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The North Carolinian. The Horth Gamihiab JOB PEliJTJLiJG rrriTv ESTABLISHED ZN 1869. Olce-North Carolinian BM', Main St One doer east of Albemule House. TERMS $1.50 a Year, in Advance. If not paid In advance $2.00 will be charged. KATES OF ADVERTISING! i One' sqnare, one insertion, SLOO; two insert tiona, $1.50; one month, $100; three months $4.00; six months, $8.00; one year, $1100. For larger advertisements liberal contract will be made. , Is suppiUd witkafl lb requisites far doina - Arst-claas Job Printing bnstnecr and promptly sxeoatea Wkcddm Ciast, Posros, formn Cakbs, Haxsbslu, Btiauiiss Cabos PwMa&inua, BaixCamiML Brnjni PALEII0N JOHN, Editor and Proprietor. Devoted to the Interests of the City, the County, and the District. TEBXXS81.50 a Year, in Advance Juki 8aow Cum, Bxxxs o Faaa, Suimn WDIOUM Law Gtcsa in- Foam, - :BaJ ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1887. In ths latest and neatest styles, and at Dm low. Lusinewa Notices in local column, ten cents s line. Obituary Notices, ftre cents a line. VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 12. sstpriesa, Urosrs by saau wUi reoetvs aitenuon, mmm ACLTnAai ramun. CtaouLaas. KTCL it Qeneral Greely, of the Signal Service, explains that the hot waves come east from the Mississippi There is a pretty general feeling in favor of restricted emi gration in this hot-wave movement. The ancient and famous city of Da mascus, -which was a place of import ance 1900 years B. C, is busy with plans for laying railroad lines through the streets. Street cars in a city said to have been founded by Abraham would be a startling novelty. The place has 120,000 inhabitants. Sergeant Mason, made famous for having shot at Guiteau during his trial for the murder of President Garfield, has become a prosperous and very quiet farmer in Orange county, Virginia. He, with his wife Betty and several babies, arc reported to be per fectly comfortable in all respects. It is 10 years since James Lick, the San Francisco millionaire, died, leaving the bulk of his large fortune for chari table and scientific purposes, yet the most practical of his bequests the training-school in the trades for young lads has never been begun. In their first 10 years of management the Lick trustees spent $150,000 for legal fees. The Sultan of Zanzibar has had a gi gantic merry-go-round erected in the garden of his country palace. Every denizen of the African jungle is repre sented on it. Ilis favorite amusement is to take about fifty of the ladies of his harem out to this palace where he makes them ride round for hours at a time whilst he looks on and drinks sherbet. In thirteen years, it is estimated, there will not be another arable acre of pub lic lands to be disposed of. "We have accordingly thirteen years in which to settle the problem of immigration. Not too long a time, certainly, when the im portance of the solution and the general incompetency of those who are trying to furnish it arc taken into account. The Galveston News is authority for the statement that in 1880 there were only about 500 miles of railway in Mex ico, while by the close of the present year there will be over 3600, with a capi tal of about $120,000,000 invested. Of the total mileage 2700 miles are owned and operated by Americans. An idea of the value of railway construction to Mexico may be ' obtained when it is stated that the revenues of the country have increased from $17,800,000 in 1879 to $33,000,000 in 1886. There arc over 100,000 horses used in hauling street cars in the United States. Chicago has 8625; Cincinnati, 2175 and St. Louis 2815. Five years is more than the average useful life of a horse for street car purposes. The success of the system of propelling street cars by electricity has convinced street car men that the horses must go, more especially since it has been thoroughly demonstra ted that cars can be run by electricity under the system for one-half the cost of running by horses. As most of our readers probably know, the largest park in the country is in Philadelphia. Fairmount park of that r'ty contains 3000 acres and is eleven ts long. Central park of New York itludes 834 acres, costing $15,000,000 for the land and improvements. The Chicago parks cover over 2000 acres, and those of St. Louis about the same. Pros pect park, Brooklyn, includes nearly 600 acres, and Druid Hill park of Baltimore 680. acres. In these figures National parks or reservations are not considered. The effort of the Utah Mormons to get into the Union is not prospering very much. They have formed a constitu tion forbidding plural marriages, but there is a general feeling of distrust of this as a mere trick to. gain statehood, after which the prohibition could be easily done away with. Neither the Re publican nor Democratic leaders in Utah would have anything to do with the convention. This leaves a poor showing when the State comes to Congress for admission. The Mormons have one delegate in that body, and he has no vote. During the last eight years the Ameri can Sunday-school Union has established 173 Sunday-schools in the Indian Terri tory, containing 973 teachers, and 6931 scholars. One missionary reports his work last year as having been among eleven tribes, speaking as many different dialects Choctaws, Chickasaws Chero kces, Creeks, Seminoles, Pottawatomies, Caddoes, Comanches, Wichitas, Kiowas and Apaches. Had the Union the means, this work among these people could be prosecuted upon a much larger scale, and with even better results than are at present obtained. Earnest and well qualified men are ready for the work as soon as means are forthcoming. In Japan, owing to the frequency of earthquakes, lofty houses are uncommon, and the Japanese are not so skillful at going up and down stairs as Americans are ; but the degree of their awkwardness at this kind of locomotion has only re cently been made known. The facts are submitted .to the world by a candid re porter of Philadelphia, who has made a study of the Japanese sojourning in that city. "To reach their rooms," he says, "they are compelled to go up very cau tiously, and with the aid of the balus trade J3ome even do not hesitate to go up cat-fashion, on all-fours, from step. to step." - That is remarkable and yet, not , particularly remarkable if the Japanese whose methods the reporter records are babies... v;v 1 " The TJnexnressed. 1 Could all the lore within one heart be spoken, Could all the sorrow of one soul be read, Or could the ice that hides one joy be broken, What need that aught again be sung or said! " . Bnt mute we stand when most we would re veal, Nor may the mystic barrier be past; Words but the deep and struggling thought conceal, And silence must our refuge be at last Laura Winthrop Johnson. Miss Grace's Happy Thought. BT Xj. B. COCBOFT. "Oh, Aunt Emily 1" 'It was such an eager breathless voice that Mrs. Girton looked up in alarm as Grace Douglass capie into the hall. But Nannie and Sadie Girton were behind her and Will Douglass brought up the rear; so, reassured as to the possibility of an accident, Mrs. Girton smiled at her ward's eager face, quite sure that Grace had a favor to ask, and quite sure, also, that the "favor" was to be allowed to do something for somebody else. "Well, my dear, what is it?" But Grace's first words came as a very decided surprise. "You know Saturday is my birthday, Auntie." "The most important day in the year," added Will. "And I've been thinking that, if you didn't mind, I should like " "To celebrate it in a manner benefit ting the occasion," put in Will. Grace slipped her pretty hand over his lips. "Now do be quiet, while I tell Auntie. I want to have a picnic, Auntie, over in Eades's woods, with all the children all the little girls that is, that I can gather together in the village. Do say that I may." f'But there are not more than half a dozen children," 6aid Mrs. Girton, doubtfully. "Oh, but Aunty, I mean all the chil dren. You know the poor little things don't have much fun, and really it's a simple affair. If you'll let Jane boil a ham and make a good supply of bread, I'll make a lot of cookies and plain cake, and buy a few pounds of candy, and that's all we'll need." "Whereas, last year, when she was eighteen, we needed music, and salad, and ices, and jellies, and Chinese lan terns, and a new gown, and other things too numerous to mention," said Will, persuasively. "You see, Aunt Emily, this is decidedly more economical. r Mrs. Girton laughed. "Do as you like, my dear; only leave us enough in the house to last over Sunday. Jane shall boil the ham, and bake all the bread and cake you want. Only you must see how many children there aref Twenty? Fifty? I haven't the dim mest idea, myself." "About thirty; certainly not more than thirty-five," said Grace, who had made a rapid calculation. "In the first place, there are Nannie and Saidee, and I know Mrs. Merton will let her chil dren come. Then there's the doctor's little daughter, and a child who is stay at the rectory." "Six," said Will; "and for number seven I suggest that baby at the black smith's." - " "Four years old? Isn't that rather young?" said Mrs. Girton. "Will and she are great friends," said Graee, smiling. "We certainly must have her, and for the rest, I'll run over and ask Mrs. Merton for a list of names. She knows everybody." "The very tSng," said Mrs. Girton. "Suppose you go over there now. You will have time before tea only she wil be sure to want you to stay." And Mrs. Merton did. ' My dear Grace, how good of you I Come in, the tea-bel has just rung," she began cordially, go ing forward to meet the young lady, and drawing her arm through her own to lead her into the house. "On a begging expedition you say? Well, we'll discuss it at our leisure, and you can lay it before Mr. Merton." "Ah," said that gentleman, "how lucky it is that I slipped a dime into Polly's charity purse this morning 1 Per haps if the cause is very deserving, I may be induced to contribute another stray penny. Let us hear what it is, Miss Grace, and let me give you some of these strawberries." "I only want your children, and some advice this time," said Grace, detailing her plan. ; "My children you may have, on con dition that you let me fill a corner in one of your hampers," said Mrs. Merton promptly. "You can use corn-beef sandwiches, I know, and hard-bolied eggs too. Then doughnuts and some cake, and oh! by the way, what can you give them to drink? Let me send a big tin of milk over. I'll see that some i ce goes with it to keep it cool. Then you can have " But there Grace fairly put her hands over her ears. "Dear Mrs. Merton,. we have provisions enough for an army.w "You'll need them all; and, by the way, let me suggest that you tell the children to wear plain calico frocks. It puts them on something resembling equality." - ' I'll remember ; thank you for think ing of it. And how about the children? I told Auntie that they would number from thirty to thirty-five." ; Mrs. Merton stopped to think. "Yes; I'll write out a list after tea, so that we shall be sure to remember everybody. Tom, couldn't you spare one of the farm wagons to take them all to .the picnic ground?" "Let them w&lk over, and in the of - ternoon I'll sad a couple of teams to bring everybody home. Don't you think, Miss Grae, that it would be well to have three of four lads to 'help you keep or der, 4nd to fetch and carry? Your brother will help I know, and Til give Robert a day oft He's a young fellow who came to us in the spring, and we all think highly of him. He's just the one o help you, for nothing pleases him bet ter than to gather . a crowd of children about him. Then there's the black smith's eldest boy. You don't know how pleased he would be at being asked to help you." "The very thing J" said Grace. "Til stop there to-morrow and ask him, and no doubt he can tell me of a fourth helper." ' There was no difficulty in getting the children. Perhaps their mothers found more in getting them ready, for Friday morning saw all the clothes-lines in the village fluttering with faded little frocks and pinafores, which needed all that soap and water could do to make them presentable. More than one little guest was without shoes or stockings; but at least they all had clean faces and famous appetites. I don't know whether the sun was in Grace's confidence, but it really seemed as if he knew all about it, when his bright red face peeped over the hills and shot a glance upward to the clear sky, and another down to the dewy fields about five o'clock that morn ing. He fajrly smiled all over when he looked in at Professor Girton's, until the quiet house was quite transfigured with the glow. Not only Mrs. Girton and Grace were there in the kitchen, but even Will was lending a ready hand. "For it takes the hand of a man, or at least of a big boy, to slice bread enough for Grace's army," said the handsome young fellow of on e-and-twenty, deftly plying his knife while he talked. Ten o'clock was the hour chosen for starting, but by half-past nine every child was waiting on Mrs. Girton's lawn. Grace, in a pretty blue gingham gown, was flying here and there among them, and her four knights, as Will laughing ly dubbed himself and his companions," were stowing pails and baskets in the cart, and answering a ceaseless round of questions from the eager little crowd. "March? Of course you may, and sing too. What d you want to sing?" Somebody suggested "Shoo Fly," and somebody else voted for "Bar-berry Al lan," but the choice of the majority fell upon "Onward Christian Soldiers," which, almost everybody professed to know. It turned out that they held various ideas as to time and tune, but as they all sang with right good will, that mattered little. Then Grace and her brother sang songs in which the chil dren came in on a stirring chorus, and time passed so quickly that there was a general cry of surprise when the picnic ground was reached. The cart was there, ready to be unloaded, and Grace and two of her "knights" took the work in hand, while the other two lads and Mrs, Merton started round games among the children. They played hide-and-seek, and "here we go round the mulberry bush ;" and it turned out that the doc tor's little daughter had brought half a dozen bean bags, which furnished fun for twice as many children. r Four or five little eirls wandered out of sight for a while, and then one of thoi4 party came back and held a whispered consultation with Mrs. Merton. It ended in her going back with the child, and then Mr. Douglas was called and let into the secret. The end of it all was, that when Grace ' marshalled her forces and took her place at the head of the table or rather, the table-cloth four little girls came forward carrying wreath of wild flowers, which Will took and placed upon his sister's head. It proved 'a size too large, and came down over her shoulders; but Mrs. Merton soon remedied the trouble by loosening the ends of the wreath and twining it, in a long spray, from Grace's shoulder crosswise to her waist. i There was more than even that hungry crowd coulf eat; and when each little girl had at last declined another piece of cake, Will Douglass stood up and; made a funny speech, drinking Miss Grace's health in a glass of iced milk, amid much laughter and clapping of hands on the part of the children. , Then Nannie and Saidee, who knew what Mrs. Douglass could do in the way of a story, begged for one, and 1 Grace was led away to the foot of a large oak tree, around which all the children gathered to listen. Mrs. Merton and the "knights" meanwhile cleared, away the remains of the feast, and made a lit tle parcel for each child to take home to mamma. . Nobody could believe that "it was four o'clock when two of Mr- Sferton's farm wagons appeared, fei'lowed by their kind-hearted owner" and Professor Gk- ton. y And then cane the crowning surprise of the day,' a cake, and such a cake I It was covered with frosting, had nineteen cand les around the edge, and bore a pink rose in the centre. Strange to say, it was cu into exactly thirty-seven pieces. There were thirty seven children present, including "Miss Grace," .Mr. Merton .said, and, as he passed the cake, he warned each little girl to- bite it ' slowly and very "carefully, as he was almost surefchewould find a big raisin seed, or something else, in her slice The children said, "Yes, sir; thank you, sir," and bit into the slices; and at last .one little girl cried out, "Oh, my ! it isn't a raisin seed, it's five cents 1" : Sure enough, there was a bright five- ccat piece. in every slice. Mfes Grace declared that she meant to keep hers al ways, to remind her of her pleasant birthday party; but all the children said that they couldn't possibly forget the day, even if they tried, so that they would not need to keep the five-cent pieces very long by way of a souvenir. Then group after group came up to bid Grace good-by, and to thank her for the very best time I ever had in all my 4 life, Miss Douglass," and, at last, a' funny little cheer went up as the wagons rolled away with their tired, but happy freight. "Well, Grace, I think your thought was a nappy one. lias the day Deen a success?'' said the professor, smiling down at her radiant face. "Indeed it has! I mean to do it again next year this, or something like it. Don't you think it's the best way to keep birthdays, Uncle John?" "To go on a picnic?" said the profes sor, laughing. - "No not exactly; but to do something to make somebody else glad that one is in the world with a birthday to keep. And then, "she added, softly, "I thought about something else, 'when thou makest a feast' " "Ah!" said the professor. "So that was where the 'Happy Thought' came in, was it? Yes, Grace, it's the very best way to keep a birthday. May you live to keep many and many a one. I'm sure," he added, gently, "that some body will always have cause to bo 'glad that you are in the world with a birth day to keep.'" Independent. The Only Laughing Animal For my part, writes George Stewart, I am convinced that, in every one of our perceptions of the comic, humorous or ridiculous, there is an ultimate element which can no more be analyzed or de fined by anything else than can our ideas of truth or goodness. But however this may be, it is abundantly evident that all human laughter (other than that due to the mere physical influences) includes a distinct intellectual element. This is a laughter in which no mere animal shares. The anthropoid apes are by far the most like man of all brutes, and a very bright and lively adult specimen a chimpanzee galled Sally is now living in the gardens of the Zoological Society, of London. and is remarkable for the readiness and dexterity, with which she has learned to perform many tricks. At my request experiments have been made to see if she could be got to give any evidence of a perception of the ludicrous. For this purpose her keeper arrayed himself in various unusual and brightly colored garments and went through a number of absurd gestures; Sally was evidently interested in his ap pearance and inspected him with care, but, as evidently, did not realize the humor of the situation. Indeed, her keeper (who is an extremely intelligent man) assured me he has never detected anything in her demeanor which he could set down to a perception of the ludi crous, although she has very marked and definite ways of expressing her feelings of joy, anger or disappointment. A City's Car Horses. When it is written that the Brooklyn City owns over 2,700 horses and that each horse costs 30 cents a day, some of the magnitude of the expense can be figured. It will be seen that at this rate over $800 is spent on maintenance alone. It 13 claimed, and probably justly, that a car horse re ceives better treatment than, an animal driven to a private conveyance. All the stables of the Brooklyn City are well ventilated. Air is permitted to enter from the top and sides, while there is a draft through the long corrider in front of each row of stalls. Over the stall of each horse is a placard, giving the occu pant's age, cost, where purchased and a few other particulars. A space is left for the animal's death, the rate of the latter being about two per cent, yearly. If faults can be found with the general workings of the Brooklyn City railroad j company it cannot be said that thq$d employes in the stable are open to en sure. Brooklyn Eagle. ,.-y Effect of Certain Odors. The aroma of red cedar is fatal to house moths; the aroma of black walnut leaves is fatal to fleas. It is a matter of common observation that persons en gaged in the business of making shingles from odoriferous cypress timber in malarial-districts are rarely, if ever, affect ed by malarial diseases, and that persons engaged in gathering and distilling tur pentine do not suffer from either mala rial diseases or consumption. It is said that when cholera was epidemic in Mem phis, Tenn., persons working in- livery stables were entirely exempt from it. It is affirmed that since the destruction of the clove trees on the island of Ternate the colony has suffered from epidemics unknown before; and in times when cholera has prevailed in London and Paris those employed in the perfumery factories have escaped its ravages. Herald of Health. Yirtues of Indian Corn. Indian corn contains a large amount of nitrogen, has anti-constipating qualities, is easily assimilated, cheap and very nu tritive. A doctor of note declares that a course of Indian meal, in the shape of Johnny cake, hoe cake, corn or pone bread and mush, relieved by copious draughts of pure cows milk, to which, if inclined to dyspepsia, a little lime water may be added, will make a life, now a burden, well worth the living; and you need no other treatment to correct your nervousness, brighten your vision and give you met and peaceful eleey, Senator Fair's SkulL The Chicago Times tells the following story of Senator Fair: A number of years ago, when he was engaged in actively superintending one of his min ing properties, he directed the boas in one of his mines to have a wrought-iron crank made at a certain angle. 'This foreman told him it was impossible. Mr, Fair then went into the works at the mouth of the mine, put on a work man's apron and cap and began the work of making the crank himself, at the angle which he had described. The foreman in charge of the room, coming jiround, saw a workmau, as he supposed, disobeying orders in wasting property by trying to make what had already been declared to be an impossibility; he picked up a piece of iron and knocked the amateur workman down, just aa he was completing the piece of work. This blow fractured Fair's skull. His life was saved only through trepanning. Mr. Fair to-day has a small silver plate in the fop of his head. After he had recovered he felt very uncomfortable. He felt symptoms of a brain trouble. ! After a time he went back to the surgeon and said: "I am certain that that job was not well done; there is a splinter eft in that wound I can feel the prick of it." The surgeon at first would not listen to Mr. Fair, but he insisted on having it done over again. The surgeon then discovered that there was a splinter, and that if the senator had not himself discovered the cause of his trouble, hi3 brain would have been affected in a short time beyond the hope of recovery. The Discoverer of Spectacles. Fewer inventions have conferred a greater blessing on the human race than that which assists impaired vision. Dr. Johnson rightly expressed his surprise that such a benefactor as the discoverer of spectacles should have been regarded with indifference, and found no worthy biographer to celebrate his ingenuity. Unfortunately, however, his name is a matter of much uncertainty; and, hence, a grateful posterity have been prevented from bestowing upon his memory that honor which it has so richly merited. But it may be noted that popular opin ion has long ago pronounced in favor of Spina, a Florentine monk, as the right ful claimant, although some are in favor of Roger Bacon. Monsieur Spoon in his "Researches Curieuses d'Antiduite" fixes the date of the invention of spectacles be tween the years 1280 and 1311, and says that Alexander de Spina, having seen a pair made by some other person, who was unwilling to communicate the secret of their construction, ordered a pair for himself, and found them so useful that he cheerfully and promptly made the invention public. According to n Italian antiquary, the person to whom Spina was indebted for his information was Salvino, who died in the year 1318, and he quotes from a manuscript in his possession an epitaph which records the circumstances : ' 'Here lies Salvino Ar moto d'Armati, of Florence, the inven tor of spectacles. May God pardon his sins. The year 1318." London Stand ard. Walking Sticks. To break off a branch for defensive purposes, as Crusoe did on finding him self on an unknown island, would be one of the first acts of primitive man. A rude support of this kind would soon be followed by the pilgrim's staff, familiar to us in the pictures of the patriarchs ; and from these early staves down to the gold-headed cane of our modern dandy, what a variety of walking sticks have been produced, according to Jue fancy and fashion of the time. When in 1701, footmen attending gentjomen were for bidden to carry swords, those quarrel some weapons werf usually replaced by a porter's staff, With a large silver handle, as it was theu'' described. Thirty years later gentlemen were forbidden to carry swords and to carry large oak sticks, with great heads and ugly faces carved thereon. Before very long a competi tion arose between long and short walk ing sticks ; some gentlemen liked them long as leaping poles, as a satirist of the day tells us, while others preferred a yard of varnished cane "scraped taper, bound at one end with wax taper, and tipped at the other with a neat turned ivory head as big as a silver penny." 4 ; An Ingenious Oriole. It is curious what a variety of materi als Baltimore orioles will use in the con struction of their nests. In the lawn of one of the prettiest homes in the State of. Maryland a pair of orioles selected a tree in which to build. It was a large fir tree, about 45 feet from the house. The lady of the house was sewing by one of the windows opposite this tree early one beautiful summer morning, and, on be ing called away to some other room, she placed her spool of cotton on the win dow silL When she returned she found the spool was gone, and on looking for it discovered it on the floor of the porch ,which was just outside of the window. She found that a considerable length of the cotton was unwound, and looking for the end of it she traced it up to the nest of the oriole, and saw the bird busily weaving it into "the nest. The lady placed the spool in the window, and it was shown as a curiosity to all who visited the house. St. Nicholas. The Bight Kind of a Keepsake. "You want a keepsake that will al ways remind you of me?" she said. V "I do, darling," he said, tenderly. "What's the matter with myself?" she whispered. .' . . . There will be a wedding 1 shortly Boston Courier. - - DRINKING BEER. A Brewery Employe Who Con sumes a Keg Per Day. The Daily Record Per Man From 25 to lOO, Glasses. Some people seem to be specially con structed for drinking beer. "See that man V remarked the foreman of one of the lager-beer breweries in this city, pointing to a corpulent German work man who was standing before the small bar, which the proprietors of the brew ery run for the exclusive bene5 1 of their employes. "Yes." "Do you notice anything peculiar about his appearance?" "Nothing very remarkable. Why do you askf "I think he drinks more beer every day than any other man in New York." "He does't look like a hard drinker." "No more so than any of the rest of our men, and he is not what you Amen cans would call a hard drinker. In the fifteen years he has worked for us I have never seen him drunk, but he will drink on an average 100 glasses of beer a day. That is just about a keg of beer a day. Some days he will drink more and some days less." : "Doesn't it hurt him?" "it doesn't appear to. He has never been away a day on account of sickness since IJiave been here. ' When he comes down in the morning, which is about 5 o'clock, his first act generally is to drink ten or fifteen glasses of beer to clear his throat for the day. Then, whenever he feels thirsty he , leaves his . work for an other drink. This bar is kept entirely for our men and our visitors. The bar keepers have orders to give our men all the beer they want whenever they want it. If I see a man leaving his work too often I tell him to stay at the bar a little longer and take three or four glasses, in stead of running back and forth after one glass each time. A few breweries give their workmen tickets good for one glass of beer each, but most concerns let their men drink all they want without counting the number. It jaiakes the men feel better and doesn't cost any more in the long run." "All of your men are not as heavy drinkers as this man?" "No, but there is very little difference practically. An ordinary man would get as drunk on 40 glasses of beer as on 100, provided that he could hold that much fluid. I suppose the average is about 40 in thi3 brewery. We have nearly 125 workmen in this building and they drink over 40 kegs a day. As there are 110 glasses in a keg, you can see that the av erage is not far from 40 glasses each. We have about fifty drivers, but they get most of their beer on their routes from their customers. I don't suppose there is a man here who drinks less than 20 glasses a day and there are half a dozen who run over sixty." "How do the men manage to stand it so well?" "Come around the brewery with me and I'll show you," said the foreman, leading the reporter into a large stone- floored room, where a ' dozen or so brawny workmen were washing a score of beer kegs in a shallow tub of scalding water. "Just notice," he coutinued, "the temperature of this room. It is 10 degrees hotter than it is outdoors. Those men.' are wet through with per spiration. That is the way they work off their beer. This isn't like walking or working in the sun. There is no danger of sunstrokes over that tub, and they carry most of their beer home with them in their dripping flannel shirts, Now look down in the cellars with me,'' went on the foreman, as he prepared a brace of lighted candles and led the way down several fliffhts of stairs into the great black cavern under the building. The change in the temperature could not have been more startling. From 106 above zero it suddenly dropped to 85, and from the pipes which supplied the cold air hung huge icicles. The vaults were piled high with deep vats, some filled with beer and some empty, Into one of the latter a workman was seen working his way through a hole apparently too small to accommodate fraction of his girth. But such was the yielding character of his corporosity that the seeming miracle was accom plished without much difficulty, but with very little room to spare. Once indeed a hose was handed him by his companion and in a few minutes he wormed his way out again, leaving be hind him as clean a vat as ever beer be sotted." TrVi?a rinA rf wnrV " ATTvlftinpd fhft foreman, "admits of beer-drinking with out danger. No chance of a man being overcome with the heat down here. In the wash-room the men drink beer to keep cooL Here the men take it to keep warm. Now there is one place I want to show you, where our men have a chance to work off their beer," con tinued the foreman as he conducted the reporter through the winding passage between the vats, up the stairs' into New York again, "and that is our malt room." The malt-room is as high above . the ground as the vaults are down below it and as hot as they . are cold. Next to the sun-scorched roof, there lie bushels upon bushels of malt, and in a stifling at mosphere of dust and heat there were a PUVCU U1CU DUV Vtuug barrows which were bing wheeled to the elevator that lowers them - to . the boiler-room where the malt mixes with X 1 i hops and water and comes but foaming lager-beer in the keg behind the counter in the barroom. "The men would choke to death here without their beer. When they work ten hours, as they do up here, forty glasses of beer is not a large amount to drink after one gets used to it," con tinued the foreman. "I have now shown you the hardest work our men do, and you can easily see why the beer they drink doesn't hurt them particu larly. If they were in some other busi ness I suppose it might be different. New York World. A Japanese Priso The main prison in KT l. ! ted' in a central pk.ee of the capita., Tokio. and is under the direct control of the Minister of the Interior. The build ing is two stories high, and made in the shape of a cross. In each story there are 40 cages, making 80 cages in all. Each cage is nine feet square. The Jap panese government manages to keep many prisoners in this prison for two or three years without any public trial. Each cage generally contains ten or eleven prisoners, who cat and sleep in this small box. Or, perhaps, it is better to say the prisoners try to sleep, heaped up one over the other. There arc always from 800 to 900 prisoners kept in this way. Many be come sick, and some die. The outside of each cage is protected by a strong wooden frame. The frame itself be comes a door to let the prisoners in and out. The side lacing the yards has a large window, protected with an iron frame, of which the door must not be closed without the permission of the officials, even in the severest winter nights. This is a common occurrence that prisoners are found covered with snow. The most of the prisoners have no means of communicating with their friends. When they arc arrested the government spy or police tell them that they need not bring any money with them, as they will be sent back to their homes in a few minutes. When they go to the prison they are kept there six months at least. During this timo, if they have any money to pay postage, they arc permitted to send their letters; but ll they have no money no letter can be sent by public expense, lhey are never permitted to see their friends until the judge of a secret examination makes up his mind to send a prisoner to the court of public trial. Washington Star. A Fish That Haunts Wrecks. In passing the tug Effort a huge brownish kind of a fish was seen tied to the gunwale. Quite a crowd was gath ered about surveying the fish, which lashed the water angrily with its tail. The fish was caught outside yesterday by Mr. Charles Miller and left tied to the Effort. ' 'That, " said the reporter's com panion, "is the junefish, or jewfish, as some will persist in calling them. How the term of jewfish was ever applied to it I am at a loss to imagine, but the other term- is easily explained. A june fish was . . never known to be caught in the bay or Gulf unless the month was June ; that is, they do not appear until that month, and may be caught afterward all summer. They are always haunting old wrecks, sunken piling, and frequently come around the wharves. Sunken wrecks, however, seem to hold a peculiar fascination for them, as it is there they are mostly caught. They can be caught right now at the wreck of the old Westfield off the southeast end of Pelican Spit. This place was formerly well supplied with fish' of all kinds, but lately they are not plentiful there by any means. Junefish are abundant off Indianola, where there are a good many old wrecks imbedded in the bottom of the Gulf. These wrecks were caused by the great storm of 1875, and the junefish haunt them by day and night. They can always bo caught there with the proper bait. Galveston News. A Heartless Skeptic. "How beggar. people do change," said the "Some men get spoiled by riches There's a man who never re- fused to give me a half when I told him my wife was dying, or my child was ill no, not in five years, and now, just because he's made a lucky strike in land and I raised the limit to $2.50 he turns around and calls me a liar and says I hain't got no child and I hain't got no wife, I ain't," and the beggar wiped away a tear. " 'Tain't so much that he didn't give me the money that makes me feel bad. It's for him to call me a liar now, after he's believed me for five years. Paper Doors. Paper doors are coming into use, and, as compared with those of wood, possess the advantage of - neither shrinking, swelling, cracking nor warping. It is formed of two thick paper boards, stamped and moulded into panels, and glazed together with glue and potash, and then rolled through heavy rollers. After being covered with a waterproof coating and then with one that is fire proof, it is painted, varnished and hung in the usual way. A Cold World. "What brought you to this place, my friend?" inquired a visitor at the peni tentiary of a convict. "A mere matter of opinion got me here, sir." "Impossible T'j "No, sir. I expressed the opinion that I was innocent, and the jury ex pressed the opinion that I wasn't, It's a cold world, sir." Lifa. . Beyond, it Kwroeth such a little way to me Across to that Strang country, th Beyond, And yet not strange, for it has grown to tm rhe home of those of whom I am so fond; They make it seem familiar and most dear, Aa journeying friends bring distant countries near. i . , 3o close it lies that, when my sight is clear, t think I see the gleaming strand; I know, I feel that those who've gone from here j Come near enough to touch my hand; I often think, but for our Veiled eyes, ! We should find heaven right Yound us lit. I can not make itj seem a day to dread When from this dear earth I shall journey out ' . I Hat still dearer countiy of the dead, f -4.r"",,o.kn?dn dreamed about. -: r And meet the know. friends who wait foi u And so for me there is no sting to death, And so the grave has lost its victory; It is but crossing, with a bated breath, And white, set face, a little strip of sea, To find the loved onee waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. HUMOROUS. L the sun is cooling os the astronomers . say, it is very slow aDout ic The young man full of promise fre quently turns out bad pay. When a man buys a porous plaster ho generally sticks to his bargain. A person can bo in Chicago, 111., and yet be well. This is a curious fact. Among the people mentioned as shin ing at the summer hotels we fail to find tho bootblacks. There has been a drop of 500 in the price of elephants, but'it costs as much ever to sec the animal. Benjamin Franklin was only 21 when ho married. He very soon after dis covered what lightning was like. The report that Stagg, the Yale pitcher, contemplates becoming a min ister, is doubtless based on his good de livery. "I can give you a good point," said the mosquito, softly, in the car of the sleeping editor, "for insertion on your outside." An Indiana man drew a revolver on a doctor, and the doctor drew a box of pills on the Hoosicr. Both fired at once, and neither can recover. A dog's hair is said to have turned white through pain. It may be that the gentleman who is autnomy lor tnc state ment only said this to give color to his story. "How soft the moonlight sleeps upoa the bank!" exclaimed, the poetic burglar toying with his drill. "I wish the same might be said of the watchman," replied his companion. The man who was seen going in . swimming on a ray day with an um brella over his head is probably the indi vidual who carried a palm-leaf fan to the Arctic regions. When scouts get on the trail' of the In dians it is an indication that there is going to be war. It is about the same thing when a young man gets on the trail of a young lady. "What's the matter with your eyes, Joe ?" "Been sifting ashes, Bill. The wind's against me, no matter how I turf" ." T n pvpt rrnt a cVi r a in mv o vv. Trw "How do you avoid it?" "I let my wife" sift them." A law was recently passed by the Ohio Legislature declaring that the hus band was the head of the family. Until that act is signed by all the women it will be inoperative, ' and even then it is likely to prove a dead letter. Young man (to messenger boy) What did the young lady say when you gave her tho flowers? Messenger boy- She asked the young feller who was sit tin' on the porch with her if he didn't want some for a buttonhole bouquet. A girl graduate of a Western musical college was overcome when she stood in the presence of her first audience, and had to be carried home. But this is more merciful than to have suffered the whole audience to be overcome by the girl graduate. ' - "No, Bobby," said his mother, "one piece of pie is quite enough for you !"( "It's funny," responded Bobby, with an injured air, "you say you are anxious that I should learn to eat properly, and yet you won't give me a chance to prac tice F A 'man employed to distribute hand bills succumbed to the heat and was sent to a hospital. The physician on duty, weary of the monotonous phrase, "pros trated by the heat," varied his report in this case by stating that the patient had bee i "overcome by overdistribution of circulars. -- ' Locusts Devouring the Land. Locusts have done a great deal of damage in Salvador and Gautemala, and both Governments are adopting meas ures to alienate the suffering which has resulted. The Diario Official of Salva dor says: "The locusts have invaded the greater part of the republic, and it has proved impossible to destroy the hordes of these pests." Abetter from Chala tenango, Salvador, says that locusts have appeared there in swarms, and that as there is no Indian corn for sale as the locusts have devoured , it the poor have nothing eat, and some of them have lived for days at a time on a Lttle fruit and herbs. Beans and rice are at a fabulous figure, and if it were not for the donations made in edibles by a few . fortunate holders of stores the I would starve to death. ' people
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