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KNOXVILLE. GEORGIA.
There is great complaint of the adul¬
teration of food in the City of Mexico.
Even the bread is tampered with.
Hubert Herkomer, the famous English
painter, sees the beginning of a splendid
future for architects in America.
They are attempting to acclimatize
American oysters from Connecticut in
several places along the coast of Sweden.
So far the oysters thrive well.
There are in the Treasury vaults at
Washington nearly a pint of diamonds
and other^ precious stones that were pre¬
sented to various Presidents by admiring
friends.
The English “canteen,” a system by
which regular soldiers improve the com¬
forts of army life—never too great at the
best—has been introduced in American
army posts with great success.
A man in Chicago threatens smcide if
that city does not prove to he larger than
Brooklyn. His fellow-citizens do not
care what he does, comments the Detroit
Free Press, if he will only live long enough
to be counted._
General Sherman has offered a prize oi
$100 for the best essay written by an
army officer of the school of application
on the subject of the influence Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., has had on the civil
ization of the surrounding country.
In the United States Army there are
eight per cent, of officers and ninety-two
per cent, of men out of a total of 27,167,
and in the English Army there are four
per cent, of officers and ninety-six pet
cent, of men out of a total of 210,105.
The Washington Star says that the dis¬
covery by the ornithologists that a wai
upon the pestiferous sparrow, in order to
be successful, must he carried on by
Canada and the United States in concert,
furnishes a new argument for union be¬
tween the two countries.
At the close of the past year there were
completed and in course of construction
in this country eighty-five electric rail¬
ways, comprising about 450 miles of
track, and the reports show that during
the first year over 18,000,000 passengers
have been carried over these lines.
The United States Supreme Court has
repeatedly said that a man’s right under
Ms patent for an invention is as absolute
as under a patent for lands, and no one
would say that one should lose the right
to his house because some one else saw
fit to take possession of it against his
will.
A Kentuckian shot himself with sui¬
cidal intent, the other day, and died af¬
ter several hours of intense suffering.
Being asked how it happened that with
his known skill with the pistol he did
not kill Mmself instantly, he said he
wished to live long enough to be for¬
given for his act.
Says Harper's Bazar: ‘ ‘The fignre 9 in
Our dates is with us and has come to
Btay. No man or woman, now living,
will ever date a document without using
a 9. It now stands on the extreme
right—1889. Next year it will be the
second place—1890—and there it will
stay for ten years. It will then move up
to third place—1900—and rest there foj
one hundred years. ”
If any persons have been frightened
by recent rumors of a coming deficiency
in the beef supply of the country, they
can find reassurance in tMs year’s repor!
of the Agricultural Department on farm
animals. To put the statement in round
numbers, there were 25,000,000 in the
United States in 1860, 33,000,000 in
1880, and 50,000,000 in 1888, the yeai
covered by the last report.
No Treasury in the world ever con¬
tained so vast a sum of money, boasts the
San Francisco Chronicle , as that of the
United States. The last statement shows
that there is in the Treasury vaults over
six hundred millions in gold and silver
coiu and bullion, Of gold coin and
bullion the amount is $303,504,319;
silver coin and bullion, $315,343,180.
By the side of this vast accumulation the
treasures of other countries, and those
recorded in history, sink into insignifi¬
cance.
A curious question of etiquette will
prevent the Shah of Persia from visiting
the, Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople.
This latter is too full of pomp and dig¬
nity to go down to the train to meet a
guest, and always receives his visitors at
the Yildiz Kiosque. The Shah, how
awer, thinks that the Turkish potentate
should meet Mm at the depot, and as
neither will yield the point, the differ¬
ence of opinion on this subtle question
of etiquette will prevent the Shah from
peeing the beauties of the Sultan’s hafem.
It is now announced that Commissioner
Morgan has determined to substitute as
rapidly as may be possible on the Indian
reservations, non-partisan public schools
under the supervision of the Indian
Bureau, for the schools under charge of
several religious bodies—Presbyterian,
Methodist, Episcopalian, Quaker, Roman
Catholic—which have received Govern¬
ment support since General Grant's first
administration under the contract sys¬
tem.
For several years past learned, or ap¬
parently learned, arguments have ap¬
peared in Western newspapers to the ef¬
fect that the level of the great lakes is
lowering, and that a period of low water
is beginning. These theories, according
to the New York Tribune, have been up¬
set the past month by the rise of the
level of the lakes and the passage ovei
shallow places of large vessels conveying
big cargoes. One propeller, the Corsica,
has just passed through the lakes carry¬
ing the heaviest cargo ever shipped on a
lake vessel.
Apparently John Chinaman has Mi
vanities as well as men of other races.
The New York Jewelers' Weekly says that
“the only ornament worn by the Chinese
of the lower of laundrymen class is a
wristlet, a polished translucent ring of
white or greenish stone, just large
enough to slip over the hand. They are
quite expensive, ranging from $3 for an
inferior dull white specimen to $50 for
the green rings that are most highly
prized. They must he entirely free from
imperfections and emit a clear, sonorous
ring when struck a light blow. ”
During the last session of Congress the
the sum of $200,000 was appropriated
for the establishment of a zoological gar¬
den at WasMngton. The necessary site
for it has now been selected. It com¬
prises about 150 acres, lies to the north¬
west of the city, about two miles from
the White House, along the banks of
Rock Creek, and is said to be admirably
situated and in every way well adapted
for its purpose. It is expected that be¬
fore next winter the necessary arrange¬
ments will be so far advanced that the
animals now inappropriately housed in
the grounds of the Smithsonian Institu¬
tion can be moved to their new quarters.
The greatest and most useful, as well as
promising, scientific proposition of this
country and day, declares the Trenton
(N. J.) American ,is that for the diversion
and storage of the tributary waters of the
Upper Mississippi, so that they may be
used for the irrigation of the arid plains
of Idaho, and their absence mitigate the
floods wMch devastate the low lands
along the Mississippi. It was a system
of irrigation that converted Salt Lake
City into a garden,and if the vast area of
the sterile fields of Idaho can be brought
into cultivation and production, it would
in many ways repay the National Govern¬
ment for any amount of financial help
that it might give the enterprise.
In sending to Professor C. Y. Riley, oi
this country, the insignia of a Knight of
the Legion of Honor, M. Faye, the
French Minister of Agriculture, writes:
“In conferring this high distinction
upon you, the French Republic has
sought to shew its indebtedness for the
important services which you have ren¬
dered to the general agricuture of all
countries, and particularly to France, by
your labors and discoveries. I consider it
a personal honor to have had the occasion
to confirm to our Chief Magistrate the ex¬
cellence and importance of your ser¬
vices.” M. Tisserand, Director of Agri¬
culture, wrote at the same time to Pro¬
fessor Riley as follows: “It is a small
reward for your services, and would have
been granted long ago if you had not de¬
clined to accept the honor. France is
but paying an old debt of gratitude, and'
I am most happy in knowing that the im¬
portance of your work is thus recog¬
nized.”
The New York Tribune says: “Will
the coming man drink ice water? The
contemporaneous man uses a large quan¬
tity of it in spite of Dr. Hammond’s
philippic, and it is interesting to note
that the opinion of the doctors and drug¬
gists of Boston is decidedly favorable to
the beverage. The Boston Globe asked
thirty-eight doctors what they thought of
it. Sixteen pronouned it very beneficial;
twelve agreed that it was very good if
not taken to excess; three were non¬
committal, and only seven of the thirty
eight advised that it should be left alone.
The druggists did still better by this
popular drink. Forty-six of them were
viewed; twenty-six of them regarded it
as very beneficial;.none reported that it
ought be left alone, while the other twen¬
ty certified that it was very beneficial. If
looks from this as if a Prohibition amend¬
ment aimed at ice water stands no chance
of being engrafted upon the Constitution
of Massachusetts for the present. In fact,
ice water has probably come to stay, the
country over.
Dr. Nansen, the explorer, says that the
ice in Greenland is 6900 feet thick.
FORTUNE NEVER DIES.
What’s the use in chasing fortune? Fortune
never dies.
Have your grief, but never grievance.
Waste no time in sighs.
Everything will come to you. The world
will better be—
For rivers only run one way, and ever to¬
ward the sea!
Overhead the stai-s are living—always—day
and night.
The sun into some weary soul is ever flood¬
ing light.
Make your soul your mirror; walk with
Meekness, Wisdom, Pride.
A wise man’s pillow tells him more than all
the world beside.
Love your neighbor even as yourself, but
not your neighbor’s wife.
The sweetest thing to living man or dying
man is life.
Love, ambition, hunger, wake the world
whenever it would nod—
And holy aspirations must soar up at last to
God!
He will hear you and will listen, and will an¬
swer, by and by;
The poorest aud the meanest yet have one
friend up on high.
So gather up your manhood from the ashes
of your youth,
And live for honor, friendsMp, love and
charity aud truth!
—Once a Week.
THE YELLOW WHEELS.
BY MARIANNE DE WOLF PERRY.
Joe Jeflus drove a coal team, a great'
lumbering two-horse coal team,and every
day of Ms life, “Sundays excepted,”
perched Mgh above his business,he thun¬
dered with Ms dusky load through the
streets of the busy town. One large con¬
cern used quantities of soft coal, and Joe
had found out that the easiest haul there
and back was along the fine broad avenue
where those who owned trotters speeded
them, and those who did not sat upon the
fences and made disparaging remarks.
But of all those who flew past Joe as he
labored along the road, not one excited
Ms ire half so much as a man with “yel¬
low wheels.”
Sometimes it was a horse of one color
and sometimes of another, but always
“yellow wheels.” Joe just hated the
very sight of him. He was so well
dressed, he was so self-contained, his
“team” was so spick and span, and he
drove so well, that to Mmself Joe had
wasted upon Mm all the choice epithets
that he had learned in the army.
Joe Jeff us had driven a team of some
kind ever since he could remember, and it
was therefore most natural that he and
the war maturing about the same time,he
should enlist as a wagoner and become a
driver of a mule team.
He saved his bounties and his pay,and
at the close of the unpleasantness con¬
cluded to settle down and go to work.
But he missed being under orders, and
looking about Mm, wooed and won Ms
next-door neighbor, a fragile little
light-haired factory girl, and swore
allegiance to her for life.
His hands and face were not black and
grimy then, and his dark curly hair
crowned a head of youthful, manly
beauty.
Youth had long since gone from Joe,
the little light-haired girl had become a
delicate, ailing woman, and his heart
sank many and many a time as he climbed
up the dingy stairs to Ms attic home.
The “little woman,” tho’, had proved on
the whole, a good investment. Every
month a little from Ms pay went into the
great stone savings bank iu the center ot
the town.
“Wouldn’t the time ever come,” the
little woman kept asking, “when they
could buy the little corner lot they could
see from their windows, and over which
the soft summer breezes coming up from
the river kept the grass and trees so
green?”
And then Joe would light Ms pipe and
go down and sit upon the door-step, and
think, always think about the “yellow
wheels.”
Now this feeling was not so very
strange after all, for into everybody’s life
at some time or other, in some way or
another, there enters sometMng very,
very nearly akin to the man with “yel¬
low wheels.” And so it came to pass
that one day succeeding the time-worn
wish from Ms tired wife, that, thunder¬
ing along the avenue, he canght sight of
Ms enemy.
He had pulled up toward the sidewalk
to see a man. A line of heavy wagons
was coming in the opposite direction.
Joe kept hearing closer and closer down
upon the ‘ ‘yellow wheels, ” away from
the approaching teams; he had taken in
the situation at a glance. The yellow
wheels could be rasped and cut into by
the end of Ms clanking whiffle-tree, if
the man didn’t pull out literally upon the
sidewalk. Now Joe could clear Mm just
as well as not if he wanted to; but he
didn’t.
Unconscions of all this, the owner of
the “yellow wheels” laughed and talked
with his friend on the sidewalk. On and
on came Joe, Ms face blacker than usual,
threatenings and slaughter in Ms heart
and evil in his eye. In less time than it
takes to tell it the heavy wMffle-tree was
playing hide-and-seek among the yellow
spokes; the horse had jumped and
backed, almost thrown out the man,
knocked Ms hat off in the mud and put
one foot squarely upon it, while Joe, un¬
concernedly, face to the front, was clank¬
ing along the road. Very soon Joe
knew the man was coming for Mm; he
heard the horse’s hoofs nearer and near¬
er, and now the “yellow wheels” were
ahead of his team.
“I say,” said the man, “what did you
do that for?”
“Go ’long,” answered Joe, apparently
to Ms horses, really to the man.
“I say,” repeated the man, “what did
you do that for?”
And then Joe, using the most forcible
expression he had learned in Ms army
days, asked Mm if he thought that he
and Ms- yellow wheeis owned the
whole street.
The man with the “yellow wheels”
kept his place alongside, but seemed bur
lied in thought.
Two things were open to him; 'he
could demand that Joe come down from
his perch old-fashioned and settle it then and there in
the way, or he could get
the number of his cart and make it disa¬
greeable for Joe later on.
Looking at his damaged hat, which
was not a cheering sight to see, and at
his lovely, disfigured wheels he gathered
up his reins and flew down the road.
And Joe; it was the happiest moment
of his life, just then. The consciousness
of having hurt his enemy crowded out
all other thoughts for the time, but the
haul was still a long one, the sun very
warm, the horses tired and listless, and
Joe began to wonder if, after all, he
hadn’t made a fool of himself to say the
least? What would the tired little wo¬
man say who never had heard of those
“yellow wheels,” if he should tell her
what bo had done? And then he wished
his favorite wish, that he had never been
born 1'
“You must get her out of this,” said
the doctor to Joe. “She tells me she
has a few hundred dollars saved up in
the bank, and she longs for a little home
of her own. Stairs are killing things
tor women. Can’t you buy a lot and
build a little house for her? I see that
there are some lots for sale over there,”
and the doctor pointed to the corner lot
that the little woman had looked upon so
wistfully, where, from her dingy attic
windows, she could see a few stunted
willow trees wave in the summer breeze.
“It would cheer her up,” continued
the doctor, “through and the coming winter
to think about it, you could have her
in it by next fall.”
“I will try,” said Joe. “I’ve got a
little left from my bounty and my pay
that I never touched, and she don’t know
about. We might,” he said, “do it to¬
gether;” and he climbed up his high seat
and started off with his load of coal.
What had become of the “yellow
wheels?" Since that day he had never laid
eyes on the man, or on the wheels. It
had worried Joe, it seemed to gnaw at
his hard, unfeeling heart, and his mind
had been very soon made up to tell him
how sorry he was, and pay him for the
damage.
“What are you doing, Joe?” said the
little woman, as Joe the next morning
“fixed himself up,” and put on his Sun¬
day clothes.
“I ain’t going to work to-day,” said
Joe. “I’ve got business down town.”
And down town he went.
The little woman asked no questions,
she couldn’t help looking over to the
little corner lot. “I wish we had enough
money,” she sighed.
“26 Water street! Here’s the place,”
said Joe to himself. “Elmville Manu¬
facturing Co., J. Johnson, Treasurer.”
And up the stairs, two at a time, he
went. The oflice staggered Joe. Clerks
to the right of Mm, clerks to the left of
him, and a high railing to keep out
“common folks” like himself. Joe re¬
membered that in the army privates un¬
covered their heads when they came into
officers’ quarters, and off went his shabby
hat. “Can I see Mr. Johnson?” he
asked, looking at all the clerks in turn.
“He is busy just now,” answered a lit¬
tle man, 'peering over Ms big hooks.
“Take a seat, and when he’s at liberty
I’ll tell Mm.”
It seemed hours to Joe and the per¬
spiration stood in great beads over Ms
face.
“Now,” said the man, “come on, you
can go iu;” and opening a door into an
inner office he ushered in Joe.
But one quick look was enough for
Mm; there, seated at Ms desk and facing
Joe, sat the man with the “yellow
wheels.”
“Come in,” said the man kindly; but
Joe fairly grasped the door knob for
support. “What can I do for you?”
“Don’t you know me?” gasped Joe.
“I am sorry to say I do not, replied
the man.
“How’s them wheels?” moaned Joe;
“them yeller wheels I mashed up on the
avenue, and the hat?”
“Oh, are you the man?” inquired the
other.
“I was the man, but I ain’t no more,
you bet; and if you’ll tell me what’s the
damage I’d like to settle.”
“And you’ve come down for that?”
asked Ms enemy.
“Oh, no!” said Joe, conscious that he
hadn’t a cent iu Ms pockets. “I’ve most
forgot what I have come for, seeing as its
you.” You could have overturned Joe
with a feather and the man with the
“yellow wheels” wore a puzzled sort of
look.
“I see,” said the man, getting up from
Ms desk; “but it seems to me you’re a
little late. I had almost forgotten the
whole thing; in fact, you not only made
my wheels look pretty badly, but you
spoiled my hat and you upset me for a
long time.”
“Good Lord!” said Joe, “I didn’t see
you spilled out.” upset,”
“I was only mentally rejoined
Ms enemy. ‘ ‘I haven’t been very strong,
and I used- to drive for exercise. If I had
your physique I would have anniMlated
you, then and there.”
“If you’d a-had to pay for my ‘phy
sique, > i> said Joe, thinking of all the
doctor’s bills and the patent medicines he
had bought for the little woman. “If
you’d a-had to pay them hills you
wouldn’t want my ‘physique’; altho’ it’s
the woman as doses, not me,” he con¬
tinued.
SometMng about Joe interested the
man. He looked at Mm and at Ms
watch, and, coming close to Joe, he sat
down beside Mm. “Tell me,” he began
—“tell me what brought you here.”
And Joe began stammeringly, haltingly
at first, hut growing more and more elo¬
quent, more and more earnest as he went
on, the sad, white face of the little woman
peering into his thoughts and into Ms
words as if she stood beside Mm. And
he told the homely story of his life.
“I hated them wheels!” said Joe. “I’ve
told you all. We’re poor; she’s always
a-wishing for that comer lot; she always
says if she could have it she’d just live
and be well; and every time I had a sort
of a talk with her, everytime she’d sorter
wish for that lot, and broke me all up,
go out and alius, alius” said Joe,
“meet you, and them wheels, them ‘yeller
wheels.’ And somehow I thought it was
them wheels that was a-running over me,
was a traveling up and down my life all
the time. I didn’t know who to hate oi
what to hate, because I didn’t get no
where, and you came the nighest; you
were the handiest, and so I hated you
and them wheels. Ain’t there no yeller
wheels in yonr life, mister?” Be I the
only man that hates something that he
sees every day and never cau have?”
asked Joe.
“Oh, no!” said the man soberly and
kindly; “you are not the only
man. Into my life; yes, into everyone’s
life; my friend, come ‘yellow wheels;’
and for a moment the rich man and the
poor man met on equal terms.
“You want to buy that lot, do you?”
he inquired. “And have you money
enough to do it? Wait.” he said, “I
have a plan.” And then he told Joe
that he wanted some one to make a be¬
ginning on the properly. Joe could buy
the lot, and pay for it as he was able.
He would lend him the money to build
his house; he wouldn’t even take a mort¬
gage; he would take his own, Joe’s own
simple note, and the house and the lot
should he iu Joe’s wife’s name—Joe
JefEus began to cry! Great, strong Joe
Jeflus cried like a child, and the man
with the “yellow wheels” went out and
left him alone.
But the man kept his word. The lot
was bought, and slowly and steadily
came the old light into the little, tired,
waiting eyes, softly crept the girlish color
into the pallid cheeks, and the little wo¬
man crept hack to her golden youth.
On the corner lot stands the yellowest
cottage you ever saw. Before the door
stands the yellowest baby-carriage you
ever saw, and nailed up over the front
door—nailed there for luck aud for love
—is a little yellow wheel.
Joe Jeflus is foreman now of all tlje
coal teams; but the man he hated, the
man he loved, is resting quietly, resting
in the churchyard far from the busy town.
But every spring-time when the jonquils
bloom, a man and a woman, with un¬
covered heads, lay them upon his grave;
and Joe Jeffus’s only faith, his only be¬
lief, as he watches the stars at night, is,
that up among the angels, driving through
the skies, is his hero, his Idol, with the
‘ ‘yellow wheels. ”—New York Independent.
Asbestos for Fire Suits.
The experience of AVilliam H. Marvin
with a natural gas flame at Ruthven,
Canada, a few days ago, is one that fire
department authorities everywhere should
take into immediate consideration as fur¬
nishing a clew to additional means oi
fighting that dreaded element. The
stream of natural gas issuing from the
well there caught fire and all efforts to
extinguish the flame were unavailing.
The heat was so intense that no one
could go uear it. Water thrown from
the nearest point of vantage by power¬
ful engines had no other effect than to
generate great clouds of steam. The roar
of the burning gas was deafening and
11,000,000 feet per day were being con¬
sumed, while the earth about the well
was becoming baked and so hot that no
one could tread on it. Engineering
skill proved useless to cope with the mat¬
ter and finally a reward of $1000 was
offered to any one who would stop the
leak. Martin volunteered. At first he
tried to reach the orifice with long iron
levers, but they melted as soon as thej
came near the place where the gas was
burning. Then the young man hit upon
a bright idea. He resolved to walk intc
the fiery furnace clad in a complete suii
of that wonderful material, asbestos,
which though fine and pliable as the
softest silk, will neither be consumed bj
fire nor conduct heat. The suit was
made, including a cone-shaped hood with
a glass front to envelop the head. The
first attempt was a failure. Before Mar¬
tin got near the flame he aceidentallj
dropped Ms tools on the ground and saw
them turn red hot before his eyes. The
second attempt was successful.
The man came out slightly scorched
and partly suffocated, but otherwise un¬
harmed. Asbestos had been his protec¬
tion and it can readily be understood
that a fire department with employes
equipped in similar clothing would have
immense advantages in fighting fire.—
New York Graphic.
A Mysterious Epidemic of Blindness
Leading physicians at Montreal,
Canada, are greatly puzzed over a stiangt
disease from the effects of which at leas!
one resident and several sailors jus!
arrived, have been stricken with blind¬
ness. Early during a recent morning
Policeman Rutherford became totally
blind while doing patrol duty. The ease
was considered mysterious, but the phy¬
sicians at the hospital where he was
taken consider it due to nicotine poison¬
ing, as Rutherford was an inveterate
smoker. The mystery in this case was
intensified, however, by similar cases
made public a few days after. AVhen the
bark Thomas T. Marshall arrived from
the Philippine Islands the Captain was
astonished when informed that one of the
crew was stone blind, the attack being
exactly similar to that- of Rutherford.
The man was immediately conveyed to
the Notre Dame Hospital.
During the course of the evening several
other sailors on board complained ol
dizziness in the head, but they considered
it was due to over-exertion during the
day, and that they would sleep it off,
Next morning the Captain was furthei
mystified when informed that more ol
the men had lost their sight. Visiting
the forecastle he found the sailors greatlj
excited, and four of them named
Frederick Nordfeldt, A. Mulgulfroff, T.
Manfough and C. Lewerson wore sight¬
less, while some others were partially in
the same condition. These were all re¬
moved to the hospital.
The physicians consider the case a
most extraordinary one, which cannot he
accounted for, as their first theory that i(
was due to sudden change of climate
would not hold when the case of the
policeman is considered. A leading phy
sieian said that the blindness might
possibly he due to something in the air,
as the atmosphere has been peculiar foj
some time.— Cincinnati Enguirer.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
( There is a paper leather imitation of
calf.skin.
Newark, N. J., makes nine-tenths of
the patent leather.
Aluminum is the most abundant metal
in the world, for every clay-bank eon
tains it.
The so-called antique oak is ordinary
American oak sawed in a peculir way and
stained to look like the old English oak.
Water is not what it was when the
world was younger, or as it is even now
in places where human life is not thickly
congregated about it.
What seems to he a reliable account of
a the case of hydrophobia cured by eating
leaves of the maguey plant is going
the round of the Mexican press.
Several glass manufacturers have com
bined with a capital of $2,700,000
have purchased the Trenton, N. J., glass
works, the largest in the world.
The largest crane in the world is at the
Chatham (England) dockyard. It lifts
240 tons, stands 125 feet high and has
radias of seventy-five feet eight inches.
The quartz fibres drawn out by Mr. C.
V. Boys are found to be only the
thousandth of an inch thick, and are so
small that full grown spiders cannot climb
them.
Some Canadian land surveyors report
that they have discovered in the Rocky
Mountains one of the richest coal oil de¬
posits ever found. Samples showed
ninety-one per cent, lubricating oil.
The heat in Russia and other parts of
Northern Europe has been intense of late.
The Central Observatory at St. Peters¬
burg has not recorded such a high tern
perature at the same time of the year since
1774.
In the new style of telephone the mus
cular vibrations which accompany the
utterance of the words are transferred to
the electrodes through the medium of a
non-electric button pressed against the
vocal cords of the operator.
A stone has been discovered in Japan
which has remarkable qualities as a
cement material, and can be worked up
for a much less price than the imported
article costs. The cement will bear a
weight of 400 to 500 pounds per square
inch.
Great Britain counts on having the
largest dynamo in the world. It is being
made for the new electric light works at
Deptford. The shaft of the macMne
will he turned out of a block of steel
weighing seventy-five tons, wMch has
just been cast in Glasgow.
Iu France the Western Railway Com¬
pany have been experimenting with steel
ties for two years and report very satis¬
factory results where the traflic is ex¬
tremely heavy, and wherever used. They
are so well pleased that they have ordered
5000 additional ties of the same kind.
It ts said that a patent has been taken
out to abolish sand in casting pipes.
Pipes are cast “in super heated steam oi
gas-jaeketed metal moulds” and are said
to have many excellent qualities. Beyond
not being porous, the pipes are uniform,
sound and true as if turned or bored by
a lathe.
The Sanitary• News quotes an account
of a certain tribe in Bengal, India, the
Oswals, of Marwac, who are forbidden bj
their religion to eat the flesh of any ani¬
mal or to drink any alcoholic liquor, and
among whom cholera is unknown, al¬
though it has several times appeared
among neighboring tribes.
It is not generally known that the
young flat fish have an eye on each side
of the body and it is only in the adult
stage that the eyes are both on one side
There has been much discussion among
scientific men as to the mode in which
the change takes place, but in the floun¬
der it has been observed to travel over
tho ridge of the head, while in some
other fish it passes directly through the
soft tissue of the young fisli to the othej
side.
Some Facts About Tea.
Tea came into use almost by accident.
Some Buddhist priests, going on a mis¬
sionary expedition from Northern India
to CMna, took with them the dried leaves
and also some cuttings of an indigenous
shrub, which was said to have the power
of correcting any injurious properties in
the brackish water they might meet with
on the way. The decoction thus made
pleased the missionaries so well that they
continued, as a matter of taste, to drink
it after they had reached China, and in¬
troduced it to their converts. They also
set about planting the precious shrub,
and, although it (lid not thrive so well in
CMna as in its native Assam, becoming
smaller in both stem and leaf, it was so
well liked that it soon formed the foun¬
dation of the favorite beverage of all
CMna. Thence it was brought to Eu¬
rope, to he drunk and desired by Eng¬
lishmen of every degree. And it is only
of late years that Assam tea has come into
the European market, to be looked upon
rather suspiciously as the rival of its own
degenerated Chinese daughter .—London
Standard.
Rich Tribe of Indians.
Colonel E. C. Boudinot, the noted
Cherokee lawyer, made a speech at a
picnic in the Cherokee nation, a few
miles from Fort Smith, Ark., recently, to
a large concourse of people, He ex¬
pressed Ms views without reserve relative
to the Cherokee commission and the sale
of the Cherokee outlet. That these lands
were to be homes of the American far¬
mers in a very short time he regarded
certain as fate, and in his opinion corn
mon sense and the welfare of the Chero
kees had dictated the policy of meeting
the commissioners half way and the sale
of the land upon the best terms possible.
He believed the commissioners were dis¬
posed to act friendly and generous in
by their prudent dealing with the Indians, $10,000,000 and that
might management
be obtained for all the lands occu
pied and unoccupied west of the Arkan¬
sas River, and that he was in favor of
paying out the amount per capita to all
the citizens of the nation. His remarks
seemed to meet with the appoval of the
audience.-— Chicago Herald.