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About Dade County weekly times. (Rising Fawn, Dade County, Ga.) 1884-1888 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1884)
T. A. NAVRON, Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS. Tub Alabama corn crop is the finest known for years. A Chinese compositor works on the Lan caster (Pa.) New Era. A snow-bank still lingers on a farm near Clockville, N. Y. Ihe harvest moon looks down on mag nificent crops in Dakota. 'I he number of immigrants for the year ending June 30, was 509,834. A Greenback State Convention will be lield at Boston September 4. The Governor General of Porto Rico died of yellow fever, the other day. Ihe Elba Iron works, of Pittsburg, has closed down on account of prices. Important concessions are expected from England in behalf of Irish laborers. A London paper has it that Mr. Cleveland Ohio has been nominated for President. A colored gil l at Saratoga wears SIO,OOO worth of diamonds when she is dressed up. Commander Schley’s brother is a prin ter in the a Baltimore newspaper. The Utah elections resulted in the choice of Mormons to all the offices in every nouns ty- Rev. W. H. Veil, of Bucyrus, 0., said to be the original Petroleum V. Nasby, is dead. There are over (1,000 miles of telegraph wire strung above the streets of Philadel phia. Some of the Texas editors suspend publi cation of their papers while taking their vacations. A Mr. Tallo has been nominated for office. No doubt a hot campaign will cause him to run well. The corner-stone of the Bartholdi statue was laid with appropriate ceremonies the other afternoon. A French almanac predicts that Emperor William and General Moltke will die before December 31, 1884. The African Society refuses, from want of funds, to assist the German expedition to the Congo country. Lieut. Greely had a little boy born to him while he was übsent, and the child is nearly three years old. The son of the British Vice Consul at Ro dosto, Turkey, has been captured bybiig ands, who demand £7,000 rausom. The electric street car in Cleveland, 0., makes eight miles an hour, and is even more managable than the horse car. John Bright marched with the great reform procession at Birmingham. 200,000 people witnessed the demonstration. The estimated expenditures of the Post* office Department in the last fiscal yeai will exceed the receipts by $3,000,000. The Boston Post says it is not in good taste for a physician, when writing to a patient, to sign himself, “Yours till death.” It is said that 0,000 boys and 2,000 girls nnder thirteen years of age ore employed in Chicago factories, in violation of the law. Cholera, yellow fever, famine, drought, and cold have had marked success this year throughout the temperate zone of the globe. Important public meetings have been held in London, recently, for the purpose of securing the abolishment of the House of Lords. The mate of the Julia Baker has been arrested at Key West, Fla., for personating the dead master of the vessel, and is held for trial. The Queen has decided to change her will on account of the birth of a son to the Duchess of Albany, the widow of Prince Leopold. Since 1800 the population of Europe has doubled, having increased at a much more rate indigenously than that of its sister continents. Western States and Territories are es stablishing quarantine agaiiist Texas cat tle, the fever having broken out again in many places. No woman without a male escort ven sures out after dark in Naples or Rome, such has been the increased license given to crime of late. A Mississippi man counted the number of grains in a bushel, and found 72,130 oi corn, 132.000 oi. wheat, 109,900 of peas and 164,106 of cotton seed. “No Thoroughfare,” it would seem, would be an excellent sigu to put up at the en trance to Smith’s Sound, for the benefit of future Arctic explorers. Crown Solicitor Bolton, of Dublin, sued Parnell and other pi oprietors of the United Ireland for £30,000 damages. A jury awarded him £SOO. Nine-tenths of European counterfeiters are from Italy. They are more skillful in making and passing false money than crirn inals of any othor nationality. Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the Prime Min ister, has written a book for the Health Exhibition, being a series of articles on nurseries and the care of children. Miss Phoebe Couzins is the first woman to be sworn in as United States Deputy Marshal. She will work as clerk for her father, who is Marshal at St. Louis. St. Louis health officers are trying to close up the wells of that city, which num ber between eight and nine thousand, and yield exceedingly unwholesome water. There is complaint over a scarcity of money in London, and yet in the august Court of Chancery $361,000,000 lies idle under the ban of the law, awaiting proper heirs. A French Admiral recently reported that the American was the weakest navy in existence. France has many vessels, bQt the United States have a big batch of of ficers. There is one advantage in a small navy, and tnat is, when the Secretary of the Navy puts to sea, he can take most of it with him. Secretary Chaudler is on a tinilae, TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1884. A PITCHED BATTLE Between Montana Cow-Soys end Horse-Ti.ieves. • The fow-B«y« Steal a Man Ii on the Rob ber. »< <l Niue Out of Fourteen Kite the I)u.t- Fia ly Fifty ijj,n K <1 or Shot Within n Hi, uili. Helena, Mont., August 9. —There never ; was a period in the history of this or any | oilier Territory when so much horse-thiev iug was going on. Citizens are determined to effectively stop it. Fully fifty thieves have been hanged or shot in the past month. Meager particulars are received of another slaughter of horse-thieves * n the Muscleshell region, 159 miles northeast of here, last week by [cow boys. While in pursuit of stolen horses, a log house was discovered in the timber on the mountain side. It was secretly watched a day or two, during which time several small parties of men came and went, some by day,others bv night, having in possession horses, evidently stolen. It becoming evident that it was a horse thieves’ rendezvous, cowboys congregated, and last Monday night crawled up close to the house and attacked fourteen horse thieves, about the premises at the time. Nine were killed and five escaped. The cabin was set fire and burned. No particulars are yet received of the fight of Granviiie Stuart’s cowboys with-a band of thieves at the mouth of the Muscleshell, though the fight must have occurred several days ago. The locality is over two hundred miles from Helena, with no telegraph communication. Increase in Cholera Mortality. Paris, August B.—During the twenty, four hours ended at nine to-night twenty, four deaths from cholera had occurred at Marseilles, The record of the hospitals at Toulon to-day is as follows. Admission, nine; discharged, eight; deaths, three; under treatment, eighty-six. There were two deaths from cholera to-day # La Seyne. Rome, August B.—Three fresh cases of cholera are reported at Cairo and Montes notte. There were two deaths to-day at Massa, one at Carignanß and one at Ossasio, There were no fresh cases at Pancalieri, but two persons under treatment there died. Marseilles, August 9.—The area affected by cholera is widening. Yesterday there were five deaths at Arles and five at Salin, a village of four hundred inhabitants, near Arles. Cette there were seven deaths, at Beziers two, at Carcassone two, and at Bordeaux one. At txigean such a panic prevails that parents fled, forgetting their children, whom Sisters of Charity are car ing for. A soldier from Avignon, where several deaths from cholera have occurred, died at Algiers. His comrades, who accompanied him from Avignon, have been isolated. At Vogue, in the Department of Ardeche, with a population of 750, there were five deaths yesterday, and thirty are under treatment. Numerous cases of sick ness, supposed cholera, are reported from other points in Ardeche. Intense heat is causing an increase in mortality among cholera patients. There were six deaths last night. The return of fugutives to Arles has had a bad effect. There have been six deaths at that place in twelve hours. Bp. M > —Fourteen deaths from cholera in the past twenty-four hours. A Ricky Mountain Cannibal. Winnipeg. Man., August BW. B. Mcßride, of Chicago, who has arrived here from a trip to the Rocky Mountains, brings word that a man named William Owens, a California miner, was found by some rail way men near Kicking Horse River, a few days ago, in a famished and partially de mented condition. Owens said he started June 13, with Jos. Williamson, from Kam loops, on a prospecting trip, expecting to strike the Columbia River, but their supply of provisions gave out before reaching there. They traveled for six days and a half without food, when Williamson laid down and died. Owens then cut strips of flesh from his dead companion’s legs, which he ate sparingly, and proceeded on his tramp. He has been iiving six days on human flesh when found and still had a quantity of the dried flesh in an old hand kerchief. He was very weak ami emaciated and told his story with difficulty. He repeated the horribly details on several occasions and all who heard him are con vinced that the story is true. He had a large roll of bills with him. The police have taken the mutter in hand and will investigate it. Roach's Ship-Yard Damaged. Chester, Pa., August 8.-—This morning a fire was discovered by the watchman in the blacksmith shop, a frame building in Roach’s ship-yard. The flames soon spread to the punch shed, also framp, and covering nearly an acre of ground. All efforts to save this immense building were given up and attention directed to saving the binding-shed a short distance away, but the efforts of the firemen were unavailing, and it was soon de stroyed. The firemen then directed their attention to the foundry, a large brick building, adjoining the binding-shed, and it was only by herculean efforts that it was saved. Mr. Roach arrived late to-night. He states the loss will not be above $60,000; that the works will go on in the morning as usual, and that the loss is confined to the frame buildings, which will be replaced immediately. All the men will be em ployed, as there is much work to be done at once. Murderous Freak of an Insane Man. Pittsburg, Penn., August 9.—Recently George Metz, aged twenty-one, was taken from Mercy Hospital, where he had been under treatment for aberration of the mind, by his sister, Mrs. Roche, and re moved to her home at Sharpsburg. This morning young Metz had a return of tbe more violent symptoms of the trouble, and, ru-hing into a room on tbe second floor, seized an eighteen-montbs-old child of Mrs. Roche, and threw it from the window to the sidewalk, a distance of some fifteen feet. The child was examined critically by tbe physician, the idea being that because it did not cry it was fatally hurt. It appears, however, that the fail knocked the breath out of it for a few mo ments, without doing any other damage, and it forgot the good occasion it had to squall when sufficient.wind watf recovered to have admitted o£ such infantile demon stration. Met* was taken to Dixwont to* U»7i , FRANCE AND CHINA. Antcricnn Ninl«tcr HiMllallnc Vnder in fttruciious ftoiii Hit* FrrKiiieal. London, August B.—A Times dispatch from Foo Chow says: “The American Minister will arrive at Shanghai to-day. The Chinese remain firm. Further con cessions by the French will alone secure peace.” The Pall Mall Gazette this after noon earnestly advocates American media tion between China and France. Both countries, it thinks, would eagerly accept it. A dispatch to the Times from Foo Chow says; “President Arthur is {mediating between France and China, and has tele graph instructions to John Russell Young, U. S. Minister at Pekin. France desires settlement within a week.” Paris, August B.—The Government will consult the Chamber of Deputies before in structing Admiral Courbet, at Foo Chow, to act. A GI ANT’S MISFORTUNE. J(*wcU to tlian; l»,v Fiiropraii 31 <»iiar<*}»ci Dotlroye 4 in si Iliirniuir Sleep ing -Car. Jamestown, N. Y., August B—A sleep ing-car belonging to Barnum’s circus burned while standing on the side track here this morning. The car was occupied by the Hindoos connected with the show, Chang, the Chinese giant, and his manager, Mr. Cameron. These two were asleep in the car when the fire broke out, and had a narrow escape for their lives. Chang lost his entire wardrobe, a valuable gold watch, seven thousand dollars in money, and several diamonds. The lost jewels were presented to Chang by the Czar of Russia, Emperor of Austria and Emperor of Prussia. Chang also misses a gold watch and chain presented by Queen Vic toria. Chang had a hearty cry over his misfortune. He did not appear at the show this afternoon. Mr. Cameron, Chang’s manager, lost six hundred dollars in casii and a gold watch. A new car will re place the burned one at Erie. A REMARKABLE CASE. A Da.vlon. Ely., yinn l iven Three nay* With a Broken Meek. Cincinnati, August 9.— Frank Henry Holstman, aged seventy-two years, died at his home in Dayton, Ky., to-day. Last Wednesday he was thrown from a wagon, and after being examined by the attending physicians they pronounced that his neck was broken, and that he would hardly sur vive through the day. Contrary to the general expectation, he rallied, and on the following day felt better, and lingered until this morning, when be died. It is certainly a remarkable case, and one that will attract considerable attention in the medical world. The French Capture Kelung. London, August 9—A dispatch from Shanghai to-day to Reuter’s Telegraph Company states that five vessels of the French squadron, under Admiral’ Lespes, bombarded and captured the town of Kelung, on the Island of Formosa. A Foo Chow dispatch to the Times to-day says: “France refuses to submit the settlement of tbe Franco-Chinese difficulty to media tion. Advices from Pekin of August 8 state that the Tsung Li Yamen has re gained confidence, and will disregard tbe chronic menanceof the French fleet. French prestige can only be recovered by serious operations.” Paris, August 9.—The occupation of Kelung by tue French is officially con firmed. The Cholera Theory of Dr. i'oeh. London, August 9. —The researches of Dr. Koch regarding the cause and progress of cholera have excited great interest in Poland, where epidemics somewhat similar to that now existing in France are of al most annual ocourrence. One curious result of this general agitation is an offer by an educated Pole, in middle age and vigorous health, to allow himself to be in oculated with the cholera microbes, so that the effect of such an inoculation in a human neing in normal health may be scientifically scrutinized. A Boiler Maker’s Terrible Fate. Jackson, Mich., August B.—Edward Lynch, a boiler maker at theM. C. Railway* shops, at the Junction, while underneath a locomotive to-day, for the purpose of re pairing the boiler, was scalded so that he will die. The locomotive was carrying forty pounds of steam at the time, and the plug blew out. Tiie unfortunate man re ceived the full blast on his back and arms, which were so terribly cooked tiiat the flesh fell out in flakes. He leaves a wife and five children. Frightful Asc'dent. Shenandoah, Pa., August B.—Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, their two children and a man named Cull, whiie crossing the Reading track at Connor Station in a carriage thi, after*oon were struck by the locomotive. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, one child and Cuff were instantly killed, the horses cut to pieces and the vehicle demolished. The driver and infant escaped. The party were returning from a funeral. The Crop 3. • Washington, August 9.—The Depart ment of Agriculture reports the average condition of cotton increased from 86 in July to a little above 87. The condition of corn averages the same as in July, a id is higher than in any August since 1880. The report of wheat includes only the spring wheat region, with an average of 98, which is higher than in any year since 1877. To bacco promises a large crop. A Salvation Army Row. Schenectady, N. Y., August B.—There was great excitement last night by the ar rest of four j'oung men in the disturbance with the Salvation Army. Fifteen hundred men followed the prisoners to the station, threatening to throw the officers into the canal. Threats are made to burn the army barracks. There are fears of a riot to. night and the police are taking precautions. |Commodore Garrison’s Finances. New York, August 8.--. The inventory in the Commodore Garrison assignment shows liabilities of i1.47i.i28; actual as lft«. £3,974,818; nominal assets, £17,0974/28, A FALLING WALL Makes Sad Work in a Catletts burg Conflagration. Three Bend end Four injured Men Taken From the l>ei>. le-Valuable Property Destroyed. Catlettsburg, Ky., August 10.—This town was visited at two o’clock this morn ing by a destructive fire, resulting in quite a calamity from a falling wall catch in a number of men. Bob Miller was taken out alive, but died immediately. John Graham died after his rescue." David Kinner had hie feet burned off, and was dead when found. Janies McKenzie, Sam Kelly, John Berger and Chas. Haler were rescued in a precarious condition, and others are thought to be buried under the ruins. Loss to the property: Patton Bros drugs, $30,000, insurance $15,000; ’j“ nan & |Pricl.ard, grocers, stock $5,000, insurance $2,000; C. Pichard, to'iwi building, $4,000, insurance $2,000; N. P. Andrews, dry goods stock, $7,000, insurance $5,000; N. P. An drews, building, $3,500, insurance $3,000; C. H. Carpenter, clothing stock, SIO,OOO, in ; building $7,000, insurance $o,000; C. A. AY ellman, office, SSOO, no ins surance; Vinson, Gable & Prichard. SSOO, no insurance. Total loss, $76,000; insur ance $44,000. The fire engine from Hunt ington, VV. A T a., did excellent service. Increase in Cholera. London, August 10.—At midnight Friday another dispatch was sent by Dr. Bas sano, of Marseilles. It was as follows: “There was a marked increase in cholera to-day, and this is the more noteworthy be cause of Thursday’s decrease. Fear now prevails that Marseilles has not seen the worst of the plague. On Friday six patients were admitted to the Pharo Hospital, and all were critical cases. There are now fifty cases in the hospital. Statistics up to date show that 021 patients have been admitted to the Pharo from the beginning of the epidemic, of whom 208 have recovered. The five nurses who have been ill are rapidly getting well. On r riday the Lyons doctors continued their former experiments. They injected into one of the patients 300 grammes of a solu tion composed of five grammes of chlori dine ot sodium and fifteen centigrammes of carbonate of sodium, dissolved in 1,000 grammes of water. The success of this experiment can hardly be determined, as the patient subjected to the treatment was already in the last stage of the disease. Tne increased mortality is ascribed to the hasty return of the emigrants, coupled with the unbearable heat.” lata! Result of a Mud Wadding;. Flora, 111., August 10.—A sad accident occurred at the Republican rally at Xenia last evening. A flttle twelve-year-old son of Frank Maudlin had the top of his head blown off by the explosion of a cannon. It seems the gunner in charge of the cannon became short of paper for loading purposes, in lieu of which he filled the piece with mud, and, after ramming it home, he fired. The cannon burst, and a piece weighing about fifteen pounds was projected through the air at a fearful velocity, and struck the little boy on the head who was standing about 200 feet distant, sweeping a large portion of his skull away and killing him almost in stantly. A bystander pick,-<#he little un fortunate up in his arms, when most of his brains fell out upon the groi*d. •The gunner was blown some feet, and had one leg quite severely hurt, The wheels were blown off, and the carriage on which the piece was mounted was a total wreck. Ihe accident threw a damper over the meeting. Large Lease of Natural Gas Territory. Pittsburg, August 10.—George Westing house, the Philadelphia Natural Gas Company, yesterday pur. chas*the leasehold of four-fifths of all the natur* gas territory in Western Pennsyl- The sale includes the Butler and Tarentum fields, and five farms in the vicinity of Homewood and this city. * The purchase was made from and through J. M. Guffey, ami the aggregate area of the tracts is seven thou-and acres. The terms of tbe sale are withheld. Present to Grover Cleveland. Albany, N. Y., August 10.—The left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, which has a potent influence among the Southern ne groes, has been presented to Governor Cleveland as a talisman in tbe campaign. The rabbit from which the foot was taken was shot on the grave of Jesse James. The foot was superbly mounted and en graved in solid silver by jewelers in Eufaula, Ala. It was mounted to wear on a watch chain. All For a Glass of Beer. St. Louis, August 10.—Henry Smith and Win. Hardin, two negroes, got into a quarrel this afternoon, in Clabber alley, a notorious negro locality, about who should treat to beer, when Harris drew a revolver and shot Smith in the left breast, inflicting a wound from which ho died while being conveyed to the dispesarv. Hardin was arrested. Prominent Lawyer Paralyzed. Long Branch, N. J., August 10.—H. M. Philips, a prominent laWver of Philadel phia, and ex-Presidertof Girard College, was stricken with paralysis Friday. He was taken home this afternoon in a special train of the Pennsylvania P.ailroad. He is a member of its Executive Committee. Medical Congress. Copenhagen, Angust 10.—The Medical Congress opened to-day, in the presence of the King and Queen of Denmark. Council of State, and King and Queen of Graeco. The Congress includes 350 Danes, 100 Swedes, 100 Norwegians, and 800 persons of other nationalities. Hurricane on the Ocean. St. John’s, N. F., August 10.—The latest arrival from the Grand Bank reports an awful hurricane Sunday last. Many causalties to the fishing fleet ars feared. Over Niagara. Niagara Falls, August 10.—A man, who is supposed to be Woodke, and from Buf falo, jumped into the rapids and was cars 4 var falls, SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS. Bixty-one patents were issued to citizen* of the Southern States from June 10 to July 1. The South, says School Commissioner Eaton, is eager for the education of all classes. The increase in the number of school-houses and attendance is larger every year and the progress is, he adds, very gratifying. At Silver City, Ark., J. P. McKinnon shot and instantly killed John McKinney for causes attributed to an . old jfeud- The two men had attended a shooting mutch and were returning home, when they met and renewed their old quarrel. It is charged that McKinnon got the drop on McKinney and fired a bullet through his brain. Both parties had killed their man. Key West, with 14,000 population, is free of beggars. The Natchez cotton mills have resumed operations. Lebpedeza grass is growing well in all parts of Mississinpi. George D. Tillman was unanimously nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Second (S. C.) District. William H. Hayne, a son of the well known Southern poet, Paul Hayne, contri butes to the August St. Nicholas a poem ou “The Grasshopper.” It is not generally known that the Gov erning Board of the New Orleans Exposi tion has appropriated $5,000 to each State and Territory, to be expended under the direction of the United States Commission ers of tiie exposition and the Governors of the respective States and Territories. Mrs. Francis Stegall, aged seventy, who died the other day near Asheville, N. C., confessed before her death of murder ing her husband thirty years ago by pour ing hot lead in his ear while he was intoxi cated. Mrs. John Cooper, living near Bud., Anderson County, Tenn., gave birth to four girls, weighing nearly four pounds each. All are alive and doing well. Dr. J. HoorEß Shepherd, proprietor of the Cambridge (Md.) Chronicle , is dead. I.v consequence of dull trade and over production all cotton factories in Peters burg, Va„ and vicinity but two have stopped, and these two expect to stop in a day or so. The closing throws out of em ployment several hundred operators, many of whom have large families. At Milledgeville, Ga., while the family of Mr. Rockwell were seated at the supper table they were shocked by a terifle peal of thunder. Miss Sarah Rockwell put up her hands to her face, and was found to be dead. The other evening James Davis wai shot and instantly killed by Adolphus Ary, near Rocky Station, Lee County, Va. About a month since Davis, after maltreating his wife, left suddenly and went to Missouri. The lady finding herself deserted and without sup ■ ort, attached certain sums due Davis-in the neighborhood, and sought shelter in the house of Ary, who is a rela tive. Some.of Davis’ friends wrote to him that his wife was living in Ary’s iou.e. Davis returned to Virginia, swearing vengeance on Ary. He went to Ary’s house, and in answer to his inquiry, was told that Ary had gone fishing. Mrs. Ary, fearing harm, sent a messenger by the back way to inform her husband of Davis’ presence. Davis left after uttering threats against Ary. When the latter returned Davis again came to tbe house, and, de spite the efforts of Ary to quiet him, swore that he would have Ary’s heart’s blood. He darted toward the house trying to draw a revolver. Ary slipped into the doorway and picked tip a family shotgun. Davis continued to advance and Ary shot him in the breast, but this did not stop him, and be continued tbe charge, when Ary drew a pistol and shot him through the head. Andrew Crockett, a distant relative of the famous Davy, died at Franklin, Tenn., the other day, at the age of sixty years. A tornado seriously damaged the corn in Dyer County, Tenn., so seriously that the stock has been turned into some of the fields. Over a million pounds of Sea Island cotton was shipped from Lake City, Fla., last year. There was also fifty cars of cot ton seed, each car containing 22 590 pounds making a total of seed of 1,125,000 pounds. Tbe biuff at Memphis continues to cove. The United States engineers are having willow mattresses made and thrown into the river opposite the Fanola Oil Works as rapidly as possible to prevent further dam ages to the biuff below the point. “The White Camelia,” an organization that numbered, just after the war, in Tex as alone, some 20,000 members, is about to be revived, with the object, it is thought, of keeping an eye on the island of Cuba and Mexican oppression of citizen* of the United States. Madison Parish, La., has mar.y women planters. Mrs. M. A. Gibbs lives on the Hecla plaiuation, which she manages with I great ®rcess. Mrs. Saiiie Frasier has a small cotton plantation and a floe poultry i farm. Miss Lu. Lucas manage.' a large ; estate, and personally superinten is a large force. Madame Ames, regarded as the best woman in the parish, ownt « tract of 1,000 acres, and 800 acres in cultivation this year. General James R. Herbert, Police Commissioner of Baltimore, is dead, aged forty-nine. James Hay, colored, of Carroli County, Ga., has just died, leaving an estate of £4.000 or £5,000. In Chattanooga, the colored element is growing much faster than the white. The relative gain in the year ended June 30, 1884, was 1,349 colored, 1,084 white. The waters of Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., in stead of escaping through the regular chan nel into the Obion River, find outlets or means of escape across the valuable lands of the county, and a company has t*»«u or ganized to clear the obstructions in the streams that convey this water, to spend £10,030. It is believed that the waters of 1884 created a loss to the people •/ Lake County of pot less than £150,000, Senator Butler, of South Carolim, too* two daughter* iu joqety, Ml s « Marie amf MlniKU«t. VOL. I. -NO. 25. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —Experiments in England show that gaslight h. s * nr tor penetrating power in u fog than electric light of the same intensity. —An Australian lias devised a scheme for bringing down rain to order. He has a ballo n charged with dynamite und rn< ath it, which ii lired off by wire connecting wi ll the ear h when the balloon reaches the clouds. —lido ( amsdell, the editor of an Atlanta (Ga. journal, has discovered a process in photo-lithography, which, according to Mr. Howell, o: the Atlan ta Con <‘uut on, “will introduce into the art of printing p issibililies never yet dreamed of.” —ln skinning calves the French mode is to make a hole, insert the noz zle of a bellows, and blow the skin from the llesh. For this reason alone, it is said, French calf-skin is superior to that made in this country, where knives are used in the skinning process. —Every one has heard of condensed milk, but condensed, or rather, solTd ifie 1 drinks of a n ore potent nature are a novelty. An ingenious French chem ist has d scovere 1 a method by whi h any wine, spirit or malt li juor can be sol dilied into a cake, like chocolate, and so conveniently carried about in the pockets of the thirsty. - An improved fishhook has been in vented bv a Southern .-porls nan. About midway up the shaft of the hook he places a sma 1 crossbar, which serves three purposes. F rst, it prevents the lish front swallowing the hook; second, it increases the chances of capture, for the rea on that when a fish strikes its nose against the p ojeotion it involun tarily c o->Ci itsjnouth, and so is secure ly caught; and third, it prevents the bait from slipping up the hook. —'l hat the small coins of all nations may be a most potent factor in dissem inating disease is a discovery due to the researches of Dr. Reinch. Taking specimens of co n which had been long in circulation, he scraped off the thin oigani ■ incrustations, which he then divided into small pieces and dissolved in distilled water. Microscopic in-pec fion of the solution disclosed abund ance of bacteria and vegetable fungi. Alter this there is ample reason for can ton in handling money made of metal; of the danger of filthy paper ciirienoy the public lias long been aware. PITH AM) POINT. - The cheaper the cigar the more per sistently does the cheap smoker puff it In the faces of b s fellow travelers.—- Lowell Courier. •‘The Pies My Mother Made” is a new song, it is said, but it is not. Every young husband has sung it for the last two centuries. — Phi'a lelphia Call. A writ r in a health publication ad vises people to “live in the sun.” But how under the sun are people going to do it. lios on Tran cri’.l. —'lhe census proves that the number of persons in a la niiy in this country is a small fraction over live. In sorou families the husband is the small frac ton over. — boston Tran enpt. — k ome one has discovered that the high-heeled shoes won by women pro duce softening of the brain. It was not gene ally known that the brains of women who wear such shoes was lo cated so low: !ut it stems plausible enough — Norrist rum Herald. —A Dude was one day having great sport at the expense of a Don cey, whose Long Ears seemed to amuse th; Dandy Fellow very m ich “.„au h on, V ain Thing,” <iu idly rebu ed the Donkey; “1 thank Heaven that there is one dis tinguishing Mark between us. Make merrv of mine Ears if thou wilt, but that is the only protec ion I have from I eing classed with Dudes, and thereby insulti d ” Moral—A man’s most ridicti ous feature is often his greatest protect o i. —Atlanta Con dilution. —A would-be society beau, whose grandfather hail been a successful shoe maker, impertinently remarked upon Miss Aurelia H ’sfee . and said they wre very pretty. Miss II met the young braggart soon after at a party, and taking occasion to be heard by the bystanders, she said “I hear that you have been making remarks about the Itofmy bo >t-u If you intend open ing a shoe shop I shall be delighted to continue the | atronage which was begun bv our family when your grand father was a shoemaker.”— Harper's Baiar. _He was seated across the room. •‘George,” she said, “if a fire were sud denly To break out iu the house, avhat w u'd be vour first impulse, do you think ” ‘‘Well, my first thought would be of you, of course. . I would get you to a place of safety, and then do wha I could to extinguish the f am “That would be v ry nice of you, ( eor_re, to think of mo first; but if n fire were to break oih now for in stance. wouldn’t you lose valuable t'nie reaching me from way across the room ” “I don t know but 1 would,” said Geor e. a- he .hanged his seat. _-1 o you s e that man walking along there.' ’ sai 1 Jones to a New Yorker as a n ce-looking party went l,v on Fourth street la t Tuesday. “Yes,” was the reply- “Adi, sir. that man has killed men, women and chil deu in his tim.”- "Heavens! Why don t they hang him?” “Can’t do it. Hin- r in (r ’s p aved out in this country “VY’asu’t he ever arrested “Not that I know of.” •No wonder you have riots in Cincinnati.” ‘He doesn tlook like he was so bloo 1-tnirsty. YY bo is he?’ ‘A doctor.” “Ob b-h*re s a twenty-lif s-'ept — uttl Z7ui c tr.
