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{tolnn/liia jjenfinel. «SXJ= - -- - nil ■■ - -.-m*.- - -ar -e HARLEM. GEORGIA PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. B*U«rcl «*> Atlrln»oii< PBOf’UBTOM. At the recent International CongroM of the Salvation Army, bold in London, it wae Mated that there are 1,652 rorpt and 3,002 officers. Twenty-eight thou sand, two hundred weekly, and 1,460,- 400 yearly serviced are held. The news paper of the army it printed in nineteen different languages, and the Salvation banner waves in nineteen different coun tries and colonics. Eternal vigilance is the price of prohi" bition. A Boston whiskey dealer bought a cheap coffin, put a four and seven eighths gallon keg of ryo whiskey in side, screwed a (date on the lid of the coffin, on whir; i were engraved the name, age and birthplace of the alleged cor,Me, bored the r ofli i, ns is usual, an I shipped it to a town in Maine. There an under taker took charge of the box and drove ten miles into the country before the coffin was opened nnl the liquor re moved. The science of engineering is advanc ing. An iron bridge on the Penmyl vania railroad, weighing IVO tons wot recently moved bodily thirty-two feet in forty-eight minutes l>y half a doz-n men under the supervision of M.istcr'f ’.irpen ter Webb of the Pittsburg division, with the object of placing it on a stone arch. This is the third operation < f the kind since May. There was no im|>cdiincnt to the passage of trains, the rails being elevated as the bridge was lifted and ballasted by the trackmen. Three sixty ton jacks were placed under each end. There are more methods of acquiring knowledge of the art of war than are taught in the drill rooms of Franc.-, S-t* of poeki t handkerchiefs, Stamped with military rules and regulations, diagrams and other inf< rmalion imjiortant for the soldier to acquire nnd remember, are being sold for the use of the French soldiers and are officially encouraged by the French government. By purchasing eight cheap, ornamental ami, of course, useful handkerchiefs the French soldier is provided with a complete pocket manual ot military instruction. “There is on exhibit! in in Paris,” says the liritieh AMical Journal "a ty,e ot a very primative race. It is a very curious Specimen, entirely covered with hair, tlm skin very dark ; the child would remind one of the chimpanzee. The hairs on the arms and legs follow the same direc tions as those on tlm monkey; the legs are thin and short, while tlm iirtiw are very long. It iip|>eius that tlm triba to which she belong* dwells more on trees than on tlm ground. The child is twelve, nnd seems to have a certain in telligence, mid takes great interest in her doll. Her eyes nnd hair are very tine, her no c is flattened, and her ears are deprived of tho cartilage. She him thirtern pairs of ribs, nnd consequently thirteen dorsal vertebitr. The race to which she belongs is found in the north of Siam, an I several families me kept at the court of the King of H am.” t A rancher mar Albuquerque. N M., recently commenced digging for a well on the site of an old rum d pueblo. At eight feet he struck a huge bowldi r Underneath this was found m saury, and when this was pierced a cavity was discovered. 1 |«>n examination it was found that the workmen had penetrated through nn arch of stone, supported by heavy pillars of mason rv mid largo pine timber. When tho was cleared away a volume of pure water was di ■ closed siitli ient to supply a great num ber of cuttie. Among tlm discoveries made in the vault were stone axes and hammers, flint-knives, arrow heads mid quantities of pottery in fragments. Hu man remains were also brought to the surface, including two skulls in nn ex cellent state of pie-O. valion. ThebuiM ing is sup|HM>ed to have belonged to mi extinct race of people, ns the relies found evidently antedate anything hitherto dis covered in this ten ton On tho crest of die eastern bank nt Woolfolk's B. nd, on the t'hattahix'heo river in Georgia, one of those- curious mounds left by the mound builders stands. The re has just been taken from it, beside the human remains, by a Col umbus, Ga., antiquarian, some fine sainpbsof [lottery, most of which is of unique design, with some attempt nt decoration. The largest [rerfcct ve-sel is in sha|K> something like a carby, with shorter neck and mouth more flaring. Though tho base is globular, it is so fashioned or weighted that, turn it as you w iil, right side up with care it bob* serenely. On one side of the smaller pots a copper d sk was snugly titt d as a cover, and in it wire a number of beads, suggesting the possibility that it had once served some ancient l>e)le of ancient days as a jewellery case. Other pieces in design resemble the modern cuspidor, and others still are shaped as the regula tion pot of this dav. He also secured wveral Indian pipes, four stone fishers, two stone axes or wedges, medicine stone •ad innumerable arrow heads, etc. i The tide of a young woman who earned her bread by the sweat of other peoples* brows is related by the Pref of Portland. She was the daughter of a well-known Portland merchant who was unfortunate in business. After an unsuccessful at tempt at keeping a boarding house in Boston she obtained work in a Phi lade! I phia clothing house. One day, in a fit of desperation, she abandoned the shop I to invent a band in gentlemen’.-. hats to | prevent perspiration, which proved I highly successful. She has now returned to Portland to buy back the old home stead where the family lived in their former days of prosperity. Tho Chinaman of the Pacific slojio is evidently advancing in knowledge of tho wnyt of American civilization. Rs cently one entered a store in Sacramento and desired to sell a doz.cn brooms ho had ia his possession. The proprietor did not want to buy, and the Chinaman 1 departed with his wares. After a while 1 or.o of the storekeep- rs went out to get a bunch of brooms which had been dis played outside the store, ascertained that they were gone, ami realized that they were the very brooms which tho , Chinaman had offered f r sale. The j heathen then had simply taken them down from the nail ami carried them I into the store. Salmon are in the rivers and bays,from ' Oregon to Alaska, often in numbers that appear to b - inexhaustible. A Montana ■ correspondent says: “Where tho cur rent is swift the ti-h, in their ascent of the river, must swim near its surface. Here, close to the bank, a huge wheel is constructed. It has perhaps a dozen or twenty arms, which rench down into the river nnd form the motive power. There are at their ends a succession of scoops, made of iron network. The current of the river furns them, and ns they revolve through the water they capture the fish and senop them up. As they reach the top a means of escape is provided for the fish, but it is a pathway which directs him into an immense tank in which the salmon are gathered. A firm who have a wheel nt the Dalles said they did not i core to run it more than nine hours a day, for they could not take care of tho ■ fish that they caught .beyond this. Its manager said he hud thus far shipped 290 tons of salmon. One day he began to fish at U o’clock in the morning, and at 12:40 he had caught eighteen tons, nnd I had them nil aboard the cars, in ice, i shipped to the East. This was an extra j ordinary day, of course. The swift cur rent supplies ample water-power to turn I the huge wheel." Uslrich Peculiarities. The ostrich is an anomaly, a fond parent nt one time, nnd again devouring its offspring, showing nn idiotic gentle ness now, ami again kicking one of its 1 ttle ones into kingdom come. It will scan tho horizon with the wisdom of an astronomer, and tumble headlong into a muck hole nt its feet. A single wire will keep it in bounds at ordinary times, and a jack rabbit will drive it into a spasm of terror. There is nothing on earth like it, Ido believe, unless it may be a woman trying to cross Kearney street on a Saturday afternoon. Their 1 way of showing anger or fear is peculiar, j They squat on their ham dies and | stretch out their ungainly necks almost I level withthe ground,and sway them from ! side to side, m iking a strange drumming sound somewhere in their true inward ‘ ness. When grown they are the ugliest I things on record, atid look all leg. They are connoisseurs in metal buttons, vina ' grettes, and even hairpins, and will not hesitate to transfer one or more at a ! gulp from your person to their own cast iron stomachs, with a knowing wink of their red eyes; but it was a game of give and take, for in retaliation the visitor would make a grab, and many valuable plumes were lost in this way.— /•’r-mcMiv Chronidr. How Ho was Bauirht. “Say, papa,’ 1 queried a little boy. “I thought you told me they couldn’t buy people here nowadays i” “They can’t, my child,” re-died the father. “The late civil war settled that forever. But before, the people of tho South owned slaves, but tho war liber.it ed them and an amendment to tho con stitution male it impossible to hold tho e dored people as slaves in the Unite ! 1 Stat-’.’’ ! "I don’t mean colored people,” con- I tinu d tho boy. “1 m-an white gontle- Inn a like van. Was vuu ever bought or soldi” | “What a question! What put that 1 idea into your head “1 hard Mrs. Goss p talking to a caller I when she didn’t know 1 was round, i They got to talking about you and mam ma. She said mamma was so homely the would stop a clock, and that her money bought you. body and soul."— >.*, Foul Olohe. Decline in Real Estate. Landlord (to stranger.)—The proper tv u worth st’>s.ooo. I wouldn’t take ks«. Stranger.—l don't want to buy. j 1 am only the tax assessor. Laudlord. —Oh, I beg your pardon. , I should consider myself a very fortunate man if I could got $17,(00 for that pr.-p- ■ arij.—Fud. GOING TO FIRES. Fast Time Made by the New York firemen. Etilling on Tbdr Way a Few Seconds After ths Alarm Gone Strikes. The sharp clang of the big alarm gong rang through the coney quarters of (.'apt. Rafferty’s Fire Patrol, No 3, in West Thirtieth street, on Friday night. In stantly the horses dashed to th<- patrol truck shafts with a swift clatter,and just is swiftly driver Abram Lyell was in bis scat, and had the heavy reins grasped tightly in Lis brawny hands. His appear ance in his place was so sudden that it looked like magic. The gong had struck but a single stroke of the alarm when he sprang from his bed, on the second il >or, and came slap bang through a trap door in tho ceiling, just like a harlequin in the pantomime. It took him less than nine seconds to leave his bed and start the horses out with a rush from the patrol house. Driver Fl. S. Root, who rides with him, was just as swift in drop pingdown beside him. The beauty of the performance was that it wasn't an sxhibition test, either, but a bona file answer to a call to a fire at Tenth avenue ami Thirty-seventh street. The way Drivers Lyell and R rot leap through the trap door every time there is a fire is an improvement in speedy pre paration for responding to fire calls that is at present exclusively the proud feature of Capt. Rifferty’s wide awake company. The trap iscutin the ceiling immediately ov< r the driver's seat on tin: heavy truck. It is surrounded on the floor above by a polished brass railing four feet high,that shines like a mirror. The driver's beds are right beside this railing. When an alarm sounds at night they spring from their beds together, seize the railing,and let their bodies dr rphorlz. ntally through the trap. The instant tho door opens they let go and catch a second brass bar fitted into the ceiling, like an acrobat dropping from one trapeze to another- This second bar balances them and pre' vents them from falling forward in their five-foot drop to the truck seat. A weight attached to a pulley rope shuts the trap door with a bang the moment they disappear through the trap. The whole device works as smoothly and quickly that it is only a question of time xvhen the trap will be intro duced in all the engine houses in i town. It saves some seconds of time lost i in shinning down the brass sliding poles j and clambering to the seat on the en gines. In exhibition drills Drivers Ly ell and Root have been able to drop to their scats and started the truck in less i than two seconds,which is ahead of any thing in the patrol truck manning. Every day the brave fire laddies of | Gotham arc getting to be more expert ■ in swiftly answering fire alarms, and are ' on the lookout for improvements that i will cut down shorter the few seconds at present occupied in hitching up horses und starting the engines or trucks rattling on their way to the fire. The sliding pole was an improvement on the old fashioned pell mcll ru->h down the stairs that saved nearly a minute of prepara tion. Quick dressing is one of the fea tures of fire laddie activity nowadays 1 that fills every layman with amazement. The laddies have got the business down to sueli a science that they literally jump j into their clothes. Every fireman goes I to bed with his red fire shirt on. His trousers are always kept tucked into the legs of his heavy rubber boots, and when he retires he simply lets tho trousers slide off him and down over the boot leg and then steps out of the boots. When he wants to dress he steps back into the boots again, yanks the trousers up around his waist, fastens them with a spring buckle, an<l makes dashes for the sliding pole, quick as a wink, com pletely dressed.—A' w Yrrk Sun. A Prayer far Coffee. During tho war the people of Arka delphia, Ark., kept up their religious revivals. They argued that the Yankees might keep out sugar and coffee, but that they couldn't keep out the Lord. Among the most fervent of tho revival ists was old Sister Boyle. Without her no revival could hoj>e to boa success, and whenever there was the least draw back, she was called upon to pray. One night, at a meeting, the mourners Were slow in “cornin’through.” Sister Boyle was called upon. She took a position near the altar, knelt down, raised her hands, and said: “Oh, Lord, we arc in great distress. We have tried rye, • browned potatoes, parched corn, okery, imd many other things, trying to get a coffee taste out of 'em, but, 1. >rd, thou knowext as w ell as w.- d > that parched corn an’ sich lacks a right smart of being : coffee, so now. Lord, knowing all this, please open the blockade an' let the Lin coln coffee pour in, an' we'll praise thee early an’ late. Amen.” Arlaneaie j Truee/er. A Trustworthy Animal. Liveryman (to customer)-There, sir, is as good a boss as ever pulled a wag ' gin. An’ you needn't lx- afraid of him. i He puff.-et’y safe an' reliable. Customer (eyeing the animal dubiously) —ldont kno-v’bout that. I d hate to trust him with any oats. Sound Telegraphing in Africa. The system of sound telegraphy used by the people living on the boardei of the >rulf of Guinea, West Africa, is of interest as a primitive solution of the problem of communication through shot! distances. Bertram Sparhawk tells in the Scientific Auurican how the instru ment is made, as follows: Take a log of hardwood, about twe feet long and about a foot in diameter. Piano off one side longitudinally to a surface four or five inches wide. In the centre of this surface mark eff an elon gated and somewhat distorted Greek cross. The longer arms are placed longi tudinally, and occupy about one-third of the plane surface. The transverse arms arc three times as broad, and ex tends entirely across this surface. The natives dig out the wood within the out line of the cross, and from there gradu ally hollow out the whole log. The sides, beginning at the centre, are trimmed off laterally toward the ends, which are rounded off. The instrument is now ready. Il will be perceived that by tlic method above de- ' scribed we have a hollow drum with four tongues in the centre, each being of a different thickness, so as to produce a different sound when stuuek. Two pieces of bamboo, the siz: of a man's wrist and about two feet long, arc sc- j lected and stripped of the hard outside, i which leaves the soft, pithy portion for j use. This bamboo is of a peculiar kind, free from knots and solid throughout. With these sticks used in a proper manner on the four tongues of the drum, a combination of sounds is produced, which, in connection with time as used | in music, forms a perfect telegraphic language, readily understood by the ini- | tinted, the air being the transmitter. With this simple instrument the native 8 of the gulf of Guinea readily communi cate with e'ach other for a distance of a mile at least on land and a much longer distance by water. Messages can be sent long distances in a short time by parties nt different points passing them along from ono to another. The writer has seen canoes coming down a river from the bush markets signaling people in the town and giving and rcteiving general news at a distance of fully threa - miles. Knawn by the Nick In his Boots. A well-known Treasury official, who does considerable railroad travelling, says he has made an amusing discovery, which if properly carried out insures un usual care and attention from employees on parlor and sleeping cars. The tourist who has been initiated is provided with the most comfortab e seat in the dining car, receives special care und attention from the waiters, and is always sure to have a lower berth in the sleeper. Should any of his fellow-passengers be come jealous at the marked courtesy shown their comrade, and inspired with curiosity to know why the distinction is made, they have only to look at the heels on the shoes of the favored one, and they will observe that there is a small “nick” or notch there. Inspectors or “spotters” of the palace car service are constantly travelling over the rail roads to see that the passengers receive proper attention. They do not intend to have their connection with the com pany known to the railroad officials, but frequently the latter “drop” to their little game and stamp them so that they will be known all along the road. The porter in gathering up the boots and shoes in his car cuts a “nick” in the hind part of tho heel of the shoe be longing to the inspector, so that the other porters will recognize him as soon as they look at his shoes. The Treasury official, in a mysterious way, became aware that a nick in the heel of his shoe would greatly facilitate his comfort and pleasure in travelling. He tried the ex periment, and it worked to his entire | satisfaction. He found he was served ! with the best provisions the buffet af forded, his shoes received the brightest shine, nnd although he had been obliged to purchase an upper berth, the conduc- ' tor on the sleeper kindly placed a i "lower” at his disposal. It is probable that a uew system for tagging tho “spot ters" will be adopted in the railway ser vice now that their trade-mark becomcf known. B-iltimore Sun. A Turpentine Farm. A turpentine farm must be seen to be appreciaied. When the farm is pitched the boxes are cut one to three in a pine, ' according to size. The trees are counted into crops of so many thousand, and this ' is called a virgin crop. The queer little guago called a buck is then brought tc bear and a streak is cut above the box, which is simply a deep oval notch, point ing downward so as to lead the gum which excludes into the box below. Th se boxes are made to hold about a quart. This first run is as clear as oil, and is the finest of all. After being dipped out with a paddle, it is distilled, and the hard rosin left is sometimes as white and clear as glass. It is very beautiful, and brings a good price in the ' great naval-stores markets. Second years gum is not as good in quality, but fully so in quantity. Third year boxes, when the monthly hackings have made the tear high up, are still poorer, and . f:tm then on tne crops hardly p.y for working.— Atlanta Ccnttitution. Moravian Co toms. The Moravians have settlements r.ot on yit Germany but also in England, Switzerland an I America. They hold to nearly all the doctrines of Luther. Their largest settlement, called Herrn hut, is in Saxony, and the Moravians in many parts of Germany bear the name of Herrnhuter. In each community there xre two houses set apart —one for the un married men, calleel the “ Brothers’ House,” and the other for *ll unmarried sisters or widows who wish to entet tlu-m. The Moravians cannot mairy without the consent of the elders of tlieit church, and in some cases the bridegroom has been chosen for the bride. They seldom marry outside the community, and their engagaments are nearly as sol emn as their marriage, t The weddings arc very simple, the sister wearing but a dress with a white lace handker chief, and her pretty cap with her pale pink ribbon, which is changed afterward fur a pale blue ribbon when the cere mony is finished. There are always twe r.ngs at a wedding in Germany, as there a married man always wears one, which he receives from his bride in exchange for his. The Moravians wear no crape nor mourning for their dead, and they speak of them as blessed, and of death as “going home.” They call the grave yard “God’s acre," and they take tho greatest care of their graves. But there also is the division, as in the church, for the men are buried on one side of the cemetery and the women on the other. The Moravians are all well educated, and the poorer brethren among them enjoy the same privileges in their excellent schools as do the richer brethren. Life among “United Brethren” is simple and (inartificial, love to God and man being their first principle; and many who have lived among them bear in their hearts a loving memory of their goodness, and of the pretty little village of Neudieten dorf. An Old-Time Oyster Supper. General Eaton invited one evening Jackson Van Buren,the French minister, General Cass and several other gentle men to come around and assist him in disposing of a barrel of oysters just sent him from Norfolk. A few moments af ter the arrival of the distinguished party the butler announced the oysters ready. Mrs. Eaton led the way escorted by Mr. Van Buren, and as he approached the kitchen door, he exclaimed: “Good Heavens, madam, where are you going to take us?” “Into the kitchen, of course,” replied Mrs. Eaton cheerfully. Mrs. Eaton was a model housewife in her day, taking as much pride in her kitchen ns in her parlor, and as she threw open the door a novel sight pre seated itself. The floor was as white as soap and water could make it, and cov ered with fine white sand. The table? [ooked like boxwood and the tins were bright as mirrors. Added to this th< appetizing odor of oysters roasted in the shell, the novelty of the occasion, and the sprightly beauty of the hostess, one would suppose that even Mr. Van Buren might melt into a state of pleasantry. But on the contrary his features re flected only his inability to enjoy a frolic or this kind, and he sat upright and unsmiling until towards the end of the impromptu fete, xvhen he turned towards Mrs. Eaton and said: “'£his is the first meal of the kind served in like manner I have ever indulged in, but I trust it will not be the last. I think oysters never had such a delicious taste before.— Ben. Perley Moore. A Mysterious Noise Explained. Much has been written on the subject of mysterious noises, which, in most cases, if intelligently looked into, would be found to have no mystery at all about them. A professor at Philadelphia re cently recorded tha' at a certain hour each day one of the windows in his house rattled in the mo-t violent manner. On consulting the local railway time table he could find no train running at the hour specified. Bat on examining another table, which included a separate line, he found that a heavy train passed at the time, at a distance of several miles from his house. He then referred to the geological formation of the ground between the two points, and at once saw that there was an outcropping led<»e of rock which formed a link of connection between the distant railway line and his home. It was the vibration carried by this rock from the passing train that rat tied the window. The Nerves of Taste. The discovery that heat influences one set of nerve-points in the skin while sensations of cold are received bv an other set, hxs been followed by aa inter esting investigation by two Italian physi ologists, whose experiments seem to in dicate that the various tastes result from the exciting of distinct sets of nerve fibres in the tongue. "She prolonged ap plication of ice removed the sensibility for all tastes —sweet, sou", salt and bit ter. 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