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s=VOLUME XI.__HUNTSVILLE. ALA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1890. NUMBER 10.
rTZZ^l«rtus" cost?m6« 2-3 a square
, Ywiiich the Chicago Times asserts
the price of real estate in that 1
city- _ —
."the Rothschilds refuse to
BECp 'ia's new loan the Czar is crip
S in his military projects In modern
the financier is mightier than
tie Marshal^ —.
i.rnoi-oHthe^hracite coat barons
V '1 restricted the output of their prod
, stocks are higher and prices lower
many years past. Consumers
“ ^ complaining at the situation.
text of t he Samoan treaty, aspub
rs that the interest of the
f: .'i mates and of Samoa were abun
dant protected by the United States
representatives at the Berlin confer
ence. __
Tm. Rothschilds decline to float Rus
sia's latest loan, and the Czar's war as
pirations are impeded in consequence.
War has come to be a business in whicb
the Prince proposes and the capitalist
disposes. _
MoBK than one country has been
driven into a costly and disastrous war
tlV the clamoring of irresponsible and
unthinking mobs of its citizens. Portu
gal. however, will hardly yield to this
pressure in the controversy with En
gland. ..
Bm:XT statistics show that in Mary
land there are 2,390 Sunday-schools,
h 31,021 teachers and 273.563 scholars.
Eijiity-five years ago there was only
on" Sunday-school in Baltimore, now
there are :;s3 and 10:5,229 members. In
proportion to population, Maryland is
th'1 banner State in the l nion in Sun
day-schools.
Tin; Sugar Trust having been decided
to be a criminal organization by the Su
preme Court of New 5 ork, the individ
uals at the head of that concern are said
to be about to leave the State on ac
count of their dread of indictment. As
nearly all the other “combines are also
in straits, the day of jubilee for the
people seems to be near at hand.
liiiiTlsii vessels have just taken on at
Mobile 400 tons of machinery and 2,225,
000 feet of lumber for a canning estab
lishment to be erected in Buenos Ayres
by American parties. This is only one
id ©any practical illustrations of the
Vwve are incurring by reason of hav
ing no conveniences for exchange of
trade with the countries lying south of
tin.
Tin; possibility that the country will
get much aid from the Pan-American
Congress toward the formation of some
sensible and satisfactory plan for the
extension of the trade of the nations of
this continent with each other grows
more and more shadowy every day.
However, the interest of the people
being enlisted in the project, the means
of bringing it about will soon be de
mised.
I in: defeat in the Reichstag of Bis
man'k s measure proposing the expul
sion of the Socialists shows that dcs
t" ism has some limitations in tho Ger
many of to-day. This is one of the se
'■ ost set-backs which autocracy has
m e with, and one of the most important
victories which the cause of personal
U'l political liberty has achieved in the
German Congress.
HKMi-oFFin.tr, figures show that, al
inough U,e United States has been gain
‘'V rapidly on England in pig-iron pro
1 "ii. England is still slightly in the
cad. Seven years ago the margin of
v e-sof (ireat Britain in this particular
;v,n‘l. ,Ut a *iunc*re(* Per cent., while in
• 1 ‘i was less than ten per cent. The
, ''!s art‘ that in 1890 the race will
t•"'**• while in isot the United States
111 undoubtedly be ahead.
'Hi report of tho National Divorce
;:rrf ^‘r shows u,at pishfcy ppi
t •. divorces in this country oc
' - where the marriage took
a \ .: *l's to prove that it is not
i> ,V °n;ii l)ivort‘e luw that we need so
l ,. ' d«.'!‘n unPr°venient of local condi
a,V* , 10 "ply truth is, undoubtedly
p,n„ ‘r; ";orce ,,vi' i* attributable to a
«»ty of public sentiment with
ttia- n° t!ie san<'tity of the marriage
Th ——
■ question is a laro° and
jot : 1 _ °no> and Congress should
There ;'n ' burrv about acting upon it.
iaiount off aS°^ t0 bclieve that a large
produ..tj!U1 territory can be made
1 result 'e,artificial means, and such
Hot cert',' ;sirable. of course; but it is
„r? t Uit a feasible plan has yet
should . and appropriations
; ‘’“Portant e aV1Shly made while that
point remains doubtful.
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Strio* movernent from the in
'“^son hen-' ;uancial centers has this
■-bheavv !’1 Ulertban usual, owing to
eral activiTC-°P shipments and the gen
^retnenr 'i ln trade- There is such a
fcmiuue \rVever' and It is likely to
:in in lev-Vi-' ll°b in smaller volume
:;®e arri,e-USyyears' until harvesting
’*J -Money, therefore, will
lant
low.
I _-men
the neerro ,i‘‘u uav® bocn interviewed
^fcu ftp nr '.'poi'tatl°n question con
’ it could VV! V ^ would, they sav,
Vlahal{0f Vlr’'1';d °ut, remove more
V, Vh „ labpring population of
i aisetiouslvVlr " demoralize industry
, i tujure trade.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, on the 22d, the bill provid
ing for a census of farm mortgages was fur
ther discussed and referred. A number of
bills on the culendar were passed. Febru
ary 3 was agreed upon as the day for taking
up the Hlair Educational bill, after which
consideration of the calendar was resumed.
.In the House the Oklahoma Town Site
Entry bill wus passed, and the bill for the
erection of three United States peniten
tiaries, one to the north and another to the
Bouth of the thirty-ninth degree of north
latitude and east of the Rocky mountains,
and one to the west of the Rocky mountains
was considered in committee of the whole.
In the Senate, on the 23d, after the routine
business of the morning had been disposed
of, Mr. Ingalls called up the bill to Assist
the Emigration of People of Color from the
Southern States, and asked that it be read
at length by the clerk, after which ho deliv
ered a long speech in opposition to the
measure, which was listened to with intense
interest by crowded floor and galleries.
In the House, after the passage of some reso
lutions, several bills were reported from
committees, ordered printed and recommit
ted, after which the Ilonse went into com
mittee of the whole on the Customs Admin
istrative bilL
The Senate w as not In session on the 24th.
.In the House the only important mat
ter considered was the Cnstoms Administra
tive bill, the ponding amendment being that
requiring goods about the payment of the
duty on which there is any controversy to re
main in the custody of the Government
pending settlement, which was finally de
feated.
The Senate was not in session on the 25tli
_In the House, immediately after the read
ing of the Journal, the Customs Administra
tive bill was taken up in committee of the
whole. Amendments offered by Messrs.
Bland and Breckinridge were lost. Mr. Mc
Kinley offered an additional section relat
ing to the withdrawal of bonded goods,
which was adopted. After several other
amendments had been offered and rejected,
the committee arose and reported the bill
to the House,when it was passed. February
15 was assigned for eulogies to the memory
of the late Representative K. IV. Townshend,
of Illinois.
In the Senate, on the 27th, the resolution
concerning the maltreament of Henry J.
Faunce, at Aberdeen, Miss., the roofer who
cut down the eftigy of Secretary Proctor,and
was beaten and driven out of town for so
doing, was tuken up, and Mr. Walthall de
livered a speech in opposition to its adop
tion; being followed by Senators Chandler.
Ingalls and Hoar, in favor of the resolution
_In the House bills were introduced ap
propriating $2,000,000 for a post-office at Chi
cago; repealing the cotton tax; to pension
widows and orphans of persons killed fot
political reasons since the close of the war;
and a resolution congratulating the people
of Brazil on the assumption of self-govern
ment. A bill amending the Tariff act ol
1SRI was passed. The bill appropriating $1,
500,000 for the erection of three U nited States
Drisons was passed.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
“Nellie Bly’s” actual time in mak
ing the circuit of the world, as com
puted by three official time-takers and
verified by the New York World’s an
nouncement, was 72 days, 6 hours and
11 minutes.
The London Times condemns the En
glish merchants at Lisbon who appealed
to Mr. Gladstone to use his influence for
arbitration and peace, and says they are
cowards who prefer their pocket-books
to patriotism.
Miss Bisland, the Cosmopolitan Mag
azine's round-the-world traveler, who
started on the same day with Nellie Bly,
is a passenger on the steamship Bothnia,
which sailed from Queenstown for New
York on the 19th.
Emperor William of Germany de
votes several hours each day to the
practice of fencing.
On the afternoon of the 25th Mrs.
Harrison gave her first public reception
from three to five o’clock. It was nu
merously attended.
Herr Knothe, a German cloth-maker
at Tomazow, Russian Poland, has failed,
his embarrassments being caused by the
withdrawal of Russian trade and the
enormous export duty imposed upon his
products. His liabilities will aggregate
500,000 roubles.
Census Superintendent Porter has
appointed Miss Phoebe Couzins, the well
known woman lawyer of St. Louis, chief
special agent in charge of the statistics
of recorded indebtedness in that city.
On the 27th the State Department was
informed that United States Minister
Palmer was sick with the dengue fever,
which is prevalent in Spain. The dis
ease is of a very malignant character,
and the death rate at Madrid, Barcelona
and Seville is stated to exceed that
caused by cholera when that disease is
epidemic.
At a meeting of the House committee
on civil-service on the 27th the charges
made against the commission by Rep
resentative Ewart, of North Carolina,
were taken up, and the committee de
cided by a unanimous vote to grant Mr.
Ewart’s request for a thorough investi
gation.
Surprise and dissatisfaction was ex
pressed at the British Legation in Wash
ington over the premature publication
of the Anglo-American extradition
treaty.
The funeral of Adam Forepaugh, the
showman, occurred on the 27th from his
late residence in Philadelphia. The in
terment was at the Laurel Hill Ceme
tery.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
G. M. Smith is in jail at Spencerbrook,
Minn., for forging the name of I. D.
Gould, deceased, to a pension check for
SI, 000.
Up to the 26th there had been twenty
three wrecks within three weeks on the
Savannah & Western railroad.
Ox the 25th the Rio Grande express
was blown from the track at Monument,
ol., and several passengers were in
jured. Two coaches and a sleeper took
fire, but by great efforts the train men
succeeded in extinguishing the flames
before anv one was burned.
1
It was graphically stated on the 27th
that hundreds of people were sitting in
farm houses on the snow-covered plains
of South Dakota going mad from want
and starvation.
At Olean. N. Y., an explosion of nat
ural gas, on the night of the 26th, in one
of Root & Keating's tannery houses,
shook the entire city. The house was
hadly wrecked and several Italians were
injured.
Ox the 27th a load of cinders was
thrown into the Conemaugh river at a
point where the Cambria Iron Company
is building a dump, and an explosion
followed that shook the entire city of
Johnstown and startled the people.
Hot cinders were thrown a great dis
tance and several small fires resulted.
Buildings were shaken, windows broken
and several narrow escapes from death
occurred.
Ox the morning of the 27th George
Miller, a lodger at the Barrett House,
New York, was found dead in his room
from asphyxiation. Two gas burners
were found turned on full force and not
lighted.
Ox the 27th the schooner G. C. Kelly,
from Boston, went ashore at Tusket, N
S. Three of her crew were drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tiieke was a report in New York
City, on the 24th, that a firm in Buenos
Ayres had failed for $0,000,000
At Johnstown, N. Y., petroleum has
been struck at a depth of 915 feet.
The British Admiralty has ordered a
re-survey of the channel in the Medi
terranean where Iler Majesty's ship Sul
tan became stranded.
It is said that the Austro-IIungarian
Railway Company is about to issue three
per cent, debentures to the amount of
8100,000,000.
The Netherlands Government is med
itating a considerable increase of its
army, and two new French regiments
have heen stationed at St. Etienne.
A Swiss Catholic congress will shortly
be convened at Freiburg, the first con
ference of the kind ever held in Switzer
land.
Investigation discloses that seventy
seven per cent, of the inmates of the
foundling hospitals in Russia die in in
fancy and another eleven per cent, be
fore they arrive at the age of twenty
one. The institutions, it is said, are to
be reformed.
A numrek of Russians traveling
through Roumania osfensibly as ped
dlers, have been arrested for inciting
the Roumania peasantry against the
government. The number of Russian
spies infesting the Balkan states has
increased of late, and their presence is
causing a great deal of uneasiness tc
the various Balkan governments.
On the 27th the English syndicate
which has been negotiating with local
breweries at Cleveland, O., made a con
tract for the purchase of the Schlather
Brewing Company’s interest for $1,375,
000; the Gehring brewery for $1,000,000,
and the Stoppel brewery for $285,000.
Securities will be placed on the marked
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
There is no sort of question as to the
bill refunding the direct tax, which has
passed the United States Senate, passing
the House. Tennessee will get about $370,
000 under it.
A large crowd of indignant citizens or
Oklahoma City on the night of the 28th
pulled down the house of a lot jumper on
Main street and burned the wreck. There
is the most intense excitement, and if the
military does not interfere blood is sure to
be shed.
The little village of Sumach, Ga., is ex
cited over the fact that Mrs. James A. Bry
ant has given birth to three well-developed
boy babies, two of whom weighed seven
and one-half pounds each and the other
seven pounds. The mother and the trio of
babes are doing well.
The executive committee of the State
Press Association met at Little Rock on
the 27th and decided to hold the next meet
ing at Hot Springs, beginning June 11.
Jim Starr, husband of the famous Belle
Star and noted desperado, died in jail at
Fort Smith, Ark., on the 27th.
A robbers’ cave has been discovered in
Flint district of the Cherokee Nation. It
was well stocked with a large amount of
plunder, the proceeds of numerous recent
robberies. Gordon Sanford and Lewis Mad
dox, respected white men, were captured
by concealed watchers on entering.
TYPnoiD fever is raging at Morganfield,
Ky., with awful results. It originated near
Waverly, Ky. Fifteen persons have died
and fifty are now sick, fully one-half of
whom will die. Adults invariably are at
tacked.
About 500 North Carolina emigrants ar
rived at Vicksburg, Miss., on the 26th.
Seventy-seven left by rail for Port Gibson
i and Natchez. The remainder took passage
I on the steamer Pargoud for points in Texas
! and Concordia parish.
The President on the 25th commuted to
imprisonment the sentence of Charles H.
Bullard, of Arkansas, who was to be
hanged. He also denied pardons to H. A.
Hartfield, of North Carolina, sentenced to
one year for counterfeiting, and George
Tobler,of Arkansas,sentenced to be hanged.
J. B. Hawkins, Judge of the County
! Court of Cannon county, Tenn., Ab iW.
Finley, an attorney, and Wm. McMahan, a
pensioner, have been arrested on the charge
1 of forging pension papers and collecting
: money on the same from the State. The
amount involved is about $2,000.
Frank Rogers, a 14-year-old son of An
drew Rogers of Cleveland, Tenn., died
very suddenly on the 26th. He woke up
his brother, with whom he was sleeping,
and said he wanted to get up and go to his
mother down stairs. Before a lamp could
be lit he fell back on the bed dead. It was
| pronounced rheumatism of the heart.
A MONON ROUTE WRECK.
Six Persons Killed and a Number Injured
by a Wreck on the Monon Route Caused
by Spreading RaiU-Some of the Vic
tims Incinerated in the Burning Cars—
The Killed and Injured.
Indianapolis, Ind., .Tan. 27.—A train
on the Monon route was ditched eleven
miles north of this city this morning.
Six passengers lost their lives and
many were injured. The train wrecked
was the morning express from
Chicago due here at 8:30. The ten
der of the engine jumped the track as
the train crossed a long trestle over
Wilkinson creek. The engine and bag
gage car passed over safely. The day
coach and sleeper went into the ditch
and were burned.
l urther particulars of the disaster
are received. The arm of one victim
projected through the side of the car
and could be touched by those on the
outside, but the opening was not large
enough to draw the body through. A
lady who got on the train at Frankfort,
and whose body is as yet uni
dentified, was enveloped in flames,
but there was no possible
way to get her out. Across from this
lady w’as Mrs. Eubanks, of Broad Ripple,
Ind. Her head was horribly crushed.
The brakeman and a passenger seized
her by the arms, and by a desperate
effort pulled the body through the win
dow. Life w'as not yet extinct, but she
lived only a few minutes.
Another of the rescued, but who has
since died, was Mr. Deming, of Sheri
dan. He w’as pinioned to the floor by
timbers and horribly crushed. Some
heroic men seized axes, and after a few
minutes’ wrork cut away the timbers that
held the body, which was removed.
There was no medical aid present, and
the man died in a few minutes.
Buckets having been procured from the
farm-houses near by, the flames wTere
soon put out. As scon as it was possi
ble to do so, a search was made for the
dead. The body of a woman, identified
as Mrs. Fitzpatrick, of this city, was
soon found. It was burned to a crisp.
The Oldham children were found side
by side, the heavy stove lying across
their bodies.
Mr. W. J. Collins, of the Indianapolis
Sentinel, who was on the train, fur
nishes the following accurate list of the
dead and injured:
KILLED.
J. N. Deming, Sheridan, Ind., crushed.
Mrs. Eubanks, Broad Ripple, crushed
Unknown woman, burned.
Unknow'n woman, crushed.
Two children of D. S. Oldman, Sheri
lan; burned.
INJURED.
J. D. Pearson, Sheridan, Ind.; right
thoulder and arm crushed and injured
internally.
11. C. Miller, New York City, commer
cial traveler; badly cut and bruised;
right leg crushed; can not live.
Louis Newlan, internal injuries.
George Munser, express agent; foot
crushed and back badly hurt.
Charles G. Wirt, Frankfort; bruised,
head and hips.
B. S. Whitsett, Indianapolis; head
badly cut and back severely wrenched.
N. B. Ingersoll, of Detroit, commer
cial traveler; hip hurt and cut on the
head.
J. P. Altzeir, bruised about the back
and head; serious.
G. W. Stingel, Rossville; legs cut,
arms severely bruised and back injured.
Harry Angle, son of conductor; elbow
cut off and cut on back of head.
Investigation reveals that the acci
dent w'as due to the spreading of rails
about 150 feet from the trestle. Re
pairing of this section of track wTas
done on Saturday.
GOING MAD FROM WANT.
The Terrible Straits to Which Hundreds
of People are Being Driven in South Da
kota—No Feed for Stock and Thousands
Must Die.
Chicago, Jan. 27.—A special from
Huron, S. D., to the Tribune says:
“There are hundreds of people sitting
in the farm houses on these snow-cov
ered plains, going mad from want. ’
The Tribune's correspondent visited
many farmers near Huron and reports
that there is a pressing need for relief,
as starvation is staring hundreds of
poor in the face. One farmer, who ex
pressed the belief that he was much
better off than many others, said: “We
have something to eat—hominy and a
little pork. It wont last long, and we
have to be careful of the coal. But tin
worst is the stock. We have not got a
thing to feed the horses and cattle.
Can’t sell them; can’t feed them. Stock
is going to die by the thousands unless
we get something for them to eat. We
won’t have horses to plow with in the
spring, and no seed to sow, I tell you it
goes against the grain to see dumb
creatures suffer.”
Another one said: “Do you know the
cnly kelp we have had is from the rail
road—th? Northwestern? They have
brought cool to us for $2 a ton, free of
freight, and have done it all winter.
Even at that price we have to econo
mize coal. I tell you, if it had not been
for the railway company thousands of
people would have frozen to death last
week when the thermometer went down
to 40 degrees below zero.”
J. S. Oliyer, superintendent of the
Dakota Central division of the Chicago
& Northern railway at Huron, said:
••That is ail true that you have heard.
People are undoubtedly suffering for
necessaries, but this road will see that
no one freezes. It is to the interest of
the company that the people stay
here. They are brave and their
present condition is no fault of
their own.”
i
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
A Dad Fight.
At Knoxville, Tenn., Tom Doyle, a
rough white, and Charles Ballet, a col
ored barber, quarreled in Ballet’s shop.
Doyle was badly carved with a razor
and the negro was killed.
Killed a Roy.
At Way Cross, Ga., Henry Jones and
Lee Smith, colored, quarreled with N.
S. Leary, white, over a settlement. They
fired on Leary, killing his seven-year
old son.
Lulu Kay at IJberty.
Miss Lulu Ray, of Dawson, Ga., who
slew Farmer Suggs for attempting to
enter her room, was fined £50 and costs.
The young men present at the trial
made up the amount, and Miss Ray was
liberated.
Worked to Death.
Advices from Eutaw, Ala., tell of a
remarkable death near that place, Rich
ard Cook, a well-known negro, having
worked himself to death. He bought a
tract of land on credit four or five years
ago, and worked day and night to pay
for it. He had about paid for the farm,
and had it well stocked, having cleared
a good deal of heavily-timbered land,
but the constant strain cost him his life.
He leaves his family in good ciroum
stances.
An Alabama Tragedy.
R. B. Barns and C. A. Carroll, both
prominent citizens of Opelika, Ala., en
gaged in a difficulty a few nights ago.
Barns shot Carroll and killed him in
stantly. Carroll was advancing on Barns
when the latter drew his revolver and
fired the fatal shot. The people of the
town are divided into two political fac
tions, and the supposition is that the
difficulty arose from political differ
ences. Barns surrendered to the sheriff.
A Dead Printer.
“Tug” Wilson, a printer known all
over the country, was found dead at the
top of the Constitution building in At
lanta, Ga., a few’ days ago. Wilson had
been on a protracted spree, and had
crawded up a dark stairway to sleep off
the effects. There his body was found
Fed the Convicts Bad Meat.
In the legislative investigation of the
management of the penitentiary at
Frankfort, Ky., under Mason, Board &
Co., the lessees, Warden Taylor testified
that a lot of spoiled pork was bought in
November, and has been fed to the men
steadily ever since in spite of his re
peated protests. He said the meat was
not at all fit to eat.
A Quart Too Much for Him.
Henry Wilson, a negro at Hartford,
Ky., boasted of being able to drink a
gallon of w’liisky. Theodore Martin, a
telegraph operator, offered to buy him a
quart if he w'ould drink it in fifteen
minutes. He accepted the offer and
Martin got the whisky. Williams put
the bottle to his lips and did not take it
away until the last drop was gone. In
half an hour Williams was dead drunk
md in a few hours was dead.
A Vicksburg Girl’s Suicide.
Miss Cora L. Tighlman, a beautiful
girl of Vicksburg, Miss., committed
suicide by taking morphine at Jack
son, in that State. A faithless lover
was the cause of the sad act.
In Memory of .Jefferson Davis.
The Legislature of Mississippi held
joint memorial services in Representa
tive Hall at Jackson in honor of the
memory of the late Jefferson Davis.
Mrs. Davis was invited to be present,
but was prevented by sickness.
Fire in New Orleans.
Fire at No. 6 Baronne street, New Or
gans, recently, caused a loss aggregat
ing fully 855,000, of which 815,000 falls
on the Chess Club.
Mail Car Burned.
A mail car of an Iron Mountain train
aras destroyed by fire near Knoble, Ark.,
involving the loss of mail for Texas
points, St. Louis, Chicago and the West,
and registered matter to the value oi
84,000. A broken lamp did the damage
A Cutting Over Cards.
Abe McQuady and Frank Kinney had
a row over a game of cards, at Baltown,
Ky., and McQuady was fatally cut by
Kinney. Kinney gave himself up, and
is held in custody to await the result of
McQuady’s injuries.
A Honeymoon Interrupted.
E. C. Day, of Pennsylvania, was mar
ried recently at Henderson, N. C., to a
lady from Mississippi, who had adver
tised for a husband, the two having
agreed to meet there. It was a brief
courtship, and the honeymoon has come
to a startling end. Day went over t
Oxford, and has been arrested there o
a chaYge of forgery committed at Clark
ville, Va.
A Desperate Gang Captured.
As a sequel to the atrocious murder
of Constable Robert Long, and the dan
gerous wounding of his wife in their
residence in Guyandotte County, W.
Va., five of the most desperate crimi
nals that the mountains in the vicinity
of Cattlettsburg, Ky., ever sheltered,
have been arrested charged with the
outrage.
A Triple Drowning.
Mr. James Blackwell, accompanied
by his two sons, James and Fred, were
on their way home from Belleville tc
Providence, Ky., and, in crossing the
the Tradewater, the skiff was capsized
in some manner, and before assistance
could be rendered the entire party was
drowned. The bodies of the bovs w9r<
recovered.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
—In York County, Pa., a party of
tramps recently emptied a water tank
and converted it into a bedroom.
—A farmer of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo County, Cal., pulled a beet the
other day that weighed one hundred
and fifty-four pounds. It was seven
feet long.
—The Hudson County (N. J.) Health
Board was lately prosecuting a healer
who, in making out bills for his pa
tients, charged so much for services and
so much “for luck.”
—About A. D. 745 books were first
bound up into leaves, and two hundred
years after they wmre multiplied by
printing. The Chinese furnish books to
each other for next to nothing.
—Salt put in water which surrounds
the ordinary glue-pot causes a hotter
glue to be obtained than where simple
water is used. Salt in the water where
mason wTork is being done in cold
weather prevents disintegraticm by
frost.
—It is well-known that whales can
remain a long time under water, but
exact data as to the time have been
rather lacking. In his northern trav
els Dr. Kuckenthal, of Jena, recently
observed that a harpooned white whale
continued under water forty-five min
utes.
—Recent observations of the waters
of Groat Salt lake prove conclusively
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the lake
are erroneous. No fish or other large
form of animal life has been discovered,
but the presence of vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered a fact
from the abundance of animal exist
ences.
—A New York dry-goods merchant
says that frequently some of the sub
ordinate employes receive larger re
muneration than the men in whose
hands rests the main responsibility for
running a business. The men who
usually make the most money in tho
very large firms are not the superin
tendent and his chief assistants, but tho
buyers of departments.
—In Bowling Green, Ky., there is a
very sagacious dog. The other morning
a horse was left standing hitched to a
buggy, and while its owner was in an
adjacent place of business the animal
took fright and ran away. He was go
ing at a breakneck speed, when the dog
saw him, jumped the fence, headed the
horse, grabbed the line in his mouth
and hqld him fast until the owner of
the beast came up and relieved him.
—It is a little singular, with all our
mutual benefit societies, that a mutual
dowry society was never established.
Imagine the effect upon tho matrimonial
market of a thousand young women de
voting ten cents a week, a fixed per
centage to be given to those who are
married within the year. Tho anxious
and aimless could not then become a
drug in the market. Something of this
kind is in vogue in Europe, where it is
stipulated that a boneflciary must have
been a member of tho society for five
years before reaping a dot.
—In Algeria every girl born of native
parents is tattooed on her fore
head between the eyebrows and
just at the root of the nose with a
cross formed of several straight lines
of small stars running close to
gether. These tattoo marks are a dark
bine color. Algerian women are also
considerably tattooed on the backs of
their hands, their forearms and chests,
as well as on their shoulders, their
wrists being especially adorned with
drawings representing bracelets and
flowors strung together. As a rule,
women are the operators, and it is prin
cipally on children between tho ages of
seven and eight that they have to ex
ercise their art They use sometimes a
needle, but more frequently a Barbary
fig-tree thorn. They employ kohl as a
coloring substance. It is a kind of fine
powder made from sulphur of antimony,
whioh is also in great request by the
Algerian women for the purpose of face
painting.
Origin of the Word *« Chestnut.”
Mr. Joseph Jefferson some time ago
gave this as the origin of the word
“chestnut:” “In an old melodrama by
William Dillon, called ‘The Broken
Sword,’ are two parts—Count Xavier
and bis servant Pablo. The Count is a
sort of Munchausen, fond of telling
stories of his exploits. He tells one:
‘Once I entered the forests of Colloway
when suddenly from the boughs of a
oork tree—■’ “Chestnut, Count,’ inter
rupted Pablo. ‘Cork tree,’ said the
Count. ‘A chestnut,’ reiterated Pablo;
‘I should know as well as you, for I
have hoard you tell the story twenty
seven times.’ The late William War
ren, who had played Pablo often, was at
a men’s dinner once, when a gentleman
told a story whose age and originality
were far beyond any doubt. ‘Chestnut.’
murmured Warren; ‘I should know as
well as you, for I have heard you tell it
twenty-seven times.’ The guests took
up the expression, and from that,” says
Mr. Jefferson, “I believe the expression
really comes.”—N. Y. Sun.
-«A* In a Looking-Glass.”
“Do you know,” said Algernon, “your
face reminds me of a mirror, for I can
see nothing in it but the truth.”
“Oh,” said Gertrude, “I thought you
were going to say that when you looked
in my face you expected to see your
own.”
“Eh?” said Algernon, and then a
»reat light came into his eyes and he
sried: “If you would be my own!”
“I will,” said Gertie.—Puck,