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VOL. V.-NO. 1.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Arabi Bey and hia adherents have
been proclaimed rebels by the Sultan of
Turkey.
It will bo remembered that Vennor
said we would have “a year without a
summer.”
Texas will have 50,000.000 bushels of
corn to sail this year. Last year the
State bud to import.
Potatoes are being offered in Illinois
Tor twenty-five cents a bushel for fal
delivery, with no takers.
Mr. Gladstone looks upon De I«eS
seps as a private individual, but De Les
seps doesn’t, not by any means.
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More than four times the average an
nual destruction of life by lightning has
already occurred in the United States
this se d son.
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George Scoville proposes to com
mence action in court against Dr. Hicks
for the possession of what there is of
Guiteau’s body.
The Denver Tribune sA vitas the Malley
boys to include Denver in their siimmet
jaunt. It significantly adds that there
are several trees with convenient limbs,
close to town.
At the Indian agency, Pine Ridge,
Dakota, the Indians offer a reward of
SSO for the apprehension of any person
who sells, trales, or gives to any Indian
or half-breed intoxicating liquors.
The Detroit Free Preu figures up that
there have been 167 deaths from tetanus
tins year, caused by the toy pistol, and
suggests thsi next Fourth of July arse
nic be P'sed as a less fatal substitute.
A cotemtorary thoughtfully observes
that “each place thinks its own river
and harbor appropriation all right, but
that in other places it is a steal.” So it
is in all matters where finances benefit
self.
Eleven schoolboys in Geneseo walked
to Niagara Falls, August 4, 1832, and
agreed to meet there again, if living, in
fifty years. Seven of them kept the
promise, coming with their wives and
children on the 4th just past.
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The Trustees of the Loveland Camp
meeting have decided to sell the Har
rison cottage in dispute and to give the
Rev. Harrison S2OO of the proceeds. Os
course, this is in addition to the SIOO a
week he received for his services.
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The extensive war preparations in
Russia evidently has some significance.
If it detracts the attention of Nihilists
from the Cz ir, there will be a probab 1-
ity of the coronation taking place. The
Czar no doubt looks upon the project
with favor.
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A \\ estern paper, apologizing for
Mormon polygamy, thoughtfully re
marks that the system does not throw
the burden of supporting a husband
upon one woman. That is the best ar
gument that has been advanced in favor
of polygamy.
Texas, which is said to have 500,000
acres of school land, rapidly appreciat
ing in value, and worth probably SIOO,-
000,000, is expected to have in the not
distant future aschool fund of $250,000,-
000, a sum greater than the combined
school fund of all the States.
Ihe floral business is one of the best,
most prosperous and most rapidly in
creasing of any in the country. In New
York $10,000,000 is now expended for
flowers annually, and as much as $5
given for a single rosebud. The town
has gone flower mad, and no one can eat
er dance or marry or die without a
shower < f flowers, and this craze is
spreading.
A writer for the New York Herald
was talking with a few fellow journalists
the other day, and said: “Not long ago
Mr. Connery, our managing editor, was
summoned as a witness in court. Mr.
Bennett called him and said: ‘You will
he asked what position you occupy here,
bay that you are a clerk. I am the edi
tor of the Herald, and the only editor.’
Fhe members of the Garibaldi family
have erected over the tomb of the Gen
eral a large granite monolith, weighing
f°nr tons. The tomb is watched day
ail ‘l night. The decision as to the final
resting place is left to Parliament, which
k—pities to the Janiculum. During the
| days after the death of Gari
' • telegrams reacted the
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Fr % ; all
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They had been married two years and
had ohe child.
Advices from Sagua, Cuba; report
the destruction .of ths corn crop, owing
to the extreme drouth. The President
of the Central Board of Agriculture of
the Republic of Columbia, writes the
Captain General, warning him to take
effective measures to prevent the larvm
and locusts devastating that Republic
from being introduced into Cuba by
vessels carrying cattle to the Island. It
is recommended that cattle on Vessels Be
fed with hay only. It is thought that
the loctlstS will soon invade the United
States after reaching Cuba.
The jury who acquitted the Malley
boys and Blanche Douglass of the mur
der of Jennie Cramer, held a grand re
union the other day, visiting Savin
Rock, where the girl’s dead body was
found, and other scenes. The re-union
was marked with hilarity and story tell
ing. Meantime, Blanche Douglass is
enjoying herself with fashionable people
at watering places, where she was seen
by one of the jurors, who related to his
fellow jurors the attention she was at
tracting, and how supremely happy she
seemed to be. New Haven people are
peculiar.
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A glance at the naval register shows
that with a total force of 12,000 men,
including marines, we have twelve Rear
Admirals, twenty-two Commodores,
sixty Captains, 110 Commanders, 315
Lieutenants, 180 Masters, 400 Ensigns,
while the Naval Academy is prepared
to add from year to year largely to the
number of the Litter, This is certain!v
a large enough staff of officers to com
mand as great a navy as we shall pos
sibly ever need, and it is quite natural
that a movement, such as that recently
inaugurated by Senator Miller, of Cali
fornia, should be made to reduce
the number of officers to make it in
some measure proportionate to the
number of seamen and marines.
Os all the English correspondents at
Alexandria, it is to be said that they
have shared the perils they have de
scribed. Afloat they have shown them
selves ready to face shot and shell, and
ashore the knives of Arabi’s assassins,
not to speak of mobs and explosions.
They have done their work under a cli
mate of great heat, and have done a
great deal of it. Altogether, they have
been a credit to their profession, and
the profession seems in no particular
hurry to take credit to itself or award
due measure to the brave and brilliant
men who lift journalism a step higher by
their devotion and capacity and courage.
The public looks on in wonder at the
quantity of readable matter turned out
each morning for its eager perusal.
The Library at Abbotsford.
The library is the handsomest apart
ment at Abbotsford. It is fifty feet in
length by thirty in breadth, and has an
immense bay-window that affords a
charming glimpse of the Tweed. The
ceiling is carved alter designs from Mel
rose Abbey. There are twenty thou
sand volumes here and in the study.
The book-cases were made under Sir
Walter’s direction, by his own work
men. Some of them conta'n rare and
curious old books and MSS. that are
tnirefully guarded under lock and key.
Here, on the wall, is the portrait of Sir
Walter’s eldest son, who was Colonel
of the Fifteenth Hussars. He went out
to Madras in 1839, and was a very pop
ular .and efficient officer; but he soon
fell a victim to the fatal climate of India
and died on the return voyage to En
gland, whither he had been ordered on
account of his health. Here, too, is the
bust of Sir Walter at the age of forty
nine, by Chantrey. There are chairs
exquisitely wrought, from the Borghese
Palace at Rome, the gift of the Pope; a
silver urn upon a stand of porphyry,
from Lord Byron; and an ebony cabi
net and set of chairs presented by King
George IV. In a glass ease, shielded
from‘"the touch of profane lingers, are
the purse of Rob Roy; the brooch of his
wife; a note-book in green and gold,
once the property of Napoleon I.; and
agold s-nutl-box. also g.ven by King
George IV. When this royal friend was
Regent, he"invited Scott to dine with
him in London, addressing him famil
iarly as ••Walter,” and showering upon
him evidences of h's esteem; when he
succeeded to the throne, one of the fust
acts of the kingly prerogative was to
create him a Ba onet. — St. Nic/io r 'in.
Deadly Weapons.
A detective frightened a young man
nearly to death yesterday. Ihe young
man 'was standing on the corner when
the detective tapped him on the shoul
der and said; “ 1 shall have to arrest
you for carrying deadly weapons.” Ihe
young man turned pale, and his lips
quivered, and he stammered out that he
never carried a revolver or a knife in
his life. “Yes.” said the detective,
“that may be all night, but look at
your shoes.” The young man looked
at his pointed, tooth-picked-toed shoes,
and asked what was the matter with
them. Then the detective told him the
shoe- were so sharp at the toes that if
he should get mad and kick a man he
would split him wide open. Then the
detective winked, and said: “You may
go this time, but don’t let it occur again.”
Milwaukee Sun,
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1882,
Farmers and Farm Help.
As there are I ‘books and books’*—
meaning good and bad ones—so there
are “men and men.” Some farmers
never have any trouble with their help
and the farm work moves as steadily
and with as little friction as clock-work;
others are incessantly in trouble and
everything goes wrong. We are ac
quainted with men who are laborers by
the month or year on the farm, and who
make their employers’ interest their
own. They work as well when the
“boss” is away as when he is near,
and, in everything they do, they consid
er how they would act if in t heir employ
er’s position. There are others, also,
who labor simply for the money they re
ceive; they have no interest in the work,
but listen with a keen ear for the dinner
horn and watch with eager eye for the
setting of the sun. To do the work
somehow—not necessarily well—is the
principle which governs them.
The farmer who is particular as to
whom he employs; who mis the bargain
well understood, who pays well, pays
willingly and pays promptly; who ap
preciates good service and fairly fulfills
his part of the agreement, need have
little fear of being troubled by his help.
For such employers there is always some
one to offer service; such employers are
sought by “hired men,” and in nine
cases out of ten, satisfaction is mutual.
But, unfortunately, not all employers
are thus careful as to whom they hire
or how they treat their help. They se
lect from the “rough scuff” class, from
tramps and those who never have had a
steady situation, simply because they
can hire them for twenty-five cents less
per day though, in reality, they receive
a half dollar per dav less in return for
services. The usual result is that the
farmer has to oversee all his work per
sonally. look after the implements when
not in use, go here and go there to give
instructions, and thus lose largely his
own time which, with intelligent, in
dustrious help, could be elsewhere more
profitably employed. In fact, each is
intent on getting the most possible from
the other, neither having the welfare of
the other at heart. Such a condition of
things is neither agreeable nor profita
ble.
We are aware that the same differ
ences are liable to arise between em
ployers and employed in other occupa
tions, but the effects are more striking
and more noticeable on the farm than in
the work-shop or store where the rou
tine of duty is more easily marked and
the labor is more mechanical in its na
ture. Farm work can never be reduced
to such exactness in detail that the
workman can perform it satisfactorily
unless he is thoroughly interested in it,
and in hearty sympathy with his em
ployer. So much for the hired hand,
and on the other hand, to keep this in
terest alive, there must be on the part
of the employer the approval and appre
ciation of work faithfully done.
But there is something more in this
than the bare facts of work well done
and well remunerated. There is a gen
uine satisfaction on the part of both em
ployer and employe, and the resultant
happiness which accrues to the men
themselves and to their respective fami
lies is a thing to be sought for and prized.
But when the men are continually at
“loggerheads,” their families leel the
reactive influence, and even society is,
in a degree, affected adversely by it.
Whatever, then, will bring about mutu
al contentment and good will among
farmers and their help should be fos
tered, and while “hired men” are falli
ble, the farmer should remember that it
is largely in his power to make their
mutual relations agreeable. — Hural New
Yorker.
A “Rustler” in Dakota.
Bismarck has a “boomer.” He is
hired by the Chamber of Commerce, at
a good salary, to ride upon the trains
east of Fargo and talk to emigrants
about the advantages of settling near
the Banner City. In a word, he is a
drummer for his town. When I was
there he had not started upon his mis
sion, and I found him plowing a field
for oats on the only farm within sight
of the town. He was a member of the
Territorial 1 egislature, he said, and he
demonstrated his capacity for the busi
ness of booming by fifteen minutes of
intelligent conversation on the capacity
of the soil of Burleigh County ami its
attractions to people who by the plow
would thrive. He was evidently what
they call in Dakota a “rustler.” To
say' that a man is a rustler is the highest
indorsement a Dakotan can give. It
means that he is pushing, energetic,
smart and successful. Ihe word and
its derivations have many shades of
meaning! To rustle around is to bestir
one’s self in a business • way. “What
are you going to do in Mandan? asked
one man of another in a Bismarck sa
loon. “Oh, I’ll rustle around and pick
up something,’ 1 which meant that he
would look about for a good business
opening. “Rustle the things 0.l that
table,” means (dear the table in a hurry.
To do a rustling business is to carry on
an active trade. The word was coined
by the Montana herdsmen to describe
the action of cattle brushing the snow
from the roots of the bunch-grass with
their noses.—Cenfwr// Magazine.
In sentencing a co'ored man who was
convicted of stealing a pair of pants, an
Austin Judge took occasion to say : “I
hope you are sorry for stealing those
pants/’ “ I was sorry, Judge, de same
dav I tuck dem ar pants. I was sorry at
not finding nutfin in the pockets ceptin
a kear ticket.” The most singular
thing about the poverty-stricken pants
was that they did not Meogto* U
newspaper mam— Austin Sifting*. 1
A Cunning Bascati
Now and then a pretty lively sWindlef
is produced over in this country, though
the people here affect to believe that the
only frauds in the world are practiced
by Americans. The other day a man
known as Malcolm Fairfax was brought
up at Bow street on charges of forgery
and confidence operations covering a
long term of years. He had enjoyed
about as brilliant a career as you often
hear spoken of. He had traveled in the
best society for a decade, and had stood
very high,"partly by reason of his fine
breeding and bright qualities, and partly
on account of his supposed wealth. He
was understood to be a retired Indian
merchant, and everybody seemed to like
him. When arrested he was living in
Alexandria, Egypt, where the English
colony regarded Malcolm Fairfax as one
of its most particular ornaments. Only
a month or so before his downfall he
actually had the audacity to sit as pres
ident of a “court of honor,” appointed
to inquire into certain performances by
a well-known military officer. His sig
nature is affixed to the document of that
body finding the officer innocent of the
charge brought against him.
At Gibraltar he committed a forgery,
and it brought him to grief, for detec
tives were set after him at once, and
they hunted him down. He was having
a dispute with the British consul at
Alexandria, when the latter said to him:
“The detective is waiting for you with
a warrant on that Gibraltar charge.”
Malcolm never changed color or gave a
sign of discomfiture, but smiling, said:
“Ah! then I don’t need trouble you
further.” With that he quietly stepped
aside, drew a razor out of his pocket,
and slashed himself across the throat.
He bled fearfully, but was fixed up by
the surgeons and brought to England,
where he pleaded guilty to the charges
preferred against him, and was sen
tenced to five years’ penal servitude.
Somehow, you can’t help sympathizing
with a bright rascal like this, when he’s
finally brought to bay. You know per
fectly well that he deserves all he gets
byway of punishment, but when you
reflect that he has succeeded all his life
in wresting a luxurious living from the
smartest classes of people in the world,
you can’t help admiring his talents.—•
London Cor. Chicago News.
Lead Poison.
Os all the metallic poisons, lead is
perhaps the one most often taken into
the human body. It is eliminated from
the other poisons, and excepting those
that directly kill, its effects are the se
verest and most varied.
Lead may enter tne human system
through the mouth in water from lead
pipes, or from type held in the mouth
by compositors. It may be taken in
through the lungs by breathing in lead
factories of various kinds; be absorbed
by the mucous membrane of the nose
from snuff containing it. It may be
taken in even through the unbroken
skin from hair-dyes and rouges, and
through both skin and nostrils by paint
e: s. Some persons are much more sus
ceptible to it than are other persons.
Among the symptoms that show that
it has been taken into the body are
colic; great muscular weakness; consti
pation; female disorders; blindness, com
plete or partial; neuralgias of the head,
face, joints; in the small of the back,
between the ribs, or in the upper and
lower limbs; loss of sensibility in the
skin, alternating with over-sensibility;
m iscular spasms; and finally and most
frequently, paralysis, which may affect
almost all the muscles of the body. One
of the most constant signs of the pres
ence of the poison is a blue line along
the gums. As the system left to itself
gets rid of the lead very slowly, the lead
accumulates in it until what was for a
while harmless may become a fatal
poison.
The treatment should aim to palliate
the pains, and to quicken the eliminat
ing organs. But the fundamental thing
is to invigorate and improve the general
heath bypure air, nutritious diet and
warm baths, (’old baths injure.
There is good authority tor the state
ment that workers in lead-factories who
drink milk several times a day are un
affected by the lead. Youth's Cornpan- |
ion.
The Ztmis on Witchcraft.
They had been told of the persecution
of the witches at Salem, and ns witch
craft is a capital crime in Zuni, they
heartily commended the work, and said
that it was on account of the energetic
steps taken in those times that the
Americans were prosperous to-day, and
rid of the curse of witchery. At the
public reception held for them in Salem,
when told they were in the famous city
of the witches, they fell into an ani
mated discussion of the matter among
themselves there on the platform. Ki
a-si, when invited to address the audi
ence, preached a little sermon on witch
craft, which would have pleased old
Cotton Mather himself. He thanked
the good people of Salem for the serv
ice they had done the world, and gave
them some adv oe h'»w to d al with
witchcraft should it ever trouble them
again. “Be the witches or wizards
your dearest, relatives or friends, con
sider not your own hearts, ’ said he,
“but remember your dutv and spare
them not; put them to death.” The
Centurv. „
—lt is reported that English detect
ives have proved useless in Ireland, on
account of their accent. We should
think so. It rather gives a fellow .■>.vay,
baio'.e. when he walks into ft Land
£’< <■„ sufh ’a thing as •* !lbout /
'•xe. y know?”— Chicago hmi>-
Indigestion
Among our vegetables are those con
taining sulphur, such as onions, leeks,
waterci esses, radishes, mustard and
cress, etc. Their use should be shunned
by people of weak digestion. If they
are not digested they produce sulphur
etted hydrogen and bad breath and un
comfortable distention from that gas.
Celery is a salutary vegetable; so are
some roots. Carrots and parsnips, if
thoroughly cooked, w ill be better digest
ed than turnips, as the latter also con
tain much sulphur. Steaming these
vegetables is far better than boiling
them, and preserves the sugar in them.
All fibrous materials should be avoided,
such as cabbage-stalks, green leaves
with strong or coarse fibers, green beans
with fibrous skins, etc. Whatever is
used of vegetables must be thoroughly
well cooked and reduced to a pulp with
out losing its nourishing properties.
Steaming, wherever it can be employed,
is, therefore, better than boiling. Salads
can only be used sparingly, made ot
dainty head iettuce, the leaves having
been well picked. Cucumber can never
be eaten raw, but, if stewed, it is di
gestible. Os fruits the berries are the
best. Strawberries eaten with sugar or
raspberries are better than currants;
oranges are good, eaten without the
skins; apples or pears must be eaten
sparingly, and are best stewed with
sugar and a little spice. Oranges ought
to be avoided unless eaten without the
pulp ; lemons, however, may do good if
they are made into a lemonade with
warm water and sugar. Nuts are en
tirely to be done away with. Os vege
table beverages we have tea, coffee and
cocoa to consider. There is no doubt
that tea has a refreshing influence on
the digestive organs, if used moderately
and not in too strong an infusion. It is
better, however, not to use it in the
morning for a weak digestion, as it will
stimulate too soon. and rather weaken
than strengthen the flow of the gastric
juice at that time. One cup of ta a
diy is all that can be allowed for the
dyspeptic. Coffee, when well roasted,
is made strengthening in its effect, but
it must not be taken too strong, and,
more than this, it must not have been
boiled, but only have had the infusion
taken off. I may here say that the roast
ing of coffee leaves, as yet, much to be
desired, and that inferior coffees might
be made more useful than they are ii
they were properly. prepared. A pre
paration has come under my notice which
I found most beneficial with persons ot
weak digestion. The best brands oi
Java or Mocha coffee, mixed with roast
ed and ground dandelion root in propor
tion of two or one of dandelion to three
or four of coffee. This article, if deli
cately manufactured, is a most whole
some" mixture and can be well recom
mended.—Food and Health.
The Future of Our Republic.
If the percentage of increase in popula
tion shall be maintained, in 1890 we shall
have a population of more than 65,000,-
000; in 1900 the population of the Re
public will exceed 85,000,000. If the
rate of growth for the last ten years is
maintained, the baby born in this year
and living the allotted three score and
ten years will see this Republic, if the
Republic stands, holding a population of
315,000,000. What a Republic! What
a future! How great the task of keeping
this Republic Republican, of keeping
this Democracy Democratic! How splen
did and boundless the service to man
kind if the world shall be taught that it
is possible for so vast a Republic to exist
whose fundamental idea is to exalt the
individual, to protect the little, local
self-governments and to dignify the doc
trine of local self-government on earth.
But this population is to be one not of
ignorance or squalor, but of intelligence,
thrift, and plenty. How measureless
the work of such a Republic! We can
not compute it by multiplying the free
dom and happiness which democracy
gives to the single home into the many
millions of homes which will make up
315,000,000 of people. In 1910, a gen
erous lifetime hence, will it be possible
for the Republic to maintain the sim
plicity, the democracy, which ought to
be its commanding and everlasting fea
tures? Will the time have forever
passed when
“ Fishers, and choppers, and plowmen,
Shall constitute a State.”
A Dangerous ratent.
A correspondent who has been aston
ished at the number of ladies who have
been burned to death by their clothes
tahiug fire at an open grate or fire, says
he is experimenting on an invention by
which a lady in case of accident of this
kind can, by pulling a string, throw off
all her clothes at once and escape de
struction. It seems as though something
ought to be done to protect ladies from
the fireplace, but the remedy will event
ually come through the making of dress
materials fire proof. The scheme spoken
of by our correspondent, if made to work
satisfactorily, in case of fire, might sub
ject her to embarrassments. The string
might catch on something when she was
out shopping, or some villainous man
might find where it was located, and while
pretending to escort her across the street,
he might pull the string. There are
men mean enough to do it, in Chicago.
We advise our correspondent not to waste
anv more time on his invention, as no
body would wear it, after ho had it per
fected. — Peck i Sun. _
K boy’s composition on girls : “ Girls
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TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
BITS OF INFORMATION.
The largest national cemetery is at
Lynchburg, Va.
The name of God in the Hindoostanee
language is Rain. In the Persian, Sire.
Gibbon began to write his “ Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire” in Lon
don in 1772.
In Moscow the plague introduced by
the Turkish army carried off 20,000 vie
tims in a month.
During the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries in France guilty animals suf
fered death on the gallows.
Peacocks were carefully reared in the
island of Samos, and sold at such high
prices that Varo says they fetched yearly
£2,000.
The Franklin Arctic expedition sailed
from Greenhithe, England, May 24,
1845. The last heard from them were
dispatches sent from the Whalefish
islands dated July 12, 1845.
The English language has a greater
number of words than the French.
There are also in English a greater
number of ways to express thoughts
than in French.
The expression “commencement ex
ercises” is applied to the concluding
exercises of a college term, from the
fact that they mark the “commence
ment” of the graduate’s independent
life.
The invention of glass is commonly
attributed to the Phoenicians. Very an
cient discoveries of glass in Egypt have
somewhat shaken this attribution, and
it will remain uncertain until further
discoveries settle the question.
The phrase “ suited to a T ” is said to
be derived from the so-called T-square,
an instrument used by architects and
mechanical draughtsmen in drawing
plans. As the T-square is often used to
test the accuracy with which lines and
angles have been drawn, it is altogether
probable that the expression originated
in this fact.
The word “vendetta” (vengeance)
originated, it is said, hi Corsica, where
the practice was formerly general, and
still prevails in remote parts of the
island. The custom, one writer re
marks grimly, flourishes among ihe
Bedouins. Traces of it are found some
times among the Montenegrins, Alban
ians, Druses and Circassians; and, in
deed, it may be said that the custom
prevailed at one time or another among
every tribo and nation. Whenever a
person was murdered, the practice
among those holding to this custom was
to avenge the death; and that duty was
imposed upon the son, brother or near
est kinsman, who forthwith sought pri
vate vengeance upon him who shed the
blood of the relative. As the adminis
tration of justice became a more and
more settled social institution, the cus
tom disappeared, although Corsica still
clings to it in its most cruel form, and
on that island it plays a most important
part in a social life.
The Poison of Tobacco Smoke.
A series of experiments has been re
cently conducted by Herr Kissling, of
Bremen, with the view of ascertaining
the properties of nicotine and other poi
sonous substances in the smoke of ci
gars. He specifies as strongly poison
ous constituents carbonic oxide, sulphu
retted hydrogen, prussic acid, picoline
bases and nicotine. The first three,
however, in such small proportions, and
their volatility is so great that th
share in the action of tobacco »mok
the system may be neglected. The
olinc bases, too, are present in con
ativelv small quantity, so that th’
sonous character of the smoke urgeOll,’
almost exclusively attributed to t
proportion of nicotine present. j elß j,.
Only a small part of the nicoi _y
cigar is destroyed by the pr<;Q"H<U
smoking, and a relatively large
passes off with the smoke. The pw eo i>
tion of nicotine in the smoke dep. wWitilebt
of course, essentially on the kind <«■'■•« s.
bacco: but the relative amount of nL. .
tine which passes from a cigar into
smoke depend vL.efly on how far the
cigar has been smoked, as the nicotine
contents of the unsmoked part of a ci
gar is in inverse ratio to the size of
this part, i. e., more nicotine the short
er the part. Evidently, in a burning
cigar, the slowly advancing zone of
glow drives before it the distillable mat
ters, so that in the yet unburnt portion
a constant accumulation of these takes
place. It would appear that in the case
of cigars that are poor in nicotine, more
of this substance relatively passes into
smoke than in the case of cigars with
much nicotine; also that nicotine, not
withstanding its high boiling point, has
remarkable volatility.— London limes.
—“I should like to know somethin#
about this Egyptian question, dad.
said a young New Haven midget at tea
last evening. “What are they firing at
Alexandria so it is the great.
“Yes, my child, I suppose so.” “And
who is Arabi Bey and Dervisch Pasha
and Ismail ” “They are all foreign-
ers, mv son. You can have no possible
interest in them. Eat your supper and
keep quiet.” This is the way some
parents have of withholding informa
tion they haven’ tgot from their children.
—New Haven Register.
-The “United Brothers o.rnW
“Sisters of the ans-
SLis'Ten.’’ two secret orde»
. / signed for men and u ome ttn nu>d
must be
carry.