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NO. 26. ADVJET1SEMENT8. Puppets That TVere' Almost tamau Wonderful Contrivances, 1 Puppet or marionettes were patronized by both the Greeks and Romans, and automata, which are the inventions that ore now pnnciriallv dealt in, ftwo go back to a remoto period. Vulcan's tripod on wheels lias the authority-of Homer; DasdiUus mode moving statuesj Archytaa of Tareutum, 400 13. C, mvented wooden pigeon that could fly in the air, In the Fifteenth century Regjomantamus made an .iron fly that moved through the atmosphere, and afterward an automatic eagle, winch, on the arrival or tbe im- peror Maximilian at Nuremberg, flew forth to meet him. Albertus Magnus is credited with constructing a head that moved and talked, and which so fright ened Thomas Aquinas that he smashed it L TOOK It. ' 1 ... .11 -j 1 1.. -effert-wa -magical;- I 'seemed -Jnta piccea,ucixus.tai;iiuuuij ishes tlie work of thirty yeardt" Roger speaking head of brass, Take it in Time; - Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is a highly concentrated and powerful medicine. It Is an anodyne expectorant, and, if promptly taken, in cases of Coughs, Throat or Lung troubles, soothes and heals the irritated tissues, and quickly ' allays all tendency to Consumption. ... Six years ago, I contracted a severo Cold, which settled on my Lungs, and soon developed all the alarming symp toms of Consumption. , I had a Cough, Night Sweats, Bleeding Lungs, Pain in my Chest and Sides, and was so com. pletoly prostrated, as to be confined to my bed most of the tinio.v After trying various prescriptions, without benefit, my physicjan finally determined to give me .Ayer a wnerry sectoral, i toon it, and the effect was matrical.'- I 'seemed to rally from the first dose of this med icine, ana, alter nsing only three bottles, am now as well and sound as ever. --itodney Johnson, Springfield, 111. I have -used AyeTS1. -Cherry -Pectoral In my family, for Colds and Coughs, with infallible success, and should not dare to be without this medicine through the winter months. Bussel Bodiue, ' Hughesvillo, Lycoming Co., Pa. - Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aver It Co., Lowell, If sss. . Sold by all Druggists. , Prloe SI ; six bottles, as. PROF8SIONAL CARDS. J AS. E. BOYD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Greensboro, If. C. -: Will be at Graham ou Monday of each week to attend to professional business. Sep 16 ' F. II. Whitakeb, Jb. C. E.-McLean. ' -WHITAKEE & McLEAN, ATTORNEYS AT' LAW, ; GRAHAM, N. C. Practice in the State and Fedc-al conrts. Collection made in all parts of Hie Stale, 'Returns prompt... One of the firm can always be found In their office. One of the firm will he in Burlington every Wednesday to attend to professional business. May 19 tf INGENIOUS MECHANICAL TOYS. J.DiKEENODLE ATTORNEY AT LAW " ' ''ti'--:r' fspAtiA.n, rt.ti. ' . Practice in the State and Federal Cour will faithfully and promptly attend to all bus e intrusted to him . ifll Not only shortens the time of labor and lessens Hi. pttn,- but it great dim nishe the danger t life of Ix-lh , mother sua child, end leaves the mother In a condition mre favorable , to speedy recovery, and Uss llutlii -to flooding roMVu'lslgn's "and . other alarming symptoms. Its efficacy in this respect entities it to be called the Mother s Friend, and to rank as one if the life saTing) remedies of the nineteenth -enturv. , We cannot pullhh certificates con - corning this remedy wituout wound- " ing the delicacy of the wrlterj. Yuf -" we have hundreds on file. : 8end for our book "To Mothers" mailed free ' . .. BuiuriEij) Keqvlatok Co., ' -j , Atlanta, tia. '. U U LEXINGTON, KY Thbntiiilptd ehool In th States accommodation. Vtrietlj flrvt-elas; hoatad by itm and llffhtod by KMt only two young ladle to tha room; splendid faculty of - KrlFMe teacher. SesslOB begins tnd Monday " la September. 'For partieuUra or CataloffUM, addrM X. JPATTXBSOJf. rre0.t Leaingfn. JEy. . ooq-WHY JfOTl-ooo y' ' ATTBNO - '. af tooorportd hj the LefrUlanra of JVlllVlK Va., ud Indorsed bj leadlna- boil- VAXAV Boa men sndStata officials Indf- -aaar . Tidoal lostruetldn. Teaching by Thtioi and Amtmmt nu!tloe what otkm (aaeh by tknry nit. CataloIS eonUlains fall Information and tMUmsskUa fraa. auxma, i. y. yusiuiutui, lU.roaldst( BUuwko, ra Peace Institute, lialeigh, N. C. The Fal Session " commences on the first Wedttesdny in beptember (kb day). 1887 ano ends the first Wcduesday In iune, 188.' . Every department ot induction filled by , exuenencea ana accompnaaca leacners. Bul'dlng th largest and most thoroughly viiuippea in me otaie. ncaioa ny steam, and Study Hall limited by ehictriclly. Fpeclal rates for two or more from same . Inniilr. . For Circulars and Catalogue, " ' address, . REV-R,BCBrELl,80y. July 72m Kaleigb, N. C UNIYf RS1TY OF U. C. fchapel Hill N. C. m The session Is divided into two terms: the first lririnp ing the last Thursday In Amrusl and ending at Cbriiinas, tl.a second brif.a nlng early ia January and ending first 2Tji'i oy m June, tuition t vj.vu tor eaca term For room rent aud se-r ice. f S.OO per term Those unable ta pay tuition are alk wrd. to tire their notes, secured if poaalble. Tuitin ia4he Noraiil Course fne. Tbe Faculty Is now sufficiently sirone to rive instruction in a wide rne nf mHi. , 'or term In tbe Law School apaly to Moo. J oho Mannlor, LL. It. ' for Catiluamea ap ply to . r. raueraon, ttursar, cbapel UHI. ti,C For spae.al Information i ply to KMP P. BATTLE, IX. D. June 80 1m. JUBUC ADHINISTBATOB'8 MUTI';I. an m.... ItnlAtnm - I . " tate of Polly Raley, dereaaeo, will present theia duly aotbentlrated, on or before the 1MB day of Jnoe. I8. or tbis Bollce willc pteaded lit bar of (heir reenvery. i. L. Scott. Ik, Fab. Adtar. Jana 4, "87. 6U as Idia'a ef Polly Staiay yrMINISTHATOB'S NOTICE. . AH peramt koldinr Halm acainst th c lawur 11 i-sm 2 . mci Dersoa, them dolv aatbentirated to tbe will preacot mjeralTB 9 or before tbe Ut day of July, 1H&4, or Uii suaice will be ptvarlnd In b-r of their rrenre rr. D. ii.THOXPfON'. sd'aa'r JuMlJ,lt7, uflaUiaTiMcIbatoo. Kmnn mnrm n. which excited awe among all who heard it;13pouking"nutomata -have-been "fre quently attempted of lato years, but tlie ereat diihuultv lies in simulating tue na man voice. Tho most Buccessful of these efforts Was perhaps that of Professor Faber, of Vieiuia, exliibited In London forty years ago under tlie naino of Eu phonia. Faber worked twenty-five years at tho automaton. The figure enunciated words and also sang. ' Th.ore.was an ar rangement of hollow pipes, pedals and keys, which the inventor played to 'prompt the discourse.'' Willars de Ilanccort, in tho Thirteenth, century, constructed an" angel that "would, always point with his finger to the sun;" ' The Jlarquis of Worcester niado an artificial horse that would carry a rider as swiftly as if he were a genuine barb. Philip Caniuz invented a wonder ful group of automata for Louis JUV- coach and four horses, that started oflt with a crack of a whip, the horses pranc ing, trotting and galloping in turn; it ran along until it got in front of tue King, when it stopped, when a toy footman de scended and opening the carriage door handed .out a lady "with born grace. The lady made a courtesy, presented a pe tition to lua majesty, and re-entering her carnage was driven away. Gen. De Gennes, a Frenchman, who defended tlie colony of St. Christopher against th English about 108S, anlused liiiiiself- by making an. automaton peacock, which walked about in all its pride of e'xtended feathers, and picking up corn from the ground swallowed it. - The king of automata constructors was Jamies Vaucanson, born at Grenoble in 170$). While quite a boy ho riiade sev eral " eelf moving figures. The bent of liis mind was' determined by a rather pe culiar circumstance. Being left to. him' self in the house of a friend to wliich he went with Ids mother, he perceived through tho crack of a partition an old clock with slowly swinging, pendulum, which excited his attention. Next. tune he visited this house he had a pencil and paper with him, and made a rough sketch t)f the clock. By earnest study and investigation he succeeded in mak ing a clock of bis own out of pieces of wood, and his wooden clock kept time fairly well: Then, began his experiments with automata. He made a wooden chapel, with moving figures of priestA lie invented a hydraulic machine for tlie city of Lyons, and later, in the same pluco, jjerfected a machine for silk weav? ing that caused tho weak peoplo -to rise against him in arms. Dis first great achievement in automata was his' flute player, wliich was one of the wonders of his time. lie had been ill, find made it during his convalescence. The several parts of it wero made by different work men to prevent its discovery. Only a fit4fl Mjnimt iiiilCd liiui In' Ida seiiet. According to D'Alcmbert, the remark able figure stood on a pedestal, in which a portion of the mechanism was con cealed, and tho player not only blew into the instrument, but with its lips increased or diminished the sound, performing the legato and staccato passages with perfec tion, ana lingering with co; apicte accu racy. ' It was exhibited in Paris in 17138, and made a great sensation. Vaucanson next made a flageolet player, and later a mechanical duck, which waddled, swam, dived and attacked, and. like De Gennes' peacock, picking up and swallowing its food. lie was engaged on an endless chain when he died. lie willed all his automata to tho king. llactzrl, tho inventor of the motro- notno and of several musical automata, opened an exhibition in Vienna in 1809, with a life size automaton trumpeter as tho chief attraction, tvlicn tho audience entered all they saw was a tent. After a time tho curtain parted, and Maetzel appeared leading forward a trumpeter in the full- regimentals of an Austrian dragoon. By pressing tlie left epaulet of the figure lie made it play cavalry calls and a march,- and an allegro by Weigl, accompanied by X fnU bond of living roti.sici.ins. Nor was this alt The figure retired and reappeared as a trum peter of tlie t rencli guard. JUactzcl wound it up on the left hip, pressed onco more on the left epanlet,.and it played the trench cavalry calls, a r reix h cav. airy inarch, a march by Dussek and one of Pieyel s allegros, tlie full band again accompanying. . " Knauss again exhibited at Vienna an automaton that wrote, and the Drozea, father and son, constructed several me chanical figures that both wrote and played musical instalments. A panto miine in live acts was performed Jby ft troupe of puppets in Paris in 1739, and Blenfalt, in 1740, got np a rrtresentatkn of "Tlie Bom hard merit of Antwerp," by automata. Another piece performed by Blenf.ilt's automata, which ho called coraediens practiciens, was "The Grand Assault of bz-op-Zoom." "Komance of Invention." fhe tJmbrella Itepalrer'a Shop. Air umbrella repairer's den is almost as interesting a place as an old. book shop.' A few years ago, when tramps were abroad in the land in large num bers, many of them armed themselves witli hammers and umbrella frames that tiro tinker's dibgniso might shield them in the surreptitious inspection of window fastenings. But now the repairer of faded and infirm umbrellas has a place in tlie world, and although rascals may be in tho business, they are fewer than they used to be. There are in this city somo six or eight men who conduct hos pitals for the treatment of old rain pro tectors, and two men manufacture um brellas from stick to cover at tlie order of customers. "Any belt that s got a head on nn and can do anything can mend an um brella," said one of the umbrella doctors to a reporter aa he bent overa -broken catch. . Bound about were umbrellas in all stages of decay, with numerous handles and other essentials. Ribs were pUed up. without number, and ribs to spare but not "spare ribs. Hie anatomical con struction of the umbrella is peculiar, and the rib is an important feature. As tho doctor said, it is tho most easily knocked out of gear of any of the necessary parts. ' "Ihe best ribs aro imported from ling- land.- There are two kinds, tlie solid and hollow, Umbrellas aro not mado as good as formerly. The handle is the chief thing noticed in buying,, and a neat handle piece' will sell for a good price an umbrella that will fall to pieces inside of two weeks. The best articles are man ufactured in Philadelphia and Now York. Tho cheap gold-headed umbrellas are good for our- ousiness.-i Unless they aro exceptions to tho general rule a few months finishes them and we aro called to make repairs. With the ribs the cover is an important part. We furnish them from $1 to $7. An umbrella can't be so badly -mangled but we can fix it so' long as there's a little something to build on, Part of a stick and a few ribs are enough to givo us.-our bearings.'' -Indianapolis News. Transference of Disease. I have been m scores of old attics in Pennsylvania Dutch houses, and discov ered whole rows of pegs driven into tho stout oaken beams and rafters, with little tufts of hair., sprouting from the bolra. These had been wrenched from simple Dutch heads, and with it, the owners be lieved, had gone the troublous ailment. So,-if tlie hair bo driven in a live oak tree, the next passer coming in contact with that tree will absorb the "trans ferred" disease; while, again, if the Biif ferergoes to a willow copse, ties three knots of his hair (symbolio of tlie ' trin ity), wrenches them from .his head, and then runs nimbly away without ever looking back, the disease will disappear by "transierenco." Among Uio more Ignorant Is found the still fcristinaf superstition that infectious diseases may bo cured by clipping tho in valid s Iiair, laying it between - slices of well buttered bread, and feeding the lat ter to the first stray dog happening that way. The head of a livo fish, held for a short time in a sick child's mouth, and flung hack into tho water olive, will cure it of disease. Young babes are washed in ash sap, no doubt with transmitted reverence for the sacred associations of ash wood; and it is said to cure serpents' bites. Driving nails into oak trees is a toothache remedy. Warts will disappear if rubbed with oaken cinders, the- latter being tied in a package and dropped at tho nearest cross roads. Wens aro re moved if stroked by the hands of the dead. Tho old Norse custom of slipping iron keys between tho clothing and skin ffl BtJip IsUsjIing a thn vua fegBaV here. Rubbing flesh with polished silver is believed to have curative properties. Tlie bark of the alder is greatly relied on for purifying 'the blood generally, for curing serpents' bites; and older bark tea, plentifully sprinkled about, exorcises witches; while laying peonies on crazy people's heads is supposed to restore to canity. Edgar L, Wakemaa's Letter. Th Aaatrtaa Capital's Faar, In one year in Vienna over 62,000 no tices of eviction were ef-rred for nonpar ment of state and municipal taxes. Th population of tlie city proper being at the time rougldy 753.000, it Mkrwi that about one in every twelve Viennese had the legal sword tansended over bun. Ia MO fewer than 1 ,"!) cases the erictknj were actually carried oat. Equally ng restive is the fact that in 1863 alone out- door relief had to be given here to 107,- 803 jx-riorta, while Zd.'OS arreats were made for vagrancy. New York Tribune. lie is rich haj'Tiy ni.-o.orv-. who his a irv. I goodlj store ot Total Lose of Memory. There aro a few cases recorded of total loss of memory, usually following a deep and prolonged (unnatural) sleep or severe accident, such as concussion of the brain, almost drowning, etc. In one or two of these tho personal identity has been com pletely lost, so that on recovery tlw vic tim lost all remembrance of name, family, friends, localities and mental acquisitions. They were in tlie condition, so far as knowledge of any kind was concerned, of the new-born child. In somo of these re-education was successfully attempted and a new memory formed, but tho old was nevrr regained. In others, a larger number than of those just mentioned, tbe forgctfulness was of. only temporary du ration. After a few weeks or montlis all that was before known was regained in an instant and the process of re-education was no longer needed. There aro numer ous instances of tho memory being lost of all that had occurred for hours, days. weeks; or even months, immediately pre ceding a serious accident in which the brain had suffered concussion. In these tlie memory relative to everything tip to a certain dato Kioto tne accident remains intact on recovering consciousnces. Uio be-Democrat. SOME QUEER MARRIAGE CUSTOMS, The Wife Market of Pence la Brittany. In Boutuern Iluaaia.. It has just been discovered by the press writers here that a genuine woman mar ket exists in that land of all that is curi ous and bizarre Brittany, It appears that in tlie remote village of Pence on a certain day of tho year, all the marriageable maidens, dressed in their best, seat themselves on tho parapet of abridge. The young men then file by, chat with the fair ones, ask about their dowry, and when they llnd the girl of their choice help her descend from the parapet, an action which appears to cor respond to throwing the handkerchief in eastern countries. Meantime tho girls' parents have been watching : the proceedings. They how corao up, and the necessary preliminaries Ttr8rttireussedrTIanaii" airo 'theiiTsliaken as a sign that the bargain is concluded, and the legal and religious rites only re main to bo gone through with. This recalls certain quaint French mar. riage customs. In a village in the canton of Mantes it is considered tlie proper thing to offer tlie brido a dish of "bouil lon" as she leaves tho mayor's office and a spoon perforated .with holes. At Riche- bourg in the same neighborhood a broom is thrown on tlie ground, as if by acci dent, before the brido's door. -If she picks it up as she comes out it is consid ered it sign that she will prove a 'good housekeeper. ' In other adjoining communes two young men tho day after the marriage take the bride on their shoulders and carry her to tho nearest village boundary, where tlie newly married couple renew their vows, the young wife in addition solemnly promising "never to go to bunt for her husband at tho tavern. Turning from France toward the east, wo find tlie marriage customs yet more picturesque. Thus in tho south of Kus sia many peculiar practices are still in voeuo. When the fianco comes to claim his fiancee it is usual to hido her from hiin with a thick veil. - , When the fatal "yes" lias been pro nounced a cord of white silk is passed around the necks of the newly married and must remain there for several hours. The groomsmen then offer theni a piece of sugar to eat in token of the sweetness that should characterize tlie marriage re lation. ' During tho wedding breakfast the bride, although seated at the table, is not al lowed to partake of any of tlie dishes a symbol of the submission sho owes her husband. In other localities it is the latter who must be gay on an empty stomach. He, however, is not even per mitted: to sit down and must wait on his guests. ' . . In some places when the marriage pro cession is forming ono of tho young men of tho party takes the placo of the groom, plays ail kinds of tricks in his assumed character, and cannot bo - displaced until the futuro husband makes him a present in oruer to come into nu own nguin. I aci ashamed to odd -that in certain villages cf Little Russia tho father lightly chastises tho bridu with a whip, which lie then hands over to Uio husband. This means that she must bo over ready to yield tho latter obedienco anil not at tempt to go counter to his wishes. ily lady readers will note that tue above customs are based on very Id fashioned and unpopular theories. Paris Cor. New York Graphic Figures 'on Fish. Tlie fishing industries of the United States employed during the year 1870, the figures of which aro given In tho census of 1880, Ml, 420 persons, with an invented capital ofa75Wi49, jmdjro I uutiu;ii pttuuut ut iu.uuj, ur a iriuo over $:W7 to each person ongugod. Tho number of enrolled ve&sels of five tons and ovt-r -engaged was 0,005, while tlie actual fishermen numbered 101,084, the other 30,000 being engaged on shore in curing and marketing tlie product. Great Britain employs 120,000 fishermen and 0,0 37 vessels, although the valuo. of its yearly catch does not coital that of tho United States. France hns 125,000 persons engaged in fishery, with a yearly product valued at (3,000,000. Rtraia' yearly fish product is tho same as that of r ranee. Germany is cmhteil with a product of $18,:120,000 annually. Nor way fisheries produce about $10,000,000, and thecosof Italy about $10,000,000. Tho fishing industries of North America and Enroiie combined employ between COO, 000 and 700.CC0 persons and I jO.OOO vessels, producing. 3,000,000,000 pounds cf fish, equal to 150,000 carloads, wliich would load a train 010 mile in length. Philadelphia Times. On ramtmra mt Tletorto'e Ufa, - Fifty years is a wholesome, ordinary lifetime, let aione beang a queen for all that time. . Without harping too much npon a theme destined to be twanged at beyond all patience within the next few weeks, may I ask the reader tbe Lvly reader in particular to try to imagine one little please of the royal life? (sup posing every week day for fifty years the leading daily papers of your country had given a record f your movements the jireceding day; telling that yon rode, drove or walked, who had the honor to accompany you, whom yon allowed to call opon yon, and so out This has been one feature of Victoria's life the last half century. Far orer 1-1.000 days has Uiis record of her doings beea regularly pub lished, and she has of course knows it. and, likely enough, read ths narratioa ia at least one )oamaJ every tim. Wouldn't you, dear lady Aswrirao, yourself come in time to brieve, living such a life, that yon were something more than human, and tliat fifty years of it right straight along entitled you to tl Ur.ft kind cf a jamboree? London Cor. Chicago Trib- Th Migratory Walter. Tlie average waiter is as migratory as the bird, lie is the meet transitory thing in life, except, perhaps, A dream. There was a time wlien tho printer stood as the rqircsentntive of all "that's fkt ing here below," but tho waiter has now ascended to that distinction. Tlie open ing of tlie innumerable Bummer resorts in tho past decade has brought it about. The waiter is now one of tlie brat posted fellows you meek Ho knows all cities and all climates of tlio continent, and, what is more, knows all tlie habits of peoplo at tabl?, where human nature to truly crops out. It is folly to depend on litem to staT anv length of time. Some times la the spring tlio whole corps wilf be cluuiged m ono or two weeks after tho lake season opens. Then away they go east and north. Globe-Democrnt. Kewapapers la Tarke. Among the various -innovations lately introduced into Turkev may be included that of newspapers, i Tlie first, if we are not mistaken, appeared in Constantinople in 1841, under the auspices of Mr. Oscan yan, the former Turkish consul general in New York, and was called Aztaror Bizantian, or Tho Byzantine Advertiser. Tho people, unacquainted at tliat time with the aim and importance of a daily chronicler, were not prepared to appreci ate the value of a nowspaper, and were slow to patronize the paper. It was obliged to stop. Since .then more fre quent intercourse with the rest of Europe and political incidents wliich made tho people eager for news gave rise - to the publication of other newspapers whose number is now legion. - , . There are at present more than twenty different jpearing in Constantinople in various dia- 1 lects, each advocating its own particular interest. Among the organs of the differ ent nationalities in Turkey may bo mentioned- the- Akhtar-Star)"which-repre--' rents tho Persian interest in Turkey. It is printed in Turkey script, though tho language is Persian. It commences at tho right hand corner of tho sheet with the announcement that . " tlie office of publication of the Akhtor is at Valido Khan in the seat of felicity (Constantino ple). : All communications must be ad dressed to Mehmed-Tchir FJCendi, Bole editor and proprietor." In imitation of French journals, the paiier commences with an editorial on the affairs of Siam, as a leader, followed by telegraphic news, both foreign and domestic, extracts from foreign papers, home news, current events, official pro motions,... and a - few advertisements. These- papers are. sold at an average price of 4 cents per copy, and an edition of 2, 000 is considered a largo circulation. There being a strict surveillance over nil publications by tho government, the editors ore restrained from indulging in liberal thoughts and observations, as well as on what news they publish, so that these.' prints are, as a matter of course, vapid and tkovoid of hjtercst, and cannot in any sense be colled newspapers. New York Graphic. - w " Ths Mourning- rtnsliieaa In England. They make wholesale work of the mourning - business here. A bereaved family cannot pile on too much crape, and even the children are oppressed out of all reason with tho deepest dyed habil iments of woe. School boys are often seen with a wide band or chevron of crapo sewed permanently into their coat sleeves, And tlie littlo girb are shrouded in black until their faces and the whites of their eyes are all that is light in sight. A family of six. motherless young sisters seen out walking with the stricken father recently were, in tho "customary suits of solemn black" oven to strings of sablo .crapo around their little necks in place of collars. When the sainted mother looks over the parapet of heaven and sees hor dear ones thus disfigured, I'll bet it makes her feel sorry alio died. An inter esting phase of mourning custom here with some is the publication of anniver sary death notices. These are classified under an "In Memoriam " lieading and appear ono, two, or more years from the dato of the loved one's death. For in stance, Tlie Times of say June 1, 1887, may contain seveml of these " In Memo riam " notices of tlioso who died June 1, 1880 or m. Tlie notices aro often in scribed. " In loving remombrance," and are usually put hi by a surviving husband or wifo. I am -told that in such cases they ore rarely kept up more than a year or two. hen a man is getting ready for another wedding ho hasn't time to be fussing ufM In MeinoriainJTOraCTnpha uiitl i usIilMg UIUUIIU Willi lliein to tlid papers. Loudon Cor. Chicago Tribune . HOW. STURGEON ARE CAUGHT. Details of am Exciting Dnalnasa A Xlght In the Channel. There ia at least $100,000 Invested in the sturgeon fishing interest in the Ifew" Jersey end of tlie line, with headquarters at Bay Side, Cumberland county. The sturgeon jrrows rapidly, and a fish of sit years old weighs 300 pounds, A big sturgeon yields from four to six-Yankee buckets of roe like unto shad roe, with larger eggs, which are first rubbed through a coarse sieve,-then salted and rubbed through a finer sieve till the fiber is disengaged from the egg, and tbe re mainder, after draining, is emptied into kegs and becomes what Shakespeare calls "caviare to the general." It is then shipped via New York to Europe, where tho supply is not equal to the demand. ' 'ihe .inodus operandi with a sturgeon to cut off his tail and' let Iiim bleeds tlie large artery running through the tail. The roe is then token out of the livo fish, A broadaxe is used to decani tato the fih, then tlie skin is taken on, tlie ;bnck bono or cartilage is then taken out with a sharp knifo and leaves two sturgeon sides boneless. ' The fish . is thoroughly wiped out with a coarse whalebone broom, then tho flesh is put into an ico box and is shipped to New York, where it readily sells as good "Al bany, beef." If tho market is glutted tbe sturgeon meat is kept till fall in the ice house at a temperature 4 deg. be low zero, and. is then found good eating. The head, tail and backbone furnish the famous sturgeon oil. The sturgeon has no weapons of de fense against tliaV shark and flies from this lawyer of the sea. I found two stur geon in the haul made by moonlight with the entire nose bitten off by a shark. A net entirely dry weighs 500 pounds, the cotton laid twine alone weighing 800 pounds, costing twenty cents a pound. The meshes of the net are from thirteen to fifteen inches wk!e, and a sixteen foot board twelve inches wide can be shot through the net, so no shad or small fish are ever caught in a sturgeon net. A sixty pound rock is sometimes found in the sturgeon gill net . The net is 1,828 feet long, seven feet under water, with no lead or other sinker, the weight of the twine holding tbe net down. The float (or cork) remains on top of the water fast to the lanyard, which is fast to the float. At each drift, say-two hours before low water, from ono to ten sturgeon . is tho catch, and a cork indicates when a big fish gets liis gills entangled in the meshes of tho net.- The fish yields easily to fate and shows no game. Tho water at Tampa is trartsparent, and a spear is used to kill tho fish, but the fisherman is desperately Vexed with wliat he calls "foul fish," the sawfish and devilfish. Tlio latter, weighing 1,600 pounds, frequently tear . a net to pieces, and the sight of a sawfish drives a fisher man to si lore. Frequently a 400 pound green turtle 'is bagged with no market for turtle. Tbe sturgeon feeds down on the bottom on tho Crustacea and can be seen rooting like a liog on the bottom, Tba savants or scientists have never discovered where tbe sturgeon spawns, and it may be in tlie Black sea or in Delaware bay where tho she sturgeon has been aeon to shed hor spawn on the surface of the bay or river in the montlis of April and May. new i or Alau ana express. . LOVE AT HIGH TIDE. Tkon, thou best been my blood, mjr breath, mf being; . '- . The pearl to plltnfre for la tbe sea ot life) Tbe sight to strain for, past tlie bounds of seelngl The Victory jto win through knureet strife. tfy queen I my crowned, mistress! my sphered bridet . Take this for truth, that what f say beside Ofjbold lore-growu fall orbed at toe alght of thee stay be forgiven with a quick remission. t Fbr, thou divine fulfillment of all hope I ' a Thou all undreamed completion of the vision! I case upon thy beautjr, and m fear Faaaei as clouds do when the ntooh shine clear, t-Edwia Arnold. - PRACTICE OF PUBLIC BATHING. JUUsf Their Ova Wills. There are many instances extant of great lawyers blundering in the making of their own will, and tiMtp is one case where a lawyer pnrpovly left his will obscure. Serjeant Maynard, an eminent black letter lawyer, had perplexed him self over soma very fine points of law. lie, therefore, left a will worded ia such terms as would cause li Li (ration to arise ou the points he wMk-4 tbe courts to settle. Youth's Comisuiiou. Caa aratal Talaia sf Iraau An extreme illustration of the treat com more til value of iron is furnfaJieU by Dr. George ooris, of llttsborg, who fig ures that seventi-five centa worth of iron ore can be ronvrrtnl Into bar iron worth boriMocf 10; table knives, (ISO; shirt buttons, $2,000; watch spriigs, (iOO.COO; hair i-rinr. fU4,CX), and .ilk arbors, t:,000,0W. Oifcago pal Ncv Methods of Japanese Acupuncture. Acupuncture is not an invention of the Japanese the first treatiso upon it being attributed to a Chinese under the Sung dynasty nltliough the form , of the needles used and tho mode or their em ployment Jiave been much Improved upon by them; tubular needles, for in stance, wero invented in 1008. It should not x forgotten tluit Ast-h-pindoi, in the first century of our era, recommended needle, puncture for dropsy. Tlie oera tion consists in driving fine gold, silver or steel needles from ono-half to three-. quarters of an inch into the flash. Tlie needles aro cf various forms and Imvo spirally grooved handles for the bettor twirling of the tnstnuar-nt. The ot wrator holds, a needle lightly with the left hand, resting tho point upon the skin of tho patient. Ho then inserts it by a slight tap on tho handle, given with a small wooden niiilk-t held in tlje right hand. Tlio nccdls is tlien gently puslied and twirled until it penetrates to the proper dejrth, and after a few seconds is slowly withdrawn In the same manner, the skin about the puncture being subse quently chafed for a few moments. Tho number of perforations mado at onetime varies from ono to twentr. and thev ara oftenent mado in the alxJomen, to which, however, they are not confined; special treatises laying down the spots to be pierced In various disrases, and one divis ion of study distinguishing on tlie back the so called hollow spots (mora than a hundred in number) "whore the ends of thetiervo fibers are found" for tha application of tho needle or tlie mora. Westminster Keview. Essrlaid'a Castle anal Abaters. The old castles and abbey" of England were built expressly for the benefit of modern picnic parties. It is a rare day when (lie visitor to ths ruins of any of these does not find a party of young folks spoiling buns, cold fowl and ginger ale on the site of ths donjon keep or the lata Lady Jtowena i front sitting room. Pic nic buses run daily from every adjacent town, and plank seats and tables for the. accommodation of the merrymakers are always erected within the crumbling walls. It only coats sixpence a head to thus contract dyspepsia on the very spots where "goosa iye" and boar's head once ravaged tlie digestion of modiwal feed ers. London Letter. awfaJl la Cf sassy. A German mathematician has calcula te that the snowfall of central Germany from Dec. 19 to2 weighed no less than 10.000,000 tons in the area between 50 deg. and C2.3 dr- north latitude and between 7 dega. and 19 degs. cant loagi hklo Ax Laiuvi w Travt Lt. Strang-e Medicines of China. Ur. Mitford has told us how he saw a Chinese physician prescribe a decoction of three- scorpions for a child struck down with fever; and Jlr. Gill, in his "River of Golden Sand," mentions having met a number of coolies laden with red deers hams, some of them very flnetwcjye. ihiH nntlsfa. Tbt Bio unly llUHtCU when in velvet, and from the horns in this state a medicine is made which is one of the most highly prized in the Chinese pharmacopceia. With regard to the sin gular virtues supposed to attach to tlie medicinal use of tiger; Gen. Robert War den tells me tliat on one occasion when, In India, he war exhibiting somo trophies of tho chase, some Chinamen who were present became much excited at tlie sight of on unusually fine tiger skin. They eagerly inquired whether it would be pos sible to And the place where the carcass had been buried, because from tlie bones of tigers dug up three months after burial a decoction may be prepared which gives 'immense muscular power to tlie fortu nate roan who swallows itt I am indebted to tlio same informant for an interesting note on the iiicdiciho folk lore of lndut, namclv, tliat while camping in the junglo one of lib men came to entreat him to shoot a nightjar for his benefit, because from tlio .bright, prominent eyes of this bird of tho night on ointment Is prepared that gives great clearness of vwion, and is therefore highly prized, Slias Bird, too, has recorded noma very remarkable details on tho materia medica of China and Japan, when in remote district of Japun she. became so unwell as to deem it necessary to consult a nativo doctor, of wlioui slio sayst "He has great faith in ginseng and in rhi noceros horn, and in tlie powdered liver of somo animal which from tho description I understood to be a tiger all specifics of the Chinese school of .medicines. - Dr. Kosoia sltowetl mo a small box of uni corn's horn, which lie said was worth more than its weight in gold." Nine teenth Century. Am Elnetrle Bone Caftans Removal of sections of bone in surgical operations lias heretofore been a long, tedious proot effected with mallet, chisel, gouges, cic It is, perhaps, the most brutal and unscientific met! tod which could be adopted and sounds like the operative bqtchery which existed in the last century. This has all been re formed by an invention called ths electric osteotome, which is an instrument hold ing a circular eaw at its extremity, re volved with lightning speed byanclectrio motor. This, when held against a bone, makes a clean cut through it in a funr seconds: ia fact, its action is instantane ous. By holding the osteotome in a slanting position wedge shaped piece can be cut out with equal jirompLituile. There is no danger of tbe saw cutting the soft Kirta, as tliey are protected by a re tractor, an instrument which is passed down and under tho bone. Chicago News. . A Gorman cliemist, A. Braunstcin. hns just discovered and patented a prrxvKj for makiug from cartoc beans' tlx rx h sl" ... When fa Cam to an End Private 49atb V": Inf Became Bare. ,. . la-the change of the world's habits in cidental to the change of religion, and especially with tho deserved condemna- tionof the Roman public baths by the Christian church,, the practice of publid -. bathing came to an end, and that of pri vate bathing, unhappily, became only too rare. The usages of the generations pro ceding the present century, in the matter - most incredible to us. - A book recently Sublished, of which Mr, Alfred Franklin . i the author, contains soma facts re garding the domestic life and social usages of tho period from, tbe Twelfth to tlie Eighteenth century, which are in a sense Instructive, since, they show to what a condition even "elegtint societr" may descend when the watchful core foV- personal cleanliness is once abandoned. - V The ladies of the Seventeenth century very seldom washed their faces. They sometimes dipped a cloth In spirits and ftfutflpd it Aver thpir fnroa. nnrl thair trtitae code and directions, still extant, provo -' that they avoided water for the face be- I cause they believed it was destructive tot the complexion. As for any other sortf of baths, no reference is found to thenv in these toilet directions, probably for the very good reason that none were ever taken. That the same ladies seldom, washed even their bands seems to be es- tablished. also. In an old romance a -princess says to a young lord of tbe conrti t & "You see, sir, that my hands are whiter than yours, although it is four days since I washed them." This seems to have -been a commonplace remark, and treats of a condition of things wliich was taken -quite as a matter of course, ' Richelieu was known among the men . of the Seventeenth century as a man . . who was neat in his person. That he ia mentioned as a "man who bathed" . . seems' to prove that it was not common for men to "bathe" at tliat time. Tlie women of the courts of Louis XTV and XY of France powdered ftieir faces in - -cessantly instead of washing them, and built enormous liooddreases upon heads , tliat were never combed, Tbe accounts ' which are given of some results of this practice are almost beyond belief." It . .. seems to have token tho people of Europe many centuries to learn what they now , know of tbe need of personal clcanli- .. neas, a knowledge which they lost after the destruction of the Roman baths. The . people of .tlie European continent of tbe - nmuHit .law n ,A f fww, limnn-na ..,iiii,i ious hi this respect as are tlie EngliorTand Americans, The Argonaut. Ill Health of Araajr Ho Statistics of the horses of the French cavalry show a loss by death of nearly 8,000 horses a year, entailing an annual money loss of $1,000,000. One cause, and one quite unexpected until lately, of tlie ill health of the army horses has been discovered, and has been treated of in a pamplilet by Lieut. (L UenneberL of JeTiUi Hjiiii. ' liB says uiat tne nones generally showed an aversion to their stables, and a marked unwillingness to enter them. even wlien they had been wearied by work or drill. What could have caused tbe horses to have such a revulsion fix their stables? Tlie. cause was found at last. Col. Hen nebert says, in tlie fact that the stalls, which ore made to slant backward, give pain and distress, and often, as a conse quence, discaso to the horses. ' Often this ' incline backward is made quite sliarp. Now, a position upon an inclined plane keeps certain muscles of tlie horse's bock and legs drawn constantly, Tlio animal endeavors to find a level place to stand upon to relieve this strain, and goes back as far us he can. This habit tho hcellcf regards as a "vice, "and often strikes tho hoi as to curs him of iU Ropes and clmins are stretched across the back of tlie stall to.keep the animal from ' backing out, and ho is left there to an ever increasing misery. In England 'experiments have been mado which prove tliat the horse b bet ter able to bear fatigue if he is kept in m stall with a perfectly level floor, and sloping stalls are going out of use. Youth's Companion. - Bow the Hanaer Trains. - . Bow does tlie runner train? That Is a question whose answer branches out in -half a dozen directions. Given fairly . good health, strong constitution and an ordinary pair of legs, tlie youth who -burns for fame on the cinder path must -. jog two or three miles a day fur two or three months to acquire "bottom." That is, to build up and strengthen the mus cles in foot, calf, thigh and loins needed to carry him through Lis races. In the mean time lie will have lived plainly and abstemiously, avoiding spirituous liquor and tobacco, getting plentiful and regu" lor sleep and exercising six days a week. It pays to rest one day in seven. Why must be avoid tobacco? Only because it parches Ids throat, impairs, no matter how slightly, his breathing powers and helps to put his nerves in such condition tliat he is easily 'rattled," New York World. Slightly Mlauderstood. It is told of a Scotch elcrgrman tliat when he was ' a child, on going borne from church, one Sunday, be was asked the text. He replied, "Ercept ye pay the rent. y maun a lea' tlie parish." lie bad either miinfhucrstood .tbe preacher, or had undertaken to rpvi tha passage, "Lxrept ye repent, ye Wiail tj Licwisc perUh." Youth's Comjxuinn. The New Yorii I i luMrL.l VWXX'.th.n ll. Drawing, can- aro tlx- pri;u-ijd li'ir'r T, HYi bra...
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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