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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 ! n -2 ■n ?ni $ in* 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. 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