VOL. V.--NO, 21.
qBAWMOTHEITS SERMON.
to o’er the hearth is swept,
W . e Xhe woo"’flro’s glow ,
Thtdi Idrn cluster to hear a ta e
T of that time so long ago.
nA« nA »“ “* re ° b
u sweeter then
Than now in its rich content
The face Is wrinkled and careworn now.
feh»
eyes
Never baa gone away.
And her needles catch the firelight
in and out they go,
With the clicking music that cmndnia loves,
Shaping the stocking toe.
And the waiting children love it. too.
For they know the stocking song
Brings many a tale to grandma s mind
Which they shall have ere long.
But it brings no story of olden-time
To grandma’s heart to-n ght—
Only a refrain, quaint mid short,
Is sung by the needles bright.
“Life is a stocking,” grandma says,
“And yours is just begun;
But I am knitting the toe ot mine,
And my work is almost done.
“ With merry hearts we begin to knit,
And the ribbing Is almost play;
Borne are gay colored, and some are white.
And some are ashen gray.
“Butmost ariomndeof many hues,
With many a stitch set wrong;
And many a row to be sadly ripped
Ere tha whole is fair and strong.
•There are long, plain spaces, without a
break,
That in life are hard to bear;
And many a weary tear is dropped
As we fashion tho heel with care.
“ But the saddest, happiest, time is that
We count, and yet would shun,
When our Heavenly Father breaks the
thread,
And says that our work is done.”
The children come to say good-night, '
With tears in their bright young eyes.
While in grandma’s lap. with broken thread,
The finished stocking lies
—Airaiopa Sun.
JOE LAMBERT’S FERRY.
It was a thoroughly disagreeable
March morning. The wind blew in
sharp gusts from every quarter of the
compass by turns. It seemed to take
especial delight in rushing suddenly
around corners and taking away the
breath of anybody it could catch there
coming from the opposite direction.
The dust, too, filled people’s eyes and
noses and mouths, while the damp, raw
March air easily found its way through
the best clothing, and turned boys’ skins
into pimply goose-flesh.
It was a' out as disagreeable a morn
ing for going out as can be imagined;
and yet everybody in the little western
river town who could get outwent out
and stayed out.
Men and women, boys and girls, and
even little children, ran to the river
bank: and once there they stayed, with
no thought, it seemed, of going back to
their homes or their work.
The people of the town were wild with
excitement, and everybody told every
body else what had happened, although
everyb idy knew all about it already.
Every )dy, I mean, except Joe Lam
bert nd he had been so busy ever
since daylight, sawing wood in Squire
Lnsard’s woodshed, that he had neither
seen nor heard anything at all. Joe
was the poorest person in the town.
He was the only boy there who really
had no home and nobody to care for
him. Three or four years before this
March morning, J oe had been left an
orphan and being utterly destitute, he
should have been sent ’to the poor
fuse, or “ bound out” to some person
a-s a sort of servant. But Joe Lambert
had refused to go to the poor-house or
XJpdT e a KM Ound bo - v - H e had de
self 'd’K ab ’ " y i t 0 takC Cai ’ e ° f * ,:m ’
sawing by Y orkl , n S hard at odd jobs,
whsrF W ? od ’ rolbn g barrels on the
ioJs L PlCking ap P' Cs or " eo d'Hg on-
San’wed °l )portuin, y oflered, he* had
to support himself “ after a
That pT to J* 8 vilia £® P eo ple said,
to eat am! y ’ he F e ? eral, y got enough
Blent in fl Om^cr ° theß to wear. He
L 5 ina . warehouse shed, the owner
enman on the premises.
knew ± bW a J one of all the villagers
and of con?’ wbat had happened;
XtforXthin 0 - L l ambert dd not
People who in I i” m tbe ® stimat ion of
only reason M houses 1 ’ live in ’ The
tent a .L lon of so unimpor-
soLJt hat 1 think did
March day aTlea'st? ° U that particu!ar
he* 1 had ?" ished thc P«® of wood
house to a t v ßaW ’ and went to the
bodv ther? t* m °5 Cy ’ he foun(l »°-
f°uhd the town n " 1 tbo street he
d m a cross? ? e A pty * an,l « Poking
that had gathered 1 ’ b ® ?. aw the crowds
kk Wle arn^?® r ? d ® n th ® river-bank,
“’ualhad occurred that someth'ngun
lo the river tn i ® ' J f course he ran
When I?? What jt was.
h’oah Marlin’ 0 .?? be learned that
Mso the ferrvn? who was
its neighbors n bel "’«en the village
river. had been a® ° tber side of the
e »rly morning durin & tho
row his ferr” sJitv f lsh attem Pt to
The ice which ha i ki SC \ OBS ,b ® stream.
‘»o months hJd ! blocked the river for
day be oJe a m? £?«“? 10 ™ve on the
»»d babyLa C hil.i’ a r lll with his wife
* ere on the other ?° ut a yearold-
Xffine. Earlv on tbe r *ver at
J**d been a temn? tbat horning there
advantage??k th ® town - and ’
M'artiJ h? com P at ’Mively
Wt i his wife aid chil/'- ? edto cro! »
Thegorcre ku in :s
[? edi «telv e aR h t a h d b [® k ®n up almost im
d crushed ? th« l ’ had been " aught
®he walton lAtgns
by the current to a little low-lying
island just in front of the town.
What had happened was of less im
portance, however, than what people
saw must happen. The poor wojnan
and baby out there on the island,
drenched as they had been in the icy
water, must soon die with cold, and,
moreover, the island was now nearly
under water, while the great stream was
rising rapidly. It was evident that
within an hour or two the water would
•weep over the whole surface of the
island, and the great fields of ice would
of course carry the woman and child to
a terrible death.
Mw wild suggestions were made for
their rescue, but none that gave the
least hope of success. It was simply
impossible to launch a boat. The vast
fields of ice, two or three feet in thick
ness, and from twenty feetto a hundred
yards in breadth, were crushing and
grinding down the river at the rate of
four or five miles an hour, turning and
twisting about, sometimes jamming
their edges together with so great a
force that one would lap over another,
and sometimes drifting apart and leav
ing wide open spaces between for a
moment or two. One might as well go
upon such a river in an egg shell as in
the stoutest row-boat ever built.
The poor woman with her babe could
be seen from the shore, standing the.e
alone on the rapidly narrowing strip of
island. Her voice could not reach the
people on the bank, but when she held
her poor little baby toward them in
mute appeal for help, the mothers there
understood her agony.
There was nothing to be done, how
ever. Human sympathy was given
freely, but human help was out of the
question. Everybody on the river-shore
was agreed in that opinion. Every
body, that is to say, except Joe Lam
oert. He had been so long in the habit
of finding ways to help himself under
difficulties that he did not easily make
tip his mind to think any case hopeless.
No sooner did Joe clearly understand
how matters stood than he ran away
from the crowd, nobody paying any at
tention to what he did. Half an hour
later, somebody cried out: “Look
there! Who’s that, and what's he go
ing to do?” pointing up the stream.
Looking in that d ; rection, the people
saw some one three quarters of a mile
away standing on a floating field of
ice in the river. He had a large farm
basket strapped upon his shoulders,
while in his hands he held a piank.
As the ice-field upon which he stoo 1
neared another, the youth ran forward,
threw his plank down, making a bridge
of it, and crossed to the farther field.
Then picking up his plank, he waited
for a chance to repeat the process.
As he thus drifted down the river,
every eye was strained in his direction.
Presently some one cried out: “It s
Joe Lambert; and he’s trying to cross
to the island!”
There was a shout as the people un
derstood the nature of Joe’s heroic at
tempt, and then a hush as its extreme
danger became apparent.
Joe had laid his plans wisely and well,
but it seemed impossible that he should
succeed. His purpose was, with the a d
of the plank to cross from one’ice-tield
to another until he should reach the
island; but as that would require a good
deal of time, and the ice was moving
down stream pretty rapidly, it was nec
essary to start at a point above the
town. Joe ha<l gone about a mile up
the river before going on the ice, and
when first seen from the town he had
already reached the channel.
After that first shout a whisper might
have been heard in the crowd on the
bank. The heroism of the poor boy’s
attempt awed the spectators, and the
momentary expectation that he world
disappear forever amid the crushing
ice-fields made them hold their breath
in anxiety and terror.
His greatest danger was from tho
smaller cakes of ice. When it became
necessary for him to step upon one of
these, his weight was su i’cicnt to make
it tilt, ami his footing was very inse
cure. After awhile as he was nearing
the island, he tame into a large collec
tion of these sma’ler ice-cakes. For
awhile he waited, hoping that a larger
field would drift near him; but after a
minute’s delay he saw that he was rap
idly floating past the island, ami that
he must either trust himself to tho
treacherous broken ice, or fad in his at
tempt to save the woman and child.
Choosing the best of the floes, he laid
his plank and passed across successful
ly. In the next passage, however, the
cake tilted up, and Joe Lambert went
down into the water! A shudder passed
through the crowd on shore.
“ Poor fellow!” exclaimed some ten
der-hearted spectator; “it is all over
with him now.”
“No; look, look! ’ shouted another.
“He’s trying to climb upon the ice.
Hurrah! he’s on his feet again!” With
that the whole company of spectators
shouted for joy.
Joe had managed to regain his plank
as well as to climb upon a cake of ice
before the fields around could crush
him, and now moving cautiously, he
made his way little by little toward tho
island.
“Hurrah! Hurrah! he’s there at
last!” shouted the people on the shore.
“But will he get back again?” was
the question each one asked himse.f a
moment later.
Having reached the island. .Joe very
well knew that the more difficult part
of h ; s task was still before him, for it
was one thing for an active boy to work
his way over floating ice, ami quite an
other to carry a child and lead a woman
upon a similar journey.
But Joe Lambert was quick-witted
and “long-headed.” as well as brave,
and he meant to do all that he could to
save those poor creatures for whom he
had risked his life so heroically. Fak
ing out his knife he nude the woman
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1883.
cut her skirts oIT at the knees, so that
she might walk and leap more freely.
Then placing the baby in the basket
which was strapped upon his back, he
cautioned the woman ag inst gi > ing way
to fright, and instructed her carefully
about the method of crossing.
On the return journey Joe was able
to avoid one great risk. As it was not
necessary to land at any part cular
point, time was of little consequence,
and hence when no large field of ice
was at hand, he could wait for one to
approach without attempting to make
use of the smaller ones. Leading the
woman wherever that was necessary, he
slowly made his way toward shore,
drifting down the river, of course, while
all the people of the town marched along
the bank.
When at last Joe leaped ashore in
company with tbe woman, and bearing
her babe in the basket on his back, the
people seemed ready to trample upon
each other in their eagerness to shake
hands with their hero.
Their hero was barely able to stand,
however. Drenched as he had been in
the icy water, the sharp March wind
had chilled him to to the marrow, and
one of the village doctors speedily lifted
him into his carriage, which he had
brought for that purpose, and drove
rapidly away, while the other physician
took charge of Mrs. Martin and the
baby.
Joe was a strong, healthy fellow, and
under the doctors treatment of hot
brandy and vigorous rubbing with
coarse* towels, he soon warmed. Then
he wanted to saw enough wood for the
doctor to pay for his treatment, and
thereupon the doctor threatened to
poison him if he should ever venture to
mention pay to him again.
Naturally enough the village people
talked of nothing but Joe Lambert’s
heroic deed, and the feeling was gen
eral that they had never done their
duty toward the poor orphan boy.
There was an eager wish to kelp
him now, and many offers were made
to him; but these all took the form of
charity, and Joe would not accept
charity at nil. Four years earlier, as I
have already said, he had refused to go
to the poor-house or to be “bound out,”
declaring that he could take care of
himself; and when some thoughtless
person had said in his hearing that he
would have to live on charity, Joe’s re
ply had been:
“I’ll never eat a mouthful in this
town that I haven’t worked for if I
starve. 14 - And he had kept his word.
Now that he was fifteen years old he
was not willing to begin to receive
charity, even in the form of a reward
for his good deed.
One day when some of the most
prominent men of the village were talk
ing to him on the subject Joe said:
“I don’t want anything except a
chance to work, but I 11 tell you what
you may do for me if you will. Now
that poor Martin is dead the ferry privi
lege will be to lease again, and I’d like
to get it for a good long term. May be I
can make something out of it by being
always ready to row people across, and
I may even be able to put on something
better than a skiff after awhile. 1’ 11 pay
the village what Martin paid.”
The gentlemen were glad enough of a
chance to do Joe even this small iavor,
and there was no difficulty in the way.
The authorities gladly granted Joe a
lease of the ferry privilege for twenty
years, at twenty dollars a year rent,
which was tbe rate Martin had paid.
At first Joe rowed people back and
forth, saving wliat money he got very
carefullv. This was all that could be
required of him, but it occurred to Joe
that if he had a ferry-b'jat big enough,
a good many horses and cattle and a
good deal of freight would be sent
across the river, tor he was a “long
headed” fellow, as I have said.
One day a chance offered, ami he
bought for twenty-live dollars a large
old woo 1 boat, which was simply a
square barge io ty ieet long and fifteen
feet wide, with leveled bow and stein,
made to hold cordwood for the steam
boats. With his own hands he laid a
stout deck on this, and, with the assist
ance of a man whom he hired for that
purpose, he constructed a pair of pad
dle-wheels. By that time Joe was out
of money, and'work on the boat was
suspended for a while. M hen he had
accumulated a little more money, he
bought a horse-power, and pmcetl
it in the middle of his bo l . •
connecting it with the shaft of Jus
wheels. Then ke 'Made a rudder and
helm, and his horse-poat was readv for
use. It had cost him a hundred dollars
besides his own labor upon it, but it
would carry live stock and freight as
well as passengers, and so the business
of the ferry rapidly increased, and Joe
began to put a little money away in the
Lank. ' , ,
After awhile a railroad was built into
the village, and then a second one
came, a” year later another railroad
was open on the other side of the rixei,
and all the passengers who came to one
village by railroad had to be ferr od
across the river in order to continue their
journey by the railroads there. The
horse-boat was too small and too s ow
for the business, and Joe l ambert had
to buy two steam ferry-boats to take iH
place. T hese cost more money than he
had, but. as the owner of the ferry
privilege, his credit was good, and the
boats soon paid for themselves, whue
Joe’s bank account grew again.
Finally the railroad people determined
to run through cars for passengers
and freight, ami to carry them across
the river on largo boats built forthat
purpose; but before they gave their or
ders to their boat builders, they were
waited upon by the attorneys of Joe
1 •imliert who soon convinced im i
(h:)t his ferry ‘
uV-hioh had now
grown to such size that they called
themselves cities. The result was that
the railroads made a contract with Joe
to carry their cars across, and he had
some large boats built for that purpose.
All this occurred a good many years
ago, and Joe Lambert is not called Joe
now, but Captain Lambert. He is one
of the most prosperous men in the Lit
tle river city, and owns many large riv
er steamers besides his ferry-boats.
Nobody is readier than he to help a
poor boy or a poor man; but he has his
own way of doing it. He will never
toss so much as a cent to a beggar, but
he never refuses to gave man or bov a
chance to earn money by work. He
has an odd theory that money which
comes without work does more harm
than good.—Geo. Caru Eggleston, in
Wide Awake.
A Strange Race.
In her work, “Unbeaten Tracks in
Japan,’ Miss Isabella L. Bird gives some
graphic pictures of the Ainos, or abori
f-i e o the Island of Yezo, Japan. “Af
t r the yellow skin, the stiff horse-hair,
the feeble eyelids, the elongated eyes,
the sloping eyebrows, the flat noses, the
sunken cheeks, the Mongolian features,
the puny physique, the shaky walk of
the men, the restricted totter of the
women, and the general impression of
degeneracy conveyed by the appearance
of tha Japanese, the Ainos,” she says,
“make a very singular impression.
“All but two or three that I have seen
are the most ferocious-looking of savages,
with a physique vigorous enough for car
rying out the most ferocious intentions,
but as soon as they speak the counte
nance brightens into a smile as gentle as
that of a woman, something which can
never be forgotten. The men are about
the middle height, broad-chested, broad
shouldered, ‘thick-set,’ very strongly
built, the arms and legs short, thick,
and muscular, the hands and sec-t large.
The bodies, and especially the limbs, of
many are covered with short, bristly
hair. I have seen two boys whose backs
are covered with fur as fine and soft as
that of a cat. The heads and faces are
very striking.
“The foreheads are very high, broad,
and prominent, and at first sight give
one the impression of an unusual capac
ity for intellectual development; the ears
are small and set low; the noses are
straight but short, and broad at the nos
trils; the mouths are xvide but well
formed, and the lips rarely show a ten
dency to fullness. The neck is short,
the cranium rounded, the cheek bones
low. and the lower part of the face is
small as compared with the upper, the
peculiarity called a jowl being unknown.
The eyebrows are full, and form a straight
line nearly across the face. The eyes
are large, tolerably deeply sets and very
beautiful, the color a rich liquid brown,
the expression singularly soft, and tho
eyelashes long, silky, and abundant.
' “The skin has the Italian olive tint,
but in most cases is thin and light
enough to show the changes of color in
the cheek. The teeth are small, regular,
and very white; the incisors and “eye
teeth” are not disproportionately large,
as is usually the case among the Japa
nese; there is no tendency toward pros
nathism, and the fold of integument
which conceal the upper eyelids of tha
Japanese i» never to be met with. Tha
features, expression, and aspect are
European rather than Asiatic.
“The ‘ferocious savagery’ of the ap
pearance of the men is produced by a
profusion of thick, soft, black hair, di
vided in the middle, and falling iu heavy
masses nearly to the shoulders. Out of
doors it is kept from falling over the face
by a fillet round the brow. Tho beards
are equally profuse, quite magnificent,
and generally wavy, and in the case of
the old men they give a truly patriarchal
and venerable aspect, in spite of tha
yellow tinge produced by smoke and want
of cleanliness. Tbe savage look pro
duced by the masses of hair and beard
and the thick eyebrows is mitigated by
the softness in the dreamy brown eyes,
and is altogether obliterated by the ex
ceeding sweetness of the smile, which
belongs in greater or less degree to all
the rougher sex.
“I have measured the height of thirty
of the adult men of this village, and it
ranges from five feet four inches to five
feet six and a half. The circumference
of the head averages 22.1 inches, and
the arc, from ear to ear, 13 inches. The
average weight of the Aino adult mascu
line brain, ascertained by measurement
of Bino skulls, is 45.90 ounces avoir
dupois, a brain weight said to excel that
of all the races, Hindoo and Mussulman,
on the Indian plains, and that of the
aboriginal races of India and Ceylon,
and is only paralleled by that of the
races of the Himalayas, the Siamese, and
the Cliine.se Burmese. ”
—Tbe recent mobbing of “General”
Booth, of the English Salvation Army,
at Hereford, recalls a good story of a
stalwart Kentucky preacher in tbe days
“befo’ de wah.” He was once conduct
ing a revival service, when he was an
noyed by the indecent conduct of a
couple of rowdies. He went up to them
and rebuked them, when one replied :
“We heard that you work miracles, and
are come to see if it is true.’ 8ir >
said the preacher, taking off his COBt >
“but we cast out devils,” and he forth
with cast them out.
Insanity.
Dr. Maclaren, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
states that the types of insanity have
changed within modern times. For in
stance delirious mania is now compara
tively rare, but mental enfeebloment, »-
SdeYwith paralysis, is i
and more common, and is the ' i
the overwork and worry of Btn, B« f ’ /
for existence at the present day.
• klow Plants Eat, Move and Sleep.
Tn a work entitled “ Movements of
Plants,” Mr. Charles Darwin gives the
results of his latest investigations into
the question of botanic life. These ro
scorchcs are of a nature which cannot
fail to excite general interest, while thoy
will be “ like an eagle in a dove-cot ” to
those who cling to tho venerable belief
in a distinct line of demarcation between
the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Speaking from careful experiment, the
author tells us how plants exhibit many
of the characteristics of animal nature.
They sleep, they move, they are very
sensitive, they have appetites, they are
carnivorous, and they have radicles
which by their sensibility and their ef
fect upon other parts of the plant act a
part similar to to that of brain in lower
animals. We are told that a leaf of a
carnivorous plant which has been mo
tionless for hours will instantly curve on
being touched in a most delicate man
ner with a piece of raw beef. In observ
ing the sleeping habits of certain plants,
Mr. Darwin, by an ingenious contriv
ance, held down the leaves which other
wise would have returned to a vertical
or sleeping position at night. The re
sult was that those leaves were frost
bitten in a temperature which had no
such effect on the leaves that were al
lowed freedom to sleep. Mr. Darwin
thenco concludes that the sleeping of
the plant is to it a “question of life and
death,” the vertical position of the
leaves at night protecting it from inju
rious effects of radiation and cold. Not
less instructive and suggestive are the
researches into the effects of light upon
certain forms of vegetation. Instances
are given of the wonderful sensitiveness
of some plants to light. Tbe seedlings
of the Phacaris canarlensis, for exam
ple, are said to have a power of detect
ing differences in light which are inap
preciable by the human eye, while they
sympathetically turn to the minutest
point of light. Nor is the constant mo
tion of plants confined to any special
of germination, for we learn that
from year to year since the tree first be
gan to rise through the ground the tip
of each rootlet endeavors to sweep small
ellipses or circles, as far as the surround
ing earth permits. All this would seem
to show that when we speak of flowers
“peeping,”” smiling, and “ drinking
dew,” we express something more thou
a mere poetical metaphor.
How to Get Rich.
Everybody wants to get rich. Almost
anybody can become rich if he likes to
apply himself to the matter. The
trouble is that every one wants to get
rich at once and without exertion. Many
seek to do this by speculation. If a
person had obtained control of 100,000
bushels of w heat on Saturday last, which
could have been done by putting up a
margin of one cent per bushel, he would
have made $3,000 by Monday, and would
have received back his margin less tho
broker’s commission. This would be a
reasonable profit for a day’s work at
doing nothing. If he held on till Tues
day $2,000 of his profit would have been
wiped out, and probably by to-morrow
he would have lost his margin and every
thing else beside. Still people only
look on the gaining side of the matter,
and thousands are striving to get rich in
this way. One out of every thousand
will probably succeed. A gentleman of
Detroit, who is worth over SIOO,OOO,
gives his experience in getting rich, and
the beauty of his plan is that 999 out of
1,000 can, by fair management, get rea-
I sonably “well off,” while many will be-
I come rich. He says: “Young man, save
I one-third of your earnings. If you get
$0 a week, pretend that you get only $4
and put axvay the other $2. On no ac
count touch that reserve fund to spend
a cent of it, but when it gets big enough
put it in a 10-per-cent. mortgage. Ten
per-cent. mortgages, with first-class
security, are not so hard to find as a per
son might think. Add the interest to
the reserve fund and keep on putting it
out on mortgages. This method is slow
but it is sure. "—Detroit Eree Press.
It Went Up.
There is a man in this city who once
lost $20,01)0 through a twist of the Eng
lish language. He was then a resident
of California, and San Francisco was
wild with excitement over mines. The
“Blue Ledge” was then blooming.
Shares had gone to thirty times their
face value, and brokers reaped a golden
harvest. At length, almost within an
hour, “Blue Ledge” began to drop, and
it went down—or rather the shares did—
over 200 per cent, before there was a
breathing spell. At this crisis the New
Yorker went to a broker and asked:
“What is your candid opinion about
Blue Ledge?”
“T think it will go up,” Xas the
prompt reply.
v» lien t"
“Well, within a fortnight.”
The would-be buyer knew of stocks
for sale, and before 'night his entire for
tune had been invested. Quotations re
mained the same for two or three days,
and then “Blue Ledge” shares, $lO each,
fell to ten per cent, of their face value.
The New Yorker rushed to the broker in
consternation, and gasped out:
“Didn’t you tell me that Blue Ledge
was wre to go up ?”
“I did.”
“And now —now ! T
“It’s gone up, just as I predicted. I
P'i/X
T ’■q-« I,
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ruined."
TERMS: SI.OOA YEAR
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Lord Houghton’s newly-purchased
estate in Florida comprises 60,000 acres.
Lord Houghton is largely interested ia
sugar culture in Jamaica.
—The waste of the wild cocoons,
gathered in the woods of China, Japan
and Australia, is made into felt one
half the size of hair felt, and is used for
the manufacture of hats and for fur
nishing purposes.
—A Wilkesbarre paper asserts that
it takes a keg of powder to mine a toa
of coal, but the Scranton Republican
wants it to explain, if so, the fact that
a keg of powder costs more than the
mine price of two tons of coal.
—Many an injured workman’s life has
been lost through his frightened com
rades’ inability to perform a simple
operation. An Ambulance Associaden
in Glasgow has begun a useful work by
establishing courses of plain lectures
for operatives, showing what ought vO
be done at once with a bleeding artery,
a burned limb, a half-drowned body,
etc.
—Fourteen factories, located chiefly in
New England, supply this country with
pins, the annual production of which for
several years past has been about seven
millions. Exportation of American pins
is confined to Cuba, South America,and.
parts of Canada. England supplies al
most the whole world outside of the
United States, although her pins are no
better than the American. The ma
chinery and material used in the manu
facture of American pins are entirely
the product of American resources.
—Hard-wood blocks must now be
used by the workmen in Dantzig to hold
the amber when they are removing the
outer, weather-worse portion of that
prized fossil gum. Formerly the crude
mass was held by the left hand in a block
of lead. This was done fir the purpose
of preventing a dulling of the edges ot
the knives. But lead-poisoning of the
men and women engaged in the industry
ensued, as cases of the peculiar colio
caused by that metal and other symp
toms abundantly proved, and an of
ficial investigation has compelled the
abandonment of lead in the dressing of
amber.
—Flour Is peculiarly sensitive to the
atmospheric influences, hence it should
never be stored in a room with sour
liquids, nor where onions or fish are .
kept, nor any article that taints the air
of the room in which it is stored. Any
sraell perceptible to the sense will ba
absorbed by the flour. Avoid damp
cellars or lofts where a free circulation
of air can not be obtained. Keep in a
cool, dry, airy room, and not exposed
to a freezing temperature nor to intense
summer or to artificial heat for any
length of time above seventy deg. to
seventy-five deg. Fahrenheit. It should
not oome in contact with grain or other
substances which are liable to heat.
Flour should be sifted and the particles
thoroughly disintegrated and then
warmed before baking. This treatment
improves the color and baking proper
ties of the dough. The sponge should
be prepared for the oven as soon as the
yeast has performed its mission, other
wise fermentation sets in and acidity re
suits. — American Miller.
—William Welch a young man, d
in Pittsburgh, Pa, the other morn
from the effect of cuts inflicted b
friend named William Lewis, i
drunken fight a week before. Th
hours ot Welch were terrible,
agony from his wounds was h p
but he paid no attention to this,- „■
the tears of bis friends. He see, «.-u to
have but one desire, and that wAs to re
cover in order that he might be avenged
on Lewis. With frightful oaths he cursed
the fate that made the accomplishment
of his vengeance impossible, and
virtually died with an oath on his lipa
Pittsburgh Post.
—Edward D. Cooley was only thirty
five years old when he died, at VVest
Springfield, Mass., and yet he lived
alone in so poor a hovel that it was
assessed for taxation at only J 25, while
bank books discovered since his death
show that he had about $25,000 at in
terest. He was a graduate of Amherst
College, and it is said that a
first made him a recluse. His life was
very solitary and his nearest neighbors
had no acquaintance with him. A few
books and a gun were his companions
and he was contented to live in rags
and squalor.
—Rev. Mr. Beecher says he had an
umbrella returned to him which he had
mislaid in a sleeping-car. Next thing
we know Mr. Beecher will be writing
dime fiction or composing circus adver
tisements. When he says he had a mis
laid umbrella returned he. evinces de
cided talent in that direction. Aorrw
lown Herald. . .
—The practice of blowing out one s
iras previous to retiring should le dis
couraged. it is undoubtedly a sover
evoi cure for insomnia, but should nev
er'bc indulged in by persons in normal
health. If you would arise in the moi u
ing bright and early, rested and rein
vigorated, turn off your gas before go
ing to bed; never blow it out.—A. i.
Granhic.
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A Virtrinia, Nev., miner complained
a fo 'a that a neighbor kept
hogs that grunted all night so loud M to
I destroy the peaceful
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