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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS.
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
Your Pearls.
Trnst sot the secret of thy soul with those
Who hold their treasures witn a reckless
hand ;
&>r to each ready ear thy thought disclose,
Nor to each smiling face thy heart expand.
Pearls from the ocean’s depths too pricefnl
are,
jTa be,strewn heedless at the common feet.
Show not to curious eyes the hidden scar,
Nor to the winds thy sacred words repeat:
Else under tramping hoofs thy gold shall
lie - ■
' The holy gold of thy interior self ;
Crashed the rare pearls by every passer-by,
<: Or given from hand to hand, as vulger pelf.
It is the lesson taught each separate heart
To shield its gems from universal gaze;
To shine in quiet glory and apart,
Revealed alone on coronation days.
Give freely to the world its just demand
Of sympathy, of kindness, of trust;
tent keep reserved for one beloved band
The pearls too pure to be trod down in
e: dust.
All lives znay know thy gentleness and
grace,
AD hearts thy loving power may evidence;
But on few hands—oft one alone—dare place
-The costly ring of priceless confidence.
IMPROVING HER TIME.
“Well, Aunt Antonia, what do you
think of her?”
Mr. Wayland had just come home
from business, and met his aunt in the
snug little drawing-room, where the
red plush curtains hung in such vivid
folds, and the fire glowed in the twi¬
light like a crimson jewel.
Somewhere in the room there was a
daphne-tree in full blossom. You
could smell its sweetness, even though
you could not detect its whereabouts
by means of the eye; and a bright
plumed bird whistled softly in the half
light, as if it were soliloquizing to
itself.
Bufus Wayland had not seen the old
aunt who had brought him up for a
year—a year which, to him, had been
full of eventful interest, for within its
bright cycle of months he had wooed
and won the wife who was to him the
sweetest creature in all the world.
And now, that Aunt Antonia had
returned from the South, he had looked
forward to her visit with a sense of
happy exultation.
“She will take a mother’s place to
my motherless Zoe,” he thought; “and
she cannot help admiring the dear lit¬
tle thing.”
And so he had hurried home from
his business upon this particular even¬
ing, to feast his ears on Aunt Antonio’s
tribute of delight and homage to Zoe’s
charms.
Aunt Antonia was a tall, rather stiff,
elderly lady, in black silk, with cojn
pact littte bunches of gray curls on
either side of her face, gold spectacles,
and a mouth which seemed to screw
itself together, instead of closing like
other people’s lips.
She allowed herself to be kissed af¬
fectionately by her nephew, and then
straightened out her capribbons with a
sigh.
“I think, Bufus,” said she, sepulch
rally, “that you have married a child!”
“Well, she is young,” admitted the
husband, laughing. “But she is such
a darling!”
“She can’t be twenty,” said Aunt
Antonia.
“Just eighteen,” said Bufus.
“And so unformed!” added the oM
lady who had a way of heaving up
deep sighs from the lower regions of
her lungs at the end of every sentence,
which was, to say the least of it, de¬
pressing.
“You mean—”
“No system!” said Aunt Antonia.
“No definite aim in life! No logie!”
“But,” pleaded Bufus Wayland
“what does she want of system, and
logic, and all that sort of thing?”
“Sitting on the rug reading fairy,
tales,” said Aunt Antonia, “like a baby!
And then confessing out and out, to
me, without so much as a blush of
shame, that she has never read Milton’s
‘Paradise Regained,’ and is quite ig¬
norant of Shakespeare! Any ten-year
old child ought to be ashamed to own
such flagrant ignorance! And when I
asked her about the aid societies and
charitable clubs in the neighborhood,
she couldn’t give me a single item of
information, but kissed me, and wanted
me to eat chocolate-creams out of a
pink-satin box!”
Mr. Wayland laughed.
“That is just like Zoe,” he said.
And the next instant, Zoe herself
came into the room—a beautiful young
creature, with golden hair, bound care
lessly with blue fillets of ribbon (in a
way which Aunt Antonia secretly pro
nounced “crazy fashion.”) a pale-blue
silk dress and the prettiest of high
heeled French slippers.
“Tea is ready, Bufus,” she said ; “and
we’ve made a real Maryland syllabub
for Aunt Antonia.”
Could there be anything prettier or
more lovable—the young husband asked
himself—than this gold-tressed fairy
who flitted about the room, seeming to
THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD.
create a sweet home atmosphere where
ever she went—this dimpled little
plaything who knelt on the rug, play¬
ing with the cat, and never attempted
to follow the thread of the conversa¬
tion, while Aunt Antonia and her
nephew discussed the Concord School
of Philosophy and criticised the last
volume of essays and the latest
poem?
“Because, you know, I’m not lit"
erary,” confessed Zoe, as she drew a
rosebud about the carpet to attract the
antics of pussy, and laughed a peal of
sweet, girlish laughter, when the rose¬
bud was captured at last.
But Mr. Wayland was a little graver
than usual that evening, after Aunt
Antonia and her candle had disap¬
peared, with a majesty, not unworthy
of Lady Macbeth, into her own apart¬
ment, which Zoe had filled with flowers,
old china, Turkey rugs, and all manner
of pretty trifles. Was Zoe really frivo¬
lous? or was it Chat Aunt Antonia’s
higher plane of life dwarfed her nar¬
row circle of existence?
“Zoe,” said he, “you .must have a
great deal of time?”
“Oh, plenty!” said the bride inno¬
cently.
“Don’t you think you could go
through a course of reading, which my
aunt will mark out for you? Every
lady reads nowadays.”
“But I read, too,” said Zoe, with
wide-open blue eyes.
“Solid literature, I mean,” corrected
her husband. “The English classics—
all that sort of thing.”
“I—suppose so,” said she, slowly.
“Of course, I know that you are a
dear little housekeeper,” went on
Bufus; “but my aunt reminds me that
we ought not to confine our sympathies
within the narrow range of our own
daily existence.”
“I don’t under jtand,” said Zoe,
faintly.
“Aunt Antonia will explain,” said
Bufus. “There are always clubs to
join, mutual improvement societies to
organize, charitable associations to
form. And when you have once tasted
the pleasures of the improving occupa¬
tions- -”
“Oh, yes, I know!” said Zoe. “And
I will try my best to do as you wish,
Befus.”
But there was the shadow of new
gavity on that infantine face, a pensive
intonation of the voice, which Bufus
Wayland had never heard before.
Aunt Antonia went to the book
store, and ordered home huge editions
of the classics. She began a daily
course of reading with her nephew’s
wife; she initiated her into the mys¬
teries of clubs, societies, symposiums,
until the day became all too short for
her engagements.
“Your wife is improving,” she said,
to Bufus. “I really think she is awaken¬
ing to a sense of the responsibilities of
a woman in the nineteenth century at
last.”
And Bufus kissed the peack-like,
dimpled cheek, and congratulated Zoe
on her mental advance.
But somehow the home teas not so
sw r eet and cozy. An impalpable some¬
thing was missing—the influence which
had followed Zoe’s light footsteps all
through the rooms, the glass of flowers
here, the looped eurtains there, the
sheets of music on the piano, the bird¬
cage hung in the sunshine, the delicate
dish prepared by Zoe’s own fingers, the
whipped cream, the lucent jelly, the
carefully cut-up fruits—all the pretty,
quaint devices which had descended to
this young housekeeper through a long
line of Maryland ancestors.
They had been very pleasant. Bufus
Wayland had enjoyed them as we enjoy
the sweet air and sunshine, without
pausing to think whence they came;
and he missed them now.
But, all of a sudden, the delicate lit¬
tle flower drooped, as a blue-bell droops
after a sharp September frost.
“I am not sick,” said Zoe; “oh, no!
But I feel as if there wasn’t any mor e
strength left in me. I think I won’t
get up to-day; I’ll lie in bed and rest.
No, no; don’t send for a doctor! I
don’t need medicine—I only need rest.”
Aunt Antonia stared. Herself as
strong as an iron machine, it had never
occurred to her that all natures were
not cast in the same enduring mold.
But the old family doctor looked grave,
and shook his gray head.
“She has overdone herself,” he said;
“the results may be serious. Put away
her books; don’t so muth as speak to
her about classics or societies.”
And Aunt Antonia had never, in the
course of her whole life, felt such a
pang as when the doctor whispered his
impression that little Zoe must proba¬
bly drift away from them into the
great unknown world as the autumn
crept on.
“But there is nothing the matter with
her!” pleaded she, with a mist gather
ing over the ovals of her glasses.
“That is precisely the sort of case
LINCOLOTON, GrA., FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1883.
that we physicians find most difficult
to deal with,” said Doctor Dean.
And one day Zoe put her soft, trans¬
parent little hand out upon that of her
husband.
“I am not asleep,” said she. “Don’t
keep so quiet. But sometimes my
speech and mind seem to float away
from me, and so I had perhaps better
tell you now how sorry I am that I
have been such a disappointment to
you.”
A disappointment! Zoe, my treas¬
ure !” cried out Bufus.
“I never could have been a nice lady,
like Aunt Antonia,” whispered Zoe;
“it wasn’t in me. They were killing
me—those dreadful clubs, and the long,
long pages of blank verse, and the tire¬
some plays, which I never understood.
Tell her it was very kind of her to try
and remodel me for your sake, dear;
but it never could have been done. But
I loved you, darling—oh, so well! If
I had been Sir Isaac Newton himself,
I couldn’t have loved you any better.
Always remember that, won’t you,
dear? And now I’ll try to sleep a
little.”
Aunt Antonia looked blankly at her
nephew, as the soft lids drooped over
the big, blue eyes.
“IVe have made a mistake!” she
whispered.
“Yes,” said Bufus Wayland, hoarsely,
“we have made a mistake; and if it has
lost me my little Zoe, I shall never for¬
give myself!”
And Antonia felt like a criminal.
But Zoe did not die. With tender
nursing and constant care, she recov¬
ered ; and when she was well enough
to travel, Bufus Wayland took her to
the bright Azores.
“Hang Milton and Shakespeare!”
said he. “Confusion seize all these
Mental Improvement Associations and
Intellectual Saturnalias ! Tut ’em all
together, I don’t value them as much
as one golden hair of Zoe’s dear little
head. You can’t make a stately ibis
out of a humming-bird, and I love my
dear little wife just as she is, for what
she is!”
“You’re quite sure you wouldn’t
have me any different ?” said Zoe, art¬
lessly,
“My dear !” said the young husband,
“if you were like Aunt Antonia—who,
thank fortune, has gone with a Social¬
izing Society somewhere up to the
North Pole—I should commit suidide.”
And Zoe laughed the old, sweet
laugh, and was happy once again.
Ancient Grech Manuscripts.
Many ancient manuscripts of untold
value are believed to be stored away in
the monasteries of Greece. A loss that
will never be understood to its full ex¬
tent has just been sustained in the
destruction of the monastery of Vato
pedi, which took fire through careless¬
ness of one of the monks, and, in the
absence of any appliance for extin¬
guishing the flames, was speedily
burned to the ground, Sever;d
thousand Byzantine manuscripts were
consumed in this fire. To prevent
such irreparable losses in the future,
the Greek government has sent two
.Athenian professors, Findiklis and
Kalogeras, who are experts in decipher
old manuscripts, to examine the
libraries and archives of the monas¬
teries, and to send such manuscripts as
they find of value to the natiouaf
library in Athens. These gentlemen
report that they have already dis¬
covered a great store of parchment
treasures in the monastery of Dusiko,
among them some of ancient Greek
authorship. It is said that they have
found an unquestionable tradedy by
HDschylus and one by Sophocles.
The recent census seems to prove
that the native Irish language is dying
out, although the inability to speak
English of several of the prisoners re¬
cently tried for grave crimes in Ireland
causes some speculation on the subject.
The number of persons returned by
the census as speaking Irish only in
1871 was 103,562, while in 1S81 the
number so returned was 64,167, or
39,395 less than in 1871, and that in
1871 the number of persons who spoke
Irish and English was 714,313, whife
in 1881 it was 886,765.
The Southern rattlesnake, as well as
his Northern relatives, is capable of
sending a thrill through the nervous
system of man by the mere sound of
his rattles. He is himself of a very
low nervous organization. The writer
once submitted a moccasin to the in¬
fluence of electricity, and though the
entire charge of a battery, of fifteen
“Leyden jars,” was passed through
him, no other effect was produced than
to make him raise his head, and hiss,
and yet this charge would have killed
a man or a horse instantly.
The Armstrong cannon recently
made for the Italien man-of-war Italia
costs 172,000, while the corresponding
gun to be made by Krupp will cost
$100,000.
CEIPPIKGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The butcher bird is said to impale
its victims on thorns and devour them
at leisure.
In Borne bankrupts were condemned
to wear in public black bonnets of a
sugar-loaf form.
The shortest verse in|the Bible is the
thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh chap¬
ter of St. John.
The microscope shows the hair to be
like a coarse, round rasp, but with the
teeth extremely irregular and ragged.
At a recent execution in Japan thir¬
teen strokes of a sword were found
necessary to decapitation. The edge
of the instrument had been blunted pur¬
posely that the agony of the doomed
might be as great as possible.
In the eighth century it was a «om
mon thing for the peasants and needy
persons living in the city to sell tlheir
children. In Great Britain the evil of
this practice became so great that a
special mission to abolish it was sent
from Borne.
Among the Chinese no relics are
more valuable than the boots that have
been worn by a magistrate. If he re¬
signs and leaves the city a crowd ac¬
companies him from his residence to
the gates, where his boots are drawn
off with great ceremony, to be pre¬
served in the hall of justice.
There is in Turin a tiny boat formed
of a single pearl, which form it assumes
in swell and concavity. Its sail is of
beaten gold, studded with diamonds,
and the binnacle light at its prow is a
perfect ruby. An emerald serves as
its rudder, and its stand is a slab of
ivory. It weighs less than half an
ounce; its price is $5,000.
There is a watch in a Swiss museum
only three-sixteenths of an inch in
diameter inserted in the top of a pencil
case. Its little dial not only indicates
hours, minutes and seconds, but also
days of the month. It is a relic of the
times when watches were inserted in
snuff boxes, shirt studs and finger
rings. Some were fantastic—oval,
octangular, cruciform, or in the shape
of pearls, tulips, etc.
The President of the German Diet.
Law and usage have united to give
the president of the diet a position
widely different from that of the
“speaker” in England or America. His
powers are in some respects more, in
other less, extensive. He appoints no
committees, and is therefore without
that opportunity to reward friends and
influence legislation. He can with
difficulty create precedents by his rul¬
ings, and contributes little to the body
of parliamentary law. Even his pow¬
ers of discipline and police are to a con¬
siderable extent shared by the vice
presidents and the secretaries, who are
consulted in every serious crisis. But
on the other hand he has no little in¬
fluence in shaping the course of debate,
through the practice, which may be,
but seldom is, contested, of fixing the
“order of the day,” or programme of
business of each session. The ratio of
ambitious orators is much smaller in a
German than in an American parlia¬
ment. Precedence is less anxiously
considered; time counts for less; and
there is less wrangling over points of
order and procedure. A debate is a
very formal affair, the names of those
who desire to speak being commonly
submitted to the chair in advance, and
by him arranged into a convenient suc¬
cession of pres and contras, who follow
one another with depressing regular¬
ity, much like boys in a village lyceum.
In general it may be said that while in
Germany, as in America, the speaker
ship is a mark of party confidence, it is
not, owing to the different conditions
of political life, treated as a step to¬
ward higher honors, elective or ex¬
ecutive.
This statement holds true, moreover,
not only of parliamentary prominence
as recognized in the person of the
president, but also of parliamentary
prominence on the floor and in debate.
It is seldom rewarded in the formation
of cabinets, and can claim for itself
nothing from the state. There are men
in the German Beichstag whose foren¬
sic talents would adorn any legislativt
body in the world, and who presum¬
ably, if in office, would develop admin¬
istrative talents not inferior to those
of the forum, who in England or France
could command, and, if party condi¬
tions were favorable, would receive,
portfolios in the ministry, but who
under the- German system may spend
their lives in unprofitable debate, with¬
out ever being invited to share the work
of construction and execution.— Har¬
per's Magazi ne.
_
At the funeral of a woman, the pall¬
bearers were six women wearing black
dresses and whito vails and gloves.
They carried the coffin from the house
to the hearse, into and out of the
church and lowered it into the grave
In bats the heart is aided by rhvth
mio contraction in the wing
A PATERS A I. G O YERSMEST.
Mf. *■ Ticket, for Erery
You cannot live in Saxony
handling an assortment of yellow
tickets every day. You get a ticket
for everything. When you pay your
fare on the street car the conductor
gives you a yellow ticket. Before
reaching the end of your trip, another
official enters the car and tears a comer
ff the ticket. If you send a package
by express you receive a yellow ticket,
If you send money by mail you get
two yellow tickets, one for the con
signee and one for yourself, and when
the consignee receives the money he
also receives a yellow coupon, and
signs a yellow ticket. When you buy
a bill of goods in a store you are
handed a yellow ticket, and when they
are delivered at your house the bundle
boy gives you another yellow' ticket
and takes the one you first received. I
don’t know whether the minister who
officiates at a w'edding gives the bride
and groom yellow tickets or not, but I
believe they must have one when their
first baby is bom. If you live at 3796
B street, and you move to 3795 A
street, you must go to the city hall and
get a yellow ticket. If a servant girl
leaves Mrs. X, and goes to work for
Mrs. XX, she must also go to the city
hall and get a vellow ticket. It is
probable that tha Saxon goes into the
next next world worm witn with a a vellow yellow ticket ticket in m his his
hand, but that is another point upon
which I have no definite information.
All this seems very strange and very
funny to an American until he has in
quired into it thoroughly, and then it
strikes him that the plan is an excel¬
lent part of an excellent system. In
the street car, for instance, there can
be no such thing as "knocking down.”
The brace bell-punch will not work,
every passenger must have a receipt
for his fare, and he must show it to the
official who tears the comer off. Every¬
body knows the value of receipts for
packages sent and received, whether it
be express, by post, or by bundle-boy.
The books of the city hall will tell
you where every man in Chemnitz re¬
sides, the number of the street as well
as the number of the flat; they will tell
you whether he is married or
whether he lives with his parents or
rooms alone; how many children he
has; how old he is; how old his wife is,
and how old his children are; what his
trade is; whether he keeps a servant ]
girl; what he pays her; how much his
income is; where he was born, etc
etc. They will tell you in a word, anv
thing that is possible *, to hnd out con
, himself . and ,,. his , business. . TT He
cerning
cannot sail under false colors. If he
pretends to have an income of 10.000 ’ i
marks , , he must i
per annum pay an in
come tax on that amount or prove that
he has been talking too big. If a mer¬
chant is thinking of hiring a man, he
can, within forty-eight hours, discover
whether his prospective employe has
ever been mixed up in a dishonorable
scrape,and determine whether or not the
acocnnt given by the man regarding
his own is true.
There is another feature of this
system which is remarkable. If you
know the number of the house where
a certain man lives, whose history you
are anxious to ascertain, but you cannot
possibly find out his name in any other
way, you can go to the city hall and
have not only his name, but his entire
record, placed before you in a short
time. The number of the house tells
the story. But you cannot get infor¬
mation about Tom Dick or Harry
simply to satisfy an idle curiosity or
for purposes of blackma You mustil
show cause for seeking the history of
Tom, Dick or Hary; your own name is
entered as having called at the city hall
at such a time for such and such a
purpose; and if you use the infor¬
mation which you have received un¬
lawfully you will be punished severely.
A Voluntary Act.
Who says that women are hard to
please in reference to husbands ? A
onsignment of fifty women will be
dispatched in a few days from Bor
deaux to Numea at the expense of the
French Government and o.u the dis
tinct understanding that on reaching
their destination they must contract
marriage with those convicts whom
the local authorities wish to reward for
good conduct by conferring wives upon
them. It should be explained that
these women have not been pressed
into the service. Although old offen¬
ders, they are going to Numea of their
own free will to settle down as respec¬
table convict’s wives. How the match¬
making will be carried on is at present
unexplained.
The Elizabethan ruff is an ornamen¬
tal adjunct to a square-cut bodice in
jet for black dresses, in pearls for
white ones. The high collar, edged
and encrusted with beads, on a wire,
stands out well from the neck, resting
on the shoulder, and the front is a
pointed stomacher, also beaded.
Chinese Temples anil Pagodas.
There are more than a hundred tem
P les of heathen worship in Canton
them we will mention four: 1
^he “Temple founded of in the A. D., Five o_0, Hundred and re
In this temple are 500
hfe-sized images, seated in long rows,
and representing that number of noted
disciples of Buddha, now deified. Each
ima 2 e 13 carved and richly gilded
Some of these gods are in
rich 8 armems and some in rags. Some
are wearin g shoes, others are shoeless.
^ orne are lau ghing and some are weep
in £' “Temple of the Five Genii.”
According to Chinese tradition, away
^ack years before Christ, one day
dve g en ii came riding through the air
on five rams - They stopped on the
S P 0< ' w here Canton now stands, and
sa * d t0 some people who stood there:
“ Ma V famine never visit your markets.”
-
delivering this benediction, the
dve £ en ‘‘ departed, but the five rams
were turne d to stone. This temple
conta i ns the images of the five genii,
311 d preserves the five stone rams. The
° ld ° ame for Canton is “City of Bams.”
Temple of Horrors, so named from
th ®. fac * that ther e are ten rooms in
" blch the torments of the Buddhist
liellare represented by life-sized, clum
* 7 , horrid-looking figures. In one room
men and women are being transformed
’ nto animals, ’ according to the Buddhist
■ Tn ..
g “
room the devils are grinding a man in
a mill, while the blood is flowing o u
between the stones. And so on, from
room to room, some are being be
headed, otherj thrown into caldrons,
of boiling oil, with devils to stir them
round in the burning bath. Here a
man is being beaten terribly with
bamboos, and there a man is being
sawn assunder lengthwise. In one
room a man ig pounded in a mortar,
in another one is sitting under a great
red-hot belL 4. “Temple ot Honam,”
grandest and most famous of all, w ith
its magnificent gateways, its grand
shaded avenues, its colossal Buddhas,
its vast monastery with fifty monks, its
beautiful gardens with dwarf trees and
rare flowers, and finally its cremation
furnace, where the dead monks are
reduced to ashes. It is a docigine of
the Buddhist faith that every one
should do what he can to prevent the
taking of any life, human or animal.
Hence the monks have places on these
grounds where they have for years pre
served sacred pigs, hens, ducks, fish,
and goats, until they die a natural
death. j
There , P , are several , pagodas , in . Canton, ,
of which two are quite noted. The
“Five-story Pagoda” on the city wall
. hue of thrcity and
gives a view conn
try. As its name indicates it is five
stones high. These pagodas j are always -j
an odd ,, number , of - stones , . m . , height, . , A
rarely "eleven. less than five and seldom more
than The “Flowery Pagoda,”
in the Tartar sections of the city, is
nine stories high, giving it a great ele¬
vation. It has windows and balconies
in each story, and a winding stairway
inside leads to the top. The pagoda is
a thing of beauty,” hence its name. It
was erected in the sixth century of the
Christian era, and was thoroughly re
paired about 500 years ago. The Chinese
have a tradition that if ever this
pagoda falls, evil will befall the city;
hence they expend large sums of money
in keeping it in repair. Pagodas are
not erected from religious considera¬
tions only, but they are built to give
good luck. Where a pagoda stands,
the Chinese say Dusiness will prosper
and crops be more abundant.
Canned Goods.
The consumption of all kinds of can¬
ned goods has increased rapidly of late
years both at home and abroad, though
our exportations says a New York
paper are restricted by an apparently
unfounded prejudice in Europe against
the American article. Canned salmon
and oysters are our principal exporta
lions in this line. A comparatively
small amount of corn is exported,
though some goes to London and to
Germany. The home consumption of
canned corn, however, is very large,
and it is thought that canned goods
generally, corn included,will ultimately
be among the most important of our
exportations, One of the largest
in New York estimates the
total annual production of canned corn
in the United States at 800,000 cases of
two dozen cans each, or in all 19,200,
000 cans of corn. Yet a large quantity
of tomatoes is consumed. Another
dealer says that about one-half of the
canned coin is packed in Maine from
Maine corn.
A farm item remarks that in fly-time
cows should be kept in stalls. This is
for the convenience of the fly, increas¬
ing his opportunity of concentration,
and economizing much valuable time
that would be otherwise consumed in
chasing a frisky heifer through a ten
acre lot.
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 25.
VARIETIES.
It i3 gtated that there will ^ forty
con tested seats in the Forty-eighth
Congress.
A well at Snapps, a small village in
Woodruff eounty, Ark., flows water
that is as sour as vinegar,
The bell used at Wellesley college,
Massachusetts, is from an ancient
Budhist temple in Japan,
Parties in Western New York are
furnishing maple logs to be shipped to
Belgium. They are quite a curiosity
over there.
True glory takes root, and even
spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers,
fall to the ground; nor can any coun¬
terfeit last long,
Among the articles which were taken
from the mails during the past year
were cans of dynamite and loaded pis
tols, as well as bowie knives and other
sharp instruments,
One vessel was lost at sea every
four hours during 1881, according to
the English Nautical Gazette. In
1879-80 there were 400 steamboat
collisions in the North Atlantic Ocean.
a young man who was told by his
employer that his services were no
longer nee ded, but was given no expla
nation> said that he consider ed his
^charge ite „ oat of place .>
fa, nc * h 13 ^J^ritoTtreef the ........ favorite street costume, emtnrne
The imported cloth overdresses are in
the long pelisse and great-coat shapes,
... a , . rt , of . , Yet , . eaVll Y e P ped
_ ve
’ '
ottoman silk, .
or o e.
A Philadelphia inventor has worked
tor a year trying to make a pin which
women would not put in their mouths,
He has succeeded, but don’t expect tc
sell many. The pms are as big as rail
roa, d spikes.
A young politician explained the
tattered condition of his trousers to his
father by stating that he was sitting
under an apple tree enjoying himself
when the farmer’s dog came along and
contested his aoat,
Custer county, Montana, is the larg
est county in the United states. Its
area is 36,000 square miles. It i s larger
than the States of Vermont, Xew
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Delaware
and Bhode Island, all combined,
The police at several towns in West
rjhalia £t in no“us Germanv droids have nublished Sch a
o f th e of
place> md hotel-keepers are forbidden this
t0 sell i iquors t0 the persons
p rescr ihed.
At ,, Birmingman, England, „ , , a potted ...
meat . manufacturer , , got ° . himself ,. into . , a
serlous . 3cra _ P e 0 , e " er ,, a “ Q
- A
? ie ? eS ° ./ Jr ” a y ecompose orse
flesh, , besides large ^ quantities ^ of dis
^ and been fouM on
t his . premises . m various stages of “pre
paration for „ potted . , meat. . -r-,.. Fifty 5. tins
* 1 -
of dul , , V “P re P ared meat were also ,
-
^und, which, on examination, proved
t0 be totaU y unfit for human food ’
The Turtle Industry.
Few people have any adequate idea
of the quantity of turtles which are
consumed in this country. New York
furnishes the chief market and they
come into that port every Vear from
150,000 to ISO, pounds. Philadelphia
comes next after New York, and Balti¬
more stands third on the list, these two
cities, taking together probably 50,
000 pounds, while Boston has never
developed any great fondness for this
article of food, and is satisfied with
about 2,000 pounds a year. Turtles are
most plentiful during the summer, and
not seldom are brought to New York
in larger quantities than the market
demands, in which ease they are placed
in floating cars in the slip behind
Fulton market and fed until they are
wanted. While thus confined they are
given cabbages, lettuce, celery-tops and
watermelon-rinds, this latter article of
diet being the turtle’s special weak¬
ness. They can only be kept in the
river, however, during the summer
months and September, as a tempera¬
ture below forty degrees kills them.
Turtles vary in size from a few pounds
to over a quarter of a ton, the largest
ever brought to the New York market
having weighed 560 pounds. The sizes
most in demand, however, are from
fifty to seventy-five pounds, and the
customers are almost invariably hotel
and restaurant keepers. In Philadel¬
phia there is more demand for small
turtles, weighing from six to twelve
pounds, for family use. The price
varies from twenty cents in winter to
as low as ten cents in summer.
The turtles sold in New York eome
for the most part from Key West.
Another source of supply is the Ba¬
hama Islands, the turtles from which
region are rather small but toothsome,
seldom weighing above 100 pounds,
and averaging about twenty-five. The
largest turtles are found in the Spanish
Main, but their flesh is apt to be coarse,
and they are, therefore, not usually con¬
sidered so desirable as those from the
Bahamas or Key West.