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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1893. THE CAMORRA'S KING. THE USE OF Hl Singular Ciireer HU Death mid nil Successor. The lung of the Camorrists died the ; Other day and many a man in Naples breathed more freely at the knowledge v that this extraordinary personage is no ii more. I The "Camorra" is a vast society which has its ramifications among all classes, I ftnd is organized maitily with a view to I holding in check justice, the police ? even, the royal power itself. ; A Camorrist arrested for a crime, or j accused of some indiscretion, is certain j to find one of his fallows either among the judges, the lawyers, the sheriffs, 'the jailers, the gendarmes or his fellow prisoners. Each comrade is bound to do nothing fterogatory to any other comrade, and , the consequence is the wielding of a mysterious power in Naples and in all Southern Italy. To say of a man that he is a Camor fista is at once to inspire a vague ter ror concerning all his actions, lie is expected to be capable of anytlring, and to escape unpunished, no matter how great his crimes. Ciccio Cappuccio was born in the Car mine quarter of Naples, the scene of the celebrated revolt of Masaniello and his heroic fishermen. His father was a member of the Ca morra, and was also one of its chiefs. He had his son initiated at a very early age, and seut him to work in the royal i spinning mill of Sanificio, where the cloth for army and prison uniforms is made. ! Young Cappuccio soon had to wear omeof his own "weaving. In ISM) he ,. had a quarrel with the director of the j 'mill, and . disfigured him for life by Stabbing him in the face. He was sent to the galleys, but was I Soon liberated by mysterious influ ences. From that time forward "o Signorino," as the Neapolitans called him in their picturesque dialect, was U recognized king of the Camorra. CCiad won his grades in prison, . 'ng the arms and legs of all who Wltbred to disagree with him. In 1859, Tr and after the Italian wars, the jv itionary current had passed over !he kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and here was conspiracy everywhere. Cappuccio was in a position to render teat service or to be a dangerous ene ly He remained Camorrist and Nea- ian. On several occasions he was to be of much use to the govern- by his control over the masses. s power was so great when he chose menace any corporation with the in erence of the Camorra as to be prac idisputed. the police director of Naples a to bring to an end a strike usand cab drivers, jcio accepted the mission; he' cabmen to go back to work i. He hired an open cab and f,Jv ough the quarters of the Car the Porta Capua and the Vicaria, down las far as the Fosilcppo o. Next morning all the cabs oiling about as usual. latter days Cappuccio was but nal sovereign, giving directions ccessor appointed by himself.and ijr as much power to free criminals Wheat justice as any of those who Med him. fi Camorra is still very much alive ttthern Italy. jason to the society is still pun tby death. N. Y. Journal. DiHliirnctlng' Kooms. lisinfection (of rooms every i has been in the room dur upancy :by a case of infec I isease should remain during the lltion; all pictures, upholstered ift-e, organs, and similar articles, J are likely to be injured by a lion should be removed before pent is put into the room. An would doubtless be utterly by the fumigation, as would ordinary gilt picture-frame, as hur fumes would attack the eeds, and would be likely to gilding from the picture uch articles may be disin ther means, as for example, 'h a five per cent solu ble acid or a one-two , rfution of corrosive subli- "ogive sublimate will dis ?i articles with which it is contact; it can be used only furniture or varnished sur eod Health. SLANG. Qlrla or It It More Frequeut Among the the Hoys? A writer in the Baltimore Sun stales that girls use more slunjj especially if they are grown up than boys do. Girls, it is affirmed, talk mnch more than boys, so that their stock of un couth words is in more frequent use. It is also larger. If a boy were a mine of slang his taciturnity would keep it con cealed from all but a few of his chums. His inventions arc confined to a small circlo, and his opportunities of borrow ing are correspondingly diminit-hed. Not so with the girl. The loquacity of her associates, aided by her own, spreads and multiplies slang with the greatest rapidity. She is more sociable. At school she is "thick" with a dozen and gathers in all the dozen know. And besides, says the same authority, girls are so reckless in the use of language that they give a slangy character to good English. With the girl at the period of gigglehood every good thing is "perfectly"' so. She "never' does this and she "always" does that. She some times "feels hateful," but it is oftener some one else who is "perfectly horrid." Nearly everything is "awful." Such are some of the charges this abominable person brings against the sweet young creatures. Another authority flatly contradicts them all and says the boy is the sum of all villainies. The words he prefers, it is asserted, are so tinged with profanity that he cannot use them at home, and it is thus only that he gets his reputation for freedom from slang. Who can settle the dispute? We are of opinion that injustice is done to the girls. We are confident also that few boys are as bad as represented. It is possible that the so-called "authority" has been judging the whole world from his few unfortunate associates. THE CHINESE WALL. it w ENGLISH How TVe COMMENT. v a 1' Are Viewed ly People Acroia the Atlantic-. The following interesting scraps of information about Americans have been collected by English travelers and pub lished in foreign journals: "L'mbrellas in use in America are fit ted with a small oblong peep-hole glass, through which the pedestrian views the surrounding country while protecting himself from the storm." "Americans sweeten their tea and coffee with rock candy." "Dark gray is the favorite color for American table decoration." "Ladies at the theater in America have their hats arranged in such a way that they can take them off to use as fans." "lioston society people," so a cor respondent tells a London paper, "en tertain evening visitors with the singu larly intellectual device of writing a capital D on a sheet of paper while standing at a table, and trying at the same time to swing the right foot in a direction exactly opposite from that in which the pen is moving. Prizes arc offered for the most successful in the exploit" "Servants in America, excepting in large cities, are admitted to all the privileges of the family, and frequently in hiring a maid of all work a mistress has to agree to attend the street door herself." . THE WOMEN OH EGYPT. Wonderful Knelneerlng I!it mid a Stupendous Work. The scenery from the great wall is very fine. The wall is here a dividing line between the high, rugged hills of China, which tower above us on the one, hand, and the great sandy plains of Mongolia on the other, with dim moun tain summits beyond in the far dis tance. Over these barren, rocky spurs and acclivities, ascending to their very summits, winding about in irregular curves and zigzags, its serried battle ments clear-cut against the sky on the topmost ridges, descending into dark gullies to appear again rising on the other side, the endless lino of massive, stone and brick runs on and on until lost to sight behind the farthest range. And so, says the Century, it goes for miles and miles, eastward to the I'echili gulf, and westward, mostly in two great, rambling lines, along the border of the (Jobi desert and Knnsu, until it snds among the foothills of the Nan Shan range. However we may regard it, whether as a grand conception for the defense of an empire, as an en gineering feat, or merely as a result of the persistent application of human la bor, it is a stupendous work. No achievement of the present time com pares with it in magnitude. Hut it has outlived its usefulness. The powerful Tartar and Mongol hordes, whose sudden raids and inva sions it was built to resist, are no more to be feared. The great (ienghis and Kublai could not lead their people to gory conquest now as they did centuries ago. The Chinese civilization has en dured, while the once conquering Mon cols, the people who in their brightest days established an empire from the Made sea to the China coast, and a sourt at l'cking of such luxury and splendor as Marco Polo described, are now doomed to pass away, leaving nothing behind them but the traditions, and records, and ruins of a brilliant past. The wall st.ir.ds as a sharp line .if division between the tribes of the north and the Chinese. The latter, though repeatedly subdued, and forced to bear a foreign yoke, have shown an irrepressible vitality to rise like a phenix, and to reassert their supremacy and the superiority of their civilization. BACTERIA AND LIGHT. A Mieroscnplo Time and Money. p of bachelors were talking ir forlorn and undoublo con said one, "I should have mar go, hut I haven't had time Uiink about it" Vchoed the other. "Time? adage is true that time is a I haven't had time enough I they went on their lonely .ed and sad. Detroit Free Way of the World. 1st dun Jones again to-day " said the merchant to hie I and, by the way, Smith, lt. drwir to Jones, owes us falsa" ' WtfrSaVn man of means; we fV his account stand till he geli i t pay." N. Y. Press. mbm BsimAthinir with me," re "'one lahoring man to another, II I III ion aiu u iwa I Something from your wife and tmrt mean. rcDiieu tut; umci. f j ' - .... 4 fiist man blushed and looked xd.-4betroit Free Press. giving Vp to HU Title. (on the cable car) You are a leer, I believe, sir? ihen why! 'don't you get up fc&t old lady a seatr cnicago Facte That Prove They Were Not Fur lie. luud Their Modern Sisters. The women of to-day should be deep ly learned in Egyptology, us there is much in recent developments to show that woman was very highly regarded in the ancient times. We find them act ing as regents during the minority of their sons. They transacted business and bequeathed their property. Deeds of gifts have been found by a mother to her daughter, and another in which a mother transfers her property to her daughter on certain conditions. Then there is the famous Queen Ilatasu, a most brilliant woman and a remarkable builder. The oldest known fragment of nomer pillowed the head of a young woman who was doubtless buried with her favorite, poet as Tennyson of our own time was buried with his. There is every Indication that the higher educa tion of woman was duly considered and if no evidences of coeducation exist it is doubtless because those ancient people were much too wise to attempt it. That women possessed tact and a delightful manner of ordering their homes is inferred from the fact that all the portraits and statues of Egypt ian men represent them with a partic ularly happy and good-natured ex pression. Fireball In England. The use of fireballs saves one-third coal, and is common enough in England, from the laborer's cottage to the lodg ings of thrifty gentlewomen in Hath and Cheltenham. Made of one-third coal dust, two-thirds sand and beaten clay, molded with water into balls the size of a goose egg and dried, they are permanent fuel. When the coal lire is hot and red a dozen of these balls put into the furnace will become red-hot and stay so, like red-hot brick, keeping up the heat far longer than eoal with out them. There is nothing like them for keeping the houso warm at night, and half a dozen put red-hot into a brazier cr portal" fiirnnep would talco the chill off bedrooms very comforta bly. When rooms are heated by stoves economy lies in never letting the fire go down in cold weather, as it takes mors heat to warm the rooms when the walls are chilled than it does to keep them sc for days. One of the CurloitltU-H of OrganUm. The study of bacteria, those micro scopic organisms which nave assumed so much importance in the public mind since some of them have been shown to be the active cause of various diseases, is progressing at a wonderful rate. It may be possible to write the biography of certain bacteria, and the story of their individual development, says the ouths Companion, would possess much interest. The action of light upon these simple organisms is. in certain cases, wonder ful. It has been ascertained, for in stance, that the bacterium photomet- ricum possesses the pv.vcr, or property, of discriminating between lights of dif ferent intensities. These minute organisms show an op tical rotation in a ilc'inite direction, and when the intensity of the light shining upon V.u-.a is suddenly dimin ished, they dart backward with an op posite rotation. This is called by En gelmann a "terror motion," as if the organisms feared darkness. One result of this curious property is that such bacteria may be inclosed in an illuminated circle as in a trap, out of which escape is impossible to them, for the moment they approach the dark rim of the luminous circle the "terror motion" sends them shooting back iutc the light ALASKAN WIDOWS. lea Good Enough. g up from hia paper) of Austria they -hcJois tajr her and itad A I.onff Winter. The coldest winter the world ever knew, according to several chroniclers, occurred during the year 1435. The season was not only intensely cold, but lasted unusually long. In a large por tion of middle and western Germany the -frost was so severe during the month of May that skaters braved the ice without , the least danger, and on May 12 skates were generally used. On St John's day, June 84, the windows were, frozen and not a vestige of vege tation was to be seen anywhere. Spring was ushered in with the last day of June. They Grieve Hard While It Lat, But It Doesn't Last Lone. "Our widows always go into the deepest mourning," said an American who is living at Sitka, Alaska, accord ing to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat "The native women think a great deal of their better halves. And if appear ances go for anything they think prcat deal more of them after they are dead than they ever did while the dear fellows were in the flesh. At the death of a husband a widow's grief is almost pitiable. She shows the tenderest de votion to the dear departed, and has the sympathy, assistance and affection of all her neighbors. At the funeral the widow is a sight to behold. So se vere is her grief and so much afraid is she that her neighbors will think that she has not shown a sufficient amount of sorrow that she paints the upper por tion of her face a deep black. This particular badge of mourning she wears for several days and sometimes weeks after the funeral, and then again siie is very apt to marry some other fellow within a weelc or a month of the death of her first lord ami master. Then she throws aside all evidences of grief. I!ut 'while she's grieving she grieves hard." NEW ADVERTISEENTS. 1 Stores, Dwellings and other budd ings insured in the best compan;e against loss by fire. ADVERTISEMENTS. WkiM JfNl y JlSEiy. ts in dilli.illt Tl'V(Jr!'-'L5' "? T ,,. n,r.,. from jgfegggqlel p,h lirie LOSSES-:-BY-:- FIRE SCARCITY OF EMERALDS. Cauied ly the Ieere;ie Iti 1'roductloti tti the I'ral Mouiitalus. Emeralds are said to be steadily dis appearing. In the 'JOs and 'liOs emer alds were the favorite jewels, and were worn strung on n thrTwl like neto-ls. Such a string of emeralds was exhibited in a jeweler's window In Unterden Lin den and v, as estimated to be worth twelve thousand marks. Now emeralds are no longer polished into a round form, but are polished like diamonds. I-'aultless stones of a deep color have ulwavs been as valuable as diamonds. The reason of the scarcity of emeralds Is the decrease in production in the Ural mountains. Emeralds were first dis covered on the right bank of the Toko woler, near Katharineburg, in 18.10, and In the first rears the harvest was a rich one. Now the decrease, both in quantity and quality.hardly repays the labor. The harvest of emeralds in Labachtal, in the Salzburger Alps, has also proved disap pointing, so that emeralds are now only to be had from Australia and Muso, near Santa Fe de Bogota, in Colombia, in any appreciable quantity. 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