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SOME NEW FOUND PEOPLES.
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES MADE
ON A BIG AFRICAN RIVER.
A Tribe of Long haired Blacks —Xa
tives Hitherto Unknown who are
Skilful and Prosperous.
Lieutenant Lienart, who accompanied
Captain Van Gele in his recent journey
which solved the greatest remaining
problem of African geography, Inis re
turned to Belgium, bringing full details
of the trip by steamer for ninety-nine
days on the Mobangi River. The expe
dition prove that the Mobangi is identi
cal with the Wellc-Makua lviver, and is
therefore, the greatest northern tributary
of the Congo. The explorers found one
of the most fertile and populous regions
of Central Africa, and they met some re
markable tribes, whose pec 1 1 iarities dis
tinguish them from any other peoples
yet discovered in the dark continent.
On October 27 last the expedition,
composed of four white men and fifty
seven native boatmen and soldiers, left
Equator fetation, on the Congo, and
started up the Mobangi on the little
steamer En Avant, the first vessel
launched on the Upper Congo. The
stea ner had in tow a native war canoe
with a capacity of 100 men, on which a
part of the expedition was quartered.
About 450 miles up the river they reached
the Zongo rapids, the furthest point at
tained by Grenfoll, and there their ex
plorations began. In the next thirty
miles they passed a series of five rapids,
at two of which they were compelled to
take the machinery out of their vessel,
unship the paddle wheels, and drag her
with great difficulty on rollers over land.
Three weeks were required to pass these
rapids, above which the broad, majestic
river did not offer a single noteworthy
obstruction in the 200 remaining miles
of the ascent. The river, which for long
stretches is over a mile in width, with an
average depth of twenty eet, is bordered
by high hills, on whose gentle slopes are
hundreds of huts which in the distance
have the appearance of chaiets. Here
and there are seen in the branches of
lofty cottouw T ood tress buildings made of
branches and grass which are used merely
as posts of observation, aud which doubt'
less gave rise to the romantic rumors
Grenfoll brought home of aerial dwell
ings on the U pper Mobangi. The first
new tribe the explorers discovered were
the Bakombe, who are said to extend
over a large region between the Mobangi
and the t ongo.
The Bakombe are remarkable among
all the black races of Africa for their
unusual growth of hair, which many of
them arrange in the form of large chig
nons. Others wear their hair down their
backs in long, thin braids, which are
frequently fastened together. Captain
Van Gele makes the surprising state
ment that he saw some persons with hair j
nearly five feet long. Lieutenant Lie Dart !
says he saw some women who tied their
long braids around their arms, and that
this remarkable custom did not incon
venience them at all as they engaged
in their usual occupations. No such
abundant head coverings have been |
found among any other tribes in Africa.
For about 140 miles the river flows al- j
most due west, and new tribes are met
along the banks. Captain Van Gele j
calls this stretch of the Mobangi valley
the most fertile and populous part of
Africa he has visited. ‘T have not seen
elsewhere,” lie writes, “such an affiuence
of provisions. Everywhere are endless
supplies of bananas, maize flour, sorg- j
hum, sweet poiatoes, arachides, yams, ;
beans, sugar cane, sesamum, tobacco, !
honey, sheep, goats and fowls. My men j
had poultry in the pot every day. Our j
boat was sometimes loaded down with i
presents of food, and throughout the
journey I did not touch one of the sacks
of rice that I had taken with me from
the equator.”
Here the river is at its widest and it is
thickly dotted with islands, all inhabit
ed and under cultivation. Conical huts
begin to appear by thousands. They are
grouped in villages, sometimes forming
wide streets ihat are very neatly kept,
and again built in large circles, in the
center of which is a high mound of earth
from which their speakers address the
popular assemblages. The largest of
these tribc-s is the Banzy, who as work
ers in iron aie equaled by few African
tribes. Their iron produets are note
worthy lor their great variety and su
perior workmanship. They make lances
and arrow heads, harpoons, axes, hoes,
spades, knives, bracelets, chains, pipe
bowls, beads, little bells, and many other
articles. They are also skillful workers
in ivory, and everywhere the explorers
saw artistically turned ivory bracelets
and pins a foot long. The Banzy is the
only tribe found in Central Africa whose
women deface their upper lip by the in
sertion of the pelele, a practice that is
very common among the tribes east and
south of Nyassa.
These large tribes for about 150 miles
along the river were very friendly,
though they had never seen white men
before. They were frightened neither
by the steamer nor by the shots that
were often fired at the ducks and other
game in the stream. Often fleets of
thirty or forty canoes would paddle out
to the steamer, offering food for sale.
At the town of the head chief in the
Banzy tribe another rapid barred the
way, and it was necessary fo tow the
steamer up stream by means of a stout
The natives gathered by thou
sands to watch the operation. They
pointed out spots where daugeious rocks
lurked under the surface. They hauled
in their fish nets that were in the way,
and laid hold of the cable with right
good will, while the fetich men on the
bank made favorable invocations. When
the En Avant was safely passed the rap
ids the natives raised enthusiastic cheers,
and many of them shook hands with the
Europeans, and felicitated them upon
their success.
The most striking contrasts are found
among African tribes who live almost
side by side. A year before Wissmann
was fighting his way through the savage
Batetela tribo south of the Congo, who,
he says, are as suspicious as wild beasts,
and he can compare them with nothing
except savage dogs. Van Gele, too, had
reached the end of his peaceful advance,
and he was now destined to make his i
Way for seventy miles further up the !
Mobangi, constantly menaced and at!
last attacked by fleets of war canoes, j
The Moubongo and Yakoma thought the ,
expedition were Soudanese slave hun- 1
ters, who, it appears, have reached that !
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cwintry from the east on their devastat
ing raids.
On January 1 the En Avant struck a
rock, knocking a hole in her bow, and
during the five days that the expe
dition was encamped on an island re
pairing damages it was repeatedly at
tacked both by land and water by the
furious natives. Fortunately the whites
j were usually able, by volleys of musket
i rv, to drive the savages off before they
hud come within arrow range. Many of
the natives were killed, and in their
land attacks they lost not a few of their
dead on the island. Among the few
losses of the expedition was the killing
of the son of an important Congo chief.
It was decided not to venture further.
At the point reached by the En Avant
the Mobangi river was about a mile and
a quarter wide, and no river in Europe
empties into the sea so large a volume ol
water as this mighty river, 1500 miles
long, contributes to the Congo. —Nu
' York. Suit.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Decimal arithmetic was invented at
Bruges in 1602.
The year 1843 was the year of the
highest silver coinage between 1837 and
1850—7,180,500 pieces.
A woman in New York, seventy years
old, died recently from the bite of a cat,
that attacked her while she was at
prayer.
The first coast light in America was
established in 1673, and the first light
house on Little Rrewster island, Boston
harbor, 1715-16.
Children’s teeth are not usually pre
served after they are extracted, but a
xvealtbv California lady wears a ring in
which are set the first three teeth cut by
her three children.
A Maryland widow named Hallets set
a bear-trap at her smoke house door, and
the first catch Avas a man who was court
ing her. He had packed up 100 pounds
of bacon to carry off.
A Kingston (N. Y.) lassie of two years
and six months, Avho avus lost in the wild
woods for a day and night, electrified
her rescuers by t ie statement that she
‘Seeped widabig bear and kept warm.”
and from the nature of the case, probably
told the truth.
Mr. 11. G. Marquand. of New York,
possesses the highest-priced piano and
the costliest billiard table on this con
tinent. The piano, the case of which
was design'd by Alma Tadema, cost
§46,000, and the billiard table represents
an investment of §26,0 >O.
Smallpox is supposed to have been in
trodued into Europe from the East by
the Saracens. Rhazes, an Arabian, ac
curately describes it about A. D. SJOO.
Shortly after the discovery of America it
was brought to this country and made
great ravages among the ludians.
“Uncas,” the central character of
Cooper's “Last of the Mohicans,” Avas
not an imaginary being but, a Pequod
Indian by birth, the date of Avhich event
is not known. He died (in 1882 or
1883) at Norwich, Conn., and a granite
monument was erected over his remains.
An old lady living at Ilyde, England,
died recently, and in due course her
furniture Avas advertised for sale. On
the day before the sale one of the execu
tors carefully examined an ancient
bureau, and discovered a secret draAver
and false bottom. ,m which were upward
of one thousand sovereigns, closely
packed together.
According to the Philadelphia Times
Thomas Mauk, of Meehanicsburg,Penn.,
dreamed two years ago that he found a
pot. of money concealed in a certain tum
ble-dowm building on one of the back
streets. The dream made such an im
pression upon him that he determined to
buy the property, whiefl he lately suc
ceeded iu doing for §3OO. The' other
dav in making some repairs,he found an
old pot in a flue Avith nearly §SOOO in it.
John Sutcliff, one of the most notori
ous criminal characters in Ohio, avlio
died in Steubenville recently at the age
of ninety-five, had a national reputation
as a “fence,” and burglars from all over
the country used to dispose of their
plunder at his shop. His house was a
curiosity shop, filled from cellar to garret
Avith all kinds of spoils, and it Avas said
that he would buy anything from a pul
pit or a family Bible to a load of scrap
iron.
An Orthodox Cat.
A devout Homan Catholic lady of
Brooklyn owns a large tomcat that only
comes home to dinner on Friday, when
fish constitutes the entire meal. Whether
the animal mortifies his flesh by eating
nothing at all on the other six days of
the week, or is so fondly attached to fish
that when he can’t get it at home he
goes to look for it elsewhere, has not
be n ascertained, but he is certainly
always in the dining-room ten minutes
before the fish is placed on the table on
Friday, and on that day he turns dis
dainfully from any meat that may be
offered to him.
Once some cold tripe that had been
saved from the previous day’s dinner
was placed before him. It looked and
smelt like tish, and he seemed to be in
doubt about it. At last he cautiously
tasted it, and found, probably, that its
flavor was not unfishlike either. Being
still distrustful, however, he took it into
the back yard and buried it, and re
turned to the dining-room for his share
of the shad. The next day he came
back for the tripe, only to discover that
the house dog, having no religious scru
ples, had rooted it up and eaten it.
Since that time he has only visited his
owner at the dinner hour each Friday.—
Ntw York Sun.
Grain Bags.J
The grain bag trade on the Pacific
coast last year amounted to 83,000,000
bags, and the indications now are that
2,000,000 more will be reuuired for the
wheat crop this season. The prospect for
a large wheat yield never was better.
The entire bag capacity of the California
.lute Mill Company is about 1,250,000
per year, and not more than this num
ber can be produced by the double shift
prison force at San Quentin. The great
bulk of these goods, or over 30,000,000
bags, comes to the coast from Calcutta.
They are filled with grain and shipped to
Liverpool, and from there they are le
turned to New York as second-hand
bags, which can never again br used for
wheat, but are used for bagging vegeta
bles and mill offals. —Scientific American.
QUEER WORK FOR GIRLS,
ONLY IRON MILLS IN THE COUN
TRY WHERE WOMEN LABOR
A Glance at the Bolt Factories and
Barbed Wire Mills of I’ittsliurg
Work the Girls Do.
There are probably a thousand women
in the city of Pittsburg who Avork in
iron mills making bolt--, nuts, hinges
and barbed wire. Over three years ago
the men Avho had been working in the
bolt works gave such dissatisfaction that
the proprietors decided to try girls at
the same w r ork. The venture was such
a success that nothing would induce
them to go back to the boys and men.
Just about the same time the wire mill
was removed lrom Illinois to Pittsburg,
and as the girls were such a success iu
the bolt works it Avas decided to give
them atrial iu the Avire mill. Once again
they made a success, and the doors of the
hinge factory Avere thrown open to them.
I or just this purpose the factories were
visited to see Avhat kind of people worked
three, what prospects they had in life and
what they aimed at. At the first sight
of the bolt Avorksoue cannot believe that
anything bright or interesting could live
inside. At the call of the 6.30 a. m.
whistle girls are seen coming from all
directions toward the factory. They are
generally dressed tidy and well, and with
heir lunch baskets on their arms are not
unlike any working girl one may see.
The first thing they do after entering the
building is to change their street dress
for one to work in, tie up their hair, roll
up their sleeves, and, putting on a cof
fee-sack apron, are, ready to begin the
day's labor. At 7 o’clock the last whistle
blows, the wheels groan and screech as if
they were weary to resume another day's
work, but in a little while they begin to
move with more rapidity aud the noise
amounts to something terrific.
The bolts and nuts, as they are called,
are fashioned by the brawny men on the
first floor. In a crude state they are sent
to other departments, Avhere the finish
ing touches are applied by feminine
fingers, ofttimes by very delicate ones. I
The bolts are dumped into different bins, ,
according to size and length, and each
girl has one special kind to work on.
The first work on the bolt is to “point”
it: that is, to make a round end so that
it will enter the machine which cuts the
thread on it. The pointing machine has
an immovable socket at one side and
steam revolving knives facing.it. The
operator, Avho is knoAvn as a “pointer,”
places the head of the bolt in the socket,
presses her foot e n a pedal, and the
sharp steel knives are forced against the
iron. Little bits of the iron fly, and in
an instant she removes her foot and the
pointed bolts falls down a slide into an
iron deposit box on the floor. AVhile
the one hand and foot has been accom
plishing this the other foot supports the
girl, goo-e style, and the other hand has
got a bolt ready to be placed into the
socket the moment it is empty. Thus
for days, weeks and years, the “pointer”
handles one bolt after another for a liv
ing, being paid by the thousand. Ex- |
pert workers have pointed 10,000 bolts
a dav.
When the bolts are pointed they are
taken to the cutting quarters. These
machines are large, with deep sinks filled
with a thick black oil. The bolts are
placed in slides and pushed by the
worker up into sharp steel dies. In an
instant the thread is cut on them. The
Work is rather dangerous and care must
be exercised to keep the operators’ fin
gers from going into the open dies and
having their ends cut off instead of the
iron. The oil in which the girl is com
pelled to work in order to keep the holts
from getting hot and thereby breaking
has a very offensive odor and gradually
smears the worker from the root of her
frizzly hangs down to her run-over heels.
Girls of any age, sixteen to fifty, work
in this department. Their pay by the
thousand averages from fifty cents to $1
a day.
Little girls from six years up to twelve
put the nuts on the bolts and pack
them. The “nutting on - ’ is also accom
plished by machine power. The worker
puts a nut on the plate, then, after
catching the head of a bolt in the jaws
above, she presses her loot on the pedal,
when, presto! the work is done. At
long tables, built of substantial wood,
are rows of young girls, interspersed
with a scattering of women whom life
cast forth in their old age. They pile
the bolts, row after row, alternate heads,
then wrap them up in Strong paper.
The wire works in South Pittsburg
are the only ones of the kind in the world
where female operators are employed.
The building covers about two acres,
and, being three stories high, gives six
acres of floor space. This is packed with
girls of all sizes, kinds and descriptions,
making barbed wire. The wire proper
is made by men in another mill and
brought to this one in large coils of
about two feet in diameter, weighing
from one to 200 pounds. The first work
the girls do is to fill the spools. The coil
is thrown over a wooden drum which
resembles a bucket, bottom upward, on a
round table. The girl then puts in the
jaws of a piece of machinery a large
spool which exactly resembles the bob
bin used iu some sewing machines except
that it is of mammoth size. She then
loosens the end of the coil, fastens it to
the spool and starts the machinery. It
being automatic, she has nothing to do
but watch that things keep in order.
One spooler can attend two machines
and will supply all the wire they can use
in a day. The filled spools, or bobbins,
are distributed among the barbing
machines. These machines are long
structures, holding the spools O: wire at
one end, a table filled with barbs at the
centre and a wooden reel at the other.
The operator threads the ponderous ma
chine with the spooled wire, the lever is
turned and the work begins. With both
hands she feeds the twisting wire with
barbs. The work looks painful because
the operator must keep her hands mov
ing rapidly anti dare not turn her head
aside lest a piece go by unbarbed, in
which case she would be lined the cost of
it.
All the machines are operated in a
a similar manner, although so many
different styles of barbgd wire is made.
Then there are staple machines and wire
nail machines also run by girls.
Judge H. E. Packer, of Mauch Chunk,
Penn., has in his dining-room a side
board which cost $47,000. It covers the
whole side of a room, and is a model of
elaborate and beautiful carving.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Paper railway cars are suggested as %
possibility of the near future.
Leather is being made waterproof by a
new and cheap process in Massachusetts.
A steel car-wheel is expected to ran
50.000 miles, but very feAV of them ever
make that distance.
Science has not explained why a base
ball th own by a pitcher curves in so
many ditterent Avays.
English chemists have made the in
teresting discovery that flourine Avill
dissolve metal of any sort; even gold.
Tin-ware is made of sheets of iron
covered avith a thin coating of tin, by
dipping them into melted tin. Bridle
b ts. small nails, etc., are tinned iu the
same way.
Railways are said to consume more
than half of the world’s production of
iron, the 10,000,00 bear wheels required
in the United States alone taking more
than 2,000,000 tons.
The average age of all the people in
France is given as thirty-two years two
months and fifteen days. The average
in the I nited States is only twenty-four
years ten months and twenty four days.
It has been asserted that the rotation
of the wind in a cyclone is always from
.light to left, or against the hands of a
clock,in the Northern Hemisphere, Avhile
the rotation is directly opposite in the
Southern.
A scientist has discovered a curious
rogularity in the geographical distribu
tion of certain virtues and vices. In
temperance is found north of the fnrtv
eighih parallel; amatory aberrations
south of the forty-fifth; financial ex
travagance :n large seaports; thrift in
pastoral highland regions.
A series of experiments lately made by
a French machinist are said to have
proved that steel loses Aveiglit by rust
twice as rapidiy as cast iron Avhen ex
posed to most air. Acidulated water
Avas found to dissolve cast iron much
more rapidly than steel. From this it
Avouid seem that steel bridges arc less af
fected by the acids contained in the
smoke of the locomotives than are iron
ones.
The attention of the Freuch Academy
of Sciences has been drawn by M. Fave,
the ern nent astronomer, to the apparent
geological law that the cooling of the
terrestrial crust goes on more rapidly
under the sea than with a land surface.
From this he argues that the crust must
thicken uuder oceans at a more rapid
rate, so as to give rise to a swelling up
and distortion of the thinner portions of
the crust; in other words, to the forma
tion of mountain chains.
It has generally been believed that the
reduction in average height of French
soldiers which followed Napoleon’s wars,
due, of course, to the immense slaughter
in those campaigns, made all of those
soldiers the shortest in Europe. But,
according to a high medical and mili
tary authority in Russia, the minumum
height of the Russian and the French
conscript is about equal—five feet; while
in most othei European countries the
minumum ranges from five feet one inch
to five feet three inches.
Thr Spanish correspondent of the
Porgres Mili'aire reports that General
Pando, who has been experimenting for
some time,has invented a new projectile,
which will probably be applicable to
guns up to twenty-four centimetres.
The principle of the new shells depends
upon the reaction of two substances, both
liquid, or one liquid and the other
solid, which, separated, are harmless,
but which, being brought together by
the shock: of the projectile striking any
object, cause a violent explosion. Al
though General Pando keeps the nature
of his explosive secret,several substances
are know n which act in the manner de
scribed, and this propertjjtas been made
use of in the “land to™does” of the
Italians at Massow h, in Hart’s explo
sive cartridges and in some mining
powders used in this country.
Unwelcome Seals in Penobscot Bay.
It is not generally known, remarks the
New York Sun, but nevertheless is a
fact, that Penobscot Bay, on the coast of
Maine, is full of seals. Ten years ago
there were only a few seals in the bay,
but now they literally swarm there.
They are very shy, and cannot be taken
iu the water; but they often crawl out
upou rocks aud ledges to sun themselves,
and then there is great sport shooting
them. One tourist at Islesboro shot
twenty-eight during the season,and now
the salmon fishermen wish he had shot
them all, for the carnivoious quadrupeds
have taken a fancy for a salmon diet,
and threaten to exterminate that noble
fish in the bay and lower river. They
frequent the neighborhood of the pounds
where salmon are confined, and when
ever one of the fish pokes his head
through the meshes it is immediately
grabbed by a seal, which, if it cannot
draw the fish through the meshes bodily,
devours what part it can reach. At
Northport the other day a fisherman
took from his pound a large salmon
whose head had been entirely bitten off
by a seal, and such instances have been
noted all along the bay. The fishermen
talk of a war of extermination on the
seals, and it is really a question of which
shall go—the seals or the salmon.
Quicksand.
Quicksand is composed chiefly of small
particles of Quicksand mica mixed
largely with water. The mica is so
smooth that the fragments slip upon
each other with the greatest facility, so
that any heavy body which displaces
them will sink and continue to sink un
til a solid bottom is reached. When
particles of sand are jagged and angular
any weight pressing on them will crowd
them together until they are compacted
into a solid mass. A sand composed of
mica or soapstone when sufficiently
mixed with water seems incapable of
such consolidation.
A Great Chinese Literary Work.
In 1720 there was printed at Pekin
the “K'in Ting Kw Kin tu’ sliu tsifi
Cheng,” or “Complete Thesaurus of
Writings Ancient and Modern.” under
the auspices of Kang Hi, the enlightened
and scholarly Emperor of China. The
fruit of forty years’ labor, it filled no
fewer than 5020 volumes, with maps,
plans, and illustrative designs, but was
restricted to 100 copies, one of which
found its way in 1878 to the British
Museum Library. Chambers's Journal,
Centennial Exposition.
Cincinnati will be filled with visitors
until the last of October. In quick suc
cession, the May Musical Festival, the
National Encampment Knights of Pyth
ias, the Patriarchs Militant of the Odd
Fellows, from all parts of the country
and Canada, play ttieir parts in that city.
Beginning 4th of July, the Centennial
Exposition holds a hundred days’ jubi
lee in honor of the 100th anniversary of
the settlement of the Northwest Territory.
Not only Cincinnati and Ohio are inter
ested in this celebration, but ten other
sovereign and independent states clasp
hands and go to the aid of their sister
commonwealth, in slioAving to the world,
by means of a monster Exposition, what
marvelous changes and improvements
have taken place within their borders
within the space of one hundred years of
their history.
Why is the tramp like badly printed calico ?
He won’t wash.
For constipation, “liver complaint,” or bil
iousness, sick h’-aclaohe, and all di-eases avis
inir from a disordered condition of th • liver
snd stomach, take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pur
gative Pellets—a ge .tie laxative or active
cathartic, according to size of dose.
Anarchy is in tears. Two bieweries caught
fire la-t week.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eyewater. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle.
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