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IIAI'-LKM. GEORGIA
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The most extensive tunnel and river
mining enterprise carried on in < difor
nia for many years, i» that of the B.g
Bend Tunnel <>, in Butte county, by
w Rich home 11 mi lea of the l> •lof I either
river will be drained *o that gold mining
operation* may go on. To m ike the bed
of the river ible, it was nc" »*ary
to run a tunnel 12,000 feet long, which
would carry the water of the river at it*
low stage*
The American hen ia not doing her
duty. Them am 1G,000,000 dozens of
foreign hen's egga brought into thia
country every year free of duty. The
Amt ri< an hen* must scratch around, * iy*
a New England ]>aj>er, if they arc to
■K oidthe reproach of allowing the >gg
Industry to !*• crushed by the competi
tion of th<* cheap pauper fowl# of the
effeta monarchies of the Old World.
With incubator* to help them the Ameri
can hena ought to make ale tter record.
The Signal Service Bureau haa adopt' d
a new plan in the compilation and publi
cation of it* w ather prediction!. In
ataad of announcing what the weather
i* likely to I.C in the various geographical
division of the country, a* the New
England State*, the South Atlantic
States, etc., the prediction! will here
after bo made for each State, grouping
together, from day today, such Stab * a*
arc likely to have the same weather.
Whenever neci- ary, predictions will bo
made for dill' rent portion* of the same
State.
The law recently enacted in lowa not
only requires that every package of but
tcrine or caaeino shall bear, in letter*, an
inch and a half long, an emphatic state
ment that it i* an imitation article, but
it require* all hotel kec|>cra and restaur
ant and Iroarding house keeper* to put a
placard on every plate of imitation but
ter or cheese that is hroughton the table,
•tating that is not the genuine article.
In some unaccountable way the authors
of the bill have omitted to require that
all caters of bulterino or emteinc should
be branded or labelled. That provision
would make It perfect.
The farm* of America eipial the entire
territory of the United Kingdom, France,
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary
ami Portugal. Tim corn field* equal the
extent of England, Scotland and Bel
gium; while tlw grain field* generally
would overlap Spain. The cotton fields
cover an area larger than Ho hind and
twice us large a* Belgium. The rice
field*, sugar and tobacco plantation*
would also form kingdoms of no insig
nifl< ant size, an I such i* the stage of ad
vancement reached by American agri
culturist* that it is estimated that one
fanner like Mr Dalrymple of Dakota,
with a field of wheat co* ring a hundred
square miles, can raise a* much grain
with 400 farm servants as 0,000 peasant
proprietors in France.
Item I* u description of what they do
with their prisoner* in the Canton of
Neuehiitel, Switzerland. A good handi
craft is taught to every prisoner, and all
who are well l>< haveii art', after a period,
placed with a master of the trade which
they have severally learned, under the
oversight of the police and of a member
of a voluntary committee. This commit
tee is composed of 1100 active member*,
out of a total population of 102,000. The
prisoner, when provision®!) lilierated,
ha* to present himself every week to hi*
patrons, who receive* the report* of hi*
master and of the polio •. The patron
•end* un abstract of these report* to the
governor of the prison, and in this way,
if hi* conduct remains good, the num'*
liberty is gradually restored, and he re
gains hi* position in society -with the
additional advantage* of experience of
discipline and knowledge of a trade. M.
de Laveleyc, in describing this system,
nays that a Swiss Canton is in some
tiling* a century in advance of the rest
of the world
A small volume of statistics showing
the work done by the po*t offices of the
world has Iwen published at Florence,
Italy. From thi* it ap|>ear* that in ISS3,
the latest year for which complete re
turns are available, there were in Europe
65,500 receiving offices, 41,500 telegraph
offices, and 225.006 letter boxes. The
total number of |*r»on» employed by the
various post office* was 356,000; and in
twelve month* there were transmitted
3.666.000,000 letter*, 546 000,000 post
Cards, 1,046,0011,000 book* and parcels,
1,671,000,000 newsp*|ier*, and 117,000,-
000 telegrams; the gross weight of the
matter sent through the post being esti
mated at about KOO,OOO tons. The lowest
charge for the conveyance of any letter
or |«»t car I wa* one centime; the high
cat was I's. The total receipts of the
various office* amount to £38,150,000,
and their expenditure to 131,050,000.
To apprehend the import of the., figures
.it should lie remembered that les. than
half a century ago, the number of pack
ages that |va«<wi through the post office*
the world was under 100,000.000.
A resident of Minnesota, who has seer
several severe tornadoes, say* that theii
most peculiar feature I* the singular
►u king movement. Building* are
suckc! up into th ’ clou 1* entire, and
imi down soon in fragment*. After
the great Ilic'i' -t r tornodo, a farmci
twelve miles from town found an unin
jured marble top table in hi* field. An
other found a very large sheep that had
come from no one knew where and had
I* on <b |io*it”d in hi* yard unhurt. The
Minnesota man further sai l that he had
seen a board into which wheat straws
had bci-ndrivcn until they *tu- k through
on the other side.
The p"p .I-r idea that th'- poop!’’ of
Great Britain consume mor: tea on an
average per head of th'- population than
nny other country in the world i* now
shown to bo erroneous. Th'- Australian
colonies and New Z- dand (according to
one of the East Iridian journal) drink
far more tc i per head of population than
the British Island*. The Australian*
come first, with 7.66 pound* per head ;
the N'-w Z alanler- next, witli 7.23
po ind* p r head; while the people of
Great Britain, though lipp aring thir l in
the list, <■ rnsuine only 4.1)0 pound* < neb.
Newfoundland an I Cwid.ida come next,
while in the United St ites the consump
tion i» only 1.30 pounds per head ; and
in Ku -ia. which i nlw.iy* regarded n* a
great t< i-drmking country, the consump
tion is only 061 pound per head. Bel
gium, Sw-den, Au*tria-lfungary, and
Bpnin consume* he** than the other Euro
pean nation*, Iml th'-re i* not one nation
on tile continent, with the exception of
Holland, in which the annual consutnp.
tion exceed* one j»ound per head. But
in certain part* of th” countries named
t'-.a drinJng i* much more common than
in other*. In certain Russian district*
(specially tea i* <ru ik constantly and
c 'piously, and it is this fact which has
given rise to tin notion that Russia is the
most bibulcu* of all tea-drinking
Countries.
Now York’* Dalian Rsstniiriiiit*.
Th'- Italian restaurants are by no means
the gold mines tin y once wi re here. The
siicc. * iif Martinelli, who ncciimiihitcd a
furluiic and went home to ive o i it, and
of Moretti, who would be modestly rich
if the operatic artists paid him what they
owed him, led rival after rival into the
field until it has b • nine quite as full as
it can be to have a living in it for any
one. There i* just now an epidemic of
( heap French r .taurant* in the town,
too. There are half a dozen or more in
one block of \\ cst 23d st. ’1 he special
ties of all, French nnd Italian, are a
table d'hote, with wino for a fairly inex
pensive figure. If they can continue to
sell wine over their regular table allow
ance of cheap claret, they make a little
mon* v. A* a consequence, they serve the
most poisonous concoction* of chemicals
nnd water with the dinner, and common
ly force the diner, in self-defence, to full
back on the wine card. But with tho
exception of a few who occupy handsome
h< u*e* and secure occasional banqueting
parties to help trade along, insolvency is
generally their ultimate recompense.
When they open they put their best foot
foremost, serve good bill* of fare, and
thrive. A* soon as they have bu It up a
fair patronage they commence to econo
mize, some fresh rival tak s their cus
tomer* from them, as they took them
from a predecessor, and business falls
away till the wine merchant forecloses on
the furn ture, the landlord serves a notice
to quit, null the luckless host goes back
to the waiter's apron or the cook's cap
again.— S< ie York S< ir».
Gladstone's Method.
The }\'hitrhall Herieir (London) has
been told on good authority that this is
Mr. Gladstone's method of preparing hi*
speeches. He keeps a box into which he
is in the habit of throwing cutting* from
newspapers and other memoranda of
facts bearing upon the subject in hand.
On the morning of the day preceding
any gaeat oration, ho goes through his
box and pick* out his notes on the par
ticulnr facts which he wishes to use.
Tin s> he gums in their order upon a
large .sheet of piqx'r, and u-es them as
the post* upon which the sjxtech itself is
to be hung. Then he imagines himself
to be actually speaking—composes his
oration, in fact, in hi* head. After he is
satisfied w ith it he dismiss, * the subject
from hi* mind, and occupies himself
until the hour for speaking comes in—
reading a novel! His memory is so great
that his previously composed sentences
come back to him w ithout effect.
Indorsing the New Dictionary,
‘ My dear, there's a new dictionary
coming out. It will have 240,000 words
i in it.”
"Mr, Duscnbury, 1 advise you to sub
scr.lx- for a copy of it.”
“Whst do I want with it, dear?”
'S • that you van have the last word.
You don't seem to want to let me have
it. CM
Not Distingalshed.
A couple of visitors from the rural dis
trict in the House gallery were trying t<
pick out their congressman on the floor.
“1 can't distinguish him,” said one,
after a hopeless visual observation.
"Os couiws not,” was the honest reply,
"he can t even distinguish himself.”
Crit<e.
A QUEER SECT.
Tlio Faithlats of Shalam And
What They Believe.
A Eiliriout Colony inNew Mexico Which
Aim* to .Reconstruct Society.
A recent letter to the St. Louis Gh '.c
]>■ morrat, dated La* Cruces, New .M< x
i*o. says: On the eastern bank of the
Rio Grande River, and about six mile*
from this place is a colony of people
who '• customs, history nnd religion are
th” most pr-culiar to be found in this
country. Tiiey cull themselves "Fnith
i-t-," have a n -w Bible written by one of
themselves; have a new calendar, in
which the days, Sabbaths and holiday*,
are changed, and the month* are called
signs; ent only two meals a day, while
fish ami flesh are forever forbidden as un
article of food.
The ‘‘Fnithists,” as the members of
the Shalatn colony call themselves, claim
to be a religious sect. They discard all
religions save their own, the essential
dogma of which is faith in Jehovib, a*
lie i* < ail' d in their Bible, and to become
a covenant member a person must abjure
all oHu r god*, lord* or saviors. Accord
ing to their Bible, Jehovih is the spirit
that created all things, is omniscient,
omnipresent and omnipotent, and has
hi* kingdom on earth, of which the
Faithist* arc the sole members up to
date. Dr. J. B. Newbrough, a dentist
of New York City, is the originator of
this sect. lie claims to have been
wrestling with the spirit for ten years;
he declare* that he wrote the new Bible
under the influence of the spirit, and he
is now the head or chief of Shahun col
ony which has been established us Jeho.
vili’s kingdom on earth, according to
plan* laid down in the Faithist Bible.
This new bible is called “Oahspe,”
meaning that it contains all that is worth
knowing about light, earth and sky, or
the sum of all knowledge; and in it Je
hovih says: ‘‘lt is not for the past but
for the present era.” It was written at
New York, m 1881. The book contains
000 pages, and is written in the most
aacient style, doubtless to give it a
musty smell. It is sold at $5 a volume,
and ha* been circulated quite extensive
ly. The work of establishing Jehovih
kingdom on earth was first attempted on
what is known as the Thompson farm in
New Jersey, but that failed in a month's
time, on account of a disagreement with
Mr. Thompson in the year 1882. Head
quarters wi re kept up in New York City,
until in December, of 1883, the Faith
ists began to assemble at Pearl River,
Rockland County, New Y’ork. In No
vember, 1883, tin y held a convention in
New Y ork, at which a committee was
appointed to search for Shalam, and in
pursuance of this appointment Messrs-
Newbrough and Grill left Pearl River in
August, 1884. Shalam was discovered by
these gentlemen in September,lßß4, when
a dei’d was made by John D. Bancastle
of Dona Ana, N. M., conveying about
400 acres of level land in the Rio Grande
Valley to Wm. Howland, of Boston,
Mass., and in October, 1884, two dele
gations of Faithists arrived in Shalam,
one of whom was the veritable Dr. Henry
Samuel Tanner, who fasted forty-two
•lays several years ago.
The colony claim that they have begun
i new race of people which will finally
people the whole earth. They’ propose
to begin with children, orphans, waifs
and castaway*. Indians, Mexicans and
Americans. They have a calendar called
Kosman, which culls the months ‘‘signs,”
nnd in which the days are numbered 1,
2,3, 4,5, 6,7. Each seventh day is
their Sabbath, and they have religious
services in the Temple on that day. They
have a prayer-meeting on the fourth
night of each week, and they have en
tertainments and dancing.
The Faithists have 1,500 acres of fine
land, and are planting vineyard, orchard
and agricultural crops, and each member
is required to work as the c-chics directs,
without any compensation xvhatever. It
has recently become known to the mem
bers of the colony that the title to all the
lands, buildings, etc., is vested in Wil
liam Howland, of Boston, who has fur
nished all the money up to this time,
about (40,000,and this discovery has led
to a rupture of no small proportions.
Curiosities of Light.
Bishop Clark, writing on the curiosi
ties of light, says: It seems to be a very
commonplace thing to say that the light
makes objects visible by reflexion; but
have you ever thought just what this im
plies? If it were possible to make a per
fectly smooth surface, it would be in
visible. But, as a matter of fact, noth
ing is ix'rfectly smooth, audit is the little
roughnesses on the surface which break
np the rays of light, and thus render the
object visible to our senses. Wonderful
deception are produced by the use of
highly-polished mirrors, with the most
startling and magical effects.
A Demand for Hand*.
‘‘Say, Jones, there's no need for you to
be idle. There's ten thousand hands
wanted in a store on Chestnut street,”
"Sakes alive, man; to manufacture
what t"
"Nothing.”
"Why do they want so many handsF'
“To wear the gloves the firm is offer
ing for sale.—Cad.
Nensatloasof Hanging.
Theodore Baker, a New Mexico man
who was recently hanged by a mob, but
was rescued and cut down before life was
extinct, gives this account of his experi
ence to a newspaper correspondent:
‘‘A little further on we came to a tele
graph pole. From the crossbar swung a
new rope. On one end wa* a big slip
noose. They led me under the rope. I
tried to stoop down and pull my boot,
off, as I had promised my folks I would
not die with my boots on, but before I
could do it the doom wa* thrown over
my head, and I was jerked off my feet.
My senses left me a moment, and then I
waked up in what seemed to lx - another
world. A* I recolDct now, the sensation
was that everything about me had multi
plied a great many times. It seemed
that my five executioners had grown in
number until there where thousands of
them. I saw what seemed to be a multi
tude of animals of all shapes and sizes.
Then things changed and I wa, in great
pain. I became conscious that I was
hanging by the neck, and that tlie knot
of the rope had slipped around under my
chin. My hands were loosely tied, and I
jerked them loose and tried to catcli the
rope above me. Somebody caught me
by the feet just then and gave me a jerk.
It seemed like a bright flash of lightning
passed in front of my eyes. It was fol
lowed by a terrible pain up and down
and across my back, and I could feel my
legs jerk and draw up. Then there
was a blank, and I knew nothing more
until 11 o’clock next day.
“My first recollection was being in the
court room, and saying: “Who cut me
down?’ There was a terrible ringing in
my ears, like the beating of gongs. I
recognized no one. The pain in my back
continued. Moments of unconsciousness
followed during several days, and I have
very little recollection of the journey
here. Even after I had been locked up
in this prison for safe keeping for a long
time I saw double. Dr. Symington, the
prison physician, looked like two persons.
I was stili troubled with spells of total
forgetfulness. Sometimes it seemed 1
didn’t know who I was.”
The Luscious Banana.
The banana p'ant is bulbous. The
sprout starts up from the ground and
grows somewhat after the manner of the
sugar cane. Generally in one year after
it begins to grow its fruit is ready to cut.
Each tree bears one bunch of fruit which
grows at the top. Tiie stalk is really
composed of successive layers of leaves,
formed by the top leaf coming off and
those around it also, which die and dry
up around the tree, thus making the
stalk. There arc generally four or five
leaves always at the top, new ones spring
ing forth as the old ones die. The leaves
are of a red color. The end of the stalk
blossoms in a manner somewhat similar to
that of the calla lilly. This blossom i s
inclosed in a pad almost the size of a
cocoanut which is composed of a succes
sion of leaves. As the pod expands the
leaves drop off and under each of the
leaves is a “hand” of bananas, or what
we recognize as one of the clusters on a
bunch of bananas. The developing of
these successive “hands” or layers of ba
nanas constitutes the bunch. As these
successive layers arc developed, the
bunch increases in weight and bends
over. When the bananas are fit to be
taken off, the tree is cut partly in two
about half way down the stalk, and the
tree bent over and the fruit gathered.
The tree is then bent back again into its
regular position. The tree is not com
pletely cut off, but is thus bent back
into its former position for the purpose
of preventing the water in the rainy sea
son from going down into the roots and
decaying them. After the rainy season
sprouts begin to shoot up from around
the bottom of the old stalk, and then
the latter is cut off close to the butt.
These shoots grow into new trees. Some
times there will be four or five shoots,
but ordinary only one or two are left to
grow.— Providence Journal.
YVhere Papa Comes In.
A Boston minister has a bright little
four-year-old daughter whose sayings are
often worth re[)eating. One morning at
breakfast he asked across the table,
“Edie, whom do you love best?”
“Mamma,” answered the little one.
“Whom next?” “Aunt Helen."
“Whom next?” “Bridget.” And the
disappointed father continued his ques
tions until the young maiden had de
clared her affection for most of the
neighborhood without mentioning any
love for her father. Finally the clergy
man said: “But, Edie, where does
papa come in?” The little maid
paused a moment, looked up,
and then replied demurely, “Ju the
front door.”
An Ignorant Stranger.
“You are fishing with pcrsistance,”
said a gentleman to an urchin who had
thrashed a stream without apparent re
ward a whole afternoon.
“Oh, no, sir: on’y jest angle-worms,’»
replied the youth, pleasantly.
“I mean you have a good deal of per
severance,’’ explained the other.
“No. them's suckers; guess ye ain't
never lived in these parts, hev ye?" The
boy was not a little disgusted by the
stranger’s ignorance.— Be
frublican.
Coke, and How It is Made.
Coke is the solid product left when all
the moisture and gaseous mattershave
been expelled from bituminous coal.
There are two kinds: gas coke, which is j
obtained from the retorts of gas-work*,
after the gasses have been sejierated; and
oven coke, which is made by burning the
coal in a kiln, with little exposure to the
air. Gas coke produces but a feeble
heat, and though it is used to a consid. ,
erable extent as fuel in cities, being a
cheap sort, it is regarded by manufact
urer* as mere cinders. Oven coke, on
the (th r hand, is capable of producing
intense heat, and is valued for use in
furnaces or smelting metals, and also in
locomotives of underground railways,
where the smoke of bituminous coal is
very underirable. At mines of bitu
minous coal, coke is made in large
quantities, as in its manufacture
all the fine refuse coal, screenings
and coal dust, that would otherwise be '
thrown away, can be utilized. Two
methods of cooking are in use. One is,
by burning the coal in ovens of fire brick
made for the purpose, these being usu
ally about twelve feet square and ten feet
in height. A door is made near the top
through which the coal is put in, space
being left for it to swell, while holes in
the coverings of the oven allow the es
cape of the gases. The coal is then ig
nited from below, and a trench under
the oven admits the air necessary sot
combustion. About forty-eight hours
are necessary to complete the cooking
process. The other method of making
coke is by burning it in the open heap.
It is piled in long ranges, often contain
ing many hundred tons over a shallow
trench or air passage extending their en
tire length. The heap is then fired, and
when it is once thoroughly afire coke
dust or ashes is heaped upon it,and when
thoroughly covered in this way the fire is
left for several days to smother and cool.
This is a wasteful process, as much of I
the heap becomes ashes before the rest i
has been thoroughly coked. In some
parts of Virginia and other southern
states beds of natural coke is found.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Social Free Lunching. ”
A Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune says: I know of
a woman in Washington who occupied a
small, dark, inside room on the fifth floor
of a tolerably fashionable hotel. She, to
use a theatrical expression, faked out
her meals. That is, she arose at 10 or 12,
bought a second-hand newspaper for a >
cent, and wended her way’ to a small sa
loon on Pennsylvanla-ave., whose pro
prietor has grown rich by making a spe
cialty of delicious coffee and Vienna rolls
and fine butter. He charge* ten cents '
for this little lunch. This Madame Iten
erant would breakfast on her cup of
coffee and roll. Then she went up to
Congress, invariably riding in the three
cent car. There is a bob-tail car run
ning upto the Capito , the fare in which
is only three cents, and some folks are so
aristocratic they arc ashamed to be caught
riding in it.
Madame would visit a few of the mem- i
bers, 101 l for awhile in the gallery of the »
House, and sit just long enough in the ‘
Senate gallery to secure recognition by a
smile or bow from such of her Senatorial
friends as happened to be on the floor,
and after picking up a few choice items
of gossipy news, the conversational coin
with which she paves and pays her social
way, my Madame Itinerant gets back by
2 o’clock to her dingy inside room. At
3 she comes out resplendent in a nonpa
reil velvet dress, and, card case in hand, I
starts on the round of calls. She goes i
from house to house, and daintily and
deliberately eats her lunch at each place.
In the course of ten visits madame has
more than satisfied the cravings of her
stomach, and has dined and supped for
the day. Do you wondet that I call this ,
“faking out one’s meals?”
The Shops of Havana.
The shops and cases of Havana are
surely more bright and interesting than
those of any other city. Among the
shops you will find no great establish
ments covering a half-acre of ground,
half a dozen stories high, and giving one
the feeling of despair to enter; but they
are all on one floor, high, cool, pretty,
and many ladies hove a habit of shop
ping from their carriages. In America it
is the effort of merchants to get goods of
every earthly description under one roof.
Here the shops are more characteristic
and individualized, as a rule. One will
deal in silks and trimmings; another only
in velvet* and velveteens; another may
show superb lines of linen; gloves, fans,
parasols, and umbrellas may be found at
another; again a shop will sell woolens
exclusively; another prints and cottons;
and rarely will you find the notion store.
So, too, outside of the textile fabrics
these divisions in trade are rigorously ob
served. A photographer is not an ar
tist; bronze goods do not include pottery;
the jeweler sells jewelry, not clocksand
watches; the woodenware, ironware, and
basket-ware merchants are not each all
the others; and wine-merchants do not
sell soap. In all these shops there is a
richness and taste, but not obtrusiveness,
in display; and from one end of the city
to another the neatness, brightness, light
ness, and ainness of the shop form much 1
of Havana's attractiveness.— Chicagc
Seat.
TOWERS OF SILEXCE.
The Parsee Method of Di Spos
ing of the Dead.
The Bodies Plaoel on a Gra'ing : a s
Tower and Givon up to Vulture.
Colonel Floyd-Jones writing fr ls j n
dia to the Military Service Journal, .
an interesting description of the “T> v ri
of Silence” near Bombay, nn l the P ur „ e
mode of disposing of the dead. T he
Parsce is a devoted fire worshipper and
most of tho prayers are offered mornlm.
and evening, facing the sun. It j s j.,.’
haps in consequence of this belief tl at
he is so careful in preventing the p ii a .
tion of the other elements, and that after
death his body is placed in au open tow.
er, usually on some eminence, where it
is devoured by vult ires. These ope a
sepulchres have been appropriately named
the “Towers of Silence.” In every P ar .
see dwelling house there is an aperture
in the upper or sleeping story, which is
usually covered by a grating; but when
a member of the household dies, his body
is placed on a bier and lowered throu ’h
the aperture to the ground floor, where
it is cared for by a set of priests called
Neor-ser-sala, or death, men, who pre
pare the body and clothe it entirely in
white. Before the body is removed from
the house, however, the forehead is
smeared with a species of clarified butter
or “ghee,” and the dog of the house is
admitted. Should the animal lick the
butter, it regarded as a good onrn of the
departed’s future happiness, but its refus
al would signify perdition. The death
men have no contact with the world at
large, and on no account arc they ad
mitted to the house, as their presence
would pollute it. Hence it is that the
body is lowered to them, in order to
make their entrance unnecessary. A pro.
cession is then formed, the friends of the
dead following the priests to the Towers
of Silence, on Malabar hill. Arriving
at the entrance of the grounds, the body
is taken in charge by another set of
priests, with long beards, who carry it
! to whichever of the five towers may be
! selected by the lasi set of priests. The
body is taken through an aperture in the
wall of the tower and deposited on a
grating. There are three sets of these,
one for men, signifying good deeds, one
for women, representing good words,
and one for children, indicating good
thoughts. The clothing is then removed
and torn into pieces, after which it is
is thrown into another tower and the
bodies exposed to the vultures. In a
few minutes the birds have stripped all
the flesh from the bones. Everything
about the grounds is kept as neat as pos
sible, and flowers grow in pretty gardens
near the entrance. It is very curious
that a religion which otherwise contains
much that js elevating should counten
ance amode of burial at once so unnatu
ral and repulsive.
Entertaining the Governor.
Governor Pierce and the other territo
rial officers are making a trip in southern
Dakota. Yesterday morning they were
in Watertown. They are staying at the
leading hotel when a citizen of that place
called to see the Governor. He was
shown in and said:
“Governor, I see you are making a
visit to this part of the territory.”
“Yes, sir.”
“I s’pose you’re having a pretty good
time.”
“Yes, I have enjoyed myself so far.”
“I calculate they try to entertain you
’ at all the different cities you visit.
‘ ‘Oh, yes, each place has made it very
pleasant for us.”
“Os course, and Watertown ain't going
to be outdone.”
“I suppose not, it is a very enterprising
town.”
“You bet it is, Governor. And I'm
going to do my share, too. Now, 11l
tell you my scheme; I’ve got a horse tied
down at the door that's deceived lots of
good judges on his age and to make it
interesting for you and seen’s your th°
guest of the city, I’ll bet you $2 that yon
can’t tell how old he is the first time you
look in his mouth! Here's my money,
we’ll put it up with the auditor, I know
him. Come on down, Governor, and
blamed if I don’t hold old Jack’s mouth
open for you while you look at his
teeth!”— Estelline (Dak.) Bell.
Fishing With Dynamite.
A correspondent writing from Key
West, Fla., tells of a fishing excursion
down there with dynamite. “The ob
jective point was found to be a hole
about twenty-five feet deep, where fish
congregate in large numbers. Arriving
at the -pot, a cartridge about six inches
long, charged with dynamite, to which
had been attached a heavy piece of iron
in order to make it go to the bottom, was
thrown in the water. A suspense of a
few seconds ensued, and then a faint re
port, like the discharge of a small pistol
was heard; the water became agitated
and was raised about two feet, and im
mediately therea'ter, within a radius of
about sixty feet, the fish were strewn in
all directions. A scene of the wildest ex
citement followed. Scoop nets were
brought into speedy use, and over 1,000
fish of different varieties, from the large
gray snapper, over three feet in length,
to the small but succulent sailor's choice,
were secured.