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WOMAN JOURNALISTS.
Some of Thou Whn FloarWhed la
the
Kiiriiteeath Oeaiury.
The first daily nnwspipor-rprinted in
the world was established" and edited
liy :t woman Elizabeth Mallet. i:i Lon--don,
1702. In her opening address alio
j.iiil .she had started a newspaper to
spare the public half the impertinences
-which the ordinary papers contain."
'Woman-like, her paper was reforma
tory. The first newspajwr published
in America of which we hare any
record was in Massachusetts. It wa3
called the Mas-t Gazette and Newsletter.
After the death of tho editor the widow
dited it in the most spirited manner
for two or three year. It was tho only
paper that did not suspend publication
when Boston was besieged by the
British. In 1772 Rhode Island issued
5ts first newspaper. It was owned and
ts;dUed lv Anna Franklin. Shu and her
two daughters did the printing and
also worked their printing press. His
tory tells that for her quickness and
correctness she was appointed printer
to the colony, supplying pamphlet,
etc., to the colonial offices. She also
printed :.u edition of the colonial laws
of three hundred pages. In 1776 Sarah
Goddard piinted a neivspajier and very
siblv eontlueted it at Newport. She
traded under the name of Sarah God
tlard & Co. In 1772 Clementina U.-i.l
)iublihetl and printed a piper in Vir
ginia, favoring ttic cohiiiial causo and
greatly offending the Koyalists, and
J wo years af:er another piper was
started in the interests of the Crown
by a Mrs. II. Boyle, borrowing the
name of Mrs. Real's paper, which was
the Virginia Gazette, but which was
y-hort lived. Bo; h papers were pub
lished in the town lif Williamsburg.
Tiie colonial newspaper was the first in
xvlrch the Declaration of Independence
was printed. In 177:1 Elizabeth Timo
thy printed anil edited a paper in
Charlestown, S. C. After the rei'olu
lion. Anna Timothy became is olo
proprietor and editor, and was ap
pointed State printer, which position
idle held for seventeen years. Mary
Crouch published a paper in the same
town about the same time in special
opposition to the St amp act- She after
vrard removed her paper to Salem.
VIa., and continued its publication for
uianv vears. Stationer anil Printer.
CHINESE ASPECTS.
A. filance at Art ami I.andtrapa A
the Celetial.
aon
There are said to be something liko
fifty thousand characters in the written
language of the Chinese. I am sure it
would take them all to fully describe
the queer ights ami strange customs
we witnessed in Peking during tho few
clays Ave re.-tcd there, at the cheerful
United States Legation, before making
our final start for the Great Wa".!.
The anomalous impression I received
if the exterior of !h town in my mem
orable ride, was intensified as I came to
know something of tho interior life of
Peking. My sister and I felt like two
Chinese Alices in Oriental Wonderland
when we came to visit some of the peo
ple who live- in those strange, inhospit
able looking houses, their own homes,
for it seemed a if all the pictures wo
Iiad ever seen on Chiueso porcelain had
sMtnu to life and the figures were now
-stepping out of their slippery state to
greet ti.
1 had never known before that the
twisted tree is contorted objects and
queer architecture painted oil Cbincso
punch bowls and platters are not droll
caricatures, hut the Chinese represeuta
.tions of Chinese art ideas in the actual
vry day scenes of Chines.; lif The
grotesque figures which they paint on
fans, or screens, are all well known
historical characters; heroes of fiction,
or deified saints and philosophers, ai:d
each one carries to the Chinese mind
its peculiar traditional or romantic as
sociation. Ticre is very little picturesque seen-r-ui
China, and the few hills, streams
and valleys which lovers of natural
beauty have discovered, have done duty
in decoration for hundreds, pcrhnp
Thousands, of years. But thescoulliucs.
made familiar by repetition, have a
'liilerent meaning when the fact is ex--jtlained
that the skillful Chinese land
scape gardeners have made innum
erable miniature copies of these few
bits of scenery in the court yards
which are inclosed by the inner walls
of all the houses of the better sort.
Thee courts, a few feet in extent,
oblong or square, are laid out in little
mountain ranges, showing caverns and
lakes, trails and ravines, on every side.
Wide Aicakc.
Feathers in Flat Cars.
I heard a good story the other clay
pertaining to one of the best known
railroad men in the Northwest. It
seems when he first started out in tho
Lusiuess lie was made station agent,
operator, etc., at a point a few miles
-distant from Cincinnati. He was
vouiig. verdant and exceedingly fresh
for a von'h of his immature years. It
-was also the general opinion that his
knowledge of the science of railroad
ln was somewhat limited. So one
baTnty spring afternoon it was deter
mined to make the test Accordingly
one of the heaviest shippers of the town
-walked into the office and solemnly in
quired the tariff on loose fethers shipped
m flat cars. A careful perusal of the
tariff sheets was made in vain; but be
in" auxious to oblige the shipper he
promptly wired to the general freight
wnt of the road askiag the rate. And
-it was not until the emphatic, not to
...... nn.te. answer of the gcueral
freight agent was received that the
.absurditv of the thing dawnoa upon
juind. Bnt it taught him a lesson he
lias never forgotten to this day. i-
xcapolis Tribune
FIRES IN JAPAN.
Feeallarltle Which Make Thm a Koarre
of Amaaement to Fnreicaere.
A Japanese fire is one of the sights to
see. and beside the sorrow, the misery,
suffering and tears that one sees, there
are humors that renders such situa
tions incomparable. When the tire
bell clangs every one rushes to the
scene, friends helping friends to save
their household effects, and thieve
making most of the opportunity. Ex
citement reigns blocks away from the
fire, agitated people gathering tip their
mats, screens, bedding, clothing a-id
cooking utensils and hurrying away
from the neighliorhood. The sim
plicity of Jara icse life is best shown
then. There is no clumsy furniture to
Ikj rolled out and broken, no tables,
chairs or clumsy beds to be more than
ruined in the saving. One small hand
cart holds the roll of wadded comforters
and gowns that are the bedding of the
family, and their clothing, and the few
other effects go with it. The sliding
paper screens are slipped from their
grooves, the thick straw mats are taken
from the floor, and the family decamp,
leaving nothing but the roof, corner
posts and rough floor of the house be
hind them. Processions of these
refugees are met streaming away from
the fire, tearful women and wailing
children conveying to one a sense oi
what their sorrows are. It is always
the wonder how these poor people live
with so little, and when that little is
swept away all one's sympathy is with
them.
At three o'clock the other morning
there was a great fire in Japanese
Town. The reflection in the sky pene
trated thick blinds, and wakened resi
dents in the foreign settlement, to
whom lire is as much a haunting terror
as to the natives. A fresh wind was
blowing up the bay and against the
steely blue wa'cr the white ships and
men-of-war glowed like crimson ships
in the fire's reflection. By nine o'clock
in the morning more than a thousand
houses had been burned, and the flames
were not subdued. An hour later we
went to view the scene. At one end of
the leveled space streams of water were
being played on smouldering ruins,
hand-pumps were being worked with a
shouting chorus, and lines of buckets
were being passed up from the creek.
A few fire-proof godomes. built of thick
mud and tiles, with all the chink
stopped with mud, stood with cracked
and blistered walls as sole monuments
in the area of ruins. At the other end
of the burned region a plank fence h:id
already been built around the space,
and carpenters were building new
houses on the smoking ground and
stepping gingerly to escape hot stones
and tiles. The amazing quickness with
which Japanese houses rise from their
ashes defies comparison. The Phojnix
and Chicago are nothing for parallels.
By the same afternoon the new houses
were advanced enough for the little
shopkeepers to set up their wares, and
by lamplight the workmen were creep
ing over the roofs and nailing on the
tiles. One has to follow quickly upon
the first alarm to see the fire, and often
times coming upon a section of new
houses with their fresh unpaintcd walls,
is the first intimation that one has of
hero having ln-en a lire nlnugthe street
th:lt ne most commonlv frequents. Fire
is so common and so frequent that there
is not a Japanese who has not been
burned out a gain ami again, and looks
upon future experiences with cool phil
osophy. He might even preface his
stories by the accustomed "I always do
so and so when 1113 house burns down."
Yokohama Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE OLDEST ROCKS.
Formation Larerly Developed in Northern
America and Kurope.
OMest of all the formations known
to geologists, and representing perhaps
the earliest rocks produced after our
earth had ceased to be a molten mass,
are the hard, crystalline and much-contorted
rocks named by the late Sir W.
E. Loj-an Laurentian, and which are
largely developed iu t lie northern parts
of North America and Europe, ami iu
many other region. So numerous and
extensive, indeed, are the exjiosures of
thoe rocks, that wo have good reaou
to believe that they underlie all the
other formations of our continents, and
arc eveiT world-wide in their distribu
tion. In the lower part of this great
system of rocks, which, iu some places
at least, is thirty thousand feet iu
thickness, we find no traces of the ex
istence of any living thing on the earth.
But, in the middle portion of the
Laurentian. rocks are found which in
dicate that there were already laud and
water, a.ul that the waters and possibly
the land were already tenanted by liv
ing beings. The great beds of lime
stone which exist in this part of the
system furnish one indication of this.
In the later geological formations the
limestones are mostly organic that is,
they consist of accumulated remains
of shells, corals and other hard parts of
marine animals, which are conqiosed
of calcium carbonate, which the animals
obtain directly from their food, and in
directly from the calcareous matter
dissolved in the sea-water. Iu like
manner great beds of iron ore exist in
the Laurentian; but in later formations
the determining cause of the accumula
tion of such beds is the partial deoxida
tion and solution of the peroxide of
iron by the agency of organic matter.
Besides this, certain forms known as
Eozoon Canadenxc have been recog
nized in the Laurentian limestones,
which indicate the presence at least of
one of the lower types of marine ani
mals.. Where animal life is, we may
fairly infer the existence of vegetable
life as well, since the plant is the only
producer of food for the animal. Sir
William Dawson, in Popular Science
feUtUtf.
STARTING A FASHIO...
How Coant U'Or- llwlnaeed a Tailor
TrnatilMnino Hill.
One day. being caught in his private
dressing-room by a tailor, who rag"d
and said he would not leave till he had
been paid his bill, Connt D'Orsay
listened thoughtfully for a time, fixing
his eyes upon a package that the irate
tailor had deposited upon a chair.
This package w:is enveloped in a coarse
sort of canvas.
Have you much of that stuff i:i
your shop?" said Count D'Orsay.
"What kind that ugly canvas? If 1
wanted it I could to-morrow haw
enough to wrap up all the mcrchaudis.:
iti the Loudon docks."
"London docks!" said the Conn;
"don't talk nonsense. Come to me to
morrow at four o'clock and take my
measure for a pair of trousers cut frotu
this canvas."
Iu vain the tailor endeavored to dis
suade the Count, stating that the canvas
was not suitable for a garment, and iu
a short time Count D'Orsay was sup
plied with the canvas trousers.
At five o'clock tne afternoo 1 he
climbed the vast staircase of Crock
ford's, then one of tin fashionable elun
of Loudon, and the first person he met
was Lord Chesterfield.
"Upon my word." said the noble
Lord, "you have a singular garrn-nt
there something rare, with-ut doub:.
Alwavs the sama original au.l ehur.n
ing D'Orsay!"
The Count received the compliment
with some confusion.
It is pel haps not exactly elega-.r."
he said, "but it is very handy and
fresh, especially suited to ridinj on
horseback."
In a few moments a group of dandle
had surrounded the clever Frenchman.
Lord Chesterfield iu the mam parbo
was expatiating on th originality of
D'Orsay's taste, and a few days after
ward the tailor found himself overrun
with orders for the canvas trousers
L ml Chesterfield himself ordered ::
dozen pair-. Count D'Orsay had ac
complished his purpose, and th: de
lighted tailor came 110 more with his
troublesome bill. Illustrated Weskly.
FASHION'S FANCIES.
Combination Costume for snmmsr Cr.
nameatMl Hook anil Kye.
Combinations of woolen and "i:k re
main as popular as ever, and ut:umcs
of this class are po-sibly a trifle more
dresy than the all-wool or all-sil!;
dresses, which are naturally more quiet
in effect. Polonaise effects are notice
aide, aiut many of the street and yacht
ing costumes intended to be worn
"without a wrap, have a polonaise front
and basque back, with the drapery
made so tiiat it can be attached with
hooks and loops to the basque, com
pleting the effect.
Plaids are generally used in combi
nations with self-coiors. but the usual
fashion of taking one of the colors ot
the plaids into consideration is not fol
lowed in using the beautiful multi
colored plaids, which are must artistic
if properly arranged. The immense
chocks of solid color, such as Gobelin
blue and white, or black and gold, are
also exempt from necessarily employ
ing one of their colors in combination:
blue-aud-whitecheck may be used with
gray or black, and black-and-gold with
gray or Gobelin blue.
Many costumes, especially those ol
striped camels' hair, are made up in
one material throughout, and the stripe
often play an important part iu their
effectiveness. The basque seams can
be so arranged by the cutting and fit
ting of the striped goods that a much
greater effect of slenderness can be
given to the figure. The same eflect is
sometimes produced by the use of fold
of material or braid put on to simulate
stripes.
Small ornamental hooks-and-eyes.
covered silk buttons with loops of silk
folds, or lacings of cord run through
worked eyelet-holes in the edges of the
goods, are used to hold opposite edge
of the drapery together at the side, foi
about half the distance down the skirt.
where something of thi sort is not
used, a cluster of riblion loops is fre
quently placed at one side. Dcmoresd
Monthly.
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RICH, BUT CO I MESS.
Keadjr Money Not Infrequently Atxenl
from a Capitalist Pocket.
"It would lie a pleasure to accommo
date you. but tiie simple truth is 1
haven't .300 in cash iu thu world," said
a Buffalo Cneus to the financial man
of the firm, who was seeking a pur
chaser for a gilt-edged $1,200 six per
cent, real estate mortgage. Noticing
an expression of incredulity upon the
face of his caller. Crojsus hastened to
add: "It is a common mistake of those
having small means to suppose that a
millionaire always has $50,000 or more
at instant command. It is only on rare
occasions that most of us see $25,000 in
currency at one time, and for two years
I have never ouce had 10, 00 J of my
own on hand.
"The men of great wealth, are. as a
rule, men of large business interests.
We own blocks, elevators, ships, tele
graph, telephone and railroad stock.
suburban tracts, and many other kind
of property, but none of these can Ik
converted into cash at an hour s notice.
Then, again, most of our real estate is
mortgaged, because we are able to use
ready money in such a manner as to
realize more than six er cent- You
would be astonished could you learn
how large a load of debt some very
wealthy Buffalo men are carrying. It
is usually the second generation of
wealth that buys mortgages, govern
ment bonds, and' other securities which
yield a moderate income and require
no looking after. Bujfalo Express.
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Alsike clover originally came from
Alsikc. Sweden, and' hi said to be a
cross betweeathe white and red clovers.
CUSTOMS Or CAPRI.
Pictare(ue Seen On the Inland Made
ITamou by Oaribaldl.
They have a strange way in this little
place. I found, of betrothing the girls
to the young men before the latter
leave the town. As very few of them
are able to either read or write, long
years pass by without a word from the
lover or "spoza" rea...ing the patient
girl at home.
It is not a rare thing to meet here
young couples who were engaged for
ten, twelve or even fifteen years before
fortune was sufficiently favorable to
allow them to marry.
One can not soon g.t rich on thirty
cents a dav. and tint is the wages of a
man in Capri. This is perhaps the
reason why so many men leave the
island, leaving the women at home to
taste care of the vineyards and olive
groves.
It is a very picturesque scene, those
women, with their gay costumes, rich
complexions, bright, flashing eyes, at
work in the fields, or leading their
flocks of goats up the mountain side to
pasture. Their feet are aiways bare.
and become so hard that it is simply !
wonderful wnat thev cai endure. They
will walk over the roads covered with
sharp, flinty stone, climb the rugged
mountain sides, and be quite as com
fortable as if walking on the softest
carpet. In fact, for hardness their feet
rescmblo those of the Wenern girl,
who. when told by her mother that
there was a red-hot coal under her foot.
drawled
'Which
out. without moving an inch:
foot is it under, mammy
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Yet the feet of these women are bv no
means misshapen, but, on the contrary,
are perfect, molds for an artist.
During mv stay on the island I en
joyed the rare treat of witnessing the
grand festival of San Antonio, this be
ing the great feast day of the year.
One of the most attractive features
to mentis the procession of white-robed
maidens, wending their way through
the narrow streets, lined with white
walied houses. From the top of these
walls, friends and lovers showered
down the sweet-smelling, golden Sau
Antonio fiori upon the procession be
low. The jjirls were wreathed with
flowers, and carried in their hands
either caudles or little wooden images,
and chanted as they walked, surround
ed by clouds of smoke from swinging
censors.
Through the town and up the wind
ing stone stairs cut in the mountain
side, they passed to the chapel, where
the religious services were held. After
that came the feasting, and the danc
ing, and the music, over which they
became greatly excited.
The numlierless movements of their
favorite dance, the "Tarantata." and
the easy graceful forms of the dancers
as they swayed backward and forward
wa indeed a pleasing an I exhiliarating
sight. The "Tarantata" is dance I bv
three couples only, the men dancing
aronnd ttie women and then kneeling
as suppliants at their feet, The women
raise them, and with airy movements
dance around the men. Then they
separate into pairs, advancing and re
treating anil again dancing together.
The figures of the dance are but a small
part of its beauties: there is an inde
scribable fascination in the free and
graceful movements of the arms, head,
and, in fact, of the whole body. Bea
trice, Presswuod Kinj, in Woman.
BANKING IN CHINA
How Pictatled Teller Handle Srrap at
Mlvrr and Cluumy Itank Note.
A curious place that t looked into
on our way across the city of Canton
was a Chinese bank, whrte the counter
part of the brisk young cashiers, tellers
and accountants of our home banks
were sitting in pigtails, and the long
blue blouses of gentlemen and scholars,
shoveling silver Mexicans from basket
to basket, and letting them fall on the
stone floor with a deafening ring and
clatter. A Chinanmn can do nothing
quietly, and uoisu is his necessary ac
companiment to every action. Every
one of the pewtcry-looking dollars is
weighed and stamped by the bank, rang
ou stone slabs and fully tested, anil
there are baskets full of fragments,
halves and chips of silver dollars that
pass as smaller coins. Thoe scrap
and bits of silver pass current by their
weight and their purity is tested by the
ring. The Hong Kong and Shanghai
Banking corporation issue pajn-r
notes of different values that save
one from carrying loads of these
clumsy Mexican dollars about with
one. but the bank notes are as
clumsy in proportion. They are all
over six inches long and four inches
wide, of a tough, fibrous paper, as thick
as blotting paper, and as flabby as so
much dirty calico, which they chiefly
resemble. Those diploma-sized notes
of the Bank of England are small and
compact by comparison, and every
common-sense traveler cries for Mit
kiewicz and his syndicate to come with
the great bank and do away with the
ugly Mexican and the clumsy English
notes. A great proportion of Chinese
talent must be employed in counter
feiting Chinese dollars, to judge from
the numbers about and the wariness
with which every one accepts one of
the coins. A most clever counterfeit
passed off on me was one that was
plainly pure silver and newly minted.
An expert rapped it sharply with his
pen-knife, and the top fell off like the
lid of a box. and disclosed an interior
of pure pewter tilling in the thin shell
of silver. At the American schedule of
wages, two dollars of a silversmith's
time had been used to plane off in a
thin shaving the top of the dollar, dig
out the solid part and fill up the cavity
with lead, and bring the deceptive
seventy-cent dollar down to a silver
value at ten cents or less. Car. SL
Louis Qbbe-DemocraL
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
New silk mills are springing up
everywhere, and the immigration of
foreign weavers has almost stopped.
Cavendish in 1766 discovered ln-dro-gen:
and between 1774 and 1779 Priest
ley discovered oxygen, azote and nitrous
gas.
A new attachment to the micro
scope has been devised, the object of
which is to observe tiie melting points
of minerals while under the process of
examination.
It is estimated that the sum spent
on new buildings in this country last
year was $2.60).0Q0.030. and that the
transfers of real estate amounted to
$io.o.ooo.ooa
Careful experiments have shown
that waste silk is the most effective of
all nnu-condiicting coverings for steam
pipes, and the demand for this purpose
is great in spite of the cost.
The values of the exports of min
eral oils from the United States for the
year ended Deccmlier 31. 18-37. showed
a decrease of $2.5.34.077 from the values
of the corresponding period of 18-Si).
The process of manufacturing gas
from water at Lo Angelas. Cil.. is a
magnificent success. Its bright, steady
light has been pronounced a decided
improvement over electricity.
A simple formula for the prepara
tion of hektograph ink is given by a
competent authority. Take one part
of aniline, of the color desired, dissolve
in about seven parts of water, and add
one part of glycerine.
Meteorites sometimes attain a ve
locity ot 180.000 fe.'t jwr second. When
passing through the air at this rate the
friction is so great that the air is heated
up to a temperature of 10.800 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The French national printing office
employ. girls as type-founders, print
ers. Iiook-sewers, liook-binders. etc..
the wages ranging from fifty cents to
one dollar per day. After thirty years'
service both men and wo:u'n are re
tired upon a pen-ion.
Civilization is preading rapidly
beyond a doubt. African rubber is now
systematically adulterated with saw
dust, bark dust. etc.. and after purify
ing does not contain more than thirty
three to fifty-five percent, of pure gum.
The natives add this substance to over
come the stickiness.
As a wood preservative naphtha
line is now largely used in Scotland, its
action being to destroy all albuminoid
compounds in the wood, leaving it dry
ana clean to hauUle. and witti only a
faint, aromatic smell. The naphtha
lino is melted in a vessel capable of be
ing tightly sealed, aud in this the wood
is saturated.
Extensive use is now being made
in France of the unique article known
as wood wool, consisting of extremely
thin and slender. shavings of wood, that
are comparable to paper cut for pack
ing. It weighs some forty or fifty per
cent. less than the materials generally
used for such a purpose, and its beau
fill appearance, fineness, and exceeding
cleanness have brought it into great
favor.
A recent chemical examination of
several prominent brands of family
lard" showed them to lie variously
constituted ot different ingredients, and
in one case not a trace of real lard
could be found in the sample analyzed.
A prominent lard manufacturer tes
tified before the Senate Committee on
Agriculture, at Washington, that so
far as he knew the lard thus manufact
ured is more popular with the people
than the genuine article is.
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STRANGE RESEMBLANCE.
Twia Brother Who Kiguarure Proved a
fazzle to Patent uBlrUI.
I heard a good story the other day."
said one of the orators, "ou a couple of
Lcwiston men. They are twin brothers
and the most remarkable in some re
spects that ever existed. Both are of
scientific, artistic turn of mind and re
markably capable in many ways. Tiie
most curious thing to me. however, is
the fact thatt their great resemblance
extends evento their handwriting and
has been a great puzzle to bank officials
aud every body else. These brothers
are inventive and have lately patented
an important device. The story, as I
heard it. is that after the specification
aud affidavits, etc.. etc.. were made, it
was required that both should make
oath and sign documents. They did
so and the f apers were sent to the
Patent Office.
"Not long
after their attorneys re
lation of irregularities in
ccived not 1 tic
proceedings aid soon the specified state
ment was maie, from the United States
Patent Office that the law required
that both ptrsons should sign the
papers, while in this case, it was very
evident that,' one person had signed
both papers. The lawyer smiled.
Here was a direct statement. The
United States Patent Office experts
didn't say that they thought' that the
names had been signed by the same
person, bat they deliberately stated,
in so manyjwords, that one person had
signed boti names. He had to make
a personal explanation to the Patent
Office andjrelate how wonderful is the
wondrous tffinity of birth." Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
Partial Judgment.
It is difjcult to avoid making an ex
ception of ourselves, when we are re
flecting upon the errors and frailties of
mankind; Said a Quaker, one day. to
his wife;
"All the world is queer, excepting
thee anil me. and thee is a little
queer." )
Another candid and self-righteous in
dividual in a moment of confidence,
gave vest to the opinion:
"There's but two honest men ia this
town. (Brother B and myself; aad
sometities I have my doubts of Brother
B -!J TouM Cemjwawrt.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It I3 not every great man's experi
ence that his palmiest days were when
he was in the hands of his friends.
Yonkers Gazette.
The late Barghash Bin Saed. Sultan
of Zanzibar, leaves twenty-seven wid
ows and 232 children. Enough has
Bin Sad. A. Y. World.
A Philadelphia firm of soap manu
facturers have a kettle that holds 471.
000 pounds of liquids ami six kettles
that hold 150.000 pounds each.
Dried shark fins are sold in every
Chinese provision store in Now York.
and are esteemed such a delicacy that
they bring nearly four dollars per
pound.
Never in one season was there such
a demand for oak to go into house
finishing and furniture as the present.
Bed and white oaks are particularly
wanted.
A lady of Greensboro. Ga.. in one
night killed eighty-nine snails which
had crawled into her kitchen. It wasn't
a good night for snails at least not for
those that she found.
"I hear that General Lightfoot is
going to run for Governor." said the
Judge. "Glad he's going to run for
something." said the Major, with feel
ing, "he run from everything all
through the war.' Bunlette.
A St. Louis man says that he once
had a chance to buy the patent for the
Nicholson pavement for $1,000. A
year after he decliued the offer the
holder of the patent collected $100,000
in royalties from the city of St. Louis.
The Bank of New York has a cheek
yellowed by fire which was drawn by
Aaron Burr. August 14, 1734. and alo
another check drawn by Talleyrand
and Gulian Verplanck. It is now near
lv 101 years since the bank was estab
lished. An English justice discharged a
housemaid who pleaded guilty to steal
ing a cloak, a muff, a fur boa and a
handkerchief belonging to her mistress.
The judge said that she was only
wearing" the clothes, and that was
"a thing that servants did every day."
A novel way to move a house was
adopted at the railroad depot at Or
lando. Fla.. the other day. The house
was slipped upon the railroad track,
an engine was backed up and hitched
on, and the house pulled along, sliding
ou the tracks.
A profound scientist of tho nine,
tcenth century living in Boston had a
smoking chimney in his house. After
he had spent $100 for various devices
to cure it a ragged tramp came along
and suggested that he build it six
inches higher which was done and the
evil eradicated. Detroit Free Pre3.
Considerable numbers of colored
people are emigrating to Californii
from the Southern States. One party
of twenty-four men and women lately
arrived at San Francisco en route to
join a colored colony in Shasta County.
Another party of 110 laborers, mostly
men. have gone to Fresno to work in
the raisin vineyards, and 150 more are
to follow.
Song birds being very scarce in
Oregon, a number of German citizens
of Portland propose to import from the
fatherland a number of nightingales,
skylarks, bulfinches. chaffinches, gold
finches, greenfinches, black and gray
thrushes, linnets, starlings, and other
singing birds, in all between 600 and
700. which will be turned loose on their
arrival. A fund of over $1,000 h:is
been raised to further the project.
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A GIRL'S INVENTION.
Hew a Veteran' Daaghter U rilling m
Depleted Family Treasury.
In a remote but decent part of Bos
ton has lived for about fifteen years an
English family of rather unique inter
est. The father served in the war of
the rebellion, and, being a partial in
valid in consequence, receives a small
pension, which does not go far toward
supporting the family, and he can do
little besides draw his pension and
suffer his constant pain. The mother Is
a small woman, with large brown eves
and pale cheeks. She has had a toilsome
life, indeed, and has done all sorts of
work to try and eke out the family
support. Two daughters, the elder
somewhat noted in her neighborhood
as a beauty, and a small boy make up
the balance of the household. Although
desperately poor, tiie family have been
as proud as Lucifer and seemed bound
to acceTit no more charity than was ab
solutely unavoidable, though there are
plenty of well-to-do people around
them who would gladly have contrib
uted in their aid. as every memlier of
the family commanded respect. They
have come to be known even outside
their narrow circle from their constant
effort to better themselves, trying now
this thing and now that. Every thing
failed until a short time ago; but at
last the family have struck something
that will give them ease and comfort it
not comparative wealth. The hand
some daughter is credited with the discover-,
which is simply a new method
of treating photographs in reproduction.
Her name has been given to it. and her
work is getting more and more circu
lation every day with of course an in
creased inflow of dollars to the family
treasury. She has secured a patent on
her process. All the photographers are
puzzled by the work and would like to
have it for use in their business, as they
see that this girl is getting as many or
ders as she can fill at the good price of
three dollars for each cabinet repro
duction. The pictures are the same
size as the cabinet photographs, but
softer and more pleasing in tone, and
are mounted under thick plate-glass
with beveled edges. How she makes
her copies nobody has been able to find
out as yet, but in the slang of the day
her work fcoes." Spring fid d Bepub
lican.
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