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THE IT DAT A T VOLUME XXI. WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE, AUGUST 30. 1882,. NUMBER 21, OME 0 ) i i. I NEWS GLEANINGS. Nashville bag twenty-one hotels. Tennessee has but nine daily paper. Saloon license costs $1,600 a year at Meridian, Miss. l'ensacola will won begin the con struction of a street railway. Hie new three-cent per-mile railroad law bns gone into effect in Texas, Fort Valley, Ga., fwill erect a beautis ful and costly Confederate monument. Tike county, Ala., has a fourteen- ear-old joy who weighs 38.r pounds. Ark iin?ns is shipping immense quanta tics of black walnut timber to England. Last year Texas imported corn, but this year will have f.0,000,000 bushels to sell. Mississippi has organized several live utock insurance companies a new de parture. A million dollars fworth of improve ments are being added to Birmingham, Alabama. Five miles from Fort Smith, Ark., a vein of coal five feet in thickness hag li?cn struck. Griffin, cue ef the most enterprising little cities in Georgia, is to have the electric light. The wooden plate 'factory at New lierne, K C, turns out (500,000 of the plates each week. f Atlanta, which last year handled 1 20, 0T0 bales of cotton, expects to handle PiO.OOO bales this year. One hundred and twenty-four varie lies of cotton roods are turned out by the Mississippi mills. Athens, Ala., has a population of 8, (00 and a valuation of $S,00,000 that 1", $1,000 to every inhabitant. The coal measures of the Warren. Ala., coal field arc 4.000 feet in thick ness. The seams number forty-two as far as developed. Mrs. I'.utler, of Marion county, (!a., who has reached the aire of 11 2 . years, was baptised hist Sunday as a member of the Primitive Paptist church. l'riisncola parties have sent to Ger many for 200 Fcrvnnt girls, to be held under a years contract, with privilege, to employers, of two years. A shark was killed in Mobile bay a few days ago which measured fifteen feet from tip to tip, and of that variety known to sailors as the tiger shark. Columbus, Ga has ten 'cotton and wooUn mills. Sixteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight bales of cotton were used in manufacturing last year. D. It. McCurry, of Floyd county, Ga., has succeeded in making a fine article of syrup of watermelon juice. It is rich and thick, and has the taste of hgney. Mattresses made of needles from South Carolina pine boughs are said to cure pulmonary and rheumatic ailments, and an active trade in them has been estab lished. A $7,000 diamond was found recently in the bed of a creek near Danbury, N. C. As it was in the rough and other large ones have been found in the State, the charge of salting will not hold. Perhaps the best apologyjor Mormon polygamy that has been nfhdo is by a wit on a Pacific coast newspaper. He says that at least the system does not throw the burden of supporting a hus band on one woman. Louisiana's salt mine, which is in Iberia parish, covers an area of 140 acres aud is a solid deposit of remarkable pur ity and excellence. The rock is very solid and is without fissure or seams. Over 1,200 sacks h the present daily output. , A weed far superior to oakum, lias been discovered in Putnam county.Flor ida. which, after being put through a process, proved the above assertion. A "tock company is Joeing formed for the purpoie of utilizing it. The weed is , found in abundance. The oldest stove probably in the United States is the one that warms the hall of Virginia's capitol in Richmond. It was made in England and cent to Richmond in 1770, and warded the House of Burgesses for sixty years Be fore it was removed to its present loca cation, where it has remained for thirty years, "Is tho Turkish civil fervice system," aked a traveler in theorientof a pasbn, "like ours? Are there retiring allow ances and pensions, for instance?" "My illustrious friend and joy of my liver," replied the pasha, "Allah is great, and it.. . t . . . me puD. tunc, who stands in need of a retiring allowance when his term of of fice expires is an ass ! I have spoken." the Hebrew Aid Society, of New York, is sending back to Russia the pauper, diseased and infirm Jews sent over to this country by the London committee. This 1b very 'sensible, as the Hebrew Aid Society has enoueh to do looking after the able bodied refugees ana getting them work iu this country. A Jewish agricultural colony baa been established in Colorado, which is said to he doing well. Wbftt is said to be the largest flag stone in America is soon to be laid in front of the stoop of R. L. Stuart's house, at Fifth avenue and Sixty eighth street, New York. The atone measures 2G feet 0 inches by 15 feet (i inches, is 9 inches thick, and weighs nearly 00,000 pounds. It was cut in Sulivan county, at the same quarry from which came Mr. Vanderhilt's great flagstone. It was drawn by 18 horses to its destination. Pittsburgh Telegraph : It is a mistake to suppose that Maine passed the first prohibitory liquor law in America. An old act passed by the Trustees of Ogle thorpe's colony 'has been unearthed which "enacted that the drink of rum in Georgia be absolutely prohibited.and that, all which shall lie brought there shall be staved." This historical record has considerable interest in these days, the act having been passed in 1733, or forty-three years befnre the Declaration of Independence was signed. While the foundation or pillars for the railroad bridge across Flint rive', at Montezuma, Ga., was being constructed, one of tfie workmen placed a toad in the crevice of a rock and fitted another rock over the crevice, and then made the abode of the toad air tight by means of morter. Sixteen years rolled by, when it became necessary to repair the pillar, which was done by the same workman that placed the toad in the pillar when it was first built. Tie rememliered the circumstance, and, upon examination, found the toad still alive. Mrs. Sykes on theEiryptinn war: "Is it not, strange to reflect upon, that all these mighty engines of war, these splen did armaments, these wonderful equip ments, this pomp and circumstance, are directed upon a distracted enemy by the mere penstrokes rf two gentle old-hid y ish persons The Queen, to wit, an! Mr. Gladstone? I am sure the Queen-mother would not person ill v harm a dove, and as for the people's William, no loubl Uncle Toby, who freed a captive fly, was a bloodthirsty creature beside him. Yet by the irony 'of fate it is these two who are thrown into positions which force them to be the arbiters of war and death, of cannonading, famine, bodily aneuish and every manner of mortal sufl'cring I" Rhode Island is the State that has the largest population in proportion to its area, the extreme sinal)nes of the latter living it an exceptional density of hab itation. This State, with its 2r,ri per sons to the square mile, being excepted. Massachusetts thcu becomes very re markable with its 222 to the square mile. No other is near it ; but New Jersey is next conspicuous with its 1 .12, and Connecticut with 129. New York's cities bring her fifth on the list, with 10S persons, in spite of her great extent. Five States only have a population be tween 100 and 50 to the square mile, these being Pennsylvania and Maryland, with about 95 each ; Ohio with 78, In diana and Illinois with 55. At the oth er end of the scale of States is Oregon, with not quite two to the square mile, while even California and Nebraska have not quite 6. The territories are all, of course, very 'thinly peopled in proportion to their areas, except the District of Columbia, if indeed this can be classified among them. The District naturally is far more densely populated than any of the States, having 2,9f0 to tho square mile ; but obviously it is to be compared in this respect rather with cities or counties containing cities. These various densities are based on the census of 1880; in all cases they are now greater, as the populations have since then increased, while the areas have remained the same. Boy Wanted There, is a gospel tent at tho corner of Miuh'tran avenuo and Fourth street, unci of a Sunday evening there is n con sidcrable passing in ami out on the part of podestnan. l,asi Miminy evening a boy of fourteen who had just le', the tout encountered a stranger, who stopped him and inquired: " Say, bub, what sort of a perform pace is going on in there?" . . ? . ,t. ......1.. " rurty goou iiimg, ;is i-.-Til kinder liko to see the fat woman and the living skeleton and tho Albino children onco more, but I'm purty nar stropped. Is there any way I km pit in f " Us boys crawl under tho canvas." "Anvbody around to knock you still'?" " NeVer saw anybody. I'll show you where to go under." " liy hoTiOy, I'll try it! It's no wo to throw away a quarter when you kin beat aside-show." Tho boy took hiin around behind the tent and saw him sa'c under, and then crossed tho street and sat down. Iln waited iust exactly llireo minutes, and then the stranger cr.me out of tho tout by tho door, lie looheu up aim mmr. tl.n street,. closelv scanned every young ster about him, and Anally said to a hnnf.hlficlc: "Hub. I'm looking: for a youth about two heads taller than you peaked noso brown straw hat hair cut short ! I nrnnt tn sen him so awful bad for about a rainuto that I'll givo you half a dollar if you can find him arouna iicie. vo trail Free Press. locordingtottoWtJW an Apostle, oi i, S It Lake City by purchasing- fam- with babies in their mum, - - , headed Tgiils and seveuty-nyw freckled TOPICS OP THE DAT. Illinois farmers are focdiug tboii hogs rye, as being cheapor than corn auc more fattening. It keeps the postal authorities busy in Eiiglaud watching for dynamite iu mai.' tuuttcr.froni America. Montoomkry, Alabama, has quaran. tinod against Ponsacolu, Florida, where yellow fever is reported. Tug census of 1880 will ruako thirty volumes of 18,000 pages. They will be quartos, tho size of tho Cvnyrwsioiiul ltccord, Aram, whoso name is just now on every lip, is pronounced A-ra-bi, the accent on tho second sylhiblo with the long sound of "a." Tur. Jesuits of Quebec aro again agi- tating for tho restoration to them of all their property confiscated during Houry tho Fourth's reign. Attkntios is called to the fuel that tho latest official returns show that tho ratio of the insane to tho siiuo has doublod during tho last ten years. Oscar Yir,in is still in tin's country. Ho is at Saratoga. (It is just possihlo that wo owe our readers an apology fur permitting this paragraph to be printed.) It mat yet be a question whether England will have to whip Egypt, Do- Lesseps or Turkey. DcLcsscps, how ever, thinks he is ouo sizo larger than Egypt C'riuons tourists aro not flocking to Egypt iu as great numbers just now a they did in former times. Tho stiango scenes of that couutry have lo.st their charm. Cadet Wi?ittakek has dropped from the public gazo. He has given up lec turing end returned to bis South Caro lina homo whero ho will o.trn a living at hard work. Tub Baltimoro Aineririn cites two classes of professional tramps: Ouo is the wealthy idler who will not toil; the other is tho impecunious idler who will Dot toil. This is a distinction without a difference. Tub postal authorities of the United States bavo asked tho British officials for an explanation of their action in in terdicting tho delivery of Amerioau mail matter suspected of containing seditious articles as information. AuorsT 13 Profosaor Vcnnor wrote to tho Boston rod : " No moro hot wavo, aud tho straw hat season is over." Straw hats will bo worn, however, until enough money cau bo scraped together to purchase another sort. Cincinnati is making cxtensivo prep arations for the forthcoming Exposition, which occurs September Gtli to Ootobor 7th inclusive. Tho industrial parade on the opening day is expected to bo tho largest ever witnessed in tlie West, An old landlord says that not more than half of the summer hotels will es cape, loss this seasou, nor moro than one in live yield a profit. Persons who bavo been subjected to extortion at these fash onablo hostelries may extract some com fort from this statement. The npproaohing school days loads us to remark the fact that now-a-days all school books are pretty good, anil, as far as merit is concerned, very much alike. Tho pressure of competition makes it so. Aud changes of text-books should be made very rarely. Tins Treasury Department lias decid ed that Custom officers may detaiu re prints of American copyrighted books, aud notify the owners of tho copyrights, to the end that tho latter may take such. measures for tho forfeiture of tho books as circumstances may warrauU The Washington female kickers, mown as tho J-cma o aocioty ior mo Prevention of Unsympathetic Congress. aien, huvo arranged what they call a ilack-liht, it being their purpose to do- lefeat the future political aspirations of these whoso names nro npon it. Corka, the couutry now attracting some uttentiou owing to me rovou oi her poopio, is a mountainous peninsula lying between tho Yollow aud Japanese eas. It is a kingdom, whoso sovereign is nominally a vassal of China. It con tains about 80,000 square milos, or a Ut ile moio tiiau twice the aroa of Ohio. Tub result of a Southern duel, says tlie Pittsburg Dispatch, depends a great leal upon the locality, it would appear. n Virginia, as a general tiling, uie win oatauto return from tho field of honor to twine supper. That .isn't the way in Kentucky. Thoro nom mu k'j return full of buckshot, aud with no ap petite to speak of. The first senteuco under the new whipping-post law in Maryland was pw nounced on a negro wife-beater the other day, the sentence being that tne 3ffendor receive thirty lashos. "Fore ie Lord, Judge," pleaded the criminal, "give me seven years in jail. A mo tion for a new trial, which was made, will stay the execution of tho sontonoe for several days. Ih approving of the course of tho Kb diT, the Loriw Zhtf W W should have tho credit of being the in stigator. Thi' Khedive married a grand daughter of Abbas Pasha. She is beau tiful ami strong minded, aud Tewllk is entirely under her influence. This mod ern ( liopatra is very rich, and when money has been wanted to bribe tho Turks, she has, greatly to her dislike, been obliged to provide it. In Toronto, Cunada, the street cars do not run on Sunday, the bootblack boys aro not ou duty, aud all tho tele graph offices are closed except the cen tral ouo, where one mau remains all day to attend to important messages. Tho cab stands aro deserted, aud anybody who wants a vehicle and team must Co to a livery stable. Tho drug stores are open at certain hours, and that ouly for tho sale of medicines. The liquor shops close at 7 ou Saturday evening, aud re main closed till 5 ou Monday nioruiug. Is as article on the death of Senator Hili, of Georgia, the Cincinnati Commer cial (Republican) says ! His character is too widely understood to require ii word of comment, His ithili ties sliiiio forth like stars from tlie niht of contemporary mediocrity. Perhaps no man of his time could both speak nod write tlie laiplish laiiilitno with such (one mid elegance is belonged to his tutifrue nml pen. Morn especially was lie a thorough orator. The worthy successor of Webster, of Clay, and of Calhoun, his un timely death is not hit loss a Nation's. Above all, bis loss will be most severely felt by tho Southern peoplo, who recog uized iu him a fearless, unyielding pat riot and statesman, ConiiA, whoso King aud Queen have been assassinated because they effected a treaty of commerce with tho United States and England, regards tho world at large us barbarians and want nothing t do with it. Confucianism mixed with lo.al superstition is their religion, Tor ture is inflicted as a part of their judicial proceedings. Sometimes a prisoner's bones are bent or pulled out of joint; sometimes bis calves nro bcatcu iuto rags by blows from a heavy plank ; his thighs may bo sawed by a heavy cord, or he may bu hung up by the arms until bo faints or dies. The filial step is to cut olfthe victim's head. A liAiidR, new clock lias been con structed for the United States Signal Servico in Washington, I). C. Tho caso is made, of brass, of suflicieut height to allow tho swing of tho pendulum one muter in length, which weighs about throe hundred pounds. Tho caso is made air tight, so Hint tho air cau bo xhausted from it and tho clock move ment runs in a vacuum, iu order that tho variation caused by atmospheric lianges will bo slightly felt. A very in genious attachment has boon nflixed to the niovemont, whereby tho clock winds itself as it runs, so as to overcome the lillieulty which might arise from tho tliflerenco in tho power of tho spring when fully wound and when partly spent. The way this is accomplished is by alternately breaking and closing an electric circuit, and nsiug tho motion thus obtained, and tho power of tho lectricity in rewinding tho spring by means of a worm cud aud other mechan ism, which is so graduated as to motion that the winding keeps exact paco with the running. A Prolonged Fast Ends In Death. Mrs. Hester A. Fryer, Crozerville, Delaware County, abstained from food for fifty-two days. Her period of starv ation was ended by her death last Mon day. Yesterday slio was buried. For two years the ladv had licnn an invalid. Previous to her illness Mrs. Fryer was a largo woman, weirhinj about iioO pounds, and seemed to havo a very strong constitution. About two yours ago she began to bo troubled with hys teria, and gradually bceanio so ill that she was confined to tho house. Sho wasted away slowly, and finally becamo unable to take any food except milk and weak tea, upon which sho subsisted fur ! nearly a year. Even this became un- ! pleasant and irritating to her stomach, , and about two months ago she deter- mined to attempt a eompleto fast, with : the idea that by absolute rest her stom- j acli miirht become moro vigorous. Fif-' tv-six days ao sho commenced tier long . . 7 . . i .1 ,i i.- fast, and no loon OI any kuiu immwu iu;i mouth for forty-five days, although sho occasionally drank water. She said that sho felt better every aay mat mo jomi , continued, and really appeared to rally i and pick up in spirit and hopefulness if , not in flesh. She was no moro troubled with dyspepsia, and although horphysi-. cian? protested against her course, she . persisted. Her friends and tho doctors watched the case with great solicitude, and the latter with great curiosity. Ono day, about two weeks ago, she for the first time in a year oomplained that she was really hungry, and called for some thing to oat. Solid food was at first given to her, but this would not stay upon her stomach, and the old diut of tea and milk was resorted to, but this was also rejected. In short, it was dis covered that hor long fast had so com pletely worn out her stomach that it could not work, and every effort to feed her failed. Her husband and friends and the doctors wero, therefore, com pelled to watch her slowly but surely starve to death, without being ablo to help hor. The physicians who attended her propose to give a history of the case. Philadelphia Record. M. Mnybridge, who has been so successful in photographing the horso in motion, says there is no such thing as a "dead heat" in horso racos. Ho predicts that in tho near feature no race . , .:n l.- I ...... , Oi tiny iiopurutncu win uo uiiueiiunua without tho assistance of photography to determine tho winner of what might -'erwise be wled " ded hU" Unfurling the Holy Flag. So much is heard nowadays of the possibility of a union of islam and u holy war, that it may not bo without in terest briefly to look into tho subject as it is presented both in history end iu popular belief two very 'different things, It hardly need bo said. An ap parently competent writer iu the bn don Tiun:i, when writing of it last year, insisted that it was praetieally impossi ble for the idea of a ji hml, or war of ex termination against tho Infidel, to bo carried out. Islam tho word sinilies full submission t; (iod, ami is used by Mohammedans to designate their faitii nml tho whole body of believer in it had its rise among the Arab of the desert who inhabited the sterile ranirc on tho eastern coasts of tho lted Sea and the almost equally barren district of the Nejd, who, 'like u!l nonud ami seini-savago tribes, relied for their live lihood chiefly upon plundering their richer neighbors, and a often raided each other s territories w it Ii equal vigor. Thoso raids were and aro called '(:, and ono who take part in 'honi -Mj't'r.i. "All the expeditions and petty vuriaro by which Mohammed eitahlMud hi power in tho Hejan are K:nken of," we read, "as ijhn?.atrtil, and it was only when more ambitious attack were made no on the Roman and IVr-ian borders and the cry of 'There i no god but Allah, and Mohammed is hi prophet,' In. I be come the watchword of vietory, that a yhiui came to be synonviiuni with 'ono who llu'hts for the faith.' This title .ex pressed in full, (jhn.u fl !in, was ni'icli affected by later Mohitiiiiid:iu piinee of other than Arab blood; but few, if any, of the conquering Persian, Turk or Tartar notables ever even understood the term in its original sen-e, or ever fought merely to propagate tho mono theistic creed. Mohammed wa tho first to make a ijlm: i ou :i large scale, and the first to preach to his Arab com patriots the duty of it Iff I -that is, of 'mutual strenuous elTm t' f -r the attain ment of their common aim." Tho pronhet. kuowiui: that the tribes never could become a power whi'e I li"y waited their energies in internecine warfare, and at the same time tli it they e n;l 1 not be uni'fd under any master, sought to bring about national unity by bind ing 1 lit-iii by that "t-oiimion religious feeling" which really meant, as it. so often doe, common interests, custom, and superstition. At Mecca were all tho (lenient of centralization the kaabah, ooiilaining all the god ef I lie dilieri'iit, tribe and tho locale of all t la r and gathering at which the historical ami religion-traditions of the race were circulated and kept alive. The Persian I'-nvuie wa weak and the Uolnun l'.miiiie win (In clining, and their otiliiii ns b lul ling upon Arabia fell an easy prey to tho bands now for the liri lime acting iu concert. " The long series of eoiiq'iets that followed in quick succession Were," says thu writer already alluded to, "of course attributed to the potency of tho profession of faith which formed their battle-cry, anil the'r religion enthusi asm grew stronger wi'h each triumph. The Arabs had at last found the all powerful name of which the eluUbeu of Shem have ever dreamed, I'v mean of which Solomon controlled i demons and the clement, was waf el through the air on hi tingle carpet, or se.-rcd up the refractory genie in a hoille at the b ittoni of the sea. Henceforward the conquered intidel weio oll'.'ivd but, one alternative-to acknowledge, the liiiniu of Allah and hi prophet, or to perish by the sword ; wlole the formula, 'Iu the name of Allah, the mere 'ful, I he compassionate,' wa ever after placed at the head or every Moslem writing. The conquest of a country wa first tica nl by these lledouin raider like that, of an encampment or desert village; all tho portable property that, could be laid hands on was seized and shared among the soldiery, and a poll-tax wa imposed on all who chose to mivo tliein ielve from masya'To by the profession of tho Mohammedan fi.illi. But, this primitive system soon became unmanageable us their dominion extended, and a more settled and elaborate government was requited. The only way in which this could be secured wii by leaving the ml-niini-tratioii practicit'y iu the hand of native officers and holding the country by a military occupation, which consti tuted a perpetual sla'e of siege. Tho noss'lhilitv ef a holy war being pleached has been discussed repeatedly !. l.,i v.irj. It, is held that in India i. i,.tli.ni f Islam has never been much more than superficial, and thai at .1... .....,ot,l ilmn no Indian Mo-lelU, 111 llll. Ill v.. v. -- - t bis observance, and tenets, i hut a I tin doo in foreign dross. With scarcely an execution the Uleuias when appealed to to decide whether or not India was ij'ir al lmrb, enemy's country pronounced I'dm-i, in the. negative, an ooinion e. .nllinied later by tliu assembly of Meccan doctors, v ho disposed of tho subiect onco for all. At the same tune it is pointed out that the Arabs who migrated to Africa and sot up the rival caliphate in Spain were not. .sub ject to the same eslranentu influences as those under the ealiohatc of Hagdad, liavilor niiu'd but life with tho na- li.-nj "nml luLviurr preserved to tho ,.0nn( d:iv their Aral) customs, tradi tions, and gene; al ogies. "Tlie sanm i elements of Arab religious fanaticism, said the writer in 77( Times, "combined with Arab clan feeling, exist there as in tho Ilcjaz or Yemen, and should somo powerful M lem saint and clncl and thorn are many such in Morocco, Tunis, and Algiers -prea"h tho ex termination of tho Kafirs, it would bo useless to hope that any Mich moderate, counsels would uruviiil as thoso which ,rorin,l a oimilnr dancer in India. It might bo strictly a 'run-Islamic' move incut, to quote iho current iagron of tho day, but it would bo a univorsal Arab movement, which would give rise to in exprossiblo horrors of war and blood shod in Western Africa it-olf, and it would attract sufficient sympathy in other Mohammedan countries to urove a serious danger to tlie general peace. Tho "unfurling of tho green flag is a form frequently used, probably because the Ha" in question is not green andean not be unfurled. H would bo refresh ing, indeed, to find any two authorities mut agreed uyoa Uwiubjoot ol thi banner, Mohammed's earliest standard wa- the white turban which bo captured ti uiii liorcidc, and ho adopted subse quently tho black curtain which hung before the door of his wife, Ayelui, which paed to Omar, the Abbassides, Silim 1., and finally to Aniuraih IH.. who took it to F.tiropu. This "black eagle," which is inscribed with tho wordsrf "Xasrimi milt Allah" "Tho Help of (tod" was instituted dit-vn, in contradistinction to the great white ban ner of the Korelshitos. Another account insists that the snnnjuk-i-nlicrif Is a green flag, brought down from heaven to the prophet by the angel (labrlcl, and il Is kept, In fair covering of green tttffeta, inclosed in a cao of green cloth, in tliu mos(iii! ot Avotib at Constantino ple. A third authority recites that It is catefully prt-erved in'lho seraglio In a ease built into the wall, "The stand in d," we read, "i twelve feet high, and the golden ornament, a closed ball which surmounts it, hold a copy ot the Koran written by the caliph, Ostium III. In times of peace it is guarded in the hall of (lie Noble Vestment," where are preserved the prophet's dress and other relic. Still another authority declares that it. is "a'l innocent piece of rotten and faded silk, which used to be covered v." il Is sacred writing, and which once was greed !n color. Tho only legible woid remaining upotl It is Aletn' world which appears in n secluded fold near the staff. The Hag i never un furled -nor', indeed, can it bo from rot-lenne- but i kept rolled on its staff ami covered with a green satin cover, the whole packed away in a gold or gilded box," When the holy standard Is to bo brought on , it is carried ill Its green cover through the streets of Constanti nople, and after the city walls arc passed ii is "in tho field." It is then stowed away in the gilded box once moro and this is carried with the army much as the .lew used to take the ark of the cov enant to the wars. When It Is in tho lie'd every Moslem is in duty bound to follow iu its train. The usual procla mation is; " This i the prophet's hau lier; thi is the standard of the caliph ate. It is plant! d before you and un lul led over jour bead., O true beliov i rs, lo announce to you tint your religion i threatened, that oitr caliphate is in pet il, and that your live, your wives, i ur children and your po-se-ions aro In danger of becoming a prey to cruel enemies. Any Alo-lein, therefore, who ivtn-es to take up arm and follow tliu holy Hag i an intidel amenable to death." When tho flag was In ought out iu ITi'iM, according to Huron Tolt, the Christians had no difficulty in rent in" window's and housetops fiom which lo view tho ccremonv, but when tho proclamation was made: "Lot no i nil del dare to profane with his presence; Hie holy standaid of tho prophet, and let eve y Mussulman, if ho sees an un ' e icer, instantly miko it known!" tneir ho-t pushed them over the roof or d ovi' them out. of the houses to l hii'clicivd Ii v the soldiers and mob. The -eeiio was different when a few year ago, in order to obtain Christians a volunteer-, "Mags of Ivothorly love" rt".e paiadcd through the .streets of f'oiistan'i'ioplo, which biro in white uiioii a e imson 'round the cross and the etc. cent. A'. J'. World. raid a Hill. A Detroit lawyer tool; in a new bnv the other day, and as he h id suf iticd to some extent from the dcprcdi- lion of the loriuer one, ho decided to trv the new lad's hone-ty at once. He therefore placed lilleen dollars In bills under a weight on his dek and walked out without a word. Upon hi return, half un hour later, the bills were gone and seventy-live cents iu silver had taken their place. "Hoy! when I stepped out to got a draft on London I left fifteen dollars un der thi weight!" " Ye, sir." "And now I find only scvcnty-fivo cent!" " Ye, sir, but you sco you hadn't iieeti gone live minutes when a man came in with a bill against you of $11.26, and I paid it. I guess the change, is direct." " You you paid a bill?" " Yes. f'ir thero it. Is, all receipted. The man said it had slipped your mind for the last four years, and so" He didn't get any further before bo was rushed for the stairs, and ho isn't in the law business any moro. Detroit I'rce I'res. Western Meanness. "Don't you go thero!" he said as ho turned around on Iho passenger who announced Unit ho was 'going through to Idaho. "They aro the most seliish set of people you ever saw." "llowr" "Well, tako my caso; I ran a wildcat under a school-houso and discovered a silver mine, and yet they wouldn t lot mo do anv blasting under there durim? M'l.ool hour for tear of disturb ng tho ciiii.hon. Had to work nights alto tot her. and thoy even ehargod mo thirty tent. for breaking a window. Ittilnml " "And in another caao whoro I staked out a claim and three men jumped it, the Governor refused to issuo ammuni tion or to let the Sheriff move; and do Mm know what I had to do? I had to dig a canal from a river throo miles nwjte a ml lei tho water in to drive tho iiooo. i s out. and oven thon tho Coroner who sat on tho bodies made mo pay tor the coffins and charged mo $u for a funeral sermon only soven minutes i,, Don't ini bevond Colorado if vou want to bo used well!" Wall Street ACU'4'. A gentleman admires a charming ivoman over whose head the swarms of sovoiitecn-ycar locusts have passed at loast thrice. "Hut, I say," says one of his friends, "she's very charming, I know ; still, you must admit that she Is wrinkled." "Wrinkled!" echoes the chivalrous lover. "No, sir I There may bo the indoliblo Impression of a smile upon her face bore and there, buf that If tXLV'-fYomtbtfrtno, ...... FACTS AIV'I) FIGURES. Tho capacity of the ice-housei along the Hudson River is more than 1,000,000 tons. Tho tonnago transported on all tha railroads in tho United States in 1881 amounted to 3.10,0:10,01)0 tons, which Poor's linilroad Manual estimates, at the too low average of fc.M a tou, would bo worth $18,000,000,000. It is estimated that tho South has this season paid to tho North SOO.OUO. ( 00 for wheat. ijCiO.OoO.OOO for corn, $72,000,(iuo for moats, and about $2j, 000,000 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, ap ples, potatoes, etc. Cliicngo Times. It is pretty well settled that a healthy man who lives to bo 70 years of ago, in his life cats 7.S00 pounds of meat, 72 barrels of Hour, 1,600 pounds of butter, SM7 dozen eggs, 8i0 pounds of cheese, 111.') bushels of potatoes, and 1,700 pounds of lard. Sineo the first oil well was openod in lSoitthe product of tho wells has added $1,600,000,000 to tho wealth of tho United States in the value of the crudo oil and its products. To-day the prod uct ot these wells lights the cathedrals of F.urope, tho mosques of Asia, the pa godas of Japan, and oven the huts on Africa's sunny soi!. Its exports aro over 1,000,000 gallons a Aay.Uustm l'u'. The great cattlo range of Wyoming under tho military protection of Fort McKinuey is about 800 miles square. In this area ate now grazing 1)00,000 head of cattle, worth -'7 per head. amounting to $1:1,600,000, to which can bo added tho value of tho horses and ranches of tho cattle men ana tho farmers, and the stock of the grangers, making at least SI5.00O.ooo oi property under tho protection of tho post. X J. 7iT.lW. In thi country, with a population of 60.O00.0Oii, thero arc l,20l,.'l(i-' per sons above the ago of twonty-ono years who cannot write. Of this number '.',o.i0,4ii;l are whites, l,747.!)u0 negroes, about M)0,oo0 Indians and 100,000 Asi atics. It is estimated mat in aimosi every State in tho Union, and in tho country as n whole, the balance of po litical power, so laras nimiuer nro con cerned, is or can be in the hands of tha illiterate voter. A. 1. Nm. Arizona covers an area of 72,009,- 000 acres of land, four-tenths of wlucU is m neral-bcaring. It is larger limn New York, reiinvivan'a, isew jersey and Delawaro combined Since 181'.) there has been etta tod from seven States and Territor es tho sum of $2, 1011,0(0,000, i.ir which California Is credited $1.1 18,a07.7:il; Nevada, $409, 12.V.M.1; Idaho, $71.6IV.iid; Oregon and Washington Teri'pory, $l8,0;!7,2."il; Utah. $.M,M8,8:il. and Arizona, $17, UliO, 176. Chkaqo Tim s. "Assassination by Silence." Assassination by silcneo" Is the latest (5 illicism. It was the vordlct of the medical men and of society in the C'iso of a Frenchwoman recently de ceased; and a coroner's jury would probably havo rendered the siuno ver dict if the ca-e had not been kept frDra the coroner. Noble by birth, sue was, and very rich; hut. she was hopelessly plain, ugly of feature and hump-backed. Her husband, a Duke, married her for her money and hated her for her ugli ness. A fortnight aftor hor wedding her martyrdom bogan, but not as other conjugal martyrdoms havo dono. Tho Duke lavished attentions on hor in public; ho was affiiolionato before tho servants; it was "darling" and "bo loved," and "mv lit' lo cat" when any one was present ; but in privato changed, and onlv one old nuno was in tho se cret. Ho pretended to bo jealous of her, and so played the Othello. Ho had the binges of all tho doors so care fully oilod that they could be openod without a oreak, tho domestics were trained to movo about noiselessly, snares wero sot in the vast gardens of their ho tel so that novor tho chirp of the spar row was hoard. Tho poor woman was forced to live in the midst of silence, and when they wont together into society ho scowled so fearfully at every one who approached his wifo to speak to her that little by little peoplo ceased to make tha effort. And then after thoy had re turned, and sho had gono to bed, bo would enter with list shoes on his feet, so as not to announce bis coming, and would ainnceilii a scene of ioalousv. That Is to say, be would paco up mid. down liko one In a fury who Is about to burst into reproaches; wonts ot anger . . ' .i ..I! t.. would seem on mo point oi issuing mnu his mouth; then bo would stop by tha bedside and raise his hand in threat; but ho never struck, he nover spoke, and, resuming his walk, would go through tho saiuH sccno over aud over ngain, until, overcome by fatigue and horror, the Duchess swooned. Every night for ten years his victim watched for menaces which ho seemed about to proffer, but to which he never gave vent. Tho doo toi wen summoned at lastj but the ur,:ost they could say was that ther viore In tho presence of some horrible ti.rstery wliioh oould not be fatlioniea without killing the husband. And when tho poor woman diod and the old nurse told her story they rendered tho vordlct abovo recorded. Iklroit free IVeas. A Dakota girl has earned her tight t the eudiaritig title oi "(iuck. While crossing the river near vaiicy City her canoe upset. She tied tho ca- - , ,1 1 w- ..1..1M uoo to lier anaio auu bwiuu u'"i Another young woman of the same Ter ritory has advoitised for a husband as foilows: "1 mean iiusiucbs. xi vuno is nny voting man in this county that has as much sand in him as a pound of plug tobacco I want to bear from him. I have a freo claim at d homestead, am a good cook mid not afraid to work, and willing to do mv trnrt. If anv man with a liko amount ot land, aud decent faoe and carj cass, wants a good wife, I can till the bUL -Jones Is a timid man. He li'0 town, and out of town he ins remaiaed for a month. C for the train, gel. nearly illllton railroad, sees tt o i nJorin(r now ,d returns honward. ., ! 7 I il I Mi r'.'l o H 1 J I! a,