Newspaper Page Text
;(fdnn/(ria §entiud.
«=-■- ■ ■ J» —■- -=x- • ■ -re-wres: -aa
hablem. Georgia
PUHI.ISII KU JtVKKY THUHSDA Y.
X3m.llmz*cl «*» Atlxlneoix,
PBOPKXCTOBa
Many axplcwionji in flour mill* are now
said to have been < anted by electricity
generated by belta. Even ordinary belt*
arc found to generate aufficiently atrong
currents to perform tbe common experi
ment sos which electrical machinea are
uacd.
A resident of Columbia, N hn»
gone into the c ultivation of the aunflowcr
on a large scale. He bat several ocrer
planted with different varieties ot the
flower, and exp <:» within a short time
to be abl< to nipp y the Southern market
with the product. Tin seed make*
splendid food for poultry, and horses
and cattle .ire quite fond of it.
'llteacademy of Medicine in Paris has
just been listening to a report on uu un
usual surgical operation which ended
successfully. The c ase was that of a
young mm who ut of bravado had
swallowed a fork. It was extracted by
an incision in the stomach. For many
days after the patient c onfine 1 himself
strictly to a diet of soup and iced cham
pagne. Liter car he took *om • milk, mid
on the twelfth day was nllowe I a cullet.
He is now quite well.
A correspondent of the London Stand
ard liner ts that statist! al evident'
gathered in the United States points tc
the phy-ii id inferiority of the emigrant
class to Hint of tin- gem ral population of
America and Great Britain. Ju the l ite
war an enormous number of men were
measured, with the result that tiro aver
age stature of American born men was
5 feet 7.07 inches, mid those of Britidi
birth were only 5 feet 0.58 inches, or mi
inch less; while tho committee already
mentioned found the stature of men at
hometobe 7.00, or practically identical
with that of native Americans. Even
the British laborer who stays at home
has an average stature half mi inch
greater than that of the emigrant class.
Two years ago not more than six roll
ing inilis and steel Works in the Unit d
States used natural gac in fire’; now wc
have n record of OS tolling mills and steel |
works which use the new fuel, and of 10
which are making preparations to use it.
roll." , mitt <iud *teel works in Al- [
legheny county, Pennsylvania, 55 in nil, |
now uses natural gas. In wi stern Pen
sylvania outside of Alleghany county it
is Used in I*d mills mid steel works; and I
seven other-, inclu ling the tolling mi l
and G.iutior departments of tho Cam- ;
bridge Iron Works, 71) miles east ol j
I’itts'-urg, arc preparing to mo it. <tn >
rolling mill in Ohio is now u-ing it, mid
eight mills are getting ready to use it.
At Wheeling, West Virginia, one mill is '
making arrnn;; ments to intr luce it. In
all but a very few of tho mill , and steel I
works referred to natural gas is used as
fuel exclusively. i
Thu late G. S. Hubbard about 57years
ngo entered, for tho first tima, the
mouth of the creek which has since bi
come ono es the limbors of Chicago
The sole settlement there then was a i
Stockade, known as I'nt D'irborn, a
block house of mi Indian trader, mid a i
decayed but, occupied by n forlorn half- .
breed. Hubbard organize I, after a
while what w..s regard cd ns an active
trade in that region, flr-t loading boats
nt Mackinac with m-inlumdise, mid
later by putting pack horses or In
dian ponies in their stead. Sixty years
ago the country around T-rrc Haute and
Vincennes, Indiana, began lobe settled,
and the settlements steadily grew. In
1832 Hubbard opened n per.nanent lin-i
--nras at Caie.igo, then a hamlet of 150 t >
160 Inhabitants. To day that hamlet
lias income a mighty city of 650,000
people, and one of the most important
centres ot commerce mid trade in civili
sation.
It has l>crn for a long tim ■ asserted
and believed that the island of Barbados,
with 160 square miles mid a population
of 175,000, which is 1054 persons to the
square mile, was the mast densely in
habited port ion of the earth’s surface.
From n c< luniuli.cation of Mr. John
Worthington, tl.e Consul of th. United
(state, at Yale tin, M it, it appears that
in the matter of density of population
Barbadocs must yield the palm to Malto.
That island contains 1)5 square miles of
surface mid contains 142,500 inhabitants
(exclusive of the British garrison and
visitor* aad n- n r.-st ent-', which is an
io rage of 1500 to the squire mile. Tiie
city of Val.ctt.i emt iins a t■ ,t j lethora
of population, its area facing 0.318 square
mile, mid its population 24,854. a popu
lation of 78.157 persons to th square
mile. There is one spec ally populous
quarter of Valetta, known as the
Mandcra gio, the area of which is 0.0J4
square mile, or 2.56 acres, wherein
dwell 2544 person- -a proportion of
636,000 soul* to the rquarc mile. If
we exclude the one-third < f the island
which is unsuitable fcr cultivation and
the area occupied by b .tidings the
population of Malta reaches tbe large
number of £OOO persons to the square
mile.
Edward A. Stuvcnson, Governor of
Idaho Territory,has mode bis annual rc-
I port to the B -cretary of the Interior. As
I an evidence of growth and progress of
the territory the governor cites the fact
. that in 1870 there wcro but 2, 777 children
' ot school ago in the territory, while now
there are 18,000. In 1876 $10,500 were
paid for school purposes, while last year
the amount pni 1 for that purpose exceed
ed $l3O, opo. Attention is called to the
fact that Indians occupy large reserva
tions, which the governor reoommends
be opened to settlement, and the Indians
!>• lomjie.lc 1 to take their lands in sev
ernlty. Tin- Chinese labor question is
alluded to ns one of the gravest that the
people of the Pacific slope have to grap
ple with.
Fish is generally regarded as a light,
easily digested, and nutritious article ot
food, and as such is often preset.bed for
patients during convalescence. But
every now and again tbe medical frater
nity is chagrined nt the sudden act back
of such a patient, anil occasionally a fa
tal relapse follows the “bit of fish” or
dared a* the proper thing for an inval.d’
meal. Dr. J. Stuart Nairne, surgeon to
tho Glasgow Samaritan Hospital for
Women, calls attention to the fact—
learned by him through some very dis
tressing experience* -that it is tho cook
ing and preparation of the fish, and not
the fish itself, which is nt fault. Boiled
fish, fried fi-h, link d fish, are all inferior
in digestibility to stamed fish. Dieting I
js the half mid sometimes tho best half of
medical treatment, and medical men are
but poor doctors if they arc not good
cooks. But not all good cooks know
that n steamed fish may be safely mid
beneficially partaken of when if cooked
in any other way it might boa seriously
ind igestll »le pint.
How much has been said and written
of the “Bad Lands" of the far West, and
how little they are understood'. 1! fore
the construction of the Northern Pacific
railroad they wcr..'believed to be a per
manent hindrance to the development of
the country. No one really knew about
them ; but they were u great bugbear.
It was dec ared that a railway could not
be built through them; the hunters
pronounced it absolutely impossible
The exploring expedition under Custer f
in 1872, furnished the first positive in- 1
formation concerning the Bad Lands.
They arc filled with cones, turrets,
pyramids of red and brown terra-cotta.
In some places smoke may be seen
issuing from n hill-side. It is not the
tCIlt- i us ft rvlt.ino, ln<t II In n Motion l
from which the coni has been burned by
spout,■incouscoinbustiun in recent geologic
periods, leaving the earth in the form of
cones and pyramids. It is n natural
terra-cotta pottery—a kind of brick-kiln
—ten miles wide, and extending for
hundreds of miles along tho Little i
Missouri, wide i runs through Wyoming,
Montana and Dakota, and whose mouth I
is more th in 1,800 feet above sea level.
When Lewis and (hark ascended the '
Missouri, in the early part of lit- century, ;
they saw the ground on lire nt divers 1
points and were unable to account for ,
it. The railroad met with no difficulty
in its progress. Th Bad Lands, instead
of being sterile, have proved extremely
fertile. In the center of the region, on
the bank of the river, is the town of
Medora, with a vast abattoir, where beef
is dau ditered and sent to the New York
market in refrigerator cars. The B.i I
Linds were the favorite grazing grounds
of tho buffalos, as they are of the steers
of to-day, and have been made beneficial j
to th- human family by the construction
of the Northern Pacific. So the world
moves.
Tho Hen Minister.
At an Island on the coast of Maine
which is much resorte 1 to there is an es
te med local clergyman who is known to '
the summer residents, nearly all of win in
are Bostonians, as the "hen minister."
This is by reason of his habit of telling
in season and out of reason, u certain
story which qucerly illustrates th.- idea
of faith. "1 preached a sermon one Sun
day," the good minister will say, “on
the doctrine of faith, in which I taught l
my hearers the good Christian doctrine
that all things may bo brought about by
faith, instructing them that faith is the
evidence of things not seen, tho sub
stance of things hoped for. There was
a farmer's wifain the congregation who l
wa« greatly edified by the sermon, and
came to me and told me that she now
understood just what 1 lit'a was. Next
Sunday m ruing I overtook her on ths
way to church. ’S.-e here. Parson,’ s.i'vs
she, ‘I don't think much of your teachin’
about faith.’ ‘Why not I’ I asked.
•Why,’ sirs she, ‘the other day I heard
luy s|K'ek < d hen a-eacklin’ like all t,
pay.’ "Now,'say, I, ‘here i* a chance ti
show what faith is. That speckled'
hen’s egg is the evidence of things not
seen; the substar co of things hoped for.
lhave faith that she's laid an egg, and 1
am sure that when I go out to the shed 1
I’ll find it.” So I goes out and looki
for it, ami there wasn’t any egg there,
and that speckled hen hadn’t laid any. ;
Now what's your faith good for. I’d lik<
toknowf ’And then,’ the minister wi! ,
say, ’1 told her what was the mattei
with her faith. It was meant for a re
buke to you that you didn't find any cgs
there ’ ‘fid I. You’d ought to he.vi
t usted i i God and not in the ben.’— 1
Treosarv.
The flowers i p-auled m ib> flush of syiring
Hara budded, bloom'd and withered long
■CO
The grain my lavish Angers use-1 to throw
f/mg since was rnop-d for others’ garnering;
i Yet lam rich amid my nature deart h ■
My gol 1 is » here the rainbow touches earth.
My wealth is molten of full many an ore
Dug from the sacred caverns of tbe Past:
Htored where Uie Present's quiet light is
cast;
All blent together, all of priceless worth,
All hid just whero the rainbow touch-*
earth.
And Memory, Faith and Hope its guardians
are,
As holding Love’s strong band I make my
Knowing I near a little every day
The one sure goal where, passing o’er the
bar,
I find, in all tbe glow of second birth,
My Treasure, where the rainbow touches
earth.
—All the Year Hov.nd.
THE GLOVED PACHA.
“Do you see that tall, handsome man
now talking to His Highness?" inquired
an old diplomat of one of the State balls
given by the Khedive of Egypt in his
fairy summer palace at Gezireh on the
banks of the Nile.
"What,” said I, "do you mean Mus
tapha Pacha F., the Cabinet Minister 1”
"Yes ; und have you noticed that his
right hand is always gloved? Look at it
now. He is the only man in the room
wearing a glove on that hand, which is
contrary to a-H etiquette. If he were to
remove it you would perceive an ugly
kind of semicircle scar. Come into the
gar-lens and 1 will tell you under what
peculiar circumstances he received the
wound, the traces of which be is to
anxious to hide.” Nothing loath I
wandered out in the fresh night air with
my old friend, and established ourselves
comfortably with our cigarettes on the
marble balustrade of the Palace Quay, I
listened with interest to the following
story :
"In 18715, the English government
alarmed at the Khedive’s terrible ex
travagance, ami repeated appeals to the
European money markets, sent out to
Egypt a special mission consisting of the
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, Sir Rivers
Wilson and others, to inquire into the
state of the finances of the country.
These gentlemen, although received with
flattering hospitality and courtesy, ex
perienced the greatest difficulty in ob
taining the information they required.
In the short space of ten years over
$500,000,008 had been borrowed the
Egyptian government, and of tffls im
mense sum only $200,000,000 had found
its way into the state treasury. What
hud become of the balance? Two peo
ple alone could tell. One of these was
the Khedive himself, and the other his
minister of finance, Mustapha Pacha
Sadyk, the most powerful
man in Egypt. It is impossible
to conceive the enormous wealth of the
latter. Large tracts of country belonged
to him, and he had the right of coining
money in his own name. His splendor
and magnificence were unequalled in the
East. His harem of over 3,000 women
occupied the three immense palaces in
which now all the Government offices are
located, and he had a special bodyguard
in his seraglio of over 400 superb ama
zons who, on state occasions, donned ar
mor and hclmlets of pure silver. Mem
ber of almost every European order of
knighthood, he was on terms of intimate
acquaintance with all the principal
statesmen of Paris, London, 8.-rlin and
Vienna. The English envoys according
ly devoted all their energies to win him
over from the Khedive, in order that
they might be able at last to sound the
dark depths of Egyptian finance. It ap
jwars that they were about to succeed.
"Late ono Thursday night in the
month of June a carriage stopped at one
of the side entrances of the Abdeen
Palace, a short stout gentleman jumped
out, and limped rapidly up the stairs,
demanded to see His Highness at once.
The Khedive, on being informed that
his visitor was Mr. Julius Blum, confi
dential secretary and factotum of the
Minister of Finance, ordered him to be
admitted immediately. After kissing the
hem of the monarch’s coat in truly
oriental fashion, tho secretary informed
the Khedive that the Minister had been
won over by the English envoys, and in
order to save his own position had de
termined to turn King’s evidence and to
reveal to them on the following Saturday
the whole of His Ilighne-s's financial
transactions. The latter, fully aw re
that such disclosures would inevitably
result in his deposition, immediately de
termined at nil cost* to prevent their
being made. The next day was Friday,
the MoliammeJau Sabbath. After per
forming his devotions at the mosque, the
Khedive proceeded in an open Victoria
to the palace of Mustapha Pacha
Sadyk and invited that Minister to ac
company him during his usual after
noon drive. As this was by no
means tho first occasion cn which His
Highness had thus honored him, the
Minister had no reason to be surprised,
and pleasantly chatting together tho
Khedive and Mustapha Pacha Sadyk
drove to this very I’alac- of Gezireh. On
alighting at that door you see there, the
Khedive, turning to tho Minister, in
v 4-d him to supper on board the Vice-
R-gal yacht, which lay moored in mid-
stream. and suggested that Mustapha
Pacha Sadyk should go on board im
mediately with the Prince* Hussein and
Haosun, saying that he himself would
follow as soon os he had taken a bath.
Tho Minister accompanied by the Khe
dive’s sons, embarked at these very
steps and was rowed off to the yacht. A
merry evening was spent on bjard, the
whole ship being illuminated, and oc
casional snatches of music and laughter
being wafted over to the shore. At
about 11 o’clock the Khedive and both
Princes returned alone, leaving on
board the Minister with the two Vice.
Regal chamberlains, Mustapha B y F.,
and Sami Bey Biroudi. Shortly after
ward the sounds of a short scuffle on
deck were heard by the people on shore,
and then all was quiet and the lights
were extinguished on board. Soon after
midnight the yacht cast loose from her
moorings and noiselessly glided up the
the stream toward the first cataract.
"Nothing more was ever seen in this
world of Mustapha Pacha Sadyk.
"On the next day a decree was issued
stating that the Khedive had banished
his Minister of Finance to Upper Egyp
‘for having dared to oppress his much
beloved subjects,’ etc., etc. Four days
later the yacht returned to her moorings
off the Gezireh Palace, and when the two
Chamberlains above referred to resumed
their service, it was noticed that Sami
B y wore a handkerchief round his
throat a* if to hide some wound on his
neck, and that Mustapha Bey F. had his
right hand in a sling. Nothing can be
kept secret in the East, and it soon
oozed out that Simi’s throat had been
lacerated by the nails, and Mustapha’s
hand had been bitten through by the
teeth of the unfortunate Finance Mini
ster, when they strangled him with their
own bands on the night of the supper.
Both Sami and Mustapha were rewarded
for their services by being made Pachas
Sami, after being Prime Minister at the
time of Arabi’s insurrection, is now in ex’
ile at Ceylon, while his companion,
Mustapha, after being engaged to an
English lady who broke off the marriage
when she heard the history of his hand,
>s now a Cabinet Minister. Blum, the
private secretary, who betrayed his bene
factor and master, was naturally also re
warded by being made a Pacha, and is at
the present moment Under Secretary of
State in the department of which Mus
tapha is Minister.’’—A’«w York Tribune.
The “ Gyascutus.”
Considerable discussion prevailed iu
the newspapers some years ago regarding
the remarkable animal, supposed to be
extinct, but known as the "Gyascutus.”
O der people will remember that twenty
year* or more ago it was reported that
in Indiana a live gyascutus had been
found and caught. The story was to
the effect that the said wonderful animal
was advertised by two middle-aged
scientific persons as a creature of great
strength an I ferocity, long supposed to
be the only specimen of its kind in
existence, which would be on exhibition
in the local temple of the muses on a
certain evening named; curtains to rise
at 8. The evening appointed, according
to the chronicler, a large and intelligent
audience of tire first citizens was in early
attendance, and the heart of tho enter
prising scientist at the door was
gladdened by the chink of many shekels.
The audience having been fairly hive 1,
ami in a state of enthusiastic expectancy,
ju-t the moment appointed for the rising
of the curtain there was the noise of a
great roaring and confusion behind the
scene*, which was followed by the ap
pearance of Scientist No. 2, disheveled
and wild. “Save yourselves, ladies and
gentlemen,’’ he cried, “the gyascutus is
loose!” Then, it is said, there was what
the late Byron finely described as "hurry
ing to and fro,” though more of the
“fro” than the “to,” and they were
“the first citizens” who reached the side
walk first. Every citizen saved himself
entirely whole, barring twenty-five cents
paid the scientist at the door. The two
scientists also saved themselves, as was
generally believed, by taking to the ad
jacent timber. In the course of time,
one of the victims made bold to a k his
neighbor if he “saw the Gyascutus.”
Tiie question was repeated by others,
and soou “Have you seen the Gyascutus?”
became a synonym for “Have you been
victimized?” and as such the saving
became current all over the United
States. (ilobe Democrat.
The Use* of Lemons.
Lemons arc one of the most useful
fruits in our domestic economy.
The juice of half a lemon in a glass of
water, without sugar, will frequently
cure a sick headache.
If the hand be stained, there is noth
ing that will remove the stain better
than a lemon or a lemon and salt.
After the juice has been squeezed
from the lemon the refuse can be used
for the pur|K-se.
Lemon juice is also a very good
remedy for rheumatism and the so
called biliousness of spring. In the
latter case the juice should be taken
before breakfast. The pulp may also be
eaten, av riding every particle of skin.
L mon juice and sugar, mixed very
thick, is useful to relief coughs and ;
sore throat*. It must be very acid as
well as sweet.
L.monadc i* not only a luxury, but |
exceedingly whoiesor. c.
A gkeatjjbrary.
The New Structure For the
Library of Congress.
Librarian EpofforJ Talks About Noted
Collections of Books.
Speaking to a Philadelphia Time*
representative about the massive edifitSe
authorized by Cqngrcss for the accom
modation of the National Liorary of the
United State*, Librarian Spofford said:
“The capacity of the building will be
for three and one-hnlf millions of books.
We now have five hundred r.nd seventy
thousand volumes, not counting two
hundred thousand pamphlets and a large
and rare collection of manuscripts. The
interior of tbe building will be finished
for the books we now have, leaving the
introduction of additional iron alcoves as
required by the growth of the future.”
“How long will it take to fill the build
ing with books?”
“At the piobablc rate of increase,
about two centuries. The presentgrowth
is about 25,000 volumes annually. There
will be a large res.-rve s[»ice in the rear
of the building for the construction of
an annex, which will accommodate two
million more volumes. The growth of
great libraries in the United States and
other countries in the nature of things
i is without limit, so enormous has be
' co:nc the development of the art of
printing. This library in the United
States is destined to distance all others
ia the future.
“When I took charge of this library
i twenty-two years ago there were twenty
' five larger libraries in the world. Now
there is but five larger. Until recent’y
the Boston Public Library, founded in
1852 from funds raised by city taxation
I on a liberal scale, was the largest in tbe
; United States, with 430,000 volumes.
Now this library exceeds it by nearly
200, iOO volumes. The Philadelphia
i Library Company, founded in 1731, and
Mercantile Library, of Philadelphia,
founded in 1821, have less than one
third the number in this library,
“The largest library in the world is the
Bibliotheque Nationale of France, or Na
tional Library, formerly Royal, then Im
i pcrial, according to the changes of gov
ernment. It was founded in 1737 by a
royal printing tax requiring a copy of
each bock printed for the King’s library,
and contains 2,250,000 volumes. The
library of the British Museum, founded
in 1753 from a donation of books and
private gallery of Sir Hans Sloan, con
tains 1,500,000 volumes. It became a
great library through liberal donations
from subjects 8f the Crown, including
many great private libraries. The
books, engravings, arts, antiquities and
natural history have long since outgrown
their present quarters. All collections
except books, engravings and few anti
quities have been successively removed
to Kensington to make room. The St.
Petersburg Imperial Library, founded by
' ukase of the Czar, has 1,000,000
volumes. The Royal Library of Berlin,
' founded by a copy tax in 1661, the od
est big library on the globe, has 700,000
volumes. The Library of Munich, Ba
varia, founded in the sixteenth century,
claims 800,000 volumes, but includes
pamphlets, which we do not. If we
counted pamphlets we would have 770,-
000. The next in size is the Library of
Congress, which is our national collec
tion.
“A great library is like a great army,
a chaotic mass, without organization,
but when divided into army corps, brig
ades, regiments and companies you can
put your finger on every man. So with
books, no matter how vast the collection
once adopt a clear and intelligible sys
tem of classification ami any one of the
million volumes may be found as readily
as if there were but a few hundred.
“The origin of the Library of Congress
was an appropriation of a few hundred
dollars in 1800, the year the government
occupied Washington. President Jef
ferson took a great interest in it. John
I Randolph, chairman of a special com
mittee, reported in 1801 favoring a
liberal policy towards it. In 1814 the li
brary had but 3,000 volumes and
SI,OOO a year. In that year it was
burned by the British. Jefferson, ov>r
taken by debts, tendered his library of
6.700 volumes, which was purchased bv
Congress for $23,950. In 1851 it reached
5,500 volumes, when it was again almost
t tally destroyed by fire. About 20,000
vo umes, the least valuable portion, was
saved. In 1860, two years after my ap
pointment as librarian, it had but 40,000.
It now has, as I have said, 570,000 vol
umes and 203,000 pamphlets. It is pe
' culiarly rich in rare American manu
scripts and works on American discov
ery, settlement, history, biography
politics and resources. Its collection of
for ign and scientific works and law li
brary have no equals here.
"The Alexandrian Library, said to
have contained 700.000 volumes and
burned by the Caliph O.nar in the seventh
century, is lost in the midst of fiction and
tradition. Much that is said about
it has been proven apocryphal upon
highest authority. There is no •
doubt of a collection of books having ex- '
isted and some were burned, but as to 1
the number said to have be.-n destroyed
centuries before the invention of print
ing, that is impossible. All volumes
then were in manuscript. The err
approach to a library was brought h
light in recent Assyrian discoveries a-q
consisted of Babylonish books on ( .; a ' v
tablets, supposed for public instrm-tio?
650 B. C. Tbe public library, M w ’.
understand it, is a modern invention 1
presume the oldest library in the United
States still in existence fa the Philadei
pbia Library, founded over a century
and a half ago. The number of pubijj
libraries iu the United States t<-j '.
runs up into the thousands. Hardly a
community of a thousand or two „f
people is without some k.nd of a <■., ; e( ?
tion.”
"When do you expect to occupy th,
new building?”
“It will be under roof in two years and
half, or say in 1889, the exterior will
bo completed. The interior will be
arranged for about a million books to
begin with. After that we can spread
out as the increase of books demands ’
Ingenious Smugglers.
The ingenuity of smugglers has never
perhaps been more strikingly illustrated
than it was a few days ago on the Swiss-
Italian frontier. An
wagoner, with a wagon load of cheese
arrived at the Italian custom house at
Chiasso. He had come from Lu.-nno
and his destination wis a small Italian
village called Marignau. The cheese
weighed three tons, and the wagoner
who was "child-like and bland ’’
whistled blithely as he duly presented
his papers, which certified that he was
employed by the firm of to convey
tb.e cheese, which foiincd part of only a
larga order, to its purchaser at Mari„-
nan. The papers were examined and
found "correct, and before resuming
his journey the wagoner stepped into a
neighboring case with one of the doua
niers, for the day was hot, and a cigar
ette and a glass of wine could net fail to
be acceptable. But the delay for re
freshments was destined to prove fatal
to the wagoner’s hopes, for during his
absence another douanier wistfully
gazed on the tempting load of cheese,
and, thinking that a slice from such a
quantity would never be missed and at
the same time would, in conjunction
with a raorsal of garlic and a piece of
black bread, afford him a delectable
supper, he whipped out his knife and,
selecting a prime looking cheese,he pro
ceeded to cut into it, or rather he did
not cut into it, for either his knife was
blunt or the cheese was uncommonly
hard. This peculiarity induced him to
consult with a colleague, and together
they proceeded to make something more
• than a cursory examination of these re
markable cheeses. Lo and behold I
They proved to be not cheeses at all,
but solid, compact rolls of tobacco art
fully done up in cement; this again was
covered with canvass, which was painted
to represent cheese. Os course tiie ‘find’
was instantly confiscated, and the blithe
wagoner was transferred from the com
forts of the case to the hardships of a
jail. Chicago Tines.
African Constabulary.
Following is an extract from David
Ker’s letter from Accra, Africa, to the
New York Times-. I espy something
which at the first glance looks like a yel
low-headed African whose hair has grown
down to his waist. But the next mo
ment I sec that the supposed Esau if
wearing an enormous hat of dried grass,
the long straggling ends of which com
pletely hide his upper figure, and make
him appear as if carrying a huge truss
of straw. He has scarcely passed when
up come four or five stalwart blacks in
dark blue uniforms and scarlet facings,
who carry their rifles in a smart, soldier
like fashion suggestive of long discip
line. These are the famous Moussas, the
Sikhs of West Africa, who form a kind
of armed constabulary along the whole
Guinea coast. Though almost unknown
to the civilized world, they have done
many a deed of valor as heroic as any
which has been famed in story and song.
Only the other day one of their English
officers was telling me, with a glow of
honest admiration on his handsome face,
how thirty of his negro warrior* made
good their ground against ten times their
number of savage Awoonas till their am
munition was spent and then charged
home with the bayonet, sweeping away
their swarming enemies like chaff.
His Trick Exposed.
It related to a well known Micon man
that he recently went to Griffith and at
tended the church with a young lady
on whom he was very sweet. When tho
contribution box started out on its rounds
the young man took a five-dol'ar go d
piece cut of his vast pocket and displayed
it in such n way that the young lady saw
it. She mildly rebuked his extravagance,
but he said he often contributed that
much, especially when in strange
churches. Watching his chance b’’
slipped tho gold coin into his pocket and
slyly took out a silver quarter which U '
as slyly dropped into the box when it
reached him. This fixed the impres-ion
on the young lady that her beau was
generous and held the church in high
esteem. At the close of the services,
was the custom of the church, ■h
.imcunt in the box was announced. The
total was $3.75. Griffith has no charms
for the man now. —Jfucoi),
Telegram.