soon
amilles a cancerous cachexia,’ or ten
deucy, but it has not much significance
(. nicer* follow after in.uries a* of the hip
or kue«. from tailing, fr -tn pressure, as
tobacco-pipe cancer *«f ihe lip, and often
in the uterus at the change of life, or
in ury. Ao part of the body is exempt.
There is no cure except removal; all treat
■rnent is palliative only, and all so-called
•cancer doctors' are. without ex
caption, quacks ami impostors. But
the legend. ‘lancer cured with
out the use of the knife,’ at
tracts many. The < harlataus sometimes
nmove b*-uign growths and swear the.
are cancerous, they a.o cure cancers
which do not exist Dr. l.liss, of Wash
ington, D. C., brought forth condurango'
as a constitutional remedy and cure, much
to his own chagrin, we may hope, and
certainly to the mortification of those of
the pro ession who tried it <ur consul
at Pernambuco has se t samples of a new
Brazilian plant, 'alveloz.'to the medical
department nt Washington for trial, but
it will go the way of i:ss’ ’condurango,
very probable. Cancers caused 200deaths
last year in fndia—reported as such in the
health board statistics—probably many
more. They cause over 1 per cent, of the
total mortality Forty-five were reported
cancer of the stomach, twelve of tin- liver,
and one of Hie tongue. Such statistics
amount to but little without the evidence
•f postmortem examination, howe'er.”
“How long do patients survive after re
moval of the cancerous tongue?”
• Dr. Clarke is quoted by Agnew as to
thirty nine cases, of which the average
duration of life was eighty-six weeks;
twenty-live were operated on anil life was
prolonged on an average of forty five
weeks more—enough to justify the opera
tion. ”
For A c ic ! xp oration.
;C!:ic g i b ne.
A present object of curiosity in San
Francisco is the steam launch building
for the use of Lieut. Storey in ex
ploring the rivers of Alaska The boat
will lie about fifty feet long, with twelve
feet beam, and a uniform draft of twelve
inches. The null will be of seasoned fir
and the craft throughout built somewhat
after the style of one intended for
Arctic exploration. It is probable she
•will be taken to Alaska in sections, not
being intended for a sea voyage. She
will be a stern-wheeler and will have ac
commodations for ten men. .'-peculators
are awaiting the result of the expedition
with interest, an impression pre ailing
that discoveries mav be made of rich
mining-fields and coal Leda
A Horseshoe of Horn.
I Excha ? re.
A horseshoe made entirely of the horn
of sheep has been tried in Lyons, i- ra 'e,
and is found particular y adapted to horses
emp oyed in towns, and known not to
have a steady foot on the pavement
In Montevideo and Buenos Ayres all
the horse cars come from the United
Btatea
Os img dunes.
QHOST3. .. 1
[H. K. Munkittrick in Atlantic.]
Out in the misty imionlight
The fir»t snow-flakes I s.*e.
As they frolic around the leafleas
Limbs of the appl»-tr»e.
Faintly they seem to whisper,
As round the boughs they wing,
“We are the ghosts of the blossoms
That died in the early spring.”
Progress in Forrestry.
IThe Century.]
Tree-planting is be. omlng almost uni
versal on the great prairies of Minnesota,
| Dakota, Kansas and .Nebraska, where it
once was believed no tree would grow
Many causes have contributed to this re
markable result, prominent among them
. being the timlier-culture act passed by
congress ten years ago, amended iu ISI4
and again in 1878. Already 93.246 entries
Lave been made, the area covered by them
being 13,677,146 acres Nearly one-filth
of this vast area was “entered” in 1883,
which shows the growing influence of the
princely premiums ottered by congress
and by many of the Western states to eu
courge tree planting.
The timber act may need further
amendment to prevent frauds, but recent
inquiries of those who have had the
largest experience and observation in Min
nesota. Dakota, lowa. Nebraska and
Kansas convince me that its benefits have
beeu so manifest as strongly to commend
it to the people iu those states. Many
settlers have planted much more than the
required ten acres in their 160 acres, oi
"quarter section,” Said a Nebraskan
"de have thousands of trees, thirty to
forty feet iu height and eight or nine
inches in diameter grown from seedlings
or cuttings planted less than ten years
ago. The fuel problem is settled for
many farmers The trees and land are
already worth three times their cost. ”
Mary and William as Names.
;Good Words.)
Mar* was shown to be the commonest
name of all. it distinguished 6,819 girls
out of the 50,000 called as witnesses, and
designated a larger number of individual
than airy other appellation, male or fe
mala William came next, naming 1),950
out of the number* mentioned. The pre
dominance of these two names may ere
this ha e been rendered somewhat less
striking than it was, but it is unlikely to
have been largely modified.
A statement of the chief cognominal
derivatives of William may interest some
readers There are Williams and W ill
iam.son to liegin with. Then the abbrevia
lion Will has produced Willes, Willis,
Wills, Willson and Wilson. The dimin
uti.e Gui'lemot or Gwillot hassled to
Gil el. Gilliat, Glllet, Gillott and other
forms, while Willamot, the more English
version of that dim nutive, has gi en
Willatt, Willet, Willert. Willott, Wilmot,
Wiimott. etc. Again, in connection with
lhe pet shapes of the name are the sur
names Bill. Billson, Bilson, Weeks, Wick
ens. Wickenson, Wicker-on, Wickeeon,
Wi cock, Wilcockson, Wilcox, Wilcoxon,
Wilkins, Wilkinson, Wilks, Willcocks,
Willey, Willy and Woolcock.
Wm Sorry He .Spoke,
(Chronicle “Undertone#.”)
At Fort Bayard for a long time there*
lay an old spiked cannon, waich bad been
rendered u-eiess for some reason or an
other. The Apache chief of that district
fell in love with that cannon.’ He used
to < nine every day and beg the command
ant to give it him, At length Gen. -her
miin was announced as coming ami the
officer told the Apache that he must ask
him for it He did. The general looked
at it, saw it was of no use and presented
it to him.
“I uui afraid,” said the general, with
mild jocosity, “you want the cannon so
that you can turn it on my soldiers and
kill them. ”
“l inph! No. Cannon kill cowlioys.
Kill soldiers -club. &
The general was sorry he spoke.
G«n.
(“Gath’-*' Washington Letter.]
Yonder is rather a venerable man, with
mind iu his countenance and silence for
his guardsman, who passes along in his
carriage unnoticed. It is Quartermaster
General Meigs, who hauled the Army of
the Potomac, and, indeed, the armies of
the whole I nion, out of the mud and on
ward to the last ditch; and he has put up
the patent office, the flew pension build
ing, and although a character of the past,
his integrity has kept him alive and active
to the present He built the ball-room
for Cleveland, as he built many a year
ago the great arch on the Washington
aquduct, which contained the name of
Jefferson Davis till Simon Cameron, or
somebody, had itcutoutuf the stone, mak
ing it rather more prominent by absence
Ilian if it had remained.
Nothing IJke It.
[Arkansaw Traveler.]
“ I went to see a French opera whfle I
was in .New Orleans, ” said an old fellow
who had just returned from the exposi
tion. “Very fine, very fine indeed. I
tried to catch one of the tunes, but as I
don’t understand French, I couldn’t get
hold of it. Oh, yes, opera is very good
but I can stagger along very well with
out it If I ain’t particular about seein’ a
shrrw, I’d just as soon go to an opera as a
funeral, but when 1 want to lay right
down and enjoy myself, I go to a circus.
Ah, there’s nothing like a brass horn and
* boss. ”
Some of Thein Do.
[Boston Times,]
“Ma, aren't people who have crests and
decorations of that kind supposed to be
, rich ?”
I “ Yea, very often. They belong in old
English families, who have coats of
wnis. ”
“Well, if they are rich, what do they
want people to give them old clothing
for?”
“Why, they don’t What put that in
your head ?”
“Oh, because you said they have coats
»f-alms. ”
A Luxury.
i Life. J
“Father, what is a luxury ” asked little
Johnnie the other night as he wrapped
himself round the parlor stove.
“A luxury’ Why, its something we
don’t really need, you know —s thing we
can do without ”
“ Well. then. ” replied the logical youth,
“what a luxury a mosquito net must be
In winter. ”
Morning-Glories All Winter.
A lady in Indianapolis has had morn
ing-glories blossoming in her parlor all
winter. She pla ed, by ac< ident, a small
plant in a pot with some other plants and
it continued to grow in the bouse. It
soon blossomed and has been in flower
every morning during the winter.
Cultivation of Madder.
The cultivation of madder was under
taken by a farmer in Erie county, Ohio,
in 1842, ami was reported as very profita
ble No one seems able to give a reason
why Its cultivation has been abandoned.
COLrjMBv , GEORGIA, SAi URD vY VC * MARCH 21. 18H5.
SUPERSTITIONS.
HOW CREDULOUS OLD PEOPLE IN*
TERPRET COMMONPLACE EVENTS.
Some of the Weather-Wisdom Handed
Down fr<*m Generation to Generation
—Various Other “Old Wives’
Fables'* —Their Origin.
[Baltimore Herald.]
Scat—whackl
There was a sudden howl as if a fog
horn had beeu seized with a nightmare,
anil a something that bore a decided re
semblance to a cat’s tail disappeared over
the back fence ol a I. lain street resi
dence like a streak * f yellow lightning.
“1 don't like to see a cat lying in the sun
in February, ” said the old gentlemen, as
he slammed down the window and re
sumc-1 his chair by tin fireplace.
“M hy?’ asked tux incredulous visitor.
“It forebodes a stormy March. ” was the
response. “Why, thins a pr verb Ive
heard since I was a child, and I've never
known it U» fail. But here in the city,
and parti 'tlarly here in ‘St. Paul
street, they laugh at a fellow when he
hauls out his country saws. That
shows their ignorance, lor goodness
knows a farmer knows more about the
weather in a week than they do in the
city fi r a month. There’s another true
saying, that when the north wind does
not blow in February it will have its re
venge in Man h. Aud for ever thunder
with rain iu ibis month, UiCn- will be a
cold spell in May. The old proverb says
that when the snow lies in the ditches it
is waiting for more, anti when it fails in
the mud it remains all winter. Look out
for rain when the flakes grow huge: as
they fall. Os course, you remember the
time-honored remark about Ihe white
1 Christmas and the lean grave aid. You
people never pay any attention to these
signs, but the farmers, the truckers, the
milkmen people whom you brush past
every day on the streets of in the markets
—believe in them, because their lathers
langlit them to do so.
"1 suppose every month lias its own
signs?” ask.6d the inertilulous visitor, ns
h ea.'i'ii inereduli usly at a nickel plated
boise ..in suspended over the iii.iiil
“Every one of them,” was the reply,
“aud a lew ol the most ancient and least
known 1 will recite for your ben-lit. It is
aul thjit il grass grows in -lauuary it will
grow Inuliy during the rest ot the year.
The original saw lor March suys that if
the month < omes in With an adder’s head
it goes out with a peacock's tail. It was
beliertd. too. that a bushel of March
dust was worth u king's ransom, though
tiiis was a rather poetical adaptation, nf
April it is -aid that ’a co d moist April
tills the cellar and fattens the cow.' A dry
May I.rings nothin :.
"A dripping .lune sets all things to tuna
When it rains in Au -n-t it nil, - ho.ioy
and wine. If the first, day of reptember
lie fair the month will be a good one A
warm < tuber brings a cold February.
Ice iu .November forbodes plenty of lent
and bad weather during the winter, aud
a warm hristmas indicates ac*>ld . aster.
i he first three days of any season rules
its weather. When it clears on Sunday il
will be clear until Wednesday and if it
rains on the first dog day there will lie a
flood for forty days thereafter. In spring
a tub of rain makes a teaspoonful of mud,
but in autumn a teaspoonful of rain makes
a tub of mud. We heard a thunder-peal
two weeks ago. That was a prophecy of
a poor year lor maple sugar but a good
year for fruit
“no you know howto foretell rain with
certainly, ” he asked, "and without going
out of doors?” Just watch the cock
roaches. When they fly gi t out your
umbrella Crickets chirp lively ami
spiders come out of their m sts also 1 . fme
ruin. I’ll tell you a curious old saw about
frost. The first frost, so run the i.v,
* omes exactly six k aftei we lu-ai-1 .*■
first katydid. There will bi- as many
frosts in June as there are frogs in 1 elirm
ary, 1 forgot to tell you also that rats
and mice make much noise before a rain,
and horses snuff the nil noticeah;. *1
of these signs of which I have spo.-en
have their origin in experience and ob
servation, and there is in them much of
truth.
I The T mo-Worn “Madonna.”
(Norristown Tieraid. |
Just how many “Madonnas” Raphael
painted, has never been ascertained, per
haps, but whenever u new art journal ap
pears, it is not long before it discov rs a
new “Madonna”—and begins to print a
dozen old ones that have already been
seen hundreds of times in such journals.
It Raphael had never painted a Madonna
our art journals would be more attract
ive. _
Probably a Libel.
[Norristown Herald.]
It is *aid that -ince sewing has been in
troduced in the girls’ schools in Philadel
phia, married men in that city frequently
find the opening in the back of their
shirts sewed up to the collar button, their
daughters having mistaken the necessary
rear aperture for an unseemly rent But
this may be a libel on the school girls.
yuite Shallow Birnugh.
[Detroit News.
“I trust the current of my discourse last
Sunday was not s uiiciently formidable to
. hopelessly engulf you, ” jocosely remarked
-a young Detroit clergyman to a lady mem
ber of his congregation the other evening.
“Oh, no! It was quite shallow enough
I for comfortable wading, thank you!”
Limit* ol Heamm
(Scientific Exclian -e.
Recent results on the limits'il'hearing
' were arrived at by using a powerful metal
stem, actuated by steam. The vibrations
reached 72.000 per minute, which proved
to be the highest or rather faintest sound
that could be heard.
Grass But N*> Water.
The governor of Arizona says ihat ter
ritory has grass enough for .*,o* 0.0 0 ucad
of cattle, but fully four fifths of it is not
xvailab e because of "no water. He
thinks, however, that most of tlic country
; may be made productive r-i the ' utile in
terests by means of artesian wells.
I Blizzard and Th i
The Washington Post observes that the
thermometer at Savannah, Ga . fed to 3'j
I degrees and it was called a “b iz.zard. ”
The thermometer at Pierre, D. 1 , rose to
zero, a d the Pierreitcs congruulated
themseives on a “January thaw
I low J ><»ct or-i ! ai.
Although doctors, as a ruh-, are par
ticular in warning others not to I’t.vk too
many large dinners, there is probably no
other body of professio la) m- i who nd
as much honest pleasure in gather*ug
around the festive board.
Grrai Britain's <
It is estimated that Great Britain’s c<nk
supply will be e.vhau-ied in about 105
years if the present increase in the rate of
consumption continues.
WORK OF THE PARIS POLICE,
Pbe Late Prefect Tells How Every Class nt
. Society is Watched.
'Artt-le hy M. Anilrieux.]
The secret agents of police in Paris are
provided vvilh cards, which, in cases of
*.. iger. will insure them the protection of
the regular police. They frequent clubs
ami oilier meetings, the wine shopsalt the
exterior boulevards, ami houses aud streets
of ill fame, aud also attend at the
senate ami chamber of deputies
during the parliamentary session.
In the morning they prepare their
reports, generally spun ing at the pre
fecture. in the archives of which
is to be found detailed accounts
of the career and character of hundreds
ami thousands of individuals in
i ranee. Tin se records form colossal
pyramids m the lumber rooms, and are
a(|.liai>eiicaiiy arranged according io the
mum s oi the persons whose histories thev
chronicle, so that when any one comes
sudmmlj to the front or is compromised
iu any criminal affair the librarians can
Lavi no din cully iu laying their hands on
the o.iici-d summary of his or her antece
dent--. .-o complete is the collection that
the name of the. most obscure rag pickei
iu l ari Ims its ehrone.le as well as the
president of the republic.
In regard to these secret agents of the
se o. <1 category, M. Amirieux is us ex
I licit as he is indiscreet " \ man s coueli
mill), lie says, “a man s mistiess, a man’s
burl er, n man’s valet may belong to this
battalion." Many saioon-k re; ers and
in un porters are actually cos-ijielled, uu
dur i-iuii of forfeiture of then licenses and
positions, to a* t as the spies of the pre
ieeiu.e. Several journalises who are the
bitte est political opponents in opposition
newspapers of the powers that be, ami not
a lew frantic orators who "do' the stump
at socialistic gatherings ami denounce the
criminality of capital amid the cheers of
the workingmen, are in tiie pay of the'po
lice authorities. The high born aud re
spectable Imperialist, who mixes in i rim®
Nupolions society ami calls-him “.My
Lord. ” “ i our Majesty, ” and sporty a vio
let ut lii- button hole on the pcoasioti of
the anniversary mass for the re]>o-e ol the
soul of Napoleon Hi. at the Church of St.
Augustine, keeps up liis gorgeous equi
pages and pays for his Uonapartist dinner
* ut of the public funds.
The siiuiiering ..oyalist who carries
about with him over his lieutn a tattered
fragment of one of the old white i ags of
France and who is gushingly tender and
enthusia tic in his ilel'enk'e o. the throne
and ultnr, is rigged out 'at the expense
of Hie state, ami is paid to :py >n the
movements and actions of the l oyalists,
just a: bis ; otmi artist colleagues to look
alter the impcriati*ls.
in Ii of i hese agents must have some
ostei.s.b e trade or piol’craion ai which lie
may occasionally cnq.loy an hour or two
i I his lime in order to avert any suspicion
that may be. entertained of him. Thus
■ *,erv class ol society in I aris is under the
most active, although the most insidious,
vigilance.
Knocking nt tbe New York Entranee.
J i- >v A' ii er in Np.w York Grupluc,]
1 think I do not exaggerate when 1 say
tli.it it is waste of time for any one with
out money to try to iio I’iisi.ionubie, at
least if he knocks at the New York en
trance. If he has money and knocks
Im ally he can be, no matter who he is.
Intrinsic value is set on nothing but
money. There are a few who pul in a
faint plea for f'.uuily, and liny try to keep
together to form a clique, but they do not
impress anybody but themselves, unless
thev have money; then they can be arro
gnnt Talent, and cle.ernes - never cun do
it. Beauty alone cannot do it. but money
will make beauty more beautiful. A large
number can into society, but they cannot
b<- fashionable. They may give balls, but
the cant, publish a list of cremes at
them. 'I hey may give dinners, but no
m i; will struggle io go to tliein.
f those wit out money would realize
tins it *>ou.d ci.'C years ol <t<.able, let
tin re are families in .New York who have
Im ii made fashionable in sjiitc. of them
selves, because they have money. They
have never shown a desire to lie conspicu
ous or to be publicly known, ami yet
their movements are always of interest,
their sayings impressive. There is one
tyi e ot motherhood and fatherhood
within that charmed circle which will ex
plain the whole matter to us. The reign
of self is acknowledged; it is tacitly ad
milted there. Nothing else could be un
derstood. Self must have very good man
tiers, though—must personate all of the
virtues, but self continues self still; it is
alone the fashion all the same.
What She Needed.
[Ban Francisco Chronicle.]
“1 am going down to f*anta Barbara,”
said Mrs. Verdiver. “My health has
given way completely aud I must re
> uperate. ’
“Why do you go to Santa Barbara?”
said her friend, Mrs. Malaprop.
“The sea air and the quiet and the
change will do me good. ” answered the
invalid languidly.
“Now, my dear, you take my advice, ”
burst, out the voluble Mrs. Mmaprop.
“ You don’t go to any Santa Barbara, or
Monterey, or any of those seaside places,
you go straight away up to the springs.
I'm an old woman. I’ve had just such
tits as you ve got now’, ami what you
want is a course of some water that has
some strong analysis in it. ”
Sunday School Lozeiig«;s,
[Exchange.]
The secretary of Mr. .- purgcon s Sun
day school re ently made tin following
suggestion; “It would be a very good
thing if the Scripture texts given to the
infants were to be printed on 10/.enges in
stead of tt on the little bit.-, of pa-telmard,
as at present; for not only woulii the gifts
be more highly valued, but ii might be
truiy said: 'How sweet are thy Words unto
my taste.’ ”
The Slate Industry.
< lilcae.i eralJ.l
The magnitude of the slate industry in
this country can be imagined when it is
staled that the total amount produced of
rooling slate alone is uUO.OOO SqUaies per
yea . A “s, uare” is about 100 square
leet, or suJicient to Cover a space 10x10
feet when laid on the roof. It covers the
same area as 1,000 shingles.
”<.'o<oa’* Gunpovnl r.
' hicag • Jieral-i
The British war department has Just in
troduced tiie “Cocoa” gunpowder, recom
mended by a committee sent to Germany
to examine various qua iiles of explosives.
Jt has a mean pressure per s t u., rich of
sixteen and a half tons, and a velocity at
the muzzle of 2,010 feet per second
iluH.sia's Siiljilnii-.
lExchange.
The attention of the Russian govern
ment has just been drawn to thi- existence
of extensive deposits of sulphur in west
ern i-iiieria, ami an expedition is to be
sent to examine them. Europe's supply
of sulphur is now chiafly obtained from
ANCHORS AND CHAINS.
A Hchvn I .1 In Tluunnelvcs and Why
Heron . i tnd Ones Are Preferred.
• ' .»r’; Mail and Express.]
Sevrr.-il la? piles of rusty iron anchor
chains liiiiug the sidewalk in front of a
shi()sniitlii:>g shop caused a reporter to
step w.thiii the building and ask how
im - pounds of iron a vessel usually
cm rm IS a part of its outfit.
“Man vessels, ” said the proprietor
whoso shop is one of the oldest in th,
city, ’ai ry as many as 48,000 pounds
each. To a latalsimiu this naturally
i ins a[ i, tj big load in itself, but it
lonns an i ssential pin tof a ship's make
up -•! tu.s ■■ ■ 000 pounds are usually in
chains ami 12.000 pounds in anchors. The
llenrj .11 de, a large ship built in
Maim-, i-arries two anchors, one of which
weighs ~■■ id pounds aud the other (i.OOo
pounds. Every vessel, as well as steam
ship, is obliged’ to tarry five anchors, a
spare one ami two stream anchors besides
the one iu regular use Our largest
anchors weigh 8,000 pounds each, while
>. e have them as light as twenty five
pounds. Some of the largest chains art
composed of links Ihe iron of which is
two aud a half inches iu diameter.
" ) es, vve only dual iu second hand ma
teriuls. but we have fitted up some hand
some vi ssels al! the same The George
IV. Curtis, a new clipper ship of 1,800
tons, has our anchors, as also has the Al
bert <j. . o e». -.500 tons, aud the Henry
I!, llydt M i make a specialty of second
hand nal.-riiil of this kind because we find
that there is a big demand for it. One
reason is that, freights are low and ship
owners are obliged to economize like other
people, and another and more important
one is tl,:>i a t-apiain prefers second hand
aiiehois and chains because they have
been I’nlly tested. It won t d* on ship
board to hive defective rigging of this
kind, ui.il i-.ierc is no real way of testing
attclio -. .< .-pt by use. t'onttequeully we
find it a rule that thoroughly tested
second hr.ml anchors and chains find a
ready -a e
“. ( Yorkers would open their eyes
iu surpi is! wt re they to know to what ex
tent, the btismi-ss has grown. Why, we
an,ne have on hand at. this time 115 tons
of inch i-;. .ins ami between GOO and
0 I ii -.i a iiors, besides tons of other
eeo..d l. ut l iron material used on ship
board. ihe stull’ you see in here and out
i the vva k. urge ns it seems, di es not
onipri-e nt a small part of the stock,
i rorci• a . tooklvu we have a lot 100
i el s tin e tilled with it.
I :o in- a -nice men have anything to do
viih a ..p's outlit? 1 should say they
dip. Why. iii anchor can be put aboard
clips m w ;r; ■. unless it sibts the require
cm - t t: -pci t rof insurance. They
. e \ cry | i-.iticulnr about this, and a ship
in -.l* ami-r tm.s have ust so many shots
I*. chai . ami u-t so many anchors, of
wi i Ti> mid -J e to compare with the size
I the vi -iI, or things are no go. A
ember <-i' ■ ---i'ls have lately taken to the
. of . ;at n ,-utchor which the insur
u e coi... ai, !• allow This is one third
,i- wi -ii; .i .I.: uiiimary anchor and lias
more p-vver, I n the crown is movable,
i ng' i i a swivel. 'i lie ri-u. on an am hor s
. .tin i, a w .-. t. in sections of ninety feet
io i.-m.iie tiie i iqiluin to know just how
much oi ii, in- nit. cast out. ”
'-<•%s I so of Celluloid.
Ndw i ork Sun.)
As a down-town printer, who had just
(.■omiileli.il the printing of a lot of illus
trated eircu atwas washing Hie type
and cats with ocn/iue, a young man no
icetl llmt the cuts were white instead of
tin- oidinary copper color of electrotypes
“. ew kind of metal lor electrotypes?”
asked the young man.
I*. I hesi-are celluloid stereotypes
it is a new us* tor celluloid. The plat»s
an-e.a 1... made. Tne engraving or the
form of type to be stereotyped is first used
to make a line paper matrix, just as if a
eoniimm im tai .‘itereolype was to be made.
'I hen . s ninirix i> pa- eri iii a form, aud
over it is laid a sheet of celluloid. The
two are pul in a hydraulic press, the
temperature is raised to 300 degrees
i nlircnheil, the celluloid is pressed into
the matrix at a pressure ol’ 400 pounds
to the square inch, and then the thing is
done. When taken out and cooled the
celluoid plate is an exact counterpart of
the original form, aud wiien cemented to
a suitable wood backing it is good for
four times as many impressions as a copper
stereotype, liesides that, it is not easily
damaged. .
“Another use made of celluoid ii In fac
ing w >od type Th sis done by laying a
thin sheet of cylluoid over the face of a
big block of wood, and the two are shoved
into the hot. press. t\ hen they come out
the celluoid ha- been forced into the pores
of the wood an eighth of an inch, and has
made a surface that is simply beautiful
The block is then cut up into wood type
by the ordinary wood-type machine, or it
may be sold to wood engravers, who find
it equal to box wood. "
How to Catch Sharks.
[Foreign Letter.]
The sharks which abound on the east
coast of Madagascar, and make such ex
tensive depredations upon the catlie in
course of shipment, are occasionally cap
tured by the people. The young men
- nu-tinu- g >on a shark-hunting exjiedi
loit. I lav.n g discovered a shark they
c.ve un ,< a. ami, before it has time to
turn on i.s ba 1., use the long sharp knife
they cariy. it is affirmed among the
Malagas tlim some of their people can go
into the waler on discovering a shark,
and, with nothing in hand but a piece of
slick about a foot in length, armed with
an iron , oint at each end, can
accomplish its destrui tion. Watching
till one of tile monsters, with its
two or three rows of teeth, is just about
to atiacx him with its wide-extended
jaws, the native with his iron-pointed
slick seizes his opportunity, and inserts
his band into the mouth of the creature
and tiausoxcs its jaws by implanting the
slick cross-wise in its mouth. Tbe more
tbe shark tries by snapping to disengage
the weapon, the more deeply it enters, and
in painful fury it seeks the bottom. But
it fails to obtain relief, anil al lastdiea Its
bod is washed ashore and the inhabit
ants divide the canass for food.
Convenient Post-Card.
[Chicago Times.]
An enterprising country publisher in
England, who has reniarkedtliatimmen.se
numbers of people suffer from an almost
unconquerable repugnance to letter writ
ing, lias i repared a special post-card for
the use o; lazy correspondents. Tbe back
of the card is divided lengthwise into ten
unequal spaces, and the energies of the
reluctant scribe are spurred by the follow
ing suggestive headings, one of which is
conspicuously printed to the left of each
of the di i ions. 1. irate. 2. Excuse for
not having written sooner. 3. (state of
Ju ;, th a of self, (b) of family. -I. The
writer’s recent experiences. •>. News. 6.
Family gossip. ~ educations to be an
swered in your next. 8. Love to . 9.
..ove from . 10. Signature.
The freehold farms in New Zealand kw
estimated to be worth $170,000,0(10.
Poor, Distraught Carlotta.
[Londo'i World.]
The recent death of Col. Vandevelde Is
k great misfortune to the poor distraught
Empress ( arlolta of Mexico, who baa
been under his care for many years at the
(Chateau Rouchout. The empress was
! greatly attached to Col. \ nudevelde, and
ins death has not been announced to her.
he has been told that he has taken a long
journey on business for her brother, the
king of the i elgiatts. She passes much
of her time al the piano aud at her easel,
but since she began to notice tin- colonel’s
absence the cm | iress has neither played a
note nor touched her pencils. One of the
characteristics of her malady, however, is
lack of memory, and it is therefore hoped
that in a short time she will have forgot
ten her guardian, even ns she seems to
have forgotten the whole of her past
existence.
She never speaks of Maximilian of
Mexico, nor even of her father, Leopold I,
whose favorite child she was. of late
years she has become absolutely indiffer
ent to dress, although In the earlier yeats
of her insanity she was constantly occu
pied with her toilet, and even while she
was living at the Chateau de Tervjneren
showed a marked tendency toward co
quetry. Sometimes she would arrange
her smartest dresses on the chairs, seem
ingly imagining tliatshe was still the < enter
of a court, and would address tbe gowns
alternately in three or four dilTerent lan
guages.
When a little while ago Maximilian’s
valet—who was with him to the last—
himself became insane aud was taken to
Miramcr, she fretted about the poor fel
low lor a lew days and then completely
forgot him. The afflicted lady receives
the kindest treatment from all about her,
anil is frequently visited by the king and
queen of the Belgians and the Comte de
i‘ landre.
Jay Gould’s C orrespondence.
( hicavo Tribune. |
It is rather remarkable, but it is true,
that Jay Gould does not employ an aman
uensis. He writes all his own letters. The
word “all” does not signify “many,” for
Gould replies to very few letters, and the
communications he does write are brief.
He is always in a hurry when he writes,
and it seems as if his pen could not travel
fast enough to suit him. Gould puts the
little be lias to say in as few words as pos
sible, and his pen races over the paper like
a steeplechaser in tracing out (he charac
ters. Vlorosini opens all of Gould's letters
and throws away all that do not actually
require to be read by Gould or replied to
by him. Gould would not have lithe to
look at the tape once a month if lie; read
and answered all the letters that came to
him
i’eople address him on all sorts ot; sub
jects, but a good share of them want to
know how they can make money. Moro
sini drops tiie messages containing the
solicitous inquiries into the waste-basket.
Gould is much like the czar of Russia,
who tries food and mysterious packages
on his underlings to see if they survive
them. If Morosini is not poisoned or
blown up Gould will risk taking things
sent to him. But the wily Italian, if he
has any suspicion of a pannage, will send
a clerk out in tbe hall to open it near
Russell .rages door, if the bqy cpptes,
back whole Morosini will go through the
eontents without a tremor.
Slaughtering the Song Birds.
[Chicago Times.]
The song birds of New Jersey are
slaughtered in such numbers for the sake
of their skins, which ure sold to New
York parties lobe used iu trimming ladies’
bonnets, that an effort will be made by
; parties interested in their prote tion to
i have a law passed by the legislature mak
| ing it a misdemeanor to kill or capture
any song birds for the space of several
years. If such an act is not passed in a
shortXime, there will be no song birds left
, in west Jersey.
The pot-hunters use all kinds of devices
|to capture the birds. <me ol the most es
fective ways, which does not in any wise
destroy the beauty of the plumage, is the
placing of bird-lime on the limbs of trees
where they are in the habit of roosting.
The sticky stuff, adhering to the birds’
feet, makes them fall an easy prey to the
hunter. When birds are shot tiie skin is
perforated. This detracts from their
market value, and shot is only used when
the hunters are hard pushed to fill orders.
n>« Telephone In Mexico.
[Exchange.]
In his very pleasant account of “A Trip
to Mexico” Mr. J. Margati tells as follows
how a telephone conversalion is con
ducted in the polished < astilian tongue
“The regular response from the central
office to a telephone call is ‘jVlande usted,’
which is equivalent to At your com
mand.’ Then preliminaries arc gone
through something as follows: 'Good
morning, senorita; how do you do?
] ‘Very well, 1 thank you; what service
■ may I render you?’ ‘Will you kindly do
me the favor of enabling me to speak
with Item So-and So, No. 857?' With
much pleasure,’ eta, and when th. con
nection is made the usual polite introduc
tions are gone through before proceeding
i to the business on hand. ”
Dt lictcies of a siege.
[New Yoe . Graphic.)
A charming French lady who passed
through the painful days of the siege of
: Faria was relating in her graceful way to
a friend some of her experiences. She
said that rats aud mice, however disguised
by intelligent cookery, became quite dis
tasteful; Hie fattest cats palled upon the
palate. If however, a stray pigeon hap
]>ened to settle upon some roof, the street
instantly became full of people seeking to
entrap the delicacy, it often happened,
however, that, tbe pigeon turned out to be
a messenger bird, and hence as sacred as
the ibis of Egypt. “In fact, " said the
story-teller, “this was so often tiie case
that to this day I can never bear to eat a
pigeon. I always feel as if 1 was devour
ing the postman. ”
How Their Money Goen.
(New York Ixjtter.]
The sons of some of the very rich men
j of New York are said to be living at a
, tremendously extravagant rate, and are
; likely to see the bottom of the fortunes
1 acquired bv economy and thrift One
gilded youth recently chartered a palaeo
car at SIOO per day and took a party of
friends to New Orleans, this being but
one item of the expenditure Another is
touring it around the world in a yacht. A
third, who is “no end of a swell, " cuts
his father dead when they meet in Fifth
avenue.
The Latest nt this Sort.
LTi-xss Siftinvs.l
“Buckle my shoe. Egbert, dear, said a
Chicago belle to her near-sighted fiancee.
Egbert went down on his knees like a
true knight, but as he had lost his eye
glass his vision was a little uncertain.
“Is this your foot, darling?” he iu
quired.
“ You bet, ” she said
“Aw, pawdon, I—l1 —1 thought it was th*
lounge. "
j Egbert is now disengaged.
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For te»er and ague, and r< mitten*#, tr* tho d®-
bihtatod, bilUou and nerv as. suehjer*
•ong, 11 t«t"Lt r’t ■ <>” »eh B • rs r g ade
jiist pro'ectlon by it or anii gvif I grana in* and
the rt-«iet»* t powf rof he oo a* <1 by
' lecklng irr< gnigrttiog 01 t*-? rtonagoh
and bo*e]g Mo.eov r it erirkat*B malarial
c « pl»fnfH o' oi; o‘ gttnate ty'-e and stands
alor ‘n. • qua’>• d aii 'ing ou«* narton* I
Fur . ait- by *ii . .sts and Dea'eit
aeneraiiy.
FIFO! PIT*EBH ntMIII
Sure cure 'cr Bin il, BieetltiiK and Itch
tn Files One box In ■ eur"t the woret
nee or 20 yeati ’ : tar illniz, No one need
suffer five mtnut.e Hirer using William's
>tntlai P;b ()lui it. It *ib»< rho tumors,
•ill-'.- -ili!' . op'tlee, gives In-
' reliet. Fi-t-Hi-e.-t m,tv for Flies,
.■■a: o'ttie nrli't.. I '-pur! ', u< thing else.
I'on. J. M. Coffee, in ; , i (Itevelund, says.
'J J■* ve us«d ’ ecri-e o: Pin elites, and it
■ | rde me pl re to try that. I have
*.i ver round anything which gives such
Inim iq.it ii in*, rent rollel as Dr,
William’- - ~ * T’: I'lut’i ■ ■ t, ’’ Mold by
itq g ts im' mutiei) oi ri elp' oi? price.
«1. , t deb i. i-o r. r ,t- Cere n, B.
trier. J hnP, But : :.d Gt A. Brad
id, Columbus. Ga
Hr. Frasier** Beot Bitter
Frazier’s 800 ll' rt-ut not, e dram
,p beverer i). hut .;titc'!j- modlrlna)
n every tele,', 'ir-.-y ,-ct ft it. ngly ii por
lie Liver i- d Kiducyt, keen the bowels
'••t* >egu)-t > I'ethi- weak strong.
■Hit.. . it. -.hili' up ir- tietvhs, ano
a *-. tht-iiiood nd --', ’< l-i ot'‘very tm
tirity, 8 Id bydrugghts. fl.oc.
Fot sat.'fly I Hcnon it. Car-on and Jno,
P. Turner. CnUnnbus, Ga. .
Dr. F raster ■ SliiKie Olritmeat.
A -uu ■(' . Lt'; Gtu' e lit the Skin,
U opt Skin .t jt will ’ remove that
iiighuess I’riH the hr di and face and
I iiu 80c. Rent by
' ■■'•l For ■- y Bls n’itiiu At Careen and
John I’. '1 ti'riet. Cohuubu-. Ga. o-
* it-. E G Het tui teello, Mexloo.
Ii y 16. 18»‘l, aj ; “I take pleasure In
'lift ei-sh u > it ■ , * n i re, lor you have
L'- •tlt el . t : 11’’ i‘ J n . I* Wiota to
vi'tt t’h * ,> e , o' -l- v< era ago,
tn n* A z r , tot D* WIH-ni’s Indian
Pile Our ruer r. ! i-tved t irl It cured
mi-ei,• v. I s’l i ■ >i n>e Ointment
■ mal Ing, v t. whl- h I I'hv.* rmedsi-ven
or eight mo e It. is wonderiui.
Saratoga iitgl: Koek Spring Water for
hr -’u-'tnf.a -nhHOFod Aw
THE.
GREAT NEW YORK lOc. STORE,
No. lO<> ItKOAlt ’-‘'l'lt Fl IST.
OlasbW-ie, Tinware, Hardware,
Woodrn wart. Notion:, and Every"
i’log else.
Our Prices are from Ic.to 10c
Fr tV. ;y t<t| it p sold bigher
bar; lbcet.tr. Ntvd btltit tesidot
Bargains, To t ive us a call is money
t n your j ocket.
J K. HOLLO V AY & Bro.
mrl-wlim
L. H. OJttAPJ ELL,
PROViSiOh BROKEUiIiSUMIiCEA6I.
119 Broad tit., f.olvxnbu» t
Hom e ut fiew Yotl,
Imperial o/ Lol doo
GQ*nl'»D of London.
*-rthwrn ol London.
K. E. ♦ BIGGS,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE:
T. H. EVANN & ( O H Drup Htote.
Besidtnce, J»ck>ou St., Pontht aet of Court
üßoubc wlih W. H. Glaae.
|an߻jy
DR. J, M. MASON,
DENTIST.
St. Clair u. CGiumbug, Ga.
MONEY TO LOAN.
FOB 3 to 5 lEABB ON U'l Y PBOIEBTY
AND
IMFUOVKD FAMMH.
11. W. IXIZIIIK,
1. flier Over Diane s Store.
UK.WIOHWOOD.
.OFFICE Al
BREEDLOVE & JOHNSON’S Drug Stere.
Randolph Street.
Repldence with H. L, WOODRUFF.
Crawford, be wneu Troup and Forsyth Htreet
I * a rtfor working people, fiend 10 cents
Mr! P i tr ‘ d will mail you /re«, e
U | royal, rail.able sample box of goodfl
‘.bet will put ytu Id the wav of n eking more
money in a few days then yon ever thought pcs
piole st any borineae. Capital not required.
It n can live »t hon e and work in spare time
oi iy, or all the tlnso. Ml ct both sexes, of all
' R eF * grandly snerteafui, 50 cents tn f 5 easily
named every ev» ! Ing. That all who want work
rnay test the buplneog. we make this unparalleled
offer: To all who are not well satisfied we will
rend fl to pay for the trouble of writing us.
Full particulars, directions. »tc.. sent free.
■ u iiiflLßS pay absolutely > nre for all who start at
once. Don’t delay. 4ddrea« It 00..
Portland dSre.wly
Asthma.
q Dr. 0. W. To,.mln’s Astbro* Sr eci fie. Tbe
Hhest remedy o> ii'por yJed for the cure oi
Hthat digtroaoii. .-mal fy. ?r:re 81 and >2 per
Hbottle. Ask y onr (irngwlst for it. fiend ‘2-c«ei
Ba tamp for treatise to
Il>r, Trniple Medicine Co . ' OMPOUND
HEKS HAMILTON, O
B Whohaa'ebyJ. Ii Band, Atlanta, Ga.
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