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HARLEM. GEORGIA
PVBI.ISHI !> EVERY THURSDAY.
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mif'tific mcrahm.
The recent wertlon* by inMters of
veMds, that relined petroleum in tin
cmm exerts an influence on the com
. lUMS equal to the same amount of
iron or steel. haa attracted much at
tention. and it lx expected that means
of protection will in a short time be
devised.
Electricity has been brought to the
aid of the sportsman by the use of a
small lamp for the front sight of a ri
fle, to render It visible in the dusk, or
when, from any cause whatever, there
Is Insuflicient light. Ihe minute elec
tric lamp is fixed near the muzzle of
the gun, and shielded by a metalic
screen. The current is supplied by a
small battery In the stock.
Experiments are making in I’hlla
dalphla with the talepherage system.
The object is to transport packages, up
to eight hundred or one thousand
pounds' weigld, upon cables strung on
wires, by means of electric motors.
Two cables are. used, one above anoth
er, the package being suspended on
the upper ami steadie I on the lower
one. It is an English invention, and
has been used in a South Americah
mine.
In a paper on the size of the brain
in extinct animals, I’rof. Marsh, of
Yale college, has brought forward the
■ •markable fact that In the race for
life during the past ages the survival
of any particular group of animals de
pended on the size of their brain as
compared with that of their content
]«>raries of the same class. Bruins
won then, ax now, and the brain of
aid nals crushed out of existence was
always found to be relatively smaller
than that of those outliving them.
A wild aquatic plant, called the
It I odea I'anadeiisis, first discovered in
the rivers of Canada at the beginning
of the present century, has recently
been found on the banks of .the Oka
river, near Moscow. In Germany the
plant is called the “Wasserpest,” (wa
ter plague,) its vegetation being so
rapid that, under favorable conditions
as to soil and climate, it soon forms
such a dense tangle of leaves and
stems us to make navigation impossi
ble.
The curious question has been asked,
why oaks and elms are especially lia- ;
bin to be struck by lightning. It was
declared in 1787 that the elm,chesnut,
ak and pine were thetrees most of
ten struck In America; and in 1860
.Mr. 0. .1- Symons stated that the elm,
oak, ash and poplar were the most
frequently struck in England. A
Madgeburg record reports injuries to
265 trees, 165 behrg oaks, 65 Scotch
firs, 22 pines, and 20 beeches. It has
been suggested that the frequency
with which oaks are struck is due to
the presence of iron in the wood.
A Vaccine Factory.
A Greenwich, Conn., correspondent
writes: in a cow-housn at the side
of tile old turnpike road, in the quaint
village of Cos Cob, two calves can bo
seen on almost any day strapped to a
bench, their feet sticking up in the
air and lots of quills protruding from
their bixlles. Around the room are
razors, knives, bundles of quills and
ropes. A man is usually in attend
ance. This is n vaccine factory, one
of the first established in this country.
The quills remain for a short time in
the flesh of the calves. As soon as
they become tilled with mucus —vac
cine, as ft is called they are pulled
out, sealed up air tight, and in lime
do duty all over the world, finding
their way to Germany and Australia
Some people imagine that the calves
are killed by the process, or are
»o injured as to be unlit for use. This
is not the case, but it is claimed that
they are made mon- healthy by hal
ing these sores, for that is all the harm
done to them. They seem to sutler
very little, and after a few days frisk
about ax lively as ever. Calves of two
colors are preferred at the factory,
white and red. and only strong and
healthy ones are selected. "Often
times people come to the factory to be
i .xf-nateil," said the attendant. "They
are afrxi I they won’t get the right
stuff puts c.Uf vaccine. lam not a
d>- tor. xml th»doctor-don't like it very
ne.. 1 just 11Its mis knife that 1 cut
the - alves with; so I cut the arm as 1
cut the calf. 1 pul! «. <j M jU f rom t h»
raif and put it in the eyt or scratch
Twy smile, take a look at tXe calf, an
go lo ne, sure that it s took.* Then
is mire d< mand for vaccine at t!.» pre
■ent tin - than at any previous tun.
during ti*» Live \ears » as!.
( iKcr»n charged cue hundred nil
fifty vK L.*r» fkir »hv privilege of exhibit
iDg iu Alacvt, bi
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON-
CHOICE OE A HI SBAMI
I T' <t “Th** Lnnl grant you that’*» may
<«di of vou id the immim* of In-r hua-
■ linn*l Huth l- ( ** .
I I Lin WIE- the pre .er pi"<> Nnorni fir
Ruth find Orpah. I*-. an the pint h'-r It
•in an appropriate pray-r now m to h* Ifof
I uniimrin*! Hornarih'Mxl Saoinl. the k* 1
“ilXl kn.-w that Ibedr i-il »* old txke their
in hand if Go>l did not, anti *) *h»*
f.rav- Th* I xml grant you that ve may
- t »m» hos V'-u in th** lioum* <>' her nu*-
liand I applaud lb<- Miliary of a multitude
,t women woo rather than make mint «*•!**
I,on have made none at all It has not been
, lack or opportunity for marital contract on
.art. imt their own ■ niton- and r.-lin. ■
n, nt nwl »b**ir exalted idea Io what a hiifr
i tand • ugbt to have <uu m*l th* ir hna-
i ,n Th-v bav. *- nmo many w »m.-n marry
i]«*m or ruffian*, or m< intent sote or lire
tin.p or magnificent nothing* or
fn'-n who before marriage were angelic and
-kfU-rwaid diatmlk, that they hav»* te-n
aiarmwl and *tood lark. They miw >o many
|w«t g<» into the mnelwtroih that they
into other water* Better for a woman to
Ih.. hI-.im'. thmigh *he lived a thousand year*,
than u, I* anm*x<l to *om** of thwae mtiMrubne
failure with whi< hwx iHy i* uurfeitod. Ihe
ration saint of alni-M. every family < in le to
«>me mi< h unmarried woman, and among all
th- famili<* of rouaina »he mov<* around, and
h»*r coining in cardi hou.** i* the morning and
tier going away ix the night.
hi my larg»- <-ir< le of kindred, j«rhap«
t w ent y f amily- in all, it wax an Aunt I’bod* 1 .
Paul gave H letter of introduction to one
whom he < alia “Phiebe, our gtoter,” as *he
went up from (!eD<’hrea to Rome, commend
ing her for her kind new an<l Christian service,
and imploring for her all courtwm* I think
Aunt Pliiebe wax named after her Uas
th»'ie a -i< kn»*« in any of the bouxeboldx, she
wn there ready to aft up and count out the
Jropa of me<li« ine Wax there a nuirriage,
ihe n< l|M<l <le«-k th»* bride for the altar Was
there a new soul incarnated, she wax there to
rejoice at the nativity. Was there a sore
berea\rme;it. she was there to consol". Ilie
"hildren rushed out at her first apjx’araive
crying. ‘ Here comes Aunt Pho lx*,’ and but
for j«rcutai inb rference they would have
pulled her down with their cares Ms. tor she
wax not very strong, and many severe illnesses
bad given her enough glinips*** of the next
world to make her h» a\enly min«|ed.
“He Witt,” »he said U> me one day, “twice
in my life I have Ixsn so overwhebne<! with
the love of God that I fainted away and could
hardly Im» resuscitated. Don't Udi me there to
no heaven. I have wm it twice. If you
would know how her presence would soothe
an anxiety or lift a burden, orche< r a sorrow
or le«v< a bbtwing on every ro , nn in the house
axk any of the Talmages. She has tarried
at her t ally home, taking < are of an invalid
father, until the blo<id of life had somewhat
huh d. but she could inb rest the young folks
with some three or four tender in
her own history, so that we all knew that it
wax not through lark of opportunity that she
was not the <pi«**n of one household, instead
ot Ix ing a benediction on a whole circle of
households. At about seventy years of age she
mad** her last visit so my house, and when
she sat in mv Philadelphia church I wax more
umlMirrnxHftd at her presence than by all the
audience, liecaure I felt that in religion I had
got no further than the A B C, while she ha<l
learntsl the whole alphabet, and for many
>ears had finished the Y and Z. When she
went out of this life into the next what a
shout there must have Ixsui in heaven from
the front d<Mir clear up to the Lack seat in the
highest gallery. 1 saw the «ith< r day in the \il
lngei'cmetery of Somerville, N. .1., her rest ing
pla"e. the tombstone having on it the words
, which thirty years ago she told me she would
like to ha\c insx rilM-d there, namely, ‘‘The
morning comcth Had she a mission in the
world? Certainly. As much as Caroline
Hci -. hel, ns much ax had Florence Nightin
gale, th<> nuiM‘ of i ’rimea, or Grace Purling,
the oaniwoman of the Ixuig Stone lighthouse,
or Maiu.O ' t Brv« kenridge at Vicksburg or
Mary Sn Itdn distributing row's anil grapes
4 wild cohigne in Western h<»spitai, or thousands
of other glorious women like them, who never
took the marriage sacrament. Appreciate
all this, my sister, ami it will make you de
, liberate liefore vou rush out of the single
•lute into another unless you are sure of
betterment. It is easier for a man to find
an appropriat** wife than for a woman to
find a good husband. Statistics show that in
Massachusetts and New York States women
have a majority of hundreds of thouxan ls.
It would seem that woman is a favorite with
the lx>rd, and that therefore he has made
more of that kind. From the order of the
creation in Paradis*' it is evident that the
woman is an improved edition of man.
Whatever l»o the reason for it, th? fact is
certain that she who hs tx a husband has a
smaller number of people to select from
than he who selects a w ifv. It a man err in
his selection he can spend his evenings at the
club and dull his st nubilities by tobacco
smoke, but woman has no club-room for
refuge, and would find it difficult to habit
uate hcrxelf to cigars If a woman makes a
l»ad job of marital selection the | r >babilitv
is nothing but a funeral can relieve it. Pi
vorev <a.se- in court may inti rest tin* pu!«
lie, but the love letters of a married < <>uple
arc |xa»t remimg except for those who wri o
them Pray G<sl that you lx- delivered from
irrev- able mistake, it you have made su h
vnzn.? ment \ nr fl s.‘ dut y is to break it.
Forth r H not unite in marriage with a
ii st of Imi I habits in the idea of reforming
him. If now, under th" restrain* ’ •>u»
j'lr-M-nt • .j i.tiii'.!-' i. hr will not gtre up‘. —s
’.•i lln -it.-,.i. !• h I w< n the prtn* you
at n >t < \p. t h. u to d. You might as
w. pla-it a \ iol. ’ ' th" five of a t orth
a ( ci w ith the .ha < l ayi•• m neg it You
• 1 a • '.o II run a -> I -•n t alongside of a
i o.; 'up w .’h th" idea of savmg the ship.
I ner and ship
i ill lw* d -i! together II? almshouse
• •ill It»ii th i \ a, hund-.ed uonien who
mm nod ii.. nto reform them. If by tw« nty
the y«.:rs of age a man has Ixs-n gr* -
bx hi’ ».\i otion hr is under such he:. ay
that x oui attempt to stop bun would l»e
verx mu h like running un the track
with a wheelbarrow to step a Hu«ls»»n River
train Wk.it yon .all an inebriate
nowadays is not a victim to wine or whisky,
i but to logwiH*! and strychnine and
t ivx' im-.i \lltb. '' p .-"iis have kindled
(heir tli-es in his tongue and brain, and all
■•• team a wtfehi weeping cannot extin
guish the tlamev Intend of marrying a
man to reform him. let him refonu first and
th< n give him time to w h«‘th"i thr reform
:s to lie js rmanent. lx t him understand that
• f he I'annot do xvithout his Uui habits
t- r two xofirxhe must do without you forever.
\v id uni* n with one supremely selfish or
so wound up in his oe« iqiation that he has no
i s»m for another. His disposition is a long
dfe protest against marriage Some nre so
•uai 1 1< dto their occupation or profession that
! the toking of anx other bride is a cc. ieaf big
ainx. There are m< n > tied to their
literal x xxorks a> wa* Cliattcrtou, whov* ee>
sax was not printed In*-atw of th? death of
th" had mayor Chatterton made out the
I follow ing a«vount: “IwM by the lord mayor's
'death in this essay, tme pound, elvxen >hil
-1 ’’iP*. >i\|* nee < tamed in elegies an I essays,
JL'> p.i i P .-’ i fix. kilim. Th : h<‘ fait
at he had gained bv the lerd mover's death
op|M*sitc to w ' at t»e had lost, and xxn*U* under
: Am gl -.-l he s dead bv th-w is.unds,
thirteen s..dhm.x and Wk na
man > as ho«*4essh ht< in-' h . he ought
to I sap ns tux', v Kate S .me f the nr.dit
lest men this world exer saw Imve no. :«t*
10t...-" !..«;: u.i.-ux ('own r. 1 « ;*■. Nrwton.
Swift, 1.-• ~ I v-i. Hume. Ar-
Inithr. ! wen' -uu!•». Some of tlie-.- mar
riage would lune b< l|<-d. The right kin.i of
a w»!e xvvuM ha'* cunxi Coxvper's gLxun
«n<l given to Newton ukhy' pra. fi ability
and been a relief to lock, s owrtaxkt\l
beam. A Christ.an wife might have »vn
, xerted Hume aid Gibbon to a la-ltof in Chris.
' Canity Rut IX an 8w ift did imX a
* v e from the way in w hich he Icoke the
Z f J,u>e first and EsthirJohn-
< •T 1 of an ’ ' *»*** The
mai wit of hu day. be wa* outwitted b v ius
own rrueltto*. Beranw m<*t marriages are
fft to mail** r<rnvin't*» ux that thev are di
vine! \ armngwl. Almost every < rmlle hax an
nffirctv toward xomc other cradle. They may
lie <>ii th** opfM*ite *id«* of the <*arth. but one
• hil l "< tx out of thto cradle, another < hild
g/ts out of that cradle, end with their ftr*t
toetM thex -tart for each other. They may
diverge from the straight |«th. going toward
the north or xouth or eaxtor west. They may
fall down, but the two rixe sac ing wh other.
Thev are approaching all through infancy.
The'one, all through the years of Iwiyhood, to
going to meet the one v ho to coming through
all the year* of girlh'md to meet him. Th<- <le
nof pan a» to whai to best <<-n ma
ing them and the ciiang»« of fortune may for
a time M*?m to arrest the two journeys, but
on they go. Tliey may never have xef*n each
other Th'* may never have h<*ar<l of each other,
but the two pilgrims who started at the
two cradles are m-aring. After eighteen or
twenty or thiity years the two
corne within sight At the first
glam* they may feel a dislike and
th<*y may hlm ken their step. Yet something
that the world < allx fato and that religion
call* Providence urges them on and on. They
must meet. They come near enough to join
hands in soc ial acquaintance, after while to
join hands in friepitohip, after aw hile to join
hearts. The delegate from the one cradle
cornea up the eaxt side of the church with her
father. The delegate from the other cradle
comes up the west aisle of the church. The
tw o long journeys end at the snowdrift of the
bridal veil. The two chains made out of
many years are forged together by the gddrn
link which the groom pute upon the third
finger of the left hand. One on earth, may
they be one in heaven.
But there are so many exceptions to the
general rule of natural affinity that only those
are safe who pray for a heavenly hand to
lead them. Because they depended on them
srlves ami not on God, there are thousands of
women every year going to the slaughter. In
India women l‘ ,ft p on the funeral pyre of a
dear! husband. Vve have a worse spectacle
than that in America—women innumerable
leaping on the funeral pyre of a living hus
band. Thrust your hand through the cag *at
a menagerie and stroke th'* luwk of a cobra
from the East Indies. Put your head in the
mouth of a Numidian lion to see if he w ill
bib*. Take a glassful of Paris green mixed
with some delightful h'nbane. Thc:e are
safer and healthier fun than answeringa l
vuh-o nents for a wife. Murry a man who
is a fortune in himself. .Houses, biml* and
large inheritance are well enough, but th • w h *o
of fortune turns so rapidly that throng
<omc inv<*stment all those In a few years may
lw om . There are some things, however,
that are n iM»!jM*tual fortune—good man
m*rs. niality of soul, kindness, intelligence,
Hymputhv, < ourage, perseverance, industry
and wholcheai-teuness. Marry such a one
ami you have marri<sl a fortune,*whether he
have an income *now of $50,000 a year or an
income of SSOO. A bank is secure according
to its capital stock, and not to be judged by
the depisits for a day or a week. A man is
rich according to his sterling dualities and not
according to tha vacillation of circumstances
which may leave with him a large amount of
resources'’to-day and withdraw them to
rn* <i -tow. If a man is worth nothing but
money he is poor indeed. If a man have up
right character he is rich. Property may
come and go, he is independent of the mar
kets. Nothing can buy him out, nothing can
r *ll him out. He may have more money one
year than another, but his better fortunes
never vacillate.
Yet, do not expect to find a perfect man. If
you find one without any faults, incapable of
mistakes, never having guessed wrongly, his
patience never hax ing been perturbed, im
maculate in speech, in temper, in habits, do
not marry him. Why* Because you would
enact a swindle. What would you do with
a Derfectman who are not perfect yourself?
And how dare you hitch your imperfection
fast on such supernatural excellence! What
a companion you would make for an angel!
In other wof ds, there are no perfect men.
There never was but one perfect pair, and
they slijijwd down the banks of Paradise to
gether We occasionally find a num who
says he never sins. We know' he lies when he
says it. We have had financial dealings with
tw'o or three perfect men and they cheated
us wofully. Do not, therefore, lo k for an
iinmiwulate husband for you wilL not find
him.
But do not become cynical on this subject.
Society has a great multitude of grand men
who know how to make home happy. When
they come to be husbands thev evince a no
bility of nature and self-sacrificing spirit that
surprise even the wife. These are the men
who sit cheerfully in dark and dusty busi
ness offices, ten feet by twelve, in summer
time hard at work, while the wives and
daughters are off at Saratoga, Mount Desert
or the White Sulphur. These are the men
who, never having much education them
selves. have their sons at Yale and Harvard
and Virginia university. These are the mon
who work themselves to death by fifty years of
age and go out to Greenwood leaving largo
estates and generous life insurance
provision for their families. There
are husbands and fathers here by
the hundmis who would die for their house
holds. If outlawry should ever becinne dom
inant in our cities they would stand in their
doorway and with their one arm would cirave
down one by one fifty invaders, face to face,
f<M)t to foot, and every stroke a demolition.
This is w hat makes an army in defense of a
country fight more desperately than an army
of conquest. It is not so much the abstract
sentiment of a Hag as it is a wite and children
and home that turns enthusiasm into a fury.
The world has such men by the million, and
the homunculi that infest all our communities
must not hinder women from appreciating
the glory of tru • manhixwl.
1 was reading of a bridal reception. The
young man had brought home the choice of
his heart, in her elaborate and exquisite ap
parel. As she stood in the gay dra wing-room
and amid the gay group the young man's
eves tilled with tAirs of joy as he thought
that she was his. Y<*ars passed by and they
stood in the same jiarlor on another festal oc
casion. She won* the same dress, for busi
ness had not opened as brig) t to the young
husliand as he expected, and he had never
l»een able to purchase for her another dress.
Her face was not as bright and smooth as it
had l»een years before, and a careworn lo»>k
had made its signature on her coumeiinnee.
As the huslmud looked at her he saw the dif
ference l»‘t ween this occasion and the former,
and he went over where she sat and said:
‘‘You remember the time when xve were here
before. You have the same dress on. Cir
cumstances nave somewhat changed, but you
look to me far more beautiful than you did
then. ’ There to such a thing as conjugal
fidelity, and many of you know it in your
own homes. I imagine the hour for w hich
you pledged your truth has arrived. There
Is much merry-making among your young
friends, but there is an undertone of sadness
in all the house. Your choice may have lk*en
the gladdest and the l>est. and the joy of the
whole round of relatives, but when a young
eaglet is about to leave the old nest and is
preparing to put out into sunshine anti storm
tor it.sc'lf it feels its wings tremble
somewhat. So she has a gtxxi cry
l**fore leaving home. and at the
marriage father ami mother always cry, or
feel like it. If you think it is easv to give up
a daughter in marriage, though it lie with
brightest prospects, you will think different
ly xvhen the day conies. To liave all along
watclasl her from infancy to girlhood, and
from girlhood to womanhood, studious of her
xvelfare, her slightest illness an anxiety, and
h**r in your home an ever-increasing
ioy. and then liave her go away to some other
h«»nie-—aye. all the rvxiol<»uce of orange blos
soms and all the chime of marriage bells ami
all the rolling of welding march in full
diapason, and all the hilarious congratula
thuisof year friends cannot make you forget
that you xr* suffering a loss irreparable. But
you know it to all right, and vou have a re
membrance of an emliarkation just like it
tw enty-flwor thirty y«irs ago. in which you
were one of the parties, and suppressing as
possible yoir sadmxss. you say “(tood-by!”
I hope that you. the departing daughter,
will not forget to write often home, for what
ever betide you, tlie old folks will never lose
their interest in your welfare. Make visits
to them also as often and star as long as you
can. for there will be changes at the old place
after awhile. Every time you go you will
find more gray on father's head and
' more wrinkles on mother's brow, and after a ,
whil- vou will notice that the elastic step has ,
decrepitude. And Mme day one of ,
th., two pillara Os hi* early home wil.' f
after awhile the other pillar of that home
W>ll full, and it will be a comfort
when they are gone, you can feel 7““
vou are faithful in your new home jou can
never forget your old home and the first
friends y . ever had aud those to whom you
are more indebteel than you ever ■•an be to
any one else except W G*xl—l mean jour
father and mother.
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Cleanline., and l onlaalon.
; Doctor Aufrecht has written to 8
Jewish paper to recommend the prac
tiee of washing the hands before eat
ing, as a most valuable safeguard
against contagious diseases. The doc
tor says that scrupulous cleanliness of
the hands is, he is firmly persuaded, a
certain means of prevention, particu
larly in the case of children, who so
often take their food in their hands.
The Jews have again this year en
joyed a wonderful immunity from the
ravages of cholera. Can it arise from
their habit of cleansing the hands be
fore meals, which is one of their most
urgent commands? At all events,
such a practice is to be highly com
mended from more points than one.—
New York News.
BatliintC the Baby.
Those who have once become ac
customed to the daily bath will be loth
to give it up. I never think we can
commence a good habit too early; so I
have always had my babies put into
the bath from the time they were a
fortnight old, says a lady correspond
ent. My last baby, however, proved
an exception. For five weeks after
his birth 1 was too ill to attend to
these things myself, and the nurse was
too ignorant or too idle. The conse
quence was, when I was able to take
charge of the young gentleman ray
self, there had to be a battle. I had
the water slightly warm, so as to
cause no chill, and when baby was un
dressed I popped him straight in. The
little man kicked and screamed for a
minute or two, but soon ceased. For
the next two or three mornings, there
was a slight resistance, fainter every
time; after that, the crying was per
formed when he had to be taken out
of the bath; not when he was put in.
A warm or tepid bath should be
given every nigiit, until the child is
three or four years of age; then a bath
twice a week is quite sufficient. After
cold bath the children should be well
and briskly rubbed all over with a
coarse towel; this is of great import
ance. If a child displays symptoms of
weakness in the spine, indicated by
general lassitude and an inclination to
stoop, it is a good plan to put a hand
ful of very coarse salt into a bowl of
water, and sponge the little one’s back
and chest with this when it is in the
bath. No one, either old or young,
should stay in cold water more than a
minute or two at the outside.
Sick Headache.
This complaint is the result of eat
ing too much and exercising too little.
Nine times in ten the cause is in the
fact that the stomach was not able to
digest the food last introduced into it,
either from its having been unsuitable
or excessive in quantity. A diet of
bread and butter, with ripe fruit or
berries, with moderate and continuous
exercise in the open air sufficient to
, keep up a gentle perspiration, would
cure almost every case iu a short time.
Two teaspoonsful of powdered char-
I coal in a half-glass of water and drank
often gives instant relief. Sick head
ache with some persons comes on at
regular intervals, and is the signal of
distress which tin,* stomach puts out to
inform us that there is an over-alka
line condition of its fluids; that it
needs a natural acid to restore the bat
tery to its normal working condition.
When the first symptoms of headache
appear take a tabiespoonful of lemon
juice clear fifteen minutes before each
meal and the same dose at bedtime.
Follow this up until all symptoms are
passed, taking no other remedies, and
you will soon be able to go free from
this unwelcome nuisance Many will
object to this because the remedy is
too simple; but many cures have been
. effected in this way.
Talking about antiquity and the ag*?
of things, we submit that the oldest
berry is the elder-berry.
Bad Penmanship,—Colonel Selby
Harney was attorney for John Stanton
wh se case was called in the city eourt’
the charge being shooting. Colonel Har
ney said he was not ready for trial. “I
had a summons issued for a man named
he, “and the marshal got
it laylor; that is why my witness is not
Here. Ihe court granted a continuance
and remarked as he did so, “But a law
yer ought to lie fiaed who doesn't write
■■ - that it can be read.” Colonel Harney
,hecoru - an d the lawyers ail
. Abo ’7 Woods.—The strongest wood
in the L mtrd States is that of the nut
meg hickory of the Arkansas recion, and
the weakest the Meat Indian birch. The
most elastic is the tamarack, the white
or shellbara hickory standing far below
' •k ■* hlghes ! specific gravity, upon
whtch in general depends value as fuel
is attained by the blue wood of Texas. ’
SCIE MIEIC AND [N Bl si ii. A ...
Measurements by Captain ?<o:> c
shown that explosion is traisun.teu
through trains of dynamite at the rate of
20,0 0 to 24.000 feet per second.
A sample of preserved tomato exam
ined by a French chemist seemed to be
chiefly composed of carrots and pump
kins colored with some analine dye.
A colossal plant specimen exists in the
garden of Mr. J. B. Torry, at Sunning
da e. England. It is a vine or tree of
Wistaria which covers a wall nine feet
high for a distance of 340 feet.
Probably the best way to ascertain
what particular stone will withstand ex
posure to the atmosphere in any particu
lar locality is to step into the graveyards
of the district and observe the condition
of the stones employed for monumental
purposes.
A new industry in Italy is the man
ufacture of grapeseed oil, which is used
for purposes of illumination. The ex
traction is principally effected in Mode
na. It has also long been used for sim
ilar purposes in Germany and the Le
vant. Thirty-three pounds of seed will
yield about thirteen quarts of oil.
A new method of preserving fruit is
practiced in England. Pears, apples,
and other fruits are reduced to a paste,
which is then pressed into cakes and
gently dried. When required for use it
is only necessary to pour four times their
weight of boiling water over them, and
allow them to soak for twenty minutes,
and then add sugar to suit the taste.
The fine flavor of the fruit is said to be
retained to perfection. The cost of the
prepared product is said to be but little
greater than that of the original fruit.
One of the most beautiful processes
in enameling, according to a German
paper, is accomplished by using gold
thread rubbed with the juice of an onion,
which causes it to adhere to the surfaces,
the figures being afterward filled out
with enamel. This is the art known as
cloisonne, the method pursued being to
bake the article in a furnace until the
enamel exhibits a luster or glossy sur
face, which is an indication that it is
melted. The process has to be conducted
with care, for if it is overbaked the en
amel burns and falls off; it may also
happen that, in places where the enamel
burns it thinner, it also burns. When
cool, the roughness is removed by care
ful hand polishing, with a fine sand
stone, and lastly the enamel receives its
finishing polish.
The improved kind of explosive re
cently brought to notice in foreign jour
nals, and known as cocoa powder, is
said to possess such superior value for
many purposes that it has been intro
duced in the famous Krupp factory. It
is asserted that, with equal pressure, this
substance gives greater velocity to a ball
than can be attained with ordinary pow
der, while its smoke is found to be less
dense and to clear off more quickly. It
is brown, or, rather, chocolate colored.
In sundry tests about one-seventh less
of it was required than of the ordinary
kind of powder to produce given re
sults. The merit which is especially ad
vanced in its favor is, briefly, that of
beginning its combustion moderately
aud steadily, and then, when the pro
jectile has started through the bore,
burning with great rapidity, and with,
of course, tremendous impelling force.
.The method of preparation and the cost
as compared with other explosives are
not stated.
Writing a Book to Order.
Major Ben: Perley Poore has done con
siderable literary work the past year,
says a Washington letter. He wrote for
a publishing house a life of Grant, which
has already had a sale of 10,000 copies.
The publisher came to him and said:
“Major Poore, I want a life of General
Grant, to contain about 90,000 words,
and 1 want you to write it for me. I
want it in about two months, if possible.
I will pay you so much for it. ” To this
Major Poore assented, on condition that
they would furnish him with a steno
grapher. They did so, and he dictated
the work at an average rate of a chapetr
a day. Each chapter comprised about
2,500 words, and this continuous writing
is perhaps some ot the fastest literary
work of the pastjyear. Biaine considers
1,000 words a day good work. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, when she was well,
did from 1.000 to 1.500, and I am told
that Bancroft considers when he has
written 250 words he has done a good
day’s work. Ben: Perley Poore looks
remarkably well. He weighs about as
much as usual, perhaps 250 pounds, and
his eye is ns bright as that of any corre
spondent here. He has been here in
new-piper work for fully two genera
tions of men, and for generations of pub
lic men. as the lite of the average public
man is very short.
Teaching a Dog.
Miss Catherine Rae explained in a re
cent chit-chat one science in Aberdeen,
oxer thesen, the way in which she got a
dog, within three weeks, to ring a bell.
She began by letting “Tiny” smell the
bone of a rotton chop and then tied the
7 'n !he s . trin S of the bell - At first
ylmv ’ was in a great tremor, but by
taking her very kindly and stroking her,
she lound that she could induce her to
pull at the bone and so ring the bell.
After that she tied a small piece of wood
to the string, but the dog would not
puli it. At last she p illed her gently
l ack until the bell rang, and in this
wav, m the short course of three weeks,
with not more than one or two les
sons a day, the dog would go and rina
the bell by being told—“ ‘Tiny,’ go and
ring the bell,” at the end of three
weeks she gave an evening party, and
during the evening thev were all electri
zed by the sudden and violent rino-in"
o. the hell. “Tiny" hid been neglected
to be indulged with any lid-bit, and had
taken this means of receiving attention,
A Terrible Disappointment.
'Vi,™ organ grinders leave the street,
i!" r n- e ’ hard, and snow and sleei
Are falling fast, and wet the feat-
t hen strut precautions we must use
Gai‘s. taking cold, and then w - know
in ■ time for searching high and low
Has come, and right to work we go
u .’ °. h “ <l ,? ur ' ast year’s overshoes.
-a!! 1 |, ' , ’ sets through and through,
The cellar and the attics, too-
For hours the anxious search pursue,
Bn. all in vain, and when ’tis o’er
't makes us rather mad to find
that those nice rubbers-flannel lined-
Jur wife (of coarse with motive kind)
Has giv n to feed the goat next door.
—Boston t'ouri'rr,
SLUMBER-LAND.
Oh, baby mine, the night is here,
The night that drifts us slowly near
The realms of Slumber-land.
Gently the watei-s obb ami flow,
Creeping through nodding lids of snow,
The.t border Slumber-land.
Mother’s arms are the sails and boat,
And mother's voice the winds that tloat
Your bark to Slumber-land.
Beautiful dreams, instead of sands,
Fleeting visions people the strands
Os far-off Slumber-land.
Sleepy sands that creep into qysa
Ever so open, ever so wise.
Wafted from Slumber-land.
Hush! I’m sure you are almost there.
Breathing the drowsy, mystic air
That floats through Slumber-land
Now a kiss on the rosy face.
Just to show we have won the race—
The race to Slumber-land.
—Adelaide Salmon.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Billiards must be an easy game, for it' s
mostly done on cushions. — Stock ton
erick.
The average postage stamp generallj
gets in place after it has been well licked.
—Electric Light.
A canal horse should never be hard
up. He can always draw on the bank.
—St. Paul lieraid.
There is no hen so self-contained but
that she is liable to lose her head.—
Binghamton Republican.
“What is your idea of love, Mr- Sin
nick?” “Three meals a day, and well
cooked. — Chicago Ledger."
When she was younger and wore the queens’
wreath,
She was the finest sonranoyou met. oh:
But now she’s grown oilier, with a set of
false teeth,
I find that her voice is falsetto.
—Gorham Mountaineer.
Three editors arc members of the Delta
(Cal.) brass band. They were driven to
it in self-defense. Burlington F m
Press.
Strange, that with the 21,000,000 bat- i
tons manufactured in this country last
year, we still have to fasten our suspend
ers on with a shingle nail.—Pizbncr
Journal.
A. nicely sharpened lead pencil is the
only thing in creation that defies the law
of gravitation. The lighter end always
strikes the floor first. — Burlington
Free Press.
A LOVER’S COMPLIMENT.
“A pretty thing in gloves,” said she,
“1 wish to get a perfect glove.”
“The prettiest thing in gloves,” said he,
"Are those white hands of yours,my love.” ■
—Boston Courier.
The king of Dahomey has 3,500 wives.
When his royal husbandness roils home
ward about 3 A. ji. the chances are 3,500
to one that he will be overheard when he |
tries to sneak upstairs in his stocking :
feet. Uneasy lies the head that wears a|
crown.— New York Graphic.
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT.
The snow is beautiful to see
And to the poet gives delight,
When over lawn and over lea
It lies, a mantle pure and white.
But when six inches deep, or so,
It lies, at morn, beside his door
And must ba shovelled off, the snow,
The poet deemed a blasted bore.
—Boston Courier.
Noses and Ears.
With the astrologers a large nose ivasl
always a sign of much character of soaeS
kind, but that was determined by othera
characteristic marks. A Roman nosM
was a sign of a courageous temper antliffl
disposition to face and overcome --liffi-H
cutties, while a more strongly aquiline B
nose was an indication of rapacity: the I
idea being evidently borrowed from he S
similarity of this description of beak to 3
that of the eagle, the most rapacious oil
birds. The snub nose showed lit: -i
character but much temper, while 'he J
Greek nose, even, straight and reguhr.3
was a sign of the temperament of ’ j
owner. Large nostrils indicated go?■
lungs, health and long life, while swc.l-B
ing nostrils showed a warlike spirit indH
tire. A very sharp no<e was consideretM
an indication of a busybody, while
bluntness at the end of this mvuibet
an outward sign of the possessor's meofl
tai lack of acuteness. Large ears wezM
always bad, the similarity between
owner and the donkey being suppo■ 3
to extend further than the ears. whiiß
small ears were iilw.ivs good. The lob
of the ear passing insensibly into
cheek was a sure sign of a th es and lh'
while an exceedingly sharp division be
tween the two indicated honesty a®
candor. Thick ears meant thick brains
while thin, delicate ears declared the:
possessor to be a man of refined intelli
gence.
Two Storie t of Grant.
After General Grant had appointed
Judge Taft secretary of war, he invite;
a number of leading Republican Senatm
to dine with him at the White Houk
that they might become personally so
quainted. He forgot, however, to inv.s
Judge Taft, who consequently was o ;
present, so those invited to meet bi
did not have the pleasure of seeint
him.
On another occasion, when CongreS
was investigating the Washington res
estate pool, General Grant sent one ol
his sons to the Capitol to invite info'
mally adozen Republican Senators todi:
at the White House for a couferenc a
The young Grant mistook that stat'-*-'
Democrat, Senator Eli Saulsbury,
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and so
vited the Delawarian. His preset 1 -
acted like an extingu sher on all polit J
cal talk, and he, after having xvond" "
all through the dinner why he wa< I
vited, hurriedly took his leave when ?■
cigars were introduced.— Bin: P B
Poore.
Crimson Tipped.
She has sunny, golden hair,
She is exquisitely fair,
And her eyes of blue are gorgeous in b a
lustre:
While her lips are ruby bright.
And her teeth are pearly white
And, in fact she, as a neauty. is a bust- "■ 4
But. despite hi r charms so rare |
And her fascinating air,
And the knowledge that of them all met j.
talking.
She in life no pleasure finds.
For the frosty autumn winds
Tint her lovely nose with red wuen suc tW
walking’.
—Goodall's 5 'V I